skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"There's a reason why science as a philosophy places so much value on experimentation that makes predictions and tests them."

Exactly.

There's something that's always bothered me about the "evolution by natural selection is science and everyone who doesn't immediately buy into every aspect of it is an idiot".

I personally believe in evolution. It probably makes quite a few good predictions. And I'm sure some experiments have rigor.

But a lot of it seems pretty untestable. Add a stress to a population, and it will either die off or evolve to improve fitness. If it dies off, does that contradict the theory because no evolution happened? If it evolves, how much will it evolve? Will the population reach a smaller equilibrium, larger, or the same? Does any change count as "evolution" or is someone quantifying which ones actually improve fitness? What about changes that don't seem obviously connected to fitness, like ridiculous peacock feathers, would those be predicted? Are we coming up with falsifiable predictions before the tests, or just explanations afterward?

I'm sure someone with more knowledge of the field has answers to all of these questions. But my guess is that they are more nuanced than the "evolution is science and if you question any aspect you are an idiot".
I can’t tell if you’re joking. If this resolver was real, I would rather use a resolver which promises transparency reports and no-logging, and hope it doesn’t fall into the hands of the NSA. Using a resolver by the NSA would guarantee it’s being collected by the NSA.

Both options aren’t very good, so I recommend running your own resolver using Unbound.
I think you're probably right about the guild part.

The chronic shortage of doctors? Well, that's because they're perhaps the strongest guild. The AMA puts a cap on the supply of doctors (via # of residency slots they allow). The PAs were invented so that another class of workers could do the work of doctors without jeopardizing the doctors' pay or status.
The masks thing is not about a power asymmetry, it's about extended use protocols. There is a critical shortage of equipment, and the hospital has to make it last.

Now why hospitals are demanding that doctors keep quiet about the consequences of emergency operations under extended use protocols? That's an entirely separate issue. Those hospitals should be named and shamed.

But I completely understand restricting PPE to needed areas. The solution to that is to manufacture more PPE. But if we're not going to do that then extended use protocols are just military sense.
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China is literally claiming zero new infections while reports from the affected regions tell a very different story. How is that not an obvious effort to conceal the issue?
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The usual cost argument for open floor plans is that by devoting less square feet to each employee, you save money on rent. (The costs to actually put in a door and some sheet rock walls is a one time expense that isn't very high in comparison to the monthly costs for rent.)

The reality though is that if employees are less productive, any savings in rent will be small compared to the costs associated with lower worker productivity (assuming you have expensive employees like engineers etc).
Well, their guild is obviously not as strong, militant, nor organized as the power of hospitals if this is happening. Gesturing in the direction of their other control doesn’t disprove anything.

It’s worth noting that the AMA also is structured in such a way that gives undue influence to specialist physicians over GPs and ER docs (their representatives essentially get more votes over group policy decisions).
"And why were you let go from your last position?"
"I wore a mask in public areas during the COVID-19 outbreak."
"holup..."

Anyone fired like that would have ten job offers within a day and their former employer would have an unending media shitstorm on their hands.
What is shameful about it?

It's a realistic approach to navigating the real world where there are bills to pay, Reddit Gold isn't going to cut it, and advertisers don't want their brand associated with random NSFW/NSFL content.

I don't get this obsession with browbeating every content provider not living up to these Stallmanistic extremes.

Reddit should not have to give up any sort of protection for allowing advertisers to not have their ads show up on certain subreddits, or censoring Nazis.

If Reddit of all sites is what we're calling shameful, there is no hope.
While I agree with that you cannot push something against the goals of the company, but I argue there is no difference with most open source. Try get something new into the gnu tools. If you want to add a word count feature into ls. Might be a cool feature but the maintainer
Will say something like "nope" whatever argument you will bring because it violates their core goals.
That's not a problem with DNS, that's a problem with outsourcing control of your DNA data
Compensation isn't just about value created, though. Costs, remote versus local efficiencies (cannot be assumed to be identical), and a given person's other options also enter into the negotiations.
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My company has bought hundreds of 3rd party systems and glued them with bubblegum.
I should be thinking how to improve the situation and developing but 90% of the time I am running around the office trying to find who is responsible for what.
Some weeks I even do not write a single line of code and any change in the current system configuration takes weeks to get approval from some stakeholder somewhere.
Also, most of it is "no code" so everybody can change anything.

I have never seen such a situation in my life, just wanted to ask: how common is it?
No, the medical capacity is limited by equipment and training. The medical status quo is based around normal, everyday life, where a wide variety of conditions and diseases need to be treated. It’s not an institutional problem that we don’t have the capacity to treat millions of people with pneumonia, as all of that capacity would be wasted during normal times.
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Nobody is using state machines to advance several times through the states with variables named "stateN", so I am not sure what is the point.

There is no "BOOM" either since "use after move" is not a safety concern for those empty types, just a logic bug, which will likely appear at compile-time since your template specialization would not match your expectations.

The redeclaration in Rust always makes me uneasy as a default. It would have been better to require special syntax.

The rest about C++ users looks like flamebait to me.
Forth is still alive and kicking!
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No, that's still an open question.

We won't really know until much more analysis is done, but there's a ton of reasons to suspect an over-reaction now. See some of the daily update links here:

https://swprs.org/a-swiss-doctor-on-covid-19/

The basic problem is confused data e.g. 100,000 deaths expected from what? Given how often COVID-19 seems to give people a little push over an edge they were very close to anyway, it's extremely hard to even define what a C19 death means, let alone do so in a way that's comparable across countries.

Meanwhile healthcare systems have been scaling up a lot but actually the projected collapse isn't close to being here even in Italy, where many hospitals are still mostly empty outside the core hotspots (leading to a question of whether it's not ventilator capacity that's needed but patient transfer capacity). And where hospitals are under pressure it may be partly due to huge numbers of staff isolating themselves as they tested positive, sometimes with no symptoms (i.e. could be false positives?). Hospitals can be overwhelmed even by normal admissions if 30% of the staff are gone due to self-isolation.
Not all exceptions signify exceptional situations, either.
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FWIW, I recently set up pi-hole on a pi zero, and it was really pretty straightforward, even setting it up headless
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> Is there anyone out there with a good argument for why remote workers should be paid less?

Right now people working in cities with a high cost of living have a large salary to make up for their living costs. When you make a job remote you suddenly increase the pool of possible employees to anyone in the world, including people living in places that may have a lower cost of living. Those people will be happy to work for less.

If you have a remote employee, why pay them 200k to live in SF if you can pay someone in India 50k?
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To echo OP's story (and anonymity). My partner is physician and surgical resident in the USA. My partner was told to either remove their N95 mask before doing a procedure on the the mouth of a febrile patient, or go home. My partner left, and now their job is at risk. My partner received several very direct (always careful to not make a paper trail) follow up calls from administrators and was given an ultimatum to either comply with the hospital's ludicrous PPE policy or be disciplined and/or fired. Several of our friends (some of which are pregnant!) are in an even worse situation working in the ICU and have been given the same ultimatum. As you'd expect, the rest of the hospital staff is appalled and are supportive, however, everyone is afraid to say anything.

For those of you who are unfamiliar to how medical training works in the US, residents have _no_ power. If they quit, they cannot become board certified, and effectively cannot practice in any capacity. 4 years of college, 4 years of medical school, and 4-7 years of resident training.
> while I do not believe the Chinese numbers I do not think it's malicious

Give the reports of outright abuse of power (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/20/chinese-inquir...) or corruption, depending on your perspective, I'm not sure why you would say it wasn't malicious. It's been about saving face, if recovery was possible. If not, shrug What are you going to do about it anyway? Trusting anything from official Chinese reports, is foolish. You always need some sort of 3rd party corroboration to get to the truth and the WHO has shown bias (subject to Chinese influence, for their own pragmatic reasons of access).

That being said, their model, wherein they locked down populations was effective and appropriate. Combined with testing and some sort of ID-based tagging, the US could probably manage better than the current course, which will just blow up later anyway.
"Choice" and the "US Healthcare Industry" are two words that shouldn't be used in the same sentence. If you think you have choice in this system either as a caregiver or a carereceiver, then you are under the sad delusion that those are beads the emperor has hanging between his legs.
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> left/right, authoritarian/libertarian--and their cross-products are cognitive traps

No dispute. It's a classic leaky-abstraction problem; some models can be helpful in reasoning, but they're always imperfect at describing messy complex reality. (While it too is imperfect, I'm rather fond of the 8-axis political compass! [0])

A lot of our weird tribal coalitions are byproducts of a First-Past-The-Post voting system, which necessarily results in two parties, game-theoretically. IMO there is no more urgent policy issue than electoral reform, to something like Ranked Choice or Approval, so that our representatives are more reflective of our preferences.

> fear-driven decision environments (as with the current pandemic) is ripe for power seizures

This is true; I'm a big fan of Chomsky's admonition that "the burden of proof is on state power to justify itself". While I'm grateful for how many people are doing the right thing voluntarily (I'm genuinely surprised at the trust of citizens in science, at least in my neck of the woods), I do think a pandemic is a situation where judicious use of state power can be justified (forbidding gatherings over N people, for instance). It's a balancing act, and we must be very vigilant to see that "emergency" powers do not persist indefinitely, as they so often do (Patriot Act, etc).

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Thank you. We can't solve a problem if we cannot discuss it accurately. The Chinese regime is invested in controlling the narrative, and is taking advantage of our deep concerns about racism to convince people to assist them in that control.
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First, there never seems to be a "right" time for virtue. There's always some reason why we should be pragmatic instead. Next it will be the economic downturn, then some other crisis, etc.

Second, given that the hospitals' priority seems to be protecting their own reputations over the health of their employees what makes you think that allowing them to act as they see fit during this crisis is the "pragmatic" approach that will lead to fewer deaths? It's plainly apparent that safety is not at the top of their list, maybe a leadership adjustment will save lives in the long run.
we, the people. raise the issue with our elected officials. ask the media to cover the issue.

and, probably, the most efficient: vote for the people who are knowledgeable, listen to scientific advice.

of course, a better solution would be to implement a system where the goal of healthcare will be not profit, but the health of the general population.
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There would hardly be any playgrounds or schools even.
How much CDMA does Sprint have? Haven't they been on LTE for years already?
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I work across 12+ hour time differentials quite often. The real keys are independence, trust and working on projects where touching bases weekly or so makes sense - and otherwise operating over email.

(that last is the biggest key really).
I'm a software developer and the teams mostly coordinate over code feedback and ticket requests anyway.
I agree with this. Wayland had taken so long and is still lacking in a few areas, while Xorg somehow managed to reach a point where it actually "just works" first try, with some minor problem every other year. I don't need Wayland anymore.
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As an alternative to ssh certs, we lookup keys in an LDAP Cluster. Each approach has pros/cons. SSH certificates are decentralized and resilient against failure, but revocation of a breached certificate isn't instantaneous. Keys-in-LDAP offers less resiliency, but offers instant key revocation. It's also simpler and offers a familiar experience to most devs.

The most important thing is to look at your attack surface realistically and plan accordingly. Just blinding putting in an SSH cert authority of an unsecured-non-redundant ldap cluster is worse than no key management at all.
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Considering that before this egregious overage charges were the norm, that's a huge improvement.

I'll acknowledge they market it a little misleadingly. But I'm a big fan of anything that removes bill-shock which was a fairly normal problem before T-Mobile got into the market (both for local data overages and international data usage).
That's an inaccurate and narrow view of the President's source of votes.

Trump was widely known and popular with his supporters before the "memes".
>I checked the average salaries, I was a bit put off.

well sure, but cost of living is a huge benefit. plus if you can work remotely for a US company at US salaries then you're living the high life...
> If this goes south, you may wish that you were one of the people who got the disease early.

This is my biggest fear.
Exactly, I'm expecting a GoFundMe sooner or later to deal with the lawsuit.
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Why don't farm workers just keep a safe distance from each other? There are acres of space.