skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If this is how you're going to behave in these situations at work, I'll have you off the team/company in a heartbeat.

You're describing sanctions without even being clear about the offense. What is the behaviour? Saying "no" to the question if they can bring a co-worker a coffee? That's the only behaviour they even hint at, the rest is how they think about things.

> but you're not exactly giving the impression of someone who wants input.

And now you're speaking for them.

I read most of your other posts in this thread with great interest, they are mostly very insightful, and I want to thank you for them. But here I think you're not being very fair, that is, you're simply bailing, and then blame the other person for that.
Bingo. This applies to basically all nationalized sectors due to top-down corruption. It's why PDVSA has been collapsing in on itself over the last 15 years in spectacular fashion. All the competent engineers and administrators are dead, in prison, ex-pats, retired, or sorely out-numbered by professional grifters who have mismanaged the organization into the ground.

It took a generation to train a world-class engineering workforce and a generation to tear it down.
I also find the ordering a bit strange in some cases. If you look at it as a bottoms up documentation of how technologies build on each other, that's one thing. But learning things in this order would have been overwhelming to me. I've bumped up against every technology on this list, but mostly as they've come up on projects.
"Leading cause" means that among causes of death obesity would be the plularity, not the majority
"Two months before the novel coronavirus is thought to have begun its deadly advance in Wuhan, China, the Trump administration ended a $200-million pandemic early-warning program aimed at training scientists in China and other countries to detect and respond to such a threat.

The project, launched ... in 2009, identified 1,200 different viruses that had the potential to erupt into pandemics, including more than 160 novel coronaviruses. The initiative, called PREDICT, also trained and supported staff in 60 foreign laboratories — including the Wuhan lab that identified SARS-CoV-2, the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19.

Field work ceased when the funding ran out in September"

It sounds like it _might_ be a worthwhile program. I don't necessarily agree with ending it. However, it also sounds like it was purely a training program that ran for 10 years & ended literally _just_ before the current pandemic. And the Wuhan lab the program worked with detected the current pandemic's virus.

I'm not sure what keeping it around would have changed for the current situation, if anything.
Actually it's the the 21st century right now. And no, there's nothing wrong with referring to her as a woman.
Well, let this be the first case you've heard of this. I just graduated, but while I was a student at the University of Sydney, I found that many journals (including ACM and IEEE, and even ISO) were not accessible through our university's library system. I usually just decided to not bother citing those papers and citing others.

It just so happens that the field I was working in (astrophysics) is one where many papers are published on arXiv, but my supervisor always got frustrated when I used the arXiv copy of a paper (sometimes the final edit of a paper isn't uploaded to arXiv so you might be citing something which was removed after the journal review). And for papers not on arXiv, you can sometimes manage to the paper on the author's website but that's hardly a workable system (and those are usually preprints and not the final draft). And yes, you can get papers by emailing the author if you really need a copy but that limits your ability to search through many papers as broad background reading (it seems a waste of time for M researchers to ask N authors for a copy of a paper, only to read the abstract and results).

Academic papers (which are publicly funded through grants and often produced by public institutions) should be free to the public. Those papers have already been paid for by the public.

EDIT: ISO not being available was legitimately a real blow -- I was working on a personal project that required reading the DataMatrix standard and I couldn't get access to it. Instead I had to try to piece together the protocol from the Wikipedia description and just gave up because I couldn't get it working.
Had to write the SDP handshake and re-build a subset of SCTP from scratch since the only SCTP implementation uses a global listener which doesn't play nice for a clean server implementation(it was also a royal pain to compile in a way that played nice with Rust).

I got it working far enough to handle the WebRTC handshake over SCTP and get some basic data flowing. It's still in pretty rough shape and ran out of time to document it to any degree where someone else could take it and run with it.

If there's enough interest I might pick it up again but right now I've got other priorities going on.
Answering my own question: the URL to use to force using the web browser instead of the download is: http://zoom.us/wc/join/{your-meeting-id}
This website could be a lot more useful if it answered these questions:

* How good is this compared to other alternatives? (Or why choose this instead of something else?)

* Where are the client apps for this, more importantly on mobile?
Okay I’ll complain.

I work in industry in a position where having access to papers is very helpful, some would say essential.

I have access to IEEE and ACM DLs. I don’t, however, have access to myriad papers from other organizations like Elsevier or Springer Verlag. These are often cited by papers on IEEE/ACM DLs. Some are from 20-40 years ago and still very relevant and interesting.

I have yet to find a way to get access to these in a predictable manner (yes, sometimes you can find preprints or old PostScript versions on various authors academic websites, but not generally).

Often the contents are from government sponsored research from the US government and possibly other governments (if only through their support of Universities in their country).
Hi Sam. We maintain a spreadsheet here of our COVID-19 cases and related data around them. Curious to see what kind of engagement we can do with Toga.
Says the employee of the company behind it!
This looks like a fantastic solution. If there were an affordable price point, I would immediately implement this in the edtech platform that we're developing, but the price point puts it completely out of our league for now. (Especially given the exchange rate fluctuations we see as developers in South Africa). Have you by any chance considered offering discounts to:
1. Educational institutions
2. Startups (eg. us)
Offering a free tier to startups, or at a discounted rate would allow them to use the product and become entrenched, by which point the full license would become easily affordable.

Overall looks like a great solution, and definitely a gap in the market. On a side note, I hit the "Try for Free" button on the home page and got a 404.
I totally agree. Calling it a step by step guide without providing any context to support the technologies makes this unusable to most beginners. It may have utility for a mid-level dev trying to make sure they’re well polished, but it’s not for the novice, and needs much more to be truly useful.
> It doesn't work, no more than placebo or straightforwards meditation does.

Equivalently: It does work, as much as placebo or meditation.
Thanks. I know about the Firefox issue, but all participants are on mobile — mostly Android and some iOS — using the official Jitsi Meet app.
Keep in mind that one of the definitions of the word “suffer” is “to undergo or experience (any action, process, or condition)”.

The article you link to also mentions that Darwin himself found upsides to his condition, which implies that the integral of the suffering (now using the emotionally-valenced definition of the word) may not have been of the magnitude you imagine, nor even necessarily negative.

On a related and curious note, I have found fainting to be one of the most pleasurable experiences.
If you don't have a device/sim, one is provided.
> Zoom! What are you doing?!

Continuing to lie. Did you expect differently from this malware company?
Which configurations can ensure video and audio at a good enough quality with audio being clear and video not dropping frames (even if the video is a bit blurry, that’s fine)?
> modern react UI.

What is an ancient react UI?
Also, on that scale individual molecules are bouncing around inside the cell faster than you can run or bike. It is a metaphorical froth of seething sliding movement.
As a non-developer who has a career track-change in the back of my mind, I can't speak to the accuracy of the information, but I disagree with your take that it needs to be pared down. This kind of extended view of the path forward is exactly what seems to be missing in the endless world of beginner tutorials.

Now maybe the truth is this kind of path simply can't be accurately laid out like this. But don't not attempt it just because it might be intimidating for some.
Learn HTML and CSS. And become good at it.
Build things. Playing around with (small) UI elements is one thing.
Read, read, read.
There's more to front-end development than building a website.
Know your tools.
Version control will save your life....
Be the middleman.
Do not rush.
Fascinating. People with PTSD (of whatever variety) are hypervigilant - not much fun but good for survival
What about doing something similar to JetBrains, where you offer the product at a significantly discounted rate to startups, rather than based on usage? You would have 1 new customer immediately.
The seed analogy may be onto something.

Some viruses don't directly cause the host to create new viruses. Instead they direct the creation of virus creating factories, which create the virus.

Then you get virophages which are even tinier than normal viruses, which infect the virus factories of other viruses.
Superhuman has something like this.
A big part of most jobs is communication. Any tool that improves that is a win. For me Slack has replaced email in a good way (can set up reminders, bots, have sub-threads, among others). This doesn't mean that it will work for everybody...

> The previous one quickly goes away as other people type

Not if we use threads.
Show HN: 2FA, a one-file 2-factor authentication app written in Python
Zoom in fact also allows you to enable a "waiting room" for all meetings owned by your account.

It's not always ideal though. I've organized meetings with 10+ people, want able to attend the meeting and now nobody can join the session.
Pity I only get 1 upvote. I'd triple-click if I could.

This animation enables one to visualize a single SARS-CoV-2 virion binding with the ACE2 enzyme, entering the host cell, and replicating 4-5 new virions.

One SARS-CoV-2 virion is 125 nanometers wide. By the time it shows up on a CT scan we are talking many, many billions.

It's seems impossible anyone could test positive and still be asymptomatic.
This problem will probably go away anyway.

Hundreds of millions of people use Facebook Messenger for their everyday communications, which is not meaningfully encrypted at all other than by TLS. Similarly, Discord is also very popular, as is Skype. None of these offer privacy.

Most people have a very fatalistic view about their opportunities for privacy in their electronic communications.
Ask HN: Who is giving(course/book etc.) free now?
Pluralsight is fully free for this one month
https://www.pluralsight.com/offer/2020/free-april-month

Currently Unity is giving all the courses free.
https://learn.unity.com/

Book
Linear Algebra Done Right - Book is free until the end of July.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-11080-6

Who else is giving free content in this lock down period?
Magical thinking and placebo effect. I don't see any Reiki masters on the front line fighting COVID-19 because they know it has no real effect.
I took a quick look at the scale of the chart and assumed it was satire.

The state of front end development is a major shit-show.
Bringing 4K and HDR to Anime at Netflix with Sol Levante
I’ve studied this and made a throwaway since wow something I know on HN: It works like aspirin works, or other temporary fixes that get chemically flushed. But no I’m not gonna get all nerdy for you. google.com if you’re actually interested, not just looking for shallow socializing

Touch lifts our spirits by instigating chemical change in our body.

It’s like saying ow or fuck in surprise, which has been shown to help us process a rising action in our system.

We can manually hold muscles and create issues in our body. It’s not a shock to find people with issues from years of muscle tension they didn’t realize was there.

When you’re doing Reiki it’s ok to process and we emotionally do

What a shock in an uptight Puritan culture that’s all about how correct or theories and work are, some old school caveman niceness makes us feel better in a real way.
That is not at all how they describe the product, in their correction post clarifying their use of encryption.

The part after the caret is a quote from them.
Any ideas if OBS could support FFGL for video effects?
Testing 107,000 people per day isn't nothing.

It's not enough to do contact tracing for sure, and it's not enough to detect even close to every case

But it is no mean feat either.

No other country tests as many -- though South Korea (at it's peak, though not anymore) and Germany test a larger fraction of the population.
Instead of 1ms, try running the math if the tick rate instead was 1.024ms, (1024 usec).

These things are often driven with a 32.768 MHz crystal, in case anyone's wondering why not just a nice even 1.000ms.

On another forum I talked about way long ago, when I had to debug a huge system that reset after 248.x days of uptime. Yep, run the math...
NYT dataset: Live Covid19 graphs
Finding your next role through Y Combinator
This is narrow sighted. In practice the Universities pay the very high fees. The major University in Paris where I did my Ph.D. and work has cut more and more of those accesses through the years and they seemed extremely expensive.

Before 1990 the activity of a scientific journal was somehow more complicated and costly which somehow justified the subscription cost. With the current Internet infrastructure and tools, paywalls feel more and more like symbols of legacy monopolistic economy rent.

You should at least glance at the table of contents of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_science and read those short sections "Publicly funded science will be publicly available" and "Disadvantages".
Who is this everyone that believes touchscreens will increase safety? I could not find any reputable sources for this claim.

Furthermore, tactile feedback is safety. The fact that each switch has a feel, a size, a position - that let's your brain know what you are doing without having to take eyes off the road.
Only Apple can know exactly when or where or how often they decrypt people's messages from their backups, because once they have the keys they have the means to do it at any place and time, for any reason, without anyone's knowledge or consent.

What we know is that they can and do decrypt iMessages from iCloud backups in response to law enforcement requests[1]. This proves that they hold the keys, if their own support pages weren't enough evidence for you.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...
A benchmark tool. Wow! Thanks for that snarkboy, I never would have known!

Again, I wasn't asking for proof or tests, or links to blank benchmark tools where I could write the tests myself. I simply asked if you meant 1000 times faster literally or figuratively as that is a HUGE and significant difference. A more civil response:

"Yes, I mean literally. See https://jsperf.com/queryselectorall-vs-getelementsbytagname/...
> I would be very surprised if there was a measurable difference between "real" and theatrical Reiki, though.

It seems to me you have restated seibelj's comment.
This is really important. It is now feasible to use vanilla JS to work on various scenarios, but a lot of devs don't know this and mindlessly start their projects with jQuery.
Didn't realize antibiotics were only available in less than 100 years. Amazing progress in so little time. Makes me realize we are much better equipped to fight biological threats than ever before.
And in Canada for half of whatever you'd pay in the US.
Location: College Station, TX

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, C/ C++, Java, SQL, Spark, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras, Pandas, Scikit-learn

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rSsCA8N6cwURJsLk8lEKkJk75T8...

Email: janardhan_adapa@tamu.edu

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/janardhana-swamy-adapa/

Brief Summary about me:
I have prior experience in a software engineering and machine learning. Last summer I worked as a software intern at NVIDIA in which I have worked on software development project (in C++). Prior to my Masters, I have one year of professional experience at Qualcomm in which I gained experience in object-oriented programming. I have also explored the field of machine learning by participating in Kaggle competitions (won silver medal in one of them).
Not sure that I understand the argument. The FAA is also clearly not hitting optimal space between "safety" and "getting new planes flying fast". Sometimes it appears the FDA hasn't been conservative enough, see Vioxx and labelling/guidance around opioids.
I remember reading the CDC website, and I don't remember them saying that.

Their Jan 8 publication says:

> CDC currently recommends a cautious approach to symptomatic patients with a history of travel to Wuhan City. Such patients should be asked to wear a surgical mask as soon as they are identified and be evaluated in a private room with the door closed. Personnel entering the room to evaluate the patient should use contact precautions and wear an N95 disposable facepiece respirator

- https://emergency.cdc.gov/han/HAN00424.asp

And on Feb 21 their FAQ said:

> Q: Does CDC recommend the use of facemask in the community to prevent COVID-19?

> A: CDC does not recommend that people who are well wear a facemask to protect themselves from respiratory illnesses, including COVID-19. You should only wear a mask if a healthcare professional recommends it. A facemask should be used by people who have COVID-19 and are showing symptoms. This is to protect others from the risk of getting infected. The use of facemasks also is crucial for health workers and other people who are taking care of someone infected with COVID-19 in close settings (at home or in a health care facility).

- https://wayback.archive-it.org/13529/20200221195555/https://...

So I'm not seeing where they ever said they were not effective. It says that if you are sick or showing symptoms you should wear a mask, but that they don't advise the general public to wear a mask because they are crucial to health care workers. To me this sounds like very good advice.
Covid-19 should be named SARS (by analogy with AIDS)
And if not the forester then the foresters' dog.
Amazing. The mind boggles at how complex this is and the fact that humans have the tools to discover and understand the process. Thank you very much for sharing!
I think this was first written about at length in the book ‘Soft Machines’, which is a really good critique of some of the nanotechnology thinking at the time. I highly recommend the book.
Not necessarily specifically RNA/DNA but a super accessible description of biology is The Machinery of Life (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6601267-the-machinery-of...). I can't get over much it makes me want to learn more, and as a lay-person, I think it gave me a much better idea of what's going on at pretty much an atomic level.
BFP Encrypt – Send Encrypted Data to Bitcoin Cash Addresses
Actually, if you google, you'll see everyone from Chiropractors to acupuncturists to reiki practitioners claiming they can help. (The most outlandish claims are coming from the chiropractors!)
> Needless to say, if they're ineffective for the general public, they're ineffective for doctors and nurses.

This isn't necessarily true. Doctors and nurses could have training on how to use masks, whereas most people will touch their faces more with them on.
No, TCP/IP is just a name of the suite, there's no such thing as UDP/IP, just because person who wrote the cloudflare glossary invented it doesn't mean it is an accepted term.

Frankly UDP over any other protocol than IP makes very little sense, UDP header literally are just 4 fields:

- source port
- destination port
- length of the datagram
- checksum

that's it, and just ports by themselves are not really useful for anything.

The name TCP/IP comes because TCP and IP protocols were created together and closely coupled. Soon they were separated and other protocols were added (UDP, ICMP, IGMP, ARP and many others), but the name stayed.

The TCP/IP name stands for the protocol suite, and things like UDP/IP were invented by people who didn't understand its meaning.

Here are definitions from ICANN: https://icannwiki.org/TCP/IP

Many other authoritative places:

Bunch of RFCs (this one is from 90s): https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1180

https://computerhistory.org/profile/vint-cerf/

This term was used essentially from the beginning of the Internet:
http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120/other/tcpdigest_paper.txt
Apple does not do product placement at all, so licensing fees make no sense for Apple. I stand corrected.
I just used jitsi meet for an hour long convo, shared the desktop, chatted. It works. This is real.
From a medical perspective this is quite a hand-wavy fever dream interpretation of the immune system and psychology/psychiatry. It’s like saying you should use python instead of rust because it’s syntax more appropriately recapitulates the essence of human neural connectedness (or whatever). There are many types of paranoia (not one dimensional) and they don’t seem to all be trainable.
That was brilliant -- be sure to watch it with the sound on. the ominous music makes the experience even better
wow! haven't heard that term in a while.

we used to do this looking for modems to dial into.
White House projects Covid-19 pandemic could claim 100k to 240k lives
This sort of thing happens in all languages - it's not at all unique to Russian, and has nothing to do with Russians being "retarded".

Case in point: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Jeepeta
Who memorizes phone numbers anymore? Just because you can doesnt mean you will if theres an easier alternate version, and a lot of the public doesnt care about security enough to not use to easier option
On second thought, I do appreciate fever dream interpretations of things as an intellectual challenge and really enjoyed reading the article.
https://www.inta.org/TMR/Pages/vol99_no6_a2.aspx
Pay attention to huge vulnerabilities like (6) the defendant’s intent in adopting the mark, wherein the defendant will have to show how a property was not used for a purpose, that the plaintiff will take issue with. Does anyone remember the Ford suit to stop news outlets from showing jihadists driving around in Ford pickups?

Rogers v Grimaldi is a narrow ruling in a district court about a celebrity name. It does not apply broadly to all branding and it's generally not worth a court battle to find out, since the filing is going to benefit the plaintiff.

That being said, there are consequences outside of pure legal issues to deal with in media production, which makes things like Apple's "allowance with their own restrictions" work. It's not a legal issue, but they can attack your post production just as well as making it a legal issue about filming.
Fun fact: at least in the United States, chiropractors do not have medical degrees and so they are not licensed doctors.
I'm taking your post at face value. Could you expand on what you mean by "uptight Puritan culture"?