skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't the Nissan Leaf use a heat pump as well?
Every book before Underworld is more like White Noise than they are like Underworld. Libra is probably the best one. If you like (American) football, then "End Zone" is good.
That is a very high bar to prove and therefore a very low bar to implement these harsh measures. The measures themselves are inhuman too.

I think we both weight our rights, the medical risk and economic danger differently but I can see your reasoning.
Yeah, I agree - I think that shift is a part of what prompted the change I mentioned. I just feel like there were already a smattering of other games that followed the "convenience" or "vanity" based cash shop model and Fortnite isn't that novel.
I found this section confusing (emphasis mine):

https://physicstravelguide.com/equations/schroedinger_equati...

"This means that for all systems where the Hamiltonian does not explicitly depend on the time, we known (sic) immediately how the time-dependence of the total wave function Ψ(x,t) looks like (sic), namely: Ψ(x,t) = phi(t)ψ(x) = Ae^(−Et/ℏ)ψ(x).
The only thing we then have to do is to solve the stationary Schrödinger equation Hψ(x) = Eψ(x)."

It sounds like they're saying that all systems with a time-independent Hamiltonian are stationary, which is obviously wrong. This would have confused the hell out of me while learning QM, and dissuades me from learning more on this site.

Have I misread? I can infer what they're trying to say from context and previous knowledge, but that's of little help for someone new.
The Trader Joe’s that is 50 feet from me has been like this for the last two weeks as well. So likely fairly common across that chain.
> it has been weird to me seeing people harp on Amazon's response to this when the Whole Foods near me has been the only business seemingly implementing any safety measures

It's not weird at all to me.

Amazon's treatment of warehouse workers and their treatment of customers are wildly different.
> We have a clinical trial with in vivo data right here though, right?

AFAIK there's no clinical trial data, but there is in vivo data. My point though is that these are drugs that block viral replication, and we're mostly only administering them after the virus has already finished replicating. So in that scenario of course it's going to look ineffective regardless of whether it actually works or not. I don't believe the data showing it works, but I also don't believe the data showing it doesn't work.
Yep. And at the other end of the spectrum, never having users is the easiest way to maintain user privacy and security.
Even if it is only as innocent as having your friends mass upvoting every thread of yours, then this is an outright exploitation of HN rules. Again never happened that a company, especially a company that was started a few months ago and hardly known by anybody, gets to the frontpage with a 100% hit rate for more than 10 times in less than 3 months.
Not exactly, a "Mängelexemplar" is unused and new, but was damaged during shipment or unpacking (often by a box cutter).
Haxe is definitely underrated in the industry. It's a real surprise why someone like Microsoft hasn't tried to partner with the platform.
Oh yes. You'll destroy the roots if you try to separate it. What I meant is that you will typically only sprout seeds that way. Then you put them in a small starter pot or similar with soil to get them to continue growing inside. Then transplanting them into the ground once ready. This is opposed to just sprouting in the starter pot.
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Video chat is something like 1.5Mbps. Even phones can do chacha20 at >1000Mbps these days. It's not that expensive.

Where people start to feel it is if you want the server in the middle to be decrypting and re-encrypting everything, because it's not that much for one user but it starts to add up for a million users. But the obvious solution there is to use E2EE and then it isn't doing that.
Oh wow. I wouldn't have guessed iSH would have packaged up the extensions I'm using.
At least on AWS, you can parse the System Console Output. On the first boot, the box dumps its pub keys there. We have a tool that parses the output:

https://github.com/bitnomial/aws-ec2-knownhosts

Right now, this is pretty specific to our use of it, specifically our use with Terraform EC2 instances. We'd happily suggest changes to make it more generic. But you can see the parsing logic there.
I tried installing this on two different Ubuntu machines using their Ubuntu repo and it did not work. Worked fine on both Android and Ios. This is about what I expect from a java application - the java ecosystem is co convoluted and fragile that the only real options are Android, Ios, and Docker. I wish someone would write something like this in Go or Rust.
Given how infectious it is, even if these measures only reduce transmission by 10% that is very useful
Some parts. But for a car sold in all 50 states a general heat pump isn't going to work.

Some areas can get down to -20F, even -40F in the winter and this is major metropolitan cities.

Perhaps this is a new type of heat pump or it sources heat waste energy within the car itself.
I'm not sure if you're facetious or not, but that's not what I've read. Neither of those is foolproof for detecting/preventing coronavirus infections, but they are better than nothing.
(also Tailscale)

FWIW, we'll probably also be supporting GitHub (and maybe Twitter?) auth, as well as perhaps letting you run your own auth server if you set up the right DNS records. Lot of things yet to do.
If this pisses you off, it's worth noting that Telegram group chats have the same property, and that Telegram argues forcefully (and falsely) that what they're doing does meet the definition of "end-to-end encryption".
No. The administration made repeated wild unsubstantiated claims of a "cure" for a pandemic that the press properly pushed back on given the near zero experimental evidence behind the claim.

This issue is partisan only if partisans act unthinkingly. The press had damned good reason to act as it did. The 'administration' did not.
Thanks will look into that.
The US in general is very conservative about allowing people sick leave, and Amazon in particular is notorious for making people work while sick. They were already running their operation right on the edge of the health of their employees, e.g. https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/3/11/18260472/amazon-ware...

The hard part isn't testing the workers. It's giving them sick pay for not coming in to work while sick.
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Thermal guns are not affected by shortages of masks.

That said, we probably don't have sufficient supplies of those on hand either.
A lower price of oil should lower the price of manufacturing in the US, right?

The low oil price is screwing the US for a separate reason: it means US shale is no longer economical in comparison.
My point isn’t that taking temperature checks needs to be perfect, but that they are focusing their intervention on symptomatic spreading rather than asymptomatic spreading.

They would benefit more with immediate action by giving employees nonmedical fabric masks and making them mandatory TODAY rather than waiting for surgical masks next week.
Maybe. I've got enough uninstaller logic wrong in my day to believe it possible that a failure to switch off all your daemons and delete them is just sloppy software engineering on a piece of the system that isn't considered critical path by product managers.

After all, users never want to uninstall our software, right? That implies they don't love our product. And of course they love our product. ;)

It's not that uninstalling isn't an important feature. It's just that at crunch time, project managers will pull people off polishing the uninstaller to put them on that virtual green-screen feature 10 out of 10 times.
Mask do not protect the person wearing the mask (unless you talk about the kind of masks used as PPE for medical professionals).

They do protect other people from the person wearing the mask spreading the virus. The consequence is that for masks to work at scale a large number of people need to wear them.
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That's one of the most frustrating things about the response to this. Even now we don't have measures like having everyone wear face coverings, having temperature checks, limiting the number of people in establishments, etc., and it doesn't seem like anyone in power is advocating them at the moment. The response seems to be to first shut down the whole economy, then spend a few weeks thinking about what to do next.
We (ZeroTier) dragged our feet on this stuff for a long time because we are personally of your mindset, but we get asked for it a lot so more of it will be coming. The ability to use your own auth and your own other things will never go away though, and with ZT you can run a fully independent network controller if you want.

Personally I want ZT to integrate support for integrated (e.g. Apple security chip) and discrete (YubiKey etc.) secure tokens and enclaves. That is where the real security is at.
They linked the results [1] (starts on page 402). 30% "Strongly support" and 25% "Somewhat support" so the net support is 55%. And among Republicans, the net support is 31%, I don't know what you mean by 'negative percentage points'.

[1] https://morningconsult.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/200310... (pdf)
Do not wear your face mask like the gentleman front and center in the photo! Not covering your nose has become the source of many memes but it still widespread. Simply having the fabric on your face does not grant you a protective aura.
> you can't get too far into the weeds

Oh, but you can. It can go anywhere from realizing that your extensive enzyme-based test suite turned out to be garbage because nobody really grasped the value proposition of snapshots at the beginning of the project, to the entire application aging extremely poorly because it's written in Angular 1 that is a mix of needless directives and jQuery call hacks (both true stories).
Not really. I have been thinking its going to play out like China, Italy, Spain etc where certain regions take disproportionate hits.

Texas and California don't seem to have been hit as hard as NY-NJ. So was just wondering if the unemployment filings have jumped equally in all 3.
If I google for "buy hacker news upvotes" I see someone selling them for $2. You don't need a network for it. If you spend time on your content marketing and you buy upvotes you'll get bumped to the front page and stay there. Tinfoil hat not necessary.

When the HN plays favoritism in the vein of shilling for Y Combinator portfolio companies they make it fairly obvious to anybody paying attention. The portfolio company hiring posts are an example. Post to job descriptions and commenting disabled.
> We won't have to provide them health care, food, clothing, and luxury items.

With the exception of health care, aren't they buying that stuff from their own savings? Do we hand out luxury items? Am I saving for my retirement for no reason?

Are the immune compromised also simply drains?
Am I missing something here? It talks about focus but has an extremely busy UI with colors and icons in your face all the time. Maybe it's better to actually use it than see the screenshots?
Sorry to hear that. I'm SO glad I got out of my toxic relationship before this whole thing hit. Quarantining alone is zen.
At a manufacturing plant I'm working at the temperature checks have been in place for awhile now. Seems weird it took Amazon this long since I'm sure they have everything they need to do it in their warehouses. Just buy it from the seller and rip them open and start taking temperatures.
Even better, thanks for the clarification!
This is such a great website thank you! Sharing immediately with my family. I’ve been telling them any mask helps. They keep getting hung up on “N95 needed.” Although I was proud my Mom was the only teacher wearing a (lesser) mask when they had to go in for meetings this week. Well proud of her, appalled at the others and appalled the school thinks it’s ok to meet if “it’s less than 10 people at a time.”
> Amazon has detailed someone measures its taking

Does techcrunch not have copy editors? Two errors in the first six words of this article. I was an editor at my high school newspaper and we would not have published this.
/e/ isn't more actively de-googled than lineage, /e/ still uses Google's captive portal and fallback DNS, and that's the only google bits left in AOSP or LineageOS.

Also saying that /e/ support more devices is pretty misleading. Sure you can have /e/ on Nexus 5, but Nougat version only. And you can still get Nougat LineageOS for Nexus 5.

Also if your definition of supported is "works on", there is a LineageOS Oreo for Nexus 5 available. Nexus 5 is no longer officially supported by LineageOS simply because LineageOS has requirements as to the security of the device, but /e/ pretty doesn't care about security.
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NVC can be extremely powerful, but it only works if both parties are amenable to it. Source: therapy. While workers have an incentive to respond to NVC, some people simply do not internalize in a way that is necessary for it to work. This is the supreme challenge of mediators. Hat's off to them.
I think the "begins" in the title is misleading. I have been seeing plenty of reports on reddit from Amazon warehouse workers saying they have been doing temp checks (and other measures) for at least a couple weeks. I know in some jurisdictions it is required for any business that stays open to do temperature checks.

My guess is that some Amazon warehouses were doing it, but not all. This news seems to be about rolling out an Amazon-wide policy, but the headline makes it seem like there were no measures prior to this (which AFAIK is false).
Don't worry, I got the reference :)
When I see people teaching "non-violent" communication, I become disappointed with their selfishness and inability to empathize with other people. I don't need anything from them, but I mark them well so that I understand that I will have to constantly have word-duels with them when they come to me with their passive-aggressive bullshit.

> When you didn’t bring me a cup of coffee, I felt disappointed because I have a need for inclusion. Please, could you get me a coffee next time?

No. Fuck you. Get your own fucking coffee. How to phrase this in the workplace: "No."

> Suppose product development has slowed down, reported bugs have increased 30% since last month, and sprint velocity is down by 40%. Your engineer is feeling desperately unhappy and is terrified of building new features because of the risk to the system as a whole. They want to stop building new features and refactor some of the system architecture. But what do you think their unmet universal need is here?

From your list, they need respect, empathy, space, and understanding. They need for you, the manager, to fuck off and give them space to not work on features.

> The sales director explains that the prospect said, ‘If you had a reporting dashboard, I’d close the deal right now.’ The director is concerned that they’ll miss out on the deal without this feature, and feels altogether rather helpless.

The sales director needs to learn to fucking code. They need to understand that their pressure is going to cause engineers to quit.

> What possible solutions are safe and fun for engineering, and give the sales director more independence and support?

Do you know how to fucking code? I suspect not. You sound horribly incompetent, and worse, you sound like you encourage others in their incompetence. Engineering isn't about having fun; pay attention to your metrics, disregard features, focus on bugs. Sales does not need more independence; they already are selling far beyond engineering's capacity, and they need to knock it the fuck off.

The worst part of all of this is that you are probably well-compensated for this work, despite the fact that it promulgates systems which abuse and ignore the needs of laborers and consumers alike. When you are a word-weaseling suit-wearing grey-faced rent-seeking labor-harming parasite, I feel disappointed because I expect better moral and ethical behavior from humans. Would you be able to fucking knock this shit off already?
Worked for them as a Product SWE for 2 years. For the record, I would not recommend it if you have good alternatives as a SWE.

That being said, I want to give a more nuanced comment because, in my opinion, crisis require some pragmatism which I find to be surprisingly lacking from the usually reasonable HN crowd.

I understand why Palantir create this epidermic reaction and in most cases I would agree that they are justified. There is an issue of sovereignty, countries should aim be self-sufficient in critical areas like Defense, Healthcare, Counter-terrorism. It is a shame that it is not the case. Many Palantir employees are motivated to help their country but concluded that the most straight-forward path, if they did not want to spend many years in a bureaucracy hell, was to join a startup/software style company, that would respect their value-added as young/bright engineers and make some of them (the majority in commercial works on boring stuff) able to work on those topics.

Yes, compared to many cool tech companies, there is nothing great about their tech. It's a glorified Spark wrapper with a pretty UI and terrible UX. Nothing with significant tech depth is built-in house. However, THAT is compared to cool/good tech companies. Compared to a lot of what big corp and bureaucratic governments can readily provide TODAY, it's a significant improvement and it is ready, TODAY. It is also more secure compared to what an in-house gov team could build, as in, they actually encrypt things and there is no obvious security flaws. Now is the time to use the tool that can reduce the death tools without compromising security, tomorrow is the time to ask our politics to invest in their own technology sector and promote young/bright engineers to build state-of-the-art data platform that does not involve Palantir.

Why Palantir is doing such action is not to gather data (they do not), or to earn money (it's likely pro bono) but to establish a relationship with governments, a trojan horse if you will, so that they can sell their services to more departments. The pragmatic action would be to accept the help now in crisis time and leverage their tools and somewhat competent Forward Deployed Engineer workforce, but decline their expansion when we are past the crisis.
It would've been really bad compared to modern CPUs. Just one example: having no cache, instruction fetches would be slowed down to the speed of RAM, what's worse if that instruction writes/reads memory location then another RAM access would be issued, with high probability of accessing very different location additional timing penalties would occur (row pre-charge, etc.)
Can someone expand the SFU acronym? I chased the link to sfu-tagged blogs at TFA and an expansion is nowhere to be found.

EDIT: Thanks!
How could they guarantee end-to-end if not all gadgets support encryption?!

Let's demand end-to-end encryption for people connecting via FAX machines to read only the comments.

Of course connecting via unreliable machines / protocols means Zoom must have some bridge on their side somewhere.

In light of this post it looks like for the majority of users it is end-to-end encrypted.

I don't even use Zoom, but really, these attacks are starting to be annoying. From what I've seen all Zoom's reply is bang-on and they will come out of this even stronger.
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It wouldn't be controversial if they explicitly stated that, and took "End-to-end encryption for all meetings" off of their features page.
Is there any evidence that other teleconferencing solutions meet or exceed what's described in this blog article?

I just find the Zoom hate weird. We have no reason to think Teams, Hangouts, or anything else does anything close to or better than this. Lots of reason to suspect they probably don't.

Don't get me wrong, I think the scrutiny is good, and will lead to positive outcomes. But we probably need to scrutinize all these vendors
I can't help but wonder if a Zoom that had, hypothetically, needed to be ultra-paranoid about GDPR or CCPA compliance would have a product on the market capable of wide adoption at the time the world suddenly needs a videoconferencing tool. Everything has tradeoffs.
I'm playing with DragonRuby now [1]. It lacks a lot (but is coming along very rapidly). It's aimed at adults wanting to build real games, but what appealed to me was exactly that the barrier to get started is extremely low compared to most game engines out there. I particularly dislike the IDE-based ones that expects you to learn a custom environment and build a lot of the game visually.

[1] https://dragonruby.itch.io/
I agree with you, but still would like to point out that the same line of argument (we’ve been fine before) would be as valid if society were to actually collapse. No species has ever gone extinct before... until it does!
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non-intuitively at the end of first section:

> Selective Forwarding Units (SFU)
Well, and whenever Google sunsets a product.
Reddit has been plastered with reports from Amazon warehouse workers that they have had temperature checks and PPE (except for masks due to shortages) for weeks now. It doesn't seem to be that different.

It just seems to be on a case-by-case (or per location) basis, while the media seems to be just choosing the locations where there isn't such measures and extrapolating wildly.
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I've been running it on a Fire stick 4k but in 32 bit mode
> prob haven't built up the muscle memory yet

For me, it took YEARS of practice, and it amazes my that my limbic system is still the first responder! It comes and goes and you're right, you really need to practice. The canned phrases are the training wheels.
You do the same with "vanilla" that you do with frameworks: organize your UI into components and everything into modules.

You don't need frameworks for any of that.
So... making those donations was bad? Would you prefer they not do it?
He's probably my favorite living author (although to be honest I mostly read books by long dead authors). I've read a few. I think Libra was the best one. I also read Falling Man, Cosmopolis, and The Body Artist. He has a wonderful writing style.

I've been trying to get through Ratner's Star for years. It's not bad but I suppose it's just not the most compelling.
The perfect is the enemy of the good. These measures aren't about stopping the spread but slowing it down.

An N95 mask (if you can get one) will keep you from getting infected and a surgical mask will keep others from getting infected by you. Temperature checks won't catch everyone but will catch some percentage of sick people.
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