skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you incapable of understanding relative terms?

Compared to the millions of people dead in the US that many were projecting just a few days and weeks ago, this is indeed good -- in fact, very good, because it seems many fewer people will die.
This doesn’t explain why the effect is so obvious with toilet paper.

I think it’s clear it was an irrational panic (the virus doesn’t make you shit yourself to death) and is now a “it’s rare so I must buy some!” Which is keeping it out of stock.

The same thing happened with 22lr ammo on 2015/2016. It made NO DAMN SENSE that people were stocking up on the weakest round you can buy, but it was out everywhere for years. Some idiots started a panic, then otherwise rational people were buying any amount or brand they saw at high prices because they didn’t want to be out.... it was extreme irrational self-caused situation, I see nothing but similarity here.
> So in fact they ship new releases

I had an A380 flight that was slightly delayed due to a “software update” taking longer than expected.

It was at the SIN layover for QF1 LHR to SIN, so it was kind of worrying/amusing to have your plane need a software update halfway through your journey
How do Indian accents make it unwatchable?
It also lasts forever. If you have room to store it, there's no downside to stocking up when you have the chance. And since everyone else is buying lots of it as well, there's an obvious upside--if you don't buy it today, you might not be able to buy it tomorrow.
Now that the turn of the century is 20 years ago and the next century is 80 years away, I feel it's safe to go back to two digit years for most things.
The title on CNN.com changed and I think it's a good summary and reflects the article content: "Cats may get coronavirus, but experts say it's nothing to worry about"
I find that kind of impressive since the "baking" section is down to a single aisle at the super market these days and suddenly it's quite popular. Ideally a number of post pandemic people will continue with the baking. It is so much cheaper to make your own bread.
But he wasn't a "major player" - he was a press secretary. While we can assume he's a Democrat, the role has nothing to do with policy and more-often-than-not is filled by someone who's just good at being a flak jacket. Scaramucci was Trump's Press Secretary - he also worked for the Obama and Clinton campaigns.

Claiming his current worldview is in any way reflective of the Obama Administration is a reach... at best.
you're right. Thanks for the correction.
I've been thinking about security and usability for a while. IMO a big part of use-ability issues are related to interfaces people have to interact with. This is mainly concerning authentication and crypto related processes.

I generally like the idea of smartcards, or having some physical thing you carry around which is used to authenticate with systems.
> You also can't just construct your own shelter that you find adequate. It has to reach the very stringent and remarkably expensive building codes that exist virtually everywhere.

Are you in the US? Most of the US is incredibly cheap and has virtually no building codes. You don't see it if you never get out of the major metro areas, but there is like a million miles of undeveloped cheap land.

A quick search reveals a pile of websites that specifically cater to this offering acres in the middle of nowhere for less than a thousand bucks.

Of course, you're in the middle of fucking nowhere so all of the benefits of modernity don't go with you. But if your goal is opt out of much of the social contract, there is plenty of places in the US to do it.
SaaS growth appears to slow as churn concerns rise
France's coronavirus death toll jumps as nursing homes included
How often does a MacOS user who frequently uses awk lack the ability to install gawk?
Yes, but most people 1) do not realize that, and 2) would not want to change their butt-wiping habits even if they did.
OK, so G/YT are ok with using licensed music for this specific platform, but almost any video of any length with music or vid whether fair use or not will get pulled at the 1st complaint, even if bogus on YT?

I legitimately do not understand their position.

edit: word.
That was a great reply! Thank you, @BeetleB!
I don't know what you mean. There is nothing stopping you from going into some random forest in south america and existing there.

You could also probably do that in large swaths of American and no one would ever find you
I don’t mind real time chat honestly, but I wish it were done right, at least on par with email:

No erasing edit history

Open source

Self hostable

The iPhone means the last two won’t happen and people who set their clients to auto load remote images means the first one won’t.
> Global capitalism is the reason why we are so vulnerable to outbreaks like this

Which is why the Black Plague, Spanish Flu etc. were handled so much better?
"I'm sorry to hear that people have become so accustomed to fixing failures of the mind (which these defects are) with reboots."

That's nothing, I fix "failures of the mind" by shutting off my brain for eight hours every day. That's a reboot!
Good question.

We are based in EU where this is not the norm. We are charged for the call transfer, the caller is not.

No clue about how this works elsewhere.
The difference is that it's expected that booking airlines and hotels will take time so they make time for it but nobody expects to spend minutes installing video conferencing software properly.

They expect meeting chat software to just work and be as easy as opening a link. If a person needs to fly somewhere they have limited choices with airlines, but if a person gets frustrated with video conferencing software then they have an abundance of alternative options.
> Lastly, everyone seems to ignore that this employee violated a direct work order to not come on site...

Keep asking why. Why was this worker ordered to stay home. Was it because he had a brief, 5 minute contact with a covid-19 patient? Other news outlets say that Smalls was unique in his being sent home.

Or maybe was it because he was pushing for a union and the company wanted to find a way to keep him out. Given the article, the latter seems FAR more likely.
Doesn't Heroku have a rollback feature in their dashboard?
In my experience situations where the bug-count goes up by 30% and sprint velocity goes down by 40% don't just happen out of nowhere. In every situation I've been in where that's happened, management has been warned repeatedly and well in advance that engineering was implementing short term hacks that would come back to bite us later on. To respond to something you were warned about with NVC baby-talk (as opposed to a clear and forthright, "Yeah, we screwed up, how do we go forward from here?") seems like it would just make the problem worse.

In my experience, developers always warn management repeatedly and well in advance that engineering is implementing short term hacks. And if management believes them and gives them a free hand, then sprint velocity goes down by 80% and bug counts go up by 90% as stuff randomly breaks in the refactor. Which seldom works out in the end as well as development thinks it will.

(Hint: Refactoring is usually an inefficient way to write a second system, with all of the downsides of the second system effect.)

The moral of the story is that "...management has been warned repeatedly..." DOES NOT mean that the warnings are a correct diagnosis. Here are alternate diagnoses that may also cause the same symptom:

- Confusing product stories.

- Onboarding new developers without proper integration in the team.

- Poor communication patterns between developers.

- General company morale problems.

- Improved QA. (This one is actually an improvement. Reported bugs are up because they are being caught, and developer throughput is down because they have to fix the newly reported bugs. In dysfunctional organizations, though, developers can wind up upset at QA.)

And so on.
And why not if that's what floats her boat. I remember years ago, under very unusual circumstances, I met this guy in his mid 70s,who was living in a tent somewhere in a park or nearby forest in Stockholm.The guy could speak 6 or so languages,was using his laptop every now and then and had a very sound mind. Technically,he was homeless. He used to visit a homeless center in the city to get some food. Apparently the guy just wanted to live this way because he was sick and tired of the life he had earlier. Fair enough. The main problem with all these ancient ways of living is healthcare: I could be a Robinson Crusoe in some forest without issues, however as soon as I get asthma attack, some nasty wound or a bacterial infection, I'm more or less dead...
I worked in videoconferencing for a while. When it comes to meeting identifiers, striking the right balance between ease of use and security is really hard.

On the one side, maximum ease-of-use is a name or code short enough for someone to say over the phone. "Here, just jump into the videoconferencing meeting 'mikefred' or 'john10' or '39584'". That works particularly well for small meetings where it's immediate obvious if someone else joins and you can stop talking and ask them who they are and kick them out if they shouldn't be there.

On the other hand is long random identifiers in a space large enough they're impossible to guess. If you're joining a meeting from a link then nobody cares, but if you're telling someone over the phone or typing it into the phone it sucks. (And you are very often needing to jump from one form of communication to videoconferencing, where there's no way to "just paste a link" into the initial form.)

There's also no real difference between a short meeting name plus password and a long meeting name, except that passwords tend not to be displayed on screen so it's even harder to find it to tell someone over the phone.

Also there's another big issue in how easy or convenient you make it for people from within your domain/company to join, versus outsiders. Half the company wants to make it harder for outsiders to join (for security), the other half (salespeople) want it to be easier.

The only solution, unfortunately, is educating users to understand the differences. Zoom already has most if not all the necessary options, even modes like "waiting room". But the same options will never work for every meeting. Whoever hosts a meeting needs to understand the options. There's just no substitute.
France today adjusted it's toll by 884 including deaths in nursing homes

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-france...
Maybe the issue is that any system can collapse and become dysfunctional, and that we should admit when ours has become one. Other nations have openly and honestly dealt with this as a national health crisis from the beginning. Better things are possible; more systems exist besides the late USSR and our current system.
Even our static assets from raw.githubusercontent.com are throwing 500s. Whatever it is, it sounds like a pretty widespread failure...
You might be lucky to be in an office where people don't scream at each other.
Has GitHub moved their infrastructure to Azure? Last I recall they ran mostly on their own servers.
Except Carney didn't say that.

>“He’s not smart, or articulate, and to the extent the press wants to focus on us versus him, we will be in a much stronger PR position than simply explaining for the umpteenth time how we’re trying to protect workers,” wrote Amazon General Counsel David Zapolsky in notes from the meeting forwarded widely in the company.
Hello Zapolsky!
Fully agreed. Exactly the same response AND same attitude from our representatives. The attitude part of it was the worst- it's specifically designed to be unrewarding, to make you leave them alone .

There are technical solutions coming down the pike at our benighted lawmakers that are going to change the balance of power and force them to be more attentive and truly represent their constituents. That's all I can say for now.

Pelosi and Feinstein DO truly represent their constituents as far as I can tell, it has to be said. I don't particularly like either of them, but then I don't particularly care for the people they represent either.
3 reasons that I can think of:

1. You can implicitly return things so it provides nice syntactic sugar

2. Using an arrow function results in `this` being bound in the way you'd expect (coming from something like C++) in all cases without having to call .bind(this) anywhere. I'll never forget seeing promise chains starting with `const that = this;` in order to keep the right reference throughout the promises.

3. You use it for the previous 2 reasons and use it everywhere in order to be consistent
For the Uninitiated and Bored, an Introduction to the World of Gaming
Hey... I created a tool that can hack Zoom meetings faster.... let me tip Brian Krebs about it and advertise it to the world.

I don't understand why this article exists. It's like a beacon for all the bored skidz now.
Yeah, sure. And I usually build up a set of filters and rules so that my inbox is manageable, but I think the compassionate point of view is that email is loaded with more disposable and management heavy communications than slack tends to be.

Slack was where work got done.
Email, less so.
NY state has 8 million people. The United states has about 320 million. Thus, assuming an equal distribution, I would expect NY to have about 1/40 the number as the entire country. 62000 / 40 = 1550, so actually New York has a lot more than one would expect.

I would expect there to be more ventilators today than 2010 (but I could be wrong).
I happen to know a few people in the larger "primitive" community in the Pacific Northwest, though I am not one myself. I can't speak for them but have know them for >10 years and am pretty close with some.

Feel free to ask me any questions and I can do my best to answer.
It's a lot easier to implement central key management than a fully e2e system, especially if they do need the key for many meetings anyway on some of their systems.
Yeh... Cool story. That would work if you are "deploying" a "solution" like Facebook for work... Dynamix, SharePoint or office 365... Sap and Salesforce is where it gets complicated.

Finding one female embedded engineer that knows the difference between a variable on the stack or the heap is basically like striking gold while winning the lottery.

It is a problem of quality not quantity...
Did you read the article? The argument being made (whether it's accurate or not, I have no idea) is that more people being home means shifting demand towards consumer TP and away from commercial TP, and pointing out that the supply chains for both are already highly optimized and not able to easily cope with such a dramatic shift in demand.
>I think that decision making is a skill. And like all skills, having those things will improve it.

We have a very fundamental difference of opinion, and we will have to leave the discussion at that. And the difference is this: my opinion is that people will significantly vary in their decision making skill, everything else being equal (training, knowledge, experince etc.)

>Is it because you don't trust their methods? Or their implementation?

Both. It's because the vast majority of people in my (subjective) analysis are worse decision makers than me. The FDA is no exception. The FDA is also prone to being corruptible, as is any human enterprise. It's a fundamental difference of opinion I have with you. Look through my profile, and you will see a cynic. Josiah Zayner, the guy who's article is posted would be a guy of similar disposition.
These are the same agents that prevented SCTP from being usable outside of private networks. We need to stop catering for them.
1M confirmed Covid-19 cases now
You can override configuration options by appending `#config.optionname=value` to the meeting url in a fresh new browser tab
I don't buy their approach here unfortunately. They showed that they pushed the whole product without one person raising this as an issue easier. Even though this is the most common problem with block lists in real world: the LGBT sites and sexual health information sites. "We fixed it, it's ok now" - let's see how long that lasts / what's the next category to get impacted - I haven't seen any fixes in the process / validation described in the post. (I mean validation of their sources/approach in the future beyond a spot check on regressions)
> they got selected by the ecosystem because they were GREAT homegrown solutions

While React has lots of great ideas, good marketing and the facebook brand is really what boosted its popularity. Popular does not necessarily mean great. There must be some other great homegrown frameworks out there, but we have never heard of them, since they did not start out as a facebook or google homegrown framework.

> it seems that Facebook really grasped early on what was happening with React,

This just is not accurate. React has also evolved a lot since its inception, they've just been careful about maintaining backwards compatibility compared to angular.
ScyllaDB now has a Redis API
I mean, not by much though. They're about equivalent in size.
Semi-literate people building a power plant in a poor country don't know either, or rather, it may not be apparent when working on the project that 10% was taken off the top.

But I have to feel a lot of devs making a $1B simple app have a clue that something is off.
It's possible to do E2E encryption even with a web client. The endpoints exchange keys, possibly with certificates that validate who is on the other end, and then the web client encrypts the stream and sends it either directly to the other endpoint or to a Zoom server, which relays it but doesn't possess the decryption key. Their statements are pretty vague, but my impression is that Zoom servers decrypt the stream and then reencrypt it. That is not end to end encryption, in fact, the specific difference between normal TLS type encryption and end to end is that the server has no ability to decrypt the traffic.
Ah, your code sample was incomplete so I was extrapolating. I'm assuming the complete code would be:

const input = React.useRef(null);
return (
<>
<input ref={input} />
<button
onClick={event => {
input.current.value = "value";
input.current.focus();
sound.play();
}}
>
Button
</button>
</>
);

Which is almost identical to how you would do it in vanilla JavaScript except you would grab input by a query selector and be less resilient against DOM mutation and your references becoming stale.

To point b there's nothing wrong with having an uncontrolled input. React allows you to use the raw DOM API if you'd like. You only need to use controlled inputs if they buy you something, and then the rewrite is a small diff:

const input = React.useRef(null);
const [inputValue, setInputValue] = React.useState("")
return (
<>
<input ref={input} value={inputValue} />
<button
onClick={event => {
setInputValue("value");
input.current.focus();
sound.play();
}}
>
Button
</button>
</>
);

This is adding a line of code (useState) but in this case it's buying you something -- you have full control of the value and are insulated against DOM updates.

For point c I'm not sure what you're referring to. I can't think of a situation where React would drop your call to `input.focus()` on the floor. I just tried breaking it by spamming state updates and was unable to. The whole point of React is that it handles DOM updates seamlessly and I would be surprised if it didn't in this case.
Never said he said it. I said he’s defending a company whose taking this line to discredit Smalls. Go read my post again and Carney’s Twitter feed if you need further clarification.
How about cases where the data structures need to support "interesting" query operations. E.g. data structures to support spatial queries: "find me all the neighbouring elements within a radius r of element x". Not super-specialised, but probably need something like a quadtree or a hash table or other indices to help partition the search space. There can easily be 1M+ elements if each element is an address in state / national address database, or a component of some utility network, or a location of an app user. There are use cases where you'd want to be able to execute these kinds of queries with low latency, so jamming everything into ram in an appropriate data structure could be a good fit.
These are all good questions. Unfortunately, America is the first big country infected that is friendly to America.
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They haven't been a pro-worker party for a couple of decades now. As exemplified by their stance towards globalization, protectionism, and illegal immigration. Their poorest, most pro-worker presidential candidate is a geriatric multi-millionaire with three houses, and the party perfers someone with dementia and deep ties to China even to him.
I think many humans can pass it, I will be testing. I can at least.

Correct answer is the original boolean formula, minus the noise.

E.g. the original formula might be (a & b) | c. If the human can provide the correct truth value for the formula for the missing assignments (blue squares), then they answer correctly.
Sample size: 34, for determining "community smell" ahh yes how quantitative their metrics for that must be.

Nooo, this isn't politically biased at all ;)

They didn't SEEK this outcome of their study to conform with currently in-vogue political trends, not at all-- it's in no way biased ;)

No, no, you see-- We must get men to think, act and communicate like women! And women to think, act and communicate like men.

Yes, that's the answer-- Confuse people into thinking they're the same while demonizing men and elevating women with fake, clearly ideologically biased, nonsensical studies which use terms like "community smell".

Neomarxists/diversity-outraged: Women and men are equal.

Neomarxists/diversity-outraged: Women are better than men. We need more women in positions of power! (Search: "Entryism")

Noo... this couldn't be biased by current fad politics... not at all ;)

/sarcasm

In case anyone is wondering why Woke/SJW/identity-politics neomarxist messaging suddenly increased in the media in the 2010-2020 timeframe--

Here's an interesting summary of how usage of woke & SJW terminology dramatically increased in NYT publications since 2010 (alongside its increase in other forms of media).

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/06/th...

The use of "Woke" & SJW terminology rapidly increased following the dissolution of Occupy Wallstreet movement in 2010.

Hint: It's almost as if media/politics/entertainment elites are encouraging the middle class to fight each other, rather than the top 0.001% ;)
Nope. You can't claim it's increased demand for consumer
varieties under these conditions. Such increased demand of TP would see a fairly smooth increase in purchase & usage patterns as people ran out of their current supply and purchased their normal replenishment slightly more often. That's not the behavior we've seen. Indeed, if it had been that behavioral pattern, then the modest elasticity in production capacity (roughly 20% IIRC from manufacturers) would have been enough to smooth over the issue during the time necessary to ramp up further and perhaps repurpose commercial lines for consumer packaging.

That isn't what happened. Near me, it literally disappeared overnight about 3-4 weeks ago, and hasn't come back since.
Is there as much opportunity? It could be that aircraft are much more optimized than rockets were. We already reuse airplanes.