skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a great example. I experienced something similar with my side project, which was a music magazine app, similar in concept to the (failed) iPad interactive magazine projects that were all the rage back in 2012 or so.

It was very challenging to build something that scaled to phones and tablets while having a magazine-type aesthetic (compartmentalized information on each discrete page).

In the end, I abandoned it, and decided to create mini-zines and post them to Instagram as slideshows. Zero interactivity, but they're orders of magnitude faster to make, layout is constrained to IG's 1:1 aspect ratio and and I already have the artboards as I used Sketch to build my static mockups.
>That's four samples out of an infinite domain. To fully verify the function f via science you technically need infinite test cases to verify the fact. Usually you can never achieve this in reality so science usually takes what you call a "sample" and you say that if the sample is true very likely the hypothesis is true. The only assumption science makes is that probability theory applies to events in reality.

Usually equating null-hypothesis significance testing with the scientific method is a sign of cargo cult.
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I second that.

To combine with "starting small" it can be a simple single-page app, or a blog post, or anything. At least for me, feedback is the fuel (even negative feedback >>> no feedback).
Yes, thankfully we don't have online drug sellers or ransomware hackers anymore. Arrested a couple and all the online crime stopped.
https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer

https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html
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Will be interesting to see what ‘universal’ means, mainly in relation to other EU citizens. The debate boils down: “Are those migrant workers from eastern member states really entitled to those benefits?”
In this regards, I think IT isn't the driving force. The driving force is the lawyers/legal department and the HR department.

You should redirect this question to each HR department: how much does HR want to protect a company from its (possibly) rogue employees?
I think the truth is it really depends on your employer. I worked for one place that actively monitored and even recorded people's screens fairly frequently, and others where they honestly don't care in the slightest.
Just get permission, in writing.
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Help requested.

My wife, who is in her 50s, is immunocompromised, and she also has a history of fast escalating and difficult to treat respiratory problems. We are and have been (for the past 32 days) treating this bug very carefully. If she catches it, she has a very good chance of not surviving it.

Our son and I are at less risk, but we can easily bring this bug home.

We've been having more and more trouble getting food. We have a fair quantity of emergency supplies, but we'd rather not tap into those.

At first it was the various delivery options: instacart, various others, but they became less usable. Early last week we started doing Amazon Prime Now, which allowed us to place and pay for orders at Whole Foods, then wait in the parking lot for them to put the orders in our trunk.

Over the past few days, this has gotten less viable. We'd find ourselves driving 50 miles to pickup a $30 order.

So, we're open to suggestions. We live in Mountain View, the SF Bay Area.

We have been able to buy quite a bit of chicken and beef, and we have a 50 pound bag of flour coming in, so we're certainly not in any danger of starvation.

It's just kind of a low-grade anxiety that kind of sucks.

Thanks!

PS: We have a pretty rigorous decontamination process that everything goes through before it comes into the house, so we feel pretty good about that.
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I assume it's B&H Photo https://www.bhphotovideo.com/
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Maybe, but it won't last long.
You should also assume that the email you "deleted", is still there.

Most email servers/services have a setting to keep deleted emails for a period of time. Most corporations also have a separate email server for execs that have different settings. This is above and beyond compliance settings that also email retention for different periods of time. Then there are also backups and archiving...you get the idea.
@yishan is suggesting to try blood transfusions as a treatment but also as a way to see if that is the problem. The conventional wisdom is that people are dying from pneumonia/ADSR. Not hypoxia.
"Discuss your concerns with HR if you can."

I don't think this is good advice. Sorry.

If boss person is monitoring communications, it's 99% likely this is happening within the policy guidelines of your company.
> There is a huge bias against women as can be seen by statistics of women in C-level positions, or on board seats, or as founders.

The presence of a statistical disparity does not automatically indicate malicious discrimination. I don't doubt that there is some amount of sexism present overall, but we're going to need more than uneven gender distribution to make this judgement.

What about any other jobs or where women are under- or over-represented, like teaching, or nursing, or construction? Are different gender distributions among those an indication of malicious discrimination or sexism in either direction?
Looks like "Import all 31 templates into Gmail" redirects to OP's business. Kudos. I think this type of technical, developer-led marketing is the future. Especially as traditional acquisition channels like Social and Search become more saturated and expensive, this type of work will stand out.
If you're available to jump on an anonymous voice chat sometime, I'd be interested in talking to you, the topic being, oh, I don't know, let's say philosophy.

I should really get organized and put some anon email in my profile, particularly since it's me making the request, I figured I'd just send you a note here and see if it catches your eye first.
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UBI seems to be taking off. I don't think they will ever call the US stimulus check "UBI" due to the political climate, but wow.

I think the scariest thing is not doing anything right now.
Speculation: To me, it looks like the air in the tank wasn't pre-chilled before the addition of LN2. When LN2 was added to the tank it flash chilled the air causing a partial vacuum which crushed it like a beer can.
Amazon is holding up much better than other online retailers. Ordering works fine. My Amazon orders are showing up, although slowly. Safeway and Smart and Final can't even give me a delivery slot. Smart and Final's web site was failing over the weekend - Cloudflare timeouts, login timeouts, false credit card declines, HTTP error 461 (there is no standard 461 error.), and a "Site undergoing maintenance" message from their "DevOps Team". Back up now, though.
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Next, you should check hash like MD5.

Now you can represent any file in a fixed-size string. How cool is that?
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> I believe you're looking for the word "backronym"?

TIL.
well actually it's only some sorts of gout, caused by Polycythemia Vera https://rarediseases.org/rare-diseases/polycythemia-vera/ "Gout and kidney stone associated with polycythemia vera occur due to the high turnover of red blood cells, which results in higher-than-normal uric acid production." So it overproduces red blood cells, and the parent comment said there was a theory covid-19 was causing a decrease in red blood cell production so I conjured the amusing scenario in my head of the two diseases fighting each other.

An amusing, non-serious, scenario.
I'm still not convinced 90% of jobs won't go unfilled while everyone sits around and watches Netflix all day. I guess we'll see.
It's the same event. BGPmon was just delayed by a few days.
On how to say no without actually saying no, see also Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It by former hostage negotiator Chris Voss. Thoroughly enjoyed the book, recommmended
Yah, the only thing that's been arriving from Amazon lately are the things sold and shipped by 3rd party sellers. Frankly, i've been paying the extra to just order from the smaller shops lately because amazon's critical "prioritization" algorithm doesn't seem to know what is actually critical.

Part to fix my cloths washing machine? 3 weeks from Amazon, two days from Granger.

Problem solved, plus unlike a similar part I ordered a couple months ago from amazon, I'm pretty sure the granger parts aren't counterfeit. The box stamped "Made in U.S.A" is likely legitimate.
and 6808 / 12 ~= 500
I have a cranky uncle who sends an email newsletter with links. Most of the links are conspiracy theories in my eyes. Some of them are about the climate. So to be able to make reasonable judgements, I've decided to learn about the science of climate. The IPCC makes all their reports available. I've started with the technical summary (84 pages, two-column). Most parts of it are well written and understandable with some basic knowledge of physics and chemistry. Nevertheless, it took several man-days to read it. As there is high confidence that the current warming is caused by humans, I've joined Citizens' Climate Lobby to contribute to the right laws to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions.

The same newsletter made me read a book about motivational psychology (The Righteous Mind). A very interesting topic, that I would love to learn more about, if I had more time.

Last year I've (re-)read Category Theory for Programmers. I had tried it once before, but gave up after a third, as the notation didn't make much sense to me anymore. I would like to read it again, creating flash cards for the most important concepts along the way.
Good Advice! Do you have any recommendations for how to gain a grasp of what problem to solve in the first place - how do I know where to begin and what users to speak to?
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This cuts both ways.
You find appealing to use a global pandemic, or any other disaster for that matter, to remove "ideological and structural obstacles" to try new ideas without debate?

I find it totalitarian, and a great way to incentive politicians to declare or even cause "problems" to remove ideological obstacles that block their ideas. Just a four days ago the president of Hungary did exactly this to end legal recognition of trans people.
> As the previous discussion already noted it seems disingenuous.

> Schools primary goal should be accessibility when it comes to teaching and Zoom arguably with its better video/audio has the best even with glaring security flaws (that do not necessarily seem decidedly worse than Hangouts).

Schools also have the primary goal that elementary school children are not exposed to male genitalia, pornography, graphic violence & the like under __any__ circumstances.

It doesn't matter if the first occurrence was a zoombomb, and it's fixed now, or the standard tech reply of "oh, well, it's the had the wrong settings."

Parents have zero tolerance for these things. They'll be coming for someone's head if it happens. Let alone if it happens again.

And no school administrator is going to put their job on the line once trust in a platform is destoryed.
That’s a wildly inaccurate way to read my post. I rate the 700s as 5 out of 5.
My favorite is how home depot lists stuff in stock on the search results page, but then when you click the individual item it's out of stock.

It's a store. Why the fuck would a store ever show me an item -- at least by default -- that it isn't willing to sell me? Like who exactly wants that "feature"? It makes attempting to buy something from home depot's site an infuriating experience.
Hackers are posting verified zoom accounts on the dark web
It's not clear to me what the "Coolbot Pro"[0] is doing. Near as I can tell, it is an aftermarket electronics kit to run a normal window or split system AC unit right above freezing, because otherwise ice forms on the unit and it stops operating until the ice has melted.

[0] https://www.homedepot.com/p/CoolBot-Generation-7-WiFi-Walk-I...
I don't understand why people are comparing this to realspace crimes. I get that we have plenty of laws covering them, but the online world is completely different. It's possible for people to commit cybercrime and still be undetected. How can you arrest someone if you can't find them? The internet is still very much the wild west, and it needs to be treated as such, with lots of locks and keys. Doing anything less is negligence.
In this article you will see how being a G Suite Administrator you can get a copy of your users sent and received emails without knowing their passwords or putting forwarding in their mailboxes
This is a large part of the justification in Europe - that the conventional expectations of (some degree of) privacy should extend into new mediums, because work makes up such a substantial part of our lives that employees need to accept that parts of employees private lives will happen at work, and they need to act accordingly.
Nope. io_uring is an API that helps with asynchronous I/O.
Wonder what this means for Swarm? It's still a fun game, even all these years later (although seeing lower use I'd imagine during this pandemic).
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TLS 1.3: Slow adoption of stronger web encryption is empowering the bad guys
> This is true skin in the game and shows that the (true or hypothetical) oligarchs have been overridden.

Agreed, but who is losing their job? Not Barry Diller. As always, the average person suffers while the rich take a haircut.

> The POTUS is not a dictator and was never intended to have very much power. The fact that states and their governors have taken point illustrates this is working as designed.

You're confusing the federalist system with "dictator". It is literally the job of the federal government to coordinate on national issues. You don't ask Maryland to build tanks just to defend Maryland, do you? Why is a national pandemic just a states problem with piecemeal solutions? Why is every state bidding for resources individually? Why is every state pretty much on their own here?

> so I don't blame the system too much for not taking this epidemic more seriously.

This isn't the issue. There were many "in the system" that took this very seriously. There are entire parts of the government dedicated to this exact problem. The issue is that the people in charge, the current administration, outright ignored and played down medical facts due to ignorance, incompetence and politics.
Right when this all was starting, I had finally chosen a bass guitar I wanted. I decided to try and support a non-Amazon business in GuitarCenter (the local music shops focus a lot more on school band instruments). So, I order online, and pick the "pick up at store" option, since it says they are in stock.

I show up, and an hour later they figure out that they don't have it in stock, they only have the floor model (which I can have for a whopping 5% off...). Apparently, the system (a green screen app, no less) can't tell the difference between "new in stock" and "floor model". I got the rundown of their logistics chain (which is basically just UPS), and I lost confidence that even ordering ship-to-home online again would even work. So, I bought it from Amazon for the same price and got it later that week...
Thank you good person!
> I hope we'll see a partial return to normal-ish after Easter - at least to the extent that the companies I've been in touch with start planning for the months and years ahead, rather than just trying to figure out how to survive until something resembling normalcy returns.

This is how it feels in Bulgaria as well. We are no longer an exclusively outsourcing destination; we have quite a few very adequate tech companies and people's salaries in the area are steadily, if at glacial pace, growing.

I feel that currently a lot of people are needlessly panicking and this has a snowballing effect BUT eventually people will realise they still have customers they have to serve if they want to receive the next invoices and will thus realise they need the tech workers.

I am in a similar situation like yours, albeit slightly worse -- I can ride my savings up until the end of June I reckon, and I hope the economy starts swinging back by then.

Best of luck and stay strong.
I've played about half of those and the only games that have gotten as many hours out of me as BOTW in the last decade or two have been KOTOR and Mass Effect 1/2. The Fallouts in particular were huge letdowns to me (Fallout 2 was a key formative game).

You can disagree, of course, but in being declarative about it you overestimate the broadness of your own taste in style, I think. For instance, twenty years ago I was the one arguing with my friends about how Majora's Mask was overrated and there were so many better games on PC...
Pocket operators are pretty cheap, but still very powerful.
Similarly, there's at least one study out of China related to this recent outbreak showing the infection rate of the front line staff in hospitals (who were given N95 respirators) as zero, while the infection rate among other departments (radiology, etc) which were not wearing masks as much higher. That despite them calculating the front line staff having ~700% more exposure to the virus.

I know we want to study and confirm everything, but it seems like a real no-brainer that wearing a mask that filters droplets would reduce your disk of infection from an airborne virus generally spread via droplets.

And we're not talking about this in a hospital context, simply as harm reduction. As long as respirators are not an option for most of the general public due to supply issues, etc, then anything which reduces the infection rate is /better than nothing/, even if it isn't perfect.
Could you elaborate on why this is any more crucial for microservices than it is monolith?
It might be a newbie question, but why use fputc and outputing character by character instead of using liburing to write directly to fd 1 ? (or writev?)
I think you hit the nail on the head with exclusive titles. Nintendo console are worth owning if not only for the ability to play the Mario and Zelda franchises, but when you add in Smash Brothers, Pokemon, and all the other titles people love, it is a truly unique offering. I've been loving Super Mario Maker 2.
Sure, hospitals have a mission of providing a service to the community. They treat patients.

Non-profit does not mean volunteer. It doesn't mean they don't make money. It never has. Non-profits are businesses. They operate like businesses. Any impression you had that they do anything differently is a misconception.

It is common for people to equate the word "profit" with "making money", and therefore mistakenly assume that "non-profit" must mean they don't make money. But the word here is specifically referring to the ownership of the organizations net-assets: all assets belong to the business itself, rather than it being the equity of shareholders.

Non-profit only means that the company must use it's property for its own organizational goals, and it does not have owners that the property can be distributed to.

> I haven't looked through financial statements of one of these hospitals, but does anyone else have any experience with doing so and do they actually see that hospitals do need to charge those enormous amounts for everything to run effectively or to survive?

From a link someone else posted elsewhere in the comments:

> Median operating margins reached 1.7% in 2018

https://www.modernhealthcare.com/providers/operating-margins...
I mean you basically cherry-picked half a sentence and ignored the rest of the argument for morality and taxes having a connection. Also, please don’t confuse “less taxes = immoral” with the actual position of taxes which should be paid, but because of loopholes are not. For example, if we had Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 plan and every corporation, regardless of size, paid its 9% (which is less than the existing 21%) in full, I think few people would claim its immoral.

Looks like your data is paywalled. Is it the same that’s available here? https://hifld-geoplatform.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/fortu...

Because if so, I think it’s a little bit more complicated. For example, Alphabet’s corporate headquarters is located in Mountain View, but it looks like it is incorporated in Delaware [1].

1: https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/alphabet-certificate-of-...
How does amazon know what is essential?
I usually prefer to use Amazon just because the experience is so simple and in the UK their logistics delivery service is pretty good with live tracking when the parcel gets near to your home.

Amazon can be annoying when using third party sellers though and might end up getting dispatched with an alternative delivery service, god forbid Royal Mail who don't have any live tracking feature.

I'm always happy to help out smaller/alternative businesses though if they offer competitive prices and use decent delivery firms like DPD.
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Theia runs inside a web browser. VS Code doesn't.
> Amazon shipping hack - order what you want to order, wait 48 hours to see if it ships, and if it doesn't cancel and order elsewhere.

Amazon used to have a history of banning 'bad customers' (lots of returns, cancelled orders, etc), is this no longer the case?
To verify an entire domain you need to test the full domain.

I'm not strictly equating inference or verification to science. I am simply equating this: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Scientific_method

Testing and hypothesis are the key words. Prediction is the other keyword. Analysis I never covered, but you assumed I used null hypothesis testing.

Tell me what is your opinion of all of this since you think my opinion is a 'cargo cult.'
right, I can't help but think, given the state medical systems worldwide are in right now a rise in heart attacks might go unnoticed. Like if it were .1% of asymptomatics get a heart attack it could be some time before it popped up on someone's radar. But probably that is my natural paranoia.
One of the items I tried ordering that was cancelled showed 34 in stock at that store while I was on the phone with them (immediately after the delivery person left) trying to find out why they cancelled my items and they were saying the items were probably out of stock in that store.

And if you have three stores within a couple of miles of you that all claim to have a bunch of stock of an item but you order from one that suddenly (allegedly) runs out, you get to go all the way back down the hill because they don't migrate stock between stores.
>The idea is that women have less access to various support networks that men do

Source? Is there a rigorous definition of a support network, and some statistics showing that women have less access to them?
Yes.

Also I have times when I just need to step back. For instance I am mostly a hardcore coder but I had to deal with some color and design issues that I felt really foggy when I tried to think about.

After taking a break (and also reading CSS documentation to fill in gaps in my knowledge) it just hit me that the color pink was the answer to one problem and it was downhill from there except for the CSS property that it took forever to find.
Possible it's some form of migraine? I sometimes find my mind is cloudy either before or after I develop a migraine.
> we have a fair quantity of emergency supplies.

If you won't use them now, when will you? Are we talking days, weeks or months?