skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You cant do that without immediately opening yourself up to being sued for “constructive dismissal”. Theres no good way to do them. It always sucks.
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I think there are two components here. One is people reporting their experience. We should definitely honor that.

But the other is people making claims of fact based on their experience. That's something people need to be responsible about, because it imposes a burden on the rest of us, and can be actively harmful.

So if somebody sees funny lights in the skies, great! I would like to hear about their experience. But suppose somebody uses that to claim that aliens are real and are coming to probe people's anuses and the government is covering that all up. That's not a neutral act! As we can see with the recent rise in conspiracism and a lot of specific wacko beliefs like Flat Earth theories, bad thinking is contagious. And when we look at antivax hysteria, it becomes obviously dangerous.

A comment like "subtle energy is real" is for me in the realm of irresponsible behavior. It's an unevidenced assertion of fact about the nature of the universe. And here, it's placed in contradiction to somebody being open-minded about the experience and trying to find a way to fit it into more useful frameworks of fact. So the "subtle energy is real" person is actually the one being dismissive here. I'd say the downvotes are reasonable.
Netflix hasn't lowered resolutions, they have only reduced the bitrates at the same resolution. I'm still getting my Netflix in 4K HDR, but at ~10Mbps instead of the usual ~16Mbps. You can see it a little, but it doesn't bother me (and I'm a quality nerd).
Not all privacy apps are created equal
This is built on the normal Google location tracking systems. We both know that while they may be providing aggregate stats now they have all the data they need to provide individual location stats. Because the capability exists there is the temptation to use it, especially if the situation worsens more than expected.
> Laboratory tests find that improvised cloth masks block 60 – 80% of virus particles

How many virus particles do you need to become infected? Is 20% of the load in a typical aerosol droplet from an asymptomatic infected person above or below that critical number?
I think it's humbling to see how much he understands that people of his time lack knowledge in so many areas. Like the source of electricity in certain bugs. I feel like modern authors would just do this little bit of research to find an answer they could cite, but back then the availability of that information just wasn't there. If you didn't personally already possess some knowledge, you were hard pressed to find that knowledge.

I also got a chuckle that the text becomes condensed near the end of the article. What could be the reason for that?
Link to login? I don't even know what it is... why would I login? This app expects you to sign up for a new service without any information about it...no terms of service, no privacy info - it barely has a description.
I understand the extent of the security problem there, and as you say it was Safari-specific. But it goes to show that there might be consequences beyond the obvious when you do grant an application access to the camera/mic.
Yes, it's possible. You'll reach diminishing returns in the language value much quicker without some background in types and semantics. But that point might come long after you achieved your goal. So, have at it and enjoy exploring.
Hold on. How is this hardware? Is there a physical button/hinge that is triggered? If so, the chip shouldn't matter.

Or is this some piece of logic emebedded in the chip itself or the firmware of some other component, which makes this solution a software one.
There are even more stories of people getting into troubles just by walking, sitting, sleeping.
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You can just edit your first post. It's inside the two hour window. All these addendums-as-posts clutter things up.
Yep, for us in Italy the continents are 5: America, Eurasia, Antarctica, Africa, Oceania (Australia + New Zealand + several minor isles).

Geographically speaking, we then have North America (Canada, USA), Central America (Mexico to strait of Panama), South America, and Caribbeans.
No, I'm talking about the literal months before the first case was even announced in SK.
I stopped reading because I can't take articles full of gifs seriously; just content farm crap.
Holy frickin crap

I had what I thought was definitely whooping cough in November. Tested negative and thought well there is definitely going to be a new disease surfacing.

Skip ahead and covid 19 happens. I thought, this is definitely what I had.

However, the faux whooping cough lasted months and the cough was very characteristic, cough so hard you struggle to breathe back in. It doesn't chime perfectly with covid-19, I've yet to hear of a cough lasting more than 2 weeks.

But what was this mysterious "whooping cough"
I’m curious how biologists thought callouses formed before this research? Magic?
Where? I've been seeking for years. The best one I found didn't even take insurance, because that didn't pay enough to justify the time she spent with patients. She recently closed her practice, alas. And on my insurance, I'm now required to go through one of the approved primary care doctors.
This is really hammed up by NPR. The "FBI warning" is more or less "don't use open calls if you don't want random strangers to enter your call".

A couple days ago, more scrupulous reporters were able to explain this succintly and help people avoid it.

Yes, Zoom should amend their bug bounty policy to allow for responsible disclosure, rather than non-disclosure, but it's not like they're alone in that failing, nor most of the other failings involved in this dogpile.

I like it when vendors are held to account, but the way that this has been reported over the last few days has seemed like more of a shakedown than a genuine consumer reporting effort.
This makes it somewhat easier on the eyes but is still 80% too verbose.

Crosstabview converts a table from:

|a x 0
|a y 1
|a z 2
|b x 1
|b z 5

to

| x y z
|a 0 1 2
|b 1 5
We were on Oracle for 15 years, but the cost was just too high. We decided to move to Postgres. We thought it wouldn’t be as good as Oracle (you get what you pay for, right?), but it ended up being better. Performance is better. Documentation is better (by far). Adherence to SQL standard is better. Many SQL queries are simpler. Null/empty string is sane. Etc.

Now I don’t have experience with MySQL, SQLServer, etc., but between Oracle and Postgres, Postgres is definitely the best database.
This is the reason for Safari's reader mode.
Yeah. Close to 12 hours. Router issue which broke a lot of stuff.

Ugly, but transparent compared to AWS.
Good thing they have plenty of backups!
Researchers crunching data from a COVID-19 symptom tacking app in the UK have come to similar conclusions [1]

[1] https://covid.joinzoe.com/post/research-update-april-1-2020
Knoll’s Law
I was talking about countries with a national public health system, in fact I specifically had my own country (and other European countries with similar models) in mind.
I'm a mechanical engineer working in a university research lab. We're a pretty broad lab with researchers in diverse domains but focused around one idea: innovative design. Making stuff that works.

As a research engineer, I get pulled to work more on "development" projects close to or with industry. Grad students get the more early phase research stuff.

I'm currently working on a contract for a large aerospace company, which involves a new kind of thrust-generating machine. I'm solely responsible for designing and building a prototype and test bench as well as doing the experimental work when that is done.

It's diverse and rewarding work, but it gets a bit lonely sometimes compared to working in teams with 10s of engineers and techs in a large multinational corp. It's still the most enjoyable job I've held so far.
> Will we fare better or worse than other, similar countries? We can’t know for sure, it’s only after it’s over that we can get a verdict.

That is the whole point - they're taking a gamble. You can draw up a matrix. If they don't do a lockdown, and it turns out to be not-very-dangerous, they will have saved the economy.

If they don't do a lockdown, and it turns out to be very dangerous, they will have the blood of hundreds of thousands on their hands. But the worst consequence that they can suffer is not getting re-elected.

Think of it like Russian roulette. If the payouts are [+10, +10, +10, +10, +10, -1000], your expected value is -158.3, but if your downside is limited to -20, your expected value is +5. It is not morally justified to take a 20% chance of killing 100'000 people for an 80% chance of raising GDP by 5% ($26 billion). That's 20'000 people for $21.2 billion, or $1.1 million per person.
Libre Office Draw should be able to do this...
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I don’t understand this bashing of a fairly good tool. There are worse tools (when it comes to privacy, especially when it comes to privacy)
That might very well be the case, but I can certainly see the difference between how a plasma TV displays colors (more movie-like) and the way LED screens do (less movie-like, a lot more difficult to suspend disbelief while watching it).

One of my close friends has one of these 4K TVs and watching "Friends" (the TV show) at his home was quite eerie, it felt like all the characters were part of our room, and not in a good way. Color- and resolution- imperfections make a movie, well, more movie-like, at least for us people who got to see movies displayed on screens not very much unlike what you could see in "Cinema Paradiso" [1]

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095765/
The Tamil Tigers (?) also used ramming boats to great effect.
Fun fact: No one dies if the carrier anchors at Guam for a few weeks longer with just security staff on board.

Less fun fact: Maybe a dozen sailors will die (or have died) if the carrier sails and gets the rest of the crew on board infected.

Hmm, hard choice.
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Thanks. Do they do payouts (out)? Their website focuses on payments (in).
If you're just dipping into Permaculture, get a few books by Ruth Stout. Her method of "no-work" gardening is a pillar in the homesteading, self-sufficiency, and permaculture communities.

Warning, her writing style is closer to rambling than academic/professional.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Stout
How many lives is hospitalization saving in the pandemic?
I agree with them, but only if they charge patients xx% less.

First, the cost of care assumes ability to sue for malpractice, and secondly, doctors admit (we all know) that the care will as good as in other times...due to sheer volume.
There's a comment as an answer to yours from moooo99 that explains exactly what I am thinking. Not scooters, but the companies, and not entirely, just from most of the places you find them operating now. For some people they're great!
All species heavily optimize for mating, to the point of detriment. You think the male peacock needs all those feathers to survive?
As an outsider, microbiology is hopelessly complex.
True enough. There's some balance to be struck between being observant and letting observations turn into blinding beliefs.
I wish we lived in a world where people only said things like that they believed.
Moscow deploys facial recognition for coronavirus quarantine
I got new AirPods and loved it for about an hour. "Hey Siri, open Spotify." "Hey Siri, next track" and so on while I was walking around. I'm spending most of my day on conf calls, so the AirPods are in anyway.

Then they started false triggering about every ten minutes. "Hey Siri, decrease sensitivity" does nothing. "Hey Siri, set a timer": "nope your $4k computer can't count time."

Turned it off. Sorry.
There's lots of them, but there's a couple that make one stand out, and they aren't technical.

- Dealing with ambiguity.

- Diplomacy skills. Knowing how to negotiate.
>His parents were Anarchists - in the workers'-movement, anti-Capitalist, revolutionary sense, Groethendieck wasn't.

I'm not a Groethendieck scholar but I did read a short biography of him and it definitely left me with the impression that he was an anarchist or left-libertarian in the anti-Capitalist, liberty, revolutionary sense. What are your sources to back up the claim that he wasn't?

>is activities did not involve Anarchist organizing/politics.

In Groethendieck's "The Responsibility of the Scientist Today [0] he writes:

"Thus the proliferation of military power and stocks of weapons throughout the world poses an ever-increasing danger not only to our species, but also to life in general. This predicament, unparalleled in the long history of biological evolution, must be met with immediate radical action."

He directly calls for political organization and radical action.

Edit: I don't object to getting voted down, but I would encourage anyone downvoting a comment on hackernews to provide their rational. This helps improve the quality of the discussion.

[0] "The Responsibility of the Scientist Today" (translated from French) http://ccnr.org/grothendieck.pdf"
It's extraordinary in the sense that there is no known mechanism for it to work.

E.g. soap kills viruses by dissolving them, some painkillers work by blocking transmission of signals along nerves, radiotherapy kills cells in the blast zone.

Other than through establishing a psychological effect around 'someone cares', there's simply no known way of positive thoughts in one person's head being transmitted down through the hands and directly doing some work on an illness.

If there were, what is it:

What kind of 'energy' do hands emit? How does the difference between Reiki hands and non-Reiki hands manifest? How does that 'energy' selectively effect diseases? How does thought modulate the diseases the 'energy' effects. E.g. how is the Reiki hand energy signature a function of the targeted disease? What's the molecular pathway by which the 'energy' improves the target ailment? If it's just regular 'energy' why can't we copy it with a machine and play it back en masse?
It appears likely that this was a test procedure failure rather than a hardware failure. Which brings up the question, why were they doing it at 2AM? Either they were using night crew who are presumably not their A staff or they were using highly fatigued day crew.

Edit: everybody is taking this as an attack on night crew. It was poorly worded -- I believe the latter is more likely, since Elon expects his employees to work 80-100 hours a week. https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-says-80-hours-per-...
Source? Not because I disbelieve that it's possible in practice, but how much data can you really get out of that? A MacBook Pro camera operates at 60 Hz; unless you can interpolate samples some way I'm not thinking of (and that would necessarily degrade your resolution), the highest frequency you can capture is 30 Hz. Technically, this could be extracting audio, but it's not audio that meaningfully overlaps with the human experience.
I read it on Wikipedia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_eugenics

It seems they were not Scandinavian but romans
My observation is that it's relatively easy (not actually easy though!) to appear to be a good manager when things are going well. And that can last long enough for someone to be promoted several times.

But it's hard to tell whether someone is _actually_ a good manager until you've observed their reactions in times of stress. If they've reached senior levels already then it probably doesn't matter whether the managers under them are any good or not: it's not going to go well.
I was introduced to Autify[0] today by our CTO. I believe Puppeteer and everything else similar will be obsolete soon.

[0]: http://autify.com/
Facebook is trying to build AR glasses that just 'melt away'
I wonder if the author wrote this with something in mind?

Fire and forget logging to HTTP endpoints would be pretty useful for IoT sensors. You'd have a lot less code and could potentially save significant power. You obviously lose the ability to guarantee data arrived, but that's probably not important for all sensor situations.
On Generics and Associated Types
There's no doubt there's going to be a number of speculative startup companies left in the wake of this recession
I did my bachelor's degree in a private college in India. It was not the best even in the city it was in, and didn't have enough money for these things. Did I not deserve to study things because I didn't have the money?

Edit: Just to add insult to injury I published 2 papers while in my bachelor's and I could not access them because they were behind a paywall by Elsevier.
Yeah it seems like Zoom is being unfairly singled out. Compared to the rest of the industry, it now appears as if Zoom is a terrible choice for security. Is this really justified? How is the competition doing?
Each receiver sending feedback does not prevent the server for using datagrams with multiple destinations. I can see that each peer use a different resolution and bitrate but that is another layer, is like sending information at several resolutions and each peer selecting the best one.

Edited: I must learn something about multicast in IPv6, the idea seems interesting.
Who cares? It's working good. Someone is always spying anyway. If you don't like that, turn off your internet.
> “ Notice that the word speed appears twice. This is not the time for committees, study groups or widespread consensus building. Even with imperfect information, the future of your company depends on your ability to make rapid decisions and start acting.”

Yikes. I guess principled decisions have to go? Executive authority!

It reminds me of the president in The Simpsons Movie... “I was elected to lead, not to read.”
Definitely better than calling it Coronabury or Coronapalooza.
Agreed. Most of these ancient societies would be completely alien to us. Even pre-US Civil War would be different enough to make the average USA-ian uncomfortable.
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He is one.
If you have the same meeting every day, you will start memorising the numbers naturally.
It's being bashed because these are real problems that real people are encountering when using it. Just because there are worse options doesn't mean there aren't/can't be better options.
I'll admit to not being an expert in databases, but I can't figure out why the order of columns in a database would be relevant, unless you're doing `select *` and indexing the resulting columns by number rather than name, which I've always found to be fragile to the point of being useless. What am I missing?
No way they will fly one of these to the Moon in 2022. Will see the Shuttle effect, ie. introducing engineering workarounds that will greatly increase costs.
One upside to the covid-19 outbreak is it's introducing a lot of people to the precarious nature of life in countries with a weak social safety net. Copyright is already a compromise between the needs for survival under a capitalist system and the need for the products of culture to return to ownership by the people after a time.

Someone out there is spending their extra home time working on a new compromise. I don't think it'll involve the death of capitalism in our lifetime, but I do think it'll involve a wider awareness of the difference between a market problem and a collective action problem.
It's using ECB mode. That doesn't even provide confidentiality. "Not suited for secrets" is entirely correct, and actually somewhat mild.
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Iirc, there are fossils of polar dinosaurs with very big eyes, a bit like deep sea creatures tend to have big eyes.
It's a trade-off. The behavior is pretty easy to grasp for the average user (closed laptop: stop doing everything, enter low-power mode), and there's ways around it for users that want something different (caffeinate command, ssh to tmux/screen sessions, etc).
At least the guy who wrote the script can now make a fortune selling it on CodeCanyon. /s
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I feel like this is one of those "Thinking Fast and Slow Things" where paying someone 10 cents to do something makes them more annoyed then asking them to do it for free. Like this immediately makes me go "they're a billion dollar company, they could give him thousands!!!" Even if it's irrational
Right now we'd have to be allowed outside
Exactly, these are the things to get right. Hard problems but for sure not impossible.

Also, the alternative of total lock down is hard to beat when it comes to false positives. ;)
Short sellers of Zoom stock has something to do with it, competitor lobbyists, or just new outlet opportunists looking to pile it on to get more views. Although I do agree there is some legitimate concerns, but not at this level
SpaceX has a different work ethic to the rest of Planet Earth
Some changes in the business environment seem non-intuitive. My cloud migration consulting work (which I thankfully do remotely) has seen a quick uptick. A lot of customers want to migrate to cheaper clouds or reduce their cloud footprint. I was expecting not have much work as many of my startup clients see revenue pressure. But in the short term a few months the opposite may happen.
I don't regard being antimilitary as being political at all. Maybe the working definition of politics is different, but if you are not involved in a political party that tries to exercise influence and prescription to others, then I would call one apolitical.

In the same way, many Soviet intellectuals that were against their government still referred to themselves as apolitical.
https://www.google.com/covid19/mobility/ is where the data is.
Most professionals don't work hourly, do they? Most get paid based on 40 hours per week (in the US).
Zoom has a track record of exposing user computers to breakins on more than one occasion, false claims of secure encryption, and dark patterns in hiding the web client from users to fool them into installung the swiss cheese native client, and an arrogant attitude throughout. What more do you need?

Of course the list of mistakes is smaller than eg Microsoft's but it's also a much younger company and their attitude doesn't reflect a striving for better.
> The color quality is incredible.

I've mentioned it above, those perfect colours make a movie less movie-like for me, because said perfectness makes me harder to suspend disbelief while watching said movies, which are displayed with perfect colors. I don't dispute that today's screens display colors in a more truthful way compared to my 2011 plasma, but that doesn't help with movie watching.

This is a very old discussion among movie buffs, that's why a few movie directors that can afford if artistically and money-wise still insist on filming on 35mm (even though today's digital recording devices are a lot more closer to "reality" compared to 35mm film). It's not only because of "hipsterism" or whatever one might think to call it.
Perhaps with more testing more people will know to stay home.