skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's been 20 years since I worked a corporate job, but a good friend and brilliant colleague / friend told me about his own horror story with Accenture / Chinese consultants. He told me the English skills and attitude of the Indian consultants he used to work with far outweighed the pain of dealing with Accenture consultants, in spite of their tech skills. Language problems and ego / combativeness from the stories he told me. Hearsay, I know... but this guy's work is in products that 90% of the people reading this use, so... yeah.
This is not "ER". This is ICU, AKA intubations nowadays. Cuomo had this chart in his presser.
Face shields aren’t protective in this context for the general public. No one is intubating coughing patients or working in messy medical situations unless they’re medical professionals. It isn’t sad that hypochondriacs might not have access to them. It’s reality that infinite instant supplies don’t exist. You aren’t entitled to have whatever you want. Especially when you’d be depriving medical professionals safety and life.
though you have to admit that it's not a necessity for workplace conversations. We thought it nice to get one for our lectures recently and it's not only webcams (which are totally sold out), but also cheapish capture cards and mics... We ended up buying a GoPro and a 4k-capable capture card - now if we only had a capable local network (for streaming a 1000 4k streams)
Why would that be true? (Asking as a non-American)
Untangling Covid-19, Altitude Sickness, and Conspiracy Theory
Count home cycling bikes as well.
It's actually a condition I seem to have. I cannot for the life of me "imagine" what a room would look like with furniture re-arranged, and also have immense difficulty in "imagining" situations even with faces I've known my whole life.
> Since we know what both the reference and viral signals look like, we can perform linear regression analysis to fit the linear combination of viral and reference signals that best match our data.

Does this mean you assume a linear relationship between the quantity of viral RNA and the strength of the signal?

I know that when back i used to draw calibration curves from my positive controls, there was usually a sublinear relationship, across all sorts of different assays, at least at the upper end.
> and the shields should be discarded every time

Maybe I'm missing something, but the page literally has a section titled "Clean and reuse your face shield" and lists the chemicals that should be used to clean it.
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The systems I've deployed with Swarm have generally been a mix of both - not sure why it would make a difference if you were running in-house or off-the-shelf images?
Plenty of essential public areas are building plastic drapes. That’s effectively the same thing but likely cheaper and not depriving medical professionals of anything.
Do they? Take the 5 major countries in western Europe - UK, France, Germany, Spain, and Italy. Together they have ~325M people, which is about the size of the US.

Both total cases and total deaths are higher than US. Total deaths is 4x worse. What numbers are you looking at?
(I'm paraphrasing people here and I may have mangled what they're saying, sorry)

This thread has some useful commments, one from someone who's actually done F@H research, another from someone who mentions the length of time it takes to get a medication trial through the system (without covid-19 easements) and how few trials actually make it.

There's a bit of discussion around the cost in electricity, and whether it's better to just send that money somewhere.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22491910

This post links to a blog that talks about F@H that you may be interested in.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22662026

This post is from someone who is a researcher who says that F@H is a form of science, and so it should continue, but that it's probably not as directly applicably useful as F@H says.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22576088
Have you tested this solution? If yes tell me yourself experience?
Schlemiel the Painter's Algorithm
A hotel can tie up the resource of 100 places to live in temporarily inside one single building. Airbnb spreads that out to 50-100 separate places to live in. There's a difference, don't you think?
You and your co founder(s) are good people. I'm glad you're in a position to do this. If this works, you'll save lives.
A lot of Italian universities took a week to rearrange their complete offering with online courses, allowing full theory + practice + projects lesson in virtual mode - exams solutions are being studied and pass/fail is out of the discussion.

If low-funded Italian universities can do it, I wonder what's stopping the best universities like Yale with enormous quantity of money to do the same.
I saw a video on youtube of someone claiming to have aphantasia, but to me it just seemed that they were misinterpreting what others would "see" when they visualise something.

When asked to "picture" something, for some reason they assumed people would actually see a faint version of it in their visual field - and because they couldnt "see" it, they believed they had aphantasia.

e.g. when asked to visualize a clown sitting in a chair in front of them, they expected people to actually (however faintly) see a clown in a chair in front of them. To me that is hallucination, not visualization.

Of course, it could be ME misinterpreting it, and people do actually "see" things they visualize, and I have aphantasia.... How would I know? What is the experience for you? (if you dont mind me asking)
I'm glad I'm not the only one with a bad haircut during this quarantine :-/
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There’s something I don’t really understand here (south east Ireland).

There also is no flour. Mmm, I mean « normal » flour.

Was in Tesco yesterday for the (now) weekly shop visit and they were putting bags and bags of flour.

But only self raising and plain ones. I wonder if the producers of the flour do this on purpose (those flours are way more expensive than basic ones)
How am I supposed to work without the guy next to me chewing the egg he just cracked with his mouth open, the guy behind me crunching chips and audibly burping, and the sales guy with a bluetooth earpiece and mechanical keyboard!?

I do not miss the office.
Thank you, it's just what I happened to be looking for!

For those of us in Europe can you recommend your choice of flour (and perhaps some other replacement ingredients)
It is the opposite in France, sell of alcohol in supermarkets saw a 16% drop.
It's a bit tricky to compare regions because they test differently, and they count death differently.

Most of the threads comparing death across countries don't say how each of those countries is counting the deaths.
Thus far, I have spent about $15K on consumer goods. Appliances, computer hardware, upgraded my TV.

I'm also looking to upgrade my car and have the money to do so. Possibly my wife's car, too. When this is over, I'm going to launch a remodel of my house and hire local small businesses to work on my yard, repaint my house, do some electrical work, etc. Probably close to $100K in overall spending in just a few months, not counting the car(s). I'm going to make it rain like you wouldn't believe.

And in every single case, I will do my best to get the best possible price.
Wouldn't the exercise from a hand crank be part of the point to a standing desk?

I had an adjustable drafting table when I worked at Boeing and it never occurred to me that it needed a motor.
The file system is a storage medium that is ubiquitous and requires no install. It's an implementation detail, (and convenient for piggybacking on the Java classpath construction), but semantically Clojure can be represented as a graph where terminal nodes are forms and internal nodes are namespaces. I bet you could save all that to a db if you want, and load it all into a running repl again as well.

You can put all your `ns` forms in one file, one after the other, and if you really wanted that top level s-expression, you could make a macro for that as well (check out the `ns` definition). Still you're stuck with the single file where everything lives, unless you want to move into a graph-db, but why? You'll have to bootstrap from code as text stored somewhere (even in your memory) at some point.

> IDEs that can collapse and expand code tree as needed.

This is "only" a representation problem, because the semantics are already there, you don't have to change the storage medium to buy this behavior.
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Real heros exist. But only children believe they are infallible.

As the pretend hero, Malcolm Reynolds, said "It's my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of a son of a bitch or another."
I wanted to buy a new webcam; basically because I'm finding half my life is spent using one.

Ran into the problems mentioned in the article, and put a Logitech camera onto pre-order.

Cancelled that order last night though: possible to use an android phone as a webcam that's most likely better quality than the current generator of USB webcam. I chose this app [1], others are available.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pas.webcam...
Why is there no documentation on GMON_OUT_PREFIX for gprof in glibc?
I am also a fan of mosh.

I really like that I can close my laptop and put it into standby, take it somewhere else with a different wifi network and just open it and get right back to work. From a user perspective it appears as if mosh was never disconnected.
Just tilt the table one way, put bricks under the legs, then tilt it the other way!
Knowledge Sharing in Dev Teams – A Problem That Needs Fixing
There is no such limitation in Clojure, though it is that way by convention. You can put all namespaces in one file, if that's how you want to roll. You can also split a module into multiple files.
Not one word about how they butchered Maxwell's 20 equations down to 4 - and what may have been lost in the process.
If you got something directed at your eyes, you’ll be inhaling something anyway. Wear glasses or shades and stop depriving hospitals of limited supplies they actually need. You don’t need it. Buying one is tantamount to endangering lives of hospital workers.
Don't forget the horribly loud air circulation system right above you, either.
I fought with this regularly for about a year - on Windows - and recently settled on duplicating almost everything inside the VM and outside it, except the bare shared code I'm working on.

Okay, that sounds confusing, I know. We use Vagrant, because you can put every kind of ancient incantations into the Vagrantfile to check for whatever misconfiguration on the host, and so on. Plus you don't have to wrap your app in Docker this way, so debugging becomes a bit easier.

Basically we have a fair bit of Ruby in the Vagrantfile setting up a dev env on the host (scoop + pip + poetry) and provision files setting up the env inside the VM. (Let's say a DB + pip + poetry + uWSGI.) This is necessary, because for code completion you want the dependencies accessible for your IDE. (Yes, PyCharm Ultimate Pro Gold Edition has a way to use remote interpreters, but then you need to guarantee that for every dev too, and it's still not as fast as just having the files on the host in a venv.)

The VBoxSF shared filesystem has a lot of quirks, so we minimize the shared stuff. (We tried NFS and CIFS/SMB too. Both were amazing disasters.)

For NodeJS stuff we only have the runtime dependencies in the VM (database, other backed services), but you have to be careful to script everything in a cross-platform way in package.json (so basically don't script anything there start the NodeJS process as soon as you can, and work inside that).

And the provision scripts are simple, because they just setup docker containers. Usually without compose, because meh, it's easier to just type a few lines of Bash to rm -f the container and run a new one, and maintaining a useful compose file is unnecessary at that point.
There's the old fashioned way of buying a calf and carrying it around all day. As it grows, you grow strong like bull.
I don't have the skills, and I don't have the inclination to acquire the skills. I have more work than I have time to complete, and taking on the task of learning everything I'd need to learn to then integrate this into someone else's project is just not feasible.

Currently the tool works brilliantly, but it's not robust, and it's certainly not foolproof. It's not even average-person-proof. It's insufficiently mature, and if I were to try to integrate it with another mail tool, I wouldn't start from here ... it would need a complete re-write.

So yes, I have considered it, and with my background, skill-set, and availability, it's not going to happen.
I think that this other image with simple geometric shape (a star?) that was circulating on Twitter was better for ranking the mind's eye; I think on your image, some people responding 1-2 may really be 2-3.

Myself, I'm 5 too. And it really pisses me off. I wish the mind's eye was trainable. Is it?

(And to answer GP's question, during the - infrequent - dreams I have, I'm usually a perfect 1.)
Do Covid-19 Vent Protocols Need a Second Look?
So you like the new one then? I ordered a maxed out MBA and am curious to try it out. I’ve only used the original design.
Yep the 920S has doubled in price.
However oddly the high end Logitech models models (4K with face unlock for Windows) are still available.
The Corona Optimist – Positive Coronavirus News
If this a clinically accurate way to diagnose aphantasia, then I must have it, as I dont "see" anything. To me this smacks of a facebook share post, though....

If people are diagnosing themselves with this (or the star one I have seen elsewhere), then I think there is clearly confusion between hallucination and visualization.
I mostly use mosh from my mobile for connections to home. It handles session persistence nicely even while on the move.

It'd be great if I could use it now while working from home because my ssh sessions keep dying. Unfortunately the work firewall won't allow this. So tmux to preserve the sessions is the best I can do.
I think OP’s question is for non pandemic periods (or maybe I misread it ?)

Is it mandatory in Italy in « normal » times ?

I think that would be great !
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I've used mosh extensively over the last few years with very few issues. It composes well with tmux. The only barrier to me really advocating it is the lack of support for bastion hosts and working around firewalls.
Not sure what the jab is about. OP works for a body shop in a governmental org, where does that let you imply that startup and eng are backwards as neither are OP's experiences?

If the anecdote is related to your experiences working on FB then, please, specify it, blanket statements aren't what I expect from HN comments.
I think what you said, yes, but also bad actors. Basically they disappeared because what business purpose did they serve, they were a cost center not a profit center - bad actors just increase the cost.
Instead of Ducky One 2, I would look into either Varmilo or Leopold. Similar design, better quality and in the case of Leopold its very understated, no RGB and game-ry branding.
Eternal Terminal ‘et’ is like Mosh but functionally better. Doesn’t break scrollback. Transparent to tmux control mode.

I switched from Mosh to et across 12ish servers around 6 months ago and am way happier for it.

https://eternalterminal.dev/

Previous conversation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21640200
True, I think the mindset that "hard, honest work is for fools" has become self-fulfilling.

People have become so intensely focused on becoming rich that the mechanisms for getting money have become completely divorced from value creation behaviors which money was supposed to encourage. Detaching money from the gold standard was the straw that broke the camel's back IMO; it systemized deception.

If the financial system is deceptive at its foundation, all the ventures which succeed within it are going to be of a deceptive nature as well.

Value creation is on its death bed. In our complex, unfair and unequal system, most winners are tricksters, cheaters or just born into it (in which case their parents were probably cheaters/tricksters).

I think it's only getting worse over time.
A couple of months ago the idea that Covid 19 would become a worldwide epidemic was a conspiracy theory.
GM has officially started training 1k workers to help Indiana
“Human gut microbes” is a very broad category that also includes e-coli.
Add the HVAC units making weird noises, smartphone notification sounds, and ringtones, fucking ringtones.
You can use tmux for persistence like that, and I use mosh in combination with tmux just because it's so nice to get multiple windows and panes.
This is well written, and passes the "not a crank" test that many will surely apply. Mathematicians get inundated with unsolicited false proofs of famous theorems, and the cranks always give themselves away by various "poker tells" that they are too delusional to control. This is not that; it is a serious proposal, and it escapes being wrongly classified as otherwise.

I am reminded of a famous computer scientist I know, who dropped everything for years because he had an idea about the CD4-CD8 ratio in Aids patients. Aids patients have fewer CD4 cells. Perhaps the body was only sensing the total, and could be triggered to make replacements for the lost CD4 cells if one medically removed CD8 cells. Remind anyone of rebalancing a portfolio during a market crash? I can find no trace of this effort online, so it's not my place to name the researcher. Science does a poor job of recording its failures.

In any case, it didn't work; medicine is very hard. Be prepared for this idea to be wrong, too, despite best intentions.
With a lot of theories I find the breakthrough in discovery is separate from the breakthrough in explanation.

How quickly was it that the familiar four vector equations were published? When you come across them now in an undergrad class, it seems so simple because a lot of work went into distilling the insight into the bits that matter. When the theory was still being fleshed out, there were probably a load of intermediate steps acting like a scaffolding.

Likewise with relativity, you can pick up a book and read about it because a lot of people have looked at it over the years and figured out which explanations actually work.
That’s honestly what I miss the least from the office. I don’t use it at all actually. The noise is the absolute worst part.
Where the hell do you people work lol :P
I'm in an open plan office of 300 people and it's usually just as quiet if not quieter than this website.
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It needs an option to amplify the typing noises to "I work with developers who insist mechanical keyboards are better" levels.
When people talk about printing money in an economic sense, they aren't talking about running a literal printing press. It is synonymous with increasing the money supply.

In the lingo of modern economics adding a decimal to a database which results in increasing the money supply is phrased as printing money.

In fact this is specifically what they are talking about in most cases, specifically not operating a physical printing press.

When the original poster said they printed 2 trillion, he was not implying they physically printed anything.
Covering your eyes with a clear film is dangerous? Do you regularly suffocate on your glasses or shades?
This is a lovely essay. Wonderful layers-of-reality analogy to quantum mechanics.
Startups Surviving Covid-19: A series of Interviews
No idea what's going exactly, but something seems strange at Amazon right now.

- extremely long delivery times of up to 3 weeks

- Quite a fes out-of-stocks (only anecdata from the last wesks)

- Shutting out FBA inbound deliveries

- Major changes for Amazon Logistics

No idea what's going on exactly, but as an ex-Amazonian I am puzzled by all this. Sure, the situation is extreme and it hit right after peak 2019, when Amazon operations are in the usual post-peak down. But still, that cannot be the only reason. maybe inventories are all wrong as demand patterns changed, and Amazon is over stocked on not-needed stuff and short stuff in high demand. Or they have trouble ramoing up to peak-levels again without the normal preparation period. I don't know, but to me at least, it seems Amazon is less flexible than it was a couple of years ago. But maybe that's just me, so.
In a series of interviews we are talking to the key people & founders in the London Startup Ecosystem in an effort to understand how they have been effected and how they are adapting.

From a Travel Startup (Stasher) to a one that works in healthcare (Pando) their experiences can be quite diffferent. We have completed 6 interviews to date and they will be published on our channels every other day.

The rest is on https://startupsoflondon.com
Depends. Imagine you're an Apple supplier. You're making money hand over fist, but to become a supplier to Apple you had to retool your entire factory floor, retrain a bunch of employees and basically sink a lot of capital into meeting the strict requirements. So you don't want to lose that contract. And you've probably had to sign some sort of exclusivity agreement for the privilege. I seem to recall that's not uncommon. So Apple's permission to manufacture other stuff is pretty helpful.
One thing that is imo downplayed about WireGuard as opposed to other VPNs is ease of use, specifically:
- setup is easy
- automated config of large setups is easy
- it is extremely resilient under network temporary failure
Since I had discovered I have this condition (about 9 years ago), I spent a lot of time interrogating many people about how _they_ 'see' things, and it is definitely a spectrum, though I'm very close to one end of it.

For example, a simple "Close your eyes and imagine a cat. [pause] What color is it? What's it doing?" question results in:

Most people: Orange. A bit scruffy. It's playing with a ball of yarn beneath a chair. I can clearly see it jumping around.

Fewer, but still common: It's orange. It's just suspended in nothingness in a fixed position.

Me: What do you mean color? You didn't tell me I need to give it a color!

Imagining something just summons the concept of that thing to your mind. You can attach properties to the cat and you can analyze it, but unless a given property has been attached in particular, it's simply null.

On the other hand, the people at the far end of the visual spectrum draw a complete blank when you say "Imagine an un-cat leaping over the chair".
You know if the person uses a traditional phone ringtone that they're of the older echelons

Edit: a (traditional rotary phone) ringtone, not a "basic" ringtone. Though I'm satisfied with the stock choices of the recent Android phones, they start slowly and are not overwhelming.