skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "work from home" wasn't even possible, there were no antibiotics and almost none of the modern med tech, yet there is no mention of a "1919 economic collapse"

Probably because there was no choice but to barrel forward towards herd immunity and deal with the suffering and loss of life.

In 2020, we're delaying and dragging out the tragedy at the cost to the economy.

On top of that, the economy was far more distributed and local. With globalization, things are much more interconnected and interdependent.

Restarting local commerce is much much easier.
On the other hand, Feynman On Patents is a good overview of why these ideas would be thrown about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc9gwPB78lk (& well, we did end up with nuclear submarines)

Asimov's fiction had quite a bit of arbitrary nuclear devices
For CRM and financial education. Later on I'd automate the process so they don't have spend any resources on it.

The benefit for employees in a low-cost debt

https://www.salaryfinance.com/uk/borrow/
I'm not sure why ppl are misunderstanding what I am saying. I'm not advocating COBOL-like languages. I'm saying assembler is better than writing in machine code, C is better than assembler and it would appear for most programmers, Python and JavaScript are the best choice but nobody who wants to keep their job writes code in the style of minified JavaScript or obfuscated C.
I'm in a mid-sized startup with headcount in the mid hundreds, and my mental model is like this: Say you have a batch of 100 ppl applying for the generalist SWE position, among which you can only afford to bring onboard ~10. So you need a filter that approximates this desired selectivity, and it needs to be consistently applied across the board for fairness. Also, you can't afford to spend too much time + effort per candidate. What do you do?

It so turns out that simple technical problems that requires coding, in conjunction with active spotting for deal-breaking red-flags, can be calibrated well to achieve both fairness and desired selectivity. I can't think of anything else that can so conveniently satisfy the rather essential conditions above. Of course the devil is in the details... which lies mostly in the kind of technical problem you ask.

Personally I prefer handing out distilled real problems encountered at work, with a hint of realism, no dependency on know-how other than a solid understanding of CS fundamental, and reduced to be self-contained. Think of the "kinda smart" bits sprinkled across your codebase. This of course requires careful design and calibration, and risks spoilers online, but it's been consistently working well. Personal anecdote though so YMMV.
Ray Dalio on Covid Consequences
> The key point is to keep refactoring “continuously“ to match our understanding of the domain, rather than just “adding features”.

This is also what I wanted to say.

One important part of that is that refactoring is a pretty difficult skill, and many programmers do not have it.

So... for those people, some other advice is probably better.
Do you mean 8 and brown?
Procedures, Functions, Data
> The app’s Bluetooth broadcasts of non-infected people and infected people outside the infectious window remain unlinkable.

The group of non-infected people is getting smaller and smaller. The infectious window is presumably weeks long (times the number of diseases this system will track). These risks don't seem that easy to downplay, even before we get into the "security concerns" section.
depression of what?

The end of world war 1 had an enourmous impact on continental europe, with many nations simply ceasing to exist at the end of the war.

Germany for instance, had a state of near constant poltical and economic anarchy during the weimar republic. And the austrian-hungarian empire ceased to exist.

Many people seem to forget that world war 1 was suchs a massive shift in terms of the geopolitical landscape that many nations simply had no functioning economy or proper goverment to speak off.
Relevant comedy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ
> More than half of patients on mechanical ventilation were extubated (57 percent, n=17/30) and nearly half of all patients (47 percent, n=25/53) were discharged from the hospital following treatment with remdesivir.

Death rate for patients on ventilators has been something like 80 percent.
Any chance a FSDO or DPE is on here? What's the registration process for these aircraft? Do they get N-numbers? I'm assuming they're registered as experimental or experimental-exhibition. Do the pilots need type certificates? Who provides the training?
We maintain a queue of beginner-friendly tasks, and someone familiar with the codebase sits down with the new hire to orient them to what's needed, why, and the relevant files/modules to make the change. Then they're available for questions and patient with a laborious code review. You do 3 or 4 of these before you're expected to be independently productive.

Approaching an open source project cold is a bit higher than the bar.
By strong work ethic, I suppose I mean someone who feels compelled to do good work. They feel a responsibility to make sure a task is completed as successfully as possible. An example of bad work ethic to me would be someone who is passive about the outcome of a task, won't take any extra steps to make sure it succeeds.

To give an example, thinking back to school days when doing a group project. There's the person that ends up doing all the work vs the person that takes advantage and just rides along until they are bugged enough to do something.
It'd be nice to be able to easily boot into, or toggle into, a performance optimized, disabled mitigations environment to do something while offline.. many computer uses don't require being connected to other computers. I've gotten into the habit of hotplugging my Ethernet connection, personally.
“Covid-19 Attacks the 1-Beta Chain of Hemoglobin to Inhibit Heme Metabolism”
Yeah, seems pretty obvious that they should at least be required to do the same sort of advance scheduling of trades that execs are.
It ends up being a cost optimization & liability thing. Lets be honest, at least in the USA, our Government isn't terribly efficient with money. However, a corporate is driven by profit so they will be smarter.

If you had an Air Force squadron of older planes, they need their own dedicated mechanics who are certified. Government certified vendors, who've gone through the vetting/price bidding process (likely the vendors selling you the latest F35 or whatever will want in on it too...). Dedicate pilots certified to fly these planes and likely only these planes... etc. Instead you shift the logistics to a smaller and more agile group who can optimize for their very specific and small use case.

The private contractor can also go out and train people from other military forces (like Canadians, eh?). That allows them to make money from multiple sources, where as the US Government would not. Sure maybe join training exercises, but that's not the same thing.

There are a lot of cases in business where outsourcing something specialized to another party makes a lot of sense - unless there is a huge scale for it. Just look at The Cloud. For a lot of companies, it doesn't make sense to pay the overhead of datacenters, datacenter techs, etc etc. For a few companies, that do it at scale, it makes a ton of sense (Ex FAANG).
I'd guess most Unix natives consider SSH to be superior to RDP. SSH give you shell access which is a better interface for working with remote systems than a GUI.
Exactly, the sale of these aircraft has to be approved by the US Govt. The sale of a squadron to Canada was also approved by the US. It is only because of the close AU-US relationship that these are supplied with electronics -- everything about them still being classifed TS.
Everyone is afraid of „otherwise“ without anyone having witnessed it before. My guess is, we are trading short / mid-term stability for decreased long-term efficiency / productivity
Yawn...
it is strange though that turbine based hybrid cars (in series or range extender configuration) haven't emerged in the recent years. It would be best of the 2 worlds - a small lightweight turbine as a generator would work in the most optimal mode, and the torgue/etc. characteristics of the car would be that of the electric motor.

Wrt. nuclear - while nuclear on Earth is pretty much done away (at least for fission, for fusion - well, once somebody develops a laser pulse efficiently fusing proton+boron it probably can have a chance), the space is the true nuclear domain. In particular i think that launch window and flight time limits of flying to Mars would naturally lead to nuclear powered LEO-to-Mars Starships.
the senate website source...

It shall be unlawful for any person to obtain or use a report:

* for any unlawful purpose;

* for any commercial purpose, other than by news and communications media for dissemination to the general public;

* for determining or establishing the credit rating of any individual; or

* for use, directly or indirectly, in the solicitation of money for any political, charitable, or other purpose.

"...indirectly... solicitation of money... for any ... other purpose".

The author of the site links to a site which takes donations. Is this a violation?

I'm not suggesting he shouldn't take donations; I'm suggesting the language in the usage terms are too overly broad.
Here's a better source for Adam Curtis's series:

https://thoughtmaybe.com/by/adam-curtis/

The Century of The Self

https://thoughtmaybe.com/the-century-of-the-self/

HyperNormalisation

https://thoughtmaybe.com/hypernormalisation/

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

https://thoughtmaybe.com/all-watched-over-by-machines-of-lov...

The Power of Nightmares

https://thoughtmaybe.com/the-power-of-nightmares/

It Felt Like a Kiss

https://thoughtmaybe.com/it-felt-like-a-kiss/
I feel that we (techies) make hiring miserable by asking for the perfect versions of ourselves.

The result is entry level inflationism.
That's a way for you to live your life by and Fossil will work for you.

I don't use that axiom, rampantly alter history all the time, and Fossil is not for me.

I'm glad that person mentioned it.
> Isn’t ANC effectively twice the sound waves?

ideally no, just the opposite. the idea of ANC is that you detect the frequency and amplitude of incoming waves, then generate a second wave with the same amplitude, but 180 degrees out of phase (so that the trough of the second wave aligns with the peak of the first). a perfect implementation would totally "cancel" the original sound with destructive interference.

I'm not very familiar with consumer ANC headphones (I prefer passive attenuation), but I would expect the cancellation effect does not increase when you turn up the volume, as this would just be perceived as noise if it exceeds the amplitude of the ambient sounds. I guess ANC might encourage people to expose themselves to very loud noises that the device can't compensate for, but that's more user error than an inherent flaw in the technology. people routinely listen to music way too loud in quiet settings anyway.
Any data point has value if properly interpreted. More data is always better.
i am not familiar with elm, but openbsd has similar issues. unless you do everything perfect from the outset and make friends with theo himself or a core person you are pretty hosed. even then they can berate anyone and everyone however they seem fit, but if you speak out you get personally attacked. they care about themselves over users and cannot even follow their own rules along with using old technology to manage the contributing process making it cumbersome and sometimes not worth the time of new people to try and work with. i know people who gave up even trying after about a year to 18 months for these reasons and they wont even go near the os on a server anymore
sigh Well it speaks volumes you created a throwaway just for this post. I'm not saying the Chinese government is "fine", I'm just saying it's not an excuse. China is going to do China things and acting surprised at that is just... intellectually dishonest.

> U.S officials might have known about a potential crisis that might happen

I see how changing my argument, and the facts, might make it easier to defeat but the bottom line is they did know. There is no "might" about it. Trump continually played down the virus, pushed unproven treatments, and attacked anyone who asks a question that might make him look bad.

Maybe I have a different viewpoint but downplaying something because it might affect the economy and therefore your reelection is pretty evil in my book. Funniest thing? If he had taken it seriously he would have locked up his reelection.
I think it's actually worse than that: I think they are specifically allowed to do more insider trading than the average US citizen. I could be wrong though, I just heard that once upon a time.
Is Joe Rogan talking more than his guests? Let's do the math
IRS (Finally) Launches Registration Tool for Stimulus Checks
I agree that PEPP-PT is not too clear on their commitment to protecting privacy. I disagree that anything about the DP-3T system divulges SUM numbers. Go read the 3 pager and see.
GP is correct, but it doesn’t matter much. They were referring to daily key, not the EphID (RPI in the Apple/google spec).

DP3T specifies that SK _t = H( SK _{t-1} ). In that design, you share the daily key from when you started to become infectious, and then the subsequent ones can be computed. Then you go into quarantine, stop being infectious, and (see spec) create a new random daily key going forward (or delete the app).

In the A/G proposal, daily keys can’t be correlated, and you share the daily key for each day you were infectious.

The end result seems pretty much the same for me.
Apple engineers reportedly testing new prototype AirPower with A11 processor
There's a presentation linked at the bottom which explains in brief how contact tracing will work:

https://blog.google/documents/57/Overview_of_COVID-19_Contac...

Apple and Google should have included the chart in their announcements, IMO. It illustrates the process in a way that's easier to understand than text alone.
This is news and reporting.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear-powered_aircraft

Tupolev Tu-119 ... had two conventional turboprop engines and two direct-cycle nuclear jet engines, and got around the shielding weight issue by simply not including it.

This made my day.
Scientists warn of Spain’s ‘premature’ exit from lockdown
Deep Dive into the CSS Position Property
No need to limit asset classes, this is the problem blind trusts are designed to solve. It's the tool that anyone who wants to avoid the appearance of impropriety uses.
t o r n a p a r t b y i d e n t i t y p o l i t i c s
Covid-API: a free and open source API service for Covid-19 data
The difference is that you can continue tracking a person indefinitely, even after they are no longer infectious. It requires explicit user action to avoid that (opt-out vs opt-in).
In my opinion your better off asking this question on a biomedical forum as Computer Programmers and Electronics Engineers seem to have a conflict of interest regarding this for some reason.
How does this work for you? The only thing I miss about Chrome is it's default exposure of the bookmarks bar on new tab page.

Until FF 72, adding the following to userchrome worked fine to mimic this behavior, but now it is broken:

https://github.com/Timvde/UserChrome-Tweaks/blob/master/tool...
I disagree. It's more of a drought where the smaller trees with low reserves die out, and in the recovery the large trees grow even larger and take up the remaining canopy space.

The economic consequences of the pandemic will make things fundamentally worse for the average person. The wealthiest entities will accumulate even more wealth, because they have the resources to survive, to petition the government for assistance over smaller players, and to buy out the leftover pieces of those who couldn't survive. In the end, the majority of the bailout will go to the rich, because they are the ones with the bargaining power. The result is lower competition, which is worse for almost everybody.

The only upside could be a shifting technological landscape. Work-from-home and physical distancing could create demand for new solutions which would be capitalized by smaller, agile companies, creating new competition. That's what I'm hoping for anyway.

EDIT: I don't know if that's how a drought actually works. The demand for new tech is already here, it's a question of whether it will stay long-term.
The DP-3T system explicitly calls out the fact that it dismantles itself after the epidemic as a feature.
> If we're worried about the economy, it seems like we would want to know how much of our population (not just job seekers) are working, and how many people depend on the system without employment.

Is joblessness specific enough to answer how many people depend on the system without employment? I thought it includes, among other people, people who aren't job seeking because they are happily supported by their spouse, or people who are happily living off of savings, and not any other system, for example.
So many gilead/remdesivir posts here... of no better quality than the whole chloroquine controversy...

Ctrl+F Gilead:

https://www.ycombinator.com/people/
The Wilhelm Scream
Covid-19 Spotlight: Poco Soap Co
The claim about size is basically a red herring. A small independent nation could set whatever course it wanted. But California is administered on a day to day basis based on Local, State and Federal policy. You might see local and state officials and workers more often but to a substantial degree they are executing Federal policy that come in the form of grants to states and municipalities.

And this is to say that the states are not prepared act as nations at a moment's notice and without the expectation that they will act independently, they don't have either the resources or the experience (but I guess they're learning fast).

Even more, if you live in the US, you might have noticed you pay far income tax to the Federal Government than to your state government. A lot of this money goes back to the states but only for particular, mandated purposes. This makes it rather difficult, again, for states to suddenly offer their own emergency management system, especially when Feds have a fully budgeted emergency management agency (FEMA, the, uh, Federal Emergency Management Agency) where the states don't agencies with equivalent funding. So when FEMA doesn't actually act, we have a serious problem.
But how do you fight against profiteering we saw in the beginning with Amazon resellers of PPE. They would scour stores, creating scarcity, then resell at large profit to the same people who would normally buy from the very same stores that the profiteers emptied out.

Heck this is the reason we don’t have onion futures in the commodity market. People corner markets under stress and profiteer without adding any efficiency or price discovery.
Ding ding ding! This person understands. You will NEVER be able to grow a department if you work 80 hours a week hero coding. The longer you work the more irritated you become. The more irritated you are the less people will like you. When enough people hate you you’ll be fired.

Learned the hard way in my early 20s. Now I only put in the extra hours when the site is down, I’m on pager duty, and we’re losing 100k+ dollars every few minutes. I’m friendly and very organized. I manage my own Jira board and let my boss know when we need more people on a project. Definitely not a programming wizard but boy can I get two different departments working together.
It makes sense, more than ever, to have team building mechanisms at global scope. Connecting people from all over the world and facilitate open collaboration online is essential to any online tool that wants to break international barriers. The new all-online new paradigm forced us to look at our product from a different perspective. We are going to take team matchmaking to a new level and this is the first milestone to achieve that. Henrybot is getting ready....
Yes. If ever there was the necessity for one standard that almost everyone uses, and not 20 competing incompatible ones, then here.
The issue with adversarial examples is defending against a wide class of examples, not a few specific images.

Clothes change much slower than software updates, and defending against a few adversarial examples is relatively easy, so this shouldn't be a problem.
Show HN: Frax – Experimental abstraction layer for coding of web UIs
Sounds like everyone like Ghidra now. I know people were leery of NSA tech at first, but people's opinions have changed?
Nearly all pilots are former US military (or allied countries) and contractors often get military security clearances. All the pilots flying these jets will have a vetted, active clearance commensurate with the types of tactics they are simulating / seeing from the military planes.
In WW2 Germany specificallydidn't take skilled pilots out of combat. This is why lists of WW2 aces are dominated by the Germans, but it also had the side effect that those experienced pilots weren't around to train new pilots, contributing to the degradation of Germany's air capabilities towards the end of the war
I know this is a day old now, but Pelosi was born March 26, 1940, so she is 80 (not 86).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi
It looks like they're growing steadily, from those graphs, until you look at the Y axis and realize it's been cropped to look like it's growing steadily. In fact, in DNSSEC-signed zones in .COM have gone down in some recent years.

In fact, DNSSEC is deployed in a tiny fraction of all .COM zones (something close to 1%), virtually none of which are significant, as you can quickly discover by feeding a list of top zones (the Moz 500 is easy to download) through "host -t ds".

In reality, DNSSEC is moribund.
The "Thoughts & Prayers" button is brilliant.
I like using App Engine for simple static sites like this. For simple stuff like this I've never actually hit the point where I have to pay. SSL is pretty easy to set up, you can slap a domain on it or use the default appspot domain provided. The versioning is a nice addition that makes it easy to stage changes without pushing them live right away.
XCOM Items Analysis Part 3: Gene Mods and Medals
The Letterform Online Archive Is Now Open to All
> I would like to restrict only the second amendment.

At least you admit it.

There are ways to do this. You can get a supermajority in congress to agree with you, or you can get 34 state legislatures to agree to call a convention of states. Then, and only then, you can change the constitution.

Barring that, no law or executive order can restrict the second amendment and be constitutional. Fortunately our current president has appointed justices who will ensure this remains true.
Probably low usage because it sort of relies on lambdas (not exactly, you can define one-off functions, but most people don’t like to) and python lambdas are terrible.