skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've got this smart and savvy friend. He wrote some of us in an email that he was leaving New York City because coronavirus was going to be really bad. This was super early when few cases had happened.

So where in the world was he headed? He said after much study he was going to Taiwan because it was the safest place. That surprised me but he absolutely called it.
This was done through cooking the unemployment books ...

That's patently false. BLS reports 6 different "unemployment rates" (1). The media has historically reported U-3. You can argue that U-6 is more meaningful in light of recent economic trends. But, no books have been cooked.

1 - https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm
Yelp would _never_ do that. Far too moral.
Previous thread from '12: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3549320
Great recommendation. His newest long work "HyperNormalisation" (2016) [0][1] is even more timely and covers PR in a modern context, and explores how it fits in with modern hacktivism, international proxy wars, warlords current and former, Occupy movements and Arab Spring, and he even manages to fit in the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Barlow's Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, and early phreaker culture icons Phiber Optik and Acid Phreak.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh2cDKyFdyU (full 166 minute documentary)
California health care workers comprise almost 10% of state's Covid-19 cases
Unfortunately neither does existing location data collecting.
Can’t they just test for viability by culturing the virus? If they can, why didn’t they?
well for me, because I had no idea.
What do you expect from a Principal Software Engineer?
ENT was pretty dark, too, you know. If we're not going to talk about "In the Pale Moonlight"'s argument that violating an ideal in a small way might be justifiable, if not respectable, to preserve it in the large, then can we talk about how Archer, in "Dear Doctor", refused to hand over the cure Phlox had developed for the Valakian plague, thus consigning an entire species to extinction, because the then-inchoate Prime Directive ideal meant more to him than saving the lives of millions of fellow sentients? Sure, the show portrays this as an uncomplicatedly virtuous choice, without the nuance that Michael Taylor brought to "In the Pale Moonlight". But I don't see why I need to take that portrayal at face value, when the supposed virtue in question is that of refusing to save millions of lives.

I think the core disagreement here may instead be that, where you see the Federation portrayed as a true utopia, I don't. I agree that in the B&B era it claims to be so, and that the claim is also often made on its behalf, but that's not the same thing at all. I think it's less interesting and less worthwhile to take those claims at face value, in spite of all the evidence to the contrary, than to take them as a stepping-off point for a discussion of how utopian ideals are no less susceptible to failure in practice than any other sort of absolutism, and how, while idealism is certainly not lacking in value, it cannot alone serve as the foundation for a mature sense of morality.

Granted that this is a difference of interpretation. But, then again, we're talking about how we choose to appreciate works of art. In that context, what isn't?
I love my Kindle's e-ink display for reading books and news articles. I simply cannot enjoy consuming this content as much with any other medium. But not only do I enjoy to read, but I also enjoy to write as well. I would love to have an e-ink monitor where I can type away my thoughts on my mechanical keyboard in a distraction free interface. I am surprised something like this doesn't exist. I would be more inclined to write more if it did.
I know it can happen on some older ARM designs, microcontrollers and weird DSP-like etc. chips. But I can't think of any case on modern x86 chips at least.

Some low-performance ARMv7/8 designs can split NEON SIMD instructions into multiple clock cycles, but I think even then NEON is going to perform better.
We actually treat the trial period very similar to a new employee starting, with a few tweaks.

We do a subset of on-boarding, just enough to get them running a local dev environment and able to push commits and connect with the team.

We pick real tasks from the backlog that don't require a lot of ramp-up to complete.

We assign someone to work with them during the trial period, help get their environment going and orient them to the tasks, help them if they get stuck.

Someone with experience with the technologies (Java, C#, Javascript, Linux) used in our stack can usually get up and running and complete a simpler task in the 1st week. Over 2-3 weeks, most people accomplish several tasks of increasing difficulty.

We discuss with the candidate how things are going each week, how they're feeling about things and how we think things are going. Usually by the 2nd week it becomes pretty clear if it's a good fit.

Since we are remote-only, candidates have to be capable of figuring things out mostly on their own - technically and organizationally, so we look for more experienced people - who probably are more likely to be successful with this kind of interview process.
> That's surprising.

Same experience. None of the Linux alternatives are on the same planet as RDP.

> I'm not sure what is so hard to get right to also get something equivalent on Linux, so maybe it's really the lack of interest?

As far as I can see it's lack of interest made worse by the usual fragmentation of effort.

Which makes me sad. I really enjoy KDE Neon on my secondary PC, but the lack of a viable remote desktop solution means it'll stay there.
Thank you for pointing this out. Secondly, just what the hell is the central bank supposed to do? Had they not intervened hard in debt markets, we would have seen bank runs and mass chaos in financial markets, making things we take for granted (such as paying for stuff at the grocery store) totally fail over night.

I am wayyyy less worried about the magnitude of the Fed’s intervention than I am about what might have happened otherwise.
If you look at stock market data from the 1910s, when spanish flu ripped everything and everyone apart, the economy then dropped in a similar way today, well, until the Fed started pumping trillions into the market, and now the market is looking different then than today.

The economic collapse from the Spanish Flu was so devastating it was used as a selling point to create the Federal Reserve, which was sold to help a situation similar to today. Today, the Fed's marketing is on the line.
I said if they can’t be personally identified. Note the qualifier.
> He also mentioned that a jet-black Hornet would be fun to have, just for the heck of it.

What a boss.
Since people are posting their opinions (although presenting them as facts), I would like to share mine:

I actually like the new address bar. It makes it clear it's selected, it makes it larger, which improves readabilty and I find the dropshadow aesthetic.
Sorry, but that's just not true. This tweet links to data from UK ITUs.

https://twitter.com/ActuaryByDay/status/1246866119597621248
Well, each test is different though. More so, testing wastewater is also a totally different story than testing humans. Although I find your comment interesting, I don't see how this relates to the topic of wastewater analysis.
I'm not sure I agree that cases where local system security really doesn't matter and performance matters are that plentiful, but I am happy to be convinced otherwise. In particular, just about any personal computing context doesn't count - you'd have to not run mutually-untrusted third-party code. That rules out web browsers with JavaScript, that rules out Android/iOS-style independent apps, etc. Sure, if you use the web without dynamic content and you use local office suites you're fine, but on the other hand, you don't really care about performance - a 486 will deliver enough performance to read textual content and run a word processor and spreadsheet.

Gaming is a context where you care about performance and you aren't using multiple apps at once, but (and I admit this is a bit of a naive guess) I'd be surprised if it's syscall-bound. It seems like performance is likely to be I/O-bound (getting assets from disk into memory), CPU-bound, and GPU-bound, but are you really making large numbers of syscalls? (Maybe this matters in online gaming?)

So that leaves basically some specific server workloads, and at that point I think some of these techniques start to be realistic. Pinning your work onto a core and using kernel-bypass networking is a pretty straightforward technique these days. It's not quite as easy as using the kernel interfaces, but it's pretty close, and it's definitely worth investing some engineering effort into if you care about performance - you can get much more than 25% speedups.

I agree that writing in kernel mode is generally unrealistic (although if you're writing a kernel module for Linux, you still don't need to care about fiddly hardware issues - you've got the rest of Linux still running). Mostly I'd like to see more work like the paper I linked - there should be a standard build of Linux which has hardware privilege separation turned off for use in the cases where you actually can avoid hardware privilege separation (single-user VMs on cloud hosts, single-user data crunching machines, dedicated single-tenant database servers, game consoles without web browsers, ebook readers without web browsers, etc.), or at least a flag to spawn a process and leave it in ring 0. If the use cases are plentiful, this seems like it would be valuable for lots of people - and it'd also make it clear that this generally isn't an option you want on personal computers. (But I think the reason this hasn't been done in the last several decades is that there aren't actually that many use cases that are both genuinely single-user and syscall-bound.)
Indeed it would. I would actually love to read those conversations again. It was '96? '97?
It's not a "fact." But really, if you truly think that there is no hate in that slogan, then there's no point having this conversation, because I know what kind of person you are.
Pdf: https://people.clarkson.edu/~jmatthew/acm/VirtualConferences...
Mine are on 2B588 and I think I bought them late enough that I never even had the original firmware to compare. I do know that when I first put them in I thought the power went out in my house (due the sudden lack of noise). I would like to know if I'm crazy or if these don't stay in ears well at all. Kind of the opposite of what you would expect from an earpod like this but I can get them to fall out in <10 seconds when eating with them in. Even when I'm not moving my jaw they have a habit of slowly sliding out.

And before I get asked about tip size, I've tried all of them and done fit tests on all of them. Fit tests always pass, and the pods always fall out. I even tried different sizes on different ears over time to compare the two but they seem to fall out at the same rate. I just (like as in 2 hours ago) broke down and bought some foam tips from Amazon to see if that helps.

It's really disappointing because my original AirPods were so magical and now I kind of don't like wearing the Pro's. I've considered more than once just buying AirPod 2's and giving up.
Its interesting, but I'm not sure that your proposal still qualifies as concise. Nor am I sure that ADT-based error handling (Option/Result/etc) belongs should be considered silently dropped. Option certainly sees some abuse, but on the whole, `unwrap()` is a red flag that draws my attention. And, in Rust, with pattern matching and `?` to propagate errors, I see errors handled more often than not.
Edge just overtook Firefox in market share, so the people who develop Firefox are practially a majority of the userbase at this point anyway. xDDDD ;w;
Sounds to me like the military is simply shooting itself in the food with its "up or out" policies. Why force highly-trained and experienced people to leave just because they've gotten to a plateau in their career where they're both competent and comfortable?

Do foreign militaries also have these policies?
Saying that a war defines what is legal or illegal implies that the letter of the law is unimportant, only how the law is enforced.
If you think moving school online is a "major upgrade", you're sadly mistaken outside of a few niches. K-5th grade is really difficult to do. It requires a full time parent at home (which is not tenable for many families), and it's hard to have the curriculum be virtualized. This age range requires a lot of literally hands on teaching.

Even older grades have trouble with virtual learning. Plus an important part of school is learning socialization skills. That's pretty hard to do online. Plus teachers will need more than a few weeks to adjust; curriculum development isn't trivial, and teachers would need to be retrained to use the new pedagogy.

As the father of two, and someone who cut his teeth in online learning, it sounds great to say move "more courses online", but the reality is quite different.
But it's not the rest of your life. It's just until we come up with a treatment or a vaccine, most likely a year or two. Yes, that's an annoyingly long time, but still better than being dead.
>What is an illusion? To my mind, an illusion is a perception or inference thereof that, taken at face value, entails a falsehood.

But that is not the part of the illusion we're interested in. The part of it we're interested in is the part it shares with all other experiences. It was an experience. Stop. That fact can't be gainsayed.

What you're using to deny this is the epistemological status of the illusion experience. So that's things like "it was caused by brain cells XYZ firing" or "it did not accurately represent reality" or "it did not correspond to anything in reality at all". All those things could be true but they are beside the point being made.

Either one gets this fundamental idea or they don't in my experience (lol).
> A fool isn't necessarily stupid: plenty of people have knowledge yet terrible judgement.

Then I'm not sure why you disagree with my criticism - I'm claiming that this page appeals to people who have knowledge in this matter but have not done the deep thinking to have wisdom in this matter. There are plenty of smart people who find "Make X Y again" for other values of X and Y appealing.
Alphabetically and/or birthdate
Designing Ultra Low Power AI Processors
My curiosity got the best of me and I wondered if what I suggested earlier would be possible. It looks like it is, so I started a small project to try and get a working implementation built. The repo can be found at (https://github.com/curthasselschwert/mini-grocer). Code is very rough and PRs, comments, suggestions are welcome.
I was curious enough to look it up and the given name Mortimer means "dead pond" according to Wiktionary. Mort Drucker's name is Morris, not Mortimer, so I guess this is a somewhat irrelevant piece of trivia.
As I read it, the specification doesn't enforce whether upload is voluntary. local custom and laws can be implemented to vary degrees of freedom on this aspect.
One of the best advantages of SIP was interoperability, I worked with many vendors which were able to use Cisco/Asterisk/Skype (when they supported SIP), ACME...yes it was painful to troubleshoot headers and messages but most of the time worked. Many issues when protocol was initially deployed and replaced H323 but at the end it prevailed
Smaller e-ink displays are astronomically cheaper--I wonder if connecting several of them and then rastering the pdf would look much different?
Yes, there's a book called 'The Pyramid Principle', written by Barbara Minto. It's the foundation for good practices in management consulting, and your hear about it a lot in business writing.
It reads very much like a graph-algorithms book.

Two of most famous principles from it are:

1. The Pyramid Principle, which points out that people tend to write like you write a proof, first the supporting arguments leading up to the key point. The principle is a way to 'flip' paragraphs.

2. The SCQA Principle: This is exploiting the idea that the way we think is to try to slot facts into a narrative, and that we're naturally wired to like a certain narrative that's in the form of Situation-Complication-Question-Answer.
Surely arguing that it's ok to be sensitive is the only self-consistent position.

Complaining people are sensitive denotes sensitivity.
Exactly. By outsorcing to China, they’re not actually seeking “efficiency”, they’re just seeking to skirt labour rights and other regulations.

Unions and strikes are a political topic, and we should probably figure out how to handle it better, probably some middle ground between fairness and efficiency (I’m not really well versed in the topic), but regardless companies bypassing the discussion completely by just having a factory in China is wrong and anti-competitive.
This demonstrates how to represent a failed computation (empty list), but doesn't show how to distinguish a failed computation and a successful one with no solution. Or how to represent errors. What does Result look like?
Please don't post personal attacks or call names, even when someone posts claims without sufficient data and reproducible results.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

More generally: will you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait to HN? You've done it a lot, and we ban accounts that do it, because it destroys the spirit of curious conversation, which is what the site is intended to be used for.
indeed, why do i care if firefox on my linux desktop behaves the same as firefox on someone elses windows desktop?

sure, consistent behavior is good in many cases. (it drives me crazy that VLC on mac is different from elsewhere) but more important that crossplatform consistency is to follow the common UI behavior of your desktop environment. text selection on X11 (and wayland) is inherently different than text selection on windows. this breaks common expectations
How do they choose which shards are included in the first 10% canary group?

This is a tricky problem. It's tempting to include only small (less valuable) accounts in the first group. But some bugs only occur with large accounts, so you need some of those in the first 10%.

Many bugs affect only a small portion of customers. There are many categories. A canary becomes more effective when it includes members from each category. Example: account type, number of users, client type (web/ios/android/macos/windows/linux), client version, web browser type and version, ipv4/ipv6, vpn, TLS MITM proxy, language, timezone, payment currency, country, tax region, mobile service provider, etc.
Even though I haven’t read MAD in a long time, and didn’t see this name anywhere for probably a decade, seeing this post instantly sparked recognition.
In terms of tracking all the chains, because of the dearth of testing in the beginning, I would suspect any shorter chains of transmission that didn't end in a super-spreader could easily be missed.

It is hard to get tested even now. It was essentially a catch-22. You could only become tested if you had contact with a proven case. But there were almost no proven cases, because you can only become a proven case if you had contact with a proven case.
>> The first thing that jumps out from the medical history section of Table 1 is that 93% of those critically ill with COVID-19 were “able to live without assistance in daily activities” prior to developing the disease. That typically suggests reasonable health. 3/8

Not making any comments on the rest of your points, but I have to heavily disagree with this one. Sure, people who have cardiovascular and heart issues, diabetes, asthma, etc. are all "able to live without assistance in daily activities". That doesn't suggest reasonable health to me at all, it just tells me that they are able to live their lives without a caretaker by their side.

And data from Italy suggests that over 99% of the people who died from COVID had existing conditions like those[0].

0. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-18/99-of-tho...
Is there a nice way to get around NAT?
I assume the GP is talking about the search bar becoming slightly bigger on focus.
The new address bar is a disaster for me since I use i3wm and give Firefox half of my screen. Given half the screen the new address bar drop-down menu is very small and struggles to efficiently display the possible completions when it is selected.
To be fair, they’ve paid a bit more into the system at that point in order to gain those benefits.
This article seems like a lot of fear mongering, almost doomsaying. I think we will get back to normal, and we will basically return to what we were doing before with little change.
I just re-watched Blade Runner. Eerie.
Alphabetically maybe.
I don't need to ask them. I've never ever seen a resume (and I've seen thousands of resumes) that doesn't have the candidates home address at the very top.
Understanding herpes simplex virus immunity to inform vaccine design (2016)
The search box on the right is a separate widget. You can remove it if you like. Right-click on the panel, click "Customize," and drag the search box out of the panel to remove it.
which depends on you even knowing your ever changing threat model. Known and Unknowns Unknowns are always present.
Table of like 30 videoconf programs but misses Big Blue Button, the best free software one I've used. And it doesn't mention the license of any of the programs.
(unless i'm misreading what she's saying) another view is ".. Lippmann ... was a vehement critic of propaganda .. "

https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/viewFile/1955/907
I almost regret watching this documentary 2 years ago because it caused me to question various fundamental assumptions about _who_ I am and as a result triggered an identity crisis that I'm still in the grips of.

Definitely a top doc. It's a good starter, but I'd recommend any viewers to continue exploring adjacent topics further with the primary reference materials mentioned in the doc.
> What term will you use when something truly bad comes up?

Surely you can imagine genuinely offensive overreactions, plain use of 'abomination' is nowhere near over the top.

Consult some of Linus Torvalds' famous rants for examples.
Given that the interactions described by the author occurred in a community of organisms with central nervous systems that are hardwired to respond to emotional stimuli, I think it's relevant to hear about their experience in that community, on all levels -- emotional, psychological, technological, and so on.

For their stated purpose of the article, I wouldn't have found much added value if I had known a lot of detail about why they using and contributing to this language; the message was clear and direct.

I am fascinated with your interpretation of this post as reading that the author was very much desiring and needing social validation and connection. I didn't have this interpretation. Are there some specific things in the post they said that led you to this point of view?
> Star Trek was an unique word in sci-fi (at least on-screen sci-fi) because of that bright idealism, that utopia.

What utopia? Outside of the crew of the Enterprise itself in TOS and TNG (most of the time, when not under malevolent outside influence, abd even then there are some exceptions), neither Starfleet, the Federation outside of Starfleet, nor the galaxy outside of the Federation (in roughly descending order of proximity to utopia) were portrayed as without flaws in any version of Trek.

> Star Trek, in its TNG to ENT era, was unique in terms of positivity and optimism.

Usually, this claim is made for the TOS to TNG era (or, more specifically, the era when Gene Roddenberry was directly involved). While, as noted above, it's flawed even then, it really doesn't work for DS9, VOY, or ENT.