skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not saying any of these are going to happen, but some possibilities include: (To be clear, I'm just spitballing some fiction for parable use only.)

1. Police taking biological samples as a matter of course, even after the crisis. A sneaky politician or official manages to turn this in to DNA sample collection, maybe by sequencing swabs on the side to "catch criminals." Nobody stops it because everyone is focused on the virus.

2. Local governments end up with expanded power to shut down businesses, this eventually gets abused for some kind of extortion in a small town somewhere.

3. Police gain generalized "indefinite detention" powers instead of specific "court-ordered quarantine" powers in some jurisdictions, creating a ticking time bomb set to explode the first time a mayor wants to get rid of a protester.

4. Efforts to stamp out counterproductive conspiracy theories result in legal and bureaucratic infrastructure which sits around and is eventually used to suppress a very productive conspiracy theory.

5. Playing on the above, Google builds a system to delete every video that says 5G and COVID-19 are linked. This is eventually used to delete every video that suggests Darkriver Mercenaries Inc. and the scandal in Kumran are linked.

All of these cases share one thing in common: a bad, over-generalized law gets passed because legislators are panicking and not taking the time to think about civil liberties. The virus spreads fast, but not so fast that you can't take the time to legislate effectively.
> if someone has 10 years of experience at google and is L6, why do they need to do the standard process to work at some rinky startup?

The startup doesn't trust that Google's process is absolutely infallible, presumably. For good reason, probably; a bad hire is much more of an existential risk for a small startup than for Google.
Bash the Bug
Shining a Flashlight on Digital Holography
FTA: "BodyPix is currently only available in TensorFlow.js form, so the easiest way to use it is from the body-pix-node library."
Cool project. One suggestion you could roll out an online service where one can publish mind maps using some random urls.
It’s too volatile for this, sorry. If it’s so great, why isn’t everyone doing it?
>Likable candidates aren't especially likely to be good, and good candidates aren't especially likely to be the kind of people the interviewer wants to have a beer with.

See I would much rather invest time and money into somebody that I like being around and who I think is capable, rather than have some jackass who is really really good off the bat.

Of course there are biases, but that's true weather you hire for skills, personality, or both.

I think a lot of programmers think that your skill level is the only thing you should be judged on, but I think thats mostly because there are a lot of very unlikable people in this field and they'd rather hide behind their perceived skill level than attempt to be a semi likable person.

There is a sweet spot, somebody who has skill but is also not terrible to be around, and can learn quickly. The problem is that most interviews swing too far one way or the other to properly asses for both.
Not to say you’re wrong, but, as one data point, I’m a parent and would be very game for this. I’ve actually done things only slightly short of it. I’d rather go full bore working with the team than do these multi day projects in isolation or with just occasional contact with the hiring manager. Basically I find at a certain level (often reached by the time you have kids) all hiring processes tend to be time consuming.
You need to look into that first one. It's obviously photoshopped. The originals are uncomfortable, but not like that. Here's one of the originals: https://twitter.com/error4null1/status/1241896271927009281/p...

More importantly, the imprints and bruises are from full-mask respirators and goggles (and one FPP3 mask), not N95 masks. Have you ever worn one (and been fitted for one)? I have, when I worked as an EMT years ago. I also have worn one N99 or N95 mask for years when cleaning out my guinea pig cages. It's not that bad.

In terms of doffing the masks, it's pretty straight-forward: To remove the mask: remove it from behind (do not touch the front of mask); discard immediately in a closed bin; clean hands with alcohol-based hand rub or soap and water (via WHO).

I'm not sure what's driving your passionate anti-mask campaign (N95 and otherwise), but I urge you to look into what doctors and public health experts have started recommending after considering the evidence and what we know about how this infection is spreading:

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-si... (US CDC)
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-si...
https://www.ucsfhealth.org/education/should-i-wear-a-mask-to... (UCSF)
http://www.chinacdc.cn/en/COVID19/202002/P020200310326809462... (Chinese Centers for Disease Control - "Wear a mask when going out.")

Absolutely stay home if you can. It's the most effective way to avoid spreading or contracting Covid-19. But wear a mask if/when you must go out (to grocery store, drugstore, essential job, etc).
There's already movements being made in Japan and other countries to move manufacturing out of China, I'm hopeful policies will come out of this that get rid of the just-in-time supply chain for critical things like PPE for Dr's.
> Read, think, understand, modify, write code, communicate it to your team. Thats the work and thats the bar.

So do your students do this? Why not?
Cuelang v0.1.0 Released
Nah. "Beg the question" is used as a term of art in academia to mean one thing, but it is also used in common parlance to mean something else.

See also 'fruit', and whether or not tomatoes are displayed in the vegetable aisle.
Lost in Beijing: The Story of the WHO
Do you think a generalization like this is in any way constructive?

Also I don’t see any reply that I thought demonstrated “offense”. Perhaps it was deleted.
> You honestly think 2 years is going to be enough to create what may end up being 47 million lost jobs as estimated by the Fed?

I think he, and I, are arguing that if you give 47 million people the money they'd earn from their jobs (that's the magnitude of the bailout(s)), they could spend it in any number of ways, including keeping things they way they are.

To your original analogy; the bailouts are currently structured to keep fishing poles and nets in place, but do very little to restock the river with fish. What the GP and I are arguing is that restocking the river with fish is a better way to keep the whole system running.

EDIT: As a concrete example of this thinking, Nick Kokonas (twitter @nickkokonas), Grant Achatz' business partner in a number of restaurants in Chicago, has been arguing against buying gift cards to support restaurants, and in favor of buying takeout. Gift cards put money in the hands of empty restaurants and leaves them with future obligations. Selling takeout now not only puts current money in the hands of the restaurants, it lets them pay staff with current revenues, and keeps the entire supply chain back to the farm in business now.
Hmm, I think the government scientists who've been front and centre on UK news have been peddling a politically perverted message. So perhaps we can trust their peer-reviewed output, but the "masks are useless" and "closing schools won't reduce infection transmission" messages came from scientists. Scientists are still human, and still will push their ideals and beliefs ahead of scientific non-falsehood.

Also, epidemiology is an interesting one. As in all public health there are balances, but moreso here. Often anti-antivax people will claim "vaccines are entirely safe" which is unscientific. Their goals are noble, but they discredit themselves because data on negative outcomes is pretty easy to come by. The temptation is the same, public health is served by convincing people to take certain actions (eg not buy masks, because they're needed by healthcare workers). Sometimes these actions are contrary to individual needs. Governments will need to tell people to do things that are against those people's best interests ("don't seek medical care") because those actions preserve the population. Epidemiology is about preserving populations, not about keeping individuals healthy. That means there's always a tension, and I don't think _one_ can trust epidemiologists, but _we_ can trust them in general.

Would you like to save lives? Would you lie, knowing 100,000s would die ... because there was a high probability that it could save millions, but also a possibility that the deaths wouldn't help, or wouldn't be necessary?
Amazing that a 'website' like this can make the top page. Just a plain un-styled string of, presumably, some sort of configuration. No explanation on how to use it, or what it does.

I see 'specter' in there so there's a clue. I mean, after reading comments/ googling/ etc. I understand now, but at first I thought the site was broken.

Wouldn't it have been better to post an actual write up that explains what this is? We are setting the bar really low here :)
I think there's a great market niche for Mozilla - they could be the browser for people who want more control and configurability than the competition. People who don't want an "intelligent" URL bar. I have a feeling they could capture a lot of the developer market that way.

Unfortunately, that's not the direction they seem to be taking.

They might still get a bunch of Manifest V3 refugees in the near future though.
Same, and apparently if you can't fake 100% confidence you are not good enough for some.

Oh well. In the end it all works out well because you are not stuck with a company you dislike (and they with you). But during the process... it's painful and takes a toll on your mental health while you're going through all that.
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Get That Job at Google
It seems unlikely that horror at the invasion of Kuwait, and concerns that Iraq might annex the Saudi oil fields were all just pretend. Certainly the Saudis didn’t seem to be pretending to be worried.
The Founder Bottleneck: Why We Don't Have Enough New Unicorns
Everyone has great ideas, but what's holding them back from success? How do we deal with founder motivation and mental health?
So, every month or two I see another article tut-tutting people for putting notebooks into production, and I'm curious, who is actually doing this? I've never seen such a thing in the wild, and I'm genuinely (morbidly?) curious what it would look like in practice.
Taking on a Daunting Task
Promoting to disable the spectre mitigation should at least come with explanation and warning...
The fact that this is how you decided to respond is further proof of the country’s dysfunction. The winner will not be your perspective; we are all losing it together.
"You need better pickup lines. An introduction like that begs a slap in the face."

"Stay away from that switch! Running the factory lights at night begs a German bomb right on top of us."

"I beg your pardon?"

"That's an interesting link, but it begs the question, 'why does an archaic idiom invalidate the plain meaning of a phrase?'"

The English language is well prepared to deal with ambiguities. There are countless words and phrases with multiple meanings. This one is not even confusing! One is always followed by the question it raises, which makes it quite obvious what they meant.
6% is still quite a lot! IE6 and IE8 were both still widely supported until they had <1% narket share. Firefox at 8% doesn't have much more than that.
Lassa fever also occurs often in Nigeria
Sure it’s the teacher. South Korea and China only did as well as they did because H1N1 and SARS were more problematic in those counties. Haven been bitten twice, they revamped their health systems to be able to handle pandemics.
Some shirts hide you from cameras, but will anyone wear them?
Hiring iOS developers: traits to look for, questions to ask
Also, lots of companies have clauses against this in their employment contracts, or close enough, that candidates wouldn't risk it. Anti-moonlighting clauses and clauses about IP ownership, specifically.
Have you considered talking with a mental health professional as an alternative to soldiering on alone?
> have the most resources to hire, train, and mentor juniors

In theory. I'm a pretty senior programmer now as in "been doing this professionally since the mid-90's" and as far as I can tell, modern project management principles are explicitly designed to make sure that I spend as much time as possible cranking out code and as little time as possible helping newcomers out. That may not be what the "scrum manifesto" says, but it's how the project management professionals charged with executing it interpret it.
I have only one thing to add. Don't make it a pre-screen test. I want to know before I do any take-home test that the job is actually a good fit for me.
A fairly obscure feature, what? Fullscreen is a fairly obscure feature?
I came to a realization to why there are not enough founders out there, and it's not because there's not enough $1B ideas out there. Loads of people get that AHA moment with an incredible idea one night that infects their mind. At some point, that particular excitement will die away. You will reach a period (3, 6, 12 months) where you will start to feel like a toddler toying with their food: confused, lost, stressed and under pressure from your parents and loved ones to get a fucking job already.

What Melissa Bernstein, the co-founder of the Melissa and Doug toy company, tells Duke students is essential to a successful founder's DNA is optimism and determination. Talk to enough people and you will eventually piece together a new AHA moment - the feasible plans of executing your idea. If you thought the feeling of euphoria from coming up with the next big thing was amazing, wait until you have the feeling of knowing not only the idea but the way to really bring it to the world. Most people give up way before this point due to the lack of physical resources, mental resources, or patience. This is the major bottleneck of the founding of new unicorns.

I'm too early to say for a fact that I've reached this end so check in with me again in a few years, but I want to leave you with this: If you're feeling down and unmotivated, as long as you continue to hustle you will eventually reach the end of the tunnel and into the wide expanses of opportunity. For those of you currently living on the high of your idea, just you wait because the next AHA will be 10x better.
"is absolutely clear that it's not going to be solved in the next two decades"

What makes this absolutely clear? I am genuinely asking.
noibrs noibpb nopti nospectre_v2 nospectre_v1 l1tf=off nospec_store_bypass_disable no_stf_barrier mds=off tsx=on tsx_async_abort=off mitigations=off
I dunno, I liked living in Tucson, AZ better than New York. Yes NYC has a unique grandeur but different people like different things; it’s silly to think one city is better than another on some objective scale.

(That said, I don’t endorse GP’s flippant dismissal of NYC either.)
You can't be sure the app is secure unless it's audited by a third party, open source, and compiled by you. I believe there are a few alls with these qualities, but I don't know what they are.

There are messaging companies that specifically comply with health care laws, which is a separate issue entirely.
They have a similar article for Android, for whoever might be more interested in that:

https://devsdata.com/hire-android-developer/
I'm just starting to play with Svelte, but have very little JS background. Which flavor of the jetbrains tools are you actually using; webstorm or IDEA? I have the all-tools sub, so could use either but is one better than the other?
I understand Mozilla's need to target base users in this losing war against google, so I'm forgiving when they make Firefox more like Chrome, but I just wish that in their releases they could say "hey, loyal Firefox fans - just disable this, this, and this to keep the previous behaviour".

That way they can pander to the masses as much as they want and still keep their fan base. Right now it feels like the fanbase is being ignored.
When to use metaclasses in Python: 5 interesting use cases
Flight attendants indeed have a significantly increased cancer risk which is most likely due to radiation exposure: https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12940-...
Investing as a Rationality Dojo
I think inflation doesn't happen as much any more because it's not common goods that rich people buy when they get richer. It's coastal real estate and stock.
There's a famous quote that is attributed to Albert Einstein: “Never memorise something that you can look up.” It is said to be related to a time when a colleague asked him for his phone number, and he reached for his telephone directory to look it up.
Microsoft Thinks Coronavirus Will Forever Change the Way We Work and Learn
I understand the hate for Zoom. But...

We have tried Jitsi a few weeks ago. And we couldn’t scale to meetings with more than 5 people. We tried our own server and theirs.

Then there is Skype and Hangouts. With both I can only meet for two hours or so on battery.

Somehow Zoom works flawlessly. Very easy setup and it worked straight out of the box and is not CPU hungry.

The UX is also great. It’s clear what the buttons are and do. Compare that to Skype where it’s not even clear when something is a button, and even then it’s often just an icon, which means nothing to me.

The product is great. But you pay with your personal data, I guess...
Committing a Career Limiting Move?
That's a very good point, inflation in real estate is easy to grasp.
Great. But I don't want a f. Newspaper on my f. wall, I want a working, decent priced eInk screen for my computer.
Right - this is obviously what I would do. However, if face shields were helpful for reducing risks for general interaction (no idea if they are) then I’d also want one. The fastest path to leaving the house is reducing the risk of leaving, so some simple PPE (that is more effective than a mask) would be great.
Well I know tensions have risen with regards to Iran but they recently signed a deal with China to trade oil in Yuan.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2019/09/20/chinas-400bn...
Do you have any recent successful products you can mention? I’m open to there being some.

I think you’re adding stuff into my comment that’s not there. My point was that nothing on the list was from newer than 2015. Except maybe google photos, but that came out of Picasa/Google+
>How many of my limited days on the planet am I supposed to sink into something before I'm permitted to pass judgement?

More than the first quarter of it. I took at least a year of math classes, and I don't feel qualified to pass judgement on the math department.

There's a huge difference between intro and upper level classes. Just like there's a difference between Calc I and proof heavy upper level math class.

That being said I think the overall pedagogy is better in the math department, but then again they've been doing this for a lot longer.
And even E Ink Kindle is a bit niche. It's great for reading flowing text as in most fiction. However, for things with a lot of graphics/photographs a tablet or even a phone tends to be a lot better. To say nothing of all the other things you can do with a tablet. As a result, when I travel, I almost never take my Kindle because a tablet is so much more versatile.
>You must recognise that this is pure availability bias, right?

I'm comparing to stuff I hear from local dev community and job postings - but again this is just my impression - I'd like to see some actual stats on this .
Next Generation SAP HANA Large Instances with Intel Optane
A large-format printer, yet. A Pixma Pro 1000 that can do excellent 17x22-inch prints - and color! - only runs about a grand, so you'd even have a bit left over for some good Hahnemuhle photo paper.
> am I supposed to sink into something before I'm permitted to pass judgement

I don't have a medical degree, but I still trust medical science. Why? Because it achieves positive results, and people I trust for other reasons trust them.
Serious question: are we not? People are sequencing these things like crazy (c.f. the nextstrain.org data). Epidemiologists are working like mad to come up with data on severity in regions all over the globe. Virologists everywhere are dropping what they're doing otherwise to work on covid.

It sorta strains reason to argue that none of these people thought of looking for an attenuated strain.

Isn't the simpler truth just that finding one takes a lot of ground work that's already being done, but hasn't born fruit yet?
For what it's worth, my parents like the new address bar.
Me too! I find notebooks are only good for teaching. No matter how hard I try, they never help me when doing my own analysis!
Is there something Python can't do? Can't wait for a React/Vue like framework for Python.
I have painter friends. They do not want to sell me their art an any price. They would rather pay to have it in the right gallery show.

In other words, artists who are trying to build their career are demand, not supply.
Discrete optimization is the best course for me. It's really challenging one. I spend about a month for getting A score for all tasks - but it's rewarding experience.

I miss professor Pascal. I hope he will create a second course!
I can't demonstrate that I have the right proposal, but I can demonstrate that one's imagination can run beyond what's presently being considered. Since we're talking about liberty, let's start with he Libertarian canned talking point: "liability and torts." Making individual people liable for spreading the virus would only really work with our imperfect court system for knowing super-spreaders and corporations with unsafe practices, but it might help. Instead of shutting down offices, you could make them liable for any damage cause by disease spread on-site. It's possible that if you pursued corporations and a small number of individual defectors with the liability system and asked normal people nicely, you would be able to handle it.
>Pro video game streamers
I thought a job means being payed for creating some value to someone. Apparently I was wrong.
If you haven't yet, find and read the lengthy "why I'm leaving elm" post; there's a big discussion here also. May provide some impetus one way or the other for you.
BVG
The point: Comparing annual flu deaths when we don't shut down the whole world to COVID-19 deaths when we do (especially to make the claim they're similarly dangerous) is insane.

If 100 people drown in lakes, that's not really odd. If 100 people drown in the middle of the Sahara a thousand miles from the nearest water, that's weird.
First class messages in ELENA Programming Language
you mean for developing desktop applications?

because for a scripting/backend focused language, react/vue is not even something you want to aspire towards.
Pretty much all newspapers are archived in libraries around the world (big national libraries in western countries are usually obligated to archive them). If your specific newspaper or front page wasn’t available on the internet, I suspect a nearby library has a high resolution microfilm copy of it that could be digitised.
Wow, I haven't looked at a print edition in years, but wow I can't believe it's now up to $3 to buy a newspaper? Way more than I remember...
I disagree. Programming education exposes you to the stuff that you would probably never discover on your own like complexity theory and circuit design: the practical stuff like debugging and SQL are things that are best learned by practice anyway.
I'd say Elm has support for types, yes =D
I guess it was done on purpose, but essentially it reminds me of the syntax for graphviz: https://graphviz.org/
because you can doesn't mean you should
Feud Between AT&T and Freeconferencecall.com Heats Up
Not just the Wiki and Issues, but also more things like release artifacts can be (optionally) sync'd and are part of the repository (as "unversioned content"). There's also a Forum included, and as with the rest those messages are distributed.