skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The feud between DeBlasio and Cuomo in NYC is one instance in which the mayor did know better. Mayor DeBlasio wanted to lockdown the city sooner, but Governor Cuomo blocked it.

https://nypost.com/2020/03/17/cuomo-de-blasio-clash-over-pos...
Not sure seitan is the best example of "synthetic." You can make it at home in less than an hour with nothing but wheat flour and water.
'I become a person of suspicion'
The link is returning a 403 Forbidden error.
I want to love Jitsi, I really do. But the 'Quick Install' of the server failed for me. So I tried the hosted service and it doesn't work in Firefox. Jitsi needs to work harder on ease of use.
The biggest gerrymander is the electoral college, perpetrated by the low population states, which happen to be Republican at the moment.

The Republican Party is the one constantly being got with explicit voter suppression project planning documents and winning elections and seats in inverse proportion to their share of votes.
You mentioned middle management do not normally add value to remote development. How would you fix this? Besides removing the layer :-) is there any model where they could add value?
Here is the text from one of the interviewer who clear the fb interview "The second interview was very hard they asked me a leetcode hard question and I was only able to solve it because I did the exact question before. Complete luck there. Personally I think it was unreasonable to expect someone to solve that difficult of a question in 30 minutes. The overall acceptance rate on the question on Leetcode is around 20%." https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-question/563659/faceb...
"IDA Home has been exclusively designed to bring the experience of IDA Pro to reverse-engineers hobbyists, for the equivalent of 1$ a day!"

I find it strange to imply that a RE hobbyist would use this software every single day.
I really don't get, why Amazon doesn't put more resources in the Kindle universe. They should have a large volume and quite a market position. Also, they don't lack the finances to push products. A larger Kindle would be an instant buy for me. I have been contemplating the Oasis just because it adds an inch of display and with the next refresh I will probably bite. But why not 8 or 10 inch devices? Or full A4 size.

Also, it would be great, if they made it easy to connect your Kindle to e.g. a Raspberry Pi and use it as a touchscreen display. I might pick up a couple of paperwhites, if that were possible.
Why I Don't Love Gödel, Escher, Bach (2018)
ianmerrick: I never understand this. How is the fact of experience in any way debateable or something which people disagree on? I am not asking about the epistemological details which appear to be a prerequisite to experiences we have, neurons and neurotransmitters and brain networks and the physics of light and phosphorus and the eye etc , I am talking about experience itself. How can it be confusing?

Often when I have this conversation it appears to me that somehow, impossibly, the other side suddenly gets fuzzy on this thing I call "experience".
I've found the VirtualCam plugin for OBS works better, but YMMV
It is also about consistency. Let’s say for argument’s sake they decided to sue the creators of the emulators. If even one time Nintendo cooperated with and assisted the emulator developers, it is easy for the defense to argue that Nintendo implicitly endorsed the work and therefore why are they suing them.
Ah, too bad. I had hoped for something that could display a slideshow from a Raspberry Pi etc, since I'd want the content to update automatically in regular intervals and not rely on cloud services.
Senegal says 7 children did not die from Covid-19 vaccine
I am a Linux user and get it. What I don't get is if Linux.Org would start paying my AWS bills, explaining it by saying "it makes Linux better by more people using it". Don't you see an obvious strangeness here?
I would absolutely love to hear someone's experience taking this course: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/coding-for-managers...

I probably won't have time to sit through it, but I've taken a course from this instructor in the past and he is pretty good. I'm really curious to know how he explains coding and engineering principles to "managers, designers and entrepreneurs".
there's another way to look at this project... a fellow human wanted to make something that does not exist in this world. they believed in their project enough to invest their money, time, and expertise. after tackling countless technical details, they succeeded by their own measure!

this project never was intended to be a consumer product. Judging it by that standard misses the point.

this is one specific engineer's equivalent to training for and then running a marathon.

this is a human with a highly skilled and devoted engineering practice. just like a runner crossing the finish line, that is what this article is about.

and personally, I'll gladly cheer Max on.
Reminds me of ticgit https://github.com/jeffWelling/ticgit
Julia is also "compiled" down to it's (untyped) IR before even starting (when all macros are expanded), but since it's a dynamic language like Python, it can't know types at compile-time, so this step can only know parser errors. It could only type check at this step if the type was in the definition and not in the variable inside (if it was static). And both Julia and Python are also strongly typed (there isn't really a language that lacks a type system).

The difference is that whenever a function in called in Julia, based on the type of the arguments the compiler can infer every type of every variable and arguments of every subsequent function, immediately compiling them down to machine code (unlike Python there is no such thing as a Julia Virtual Machine or even a Julia Interpreter outside of the debugger). Whenever you enter a function in Julia it becomes a static program, with all the properties of a static language (for example, you can't redefine types, you can define functions but the program can't see them since they are not part of the compiled code, you can't import libraries, and all types were already checked before running). That's why Julia is fast, and the language was entirely designed for working this way (there are lots of things you can do in Python that you can't in Julia to make this work).
He is a hero
A small nation has less coordinated power and would get walked over by USSR and China.

If the US was 50 small nations in WWII, Hitler more likely would have won.
Something else to think about: This post implies that this solution would be implemented in some thoughtful and publicly-known way. We should consider the possibility that some organization (government or otherwise) could do this regardless of whether society accepts this as a solution. It's possible that this is already in the process of being implemented right now. Maybe better to ask for forgiveness than permission...
Yeah, NYC is better than Tucson on all those metrics. Tucson is better on metrics like "I subjectively think the landscape looks nice", and "I like the sort of people who live there". What's your point?
Would you be willing to pay my AWS bills? It'll improve the open-source community!
I don't think so. https://www.theweek.co.uk/76088/what-was-black-death-and-how... says:

"How did it end?
The most popular theory of how the plague ended is through the implementation of quarantines. The uninfected would typically remain in their homes and only leave when it was necessary, while those who could afford to do so would leave the more densely populated areas and live in greater isolation.

Improvements in personal hygiene are also thought to have begun to take place during the pandemic, alongside the practice of cremations rather than burials due to the sheer number of bodies."
I am eagerly anticipating this. I use OBS and chromakey to have some fun on my MS Teams meetings, but it's a hassle to set up the green screen every time I want to be a bit cheeky.

Do you have a github/gitlab/something else link?
Note, there is a free and open-source alternative for both the console world and GUI one - radare2[1] + Cutter[2] combo. Both are native and highly portable, no Java inside. And they support various decompilers, including Ghidra'one[3] and Retdec[4].

[1] https://github.com/radareorg/radare2

[2] https://github.com/radareorg/cutter

[3] https://github.com/radareorg/r2ghidra-dec

[4] https://github.com/avast/retdec-r2plugin
Wow, that is impressively insane!
In years past, I've seen a plethora of £700-1200/day contracts in London for candidates with only 2 years of experience and no education requirement.

And it has always made me wonder why they were offering such high pay for such low experience, when salaried positions in London are lower than NYC, and most of the contract work I see in NYC are half that rate.
Anbox – container-based approach to run Android on a regular GNU/Linux system
This is just my opinion :) but, clicking in the address bar in order to type a URL seems pretty inefficient. Why not activate the address bar with the keyboard, which you will need to use to type the URL anyway?

It's similar to typing a URL in the address bar and instead of typing Enter to navigate, you grab the mouse and click the little 'go' arrow on the right.
Organizing a Group Buy of Flour
> It's like the word 'literally' (whose bastardization is both far more egregious and hilarious)

"literally" has been used to mean "figuratively" for hundreds of years, by plenty of famous authors. The idea that "literally" should only mean "actually; without exaggeration or inaccuracy" seems to be the actual recent invention.
What about Dengue?
You might also be interested in this thread from Andy Slavitt, who ran CMS during the Obama administration.

https://twitter.com/ASlavitt/status/1248362891201392640

He makes the point that a) the new model has some optimistic assumptions, like no interstate travel and b) due to the exponential growth, a small uncertainty in R0 leads to wildly variable outcomes.

I guess I am uneasy with the "disease is not as severe" hypothesis because it's essentially unknowable. There's no objective measure of severity: it depends on knowing how to treat/prevent the disease and whether the necessary resources are available to do so.
Funnily enough, that bug was fixed 8 months ago. Unless you actually meant 1178764 (not your link to 1178765), which was fixed 4 years ago.
SuperStop: FF Extension: adds shortcuts, tops background requests and animations
It's not unsolved at all. The people who advocate for anti-"price-gouging" laws subvert the solution.
This sounds very much like what I deal with. I see it as a side effect of ADHD, which I see as a difference - not a deficit - in my ability to process incoming information. Getting overwhelmed is difficult to deal with, but it is accompanied by the ability to hyperfocus.

My first-line coping strategy is to close my eyes. That seems to help significantly, as if visual processing consumes a limited mental resource that I can free up to apply to structuring my thoughts. I have no idea if there is any science to back that up - but I also don’t care. Coping is about developing useful mental models for dealing with the world around you, not necessarily about being technically correct.

I also careful control my facial expressions when I’m around others and do this. My goal is to have them think that I’m concentrating on something (which, really, I am) and not upset or distressed. This also provides them a cue that usually results in their pausing or slowing down further information for a moment, which helps.
I've just realised that by the understanding of "Open Source" assumed by Luke and by many of the commenters here:

- Firefox isn't Open Source.

- Lots of other things often held up as shining examples of Open Source are not Open Source.

...because they are worked on by people or teams who decide their own design goals and roadmap, and while you can contribute and talk about the project, many users feel the project moves on without catering to their needs or remaining compatible over time.

Firefox is an interesting example, not only because it's a poster child for Open Source, but because it evolved from Netscape Navigator's source release and is associated with events when the "Open Source" term was being coined.
It has to be horseshit. A significant part of Red Hat's value-add is customers can go to them with problems that might not actually be Red Hat's own, and still get help resolving them. "One throat to choke" is the charming phrase I often heard. It's huge for enterprise customers, and a big part of what they pay large sums of money for. I'm sure there are some cases where Red Hat does have to say they can't support something, but doing so willy-nilly would be suicidal.
Thanks for saying this - I'm uninstalling Firefox until they change this.
My guess is that these are effectively handmade prototype units, made almost at/below cost, to allow companies to experiment with limited runs and determine business viability, which would leave the possibility of large orders/contracts, whereas consumers are much less predictable and reliable.
Well, yes. Even areas of the world with high levels of testing and low levels of infection are going to be missing some cases. Here in MA where a full 30% of tests are coming back positive[1] it would be surprising if actual infections weren't a multiple of confirmed cases. But things are probably much better than they were in February where estimates of the ration are that we were factor of 100 or more behind actual cases.

[1]https://i.redd.it/ajxsj8jxyur41.png
>I guess what I was asking was whether you have any ideas that have any likelihood of being more effective than current approaches.

Well, what we're talking about is how to keep civil liberties while also effecting a quarantine. I think if we came up with a solution that was as good as the current solution but that had less risk of giving the government abusable and sticky power, that would satisfy the goal of the discussion.

I could offer some changes to the idea I proposed that would address some of your concerns (as well as argue that there are some effectiveness benefits over the current policy to balance out the downsides), and we could have an insightful discussion going over it, but that would distract from the broader point of "if we put our heads to it we might be able to avoid an expansion in government power while not making any unacceptable sacrifices."
Well, in principle it does sound like a possibly "vaccine", but without the long-term testing I still don't see how we can be sure we have found this attenuated strain. Personally, I am youngish (30s) and healthy, so I would probably fall into the core group of those that "should" be infected. But given the choice, I don't think I'd do it, because even now, three months after this virus became big, there is still huge uncertainty about its lethality (even among young people), the number of severe cases (possibly causing long-term long tissue), and how this virus behaves in the long-term: how long would immunity even last? [seems unclear now]. There were also reports from China, and now South Korea, about possible reinfections or reactivations. Under these circumstances, I'd rather pass and keep to social distancing/masks etc. until a better solution comes along or the safety of an attenuated strain has actually been proven through a large scale, controlled trial.
We probably shouldn't burn it down but may be a good time for some strict anti nepotism laws. The presidents son in law should not be leading secret councils and managing the virus response. The presidents daughter should not be on the economic recovery council. This government has the worst people doing the most important jobs.
Did you ever try Scala.js? I was a huge fan of how fully it was just standard Scala and therefore well-supported by IntelliJ; I've not seen any other compile-to-JS language match that level of IDE experience (but as someone who was already a Scala fan I'm biased).
Another route is to share the same resources between apps, i.e. make a progressive web app. I haven't used the Jitsi desktop app so I can't speak to it, but I'd be curious to know what features are missing from PWAs that mean a native wrapped Electron app is necessary.
So we need a DIY genome sequence kit. Where can I find a practical guide? What do I need?
Could a strain like this be created with genetic modification? If you just need to delete a bit of it that doesn't sound too difficult.

But I know nothing about this subject, so that's probably why...
Doesn't matter to me, I'm not in that industry any more. But yes, they're a mess. But, honestly, I don't know you would make it less of a mess. People just need to accept that some systems are complicated and the more you try and make it less complicated the further from that goal you get.
Well no, in this particular case it’s the house of saud.
Finding out that we all have it already would be one of the more humorous endings to this story.
Or just use Julia where the speed is out of the box.
You need to reconcile the "no worse than the flu" idea with "collapsed the northern Italian healthcare system". If you're proposing they're similar in impact, you need to explain why their actual real-life impact is not similar.

The CDC estimates somewhere between 24k and 63k flu deaths since October. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-e...

The previous season was estimated at 34,200. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html

COVID-19 has killed at least 16k in the US, starting on Feb 29, with significant mitigation efforts that are not done for flu. Almost all of that is in the last week - the death toll stood at only 1.8k on 4/4. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/COVID19/index.htm

Comparing the two is like claiming a bicycle is winning a 10 mile race versus a Ferrari because it got a head start and got to mile #1 faster. (It's also likely some estimated flu deaths are actually COVID deaths.)
When I buy a computer, the first thing I look for is extendable memory. If I can't easily plopp in at least double the RAM than it has, I'm not buying it. Got bitten already enough with the old 286+ era computers. Since then the memory consumption has been increasing the whole time until now you can't even start your editor without 1-2 GB disappearing. Want a browser too? That's another GB at least. A chat program? Another GB. The times where a chat client was 40 kb are long gone, now it has to have emotes and embeded movies at a minimum.
There's org-roam, which is based upon org-mode in Emacs. That can be a barrier to entry for a lot of people who are apprehensive about learning Emacs.
Unregulated spread by individuals is a solution, just not the one I think would be implemented if such a strain were found.

I think it much more likely that the regulatory agency would quickly approve the use of the strain on the basis of the epidemiological data gathered in the process of finding it.
Agreed on all points, there is an advantage in using whatever is currently flavour of the month though (more documentation, components, better integration with dev tools and such) but I used KnockoutJS for a couple of years and really liked it, it was a massive upgrade over jquery for a lot of UI stuff and brought some much needed sanity.

These days I use either React or Vue in the same role as the world keeps turning.

It's amazing they are still putting work into it for those people with massive codebases dependent on it though, anyone picking that 7-8 years ago definitely made a good bet.
FWIW, you may want to disable the scheduled task instead of deleting it.

The reason being that a missing/non-existent task may be re-created on update/upgrade, but a disabled one should not (hopefully!) be re-enabled.
How do we know that a less deadly strain actually provides some immunity to a more deadly strain? That seems like an assumption here.
There was some data from Iceland that showed about 50% of cases being asymptomatic. That's more optimistic than we saw originally, but not as optimistic as the most optimistic scenarios proposed.
How to Help in a Pandemic: Ask Before You Donate 1k Pizzas
Yes I went before the recent bad times in Egypt. I think your opinion is the wrong path to go down, because if we start putting arbitrary rules of stability on countries they will never be returned.

Egypt was stable for decades. Artifacts were plundered by the Nazis during WWII just a few decades ago and a priceless Van Gogh was stolen just a few weeks ago, so is Europe no longer considered a safe space for those cultural artifacts in Europe? Museums in Africa should be setup and educated with the profits gained from stealing their heritage and they should be returned.
I call BS on this. Viral shedding is a myth.
It's not particularly related.

Plasma contains molecules that contribute to immunity. The donation transfers those molecules from the donor to the recipient. It doesn't directly confer any immunity to the recipient, it reduces the amount of virus circulating in their body, giving their own immune system more time to respond.
The thing I would really like to figure out is how to prevent a Linux system from essentially livelocking when it close to runs out of memory. We've all seen it. Try to ssh in, connections get established but do not proceed. If you're lucky to have a console shell open from before, it shows gigantic load. Wish there was a way to put a few system critical processes into a container to guarantee them some resources.
Sure, and you don't have to use a more modern car, you can always keep your old phones for 10 years.

But you would be very annoyed if when you upgrade, you'd notice the car actually eats more gas.

That's not what happens though. Modern cars are more ergonomics, and eat less gas.

It's not being entitled. It's just noting the drawbacks of some technological choices.
$365 is still a lot for a hobbyist. Also I'm always entertained when Europeans put the dollar sign after the amount as opposed to before (I'm also European and it took me forever to notice this).
Robots Welcome to Take Over, as Pandemic Accelerates Automation
firefox used to be known as a highly configurable browser. now, mozilla is just pushing changes that can't be configured.

there are some about:config tweaks to change the url bar back to the old one, but they are going to go away for sure.
It is not quite uncommon to make evaluation kits only available to commercial customers as they come in a very bare form, lacking any safety notes and so on.

But in the end points to what I think is wrong with e-ink: there are no offerings for hobbyists, which could help a lot to create markets. Why not have at least some displays sold for the Raspberry Pi crowd?
Maybe software engineering needs a professional bar. A test, like engineers or lawyers or doctors need to take that proves you can reason with algorithms, and have some standard base of knowledge that ought be expected of a programmer.

It would be a win-win. Companies could say "we only hire professionals" in order to avoid wading through the kinds of idiots that Fizzbuzz is designed to screen, and candidates no longer need to repeatedly prove they can put the star peg in the star hole.
For small-medium groups, it runs just fine on a VPS that's half the price of a single paid Zoom account.
What other vectors are there? Assuming that I trust my local software (because if I don't then spectre is the least of my problems).
My experience is only as a programmer, maybe HR has kept most of the bad ones out, but I doubt it based on my experiences with HR. So 10-20% is my experience of how many programmers I encounter are bad in a big organization, and bad is a relative thing of course.

But often when I am brought into a big organization there is one out of every 5 programmers that just should be something else. They're not necessarily stupid, just shouldn't program.

on edit: in my experience small organizations don't have quite as bad because for the organization to be able to exist their programmers must be able to program. (for any organization heavily focused on tech of course)