skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's more like:

10 receive information about the world, body and reward signals

20 evaluate the current situation and possible actions

30 act

40 goto 10

Emotion results in step 20 when we judge situations and actions in the context as good or bad. In this step two subsystems cooperate:

1. a system for fast reaction - works best when there is no time to reason, or when the action is repetitive, or when available information is uncertain

2. a system for slow, reasoning based reaction - works when we can build a mental model and imagine possible outcomes, is especially necessary when we encounter novel situations and have the concepts necessary to reason about it

System 1 is based on instinct and system 2 is learned. They are both essential as they are specialised in different situations. Using system 2 all the time would be too expensive and probably impossible, we need to rely on instinct which in turn relies on evolution to be fine tuned.

Learning happens through the reward signal. We reevaluate situations and actions based on outcomes. Emotion is just a synonym for the value we assign to our current state with regard to our goals and needs.

Our goals include adapting to the environment in order to assure the integrity and necessities of life - the primary goal, then as secondary goals - being part of a social group, learning, mastery, conceiving children, curiosity and a few other instincts. We are born with this goal-program which is in turn evolved.
New math theory suggests time travel is impossible
Yes, it seems it could either be "measures are more effective than thought" or "disease is not as severe as thought", or both.

Fwiw Michael Burry, someone who has earned the right to be listened to in the face of collective thinking, is strongly arguing for the "disease is not as severe as thought".
> Ventilators will always play a role in keeping patients alive

No they don't. After a few weeks your lungs turn to mush, among other problems.
Ok I think you might have issues with actual cooling needs up above 32/35+.

But, I don't think it matters much. It doesn't help, but it's a small surface area.
When a technology wraps over another technology with its own opinions - doesn't it always end up bad?

Especially when the wrapper decides to take away the escape hatches, locking people into its opinions without considering genuinely valid exemptions.

I wonder how so many truly bright minds, bought into this philosophy, despite knowing this was coming. I guess the promise of Elm was just far too convincing.
Wrong. It's a great intermediary to buy and sell international assets cheaper and faster than with SWIFT. Also it effectively bypasses local bureaucracy.
Unfortunately, the current model is not able to consume data such as for Belarus.

It may now be possible to make an estimate as the numbers are growing, but still the calculations are based on officially confirmed cases.
This is common in Windows environments and is called app streaming / virtualization there. It’s been included in Enterprise editions of Windows feature called AppV. This must be something similar. App Store sales more profitable than iphone/iPad device flash size?
I can't remember the last time I installed an app that was only 20MB. Even the most simple things weigh in at 100MB and up these days.

The most ridiculous example I've seen lately is the mobile version of the Gwent card game from the Witcher game series. It's 2.7GB. For a card game.
It's both. You're sedated (comatose) to tolerate the tube and allow the machine to manage the pressure. After a few weeks the air pressure destroys your lungs and the sedation causes you to lose muscle strength. So you get sicker day by day.

I'm still waiting for an interview with a ventilator survivor. None so far.
If there's one thing the Air Force is known for, it's doing things fast and cheap, with restraint and elegance.
There are other reasons to maintain domestic emergency capacity. We're still a bunch of apes living on a hostile rock. Except we also have war machines.
… can be responded to with all the other tools of warfare, such as ICBMs.

Once
It is exactly what it is for, to protect from droplets sprayed out of sick people. Particularly to keep it out of your eyes.
Except most of that is not free for the worker. A lot of it is actually run for profit by subcontractors.
And if you have to pay out of your own pocket, you probably wont hire catering.

The only people outside tech getting their meals paid by work are usually higher ups, and even then not neccesary.
That's so short sighted though; I'd be so much more likely to engage with an advert that figured out a new thing that would interest me than the usual "you've been reading about sc2 for a week, so have more of the same" nonsense.
US is Great at all things, unfortunately the self-sabotage need to stop please.
CandidateZip Resume/Job Parser and Workable Integrations
I think you’ve got it right. The best interviews I’ve participated in felt like working with someone for an hour or so.

As for the opposite scenario, you’ve got that right as well, except that the interviewer is a 25 year old, recently graduated theater major.
Seconding examples. Would watch you on YouTube if you happen to make videos as well to learn more about this.
Generally when people say “90% of child sexual abusers are known to the victim” they are referring to “contact sex offenders.” All child abusers take advantage of vulnerable children, but children are more likely to be physically vulnerable around a trusted, known adult. In the last decade it has become much more common for children to be psychologically vulnerable to online predators as many more children, disproportionately those who are vulnerable for other reasons, have private access to the internet via smartphone 24 hours a day. Some predators use the internet to groom children and then commit contact offences against them. Others manipulate children into creating more child pornography.

In 2014, Aslan and Edelmann [1] undertook “a comparison of sex offenders convicted of possessing indecent images of children, committing contact sex offences or both offences” and, while expressing caution about the “contradictory findings” of previous studies, examined a data set of “230 offenders who had been convicted either of possessing indecent images (Internet offenders n = 74) or committing actual direct abuse of children (contact offenders n = 118) or committing both offences (Internet-contact offenders n = 38).” They found:

> There were significant differences between the three groups of offenders in the way the victim was found. Internet-contact offenders (45%) were more likely to target their victims online and use downloaded indecent images to help recruit their victims … Only 15% of Internet offenders initiated online contact, grooming their victims then requesting indecent images without physically coming into contact with the victim. The majority of contact sex offenders (87%) were known to their victims … Internet-contact offenders were more likely to target stranger victims than contact offenders.

[1] https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14789949.2014.884618

This data reflects the offences that are detected and prosecuted, so you could read it as suggesting that law enforcement (in London) is focusing on internet offending at the expense of contact offending. It’s hard to say. The data also says nothing about whether anti-encryption laws are needed. However, it does indicate that there is a substantial amount of internet-enabled child sexual abuse and that law enforcement bodies should use some of their finite resources to address it.

What is proportionate is certainly debatable. There is often a fundamental difference of values between civil liberties advocates on the one hand, and victims’ advocates and law enforcement on the other, with respect to the seriousness of internet-based non-contact offences, including the possession of child pornography. When these offenders are counted among child sexual abusers, the proportion who are known to their victims is much less than 90%.
Indeed the more socialist systems (look at northern europe) are way more resilient to economic downturns.

However a country absolutely needs to stay afloat in foreign trade, or secure domestic production of essential goods.
Is hiring broken for non-software jobs like chemists, physicists? What about writers or journalists?

I only have vague insights into these industries but science jobs afaik rely a lot on recommendations - on calling prior collegues and asking. And for writers - well reading their previous stuff works well (easier with open source stuff)

So i would suggest right approach is more a simple FizzBuzz screen, a cultural fit (careful of biases!) and then reading their past OSS / other work (so maybe a prepared portfolio is a good "take home") and calling their references.
The GRUB parameters that appear on Make-Linux-Fast-Again.com apparently disable Spectre/Meltdown mitigations:

https://gist.github.com/rizalp/ff74fd9ededb076e6102fc0b636bd...

https://securitronlinux.com/bejiitaswrath/how-to-get-a-nice-...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Spectre-...
FreeRDP 2.0 Released
Interestingly enough, that is the use case spelled out in the very first Bitcoin block:

> The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks
That's the thing, though: being self-sufficient in manufacturing is now considered "backwards".
Oh I did not put any effort to optimize that.

I bet I can get this number lower with some lazy loading but what for? The app is loaded by the time the springboard animation ends, the user interaction isn't likely to start before that.

It's a new App that I try to iterate quickly, so I prefer to keep away of added complexity that optimizations would bring. If it feels quick enough on the lowest end device that I support(which is iPhone 6s because of iOS13) it's alright. The mobile devices are very powerful these days.
Looking for Partners – Offering Free Advertising (COVID-19)
As a business/startup founder, I'm sure most of us are all finding it difficult to stay afloat during this pandemic.

I recently launched a new location-based social app called Clava. We send our users promotions from local companies in their current location.

Are there any business owners that want to promote their business inside of Clava for free and as many times as you want during COVID-19?

We just launched this past weekend so our community is small but we are growing and we already have a couple of businesses on board.

Let me know if anyone is interested. If you wanted to check out Clava you download it in the iOS App Store.
What's the alternative? I don't get how anyone thinks that things will just go back to normal anytime soon.

ATM everyone is talking about flattening the curve. The big question is: then what?

All the curve flattening is doing is removing pressure of medical staff. It isn't a solution. Vaccines are a long time off, and otherwise people are taking stabs in the dark about other things which _may_ help, but the truth is we most likely aren't going to have anything reliable in the near future.

So what options do we have?

After the flattening of the curve if we go back to "Living normal" then the virus will simply pick up again. "Herd immunity" they say - which might not be 'too bad' in theory, but it will overload the current medical systems, and we'll be forced to go through this process all over again.

You can try an elimination approach, and perhaps for a small island based country like New Zealand (that got started early) that might work, but for everyone else it's really not an option.

The world right now is literally buying time. It buying time in the form of economic output, and right now all these measures are being pitched as a temporary solution. But the thing that everyone doesn't seem to be paying any attention to, is: what is the long term solution? And unfortunately I think the answer is that we don't have one.
Yes! Sometimes if you compromise, you still loose - just more slowly.
A great example of patents strangling innovation. If anyone has more concrete details on the way this company is holding back this technology I’d love to read details. Thanks!
For the most part, the virus is carried in the droplets, so if you protect yourself from the droplets, you're way ahead of the game.
There is a grey market for Animal Crossing to buy any item using real cash
remind me again on what that has to do with either the syntax or the semantics of the underlying programming language.
Computer science isn't supposed to teach you how to program, and it's kind of silly to judge a whole subject by the first year. In fact I think you would be making a mistake to focus on the practical courses rather than take as many theoretical and foundational (e.g. advanced algorithms, Theory of Computation, Compilers) courses as you can. A good CS student, who understands the coursework and doesn't cheat, should easily become a good enough programmer just from completing coursework in a mostly theoretical program to get hired basically anywhere. Programming is something you learn incidentally because it's intertwined with what you're doing anyway; and to be blunt, most practical programming is rather mundane and simple compared to a rigorous CS curriculum.

I see it as like if I were hiring for something as generic as "writer". It's easy to have a generic "writer" produce a small sample for you on the spot, similar to a CS interview. Of course you can always practice writing directly itself, but I would imagine someone who had completed a lot of coursework in linguistics, classics, literature, etc. would on average be very well-prepared if they were a good student. But you could still practice and teach yourself on your own if you wanted to
Another strain that might be less deadly: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.11.987222v1....

Also it is a paper from Singapore which should avoid the China negative bias.
Related: https://www.protocol.com/earn-it-act-hearing-section-230
Declarative, Decentralised, and Secure Communication via Matrix, Jitsi, & NixOS
Once you're inside the company there is data about your performance.

My point is that there's no control group and therefore no way to test the process in an empirical way and possibly improve it.

But the idea of finding a way to measure the performance of people who didn't get hired seems ludicrous, so we're back to being stuck in the status quo.

That's what I'm on about. I would love to see an article that talks about this rather than the screeds and diatribes that show up on HN so often.
And another: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.10.20033944v...
How about ClearInk? https://youtu.be/kE_byDwLjxk?t=34

Also, ye olde e-Ink has plans for Q3 2020: https://youtu.be/vOTid3I-4EI
When you are used to desktop apps coming up and being useable literally in the next frame of you launching them, any interaction with mobile decices and webbpages with loading times everywhere is absolutely terrible. Makes me remember all the game consoles which would have loading time ms everywhere - it was terrible and frustrating when you were used to PCs
Your recruiter was rating you on your performance on the algorithm question, them cutting you off was actually them trying to help you spend enough time on the question.
How are those dollars tracked?

If somebody wires dollars to a Chinese bank, and that bank wires those dollars to another bank to exchange them, why can't that second bank make up any number when it wires dollars back to an American bank?

Is it because at any time, those dollars were not only on the books of the Chinese banks but also on the books of some international clearance bank?
I love the idea of combining an outliner and an SRS. I don't love the idea of needing a new special editor for them, and a new siloed data store for them.

Now, if this were an SRS that read my existing data (like from Notes.app, org-mode, OmniOutliner, or Excel) and presented it as an SRS, that would be very cool.
There's a difference between having a terrific debate and changing the national stockpile website mid-pandemic to say "nah"
I believe it leads to datomic, a database you can try out on Aws (datomic cloud) to see the implementation of all the things he's getting excited about.
Helping official health news reach citizens on Telegram
Thanks for the video & the article. I followed the steps in NixOS and blogged about it here - https://kaushikc.org/posts/matrix-jitsi-nixos.html
Other federal systems face the same dilemmas.

In Australia the powers of the states and federal government are set by the constitution. The feds don't have jurisdiction in many areas. It has to be a team effort. So they have whole of government meetings to work out a common, co-ordinated approach. We see a common message and have federal government support for the states but each state is free to implement measures appropriate to their local situation.

I think this consensus driven approach is the only way it can work. The federal government implementing border security, helping with international trade, mobilising military, providing funding. States legislating isolation, enforcing law and order, organising hospitals and testing. Australia has a much smaller population, fewer states and less political extremes. It would be easy to dismiss our relatively good performance in this crisis as due to our isolation and geography. But I think our political system has worked well for us. Even though I don't like some of our political leadership and don't consider them very effective normally, even their worst efforts are looking good compared to what I see elsewhere in the world.

I think in a crisis like this if you rely too strongly on a quarterback to take control you can get into a lot of trouble if your quarterback turns out to be useless or even detrimental. The elected king model is too risky. An executive controlled by the legislature is far more responsible and effective.
I saw a sudden drop of about 25% in ad revenue across the properties I'm privy to two weeks ago, but it seems to be pretty flat since then.
I don't know about US but in EU electronic passports and electronic IDs are becoming mandatory. So all people will have an RFID device with them all the time. And let's not forget the mobile phones which can be localized with high accuracy even without GPS, usually because the device can be seen by more than 3 base stations at a time.

The Chinese made mass surveillance even simpler: they have lots of cameras and face detection.

We don't have much privacy these days.
And then a bit larger again when including foreign phone numbers.
No its not, for instance just population density is a huge factor in the spread of a virus. If you live in an area where people are fairly isolated or travel outside their region very little, than you don't need to do the same extreme lockdowns or shut down the economy to the same degree to prevent the spread.

I live in a state that's barely being touched by this, and not because we don't have it, but because there are two large cities that have maybe 100+ cases or significant hospital load, and the spread is insignificant because its very easy for people to avoid each other and take basic precautions during interaction to prevent the spread. If you live in apartment buildings, 6 feet from your neighbor with only a wall to separate you stacked stories high with shared elevators, stairwells, hallways, and the majority of transport requires people to be in close proximity on sidewalks, buses, or trains, the factors and extreme measures needed to stop its spread are very different than someone living in Alaska or Idaho. Those people don't need to stay in their homes, they just need to avoid going anywhere unnecessary with large groups of people and wash their hands and cover their mouths.

Some states have higher rates of obesity or other risk factors, some states have higher populations of elderly than others. One size fits all measures doesn't work, you need focused precision efforts determined by locals and the only thing they need from the umbrella governments is support in their efforts for needs they've determined are necessary.
I recommend reading Stephen King's On Writing, it is half writing tips and half Stephens life story. It is the only Stephen King book I have read (so far) and it really made me want to write more! He also recommends the elements of style.
Wait, how did you make both notes in org and HTML? Can you write org mode notes and compile them to HTML? Is that it?

Or did you really write it twice?

(I've never used Emacs)
No. We will update them from time to time. And of course we had three close calls in the latest 20 years - sars, mers and ebola. And btw - this is literally what 3M did with the N95 masks - they had spare production lines that turned on in a heartbeat

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-03-25/3m-double...

This is 3M’s moment, one for which the staid, 118-year-old Minnesota manufacturing giant—the maker of Post-its, Scotch tape, touchscreen displays, and scores of other products—has been preparing for almost two decades. Coming out of the SARS epidemic of 2002-03, the company realized it wasn’t fully equipped to handle unexpected explosions of demand in the event of a crisis, or what it calls an “X factor.” It decided to build surge capacity into its respirator factories around the world.

And with terrorist groups and state actors realizing that animal viruses are potent biological weapons, and legitimate research centers working on making viruses airborne - chances of another screeching halt in the next 10 years due to malice or incompetence are not that low.
This prediction is unverifiable, as you don't know what would have happened in 2, 5, 10 years, if the bailout did not happen.
Lua is great for this.
When I was in university doing a CS degree, if you had dropped out 1/3rd of the way through, you'd have pretty much only gone through a handful of weeder intro CS courses that were more math than programming. So yes, if you had dropped out at that point, you would not have really gained any useful programming skills.

I don't entirely disagree with you, there were certainly some later classes that were similarly not useful in the long run, but it wasn't a total crapshoot. My senior year included a year-long group project on a team of ~10 people that basically took us all the way through the lifecycle of a project -- from inception, to design and architecture, to polish and QA, to 'releasing' it. It was a very useful course that placed you into a startup-like atmosphere.

But I think this kind of confirms that apprenticeships may be far more useful to the programming field than college degrees. If my CS program did not include that senior course, I would probably pretty vehemently agree with you. And anecdotally, at my current workplace, one of our best programmers is a kid we hired basically right out of high school who has since grown in skill considerably thanks to the attention of more senior engineers.
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I think most people view Bitcoin as digital gold nowadays. (with the added benefit that the supply is known) I would not use it for short term cash needs, but from a long term store of value it has provided real benefit over a 10 year period. If the monetary supply is going to be dramatically expanded by the Fed, then it is a great way to hedge against the dollar. Couple that with the recession and the likelihood that the effects of the global pandemic is seemingly going to be here for a while, I can't think of a better place to put my money right now.
some frustrating parts for me:

1. if i got an offer from your company a year ago, why do i need to redo the phone screen and entire process?

2. 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?
Can always buy US weapons and politicians with dollars
My (meanwhile modest) hopes are with clearink [1]. Let's hope they don't go full mirasol.

1: https://youtu.be/zjJ2-cdhwMQ