skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> paid trial period

Wow, if you say so, but that seems weird to me: every job I've ever had (and everybody else I've ever seen hired at any job I've ever had) it's taken quite a while before I was really able to contribute much productively. Just getting acquainted with the codebase, figuring out the deploy process, and learning all the unwritten rules about the company culture takes a non-negligible amount of time.
Someone mistranslated Latin into English 300 years ago and now some nerds are mad that people are misinterpreting the mistranslation. Best to just ignore the whole thing by never writing "begging the question." Always write either "raising the question" or "circular reasoning" depending on what you mean.
17,000 dead Americans in this circumstance is not a pittance of caution let alone an abundance
Netflix apparently. They've built an entire software framework for enabling their data scientists to put their notebooks into production [0].

[0] https://netflixtechblog.com/notebook-innovation-591ee3221233
And if someone does come along to compete with them, they might use patent lawfare to drive them out of business.
Rough ballpark estimate: from few 100s of kilograms to maybe few 100s grams.

Reasoning:
(Number of infected, N) / (viral load)×(average human size in milliliters)) × (mass of the virus) × number of time viruses replicate in humans.

N = 2-10 million, Viral load: 10^4 to 10^7 / mL so maybe 5x10^9 viruses per human at any time. The weigh of the virus is in the order of magnitude 1×10^−18 (100s attograms to femtogram)
Looked to me like he was comparing flu deaths now to corona deaths now. If indeed those numbers are comparable or the same, we've probably made a terrible mistake. Maybe looking at total pneumonia deaths for anomalies is the right thing to do?
Can it run Wolfenstein 3D and Duke Nukem?
> 1) a "dude" is gender and ageless, of no persuasion, has neither skin nor eye colour, and so on.

In that case, s/dude/person/g

Language affects thought, right?
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This is the answer. It isn’t easy – it’s like quitting smoking in that way – but you have to take control of the input.

For me that means cutting out hyperbolic news sources like twitter, Reddit, definitely any cable news network or daily news broadcast of any kind. Apple News is also terrible in this regard; no matter how hard I try to curate, they’re always shoving celebrity gossip and MSNBC or Fox News headlines at me.

So it’s a daily struggle, but on my good days I check the New York Times and Hacker News once in the morning and in the evening. I have a couple of non-news blogs I subscribe to that I check via RSS feed, and then that’s it.

I donate what I can to political and charitable organizations. It’s important to stay informed, but unless you’re a reporter or working in crisis management for a political campaign, I don’t think there’s a purpose served by becoming outraged by every public statement by every dingaling politician or pundit.

I do 100% have a dog in this fight and care deeply about what’s happening in the world right now both in terms of the pandemic and in the shift toward far-right populism, but for me the strategy has to be: keep an eye on the general gist and direction of things and then act accordingly. Who needs help right now? Is there and action you can take?

This is obviously a “your mileage may vary” situation. Some folks are no doubt able to keep one eye on their Twitter feed and stay perfectly sane and productive, and more power to them, but I’m not one of them.
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Whiteboard coding isn't designed to find good all-round developers, it's designed to filter the candidate pool to decrease the likelihood of candidates being selected that don't have the necessary coding chops. Other aspects of the selection process check other aspects of the desired skill set.
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Finding an attenuated strain that spreads as easily but is less deadly does sound like our best hope. Such a strain would "crowd out" the deadly strain, effectively blocking it from causing harm.

If life was a Star Trek episode, Picard would be saying "Make it so" right about now.
The Netherlands is testing with plasma from a recovered patient right now:

Source: https://nos.nl/artikel/2330036-nederlandse-coronapatient-hee...

NB: I am NOT a microbiologist and do not know how far this is related.
Obviously, getting a randomly assigned call sign that happens to match your initials would be pretty rare. However, the FCC allows licensed holders who hold a General or above, to apply for a "vanity license" whereby a request is made for an unassigned or abandoned call sign on a first come, first serve basis. Abandoned call signs are those where the owner has either died or has not renewed their license for a period of 3 years following the expiration of the license. This is how I picked up my current call sign and I'm pretty sure that Joe Taylor got his this way.
The $1 cost of the ESP8266 makes it usable for throw-away devices. Want a device to sit in the bottom of every coffee cup and notify you when the coffee is cold...? ESP8266 might be doable, the ESP32 won't be unless your coffee is very expensive...
That's a lot of functionality! How are you handling it? I expect it to get worse as more and more electron apps keep showing up.
To be fair, the art market is just as flooded as the apps market these days. Moreover, art as a social endeavor still works as a ladder, so that you need to build credibility and authority day after day, before getting any pricetag on your works. The problem is not works collecting dust in studios, it is serious artists not being recognized because of the great great number of more vocal, self-aware and extrovert amateurs making all the noise. So my question is: are you just offering just another platform to everybody or are you aiming at a novel social discourse or movement while promoting your own artists in a coherent manner?
Right. E-ink ist really only for mostly static display. Thats why I think that for proper pdf-reading you would need an e-ink reader which can display the whole page at its original size, so roughly A4 sized. Even the 12.9" iPad Pro is a bit small for that, but at least it can quickly zoom and scroll.
Botanically it's a fruit. Culinary its uses are more aligned with those of a vegetable.

Fruits and vegetables aren't opposite things. Fruit is a term of art in botany, but it's lay usage is fairly close to that. The word vegetable can be fairly broad to include almost any edible part of a plant. This is why I'm a vegetarian and not a vegetarian and fruitarian.

Culinary vegetable is often used as a "soft opposite" of fruit because they often require different preparations and uses.

The interesting thing about "begs the question" is that it's a matter of who is doing the begging (asking). Classically your answer is asking for your premise, so you're sort of working backwards and likely circularly. In modern usage, the answer is asking for more research.

Sometimes people use it to mean dodging a question, which I'm not quite sure why and would consider wrong usage.
I'm doing it along with Ng's newer courses at the moment and I really like that he focuses on all the basics mathematically as well and not only conceptually which gives you a deeper understanding machine learning imo. However as others have said, the audio quality is subpar and personally I find it hard to motivate myself for the programming challenges in Octave. So my suggestion would be to just view the videos and take notes and then do the newer courses and their challenges.
In my mind javascript is so many layers removed from machine code that it would be insanely hard to even break out of the chrome sandbox let alone glean anything useful from other running processes.

Practically speaking, what is possible?
As tsimionescu points out, it's only read access. But to go further, in most Unix systems, the default is already to give most users read access to almost everything: default masks in the filesystem tend to be 755, and when it comes to inspecting data from other users, there's an awful lot you can figure out by default. Leaving aside the fact that many home computers are single-user in practice anyways.
> A recruiter I talked to a few years ago said she thinks its crazy we don't use an agency model for programmers like actors do. The idea there is that good programmers pay a small percentage of their salary to a manager, who's job is to find you the best roles that suit your skills and negotiate pay on your behalf and so on.

Such things do exist (at least in some form) but I haven't had a good experience. Same old story: like everyone else, they're looking for seniors, turning down juniors, and complaining about shortage of talent.
Most communities don't aspire to be the "greatest city in the world", especially given the criteria upon which NYC would win such a contest. Most people are more interested in living a peaceful secure life than having the prestige of hosting Wall Street or having the most fusion restaurants per square mile. The best cover ever put out by the New Yorker was on the March 29, 1976 issue that showed just how myopic the city can be in regards to the rest of the world.
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It is not hard to do the sequencing to find candidate attenuated strains (you are just looking for strains with deletions in key genes). The more difficult part is all the contact tracing in the area around where the strain is first found to check if the strain really is attenuated.

The ideal outcome is you find a strain with a deletion and you then test everyone in the area and you find 10,000 more people infected with the strain that have only a mild case and none of these people are in the hospitals. This strain would be very valuable to have.
Haha, I suppose that is what they were going for. I'll admit it's not for me. I definitely don't go poking around in my GRUB config very often, but, after reading the write ups others have posted, I did learn some new things, so there's that.

From other commenters:

https://linuxreviews.org/HOWTO_make_Linux_run_blazing_fast_(...

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/kernel-pa...
Also, the swift ABI [1] should make it fairly easy to distribute compiled networks, right?

[1] https://gankra.github.io/blah/swift-abi/
That's what I a am trying to add in next phase. The list of places and the available facility, at least in USA.
Here's some info on that from US FDA: https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/investigational...
then reading their past OSS / other work

A lot of people don't have any polished open source code. I have a lot of stuff on Github, but I wrote it for myself. I don't care if it brakes If I only using it once or twice a year.
It is a Medium blog. Its literally a Medium page, they just rely on other people's contributions which they have editors look over and then aggregate rather than produce their own. I suppose the editing process may help with quality some, but it really shouldn't be seen as much more than a typical blog.
Ok, but is that true of CS teaching? The best programmers I've worked with have mostly not had CS degrees (tended to have degrees in maths, physics, or that sort of area).
Uh, this was the first I'd heard about this setting, so I went ahead and tried it.

I don't know what's happening for you, but when I toggle that setting, full-screen becomes quite broken: https://i.ibb.co/7tJYHPf/Screen-Shot-2020-04-10-at-9-30-25-A... (Note all the empty space at the top and bottom.) Breaks the fullscreen animation too.

I don't have problems with the standard full screen in Firefox—I never knew it wasn't using the native mac method—although I only have one monitor.

The one big problem I do have with Firefox on Mac is that it intercepts the system keyboard shortcuts. So if you set up custom keyboard shortcuts in System Preferences for menu items, they won't work in Firefox.
Back around maybe 1988-9 I worked with a company that built the first big screen video card for the Mac 2. They went to Sony and said "we want to buy 15,000 monitors", they were humorously heavy 19 inch 1kx768 monitors, cost something like $5-10k.

Sony laughed at us, we'd never sell that many, besides (unlike TVs) they essentially made them by hand on a minimalist assembly line - we sold 25k that year.

It's the same chicken and egg thing there's not a lot of incentive to optimise the production costs until the volumes spike and that wont happen until the prices drop
If you know anyone working on my idea please let me know as I will update my blog post. Nothing would please me more than to learn that someone is already doing this on a serious level.
The most naive solution would be to run a nested framebuffer with just the meeting and the windows you would like to share.
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> how would they know someone is asymptomatic? afaik they are mostly testing people who have symptoms

There was literally a paper published yesterday (or the day before) on a blanket screen done on a population in germany to get some data on the undercount of asymptomatic cases. It was front page news on all the mainstream news sites...

I gotta be honest. This whole discussion has an "amateur hour" vibe. I have a hard time believing that professional academics in a long-established and very competetive field really failed to remember how the measles vaccine worked.

It's not that I think this is a bad idea, just that (1) it's almost certainly someone else's idea already, (2) is therefore probably harder to do than presented and (3) is thus not the magic bullet people are looking for.

To wit: stay the fuck home. Maybe someone will save us. They probably won't. We beat this with isolation or we wait for a vaccine.
The problem as I see it with focusing on history & people skills too much is a lot of the weak candidates are flat out lying about those kind of things.

I've interviewed more people in the last year than any previous year of my career. We found numerous candidates cheating on online coding tests. Weak candidates that fall flat on their face when asked to do something super simple like a FizzBuzz problem list massive accomplishments on their resumes. Often it seems like they are listing everything the team they worked on accomplished, not what they accomplished.

And the weak candidates frequently list things like "Expert at Spring Framework" or "Expert at J2EE". To be an expert on those things is very rare since they are enormous frameworks. Not many strong candidates will list themselves as experts on giant projects unless they were one of the founders of the project.

He is talking about filtering out developers with good technical skills who have other aspects of their personality/behavior that don't mesh with his business. But the bigger problem seems to be finding people who actually have real technical skills. The things he's worrying about are easier for management to correct/control.
This was my first thought as well. I use graphviz quite a lot for these sorts of diagrams, and I really like it. Their site, reference materials, etc. need updating though.
I was thinking of doing something like this the day before yesterday! I love your implementation! Extremely useful.

I actually wrote about the laborious effort to create a pseudo 'false document' by manually using Gimp on my blog; I wrote a very naive back-of-a-napkin pseudo algorithm... I was actually thinking about learning Gimp's Script-Fu to generate the signature with the Ink Tool.
Reading all the negativity here reminds me of the iPod reception back in 2001! This is prescient y’all. This is the technology future I want, not that dystopian blade runner world!
Part of this argument, for me at least, isn't number based. I'm of the opinion that culturally we put far too much value on being alive and far too little on quality of life. You can see it in our conversation (here most people just want to talk about death numbers), our laws (ie euthanasia is illegal), and our news cycles.

Everyone dies. All of humanity does not exist for most of the age of the universe, to say nothing of individuals. That's a trite thing to say but it is no less true. Not everyone gets to live a good life, even fewer in situations like this.

Our DNA wants to stay alive, the existential dread is understandable, but culturally I think we'd be a lot healthier if we put more value in quality of lives than the preservation of them. Now balancing this is not easy and I'm not saying in our current situation we should just lift all measures, but if framed that way the conversation starts to take on a different tone than just looking at potential death rates as the overall guiding function.
I see one potential drawback to this (as opposed to a vaccine), and that is the impossibility to protect immunodeficient subjects: if you have an effective vaccine you can be fairly certain that people with leukemia or full blown AIDS can be protected by herd immunity when surrounded by people who have been vaccinated. In this case it's not clear to me whether this would work. I have to say I'm no virologist, but I find the fact that this milder strain can still propagate on its own some kind of a double edged sword.

Maybe someone who knows more about this than I do could comment.
Org makes it very easy to export to multiple formats (including HTML). Definitely worth exploring, and definitely worth using emacs for :-)
Because the volumes are low. It's the same with any technology. High volumes = low cost, and vice-versa. When the manufacturing is geared up to produce enormous volumes and there's a bunch of competitors, the final product cost will be very low. When there's only one manufacturer and it's a niche product and there's very low demand, the cost is very high.
In principle, there is no reason why Electron must be so memory inefficient, right? We could optimize it in a way that it only loads resources it really needs. So in case of a video chat app, it would need video, audio, web RTC, a bit of HTML and JS. That should be possible to fit in a few MB of RAM. Only because Electron supports much more doesn't mean it must take so much memory.

Maybe it would make sense that we just focus on optimizing Electron for this case. That might take a bit of effort, but that effort might be worth it.
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In France it's slightly better but not smart in any sense.

It's as if the heavy infrastructure and "modern" tech blinded the common sense..
I am in an open source Christmas lights community that sources pixels from China. About a month and a half ago one of the Chinese vendors posted that the PRC is full steam ahead on Plasma therapy. He also stated his elderly father had gotten covid and was recovered within 24 hours.

It seems very promising.
Here's why selecting the entire URL is good.
The most common action performed with the URL bar is to search for something or to navigate. Selecting everything helps you type your search query without having to double click or triple click.

Can you describe your use-case? Why do you need to place the caret inside the address bar and not have it all selected? In the few cases where I want to copy/delete a part of the URL I can do a 2nd click after I clicked once.

Ever since I saw this behavior in Chrome I wanted it in all my browsers. I'm very glad Firefox copied this feature.
Population density and demographics vary widely between New York City and the farms upstate and the old steel towns in western New York State. Maybe we should make each mayor fight the virus alone since they know their community better than the governor? Big differences between Manhattan and Staten Island too, maybe each borough is on its own?
About halfway through reading that, I was thinking -- it would be fun to try and write this in Rust, and then i got to the bottom, and he had aleady done it. Much easier to read in rust.
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> I also wouldn't be surprised if your process isn't teetering on the illegal side. Not on purpose, but it might be accidentally favoring or disfavoring a race/gender.

Almost all processes do (though in this case, family status is probably the more relevant protected class it biases on.) That's not illegal, if it's sufficiently connected to the actual needs of the job, and they seem to have at least tried to evaluate that for their hiring process more than most places do, so they are probably less at risk of disparate impact discrimination than most hiring processes in tech.
> 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.

So, this doesn't seem like an approach that has a materially different desired effect from what we're already doing. The policy's goal is to achieve temporary shutdown of businesses and prevent transmission of the virus. You're just using a more convoluted, less effective route to get there. As an added drawback, limited liability almost guarantees that many companies would cease respecting the rules (since their value will be zero if they respect the rules, due to bankruptcy, it costs nothing to go about business as usual and just shut down if you get unlucky).

I guess what I was asking was whether you have any ideas that have any likelihood of being more effective than current approaches. I can think of dozens of things that would be less effective than what we are currently doing. That doesn't really help us very much, though.
Almost every single point in that sentence is a positive for the vast majority of users. We're power users, not the majority.
I expect this bump to be a dead cat bounce. Some people rushed back in thinking the bottom was passed. I think there will be a new bottom in the next 6 months. However, the companies that do survive this pandemic will be even stronger and more valuable. The FTC will allow all kinds of M&A activity when it should be going to bankruptcy instead. If people think Tech and FAANG dominated before, you ain't seen nothing yet.
> If indeed those numbers are comparable or the same, we've probably made a terrible mistake.

No, probably not. The seasonal flu infects a billion people a year, and still doesn't do things like collapse Italy's healthcare system.
Yes, but the chances are very low that the someone is you if you're using a recent browser version (I'd say not cutting edge, but recent). Probably far, far lower if you use uBO or similar. On Linux, at home, they're probably infinitesimal unless you're being targeted.
When all you have is a neoliberal hammer...
jeez, I submitted this 44 days ago and got no traction, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22420685

oh well! It's a cool project!
I don't know about OP, but I know in my city (Boston), there was a 5 month waiting period for access to a therapist -- and that was _before_ COVID hit. Lots of us would love to speak with a mental health professional, especially in these trying times, but it's unfortunately not always possible.

Like OP, I'm looking for strategies to help self-cope, as that's the only way forward for many of us for now.
Show us a shred of evidence attacks via javascript are viable using these vulnerabilities.

I run ScriptBlock anyway, so it's even less of a concern for me.
I don’t see that any regulatory authority would approve something that is capable of spreading, regardless of the possible benefits: it would violate medical ethics. Reread the Belmont Report.

There are many teams all over the world that are looking for less deadly (and more deadly!) strains to guide development of therapies. They’re too busy right now to post on message boards or speak to reporters. It’s however extremely unlikely that a less deadly strain will become the therapy, although it could be the basis of a therapy (but I think this too is unlikely).