skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
iPhones don't have Bluetooth 5.1 yet, and I'm assuming no Android phones either.
I find running GUI GNU Emacs over X11 over ssh to be really pleasant, even moreso than using tramp (which occasionally hangs for no understandable reason), with the only problem being that highlighting text is a bit slow and balky. Otherwise, it's indistinguishable from a local Emacs in responsiveness.
I switched to Firefox for tab containers but they are seriously broken. Ctrl shift t just opens a random tab. With this most recent update, opening something in the current container rather than the preferred container still opens it in the preferred container.
Side note of Firefox 74 or 75, not sure when it started: close a tab where you had clicked on at least a link so you have some tab history and reopen it with cmd + shift + t: the last page you visited is lost!

Is it only me or others too? It's so annoying.
I think this is just false. If you have more than 2 people I think there will be some bridge which picks the speaker and downscales other video feeds
I am only half joking, but I can see advertising already. "Make money the way insiders do".
But why though. It’s a terrible way to write code.
When it's like, a couple months, or even a year or so, sure, the past might not have much to tell you. But it's been twenty -five years. Even if you start at DNSSECbis, it's been almost 20 years since the typecode roll. At some point, ignoring the past stops being such a prudent strategy.
Of course you can do BLE scanning in the background on iOS. It works much better than Android and is very reliable.
These responses cast serious doubt on some of your earlier comments.
One issue I see is that when I query the central repository of infected IDs I expose to the central server the IDs I've been in contact with (unless I always download all of them, but that doesn't seem feasible).

It seems like this could be solved by providing a K-anonymous query interface like the one exposed by Have I Been Pwned. I wrote to the contact email address of Pepp-Py, which is a European initiative do develop a system that seems pretty much the same as this, suggesting this, but I got no answer (not that I was really expecting one).
The backpack works because it's not just black and it actually includes some adversarial input ("fake" license plates). A Vantablack poncho wouldn't protect you more than a regular poncho with no distinguishing patterns. The image recognition wouldn't really latch on to creases in your clothes to perform recognition. Your face would still be visible and there's nothing about solid black that further confuses the AI behind the system, there are far better adversarial examples for that.
Except that eInk has been around for decades without much breakthrough you'd see in even LCD/OLED technologies. This cannot be easily explained off as lack of R&D investment. IMHO the scalability is the biggest hurdle. That, and the lack of even basic coloring, let alone full CMYK.
> Technically, a stock that never issues a dividend or buyback (direct or via aquisition) has no intrinsic value to the shareholder.

False, the intrinsic value of the share is the claim on assets of the corporation in the event of dissolution. Dividends and buybacks are different ways on which a firm performs a limited dissolution while remaining a going concern (chartering a corporation for a closed-ended purpose and dissolving it when that purpose is complete is also a way for investors to realize value, and it's still done, though mostly with LLCs rather than corporations in the narrow sense these days, and even moreso not with publicly traded corporations though there is no legal reason why it couldn't be.)
I wish this process was called 'factoring' and you had to be able to name the concept that was being isolated. Often 'refactoring' just means moving code around or isolating code for it's own sake. If a factor was properly isolated you shouldn't have to do that one again. Sometimes you choose different factors, but that's much less common.
I could see this being a sub plot in a modern day Seinfeld.

Kramer buys one - or sells them? Things go sideways.
none of the proposed tracking methods are without additional battery consumption, as far as I can tell..
> The categories of people you mention that shouldn't be counted... all of those people live in and have an effect on society.

Those people are counted. I'm not sure why you're flaming someone attempting to educate you about how they are counted. Hint: it takes more than one number, and, the government publishes more than one number.
You could imagine a case though where if you took noise cancelling away then people would turn up the volume to drown out the background noise.
"If you want to restrict the rights afforded by the 2nd amendment, would you like to restrict some others too? After all, the "freedom of the press" was designed at a time when newspapers were literally printed on a printing press. The founders couldn't have imagined the internet, so do people really need access to such a powerful way of disseminating information?"

Slippery slope. Keep talking about how you're fine with some people killing other people but not different people killing other people, it's a philosophical point and has something resembling a legs and not a total logical fallacy.
Wow, yeah, I haven't seen marketing self-ownage like that since ARM inadvertently put RISC-V on everybody's road map.

"Well, sure, but" isn't something you see every day in a competitive context...
Of course there may not be a strain with the right mutations out there, but should this be a reason for not looking. Nobody has been systematically looking for less dangerous strains (that I know of). My proposal is we look given it will be quick and cheap.
Some defiant US churches plan Easter services, ignoring public health guidelines
In an ideal world, Haskell would have a uniqueness type ala Clean or Idris which would allow for ‘in-place’ mutations of array and retain referential transparency.
I'm pretty sure I've told this story on HN before. When I was a wee lad we took a school trip to the Enrico Fermi nuclear plant South of Detroit.

We saw a movie where they talked about the future which showcased nuclear powered cars. They may have even used the Ford design but I no longer remember. After the tour they had a Q&A so I asked about the validity of nuclear powered automobiles. What happens in the event of a bad crash? Do we just not use that particular intersection for the next hundred years?

The guy absolutely mocked me and was very derisive. On the ride home I will never forget the teacher told me that I'd asked a legitimate question and the guy was totally out of line. I think at the time I was maybe 8-9 years old.
Same! I built one in my backyard a couple of months ago, and it was one of the most gratifying things I've ever done! I highly recommend it to anyone if you're willing to put in some hard work. Pics https://imgur.com/a/11ECQWK
If you would like to try to get "the new normal" to show up faster, I suggest you focus on solutions.

If you want to be part of the solution and are looking for a startup idea, I have tried repeatedly over the years to suggest that we can try to develop gig work platforms that are actually a good deal for the worker. I work for such a platform and I've written about that (again) here:

https://writepay.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-textbroker-solutio...

Discussed on HN and some of the comments there are important: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22734447

Edit: And if you do create a gig work platform based roughly on the Textbroker model, you are invited to post the announcement to r/GigWorks. I'm the mod there.
> If a factor was properly isolated you shouldn't have to do that one again.

This assumes that later code changes don't undo/blur the factoring, which while ideal is not at all consistently the case in the real world.

Refactoring is a little over arrow of a name, because code hygiene is more than just isolating factors, but the “re” part is right because you are always aiming to remove infelicities that were actively added in previous coding.
There is the RoboCup [1], most participants are (post)graduate students or alumni. The competition is more focused on the academic aspect with a conference in the end.

[1]: https://www.robocup.org/
Thanks for sharing! It such a great idea :-)
Talking with my wife (SLP) she observed how important is interactive reading and I was wondering if you had that planned or if open sourcing this was an option so I could contribute to something like that.

Just as a reference, some therapy platforms allow the users to draw on the book, or put stickers and such... and even though this is not full-blown therapeutic, being able to draw (a transparent HTLM canvas on top of the image? websockets communicating x,y?) would add a lot to this, I think.

Thanks for sharing!
> I never found reviewing take home interviews to be a great indicator of skill level. It’s hard to know how long was really spent on it, and how much the candidate used resources etc to guide them. Are they a great candidate that cut corners, or a less experienced candidate that used stackoverflow + 10 extra hours to get to a final result.

If you just evaluate them based on their code you doing it wrong. You should organize an in-person code review. Where you ask: Why they do what? How would they improve their code? If something is not right, point out. Look at them how they react. Good candidates usually try to fix it. Bad team players usually defend their implementation until the end. It really easy to find out if they just copy-pasted some code without understanding it.
So it's treason by association then?
We don't. The primary transmission path is droplets through people in close contact (less than two meters, inhaling aerosols etc..). There is no current evidence that people simply walking past each other can somehow infect others at a meaningful rate, and surface tranmission is negligible as well.

See most recent results from the German researchers in Heinsberg.
Not sure about the first part, but to answer your question about the Pelosi example: The idea was that she and her husband accepted preferential access to Visa shares during IPO in exchange for delaying a bill that was set to pass by 2 years, thereby benefiting from 2 years of share price growth, not to mention a lower share price penalty given Visa had years more time to prepare for it. Did I do a good enough job articulating that without a diagram?
That doesn't answer the question, of course; it's just a sales pitch for the proverbial tiger-proof rock. To reiterate: how long does s/he have to spend on a shady site before a successful SPECTRE exploit takes place?

If this were actually happening in the real world, maybe we'd know.

But it's not, so we don't, and life goes on.

Albeit slowly.
Right, and IMHO by the time they're old enough to start circumventing the filters then they're old enough to see the content. It's a self-enforcing gate. You're not mature enough to see the content until you're mature enough to circumvent the filters :D
I seriously hope this begins to become a fashion trend in the near future. I don't see why one of the more out-there fashion designers wouldn't pick it up.
They sell this now! https://getjoan.com/shop/joan-home
> "inhouse" is probably still a no-bid buddy contract with a large defense corporation

So... way to move the goalposts, there.
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> I honestly wish we could retroactively imprison them for doing this.

Imprisonment is long and expensive. Just water-board them for a few weeks, record them saying they'll never do it again, and send them off with a some self help books on how not to be a piece of shit. They'll probably thank you later.

EDIT: I'm now laughing about a self-help book titled: "So you just got water-boarded by an angry mob. Now what?"
The STOCK Act (or Ethics in Government Act, actually) only requires reporting within 30-45 days of purchase/sale, so your fund will lag behind whatever market-moving events they're trading on.
It's about maintaining an R0 < 1 after social distancing is relaxed. Without contact tracing we're destined for a cycling of lockdowns until we have a vaccine.
Nice set of links. Do you know much about the site thoughtmaybe.com? Seems interesting but I am always wary of sites like these with subscription links and unclear provenance of the videos they use.

For what it's worth, here are some links to Adam Curtis videos on the Internet Archive and a bonus link to Curtis chatting with the director of the Dick Cheney biopic "Vice," Adam McKay.

https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Adam%20Cur...

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jan/18/adam-curtis-and...
Thank you. This is the core of it[1], IMO:

> Back in the day, we’d spin up a microservice that did one, small thing just like that. We had a bunch of small services built and maintained by one person. This was great for autonomy, iteration speed, learning and making devops a no-brainer. You could spin up a service anytime: but you’d be oncall for it.

> Now, as my area is maturing and it’s easier to look ahead, as we create new platforms, we’re doing far more thoughtful planning on new services. These services don’t just do one thing: they serve one business function. They are built and maintained by a team (5-10 engineers). They are more resilient and get far more investment development and maintenance-wise than some of those early microservceis.

[1] https://lobste.rs/s/mc3k1c/at_uber_we_re_moving_many_our
>Clothes change much slower than software updates,

I change my clothes at least once a day and add to my wardrobe on a ~weekly to ~monthly basis. Having been party to large system upgrades at even a reasonably competent company, I'd be shocked to find out that any surveillance system anywhere is matching that velocity.
Ask HN: H-1B/J-1/TN applicants, are you affected by the current US govt policy?
As a Canadian who is supposed to intern in the summer on a J-1, it looks grim as my host company is moving to remote only, and I likely won't be able to get a visa due to this change.

How are your visa applications affected? Is there any solution to work around this?
I'd like my government census/statistics agencies to present the raw data, instead of editorializing it. There's plenty of pundits and elected officials who are quite happy to provide the latter service.
Given the way they are pushing the systems they control to the breaking point for the sake of ever-more-marginal gains in their already staggering wealth and power, it's harder and harder to view elites as any more rational than the masses.
A pandemic and a recession
I'm saying rebase --onto is doable in Fossil. Whether it's built-in is another question.
You were scooped in 1985... https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F3-540-15975-4_33

Note that Philip Wadler was active in the Haskell committee. Early versions of Haskell did use a system like that. It was too error-prone. Monadic IO turned out to be theoretically equivalent, but without the easy ways to break it. See https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/... for more details.
Same here, except I'm using a Keurig machine now. Not great, but good enough. Starbucks drive thru is open, but I'm not waiting in a line for 20 minutes. It's not worth the time or the risk.

Maybe I only do Starbucks 2x a week when things go back to normal. In general, I'm eating less crap, exercising more, lost about 8 pounds so far. I'm physically healthier than a month ago. Mentally, that's a different story...
Kind of weird title. Of all the private air forces, one has to be the most advanced. And it will be owned by somebody.

I guess the title is saying that it's specifically a male adult?
SARS-CoV-2: A Research Guide
How has your experience with LiveView been?
The title is editorialized.

The quote is “...And so now people realise, OK, there really is a meaningful probability every 20 years or so with lots of world travel that one of these [viruses] will come along...”
Of course, if it was actually distributed to people who needed it to spend, it would cause massive inflation. This way most of the money never gets spent, and demand never goes up.

Not that it's a good thing, just saying.
Jitsi being open source removes a lot of that scare.
Fantastic organization. My son is on a team that qualified from the MA state finals but sadly (and understandably) 'Worlds' was cancelled.
>I was just saying that that risk isn't new.

every new method of geo-tracking is a new risk because it provides yet another hole for politicians to legally exploit into a privacy concern.

Speaking about the US -- GPS and tower-tracking pose many of the same risks, but since the legal mandates were discussed at different parts in history, their legal allowed uses are different from one another.

If yet another geo-tracking capability comes online that just allows legislators to put forward legislation that will allow them to abuse that specific technology rather than the previous ones that allow them the same access, but were mandated more responsibly.

In other words : each new law has to be inspected from so many angles that eventually the angles will exceed the inspection ability, and our privacy will dwindle without much argument as we'll be unable to modify legislation quickly enough to keep up with tracking technologies; this seems to be on purpose and being abused actively in the United States.
This is a complicated topic with no single right answer because the situation involves so many factors. Here's a few things to keep in mind. First, if the company truly only values those who overwork, it may be signs of a somewhat toxic environment and may be a reason to look around. Not saying it must be, there's a lot of other factors. Even a company that values overworking could be a good place to stay for other reasons too. I wanted to state this early and get this out of the way first (just so I can clarify that I don't discount the possibility that the company can be bad).

Then, you can also try to understand what the company leadership truly values. In my experience, most company leaderships truly value impact, not working hours, but it's easy to conflate or even confuse the two; it's even possible that leadership values impact but to other regular employees it may look like they value hours.

In my own experience, companies and leadership that I worked for usually value impact; and over the years, what I've gathered is that the best way to make good impact to the business is to truly understand the business and domain knowledge deeply and communicate effectively, as an engineer. I'm nearing my late 30s with a young kid now and had similar thoughts as you a few years ago. It turns out ultimately what employers care about isn't the amount of hours I put in; but rather if I understand the business and domain deeply, I can correctly spend my time on the most impactful things; and can communicate these things effectively. I have hardly ever worked over hours in my past 2 years at my current company; and am still highly valued.

On a totally different note though, it is also worth considering taking up a less intense role (if that truly is a problem at your current place) during the first year or two of your fatherhood. It's well worth the break time from developing your career to spend much needed time with family instead -- not just the baby, but your spouse who'll no doubt need you to be there for very much. Part of my reasoning to switch away from my last job was for this; and it just so happened that I also ended up at a good (remote) company that isn't all about working hours but good impact.
I'm not sure where you get the source the covid19 is no deadlier than the flu as that seems to be thoroughly debunked at this point
Thanks! I guess I had been misinformed on that. I was also probably thinking of the RemoteFX stuff, like GPU and media redirection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RemoteFX
ANC works on the level of physics, not just perception -- it attenuates the actual sound waves.
New IRS Site Could Make It Easy for Thieves to Intercept Some Stimulus Payments
Isn't that mostly because modern apps have richer textures and high resolution, high bit depth images by comparison?
> The flu mutates regularly, and there's a ton of strains.

... which a substantial fraction of the population is immune to. Only 5-20% of the population gets the flu each year. CoVID-19 will infect 60-70% of the population, at a minimum, unless measures are taken to contain its spread.

> Results showed 0.37% mortality rate, which is an order of magnitude lower than the fatality rates being published

I've seen most people assuming a mortality around 1%, which is not that far off from these results. In Italy, 1% may well be correct, given how the healthcare system was overwhelmed there.

> I'd suggest that the actual mortality rate of my plan would be incredibly low.

If you can successfully shield the entire at-risk population, which easily approaches half the population of many countries. Once you add up old people, obese people, people with diabetes, smokers, people with heart conditions, and all the other at-risk groups, you come to a sizeable fraction of the total population. Trying to shield those people while the virus infects most of the rest of the population sounds incredibly risky to me. It's not even obvious that you can achieve natural herd immunity without at-risk people getting sick, because you need 60-70% of the population to get sick.

Overall, I don't understand the motivation behind such a risky plan. Why not just go through a 6-week period of lockdown, and then control the epidemic afterwards with extensive testing, good contact tracing and social distancing measures? Countries other than the US appear to be successfully implementing this strategy. Some, such as South Korea, were acted competently enough that they didn't even require the lockdown phase.
It's very clear (Dutch study yesterday as an example) that this is much more widespread than current surveillance is capturing. Which means it's both milder and will become increasingly hard to transmit with the same R0. Bringing the economy back to some degree is clearly sensible if you already reached unmitigated spread. In Lombardy region of Italy for example, 70% of blood donors have antibodies, so they essentially have herd immunity due to unmitigated spread despite lockdowns. Spain seems like it experienced something similar in places, so might as well go back to work and work on normalizing instead of more shelter in place pain.
Thank you for sharing this link. Somehow I've never stumbled upon it. I am a big fan of Feynman ( his book were invaluable when I was studying physics in the university )
That doesn't make what I'm saying un-true. 20% of the population getting it is enourmous and demonstrates that the effect of herd immunity on the flu is negligible. At 20% infection rate annually after a few years, everyone's had it. But due to the virus propensity to mutate, we don't see herd immunity for the flu. Each new strain resets the counters.

We would see it for COVID. And chances are 15% of us have already had it according to the Gangelt survey.
Japan has $1.2 Trillion worth of U.S. treasury bonds. I wonder what will be their next move if the U.S. dollar weakens.
Recently read this after seeing your recommendation on the Project MKULTRA thread. Very entertaining and eye opening, appreciate you pointing me to it.
I've personally never seem them say "the language is done, you can expect no breaking changes". Hence the fact that it is v0.19
Re: letting them go...
I guess it depends on how you use chat. For us, most conversations in Braid are bonafide work conversations that are important and can't be skipped (ex. we run our board meetings asynchronously via Braid, discuss major product decisions, etc.)

The way I see most Slack used most of the time, though -- as a digital watercooler -- I can see why it's fine to skip most conversations.

Re: tech; it's clojurescript front-end; clojure backend.