skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this sort of discussion also happens with the CPI. There are a whole bunch of CPI indexes, with energy, without energy, etc. And then people make a big deal about the shortcomings of one of them that they chose to focus on. If you say, well, the CPI that includes everything, includes everything, then the response can easily be what you are saying about U-3.

I tend not to blame authorities for ignorance, because it seems to me ignorance is not passive; it evolves to extreme levels of resistance.
I informed my supervisor that a lockdown was imminent and that we should prepare for it, e.g. set up users' VPNs, do a test run to identify needs, etc. My supervisor told me to mind my own business and not encroach on her authority, in writing.

The stay at home orders came in two days later.

She violated the order a number of times because she had no readiness for remote working. She forced a number of staff to violate it as well.

My employer is not an essential business.
Even if the vaccine is available now, it took more than a year to mass-produce it and distribute to everyone in the world.
HN hive mind: At what point are there sufficient numbers of survivors to establish herd immunity and get some semblance of normalcy?
> There's no you were rigorous enough in tracking this for this statement to be useful to anyone.

Sure, but has anyone claiming the opposite done rigorous analysis? Is there any evidence that having a CS degree makes for better programmers than not?

> The people who don't fit the mold stand out.

I'm not thinking about people who stood out as particularly unusual. Most of the time I didn't find out which field someone's degree was in until months into working with them.
Killing the elephant in the room - the userspace low memory handler ability to gracefully handle low memory pressure
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/ee6szk/killing_the_e... - The discussion was three months ago
It’s nowhere near as difficult to make as the article may imply, though. Yes, that first-generation route is quite a doozy, involving some harsh conditions (multiple steps at -78° C, which is actually not as difficult to carry out at the bench as it sounds) and nasty reagents, especially n-BuLi, which explodes into flames upon exposure to air. But it’s fairly easy to carry out on a small scale in a typical med chem lab. If you’re a medicinal chemist and need to make limited amounts, say, maybe in the hundreds of milligrams—which would probably be far more than enough to do preclinical studies—then that route will do. But it definitely can’t be scaled up easily to multi-thousand gallon chemical reactors, although like the article says, that’s where the process chemists come in. The second-generation route looks much better, and I’m sure it’s already being optimized even further.
Really cool idea. I've been thinking a lot about how to have a party online (zoom parties are inevitably terrible), and this seems like a great step towards recreating real-world social experiences
Spot on. I’m happy that so many folks are using the First Amendment to demand liberty in (often) civil discussions online, but to quote the immortal Dave Chappelle, “The Second Amendment is just in case the First one doesn’t work out.”
Alternative less interesting title:

> Private security company takes over as leader in air capability after recent asset purchase
How to Use Spring Projections(DTO) and Cross Joins
Have you tried FreeRDP's Thincast Workstation (based on VirtualBox)?

http://www.freerdp.com/2019/02/20/hi-thincast-workstation

I know it's still in beta, but it was originally released two years ago and I'm still not able to boot ubuntu's mini.iso installation media in this graphics-optimized version of VirtualBox.

Interested also if anyone who has been able to get Thincast workstation to boot linux can compare it to a Hyper-V linux virtual machine connected to X410 through VSOCK:

https://x410.dev/cookbook/hyperv/using-x410-with-hyper-v-lin....

VSOCK could improve RDP latency since it should be faster than a localhost network socket.
very cool, thanks for sharing!
Yeah right, databases, app servers, network systems etc all run in a browser.
How to Exploit Spring Projections and Join Unrelated Entities in Hibernate 5.1
The DJIA is comprised of 30 companies, it’s not a very good option for this.
Does the town have any nursing homes? Those are accounting for a large percent of deaths in the United States. (Around 20% in California). If a small town has already shipped its least healthy population away, its IFR will look lower.
Show HN: Spatially aware group video calls from the browser
I still wish they would recommend old and immunocompromised to stay locked up and let the young and fit out. It’s the only way out of the situation.
16 byte keys for a quarter million people are only 4mb per day.

We aren’t seeing remotely close to a quarter million infections per day. The data sizes are reasonable, even if you multiply it times n days for the backward tracing.

I think his post is a little bit more fearmongering than is necessary.
Greetings in the Time of Covid-19
Looks pretty good! The Pixelfed aggregator seems more useful than the Mastodon aggregator to me, because most of the Mastodon posts are in languages I can't read, but I can look at all of the pretty Pixelfed pictures no matter the language ;-)

Are you going to release the source code?
I think we need to shoot for "a new normal" where better cultural germ control practices are a more normal part of the world.

In which case, we don't need to shoot for herd immunity. We just need to shoot for "Hey, stupid, don't do stuff like blow your nose at the restaurant table or conference table, good god."
So if a wealthy person flew it one day a week for 8hrs, we are around $8m annual. For high net worth that's realistic. Cheap than a lot of super yachts on the 10% running cost rule. And likely would fly less.
How do you distinguish between ones that don't match because they're invalid or ones that don't match because the algorithm didn't properly process the image?
Facts About Covid: Swiss Propaganda Research
I'm not sure what that would add when his point is that if people were anywhere near rational about this, there would be no need for such a podcast because these would already be features of our democracy, demanded by the people.
Google Extends Free Paid Features of Hangouts Meet Until the End of September
Which frontier would that be?
English does have a subjunctive mood for counterfactuals like this, to keep people from thinking that you mean the vaccine actually is available or was mass-produced in the past. The sentence would be more grammatical like this:

"Even if the vaccine were available now, it would take more than a year to mass-produce it..."
The threat model you sound concerned about could easily be mitigated in several ways. Use a proxy/VPN/TOR to visit the site, don't sign up for the email list. Maybe use a spare email address? I'd assume the email list is just alerts for new documentaries. News letters and email sign ups are extremely common?

Why does this site look like a honey pot?

Paradoxical intentions? Can you clarify what by visiting a website, you'd have "so much to lose"? That seems excessively paranoid.

I'm not involved with thoughtmaybe.com - if there were any other website hosting Adam Curtis films, please feel free to share.
At about 60-80% immunity you gain herd immunity and the expected infection chain length is less than 2.
It does, but applied in reverse. Check the Legacy Photos video for examples.
Feynman did not return to Cornell. Bacher, who had been instrumental in bringing Feynman to Cornell, had lured him to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Part of the deal was that he could spend his first year on sabbatical in Brazil.[123][108] He had become smitten by Mary Louise Bell from Neodesha, Kansas. They had met in a cafeteria in Cornell, where she had studied the history of Mexican art and textiles. She later followed him to Caltech, where he gave a lecture. While he was in Brazil, she taught classes on the history of furniture and interiors at Michigan State University. He proposed to her by mail from Rio de Janeiro, and they married in Boise, Idaho, on June 28, 1952, shortly after he returned. They frequently quarreled and she was frightened by his violent temper. Their politics were different; although he registered and voted as a Republican, she was more conservative, and her opinion on the 1954 Oppenheimer security hearing ("Where there's smoke there's fire") offended him. They separated on May 20, 1956. An interlocutory decree of divorce was entered on June 19, 1956, on the grounds of "extreme cruelty". The divorce became final on May 5, 1958.[124][125]

Obviously, Wikipedia isn't a reliable source, but it's not particularly contested that Feynman was a wife-beater to Wife No. 2.
> I find that there's a borderline self-contradictory aspect of hacker culture. While we romanticize the concept of the 10x programmer, which is an individual of genius, our culture also stresses the concept of autodidacticism. Teach yourself to code. Just use MOOCs. Build it yourself. Hack on an open source project. So there's this tension between valorizing the inborn superhuman and the belief that it's possible to reach greatness- though perhaps not 10x greatness- by pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.

Those seem like orthogonal aspects. If we stressed the idea that you had to do (say) a 4-year degree at a great university, or something akin to the bar exam, would that be any more compatible with the idea that some people are 10x better than others? If anything I'd say the opposite: we'd expect most of the Harvard graduating class to be on roughly the same level, it seems a lot less wild that some self-taught people could be 10x better than others.

> So all of this, buttressed by real world labor demands, create incentives for people to try to become programmers. Even those who aren't "cut out to be programmers." Our increasingly cutthroat and unequal society also incentivizes people shifting to programming as a safe career choice. "Learn to code."

This happens in every field though? You get people who are desperate to become a doctor and apply to med school year after year, despite being completely unsuited to it. You get people who insist they're gonna make it as an actor/musician/comedian and spend decades working crappy day jobs so they can live where the action is, when really they'd be better advised to pick a career they're good at.

> I don't know how we can stop "pretending otherwise." Tech companies continue to complain about the engineering talent shortage. Bootcamps and online courses continue to promise people that they can become that talent. There aren't any agreed-upon industry standards by which to exclude people who truly aren't fit for it. FAAMG has infinite money and power in the industry to continue their entrenched practices. Most startups cargo cult the leading megacorps' processes. So instead, candidates are encouraged to continue grinding Leetcode and apply, apply again.

Well, if we told people outright that programming is a matter of IQ, and gave an actual IQ test rather than an IQ-like test in interviews, that might help some people realise it's not for them. You're right that what catches on in the industry is largely a function of what the most successful companies pick, but ultimately that list of top companies is not static and we'd hope that companies with better hiring practices will (eventually) rise to the top.
The idea is that nobody ever shares who they were close to. Think of it as walking around in a mask, then if you were sick you opt in to being on a list so everyone knows they may have been exposed if they saw someone in "a pink fox mask."

Your identity is pseudorandomly generated and cycles every 15 minutes, so you won't be identifiable/trackable - until you choose to share you were sick, and release the inputs to the KDF publicly. A third party app determines who can share they were sick, but the OS appears to require user consent before your information can be shared.

Even then, the people who did see you haven't shared any information.

The biggest vector of privacy abuse IMHO is that once you have opted in to letting an app check whether you had contact with an affected person, the app is responsible for behavior - informing you, helping you schedule testing, or potentially more abusive behavior like informing you and the state of a mandatory quarantine.
It would be a good start if we vaccinated high risk groups. They account for almost all the severe cases.
I think the OP may have just made a mistake. As a native speaker, his sentence is wrong. "It took" is perfect paste tense. I think their intent was to say "It will have taken, (future perfect), or "it will take" (simple future).
There are still frontier nations out there. Russia, Greenland, Outback Australia, the Canadian Territories. Perhaps Alaska.

But the continental US is a developed land with dense cities. Your idea of what your liberties should be don't justify the drastic externalities you will inflict on your neighbors.
Forgive my slight exaggeration for dramatic effect. But the point still stands.
The problem is the pathological users ARE the active, participating userbase, the site is built on their input to cater to them and their desires.

Its the same reason that online communities almost inevitably degrade over time, they optimize for the most active, loudest users above everything else, which is not necessarily the path to a better community.
It doesn’t need to be everyone involved in opting in to tracing, or everyone notified to comply with the self-isolation recommendations to reduce the r0. It works even with only partial penetration of the populace.
A good read.

I didn't realise that Tom's Diner is Monk's Cafe from Seinfeld.

Also, just had a look at it on gmaps; got a kick out of seeing Penske trucks around it.
Closing schools before the summer break might end up actually leading to more deaths, because young folks would develop immunity (relatively) safely while among their peers. Although this probably applies more to colleges and boarding schools. And if anything the less healthy teachers could have been sent home.
No it can't be a calculated risk because we don't know the probability distribution without the proper clinical trials.
Actually, you are taking a giant gamble with not vaccinating as well. You can, in fact, assign probabilities based on historical data. Epidemiologists do this all the time. To pretend probabilities don’t work in epidemiology means you don’t understand either probability or epidemiology.

There is no safe option. Every option will kill some people. Your goal is to minimize the expected number of deaths as best you can. That’s just the way it is. That may mean doing nothing OR it may mean finding a way to accelerate a vaccine program OR some combination of expanded early access with careful monitoring to stepped expansion of the treatment access.
Yep, plenty of ways to be sarcastic, hostile and smarmy without triggering some neural net.
> Eventually it gets to someone who actually does the work for $55/hr or less.

In my observation, after 5-10 layers of indirection, it eventually ends up overseas with a young foreign national who makes $3 an hour and absolutely does not have the required security clearance.
In addition to trading windows and material information rules, my company has a blanket rule that the company stock cannot be shorted nor can derivatives of any kind be used on it. Additionally it warns that this rule may also apply to ETFs containing a high enough proportion of the stock (leaving unspecified what the max allowed proportion would be, but noting that derivatives/shorting a total market index fund is allowed).
> Both Apple and Google have the exact location for all users for all time.

This is a false statement. With location services off, the providers only get coarse location via tower strengths and also via IP geolocation (everything phones home and leaks your IP constantly). It’s not exact, not by a long stretch.
From a perspective of what we do in real life, I think looping and recursion are the same thing. Pound 100 fence posts into the ground is either "do this, then loop back and do it again until some stop point" (iterative) or "the base case is no posts left where you stop, otherwise pound the current posts into the ground" recursive.

Recursive has the advantage that when you use the tools for it, recursive is easier to read. If I see e.g. a map, I know we're converting a collection of things to some other things without restriction. With a look, I just have to read through it to see what it's doing.
Made this to try and simulate real world interactions - normally I found on large video calls, only one person gets to speak. With this you can dip in and out of conversations with groups of people just by moving your avatar towards or away from them!

It also uses modern web technologies and does not even need a login, just show it your face and it will try and use emojis to tell people what you're doing even if you're not in a call with them
No criticism of TACP intended, but I don't think you would find it very helpful in learning "how to program like the pioneers did in the old days." I don't remember too many of my older colleagues in the 1980s having copies of Knuth. It was something you might encounter among computer scientists, but not day-to-day working programmers. We rarely thought about algorithms in that way when we were building business systems. If we did need an algorithm (maybe to sort some customer records that were stored on tape) we would dig out the IBM or DEC binders and look up the system call that we were supposed to use.

I suspect that programmers who have grown up in the era of the PC would be surprised at how much the vendors supplied. The IBM mainframes came with huge libraries of software and documentation. I remember being given a UNIX box for a project at the telco where I worked, and being a little surprised at how little was included compared to the IBM or DEC machines of the day.

There certainly were some good programmers around, but a lot of "development" consisted of taking a copy of some existing COBOL program and tweaking a few things to create a new report. Out of two or three years of working in COBOL, I don't think I ever wrote a program completely from scratch. As a creative outlet, it was much more interesting to work in C and try to figure out how the guys at Bell Labs were doing things. Those are the shoulders that many of us stand on today.
Public safety is not a human right, while privacy is.

If we abandon our commitments to human rights in times of crisis, how important are they to us, really?
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> Your idea of what your liberties should be don't justify the drastic externalities you will inflict on your neighbors.

With respect, that’s up to my neighbors, not the government.
Sounds like a new concept. Has anyone ever tried this approach of a virtual real-life emulating community with video calls?

A lot of community building questions still apply though and I'd love to see them answered. How do you plan to deal with nefarious characters or just general sexually motivated trolls (if any)? Is there moderation of some kind? Community rules in general? Sign up integration in the future? I couldn't find it on the home page (though I may be thinking too much about it - the whole purpose of this might be a 'real' virtual world with sign-ups being a redundancy)

Either way, do not, in any way take my comment to be nit picky or leaning towards the critic side - I'm a genuinely interested user. Just an inquisitive one :) All the best.
You'd be surprised. There's vast land west of the Mississippi that is still rugged and relatively undeveloped. I speak more in terms of the frontier mindset, but I digress.
Will We Forgive Amazon When This Is Over?
I also wrote a very simple model of infection growth based on a system of non-linear differential equations [1]. My model has not at all followed the curve of the real infection in the US. John’s model is looks much more sophisticated.
[1] https://github.com/eggsactly/corona/blob/master/corona.py
Yeah it is crazy to hear some people work 60h as the norm and 80h, wtf?

I've done a couple of 50-60h stints in my career for rolling out a big project globally or things like that and I was... absolutely... exhausted and drained.

I couldn't think straight, I was being rude to people I love.

To think that people can actually put this amount of hours constantly (am talking 60h!!!) is mind blowing. Maybe my brain is just different and it can't do more than the regular hours.
I used it in CS grad school in the early 70's. I have both books on it, including "The Macro Implementation of SNOBOL4."

I used it to write a go-moku (5-in-a-row) playing program in an AI course and got an A when it beat the professor.
"How many people die in any given place is now directly a result of the containment measures put into place there"

Without supporting an alternative theory, this sounds doubtful to me. Do you think, for instance, that the difference between West Virginia and New York is a result of the superior containment measures in the former? WV has a lower death rate so far than even South Korea.
Tried this with a group of friends today and it was a lot of fun. The fading is a great touch. Main thing we wanted was a minimap, or some way for new arrivals to find us. Nice work!
The current URL is: https://idle.slashdot.org/story/20/04/11/0240256/burning-man...

I suggest changing the URL to that of the BM post: https://journal.burningman.org/2020/04/news/official-announc...

Although the Slashdot post also quotes from SFGate, the quote selected is all quoting the BM post.
A small thread from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18414132

(Reposts are fine after a year: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html)