skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They already have the shiny button. They can compel cell phone companies to give this data to the government already, without you knowing about it.

At least this way you will get some control of the info and you'll know what was collected and have control of it's disclosure (for now).

In other words, this is no worse than what the government is already capable of, it just makes it easier for you to share the data with health care providers.

The government already has all these abilities.
AIUI they hired another huge contributor to LLVM/Clang/Swift to work on it so I'm not so sure it's on death watch.
The thing is, the WORST case for an asshole with a tank is a few dozen deaths. Tanks are designed to be operated by more than one person, and so a loner operating a tank gets at best the driver's seat and a machine gun. And when it comes to a few hundred deaths, Timothy McVeigh [0] says hi.

Point being, a tank like that isn't really worse than a large ANFO truck bomb.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_McVeigh
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by shelf and nightstand

it's nice to read from paper after looking at screens most of the day
The market always being about to collapse part is actually true, as evidenced by all of the weakly-built companies folding like houses of cards when their cheap debt and demand ran out for ten minutes...
The flaw, in my opinion, is not necessarily in the benchmark but in the claims and observations around the benchmark. For instance the blog flat out says:

> Nope, we work with float32.

It seems that is not true. The blog should make clear that it isn't straightforward or possible to get cupy to do this.
BTC is absolutely not well integrated into the traditional economy. Getting it is difficult compared with any real currency, spending is difficult compared with any real currency.

> BTC crashing is pretty unlikely at this point.

BTC just crashed in the last month. It's extremely likely to happen, which you can observe easily because it keeps happening. It's value is not stable. It never has been.
I agree with you (to an extent) and was admittedly glossing over the costs - I'm just not convinced that market manipulation is going to be an effective way to prevent depressions. I'm not even convinced that anyone pulling these strings doesn't know this.

Some of the costs that you describe, like folks being less willing to invest in and work on things that have proven themselves to be unprofitable, may actually be benefits.
I'm kind of glad to hear other people reporting similar events. I too had a really weird cold in Jan/Feb that left me coughing and very short of breath after simple activities like running up the stairs. Before the lockdown, I was a 5-day-a-week gym-goer, so this was very unusual.

It wasn't until the shutdown occurred that I read about the symptoms and noted that shortness of breath was a tell-tale symptom. I also worked at a place with offices in Shanghai and many Chinese nationals working locally.
This is a great comment but I need to reply to one mistaken assumption:

> I hope you are psyched this post hit the first page

It didn't hit the front page organically; we place Launch HNs for YC startups on HN's front page. This is one of three formal things that HN does to give something back to YC in exchange for funding it. The other two are job ads and displaying YC founder names in orange to other YC founders.

I'm sorry this wasn't clear. More explanation here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

I'd like to open this feature to non-YC-startups in some way. It's not clear yet how to do that. Also, it would be hard to scale: we do a lot of editing to help founders write about their startup in a way that we think the community will find interesting. That's time consuming and we don't have a lot of spare resources.

That said, if anyone is planning to make a post like that which you would like some feedback about, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and ask. Just please understand that we can't reply right away—the inbox is constantly piling up (and a bit higher each time it does).
I don't know if there's any expectation that someone will actually hire them. I've written the same thing before. Sometimes you'll get requests to do custom work. For instance, I've had grad students see something I've posted online who've asked me to do X, for some X that would take hundreds of hours. "Sure, I'll be happy to do it for $150/hour" is more polite than saying "Do your own research".
I think this is useful even for systems (SW stacks) that are much smaller and "knowable": you start by observing, trying small things, observing more, trying different things, observe more and slowly build a mental model of what is likely happening and where.

His defining characteristic is where you can permanently work around a bug (not know it, but know _of_ it) vs find it, know it, fix it.

Very interesting.
I have spent most of my (limited) career scaling PostgreSQL with (IMO) surprisingly good results.

Most recently I have been using Citus and it has been ridiculously easy to shard data.

To be fair I have only been exposed to workloads of a few Terabytes of data ingest a day so YMMV.

Unfortunately, I can't compare to Mongo as I have had somewhat limited experience with it.
> "For example, good amount of growth of employment rate in recent years is a result of many people, who previously drew disability benefits to compensate them for their inability to work, actually going to work, once the work became better option than government check."

I've heard this before but have not seen good data on it, do you have cites?
For those wishing to watch this, it's all on youtube here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3RzGoQC4s

While dated by now, it's rather disturbing how clear the lineage is from where the show ends to the current "social media" era. The breadth and efficacy of public manipulation is arguably greater than ever, and it's a clear threat to democracy IMHO.
> What is the point of the word literally then?

I don't think words have a point.

> What information does it convey if not to say that it is actually, without exaggeration?

Sometimes it does convey that. And sometimes it's merely an intensifier. Lots of words are like that.
https does make troubleshooting harder. So does SSH.
I imagine lending is highly regulated in most jurisdictions, and has a high barrier to entry. If you share your location, someone might have more accurate information.
Who needs math if you can appeal to emotions.
Now you have me interested, what happens when you ssh into it, does it run a shell? Do you know about the programmability and can you give me some pointers?
yeah that's the point of the article.
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Probably not?

I mean, as a personal consumer, yes - I'd pay a premium on my own products to buy American. I do, in fact, do that when it's an option.

As an organizational representative, though, that's iffier. Healthcare reimbursement is pretty heavily regulated (most of the wild price fluctuation you see has to do with numbers used for public-facing negotiations, not the contracted rates we actually ever get paid.) The only way we get by is by minimizing costs; we can't really increase revenue effectively, except by increasing volume of services. As it is, operating margins in hospitals tend to run at about 2% - it's razor, razor thin. Upping expenses 50% on "critical" items (which for us is, you know, a huge proportion of our stuff) would put us out of business.

It's not something we can do unilaterally. Either it has be funded through an increase in funding earmarked for that, or something equivalent.
The Fed should give every American $1 million and every other country should follow suit and turn all their citizens into USD-equivalent millionaires. That would create an exciting competitive economy!

Think about the excitement of everyone having 1 million dollars and trying to figure out what they want to invest in!
When I used X2go a couple of years ago I found it to work quite well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X2Go
I'm not sure how to interpret hard vs. easy in this context. The measures they took to protect people (not touching) has no effect on the real risk (shouting/singing in a crowded room), which again should have already been known at this point in time to be a major risk factor (Shincheonji).

That is this evidence doesn't contradict Streeck arguing that formate transmission is unlikely and that it is long term exposure to breathing people that is the real risk. (Or that being in a relatively empty grocery store provides little risk)

(I don't have a clue one way or the other, just commenting on applicability of evidence)
No retiree should hold a majority of their savings in equities
There are 6 official measures of unemployment in the USA (see https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm), and most people get confused when presented the distinctions all of them. In general, the number that is reported on the most is U3, but U6 includes a lot of people stuck in part time employment when they really want full time.
Companies can't "learn not to overextend" for things this rare. If they spend a bunch of resources making sure they can weather sufficiently infrequent storms, they'll be out competed in the shorter term by companies that refuse to.

If we need companies to prepare for this kind of thing, we need to somehow test their readiness more frequently.
I find X2Go to be a very nice Linux remote desktop solution, more or less on par with MS-RDP on Windows. The only thing I couldn't get to work was continuing a local session remotely (disconnecting and later reconnecting to a remote session works fine). It is packaged in most mainline distributions.
Your original argument was that the ease of dependency management doesn't change programming or the act of programming. I feel it encourages a compartmentalized approach to writing programs, pulling in dependencies as needed rather than relying on a giant library like Boost. Thus it does actually change the "act of programming", which is a vague term that can mean anything.

This is not mentioning all the upsides of having a easy build system from easy learning and community standpoints.
I was going to post something similar. AC is where I first learned of Bernays.
It’s going to take a while to unpack your comment.

Until then, while you mention Ro, you might not know that some recent reports show it approaching 6 in some areas, not 2.x as thought by some over a month ago. With an Ro of 2.5 and a mean infection duration of 5 days, each person can cause infection of up to 244 cases in a month.

Also, since testing is not widely and reliably available in most countries, there is no way to loosen stay-at-home as a practical matter. Pervasive testing, quick contact tracing, isolation and quarantine are the only way forward.

And I’m not sure you are factoring in that Covid-19 positive people can be contagious before they show ANY symptoms.

So if you’re not concerned about older people or people with comorbidities generally, you might look around at the people you know and care about.

The other part of this is the impact on health care providers and first responders. They are getting infected and dying. The have more pressing issues than those you mention.

I find thinking about my community and taking certain matters of personal responsibility seriously helps me dwell less on myself.

Good luck...
Not a scientific study, but a notable anecdote that struck me a while ago. Firefighters in SF reported a host of symptoms after a 5G unit was placed on their station: https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/01/25/consumerwatch-5...
I'm 22 y.o. I simply do not understand this logic. Not being able to "find lovers" doesn't seem comparable to others dying. Yes, you will not be able to go to a bar and pick up girls/boys until things get better. These are not normal times, young people cannot act as if nothing is happening.
Animal Crossing Gone from China Site After Hong Kong Protesters Spread Democracy
Giving every American a token cash handout is something Republicans have done before, it's hardly unbelievable if you actually have historical context. And by far most of that bill is corporate handouts. And the oversight has been fired. Everything about this aligns exactly with what you'd expect politically. It's a debacle.

Furthermore, while there has been a lot of shutdown, it's not equal across the board. Tons of places are taking half measures or no measures still, and the reasoning is entirely politically biased (business more important than people, etc.) It's clearly a case of more right leaning areas taking less cautious measures in favor of money.

In fact, I'd argue that everything that has happened, especially all the horribly obvious "mistakes" (read: intentional, corruption riddle, failures in the case of the federal administration) aligns with political viability as expected and confirms in retrospect the claims about viability.
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I think we call that CSS.
> They can compel cell phone companies to give this data to the government already

Bluetooth has a quite small range, which may give higher tracking precision (to anyone receiving the signal) than the data cell phone companies have.
If you use Databricks, it's pretty easy to schedule a Databricks notebook to run. AWS EMR also has notebook support, I haven't used it, but it might be possible to schedule those too. You would still have to grant permission to the Databricks role to write to a production location in S3.

I really dislike this practice. Code that runs in production should be code reviewed and there should be some monitoring in place to make sure the job is working correctly
> but it is frustrating to have this communication tool drift away with nothing to replace it.

My point is that it isn't "drifting away"—it has been used as an intensifier for hundreds of years.
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This isn't an advantage of contractors since the military aggressor units already do a great job. They are a separate unit and do all their tactical planning separately. They attend the mass safety briefings before a mission and they provide training feedback during debriefs, but they are serious about maintaining the integrity of their training. There is no incentive to cheat- you don't win a prize for a victory and cheating might result in one of your friends dying if they had to go to war with inadequate training. There are several reasons a pilot can lose $5 during a mission but they can't win it back by cheating.

I once asked a pilot after a test mission, "if you're pretty sure they're going to do [tactic X] why don't you do [tactic that works great against tactic X]?" His response was that his mission isn't to win, it's to provide the most authentic simulation of an enemy as he can. If they don't think an enemy pilot would do something, they won't do it- even if they know they could gain an advantage using inside knowledge.
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> Do other first world countries allow non-government companies to hold this much sophisticated military hardware?

No, they don't. And neither does the US.

The F18 is now nearly 40 years old. Typically the advanced and sophisticated aspects of airframes are not allowed for sale, to private entities, or even non-us government ones.

The advanced avionics, weapons systems, etc, are all tightly controlled.
I've been bombarded by a popular "stimulus for the rich" from everywhere. Please describe what would happen if stimulus did not pass and there was no assistance from the government.
"When you have symptoms? Too late."

The goal has never been to bring the transmission rate down to zero. If we could quickly test everyone at the onset of symptoms, then trace and test anyone likely to have been exposed to the virus by that symptomatic individual, we could bring the transmission rate down considerably. It's been done in other countries. Add in some other precautions, like automatic temperate checks, and the transmission rate can be lowered even further. Low enough? Dunno, but lockdowns can't last forever and our healthcare capacity is getting better by the day.
Their PoC focused on Chrome. I would assume that "parameter tweaking" probably means "change some things to make it work but run slower".
Different hypotheses are obvious to different people. You're hearing one of the scariest ones - partly because it's great business for the media and political industries, and partly because it supports the belief that we can accurately measure an in-progress epidemic of this kind with our modern technology. Here are some very experienced folks with less-scary "obvious" hypotheses:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGC5sGdz4kg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6MZy-2fcBw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UO3Wd5urg0

https://www.globalresearch.ca/open-letter-professor-sucharit...
It's not a product. It's a thing he made for himself.
You can, in fact, do BLE scans in the background on iOS. It's tricky and requires some workarounds, like basically everything related to background tasks in iOS.

Source: Providing apps with that functionality.
Xpra is what you want for this: http://xpra.org/
Yeah that's a fair question.

I think it depends on the context. To be picky, you could just send out a lot of resumes, and I as a prospective employer wouldn't have any clue how many you've sent, as long as you are still at your old company the whole time.

However if you have a good emergency fund, your old company folds, and you are being picky, people start to suspect you are unemployable after a bit.
> We need

I think this problem is pretty far down the list of World’s Top Problems
> But that shiny new button that governments get to press will never go away.

I think that framing is slightly counterproductive to be honest. The alternative are efforts that, from what I see so far, seem to fall on one of two sides:

a) sensible privacy defaults like the proposal by Google/Apple, open development, limited traction in the community and not well connected to political decision makers

b) company initiatives, closed developments and promises of openness while working on centralized solutions

I feel like your scenario would be more worrying in terms of privacy if Google/Apple didn't introduce this protocol extension. They are essentially forcing the b) group to adapt something sensible. Another positive is that this seems limited to the OS level, whereas both have more extensive infrastructure they could have pushed for but intentionally did not.

tl;dr: I think it is a beneficial proposal and well placed, the alternative would likely be worse for the user base.
The argument against a few weeks of lockdown has seemed sillier and sillier. The situation's very bad, and it's worth spending serious effort to mitigate for the foreseeable future.

A ban on all social activity for years is far beyond "serious effort to mitigate". Millions of lives isn't worth a global dystopia.
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There are lots of bubbles going on all at once. The tech bubble is one thing, but the bubbles in China being popped right now are much more significant, on the scale of the great Japan bust that set the world into recession in the late 1980s. It isn't weird that many bubbles would pop during the same incident of stress.
How can they say nobody knew?
170+ CEO’s of major corporations resigned right before the outbreak.

Something is fishy with the current narrative.
They've had generations to learn that, why do you think they will suddenly get clever now?
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What's the performance vs Remina?
I don't think most of those ads had any sense at all tbh( I used to see a lot of them as wel) and here's why:
99% of these jobs are in financial sector, especially in trading branches). Most of them may only require 2 years or so experience, however the experience they need are in some esoteric products/services one can only learn/access if in this kind of job( i.e. FX trading platforms, interbank settlement software,some random inhouse thing that connects to NASDAQ,etc.) The reality is that for most of those jobs there are only 50-100 people in the city who can do it and they are all employed and they all know it.So any recruiter worth his salt knows most of them by name,as they just keep crossing the road from one bank to another every couple of years. So all these ads do serve is some newly hired recruiter with no contacts, who hopes some random guy from abroad will have the necessary experience and won't understand the market situation.
I know that inflation (exclusive of higher education and housing) has been pretty low for a while. But I feel pretty confident in saying that if you just airdropped $1M or so into each household, that would cause significant inflation in ~whatever~ people decided to spend the money on.
Aren't retirees told that the sensible thing to do is to have a lot of bonds and relatively few equities? Also why hold your savings concentrated in a single company, even if you worked for it years ago?
The capability of using the Bluetooth stack for tracking is not new, this proposal limits the way that data can be used. See the cryptographic specification linked below.
We could be discriminated (by public and private actors) for not having this app installed. We should be able to convincingly deny the opt out...
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Average is a very loose concept, but many Americans who appear to have steady discretionary income for 'non-essentials' are constantly walking the thin line of living within their means/being broke at best, but worse, in debt.
The criminalization of drugs was put in place to target hippies and minorities. So... yes.

"We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."

- John Ehrlichman, Nixon's Aide during time of the war on drugs.

https://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/

Aside:

Liberty - the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one's way of life, behavior, or political views.

What the hell ever happened to "give me liberty or give me death"?
While background scanning is limited you can key off iBeacon devices via the location framework. This allows your app to wake up when certain devices are near.
Buy the books, have a big threatening pile of them glaring at you all the day; from time to time pick one out to read. This is the principle of the antilibrary which Nassim Taleb attributes to Umberto Eco

https://fs.blog/2013/06/the-antilibrary/
That sounds correct, but "scientifically" we have to spend million of dollars and months of time to say for sure.
Announcement on Dotty as the future Scala 3 came from Scala Center (EPFL) not Typesafe/Lightbend.

AFAIK Typesafe/Lightbend has made no commitment to Scala 3.

Too bad the roadmap for Scala 2.14 has been scrapped.
How much money would it take to make testing everyone a realistic possibility? How much money are we losing by just shutting everything down? Which one costs more?
> as they've been told is the responsible thing to do.

This is absolutely NOT the responsible thing to do. Every retirement fund, target date fund etc. constantly rebalances your portfolio so that as you get closer to retirement your holdings shift to bonds and other low-risk securities. Retirees should be holding little to no stock.
I was thinking about starting just as a CRM tool. Employer would make a loan to the employee. I'm based in Poland and as far I'm aware under some circumstances they are tax free.
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