skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's what I was thinking initially.

However, wouldn't the same pressures that apply to someone in a chain of command, also not apply to a contractor?

So, for example, if someone tasked with testing the current military strategy comes up with a wargame tactic that would embarrass the military (i.e. their bosses) they may not want to do that because embarrassing their bosses is probably not good for them.

However, in the same vein, someone reliant on those military bosses awarding them contracts would also not want to embarrass them, because it wouldn't be good for their ability to get contracts in the future.

In the former scenario, you at least have the case of a conscientious individual or team still going forward with what they think is the right thing to do.

In the latter there is no such compulsion either, so if anything, the chain of command argument makes things worse for contractors.
I loved firefox actually for the ability to style the UI using user styles. IMHO they need to bring back the old way of customizing. In constrast to Thunderbird (which allows it but has even less of a community) allowing webextension experiments and unsigned addons in any version might bring back freedom even in the times of webextensions. I really hate how they started patronizing their loyal users with all its colateral damage. It has become easier to customize chrome than firefox, strange times...
Where by "a man" you mean "a defense contractor that signs billion dollar contracts with the DoD".
Minecraft Education Edition provides in-game coding tools for Python, JavaScript, and a MakeCode-style visual block editor! This would be a great activity to do with some children I know.

But it's only available for Office 365 Education accounts, which is a product it seems I can't purchase as an individual.

Are there any educational institutions that I can pay to give me a accounts I could use for this? Or does anyone know what's involved in spinning up your own educational institution that Microsoft will sell Office 365 for education to?
Is this at the behest of the government? Seems privately driven?
GPS is completely unidirectional from satellites to receivers and thus the satellites cannot be used to track the receivers
1925 Serum Run to Nome
I genuinely can't. We are ridiculously lucky that all we have to worry about in that range is limited blast and relatively easy to put out fire. The old country has a high amount of natural gas powered cars. Since they require user to be a little more careful during pumping, gas station attendant was mandated to it for you.
We make heavy use of peer dependencies, so microfrontends rarely end up actually bundling their own dependencies. Build tools like rollup help with that.

It’s not a silver bullet and requires A bit of overhead. I’m interested too to hear how other people manage the problem.
Yes that's what's occurring but I end up needing at least 2 for this version and the previous one because you can't always rely on the new OS to function properly for a few months.

(Still, I can't complain too much - it is a free entire OS upgrade unlike OSX upgrades of yesteryear)
One of the most legendary paint schemes was a black F-14 with a playboy bunny painted on the tail - was from a test squadron in the 80s / 90s.

https://fullcolorbirds.wordpress.com/2010/01/26/grumman-f-14...
> b) You don't identify something harmless by just testing asymptomatics.

True, but I think you are missing part of Daniel's proposal. You don't "just" check for unique variations of the virus in asymptomatic carriers, you also check the sequence for major deletions: We would ideally be looking for a virus strain with a large(ish) deletion in an essential viral gene. This sort of mutation is easy to spot in the SARS-CoV-2 genome data, and because the genetic information has been removed, it makes the virus very unlikely to be able to mutate back into a dangerous strain. Ideally, the strain identified will have infected a number of other people in the local area too so we can know it is safe.

So while you do want to verify that the sequence is not also present in "serious" cases, you are prescreening by a factor that theoretically should correlate to severity. Whether you "need" to do additional testing depends on your assessment of base risk. If you assume that almost everyone is going to be infected with a powerful strain if you do nothing, doing your testing in live cases with a strain you suspect is mild might still be justified. Ideally (as quoted from Daniel) this "testing" might be mostly satisfied by just monitoring those already infected by the original carrier(s) with the same mild strain.
Besides which, the Taliban has arguably won in Afghanistan by virtue of simply continuing to exist. Hostile military occupation is unsustainably expensive, doubly so when the terrain in question is unfavorable.

Anyway, you'll probably see the same thing play out here in the coming years.
Singing is also likely to expel more droplets further.

I don't have a source, but a microbiologist I know was saying that safe distances, based on droplet physics, depend on activity, e.g. standing in a single file line vs walking vs hiking vs running.
Also got more women to smoke cigarettes:

More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torches_of_Freedom

Sinister! Well, great for the tobacco companies. Humanity overall? Not so much.
If you think a 486 is sufficient for reading textual content and running a word processor and spreadsheet, you haven't been paying attention to software bloat. A 486 would have a hard time just booting a modern OS, never mind the application software.
Yeah, right because component libraries aren't a thing in native UI since the early 90's.
"I was in a self defence situation and needed to kill someone" and "almost nobody needs to own a gun privately" seem to be incompatible statements to me.

As for the difficulty of killing large numbers of people, I'd stand by the assertion that it's easier with chemicals (explosives or incindiaries) than it is with guns.
>while The Troubles didn't induce the UK to give any concessions it wasn't already willing to give beforehand.

If you look farther back in Ireland's history, it seems like Ireland's independence from UK was achieved mostly by violent resistance. After there was too much violence, England finally decided it wasn't worth it, and came up with an agreement allowing most of the island to become independent, with the exception of a handful of northern counties.
Contact tracing has a time and place, and it's early in isolated outbreaks. The cat is out of the bag at this point and thinking we're going to contact trace our way to safety is a false promise. You'd have to be naive and short-sighted to accept their pinky-promise of privacy-first in this context.
While I really like array programming languages in general, I think what is really an elegant balance of readability and conciseness is the nile language and its application to rasterization. Highly concise, yet very readable.

See this Bret Victor talk, at 25:03.
https://vimeo.com/67076984
> You have ONE customer to deal with

That has its downsides. For one thing, they own you. For another, if their plans shift, you are out of business.
What Is Political Power?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22834959
I don't think it's simple to deploy scaleable predictions - that's why model hosting solutions like SageMaker's and GCP's AI Platform exist, and there's no need for people to be re-implementing model deployment/monitering.
USAF is also looking to award a large contract for operating tanker aircraft for supporting training exercises of the USAF. Private companies will be operating aircraft to offer mid air refuelling for USAF training activities.
Setup for teaching in-class with distant participants
So I get this right you are saying what has worked for you is to find companies where most people are middle aged with family obligation and have become comfortable in their jobs. And there you can differentiate much easily and move up faster than you would at a cutthroat place. as even with a little more effort in such a place you will stand out which can be done while maintaining a 40 hour week?

I take it you are single and/or have no other family obligations which gives you an “edge”?
reduce() used to be in the builtins in python 2.x. It was removed due to low usage. Keeping the builtins list tiny is a core principle of the language.
Could you sell a home Joan? We have those at work and I find myself wanting that form factor with WiFi, but instead of scheduling I’d put my own content on there.
I know someone who does a LOT of hiring and he ended up preferring some schools over others.

It wasn't that there were not qualified people from each school, it was just easier to find them at schools with hard-<subject> educations.

There were other schools that were physically closer even within a few miles, but he could go all day without finding a promising candidate.

He hires many minorities, women, people of different orientations, so it wasn't that.

It was more like, "does anyone understand a linked list?"
Because those pilots theoretically move "up" to being staff officers, and then a few of them reach the highest levels of command, with the benefit of a diverse background.

It turns out that being Erich Hartmann, Maverick, or the Red Baron doesn't really translate well into being a good executive leader, and while western militaries want officers who have experience "at the sharp end", the also require leaders who understand how a headquarters works, logistics, politics, etc.
parsec does not support multiple monitors which is a deal breaker in many use cases, so far windows rdp is the best free solution for at least windows -> windows remoting.
Most likely a big percentage of these contract pilots are retired ex-military. Enjoying decent military healthcare benefits retirees get while raking in contractor pay.
Some credit cards offer extended warranties - maybe worth a look if the card you purchased with offers some sort of purchase protection. You'd need the receipt, of course.
>poorly armed and trained americans

poorly trained is true, but Americans own almost 90 times more firearms than the US military. there are 1.2 guns for every person in the US.
front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22834959
Not really. For contact tracing, S.Korea is using a much more aggressive approach built upon a framework to join cellphone location from mobile providers, credit card usages and potentially CCTV.
I don't know what you're talking about. Here's what I see [1], I actually like highlighting on main domain. If they'll remove https:// from my URL box, I'll grab a pitchfork myself, but for now I see no signs of it happening.

[1]: https://tinyurl.com/umluadw
> Which means that the market is 100% detached from the overall economy, economic outlooks, and company earnings.. again.

100% feels a little hyperbolus, but, in general, hasn't that always been true--hence the common phrase "The stock market is not the economy." The stock market only partially reflects on the economy.

https://www.marketplace.org/2019/09/30/the-stock-market-is-n...

Why not retain or increase investments in stocks, and thereby propping stock prices up, especially if it's a long-term investment?
I will admit that I did not, but having seen trends over the past few decades taught me to be rather skeptical. In other words, today's specs are little more to me than promises. I am ok with being downvoted for this.

edit: I just "read" it ( it is not even a spec - it is not even a powerpoint presentation ). You are down voting me for questioning a couple of pictograms?
The only problem is that it requires everyone to actively participate, which means every participant must be all of: knowledgeable, willing, personally able (authorized to install app), technologically able (app works with their devices), and vigilant. This is currently logistically impractical.
I believe private ownership of nuclear weapons is illegal in the US. Atomic Energy act maybe? (Can't remember when specifically)
This state of affairs is not life. I would kill myself if we have to do this for a year.
This might be a good starting point: https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/
> Yeah exactly, I think of this as "imperative in the small" and "functional in the large". There's no real cost to local state, but there's a big cost to tracking global state.

That's the basis of what I call "faux-mutability", wherein you have an immutable type system, but all updates are expressed as mutations.

In the current docs for a language I'm working on, I give a brief example[1], but in a nutshell, you can transform an expression like so:

let x.a.b := 5
let x := set_rec(x, #a, set_rec(x.a, #b, 5))

It does prohibit[2] making arbitrary graphs, but for the use case I'm targeting this is fine.

(Also, as a prototype for how this can work, I wrote a python module[3] that implements it with the pyrsistent module.)

[1]: https://tenet-lang.org/#how-does-it-work

[2]: Or you'd need another mechanism to do so.

[3]: https://pypi.org/project/pyrsistent-mutable/
> Before the "We hate Electron" crowd gets here

This is one of those comments that has the same effect as its opposite (in this case, changing the subject).
And I don't want people to die because a tyrannical government decides it needs to occupy the population. It's acceptable to me that some people will die as a result of gun violence, if it means the citizenry keeps its right to bear arms. Every homicide is a tragedy, but the weapons are not the problem nor the cause.

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?
The easiest way to convince the public is to lie to them, because that data is not going to be private. There is no chance that this won't be misused. NSA employees misused their power to spy on their neighbors and partners. There is virtually no chance that this won't be abused.

Every single authoritarian regime is salivating over something like this.
I don't know why you were downvoted. Frailty is an epidemic among the elderly. Once they lose muscle tone and mobility they tend to die quickly. It does little good to avoid virus infection if you end up breaking your hip because of muscle atrophy.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4098658/
Ask HN: How much compile time is unbearable?
Clearly, language will be an issue here.

Curious what you guys think.

For me, in C#:

<2s - dream come true;
5s - niiice;
10s - acceptable;
10-15s - bad;
20+s - insanely bad;

I've moved away from C++ mainly because of compile times. While templates are insanely awesome, code using them ended up with insane compile times.

C#/Winforms - insanely fast compile times

C#/WPF - very fast compile times (5-10 seconds, in 50-100K LOC solutions)

C#/UWP - MS quality; compile times are in the minutes
this is exactly what happened.
No relation to getting promoted.

If the company is growing quickly you will be promoted quickly. If it is getting smaller people get laid-off demoted. If it's holding steady than working extra hours might make you more valuable if someone leaves.

Working 20 more hours only marginally increases your chances. Marry the owners daughter would work better.
I think GitLab uses YAML Files representing changelog lines.

This allows adding metadata such as dates, descriptions, authors, type, etc. without much hassle.

This requires investing in some own CLI tooling, since creation and rendering should be automated for this.
> For example, the Dutch and the Swedes have chosen to use it against Covid-19..

Let's check in with Sweden. Currently their graph is not looking great[1].

They're faring worse than their neighbors, and the government is scrambling to get a lockdown going[2].

> As of April 9, Sweden’s rate per capita of confirmed deaths from the coronavirus is higher than the rate of its fellow Scandinavian countries or the US. Hospitals are overcrowded and staff members are overworked, and the military has begun setting up field hospitals in major cities, including Stockholm, the country’s capital and the epicenter of its outbreak. The government is now seeking extraordinary powers to impose further restrictions.

Meanwhile in the Netherlands, they're extending their very real lockdown into June[3].

[1] https://mackuba.eu/corona/#sweden

[2] https://www.vox.com/2020/4/9/21213472/coronavirus-sweden-her...

[3] https://www.nst.com.my/world/world/2020/03/577616/covid-19-n...
`import func Foundation.CFAbsoluteTimeGetCurrent` imports just that function.
Ask HN: How do you identify people with a strong work ethic?
Is work ethic something that can only be seen by working alongside someone?
Not my link, different poster. I just chimed in because your comment was kind of silly.

Even if that's the case, I'm not sure most Americans are getting the education they need. Maybe that takes even more money, maybe that takes more effective investment of that money, maybe it takes something else.

The economic outlook of my generation, the millenials, nearly all hard at work already, isn't looking so hot, and I fear that the next generation's chances look more grim.
Coronavirus: Covid-19 outbreak 'levelling off in US'
Just read valueable book by Roger Montgomery, check out validea or alphaarchitect, good luck
Currently, yes, but "numerical results with a system operating at 39 GHz show that sub-meter 3D positioning accuracy is achievable in future mmW 5G networks" :)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.09478
I read in some article that if you died and if in postmortem it's found that you died of Coronavirus, Germany doesn't add it to their Coronavirus death statistics.

Basically they only include the death which were confirmed Coronavirus cases before death occured.
Has anyone been able to get FreeRDP's Thincast Workstation (based on VirtualBox) product to work?

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.

If anyone has been able to test Thincast workstation performance, can they 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...
Also, how do you keep the crew alive for months without allowing for all the weight of those supplies?
>still have to maintain their security clearances

>They probably have vulnerabilities but I don't think a training contractor is as juicy of a target as you might think ... It not useless information, but it mostly doesn't make sense for Russia/China to spend their effort finding out what the US thinks Russia/China is capable of. They already have a pretty good idea.

This is contradictory. Classified information is, by definition, that which could cause harm to the national interest if disclosed. Either their information is valuable or it isn't.
The key word is oppressive. I don't believe not allowing people to own weapons of war is oppressive. Especially so to their (non-)victims.
Who cares. My kids love OSS Minetest. https://www.minetest.net
I agree with OP, and also with the Elm post.

But I'd like to point out that there's a hypocrisy at the heart of many popular open source projects. Yes, you're legally allowed to fork, and yes you'll be told to go "fork off" if you annoy the maintainers. But anyone who has the temerity to actually create a fork will be shunned or constantly bombarded with questions about why they're sowing division in the community. My computer can hold multiple incompatible forks without them mutually annihilating. Why can't people's belief systems?

Now, such sentiments often come from the peanut gallery rather than the maintainer. But maintainers could help more. When was the last time anyone saw a maintainer thank someone for creating a fork? Forks should be treated more like Andon Cords (https://itrevolution.com/kata). Creating them is an act of bravery, and even if you don't agree with the reasons they are a valuable source of feedback. These are events to be celebrated and encouraged. A fork that doesn't gain traction isn't a 'failure' to be derided, it is a valuable experiment at worst, a negative result that didn't take away energy from other efforts. At best it actually influenced upstream. Everyone should be enormously grateful.
This is dangerously close to Feinstein's "think of the children" argument.

If people complain about EARN IT, they should investigate privacy implications of this "enhanced" tracking technology.
I love chat rooms, but they are their own kind of interruption and you can often communicate more in 2 minutes of conversation than in 45 minutes of back and forth on slack. And again, there are benefits to knowing when important things are going to be discussed and planning around that rather than have them happen at random in Slack.
You can pry my Kindle DX from my cold, dead hands!
BodyPix does downsample before masking OOTB, the article is doing 'medium' (50%) (though for this script we ought to move that over to the python side), it's still not 30fps though without egregiously sacrificing quality, at least on my (fairly powerful) machine unless I've missed something.

Amusingly I did some hacking on this and the current bottleneck is actually reading from the webcam which is capped at <10fps without doing anything else. Switching the capture to MJPG helps.
I had understood it to mean viral proteins or RNA and not necessarily the full virus.
This isn't assembly line work. If your brain is too tired, it doesn't matter if your butt is in the seat, you're still not going to be effective. In fact, you may be negatively effective - it may take time to undo the damage that you are doing to the code base.

One of the rules of XP is "Quit when you're tired." XP is all about going as fast as you can. The fastest you can go involves quitting when you're tired. Stay longer, and your productivity goes down, not just that day but the next, and maybe even the day or two after that.

It sounds like you're working at a place that doesn't understand that. (It also sounds like you're working at a place that is somewhat exploitative.) To get a reasonable life, you may have to leave for somewhere else.

Unfortunately, right at this moment is perhaps not the greatest time to be changing jobs. If your current job is stable and unaffected by Corona, you probably should think twice before you leave - unless you're pretty sure that the new job is also stable and won't be affected by Corona.
I'm started the Deep Learning course last night and I too think it's really good. After you finished the series of courses, what did you move on to?
good for them!
Keychain Touch Tool
https://ccache.dev/
I went to Case Western and got in to RPI as well. So similar tiers of schools IMO.
Well you know it says `nospectre_v2 nospectre_v1`, they're not being exactly sneaky about it.
There's also a 12 years old girl dead in Belgium.

https://nypost.com/2020/03/31/12-year-old-belgian-girl-becom...

The article also contains accounts of two more youngsters dead, at 14 and 16.

This thing can kill anyone.
If you assume the goal of contact tracing is to literally find every infection, yes, this isn't going to work. If you assume the point of this is to reduce R0, then this will work just fine at any stage of the pandemic.

There's obviously a question of what you should do when you find out you have been in contact, and that will differ depending on the stage. We probably want to be in a position where everyone who has come into contact with an infected person can get a test asap and if necessary then go into full isolation, not just going out less.
Bernie Sanders quits: It looked so good for him. What went wrong?