skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tell that to people who A/B test…
Rather than making every American a wannabe financier, we should actually have a real safety net.
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Interesting perspective. It's as though the gov (read: we/us) have become distracted by the "risk" of a lot of the day to day social issues and minutiae at the expense of the real threats.
Also excited because they can likely push both advertisement and scanning into the BLE chips themselves, letting the rest of the system (CPU, etc) sleep. Big win for battery life.
* What age defines "young person"? What's "old"? What are the mortality rates of these groups? How many hours of "home-time" should each serve daily?

* Any concern for the COVID-resilient groups running around spreading the germs to more susceptible? How do we measure what level of social life one is allowed to have while putting other groups at risk?

* Enforcement. How do we advertise and enforce these new rules? Will certain people feel discriminated against? Should police card/arrest people if they look just a little too gray/old/wrinkly?

I think just "talking" about this will be opinions vs opinions. We should start with numbers and then try to see what makes sense.
> Hardcore Firefox fanboy since its humble beginnings.

Same here. And although I may stick with it due to my loathing of the alternatives, I'm increasingly sick of it. The complaints about the new URL bar/bookmarks toolbar were exactly my experience, but what's worse is Mozilla just doesn't care[0].

They also have a mobile browser called Firefox Lite which after a recent update displayed sponsored ads as top sites on the home screen.

Not a problem though, just remove them and put your own chosen sites, right? Wrong. It's not possible.

Repeat: Mozilla forces unremovable advertising as top sites on the home screen of one of their mobile browsers, used by millions of people.

On the download page for this product[1] Mozilla modestly promotes itself as:

"dedicated to keeping the power of the internet in people's hands"

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22832729

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.ro...
That's a bit uncomfortable because I thought it deserved the flag, but knowing that this has been mod-reviewed means that flagging probably doesn't serve a constructive purpose.
> An intuitive understanding of monads is necessary to understand how to work with monads like Result fluidly.

I think it helps but is hardly necessary.
I run xrdp on Ubuntu and connect to it from a windows machine using the Remote Desktop client. It has some restrictions- and setup issues (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/xrdp) but I use it daily to drive a remote CNC machine's host.
Sounds similar to what happened to me, I had a dry cough come on around March 17 and initially thought it was allergies, but those aren't my normal symptoms (sneezing and itchy eyes). I had heard enough rumblings about asymptomatic cases that I decided to completely isolate until it went away just in case. The cough got moderately bad the following weekend and then slowly cleared up over the next week and a half. The only other thing that was any different than normal was that my appetite was roughly half of what it normally is but I chalked that more up to just being home all the time and not doing a whole lot.
I was under the impression that the NSA already was tracking most people anyway?
I just don't agree with the analysis. If I had a choice between a 2% chance of dying and isolation for the rest of my life, I'd roll the dice.
Grandma should have thought twice before investing in an evil corporation which took loans to evade taxes and screwed over other people's grandchildren.
Larger discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22834959
Supporting the paper in the secondary market through ETFs, will allow any new issuance to be priced more favorably than if it wasn't at all, even if frbny isn't the one doing the origination (yet, at this rate I think they will eventually along with equity etfs purchases). That's the point I'm making.
Too many large American companies have no buffer because they've been distributing all their cash to shareholders as dividends and stock buybacks, all the while using credit to fund operations. When a rare risk materializes, sales suddenly stop and lenders get antsy, these companies find themselves in trouble.

Their primary recourse should be to ask shareholders for money — that's where the cash was drained over the years, after all. If these businesses are so great, shouldn't shareholders be happy to buy newly issued stock at these prices? Yet I don't see anyone doing stock offerings. That seems like a sign that the whole thing is a house of cards: nobody actually has liquidity until Fed injects it into the system.

Interestingly, there are two very different kind of companies that have been hoarding cash through the years. There's the SV giants (FAMAA collectively held $570 billion at the end of 2019), and then there are extremely conservative Japanese industrial companies. Some of these have enough cash to operate for decades with zero revenue.
I have seen a few click-bait headlines stating that the "oversight was fired" but it is not exactly true. There is some politics going on about who is chair of the PRAC but the other ~20 members of the committee have not changed.
They’re not armed jets, that’s an important distinction. Short of flying into something, how would these actually pose a threat?
Just because you know words to perfectly describe what you think of a person or thing doesn't mean you should use them.
Thank you, this context is important. Swine flu killed between 150,000 to 575,000 globally in 2009, and almost nobody even remembers it. HIV is a recent pandemic that many living people have lived through, from discovery to treatment.

And of course the flu, which is different than SARSCoV2, kills between 250,000 and 500,000 each and every year. If you're 30 years old, between 7 and 15 million people have died from flu in your lifetime.
There is no such a thing as a “live” virus. They are just a bundle of RNA in a protein/fat shell. If the RNA was identified it means the shell was intact.
You should be more concerned about the workers than you are about the jobs.

Give 60k to every family in America, and let the corporations that mis-managed their assets bite the dust.

When there's demand for the services those corporations provided, someone will step up, buy the equipment and other assets, and do it better next time.

I see no wisdom in resisting the nature of our economy, its booms and busts pruning away the bad growth so that better ones have room to develop.
It depends on your definition of resources. In some cases it may be a mountain or river near my hometown, while in others it might be my house or my husband.
I feel like Facebook is basically already doing this?
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I think IDA's 'killer feature' over Ghidra is supposed to be the debugger. Not disagreeing, I am a Ghidra user myself, just that's the reason I usually see proffered in the Ghidra/IDA flamewar.
There was an RDP backed in wlroots, but it was recently removed in favor of wayvnc. My guess is that it works as well as RDP. You can still connect to other RDP instances just fine using FreeRDP.
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If the businesses don't make sense in the post COVID era, how is bailing them out to keep them alive any better?
Just don't punish yourself over it. There is more information than anyone could handle. It's really a matter of realizing failure is a part of life. You can not avoid failure, but you can sure handle it.
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Maybe I'm just fed up with how the news has been handling this situation, but I find usage of words like "scary" in a title to be incredibly worthless. If I can't even get to the end of the title without being told how to feel, it speaks volumes about the intentions of the post.

This is just one of the numerous examples of lazy and bad intentioned attempts to use anxiety to convince readers to click the article. The entire journalism industry should be ashamed of how the absolutely miserable way in which they've handled this event.

You need to take a hard look at yourself if your industry revolves around damaging people's mental health in order to draw page views.
I’m going with coral.
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I strongly agree. This extends to reddit as well. Whenever it comes up, there is the overwhelming consensus of "I love WFH/dumb middle-managers are wasting everyone's time to feel useful". And while I agree there is definitely a bias towards demanding in-office working which is probably excessive, and that many people can be very successful working remotely, I feel like much of this attitude is romanticization.

Personally, I struggle to focus at home, and I have a pretty ideal WFH situation. I am fortunate enough/foolish enough to pay for a trivial commute, but I'm simply more productive in-office. And I don't think it is just me, many many problems can be solved in-office quickly without having to set up online calls (or letting an email thread drag on for weeks).

And the larger attitude among my office was that working from home is a burden. We're all software devs, we all have no strict barriers to WFH, but most people prefer going into the office most of the time.
GPS / phone network tracking probably has lower precision than short-range bluetooth. Bluetooth receivers can be present even in places without network reception or GPS, and receive signal passively and without a trace.
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What level of normalcy? Free domestic movement, business open, schools open? That will probably work with some restrictions if social distancing works. Countries are trying different levels of restrictions so it will soon be obvious what works and what doesn’t.

International travel, sports events and other large gatherings I’m not optimistic will be back to normal in 2020 unless something big changes.
I suggest you re-read the comment you replied to. There is no “live” or “dormant”, in that article it simply means it was not damaged by freezing.
Agreed, whenever you divulge any info, you're always losing bits of randomness (obviously, more or less depending on how good the protocol is!).

In particular, given an adversary who has several points (receiving these codes) and knows the receiving location of each of these points can de-anonymize a person "A" who is COVID positive if they know, e.g., a minimal amount of A's usual daily movements (from cellphone tower location, for example).

That being said, the government probably has better ways of knowing who has COVID-19 and other infectious diseases :)
I'll assume this is a joke but just for clarity, but that would be a total cash give-out by the government of this many dollars:

327,000,000,000,000

Notice all the zeroes in there. It's important that we as a species learn to take all those zeroes into account.
But surely the private pilots training against US military pilots get to see the current tactics, and the private radars and electronic warfare pods get to record the current combat settings of US military radars and electronic warfare systems. There is no way this is not all classified top secret and a major target for foreign intelligence. So all his personnel, pilots and technicians, need clearance as if they were active military (maybe more, because advanced tactics and information on all different NATO allies and aircraft, not a single squadron like most service member know).

Even if for some reason it is cheaper for the US military to have this in a private company instead of maintaining aggressor squadrons with Migs, how is this secure?
You misunderstand the current exercise. The only thing these stay at home policies are designed to do is keep the healthcare system from collapsing by slowing the spread of the virus. That's it since we are way past the point of having any hope of containing it.

Sure, the immediate beneficiaries are those at highest risk from the virus. But younger people who fall on the extreme end of the symptoms would also be dying at relatively higher rates too. Have no fear, once the powers that be are confident that society won't collapse, the stay at home orders will start lifting and life will go on... including allowing people young and old to die at 'acceptable' rates from the virus.
I'm sorry if I made it sound like I was born perfect. That wasn't what I was trying to convey. Yes, we learn by making mistakes, and I've sure made at least my fair share of them. My point is that horking out algorithms on demand is definitely not the same thing as being a competent software engineer, nor is it particularly predictive of the likelihood of developing those skills. Also, I measure my success by the people I've helped and the impact I have on the business. For instance, figuring out how to eliminate 500,000+ lines of code from a codebase strikes me as way more valuable than hopping about at a whiteboard like a trained monkey. Ask better questions, get more impactful employees.
>I don't need to remind you of all the human rights violations by the US.

Whataboutism

>And what do you say about the fact that a dozen of Muslim nations officially approve of China's conduct in Xinjiang?

That's completely irrelevant. Do the people being repressed approve because that's all that matters. And for the record they do not approve of their families being raped and basically held captive by CCP employees despite BS CCP propaganda to the contrary.
>> And not through letting a host of major corporations go bankrupt through zero fault of their management/board.

I cant not wrap my head around this. How is it NOT their fault? If you are the one at the wheel, you are in charge, thus you are fault. They could have been planing for a rainy day instead of spending the capital, its entirely their fault! I keep 6 months wages in a savings account because its smart... Corporations can do the same, and many do. The ones that refused, should be left to dry and are entirely at fault.
$6T has been created, but an unknown $X trillion has also been destroyed by a sharp and sudden decrease in economic activity, including a contraction of credit.

So... who knows. Maybe it's enough, maybe it's too much, or maybe it's too little -- it's too early to say.
> For me, a quality developer is someone who achieves the goals of the company in understandable, maintainable, testable, and documented code.

Agree. But it should be noted that the needs of a startup may not always make that easy. I'm personally responsible for transmogrifying an existing Perl ORM for a company, because it only supported a single database handle / class. Which is a pain when you're in a master / slave environment. This hack allowed the company to meet the performance challenges that came along each year by summer. It also allowed growing the company from ~35 people in 2004 to about 5000 people in 2012 (when I left).

It also froze the version of the ORM in question, until it got rewritten from scratch at great expense. But that expense could now be easily carried by the company.
I think it's relatively common - I guess it also depends on how sensitive the cause of death is.

There is a pretty good nytimes doc on obit journalists:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2YXpyh_YOw
Honestly, how long are people going to be able to not pay rent for. I've already seen several businesses in my town permanently shut down at the beginning of April. This is people's livelihoods. People's source of food and shelter. Once people start losing that, authority means nothing any more.
> this comment sounds like you're entering a schizophrenic episode

> I am not a psychologist

This is wildly inappropriate.
Certainly nobody is making the following fictional argument: "I'm not going to die anyway, and it's better for you to be dead than for me to be socially isolated."

Nobody is saying that.
Two major OS platforms covering majority of the population working together in an attempt to better track current populations at behest of the government. How could anyone even begin to feel a wee bit cynical? To question this effort it worse than wanting PATRIOT ACT to expire. It is downright unamerican.

I hate the fact that I definitely see a good reason for it and the goverment is more than happy to accommodate this power grab.
If nobody wants to buy those businesses, what does that tell you about them and the professional investors who chose to own hundreds of billions of dollars of their equity?

What does it tell you about the executives who chose to buy back shares rather than paying down debt?

What does it tell you about the idea that cash and other liquid assets on the balance sheet are detrimental to a company's value because of their impact on fundamental ratios?

I dispute your assertion, though. Boeing will be Boeing no matter what. GE will be GE no matter what. They build technology that would have been viewed as miraculous not too long ago.

Southwest Airlines, on the other hand, is just a bus company.
ALT+D too FWIW.
Nice, I always wanted to make something like this for my school notes but never got around to it. One thing that could be useful is if it would let you write longer paragraphs of text, which could be expanded on-demand. Ex.

# Fruits
## Orange
Oranges were first grown in...
## Banana
Bananas originated in...

Then the mind map would have Fruits -> [Orange, Banana], and you could click on Orange or Banana to expand the full content of the note. This is how I format my notes at least.
I mean I'm asking, how are they actually different, besides one being worse for the shareholders w.r.t. taxes? They both involve transferring $X to shareholders.

Dividends are also saying "we have this amount of money on hand or cash flow, and no better use for it, so here you go"

I don't see the difference. Stock buyback looks to me like dividends without the tax - imagine a dividend reinvestment plan without the middle step and the tax bill.
Ask HN: Is there such a thing as a WiFi keyboard driver for Linux?
I’m wanting to talk to Linux via WiFi and send commands to some sort of keyboard driver.

The goal is to have a keyboard for example on a smartphone display but it’s connected to Linux via WiFi.

Not Bluetooth.

Does such a thing exist?
Give me the same but in a form of a thin laptop. I would use it to code/browse HN/Gopherspace and to read media/play music. Some gaming with Nethack/frotz would be acceptable, too.
But even without the Second Amendment, the criminal could still get a gun. The difference is, with the Second Amendment, the civil-rights activist can also get a gun.
All testing has false negatives. The goal is to suppress the disease, not to ensure that nobody at all gets it.
I suggest they put a newspaper on someone's wall.
To quote Randall Munroe (https://xkcd.com/1052/)

By dubbing Econ "Dismal Science"

adherents exaggerate;

The "Dismal"'s fine -- it's "Science" where

they patently prevaricate."
I think HN contains most of the least-informed Linux users, actually. Point your eyes to /g/ and you find relatively competent users, if eager to jump on bandwagons. Point your eyes to reddit and take off the bottom 20% of Linux users on it who would never be able to figure out how to enable these, and you get users who are generally-speaking, pretty aware, and arguably better than the average HN user spouting on the same topic.
I've got close to a 100% success rate at take home coding challenges. I usually get pulled in because I'm an Architect that codes, so I ask for an end to end thing to solve.
As one of those new people boosting recent numbers, Scala is great! I use vscode with Metals and had no jvm experience before. sbt is annoying, Mill seems super promising, and graalvm native images basically mean that if I was going to do it in python, I might as well use scala now.
We don't require the trial period - it is offered as an option - we're not going to jeopardize a good candidate if they can't do a trial period.

Everyone we have offered the option has taken it, and they're usually pretty enthusiastic about it vs traditional interview process. We're working with them a lot during the trial period, and after if they get hired - lots of opportunity to find out how they're doing, and so far no negative feedback.

At the point where we move to the trial, we don't usually know age (because we haven't even seen the candidate) or family status. From what I've picked up, it's a mix of ages (usually a bit older - we've found some experience is necessary to be successful as remote-only), and mix of single, married, and families.

For those who have ended up hired - I think most are parents with younger families.

Other than the trial period, nobody usually works nights or weekends.
>The best programmers I've worked with have mostly not had CS degrees (tended to have degrees in maths, physics, or that sort of area).

There's no you were rigorous enough in tracking this for this statement to be useful to anyone. The people who don't fit the mold stand out.
My brother and I (both Portal listeners) were trying to recall & enumerate Eric's terms; we got the DISC, GIN, and EGO acronyms; I didn't remember that IDW was his term but that sounds right. Maybe the new one is GUT?
I agree, my only issue with Ghidra is that you can't patch and then export a modified binary, which you can do in IDA.

You haven't been able to work-around that have you?
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There are very well defined scientific protocols for what an infectious dose is, used in this research. You can put your “probably false” argument against the contents of the paper.
Nobody does contact tracing for flu, let alone common cold (which is caused by a bunch of different viruses)

Also, common cold mortality is extremely low.
EEE then. That's a virus transmitted by mosquitoes. Malaria was a bad example.
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This feels super-plausible to me, and it's something they would never, ever admit.
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Imagine how bad it was for them. A free niche product killer springs up over night.
>Moving the majority of activities indoors forever will have a negative impact on the psyche of the most people.

So does industrialization as a whole, but I'm not for rolling that back either. Ride the ennui all the way to posthuman psyches. c:
I love Microsoft cams and keyboards. They do it better than operating systems.
Sure I agree that the typically reported unemployment measure is best for measuring how easily people who want jobs can obtain them. However, so often this is touted not only as an indicator of the overall economy, but even the well-being of society. The categories of people you mention that shouldn't be counted... all of those people live in and have an effect on society. If we're worried about the economy, it seems like we would want to know how much of our population (not just job seekers) are working, and how many people depend on the system without employment. And if we're worried about aggregate well-being, a number that takes into account the massive prison population seems better.

I'm not saying that the common unemployment rate is useless. Only that it's over-used, and used to answer questions it has no business answering. It feels like we're sweeping a lot under the rug and everyone is playing along.