skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sixth Tone was setup by the Chinese government to be more relatable to western audiences by sounding more critical, so you shouldn't take it at face value. On the other hand, it does provide useful information, and it could be seen as an attempt to provide higher quality news out of China.

After the Xi era, I think Chinese propaganda will actually move in a more critical/informative direction like Sixth Tone, since the current overt methods are losing effectiveness. But again, that could also just mean real reporting depending on how the government evolves.
I continously rediscover the joy of technology by taking on hackathons and learning new technologies.

Teach yourself forensics or android programming or anything new and different to keep your skills from becoming '20 years of a career'.
I mean, you'd also have to wash your dog, right?
The more I read these comments/suggestions, the more I realize I'm bash'ing like a child. I seriously need to embrace my shell a little more.
Some doctors treat COVID-19 patients. If they have no PPE, they're more likely to get infected themselves and pass the virus to their other patients. Or they can outbid some hypochondriacs.
I'm surprised that they let him admit that he arrived to a ward covered in rubbish and medical waste staffed only by two opthamologists and two nurses tbh.

At -2 (and counting) for this currently, any downvoters care to comment as to why? If indeed this publication is a propaganda mouthpiece, then my surprise that they're publishing something that reflects badly on their medical providers should be easy to understand
I thought my eyes were just going blurry or something at first.
Hmm? Maybe they do, I hope they do. I was replying more specifically to this part:
> Multiplying two specific numbers together, while the instruction crosses two memory pages, when an interrupt arrives? How do you even test for that kind of thing?

I.e. trying to despell the idea that large systems are intrinsically difficult to test.
Interview with the creator of etee: first button-free VR controller
You can't enter my grocery store without a face covering. I didn't see anyone strictly enforcing it, but there was a >80% compliance rate, based off what I saw.
I think good old RSS has a lot of potential as a malleable system component or backbone. RSS = message queue subscription protocol.

You can choose your app to consume RSS, then transform other content on the web into RSS feeds using various services. E.g. twitter posts -> RSS. If RSS goes beyond blogs it could be great. Could pageduty be replaced with an RSS feed, for example? Or even Email/SMS to some extent? Email is "expensive" to deliver in bulk (see Amazon SES etc.) but I wonder if an API for "people" delivered to them via RSS would provide a nice alternative with people releasing one-time tokens to avoid spam, and then making delivering a message to a bunch of people practically free like it should be.
What a vast understatement
Everyday malakia
The funny coincidence with that story: Osama bin Laden's stated purpose for the 9/11 attacks was, in part, the presence of US troops in Saudi Arabia. The US announced the withdrawal of troops from Saudi Arabia on April 29, 2003. Four days later Bush made that "Mission Accomplished" speech as the US was effectively complying with bin Laden's demand and surrendering their presence in Saudi Arabia.
I love UHF. This is a truly great funny movie. Thanks for that Weird Al!
Is that article accurate? My understanding was that Seattle commissioned a multi-year study, and then when the results didn't go their way, quickly rushed a study out the door that said what they wanted. I got this from Marginal Revolution, and I can't find the article, but here is the actual study https://evans.uw.edu/policy-impact/minimum-wage-study and here is an MR article summarising the report: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2017/06/se...

The first two points from MR:

> – The numbers of hours worked by low-wage workers fell by 3.5 million hours per quarter. This was reflected both in thousands of job losses and reductions in hours worked by those who retained their jobs.

> – The losses were so dramatic that this increase “reduced income paid to low-wage employees of single-location Seattle businesses by roughly $120 million on an annual basis.”
There's really only space for one Weird Al, but he nailed it. He's a talented musician, solid songwriter, has more musical range than any artist I can think of, is backed by a solid team, and seems to genuinely love doing what he does.
Don't forget he's in CO, SPO2 is lower at altitude. Nobody has 100% in Denver- unless they have carbon monoxide poisoning (or so I'm told).
that brought back memories of early teen.
(I'm not Weird Al).

He became a vegetarian in 1992 (https://www.weirdal.com/archives/faq/, search for "vegetarian").

I don't know when the song was written, but he was playing it as early as 1992 (https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/weird-al-yankovic-2bd6cca...).
Didn't he also add the condition that it not be about food?
Also try setting caps as compose key and using the standard ANSI layout. Solves the problem of always having to double press characters such as quotes.
To note, Amex is both a payment processor and a card issuer - Visa/MC aren't card issuers, so chargebacks aren't decided by them, they're decided by the issuing bank.
Again: parent said that minimum wage is a bad idea period, compared it with eugenics and added nothing else to clarify. They didn't say it's a bad idea if chased with tunnel vision, or that it's a bad idea if used in isolation (I don't think that statement even makes sense - having a minimum wage is always going to be one decision amongst the context of a lot of other decisions being made).

I am questioning the particular way they worded their comment, I thought I made that obvious.
True. In America it's both propaganda and entertainment; which is why all the 24/7 hate networks are really super dangerous when something like this is going on. People want their news byte. It's one thing to sensationalize studies for mundane stuff to make some spicy science news, but to do it ever day, on every unpublished study and exaggerate or extrapolate the most bizarre information; it just washes audiences in conflicting information that helps no one.
Oh, give a little space to me
away from me.
Please try not to sneeze in my eyes, corona.
Sanitizer isn't free
uh woe is me
couldn't get an N-95, corona.
Kids are home from school
and they're bugging me
stores are out of food, that's no good
there's none left for me
so I say:
"Why, why, why, why why" Ow!
From the Commodore book, about the early 80s:

"We actually made a couple of really hot processors for a chess tournament for somebody. He literally water-cooled it, and he ran it at something like eight megahertz. It was just ridiculous how fast he ran it."

Earlier it was explained that some processors coming off the production line could run faster than others, and they could test for it to pick the best ones for such purposes. They didn't end up increasing the clock speed for released computers, as other components could not keep up.
The California DOI is requiring that companies issue some sort of "reasonable" refund, which has to be justified to the department in some way. Other states will likely do something similar.
Ask HN: How to Sort HN by Topic
Is there a website that shows the newsfeed by topic?
>In noisy and unreliable data it's always possible to pick a single data point that supports any desired conclusion.

Reminds me of the Principle of Propaganda - You can prove anything if you ignore enough facts or data.
Mostly. Give a listen to the gory version of "The Night Santa Went Crazy." But it's still so absurd you can't be too offended. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC4hJMpW2pM
Can anyone with an electronics background explain why it's so hard to clock a 6502 higher than a handful of MHz, when modern chips can do 1000x that? Is it just larger transistor scale leading to excess capacitance / slower switching?
Yep!

https://www.metrolyrics.com/bologna-lyrics-weird-al-yankovic...

That was on a Weird Al tape that I had back then. I still think of his versions of the songs on that tape (like "Another One Rides the Bus") as the "real" versions. I had almost never heard any of the things he was parodying anywhere else.

It must have been his self-titled album, released in 1983:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Weird_Al%22_Yankovic_(album...
I'll never forget the Spatula City ad.
Weird Al's satire has never felt mean-spirited, and he's genuinely musically talented.

And I can never stop hearing "Living in the Fridge" when the radio plays Aerosmith's Living on the Edge
The license check is opt-in on the developer’s side.

https://www.objc.io/issues/17-security/receipt-validation/
I think some of those people are going to have a hard time getting a Bay Area salary when they are living outside the Bay Area.
There is a portion of on boarding to a new company that is common to most companies.

Then there is the portion that is common to many companies in that field, where you would be doing a particular type of work.

Then there is the portion that is unique to that company.

Each company has a unique combination of the above.

You could cover the first part reasonably well, with sufficient funding, a big enough pool of advisors to pull from, good enough marketing, etc.... But that’s not going to be enough to provide adequate coverage of the second portion, and you won’t be able to touch the third portion.

To really reach into that second part, you’ve got to have a strong network effect, so that you can get enough community members who can then provide advice coverage in all the various fields. That gets the pump primed and the flywheel going.

I have no idea what it would take to really dig deep into that third part. You might have to already be the Facebook or the Amazon in this field in order to make it.

Speaking only for myself, no — I would not be willing to pay for this service.

However, I might be willing to join a community network of people who are trying to help other people in this space, but only if there was adequate privacy and security built into that network from the very start.
Mexico: In the absence of people, crocodiles take over Oaxaca beaches
And Sir, you win the Internet for not mentioning GOL there. Kudos well deserved, Conway was a great mathematician (among other 'skills'). He'll be missed.
For the OP's sake, I hope they completely ignore your advice.

Customize your environment to what makes you the most efficient. Yeah, sure. Learn to use all the things that are there and understand what others do. But customize your environment to what makes you the most efficient. This is an interactive command. It's not like they are going to foist it onto everyone else (which is the true sin, IMHO).
Rooms should be advertised @OP
>we already have direct evidence that when it spreads without any containment it causes unacceptably extreme amounts of sickness and death

That hasn't happened in Sweden.
Couldn't agree more, was using the French layout and while learning vim I always asked myself what are those weird keybindings, switching to US layout, they suddenly started to make sense because the keys are more reachable without the usual gymnastic.
Sigh! This kinda micromanaging herds doesn't work, you are wasting your time :(
How would you expect to you hear of some when they're prohibited by law?

Try it like this. Federal minimum wage comes out to around $15,000/year. This is in the same ballpark as college tuition -- which is generally regarded as costing a lot of money. If you go to an institution where you're a novice and it takes half your hours to learn the trade and the other half is productive but effectively unskilled work for the employer, you would expect these two to net to approximately zero, right? So why is it at all unexpected that it would frequently net to a number which is slightly positive but less than minimum wage?

> Even if these jobs exist, what percentage of $4 job will be those?

Probably the large majority of them, because otherwise why would anybody take those jobs? They wouldn't be paying enough to attract employees unless they were offering something else of value that existing jobs with higher compensation don't have.

Corporations can't just offer to pay $0.25/hour and get a line of workers lining up at the door. They have to outbid other companies for labor. That's why most companies already pay more than minimum wage for most jobs. And it's why most of the jobs that would pay less than minimum wage are ones that offer the workers something else in its place -- education, more flexible hours, a shorter commute etc. Taking those options away makes peoples lives worse, not better.
Robert Geroch's _Mathematical Physics_ is organized around algebraic structures, motivated by category theory.
They didn't actually compare it with eugenics though, they compared the nature of the discourse around eugenics to discourse around minimum wage with the penultimate point of explaining a mix of why/how they distrust economists, specifically economists, to handle discussions about ethics. They weren't making a direct comparison between the topics themselves and yet most of the replies are reacting as if they had, illustrating why these sorts of talks with laymen are bad ideas.
> My understanding was that Seattle commissioned a multi-year study, and then when the results didn't go their way, quickly rushed a study out the door that said what they wanted.

Do you have any source for that? Because the same author sets are on both studies. The article I linked to is directly criticizing the study you linked to (and also directly links to it).

Admittedly I am not a field expert and I haven't dived into the weeds on these studies. But my points I think aren't reliant on these details. The are simply:

1. There is much debate over if minimum wage laws or even specific implementations do more good or harm, which would seem contrary to the parent appearing to try to claim the harms as facts.

2. All of this seems to make the claim that the harm of eugenics is equal to minimum wage quite egregious.

I'm not trying to start a flame war over the details of viability of minimum wage here - I don't think that will be productive for anyone. I just want to underscore how egregious comparing minimum wage to eugenics is here.
I agree that turning of nuclear before coal is pretty stupid.
I switched back to the HTML version.
Sysadmin tools, written in a busybox-like fashion
> though many of our patients experienced severe side effects and couldn’t continue the treatment

I took chloroquine years ago as a preventative anti-malaria when I was in India. I didn't get the weird dreams, but I got the harsh bowl movement, heart palpations, etc. I had to stop taking it and so did someone else on the trip. Had I got malaria I knew it would be worse, but I could start taking them again as a treatment drug as well.

Others on the trip didn't have any issues so I'm sure it's individual, but it is a very serious drug that can be hard on your system. I don't think that's been made clear.
Flag Semaphore
I add two spaces after a period because it makes text considerably easier to read.

This is not the point however. What gives these bastards at Microsoft the prerogative to dictate how our language is displayed or written down? After all, they're just bloody undisciplined programmers, so what the hell do they know about language and the ergonomics of how the brain interprets printed text anyway? Given, Microsoft's decades-long lineage of ergonomic cock-ups, the answer is clearly SFA.

Moreover, when did we give these tech giants, Microsoft, et al a mandate to unilaterally push social change (which they've always reckoned is their god-given right to do so)? On whose authority or Act of Congress gives them this right? Right, there is none!

I notice another item on Hacker News today which suggests software programmers should be licensed. Now that's a really brilliant idea—if these bastards then step out of line then they'll lose their livelihoods.

What a champion idea, we might then start getting software that's actually functional and comparatively bug-free.

What a change that would be.

——

P.S.: The change from double to spaces will never be a problem for me, the last time I was prepared to give Microsoft money for Office was for Office 2003. It'd be lunacy for me to pay money for a downgrade given that my 2003 version already provides the option for BOTH single or double spaces.

Never will I ever upgrade it again!

Incidentally, as mentioned above, the elimination of this long-standing option in Office is another classic instance of Microsoft's authoritarian 'pushing' change.
I'm not German but I'm pretty sure that you're from the 50 cent army given that this account was created super recently and has only posted in this one thread with utter nonsense straight out of Google translate. Especially since your post is about how drugs don't work on a predominantly American used forum...
That`s exactly what I thought!
Decision-making over social distancing is taking a toll on our mental health
OR site:superuser.com
I read the link and unfortunately the "data" as far as I could tell is people's opinions and assumptions. Is there any other source/data?
Docker Compose Spec
>Only around 10,000-20,000 otherwise-healthy would die even in the worst case

>Nothing much, since 98% of those "millions" would be folks already above age 75 and with 2+ serious underlying conditions.

This is at odds with what actual experts say and actual reality as observed by people on the ground now.

Non-mitigation was projected to result in 2.2 million fatalities in the US and to date 46% of fatalities are under 75. This would be 968k under 75. We would in fact lose 75k under 44. 23k under 34.

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/s...

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/COVID19/index.htm

>American meat processing has been permanently closed already.

How is it "permanently" closed?

>We are looking at 100 million or more dead due to starvation in the coming year,

Where are you getting this number? The labor required for our agricultural industry is much smaller than the total labor pool. Why are you assuming that we can't reasonably discover enough people to keep this minority of our economy functioning enough to keep everyone from starving? We could run the sector with the military if we had to if the alternative was everyone dying. We can also run it with people that have already had the disease and come through it. On the one hand you predict that almost all young people come through it just fine and on the other you are predicting that we can't find enough young survivors of covid to run the minority of our economy for our population to survive. Which is it?

We cannot make life and death decisions based on your unsupported and unsupportable fancies we have to deal with real numbers, projections, and models.

In reality letting it "wash over us" like you and the president want would have killed millions including far more of otherwise healthy folk than you imagine. Digest more information and come to better conclusions.
Machine Learning project management – A decision makers’ guide
Wouldn’t using k8s that needs docker images built from docker files achieve this ?
It seems like you are assuming supermarkets can support the same number of customers if the reallocated their staff to pickup/delivery.

As a shopper who knows what I want and where to get it, I might spend 15 minutes shopping at a minute at the register, and that doesn't count my drive to and from the store.

With respect to unemployment, nobody is interestested in working at a super-market, especially when unemployment is pays 50% more [1]. Workers would quit if it did not disqualify them from unemployment

[1] the average cashier salary is 30k/year (575/week) and the current unemployment benefit for the same salary is 875/ week when you include the additional $600

https://www.salary.com/research/salary/benchmark/cashier-gro...

https://www.edd.ca.gov/unemployment/ui-calculator.htm
wow~!
I liked the picture of the police standing really close to that guy while writing him a ticket, hopefully it's an old stock photo.
Consciousness is not computation(Roger Penrose)
And $20/roll would expedite the changeover pretty quickly.
When read "three body" at the time, I was also amazed by the description. Always wondering how a multi dimention world would looks like as a kid.
Have you seen any theories floating around that it had already spread in some places like the following?

https://www.ksbw.com/article/new-study-investigates-californ...

I’m in SF but having a hard deciphering the plausibility vs the timing and effectiveness of sheltering-in-place vs it just being a rationalization.

Anything similar stories out there for CO?
From my uninformed perspective, it's hard to disagree with this. Tesla seems to have the whole manufacturer direct thing figured out pretty well. Anecdotally, no one I know who's bought a Tesla has had a major complaint about the purchase and pickup process.
American Humbug
Fortunately for OP, the HN crowd already discussed exactly this.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19988548
Average blood oxygen levels only drop about 5% in Denver.
A friend just told me that the peace sign came from the flag semaphore signals for "N" and "D". I was skeptical, but she was right!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_symbols

What intrigues me about the flag semaphore system isn't just the character encoding, but the protocol:

> The sender uses the "Attention" signal to request permission to begin a transmission. The receiver uses a "Ready to receive" signal not shown above to grant permission to begin the transmission. The receiver raises both flags vertical overhead and then drops them to the rest position, once only, to grant permission to send. The sender ends the transmission with the "Ready to receive" signal. The receiver can reply with the "Attention" signal. At this point, sender and receiver change places.
Considering the fact that budgets, including advertising budgets, then to be a percentage of expected revenue, I’d say your probably right
Add a . after .com
Nurses need how many years of school? Lawyers need how many years of school? The harder to replace one is the one who spends more time in school.

As much as we like to think software doesn't need an education, for the overwhelming majority, they spend at least 4 years in University before working in industry. Bootcampers/self-tahght are a small minority of workers.
Why do Chinese translate America as “The Beautiful Country”? (2015)
I still love programming – what's wrong with me?
AWS has had an unusual approach to console development. There seems to be an internal opinion that a software engineer can do the job of a frontend developer just fine. And a small percentage of them do an excellent job of just that, but the majority don’t. People are trying hard to address that, but it’s a lot of work.
Spurred by a post on AskHN about a dev who has "fallen out of love" with programming, I wrote down my thoughts on being on the IC path as opposed to the management path. Would love to know your experiences around this issue.
Minor point: or the UK layout, for a European keyboard (ISO keyboard) with the tall enter key, rather than the American ANSI layout with a wide enter.

The extra key on the UK layout brings # without shift, which is useful, and £ and ¬ which presumably aren't, but could be remapped to something more useful like € and an accent.
That still doesn't explain how opening businesses can avoid infecting many more people. Now certainly but even when infection rates get considerably lower.

A scan of recent news seems to indicate Spain doesn't have anything like a testing program in place.

A look at Italy, Spain, France and Germany seems to indicate the epidemic has plateaued, not stopped and it's plateaued at a fairly high level.
Then those are all great justifications in the build column!
Slavery isn’t a good example because that requires government enforcing the ability for people to own people as property.