skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. I think there's plenty of space to make a difference in tech. I don't think it's automatic in any way (i.e. making a positive social impact) -- I think the choices of every CEO and every worker matter. Facebook and/or Google could turn the industry in completely different directions (e.g. more centered in providing culture, growth and genuine interaction) if there was the will. The extent to which they're glorified ad-machines is a choice.

And outside of that (i.e. big tech) there's plenty to invent and contribute in countless ways. Medical equipment, niche technology products, innovative and useful consumer technologies, the warriors we don't hear about improving industrial processes and everyday stuff, etc.

I have younger friends looking to enter the game industry. I tell them: make sure you don't land somewhere that makes you start hating what you loved just so you can tell yourself you make games (having addiction-machine mobile games in mind). Better work anywhere else and wait for the opportunity to do it right, I believe.

Selling your soul is always a choice... and it's not an easily replaceable good.
I had a CSF leak repaired by Dr. Schievink at Cedars-Sinai. My diagnosis happened after I had an acute attack of intracranial hypotension shortly following a long and bumpy session of riding mowing. This attack involved a 'worst headache of my life' that was somewhat relieved by being horizontal. Getting to the hospital seemed too painful, so I stuck it out at home and the headache went away. A couple days later I developed a left sixth cranial nerve palsy, which persisted for around two weeks before I finally went to the ER. After a few days in the hospital and tons and tons of tests for infections, MRIs, lumbar punctures, etc, they decided that I had idiopathic hypertrophic pachymeningitis. That was the working diagnosis for about a week, when my neurologist called me back and told me that they thought they had found CSF leaked into the spinal canal, and so they believed I had a CSF leak.

So, the short answer is that diagnosis will be difficult, and there isn't really a test, but MRI with gadolinium contrast will show enhancement of the dura, and hopefully someone looking at it can see a leak if it is obvious. There are also cases of leaks being caused by a venous fistula, which does not image well.

For what it's worth, I had back-of-head-and-neck headaches intermittently for a while before this, most notably when riding rollercoasters (which I do miss). That is the only long term subtle 'sign' I can remember.

Hope this helps.

Edit: I should also probably add that my case is somewhat weird, caused by a bone malformation in my thoracic spine and difficult to localize with imaging. I had a T1 laminectomy to correct this. However, I'm not sure there are really 'standard' cases, except those that are iatrogenic due to LP or epidural in delivery.
My dad is a professor of emergency medicine. There are med students that come through in their 30s or 40s (none are former CEOs). It’s obviously not as common as people in their early 20s, but that may just be a self-selection thing (rather than bias against older candidates per se).
We could be donating plasma instead of sitting at home. Probably better plasma than ventilators.
A Virtual COVID19 Test
Another current SE user here.
I've been waiting for this since rumors started 6+ months ago.

I was hoping they were going to keep the same screen size but think I'll upgrade anyways. Figure I will need to eventually and this has a solid tech bump-up.
There are many online shops that provide the same as Amazon: Cdiscount, rueducommerce, darty, fnac, etc...

That's for non food items. For food, all the major supermarkets have been offering delivery for the major part of the decade, long before amazon.
Wow. That’s how I had visualized it in my mind when I read how they work, but I figured I was wrong because it seemed too dumb and I thought there’s no way it could work like that.

Thanks for explaining.

It would be amazing for someone to come up with a “worst case write” benchmark for SMR drives.
Ask HN: Does anybody need any help?
Hey all,

So today I got 'furloughed'. In the UK, where I'm based, it means that although I'm still an employee of my company, the government pays 80% of my salary and I'm not allowed to do any work.

Paired with the fact I'm starting grad school in Boston in a few months, I would love to help anybody out on their projects/businesses wherever I can and where ever I can be of use. For free - I don't expect or want any pay.

So my question to you all is, do you need any help?

Before today I was working day to day as a designer in architecture and construction and was just about to start working on a project for Google in London (the contract didn't go through because of the pandemic situation).

So my main skills are in design. Drawing, Adobe, 3D Modelling, 3D printing, design thinking, prototyping, design sprints. All that good stuff.

However over the past year I have also began designing and building my own programs, so am very comfortable with sketch, invision, figma and the processes of wireframing etc. I can also code in the classic web dev languages from HTML to PHP and although I wouldn't say I'm comfortable yet I can hack together bits and pieces in React Native and Rails.

So whatever it may be, let me know!

Cheers,
James

more at:
jamesstirrat.com
For our paid product, we allow the company to set priority based on roles (mostly for executives) and also to tune the algorithm to work differently (prioritizing meeting space utilization vs. individual focus time)
Apart from a clickbait title this article offers zero evidence (or even plausible arguments) why the presented responses were "the best".

3k deaths in Germany is already a lot and, as far as I know (correct me if I'm wrong), they classify COVID-19 deaths with pre-existing medical conditions as not covid-related. Also, Germany is a very rich country which clearly helps.

Norway and Finland are sparsely populated (with low total population) and New Zealand / Iceland are isolated islands (also with low population totals). I do find these explanations more plausible and consistent with other countries.

Taiwan is a different ballgame as they had rough time with the previous SARS epidemic. Instant lockdown was the winning play here, correctly implemented. I see zero connection with woman being the leader here.
Have you tried the Google Pixel 3a?
If you take up more space, you cost more. And even with an extra leg room cost, prices for flights are cheaper than ever.
ServiceNow pledges no layoffs in 2020
Lol we"ll see who your Google and Amazon competition will be. No one is stopping France from having startups in other domains and yet we see not one company of note.
You’re stretching to find a unreasonable interpretation of the above assertion. Theranos was a fraudulent company that never had a product to sell; trying to hold them up as an example of how even healthcare isn’t safe is ridiculous.
Pinterest went down briefly yesterday and I was alarmed that its funding had been cut off. Many of us visual designers rely on it. Pinterest is one of those companies that may or may not be a Unicorn, it looks like it has a viable path to profitability but who knows.
I didn't say the "right" stance was to ban extensions, just the "easiest".

Since humans default to lazy, I thought that clearly explained why the phenomenon happens.

Perhaps I should have been clearer that I don't think it's the ideal approach, even if I understand where it comes from.
Are you under the impression people are throwing the bread away after baking?
Breaking the Size and Speed Limit of Modulators: The Workhorses of the Internet
>but because this will finally mean other manufacturers will start to make compact phones.

Why does it mean that? They could have been building compact phones already and they weren't. Not sure why they're going to start now when Apple is clearly signalling to the industry that people don't want to buy small smartphones.
Also, experts raises the red flags years before the scam was finally revealed. The fraud was trivially discoverable; investors let their goals cloud good judgement.
Could someone explain the joke?
For pre-symptomatic C19 patients, we're already doing a large-scale natural experiment, because HCQ is part of widespread protocols for common ailments like RA, and the dosages those patients get are comparable. As I understand it: we're admitting lots of RA patients with C19; there doesn't seem to be a huge effect with early dosages either?
Deceptive headline...
Nobody wants to go down in history as the person responsible for a large number of short-term deaths by giving the directive to lift the stay-at-home directives too soon.
So did you also complain when computer manufacturers stopped including PS/2 and VGA ports?

People have been complaining about Apple getting rid of things since the original iMac got rid of the 3-1/2 drive. High end android phones from Google and Samsung got rid of the headphone jack also.
It's just one datapoint, but for example the Nikon D750 is the most used Nikon camera on flickr (yeah I know, it hasn't died) and that camera is a few years old now.

https://www.flickr.com/cameras/nikon/
The original paper is talking about "abrupt ecological disruption", but the NYT article title is "Wildlife Collapse From Climate Change Is Predicted to Hit Suddenly and Sooner"

I've read the paper, and if I understood correctly the hypothesis is that because there are less usual seasonal variations of temperatures near the equator, ecosystems in this area are more susceptible to be disrupted by global warming.

Talking about disruption seems safe from a scientific point of view, but collapse is almost synonymous with extinction, this is quite a leap...
What the Night Sky Would Look Like If Planets Were as Close as the Moon (2013)
If 10% already have it wouldn't that mean we're only a few weeks away from it fizzling out, given the rapid rate at which it spreads?
It doesn’t mention some of the newer things like hooks.

I love how much emphasis there is on efficiently updating the display. That mostly isn’t a problem these days (indeed it’s somewhat likely that emacs is slowed down by trying to compute efficient updates instead of just sending out the updates as soon as possible)
Minneapolis field office memo.
Awesome! Thank you for sharing!
Sub-wavelength GHz-fast broadband ITO Mach–Zehnder modulator on Si photonics
How we implemented MySQL types in our versioned database
Oh absolutely. Usually they're at least past phase 1 trials so at least investors know that the FDA has at least spoken to the safety. I've worked in startups in both fields so it's just fun to watch software people salivate over the impact of biotech while the biotech people salivate over the easy money and sky high valuations of software.
I can't read Hebrew, but this doesn't seem that controversial. For example, many countries plotted on the FT coronavirus website show similar plots of deaths/day vs time.

https://www.ft.com/coronavirus-latest
Never heard this before but despite being grammatically sound, I guess the events that would lead to someone truthfully saying it are meant to defy reason.
> When you handle unsanitized input in C on a security boundary, you must literally treat the compiler as a "lawful evil" accomplice to the attackers: you must assume that the compiler will follow the spec to the letter, but will look for any excuse to open up a gaping security hole. It's incredibly stressful if you know that fact, and incredibly dangerous if you don't.

I'd say more chaotic evil, since the Standard has many goofy and unworkable corner cases, and no compiler tries to handle them all except, sometimes, by needlessly curtailing optimizations. Consider, for example:

int x[2];
int test(int *restrict a, int *b)
{
*a = 1;
int *p = x+(a!=b);
*p = 2;
return *a;
}

The way the Standard defines "based upon", if a and b are both equal to x, then p would be based upon a (since replacing a with a pointer to a copy of x would change the value of p). Some compilers that ignore "restrict" might generate code that accommodates the possibility that a and b might both equal x, but I doubt there are any that would generally try to optimize based on the restrict qualifier, but would hold off in this case.
x.ai focuses on scheduling meetings with people outside your company (so there is still a manual step of choosing a time) and doesn't work great for 5+ people.

We're focused on internal company meetings, and so we can automatically choose a time without any party having to pick between several available times even for a 5-10 person meeting.
paredit, cider, rainbow brackets to start with
Right. I always think the pointer declaration is part of the type. (that is why I do not use C. Is there really a good reason for this C syntax?)
> Barr says he cannot even explain why the material must stay secret without putting national security at risk.
True and well-known in the community.

Wolfram is (was?) a brilliant mind and a very successful enterpreneur. He also "crossed the line" way too many times to be taken seriously.
What kind of documentation do you look at, and how do you document that sort of thing?
Demand started dropping before official shut-down orders arrived, as risk-conscious citizens cut down on high risk activities before officially ordered to do so.
That used to be correct in the past but things have changed here a lot. There is a growing population of the middle class. Nothing compared to what is there in the developed countries but nonetheless with some significant purchasing power.

The mean income of the 90th percentile in India in 2004 was about 113 USD a month.[1] In the next 4 years the GDP has increased ~4x. [2]

Now even if we assume (I don't have data from a study on this) the 90th percentile income doubled, it leaves them with 226 USD a month.

I can say from personal experience that is a modest assumption. My own salary has increased 40x in this time period. If you consider my friends (a sample space of 30) whose salary I keep track, the average increase is around 20x.

Now it is very reasonable (as the phone has become a very personal "being") to assume that someone in this income will spend a month of their salary on their phone.

Now that is a market size of 120 million people and increasing.

On a personal note, I run a operations company of ~40 people and their average salary is ~300 USD a month and everyone has a phone that costs more than 200USD.

So I think it's reasonable to assume Apple is still missing the bus.

[1] https://ihds.umd.edu/sites/default/files/publications/pdf-fi...

[2] https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&...
The source image is also pixelated[1]. Could've used a vector instead[2]

1. https://www.bouncingdvdlogo.com/logos/dvdlogo-01.png

2. https://www.brandsoftheworld.com/logo/dvd-video-0
E - The Wuhan lab was engineering a virus for potential bioweapon use, but it escaped into the wild.
TACC's Jetstream, Wrangler and DOE NERSC Cori simulate future of wind power
Would love to learn more about the use-case for recruiting! Are you thinking in terms of scheduling when the candidates come in / hop on the phone based on interviewer availability?
Well, that's a life-changer. Though it's annoying that it only seems to work after a second long-press to go from the condensed version of that little window to the bigger one.

My ideal is that I can flip up and change the source in the time it takes for a song to change, which I used to be able to do seamlessly in Android. Though according to the sibling comment, Android got worse for that use since I switched too.
There's so much we don't know about this disease. Maybe there will be surprising findings.
Had the same experience with a 6S, coming from a 4s.

Don’t know if it’s the phone or me but the 11 is fine so far.

I think it’s a mix of the 6-8 design being too thin for rounded borders and the metal back being super slippery compared to glass.
Virtual Tour Egypt Pyramid
Employees will get 80% pay for staying home. Standard unemployment packages for all those laid off because of the virus, announced a few weeks ago nationwide.
He doesn't mind people dying as long as it gives him a scapegoat. The same man that uses tax dollars to transport equipment to the US, then gives it to (a small group of) private companies to make the states bid against each other.

Shameful and incredible that any US politician stoops so low. Once the leader of the free world, now just America first (but only if my family or my buddies can profit).
Problem with that is people with RA and Lupus are typically hyper careful about their health and most likely to be serious about self isolating.
The Importance of the In-Arms Phase (of raising children)
Yep, the thing is, this phone has a huuuge forehead and chin which is comparable to from 5 years ago. Even if you don't want notches and pinholes, you can still have much thinner bezels without actually changing the body size. Look at this photo of Pixel 1 vs Pixel 2. They are both the same body size: https://i.imgur.com/VVqVt2x.png
I inherited a betta fish from my friend who traveled too much. She kept him in a 1 gallon tank. He always "seemed" depressed, always staying inside his little house thing. So I made it my mission to try to make this fish as happy as I could.

It never felt quite right to keep him in such a small space, so I bought a 5 gallon tank, and put in a (fake) plant. After the initial shock of the new environment, he seemed to really like his plant and I'd sometimes find him hiding between the leaves. But still to this day he rarely swims around. He still spends most of his time inside his house, though I every so often find him playing up at the top. 95% of the time he's stationary inside his house.

Next I'm going to try introducing some vines that hang down from the top to see if that coaxes him up. But it all makes me wonder if fish can incur long-term trauma or depression. Who knows how long he sat on the shelf of the pet store in a tiny cup? Did it affect his mental health? Or is it simply his "personality" (fishonality?) to be a homebody. I sure am.

I don't know, but this article kind of vindicates my train of thought.
IIRC, Italy had a health care professional study that put their IFR at something around .35% or so. Similar for Germany, and the CDC just did a study of HCP's here and came up with 0.26% IFR (but the sample was 75% women).
A rebuild is not a random write workload and is written in big chunks so they should hold up still.
I wouldn't say that healthcare is unsafe. I'm skeptical of the original comment's entire thesis, that identifying companies in a socially useful space is a good investment strategy.
To be more specific about why the implementation is bad, it's hardcoded to refresh around every 30ms but not precisely 30ms.
haha That was the main idea behind it, perfect tool for people with ADHD
After reading this I had to do a quick self-assessment.

For the last few years or so (I'm 33, also a software engineer) I've noticed a pretty big decline in my mental state. I can't focus. I immediately forget what I just looked at, read or did. I completely zone out when people talk to me. I am just not present in any situation. What is strange is that I can actually notice it, not in real-time however. It's been worrying me for the last few months so much so that I started meditating which I've never done before. My wife mentioned seeing a therapist because she thought maybe I was depressed so I scheduled an appointment but it's been rescheduled due to the virus.

I keep hearing about other programmers experiencing similar issues (yourself included) and I wonder if the nature of what we do somehow damages our brain in some capacity and we just don't know it yet. Obviously Lee's case is different but it's certainly scary. I hope he doesn't suffer as well.
Anyone else miss the 3:2 aspect ratio phones? If they made a device that handles like an iPhone 4S but with smaller bezels, chin, and forehead (and maybe slightly thinner, if they must), I figure that'd be a killer. Maybe it's less of an issue now that most of their apps seem to support navigation from the canvas rather than the top left corner of the screen (I don't know since I have only ever used iPhones for testing, and not recently), but it would be nice if an ordinary person could reach every part of the screen with a thumb without adjusting their grip.

Also this phone isn't even compact, whether they slap the SE label on it.
> ignoring the fact that a pandemic ravaging unchecked through the entire population would be having an even worse effect

Isn't that entirely hypothetical though? Find it hard to take such statements seriously when the experience worldwide is so widely varied.

The evidence is clear that lockdowns have caused this economic impact, how can anyone actually make accurate estimates of the alternative?
As a young person who didn't go through the first bubble, but is sitting on cash, I say bring it on!
Even pre-covid, Raoult had a reputation for pumping out hundreds of really poor quality studies and making controversial public claims. It's a shame he's the one that's caught the attention of the general public, there's lots of good work going on with other potential treatments, but suddenly my social media is filled with armchair pharmacologists arguing about this one drug.
He's looking for health care, actually.
The features on offer here for the price sre surprisingly good from Apple.

The big phone/small phone argument will be silly in a couple of years when we all have folding phones.
As someone who runs a restaurant in the Bay Area, that's not really accurate. We were busy right up until the shut-down.
What you are trying to do doesn't look like an overlay, but an override[1].

you can do something like this:

let
new_electrum = pkgs.electrum.overrideAttrs (oldAttrs: rec {
name = "${oldAttrs.pname}-${version}";
version = "4.0.0a";
src = fetchurl {
url = "https://download.electrum.org/${version}/Electrum-${version}.tar.gz";
sha256=pkgs.lib.fakeSha256;
};
})
in
<then use "new_electrum">

Unfortunately there is no https://download.electrum.org/4.0.0a/Electrum-4.0.0a.tar.gz so I don't have the hash. So you would need to perhaps correct it. You could invoke this it will fail with an error that hash is wrong and will provide the file hash, then just replace pkgs.lib.fakeSha256 with the hash in quotes.

[1] https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#sec-pkg-overrideAttrs

Edit: looks like the version is on GitHub, and after I posted seems like you already figured it out, but maybe it can help someone else, typically that's the way to override.
Agree! And have definitely noticed this both on websites and apps, that sometimes for example it's impossible to highlight a field that's buried behind the keyboard.

One would think that you'd test the whole iPhone range when developing, since it's actually doable (compared to the Android landscape with infinite resolutions) but no.

I'm not blaming Apple for that though.
Can you elaborate on what do you mean by 'becoming one with the computer'? My understanding is that you mean that we should put some assumptions aside and try to look from the CPU point of view, which can be helpful for debugging, testing, design, etc. Am I right?
edit: spelling mistake
What a clickbait title. Carnivorous should be replaced with omnivorous. I can almost guarantee that an editor came in and added that bit for alliteration/consonance.

The word carnivorous isn't mentioned in the body of the text once. This isn't a study comparing Vegans and Inuits that only eat meat like the title might suggest.

> A recent study explored how diet affect the activity of gut microbes. To do this, the researchers analyzed stool samples from 61 volunteers who had been following either a vegetarian, vegan, or omnivorous diet for at least one year.
Nice, I ordered a pack for myself. Better than adding Tp to Instacart and hoping it magically shows up.
96% of households in the US own a TV

https://www.adweek.com/tv-video/nielsen-estimates-that-119-9...

Are we really going to do the whole Slashdot meme “Do people still watch TV? I haven’t owned a TV in 10 years”.