skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We’ve never been able to create a vaccine.

Nobody has tried very hard because the common cold is unpleasant but bearable. This vaccine is now a global priority, there may even be a few variants discovered.

Reinfection is neither common nor proven. Given the number of cases globally and the long incubation period plus unreliable tests such stories are not unexpected.

I agree a recession and layoffs are coming to every sector, but war is a greater fear. This could cause more unrest and wars than 2008 did if it lasts longer than a few months.
I just checked out Data Driven Team and Herald. What do you think of this comment[0]:

> Good PMs know the importance of talking to customers frequently. Good PMs listen intently to customers to develop their product hypothesis. Great PMs also listen to what isn’t said and anticipate where the industry overall is headed when developing their product hypothesis.

How do you think about balancing data (customer) driven approach and product vision? This is an age-old question. I sided with the former and am learning that there's also wisdom in the latter. This might be a better way to put it: there's time and place for each approach, in a product's life cycle.

[0] https://twitter.com/shreyas/status/1249039646094311424
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So there was a whole book about this, Power Elite by C.W. Mills. I suspect quite a few people know this.
Does anybody get hired for SWE positions at Google _without_ an internal referral? When I was interviewing there 6 or so years ago I was under the impression that you, in practice, had to have an insider vouch for you.
I believe I have played for at least a few minutes every single game ever commercially released for the BBC Micro, a British 8-bit home computer.

I got slightly obsessed with playing all of them, a few years ago.

About 10-20% of them are pretty good. A small percentage are genuinely shockingly good, for such an old system.

The vast majority are pretty awful, with many of them being horrible BBC BASIC “conversions” of at the time current popular arcade games, with names and icons changed to avoid copyright problems.

I don’t feel particularly enlightened by my short-lived obsession.
A month ago I would’ve agreed with the article you linked to. I’m suggesting that right now there’s probably enough information in merely the death count to say “we need to do something! Argh, panic!” — and governments, regional and national, are doing just that worldwide.
Based off of how cameras are currently used (at least from my limited sample size), I don't think that would really matter.

People regularly shoot in various "raw" formats which are significantly larger in size so that they have more flexibility in how to post-process. They capture a whole bunch of extra data, move it around, and generally store it indefinitely knowing they will throw a lot of it away in the final photo so that they can make the decision what to throw away later while they're looking at a 27" colour-corrected screen instead of a small camera screen.

People don't do HDR on-camera, they generally shoot multiple exposures and adjust in software after to get the effect and balance they're looking for which is basically Night Sight to a lesser degree.

A bit of extra disk space and transfer time is small peanuts and already fits the workflow most photographers are used to.
Agreed, in 2018 Denmark followed the WHO recommendation and produced a flu vaccine for three types of the flu.

Unfortunately a fourth type was the dominant type that year and that was not included in the vaccine.

The vaccine for this year will be for four type of the flu, 2 for type A and 2 for type B.
I've seen fractals that nobody has seen.

(Not hard to do with fractals :D)
Open source projects!

Find the highest profile one you can with horrendous design, that you have an interest in, and dive in.

This does good for everyone plus you get a highly visible record of contributing to OSS. Win win win.

Good luck
The second large reason is that mass transits are actively being discouraged in order to limit spread, and people seems quite aware that sitting closely in a bus/tram/subway is a bad idea. Getting a bike is a much cheaper alternative than getting a car in order to solve that specific problem.
> The current entry level iPhone; iPhone SE 2020 with A13 is now faster in Single Threaded performance than ALL current shipping Android, including Flagship Android. And judging by the Qualcomm roadmap, this will likely remain the same in 2021 as well.

Citation please?
There's little financial incentive for most games to fully prevent cheating.

But a streaming-exclusive game would be impossible to pirate. That's why publishers are so enthusiastic about it.
That may have been true before the scientists agreed on a proper name. Now it has one, so calling it Wuhan virus or Chinese virus is inappropriate. The virus now mostly resides in the US and has already mutated so there is a European variant and US variant.

Also, I'm now in Asia and everybody around me calls it COVID or Corona.
- Brushing your teeth during a long ultra-endurance event (100 miles or longer) can make you feel fresh and energetic.
What is vital and necessary?

Is toilet paper vital and necessary? One person may say no and other may say yes!

What about cheese? What about mop? There are literally millions of items, each of which would need to be cleared with a lawyer now.

Why would you do that? Especially if other retailers don’t have to comply with a similar order.
it only moves horizontally on iOS.
Feigenbaum's constant and periodic-doubling bifurcations (Veritasium video)
In any windows system this happens:

- show your desktop

- move your mouse over an icon

- keep pressing 'home' on your keyboard (home key brings the focus to top left icon) and then left mouse button (changes the focus to the icon you're over)

- do it faster and faster (home, lmb, home, lmb, ...), focus will jump between top icon and the icon under the mouse pointer

- when you reach the double-click speed, the icon will be launched

but it will not be the icon under the mouse pointer, but the top left corner icon.
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don't assume that if you hire a volume on AWS that you get a device. The thing you get is a virtual block device and is actually the entry point of a sophisticated piece of software that will spread your data over multiple devices (might be erasure coded, might be replicated, probably hierarchical, so data comes in on NVMe, is then moved to SSD and eventually to HDD). So whatever you're seeing, it's not the behaviour of a single HDD.
Front Door seems to be overkill for storage account-hosted static websites. Instead of setting up storage accounts for multiple regions manually and then setting up Front Door in front of them, it would be easier to create one storage account and put Azure CDN in front of that instead. That is what I do for my website.
Not every software department has been so lucky... I had similar thoughts to you and what do you know? A quarter of my team was let go yesterday.
Wonder how Blizzard feels about this after all the boot-licking they've been doing for the sake of the Chinese market.
The title of the YouTube video is: This equation will change how you see the world (the logistic map).

Which is IMO too click-baity, it's about what I wrote in the title. It's a really cool layman's video about a part of chaos theory.

Disclaimer: I am not a mathematician, so I am part of the layman group.
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All kinds of risks. Risks of being co-opted. Risks of no longer being maintained. Risks of poor administration. The risks you mention-- availability, etc.

NPM's had its share of catastrophes and controversies that have made things tougher and caused harm to downstream users. It has also saved lots of effort.

Focusing on e.g. mirroring misses the point, IMO: One's dependency on something fundamental like package infrastructure isn't to survive one deployment or minimum sustaining, but to be an ongoing part of your technology stack. Yes, you can move on, but it'll be costly. If the component decides to start to suck, you're going to feel pain.
I expect a lot of research fund in areas related to epidemic
Besides New Hiring, I would be impressed if large companies honour their existing job offers; Which IT services firms which does bulk recruiting in India seem to be doing.

IT firms such as TCS (30,000 recruits this financial year), Wipro (12,000), Cognizant (20,000) and Capgemini (10,000 over January-June) say they are sticking by their offer letters[1].

I've personally witnessed jobs from these companies lift several out of poverty in India (Most of them being the first graduate in their family).

But, obviously those who pass out this year especially the Engineering freshers are going to be the worst hit.

[1]https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/...
This is a good attitude. Promotion is not just "more of the same" but is really moving to a different job and it may not be a job you like better.

That said, people want to get promoted largely for some combination of increased status, power, and income. I don't think it's worth taking a job you dislike for these things, though. Life's too short.
Maybe it was the direction or the editing, but there was so much romance in it for me as a kid growing up in SV during that era. I had Misty eyes for an era mostly gone by.

Thanks again for your work, both on the company and the article.
If you usually build production ready services you might reuse your setup even if you just do a small proof of concept or fun project like this one.
Any of the zillion stm8 variants that surround us every where.
I think capitalism can work but we don't have pure capitalism - corporatocratic bailouts have been normalized since the 1990s, and as a result, all systemically important losses are socialized, while the gains are always split across a handful of criminals that exploit a system they partially mold to their own liking in order to propagate the toxicity that enables them to further their own interests.

I predict that the Federal Reserve will gain new powers within the next quarter that will enable them to indefinitely prop up equity markets through large-scale asset purchases in the equity markets through some novel facility (I'm sure it'll have some super cool new vernacular as well) that changes all the rules and allows for unilateral action without any covenants - awesome!

For any speculators out there - just buy calls, nothing can go down anymore. Easiest outlook EVER.
I think I posted that pretty ironically and with enough glib not to be taken too seriously. Oh well. To say their not profiling users using their OS is insane. Private repositories can't even be encrypted on GitHub. What another absolutely insane joke.
i use bluetooth airpods for calls and even for cycling long distances. They are very light and basically no messing around with bluetooth. Battery life isn't stellar, but enough for a couple of hours continued use and when i put them in the case they recharge automatically. When they run out, i have Beats Solo 3 over-ears bluetooth headphones which easily last for days.
its got me baffled. I wonder if this changed consumer behavior in such a way that it benefits facebook ads and detracts from google. I dont understand it, but it appears to be the message we are seeing
Perhaps you could also make a YouTube video showing what the intro does, installing Freedos and nasm is not that simple.
Quite a lot of people have read Marx and derivative works...
How can I save a WhatsApp status on my phone?
For many (although not all) people being hired at Google, the SVP approval process happens before you're matched with a manager. The SVP approves you to work in their PA, and then you're matched with a manager within the PA.
I came here to say this. If you want to predict how the CCP will behave, the first step is to get a good understanding of Confucianism then work up from there.
I found a crazy exploitable logical bug in a network app running on MANY systems, can't sell it or expose it because legal/personal reasons. Not using it or anything.
>Why is it a given that there will be such a misogynistic view?

Have you been cryogenically frozen for the past six years, and just thawed out and taken a nice long pee, but haven't had a chance to catch up on Gamergate? Do you even know who's president?

No, I don't think it's the female game designers who are being "demeaning".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgFDo6G-EO8

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate_controversy
I would imagine not. The class action would settle, most consumers would get a trivial sum in the form of a check, and the litigating firm would get a large payout. The settlement would result in no one taking responsibility for anything.
again, this isn't new, Just look at the collapse of the east india company.

basically a few people treated it as a way to live like a king, and it collapsed. The state stepped in and took it over, because it was too big to fail.
Ok, this is legit. Blew my mind.
There is no such thing as "rational stigmatization". That would be an oxymoron.
i have a chromecast audio on the stereo which i find more convenient to use anyway because you can keep using your phone like normal while the chromecast is running spotify. For rare cases where I need direct audio, Bluetooth audio receivers are also pretty cheap.
I am not saying you don't have a valid point, but you make it sound like it's impossible or inconvenient which imo isn't true.
All those features are present in other languages too, the premise that no other useful or mainstream languages don’t is false. For example Swift has all of those features.
It also exposes itself as a Lodash mixin, which I have never used nor seen, so that's something learned.
You're projecting, I think. Sure, there are many millions of "well-educated middle class Chinese who would hope for a more transparent and democratic system". But they're irrelevant. Another Cultural Revolution, and they'd all be dead or in reeducation camps.

And just to be clear, I'm not judging who's better or worse.
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Masturbation destroys the dopamine system. There's actually a lot of studies about this in animal models, but the topic is insanely taboo. Shills come out in minutes to downplay it. I can reliably trigger rls by doing so. And it's the major player in every dopamine-related illness like parkinson and adhd.
Ignoring whether or not he will, what might be the mechanics of something like this? Is there any precedent of this in history? What’s a good way in which this might take place?
> built with Electron

No, thank you. I’m not curious enough to install a security risk.
The 2009 crisis started in 2007, lasted a few years till 2010 or so and was mild compared to the effects of a complete global shutdown.

There were signs of problems in 2019 (yield curve inversion, failed IPOs, US QE restart), and this will take years to work out. The US stock market is currently priced as if this will be over in 1 month and everyone/everything will bounce back. Unfortunately if it goes on a few weeks more (which looks likely) the economic impacts are going to last years and no sector of the economy will be untouched.
Still covering most of the non-HN world.
What? Why is it taboo to have a bag for your stuff?
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The link on forming capacitors leads to a rather interesting old book on IC fabrication, which is still relevant for fundamentals (you can scroll up for other devices):

http://books.google.com/books?id=aByz--9D63wC&lpg=PA31&ots=Z...
That's, to me, the amazing thing about machining: pretty much any invention from the dawn of civilization up until the vacuum tube can be made in "a moderately equipped machine shop." Because, if a part requires a custom tool to build, it's very likely there's a version of that tool you can build with just the same 1930s tech you use to build anything else, in about four hours.

A good chunk of hobbyist-machinist YouTube is essentially just people bootstrapping themselves into a complete shop's worth of tools starting from three or four primitives, and it's kind of wonderful to watch.

(I'm always kind of disappointed whenever one of these hobbyist folks get a CNC mill or something, because it throws off that bootstrapping feeling. I know it was never their goal, but they were coincidentally pulling it off until that point.)
i am not saying there is no valid need for it, but nowadays it's a niche need and the market seems to have moved on. I was very skeptical of bluetooth for a long time, but the current generation of devices, especially those with Apples W1/H1 chips are just very very good. Instant switching of devices, no re-pairing, good battery life etc.
> Is this quora now?

feels more like r/AskReddit to me
There is a limit put in place on supply (seats at medical schools) already. Weeding out is part of that system already. The question is should cost be part of that.. we decided somewhat yes which is fair if you decide to limit supply in the first place.
I actually like plotly.js, it seems to be one of the only good alternatives to R‘s Shiny library. Still, I prefer to keep JavaScript libraries inside a web browser.
Do you have a link to one of those videos? Would love to see one. Also reminds me of Factorio
There has been a schema specification for json already. it's called conveniently `json-schema` https://json-schema.org/
James Williamson (one of the guitarists of Iggy Pop & The Stooges) retrained as an Electrical Engineer, and ended up as Vice President of Technical Standards at Sony working on Blu-ray.

If you've read anything about what they were like as a band that's quite a career path!
Because knowing which data is hidden by UI from server is hard problem.

To achieve real-time feeling game apply (most) your inputs immediately without having to wait relatively long time confirmation from server. So if you decide to push button and peek around corner you expect to see enemy immediately but server will know about your peek "much" later.

You can for sure limit some information by locations but you always must leak more than it's actually seen by client. Also it isn't easy to solve: can any part of volume be seen from another volume inside arbitrary 3D environment. Enemy size and movement through network frame => players all possible eye positions.

I think current best solutions rely on very rough (manual?) map piecing. So is it worth to invest for such thing that makes some cheats bit less powerful but cannot really prevent them.
Assumption: Most teams which use a kanban system would work just as efficiently with a couple of org-mode files.
I'm no expert, but it's my impression that the faction that ended up controlling Taiwan is not the "culture of old China". It's the westernized elite that was trying to reform China as a democracy.
Has anyone ever tried building one of these from scratch just from the manuals? That sounds like it'd be a fun joint EE + machining project.
Metabase is great, I just wish it would support BigQuery properly as currently you need to connect to each dataset individually.

Still, it’s the best OSS software tool I’ve used, I think. Deploy the container to whatever, give it be creds, done.
Makes total sense. I'm a video shooter, though, not a film shooter, if the distinction makes sense. I'm shooting events, so autofocus is life. :)
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This looks great! I had never heard of Dash either and it seems it is precisely the tool we need at our startup to do data visualisation.

Awesome work. Will check all this out during the week-end.
And what has been lost even above the value of high quality lenses is the value of high quality lighting. Most people are completely clueless about light and especially flash. But lighting is a million times more important than lens.
I'm fine with the publication existing, my question was more related to HOW they report: It is unecessary to state the current records, or the names of the people who achieved this questionable "fame". Doing so will only instigate copy-cats ("oh, so that's the current number to beat, I've got this!"). This seems unprofessional, so I'm wondering if there are rules against such a thing.
For shorter trips, vastly more affordable than an automobile: no fuel, parking, insurance, registration. Hugely lower maintenance.
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I'm not sure its useful to phrase it as "we shut it down." It implies that we had a choice and because it was a choice we can turn it back on at will. We could social distance and slow GDP or we could get sick, lose lives and still slow GDP. This isn't a self inflicted wound and we won't bounce back as quickly as we shut down.
My private key :) On a more serious note, and not revealing anything that I really shouldn’t be telling people: I’m sure many people know that there used to be a feature on macOS where you could hold down the shift key while minimizing windows (among other things) and it would slow down the animation comically. This feature seems like it was removed a couple of years ago, but it wasn’t: I was poking around the Dock binary one day and discovered that it’s still secretly there, hidden behind a preference key. You can reenable it with

$ defaults write com.apple.dock slow-motion-allowed -bool YES && killall Dock

Enjoy.
Github has a basic kanban board and since private repositories are free, it can be used as replacement to Trello.
Should be easier for FB and Amazon to fill those positions now that Google is not sucking as much air from the atmosphere. I think Google may come to regret its decision for this reason. Part of the reason for these companies to hire is "area denial": the employee is not only hired to do great things, but also to prevent them from doing great things for a competitor. If you stop hiring, you allow a lower-paying competitor like Amazon or Microsoft to scoop up the engineers that would previously be inaccessible to them.
OK.

Here is China making a coronavirus like the one causing the pandemic, even acting on the ACE2 receptor and testing it in human cells, publishing it in early 2008:
https://jvi.asm.org/content/82/4/1899

Here they are again, years later, still playing with extremely hazardous coronaviruses that act on the ACE2 receptor in humans:

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature12711

This one gene-edits the host cells to have both human and bat traits, making it easier to breed bat viruses into becoming human viruses:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00705-010-0729-6

There are more. The ASM's virology journal published more of generally the same kind of stuff. I can't find the link right now.
I feel your pain with regard to loosing the lightning connector. For me I guess I’d have to buy a new proprietary cable for my car.

The cost of replacing all your stuff is one of the consequences of buying things with proprietary connectors.

I have an Apple USB Superdrive. It looks great but was purposely designed only to work with a MacBook. No reason for that except to keep me in the “ecosystem”.

Apple could release a Lightning to USB-C dongle for you. That would allow you to reuse your Lightning pencil ...if they wanted to.
I really wonder what censoring Animal Crossing will teach chinese children? Thinking about growing up knowing that so much is wrong and that even children can’t have a critical voice?
Sweden, which has pretty much no lockdown to speak of, is expecting a massive drop (-4.2%) in GDP this year.
https://www.government.se/497453/globalassets/government/dok...

I think this is comparable with economies with a lockdown.
The economy was going to be shut one way or another.
Testing is a superset of type checking.

And people forget the main thing about TDD:
The main goal is to validate your design

You don't get that with type systems.