skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think again you are misunderstanding some severe things.

No doubt that I am misunderstanding some things. A lot of things, more likely. Severe? That depends.

If you look at the numbers, they never did fit in the narrative pushed on us. Yes this virus is not just like flu, it is way more dangerous for specific cohorts of at-risk people. Key here is: for specific cohorts. Not for everybody. Why is everybody's life being crippled right now to save the few? Why cannot we quarantine people at risk instead of everybody? There is a wide spectrum of possible options between doing nothing and keeping everybody under house arrest.

Have you ever been laid off in the middle of an economic collapse? I still have my job but I don't think I'm going to keep it for long. And when the day comes I'll have to choose between paying ~$2,500 a month to keep my existing health insurance coverage in the middle of a pandemic, or keeping food on the table. No social healthcare here.

No, it's not about numbers looking good while we're enjoying our stay at home. It's about trying to weigh the risks and being rational instead of "saving lives at all costs". The costs are already staggering beyond belief.
So wait...Carta is doing layoffs but then simultaneously nearly doubling its valuation for its next raise?

The LPs are the ultimate marks.
I could come up with 300 given enough time. But it's not my job to convince people who are unable to evaluate evidence rationally. You can't cherry pick three things out of three hundred. All your objections are strawmen - nobody claims a picture of a melting glacier is evidence of climate change. Now the satelite data showing Greenland and Antarctica losing ice at an unprecedented rate is good evidence. I want to say just take an honest look at the whole of the evidence, not just things that agree with your bias. I don't think you will though. Good luck with that attitude with anything in life - it has a way of punishing people whose mental model of the world drifts too far from reality.
Magnetically-driven phonon instability in h-FeS may enable spintronic computing
A company reneging on their terms seems like a perfect case for a chargeback. They took your money and promised to abide by certain terms and are now changing them retroactively without letting you opt out of the deal and get your money back.
A mixed set of PMR drives ready for 24/24 usage. And f*cking reliable, frequent backups.

Customers here often mistake redondancy for backups. Had to save a 8 years-work worth excel file on a failed Kingston USB key today.
It should be pretty easy to detect SMR. It's probably sufficient to just compare random read and random write performance and look for a big disparity. Probing for cache size and zone size would be a bit trickier.
> Third, if you have been with us for less than one year, we have removed your cliff and extended your PTE to 1 year from today. You joined Carta to create owners and to become one. Everyone affected today will be an owner of Carta.

PTE = Post-termination Exercise
none of this is unexpected. most of SV VC backed businesses are not sustainable. so the first instance of pressure, they crack and fold. and worse everyone is drunk and high on their own kool-aid. instead of iterating quickly on products they focus on playing around with tech. for business instead of getting paying customers, they focus on the next round. instead of having few expenses as possible, they would rather have a ice sculptures
Nice write-up, but it feels like I'm missing some important parts of the picture. The company seems to have a lot of layers for its size. How big is the company and how is it organized? What does this person consider to be their team and their peers? How many direct and indirect reports do they have?
I'm hoping this recent announcement will highlight the gap left in the market for 4-inch phones.
I'd appreciate if you can provide more info or a link for the Nov. 17 date. My links only go back to Dec. 1 so far. Thanks!
> We would have seen a higher death rate if the virus was here earlier.

> What if this is already the "second wave". Something with lower symptoms wouldn't have warranted checking for a new strain, complications and deaths would fit into the normal distribution of last fall's flu season with no outlier spikes.

I think you are misunderstanding what wave means here. It means an earlier not as deadly strain/conditions had already occurred, just like in the Spanish Flu in the spring versus the fall deadly resurgance, but at lower orders of magnitude. The strain itself doesn't have to be different if the co-morbidities were different - such as different opportunistic viruses or bacterias being present.
Agreed. Full disclosure - I work there, but I hope that Zocdoc can become an example of the good kind of startup that is actually viable on its own.

It helps that we provide a service that is still in demand with some modifications. We've been working hard to convert our in person appointment inventory to telehealth availability so that people have some basic access to medical care. Obviously this benefits us, cause it helps us keep the lights on. But it's also crucial for doctors - some of whom have seen their business almost go to 0, and patients who need to find ways to access telemedicine.

And for those in here who have been laid off - we are hiring software engineering roles as well as sales rep roles. Check us out if you just lost your job.
I learned a lot about what to expect from emacs from Steve Yegge's blog posts. Even though they are quite old now they still relevant.

https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/effective-emacs

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/06/shiny-and-new-emacs-...

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/01/emergency-elisp.html
Also seconding. Vanilla emacs is already extremely powerful, and if you're doing real work, you'll end up having to use hosts that don't have all of your wonderful enhancements installed. It's good to know vanilla emacs.

Beyond that, add language modes for anything you need that's not already included.

If you use 'git', 'magit' is very nice.

Beyond that, helm is interesting, though very large and kind of mind-blowing.

Recommend these in your ~/.emacs.d/init.el, to avoid being that guy:

(setq-default show-trailing-whitespace 't)
(setq-default indicate-empty-lines 't)

; try not to use tab characters ever when formatting code
(setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil)

(setq-default require-final-newline 'ask)
(setq-default mode-require-final-newline 'ask)
Working with stored procedures is just the pits. I wonder why you would describe that as "great". Maybe it's optimized, but so would be a giant executable written in assembly.
Yeah, it's pretty clear there isn't a huge effect. But there may still be a big enough effect to move the needle. I have no knowledge of the RA/Lupus subgroup, so any anecdotes to share are welcome!
And that's also unfortunately why the death rate is so unconscionably high here in NY: our leaders failed us and shut down way too late.
Diversion Tactics Used by Manipulators
I'll track down the source I read this from, but my claim was specifically that we are hospitalizing people with RA on HCQ already. So that doesn't really respond to what I said.
No, it is a beautiful and powerful thing. Everyone claims to not obey it but the force of tribalism is strong. There is no enlightened man above it. All are subject to it.

The best use it well. The average deny it. The worst are used well by it.

In its simplest form it lifts you up on a dreary Thursday as you get off the train, walk to the stadium gates, and yell a chant that is picked up by others who know nothing of you but that you know the chant and that you wear the colours. Such power in that unity.

In its most powerful form it motivates people to form great civil change. You are a civil rights activist, not merely a person who believes in the inherent rights of all people. You are a gay rights activist, or a climate change activist, or a revolutionary.

Learning to harness that mindhack of unity was so fulfilling to me. Yell the right words and you have sixty thousand at your back yelling them with you. You feel gigantic, not like a single man, but like a giant ocean swell. And it is such a trick. I do not share that much with the coal miner and the bus driver and the man who bought a flat in Highbury. But we share this. And over this we can talk. And through the talking we come to share more.
Finished a PhD in mathematics and wanted to 1) leave academia 2) move back to my country of origin.

Picking up some programming was pretty straightforward, writing code is half (or even less) as frustrating as doing abstract research and pays 3x better here. The choice was easy.
And how much on marketing?
Yeah, I wasn't expecting it not to write the whole 10GB. I don't think optimizing to write just the changes is worth it. Probably no editor has done something like that. I mean if the user inserts or deletes near the beginning of the file, there's no other choice but to write the whole thing to shift the content, anyways. It's just not worth the additional complexity to minimize the writes.
(unrelated to this but related to Bill), why are there so many people hating on Bill Gates when he talks about this virus and any prospects etc.? It's not like he's a plain celebrity, I mean he's in philanthropy etc, he's known for helping people with these kinds of issues. Just boggles my mind
1. It's not clear to me that system complexity always correlates with manipulability. One may easily construct circumstances where the inverse is true -- dead simple political systems which are neatly gamified or exploited, and sophisticated systems that are fairly robust. To me, what counts is how well the system is designed, not necessarily its complexity level. But suppose it's true that a more involved government always implies more manipulation.

2. Are we better off by optimizing for minimal political manipulation over anything else? For hyperbolic examples: in complete anarchy, we'd have zero system manipulation, and yet I would unhappily die in The Purge. Likewise, in some Roaring '20s capitalistic caricature, I might have my small business destroyed by a monopoly, or die a child laboring away in unsafe conditions. Optimizing for being manipulatable seems far less palatable than living in modern day Denmark or something.
I wonder if he is confusing the security of the nation with the security of the government.
They could always make it X% thicker. We used to fit 15mm thick phones in our pockets with no trouble in the old days. Not to say you're not making a fair point. Although if it came down to it, I'd still much rather have the old size even if it still had a 4" non-edge-to-edge screen.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open...
Will AI and Big Data Help Tamp Down Coronavirus? – IEEE Computer Society
Is there a screensaver version of this? Or a way to turn this into a screensaver?
Thanks for explanation. That was surely a bad experience. Luckily there are ways to overcome this incompatibility, such as increasing the timeout value for a drive in the OS, see the Linux wiki

https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Timeout_Mismatch
Haha, indeed. A correct implementation would calculate (pixel) movement speed based on a delta from last frame, left that out to simplify the code.

EDIT: I added a simple rate-limiting function :)
ouch A$749 is pretty damn expensive...
It depends on where you are in your career. If you are a below average developer, do like they say in the airplane and "put on your own mask before assisting others." If you are an above average developer, you will be noticed by being the person who helps others more than solving every problem.

At some point in your career, your influence by your own two hands reaches a plateau. You are a senior engineer. How are they choosing the tech lead?

I can speak by experience that the tech lead is often not the most technically proficient on the team. They are the one who helps others the most. They are the one who talks with the most people beyond their team. If I am looking for a lead, I am looking for the person who people look to for help.
Eurecom?
I've never understood why Aeron chairs are considered excessive in the US. They cost like $600, or one month's health insurance costs to the company, last for years, and have a decent resale value. Even for a company paying $20/hr (bare minimum for a desk job), that comes out to less than 1 week's wages.
That loan (the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan) is capped at 2.5x monthly payroll, so at best it only helps companies survive 2 months or so without layoffs.
yup, i fully agree. Their analysis looks about as accurate using a $5/hr psychic to pick stocks.
Rent some high-end glass sometime when you're bored. It is enlightening both in its capability and when realizing that a lot of consumer glass is wonderful, especially at ~f/8 (here's looking at you, nifty-fifty).
Part of the reason I'm suspicious of hydroxycloroquine and zinc is because for decades zinc and cloroquine have been fringe quack medicine staples for treating/preventing colds and flu.
The man's credibility is long gone.
> We're not talking about a few percents, we're talking about multiple times faster.

I wonder how long it will take for compilers close that gap. I assume compilers will eventually produce assembly code that outperforms anything written by human.
Indeed, even periodontitis has been implicated in serious health developments like Alzheimer’s disease. Dental hygiene is very important but rarely needs to be done on a strict deadline.
My experience was similar to the author's in that I grew up around family members who were in advanced stages. The possibility of inheritance stares you in the face whenever they're around.

If there was a conclusive test, I would definitely take it for the sake of future offspring. Otherwise, it would likely give me more anxiety than useful information.
> That's 0.03%, and it's not typical. Often, the number is much lower.

0.03% or 0.1% or 0.66%, the number is low enough to be perceived as not too dangerous by general populace. Contrast that with 13% mortality rate for Italy that was widely spun a month ago. Now _that_ was scary!
That "Body Battery" features sounds interesting. I just checked it out:

https://support.garmin.com/en-US/?faq=VOFJAsiXut9K19k1qEn5W5

I wish that the formula used to calculate it were less opaque. If it were open source, researchers might make use of it.
I’m sure he did a great job, but I’ve seen those things be a huge nightmare for anyone other than the irreplaceable genius code wizard who created them.
Reddit has had no shortage of photos of people rolling into stores and trying to push out multiple shopping carts full of toilet paper and paper towels. Particularly back before stores imposed limits.
Can Minnesota really recruit 3k people in the next 2 weeks? The second Patch trial won't report until 2021.
They haven't had the balls to say anything publicly, but just go look at the commit graphs in the Atom repos. Here's a summary:

https://twitter.com/DuncanLock/status/1177747512905461760
As somebody who tracks and logs their IP's given via ISP etc, I can attest, not that distinct over time.
The awesome commented code can be found in this Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/fzzs4u/memorie...
I've swithched to Olympus about a year ago and was surprised to find out they are doing some nifty things. Alas, with all that FF hype they are not getting much attention, despite having some smazing things to offer.
Git itself is decent, the problem is that Magit calls git a lot of times for a single GUI action. For some things, it can call git 5-10 times for a single key press. If every git invocation is around 1 second, that becomes a noticeable delay...
> Starbucks doesn't care at all about your opinions.

My opinions that Starbucks doesn't care about:

* How much foreign aid the US should send to Liberia

* Which model of surfboard is best

* Contract negotiations at the local school district

My opinions that Starbucks cares a lot about:

* How much I like their coffee in comparison to other coffee I drink

* How the purchase process went

* How much I like spending time in their store

Starbucks cares very much about my opinions when it matters to them. Whereas government, local or otherwise, couldn't care less about me.

> You actually likely have more influence over the running of your own local government than your local franchise coffee shop.

Clearly you haven't had to deal with an HOA, much less local government.
What do you want from people with Fitbits? If you just want them to use your app and send you data I think all you need to do is ask.
Apparently[1] virtio-fs wasn't mainlined in Linux until 5.4, which was rolled last November. I thought it had been mainlined years ago. That helps to explain why support is lacking everywhere.

[1] https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_5.4
My attraction to tech is the certainty of digital. In a messy analogue world, it provides a semblance of predictability.

But my PC has recently started crashing for no obvious reason. The analogue has crept into the digital. Every error message is different. Parts work when tested in isolation. The whole is less than the sum of the parts.

It's really quite annoying, and I'm enjoying walks in the park more these days than typing on a keyboard. I put up some shelves the other day. They are still up. An update won't break them. Reliable.
Have piped process communicate with HTTP and use content negotiation headers?
Well, it is not a new design. It is the same phone they have been making for 6 years, with a new chip and a new camera in it. I am sure it wouldn't take them that long to design it. And since they have been manufacturing them for 6 years, I don't get your point about manufacturing time.
> some people that so-called "experts" don't like mentioned HCQ as a possible treatment for coronavirus

Let's call a spade a spade. Trump, not 'some people'. Trump's medical training amounts to what, exactly? He heard that a drug has some beneficial effects on a similar disease and is all aboard, and HE is the one "some people say it's an amazing drug", "it can't hurt you" (except when it can), "I'm seeing people who will die without it" (based on what, exactly?). Oh, "and I directly profit from it".

People aren't screaming that HCQ "shouldn't be used", but that a President shouldn't be using his position (and complete lack of medical training) to be promising things that are at best unproven, and at worst, factually incorrect.
How warm is the tank?

If you don't have a heater with the tank temp at 78-80 they might just be cold.

Source: planning a 15G betta tank right now :)
Counterpoint: I got really sick of the cable constantly yanking on my ears, so I got some Jabra Elite Active 65ts and I've used them for thousands of miles of running since then. The sound quality is great, they're comfortable (I never even notice them once I put them in), the case charges them so I don't need to remember, and they keep running like a champ in the rain. I couldn't go back to using wired earbuds for running at this point.
Those 4% are 0.04% for some and 40% for others. Now the question is, if you're young and healthy, do you prefer the virus or the untested vaccine?
Covid Trace (Privacy Friendly)
>positions generally are not at all anti-gun they are anti-private individual

Well that's definitely a stream of apophasis that doesn't address my question, but maybe we can save it if you describe where you draw the line between anti-gun and "anti-private individual." IME they are always conflated within the discourse.

If you're implying a hypocrisy in supporting police having guns but people not, I don't agree, but even without that I'm fine if all guns go away. Does that now make my question answerable for you?
It’s classism, and it’s reality. Correlation and causation are irrelevant.
Coding Horror republished the ten commandments from the Gerald Weinberg book (any book he's written is worth reading by the way) mentioned in this article:

https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-ten-commandments-of-egoles...
Depends on the company. When I was director at a large social network, i didn’t have much authority around my budget or headcount. That was made by the VP. When i was a director at a startup which was the highest technology position, I had full authority over everything. I also drove the roadmap and attended board meetings.

The real way to determine your role and authority is measuring from top down. How many steps are you away from the CEO. Titles don’t mean much.
Theranos was fine until they LIED.

Lots of VC backed companies fail. Many try to pivot. Had Theranos not been lying through their teeth and were actually developing tech, they probably could have pivoted to a slightly different direction or application.

Sure, maybe you can't diagnose an individual disease from a fingerprick, but maybe you can get useful data by doing it every time someone hits the doctor and looking at trends. Maybe you can get okay information from much smaller blood draws. Maybe you can optimize where the blood is drawn. Maybe you can get information from other fluids than blood.

There could have been useful science coming out of Theranos, but with con-people in the driver's seats, that was never going to happen.
That's the spirit!

Really, I'd like to start with a non-evil, non-narcissist, non-mobbed-up, non-demented, non-corrupt President.

I leave it as an exercise to the reader to determine which countries my comment applies to. The better question is probably which it doesn't.

It sure seems like New Zealand and Finland are leading the way in that department, their both having relatively young women as their leaders is certainly no coincidence.
Because Democrats.
Would you rather have your organization be filled with engineers that output high quality work or so-called Staff Engineer influencers?

Personally I would rather most to be the former. Doers are important (probably the most important) and should be rewarded, IMO. Hard work and no promotion leads to quitting.

Getting promoted to Staff etc is more about being put on important projects, building relationships with managers from other teams (i.e. reminding them you exist come Promo committee), and tooting your own horn a lot. IMO, this is not necessarily related to how good you are and perhaps not as valuable to the organization as much as we think.

Personally, I've gotten promoted (or recently, not laid off) basically because my team was selected to work on the fancy new project. Probably some other guy in a different team didn't get a promotion because he was just on the wrong project.
> And yet every single review cycle there's always a portion of engineers who think they deserve a promotion because their personal work was high quality. It's like they haven't read the job spec of the job they're applying for. It's amazing.

I have found in my career that most engineers don't read anything. Emails, HR docs, AC, nothin. The first to get mad and the last to think that they could adjust their behavior.

(I am an engineer).
You can atleast remove the googleware to a great degree, you can't do the same for iPhones easily.

Huge difference. You have fdroid, apk slicer and alternative stores without google gate-keeping. You can reflash your phone with ungoogled android or open source alternative gapps package. Use microG to sandbox google stuff.

There are ton of ways to contain googleware.
I've never understood why high-quality chairs were ever symbols of excess. Ask anyone with bad sciatica how much they spend on PT a year. It's probably several multiples of the cost of a good chair. Then ask how much more they would spend to make the pain go away. It'll probably be some nontrivial fraction of their net worth. Bad back pain really takes the joy out of life.

Office people who make fun of good chairs are the whitecollar equivalent of shop/factory people who make fun of hearing protection.
It's very difficult to argue that this wasn't a gross failure in Musks' fiduciary repsonsibilities. Although he's bought his way out of other egregious fuck ups in the past.