skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a lot of interpretation from 6 cases. There's a lot of serological testing being done right now, and we'll have hard data soon, but from what I see from expert epidemiologists (disclosure: I'm not one myself), the idea that we have a vast number of completely asymptomatic cases is wishful thinking.
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//What's the ongoing value? You find a lawn-mower or dog-walker you like, and cut out the middleman by paying them directly.

There are contracts involved.More than 50% of people prefer not to mess with that stuff. That's a big market.
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It's the paper that established "emergent phenomena" as an interesting and viable field of inquiry. When you understand it, it changes the way you think about the world.

It's more fundamental than automata papers, so of course it doesn't address automata, but automata papers should reference it.

"A New Kind of Science proposed ideas that were not new, were not kind, and were not science. Discuss."
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> I was spending more time wrestling with package managers, version conflicts, obtuse configuration files, pointless deadlines, egotistical colleagues, and almost zero time solving interesting problems on products that I care about.

That squares with my experience of software development. It's like being a furniture maker but spending 80% of your time fixing your goddamn hammer because it keeps breaking and no better hammers exist, or consulting glue-drying tables because they keep changing your glue on you every hour or two and for no good reason every single glue performs differently while accomplishing the same thing.

... and then most of the remaining 20% is meetings and communication, which would be fine if you had more time to do the thing you're actually trying to do.
The key bit of information from this (https://venturebeat.com/2020/04/14/ai-startups-raised-6-9-bi...) is that "capital flows disproportionally into large late-state deals." I would read this as a lagging indicator of how "hot" the field is. Most of the companies have found their "niche" and identified the actual problems that need to be solved; like other commentators have said, these problems may only be tangentially related to ML models themselves. These companies are currently scaling up and locking themselves into the market. Given how long the sales cycle is and how sticky it may be in enterprise, this means now is not a great time to start a company just doing "AI".
Keep in mind these flights serve a lot of other routes. A French passenger may be going to somewhere else in Canada by connecting in Montreal and hoping on a WestJet flight.

Since AF isn’t flying to Vancouver or Toronto anymore, whatever scraps they had are consolidated on the remaining flights.

It could be mail related: Montreal has an int’l mail centre.

If going from Africa to N. America, it’s typical to need to transfer in Paris/Brussels/London/Frankfurt
For someone with a MS CS what would you recommend for transitioning to such a field?
For self-hosted instances you can use Advanced Global Search https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/search/advanced_global_searc... to do this. Please note that this requires installation of Elastic Search. It used to be a paid feature but I think we recently open sourced it.
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And good on Amazon for responding by doing what small businesses are doing.
I linked to a 6,500-word article answering your question and you are surprised you got downvoted? Or feel free to look into why armies of lawyers on both sides negotiated a $10bn settlement. If "surely the doctor is at fault" held water, they wouldn't have come close to that number.
My understanding is that research suggests airplane emissions make a disproportionate contribution to the climate crisis because they are released at high altitude, but I'm not an expert.

Also, it seems intuitively obvious that moving N kg by plane is vastly less efficient than other forms of transport like rail or ocean shipping. We should be doing fewer energy-inefficient things and more efficient things.
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In American English (notably distinct in this respect from British English), the term "government" means all state organs; for example, we would consider the Supreme Court to be part of the Federal Government. So the term includes what would in many other countries be called the government, the parliament, the civil service, the judiciary, etc.
should be

typedef struct {uint8_t *data, *dataend}

if I'm not mistaken :)
And nobody should be spending money beyond necessities right now - and stocking up on backup necessities.

It’s not the time to be buying a new car, it’s not the time to be trying new makeup products, and then we have other issues - it’s not the time for new films in the cinema, it’s not the time for sports, the lists go on.

It’s not time to buy new products, and certain subsets of products are no longer allowed to exist.

I hope advertising suffers a lot, to be honest; it’s an industry of corruption, manipulation, and lately, privacy violation.
They were even able to run the Shader Showdown competition online!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GRD1gCX7fk

For people who don't know what it is: it's a live coding competition where 2 competitors have 25 minutes to code a graphical effect (using shader language) in front of a live audience

They use a tool called Bonzomatic which you can get for various platforms.
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"In America, the soap industry got started because of bacon—and candles." That was an interesting random fact
I dont know of any independent review site besides BackBlaze.
Most review sites receive product samples from the manufacturer. The linked article shows that the disk manufacturers cannot be trusted.
I bet they did not send out DM-SMR drives to review sites.
My title is just 'researcher' - it's not a well-defined industry so titles are not standardised. Here's where I work in case you're interested: https://www.science-practice.com/teams/good-problems/

My route in was pretty idiosyncratic, and I think that's true of many people in these kinds of jobs. A more standard way to transition into this kind of research/consulting/policy work from tech might be go for jobs in technology or innovation policy. If you're in the UK I can point out some orgs that do that kind of work but in any country there will be various think tanks, policy consultancies, etc.
Thank you! Bitcraze is so small and lightweight, but the first version had 3 minutes of flight time. It have brush motors and it's not suited for outdoor. We'll update you about the real flight time asap the new motors arrive. Furthermore, ArduBee will be proposed as a plain board without motors and propellers, to enable every sort of selection and combinations of brushless motors and 3" props, offering full customization for many different approach, you can use top motors or under the base, for max endurance, max payload, max navigation performance or wind disturbance rejection.
In theory, yes. In practice, your github repo is more like a domain name. There should be due process.
No worries, thanks for taking the time to explain.

The software engineer in me agrees with you, WSL 1 was architecturally more ambitious than version 2.

As a user, I couldn't care less. I just hope Microsoft manages to create a good ecosystem around WSL.
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> Manufacturers have slowly started realizing this circumstance and are obviously able to exploit it by making products cheaper to manufacture down the line.

I believe this is a known technique in mass-produced markets. Called 'debasing' or something like that. Even new cars have more bells and whistles when first released while as the model gets a stead consumer base the manufacturer might reduce accessories or get cheaper versions, etc.
I was doing iteration office hours https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5e-6R5NWl0 :)
Hear, hear. I find that process like Agile is exhausting, but necessary work, when you cannot trust your workers.

I miss working at a small shop where we were fully trusted to deliver. I find I am able to do very well under Agile, but it certainly makes me feel dishonest that such a measurable portion of my day is spent measuring my performance. It feels like a fractal waste of time.

But I completely understand why it exists.
That only works in a limited scope. If a country didn't report any cases and another country discovers it and finds people coming over with it they will trace it back. The country loses trust and gets labelled as untrustworthy.

That's kinda what happened with China. They covered up / downplayed and played with rules around defining whether a test counts. The WHO helped surpress this. Now the WHO has lost respect (and financing). China has lost face.
You don't seem to understand 1st Amendment Law and protections; contract law; nor employment law.

>This is an employment arrangement which can unilaterally be ended at any time by either party, and Amazon has chosen to do so.

Yes, at will employment gives the parties the right to terminate the employment...but, Amazon can not terminate an employee for any reason. For example Amazon can't fire a employee for their race, or religion, or sexual preference. You may want to Google "workplace retaliation cases", because Amazon can not retaliate by firing an employee for reporting workplace safety concerns.
waffles are the perfect comfort food during these times- 2c flour, 1.75c milk, 1/2c melted butter or oil, big pinch of salt, 4tsp baking powder, 2 eggs. Throw in some vanilla or other flavor concentrate if you'd like!

A quick crowd pleasing recipe using all staples
It should be!
> It should be beneath all of us.

He said, while commenting down-thread with very rational-debate-provoking labels of "Trumpian America" and "Right-wing Brazilians who don't care about the society and the situation in their country".
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Wrong data. You're looking at confirmed cases, which Sweden is massively falling behind on because they're under-testing so badly, as you can see from their absolutely incredible (as in unbelievable) reported case fatality rate of 9%. It's not that 9% of their population is dying from this, it's that they're not even catching 1 out of every 50 people that even have it. Their stats look low because they're so severely under-reported.

The correct figures to be comparing here are per capita deaths. Sweden is currently sitting at 1,014 deaths per 10M people while the United States is at 789. Ergo, Sweden's outbreak is roughly a third worse than the US so far, and growing worse.
Same sentiment here. It would actually be useful if the "time tracking" supported sizing and estimations but right now it's completely focused on precise timing which makes this counter-productive.
This is a powerful idea, week by week I read efforts from tech community for building personal information management tools. You just need to see Notion growth.
Concept of organic wikis and that web 1.0 - 90's nostalgic idea with a bit of decentralized/self hosted content is absolutely a trend
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The thing I find most exciting about this is volunteering to volunteer software engineering capacity to NY. I hope you’re able to source more opportunities like that.

I have a hypothesis that a lot of young software developers would love to do something like the US Digital Service[1] if they could do it remotely. Some of the young software engineers I work with make enough money in a couple years to take a couple years off (which they then proceed to do) but they are also seeking a bit more meaning than that life can maybe provide.

I dream of helping states create their own USDSs. If anyone has any feedback on this hypothesis, I’d be curious to hear it.

[1] https://www.usds.gov/
IMO, the closest French term to the American English term "government" is État.
Then Amazon may need a carve-out in best practices to supply essential services, which is what every nation has had to do in this highly-dynamic crisis.
God, I hope not. I like GitLab. I feel like Amazon would ruin it.
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> Evil is relative.

Sincere question: Can you explain what you mean by that?
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Is it just me? Or are other people envious of the web traffic the IRS is enjoying?

Maybe we should take our VC money and just offer $1200 to everyone to create some instant loyalty.

Then delay it a bit and have people come back again and again 4-5 times per day to check the status of their payment as we pitch them our wares.

Just a thought! ;) LOL
I've tried it. It mostly works and completion is alright, though a bit clunky visually and interactively. I haven't tried to tune the UI much - it would need a bunch of tuning to be good enough for me - but I haven't because it's brittle in the face of switching branches out from underneath it.

It gets its project structure confused, and the workspace dir needs blowing away. Dismissing the "server crashed" notification every time I opened up a Java file to make a tweak on an git commit (using magit) made me disable it for a while.

I still have hope. It's definitely improved from where things used to be, with eclim (Eclipse Vim plugin thing).
Start with some basic reading such as Mandelbrot's Misbehavior of Markets and Taleb's books, then move on to articles and recent video interviews with Nouriel Roubini, Raoul Pal, and Neil Howe, and finally be sure to take in some modern thinking from the likes of Venkatesh Rao at RibbonFarm.
It was a trend not long ago to use org as a form of literate config. Not sure if it is still possible, but the general idea is similar.
I'm yet to see a backend app architecture that both is elegant and effective from developer perspective and at the same time doesn't push her to make unneccessary database calls for each request when business logic becomes significantly complex.
Perhaps I'm just not clever enough, but this reads like a homework assignment saying the same thing OP did much more eloquently:

"There is no point in advertising if no one can buy your product right now"
I actually enjoy the container types and callback errors. The wrapper type Mono<T> acts like a monad of type Promise<Either<T | Error>>. This completely isolates a computation from the rest of the code and puts all of the error handling in one place.

I despise side effects as well as try/catch error handling so these are an especially welcome improvement to java/kotlin.

I don't have much experience with coroutines/flow so I can't actually compare the two approaches but this is my experience with the reactor library. Its unlikely that I will get a chance to continue using Kotlin in the near future but next time I do use Kotlin I will definitely try the coroutine approach and see how it compares.
I guess this depends on where you live. I went to the store three days ago (April 12) and the baking aisle was fully stocked, including all the flour.
I loved being part of it in the early days, have most of hugi collected somewhere, the endless hours with Protracker made me a fan of electronic music, during the .com day Nectarine was my online streaming radio, and it was my path into graphics programming.

Great community!
I've been a long time Emacs user since ~1997 until ~2011, when I started developing mostly with ruby on rails on a mac, discovered TextMate and falled in love with it, with its slick UI, freshness (at the time) of ideas, ease of use, despite its obsession with mac based stuff, like the use of Finder for project navigation.

After a few years I discovered Sublime Text, with its tons of extensions and exceptional speed, bought a subscription and learned as much of it as possible, ditching TextMate.

Then I switched to Atom, mostly for the discoverability and the speed (back then) of development (and, frankly, for the hype). The only problem with Sublime Text, at least at the time, was the slow development process: new builds were few and far between.

I tried VS Code too soon, and wasn't impressed by how the navigation between buffers used to work (it has changed since then, I think).

A few years ago I did a serious attempt at learning Vim for good, but in the end I gave up, and I've come back to Emacs, this time to stay, unless something radically new is introduced.

The good thing is that I can usually tell my coworkers about features of the editors they use that they don't know, because I've used them a lot.

The only feature I miss from all other editors is the incredible speed of Sublime Text: to this day, if I ever have to edit an SQL dump (which I hope I will never ever have to do again), I'm surely reaching for Sublime Text, no other editor can AFAIK open a 200+MB file without freezing and/or crashing.

The odd thing about Emacs is that its vastly superior customizability (or malleabilty, as the article says) tend to be a trap, for one can spend hours, and days, getting lost in its huge universe and falling into rabbit hole after rabbit hole instead of actually getting stuff done, but I've not yet decided if that's a bad thing or a good one.
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "this argument against IR35". My comment was trying to explain what the changes are about, not whether IR35 should exist of not.
I'm not even talking about econometrics. As our supply chains become more and more integrated globally, as the amount of services built on top of each other continue to grow, and as the global economic system continues to use, build, and develop these services, any significant disruption is going to be more catastrophic than the previous which didn't rely on as much integration as it currently does.
Right. Don't you have to have a letter of recommendation from a Congressman or something? It always felt completely inaccessible to me, much more so than SOF, where you might get by on being fit alone.
The most useful bits are always buried deep down in the threads. Thanks for posting this.
I'm curious how many of those operate independently from Amazon. In the US at least, there are several storefronts that (on the back-end) actually contract out warehousing or shipping to AMZN.
> Amazon is infamous for creating horrible working conditions in their shipping centers

Has anyone actually done a fair comparison of Amazon warehouse working conditions with those of other warehouses? Other than the presence of robots to help our their workers, nothing I've seen and read about strikes me as being out of line with any other warehouse. Or are they just the ones getting the flack because they are the largest and most visible?
I was just thinking why doesn't this exist!
Oh this is such a good move! I love the demo scene, and it is cultural heritage for sure. Long live the scene, and we all really should participate at least once.
I think this a biased point, speaking specifically about startupish business models, there's a lot of different models around the world in a lot of places. There's work to be done with critical applications or slow paced startups, or niche applications on premises. All of them pay well too, maybe you are just saying what you are seeing, but there's a lot more options to it
I think the autonomous driving, while a factor, will not be as much of a kick as covid-19 cure and/or vaccine. I mean all the best to everyone trying and I hope someone proves me wrong about this by actually discovering a drug/vaccine through AI. But as far as autonomous driving is concerned, at least there are some visible results. Not as advertised and(to my mind at least) but most importantly not that valuable but at least there's SOMETHING on the table....
Wow, that seems aggressive
I'm convinced the edge cases will dominate this code, but the general idea seems straight forward. If you get this working, please share. Not something I think I want, per se, but I could be mistaken on seeing it work. :)
You don't need any of those buzzwords, you just need a multi-site SSO login that you pay more per year for than any one individual paper and that lets you into the paywall of all of those paywalls. It's a trivial technology problem; the hard part is in the business partnership building, specifically in getting the different newspapers to come to an agreement in how revenue from this subscription is going to be shared amongst them.
> I honestly believe that if the nerds told them to fuck off and started spending their time working on things they think are relevant, the world would become much better quickly

So much this.
it does, the other definition is not an accepted definition
We over here at HN have our own house style.
Can confirm!!

Especially

> Find your way into Industrial Electrical work if you can. You get a strong mix of tech and electrical, moreso than Residential, can't really say the comparison to Commercial work though...

Avoid residential electrical work if you are technology oriented! Yes, yes, home automation and all that, but that pales in comparison with industrial work. Commercial in theory has the same potential, but (at least here in Italy) the jobs are ..hm.. dodgy (very poor project management, tasks scattered across sub-sub-sub-contractors so nobody has really a clue of the global picture ..stuff like that)
> That doesn't make this a desired trait that should be willfully accepted. Force them to make them not ambiguous, otherwise they will remain as such. Ambiguous laws and punishments are one of the largest sources of judicial inequality in every nation.

It's not that simple. Fuzziness can be necessary to prevent bad actors from subverting the law through loopholes and to make the law applicable to future situations where it would reasonably be expected to apply. Fuzziness is also helpful to keep the law from being over-prescriptive.

For instance, if you have a copyright law you might write it to apply to any "creative work" but leave that relatively undefined and left up to interpretation by a reasonable person (i.e. a judge). You don't want movies left unprotected, because the law was unambiguously written to only apply to writings.

Similarly, you might write a law to mandate the availability of reasonable protections against infection, but you don't want the law to unambiguously require specific practices like hand-washing (because effective alternatives like hand-sanitizer didn't exist when the law was written).

Most people here are software engineers or have familiarity with software engineering, analogous situations occur around writing requirements.
I am in the same shoes and would add the reason of no pride or sometimes shame. Not only in the many marginal products I am forced to squeeze out rapidly and in parade but of belonging to this group of profession. Basically both stems in the pretentious design of incomplete products making people more miserable than successful or satisfied. Phones, 'smart' appliances, revolutionary technology, software and OSes promise the world and beyond (twice!) bringing tons of 'dream' (sometimes nightmare) functionality but f*k up even the most elementary function (repeatedly!) while being unreliable to the extent that it needs to be updated in the frequency of watering your plants, to no avail.
Despite the mounting problems the industry takes itself very seriously with infant obscure practices considered rock solid fundamentals and with robotic approach to human resources and processes. Talking to recruiters feels like they expect not thinking humans but custom programmed organic mechanisms able to type and can be judged by ticking checklists in a couple of minutes.
In seeking satisfaction in self and results I left several places for something assumedly better, sometimes leaping into unknown, but my bitterness just mounts with each position. Financial limits forces me to seek engagement in something I am experienced in but I am afraid my lethargy shines though of my smiley and optimistic face I wear for interviews. I have little trust in those sitting in front of me.
I hope I can figure out something better, meanwhile trying to make money for living.