skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why would the rest of the country have the exact same percentage of infected as New York City?

I didn't say that. In fact, I said the exact opposite: to get to 10% nationwide while explaining the rather large per capita differences in deaths, you'd need either negative infection rates in some places (say, Alaska), or >100% infection rates in hotspots. Neither is possible.
I'm sure that, as we extend the capabilities of our machines, we'll find new problems or approaches to known problems that were not practical up until then.

Like I mentioned, this can increase bandwidth and reduce latency between system components, making warehouse-sized computers look like container-sized ones. I bet we can find some use for that.
> None of the executives would ever have to admit their product sucked.

I personally wouldn't be that harsh. IMO, I used to come across a lot of founders who just didn't understand the point of running a business.

It's an easy trap to fall in when there's lots of investors looking to put their money and willing to work with 1 in 10 success rates.
I've been waiting for this to happen for years. Some of the unicorn/FOMO lunacy has faded in the last few years, but there still has been no big cull. At least if the economy at large recovers (which is a massive, huge if), the tech industry absolutely will be better for this. So many good ideas get crowded out by buzzword-compliant nonsense.
When I was a kid, my dad sat next to a different RadioShack CEO on a plane. He mentioned that I was always in the store and Mr. Roberts gave him this, https://imgur.com/a/BolEA
A light joke - this is the iPhone SE SE.
we don't. he is (perhaps unknowingly) spreading disinformation, but that's really very normal behavior.

the hardest thing about this is finding real information and then accepting it.
Ask HN: What was your first side project that generated any income?
Hard disagree. 4-inches screens were a thing because that’s the perfect size for a human hand. Phones became huge when content consumption got prioritized over ergonomics.

Don’t take my word for it. Just see this Apple’s iPhone 5 commercial: https://youtu.be/16GkG_uDj_k

Clear as day. “Common sense”.
With ArduBee initiative we are making our best to innovate creating our best solution for swarming, with micro drones, indoor and even outdoor, based on Ardupilot Open Source project. If you have a look at https://ardupilot.org/copter/ you could start to have an idea of the included potential.
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Which causes visual tearing.
You might be surprised by how strenuous electric work can be: pulling a cable bundle through a long conduit run, nailing staples at arm's length overhead, and finishing outlets at knee height.
It is unfortunately common.

Any organization with high-value data has a responsibility to try not to be the next Equifax.

Programmers, sysadmins, and DB admins are excellent targets for attackers.

So, it's not actually so crazy to require that all tools be vetted by internal security teams, especially third-party extensions for Turing machines like Emacs.

I love Emacs but its architecture is a nightmare for Blue Team, and the easiest stance is definitely "no installing packages", or just "thou shalt use this IDE and no other".
Artificial lightning strikes encourage growth of shiitake mushrooms (2020)
It is only fair. If other businesses that are selling items which are “non essential “ and have to close, it would not be fair for amazon to continue since they will have an advantage. Here in South Africa regulations were put in place so online and physical both have the same regulations applied. Therefore online stores do not get undue advantage.

It forced the e-commerce companies to make quick changes and they were able to get it done in a few days. all non essential items cannot be added to your cart. Even Uber eats added functionality to get essential items delivered.
Life is short and slips away quickly. Use your abilities to further the things that mean the most to you, not on a possibly misguided sense of what you "should" be doing.
Nanosensor can alert a smartphone when plants are stressed
It sounds like you have an awful boss or lead.

So much of our mental state in programming has nothing to do with the code or our work and so much to do with the people we work with. I think regardless of whether you stay or leave the industry, you've gotta leave any jobs where the people are that toxic.
I'm certainly not advocating tax breaks for anyone here. In fact I'm advocating getting rid of the framework that is used to implement those tax breaks.

You're reading into my words to say things that simply aren't there.
Why do people bother minifying code this small? It's 168 bytes gzipped. The unminified source is probably under 1kb gzipped. Just no point to minifying.
> My understanding is "losses" is kinda vague if you own one of these "pass through" entities you can pay yourself a salary, have the "pass through" business loose money then pass that loss off against your personal income. I'm not a accountant so I might be wrong.

Say your pass-through entities has 100k in revenue. You could pay yourself 140k and mark down 40k of losses but that's financially disadvantageous because you're tax rate on the income will be higher than the tax rate on the losses. You're paying 13k in extra taxes to avoid paying 8k, donating an extra 5k to the IRS.

Most companies try to shift revenue from income to profits because it will reduce your total tax burden.
As Theranos amply demonstrated, being in an important industry like healthcare is no guarantee that you'll be able to generate real revenue or achieve high profits.
Anyone try 'becoming one with the computer' when programming?

Seems to compress/clarify modelling & managing complexity sometimes.
I loved that site!
The depends on the size of your wardrobe and which phone you have.
> so building a custom distribution to include, say, Magit,

I mean, you don't need to really "build" anything, you just need to install the package:

(add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa" . "http://melpa.org/packages/") t)
(package-initialize)

M-x package-refresh-contents
M-x package-install magit

What would happen if you did that?
I had one of the first double-height 70 MB drives when it came out.

It literally could hold all of the popular software of the time, around 50 applications.

I also had one of the first CD-ROM drives at work (the Japanese director had connections at Sony.)

We were like, "How can anybody possibly ever fill 650 MB of data storage?"

We ended up mastering our own satellite data CD-ROMs to demonstrate to people what was possible.
Totally understood. I don't think Bret claims to have a good answer to the problem. I think his thesis is that we're in such uncharted territory, facing multiple existential crises, that none of the thought technologies that helped us up to this point (religion, democracy, capitalism, even scientific materialism) are necessarily going to suffice for us to survive/thrive into the 21st century.

The common-ancestor driving force of those social technologies are genetic selection pressures, which he argues we should consciously and intentionally counter-act. One might fairly claim that that's a quixotic pipe-dream, given that our nature has been shaped by that force for a billion years; but the highly plausible opposing argument is that the alternative is extinction (if not of the species, then perhaps of civilization).

For more proactive ideas on constructing a social operating system for the 21st century and beyond, take a look at the "Game B" model from Jim Rutt, Jordan Hall, and many others:

https://medium.com/@memetic007/a-journey-to-gameb-4fb13772bc...

https://medium.com/@jordangreenhall
This all started with one person, November 17th 2019. By mid March 2020 the world was shut down. So we literally have to be sure there are 0 cases in a country before it can unlock again. And before international travel can really begin again we need to be sure there are 0 cases in the world.

None of that really seems doable for all but the smallest countries. So the answer is herd immunity, either through contracting the virus, or via a vaccine.
Bluetooth earphones mic quality is absolute ass, and has huge delay. You can tell who has bluetooth earphones (no matter the brand) on every call.
Haha that troll part is awesome!
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Huh this is interesting. It looks totally indiscernible from the iPhone 8 I'm using now. I guess it's got a better processor though, at least :)
> It should be obvious to compiler writers what the intention of the standard is, because it says so in the dang text, but since this was downgraded to a note and you are technically not in violation if you do something different, everyone now acts as if doing the exact opposite of what is written there is somehow OK.

Note that a compiler could be incapable of processing any useful programs whatsoever, and yet still be a "conforming C implementation" if it is capable of processing a deliberately contrived and useless program that exercises the Standard's translation limits. The authors of the Standard even acknowledge that possibility in the Rationale.

The problem is that the authors of the Standard recognized that anyone seeking to sell compilers would treat Undefined Behavior as an invitation to behave in whatever fashion would best meet their customers' needs, but failed to consider that a moderately-decent freely distributable compiler could become popular as a result of being freely distributable without its maintainers having to respect its users.
Archived version for Europeans: http://archive.vn/ycUKq
This has given me something to think about. I appreciate you taking the time.
For those who are intrigued by all of this, I will mention that the built-in tutorial (Help->Read the Emacs Manual) and the intro lisp tutorial (Help->More Manuals->Introduction to Emacs Lisp) are both interactive and very readable.

I've recently decided to start writing my miscellaneous scripts in Emacs Lisp, both as a way to learn a lisp and a way to get more productive in a platform which I expect to be around until I die. And it's pretty fun.
The US is doing a significant amount of testing compared to what's available almost anywhere else on the planet. I think Germany is still beating them, but they're basically the only large country that is at this point. Journalists here in the UK have actually been pointing to the US as one of the examples that proves we're the ones failing at testing for a while now.
Maybe if we all ask @pud nicely...
I watched this and really enjoyed it.
setTimeout would probably be fine if they used the diff in elapsed time between calls to derive the position deltas rather than assuming it is always going to be 30ms.
The thing about Unicorns is that at the end of they day, they’re not real
Sorry but (after spending some time in this thread) I fail to see the point of bringing up extremes... I'm merely arguing for a couple of smaller smartphones on the market. Not because I have small hands, just because I don't really care for a huge screen. With the wide variety of mobile phones (in all sizes between 5-6") on the market they could squeeze in a sub-5 incher somewhere. Especially since just a couple of years ago this was considered huge. Hand size hasn't changed over the years.

It would definitely not make any sense to create a car with a seat where most people wouldn't reach the pedals or be able to look out the window. What you're looking for is customization. And yes, I think that car manufacturers should offer custom versions of their models tailored to people smaller or larger than average, I think that would be cool.
Currently have a Lenovo S30/64gb ram/1050ti4gb with Ubuntu, LG 4K 32” lcd, MS ergonomic 4000kb, anger vertical mouse, cheapo folding table, Arron chair.

It’s not pretty but it gets the job done!

https://photos.app.goo.gl/bdWCUJyuAk5E9emt9
That's because it links dynamically to the standard library.
No, the CFO can't. This is not just a civil matter, it's a Dept of Labor matter.

The law is relatively simple on this matter: if the company entered into a contract to pay commissions, and the agent satisfied the terms of those commissions, then the company is required to pay the commissions absent a bankruptcy that eliminates or reorganizes the debt.

On top of that, based on the facts provided, the CFO has committed an intentional tort--interference with contract, meaning that punitive damages are available, i.e., up to 3x actual damages.

Yes, it would require the individual to go to court. The likely outcome is that he would receive a very large sum of money, and the CFO would likely get blacklisted from CFO and finance positions at any reputable company.
That's a good point. It will be a bit harder, but not entirely impossible. Position independent code/memory layout will complicate any attempts to modify the AC.
Yeah, the only people that I know who don't have >400000 in loans with a >5% interest rate coming out of residency have wealthy parents who paid for everything, did the military's HPSP program [1], or did a free 7-year MD/PhD program. It's an interesting process.

[1] https://www.medicineandthemilitary.com/joining-and-eligibili...
or try to sell you a disco ball strobe light combo
I don't think you can tell whether something is a crash, a down turn, or just some companies using C-19 as a convenient cover to cut some dead wood until it's over and you can see the aftermath. This could be the beginning of a huge swath of staff cuts across the whole of tech or it could be a tiny bit of bad news. Shouting about how the sky is falling certainly isn't helpful without more data to back up the claim.
I get that, but the right approach to securing high value data is to secure the data, not try and control every aspect of the environment it lives within; that's often more security theater. Note I'm not suggesting that the right approach is "wild west", rather that any vetting process that doesn't allow for well established and widely used tools to be adopted is probably too rigid.
Barring either of those, see "can't".
As someone who's new to front end and css is there a good resource on what properties are more costly, or which functions are newer and meant to be more performant like translate3d is mentioned as being gpu accelerated? I've seen mentions of reflow, repaint, and layout thrashing but not a comprehensive list of what functions are meant to replace what other ones, or relative cost of each function in common use cases. I've managed to grasp javascript fairly easily coming from python, but css seems like this obscure black box that I thought would be much easier to get a handle on.
In my experience of US corporate culture it's also unfortunately common for employees at all levels to kowtow unnecessarily to "legal" without considering whether what "legal" are saying is sensible or not.
As an iPhone/iPad user, yes, selecting text is absolutely jackiechan.jpg befuddling on iOS. To the point that you wonder if anybody at Apple actually uses it.

They've actually made it worse in a way by removing the magnifying glass, but at least the new copy/paste/cut swipe gestures are handy, if a little odd on smaller screens.
A more hands off political system is less manipulatable.

The more complicated systems that are created, the more there is to gamify.

I'm advocating for more limited government. A simple clear rule set is much harder to gamify. This is an equalizer, not the reverse in my opinion.
It is not a coincidence that MSRP is announced at a "sane price point" (uncommon for Apple, which sells a monitor stand for $1000) right when the mobile phone market shrinks.

Apple's mobile handset prices have been cut by 10% or more in China. In the US, new iPad Pro and Macbook Air prices have been discounted about 20% by authorized retailers and new old stock of the fully loaded MBP15 was discounted 35% by Best Buy a couple of days ago.

Apple typically reports a profit margin of about 1/3 for its devices on average, and 2/3 for its services. My understanding based on gross margin numbers from competitors is that handsets fall on the higher side of that average, and PCs on the lower side. In times when consumer demand for devices is expected to be price-elastic (eg when 15 million Americans get laid off in the span of three weeks and vast numbers of people are staying home so they don't need to replace mobile devices as frequently), margin can come down to increase unit sales and optimize net profit.

Handsets are not sold in a free market; prices are set by Apple and its partners. If they don't bring the price down, there are some consumers who will say "this is nice; I want it, but I can't afford it right now." That cohort of near-miss buyers would constitute a deadweight loss -- an inefficiency between supply and demand, caused by the pricing scheme set by Apple itself.

You can entice those shoppers to buy anyway (ie, eliminate the market inefficiency) by reducing the price. Pricing products expensively to widen gross margins works to increase profit in a time when demand is strong, but when demand is depressed and consumer discretionary spending becomes scarce, prices must come down to optimize for the new demand picture.

On a separate note, this particular device re-uses many components from past Apple devices (as did the previous SE), so you ought to differentiate the timespan of its development cycle from a new flagship handset for which a new processor is developed and most third-party components are being implemented for the first time.
Probably more work to rip it out of your build pipeline than just reusing the config you use for all your other projects.
I'm glad something good came out of the collapse of The Shack. Such a sad story with a bit of a silver lining.
Following the links in that grid, you find:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/france/

The relevant graphic is the curve "Total Coronavirus Deaths in..." the United States and France, it's the fourth curve in each page. Compare both and you'll see that gradient for France is decreasing, not so for the USA.

The US isn't doing better, it's just at a previous stage. Wish you the best anyway, of course.

Edit: in Spain death curve only started to lose gradient three weeks after confinement.
This is the price point that will change the apple Android dynamic forever. Good timing with the gov checks too.
Accusing someone of “spreading disinformation”

Is a pretty hard line to take when all the facts are evolving and we’re learning more every day
It is great, except there STILL is no reasonable way of finding a particular image in the registry. You can't order by date uploaded! Only by name. Which means the order is out of whack as soon as you go from version 9 to version 10.

And to make it worse, paging is extremely slow, so it could take an hour of paging into the middle of the list to find the name of the image you're looking for. Even if the image was uploaded 1 minute ago it could be in the middle page.

Thankfully I don't have to do this very often, but it's a horrible experience when needed.

For similar reasons deleting unneeded images takes forever and is not feasible.
Just to pile a couple more on, why is the only way to get to the bluetooth device list by going through settings?! Long-pressing/right-clicking on the bluetooth tray icon does that in every other OS I've used, phone or desktop.

And for the love of god why does your spellcheck keep trying to replace the word "talk" with "ya'll?" I've had to manually set text replacement for way too many word pairs like that, and if you do typo the word you're going for in a way that's not in the text replacement, it defaults to the weird choice anyway.
I totally agree with you, it's the most compressed form, in a slim electronics layer, for the most lightweight design. Every grams are used for the best selected components, assembled with passion and fully supported by Ardupilot firmware.
Thanks. That is really helpful. I've been seeing the rumors of the 5.4" iPhone 12, but I had trouble understanding how the overall size would compare with the two SEs. I'll be really curious to see the price point of the 5.4". ~$1,000, or somewhere in between the 2020 SE and that?
How could you not though? Skinned Android is how most experience android.
The problem I think is that transitions have fixed amount of time, both long and short travels finish with the same amount of time giving a different velocity of movement. Also executing Javascript every frame is not that heavy
Let's see what happens when FAANG pull the plug in France. I can guarantee you the public will remove whoever was in power and it would be back to the status quo.
I used powershell a bit when I was mainly using Windows and tried it briefly when moving back to Linux. The biggest issue is when you're stepping outside of powershell commands which return nice objects and run linux scripts or executables. Eventually I took the path of least resistance and just switched to bash with jq/jc to fulfill my structured needs, but I'm sure someone could create a jc for gnu/etc to powershell.
It's a pretty common template (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuZP37qwzAE) for inserting videos. You can see the original video on the corners of the black overlay.
ITT is lots of failure to acknowledge the scope of this crisis. This isn't just a pruning of companies that had weak paths to profitability anway, few businesses have the capacity to completely halt revenue for months on end and survive. Plenty of otherwise good companies are going to go broke.
Have you shared your old senior photo on Facebook? Hackers may be using your po
Agreed generally, but my understanding is that testing people in the hospital does have value. Just for one example, if you're negative, then you can be placed in a non-Covid wing (otherwise you're liable to catch the coronavirus on top of whatever flu or whatever you actually have), staff don't need to use precious PPE when treating you, etc.
I would be depressed too if I lived in a fish tank/bowl...
My understanding is that Microsoft doesn't want to support C, and the only reason Visual Studio supports C at all is for legacy code. Also, you can use 3rd-party compilers with Visual Studio.

Really, anyone writing C nowadays should ignore Microsoft's compiler, and tell Visual Studio users to install Clang.
Those are not ethical standards or concepts. "Loyalty" and "duty" don't help evaluating if an action is good.
Capitalism is failing us all. Could Islamic economics be the answer?
One thing I think the nushell guys should include in their "about" page is an answer to the question, "how is this different from PowerShell?"

The analogy to PowerShell is unavoidable -- they even make it themselves in the docs. I'm totally willing to believe there are important differences, but I wish they'd highlight them straight off the bat.
Not exactly wearable, but I have learned in the midst of all this that fingertip pulse oximeters cost only $20-40 retail. Has there been any work to see if falling oxygenation readings can serve as a precurser? In any event I have started charting my own oximeter readings along with my temperature, both for baselines. It looks like I should add pulse rate as well.
How is this different from x.ai?
Nah, pretty normal. This job is just not designed to grow with a person, for most people it is an endless loop of learning the same thing again and again in small variations every two years. No wonder it is boring and people get fed up with it.
> Development is not something you should clock in and out of.

I agree that imposing time-tracking from above (especially using user-hostile tools or especially employee-hostile management) is objectionable, BUT:

Org mode is fantastic and a great way to organize your day:

https://orgmode.org/manual/Clocking-commands.html
I really like this perspective, going to keep it in mind.
From what I understood it's both :)