skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't following the leaks (if any) but I was excited for this announcement. Looking for a new phone to replace the 6S and this one looked like it might encroach on "small" territory. It's about an inch past the ideal but probably doable (even though it's as big as the 6S) and it's at a great price point but the lack of headphone jack is a single nail in the coffin that does it in for me.
SoftBank-backed iBuyer Opendoor lays off roughly 600 employees
This is one of the saddest thing I read today and a good reminder that life is always finite.
I'm somewhat surprised you were able to snag this username! Aside from the pop star, it reminded me of Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics[0], which was super helpful back when I was in college. Any connection?

[0] http://britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm
Landlords who took big losses from tenants who didn't or couldn't pay their rent and suffered a loss will be able to deduct more of their loss from their personal income tax.
Super interesting. It seems that everything is premeditated.
Fake news. Trump is never wrong /s
I've literally never heard anyone make that distinction.
Techcrunch wrote an article in May 2019 about Carta raising a Series E. They also reported an annual revenue run rate of 55 million with nearly 600 employees. That's less than 100k per employee. I'm not sure if Carta's profitable.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/06/carta-was-just-valued-at-1...
> COVID-19 kills anywhere between 0.7-4% of the people it infects. (Some countries like Italy saw a much higher mortality rate, nearing 15% in Italy, I believe, but that was due to the breakdown of the overwhelmed health services).

That is mixing up IFR and CFR. We don't have any good way of knowing IFR yet, and it may be quite a while before we can get a good estimate. The denominator in CFR is confirmed cases, so Italy's inflated CFR could be (and probably is) entirely related to the lack of sufficient testing.
Opposite Fuzzy Sets with Applications in Image Processing (2009) [pdf]
Sorry to say this, but considering that you guys have worked at Google, Microsoft, I wonder why you had to go after such a product.

With your intelligence/talent/means, you could have chosen a more challenging path.

Has the bar come down so low? No wonder we don't see more Musks around.
In mid-March we were told that we are "10 days behind Italy" and shelter-in-place is not to stop the spread (already too late for that), but to give hospitals a bit of a breather before the surge of critical cases and the Death Wave that follows. That was the justification for such extraordinary measures as a state-wide lockdown.

It's mid-April now. Where is the Death Wave? Either this virus is much less infectuous than it was touted, or much less deadly. Or both.

Sweden never locked down. Denmark is opening up after a lockdown. Italy that was touted as the prime example of hell on earth, had ~21,000 people died by official count. Even if it was undercounted by 50%, that's roughly 40,000 people, mostly elders on their last breath, out of country of 60 mln. And that's the worst case so far, in the world of 7 billion people.

Disregard all that, we're still being told daily that it's "war zone", the zombie apocalypse is just around the corner, etc. Only Big Brother like surveillance is going to save us. The lockdown is not an extraordinary measure anymore, it was an absolutely necessary first step, and now we have to take it further. Much further.

I wonder what it felt like for people in 1932 Germany.
My impression is that there is a legal issue in calling something a layoff, in that the position has to have been eliminated.
Why Computer Science Needs Philosophy
I cannot tell if you are purposefully trolling, or this is sincere.

Regardless, let's wade in…

1. That's not's a study. That's not a metareview. That's a puff piece by people who have a strong, strong self-interest in promoting TCM, because they want to keep their department chairs.

2. Oh heck, I'll just quote the entire last paragraph:

"The safety of TCM in the treatment of emerging coronavirus diseases was not included in the observation on SARS patients. It was reported that some herbs used in TCM contain nephrotoxins and mutagens, while the toxicological features of the most of Chinese herbal medicines remain to be fully understood. Furthermore, herbs used in TCM can mimic, or magnify, or oppose the effect of conventional medicines. Thus, the safety of TCM used in treatment of emerging coronavirus infections should be carefully evaluated. It is particularly important to avoid toxicity or interfere with the efficacy of conventional treatment caused by herb-drug interaction."

So, in conclusion, we don't know if this works, and this stuff may be toxic, and it may have drug interactions, and oh by the way there's no quality control on this so you have no idea what's in the medications.

Might as well recommend acupuncture and getting your chakras aligned, couldn't hurt! (Probably less of a chance it hurting than taking a wild dose of unregulated herbal supplements.)
Coronavirus exposed the collapse of global leadership
Praise the Lord! https://gist.github.com/loveJesus/29b85c3d8d6f4fa5cc85d4f33c... is a verbosely commented simple intro that compiles to 44 bytes. The source is just over the length where I think it would be better to visit the link than post it directly. If someone else could tell me their thoughts on proper protocol here i appreciate it. God guide us and bless you in Jesus Holy name
Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"
Google’s Ara project perhaps?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Ara
Alex Jones seems to have a form of Steve Jobs' much maligned reality distortion field.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_distortion_field
That is a problematic metric. You see, you don't buy individual GPUs or CPUs, you buy systems. And typically, you can stick multiple GPUs on the same system (more than CPU)s. There's also the question of what those servers cost, and how many rack units each one takes up etc.

And then - it might make more sense to measure power consumption and maintenance costs than up-front price.
https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/289871/5132 might help too.
You were supposed to get the oreoquine!
Winalist: Book your wine experience online
> not obvious at the level that the optimizations are taking place

Hmm...then it's up to the optimisers to up their game.

Optimisation is supposed to be behaviour-preserving. Arguing that almost all real-world programs invoke UB and therefore don't have well-defined behaviour (by the standard as currently interpreted) is a bit of a cop-out.
This will be a boon for their competitors
This article is wrong about that; they are free to ship non-essential items as long as they demonstrate that they protect their workers' health.

https://www.lesechos.fr/economie-france/social/coronavirus-l...

>But the American e-commerce giant was condemned to "restrict the activities of [its] warehouses to receiving goods, preparing and shipping orders for food, hygiene and medical products", "until the company has carried out, with the participation of employee representatives, an assessment of the occupational risks inherent in the Covid-19 epidemic in all of its distribution centres and the resulting measures".
For app launching I really like what they did with windows phone - https://www.windowscentral.com/sites/wpcentral.com/files/sty...

Activities spatial layout too maybe requires a single column option of all the open window tabs that can be scrolled through. Will keep the UI consistent with what everyone is used to on their phones. The grid view of window thumbs I find a bit hard to locate stuff esp when my terminals and editors have similar themes. Idk what the down side is but I am imagining using the mouse wheel to scroll through a single vertical column of all open windows.
That is pretty much the game Google and co played at least more than one or two times.

Last pre-COVID19 example was probably Facebook trying to circumvent the idea behind GDPR by claiming their user use facebook because the _want_ advertisements and _the only way_ to provide customized advertisements is by thoroughly tracking everything the user does and therefore the they don't need any additional opt. in/out from the user. Which is both pretty much not quite true.

(In GDPR there is a clause that e.g. if you sign a contract they contract doesn't need to state that the contract will store your name provided through the required name field and similar, you still need permission if you use the name for anything but "the contract", like e.g. statistics).
Since the iPhone X design, the screen sizes have been significantly larger due to a (nearly) edge-to-edge screen—the removal of the "chin" dedicated to the Touch ID sensor, and of the "forehead" with the selfie camera and other sensors being reduced to the "notch." The X had a 5.8" screen compared to the 4.7" of the iPhone 8 (and SE 2).
Thanks, I agree we should focus more on loading speed and we'll do so in our second fiscal quarter that starts in two weeks https://about.gitlab.com/company/okrs/fy21-q2/

The comment you linked says: "We are working hard to improve performance and memory consumption of GitLab. We have two major projects underway, switching to Puma [1] as well as reducing the overall memory consumption of GitLab [2]."

The current state is that Puma is now powering all of GitLab.com and we're working on getting it to be the default in Omnibus https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/issues/4698
You're right, I just opened a 1.2gb file (obtained with base64 -b 60) in fundamental mode, and it actually works decently enough.

I tried the same with Sublime Text: it took a long while to open the file but, once opened, navigating the file was very slick, I could scroll from top to end and vice versa in a breeze, so I would say that Sublime Text still wins this one.

[edited to clarify: Emacs opened the file in just a few seconds, but then going to the end of the buffer, to the beginning, to line 100.000 is quite slow.]
Agreed, although a nitpick: I think what you call "mortality rate" is called "infection mortality rate". (Totally agree with your important point that IFR < CFR.)
Wonderful stuff! Thanks for an awesome post.
Is this because of habit or is there a particular attack scenario that you're trying to mitigate?

If you're using a local password manager app such as KeePassXC, the password is almost a moot point as an attacker would need access to the password vault file. If they have this level of access to your system already, they could easily keylog your password or just dump the unlocked vault from memory. Changing the password also wouldn't really help as a previous version of the vault file could still be unlocked with the old password.

If you're using a cloud-based password manager such as 1Password, you're better sticking with a long, secure master password, rather than trying to remember a new one each month. As long as the password is unique and your local system is trusted, other security controls such as 2FA and account lockout should mitigate any concerns.

There are a few edge-case scenarios where changing your master password monthly may help:

* You reuse the password on other services (which you probably aren't as that's exactly what the password manager is for)

* You log on to your password manager using shared/untrusted devices

* Your local system was compromised sometime during the month, but then somehow isn't any more
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The Digital Storytelling Handbook
I'm assuming that's by design.
Is this shortage universal? Have there been shortages before, either universal or local? Is there evidence that this particular local shortage is due specifically to coronavirus demand?

It may be that the answer to these questions is "yes," but that answer seems to be being assumed right now.
Anybody still miss the Atari vs Amiga war? I think it's probably still raging somewhere. Good times! Thank you for all the great demos! :D
Arrhythmia is a well know complication and contraindication of Chloroquine. This should have been identified by the doctors prescribing it and NOT PRESCRIBED IT for at risk patients.
Covid-19 Q&A with Rhonda Patrick, PhD
If well configured, mouse support can be handful when navigating code. There is a niche editor called Acme[1] that is almost "mouse-only", where even Return won't put you in the next line :)

When using Emacs, my workflow was very keyboard-centric, but sometimes navigation was a pain (even with tags and whatnot).

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP1xVpMPn8M
Ha, you are right. Even though I think launching a totally fictional podcast would fit even better in the HN ethos :)
I am interested in your round table. What do you use it for??
Where the rich fly to hide from Covid-19
Upside of Chrome profiles: Use a bright red theme for prod sysadmin profile, and blue for work. So you never type « p... » on your work profile by mistake... Don’t laugh, usage is widespread.
I haven’t looked at why flour or toilet paper have shortages and don’t know the primary factors there[1]. I’ve done all I that I care to to inform you.

1: It’s probably the bullwhip effect and hysteresis in the supply chain but that’s speculation on my part.
Every industrial engineer and electrical engineer I know said that it was a doomed project, and when I repeated their arguments to me (huge inefficiency in battery life, very heavy, poor performance) nobody wanted to listen. (And I was heavily downvoted).

my friends ended up being right, those issues could never be worked out because it’s a fundamental problem. Integrated circuits are more efficient than others and having high performance data and power contacts is wasteful at best, and heavy at worst.

It’s the same as building a computer on a breadboard vs having everything built in like a raspberry pi.
A good dose of skepticism: https://swprs.org/contact/
> But if you want better arrays you want operator overload to be able to use these arrays as 1st class citizens without having to use array_get(arr, 3), array_len(arr), array_concatenate(arr1, arr2) etc... You want to be able to write "arr[3]", "arr.len()", "arr1 += arr2" etc...

I don't think that's true at all.

1. "arr[3]" syntax can just be part of the language.

2. For length, we already have the "sizeof()" syntax, although admittedly it is a compile-time construct and expanding it to runtime could be confusing. I am ok with using a standard psuedo-function for array-len and would absolutely prefer it to syntax treating first-class arrays as virtual structs with virtual 'len' members.

3. I don't think any C practitioner wants "arr1 += arr2" style magic.

So I don't buy that there is a need for operator overload; the rest of your claims that this is basically an ask for C++ follow baselessly from that premise.
Coronavirus delivers record blow to US retail sales in March
I think ed uses a tmp file.

You can try a custom sam(1) fork (it uses structural regex, google/ddg them): https://github.com/deadpixi/sam

sam -d for the classic cli mode.
I mean, it's all about the children right? Anything for the children! Might as well wrap up each of them in a biosuit with restrained arm movement so there's absolutely 0% chance of anyone committing any sort of harm whatsoever.

Seriously, get real. Justifying the elimination of natural rights with "thinking of the children" is a common trope by authoritarians to seize control.
Sure but that would seem reason enough to postpone the scheduled maintenance then no? I would think trusting "remote hands" to decommission production gear would carry some serious weight in the risk/reward analysis of keeping the maintenance window. At any rate I would think that those same remote hands should have been able to immediately powered that gear back up as soon as they were made aware of the error.
I believe you don't qualify for unemployment insurance if you are fired, as opposed to laid off.
This is amazing. Thanks for posting this.
CSAIL device lets doctors monitor Covid-19 patients from a distance
Thanks for sharing your experience.

Did you use any medication during this period? The symptoms look like COVID-19's. Did you also have shortness of breath?
So what are you going to get instead?
I think this criticism is misdirected.

First, you mentioned memcached, but the article doesn't cover that at all. Perhaps you meant to say elasticache?

Second, I think the closing section at https://docs.keydb.dev/blog/2020/04/15/blog-post/#how-are-ke... does a reasonable job of answering the "fundamental differences of each technology and the trade offs". If it's not more in depth, that's mostly because it's comparing Redis with two forks of the codebase that haven't diverged that much.
Hospital Patient Zero has been traced back to Dec. 1.

Given that most ill people don't get lung complications, that likely means Nov. was the real patient zero. This is close to 100% certain. It should be verified by looking at Chinese sites.
What they are describing, at least in the first 70% of the story, is typical for a creative developer becoming an admin or maintainer, simply becoming an obnoxious asshole. It's the job, not some illness, mostly.
The third wave of open source migration
> This is how we lose natural land to sprawl. A large chunk is bought by a developer, clear cut, split into many small chunks, and sold to private individuals.

This is Land front-running - somebody has information you want or will want something and buys it for himself and later reselling to you more expensively (eg. concert ticket scalpers, high frequency trading or simply knowong that there will be generations of youngsters moving to cities so why not to buy real estate there and sell it to them later).

While this market-making can be a useful service for smoothing out price of goods with price fluctuating up and down, it however becomes immoral for badly auctioned goods - such as desirable concert tickets which are often sold to scalpers in large quantities who front-run every other buyer. Also in real estate and land markets - where all the QE printed money creates asset price inflation, so by buying in those markets you can front run people who don't yet have money for it or are not even born yet.

This ceases to be a problem under LVT because you auction land usage fairly to a large degree.

No front-running -> no sitting idle on land by developers and deforestation -> optimal allocation to users.
But the 300-500k/ yr income is nice.

Plus you are the only profession that can legally write prescriptions and do some services.

The power of the medical cartels has intangible benefits too.
Doing a campaign/survey where you pay people to compare yourself to your direct competition on your blog, on the areas you chose? Really objective.

Also, this topic is about the article linked, not about your survey.

As feedback, I would say Github is a better company since it doesn't sink this low on their tactics. They just focus on making their product better.
You don't have to leave tech entirely. I very much feel that the medical devices I write software for matter.
and in vivo https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.22.20040758v...

However, this drug is all about politics, so i think it's pointless to discuss it here
That is a good point, I hadn't thought about it like that. However the requirements to register to vote in the UK are pretty lax as well - to go on the electoral roll you tell the government your name and address, and you pinky promise that you're telling the truth. They then mail you polling cards for any election, which you don't need to use.

You don't need to give them any national insurance numbers or other ID to do this. It literally amounts to "I'm Joe Bloggs and I live at 20 Smith Street". That seems like the bare minimum required to have a voting system to me.
A Bengaluru startup helped contain the Wuhan outbreak
They are also quite likely correlated. If, by random chance, you have healthier people in one group than the other, it's likely they will have better outcomes in most categories.
Are you saying that all forms of concentrated power are bad, or that the only good kind of concentrated power is the kind that owns all the weapons?
what do you think about iceland?
Skeptical Perspective on Covid
Whether it works or not, HCQ is not a costly drug by any means.
It really lasted about 4 weeks of hoarding before the supply chain caught up. Costco today had those products as far as the eye can see.

Besides, by requiring a prescription you’re negating the ability for people to hoard. And a single pallet of HCQ is enough to treat thousands of people.

I really hope you look into how easy to manufacture and abundant HCQ is. It’s important to combat media scaremongering.
The Camera vs. the Human Eye (2012)
> It was written by the ever exceptional Fabrice Bellard.

I think it is rather by Johannes Schindelin [1].

[1] https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/de167e416fa3d6e4bbdcac90...
Ships have boats!

Except submarines. They used to be boats, but many subs are "really" ships now. But they are usually referred to as boats.
I had a colleague that was in his late 30's or early 40's at a large tech firm that applied to medical school and became a doctor. It was a long and hard road for sure. I ran into him years later in a Trader Joes in San Francisco and from what I gathered he had had his share of road bumps, but he was well on his way.
Excerpt:

"However, SMR drives are not intended for random write IO use cases because the write performance is much slower than with a non-SMR drive."

Might this be a way to detect SMR usage by allegedly non-SMR drives?

Do a whole lot of random write IO -- and time and statistically sort the results?
> Likely died from heart attacks.

The paper does not support this assertion: https://web.archive.org/web/20200413181618/https://www.medrx...

> Both HCQ and azythro lengthen QT's.

The paper does support this assertion.

It also says "Several ongoing trials have
been addressing the early use of CQ, in which the anti-inflammatory properties could be more
helpful. That information is urgently needed." and also " Unfortunately, this study’s randomization, probably due to the low sample size, assigned older patients with heart disease to the high dosage arm." Uh-oh.

TL;DR of the paper: if we give as much CQ as the Chinese recommend, people seem to have heart related side effects, so we had to stop treating them with the drug. And if we select older patients with heart disease for the high dosage arm, they tend to experience more side effects.
Thousands of MLB players, families to participate in coronavirus study
Forgive the skeptic in me: from the outside, it looks like MS is pushing GH to copy features that people use GitLab for right now - how much of this is "we're going to move into GL's space" vs. "this is our own thing"?

(because I'm sure MS wouldn't mind if GL's IPO went less than swimmingly because GH duplicated a number of their selling points "for free" ("for now"))