skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My mom is a CPA, SM in Tax, and won't take anyone onto her team if they can't look through a list of allocations and correctly answer whether they do or do not apply for Real Estate and Hospitality.

She has had one person last more than three years on her team. But with 1/6th of the workforce of any other manager, her people have ranked top three annual billing and efficiency for the last 6 years.

There are tests, but they're unconventional. And there are times I hear my mom pick up her office phone, call one of the firm's partners and say, "Stupid question. Would you allocate this to X or Y?" And then 40 minutes of heated debate over whether it will or won't cause a $300 penalty on a multi-million-dollar return.

Maybe engineers need more unconventional tests?
The lockdowns will also reduce deaths from other contagious diseases and accidents, particularly car crashes.
If you read the article carefully and look at the pictures, they had issues. One picture shows a doctor wearing plastic shopping bags over their shoes.

Also, the previous staff did get ill, partly because of changing in the dark in a small room. The current staff fixed the lighting and added mirrors.

Contamination from dressing and undressing scrubs was also a problem in Toronto hospitals with SARS-1.
In a less political time with more open societies, we could confirm earlier research started by the Chinese, giving us lead times for our doctors to confirm their theories, which would help get to a scientifically proven and recommended course of action. (Like the pre-print that discusses COVID-19 attacking hemoglobin which then inhibits the ability for the blood to hold oxygen.)

Unfortunately, nationalism has kicked in, and there are rumors that China is censoring any papers that discuss a possible origin, hindering progress.

So now all we can do is give oxygen and hope for the best.
> Is that a sufficient example?

You say I'm pigeonholing you but you have yet to name a single occupation - what am I pigeonholing? Also, my "pigeonholing" is not arbitrary, it is the breadth of jobs that can exist with a minimum wage enacted...

No, it is not a sufficient example because you haven't said a word about what this person is doing. You can see how this feels like pulling teeth on my end, yes? I just want an actual concrete example of a job that could exist. If there are so many of these that there is a notable economic impact from this, it really isn't unreasonable to ask someone to name one, is it? I can't imagine what the job looks like that you described.

> But that's the whole problem, isn't it? When things are going well it's a seller's market and you don't need a minimum wage. When things are going poorly, the option isn't minimum wage job vs. less than minimum wage job, it's less than minimum wage job vs. unemployment. So then you're prohibiting bad and leaving them with really bad.

My argument is exactly that you need a minimum wage in a sellers market because the market is exceedingly inefficient for workers and allows companies to exploit workers and pass that profit off to already wealthy shareholders and upper management. For non-sellers markets the minimum should be adjusted to match economic times, I'm not saying we set a $25 minimum wage during a recession here. I'd be very happy to pin minimum wage to economic times.

> Can you not imagine that some jobs might pay less money but be more flexible or closer to home or less emotionally taxing and thereby preferable despite the lower pay?

If it is between a job that pays enough to survive vs one that does not? No I can't. Between two jobs that pay enough to survive? Absolutely.

> Even when a minimum wage does exactly what you want it to, the effect is to transfer money from the large institutions that can absorb the minimum wage increase to the minimum wage workers. But you can get exactly the same desired effect simply by changing their relative tax rates (using negative rates if necessary) without incurring any of the harm caused by constraining anyone's choice of employment.

I fully agree that would be a better policy. It has proved much harder to pass through the political system. I have said it in other threads here but I am 100% not saying a higher minimum wage is an ideal economic state, it is simply better than the current point we are at and the seemingly easiest to pass at the moment. In the end, the clear way to do this is through UBI IMO. And I think that is the root of a lot of these threads that I'm not going into responses on - this isn't a one and done policy change, you need others to match it like an increased social safety net to make that "really bad" unemployed scenario not as bad.
> there was very serious discussion about adopting Esperanto as the language of the new republic.

No, there wasn’t. As a former Esperantist (very dedicated and active at the organizational level in UEA), I remember a lot of these claims being pitched to the public about how Esperanto was so esteemed here or there in history that it was almost used officially, but if you actually looked into the facts, never was serious consideration given to using Esperanto. At best there was just one or two government officials involved in these historical events who were Esperantists themselves, but they had no influence in this regard.

These are the sort of disingenuous claims about Esperanto that Marcus Sikosek sought to debunk in his book Esperanto sen mitoj, and they do more harm than good to Esperanto and they make the movement look kooky.
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> What would it take to get it ported to a better browser?

If I were the dev and heard that kind of attitude, I would intentionally not port it.

What, exactly, was the point of being an ass there?
I did quit a lot of interviews for both development and devops position. I always was happy with the hires. I never asked to write code, but I ask them to explain higher level and some times lower level concepts. Than let them draw it on aboard, paper or just explain it depending on there preference. The reason is that if you have a good understanding of programing concepts you are probably able to code.

For instance explain the concept of MVC. I have interviewed candidates that only could explain where they would put certain code based on the framework they used but could not explain the design pattern nor why they would put the code where they said the would. these types of questions will give you some insight if someone is able to reason about code and explain why they prefer some style over the other.
nice work.

If you have GPU power, I recommend using tinyfaces (https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~peiyunh/tiny/) as your face detector. But you won't get realtime performance...

We used a similar model to detect and blur faces from raw user uploaded images at scale, using a multi-stage pipeline.
You've omitted the word "primarily" in your quote, and it was an important one. But let's take a British tabloid like the Daily Mail. The Daily Mail has a distinct agenda, but the _primary_ purpose of content in the Daily Mail is to sell copies of the Daily Mail. The Economist has an unrelenting neo-liberal agenda, but again the primary purpose of content in The Economist is to sell copies of The Economist. These publications are rarely considered to be propaganda.

Some commercial or semi-commercial publications explicitly have aims of propaganda. The Guardian was founded to explicitly push an agenda, for example. Generally one tends to refer to this as "media bias" or "editorial slant" to distinguish it from propaganda pushed by governments.

This doesn't necessarily imply that all state-owned or non-commercial news outlets are propaganda, although I think one's starting assumption should be that they are. The BBC's World Service definitely serves (served?) the British Government's aims abroad, and was explicitly funded as such. _However_, good-faith accusations of it publishing propaganda are pretty rare, presumably because it's considered more useful by the UK to be a publisher of news that people will believe, rather than pushing a specific angle.
I have seen those theories that it has already spread <in whatever area> and that is why there aren't the cases now, but I find it difficult to believe from the following reasoning:

1. California has ~40 million people

2. Herd immunity would start at what ~30 million cases?

3. Elsewhere in the world, it seems that there is a ~1% infection fatality rate

So how did California get herd immunity without ~300,000 people who died of pneumonia from an unknown cause piling up in the corridors in a couple of months? I read elsewhere that fatality rate of people on ventilators is about 50%. Assuming that the Californian cohort were treated properly means there would have been ~600,000 people in critical condition and only half of them died. There will be more who went to hospital but weren't considered critical enough for ventilation. Its a rough guestimate but lets say twice as many "non-critical but hospitalized" as "hospitalized and critical" so there were ~1 million people queuing in the hospitals. These figures are pulled out of the air and can be adjusted, but it doesn't really help with the sheer numbers, for example there are ~7000 ICU beds in California, so the 300,000 who might have got better with care wouldn't have had access to it.

It seems obvious that to get to the immunity, you have to go through the eye of a needle.. The basic premise of theories like this seems to be that the fatality rate may be actually negligible and therefore that the whole issue has been overblown. But I have seen video from Wuhan and from Italy and New York that shows images of body bags piled in the corridors. That is not normal and it would surely have been remarked on in California or <whatever area> at the time. Don't forget that Wuhan had ~3000 deaths. Furthermore, California is not an island and for it to have been widespread there that long ago means it would have had to be widespread across the whole USA if not the entire world.

It is tempting I think to believe that <yourself> cannot be affected by <external threat> and obviously, extrapolating from the fact that it never happened before, <yourself> would be entirely correct. Unfortunately history is littered with people who chose to just live their lives like that until the <external threat> came along and wiped them out without blinking. All of us here are the descendants of the lucky ones!
It's a classic hero's journey kinda article - a few paragraphs later the author does some chest-beating about how they made some small changes which (miraculously, given the existing conditions) avoided having ANY medical staff infected - a bold claim, too good to be true given the situation when they came in.

I mean a lot of stories posted on HN are about how things were shit but how a hero came in and fixed things. The article wouldn't have worked if it was someone coming into a ward where everything was already great - there would be nothing to improve, nothing to be proud of, and if anything they could only talk about how bad things were. You want an upwards story, not a flat one.
Try to make sure you don’t go past any word that you do not understand.

It really helped me

https://www.scientology.org/courses/study/overview.html

http://www.studytechnology.org/10-barr.html
>which promotes more productive behavior from society at large.

Greed is good is an ideology for the morally impaired with limited attention span. A relatively small differential in wealth and large differential in social standing is arguably enough to achieve maximum "productive" behavior after which diminishing returns are had.

As proof observe many European nations that are almost as productive wherein the wealth of most practitioners of most professions tops out much lower than their US counterparts and yet they produce similarly to our citizens.
But then you're still expecting something implausible to happen, because everybody knows there is a shortage of masks and they're needed by healthcare workers, so the chances that 100% of millionaires will disregard that and buy masks they don't need is negligible.
This is fantastic, but one thing it seems to be missing is a projection of how objects change and interact over time, eg how revolving bodies form a helix in 4D, etc.

Or is that described elsewhere? I've not read the book (one more for the quarantine list!)
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The article we're talking about is accessible to anyone with a bit of patience and a decent vocabulary (or the will to use a dictionary). I'm not in the humanities and I had no problem understanding it. I think it's really weird to use this particular article as an example of some kind of disconnect between the humanities and the culture at large.

Pop science is fashionable, but 90% of it is fluff or pure nonsense. The level of scientific knowledge of the general public remains miserably low. Are the humanities doing so much worse in engaging the public? This is not obvious to me.

I'm confused now about why you brought Feynman into this. Initially, you seemed to be contrasting successful pop science with unsuccessful attempts by the humanities to communicate with the general public, and suggesting that humanists should ape the communication style of Feynman and other famous scientists. I found this odd, since humanists communicate with the general public all the time, to a much greater extent than most scientists. Just read any high quality newspaper or magazine and you'll find lots of accessible articles by humanities professors, authors, critics, etc. (The article we're talking about is one example!)

Perhaps it would help if you could just give an example of some work in the humanities (not necessarily recent) that you actually like. Presumably you don't think that there's never been any good or accessible work in the humanities. So rather than pointing to Feynman, why not tell us which humanists other humanists should be emulating?
Except that has never happened.
So the evidence is

> Job postings at the Wuhan facility for scientists to study coronaviruses and bats.

That's what labs studying viruses do.

> An announcement that new viruses had been discovered.

That's what labs studying viruses do.

> When she learned of the outbreak, a Chinese virologist known as "Bat Woman" (because of her hunt for viruses in bat caves) wondered if the virus came from her lab.

It's normal to wonder about these things but that doesn't make it evidence.

> The virology institute denied the existence of the person rumored to be "patient zero", a grad student. Information about her has been removed from the institute's website, and her whereabouts are unknown. The institute now claims she is in good health.

The institute also claimed the student left in 2015 so removing the photo and biography would make sense if that is true.

Edit: the researcher's publications suggest that they did indeed stop working in 2015 https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/203556...
The real challenge would be to design a multi-lingual website for both vertical and horizontal scripts. I suspect you'd end up with two very different designs.

It's interesting to look at the Mongolian president's web page (https://president.mn/mng/): It scrolls horizontally. And see how it responds to the hamburger menu, for example.

Edit: Oh wait, the president's web page is itself a good example: Here is the English version (https://president.mn/en/).
A couple of years ago I wrote a blog post about the state of internationalisation (i18n) in 2018. We're not there yet, but some projects (especially the Bible) have made a huge effort to try to have local dialect translations.

https://peterburk.github.io/i2018n/
Having amazing machine translation capability doesn't make it any easier for humans to learn a language.

And the "richness of expression" argument doesn't really hold water in such a reality – if there are things that "can't be easily expressed in English that can be expressed in Chinese", then your magical auto-translator presumably won't be able to actually convey what you're trying to convey if you say it in Chinese and want it translated to English. If the translator can accurately express your meaning, then the initial premise is invalid, no?
Why don’t APIs have the –help option?
Inner Mongolia already uses the traditional script so if anything this news is indicative of increased Chinese influence and decreased Russian influence in Mongolia.
You’ve never had to give a talk with a video inside ? Or have you gotten that to work in latex ?
SoftBank’s Fake Startup “Valuations” Come Unglued
And this is _exactly_ why, although this is cool, it would have been cooler had it been renamed to, for example, `imv` (aka the name from the rename tools project ;-) )
(not) to use Machine Learning for time series forecasting: The sequel
My post wasn't intended to be taken as a statement about Java, the programming language, it's about VMs/Java implementations. Unfortunately I have software to run on the Java VM.
> This assumes that people actually behave rationally.

There isn't an alternative. If you assume people behave irrationally you may as well send the army in straight away. People are often stupid but rarely irrational given what they can understand. There is pretty solid evidence that people with money are the ones who spend it rationally.

And besides a private buyer's opinion of what is rational is just as valid as anyone else's.

> If I may suggest you and a minority of others would be better served in such a situation and you are trying to construct an argument so as to justify a policy that would benefit yourself.

Yes? I'd like to live in a world where I can go to the store and buy toilet paper. Just like everyone else. This is not an unreasonable demand.

I'd like to see everything go back to normal as fast as possible, thanks. Policies that make it irrational to return to that happy equilibrium are not in my interests. We need producers and companies involved in consumer logistics to change their behaviors. Money is the fastest tool to do that.

Besides, seriously, why do you think people earn money if not to get first dibs on stuff they want? What do you think money is for? It isn't like everyone is going to get what they want, there is a massive shortage. Someone is going to have to do without. If someone has to do without we use money to figure out who. That is how life works in this era, and the eras before dating back to the invention of money. Price controls aren't going to win a war with the economy. It is more likely to take down the government than stop wealthy people getting what they want.
Wow super cool project and it's super impressive that you could do that with only 6400 logical lines of code (according to cloc) and without any dependencies (expect one for the gui part & material icons).

Can you explain how you implemented the GPU? What resources did you use?
Man accidentally ejects himself from fighter jet during surprise flight
Same for Maple syrup. You plant trees so your kids can make syrup. I'm 34 and if I planted a sugar Bush today I would be dead by the time it's viable.
This is the correct answer, however the question was obviously misstated. They _should_ have stated that the answer was something else. :-)
That is true, though I must also add that some of the ones in question came from prestigious and world renowned universities. Once you'd struggle to get in(in theory apparently, because otherwise I have no idea how that works). They all had the "senior developer" in their titles with near or double digit years of experience.
I agree; to latch onto your comment, the last time (AFAIK, my history is not great) the US made sweeping changes to its production was during WW2, where they changed the economy and shifted the workforce towards the war, producing weapons, ammo, etc.

On the one side it's a testament to the US' potential manufacturing prowess, on the other you have to wonder about the moral justification of it. If you take it out of context, of course, I mean they and the rest of the world were fighting some of the most morally objectionable forces at the time (the nazis and Japanese).

As an aside, the way things are heading now, the world will have to unite against the US. At least for now the US seems to keep to itself for the most part.
The article you cite lists no source for the crematorium factoid. In addition to that, it also cites the Daily Mail, a tabloid that is banned from Wikipedia. If you google around for the crematorium factoid, you will find that almost all articles about it cite reports by the Epoch Times[0]. The Epoch Times is a bona fide propaganda outlet[1] that pushes objectively false antivaxx and QAnon conspiracy theories. Their initial report consisted of them sending random people to count cars going into a single funeral home and trying to extrapolate that into the entire region. If you're willing to be critical of Sixth Tone, then please display similar criticality towards other media as well.

[0] https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/we-cant-stop-funeral...

"We need to pick up bodies when they call us. Every day, we need at least 100 body bags," a crematorium worker named Mr. Yun told the Epoch Times"

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Epoch_Times
"I went job hunting last year, and what I was really looking forward is technical interviews - PLEASE just challenge me, allow me to show you my work instead of my CV"

I totally agree. I hate the irony of having a highly technical job but then needing some decent writing skills to put together a CV that isn't just a list of employers, dates and acronyms.
I don't see how this script prevents me from learning it. With that said, we're obviously in different ballparks when it comes to the terminal. I don't need to do anything fancy. cd, ls, mv and git are pretty much the only commands I ever use. For me, this script fits nicely into my workflow.
> The economy needs to have good sold at a profit

Not for things that do not need to make a profit. See: essentials like healthcare, housing, and basic food items.
Very cool!

Some thoughts:

Out of curiosity, did you do it for the hack value and learning or do you also see a practical use-case for this project?

Have you considered doing any demo videos/GIFs? Would be fun to see.
Same here. I don't understand why AsciiDoc doesn't get more attention.
ActivityPub Could Be the Future
usually makes - so why not use 'e' only in the cases when it actually does? I don't say 'э' should always be used in place of 'е'. I mean why not use 'э' when it sounds 'э' (without the preceding letter softening) and 'е' when it really sounds 'е'? The Russian writing system tries to be phonetic but doesn't seem to do well this way.
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Haskell.

I lost my enjoyment for programming. I wrote very little code for about 5 years after burning out. One of my friends wanted to do a joint coding project and he suggested Haskell, so I solved one or two hundred project Euler problems in Haskell. I never got good at Haskell, but I really do enjoy writing smaller projects (less than 5,000 lines of code) in Haskell.

Haskell inspired me to read two fairly easy books on Category Theory. I really enjoyed that also.

I still don't write a lot of code. Every few months, there will be a problem at work that needs my help and then I write the equivalent of 3000 lines of C++. Or, there will be a math problem that I want to solve on the computer. I really enjoy writing those shorter, self-contained programs.

(PS: I started writing code in 1980.)
I never understood why most programming languages where so heavy in brackets until I moved to the UK and saw the layout. Then it clicked.