skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Twitter's translation of one of the tweets in the thread:

"Considering the complexity inherent in our logistics activities and the fine of one million euros per infraction imposed by the court, the risk of contravening the decision was too high."

This seems to be a valid reason for suspending operations, although no where in the tweet-thread explains how frequent the fines would be. If they can't comply with the order fast enough, shutting down operations in order to have time to comply without getting fined seems reasonable.
What Is a Cytokine Storm?
Theranos was a scam.
For me phone size is not about human size. I'm tall person and my finger are quite long. It's about one-hand use. I was able to use iPhone 4S with one hand and it was convenient, not some kind of stretch. It's just not possible with iPhone 8. I'd pay good price for 3.5" iPhone 4S with modern internals.

That said, this boat has been sailed. Modern apps won't work on tiny screens because their developers optimize for large screens, so it's a pointless desire.
> The tech industry nowadays is no longer about solving real-world problems and making the world a better place

Your complaints are legitimate problems with the industry, but it should come as no surprise that a free market does not always make ethical decisions.

> Unfortunately there's just nothing out there that pays as well so I have no choice but to tough it out.

You always have a choice. Nobody ever promised that a choice which "makes the world a better place" would necessarily be the one that's best for any individual's own wallet. It usually isn't.

As long as tech workers continue to choose to do work purely based on salary, even when it "screws the end user in every single way possible", employers are incentivized to continue to pay them to do so. The job market works both ways.

It's hard to muster much pity for someone who uses "toughing it out" to describe making a great salary and (by their own admission) screwing their customers.
The 1% contribution to others is good for the manager, because he gets to take credit for the entire team. The 10% self improvement is good for that individual, because he can leverage that into a better paying role.
Plenty of companies that generate revenue and profit are going to go bankrupt in this crisis by virtue of not having a sufficiently large balance sheet to wait out the shutdown. In fact many of these will depend on the ability to draw funding or debt to survive.
I’d suggest that it’s way to early to be making the call that we’re handling this well. I’d also estimate that globally there’s been around $50 trillion in QE. Is this something we could “handle well” once a decade? Once every 5 years? Once every 2 years?

I believe we’re at an inflection point. Part of me is fascinated to see what comes after (for me “after” = over the next decade).
Part of me is very scared. I’m glad I’m in the last third of my life.
Very little oral procedures are essential. If people have to be in a lot of pain and otherwise not be able to function, they can get that checked at the ER.
Nicely written summary!

This paper was written by Richard Stallman in 1981 and delivered in the ACM Conference on Text Processing which touches on all of your points and a few more: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-paper.html
basically, except for the family pictures application, documentation (traffic accident) or "art"/hobby, noone needs a camera anymore, because today, everything there is, is already documented a thousand times, available in the mediocre quality for free, anytime, with an internet connection.

The first two categories are well served by any smartphone camera nowadays, which leaves the third.
And here I think that this is still served best by a dedicated device because you are basically really interested in taking pictures of a certain quality. And no, the current state of the art in fake-bokeh will not really hit this group (it's a very small group though and the instagram-people with their nice portraits will probably go for the fake too. Though they probably could just do a 3D-scan of the person and then do a render (no more bad hair. no more bad skin. pure perfection). Doesn't necessarily have a lot to do with photography though).
> 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.

This is something Android messed up since Android 9 (IIRC). You used to have a small arrow below the Wifi and Bluetooth (and whatnot) icons where you could select what to connect to. Removing those since 9 was partially what drove me to angrily expore iOS.

Can't say about the spellcheck because I used Swiftkey on iOS but the Android version is miles ahead of it. In hindsight I should've probably just reverted to the iOS built-in one.
im well acquainted with fpga development so recognized the name from that context.

regardless of that, they will have to up their seo game if they wanna outrank...
> Should it be responsibility of Halide to work out the best loop nesting and best use of threads?

I don't know about "should", but it seems to me that it would still be valuable, even if working out the threading and organization.of the data into an array.

> Again, Halide was put aside and we used CUDA for final version, exactly because of inability of Halide to do good work in our case

I didn't say anything about that. I'm not sure why you are restating it.
So the ISO committee breaks the backward compatibility of C in behalf of modernity... but there is C++ guys!

A little effort and you could make C deprecated. ;-)

This makes me think that there are as many C++ gurus than Go(ogle) gurus who want to kill C to be the new Java which brings you a bad coffee from a dirty kitchen.
a long time ago I went into my living room and saw my parents very quiet sitting down looking at the dvd logo bounce. So I asked, what are you doing, and they said, oh we've been here waiting for the logo to hit the corner...:D
The thing about a big enough economic shock is that it can kill viable early stage businesses nearly as easily. Remains to be seen exactly what happens of course, but it's at least plausible this isn't going to just be a healthy shakeout.
I love this. And for the first few bounces, I was worried the real troll was that it would never even approach the corner. :)
I, too, am annoyed by special purpose tools and gadgets in the kitchen. It's for that reason that I'll point out that whisks are far from special purpose, especially in comparison to a waffle iron.
Translations:

Top twitter comment from Amazon: Following the decision of the court on 14th April, we (Amazon Inc) have to temporarily suspend activity in our distribution centers.

Decision from the court, in a screenshot few comments below: We order Amazon Inc to evaluate work-related risks inherent to the covid-19 pandemic, across all its warehouses and to put in place measures expected by article L4121-1 from labor laws (not sure what's in this article)... we order Amazon, until the above measures are put in place and within 24h of being notified of this decision, to restrict warehouse activity to reception of merchandises, preparation and shipping of food items, hygiene items and medical supplies, otherwise it will be subject to a fine of 1M EUR per day late and per infraction.

https://twitter.com/AmazonNewsFR/status/1250481148209369088

https://twitter.com/BlaisePere/status/1250522103952158722/ph...
This is weird to hear because there are several competing clinics in Phoenix all offering antibody testing.
Don't take my word for it.

Here is an article by a Stanford epidemiologist calling for random testing a month ago: https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-a...

We need data to act objectively. As far as I can tell US state governments are doing all they can to prevent random data from being released.
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> Emacs doesn't allow packages to be installed over HTTP

Are you sure about that? I think that you can specify http as usual in the URL:

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

See the instructions here which go to an annoyingly extreme level of ugliness to set the protocol in a paranoid fashion: https://melpa.org/#/getting-started
France clearly wants to fill its coffers by fining every big SV company. Soon they will all pull out of France and no the local companies won't be even half as good. Then the people will clamor for Amazon etc. to be back.
I started my career doing low-level TCP/IP stuff and always found Comer's books more readable and more coherent than Stevens, which I'm not especially a fan of.

https://www.amazon.com/Internetworking-TCP-IP-One-6th/dp/013...

I'd second everyone else's recommendation that you just start hacking on an embeddable TCP/IP stack. It's not even hard to build one from scratch once you get over the reading/writing ethernet frames hurdle (which is just a library integration challenge).
That was one of the best sites of the dotcom era, but not because it reported news of failures. It was because it reported news of wreckless stupidity, ludicrous excess, obviously bad decisions and then the inevitable failure that followed.

Without those traits of how utterly crazy startups could be back then FuckedCompany wouldn't be so much fun.
I tried this. I didn't get into medical school but it is doable.

I enrolled in a premedical postbaccalaureate program, and over the course of two years of night classes finished all of the prerequisites required by most allopathic medical schools. I worked by butt off to finish with a 4.0 GPA and place in the 96th percentile on the MCAT (good enough to not be ruled out because of my MCAT score). I also volunteered at a memory care hospice on weekends during this period and ended up with 100 hours of clinical experience. I had some additional clinical exposure working on medical device projects as an engineering student.

I applied to 27 schools and was invited for two interviews. Of those two, I was waitlisted by one and rejected by the other. I didn't end up clearing the waitlist. So what went wrong? I can't say for certain, but I suspect these were contributing factors:

* My undergraduate engineering school GPA was 3.3 and my graduate school engineering GPA was 3.4. These are reasonable by engineering school standards but borderline for medical school.
* I only had 100 clinical hours. Many applicants have hundreds or even thousands of hours of clinical experience when they apply. I was 31 when I started the postbac program and decided to keep my full time job in order to save up money. The opportunity cost of each hour of clinical experience was higher at this age compared to a typical undergrad. In hindsight I should have at least devoted my weekends to gaining clinical experience the moment I decided to go this route.
* One of my recommendation letter writers was late. My application wasn't processed until all recommendation letters were in. I wasn't eligible for consideration until later admissions rounds.
* I didn't stand out. To be clear this isn't a requirement, but schools like to build a diverse and interesting class, so standing out in some way can be helpful. I struggle to decide if this was something beyond my control or if it represents a personal failure.

To return to my initial point, it is doable. In an alternate universe in which my recommendation letters made it in earlier, or I slept better before the MCAT and got an extra point, perhaps I would have been invited for one or two more interviews. If the interview -> admission invite conversion rate is 20%, that boosts the odds of admission from 36% to 59%. (I haven't ruled out applying again, but I would need to enroll in classes for at least another year in order to get new faculty recommendation letters. Unfortunately it isn't safe to volunteer at the hospice right now due to COVID-19).
Some HGST tech is Toshiba now, some of it is WD. Hard to know whether WD drive is made up to HGST snuff. If you want the best, buy helium WD drive labeled HGST. If you can't get it, then WD or Toshiba helium datacenter drives should be close.
People with this "help others" mindset lose competition against their more ruthless peers. If you had a business, would you help others to compete with you?
Yeah, which in mind tarnishes the reputation of Android. Well on the other hand most regular people don't even don't know what Android is, they only talk about "Samsung" phones, which is somewhat correct.
Where the heck are you getting that 490,000 number from? The oral polio vaccine (aka OPV/Sabin) uses a weakened form of the live virus, which known to revert occasionally to virulent form.

Here’s what the WHO site says:

“Since 2000, more than 10 billion doses of OPV have been administered to nearly 3 billion children worldwide. As a result, more than 13 million cases of polio have been prevented, and the disease has been reduced by more than 99%. During that time, 24 cVDPV outbreaks occurred in 21 countries, resulting in fewer than 760 VDPV cases.”

https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/what-is-vaccine-der...
Apple now runs ObjC in the browser
> 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?

I think the claim is that democracy means "the people" are in charge in some sense.

Of course, it's always been my experience that Starbucks has much better customer service than the DMV, so I'm not sure exactly how much that matters; it's not just that the people are nicer - the company actually cares somewhat about my opinions.
I’m an E.R. Doctor in New York. None of Us Will Ever Be the Same
Well, if you look at Nikon DSLRs: if you are shooting landscapes or portraits and are ok with the ergonomics of your gear/not printing _really_ big posters: your D750 is still state of the art (6 years old), so why buy new. What is a little bit disconcerting is, that everyone is jumping the full-frame wagon and not going the niche/mini-series way, they should probably go (this might lead to a disruptive change with a lot of knowledge lost in bankruptcies – which would be bad).
> Did I really just read this?

Yes, You really did just read this. But I think you took the wrong message away.

The parent "Would argue against" small phones, because they prefer larger phones.

I am asking him in the most sincere way I know to not argue against smaller phones because their preferences are currently well served. However mine haven't been nearly met in years.

I find the rest of your comment very bad faith, this is a first world problem _of course_ but this is a topic about a new phone and I haven't been able to buy a new phone in 4 years at this point. At some point the EOL will strike my phone and I'll be essentially forced (by application support, website performance, lack of browser updates whatever) to carry something that feels more like a mini ipad or tablet than a "phone".

Look, Phones are a central point of our lives today; I do my banking on it, I pay my bills on it, I order food with it. I literally pay for everything with it. It's not unreasonable that there is at least a modicum of variety that _isn't_ camera based.
Some possibly relevant context, or just interesting anecdotes of Amazon in Europe:

When Amazon.fr opened back in 1998/1999 in Orleans, there was industrial action on pretty much Day 1.

It kind of fit the French stereotype of industrial action to a T.

When Amazon.de opened a bit before Amazon.fr in Regensberg, there was an issue with Amazon's book database(at the time we were only selling books) where books banned in Germany(such as Hitler's Mein Kampf) were viewable and able to be purchased in Germany which caused a bit of a media stir at the time.

Things were much simpler back then, in every way.
That's wishful thinking. The virus will survive in Africa, or India, or many of the other places that are incapable or unwilling to enforcing a complete lockdown (many of these places are in the US itself).

As I mentioned above, we have only ever erradicated _one_ infectious disease in all of human history. The chances of COVID, with its highly infectious nature, being the second are quite slim.

Just like the first outbreak, all it takes is one person with the virus to start the whole process over again.
Having been through several rounds of layoffs, Henry's letter/statement seems incredibly humane and thoughtful given the circumstances.
>"liberal conspiracy"

Call it what you want. I don't know that the social engineering campaign was developed on one "side" or the other-- I assume its planning and implementation goes "deep"er than that, and pervades both sides of the aisle.

Given the evidence, who questions whether or not there is a social engineering campaign?

it's quite obvious to me.

The "dots" connected for you:

https://ibb.co/gj76Frc

The "dots":

[1] 1/n Spent some time on LexisNexis over the weekend. Depending on your political orientation, what follows will either disturb or encourage you. But regardless of political orientation, I'm sure we can all say 'holy fucking shit'" https://twitter.com/ZachG932/status/1133440945201061888

[2] The NYTimes is Woke "Many trends develop over decades but I’ve never seen change so rapid as the breathtaking success of what one might call social justice concerns. Beginning around 2010-2014 there appears to have been a inflection point. Here from Zach Goldberg on twitter are various words drawn from Lexis-Nexis." https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/06/th...

[3] Discussion on how identity politics conveniently sprang up as a counter-movement to deliberately disrupt up the Occupy Wallstreet movement, which is corroborated by the timelines of sources 3 and 4 above. https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/1wecyn/identity...
IMO they just want to reuse iPhone 8 factories like they reused iPhone 5S factories releasing SE 1.
This looks like it’s just 2D so translate() would be enough, almost all of the functions under transform are GPU accelerated.
The court order doesn't require a "good faith attempt"

It specifies to only ship essential items and proscribes a 1-million euro fine for every mistake Amazon makes. I don't even think it defines essential (I don't speak french and I don't see anything obvious in the order defining it, perhaps there's a callout in the text to another declaration which defines essential).

A much more reasonable requirement would have been to tell Amazon to not ship any non-essential items and to fine them 10x the value of anything they ship over, say, 5-10% their total shipments.

E.g. If Amazon ships 90 packages of toilet paper/essential items, they can accidentally ship up to 10 pairs of shoes/non-essential items. If they ship 11 non-essential items they would be fined 10x the value of that item.

Seems like that would be a much smarter way of laying-out that decision.
> I don’t see a clear definition of what is included or not for “vital” goods.

Read the shutdown orders, they will clarify this sort of stuff.

Vital goods are goods that are necessary for human life, shelter, and the operation of businesses that have been declared vital. (Which are thoroughly enumerated in most shutdown orders).

Most of Amazon's business, by that definition, ships vital goods. I don't think any western country has so far discriminated between vital goods going to vital businesses, versus non-vital household use, so most of their business is permissable...
It's great that you behave that way.

> it is by no means a universal trait in humanity

I didn't say it was universal. But it happens plenty enough that you cannot dismiss it when, for example, making public policy.
Lol Bill Gates is not an elected official. He has arguably more than enough for a private individual.
First, I agree on the PRI macros. I refuse to use them.

Stucture member access by name is useful. It's slow, but it doesn't affect code that isn't using the feature. The worst runtime issue is that the runtime support requirement grows. For example, libgcc would gain a few functions.

We can do it today with awkward code, sometimes involving hacks that are outside the C language. Implementations vary by how much they hide what is going on. When I implemented libproc.so for Linux, I made two implementations. The high-performance one used a perfect hash table that was generated by gperf and then hand-edited. Name look-up would do the hash, index into an array of structs, compare the name for a match, and then use gcc's computed goto extension to jump to code that would handle the struct member. Had I not been also parsing the data in various distinct ways, I might have used an offsetof() macro to let generic code fill in the struct fields. The other implementation I made, with lower performance, used bsearch on a sorted array.

Dynamically defined struct members are also useful, but even slower and with even more overhead. Again though, I don't think that other code would be affected beyond the growth of the compiler's libgcc equivalent.

Seeing what I just wrote above, the computed goto extension is more important. It's great for any kind of table look-up that needs code to run. Emulators use it a lot, and would use it much more if it were in the C standard.
Have you seen jc[0]? Now for the json bash interface the only thing that's missing a nicer json renderer (perhaps table format) to have a similar feature parity to Nushell.

[0]: https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc
All the current Xperia phones (even the "compact") are much larger than the 5/SE form factor unfortunately.
You might find this thread interesting (“There's a growing body of data to strongly suggest #COVID19 predisposes to both venous and arterial thromboembolism due to excessive inflammation, hypoxia, immobilization and diffuse intravascular coagulation.”)

https://twitter.com/scottgottliebmd/status/12500696095810314...
You can visit a French submarine in Paris (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_submarine_Argonaute_(...) and I was blown away by how tiny it is. I actually went twice because I left the boat thinking there would be more.
No answer but -2 points.

It seems cowards don't have any argument. :-)
Not to mention being the foundation of the definition of perjury
"annoying" when dealing with graphics cards / passthrough if you're talking about virtualization and probably would not be allowed since the hypervisor would be a ring above the kernel module, effectively neutering it.

If you mean dual-boot, sure, that's a very reasonable solution as well. I just don't like to reboot often and would personally have a 2nd computer as it probably takes me an hour or more to go from "booted" to "productive"
I agree completely. I miss having a Department Administrative Assistant who was expert at the things I shouldn't need to be expert at. Like "I need to go to San Francisco next month; please take care of my travel arrangements." Or, "how do you use this Excel feature I never heard of and will never need to use again?"

Our AA saved us countless thousands of hours each year. She was worth her weight in platinum.
Covid-19: The dam is about to break on data from repurposed therapies
We've seen earlier posts of this. It's a shell that works on the premise that data is tabular. It's pretty neat. I'm not sure I can ever leave the traditional Unix shells behind though. I'm much more interested in a shell integrated with jq or something like that, but the reality is that Unix commands' input and output data types are not very well described or strongly typed, and that makes anything much better than the shell's we've got difficult to deal with.

I wonder if we could have a standard by which a command could indicate what input and output data types it consumes/produces for a given command-line, as well as what sorts of side-effects a command-line might have... Then we could have shells implement some type system. Where you expect XML you can use XPath, where you expect JSON you can use jq, and so on, and the shell could display tabulated output where possible, and not where not.