skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Long pre-trial detention in some rather uncomfortable situation and social isolation might help you obtain more "confessions" than in a different system.
> A lot of spraying is just public health theater. How does running trucks and people through neighborhoods spraying roads and all surfaces kill any virus. It is similar to carpet bombing to eliminate rodents. I saw this first in pictures out China and wondered how effective that is and how harmful to public health and what exactly are they spraying?

It's sometimes literal theater, complete with fist-pumping music and dramatic marching:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiDnde-ig3A

> Workers disinfect Hankou railway station in Wuhan, which has been closed for 58 days due to the coronavirus outbreak, on Friday. The transportation hub, whose reopening time is yet to be determined, can accommodate up to 160,000 passengers in normal times.

Spraying like this probably makes sense in certain circumstances, like when attempting to quickly reopen a recently contaminated area when spread is otherwise controlled, but I don't think anyone's claimed the virus can remain viable for 58 days on any type of surface.
Better models won't solve anything. It's the streetlight effect - easier to build quantum computers than change the collective behaviour.
> But thruth is I'm only a very occasional puzzle gamer. So i'd probably not play it much or at all.

Then why should you care about what the makers of Factorio do?

> Examples like Telltale and Riot tell us how ugly things can get if they grow too quickly and continue operating that way.

Do Factorio developers show any sign that they're "growing too quickly"? Telltale took on dozens of contracts for games that showed no sign of selling well, and Riot went public and were acquired and became Tencent's bitch. How is any of that relevant to Factorio not going on sale?
Your more wordy source does not describe general business closures and doesn't say the word "quarantine". The lessons of history are clear that we needed to do something, certainly.
What is clunky about decimal type? You declare a decimal variable and then use it exactly like any other numeric type. Here is an example: https://dotnetfiddle.net/jjJHA6
Keeping Up with Alexa: April 17th
Just remember: this is by The Onion.
That's a satirical news segment from The Onion. Not a real anti-smoking campaign.
Why isn't the U.S. adopting OpenTrace?
Louisiana also had Mardi Gras, which brought in tons of people from around the country to New Orleans, likely spreading Covid
True, I recently returned to C++ after many years absence and I'm thrilled with all the good stuff that has been added BUT it took me quite a while to learn how I'm going to unlearn/relearn my old practices.
Google dot com UI is growing ever closer to following in the footsteps of iTunes. It’s just becoming a cluttered mess and more confusing to users... I didn’t even know you could shop directly from the site.
I'm in it right now, starting my third term in May. It's been very valuable for me. However, I think I'm like most of the students: coming from a math, engineering, or science background, transitioning into a more software development-oriented career. The value of the OMSCS degree is very clear for us: the degree as a qualification, and exposure to knowledge/skills we don't already have.I'm not sure if it would be as valuable for someone who already has some sort of computer science/systems background. I'm not really sure what a computer systems engineering degree entails so I may be way off here.

Some other thoughts:

The time investment and effort to do the courses is serious. Not only are the courses very time-consuming (10 - 30 hours per week), but you're also expected to do research and study up on material on your own in certain classes. You can't just be a passive consumer of the material. It can be very rewarding and/or very painful depending on what you're getting out of the course.

Your choices are constrained by class capacity. It is very difficult to get into the more popular courses (i.e the ML ones in particular) and so be prepared to take non-ML courses until you have enough seniority to get better registration preference. Don't even bother trying to plan out your courses in advance, a lot of it will just be determined by when you are permitted to register for classes! To be fair, based on recent emails from GT, it seems like they're aware of this problem and looking to open up other classes (possibly taking advantage of more courses going online during the pandemic). They also seem to be opening up courses that were formerly restricted to the OMSA degree (the more math-heavy analytics equivalent) which I'm really excited about.
I responded directly to someone who said they were considering alternatives, and wouldn't've otherwise.
Pacman package manager – taking untrusted input
I still play Factorio on a clunky, old, el-cheapo laptop I got in 2013, and it still plays fine in single player (except on really busy screens when zoomed way out, when it crawls). Playing multiplayer over a network can also get really painful, with massive slowdowns in busy areas and in combat, despite only being a few milliseconds away from the server.

I really need to get a new machine.
Honestly, that sound exactly like the path I took. Was a senior engineer when I moved away from where my office was and went remote on a special dispensation (my company is in general quite hostile to remote work) and since then my career has continued to progress more or less as I expected. Of course I don't really know the counterfactual but in general I think people way overestimate the value of "face time" for career progression. And if you can be more productive working remotely (which I certainly think I have been) then it can be a net benefit. Of course that all depends on the company. Going remote is probably not great if you work at a small company with a tight-knit team.
You do need to evaluate that 7x in the light of the exponential growth we’re seeing in other areas.
How to Survive a Long Distance Relationship During the Lockdown
Yay! Honored you'd spend part of your daily limit to leave me a comment. :)

Intention actually works on Firefox for Android so you can use it on Android today! Planning to build something special for iOS (the OS limitations make it challenging) in the future.
I wonder it would be possible to underclock/undervolt these cpus to make it consume less power.

Sometimes you just don't need pure raw speed.
I'm really interested to understand your comment better.

Can you give an example for "presumptive view of a division of responsibilities" and generally the whole comment? Something like "bad way" vs "good way"? Thanks!
While I'm sure the methods in here are valuable, the initial claim of 83% seems suspect.

> After launching the Adaptive Audience campaign, CPA for our technical audience went from $34.47 for general remarketing to $18.80 for the targeted remarketing via adaptive audiences, so an 83% overall improvement for CPA for our technical audience – which is a huge win!

This seems like a misleading way to phrase this. When I hear 83% improvement from $34.47, I expect a 83% ($28.61) drop, ie, 34.47 * (1 - 0.83) = 5.86.

This is more reasonably a (34.47 - 18.80) / 34.47 = 45% drop. Still impressive, but not the same.

Is it really standard to express your improvement in these terms? This would make it trivial to have a >100% drop in cost, which is clearly wrong.
It was a Chinese Canadian family who reported to BC Health that a family member who went back to China had tested positive. The individual had visited two health clinics in BC with symptoms, and was dismissed, before going back to China at the end of the trip. I believe this was one of the first 3 cases reported in BC. This was commendable and very forward thinking of the family. Many times there is a stigma in Eastern countries about being the early carrier of disease etc.
Here's the link to the website since it didn't link in the text.

https://auction-go.com
Google has always been a fascinating company to me. A lot of my friends still work there and love it and my impression of their internal developer experience is that it’s top notch. This shows me though that despite them being an engineer-first company (or used to be) they really haven’t created another dominant business since ads and consumer gsuite. Basically when I was a new grad I thought if your company had technical prowess everything else would follow but I’m slowly learning that it’s not the case, sound strategy is really all you need and you need good leadership for that, which comes and goes.
>By Global north standards that’s warm.

I dunno, even up in BC here it's been warmer than that these last couple weeks and I would in no way describe where I live as a 'warm place'. At least on the coast. It gets pretty warm in the interior in the summer though.
You have to be a moron to think libertarianism is real
MicroConf video vault goes live
their encryption is closed source. If we don't know exactly how Telegram works at it's core, any encryption it might have is almost worthless IMHO.
Signal and Keybase FTW
Which should have obviously been canceled, clearly highlighting incredibly poor response.
Nice work!
For those interested in similar projects, microsoft Orlean (.NET core) and Tarantool Cartdridge (C/lua) were bringing very nice concepts when I searched for a robust distributed platform for applications a few months ago.
https://dotnet.github.io/orleans/
https://www.tarantool.io/en/doc/2.3/book/cartridge/
Azure is! (or; was?[0])

[0]: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/03/24/azure_seems_to_be_f...
Hitachi drives (not the NAS category) have been at the top of Backblaze’s annual hard drive reliability charts for several years even after the WD acquisition. So that division is still churning out drives that are better than the WD branded drives.
I certainly do. This is meant just as a toy, and way to learn Rust, which is what I've written this in. If I need to actually achieve something, I use python or haskell.

However sed is perfect if you have spare time and want to write basic programs in unnecessarily complex way for fun.
This site has a filter for Recording process:
https://skinflint.co.uk/?cat=hde7s

You could also enter your harddrive model number in the search bar and have a look at the recording process there.

Note: I have no idea how accurate the information is for every hdd out there, but it does seem accurate with the three hdds I have (that are relatively recent). The models I looked at are:
Seagate ST2000DM008 (SMR)
WesternDigital WD10EACS (CMR)
Toshiba HDWD130UZSVA (CMR)
The ad is very good, but it is also very patronizing. Most smokers know it’s bad, the problem is it’s an addiction. In a way, the ad is very honest, because saying ‘why don’t you just stop your addiction’ is a childish question.
Every era has attempted to explain the functions of the brain using metaphor, usually whatever technological apparatus most in vogue at the time. Hydraulic, mechanical, electrical, and now digital comparisons have all been made and they're all a very poor fit. You could just as easily make the same comparisons you gave to a piece of paper and a pencil. It has working memory where you write and erase lines, it has long term memory where you leave the written lines, and you can perform computations on it by writing them out long form. The comparison should seem absurd because the functions of memory and computation are not actually part of consciousness, they are things acted upon by consciousness.

This makes sense if you imaging 3 scenarios:

1) A person with no short term memory e.g. someone with acute dementia

2) No long term memory e.g. amnesia

3) No processing e.g. sensory deprivation

The third scenario is not perfect but depends entirely on how you define processing. Here I've defined it as operating on sensory input. If you want to define it as "thinking" then you will need to define what thinking is.

As for biological vs. artificial neural networks, yes it appears that a neural network is required for consciousness to exist given our single example of human consciousness. We don't know how this works so we can't even say for sure if the way we've implemented artificial neural networks would be capable of producing a form a consciousness. They can process and categorize data in ways that seem similar to what our brains do with sense perception but so far we haven't come anywhere close to simulating what we would call a conscious agent. Artificial NNs don't tie computers to the brain in a meaningful way because we are only using computers to simulate NNs. It would be better to just talk about the properties of NNs and leave computers out of it.

I apologize if I've made it seem like I'm accusing you of advocating for the illegality of psychedelics. I meant to criticize your opinion that they have little to no benefit since you were arguing that we could derive the same effects from going for a walk or moving to a different country.

"pushing frontiers forwards further and faster than space exploration" this wasn't from me and is not something I necessarily agree with
Ask HN: Advice for lead engineer who is not engaged
As the title says, we have a lead engineer in our small startup who is not responsive or engaged anymore. The engineer seems to be getting progressively worse each week.

There are severe issues with meeting deadlines because the engineer decides to go AWOL and then comes back with reasons that are downright ridiculous. Things that were supposed to be done 2 months ago are still in backlog for example.

We have few other people on the team who are working great! But the lead engineer is a roadblock right now for lot of tasks. We are concerned about letting the engineer go because of the 'brain drain' that would occur as a result.

How do we rectify the situation?
As a reference, here is a map that shows international tourism arrivals per country from 2018. I don't know if it proves any causes in relation to your point about international travel but it shows some correlation.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/st.int.arvl?view=map
You forgot

after filling, tow it out to sea and scuttle it
= profit
Not sure what a "factory method" is, but

struct Foo {
private:
int a = 0, b = 0;
Foo() = default;
Foo(int a, int b): a(a), b(b) {}
public:
static Foo init_zeroed() { return Foo{}; }
static Foo init_ones() { return Foo{1, 1}; }
};

will do. You can add as many static methods acting as "named constructors" as you want.
> for every day you stay under your limit, you'll grow your personal streak.

So this is using gamification to game gamification? Interesting.

> immediately start scrolling through [...] Facebook

There are some other interesting add-ons in this area. I'm a big fan of safebook[0].

> - Your browsing history stays in your browser and is never transmitted.

That sentence worries me. If I told you "I haven't stolen anything from your living room," you'd probably start to think what other room I'd looted.

[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/safebook/
Just for comparison, what percentage of their overall yearly revenue do those three products represent?
Thanks for tracking it down. Doesn't seem to be any problem with accepting their results that it's almost as good as a nasopharyngeal swab, so you won't see me complaining about it again.
for Amazon, the user is also the product. everything is a product to Amazon.

they have a flourishing advertising business and have extremely valuable and actionable data on all of their users.
Exploring Evolutionary Meta-Learning in Robotics
Authenticated Key Exchanges
Stop Extrapolating Your Perceptions
British Columbia is part of Canada and thus borders America. It has a city of ~3 million people (Vancouver), which is an hour's drive from Seattle (pop ~4 million) and the US west coast. It has one of the most active ports in North America and is a jumping off point for cruise ships, overseas travel to Asia and numerous other flows of people and good. The other user is making a fairly dishonest comparison of BC and New Zealand by looking just at population and none of the other factors that have led to the differing results during the pandemic.
Decentralised contact tracing app could be launched in Switzerland within weeks
Impact of Covid-19 on fundraising data (including April)
I am interested in working as a software engineer at Gitlab, what do you feel is a good path to land a job at the company? I plan to start contributing meaningful changes to gitlab itself and have a couple of side projects to show. What else can I do to land a job and how do I get noticed since it's mostly outbound hiring going forward. Note : I don't use linkedin and don't plan to. Given my unique circumstances, any advice would be nice. Thanks.

Edit : Another question : since I am currently in my first job, whom do I give as references? I can't give my current manager as a reference for obvious reasons. Weird question : I contribute to OSS projects (and plan to contribute to gitlab), do you think I can give the OSS maintainers as references?
This is fantastic :D! Thanks for building this.

As a feature request, I would love to be able to restrict my time spent on websites I arrive at _from_ e.g. HackerNews, not just _on_ HackerNews itself.
Looks like Proton does a better job than snap or rpm. I don't get why there is no Linux layer dedicated to translating x32 library calls into x64 calls. The other way around is often impossible I know.
nice book!
Anectdotedly, I've been extra productive in my writing/analyses.
If the US really doesn't have enough PPE for safe deliveries, then the health authorities can improvise, and have delivery workers leave packages at the door.

I don't see why training delivery workers to follow sanitary procedures would be infeasible either.

Whatever costs/challenges in ensuring no disease transmission from the majority to the quarantined minority pales in comparison to the challenges posed by completely collapsing the economy by requiring everyone to be quarantined.

>>a shitload of people will be in the hospital being triaged because they were classified as "non-vulnerable"

The chances of a person infected with the coronavirus ending up in critical condition or dead from COVID19 are vastly smaller if they're under 45.
Certainly doesn't make me want to use any software made by this guy.
it's generally preferable to complete the task faster at high clock/voltage and then go completely idle then it is to run for longer at lower clock/voltage

the total power draw is lower when the task is completed faster
You can't really look at these independantly. There are lots of ways to slice up the results, you just to be careful and clear about what you are doing.
Rumor has it that the next generation of Blue drives are just 5G modems transmitting data to the cloud.
> In short, it treats the cycle as a car, but with access to less information.

This is just not even remotely true.

I cycle all the time in Manhattan and Brooklyn and for the same destination, the car and cycling routes are drastically different.

Cycling routes give tremendous preference for roads with actual cycling lanes, and do their best to avoid main arteries to give you a safer side street instead.

You can verify this yourself in Google Maps by turning on the "Bicycling" layer to see the green-marked bicycle routes, picking random intersections to get directions between, and observe how it tries to route you along bike lanes. (Of course, Manhattan streets are tricky, so it's not the case 100% of the time because giving too much preference to bike lines can result in a much longer trip.)

Quick searching also reveals that Google absolutely uses the elevation data to try to route riders along flat roads, that uphill shows a longer estimated time, and you can even see an elevation map of the route.

So as far as I can tell, this article is just 100% factually wrong, based on an entirely false premise.

Is Google Maps perfect for cyclists? Of course not (e.g. it has no idea cobblestone streets are something to avoid), but it's not perfect for cars either (thinks I ought to drive down a pedestrian staircase in LA).

But there's clear evidence that Google Maps "discovered" cyclists sometime around 2014, if not before. It's been a while. (My biggest wish is for it to integrate bike sharing into directions.)
It's too risky for an Apple employee to do so willy-nilly.
"why do they take up slots in your inventory?"

The blueprints you make go in your inventory by default because that's the temporary storage area for them. (Incidentally, to get rid of a blueprint in your inventory, right click it and then click on the trashcan icon in the blueprint dialog which appears).

If you want your blueprints to be more permanent and persist between games you can put them in to the "My Blueprints" section of the blueprints screen.

There you can also organize your blueprints in to books of related blueprints.

For more detailed tutorials on how to use blueprints, try searching on youtube for: factorio blueprints
This would be an interesting interview question. (/ducks)
How does one tailor a resume to a specific job without bending the truth? I don't have experience with the exact stack listed but I bet I could get up to speed within a week or two given the chance.

edit: And what does tailoring to a specific job mean? Should I change my job titles to match? Do I just copy a bunch of keywords from it into my descriptions? I've never worked that specific job that is why I am applying
That's not what my accountant has said.
Sociopathic political manipulation (via astroturfing) in aid of bumping a hedge fund a few points? Sounds about right.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-01-25/how-hedge...
Cool, can you compare hemispheres next?
> SourceHut over GitHub as a service which can be expected to have better uptime and performance, because it is a fact

Most of us could throw any of the open source solutions on a $20 Linode instance and probably have excellent uptime. How many active repos do you host, and on how many servers?
Nice design, really clear presentation of the content!
...and now you know what a "factory method" is.
Unfortunately NAND Flash is not an archival medium, as data can fade in as little as one year when powered off. I realize disk is the new tape, I didn't realize the hard drive makers would take it so literally...

As far as I am concerned, SMR are unfit for any purpose other than hyperscale archival storage. If you work for AWS Glacier, good for you, but those drives should never ever be sold to consumers.
Nice Idea! Simple and handy.
I usually have pretty good success hitting F5 to reload and then hitting Esc at just the right time before the ad stuff loads.
The application spam hurts both candidates and companies.

Unfortunately the only way that would change is if the entire application funnel got overhauled to stop using paper resumes as the point of entry.

You can't reasonably spend time vetting hundreds of resumes for quality candidates. And as a candidate you can't spend hundreds of hours perfectly an online application to stand out.

You end up having to game the system as a candidate. Tailoring your resume and technical interviewing skills to get in the door, but neither of those skills are reflected of your ability to deliver business value.

Outbound and reference based recruiting is probably better from a company POV, but that takes investment of time and money, and often gets offloaded to hr or recruiters who are not technically adept and are more worried about getting high conversion rates over actual job performance. From the candidate side, it means you get better opportunities based on your social connections than your technical skills, which can also lead to programmers who can talk their way into a job but can't FizzBuzz.

References from current employees seem to yield the best job-performance to applicant ratio, but can remove strong candidates without the "right connections" from the funnel.

Temp-to-hire is a nice compromise, but presents its own variety of issues.