skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good to hear that you care about your employees and understand that he likes the chats.

Generally, IMO, you shouldn't be hiring people and then checking up on them and their hours to keep them honest. There's better uses of time. That time spent tracking and keeping them honest doesn't really improve you, them or the company.
The spectrum not-next would be cool.

The next is very OP.
Do you have any recommendations for other books on the subject? I'm planning to read "CHAOS,""Poisoner in Chief," and "Weird Scenes from the Canyon" but always open to more suggestions.
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> Nor will forced vaccinations

I'm not even close to an anti-vaxxer, and a lot of that is because existing vaccines have been around for a long time and we know a lot about their safety. The US government forcing vaccines that were rushed to market scares me. This is the government that did the Tuskegee experiment.
I haven’t heard of this. Why is gaming from a VM blocked?
Isn't this a question of throughput? What is the bandwidth of SMR and what workloads can't it support that PMR can?

I primarily use my NAS for backups and don't care too much about how slow they are, they finish quickly enough.
On a side note, this is an excellent landing page. My first thought when looking at the title was "I wonder if it does VGA pass-through." The second line of the landing page answered my question. Good job on the details so far! Can't wait to test it out.
I've heard that it goes the other way, too: If you actually use AWS day-to-day, then you can have trouble on the exams because the exam is months out of date. So ex. if a service has some shortcoming and then they fix it, the exam might still expect you to say that the service can't do X.
Visualizing Pokémon Red and Blue Connections with Awk and Graphviz
There is a balance to be struck. I put forth it is reasonable to curtail some freedoms, temporarily, for public health and safety. Such curtailments should not be extended indefinitely though.
The whole thread, not just the first comment.

> "all large organizations", "democratic republics", "the developed world"

Someone else also pointed out (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22909123) that even the US has plenty of "safety net" policies, despite some glaring holes in it.
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I live near Seattle. The bridge you're talking about is actually a modern replacement that has failed well before reasonable expectations. I don't recall hearing a root cause, but I don't believe anyone was expecting this or that it's a results of lack of maintenance.
Maybe not just "history of computing" but I do enjoy the Kevin Mitnick books alongside with Ira WInkler. There's that subculture right alongside "Steal this book."
I don't so much mind the size of the iPhone 8 / new SE. But a phone that size with slippery curved edges isn't great. I imagine they kept the curved design for 2 reasons:

• The new SE fits cases made for the iPhon 8, which is good for customers and good for case makers

• The iPhone 12 is rumored to have squared-off edges, like the iPad Pro. If this is the case, they wouldn't want to have the same new design in both their low-end phone and their high-end phone. They want the premier devices to stand out visually.
I wonder a lot about how much giftedness matters, for children below exceptionally gifted. My IQ was measured at about 150 twice, at age 3 and 15. I am definitely not exceptionally gifted - I was able to be on the cusp at some programs that had exceptionally gifted participants and I was in awe of them.

But as an adult I've never really felt limited by intelligence, but instead by motivation and social skills. So I don't know what to stress for my children. I was deeply unhappy through public school. Would I have more motivation and better social skills if the public school had been less boring and had less bullying? Would I just be more of a jerk?

My kids are in early elementary, and they are also not exceptionally gifted, but they are easily 2-3 grade levels ahead in math, and a little ahead in reading. The other stuff at school could certainly be better for them, but in ways that I suspect would be better for all the kids there.

I think I'd be happy with their school if they had more recess, the kids were nicer and the math were more advanced, but I don't know where to find that for them.
Do turbine installations use bat deterrents to drive populations to safety?
>> The C standard requires that pointers generally be created from referencing a valid, existing object.

It is common to reference memory mapped peripherals by casting an integer to a struct pointer. In that case only a human can certify the validity of the object.
This works well for the most part. However, there are some things worth considering.

For one, the frame relay program will need to start in your guest before Looking Glass can connect. Last I checked the best you can do is have it start at login, so you need autologin to have a somewhat seamless setup.

Secondly, the cursor is sent through using the SPICE protocol, which is convenient. Unfortunately Looking Glass has no support for also handling audio, and no intent to merge such functionality in the future. So if you want audio, you’ll have to set up Qemu to forward audio directly to the host.

Finally, GPU passthrough setups is the thing that sold me on NixOS. If you’re a fairly experienced Linux user, setting up this complicated and multifaceted setup in a mostly reproducible way using a single file of configuration is pretty pleasing. Most of my configuration was this:

https://gist.github.com/jchv/b0e4b39679e450536a17cc6a5d69169...

Really, all you need is to substitute the right IDs and it should practically work anywhere, all you have to do is setup a VM with the requirements met (UEFI, PCI-e device passthrough, Looking Glass device attached, and KVM FR server running) and run Looking Glass.

Ultimately, I dropped Looking Glass and GPU passthrough. It was a little cumbersome and performance wasn’t perfect. I ran GPU passthrough on a physical monitor for a little while, and then dropped it entirely after finding out that Steam Proton and Wine actually covered all of my bases anyways.
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There are a lot of courses which teach SQL but I could hardly find a website which provides beginner to advanced SQL practice questions on almost production real datasets. Any recommendations would be helpful.
It's not, sorry. There's a lot of security-related things that are still hard-coded that will take some effort to decouple, but I am working towards that. But I've open sourced a few low-level bits of it, like dhcp, tftp, a few still-experimental inter-controller transport protocols, and they're available on hex (but not virtualization yet, but probably by the end of the year). There's a few things like "building vm images", "provisioning host images" that might come in soon.

But also we're hiring, so if you're available and interested in seeing the product, drop a line!
IMO it’s a typical sign of onsetting chronic stress.

At first it makes you feel more fresh, you start sleeping less and thinking more. Then half a year later you realise you haven’t slept well for a really long time.

Truly negative sides become more noticeable much later when it’s too late.

Over the years I have tried: meditation, trying to keep my mind off, going for a walk in the middle of the night, eating, not eating in the evening, working, drinking, weed.

The only thing that actually worked is just staying in bed with my eyes closed. No, you don’t sleep - but you still rest mentally by letting your concentration wander off.
Proxmox is very easy to manage, they have a web GUI. As for macOS, I either use VNC (NoMachine) or I switch the inputs on my monitor. I have each GPU hooked up to my monitor which has 4 display inputs. Then I have to use something like evdev or Barrier but it's usable.
> Plants use hydrogen peroxide to communicate within their leaves, sending out a distress signal that stimulates leaf cells to produce compounds that will help them repair damage or fend off predators such as insects. The new sensors can use these hydrogen peroxide signals to distinguish between different types of stress, as well as between different species of plants.

> "Plants have a very sophisticated form of internal communication, which we can now observe for the first time. That means that in real-time, we can see a living plant's response, communicating the specific type of stress that it's experiencing," says Michael Strano, the Carbon P. Dubbs Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT.

Amazing stuff.
I don't know if there's any truth to this, but I've read NAS drives also declare themselves "bad" much more readily through SMART, so you replace them sooner.
Sure, spot-check and scrutize a small fraction.

(Not to say I endorse this means of tracking employees' time, I just don't think that's a big impediment to this method.)
Basically the idea is that air gapped is still not secure. If someone plugs in a foreign flash drive into a computer that is air gapped one would think the data can’t leave the secure machine. With these methods though, it’s clear that any hardware observable to the outside world can be used to exfiltrate data
A week is a lifetime for some businesses.
It's a mischaracterization because as you've been informed, there was no known connection between CPU speed and battery health. Even among Apple employees.

So while your statement is technically true, it's irrelevant and misleading. Of course battery replacements have always been available! How does that change anything at all? You aren't addressing the central accusation (which is the secrecy). You aren't bringing anything new or interesting to the discussion.

Sorry, if I've been rude. But you've been corrected a couple times without acknowledging it, and continue being slippery by arguing a position without addressing the core accusation. I wouldn't say that's rude but it's frustratingly bad etiquette.

>I think people should be angry that other manufacturers weren't doing anything to extend the life of their batteries. I see that as worse than using techniques to manage battery life

Sure. I've never owned another smartphone and can't comment on how those customers feel. You're probably right. At any rate it's not relevant to how Apple treated its own customers is it?

Try to reply while addressing the central accusation. That the throttling itself is a perfectly valid solution but it was wrong to not inform consumers it was happening. That it was wrong to have customers with $700 phones and $100 AppleCare be told by Apple Genius's that they were imaging the slowdown and nothing could be done... except buy a new phone.

Now, I'm not 100% convinced Apple had nefarious intentions in withholding the info from staff and customers. But, neither you, nor I, will ever know that. All we have to go on, is the facts of what happened and how people were treated. It seems like a black and white, open and shut case to anyone objective. People were lied to, plain and simple. How can you defend that?
A bug story: data alignment on x86 (2016)
Thanks for looking at those comments and getting them; you have no idea how much I appreciate that!

I agree that the GP comment was a shallow dismissal, and those often lead to generic subthreads, which tend to attract upvotes and replies and generally change the subject to a more generic topic, which is bad. Most of the damage is in the upvotes, actually, because the biggest problem comes from such a comment sitting at the top of a thread, accruing mass and choking out more specific and substantive discussion. That's a big problem on HN.

When we see generic subthreads or shallow dismissals or (worse) flamewar tangents at the top of an HN discussion, we downweight them. That has turned out to be a great solution, especially when the subthread isn't really violating the site guidelines. Its big weakness is that it requires us to know about it, and we don't come close to seeing everything that gets posted here. If you or anyone sees one of these discussion-choking subthreads sitting as the top comment, emailing hn@ycombinator.com a heads-up would be a valuable contribution. Those are some of the best heads-ups we get, especially when a thread is still live.
To this day I avoid the cheapest of the cheap cases, as the edges can be razor sharp. I cut my hands and fingers on them countless times, but have avoided any big scars.
Yay, let's leave DNS pwned because we have some disputes and the alternative isn't perfectly technically pretty. /s
Because it doesn't matter. Sweden is middle of the pack and not experiencing the massive hospital overloads that they 'should' be according to the projections that drove the lockdowns. Not even close.

It appears people are forgetting or retroactively changing the justifications already. The lockdowns were meant to reduce deaths by ensuring everyone who got infected could get healthcare. In Sweden that is the case despite having been much less severe than other countries. Thus, their approach is de facto more successful than elsewhere.

Comparing to their direct neighbours is thus irrelevant, because a total reduction in deaths was never the goal (it cannot be, because there's no vaccine). But if you want an explanation for why Sweden may differ, for whatever reason it appears the virus hits non-whites much harder. This is being observed in the USA and Sweden reports that non-whites from e.g. Iraq, Somalia etc are disproportionately affected. Why that would be so is unclear, but a higher death rate than Norway is likely to be at least partly due to the much higher rate of immigration Sweden has allowed than its neighbours.
yep, although I am working on rewriting the user frontend in Phoenix, that is a political hurdle to get out into the wild. Most people learn Phoenix, then elixir, but I also learned Elixir, then Phoenix, and I think it gives me a stronger handle on how the VM works under the hood.
Creative ideas in Japan for natural disaster preparedness

However the article has little to none about coronavirus as its titled.
Glad HN posted revised the title here.

I think the high density, many residential buildings aspect in Japan lend to creative public space preparedness to deal with disasters.
+1. Outside hourly contractors, if you have a clear sense of what impact/outcome you're seeking, time of day or number of hours shouldn't matter. Often I suspect it's a proxy for NOT having a clear idea of the desired outcomes. Removing a requirement for "8 hours a day" can even be a good forcing function to ensure you DO have a clear and well-communicated set of goals and outcomes. Indexing on time (IMHO) can also have unwanted side effects like people just filling in the time "because they have to", which is pointless for everyone involved.
https://www.change.org/p/bungie-inc-allow-linux-users-to-pla...
I have the opposite of your problem, live in a city where there is a huge rat problem, I let my cats go outside, and they poop in my neighbor's garden.

I bought him a motion activated lawn sprinkler, which did work, but he was still angry the cats would come anywhere on his property.

There are also little motion activated cans of pet corrector, too.
dbeaver supports dynamoDB, and it is an awesome product free of cost.
This would be super illegal in Germany and I believe also in the rest of Europe.

Sure, most corporate IT depts could do this - but if caught, they'd face real penalties. The brazen-ness of US employers regarding surveillance of their employees is something that continues to (negatively) amaze me, even after years on HN and Reddit.
You can cheat by reading and modifying memory from a VM from the host instance, or something like that.
Great article! Really summarized the “why” behind China’s actions.

This part certainly got my attention:

In 2014 and then again in 2017, the party declared that all Chinese companies must collaborate in gathering intelligence. “Any organization or citizen,” reads Article 7 of China’s National Intelligence Law, “shall support, assist with, and collaborate with the state intelligence work in accordance with the law, and keep the secrets of the national intelligence work known to the public.”
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Man, that almost reads like Taleb taking down Taleb. Beyond my tolerance, I give up.
What’s Missing in AI: The Interface Layer [pdf]
Sorry that information used to be available here but is no longer maintained:

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/data/data-sets/vital-statistic...

I do not think Covid deaths are being under-counted in NYC they recently changed to a very liberal policy for labeling Covid-related deaths. No test is required and all deaths not clearly from another cause are now being counted as Covid. This has conspiracy theorists crying foul, but it’s probably prudent.

You piqued my curiosity and this change in death classification added 3500 deaths to the count on top of the 8800 confirmed/tested mortalities that Google publishes, and so far NYC is on track to double their monthly deaths from all causes for the month of April :-(
What is “rear networking”?
I remote into my PC at work with citrix.

When I want to surf the web I use my local browser. I would be surprised if citrix can screenshot other active windows, perhaps I'm naive.
Agreed, and bring it on. If this becomes a thing then I'll run a platform you can outsource your busy time in a VM to. This sounds like a ton of fun TBH and makes me think of game automation. Evolving into a game of cat and mouse and giving me an excuse to spend more time messing w/ OpenAI.
You generally don't hire people who are twice as capable as the existing team by accident. Tech companies invest enormously in sourcing, selecting, and closing people like that. They want to see a return. If you're just going to calibrate your performance to the median, they could have spent less time and money hiring someone cheaper and less talented

I guess I'd understand if the company were not trying to "innovate" or "raise the bar" or anything, just fulfill some mundane requirements at the lowest cost, and paid accordingly.
It's a relatively natural consequence of the fact that doing work creates value. One of the things you can work towards is creating more workers (by creating more humans, or better efficiency, or robots). Because these processes are basically exponential, you expect to see constant neverending growth.

The only real physical limit to productivity is our energy input. When we create things, we use energy and time to turn raw materials into useful stuff. Today most of our energy comes from the plants we eat (ie the sun) and from the ground. But we are not close to using even a small fraction of the energy that the sun gives us, so there is still lots of room to grow.
It is taking screenshots of your desktop, not turn on the camera and take your photo.
Expect some loss with this compression...

In the wake of the Deepwater Horizon spill, a high-powered class-action attorney hires a team of field agents to recruit disenfranchised gulf fisherman as litigants.

The field agents established a network of local recruiters to outsource clientele acquisition. Said agents bumble the solicitation of clients/fisherman, accepting fraudulent documentation from per-head subcontractors ($10 to $50 per litigant found).

So, high-powered attorney receives documentation for tens of thousands of fisherman clientele to support his class action.... But, they don't exist. Realizing this, he pursues the case anyway since abandonment disadvantages the small fraction of clientele that are legitimate (in that they are unable to litigate against B.P. in the future).

High-powered attorney wins the class action, ensuring to stipulate that no recourse can be had in the event that the clientele are found to be non-existent (the known case).

The U.S. government drags high-powered attorney and recruiting staff into criminal court. He defends himself and establishes a defense claiming himself to be a victim of his field agents.

Field agents are sentenced to many years in prison and high-powered attorney is found not guilty by a jury of his peers.

You may need a TL;DR for this TL;DR.
How did they check and verify that?
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>> There were flip chip packages, die on board, circular TO-xx metal can packages etc.

Do you have a good reference on those predating DIPs? Whenever someone balks at such "advanced" manufacturing methods due to price, I ask if they ever opened an Atari 2600 cartridge from the 1970s. IIRC some were die wire bonded to the board under a blob of epoxy.
Back in the day I found a guy who cloned the identity of my analogue portable cell phone with my in-car cell phone so they both behaved as the same number. When one rang, they both rang.

In theory when I answered a call on one, the network would be signalled to say I'd picked up and it would stop telling the other to ring - but once in a while the other phone would keep on ringing .

iirc phone cloning may have been illegal here in the UK at the time...
Hi, I downvoted your post. I think `dang hit the nail on the head in re: why I didn't reply (don't really want to argue since arguing on this topic has occupied more of my recent HN activity than I really like; and I'm busy doing other things).

I certainly don't think your original post violated HN policy by any means, but that isn't the threshold for downvoting on HN as far as I understand.

I downvoted because the material in question isn't inline with how the majority of us are thinking about this disease. It creates a false controversy. To be fair, much of what he's describing is the pathophysiology of diffuse alveolar damage (the correlate of ARDS), but simultaneously he's saying it's not ARDS. Even in this video he seemingly felt compelled to walk back his high altitude pulmonary edema comments from a prior video.

I am not going to be replying further in this thread, but since things got off the rails a bit and my downvote was a part of that, I did want to try to explain my views of the content.
I recently discovered SSB and was really intrigued.

I would love to hear an experience report from actual users like what is working great, and what is bad.
> My belief is that tech should augment rather than replace

Love that idea - quite an insightful and healthy approach to technology in our life.
Employer: your keystroke rate is low

Me: I'm thinking about if I should use a string here in c++

Employer: fair enough
Use of Mussels to Improve Water Quality in Reflecting Pool [pdf]
Can confirm, my cat kills all the time. Birds, rabbits, frogs. If something moves in my backyard, it will eventually be killed. In the summer when doors are open she actually drags in dying, bleeding animals from time to time. And under prey drive she's a completely different animal, scary and aggressive AF.
This makes me really glad that our company policy thus far has been giving employees new machines and have them set them up themselves. I know my work laptop has no spyware because I didn't install any.
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Yeah but alignment is a really really stupid thing to enforce on modern hardware. It makes absolutely no sense at all. All you are doing is increasing your cache pressure and limiting memory bandwidth.
Cities would starve from...what?

This narrative always seemed remarkably short-sighted because cities have enough economic bargaining power that they can just import the goods they need. Farm towns would quickly fall apart the moment they had to pay for all of their infrastructure (meaning power, internet, gas, transportation) because all of that is heavily subsidized.