skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They warned that a “collapse of the medical care system” come happen soon if the situation continues.

It is about the stigma causing the medical professionals to quit, which will lead to lower, and hence exceeded, capacity. It helps when you read it.
Someone who is reading this conversation will benefit from being told that moving to the Bay Area, New York, Berlin, Sydney, Amsterdam etc. for a couple of years is possible. Maybe it's not you, and that's fine. In general, though, helpful advice is about choosing the right side of a trade-off, not a panacea.
what is a decentralized anarchistic chat app?
AFAIK, the cables were identical in 3.5" and 5.25" drives.

So this interface probably works for both.

I swapped out a 5.25" drive on a BBC Micro for a modern 3.5" drive and even got it to work using HD media (the BBC used SD).
Nissan Leaf Review After 10 Years
The distinction between aggregated and non-aggregated data is moot. From the WSJ article:

> Some executives had access to data containing proprietary information that they used to research bestselling items they might want to compete against, including on individual sellers on Amazon’s website. If access was restricted, managers sometimes would ask an Amazon business analyst to create reports featuring the information, according to former workers, including one who called the practice “going over the fence.” In other cases, supposedly aggregated data was derived exclusively or almost entirely from one seller, former employees said.

> Amazon draws a distinction between the data of an individual third-party seller and what it calls aggregated data, which it defines as the data of products with two or more sellers. Because of the size of Amazon’s marketplace, most products have many sellers. Viewing the data of a product with a number of sellers wouldn’t give it insight into proprietary seller information because the figures would show lots of different seller behavior.

> Amazon said that if there is only one seller of an item, and Amazon is selling returned or damaged versions of that item through its Amazon Warehouse Deals clearance account, Amazon considers that “aggregate” data—and hence is permissible for its employees to review.
It sounds like our experiences and locations are very different.

In the US, it's very hard to beat Dell on price. The only ones who can are budget manufacturers and rebadged Chinese products, which usually gets you underwhelming design and longevity.

Dell's lower-end consumer line products can be just as bad. I bought a cheap Inspiron once that was the bane of my existence. But my last two business-class laptops (a Latitude and now a Precision) have been pretty much flawless despite heavy use and rough handling. I run Ubuntu on them both.

In the US, when you buy a business or enterprise product, my understanding is that Dell will send a repair technician to your location. Sometimes you can get them to just send you a replacement part, if you are very persistent.
> But if it were very lightweight, where I'm just posting my thoughts and can see them as a quick dependency diagram, and maybe attach notes, commits and URLs to them, and other people can see them, that'd be pretty helpful.

That's precisely the objective of "user stories" and other things. You write a high level version, put it in a backlog with priorities. When you get to it, you realize it's bigger than anticipated ("Oh, I can't just do X, I have to do A, B, and C."). So you turn X into three things, one of which you work on now, and the others in the backlog. Repeat until done.

I don't think Jira is necessarily too heavy-weight, it's the way everyone seems to use it. They want to assign the tasks now, not treat them as backlog items or things that can be modified in the future. Which pushes them back towards big-design-up-front and entirely defeats the objective, you're back to low throughput, high latency development.
Feasibility of cooling the Earth with a cloud of small spacecraft (2006)
While I don't know much about anyone involved, the danger of telling people "wearing masks is really effective" if you can't back it up is that it may encourage changes to peoples' behaviour. Even if you also tell them to socially distance anyway.

"Wear a mask, but it probably doesn't do much" is much more reasonable and responsible messaging.

Totally anecdotally, but when I'm walking to the supermarket, I find I have to step into the bus lane (the roads around here are basically empty right now) to avoid the mask people way more often than the non-mask people; a lot of people behave as if wearing a mask makes it okay for them to walk in the middle of the footpath in such a way that keeping 2m distance from them is impossible without stepping into the road.
That 700 billion was Treasury money. The Fed at the time also engaged in trillions of dollars of quantitative easing, similar to what they’re doing now. I would guess the reason the Fed is going all in this time is because there was consensus among the decision makers that last time we were too slow - we did QE but it took years. I assume they think that if we hit it hard now, we can shorten the recession period. Also this time there is more unified and obvious support from “the people”. Rather than bailing out bankers and all the hazards that come with that, everyone is getting a check, so everyone is more on board.
Everybody in the Pool: Researchers Use Algorithms to Tackle Covid Test Shortage
I'm not. I have a longstanding account, but had a... somewhat suspicious event on other social media that I think might have been inspired by comments here. My account has never been very private and there's a lot of potentially harvestable information there. So I'm experimenting with keeping my comments in more controversial topics isolated.
The actual google analytics account has a setting admins can control to only allow data from specific domains though this can be faked.

Also, usually these IDs are copied when someone clones a website they want to steal the design of but they don’t bother updating the style or JS.
Love Mate as it is one of the closest to the consistent user interface days of Windows 2000. Fewer WTFs/minute. There is a good dark theme as well, required.

One reason I use it over say XCFE, is that it still has the Locations timezone/day/night map that is perfect for working across timezones. No one else seems to have it, and that is why I stay:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/312634/how-do-i-get-the-good...
In many ways, Minecraft is the polar opposite of a roguelike.

In a classic roguelike (Rogue, Moria, Angband, Hack, NetHack, etc.), everything you do is in service to the singular goal of delivering the killing blow to Morgoth or picking up the Amulet of Yendor. That's the whole game. Everything else is just a stepping stone to reach the turn that declares you winner. There are no real "side" quests because the whole point of everything is to acquire the equipment, consumables, and experience needed to survive the final battle.

Minecraft is the exact opposite. It takes about five minutes to build enough of a base to survive indefinitely. After that, you've essentially "won". For many years, Minecraft didn't have the End Dragon or anything approaching and "final boss". Even after adding it, in the culture of Minecraft, many players don't consider that the goal of the game. The game itself does not end after you've beaten the End Dragon. In fact, doing so gives you new items which implies there are useful play actions to do after killing the End Dragon.

Classic roguelikes are a game where most players don't really get to define what it means to win. The game explicitly says what your goal is. Minecraft is more like a play space that gives you a number of options to explore but it's mostly up to you to decide what kind of game you wish to play in there. I've played Minecraft for years and I've never been to the End, even though I almost exclusively play in survival mode.

You can play roguelikes like they're Minecraft (I used to carry a pet slime mold for fun in Angband) and you can play Minecraft like a roguelike (kill the End Dragon as efficiently as possible and then declare it over), but the games-as-artifacts themselves don't push you in the same direction.
I agree, the article tells how but not why.

I think there are two main reasons to prefer the C++ style casts.

1. The C style cast does too much. Some of the conversion it does are pretty safe, some are dangerous. The C++ casts try to differentiate the relatively safe casts from the dangerous casts. Any code with reinterpret_cast is worth taking extra time to scrutinize.

2. The second is that C style casts are hard to search for (Type). By giving names to these operations, you can more quickly search code for problematic areas.

3. Incorrect aliasing is a big deal. In the C and C++ standards it is undefined behavior, which means you lose the ability to reason about your program. Making the operations that can trigger this stand out is a good thing.
You’re telling me employees who are compensated based on relative performance and have access to a massive central data warehouse wrote queries that went against something buried in a policy document? Shocked, shocked I say.
Thousand-year-old mill has resumed production due to demand for flour
the essence of the article is that agile is mainly a project management methodology. It is for decomposing tasks into chunks that allow you to deliver something valuable in the given time frame. One of the best parts is that if you run out of time or money, you have something that is usable with what should be the most important features.

What it doesnt give any guidance to is how to organize information about how to build the right thing. If a system is very large, without some methods to understand and communicate what you are building, it just becomes ad hoc. Agile is not a product management/requirements identification methodology.
Wow--that's quite a bit of (presumably unintentional) irony, coming from them.
And a lot of creativity also gets lost (stifled) mostly after a week to a month of the team working in close quarters. Not that it does not occur in remote teams, but remote makes non-verbal communication much harder for the loud-mouths or bullies or whatever kind of suppressor disguised as a leader that can exist in a team.
I do buy ebooks for my kindle. Mostly fiction books bcz reading a technical book is difficult in kindle. Though it sucks that I can only read those ebooks in Amazon kindle platforms but kindle is good for bedtime reading.
Also, I have purchased some courses from Udemy almost 12 but I never got to finish any of them. Some of the courses are great but others are boring hell.
Interesting counterpoint. I kind of agree that these books will be lost on people (although I believe I got something out of them and I'm early into my career). But I'm also thinking of it as providing early exposure so that if the students need guidance later on, they know where to visit. Much as high school students find the classics boring, but upon revisiting them later in life, discover their brilliance.

I agree that you should teach the practice. My ideal education would be co-ops combined with a reading course or two on the canon.
I default to blacklisting all js and I feel like this website is a great example of an utterly unnecessary usage of front end scripting and the no-js experience is... well, just a blank screen with a wobbly needle.
Hey there, I worked remotely for 4 of ~7.5 years at a medium-to-large tech company (I left in February). I'm very thankful I had the opportunity, since 99% of the engineering team was either onsite or in satellite offices.

In my experience, it was far easier for me to get burned out when working remotely versus in an office with other people. And when I did get burned out, I found it harder to get back on the other side of the hill when I didn't have a community around me.

Also, if I look at the ~7.5 year tenure at the company — my most productive and happiest times were when I was located onsite at their HQ.

Just my $0.02; happy to talk more in detail over email (in profile).
Precisely right.

That's why printing cash (whether in the form of UBI or any other cash printing social program) is not a sustainable solution for lifting people out of poverty or building a healthy economy. There are always negative long term effects that end up hurting the poor and middle classes even more. Even if there's not inflation of consumer goods, there's inflation of investment grade assets.
Ask HN: Is Public-Private Partnership Code for Crony Capitalism?
No fun not ever
Trying to cancel a Read() is particularly troublesome with many USB serial devices, I suspect because of poor driver implementations. In these cases, Close()'ing the device with a Read() pending just hangs.
> I’m talking about beautiful animations,

I turn off all the OS-level animations using my phone's accessibility settings. It is a much better usability experience and "feels" far more performant - I perceive less time spent waiting, anyway.

I wish I could do it in apps too, so that I the time it takes to complete an action wasn't bounded by the duration of the "beautiful animation" someone felt it was helpful to include.
Israeli court orders Facebook to unblock account of NSO Group employee
> remember when the feds went after microsoft aggressively and they weren't nearly at the scale Amazon is in terms of being a business requirement.

Wasn't windows effectively is a must for any PC? Like 90% of market. They literally killed Netscape by just preinstall a browser. Similarly pushed its own Office suite to be the lesser dominant player.

It sounds like they are more dominant than Amazon in the business IT or personal computing market.
This is pure clickbait and here is why. In the debate over masks, the anti-mask side always forgets that this epidemic is multiplicative i.e. it each person spreads it to multiple people (R0 > 1).

Even a marginally effective mask that cuts infection by 30% will greatly bend the curve. How? A 30% effective mask (where 100% is full hazmat outfit) does not mean 30% fewer cases. It could mean greater than 30% or even 90% fewer cases. The same non-linearities (read: exponential) that work for virus spread also help in the other direction. [1]

Social distancing is expensive and we need it. Social distancing requires the shutdown of large parts of our economy and changing the way we live. Masks are a relatively minor inconvenience and one whose effectiveness, no matter how marginal, we can not afford to ignore.

Do science all you want, and that blog post is hardly science, but do it with an ethical and moral responsibility to not turn people away from masks. Turning people away from masks is akin to telling them the virus is not contagious or fatal.

References:

[1] https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1249296844712218624
I'm sorry, but that means nothing to me. I have no idea what "clarity of thought" means in this particular instance. Same for "design pillars", regardless of whether it's used at a high or low level.
Don't you see how if:

* An ignorant authoritarian with an obvious agenda sets the discussion topic

* We discuss said topic without mentioning his ignorance, authoritarianism, or agenda

The topic effectively becomes "laundered"? Much like OP, I've seen this over and over again. Trump (or similar) says something batshit insane, a "well, maybe..." topic gets bumped to the front page, political discussion gets culled from the thread, topic gets somewhat normalized. And so the koo-koo express keeps chugging towards the cliff.
This specific issue is hardly limited to japan. You can sadly find this sort of cases in the US, in India, in Germany, in France, in Belgium, Australia, …

From cars getting degraded to harassment to eviction to assault and battery.
I think the clear issue is Amazon positioning their products over others in search and promotion rather than letting the products appear based on their own merit. Brick and Mortar white label brands are typically displayed side by side with name brands and usually name brands pay for promotional displays.

I don't really understand the kerfuffle over Amazon making white label basics. These brands know their product is easily copied. Obviously Costco, Target, or anyone else would look at the top X products in a category and develop the best white label product in either price and/or quality, why not Amazon?
I could be wrong but I thought comments of a certain length were greyed a bit to discourage lengthy comments?
Given the stories I hear from pretty much everyone in my circle who's been to the US, there's a general problem with food there tasting bland, in comparison to Europe. Like others, I suspect the ingredients in the States are worse for some reason (perhaps they've been optimized too much for shelf life).
It took me a long time to realize that this is what was going on in my head.

Even after figuring it out, I still struggle with it. Because it is, obviously, important to unwind and do things just for fun. But doing so now requires me to as an act of will decide to treat my time as less precious, which is really hard to do.
That is not us.

We have a very liberal AUP for the LBRY name: https://lbry.com/faq/acceptable-use-policy

I agree that it's not helpful to have this content perceived of as coming from us and we will be looking at this.
Isn't there an USB FDD standard? Why are they using a proprietary protocol instead of that?
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I would have significantly more respect for the Swedish approach if they had protected their elderly and other vulnerable communities. The fact is that the weak do not account for an unavoidable minority of the deaths.

The Swedish approach may get them out the other end before any country aside from China and Vietnam, but the Swedish execution did not save lives by protecting the vulnerable.
The myth of validating what your application should NOT do
Investigating Kubernetes performance issues with BPF
That depends on your situation. If you have a single redundant drive in your storage system and you lose a drive, and if a rebuild takes you multiple weeks instead of hours and during that time a second drive fails, you are going to lose the whole system and need to restore everything from backups. That's a pretty serious flaw in a drive advertised specifically for use in these systems, when reducing the risk of that downtime is the purpose of having the system in the first place.
> there are tons of ways of doing reference counting in C++

There are but critically there are also a lot of ways to not do ref counting at all. C++ isn't a refcounted language, it's a language where you can use refcounting (shared_ptr), but you don't have to (unique_ptr, value types). It's not even recommended to be primarily refcounted.

They chose a really odd subset of C++ to use here (shared_ptr exclusively), very unorthodox and not something I've ever seen elsewhere or recommended.
If Amazon is effectively a monopoly, so are Walmart, Costco, Target, and some others.
Talk for 2 hours and sometimes something slips out. You act like for 2 hours he talks wild hypothesis. That's because you watch CNN, who covers the dumbest 30 seconds of his 2 hours talks, and acts like that's what it's like for 2 hours.

SIGNAL != NOISE
When you put it that way, programming is not very tricky at all. ;)
It's more than "maybe it's not you": it's not most people outside the HN bubble where SV is the mecca and everyone wants to join a US startup. Yes, there are trade-offs involved in every choice (except age, of course: that's not a trade-off, you cannot choose to become younger and be picked for low-wage trainee job positions that are only offered to young people), but I don't get why we're so fixated in such specific trade-off options.

In the spirit of the article, which warns about optimistic people arguing for unrealistic paths, I'm just warning that "move to SV" is not, for most people, reasonable advice.

Now, you may argue that for people reading HN, there is a larger subset which do aspire and would benefit from moving to SV. I won't argue against that. But I thought the spirit of the article was not about providing career advice for such a small subset of tech-minded people.

To sum up, this proposition is false for most people (and not just me): "everyone passionate about technology should, all else being equal, strive to move to Silicon Valley and work there, because that's the best place there is".
Why pretend that Trump _isn't_ spreading damaging misinformation during a pandemic? I don't see why HN needs to have some false sense of neutrality to be "functioning well".
> May have misled

...and sure have plausible deniability set up!
The process is invented to help to do your job.

Problems begin when that gets forgotten, and following the process becomes your job -- not following the process is doing your job wrong.

Always remember that your job is to build stuff, any way that works.
The worst is the microphone - only the prerelease of the Linux kernel supported the mic on X1C7 when it was new and it required a lot of moving parts to get usable.

It took almost a year before it works out of the box on Ubuntu.
This thread might make me quit visiting this site.
And it does not work when RTTI is absent. Had this problem in embedded development a couple days ago. Changed to static_cast, then refactored to avoid casting.
Easily the worst U.S. president in history. I mean, say what you like about James Buchanan but I’m pretty certain he never suggested anyone INJECT THEMSELVES WITH DISINFECTANT!
Yep, ASR is the ARM64 instruction.
The interesting part for me is that the answer is not in the thing itself, but exists entirely in the user.

When I open my text editor and write code for work, it's a tool. At the end of the day, when I use that same text editor to work on a hobby programming project or write a store, it transmutes into a plaything.

Is a hammer a tool or a plaything? Depends on if you're asking a roofer or a weekend woodworker.
I'm commenting on HN, which generally has a pretty low quota of unsavory people.

There's no denying LBRY has gotten some attention from the fringes, but there is a ton of mainstream, smart, completely unobjectionable content on LBRY. Check out the progress post above.
Just FYI on Ubuntu you can enable a PPA and get latest kernel, you enable a different PPA and you can get latest Xorg and video drivers. So you have good options on non-rolling distro to get latest drivers and kernel, test them and if you don't like them go back to the LTS ones.

This is a good option for me, upgrade only what I want and don't touch things that work.
Yeah... I'm not sure Amazon is a monopoly here. Costco and Walmart both have great online shopping experiences.
This is absolutely true. I've noticed most "unsuccessful" people go around with a view of "successful" people that they got lucky, never had to endure hardship, had something handed to them, and so on. It's a defeatist, whiny attitude.

I've put "un/successful" in quotes because I'm referring to the common interpretation of success/failure being purely financial. There are many other ways to lead an "unsuccessful" but fulfilling life, and I'd argue the place to start is to accept the hand you've been dealt. And to work with it rather than rail against it.
This is nowhere near as bad as things would be if it was left unchecked.
At least post a source for such a claim. M understanding is that they managed. to act relatively good, given the information and circumstances.
I don't think people necessarily disagree, but I also think that the benefits of that are limited by human biases and tendencies toward clique-ish behaviors, and that hurts both the people who inevitably get left out of those events and the broader company, because the opportunities for unpredictable synergies are limited by those biases/cliques.
I didn’t know teenagers on Instagram wrote in sentences.

Frankly I thought it was hieroglyphics.