skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They should get downvoted. Their example is certainly the extreme case, but the principle that employees shouldn't complain about seemingly small things is completely and utterly wrong.

This is a perfect time for companies to take advantage of the situation by cutting pay, perks, promotions, etc. Employees should absolutely push back.
> Businesses operate on revenue and margin and companies like airlines can't justify using even 1% of its revenue to "save" for rainy days.

So you're admitting that this statement you made is just patently false, thanks.
While a nice idea, adding "buses" to this sentence negates any benefit from removing "cars" from the landscape because they are fundamental the same sort of vehicle, are they not?

The main issue is not the aesthetic of having a bicycle and "expertly pedaling" it or not, but the time it takes in transit. I wish to magically teleport from one venue to the next, and the in-between I call transit. We can rethink transit as a necessary and primary principle, or we can keep kicking it downfield and placating our people with the strategy that "you can bike everywhere, even in America!"

Trains are economical, well-established in huge cities elsewhere, have decades if not centuries of engineering knowhow stacked up, and move many people extremely efficiently when they are all going to the same place or the same direction.

Is there some way to hybridize the train and the car, or can we electrify the whole grid to make modularized trains a possibility and eventually a reality? I agree it's nice to bike, but grandpa can't bike everywhere and he still wants to enjoy the city.
Do you want to continue doing front end work or cease doing it?
Could you learn/master React and add that to your portfolio?

Instead of switching quickly, consider picking an array of skills to develop that complement where you want to end up, and reposition yourself from "front end programmer" to user interface developer with experience across multiple libraries.

Don't allow anyone to con you into a lower level role, leverage what your skill set is for at minimum a lateral move if not a promotion.
> I wouldn’t have bet that this is what would have happened.

Which part of the results are you referring to? It's well-known that reference counting has significantly lower throughput that tracing garbage collectors, so the fact that C++ is outperformed here isn't surprising at all.
Taiwan data was being counted with China's. This means that many of the early safeguards Taiwan was taking to protect their country was overlooked as it's effectiveness didn't show up in the global trends reported by the WHO. In fact, when specifically questioned by the press on how Taiwan was so successful at containment and preventing the spread, the WHO leadership acted like they had never heard the term Taiwan before.

For reference, Taiwan's handling of the pandemic has been nothing short of amazing. Source: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/taiwan/
What would the difference be for an applicant who took a year in the middle? Would you still consider them in the degree bunch? Also, if schools are all online next year, do you expect the quality of college applicants to go down?
>the USA didn't respond properly to COVID-19

What does this mean exactly? I keep seeing statements like this, but I can't figure out what people are referring to.
> If even the government is forced to turn a constant profit on its programs and to avoid anything that might look like a boondoggle

Exhibit A of government boondoggle program is most expensive NASA programs. SLS (Space Launch System) - and its predecessors have spent so much that humanity could have a sizeable buzzing town on the Moon for that kind of money.

The problem is that government both too afraid of responsibility in some places and very irresponsible in others, and there is no working mechanism to timely deal with that.
Amazing how drugs don't do so well when subjected to a proper trial.
>as long as your call back was recognized and immediately routed to the right person

It would be great if more companies had this functionality. It would also be useful in the situations where you get disconnected while talking with someone.
> I believe no other country has that feature.

Some locations in Brazil worked like that, depending on which timeframe we are talking about. Pretty annoying.

I guess this depends on the equipment used, not the country.
Oh, wow, that was my mistake. Thanks. I was getting the data from here [0], which for me had a lot of countries selected but not all of them. I didn't realize that it did not include by default a number of countries. When I include them all I see that the U.S. is in the middle of the pack.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/full-list-cumulative-tota...
Maybe formally, but Trump has implicitly recognized it[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump%E2%80%93Tsai_call
I tried reading the paper and it seems like as much an argument that "people get coronavirus at work and take it home on the subway" as "people get coronavirus on the subway and take it home"...? What am I missing?
Doubt users are going to want to create a profile for a random website just to save their color mode preference.
I would not really call the Swedish model successful - Czech Republic and Sweden have both about 10 million inhabitants.

Things moved pretty quickly to pretty comprehensive lockdown here in Czech Republic, including mandatory mask wearing. So far this seem to be effective, with combined death toll currently at 210. In comparison Sweden has almost 10x as much, 2010 dead.

Looks like if more has been done less people could have died, not to mention the alarming news about organ damage, virus resurgence and questionable long term immunity.
We've merged those comments into this thread.
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> the C++ implementation is reasonable

Fig. 4 shows that deallocation, presumably of objects allocated during the first phase, takes half as long as the first phase itself. Unless the nature of the problem solved by the program requires you to have a ton of objects with shared mutability (the use case for shared_ptr), and requires you to make a lot of allocations up-front without knowing if you will need them, the memory thrashing occurring does not seem reasonable.
It's not well known, because it's not true, at least not absolutely. Speed could either mean latency or throughput. Reference counting is almost always worse than GC at throughput, but is usually better for latency.
well, how much is it? do you have a source?
You can right click, open photos/videos in new tabs... For now. Probably to satisfy their desire to get new users, if someone links directly to a post.
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But they might still have landlines.
Banks mightn't seize your money. They certainly take the data from your bank accounts and monetize/resell it. This is a dirty secret, and pervasive.

How else do you think "closed-loop" measurement of marketing effectiveness, and retargeting based on purchase behavior are done? How else do you think suppliers can pull a D&B report on your company showing your bank account balances?
You can in fact close the door on people. This is also effective.
More like ensuring people have cheap housing when they get there. In the current system any UBI to help people move to a new place will be consumed by the increase in housing prices.
> It's worth pointing out how extremely far ahead Apple seems to be in terms of CPU power and efficiency.

Nope. But Apple put a MASSIVE amount of cache on their chips.

It's not rocket science, but it is expensive.
Health insurance profits are modest compared with other industries and are capped via 80/20.
The easiness to migrating away was one of the cons of Proton Mail to me, but I don't remember the exact reasons for it besides not using standard protocols. Having standard protocols really makes everything easier. With the open sourcing of the tools, maybe it will get better?
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Ok, so what you're saying is that if YouTube starts banning videos that suggest Taiwan is a country, you would support their decision.
> mortality is much less than previously suspected

Mortality remains pretty much as suspected already two months ago:

“Based on these available analyses, current IFR estimates10,11,12 range from 0.3% to 1%. Without population-based serologic studies, it is not yet possible to know what proportion of the population has been infected with COVID-19.”

https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situati...
The American idea used to include anti-monopoly rules. Granted Amazon is not a monopoly, but the idea was to keep businesses small (and govt small) so no single superior entity would reign abusively on individuals. And that would make the federation stronger.

Maybe it’s time to revive it. Google, Apple, Amazon, all cause issues because they are too big and haven’t been broken up (or menaces of) for way too long.

We’ve scratched antitrust laws in 9/11, when Microsoft was recognized guilty but never sanctioned, because the domination of USA after 9/11 was important. But maybe that led to two decades of really huge corporations, and a bit more liquidity in the market (choice of platforms, etc) could be nice.
I think,if anything, that this new data validates the lockdown. New York City has been hit hard by this virus (0.2% of the population; for comparison 0.3% of the US population died in WW2) and there are still approximately 80% of the population that hasn't gotten it yet. If 70% of the population of NYC ends up getting it over the next few months, that would mean something like 50k to 60k dead just in NYC. If 70% of the US population ends up getting it that would be 1-2 million dead. Locking down in the face of those numbers is not an overreaction, although maintaining lockdown until a vaccine may be an overreaction. I think we should be devoting huge amounts of resources to manufacturing face masks and testing kits so that we can safely ease out of lockdown without causing more outbreaks like we saw in New York or Italy. Ending the lockdown without a plan, though, is highly unethical in my opinion
It's not just finding compatible wireless that's a problem! You can also mostly eliminate:

• Any laptop with an nVidia GPU

• Any laptop that uses switchable graphics (unless you're okay with terrible battery life from the GPU being always on)

• Any AMD laptop (because even with custom cpu patches, the integrated graphics won't work).

That's a lot of laptops, particularly in the type of segments people would likely be most interested in, since Apple doesn't make them. Combined with the aforementioned wifi compatibility problems, you really need to do your research first!
I was thinking about it a lot recently... This is pure speculation but I believe with both infrastructure and algorithms / data science we ended up in a sweet spot: ordinary algo-traders and small teams are quite unlikely to get that far and big guys don't care about "pennies" we're making due to their fixed costs (salaries alone in a hedge fund would make our current strategy non viable).
One of the general downsides of Apple development is how often they change absolutely everything. Like the time they switched from 68K to PowerPC. Or MacOS classic to Mac OS X. Or PowerPC to Intel.

Apple provides brief windows of automated compatibility, but code untouched since 2003 won’t run on a mac today, and code untouched since 1986 wouldn’t run on a 2003 mac.
If I had to guess, their account creation metrics are flattening out and some product manager had the idea of implementing this restriction to restart growth. If your performance reviews depend on growth, restrictions like this seem rational even if they're obviously anti-user to anyone outside the company.
I transcribed your code into Python and it took about 90s to do fib(10[star][star]8) on my T420. Language doesn't matter of course, this is just an exercise of the bignum library.

Nice idea to use s.
There are many out there who will claim that one set is itself "the best" as proven by economic success.

It's informative to look at the examples of how that isn't true.
Just look back through the years where the WHO has posted information and data that has been false. There were scientists and doctors who disagreed, those doctors were correct. So YouTube wouldn't allow correct information in this scenario for Covid 19?
I completely agree that increasing test capacity is the thing that blocks everything else, and we need to solve that first.

But in order to try to generate the political will and get the backing to make this happen, it helps to get the word out about the big picture of exactly why having so many tests is important.

New legislation is coming that provides some funding for testing, but out of $484 billion that it authorizes, only $25 billion in it for testing[0]. Meanwhile, a report from Harvard estimates that $50 to $300 billion will be needed[1]. So the amount of money made available so far is 1/2 to 1/12 of what one source has estimated that we need.

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[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/21/coronavirus-senate-passes-48...

[1] See Appendix B starting on p. 42 of this PDF: https://ethics.harvard.edu/files/center-for-ethics/files/roa...
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Nope, VMWare is a type-2 hypervisor, not a type-1 like KVM. (Unless you're using ESXI, but you would know if you were.)

Mind, VMWare + GPU passthrough really should have more than acceptable performance, so I'm surprised.
You know its funny how I only see this argument when the service is doing something they agree with. When it's something they don't like there's suddenly outrage.

Remember a few years ago ISPs wanting to remove net neutrality and wanting to potentially charge for access to websites on "their platform"? Suddenly they're big enough to be a "public utility" and "invasion of free speech".

You can't have it both ways.
Well, not just pricing or privacy or domains, there's a lot that's different. That's why I mentioned weighing pros vs cons.
Ask HN: Is 40 too late to start a software biz?
All we read about are the 20s and 30s whizkids starting companies and retiring before they even hit 40. Any examples of 40+ people starting companies successfully? Is 40s too late?
Hmm. I only care about what's in:

.bashrc/bash_profile (1 alias, 1 path addition, git prompt)
.gitconfig
.exrc (:syntax off)
.ssh/config & keys
Unhappy employees.
While simultaneously lobbying against nurse practitioners practicing without physician oversight.

==The American Medical Association (AMA) is disappointed by the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) unprecedented proposal to allow advanced practice nurses (APRN) within the VA to practice independently of a physician's clinical oversight, regardless of individual state law.==

https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/ama-statements/ama-sta...
Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and unobtainable dollars! Children screaming under the stairways! Boys sobbing in armies! Old men weeping in the parks!

Moloch! Moloch! Nightmare of Moloch!

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

It's hard to fix broken societal incentive structures when you're operating from within the society itself. That doesn't mean it's not worth trying though and sometimes you can change the incentive structure and fix the behavior, or you can still have some success within it and then leverage new found power to fix things.

I think societal/cultural optimism matters here too - since believing change is possible helps fuel the coordination that can actually make change possible. I think it's an advantage the US has over more culturally pessimistic countries (and that Silicon Valley has over other more culturally pessimistic regions).
Personally I'd hold up until the .1 release for servers, they iron out number of bugs that could impact stability. 20.04, despite being an LTS release, is quite "bleeding edge".
The Tutorial Trap
Warnings Are Errors (2014)
Yes, I certainly wish schools would teach this better. I think showing different examples with surprising conclusions/outcomes helps people internalize that point.
Wow like 10 minutes before I saw this post I was running into the same issue.
Yes! But you can "fix" it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21650743
DIY face masks with nylon stocking on top can work better than surgical masks
> just like Fox News is an entertainment channel that covers newslike topics

All TV news shows are that. For example, consider the cliche about the news business "if it bleeds, it leads" which is far older than Fox News.
The entire profits of all the major private health insurers in America was under $25 billion in 2018.[1] That represents less than 1% of US healthcare expenditures at $3.6 trillion[2]

If the healthcare system is designed to transfer as much wealth as possible to the health insurance industry, it's doing a really bad job at it.

[1] https://naic.org/documents/topic_insurance_industry_snapshot...
[2] https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Sta...
36,000 Missing Deaths: Tracking the True Toll of the Coronavirus Crisis
It's like saying that Saint Lucia has over 10 Nobel Prize laureates per million population but then finding out that the country has a population of 180,000 and that works out to 2 laureates in the country.
Exactly!!
While self learning tools is obviously a useful skill, it's also nice to have someone experienced give you a full overview of how things work. For example, I learned how to use a shell on my own, but learned a lot of features I didn't know by taking a system programming course.

UIUC has a similar course which teaches a variety of commonly used tools, and is graded based on open source contributions

https://cs.illinois.edu/courses/profile/CS491TC-120198
Any usage is good for Ethereum. Historically, the price has went up the more it's been used.
I recently ordered from Powell's and was shocked at just how good the packing job is. They basically shrink-wrap your books to a thick piece of cardboard to prevent damage. With Amazon, I don't think I've ever gotten a book without a bit of damage.
Yeah good point. I want the brightness as well. It's also nice to have a big lever to pull when you need to, by setting an annoyingly low brightness.
as a former immunologist, i can assure you that with common viruses and bacteria, we have years and years of knowledge about how they perform, thereby making the risks of exposure calculable.

it is this body of knowledge which allows our society to normally function even during a typical flu season. we understand the upper and lower boundaries of the consequences, and we can make an informed judgment about what we should do to navigate the environment accordingly.

the idea of throwing open the gates to allow everyone to get infected is a dangerous fantasy. at best, it's taking a leap of faith with other people's health without knowing whether there is a long way down or not.
>This is a similar level of trust that you give to banks not to seize your money

How many PayPal horror stories have there been?
Using a hardware token as the authenticator for SSH sessions. Taken to the fullest, this allows you to completely avoid password authentication for SSH, except for the initial upload of your public key.
(Reposting my comment again here)

This one's from a different company (BioMedomics) and it was a random test of people pulled straight off the streets. Happened at an entirely different geographical area (Chelsea, Massachusetts) as well. I don't want to be too optimistic but there are some signs that we are heavily under-counting the actual number of cases (at least in the US).

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/04/17/business/nearly-third...
Much like the United Nations or the European Union, the United States is a Union of States. The consensus necessary to pass something that broadly applies to all 330 Million people across 50 disparate democratic republics (each with their own Constitutions) is what preserves this Union.

The US, as a Union, is also unique in that _every single state_ agreed to join by ratifying the Constitution (same cannot be said for the European Union). The States agreed to this because part of the deal was the federative system of checks and balances that preserve their sovereignty to a large degree. That was the contract, that's what they signed up for. Unless we can come up with a way to convince these states to voluntarily relinquish their sovereignty, States will just walk away from the deal if they think that the contract they signed up for is violated after the fact.

The 10th Amendment is our tool for ensuring that change can eventually propagate through the entire system in a stable way.
> As has been previously observed by Cooper et al. (1983), adding a layer of nylon stocking over the masks minimized the flow of air around the edges of the masks and improved particle filtration efficiency for all masks, including all commercial products tested. Use of a nylon stocking overlayer brought the particle filtration efficiency for five of the ten fabric masks above the 3M surgical mask baseline.

> When compared to commercial baseline masks, the addition of the stocking layer improved particle removal efficiency of many masks to match or exceed the baseline; the masks that achieved this level of filtration using the stocking layer each included a filter layer (organic cotton batting, Pellon, or loosely-woven cotton muslin) in addition to two layers of cotton fabric.

I think we now have a basic recipe for producing good home-made masks!

Also, some sewers did tests with the same machines used in this article. Their design claimed 50% efficiency without any filtration media. Adding filtration media achieved up to 87%, equivalent to the best results in this study, by using particular brands of blue shop towels. I think their good results are because their design also emphasizes creating a better seal to the face. https://suayla.com/pages/suay-community-mask-coalition
The rates being this high actually casts doubt on the study. It’s very very implausible, and suggests almost surely a selection bias in the sample towards a population much more likely to have contracted it.
A friend of mine works in an office where you need a hardline for the network and there's one coworker always leaving his USB-C adapter on the hotseat cat5s, and always complaining when others in the office take them off and repeatedly lose them.

I imagine it's probably as much of an inconvenience for everyone who has the port to take off the dongle and worry about losing it as it is an inconvenience for people who need the dongle in the first place. The solution to both seems to be "only distribute laptops that have the ports your business needs for daily work", but unfortunately companies don't seem to agree.
Do they lack sufficient personnel (deshelvers, drivers) to increase delivery slots?
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That is very cool. What cells are you using?
I argue there is inherently less sampling bias in this study than testing people at the hospital who have shown up due to severe symptoms.
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