skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I too have seen that hears-half-of-what-you-said-and-only-the-good-parts, then gets mad at you because they are shitty listeners, in action. Hell, I've seen it with a guy who appeared to constantly be taking diligent notes, they were just very often incorrect! It's infuriating and there's no arguing with them because they just think you're lying or misremembering (even if you also took notes, or even prepared them in advance then read from them, and, unlike theirs, yours don't suck). The only way to deal with it is to communicate in writing.
Any claim about surface area that relies on the examination at the atomic scale is no longer due to the fractal nature of the lung's branches. Such claims would be equality true (or false) of non-fractal organs.
This is awesome guys. There are a lot of things that could be improved upon but the fact that it's free makes this a no brainer for any small businesses that are tight on money. Keep up the great work :)
The Chevrolet Prowler went a little in that direction. But I guess there is no real demand for such a thing.
I feel like a used car underachiever right now, looking forward to 2025 when I get a back up camera and bluetooth.
My daughter is in grad school, learning programming for the first time in her life. She's learning R and Python at the same time. She's finding R much more intuitive.
The River (by Days of Wonder) is a worker/resource game that can work since there's limited private information that originates as public.
It appears that your charitable "good faith" interpretation is in fact wrong, as Trump now claims he was sarcastically asking the question to rile up reporters:

"I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters like you just to see what would happen" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...

So for all this talk about examining context and intentionally interpreting the President's comments in an unfavorable light, he was in fact being disingenuous and sarcastic. He wasn't "merely" asking a question. He was trolling. BTW, this is why people are so eager to not take him at face value.
If we're hemorrhaging healthcare workers, it is because we're not giving them enough support.

We're spending $2+T on keeping everyone afloat in the US. We can spend a lot of that money encouraging everyone to pitch in to fight Covid.

We need ~hundreds of thousands of contact-tracers. If that were our only need, we could offer $1,000,000 to everyone who works as a contact tracer and have money left over.

I'm already volunteering ~70% of my time on FindTheMasks.com. I can only imagine how much more work could be done if unemployed people were given the opportunity to work on fixing the root cause of unemployment!
I think another factor is that there wasn't the internet back then. Information about the viruses would've been spreading a lot less rapidly than information about covid-19 has been. Overall, I think even at the time people were probably less informed about what was going on (and the global context of it) than we now are.
> you about what he is actually referring to

Where is your evidence that supports that this is what he was referring to?
It's the difference between "Yes, and we stopped ... " and "No, actually we don't". One is clarifying the second is distracting, appears to be disagreeing with facts, comes off as arrogant AND missed the point.
True. I used PS only on Windows for many years and got into the habit of writing `cat`. When I started using PS Core on Linux I had to unlearn that and start using `gc` instead, because `cat` there is the native `cat`
You misunderstand. That is just what I keep in my head and have been accurately tracking and commiting to remembering in the last 5 or so years.

As has been mentioned as well is that governmental/regulatory apparata are typically starved of funding, so must limit their investigation/scrutiny to likely the most obvious cases.

Furthermore, if you've just entered into white collar circles these last few years, you may have been surprised at a tendency to not write things down. This isn't just people not realizing it is a good idea to do so, but a conscious decision in many cases due to eDiscovery, and the effects it has on provability in a court of law.

Pay attention on HN, and you'll get little snippets of other cases of "tribal skeletons" every now and again.

Anyway, by all means, I'm not necessarily arguing against your point; merely stating that given the sample size, and keeping in mind that regulators/the media can only dig up so much muck given limited manpower; it is not prudent to assume there isn't wrongdoing where no one has looked yet. I used to hold the same view you espouse; then I started A)cataloging things and B) noticed how often settlements seem to be applied with no admission of wrong doing.

Absence of evidence does not imply evidence of the non-existence thereof. You just haven't found it yet.

Can't believe I forgot about Wells Fargo, btw. That whole mess.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wells_Fargo_account_fraud_scan...

ISP's have been known to falsify their Form 477 data fabricating coverage stats, and overcharging customers:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/complaints-att-directv-bundled-...

https://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/verizon-wireless/nation...

There's plenty more where that came from with every ISP to be honest.

FTC keeps stats on all enforcement actions apparently. Might be a decent place to start looking to get some solid numbers.

https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/cases-proceedings/

Mind that that's only the ones. I assume CFPB and other commissions have similar, but do keep in mind they can't be everywhere or investigate everyone. So without stats on how many actions are dropped by prosecutorial/investigator's discretion, it is actually difficult to make really solid claims as to the actual frequency of malfeasance. Further, from my social circle's anecdata, it seems to be a safe bet that just about every organization at least has something in the the way of "muck they've cleaned up after" without getting authorities involved.

Anyway... I've rambled enough.
You can't find frozen fries, while farmers are sitting on tons of potatoes
Ack, please don't. As a manager, I'm pretty sure I'd see this as the bullshit it is and call you on it. We're not all morons.
Am I mis-reading this? The article keeps claiming there is no difference but the way I read it the compiler(s) are transforming mul/div to shifts. i.e. it very likely is faster on the hardware but it won't matter for this particular toolchain because of the conversion.
I think its widely understood that a little-endian prefix VarInt decodes much faster as the leading alternative to LEB128. You can implement the whole thing without a loop, thus you don't have to exercise branch and loop prediction resources at all.

- count leading zeros (or ones, depending on the first byte's tagging preference)

- Unaligned load expressed as memcpy. Let the compiler's instruction scheduler peephole it out into a single unaligned load instruction.

- shift the loaded value by an amount indicated by the leading zero count.

- Zig-zag decode for signed integers
> However, after seeing how badly it can be weaponized against developers, I'm certainly ready to throw out the bathwater, and I think this is what they're talking about.

Poor management is a separate issue from agile. Even so, I would rather stay on a poorly managed agile shop than go back to a waterfall shop.

As far as the "values on the left", I like to explain them as a 55/45 split (and adjustable depending on your reality): we still deal with processes and tools, we just take a second to think whether a process is actually needed when we can just talk to someone instead.

Example: on a small team, you might just ask "can someone please approve my changes?" instead of having a whole jira workflow with code reviews and approvals.
Look the the Plymouth Prowler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Prowler. It can be done but probably not profitably.
> At that point, the advantage of having a "build for Android" button is greatly diminished.

Not at all. Handling different input styles (mouse vs touch), while not trivial, is a tiny fraction of the other work listed above that goes into targeting multiple platforms. Unity/Unreal let you focus on just that tiny part that actually matters to your game.

> If you're only targeting PCs (and I think most Indies are)

This is also not remotely true. The current generation of consoles, in particular, have been huge for indies. The majority of the games released on them have been from indies. And if you're taking gamepad input, you don't really even have the input-mode speed bump when it comes to supporting multiple platforms at once. Probably the only concern you'd have to deal with is level-of-detail, but you'd have to do that for PC anyway, and the engines give you tools that assist with it.
The study that finds 70% effectiveness was based on just 4 people, one of whom couldn't produce virus particles even without a mask.

Another most serious study based on over 1500 hospital workers found that cloth masks let through over 95% of particles.

That more serious study was done in 2015 but there's no reason to think it would not still be correct.
Your story is very upsetting for people who enjoy espresso. Your issue was almost certainly with your espresso machine, which likely had severe issues with maintenance.

I grew up with a generic espresso machine (pre-Nespresso, so one where you had to grind and compact the beans yourself) and I could make a decent cup from the age of 14. This was with North-American water and beans of average price and quality.

And now you have a plethora of capsule-based espresso machines with identical convenience to a Keurig, from Nespresso to Caffitaly.
There are only 2 things your agile team needs: a retrospective and a manager that wants to improve the process.

Everything else can flow from there.
The wealthy do not typically have vaults of cash, but they do invest most of their money in companies which often do have large USD reserves. The vast majority of their wealth is greatly impacted by the relative value of USD.
Just admit you were wrong, dude.
Now this is the Hacker News I want to see. Just a mere observation using known meta-analytics with entertaining implications.
'Globalist' is alt right anti-semitism: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Globalization#.22Globalism.22
> So the NAS drives come with firmware that doesn't do the extreme recovery and instead just returns "read error" and lets the RAID controller rebuild it with the parity information.

Hang on a sec. Is this documented somewhere?

I bought a WD Red to plug into my Raspberry Pi which I use as a file server. There's no RAID, just the one disk. I thought I was buying a more energy efficient or bulk-storage-oriented drive.

But if what you say is true, then the "NAS" or "Red" drives should _never_ be used outside of a RAID because robust error correction was removed from them by design. Do I have that right?
Hiring is more difficult. It's not that you can't find applicants, but the people capable of performing without direct supervision is (mostly) a subset of those capable of performing in an office. It can be difficult to identify those who will actually perform well in that environment. It takes some degree of maturity and responsibility to provide value as a remote worker because there's always that temptation to do something else.

That said, I wouldn't trade this lifestyle for anything. The only complaint I've ever had is that coworkers not capable of performing in a remote environment sometimes last too long at the company.
First of all, a $1M house with $200k down means an $800k mortgage, not a $1M mortgage. With rates as ridiculously low as they are, monthly payments are closer to $3.5k/mo. Add in an amortized $500/mo in property tax and you're at $4k/mo, for about 39% of income, not 48%. For that married couple making median income (filing jointly), after the mortgage interest tax deduction I think it's like 46% of their after-tax takehome pay. They'd have about $4.8k/mo ($57k/year) left over for whatever. That doesn't seem like so much of a strain as to be inaccessible.

(I used some crappy googled income tax calculators, so it'll be off, but hopefully not by a ton. I only factored in mortgage interest deductions, and I don't understand SALT deductions and didn't factor that in, so they might be able to deduct more and have even more left over?)

(We're also both using the 2018 median household income, which is like $8k more than 2017, so 2019 was probably even more. Who knows how that relates to today's chaos)
What exact same thing? Using SMR, or using SMR without mentioning it while claiming that the drives were suitable for RAID?
Reminds me of this gem from George Carlin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDKdvTecYAM
That was to be expected anyway, Microsoft Games division rather favored rewriting it into C++ than creating a Java compiler for each platform they would like to sell the game on.

If Managed Direct X and XNA had an uphill battle against WinDev, where they even suggested to move from XNA into DirectXTK, as if the target audience would be the same, there isn't much Java love to expect from the games division.
The statement we are supposed to find the strongest plausible interpretation of is this one

So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous - whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light and I think you said that hasn't been checked but you're going to test it. And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside of the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you're going to test that too. Sounds interesting. And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning? Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it'd be interesting to check that'

I don't think anybody can plausibly claim this incoherent stream of verbiage is an attempt to raise ultraviolet irradiation of blood as a possibility, particularly not in the context of a discussion which instead focused on how sunlight weakens the virus and isopryl alcohol kills it within one minute. And especially not now the person who made that statement has walked it back and said it was 'sarcastic'

HN guidelines don't require HNers to abandon their critical faculties.
I've got a P53 for work and I can think of a thousand reasons why this didn't pan out yet. One major problem is still updating your firmwares. While you can update your BIOS and "embedded controller" (https://fwupd.org/lvfs/search?value=p53), you miss out on firmware updates for your WWAN adapter, your Thunderbolt 3 docking station and several smaller things too. I suppose Lenovo's sales or whoever is in charge listens when the engineers tell them "you will have the following problems immediately, which we are not ready to solve yet". Would be nice if they actually delivered instead of promising, but I'm not mad at them for not rushing it.
> Sars-Cov2 is a respiratory disease. I guess it maybe present in blood, but it doesn’t seem like removing it from blood would help with the respiratory issues it causes.

Biological systems are almost unimaginably complex. Unintuitive effects are not uncommon.
More (and clearer) documentation coming very soon, but here's a good start for the basic SwimOS concepts (Web Agents, Lanes, and Links): https://www.swimos.org/concepts/
- don't use sugar at all

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- no
Curious, is this because they can't physically fit such a large CMR drive in that form factor? What's the actual capacity/size limit?
Millions of People Face Stimulus Check Delays for Being Poor
I think you might reconsider this comment if you look up what others mean when they say "charlatan" and also what Theranos did wrong.

Many businesses sell a mix of proven products and snake oil (homeopathic meds mixed into real ones, for example). That doesn't make them charlatans, although the sellers of those homeopathic remedies might be.

Inventing or promoting an ineffective product with the knowledge that it's ineffective is what makes someone a charlatan. The people selling these ineffective Covid-19 remedies are only charlatans because they're selling bad remedies. If they weren't, the label wouldn't fit.

I think you may have accidentally put the cart before the horse here.
HIV, as I understand it, is a really difficult virus in general because it attacks the immune system. Our typical vaccine playbook doesn't really work well against it because our whole playbook depends on a healthy immune system.
Here I agree with you in principle - deciding to have a child while not being able to financially support it, and just hoping for the best, is extremely irresponsible and likely to permanently scar a new human being.

That said, before judging a struggling family, there are also some other things to consider:

- Pregnancies happen by accident. It's both easier and harder to conceive a child than people think. It can and does happen by accident even with multiple methods of birth control applied, and at the same time a couple can try to have a kid and not succeed for years (or at all).

- Your job can disappear suddenly and through no fault of your own. I had this situation in the past, where my coworkers and I didn't know that there was a hostile takeover of the company happening for almost a year before it run out of money and stopped paying us.

- Random events (family problems, illness, or a pandemic shutting down the global economy) can suddenly break your finances while a child is underway.

- People miscalculate.

- The drive to procreate is, in general, one of the strongest forces in all living organisms, and thus very hard to control - especially with abstract considerations like numbers on the screen symbolizing your chances of survival.

> Hell, I once knew a couple who literally said they might have a third child because it would be easier with the extra child support money...

Can't speak about that particular couple, but in general, that's economic reality. I've seen such things too (hell, my wife and I sometimes joke that we should try for two or for four, because there's little difference between three and four kids, and having a fourth gives guaranteed retirement from the government). Sometimes benefits are set up this way on purpose, by countries that want to improve their population growth.
Solitude in the long term will make you miserable
I think the best argument is that it offloads the cost of office space from the company onto the worker. Sometimes the company will provide little stipends for things like desks or monitors, but rarely for ongoing costs like rent.

Some people get really jazzed when they see companies start to adopt remote work, but in a lot of cases I suspect it's about little else than reducing fixed costs.

(I have worked remotely for ~10 years)
That doesn't make sense, why would they even let people know that there's a connection? The hidden login part may be true, but just not on a sites that are related so obviously. It could be a smokescreen of some kind though.
Tell HN: It's Time to Build
They are concepts you'd build often with a deep level of thought.
You should publish high fidelity ideas that keep you up at night.

Make a list of "n" things you'd do if qualifications and time and history and salary were no object.

There are some interesting projects I found :

- http://arep.med.harvard.edu/
- https://nintil.com/technology-some-people-are-excited-about/
- https://www.gwern.net/Statistical-notes#someone-should-do-something-wishlist-of-miscellaneous-project-ideas
-https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/12/work-on-these-things.html
- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Vb8WWbsVyEJzl66_qqtZfFr2uLL07Y7SJH5XKldjDPY/edit
GDP is somewhat close to a nation's income. Those with higher incomes can typically safely afford larger loans.
Why not lift the encoding to the type system? The type system could remember which strings are ASCII and which are UTF-8. More generally, why not lift such proofs to types?
How to win at Monopoly, according to math experts
Google analytics used to be called Urchin (they bought Urchin and made it Analytics). So all the urchin.js code is probably just really old Google analytics tracking code.
Five F-35 issues have been downgraded, but they remain unsolved
as someone who's been remote for 10+ years: both (the value of casual conversation and higher face-to-face productivity) ring true to me.

If you want to have a remote team I advice having a space for casual conversation and non-work video calls, it improves things a bit for the first.

For the latter, IRL gatherings/meetups are valuable but
obviously not something you can do all the time.
May I suggest a more equanimous modern re-telling of Western philosophy that I have currently started reading:
A New History of Western Philosophy by Kenny
https://www.amazon.com/New-History-Western-Philosophy-ebook/...
Yes. It takes a lot of time for concepts in biology to sink in and become interconnected mentally. People who are not in the field tend to think about concepts in isolation. Tech people also tend to think more mechanistically/rigidly because they are used to things obeying rules/code.

I agree that it can be annoying when armchair biologists make hollow arguments. But I also do think that we do share some responsibility to not turn people off completely or make them dig in harder in their positions.
The term globalist is rooted in the idea that there is a Jewish global conspiracy where they are loyal to their hereditary country of origin, not the one they are currently a citizen in. It has been used as a dog whistle for alt-right circles for quite some time and is often used as a thinly-veiled anti-semitic slur.

I don’t know you, but figured I should at least extend the curtesy of informing you of the meaning behind the words that you chose to use in-case the usage was out of error instead of deliberate.
To these orgs it's a matter of trust and power.
This is one of the better uses of Macros + Type System I've seen to enforce correct behavior and get better performance.
It would seem that a takeaway from this thread is that languages should not have C FFI if they want to be safe.
I think for established companies it's that there is a big risk and time commitment to realign company process and organisation to support remote work.

Definitely less of an argument for starting something new but if you've not done it before then it also carries some risk you might not be willing to shoulder.
I think the spirit of the article is summarized by Putt's Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putt%27s_Law_and_the_Successfu...
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hm. pushing from the test runners to a central place would make sense for that, and could be quite interesting to keep track of some things, but it doesn't seem like there's a viable way of doing that internally (=not relying on some external service) yet?
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