skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Software engineering salaries are not exorbitant. In fact, engineers may be consistently underpaid for the value delivered.

What about the value of those who cooked your lunch? Without them, software engineers would starve and die, so that makes them have far more value, no? Do you think that food service workers are also underpaid?
Just about everything that came after Seinfeld copied much about it so it is hard to find something that seems to be comparable because everything you've seen shared so much.
Every year around 3 or 4 million people die in America from a variety of causes. This is sad, but at some point, everyone has to die.

Data is showing that the infection fatality rate is around 0.5%-1%, and is concentrated in older people. [1] is one study, but there are many others. Given this data, it's clear that our current response is out of proportion with reality.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/g4tqvk/dutch_antib...
Create the file ~/.hidden and with the line "snap". It will then be hidden from your file manager.
Sorbillo's is the best I've tried. I remember walking in front of the shop a few times and thinking it's some kind of tourist trap (it's on the possibly most touristy street in the city), but decided to try it out in the end. Absolutely fantastic. The pie was great, but TBH I think there were other places in town whose pies were as good, but the quality of the toppings... just wow. And I was surprised that the price was the same as any other place in town (I think a marinara was something like 3-4 Euros).

My second favorite is in Switzerland of all places, in the small town of Meilen. Amazing toppings too. But I went there once since the start of the lockdowns, and it didn't taste as good. I don't know if it's the pandemic leaving a bitter taste, or just an issue for their supply chains...
Because, its well-covered all over HN and elsewhere. I suggest reading and thinking, before posting throw-away pseudo-analyses.
Not any more so than physically.

Sure, if you stop something early you may have overstepped, but no one questions violence taking place when rocks are being thrown. Same goes for once a discussion degrades to ad hominem attacks/insults.
Hashmaps Benchmarks:
https://martin.ankerl.com/2019/04/01/hashmap-benchmarks-05-c...
Seems to me that without the actors, some Seinfeld fan fiction in game form would just fall flat. Just make a funny point and click game with original IP.
Wouldn't it also vary by percent of population without immunity, perhaps demographics in the underlying population, and other environmental things (weather?). Seems like a (useful) aproximation.
I know it's hard to believe, but even in San Francisco, businesses need to make money. That needs to take into account every wild-eyed piece of legislation that the City Council dreams up.
Facebook launches Zoom competitor, with built-in special effects
If you have N nodes and completely connect the nodes, there are O(N^2) edges. This comes from the formula for the sum(1...N).

Edit: I’m not sure I interpreted the original statement correctly.
There are insanely high amount of speculation in there.

To my knowledge no significant amount of non droplet or hand-to-face contamination as been demonstrated out of medical contexts where aerosolization is more a problem, because of technical gestures and cares.

Even the linked page supposed to serve as a reference is completely speculative on the subject of the potential for the virus to be airborne: "In addition, it is possible that SARS-CoV might be spread more broadly through the air (airborne spread) or by other ways that are not now known."

So yeah, it also has not been proven that airborne transmission does not happen. But there are no strong signs showing we should highly worry about that highly speculative subject. The main contamination paths are well-known: droplets, and hand-to-face. If you want to strongly reduce the rate, you must focus on that.

> Even if we don’t avoid the virus 100%, reducing it by 80% could be the difference between something mild and something life-threatening. This could be a reason why so many otherwise young and healthy doctors and nurses have been killed by this virus.

Yeah, no. This is also completely speculative at this point. There is no strong technical reason for why it should be the case, given how viruses work... So not completely impossible, but short of real reasoning and evidences and studies, this is not a theory to particularly to focus on... ANYWAY, it is a good idea to avoid spreading the virus on all surfaces, but simply because this will statistically reduce the contamination rate (maybe without any impact on the severity for those who will be contaminated)

More generally, I'd like essays on that subject from people working in the medical field. And I'd probably not like essays on CS from virologists and epidemiologists...
> Businesses are paying exorbitant salaries and providing ping pong tables

Businesses are paying market rate salaries to employees who generate them revenue. If anything engineers should be the ones questioning the exorbitant compensation and perks at the top of the org structure.

> why shouldn't they have visibility into what's being done?

Because they shouldn't be micromanaging. They should be setting high level goals and expectations and giving teams autonomy and trust. Intrusive surveillance and low level metrics create perverse incentives that detract from those high level goals.
I was being sarcastic :) of course I know in which country people usually have the concerns you mentioned... being #1 in GDP means nothing to the majority of Americans who don't get to have the peace of mind to not worry about even the most basic human necessities.
I really want this... but haven't larry or jerry said that it's not a show about nothing, but a show about where comedians get their material?
The notches on 5.25 don’t identify capacity
Every time I see a comment on an "agile sucks" post I see people saying "well that's not true agile".

Which sounds a bit like the "no true scotsman" fallacy.

If so many people have trouble implementing agile maybe it just doesn't work?
> (less than $1/test).

How much less than $1? $6B/day is a lot of money.
> this interface hierarchy would be annoying to use in practice

No doubt, but it happens, and sometimes because the refactoring you might prefer to do can't be done or can't be done right away.

For example, in Java you might have a subclass of Principal where you store additional metadata and have additional methods, then you might have code like:

public static Something princOk(Principal p, Stuff stuff)
throws MyPrincipalException
{
if (p instanceof MyPrincipal)
return princOk((MyPrincipal)p, stuff);
return princOk(MyPrincipal(p), stuff);
}

Why would you do this? Well... because many JDK and third-party interfaces take Principal object arguments that you could reuse... if only you could decorate those objects with the additional metadata that you wanted, and... with subclassing you get to.

In Java you might say "use Subject", but it's not that easy, and anyways, JAAS is a terrible terrible thing that should have been ripped out when applets were ripped out.
No we certainly won't stand by zoom. They're possibly worst than Facebook with regards to user privacy and controls
The two technologies are used to sandbox GUI apps. They were supposed to make it possible to run newer apps on top of older libraries and to let 3rd party editors publish their software easily towards multiple distributions, but in practice you can face many problems (lack of system integration, apps not even starting, ...).
Flatpak allows anyone to create stores, (iirc Flathub code is on Github) while with Snap you need to use the Snapcraft (vendor lockdown).
CFR is a terrible metric - you should be using IFR. CFR is of course going to be much higher than the IFR, probably orders of magnitude higher.

IFR data hasn't been available until recently because you need A) randomized sampling and B) antibody tests, which have only just been rolled out.

The most up-to-date IFR data suggests that "0.5%" is actually an astoundingly high overestimate for any reasonable metric of "number of people who die from this", and that's before adjusting for the fact that the people who die were usually going to die soon anyway.
Thank you for the link. I still end up confused.

How does selecting the 3rd column,

dt[, 3]

jive with

>`DT[i, j, by, ...]` which means: “Take DT, subset rows using i, then calculate j ...

I don’t understand how column selection and calculating an expression is the same thing.

So now I can’t figure out if

DT[, sum(V1)]

Will return the column indexed at the sum of V1 or if it will return the sum of the column called V1. How can I tell, from the syntax?
That's why I think testing at the door is the more straightforward way to start. We can reopen factories, office buildings, even shopping malls, but no one gets in without passing the screen.
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Making most people a coffee every day also seems like a logistical nightmare. But we built that infrastructure.
That's very polished, I like the "draw yourself" animation.
On the Physics SE a similar cluster of questions are asked about the finiteness of the speed of light e.g https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/230703/do-we-kno..., why the Principle of Least Action exists, and the “paradox” of size of the universe being larger than it’s age x c
I still believe it's real estate. As someone in the tech space, you should be able to do house hacking quite easily. Let that portfolio grow and then 1031 into larger commercial properties. If you work remote, it may be even easier. Happy to talk shop with whomever wants to.
Paul Romer, an economist at NYU, has been advocating for testing millions of people a day for a few weeks. He is co-author of a piece in The Atlantic, "Without More Tests, America Can’t Reopen", https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/were-testi...

Googling for "romer covid 19" should turn up a lot of news sources covering the notion of testing millions of people a day.
I just attempted to call their customer service. The representative had no idea what SMR was.

After I asked to be transferred to someone else, the representative told me that "WD has no official answer yet and to call again in a day or two", I pointed out the blog post that specifically directs customers to call their hotline, but then I got back into the loop of "WD has no official answer yet and to call again in a day or two"....
Compliance is tough. And my main concern would be false positives- if we are screening more people more frequently, we would have a lower expected percent of true positives, and even a small false positive rate could lead to significant overdiagnosis and disruption. The more often the test the more stringent that requirement. I dont know much about the testing method described in the article, but I wonder if it has unique characteristics beyond ease of administration to support that broad use case
So if all of America (330 million) gets infected, and we’ve got a 1% fatality rate, that means deaths (3.3 million) would be up there with all the other things that kill us combined!
Not on the scale the world is blowing up wealth right now.
And now, in a sort of hilarious turn of events, the latest pulseaudio update wants to install snapd (recommended by pulseaudio's new libsnapd-glib1 dependency). And of course, when someone asked about it, they just got a quiet WONTFIX.
> Death is sad and terrible, but we don't shut down society because people die.

Yea, but COVID has the potential to kill a lot of people, quickly -- are you suggesting it's a bad idea to "shut down society" to keep our hospitals functioning? I get the point that the economic cost is severe and also comes with its own share of human cost, but we're talking about saving ~1-2 million people in the US alone by doing this. Several trillion dollars is still worth it...
Internet connected sourdough fitness tracker
I think it’s a tongue in cheek reference to the phrase.
Also, the less logical bit of analytic philosophy is all about breaking down and understanding other people's arguments. It's a very similar process to teasing out business requirements from stakeholders!
Read the "Modern Seinfeld" Twitter account posts which read like mini episodes (Jerry's new GF's phone automatically connects to Newman's WiFi so Jerry is freaked out). Also the Reddit story of George dating the "slow walker". The great thing is that if you've watched enough Seinfeld, you can actually hear the actors saying the lines in your head.
I'm not a big Seinfeld fan but everything about this feels right. It's the right art style. Right era. Right genre. Point and click adventure leaves a ton of room to explore all the various locations and relevant objects to Seinfeld lore.

Though I think it's just gonna be a rolling show of Seinfeld references and that will disappoint me.
"Banned" may not be the right word, but I do agree it's the wrong question. Story points and velocity measurements are about giving a reasonable guess about what's "likely" to be completed at any given point in time in the future, with bigger error bars the further out you look. Agile projects don't "complete" so much as a decision is made to release at a given point, and everyone is happier with agile in an environment where there's an expectation of multiple, continuous releases.
I suggest trying Kubuntu. I've been running 3 4K monitors for years, all works fine, including HiDPI support.
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>> and they just can't execute

> That’s a bit rich: are they not the #1 consumer distro, which hardly implies they are failing to execute.

No, that's Debian doing almost all the work.

90% of the packages in Ubuntu are simply taken from Debian without significant modification.
Yes, but there was a whole "meta" episode where the characters tried to make a sitcom about nothing, which was clearly a commentary on the show itself.
Can you please make your substantive points without swipes? Controversial threads tend to devolve into people swiping at each other, and emotions run especially high in a crisis.

I don't think there's any reason to exclude an article on the basis of who wrote it. Articles should be excluded because they're off topic, bad, or uninteresting. Essays on CS from virologists would likely be of high interest to this community.

Besides that generic argument, which has become a bit of a shallow dismissal lately, there's the fact that pb is writing about a project he's personally involved in and which hasn't been discussed here before. It's understandable if there's interest in that.
Yep this hits the nail on the head. There was some kind of fundamental shift around that time. Running other GUIs has been a bandaid, but the underlying thought processes that led to unity are still clearly at work. Im going to stop even trying out new ubuntu releases anymore.

I think this is ok though. If ubuntu were better thought out, the linux ecosystem might be less vibrant than it is. I would like to think other distros are learning from these failures. Personally ive had excellent luck with scientific linux (CentOs based).
I think governor Cuomo was saying he'd love to test every day if he could, but just doesn't have the capacity. Edit: as a side note he put out a call for companies that can help with testing saying that NY state might be willing to invest to bring things to scale. I believe he already wanted FDA approved tests but there's an opportunity there to work directly with a government to implement this sort of thing.

IIRC, mainstream objections tend to come from concerns of false positives, since that becomes a bigger problem with this frequent level of testing and could prove a huge disruption if you end up with too many quarantine still, or so many that testing positive becomes essentially meaningless in terms of telling you whether you have the disease or not if you test positive.
> I don’t like (Gnome, Snap)

Snaps may be a pain sometimes, but Gnome seems to be working like a charm...
> Seems to me that without the actors

And writers!
People need to eat, but ignoring that for a moment, it'd be very cool if they just dropped a torrent link on /r/Seinfeld and did the whole thing anonymously... this is the sort of things legends are made of. Hell, make fake CD manuals and boxing and put the images in on imgur. Spin it into an AR game! The possibilities are endless, Jerry!
If it's to avoid this kind of aberrations https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22864985 it's totally understandable, but in practice, it doesn't work that smoothly unfortunately, not to mention the potential vendor lockdown, or as the Mint team phrased it:

> If you’re a Fedora user and you want to install Spotify, you’re told to go to https://snapcraft.io/spotify. Spotify doesn’t distribute RPM packages, appimage, Flatpak or anything useful to a Fedora user who wants to download it, or to a Fedora maintainer who wants to add it to a repository. Fedora users are told to go to what is essentially a commercial store operated by a RedHat competitor where stats tell them their distribution is only 7th best.

> We’re in luck, we can still download the .deb. If Spotify stops caring, what do we do? We move to snap because we have to? Will the snap store continue to let people download actual .snap files in the future or will that get locked down ? Will the snap store continue to operate without an Ubuntu One account or will we get vendor-locked ?

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3766
Do not pity partisans, only consequence will force them to change.
When I first read this, I somehow thought you meant an actual building, and not the in-home type. Must be the whole Friday evening thing.
did it brought some good traffic on your company’s website?
Do we have any idea how much of a difference it would make on the propagation of the epidemics if everyone would wear a (possibly homemade) mask?
What door? You mean my front door? I'm not letting anyone in, and I'm not leaving either. What are you going to do, call the cops to kick in the doors to test me?
What do you expect one state is supposed to do if another is bringing the numbers up due to their autonomous choices? It's just not useful to consider the US as a single entity in matters where states maintain control over most relevant measures. No one is denying the numbers, but it seems rather strange to lump (with respect to the matter) largely independent entities together. If you're trying to make a point, then make that point directly where it applies.
I feel they are going to have a hard time convincing Jerry and Larry if they keep calling it “show about nothing”, show about nothing was supposed to be a joke about the show within the show - here is Jerry confirming as much in an AMA[0]

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1ujvrg/jerry_seinfeld...
I really think there's a lot of stuff easier to prepare and of much better nutritional value you can put in a freezer (which generally only works until power runs out). But hey, let's buy 100lbs of flour and put it in a freezer because we can do that....
I recommend trying out other distributions. While I like the convenience of Ubuntu, it's got some clear downsides like poor package management & a bloated install.
Not to mention the disaster that is Gnome3.

Arch has been very hassle free for me, even the installation process was relatively pain free (If you follow a guide). I've been running it for probably nearly a year or so without any problems..

NixOS also looks really interesting and could be the future of desktop computing,
I'm keen to give that a try when I get some downtime.
Re: "worked".
What was your goal?
> Yeah, no. This is also completely speculative at this point. There is no strong technical reason for why it should be the case, given how viruses work...

Yes it is. If the initial amount of virus exposure is low, the immune system has more time to react.
I've heard from virologists that the amount of virus you're exposed to does matter. A gallonful of virus can quickly overwhelm the immune system, a small amount can take long enough to grow that your immune system can ramp up to deal with it before it overwhelms. It's like someone releasing one breeding pair of rats in your attic vs 100.

I don't have a cite, it was from the "This Week in Virology" podcast.

I also heard a number going around suggesting that an early group of people hospitalized and killed were Ear, Nose and Throat doctors, who obviously would have been exposed to an almost comically large amount of the virus.

Giving someone a little bit of smallpox was a known immunization method before modern methods were invented. You'd still get sick, but less sick, and you'd wind up immune.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variolation
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It's got some interesting stuff, but theres a lot of websites that get millions of pageviews.
Yeah but you should also then understand what will yield real results, and >>1 instead of /2 has become useless to write manually a long time ago, whereas e.g. continuous memory is more important than ever. You will not optimize a lot by attempting micro techniques from 30 years ago.

Other random example: in some edge cases, integer division replacement by a multiplication can still be relevant today (depends on if its a constant, the compiler, and if nothing optimized also on the exact processor, though, because last models are already ultra-fast with the real integer divide instructions), but I suspect in 15 years (maybe even 10) this will be completely irrelevant, at least for high perf targets.
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> A stock repurchase is basically nothing more than the company buying back stock, and giving holders the option to sell theirs to the company.

The point of a stock repurchase program is to decrease the number of shares on issue and therefore increase the value of each share. Theoretically share price = market cap / shares on issue.
Agile consultants are not the only people who do that.

https://i.imgur.com/ecsh9yp.png
Third-party support.
It really seems like this global health crisis has helped push this to become an accepted reality. I love it
It's a lot of money in toal. But if the costs could be are borne by the customer or service provider or employer equally or proportionally, then it is a viable alternative to complete shutdown of businesses.

(The total cost of 50c drinking straws or coffee cups daily is also in the billions but we don't see it that way.)
I had many conversations in the weeks following my original discovery, and this comment thread reflects them perfectly.

Me: There's no way everyone actually sees things and I made it 30 years without knowing.

Everyone else: Yeah I see things.

Me: but, like really see or just remember features?

Everyone else: <some variation of quality, but it was always described visually and everyone agreed it was basically like seeing>

I put "see" in quotes in my original comment simply because that is how everyone I spoke to described it; that it's clearly not physical vision, but it's also clearly a visual experience. I have absolutely zero visual experience when I close my eyes, and I never have, it is simply emptiness.

You seem to describe dreaming as if you experience that visually too, while not being able to do it while awake. It's worth noting that this is not uncommon for people with aphantasia, which is why it is the inability to _voluntarily_ invoke your minds eye. Many people can still dream visually, however I do not. I go to sleep and then simply wakeup with nothing but emptiness in between (not an experience of emptiness as time passes, but more like a time skip).
At least on recent Android versions the apps only ask for permissions when they actually need them, not on install time, and you can grant/refuse individual permissions.