skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's why I really want to go to one with a camera. I want to know what's not being reported. I know from the DNC/RNC protests every election year, they are nothing like what people see on TV.
A bit more information: https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2020/04/24/a-bold-new-chapter...
The maker of Lysol had to release a public message stating 'we must be clear that under no circumstance should our disinfectant products be administered into the human body (through injection, ingestion or any other route).'

I can guarantee their comms department spent a long time looking at his speech and the fallout from it before deciding that they had to issue this to prevent people from dying.

https://www.rb.com/media/news/2020/april/improper-use-of-dis...
Daily new cases reaching new highs, but definitely not exponential growth

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/

Average time between infection and death from COVID-19 is 23 days, and 18 days average from first symptoms to deaths (1) A country can be a week or two into the overload level before it shows up in the ICUs

https://twitter.com/michaeljswalker/status/12454153391497052...
Yeah, the same question about the fingerprint support. There are plenty of decent modern laptops with fine Linux support, except the fingerprint. Well, I'm typing this from my XPS 9575 under Fedora 31 with 5.5 kernel where everything works, except, well, the fingerprint.
Is it really a bug when your software crashes when there is no memory available? Usually, this isn’t considered one.
> We should all aspire to do better.

aspiring to do better does not mean aspiring to write bug free code. One is a nearly impossible goal (not over time but certainly at first and certainly when balanced by other constraints)

> About the only thing that annoys me at work is people trying to deny responsibility for their actions (or lack of them.)

There's a difference between denying responsibility and apologizing.

What I do when I find a bug or someone points it out to me is say something like

"I see that. I thought the xxx did yyy but that's clearly not the case. Now that I think about it xxx may also do zzz, is there anything else you can think of that I should take into account"

Or more simply. "Thanks for catching that. I'll put it in the bug tracker. Is this a showstopper for your work?"
Recently released[0] a free, online version of a favorite social/party game... it goes by the name of Fishbowl, Salad Bowl, Monikers, or Celebrities.

http://fishbowl-game.com/

The first version was created and tested in ~3 weeks. So far it's been fun and hilarious for groups of friends, family, or coworkers (4 to 10+ players, ages 5+).

Also open source[1]. Built with Typescript, React, Material UI, Apollo GraphQL, Hasura, Express, and Postgres; deployed on Render.

[0] Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22902950

[1] https://github.com/avimoondra/fishbowl
There are major statistical problems with the Santa Clara and Los Angeles studies though. Namely selection bias, and using a test that is inaccurate enough that all reported positives are plausibly false positives.

That said, IFRs in the 1% or less range have been projected for some time, and everyone who pays attention to the numbers knows that reported dramatically understates reality (the only debate is over how much).
to be a good salesman requires high levels of empathy (ego, in the competitive sense, is the other requisite characteristic). perhaps relatedly, this seems to be true of sociopaths as well.

note that empathy here refers to the facet that let's you tease out how people are feeling and what's causing those feelings (to your point), not the one that makes you genuinely care for other people.

with that said, it's unlikely that the election tipping point was honing in on the biggest weakness of an opponent. that's incidental to his real strength in this area, which is honing in on the central fear of--let's not beat around the bush--large blocks of white people.

this is how you make sense of seemingly disparate issues like immigration, nationalism, tax breaks for the wealthy, and anti-abortionism that the trump campaign championed (even if he doesn't personally care about immigration or abortion policy, for example).

trump won by using his sales-honed empathy to zero in on this central fear and then beat that drum relentlessly to victory. clinton, on the other hand, empathized in the other sense of the word (to some extent), but failed at understanding the basic motivations of the populace.
I'm not sure this was your intention, but you have just described how folks are supposed to do postmortem and retrospectives at most agile shops, as well as how Toyota created the kanban process and implemented the andon cord. It's strange and probably not useful if it's based around assigning guilt. But if it's based around trying to uncover a root cause in process or system deficiency and solving that, then no, it doesn't seem strange to me.

You can modify your code to use the API correctly, but if your team doesn't get the documentation fixed or the test environment to sync back up with the production API, your team is not solving the issue.

Your code can cause headache for everyone after runs in production for a month, but unless your team begins to do code review, you're not solving the issue.

In a very literal sense, the idea of the team finding an issue and resolving it (apology or not) is extremely important and one of the few ways for an organization to improve rather than decay over time. The apology is almost a formality.
You're correct provided the overwrite is occurring in the same namespace (e.g. the local environment). He is correct for the wrong reason if you try to alias something from another environment. For example, the following R code may initial seem weird:

my_vec <- c(1, 2, 3)
c <- 4
print(c)
my_vec2 <- c(5, 6, 7)

But as I describe in my top level comment, it has nothing to do with variables versus functions, just how namespaces work.
> Do we need to dig in and tear out the quote word by word now before we're even allowed to refute it?

Yes, this is a forum consisting largely of founder-engineers and words mean things. Not all bugs are spiders, not all disinfectants are bleach. Claiming the president suggested we inject bleach is disinformation, and it weakens the credibility of the rest of your argument.
OK, let me try this again: You can't measure dollar inflation by the gold price when the dollar is pegged to gold.

And, gold was pegged to $20/oz. Then at some point in the Depression, it was moved to $35/oz in a step function. It wasn't gradual.

And I argue that the actual value of gold wasn't $35/oz at the end of the gold standard. That's why the value shot up so quickly when the market was allowed to determine the price - because $35 was the wrong price on day one. There was a lot of inflation between 1935 and 1968 to catch up for that was not reflected in the $35 price, because $35 was never a market price.

How do I know that $35 was the wrong price? Because the US was bleeding gold. Other countries were buying gold from the US at $35, and the US could see that the official price was unsustainable.
I’ve been saying for a long time that Trump isn’t stupid, he just has nefarious goals.

But after seeing that rambling video of him hypothesizing about disinfectants to clean out the body, I’m convinced he’s actually an idiot.
> In addition, the entire Javascript ecosystem is rotten

This is a common problem but it's certainly not the entire ecosystem.

Check Preact, Svelte, Mithril, Inferno, etc. Those are very lightweight alternatives to React, Angular, etc.

Also with SRR + hydration or SPA with code splitting you can achieve very lightweight apps.

I'm working on a Svelte SSR + hydration app right now and on each page I load about 5kB of JavaScript, some as low as 2kB. See this repo for an example on how to set this up with Rollup and a Node server: https://github.com/PierBover/svelte-ssr-example
Of course any major end customer or OEM are definitely going to know if the drives are SMR. Do you really think they’re going to slip that by EMC or AWS? Those customers are intimately familiar with the technologies used in these drives as well as technology development.
You can Box Copy types, yes, but the result is !Copy. So for example, maybe I have a slice of ints, and I'm calling ptr::copy_nonoverlapping on that slice. (Maybe via safe code, like slice::copy_from_slice.) That no longer works; I need new heap allocations for each int. And my slices of ints no longer have a memory layout that's compatible with C, so all ffi breaks?
There's usually an internal and an external shutoff valve. Inside is easier when you're working on things inside, but the water company may need to turn off your water, and they can't depend on being able to get inside. So valve on the sidewalk (or in the lawn as the case may be).
Denmark is the most socially mobile country
Deep dive into (multiple) Istio ingress and egress gateways
Just like abortion or guns, Republicans vs Democrats, there are 2 chunks of people on opposite sides that have staked out their bunkers. They are now at war.
There is a line somewhere in Lichtenberg's Waste Books running roughly "If only the necessary were done, how many millions would starve to death?"

How many of us on HN are in necessary establishments? What portion of the FAANG world is necessary?
How did this end up on the front page? Hacker News has always struck me as anti-philosophical and anti-literature.

This was one of the book that I read on my own after reading Bloom's "Closing of the American Mind."

My reading of the book was tinged with melancholy, for if virtue is a skill necessary for happiness, and if only a few can master a skill, then only a few can be happy.

I was 17 at the time and thought, "What an awful world that would give happiness to so few!"
Interesting. My daily driver portable machine is a T470 so I may try that this weekend. I run out of a docking station with two monitors so have been scared to try it TBH. It works pretty flawlessly on windows though.
>Bingo. Would you rather have a poorly managed company hold on to their cash and spend it internally, or return it to shareholders?

I think it's a bunch of bs the way you are wording this. I know these are not your words alone, it's what people say.. but it's so misleading!

You say "return it to shareholders". Well, no. A dividend is returning to shareholders.. that's what a dividend is.

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 investor can sell the damn stock any time they want... this is NOT "returning it to shareholders".

It is a completely convoluted way to arbitrarily do a bunch of fancy things to both use cash, get stock, prop up the price even more since there is a buy pressure..
Absolutely, one of the things I find very frustrating about Docker is that for the situations I need it it's never sufficient in itself, you still need to be mapping ports and volumes and setting variables- and that's all done in terminal commands which I have to remember or store somewhere and if I get something wrong it all falls apart. With docker-compose I've actually got a single file that I an use to make sure the container actually is reproducible. I'm willing to accept that maybe I just have weird requirements though.
You can just remove those functions. The real problem is that the API break would invalidate iterators and create undefined behavior.
Faster Than Linux
Yeah, estimates range from the current number being around 20-30% of the population. Here's a report from the Public Health Agency on the topic, based on a random sampling study: https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/publicerat-material/publ...

Here's another paper from a orofessor of mathematics at Stockholm University who has appeared in the media as a subject matter expert: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.15.20066050v...

Meanwhile, there's a hint of a decline in the number of patients in Intensive Care in Stockholm, as seen here, although it's a still a bit early to tell: https://www.svt.se/datajournalistik/corona-i-intensivvarden/

Meanwhile, there is reason to believe that Sweden is better than other countries at attributing the cause of death correctly: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronav...
Most opinions and suggestions are based on the "standard path of success". If we use beauty contest as an analogy of success, only one will be the winner and all losers. In case of North American perspective, success looks like this:

- Have good academic credentials
- Have good big corporation names on your resume
- Have good connections
- Have nice car
- Have nice house
- Have kids, partner, etc.
- Travel a lot when retired

If we based our life against that standard, then it is going to be easier to be depressed once a person's life deviates from it.

The other extreme, suggested by some others here, is to accept and be content about "c'est la vie" concept - life will suck and get over it, and its variations. I think that is wrong because it reinforces the idea there is only one way to succeed and have a good life.

My suggestion is simpler:

- Cover your base: do you have a place to live? do you feel safe where you live? do you have good quality food that you like to eat? do you have a group of friends to hangout and rely on? do you have an income source that is relatively stable?

- Then you can focus on whatever you want to do; free yourself from rigid standards and paths. You can even pursue the stereotypical success lifestyle knowing that even if you fail, you can recover fast and try again.
This is also why the evolution of multicellular creatures has (meta-)evolved to proceed by discrete generations (birth & senescence) and Darwinian rather than Lamarckian inheritance.

Otherwise you over-adapt (overfitting) and lose the reservoir of variability required to cope with extraordinary circumstances.

Gregory Bateson describes it in one of his essays, I haven't had enough coffee yet but if you're interested bug me and I'll go look up which one. (It's in "Steps to an Ecology of Mind" or "Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity" IIRC.)
The exact quote from him was that the head of the Homeland Security's science and technology division told him they were going to test it:

"And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or some other way, and I think you said you're going to test that, too."
You wouldn't have lung tissue at that point. You'd have atoms that came from lung tissue.
Yeah that was a bit tongue-in-cheek. I'm glad someone noticed it.
I agree with the sentiment that Sweden isn't handling it particularly well, the writing on the wall was showing that a full lockdown has been a good idea for quite some time.

That said, the US is a great example of how to handle the situation absolutely terribly - with a major political party probably funding and at least endorsing movements violating the lockdown and terribly unclear messaging.

No, I don't like the US's approach. Canada has had it's good and bad points and Vancouver was basically acting like Florida for a while, but the governments response has been well focused, even if we don't have the resources to throw at the problem that the US does - and the messaging has been extremely comforting and clear.
State by State, Charting a Path Out of Lockdown
> If they get it all over with in 30 days

Time's already up.

As I've had to point out many times, "get to herd immunity faster" doesn't just mean let everyone get sicker sooner. The whole "flattening the curve" thing is not about an alternative to herd immunity. It's about getting there in a humane way that doesn't overwhelm health care and disproportionately affect some groups - the elderly, minorities, people with other health conditions, people who have no choice but to work and expose themselves more. "Let the chips fall where they may" is a recipe for excessive and unevenly distributed suffering. And worst of all, it might not even help reduce the total deaths over the long term. That's highly speculative and dependent on other factors.
GLFW, SFML, and SDL absolutely aren't game engines, I don't think it's fuzzy at all. They're libraries for graphics, audio, and other useful APIs. Monogame I'm not familiar with, but since I can't tell by skimming the wikipedia article, I'd call it fuzzy.
Thank you, that makes sense!
Normally, doesn't the interest rate track the likelihood of default?
I have a Dell XPS with Ubuntu installed from factory, and been really happy with it. Everything works very well and never had any trouble connecting any devices.
Studies from the 1918 influenza outbreak show that patients treated partially outside had better outcomes

https://medium.com/@ra.hobday/coronavirus-and-the-sun-a-less...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4504358/
Is it possible that this attention is what Trump wants? Attention that divides attention from the real news?
I bought a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon 7th gen a few months ago. And almost nothing worked with Ubuntu 19.10 out of box. (Also tried Debian and archlinux and had worse driver problems). Wifi driver doesn't work; audio driver doesn't work, pulseaudio is buggy (since volume up/down changes master and not PCM so it does not change actual volume output); hibernation doesn't work properly (still drains battery even when laptop lid is closed); wifi does not connect to 5G even after driver starts working, screen tearing on fullscreen, audio doesn't output as loud as Window even if it claims it's running software amplification (150% volume)...

Most of these were fixable, but took about a week of research on random forums, stackoverflow, kernel mail list (for wifi driver), Archlinux wiki etc...

I never had any issues with linux before. Never. Zero. i was very excited when I first bought this $3000 laptop since this is the first time I bought an expensive electronics. It was absolute shit show from beginning to end.

I'm still dealing with screen tearing and audio being quiet (compared to Windows running on the same machine, and my Macbook Pro playing the same song). I decided last night, I'll try another distro such as Fedora. I feel completely stuck. I hate using Windows. My macbook is work computer so I can't use it for personal stuff. I'm just stuck in this $3000 computer that requires hours of research every time.

I sure hope Lenovo get their act together and have a "Recommended" linux image for these machines.
One thing I do not like about Ubuntu anymore is its embrace of snap packages. It just updates on its own. This has created surprises where a package or program just suddenly stops working correctly. Because I did not manually update it I have no idea what happened that could cause it. https://askubuntu.com/questions/1131182/how-can-i-disable-au...

To me Snap was a bad choice.

I used to run Gentoo but it started to lack in documentation maintenance and I became tired of spending so much time solving problems. Full disk encryption was a bit of a chore to setup on Gentoo and even then I was not sure I was doing it in a reliable way which required more testing. On Ubuntu it was just a few clicks.
That's what's so tough: we're all flying blind, but our actions have very, very real consequences.

In the Lombardy region of Italy, they kept the bars and restaurants open and had this Milano non si ferma! (Milan doesn't stop!) campaign. The results are tragic.

In the Veneto region of Italy, the governor listened to some experts, and the results have been significantly better.
Great suggestion, and it also does fill in the chronological gaps in anyone's history of philosophy education. All those years ignored by uni aren't with this podcast. The companion books are excellent, too. Currently reading the one on Islamic medieval philosophy, which got us the word for algorithm.
Judging by the downvotes on your comment, you must not have gotten the infographic explainer:

https://babylonbee.com/news/infographic-common-covid-19-talk...
You have got to be kidding me. Do you even understand the consequences of making mistakes in other fields? In some cases an apology isn't even enough. In some cases imprisonment and an utterly ruined career are the result of mistakes. So the idea that apologizing shouldn't happen as a programmer is complete rubbish.
This is great news.

I use Fedora on a Thinkpad X1 Carbon (7th Gen) and it works flawlessly. Enabling beta firmware even made the fingerprint reader (historically a problem area) work perfectly.

I'd definitely have bought it with Fedora if it'd been available at the time, the Windows 10 install was gone within twenty minutes of me opening the box.
The one big thing I see missing here is the ability to increase your luck by networking and personal branding. You absolutely have to build your personal network. More exposure, more potential opportunity. Plain and simple - no matter what field you are in.
I know people who’ve programmed microcontrollers in C all their lives and still written bugs. It’s not like switching tooling once in a while is the source of bugs.
> Bingo. Would you rather have a poorly managed company hold on to their cash and spend it internally, or return it to shareholders?

It's not an either/or. A poorly managed company can make itself more dysfunctional by neglecting investment and returning too much cash to shareholders.
KDE's April 2020 Apps Update
Google annual revenue in billions of dollars[1]:

Revenue
2019: 160.74
2018: 136.36
2017: 110.55
2016: 89.98
2015: 74.54

Google's stock price is well over double today compared to five years ago--and that's even after the recent volatility. It is quite far ahead of the S&P 500 over those five years.

If you think that's "not great for investors", then I don't know what to tell you.

It's a little hard to eyeball, but profits per employee has been on a long upward trend too, except for 2019, where it fell substantially, but note the revenue gains above--that didn't just magically appear [2].

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/266206/googles-annual-gl...
[2] https://www.theinformation.com/articles/after-hiring-binges-...
Dells strategy for this wasn't to ship new drivers, as much as it was to just use components that already have drivers. I imagine Lenovo would do the same, but I don't know.

It does make distro hopping painless on my precision (I'm running POP!_OS now, and still automatically get dell firmware updates!)
If what the experts "know" is false, then knowing that you know nothing means that you know more than the experts.
I'm truly baffled by this. Was it an attempt to display marketing prowess?
Directly via inhalation, or by physical introduction of the virus from the hands onto a mucosal membrane (eyes, nose, mouth)
Well, I'd love to see that actual study and peer reviews of it. A previous study saying something similar turned out to be done by a hedge fund manager who used it to argue for reopening businesses, and while peer review is still pending, preliminary reviews by other scientist have called it bullshit (only in nicer terms). So you'll excuse my skepticisim here.
Stockholm has a lot of affluent people who went skiing in Italy and brought covid home. So many that contact tracing was very quickly overwhelmed. Government warned about traveling to Italy way too late.
COVID-19 is now the leading cause of death in the US. It is a very lethal disease however you want to look at it.
Funding Building, an Alternative to VC Investment for Innovation
In 2018 he was working as an economic adviser for a Zimbabwean opposition party, urging it to save the economy using Bitcoin-type products pegged to diamond deposits through blockchain technology

Clearly, a bit of a polymath.
Reality mismatching beliefs has always been a countertreatment.
Your story makes sense for consumer loans and credit cards. For mortgages, not so much as the underwriting bank holds almost zero risk.
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Cheap reconditioned lenovo thinkpad wolud be my recommendation
I totally misread that