skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “...because the simple fact is that even without government-enforced lockdowns, many (perhaps most) people won't return to a normal level of activity if they don't feel safe doing so.“

you’re underestimating the pain that many americans are feeling after just a few weeks of (soft) lockdown. it’s not that people want to be unsafe, it’s that their livelihoods are in grave danger if the lockdowns last for months. many people are willing to take some risk now that the pandemic hasn’t turned out to be plague-levels of badness that some initially feared. few people are economically secure enough to say ‘no’ to opening back up sooner rather than later.
For collecting quality sources of third-party information would be my guess? I could be wrong, but this is a huge part of the HN user psychology and admittedly a favorite aspect to observe. You can even see arguments about it between first- and third-party-preferent users ("learn to use your own brain--think about it first" vs. "why reinvent the wheel--do your googling/research first").
Nick Cordero Gets Temporary Pacemaker Due to Irregular Heart Rate
Is it real cost saving? Many costs are infra and standby people. Not sure it is real saving.
People often complain about design decisions of the GNOME team: removing desktop icons, status bar, ...
Hey, if he wants to fund cancer research and alternative energy, he can be my guest...

On the other hand some of those are silly.
"Emoticon Autocorrect"

Well, not every crazy billionaire can be as good as Musk.
I remember this happening: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/docker-snap-18-09-9-error/14171...

Not fun to think that could have happened on a production env if people didn't disable snap.
I agree that data is good, but the data you linked to seems to be for Italy only. Perhaps they had adequate PPE?

I'm kind of skeptical of the idea that the doctors and nurses in the United States are simply reacting out of irrational fear.
Sounds like the start of a plan. My questions would be around those 10 minutes at the entry door. What do we do with people? How are they connected to the test? How do we keep separation between people? How do we grant access after the passed test? What happens to those around if someone is +ve?
The key part, from an Amazon warehouse worker perspective, is that they're not extending the unlimited unpaid time off option. Huge loss in scheduling flexibility.
Also test igg instead of igm, and data suggests igg is more reliable anyway
It basically breaks xdg-open. This is crucial for a lot of flows with desktop software and I'm honestly baffled why it isn't fixed. Any URI with a custom scheme is horribly and completely broken with a browser installed as a snap. Even basic stuff like file uris are broken in browsers installed as a snap.

It's extremely weird to see this kind of thing when it happens too, you usually trust Firefox to work!
Thanks for the thoughtful reply! I’m glad you’ve found a fulfilling spiritual practice and community. I hope they are supporting you in this difficult time.

> I find it useful to consider the pre-baked objectives as a sort of rough draft I can push against, but more importantly, I've discarded the world view and taken the concrete. For Christianity, that's bread, wine, the holidays, the rhythm, the community, the directive to support charities generously.

That’s pretty interesting to me. I certainly agree that the rituals and community are the best part of organized religion. I’ve enjoyed them in the past and I miss them now. I actually considered returning to the church when I had a young family for exactly these reasons.

I just can’t untangle the practical from the philosophical. The community is great in and of itself, but it exists explicitly to advance a particular set of beliefs. It’s hard to take the community without the beliefs. At least, I haven’t been able to do it successfully. Perhaps it’s more accurate to say I could have, but I would have felt like a fraud. I think that would limit my ability to integrate.

> This may also be worth thinking about with respect to healthy eating, exercise, etc. Don't get sucked into a cult, but if signing up for (now-virtual) CrossFit or Pilates classes, or following Starting Strength, gets you doing something, it's a concrete physical ritual that can stay with you even as you change :)

Absolutely. The principal applies to many places. Employers, even. Many start ups want you to drink the kool-ade, own the vision, play ping pong... you can opt out of that and just do the engineering and paycheck!
There is plenty of data to come up with a viable solution.

The Proximity Solution:

https://medium.com/@dilip.dasilva/introducing-the-proximity-...
I agree, I'm using Manjaro on my laptop and it works like a treat. I have read the horror stories of a botched Arch upgrade so I think I'll stick to the slightly-more-stable Manjaro but the ecosystem itself is very nice for the moderately familiar Linux user.
If this concept would work in principle, covid could be reduced to scaling testing capacity. My impression is that estimates about achievable testing capacity don't assume a most-important-short-term-problem-of-mankind priority and resource allocation.

The linked article suggests a novel and much cheaper test, which would be great. But even if that didn't work out, what scale could possibly be feasible with existing tests? Pre-shortage, an RT-PCR seemed to be much cheaper than a missed day of work.
Reddit has you covered: https://reddit.com/r/RedditWritesSeinfeld
I don't do this much, but I do keep an HN-specific text file with among other things links--like links to profiles I need or want to reference for some reason. The text editor will handle the link-opening.

Sometimes I use RSS for things, but that's mostly non-HN people. It's almost a different world. Mainstream tech blogs, TTRPG and wargaming bloggers, deals, etc. This also requires a lot of active feed organization and updating that I don't have tons of time for, and I find it's more annoying than using a text editor.
I was surprised to find recently about Bannon having involvement in the Biosphere 2 project as a strategist while getting sidetracked on a Biosphere rehash journey one afternoon.
>Think of Dr. Dre's Beats, Jay-Z's Tidal and investments in Uber. Now Kanye's Yeezy brand too.

Don't think of the time Soulja Boy tried selling bootleg game emulators[0], though.

[0]https://www.geek.com/games/finally-soulja-boy-is-selling-boo...
> Alexandra Fletcher, a Bank of America spokeswoman, confirmed the authenticity of the document reviewed by Bloomberg. Prepared in September, it hasn’t been updated since the coronavirus pandemic began. The valuation of “future royalties generated in the footwear category is estimated from $1.75 billion to $3 billion,” according to the bank’s preliminary analysis.

It sounds like that preliminary analysis will be revised... downward.
We have Trump claiming things like "we don't have a shortage of tests" and "everybody who needs a test gets a test" and "the US is testing more people than every other country combined". These are daily press conferences broadcast on a national level. Unfortunately, rational information outlets are covering this too.

Trump would rather pretend that we don't need more tests than admit to something the administration could do slightly better. I'm sure if we took the pulse of all Americans there would be a shockingly large number of people who didn't think testing was a big deal.
> How do you know you could have done better?

Because it was an error! I could have done better by doing the thing that fixed the error!

I am not a religious person, but the Lord save us from those who have an excuse for everything.
a bit of a tragic read there.
The only caveat is the initial configuration which makes many people reluctant to use i3 or WMs in general.
I bought a few web development ebooks from Smashing Magazine in the past, as well as a game design book about Wario Land 4.

That's about it though.
If I had to put myself in their shoes I would react out of panic too, if all of a sudden my day to day was flooded by cases of this new respiratory disease. Doctors and nurses suffer the same sort of adverse selection bias as CFR data: you're not counting the healthy. The doctors are only ever exposed to the sick, day in and day out, not to the healthy who don't walk through their doors. They're experiencing a concentration of the negative effects, orders of magnitude worse than what's happening outside the hospital.
Why Matt Damon Is Quarantined in a Small Irish Town
A solution that works outside of the vicinity of New York, would still allow at least 47 other states to open up.

As for checking who has a test, simply give colored stickers. If someone wants to “beat” the system, so be it. Social disapproval and common sense will keep most people honest.
Presumably the GP was talking about multiplying by an immediate value embedded in the instruction. That would be possible, but I doubt there are any current processors that do so.
It's Always Sunny absolutely takes inspiration from Seinfeld.

They're even self aware about it in the episode "The Gang Does a Clip Show" where they mistake a bit from Seinfeld as one of their own memories - https://youtu.be/fCwI3KDGtRk

How did you like Mythic Quest? I'm really glad to see Rob and Charlie involved but it's definitely a bit more tame. I really like Danny Pudi playing a Dennis-esque character and the actress who plays Poppy is hilarious.
It looks like a load of rubbish. Half the links loop back to that same post. No corroboration, no proof, quoting a source that contradicts the claims made in the post.
I have the same issue!

Maybe it was just my particular job, but so much of my work was figuring out how to do xyz, so it was hard to give estimates for something whilst I was still figuring out the scope and complexity of along with how it even works and I was rarely, if ever doing the same/similar thing multiple times. Whenever project managers did push for me to break things down further they’d then immediately complain about too much technical detail.
Joe Rogan gets caricatured for asking people about DMT. Terence McKenna had a line for psychedelic skeptics, "Have you got ten minutes?"

This is already the most common psychedelic found in nature. It's molecularly very similar to psilocybin and very short acting. Why all the hoopla about engineering novel derivatives that don't carry the safety record of DMT?
That is clearly a demonstration of Turing completeness, but it's a demonstration of Turing completeness of HTML5 + CSS3 + copying from output back to input (the same as eg string rewriting systems) and that could stand to be stated more clearly.
Agile is what happens when stakeholders want a car but really need a wheelbarrow & end up with a skateboard that only has 3 wheels. Product re-brands it as a scooter and takes a victory lap & now your company culture is an extremely toxic work environment of implicit & unaccountable power structures.
This has a lot to do with putting processes over people and it's been a lengthy process of us as so called engineers getting our hands forced while maintaining an appearance of being cool and entitled

It's well known that the systems an organization produces are bound to reflect the communications structures within that organization this is known as Conway's principle

In order to maintain flexibility in the design it's necessary to maintain flexibility in communication but engineers have no incentive to push for free communication and stick together to see the job done right, each of them is attached to a management minder who reports to a rigid top-down governance structure with very different ideas on how software should be done, effectively stifling any potential dissent at the source and acting like an authoritarian regime with the desire to divorce the workers from ownership of their work and turn them into compliant and productive cogs in the machine

The reason for this is not because corporacy sucks but because humans suck at corporacy and when placed in group environments of over a handful of people we tend to resort to mob rule and groupthink at the expense of culture and individual rights

It's rather complex but incentives are the clearest indicator of outcomes people simply have no incentives to help each other but every incentive to seek permission and recognition from management

In such an environment it's been postulated that four types of personalities emerge as people attempt to exert control and these are known as Control Dramas:

- The Intimidator

- The Interrogator

- The Aloof and

- The Poor Me

You can look these up there are several good articles online about identifying and mitigating these but it's not always just one but a combination that people exhibit

Framed in this context you can see corporations as implemented naively operate on only four cylinders even if it's only figuratively or intuitively true it's far from the humane ideal of what agile intended and this also has to do with metrics becoming targets and incentives trumping ethics

In the end we trumpet DRY and try to 'focus on our work' while we repeat the same inane insane dramas day after day expecting a different outcome that's the worst form of repeating yourself but we collectively walk into it in every case

I'm personally carrying a lot of resentment at the engineer class because we've been trained to know better but we simply can't get over ourselves and wake up to the fact that we're not just part of the problem, we are the problem but as such we also possess the solution if we really sit down and think about it

The solution lies in the following concepts

A) it's possible to have alignment and autonomy it's not necessary to choose between chaos and blind compliance

B) It's possible to have investment and productivity but it's necessary to trust people and that ultimately is where we fail
This is actually one of my largest struggles with docker currently. Thanks for linking your tool!
YEP. For various reasons, we want to run Ubuntu on a server. Reboots and autoupdating are hazards and bugs for us. Upgrades & fixes mean patching our containers and starting fresh servers. Instead of rebooting a running server, we delete it. Trying to use Ubuntu environments means having to add custom disable-reboot-upgrade-downtime init scripts that we do not trust across updates: will bumping a minor version break them 5 days later? Super bad for reputation. I rather be updating Ubuntu more frequently, not less!

(Same-but-different for enforcing non-interactive mode on installs.)
You don't seriously believe that right? If only people would buy those shoes who are in a position to buy luxury vanity sneakers then he'd not market them the way he does, and probably not make any money with them.

He just doesn't care and panders to everyone at the same time because nobody bothers to keep this kind of cynical celebrity culture in check.
>Does that say it's harmful to wear masks?

Yes, it does. "In fact, there's some evidence to suggest the opposite". But that is irrelevant, since that is not what I claimed. I said the WHO says masks don't work. I quoted them saying it to CNN for you, and linked it. How much more in denial can you get?

>The WHO's guidance has been that it isn't necessary for individuals to wear medical PPE

I just showed you their guidance, which says they will not help. The overwhelming evidence unanimously says that it does help.

>There are valid concerns about this, both related to shortages and improper care.

There are not. There is no shortage of cotton fabric. Improper use of masks is still superior to no masks.
Droplets of air allow for transmission
It's controversial because it sounds pseudo-scientific. Why would removing all vegetables from his diet help with an autoimmune disorder? His daughter's blog called "Don’t Eat That" had the tagline "The food pyramid is a lie, fat is good for you, and many (if not most) health problems are treatable with diet alone." (though, it does now say "Do not take this as medical advice. I am not a doctor. This is my story and this is what worked for me.")

https://web.archive.org/web/20180320101920/http://mikhailape...

His other health choices don't really help his case. He went to Russia to get weened off of an addiction because "North American hospitals had misdiagnosed him". The Russian doctors are "not influenced by pharmaceutical companies to treat the side-effects of one drug with more drugs," and they “have the guts to medically detox someone from benzodiazepines.”"
You are misunderstanding me. Values less than 128 take only one byte.

The obvious implementation fast path is:

1. Check that the current position is at least a 8 bytes from the end of the buffer. Otherwise, go to the short buffer slow path.

2. Count the number of leading 1s (or 0s) using BSR/LZCNT.

3. If the number of leading 1s (or 0s) indicates more than 8 bytes are necessary, use the multi-word slow path.

4. Shift and mask out your value.

5. Increment your position pointer by the length of your varint.

Values less than 128 will have no leading 1s (or no leading zeros, if your scheme uses leading zeroes instead). The shift value is 56 bits. Unless you have a 1-byte optimized path, your calculated mask value is (((uint64_t)-1LL) >> 57). The position pointer is incremented by one byte at the end of the decode.
The fast gun like IR thermometers are not very accurate. And can be fooled. In one case an infected person took fever reducing medicine specifically so that they would be allowed on a plane where the temperature was checked on boarding.
That's pretty funny, I had to do a second take to notice the typo. I wonder if it's because there aren't any modern words that end in -lyn or are close to brooklyn.
There's some benefit if you're Apple.

1. You don't have to rely upon whatever Intel/AMD decides is good enough for you.

2. You can design custom chips that fit your needs / possibly more secure chips to prevent hackintoshes if they wanted to swing that way.

3. It's competition to Intel/AMD if they wanted it to be.

4. It's another piece of the supply chain for your products that you control. You have to trust Intel/AMD's manufacturing chain.
> Finally, please stop referring to what's going on as "panic". All things considered, most people have been remarkably calm. The only ones panicking seem to be the crazy attention-seekers blocking traffic.

Stopping the world is the panic button. 100% of the news cycle devoted to coverage. All schools shut down. It can be justified or unjustified but I think it's a stretch to call it anything but panic. I'd say the only ones who aren't panicking are the Swedes. A bold strategy, cotton, let's see if it pays off.
The problem is that jira gives you a unified interface into all the stories that all your teams are doing, while not doing anything to track the business value they’re providing.
I was making the point that this disease is an issue for the young and it causes damage to the lungs even in the absence of symptoms. This is a serious disease that needs to be taken seriously.
Can I debug shader in webgpu like JavaScript in devtools?
Totally. I outsource a lot of my reading choice to others. Would love to follow someone with a similar reading taste. There must be a product for that.
It least it wasn't Boston Strogg.
There's two types of notification service (hi Jeremy, nice to see your work still getting lots of attention) - one is a technical thing, and the other is friends.

Way back a couple of jobs before I worked with Jeremy at Fastmail we used to talk about "slashdot distance", as in "I don't read Slashdot, I just read summaries". "I don't even read summaries, I just have friends tell me if there's anything interesting in the summaries"... etc.
just because you are driving slower doesn’t mean that a surprise event doesn’t happen faster than your reaction time.
The post refers to an alternative method of testing for COVID-19 based on surface plasmon resonance that would have significant advantages, but unfortunately it provides absolutely no real substantiation that the test exists or works. The link about surface plasmon resonance goes to a generic Wikipedia page, the link about saliva is a small scale study that was conducted on RT-PCR not surface plasmon resonance, and the actual link to the team goes to a nothing more than splash screen with the company logo on it.

If there is substance to this then it would be massively in Paul's (and the company's) interest to better link to that in both the post and the company web site. At the moment, it looks like at worst vaporware or at best, something so early stage it's years out from viability.
You can do it in decode if the relevant operand is encoded as an immediate. I'm not aware of any processors that do any of the strength reductions discussed here in that way.
Anecdotally, I’ve been using the VS Code snap (with the —classic flag, I believe) on Ubuntu 20.04 for the past couple of weeks without issue.
Great execution pertaining to the “unofficial pitch” website. Great organization of explanation. Transparent, open, and direct. Great UX. (Also my dad says he will preorder).
That got a little to real for me, I started thinking about work.
Yeah. That strikes me as more of a "hey, are you OK? Do you have someone you can talk to?" situation than an interesting flamewar.
That assumption is incorrect for sovereign currencies issuers (like the US, UK, Japan). They would just issue bonds, which is not at all like you or I taking out a loan.
How's this different from co?
Are you eligible for unemployment on such a leave?

Also, I don't fault Amazon for limiting paid-leave if the worker isn't sick, but it's only reasonable to ask people to come in if they are given decent PPE. Temperature checks are insufficient for a virus that may have a large # of asymptomatic carriers and a lengthy pre-symptomatic period for many that get sick.
Thanks for all the interest. Our shipping operations are temporarily stopped due to COVID-19 so please do not order if you expect to receive your order promptly!

The stay-at-home order in our area is "until further notice" with no expiration date. We can't provide an estimated ship date.
I love tools like this. Thanks for sharing it. It's nice to go through a process like that and feel extra-good about your decision. :-)

It reminds me of a tool I used some time ago, the "Oracle" script at SimilarMinds.com. One difference is that the Oracle script used forced-choice based on baked-in global factors, even including how much a decision would affect your social standing, for example.
Thanks for confirming my suspicions with this comment. Was just messing with an internal Zip-750 drive. I tried both SATA to IDE adapters and an internal USB to IDE adapter. I tried with two different drives using Ubuntu 20.04 and jazip.

With both drives there was a brief moment the the zip disk showed up, once. Then never again.

I eventually just purchased a PCIe IDE controller card and that works as expected.
.. or just ask on Nextdoor or similar. since part of maintaining a starter is discarding some on the regular, people are frequently more than happy to leave their discard in a bag on the front stoop for you to pick up
:fire:

Two things:

1. From my own personal experience, I think the observations here are _accurate_
2. I really appreciate that is article offers an implicit good-side to tough time. That is, success in tough times is made by ditching safe behavior
What kind of approach would you suggest? Genuinely curious :)
they did not know how dangerous it is. i think attitudes will change everywhere
Plenty of these:

speeded vs sped / spilled vs spilt / learned vs learnt

https://www.englishpage.com/irregularverbs/irregularverbs.ht...

Not sure if its a purely US vs common wealth thing, there seems to be plenty of variation within the populations of both.
Thank fuck for the Arch Wiki, too - even if you’re not on Arch.