skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely on the excited _side_, though I rarely show emotion while visiting random websites. ;-)

I've noticed that "beta" can be an effective word to use while speaking from the dev side of things. It's even more effective while interfacing with non-tech-savvy types these days, because people are used to it. So the public sees "beta", but it's really only there because some internal process is a pain in the neck.

For example, if any given design approval process or other blocking organizational process is taking forever, you can say, "how about a beta. Are we OK to launch a beta?" And it's like the entire team can breathe again, without being quite as hung up on the launch concept. A beta! The public is OK when some things aren't quite finished, but still generally work!

In a lot of cases I'd guess very few people deeply GAF what the public thinks about that "beta" label, for the same reason--it's mostly about internal messaging and internal team psychology relief. And from there, discussions on quality and any fixes can continue in a friendlier way.
Oh, you're one of those. Okay, thanks for showing your hand.

For anybody else reading that's unaware: Sweden is still in the earlier stages of growth, not yet peaking in total cases [1], but they already have 6x the per-capita death rate of either of their neighbors, Norway or Finland, and 50% higher than the per-capita rate in the US. If the US followed the Swedish model, we'd need, conservatively, another 25,000 body bags. Probably a lot more than that given other comparative differences between the two countries.

[1]: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/
It certainly sounds like you the hero of your own story, and like any good story, there are always villains!
Ye olde SV Scrum clip[1]

"This just became a JOB..." -Gilfoyle

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyVksFviJVE S01E05 Scrum scene

I do like Agile, it's the typical problem of managers misusing it to micromanage, engage in useless metrics etc.
How is chip fabrication is more scalable than plastic 384-well plates and cotton swabs? Nothing shy of a home pregnancy test is more scalable than qPCR.
Safaricom and Vodacom have bought M-Pesa from Vodafone
> make a change to a setting and then write that out

Very good point.

> You can. You need to use ';' for inline comments

I have some bugs to fix.
I never understood story points. Is it just psychological to use a different unit of time, so that managers' expectations aren't so hard and fast?

Story points remind me of those weird units of work the cloud providers bill you for, or the company scrip that a coal mine would have issued 100 years ago. I call story points AgileBucks.

Why not just use standard units?
The big lie.

Always the big lie.
To add more data, Germany locked down on Mar 17 at 24 known deaths. The UK locked down on Mar 23 at 336 known deaths. Germany reached 342 known deaths on Mar 27. That's 10 days of lead time on the deaths metric.

Germany's new deaths per day (smoothed) stopped increasing at 215 per day on Apr 9 (2.5 weeks later). The UK's death rate stopped increasing at 850 on Apr 15 (2.5 weeks later).

https://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=countr...
>> (some asymptomatics athletic types have shown severe decline in lung abilities following covid19)

Which is 100% normal for any pneumonia. I myself once had a bad lung infection (on my back for over a week). It took months before I could swim laps as fast as I did before. That's not anything special. Infections always have secondary medium-to-long term impacts.
what about Chuck Norris? ;P
> I had no idea that he was profiting from the work of industrious Jews

This is pretty surprising to me, considering the leadership of Breibart media:

1. Larry Solov. Co-owner. Raised in a Jewish family.

2. The Brietbart family, which is Jewish.

3. Alex Marlow, the editor in Chief, whose mother is Jewish. Thus is ethnically Jewish himself.

Their editorial team also heavily leans towards Jewish ancestry, due to their leadership hiring out of their professional and personal circles.
Yes, that analogy occurred to me as well. But I don't think a blanket policy of distrust is optimal for either of those "technologies". Both are useful in the right circumstances and trustworthy alternatives are often not available.
You wouldn't pay attention to oxygen saturation, and I'm not sure if you can even use that as a metric. Generally this involves heart-rate variability, heart-rate recovery, etc. This detects the stress on the immune system, which is detectable soon after your body starts dealing with an illness. If the asymptomatic case has a stress on the immune system, which it likely does, then this test will detect it (so it actually isn't asymptomatic in a strict sense). It won't be able to tell you that it is Covid 19, but it can be used as guidance to behave as if you have the asymptomatic case. You could even just look at your performance: a significant drop in output means your body is unhappy about something. Imagine running/biking/swimming/etc at full capacity when you have a cold: you can't.
I've never used co but looking it up, it seems to be more about promises and thunks.

This one is just Plain Old Callbacks. The goal was to be promise free, continuation passing style.

I just did some benchmarks and it's also more than 2x as fast as native async/await (I updated the readme with results).
Elton John Postpones Remaining 2020 Tour Dates Due to Coronavirus Concerns
Dr. Fauci explained very clearly and simply the problem with daily testing.

Fauci’s background is in AIDS. It’s what he’s worked on his entire career. With AIDS, you can take a test, come back negative, and a year later if you haven’t done any at risk activities, you can be assured you are still negative. Not so with SARS-CoV-2.

With a virus as transmissible and prevalent as corona, you can test negative on Monday, and be shedding virus on Tuesday. A negative test gives you some confidence that you weren’t infected yesterday. It gives you no confidence that you weren’t exposed this morning.

The final nail in the proverbial Daily Testing coffin, even aside from the absurd logistical challenges, even aside from the civil rights issues of baring someone from leaving their home unless they wear a special colored armband, the biggest problem is that it just doesn’t work. The false positive rates on a test like this will be high enough that daily repeated testing will give the average uninfected person a 50% chance of testing positive by the end of the week. Don’t forget that we now have evidence that even a 14-day quarantine is insufficient, and that totally asymptomatic people can shed virus.

Ignoring that TFA is a sales pitch, which makes the whole thing rather nauseating, I hope that people will start taking a hard look at the absurdity of such a response, and perhaps not usher in a totalitarian regime with such open arms.

There’s certainly some sick irony involved in this post’s title. Gives me shivers.
The physical track format is different between 3.5" and 5.25" drives. Our product is intended for use with 5.25" drives only. Please do not purchase our product for use reading 3.5" disks. USB 3.5" floppy drives were commercially available from TEAC and Y-E DATA.
> Most low skill jobs are not that shitty though. I mean, the pay might not be great...

They are shitty for a number of reasons, but that is certainly near the top of the list. Lack of agency and respect may top my personal list.
Summary of Rules and Guidelines for Corrective Waves Zigzag
You're supposed to wipe your butt with these and then wash the dirty cloth? Why on Earth would I do that? Am I supposed to be saving money with this or something?
This is cool, but the EFS infrequent access pricing for Australia looks wrong. Shouldn't 100GB cost $2.72 (not $1.20)?
The point is to not think of the bits as the representation of a decimal number. For example, if I need to know in which quadrant an angle is, I just need to look at the first two bits, independently of the precision (which we change just shifting and truncating). But I do not mind if 90 degrees are equal to 64 or 1073741824 "sectors".

I think this is another good example where a binary representation (and a shift) can be a more natural way to approach the problem.
New York City isn't the only place in which car ownership is low. What about Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, DC, etc? If your plan for reopening the nation doesn't include reopening our cities, it isn't a real plan for reopening the nation.

You need a plan for people who want to beat the system because they present a huge danger. The whole idea behind this system is to allow the people inside the secured bubble to return to normal behavior. They aren't going to be wearing masks, social distancing, or taking other precautionary measures. Therefore one person acting inappropriately could present a huge problem for the people on the inside. Keep in mind there are still people who think this entire thing is a conspiracy and that COVID-19 is no worse than the flu. You have to consider what happens with people like that who might not participate in this system in good faith.
This is stupid, people working on investigations obviously aren’t going to have access to fbi.gov or tbe analytics accounts for that.
They could be comments that are automatically marked dead for everyone but the intended recipient. People with showdead on already self-select for higher noise content anyway.
Yeah I'll give you you need informed consent and some common sense about the whole thing.
FLCL is a world where change seems distant or impossible, and the sameness itself is stifling and a major source of conflict in the plot, as in Seinfeld.

Steins;Gate's protagonist's alter-ego Hououin Kyouma is a larger-than-life egotistical (comedy) genius which is analogous to Jerry when he's on-stage in the monologue segments of the show. But that same SG protagonist as his "normie" self Rintaro Okabe is crippled by self-doubt, upstaged by his own alter-ego, and would do anything for his friends, much like the version of Jerry we see outside the monologue segments. If you've seen the last episode of Seinfeld, the parallels between the two are a bit more clear. In Seinfeld, the past catches up with Jerry and the crew, and they cool their heels in jail as a kind of karmic payback or comeuppance for their years of prior shenanigans. In Steins;Gate, at a certain point the comedic backdrop lifts, the folly of Rintaro's ego and hubris is laid bare and elevated, and the karmic debt seeks its due via time and space.
If one uses ZFS, one can instruct ZFS to keep multiple copies of the data. It will try to spread those copies among multiple disks, but in single-disk systems it will just spread the duplicate blocks over that disk.

Since ZFS does checksum verification on every read, it has a much better chance of recovering from a few bad sectors.

Downside though is that the default RPi installs are 32bit and ZFS was written with 64bit-only in mind, and AFAIK there are still some issues and limitations when running on a 32bit system.
I think that as much as the community hates to hear it, these phones need to support sandboxed Android apps at near-native speed, or they're going nowhere fast.
I am not sure the relevance of flu in children for the problem of COVID-19. The flu rarely causes serious illness in children and thankfully SARS-CoV-2 also rarely causes serious illness in children.
Sounds like BS. Probably just a publicity stunt. I mean, if you draw out the route first, you clearly are gonna notice the N missing. Only way this is believable is if she didn't draw it out first. That seems a rather arcane way to plan something (as verbal directions -- turn here, turn there, etc..) I think any sane person would just draw it out like a maze.
"Network usage charges apply when object data or object metadata is read from your Cloud Storage buckets."
I made an online version of Catan, want to try? I don't want to publicize it since it's running on a free Heroku dyno (and copyright infringement, probably), but I think it'd be fun to share with a few internet strangers.

It's more of a tabletop style where you do everything yourself (collect resources, place settlements) and the pieces are synced between players.

Email me! cebraverde, at gmail.com
Using Firefox also fixes this.
All this has done is shown me that WD are willing to repeatedly lie to their customers about things.

Just because they're no longer going to lie about this specific thing because they got enough bad press about it to force them to be honest doesn't mean they deserve any respect.
> It conflates what a person does with who they are.

It is not obvious to me that there is anything very wrong with this. In particular, I think it is rather more reliable than going by what they say.
Technically yes, but only when it's paired with the understanding that arithmetic plus copying the output back to input is Turing complete. HTML5+CSS is only supplying the arithmetic half of the equation.
>If a site is silently taken over, the state actor would either need to ...

Why would they need to do that?
Please don't cross into personal attack, no matter how wrong another commenter is or you feel they are. It makes the thread strictly worse, and you can make your substantive points without that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm honestly kind of confused because it's really easy to install VS Code on Fedora through the officially provided RPM package, and there is an automatically-installed repository so that it's kept up to date.
You don't need yeast. You can bake things with flour and baking powder. In fact, with bananas, flour, baking powder, cinnamon, sugar, and butter you can have banana bread that's just fine.
If one is clever, one can use SPR to interrogate a surface: monitor the surface and you can “see” the surface changing when stuff is sticking to it. If you have something with specific binding properties on that surface, like an antibody (as is used in an ELISA), with some additional effort you can maybe have an assay that detects something binding to that antibody.
> aspiring to do better does not mean aspiring to write bug free code. One is a nearly impossible goal...

Hence 'aspiring' not 'achieving'.
Progression towards weight doesn’t sound to me like an excuse for ... doing it for progression towards thinness. Which was what your parent comment was talking about their motivation being. I, by the way, am an iPhone user who wishes they kept the jack.

I’m also not sure what you mean by their profit margin hurting their product offering. Do you mean their desire to keep iPhones an aloof luxury brand hurts their product offering? I suppose dropping surprises like removing jack X or button Y could be part of that, but I think it’s more likely they have found customers with different preferences than you or I to be a preponderance of their user base and decided that making us happier is not economically worth a totally separate mechanical design that they have to both manufacture and separately stock. Maybe they incited people to move to airpods, but their forced converts seem to largely like them.
Wasn’t there some big kerfuffle years ago involving KDE, Qt, and licensing?
I never get this comparison. The characters on Seinfeld have completely reasonable and funny criticisms/observations of every day life- the characters on Its Always Sunny In Philadelphia are just boring jerks.

Disclaimer; I am a pretty big fan of Seinfeld. But, I don’t think anything comes close to what the writers and actors achieved with Seinfeld. Luckily if you’re anything like me you can continue to watch Seinfeld for over a decade and still not get tired of it.
Want to try a looser, table-top style version? Email me cebraverde, at gmail.com

I was frustrated by the official online Catan and Colonist.io, so I made my own version.
> A cultural acceptance of WIP software seems common, in free software communities, in my experience.

On the one hand, yeah it's harder to complain when something is only built in someone's spare time for free. On the other hand... is non-FOSS really any better? Has Windows yet managed to re-merge the old and new control panels?
I woudn't count on that. There's a chance they're at least indirectly funded by the US, since the US pays several billions every year to Israel, both in military and economic aid.

https://ifamericansknew.org/stat/cost_of_israel.html
I've no idea of the reliability of that site, however the author was a former US Foreign Service officer.
> With early detection, we can get the best known treatments

From WHO:
What is the treatment for the coronavirus disease? No pharmaceutical products have yet been shown to be safe and effective for the treatment of COVID-19.

What is the author referring to?
The standard to which you're referring, UFI, supports only 3 media types, all of which are 3.5". It is no use for 5.25" disks. The broader Mass Storage Class is also no use because the built-in OS drivers for MSC assume that the device has a single media type or the hardware can auto-detect the media type. We use a vendor-specific command set so the host can specify parameters to read a variety of formats, including non-PC formats.
> For anybody else reading that's unaware: Sweden is still in the earlier stages of growth, not yet peaking in total cases [1].

Not really, they seem to have leveled off alongside Canada, the US and the UK. [1] In fact, your own link says as much, the number of daily new cases in your link has been constant for at least a week.

> ...but they already have 6x the per-capita death rate of either of their neighbors, Norway or Finland, and 50% higher than the per-capita rate in the US.

Obviously, that's because they're not locked down. I assume they have 6X the per-capita flu death rate of Norway and Finland too. Car accident deaths, also. That doesn't mean much, it's a different strategy.

> If the US followed the Swedish model, we'd need, conservatively, another 25,000 body bags. Probably a lot more than that given other comparative differences between the two countries.

The thesis is that the delta between deaths is temporary. That as soon as the major countries open back up, the deaths will resume and so it represents just a temporary deferral of deaths not a net increase. The reality is epidemiologists predict 70% of us are going to get COVID this year, and with COVID as infectious as it is, and without us being able to sit inside until literally every last COVID virus dissipates, it'll be back as soon as we open up.

[1] https://aatishb.com/covidtrends/?location=Canada&location=Sw...
Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf]
I’ve worked for 2 big oil and gas firms. I don’t care much about checking agile boxes. I went from being damn near employee of the month to short list for being let go when those companies started to live and die by “agile”. I’m about 50% to blame as it’s a great demotivational tool. The other half is managers forgetting why they are running those agile projects. I left both places within 6 months of agile being gospel. Not sad at all.
Dr. Whitmore on Pandemics
A fourth solution: force the boomers and vulnerable to retire. Let's bail them out. Let the young take control of the economy. Everybody wins.
Kyouma is far more of a Kramer than a Jerry Seinfeld. Jerry's the snarky straight man surrounded by oddballs, that role in Stein's Gate would probably be Kurisu.
I mean it sounds crazy but honestly I would use it. There's been more than a few times I've typed a message in haste and hit the wrong emoji. My keyboard already ranks them by recently used and somehow does some context matching, so current technology isn't even too far off from that idea.
I’d be less inclined to offer negative opinions on someone making a product that helped manage COVID and financially benefiting from that product, if it;

1) Actually helped solve a problem we face with COVID without doing more harm than good, and

2) Did so in a way that didn’t trample civil liberties with invasive daily tests before allowing someone to leave their house.
Assuming he's speaking in the more general sense, but who knows? he's an engineer and not an epidemiologist or a doctor.
ClojureScript 1.10.741
I'd be interested in seeing a Breitbart News article that espouses anti-Semitic views. I looked, couldn't find anything obvious.
It’s a cool solution but I don’t like the fear mongering at the beginning. Reminds me of this (0)

If you’re a numerate person you’ll know it’s very unlikely you’ll lose a leg to corona virus. People argue that the fear is needed to keep people accepting quarantine but I’d submit that honesty is the best policy. We need to find a way to make honesty work.

The alternative is people losing trust in science the more they’re misled.

In the event his solution isn’t a available soon, What do you think of a solution like this? (1)

(0) https://mobile.twitter.com/billmaher/status/1251350310045413...

(1) https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/494034-the-data-are-i...
If only we could have had this conversation for all the software we use over a lifetime and get used to or very productive with...

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Hello, Mr/Ms Shoestring Budget software developer in 2003... Could you write your (MIPS simulator, CAD app, VLSI Design System) in 64 bit code so when Goobuntu, Crapple and Microslop remove support for 32 bit apps I'll still be able to use your software? Pretty please?
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Baking is not some arcane skill. It's literally just instruction following. First time I baked it sucked. Second time it was great. The separation between the two was hours not weeks or months.

Listen, I don't want to over-generalize but I've seen this on the Internet about the most mundane of skills: cooking, baking, doing your taxes. They're all just instruction-following. Sure the upper limit on the skill level is high but basic competence to get a usable product on all of them is like at the level a twelve-year-old could do it if they had the motor skills.
It can be used up to Mojave. The current drivers don't work on Catalina. We hope to release an update soon, but there is no ETA.
> Ctrl+f theranos no results

have we learned nothing?
This looks fun. I’ve watched the video and want to play it.

What do you need me to do?! It’s such a long pitch with barely any call to action at the end!
It doesn’t have the timezone thing or a good dark theme, last I checked.
Right, I think we’ve probably missed boat on developing new diagnostic methods for Sars-CoV2.

In particular, this method appears to be antibody based? (Which has accuracy issues) and uses SPR, which may involve some technical risk.

However, I think there’s mileage in developing methods now for the next pandemic. My personal interest is in developing programmable qPCR-like systems [1]. So that kits can be deployed ahead of time, and then programmed to a specific target as required. If anyone is interested in discussing diagnostic approaches, please get in touch.

[1] http://41j.com/blog/2020/03/thoughts-on-a-new-approach-to-vi...
Is it still more of a simulation like past MechWarrior games, or is it more of an action game like MechAssault? The simulator MechWarrior games were amazing for immersion, but I found the controls confusing. I think for the concept of the game, those are not problems with the game so much as my own individual problems with comfort of the game's user-input. I feel like if a MechWarrior game could be playable with a controller, it would still be fun, but something essential to the gameplay experience would be lost.
What exactly do you miss in Java? It's possible to treat int as unsigned for all the necessary operations.
True, though I like to think the characters are so well-defined in the community's consciousness that it wouldn't be hard to come up with good jokes (e.g. https://mobile.twitter.com/SeinfeldToday)

Besides, it's a show about nothing, how hard could it be? ;)