skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually no and no.

Having been in the same cell (potentially several square miles) as the murder victim is not quite the same as having been in tracing distance (4m²).

That's quite a strong argument/pretense, why law enforcement would immediately lobby to get the system changed in their favor. Don't you agree?
Automating away 100 people in some repetitive cognitive task for example.
Because the supposed drug/therapy is so marginally effective that it need to be muddled up with tons of data (noise) and committees.

Often I think it's just bureaucracy, and incompetence. Even if drug/therapy is massively effective, I'm sure the positive results would be lost in the bureaucracy.
Would a close-up cctv display of the bedside monitor have worked for this kind of remote monitoring?

I write enterprise medical software for a living and if a hospital had told me they were desperate for a solution in 3 days, I would exhaust other options before writing new critical software.
They are connected though.

The apparently-lousy contractor is not just randomly inept. They are a product of high-level decisions to have a slow, inflexible hiring process, to replace lots of in-house expertise with contractors, and to award contracts in a way that emphasizes skill with the contracting process over skill at delivering useful results.

It’s essentially a political problem and a well-known CEO certainly has the clout to catch politicians’ ears.
Exactly; I was on that list and looked at the db during the intial controversy. I looked up some of my neighbours, and it was clear to me they had no obvious connection to the issue, and had in fact very similar or exact things to say, as I recall. I took it at the time to mean they had gave someone a proxy to speak for them, maybe some business or political group.
Rather than deflagration combustion, this engine uses detonation combustion (supersonic flame front). Theeoretically this is much more efficient, but is extremely difficult to control.
imo this is by far the most valuable advise. there are so many books out there giving philosophical advice on how to start a business, but really all that matters is what do people want and how many others are supplying it.
May not be an issue.
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/05/fbi-dir...
It is funny that you think you overpaid. Small company mentality. The right person's time can be worth tens of thousands per hour. The question isn't what you paid but what you got in return (most companies function by vastly overpaying the 95% of average people they employ, and underpaying the competent 5% who don't know their value or will move onto better things soon).
in a thread about misleading wording... usually "mining rock" means extracting rock, while "mining a mountain" means extracting minerals from the mountain. Your "mined the rock" means the latter sense of the word mine.

and as to the original "misleading title" claim, the way they meant the word wait was "scientists were willing to conduct a 2 year experiement because the data was worth the wait"
Even the carrier level of detail makes manual contact tracing much easier, while simultaneously preserving some sort of privacy.
> Snap applications auto-update and that’s fine if Ubuntu wants to keep systems secure. But it can’t even be turned off manually.

OMG. Is this real? This is the exact reason I use Linux instead of Windows 10 or macOS. I am not a grandma who can't stay up to date on tech news. At the least there should be a toggle for power users. But no, you can only defer it. Am I the only one who doesn't like it when your already slow internet slows down even further? It feels like hell when you are working.

I am not upgrading to this. I have been using Arch Linux as my personal OS. Maybe I should look into Debian for my VMs.

And just read this thread[1]. Is this how they treat their users? Even Reddit is better then this.

1. https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/is-ubuntu-software-going-to-b...
On one hand, I really emphatically agree with this sentiment.

On the other hand, this post comes off as almost a parody of self-improvement advice.
Redundancy in Programming Languages
>Sounds exactly like the problem so many folks here are having with Emacs.

sadly vim too :(
The naked truth about writing a programming language (2014)
> But the Tesla statement is way crazier than the rest because it's a material statement about the potential future earnings of the company.

The tweet does not say anything material about earnings past, present, or future. Your statement is a false one.
> real time systems came to refer to computers that operated on the opposite of batch computing. The user could interact with the system in "real time", rather than having to wait hours after submitting the job for the results.

As someone who grew up with those systems, this is a major mis-statement of the terms.

In the early days the terms were "batch", "online", or online's near-synonym "interactive".

Real-time has always meant bounded-latency and guaranteed execution since the earliest days, to actual computer systems engineers.

It is a true statement that many people use the term differently today - much to the detriment of precise communication between humans. But there was never any confusion about the term until perhaps the 90's and widespread interactive screen-based applications.
I didn't downvote you, but the appeal of Arch to me is the extreme customization. Sometimes I need to do really funky setups. That said, the stability of debian is also very appealing for the very reasons you stated.
the word texas means friend:

“The name Texas derives from táyshaʔ, a word in the Caddoan language of the Hasinai, which means "friends" or "allies".”
It's about elegance, you see.

num%3 == 0 ? num%5 == 0 ? "fizzbuzz" : "fizz" : num%5 == 0 ? "buzz" : num
It's such a blatant doublethink right?

I feel like the masks don't work rhetoric is political maneuvering born from the fact that governments had little to no reserves of them and that health professionals desperately need them.

Whilst I'm sure some seasoned bureaucrats or advisors think the (subjectively) white lie is the right thing to do; because health professionals need them more. The fact is if we all supported EVERYONE wearing masks, large scale domestic production would have to begin in every country and health care professionals would be swimming in masks. Not to mention it could play a part in reducing transmission.

Masks for everyone is a win win.
> Just we shouldn't be applying aggregate performance reviews based on this episode which don't account for the varying burdens being experienced

Empathetically I agree, but as a realist you can't expect that burden to be shouldered by American businesses who are already hurting. If I kept employing someone that was a net-negative I'd be penalizing those who are keeping their stuff together by keeping them on the payroll during a market downturn... pandemic or not. You don't stay in business by accepting extraneous risk over people's personal problems.

This is why I'm supportive of a livable UBI - most of the American corporate environment is make-work and it shouldn't be looked down on for non-market-performers to exit the workforce and exist doing whatever. Leave the work to people who want to work... simple as that.
...dumb question: Does this apply to Ubuntu Server as well???

Because if so, I'm sticking with 18.04.
> The likelihoods associated with any particular individual are not relevant and do not affect the conclusions.

You misunderstood GP's statement. For example, this statement from the article: "Around 1 in 20 people infected with COVID-19 need to go to an ICU (Intensive Care Unit)." is grossly misleading as it's dependent on having reliable infection rates (which no one has).
That is different than "completely illegal".
Ridiculous. There are plenty of proposals for privacy oriented contact tracing apps.
This is in no way nationalistic flamebait. On the contrary, it is well known:

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

https://qz.com/india/1826387/indias-coronavirus-lockdown-bri...
> On the flip side, poorly functioning teams are constantly chasing new tools and processes as fixes to their broken organizations.

The data suggests otherwise. Historically the industries which have the most broken and convoluted processes also have the lowest investment in technology.
Oh no, don't get me wrong, I'm totally mind blown by what I've seen. No Man's Sky and Skyrim VR most notably were just game changing compared to what I experienced in flat screens.

But yeah, VR requires my full and undivided attention, and this will just not happen :)
FTA:

> The deadly virus can infect you with a very small mistake. As healthcare workers, our frontline has to wander around the isolation wards to check vital signs of a patient from time to time. This task involves disposing of the protective gear after a visit. All just to check some reading on a device.

> A request from health authorities reached us to develop a remote monitoring system for isolation wards. There are expensive softwares to remotely monitor them. But Sri Lanka might not be that rich to spend such amount of money.

I think you're wrong in this case.

edit: formatting
And yet, it is perfect for me. I end up zooming most web pages somewhere between 150%-200%. Right now I have HN at 200% zoom. This is on a 12" 1080p laptop. I do similar on a 27" 1440p on my desktop.

Turns out that one person's subjective experience doesn't form a factual standard for design.
> Even devs that were hardcore linux enthusiasts moved to windows.

Is this a personal opinion or pure speculation?
Also accusations of price fixing just break apart when you literally have tens of thousands of uncoordinated players. The generic restaurant gets as close to a commodity product as it can get while still being a pretty large undertaking.
I personally wouldn't use web technologies to write critical medical software, but if I did it would be in Elixir or Erlang for the optimized garbage collection and supervision trees.

I agree with you on LiveView as well. I believe it would prove to be more reliable than client-side JavaScript.
I disagree. The danger is not YouTube or YouTube's policies, whatever they may be at any point in time. The danger is centralized models that permit invisible, sometimes-on, sometimes-off, point-and-click censorship.

Those models fail when the military puts a machine gun in a sysadmin's face in wartime, regardless of how good or decent their censorship policies were in peacetime. It's the model that's bad, not YouTube's current policies.
It's insecure-by-default. ...which in my mind means it's not really even Linux (hyperbole).
That's what am saying as well. Such thing works for SFDC. Not for any ordinary B2B firm that's struggling to gain their 10th/100th customer.
Recession psychology, marketing in a pandemic and future recession – What to do?
Well said, and I appreciate your perspective.

I also 100% disagree.

Inbound is a waiting game. Referrals are a waiting game. And hoping to be found at the right time by the right buyers ENOUGH times puts external factorsnin charge of your business but just thriving, but surviving.

My business exists precisely because we believe so strongly in outbound as a strategy. But wherein you are right that random cold outreach is distracting and a waste of time, outbounding that is targeted well and focused on problem solving can be the best ROI you have all year.

The difference, we have found, is between prospects who are aware their businesses are imperfect AND are curious about solving problems and prospects who know their businesses are imperfect and willing to live with those imperfections until such time they become intolerable. Those that choose the status quo until such time that they choose to go looking, as you have self-identified.

Candidly, there are a lot more of the latter than former but there are still plenty of the former.
Data do not back cloth masks to limit Covid-19, experts say
It sure would, but what's wrong with purple links? I am an occasional user of Berkshire's website (I read their letters and statements) and find it just fine.
The ACM website's online PDF viewer is terrible. The zoom buttons need to be pressed so many times to make any meaningful change, the document pages load lazily, there are many unnecessary animations, the scrollbar position keeps jumping around, etc. Good thing there is a download link so that I can use my browser's built-in PDF viewer or an external reader.
You have no contact information.
I don’t think this is actually much of a privacy change. Here’s what you agree to when you submit a comment:

> Any comments that you submit to the FCC on a proposed rulemaking, petition, or other document for which public comment is requested will be made public, including any personally identifiable information you include in your submission. We may share non-personally identifiable information with others, including the public, in aggregated form, in partial or edited form, or verbatim.

https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/how-comment#comments
The combination of a federal mortgage payment vacation, and a 10-20 percentage drop in housing prices could make it attractive to pull out all your equity, stop maintaining the property, stop making payments and get 2 years of free rent before foreclosure.
I wish any company that outsourced their product support would force their contractors to read this.

It is so hard for these people to just admit they don't know and have to ask someone or escalate the case.
A couple of concepts that I think the OP has wrong. I'm only talking about the Apple-Google contact tracing framework:

* you need a key from a doctor to be able to mark yourself as positive.

* when you get a notification that you came into contact with someone positive, that's it....nothing else happens. it's up to you to go get tested (possibly with a priority because of the app)

* you are giving up 0% privacy by using contact tracing
This too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23053272
Right, HRs exist to do the bidding of the execs, not be independent critical thinkers. They couldn't personally care less how much people are paid, they only need to be seen as doing broadly what the execs have approved.
Fortunately these things are easily separable. If you have a slug in your spinach, the solution is to take out the slug and keep the spinach.
It's a bottleneck, if you don't get past it, you're done. Uranium as far as I know, is a heavily regulated material. You can't buy nuclear reactor level amounts of refined uranium without the blessing of the states that control the supply. There are a LOT more problems after that though.
The THEM in the article are "The Elders of Mathematics" though, and in particular his professor, who _didn't_ have any issues admitting ignorance. When you say that there are "too many of THEM" you probably meant the "wrong crowd" people.
Centralized video conference WebRTC server available for testing
There's a way to verify it statistically but it will be very expensive. Perhaps the verification can be automated down to commodity price if it is done often.

Get your batch of 1000+ devices. Uncap, repeatedly etch and scan a random subset to check the circuit is what you expected. Make sure it's you that chooses the subset.

ps. I would love to implement this if someone thinks it's a serious proposition!
Perhaps because the author (and restaurant) are Canadian?
I can't parse from this why you'd turn down a 100% return - it sounds like the implication is the headache of collecting is too annoying, but that's not a very rational approach
How is it insecure-by-default?
That's not a bad idea either! Webcam pointing at a bedside monitor and a clock (to check it's working correctly, not frozen, etc).
Yes it’s a complex emotive topic with lots of overlapping discussion and with terms like “self respect” meaning different things to different people.

The deeper into the thread the harder it is to make a point as I don’t even know who I’m answering and what they meant and what points of their comment ancestors they are answering to!
"Ask a computer scientist for their opinion and the answer is: FUCK NO!"

Of course, because all computer scientists share the same opinion... not!

Some computer scientists are even aware of the limits of their knowledge and understanding and give answers like "it depends". There are tons of variables that play into how well any of these solutions work, and yes, there's a privacy trade-off. Just like with license plates, card payments, mobile phones and leaving your house. Or using Linux. Are you one of the 10 people using Linux on the Internet? Yeah, we know who you are ;-) Welcome to the real world, where people make compromises.

Also: do you really want to be the guy saying something doesn't work while others are currently trying to make it work?
> It’s of course possible that an experienced sales person would be able to generate outbound interest

I am at the receiving side of them, with currently no way to escape. (Ouch!) But well, the strategies I see them using are:

1 - If you see some large change on society (laws, tech, etc), focus on solving the problem those bring. That way, everybody will have the same problem at the same time, and you can pitch for it.

2 - Keep in contact until they need it. Maybe even try to help your possible clients in solving the problems that make your tool "not our largest problem today".

3 - Have a portfolio. Discover what problems the client has first, so you can decide what to sell second.

That said, I still didn't buy nor have seen anybody buy anything from a company that approached us first. As I said, those are techniques I see the experienced sales people using. I didn't see them working, but I assume sometimes they do, otherwise those people wouldn't have a job. Also, all of them look very expensive in some way.
Maybe I just didn’t get any good inbound requests so far then. We’re a small startup so I think we don’t attract a lot of outbound interest, this might be different for larger companies of course. Taking time to learn about the specific interests and needs of a small startup with little budget is probably overkill, so we just get the “spray and pray” treatment I guess.

Do you have a good strategy for identifying open-minded companies that are willing to learn about new approaches?
You're thinking in black and white. This is all hypotheticals of course, but the teams you speak of probably already have something, but why should they switch to yours? What do you even know about what they might already be using?
It can easily be both. No doubt Wikipedia includes information, but it's a non sequitur to go from that to name-calling ("complete joke").

Come on you guys - this is not hard to see. I chided https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23053698 for taking the thread further into flamewar, but then I saw the provocation in the GP. If I hadn't posted a symmetrical scolding, there would be a different set of complaints saying "why do you moderate this and not that?" "I'm sick of you punishing users just because you disagree with them", "It's been clear for years that the HN mods hate India", etc.

I'm sure the GP didn't mean to include a bomb-throwing swipe and was just talking the way people do in normal conversation, but unfortunately these things have degrading effects on discussion. In addition to flamewars, we get off-topic generic tangents (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23050724), Jeffrey Epstein and Jimmy Saville (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23051067), Gandhi's teenage nieces (you'll find them) and god knows what else. Discussion quality is extremely sensitive to initial conditions and also to which subthread is sitting at the top.
I'm convinced it is a newbie friendly language only because they are so vehement in claiming that.
Because on an Ubuntu Server, it's auto-deploying updates that I haven't even tested.
only if you install your server applications using snap
"test every commit before allowing merge"

I just set this up yesterday for a new codebase with GitHub actions. Very straightforward, took an hour or two. Only odd part was that the GitHub actions wizard saves the yaml in the root instead of .github/workflows where it needs to be.
It's a bet against home values if Wells is worried they wouldn't be able recoup the value of the loan if the borrower default. Alternatively, they're worried that the government will block foreclosures, so they'd rather not load out money they can't recoup, and they'll take their chances with insolvent homeowners sooner rather than later.
We work at remote sites on cell connections. Part of the reason we moved to Ubuntu from Windows was the ability to control data usage, which is expensive. Automatic updates quickly become a significant slice of the bill when random decisions like these get pushed on users. Ubuntu was supposed to help prevent us from needing to chase this.
> The question is whether you can get that without a huge false positive rate. My guess is that you can

No, you can't. The virus spreads exponentially and the app is suppose to keep up. In other words, you get an exponential number of alarms.

> On the cost issue, the obvious solution is to make testing free and easy

Cost is not the limiting factor. Equipment, reagents and time is. We could have easily beaten the pandemic by now if simply going from door to door and taking a smear test was an option.
Home price and labor value are closely tied under most circumstances. If lots of the population loses the ability to pay their mortgages, one would expect home value to drop as fewer can afford to buy foreclosed or distressed property.

As a large mortgage provider, home prices are the best tool that WF has to hedge against large changes in labor value.
> For home loans, the collateral is the house, which is strange because the house doesn't truly belong to the borrower until the loan is paid off.

Your thinking is circular - the house doesn't truly belong to the borrower exactly because it's the collateral of the loan. Nothing strange about it.
FWIW, I found this thread by Jeremy Konyndyk enlightening and depressing.

https://threader.app/thread/1256090422188953600
It's basically the TSA of corporate networks. They need to inspect traffic because they can't control what devices show up in their environments and what malware might ride along side legitimate traffic.
Timetracking.rs
Simple rust program to track working hours.
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Firefighters are designed to be close to places that could burn down so that they can respond quickly. A research institution has no such incentive.
Thank you! All I could think about was contact forms and other opportunities intakes. Missed that.
Cool see this here! But let me provide some context: This is a program PG wrote with his kid. He asked me to build into Repl.it a classic Basic implementation and make it really easy to do graphics programming. So I wrote an interpreter and called it pg-basic

Try it here: https://repl.it/l/basic

Docs: https://docs.repl.it/misc/basic

Interpreter source code: https://repl.it/@amasad/pg-basic

PG's tweet: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1256526589300441093

However, we realized that we can do a much better job on syntax and other features. So in collaboration with PG, we're evolving the language to make it more expressive and cleaner without losing the magic that makes Basic a great introductory programming language.
I test my images locally with docker run, no need for a local K8s
Should I join a startup or a FAANG company?
Because revenue is dependent on the "T" in "CTO."
I was using the regular version for remote desktop VMs. I don't know about the server version.