skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The headline overstates the body of the article a bit although it's not really inaccurate.

The headline is really annoying. It takes the extremes of the two policies and combines them into a single policy that is even more extreme.

Google's policy is to handle offices on a case by case basis. Some offices are targeting June for reopening, but most employees won't be back in the office until October at the earliest.

Facebook's policy is no one will be forced back into the office this year if the employee wants to continue working from home. Otherwise some offices are planning to open up in July if employees want to return.

Neither of those policies are a universal directive to "plan to work from home for the year".
>Yeah but my email client can't show me nice diffs

https://l.sr.ht/QlVR.png

>let me comment on line numbers like GitLab/Hub can

https://l.sr.ht/cz3L.png

These are also being added to the web UI:

https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sr.ht-dev/patches/10253

But at the end of the day, if this workflow is not for you, there are a half-dozen other platforms you could be using.
To expand on what phonon said -- UI tax rate is company specific and depends, in part, on how much UI is paid out to company's employees.
I think the biggest assumption you're making here is that most people care about ads - and they don't. Fundamentally, when I'm scrolling through Facebook or Instagram or Reddit or whatever, I just don't care that I see ads while I'm scrolling. I'm not going to pay $1/2/3/4/5 a month to avoid something I don't care about, and that's really only the value add of a subscription-based service. I'd also say most folks don't find Facebook's data policies as egregious as the tech community does.
Git solves a different problem. Look up state machine replication, and then think about the case where some portion of the participants (max 1/3) are malicious. In git how do you deal where there is no central 'trusted repo' to push to, and a malicious participant sends a
commit to some subset of participants but not to others (i.e. equivocates)?
I do not know what Seattle is going to do, but usually they only close the street for motorized through traffic.

If, say, you were to place bollards in the middle of a block, every home will still be reachable by car. But as only residential traffic uses the road, the volume is greatly reduced, making it possible to dedicate space for pedestrians and cyclists. Additionally, the bollards will still allow these to pass, so it can be a through road for cyclists.

So, if anything, it is a net positive for the residents.
We may need to shift to something that makes it clear that we aren't a Google product (based on this thread). You're 100% correct regarding the Google "G" usage as you point out.

Clean Email has a nice simple banner at the top of their page announcing their Google verification with a simple generic emoji. It's a good alternative to a more formal badge.
https://clean.email/

I've added this topic to our weekly sprint review.
Appreciate the comment.
Do you mean 2007 year CPU constantly throttling because of kilograms of dust on Windows 7 full of malware swapping on HDD?
TextExpander. You can take your most common code snippets, table names, etc., and have shortcuts that expand to the full length. I used shortcut expansion around 10-20 times every day, which saves me about a couple hours per month (based on their internal analytics report).
How to Build Your Own Wireless Router (Part 3)
Frighteningly like The Andromeda Strain.
Super Affiliate System
it's pretty easy for me to read
TBH, even if it was an overreaction, the effects were by and large positive, regardless of the pandemic. Work from home, less traffic, more family time, slowdown of economy, pausing of a lot of wasteful, useless activity. I really enjoyed walking around with almost no cars on the roads and listening to birds.
The stock market is not the economy. Jobs market and employment numbers are a better indicator. If the common citizen is unemployed, they won’t have money to spend, business will go bust, and it just makes its way up the chain bringing down the whole system.
IANAL, but one could assume that a similar policy to the copyright of a thesis or dissertation would apply here, which is to say that the students retained copyright (if they did not create the work "for hire" under a grant), but the University keeps a non-exclusive license to republish for pedagogical, scholarly, or administrative reasons. Arguably a open source dump like this definitely fits scholarly if not pedagogical uses.

But it's an interesting gray area certainly, as Zork was probably not "properly" prepared as a thesis/dissertation including MIT's recommended explicit statement granting the above non-exclusive license: "The author hereby grants to MIT permission to reproduce and to distribute publicly paper and electronic copies of this thesis document in whole or in part." [1]

[1] https://oge.mit.edu/gpp/degrees/thesis/copyright/
India is forcing people to use its Covid app, unlike any other democracy
Just because you don't care about a feature doesn't mean no one does.
An hour and a half commute five days a week is a brutal grind. Once a week it doesn’t sound so bad.
Fucking gmail, for example.

The new SPA version is far, far slower than the old HTML version, and uses a truly insane amount of memory. I have 2 gmail tabs open, and according to Firefox's about:performance page, one is using 140mb of RAM, the other is using 95mb, and both are at the very top of the list in terms of CPU usage. Above even YouTube in both CPU and memory, which is itself fairly bloated.

It is absolutely disgraceful.
I lost hope a year ago and switched to FreeOTP, which doesn’t hold your keys hostage.

Its a little buggy, but that’s worth Google not owning my keys and keeping them from me.
We fucked it up :-(
Not sure why you're so heavily downvoted but if you took the total deaths across NYC and divided by the entire population of NYC, you get a strict lower bound IFR of 0.14% which makes this at least 3x deadlier than the flu. If you figure more like 1/5 of NYC has been infected, your IFR is more like 18x as deadly as the flu.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.22.20076026v...
"compare it to the dystopia China has become."

Just out of curiosity, what times are you referring to, when china became dystopian?
Under what moral framework do I have the right to cause the death of innocent people simply because I want a haircut? Or, because I'm a billionaire who wants to make more money? Do I have the right to kill you in self defense for suggesting so?
This post can likely can be merged with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23116571
This reminds me of the book Metaphors We Live By, by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo363799...). Edit: of course it's mentioned in both the article and the talk, no wonder it's so relevant :)

It discusses how metaphors in language fundamentally shape how we think and behave, even when we aren't aware of them. For example, in the second chapter they write about the concept "Time is money":

== (this is a quote, including the italics for emphasis)

TIME IS MONEY

You're wasting my time.

This gadget will save you hours.

I don't have the time to give you.

How do you spend your time these days?

That flat tire cost me an hour.

[...more examples omitted here for brevity]

Time in our culture is a valuable commodity. It is a limited resource that we use to accomplish our goals. Because of the way that the concept of work has developed in modern Western culture, where work is typically associated with the time it takes and time is precisely quantified, it has become customary to pay people by the hour, week, or year. In our culture TIME IS MONEY in many ways: telephone message units, hourly wages, hotel room rates, yearly budgets, interest on loans, and paying your debt to society by "serving time." These practices are relatively new in the history of the human race, and by no means do they exist in all cultures.

== (end quote)

Reading that passage, especially the last line, by no means do they exist in all cultures, really hit me. I never really realized how common these time=money metaphors really are, and I literally can't imagine a world where time is not money myself - the metaphor is that internalized.
> This is not a fair characterization. Rather, it could be said that the externalities of suspension of elective surgeries, widespread business closures, widespread social isolation and unprecedented fear (which is certainly disproportionate to the risk, _even in those with comorbidities_), are all factors that those who are parroting the "Stay home!" party line are neglecting.

Pundits advocating for reopening are deliberately conflating those things, as if the ROI on having a movie theater, or a hairdresser open is the same as allowing a tumor removal brain surgery to proceed.

It's not. Nobody's advocating that everything should be closed forever, but there's an enormous space between "Let's figure out how to get people the medical care they need, because elective medical procedures cannot be postponed forever", and "Everything's fine, everyone go back to work".

The fact that you're bringing up the global food supply is testament to this. Most of the food supply disruptions were caused by direct impact of the virus, with food workers getting sick - not overly aggressive closures. Food is an essential service, no government on the planet told food producers, or food logistics workers to stay home. [1] Yet, the re-open folks are pushing hard on the fiction that we're all going to starve to death, because clothing retailers aren't operating. Meanwhile, the reason you can't get ground meat is because 80% of the people working at the local meatpacking plant are sick, because the plant manager refuses to provide PPE, sanitary working conditions, or even to send sick employees home.

[1] There were temporary border closures for migrant agricultural workers in the US, but they were very quickly lifted, once the government realized that Americans don't pick strawberries. Canada never closed itself to TFWs, neither did most of Europe.
Sorry this took so long, added this fix, as well as basic filters. Thanks again for the help!
In the past before I started working at current job, I was paid for this work hourly. I think my "contract" for that said I owned nothing(kind of sad) of whatever I develop for this doctor/LLC.

Yeah it's on my own/separate device/not related technologically to the corp.

I don't know if it's a competing though, but it's possible just because the corp is a giant umbrella.

I would have to find my contract, but I'm pretty sure it would say something like no compete. But that's the thing, I'm not getting paid for this work. And it's basic at this time like "is the server still running" because I did a lot of UI/workflow work in the past(almost 3 years ago) but I can't do any more of that work until the app actually gets used/more funding.

I'm just trying to "invest" in this thing where if it becomes valuable I could potentially have a future job.
RTFM (as in Read The Fine Manual).

To me, the key for being productivity is understand throughly the "tools" we use: IDE, languages, libraries, framework cli, os, shell,... Read the implementation, the docs, the issue tracker, even the git history if you have time.

When I started to learn vim, I tried many popular distribution without understand each of the plugins they included. And I almost gave up learning vim. It's until I start to read the vim manual, learn the key strokes one by one and then building my own distribution, that's when I really know how to use vim. Even so, I still learn many great things from books like Practical Vim by Drew Neil (on Tmux, there's Tmux 2: Productive Mouse-Free Development)

I think you might already know that, but still shooting here for some quick tips. I don't have any shortcut, just that motto.
I wonder if this applicable to Chinese. In Chinese one to four characters comprise a word. In post-revolutionary Chinese all the characters in a sentence are run together and you have to mentally parse the words in your mind. (Its worse in pre-revolutionary Chinese where neither sentences nor paragraphs are punctuated.) (Pre-medieval european languages used to run all their letters together without word or sentence breaks. Torah Hebrew still does this.)
Comparing Code Quality Meta Tools
Where are we getting this data from? The data covering late April is especially suspicious. See the section “takes about 8–16 weeks for nationwide data to become a reliable metric of total deaths.” in this article. https://arcdigital.media/debunking-coronavirus-trutherism-c2...

(Make sure you stick around for the animated gif, "CDC pneumonia death figures over time", which shows how things change over time.)
Only work on one task at a time.

Do small tasks immediately - reply to that email, merge from master, do that CR, etc. Delaying small tasks tends to abandon them.

Keep your workspace clean (physical & virtual).

Update docs as you use them.

Say "No" often.
> we know that somewhere between 25-50% of COVID-19 cases appear to be entirely asymptomatic (as opposed to pre-symptomatic).

Which is not a big number at all, at least, not big enough to suggest that infecting more people is a solution. Considering that the chances to have symptoms and die rise exponentially with age, the estimated 25-50% are young and lucky ones. Still, it is known that even kids (unlucky, i.e. not in great proportion) do die:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11576622/uk-death-toll-rises-a...

"Six-week-old baby dies of coronavirus as UK death toll hits 31,241 after 626 more killed"

France, March:

https://www.france24.com/en/20200327-16-year-old-girl-become...

"16-year-old girl becomes France’s youngest coronavirus victim"

etc.

By the way, from the older investigations about how people self-report their respiratory illnesses, it is already known that some significant percentage would not report anything and when asked claim not to have any symptoms even when they demonstrably do have them.

Even now, in the middle of coronavirus pandemics, there are people who "become used" to less oxygen in their blood, and behave as "not ill" even as their body becomes permanently damaged by the low concentration of the oxygen destroying their tissues.

So "asymptomatic" in the sense "the patient or the person filling up the questionnaire didn't feel being ill" is totally different from "the doctors didn't find any symptoms."
If it becomes less pleasant those people will cease to exist, nobody will be left to pine for the days of jocular office socialization.
Learning to write (simple) regular expressions will allow you to find and replace in text files fluently (capture groups are especially useful). It's a lot simpler than it looks initially.
No experience with Messenger but I recall Facebook blocking posts that link to F.B. Purity.
GP is definitely overstating it. (GP is, in fact, so overstated that Poe's Law comes to mind.)

What so many people here on HN forget is that software is not the world. WFH works fantastically for software, because you don't need anything other than a computer to make software. Pretty much everything in the world other than software, not so much.

To pick just one nicely concrete example, who do you think makes computers? Electronics labs full of advanced equipment aren't found in ordinary people's homes. I can't do my job entirely from home without spending ~my annual salary on equipment, and even if I or my company wanted to pay for that, I don't have anywhere at home to put it.
I don't know where you are, but in my area (east of NYC) the ERs are non-COVID and strictly separated. Weigh the risk, but know that the ERs are not necessarily warzones. Call the hospital and ask them, but don't delay care just because you don't know the real risks. I've been (physically) to an urgent care clinic, a specialist's office, and a dentist in the past week, because I waited two months for care, and I'm feeling pretty stupid (I'm high risk). The protocols are different, waaaaahhy more strict, but they are treating people.
This is probably the first time I am excited to hear about "X in webassembly".

While it'll likely be a lot slower than native implementation, the benefits of an image not leaving your computer could unearth some interesting applications (for example, I am very hesitant to use online OCR services and use them only for data which is public anyway).
Fortunately, Facebooks ToS[0] is not full of legalese or jargon, and I'm sure anybody with enough technological education to sign up for Facebook can understand it too.

[0] https://www.facebook.com/terms.php
Well, that's what they tell their constituents. In practice, they increase budgets, run deficits, and increase debt every year.
Went to Auroville, really nice place along with Pondicherry.

There is an element of cult to the place but their message is good
Am I correct in understanding that this paper describes a 'neuromorphic device structure', measures a few instances of it, and then plugs a theoretical model of this structure into a simulation?

So figure 2A-F are measured on a single device, and figure 2G-I are just simulations based on a model derived from 2A-F and scaled up in silico to large networks?

In that case, nothing more than single devices were fabricated, but results reported as a hypothesized neural network... and also if I'm understanding this right, the device is basically a resistor whose resistance can be changed using a series of voltage pulses.

This leaves a lot of devilish system implementation details as an exercise to the reader; a system level comparison of this to existing ReRAM (resistive RAM) implementations of DNN accelerators would be enlightening.
All news media is bad at reporting on science and medicine, but they've kicked it into an extra gear for this pandemic. I've seen endless articles pointing out the newest, barely-supported piece of evidence that might mean COVID-19 is even worse than we thought. And you never see the follow up article when that turns our to be pure BS. At one point a couple weeks back someone at the WHO said they don't know exactly how immunity works yet with this virus, which was followed by a flood of articles screaming about how we can't become immune (with a little "maybe" shoved in somewhere way below the headline).

And have you ever watched local television news? Millions of Americans do every night. It's the worst of the worst, and their over-the-top tactics are a well worn joke. "Is your refrigerator going to kill you and your children? Tune in at eleven to find out, only on FUTV News".
No, we don't have the right to entertain a tradeoff that sacrifices people for profits.
This is an event where the need for hospital capacity grows exponentially, and we can't scale up medical resources that quickly.

So off by an inch now potentially means being off by miles later on. If the doubling period wasn't lengthened enough, a hospital at 50% capacity will be in serious trouble very soon.
I'm in the camp that a disease that has 80,000 people dead is not a hyperbolic thing to be afraid of. I have a good friend who is a nurse who still doesn't have enough PPE to protect herself, gets tested constantly and has colleagues who are in the ICU right now.

I also agree with you that its probably a lot more prevalent. We already know that its possible to have no symptoms. But that doesn't take away that for many people it is actually a horrible virus that has killed huge amounts of people and we have no idea how prevalent it actually is because we can't do community testing yet. If you're wrong many more people die.
In the US, internships have very specific laws around who is eligible for them, especially for unpaid internships[1]. This has been coupled with a large number of allegations about unpaid internships being abused for free labor and much more scrutiny from DA offices and other government orgs. There are state laws that are applicable as well. There either is or was a requirement that the internship be counted toward class credits.

[1] https://www.symplicity.com/employers/campus-recruiting/resou...
you shouldn't ignore impairment. it's a place to stuff a bunch of bad decisions, and an amorphous bucket where value can be plausibly inflated and deflated to control the performance story of a company (i.e., where fraud can happen).
Ponditions?
>> this is the kind of spending that is virtually guaranteed to increase consumer price inflation

Why would this kind of spending increase CPI more than other kinds of bailout spending, and what kind of spending might it be?

I guess TARP, QE, corporate bonds, etc., are buying things that consumers don't directly buy very much, so those programs didn't apparently cause lots of inflation of CPI indexed things.

So what would this be buying instead? Could the fed buy things like municiple bonds, or maybe other debts assumed at the state level to provide liquidity and keep interest rates/ratings under control?

I don't see consumers caring as much about the price of municiple bonds, for example, as food or houses or cars.

I am a rank initiate in this area, so if I'm missing something I'd like to know more.
> But at the end of the day, if this workflow is not for you, there are a half-dozen other platforms you could be using.

I've never actually used an email-based workflow, but I'm trying to understand why people might prefer it over PRs.

SourceHut gets a lot of love on this site and I feel like I am missing out. But every time I look into it, I feel like there is something I'm not quite grasping.
Asking lots of questions and thinking through the trade offs of more than one possible implementation before coding. Writing your implementation plan on paper especially helps find those unknown unknowns before you code. If you have trouble stating the problem and your solution in words, that indicates an unknown to investigate.

I.e. do a little writing to help avoid coding the wrong thing.
Most of my coworkers who normally work in the office (I am remote, and WFH) seem pretty eager to get back to it. Many people prefer the social environment of the office, and don't really have the space at home in expensive cities to work. Or they live with family members, which makes it harder to focus, and can make video calls harder.
I used to do margin calculations at a mid-size US agency that staffed a lot of roles. In terms of actual project margin, we rarely got past 30% and was usually more like 15-20. The trick is that there is a lot of cost in operating an agency beyond just salary. The cost to the agency of employing a developer (or a designer or a tester or whatever) is more than just what they're paid.

We had a rate card that included both the cost to the agency per hour for a particular role and the agreed rate we had settled with the client. We had a fixed rate for each role/locale even though we paid people different amounts. I knew my own salary and handful for my direct reports and the "cost" side of the rate card was a lot more than I was getting paid. And that cost was the base on which padded to get profit from the client.

And that profit itself wasn't pure profit for the company because a lot of paid for our fixed costs (office space, hardware) and non-billable roles (HR, receptionists). And of course a lot of it ends up in the hands of our holding company and their stock holders.
I actually did

When I was a kid Greek and Latin were taught at school since elementary schools (I think you call them primary schools)

I'm sorry for you if you didn't

They are pretty amazing
Please don't. I would avoid certain stream if I knew they were told that I've joined/left because I do that quite frequently without saying anything and don't want to come across as an asshole.
I agree that it is a metaphor. I meant to reply to the claim that there was no semantic connection, but I agree that I chose wording that unfortunately seemed to contrast literal truth with metaphorical truth.