skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder what other bullshit things governments have caused due to their neglect which could be punished, in that imaginary world of yours...

The Chinese government has the incentive to not let something like this happening again because they still need the queit cooperation of their population, a slow-burning dissent would still lead to their downfall...
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Chance of death is one thing, but your chance of ending up with a prolonged extremely unpleasant hospital stay and possible long term (we don't know yet, but I don't want to be the one to find out) morbidities is far higher. Under 50 year olds make up 20-25% of hospitalizations.

https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1259131903170371591
My daughter started in Art school at the university, then switched to Physics/Math. She is passionate about art, but found the environment hostile. She was welcomed with open arms in the physics, math, and engineering schools, and is passionate about research. She finds herself encouraged and working in a supportive research group now.
it's not contradictory: learn finance (and how to wield it), don't make it your profession.

statistics, economics, finance, and accounting should be required courses in high school so that we have a more financially literate populace.
That's very interesting. We haven't had too much pushback along those lines at least as we make our way upmarket. It might be because we aren't doing rating, just predictive packing.
> the entire purpose of the paper, in the view of that reader, was to insinuate that women can't be engineers.

Ok, please explain to me how the memo suggests that women can't be engineers.
If you don't see a mass exodus of traditional finance industry refugees into FinTech, you're not looking closely enough. Having worked at multiple growth stage FinTech companies (some in the online payment space), they have always been some of our most fruitful recruiting grounds.
I will never understand people why work in law. You have to be smart, yes. It is good paid, yes. But I see really no fun in that kind of work. If you are creative in this work, you are just pain in the ass, who is looking for loopholes.
I think I watched a movie about this one time...
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>> The AR350 ray-tracing chips process 66 million ray-triangle intersections per second per core.

I was doing 1.5 million Ray's per second against scenes with 100,000 polygons back then on an AMD64.

Acceleration structures are everything. Traversing them quickly and having dynamic updates is hard.
There is no better incentive than having to compete against subsidized fiber.
That not even vaguely what that memo was. It was a blatantly political argument. Its go link was "pc-considered-harmful". Its central thesis was that Google leans too far to the left.
Hospitals in my area have laid off and/or furloughed nurses. Also in my state, less than 500 people have tested positive (lack of testing for sure) and less than 20 people have died. There are not enough sick people from COVID or anything else to fill our hospitals. However, people are unable to do normal treatments and elective procedures due to lockdowns or are unwilling to go due to fear of COVID. Thus no money coming in to the hospitals thus layoffs and furloughs.
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Computer or mobile?

Brave has a dark mode flag on Android.
You don't need to ask forgiveness in order to receive it.

Google could have done the following:

- Recognize that any damage caused by the memo had been done. The toothpaste was out of the tube.

- See that Damore's memo wasn't written with malice or intention to make people feel uncomfortable.

- Allow Damore to keep his position so long as he does not participate in such political discussion at the company again. This would have been reasonable, given that there's been no word that Damore was anything but a competent employee.

Instead, they chose to fire him over something political, which was inevitably going to blow up into a news story and a talking point on social media. Nowhere in Damore's story, to my knowledge, did his employer offer him any sort of option, despite everything he had done being within company policy(and his opinion being solicited).

This isn't to say I misunderstand why Google did what they did. But, had they been a more benevolent organization, I'd have hoped that they not simply get rid of employees that make one relatively minor mistake.

I'm sorry, but I don't want to live in societies where people are made pariahs if they make such mistakes.
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Thanks! Yeah you can do some cool things with animating the svgs too, like show animated packing instructions.
I agree, but we also need to look closer to home with our factory farming approach to animal husbandry where conditions are far from ideal. Not saying that everyone should go vegan, but we can't rely on a continuously supply cheaply produced meat ($1 burger).
Perhaps by finance, he means investment banking and trading, rather than fintech products like payment solutions. The first arguably doesn’t involve value creation (it’s often a zero sum game) while the latter provides convenience and value to consumers.
There are fourteen T-14 schools, not just three.
The people working in these situations don’t have the power to lawyer up
This is a sad truth
Yup. As I was reading along, I thought a) this story is complete fiction, or b) of course they were caught.

I’m no casino regular but every single one I’ve been into in my life use large 6-8 deck shoes and reshuffle as it hits about 2 decks. Counting just isn’t profitable anymore unless you are blatantly obvious about it.
Umm, TFA is on the X-37B spaceplane, but it specifically speaks a lot about potentially using the power for aircraft and drones. And the potential for indefinite drone flight duration.

You're not wrong about low orbit sats in general, but it's only one of many potential military (and/or civilian) uses. And it's not the use the article focuses on.
The official reason is that the "internals of Git" weren't conduce to the kinds of invasive changes they needed/wanted. But I think the truth is closer to being that it was going to be too hard/slow to get those invasive changes past the Git mailing list.

Funny, but I'm starting to wonder if there's an affect-based complement to Conway's Law.
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I'd say it's fairly likely that they found and fired the leaker, but had them sign an NDA. Google hates leaks and has internal surveillance methods in place to catch leakers, especially ones that cause this much trouble.
https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/seattles-quick-thinking-191...

We can turn to history to get a sense of what they might have told us. Seattle acted quickly and swiftly, and the damage was mitigated. Compare that to Philadelphia, where it wasnt. And ultimately, research into influenza led to confirming the causative agent and developing the first effective influenza vaccines. We learned, we adapted, and we fought back. Don't know how long it will take, but it's good to remember that for the past few dozen millenia, the lack of fear of pandemics was not normal. The normal we are trying to return to is a new normal created by our species unwillingness to let infectious disease have the last word.
China castigated the rest of the world for suggesting restrictions on travel from there, yet now are blaming foreigners for new cases there, as well as imposing the sort of restrictions that they felt were unacceptable when applied to them
no, it's not reductive of the whole field, just describing an inescapable aspect of it: to make arguments.
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While its certainly not ideal, what would you expect them to do? They rigged these things together as cheaply as possible to get them rolling out before the end of the school year. Would you like them to spend hundreds of thousands on batteries and solar or more efficient generators? Oh, and add weeks if not months to the roll out?

I think it's a bit quick to be outraged by the bus idling all day. Give them a little time to find money and iterate.
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> You know who got James Damore fired? Himself

He didn't fire himself, Google fired him.

> It's especially telling that you, and people who defend him, attribute zero fault whatsoever to the person who actually

It's funny that you and the people who attack him always seem to completely ignore everything the parent comment you're replying to said, and write a comment that basically amounts to "but, you're wrong!"
> After noting, to my surprise, that there wasn't an obvious peak in the deaths in 1918

Well, you've seen photos of mass graves circa this year, right?
A while back I published some research that had implications about the us government’s treatment of digital privacy. A Russian media arm reached out to me for an interview.

I said no. Damore has the same choice.

Saying weird stuff about the kkk having cool uniforms was his own choice.
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50% of ICU patients have clotting problems, including strokes, but mostly damage to lower limbs.

30% of ICU patients experience kidney problems and require a consultation with a nephrologist or dialysis.

It's not as simple as "all good" vs "death".

PS: source:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-hijacks-the-body-fr...
We also need to start desegregating schools again.
They said "please share your opinion on this specific topic [the low proportion of women in engineering]." Regardless of how you color his response, they asked for exactly what he gave.
Isnt this sort of thing pretty normal?
==But thinking YOU are at risk is a myth.==

This is a blatant falsehood. You have no idea what conditions other people carry.
It will happen again, we knew something like this will happen, isolating China is maybe a solution for some politicians to get some points. Ideally we learn this time and everyone will be prepared with masks, we somehow fix the anti-vacine movement, implement contact tracing etc.

Sure in parallel we should see if and who is guilty of what , but this should be a side thing and not the main focus.
Hinting alignment is also fairly difficult, and most compilers fall down the moment you put any conditions in your loop.
I took a similar trajectory and I couldn't agree more. In many ways, I really regret the time I invested into startups tackling actual hard problems. You are correct that the support systems do not exist, and so I wish I had worked at a bigcorp much earlier in my career than now. While I'm thinking I'm there now, I could have drastically accelerated my overall career progress if I had done things in the opposite order.
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I am quite vocal about Go's language design, yet this is one thing I do agree with the design team.

Well, it is an anti-pattern for you, not for those that write best practice large scale architecture design books, and the large majority of language designers out there that have created programming languages that eschew C like pre-processors.

So I guess better leave at that, because we aren't going to agree.
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Similar stories from a family member who is a major airline pilot. Light load of trips on their (line) schedule, of those trips several get cancelled and of the trips that don't get cancelled, certain legs of them will be day of such that they will have to deadhead somewhere to pick up another flight or layover in an unexpected city.

It's a mess and I don't think the (domestic) airline industry will look the same a year from now.
Highly compressed Youtube videos don't really seem like a good medium by which to demonstrate an image scaling algorithm..
EdenFS makes it possible to query for hashes of files so any cached outputs can be looked up from the build cache without having to download the source control. There’s more to do here, but that’s a big benefit of having a custom filesystem.
Rural Spain and France are a lot less dense than rural Germany though.

There's really no excuse for the state of broadband and cell coverage in your country. I lived two years in Mitte in Berlin, and I couldn't even make a phone call from my place! To add insult to the injury the BMVI was just around the corner; billboards about Gigabit broadband by 2025 reminded me everyday the country is 10 years behind where it could afford to be.
I never understood this and it is hard to Google: When they say 9.0 magnitude earthquake, what does that exactly mean in terms of energy disspiated per unit time? What I consider an earthquake intuitively is some "spring" energy from faults must be released through vibration and dislocations. It is critical how this energy is dissipated and over what length of time - a strong earthquake shaking buildings for 3 hours vs. 3 seconds to dissipate the same amount of energy will cause vastly different outcomes in terms of damage.

> The Richter magnitude of an earthquake is determined from the logarithm of the amplitude of waves recorded by seismographs

according to Wikipedia. Don't we need to also consider the frequency? Lower amplitude but very high frequency of vibrations can be also be dangerous? Are there any measures for Power or RMS power of an earthquake?
So they can just dismiss things I say and pretend they can read my mind, but I am supposed to either defend or apologize for it because someone says so?

EDIT: I mistakenly thought your comment was from the person I was having the conversation with.
Ah, yes. I've always found that a tricky case. A good request blocker can at least make sure you're only tracked on the sites where you use it, but that's probably going to remain outside the amount of configurability browsers offer.
I have noticed 2 kinds of developers: Vanilla vs Frameworks

the later seems a lot more demanded by the market, but the formers are usually producing better/unique applications, and with much better perf compared to a framework based app

2 weeks ago a customer asked me to optimize a slow Angular SPA frontend for a simple CRUD app. It was taking 30 seconds to load nearly 15MB of js for the login screen!

I have simply trashed everything, 250MB of code and dependencies, ALL replaced by 15KB of Vanilla HTML/CSS/JS. The customer just could not believe how fast and efficient the new frontend was! His first question was which magical framework I used ...
I can't disagree with that. I'm not a vegan but I want animals to have as decent a life as possible.
I am assuming people would want to see benefits in being infected before they're going to volunteer. We don't have conclusive data that you can only get COVID-19 once. We don't have conclusive evidence that viral load / exposure volume is what controls the severity of the disease. Right now, it simply looks too risky to attempt; people will volunteer to die painfully, and the ones that survive might not even be spared a second infection. We just don't know right now.

More data is necessary. It seems likely to me that exposure to the disease will confer immunity for some period of time, because so many other diseases work that way. But we just don't have solid data that shows that to be the case. (We also don't have data that says the opposite is true.)

I kind of have a gut feeling that the total number of people infected is much higher than we think it is, and thus there is less risk. We can watch the states that have reopened to see if that's true (and ship everyone an antibody test with their Census forms or something). More data is being acquired, and with that data, we should be able to make better guesses as to what the next course of action should be.

(Reacting to this article specifically, I'd love for the author to get an antibody test. It seems so unlikely to me for people in these very high risk environments to have managed to not get the disease. People travel sick. People wear masks wrong. The disease is incredibly contagious. How could you not get sick? It is all kind of amazing to me.)
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A nice idea, but my experience working with poor kids has led me to believe lack of access to resources is not the biggest issue these kids face. The biggest issue is lack of good parents.

My next door neighbor is 11 years old. He has basically dropped out of middle school. Even before covid-19 he was constantly truant. Now that school has moved to online, he doesn't attend at all. His math teacher e-mailed me (I had previously contacted her to get a copy of his curriculum) and asked if he had access to a computer and WiFi because he hadn't attended a single online Zoom session. I assured her he did as I could hear him playing Fortnite all hours of the night. He often comes over for snacks at 10 pm. I ask whether he's had dinner and he claims his mom doesn't make dinner until 12 or 1 am. I ask what time he goes to bed and he replies "7 or 8 am". I've tried to motivate him to do Khan Academy courses for rewards, but his mom always undermines me. For example, I promised to buy him a Dragonball Z game if he completed the 6th grade math module on exponents. Half-way through the course he announced his mom bought him the game and he lost all motivation to continue. Even money doesn't seem to have much effect unless there is something he currently wants to buy. This happens every time though - his mom doesn't encourage school at all. She can't help him because (I'm pretty sure) she dropped out herself. There's no dad in the picture, and any motivation I try to use to get him to learn stuff gets instantly gratified by his mom.

So basically, we have this kid with an inverted sleep schedule who is years behind his peers, has access to everything he needs to be successful, except parents who care about his future, and thus he is on a trajectory to fail.
Hrm, it does seem like all of his trouble has happened on Twitter and during this relationship.
It may also be specific to conservative movements, given that by definition they oppose some change in society and so would naturally be diverse in their reason for opposing it (possibly more so than the supporters would be diverse in their reasons for supporting it).
I am not sure if you added any more information then in the article, nothing that would help me believe that slavery is the thing that ended secessio plebis.
That's a somewhat narrow view of the disease. There's an awful lot we don't know about the long term impacts of the disease, about what else it is doing to the body along the way. So far we only know about the immediate effects.

To be clear: I'm not panicking or living in fear, just keeping firmly in mind that there's likely more we don't know than do know about it.
Microbiology is “things, not people” and is far more balanced.
> don’t project your values or idea of worth on what other people choose to do with their life.

Unless you're a moral relativist, why shouldn't I do this? I find this entire attitude baffling.

If you went around assassinating people to make a living, I think I would be fine in saying that you're an asshole, no?
> Within a year after a vaccine becomes available,

We have never successfully developed a vaccine for a coronavirus before. And even if it's proven to be feasible, it will be unlikely to be very practical (are we going to manufacture billions of doses? How long will it take? Won't there be some kind of herd immunity by then?) and there are also indicators that such vaccines would not be effective beyond 6 months or so.

The more I hear about a vaccine for this coronavirus, the less it seems like the true solution for this crisis.
I think it’s a British usage versus American usage thing.
Also might be historical as you can see in the title of Caravaggio’s famous work: https://www.kimbellart.org/collection/ap-198706
This was a reply to a comment that was deleted or something; I can't remember the context now.
If your company had a sizable portion of racists, and an employee said something anti-racist that made the racists feel uncomfortable, would you feel compelled to fire the anti-racist?

I'm a big believer in the principle of freedom of speech. It's sad that employees don't have freedom of speech in the workplace.
I think we just succinctly summed up why I'm still a freelancer despite missing actual coworkers
yeah no.

aws excels at giving you the building blocks and making sure those building blocks work.

unless you’re working at a small scale that’s what you want.

for all the crap aws gets, the documentation is there, the tutorials are there, the services make sense.

gcp is probably going to be around for a while, but i would not bet the farm on it.

in the cloud, today, it’s either aws or azure
Huh, interesting. Lot of distillers for booze 'round here have turned, at least in part, to producing hand sanitizer
Can I just say how refreshing it is to see this perspective on HN instead of the "denialist/open-up" faction warring with the "no really this is serious" folks?

Indeed, this will pass. It's bad, we have a lot of work to do before it does. There's more suffering to come. But it's not the end of anything.
It’s less common now than 10-20 years ago is what I’m saying. Law school enrollment is down. Graduates have more options like non-technical roles in large tech companies. Students are fed up with debt and law school is notoriously expensive and gets more so every year.

I mean you can look and enrollment figures and law school closures over last few years. This isn’t just a “hunch”.

The whole “I don’t know what to do with my life so I’ll apply to law school” is like a meme from 2004.
Until teaching salaries are as good as what you can get in law or software, it will not happen. Smart people require incentives unless they're dedicated to the cause (and those types are rare).
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You can’t do that. You have to judge based on what was written, not what you’ve convinced yourself was an ulterior motive and dismissing his actual words as a facade. This behavior is so perplexing.

It is not what he was saying. Why do so many people absolutely insist on misinterpreting it to the point of willful distortion?
You mean like how domestic violence is just consequences for the victim's behavior?
I'm hopeful they will carry slightly different meanings in the future, where "card sharp" isn't pejorative but "card shark" is. Actually, today is the first time I've heard the term "card shark". Ahhh, English...
"...he was fond of saying in later years that if Elvis was the king of rock 'n' roll, he was the queen"

Absolute legend. The world has lost a singular titan connecting multiple generations of flamboyant pop music excellence.
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I really don't think the life of the average working lawyer is like this, but analyzing legal arguments can be really fascinating. If you like logic puzzles, you're sure to like legal opinions. I had a bit of exposure to this as an undergrad, and it was one of my favorite subjects. It actually made me consider becoming a lawyer.
From the same industry, a very good take from Mentour Pilot on how the crisis will turn out in terms of the economic future of airlines (with 3 different scenarios): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UJR9JFdMYI
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But experts may not be experts in fields other than their own. So the pendulum swings both ways.