skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any good examples of “foreign interest” forums?
You haven't proven that this is UNIVERSALLY the case. Your original beef was with the abstract concept of "business champions". It is entirely possible for some businesses to be good and some to be "bad".

I look at all of these examples you've shown me, and my conclusion isn't that "business champions" are bad, it's that "slave labor" is bad. We can easily compartmentalize that, and even outlaw it.

More fundamentally, businesses are just associations of people, just like non-profits, or clubs, or churches, or government agencies. All play a part in society to produce the standard of living most of us enjoy. If your beef is with those that live in poverty, consider that the poverty rate is the lowest it's ever been — GLOBALLY.

The only reasonable blanket argument against all businesses is the argument that central planning yields better outcomes, and therefore all businesses are bad, and "business champions" are net negative to society. It's a coherent argument, but not one that I agree with.
A computer will be able to think in the same way a submarine can swim.

Thinking is something we've anthropomorphized, and the moment a computer can do something we previously considered 'thinking', we'll move the goalposts again.
There's plenty of hackers working on bringing this to old vehicles. One guy got it working on his old VW Vanagon/Syncro. https://github.com/Lukilink/openpilot/blob/071_OC_WATER/READ...
when shuttleworth decides to stop funding it out of his pocket
This isn’t policy based on data or reason. Just some summary thoughts

Cost of lockdowns:

a) lack of preventative care ; lack of trips to hospital when would otherwise ; missed vaccines

b) mental health issues ; suicides

c) child and spousal abuse

d) vitamin D deficiency from staying indoors extra hours, weakening immune system ; lack of regular pathogen exposure also weakening the immune system

e) metabolic issues from sitting extra hours each day

f) economy wise, destruction of businesses and livelihood, with new huge pile of national debt risking long term economic problems and inflation

Sweden:

Sweden has claimed they will reach herd immunity the month. The mortality per capita in Sweden is less than France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Netherland, Switzerland. 3k deaths total, that’s less than the seasonal flu in Sweden, with average age being above the average age of life expectancy (same in US too).

CFR in US:

We know it’s far lower than what’s reported due to sampling of asymptomatic (and common sense - it started perhaps as early as October with any significant screening or testing only staring 3-4 months later), as well as because “died with Covid” is merged with “died from Covid” in official stats in US. If you need further proof look at places like Singapore where it’s < .1% CFR despite 25k cases/ large volum of new cases per day.

Politics in the US:

Watching this unfold in recent weeks it's hard not to be cynical and conclude this is perhaps the only reason someone would extend these lockdowns for 3 months.
Can you provide a citation? I haven't heard any evidence that they were actively interfering in connections, only recording what was broadcast in the clear.
No way. Braves built in ad blocker is trash. I don't don't need or care about their brave token stuff either.

I love Bromite, been using it for about 4 months now and have no complaints or issues.

The maintainer of Bromite is a HN user and who I discovered Bromite through, gladly keep supporting them.
As far as actual real-life autonomous driving goes, Waymo is by FAR AND AWAY ahead of everyone else. Tesla's "self-driving" really isn't that good, relatively speaking.
That is a nonsensical statement. ICOs are a way to raise money. There is nothing that inherently deceitful about them. I want to be able to invest into early-stage companies and an ICO is a way.
Asus launches consumer router with 2.5G Ethernet Port
> I know it shouldn't be a big deal but it "feels dirty" and perhaps I should just view nightly as any other language's "stable".

There are two uses for nightly:

1. Access to unreleased features. I think I'm down to just needing this for associated_type_defaults (rfc here: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2532/files).
2. Nightly allows passing extra compiler flags, which is occasionally useful for debugging things like macro expansion.

Personally I've found that nightly is pretty solid and I do tend to use it more than stable, but I certainly would not consider it dirty in itself. Furthermore if you're looking at a tutorial or a book the features it relies upon may have gotten into the stable build.
As an interesting example of what differential privacy is, consider this excerpt from Wikipedia:

"A simple example, especially developed in the social sciences,[15] is to ask a person to answer the question "Do you own the attribute A?", according to the following procedure:

1. Toss a coin.

2. If heads, then toss the coin again (ignoring the outcome), and answer the question honestly.

3. If tails, then toss the coin again and answer "Yes" if heads, "No" if tails.

(The seemingly redundant extra toss in the first case is needed in situations where just the act of tossing a coin may be observed by others, even if the actual result stays hidden.) The confidentiality then arises from the refutability of the individual responses.

But, overall, these data with many responses are significant, since positive responses are given to a quarter by people who do not have the attribute A and three-quarters by people who actually possess it. Thus, if p is the true proportion of people with A, then we expect to obtain (1/4)(1-p) + (3/4)p = (1/4) + p/2 positive responses. Hence it is possible to estimate p.

In particular, if the attribute A is synonymous with illegal behavior, then answering "Yes" is not incriminating, insofar as the person has a probability of a "Yes" response, whatever it may be."
I'd be a lot more worried about the people returning from France than Florida, they've had a pretty major outbreak.
Is there any mention of them making internal shifts to support people working from home forever or will the practicalities of it mean people still need to work near the Twitter HQ
There's a reason why noise cancelling headphones gained so much popularity.

If you enter an open plan office and see a bunch of people sitting with headphones on, it should be immediately clear to you that most of them are suffering from noise pollution. The headphones are usually a coping mechanism to keep out the noise, not primarily to enjoy some music.

The problem with open plan offices is usually the fact, that it gets incredibly noisy. increased noise levels lead to being distracted, which leads to exhaustion, which leads to lower productivity, which in some cases causes mental problems like burnout syndrome etc...

this might be not the case for every type of person, but i had the "pleasure" of experiencing the upper situation personally and a few times in other ex-coworkers who just couldn't cope with the constant noise.
Yes, salaries usually posted on HN are quite far from the average or median salaries for engineers.

E.g. as a french junior SWE I earn €50k before taxes and I known that’s more than most and less than some.
I'd love to play with it. Right now I'm enjoying playing with a LinuxONE z15 and it's humongous L4 cache.
Makes sense. I can hardly think of anyone who doesn't use a Unix for servers.
This perfectly illustrates the "opening up" paradox. If you, as a Government, aggressively open but the public still sees risk, not much will change. People won't go outside much because they perceive risk. We'll have to wait much longer to actually know whether opening aggressively is a mistake or not. From my perspective the risk of opening too early and starting a second wave much later in the year, is worth taking very seriously.

I'd say anyone drawing conclusions from a a few weeks data has a 50% chance of getting burned at this point.
> The number of servers that are used for basic filesharing and Domain authentication are dwarfed by the number of servers used for applications and databases

while this is probably true, it entirely misses the point.

it's only true because a very, very small number of megacompanies consume huge amounts of servers; a more accurate number for this discussion would be server per company. Nearly every business larger than a few people has a need for a windows server (for basic filesharing and Domain authentication, not databases or custom apps) and a windows app for their business that can be filled nearly off-the-shelf.

the cost-benefit of trying to start a linux setup is not even close to worth it.
What does flagged video mean?
I just uploaded a video and not long after, it got flagged. It has a fallged in brackets at the beginning of my video
What does that mean?
It's about a Chicago Hosital refusing to give or sell 2 masks to a Chicago Limo company to pick up a client from O'Hare.
I am asking you this becuase the video and the news were rejected by all the Big Media.
It's more like... why would they support other platforms?

They're moving to services now, but they've always mostly been a hardware shop. The software was "just" a "feature".
this is going to send me down a rabbit hole for a long long time .... there was another thread some months ago about an architecture diagraming tool that reads the code and outputs architecture based on methods.
Another legend said something similar in another field: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhvBTy28VJM
What is the difference between your take and the parent take? All I see is you assuming a negative - but not fully described - motive of preferring to keep people at home even if there wasn't a virus out there?

> “Our hope is that by using the data, we’d be able to slowly lift restrictions over the next three months,”

vs

>aiming to open up the bare minimum amount required to avoid riots or economic collapse

why do you believe the root goal is "keep people at home" vs "respond to a disease?"
Making the computations type-level correct would be really neat! That'd be a huge improvement!

I don't think the language needs to be statically-typed to do that. I could easily extend Scheme or Python to support that. All you need to do is make sure that if you add 5 meters to 5 seconds, you raise an exception. There's no reason that exception has to happen at compile-time.

Going Scheme -> typed Scheme is a manageable step which I could envision taking a few weeks of hard work. Changing languages would be an incredible amount of work (especially with things like the JIT compiling MIT-Scheme does for SICM, where you can symbolically derive equations of motion, compile them, and run them as high-performance native code).

I've been using programming to teach kids math and physics, and the lack of units IS a serious pedagogical problem. I think that's doubly true here.

I think you're really onto something.
There was a real PPE shortage.

There was also very poor visibility on the likely case growth, because testing was so limited. It's only the last couple of weeks where there are enough tests to be testing people with likely exposure instead of just people that were gravely sick (so now healthcare workers and first responders and other essential workers can be tested without requiring that they be symptomatic).
I agree. I made a response below, but I think the definition of consciousness as a counter point to us ever making a conscious machine really doesn't have any legs. Can you think of any definition of consciousness that is reasonably impossible for an AI system to satisfy? Other than things like "a living human" or "a non-machine system", or some other clearly ridiculous constraints.
"The lockdown and resulting economic damage is much less an effort of state enforcement than it is individuals being (correctly) terrified to engage in commerce unless absolutely necessary."

What makes you so sure that average people should be CORRECTLY terrified of this virus?

If I'm in a high-risk category, I get it. But what about others? Are the rates of severe infection remotely high in people who aren't elderly, immuno-compromised, or with underlying conditions?

Keep in mind, the advice on this SHOULD be different depending on where you are. NYC? Sure, be incredibly vigilant. Nebraska? Probably not a big deal.
I agree that 1 seems impossible. I think 3 is impossible without complete economic and social collapse. 2 would involve loosening restrictions and allowing spread that doesn’t quite max out capacity. It looks like 2 is functionally what the states are going to pursue, while no one admits it out loud, and the people who thought we were doing #1 express horror.

Edited: meant to say states are doing 2 (comment initially said they are doing 3)
I've experienced that as well.

An additional challenge for me is that I don't like the taste of alcohol, and having even a little makes me do/say things that I later regret.

So even when I do show up at company social events, I feel even more like an outsider. It's hard to stay engaged at a job where all of these team-building events / milestone-celebrations make me feel lonely and excluded.
Related, I was once applying for an apartment lease. I had entered an incorrect value on some field on one of the forms. The kind person emailed me the form pointing out the mistake and told me I would have to fix it before they could accept the application and would have to come back in.

Not wanting to drive a few hours, I exported the unsigned pdf as images, quickly made the fix, converted it back pdf, and sent it away with a message saying not to worry, I fixed the problem.

Then communication ceased. I couldn’t get a reply. When I called, they put me on hold and said they were no longer taking applications (they claimed many units were available before).

I like to think the pristine color and noise matching, from my especially mediocre photoshop skill, was too convincing, and made them worry.
Take that n-word out you savage. You don't greet Germans with "Heil Hitler" or any middle-eastener with "Wallah, was los Kanacke?" to be informal.
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The sad part is that most of the jobs that have great value pay so little.
Imagine considering sanitation, seasonal farming, teaching, childcare and other jobs as "low value". Says quite a lot about our values as a society doesn't it?
Optical energy goes through glass windows, which brings us right back to "someone looking in through your window, taking notes in a notebook", which most people seem to think merits calling the cops.
I've been writing AHK code almost every workday for the past year and a half to automate my job and I'm in love with it. The power that I have in comparison to my co-workers in completing tasks is almost unfair. The writer of the article didn't mention GUI's in ahk which are super simple and I encourage you to check them out.
You're complaining about a metric--"No death in the past 14 days"--that doesn't exist and merely posed rhetorically.

The principle metric in California, as almost anywhere else, is access to widespread testing. Testing resources are only a fraction of what they need to be in order for the state to be able to even theoretically contain outbreaks under ideal circumstances. The Federal government should have been all over this months ago, but it refuses to accept responsibility even though it's the only entity in the nation that can make it happen anytime soon.

Secondly, daily reported cases are continuing to rise in California. So to suggest the criteria is no new deaths is ridiculous. Rather, it appears they were originally hoping to wait for a cessation in the increase in daily deaths, but that appears to not be in the cards given how shelter-in-place compliance will never be as good as it was a few weeks ago.

The dilemma here is either playing with people's livelihoods vs playing with their lives. These are two different things, as anyone who's lived in a war zone or famine would attest. I'm pretty sure I know which one most people would choose if they were faced with the stark choice, but they're rarely faced with that choice, or if they are they deny it and move on. That's basic human behavior and I don't expect that change, but it's important to understand the distinction when criticizing a public leader making population-wide choices.

FWIW, nearly 1/3 of Americans are 55+. It's amazing how quickly we turn to infighting. How ironic, yet entirely unsurprising, that most of the people we're so quickly willing to sacrifice are the ones who literally went to war--WWII, Korea, and Vietnam--for the United States.
The problem is that I remember, in the long dark mists of a month ago, when the US was only at around half of the absolute minimum of 130k. I think this is a moving target and that whatever amount of tests we have will always be considered unsatisfactory.
IANAL, but I imagine a stay-at-home order that is based on age would result in constitutional challenges.
I recently performed research to find a solution to this. After evaluating various free apps, etc, I actually landed on Loopback. I have been using it for the past several weeks to do stuff like: “Record the audio from my headphone mic, Facetime audio from another person, and the audio output of my browser” or “I want to to share the output of Ableton Live to the input to Google Meet” etc. Check it out (it does cost $, but actually seems to be a very quality product, and fairly easy to use). Best of luck!

https://rogueamoeba.com/loopback/
What about square.com?

This isn’t about declining ad revenue and SF real estate costs, right?
Microservices vs Monolithic Architecture
Regulation is an essential market force. Level playing fields and all that.

It often over extends, misses the target and/or doesn't address root causes which is why you hear a lot of hate.

When enough people in the right positions become incentivized to act, you'll see change.
How the White House Is Testing Its Staff for the Coronavirus
From Fahrenheit 451 to “Censortech”
I see a lot of comments about "people will ignore this". I don't know if that's true or not, but here is some interesting data:

If you look at Opentable's data [0] about dining reservations, you can see a cliff on March 16th in all states across the country. March 16th is the day after the very first SIP order was given (in Santa Clara county).

So in other words, despite not being locked down, most people around the country were too afraid to go out.

[0] https://www.opentable.com/state-of-industry
I had an AHK script that uses capslock+ijkl for navigation (plus a few other things like modal space-bar for select) but it wasn't reliable enough at speed. Maybe it was the way I programmed it.

So I wrote a Windows keyboard hook in C which turns out to be easy enough to do. I just hard-coded the key mappings in a switch statement. Been using it for about 10 years and find it hard to work without it.
This is precisely why most top tech companies in India only hire from the top colleges (IITs, BITS Pilani, IIITs, NITs, etc). It's usually not worth their time to even interview someone who did not graduate from one of these.

This is also evident in the compensation for new grads. CS grads from lower ranked colleges typically make $5k-$10k per year, while those from these good colleges make $20k-$40k per year(gross).
Exceptions exist of course.
Yeah I like those. Obviously it would be great if there were more of them during the early part of the hype cycle, when contrary viewpoints are hard to come by!
Agreed. We jokingly (and sometimes not jokingly) talk smack to Californians moving north to Portland in hopes they won't come, because along with the steady influx of people comes steadily increasing housing prices. As much as I have said for years I never want to live some place like Seattle, I have to admit that Portland isn't really that far behind.
But what if it becomes much better at what we now consider ‘thinking’? Where would we then move the goalposts? To having morals, religious beliefs?
Our brains replay our waking experiences whilst asleep
I ride in a M3 daily. If by "obey" you mean stop at every stop sign and light regardless of color and wait for a user interaction sure. Still no automatic turns either.
No reason you can't do #2 while waiting for #3 to work.
or just use i3
There are plenty of places in the world where it isn't so politicised. America does tend to get its knickers in a twist over things the rest of the world barely takes any notice of.
I don't think it's a versus. I acknowledge that "keep people at home forever" is a disease response measure, not some evil plan they cooked up for no reason. But the fact that they have a reason does not make it an acceptable measure.

It's especially frustrating because I've repeatedly seen people argue that it's a strawman, that nobody's really planning to stay at home forever. Even in this comments section, about an article where LA county says "yeah we're staying at home for the next 3 months at least", people insist they didn't mean it!
The difference is that the equilibrium reached from SF-based neighbors undercutting eachother, would be different from the equilibrium reached from Minnesota-based neighbors undercutting eachother, for the same job and qualifications.
There's multiple promising therapeutic treatments going through high quality studies and vaccines aren't impossible.

Why so defeatist?

Also, there's mounting evidence that social distancing is being done socially (by people making their own choices) as much or more than by governments.
I've known a person or two who flew twice weekly to commute. Honestly I rather an hour flight twice a week than commute an hour each way 5 days a week on BART.
Guix + Git + Dat + Syncthing
AKH v2 has been "upcoming" for close to a decade now.

AutoHotkey started out as a fork of AutoIt by Chris Mallett, who stopped development around 2010 or so. Then Steve Gray (Lexikos) continued development under a fork called AHK_L, which later became AHK v1.1, and he's been the sole maintainer ever since. The GitHub repository is still fairly active, and I believe the v2 alpha is fairly stable, so I'm curious as to what changes still need to be made before it's done.
>The whole point is awesome software that works only on Macs.

And that is why I will never go back to Mac.
Which is difficult to gauge, since Sweden's economy depends on exporting to other countries that are in a full lockdown. So it's possible that if all countries took Sweden's approach, things would be a lot better.
Smart Move! Twitter employees will be more healthier than others if they utilize this time to focus on health and socializing differently. Local communities will become stronger and will help employees work from anywhere. Personally, I would love to work in a warm place during peak winters.
SQL? There are literally millions of production SQL databases out there and custom apps built on top of them - and while MS may have created a Linux port, there's no planet on which the average enterprise is moving to SQL on Linux without VERY good reason (and there currently isn't one that I can see outweighing the risk).
It's only impossible in the us because we have a failure at the federal level. South Korea, Taiwan, Israel have better testing than the US. Even China can test to it's hearts content. Not us, because we aren't even trying collectively. In Washington State there was an article in the Seattle Times about the national guard having 30 people manually putting test kits together. Why aren't they making them in a factory? Because we aren't organized enough, we don't have supplies, etc.
Considering that Nebraska is turning into a hotspot, you might want to reconsider your last statement.
I've experience this too while writing policies, but firefox could open an unconfined file manager which is like a "selinux setuid", where it asks the user what to do and change the mcs level of a file until it is written to/read. I don't think this is unsolvable.

Edit: actually, that file manager could pass an open fd to firefox, I'm not sure how that would work policy-wise