skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The lockdown is far from unobjectionable. Some say this COVID-19 is right about on the edge between clearly favoring lockdown versus no lockdown. The mortality numbers really are not so large comparing to other causes of death, and if secondary human effects are taken into account the decision becomes already very difficult. There are several ways to approach this (with varying degrees of criticism), I think the main ones are 1) Simply evaluating separately human impact (measured in several ways -- all cause mortality, QALY, etc.) and economic impact; 2) Economic-exclusive approach: accept costs compatible with as far as current acceptable QALY costs. Both depend on disease modelling and social dynamics forecasts of course.

1) Addresses criticisms of 'putting a pricetag on life'. To be fair comparing and giving value to ways of life and death is quite difficult, so any simple single measure can be unacceptable to any majority.

2) This approach takes into account already established acceptable trade-offs between economy and healthcare costs. Simply an extension of what we already do: we do not spend all our resources trying to save everyone from every malady, we make trade-offs (e.g. many patients don't receive expensive treatments that could save their lives because of lack of resources). The problem here is indeed how we measure it, you could argue this particular situation begs a more sophisticated approach that can be measured e.g. by QALY.

Neither line seem lead to easy conclusions of lockdown. I haven't analyzed any of them in depth (would require tons of research and experience I don't have), but I think both approaches indeed currently suggest no lockdown except for extreme situations and keeping measures like mild social distancing and using masks.

This calculus seems like something society could more or less agree upon and this would increase readiness for an eventual next crisis too, without destroying our economy or delaying necessary measures due to controversy. I truly believe either epidemiologists (which were the main consultants), health care professionals, politicians or economists alone didn't have the necessary expertise to tackle this. A wide interdisciplinary approach is necessary (which we weren't ready for).
The site is back on! Enjoy the read https://jsof-tech.com/unpacking-hp-firmware-updates-part-1/
Would politicians themselves be a protected class? Precisely how this kind of conflicts could be solved /s
Well, there's no sign of that so far. The US pays by far the most for talent, so if you're actually skilled and talented, it's the place to be. All those amenities you're talking about are not a concern for the high level skilled people we want to retain and bring to the US.
Maybe he is testing AGI by seeing if it can pass the turing test for writing device drivers.
They don't pay Tesla assembly workers much, very comparable to what GM and Ford pay in the Detroit Metro Area. Ford pay 13-30 dollars(source:payscale.com) while Tesla pays 18-30 dollars (source - father in law who works on the line). Most people are older men who never got a college education or younger men following the same path. They all live in multifamily units in the bay area, and thats how they afford it. Even with the sky high cost, these people see the bay area as their home and are not going to pick up and leave, so they is always labor available for manufacturers.
I think early-stage VC’s should take a Keynesian approach and should invest more heavily in recessed periods.

With 35+ million Americans unemployed there are more founders available than probably ever before. In the next 6~ months rent prices should decrease (or mass vacancies depending on your area). Now is the time to invest in the economy.

Not when it’s too expensive.
Ask HN: What was the last large tenet that you changed your mind about?
According to the article about 1/3 of food is thrown away. I would guess that consumers are throwing away less food and producers who typically sell to restaurants are throwing away more.
Show HN: Hiring DevOps and SREs – testing troubleshooting live
Hi HN

We are launching our 3rd startup. Our 1st was a PhD project turned into a startup which simulated public cloud costs before adoption - an example use-case was Disney trying to figure out how much it would cost to render their new movie on AWS and Google, using different configs, RIs vs on-demand, different services. That was PlanForCloud and was acquired by RightScale.

Our 2nd startup was even more interesting - we built a public Container-as-a-Service cloud, but in a place where Amazon/Google could not enter - Iran! This grew fast, and was acquired by the Uber of Iran - the world's 5th largest ride hailing app by rides. That was AbarCloud and was acquired by Snapp. If anyone is interested in how you design a public cloud with minimal external dependencies, and continues to function when the underlying internet connections to outside of the country are cut, ask in the questions :)

Back to our current idea. When scaling AbarCloud, we needed to hire DevOps & SREs. When hiring developers, to assess their skillsets, we’d use something like HackerRank or Codility. But when hiring DevOps and SREs, where troubleshooting, scaling and failover etc, are important, these assessment tools don’t help.

CircuitOps spins up live environments with broken things in it, drops the candidate in, and asks them to troubleshoot, diagnose and fix the issues. All their working is recorded, and (future feature) auto-marked. Try it here: www.CircuitOps.com

I’d love your feedback, specifically about:
1 - What is the hardest part of hiring? For anyone who has stopped hiring due to Covid-19, has this impacted DevOps/SRE roles?

2 - What do you think about this style of testing candidates by doing real life scenarios? Have you done a DIY approach to this at all?

3 - If you are a hiring manager, would you use this tool during a live interview, or as a pre-interview filter? How else would you use this tool?

Cheers from Scotland,
Hassan, Ali & Alistair
The parties in that case would be the venues, cinemas, concert halls, etc. They don't to control any platform, they want that information to be freely available. They want lots of sites to show case them (remember, comoditize your complements).
The analysis in TFA is of the previous generation OfficeJet Pro 8720 which was introduced in 2016.

This is fascinating but I'm looking forward to folks poking around at the current generation of printers because HP changed a lot about the firmware security lately.

I recently purchased an HP OfficeJet Pro 9015 which was introduced in early 2019. This newer printer has automated firmware updates enabled by default. The new generation OfficeJet Pro 8025, 8035, 9015, 9025 and similar offers several security benefits over the previous generation according to a report [1]:

- Firmware Integrity and Secure Boot

- Automatic Firmware Recovery/Self-Healing BIOS

- Run-Time Code Integrity

- Automatic Firmware Update

Agreed: HP is the most secure printing company from what I can understand. Nobody else in the printer business has these security features in their products. Security elements like secure boot, firmware integrity, and automatic updates are things I expect now.

[1]: https://www.keypointintelligence.com/media/2240/hp-officejet...
Did you pay income tax over those tips?
In civilized places, it was the other way around. Taxis exchange privileged position for certain requirements city demands them to meet as a part of city transportation infrastructure - requirements which include having proper insurance, servicing unprofitable routes, or adapting their vehicles for passengers with disabilities. One of the ways Uber saved money was by completely ignoring these market segments.

But of course, the major way Uber "blew taxi companies out of the water" is through their ability to offer below-market-rate prices by losing money on each ride, thanks to unending supply of VC money.
Startup layoffs slowing down, but more employees laid off on average
What a ridiculous title. The country is already bankrupt and can't pay off its public debt.

If they left eurozone and paid for BNI with value-losing national currency that would be theoretically possible but not a pretty sight.

What is the purpose of these nonsense articles anyway? By now the average person should know BNI is a nonsense and all countries that consider it already insolvent.
Nice mental gymnastics. There's always a choice to not support the country by not participating in its economy and becoming a hermit. Ah, but that's inconvenient!
police disproportionately harass and kill black people, and unarmed black people, and you can find this in about 2 seconds in a google search

EDIT: apology for the personal attack, I have deleted it.
There are a number of well-known historical cases where hate speech targeted at certain minority groups has precipitated genocide (in the worst case) or other forms of violence.
I think people are just pointing out there’s a distinction between:

1) hosting someone with no expectations, hitting it off and consensually getting together

2) hosting someone with the uncommunicated expectation they will sleep with you and pressuring someone alone in your house in a strange country until they consent.

People are cool with 1 and not with 2.
That's exactly how I understood it and it sounds useful to me. No need to look up what styles do what, you can just use the standard elements and expect them to look coherent and as expected. E.g. "<header>" is descriptive enough since HTML5 introduced it.
Fine dining doesn’t translate in the same way, yet their fixed costs don’t change. They also likely aren’t selling liquor which often is the big money maker that subsidizes everything else.
Yep. He's not exactly running the Johns Hopkins tracker and his amateur, pseudo-journalism toy has a shelf-life that will be worth nothing within months. It's like bragging about shutting down a startup that was worth money and could've been sold. Destruction of and missing value is stupid.
In a nutshell: hate speech causes people to commit suicide.

In many peoples' opinion, life is more valuable than pure freedom, therefore we should take away (some) freedom in order to save lives.

To be clear, I am not in the camp that believes that, but I try to understand their point of view.
I don't think CSGO provides much insight, considering that its engine was already outdated for many years on release (2012) and has received few significant updates since. The 3rd party benchmark map that is typically used for these tests does not reflect actual gameplay well. You'll notice that in the benchmark the game is running quite smoothly, meanwhile in actual games CSGO has been plagued by horrid microstuttering and poor framepacing for years (largely caused by the ever-increasing amount of skins and swappable models).

Games like SOTTR provide much better insight into the performance characteristics of modern engines instead of 2004 tech, both in CPU and GPU limited scenarios (depending on settings).
Consumers eat differently at home.

Think fancy cheeses. Some dairy cows make excellent milk for cheese. The input into this market is raw milk. When that market disappears due to restaurants closing, it's a serious problem.
If you're like me and can't remember names very well but thought "I know I've heard of him"...

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

"He co-founded the video game company id Software and was the lead programmer of its games Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom and Quake and their sequels."
Sure but its not a question of lockdown/no lockdown. Its how long, how extreme, who and where.

For all that you need information, which takes time. So we've spent some time, gotten some more information, and now we can make (more) informed decisions.
>It's a very effective method of thwarting trolls / unwanted commenters though

It may have been effective back when it was novel but at this point anyone commenting in bad faith, especially anyone doing it for money (the spam link posters, paid shills, trolls and bots) knows to look for it and then create new accounts as necessary to circumvent it.
Leave it to HN to not understand how a simple idea w/ good UX can be a great idea and worth billions...
I've always looked at it from the baby's perspective. It seems unjust that we would deprive our youngest citizens of time with their parents during such a critical stage in their life.
But all organisms “get out of bed and get something to eat”, yet we don’t pretend that bacteria have consciousness. If you go down this road you’ll have to decide if apes, dogs, crocodiles, sharks and ants have consciousness and make arbitrary cut-off somewhere along this path.
No you literally can't..one of the legal tests is market share.
Europa is fighting for privacy at least since the 80s with the ratification of its data protection convention and one might believe it to be "an EU thing" because neither the USA nor China care much about it, but there are many other countries that agree and established such laws. Look no further than Argentina, Senegal or Singapore for examples in your region of the world. I believe it is of utmost importance that people understand this "protection of personal data" is not some annoying european law that forces ad-tech to make cookie-banners, it is literally the title of article 8 in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. It is, for us, a fundamental human right, and you should demand that it is one of yours, too.
A useful equalizer is to give paternal leave as well.
> It has also some really fantastic thermals

Granted my case doesn't have the best airflow (NZXT h210i), I was getting pretty high CPU temps with the stock cooler. Averaging mid to uppers 80s during gaming, High 50s idle.

I went ahead and ordered a Noctua cooler which should be coming today actually. Hoping it helps.
I don't feel like this precludes him from working on AGI -- and for him, it seems to be related: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2110408722...
The road to AGI is paved with yak shavings.
Chex Quest was just re-released outside of a cereal box
Eh intel messed up a node, I have no reason not to think they won't surpass amd/tsmc in the future it's not like they aren't capable
IBM is american,they volunteered to help Germany before the US cared about WW2
OK, but why is there so much Constitution/Founding Father worship in America?

It's a flawed document that has lead to a flawed nation. It does not have Messiah-like abilities to deal with current problems so why be surprised it doesn't have modern solutions to modern problems.
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"by the community" is the smoke and mirrors here. There is not a single unified community.
Sorry I kinda jumped subjects mid-post from Couchsurfing to backpacking, after reading some comments of how many CS guests are just trying to get a dirt-cheap roof over their head and don't interact much with their host. I don't recall many "local single woman hosting single guy" posts back in 2011-12 when I used CS anyway, not for places I was considering (Eastern Europe and SE Asia).
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Disagree.

Dev time is virtually identical between the two kinds of infrastructure.
I don't think it has to be mental gymnastics, but you are right that it is a real challenge.

I think people (especially those in privileged positions like engs in the bay area) should feel empowered to think and decide their line as to what they want to support and contribute to the world.
For the layoffs last year I'm pretty sure they were trying to stay under the 500-employee threshold of the WARN Act.
> People outside china might be writing in chinese. Should the CCP be able to regulate speech of all chinese-speaking people globally?

I can see why they would want to do that and I could see why YT would go along with their demands to do so. I didn’t say I agreed with it.
> If you set your Accept-Language to anything else, then Google would pay attention to it, but en-US was treated as if it wasn't set at all.

Thank you so very much for this tip! I don't use cookies and live in a non-English country so I've been clicking that yellow "change to English results" button for at least half a decade now, numerous times a day, every day. Switching to en-GB indeed makes Google respect my language choice.

Not kidding, you've just saved me thousands and thousands of clicks and small annoyances.
The argentinian public didn't care much about Malvinas before 1982 (as we call the falklands here).

Was a desperate last move from the Military Junta to get some approval.

The Argentinian attack worked fine for M. Thatcher popularity, but not so good for them.
It's a strong case, but it still feels like a band-aid on the wound that is normalized double income households. My wife is a novelist. She chose to do that so she could have flexibility to stay home with children. It helps that she's a fantastic writer. I chose my current job because of 6 weeks paternity leave, as we plan on having several more children. I recognize my immense privilege being able to make choices like these, but it was not without sacrifices. For the first few years of our marriage we could have easily doubled our income if we were both working.

All this to say, is a return to single income households wanted, reasonable or possible? I can't help but feel that "working" and "raising children" is having your cake and eating it too.
This has been debunked

https://medium.com/@stranahan/timeline-of-crowdstrikes-russi...
> This whole statement results from shoehorning the web inappropriately into an app model and only makes sense if you have done that mental gymnastics in precisely the same way.

Where have you been? The web has been the application platform of choice for a number of users and developers for nearly a decade now. Sure, HN is full of complaints about every Electron app under the sun, but the web "won". Most user expectations on how apps function come from the web these days. Mobile app platforms are full of deep linking and other web (and post-web) concepts.

> The model works best for toy apps. This fits with other aspects to conclude they shipped something which was appropriate for demos written by interns but not battle tested like decades of win32 was.

This is blaming the egg for the chicken. WinRT hasn't been battle tested for decades because it hasn't yet had decades. It's arrogant in its impossibility.

I have used some great WinRT apps that weren't "toys", "demos", nor "written by interns". At this point you just seem to be name calling for no benefit. I get it, you haven't liked what you have seen for WinRT. You haven't given many technical reasons, and this name calling continues to not serve your argument.

> at one point like Apple [...] did a better job letting you react to being killed through similar mechanisms.

Apple has basically the exact same quotas early WinRT tried to place on apps, Apple just has a lot more clout when it tells developers "Our Way or the highway".

Which again, continues to prove my point that if Microsoft hadn't tried to "force" developers to do the right thing, and instead offer more carrots and fewer sticks people would have a better idea of what WinRT actually is rather than just name calling at it because it forced them to learn new things and then was "mean" by requiring sandboxes and app lifecycles that actually tried to be user friendly, you know just like Apple was already doing with iOS years before WinRT released.
The point of the upstream post was that bcrypt implementations often already truncate your passwords to 72 characters.

If you switch to a different bcrypt implementation that does/does not truncate at 72 characters, the server-side truncation keeps all those 73 character passwords working.

If the server-side truncation were not in place, you'd get angry users.
it's inherently a subjective question, based on what you value. if you value access to technology, then you'll think things are better than ever. if you enjoy arguments based on "average" and "median" then you might find some data to support an optimistic worldview. but if you look at the lot in life of those who suffer most, you will find a different story. if you value access to healthcare, access to leisure time, access to peace, you will find a different story. everyone has to make their own judgment of the world but in my opinion the articles tone is inappropriately optimistic
> --I can ship my friend a book banned in their country.

And depending on the country your friend might end up in jail, not very friendly but you never know how undemocratic countries/institutions will overreact.
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This is news to me, and I’ll keep it in mind. Personally I’m not so sure I would boycott for the sake of effecting a policy change as I simply wouldn’t continue listening because the only thing that makes podcasts tolerable is that I’m filtering them through Overcast’s smart speed. Can’t stand talk shows at the pace of a normal conversation.
oh they surely do, that isn't the point. the point is to help them notice the thread and get them going enough for moderators to delist the story.
Lots of restaurants that are as much "experience" as they are food. Think of things like Korean BBQ, Benihanas and the like, etc. Also ramen's never stellar in take out mode (most of the great ramen places in my city did it even before the pandemic and it was lackluster in comparison to eating there). Many menus at restaurants depend on a serial eating experience.. drinks, appetizer, drinks, entree, desert, coffee. That doesn't translate well to take out either. Yes, you can work parts of it and make do - if survival and getting people fed is the ultimate goal - but remember that this entire eating out experience, with all its layers and ceremonies.. was barely in the black before covid, so shrinking it down to the minimum viable delivery order could still be operating at a loss financially.
I fully agree that companies should not have this power. But this was not my point: I wrote "societies".

Downvoters: care to explain?
I copy and pasted it from the CNBC article - not sure if that's their emphasis or not.
Not to mention building a service network. People are going to expect a lot of regional white glove shops for a $100k truck and it's not easy to find enough qualified EV techs.
I think part of the issue is the power of comments like yours that pretends there's a simple solution.

In some conversations bad actors can gain more power in a debate using misleading information than a good actor can by using the truth.

Most conversations, such as this one about free speech, are so complex that it's tough for a 'good actor' to offer solutions. They may discuss the pros / cons of each side, talk about where further research is needed, talk about experts that are more informed, etc. They can still offer solutions but they shouldn't be pretending an unconfident solution is complete if they really are a good actor.

Bad actors, on the other hand, can simplify the complexities. They can provide confident solutions to complex problems and do so without worrying about the information they don't know or about misleading others.

Fortunately bad actors are often weeded out in discussions, but in conversations that abuse humans fear we become more demanding of answers. Explaining to fearful people "it's complex" isn't satisfying so we become more susceptible to lies / misinformation spread by bad actors. Conversations abusing this fear / anger is where there is an argument about whether misinformation should be limited.
Unfortunately little - because the workers didn't stick to it. One walkout writes a headline, but a strike causes change.
this totally elides over the problem of consciousness, of qualia, which is the essential question