skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We're more likely to reach herd immunity before a vaccine is approved, sooner the better

Herd immunity only really works if it's a disease we build a long term immunity to after being infected or vaccinated. So far we don't know how long we build an immunity to COVID-19.

It is unknown (as of April 2020) if past infection provides effective and long-term immunity in people who recover from the disease.Some of the infected have been reported to develop protective antibodies, so acquired immunity is presumed likely, based on the behaviour of other coronaviruses. Cases in which recovery from COVID‑19 was followed by positive tests for coronavirus at a later date have been reported. However, these cases are believed to be lingering infection rather than reinfection, or false positives due to remaining RNA fragments. Some other coronaviruses circulating in people are capable of reinfection after roughly a year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_disease_2019#Immun...

Plus there's also the risk that COVID-19 mutates like influenza and norovirus:

Herd immunity itself acts as an evolutionary pressure on certain viruses, influencing viral evolution by encouraging the production of novel strains, in this case referred to as escape mutants, that are able to "escape" from herd immunity and spread more easily. At the molecular level, viruses escape from herd immunity through antigenic drift, which is when mutations accumulate in the portion of the viral genome that encodes for the virus's surface antigen, typically a protein of the virus capsid, producing a change in the viral epitope. Alternatively, the reassortment of separate viral genome segments, or antigenic shift, which is more common when there are more strains in circulation, can also produce new serotypes. When either of these occur, memory T cells no longer recognize the virus, so people are not immune to the dominant circulating strain. For both influenza and norovirus, epidemics temporarily induce herd immunity until a new dominant strain emerges, causing successive waves of epidemics. As this evolution poses a challenge to herd immunity, broadly neutralizing antibodies and "universal" vaccines that can provide protection beyond a specific serotype are in development.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity
EUV’s Uncertain Future at 3nm and Below
The SAT stopped correlating with IQ in 1994.
Ad pricing has been plummeting ever since the web allowed performance metrics to be strictly tracked, and optimized the ability to advertise in hundreds of places simultaneously.

At some point it becomes more profitable to just use subscriptions.
What do you do?

I don't think you can make syscalls without embedding assembly into your C code.
Eh that's not often a good idea. The service should only look at the file header for the mime type and decide based on that if it should even begin to upload.

Mime types can be spoofed and if you read the data blob's mime from its' type, then just an extension rename will fool it. But if you look at the magic numbers you're saving your server's resources and the uploader's time as it doesn't even try to move the file if the mime is not acceptable. No reason not to do it on the client-side first.
Can we afford next-gen EUV?
I still have the Qbasic for dummies book my good friend lent me probably 20+ years ago, back then I was playing with Qbasic even though it was old

I remember changes the variables in the gorilla banana toss game that came with qbasic ~ first time seeing changes in programming changing the game and it was magical.

My friend ended up being a great programmer and I'm doing e-commerce front end / project management work. Great times and I'm thankful for the experience
>You now have an avenue for malicious actors to effectively DDOS users by removing all of their photographs with these GDPR requests

My entire post was just detailing the US system already in place, where they have the powers you described. These malicious actors could only target people under the age of thirteen, there would be little incentive to do such except bullying, and the culprit would like face punishment.

I would hate to see it happen to any child personally, but from Facebook's position there is no risk to them taking it down while leaving the picture up could carry a $40,000 fine.
Standardized tests have to recycle the same 'tricks' from one exam to the next. It's how they standardize and make the tests easier and harder.
Take enough prior exams as you prepare and you begin to recognize the same question structures and answer patterns.
Buying the old exams is not so cheap, on to put prep classes or tutoring
My mom's IBM 8088 had GW-BASIC built into its BIOS. You could turn on the computer and go straight into it without having any storage medium present.
The wealth effects of bailouts
>So where are the bots to close America?

Bot disinformation campaigns like this tend to be fuelled by US adversaries and thus usually push into directions that are harmful or embarassing for the US, so there isn't much incentive to advocate for keeping the containment measures going, because that's essentially the sensible decision backed by health experts at this point.

All the spam around covid, which you can even see if you just browse twitter yourself is mostly miracle cures, reopening the US, Bill Gates conspiracy theory stuff and so on.
There was no sarcasm. All I meant was that sometimes knocking on a few doors could yield better results than just sending CVs around. I did quickly find a job 10 years ago but it doesn't mean that in current situation it'd be the same.
I don’t necessarily agree with either of those.

Maybe a college tells me that a particular type of extra-curricular wasn’t valued as highly as I thought it was and I elect to pursue something different in undergrad (I wouldn’t recommend this but to each their own). The feedback would also provide relevant data points to future applicants if chosen to be shared.

There are plenty of examples of students who are accepted/rejected to schools which you wouldn’t expect.
I'd imagine it's worse now, but I was sweating blood during my AP tests 8 and 9 years ago.

If I were told by College Board that they messed up, they couldn't verify what I did, and that I'd have to take the tests again, I'd be livid. I would feel incredibly screwed.

On top of a pandemic, new test guidelines, classes going remote (and the associated growing pains), studying for the test, and some extra stress-studying because some classes inevitably were taught ineffectively at the start of remote courses, now some people have to take the test all over again? That's a lot for a most people but especially high schoolers
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I build this about two years ago to solve my own itch. Hopefully you'd find it useful as well.

There are some bugs and missing features. I plan to make some time to work on it more.
Any idea why this is?
webp is also possibly patent-encumbered. At least if you ask various members of the MPEG-LA.

The only safe format for photo-like content remains JPEG probably for decades to come
Even if it works brilliantly in other places, you'll still have a big part of the US saying "it'll never work here, we're too different" etc. Same arguments as the metric system that's been great everywhere for such a long time.
The issue is, what if the CSO is actually not competent? Can you tell if they're bullshitting or not? What if they are competent but giving incorrect advice because it's their pet project and invalidating it now means they look bad? How can you tell?

In the end, I personally believe that the CEO needs to know enough of the underlying technology that their company is working on to smell bullshit. Otherwise his execs have a very high likelihood of taking them for granted. Ive seen it happen on a smaller scale repeatedly in my lab. If our professors are not well versed in one field of science, the postdocs and students will take advantage of it in every corner.

This is especially true in biology. It doesn't matter how good your nanoparticle drug is, if you don't know that there are fundamental problems with immune recognition, half life, biodistrubution and non-specific binding, you would not know not to invest further. This evaluation is not something a CEO should outsource to another C level exec.
That is exactly how it starts.
If you were in charge of the interview process, how would you design it?
This is the cutest thing I have heard recently.
No, like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Express_Entry#Economic_value_v...
I'm mostly referring to the analog sections of a few PXI cards I've looked at. This was in the context of "turn this benchtop prototype built with PXI into a form-factor product". I was surprised at how simple most of it is. There are a couple TI/BB highly-integrated PGA/ADCs that NI gets a lot of mileage out of.

But even if it's not as complex or interesting as, say, a Keithley electrometer, NI's execution really is top notch. Technical brilliance alone does not a product make.
I don’t think the money is that relevant when it’s that small. It’s more about the connections. Or is that what you were saying?
Valve doesnt take 30% cut from the keys. You can generate and distribute them for free
else if (!isAllowedExtension)
error = { title: 'This file type is not acceptable.', details: 'Please check the requirements, save your file in one of the accepted
formats, and resubmit.' }

Or, maybe theverge is just lying or relying on the misconception. If you think renaming your file is the same as converting your file, maybe you are misplaced in the advanced placement program...
I wrote my first line of code on a game console without persistent storage. Coding is everything that makes computer a computer.

Now, some kids in college have an impression that coding is less relevant for a CS career.
Open-Source TiCDC: Replication Latency in Milliseconds for 100 TB Clusters
Even if this were true in the past, this would certainly be changed with the more level playing field of more and more people working remotely.
Interesting, history repeats. Didn't browsers implement firewalls a while ago to prevent arbitrary requests? Remember doing things like CSRF attacks on SMTP, POP (any text based protocol basically) and stuff like that long ago, but Firefox added mitigations to prevent connections to certain ports - I guess that browser Firewall feature can be used as mitigation to prevent these attacks.
Sure, if someone prefers that. I'm just a hermit, myself, most of the time. I generally prefer being alone. I feel more free and more comfortable in my own skin.

If I crave social contact, I message a friend online, or rarely, call them. If I don't crave it, then I don't.
There would still be markets and competition. There would be some baseline price increase when people stop being exploited. At a certain point equilibrium will be met and someone will come along with cheaper toilet paper.

The difference will be there are more consumers in a safe position to make purchasing decisions.
Loving seems these orgs operating!
I happened to read recently that the Romans stamped lead pipes with inscriptions so they could track, I guess, if a pipe was authorized or stealing water.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_lead_pipe_inscription
It wasn’t luck or popular appeal, it was like they say in real estate: “location, location, location.” JavaScript came bundled with every Web browser, and GW-BASIC came bundled with every IBM PC clone. A language that everybody in the world already has a copy of is going to get a lot of use, whether it’s good or not.
If you wanted to do away with garbage trucks you'd build a tunnel system for trash bins that discharge their contents when prompted.
I once made a language that translated directly to Whitespace, but used images as source code. Pixels where red channel had the highest value were like Whitespace's spaces, green channel - tabs, and blue channel - new lines. If the highest value was shared across multiple channels, it was ignored.
We had a similar experience where I work. We just ended up rolling our own queue system because we really just needed point to maybe a few other points.
In every crime, look the one who had a solid reason to commit it. Russia and China support literally any freaks, like anti-vaxxers, just to make US focused on its internal problems.
Notice, how well-organized the reopen movement, and how sporadic and unprepared anti-reopen protests, mostly organized by small groups of medical workers.
Yeah, they’re entitled to a loss through inflation-based monetary policy and debasement.
I see why a government would want to to make as many people as possible dependent on them.

I fail to see why any normal people would argue for it, though--and perhaps even why Jack Dorsey would.

I hope it won't happen while I'm still alive, but I definitely see a lot of countries becoming totalitarian nightmares in the next decades, with these genius ideas being dreamed up more and more often.
Empirical data shows those from upper middle class families tend to do better than those living near the poverty line. Seems pretty well documented at this point.
By default, both Windows and MacOS hide file extensions. Smart phones almost universally hide them, if they give you a file explorer at all.

I suspect most teenagers (and that's what we're talking about here - 17, 18 years olds finishing secondary school) would have a notion that jpg and gif are image formats, and pdf and dcx are a document formats. I suspect few would know much beyond that, and most would not have had much reason to worry about converting between formats. [I work in higher ed tech, my gut feeling here is based on performing usability testing of other software]

Add in an unexpected file format glitch during the most important test of their life? Yeah, I'm not at all surprised that some/many screwed up.

This is 100% on College Board for failing to handle the situation gracefully. They didn't need to accept heif files. They did need to provide detailed instructions ahead of time, including possible issues with unsupported formats.
> 2. Non-goals

> 2.1. Stable language and library ABI

> 2.2. Backwards or forwards compatibility

> 2.3. Legacy compiled libraries without source code or ability to rebuild

For fucks sake, C has been stable for decades but somehow C++ just can't manage?

This is such an obnoxious attitude. At least let us automatically generate a set of C-style functions that take an opaque void* representing a C++ class instance if you can't be bothered to do the work.
I guess it depends what you're looking for. Before I was in this industry the "quickest" job to get into was washing plates at some restaurant... have to go through all the hiring bs but that's a high turnover/low skill job.

edit: hiring bs as in these philosophical quizes of how many people would you kill, one or several, etc... like man I'm just here to wash plates.
I'm sorry if I misunderstand, but what you linked is related to allowing user created css to be displayed on a service? I don't think it's exactly relevant here. If you're just adding custom css on the page that'd displayed for you, there's no attack vector, but those links in the SO is about injected CSS where the attacker loads custom CSS for other visitors.

It's almost trivial to set up a keylogger with css that fires requests on keyboard input. Luckily there's CSP.
I hadn't either. Some other folks at the company had experience with them, and it looked alright to me. The operation, look and finish are great. Pretty heavy to assemble by yourself. The tabletop could go a bit lower and the motion seems pretty fast/smooth/quiet. I'm pleased with the quality at any price and the price seems good to me. They also have a decent warranty period.
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What was the API doing? 1gb with client GC? I’m assuming a single core as well?
Get ready for the 'holy grail' of computer graphics
Many Americans Getting More Money from Unemployment Than They Were FromTheirJobs
I hate my loud, noisy open office and only had two people that I would consider friends. Not that I don’t like my coworkers, they are great to work with. I just haven’t hit it off with them on a personal level. But I am really missing the interaction with them. Even though my company is trying with virtual happy hours.
We'll never see another $100B technology Vision Fund
Yes but lots of people locked into a 4 year vesting schedule based on Bay Area COL. I don't think they're going to take those back. So even with a pay cut, you're likely to come out ahead -- maybe even paid-for-house ahead.
I'm not overestimating them. I see lots of college admission files, I know how inept most high school graduates are. I would like to see a higher base standard because frankly these issues are not going away for them and I don't see it as a tertiary education issue. 3 to 6 years later they will still have to submit resumes and portfolios and they will suck at it but the places they submit these to now longer offer any grace periods. File size to large? Fuck you. Wrong file type? Fuck you. Unsigned PDF? Fuck you. Missing a document? Fuck you. Missed a dead line? Fuck you.
> it needs much better fooling around UB

Typo or sarcasm?
When I search from Firefox (on Android), then hit back and try to change search terms, hitting "Go" on the keyboard shows results for the initial search terms, and the input box also reset to them.
> If you do that, Safari will convert the HEIC image to a JPEG automatically when you try to upload it.

That’s quite impressive actually and much more than I would expect from a browser’s <input type=“file”> control.
I remember Pac-Man on the Atari 2600 and how awful it was compaired to the arcade. I had a Commodore 64 that had a better version of Pac-Man. It has been ported to many different platforms.
IBM to cut thousands of jobs as coronavirus plays out
> Meanwhile, though, people are starving and dying, in the US, at higher levels than any other industrialized nation, because our social safety net is inadequate.

Yes the death rate is higher in US than a lot of other countries, but overall it is quite low. According to this page [0], it's .64 per 100,000. As of May 20th the population was 329,672,928 [1]. Comes to a total of about 2110 people or 0.0000064 of the population. While tragic nonetheless, is an extremely small number.

[0] https://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/cause-of-death/malnutrit...

[1] https://www.census.gov/popclock/
one have to wonder, if users are already doing all the work to flag and make noise to restore the false positives, what value the centralizers of information even add?

the case for p2p is stronger than ever now that bandwidth is cheaper. downloading a torrent from other users is faster than pressing play on youTube, when you account the time wasted with advertising.
Exactly. It’s usually by local market, which isn’t necessarily a reflection on cost of living.

So now if I say I want to move to Miami where the software eng market is limited, what exactly should I expect as far as pay cut goes based on cost of living?
Inline CSS is in no way dangerous though. Its quite commonly used to defer loading the additional css files to stop render blocking the page. By inlining the above-the-fold CSS aka Critical CSS, you can shave considerable amounts of time in time to interactive clears.
kicking and screaming
Totally agree I’m just trying to learn PID control and seeing a few different implementations in javascript (to solve the same problem) has actually been quite informative.
Introduction to Building Distributed Apps with Amplify DataStore
Man I don't know how am I supposed to feel about that...
I'm not sure it's correct to say "remote first" for Facebook. IIRC, they're just giving the option for trusted employees, not hiring straight out of college for remote.
I heavily use this - it has made my work flow so much better as I can separate work/personal/NearBeach etc.
Sure they’re expensive to design and make, but with appropriate volume or margin you’ll get the lowest power device possible for your application. General SoC’s are just that: general. Moore and Dennard stopped helping, so they’re missing what you need and have what you don’t, requiring a SW stack that ends up working around it all.

Example from HPC 10-15 years ago: Opteron had a fast start but gen2 was really late. Intel Sandybridge Xeon was their first with PCIe 3.0, which was 6-9 months minimum after adapter cards supported it. Both products caused headaches for interconnect and system builders because they couldn’t ship with parts that didn’t exist.

Apple can of course control their execution of their A series, but they can also be first to AirPods and a smart watch with that integrates Siri. This from a company that famously waited for a market to look like it was going to take off before getting in because they let other companies shake out the issues with merchant silicon before they’d integrate. Now they don’t have to wait.
If your code depends on endianness you're either over-optimizing or doing something wrong. At least that's what I've learned over may years of reading the lessons of many people.
Also flask—admin for flask: https://github.com/flask-admin/flask-admin

I find flask-admin easier to customize than django’s admin. The django ecosystem has a ton of libraries to add functionality to django admin though.
CMIIW, this is doable without exploiting web socket. Make usual client traffic comes to room "A", then the rest (printer, etc) to room "B". Whatever message comes from "A" is rebroadcasted again to "B".

Unless I misunderstood your use case.

Also, obligatory xkcd 1172
> Can't any choice (not being purely audio, why the title is only in X languages, etc) can be considered editorial, for any TV news show or book?

Yes exactly.

> It isn't constructive to construe FIFO as editorial when it is the common way to experience and share events.

In what context?

> Since content creators ostensibly retain control of what is published, they could ideally rearrange their content in their feed by re-pub or out of order publishing anyway.

This sounds horrendous. You want to encourage content creators to spam you with content so that they're always at the top of your "feed"?
Should we also be condemning our local gastropub for charging $15 for a burger? Shouldn't they be charging the same as White Castle? People gotta eat after all.

These are customized. I mean, if this were the only company selling facemasks, sure, $15 is a lot. But for somebody who wants to jazz up their facemask, maybe $15 makes sense. I'm not interested in that but maybe somebody is.
A few paragraphs down:

> "Barry McGovern, an expert in dolphin behaviour, said it was possible the dolphins were giving gifts because they missed humans, but unlikely."
And we are back, sorry I didn't expected to reach Cloudflare Workers free plan limit that fast.
That's very fair, I will fix some of the copy to be more accurate.
I mostly use CACKey, since I wrote it to replace CoolKey for my needs.
Also, zucc publicly stated intentions to adjust salary for anyone that moves out of the bay area. You can tell already it's gonna suck to work remotely at facebook.
But lowering the standards does. And that’s the only way you’re going from a pass rate of a third to 100%. You might be able to double pass rates to two thirds by putting many more resources into teaching but that costs money or comes out of research time/teacher satisfaction. You learning does hurt the top of the class if you’re a marginal student. Students on the verge of failure take up a lot more instructional and administrative time than the top third who were going to get through anyway.
Considering Xbox360 used a PowerPC CPU, some emulation had to be done.

Not sure about the Xbox One - it might be just a different aspect on the hypervisor.
If you think welfare or government handouts are some new technology that's going to usher in a new era, I've got some history books for you to read.