skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The locked-down countries (i.e. all except Sweden) are relaxing checks and considering reopening borders with each other... except with Sweden, where numbers are still worrying: https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2054&ar...

Not reopening their borders with Sweden would be a massive diplomatic snub.
you no longer have to connect via wire. you can remote the ipad screen via quicktime, over LAN.
> When I write any code, I take 2 options: 1) Don't share it publicly or 2) Completely release it as public domain. No need for MIT license or any of that crap. Here, just take the code and go win the world, I don't need any credit. Ask yourself how you've benefited from someone crediting you if at all it comes back to you.

I had a similar philosophy in my youth, and it still resonates with me. Hanging around Slashdot and doing oss development, I learned enough about IP law to understand that it's not as simple as we'd like.

There's actually a risk that your unlicensed code will be picked up by somebody in a jurisdiction with different IP laws than you're familiar with. They can copyright the code (did you say "free for any use or modification?), and issue C&D to anybody hosting your code online. You could find yourself in a very awkward position where you published it first but they've done so in a legally defensible manner. CC0 and MIT are prudent licenses -- not to ensure that you get credit, but to cover your own ass.
It never ocurred to me that Excalidraw worked with tablets.
Ok, we've swapped out the article title for its subtitle.
Friends don't let friends use scrum
Thank you! To install, `sudo` is not even required, so I'll change the default script.
I understand that designing any kind of distributed consensus is somewhat disputable (if not pretentious), but I'm not convinced that client-side decisions are enough.
For example, local reputation would not prevent posts from new users to be linked in the dependency graphs forever.
Client rules can still override the network for posts that are not blocked.
In fact, this reputation system is more about preventing abuse from new users and in some cases mistakes or hacked accounts from old users.
I think there's still space for experimentation on global consensus besides PoS (S=something).
In this particular system, reputation/consensus is local (per-topic) and depends on its own resources (posts) as well.
> either a shill, or overly trusting

Not a shill. A company that makes a successful Covid19 vaccine will make many billions in profits. They don't need shills on Hacker News.

Overly trusting I may be. I am certainly an idealistic guy, who believes in benefit of doubt, innocent until proven guilty, life, liberty, happiness and all that.

> Emergency Use Authorization implies less testing, not more.

That's correct, I never said it implies more testing.

However, all vaccine companies will move to secure full approval after the EUA phase. At that point, there will be tons of testing data available to the FDA, data that's not normally available for other vaccines, for the simple thing that the EUA concept exists only during emergencies like this one.

I don't think anyone should feel obligated to do the vaccine during the EUA period, when the risk will arguably be higher. However, once the full approval is granted, then the vaccine will be, if anything, safer than your annual flu shot, for example.

Did you know that among the flu shots offered for the current season (2019-20), one was approved as recently as 2017 [1]? For all I know in 2017 I may have taken this then brand new vaccine. I didn't care to ask, and I won't care to ask in the future. In my mind, if the CDC recommends the population to get a vaccine, and the vaccine is available at my local pharmacy, then I'll go ahead and just do it.

> thinks hope is a strategy.

This is a head-scratcher. What exactly made you believe I consider hope to be a strategy? Advocating for a vaccination campaign is the opposite of "hope as a strategy", wont' you think?

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/qa_flublok-vaccine.htm
> Also remember that you can order units to move further than one turn at a time

Until anything in the calculated path changes.
Numerous instances of wording in the article strongly suggest that the authors seem to be working under the confusion that ISO C++ is a compiler project, rather than a language specification.

> The compilers that the authors care about are a small number of open source compilers

If so, that is an unacceptable position for people on an ISO committee for that programming language.
I don't think this is true in the long run, any more than genes which favor their propagation are bad in the long run. In the short term, viruses, cancers, shitty memes, doomsday cults and other low-sophistication replicators are favored.

But long term you get things like multicellularity, complex nervous systems, the scientific method, civilization and art. The road may be rocky but I see no reason for it to be any different here.
> pay about $10 a month for the above even if you are self sufficient

This arbitrage is looking worse all the time?

Given that power cuts happen only for an hour or so every few years, I'm happy to buy a couple of LED torches and deal with it. There seems to be an ideological bias to getting off the grid for no good reason? While remaining on the water, sewage and gas grids.
*"productivity tracking"
My office is in a ~95 year old skyscraper, so even when we used cubicles everyone was close to a window. Instead of the current style in which office buildings have huge rectangular floor plates with elevators in the center, new office tower construction can take design cues from the old days with H shapes or central light shafts.
I think this is important. You are right this has happened before. 2008/09, 2000, 1987, twice in the 1970's. And history will no doubt repeat itself.

But my point is the way our economy currently works doesn't handle a 6 month reserve well. We don't incentive companies to hold on to cash like that. We need to come up with the incentive to do something different, whether it is save cash or "something else". But right now, the incentive is to spend cash and allow for a bailout.

Additionally, we don't think in the future very much. We think about this quarters earnings. So again, we need to incentive long term thinking and resiliency as you suggest. Unfortunately, I am not sure how to do that.
You can't. That's part of the intention of scrum. No deviating developers without prior permission.
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Unfortunately, what you're asking for is fundamentally impossible with binary package managers.
Yep, that's how I develop. Remote machine + port forwarding + jupyter notebooks / python files.

The productionizing happens on my local VScode, which is a lot more "decked out".
Indian YouTuber Hacks a Calculator to Make the Perfect 'Cheating' Machine
Don’t know why this is getting downvotes. It’s uncontroversially just fact that open-plan layouts do not save money, not even in the short term and not in high density urban centers. This has been written about so exhaustively for decades that at this point it’s not even worth engaging with people who say “citation needed” or “in 5 seconds of Googling I found this confirmation bias article” because it lends way too much legitimacy to the false idea that it’s even a close call at all or that there is any part of it left open for serious debate.

Open plan office designs are chosen so that executives can treat their office spaces like works of art - lots of signaling and often very little practical value.

They are often built at huge costs (way beyond outfitting the same space with offices or cubicles for the same number of people), often actively paying a lot of money to destroy existing privacy features, and they not only include but are completely oriented around opulent roof decks, party spaces, kitchens, game rooms, massage areas, and on and on.

It’s 100% about infantilizing the workforce and swindling them to accept greater degrees of counter-productive surveillance and total lack of privacy. It is not about cost reduction, flat out.
Hadn't thought about this before - but you're spot on, some serious investment in innovating in this area could massively improve the whole remote working experience. Here's hoping!
No, that’s what Siri says when it disables your alarm lol.
I rather just install WordPress on a $5 a year shared hosting service, or as you said GitHub pages, so just convert WP to static files. I'm not big on WP but it just freaking works, and if it can generate decent static files, why not?
You could just remap the uids in Docker, even on Linux.
It could be interesting to make things based on percentages rather than hard numbers. Like loser has to pay 15% of net worth or something like that. Doesn't really even the playing field but it at least makes the stakes the same for both sides.
The problem with this is that large corporations will just get a nominally smaller entity to do their dirty work.

They already do this to get away with things like Hollywood accounting. There is a tiny little nominally independent corporation that owns the rights to a thing and is then completely unprofitable because whatever money it makes goes right back out as costs to whoever it is really making the profits.

So then you go to court with a "small business" with "less than ten employees" which qualifies for all the exemptions to whatever costs you're trying to pin onto major companies. This may in fact even make the problem worse, because very small entities they can shoehorn their legal troubles into may pay lower penalties than the current average.

The actual solution is to impose penalties that serve as a deterrent on everyone. Because why shouldn't a two person company that sends out millions of fraudulent takedowns end up with a billion dollar fine? The fine is proportional to the damage you do, not how much money you have. Otherwise what's to stop very small entities from causing rampant destruction and then getting a $25 fine?
I wouldn’t mind open workspaces as much if I was given more space... I feel like cubicles are much bigger
There are cheats that work just with input modification: FPS games often have a recoil simulation which requires you to adjust your aim downwards as you're firing (and it's predictable). You can make a hardware cheat device which just replays this motion when you click a button to fire, improving your aim substantially.
This is certainly a convenient opportunity for every First Amendment advocate to defend speech they don't like. Or would be, if the government was the one taking action.
Reminds me of when I worked at Yahoo, for not very long in the early 2000s. Yahoo had a consumer product called My Yahoo, a customisable home page with various feeds in it, and at the time they also had a My Yahoo Enterprise Edition, which they tried to sell to companies to serve as an intranet home page. I worked (in a junior sort of way) on the European deployments of MYEE.

Anyway, one of our customers - representing a company in Germany I think - filed a bug report that said something like "Weather module hasn't updated since January". They'd been going to their fancy intranet home page and seeing the same weather for months at a time.

And this bug report just sat there. For a mixture of technical and political reasons, there seemed to be nobody in the European office able to pick up this report and do anything meaningful with it. We knew about it, we knew that what we were serving to paying customers was hopeless, but we somehow couldn't get our hooks into the right point in the Weather feed to figure out where it was going wrong. Or, collectively, we didn't care enough.
Someone being tricked into installing malware doesn't usually make the news.
Then this blatant nonsense with these collecting societies strikes back at those who have benefited from it for many years. When you do a concert you don't just have to pay for the composition and arrangement and such, you also have to pay for the secondary exploitation rights (i.e. the performing musicians), and if someone sings, you also have to satisfy the collecting society responsible for the lyrics. And if you want to make live recordings of the concert accessible to people (even for free) it gets even more complicated. And ironically, the musicians and composers get the least from this horrendous machinery. The musicians who can secure a decent income from the collecting societies' revenues can be counted on one hand. For most of us, it is just enough for a part of the travel expenses.

The people who still dare to perform a classical concert somewhere in the hinterland are immediately punished and exempted by these collecting societies. In the age of the Internet, this is now even automatic. No wonder that there are fewer and fewer places that perform.

So today the shot is well and truly fired in the wrong diretion when composers and musicians assign their rights to such a society. Where there is hardly any market anyway, the promoters are penalised even more, although composers and musicians should be rather glad that someone is still listening to them.

I, for my part, am not affiliated with any such society anymore and have all my fellow musicians sign agreements whereby I pay them directly and no further claims of such societies are permissible.
I don’t think that’s the point of bleeding edge research.

Pushing boundries != commercialization potential
I feel like there's an implied "and keep their comp". There are a decent number of remote jobs out there right now. They pay well, but certainly not SF TC.
You can't discharge and recharge a lead acid car battery very many times before it loses capacity.
Really? I use QuickTime for screen recording all the time, I've never been able to do it over LAN. Just tried it now and the iPad only shows up as a video source when plugged in.

Are you sure you're not thinking of SideCar?
Beautiful Bouncy Music
Curious question:

I have a few years experience with Unity. When I first grabbed it, I assumed the engine having C# scripting would give me rich tools to make game state serialization (save games, streaming open worlds etc) a relatively easy task, thanks to its reflection capabilities. This turned out not to be the case due to my false expectations, the programming model game objects use and the asset pipeline needing too much plumbing. Official ECS packages made it easier later but they also broke the entire authoring workflow by effectively deprecating `GameObject` in practice.

I've never used Unreal Engine but if serialization is a solved problem there, I want to try.

Does anyone here have experience with similar use cases?

Are there other AAA-ready engines good at this? Giving value types first class support, promoting data oriented design and building the artistic authoring tools around these priorities is what I will appreciate the most.

I don't care if the high level scripting language is non-existent, C++ heavy or Brainfuck. That can be circumvented by building muscle memory in a few months.
Flexibility gives you a broader market. Its fine if your building 1 product, but if you want to sell into a market with users that have a dozen different requirements and insufficient volume to justify custom configurations your in trouble. OTOH if you can cover a few hundred different use cases with a single design without a lot of additional complexity then your better off.

There isn't any way, that every chip+motherboard+ram combination possible on the x86 market is tested. What you test for is compliance to the spec, and a few really common cases to sanity check everything.

Then the OEM/final integrator is on the hook for validating/supporting a design. And it works the majority of the time you can buy RAM, or pcie cards, or whatever and plug them in. That is the point of standards. Plus, on the bleeding edge the standards almost always have fallback modes which are considered easier to get right (lower clocks, well understood previous generation, whatever). So when something isn't fully conformant it still works, just at a degraded speed.

The problem is most of the arm vendors can't built compliant parts to save their lives. From nonstandard usb, pci, ram and networking gear. It only tends to work because they hack it together in that one configuration that happens to work because its got a couple capacitors sprinked on the board, or a software quirk that bypasses the broken functionality. Just look at all the stuff wrong with the rpi.
I'd say the PR quite is less bureaucracy and more a high number of packages with not enough hands to process them all.
Supposedly IBM's fault that the original PC speaker failed to think of niceties like a mute button.

As late as the 486 era I remember how often it was reminded to people to just disconnect the PC Speaker. I also recall there were also crazy case mods where people would add a switch to their cases to add an on/off button.
I also feel trapped between two bad choices. My point wasn't that the political left is a shining example of purity. It was that the corruption of the current administration so far exceeds anything that came before that saying "well the other side does all of this too" is dishonest. It sounds like we agree on that.

What we disagree on is how we get out of it and and after four years of "burn the ship down" politics, what I've learned is that I'm one of the idiots on the ship. I'm told that the economy is doing well, but I've only seen tax breaks for the richest Americans and my wallet doesn't feel any heavier. My friend's small business was denied a PPE loan during the ongoing financial crisis while Trump's friends are able to get them without an issue. My feeling is that the current party might be saying "arranging deck chairs is stupid", but they're going behind my back anyways and arranging them for their friends and political allies.
Philip Rosedale launches 3D audio virtual world and is now in it meeting users
Companies usually hire editors to manually annotate the quality of the algorithms on anonymized samples. They don't need direct user feedback to gather quality metrics. You also can't tell which step failed in the pipeline: speech recognition, query understanding, or the actual search.
Yeah, the transparent modern panopticon. They think that when people feel watched produce more. Im in no way more productive this way. I have to make a hard effort to zone out into coding, and this effort is consuming a lot of energy in itself. I think its our time to bargain and not allow this to happen when we all go back to work. I hope for partial or full time work from home setup. The value extraction machine should keep that in mind
you missed the first word or two of the title?
Nobody's stopping them from signing up for AWS and throwing the vid into an S3 bucket or whatever, nor are they prevented from buying internet access from a company that offers static IPs and serving the file from an old PC in someone's closet.
This is a hugely important distinction. Can we please figure this out before we pick up the pitchforks?
but it also isn't self-hosting.
Can you provide some actual evidence to back your inflammatory, dismissive claims?

There is zero mention of sed or awk at [0]. And looking at one of the references [1], it's pretty clearly more involved than sh+sed+awk. Is Apache UIMA [2] 90% sh+sed+awk? At a glance, it doesn't appear to be.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watson_(computer)#Software

[1] https://www.aaai.org/Magazine/Watson/watson.php

[2] https://uima.apache.org/
Try this sign pointing to Mecca
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The law, especially in civil cases, isn't there to punish losers. It's there to fix harms done. If you win, you get paid an approximation of your harm.

Class actions exist to solve the collective action problem of the harm not being large enough for a single person to pursue.
Requiring Creation of Computer Code Doesn’t Violate the First Amendment
what about their employees?

Also, should we let people that have no 6-months reserve starve? Others will learn
As a software engineer, I don't see offices as something necessary.

Everything you do leaves a digital footprint: issue trackers, version control, instant messaging, e-mail. Everything is timestamped, everything leaves multiple copies.

If you want to check if someone is working, it is not necessary to see if someone is at their desk. If you want to grab someone's attention, you can have a meeting that does not distract people in adjacent desks.

You can still gather and have IRL activities. That is OK. But I don't need to that every day. Most days I need to get things done, and focus.

During meetings, the most important thing I need to get from that meeting is information in order to make decisions. I need to focus my attention on what's being presented, not on how people dress, their haircut, their age, weight, stature and other superficial aspects that have no impact on the product whatsoever. Likewise, I don't want the meeting to be interrupted by someone commenting about someone's haircut.

Then, there's non-verbal communication. Some will claim you need body language to perform sentiment analysis or to cross-validate what's being said, etc. But those activities take away attention from the points being discussed.

Then, there's legal liability. If you want to go "off the record", then you will not like things being recorded. If you are a honest person acting within the law, you don't have strong reasons to go off the record. If your modus operandi is to gaslight people, you won't like meetings that are potentially recorded. Overall, visibility is accountability, and accountability is key to keep things healthy and legal.

People's appearance and other superficial aspects of a contributor should have very little importance when compared to their deliveries. A remote culture helps people to focus on what's important.
It's fetching the disk image right now. Gold...
Thank you!
by comparison, ue4's documentation is just almost absent. Even lumberyard has better docs than ue4
Is that the former Fog Creek/FogBugz company?
Related tangent: over 7 years ago, in recovery from emergency medical treatment, I started "sitting zazen" (doing Sato Buddhist Zen -based seated meditation) for 10 minutes every morning. It's been transformational. It's so simple. And so powerful. Being able to connect with your breath, return to the present moment, and quiet your possibly-noisy mind... it's practically a superpower. I'm a much, much happier and better person for it. Highest possible recommendation to find a breath-related habit that works for you.
Require_so: DRYer StackOverflow Copying
Part of it is. It's not free software, but part of the source code cab be accessed by the game devs.
Anecdote: I got silenced by posting a performance of Fur Elise by Beethoven on Facebook and Instagram. Really weird.
Software companies often struggle to acquire customers, and they are often presented with a decision: Make the product better, or coerce / force / bribe users to accept your product as it exists.

Everyone probably does a bit of both, but Epic is the perfect example of button-mashing option 2.
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Nobody in history is immune from disaster. The world goes on. One can remember to be humble, that us humans are but a small part of nature and subject to her whims.

There is no perfect system to avoid catastrophe. Not yours, not mine. Humanity progresses. It will continue to do so.

Sometimes the best way to fix something is to riot in the streets. I hope it doesn't come to that, but often it does.

Every couple hundred years or so a fraction of humanity dies due to disaster and/or strife, and we collectively continue to thrive and improve. This has been the pattern for all of recorded history. Why do you think it will be any different now?