skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's still nowhere near those numbers though and I doubt it will be. Some of the cleaned up code from The Imperial College has been released and it's just tragic that just wide sweeping decisions were based on a model that is objectively a nightmare of illogical statements, random ideas, and something that honestly looks more at home in SimCity than in something used to decide policy.

I doubt we'll get anywhere near the numbers most models claimed with mitigation. Even the 90k/US currently will have to be re-evaluated at the end and pruned (or possibly added to) for any inaccuracies.

Predicting the future is often foolish, and I hope this is a cautionary tale. We'll have to wait until March 2021 to look at the average deaths per year and compare it to 2020 to get a real sense of the picture, but from what I've been reading currently, my hypothesis is that it will be no where near what was predicted a few months ago. (I could be wrong though, but we won't know until 2021).

It's all guessing at this point though. This whole thing we're in, was a guess, and the costs are high.
> It's yet to be seen if productivity is better or worse

The rest of the source announcement covered that. It was noted that individual productivity was the same or better, but there were concerns about collaboration.
Why are you setting up a straw-man? Nobody said that Telemetry solves all problems. Every additional piece of information can be helpful. If you don't think that it can be, then really there is a fundamental disagreement that will just result in an endless argument.
I wondered that, too, but when I googled around for how to do that properly, I didn't see anything saying it matters.
> and you got a good taste of what a college course is like.

I did not take the AP chemistry exam and did not take any college level chemistry. I did take two years worth of AP English and earned college credits taking those exams. I also minored in English in college.

Overall, I found my college level English classes to be significantly less challenging than my high school AP classes. The AP classes were grueling but also worthwhile. Each week we wrote one to two essays in class following old AP prompts. Leading up to the exam we were writing three essays a week. In addition, we covered about three times the amount of literature that regular English classes at the same grade level covered while also having required summer reading and book reports due at the beginning of the school year.

The classes killed my interest in reading fiction and I have probably read less fiction in the last 15 years than I did during those two classes. On the other hand, I was surprised by how poor some of my peer's writing skills were when I started taking 300 and 400 level English classes in college. I was thankful for the AP classes when I saw how far behind some were.

I'm not the greatest writer. However, those classes, and the excellent teachers who taught them, gave me the ability to write. Before those classes I struggled to write the very few essays I was required to write. Afterwards, I churned out essays with ease while my peers struggled to meet the minimum essay length. The experience was one of my most important educational experiences.
I meant the planet Earth rather than one particular country. The cost of living in Bangladesh or rural Somalia might be less than SF, but I suspect the living conditions are worse.

As for low-wage/high-cost place - e.g. Italy is a great example.
>how do we ensure that rents don't just go up by that amount or wages don't go down by that amount

That's a feature of the plan. Rents will go up, and wages will go down, but by that point, people will be committed to UBI, and the only solution will be the gov to step in and control the prices.
They've reduced recess time down to almost nothing. Even for kindergarteners. Ours gets (well, got) about half an hour, and this is full-day kindergarten, none of that half-day stuff. Also they've gotten really lazy/risk-averse about letting kids go outside if it's a tad cold, or a tad drizzly, or a tad snowy, which it is, you know, a lot of days, so then they just have no recess.

How much ADHD is ADHD and how much is humans and especially kids aren't supposed to sit still so damn much and one of the ways the universal ill effects of this manifest is as ADHD symptoms in a lot of people?
"Hey, <cheaper alternative that co-worker has> costs less than <expensive alternative that I want>, why am I not being compensated more?"

(I think it's a weak argument)
Existential crisis in 5... 4...
100% agree. Metafilter has other major flaws that prevent if from having a meaningful community size, but the barrier to entry is a crucial mechanic that keeps out bad actors and mentally juvenile people.
Cool. Cool cool cool.

I don't live in US and don't want to immigrate at the moment for a variety of personal reasons. But I am competent and professional, and would be happy to deliver just as much as a SF-based engineer for half the pay.

(When I said cool, I meant, it's really cool for me. It might not be as cool for a US-based HN reader).
Who in this modern housing market is able to move every year?
Thanks for the information and all that you do. I had found the linked section from UBO to https://help.eyeo.com/en/adblockplus/how-to-write-filters#el... and assumed that *$websocket was <all_domains><separator><rule> similar to how other filters seem to work but I haven't delved too deeply in the rule syntax. Appreciate the correction.
high pay -> solve all your big problems -> biggest problem is your neighbor -> zoning rules -> high col -> only wealthy people can live there -> companies that hire wealthy people set up shop nearby -> competition for workers increases pay -> goto(1)
Official release notes at https://github.com/apache/druid/releases/tag/druid-0.18.0.
As someone who has been watching GA's charts closely over the last few weeks, I actually disagree in this case. It was one chart of several on the page, and not even the most prominent[0], the other charts were still in the right order, and this chart still showed an overall downward trend even put in the correct order. As someone who has dealt with coding lots of data into charts and making frequent changes to them and seen how bugs easily sneak in, I find mistake more likely than malice.

[0]https://dph.georgia.gov/covid-19-daily-status-report
powerful forces aren't able to block decentralized developments dotting the country, but they're able to gather enough momentum to pass centralized and controversial regulations? that doesn't pass the smell test.

that said, CEQA challenges have become a de facto tool in the nimby arsenal in CA.
Some of the exams (like biology) no longer require calculations this year--instead of doing the calculation, you just explain how you would do it. This has been confusing for a lot of students, but it solves the "special input methods" problem.
So if you click one of the rotate buttons after it has zeroed out the offsets will it correct? Is it using a PID model or something else?
Okay so JPEG for the rest of eternity then?
Health is a spectrum.

Mental health & physical health are problems easier solved with money.

Most major cities have rent control of some sort, if not, it's not that hard to start new towns with nation wide UBI. There are other places in this country other than SF, LA and NY
I guess I meant the etymology of the word.

It seems it’s pretty well established though, from 2010:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=criddler
Seems to be all backwards. The dolphins can't imagine what happened to us:

"So long and thanks for all the gifts"
One key to the formation of cults, is the control of information: instead of group decisions being arrived upon by informed discussion, there are ideas which are allowed and others which are not. Maybe the ideas are good (like "brush your teeth") but the enforcement is totally irrational and over the top (like "Sister Emily didn't brush her teeth, so no one will speak to her for 3 days"). This is because these ideas are beyond question so anyone who disagrees with them must be evil.

Sound familiar?
Thank you! That looks like a fantastic resource, and exactly what I need.
To be realistic, that is an acceptable answer if the person being screwed lacks alternatives and negotiating power.

You mean "I don't want 'you"re screwed, sorry' to be an acceptable answer" and I get that, but I'm committed to using honest language about this because thats we you train ourselves to be wary and give these situations the respect they deserve.
> I use only free software, built from source, to be sure there's no tracker in it

https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.09535

How do you plan to mitigate ^^ ?
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> Mail back the worksheets, have the food-delivering schoolbuses pick them up, drop them off at the school every week or so, or just do photos-to-PDF on a phone and email them. Or they could just give each kid workbooks and textbooks like they did when I was in school but that's out of fashion now for no reason. eyeroll

I'm a college teacher and my wife is a high school teacher. Education is much more complicated than eyeroll suggests.

For one thing, teachers would not accept physical papers in the present state of the disease. Even if a district says papers are OK after they have sat for three days (or whatever), that means that (1) they get picked up delivered to some repository (2) they would sit there for days (3) the teachers come and get them (delivering to the teachers would mean more decontamination time) (4) they take a day or two to grade. So assignments on Monday might be ready the following Monday? Then the teacher writes an email, "John you did the wrong page. Please resubmit." It is just not workable. (On my assignments there was something like a 10% confusion rate, for instance where someone did 1-10 odd instead of 1-10. I sympathise. It is a confusing time.)

I did photos to PDF. After two or three weeks of back and forth with my students we got so that most of them would reliably send legible one-PDF-per-assignments. Again, life is more complicated than, "Any moron can do this."

Finally, email is not a panacea. Having a hundred students emailing their assignments is an invitation for disaster. I was able to go through the college's system (we use Canvas) so it kept track of who sent what and when they sent it. As this article points out any large system has issues, but these systems exist for a reason. I and my students had issues and just had to work around them. With patience and good will we figured it out.

That's what happens a lot in education. People have all kinds of life situations, there are all kinds of tech and comfort with tech, etc. It is complicated.

Folks who are not teachers but are interested in some of the issues could check out the last dozen or so epsidoes of Mr Barton's Maths Podcast http://www.mrbartonmaths.com/podcast/ which are about teaching from home for primary and secondary teachers. Really good stuff.
> This is just the reality of remote work which people are ignoring. Facebook (or any other company) has zero reason to pay Bay Area salaries if they can hire anywhere.

Are they paying "Bay Area" salaries, or "Skills With The Most Obvious Correlating Signal Of Living In The Bay Area" salaries?

> Salaries WILL be the same everywhere in the world.

Does a Mercedes and a Honda Civic cost the same?

No?

Well why not? They're both cars.

They're paying for the skillsets, and for salaries to be the "same everywhere in the world", the skillsets would have to be the same, and we're not at the point where they've been commoditized to that level(which is a different discussion versus geography anyways).
I think I agree with you on the surface, but at the same time I wonder what impact Bay Area salaries would have in low cost-of-living areas. What about gentrification? Isn't one of the biggest complaints about tech workers (and especially people moving from CA) that their high income is making life less affordable for those native to a particular area?
> I don’t want youtube to be in charge of deciding what is credible or not

This point is often repeated during discussions on these topics but I believe this is an inaccurate characterization. YouTube is not "in charge of deciding what is credible" in the fashion that kind of phrasing suggests; they are moderating the content on their platform with respect to their business process and company values, those decisions are not a reflection of credibility. YouTube is a corporate product and we should not encourage the narrative that this product is the zenith of knowledge even though there are knowledgeable people who put content on YouTube.
I am not going to enter into a debate about the merits of various serializers, but if netwonsoft.json doesn’t run, that’s half of the nuget packages that cannot run in that app. That pretty much guaranties its failure in term of adoption.
what's the area of that 100k house?
A lot of the reason for the region by region waitlist is what you said, to make sure you are capable to get into the hospital within a certain amount of time to receive the organ. The other part is that it takes time to physically move an organ from the deceased to the transplanting hospital.

Time is the key here, the more time the organ is not in a living body, the less likely it is to survive transplantation. So if we didn't have regions, and you were living in San Fransisco and a kidney came from a dead biker in Florida, the likelihood of the kidney surviving is less than if that kidney came from Sacramento.
When was the accept attribute added to the input tag?
From Wordpress to GatsbyJS: A Solution
Migrating a blog from Wordpress to Gatsby is not so straight forward. There are some compromises that have to be made along the way. This is a detailed description of the choices I made.
> Not sure about what anyone here considers as libertarian, but if you were to ask a libertarian what they would tell you is that if you own property you are free to do as you please so long as you do not harm someone else.

I think that's why I'm surprised I don't hear that more. The size of someone's back yard or height of their fence (to a reasonable extent) seems like it wouldn't harm someone else, but they're strongly regulated in much of CA's single-family zoning.

> Also not sure what you mean by lefty orgs, because labor unions, public unions and environmental groups are the biggest lobbyist influence on the high price of housing.

Totally. There are tons of liberal orgs that are contributing to the housing shortage. I mean the few orgs I see advocating for development (eg SF YIMBY, or politicians like Scott Wiener) appear more liberal than libertarian.
Maybe a small economy somewhere. There are small city-sized nation-states here and there around the world --both in industrialized areas and not so industrialized areas. They could try it in both and see what's what. $5MM isn't enough though.
Depending on specifics it could also be outright copyright infringement. (Just reusing a link wouldn't be, but e.g. reuploading a video would be.)
Someone told me they switched to heating oil because the local market had only one local utility for natural gas which was charging too much. With heating oil there are multiple suppliers who can drive a truck to your house and price competition.

All heaters are 100% efficient in that any leaked heat leaks into the house you are trying to heat. I would look at insulation if you are trying to be more green.
Where applicable: Look for URLs in aka.ms - this looks superficially like a link shortener but (whether by corporate policy or just people inside Microsoft agree with us) they are maintained so that when the pages are all shuffled around the aka.ms links still get where you were going.

https://aka.ms/RootCert will always be Microsoft's Root Trust programme documentation (how a Certificate Authority like Let's Encrypt gets themselves listed as trusted in Windows) even when Microsoft decides that page should now be in the form of a GIF anim or a 3D bullet hell game.
I've added the news on Facebook's permanent WFH policy in this spreadsheet where I've been tracking WFH announcements: https://airtable.com/shrC1mvKjwntaqocO/tbl73UY1jDmReLge7
Dingo stole the (fibre) backbone I guess.
Do you have any examples of major companies that are remote that aren't scaling their remote pay with the COL where the employee is located? Every single instance I've seen of companies announcing "we support remote" has had in small print "we will not pay you SV salaries if you live in the mid-west", so the cost-of-living argument doesn't really win anything as your pay scales with it.
What's interesting is that if you stay in their Menlo Park office, you cost FB your salary + office sq/ft + office maintenance/security/cleaning/etc. But if you chose to work remotely you cost FB your salary - colo adjustment.

The incentive is clearly to stay and cost FB more money per head.
Are you an American ?
No to California Bill on Verified Credentials of Covid-19 Test Results
Zoom calls definitely aren't as good as real sitting in the same room meetings, but I aim to be in meetings less than an hour a day anyway. I find that it's plenty good enough for 2-3 person calls, and for one person presenting to a large group of muted listeners. A bit more challenging for 5-10 person collaborative sessions.

I've been working remotely for a couple years, and at some point started auto-deleting recruiter emails for jobs in the city. Commuting 2-3 hours per day is just a non-starter for me at this point. The extra sleep and exercise I get remotely is probably going to extend my life expectancy.
For now, I'll just address the one point -- obsolete? NOT!

We've been working with ZeroMQ a lot over the past couple of years, and have gotten to know some of the maintainers -- we've been very favorably impressed by their ability and dedication.

Pieter Hintjens was the "voice" of ZeroMQ, and with his passing things have gotten a bit quieter, but no less active. (Just take a look at the commit log: https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq/commits/master).
With Kafka's removal of ZooKeeper I wonder if Druid could piggy back off of that to simplify their architecture. At least using some of the Kafka terminology would be a step in the right direction. I think even a hard dependency of Kafka would be better for the adoption rate than their current design.
You misunderstand. They arrest someone and then coerce them to confess. The actual truth of guilt or innocence is not really relevant.
This made it up here a few weeks ago and I think it's important: "Quarantine Work is Not Remote Work"

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/QuarantineWorkIsNotRemoteWork...

I've worked remote before and it was fun, I got more done, and I could go into the office once or twice a week if I really wanted. I worked with a guy in Colorado I never met in person for over a year, but I did eventually meet him while driving through on a trip.

If you've never worked remote before 2020, this is not what remote work even remotely feels like. Everything is very different when it's not a choice. I think we need to keep that in mind.
The concept is called a full system policy https://gitlab.com/apparmor/apparmor/-/wikis/FullSystemPolic...
Let's see if eBay does... they've profited from not doing so for a long time. They knew, they didn't care and they sold other people's work for their own profit. They earned plenty of skepticism and this wasn't a one off mistake, it was exactly how they chose to do business for a long time...
These are the requirements for an existing employee to move to full-time remote, according to the all-hands today:

1. Level IC5 or higher (this is what most would call "senior").

2. Can't have performance less than meets expectations in last two reviews.

3. Permission from team and manager.
If they had enough time to warn people ahead of time, they had plenty of time to push a fix to their system for this. We are literally talking about adding support for one more image format.

Emails, tweets, texts are no excuse for broken products. The iPhone is the best selling model in the United States. It is on College Board to support its default image format.

Good product design is owning your users' success. It is not sending people workaround emails.

The bare minimum would have to be to do a warning before every single AP test about this and giving students a few minutes to change their default image format. Sending a tweet (!!!) out does not count as doing any work.

This is a failure. An abysmal failure.
Why the Bitcoin Halving Won't Affect the Price for Years
The Mechanics (and Kinematics) of Web-Work Plot Construction (1927)
Yep.

I'm curious how many people here decrying telemetry use Google Analytics or similar on their websites or their employer's websites and think nothing of it. Or have ads on the websites. Or literally just about any 3rd-party Javascript. Or literally just about any 3rd-party resource of any kind.

I'm seeing a lot of pearl clutching.
i ran ~3miles to work for a year and biked 10+ miles daily for many years. Having a change of clothes is a requirement. a shower nearby helps a lot, but I really don't think it's a requirement. 10-15minutes of cool off time in the shade or a walk about will help remove all the sweat. If you're still self conscience then you should bring some baby naps and do a sort of hobo shower.
>What gives you the right to do that?

The Fair Labor Standards Act: https://webapps.dol.gov/elaws/whd/flsa/docs/volunteers.asp

Reddit's preference of exploiting unpaid labor, and it's failure to plan for the inevitable event where that exploited labor decides they want to be compensated for their work is entirely on Reddit Inc. A company valued at $3 billion should have understood the potential risk.

All Reddit mods who feel burned out or are otherwise struggling because of the work they've done as mods should file a complaint with the Dept. of Labor and request financial compensation for the work performed, and coverage of any medical treatment stemming from the results of moderating toxic communities.

https://dol.gov/agencies/whd/contact/complaints
There are a lot of things that matter more than window styles and paint colors, and they can have a severe negative impact on quality of life and property values and safety.
"What is the actual case for Basic Income?"

Ending homelessness and providing a bigger safety net for the citizens of the richest country on earth, for starters.
According to your philosophy, we should already have a competitor to Boeing cranking up new airplanes.
Yes like I mentioned in other reply, you can move regions and carry your wait list time. But many people are tied by job and family. Also insurance plans sometimes have preferred hospitals.

As for why I haven't tried a shorter wait region, I consider transplant as not a cure. It will eventually fail. And there are other things in progress like the UCSF artifical kidney, gene therapy research, better anti-rejection drugs. My hope is when my transplant does fail, one of these alternatives are further along. So I look at each of these things as stepping stones to extend my life.
There is no "app". There's a website, from what I understand. Not everything needs to be tested on mobile. In their place I'd have left an option to upload non-supported formats "just in case" to leave a trail, without guarantee of acceptance; but this is not something I'd have expected them to do.

I'm also wondering how many iPhone users have that .heic setting at its default value, as opposed to having switched to .jpg.
A quarter of Americans are hesitant about a coronavirus vaccine
> We need some sort of standard for software engineering quality.

I contend we need defined SLAs because ultimately that's what matters.

Create the software in Visual Basic or Rust, I don't care. But it needs to work. Define SLAs with consequenses and the rest will sort itself out.
https://www.launchrock.com/ and https://www.landen.co/ have wizards. I think launchrock can also host the website and collect signups, landen.co is for then copying the files to your own hosting.