skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are a white collar professional, especially one with kids, your costs have likely fallen dramatically while your income has probably remained the same.

The personal finance subreddit for Canada is full of anecdotes from middle class professionals who have saved a ton of money during the pandemic on everything from daycare to lunch to housekeeping and are redeploying that money to housing.
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age and The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood.
Personally, I don't have an issue with bots on a platform, as long as they are there to be helpful. In the case of Twitter, I would restrict bots from being able to reply to tweets^, retweet, or like. Only output original things (like automated messaging) or restrict it to DMs. And possibly restrict the use of @s and #s in those tweets so they can't affect trending. That way you can seriously cut down the signal to noise ratio and also make it much easier to spot a bot account.

And please put a BOT label on every bot account and tweet they send. This should be a hard requirement.

^ However, this would interfere with bots like the threading or videothis types. So maybe not apply that restriction.
Outdated sources are outdated.

https://www.electricitymap.org/zone/DK-DK1
It depends on what they need to fund. I don’t see why an investment of say 200 billion dollars over 5-7 years can’t bring them to the forefront in chip making. They have forex reserves in the trillions.

SMIC which is their Intel raised 7 billion dollars last week from investors inside China. That’s on top of what the government is putting in. People underestimate the resources at chinas disposal.
1.7% while schools are closed.
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>None of the developers would have been able to find land, make deals, develop projects,

The tract builders already bought and developed the land (e.g. ~100 parceled lots) before COVID but the individual lots were unsold. The "housing starts" statistics are official US Department of Commerce data instead self-reported numbers by homebuilders so it's very possible that there was a real uptick in selling off those unsold lots that were previously moving slowly.

E.g. See satellite photo of two neighborhoods in suburbia under development by a tract builder like Toll Brothers:

https://www.google.com/maps/search/toll+brothers+neighborhoo...

... and the street view shows the showcase model home and the construction equipment already building on those lots:

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.0783819,-74.1180052,3a,75y,1...

Multiply that type of scenario happening all over the country and getting accelerated by coranavirus fears. A builder can get heavy equipment out on the empty lot within a few weeks after a new house contract is signed.

I do agree that skepticism is warranted. We should be seeing parallel stories of falling prices of city apartments and condos.
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Upgrading your OS is only part of your software security footprint. The unlocked bootloaders/firmware running on many old devices are full of unpatched security holes and are often susceptible to attacks where physical access is available. These security holes are a common method to install third-party ROMs on some devices.
According to the "In re Spansion" case[0], a patent promise is equivalent to a licence. Given that and the MIT licence, I don't see much of any way for MS to abuse patents against .NET users (IANAL). Amusingly, Apple itself was the beneficiary of the ruling.

Speaking of Apple, given its history it's not impossible to imagine a closed source "Swift 6" with no backward compatibility, leaving only a very tiny ecosystem for the open source Swift.

[0]
https://patentlyo.com/patent/2013/01/3rd-circuit-covenant-no...
"Build this beautiful dining room table for only $150! First, take your $600 table saw..."
Guttenberg tried to hold onto his position. He at first rejected the accusations, even though they had already been extremely well documented:

> Ich bin gerne bereit zu prüfen, ob bei über 1200 Fußnoten und 475 Seiten vereinzelt Fußnoten nicht oder nicht korrekt gesetzt sein sollten und würde dies bei einer Neuauflage berücksichtigen

> I am perfectly willing to check whether in any of the over 1200 footnotes and 475 pages individual footnotes were not - or not correctly - inserted, and to correct this in a new edition.

Guttenberg kept to this position for a week, while Angela Merkel and most of the government supported him.

In the end, though, the extensive plagiarism (93% of the pages have at least one known instance of plagiarism) in his dissertation was so well documented that it was impossible to deny, and his statements about possibly having made a few mistakes here and there also looked more and more like outright lies. Nobody plagiarizes to that extent by mistake.
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Probably. Here’s someone that did it 4 years ago (although it was just a full-stop taxi and back out). It just takes some polite asking to TRACON on a hopefully quiet night.

https://youtu.be/vipvtaRbQho
Look at other countries, the US wants to reopen during the peak of the virus... There are always risks, but there are more risks if you knowingly reopen everything during the worse time possible.
Medical staff get to wear PPE. As for grocery workers:

My wife's a teacher. She was back in school for a day last week, with a much smaller class of children. The first thing one of her children tried to do on seeing her was give her a hug. I doubt this happens to many grocery workers.

In September she'll spend about six hours a day in a poorly ventilated and inadequately sized classroom with 30 children. Neither she nor the children are allowed to wear masks or gloves. From the single days she has been in each week, she's watched children unable to maintain social distancing in the classroom or the playground. They cough, sneeze and wipe their noses on their hands and then touch everything. That's what kids are like.
The updated graph for [1] through 2018 is revealing: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=40013

The big story looks like the huge transition from coal to natural gas. 2005 remains the peak for petroleum, but it's been increasing recently.
maybe, but if you can't go out (at least not very much) having separate rooms for everyone to go to, space for hobbies, and perhaps a yard to stretch out in becomes very valuable.

Also, in suburban and rural areas, private car transportation is much more common where in the city cars are an expensive luxury, so in cities your transportation is an added virus transmission risk. The NYC subway was a huge factor in the virus explosion there, for example.
That is not what happened at all.
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Thanks for the lead on PU Learning.

I signed up for a demo of the new platform, looking forward to chatting. Me and a colleague from work spoke w/ Henry last year about a potential partnership but I guess it got lost in the mix...
Thoughts on what advantage you get from know which tools your adversaries are using as good targets to inject with backdoors assuming state actor resources?
Less urban areas have "less to lose" in value from closures than more urbanizd ones. If they have less to no ammenitity proximity as a source of value. Put simply you weren't living in the country for the broadway theater. That changes some relative values even ignoring the physical distance from work losing relevance.
where can we find the full list of the 6000 archive repo?
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These studies are generally longitudinal studies across a number of years, where greater muscle mass or strength early in the study correlates with lower all-cause mortality across the duration of the study. It's not looking at survival rates for acute afflictions.

Examples:

* https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6427792/

* https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12242311/

* https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10795731/

* https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11984288/

(There are many, many more of these, and they all seem to agree)
Some early Soviet airliners used to have a glassed nose. :)
People are not moving because they think it's safer. They leave because it's easier to live, especially with family, in a single family house on a large lot when everyone is stuck at home. What's the point living in a small space in the city (and paying a lot of money for it) when you work from home and can't even sit at a cafe. For me the commute was always the biggest reason to stay near the city.
You can construct a grid based system based on a block system, but wouldn't the reverse be much more difficult?
They aren't, but they are necessary to sustain life unlike teachers.
Is it ? Afaik nobody knows the long term consequences this virus will have.

Just look at that and the dozens of other articles about related side effects: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23870164
Agree!

Comment I made the other day:

> What bothers me the most is that just like retail / grocery store workers we put people with the lowest earning potential and generally worst benefits directly in the path of this. I don’t want to get COVID but unless I convince my wife to quit her job my odds of getting it greatly increase due to situations out of my control.
It doesn't matter who benefits from this deal, what matters is the country got shit infrastructure against the advice of his experts and the taxpayers paid for it.

Since he signed off on this, it's on him to be investigated.

That's what corruption is.

Of course, if you want, you can cover it up in red tape and make it look like incompetence.
1. Huh? I use ad-blockers on iOS.

2. I don't use Google Maps. People can choose to use Google Maps, sure. So?

2b. I use DDG as my search engine. A default is just a default. Are you suggesting people use Google's Android, where the default is... somehow... not Google?

3. The cheapest brand-new iPhone is $399 from Apple in the US. That's full-price directly from the manufacturer. It is super-easy to pick up second-hand phones for much less than that. I see them for $100 very frequently. People use iPhones in nearly every country of the world, so it seems at least some people can afford them.

Note that your complaints include both that people ignore the default mapping application to use Google's, and that the default search engine is Google's. Seems silly to argue both for and against defaults.
Interesting - my own setup is the built-in 15" high DPI display, an LG 5k display and a Dell 49" ultrawide with a low DPI. I've not really experienced this. Probably scaling mode or similar.
Half of HN personally responsible for doing exactly this kind of thing for a living, shifting in their chair uncomfortably... I umm... just doing my job...
Transmission is largely by aerosol over long periods of time, not fomites.

Store workers are relatively distant and contact with any one person is brief. With teachers, every surface is constantly touched and they spend all day with the children.

Store workers are also dealing with adults rather than children. Most adults know how to conduct themselves in a pandemic, most of them...
In my location neither. What is your favorite workaround?
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Twenty five years ago, this would have been "LINUX, UNIX, and serving, without a PhD" and Matt Welsh's Linux Installation And Getting Started was the intro (https://www.mdw.la/papers/linux-getting-started.pdf). I was one of many who adopted Linux early, using this book (later I read the BSD Unix Design and Implementation, which I would describe as senior undergrad/junior grad student material).

Having those sorts of resources to introduce junior folks to advanced concepts are really great to me- my experience is that I learn a lot more by reading a good tutorial than a theory book, up until I need to do advanced work (this is particular to my style of learning; I can read code that implements math, but struggle to parse math symbology).
There are some phenomenal outsourced shops in EE. Those that do pay 2-4 higher the going rate in the country. These aren't wordpress sweatshops. These are usually small teams and people work on interesting,specialised projects. Management style is usually very pragmatic ( a means a and let's cut the crap) .But the best part about these is that people do get exposed to things,build experience and eventually start on their own. 10-15 years ago there was hardly any product driven company in my country.Now the ones most worth working for do have successful software product that are sold in western markets.
Nay, Sir, our brave corporations that regularly sell themselves out to low-cost labour markets will surely defend democracy here and around the world when we call upon them!

Not.
> this particular virus doesn't even spread easily among children.

https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-c...
I agree the US government response is really disappointing, they should have just reopen everything now.

I'm not saying that there nothing should be done regarding this virus. The vaccine research still have to continue, treatment research still have to continue, increase medical capacity(if needed) still have to be done.

What I'm against is this lockdown/restriction and this fear mongering because the damage it cause is more than the virus.

>Six months in and "it's just the flu bro" is still going strong, humans are weird

I'm not saying its just flu, I'm saying the risk of this virus is very low. The data clearly shown that for majority of cases it either asymptotic or only mild symptom.

Would there be risk of death due or long term damage to his virus ? of course, any diseases could cause that but the risk is low.
Being snarky doesn't help to the discussion and it actually goes against the guidelines of this site:

> Be kind. Don't be snarky.
>> Saleh showed compassion and that may have been a reason why he ended up dying in the end.

The real lesson is that nobody should take the law into their own hands. Putting a criminal on a repayment program is a terrible idea especially with covid-19 economic crisis and so many people struggling to survive. During tough times, you should expect the worst of human nature.
> the Federal government may need to step in.

Not quite sure unmarked people kidnapping people into civilian-grade minivans is the best way to quell insurrection.
For fun, here are the figures for Croatia (yearly take-home salary and total cost for employer, all in USD for easier comparison):

Average salary (take-home): $11874

Average salary (total cost for employer): $19875

Median salary (take-home): $10225

Median salary (total cost for employer): $16526

Starting junior dev salary (take-home): $14800

Starting junior dev salary (total cost for employer): $25800

Senior dev salary (they can go higher, but that's relatively rare for local employers) (take-home): $27700

Senior dev salary (total cost for employer): $52000

VAT is 25%. Safety net is a joke. Health care is universal, but not that good. Education is mediocre at best.
"A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age" is very good.
Usually, it's reserved for PSAs, 3rd party outage notices, etc. It's discouraged for things like one-off questions
This a profoundly creative and clever idea which I hope to never see in any actual use, ever. I really appreciate the ingenuity, but I can't help but feel its legibility and maintainability are nightmarish.
Protect the vulnerable (no sending Covid positive patients into their living spaces!) while allowing low risk population to develop and overcome the virus.

This seems like the most logical way to combat issue, as opposed to hiding and hoping it goes away. Of course proposing it publicly means to be smeared by the media and politicians and twitter blue checks, who always have our best interests in mind.

Does this solution cause no pain and death? Of course not! It’s about causing the least amount of pain long term, including the externalities of our actions.
Oh, the Kohl days have been corrupt enough. A lot as related scandals happened and started then. With the political changes after Kohl it just became harder to keep them covered up. Schreiber is name that came up often enough, and of course Franz-Josef Strauss, the Bavarian political king pin and capo of all Bavarian amigos. And a staunch right leaning conservative.
This is exactly why I disable it: better speed, fewer annoyances, with bonuses of less data transferred and more privacy.
You can be held in contempt and face jail time for not participating in an investigation. The fifth only applies to self incrimiation, not to incriminating others.

Instead, just tell your friends and family.
O(1), I like it.
Thus far, surface transmission seems to be low. If you're not licking the payment terminal, you're likely OK in that regard.

Length of exposure to an infected person matters a lot. Spending a day in a room with an infected person is riskier than a 60 second interaction with one as you ring them up.
The numbers in the CDC article are up until just April 2, 2020. Two weeks prior (incubation period) puts the latest case data in mid March, prior to when the lockdown started to be rolled out.

Granted, the situation has become a lot worse since then. It's still a good glance at how the virus spread before any measures were put in place. Especially for relative figures of how COVID behaves differently across age.
She's in Colorado. The teachers' union agreed to a pay cut & freeze during the Bush financial crisis; pay had had only started to rise again a few years ago.

This is somewhat of a digression, but the extremely low rate of teacher pay (for a job that requires a Master's degree) limits the pool of available teachers greatly. The people taking these jobs typically must have some other way of supporting their family; either their spouse has a higher-paying professional job or they are the beneficiary of some other form of generational wealth.

But we tend to lose the teachers who must make ends meet their own selves on a teacher's pay. There is no good economic argument made to become an elementary school teacher.
Not anymore, as most px units now is based on a reference px, a size determined based on screen density and viewing distance. That's why something rendered at 600px on an iphone takes almost all the width, even though the screen has more than double that in pixels. And when zooming, the reference px is zoomed. So the old reason for not using px and instead use rem doesn't apply.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/CSS_pixel
What’s the value of the land and the sweat equity? You may have paid $100k and time but the buyer is paying all in currency for the finished product.
> poorly ventilated and inadequately sized classroom

BINGO. That's what has bothered me the most and I've talked a lot to my wife about what we can do to mitigate the risk.

> Neither she nor the children are allowed to wear masks or gloves

How is that enforceable? Seems like they shouldn't be allowed to mandate no masks given the documented health risks.
Corruption is different from gross incompetence and unethical behavior.
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I hope you keep working on this. I think there is a definite need for something very small and simple that can be embedded into other tools, to squeeze out extra performance in critical spots without resorting to the nitroglycerin of C/C++.
How is showing us one day's data evidence of anything?
1. You could make the same argument about fridges, electricity, light bulbs, vehicles (yours or by proxy), houses, chairs, agriculture. The point is that not having a smartphone available to you puts you on the margins since at this point it's assumed that everyone has one. Every restaurant in our area is now doing virtual no-touch menus that require scanning a QR code and requiring online ordering for take-out. Like you can live without a smartphone but at this point you're only making life more difficult and annoying for yourself.

2. It's plenty enough. Phones have been plenty fast for years. The issue is finding a vendor that will support your software for long stretches of time which right now that is community Android distributions and Apple.

3. This is a bad-faith argument and you know it.
https://twitter.com/zebulgar/status/1283921361627344896?s=12
This is the thread that led me to look into this more
It would be great if this was true for the entire population, but the 31% is not from a random sampling.
As far as I can tell, just about every active GitHub user has the same thing - just as long as you've ever committed to a public repo
Desal is not only energy intensive but generates a problem of what to do with the resulting increased-salinity brine which is toxic to the draw area. And your plant has to be designed to handle corrosive source and effluviant.

Likely it will ultimately needed but we are a long way from it being viable at scale.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desalination#Considerations_an...
They went after inside trading, as the release of the FT article seemed to be timed with the short sellers.
The article also does not mention the definition of "children". Under 10? Under 18? Under 21? If you count teenagers hanging out and spreading it as children, the number for very young children could still be as low as we thought and there are no new revelations here.
Yeah, especially for the more senior folks who can easily afford to build or buy a house and also have the advantage of being able to ensure they can work remotely for the near to medium future (especially with some companies shifting to remote for higher level IC's and some shifting to remote first entirely).
WhatsApp just this year cut off access for iPhone 4 users, but iPhone 4S users can still use it, as well as anything newer.

The iPhone 4S, which still works with WhatsApp, debuted in 2011. They're cheap and reliable.
I don't know. My dad is an "average" user running Outlook as client, and he's currently complaining all the time because for some reason at least every second Windows 10 update wrecks the performance of Outlook so hard it sometimes takes minutes to start and upwards of 10 seconds to open an email. Not to mention the occasional crash.

I'm glad Claws mail exists; an ancient client but the only graphical one I could find that's actually fast and lightweight. Although Mailspring is pretty good as well and is not quite as slow as one might expect from an Electron app.

In the end I am really glad I have no need of more "enterprise" features in this area.
No. The numbers of new deaths are sinking, but they do, too, in the US and in many different countries, but not in Serbia, for example.
Yes, that is after all what makes it possible to jailbreak nearly all iPhone models using something like Checkra1n.
I think I'd rather see which of my repos were contributed rather than what the most popular repos I fixed typos in were.
Got a source they are "unmarked" ? The pictures I've seen are regular fatigues with patches marking and other symbols marking who they are with.
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Having three young kids myself and a parent who is a teacher, I know how "gross" kids are first hand.

>Neither she nor the children are allowed to wear masks or gloves.

I understand why the children won't be wearing any PPE - my 3yo would never keep a mask on for more than 15 minutes. Why is your Wife not allowed to at minimum wear a mask?