skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have other countries done this? Is the US the only country that has seen a spike as things open up? Just interested in the comment “failure of this administration,” when I haven’t seen such attempts in other countries either. Perhaps this is a failure of the WHO? There hasn’t been any notable proposals from Congress in this issue either. Were people advocating such a solution and it was ignored? Because hindsight is 20/20. As late as Feb 28, there were politicians advocating people visit restaurants in Chinatown SF and calling travel bans racist. Was that a failure too?

The point of my comment is that we can talk about “failure,” but it’s disingenuous to suggest that the right answer existed all along but it was ignored. Nobody had the answers other than perhaps Taiwan when they sealed borders on 31 December — and Taiwan was ignored because of WHO politics.
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I think he's saying there are no reliable ways to decide whats what, not that truth doesn't exist
New Zealand is a small island nation with only 5 international airports. It has 1.4% the population of the United States (4.8M vs 328.2M), and a smaller population than New York City (8.4M). It has 18 people per km², compared to 94 people per km² in the United States.

This is an absurd comparison.
> our product is garbage and you need a "quick" db for prototyping.

Yep that's the stage the project was at.

Integrating the DB with grafana was a breeze though so that's definitely a benefit. I've personally never tried to hook up a MongoDB to Grafana, wonder if it's any easier.
Any reason to think usage is limited to law enforcement?
> The 'strictness' if the system was just backwards.

IMO, the strictness was in the right place (the source of truth), what was probably backwards is the team’s relative skill and tooling for adapting the solution. Which might make it wrong for the team, if it is otherwise right for the situation.
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I am not, and nor do I see the quote in question claiming that because something exists it must be right. In fact, I'm arguing against that since it is the same as saying that something being a law does not make it just.
The question is whether contact tracing can reliably prevent a manageable amount of infections from turning into an explosion. It's failed to do so in many countries.
In the last decade how many news stories where actually important to you? Personally it was such a tiny fraction that doing a little research on each of them was fine.

A recent example of say the toilet paper shortage had weeks of misleading information put out. Prior to the reporter finally actually doing some research and breaking that story I have a HN post explaining what was going on. Why? Because doing more research than an average reporter is generally trivial. Their focus is entertainment and tight deadlines plus tiny staff equals junk.
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I'm no expert, but my guess is lack of education combined with extreme political divide in the country. From what I've observed, one side thinks whatever the "other side" believes in must be wrong and harmful, so they are obligated to take a contrarian view and are willing to die on that hill.
> A trick I've learned is to lie to yourself. Say you're excited to do it, that you can't wait, and that you enjoy it. Your brain is easily convinced if you're willing to let it be.

The technique I finally learned was to attempt to cultivate an enjoyment of the task I didn’t want to do. But I wonder if
what you’re suggesting isn't really just a different way of looking at the same thing.

You might be “lying to yourself” telling yourself that you’re excited to do something, but the brain will start synthesizing that into what it might indeed find enjoyable about the task. I found I could easily get myself to fold laundry by focusing on the satisfaction of a folded shirt - it sounds silly, but I somehow hooked that process up to the right dopamine trigger, and now I rarely procrastinate this particular chore.

The process was similar for exercise. Whether it was “I’m going to tell myself I’ll enjoy this” or “I’m going to find something I enjoy about this” is perhaps not as clear-cut as I originally imagined, but either way, my epiphany was this: I will always find a way to avoid a task I don’t want to do, while I will always find a way to do something I’ve learned to enjoy.
When evaluated within an evidence-based medicine framework, there isn't yet any high-quality evidence to support mandatory cloth mask wearing in public.

https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/masking-lack-of-evidence-with-...

To be clear I am not arguing against wearing masks. It's just that issue isn't firmly settled and we need more research.
It was used in a similar, but twisted, sense in the book.

In the book, Mother Night, the character is working for the US (and the Allies) but under the cover of working for the Nazis. So it's a bit of a twist on "fake it til you make it". In the latter, you pretend to be what you want to be. In the book he's pretending to be what he doesn't want to be, but the consequence is that post-war he's perceived to have been a Nazi (or at least a collaborator).
You should not have to be good at opsec or economically advantaged to be able to demonstrate.
Except, of course, that tenants are not paying because the economy is being shut down in response to COVID. The better solution would be for the government to take over some fraction of the loans, large enough to prevent contagion but small enough to avoid zombie businesses. Not an easy balance to strike but probably the only way to see this through to the end of the crisis.
When Imperial county hospitals overflowed, patients were transferred to other counties. Stay safe but also know you should still seek care if you need it.
> Many systems use a “wakeword” or “keyword spotting” to start the interaction. What if we used keyword spotting to determine the end as well? “Please” might be a good choice. It’s like the Enter key.

This would solve so many problems. Sometimes I like to think a bit about what level to set the lights at, but by that time the machine thinks I'm done with my request.

We need richer interaction models, and this is an area where it'd be nice if we could focus on programmers first to find the appropriate mechanisms.

I think modal systems that set contexts would also be amazing.

"Robot, let's adjust the lights"

Which could set the system into dealing only with lighting-related requests.
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It's impressive it took them this long in the face of Datadog and who ever else pioneered the open source agent approach.
It was such a clear advantage to ensure you knew what was going on your servers, or into your app in the APM case, and of course you could fix / extend it if needed.
What's the alternative? Evict the tenant, no rent money, it's not like you're getting another tenant until the economy recovers...
It's also a common technique among teachers, because teachers are not trying to persuade skeptics. You are presenting it as some kind of manipulation, but it's really just a different audience. And it's a lot easier to read the straightforward style, and learn a lot of stuff quickly.

His conclusions are not really the most important thing about his writing, anyway. He brings forward a lot of good approaches that are an improvement over other common approaches. For instance, he avoids grouping people by a snapshot in time, and instead analyzes them over their lifetime, or even generations.

And he also just asks a lot of interesting questions and dives into the data and finds interesting results.

He's also less US-centric than many writers. Sometimes that alone is enough to advance the conversation by breaking us our of our bubble.
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Good, twitter ethics are illiberal and should be taken seriously. The big problem with ideas are who the judge is and it always tilts towards tyranny.
I've found that 'something' always at hand and with the absolute least cost of usage has helped enormously. Paper and Fisher pen, PalmPilot, Treo, now todo program on my phone.

Whatever is the quickest to get me to a list of reminders that I can choose from.

And I do best when I can sort those by effort required to complete. Refill cat food bowls, minimal effort, QED. Find contractor for back porch rework, not as simple. So I break it down and find a smaller step I can do and list that.

Even if I get knocked out of my list, I always have it to get back on track.

Tasks.org is my current tool, after trying many many others.

On my worst days I set a repeating alarm to get my attention and look at the list again. Sometimes exhaustion, sometimes lack of desire, but I have a wife and animals to provide for so one way or the other I make it happen.
I've hired an architect at a "big" construction firm (they regularly manage multistory hospital construction) to design some "medium" buildings and remodels. When I visited his office to talk through some change orders (I'm thinking this was about three years ago?), it was all Windows shared folders and carefully constructed file names.
For about $7-8/month, you get a managed one on GCP with Cloud SQL. It isn't perfect for all use cases, but has been fantastic in terms of developing out a small app.
This terminology makes a lot of sense! Especially if you interpret "latency" as explicitly meaning "time the system as a whole does nothing, due to execution-units' pipelines being stalled, due to said units waiting on synchronous memory fetches."

"Latency reduction", then, would mean "reducing pipeline stalls per execution unit", while "latency hiding" would mean "hiding the fact that some units' pipelines have stalled, by finding other work for their ALUs-and-such to do, while waiting for them to unstall."
I guess with experience comes the ability to correctly design the schema from day one. The project was just getting off the ground so schema was evolving constantly. If only there was such a thing as pgconfig.json which allows me to configure how strict I want the db to be - a sliding scale between NoSQL to SQL.
I agree. I think alternatives like Google Cert, Lambda School and other coding school alt certifications or altMBA's will continually widdle away at the strangle hold that colleges once had on opportunity.
For the love of everything that is holy, if in your design the icons for "Undo" and "Jump Backwards" are practically identical -- as in this font, where only the outline of the arrows differs -- , please, please "waste space" by adding text to the buttons.

Don't make people discover which one's "undo" and which one's "discard the current screen" by trying the buttons out. That's not a friendly interface. An interface can be friendly without looking like a five year-old's doodle. A wall of text is intimidating and unfriendly, sure, but nobody older than eight is intimidated by having to read six or seven words.
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It may not support iOS 13, but Apple has been providing updates to iOS 12 (12.4.8 was released less than 3 weeks ago).
A person trying to make a living by being picked up at a Home Depot parking lot or picking fruit has covid-19 rather far down the list of concerns. That person is also living in packed housing that greatly contributes to its spread.

The various underlying reasons that brought these socioeconomic conditions forth (failing countries to the south of the US, exploitation of cheap labor in the US, endemic political infighting in the US, dependence of the countries on these people sending money back) make it unlikely that the US will ever control the virus.

It would require combative parties to come together to fix a whole host of issues that they failed to fix for over 40 years. The host of issues have just piled up and by now are a mile high.

It isn’t just covid-19 that the US is fighting against.
Trump Reverses Course on TikTok, Opening Door to Microsoft Bid
Much better on desktop than on mobile (also does need sound)
There are studies pointing to their efficacy
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7191274/
> these stingray devices can MitM your phone by forcing it to send essentially unencrypted messages.

Earlier Harris equip did that by forcing 2g mode but 2g is being turned off: https://1ot.mobi/resources/blog/a-complete-overview-of-2g-3g...

I'm less familiar with the capabilities of current IMEI catchers tho.
Ask HN: Do emojis belong in Design Systems?
I've noticed over the past few years more software companies including emojis in their apps. I'm not talking about in chat and text, but in the actual product itself.

Notion (https://www.notion.so/) uses them in their starter templates.

RemoteOK (https://remoteok.io/) uses them to signal filters.

Countless other companies are starting to sprinkle these in their apps instead of designing icons or building more thoughtful UX.

I'm not really sold on the idea. I feel a bit coddled when everywhere I look there's an emoji.

Do companies consider them as part of their actual Design System or Brand Book, or are just using them given they are popular, catchy, and resonate to younger users?
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This is fairly accurate. The no code revolution is a great happenstance for most techies who want to test ideas and run experiments.

Bye bye boilerplate, until we meet again.

On that note, is there a business intelligence tool for the no-code (or low code) world that just works?

I want to visualise my database without having to type queries in terminal, and without using some clunky shit like metabase.
Charles,

Duracell sells new batteries for laptops. That is how I got a brand new battery for my Thinkpad x220. I just checked and they got batteries for iBook G4:

https://www.duracelldirect.co.uk/laptop-notebook/apple/ibook...

Double check if it is the correct part number, you might need to go through their laptop selector page.
> You're blurring the line between software and hardware support, which is a very important distinction.

Isn't hardware support just called "warranty"? That remains the same regardless of when you bought it.

>And that Apple products cost $$ while Ubuntu is free, which leads to different reasonable expectations.

My point wasn't whether canonical/apple's support lifecycle policies were reasonable, just that that defining support periods as the last day it was sold, rather the first day it was sold was unusual/misleading. If you want something to be supported a long time after you get it, you don't grab the oldest version, simple as that. Consumer products don't have a support subscription like enterprise products do, so limiting support to old products is really the only economically viable choice that companies have.
Reuters is pretty good (at least for US and world news; I don't know how they are for UK).

AP seems to me to be fairly reasonable (not dramatically slanted one way or the other).
I don't think he stated that it would dry up, but I do think he said that it may decrease.

> Jessica and I had dinner recently with a prominent investor. He seemed sure the bad performance of the Facebook IPO will hurt the funding market for earlier stage startups. But no one knows yet how much. Possibly only a little. Possibly a lot, if it becomes a vicious circle.

Lots of qualification and uncertainty.

> What I do worry about is (a) it may be harder to raise money at all, regardless of price and (b) that companies that previously raised money at high valuations will now face "down rounds," which can be damaging.

More qualification and uncertainty.

I think the biggest challenge is in the author taking something so qualified and making it seem much more confident and certain than it actually was.

Would you agree that he was exploring whether start-up investments may decrease?
> Creators must be compensated well.

How? By who?
yes but how many times you think it will make a headline when google slowly increases stake in adt while simultaneously pumping in preferred deals for relevant data. I fully expect nest to have deep integration into adt going forward.
Also, different use cases put focus on different quality measures - period, correlations between each generated number, performance... there is room for many useful algorithms.
My response above is perhaps a bit overly-dismissive of technical questions. I always ask technical questions, but they're more open and conversational, and I learn more from going off on tangents. There's rarely a single right answer. I'm trying to get a sense of your experience and how you approach unknowns.

Here are some of the more-technical questions I ask interview candidates, which are still best done in a casual way:

* What happens when a user enters a URL in their browser and hits return? If they start talking about DNS, protocol/port mapping, networks/firewalls, web servers-application communication, cookies, page rendering, etc. then I can go off on various tangents.

* How do you test your software? Can get into the differences between unit/integration testing, mocking/fixtures, QA, etc.

* How do you deploy software? Leads to discussions about SCM/branching, CI/CD, containerization, IaC, cloud services, the benefits/drawbacks of self-hosting vs cloud hosting.

There are plenty of others along these lines. My goal is to see if the person has actually done anything in a real environment, formed opinions, and stayed up to date on modern technology and practices.