skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The Mac has been released in 1984 with the close icon on the left side of the window's title bar [...] So it seems like in fact, Windows has been designed to do things differently from the Mac

The Windows which was released on that era also had the close function on the left side of the windows's title bar. The right side had only the minimize/maximize buttons. Moving the close function to the right side of the title bar came much later.

> and keyboard shortcuts using the command key located directly to the left (later also to the right) of the space bar.

Windows had to work with the PC keyboards of that era, which did not have that key. Much later, Microsoft gained enough influence to mandate adding a couple of extra keys to the keyboard (the "Windows" and "Menu" keys), but by then, the shortcuts had already become established (not to mention that many people still had old keyboards without these keys).
Here's the preview paper (not peer reviewed yet):

Papain-like protease regulates SARS-CoV-2 viral spread and innate immunity

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2601-5_reference....
Remember when it was ruled the POTUS blocking people was unconstitutional?

https://www.ncsl.org/blog/2019/07/23/potus-cant-block-critic...

I'm not prepared to argue this applies to her in the same way, but maybe the person who you're responding to thinks it is parallel, so perhaps more dialogue than just scoffing would be appropriate.
I use dind to build containers in gitlab ci.
Buddhism is a religion (along with many other religions) that allows a minority to brainwash a majority in order to exploit them. Those Buddhist temples don’t build themselves. You offer them afterlife or an end of suffering and in return they offer their independence of thought and action.

The concept of self is evolutionarily effective. For better or worse, so is the concept of us and them.
Yes 'window dressing' [1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/17/business/global/layoffs-i...
Fall 2020
Here's a backgrounder on the Huawei IP thefts: https://www.zdnet.com/article/us-charges-huawei-with-rackete...

TikTok's For You algorithm is pretty clearly based on YouTube and Netflix's published recommendation platforms, but I'm not sure why you're framing this so narrowly. The entire product is a Vine clone and they regularly steal content for marketing purposes (c.f. https://twitter.com/xTempex/status/1182185566999318529).

We don't really see this level of abuse from American or European firms who have ethnically Chinese executives. It's not really a matter of race; it's a corporate culture that is more common in highly-competitive markets with weak IP protections. Trying to frame it as racist isn't really productive, especially since the parent comment wasn't specifically talking about Han Chinese, but about the nation.
https://twitter.com/hnjhj/status/1291906465775509506/photo/1
He pretty much agrees with this and his solution is for people to learn it all.

I thought 't Hooft was saying you have to learn all of this stuff. But it sounds like you're saying you can do good work in physics without some of this information. Is that true? What can you dispense with?
What's cheaper with these wide roads? By how much?
Dental X-Ray power levels!
I'd note that the article doesn't address the issue of ER capacity at all. Most wealthy countries' citizens expect to be able to get treatment if they catch COVID, but if the US didn't implement lockdowns, that wouldn't be tenable. The author's thesis may still hold that this would still be a small proportion of deaths, but it would be a less popular decision than lockdowns.
In Canada you can get income tax breaks if you use part of your home as an office.
This may seem obvious to older people that have navigated highly structured organizations for a while, but it's a good insight.

I've used a similar "bushido vs bureaucracy" dichotomy in the past. Leadership necessitates accepting that failures will occur, planning on how to handle them, and learning from them. Sadly in the US at least, we've had decades of implicit training otherwise and it shows up as a paucity of adults in the room when problems that aren't bullshittable come around.

The "don't rock the boat" mentality that makes people accept all kinds of personal risk aversion and cognitive dissonance is rife in any organization that is putting money in people's wallet. Delaying the consequences of any decision or event until after your last paycheck works when enough people buy into it, sort of a meta-Ponzi scheme of responsibility that facilitates the real Ponzi scheme of getting paid today on tomorrow's bill.

Sort of tangential, but if you find this article whatever combination of interesting or eye-opening, you may want to read Locke's Confronting Managerialism. (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11532185-confronting-man...)
Photos of the CCP community in these so called companies:

https://twitter.com/hnjhj/status/1291906465775509506/photo/1
Your statement is false and unsourced. The basis of the paper, as stated in the abstract is to "examine the role of search engines and their optimization processes in directing traffic towards junk news & disinformation about COVID-19" - it has nothing to do with "radical leftist propaganda".

Also, besides Snopes, the authors list the following sources: AFP Factuel, BBC Reality Check, Correctiv, Les Décodeurs, dpa Faktencheck, FactCheck, Media Bias/Fact Check, Newsguard, Pagella Politica, PolitiFact, Tagesschau Faktenfinder.

It is easy, especially for the HN community, to see that overly-sensationalist fake news stories could trip an algo whose purpose is to surface the "most popular" stories.

This is fantastic work by The Computational Propaganda Project.
> If someone had told me that one of my employees was hunting white supremacists with the FBI I wouldn’t have to ask who it was because, of course it’s you. It’s always you.

This is obviously heavily embellished by the sort of person who’s really into Harry Potter as an adult.
> She has a manager who (apparently) has a low tolerance for risk. He probably got to where he is by spinning situations so that it's not his fault. He was upset that she contacted the FBI about a situation and took on more risk than he was comfortable with.

I seriously doubt that it was the intent of the author to accuse Matt Cutts as someone who spun blame onto others and avoided responsibility.
WeChat Ban May Cut a Vital Lifeline to Chinese Factories for U.S. Brands
Social media algorithms amplify the most engaging content, and extreme versions of political statements are very engaging. I don't think it takes deliberate messaging tactics by one side or another for our current political climate to emerge.
I maintain an alternative web component library, and this is the Bootstrap comparison I like to use. [1]

The API is easier, there’s less markup, and less room for error. A well-designed component also bakes in accessibility and provides encapsulation so your own styles and behaviors won’t leak in.

It’s a way better dev experience.

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/web_design/comments/hypdzz/comment/...
The same argument is made by the Swedish ER doctor in the linked article:

“Considering that 70% of those who have died of covid are over 80 years old, quite a few of those 6,000 would have died this year anyway. That makes covid a mere blip in terms of its effect on mortality.”

It’s just empirically true that dying at 80 is different from dying at 20 if you’re assessing the impact of a pandemic. I guess it needs to be pointed out that “different” has a distinct meaning from “way less tragic.”
Yeah they don’t pay $300K for a good undergrad who just graduated. More like $200K I would say (base + equity). It varies of course. But $300k would be a hell of a good offer.
One strange behavior is that in Finder (in list view for instance), page up and page down (or Fn-Down, Fn-Up) move the view up and down, but the selected item remains unchanged so that hitting the arrow keys returns the view back to the selected item. In order to select a different item, I either use the mouse/trackpad, hold down the arrow key to my desired item, or press Option+Up/Down to move the selection to the beginning or end of the list of files. I don't know of a way to move the cursor by one page view.

It's a behavior that I can get used to, but what I find inconsistent is that the behavior is different in iTunes. It seems like in iTunes, the only way to move the selection is either arrow keys or the mouse. Option+Up/Down doesn't do what it does in Finder.
Can anyone get behind this paywall?
Or NYPD has more cops than Portugal has soldiers.
I would love this. Please let us know when you have something online, even if it's just a work in progress on github.
Asbestos fibers enters the capillaries in the lungs and over 20 years work their way into the sack holding the capillaries to then scab and become tumors. During that 10-20 years, shallow coughing and shortness of breath could lower blood oxygen levels that can’t be good for cognition.
"Gremlins" is a very lazy way of making a strawman. Just because one can't imagine a different universe does not mean gremlins made it. All scientific knowledge we discovered made some previously true piece of knowledge false. It is a pretty bad attitude to make fun of people simply stating we could be wrong. We are most definitely wrong. Imagine somebody from 1000 years in the future read this; how embarrassed would they be that people believed what we believe?
Increased intake of probiotics as well
Your first link supports my point that it emerged from a no-spy agreement between the parties: "Until now, it had been generally understood that the citizens of each country were protected from surveillance by any of the others." It has nothing that supports your point because nowhere in it does it say the UK uses that data to skirt its own laws, and it is obvious that the US collecting data on Britons does not break its own laws.

Your second link simply states that the UK has access to intercepts that it shares with the US. It doesn't say that the US asks the UK for data on people it is prohibited by law from spying on.

Your third link likewise does not say anything about any of the member countries illegally spying on their own citizens using other countries' data.

This all makes sense because what you are claiming is illegal, and there would have been lawsuits against the US government about it if there were any evidence (even the slightest hint of any evidence) it was happening because it would be by far the most egregious overreach in the leaks. The government cannot pay a third party to illegally search a US citizen any more than it can pay a third party to illegally detain one. Instead, the only illegal US program in Snowden's leaks was the phone metadata collection, which has since been shut down.
Next project idea: Pneumatic keyboard!

Kind of surprisingly, doing a quick search for that term online shows up a 1960's patent for one:

https://patents.google.com/patent/US3034628A/en

The advent of the fluid amplifier has led to the development
of data processing and control systems wherein the
processing and control functions are carried out by elements
which operate entirely on fluid principles. That is, these
systems contain no moving parts other than the working fluid
which flows through the system.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide
a pure fluid system for inserting information into a fluid
data processing device.

If anyone wants a challenge... ;)
My dad had a Toshiba back in the day and I thought it was the coolest laptop in existence. I now have had a Macbook for the past 7 years, but I have nothing bad to say about Toshiba laptops.
Pull the flu/influenza death numbers from the CDC for the last decade. I dare you.

In the last ten years we (in the US) have lost +500,000 people to the flu.

For some reason the people that died from the flu must be lesser in value because nobody did anything about it.

You would think that a single year of 65k deaths would be enough for everybody to wear masks the following flu season. And yet?

No economic shutdowns. No masks. No restrictions on schools. Literally nothing other than vaccines that mostly don’t work.
That is an incredibly bad paper. They have gone on a fishing expedition across dozens of algorithmically detected differences, barely adjusted their statistical significance thresholds to make up for the fact that they're searching for something that might be "significant", and even then, the best they can do is come up with...50% of people have something. A coin toss.

This is the medical literature version of the xkcd green M&M comic:

https://xkcd.com/882/
Congress can remove any Justice or Judge. Congress can in fact altogether abolish every single inferior Article III court, because they were all created by act of Congress. Congress can change the number of Justices on the Supreme Court.

Congress can remove the Executive.

Two given parties are not "co-equal" when one and only one party can fire the other party.
Give Gallery a look: http://galleryproject.org/
The missing piece of the puzzle is that we never meet the idiot manager in the story. She's in an organizational situation where her team has oversight over a team in the government implementing on a project but does not have the ability to directly set policy, constrain goals, or otherwise apply direct managerial leverage. The idiot in the story is the guy charging full speed ahead with a deployment of a product that is already known compromised. Matt Cutts, meanwhile, is the head of her department, and also has no managerial oversight over the team she just called federal law enforcement on.

Because she is incentivized to make the product as good as possible, not hit deadlines and satisfy arbitrary legislative targets divorced from software engineering reality, it never occurred to her how much s* she was going to cause for the people in the direct chain of management by getting the FBI involved. It's probably the right thing to do... Ultimately, the software was compromised by domestic terrorists and the threat was real. But she's basically just wrecked any goodwill she had working with this department for the foreseeable future (especially if it turns out that somebody in the management chain that she has oversight over has actually managed to break the law due to negligence ;) ).
Terrifying, I wonder how big of a miner community you need to stop this from happening. How much would it cost to do this for bitcoin?
> if we had months or years for the market to react.

Markets are generally the fastest thing to react to any change in circumstances. Rents in my area are already 60% of what they were pre-coronavirus.

The Aspen Institute report is, on the face of it, silly. 40% of renters are not going to be evicted. That would imply 40% of rental properties sitting vacant and there is no way landlords would accept that outcome. Landlords don't want (and probably can't afford) to have large amounts of housing stock sitting empty.

> By the time rents correct you'll have millions of homeless. But I guess that's better because... reasons?

The world has changed. People need to reorganise their lifestyles to cope with that change. It certainly isn't the governments job to try and maintain a delusional clinging to lifestyles that don't work any more.

> What other solution would you propose, other than a time machine?

Fixing a root cause doesn't help the current crisis. If I have a step on a nail then fixing the root cause (putting the nail away) doesn't change the fact my foot hurts. It helps for the next one; there is no reason to think this is a 1:100 year pandemic. It is probably a 1:20 or 1:30 year pandemic conditional on modern air travel [0]. People will need to get used to this sort of thing.

If you want long term solutions; loose construction requirements that promote abundant housing, monetary/fiscal policy that promotes low debt loads and high home ownership. If you want short term solutions; government guarantee of a place in mass housing (not particularly pleasant conditions, but indoors, safe & sanitary) + 3 meals a day. People shouldn't be starving on the street but people need to fund their own lifestyles - not taxpayers.

If you want radical solutions; end the lockdowns and let people work.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/tourism
I think the author is missing a couple of important points:

1) How would one approach this task having a day job?

2) How do you compensate for not having a chance to work
in a suitable environment doing good research?

2a)Knowing and
understanding everything that has been done in the past
doesn't by itself make you a researcher. This (being a scientist) must be
taught by actual theoretical physicists. There are many
supervisors, but very few that can teach you to do research.

2b) Serious and worthwhile research is seldom done by one person. You need to collaborate or at least communicate with
other scientists in the field (and sometimes even out of the field). You have to be in the right
environment. Just reading arxiv won't quite cut it.
I still have an old ca. 2008 Toshiba Satellite laptop running as a sort of media centre for the exercise room. My first laptop.
Black and white was a competitive construct of us and them. It is that simple. Human culture really isn’t more complex than that. It is just strategies and tactics layered atop the same goals animals have.
Always lawyer up. As we’ve learned in the last few years, the FBI loves to catch people “lying” to agents as a precursor to persecuting them for political reasons.
She never actually outright called her boss an idiot. The most literal interpretation of the title is "if you feel this way about your boss, then here is why you may feel that way." I certainly hope that was her intended meaning, because the counterfactual is very risque. I did think the title was unnecessary though, and the naming.
Lots of comments on 1,000+ people teams.

What about sub 100?

We are fully distributed. Lots of Slack and Zoom. Trying to create a central source of truth in Notion but that feels very static.

Any smaller teams using this?
Hiring and operating out of a whole new country (or several) is a bigger leap for a company to make than just "anywhere in the same country" - the places I've talked to are considering making the latter change permanent, but aren't looking at starting to hire internationally.
I can confirm that C-u has the behavior I described for me. Running Mojave. It's very useful at times in terminal as a sort of "reflected" C-k shortcut.

The way it behaves for me matches the description here: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/readline.3.html
Mine's still in service (as a stationary machine for video comsumption.)
Do you have a link to Linus’s post? Would be much appreciated.
Hope you like working India(Bengaluru) timezone and working for India wages. Like most that are higher percentage remote, the vast majority of development is done outside of higher wage countries and due to government currency policies are out of reach for those in country with a higher cost of living.

I’m shocked how naive people seem to be in these threads about remote work. There is tons of remote work. There already has been for decades. It’s called outsourcing. The reason you can’t find remote jobs in high wage countries is because no one would be crazy enough to pay those wages for remote workers when they can find the same level of talent for less than half the price.
Probably she doesn’t know. Her role in it was connecting the researchers with the FBI, which she did. No reason for them to keep her in the loop.
Many religions rely on the attraction of a truth to blind people to the robbery taking place. Looking solely at one truth blinds you to other truths.
I don't care how big the underwater part is though. I am just using the case rate as a proxy for when states seem to hit their peak (yes, extremely handwavy).

As long at the confirmed cases is within some constant fraction of true number, it will be a decent proxy. This makes sense to me since some x% of the people who get infect will need hospitalization so they will get counted towards the statistics.
Of course, a company that currently depends on crazy overtime, etc, isn't suddenly going to be looking to hire people who aren't going to do that just because they are hiring remote.

Let's not imagine that widening a hiring pool is going to change top-down company cultures.
> The law specifically says he cannot use it to restrict any personal communication to foreign entities. So yeah, he has no right to do this.

According to the article he is planning to restrict transactions with the companies, not personal communication.
Seems Like a promising solution.
Yeah, it's not clear unless one understands what USDS does.

USDS is the federal government's first attempt to recognize the fact that the United States has no cross-department best practices for software engineering at the federal level. It's an organization tasked with running roughshod over various software engineering projects, but in its first iteration, it served an advisory role, and had no "teeth." So it ran into a lot of challenges where it would try to provide best practices for various government orgs, and the orgs, convinced that they knew best because they've been doing this for decades (wrong) already, could just ignore them.

I believe they have some teeth now, and it may perhaps be because a couple of interactions like this occurred. I know Mr. Cutts himself built up a bit of a reputation as a skullcracker, because it turns out he was quite good at figuring out how to apply bureaucratic leverage (mostly by figuring out how individual team members were incentivized and then aligning the relevant incentives to make them care about getting the job done the right way).
> because I realized software isn't really engineering

Competently writing software will involve applying engineering principles and a project management methodology: things like TDD, design-patterns, your system's architecture - they're all part of software-engineering.

Writing software is "programming" in the same way that writing a bestseller novel is "typing" or doing mathematics is putting fancy symbols on paper.
This is what we call the "Visit the emergency room" business model, totally legal.
“On twitter” is redundant
That's not a compromise; that's worse.

What it's essentially saying is that the publisher should be able to continue to act unethically in polluting minds by pushing ads but also collect extra money from people who object to their pollution. IOW, "I'm going to keep polluting but if you pay me then I won't pollute in your personal space." Well actually, I care about your society wide pollution too. Just stop polluting.

On principle I will never give money to a website that runs this sort of policy.
Putting the Caps Lock key above the Shift key came from typewriters, where it was a "Shift Lock" key (it physically locked the Shift key below it in the pressed position). If you have to blame something, blame typewriters.
Angular Is an Onion
It's frankly hilarious that people are so touchy about this that this post got downvoted, even though it's just providing a helpful suggestion.