skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The rule of law doesn't exclude an employer deciding an employee is more trouble than they're worth outside of some very specific situations (class protection, etc.).

Within the constraint of the rule of law, a group of people can organize to petition an employer to remove an employee for behavior A, and the employer can evaluate A and decide whether the group's claims are untrue, A should be removed for the behavior, or it's not worth the time to decide and A should be removed to quiet the group.

Good employers won't do 3, and we should probably shame the employers who do, but I think it opens a Pandora's box to constrain their choices with further law on this topic.
> It would be quite comical if the 300lb figure were correct, having lugged one around before. They hovered around 92lbs, though.

I might be mistaken then. There was also a Trinitron in the room, 30-something inches and required 3 people to pick up. The FW900 certainly felt like 300lbs, for a single person.
No, it's probably because you people would still complain about them.
The interview loop is generally 4-5 45 minute to 1-hour interviews + a 1 hour lunch. You get bathroom/water breaks etc.

Each interview is rubric-based and related to job skills.
Can't you already run Windows on QEMU/KVM? (Or did WSL do something special that I missed?)
DARPA looks to make off-road autonomous vehicles perform better than humans
browsers have the bad habit of autorefresh
what should scientists do when political processes ignore "the facts" they have reported?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trial
For sure, the data is a big problem. But I think to compare with your Venus example - that’s an area where there’d probably be hundreds of astrophysicists around the world who’d jump at the chance to work on that publicly.

With this phenomenon however, it’s like the polar opposite. Nobody wants to associate themselves with it, so even if there is something worth studying, we’re not studying it.
Here is a wired article about the scientific consensus on this issue: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/great-barrington-declaration...

"The project was sponsored by the American Institute for Economic Research, which is a libertarian think tank funded by billionaire Charles Koch's conservative Koch Foundation"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barrington_Declaration

The Koch brothers are known for financing climate change deniers.
Why does it have to be either/or? Why not both? My team is kicking around the idea of being on-site one day every week or two. We have noticed an increased productivity while working from home yet there are things we miss working together. My employer is paying attention and realizing they can significantly reduce their office expenses while providing a space for teams to meet periodically.

My employer is also realizing you don't have to rely exclusively on local talent. For practical purposes if you're meeting every week or two then you still have to live in the same region. For example, one of the guys on my team just bought a house that's 2-2.5 hours away from the office. If he has to make that trip once every other week then it's not bad. Given that traffic congestion has dramatically decreased that 2-2.5 hours provides you with considerable range and options with where to live. Yet you still get to interact with your team face-to-face every other week. It's the best of both worlds - I think.

Is this a scenario you guys have been thinking about?
Immunity is not black and white. You could have sufficient immunity to stop it from taking hold in your body while at the same time carrying the virus in your sinuses and breathing them out on everyone.

> and in fact all regions in the world which had a very severe outbreak in March and April haven’t had a second wave at all yet

That's just straight up wrong. Most everywhere is now seeing a second wave, except the USA, because we never ended our first wave.
Where I live in New Mexico it's closer to 10 people/sq mi. There is poor cell phone reception on some high points and none elsewhere. So I hike with a PLB. This area does have a serious drug problem but there are so few people that the threat is low. Where I typically hike I've seen maybe a half dozen people, at a distance, in a dozen years.
That was two guys on foot whose objective was only to escape. There are many worse scenarios than that.
Thanks for the interesting link. Ars at its best. Though my interpretation of the article is more that the risk / reward ratio simply has become too poor, nothing to do with inflation.

I suppose it is easier to rob a 150k watch from an unprotected person on the street, of hold up a Chinese tourist (who often have their holiday money in cash), if you're into that sort of thing.
I can’t take the WHO or the CDC very seriously after everything this year. One such example is when both organizations spread fallacies that masks are either not necessary/effective or only necessary in certain settings.
6+ hour interviews are common for senior-level+ engineering roles at big orgs. They fly you in for a day of interviewing. Some orgs will even break this up to a 2-3 day thing to even it out.

If you're a bay company that's taking a $250k+/yr risk on someone you typically rake them over the coals (for better or worse).
Like what are you talking about specifically?
How can they self regulate when government keeps screwing with the incentives?

Did busting kingpins solve the drug problem?
My Firefox here does not allows that.

1. It strips the JavaScript: part away if I just paste it once

2. Even if I re-add it manually, it still does no alert

Ergo, a sane browser can be quite sandboxed to avoid the average user to do stupid to easily.
The difference between the USA and other Western nations is explainable by understanding the difference between a federation and a confederation.

All confederations are federations, but not all federations are confederations. The difference comes from the federal government's power.

Both constitute a union of regions under a federal government. However, the confederation is distinguished by a union of sovereign regions under a federal government. Independence of the state was so important at the founding of the USA that the first governing document of the country is names the "Articles of Confederation". However, the Articles of Confederation were too weak and did not allow the federal government to levy taxes, so they were scrapped for the present-day Constitution to grant the federal government a bit more power.

The USA isn't an ideal confederation, but the confederal elements pop up from time to time (e.g. any person talking about "state's rights")

Canada is also close to being a confederation, but the executive power is still vested in the British monarchy.

I don't believe any European nation can be considered a confederation.

So, to your point: the most free nations in the world are those espousing confederal values. Even among Western nations, only a handful qualify, and the USA is one of those.
You could blame Boeing for not taking control of the planes from the ground and prevent the terrorists steering them into the towers.
We simply master Fortran because of all the number crunching we are doing, nothing more.
The question isn't whether lockdowns could work or how to make them work. We know lockdowns can work because China successfully pulled one off at the beginning of this debacle and people there were largely going about their normal lives after about 6 weeks. The question is really do politicians in the US have the balls to actually prosecute a successful lockdown in the Chinese style (no leaving the house more than X times per week and only to perform essential activities, checkpoints, non-voluntary temperature checks, forced quarantines, forced mask usage, arrests for non-compliance, shutdown of every non-essential business, etc). The answer to that is a resounding no.
Earlier this year the president appointed a new head of the US Postal Service. This person may just hate the USPS and have no intention of subverting an election, but regardless of their intentions, their actions undermining the USPS during the exact couple months when people were realizing they were going to have to vote by mail have made many people understandably suspicious of the USPS.

These people want to not have to go to a crowded polling place during a pandemic, but also are worried that a ballot sent through the mail may not arrive on time. So they are seeking to ensure their vote is counted as well as possible by dropping their ballot off in person.

Regarding the security arguments you propose: The list of official boxes is generally on the local board of elections’ official website. Also, many boards of elections notify the voter upon receipt of their ballot, so if you drop off your ballot but never receive notification, you can call them and find out what’s up. The boxes are locked, many are near places like schools or banks that have CCTV.

And the kicker: If anyone catches you tampering with the very obviously marked box, you risk jail time. To really swing an election, you’ll need multiple people who are willing to risk jail time in return for possibly but not certainly swinging an election in their preferred direction.
There are more than 8 people in the top echelon.
David Nabarro of the WHO said in an interview that lockdowns should not be the primary method of control and that lockdowns should only be used to buy time to develop better strategies to test, trace, and isolate clusters. He mentions Asian countries, Germany, and Canada as some countries that have done this pretty decently.

I don't think this is new, controversial, or a "backflip" (as some headlines have claimed). This is pretty much what the general guidance has been since March.
Almost like certain aspects may have been exaggerated or have been outright lies.
That seems wrong. No matter how I slice it, risk of being North Korea (specifically) seems to clock in at somewhere between 0.1% and 2%, appreciably more than incredibly rare occurrences.
I can't find a source where WHO harshly criticises lockdowns. The recent statement by David Nabarro seems much more nuanced.

"We in the World Health Organization do not advocate lockdowns as the primary means of control of this virus
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Lockdowns just have one consequence that you must never, ever belittle, and that is making poor people an awful lot poorer"
For the as long as I've been alive, the human collective has destroyed natural areas, polluted, and harmed human populations that were unable to defend themselves, all in the interest of serving "the economy".

Well, those ideals have come home for many parts of the world. Imperialism and disregard for human welfare will now serve "the economy", as we are seeing now in the United States.

I find it ethically abhorrent, but humans are humans.
It's hardly surprising that a small number of the most privileged academics have taken an anti-lockdown opinion - which is their opinion, not backed by even the simplest credible scientific model.

Business as usual is a pretty sweet deal for a professor at one of these universities. They will face absolutely minimal personal risk, and it further benefits them to get publicity by taking a contrary position.
Yeah. We gotta do what we gotta do, even if it sucks. That’s one small consolation — despite all the anti-maskers and so on, I know that you, and lots of people everywhere, are working really hard to protect others from the virus. Makes it a little easier to do my part.
"The American Institute for Economic Research (AIER), at whose meeting the declaration was launched, has been described as a libertarian thinktank that has received funding from the Koch Foundation and has previously supported climate change denial.[8][7]"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barrington_Declaration
The official rationale is that it reduces bias. A single 1-hour interview has a low signal to noise ratio. Two interviews is better. At four interviews a fairly reliable signal emerges. Add a fifth interview so that you can train/calibrate new interviewers, take an hour for lunch, and you're at 6 hours.
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> but I'm certain it's also possible in-person with some kind of key/button input or some diagnostic device.

Seems like you're giving Ferrari too much credit, as the engineer they sent out wasn't able to get it working (eg in-person).

The car needed to be towed (back to Ferrari I guess).
Don't nearly all Microsoft employees have offices? Every building I've been to (I can probably name off about 30 of them) had employees with offices. Can you name the buildings where employees don't have offices?
SpaceX to Develop High Speed Rocket to Deliver Weapons for US Army in 60 Mins
Having the ability to speak non-truth is indeed freedom of speech.
This isn’t true in California and I don’t know of any other state that requires stamps to mail in ballots. Driving any distance to drop off a ballot is more expensive than mailing it from home. It’s more likely that these people have consumed a lot of exaggerated news stories about the mail system and therefore think that dropping it off is safer. Meanwhile, we’re all getting the rest of our mail on time without exceptional delays.
Well, you're using an extremely limited global resource. Blasting your voice around the world with 1,500 watts behind it is something that not everybody can do at once. So we need some sort of internationally agreeable rule set. The compromises include no encryption, required licensing, individual identification, no political speech, and others. But what we get in return is pretty cool: I can talk to somebody in Japan in a truly peer-to-peer fashion, using nothing but our own hardware in our own homes and the natural electromagnetic properties of the atmosphere.

If encryption were allowed on the ham bands, they would probably become dominated by general purpose digital communications; likely to the exclusion of their current purpose.
No one is denying the negative effects (economic, educational, mental) of such serious lockdowns. It seems that this group is making a claim that if we just take extra caution with the elderly and those with pre-existing conditions, the rest of us can get back to relatively normal. I think this claim is reasonable and I would normally agree.

The issue is that it is very clear, at least in the US, this just is not reality. We would absolutely screw this up and kill way more people if we didn't have these training wheels on.
a simplification of his argument is the end goal for all the policies is currently herd immunity. the problem with the current policy is reaches herd immunity by spreading the virus through both the vulnerable and less vulnerable population.

however, they are proposing reaching herd immunity by trying to spread the virus only through the less vulnerable population. because there is different rates of death between the two populations this should lead to less death overall.
It's not definitively the case that lockdowns preserve the maximum number of human lives if the disease is not very lethal.

There are plenty of stories in the UK of people having their cancer treatments postponed due to lockdown, and their cancer now being terminal.
The default interpolation for imshow is 'antialiased' so I think the calls to imshow should use interpolation='none' to avoid the line colors bleeding into the gray image
Politicians should be the ones making policy based on the data available.
That points to another issue: sustainability. If the group is that small, and presumably aging, then how do you ensure you have enough in the pipeline to ensure you can support and enhance the Windows kernel for years to come?
> [solar panels] creates a large amount of greenhouse gasses.

Sounds misleading to me. A quick websearch and I found that currently they seem to be 10 x better than oil and coal etc:

> Making solar or photovoltaic cells requires potentially toxic heavy metals such as lead, mercury and cadmium. It even produces greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, that contribute to global warming. Still, the researchers found that if people switched from conventional fossil fuel-burning power plants to solar cells, air pollution would be cut by roughly 90 percent. Although manufacturing solar cells requires heavy metals, the researchers noted that coal and oil also contain heavy metals, which get released during combustion

https://www.livescience.com/2324-solar-power-greenhouse-emis...

> Mining the material to produce them ...

I think everything is off the table then, also your laptop or tablet -- websearch for "minerals laptop environment" for example.

It seems you don't like solar panels?
Well, that deserves a reply beyond the HN comment format. ESA hosted an event, called Phi Week, presenting many possible application cases in Earth Observation domain: https://livestream.com/esa/phiweek2020

If you don’t want to filter through 20 hours of videos, drop me an email to contact@exodusorbitals.com, I can send you a written summary. And some documents on our platform capabilities.
I just replaced my router with Google 3 point mesh. Installation was a snap. You do need a google account and you have to use the Google WiFi app.
I'm talking about the Stanford doctor in this article. Here's a summary of what he's been doing since the start of this, and he's been very wrong:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/04/experts-demolish-stu...
You're right of course, but nowadays it's become sort of "some working object has become inert due to software and requires physical intervention"
I am doing the first two, but no clue about the third. Any tips on where I should start?
What will ultimately hurt the establishment (by which I mean mainstream scientists and public health leaders) is this attitude: """“Whose grandmother and grandfather and family members are you willing to sacrifice for this stupid idea?” asked Santa Clara County Executive Jeff Smith, """

That's not an acceptable way to engage with good-faith scientists at major institutions. It's an appeal to emotion as well as an implication of stupidity on your opponent.

I've noticed this behavior among a wide range of mainstream scientists and public health leaders too- literally mocking people who disagree with their policies. This will hurt the credibility of these scientists, especially if, in retrospect (when we have the time and luxury to study the public health response to COVID in detail), we find out that decisions led to suboptimal outcomes.

It's far better to project humility, stand by your decision, but be willing to admit when you're wrong, and adapt.
You could probably call the committee reps anyway as someone with professional knowledge but no direct representative on it
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This is more high pressure garbage that is both biased and misses a lot of the other important parts of being an engineer. I would rather have on my team a mediocre developer with stellar communication skills than the other way around. Timing someone on an observed programming assignment is a dumb way to assess performance, and it is a great way to miss a lot of really good candidates.

Building real applications with real world complexity requires teams, and while being clever and curious is essential, so is being able to ask where something is or ask for help effectively is equally, if not more important.

It's harder to interview for those kinds of things, and instead hiring managers have elected to make the interview process some kind of trial by ordeal, and we are all worse, and the products we make are worse as a result..
I think 'inaccurate' was the key word. I think that's a reasonable barrier.
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The next sentence:

> In the late 1870s until the 1930s, "Turkey in the Straw" was performed in minstrel shows by blackface actors and musicians.

In the "racist versions" section:

> Another contrafactum, "Zip Coon", sung to the same tune as "Turkey in the Straw",[5] was popularized by Dixon and flourished during 1830s. This version was first published between 1829 and 1834 in either New York or Baltimore. All of the above performers claimed to have written the song, and the dispute is not resolved.

It's possible for both things to be true and for multiple versions to have become popular at the same time, with one outshining the other in popularity. As a recent example, Aretha Franklin's "Respect" is a cover.

In any case, the NPR's assertion is that specifically in the context of ice cream, 19th century ice cream parlors played minstrel songs (including but not limited to the song in question), and when they moved to trucks they played the music they used to play in parlors to attract customers who remembered what ice cream parlors sounded like.
Embrace

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Extend

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Extinguish
I have no idea why state election officials would say that these are illegal when they allow people to in person collect other peoples ballots.

Edit: That it says "official" but is not official government is questionable.
compared to how VMWare is going after the same space since 2012. Acquired Nicira, Airwatch, Velocloud, Carbon Black. The way the Threat sector has consolidated, all the firewalls became antivirus, and antivirus is pivoting to become a cloud firewall.
> then how can the US policy possibly be defended as anti-mortality?

There hasn't really been a coherent US policy, though, has there? The administration has been unable to get behind a reality-based response.
I personally don't think they know this now. As originally defined year of Linux as a desktop is never going to happen but I know lots of people that never come close to a Windows desktop these days. Lots of former windows desktops have been replaced with Phones, Tablets and Chromebooks. While these are not all Linux, they do replace what would have historically been a Windows sale.

MS losing mobile killed the idea of Windows everywhere and once they lost that they had to play well with others or risk sales in other places.
I've never had a mail in ballot that didn't have the postage prepaid, although when I lived abroad I had to obviously cover the international cost.

I've voted by mail in nearly every election since my first in 2008 and never had a problem. This year when the president knew a large amount of people were going to vote by mail he installed a mega donor with no experience and I began receiving my mail extremely late. I absolutely did not trust it this year and turned my ballot into a drop box at a polling site. Drop box usage was thankfully expended this year in my state.
These unofficial ballot drop boxes are largely placed at Republican leaning locations (gun shops, churches, candidate headquarters) to collect Republican-leaning votes. It wouldn’t make any sense for them to self-sabotage their own voter base. They’re just making an ill-advised attempt to protect their own voters’ ballots against imagined voter fraud at other locations.
You're assuming that they separate the tracking information.

Nothing ensures that they do.
The first sentence is:

>>This is my super secret proprietary no-nonsense guide

Looks like satire.
More ground stations will definitely make things better, but 24/7 connectivity to assets in LEO will take monumental, Starlink-scale level of effort.
Its been appreciating slowly for the last 5 years, I’ve seen deals in the $20-25 range throughout that time, and a few larger contiguous blocks going for a little more but not $50/ea.

You can monitor secondary market prices through RIPE fairly easily. What’s leading you to be sure it will increase 400% in the next 24 months?