skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. I haven't seen that idea claimed anywhere. 'Most','very many'???

2. There was a great shortage of N95s for hospitals for a long time. (Let alone 'nursing'-home death-traps, where 33% of US deaths - 179,000 - have occurred. [0]) Sterilization methods took months to emerge.

3. Consider how dense viruses get in IC units, compared to retail locations.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-nurs...
I work in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. The home office is in Seattle, Washington. I've made it clear at work that I'm not about to fly to the Seattle office [1] (not that I've ever needed to, but others in my office have). On a lark, I decided to see what it would cost to travel by train. On the plus side, there is train service between Ft. Lauderdale and Seattle. On the down side, it cost about $2,000 one-way. No way my company would spring for a ticket than costs more than first class air line ticket, but I wouldn't have mined the week travel one-way, as long as there was decent Internet connectivity (so I could continue to work).

[1] I don't have a fear of flying. I don't fly because of the security theater and the "presumed guilty" attitude. Also because of the declining comfort and service because people are prioritize the bottom line. It sucks.
AMD consumer identified
This fall was impending. The software components were invented faster than their representation of business components.

I remember facing this dilemma early on in 2000s. When I was writing JSP (Java Server Pages), we did not have an easy way to ‘model’ a JSP as a software entity in UML. A JSP did serverside logic as well as Frontend. Then a forum suggested that we do what happens underneath that a JSP is compiled as a Servlet and model them as ‘JSP_Front’ and ‘JSP_Back’ as the accurate representation.

Architect
I wasn't talking about trusting your word if you're rounding or otherwise tweaking real numbers. I was talking about the tendency to lie to yourself (universally, not about you specifically) if you were trying to come up with a "reasonable" range. As in "sure, we never gave someone $385,000 for this position, but of course we would if a sufficiently good candidate arrived or when one of employees improves enough" with your 190-280k range you quoted.

Honestly, I think if you're going to do that to give me some idea of what the future holds (and it's not too much work) tell me how likely I am (individually) to move up in the band. It can be part of the annual review, or something as general as "we typically move people who are developing on track 15% of the way up the band as they progress from bottom to top". It gives a picture going forward and, if an employee doesn't advance, sends a powerful signal that they need to improve.
It is not my impression that Biden has taken credit for _anything_ Trump has done. My recollection is that Biden, outside of news clipped down soundbites, HAS recognized things the former president has done:

* from getting a pandemic vaccine developed (though not properly produced, which Biden does deserve credit for pushing as hard as they have on),

* to the agreement that the prior administration reached, but lacked a clear timetable to implement (hence the end of the year soft deadline for pulling out, rather than an unplanned fulfillment mandate).

* to the deplorable crisis that was happening UNDOCUMENTED by the American media where refugees were shoved into the hands of criminals and thugs and inhumane conditions on the Mexican side of the border. Refugees that are fleeing crisis severely exacerbated by years of relief neglect in impoverished nations that they are fleeing as a result of US nationalism and a withdrawal from the world stage.

The border crisis isn't an issue that can be fixed overnight. It is a serious SYMPTOM that is so difficult even that symptom can't be treated in a short time-frame. Let alone fixing the root cause which is hundreds and even thousands of miles from the border.
On a superyacht, problems are rather caused by too few people with power and too much money. We know all that, there's enough accounts on life on superyachts, and Peter Thiel still tries to sell us this stuff. It's like a supercharged company town, like construction sites in Dubai.
Perhaps they are constrasting this particular U.S. strategy of pressure through boots on the ground v.s. aggressive Chinese foreign economic policies.

Now that isn't to say I think the U.S. does no economic tweaking and fiddling in foreign nations...
Transparency coming in would solve this.

If departments know what they get paid — and what other departments get paid — before accepting a job, then they either accept that there are differences for a reason, or reject the offer due to the reasons.

If the reasons are fair/reasonable, then there’s nothing to worry about. If they’re not and can’t hire anyone, they’ll figure that out and adjust the salaries for those departments.
sorry. those are my summary of the article. it's a TL;DR for the article.
Refurb weekend: Hewlett Packard 9000/350
Is there a defined "age limit" on iTunes accounts (or any other digital asset account)? I don't know the ToS, but I assume that it's illegal to sell, trade or gift an iTunes account to someone else. Assuming that I continue to maintain such an account for the rest of my natural life, die, and then bequeath the account to someone, will there come a point where Apple says "this account is older than any human, therefore it is no longer a valid one and will be disabled"?
> I would have hoped that in our current age of misinformation, that sources people trusted would not actively lie, but there you go.

Find a meta-analysis of mask wearing to prevent infection that was published at the time. Or find some RCTs of mask wearing to prevent infection. There are lots of papers looking at infection control - it's an important part of healthcare. Have a look at how they describe the quality of evidence.

Here's a well-known paper, published in a high impact reputable journal in June 2020. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

Distancing is rated at "moderate certainty"

> Transmission of viruses was lower with physical distancing of 1 m or more, compared with a distance of less than 1 m (n=10 736, pooled adjusted odds ratio [aOR] 0·18, 95% CI 0·09 to 0·38; risk difference [RD] −10·2%, 95% CI −11·5 to −7·5; moderate certainty); protection was increased as distance was lengthened (change in relative risk [RR] 2·02 per m; pinteraction=0·041; moderate certainty).

Face masks only achieve "low certainty"

> Face mask use could result in a large reduction in risk of infection (n=2647; aOR 0·15, 95% CI 0·07 to 0·34, RD −14·3%, −15·9 to −10·7; low certainty), with stronger associations with N95 or similar respirators compared with disposable surgical masks or similar (eg, reusable 12–16-layer cotton masks; pinteraction=0·090; posterior probability >95%, low certainty). Eye protection also was associated with less infection (n=3713; aOR 0·22, 95% CI 0·12 to 0·39, RD −10·6%, 95% CI −12·5 to −7·7; low certainty). Unadjusted studies and subgroup and sensitivity analyses showed similar findings.

These certainty ratings come from GRADE. https://bestpractice.bmj.com/info/toolkit/learn-ebm/what-is-...

Low certainty means "The true effect might be markedly different from the estimated effect".

This doesn't feel like lying. It feels like making the best of a bunch of not very good data.
Value semantics as in "copy constructor for everything" is only helpful in limited ways.

What is helpful is move semantics for anything mutable, which was introduced quite recently.
this is where 2-pass encoding would be of benefit
kind of hard to import goods or even leave the country when you are paid in toilet paper
If only it were that simple but the code is so expressive that you can't really create the UML as easily from it as the other way around. You just can do too much stuff in code that the UML generator would just not understand at all. Or you'd have to basically code in a very specific manner. Not fun. Of course since I last tried it they probably got better at it.

I even remember back in university you'd have to write your custom code _in_ the UML tools dialogs if you didn't want it to be overwritten next time you tried to generate code. Of course these were just simple text boxes. Horrible dev experience.
::sets up easily beatable strawman, ignores everything else::

“See! I won!”

Quote from article:

“There, some coworkers insist I need to be rooted out if this company is to be a truly “inclusive” one, while others post ax emojis next to my name.”

Yeah that’s not threatening at all. Totally professional.
Women in war: Female soldiers are changing how armed forces work
The Google for employers to find candidates by their skills
I see this too. Almost every asset class is moving together. When interest rates can't be dropped further then the real problems will begin. Banks have built floors into their loans so that variable rates can't drop below zero already. At the point when interest rates drop below zero, lower interest rates will actually harm the economy rather than help it and then we'll see everything come crashing down.
So donald dump is responsible for the re-subjugation of Afghan females?
If you break videos up into short chunks, then you could simply encode those chunks on-demand into the perfect encoding for the requester.

The advantages are:

- You don't waste CPU encoding video into formats that won't be used.

- You can use a standard caching solution to reuse those chunks.

- Everyone gets the perfect encoding, always.

- If most people watch the first 2 minutes and then give up on a 20 minute video, you don't waste CPU encoding the other 18 minutes.

- You can introduce new encodings instantly for all videos, without going back and re-encoding historical videos.

- You don't waste storage on video chunks in formats that will never be used.

- It's really simple.

The disadvantages would be:

- You have more unpredictable load if a lot of people start watching (different) videos at once (although the common case of a lot of people watching the same video is still fine) and you could "cap" the load by switching to a fallback format to avoid becoming overloaded.

- There might be an initial delay when playing or sweeping a video whilst the first chunk is encoded. On the other hand, it can't get much worse than it is already, and you could make sure these initial chunks are prioritised, or else serve the initial chunks via a fallback format.
I used mcbroken three times. Each time it said the machine was working but the workers told me otherwise. The site continued saying it was working until they closed. :(
>Ideally that should be zero-overhead

Optionals are not zero-overhead in any other language. If you aren't going to bother checking the optional, why not just return any old pointer type? The type system should be used to enforce a contract and bypassing checks on that feels like you are just spitting in the fact of the type checker.
Signald: Unofficial daemon for interacting with Signal
Hacking China: China’s domestic surveillance programs benefit foreign spies
It's unfortunate that fears curtail your travel options. I have a close friend who has a similar experience.

For me, driving the west has been life changing. I wish I could convince my friend to give it a go. They would get a lot out of it.
> That number came from an expert.

I'm sure it did, and it's not just completely made up with absolutely no corroborating evidence to back it up.
> not an innocent-looking convenience syntax for flirting with the UB

I agree, but C++ uses this pattern in so many places that I think it is less confusing to be consistent. When I see a nice, concise syntax or function, I check cppreference for undefined behavior...
Yeah, that pseudorandom rotation is what makes PCG novel
Churning to Make Butter
For any non-trival program (more than a couple of files/pages long), dynamic and weak typing are a no-go.
It seems the prudent thing would be to allow access to existing material while preventing them from doing anything to their account besides changing the password.
There are some really baffling omissions. A college station - Austin - corpus christi line would probably have an outside shot at generating revenue.
I have been interested in this and to my surprise I was able to find just a single project that does something similar: https://github.com/master-of-zen/Av1an

It has the ability to do trial compression (w/ scene splitting) and evaluate quality loss up to a desired factor.
> ...but the bias is hard to miss.

I think the major supporters of Trump are the working class white people with "Type B" personalities. The audience of this site is the opposite of that mostly, white or non-white. Hence the bias i guess.
> Any attempt to self repair or hire someone else will void the warranty and is disallowed by McDonald’s corporate.

And from McDonalds point of view this makes sense and is ethical. The minute you start letting the franchise people make these repairs, they will inevitably cut corners (and get away with it 99% of the time). However, at McDonalds’ scale that would likely result in dozens of people dying at a minimum and huge brand loss.
The real question with all these things is the common one: are you free to leave?

The frequently unspoken tenet of all modern governments and organizations, is that you are generally not free to leave (pandemic aside).

Every place as it's first defensive measures tends to the resort to the same idea: prevent people from leaving (so, take them prisoner). Because if people were truly free to leave, then good luck exploiting them.
Moderna Pledge Not to Enforce the Patents on Their Covid-19 Vaccine Is Worthless
World military spending rises to almost $2T in 2020
can anyone show me decent looking video on facebook? whenever i see anything from my friends it's just a horrible pixelated mess, even the gaming channels i saw
We have the Oxygen Catastrophe and the Azolla Event as real-world examples of life killing off a lot of other life.

Humans are the first biosphere-changing organism that can actually think about what we do, and maybe not go off the deep end.

I think humanity's efforts to do so, as imperfect as they are, are worthy of praise.
Java already has records, better than Kotlin's data classes.
Have they not seen cruise ships? I think they may be iterating on engineering problems that are largely solved.

If they want their own country, do it the old fashioned way and either declare independence or conquer one. This isn't an engineering problem, or rather, the only meaningful one involved is that of how to establish air superiority. The rest is economics and blackmail. Unexceptional people have been doing it for milennia.

It's pretty simple, you just say, "here are the new rules, and we regret to inform you that we intend to kill anyone who doesn't abide by them. However, here's some bread and circuses while you think it over." Probably even easier than reading half way through one of their tedious internet screeds I'd bet.
Check out Amethyst for Mac OS. It’s a bit buggy, and it’s not Sway, but it’s Sway-like enough for me to get by on my work system.
C++ is a beautiful, pragmatic and very efficient language, just constrain your use of it to STL, and avoid Boost and other over-engineered dependencies.

The Ockham's razor principle of code design is not only important but essential when using large mature languages that have many surprising and nuanced ways to skin a cat. Being too clever with C++ is a recipe for disaster.

Avoid OOP (inheritance in particular) and the sacred art of templates metaprogramming, but also avoid the lowlands of using C++ as a version of C language (with malloc everywhere), and you shall be rewarded in this life or next.
Of course I could;) It would just be hacky, ugly, unreliable, scale badly, use either GPUs or inadequate FPGAs, and fall over once it exceeded 10 users. My resume doesn't need to know that, though:)
I have a wife?!? When did this happen?!
Chasing external validation never ends well.
Actually Feynman did an opposite of Deep Work for that case, he literally worked in strip-club on purpose.

By today standard it's like working with reddit open, gamepad on your lap and pornhub on second laptop.
If I had to make a fancy explanation I'd say "turn your work to a lifestyle so you naturally do it while entertaining".
Clang gives a warning for the first example:

<source>:7:25: warning: object backing the pointer will be destroyed at the end of the full-expression [-Wdangling-gsl]

https://godbolt.org/z/zTnjbhMqr
Agreed. No one should hold it against you

But we have to be careful about claiming that a generator is unreliable. PRNGs are very susceptible to rumor and uncertainty and doubt, because almost nobody understands them
Sometimes it's not just about finding people that work for less money, it's because they know there's also talent out there. Even for companies that pay good salaries it's very hard to hire local senior-ish engineers, most of them already have a job, so they have to hire somewhere else.
The salmon you buy in the future may be farmed on land
Skill shunt? ;)
We use Lombok to automatically generate getters/setters in modern Java
> Optionals are not zero-overhead in any other language.

That's been true for so many other features in C++ too.

> If you aren't going to bother checking the optional, why not just return any old pointer type?

Pointers require something to point to. Optionals can embed the value.

> The type system should be used to enforce a contract and bypassing checks on that feels like you are just spitting in the fact of the type checker.

It's bypassing something alright, but I wouldn't say that's the type checker. And I mean, you could use this logic for everything else. Iterators, arrays, etc. should all have bounds checking too, right? If you want that, there's C#...
Watchful: Platform for Machine Teaching
This is not nationalistic at all. I'd say it about any country exhibiting this type of behavior.
Quake III already has been ;)

https://immunant.com/blog/2020/01/quake3/
> Rail has also been set up to fail with metrics like direct profitability, which is entirely not the point of public transportation. It's like claiming the entire value of a road is the toll money it generates.

It's this mentality that is exactly the problem. If a public transportation system can pull a profit that means it's actually creating value for people in excess of the resources that it took to create.

If you look at the best public transit systems in the world most of them are either for profit corporations or explicitly chartered to generate revenue (MTR/Comfort Delgro in sg, MRT in hong kong, tokyo subway). I'm aware that MTR recently got nationalized, so we shall see if the quality remains.
As someone who left the US by car on a whim once: you were totally free to leave before covid.
You are right, the article is not bad just because it came from the NYT. There are still the occasional useful piece, though Always and only on safe or inconsequential matters. But the bad far outweighs any good. At any rate, irony is precisely what I pointed out.
I don't think this is difficult to engineer. It's a good example of ML/AI being used for optimization, which I believe is the most legit usecase that everyone should be aiming for. Still, the problem is how do we get to the scale where we desperately need stuffs like this...
You are not going to change my mind. I was in Missouri in 1979 and they apparently had strict labeling laws. On the McDonalds Menu it said “Cone (contains 17% edible plastic)”.
On top of books and site suggested, look at Interaction Design Foundation[1] courses, specifically those around talking to/interviewing/getting feedback from users.

[1] https://www.interaction-design.org/
The article is much longer than the first few paragraphs about Lexington.
> why not just return any old pointer type?

Using a pointer type in a straightforward manner would entail allocating the object on the heap.

If allocated on the stack it has obvious lifetime limitations.
Why don't they have a service contract so the cost of so many errors burns this 'Taylor' company?
I have a 2016 MacBook Pro which has gradually become completely useless for swift development in Xcode. The computer sometimes randomly reindexes while I type, which can lag Xcode so much that it drops keystrokes. And as a result if I’m not watching closely, sometimes method names will come out garbled. To reiterate, Xcode makes my $3000 computer from a few years ago so slow that I can’t type the name of a function.

A few months ago I moved to a ryzen development machine running Linux mint to code rust using IntelliJ. Responsiveness and stability is night and day. It’s a shame, too - swift is a lovely language and I’d love to use it more. But life is too short to put up with Xcode.
What do Missouri’s laws in 1979 have to do with McDonald’s?
How good is your solution at stopping the initial virus binding [?1], and how good at stopping (re)infecting - in the way that virus produced from some cell of my body could be deactivated before it reaches some other cell of my [?2] or someone else [?3] body, or by other means [?4] ?
this story is so much more than mcBroken
> Humans are the first biosphere-changing organism that can actually think about what we do, and maybe not go off the deep end.

Maybe not go off the deep end? David Attenborough would like to have a word [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Attenborough:_A_Life_on_...
Pretty sure I never claimed to support government subsidies either... Show me where I have.

I prefer the government to stay out of it completely. I prefer the government stay out of everything...
Whenever you need to know something, the answer is "Follow the Money."
Lessons from the Dirty Streets of San Francisco
Users prefer PWAs too.
It kinda implies that no one writes Unix tools in swift, otherwise it would already be packaged in the disto of your choice
> A relatively small percentage (roughly one-third) of all videos on Facebook generate the majority of overall watch time.

Surprising to me that it’s so large, I’d expect something like 5% or less account for half of watch time. I wonder how it compares across platforms (YouTube for instance would almost certainly be in the <5% bucket, I’d imagine)
This is (was?) a big problem with google photos. If you upload a video and immediately share it with someone they'll just see a black screen. A few minutes later they might be able to watch a super-low res encoded version, and only much later does a HD version become available. I started waiting 10 minutes between generating a "share" link before sending it to my family because of all the confusion it was causing.
I think the slightly longer version is that going bankrupt is not usually a discrete step in time and that planning and negotiating between creditors, debtors, and the government is going on. So if there is a law there is a government interest in customers being treated right before, for instance, big owners get a payout from a sale of assets.

If there are literally no assets there's very little that can be done though, you could threaten the owners with jail but what can they even do if there is no money? If there were a law it would almost necessitate something more like unemployment insurance where companies are forced to hold insurance to deal with this in a predictable way if they shut down or close a customers account.

Actually, unemployment insurance might be a pretty good analogy. If a company goes out of business and you get laid off as an employee you get unemployment mostly paid for out of money the company paid to an insurance policy. In this case instead of being triggered by unemployment it's triggered by loss of access. In the same way, if a company is closing a lot of accounts their insurance rates go up.