jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I didn't mean to put anything in your mouth you did not say. If I accidentally offended you please accept my apology. Lets keep this to the science, as far as my limited ability allows me to engage, OK?

As for your link, according to the original PDF[0] this is raw data before any statistical corrections, which makes it not very useful. The person you're quoting has been noted as a relative pessimist, assumes that 1st dose effect is very small due to behavioural changes[1], and that a lot of the effect is due to the lockdown. (IMHO, he's too pessimistic, but again I'm far from an expert).

[0]
https://kinstitute.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/covid_1...

[1]
https://twitter.com/KalksteinNir/status/1358735186637299715
> There probably is a whole series of things, as of yet unknown, that can be added to metals and other elements, while they are cooling (or perhaps heating), to imbue them with various interesting properties...

We know. The field of materials science is perfectly aware of these effects. We even have a quite good theoretical knowledge to explain almost everything, and some very good models built on that knowledge. I would even say that more research into new alloys is performed by modelling techniques than experimentation nowadays (for sure, this is the case now, with many labs and universities closed because of corona).

New alloys are constantly being studied. We perform experiments, we run simulations, we have AI frameworks running thousands of those simulations... However, you have to take into account that the metallurgical industry has a huge inertia. We can make pretty good steel and aluminum alloys at a very cheap cost. The market for new ideas is not easy. You can maybe make some profit from high-end sports or medical equipment, but it is very difficult to make a new alloy profitable at a large industrial level.
I don't think it is sad at all, because the JRE was replaced by something better -- or, at least, more suitable to the current software landscape -- if perhaps still misunderstood: a software vendor decides which runtime to use, how to manage it and whether to share it among multiple applications rather than a third party controlling a component the end user doesn't understand.

As to the marketing front, I would admit a failing on our part. Marketing has been centrally controlled by Oracle rather than by individual product divisions, which has made communication cumbersome, although that is now changing. This is perhaps a good time to emphasise that I'm not speaking on behalf of anyone in any official capacity, just on behalf of myself, as one of the hundreds of people working on OpenJDK at Oracle.

In any event, that is the situation and people might need to change their perception. They don't have to like the new situation, but they do need to understand it, although so far it seems that once they understand it, they also like it.
> Keep it respectful guys - while a lot of you are earning a shit load to peddle ads,

What an entrance.
Data is passed through -unencrypted- those edge locations though.
You might find this useful - https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld

Different framework implementations of a CRUD website with authentication.

A lot of popular web frameworks have basic authentication out of the box & easily allow you to tie free authentication with accounts like Google, Microsoft, and many others. There are also paid alternatives that may save you more money than the free ones if you need advanced authorization controls or other features.

Most devs probably have a collection of ways they've done it in the past that they pull from when needing to adjust from the default framework's methods.
Have a look at this study that analyzed different countries'/regions' responses to the pandemic and the outcome in terms of economic impact, death toll, etc:

https://www.institutmolinari.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/17...
Thanks for a great post! It was super detailed and I loved reading it. I had a quick question about your pg setup. You mentioned that you use EBS for your persistence storage, which is locked by zone . You can't have an EC2 instance in Zone 1 mount a storage in Zone 3. Does this cause issues with your db? Especially as you have HPA and ClusterAutoscaler, your k8s nodes could be spun up in Zone 1 for pg autoscaling but your data is in Zone 3.
That's fair, but on the other hand, why would they have cared about American copyright in the first place? Worst that could happen to them is they're banned from being imported into the west, which they probably didn't see as a realistic market anyway.
The fact that the rate of new vaccinations has slowed considerably in Israel gives us a unique look at Western(ish) nation at 50% fully vaccinated. The rate of new cases completely cratered as they approached that 50% mark and has stayed low and steady as the rate of new vaccinations has slowed.

We might hit that same benchmark in the US by the end of this month, but we'll likely glide right past 50% since supply isn't expected to be an impediment.
https://archive.is/n4H3n

Personally I'd be more interested in a cheaper Powerwall alternative made of re-used EV batteries. Which I see people are managing to DIY, but I'd rather not burn my house down trying.
Possible - but the official statement indicates that no decision has been made.

"The Board of Directors has appointed a special committee to direct the process. [...] The special committee is working with Heidrick & Struggles International Inc., a leading executive recruiting firm, and will consider both external and internal candidates."
Great points. Yes, Maslow's Pyramid explains why different rational people will have different priorities.

But, we are not all rational all the time. And, studying emotions & psychology are indeed full of answers & puzzles as well.

It's good to see the discussions on HN diverge to an even more interesting point than the OP.
I'm sorry, but this video did not make anything clear to me. I really liked the visuals but there was absolutely no point in the video that I could find. I feel the narrators could have done a better job explaining what quantum computation IS, rather than going on about superposition. Are these parallel computations going on? What?
When Gerstner stepped in to IBM, they literally had their fingers in just about everything remotely related to computers and usually there was a product. Not just mainframes.. No joke, there were IBM branded type writers(!), floppy disks, joysticks and printer paper. (Effectively a marked up version of a product made by someone else with a logo on it and a very very expensive 'process' behind it that you could order direct from IBM...) He ended all of that, lopped off products, lopped off divisions. He did it in a measured way though. Initially he made IBM a holding company for wholly owned subsidiaries, they got some more leeway (like they didn't have to buy IBM PCs for their work if there was something better) and they got some marching orders to perform and put up numbers. Some companies got spun out, some products just died. You would have to be a real IBMer to truly understand the vastness of the cuts, they had a finger in EVERYTHING.

Services in IBM's parlance are quite often high dollar customizations to IBM products or high dollar custom applications built on top of them or integrating them.

I'm not sure 'services' or a similar concept exists for MS. I hope they do pull in a genius outsider like Lou Gerstner though, I really hope he's/she's willing to make some very tough choices and honestly, I kind of hope that some of MS's better products are spun out in to their own independent companies to fly on their own. Fundamentally, whatever happens, MS is going to change in some ways and while I don't trust them or like them, I really hope it's a positive change that benefits the whole industry.
> The civility on HN is unparallelled.

Try looking at lesswrong. Scary. I think prefer the odd venomous irrational spew at the moment rather than having to mathematically prove my opinion. Good reading though.
We use redmine. It's great software both for small and large teams, but the deployment options range from bad to worse.
Yea, That is how I feel too.
I was really shocked, by the verdict.

Then I looked into more of the details, and I'm shocked again by how irresponsible the media is.
After the Brian Williams fiasco, my faith in american journalism seems to keep taking massive hits.
And who has written this data sheet? This data sheet is based on whose data?

Look back a few decades on the data sheets of Asbestos or Thalidomide. Or at the research about how smoking is safe.
I believe a WHO panel of independent researchers more than your sponsored data sheet.
OVH is a french company, if you read their terms the contract is between you and OVH France.
And suddenly a giant spike in confusion ... that needs a bit of tuning.
I'd also add operator overloading, though that tends to go hand in hand with templates. The fact that I can write numerical code that works for say, any type that implements addition and scalar multiplication, is wonderful.

In Java, as far as I know, this would be utterly impossible, because implementation of interfaces must be explicitly mentioned. Even though Double implements addition and scalar multiplication, it could not be used in such a function because it doesn't explicitly state that it implements such an interface.
It is very tempting to classify people. It makes you have the illusion of understanding their behavior. Don't fall into the trap.
People my think a certain way twenty years and change in a day. I have heard tjat people think in a million different ways....
That worked surprisingly fast!

On another note, I'm interested in knowing how "confusion" is gauged - I suspect it might be picking up those asking for clarification as well as those who are truly confused. There seems to be too much confusion for this crowd (unless it's only measuring me).
It’s not mostly moot. Most web sites do not use CDNs.

And to the extent that websites do use CDNs, then your isp is no longer your concern for privacy, the CDN is.
As another data point, I pay ~$350/mo for a low-deductible, high-quality HMO ACA plan as a single male in Maryland. (It would have been $550 in California).

I'm incensed at the idea we leave families out in the cold like that - IMO healthcare should be free - but I don't find my care to entirely unaffordable.
Project page https://gitlab.com/daylanKifky/daddy-box-python-module
This has been a big problem. Some people labeled science on vitamin D & covid19 as misinformation, lumping vitamin D in with things that have little to no evidence even when the vitamin D evidence was mounting rapidly. Part of the point of this open letter is to show that many serious people agree that vitamin D should be used in the pandemic. The inappropriate suppression of this message is now the mis-information. This should be clear from reading the letter and its very few references carefully.

See also the op-ed just posted to MedPage Today, and posted separately here on HackerNews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25680373
I was on a 5 month waiting list to see a provider that took my insurance in a major metro area in the US. Even if I chose to pay for visits upfront and in cash, there were still 3+ month long waiting lists from other providers.

I've also learned from friends who have family members with substance abuse issues that there are 6 or more month long waiting lists for even out-patient rehab, and for doctors that specialize in treating substance abuse. Addiction is often deadly, so it's pretty urgent to treat.
I happily sacrifice backup cameras/aux input/Bluetooth/etc. for a truck with pretty much all orange incandescents.
I don't think you understand. This problem is larger than Trump. Big platforms will be around far longer than he. And they have unchecked power to create narratives in favor of one side, which their opposition won't be able to breach. The supported side will eventually (and inevitably) gain power, and then these private platform will be censoring opposition just because they don't like people speaking up against the government the platform supports. And it'll all be pretty legal.
“The Spirit by which all this universe is pervaded, is indestructible. No one can destroy the imperishable Spirit.
- Bhagavad Gita Chapter 2 Yoga of Knowledge Sankhya Yoga Verse 17”
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I understand this post is specifically about salary and money, but in my experience there is a kind of "gray" market of compensation that truly great hackers participate in.

This usually (but not always) means that the person has a lot of latitude to work on what they want to, they can work with the technologies they want to work with, can work the hours they want to work, have the luxury to not always have to report on progress or have a lot of management oversight.

The degree with which someone like this can participate in these "happiness perks" usually is commensurate with how good they are. There is a great TED talk on intrinsic vs extrinsic rewards in terms of motivation. I think the market "works" in the sense that great hackers aren't actually as interested in making gobs of money (they don't want to get screwed either) but are usually more interested in these other more intangible kinds of incentives (like freedom, autonomy and mastery).

The most talented engineer / programmer I've ever known was only paid at the top end of the "average" pay scale in the research lab I worked at. On the other hand, he was left pretty much alone to work on whatever he wanted to work on. He created amazing things and was genuinely happy, even though in pure monetary compensation, he was radically underpaid.
Clear and simple visual presentation often reveals errors of reasoning, just as obscure and elaborate presentation hides them.
Even replying to gmail messages or forwarding an older address to gmail will randomly fail. I've had some pretty important messages (for instance: invoices) randomly blackholed while all other mail arrived fine. It is super frustrating to answer someone's request for an invoice and to see that invoice then disappear without any notice that it was spam trapped.
It's been trivial to short bitcoin for years
Agreed, life is not always zero-sum, and higher taxes don't always translate to better services.

Let's look at an example of where life is zero-sum, which also happens to be an important battleground that leads to more macro effects: wage negotiations. Clearly it's zero-sum: the firm produces some wealth, and many dollars that aren't paid to wages end up paid to someone with more power in the firm, such as an owner, major shareholder, or executive.

Now, when it comes to negotiating wages, in an oversaturated labor market, workers without a union are in a terrible bargaining position, as they basically have the choice: work or die. This leads to what we see today: horrible exploitation of the people with the least power in society. Lawmakers have, over the years, stripped unions of relative power. This is one of the choices I mentioned, where one group is immiserated precisely in order to let another group hoard more and more money. Now, sure, unions have downsides, and they can be corrupt, but on the whole, US wages have stagnated while production has increased since the 70s, when the US began its forceful destruction of labor power.

The only argument you can make in response is that the system as a whole has to be this way, or else, for example, talented executives won't step up to difficult tasks and things won't get done. I'm sure that, in some cases, this is true, but it's a trade-off, like most other things in economics, and the absolutist way that many people hold this, so that a lot of exploitation is justified to retain this, is murderously excessive, and not based on empirical evidence.
Does anyone still use ASP.NET Web Forms?
Also:

> Do we really believe that every one of our users is going to have a device capable of digesting 100 kB of JSON and rendering a complicated HTML table faster than a server-side app could on even a mid-grade server?

Yes. This really isn't hard. Pretty much any smartphone can do this with blissful ease. And it scales horizontally because your server can just worry about getting stuff from the database and handing it out.
Scaling is almost always the answer.
>But what would be in it for union leadership under such a structure?

Altruism maybe? The structure costs would probably be harder to cover than finding mad amazon workers who want to improve working standards
Make it HTML over WebRTC data channels and then we're talking about something special--totally P2P decentralized web browsing. Beaker Browser is working on stuff like this: https://beakerbrowser.com/
Talk about building a funnel that optimizes for bias.
What if there is no one to sue though? Think of it. What if you anonymously filmed/photographed all the people going into an abortion clinic, produced a list of names/addresses, and then anonymously posted that list online?

This could easily allow people with an agenda to drag us into a society reminiscent of the Soviet-era fear of your neighbour. "Should I get that abortion? Or is it too risky that my name might be blasted all over the Internet and maybe I become the target of some nut-case that wants to use blood to make a point?"
Being open source, I suspect it's only a matter of time before someone writes a plugin/fork that works with Amazon S3. The user would then only need to sign up for an S3 account and that largely removes all four of the roadblocks you mention.
Your double-negative headline asserts the opposite of what the article says.
Players attack the aerodynamics of the WC ball every world cup. :)

Still, that's a strange looking ball. :)
well, in that case, wouldn't it be the fault of whoever caused you damage - maybe the photograph was innocently taken, but the group that uses the facial recognition data to attack you obviously need to give you money.
In many studies people that earn enough money appear eager to work less and earn less. YMMV of course.
and it's used like this:
man 2 write
How has this been upvoted? Isn't this what meta tags were made for?

<meta name=key content=123/>
> I've never seen this behavior in any other country's media.

Since Russia was already mentioned here, you can take a look at Russian media, it's a common practice there.
The decision is far from undisputable, I'd love to hear what you think.
Linux too - but you wouldn't run any of that with 32k of RAM.
Those are comparing the Surface 2 to the Surface Pro 3, the announcement is for the Surface 3, sans Pro.
It seems like the short version is that they're removing the ability to run a small app 24/7 on a single free dyno. Maybe the right decision for them in the long term, but it definitely means I'll be migrating away from Heroku for apps I would have otherwise kept there at the free tier and potentially scaled up there in the future.

Any word yet on if existing apps will be grandfathered into their existing pricing model?
I'm not seeing Surface 3 specs on that page, just Surface 2 and Surface 3 Pro.
It's working from my end.
Hopefully this kind of thinking is carried over to fake cell phone towers used to have individual's cell phones report in their location and usage.
Thanks, I'll keep in mind, although I don't know how much will change for those like me (I was in a tourist-related activity having to crawl in tourist ghettos). I hope my next experience with Beijing taxis will be better.
Volatility?
I've been doing this for years, too. The huge advantage is that you can update your MacBook to the latest version frequently, without having to deal with all the pain points the GP describes.

The same benefits accrue even more so for Windows; not because of hardware incompatibility (there are Windows drivers for all Macbook hardware) but because of system decrepitude. I have never had a physical machine that booted Windows for 7 years (or even 2 years) that didn't become hopelessly fucked up, whether due to installing some weird open source thing, malware, or Windows Update.

But I have had the same 3 Windows VMs (XP, 7, and 8.1) running since the day I installed Windows on them, albeit with significant help from my frequent use of VMWare Fusion's snapshot feature.

The only big drawback is graphics performance -- if you want to play games I don't think you would be happy with the solution, but it works great for virtually any other usage.
I've been thinking about doing something like this. Compress images down to half resolution, then train a neural network to blow it back up and guess the pixels as accurately as possible.
Holy shit this is a good post. Everything I couldn't quite put to paper and a whole lot more. Well done.
don't forget to read his explanation of A*, it's really great, and pretty easy. explained in python so it was even better.
>>so he bought the machine in parts in a series ... then constructed it himself. When Drew’s boss later found out what Drew he’d been up to, he rewarded him

This is more or less impossible in any organization I know of today. There might be a few exceptions, but by and large 'Im going to prove them wrong' strategy will only attract enemies from the political cartels in middle management these days. You will be marked as some who frequently indulges in insubordination, kind of guy who generally unionizes and can become immediate threat to their own job.

Most managers these days will likely let the company go in loss than have some one below them look smarter to people above. I even seriously doubt if the 20% innovation initiatives in Internet companies work anymore.

>>“He didn’t even know exactly what was needed, but he had the optimism of youth.”

This too is impossible in most places today, even start ups. Which won't hire you until you know some 100 math theorems by heart or have a degree from Ivy leagues.
I've participated in internet communities where people say these things to each other, and while it seemed insincere to me, I didn't worry about it much. It wasn't until I saw little fights and disagreements erupt that I really solidified my distaste for it; these people were just as nasty as anyone else on the internet, they just happened to cover themselves with a paper-thin veneer of sweetness.
I am a developer, and in the past I used to be a proponent of "agility". These days if I am interviewing for a job and I hear that the company is using "Agile practices", I generally try to avoid it like the plague.

I believe there are 3 main factors for software projects to succeed: one is the technology and the skill level of the tech team; the second, very important, are the business requirements (are we building the right thing, and with the right priorities?); the third is the level of communication between team members.
Now "Agility" (Scrum/etc) really addresses only the 3rd point.

And herein lies the dogmatism that others have mentioned -- a lot of these companies who do "Agile" usually do so because they have serious problems, and they think "Agile" is a magic bullet that will solve them. This is extremely wrong and dangerous - if your problems are caused by crappy technology or (very often) by the fact that you don't understand what you're trying to build, then throwing scrum meetings at developers will alienate them even further.

What I also see in these companies that are so adamant about Scrum/etc, is management who doesn't understand technology. Therefore they use the "Agile" weapon as one of their only ways to give them a sense that they are in "control" of the situation. They neglect the other parts because they don't understand them.
It might (partially) be due to the "identifying features" being removed from the images.
The only thing I could see myself leaving Python for is Haskell.

Go seems to fall into a very small niche. The inclusion of a GC means it is not appropriate for a lot tasks that C/C++ are suited for. Also, it is verbose enough where you can't bang out stuff as fast as in Python/Ruby.