skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People (in the west) have been writing about phage therapy and how revolutionary it will be for 20 years now. It still hasn't arrived.

Phage therapy requires determining which bacteria is causing the disease, then having phages on-hand suitable for that specific bacteria (or some system to culture them). Using the "wrong" phages is useless and there are hundreds of thousands (or even millions) of strains.

Bacteria also evolve phage resistance and phages themselves evolve to target other harmless bacteria in cases where their targets are eradicated.

Phage therapy will probably end up being one component of a multi-prong strategy but it is hardly a replacement for antibiotics.
If your experience is mainly in Python ecosystem Django is just hard to beat. If it's Java based then things are more complicated I think - these days I have been avoiding heavyweight back ends and using minimalist stacks of which Micronaut [1] is my favorite. I use it with Groovy (though it supports Java / Kotlin), Postgresql as database and combine it with VueJS on the front end for a very agile but highly performant and robust stack.
A struggle I've had is I'm used to casing performance in terms of errors or negative feedback. So far the feedback I've had is almost all positive (team is far above previous performance, flight risk is far lower than other departments, etc) but I don't feel like that's helping me improve cuz I don't know how to actually deal with positive feedback.

Some personal introspective criticism I've been wrestling with.
I don’t think they were expecting the traffic boost. Videos don’t play for me making it hard to visualize. Anyone else?
The web is the fax machine but it’s cool you advise your clients to use a dying technology.

What about the market caps of the top three tech companies combined makes you think web is the future? Just curious.
>Try traveling to Europe or Japan sometime

Most people shop for housing where there job and family are; international migration is a big deal. Japan is very hard to immigrate to if you lack Japanese ancestry.

>Continuing to do the same thing and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity

>Then you need to change the laws.

Land use policy is made by a small, elite, politically active subset of incumbents. People looking for a place to live, and choosing the best of the available options for their circumstances, are not to blame for the abysmal nature of the available options. This is the whole problem. Market demand has little to no influence on what can be built. It's inappropriate to look down on people for moving to suburbia. The scorn is rightly placed with activists and politicians for crippling our cities so badly that suburbia manages to be better.

>Here in the DC area, it's extremely common.

The data say 32 minutes [0]. This is high compared to the national 25, but no, 1-2 hours is not the norm even there.

[0] https://wtop.com/traffic/2017/04/dc-area-has-2nd-longest-ave...
Elixir/Erlang is concurrent, not parallel though.
Wow, what a bunch of nonsense. We are facing an environmental crisis due to fossil fuels consumption and here you are flippantly offering intercontinental commuting for work. For some reason, you think people who work in America can't find space in its giant, mostly empty landmass and instead need to commute on supersonic jets from Asia. Wtf?
Regular people deciding where to live is at most a very small input into how we manage American cities.
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Is coffee not worthy of moderation? Is there something wrong with drinking alcohol from a mug?
Since the website is down:

https://bgr.com/2019/01/03/mac-vs-ipad-pro-developer-creates...
I'd like to venture another guess even further that this is possibly the furthest venture anyone can guess.
Whole site is down for me. Here's the text: https://web.archive.org/web/20190105061617/https://codea.io/...
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another reason to build for the web: https://android.jlelse.eu/google-just-terminated-our-start-u...
And 9 out of 10 concerns are unfounded, so don't worry about it.
https://deadspin.com/5549389/mushroom-tea-murder-man-removes...

https://globalnews.ca/news/4461248/thomas-chan-murder-trial-...
That is a really good point that didn't occur to me.

So, how about winding all the tubes together around the cup in a spiral? That would keep the high point always above the liquid line, unless the cup is sitting flat when over-filled, wouldn't it?
Clojure + ClojureScript

* One language across the whole stack

* Its approach for React makes it both easier to grasp and more correct/maintainable than its ES6 counterpart

* Gradual typing for the parts that matter

* The overall experience is the opposite of "Javascript fatigue"

Needs some investment, cannot be denied but it pays off over the years.
Because we are trying to die, and simply do not give a fuck.

Feed that into your facebook suicide watch/dark tetrad NLP algorithm, and use it as a political impetus for a smoking prohibition bill, and behavior modification after school program. Save the world from it’s final free thought.

#YOLO
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I use the exact same setup using Go instead of Nim.

It works marvellously well. I use VueJS when I have a page which requires more intensive JS.

For dead simple use case (no subdomains), I was even able to embed caddy within my static binary file.

Serving hundreds of users on a $5 VPS.
You don't need to shower or change after biking to work in many climates. Look at the cyclists in Holland. They wear street clothes and don't go fast enough to sweat a lot.
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In what way is improving infrastructure not a step in the right direction?
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The big bank I work for pays for red hat and hortonworks.
And the other banks I've worked for do too.

So all the examples you give are funded by big companies. Works perfectly.
Well if people pay for it, you can have more security processors and process more people at once. So it is a parallelizable problem solvable with more money. If everyone had their own personal security processor, then security only adds a few minutes on each end.

A lineup anywhere is a sign of not enough money being paid, so people pay with their time.

I do bet that some of the fee you pay to Clear goes to the TSA, which pays for more security staff.
Blur password manager exposes 2.4M users on misconfigured AWS cloud instance
Keep in mind the traffic light system doesn't know if there's a pedestrian actually crossing the road, so my guess would be that it's a compromise between pedestrian safety and traffic efficiency. The longer you have an intersection stopped (especially with no pedestrians actively crossing) the more congestion (and annoyed drivers aka taxpayers) you get.

People don't always press the buttons, and not all intersections even have buttons. Even with a button press, there's no way to tell the difference between a jogger and a group of elderly people using walkers, so you have to assume the longest possible delay.

That said, there is a thing called a pedestrian scramble intersection [1] with a part of the cycle where all the traffic lights go red and all the walk signals turn on, allowing pedestrians to cross even diagonally. This is relatively rare, only being used at some of the busiest pedestrian intersections in some cities.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedestrian_scramble
Hi Lucy,

While I appreciate what Andela is doing, I want to stay consistent with my earlier remark that we don't engage with recruiters or agencies for this position.
Don't forget huge bunches of herbs, both fresh and as tea.
The TSA made what was something that individual airports paid for to meet regulatory requirements into a federal agency. It's the laws & requirements, not the specific labor agency doing it.

For example, the TSA added pre-check, which does speed up security by reducing requirements.

And the UCIS has added kiosks for global entry and us citizens, which effectively increases the number of security processing 'staff' at checkpoints, making things faster.
I stopped using Symfony at early version 3, (php 5.3 I think ) started to use nodejs, express, which lead to start using react and code SPAs.

Last year I came back to php stack, and it was refreshing, Symfony 4 is really productive! composer flex system with recipes to finish the bundle configurations, and webpack encore makes really easy to bundle js,etc.

I think Symfony 4 is underrated when you see how popular React SPA are these days.
It guarantees no cross traffic. Turns are still a threat.

I’ve seen the type of light you describe (all pedestrians walk in all directions at once while all cars have a red) in the US but they’re exceedingly rare. In cities there’s always pedestrians and cars waiting in every direction so it would be too slow to be practical.
Actually, it would be a fantastic comparison if the author had explained it. It's almost as if he heard it somewhere else and repeated it verbatim (which is exactly the case, he's quoting someone else's essay without fully explaining or possibly comprehending it).

The internet presents us with a similar existential threat to human identity as in the book. Like the masks hiding a higher intelligence at the end of the Difference Engine, the apotheosis of the internet threatens to rob us of our individuality but offers the chance of the development of a higher form of consciousness, like the Overmind in Clarke's book.

But this article went in a different direction.
do you know the origin of this? I suppose from the film "being john Malkovich"...
What a great idea. That seems like it would work!

The high point of each siphon could be exactly opposite the entry point.

The siphons would need to cross past each other, but only 2 at any one point need to cross, which I think is manageable.

Maybe my Pythagorean cup rabbithole is still not over...
Medicaid isn't the only option for premium-controlled health insurance in the US. As far as I'm aware, everyone in the US is able to purchase health insurance for at most 9.86% of their income in 2019, except:

- Those who earn less than 100% of the federal poverty level ($12k/year for an individual, $25k/year for a family of 4) in states that haven't expanded Medicaid (~2.2 million people [0])

- Those who earn more than 400% of the federal poverty level ($48k/year for an individual, $100k/year for a family of 4) but aren't offered health insurance through an employer (e.g., because they're self-employed or work for a small business) (~900 thousand people [1])

Both are legitimate and significant coverage gaps, but they only affect ~1.5% of non-elderly adults in the US. For comparison, the number of adults that qualify for free or subsidized coverage but chose not to enroll is about 4x larger as of 2016 [2].

[0] https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/the-coverage-gap-un...

[1] https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2...

[2] https://www.kff.org/uninsured/issue-brief/estimates-of-eligi...
Workflowy has updated their app for Android and it's really good!

I'm a pretty heavy user of it, and it was a godsend to have a nice official Android client that works well. Make use of the web lots on the desktop but it's probably 50/50 desktop/mobile. Love them both .

The only two things workflowy is missing is (1) being able to embed pictures and (2) being able to hyperlink to other nodes to make it act like a graph. It'd be the absolute perfect tool if it had that.
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It's definitely harder to implement than advection, yes. But IIRC it wasn't too bad at least for the Lorenz attractor. It has been a long time since I did my own Lorenz visualizer. Some systems certainly might be tougher. Pretty sure I did the separatrices numerically.

Separatrices can be surfaces in 3d systems. I suspect surfaces are less common than curves, but I'm just guessing. And maybe if you want it to be general, then how common is irrelevant anyway.
> Reads a little like the writings of someone who so wants to say something bigger than everyone else that they end up not saying anything to anyone.

Exactly, similar to some of the (not all though) "insights" you have under the influence of psychedelics.
If your app doesn't actually need support, companies won't buy support. Nobody has ever asked for a support contract for any of my desktop apps.

It's also hard to sell extensions... I've had a couple of people email me with suggestions for paid feature requests, but nobody ever followed up when I made an offer and quoted the actual cost. Maybe I'm just not good at selling, though.

(People do offer to buy group licenses if you add a feature, but that only works for minor features you wanted to add anyway, and doesn't work if your product is free anyway...)
How long it takes you to understand Bitcoin is an IQ test.
I’d love to lock in 30 years at a low rate, would free up lots of money for investment, but since that’s not an option I have to opt for clearing the mortgage in ~6 years, and living like I work at McDonalds until that day arrives.

Probably better for my long term financial health and peace of mind, but the opportunity cost sucks.
Nearly all intersections in the US are like this.

Note that cars must stop before turning right on a red, so it’s not a total free-for-all. The stopping forces them to yield to pedestrians most of the time.
> Maybe my Pythagorean cup rabbithole is still not over...

I'm sorry! ;) And I will love to see it printed and/or turned into another post.
It even automatically switches to English and recognizes US zip codes. I'm particularly impressed.
Some time ago I actually designed a visual identity for an architect using Courier Prime Sans (https://www.behance.net/gallery/60374133/Juliana-Camara-Abit...). In that case I was more interest in its visual attributes - monospaced type that implies technical ability, but with a friendlier, softer character.
I'd venture you are wrong sir, just a guess.
Personally I have zero problems A/B-ing DSD, PCM and lossy formats on my reference system (headphones). I also know (award winning) people in the audio industry who can walk into a listening room and tell you where the dominate resonances are or tell you if a reconstruction filter is linear or minimum phase.

The idea you can take a group of non-professionals and run tests with no requirements on equipment quality and then draw conclusions about what any human can hear is absurd.

Those tests (Hydrogenaudio was one of the main proponents back when lossy codecs were more important) are a decent way to tell if something is audible for the average listener with average equipment. It cracks me up when people start telling me what I can or cannot hear based on those tests without knowing anything about me or what kind of equipment I own. This happened just the other day on an audio forum.

Another dimension to this is that DAC quality has been increasing steadily while the prices of high fidelity DACs have been dropping. The DAC chips on the market today are really the best ever made (ESS and AKM notably). More people than ever have access to (near-)reference quality DACs. When lossy compression tests were popular few people had access to reference quality DACs. I remember people talking about using their computer sound cards as sources for those tests.

I think a lot of people react negatively to this topic because it's considered elitist (expensive toys). The good news is just about anyone can afford a near-reference quality, inexpensive headphone setup these days. You have to do your homework and read reviews but they definitely exist. I recently picked up a DAP and IEMs for ~$300 total (for running) and it's 90% of the quality of my reference rig. I listen to it instead of my reference rig sometimes. It's that good, despite the price.

(Even on that, I can easily ABX FLAC and 192kps AAC, which has been universally declared "transparent" more than once.)

If you think your smartphone's audio jack sounds good, you really need to listen to a device with a proper amount of output power (you need more than you think for headphones) and a high resolution DAC. You need both to be good, though they can be part of the same device. When you have them, music really becomes holographic and, for lack of a better word, alive.
You can use the -s flag to avoid two of those lines of ed output.
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Does anyone choose a portion size of green vegetables (not tomatoes, root vegetables or grains) thinking about caloric content or caloric needs? I always take as much as seems tolerable, figuring that more is always better. I'd think that if one covered a salad plate with uncooked spinach to a depth of 2 inches, one would have fewer calories than in the small dose of salad dressing or bacon bits that a fastidious dieter might swallow as immaterial. Is that true?
Golang is the extreme exception here
Also, even if the domain registration is $10/yr, it totally neglects hosting costs. The cost of dev license versus domain registration is a ridiculous factor when deciding a product strategy for your startup (either way).
> You generally want this to be high, because a typical modern diet has too little fiber.

By this metric we should all eat grass.
How I got GaryVee to reply to my cold email.
- Use jest and VS Code's jest extension (Orta's) for automated tests within the editor

Caveat: I found Orta's jest extension to be buggy in the sense that it read my configuration and started Jest in watch mode by my package.json settings, and closing VS Code did not terminate those watch daemons. Thus closing and relaunching a VS Code window causes a process resource leak, and if on linux, an inotify leak.
> Their censorship regime is purely domestic.

They block:

-pornography

-ashley madison

-an admittedly very questionable "news" site targeted at Singapore but operated from the outside

Further, the sale of malaysian newspapers is banned, as is private ownership of satellite TV equipment.
Maybe, maybe, you could conceivably piss off some Mr. Robot Darknet-wizard on a forum who would then spend hours combing through leaked data to try to figure out who you are so they could mail you some anthrax, but I'm going to put that at "get hit by an asteroid" level of things to worry about.

The entire point of that article I linked was that the person doesn't have to be anywhere near you to cause you real damage. The woman who posted the false allegations to the homebreaker site was thousands of miles away. Heck, if you look at instances of "swatting" [1], it's entirely possible to people in mortal danger from thousands of miles away with little more than a phone. Are the people who are doing the swatting "Mr. Robot darknet wizards"? No, they're bored viewers of Twitch streams who think getting someone potentially shot is a barrel of laughs.

I'm not going to waste my life being worried about things I have no control over.

And this is why data-breaches will remain depressingly normal for the foreseeable future. Companies know that there are zero consequences, specifically because of this attitude. If data breaches were treated like chemical spills, companies would be much more proactive and careful about what data they collected, who they shared that data with, and how they secured that data. But companies know that consumers don't care, because "It's only data," and as a result they will continue to underfund data security and make us eat the externalities in the form of having to spend time and money getting transactions reversed.

[1]: https://mashable.com/2017/12/29/swatting-death-andrew-finch/...
I’ve watched people attempting to use the kiosks. The TSA agents are basically just as fast in the average case, and way faster in the worst case.

The biggest delays are people who don’t have their ID and ticket ready when they get to the front of the line, and people who can’t figure for the life of them how to use the kiosks without additional assistance.
Don't worry about making the business "defensible". Worry about making the business work in the first place.

If a competitor comes in and takes 50% of the market, that might be frustrating, but it also means there's a market to fight over.

Look at wordpress -- they probably make a lot of money with wordpress.com. But there are also 1000s of other wordpress hosters out there. That doesn't harm Automattic -- on the contrary, without the huge ecosystem around Wordpress, nobody would know that it existed in the first place.
I highly highly recommend using a PCIe USB card, especially if you are using multiple cameras.
Cool. I don't believe you and luckily I am in a position to prove it.

As an expert I require your medical records, so send them to me now.

Everyone else: I will reply to my own comment with a followup if it turns out I am wrong and yomly does actually feel this way.
It's non-zero. Does it matter by how much? Why increase your surface area of attack if it can be prevented?
This reminds me of the time back in 1997 when WIRED offered suggestions to save a dying Apple [0]. First suggestion? "Admit it. You're out of the hardware game."

[0] https://www.wired.com/1997/06/apple-3/
The interesting thing in the article is that there is no story, yet it holds the writer's interest. Narrative is not a hard requirement. Same for, e.g. Minecraft, or Legos, or other common toys.

And also, Dwarf Fortress is essentially a story building simulator, it is designed to generate interesting stories.

anyway, just some thoughts, people get fun from different things.
Her family might disagree that nobody else was hurt. The people tasked with cleaning her of the pavement may disagree, as well.

Not all externalities of drug use are physical.

I'm extremely pro-legalized everything. I find your callous disregard alarming.
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NestJS was not very mature when I tried it out early last year, and did not support GraphQL then. Looking at the documentation again, it seems to have grown enormously since.
> In all fairness I'd be hesitant to live in Singapore on account of its high cost of living and poor work-life balance.

As an expat, that would likely not affect you much. Lots of MNCs have fairly nice working hours, decent pay and 20-25 days/year paid leave (on top of the numerous public holidays)

Cost of living depends on whether you need a big apartment in a posh location and a car. Sending kids to international school is also pricey.
> The result is a beautiful menu bar on an iPhone app […]

Is that really what it looks like? The first screenshot that follows is genuinely the ugliest UI screenshot that I have seen in months (and the two that follow are only slightly better). It is just so messy.
So I would disagree that the machine learning terminology was coined without regard to the mathematical concept. I would argue that multi-dimensional arrays are very naturally thought of as concrete realizations of tensors, just like how floating point numbers are concrete realizations of real numbers.

It's true that you can take the "free vector space" on any set under the sun, but I disagree with the statement "every object can be viewed as a vector." Rather, you can construct a vector space and associate to each object an element of that vector space, but the object itself is not a vector.

As opposed to an array of floats, which really itself looks like and is fruitful to think about as a vector.

Edit: Oh, also regarding the heterogeneous type stuff. I think most would agree that calling a bag of ints, floats, bools, and strings a "tensor" would not make much sense.
Ask HN: Did HN bring a change in your life?
I wonder how did HN bring a change in your life. Did you find inspiration, valuable lessons from someone's failures, interesting insights and information, etc from the HN community?