skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These things (st. vaccinces) are mostly unknown to usual russian doctors, they are produced for farm workers. A typical therapist wouldn't prescribe you that stuff - they are not aware of their existence. Again - russians doctors are idiots, but there is some amazing soviet legacy you may greatly benefit from. And you don't _really_ need a prescription to buy the stuff.
This topic of hardware offloading is interesting, and, for some people's requirements, is there an open source consideration to keep in mind: are you offloading to effectively "closed source"?

I'm a long-time OpenWrt user on various reflashed SOHO WiFi router SoC boxes, and I recently want to move my home router(s) to somewhat more open PC hardware (with Pfsense, OpenWrt, or DIY atop a GNU/Linux distro), and obtained some Intel gigabit NICs for this purpose.

Since I want to use fanless PC hardware (although even the first Intel card alone runs quite warm at idle), I'm wondering how the performance will be, running all packets through Linux+CPU+I/O, compared to whatever hardware optimizations OpenWrt is doing on the SoC boxes. If the performance on PC hardware falls short, offloading could make the difference, but that would be starting to look more like the closed SoC I was going to a lot of effort to move away from.

(Ultimately, I would want to do this on a fully-open RISC-V board, with open hardware NICs, open hardware AES, etc., but I don't know that will ever be viable. For now, PC hardware, as open and trustworthy as I can get it, might be closest.)
Probably this in the end:

"Editor's note October 7, 2016: An earlier version of this article stated that Sara Hallager was the Zoo's keeper of birds; she is the curator."

Which still keeps me wondering why the flamingos?
That would be extremely easy to game. It has to be something that's near-impossible to cheat, such as height, length of leg, or a particular genetic marker.
Even Late in Her Career, Jane Jacobs Made Predictions That Are Coming True Today
You need to build some trust with them and provide value throughout the process. If you introduce two parties that would have had a hard time finding each other, and help with questions and suggestions throughout the process, then they'll be happy to pay you an want you to do that again.

If you just give them each other's names and email address / phone number, then want a big check a few months later, then they can (and should) skip you.
I think you're missing the point of the COBOL comparison. It is not meant to imply that Java is similar to COBOL as languages go, or that it is as bad as COBOL, or even that COBOL is bad.

In fact, you described exactly why it is the new COBOL: because it is also an efficient and popular language for common business problems of our era, that is hugely popular, but mostly in "unexciting" places like large internal enterprise apps, out of sight for many. And just like COBOL, it will keep ticking on like that, probably forever.
Ironically, I think you've left out some nuance to the author's position:

> ... and I almost never use a debugger.

Even if he can't recall the last time he used it, he keeps the tool in his toolbox.

His article was quite inflammatory however and it's easy to see how someone who relies on a debugger would feel attacked and insulted.

I look around my team and I see some turning to debuggers first and others to outputting at key points. I see zero correlation to effectiveness or efficiency.
Ah, good old path dependency.
Leitner system: efficiently using flashcards
From my perspective (user of search engines) I find this business model much more acceptable.
I'm sorry I failed to be clear that I wasn't questioning in this specific case, but am referring to general practices that I suggest are good to observe by default. I think we have evidence elsewhere that such practices are needed in public discourse right now.

That said, I understand that this specific case is complicated, iff someone feels intimidated, and iff and there is no authority to whom to appeal, so maybe it's an exception to general best practices.
'Clash of Civilizations' Has No Place in U.S. Foreign Policy
It's good to ask "What is SRS good for? What is it valuable to use it for?".

I haven't used it for just-outside-my-reach facts in programming. But this seems an okay use for it.
Consider http://fuckingblocksyntax.com/ -- I'd bet most Objective-C devs still need to look it up.
Maybe SRS is useful for things which are just infrequent enough to not be "memorised soon enough"?

Speed in auxiliary tasks is also good. It's possible to program while being slow at typing, but it's much easier if you can touch-type. It'd be nice if SRS provided the same speed-up from not having to look up idiosyncrasies.
How the AXS ticketing app steals your personal data
Pretty much the low hanging fruit of PR efforts.

Propose a legislation that has zero chance of ever coming into effect and then watch as all of your target audience pat you on the back for all the great work.

Problem of course is that this isn't how legislation gets passed in the US. Especially these days when you have Democrats, Republicans and the President all with completely different stances on privacy. And of course a 2020 election with a President who is relying almost exclusively on digital marketing and would be hurt by this legislation.

If this was a SuperPAC with a high profile lobbying firm then you could take all of this a little more seriously.
I mean, true enough, but DDG has since proven that non-tracking ads can be profitable even in an industry dominated by nosey advertisers. The trick I think is to look at whether or not you're profitable not if you are the most profitable company in your sector.

To be honest I would be happier running a company which made $1,000,000 per year profit than a company which had to race to make more and more profits each year. That's the rub, though, if you have investors you need to keep growing and at some point growth requires you to abandon even the most basic pretense of ethical behavior.
A personal project to reduce time spent on developing back end
I developed Simple QL (https://github.com/Sharcoux/SimpleQL) to reduce the amount of work to maintain both server and clients in sync during all of my projects.

It is already working, but I didn't test it extensively, but many improvements are coming.

I feel that it might potentially be a good library, useful for others, but I'm not sure what the community would think about it.

I don't know how to get feedback. I tried to make good documentation, though.

Would some of you be kind enough to tell me your opinion about it and/or how/where I could get more advice?
> The number of people who can survive on five hours of sleep or less without any impairment, expressed as a percent of the population, and rounded to a whole number, is zero.

What a weird, pointless and almost information-less way to say < 0.5%.
Wait, what, Apple Maps is partially developed in Berlin?
Notably, https://startpage.com proxies non-personalized Google results and monetizes using non-tracking keyword-based ads.
> the barrier is allowing customers to find what they are looking for.

I am really glad that there are people like the old man who are willing to do stuff like this and people like yourself who are willing to help.

The real barrier, I think, is a bit more complicated than just being able to find stuff. It is also the fact he will be running out of space and that as more and more people find what they want the undesirable stuff (that no one wants) will just keep growing. There does need to be regular culling, I think, to keep weeding out the duplicates or books that no one wants. Also, there needs to be some effort to discover and sell the really valuable books which could produce occasional windfall funds to keep the endeavor going.

"The Book Thing" in Baltimore (https://bookthing.org/) which I have visited many times seems to be tackling this problem. It's basically a "free book" exchange. Massive. In a warehouse. It is a fairly popular place and is run by an interesting eccentric fellow with very particular ideals. I would recommend see how they do this stuff.

As for thoughts, I think that regardless of what he does, he will need one or more employees (or dedicated volunteers) to actually perform the indexing and physically organize the books.
Classic refactoring story.
Netscape's Internet Foundation Classes (1996)
I had to add a search engine to an app and I didn't know much about search engines. But whatever, it had to be done and I was the one to do it. So, you educate yourself. You read about all the options, pros/cons, and try to anticipate future needs. Switching search engines isn't quite as difficult as databases, but it's hard, so I knew it was a big decision to make. After learning about the subject, weighing the options, I made a decision. Looking back, it was still the best decision.

The moral of this story is that if you're tasked to do something outside your expertise, you make it your expertise.
I can see benefits to getting input from outside your of area of expertise but what you’re describing feels like the attitude that led to Theranos.

How do you avoid ending up in a Dunning Kruger situation?
> why medical professionals are not even aware that bacteriophages are a thing

Sounds questionable to me that this is even the cause, to be honest. However, assuming this is true, the main reason I could think for why would be the case if this: medicine is an extremely specialised field. Not only do you focus solely on the human body, but not even the body as a whole, but on what can go wrong with it. The only knowledge a medical professional needs about bacteria, viruses and other pathogens is what they require for them to be diagnozed, what kind of illnesses they convey and how they can be gotten rid of. And not even this is accurate, because within the field of medicine there's even further specialisation into even smaller sub-fields.

That there are also viruses which infect bacteria is of no (direct) importance on the medical field. In fact, it'd frankly be a waste of time for them during their study to learn about phages in any detail. The basic degree alone is already very long and full to the point of bursting. It'd be similar to expecting welders to understand the minutea of all states of matter, because TIG welding uses plasma to melt metal.
I just had a look at your b2b site

Do you actually run pay-per-action campaigns, or do you provide a dashboard for the customer data ?
Initially, I found your story a bit incredulous. But then again, there are significant outliers amongst humans. Is your situation any more extreme than adult humans who are 2 feet tall and some who are 8 feet tall?

I wonder if there is the other extreme. Are there people who need 20 hours of sleep to feel rested? I also agree with many of your respondents in hoping you'd have scientists study your condition.
The variable naming scheme in that code is incredibly consistent with respect to type. That should alleviate some of the problems, and I think the code would be more annoying to read if the variable names weren’t terse (like Simonyi Hungarian).
I see imagination as a processor's L3 cache. It's really fast and ideally you want everything to be in there.

But it can only fit so much so I prioritize hotpaths to live in my imagination.
A Google Street View image of your house predicts your risk of a car accident
How would this work? Some Olympic distances are:

-Sprints (100m, 200m, 400m),

-Middle distance (800m, 1500m)

-Long distance (3000m Steeplechase, 5000m, 10,000m)

-Hurdles (110/100m, 400m)

-Relays (4x100m, 4x400m)

Men would dominate every distance, you'd have no women competing.

More cynically I'd point out that all high-level athletics are really television shows and the audience (deservedly) wants women's sports.

To me the solution is a new intersex category.
Better yet, why don't we have mobile hospital units. Rather than bringing all the sick people and disease into one place, why not go to the place of sickness. Perhaps it's economically not feasible, but I've always it made more sense.
Thanks for the clarification.

Buses have improved, there are far more though I wish they were electric.
It's cheaper and easier to implement than "real" voltage regulation.
if it is a simple deployment that you could do with Heroku, it would be just as simple with Elastic Beanstalk. You just give it your zipped artifacts.

If later on you need to do something more complex you have all kinds of extension points.

If you want something cleaner and just to use a Github -> CodeBuild -> Code Commit/Lambda deployment and have something closer to traditional deployment pipeline, there are the CodeStar templates.

We are a small company without a Devops team. The leads all know how to setup a from scratch system on AWS.
I thought it was multiple cilia, wafting fluid in a current around a cavity, a bit later than the single cell stage but still very early?

Either way, the reason a cilium spins in one direction rather than another is that the motor is a molecular machine built out of amino acids, and amino acids are themselves chiral. If you made a person out of amino acids with the opposite chirality, their cilia would go the other way, and their body would be flipped. It's a lovely example of magnifying something up from the molecular to the macroscopic.
> bosses want to see smiling enthusiasm in the workplace; and the only way to respond to “how are you?” is with a joyful “great!”

This is hardly a new observation, but this needs to stop. Just because you're being paid to do some work doesn't mean your boss should get to dictate your emotions to you.
i would recommend to check with archive.org, if the books are already available online and if not if they are interested scanning or get the scans.
CAIS is not relevant in this case. XY chromosomes does not make an athlete male but having testis might well.
It is a dilemma and the reality is a lot more nuanced as you say
Then resistance is not too low, but too high.
Is it still a non-profit? I think they changed their structure to some fudged thing recently.
Coding is also a way of thinking. Too much planning up front also has a name (water fall?), the other option is to write now to get understanding and rewrite later as that understanding accumulates (I think that way if working has a name also).

Of course, there are many kinds of valid working styles in between. I personally would rather see juniors write, make mistakes, and rewrite than just be paralyzed with thought/planning anxiety, which is perhaps more effective for more experienced developers.
Netflix sends their own cache machines to tens, if not hundreds, of ISPs and interchanges all over the world, each of which have multiple terabytes of storage and act as cache nodes. I don’t think Unsplash is going to do that.
Internet mapping glitch turned a random Kansas farm into a digital hell (2016)
Of the platforms that are still used enough that casual users know about them, Reddit is probably the closest to Usenet, so it gives a broad idea for those unfamiliar - enough to understand the context.
Regarding Theranos, I think we can all agree that the worst capitalist excesses are the unique products of an excess of unchecked greed and incompetence at multiple levels and have relatively little to do with personal efforts or domain expertise.

Dunning Kruger, IMHO, is a straw man / false dichotomy. Sure, none of us are perfect, but if you disable your focus by worrying unhealthily about perception by others and where you line up, or if you are ultimately some sort of imposter, then you've missed the boat by definition. The old story of 99% perspiration, enough personability to acquire funding and at least reasonably effectively manage others, and the resulting chain of stubborn achievement will get you almost anywhere... just come up for breath now and then and check you're not failing versus any competition, and/or if you're going blue ocean/greenfield and having doubts make sure people you trust can reassure you you're not completely insane, or the financials are secure enough to justify an onward march.
This sort of thing is exhausting if you have to keep it up unsupported. Being the negative nancy that keeps pointing out the holes in other peoples' grand plans earns you no kudos.
> but it's clear that it's not enough to simply say she's an XY female.

The article explicitly states several times Caster Semenya is not male or female but intersex female with male characteristics -- no womb, ovaries but internal testes.

> insinuates pretty strongly that the mere presence of Y chromosomes should subject Caster to scrutiny

The article praises Caster and does not "insinuate" she should be subjected to elevated scrutiny, it instead singles out reporters for over-simplifying the situation and omitting important biological facts; it insinuates reporters are taking a social justice angle (woman with high levels of testosterone not allowed to compete) when Caster is more appropriately described as intersex, and unfortunately the Olympics do not have an intersex category.

It's not critical of Caster at all and struck me as a balanced, well-written take.
Every military for centuries has recognized the value of morale. People who are happy doing what they do, tend to do it better than people who hate what they're doing.

There's nothing wrong with wanting your team members to enjoy what they are doing, in many ways it is a duty. But forcing people to be happy doesn't really make them happy.
Princeton, I assume?
Doing a cost benefit analysis and deciding that using a service instead of hiring and paying humans is a perfectly rational decision. I’ve downvoted because I see a lot of vitriol like this and it’s exhausting to argue each time that these decisions are carefully considered and work well for the people making them.

This is no different from saying people should be ashamed because they pay so much for food, then it’s much cheaper (almost free!) to grow it yourself in a pot.
I'm curious how Erlang's BEAM/OTP would handle storing large graphs across servers. (My understanding is that it can probably support that?)
It's amazing to see that companies who solve big problems at scale also create a platform for others to solve smaller problems on the same scale.

Like Uber/Lyft which spawned solutions for rider-focussed tax and insurance solutions.

The same thing is happening in the EdTech sector, with MOOCs and teaching platforms creating the space for teacher tooling, student management, and workflow optimizations. It just takes those companies a while to realize the value of (and engage in) those ecosystems.
This would be my MVP:
I'd implement simple inventory app based on ISBN scanning and simply enumerated boxes with, say, 50 books each. Scan ISBN - put in the next empty box, take another box when full, and so on.
Then based on title demand, I'll sort popular titles in their own boxes.
I'm pretty confident Theranos was partly a product of a company being founded by an attractive young woman surrounded by powerful men cooing at her instead of holding her accountable or giving her the kind of constructive criticism they would give a male founder.

Women get personally attacked and dismissed a lot while no one tells them "x needs to be done differently." They get inured to hearing everything "mansplained." They start tuning out the ugliness.

We don't have well developed good paradigms for how to do this effectively.
This isn't much of a problem if you work in a proper office with four walls and a door, rather than an open hellscape.
You don't move. You load balance across the clouds prior to the disaster.

Again, this is a small struggling company, do you really think they should be spending resources having a backup plan just in case AWS has a multi AZ or multi region outage? Is that really their largest business risk?

Also do they really want to go from the simplicity of Heroku all the way to k8s?

The only things that a company at this level needs to be concerned about are reducing burn rate, finding a way to better monetize, and getting another round of funding.

But, I seriously doubt that a company spending 100K a month would be on their free support plan and not have a business or Enterprise support plan where they wouldn’t have someone to call at AWS with a much smaller SLA than 12 hours. We are a small company and I can just open a support ticket and get someone on the phone/chat immediately.

And if you are a small startup, you aren’t just using AWS with a few VMs. You’re probably also using a lot of other managed services that aren’t VM based. If you are hosting everything yourself. You might as well be at a colo. If you are using your cloud provider as an overpriced data center hosting VMs, you’re probably doing it wrong.
84 Cognitive biases you should exploit to design better products
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Facebook Is Just Fine (2013)
Funnily enough, the glass roof on the Gothic building is not exactly a modern idea. The earliest one i know of is Ruskin's oxford museum of natural history.

I also, perhaps perversely, quite like the idea of housing the remains of the church in much the same way.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Pi...
Interview with Kyle Simpson, author of You Don’t Know JS book series
NPM says sorry about how they handled their recent firings
If you do come across pre-created flashcard decks on various topics, consider adding a link to them in this repo? We've just added FlashCards as a separate section for each topic: https://github.com/learn-awesome/learn-awesome
Q&A with Bill McKibben on investing in “nothing that burns”
My most memorable experiences at Google were perks like the invited talks (I got to have a very long chat with author of the Moose Wood Cookbook Molly Katzen and a short chat about Reddit dropping Common Lisp with Alexis Ohanian) and the interesting food at 28 cafes. The work was OK, I just did one specific thing - not much freedom, but my main great memories were the perks.

Another great perk was the invited chefs from local restaurants who would be guest chefs, and they would be available to talk with.
A little OT, but there was a XKCD-comic about a 'space-layer' made of a 'polygone-structure' - and I for for the abstract first thought, 'Randall better had written about a (for the 2D-shema) five-sided-(pentagon)-layer', cos if you think -just for a moment - about measuring and data-gathering-structures for mapping space maybe... - after you measured the size, temp, coordinates, and maybe 'relations' (for an example: possibility for water -in a survival-scenario... it was about astronomy) - I realized, the pentagon-figure 'shrinks' in a triangle, but 'You better have one more data-point open -for maybe future purposes'

Now I feel a bit fuzzie cos just 5 Minutes ago there was a posting here on HN someone saying something like: 'Somebody made an UI and for years it became the main theme... ' (-;
I’ve done both, and many projects start on Heroku then move to AWS once they hit scale. And every single time I keep cursing at how many hidden man-hours are spent on AWS maintenance. If you’ve tracked the time spent on AWS that wouldn’t be spent on Heroku, and plotted that against the cost of your leads’ and devops team’s time, and your opportunity costs, and you still feel it’s worth it, by all means go straight to AWS.

The point is that costs on Heroku and AWS are two intersecting lines with different slopes and y-axis starting points. The dollar cost is the basic dimension, but once you add team hourly rate and opportunity cost you’ll see that Heroku is cheaper than AWS until you hit X000 req/sec or users. That number is varies from team to team, but it’s higher than you think.