skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes.

I run an infectious disease modeling lab - while I don't use these tools, I know people who do.

In my lab, we use R, Numpy, SciPy, StochPy, etc.

You could also just see about donating directly to a lab at a nearby university.
I don't understand why we get daily articles about Google ads on HN's front page.
Install an adblocker, problem solved.
Banksy was glib. It’s different.
Did you read the article? Your last paragraph refers to a demographic and should be accounted for in a rung in the awareness ladder.

The reason people focus on conversion rate is because you can easily calculate spend and predict RoI. Coke can spend on a TV ad because it's a drop in the bucket but every dollar is valuable to a bootstrapped company. Exactly why you want to know what you'll get before one blow 50k on adwords.
This has been a rough day. Thanks for the laugh.
Congrats to them. Linode always has a special place in my heart.
Beautiful UI for this sort of thing, my hats off to you! I wish I could use this UI for some of my projects!

The only thing that would make it better is keyboard navigation (specifically, scrolling through search results).
AWS has strong DOS protection and just doesn’t tend to shout about it. Putting services behind AWS for some basically free protection has been a trick against basic volumetric attacks for a while.
They had to act quickly because of the large movement of people associated with Chinese New Year. I don't see that they had any other option.

I don't think we should be concerned about the Chinese government taking this seriously. It is clearly a very serious situation, the fatality rate is lower than SARS but not hugely. It would be more concerning if they weren't taking it seriously.
Honestly, most hospitals in the Chicago area with an ICU can handle this.
Alternatively

The fed is ensuring liquidity in the overnight markets via short term loans which are paid back the next day (no one seems to know why there’s less liquidity there, could be higher asset values require greater liquid reserves, or some form of capital outflow tightening usd liquidity due to the strength of the dollar, or something else?)

Unemployment is exceeding low, which means more jobs are filled, which means there are less job postings.

People have been predicting doom since the dawn of mankind and sometimes they’re right.

Not sure about the yield curve enough to offer any explanation or even what it means when you say it’s inverted.

Not sure who’s right or what signs are meaningful. Dimension reduction of a search space is a difficult problem. Lots of times people see what they want to see.

I can’t help but just throw my hands up these days and go back to ViM, if it was Vegas I’d split my money fifty fifty on doom and gloom and outstanding success.
Ha. That's like most features in Twitter, or at least: how they started out as ie: "RT"
Epidemiology, as a field, has a harder time in infectious diseases not representing things as exponential growth than it does being surprised by it.
We started using these bulbs everywhere in our house where we relax in the evenings: https://www.gelighting.com/led-bulbs/e26/ge-led-vintage-60w-...

They produce a non-flickering warm glow that is way more relaxing than a bluer "daylight" bulb, at least for us. They are somewhere around $10 a bulb, but have significantly increased the cozy factor of our house. We run dimmers in all of our hangout areas, and bring the brightness way down.

The article argues that twilight is bluer than daylight, and therefore tells our bodies to get ready for sleep, however I would argue that warm diffused light tells my brain that it's after twilight, like cavemen around a fire at night.
Edward Tufte suggests just the opposite. He claims most people underestimate the intelligence of their audience
Synchronous communication is killing productivity in Silicon Valley
This looks really cool. Is there a difference between this and json-server [0]?

0: https://github.com/typicode/json-server
That's not a particularly great example though because 99 bottles of beer is not a particularly stateful computation. You could easily do it without state at all like this: https://gist.github.com/lgastako/2e7dfd6b1118bb408ff114a4be4...

On the other hand this blog post http://www.haskellforall.com/2013/05/program-imperatively-us... demonstrates how one of the bits of Haskell that some people find complex (lenses) can be used together with the state monad to provide an "imperative-like" experience that's even nicer than most imperative languages.
Amazing branding.

Edit: if this thing blows up, I predict Facebook will buy it.
I can't believe it's taken N3TWORK over six months to produce a bare-bones replacement game. It doesn't even support multi-touch, so you can't move and rotate at the same time.

I'll admit, I honestly have no idea what it takes to develop, test and launch a top-tier game for mobiles, but we're talking about Tetris. And this particular version is as minimal as it gets.

I love Tetris, so I really hope they add some cleaner skins without the odd faux 3D effect and fix the controls before their battle royale version comes out.
Thank goodness. Aside from everything looking like Ads I just really hated the design. I had a harder time extracting data from it when looking for a relevant link.
I gave up hope on bookmarks. This idea shines some hope! I miss delicious, that used to be so good.
But you aren't putting up a website to test the intelligence of your audience. You are putting up a website to sell your product/service. When you walk through a market you find vendors shouting out what they have on offer. They keep it precise: the item they are selling and the price. That is it. This is a tried and tested method of selling. One that humans have adapted to over generations. Tufte might have said that in the context of visualizations. Doesn't mean it applies to marketing as well.
It used be alright but their noise factor has increased a lot since half a decade ago.

Before that, Quora felt like a small community similar to HN. They had founders and executives answering questions. They were still spamming email afair but not as aggressively as today and it didn't have what is x + 3 = 10?

I deleted it after I reached a million answer views from a sudden growth. The users that moved in completely destroyed the whole thing.

That day, I learnt acquiring users via heavy marketing or SEO may not be a good decision for a community. They are better as spectators or consumers.
Opens with an obituary and then only provides Google as a sign in option - not really sure how I feel about the on boarding so far
How Email Actually Works
When using services where the IP is shared by multiple users they really have to have good protection. They can’t nullroute all the tenants
I don’t believe GCP has such a service explicitly, although in 2 years of using them I’ve never seen any DDoS like behavior despite having multiple public endpoints. I am assuming there is some kind of automatic remediation that happens, or else I’ve just been extremely lucky.
>food stamp receipients

>folks on social security

I notice that you call some people "folks" while others are simply "receipients". Do you think poor people are human?
And the outbreak could have, hypothetically, been anything.
Part of me wonders how much of the author's sense of sublime isolation came from getting away from his small children for a whole day :)

If you live across the pond in the US and have a free weekend, it's pretty easy to do this sort of thing here, too.

Many national forests and lands administered by the BLM allow 'dispersed camping' in the wilderness. You're encouraged to use existing sites along forest roads, but the rules are usually pretty loose. Search engines don't do a great job of indexing the USFS or BLM websites, so you might have to poke around a bit to find a 'camping information' page for the area that you're interested in. But you can find some basic information here:

https://www.blm.gov/programs/recreation/camping

Sadly, it's not all roses and sunshine. The author got told that he technically needed a permit to be in the part of the wilderness that he stumbled into, and you'll probably get some of that if you spend much time in BLM lands. People throw up false 'private property' signs and gates all the time, and those sorts of people tend to have the 'Cliven Bundy' sort of attitude that they have more of a right to public lands than others. There's no arguing about land usage with someone who points a gun towards you.

We also see the sort of aristocratic land grabs that he mentioned here; there are a lot of BLM lands which are now surrounded by private property, and those property owners are not required to provide access to the public lands which they surround. It essentially cedes "multi-use" public lands to the people/companies who own the properties around them.

It's too bad we don't have a right-to-roam in the US. It seems like the sort of thing that would fit in with the ostensible national ethos of freedom and independence.
TTC somehow got a court ruling saying that their copyright on Tetris covers the actual game mechanics [1], so that might be legally risky.

[1] https://www.loeb.com/en/insights/publications/2012/06/tetris...
Serious question: why would I want to use Linode over GCP or AWS? Asking as someone who hasn’t really dabbled with smaller cloud providers. Is it cost? Support? Developer tooling?
They are not. Any transaction entered into for the purposes of generating income is not a personal transaction. It doesn’t matter what your primary income is, what legal entities you have or have not created, or how you structure your transactions. This only covers transactions that are not business transactions, where a small capital gain is incidentally generated seperate to the purpose of the transaction. The same rule already applies to foreign currency. If you casually trade forex on the side, you have to pay tax on all your capital gains. If you go on holiday and incidentally make a < $200 capital gain when converting your money back to USD when you return home, you don’t have to pay tax on that.

The line of reasoning that this somehow creates a loophole for avoiding tax on for-profit trading seemed to dominate this thread, and it is based on a complete misunderstanding of the existing tax code. If you just read the words “personal transaction” and knew nothing else about tax law, then I can see how you could come to that conclusion. But those words are already legally defined in this context. The 988e personal transaction does not allow for tax free forex or crypto trading, and any attempt to contrive it to mean that would have you laughed at in a criminal court.

Lastly, and I’m not 100% sure about this, but I’m reasonably confident that personal purchases made with crypto would already be covered by this exemption, given existing IRS guidance on how to handle crypto transactions. If that’s true then this is more of a legislative clarification than a change.
Unfun fact, Colin Kroll, one of the founders of Vine and HQ Trivia died of a heroin overdose a while ago. He was an interesting guy. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/16/nyregion/hq-trivia-overdo...
Off topic, but FYI: the link in your bio goes to a 404 page for Rivet Health, which links to a designer template site of some sort.

https://rivethealth.com/careers/
That is not a fun fact :(
Awesome super useful thank you.
You are correct. I have changed fun to unfun.
JetBrains IDEs are great. Each update seems to be a windfall of "wow that's really useful" and "yeah I've always wanted that".

But man I wish they'd improve the indexing. Pretty much the only thing that can thrash my CPU hard enough to cause noticable hanging. Perhaps their machine learning can do something about that... Lazy indexing based on recent areas of focus or something.
I hope you didn't mean it that way, but referring to this as a "fun fact" is exceedingly loathsome.
Yes I agree, and I didn't. Force of habit. I have changed the wording.
My kid doesn't know the alphabet in three languages (home language, school language, society language). 2.75 yrs of age.
I think they panicked a bit and went with high growth strategies that ruined the integrity of the platform
I would like to disagree with the author's post, but I couldn't understand a word of it.
classic "this is not a bug, it's a feature".
I’ve been on the test for this design since October 4, 2019, so I’ve actually gotten used to it! But it’s probably a good thing for them to backtrack. I wonder what went wrong in their clearly lengthy experiment about how this would perform.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22107823

Does this mean they'll also "backtrack" on their destruction of the URL? I was extremely disturbed and horrified when I realised that not only did they replace / with >, but also seemed to arbitrarily remove and rewrite pieces of URLs shown in the results (e.g. all articles from HM would show nothing more than "news.ycombinator.com > item", which was intensely confusing.)
Sure. Of course toothpaste has flouride. There's nowhere that's untrue, I assume. But the person I responded to made a claim about water flouridation in the UK which was mostly false.
A good move is to leave out the $CORP and just say "Got back from a week of traveling for work." It's obvious you're leaving out information; and it sorta nods to your choice not to boast (play status game), and instead lets them ask follow up questions if they are interested.
I am well aware. In software verification, a "sound" verification method usually means no missed bugs. Obviously, the logic is sound in the sense that it cannot be used to prove false statements; in that same sense, tests are also sound, and yet in software verification, tests are considered an unsound verification technique (which, these days, is becoming good).
I want to run demo software on a JVM, and the box beefy enough to do that is MUCH cheaper on Linode.
I came from a strict C++ -> Java/Python world. My college class on programming languages included a Lisp, I think, but that was so long ago and was so poorly taught that I graduated without ever hearing the word "REPL".

So grokking, let alone writing, Clojure code was daunting but extremely worthwhile. All good things come to those who wait, and sure enough, I see it now. Massive gain in productivity. Like, probably more than going from C++ to Java, or Java to Python (for me).

P.S. This article is definitely a little dated in parts, but has of the warts still stand.
This guy is the real deal. Wish him the best.
Cost and freedom.
It’s a little meta but I think the way this has unfolded doesn’t shine well on Danny Sullivan and his role at Google. Danny been in the search industry from pretty much the get go, he knows anyone who was anything in search, he “studied the great machine, knows things even Draal doesn’t know” [1], and yet he has been reduced to some sort of an after-fact PR person for decisions it seems he had no say on. Pity.

[1] https://youtu.be/dn6sWdxpk90
I personally would say simplicity and up-front pricing. I don't need to make a spreadsheet to figure out what I'm going to pay to host a simple web site or project.
Which would be a damn shame.
Type checks done by the compiler and tests that you manually have to write are not the only two available techniques. Again, the goal is not to have the compiler do anything, but to produce software that's as correct as needed for the lowest cost.
I agree with the sentiment entirely, but reflecting on what you wrote it's so strange that we have to call this out as a slightly
novel way to do business.
So how does that actually work?

Doesn't AWS charge an arm and a leg for traffic?
I found that article frustrating for its refusal or inability to directly evaluate the theory. Was his response along those lines?
As someone not very familiar with either: Why is TikTok succeeding while Vine failed?

And why did Vine shutdown? How do you fail at user-generated content that you can sell ads and more on?

I ask because I still run blogs that are < 5% of the size they used to be, but still make me $50/month with zero effort in static mode. So why would I stop?
>Basically use the least level of abstraction that can reasonably get the job done.

There is a great section of John Ousterhout's "A Philosophy of Software Design" that goes into this. He mentions that moving code to functions / methods doesn't eliminate complexity, it nuat kind of shifts it: it adds complexity to the "interface" of the module.

Sometimes leaving code inline with its original context is better.
Cost and ease of onboarding. For $5/mo you get 1 vCPU, 1GB RAM, 25GB SSD, 1TB egress quota. Try calculating the egress cost alone for GCP or AWS.
Two scenarios:

1. A flaw is found in a standardized design impacting hundreds of units. Engineers identity a fix, and technicians receive training on how to apply the fix. They apply the fix to hundreds of units in a standardized and repeatable fashion. If the flaw is catastrophic, chances are this will prevent hundreds of catastrophes.

2. You have an industry producing hundreds of bespoke designs. Each time a flaw is found, engineers work to devise a solution, and technicians repair the flaw on an ad-hoc basis. The industry is competitive, so potential learning surrounding individual flaws does not propagate quickly. Each catastrophic flaw is a new catastrophe, endangering many lives.

Funny thing about auto makers manufacturing 100s of millions of units: they're still hugely profitable and despite the risk of mass recalls, bespoke designs are practically unheard of.
Pay for content you liked, don't pay for content you don't. How do you propose deception to work in that case?
>> Look out for non-competitor competitive alternatives: the things people use instead of using an actual product. This can be Post-It notes, an Excel Sheet that does not involve numbers, anything that is a general tool applied to a specific problem. That is where you can find your critical problems, and that is where you can serve your niche best.

This is an overlooked factor by many bootstrapped startups. Rather than copy the competitors features, look at the gaps in the market, that you can build and cater to.
I read a few comments before I realized they were written in 2010, and not 2020. It's surprising how many of those predictions (easily most of the ones I read) seem completely applicable to the coming decade.
I postulate that if this is a true cause/effect it depends on words having a strong association to the intended concept, and that concept being significant to the individuals.

Further, I would postulate that the selection of study participants at that time, and the construction of the test, were very well matched. Today there is probably greater cultural diversity and comingling, and may also there may be less unconscious association of those words to slow.
On my part, I prefer Linode now simply because I won't support a company as openly monopolistic as .. those guys .. if I can avoid it. Also, maybe a little superficial loyalty. Linode was the first provider I found with KVM support when it was a new feature in QEMU, but that reasoning is long expired.
From what I understand, Snapchat killed it. They sold to Twitter pretty early for like $30M and Twitter just didn't move quick enough.

Also, a lot of the popular viners wanted to be paid in some way, and they didn't really have a clear way for that to happen, so the creators pulled out and it died.

TikTok just did it better. Creators can easily get paid, videos are not forced to be 6 second max, and they executed better.
Finally super short videos, without censorship.
Utah WAS a theological state, which is why the federal government refused their initial requests for statehood. Which also relates to the motivation for Utah to allow woman to vote. Within Mormonism (at the time), polygamy was allowed among approved church members. Allowing women to vote gave these approved church members essentially extra votes since some of these men had over 50 wives! Obedience to patriartical rule is a critical component of Mormonism, and this influence could be leveraged to make things happen in accordance to the church's wishes.
Don't care. Haven't used Google since they put social engineering and ad revenue ahead of search quality and usability When I peek in from time to time, it looks intolerable compared to DDG's clean results.
Oh interesting I'll have to check, we did an upgrade pass a while ago maybe we just didn't upgrade pandas for whatever reason.
Not bringing food, staying within a circle of 10 m diameter for 24 hours... I think I can see the point but it seems like he could have reset his clock while not taking it that "extreme". I enjoy nature, but prefer to walk in it, and take it in, explore.
He was probably referring to the Swing GUI toolkit, which allows you to develop a GUI once and run on Windows, Mac, and Linux and keep mostly the same look and feel.

Swing was popular briefly back in the Applet days on the internet and also for a lot of internal corporate apps, but never saw much use in commercial and open source apps.

I think the main GUI libs were removed in version 11 of Java released a year or so ago, and now they're packaged separately.

According to Oracle, support will be provided for a few more years 'commercially' which means you'd have to pay them if you want security updates. They're apparently trying to push off the stewardship of the library to the community, like they've already done with a lot of Java technology that they've ignored since buying Sun (e.g. Netbeans platform).

I'm not sure what that means for the OpenJDK versions which is what most of the world now uses instead of Oracle.

* https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/javaclientroa...
Run Spectrum Holobyte's Tetris Classic in DOSBox.
In general, these seem to be Softbank companies, more than anything else, and ultimately, those are funded by Saudi petrodollars.
China clones America’s successful tech companies, and now America clones China’s.
Marketing is population control. Getting someone to buy something is the same as getting them to believe something.
Cost is a huge factor if you move a decent chunk of data. For $80 a month I have 4 VMs of various sizes and 8TB (pool) of bandwidth. 8TB of bandwidth by itself is $560 a month of AWS.
I opened Chrome on a friends phone (first time on Chrome mobile in years) and was shocked to see the url bar is no longer editable. It just gave me a weird context menu with a copy icon.

I guess they really want to funnel everyone through search...
A proton weighs ~10^-27 kg, so that's about 100 protons.
I sincerely doubt we have masses that are quite that good - especially that which can take a high mass item (harddrive) and detect an atomic-scale change without being hideously noisy
Add ?share=1 at the end of the URL.
I like the design and interface, but when you click on an element in the scroll menu you lose your scroll position.
I can believe that Linode is cheaper than EC2, but isn’t Amazon’s LightSail a similar price?
Joe Rogan's Endorsement Is One of the Most Influential in America
Yes, there's a lot of existing code written assuming the old behavior. But most code has only a few ingestion points, so it's pretty simple to turn on.
It is without a doubt the best $100 you can spend as a .NET developer. The only complaint I have is that it thrashes the disk because VS can't be arsed to make a 64-bit version, and so there's a stupid memory ceiling.
To be fair, I think TikTok was to some extent a Vine clone.
Exactly. I have been recently just using the drop down to read a summarize answer to questions I have googled. No need to go further...