skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are inalienable rights first. It has nothing to do with citizenship. If I'm on US soil then I have (roughly) the same right as a US citizen. That's what so great about the Bill of Rights. (note there some specific clause for US citizens but they are labelled as such eg US president etc)
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Same as an SSD. Regardless of whether you saved anything on it the individual bits are either set or unset. It always has information on it, it just might not be _your_ information.
In fairness, just about everybody could emote “In $country it will take $year to build a hospital. Grumble grumble.”

What you should be asking yourself is how prepared is $country for an outbreak of a virulent pathogen? And; given its preparedness (1) how quickly could an area be cordoned off and quarantined, (2) how quickly could a makeshift medical structure to house an appreciable number of patients be slung together?
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Just want to add something to that 68% number: quite a few people get more schooling after trade school, there is something like "master of trade" or others go to university.
Tangential thought: There is an biting element of dehumanization when you call someone a “bot” (who is actually a real person). I see this term thrown around a lot in political threads when the account in question is quite obviously human.

In short, It’s become a term du jour for compromising and silencing those with whom you disagree.
using data structures and parsing techniques over "convoluted" algorithms ( pretty much discussed here: https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2019/11/05/parse-don-t-va... ).
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No, instead we just have periodic resurgence of diseases that have been cured for decades, like measles, that kill hundreds of children and vulnerable adults because a significant portion of our population doesn't "believe" in modern science and a significant portion of our government isn't willing to make them do otherwise.

But no, we don't have dirty food markets, so we have that going for us.
>I don't disagree that there's likely an overabundance of thinkers over doers, something like 6-8% of people in the US go into trades school vs. 68% in Germany as an example.

That's because in countries like Germany or Denmark there's a shortage of skilled certified doers like plumbers and electricians so they're paid handsomely and since devs aren't paid as handsomely there as in SV, some prefer to go into trade as it can be more lucrative than tech in those markets.
I really don't understand why everyone has spent the last decade trying to get rid of colour in the GUI. Google themselves are one of the worst offenders (e.g. Docs and Sheets toolbar buttons), but Apple isn't far behind (e.g. finder sidebar icons).

Even for someone with mild colourblindness, removing all traces of colour from a set of icons / buttons / labels just makes it harder to find the right one quickly.
I'm not an extrovert and I'd like this for people asking me questions.

Want to disturb me for 2 minutes and ruin my concentration losing me half an hour? If it's going to save you your afternoon - just do it. If you're probably going to send me a message on slack or call me there anyway I'd find this a lot less annoying. My goal should never be to get through the most work myself it's to move the company forwards. Having someone wait until tomorrow to get their job done because I haven't manually gone and checked my emails is a waste of company time.

Each to their own, and I don't think everyone would want to use something like this, but don't assume that it's only small teams and very similar extroverts that could benefit.
IOHK has a research arm but does build products, Galois is almost entirely on the D side of R&D (from what I understand).
Agreed. There is still "no silver bullet", though experience has shown some practices that seem to be moderately successful.

I think the author of this article is overselling almost every of these advances. Don't software projects still keep failing or being cancelled at an alarming rate, even when doing some or all of these improvements? And there's no compelling evidence that projects using, say, TDD, are significantly more successful, is there?
Sounds like an adversarial game and a great way to start breaking trust with the candidate.
These people would have had to make the effort to get another system - Windows or a console, at which point most of them would have little reason to bother with Linux gaming.
Isn't the fact that failure of the transport system would have catastrophic consequences an issue you're concerned with?
I use Twitter. I tweet out links I like, and search in Twitter when I try to find something I remember. The added bonus is that others can discover the links too.
Not an active HN user. There doesn't seem to be a downvote function..
The large entity would be your only customer. It would control sales and dictate your income. The organization making the suggestion is not a potential customer. That's ok. It just means that the edge case is not very important to that organization.
Out of interest, why not? I'm slightly biased on this point.
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Imagine if I owned a country club and it came out that I'm preferentially choosing people of one race over another, say actively excluding black people. How do you think that would be received?

That's literally what affirmative action is.
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I never thought the intention was people actually look in the promotions or social tab, so it's odd here it's being viewed as a way to keep people in Gmail.

To me it felt like a way to quarantine the Facebooks and linkedins of the world which email you every time a contact sneezed, or the stores that opt you into promotional emails in a way that doesn't shame those companies enough into trying to bypass it or complaining about anti-competitive behaviour if they got rightfully classed as spammers.
I feel like this a really uncharitable reading of the article. This is a real business that has built itself up from nothing to $100,000 per month in revenue (which is important as it means they aren't just burning VC cash in random acts of marketing) and they're speaking in precise terms about specific actions they've taken and the results they've gotten.

I've no doubt that if you're unfamiliar with marketing that these terms are new (in the same way that if you're a marketer and reading about database indexing you're going to have to do a little work to figure out what everything means.)

This is important to me not because I've any stake in this (I've no affiliation with Uploadcare) but because I worry that the knee jerk rejection of any kind of marketing by developers really hurts startups and bootstrappers.

There is definitely blather in the marketing world [1], I'm just saying this isn't it.

1 - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pepsis-nonsensical-logo-redesig...
"we get to choose which ones, if any, matter to us."

Definitely!

It can be amusing (and awkward) when the game is played by people who have wildly different things they value. Someone (politely, of course) reveals they're a wealthy executive and you react by looking on them with pity because they have to sell their time to others to work on dumb things that don't matter while you get to be footloose and backpack around Europe. Or you dress well and have the right accent so everyone assumes you're powerful when you're not (when I first moved to Ireland I was startled how many people assumed I was the boss and just visiting for a few days because I had an American accent). Or maybe you farm - and people look down on you - but wait! You quit the rat race to start an organic farm selling high end niche-goods to upscale restaurants - and suddenly you're the shrewd individual who made the right decisions in life to be able to do that.

It can be useful to remember that everyone wakes up and goes to the toilet in the morning, no matter their status. Years ago I read a quote from someone who liked naturism (nudity) because it stripped away most of the immediate signifiers of class from people.
The progress in tooling and methodology is paralleled by ever increasing complexity of software and problems it is solving. It's a zero-sum game. Still no silver bullet.
Really isn't that many when you compare it with things like the English language has over 40,000 words that are 8 letters long. Something I looked up recently out of curiosity with regards to the UK TV show Countdown, which has been running for years and is of French origins.
They are getting more new customers (edit: others have pointed out it also includes increased revenue from existing customers), thanks primarily to personal recommendations (word of mouth), than they are losing customers.
> Python is not fundamentally single threaded - it just has a lock that stops it from taking advantage of threads in cpu bound scenarios.

Tomato tomahto

> Python is used in data science because of the C bindings that make it not slow. Also, when in C, you can take advantage of threads since they live outside the GIL. e.g. Dask.

Correct. Python is fast when you aren’t running Python. Of course using C (or anything else) only works in certain situations—there is a cost to crossing the language boundary and very often that cost is greater than what you save by using C. Never mind the added build/package complexity, the security issues, the maintainability issues, etc.

Python is a neat language, but it’s really expensive if your project ever might have tight performance requirements (where “tight” is laughably easy for most other languages). Python can often be made to meet them with enough shenanigans, it’s just costly to implement and maintain said shenanigans.
Since this is hackernews... Other than donating please also consider contributing by coding would also be helpful. Editors rely on tools for many tasks (e.g. to detect & fight vandalism, for article evaluation, analytics, to do tedious tasks such as mass edits), and these tools are often open source. Mediawiki (the software on which Wikipedia runs) are always building features and doing bugfixes. Also, while the English Wikipedia is quite endowed with prolific programmers, many of its sister Wikipedias are less so and often lack basic tools, and there's a lot to do there.
My components being end-of-lifed are the Bridge and Connect (and a Play5, but ignore that for now).

The Connect is what connects my Sonos devices to the internet. By forcing a partition of my network, the other devices not being end-of-lifed will not be connected to the internet. To fix this I would need to buy a new device, move a speaker into the closet where the internet is, or run a Cat5 from the bedroom closet to the living room -- this is non-trivial.

The other device is the Connect which allows my TV to play on the other speakers in my living house and living room. By partitioning my network, the speakers won't be able to play off the TV. I will have a living room setup with 2 sets of speakers that can't be synchronized.

So ... unless they come out with a solution to let me keep all my devices on the "old" network and have a partitioned "new" network, I'm F*ed. I end up with 3 speakers on one network (one of which I guess has to be in a closet and just act as a little broadcast node) and 2 speakers on another network. I have my Play5 and a Play1 in the same room, which wouldn't be able to play the same thing.

So, yeah, I'll never buy another Sonos product again. I'm effectively out a couple thousand dollars. Better to learn my lesson and move on.
I’ve spent the last year in a marketing role and as I read this article I was thinking to myself “would I have understood an HN post like this 1 year ago?” Thanks for confirming that I probably wouldn’t have! It is a lot of jargon.
"airbase intelligence role outside London"

There are lots of US bases outside London that conduct US intelligence gathering - e.g RAF Menwith Hill.
"What can you tell me about the halting problem and its consequences".
Half of it at least
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That's completely insane.
Climbing the charts with a mobile game has the potential for activating a virtuous cycle with eCPMs for advertising as a parallel benefit to player acquisition. The acquisition and eCPMs can feed the cycle and self-sustain for a while. That's how the Voodoo and Ketchapp's of the world create their arbitrage markets that keep their throwaway hyper casual games dominant in the top of the charts. They've effectively gamed and broken the charts that way, reaping enormous benefits.
It seems like a modern version of the early 20th century experiment to weigh the human soul.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21_grams_experiment
"OP says it's all about moderators" - okay, I see, thanks.
"pervasive multiple-dispatch design tailored towards JIT code generation" sounds interesting. What is the relationship between the two?
I also went down that rabbithole and I'm also convinced, but I'm not aware of any Thorium reactors currently in operation.

Not being a proven technology would certainly be a business risk to consider though Thorium would be an easier pill to swallow politically and socially once the population is aware of the safety benefits.
I was born and raised in Wuhan. My father and a few friends are still in Wuhan, one of the friend is a nurse. Here's what they told me:

* The hospitals in Wuhan are at absolute maximum capacity. they are lumping any fever cases (e.g. flu) patients with potential coronavirus patients in the same room.

* People with mild symptoms are sent home due to capacity, they are instructed to be quarantined at home unless symptoms get worse

* Despite reports, surgical masks are completely sold out in China, my dad is asking me to send him 3M (the brand) masks from abroad.

* Even hospitals are low on surgical masks for staff. Each nurse is given one or two masks per day, but per regulation, they needed to replace the mask every 3 hours.

* A wider scale locked down went in to effect in Wuhan this morning, forbidding anybody from entering or leaving on any roads, rail, water or flight.

* Domestic news are filled with non-sense, top 3 news today are praising Xi's CNY speech, which has exactly zero word mentioning the pandemic or Wuhan.

[Edit] One more thing,

* This coronavirus is potentially deadlier than SARS. Most of the 25 deaths are from the original 47 cases that was reported a few weeks ago.
No, but very often those programs are slower overall because of the pickling cost. Multiprocessing isn’t a magic bullet / there’s a reason threads exist.
If a 10x improvement in productivity is paralleled by a 10x increase in expectations for the complexity of problems we can solve, that's not a zero-sum game, that's a silver bullet.
Founder is not a profession, and this kind of impenetrable jargon here doesn't add value to the conversation. It's marketing talk where some jargon words make sense while others are more of a "professional fence".
You sir, should have written the article.
While non-Apple products are locked-out (or, require the user to flip inputs on the receiver), at least user isn't forced to spend hundreds (or thousands) on speakers that eventually become obsolete. An Apple TV is relatively inexpensive (in the overall scheme of home theater).
> Behold the FAKEery of The New Yorker.

...

> First of all, Babri Masjid was an illegal structure (As per SC judgement).

Can you point me to the part of the Supreme Court judgment which mentions "Babri Masjid was an illegal structure"? Just to make it easy for you, here's the judgment [0]. It doesn't talk about Babri Masjid being illegal. The legality of Babri would not make any sense in independent India considering the structure was built 500 years ago. In fact, the SC clearly states that the demolition of Babri was illegal. It is ironic you call out New Yoker for FAKEery but indulge in the same.

[0] https://www.sci.gov.in/pdf/JUD_2.pdf
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There is a winter coming for the online ad model when more people realize, as this author has, that most online ad spend was probably a total waste.

That combined with the increasing crackdown by the consumer on blocking data tracking raises serious questions on the long term viability of the business models of some big players in the industry.
I'm going to give the same Haskell hot-take I gave on Twitter while at NeurIPS in December: the problem with Haskell is that you can port the awesome parts of pure, compositional abstractions over to Python, far more quickly than you can port really good domain-specific libraries and applications over to Haskell. My experience was that porting some nice ADT-based machinery to Python, using an available ADT library, took roughly one weekend, whereas porting the major domain-specific package I needed from Python to Haskell would take months to years.

I love Haskell. I prefer to use Haskell when I can. Haskell is a language in which I can Achieve Enlightenment. But apparently, God help me if I need to do some heavy graph processing or CUDA numerics in Haskell.
Countries which currently are replacing nuclear power do so with a combination of renewables and fossil fuels

Which countries? Germany for example isn't - yet. We're still in a place where we can reduce usage of both fossil fuels and nuclear, though that won't last unless we figure out effective means of energy storage.
It kind of reminds me of people discussing stock using what looks to me like numerology. They don't really focus on the underlying company or what it does, they mainly look at the stock graph and use more or less complicated models to try to predict future performance. Sometimes they actually have no idea what the company does.

I feel a bit the same way reading this article. There's a lot of talk about conversion rates and funnels and semantic cores and awareness ladders but in the end does do they have a product that people actually want?

Having bad SEO and a confusing website is bad because it could make it harder for people to buy your product but it's not going to magically make people buy something they don't want.

Also I wonder if focusing entirely on "conversion rate" is fair. There are other benefits to advertisement, such as increasing brand awareness for instance. After all look at the vast majority of real world ads, there's basically a 0% conversion rate. People don't see a Coca Cola ad on TV and immediately go the supermacket to buy a bottle. I don't see a football player wearing Nikes and immediately go online to shop for shoes.

Maybe somebody will click on your ad, browse your website for a bit, think it's interesting and months later they'll convince their boss to use it for their next big product.
Plumbing is a problem for hot radioactive molten salt. It's one of the few things that will erode ordinary stainless steel.
Which is why we can't have nice things.
I love how the actual product was one line out of several hundred on that breakdown.

Then when I go to the website: "Full stack
adaptive delivery"

I have no idea why their adverts aren't converting, I mean who isn't into full stack adaptive delivery? So. Damn. Compelling...
The correct link (removed the trailing l character):
https://www.reemer.com/articles/lessons-learned-going-from-i...
Issues that thunderbird solves that Gmail does not:

* Smarter filters: I can e.g. delete all twitch "streamer has gone live" messages that are 5+ hours old - they simply aren't relevant once the stream has ended.

* Bulk actions. When I get behind on my emails, I tend to sort by sender to decide what to do with 10s of emails at a time. e.g. I might archive a lot of older PayPal payment notifications by clicking the first one, shift clicking the last one and hitting archive. Gmail needs me to click each email to do so. Or search for PayPal, and do another search for the next sender I want to deal with.

Honestly nice interfaces for working on items in bulk have kind of vanished with the transition to web and mobile. Was looking for a replacement for Clementine with its Spotify support dead but the only options were mopidy front ends which sucked for bulk management of tracks in playlists.

* Expandable threading view. I can view an email thread as a tree of email titles and follow the flow. Gmail shows only a single item and then presents it as a flat sequence if I open it up.
Here are some Talk to Transformer outputs:

> Thanks to developers’ trust in our core infrastructure and their recommendations, we're able to deliver the highest quality services available. We're focused on delivering your most productive platform, whatever you're doing with it. From your smartphone and tablet to servers in data centers and data centers in offices. Our solutions help you store, process and manage everything from plain text and binary data to HD video and audio files. About Us: Cisco is a leading technology company known for innovation, innovation, innovation. We use technology to create a better world. With global operations in more than 100 countries, Cisco provides the essential technologies that enable companies to compete and win in today's global economy. For more information, visit www.cisco.com.

> Thanks to developers’ trust in our core infrastructure and their recommendations, our deliverables are performing better than ever. We are further expanding our market reach and capabilities, making us more competitive and reducing cost through better processing, architecture, security and data centers. That's the good news. The bad news is, we're reaching our head-end capacity and need more help. The Rails team members that work on applications and features on a daily basis don't want to burden the engineering team with refactoring and maintenance. They know that when the infrastructure is gone, they have a new responsibility to help build applications for new players. And there is a new player, but we are still in its infancy.

> Thanks to developers’ trust in our core infrastructure and their recommendations, we have secured the Ecosystem. This Ecosystem is already in the technology and revenue channels process. We have a team working on it, including the core guys and big but skilled giants who have also invested their expertise and assets to become the gateway into our ecosystem. As more people start to use this new feature, they will ask for news. In terms of devs, we already have more than 40 developers on board. We have identified a cluster in Africa which is running our client, and have a major team dedicated to project execution and content creation. As development work is ongoing and we don't have exact numbers, we can't officially announce how many people we have on board, however we are not aware of any
Correct. The problem with lack of privacy is because it is often unilateral. If there was actually more transparency across the board we might actually opt for less privacy.
Or a hundred per Yen depending on the exchange rate.
The last paragraph of TFA explains why it is left theoretical. In short, lack of measuring accuracy.