skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the restaurant industry, they do similar meetings called pre-shift meetings, aka lineups. The purpose of those is to check everyone is on time, check their uniform, talk about current promotions/deals/offers, discuss potential goals/bonuses, etc. And it makes sense.

In software, standups make it easier for stakeholders to track that people go to the office, and do so at a reasonable time, although most people will not admit it because it sounds bad.

Of course, making sure that team members are making progress and they're not blocked is very important, but that might not be relevant for non-stakeholders.

Sometimes it's all unintelligible mumbling and serves no purpose other than cargo cult.
"The right lane always has people merging, either to enter or exit, or trucks lumbering along at 45."

Interesting perspective. I feel a little differently:

- cars meeting to enter shouldn't affect you, because it's their responsibility to get to the right speed and time their entry to a gap; an entering car should never cause you to need to change speed or direction

- an exiting car shouldn't affect you, because there's usually no reason for them to slow down before exit

- you can overtake the slow trucks when you encounter them: just change lanes to overtake, and then pull back into the right lane afterwards

Driving in the middle lane is optimal from each driver's own perspective but, globally, it reduces road capacity and increases journey times.
I don't think it's the absolute length of time, but rather the fact that the projects he was spearheading (Swift for Tensorflow/MLIR) are nowhere near production-ready (or at least they weren't the last time I checked).

2.5 years seems a very short amount of time to develop, launch and push adoption for low-level PL tooling (in an ecosystem that's not mature, but at least is reasonably developed). I would expect 5 years at a minimum.

I'm assuming they'll just die on the vine now?
Novel coronavirus complete genome from the Wuhan outbreak available in GenBank
My problem with notebooks is that I feel like the natural mental model for them is a spreadsheet mental model, not a REPL mental model. Under that assumption, changing a calculation in the middle means that all of the cells that depend on that calculation would be updated, but instead you need to go and manually re-run the cells after it that depend on that calculation (or re-run the entire notebook) to see the effect on later things. Keeping track of the internal state of the REPL environment is tricky, and my notebooks have usually just ended up being convenient REPL blocks rather than a useful notebook since that's the workflow it emphasizes.
You can sample data if you want already (or sequentially load partial data, which is what I usually do if I just want to test basic transformations), but if you need to worry about rare occurrences (and don't know the rate) then sampling can be dangerous. For example, when validating data there are edge cases that are very rare (ie sometimes I catch issues that are less than one record per billion), it can be hard to catch them without looking at all of the data.
There's a good Bryan Cantrill talk about that.[1] The gist is that eventually, when you throw enough resources at a problem, all that's left are the really uncommon problem and bugs, and this is specifically what you get in the data path (including drive firmware) where things get harder and harder to figure out as the code gets more hidden and obscure.

As with all his talks, you can expect it to be quite entertaining as well as informative and historical (if from his POV).

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE2KDzZaxvE
I think I have utterly failed to successfully convey the point I was trying to make.

My point was not that I expect zero downtime or perfect reliability. My point is that I expect that companies don't consider downtime to be an acceptable and normal thing.
They only talk about the 6600 guests as part of that purchase. The video talks about having 1085 employees in the different kitchens. They need to eat as well, so does their meals come from this same stock of food? There's also the rest of the staff like engineering, bridge crew, cleaning, etc. I'm guessing there's a couple hundred more employees at least. I'm pretty sure I'm thinking way more about this than the producer's target audience though.
Even if the measurement is inaccurate and over measures obesity; the trend of BMI increasing, and hence obesity, still exists.
They mean in the implementation of a rootkit.
My understanding is that performance on LVM drops dramatically after the first snapshot due to the way it handles CoW (synchronous writes on top of your async write). Is that no longer true, or only in certain circumstances?

It seems as though the way to go would be to take a 'snapshot', back it up, and then delete it immediately; is that right?

https://www.nikhef.nl/~dennisvd/lvmcrap.html
There are some solutions out there for people that do not want to do whiteboard algorithms or take home projects. There are interview processes like codebase-projects [0] which you contribute to a company repository. Most companies pay you for the day.
There definitely seems to be something wrong, in that a lot of companies don't bother at all in getting to know you. But there are a few out there that do make interviewing a two-way street, and make you feel like you aren't wasting your time.

[0] https://introview.io/processes/codebase-project/
After Kubernetes’ Victory, Its Former Rivals Change Tack
A couple years out of college we finally took a hard look at the credit cards and realized we had fucked up.

We were gonna buckle down, pay the cards down hard for a while, 'color' our money so we both had discretionary spending separate from, say, the power bill. She had much more Excel experience than I did so she worked up a spreadsheet.

It was bad. We had worked up some 'fair' notion of proportionality and she basically had no spending money and mine was pretty bleak. So I redid the numbers from scratch with split that was better for her. In the new spreadsheet she has much more spending money and... hold on, I've got a bit more too? I looked at her spreadsheet repeatedly and I never did figure out where a couple hundred bucks got lost. I went back to sanity checking mine instead to make sure I wasn't wrong. It checked out.

I wonder sometimes how often small companies discover they've been running in the red instead of the black, because some cell got zeroed out, a sum didn't cover an entire column, or embezzlement is encoded straight into the spreadsheet without anyone noticing.

There's gotta be a better way.
This x100. I'll never understand someone can do nothing about being blocked until the next standup in the age of Slack and open office floor plans.
Show HN: Solodev MMO live-streaming daily on Twitch
"Classic:" A book that many want to have read, but few want to read.
Well done friend! This is super cool
The Game of Oligarchy
Wow, it's not even in the SDM. Only docs I can find are: https://software.intel.com/security-software-guidance/insigh...

Glad it's possible to do this in virt now: used to be impossible to disable TSX (you could avoid advertising it via cpuid, but you couldn't actually prevent usage of the instructions).
I'm sorry, the "recent study" was "an app I wrote"? Sorry, but unless I'm misunderstanding... that's not a study. And the whole point of a study is to back up assertions like "I very rarely see" so they aren't just opinion subject to all the normal human biases we all have.

But if you ran such an analysis across public GitHub repositories per-language and wrote the results up in a blog post, I'm sure HN would love to see it. Definitely front-page material.
Including crew, I'm getting around 9.5lb/person/day. Not sure where you got the 17 pounds number.

Nine pounds of food and drink, including packaging, pallets, skins, peels and bones. Doesn't sound all that far-fetched.
One of the things I've always wondered about, but probably falls into the category of military secrets, is exactly what the manifest looks like for food on a patrol of a Ohio class submarine.

There must be spreadsheets somewhere with all of the ingredients broken down, costs, quantities, and probably cubic volume occupied (since freezer space and food storage space is somewhat at a premium).
The word you are looking for is azimuth. The azimuth of the sun to the earth shifts as the earth wobbles throughout the year, and as we shift our time for daylights savings.

My garage door was affected by this until I created blinders for the trip sensor.. IR from the sun would cause the garage door to stay open. Lately I just watch my new neighbors leave their garage door open because they can’t figure out why
Data Migrations Don’t Have to Come with Downtime
The video says that's for 4 month contracts though. I've been on deadline crunches where the last 4 months of a 24 month contract were like that.
Super cool! Is there a complete list of algorithms covered by this site? Does it cover more esoteric ones like fibonacci search? Or mainly just linear/binary search + lots of sorting algorithms?

I think it may also be good to also have some quizzing included for the properties of the algorithms, so users not only build the algorithm but also provide its:

- O() / theta() / omega()

- In what cases will the runtime of this be "O(n log n)?"

- Is this algorithm better or worse than merge sort if you have 2^16 long int elements and 16GB of ram?

etc etc.

Knowing how to implement algorithms helps solidify a lot of that, but in the end the truly important thing is knowing which algorithm to use for a particular purpose, and what the downsides are for each other algorithm.
CBP officers seize $900K worth of counterfeit U.S. currency
or pull in the people necessary to resolve it.

I don't really understand why people believe the only way communication happens is by standing up every day to talk about their feelings.
The actual collection itself is available at https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/publications/special-colle...
The timeline view (with examples!) in particular is very interesting to see how specific features became to be so deeply associated with the movement. At https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/tour/the-bauhaus/slide/633...
The old adage was "genetics". If you had the right ones you could eat anything.

Clearly 20-30 years is not enough for genetics to play in so what is going on? I know we blame fast food and sugars or possibly even fats a lot, but I feel like a lot of those have existed.
I understand the idea that a stolen property have to be returned to its owner, but on the other hand I would suggest a third possibility. Maybe UK should be allowed to buy legally the objects instead to return them [1].

For a country with more than 200000 british-nigerian citizens paying due respect to Nigerian culture and history would send the right message to the population, protect all UK children against blatant racism and ignorance, and act as ambassadors of Nigeria in Occcident, a country with more people than Japan or Russia.

I would smile about the idea of the future 15Yo Sade, Seal or John Boyega being allowed exposure to something that is also part of their legacy in a free "Museum of Nigeria and Nigerian people" and develop a sense of pride about it.

[1] (Or maybe they could just scan the objects, made exact bronze replicas and spread them for countries with extensive nigerian population for the public benefit. That would end the dispute)
I don't know why this stuff didn't go anywhere.

I remember reading this article, from 2003:

https://www.wired.com/2003/10/phages/
Nah 5% is shit (but also the average)

It can't really be both of those things. I'm sure there are outliers just like you describe, but not that many.

20% is pretty high margin in general for business.
Thanks for making your notes public. It inspired some further thinking for my org-mode setup.
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Tape on the bottom of an Ethernet cable will guarantee a day of no work
I understand they can: http://www.servalproject.org/
I doubt anyone's installing the Avast chrome extension voluntarily. It's mostly just people forgetting to uncheck a box when installing some software.
I beats me why all aircraft would not have forward downward facing radar to give a readout of approaching terrain.
Now, this really scares me.
Not because it's a false positive. Those are bound to happen.

But if the takedown really happens months after the last update, then that would mean malicious add-ons are left on AMO for months?
Isn't that like saying CNN ripped off BBC because they both use the same style scrolling text mattes? Like pretty much all other news sites, too?

When looking to add a feature that is the same feature everyone else is using elsewhere, developers do try to keep things uncomplicated by sticking to the expected norms. That's why McDonald's and Wendy's both have fries that follow a certain expected form. It's not one copying the other - it's them providing what the customer expects from a french fry.

Gmail's solution clearly works and is popular right now. That's why Octobox, Github, and everyone else is using that format.

EDIT: Since we're talking about copying things, let's start here: https://www.google.com/search?q=infinity+logos&7&source=lnms... You get really familiar results by searching "infinity snakes," too.
I don't understand this argument.

First 5G is just a comms channel. What "apps" would be built for it? The only things I can think of that might be special are things that would require a large amount of bandwidth (that most people won't be getting anyway). You can easily write such apps without actually having 5G at your disposal.

Second, even if the first point is off the mark, why does it matter who builds it first? Everyone else can still write apps for that system, and those apps would then immediately work on the others as they come online.
Which is always easier said than done and a bit simplistic. The primary factor derived to date has been to tie the wear factor to axle weight. Meaning an empty vehicle made for transporting goods would be in the range of passenger vehicles. In addition to simple overloading, improperly balanced loading represents more damage for the same total vehicle weight. So each axle must be weighed in a loaded state on each individual trip to determine the presumptive proportional tax burden.

All of which creates overhead in the form of people to be paid, equipment to build/own/maintain, time lost at all stages, the usual political influence problems, jusrisdiction of different areas of road, implementing policy, and corruption. Most of it will end end up as pass through cost to individuals either way as both consumer goods and roadways are deemed essential. It's ultimately a fairness exercise of tax distribution so like most things in the public interest the arena any idea must be fought in is politics.
I find a related article https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/25/how-to-tell-whats-reall... much more interesting, it talks about the political (and social) context of this epedimic.

This bit, if correct, is the biggest "oh shit" part...

> Is the quarantine working?

> It’s too soon to tell, but quite probably not. The confirmed numbers may be just a fraction of the real total of infected victims, with many not yet diagnosed or even showing symptoms. But the biggest problem is that the long incubation period means hundreds of thousands of people left Wuhan long before the virus was seen as a major problem—especially as the Lunar New Year, when hundreds of millions of people return to their families across China, was coming up. A lot now depends on where they ended up. The constant expansion of the quarantine zone, which now covers a huge chunk of the central Chinese province of Hubei, suggests that local transmission may have been fierce and fast, outrunning the authorities. Modeling by foreign scientists is producing disturbing results — 250,000 or more infected inside Wuhan and large outbreaks elsewhere, with 60 percent or more of possible transmissions needing to be blocked to contain the outbreak.
It's a scientific poster layout, very standard. They typically have some citation, but only major ones.
This is no joke. My father used a map of likely nuclear fallout when choosing where his family would live.
This is a great learning project for patterns & Best practices on so many aspects TypeORM, Hooks, React, NO-Redux ... as the Author mentioned already.

I am recently using a Next & Nest combination, Combining some of the good patterns of this project with Next&Nest combination would be great. Here is a good Next/NEST starter project https://github.com/saltyshiomix/ark

https://nestjs.com/

https://nextjs.org/
Undergrad Compilers from the Hive Mind
It's not an either-or question. Symbolic reasoning comes up in many places where regression techniques are simply inadequate. A synthesis of the two is likely to see progress.
Just look at how product development worked before telemetry was a thing that was possible, and how its done in other industries. This isn't hidden information.
Specifically, type 2 diabetes. Which is a metabolic disease that can be fixed with proper diet and some exercise.
That’s essentially the “meta-programming” methodology Charles Simonyi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Simonyi) promulgated at Xerox PARC and Microsoft back in the ‘70s and ‘80s.
That's a tempting theory, but the increased ratio of white vs blue collar jobs isn't enough to explain it.
See graph on
https://www.businessinsider.com/great-news-weve-become-a-whi...
I am convinced that a huge factor in the obesity epidemic is due to environmental pollutants. Many household chemicals have been shown to be related to obesity. Fungicide and pesticide exposure have been linked to obesity. And, with all of these there are probably compounding effects with each generation.
If you report the pool's hash rate as lower, the users should demand a higher fair share, as they know their own hash rate.

Either way, if a user knows his hash rate, he can calculate expected earnings and their presumed share. You could fudge a bit, but go too much, especially on a large pool, and it will be apparent. There are probably lots of users doing calculations, willing to call you out.
The "nutty"ness comes from people getting frustrated with intel fucking up the security of yet another feature they promised, and intel's overall poor security record.

Luckily there are other vendors who seem to know what they're doing: We just received our first batch of non-intel servers at work and have no intention of returning to intel for the foreseeable future. What they offer is simply not worth the risk. I expect more companies to follow suit.
TURN is the solution for communicating around Symmetric NAT. STUN is used to determine the type of NAT a user has, which helps determines the connectivity method to use between endpoints. Connectivity can be direct to each other or must routed through a TURN server.

IPv6 still uses NAT and Firewalls, which is a pain, but it is a reliable method of defense.

Almost all Cellular Networks are on Symmetric NAT, so P2P games are always going to require a TURN server. However, almost all WiFi networks use Port Restricted NAT (a level below symmetric), or lower, which is still possible to make direct p2p connections.

(I am working on my own Networking/P2P library for Unity, which is a painful process.)
The sheer speed with which this happened undermines many theories about what's causing it. People talk about idle desk jobs, a car-dominated culture, and abundant cheap food. Those things were just as true in 1990, though, and far fewer people were obese.
I've been in stand-ups that worked well (rather, teams that had the degree of cohesion necessary for a stand-up to work well). But, even when you do have a good, productive, useful, fluid stand-up with some team it won't last forever. Roles change, people change, teams change, projects change. There are too many things that have to align to make these things provide their stated utility over the long-term. YMMV.
This website has an interesting response to the agile values:

http://programming-motherfucker.com/

Excuse the profanity, btw.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/04/business/carnival-cruise-...

I'd love to see this industry reformed.
The truth is is that it happened all by itself. That's because someone coming along saying that someone with deep pockets is responsible will lead to a multi-million dollar PR offensive to convince you otherwise. For example, just look at how much Monsanto had to pay out when they failed at the PR war [1]. Before they eventually failed at their PR war, they had a well funded department devoted to discrediting any criticism of Monsanto [2].

[1]
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/californ...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/08/monsan...
Why minimum lot sizes are a growing housing affordability problem
I'd love to see another set of maps showing annual fructose consumption. I bet they'd line up with these nearly perfectly.
BMI is defined as (weight in kg) / height in meters ^2. It can’t be measured any other way. There’s no controversy about this, no other answer.

Now, many people argue that BMI is not a good measure of obesity, or health, since it does not account for percent body fat or other health metrics. That’s totally true. But BMI is BMI.
Super awesome. Are you going to open source the site so others can contribute to adding new features?
I recommend nbstripout https://github.com/kynan/nbstripout

It eases most of the pain regarding version control. You can use it as a 'git filter', so only inputs would be shown in diffs and committed (and also works with interactive adding!), while keeping outputs in your working tree.
> My point is that I expect that companies don't consider downtime to be an acceptable and normal thing.

And my point is that if a company isn't doing this, they're idiots. SRE is entirely about planning for downtime. You have incident response procedures to minimize downtime when problems happen. You have tools like error budgets to make explicit your organizational goals. But all of these are predicated on the assumption that incidents (and downtime) are a "normal" thing that will happen.

Again, if SRE's goal is solely to minimize downtime at the cost of other organizational priorities, there's a very simple way to do that: disallow all new features and maintain the same app today. That would easily cut outages for most apps by a factor of ten.

> My point is that I expect that companies don't consider downtime to be an acceptable

So you think its unacceptable to have an SLA? That's a very common way of making explicit the amount of downtime the organization feels is acceptable. This kind of error budgets is just a non-public SLA that's used to guide development, as opposed to pay people. I'm curious what companies you use that publish 100% uptime guarantees, or similar SLAs.