skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PayWall, somebody upload to SCI-HUB this taxpayer funded research
Coronavirus update: Wuhun ordered to round up infected people (17 minutes ago)
My friend 40 years young died of cancer yesterday. Fuck Cancer.
I know this doesn't add much to the conversation. My apologies.
Same with the NHS that's often derided. Cancer, heart attack, stroke? You'll be treated very quickly with the very best treatments.

Need some physio, but delaying it isn't going to cause ongoing problems? You're going to wait.

If you want to skip the queues then there's affordable private healthcare as well for non-urgent issues ... my plan with BUPA costs my employer £1,600 per year.
I’m hearing that last sentence in the voice of the narrator from arrested development.
For me, a little noise is the worst. A busy cafe with a constant level of noise is easy for me to tune out. If everyone is silent but like every 30s something happens: Someone coughs, a bag of snacks is rustled, a cardboard strap is opened. That's the worst.
not a backdoor?
>Wuhan is told to round up infected residents for mass quarantine camps.
AP did a better job than _you_, but it's a bit of a stretch to assume that finding is true for most other people, or even just the average person. This is why the scientific method exists, so we don't fall prey to our own bias.
It also spreads the risk pool over an entire nation, rather than who happens to be insured by insurance corp A in state B.
The "software industry in general", sure, but my understanding is that any flight-critical software goes under a much more rigorous testing regime and uses much better practices the average software project. It's probably why such issues were caught so early here.
> And if you're a male, you're subsidizing childbirth and other women specific costs.

And to that I say: fine. I will happily subsidize, through my tax dollars, health care to pregnant women, addicts, the obese, down-and-outers, whoever, so long as it means that everyone has access to doctors and hospitals when they need it.

I am far less worried about paying a few bucks a year to support someone whose condition I will never have, than I am about sustaining this spider's web of private health insurance, with its unaffordable deductibles and an endless list of shady practices. America doesn't need health insurance companies to act as intermediaries between us and our doctors. They add nothing.
Yeah their is some research that suggests this. I think there are some clinical trials to test this as well. The hypothesis is that when you are fasting your cells go into a rest and repair mode vs growth mode. Cancer cells theoretically don't do this so that may activate an immunological response. This conflates with the idea that chemo would be more effective is that the drugs would be taken up by cancer cells b/c they are actively growing vs the regular cells. So maybe less side effects and maybe more drug available to the cancer cells. I don't think we know for sure.
Obviously human bodies are not machines, they're much more complex and less understood than computer hardware, but I can't help but think of the analogy to running web servers.

Medicine today seems a lot like running a web app and never knowing if anything is broken unless users complain. It sort of works, but with good monitoring and alerting set up you can catch issues earlier or prevent them altogether. And the stakes with your body are much higher than just a web app going down, the difference between catching something like cancer a few months earlier is literally life or death.

From what I've read in threads like these, almost everyone in the medicine field is very opposed to moving in this direction, even seemingly in principle, and I really can't understand why. I get that doing certain tests can be invasive on its own, so the cost/benefit has to be considered on a case by case basis. This argument also as an analogy to operations - you get false positives on your webservers too, and sometimes people get woken up in the middle of the night for no reason. But we work to fix noisy alerts one by one, and things generally improve over time. Why is this not possible in medicine?
You'll probably find that your home-connection is asymetrical, meaning you can can download "fast" and upload "slowly" at home. That same asymmetry will be present in reverse for your visitors.

If you ignore the issue of speed, and reliability, it should work just fine. But honestly it is probably better to host elsewhere. A single cheap VM could host 20+ websites/projects so incrementally adding another is essentially free.

Having offsite backups, monitoring, etc. Would be a lot easier to achieve with a commercial provider.
I've been watching fireflies on my street for decades, and I have seen no decline - they show up at the same time of year, in the same numbers.

I was worried about what street lighting was doing to them (since I mainly saw them on the street), until one day I happened to be walking in a backyard with some huge trees, and saw more fireflies in those trees than I've ever seen before.

The trees were in a dark backyard and the fireflies seemed to be doing extremely well - the trees were just full of them.

And since fireflies eat sap from tree roots, I think human lighting activities don't really harm them too much.

My takeway: If you want to see how fireflies are doing, don't just walk down the street and look, make a point of looking in backyards, and unbuilt areas.

Suburbs and rural areas probably host large numbers of them. (But urban areas probably have few if any.)
Subaru spent the 1990s selling station wagons to people with those needs. You don't "need" a suburban to take the kids to school or soccer.

That said, I don't think people's purchasing and lifestyle decisions should be driven strictly by need. That's basically what poverty is.
Patagonia is one of my biggest dreams, I envy you!! :)

What you describe about making your day work, e.g. being forced to think about simple things like weather/food was also what took my mind off (and why I never got as bored as I thought I might).

There was some level of alertness in my head all the time (not really adrenaline because it was a much more peaceful feeling) ... something kept me focused even I had not much "to do". I remember every time I came across some cave in the rocks, or some hunters-lookout I took a mental note and checked my time so I would know how far back I'd have to walk back in case the weather turns. I have never done anything this useless that made me this happy. E.g. having a beer and a warm meal in a mountain lodge, or a hot shower after a week in the woods ... impossible to put into words!

Nature is the best really :)

There is a cheesy series on History channel called "Alone" where one season is about Patagonia. I think Patagonia is a lot more difficult than anywhere in the Alps or Western Europe. Check out that season of Alone, you might like it. :)

Also I too can't wait for spring to be here. Then I'll be off again.
Very cool! How did you find your initial user base? Was it through attribution on the images being shared, or did you do any advertising?
I find there's nary such a thing as Kotlin. You always get Kotlin+Java and in the end always two languages to support. It's odd to shift gears all the time, with two sets of syntax tools etc..

I found that despite Java's plainness ... it's robust and I don't worry about 'how fast I can express myself' I'm more concerned about readability and Java is still ok there.
We know early detection leads to more cures.
Arm Ethos Is for Ubiquitous AI at the Edge
It was indeed; it was proposed and implemented by engineers working on the Swift For TensorFlow project. The earlier dynamic callable features were as well, in order to offer Python interop.
As has been alluded to in previous incarnations of this article topic and subsequent HN commentary, for a typical IT/software job the ideal I think is to either have functional teams in their own closed open area or to have such an area along with a quiet cube or office (even if it's "hoteled") for work that requires long periods of uninterrupted focus.

An great alternative is just an open office where remote workers meet a few times a week to collaborate then go back home to get stuff done.

Somehow there has to be a mix because an open office space with all the yackety yak that comes with it is practically impossible to get any real individual work done. I end up making progress during quiet times at home after hours or when I take a day off/sick leave. Not ideal. Where is our 21st century Jetsons future, dammit. It's not supposed to be worse.
I would say 99% of SUV owners do not need an SUV.
I guess we're totally different because this sounds like exactly what I'm looking for.
That's a bit like complaining your front door is still green. If you don't like what the person before you did, you're in charge of changing it. Power to you ;)
Maybe it's just because I've been in industry for 10+ years now, but how are you qualified as a new grad to apply for both?
It's important to note that while a causal link hasn't been established, but there's a number of studies that have shown higher RF is connected to higher cancer rates, though results are mixed.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3907669/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29530389

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28472042
The concept of progressive disclosure means that you shouldn't teach this kind of stuff to beginners. Stuff like callAsFunction, dynamic member lookup, etc. are for people who are writing DSLs, providing rich libraries, etc.
$ bash <(curl ...

Seeing this in a README immediately indicates that the author has no idea what they're doing security-wise, and that I probably shouldn't trust their project.
That's a difference, yes, but orthogonal to the topic.

As a businessman, as much as you can direct the behavior of both your customers and your employees, you can influence the lawmakers. After all, they too want money or things that money can buy.

Violence is just one side of the coin that is power. The other side is voluntary (or technically voluntary but not quite) participation, which is primarily controlled by money. That's what makes politics and markets intertwined.
Works for me. I can see and hear most of the people I’m responsible for and everyone is generally on the same page since everyone overheard everything.

It’s more collaborative work than say programming though so I can see how it doesn’t work for all
Half of UK 10-year-olds own a smartphone
Why Bruce Perens is proposing “coherent open source”
So, as I read it above and in the Wiki, I gather that driveway is a subset of service road? (Actually, in my specific case, it's a little more complicated in that the access to a couple houses and a couple outbuildings are interconnected so it should probably be tagged 'driveway=pipestem' as well.)
And it does that largely by disabling all thermal management. Thanks, but...
It's easy enough to say things like "well if you don't like it don't use it". Meanwhile as a primarily swift dev I can't stop others (outside of my team) from using this disastrous syntax.

The first time I have to dig into someone's backwards codebase that uses I'm gonna flip.

Objects defining named functions allows you to reason about them logically. Car.tireSizeInches() returns an Int type. Any other developer can see that and know whats up, or type "Car." and explore relevant functionality. What the crap does Car() do? Etc.

This is a huge backwards step for swift syntax. I hope most of the large open source libs ban it.

As for implementation difficulty, see my sibling reply.
Open Letter Concerning Abuses by Octavio Rettig and Gerry Sandoval
It's just C++'s operator(), right?
There is a really really bright light shining on them against a background dominated by well not much, the glow of the milky way.

Consider our moon is the one of the darkest objects we know of, about the color of a asphalt parking lot.
I agree with the OP in a stronger spirit. It’s in society’s own best interest to ensure a basic level of quality of life to its members. There are many illnesses out there which can severely, negatively affect a persons life but otherwise aren’t always treated because of mitigating factors. Sleep apnea is a good example. Many can get by without treatment, but eventually complications from it or side effects of it can lead to chronic fatigue/reduced productivity at work, and even lead to death. Back pain can do similar. It’s not life threatening but can lead to reduced work productivity which could contribute to being terminated.
Eh. Improved error messages is good.

The rest look like they aren't worth complicating the language over. Consider:

map(\.name)

Isn't really more concise than

map { $0.name }

There's one more character and the conventions for whitespace are different. Both require that you know special Swift syntax sugar features, but at least the second one is more generally useful. All we get here is a virtually identical way to do the same thing but with alternate arbitrarily different syntax.

And what's better... this?

struct Dice {
var lowerBound: Int
var upperBound: Int

func callAsFunction() -> Int {
(lowerBound...upperBound).randomElement()!
}
}

let d6 = Dice(lowerBound: 1, upperBound: 6)
let roll1 = d6()

or this?

struct Dice {
var lowerBound: Int
var upperBound: Int

func roll() -> Int {
(lowerBound...upperBound).randomElement()!
}
}

let d6 = Dice(lowerBound: 1, upperBound: 6)
let roll1 = d6.roll()

callAsFunction() makes it a little harder to relate the calling code to the implementing code -- you've got to internalize the new syntax-sugar rule -- and the calling code gets a little less clear in some cases.

Default arguments to subscript functions is probably OK. It's better if all kinds of function have the same capabilities.
> 4WD

Available in many types of cars. Being heavier and higher does nothing for mobility in snow.

> and you have kids that need to go to school or go to various actives

Do you sometimes think?
Right, but I was specifically talking about authenticating the IV.
Video game development in Iran
The Nobel Committee has never awarded a prize to more than three recipients. It would have been highly irregular for the committee to award a prize jointly to a panel of hundreds of scientists.
Vote for Sanders or Warren, folks.
Twitter's Default Settings Can Leak Your Phone Number
I feel like I want to blame that for so many landing and home pages that just I can't figure out what they do.

But then again I have the same problem with most open source projects too... probabbly not just SEO at play.
> You definitely want your doctor, optometrist, dentist to be licensed

Expert systems have been beating doctors in correct diagnosis rates for years, yet the ego of physicians will not permit them to save more lives, in a fact reminiscent of "expert" fund managers trying to beat index funds and failing miserably. I'd love to see a study comparing physician diagnoses vs random-110-IQ-person-doing-a-Google-search diagnoses. My money would be firmly on the rando+Google.

Additionally, doctors and their staff kill between 250k and 440k (depending on the estimate criteria) Americans annually via completely preventable medical errors, making them approximately as lethal as lung, breast, skin, colorectal, pancreatic, prostate, and liver cancer combined.

The results of licensure in the field of medicine certainly leaves much to be desired.

Unless I'm bleeding out or having a cardiovascular event, I'll take my chances with diet, exercise, Google and WebMD.
Actually a significant percentage have. The US is 16.7% Hispanic. That is over 50 million people. The population of Mexico is a little over 120 million.

I would bet that if there were no barriers to immigration then you would see a significantly higher Hispanic population in the US.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Hispanic_and...
I grew up with station wagons.

Nothing about snow or children mandate vehicle height.
It doesn't, you can download toolchains from swift.org or build them yourselves and load them into your old version of Xcode.

But you're not allowed to submit apps to the stores with unofficial toolchains.
Steam users clocked almost 2.5M years of game time in 2019
>Why haven't 80% of all Mexican or Central American citizens relocated to the US?

Because we [rightfully, as this thread suggests] restrict border crossings.

>Or conversely, why haven't tons of the homeless in the US made their way to Mexico?

Because homeless people understand that the minimum protections and niche lifestyle they have here are orders of magnitude better than a violent third world country.

>then we should be seeing massive population movements all the time. Instead, only the extremely motivated with a sizable risk appetite take the chance. And, one could argue that those two factors combined qualifies that group of people as non-standard.

Considering the difficulty of illegally crossing the border for a poor South American, we are seeing just that. There's another selection bias here - those who are competent are less likely to risk illegal entry because they understand life as an illegal immigrant is difficult.
The snark is not warranted. Those techniques are absolutely fine when you are building mail order catalogs on the internet.
>I’m willing to be t silent environments are more conducive to productivity.

It's always worked for libraries, I think. Why not offices?
God I couldn't agree more. Sadly most of my last couple of jobs found it so hip and cool for even the CEO to have 'no office' (in reality each and everyone had a 'meeting room' only bookable by them with personal affects in them. Uhuh. No 'office')
Per person?!
I don't mean to downplay the effort of interaction-type tasks. It's the result of observing people around me. I know many people who are happily productive on sales for 12h workdays. I know no developer who's proud of code written on the 12th hour.
I understand the difference in difficulty, my point is any incremental time spent on this is wasted and could have contributed towards something else that's useful.
The language itself is amazing IMO but agreed the update hell has been annoying so far.
Like this one[0]?

[0] https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/a3xyjj/cheap-flights-envi...
No one can innovate when they can’t understand. No one can understand when they can’t read the data sheets for chips they don’t use.

Want people to build things with your crap? Don’t fight them when they try.
> My highest self-complexity is in my work and main goals. Like composing an orchestra there any many moving parts that need to come together. Hobbies and sports are generally less complex and more simple.

I think that depends a lot on the hobby and the individuals dedication (and ability to devote time) to the hobby. For example, one of my hobbies is I'm working on writing an opera. So that is literally writing for a full orchestra, but with the additional complexity of writing a story and libretto. In truth most of my hobbies can easily get as complex as my job, if I want to take it that far. However, for many people (sometime myself included) the fact that they are hobbies means we are limited in how much depth we have the time to commit.
Haha, down-vote to that one too. Feel free to address the original criticism, I'm waiting to have an actual debate instead of an naive emotion fueled down-vote fest.
I'm glad the requirement is gone. I had trouble affording insurance under the marketplace plans when I returned to the US:

https://battlepenguin.com/politics/returning-to-america-and-...
Algorithmic Game Theory (2013)
I live in the Twin Cities and I'll be at a meetup and I STILL find out about places and products

"Wait that ... is made here?"
Lack of opportunity, high crime, and institutional corruption are pretty strong motivators even if you're not in a warzone or on the run from cartels.
Syntax duplication has a huge cognitive overhead.
For me the best thing by far are the extremely rare "team open offices" where you put anywhere between 10-20 people inside that all work on the same type of product. Much better than your team of 10-20 people sitting in a room fitting 400 people.
Right, but he also then has a lot more incentive to keep costs down and the power to enforce some requirements and controls to keep costs down.
I didn’t say it was impossible. I said “add more generic functionality“

That’s why I provided two examples containing different types to illustrate what I meant.

I don’t believe you can add a generic function to the array to handle this.

In another repo, I’ve used the FloatingPoint protocol with some luck. However, this should also work with Int’s, for instance:

extension Array where Element: FloatingPoint {

var sum: Element {
self.reduce(0, +)
}
}

https://github.com/melling/data-science-from-scratch-swift/b...
For a box to only open in zero G, you could have weighted pins in all 6 directions, pulled back by very weak springs. In normal gravity, whichever pin(s) are "down" will extend and lock it. It would have to be in very low gravity for enough time for the pins to retract to unlock.
Ah, this reminds me of the time I encountered a polyglot "config file" in the wild in a university autograding system.

Instead of being parsed, it was `import`-ed and `include`-d in Python code and Makefiles. It had a `.py` extension so it took me a while to figure out why everything was breaking when I added some Python code in it. All in all, a very cursed setup.
"Backdoor" usually implies the vulnerability was put in there intentionally.
I agree with this. The problem with monetizing your hobby is that it turns your hobby into a business. That eliminates a whole lot of the benefit and joy of having the hobby.
i've lived with chronic depersonalization and the resultant anxiety which had kept me hamstrung in my one and only job

after a couple personal breakthroughs i finally gained the confidence to earn a promotion to my very modest dream role, only to find out a couple months in that we'd be transferring to open plan

after the move i almost immediately started experiencing esteem-crumbling health issues caused by the constant anxiety, i avoided growth opportunities because i couldn't muster the energy to even volunteer, i failed to cultivate proper relationships with any of my coworkers and before long my destructive fight-or-flight tendencies were back in full force

i tried being completely transparent about my problems in an attempt to save this job id wanted for so long, jumped through hoops like seeing a company appointed therapist, tried and failed to arrange more flexible working situations and so on

eventually i provided enough dirt on file for them to force me to resign, so i'm now unemployed in my 30s with no references i have any confidence in and enough shame and guilt to put me in the ground should my extreme mental fog ever clear again

knowing how deep mental issues can run i'm so sad knowing people are having their careers effectively curtailed by something as stupid as this in an industry that should understand these problems better than any other
I'm not sure why it's a surprise that people buy cars because of the image they project. That's been true from the beginning, and for more than about transportation.
There is a lot more that Clear Linux does than just set the CPU frequency governor, as shown here among other articles: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu18...

There is also various compiler tuning, a number of patches to different components, using PGO + LTO compiler optimizations, and much more.
For me privacy is key. I get anxious when people are staring at me working.
My understanding is that "tech lead" as a role in Big Tech is more of a gateway position to bridge the gap between IC and management roles, a transition for a well-performing engineer who otherwise has no experience managing a team to "bootstrap" and gain that experience. During this, coding expectations for said engineer naturally lowers, and is shifted towards the total productivity of the emerging "subtree".