skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The very obvious thing missing from the site is decode and encode benchmarks. Its very context dependent but if it had a long decode time, that could outweigh the bandwidth savings.
AI firms deploy fever detection systems in Beijing to limit coronavirus outbreak
Probably because its a larger learning curve and its a lot more "framework".
Mapping mutations in 38 different types of cancer
Marketing costs in new markets have to be expenses immediately. This isn’t saying they are wildly profitable, just that some traditional metrics miss value in high growth companies.
You don't need four wheel drive for snowstorms. Trust me, I've lived in Canada for 45 years and we've never had a four wheel drive. And I've driven (safely) in a lot of snowstorms.
It sounds like you are watching on a computer?

I watch on my Roku tv, where there is only a few titles on screen and it makes sense to scroll threw them one by one. Maybe that's the difference?
I was lucky, I figured it out over time and before losing all my friends. In my case I think I was not uniformly a jerk and it was my wife (who had no patience for "jerk mode") who helped me see the problems.

I have another very good friend who in his mid 40s had to reboot his entire set of relationships except for three of us; at one point he told me, "you know, when everybody tells you you're an asshole, eventually you have to consider the possibility that they may be right". His "recovery" has been imperfect, for his own internal reasons, but the really good news is that not everybody whom he drove away gave up on him.
And folks who can’t afford cars.
Because of the whole debacle between Angular 1 and 2. During that time, React gained a huge foothold, and the momentum has continued to today.
I'll echo other replies and state that was an excellent read.

Now the prickly part: do you see any way to extricate ourselves from this effort which has no path to victory?
Bloomberg just dropped a pro-fossil-fuels FUD deuce on renewables by implying windmill rotor blades are clogging up landfills everywhere. I guess they can't conceive of multistage FRP recycling because they have to push their yellow journalism clickbait to make money rather than have integrity.
In terms of getting it into chrome:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=539120

> Keep in mind that the author of the FLIF works on the new FUIF (https://github.com/cloudinary/fuif) which will be part of the JPEG XL. So, probably FLIF will be deprecated soon. And as far as JPEG XL is also based on Google PIX, there is a high probability that Google will support this new format in their Blink engine.

https://jpeg.org/jpegxl/index.html
I Was One of the First to Get an ESports Scholarships, Now I’m $30k in Debt
Once again, still don't need it. I grew up eight miles from the nearest paved road. I drove a Suzuki forsa in the winter.

If the roads are too dangerous for a car, stay home.
My guess is that the whole AngularJS/Angular2 fiasco really soured a lot of people on going anywhere near anything named Angular for a long time.
Kids have a way of resetting your sense of focus. Not recommended for all, of course.
I think that LGPL for the encoder is exactly the right choice. A format's strength is in uniform support; taking a MIT-licenced encoder and making an improved incompatible format won't be great for end users.
Software development - Was on a team, sucked up a lot of time, programming was fun, team members in charge of finance embezzled the team finances. We ran a weekly sprint so the amount of money was pretty shockingly large. Ruined it for a lot of us. Programming is massive effort and was never that fulfilling. At no level do the prizes start to make any sense. I would say less so for ios development but there are some traps around making/producing apps & widgets. The side hustle you see people get into is small time sales, short projects, freelance, etc.. the problem being most of this stuff is a really expensive way to not make much money and take almost all the artistic fun out of it. People get into bands and try to get paid to support in-house, etc.. pay is crap, it's hard work, gotta have a lot of equipment, etc..

Sorry for abusing your comment :) but it seems that programming is a king of all hobbies.
Saw a 2 man team that got features done in a couple of weeks on jquery move to angular and turn into a 15 man team that took months on each feature.

Management was very happy with how modern the stack felt

Sales came to a halt for 2 years since features came to a halt.

Turns out Angular is freaky hard to do right.
Those are certainly interesting claims!

There are a number of arguments that science came about in western culture because of Christian belief in an intelligible and orderly creator, at odds with the other philosophies of that time (and arguably our own).

I've also heard that the original invention of capitalism came about within the monastic university system that generated our modern university. Jesus does disparage seeking after material wealth, and the early church held all possessions in common to help the needy among them. But, he also tells the parable of the talents, which encourages people to make the most of what they have, and the one guy who doesn't is punished. So, I would say Jesus is anti-greed, not anti-capitalism. The apostle Paul goes onto say those who don't work should not eat, and that hardworking pastors should be financially rewarded.

Jesus' golden rule is part of the beatitudes, which I understand to be unique among moral teachings. Foundational is the idea that all humans are created in the image of God, and should be loved accordingly. My understanding is chattel slavery came about after the enlightenment, perhaps due to the elimination of belief that all humans are created in the image of God. Instead we have the Darwinian view that humans form a continuum with animals, and thus implying humans can be treated like animals.

I do believe the relationship between Christianity and western culture is more than you propose. If you want some interesting secular books to read on the topic, check out anything by Rodney Stark.
Casper Was Ill-Prepared to Leave Unicorn Realm for Real World
Learning how to be truly empathetic to another person was transformational for me. Studying meditation, mindfulness and generally seeking to truly understand other humans with an open heart and mind has been a long, ongoing journey but well worth the effort to date.
Well... That was cathartic.
i know that there are organizations that provide business education to professional athletes. it seems to be too little however, given the stories/anecdotes you hear.

i'd go so far as to suggest that all pro athletes should be offered a mini-mba program of business courses as rookies: statistics, economics, marketing, accounting, finance, and strategy (and possibly financial valuation, operations and organizational behavior too). that way, they'd have the basic tools to evaluate the investment opportunities that will inevitably seek them out.
Being born in the USSR and having to watch the collapse of the Union and later Putin's rise to power with my own eyes, I can honestly say - this comment is not without sense and everyone should think twice before introducing Kotlin in their company.
Good timing, given that most users would simply accept the functionality, without the outrage.
You seem to be conflating law with rules of the road. The rules of the road are just how (mostly) everyone (mostly) agrees to behave (most of the time). Basically it's social consensus. The end result is similar but not the same thing as the law (which makes sense since laws reflect norms). Cars mostly follow the socially agreed upon rules of the road regardless of the law.

Cyclists and to a lesser extent scooters throw a wrench into things because we as a society haven't yet had time to reach a consensus on what the norms for these classes of traffic are and how they should behave so people fall back to the law.

This is why people get all "but the law" when cyclists run reds but don't care when cars roll stops or speed (under appropriate circumstances). We've established that the latter is ok but haven't yet reached a consensus on if the former is to be expected as part of normal traffic flow.
I think that could be a major funding source for a Martian or Lunar colony. I could see people opting to live in low gravity if the accommodations are decent and the alternative is spending the rest of their life in a wheelchair.
a lot of people's sense of self-reflection is skewed, i've seen people very close to me with an entirely broken sense of self reflection which usually just manifests as self-victimization

it has dumbfounded me at times because I, as you, thought everyone has some sense of it and if they saw it they might change; but alas not always the case
I'm so disappointed to read comments on this thread to the effect of "There's nothing in it for the company but risk".

I once put in about 8 hours on a take home project at a company (well known in these parts) that I had tremendous respect for, only to get an email back with "sorry, not up to par. We need someone with more experience".

I asked them for a couple quick points on what I could have done better. I had zero intention of fighting them on it. No response

The whole experience made me feel very ill, especially after putting in as much effort as I did, and obviously I feel quite differently about that company now.

On the other hand, 5 years ago when looking for my first tech job, a virtually unknown startup that rejected me after a take home project and day long onsite gave me very thorough and specific feedback, encouragement, and even a bunch of reading suggestions. Even though I didn't get hired, I have very fond memories of that interview and reached out to them when I did land my first job to thank them again.

Did it have any tangible implications for their bottom line to give me that feedback? Not really. But they treated me with compassion rather than like garbage. I have never named and shamed the first company and never intend to, but I personally think there's more risk involved in habitually treating people like garbage than like human beings.
For me, I was first getting into web development before Angular 2 was out. I thought it was super cool that I could make an incrementing counter and a to do list but just couldn't figure it all out.

I then tried React and it just kind of made sense. Since then from the sidelines I've heard Angular has gotten much better but personally don't see any reason to use anything other than React at this point in time.
Heh. Please buy Nokia for 7-8 EUR per share. The U.S. would get Bell Labs, Lucent and Motorola's telecom assets back to the U.S.

Nokia's recent trouble came from their ReefShark 5G NR chipset family. ReefShark is really advanced design with significant FPGA component. Supplier could not manufacture the chip for the specs causing huge additional R&D investment increase because they Nokia needs to redesign parts of their 5G architecture.
Every hiring process under the sun has a large, vocal group of people who think it's shit-tier. (Some people like me are equal opportunity haters - I've never seen a process that didn't have stupid flaws.) If you give feedback, eventually the group for your hiring process is going to find you.
I'm definitely not a veteran cyclist and almost always end up on the other side of the intersection faster than the first car. Cars have a lot of inertia. I don't believe going on red is necessary to be in front.
Why big custom government software projects succeed only 13% of the time
Pebble-bed reactors and small modular reactors
Angular: Learn about property binding, event binding, pipes, templates, views, metadata, attribute directives, structural directives, services, modules, components, injectors.

React: Write a function that generates a piece of HTML. Use standard event handlers to manage user interactions. Update state via setState methods. Ship it.
The blades aren't just fiberglass but a complex mixture of FRPs which includes glass, plastic, binders and resins. Furthermore, they're layered and vary with distance from the hub and position on the airfoil. Recycling them isn't impossible, just more difficult because of the nature of separating components and removing undesirable/unreusable components. Although the do carry incredible forces (not quite in the region of turbojet/turbofan blades but still impressive), there's probably more work to be done to make the blades fully lifecycle-designed to make them easier to recycle.
That sucks man, and by the way the Ancestry app on Android works quite well even though the small screen doesn't help with that all that info to show up.
You can encode to JPEG XL here: https://libwebpjs.appspot.com/jpegxl/

(Compiled to WebAssembly, not by me)
Also remember that your company likely logs everyone’s web activity in an easily searcheable format.
I can believe this
I didn't downmod your original comment; even had I wanted to, I couldn't as it was a reply to my own (same applies to your reply to that one). You really can't believe that more than one person disagrees with you? I did downmod the second two because they were snarky and rude; someone not replying instantly is not an indication of abandoning debate. It's not as though there's a notification system on HN, and people sometimes get busy.

With respect to your natural monopoly argument, they typically occur when there are very high start-up costs. There are other cases where economies of scale are significant, but very few where they are infinite. Even Amazon, a company that occupies much of the e-commerce market and is well known for its highly-efficient supply chain, is having trouble maintaining them indefinitely. I think we're in violent agreement that the high start-up costs of medical practices and hospitals prevent competition, and I was advocating for removing most of the regulation on the medical field. Another example: the AMA is a horrible gov't-sanctioned monopoly that hugely increases medical costs; most procedures can be done by someone with a few months' training (see the military). Healthcare is one of the few industries that hasn't mastered "mass production" of procedures in spite of the fact that many surgeries are similar.

> healthcare is a natural monopoly due to the fact that a significant portion of the population cannot "shop around"

Except that doesn't mean there is a natural monopoly. If there are a dozen hospitals and you get in an ambulance you'll get rushed to the nearest one that has the right doctors (most major hospitals have most urgent stuff covered). While consumer choice is probably reduced here, it's not as though the ambulances all take patients to a certain place.

The point I think you were getting at is that most people have limited choice because they are often treated in time-sensitive situations. However, about two percent of healthcare spending is on such emergency care [0]. Most procedures give people at least some time to find options, get second opinions, etc.

Natural monopolies (aside from those caused by regulation) are caused by lower long-run average total costs than someone else, industries where economies of scale are nearly infinite. Even those that can't be "disrupted" by building a competitor that sells the same product can be supplanted by newer technology. For instance, many people and companies are exploring setting up solar-powered, battery-backed microgrids that would create serious competition with the government-sanctioned monopolistic utilities. In other words, while high start-up costs will certainly delay competition, they won't prevent it.

> I'll file this one away to remember in the future.

Care to elaborate?

[0]: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2013/oct/28/nick-gille...
I think it's always been this way though in essence. I think it's actually better nowadays because more people are at least talking about the problem.

"How willing are you to jump through all the hoops that I had to jump through, plus a couple more, in order to get this job?"
I completely agree. I fail to see any plausible scenario where this doesn’t become a global pandemic in 2020. It seems like the best case is that it either becomes much less lethal as it spreads, and / or we slow it down enough to develop a vaccine. Failing that, I’m unclear on why any rational person thinks this is no big deal.

There’s no way China goes from 27k infected and it growing 15% per day to zero infections. It’s beyond containment at this point, they can’t stay on lockdown forever. And while it has barely spread beyond China, are we just going to wall off 1.4 billion people from the rest of humanity for the foreseeable future? Unlikely, probably impossible. So it seems like just a matter of time until it spreads globally, just like the flu, but much more deadly. And likely to overwhelm our medical infrastructure for the people who don’t die, many of which end up in critical condition.

I’m not panicking, but I’m concerned. Please, someone smart and well-informed, make the case for why this isn’t that big of a deal. (Hint: if you start by comparing it to total flu deaths instead of flu mortality rate, you’ve disqualified yourself).
Congratulations on the move!

This may sound very pedantic, but please spend a week reading “High Output Management” by Andy Grove.

The biggest change that happens when you move from a individual to a team lead is that suddenly you have a team which you can leverage to get the needle moving.

This is a great opportunity to punch above your weight but also fraught with peril if not planned well.

There is a need for a mix of comradeship and accountability which is not easy to grasp. But please spend a week reading the book
People who think Chris Bosh was riding anyone's coattails clearly don't know anything about Chris Bosh or basketball. First of all, he already showed he was a superstar in his own regard with the Raptors, where he left being the franchise's all-time record holder in points, rebounds, blocks, and minutes played. Second, there is a such thing as too many cooks in the kitchen, and so Chris Bosh understanding this, elected to do what it took to win a championship rather than trying to inflate statistics, and he played his role exceptionally. If you have ever read Bill Simmons' "Book of Basketball" he describes this as "The Secret"

(Thank you for this rare opportunity to talk sports on HN!)
Startups in EU are acting as unpaid R&D department for Silicon Valley
I disagree with this. Writing a set of "technical objectives" that say how a thing will work takes an hour at most and it helps you think through it better than a conversation. It also helps you pass information to QA. If someone asks what the thing does, you can just send them the link. Ultimately, taking an hour to write it down pays
dividends later on.
You walk into to a supermarket to buy a bottle of milk. None of the items have prices. There isn’t even milk on the shelves. You present your supermarket card to someone and then talk to a consultant who then does a bunch of tests and gets you milk plus some other items (which have high margins - like a special green bottle cap)

Then you go home and receive separate bills that trickle over several months. One from milk consultant, one from the doorman, one from the cleaner and other folks you never even met. The total bill could buy you a truck of milk in other countries but you’re glad you have supermarket insurance and you only pay the price of 10 gallons of milk out of pocket.
What happened to React? It's on the wrong end of almost all of those micro benchmarks.

I know micro benchmarks don't tell the whole story, but when you consistently wind up on the slow end it's not a good look.
I've yet to hear a good argument for how they're exploiting workers. Tons of companies are always hiring yet people chose to work for Uber. Most people hate their job and wish they were paid more but Uber is the only company that will welcome you back with open arms if you don't show up for a month without notice.
Good lord, it's beyond time for this. This "feature" made looking for something to watch on Netflix completely impossible for me.
I use the "screen time" feature on my iphone, and aim to have <1h average for the week.
Feedback can improve the process for companies in future too as candidates will update their mental models on how to prepare and perform in interviews.

If the takehome programming didn't work, tell them which test cases didn't work. If it worked but the coding didn't meet a criteria, tell them that. If they passed but are behind in competition, tell them what made others case better.

Same goes with onsite interviews too.

Feedback helps!
Commandments of Data Science (From My Experience)
I've not read your reply, and acknowledge that others say it was on excellent read. Do you not though think it ironic that in a thread about narcissism you have the longest blog post about someone's life (I've seen on HN) after they've essentially alluded to having been humbled.
Show HN: Get the Latest Data about Wuhan Coronavirus Cases via an HTTP API
A few days ago I started searching for an API to programmatically get the latest data about the global coronavirus outbreak. I came across several visualization and scraping projects, but I couldn't find a simple way to query the latest data programmatically — so I created an HTTP API that returns the latest data in JSON format using a Pipedream workflow.

The API fetches the latest number of confirmed cases, recoveries and deaths from a public Google Sheet published by the team at the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at John Hopkins University, and returns both the raw regional breakouts as well as summary stats in JSON format. It also caches the data for up to 5 minutes to improve performance.

To use the API just make an HTTP request to https://coronavirus.m.pipedream.net/.

The source code is as at https://pipedream.com/@pravin/http-api-for-latest-wuhan-coro...

You can learn more here: https://dev.to/pipedream/http-api-for-latest-wuhan-coronavir...
My direct report is humble and most willing to learn. That doesn't mean they aren't at the end of the day still a very green associate developer with 7 months of experience so far. Any talks about reaching senior developer status any time soon would be a huge disservice to their development. We need to first talk about what being an exceptional associate developer looks like, transitioning to being a mid level developer.

You can't shortcut these things.
IT CAN REALLY BE A HUGE MINUS SOMETIMES
Your point isn't clear, but that's certainly a true statement.

Sometimes, it's best just to walk away.
So it turns out that the use-case for a polyfill of a 77KB image decoder isn't particular suited to a site you want to load in sub 100ms. Oddly, though, that's not the only usecase in the world, and there are circumstances where saving ~30% on every image load turns out to be significantly more efficient than not loading a 77KB JS library.

In other news, I also chose to forgo adding a 15 lb. fuel pump to my go-kart, despite the fact that every NASCAR team in the world uses one, and my go-kart drives just fine. I should go tell the NASCAR teams that fuel pumps are a terrible idea. I clearly know something they don't.
Is it easy to get your PR merged if it introduces support for a new image format?
Non paid take home projects... Huge red flag.
Sam Vaknin is a self-confessed Narcissist and maybe psychopath. His oeuvre is invaluable. He served time in an Israeli prison for financial crimes.
Hi! Off topic but I love love love Neptune's Pride. :)
Going for a hike in nature. Both the exercise and the nature are great for your health.
What make and model TV?