skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To put it in perspective, Microsoft products have been spamming his domain for 26 years.
I don't really see what you're saying. That doesn't appear to apply to any of the examples I gave: AirBNB, Grubhub, Github, YouTube, etc.

Or if it does, it applies to a small part of the site. Again, the claim is: most sites are mostly static content.
I'd agree with your criticism of tool/new hotness as a bad metric for measuring leveling up. It's too easy to get the dopamine hit from novelty or being busy rather than putting in the real work that provides value.

We learn to solve the same problems better because we're exposed to the limitations of our initial naive understanding of those problems and the methods we choose, which may be sufficient in the first year, but over time that understanding becomes deeper and the methods become more elegant, reliable, and maintainable.

The wisdom and methodology improvements are necessary components of achieving 10 years of experience, but the 10 years of the same year approach literally is staying at the same level of understanding no matter the number of projects.
Y'know, I suspect certain groups of modernist painters would have a field day with CSS. De Stijl for instance would love it. There is something so elegant and fun about using a medium that forces you to use only circles, rectangles and a few select curves under a few simple transformations.

I was visiting a 20th century art gallery and was joking with my friends about which painters could be implemented in CSS (Yves Klein ofc). Maybe I should go ahead and do it. There's a few Mondrians that'd be fairly easy.
Ask HN: Any teams measure developer productivity via objective measures?
We started as just an editor and a console -- I initially modeled it after the Dr Scheme REPL (now Racket) -- but our users wanted more. Kids who learned to code using our repl wanted to use it to build and publish apps so we evolved the product towards becoming more of an IDE while trying to keep the simplicity.

Check out our community as well, lots of hackers, especially young ones, sharing and collaborating on code: https://repl.it/talk
Please be more polite. You didn't comment on this part of the article:

> When they die, they sink to the bottom of the ocean, locking that carbon away for hundreds of years.
Counterpoint: Rackspace. The line internally was "service, not servers". They developed CORE which was their customer tracking and computer provisioning system. When RightNowWeb stopped working for them, they built the CATS ticketing system on top of that.

Those were nice tools which worked quite well most of the time. They worked in any browser on any OS, unlike some of the ActiveX-only stuff they tried to replace it with.

This is not the Rackspace you probably know. This is the teeny little one that nobody had heard of outside of a few advertisements in Linux Journal (and the occasional rant about spammers and malware hosting). This is them back before the whole cloud thing - over fifteen years ago.
> zero love lost

That phrase means there was no love in the first place so nothing was lost. Is that what you meant?
As someone w silly and weird and boring interests... If the things that interest you are interesting to NO ONE... you might have (subconsciously or otherwise) picked something intentionally to avoid human contact.
The Party is the only one that absolutely has to survive, as far as China government is concerned.

The masses are expendable.
Coronavirus deaths surpass SARS fatalities; at least 811 have died
It also carries over to OS implementations. For example, many OS designed for the 386 failed to implement demand paging for which the CPU had some great support. I believe Windows continued using segmented addressing due to the backward compatibility with earlier releases of the OS.
The article seemed pretty straightforward. Perhaps a bit too excited. But the fundamental thesis that the predominance of equity financing in tech is an aberration and will likely come to an end, seems rather plausible.
That's just ignorance about find. The globbing works fine, they're just not doing the search they think they are - they seem to think "-name" acts like "-path":

$ ls Foobar/
one three two
$ find . -path '*bar/t*'
./Foobar/two
./Foobar/three
Influenza isn't killing healthy people. It mostly kills old or new horns.
It is. "adventus.com" just sold for 22k. "mymind.com" sold for 36k. "rude.com" sold for 100k. "gorilla.com" sold for almost 500k and "voice.com" sold for 30 million!

Any offer below 500k would be downright ridiculous.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22279335
So is it a scheme VMware and Intel planned together to sack AMD in the dark corners once again?
Yes Github looks pretty close to the document model. I think that's why they were able to optimize it over time.

It isn't exactly fast, but I think it's gotten faster over time.

On the other hand there are lots of blogs that won't even render without JS turned on. Those are apps, but IMO they should be static content.
This is the Human Era (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_calendar)

I believe it is a humbler, more appropriate calendar for talking about human history. I use it on my personal site because I don't need to conform to societal standards on my own site (although I don't use arguably superior numbering systems like dozenal or base-60 because that would be far too confusing)

I feel that Gregorian makes it pointlessly difficult to talk about anything between 10k BC and 0BC, and warps intuitive understanding of some of the most important time periods in human history - for example, ancient Rome sounds ancient, but understanding that it existed 10,000 years into human society and we are only 20% later is helpful.

Personally, I think the ~0BC Mediterranean societies carried out some of the most important and interesting work of humanity, and I'd like to improve my feel for the course of history around and since those times.

I'll probably do a blog post soon with an interactive map and calendar from 0 HE to 12,020 HE that really showcases the true time in between important historical periods.
Will I, especially since I'm actually the engineer with 30 years of experience?

Jumping from new hotness to new hotness isn't a means to achieving real experience, it's often a quick way to 10 of the same one year since you never gain depth of understanding by flitting from one thing to the next.

Nowhere did I claim that you must have new projects/tools/stacks/toys/whatever to gain real experience.
Thanks for the reply. I really appreciate it!
I believe this article is focused on a different type of debt - "recurring revenue securitization" (focused on companies w/ a SaSS business model).

This type of financial instrument is different from a traditional venture / bank debt instrument in a couple ways:

1. it can be more favorable to startups by making payments a % of revenue instead of a fixed amount (ala ISA's)

2. the lender can earn higher interest by "securitizing" (e.g. pooling together) multiple loans and selling them. this allows the lender to move some debt off the balance sheet and in turn deploy the cash for higher yield

3. over time, the lender could provide more favorable terms by creating more accurate risk models by ingesting data from sources like Stripe and Shopify across companies and then building proprietary data sets to manage default risk. I believe Clearbanc does something similar today.

One potential downside of this model is the interest the company receiving the load would have to pay as stated here - [http://www.adventurista.com/2009/01/true-cost-of-venture-deb...

Would love to see this model work though.
So is the Coronavirus.
I'm not sure why people are saying it would make executables harder to write; it could most easily be done with environment variables as opposed to modifying the signature of `int main()`. Something along the lines of: `GLOBLESS_ARGC=5` means that `GLOBLESS_ARG{0..4}` have the original arguments as supplied by the shell user.
You can have millions of consumers read concurrently from a single SQS queue. Messages that are read remain in the queue up to the configured retention period or until a consumer calls DeleteMessage.

Source: I’ve built very high volume services that continue to run production workloads and use SQS as the buffer between components.
In 1993, as a broke high-school student pre-cell-phone and pre-search-engine, we didn't even have that (although we did have BBS phone-number/speeds/protocols/login lists). I had to take the nascent VTA Lightrail (when it was even more uncool) to Computer Literacy bookstore (when programming was also less cool) to find decent technical references... and I promptly dropped a few hundred bucks on dead tree carcasses when I was making minimum wage. Haha. X)

- Programmer's PC Sourcebook

- PC Intern

- Undocumented PC

- Undocumented DOS

- Programmer's Guide to EGA, VGA ...

- Michael Abrash books on assembly including self-modifying code and graphics programming

- Turbo Assembler Quick Reference Guide

- Code Complete

Later, the MindShare series were really good.
They don't have a mortality rate of 7.1%, that would imply that only 140,000 people got the flu or pneumonia. "7.1% of the deaths occurring during the week ending January 25, 2020 (week 4) were due to P&I". Of all the people that died, 7.1% of them died of flu or pneumonia, and many of them likely had other things going wrong. 10,000 people dying is a lot, but consider that tens of millions of people get sick. As opposed to tens of thousands getting sick and hundreds dying, which is a big difference in mortality.
> A vacuum table

Zero cutting forces, but some veneers and thin plywood warp readily, which takes the workpiece out of the focal plane, leading to various inaccuracies.
You use trash and backups.

Rich men can still save a few dollars for pocket change.
What software stack/practices does Boeing use for the Starliner?
Theres been a number of recent news articles about yet-another-software glitch in the recent Boeing Starliner test.

None of them actually talk about the actual software stack or development practices used on that project. Is it all embedded C? Or Ada? Is it being contracted out or done by an internal team?
I generally only would have trouble if there are multiple notes played simultaneously (I can't figure out which one to focus on), or if they are different instruments (the different timber distracts from the pitch).

This reminds me of this test about whether you can tell if one pitch is higher or lower than another: http://jakemandell.com/adaptivepitch/

Unfortunately it requires Flash. Maybe I should try to duplicate it with webaudio.
I would recommend 'Computer Systems: A Programmers Perspective' by Randal E Bryant and David O' Hallaron as an introduction before proceeding on to the official manuals and documentations.

3rd edition has much info on modern x86.
It's too subjective, which is why you need to focus on more objective things like those basics mentioned above.
>To put it in perspective, [in 2010] dating.com sold for 1.75m.

That was 10 years ago.

"myworld.com" sold for 1.2m in 2017, "jade.com" sold for 1.25m, "vivo.com" went for 2.1m

In 2019, "voice.com" sold for 30 million usd.
Yup... seriously... F* those insanely stupid productivity apps out there. Me too use a single text file and sublime. I use the same for note-taking too. Works amazingly well. Not that I haven't tried other dedicated apps. But, nothing comes close to the simplicity and flexibility of a single text file. To format it a bit better, I generally write in markdown format. Works best!
Classic Shell has continued to make Windows 8/10 far more functional, IMO. The start menu wasn’t broken, and simple is good if you ask me.

http://www.classicshell.net/
Nice. I actually built something very similar a few years ago. Instead of using Maxmind to check the IP to find the country of origin and some other information, I used Shodan.io.

Nice dashboard tho, that's a good idea. I made my data into an html map that you could save.

https://github.com/JLDevOps/Authr
>a lab technician at a hospital guesstimating 200-400 deaths daily at his hospital.

I believe you mean this:

https://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/242834342

Discussion:

https://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments/f0miwj/a_hospital_wo...

I would take it with a grain of salt but I agree that we should have little trust into the official reports from China, their track record is pretty bad and the government control over all news and discussions end up generating wild theories that basically can't be entirely proven or disproven.

The death of Li Wenliang, the whistle-blower doctor and subsequent censoring of online discussions about the way he was treated by the authorities are also not helping:

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3049634/li-...
Data from Wuhan shows release of sulphur dioxide gas
I have been a software developer for 35 years (started learning in 1985, I've accomplished several pretty successful things in this time), and it's also taken me over three decades to become a good musician (which I've only allowed myself to call my self very, very recently - I play piano and sing, a little bit of guitar and drums too). Programming and music are very different beasts, both very tough, both very worthwhile. I just wanted to post because the documenta above has a lot of great information (on a quick browse) and I'm sure it's filled with good intentions, but it's a very poor way to learn music. If you're a mathematician or physicist or software engineer trying to learn how to play the guitar, be it by ear or in any other way, it's not going to cut it. It's great if you read it and learn the information, but only the last 6 pages or so really talk about actually playing, and they are not going to teach you.

If you want to learn to write and play music, don't delve into the math except as a side project. Learn to play a few simple songs that you like, using 3-4 simple chords (there are a ton of tutorials for that), and then spend 1,000 hours playing around on the vicinity of that musical environment. There is no shortcut, it is not about learning patterns, music is a different language, and learning music is about awakening your musical self.

Learning to accompany yourself while you sing a few songs needs no understanding of the mathematical foundations at all (and they don't really help), it's mostly about learning a few basic patterns (3-4 chord finger positions) and then being good at performing (mostly tied to self-confidence). Learning to play common songs doesn't take much more. Learning to improvise and to write your own songs requires 1,000+ hours of the type of "playing/dancing/exploring" I was mentioning above. You'll learn the theory on the 10% of those 1,000 hours that you are resting and browsing the internet.
People wouldn't optimize a shell like that anymore, but people still do encode small pieces of information into integers using bitwise operations when compactness is an advantage. If you're dealing with a large data structure with tens of millions (or billions) of entries, compact encoding still trumps convenience, because memory bandwidth will often be the bottleneck. A data structure that would benefit from a compact encoding could be a compiler's intermediate representation, for example.
> As an aside, GitLab PM for CI/CD here. It would be awesome to hear about what you built and how we could have made that learning and setup process easier. Feel free to DM me on Twitter? @j4yav

Honestly most of the effort was not in the gitlab pipelines. We found those facilities easy enough to understand and implement. Most of the work went into the tooling layer between gitlab and our runtime environment. My email is in my profile if you'd like to reach out with more specific questions.
Even the word “startup” has become pretty meaningless these days, when you see 10 year old businesses calling themselves “startups.”
@miscPerson you had a very good reply I don’t know why it was downvoted.
It's really crummy that you had to go through that. My wife joined at I think 32 and left at 36 without grief. Granted, she only kept up consistent contact with one friend from the church, so there isn't as much pressure compared to having family still in the church.
> [...], we're going to bankrupt the planet of its resources.

Do you have an idea how big a ball of matter we are sitting on?

> At least resources like wood and water are renewable. But oil and metal aren't. When we run out of oil, we can kiss plastics and cosmetics goodbye.

Carbon and hydrogen and oxygen are plentiful. Oil is just convenient because it already combines them and also comes with a lot of easily usable energy.

But if you are willing to (or forced to), you can make plastics (or even oil or fuel) from scratch, you 'just' need to supply your own external energy. Nuclear or solar or wind etc will do just fine for that.

As an intermediate step, you can use coal as your raw material. Not as convenient as oil, but we have more reserves of it around the globe.
Well it's only a small pilot.

I find the 'meditation' description a little odd applied to Byron Katie's work. It's really more like a highly commercialised self-enquiry method than meditation per se. Basically neo-advaita plus wads of cash with a little cultish bullying mixed in.
Most likely Ada. They don’t talk about it because it’s proprietary.
Yeah, a senior engineer role is most assuredly is NOT "all-nighters and unreadable code." But neither is it necessarily the mentor style of role that the author advocated, which is more appropriate as the job duties of a team lead.

A senior engineer most assuredly should be the one that thinks about the problem at hand in a deep way, preferably understanding the business needs and such, and provides solutions that not only solve the immediate need but also has the flexibility to anticipate future demands. It would also be nice if they proactively tried to improve less-senior engineers via mentoring and contributed leadership to team building but those are, in my opinion, bonus attributes rather than fundamental necessities.
> I don't want to pay money to hire a lawyer to force the church to take my name off the records.

You literally just have to ask in writing. Send a letter to church headquarters in Salt Lake.

But you already knew that didn't you? I swear ex-mormons are more devoted to getting people converted to their way of thinking than believing mormons are.
I'm in BC, Canada, and I think it's all pay-first here. On the other hand, some places will accept debit cards at the pump, and it just pre-authorizes some set amount before permitting me to fill the tank. Of course, I'm only charged for the amount dispensed.

This strikes me as a reasonable solution, in that it removes the need to guess how much I need beforehand.
>CO2 is what we breathe out and it’s what plants breathe in.

Regardless of the effects of CO2, that's quite possibly the most inaccurate and unscientific argument I've ever heard on this subject. Humans breathing has never caused an excessive amount of CO2, so drawing any relation of our byproducts to the effects of CO2 generated from manufacturing, energy and transportation industries is absurd.

"human excrements have a net null effect on global warming, as they are offset by carbon fixation in photosynthesis. As a result, they do not contribute to increasing the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere."

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101102131108.h...
Not you, I’m thinking specifically of certain comments that are using this thread as a thinly veiled excuse to attack Mormonism and even Christians in general.

I’m not Mormon myself but I have Mormon family members and the openly upvoted bigotry disturbs me.
> Smart case: the search is case-insensitive by default. It switches to case-sensitive if the pattern contains an uppercase character*.

This is what I want as a default for pretty much any text search.
We could make structures that last essentially forever today. But it's often not the right economic trade-off.

One simple example: reinforced concrete usually decays after a few decades. Without the rebars inside, we could make our concrete last much longer. But we'd lose out on the magic engineering properties of reinforced concrete.
Alice is just an interpretation of the pre-existing Section 101 requirement for patent eligibility, so it can be invoked against any patent. Section 101 and Alice can be invoked in a motion to dismiss early in litigation.
For a correspondence that makes more historical sense (while still not actually matching), you can assume that in one minute (of time), the sun travels 15 arcminutes across the sky. (21600 (arcminutes in 360 degrees) / 1440 (minutes in 24 hours) = 15)
I have serious doubt on the death count.

According to the numbers I got from https://news.qq.com/zt2020/page/feiyan.htm now:

Death rate in Hubei province is 780/27100 = 2.88%

Death rate in all the other provinces combined is 32/10127 = 0.32%

So the death rate in Hubei is 9 times of other provinces. Is this really possible? ZheJiang province has 1075 confirmed cases now, but still 0 death count. Seriously? Hong Kong only has 26 confirmed cases, but already has 1 death count.

For SARS, China has a 6.6%, much lower than other countries. For example, Hong Kong has a death rate of 17%. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndr... )

Do international researchers use China's officially reported count in their modeling?
I write Python mostly, and whenever I want to quickly look at what a library is doing, I just right click and do Go To Definition (what it's called in VSCode, I believe it's something similar in IntelliJ/PyCharm) and it'll jump through the library folders in my virtualenv to get to wherever the function/class is.

Then I don't have to think about dependencies as much, albeit in Python there's always a struggle with that :P
If you remove all the meat from the world’s food supply, you’re going to have to make up for a lot of bulk as well as protein. So you will still be growing lots of plants. And those plants will be fertilized.
Not entirely the point of the book, but I found that the first chapter of Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (which discusses formal systems, symbol manipulation and how that relates to thinking) was a catalyst for me to tighten up my thinking processes.
Well, in a sense it becomes a non-issues when someone takes it serious as an issue and finds economic uses.

Of course, that doesn't mean the whole of society has to worry about it.

And in the worst case, we can just dump them on landfills until we know what to do with them.
> Predators even don't like the sun in their eyes, that's why they attack with sun behind them, if they can.

While I have no doubt that predators don't like having the sun in their eyes, they would obviously still prefer to attack with the sun behind them even if they didn't care. It's very advantageous, because the prey doesn't like having the sun in its eyes.

Attacking with the sun behind you is to prey with eyes what attacking from downwind is to prey with noses.
About 0.05% of people who caught the flu in the US died this season[0].

The 7.1% number you quote is total mortality of the flu and pneumonia combined. Pneumonia is often the cause of death for patients that are very sick with something else. For example, 40-60% of patients with traumatic brain injury get pneumonia.

The number you want is case fatality rate (CFR) which is 0.5%. The current tentative estimates for the Corona virus is 2-3%. For comparison, SARS was 9%.

[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-does-the-new-...