skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They seem to take it as a given that newspapers should show pictures of a desired gender ratio (e.g., 50/50) for a profession rather than the actual ratio. Although perhaps well-intended, it seems bad to have news sources move (even further) away from factual depictions of reality.
What the original article doesn't emphasize enough is that because the project isn't close enough to the density and viability and desirability of a vibrant and dense town center, it will not evolve into to one, but rather evolve in the other direction, toward a strip mall.

They do touch on this with a few quotes:

"As a result, these places tend not to hold their value over time, and to feel very dated after a couple decades."

"these places are also liabilities from a public-finance point of view because their drive-to, drive-away nature means that huge amounts of the land must go to roads and parking, which require maintenance but generate no direct value, and no tax revenue for the local government."

The Strong Towns website likes to emphasize urbanism from a city-accountant point of view: would you like your town/city to attract people and have a rising tax-base (aka value) so that you can afford to maintain the infrastructure, rather than lose value to the point where you can't afford to maintain it, and it deteriorates and becomes even more undesirable.

This place might be attractive for a while, but if it is only superficial with ice cream shops and brewpubs, it's just another place to drive to, not live in. When they build a Walmart and Home Depot and food court 10 miles away, people will drive there for cheaper stuff. If people live close enough to walk here, it may develop a small hardware store, some clothes shopping, and maybe a thrift store. If the people who live nearby have to get into their car anyway, it will be just a destination among many, not a livable place.

I think that is the criticism of this project: it is not good enough to become what they want you to think that it is.
For flu, each sick person infects 1 person. So Ro is 1. This means no quarantine needed. But for covid-19 estimated Ro is around 2.5. So containing this virus requires quarantine.
Also this is a novel virus which means this strain is new and may be unpredictable. Mutations may occur.
We even not sure about source of the virus. If it spreads all over the world it could logarithmicly grow in number. Especially for undeveloped counties with weak healthcare infrastructure pose a real threat.
Referencing a Quora statement from "Avinoam Ben Dor, lives in Israel,a Tour Guide"...
You are pushing a false right wing zionist narrative, those settlements are illegal under international law. The documented history[0] is evidence of that.

[0] https://youtu.be/BT5L4YU_Fl4
So extend?
Coming from a company with a 40 years long tradition of EEE? Nooo...
Hilarious, your source is an article that's criticizing China's statistical methods on flu deaths reporting.

From your own source:

"The statistical methods used by the Chinese CDC should be revised, as deaths from pneumonia caused by the flu, for example, are not counted, the observer said."

If you ignore death by pneumonia, the deaths for coronavirus are very low too.

"An analysis led by Chinese scientists published in The Lancet Public Health in September 2019 found that there were 84,200 to 92,000 flu-related deaths in China each year, accounting for 8.2 percent of all deaths from respiratory diseases."

Oops.
I'm a "diverse" white male and I hate it way way more when I'm considered less valuable due to my appearance only to be considered useful to HR again because I check one of their quota checkboxes... Then if there was no discrimination to begin with. Commodifying identity is so gross it makes want to puke.

Realise a lot of the roadblocks are going to be things like office culture, language barriers, the lack of appeal of being a minority among a majority (ESPECIALLY if the majority is being discriminated against by HR)

Maybe encourage internal hires to recommend and mentor people similar to themselves? If your workplace is located in a "diverse" area than hire locally? Nepotism is less degrading than being subject to institutional discrimination at the hands of the resident HR bigot.
Disclaimer: I work for Backblaze so I'm biased. :-)

> the B2 API is much slower than S3.

This is "generally true" for 1 upload thread. We aren't even sure what Amazon is doing differently, but they can be a little faster in general for 1 thread (some people only see 20% faster, some see as high as 50% faster, might be latency to the datacenter and where you are located).

As long as you use multiple threads, I make the radical claim that B2 can be faster than Amazon S3. The B2 API is slightly better in that we don't go through any load balancers like S3 does, so there is no choke point. What this means is that in B2 40 threads are actually uploading to 40 separate servers in 40 separate "vaults" and none of the threads could possibly know the other threads are uploading and it does not "choke" through a load balancer. This was all designed originally so that 1 million individual laptops could upload backups all at the same time with no issues and no load balancers. And it works great every day.

Practically speaking, for most people in most applications, this means both Amazon S3 and Backblaze B2 are essentially free of any limitations. If you aren't using enough of your bandwidth, spawn a few more threads (on either platform) and soak your upload capacity. But in full disclosure, if your application is only single threaded, yes, B2 tends to be 20% slower for that 1 thread.
MWC is a 100,000 person French ski chalet... it makes total sense to cancel it. “Show flu” is a thing... so if just the booth workers come back through customs with even so much as an elevated temperature, it will unnecessarily crowd the quarantine facilities for weeks. You may have math on your side but you’re not winning this one.
The subsidies created the scale and experience required to lower the costs; they're not included in the cost numbers. With current technology, they are cheaper without subsidies.
Elite startups and hedge funds have the best software quality. There are funds in NYC where every programmer makes more than 500k a year, some in the millions. They have people on those teams who have been programming since they were in middle school. FAANG just hire in bulk, they just want you to memorize solutions to algorithms problems, and if you can do that youre in. Some huge percentage of programmers at Google have less than three years experience. They can absorb all the bad engineers they hire, a few end up being good, who they promote to the teams actually writing the software critical to the business. The rest just write CRUD Apis and shuffle data around, using some framework written by the top 1% in the company.
Drew Austin (aka kneeling bus) talks about a similar perspective in “The city as weakly-escaped reality (revisiting the holey plane): https://youtu.be/9HL2bh_EMyk

I don’t think the principle of hiding parking is necessarily bad though. Cohousing designs for this way to facilitate more interaction with neighbors. It’s just one aspect though among others (consensus management, etc.)
1) We hardly ever try (most projects aren't given adequate time to model and prototype)

2) There's not enough specialisation (most software shops will tackle any project and IT people tend to specialise in technologies, not business areas).
An ounce of prevention is worth many, many pounds of assigning blame after the fact.

(Unless you're plaintiff's counsel, of course.)
While I don't normally condone the use of swearing, I applaud your use of it here.

I moved furniture for a few years in my early 20s, and none of the trucks had working air conditioning. That was during a heat wave with 110 F heat, which translates to 120+ at the top of a trailer. The air conditioning should have worked at the very least to prevent a heat-exhaustion death.

Some things in life will never change, and those things well and truly are $#!@.
> focuses on Israel to the exclusion of pretty much anything else

Certainly, just Israel. And China. And Russia. And even asylum seekers sailing to Australia. But definitely a single issue antisemitic org.
They generated > $2 billion revenue during 2019Q4...
#agree and have you ever asked yourself why no politician charges these guys (organizers) so at least locals could take something back from it
I look periodically to see if anything has changed.

https://www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?nYearMin=2018&fDisplay...

Nope. Literally seven phones, with the search just limited to sub 5" diagonal, Android 9 or 10, and a release in the last two years.

My phone now is an Xperia X Compact. Based on that list of seven the Xperia XZ2 Compact would be my next choice. Which actually looks like a fine phone, but not much of an upgrade versus what I already have. And it's from 2018 anyway, feels kind of silly to upgrade from a phone from 2017 to a phone from 2018 in 2020.

Librem... if you're listening... I'll pay extra for a phone that's under a 5" diagonal. You can quote me on that and call it a pre-order.

I don't have market research to back it up, but I do hear more and more people basically saying they haven't bought a new phone in years because they're all too big. Do they not include people who wear women's clothing in their market testing?
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You mean by crashing the browser? Mixcloud is dead. Anyone serious about music uses Soundcloud.
Shushh...
I just upgraded my laptop to 3 GB. Feeling a bit behind on the times.
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Not in the near future. Think 100+ years. I can totally imagine owning a human driven car to be the luxury choice.
I think this is less about MWC or Barcelona having health fears and more the domino effect of big exhibitors pulling out. It seems a lot of those pulled out because their Chinese companies, and presumably impacted by travel restrictions meaning they couldn’t get key people prepared in advance and then out to the event.

Once the big exhibitors pull out you then see attendees doing likewise as meetings they were travelling for get cancelled, and finally smaller exhibitors deciding it’s not worth the effort.
What's the chance that any two low probability unrelated conditions happen to have an empty overlap at random?
What's striking is that DNA from this ghost population comprises up to 19% of the modern DNA of the studied West Africans. For comparison I believe Neanderthal contribution to European and Asian genomes is around 3%.
Not so. Mawk was released in 1991. Perl (as in Perl5) in 94.

https://github.com/mikebrennan000/mawk-2/blob/master/about-m...
> and we can affect that process

In theory, in the same sense that one could influence what CCP does by becoming a member of it and rising through the ranks.
I shared this in our #git internal slack channel and immediately had a dozen people bemoaning it not supporting our GHE. Thanks!
On being neutral
This might have changed recently as well; from the marketing copy:

Unlocked Palm is a standalone device that works as a normal phone with supported carriers.

However, Palm is also enjoyed by many users as a secondary device.
Smell BS ? It is a new Buzz word. Just wait, it will pass.
Can you legally refuse to pay resort fees?
Have you tried Percy? There certainly can be false positives at times, but you can just approve the diffs so it's not a huge pain in the end.
Could there be a much simpler explanation?

The most recent study the article sites (Morgan et. al, 2018) states that out of 468k people in the population "1870 children developed schizophrenia (0.4%) while 9120 developed a psychotic illness (1.9%). None of the 66 children with cortical blindness developed schizophrenia or psychotic illness."

If we don't assume there is a relationship between schizophrenia and cortical blindness, it's not surprising that none of the 66 people who had cortical blindness developed schizophrenia. Simple binomial approximation will yield a 77% (0.996^66) probability. Am I missing something?

Also I find the difference in prevalence rates of schizophrenia of 0.4% in the Morgan et al. paper vs 0.72% in McGrath et al. 2008 odd.

Morgan et al. 2018: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09209...!
I knew what you said just FYI. I wouldn't treat the book or show too seriously... it's just entertainment, not history.

The show's main character is SiMa Yi, which is kind of new to me. It's like a retold of "Romance of Three Kingdom" from a SiMa family and Cao family perspective. Though I hated a lot of Chinese TV shows, this one I actually like and would recommend. I can't remember any combat in this show though, probably fairly average. I wouldn't compare it to Game of Thrones, maybe House of Cards is a closer genre.
Our tooling's pretty shitty, generally, isn't well-standardized or anywhere close to it across the industry, is changing rapidly (largely not to any real purpose, though sure, sometimes improvements slip in) and we're all expected to become semi-competent (nowhere near enough time or brain space for full competence) on an absurdly large set of these tools—not just using them, but using several different ones for similar purposes but with different interfaces and quirks (boy do they have quirks), how to set them up, how to fix them when they break, and so on.

Oh and you can make a name (and pile of money) for yourself if you manage to promote some mediocre beta-quality-at-best tool and trick enough other people into using it, and if people call you out on it they're the assholes.

Every thought experiment that immediately comes to mind, in which other professions of various sorts had to deal with some similar situation on an ongoing and apparently never-ending basis, read as absurdist comedy. Yet here we are.

[EDIT] ok here's a fun one: imagine if framers had to use a different hammer depending on the brand of wood at the job site. Like, hammer weight is different and you even hold it differently. For some you can use air nailers, others you can't, some of them only work with air nailers that have a second person working the trigger while one holds them, all the different air nailers need different compressors, some of those take different voltage, shit like that. Imagine it's like that for all their tools and that these differences manifest in all sorts of ways based on the combinations of materials & tools.

We wouldn't say "gee why are house-builders so bad at building houses, and LOL they can never even tell us about how long it'll take", we'd say "holy shit how do any houses get built, it's practically a miracle, we should fix it so it's not so hard—for no good reason—to build houses"
My interpretation of this is that this group is mostly the acquihires. He’s looking at this specifically from the Instagram view, where the product continues.

Obviously many projects are shuttered (“Our Wonderful Journey”) but I don’t think that’s what he’s addressing in this point.
I'm a professor currently writing an online textbook. I can assure you that writing a textbook, without anything interactive, is extremely challenging. I find it hard to imagine a time when my book will be good enough that adding interactive explorables will be the best educational return on time invested. (Though I'm thinking about it!)
It's been well known for some time that dairy has a lot of problems, everything from Puss, to being linked to prostate cancer in men, and it's even been linked to type 1 diabetes, and numerous other health concerns. And, it's not like you can just drink the fat-free variety and be okay. It's the actual dairy proteins that are problematic, not that the fat doesn't have problems either.

Oat milk tastes great and it's good for you, for the most part. The problem with oat milk is, they add a bunch of oil to it. they say it's just 2%, but I think thats by volume or mass. if they go by it's actual proportion (by calories), its nearly 25%!

Almond milk is great for you, but it doesn't taste as good as real almonds, so why drink it?

Soymilk is the one I really like but they add a bunch of stuff to it like calcium carbonate, which really didn't need in the first place. you can find soymilk with nothing added to it, but you really got a go to one of those specialty shops.

Personally, I like to make homemade quinoa milk, it's pretty good and you can adjust how much thickness you want based on the ratio of water. it's easy to make.
I've been wondering for a while why blocks are used as the checksummed unit. Why not files (since zfs/zpool breaks traditional layering anyway)?
I'm not a doctor or a public health expert, but it seems to be that unqualified uncertainty should not be used as justification for any action other than pursuing more information to qualify that uncertainty. Otherwise we would maximally quarantine any illness for which we are at all uncertain of an upper bound on its basic reproduction number or mortality.
I like the idea of being able to connect my phone to different software repos.

Play Store would be one among many.

I think then there would soon be curated repos for well behaved apps that don't abuse push notifications and background abilities.
We invested a large amount of time in them recently, and I agree they are terrible to write. We dare not even turn on IE or any other browser, we can't even keep the tests green in Firefox. Really wish we'd used cypress instead as its 100x easier to debug and we're not getting cross-browser benefits anyways.

The underlying architecture is a bad design for heavy javascript apps in my opinion. The roundtrips between the test runner talking to selenium server talking to selenium driver in a browser and back the other way is slow and so much can change on the page in between steps in your tests. Cypress runs your test code in the javascript process of your browser so I believe theres no or minimal roundtrip lag.

We use `waitFor()` for the UI to stabilize but thats been a hard mental model for devs to follow and as a result we have tons of unnecessary waits in the tests which slows them down. Even things like waiting for a loading modal to disappear before trying to interact with the UI is hard since your code:

`waitFor('.loading-modal', false) // wait for it NOT to exist`

may run BEFORE its even appeared, then fail in the next step when you try clicking on a button and the modal is there now. You can't wait for it to appear first to prevent that, as your code may run after its already come and gone too.

Tons of annoyances or strange behavior like chromedriver doesn't support emojis in inputs, ieDriver had select boxes set value broken at one point, setValue('123') on a field actually does something like 'focus, clear, blur, APPEND 123' so blur logic to set a default value of '0' on your field will result in the final value being '0123' in your tests… just the worst.
Being coupled to the HTML is more stable than with a screenshot. GUI testing takes a lot of effort but it can absolutely be worth it. I work in a SaaS B2B app and we have been saved a few times by them. They also allow us to engage in big refactorings for reasonable costs.
> That domains will continue to be a limited, scarce resource that are susceptible to hoarding by people with lots of money?

I don't think so - note that these are for tlds, so a lot of existing internet infrastructure can be used for Handshake names.

Someone who wants elementary school kids to be able to buy them would allow for the purchase (at low, no, or negative cost) of subdomains (traditional domains) - it may allow for a proliferation of hundreds of little self-sovereign registrars with different policies.

`${name}.namesforschoolkids`
This is beautiful. Great explanations, and a really powerful interactive website. A really impressive and engaging page to pull it all together.
> Serious cases and mortality (2%) will be adjusted downwards safely in the coming weeks, as the detection of mild cases increases.

There are factors that could move that number in both directions.

Yes, presumably there are many mild cases that haven't been counted. But unfortunately coronavirus deaths are probably also undercounted -- for example, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/as-families-tell-of-pne...

This point I'm not sure about, because it seems bizarre that everyone would make such an obvious mistake, but: as far as I can tell, the death rate is simply calculated as [current total of recorded deaths] / [current total of recorded cases]. But when the fatal cases take quite a long time to kill (from what I've read, it tends to take a week or so from the onset of symptoms for them to become severe, and up to another two weeks for death to occur -- see https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/reporters-notebo...) and the total number of cases is rising dramatically, surely that skews the figure toward a significant underestimate?
It is bad on many levels - inconsistent camera positioning is a rookie mistake and is wearing on the viewer, and much of the exposition is painfully heavy-handed, while much (most?) of the dialog is propagandistic.

On the other hand, GoT does the same sort of thing in reverse; technical polish and a realistic aesthetic are the vehicle for a different set of propositions about how the world works. One genre uses fantastical formalism while another relies on fantastical plots.

It's interesting to contrast these two with more subversive explorations of the same forms, like Shadow and Watchmen (the movie; I haven't seen the TV reimagining yet though people seem to be raving about it).
"They optimize for a compromise between short-term gain and long-term gain"

Hey! Author here. This is the exact point that I make in my essay. I don't compare it to any other fields, and certainly don't mention airplanes or elevators. I explain how this compromise is deliberately reached for people who aren't familiar with the dynamics of software projects. I recommend that you read the post! It sounds like we agree on a lot.
Not to detract from their efforts, but you can build sealed storage containers under ground that are much easier to heat and cool and are entirely fire-proof. A 9ft x 40ft A-rated storage container is about $6k to $7k. You have to get permits and it has to be on an inspected concrete slab, but then you can seal it with high pressure concrete. The entrance is elevated for flood avoidance. This can be done in a month or less not counting time to get the permits. And before anyone says, "live in a box?" there are many examples you can find on Youtube of beautiful comfortable luxurious homes built in this manor. It is becoming very popular.
> Everything is perfectly decoupled

And every damned stack trace in the debugger goes a couple of frames up into a "receive_event" function, and then the trail goes cold.
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There would probably be a market for a truely “essential” smart phone as you mentioned that’s somewhere in between a feature flip phone and an iPhone. Plus a battery that lasts for a week (depending on call usage I guess?).

Probably a business opportunity there.
reminds me of fugu but doesnt kill. you presumably.
What you just said is 100% incorrect and I strongly recommend you read back over what I wrote and think about it a bit more.
Yeah, I don't get that. I use my github as a repository of my public keys - At least partially because Ubuntu will now ask for a github username to prefill authorized_keys, but I had a curl script set up before that - But I would not confuse "Here's where there's an updated list of my keys" for "Here's a key"; The response is, at best, `*[]key` rather than `key` (and assuming you know the github.com/$USER.keys syntax, which isn't exactly standard)
More than the lack of padding on mobile?
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