skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's nifty.

I've got one for you. Rural route mail carries aren't supposed to reverse more than 50ft, among other rules. They also have routes that should be derivable from the walk sort data the post office hosts for bulk mail discounts.

The majority of them who are less technical would be deeply grateful for all they help they could get in this arena. The more technical would be even more appreciative.
Ask HN: Are you worried about the coronavirus?
I'm having a very hard time figuring out what to believe. Are you personally concerned at all about the coronavirus? What are you doing, if anything, to prepare?
We run our tests on different platforms, for example the native debugging and emulation, where platform differences can play the role. And we run them on every commit, to prevent regressions.
FBI Art Crime Team Return over 450 Cultural and Historical Artifacts to Haiti
This program was so popular, references to it were made on Beverly Hills, 90210. When the "Peach Pit After Dark" nightclub opened, the wordmark above the nightclub entrance was the same as that of the screen saver After Dark. There was also a flying toaster on the door, and some of the disco lights had flying toaster stencil masks in front of them, projecting toasters onto the dancefloor.

It was a very rare instance of a real-world computer culture reference appearing in something as aggressively pop culture as 90210.
Asciidoc seems to be just a format.

For me, the main benefits of org-mode are the Emacs keybindings to handle the docs semantically, to e.g. move the headings around, nest a whole hierarchy, archive a heading, etc. Also, the agenda view is really useful.

I've been using org-mode mostly to keep day-by-day notes in files such as ~/org/diary/2020-02-15.org, which I create for a given day from a keybinding. I've been thinking of starting to make personal backlogs in the form of org-mode files, keeping the headings ordered by priority, and archiving each heading when I'm done with them. All the benefit of using org-mode here comes from the keybindings.

> My issue is that orgmode has no spec and is so tightly coupled to Emacs

The spec is the org-mode manual. What other programs do, like Orgzly on Android, is to just support what they can of the format. They don't need to have feature-parity with org-mode on Emacs to be useful.
Thanks, this is basically what I had concluded. The exterior algebra exists on both the tangent and cotangent space, and that I was mostly used to seeing it in the cotangent world, due to its applications there.
Everything in politics is controversial. "Let's feed kids more veggies in school lunches" somehow became socialism.
The datasmith gltf importer is still flagged experimental.
Nobody goes online anymore, it's too crowded.
IIUC they need to query replicas until they find one that is up to date.

"We have to query Elasticache and replicas, which adds latency."
Can someone with a legal background double check this for me? "Print out these cards and present them to officials" strongly reminds me of sovereign citizen nonsense.
There are still jurisdictions where you can't tack on this fee.
Fizzbuzz in Too Much Detail
Well, it will not error out, but if you say

#pragma clang loop vectorize(enable)

and the loop is then not vectorized you will get a warning like

warning: loop not vectorized: failed explicitly specified loop vectorization
And presumably query the replicas until an up-to-date one is found (based off the LSN of the user).
The promise of automated historical data linkage
Which country? Doesn’t sound like a US hospital.
I think the author's assumption is that the subscriber would use the service for twelve months whether they were on monthly or annual.

So, if that's the case, you're better off taking the extra x% percent that a monthly plan gives you.

I think the author was also making the point that while you might have all your money upfront, you won't manage it well so it lasts all year. Could you? Yes. Will you? No.

And from personal experience, depending on who your customer is, a yearly plan can make revenue far less predictable.. for a corporate customer there is a big difference between a $12k annual charge, and $1k monthly charge. The first they will scrutinize every year and question its value, while the second they might not even notice.
Maintenance on this robot itself probably costs more than a person who would do its job.
Hospitals around here charge ~$2000 for a CT scan. The price isn't coupled to the cost of the machine.
You're not 'enployed at will' in Sweden. Meaning you can't be fired for no reason. In fact there is a very short list of valid reasons. Amongst them for example 'work shortage'.

If you indeed are fired, you have first dibs if the company decides to hire someone new for a similar position, so firing someone for BS reasons isn't a productive way forward.
No. I really am happy that I have paid for it. Even with some other solutions out there that appeared to be a bit cheaper.

For $10 you get a significant amount of storage, don't have to run your own NAS (or shell out the capital expense of buying it), backup drive without redundancy, or pay any electric bill related to it. You also get very nice integrations into other platforms.

Just my take. Many have different opinions.
It seems to lowly-old me that you come-across as possibly tired of exceeding your BS/reward ratio.

If so, a vacation/sabbatical could be needed if it's a temporary thing. If it's permanent, finding a promising startup with a defensible business model to be a first-round employee might be a better option. They skew towards hiring A-players (not always, but usually).

If staying for some time: Popularity != engineering soundness. Fools and novices are allergic to simple, especially if they've never built solid anything at scale or worry about work being taken from them. It doesn't sound a collaborative/consensus environment either, maybe a toxic, religious, adversarial one containing outsized egos who want their solutions advanced because it's job security for them, and anything else gets in their way. You could try asking them what are their specific objection(s) to seek their honest feedback. Using self-deprecation can be helpful too.

Personally, I don't use Go anymore for the past 2-3 years. I prefer Rust for speed, Haskell for generality and Crystal for rapid prototyping. I'll use anything to get a job done, because real customer problems and real solutions are rarely perfectly-crated masterpieces in your favorite tech stack.

IMHO, Go got too popular, fashionable and full of needy noobs who dragged the ecosystem down. (Ironically, I remember telling a head-hunter in about 2011 he was dead wrong and to never call again since he arrogantly proclaimed Go was going "nowhere.") I hate K8s and systemd because they're overkill, "emperor's new clothes" amoeba-ware that are poorly-conceived, poorly-executed and of marginal benefit compared to what they replaced. It's important that "new" projects crammed down our throats because of celebrity and techno-fashionabilism not be easily compared to today's latest flavor Javascript library. Only after exhausting attempts to fix deficiencies in existing solutions, then deeply consider/seek feedback about the impacts, UX, behavior and interop of proposal through project-based RFCs.

That's my 2c from ~25 years being a code monkey punching buttons on glowing boxes; and maybe I'll accidentally write Shakespeare one of these days. ;-)
And that's in spite of most railway lines being subsidised and most airlines not. I guess if you think of the stuff involved going London - Barcelona, for flying it's a plane with maybe 10 crew, and some tarmac at either end for runways, for train it's 100s of miles of track, goodness knows how many staff along it, plus the train of course.

The UKs new HS2 line is looking at costing £750m per mile while airspace is free.
No but the hospital will try to do it anyway. I came in to the ER with one of my hands bent the wrong way and they were like, please use your other hand to sign these forms.
A blind programmer named Karl Dahlke does something similar: he pipes linux console output directly to a speaker to get a quick overview. (then he uses text-to-speech to delve into the details.) I think this hack is less discordant than Dahlke's hack.
One thought is to start doing it. Just start cutting out time to do pm stuff: research competitors. Make a presentation highlighting a competitors feature. Dig into your products analytics and do your own analysis. Attend a usability study. Pilot one if your company doesn’t do them. Brainstorm a new feature, solicit feedback, present the results. Ask existing pms about their jobs, what they need help with. Etc. If you like doing this stuff, you’ll get good at it. At the very least you will be more qualified for the role when you do officially get it.
This misses the use of the AI model for prediction, search and optimisation, backed up by simulation for verification.

> it is basically useless, as presumably the verification of a solution takes as long as a classical simulation.

If and only if you're doing one simulation which is rarely, if ever, the case.
Father defies radical judge's publication ban – speaks out against daught
I've seen it suggested before that while 'tasks' need to be well-structured, reference/notes don't.

I like the idea of not trying to store notes in a hierarchy, but using search and/or tags to try and reference (or discover relations between) notes.

I like the article's emphasis on "how do I want to access this later?". TBH Sometimes I've looked up previous bookmarks or notes, and they didn't have the keywords or tags I was expecting.
I'd suggest https://github.com/EFLS/zetteldeft as another project which more/less supports some of the workflow suggested in the article.

That said, yeah, I do prefer pen and paper for worklog notes.
What do you find clunky about org-mode within Emacs? For me it's the opposite, all other tools feel primitive compared to Org, which has really simple and powerful primitives. You can easily adapt it to implement any productivity and knowledge management methodology.
That is a distinction without a difference, even in the most charitable light. Do I think they're meeting in smoke filled back rooms to plot their dark deeds? No. They are actually very open about it, sending company officers and employees to panels on the topic, echoing the same messaging about their self appointed burden in policing the thoughts of others.

It is not unlike a mob. While it is comprised of autonomous individuals, there is a feedback loop of their own making that results in an emergent behavior. Translated into moonman talk: something something social contract, something... collective will.
Programming often seems to be more about configuring various frameworks than figuring out how to express business rules or work flows in logic and then source code.
> even if I think leaving out semicolons is pointless aesthetic bikeshedding

Bikeshedding isn't when you paint the bikeshed your favorite color, it's the bickering over the shade it should be painted which is actually what you did, especially since the damage has already been done. ;)

This whole thread is insufferable bikeshedding.
I'm in Taiwan and for various reasons don't want to move, so somewhat concerned. I don't think I'll be able to avoid it, so I'm exercising more so my body is in better condition to fight it.

I'm also making sure to be stocked in non perishable food, rice, etc.
So, in the wake of Edison and all the other e-mail inbox apps that mine your messages for information they can sell to anyone who wants to pay them, how do you differentiate yourselves and ensure that your systems can’t be abused in the same way?
Maybe. MRI is not the preferred brain imaging modality in emergency situations, X-ray computed tomography is.

Consider patients who are unconscious (or awake but unreliable) due to head trauma, stroke, etc. You can't do a proper MR safety screening interview to find out if they have ferrous metal or other conductive objects in their head. The magnetic field can potentially torque an old aneurysm clip or piece of shrapnel, and the radio frequency excitation field can cause heating and burns if there are antenna-like conductors present.

MRI is slow and the images are easy to ruin if the subject moves around too much during the long acquisition time, so bouncing around in the back of an ambulance isn't the ideal setting. A 3D volume with whole head coverage and suitably fine spatial resolution can take several minutes to acquire, versus just a few seconds for X-ray CT. The MRI signal to noise ratio is also proportional to field strength, so low field systems like this are at a disadvantage for image quality. On the plus side, low field does mean less risk of moving ferrous material inside the subject.
People leave molecular wakes that may give away their secrets
If you're running a small business which involves sharing files such as a photographer, or a designer then this is cheap. If all you want is to backup your files, it's expensive, especially since Google and Microsoft both offer free storage. Dropbox's main feature is the ability to share files easily.
Automating MySQL schema migrations with GitHub actions and more
Benford's law, Zipf's law and other power laws tend to fascinate but they are a manifestation of something really simple. It's how things behave when they are evenly distributed over multiplicative operations instead of additive operations. By this I mean things are as likely to be x% bigger than x% smaller instead of the more common definition of evenly distributed (things x unit larger are as likely as x unit smaller).

Being evenly distributed over multiplication is natural for many measures. I think it is considered the most even, "maximum entropy" distribution for things that can't be negative.

The most even, maximum entropy distribution for an unbounded (-infinity to +infinity) prior is an unbounded uniform distribution but you can't apply it, for example, in the case of the size of objects since it would imply that negative sizes are as likely as positive sizes (and objects don't have negative sizes).

In general position parameters tend to be uniformly distributed over addition/subtraction whereas scale parameters tend to be evenly distributed over multiplication (uniform over log(x)). It's the reason some graphs use log axis. For Bayesians, it's a fairly straightforwards concept. See also improper priors (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior_probability#Improper_pri...)
Personally I use Google Suite’s $10/month plan which includes unlimited[1] Drive storage, as well as all the other nice things GSuite provides (Gmail, photos, office, cloud, etc).

[1]: technically 1TB for <5 users but no Google doesn’t ever cut off anyone. I consider it more as a “fair use” policy.
That seems like its very hard to get rid of mediocre employees.
Facebook already employs 15,000 content moderators, both directly and via contractors. By many accounts, they're overworked and don't get enough time to deal emotionally with what they have to see [1] -- and they only review a fraction of the content on Facebook. 125 people would clearly be many orders of magnitude too small to review everything.

The "hundreds of thousands, and perhaps millions, of false positives" quote is referring to the rate after human moderation (and is also just speculation by the author).

I think people tend to underestimate the scale that would be required to solve this problem because they tend to underestimate just how terrible people are.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/19/18681845/facebook-moderat...
the full quote goes: jack of all trades master of none but better than a master of one.
I pay for it annually ($100/year plan), but will switch to iCloud Files exclusively once it gets a bit closer to feature parity. Regardless, the price is noise (about two coffees worth per month).

I’m paying for storage that “just works” with no time commitment on my part.
As a Research Software Engineer (https://us-rse.org/what-is-an-rse/) you will have a chance to work on challenging projects that require wide technical experience and a lot of learning.
Thanks. It’s somewhat disappointing to read this was the outcome.
Ok. How do you think they are ‘far more affordable’ than tier 1 American cities?

http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20171119000242

[..] Purchasing a residence in Seoul is now roughly on the same playing field as New York City, where the median price is about 443.4 million won. However, because average income levels in both the United States and Japan surpass Korea, the report states Koreans take on average three to five more years to purchase a house over those in New York or Tokyo.

According to the data, it takes the people of New York an average 5.7 years to purchase a home, followed by 4.8 years for Singaporeans and 4.7 years for Tokyo residents. As for Seoulites, those with an average income of 47.28 million won require some 9.2 years to purchase a home. [..]

How is their population density creating ‘affordable housing’ as you claim?

Re Tokyo: the birth rate is on the decline and in the country side they re giving away homes for free to repopulate it. The public transport is excellent. None of these parameters apply to San Francisco Bay Area.
Why Graduate Students at U.C. Santa Cruz Are Striking
You can get a world class MRI in the Bay Area for $550 from SimonMed Imaging.
IMO this sort of initiative is the most promising pah towards solving the web's remaining performance issues.

It effectively allows developers to opt in to a more restricted set of functionality in return for more optimisations. Kind of like gradual typing for UIs.

I'd like to see more emphasis on these kind of improvements from browser vendors, because most things can be worked around with custom implementations, but performance cannot!

Perhaps we could get limited capability lightweight DOM nodes too?
Considering that a 1tb USB drive is ~45 USD these days, no it's not expensive at all. There are other services offering cheaper personal storage. And if you'd rather spend time than money, you can set up remote sharing from your own system too.

Essentially, if $10 is a lot for you, they're likely not interested in your business and that's ok.
They literally have a trial on Forsythia.

If I recall this was the snakeoil peddled as a miracle cure in the plotline to the movie Contagion.
>Ah yes, the famously identified "career women" and "divorcee" genes with well-known genetic pathways.

It doesn't require direct genetic pathway, imagine if assertiveness or dominance is comes from specific hormone which comes from specific genes.

In such setting, people upholding specific culture if do not reproduce their culture disappears before a culture which is reproducing and indoctrinating future generation from the point they are born. It's much easier to influence a kid than a grown up adult.
How Much Money Do Farmers Make?
> turning up the cheesiest panels

I didn’t expect such a literal interpretation: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/random-raves-xxvii-an...
Percolation Theory
That’s my point. Ars Digita (Greenspan’s startup) was a small startup. You don’t see small startups paying 170k as a base salary nowadays.
All available evidence shows that wages have fallen for software developers. If the market for software developers was tight, then we would see very different behavior from companies.
Unlike Abramov's original post, I actually agree with this one, being more nuanced. The author acknowledges that DRY (and ultimately, clean code et al) itself is not evil; it's just misunderstood.
What good investments are you taking about? Nuro? Give me a break. WeWork? These are malinvestments.
New England area of United States. Planning on minimal stocking basic items such as bottled water and foodstuffs. Maybe 1 weeks worth. No panic but my gut tells me to be prepared for something. It just makes me feel better
The major issue has just been fixed:

* https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=158180761313544&w=2

Taking the opportunity, I'd like to point out that Max wrote NVMM and KASLR, both first appearing with NetBSD 9.0 released earlier today, to put some context into the rest of the comments about ASLR in OpenBSD:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19622590

* https://wiki.NetBSD.org/security/kaslr/

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22335941
The Illusory Truth Effect
The small-bore machines they use for rodents have much stronger fields: 9.4 and 11T field strengths are pretty common. This is a lot easier to achieve in a small bore. For comparison, the “standard” research scanners for humans are usually 3T, with 7T scanners becoming somewhat more available.

That said, many universities do let people use the human scanners for other research. It’s kind of a pain to do with animals, because you’re paying $500 an hour while you scrub the room down afterward and wait for the air to cycle, but it’s the only way to scan larger animals (primates, pigs, dogs, etc).
Perhaps better titled "the Mac's long journey", since it's only about one Apple platform and not really about processors. And even then it seems to end around 2006.
I think it legacy browsers is to blame. You can certainly write web apps in plain HTML/CSS/JavaScript, but it will be limited. So, some transpiler are invented to solve this problem, and bundler is built to solve module problem. Of course, you don't have to use them if you don't care about old browsers, but many companies do care.
There is something like this in France, called "Congé pour création d'entreprie" (en: time off to build a company).

Basically, you can leave your job (unpaid) but your contract still holds, so you can get back to your job if things don't go as planned.
Can be, but it's possible to serve ads without any activity/data tracking. Not as profitable, but that's how it used to be done - simply guessing what the users may be interested in and A/B testing ads for various niches until you hone in on the most profitable ones.

Ads are pretty cancerous, but the easiest way to start monetizing free content/software.
While optimizing for left turns don't forget that about 1/3 of the world's population would rather you optimize for right turns (so please make it configurable)
I'm sorry, but I don't quite understand your point. There are far more than 4 data points fitting the curve smoothly. Shouldn't the data have a lot more variation for something like this?
Interestingly enough, it's also a decent fit for fundamental physical constants, as one can read off from a table of them. [0]

0: https://physics.nist.gov/cuu/pdf/all.pdf
Sure, it already is configurable, you can even avoid going straight and force a turn on every junction :)

see the gif
Trade shows are absolutely critical if you have a niche B2B product. Especially the smaller ones. The benefits of face to face communication and feedback cannot be beat.

For startups, there are many ways to hack this process and get in cheap. You might be able to sublease half a booth from another company. If you have industry partners see if you can run office hours in their booth space. Reach out to show organizers and see if they have any educational break out sessions your could talk at. Or just go without a plan and strike up conversations with other peers in the space.

I think many of us who spend our lives behind computers in the tech field don't appreciate how vital these events are to so many industries, or how much actual work gets done here.
Statisticians, not engineers become good data scientists
> Rule #7: Choose simple, boring technology

Depends. For example, as an agency, if we don't try out JAMstack, headless-CMSes, Gatsby/Gridsome, then as an industry, we'll still be stuck in the WordPress/PHP ecosystem for years to come.
Now we just need a good AI to read it.

This would be especially useful in the developing world.
As long as it stays fully open source then I guess it can be forked if it goes bad.
I rarely use it myself but it would be a shame for it to get turned into crap.