skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So let's not make this gotcha politics. There are some legitimate budget realignments that reasonable people can disagree on in this proposal.

However, the line item:

Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (-$85.3 million)

Is looking pretty dumb right now.
Waiting for a machine to be “fully utilised” before scaling just shows your lack of experience at systems engineering.

Do you know how quickly disks fail if you force them at 100% utilisation, 24/7?

Then what happens when this system dies? How much downtime do you have because you have to replace then hardware then get your hundreds of gigabyte dataset back in RAM and hot again?

I’ve worked as a lead developer at companies where I’ve been personally responsible for hundreds of thousands of machines, and running a node to 100% and THEN thinking about scaling is short sighted and stupid
Shawn Roos About Nowaday Fateful Decision: Remote-First or Remoteish?
It's about $30 per hour in my area. I'd go every day if it were cheaper :)
Yep - I've been a Pro plan member since almost the beginning (Spotlight is a PRO only feature), so this isn't me simply railing against a +free+ service. BTW this bug totally crashes Chrome - all tabs, not just the tab that SC is open on, so it does cause a massive hit on my productivity whenever it happens.
Exactly this. The expected annual deaths from suicide are normally distributed whereas a highly contagious disease is long-tailed, i.e. a non-negligible probability of a huge number of fatalities.
Observable's templating is directly inspired by lit-html, which also works without a built step, and works great with SVG.
I have an Essential phone and couldn't agree more. While we're at it, can it be e-ink? And have the processing power of a 2004 phone? And a headphone jack? I just want less phone overall.
AI Trained on 100M Opinions Can Predict What People Think of Your Photos
I think facebook released a similar project a few years ago that I never got a chance to try but I cant seem to find it within their github anymore.

Anyone remember that project ?
I really don't understand comments like this.

Yes your company's data may fit in RAM. But does every intermediate data set also fit in RAM ? Because I've also worked at a bank and we had thousands of complex ETLs often needing tens to hundreds of intermediate sets along the way. There is no AWS server that can keep all of that inflight at one time.

And what about your Data Analysts/Scientists. Can all of their random data sets reside in RAM on the same server too ?
Do you think it will take that long? Surely China will expect its investments to start paying back before 2040?

This still seems like a strange, "pre-crime" sort of standard to which to hold China. You're almost counting USA misdeeds against China: "since USA did all these horrible things, you can be sure China will do even worse, someday!"
Though I agree that there is a difference in scope, I’m not entirely sure what you say applies to the NFL. I guess Kaepernick would have to move to Australia if he wants to keep playing professional football.

This supposed option of choice only applies if there is non-monopoly and there is an equal power dynamic between consumers/workers and heads of company. Neither is true of the NFL.
http://fvwm95.sourceforge.net/

There are some similar ones mentioned in its Wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FVWM95

IceWM is quite themeable and is actively developed:

https://ice-wm.org/
They supposedly caught on to him by connecting an email address associated with DPR to his real-world identity. Wouldn't surprise me if that was an ex post facto lie concocted to conceal the true method, though.
“4.5 years of GAN progress on face generation.”
> I'd think that people with one serious condition would me much more likely to have a second serious condition diagnosed, purely because of increased attention from medical professionals.

Does that apply to blindness at birth, though? I mean, you don't get continuing "treatment" or checkups for blindness, right? (At least, no more than a sighted person would go in for a yearly eye exam.) Obviously there are unique needs a blind person has to function in society, but it's not like something like cancer or a mental illness where you need to follow up and have continuing care and treatment for many years, possibly the rest of your life. For birth blindness, it's basically "yep, kid's blind; need to adapt to that", and that's it from the standpoint of medical care, no?
As much as I like to buy books I have realized it is much more economical to just check it out from the library.
There is currently no such thing as a decentralized side chain. No one wants all this data on Bitcoin.
Mysterious 'fast radio bursts' from deep space repeat themselves every 16 days
I watched it. He only got confused, pained looks from people he asked about the fish and did not achieve any sort of mind alteration.
That's also what I was taught as a best practice, but it's not always possible. Otherwise, best practice is to index the gears (ie mark a specific tooth on each). That way, when you disassemble the gearbox (it's bound to happen sometime for maintenance), you can make sure it's reassembled so that the same teeth will continue to mesh, preserving the wear pattern. Otherwise, wear is substantially increased.
That would make going against the grain and not using any would give a chance at a competitive advantage, both in being able to get talent at a discount because of perceived flaws but also in having a non-homogenous workforce who can think creatively and see what the rest don't.
> The flu, in Catalonia, this week has reached figures of 360 cases / 100,000 inhabitants: more than 120 times higher than the incidence of COVID-19 infection in China.[1]

We need to stop comparing this to the flu. The flu is an established widespread virus with a very low mortality rate. This is a new, so far still spreading, virus with what appears to be a high mortality rate.

If you had to choose between being infected with the flu or COVID19 you’d chose the flu because you’re about 20 times more likely to die from COVID19 based on the data available at the moment.

If COVID19 has spread globally and becomes established then it will be similar in terms of deaths to the Spanish Flu. Nobody wants that and it is perfectly reasonable for people to be concerned about wanting to prevent that from happening.

If this does spread into a pandemic then you will be able to rightly come back in 24 months and compare the annual total deaths from COVID19 to the seasonal flu. Until then it’s an entirely incorrect comparison.
We're gonna have to exclude some huge percentage of Google's product portfolio if that's the standard, then. Though much of that is pretty bad so maybe you're on to something.
With functional error handling, every method just returns an object. If the caller doesn't want to do anything with it, it can just pass it on somewhere else. Only once you actually care about filtering, mapping, flatMapping, folding etc do you actually need to handle the different cases.

It's just so much better and easier to understand than exceptions! Doesn't require any special syntax or mental gymnastics to understand the execution path either.
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze.

> Last I checked, Backblaze still stores most data in 1 location, no?

Backblaze now has multiple regions! One in Europe (Netherlands) and one is called "US-West". Quietly the US-West is actually three separate data centers, but your data will only really land in 1 datacenter somewhere in US-West based on a few internal factors.

To be absolutely clear, if you only upload and store and pay for 1 copy of your Backblaze B2 data, it is living in one region. To get a copy in two locations you have to pay twice as much and take some actions. So if this kind of redundancy is important to you for mission critical reasons Backblaze B2 would only be half as expensive as one copy in Amazon S3, not 1/4 as expensive.

In the one copy in one region in Backblaze B2, any file is "sharded" across 20 different servers in 20 different racks in 20 different locations inside that datacenter. This helps insulate against failures like if one rack loses power (like if a power strip goes bad or a circuit breaker blows). But if a meteor hits that 1 datacenter and wipes out all of the equipment in a 1 mile blast radius, you won't be getting that data back unless you have a backup somewhere else.
San Diego lab discovers COVID-19 vaccine in 3 hours
I laughed at the header in comment at the top of the Super Tiny Compiler here: https://github.com/jamiebuilds/the-super-tiny-compiler/blob/...
Thank you. It means a lot.

The reason `result.ppm` didn't autocomplete was because I didn't specify a return schema when I built the service. It's up to the developer who builds the API to specify nested object schemas via the FunctionScript specification [0] and I hadn't. It was a long day and I didn't feel like re-recording the entire video. :) Long way of saying -- it'll work if you want it to.

TS could be neat, it's conceptually not difficult, the question of implementation is ultimately: where does our team's time go as we continue to roll out features for business users? About half of our users are not professional developers so balancing between pro / not-pro is part of what makes our roadmap planning interesting.

[0] https://github.com/FunctionScript/FunctionScript
That isn't evidence, that's a theory.
I think once the first high profile cancellations (LG, Ericsson) came in it was just a matter of time. We were prepared to go still but one by one everyone we were supposed to meet started canceling. The domino effect of the first cancellations doomed the event.
Just keep in mind that it's been admitted that China is strapped for testing kits and turning people away without testing them. So it's possible that it only turned linear because the number of testing kits available per day is linear.
If adults "don't need" to drink milk and that includes the plant-based alternatives that this article is about, can that be extended to claiming that adults "don't need" to eat almonds, oats, or soy? Is there something special that happens when those things are blended with plain water that renders the resulting liquid unsuitable for adults?
>Any name up to 63 characters (normal domain name characters, unicode gets converted to punycode) can be registered.

But how does that square with the 52-week staggered release bit? If I wish to go register my domain right now, what happens? I don't see anything on namebase that would simply allow entry of an arbitrary domain, instead the "bid soon" seems to just be a bunch of dictionary words. There is an invitation to enter your handle or whatever, but does that mean all such handles and existing domains have been auto scanned already for entry? Or if I do a search, do you then take that and put it up for auction like so many typical registrars? This is a really basic thing and it's not clear.

>There's a spectrum of convenience and self-sovereignty. In traditional DNS the existing system makes that choice for you, whereas Handshake is creating a system where individuals get to choose based on their preferences. I place a lot of value on that freedom to choose.

No offense but this reads as boilerplate PR mush, it doesn't actually answer anything. Choose what? High level values are all well and good but they're not a substitute for nuts-and-bolts implementation specifics either.
> Schizophrenia is horribly unpleasant for the person who has it

There's a strong cultural component to how schizophrenia manifests. Violent, paranoid thoughts are more common in societies like the United States. The extent to which their experiences can fit into a positive cultural narrative partly dictates their quality of life. The U.S. is exceedingly hostile in that regard. You're likely better off in a society where hearing voices is considered a gift from the gods, or where perceiving odd but intriguing cause+effect relationships suggests you can sense magic.
Not OP but it sounds like they were using Elements ("the payment flow was misconfigured and the least I could do is disable the submit button upon click"). I would hope that Stripe's own checkout form is well-rounded enough to handle things like this.
Until supply becomes so limited it effects sales.
Browser-based front end to gdb (gnu debugger)
My take on this problem is that other (engineering) fields operate with much, much longer time frames - not to mention that they also have vastly more experience and best practices to rest on.

Software is young, things move very fast, and new practices can emerge quickly (and older get canned).

Imagine if aerospace company was to design, test, and build a new airplane in only 6 months. It would probably end up as a disaster. In the realm of software, it is very likely that you need to come up with something new, very fast - you don't always get the luxury to step back and lay the proper groundwork - you're doing it on the go.
It sort of makes sense with MS being the owner. I definitely notice that a lot of the new grads don’t really know about git. They think it’s all Github.
> You think they’re going to be friendlier to American citizens?

Yes, because American citizens are none of their business. Law enforcement and prosecution on the other hand is very interested.
Thanks for the reply :)
Phantom Attacks Against Advanced Driving Assistance Systems
With functional error handling, you don't need neither checked nor unchecked exceptions, everything just returns objects, and the language and syntax used for talking about them is the same as the language and syntax used for everything else (map, filter, flatMap, fold etc etc).
I think properly implementing a solution appropriate to the problem space is the literal definition of engineering. So "we" aren't bad at software engineering but someone definitely is.
My project at work is 60k LOC, developed over the course of 3 years. It's in production and works quite well. I wrote it all by myself. My hobby project is 100k LOC (2.5 years of development in free time). Both are UI + service code in C++. I code several hours a day. Maybe 3-5 on average.

10 LOC/day is ridiculous. Think about Brad Fitzpatrick, Fabrice Bellard, John Carmack. They would never accomplish anything like they did with those 10 LOC.

You have to have dedication and really good text editing skills. Being smart is nothing if you can't write code fast enough. Good skills with tools like shell, debugger, version control are important as well.

Another problem is that dev collectives these days tend to bully and punish those with higher performance. There are several reasons for that 1) most devs do an absolute minimum just not to get fired 2) job security is a thing, you won't make your project look too simple or complete as this might end your contract 3) at least 90% of hype is from idiots and by idiots. Idiots are a heavy tax on any engineering 4) frameworks, tools and methodologies are often designed for a different scale 5) ceremonia, overcomplication of development processes, treating devs like anonymous, interchangeable units

I'm male in my 40s with a CS degree. I work from home most of the time.
Athletic Bilbao 1-0 Granada “Semi Finals” – Copa Del Rey – FootballGH
Generative Lego Heads
satellite radio doesn't have commercials
I’m not sure how I’m supposed to pay for Soundcloud. I don’t need offline mode and it’s too expensive.

I would pay for 320kbps streams tho (which I can get to be offline with youtube-dl).
Being blind since birth likely reduces the probability of being diagnosed with schizophrenia if you have it - because you will know that everything you "see" is hallucinations so you won't act on them.

That changes the math significantly.
Yeah, but that should only prevent duplicates due to technical errors, but not duplicates because the person actually made a number of distinct purchases my mistake.

Take a look also at edwinwee's answer below.
As soon as you're a "problem", e.g. because of a large insured event or ownership of property that someone wants to buy below the market, you're on someone's radar. At that point you no longer get the "regular nobody" defense.
The flu infects 30,000,000/year and kills 10,000.

Given r0, the Covid-2019 would infect 60,000,000 and kill 1,000,000 if unchecked in the US.
Taking advantage of people's desperation is predatory.
I don't know anyone who seriously thought that Juicero was a good business idea
Revenue by Music Format, 1973–2018
Account for parent's concerns for redundancy, backups, scalability.
I disagree, as I posted elsewhere in this thread these annual death rates are drawn from different distributions. The annual suicide rate is normally distributed, in other words the expected number of deaths will be around the same number each year. Terrorism and pandemics are long-tailed meaning a non-negligible probability that the rate shoots up to something much higher than your quoted two per year.
It's mostly a classification thing. Most who die from diseases associated with the flu, like pneumonia, are not recorded to have died from the flu.
Paul Romer: What Went Wrong
Boy howdy, you are not going to like to hear what happens when those radio signals leave your cellular telephone.
should I expect that in the near future, thinking and making decisions will be a significant risk. before doing something that could be an equity offense, I should look up the corresponding equity guidelines and follow those.
They can't extinguish anything if users don't switch. Users won't switch unless it provides value.
Swiss machines 'used to spy on governments for decades'
Yes, this also drives me nuts. I want a phone that has a screen around 5.5 or 5 in. Not 6+.
Check out Montreal. It has a great downtown and decent public transit. It is also very walkable about 9 months a year.
I’d love to see their hosting and bandwidth costs. I bet it’s around the size of 10 engineers.
That's exactly my problem with him, he is always in salesman mode. He has the conclusion figured out and works backwards to find the arguments he wants to see.
1. I think everyone gets that different places are different places.

2. Locals have say, but they don't have the final say. They get to vote like everyone else so it is ridiculous to say that. Also, anecdotal is not the best.

3. Umm... who claims that? It feels like you made a straw man just to fight against.

4. I have no clue why you even brought that up. It seems like you are just ranting.
> I wasn’t following the Gem but I sure wonder what the appeal of a skinny phone was supposed to be.

Do people really think there is no variance in the world? That if they don't want it, no one will?
Brendan Gregg literally wrote the book on BPF: http://www.brendangregg.com/bpf-performance-tools-book.html

He is an engineering god.
> back when MSN Messenger was a thing, it would abruptly close any conversations in which certain virus-related keywords were said

On MSN Messenger, one way around swear words in your username/status was to use the ASCII equivalent for a letter, which would get skip the filter but render as the letter.

So I looked a little down in my chart and hoped that 0x7 for BELL would do something, but it didn’t.

But 0x0 for NULL would cause all members of your contact list to immediately sign out and back in ad Infinitum.
They abstract away from the underlying code.

You wouldn't be able to tell the difference between

{b Bolded} {b text}

and

b Bolded text

this becomes especially concerning with TeX, custom styling, etc
> Is it leading to more features and better compilation than would be the case if there was just one compiler toolchain?

I would argue that the pace of C++ compiler development has significantly increased since clang was introduced.

I would surmise that elimination of GCC or Clang -- in the way that Chrome has resulted in the elimination of more than one competing browser -- would be detrimental to C++ as a whole.

And therefore, I would say: yes, it's leading to more features and better compilation that if it was just one compiler toolchain.
Typically "try_parse" returns more than a bool on failure. What it does return is then wrapped and thrown.
It sounds like you're criticising barter rather than a gift economy.

Unlike in barter, in a gift economy no one keeps track of who owes what to whom, they just all give each other what they need.

To give an example, I've long participated in the open source community, where I give away software that I've written and help others on IRC, in various forums, and on stackexchange. I don't ask for or expect anything in return, but I know I'm helping the community and I seek and accept aid from the community when I need it, by asking my own questions and using software freely given away by others.

This example is of a well functioning gift economy which has scaled incredibly well.
The only time it makes sense to charge super high interest is if you expect lots of customers will default.

That means you already know your business will end up causing lots of people to be in debt forever. If you choose to go ahead anyway, obviously people are going to think you are evil.
That is still not much code.
Zuo Zhuan is an awesome book with lots of stories about strategic thinking. The writing style is also very succinct and quite pleasant to read (require knowledge about classic Chinese for sure). One good example is the following piece which I read from my high school textbook.

English translation:

https://oastarod.wordpress.com/2016/02/19/zhu-zhiwu-causes-t...

It describes how an excellent diplomat manipulated vulnerabilities between countries to turn down a conflict. It happened in 630BC, but still applies to today.
I found this sentence entertaining:

> Hallucinogenic fish can be contrasted with psychedelic fish. Psychedelic fish do not produce hallucinations if eaten, but look as if they were the product of a psychedelic hallucination.
An engineer spent 15 years fireproofing his California home
Lambda’s debt-swapping partnership is disappearing from the internet
Thank you for the suggestion. Will definitely take a more detailed look at F#. I have read about it some time ago, including some very positive general feedback. However, even if F# is an excellent fit feature-wise, I can see two potential issues: 1) lack of a decent package ecosystem (since the planned DSL is only one part of multi-feature multi-aspect platform puzzle) and 2) lack of a significant enough pool of experienced developers, which would make building a good team a challenge (due to its relative popularity, C# is IMO much better than F# in this regard).
The point is this CLI is providing value. Do you disagree?
I've had a lot of freelancers lately who when I ask for their ssh public key they send me their GitHub username. Like 10 in a row. Half of them had public keys even.

Yet at work no one has this issue with our ghe
We're now on "extend." I wonder when "extinguish" will come.
Wrong on both accounts. It is a stand-alone phone now.
at some point you have to deal with consequences of the choices taken by you and for you
How much can we trust the numbers coming out of China who have retaliated heavily against whistle blowers including one of the original doctors to highlight this crisis, who is now dead?

[1]: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/02/07/8036804...
Virtual cards.. sorry had forgot the name at the time thought the card alias term would be obvious haha
Without code formatting:

>sponsorship - because I'm an immigrant

>Tech stack - I spend most of my after office hours in doing new projects, effectively, I like to use the skills learned in the job. So an advanced tech and freedom to experiment with tech is always a top preference

>sustainability - a continuous revenue-generating company or dependent on new sales every time

>motivation - be it a side project or office work, I enjoy working on the problems that are pointed out - greater the impact, more the involvement

>hierarchy - from my experience, too many levels above you is a problem not just in career growth but also product implementations, which kills the pace and transparency

>compensation - a 20% hike is the least I expect