skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The power injectors seem superfluous, the 330H and 501 both have standard AC adapters available. Also the 303H isn't directional (page 7 https://www.arubanetworks.com/assets/ds/DS_AP303H.pdf) so having one at each end of the case wouldn't be needed if you rearranged things so both sides of the AP had a clear path.

Would be interesting to see the configuration of the FB2900, sounds like there is a lot going on in there!
Atomic Habits – Book Summary
If I look at languages where unused variables are a compiler warning, I don't see people leaving unused variables in their programs.
Bats Harbor Hundreds of Coronaviruses, and Spillovers Aren't Rare
“The vast majority of that increase becomes homeowner windfall profits.”

I see this sentiment a lot in these threads, that somehow the fat cat homeowners are laughing all the way to the bank. For most of these homeowners this property is their home, just because it goes up in value quickly over 5-10 years doesn’t net them any “windfall”, and it could all vanish as quick as it came.

As somebody mentioned in response to a similar article, individual homeowners aren’t in it for the increased property value. They’re in it for lower taxes and a safety net against change. Just like (individual) “NIMBY”s aren’t in it for property values, they’re in it because they don’t want change.
Why does everyone keep saying this. Mint has gotten more reliable over the years.

They even recently started rolling out direct integration with many big banks.

I still remember the days when they couldn't download data from places like Chase for months at a time.
I think you have a point because this fear also creates incentives for scammers to profit from it.

There is a difference in how people "act" on the collective level (administrative bodies and bureaucracies, even companies) and how we respond on the individual level (employees, bread-winners, family members).

There is no serious / open conversation about this inside companies right now - some places I know even discourage you and slap you with the fear-monger label, while hoping it will just blow over. Especially in Tech where we could just send people home right away and work remotely hardly anyone does this (if it hasn't already been policy).

> Decisions _should_ be based on past information.

Making decisions only on past information is what makes Black Swans a scary reality. Maybe good time for us all to re-read Taleb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Swan:_The_Impact_of_...
X-Pack Auth is now free and included with Elasticsearch.
Atherton, CA: richest town in the US for the 4th year in a row
I'm not talking about IRS provided tax software. I'm talking about "tax code complexity." Things like all of our complicated deductions, or the AMT, or the NIIT or all the new goofy rules around S corps. Things like that.
But there is, and has for a long time been, a push for blue-collar "coding" jobs, because highly educated programmers are expensive. It dovetails especially well with the mentality where only the next quarter results matter, and software is a cost center, which is a lot of places.

Go is popular for the same reason PHP is popular, or why $0.99 goods are sold in huge quantities despite their quality.

To be fair, the implementation of the Go compiler and runtime is done by real experts, and is impressive. I suppose that nothing in Go is done by ignorance; everything is a conscious choice, to meet the bottom line: a person can learn enough Go in a weekend to be immediately productive.
Because you can mold junior developers into a certain quality. You can’t always do that successfully when you hire experienced developers sometimes. That’s why I was brought into the situation I was: it was more cost effective to get me up to speed than it had been trying to hire experienced developers for the same work, because they had too many pre conceived notions about how the product was to to be built

For what it’s worth I work at a small company now that is a startup and this is how we do things, to great success, the way I described it

To be clear, I do not work in Silicon Valley either, never lived in SV. So I get that part of it
There is also a need to look at it the other way around, what problems are we causing by being overly obsessed with disinfecting everything?
Since you're mostly counting hurricanes, here's a list of all category 4+ hurricanes that hit the US, although most were not that strength when they actually made landfall:

* Hurricane Isabel (5, 2003)

* Hurricane Charley (4, 2004)

* Hurricane Ivan (5, 2004)

* Hurricane Dennis (4, 2005)

* Hurricane Katrina (5, 2005)

* Hurricane Rita (5, 2005)

* Hurricane Wilma (5, 2005)

* Hurricane Ike (4, 2008)

* Hurricane Matthew (5, 2014)

* Hurricane Harvey (4, 2017)

* Hurricane Irma (5, 2017)

* Hurricane Maria (5, 2017)

* Hurricane Florence (4, 2018)

* Hurricane Michael (5, 2018)

* Hurricane Dorian (5, 2019)

That's 15 hurricanes. Of these, Katrina and Maria were the only ones where the response was considered botched. That's only 13%.
Maybe his altimeter depended on the earth being flat.
When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail, and when you're a virus researcher, every outbreak looks like a pandemic. The facts on the ground don't match the pandemic conclusion. There were two cases in all of Santa Clara County a few weeks ago, now there is one case.
I imagine such medications must be very important to take as prescribed, but the only other option I can think of is one day out of every two/three/four weeks, take less of it so that you can save it and slowly stockpile it.
It’s a good aspiration to eliminate needless complexity from a language so people can spend their cognitive resources (be they great or few) on solving real problems. If you can lower the barrier such that a layman can do it, then a genius specialist can do that much more.
Just so you know, it was the GOP that passed the EITC and the AMT (in its current form). The EITC was actually a Nixon proposal.
The biggest question to me is: do you really believe there are no cases in Indonesia? Does that make sense?

Because if there are in fact dozens of people infected in Indonesia, and we don't know about it, containment is over. Based on the apparent transmissibility and incubation period, I don't see how to come back from that.
Couldn't catch the reason behind the "one column per account" layout – you mention it's to show splits, can you elaborate on this?

In WeKeep all general ledger transactions can be looked up under Reports > Account Transactions, laid out in as a spreadsheet
https://www.wekeep.co/c/dashboard/account-transactions/
Here's a screenshot:
https://imgur.com/a/6eKNgKr
CDC says:

> The potential public health threat posed by COVID-19 is high, both globally and to the United States. The fact that this disease has caused illness, including illness resulting in death, and sustained person-to-person spread is concerning. These factors meet two of the criteria of a pandemic. It’s unclear how the situation will unfold, but risk is dependent on exposure. At this time, some people will have an increased risk of infection, for example healthcare workers caring for patients with COVID-19 and other close contacts of persons with COVID-19. For the general American public, who are unlikely to be exposed to this virus, the immediate health risk from COVID-19 is considered low at this time.

From "Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Situation Summary"

> This is an emerging, rapidly evolving situation and CDC will provide updated information as it becomes available, in addition to updated guidance.

> Updated February 22, 2020

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/summary.html
Every comment of yours in this thread is insulting, negative, critical and - in your own words - commenting like that is shameful. What are you trying to contribute by calling everyone else who comments lazy arrogant wannabees?
Interesting paper. I haven't dug into the methods/data in depth. But the gist of their interpretation is:

- Out of the initial 41 cases, 27 were linked to the seafood market. The first identified cases + 12 others had no link to the market.

- Phylogenetic analysis suggests two potential ancestral haplotypes. None of the seafood market haplotypes were the two potential ancestral.

- The very first initial cases (family from Shenzhen) was one of the two potential ancestral haplotype.

I am a bioinformatics phd and know enough about phylogenetic analysis to say that it can sometimes be ambiguous and have some elements of subjectivity, especially with low sample sizes. So I wouldn't be too fast to jump on these results. However, I haven't gone through the data in detail to really give a good opinion.
My plan A is to keep calm and be rational.

In the (very unlikely) event I am quarantined at home it will mean that my whole town is quarantined at home (if it's only me then there is no supply issue). In such case the authorities will have to enforce this and control the situation. Look what happened in Wuhan, for example.
Pseudorandom number generation using Cellular Automata
When things are uncertain, $VIX volatility index is a good bet. Maybe look into the most popular sellers/manufacturers of those surgical face masks, I'm sure those guys are making a killing right now.
Intuit has little say in the complexity of the tax code.

The purpose of their lobby is to prevent the IRS or state tax authorities from building their own versions and just letting tax payers use them.
this is an unnecessarily divisive take from a "polyglot" (read: software engineer) who admits that Go has its place in a software engineer's toolkit. It seems that you're attacking a straw man who believes that Go should be the only language that exists, and is the right choice for every application? Who argues this?
I don't have an exact form, deduction or rule. The articles include broad statements but no exact details.

Anyway, I edited my comment to read "keep tax filing complex", which is much better documented in the articles, though I don't think it would change opinions or arguments, but in the spirit of being as exact as possible.
Did you just call Rob Pike, et. al idiots, dumb, and landing-on-the-moon-denying Trump supporters?[1]

Thanks for the good laugh. I like the simplicity. I like that it shuns the insane nested psycho-babble that heavily OOP natured codebases can get into.

[1] I am joking, but only to prove a point. Rob Pike is not some CS drop out.
Another theory that could place it in a loophole: It may be performing object detection without recording what we think of as normal video. Similar to self-driving technology and object recognition, useful data can be derived without actually recording the traditional thought of “HD video in color”.
It wasn’t a usual set of circumstances and I had a good manager who basically bet his neck in me being a good fit. I’ll never forget such an act of kindness. I hope to pass that in as much as possible in a responsible way
I appreciate your edit. Though I further contend that the complexity of filing is directly related to the complexity of the code.
> it's not outside the reasonable range of what a flu pandemic could do.

By about 3-4 orders of magnitude, it is. The flu tends to kill about 60K people annually and most of those are old or very young or already had a compromised immune system. This is with the figures known so far and before there is a vaccine around 2-3%. If left unchecked it would overwhelm available health care capacity pretty quickly.

The Chinese mis-handled this. But it would be a mistake to think that the west is super prepared for something like this compared to China. ICU capacity is limited, test capacity is limited. Our advantages are mostly in more transparent messaging and wealth. Those two will have a big impact on the economic and health care aspects but it may not be enough to drop this down to the level of yet another flu.
> whose advocates are proud of the fact that they never made it past 200-level CS courses.

I agree with many of your points but is this kind of generalized ad hominem really necessary? There are many people (myself included) who don’t have CS degrees yet are still capable developers and programmers. I don’t see how criticizing someone’s lack of a formal CS education has anything to do with criticisms about Go as a language.
OP doesn't say whether it was a SQL database, but Go's sql.DB automatically uses a connection pool. Naively using goroutines for every sql.DB operation is a good way to run into connection, deadlock, and other problems, so I think OP's approach of not using goroutines unless/until there's a demonstrated need (e.g., through profiling) is sound, and that interviewer might want to pump the brakes on the blanket prescriptions.
Huh. TIL. Well some pie in the face for me here. Though these have become DEM interests over the years despite the source of their original passage.
Haskell and Hadoop the Aftermath
I don’t think it’ll solve all our problems but I don’t think bureaucracy per se is the enemy either. I’d need more of an argument as to why it overall wouldn’t be a good thing.

I don’t buy gate keeping either as the number one issue, see the lawyer glut as an example.
It means companies will not let their employees use software licensed with restrictive or uncommon licenses, even if free, they are automatically red flagged. So you immediately eliminate a large and profitable segment users.
Does it though? COVID-19 may actually have a much lower fatality rate as we are only getting reports of people that get symptoms, maybe that's only 10% of infections, maybe even less.
it is weird. but anecdotally it seems like tropical climes less hard hit. India?

low numbers could just be measuring detection ability instead of actual rates.
This seems to just be a set of general steps for the dominant culture to downplay dissenters or individuals for whom the system isn't working. It doesn't tell you anything about if the system is actually working or not, or if those individuals are right or wrong. Anyone who disagrees with the system will probably go through similar feelings (maybe not point 4).

You could put yourself in the position of someone who grew up poor and disillusioned as part of a visible minority in a US city, or a Hong Kong protestor, or almost any other anti-hedgemony protestor and they'd check the first three boxes. Are they wrong or is the system wrong? Nothing in this list helps determine that.
I don't think anything is known to help in treating/curing right now, I'd guess most of the relevant medicine is just to treat the symptoms while you ride it out. Stuff like fever reducers (ibuprofen) or something to relieve the respiratory symptoms (dayquil/nose spray).
How is it not civil?

He said Go is garbage, he didn't say anything of the people who write or work in Go.

Go isn't an entity here that can be offended. It's a programming language.
That doesn't make it a good idea.
I find it interesting that China has managed to keep things organised in Wuhan and throughout the country but American commenters on HN seem to expect that in their country it would be Mad Max.
This is why you see so many satanic cult/ritual references I. Conspiracy theories. It helps explain evil for the sake of evil.
Yes. This is normal in all those countries with free easy tax filing.

I regularly adjust the number, claiming various expenses etc.

I have been audited twice, which was actually a lot less scary than it sounds.

This is normal, easy and doesn’t cost and doesn’t even need complicated software. I have filled in forms, but I believe you can also do it online in the country I’m talking about now.
Don't they still have pieces of their website that rely on Adobe Flash? I haven't personally used them in years, but I distinctly recall reading this on a very recent criticism of their service. If that's true, then that's a sure sign of stagnation.
Did you pitch for a t-ball team, because thanks for that sweet setup!

We would have more sound business plans and ideas. Startup culture would be more about creating entities that can exist on their own (adults) vs a danger to be let loose into an existing market. The later is a shakedown, but lets not conflate the shakedown with our own goals of seeing outmoded businesses getting replaced.

If we had free standing startups that can function on their own, they have the ability to replace existing players by being able to function long term and respond to changes.

If we create startups that are then sold to the incumbents, we perpetuate their hegemony. These large corporations are effectively buying organs to stay alive.
Making Halo 3 Audio [video]
I think you misspelled "Evel": ;)

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Douchebag%20...
How do you know that? Care to share more details?
thank you that is much more useful. There are parts of it where it very much looks like the cygnus ng-12 especially against cloud cover. I don't think its moving upwards at all, its just moving away and slowly reentering while the camera changes.

Sadly, this seems to be utterly ordinary (well as ordinary as a space station streaming live video of a resupply to earth can be) but showing nothing beyond known engineering.
We've used it at various times to verify the design of some database kernel internals e.g. I/O scheduling. This is partly to give you confidence that the design is not broken, but on rare occasion it also surfaces design defects, like non-obvious race conditions.

Defects surfaced in the model may not imply defects in the software e.g. obscure race conditions in the model that cannot actually occur in implementation due to details not captured in the model. But it forces you to explicitly acknowledge and investigate that.
It is community supported so no commercial support. It is used in many services around the globe.

https://github.com/basho/riak_core/commits/develop-3.0
Deterministic perfect random generation requires infinite memory.

One way to see it is this: a perfect bit generator should output a 1 half the time on average. (Let’s not talk about variance for this.)

Out of all sequences of two bits, it should output 11 a quarter of the time. It should output 111 an eighth of the time.

Assume you have N bits of state, and some computation on it produces N random bits and changes the state. Then, at best, a single initial state will give you a sequence of N consecutive ones. (If multiple initial states give you that output, then some other output of N bits cannot be output, which is a deviation from true random output.)

So the longest consecutive sequence of ones you can output is 3×N-2 (with the previous output being zero followed by N-1 ones, and the next output being the reverse).

Therefore, you cannot output a sequence of 3×N-1 consecutive ones, which is a deviation from true random generation that can be statistically detected, given a long enough output.

In some sense, physical processes that output true randomness rely on the large amount of information stored in the environment, and that environment’s diffuse state scrambling, that is presumably extremely hard for an attacker to detect.

For instance, the fine trajectory of electrons attracted from atom to atom through an electrical circuit causing minuscule delays, or the chaotic motion of gaseous atoms, or stronger yet, quantum behavior of particles.
All my credit cards offer this now.
The tax code is very complex. It takes a legion of programmers (most of whom also have tax accounting and/or tax law training) just to translate the tax code into computer code.

You're unlikely to find enough volunteers to maintain that.

Also, TurboTax is an entity you can sue if they get it wrong and you get audited because of the error. An OSS project would be a magic black box.

I wouldn't use an OSS tax prep software because I have no way of knowing if it's correct, nor is there anyone to take responsibility if it isn't.
Archaeologists uncover Missoula's 'red light district,' Chinese community
Free access as a loss leader to push targeted financial products for profit.
Recognize text in images and PDFs in 3 lines of JavaScript, zero dependencies
Why regex still exists? It is unintuitive, requires mastering an obscure syntax, it is very hard to debug, and very difficult to explain to others how it works. It feels like we are trying to write intermediate code by ourselves, while we should have a human readable language that generates regex.
From Wikipedia [0] I think that you are right that COVID-19 is the name of the disease, but SARS-CoV-2 is the name of a coronavirus, not the name of a gene:

Citation:
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During the ongoing 2019–20 coronavirus outbreak, the World Health Organization (WHO) originally recommended use of the temporary designation "2019-nCoV" (2019 novel coronavirus) to refer to the virus. However, this led to concerns that the absence of an official name might lead to the use of prejudicial informal names, and in common parlance the virus was often referred to as "the new coronavirus", "Wuhan coronavirus", or simply "coronavirus". Per 2015 WHO guidelines on the naming of viruses and diseases, the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) announced that it would introduce a suitable official name for the virus.

On 11 February 2020, the ICTV introduced the name "severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2" (SARS-CoV-2) to refer to the virus strain previously known as 2019-nCoV. Earlier the same day, the WHO officially renamed the disease caused by the virus strain from "2019-nCoV acute respiratory disease" to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
"

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndr...
of course data is the new gold and we need gold digger ...
I am a senior data eng and I laugh when I see someone fresh form university with 1 or 2 course on data on udacity or such calling himself or herself data eng ..... data scientist are just freak by definition
Some of the world's biggest economies are on the brink of recession
Have to pay cash though if you’ve filed it recently.
>with death being so rare among the young, I don't see why most people should panic more than they do about flu season

Perhaps I'm misinterpreting your tone, but I'm not so cavalier about performing solo heavy-duty, months-long care of parents & grandparents and the possible loss of company senior execs/mentors and coworkers over 30.
Would you argue the US has a diverse media? Today, the concept seems laughable.
Lessons from the TSB failure: a perfect storm of waterfall failures
Eliminating irrational fear is very valuable. But there is also something to be said for being rationally afraid: to try to put boundaries on how scary this thing really is and what the likely impact will be.

Undue panic is 'we are all going to die, the end is neigh' kind of bs.

But a measured response could easily be that it would be better to reduce travel if you do not really have to, avoid concentrations of people and so on.

The numbers that we know so far are impressive enough that I believe those measures are warranted. 1-2% mortality, aerosolized infection confirmed, tactile infection confirmed, reasonably long incubation time, tests appear unreliable, virus now present in 25+ countries, with serious outbreaks in several of those. This is no longer in 'common flu' territory, nor is it in 'black plague' territory. Let's hope it stays that way and can be pushed back into the bottle again or that a vaccine is developed fast enough and produced in quantity enough that the bulk effects can be reduced.
It looks like it’s clearly in orbit for 99% of the video. Then at the end it... appears... to “shoot upwards with a jet of green light.” Is it really shooting upwards, or could that be an illusion from when an orbiting object crosses the horizon?
May be there's market for fire-proof smartphone cases?
more than data eng we need data coders ... otherwise call it etl on big data
The article already addresses that. Cross-site caching is blocked in Safari and will be blocked in Chrome in the future.