skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We should not ignore the value of signalling. There is little impact you can have as an individual. Reducing food waste or recycling have almost no direct impact but, it shows that you care and people respond. Politicians, and companies respond. It’s almost like voting.
There are not enough ICU beds or even hospital beds in the country to care for the infected during a major outbreak. The quality of treatment declines exponentially during outbreaks, to the point where it's worse than just holing up at home and some OTC medicines.

Every individual is ultimately responsible for their own safety, security, and wellbeing. The government isn't a protective loving parent that will go out of its way to care for you as an individual when infra and institutions become overloaded.
Highlights from FPGA 2020
It's true for Israel, Canada, and numerous other countries. I don't see what grounds you have for contradicting OP, especially since we don't even know what country he or she is in.
The main problem is the lack of scale to spread the R&D costs over. If a part takes $1m to develop, and you only sell a few thousand of them, the part will be in the hundreds of dollars regardless of how "cheap" it is to make.

QA processes also add a fair amount to the final price as each part might have several hours of individual attention by a technician to make sure it operates perfectly. Even for something as simple as a strut, they might saw every other one they make in two to inspect it for defects as doing so is vastly cheaper than having something fail in launch or orbit.
That's a really interesting post! I hadn't heard of them and just had a look at the website. I think the focus is here is more to first collect survey data on patients and, once sufficient survey data is collected, run a research study on specific diseases, but I might be wrong. That's different from our service. We're providing a fast and easy-to-use genetic testing service, not a research study. I also couldn't find an option on their website to actually get testing, but I'll keep an eye out!
Yep. Luckily I was able to recover the most important one - a website I'd built a couple years ago for a paying client - from Heroku, of all places.
It seems like one of those cases, where very small % of people say "oh wow", and the majority of actual drivers say "oh no".
Looks abandoned.
Funny you say Thai, because I actually live in a small town and a Thai place is our usual go-to for quick take-out down the road. Otherwise we have to drive the 12 min to the next bigger town with more choices which means cold food and a 25-30 min round trip.
FDA should fast track any vaccines that are developed
Do judges lose their jobs after successful appeals? I'm sure it has happened, but this seems like an incredibly rare event. Yet lawyers who do their jobs poorly (even ones defending criminals) can get fired from being a lawyer and have consequences on their ability to practice law. For most jobs, if you do it poorly enough then there can be severe consequences that follow. Yet here there are matters of life and death at play and nobody seems to have any responsibility in their screw up. Even police officers are held accountable when great harm comes to the innocent due to what they did.
This one makes him money.
The government does not take care of anything. Almost all health insurance for working age adults is private - provided either by their employer or bought on a government run exchange. Among those private insurances, usually the insurance pays around 1/2 and the worker pays half. So you are stuck with a $1700 if you get tested.

Also minimum wage in the Us ranges from $7 to about $15 in very expensive areas. So depending on you let salary you are left with 2 choices

1. Get tested if you have a severe flu or cold like symptoms and not eat and pay rent for a few weeks.

2. Tough it out , wait a few days/weeks and hope it goes away.
this will definitely will be a huge relief for many sys-admins in windows environments...
I think javascript isn't a bad choice since ms isn't as ignorant as some years ago, when it comes to new standards.
I used to travel 6-8 months out of the year, and I'd happily go to a restaurant alone over spending more time in my hotel room eating alone lol.
Why don't they host it themselves in a colo?

Doing like Netflix did by paying AWS millions is wasteful and insane when managed colo is cheaper and self-managed colo is cheaper still. ByteMark.co.uk and pair.com are both great vendors that could save them money.
The story is not so remarkable: there is no harm from taking synthetic thyroid hormone, and your TSH is monitored while taking it such that I think the mistake would have been discovered later.
Awesome, really appreciate the detailed reply! Lots of info in there.

You’ve convinced me I should store photos separately; will probably do something similar to what it sounds like you did and have pouch just store a pointer either to S3 or some other backend for file storage. I don’t anticipate photos being that important a feature for me, so having them be disabled when offline might be acceptable, otherwise I’ll probably opt for storing them locally and only syncing metadata/pulling stuff from s3 when metadata changes indicate a change to the file like you’re doing.
...and only 90% of those certs went to https://login.yourbanknamehere.com.secure-password.asp.net.t...
> 'second level CAs' (I forget the proper term, sorry!)

Perhaps intermediate CA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Intermediate_cert...
I think bikeshedding [0] is evidence.

[0] https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/Parkinsons-law-of-t...
I'd be shocked if Anish Kapoor doesn't have ridiculous restrictions like that on Cloud Gate. You know about what he did with Vantablack?
I think the desktop can be an IDE.

https://github.com/samsquire/ideas#98-the-desktop-is-an-inte...
In Germany you have to take theory lessons and test as well as practical lessons including some time highway (Autobahn) and at night. In the end there is a practical test, which (from anecdotal observation) a notable amount of people fail on first attempt.

But once you have the license you can drive on highways without speed limits, where safety and following rules is important (while the free ride is a bit of a myth - many segments have speed limits, there is lots of traffic limiting speed and in case of an accident insurance restrict payment when going fast)
Good point. I guess I'm in agreement with tfa here - if special entities are ok, escape output. I don't think I want to allow a greater than sign in a "first name" field, but it might be perfectly valid in a text field. And if that field is text, not hypertext, escaping output seems sane. Maybe only where html is expected - say in the html part of an email, while the text part just uses a proper encoding.
right, but you can pay to have the decision expedited. it's rumoured this increases the risk of an RFE, so YMMV.

i think timing plays some sort of role, too. from a very small sample size, between December to April, transfers go pretty quickly. not hard to imagine the USCIS' load is higher from April to maybe October
This is still true. I moved from AZ to CA when I was 17 and my AZ permit expired. It was way easier and cheaper to wait until I turned 18 so that I didn't have to pay for the requisite driving training courses. Oddly enough, Drivers Ed is required to pass high school, but if you get your training or your license before you graduate you can supply them with the documentation and still get the credit.

With my birthday being in July, I technically should have had to take a Drivers Ed course, but because I moved my senior year of high school, I basically got a lot of free credits because the state requirements were different and I would have had to essentially take an extra year of HS if they didn't just hand me credits. It's weird.
The common element in design trends is to minimize analogies that were previously made really obvious because users already know them by now. This has resulted in a constant iterative design that's led to the flattening and hiding of every major UI element. It's not because of malice or anything, it's just that for designers who already know and are familiar with the system, it's redundant to keep displaying things users already know.

In general, it's fine for users that are already familiar with the system. If you've been using macOS since it was Mac OS X (or even earlier), and you used every version from then to now, then the system is probably totally obvious. The catch is that we stopped "teaching" users things from scratch. So there's a ton of users who feel like the current user interfaces are totally obvious, while users who are just now entering an ecosystem find themselves completely lost.

I've advocated for this a lot privately, but I think it needs to be said more prominently: interfaces need to grow with the users on an individual level. Maybe you want to reach some kind of eden where no control is highlighted and the entire interface is flat -- so be it. Just make sure that you start users off with a very 3D interface with obvious affordances before you start changing things up. Maybe this sounds ridiculous, but it's basically the only way to teach a brand new user how to use a computer system from scratch.

I help my mom and grandparents out all the time when it comes to technology. They aren't dumb. They just don't follow every design change, take every OS update, or buy new devices every year. They know how to close windows, resize windows, and deal with windows. But when the iPad ships things like three and four finger gesture systems that have no obvious way to discover them, of course they look clueless. Similarly, when a button doesn't look like a button (but it did in three design languages ago and has just slowly removed all of the button-like features), they don't know that it's a button. Again, it's not their fault: they just haven't followed every iteration of the design language to know why or how things have changed.

The key UI element that Superhuman gets right that everyone talks about is its ridiculous obsession with teaching keyboard shortcuts. Every time you click a button instead of using a shortcut, the confirmation tells you "yes, that worked, but also here's the keyboard shortcut to do it faster next time." Maybe something like this would help?

Whatever the case may be, users who don't know things make the industry look inscrutable and unfriendly. Heck, it makes people leave platforms because they think they're unfriendly, when they've actually just been optimizing away all of the affordances.
Agreed. This is probably my #1 annoyance.
How a 2 person startup already uses 26 other tools / services
Gah, that iOS issue is a nightmare.
As it is 2020 and VBA still exists. No.
i'm not a data science guy so I need an ELI5 on this - is scraping all of goodreads and passing it into a data pipeline? seems like a 3rd party project. is this just to demonstrate Data/ETL skills? is what are some practical uses of this? Sorry it's not obvious to me.
I believe ISPs are common carriers, so a different set of laws apply to them.

Net Neutrality had to nothing to do with partisan content, it was about charging senders of the data extra, based on the type of bits, e.g video content.
> The address/search bar is much much inferior...

I agree. It's also very minor, but one feature I miss from the old Firefox is being able to scroll the address horizontally. Now you have to tap on it, which opens the keyboard.

- Extensions are not supported...

Edit: maybe I misread the article. Do they mean that they're going to replace the old Firefox with Preview in it's current state? It would definitely be horrible if they pushed a downgrade that removes extension support (even if they plan to add more support later).

AFAIK they're adding the extensions API used by all extensions, but they're going incrementally by trying to support APIs used by popular extensions first. They even said they plan to add more extensions soon. Ideally, once the extension API is solid they'll allow you to install from the addon store (like old Firefox). It would be awful if they only allowed you to install they're recommended extensions.

> The thumbnails are removed from the tab list...

That was a nice feature. The icon beside tab names is pretty big, maybe they could add an option to make it even bigger and show a tab thumbnail.

> Popups each time you close a tab use up unnecessary screen space...

Agreed, although I like being able to undo if I accidentally close one. I much prefer the way the old Firefox did it (basically the same thing, but a slimmer banner touching the bottom of the screen). Hopefully they improve this somehow.

> The address bar is now at the bottom...

As someone with a large phone I appreciate this, but if you don't like it you can change it back to the top in settings.
What we do at my company: everything is in the cloud except build farm because renting dedicated servers is much cheaper, we need lots of them and we don't care if one drops out. So we have 32c/256G boxes for running tests (a full suite finishes in 2 hrs on a box like that), they cost something like $300/mo.
Thank you! We hear you on the webpage messaging, and we are ramping up our efforts on that front. We are also planning on publishing a series of technical blog posts, aiming to clarify the value of TileDB. Please feel free to reach out to us should you or your students need any further information.
the architecture also seems pretty complex - i am wondering at what level of requirements or data complexity people should consider something like this, as opposed to running a little cronjob on a $5 server somewhere.

not dissing the author, genuinely trying to understand the spectrum of data science needs
Betteridge’s Law says no.
This!

The most important feature for me ist the tab queue, which allows one to open tabs in the background. My whole mobile web-workflow depends on this feature and they did not implement this, which makes Fenix inferior for me despite the improved performance.

If you also depend on this feature, please chime in on Github:
https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/470
California is monitoring at least 8,400 people for the coronavirus
Never a more frightening instance of "penny wise, pound foolish".

"Oh heavens no, we can't afford to preventatively test for a virulent new lethal pathogen that has already brought one of the world's largest economies to a total standstill - it costs literally dozens of dollars!"
This doesn't make any sense. The common carrier status still exists. It doesn't make sense to apply it to particular websites unless Congress acts to create a new law.
Yeah, I'm waiting for that PR haahah
The worst part is that all of these problems are more or less easy to solve economically. Just tax the externalities. A gas tax that pay for carbon offsets for each gallon of gas would not actually add all that much at the pump. Barely anything, in fact, about $.10/gallon according to [this source](https://greengasmovement.org/faq/).

It's kind of incredible to me that we've banned plastic straws, but we aren't willing to add 10 cents / gallon to the cost of gas.
My team hired a Chinese engineer a little over a year ago. It took almost 4 months for them to join after my lead first mentioned giving her an offer.
Mind you, the US currently has a President that blames the milk going sour on Mexicans, thermometers showing higher temperatures on China, and the colour of his hair on LED light bulbs. Half the country does not believe that this makes him incompetent...

> Sounds like they've been everything but competent.

If you think that our cities are any more prepared for an epidemic of this magnitude... I don't know what to say.

I will point out, however, that the US has fewer ICU beds across the entire country (Most of which are currently occupied), than there are documented COVID-19 cases in one city in China.

If an outbreak occurs here, do you really think that we will have enough medical resources to provide quality care for everyone? If yes - what are you, and your legislators doing, to put us in that situation? Because with our current medical infrastructure, we are not in that situation.
I was also in this situation 25 years ago. I was 25% under the market. During the green card process, the visa official reviewing my application made the comment and they raised my salary! That's the world - people will screw you if they can.
Carmack described the wantrepreneur. Beware the "idea guy," find the head-down guy or gal who is smart and a workaholic; people who tend to work more than socialize, fall in love with ideas and talk about work that they're not doing.

There's no free lunch and schlepping where others give up or aren't willing to invest energy, time and money are also key. If something is relatively easy for you but more difficult for most others, that's a good signal. And if that something becomes very difficult for you, think of how hard it would be for someone else... that has the potential to be a defensible business.
i have heard (from multiple founders in the space) that the hosted db business is a difficult one to be in. see for reference graphcool's switch to prisma.

i suspect that mainly applies to venture backed businesses - it could be a great lifestyle biz
I have VSCode running and it takes up only 166MB or RAM.

Proof: https://i.imgur.com/nKenjcw.png
I am willing to bet you $1000 that in 2030 there are more jobs on general $job_board of your choice that mention Perl than Raku.

We can say 2040 if you think that 2030 may be too soon for Raku to have any chance at all. But there is a good chance that one of us will be dead by then. (I'll be 70, I think you'll be in your 80s.)

My point being that if you yourself are not confident enough to take some bet of that form, you cannot expect people to take you seriously when you describe Raku as "where the puck will be". Particularly not people who are happy to explain why they think that Raku won't do that, and are willing to make bets of that kind.
As long as Excel is used by businesses, VBA will be relevant. Excel will probably continue to exist - and be supported and updated to ever newer versions - forever, so it stands to reason that VBA will probably also exist forever. Unless Microsoft goes bankrupt and Excel isn't picked up by another company. Which will also probably never happen.
All the EU has more or less the same vehicle categories.

https://ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/automotive/vehicle-categ... (for a start)
Here's an (extremely) short but useful explanation of 'why':
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/git/what...

TL;DR: source control is about so much more than 'backing up'.
Teleological Notions in Biology
Options aren't worth much and may even end up being a liability. Current advice says to value options at $0. At least grant double binding RSUs.
The car doesn't use its left turn signal in the demo video. Good thing the child wasn't been any slower exiting the crosswalk, or the car could have hit them.
I don't understand what you mean. Is it terrifying to have to get so much practice before being allowed to drive on your own, or terrifying to drive with only two hours' experience?
Philosophical arguments to decentralize everything are great, but literally nobody outside of this industry cares. The key to success, ironically, for decentralization, is for everyone to care. The first step is to ship a product people actually want to use that has tangible benefits: right now, every philosophical site like this is dead on arrival because it requires ground swell that doesn't exist without a compelling product.
Have you ever tried to convince real people of that? Parents? Ones in developing countries in particular? Fusion and space colonization seem pretty easy in comparison, at least to me.
> substantial portion of the trash found on beaches and in waterways

I don’t think do. What makes you think that. Unless you consider 1% substantial.
I've had the misfortune of interacting with "vehicles" of this class here in Sweden a few times. (I'm guessing the one's I've seen are crappy PRC imports, legally pretending to be powered bicycles or similar.)

Every single time: They do something insanely stupid and dangerous, on actual roads. (I guess they bought this because they were too stupid to get a driver's license.)

They also tend to drive around 30 km/h at most, on roads meant for 50-80 km/h.

I can't wait until we banish them from the roads.
Have to agree. Having to think about the selector makes you think about the structure and make things more semantic.

I have been paralyzed by trying to do things the semantic way before too though. And now no one cares according the markup I venture to look at now and then.
there's no doubt there is a large number of supporters. the evidence suggests that number is less than 50%
I think many insects are far smarter than we have assumed.

Bumblebees can learn to pull a string to receive a reward [1]. But maybe that's just blind conditioning? Well if another bumblebee watches it happen from behind a glass wall, it can perform the task without being trained at all [2].

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSCr5OxXN1A
2: https://faunalytics.org/bumblebee-school-learning-and-teachi...

And of course Portia spiders show remarkable memory, planning, and on-the-spot flexibility in hunting strategies. Also they can do the same kind of counting that many human cultures do:
1, 2, and many.

https://phys.org/news/2017-07-spiders.html
Maybe it's time to acknowledge that fd.o is primarily a Red Hat operation, and ask Red Hat to step up and serve the community?
[off-topic] Kinda late to the party, but always a pleasant surprise to see an article written by a former schoolmate you've lost touched with trending on HN :)

Hi shadowsun7!
The Finder in particular has been neglected for so long. Many of these “features” are artifacts that are indicative of a long-standing need to rethink the Mac OS user’s relationship to the file system. The problem is that Apple’s instinct is to eliminate complexity, which is why iOS lacked any file system in user space until the Files app was added as a kind of begrudging concession.
Glad they provide a log scale. Shows China growth slowing down but the rest of the world is exponential.
This is why I've largely stopped using apps, and I would particularly never touch health-related apps.
> I'm using Firefox Preview regularly for a few month now, and it really is a huge step up in performance. Javascript and CSS-heavy sites now behave as they should, and browsing feels smooth overall.

Everyone keeps saying this, but I haven't experienced it myself, and haven't seen any objective evidence for it. On objective benchmarks that I've tried, Preview is maybe 5-10% faster at best. Subjectively I haven't noticed a difference.

They also slowed down the GUI animations to the point where it's visibly slow to me (and maybe a little janky too?). I prefer the older Firefox for Android for that reason alone. (Then again that may just be a personal preference: I switch the Android animations to double speed in the developer options.)

Totally agree with you on the rest of your complaints. They all ring true for me, individually and together.
The author addresses some of that directly - the series is really a collection of tutorials on how to get various programmer-ish things done in Unix. The title is a stroke of viral genius.
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Because it’s not just the land but the infrastructure that makes that land “livable”.

Installing sewers and electrical grids and internet and roads and grocery stores etc. is more prohibitive than land, even if that land was available for sale