skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At my first job we were in a similar position I think with lots of churn (volunteers, young people).

I argued with my boss and finally got a vm with a MediaWiki instance. I created a simple frontend using Javascript and html to simplify correct addition of common page types.

Obstacles: my boss and certain other people wanted something more businessy. Also they wanted to run the DB on MSSQL, while MediaWiki is supposed to use MySql I think.

At a later place I was tasked with moving/updating documentation from a two page Word document to a Confluence document. It was written by a long time developer so it grew quite a lot.

Obstacles: Confluence :-] Also getting people to admit when their previous docs are wrong (or at least deviates from official vendor docs, and it creates problems.) Also trying to keep it up to date while others are constantly changing things.

Later on I've

- used OneNote,

- got others to use OneNote

- failed to get people to use OneNote,

- updated Confluence plug-ins,

- struggled with people who said they used README-driven development, but were really just their personal notes on what they'd need to remember.

Finally there are some common theme:

- refusing to acknowledge the need for any system beyond mail and Word documents.

- insisting on buying one lf the "commercially supported" but otherwise inferior and close to unusable system

- insisting on using SharePoint (a variation of the point above)

- putting everything into Confluence which means hopeless search + access restrictions so you never know if 1) the document exists but you don't have access, 2) it exists but you cannot find it because it is in the wrong place and search is broken 3) the document doesn't exist.
I read his new book, Agency, sick in bed last week. It hits very close home.
Whilst I don't doubt the truth of this, I find there's often a deeper reason why people "just don't like" someone. Sometimes it's because that someone has ideals which challenge the assumptions of too many people. Other times it's because the media has an agenda which is at odds with that person's principles, and therefore choose to portray that person in a particularly negative light.
Lotta doom and gloom, but nothing to it, really.

A lot of people think that names of existing library stuff are magical. Any better stuff has to have the same names as the old stuff, so we have to break ABI so new better stuff can keep all the same names.

But the names we have are not magical. New stuff can have new names (or same names, in a new namespace). Then the old names won't be magical anymore, they'll just be old. We've seen it already, with old (monadic) lock_guard and new (variadic) scoped_lock. Agonized hand-wringing, and then, in the end, just no big deal.

We might also end up with a second build target for our favored OSes, on top of the i32 and x64 ones we have now, to get an option for better performance and some new runtime choices. It will probably happen first in embedded ARM, with several choices competing, and then one of them could take hold in more mainstream environments. Again, no big deal.

Don't get involved in the hand-wringing and pearl-clutching, and you will hardly notice it.
Why men breakup with women in a relationship
Considering billions of devices and services not being affected, these bugs are very insignificant. At least we figured out leap day bugs and not having y2k crisis' every four years.
What is mandatory vacatio n?
Fido is interesting! It was novel enough to watch it if you like zombie movies, not the movie of the year though :)
Learn Awk by Example (2019)
If you're going to use it commercially, don't miss https://grapesjs.com/ It has a much more stable API, UIs and it has an MJML preset. Under a permissive BSD-3 license.
Looking for knowledgeable or expert people in the field of AI and/or agriculture
Hello, I'm writing my bachelor's thesis on AI and sustainability in agriculture and I need people for a mini-interview to answer a few questions. If you are someone in this field or may know someone who would be willing to answer a few questions, let me know. I would really appreciate it. Thanks
I have started some weeks ago this project: https://github.com/iris-analytics
It's a small JS that gathers data and sends it to a Go backend to then be stored in ClickHouse.
Although there's lots to do, we use it in production successfully.
Remember ClickHouse was born precisely for web analytics where a single instance can handle hundreds of millions of inserts per day with no effort.
I did this because stats say adblocker penetration in Europe is beyond 30% and this would give us real time insights with no sampling and ad-hoc queries.

If you want to help me out, you are very welcome!!!
I’ve read that while inequality within countries increased, inequality between countries has decreased dramatically (and is arguably much more important as it records the huge reduction in poverty in Asia in the past 50 years).

And I’m not worried at all about war with China or Russia, or at least not more worried than I would have been in the 90’s. I don’t think the events of the past 20 years are evidence that war is more likely now than it was then.

The environmental crisis I think rises to the level of something that has gotten worse, but I think we also should at least consider that environmentalism in the 90’s was mostly about pollution, which basically doesn’t exist in the West anymore the way it did for most of the 20th century. So like, mission accomplished! (/s)

Now we’re dealing with climate change, which a lot of people in the 90’s thought was going to be a giant problem, but which wasn’t the subject of huge media panic the way it is now. That’s not to say the panic isn’t appropriate, just that if it is, the sense of peace that everyone is saying pervaded the 90’s was definitely unwarranted.
Yes they do. Years back, my boss told me about project requests. (we do api management) every new project in terms of requirements was: soooooo its like soap..
It could have been JavaScript 10 years before we had JavaScript. It demanded more dedication to use.

Turns out round window with stroke path text alpha and reimplemented xeyes was not compelling.

People should have shown NeWS doing complex client side form field checks.

Sun also didn't go downmarket. Windows PCs happened with hummingbird xceed X not decent in Microsoft X
>It might fit Facebook’s case (although they abandoned it themselves in favour of native speaks volumes about it).

This doesn't appear to be true. Do you have a source?
Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed this. Could you elaborate on your closure example though? This was the only one I didn't understand. The explanation is a bit terse = "Closures are just variables with a function type with some captured context." Are these anonymous functions? What is calling the anonymous function if so in main? Cheers.
The images in the 'Digging deeper' section suggest otherwise. They appear to show a successful run followed by one that fails because the 'encrypted' value is garbage. Where am I missing the instantly reproducible failure?
You should test your site on FF android, as the page is unreadable. Text is vertical with very large whitespace areas in between.
Alan Moore (author of Watchmen and many other things) presents a nice interpretation of the Apocalypse here https://youtu.be/cBc71ROdGxU
Am I able to login as a user using my own client (circe on Emacs, for example)?
In the Name Of the Father (or the troubles with L-caron) (2010)
It's not something I've attempted yet, but I'm under the impression that a React -> React Native port is easier than building a Flutter app for Mobile, and then doing something else for web. Might be wrong?
I applaud you for sharing your story. With the rise of shadow IT, not enough of respect is given to CIOs and IT teams for making sure the entire company’s infrastructure doesn’t implode on its own. The main reason why we have so many data silos is because everyone is going out and buying software on their own specific to their needs without batting an eyelid to the enterprise. Vendors love the fact that they can circumvent IT just to get their solutions going and get your started without ever mentioning that a new data island is being created and work will be needed to bring it all back in-house.

Aside: can I ask for some advice on software requirements? We’re designing our solution to meet IT requirements and want to get under the skin of CIO concerns.
I love William Gibson but it rubs me the wrong way a bit that he (or the author) so casually attributes the apocalypse to flying (among other things) and then, without irony goes on to say that he’s been visiting London for several decades.... I’m assuming by plane, from Vancouver.
I think what you are missing here is stated far better than I could by the following, which I urge you to read, and which I will submit tomorrow when it has a better chance of being seen: https://medium.com/@amwren/forget-about-the-death-rate-this-...
This Snopes article, in fact, contradicts you. Quoting:

"funding for the CDC’s global disease outbreak prevention efforts had been reduced by 80%, including funding for the agency’s efforts in China. But that was the result of the anticipated depletion of previously allotted funding, not a direct cut by the Trump administration.
https://www.baronfunds.com/product-detail

One of the Baron Funds invested in SpaceX.
For apps that talk over other apps, being able to adjust app volume relative to each other is useful.

I recently had Google Maps "yelling" directions over a podcast,looked for a solution, and discovered Google Maps has volume adjustment for that (on Android, profile > settings > navigation settings > guidance volume). I toggled from harder to softer (there's a joke there) and all was good.
Yes, though I don't know if it makes sense to do it for any reason other than hiding from ad blockers.
Just FYI, Afghanis are units of currency; citizens of Afghanistan are Afghans.
There's a difference between

let _ = <expr>;

and:

let _x = <expr>;

The first one drops ownership over the variable right after `let`, and the second drops in the end of the scope where the `let` is contained. It was mentioned in an open Rust github issue, but I can't seem to find it.
Why the NyQuil?
No, you didn’t.
Some years ago (before wikis and the www) I worked on a software product for recording Design Rationale - the decision making process that went into designing long lived artfects, such as nuclear reactors and process plants. The idea being that engineers could find out WHY something had been done the way it had decades after the original engineers had retired or been run over by buses. The product failed, despite some intial interest from big companies.

In retrospect one of the main reasons for the failure was social rather than technical. The engineers designing things saw recording the rationale as just an extra job that had to do, with no immediate benefit to them. If anything, they saw it as opening them up to more scrutiny and increasing the chance of their job being outsourced in future. So keep that in mind.
Honestly, working in a large corporation is very different to working in a public institution. For example, in my experience, your salary is much more of a negotiation between yourself and your direct superiors. You can highlight the value/profit your bring to the company, and if they underestimate you the you can change to a higher paying job somewhere else. That opportunity just doesn't exist in public industries where pay scales are rigidly set to the number of years of experience you have, or the specific job title. You can argue all you want but unless you're absolutely exceptional (undergrad paper in Nature level exceptional) you'll get nowhere.

One of the reasons that teachers and doctors have such absurdly poor working conditions and pay (in the UK at least) relative to the value they bring to society, is that they're mostly paid via the state so the only way they can demonstrate their value is through striking. If the government takes a hard line of strikes and public spending then those industries suffer.
Sorry for the small derail, but can you comment on your decision to sequence your family? I considered doing this recently but it wasn't clear to me that I would obtain much actionable information, so I declined to expend the effort. (After all, it will only get cheaper and easier.)
I really don't want anyone to have the impression that this team tried to take shortcuts

- man who let his team take shortcuts

NASA is still thinking whether to allow Boeing to proceed with its first manned flight to prevent delays or to require the company to successfully complete an unmanned flight first.

Yeah, it's probably fine now. I mean, ugh, look at all these passing tests!

It's staggering to me that Boeing is confident enough to not want another unmanned fight. After all this, you really want to roll the dice again?
They also said "at a larger scale" - so, the goalposts seem pretty stable.

One medium-sized city of PR wasn't devastated. Most of the territory was.
Imagine that a guy who automated a certain part of the process just left, and you need to make some changes. Who's holding the knowledge about how X is automated and the thought process behind it?
I wish this could be extended to "Learn X in Y minutes coming from already knowing Z". However this (X,Z) matrix is hard to maintain...
Dudes. Flu kills thousands in the (tiny) Netherlands alone. Corona is not making a dent, whatever way you look at it.
This is not even a peer reviewed paper but just a comment. The title is completely editorialized to something the article doesn’t state.

https://www.nature.com/nature/for-authors/other-subs
Author here. I should have made this clear in the blog post, but I'd be interested in seeing boot logs from Pixel 3 (or newer) devices. If the firmware update failed on more devices than just mine, it would be good to know about that. If you'd like to help, first make sure you're at least on the December 2019 security update. To capture the log plug your phone into a computer, run "adb reboot ; sleep 1 ; adb logcat | grep -i citadel" and turn the phone back on. Wait for it to boot, unlock the SIM card and unlock the screen. This should yield the version information of the firmware of Titan M.
I'm just a lay person. Would you be able to say anything (or point me to anything) about the relationship between ACE2 and the CFTR?

The only thing I've found so far is this:

https://bmcpulmmed.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2...

The CF community seems to be assuming this will be very bad for anyone with CF, but the reality is CF exists because it's like Sickle Cell: it's protective against some infections.

CF community links:

https://www.cfireland.ie/about-cf/latest-news/cfi-update-cor...

https://www.reddit.com/r/CysticFibrosis/comments/fb4cz7/the_...
Coronavirus epidemy in Iran past crisis level
What I have written here is based 100% on working with product teams who use analytics very competently to influence feature development (which is almost never driven by one single factor).

> I might be completely wrong, but i assume if you have a large enough user base you would use telemetry only in an aggregated way, and then prioritize the majority of the user base.

In some cases yes, but you need to get that aggregate data from somewhere. It’s also naive (and probably a bit arrogant) to assume that your requirements aren’t in fact well aligned with the majority of the user base.

This is however a somewhat immature way of using analytics data. There’s plenty of incredibly valuable data you can get from peculiar and unpredicted usage patterns. Any product manager will tell you that most customers are quite bad at expressing what they actually want. A good product manager can gather a fair amount of insight from what they choose to complain about, but analysing the most immediately obvious trends really only gets you so far. You’ll often get the most insight from the rare customers who are able to concisely articulate their feedback, and those that are frustrated and ingenuitive enough to subvert your application to their will.

For any motivated organisation, there’s countless ways to get insight out of their analytics. You’ve just described the lowest hanging fruit.

> I also feel i always have the right to complain about a product

Depending on where you live, you likely have the right to complain about anything you like. But if you want to prevent an organisation from analysing your usage of their service, then complaining about them not meeting the needs of your use case is hypocritical.
The paper is not very clear about what they mean with inferencing. It seems they just mean calculating a prediction for new data using a trained machine learning model.
Readers outside the field, like me, are likely to confuse inferencing with inferring (using logic), but that is out of scope, here.

Edit: find the real explanation here: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2016/08/22/difference-deep-lea...
In mechanical watches, that's the difference between an annual calendar, and a perpetual calendar. Annual calenders don't take leap years into account, perpetual calenders do.
> Agency focuses on an alternate present in which Britain did not vote to leave the EU and the US did not elect Donald Trump as its 45th president. But this is no Remainer fantasy: an unspecified conflict in the Syrian city of Qamishli has brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.

Reminds me of Ken MacLeod's The Execution Channel, which goes out of its way to mention that Gore was elected president- and an alternate 9/11 that hits Boston and Philadelphia leads to the War on Terror anyway. Though written in 2006 or so, it felt particularly prescient a peace later despite being pre-smartphones and social media- it capture an increasingly paranoid world choked full of state-sponsored internet disinfo, influential conspiracy theory bloggers, climate change refugees. Despite the weird ending and not the best plot, the world-building and general tone manages to have resonance nearly fifteen years later.
Not really a cloud developer, so I looked up a couple of links and I haven't been able to find any uses of the term other than referring to a single-tenant machine that you have complete control over, as opposed to virtualized solutions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bare-metal_server
https://www.ibm.com/cloud/bare-metal-servers/hosting-solutio...
https://www.ionos.com/digitalguide/server/know-how/bare-meta...
https://www.rackspace.com/library/what-is-a-bare-metal-serve...
I also think internal blogs are a great tool. But I also share your experience of how few people are actually using them. At my current company, it is the same thing: I wrote the majority of posts and a handful of people contributed a handful of other posts.

I guess the 1% rule [1] applies to internal systems as well...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture)
Literally has not meant what you perceive it to mean, as a wholly intentional and really existing condition, since at least the 18th century. Your response seems to nitpick to the point of pedantry, rather than addressing the steel-manned version of the argument, or even necessarily arguing the argument itself.
Thanks,

Does this implies somehow that people with high blood pressure are more at risk of covid-19 infection?
I used to be a big fan of his work in the 80s and 90s. But after 2000 I can't finish one of his novels. And I read a lot.
Analytics driven development is a strawman. It’s simply one of many factors that can influence development decisions. Depending on the particular circumstances, it may be incredibly valuable, or not valuable at all.
Two of my boys have CF, so i have skin in this game. They are young, which is positive. The economist are saying that it is expected that 25-70% of people globally will get infected, so i am worried. But I haven't found out anything yet.
Having bottled water on hand seems like a super useful thing right now, to me anyway. It makes it easier for families to not share water sources, reduce the spread of disease at offices if you bring a bottle vs using a communal tap, and a thousand other things in that vein.

It is recommended everywhere because it is useful, not because people are 'parroting this stuff'. I think any real critical review of the data would conclude with a suggestion that bulk bottled water is a good idea for people to stock up on.

> Do these people think coronavirus is going to cause enough unrest to destabilize civic services and affect our municipal water supplies?

No, I don't think anyone is worried about that. This is the first suggestion of that nature I've seen, I think you are arguing a straw man here. The primary reason for bottled water is to help prevent the spread of germs by reducing shared water sources. A secondary reason would be general risk-reduction: having your own clean safe water is a calming factor and reduces/eliminates at least a few possible contamination sources.

It is a logical move, not some hare-brained silly idea that people are 'parroting'.
Not everywhere: UK is 50/50, same with USA and AU. Globally yes, but On the ground in different markets it’s different. We’re uk based e-com and android devices are a minuscule part of our traffic, so we’re doing iOS first.
If you are just starting out, I have found Expo + React Native to be a really nice development environment. What little I have used of Android Studio, it seems overly complicated for a beginner.
Took an extra day Feb 29 to release all thoughts on remaking economic system.
Amongst other things, and in my experience, ease and speed of development.
I will check to see if we have many of the ACE variants defined in the paper to get an idea of where we stand. Although it is still just probabilities, it might mean the difference between moving to the summer house for 6 months with them or staying in the city. I could work remote, so that's a possibility.
The problem with "Read the source, Luke" is that even if the code is well written (and that's a big if), reading the code only tells you _what_ it does, not why, not why it doesn't do it differently, nor what it may or may not do in the future. It's the difference between programming and software engineering.
This is a great question and the same pain the led us to start ShiftX. It’s a process based knowledge sharing tool where we have focused heavily on simplicity so that both creating and consuming content is as frictionless as possible. We are just starting to grow the company but are getting great feedback so far from our customers in the Nordics. Let me know if you would like to learn more! https://shiftx.com
Perhaps you should post it on "Show HN".
It may have been a mistake but it did add an important innovation: Postscript in the display system. This would be an innovation even now, having an interpreter for an embedded language right in the windowing system.
This will cause some large problems especially with wildcard and WAF certs that cannot be automatically renewed.
Nobody is going to buy their Clearview or Palantir grade military/police tech from a third-world farmer, either.
That's true for the server logs but GA has access to much more information to make a decision like that. My point is that comparing server logs to GA results is invalid.
I'll use it to provide easy rows filtering in a web app for users with no CS background

So they can type:
bitrate above 1Mb

and get the items which have more than 1024 bits on the column bitrate
Raft is easy to understand. It may be easier to write compared to e.g. Paxos, but that's it.

The consensus module and log are not very useful on their own. You need the integration with multiple concurrent clients, some state machine (even key value store will be complicated). This is still hard and doesn't get any easier with raft.
George Hotz: Fully Self-Driving Cars Are a Scam and Silicon Valley Needs to Die
I’m also a big markdown-in-source advocate. However it’s major shortcoming is that it’s not accessible enough for non-technical teams to maintain.
Chrome has competitors! It has majority market share, but other browsers get usage too.