skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was thinking of building something similar. Any other alternatives to similar solutions?
Writing data tables isn’t easy. Deffo not a 1-2 week thing and you call it done. The trail of bug fixes and browser edge cases are what slowly get you at the end.

+1 on not letting design dictate. Just gotta sit in the room and weigh pros and cons.
Interesting thought, there was something that was going around, very contagious that everyone got
I have to admit I'm not a native Korean speaker. Are you?

The issue brought up by the article is that neither makes sense. Reversing a string is not a semantically meaningful operation.
This is why no one should ever ever write their own Time or Date library. The number of edge cases is simply enormous
how many GVCs do you have where people are connecting from their desk or rooms on different floors of the same building? It happens a lot. Can’t be that bad.
Thanks for sharing this, I've been yearning for an app like this for months maybe even years.

More impressive even is that iNaturalist is seemingly entirely open source: https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/developers

The backend is Rails (4.2), the iNaturalist iOS app is native, the Seek app is ReactNative. It's really neat stuff.

Their 2019 Year in Review post is fascinating and impressive as well: https://www.inaturalist.org/blog/29540-year-in-review-2019
It's not clear that we would recognize it in hindsight. Flu seasons vary heavily in magnitude, and a large majority of flu tests come back negative in any season.
Thanks for sharing this excerpt, I appreciate it!
My point isn't that Tailwind should've used CSS variables in 2017, it's that technology from 2017 isn't very compelling in 2020.

> I love though that as an engineer you would be hesitant to use Tailwind, but you are not aware of how new variables are.

Why would you think I'm unaware? Please see: https://caniuse.com/#feat=css-variables

I'm not writing software for IE 11 (released in 2013), Opera Mini, QQ, or Baidu, so CSS variables are widely supported for my target demographic.
Startups are already way below market rate if the market includes public companies, and you only count liquid stock compensation. The only startups that even come close are ones that are about to IPO.
My first comment specifically indicated N95 masks.

Remarkably two people have criticized me for not being specific when replying to a blanket (and incorrect) post, when I was actually specific. Amazing.

Then again, the one guy claims that health-care workers only wear masks to protect patients, which is just cartoonishly incorrect (beyond in the abstract "protect patients by the healthcare workers not getting infected" way). To the point that is has to be malicious.

This whole discussion is beyond ignorant. It demonstrates, again, how painful any discussion outside of code is on HN. It's almost as bad as HN talking about AGW (where it turns out 80% of the residents here are deniers). Embarrassing.
Wasting karma trying to respond to every Orange Man Bad that someone can dream up is not a particularly good use of my energy.

Go on believing he is the most evil man in all of human history of you like.
In a narrow body a319
It’s never time to freak out. That leads to poor decisions. It is time to take this seriously. Beyond personal hygiene, plan on how you’ll deal with school closures if you’re a parent (and ensure your school has a remote study curriculum in place.) Consider if you get it, it could be fairly benign — so you want to think about your role in reducing the spread to more vulnerable populations. WFH if possible.

Preparedness begins in the household, to the community, to the state. We should all do what we can to spread the impact of this and prevent a strain on resources.
> natural antibacterial and antiviral metals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligodynamic_effect
Power9 is nice for the openness of the firmware (iirc, lots of free software people recommend it)
Criterion Collection are physical media and streaming. If the streaming service isn't available in your country, then the disks may be your best bet.

If you live in a city and there's no theater showing smaller movies, that's not a problem, it's an opportunity!
Go: 90% Perfect, 100% of the Time
Check the updated design for the built-in ladders - not saying it definitely will work, but it might be possible
"The future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed". Existence, availability, and affordability converge differently for different things. I'd also argue that as the number of something increases (beers, for example), it drags the average down and it becomes more difficult to find the diamond in the rough (opportunity cost, paradox of choice, survivorship bias).
Local use.
It would help if you could cite any workstation software, rather than just generic desktop applications. Aside from developing software to run on POWER servers, what workstation tasks is a TALOS II good for?
Basically, I won't live anywhere without a co-op or a Trader Joe's, and a Costco. WinCo (employee-owned) is a bonus.
Yes, Qwest (the telecom, formerly US West) resisted and fought tooth and nail to not cooperate.

Their CEO was prosecuted to hell and back for daring to do this, and the company was forced to sell to a competitor. Nobody even remembers his name anymore, few people even remember Qwest.
I do the same thing with loud house/techno/trap music. Works like a charm
I heard this, too, and I wonder if any companies will extend this travel ban to local transit. I work in Seattle, and I ride a ferry and a bus to get to the office. The Seattle ferry, especially at rush hour is a crowded and not-incredibly-santiary experience, as are the city busses. How long before MSFT/GOOG/AMZN/etc. are asking people not to ride the ferries? Or busses?
Ask Jon Skeet: https://blog.nodatime.org/2011/08/what-wrong-with-datetime-a...
There are 86k confirmed cases globally. That’s 0.001%

Why would you think most people will get it?
>The real issue with the corona virus is economic disruption and overburdening of the healthcare system. All of which is significantly exarbarated by panic

Which is literally the point of my post. The population ideally will have started gradual, orderly preparation sooner. At this point it's better to have a short panic early rather than end up in a situation where the government kept quiet but suddenly the virus is here and people are running out of food and there's a mass panic.

The longer the government waits, the worse the outcome will be.
I have TikTok installed on my iPhone — I have no account and scroll through it a bit every day until screen time tells me to stop.

It has no access to my location, microphone, or camera. I type nothing into the app. I’m not sure how this could be spyware... Perhaps they track you when you use the app more heavily, but their big new competitor, Byte (created by the Vine founders), requires you to log in to even view a video.
This helps highlight just how much of this is nothing more than FUD.

The CDC counts real flu deaths and estimates infections. It doesn’t test for them. As a result you get a relatively low fatality rate.

But for COVID-19 we are using only confirmed deaths and confirmed tested infections to come up with a fatality rate that seems much higher than it actually is because most infections go unreported.

This is just a reality of the post-fact based world we now live in. Everything is bonkers.
Here is another one I thought of the other day.

Q: Given V (the number of vertices), E (the number of edges) and L (a list of the edges) for a connected undirected graph, determine whether the graph is a tree.

----

A: It can be done in O(1) by:
return V == E + 1

The number of vertices in a tree is always one more than the number of edges. We also know that the graph is connected, so it has to be a tree.
Mortality in people under 40 for Covid-19 is only 0.2% according to the CCDC study:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se...

We’d be seeing a number of deaths in older people who would have otherwise been fine
This misses all the secondary effects an uncontained global pandemic would have, which would be wide-ranging. A sudden and prolonged 10% drop in global productivity could be a nightmare scenario.

Having said that, I'm not panicking either, and I think it's still too early to assume it's going to be fully uncontained -- hell, once the weather starts warming it could all change dramatically. (But then again, I have the advantage of living in a first-world developed nation with strong health care; the massive numbers of people living in 2nd- and 3rd-world countries have a lot more reason to be concerned I think.) But the concerns here go well beyond the simple individual experience of contracting the illness.
The alternative is a mass panic when the virus arrives.
The $20/mo upgrade has more than that: https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/#compare-features

You need to pay it just for Cloudflare SSL to work in all browsers which is pretty necessary if you use that feature at all. But the plan has various other goodies like more page rules, the "Polish" image compression, and rate limit rules.
The point about Respect is something I struggle to appropriately convey and convince my non-technical friends.

In any technical team I've been part of, implicitly, respect and competence were far more relevant than organizational authority. Any technically competent person I've met, upon meeting a new lead or manager, will consciously or subconsciously evaluate "Does this person know their stuff?". If yes, they'll work for & with the lead. If not, they'll route around them - most IT Pros are surprisingly skilled at "Upward management".
This is a refreshingly candid interview with black and white responses instead of hedging. His point about Iran is weird, as Iran has decided not to engage in direct war but rather fight through proxies. One thing I do agree that if there is a crisis, there is no fiscal policy to save the world this time around. US is already running trillion dollars deficits.
Sorry, I have to disagree here. Trains do not make multi-meter sudden vertical movements.

At any rate, the concern is about egress in an emergency. In a train, every window is an emergency exit. In a plane everyone has to go down the aisle to the nearest exit. The ladders are in the aisle during use and will inhibit that process. They could of course disable the ladders during an emergency so people would have to jump or climb down, but that would certainly lead to injuries and other mishaps that would also inhibit the escape process.

Hard to see the FAA certifying this unless the aisles are made wider. That would reduce overall packing density, so there goes airline's interest in the approach.

It is beautiful in concept. Who wouldn't want to get horizontal during that redeye back to the east coast or the long haul to Japan? Its just hard to see the profitable and safe path to adoption.
The Snowden leak indicated Google's internal network has been physically compromised. That's the opposite of collaboration.

Google is still a big target for the NSA and other espionage organizations.
Just create a new pool and close the previous one, depending of the system load.
I'd say OP swiftly took the air out of the author's argument, which is that geeks are wonderful to work with once you know how. What OP did was essentially say geeks are better than everyone else and management can fuck off, not exactly making geeks seem like team players.
A line in one of my Python daemons has been crashing it repeatedly all day:

isotime = datetime.strptime(time.get('title'), '%a %d %b %I:%M:%S %p').replace(year=YEAR, tzinfo=TZ).isoformat()
ValueError: day is out of range for month

It's not mission-critical, so I'm just going to wait it out until tomorrow.

EDIT: Hacked it out.

isotime = datetime.strptime(f"{time.get('title')} {YEAR} {tzoffset:+03d}00", '%a %d %b %I:%M:%S %p %Y %z').isoformat()
Feels like there's a lesson in this story.
Without going into too much detail I can say that I've got very similar situation at work.It looks like THAT next piece of software will solve it all for everybody. The number of various apps we've got is absurd. In your case,the most interesting part is how CFO manages to get to the point where he's responsible for getting NetSuite...
Yeap. There's Trader Joe's (Aldi Nord) and Süd in Texas. I'm curious how similar are Aldi Nord in Europe and Trader Joe's, because I heard there's some resemblance.
There is a potential risk with having a very healthy immune system in cases like this. It's called 'Cytokine release syndrome' and happens in healthier and younger individuals and it is far deadlier than the viral infection itself.
That's not really the same situation, if someone's trying to bug you they don't want to be caught, if they were willing to do illegal violence they'd probably do it first, or if they're a government, you have way bigger problems.
These are premium economy so 10% of the seats on a 777 or so. This means you can easily avoid any of these at exit rows. Even if these are a huge success, you’d maybe see it on 25% of a cabin.

For safety, it would seem that in order to work you’d just need to show you can evacuate in 90 seconds. Whether that means ladders must be locked in when in an emergency, or that the ladders can be used but the fact you don’t have multiple people in each row makes up for the ladders blocking some space. I’m guessing it’s the former.
I believe the point of this submission, and it's a good one, is that a little bit of knowledge does not make one an epidemiologist.

I see folks who couldn't define PCR tossing around R0 with the confidence of someone who's been working in wet labs their entire career.

Most people are ignorant, true. But that doesn't mean a little knowledge is all it takes to be an expert.
If you s/IT/sales/g, you understand how the CEO thinks.
Oh so we don't care about anyone over the age of 50 now? Almost no one reading this thread is going to be in the patient populations that are going to die. I'm here to say this is going to kill the people you love, who are elderly. Also, smoking looks like it exacerbates the problems but the worst factor is age and immunosuppression; 1-2% of the US is immunosuppressed at any time.

I'm advocating that you take precautions by not touching your face, washing your hands, and avoiding public places. Stocking up on food so you can avoid the grocery store later is a great idea. Avoiding people when you don't feel well and self quarantining are also great ideas.
South Korea's Ten Minute Drive Thru Testing Stations for Covid19
I agree with the point about tool fetishization: it could be just another form of "playing house". That said, optimizing these sums of money is also not going to make you successful. If the tools are providing value then use them and don't fret over $0 vs $10 vs $20 a month. The more important thing is keeping cognitive load low by using simple systems and driving mental focus on the right things.

To take an example: I wouldn't bat an eye at paying for Slack for a two-person startup because A) the integrations means I get centralized notifications and search for updates to all the tools I'm using essentially for free with no ops overhead, B) the mobile push notifications and per-channel settings are nicely tunable to ensure I'm on top of things without getting notification fatigue, and C) I'm already on 10 other Slacks, so it's not adding much overhead to my life overall.
This wasn't some random person, it was Trader Joe himself.

It's also a story about how a quirky startup created a culture of quality and value and treating their employees and customers well - and kept that culture after being acquired.

I think there is a lot for all founders to learn from Trader Joe's.

And who doesn't enjoy the Fearless Flyer?
I worked on that, jesus fucking christ the amount of shit that i've seen
"iNaturalist is a joint initiative of the California Academy of Sciences and the National Geographic Society."

It makes me pretty happy that this is not a VC-backed startup.
If you want to see the outcome of a country's health department ignoring this outbreak for political purposes, look no further than Iran.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/how-iran-becam...
That's correct - until very recently, severe pneumonia with no known link to coronavirus cases didn't meet the testing criteria.
Agreed. Notion feels quite a bit complex. May be I just don’t understand it yet. I understand AirTable’s value prop. It’s pretty straightforward.
Look at the ex-China infected graph here, and click the "logarithmic scale" toggle. Looks pretty close to a straight line to me. https://www.coronaviruschart.com/

China's growth in case count has slowed down. Whether that's because of massive control efforts (literally welding people in homes, etc), or because of inaccurate reporting / missed cases, or both-- is unknown.
Thanks :) I actually find this a really interesting topic. This approach can have some merit - ie it leads to you not overspending and running out of money if you are reliant on new business targets being hit. However, the ideal situation is that your CFO manages the spending conservatively whilst the VP Sales goes out and pushes things as far as they can. There are some morale issues too with giving very high targets when you are a managing a team who are judged against those - for fast growth, you want to give people a sense of accomplishment (so constantly undershooting huge targets is a quick way to prevent that) but also for them to push the boundary of what is possible.
Another safety issue seems to be that people would always have to wear a seatbelt in the upper row, otherwise unexpected turbulence could lead to falls and bad injuries.
July.
Even trees in small parks don't appear. I think the map lists only trees near streets.
Libretro Cores Progress Report – February 29, 2020
There are currently rumors they might re-unite.
I think the problem is inherently pretty difficult. Also extremely ambiguous. Here's a solution I put together in Haskell:

encode :: Char -> [Bool]
encode 'a' = [False, True]
...
encode 'z' = [True , True , False, False]

data Trie a
= Trie
{ payload :: Maybe a
, false :: Trie a
, true :: Trie a
}

insert :: [Bool] -> a -> Trie a -> Trie a
insert xs v = foldr f b xs
where
b t = t {payload = Just v}
f False k (Trie e f t) = Trie e (k f) t
f True k (Trie e f t) = Trie e f (k t)

table :: Trie Char
table = foldr (uncurry insert) (fix (\t -> Trie Nothing t t)) [ (encode c, c) | c <- ['a'..'z'] ]

newtype Parser a b = Parser { runParser :: [a] -> [(b, [a])] } deriving Functor

instance Applicative (Parser a) where
pure x = Parser (\xs -> [(x,xs)])
(<*>) = ap

instance Monad (Parser a) where
xs >>= f = Parser \s -> do
(x,s') <- runParser xs s
runParser (f x) s'

instance Alternative (Parser a) where
empty = Parser (const [])
xs <|> ys = Parser (\s -> runParser xs s ++ runParser ys s)

instance MonadPlus (Parser a) where

eoi = Parser \case
[] -> [((),[])]
_ -> []

char = Parser \case
(x:xs) -> [(x,xs)]
[] -> []

morse :: Parser Bool String
morse = go table
where
go t = (go . bool (false t) (true t) =<< char)
<|> msum (fmap (\x -> fmap (x:) (go table <|> [] <$ eoi)) (payload t))

decode :: [Bool] -> [String]
decode = map fst . runParser morse

The output is pretty much unusable, though. For the string "me", for instance, there are 4 possible parses:

["g","me","tn","tte"]

For the string "hello", there are 19796.
It’s not twice the number of passengers it’s the same amount of passengers as today’s premium economy?

Is the article really that cryptic?
The bamboo ceiling: Indian vs. Chinese bosses in America
Physical Address Extension
I just got done planning a 20 person meeting in Germany for July. It will cost almost $5k USD per participant for travel, lodging, and food.

We were only half joking when we said the company could FedEx us each a top of the line video conference setup, and then throw it in the trash afterwards, and it would still be cheaper.
"Exceedingly unsavory" as determined by whom? People have been kicked off for far vaguer reasons than openly talking about a "final solution". Many conservative e-personalities have been kicked off for ambiguous and yet unexplained violations, whether it is a specific thing they say or a general perception about their personalities or affiliations.

Official policies are strongly influenced by prevailing Leftist dogma as well. Questioning whether gender dysphoria (transgenderism) can be considered mental illness would be considered ban worthy on Twitter, in spite of evidence that many cases of transgenderism are either an example of herd following or some sort of dysphoric personally disorder.
Freeman Dyson takes on the climate establishment (2009)
Talking about a CPU like this to anyone three years ago and you would be called a madman.

But now it’s actually here. Kudos to AMD for proving how Intel has held back the industry for years and years.

Now though, what’s next? AMD has shocked (disrupted?) the CPU scene with a completely unthinkable increase in computing power at several affordable pricing levels. Everyone can upgrade their rigs to something immensely better, no matter the budget.

So where does AMD go from here?
I'd be very surprised if airlines didn't already do focus group testing of various sorts.
I looked. I couldn't personally find an (English language) article about this and the film is in Korean (which I don't speak). I did find these two English-language articles:

https://www.asiatechdaily.com/korea-firm-covid-19-testing-ki...

http://www.ecns.cn/news/2020-02-28/detail-ifztzycc4784369.sh...
Thanks, I was about to write that in response.
The fact that only a few deaths occurred on the cruise ship is pretty reassuring. Practically everyone on board would have been older and thus more at risk, yet there were only four deaths out of 600+ cases, IIRC.
No, Google isn't part of PRISM. The FBI is part of PRISM. Google responds to court-ordered data requests, including from the FBI.
The nature of HN creates an illusion that everyone is(or should be) using the cutting edge tool, framework, or paradigm du jour. Rails and Node.js are fairly old in tech years at this point, especially the former, yet iNaturalist is a demonstration that they are both very capable and worth using in 2020. I don't know how I got misinterpreted. There have been multiple articles posted here in the past referring to such things as "Boring Software". My comment was intended as a compliment in every way.
More than 2000 observations in my Brazilian hometown[1]. Not bad!

Kinda feels like a real-life Pokemon — without the capturing and slaving part.

I haven't seen any monkeys and we have quite a few. I'll try adding some!

[1] https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=20640
Bill Gates drove his kids to school.
If you're healthy and under the age of 50, the most you need to be doing is stocking up on two weeks of shelf-stable food for riding it out.
That's fair, I guess, unless there are many unreported mild cases where infections don't result in pneumonia.

Also, it's only been two months since christmas, not three, and many schools' winter breaks last into January, so maybe more like 1.75 months for it to spread from the hypothetical vector of returning Chinese students?
And it's not even just disincentives, right? If I feel bad but not deathly ill, I don't want to go to the doctor in the first place; I want to lie in bed, where I have Youtube and crackers and there's nobody around to infect.