skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure it is so bad in the UK now that we have shared parental leave: I am a father of a recent newborn and I get to share 12 months off (well, 50 weeks since my wife must take at least the first 2 weeks after birth herself) with my wife for our newborn son.

We're getting approx £600 a month (so I guess 800-900USD depending on exchange rates today) of free money during the first year from the government (maternity allowance), before any payments from employers. Not amazing amounts of free money, but helps pay for some essentials and considering we are both earning fairly huge salaries I was surprised we were entitled to anything at all.

My employer is actually pretty generous and I as a partner I am getting several months off at full pay - most partners will get only 2 weeks off unless they make use of the shared parental leave, but the "major" employers all have similar generous parental leave perks from what I know.

Both my wife and I are legally gauranteed our jobs back when we return as far as I understand it, and from what I know we can request 80% time etc, or some other flexible arrangement and it must be considered fairly and allowed if feasible.

I have been really impressed with the NHS. Obviously everything ante-natal and post-partum was 100% free (including parenting classes in addition to the clinical stuff). What has really impressed me has been the free home visits by the midwives and nurses in the days and weeks after birth - an amazing service to just have midwives turn up 2 days afterwards and check that mother baby (and father!!!!!) are doing ok, then to continue getting home visits in the following weeks. Really impressed. We paid to get some extra private scans done earlier in the pregnancy for peace of mind etc, but otherwise the NHS has been excellent for this (and I don't usually sing it any praise for normal services)

As for childcare I don't know yet - from what I gather childcare is a cluster-fuck in the UK with oversubscription and fairly high costs (e.g. £100/day in London for 8am-8pm) outside of the public nurseries. There are some things available for this I think (childcare vouchers for 30hours a week of free childcare?) but I don't know anything about it.

So tl;Dr: 365 Vs 480 days off, 800USD+100% salary Vs 3700USD, potentially oversubscribed public or expensive private daycare Vs cheap public daycare.
(Not at Netflix) So that ISPs don't interfere with it by blocking, inserting ads, etc.
Refugee status in Greece gets you out of a warzone, but refugee living conditions provided by Greece are arguably below reasonable subsistence levels.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/09/moria-refugee-...
Yeah, that’s why I would not be for the standard being based on phones.

As a side note, I stopped buying phone controlled devices a while ago. All of these things are going to end-up on a big pile of trash as technology evolves. I don’t need a phone controlled toaster oven or power drill.
Space isn't javascript. It takes years and many millions of dollars to build a sophisticated satellite, and SpaceX's market dominance didn't happen until last year. Most those who may want the take advantage of the lowered launch costs aren't yet in a position to do so
Rare Nintendo Play Station console sells for $360k at auction
There are layers of each problem space that benefit from optimization and good design more than others, however, most solutions still need all the other layers to be useful. I've had extreme success being a data generalist at a mid-sized analytics company because I was able to be the one to fill in all the gaps of a project, e.g if there are 10 steps that need to be completed, the generalist can do 7 of them and the specialists can do a great job on those other 3. This is the magic of human collaboration after all! On the flip side, I've found that working alone I miss having the specialists. While I know I can technically achieve all the steps, what I really want is the context the specialists can add. Those bits of code or math that turn a vanilla engineered solution into a nuanced piece of software. My conclusion is that collaboration between generalists and specialists is important but asymmetric. Generalists need context and information from specialists so they can become semi-specialists, while specialists simply need generalist infrastructure to power their ideas.
If someone is consistently debasing the level of conversation then yes, it does merit some kind of action. Unmoderated communities turn to shit very quickly.
Without defining the central term of its central thesis (let alone citing any sources) it's generous to even call this an article.
Great, I can pick whether to die by the plague or cholera. The free market is wonderful! And now COVID-19 is giving us consumers even more choices!
Yup, we (the people) will pay to repair/replace all the police equipment damaged in the act of protecting citizens. We should also pay for all damage caused to the property of private citizen's during that same act. It seems insane to pay for half of the damage and not the other.
This is extremely context dependent. For instance, a dev has to consider:

- guess whether or not this is an isolated case, or whether or not this will become core functionality

- a self-assessment of the true difficulty of the problem

- a self-assessment of their own skills and knowledge in the area

- security reasoning

- API access/readabilty for other developers to use this code

- maintainability of new code

I have personally seen personal implementations that lead to bug, after bug, that have already been reasoned about in equivalent libraries.

Often for the simple fact that other devs who have to work on this code, its likely that the abstraction and readability of a third party library is probably greater than the 'quick-and-dirty' implementation.
> Maximum progress is made by people who can both trust their inner voice, AND can grit their teeth.

Part of this is having an educated inner voice. IME one does best with the intersection of ones passions and demand for those skills.

My younger inner voice craved to make videogames. Until gritting through the process a few years and learning about industry norms re-educated that voice. University also helped me discover some other passions that paid better and had better work-life balance, all with less risk. (Albeit none of the prestige.)
dong does not know who ESR is
Yes. Nearly everyday. And the overhead of migration is nearly fixed no matter the size of the history. The expensive part is writing the script to do the export/import.
Are there any image formats that have a signed hash or similar to know if it's been altered since creation?
I agree with him in principle too, but he's actively hurting his cause by coming off as so unreasonable. There are better ways to make the case.
This feature can still protect you if it works for enough people that it's no longer worthwhile to attempt to unlock a car this way.
> Joe's point

I think his point is more it's faster to solve the problem you have ("I want to get files from machine X") rather than the problem you imagine you have ("I need an FTP server") - it's just wrapped up in "I solved it myself using Erlang".
Isn’t Model S closer in size to Camry? A Corolla is closer to model 3 size and more like 2900lbs. The P90D with less range than that 100lbs of gas Camry is 5000lbs.
After the Virus
Maybe the two most painful experiences in my career are the customer who changes his mind every six hours (and once a week that happens twice in one day) and when the smartest person in the room is also the biggest fool. They can write the most arcane code that nobody else will want or be able to try to untangle, and then act surprised when people are frustrated with them.
Göttingen researchers identify existing drug with potential to treat Covid-19
How to setup WordPress blog to load via Cloudflare
Not all patients who enter a hospital are admitted for 3+ days.
Yep that's usually the response I give to folks in my neighborhood FB group. They are conspicuously absent to the conversation after that.
>Also, there really is something special about the remote wilderness, and whatever that something is, the American West exemplifies it. Some people seem to viscerally need wild spaces; they're part of what make us human, and they remind everyone that you are more of a guest than a landlord on Earth.

Interesting how you point out mankind needs nature but in the same breath talk about all the infrastructure.

I have an off the grid property with no roads to it (legal easements but nothing improved) yet my nature is marred by a giant substation powering all the civilized parts where people build infrastructure. I can literally hear when the power demand increases from a half a mile away.

The irony is you think we demand the govt for something. The govt doesn't produce anything, except waste.

If we want a road out here we get a tractor and make one.

Here is an example of people producing infrastructure with no govt waste.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_6_in_Iowa#River-to-...
> Also, is this a German flag (alongside the U.S. flag) at the top of a "Chop Suey" sign (lower-left section of the photo)?? If so, why a German flag???

Maybe it's a Dutch flag: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_Netherlands#/med...

New York was originally Dutch, and before being called New York, it was part of what was called New Amsterdam: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Amsterdam
> No, they hire Competitive Programmers

More specifically, programmers who spend a lot of time learning how to solve algorithm puzzles. This heavily favors single people who have lots of time to devote to studying such things and disadvantages time-constrained people such as developers with a family life at home.
Using the Power of Light: Preventing Airborne Spread of Coronavirus
Please spare us this naivete-trolling.

The world - yes even in 2020 - mostly is greased by the lubricant of money.

You won't find this in HBS case studies or find mentions of the influence of money on epidemic responses in the Lancet.

This is how the world operates - the rich mostly get their way and have apparatuses in place to be notified first in times of emergency, whether its extra-legal or not.

Italy is notorious for facilitating the ways of the old money. There are various tiers of corruption management offered by PR agencies - with armies of career diplomats, executives, liaisons of non-profits and megacorps alike, other attaches working for them - based on your ability to pay for it; tinpot republics cant afford the PR of richer nations like Italy where its kept hush hush.

The former "Bunga Bunga" Prime Minister was ( and is ) a multi-billionaire and a close friend of Putin. Italy's oldest bank was embroiled in a huge scandal that in all likelihood you probably haven't heard a peep about. Not to mention the lengthy list of Italian wealth-hiders revealed in the Panama Papers.[1] [2] [3]

If we had a media that gave a fair shake to all dollar value scandals equally you would read and watch reports on these just as often as the ones that the media is preoccupied with.

Somehow the media doesn't care to shine enough light on the dealings of your average Berlusconis or Gerhard Schröders ( former Chancellor of Germany ) or Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena. [4][5][6]

Perhaps we should stop putting certain countries on a pedestal because of how much we are enamored of, of their histories and our fondness for their culture in general.

You are making a value judgment that some seediness engaged in, by some countries is okay whereas others deserve the full glare of media exposure.

It's plainly wrong and history will find you culpable for it.

[1]
Silvio Berlusconi and Vladimir Putin: the odd couple

https://www.ft.com/content/2d2a9afe-6829-11e5-97d0-1456a776a...

[2]
Panama Papers: Italians Involved, from Trulli to Montezemolo

https://www.corriere.it/english/16_aprile_04/panama-papers-i...

[3]
Why Deutsche Bank's Monte Paschi Scandal Still Matters

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-11-11/why-de...

[4]
How a $450 Million Loss Was Hidden From Sight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtuRDmkm_7E

[5]
Anger as German ex-chancellor Schroeder heads up Rosneft board

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41447603

[6]
Why Putin's Pal, Germany's Ex-Chancellor Schroeder, Isn't On A Sanctions List

https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2018/04/18/601825131/...

edit: changed naive to naivete
Pandemic risk: how large are the expected losses? (2018)
Being a generalist is hard, especially when fields are changing so rapidly (like web dev)
Can stashes be pushed to a remote repo?
Anki and mnemonics are complementary tools. Use them both.
There's something about granularity this blog does not touch. For an outsider it is extremely specialist to know design, marketing, developing and a bit of server admin.

I'd say generalists split their time across software development, composing music, and competitive sailing. Or at least something along these lines of diversity.
My "countryfolk" friends work long hours but are land-wealthy, spend copious time with family, and take month-long vacations to go hunting. They have it right, I tell myself as I pay down college debt in anticipation of house debt while sitting unpaid in traffic 2 hrs a day.
Actually work on stuff (paid or hobby); then, time.
I mean the norm of flying empty planes when there is no demand. If there is no demand to travel but planes fly regardless how do we ever beat climate change. Does that make more sense?
2+2=
I personally think of version control history as like a sedimentation layering of documentation that "updates" itself in the process of doing the work -- like the desk that looks messy, but by picking up and using papers, the most important stuff is on top. "Real" documentation can be clearer, but it must be maintained manually, and cleared out regularly. VCS kinda handles this with less process weight.

The right tactic is def a mix of both though, so I think I'm in agreement with you :)
I'm working on a 15-year old codebase, and I was here from the beginning.
I use 'blame' daily to make sense of code - why it was added, for what project, for what feature, to fix what bug, and who added it.
It's priceless, and I'm putting off stuff like getting rid of stupid homegrown types instead of standard ones, using clang-format consistently, and migrating to a small, newer probably faster repository format because I don't want to use history.

I realize the value of this history is smaller for newcomers to the team.

(And Subversion and it's bigger, expensive brother Perforce still make sense for game development - when you don't really want to go wild with branches or remote work, and when you need multi-terabyte-sized repositories and multi-gigabyte single commits.)
That's interesting if so, as I have some sensoneural hearing loss in inner ear, and had a period in past where I felt like was choking or some unexplained swallowing problems. Thought I was going bonkers when they couldn't find a problem.
Germany and France have had very parallel number of cases: see https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19/blob/master/csse_...

The first case in Germany was 3 days after the first in France. They reached 4 cases the same day. When France hit 11 cases, Germany already had 13 and for 15 days they both only got 1 to 3 more cases in total. They both began increasing a lot on the 26th of February.
Reading your comment I immediately thought probably enough throughput to covertly track a phone. I thought maybe this company isn’t really trying to sell to the public but rather get some attention to their new tech before they ultimately sell it off to the government.
Coronavirus: Chinese police wear smart helmets to detect people with fevers
What we've already seen to date in affected areas is that the medical system gets slammed, and any non-emergency medical care goes out the window. Elective surgeries, or any surgery that can be put off at all will be put off. So, death rate of other things goes up.

People with co-morbidities will die at higher rates. Diabetes, heart disease, etc each add 5% or so. Up to 30% death rate for 60 years plus age range.

On the political side, more of what we're already seeing with a lot of finger pointing and yelling, and not enough adults in the room willing to put aside differences and work together.
Deal with each new outbreak quickly and efficiently. The problem in Italy and China was that the outbreak got out of hand before measures to deal were in place, the big deal here seems to be that if people in critical conditions get support with breathing they often pull through, if they don't they die. If you are dealing with 1000's of cases providing supported ventilation is not possible. If you are dealing with 10's then it can be done.
Techies pitching in for the Coronavirus / Covid19 situation
I thought we could get some more ideas and immediate small steps we could take to chip away at this urgent problem.

Here is a conversation happening over at reddit.

https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/ferqv1/how_could_software_engineers_help_you_fight/

Other links I found that could be better if shared:

- https://www.virusengine.com/analyzer

This is a quick survey that folks can do, prior to heading out to the ER or their doctor, thus reducing traffic there.
Even after reading the comments and looking through the site I'm still not sure what fly.io is from a developer perspective. Is it a drop in replacement for heroku? How different is it from cloud run or cloud functions?
I studied drinking water treatment in school and worked on a treatment plant design in Ecuador, so I do not have professional experience inside the current modern industry. But as far as I know slow-sand filtration and it's variants are still commonly used. Most of the improvements come from additional processes.

Improvements on slow-sand filtration are from additional pre-treatment methods, disinfection, more advanced filtration media like activated charcoal, and additional stages of filtration using a variety of media. Some high tech treatment plants are using biological membranes for wastewater-to-drinking-water treatment, but that's quite rare as far as I know.

Here's a decent primer of the commonly used processes: https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/drinking/public/water_treat...
Cowrie [0] provides an SFTP and Telnet honeypot and you can configure the filesystem to serve your desired files. Not quite a passthrough for legitimate use, unfortunately

[0]: https://github.com/cowrie/cowrie
Because the browser is what allows me to view that published content easily / securely / etc?
That's a thread from 12 years ago. HN is obviously a different community now than it was then. One problem on HN is how quickly a discussion item will fade or disappear due to excessive downvotes.

And for example, unlike Reddit, you can't downvote items on the main page, just comments.

I'd be curious to hear an updated discussion on this, but I've seen salient points being downvoted into obscurity simply because it accrued a lot of downvotes, and I'll find myself upvoting posts I disagree with just to keep the post alive.
It would also be useless, the stations are so dense that you would barely increase the average speed.
I locked my keys in the car a few times and had to call for help when I had a mechanical key. This has never happened to me with the fob. When I closed the fob in the car, the car refused to lock and made a very long annoying beep at me until I retrieved the fob.
Tread wear isn't a measure of quality, it's a measure of the how much 'grip' a tire is designed to have. High performance tires are softer to grip better, but wear out much much faster than tires designed for higher mileage. The higher mileage tires have worse performance characteristics - greater stopping distance, etc.
Apple is a good actor when it comes to user privacy.
In October 2019 I delivered a keynote at PyConZA arguing that you should aim to be a generalist that connects specialists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn06eCDur2o

In short: in sparse graphs, mobility dominates.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_athletes_with_Olympi...

Doesn't look like it.
When the impact isn't as large yet, not enough people believe you when you say it is necessary.
Show HN: Centrifugo v2.4.0 released, server-side subscriptions introduced
Same for Germany, the Netherlands and so on. But the US will be something else, I think.
I don’t think anyone is suggesting downloading a library is better than writing a single short function. It’s a false dilemma.

People who are salty about this subject have dealt with NIH situations where people think they can do better, and are either wrong immediately, or become so when their attention shifts to some other problem.

I have written and maintained internal libraries. Many times it’s the wrong choice, sometimes it’s the only choice. But I’m also more responsive to feedback than the NIH bozos my coworkers typically complain about, which may in part be why I get to hear about their grievances.

There’s an old half-joke, half-theory that we should elect a President who doesn’t want the job, instead of people who do.

You should have the individual contributor who doesn’t want snowflake code write the snowflake code. They’ll keep it no-nonsense.
This article is really cool structurally, beyond the content itself. What I mean is that it's formatted somewhat like a programming tutorial (build X with Y in Z minutes) except that it's perfectly readable to people like me with very little hardware background. Most of the specific implementation details are abstracted out into links. I think that this kind of writing can be very effective for technical people trying to reach a broader but still technical audience.

Regarding the content itself, I think it's really cool that the author made a sound-absorbing box for the CNC machine, and I'm surprised that it is safe to totally enclose the machine like that. After spending last summer working at a 3D printing company that makes metal printers, I wonder how a 3D printer would compare to the CNC mill in terms of time to create that many small parts, I imagine it would only take one print-wash-sinter cycle, under 48 hours, about 1/4 of the article's reported machine time. That said the CNC mill used was very small.
Democratic socialists and social democrats agree on many policies, and both are largely absent from the political stage in the US.
It’s better than the government intervening. I can change phone platforms a lot easier than I can change governments. Besides, neither Google nor Apple can take my liberty or property.....
This is rather misleading. You looked at one ethical license and it seemed to be unobjectionable. What about all the other ethical licenses? Are they equally apolitical?
> With the exception of rare uses of git blame (hate that name)

I do too, so it's worth noting that you don't have to call it that. I think it was a mistake for Subversion to introduce blame as a cute alias for annotate, but its successors (at least Mercurial and Git) have at least retained annotate as an alternative. So you can git annotate to your heart's content and never blame anyone at all.
> But there's also a refusal to see that people in those areas make enormous demands on the government to subsidize their preferred lifestyle in such remote areas. Roads, telecoms, and food/water/gas services cost money and make major impacts on the environment

Isn't this the same argument that leads to the idea that Scandinavian socialist success is the result of having an umbrella of defense from the US that they do not have to pay for themselves?
Sorry, that's where my expertise runs out. I could tell you all about analyzing the linguistic structure of the text, but my experience with audio processing is limited to reading spectrograms and trusting other people's ASR tools.
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Maybe the study should also take into account this use of tyres.
5 hours gives you plenty of time to plug your phone into your car and charge it.

My fob doesn't give me a low battery warning. I find out the battery died when I can't use the fob to unlock the car.