skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure your "logical conclusion" is accurate, nor do I think that's what Elon Musk is saying at all. Also, I'm not sure your background, but I would definitely raise a red flag at the idea that all college professors are "experts" in the field they're teaching.

I would argue this post is more in favor of online schooling, MOOCs, etc. And against the traditional college experience.
Most companies have sets of supported languages and you need to use the right tool for the job.

For small one-off tasks or simple services, your company should have a template for writing those in a good scripting language: Python, Ruby .. something you can write tests/specs for if it grows, that has a good amount of programmers you can hire, etc.

Your core service apps might be written in something different, that can scale up, whether that's a JVM lang (Java/Scala/Clojure/Kotlin) or a .NET (C#/VB.Net) or Elixir or Rust or whatever depends on a lot of things. You want to have something your core programmers enjoy writing in, but also something you can find new people for as your company expands. It can be a delicate balance. You can have multiple core languages (my current company is Node/React for most front end, React Native for apps, Clojure for almost all backend, some .NET and Python/Go/Terraform for all devops).

It's best to have a core tech stack with some choice than just let every team do anything in whatever. But of course, it's dependent on your company and market. Your mileage will vary.
From my personal experience I can say that the most traffic will come in the first couple of days. After that it will drop very fast. But it could also be good for SEO, and it’s free, so a solid way for indie hackers to grab some attention without spending money.
Boeing halts hiring immediately due to coronavirus ‘global economic disruption’
An email sent earlier today from Gusto's CEO, Josh Reeves, included a link to this article. As a business owner, I found it informative; as a consultant, I consider it an excellent example of business-to-customer communication during the events surrounds COVID-19.
I agree with you on what you say about zero chance for those dates, but there have been predictions (many repeated right here on HN) about a level of spread that in months infects dozens to hundreds of millions and results in several million fatalities worldwide. So far, none of these extreme prediction figures have a genuinely concrete footing (and a number of similar figures were predicted for how much it would have spread even by now, which obviously haven't come to pass)
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I gave that some thought lately. Because I simply don't get it why people would do that. Virus or not, I simply don't get that kind of behaviour, I have a long history where this bites my ass scially.

My current theory is that people are just scared. The numbers seem scary (no baseline as things like the flu are not nearly as thoroughly reported by the press) and every new infection and fatality is extensovely covered, whle the bigger picture isn't. Then this whole thing is just one big unknown, and humans are programmed to fear the unknown. Then you have confirmation bias, people tend to seek information confirming their opinions. Social media is designed to reinforce this bias, media is ware of that an needs clicks.This further reinforces this effect.

Also people want confirmation, so they actally seek out these filter bubbles. Humans in general also tend to be bad at risk management and evaluation. So, psychlogically I suspect it is just fear, combined with a desire for confirmation. Because, as crazy it is in my eyes, sharing your fears makes it easier for you to bear. Others not being affraid and giving you pushback on that is the last thing these people want or need.

I have still no idea how tackle that, spreading fear is still just plain wrong. Pushback and facts don't seem to work, so no idea what would.
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Look at Iran or any other country reporting a high rate of infection. Why are they not reporting the same tolls as Italy? Obviously, there is something going on there that other countries aren't having to deal with.
Well, I came back a few days ago
Using a third party antivirus solution in 2020 just sounds like a bad idea.
You can build huge factories to build batteries, but getting the raw materials becomes tricky when one manufacturer secured the supplies for that way ahead of you, and you'll end up in second place.
This is an advertisement of Algolia. Isn't it?
They might be interested in Unscii, too. It has been updated in light of Unicode 13.

* http://pelulamu.net/unscii/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18478350)
> It can do everything.

For some weird value of 'It'. People went way overboard, but early Java really was as expressive as a stone mask.
> But how many C/C++ engineers would think to design a system that runs a min interpreted code,

This is essentially how antivirus software works. Every one of them packages an emulator to execute malicious binaries.

I'd say the number one thing stopping C++ devs from running eval'd C++ code is the lack of a std eval, and that's probably it.
Warning: I'm a salty dropout from an incredibly bad Computer Science program at a private Iowa school.

> The main value of college, he said, is to be found in proving discipline by completing “annoying homework assignments” and in hanging around with people of the same age before entering the workforce.

In my anecdotal experience, I find this statement to be incredibly true. Effectively it was party and do the busywork it takes to get by in your classes from professors who have lived the majority of their professional life in academia. They berated me for learning web dev because, "web software just won't be a thing" - this is in 2005-6ish where it absolutely was already.

I worked in-industry at the time as a rookie sysadmin and web developer. It was a huge waste of my time to go to school vs. spending time learning on my own through my career and personal projects. I know this doesn't apply to all trades - I've always been focused on web development, automation, and ecommerce. Those were/are incredibly easy to self-learn if you enjoy it (even in 2005ish when I was in school)!

I resent my schooling because I had a FT job with real responsibilities, living at home helping to support my cancer patient mother (bio dad died years prior), and trying to keep my head above water socially/academically. As someone saddled with responsibility I felt I was in a playground for children riddled with booze, partying, and sex while professors demeaned my career telling me to "not to write software for the internet". It was bad.
> It doesn't help that our industry is still stuck in this world where "technical" and "non-technical" is a very strict dichotomy, where technical people are basically like a 2020 Mr. Spock and non-technical people can barely type on a computer.

It can still feel that way, though, especially if you have any intersection of cutting-edge software or hardcore engineering with corporate bureaucracy. It's really a question of roles-in-context not holistic identity. If you have corporate managers and project people spending a lot of time in meetings talking about the "ABC initiative" to each other without a single one of them even having taken the time to walk through a basic "Hello World" tutorial for the ABC itself, you are dealing with "non-technical" people.
I love this. Your video is right on, and I've felt this way since Google Reader disappeared and algo feeds took over. Definitely digging into this tonight.
If you'd allow me to respectfully suggest an edit to the (IMO cleverly written) by-line of the site.

> This is, somehow, a slowly updated news-aggregator with relevant trends, micro-trends and edge cases for borderline nerds, that don't want to miss out, nor spend a shit-ton of time distilling trivia.
One thing the company I currently work for has done is to use our "corporate blog" as a directory for technical employee's personal blogs. Many of our tech team members write blog posts on their own time about technical problems they're particularly interested in. Having our corporate blog (https://codeshare.getfreebird.com/) redirect to their personal blog allows our company to highlight our team's ability and provide interesting content, while the authors get a signal boost from having their content referenced from the company's technical blog.

We're a small technical team so I'm not sure how well this scales, but it's worked out well for us so far.
Given the current data handling practices I believe it might be appealing to many companies/individuals to keep as much in-house as possible.
I don't think you understand the comparison. Any native code that runs on your OS can do almost anything, like access your webcam. Code that runs in your browser can't do that unless you (the browser) grant the permission, or it finds a series of exploits.

If you are suggesting browsers shouldn't offer access to webcams etc at all, that would not make the world more secure because the web would just die and we'd all be back to running native code.
This is a neat project. And based on your appreciation for things like Funny Mapguy (who I checked out after seeing your video) I think we have very similar taste in online culture. Good luck dude!
> You can host your own instance with your data.

No, you cannot host your own global social network with millions of users, your own search engine with billions of web pages indexed, your own online shopping marketplace, not to mention your own online banking, insurance company, med lab result site, drivers' licensing site, government tax site, ... not even if the original sites run nothing but AGPL-ed software in a fully compliant manner.
A desktop PC with a bunch of SATA disks and ZFS. Nothing fancy, but works great and is super stable.

My entire digital footprint is just 2 TiB, so the NAS has my back covered for several years now, and probably will for a few more years.
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> Oracle has done a great job dissuading new business by suing customers for discussing benchmarks, suing customers for discussing security, auditing customers, jacking up prices, jacking up penalties, suing everyone else, etc...

Do you have some sources, or specific instances I could do my own searching for? Feel free to email me privately. I'm somewhat serious about trying to kill Oracle in retaliation for what they've done here.
You can write in a language even if you don't know it fully. C++ is a difficult case, because you have a historically rich syntax with even more richer modern syntax. But that doesn't mean you cannot write in the language, it just means you will focus on a subset that you do know. This is true about any language. Do you know about far pointers in C? Do you know all the intricacies of the Swift or Kotlin syntaxes? That does not mean you can't write software in these languages, or that you don't know them.

JavaScript isn't free of this at all, it's also a very complex syntax, due to many years of lumping more and more features without any coherent design. The tooling around JavaScript is notoriously bad and broken. Having to rely on package for basic stdlib functionality, having to understand how nested dependencies can and will collide, etc.—all of that creates much higher cognitive load than having to use C Lion or Visual Studio (not Code) for C++ development.
Seems like it ... my experience with Algolia was fairly lukewarm -- it seemed expensive for the capabilities offered.
Wow, you just described my world a few years ago. It drove me insane and I quite. Nice to hear that you don't mind it though!
Teaching is valuable, and he seems to agree with that. He's just claiming that the college model is very bad at teaching things.
Yes, though it definitely raises some valid points. If I'm picking between a few services, I'm usually going to go for the one with the best docs and onboarding experience. That seems like a given, but a lot of companies are severely lacking in those departments.
Where Tesla is ahead is mostly battery production capacity and tech. This is what pretty much every manufacturer is struggling with. For Porsche this is not really that big of an issue since they're relatively low-volume (which is also how Tesla bootstrapped itself) - but for others this is a much bigger problem. Tesla can right now produce a lot more electric cars than Porsche could.
Isn't that what I just said? If you're dying call them, and what they will tell you is to come in. That's what the medical system does when you're dying.
Ask HN: What data stores do stock exchanges use?
I'm interested in building a stock market-like application with orders, quotes, bid/ask prices etc...I can easily see this being represented in a relational database (and for my volume SQL would suffice), but I can't imagine real exchanges use SQL processing billions of order per day? What does their stack look like?
If you're one of those for whom AA didn't work I would encourage you to look at the The Sinclair Method. It has changed many lives for the better (including mine).

https://www.reddit.com/r/Alcoholism_Medication/
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Not OP, but I've had excellent luck with a Synology DS418 containing a RAID-1 of four 8TB disks I peeled out of USB enclosures bought absurdly cheap last Black Friday. Simple, fast, and compatible; the drawback is that it's expensive compared to similar 4-bay SOHO offerings, but IMO it's worth the premium.
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What is the purpose of engineering blogs? Is it only to attract engineers to work for you?
I mean it's common practice at hospitals now. Using dumbfounded dumb dumb words is dumb bro
Exactly

Yet my above comment, a factual 1st-person account -- nothing more, nothing less -- earns multiple downvotes with no dispute/discussion.

Evidently, anti-intellectualism and 'anti-establishment' virtue-signalling is dominant even here on HN... Sad to see. (yup, let the downvotes begin --- sheesh)
Site scraping is definitely my biggest struggle - this is the primary reason it's taken me four months to get to this seemingly simple app ready to post here. I now have a pretty good system in place. I keep a master list of scraping rules that I can update without needing to re-release new Fraidycat versions. I also have an update coming that will allow me to scrape at different stages of the rendering process and to scrape external files that the rendered page relies on. (This will be used for TikTok support, for instance.)

I realize this could be a bit of an arms race, but I don't think it has to be that way. Fraidycat doesn't syndicate the content - it encourages people to visit the actual site. So I believe a platform benefits from integrating well with it. Thanks for checking it out!
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I would update my CV. Don't get me wrong, you can do a lot of good stuff in Bash. But if I want to do a lot of more complex processing, having a language with useful iteration constructs like Python, Ruby, Groovy or others needs to be an option that's on the table.
Main attractions for me would be a lot of high-quality buyers, and low platform fees (below 10%). By high-quality buyers, I mean the types that don't expect to pay you $10 per hour, and are able to formulate requirements and milestones properly, do not keep changing them afterwards, etc.
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Hi! I like the idea too, but have some difficulty understanding pricing. Specifically, what does "1 inbox, 50 monthly messages, Unlimited digests" mean? Does 1 inbox mean that my digests will be sent to one of email addresses (e.g., me@gmail.com)? How about messages? I couldn't quickly find this information on the mobile site.
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Hosted by Garry Tan, Cofounder of Posthaven where the Masterclass is hosted and Managing Partner at Initialized Capital, who also just happens to have Algolia in their portfolio. Go figure.
Numbers out of Iran are not reliable.
What do we mean when we talk about deep tech?
Links are to the "UK influenza pandemic preparedness strategy 2011" guide:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/responding-to-a-u...

and:

>Published 20 February 2013

>Last updated 24 November 2017
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Bad examples, they are protected by certifications, market compliance processes, and paying for ISO and similar standard documents.

Even implementators of languages considered free beer like C and C++, have at the end of the day have someone paying for those 100 CHF.

Naturally there are black markets to work around those issues, then if a fire can be tracked back to a not-certified plug, the insurance can consider it isn't responsible for paying.
YC's Demo Day attendee portal has had an online component at least since Winter 2018--the first I attended. The pitch videos were made available a few minutes delayed from real-time live.
Nitpick but, I think you mean, first government to take action against the cheat devices; it was West Virginia researchers who discovered it:

https://www.spiegel.de/international/business/the-three-stud...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22539403
And an YC company, which maybe explains the #1 position out of the blue (but maybe I’m way too cynical)
I agree. Is valuable information see the _rejected_ items.

I make a year list of movies that I personally recommend [1], and that is why I start to add a full list with 1-10 points of all the movies that I watch (the "rejected" or "not recommended" are the 6/10 and below). I think this make the list more interesting and highlight my personal taste.

[1] [redacted]
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I suspect that's a YMMV scenario that may differ enormously from AA group to AA group.

My son's in Cub Scouts and we take this approach with the "duty to God" requirements (he doesn't have a duty to God, so duty fulfilled!) but some troops require a bit more than that.
Hey thanks. Yeah I have followed Funny Mapguy for years and the amazing part is that he has not once mentioned maps or been funny in any of his videos. It's insane.
Antivirus software normally matches code patterns to well-known pattern database. It does not investigate the code on the client machine. AV software houses run their own labs, where emulation is used to inspect suspected malicious code.
Full transparency, I worked with Algolia when I was a YC partner years ago. I also invested from my fund.

But I've been meaning to do a sit-down discussion with this team for a while. We've funded a lot of API-first developer-focused businesses in the past: Easypost, Lob, Apollo GraphQL, and developer focused stuff like LogDNA and so some of this is wanting to point to things that work well.

Interactivity in particular is really important to nail in first time experience.

I'm also a customer of Algolia— I use it in all my software projects including Posthaven and Bookface at YC. I had to implement Lucene at Palantir and I used both Lucene and Thinking Sphinx when I ran engineering (and devops too) for my top 200 site Posterous. (In retrospect I should have hired a devops team... but that's another story.) And the contrast between running your own search at scale and having something work out of box with code that's ready to rock... I genuinely believe it's pretty magical.
> You can imagine your higher power is Gandalf, Sauron, elves at the bottom of the garden

That's quite cheeky.

Telling people to believe in a "higher power" simply translates into the gods in the mainstream religion in the society they live in.
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Do you have a link or citation for that? Is this just your impression that you are relating?
I frequent Whole Foods, and I digital nomad a bit, so I visit a lot of Whole Foods-es.

Recently came back to the East Bay (SF) and the Whole Foods I'm staying near, more than the others, seems like a staging store for Buy Online & 1) Get Delivered, 2) Pick Up In Store.

There are often more WF employees shopping for pick-up orders than customers walking around the store. Navigating aisles that are full of these WF shoppers gives the store a pretty signficantly different feel than the other stores that I'm a regular at. Plus, the staging/storage area at the front for ready-orders is much bigger than at other stores.

Not as true at SF city WFs, or the ones in Reno, LA, Park City and Phoenix/Scottsdale that I'm familiar with.

I'm guessing this dynamic, plus "Just walk out" is where they're headed, at least in certain densities. And that's where some of the cashiers may be transitioned.
Sometimes its not a good idea for the health of a service to be determined by its connected parts (eg databases). For purely situational awareness this is fine. But if you use the healthcheck to determine if an instance of an application should be taken out of service you risk cascading failures; turning 1 problem into 10. It's usually better for the application to throw an error if it can't connect to the database. That said I do both approaches depending on the situation.
It's a good quote and I don't see it's application. The idea is virtuous, this execution does not live up to it or hit the same mark as what Hilton was talking about.

A good book can last decades or centuries, a news article rarely (if ever at all) has the content to do that.
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I can't answer for him, but typically it is 100mg/wk for testosterone replacement. This can be taken once a week. For body building administration is usually done twice weekly. There is a newer cream that is applied to the scrotum, otherwise it is usually injection.

If you are doing TRT testicular atrophy usually isn't a concern although it could be a cosmetic concern. Taking human chorionic gonadotropin will preserve testicular function but may not return the look of your saggy nads.
> practically speaking nearly everyone is moving on to HEVC. Nearly all the other competitors are in development and unusable because of their really slow encoding time.

Be careful when saying the truth!
I think the last time I touched prolog was in University. Looking back through my class assignments, I think we discussed prolog but didn't actually write anything in it. The only assignment I see from that era was writing our own First-Order-Inference engine (really basic implementation; lots of limitations):

https://github.com/sumdog/assignments/tree/master/csc4240-pr...
Trying to be helpful. If there are things you would rather see, happy to try to throw that on my YouTube channel too!