skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Empirical studies apparently find road wear matches a power law. Although it seems the exponent varies.

Here's a survey
https://www.nzta.govt.nz/assets/resources/603/RR-603-The-rel...
>because a good design will carefully consider them.

I don't want patterns where I have to be good. Anything is possible if you're good but how does the pattern help and protect the developer?

That said, as a developer, how do I know some data should be owned by one service or another? Should I notify other services when I change data? Where is the separation of concerns? Is the DAL a monolithic codebase that knows who to notify or what event to write when things are updated?

I like event queues but instead of using something like ZeroMQ they seem to suggest using a custom rolled table. If I want to add a new event listener such that I have more than one, do I have to know that at event write time and write n messages? Do I store message completion separate from the message itself? Does the DAL handle that by knowing who needs what? Aren't we back to thinking about all those service interactions but in the DAL? So much work is glossed over that I can only assume the author hasn't worked with queues or an ESB very much.

The ultimate question though is, why are these services even separate if they're mutating the same data? Just merge the services (or at least the operation in question) instead of rewriting the entire app. Way easier than orchestrating all of your systems through a monolithic DAL.
You know, I'd rather live in a world where the supermarkets are well stocked with product that anyone can afford, but where it's still accurately labeled as "cider-like product" instead of cider, "honey-like syrup" instead of honey, and "frozen dairy dessert" instead of ice cream.

Because the genuine article isn't always cheap to make, but it shouldn't have to compete with imitation products that are disguising themselves as it with no way for consumers to know the difference.
It's the same in Canada.

Reflexive anti-U.S. bias spouting is cringe.
I’d say LWN is more like Nutella whereas HN is a Kinder Surprise.
Someone sitting in their house is testing themselves is not data! You are confusing data with a number that ticks up. Ha, another infected! Look DATA!

The potential for misuse, abuse, panic and trouble is far bigger than you imagine.

The problem here, with everyone, is that they think that the rest of the population will act like them. Take a test, then if positive but you are not showing any symptoms lay low for a week, avoid contact with others. This is the most common outcome of the disease, 99% of cases nothing will happen. You don't need to do anything at all, clears up on its own. For each one in a hospital, hundreds did not need care.

But no, that's not what would happen at all if the population started self-testing itself. Everyone positive, yet in no need of medical care will rush the emergency, severely impacting health care providers - that will kill more people than COVID itself.

The upheaval this self-testing can cause far exceeds whatever marginal benefits it would produce.

The first rule of medicine: First, do no harm!
Employer as a group is completely arbitrary and can be redrawn by insurance underwriters to anything else (city, state, region, etc).
Foundercore – The best startup entrepreneurs are disciplined experimenters
What would be the major cost of running the trains twice as frequently with half the number of cars, especially outside rush hour?
Except these agencies have never had so much funding as they do now.

Its hard to put a finger on exactly why they seem entirely incapable of fulfilling their central mission during this crisis. Why were the test kits botched? Why was testing so artificially limited? Why do the primers seem poorly designed? Why does the contact tracing seem to be so behind the ball? Etc.

I think political finger pointing is easy and maybe even satisfying but not helpful or particularly enlightening.
Amazing. Thanks to the author.
Fair, but this sort of scenario wouldn't exactly exist in isolation right? Would a society that is willing to physically brand people with a permanent "STAY AWAY" marker be super tight in their regulation of diagnosis? lol. This conversation is insane.
That is an astoundingly selective reading of the article you linked...
there are still no facts and no sources in your argument. I cannot and will not engage in this sort of meaningless argumentation without data.

Please stop
Yeah, I was incredibly confused as to how it got from 900 to a Trillion in a single day...
Mossadegh was the one who grabbed power, by not following a constitutional order.
Is there anything that can really be done? Given a reasonable budget, how could the spread of corona be stopped?
functional architecture is the future: https://increment.com/software-architecture/primer-on-functi...
This could be a thought-provoking question, but it's undermined by the racist, unsympathetic language at the end.
> C++ is a maintenance nightmare in comparison.

c'mon, all the super large projects - adobe software, ableton live, blender, autodesk, 3DS max, maya... all the major game engines (UE, CryEngine, Frostbite, etc), are written in C++, not in C. LLVM & clang are C++, and GCC is all C++ in new code with a fair amount of old code ported from C. All the major web browsers are C++ - and I'd wager most minor too.

If what you said was true we'd see much more massive projects in C and much less in C++ yet here we are.
Everybody who works any public-facing job will go to work with a “cold”, I guarantee it. I did. The alternative is losing said job. Welcome to America.
In the past, QuickTime (Pro?) was excellent for this sort of thing; you could just mark the section you wanted right in the player window and export a new clip. I don't know what the present situation is with QuickTime, and obviously that's an Apple solution.

There are basically two classes of editors:

* "pro" editors, like Premier, and (old?) Final Cut Pro
* "home" editors, like iMovie, Windows Movie Maker, OpenShot etc.

You want something from the latter category. The general idea is:

1) Add your source video file to a new project
2) Drag that video onto your timeline
3) Edit the timeline to crop your video (various methods depending on user preference)
4) Export your new clip

You haven't mentioned your platform, so lets give a simple example using the free, cross-platform OpenShot:

1) Add your source video file to a new project
2) Drag that video onto your timeline
3) Grab the edges of your video clip in the timeline, and drag them to crop your video
4) Export your new clip

Short YouTube video (not mine) demonstrating this visually (you don't actually need to select the razor tool): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8zmqfXXS60

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Is this an easy enough method? I think to get any easier than that, you may be looking at a purpose-built tool to do only the simple thing you want, rather than a general purpose editing tool.

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edit: I didn't see your file format requirement. I honestly don't know anything about .gifv; it appears to not actually be a file format at all, but some tomfoolery that Imgur is engaging in? You'll have to export to an actual video format (say webm or mp4) and figure it out from there.
> Use the right technology for what you're trying to build.

Yep .. so if you want a rich responsive user experience, DON'T use any web technologies. GMail (AND Gsuite) is a perfect example of how a relatively simple concept like email can be turned into a slow, unresponsive piece of garbage.
There's a less extreme analog that is fairly widely accepted: "intolerant of intolerance."

Though hyperbole is rarely accepted on HN and the OP might just be trolling, in some cultures this type of over-the-top musing is equivalent (when in that cultural context) to saying "intolerant of intolerance" and shouldn't always be taken literally.
It really does. There are two things that fit together for me:

First, access - I can think of twelve bars within walking distance of my apartment, four of which are on the same block, and a total of eight of which are within two blocks of my apartment. Almost every grocery store has a liquor store as a part (not separate store, just separate section with a register), and some stores, like WalMart, sell booze in the normal aisles. It's everywhere.

Second, culture - in Wisconsin, if you're under 21 but a parent, guardian, or spouse then you are allowed to be served, possess, or consume alcohol, so teenagers drinking at home as part of a party is completely legal in the state. Bars are so close to the house, and every area has their own, so social drinking, especially when the winter is cold and dark (in parts of the state in parts of the winter, the sun is set by 4:30 in the afternoon), is very popular. Many of the locals, if they're religious, come from a history of Catholic, Lutheran, and similar religions that were typically not parts of the temperance movement, and many of the cultures that settled the land - Scandinavian and German most commonly - are also known for their relationship to alcohol.

Third, recent developments - the part of Milwaukee I'm in was decimated when the manufacturing base was systematically hollowed out in the late 1980s through the current day. Desperation and escape are two motivators to drink, and there are parts of the community that I'm in that have been hit hard by that.

Lewis Black has a bit about drinking in Wisconsin. It is exaggerated, but only slightly so, in a way that I didn't quite understand before I moved here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WlwumGkSec
The CDC appears to have made an over complicated test with the goal of being able to identify other SARS viruses beyond just COVID and screwed up the reagents in the process.

I’m not aware of evidence that the CDC designed primers are any better, and have read anecdotal evidence that they fail basic QA tests in open source design software used for this sort of thing.

This was compounded by bad regulations which hamstrung local labs from doing their own testing.
Just a month ago that subreddit was nothing but negative news about China, because China was doing a terrible job. Now China is evidently doing a good job and other countries are screwing up, so they're getting called out. Please don't turn every observation into the world into a conspiracy. It's possible for people to lack your nationalist fervor without being paid shills.
Why not? Isn't lack of healthcare or limited options one of the top political issues?
Absolutely, and it really doesn't cost much to ensure they keep doing it.

I've been subscribed ever since they offered them. A few years ago while starting up a business I realised that I hardly ever found or made the time to read them, and reluctantly let it slip. Jonathan emailed me personally to say thanks for being there from day one, and if I had any feedback. I explained, he said thanks anyway and then renewed my subscription! I've automatically renewed every year since then.
Not to mention that if you actually would have been satisfied with corn syrup, you could presumably have gotten it at a better price by buying a bottle of corn syrup than by paying for a bottle labeled "honey" containing corn syrup.
http://archive.is/8nhVQ
Unity seems like it won't be impacted though? It might even do better if people are being quarantined. Games are good entertainment when you can't leave the house.
Farenheit 451
>Most of the top international developers became experts by consuming years of English documentation, tech news, and discussion.

Sure for top international developers who are fluent in English.

But top international developers who are very fluent in English aren't cheap.

In my experience communication and language skills are even more important in remote work, and the vast majority of cheap international developers do not have those skills in English.
My main goal is to create a couple of applications. I'm not a big fan of web dev. I want to write for Windows and Linux.
Paywalled in US too.
The Economist have a new paywall.
I am a father living in NYC except not in the middle of the city (manhattan, downtown brooklyn, long island city).

In my neighborhood, getting to mid-town is by train. You only drive if you are a bit crazy.

But to get from point A -> B in my neighborhood it is orders of magnitude slower. To get to my parent's house is 15 minutes by car (25 if heavy traffic). 45-90 minutes by bus. 45 minutes by train.

To take my daughter to school, 15 minutes by car, and 30-45 minutes by bus, 45-55 minutes by train.

And owning my own car, after 7 years is free. Low maintenance (I bought it new). Insurance is $133 a month, and gas is ~40 a month. Significantly cheaper than a daily Uber in addition to all the other ways I use the car.

If I was single, living in the middle of Manhattan, sure, cars make zero sense. In fact many who I know commute by Bike, Walk, Train.

However it heavily depends on where you live, how many kids you have, what you want as your lifestyle and convenience.
You know what?
I bet you, most people don't enjoy wasting 3h+ of the day commuting. Waking up at the crack of dawn to rush into the office.

They probably don't enjoy the forced beer night outs with coworkers and mundane water cooler conversations either. They have real friends and loved ones they rather be with.

People go to work so that they can put food on the table, they don't go to the office to socialize.
There are plenty of better ways to interact with people other than the office.

I bet you, they also rather use their own private washrooms. Eat fresh food at home and be in their comfortable A/C home rather than a cramped office.

Just because the society demands that everyone joins the rat race to go to the office, it doesn't mean it's an acceptable status quo.
Back on the Amiga I once found this weird language on Aminet or a ffish disk called "Lava" and it had all these builtin datatype for amazing things like ip addresses, I just could not wrap my head around that. What do you mean? I don't have to write my own token parsers in C that's outrageous! I ran away at first but went back over summer break and it had been renamed Rebol. I used it all through school blowing through programming assignments like they weren't there. Remember once earning 10% of a term's grade in something like 70 chars

It was by far the most enjoyable programming I ever did.
But (why does there always have to be that But) using it at work, as I did after school, was a disservice to everyone around me.
Hardware - was all 64bit Rebol was still 32bit.
Proprietary - brilliant author was from the time before, when that made sense.
Co-workers - most neither could, nor wanted to "get it" Rebol sure was not going to help on their resumes.

It tried to go Rebol2->Rebol3 ala perl/python but when a community in the hundreds splinters, there is just not that much left.
Russia did not agree to Saudi Arabia's proposal to reduce output so Saudi Arabia are now turning up the faucets to pressure Russia into a deal. Saudi Arabia has no intention starting a price war with US shale producers, this is pure tactics to make Russia agree to an output deal.

The United States has a net export of around 0 barrels, meaning that it is neither an importer nor an exporter of oil today. So macroeconomically the US should be more or less unaffected on an aggregated level.
> What, really, do any Middle Eastern countries have to show for this massive windfall?

https://stepfeed.com/these-old-photos-of-dubai-show-how-much...
I'm not suggesting to change any goals; just to have a break from any singular activity for a while.

But whatever myth you think there is for goals that require delayed gratification simply does not exist (at least for most people).

The journey is more important than the destination and all that. Reaching some arbitrary goal doesn't bring you lasting happiness.

No ones born knowing to code, but learning to code can also be fun. Like many other things. The worst thing you can say to somebody learning anything is that "this is very hard to learn".
Insurance underwriters can't force a city to all take insurance with their company. Which is what employer group plans do.
After ACA there are no lifetime maximums. If it’s an FDA approved treatment which he is eligible for (e.g. there are not other first line treatments which should be tried first) then AFAIK an insurance company cannot simply refuse to pay.

Another option is to move to a Medicare expansion state and stop working, which will allow you to immediately qualify for free health care with generally some of the best coverage you can get.
Let’s say you believe the prices will recover in a year, what’s the best stock market play to profit?
> there's not much that can be done for viral infections

There is a ton of research suggesting it's possible to reduce your risk of death by like 99%. There was metastudy on the front page of HN a couple days ago suggesting that vitamin D3 alone can reduce your risk of death by like 50% for those who are otherwise deficient.

The most recent Cochrane review on Vitamin C suggests that that alone can reduce your risk of death from pneumonia by like 80%.

Those aren't even the only things you can do before getting the virus. And once you get the virus there are like 6 different steps by which it kills you, and there are various things you can take to ameliorate what is happening at each step.

Viruses can replicate up to once a minute, so if you've already been letting it replicate inside you for a couple weeks before taking something to block viral replication then taking something to do that isn't going to do anything after the fact, but it's absolutely a misconception to say that there's nothing we can do for fighting viruses.
The commit message succeeds in justifying the effort but lacks an in-depth understanding of the related mechanics. I can imagine the developer felt bad about 'only' committing a one character change at the end of the day and wrote the message to make up for it. Because of this un-economic outcome, he hesitated to dig deeper.

There is no reason to feel bad.

The cultural issue is bad management that still evaluates developers by lines of code / commit activity.
You think part of the problem with the fearmongering around this virus is stuff like this?

While a cool use of data visualization tools, it doesn't serve much purpose other then "look how worried you should be at this thing that you can't really do much to stop." We get it, there is a pandemic going on. Highlighting it doesn't help much, especially when you don't show any of the positive data- such as recovery rates.
Thanks for replying. That's a good demo. However, I don't necessarily agree Cloudwatch is only for infra metrics. Theoretically, you could send any metrics to CW and leverage the anomaly detection feature. Given it aggregates data over time and you could lost granularities of your data, that's probably not a good idea for business centric data. Then I found AWS QuickSight (https://aws.amazon.com/quicksight/features-ml/?nc=sn&loc=2&d...) which seems to have a similar feature parity?
Being a COO is irrelevant. The vast majority of jobs are not programming related and require physical presence.

Even if healthcare is used (again limited by options and employment), most other benefits are not, especially if you don't even come into the office.
Wishful thinking moment. I would love this moment not to be a moment where people say something along the lines of 'oh cool, I can drive hummer again' and something more like 'we have some room to breathe, how can we make sure we are not as dependent in the future'. Again, wishful thinking.
Can I know, what stack you are using, it's fast for soo many images and Webdesign is good .
I remember playing that game at the arcade as a kid. It was a lot of fun. If I recall correctly, some versions (or levels?) had pretty intense gravity effects.
Why use a hosting control panel like DirectAdmin?
Podcast: Long-Term Stock Exchange – Eric Ries
No, that will legitimize not holding fair elections ever again. Most states have an absentee vote by mail program. Move to a vote by mail system.
I've yet to see any opinion pieces from Business Insider that weren't shallow hit pieces. It's not a place for intelligent people to get information. Or, really, anyone.
Yes, fair enough... having both in the commit message is ideal. I just mean that the absolute minimum is the why because at least the what can be deconstructed from the commit.
35 years ago I dated a Continental airlines stewardess who told me as a young girl she was diagnosed with the bubonic plague and treated. They never discovered where she picked it up as a young girl in Texas.
The Gates Foundation is only issuing home testing kits in Seattle so it's hard to argue for elsewhere. However, I'm comfortable negotiating the terms. What are yours? I'd like to have a conclusion within a reasonable time so no bet lasting 50 years or anything, but otherwise, let's hear your offer.

EDIT: Due to old comments, I'm rate-limited on this thread so I actually cannot respond (sorry!). I'm interested specifically in the statement about the bus.
Language may not be an issue but comprehension is a huge problem.
Yeah 95% < 20 minute public transportation for me. Very little interest in working from home.
OK... makes more sense now!
>They're torn up from the road and rubbed off from the tyres themselves. The majority is obviously coming from the road.

Not sure even that adds up to believable.

The Sydney Harbour Bridge is about 500m long between the pylons. It has "more than 150,000 cars per day" on it (according to the snippet from a google search). If all of that was from the road, that'd mean there's about 160 tons of road getting torn up per year. It looks to be ~30m wide on Google Sat view, and "google first hit" research indicates road base weighs 1.9tons per cubic meter. It's be losing almost 6cm of depth along the whole span every year if all those numbers hold, or 3cm per year if "only half" of that comes from the road and the rest from the tires. They don't resurface it anything like often enough for that to be true...
It's a mistake to consider this a political issue first. It is a mental health problem that risks widespread damage to civil and social trust mechanisms, and it infects everything including politics. Mental health problems making someone incompetent does not discriminate based on political affiliation. And it can be contagious. Its victims aren't Democratic or Republican or unaffilliated. The victims are rational thought, logical processes, facts, truth, trust, and civility. Damaging those things is intentional because they are basic requirements for accountability. Calling such conversations political, and thus proscribed, helps paper over and silence the necessary conversation. It's the exact opposite of partisan. You are exactly correct to call it dangerous, and it's only going to get worse.
I just got mine too. Under advertisers who uploaded a contact list are pages and pages of US-based businesses I've never dealt with. I assume this is based on the same guy who keeps giving companies my email address by mistake because he doesn't know his own.
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/08/a-very-deep-d...

This is one of the few places where writing C is objectively reasonable (an OS kernel) - and also one of the places where it's particularly dangerous if you get things wrong.
The end tipped the scale to "satire".