skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good question. AFAIK they had some really high quality products back in the day and also lots of skilled engineers.
What are the material differences between a config file format, and a machine-to-machine only format?
This is amazing - I'm very much in Django land right now, but I'd love to see a successor that combines all its productivity strengths with the modern world of JS/Typescript-all-the-way-down.

A few questions:

- Do you intend to have strong typing (Typescript) all the way through? Most of the examples seem to be in plain JS. Not that that's a bad place to start, but I have a dream of typing a schema for a new model once and having it immediately typecheck all the way to the frontend code.

- Will there be an ability to automatically generate admin interfaces, form and all, from database schema? Django's ModelAdmin is annoying to customize, but it's unparalleled in getting a GUI together in minutes for a trusted operational team. And React-Hook-Form's support for dynamically generated fields could be really powerful in this regard.

- Both Rails and Django have patterns of "as long as this file is in the right place and/or has the right inheritance hierarchy, I won't need to write boilerplate." Is this a goal of this project as well? For instance, for the service file in https://redwoodjs.com/tutorial/side-quest-how-redwood-works-... seems to be something that would be nearly identical, save for the name of the model, across a number of things. Rather than scaffolding, could there be a way to inherit from a generic superclass (or the functional equivalent), fully overrideable, similar to how https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/topics/class-based-vie... allows any view to inherit from a ListView or DetailView?
The automotive industry’s value-destroying addiction to capital (2015) [pdf]
Implementing the Clipper chip cipher in Rust
The importance of transparency and reproducibility in AI research
Top five text summarization tools
I think asking vague questions and mouthing hazy principles is a very bad response to a specific, acute situation. If you want to argue against sick leave, fine, take a swing at it. But please do it with specifics and enough data that you have an argument worth taking seriously.
I've interacted with 4-5 potential voters (people) in the US in the last 2 days, talking about this topic. 100% of them think the virus is a hoax, since the president and media said so, and that it's meant to "distract" the population.

These are just random people in 7-eleven or whatever. At least for now, the 'scare' that people talk about is how controlling the media is and how "this whole virus-thing" is a hoax.

It seems many legislators and those in the executive branch share this view, are calling it a hoax and suggesting that the virus is a political creation meant to hurt the stock markets and prevent the president from being re-elected.
All of the above. Greater complexity/more features, people dedicated to finding vulnerabilities, more news coverage of vulnerabilities, more money to be made from exploiting vulnerabilities and general complacency from Intel. Given the lack of serious competition in the high performance space until recently, Intel figured they could get away with their rather slow and unimpressive response which basically boiled down to kneecapping recent processors and telling owners of older ones to just buy a new computer.

Compare and contrast their handling of the stream of vulnerabilities in the past few years to the FDIV bug in the 90's. The FDIV bug was the first time I remember a hardware bug making national news. Intel just about shit themselves over this apologizing profusely, offering free processor swaps, billion dollar write down, talking about how this would never happen again etc. A big part of the reason they took it so seriously was that there were still a number of other alternative CPU manufacturers trying to compete with Intel at the time and it was far from certain that x86 would become the undisputed ISA for PCs. (this was pre-Windows 95) All this, and the vast majority of people would never ever experience the FDIV bug even if their processor had it.

Times change, but the lesson remains the same: competition is good.
I am one of the authors of this paper. Additional commentary in this Twitter thread:

https://twitter.com/michaelhoffman/status/123734946911858689...
A few possibilities:

Disagreeing it is a dark pattern to begin with. For example, see how many people love opt out consent for organ donation and overlook the consent implications it has in that case. Another example is requiring email address at signup, is that actually needed and is it a dark pattern to not allow a person to sign up until they provide one, even though a more industrial user could give you a fake/temporary email address?

Seeing the data as not actually worth protecting and not having an issue with opt out or the like.

Thinking those who do care will already be using adblockers and the like.

Thinking it would be done regardless if they do it, so why burn what social/political capital they have achieving no difference when they can save it for something that might have an actual impact.
How tightly is it tied to React? Would it make sense to try to use with another client side layer?
Alright! What are the most significant changes they have made?
So not at all like JSON, then?
Ha! Yes, I have been using MessagePack for several years. It never occurred to me that people would be interested to have a discussion about it on Hacker News. MessagePack to me is as ubiquitous as JSON and Protobuf, I submitted www.json.org [1] just to prove my point. I figure OP is today’s lucky 10,000 [2] and that’s why they decided to submit the link, thinking it was a new type of data interchange format.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22538794

[2] https://xkcd.com/1053/
>Why put the goal at flattening, instead of just killing it completely?

Because the American government does not have the state capacity to carry out necessary measures and the American population doesn't have the discipline to listen.

Same is probably true for a bunch of other countries and failed states, I don't even want to know how many people in iran are actually infected at this point.
> Uncompressed matters because it takes a device longer to parse more code

This is...a trivial thing to measure, at best. Engineers write way worse code that will be much bigger targets to care about that will likely never be worked on.

> Particularly in a world where low end Android devices are being shipped with slow CPUs and very little RAM

The benchmarks for this (todomvc for example) aren't egregious, even for mobile devices.

> The real killer combination is React plus a giant blob of state that has to be parsed, and then hydrated into individual elements.

That is a bad end-engineer design choice, you don't have to write react that way.

> But people just don't seem to care.

Because they largely don't need to: Even if the end-engineer wrote and designed things in a performant way, it wouldn't account for the slowness of business process.
Why should Apple dictate their approach to everyone else then? If they are so resolved to remain outsiders technology wise because they are crazy bent on NIH, let them be outsiders.

I'd say everyone else should take a hard stance on this and show Apple to the door, instead of dancing under their tune.
Yes! That is precisely how we see it. Well said!
Unfortunately, I do not believe that this is true. My understanding is that it's still quite common, and even more so in developing countries.
Where the tech sector is vulnerable to coronavirus
Do you have a reference for that claim? Or are you repeating something that you read on a forum?
Are you sure you're not confusing it with tailgating, which is legal but sometimes frowned-upon?

Front-running: Broker gets order, broker buys for self, broker executes order. (illegal)

Tailgating: Broker gets order, broker executes order, broker buys for self. (legal)
Same here: that's the only site that doesn't work. I wonder if it has something to do with the post-login redirects: it's impossible to say "always open this site in this container", because you've already been redirected to a different url.
Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I believe that either 1. The Chinese will go to great lengths to show evidence that "things are the way we say they are" in much the same way that North Korea does with American tourists.

The less likely scenario in my mind 2. is that the claims of the WHO being compromised by China are true. This article doesn't do much for me to dispel those concerns given that it's a prominent WHO doctor who penned your linked article.

Maybe I'm totally wrong and China is telling the truth, but that sort of intuition when applied to basically any other part of economic activity with the Chinese is just blatantly wrong (just ask people who work with Chinese suppliers about how crappy their "save face" system is re: trying to get a straight answer about any problems)
Oddly, in this instance, "Zero" seems like the wrong description for something that is binary.
On the other hand, from the end of the article, "My colleagues and I have conducted a meta-analysis of various treatments for depression, including antidepressants, psychotherapy, the combination of psychotherapy and antidepressants, and “alternative” treatments, which included acupuncture and physical exercise (Khan, Faucett, Lichtenberg, Kirsch, & Brown, 2012). We found no significant differences between these treatments or within different types of psychotherapy."

So the first thing you should know about the treatment of depression: Nothing works very well.
I'm curious -- are there things that Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong doing that we should all copy? Their trajectory looks pretty different from that of other countries.
>Despite that I don't think it's a good idea to recommend or disrecommend any specific drug; it is very much a biochemical roll of the dice as to whether a med will work on a given individual and the odds aren't even particularly good.

Since many drugs seem to affect different people differently, it seems we really need to work on understanding how drugs affect people differently based on their genetics. This is similar to, for instance, how some people think cilantro tastes like soap, because of a gene mutation. I think there isn't nearly enough attention being paid to this, and it's making the field of psychiatry look like various drugs are no better than placebo, when it's much more likely that some drugs work great for some people, but terribly or not at all for others, so right now it's a crap-shoot when instead we should be figuring out what will actually work for certain people based on their genetics instead of shooting in the dark.
The post you're replying to fairly clearly states that security issues in Intel chips are pushing them to buy AMD, next. It doesn't look at all like "fanboyism".
I agree. When I read something like this, I have a hard time trusting that the rest of an article isn't aimed at pushing a political agenda rather than spreading information directly related to containment. I'd rather not have to be suspicious and just focus on consuming & evaluating the scientific information.
Virus (1999)

An American tugboat crew finds an abandoned Russian research vessel. Very good special effects and overall a pretty unique movie, but poor execution. I guess it doesn't stand the test of time but I liked the oppressive atmosphere when I was young. Watch this if you liked System Shock.
Yes I think you're right. I will edit my posts.
I watched a tutorial by the author Rich Harris today after reading this link on HN earlier and stopped when he started talking about a DSL he created for Svelte so you don't have to write as much JS. I don't want to learn another DSL. I don't see what the big deal is about compiling. We've have many languages that compile to JavaScript and Google Closure Compiler to tree shake and minify. For years now! Svelte is a nifty DSL to JS compiler that produces small bundles because there is no SDK to back it up or include. Cool, I guess.
It's 2020 , time for management science to learn how to do science. No, it isn't science to take a study of individuals solving problems and extrapolating that "walking meetings work". It's bs.
There's a SPIR-V text representation that maps directly to the binary representation. Even if it was given a binary, the browser could display the equivalent text representation.
> US gov tells everyone to not wear a mask, unless they are showing symptoms.

This bothers me greatly. People who wind up having symptoms cannot retroactively go and put the mask on for the week prior to them noticing.
What happened is that Spectre was the first instance of a new class of vulnerabilities, one which hadn't been considered previously. Side-channel attacks were already well known, but nobody seemed to have considered side channels from speculative execution before (it's hard to overstate how bizarre these vulnerabilities look like, from a software point of view: they're leaking information from a code path which has not been executed, could not execute, and in some cases doesn't even exist; that is, when looking only at the software, the leak appears to come from a parallel universe where an impossible code path actually executed).

Since this vulnerability class was previously unknown, hardware didn't have much protection against it, except by accident (or as a side effect of more conservative design). Being in hardware, they are difficult or impossible to workaround in software. And they were found in common hardware most people have. This all lead to them being widely reported by the tech press.
JSON is as pervasive these days as XML and despite it's shortcomings is not going away for the foreseeable future.
But you said you wanted to hear from an expert. How do you imagine a non-expert can select an expert without indulging in something that could easily be called credentialism by a cranky internet commenter?
> Meanwhile Mecca is shut down, Italy instituted a Nationwide lockdown overnight, UK hospitals are running out of capacity, China shut down it's entire industry for two months

Those countries are not American. They are reacting reasonably to a virus that has 20x the mortality rate of the flu, with no known vaccine.
RailsConf 2020 Cancelled
Probably we need a human readable text view for messagepack

That would let it fully take on the role of json

But what's the text format? -- now there is endless happy bikeshedding

Maybe a library with json (or compatible superset, to get all messagepack features). Then the standard just serializes to messagepack, before gzip or whatever
This graph showing how many days other countries are behind Italy's infection rate is quite alarming [1].
Especially the close alignment of most of the countries.

[1] https://ibb.co/gZDfgPy

Edit:
Sorry, I didn't include the original source. I had taken a screenshot and couldn't find the original article. But the original data is from Mark J Handley [2] who is (non-medical) Professor of Networked Systems and part-time Roboticist at UCL. And the article I took the picture from is at [3] (I don't normally read the Daily Mail, I promise).

[2] https://twitter.com/MarkJHandley/status/1237119688578138112

[3] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-8095299/Man-under...
What stuff in particular are you referring to?
Maybe we should work on terraforming it: use various processes to change the atmosphere and stop the runaway greenhouse affect, shed the excess heat into space, and build an earth-normal atmosphere.

However, it does seem like building rotating space stations (like O'Neil cylinders) is much more feasible.
Does that protect you from counterfeit products that duplicate the branding?
Mine is not about "Fanboyism". I'm going to upgrade my system after 7 years and will go for a multi-core performance system for parallel software development.

I consider AMD for its new Infinity Fabric and multi-core performance. I also use performance counters a lot to optimize my code and improve my understanding of modern processors even further.

This will be my 5th build and I've built 2 AMD and 3 Intel systems for long-term use in a span of ~20 years. I think it's logical to go for a high-performance system with lower attack count/surface to reduce the chance of getting performance-crippling uCode or Kernel patches in the future.

I was probably a fanboy while overclocking my 1433MHz 1700+ to 2.2GHz with ABIT ultra mother boards. These days and mindset has long gone, at least for me.

OTOH, I have more than enough cutting edge hardware from major vendors to manage and play with. So, I'm not hungry for anything really.
Listen, if you're going to cut off quotes to make up an imagined problem then you're not contributing. The very next words are "so clearly" which hits your "nice explanation" part.

Listen, I'm going to tell you this because feedback is important and this is for your benefit: low brow dismissals are easy. You can always make up an imagined way to disagree with someone and it is almost always useless.

Here's an example of one of these lowbrow dismissals with your comment:

> "nice explanation"

> Why does the explanation have to be nice? I'd rather have someone tell me the truth rudely rather than tell me lies kindly.

Behold the incredible worthlessness of that response! It is fucking idiotic. People who interpret things literally are not talented, they are crippled.
HP’s oscilloscopes and other electronic lab equipment (at the time their exclusive focus) were beautifully designed and highest quality. Perfectionists would naturally be drawn to them. Ditto for their first calculators; they were drooled over. Printers came later; all the electronics got jettisoned into Agilent in 1999.
"Masks are NOT THE MOST useful thing you can do..."
2001: A Space Odyssey

This is what this movie is primarily about, although it has an iconic second act (AI) and a terrible last act. One of most realistic depictions of space travel to date.
It may be too late for that, in the same sense that all the folks who chase the hot startup idea that just appeared in the news are too late. There's about a 3-week lag time between contracting the virus and needing serious medical care. The folks in the ICU now generally contracted it in early February. With a doubling time of roughly 4 days, there'll be 5 doublings = 32x increase of cases in that time frame. It's very likely that if you contract it now, by the time you need ICU support so will everyone else, and you'll be left to fend for yourself in a hallway while in serious respiratory distress.
"My comment is a response to the wording of parent comment, not the article itself."
Partisanship I'd argue is bad. Politics, however, is not.

The idea that we should ignore the state of our healthcare system because we find politics icky is counter-productive to building an effective system for dealing with public health systems. We can't avoid facts because they're uncomfortable and the public needs to be engaged with political leadership for problems to be solved. That's politics.

You don't "save lives" by saying discussion of the healthcare system is off-limits. The two things are quite related to one another!
I own a new 2020 Corolla Hybrid and it gives me 58 mpg mileage and cost me $25,000 including all the destination, DMV, etc. charges plus with 3 years of add-on maintenance. Impressive considering when I pay $350 EMI ($0 down-payment on 84 months loan) every month on it and it already saves me about $70 that same month on gas compared to my previous car. So overall the Adj EMI would be just $280.
Why Japan is obsessed with paper
> Wisconsin's governor made the news repeatedly pulling through "right to work" laws (I don't know details but I was shocked at how little pushback I heard about at all).

Wisconsinite here: We really love to screw ourselves over. It's our state pastime. Scott Walker went to blue collar neighborhoods and said "I'm going to take away your right to organized negotiation!" and we said "Yes, I LOVE that!" We put his signs in our yards. Then as a joke we voted to remove, and then changed our minds.

When our some of our legislatures refused to go to work because some silly people stood outside the capital with signs, we decided to unelect the ones that stayed in the capital throughout the protests, and reward the ones that left the state entirely. We just love it :)
For dried beans, I recommend Bittman's quick-soak approach. Basically you throw the beans in a lot of water, get them to boiling, and then let them sit for a couple hours. It's equivalent to soaking them overnight. Then cook as normal. Details here: https://www.markbittman.com/recipes-1/cooked-beans-the-quick...
Quite tightly at this point, as really nice integration is a primary goal. That said, it’s not impossible that another rendering layer could be used, but it’s not our focus right now.
We're behind them on the timeline because the president restricted travel from the epicenter back at the end of January [1], and the US is the best prepared country in the world for an epidemic [2]. Italy got its 3rd coronavirus case on Feb. 6 [3], and now its totals are at 10k.

Take a look at the cases/country chart on [4] and sort by cases/population. The US is many orders of magnitude better than European countries. It's absolutely worth comparing for specifically the reasons mentioning in OP's post, that being ahead of this makes all the difference in the world.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/31/business/china-travel-cor...
[2] https://www.statista.com/chart/20629/ability-to-respond-to-a...
[3] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-italy/third-...
[4] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
> us-west to us-east

us-west-2 ec2 pricing is on par with us-east-1 and us-east-2, were you originally in us-west-1 (everything is considerably more expensive in that region)?
Where is the line about artists? When I searched via ctrl-F, I couldn't find it. Is it embedded in one of the images? Or has it already been removed?
Well, for one: most config file formats specifically include a method for the user to add bytes to the data which won't be parsed or interpreted. In JSON... you might try adding a {"comment": "this is a bad way to comment"} object or key/value and hope you don't collide with an object's dedicated comment field, and also don't cause the parser to raise an error for having a field which it didn't expect.
I would assume that you're not a child, but as a greater point, that something you like and I dislike doesn't mean that it's necessarily going to be bad for us because I don't like it.
> Also for completeness it would be better to differentiate between int and float as float is imprecise due to rounding errors.

Not true for most numbers. A 64-bit IEEE float can handle any 53-bit integer with no error at all.
The exact number wasn't really the point + elon has a history of releasing high performance spec's before the actual technology is ready. Maybe they have special tires in the works, but the rubber that's on the market today can't do that