skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> have a parent stay at home with the child

Assumes there are two parents in the household. For two-parent households, assumes it can cover its expenses from the labor of only one of them. This option also doesn't address the fact that taking an extended break from working often has a long-term effect on one's income and career; this could change if doing so was more normalized, particularly for men.

> Extended families can pitch in

Assumes parents have extended family, that its members live close enough to do the work of child care, assumes the extended family members (including grandparents) are not also working and therefore unavailable, assumes they are capable and willing to provide free child care.
If you ever want to rise in the ranks as an engineer, design and business are practically required.
They do contain lots of soot to prevent premature aging from UV light.
How not to run a company
Heck yes! In fact, just a couple weeks ago, I used the commit history with git bisect to find the commit where a regression was introduced. Felt like wizardry!
> I think this all turns to reddit (the comments are very much Reddit like) because this is the 20billionth article about 'following you passion' basically.

Sure, I get that, but this bring the nuance of the point of view of a working programmer.

For a long time I had a hustling voice inside me that was very toxic and insisted on me working on things it thought were useful but I hated doing (sadly I was used to hate doing everything in my life back then so I couldn't tune out the noise and pinpoint any particular problem). Took me like 10 years until I finally said "f that crap" and just started working on whatever I found interesting. Almost immediately, I felt better (even with a health condition that I now have to actively fight to cure).

So okay, we've all seen such posts and maybe we grew cynical about it but anything that adds a bit of a further nuance might help others reduce the toxicity in their lives by at least commanding some happiness in their leisure time.

> And this title really seems to annoy people who have seen it all before; most people cannot just drop everything and do whatever. No matter if you are thinking 24/7 about playing in a bluesband; most (by far and wide) people cannot and will never be able to do that unless they win the lottery.

Not many have the chance to make a U-turn late in their careers, true. The eternal pessimism and cynicism don't help as well though; and they might even set your brain up on a path where it doesn't actively look for opportunities to give you a better life. Depression in general desensitizes you so if you can avoid that you're already ahead compared to many.

> And then you have all the negative thoughts; the anxiety attacks and the cravings that you really should not give into...

Here I can agree (if I got you correctly) -- giving in to fantasies is very toxic and makes your landing back in reality extremely painful. But we shouldn't cut it off entirely; some day-dreaming helps us push forward.
I use as a conditioning treatment 3 times a week
But look at the year: most of them seem to be pre 1950's. Does that still apply?
This whole article isn't very insightful but people upvoted it because they like what the title says.

Google needs to hire generalists because they need to hire any good developer as there's a talent shortage (or at least a talent identification shortage).

And most generalists are generalists because that's what their jobs have required, and can become specialists shortly.

Finally, as a side node, a benefit of being a generalist that the article doesn't mention: you can cross apply good ideas from different domains. You can say "X language does Y -- maybe we could apply that idea to our existing code base. "
I think that the whole point of parent comment was that you need specialists to create that "publicly / academically available information" im the first place.
Try buying Greek if you can find that. At least the Greek brands of extra virgin olive oil I've bought in Northern Europe look and taste just like the locally product I've enjoyed in Crete. Italian and non-EU brands on the other hand taste totally different - and I don't think it's because of geography.
How do you know if that soot came from exhaust, tyres, or something else ?
On International Women's Day, most company ads are hypocritical
I went a different route. - I installed a LAMP service on my tablet and setup the database to be distributed so I can sync and take the tablet offline.
If it's not in clinical trials yet, it's not worth talking about. Pretty sure there's a few dozen in the same category as this drug.

EDIT: I don't mean that this isn't already approved for human use. But there's a whole list [0] of existing drugs being tested, and a lot of them are effective in vitro.

0: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41587-020-00003-1
When built properly, roads are quite resistant to the elements, though the execution is often culture-dependent. Roads for light loads can be built much cheaper.
I think it's hilarious that your argument against communism (which nobody even suggested) is that it "oppresses" you by getting in the way of you being an authoritarian.
(regarding muti-tweets, and I agree) https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1236549305189597189.html
In simplest possible SIR model that takes into account the growing recovered and immune, (1 − 1/R0) of the population gets infected. R0 is the reproduction rate.

R0 | % of population
----------------
2.5 60%
2.0 50%
1.5 30%

The effective reproduction rate decreases when people take precautions. There is no reason to assume it's constant or same in different countries and cultures.
That’s just wrong. JS uses ropes for the string implementation, so even the inefficient left padding is O(n).
Actually, to the point of viral strain differences, I did come across this paper indicating exactly that idea— that there are two strains. I am not a scientist, so I cannot evaluate the veracity of the claims, but did find the work interesting and compelling:
https://academic.oup.com/nsr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nsr...
My mistake, I was thinking of road hazard warranties
Considering a mazda with tyre size of 215/45 R18 with 1/4inch useable tread depth, that lasts 30K miles:

The mm^3 of rubber lost over lifetime (circumference * how wide the tire is * tyre tread depth) is approximately 2375922.431

Considering density of rubber at 650kg/m3, the weight lost over 30,000 miles is 1.54kg, which equates to 31mg/km and nowhere near 5g/km as claimed in the article. What am I missing?
Ask HN: How to start building a video+Audio interview tool?
Search few in Git-hub, SOF and checked white label solution, but couldn't find a proper and seamless service. I'm getting into conclusion to start building it from scratch. Any advice?
> If it's not in clinical trials yet

Only if its harmful. What if the drug has been in use for other disease with known side effects, will we still wait for clinical trials?
From what I read before Costco does independent testing and their olive oil is unadulterated.

Might be something to look into if you have Costco nearby.
Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I don't know why but I've read it 4 or 5 times and have gotten something different out of it each time.
FWIW, new tires rub off a lot for the first few hundred kilometers.
Gates-funded program will soon offer home-testing kits for new coronavirus
Ianad but presumably when there's a significant risk of crashing the world economy on the other side of the decision, rules on drug safety processes may get changed.
What an apt description of how I often feel.
1. The from address needs to be my personal email.

2. Email content should be plain text.

3. Email should not end up as promotional/spam
Is YouTube limiting Coronavirus recommendations?
Users of YouTube are familiar with how watching a single video on a new topic can result in the recommendation engine suddenly pouring tons of other related videos into the "Recommended" section. I sometimes won't click on an otherwise interesting video if I don't want to risk my recommended section becoming polluted.

Here's where I admit that I've been obsessing about coronavirus non-stop for the last two weeks. I've been Googling for it, searching YouTube for it, and have even subscribed to a couple channels about it. But I don't see them in the recommended section.

For someone who's admittedly been obsessing about this to what is probably an unhealthy degree, this might be exactly what I need and a good thing for me personally. But I'm curious if others have noticed this and wanted to share that some kind of manual intervention in the YouTube recommendation engine might be in place.
Yeah, but sometimes Google ditches the error code because there are so many more results for a different error code.
It's hard for me to imagine New York City being so safe and relaxed about security that no one had a problem letting any old dude with a camera into underground construction sites to take pictures.
Another possibility for managing this would be to use a puppet agent / master setup, and use puppet directives to pin sensitive packages (i.e. the ones that comprise your application) to specific versions while allowing the rest of the system to update accordingly (assuming the pinned packages don't cause dependency issues - which should be tested before pushing).

So the process might look like this:

1. Manually update a test system and take note of the packages comprising your application and their new versions ('grep -E "<PATTERN>" --color=always' could be helpful here).
2. Run automated tests against the test build to ensure that new packages have not caused issues.
3. If any breaking changes are discovered, pin the offending packages to their unbroken versions. Rinse and repeat.
4. Once a stable build is found, update your puppet manifests to reflect any pinned packages and run it on a single test system (I use an isolated puppet master test server for this).
5. If all goes well on the test system, update the main puppet master server and wait for the agents to call home (don't forget to update the runinterval directive in puppet.conf so the agents don't call home every 30 minutes - even idempotent processes consume resources).

Further reading:

https://forge.puppet.com/puppetlabs/apt
https://wiki.debian.org/AptConfiguration
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PinningHowto
Good point, but unfortunately the text is a subset of the audio and we wouldn't hear it in von Neumann's own voice.
So you’re telling me the “crazy hippies” who demand to buy only local honey from local farms were actually right? That it is actually better for you?

Guess I’ll have to start finding local honey.
The final thesis behind this slide deck is alongside it in the repo: https://github.com/cattius/opcodetester/
> I still haven't found a way to make my custom keybindings just work everywhere; every so often I happen to end up with focus in a window where, for example, my normal window navigation bindings don't work and I'd have to go out of my way to fix it.

The easiest way to do this is to use `bind-keys' (specifically, the one with an asterisk after it, which HN markup won't seem to let me use without creating italics instead), which creates a global map for your personal key bindings that override other bindings (so, use it thoughtfully, and remember that `describe-personal-keybindings' will list them). It's best used in the `use-package' macro, like:

(use-package ace-jump-mode
:bind* ("C-." . ace-jump-mode))
Is the website down?
Sure.

I mean, many people don't like video games, so they probably also don't like playing Fortnite.

I liked Vine, it had funny videos. Tiktok seems to be more like IG for videos, not my cup of tea.

On the other hand, IG became more interesting when I found comic accounts, maybe that's a way I could go with tiktok, haha
As an immigrant, I see most if not the entirety of the US food industry as a deadly practical joke.

We're all stuffing our face with sugar, dairy, fatty red meat and processed food and nobody really seems to care. Most of the so-called healthy alternatives aren't healthy at all. Just look at what are called "protein bars" at your local market and check how much sugar those have, to name one example.
On the topic of tire wear, I find that my rear bicycle tire will last roughly 3000 miles/4800 kilometers. Even summer performance tires on cars will last about 8000 miles (and most all season tires will go for at least 20,000 miles).
That is way too arbitrary. Just because money exchanged hands at some point doesn't mean the transportation is a net benefit or should be encouraged and everything else discouraged.

Besides, I think the economy would be much healthier if everyone was riding their bike recreationally (healthy bodies, healthy minds). And a much bigger boost to the economy than a delivery truck driving 10 miles to deliver a $2 package.
There are opportunity costs in the other direction too.
> it doesn't matter if you're a 2-lane, 4-lane, or 8-lane road

If you halve the capacity of the road, you're just going to spread the same cars (and congestion) among twice as many lights...and make traffic far worse.
Not if there already exist bindings in your language, which is the case more often than not these days.
Do you think that has any bearing on the triple trailer situation that seems to be developing?
> These findings were presented publicly for the first time at the RSA Conference 2020.

Why anyone would choose to have any association with RSA since Dual_EC_DRBG is a mystery. There are far more credible conferences at which to present findings.
Except that's the opposite of what he's saying. Instead of valuing feeling productive, he now values feeling energetic and excited every day. I think you may have missed that part.

Not everyone wants to get swole or be a rails core maintainer.
Well yeah, what are you going to do in the lab: run a light pipe up to the roof and split off a portion into a power meter to normalize results by season+time+weather, or run a constant power lamp to control illumination power?
The problem is that unsafe drugs can do way more harm than good and the world economy wouldn't be any better off

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide
Ask HN: API for Music Album Sales?
Any APIs out there that return data on music album sales and streaming numbers?
Chloroquine Phosphate has also been shown to have high efficacy and has already been tested in over 500 patients in China.

Fortunately it’s a drug that’s been around for 50+ years originally for malaria prophylaxis and is easy enough to synthesize.

The downside, is that it is unlikely to be found in the US since we don’t deal with malaria very much.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/32075365/
Most likely OP is trying to make a small side income from an open data set. See their previous submissions with the same title
Thanks!

As it happens I was looking at the book the other day and decided not to buy it. Maybe I should take another look.
I think the most rewarding path is becoming a specialist in something very important and broadly applicable.
The $400/corner tires on a sports car usually last about 5-8000 miles. They’re about as high quality as it gets.
ESR is right, and his banning, ironically, proves his point. To hell with the sanctimonious bastards in the OSI who did this.
I think mostly in SOA we need containers
> 10 lines of code almost never just stays 10 lines of code

This is only true when you implement business logic, not when you implement algorithms.
Interesting break down of dating dynamics with math. This guy has a lot of other interesting posts.
Ask HN: Engineering Community to Create Ventilators?
Does anyone here know of any COVID-19 or coronavirus related community, forum, Slack channel that has many engineers?

My motivation:

Currently, the virus shows signs of spreading across the US at a speed that will outstrip many medical resources.

One key resource is ventilators, the mechanical breathing systems that you've probably seen before. These ventilators will probably be in critically short supply.

Importantly, these mechanical ventilators actually amount to a face mask and a mechanical bellows. Their construction and performance requirements are relatively simple. With some time, they could be built by anyone with engineering ability, which the US and Canada has a huge pool of talent.

I want to see if there is a community that could consider organizing the production of these systems.
I recall a buddy proselytizing on the virtues of rotating your bike tires every couple thousand miles, which for that group was about once a year (and replace in the spring)
Thomas Piketty Turns Marx on His Head
"The web is an ocean, and fleets are gonna swarm them!"

...why so militaristic? I mean, I'm not a "hippie", but come one, fleets is just a preloaded word.
I was having problems loading it. The google cached version worked for me when I clicked for the text only version:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9juIKtY...
It sounds like OP (no offence to them) is missing the context? Decoding a JPEG itself can be super fast but if laying out every element that overlaps that JPEG is slow the a progressive JPEG is still going to cause speed issues.
GSuite & Gusto (small startup)
Yes, responding to the title. In particular in my rich web application if I am in the process of merging & deploying the branch to the production environment, sometimes the automated tests fail and I use a bisect to narrow down the offending commit. Having good commit messages in general helps with debugging in this scenario.

I’m surprised you haven’t found excellent tools to migrate from SVN to Git, considering how popular these VCS systems are.

I once worked in a company whose source tree originally predated version control. There I found an entire module that appeared to be dead code and I wanted to determine how it became dead. I did a bisect and landed on an 8 year commit that was the very first commit in the version-controlled tree. Yikes. So I guess I’ll never know how that module became dead.
thalidomide is still prescribed...
Does _what_ still apply?
Can someone substantively reply instead of just downvoting this comment?
It depends on the risk profile. A loss of hair for a cancer drug won't be a big deal but might be problematic for common cold.
Last time I looked at tires, Michelin was advertising tires with natural oils in them that somehow improved handling at 50% wear level.

I wonder if that even moved the needle on environmental footprint of their tires?
Can you give me a reference for the "bigger than 5-10 micrometers" size?

Any scientific article, published or unpublished, peer reviewed or not...
I just want to point out that it's possible to migrate an SVN repo to git while preserving history. I used svn2git (https://github.com/nirvdrum/svn2git) to migrate many repositories, although not very large ones.
I've been playing around with the code, you can just comment out the bits you don't want to run in the main function...

// buff.s1number();
// for (int i = 1; i < argc; i++)
// buff.s2banner(argv[i]);
// buff.s3rain(2800, buffer::s3rain_scroll_func_tanh);
buff.s4conway();
// buff.s5mandel();

// Infinite rain
//buff.s3rain(0, buffer::s3rain_scroll_func_const);
I think synthetic rubber is considered to be microplastics when small.
They must have meant grams because that is the basis of their 1000X statistic. The other number is also single digit but is in milligrams.

That doesn't mean they're right, but it's the only way I can interpret what they're saying.
Well, the Unreal Engine is 22 years old. I doubt the current incarnation is free of legacy code.
Lots of ways to cut that. Consider pounds-mile/gal for freight on my 80k truck carrying 45k freight, vs your vanagon or beemer.

My truck gets at least 6mpg, usually 7.5, sometimes 9, and I've seen 10 once.
The article talks about federal gov not doing things better. Maybe it should,but the way america works is that these sorts of laws are left for individual states. America has a lot of problems like this,states should do better but voters don't really care much about state politics. I can tell you a majority of americans probably don't even know who their governor is(I think I do but not really sure). On top of that,it's not very hard to move a business between states or for people in general to move around so states have to compete with one another on being friendly to economic contributors.

I am sure it is much more complex, but I do think the root cause lies in the american constitution and the role played by federal and state governments. The federal gov should either be a whole lot more capable(or overreaching for some) or a whole lot less significant,forcing popular politics to be centered at the state level.
Enormously clever and fun paper.
very cool, i was wondering what open source data annotation tooling existed, and coincidentally this popped up at the same time.
I didn’t mean to suggest you’d use it as a railgun. It just has the capacity for exactly as much torque as you need from it at any given moment.
Well, if you mean the perception that the EU should buy less US and more internal to up % military investments.

I think Trump succeeded in that. Other than that, I don't think he succeeded at anything, if you can call that a win ;)
The parent of the parent comment clearly referenced engineering with his “If you’re already spending >$200k/year per employee then a productivity increase of 10%...”
Nassim Taleb suggests everybody but Nassim Taleb doesn’t understand risk in complex systems.
The number of hippies from the 60s are vanishingly small proportion of the population. There're 100x people spitting on Vietnam protesters than there were protesters.
I wasn't suggesting to have dull knives, only that it's economical and convenient to let a professional sharpen them for you.
Security is multi layered, relying only on a single leads to bad things.
"Do what you love" at face value doesn't make much sense, but IMO that's the wrong way to look at it. "Doing" is not only the mere act of doing something but also the time you invest towards a goal.
I used to love the US and I came out of the 2010s hating it instead. Sigh.
We moved a young coworker into a first floor appt in downtown and there was black soot on all the windowsills. I taught him about soap and vinegar and we suggested an air filter and being judicious with opening the windows, or finding a window fan with a prefilter.

It had just not occurred to me that the busses and trucks were pumping out that much soot in the modern era.
Money Heist is complete fiction, that's the difference.
Here's a link to the paper

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)30229-4
This title could be better. Maybe "I spent 9 years as a manager at a pizza place... Nobody in the restaurant industry goes to the doctor when they're sick"?

Or just the latter half? Much more informative than the first half.
Declassified Navy training film explains weaponized biological agent dispersion
> All of the pollution, noise, stress, congestion...those things should be subsidized for people who live in cities, but they aren't....

On a per-capita basis, people who live in cities generate less externalities than rural dwellers. So I'm not quite clear on your point.
> even with encrypted dns you still leak the sites you query (SNI)

DNS over HTTPS fixes this.
I thought that blog post on explaining the explaining was very misleading, what am I missing? He or she says that if the us related leaker about Huawei was legit, they allow use of their name. But maybe it's a secret that say the us govt figured out that there really is a back door there? There is too much meta here. Yes, the us has been claiming that we can't trust Huawei. But keeping what the us knows unclear can be to our advantage.
And now that we know it causes birth defects we can tell people about them in advance and control distribution closely...