skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Last I google-researched, AA-style treatment was really the ONLY effective treatment against long term dependence/addiction. Psychotherapy and others almost always failed.

It probably is related to the social network effect that was described with Vietnam vets dumping heroin addiction when they returned home to their old social groups that didn't accomodate the behavior. AA et al provide a new social group that actively tries to stop the addiction.
WHO declares the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic
for an article which practically browbeats us with environmental concern and "brutal inequality" it really is odd they celebrate Noma where lunches cost on the order of $375 without drinks[0][1]. So basically we have a group of pretentious activists bemoaning the well being of the planet and the little guy while eating a mere lunch that is more most of those little people see per month if not year.

Spare me.

I tried to read the article with an open mind but the amount of preaching was a bit over the top so I went restaurant hunting and outside of the Ikea mentions this what you get, the elite basically having the food equivalent to Papal dispensations. Probably the same bunch which jets from high profile high visibility environment conference to the next.

You do not reshape the world on four hundred dollar lunches.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/24/dining/noma-restaurant-co...

[1] https://noma.dk/food-and-wine/
Yeah, those are not the same thing and your point would be sen as disingenuous unless you were asking about the difference vs stating them as the same.

Hes running to get big/dark/foreign money out of politics ad is funded 100% by citizen/supporter donations not special interests.

He could push for a public funding system to eliminate both types but would need either careful legislation, a supreme court reversal, or a constitutional amendment (and probably both the first 2 to work long term anyway).

On top of that, the conservative subreddit literally has rules about it not being a place of debate or questions. Compare it to the Bernie sub rules and see if you can spot how once again both sides are not the same.
Good on them.

I don’t know what the hell is happening but I don’t understand how people who support the ACLU and every other 90s liberal who supported free speech unencumbered can now get on board with this censorship which shamelessly hides behind “private cos are not the gov, so it’s not real censorship.

You don’t have to like the people, you can hate them, despise them, shame them whatever, but people should not be silenced.

We’re going to regret this short sighted spiral into self imposed censorship.
BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-51839944

PS the OP's link is a "live" link so the top (i.e. WHO declares pandemic) story might scroll down.
Microsoft Leaks Info on Wormable Windows SMBv3 CVE-2020-0796 Flaw
I'm glad that steps are being taken by doctors to fight against anti-vaxxers. But what concerns me is that these people are so extreme that they believe doxxing and harassing anyone who says something pro-vaccine is the right way to engage.
Well, it linked to the real source here, above the fold.
>> Mobile web is not a niche use case in 2020.

Sure- but is it that urgent for you to read my comment right now? Can't you wait to get to your laptop?
I agree with Musk's point, but I think he should have been more clear: most people treat college as 'basically for fun and not learning.'

I personally got a hell of a lot out of my degree, but I was working my ass off, and studying with focused interest. I was working in the field I was studying full time as well.

For me, college was a way to be forced to study topics I would not have chosen to study on my own. I think most people are like that, and that's why forced curriculums can be beneficial in some way. Do I think college as it is today is the best way to achieve this? No I do not.

I think so much about university is just a waste, and the cost just keeps skyrocketing. Most people are not serious academics, and that's honestly what it takes to do well in university. Are you a person who is deeply, seriously, curious and will just read book after book after book? Good, go to college. If you are not, then you'll be better off learning some other way (catch, there is no other way right now, but there should be!)
So you or your parents payed 50k a semester so you can try out a couple different hobbies? Seems quite expensive way of learning to these things.

Tell you what, give me 10k a semester, and I will gladly set up a desk in my basement and provide a list of topics that you would usually not learn about and test you on them so we can expose you to new things.
Basically making an OO DSL inside Haskell. It's a cool idea, but there have to be nicer looking ways to do it right?
>The point is surrendering to something "bigger" than yourself. Don't get tied up in militant atheist perspectives.

There are people that can just say "from tomorrow I will believe in God/afterlife/spirits etc. It would be so easy to live knowing that your loved ones are not gone or that if you are good enough your problems will be solved soon but for some people(like me) it is like trying to convince me that 2+2=5 and giving cancer to children has a higher purpose that we are to stupid to understand but we still should worship that "bigger" thing.
Characterizing, modeling, and benchmarking RocksDB key-value workloads at
> 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 didn't answer OP's question, which was:

> This is an advertisement of Algolia. Isn't it?

Reflecting on your answer, you appear to be advertising for Algolia as well. It's a nice product, but the impression I get is that OP is right -- this post is an advertisement.
> tying compensation to total sales numbers, tying compensation to milestones, or even just lowballing them.

Author contracts already do all of those things. Advances have gotten lower and lower over the years ("lowballing them"), and typically pay out incrementally at various phases of completion ("compensation to milestones"). Once the book is done, most of the author's compensation comes from royalties ("tying compensation to total sales numbers").

Authors are already highly incentivized not to commit "moral turpitude" because doing so will tank sales of their book and thus their royalties.

Publishers aren't adding morals clauses to incentivize authors. It's just another example of the classic move a large corporation in a position of power trying to grab even more power. If they could get away with it, publishers would add a clause to every contract saying, "We can demand your advance back at any time for any reason or no reason at all, just because we feel like it."
This is a slippery slope logical fallacy that translates the value of college (an incumbent business) to the value of teachers (a person entity)... that's a poor translation and not a "logical conclusion".

In good faith, I believe if you asked Elon, "Are you claiming there is no value in teaching?", that he would say "that's not what I was claiming."
Coronavirus Declared Pandemic by World Health Organization
I saw someone suggest this as a UI for Twitter a while ago. Can't remember where. But yes, it sounds brilliant!
Archdiocese of SF to Close 90 Bay Area Catholic Schools over Coronavirus
Oh yes, low bar for sure. The challenge is to get it to be a high ceiling.
Humans of all kinds are bad about seeing beyond their own noses.

Having principles is hard when it might apply to / benefit someone you don't like.

That's not applicable to any particular group, it's a human problem.

I often wonder when talking to folks who I agree with:

How much does this person really think about this topic... and how much do they just think that this bad thing we don't like is bad because that guy did it? And would they be dismissive if someone we agreed with generally did the exact same thing?
If I'm well and truly stuck, then what I do is put the problem on the back burner for a while (typically a day or two), and work on a different, preferably unrelated, thing. I very often find that when I come back to the problem I was stuck on, I find a solution or direction that I was blind to before.

I use this "distraction" technique when I'm stuck on any problem in life, too, not just programming ones. I find it very powerful.

If I remain stuck, then I begin to entertain the idea that the problem itself is the result of a different problem elsewhere and investigate that possibility. Sometimes a problem is intractable because the issue isn't really in the code you're working on, but is the result of a larger design issue.
An engine like this would likely not implement the hardest bits - JIT and optimization. Many, if not most, vulnerabilities in modern JS engines arise from performance optimizations.
What's the deal with IPv6 link-local addresses?
Worth looking at also is Approximation Theory and Approximation Practice, which is centered around Chebfun. Almost everything by Trefethen is unusually well written, Spectra and Psuedospectra is one of my favorites.
News to me! Guess the buyer of my car is happy :P
I'm not suggesting re writing everything. I'm suggesting that it's irresponsible to start a new project in an unsafe language when an equally efficient safe language is available.
I don't live there, but I visit very often (at least once a year lately) and have visited regularly since the mid-90s (my family immigrated from there in the early 90s). I think in many ways the quality of life in the big cities (St. Petersburg and Moscow) is higher for the upper middle class (typical tech worker) there than in the US. Cleaner, safer streets and public transport, better services, convenient hours, better/easier access to quality healthcare (I'd still do advance surgery outside the country). The problems are the corruption, potential political instability and red tape that chokes private business. I'd live there (just need to convince my Russian wife ;) ).
> Are you a person who is deeply, seriously, curious and will just read book after book after book? Good, go to college.

Unfortunately I found myself more and more like this, after I opted not to go to college (well, not books per say, but I have started to consume more literature in general trying to get deep knowledgeof how things work).
>We have serotonin receptors in our digestive system, to guard against swallowing poisonous seeds.

Nobody knows the purpose of serotonin in the gut [0]. The fact that you've accepted this theory as fact suggests to me that you've also drank the kool-aid with respect to the role of Serotonin in depression, which is very controversial.

Also the fact that you experienced results with SSRIs in such a short timespan (placebo-controlled trials have found depressive symptoms don't get better for months) suggests to me you are experiencing a placebo effect and not some adjustment of a 'chemical condition'.

And this is fine, and I'm happy for you, but I don't think it's unreasonable to demand a better treatment than placebo. The placebo effect has also been shown to be very strong with cancer patient, but placebo wouldn't be an acceptable treatment for them.

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3272651/
Automattic?

https://automattic.com/work-with-us/
Could you provide some references for this work on caching and schedulers?

I’m also curious what application domains are storing close to petabytes on a single machine with only a few terabytes of dram.
Who said anything about "addicts"? I was talking about drunks.
How is that "getting away from google" if they're both based on Android, which is a Google-developed operating system?
Show HN: Side.to – Sell your side project and unused domains
The problem with invoking that part of the solution that helps is the surrender to a higher power, is that there isn't a lot of group therapy solutions that don't have that involved.

We can't effectively say for certain whether there's a correlation with throwing in a higher power or just group therapy on its own in this circumstance, and I know for a fact there are many that will not join an "* Anonymous" group because of the more religious overtones. This creates a dichotomy that is hard to separate when talking about groups like AA, as it reinforces the thought that their process is important over the comradarie and support of a shared experience.
Strategic Partnership with China Lies at Root of Iran’s Coronavirus Outbreak
Update: I've just made it a little clearer. I've also made a note to mention this in the docs.
A similar sort of thing (though usually SFW) crops up on r/oldschoolcool, eg: https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/fgi66k/my_da...
Hi everyone!

I’ve been working on https://side.to which is a marketplace for selling side projects and unused/inactive domains for the past few months now. This started off as an alternative to Flippa but for smaller projects. It’s currently in public beta (so it’s not 100% perfect just yet). I did a full writeup of it on Medium if you’d like to give it a read: https://link.medium.com/2nNiagScL4

- 100% free to list
- No success fees for projects that sell for under $50 and for domains that sell for under $10 (http://side.to/fees)
- We handle payments onsite and use Stripe!
- Instant payouts to sellers
- Synced with http://sideprojects.net (our parent site)

There’s no BS: no listing fees, no fees to unlock access to important features, etc.

Listings are manually reviewed for quality assurance.

I’m also aware that there are other platforms out there that do what we’re trying to do but I’ve disagreed with how they execute it. I don’t believe in having an upfront cost to list a project in addition to high success fees and I also don’t agree with requiring users to pay to unlock certain features before they can actually make a sale. It just poses a high risk of losing money in the case that the project doesn’t sell. With our platform, there’s no upfront costs posing no risks to sellers.

Keep in mind that what is being sold on our site are side projects and unused/inactive domains, so we currently have a price cap at $2000 and $100 respectively.

Let me know what you think and if you have any questions!

Also feel free to follow me on twitter! https://twitter.com/sakofchit :)
> They refer to teaching web development as something a "trade school" would do.

I kinda agree. I think that you could learn all you need to know to be able to work in a FAANG junior web role (i.e. programming, algorithms, distributed computing, UNIX, databases etc.) in a focused 2-year trade school program.
Depends on the monitors and dishwasher. A $250 dishwasher is a pretty crappy one; the nice ones are $500-1000. $150 will get you a perfectly decent 1080p 23" monitor, however at work I have three 27" monitors that probably cost about $800 each.

It just depends on if you want nice stuff or really basic stuff. The nice stuff costs a lot more than the prices you quoted, just like a nice midrange car like a Camry costs a lot more than a basic, bottom-of-the-line car (Yaris?).

Considering the audience of this site, I would assume most here would buy higher-end stuff, and not the cheapest things available.
(Sylvain from Algolia speaking) Thanks for sharing, our pricing & its transparency is actually something we are working on right now to address this perception. We've been iterating a few times already over the past 7 years, but this is one more signal for us to act!

The reality is that based on the number of objects you want to search in, your search traffic, your searches' complexity and your index/relevance configuration; the underlying resources can vary soo much, it's hard to have a single pricing that fits all use-case.
On Mid-Career Growth
You can read the explanation in the proposal, which will tell you everything, at http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2019/19025-terminals-prop.pdf .
Looks to not be that maintained/developed anymore (last commit oct 2019, no significant activity since 2017).

Has anyone tried this? From a cursory glance it seems to be superseded by Matrix/Riot (there's also Mattermost and RocketChat).
Exactly. That's a different repo. Is the UI source included there as well? If so, then it's covered, but if not I can't assume that it is.
We're working on improving it as we speak.
For now we do not track users.

Our targeting is pretty basic: device (desktop, mobile), website categories and location.
This is a great idea, especially for tracking kids. I'd love to leave one of these in my kids backpack and know where they were without depending on a cellular-device/service-plan/charging/etc
Why Didn’t Saturn Eat Titan, Its Biggest Moon?
Correct. I'm currently hiring for a senior internal recruiter in NYC and am expecting to pay at least $150k.

The demand is only going to continue to increase so salaries will continue to rise.
At the expense of playing devil's advocate for most responses in this thread, I really disagree with this statement. I went to a reasonably good (top 25) state school. I studied a lot of hard science: physics, astronomy, CS, math. I can wholeheartedly say that without the structure and rigor of college I would not have learned as much as I did. Sure, I might not use all that knowledge in my personal day-to-day, but it is a lot more complete than if I had tried to teach it to myself.

On top of that, colleges really were the place to find information prior to the internet. Maybe Musk's statement is more relevant today, but in previous generations you needed something like a university to do research (try looking for physics journals that are up to date at your local library).

Last, Musk's actions speak louder than his words: most of his companies' jobs currently require degrees, they mostly recruit from tier 1 universities, and Musk himself _completed_ 2 degrees, and started a third. Obviously he values the signalling a degree grants.

All of this to say that despite that, some of the best developers I know have little or no formal education. So the caveat is true: you don't necessarily need a degree to learn and be successful in the modern day for at least some (or maybe many) things, I just personally find a lot of value in a formal education.

(Sorry for any poor grammar, just had LASIK done and its a little hard to see)
Seconded. I've had a fabulous experience at an all-remote company, and a pretty lousy experience where I was the only remote worker.
Programming Without Code: The Rise of No-Code Software Development
I'm not necessarily going to go to bat for the specific encoding of OOP Haskell in the linked post, but in general, there are problems where objects are a good fit. William Cook (in the paper On Understanding Data Abstraction, Revisited) claims that the key feature of objects is that they are defined in terms of an external interface whose internals are hidden: this captures, for example, SmallTalk-style message sends and duck typing as well as the information-hiding found in languages like C++ or Java. One way of encoding this idea into Haskell is with records of functions: to give a tiny example, a set type can be represented as

data Set a = Set { contains :: a -> Bool }

which leaves the actual structure of the set undefined. This means you can use a variety of methods 'under the surface' to compute set membership and the external interface can be identical and compatible:

emptySet = Set { contains = \_ -> False }
singletonSet x = Set { contains = \y -> x == y }
union l r = Set { contains = \y -> contains l y && contains r y }
fromList lst = Set { contains = \y -> y `elem` lst }

And while this example is a bit trivial, this pattern is invaluable for writing things that OOP can traditionally excel at, like writing GUIs or certain kinds of video games where you want to bundle heterogeneous behavior into a single package:

data GameObject = GameObject
{ render :: Pos -> GraphicsContext -> IO ()
, currentPosition :: Pos
, setPosition :: Pos -> GameObject
}

Of course, this is only one (significantly simpler!) encoding of OOP, and it might not be one that you think captures the key ideas of objects, but to the degree that it is it demonstrates that ideas which are common in OOP (like information-hiding behind an interface) can still be useful in Haskell when judiciously applied in the right context.

The paper I cited can be read here, which has more details: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~wcook/Drafts/2009/essay.pdf
> I'm more bothered that it's ostensibly a review of a visual exhibit without any visuals.

Writing about architecture is like dancing about cooking.

(paraphrase of a famous quote that I can't place at the moment -- cite, anyone?)
> Someone did a back of the envelope calculation and decided a lawsuit was going to be cheaper than licensing Java would be.

I don't think it was an issue of monetary value. Sun simply wasn't going to offer terms that would allow Google to make Android with Sun's blessing, because Sun wanted to retain tight control over the feature set of different Java editions.

> This all would have been avoided if Google wasn't a bad actor in the first place. They wanted to play by different rules than everyone else

Please don't do this. The irony of making such a silly claim using a software stack that is so thoroughly built on those "different rules" is too much.
It really looks like this guy found his calling, good for him! I'm impressed his managed to keep his organization healthy with 700 remote employees, that takes some real business/management talent.

In my own business, we are a remote team of 6 and we do pretty well. The way we've made it work so far is by doing very little collaboration, and instead opting to each have our own focus with little overlap. There are times when I'd really love to have some other engineers to whiteboard with and collaborate on difficult problems, but that seems impossible to do remotely. At least very easily.
My own impression is that AA would not have worked for me. Too preachy. Too pessimistic. For me, what helped was psychotherapy, joining a meditation group, an antidepressant, and solving the underlying root cause of my drinking (a failing relationship). I haven’t had an alcoholic drink in 4 years, and I don’t miss it.
Please describe a 'militant' atheist perspective unironically. :)

When you contrast it to any other type of 'militant', there is typically violence involved..

However, personally, I think the closest thing I could believe in is a "best self". Not that anyone chooses their beliefs, but the rest would be pretty hard to digest for any good reasons.

Honestly, I just think giving up on the idea that you can do this by yourself (in the long term) is counter-productive. Especially if you have an existential crisis later in life and that 'higher power' was the only thing that kept you moving forward.
Learning how to embrace self-respect/love/understanding/esteem would go so much further in the long run and would help in all aspects of your life. With each success, and learning to accept each failure -- you will be strengthening productive habits.