skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because audience likes the way he and others like him talk.

From the book:

> Not that being wrong hurt Kudlow’s career. In January 2009, with the American economy in a crisis worse than any since the Great Depression, Kudlow’s new show, The Kudlow Report, premiered on CNBC. That too is consistent with the EPJ data, which revealed an inverse correlation between fame and accuracy: the more famous an expert was, the less accurate he was. That’s not because editors, producers, and the public go looking for bad forecasters. They go looking for hedgehogs, who just happen to be bad forecasters. Animated by a Big Idea, hedgehogs tell tight, simple, clear stories that grab and hold audiences. As anyone who has done media training knows, the first rule is “keep it simple, stupid.” Better still, hedgehogs are confident. With their one-perspective analysis, hedgehogs can pile up reasons why they are right—“furthermore,” “moreover”—without considering other perspectives and the pesky doubts and caveats they raise. And so, as EPJ showed, hedgehogs are likelier to say something definitely will or won’t happen. For many audiences, that’s satisfying. People tend to find uncertainty disturbing and “maybe” underscores uncertainty with a bright red crayon. The simplicity and confidence of the hedgehog impairs foresight, but it calms nerves—which is good for the careers of hedgehogs.
I personally would want to use an immutable functional language wherever I can and only not use it if I have a good reason not too. Immutability makes reasoning about programs significantly easier, especially if they rely on concurrency.

And for finance it particular it's a very natural fit because there's just a lot of transformation of data and business logic.
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Holy crap that is really really bad
> > Putting the burden on each individual to filter everyone

> Is a recognition that humans are free agents and get to make their own choices in life.

And also puts the biggest burden upon those in the minority, even if the majority thinks they shouldn't have that burden.

> No man or woman is fit to play the censor.

But apparently they can drive other men and women away. It's defacto censorship, just of another source.

> What harm? Mean words on the internet?

Yes. Pointing out (and sharing) where you live, perhaps some details about your kids, and discussing the tragic consequences of families that lose children is just one example of "mean words on the internet". And maybe, per the above, the govt shouldn't be able to do anything about that. But saying that we, as society, just need to get thick skinned about that and suck it up as individuals is naive as to whom we are empowering and whom we are harming. We have more options than just dealing with things as individuals.

I'm not likely to respond further - my goal was not to debate the topic, but to share that there are some nuanced views on the topic of companies practicing some level of limitations on the free speech of others - anything more is well past the penumbra of the article. You clearly disagree with my views, and you clearly aren't alone, but I feel I've expressed my view well enough.
Make the mesh affordable, keep making the drivers and interfaces clean and reasonably easy to maintain.

In mass adoption, you want to keep the price right - so have a bulk pricing upfront. Also, keep one access protocol you can access from a phone / PC / most popular devices.

You're doing everything right. Try to get one great customer who can benefit from this today.
The problem is the data doesn't support your position being even a minority position behaviorally - probably even for the things you own.

The results are in: The overwhelming majority of consumers buy the cheapest things/services that fit their need, and they do not price in externality discounts on their own accord.
Of course, if only the foreign tool has the required functionality, it wins (no purity here).

API: Like patches, you might not need it now, or the API might not even exist yet.
Fork: Agreed, that was not a realistic scenario. Maybe a better argument would have been the ability to write plugins or extensions (even if you do not need them now).
Forum: Yeah not really important.
Patches: Agreed, who has time for patches. Like forking, probably not going to happen.
Additional (weak) argument: Better paradigm / metaphor match between tool and your system.

But yes, other factors are probably even more important, like will the tool still be actively maintained in 10 years? How big and active is the company / community behind the tool. How mature is it. How big is the existing user base. Cost, support options...
Two suppliers are more resilient so, you always have a fall back. Suppliers run into trouble all the time, single sources screw you in that case. Cluster risks are always bad.
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I was basing this off first person accounts from ex-pats in asia - the big message was that masks are now worn both as a courtesy to others and in some cases are required and kids don't like to wear masks - which makes it tricky when they are mandated. I can't find the blog though.
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Same here! Seeing how useful tableau (a far less powerful tool) has been for our company, it's clear that there is a big market for empowering everyone to dig for data-driven insights.
Nobody dies in Iraq if we don't keep a body count.
This is not aggressive. It's an order of magnitude too lax and over a week too late. This is a stunning abdication of leadership when we need it most. This is what's needed: https://mobile.twitter.com/NAChristakis/status/1237020518781...
Even if it is so, Chinese way of living is not just that market and people are just being racist. If there is a specific thing wrong with that environment (I'm not the one to tell), it needs to be dealt as a single case, not by talking down the way of living of billions.
> by individuals making rational choices about how they want to allocate their time

I estimate truthiness of this statement at 10%
What I want to know, is how bright does a light have to be to blind you if the back of your head is facing it.
> Federal and state officials said the flu study could not be repurposed because it did not have explicit permission from research subjects; the labs were also not certified for clinical work. While acknowledging the ethical questions, Dr. Chu and others argued there should be more flexibility in an emergency during which so many lives could be lost. On Monday night, state regulators told them to stop testing altogether.

While the researches weren't arrested, they were obstructed and then prohibited from continuing to test even though they helped uncover a major outbreak.
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I hate to break it to you, but when society starts to unravel because there are 1,000 dying people lined up outside the hospital and no free space on the floor for them to be treated, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act won't be worth the paper it is printed on. Words and laws can't make 0 hospital beds fit 1,000 untreated patients...
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A local supplier is not necessarily faster, even with shipping from overseas factored in.
Wages have been stagnant for 40 years. Fix wages (public policy, unions), not continually cutting cost to the bone to appease the shareholder class.
I'm quite sure the performance hit will be fine in a few decades.
> how I might fix the circuit breaker in my house.

Don't be so disappointed, here's my tip for you. In electrical installations, every subcircuit should have its own RCD/GFCI circuit breakers installed, rather than relying a RCI/GFCI breaker on the higher hierarchy. Otherwise the circuit breakers are misconfigurated - failing to do so would make troubleshooting leakage current (read "tripping breakers") extremely difficult.

But when it happens, there's a solution. I once fixed one at my home that always trips spontaneously, the secret is using a leakage current clamp meter. A RCD/GFCI circuit breaker trips when the leakage current is greater than its threshold to protect equipment and people. With a leakage clamp meter, it allows you to monitor the leakage current in real-time rather than hopelessly trying in the dark. You just clamp the meter across BOTH the live and neutral wire on the main breaker (if both wires carry the same current in the opposite directions, i.e. no leakage, net magnetic flux inside the sensor will be zero, so the meter reads 0 mA, and vice versa), turn off every subcircuit, and starts switching on different subcircuits one-by-one. If you see the leakage current substantially increases after you switched on a specific subcircuit, repeat the process by disconnecting all appliances from that subcircuit and connecting them one-by-one while observing the meter. Finally you'll find the smoking gun (if there's still significant leakage when nothing is connected, it means the wiring is at fault), mine was a light fixture with damaged insulation.

A leakage current clamp costs $200-$300, Fluke's meter will cost you $600. However, you can get a good enough, low-accuracy leakage clamp from China on AliExpress for $50-$100, just make sure the product description mentions "leakage" (the laws of physics are the same for all current clamp meters, but most are not designed to sense sub-10 mA leakage current).

In my experience, only a handful of electricians working with home wirings are aware of this diagnostic technique. I learned it from an application note of an industrial system.
“These claims have absolutely no merit, and we will vigorously defend ourselves against them in court,” Quibi said in a statement Monday. The company declined to comment on Eko’s lawsuit.

I know that this is far from the first time I've seen it, but does anyone else find it unnerving to see these statements be presented as coming directly from the companies? As if there is an entity called Quibi that literally vocalized that sentence, instead of it being presented by a lawyer representing Quibi. How long ago did the absurdity of "corporate personhood" worm its way into our very language?
Mixing facts and lies, and write unintentional things as if they were intentional is really the best way misinform people.

I really don't see why should China try to hide an outbreak. China will be, and is hurt the most without a doubt. China isn't mother nature, you can't just assume its government is somewhat almighty, knows everything before its happened and blame it for not doing anything. No government can be that.
Are you arguing that pointing out to Hachette that Woody Allen's daughter accuses him of sexual assault should render someone liable? And this is supposed to be the pro free speech position?

Nobody on Twitter did anything but speech, did they?
If you wanna trade stories I can tell you about growing up atheist in South Carolina, but I don't think it's a productive or effective use of this forum.
I didn't downvote your comment, by the way. It's a fair point.

Many politicians have tried to rally support for border security by describing illegal immigration as a source of violent crime. Trump mentioned "rapists" in his remarks as a way of communicating that same narrative, albeit a bit more colorfully.

The word salads are very ingenious, as they are essentially two messages in one. The message "immigrants are rapists" gets through to some of his supporters (who are happy to hear it) and the more nuanced message gets through to those who read the transcript or who parse the words more carefully.

It's an added benefit that when the opposing party's media jumps all over the comment, some portion of Trump's supporters believe that they intentionally ignored the intent of Trump's statement and are unfairly characterizing him as racist. Yet to many of his supporters, the racism is a welcome change and a sign of honesty and courage.

Whether you personally agree with Trump or not, you must acknowledge the mechanism I'm describing. It's brilliant, and it is why Trump has been so successful. He's able to break through the wall of fake-sounding language that holds back much political speech and reap the benefits of a more raw and hostile form of speech, while still being viewed as having expressed a reasonable view by his more sophisticated supporters.

If you don't view them as deliberate word salad bombs, then they are gaffes, but there have now been way too many of them for it to be accidental. Trump understands how to speak both in text and subtext for maximum emotional impact.

So while I personally find Trump to be one of the most reprehensible characters ever to hold high office in the US (and also a big embarrassment), I do give him credit for being skilled at political rhetoric.
In Christian dogma terms, sure, but if you call an (edit) Orthodox Greek Catholic, they will quite disagree.
Uhh, they could have permanently banned wet markets. Every epidemiologist knew that something like this pandemic was eventually inevitable

China absolutely could have prevented this but there wasn't a desire to do so because CCP officials like to eat bats sometimes too
> It's not like every central institution can marshal expertise on every local issue.

True, but maybe we disagree on how easy it is for every locality to acquire expertise. Plenty of local governments in the United States are already stretched thin fulfilling the simpler functions of policing, schooling, and basic infrastructure. Adding a staff epidemiologist seems very hard for such places. The same proviso applies to many poorer states and nations. That is why I think it makes most sense to direct effort toward having a competent central authority.

> By decentralizing the process of decision making, you mitigate the risks, since you are allowing entities to tackle a problem in parallel, and if one of them turns out to be wrong, the fallout is localized. Whereas in a centralized system, one bad decision can spell trouble for everyone.

On the flip side, decentralizing makes coordination harder. In coarse terms, there are game-theoretic considerations in an epidemic. For example, if localities are purely self-interested, an unaffected region may attempt to quarantine and keep all of its medical infrastructure ready for itself rather than lend it to nearby affected regions. In such cases a coordinating mechanism can be extremely helpful.

I'm not arguing that one kind of organization is always better or worse. To me it just seems complicated.
I really want to see this used as an opportunity - not like "how can we recoup our losses by doubling the number of ads shown per game," rather "what cool things can we do with drones or cameras or mics or any other element of production now that we don't have this crowd constraint?"
> Don't get tied up in militant atheist perspectives.

Not that you're saying its not, but I'd grasp onto this to add a point that its valid and useful to debate whether that surrendering is the best path.

In my mind, what you're being asked to do is abstract and make a virtual externalization of your ego. The benefit is you can get some of the benefits of ego-depletion or ego-loss, but the side effect is that it risks further use of that mechanism to explain or stop caring about things that are more easily under one's control. This can lead to a cycle of ignorance - if every event that happens is "God's Plan", then why not give into nihilism? Its ends up being the answer to every question - if you don't understand something, then its not due to lack of effort, it must be ungodly.

Note that plenty of religious people don't fall into this trap. They don't have a problem expanding their knowledge, and they leave the dieties in the periphery of understanding. Growing up amongst some extreme fundamentalist people though and seeing the downsides of dealing with all problems through faith alone, I am really lax to recommend the surrendering that AA espouses as a universal/sole truth.
Two of the projects I'm thinking of used Sass or Less. The problem is on figuring out why you have black text on a black background because your CSS selectors no longer match the DOM structure, when the DOM structure is split up and/or not even HTML-like anymore.

You don't want situations where senior staff have to intervene on what should be a straightforward issue. It gums up the works.
youre incorrectly asserting the sweaters are the same. The chinese one was colored with toxic waste and is eerily thin but you buy it anyways because ALL the clothes at Kohls are eerily thin and only the turbopriviledged can shop above the Kohls level of quality.
over-produced. not raw and real.
Eventually pandemics burn themselves out -- the entire susceptible population becomes infected. At that point all the mitigation becomes pointless.

The goal of doing this is to lengthen the time it takes for that to happen so we don't overflow hospitals when ever gets it at once. It could be the difference between 500k people dying over 2 years and 4 million people dying in 6 months in the US.
Significant compared to what? By the metrics this is no different than flu season with lots of hysteria lumped on.
Well, they can actually be helpful. I've found a lot of good info on company blogs from engineers about embedded programming, electronics, and other topics.

You can also think of it as marketing for engineer types who are usually immune to formal forms of marketing. Managers don't care about details, they want to see $ numbers. Engineer types want gory details. So your engineering blog can help market your products to engineers. Just look at intels documentation pages vs their actual intel.com site. intel.com is marketing 101 eyesore.

An example would be a blog from a semiconductor company making analog circuits. Think Bob Pease types. They'll talk about a specific problem or circuit, go into the bloody details, math, schematics, charts, graphs, etc. Then toss you a product from their portfolio that can solve the problem.
I got a much-needed laugh out of it.

Especially:

> My dude, I can barely make a website, much less a mini NSA.
But what knowledge is there to extract from people's behavior. It's massively dependent on context and paradigm. Give cheap cocaine to people they'll take it.
I actually looked into american made clothing: Jeans.

American-made jeans are anywhere from $160-300. I can also buy some jeans at Levi's for $60-100.

It is not as small as you depict and also not as large as you are responding to, but it is still a very real gap.
Here's another idea:

Start wearing a bracelet or something else to give yourself a little reminder when you are reaching for your face. I have no idea whether bracelets themselves are germ traps, of course.
One can dream! I do show up to work even in sickness!
The entire philosophy around open markets and globalization is that you don't need "self reliance" because it's one giant market that shares goals and interdependence.
Classifying doesn't keep you from having to prioritize things. Or people finding out that you prioritized certain regions over others.
> How many people stuff their house with clothes that they wear only once?

Really? In what kind of bubble are you living?
Isn't the global atomic op a bad idea?
For our analyzers, we actually do use existing static analysis behind the scenes in addition to our custom checkers that we write by hand. So our Ruby analyzer, which is in beta at the moment, does use Rubocop behind the scenes. We’re working towards the stable release of Ruby analyzer which uses augmentations to remove false positives and decrease the noise — since guaranteeing less than 5% false positives is one of the primary values that DeepSource adds. As the anlayzer moves towards stable, we'll add custom issues to it.

The general categorization of anti-patterns is based on the consensus of the community around the language, and also some obvious things based on objective reasons. Although we understand that everyone has their own flavor of conventions — so it is very easy to triage and ignore specific issues in DeepSource.
Laughable? The US does some pretty bad shit but the Chinese treatment of it's millions of ungyrs and confirmed organ harvesting of prisoners outweighs all the domestic bad shit that the US has ever done
By and large improved health care won't affect population resistance all that much, it just improves survival rate. In an earlier time you would have been right, European germs caused more Native American deaths than Europeans themselves when they first colonized, but nowadays with global trade we all end up sharing the same diseases for the most part.

Sedentary lifestyles enabled by modern lifestyles as opposed to a hunter-gatherer lifestyle can contribute to decreased overall health but thats not the issue here since almost nobody is a hunter-gatherer anymore.

When it comes to new viruses, all of us are in the same boat immunity-wise.
How do you maintain uninterrupted power?

Why vertical farming in India when the weather is conducive to intensive covered hoophouse farming year round?

What is being grown? Lettuce is not an Indian staple and is neither calorie intensive or nutrient intensive. What other vegetables or herbs can they grow vertically?
Assuming you were honestly looking for an explanation: not bored because they don't participate in the same discussions as you might, where the conversations turn to being "formulaic". In my world, and I assume in the world in which the OP lives, it's not immediately obvious why someone would run their mouth about things they know little about when an expert is standing right next to them.
This is already law in a lot of places. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Sam_law
Please don't post in the flamewar style to HN, and especially omit personal attacks.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
No, let's pay a premium and lock ourselves into a trillion dollars company's last day project instead :-)
> The supply chains that you rail against have successfully delivered the greatest levels of prosperity to the largest number of humans in all of history.

And they've delivered that by building a fragile system with too little safety margin or redundancy.

It's like building an application that can serve the absolute greatest number of requests for the absolute lowest price by having absolutely no redundancy. It looks great, until a disk fails.

> The "suicidal deindustrialization" you refer to is the result of people making informed choices that you happen to disagree with.

I wouldn't call those choices informed, it'd call them myopic. A smart, informed choice with a time horizon of 6 months can be an exceptionally stupid one with a time horizon of 30 years.
How about this solution: If your face itches or something, use the back of your hand to rub it? Or some other part of your body that you can be confident isn't used to touch anything potentially contaminated.
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Lots and lots of ETLs. Functional languages are a great match for that class of problem.
The only sane explaination why any government would try to downplay it will only be of one reason, they don't know how serious it could be, and frankly, when the outbreak starts in China, we know nothing about the virus, but at this moment, we have much more accurate data and research about how the virus works, and we should expect our governments to have better solutions at hand.
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Yup, that’s why many economists have been saying that during a good economy like we’ve had for the past ten years, we should have used the opportunity to rebuild the economic tools we rely on in case of an emergency. Instead we cut taxes and cut interest rates, so now there’s no room in the economy to recover this time.

It could end up being nothing... or it could end up being the worst economic crisis we’ve ever seen. And if it’s the latter, we have no way to defend against it. The coffers are empty.