skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Social Poll App - Feedback Please
Hey there,

Is there room for a poll app with a social aspect? If you are tired of the tribalism online and want to just have questions answered by a community such as KAILO.

Starting with the web app I wanted to test the waters to see whether there is a need for this, a MVP if you will.

I was hoping the community would be willing to help run some test via https://sg.socialgraph.app/

Any feedback welcome.

Cheers
James
I did this kind of research in the last two weeks. I have got a huge spreadsheets with goals and various options how to fulfil these goals with the cloud offerings of just aws and gcp.

So the fun part here is, several options are viable, until you find this one issue where it doesn't work anymore.
then you have to track back or find work around and check if the work arounds are acceptable or not.

And some of these limitations are usually not that straight forward to see and also to read about.

However, there are some resources like https://github.com/ahmetb/cloud-run-faq which are very good and helpful. Sometime official documentation doesn't really cover the questions that are important for your product.

Also, what i found without a multiples poc testing connectivity and the basic building blocks it is difficult to find all the gotchas, that might turn into blockers for a particular solution.
Easy for them to do because it costs them nothing. VPNs use so little bandwidth. What a joke to get some good PR, and sad they are exploiting this pandemic.
Thank you for pointing this out! And thank you for your work on OBA: I use it in San Diego and it’s a fantastic app.
South Korean here. I must point out that there are four companies in South Korea with Emergency Use Authorization for COVID-19 testing and Seegene is not the only supplier, or even the first supplier (the first is Kogene). Four companies, in order of authorization, are Kogene, Seegene, Solgent, and SD Biosensor.
accuracy don't mean shit. give me precision and recall too or you're just picking numbers.
Or a new normal? We'll see in the coming days and weeks how functional the US is.
Sweden did pretty well to scale from zero to ten test labs in just a couple of weeks though.

I read thats more labs than can do the same in the US.
Seems like it'd still be susceptible to playback attacks with a slight random delay.
Nothing, it is just that nobody bothered. There have been a bunch of classic-VB-like languages (even IBM made one with their 'Visual Age for Basic' - though they really missed the mark on the IDE side, but the language and features were very VB6-like), but pretty much all of them either get abandoned or miss the entire point of classic VB by focusing on one thing (usually the language) while ignoring another (usually the IDE or sometimes the fact that classic VB is almost a 'live' system and instead they put a clear C-like separation between editing and compilation)... or miss completely by doing all these things wrong. Assuming they do not die off before managing to make anything usable, of course.
CT scan room and machine is going to need a lot of cleaning.
Because when our social contract with each other fails, we rely on the generosity of the wealthy few to step in to assist.
The explosive spread of coronavirus can be turned to our advantage
Yeah, it's a reminder of where we shipped our industrial capacity (both real and human).
A big point of the Presidents address today was around relaxing regulations to help the response. So hopefully this will get sorted out.
That's why most efficient public transports use two tier system. There is long and short distance tiers. Long distance can be metro or express busses (busses that skip most stops). This gets you relatively close to the destination where you have option to take a bus that has very short distances between stops.
1. Oversubscribed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons

2. Less safe. https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/88853/are-open-...
I stopped taking the bus regularly, then permanently during this time period.

At first it was because my personal schedule, and my bus schedule changed just enough to make it annoying to make it to work on time, and almost impossible to avoid routes that spent most of their time in an extremely high crime area. So most of the time I drove to the train.

Then I got a new job working from home, and I stopped taking the bus and the train. I must say that I miss the bus quite a bit. It was the most books I've ever read recreationally. I even taught myself python on the bus, which lead to the new job.

I also used to take the bus when I thought I would be drinking, and uber/lyft have completely replaced that.
> E.W.Dijkstra would disagree

Yes. And Dijkstra would be wrong. (Or, perhaps more accurately, prone to somewhat bombastic hyperbole.)

BASIC is structurally similar to ASM, moreso than is any other HLL, at least of any popularity. Like almost any language (or paradigm) it is possible to get stuck in its particular ruts, and when BASIC was at its peak popularity there were probably lots of people stuck in those ruts just as later happened with Java and the static, class-based OO paradigm more generally. A learning language isn't something you stock with exclusively, it's something you learn with and then diversify from, ideally, and for that, BASIC (old-school unstructured imperative BASIC) is great.
It's an Alphabet company. For most Americans, that's the proper explanation.
I'm sure they'd be using them proactively at this point
When it comes to classic VB (aka VB6) it isn't so much what you can do but how you do it. After all everything that was possible with VB6 was also possible with Visual C++.
One of the reasons the US developed its own test was that the test that China was using had a 48% false negative rate. These are probably the same tests.
And I thought it was only here in the USA... Almost good to know that we're not alone in our incompetence.

At least next time around we should all be prepared like Taiwan was this time.
> the idea that they should use a scripting language for some task

People like to do premature optimization, and choosing the language is one way.
Clickbait headline.

>This screening site isn’t being developed by Google. Instead, it’s being built by Verily, Alphabet’s life science division — and it’s not ready to launch yet either.

99% of the American public isn't following the day-to-day intricacies of Google's - sorry - Alphabet's corporate structure.
And drawing an impassable wall between physical violence and verbal abuse is also completely unreasonable.

The world is full of roided up assholes who would scream at someone in the face, have their victim "push them away", only to proceed to punch them back because once you cross the line into physicality a shove is the same as a punch in the face.

It's bullshit.

Obviously being "a jerk" to someone is not the same as physically hitting someone.

But in the context of a workplace, an online forum, or a community contributing to an open source project, the choice isn't between punching someone or yelling at them.

The choice is between civility and not. Between being an asshole for no reason and not. People like Linus Torvalds and ESR have significant trust in their technical leadership. If they don't like an idea they can just say "that is a bad idea. here is why". Their position is not strengthened by screaming insults at the other side. All it does is make them look childish and make people not want to contribute their time and energy to the cause.

Linus figured this out eventually. ESR hasn't.
Yes, of course, but when one signs up for the military they can inject you with whatever they want. The FDA does not get involved. Combine that with an EUA, and all of a sudden you are injecting them and the nat sec apparatus 6 months from now if things get bad.

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1991/01/31/Military-allowed-to-...

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/pdf/2018-Influenz...
What are the security implications for password managers here - not copy/pasting any passwords?
Under the circumstances, a test better than totally useless is good enough. Unless there is an alternative immediately available. Which there isn’t.
Every PI at a major research university who does something related to genetics should have one. There are probably some logistics challenges in getting them all into facilities with the right biosafety level and competent technicians to run them.
House Democrats and White House reach deal on coronavirus aid package
I'm pretty sure that there are a few languages where array indexing is basically calling a function that returns a reference to the cell you're accessing.
Firstly, getting this out of my chest: It felt like a really good note, except for the graphs. The author acknowledges that he is pulling the Bell curve out of his ass, but somehow serves to illustrate his point. But for some reason the extra amount of information that would implicitly come from the internet seems uniformly distributed across qualities. I would have expected a taller (or wider) Bell curve if anything. Why even bother with graphs if there is no semblance of meaning to it? Was he aiming for the target audience's math fetish? I do appreciate silly illustrations, but I felt it distractingly pointless.

Having said that, it's nice to see that people acknowledge the ways that information was available, seeding the need to re-evaluate information dynamics.
Yes, I understand it, I'm just saying I haven't heard anyone other than a consumer electronics journalist use the term. Everyone says 'dumb phone' (to mean the same thing) if the distinction is important.
I wasn't trying to imply the diet approach didn't work. I was just trying to make it a little more clear how the mechanics of the measurement could lead to misunderstandings occurring in the absence of sharing details pertinent to the process of conducting the measurement.

I too have experienced what happens when you have to run the gauntlet of physicians who seem to have stopped thinking upon receipt of their medical degree as well. Hence the encouragement to coordinate with a physician. Not necessarily the one who might not be doing a great job working with you to manage your health.
Jack Ma cannot be trusted. He swings high and low, doesn't know where the ball is. He once hit a Alibaba home run and thinks he is a hotshot. It's hard to trust Jack Ma with undertones of the CCP propaganda in this humanitarian aid.

Elon and Jack Ma debates in Shanghai, just listen this guy talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3lUEnMaiAU

Edit: I am not defending the United States. Just look at what our president said this afternoon. Couldn't even string a cohesive sentence together. If Jack Ma is genuine and wants to help - who knows? To me it feels like a huge power move as the OP said - it feels "correct" to me. This news is trending big time on Twitter.
Quickly and easily design and make a GUI program with n real training?

VB6 got me into programming as a kid.

I mostly use python for stats stuff. I sorta understand how to run up a GUI using tkinter, but it seems like a huge pain in the ass.

I'm sure Visual Studio offers the ability to do whatever VB6 could with a GUI, but it isn't obvious how to get there.

VB6 was one nice thing - build 'a program' as you understand them in Windows. Why the fuck is it so hard nowadays? VS isn't intuitive - it's a firehouse of information and I feel like you need training to use it. That is a bummer.

I just want to Lego-assemble a cute GUI-based program that I can make into a binary and email my wife to use. But I need to dedicate 70GB and two weeks of study to get there, I guess.
This reconstruction still doesn't support the contention that literacy causes fantastic miracles to dry up.
> That is something that “the market” often lacks in their relentless pursuit of shareholder value.

This is nuts. The market doesn't pursue shareholder value. Corporations do. However, the market, which consists of consumers and small producers as much as corporations, certainly does not always, as is seen in consumers (and frankly corporations as well) oftentimes irrational behavior.
The problem I have with this attitude, as it plays out in the United States, is that people accept this idea as true, and so then they de-fund things until they operate poorly, they vote with apathy so you end up with idiots in control, and basically the prophecy fulfills itself.

All these things about idiots being in charge is, as Buffet said, true of companies as well. Nothing is a panacea.
Yes within d/c. So a priori you already need to be rather very close to the position of the object you want to fake appearing. At that point you might just as well put an object there.
Bill Gates leaves Microsoft’s board
Would you prefer that the companies involved did nothing instead of taking this costless action?
In 2001, I was 11 and started my programming career with Visual Basic 6. John Smiley book!

I was obsessed with theme parks and roller coasters at that age, so I made a 'theme park' application that let you look at maps, rides, and buy tickets.

Just having the basic logic of OOP down at 11 was a game changer, I started to look at the world in a new way. I felt like I could solve any problem if I could map it out on paper first.
Engineering Pluralsight: Clean Code for Speedy Delivery
Of course, one needs to responsibly dispose of discard components. Electrical recycling is a far different story than plastic recycling. A lot of electronics have rare/expensive components that are worth recovering like gold and rare earth's.
He played a pretty important role in convincing them not to acquire Slack, which was interesting:
https://www.ccn.com/not-buying-slack-bill-gates-best-call-ev...
iOS has a system-level interface for password managers so that the passwords are accessed without using the pasteboard.
VB6 and VB.NET are barely related.

But, ignoring that, almost any app of any complexity in VB6 land will rely on bugs, quirks, and implementation details. (Also, I was never clear if the binary format for editing forms was actually documented somewhere). Someone could implement their own VB6 parser, but it seems like a ton of work for a vanishing market.

All of that said, while typing this, a quick search revealed https://www.radbasic.dev/ , so maybe someone's trying. Well, it's a Kickstarter, so maybe someone just has an idea. Dunno.
That hardly seems like the point, does it?
Yeah the distinction between Alphabet and Google is a technicality for most people. What is dishonest is suggesting it’s ready for general use when in reality, they’re only testing it in the Bay Area for now.
I have used classes too but this has all kinds of other weird behavior.
If the government in China had handled the problem, it sure would have saved the whole world a lot of trouble.

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/wuhan-doctors-sa...
With great power comes great responsibility.

This is a global adversary, and a global response is required.

Perhaps when we dance this dance again, global health expertise and transparency will be the default from the beginning.
Trump Caught Google Off Guard with a Bogus Coronavirus Site Announcement
Because thats what matters to you? Were europeans sending aid to China a power move? It’s acceptable to send aid to each other, no matter who you appear to represent.
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_D..., it's 23 in hospital vs 801 total identified cases. That a hospitalization rate of only 2.8%. I wonder what accounts for the massive discrepancy from other countries.
Might as well make it a fully closed rebreather gear(note: CO2 removal is more important than adding oxygen)
Shouldn't there be hundreds of labs with these machines though?

Yes. Roche just got FDA approval on a SARS-COV-2 test that will take four (4) hours that works with two of their (whatever you call the machine) models. Per Roche there are around 110 of those machines in the United States. Bloomberg had estimated throughput numbers and also indicated that Roche has tests that work with some of their other, slower equipment (that I assume is in the US as well).

Mayo Clinic recently developed a 2 hour test.

The limits on testing are, from my POV, entirely political at this point.

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/13/815522836/u-s-coronavirus-tes...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-13/roche-get...
> Cockups like this really should lay to rest the idea some people have that the federal government is a panacea for everything.

IMHO, a major reason South Korea improved so much in recent decades is, when we had idiotic/evil leaders, we didn't say "What did you expect from the government? The government can and will be run by idiots, so you should not depend on it."

Instead, we said "How come our government is run by these murders and idiots? This is unacceptable! We demand a government we can depend on!"

You keep saying the government is run by idiots, you get your government run by idiots. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.
It's concerted effort by Chinese establishment to whitewash their handling of the whole thing. They even want to pretend that the virus didn't even originate in China!

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/13/asia/china-coronavirus-us...
Not the commenter you're replying to, but I think that's exactly the point actually
Let's not forget that retailers are making their parking lots available, Google has deployed 1,700 engineers to build a flowchart website, and the US is buying up oil reserves.

I think this epidemic is pretty much solved, don't you?
Jack Ma just donated a bunch.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/fhvvzl/chinas_...

And as the situation in the US worsens to a certain point, I'm sure China would officially send supplies too like it's currently doing with Italy and Iran. Question is whether Trump will accept that.
All these creepless chat startups could have a price war to see who can charge the most!
seems like there might be increases in total traffic [1] from more streaming. Not sure if Netflix has released numbers, though that wouldn't be as much of a burden to ISPs given their colocated 'open connect'

https://blog.cloudflare.com/covid-19-impacts-on-internet-tra...
citation needed.

Also, the US CDC could have used the German tests but instead pushed forward on making their own.
Ok, well, say "No" all you want but this totally happens, only the perpetrators are not nearly so clue-ful as to realize they've shipped a trojan. There are "helpful" SDKs out there whose ulterior purpose is to collect user data without the app author's knowledge. This is one reason I'm very wary about what apps I'll install... it's not enough to trust the app author if they include 3rd party code.
Are you aware of "using static" in C#? Allows you to use any methods on a static class without qualification. Gives you the appearance of global functions, despite the class scoping.
The cable company's own streaming channels are presumably served from servers on the company's own infrastructure, and the traffic from them to your home does not leave their own infrastructure. So, presumably, that does not count against your internet cap because from the cable company's point of view it is not using the internet. To them, it's part of their intranet.
The app doesn't need to grab anything until the users selects paste. The added latency would be miniscule.
Verb-first was also a bad choice. When I type “get” I am getting thousands of suggestions which makes autocompletion pretty useless. There is also no way to find all cmdlets that deal with active directory. It would be much better if I could type “AD” first and then get all cmdlets that deal with active directory.
Hospital admins might be paid more than you think.
IANAD but just keep in mind that CT scans isn't specific Covid-19, rather that it detects telltale damage done by the virus but also could be done by other respiratory viral disease. Only in places where Covid-19 is widespread, one might assume a positive test result indicates Covid-19 in the patient.
This isn't correct. You also need the right primers/probes for the specific virus and controls to ensure accuracy of the test.
And I'm still seeing a big fat XXX/1024GB usage meter when I log into my AT&T account.
He's a smart sociopath. When theres nothing left to buy you buy your legacy and erase the memory of all the companies and people you've crushed along the way to the top. Its worked like a charm. Most people eat out of his hands nowadays. Only a few see through him.
I think VB6 served a useful purpose. I used it for internal utilities all the time when I worked for Microsoft.

I haven't used any of these tools in probably 20 years but in addition to VB6, I also liked Delphi and C++ Builder quite a lot back in the day. Delphi was probably my favorite of the bunch. Embarcadero still sells both Delphi and C++ Builder but their pricing is far too expensive, I think.

Anyway, thank you, VB, and thanks for all the fish.
If Satya got hit by a bus this weekend that "pointless" board would become very important very quickly.
Coronavirus Can Live in Patients for Five Weeks After Contagion
IMO it depends what you mean by “good programming”. An Excel spreadsheet with a bunch of VBA macros is by absolutely no means graceful programming or beautiful programming but it’s highly effective and has served as an entry to the world of programming for a huge number of people, myself included. It’s productive programming with little of the bikeshedding you’ll find in much less “mentally mutilated” setups.
Maybe because the serfs realized Nytimes writers take Uber and Gov officials ride around in GMC Suburbans
honestly how the fuck is he a technologist?

he dropped out of pre-law.....to buy and rebrand somebody else’s qdos then sell it to his buddies at ib-fucking-m. then followed a couple decades of patent lawsuits, ripping off mac os, ripping off netscape, and making illegal deals to push his operating system on everybody, thereby setting back the computer industry by at least a decade.

am i missing something?
ROC AUC is somewhat meaningless when basically any amount of false positives is going to massively decrease the utility of the test.
What Libraries Can Still Do (2015)
Ask HN: Next Generation Database
If you had the next generation database that may make existing databases obsolete, how would you go to market?

What do I mean by next generation database? How about a high performance, encrypted database that never has the encryption keys on the servers? How about an encrypted database where every single tuple/record can be encrypted by the application with a different encryption key? How about an encrypted database that supports spatial, time series, graphs, and much of SQL while minimizing inference risk? How about a distributed database with massively parallel consensus for encrypted, ACID transactions (million+ per second) and replication for high availability? How about a distributed database that supports trustless/immutable transactions - in effect is also a distributed ledger?

You probably don't believe me yet - but our probabilistic spatial hash/filter with some cryptography turns out to be the huge breakthrough for searchable encryption (more specifically securely indexing encrypted records) -- not fully homomorphic encryption.

How would you go to market? Developer adoption? Enterprises? Government?
I enjoy how you edited this from "Did anyone ask you?"

No. Why the hell would the time of a disaster be a good time to increase prices for people who rely on these services.

Go away.
He also sent similar to Iran, Italy, Japan, South Korea, and Spain - which makes it look a little less so, at least to my eye.
But it's only high quality junk that's worth $5 to show off.

This guy's junk would definitely qualify:

LGR: Exploring a MASSIVE Retro Computer Warehouse!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvM82T3C2Ik
I think so, if we are talking about Jack Ma, don't you think?
Chances are high US will refuse to permit the testing kits to be used, then plod along with a few tests a day saying nothing else can be done.