skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I think anyone even tangentially connected to a music scene feels this. Especially if you hung around something like college radio stations where people (like me) would sometimes just bring in a burned CD, it'd get tossed into some DJ's show, and then handed back and never really noted or catalogued.
That's something I've benefited from. I taught myself how to program when I was 14-15 by reading books and playing with basic graphics processing stuff to make games. None of my games were ever any good or impressive, but it led to me learning how to do web and network programming for fun, and led to me learning how to build stuff.

This has been really good for me, since I don't have a degree, but I still can typically get through a whiteboard interview in most jobs that I apply for (though occasionally I'll get a problem that trips me up). School is certainly useful, but it should be used in addition to personal projects, not a substitute for them.
https://xkcd.com/2276/
Production, instruments, vocal ..sounds like eastern Europe/Russia region.
OverTourism killed this beautiful destination in Mehalaya, India
TikTok donates $3M to Schwarzenegger’s charity feeding kids on school closures
This title is a bit confusing. It sounds like this provides evidence showing that their response was effective, but it is the evidence they used to draw up their response.
Not to mention if you have been in, say, the NSA. Then the answer to "do you have any code you can show us?" may be "No, and I can't talk about it."
The marketing material does not appear to be tuned toward data wrangling individual contributors or line managers making decisions on a technical basis. It might be helpful to provide some technical marketing collateral as well if the sales funnel is includes self-service via the web in lieu of or in addition to traditional enterprise sales. Good luck.
If people are keeping their distance, it shouldn't be a problem.
That is exactly what will happen. If the county or state order businesses closed as non essential, remaining open would be a misdemeanor. I have to wonder if Gamestop will pay the legal fees for the employees that are arrested.
I have a house and our neighborhood has nice walking areas including a pond. Going outside and looking at nature helps a lot.
Crowdfight Covid-19
How are they misleading?
You still have at minimum 14000 active cases in the USA today.
In 8 weeks you'd have significantly more.
Saudi Arabia and Russia's Feud over Oil
You're stumbling over the distinction between "user guide" and "API reference". Both count as documentation but they have completely different goals.
By your definition accounting is budgeting, and choosing what to budget about, and picking the tools to budget with. It operates within constraints, as programming does, and those constraints likely vary from company to company (inverted compared to programming, perhaps---it seems like a larger company may have more scenarios to run, a smaller company fewer, and thus there may be more room for the kind of creativity you describe at a larger company). Even within a tool you can make a million stylistic choices on how to present the information around your budgets and payments to enable the rest of your organization to make decisions.

Programming itself is also not limited to developers. That should be self-evident in that spreadsheets are the go-to tool for so many non programmers, and they are at heart accessible programs. In that sense, it is programming that is a creative endeavor, not development or coding.

Last but not least, the most creative (and valuable) part of programming is arguably problem definition and problem solving. I would argue these two things are shared, in one way or another, across most jobs and careers.
Thanks a lot davismfl for taking time to write detailed and useful advice. If its not a secret I would love to hear more about the product you sold in 10 days to a fortune 100 firm.
I think the GP comment is saying that there’s just a one-dimensional slider, “allowed amount of government intervention”, and you don’t really get to decide what form that intervention takes.
You can cross-compile Windows apps under WSL, as well.
I assume this handles Stripe's SCA? I've been running into that issue a lot lately, even with non-European based clients.
Reminded me of Consume less, create more:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20781463
There is an another interesting property of web applications: the can't be stolen. I guess, this could also be a reason of their ubiquity.
when i make a graphql request in chrome request is an unformatted string. Is there an extension someone would recommend that would make it easy to spot server interactions in a formatted way.
Intel and Micron Sign New 3D XPoint Wafer Supply Agreement
How is the title clickbait?
My "white whale of the internet" is a 4-track EP from mid-1990s by a band called The Mark Kramer Band (not that Mark Kramer) with track titles Dust Bowl Rain and Wild Prairie Dog. It sounded like a bluesier Jeff Buckley, I think. I had a copied tape, so no pictures or other info, and of course it's long gone. If you Google it you'll see my previous pleas on other fora.
Apparently from their corporate call they’re concerned that closing now would be permanent for them.
"I always hesitate to model an externally facing API to match the underlying database schema"

True.

Would be nice to have some kind of graphical tool, that would allow to model these things.

Add databases

Extract the schemas from these databases automatically, which should be trivial with SQL databases

Create GraphQL types manually

link the types up with the databases (the tricky part, especially with multiple different databases)
DataRobot offering free access to software for Covid-19 response efforts
Why Don't We Use Chemical Weapons Anymore?
There is also the possibility it is biphasic, although this could also be more of a problem with testing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/29/health/coronavirus-reinfe...

https://theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/27/japanese-woman-tes...
I suspect it is a bug.
Governments are already loosening licensing requirements to practice medicine. If this approach has support among the relevant healthcare workers and agencies, then we see executive action to allow for such a measure.
I suspect you may be right but it would help to see a model demonstrating the impact of adding/removing land from the model
Black Cow vodka in the UK have been doing this for a while as well. It's got a fuller texture than some other vodkas but is generally really tasty.

https://www.blackcow.co.uk/
> I wonder how many people that call themselves programmers know that there is more to coding than just JavaScript

I have a BSc in Computer Science, participated in informatic/algorithm contents/olympiads, created appliactions/games in C++, Java, PHP, JavaScript and other languages, yet in the last 5 years I programmed mostly in JavaScript. From my point of view, if you know JavaScript (TypeScript) in those days you can implement a solution to almost any real-world problem or application you might have. Yes, there might be better choices in some cases, but for most of the world what a product does is more important than how it's made.

I also prefer to know a programming language and its ecosystem really well instead of having some vague knowledge of 10 different languages. If I implement something I want to implement it well and to know as soon as I write a line of code what it does and all its implications, edge cases and possible performance issues. I am not saying that you shouldn't adapt your toolset based on the project you are working on, but that it's better to have a tool that you can always rely on and whose ins and outs don't surprise you anymore.

I am talking from the point of view of someone who builds stuff, creates products. Just learn a good-enough tool very well and then focus on the product itself instead of focusing on the tools.
Blaise Pascal said, “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”

https://thecatholicspirit.com/commentary/wordonfire/the-coro...
I think it depends on how you view software development as a profession.

If you group it more closely to creative fields like design or writing—both fields where portfolio reviews have been standard hiring practice for decades—then it makes sense to expect to see projects. If you view it closer to a professional services role—accounting, legal, etc—then your comparison makes sense.

I'm not advocating for either view as the "correct" opinion either, I just think the disagreement has less to do with what qualifies a junior and more to do with how we conceptualize development as a profession.
Ask HN: How to build Open Source technology awareness?
I've been working as CMO in a Startup for 2 years and we were always a development framework (SDK) driven to companies. We succeed with this strategy, having clients over 10 countries, but last year we realised that this business model won't be sustainable for the next years. So we decided to become Free and Open Source and to be driven to developers (our users). We really believe in that strategy but it stills hard to build awareness and get our firsts 1.000 users.

What is the best practices for that?
I had a chance to meet her as well, around 15 years ago, at a fundraising event for the foundation. She was the real deal. Amazing woman. Amazing dedication to a worthwhile cause.
It's recycled because it's scarce, though.

If we suddenly used it on everything, it'd be even more scarce.
They have actually done that in times past with chloroquine for malaria. It actually worked sort of ok but overuse tended to create resistance.

I'm pondered if a mass use for covid would work. I think it's probably too unproven and covid to small a percentage of the population to make dosing everyone a good idea. What I would try if I were running things is bulk testing and giving people a chloroquine type med straight off if they were positive.
If you put serious effort into your class projects outside of what is required (https://thume.ca/ray-tracer-site/), you can certainly put that in your portfolio (that project is absolutely crazy). That said, I agree with you that more students should take "software engineering" degrees if they have trouble building things outside of class, plus that universities should make it clearer that a CS degree != a job offer from Google.
It's both high concentration, and high pressure.
It's important because it is political. There have been widespread calls for government to show it's working, and a really determined campaign to show that the strategy is ineffective and is the thing of the prime minister. The document is a chance for the government to try and change some of these perceptions.
The author reduced the frequency of full refreshes, but did not eliminate them. The problem will still occur, just less often.
But then I'd have to run systemd. WSL's Ubuntu by default does not have systemd.

#> systemctl
System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1). Can't operate.
While ES6 proxies are really nice, I came across this experiment (1) and their tests showed that ES6 proxies can be very bad at performance. I could reproduce the test case. Not sure whether this GraphQL client has some way to optimize.

1. https://thecodebarbarian.com/thoughts-on-es6-proxies-perform...
I imagine corporate have to pay legal fees would accelerate their shuttering permanently.
I misread the title for "shiboridashi", a clay pot for making green tea.
Quoting one of their sources:

It is a political decision to consider whether it is
preferable to enact stricter measures at first,
lifting them gradually as required, or to start with
fewer measures and add further measures if required.

It's not a scientific question in the sense that there _is_ a consensus that methods to "flatten the curve" will reduce the load on the healthcare system, which can easily be overloaded well before the peak. It is also clear that solid scientific data will come only _weeks_ after widespread contagion. What's not clear is how to handle this _politically_, i.e which decisions to make confronted with large uncertainty and relatively short timeframes.

This is mainly what Trudeau was criticized for. Sure he might be very well advised by top scientists, but he did not seem particularly interested in solving the issue _politically_. It took a few weeks before he (at least publicly) exhibited any serious interest, and then we went from 0 to 100 over a weekend.

The political response to this situation will and has to preface any solid scientific understanding.
NeRF: Representing scenes as neural radiance fields for view synthesis
GDP measures sale prices.

> If I find a way to cut hair twice as fast, that's GDP growth.

Only it makes people get more haircuts or their is a labor shortage you get a second job.

> If somebody makes a CPU that's faster and consumes less energy, that's GDP growth

Only if it inspires more CPU purchase or usage that costs more energy use overall.
I wonder how stable printing money is, though. It seems the Fed never seems to be able to return to where it was, regarding its balance sheet.
References are not meant to provide "soft documentation". Guides are supposed to do that.
You can call yourself a computer scientist if you have at least one serious computer science publication to your name.

You seemed to be implying that the bar for calling yourself a computer scientist is lower than the bar for calling yourself a programmer. The opposite is true.

Also, not all computer scientists are in the business of writing code.
I've been using Debian (Unstable and Testing) for approximately 10 years and have been very satisfied. However, I intend to stray away from the ominous *d soon. FreeBSD interests me, but I've been procrastinating, and of course, that's not Linux.

I have setup Debian systems over the years for a handful of people, all who've been pleased, so far - and these are first time Linux users. I do, however, spend a lot of time configuring and customizing their setups, typically with Mate as the DM.

I'm not quite sure what seamless means, so pardon me if my ¢2 isn't relevant.

Edit: maybe worth mentioning that I've run Arch, Slackware, PCLinuxOS, Ubuntu, Mint and one or two others. I settled on Deb. The one distro I'd (personally) advise against is Ubuntu. While it had a rather glorious beginning, it ultimately devolved.
Most likely for John Carmacks of the world. One ingredient of the equarion is doing what one wants and is attracted to. I too enter a zen like state when coding sometimes and it’s been happenning less and less lately because things got too complicated to fit inside my brain. Recently I started playing in DrRacket and I had a few zen moments so far.
I prefer 4 good numbers over 1 bad number.
It's not misleading if the former is logically impossible and therefore it is clear that the latter is clearly what is meant.

No single country can at this point in time yet provide any evidence if their response was effective, because in order to do that you'd need:

- Be past the pandemic

- Have other data points of other countries to compare

Both are not true yet.
Highly available, external load balancer for Kubernetes in Hetzner Cloud
The EU and several different countries levy tariffs on processed (roasted or soluble) coffee.

The US and Canada do not. (I was really expecting to see that the US and Canada did) As a result, I'm able to buy custom roasted and custom packaged at the farm beans and get them on the shelf in the US in a few days. Local roasters have zero real advantage, other than appeal to the enthusiast and perhaps some "secret process" that gives a unique taste to their product.

Source: http://www.intracen.org/coffee-guide/the-markets-for-coffee/...
I've been telling my friends for years, if you can successfully sell Vodka in today's market you can probably market any product.

While there are "differences", they all basically have to be the same by law and you probably can't reliably identify a difference in a double blinded application.

"(1) “Vodka” is neutral spirits so distilled, or so treated after distillation with charcoal or other materials, as to be without distinctive character, aroma, taste, or color."
https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/27/5.22

The differences are defined by a sliding scale of three elements, the "heads,hearts, and tails".

https://www.diffordsguide.com/encyclopedia/198/bws/distillat...
As a backend developer I can't help but feeling we have gone full circle.
As in, how is this effectively different from regular server side HTML? I know this is rendered on the client, and I'm not doubting it's usefullness, but what advantages does this setup have?

I also guess their demo app isn't representative of what problems this setup intends to solve:

https://youtu.be/wM5KDPG9Ugk?t=2866

The example whould have been extremely simple to implement in JS/TS on the server side, it would also be much faster and have better concurrency, caching and scalability options.
Why does it require a fork? Having an advanced settings page with checkboxes for each of these web features seems straightforward and not overly confusing to normal users.
Shibumi
Agreed. It's probably a good idea to gain some good depth in one particular language ecosystem, and JavaScript is a widely applicable choice. That said, playing with more "mind expanding" paradigms (logic programming, functional programming, Smalltalk-style OOP) is also good for your skills in any language.
The coronavirus and siiting quietly in a room alone
A few years back I was chatting with a faculty in my field at a conference. His lab almost invariably produces outstanding graduates who are really apart from the rest of the field.
I asked him how did he do that, and his point was when hiring postdocs in his lab he never was really bothered about the publication counts, but he asked only one question,
"What did you build in your PhD?"
And if a graduate student could not answer that they were not graduating.
It would be good if they found a way to decontaminate the masks so they could be reused a finite number of times, instead of treated as totally disposable. As far as what I've read, there are many things that can kill the virus: hydrogen peroxide, alcohol, uv sanitizing lights, heat, time... Seems like you could come up with a cheap and simple routine that would be 99+% effective, at least for coronavirus specifically. Sure this isn't optimal, but a lot of things aren't optimal these days.
> Tools should strive to be easy to begin working with but still have lots of open-ended potential

I don't think this matches the definition of "tool", or at least not a good one.

Good tools tend to have specific applications (screwdriver), or are hard to master (carpentry gear). You never see a professional replacing a toolbox w/ a multi-tool for a reason. There is a necessary trade-off between efficiency and flexibility.

This description of "tool" sounds more like "clay", maybe this idea requires a better analogy.
actually reshaping FDA policy in the time they did is nothing short of miraculous. I know teams of 5 that can't change their way of doing things that fast.
No need for an example as extreme as the NSA.

If you've worked for years developing proprietary code of any sort, you cannot share it. One's personal GitHub portfolio is a completely different beast than one's professional accomplishments.
The internet’s resilience to mass homeworking
Why make a website and a domain name before getting peer review to check for mistakes?
Sounds like one could describe OpenResty as a spiritual successor to AOLServer/NaviServer. “Take a well-engineered, low-level-coded web server, and plop a powerful, lightweight VM into it” seems to be fruitful ground.
It's true but it's always interesting how we bring this up in farmer trades often, but not often in the tech space, when a large majority of us on this site have made a lot of money off the backs of cheap labor.
For under 50’s 2% chance of hospitalisation, then 4% of mortality. From the following summary, presumably mostly based on Chinese data which may not be applicable.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
A good CS education will give you a wider perspective, a stable foundation to build on. Then you need practice, lots of it, to become anything close to competent. But being able to orient yourself and having been exposed to several different kinds of problems and languages, and learned an algorithm or two, definitely helps.

One of my university teachers told us that to become a real programmer, you have to design and build at least one language of your own. I wouldn't choose the same words; but having done several, I sort of agree. You need practical experience before it makes any sense though.
gaming the system?
Turn Downtime into Fun Time
Great post. Very clear explanation of things.

The semantic release tooling is so good, I've started using it on non-js projects. I'm using it to manage Terraform modules, base docker images, etc. Once you're doing that, might as well mix in Husky and commit-lint to manage your git hooks and commit messages too.

There are comparable things elsewhere, but node is so ubiquitous in my tool chain already that this is the path of least resistance for me. And it works great!
The virus is ageist (it is also sexist and doesn't like smokers much), not the sentence. Specifically, which part of that sentence do you believe is not true?

You may subjectively claim irresponsible, but the measures being taken across the entire population are not without consequences.
The owner is just some dude, granted he has a nicer car than me :)
The newest CDC estimates are that young people require hospitalization at rates between 1 in 7 and 1 in 5. At scale, that’s an enormous number. The “flatten the curve” trope feels a bit tired at this point, but it’s true nonetheless. We have to avoid breaking our medical system at all costs.

If we don’t, what happens to the rather large percentage of young people who require hospitalization? It’s no stretch to assume that many would die. Let alone the fact that mortality for young people is already many times higher than the flu. Break the healthcare system and that goes up dramatically.

On top of that, break the healthcare system and what happens to all the normal, baseline, hospitalization needs? They’re not going to suddenly disappear. Survivable medical events become fatal.

How do you recover as a society from that, without an economic depression like none we’ve seen in our lifetime?

We desperately want to prevent an economic depression, and for good reason! But the chessboard is what it is. We don’t have a whole lot of moves.