skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stats would be displayed prior to getting any interviews. If someone gets an interview and then fails at it, that’s on them. Stats can still help with baseline interview performance though. Machine learning algorithms can find a correlation between experience (or lack thereof) and interview failure. In response, the algos will encourage those candidates to apply somewhere where they have a better chance of getting in. However, those candidates can supplement their skill set. They can take tangible steps to increase their likelihood of getting the job.

Let’s say the applicant is a senior engineer but you’re afraid they aren’t keeping up with the latest frameworks. And let’s say that the employer (or the ML also) assigned high importance weights to those frameworks. Here’s what you’d see happen:

- The senior engineer with 15 years of experience at several BigCos but doesn’t have experience in that framework will see a low probability of callback

- The senior engineer with 10 years of experience and only one BigCo who’s skilled with that framework (the right keywords, and 2 MIT edX certificates in it) will see a high probability of callback.

What’s exciting is that this will encourage people to acquire exactly the skills that will help them get the job that they want. The applicants would be able to do scenario analysis on the job platform and see how much better their chances would be if they acquire a certain skill set. This would allow them to tune out the noise and focus on what it takes to get the type of job they want. Of course, the more senior the applicant is, the more accomplishments at past jobs matter. Even then though, senior applicants usually only display a fraction of their past experience. The platform can show their callback probability change in real time if they add a meaningful past experience or accomplishment.

The possibilities are endless. Are you considering doing a XY boot camp because you think it might get you into Z Co? Think again, with your experience + that boot camp, you will have a 2% chance of getting into Z Co and 5% chance of getting a similar role with similar pay. That alone would improve the educational and vocational pipeline.
Checkout https://covid19.doctorevidence.com/ they have loaded the CORD dataset with a dashboard like interface and a query language. E.g. https://search.doctorevidence.com/search?query=ss(6f1da786-6... (user/pass covid19/covid19)
The Imperial College study was flawed due to bias input. The sampling used painted a worse than possible scenario due to the bias in tested cases fed in. We don't have enough tests, even in RoK, to know how infection rate of the population as a whole. We only know the rate of those with self-reported symptoms, and at that only the severe for most cases.
This gets posted every few months and the HN crowd loves it. Somehow all the technical geniuses here are still mesmerized by CSS from 20 years ago. Learning all the nuances of the Rust borrow checker doesn't leave any room for much else, except for HTML tables, that stuff got embedded too deep. Set a reminder, it's an easy way to reap the sweet karma.
Overall I would have to say absolutely, yes. The number of infections doesn't justify this level of panic, let alone the number of deaths. I realise there is an element of "prevention" here, but far, far more people die of very common things (flu, traffic accidents, smoking-related conditions, being overweight, etc.) in the US alone every year, some of which are also 100% preventable, than have died worldwide of coronavirus. Do we shut down borders because of a flu outbreak? No, it's just expected. The same can be said for any of the dozens of leading causes of death that exist in poverty-stricken countries where things like water contamination causing diarrhea kill more people than we could possibly imagine dying in the US.

I'm not saying that there haven't been some good things to come out of this situation - people working from home and thereby saving gas, limiting pollution, etc.; increased awareness of basic cleanliness practices, particularly in some countries that are quite noticeably less fastidious than the US generally is; actual tests of some of our response mechanisms (I mean, you don't trust your backups unless you've used them...) - but the extraordinary response of basically shutting down Europe is so far and away over the top...

I don't pretend to understand _why_ people have freaked out like this, but I suspect it's pretty much in line with why they freak out about anything: they've been programmed to wait for the "next big thing" that is going to kill us all by news, TV, movies; the news has, as usual, plastered everything across the "front page" on a constant basis, essentially "hyping" it up; and probably that on some deep psychological level we've all gotten a little overwhelmed with technological advances and how quickly the world has become a global market that is "always on", so we were unintentionally waiting for some way to pull back and deal with ourselves for a while.
It seems to me like the problem is just that supply chains aren’t legible. I forget where I read this from, but Walmart or Amazon would easily pay billions of dollars to know which shipments won’t arrive over the next few months because of the rolling wave of factory shutdowns.

Once you have that legibility, the extra step of snipping the globalized supply chains seems unnecessary. Some businesses will plan to maintain continuity with all international shipping stopped, and a few will receive subsidies and mandates to do so. Others won’t, and that’s fine too; there’s a ton of value in making our lives better even in ways that can’t be sustained during a crisis. (It’s worth noting that international shipping in everything but coronavirus-fighting medical equipment hasn’t stopped during the currrent crisis.)
I couldn't go past the first few scenes of Thimbleweed Park either. I think I would have loved it when I was a teenager, but the point-and-click genre is just not for me anymore. (Also, and I know this is heresy, I couldn't finish the much lauded Psychonauts back then either). I think I simply had more patience for this kind of games when I was younger.

I'm more willing to give experimental Interactive Fiction a go though. Some real gems there.

edit: also, and this is stretching the "adventure" definition, I absolutely loved "The Return of the Obra Dinn" by Papers Please author Lukas Pope. I loved that game. At this point I'll play anything made by Pope, that's how much I trust the guy.
I want to like this article because I agree with the overarching general statement that the ActiveRecord pattern is troublesome.

But it's... not very good. He constructed his own interface in order to complain about it, an interface which is so subptimal that it lets him complain about how bad it is as if the pattern was somehow to blame.

In most Active Record implementations I've seen, a Record is a live tuple ("Active" "Record") and you typically have some form of Repository ("Books" maybe in this example?) alongside of it which is responsible for carefully and optimally building the record objects.

The pattern itself says nothing about how to query things, it talks about a kind of DAO that has convenience methods to access and manipulate a tuple.

Also, what's with the REST rant? I don't think I understand how that's linked.
Interesting thing about life in the 90s without internet is that we were able to consume something without being part of any larger culture around it.

I loved and played a lot of adventure games. All LucasArts' and a few others. I never even heard of this cultural trace of adventure gamers thinking of themselves as more clever and looking down to action games players.

For me it just something easier to play because it didn't depend on reflex or accuracy (I was never good those types of games) and I liked the story. I am the type who loves cutscenes up to today. In any game.
It's a problem that seems to be a lot like climate change:

It will be hard to objectively tell if we overreacted, because the actions taken cause a lower impact than predicted.

But on the other hand, it will be pretty easy to tell if we underreacted: a catastrophe worse than projected would mean we didn't take enough action.

It's so easy to be skeptical when the data is inconsistent - but it's important to be open to new information and work to protect your community to the best of your knowledge and ability.
Exactly this. Currently MediaWiki and many of its extensions have its interactive parts (editor/maps, etc) written in jQuery and the in-house developed framework OOUI. These are the pieces which might slowly be replaced by Vue.

Hopefully this will also make it easier for new contributors to get started with MediaWiki development.
The same as any other CLI app.

> I don't want a better jq if it means relearning and remastering everything else along with it.

As I said, better jq may be equal to:

pwsh -Command "(cat test.json | ConvertFrom-Json).Whatever.Property.Or.Normal.Filter"
[This is the ‘*’ from above. I couldn’t get ‘edit’ to accept it as an update, it just kept on putting the original text back, so...]

My parents bought me a black-and-white TV and a computer kit (they couldn’t afford both the TV and the already-assembled version) for Xmas at age 11. The big gift here was the TV, as far as I was concerned, we only had the one downstairs before that, and I got one in my bedroom! I even convinced myself I could watch snooker on a black & white TV, even if you did have to tune it by turning a dial until the picture appeared :)

About a month later, they were getting at me to put the computer together, which was the main present in their eyes - the TV was second-hand. Grumbling, I did so, and got it working. Once I’d told them, the whole family wanted to see this new technological marvel, so I took it downstairs, plugged it into the main TV, and everyone gathered around.

I typed in what the manual had told me to do, to test things out

PRINT 2+2=4

To which it displayed “1”. And I turned round to the family expecting all the validation an 11 year old desired. My dad looked at me, looked at the screen, and just said “I knew it, you’ve buggered it” and walked out the room.

It took me a few days to convince him that “1” was the right answer. To this day, I think his mistrust in computers stems from that episode. He was a docker in a Northern city, and all he’d say for years afterwards was “you can’t trust those bloody things” in ... more colourful... language.
I don't get the impression that WP will replace php templating. That just doesn't make any sense to do. First the code is already written (no need to rewrite), probably well tested, php is extremely fast already, and I'd imagine their php development does not have dated tooling that makes development painful. There's little to no reason to switch php code out.

However, it does make sense to replace JQuery snippets or custom in house dated JS frameworks, especially if they lack modern tooling surrounding it like pipelines, code splitting, etc. In that sense, vue and vue's paradigm is a perfect fit because of it's ability to play well with the primary goals at any level of JS-ification, from simple JS actions to full SPA.
You can also type math with this LaTeX to Unicode translator [1].

∫ x² dx

∑ φᵢ yᵢ = 1

z ∈ ℝᵐ

[1] https://www.unicodeit.net/
We just wind up with minor details such as almost all real numbers that exist cannot be in any way exactly described. So in what sense do they exist? (Proof: The reals are uncountable. The set of possible descriptions that might specify a real number is countable. Therefore almost all have no description.)

But as long as we use words like "existence" in this weird way, everything works out.
Thank you for your insights and suggestions.

I explain the thoughts behind the price a little in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22625906

EDIT:

> From my survey I know that organizers pay more than $ 200 for a order management system (e. g. about $ 300 for the system and more per device needed).

I would like to add that this is the price for two days of rent.
Bandwidth costs are not whats keeping botnets at check. This would be a really sad reason to retard internet connectivity speeds.
Well.. I don't know what blood type I am but it is somehow comforting to know that there are at least some people out there who have a better chance at not getting sick.
So here is a legitimate question:

At some point a few months from now, IF you are proven tragically wrong; what action will you undertake?

Apologize and review your assumptions and outlook for all future circumstances?

Or, as I suspect, pretend you never posted this and create a revisionist history of what your thoughts, opinions and stances were?

The first sentence indicates ignorance of math / timescales; second one indicates ignorance of other places; and I'll be genuinely curious if there is any way facts will ever penetrate, or whether you will find some way to rewrite history of your opinions in the future :-/
Maple's PDE solving abilities always made me want to yell "witchcraft!".
I was a heavy user of mathematica 20 years ago, on a 486 with MS-DOS. Of course, it was inside a terminal. Has the ability to run mathematica textually been lost in the meantime?
Yeah, lets wait 10 years for nushell to catch up.
That study is actually quite myopic, and focuses entirely on non-pharmapseutical treatment. It specifucally ignores most of the findings we have now:

- 25-50% infected show no symptoms
- herd immunity is ignored
- Non-vaccine treatments are ignored
- Reinfection is assumed, yet we have no data yet because there havent been any reinfections yet
- It flatly assumes full quarantine is possible at home

Definitely read the study and weigh your own data and conclusions with these points in mind rather than using his summary.

This guy just got scared from it, but he's just a social science historian, not a doctor or microbiologist.
No. Very simply, an extreme response is required here. The most recent UCL study demonstrates that given everything we know about the virus, extreme social distancing may not even be enough [1]. Worse, if we are successful, it will look like we overreacted because the nature of exponential spread is that if you act when you’re on the steep part of the curve you’re too late. If you act beforehand, you never get to the steep part.

The test, while developed quickly, isn’t likely showing lots of false positives. The nature of these tests is that they’re not too hard to quality control. You know what they’re looking for (a particular set of RNA sequences) so positive and negative controls are easy to make. In fact that’s why the CDC test was rejected initially, there was a clear issue with the controls.

For hospital beds, people don’t just randomly end up in the ICU. Italian ICU capacity is completely overwhelmed, if not this virus, why?

That said, hoarding groceries is counterproductive and an overreaction. Otherwise, absolutely not, this is a terrible virus, we need to be careful.

[1] https://www.imperial.ac.uk/mrc-global-infectious-disease-ana...

EDIT: Typo
Records departments always charge for copies, and that is the use I thought of immediately when I learned of Requester Pays. I’d be surprised if NASA couldn’t use it.
Well, ISP design their network for the average broadband used (plus a safety margin) and not for the worst case scenario.

Just like the electricity utility companies cannot provide everyone at the same time with the maximum power they are allowed to use.
My guess is that it's because his lack of self awareness generally precedes his demonstration of talent, which frequently leads to a bad impression. Also I hear he's nasty in person, though that's not relevant here.
How animal infections spill over to humans–David Quammen (2012/reposted 3/18/20)
I always thought the approach of returning XML from your web server and having it refer to an XSLT stylesheet made the most sense. Unfortunately, XSLT is a very verbose and clunky style language. If it had been a better language, I think it could have been a good solution.
I have posted three Healthcare IT related posts, none of which received more than 2 points. So yeah. I'm done.
It might be fun to checkout https://covid19.doctorevidence.com/ they have loaded the CORD dataset with a dashboard like interface and a query language. E.g. https://search.doctorevidence.com/search?query=ss(6f1da786-6... (user/pass covid19/covid19) for a direct link, and it provides integration with the other medically relevant feeds.
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I sent in an application and referenced your username. My first name is Dustin if you are able to put in a good word!
How ironic. Maybe CNN should stop autoplaying video that I don't even want?

I'm sure that will help bandwidth.
The USA paid $4 billion to get FTTH by 2004, didn't happen. ISPs still got the money. I'm honestly hoping Starlink shakes the ISPs to the ground.
There is no black or white answer to this. It depends mostly on the number of deaths a given government is OK to tolerate. It seems China, South Korea & European countries decided to have the least possible deaths.

Now what would be the number of fatalities if we'd let things go? For the reasons you mentioned the fatality rate is very hard to even estimate.

Italy had 4000 deaths due to Covid-19 in 4 weeks which is bad enough. As a comparison France had 8100 death due to flu during the 2018-19 winter, and 30000 deaths in 2 weeks due to a heat wave in 2003. Would the Covid-19 overrun those figures with no containment measures. My estimation is that it would.

For Germany: it turns out the virus has currently spread between younger people, explaining the low number of fatality for now. Maybe there are more cautious as well.
I think responding to that idea with "that idea sounds Russian" does further degrade discussion, as it goes from someone considering cost of life to raising conspiracies that Russia/Asia are trying to leverage this situation to raise the death toll in Western society, which can degrade further into falling deeper down the hole into conspiracies about the virus being intentionally created

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_life is a thing, so long as society makes a decision which doesn't absolutely minimize death rates. Why don't we ban cars as a pandemic?

There's a clear argument to defend saving 2-3 million Americans (even more world wide) that doesn't involve accusing Russia
Each such feature individually can be implemented in a very simple way with vanilla JS. All such features taken together create a horrible unmaintainable mess. Speaking from experience.
People name companies after themselves, and then they name their flagship product after the company–it's not that strange. (To be fair, in this case I would not be surprised if he named the company after himself, and then the language after himself, too. It's just that it's not relevant to keep bringing this up when it's not necessarily a strange practice.)
I think the approach can work really well for web pages that are meant to be documents, but no so well for web applications.
Semantic HTML has never been something that businesses asked for. HTML has never been a good format for structured data.

Things have simply moved towards what's actually manageable in a production environment, not what some ivory tower designer thought was good practice.
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CSS Zen Garden seemed to have a message that you don’t need tables for everything, but it was astonishing how few of the featured designs ever handled responsive layout properly. Getting text to fit into a rectangle by cheating was very common and you’d see bleed everywhere at a different resolution.

Until flexbox, there was no way to fix this without resorting to table cell behavior. It ultimately soured me on the Garden. And thankfully I got to use CSS3 shortly after.
Philosophical razors which I use in everyday life
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It seems like your perspective is "the virus is temporary and at some point we'll get back to normal so buy good companies cheaply now and hold for years".

Is that fair?

I see it a little differently, that the virus may be temporary but how we live, shop, govern ourselves and conduct business will change permanently as a result.

Some of the changes are accelerating existing trends, moving more online than offline from school to work to food shopping to governance.

This crisis is exposing deep flaws in governance and public services that we won't be able to continue to ignore. Previously fringe ideas in the US such as universal healthcare, universal basic income, universal housing, paid sick leave, etc. are starting to show up in right-wing rhetoric, sometimes even more stridently than from those in the center-left.

If permanent changes like this are in store, the beneficiaries are likely to be those with physical logistics networks like Amazon, Walmart and UPS, cloud computing like Amazon and Microsoft, online services like all of the FAANGs.

I'd also buy biotech, health tech and home healthcare while selling hospitals and insurers.

And I don't see the fossil fuel industry bouncing back from this, and that includes oil and gas as well as internal combustion automotive. When the economy resets lower, I expect clean power to dominate.
The middle east is still a clusterfuck because of WWI.
I use to own this physical book!!! .. years and years ago (I think around 2008 or 2009). I cite it as my inspiration for a lot of my early designs:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/a-history-of-personal-and-pro...

It might seem dated, but the ideas of using images and flowing layout shaped that era, and the simplicity can still be applied today (although we can make it look a lot better and cleaner thanks to CSS grid, flexboxes and other new tech that's now available in most browsers).

There's a lot of good nostalgia here if you go through their older designs.