skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I guess the most important part of docs is ... examples! Give your users examples, from which they can derive, how to use parts of your library. Those examples also better be explained in natural language as well and not just somewhere in a git repo, so that the user does not need to build a mental model of the ideas of your library first, before being able to understand your examples. Oh and did I mention diagrams would help? As a professional group, we truly suck at documenting things properly.

Many people think, that docs are done once they auto-generated API docs from source code. They are not. That's not something that deserves the name "documentation". Auto-generated API docs are among the last things to turn to, when there is nothing else around or when you already understood the ideas of the library and only need to look up a name of something. That's not only true for Rust, but also for other languages.
I think the deeper point of this story is NOT "oh look a kid can do it in their dorm=room".

The point is that this test is totally doable. Nation-state resources in the USA and Europe missed their opportunity to provide testing to their people, while South Korea was able to rise to the occasion by making the right decisions at the right time.

This demonstrates a profound lack of leadership in the USA and Europe. It's not just President Cheeto-Satan (though his dithering idiocy is certainly part of it https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Mueller/comments/fl9gng/oc_a_pl...). We knew better, we could have done better.
My understanding is that the virus greatly hinders your immune response in the lungs and that opens the door to microbial infections. This is what causes the severe pneumonias that kill people. Kurzgesagt did a nice video explaining this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtN-goy9VOY
I don't get your question. If you're writing assembly code, the rules of C aren't relevant, and of course you're free to do and kind of hand-optimisation. The downsides are the same as ever: assembly isn't easy to work with, it's as unsafe as a language can get, and it isn't portable.

If you want to be free of the pitfalls of undefined behaviour, there are languages other than C that you might consider. Rust, Ada, etc. When compiling with optimisation, performance should be close to that of C.

I believe both these languages may have dark corners where you may see implementation-defined behaviour or even something akin to undefined behaviour, but there's nowhere near as much as in C, where you're constantly on a knife-edge.

If you want rock solid guarantees, you may be on the path to languages like SPARK [0] and the upcoming ZZ language [1] [2]. But perhaps I'm digressing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARK_(programming_language)

[1] https://github.com/aep/zz

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22245409
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I'm kind of intrigued how widely opinions differ here. I consider the Rust docs here dramatically better due to their focus on soft documentation. I can't stand Java docs.
"Merkel makes statement on Corona virus"
The Recruiting Funnel: How to Get Each Step Right
What counts as a co-morbidity? Obesity seems fairly ... well, trivial. I have high (total) cholesterol. Does that count? Constipation? Itchy spot on the back of my knee?
When Will the Outbreak End?
I think this whole thread is way better and more accountable: https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1239286206803742721

You're inspired by DHH but as history teach us, sites like this are mostly abused with fakes, and that's my only problem regarding your website. Why? Anon comments. If DHH will be accused of disinformation he will not shrug this off very easily...
A Mysterious Song on the Internet (2019)
Any more than the annual flu that no one freaks out about?
Makes me wonder if there's now a black market and/or hoarding for CPAP and BiPAP machines. Not really a substitute for a ventilator, but better than nothing if the hospital has nothing for you.
You could tell them the test came back positive. That's not really a lie.
I would disagree. If the national guard gets deployed, they will say otherwise.
> rust also has a unique issue in how to organize traits and other rust specific constructs.

A thousand times this. It doesn't matter how well written and organized that page is, because it's completely irrelevant. The relevant information is all on the traits documentation and other libraries.

Rust could use something similar to hoogle.
Thanks for reaching out! We will be posting our docs on our site in the next couple weeks (with examples). You can see one of those examples in the screencast linked above!

Also, we are considering whether to go open source with our platform in all or part and we’re still early
With a domain like that will you branch out in the future to other undesirable behaviors like quietly giving money to the wrong political groups
What do you mean you don't know? The comment explains his experience a fair bit.
Depends if you dockerise...

I agree, it's better, but the idea that you can just happily run whatever in the browser and it's all fine isn't quite true either.

But it is a lot better now than it used to be.

When it comes down to it - why am I exposed to untrusted code if what I'm trying to do, for the most part, is just browse and read info?

Perhaps we should separate browsers-as-app-platforms from browsers-as-readers.
... for kubernetes.

That's the focus of the post.
Honestly, right now? It might improve things. If literally the only thing they do is force a sensible election system, it’ll be worth it.
> The virus is smart a

You're making a mountain out of a mole hill. The virus spreads as it's possible, and those who carry the virus experience the infection differently depending on some traits.
Germany currently looks to be an interesting case. As of CNN this morning, they have 13,957 cases confirmed, and 31 deaths. The deaths may of course crank up to a "normal" level, but I wonder if it's possible that they are testing many more people and getting a more accurate view.

(of course, this comment will probably age poorly)
> The fact that it's a cost issue makes it look even worse and further out for driverless.

I see it the other way, they slot immediately and easily into already existing businesses and if the only difference is cost consumers are likely to swap over.
I want to thank the rust team- they are extremely dedicated people taking care of the smallest details and giving a compiler and related infrastructure for free. Everyone on the team I've interacted with are amazingly kind and helpful people.

I wish the Reddit community was less of a cancer but I guess it's not the team that's responsible, and also it's reddit after all!
Why learning new technologies is more important than learning “classic” CS
UK government releases scientific evidence supporting Covid-19 response
Haha did you mean

1. Passover/Easter

2. Saint John’s Day

3. Harvest Festival/Sukkot/Thanksgiving

4. Christmas
The transition is definitely taking a long time, are there additional reasons for delaying the switch to IPv6 other than the mitigation of the problem with NAT/private networks?
The corona virus: A deadly blessing in disguise
Contrast with: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/angela-merkel-nails-...
I have a friend I talk to daily for 5+ hours a day that works for a major UC school in California.

They can totally work from home and everyone kept passing the buck when pressed about this.

The other day the staff got pissed enough they got a answer.. Basically the IT staff is not all that great and the VPN doesn't work so they are having people come into the office while they know they should be working from home.
The article is about the bird. If you take a look at the images, you'll see it's so different from any bird-dinosaur that an explicit definition isn't necessary.
It's not that it doesn't work. It actually works better than the old way. You think it doesn't work because you're not used it.
We have enough data from closed experiments (Diamond Princess) to say that COVID sends 5% or more to the ICU. That’s the number that matters right now, not CFR. Fatality rate itself is much more dependent on whether the ICU beds are full (Italy, Iran) than anything else. Unfortunately, beds are about to be full in several US cities.
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> Another important insight is that Viruses, and germs in general, try to evolve and adapt inside the host.

That assumption has no basis at all. Evolutionary pressures don't happen due to a intentional guidance from the evolving species. Individuals mutate by chance and replicate as they can. That's it.
Assuming they could, who would want to buy that? You do not go for high quality Ethiopian beans to then make instant coffee…
He created an issue "You're a <russian translation of 'fag'>"
In Manhattan I've noticed a huge drop in the number of tourists in the past few days, but what's more interesting to me is the total number of people out and about in central park (and other parks) hasn't dropped much. It seems like most of the tourists you usually see were just replaced by locals. I suppose now that everyone is "working from home", they've got time to take walks in the park and enjoy the nice weather. I've also noticed fewer taxis/cars in general on the roads, which is quite nice.

This, of course, is strictly anecdotal observation, so take it with a grain of salt.
The name is a bit creepy with hints of dystopia, but surely by the description it's actually a noble goal?
http://www.huronswcd.com/ditch-maintenance.html apparently. Looks like some places have to make sure theyre draining correctly
Or, you know, all the skills they have from the industry makes it easier for them to get a job in it. Personally, as a lowly peon, I don't really care if my company is fundamentally unprofitable. I care that I get to develop the skills I want to develop.
Yes, but when the PS4 was released it was matched to a low-mid end PC.

About the PS3, I think the CELL CPU that got a lot of attention for it's high end performance (though hard to use).
For me, I have a lot of systems and do try different flavors but generally Ubuntu is my go to since it “just works.” 19.10 (not an LTS release) includes nvidia support out the box so you don’t even need to deal with nouveau.modeset=0 [1]

[1] If you dealt with this you know what I mean haha ;)
The easy answer: "most of the Americans that I've talked to" vs. "anything said by an American"

I'll expand: In the country I live in, a country often touted as very highly developed, there are still a lot of people that have weirdly (uninformed) nationalistic views about certain topics probably due to some oddities of history. This is the case in every single country I've traveled to or lived in. No one is advocating for designing global policy on Russia based on the views of the average American. That has little to do with trusting Americans (or Britons, or any other nationality of a place with a violent history) on other specific issues.
Wow. Blast from the past. Greenspun's company ArsDigita used to run free web development boot camps. I did one of the boot camps back in 2000. It was the first time I'd ever heard of such a thing.

Apparently, there was also an ArsDigita University, which ran for a year:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArsDigita_University
Water splitting advance holds promise for affordable renewable energy
It's always strange to find Windows guys using the GAS syntax. At the same time, it's strange to find Unix-y guys using the Intel syntax... (e.g. godbolt).
I meant the PSP and PS Vita lines.
There is an alternative timeline where tourism in Venice is prohibited or strictly restricted to a handful of people per day, and the city is fundamentally dead but used as a social livingroom for moneyed global elites. It would be utterly sad but probably very beautiful.

This crisis might help us rearrange our priorities a bit.
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Oh. This article says it way better than I could: https://www.ft.com/content/c0755b30-69bb-11ea-800d-da70cff6e...

Sorry about the paywall. If you search for it via google and click it from there that's how I found it (and why I didn't realize it was paywall)

Basic summary: Too Early to tell. But Germany is doing 160,000 tests/week, which is more than lots of countries. They may be getting a more complete picture of who is all infected.
Ask HN: How has Covid-19 messed with your data supply chain?
I'm sure a lot of you are getting data from vendors. Has anyone noticed any specific lag? Emails gone un-addressed for days?
Season-based celebrations rule. I wish there was a cultural custom for Midsummer.
Could be like a rip-off report as well
https://www.flir.com/browse/home-amp-outdoor/mobile-accessor...
You might have missed it but yesterday it was all over the news that the EU had asked Netflix to do something. Here is one of many articles:
https://www.engadget.com/2020/03/19/eu-netflix-sd-streaming-...

Today the Australian government is making the same request.
Raising the price does not "primarily" cut off the least wealthy potential buyers, that is just one of the effects. Much more important is that it prevents people from hoarding, which is by far the most common result of prices being drastically lower than they ought to be. Leaving the prices low predictably causes shortages, which shut out virtually everyone from purchasing the masks, including the microscopic percentage that wouldn't be able to afford the price increase on an item that usually costs pennies.
The successor of Prisma, Prisma2 [0] does aim to solve the typing issue. It generates a fully typed JS/TS client that you can then use e.g. with autocompletion in VS Code. It is currently in preview, but they aim to release the first "stable" version in Q1 of this year, so pretty soon. You can check the current status at [1]. However, you can try it out right now by installing the preview version via npm.

I am currently playing around with it and although it has some rough edges in corner cases, for 99% of my use cases it was a breeze to work with. Particulary the integration with nexus via the nexus-prisma plugin [2] is plain awesome, i have never had a fully functional graphql endpoint standing in a timeframe of 1 hour.

I am using it in conjunction with NextJS and the resulting developer experience is great, i cant recommend enough to try it out

(I am not affiliated with prisma labs, just a happy user)

[0] https://github.com/prisma/prisma2

[1] https://www.notion.so/Is-Prisma-2-Ready-8b3fba3eaf5b4bf3ab71...

[2] https://github.com/graphql-nexus/nexus-prisma
This is the why people who have experience bureaucracy have learned to hate it. It makes even the simplest thing impossible. The more useless people you add to anything, the harder it becomes.
The first day of lockdown in Bologna, half the city ended up sunbathing in the local park. The city council was then forced to close parks and gardens.
Those heady pre dot-com crash days. I think he was one of the first people to get screwed over by his VCs as well. A trailblazer in so many ways.
Public shaming and vigilante sites are always a bad idea.
Just so we're clear who this commenter is:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/garrett-grimsley-north-carolina...
> Assuming they could, who would want to buy that?

People who want instant coffee?

> You do not go for high quality Ethiopian beans to then make instant coffee…

Ok... can you use the lower quality ones?
There are many Y2K deniers, even though people that have actually seen the code says it would have crashed and burned without all the hard work.
Here's the complexity story, if you're curious.

1. Terraform repo for AWS deploy

2. Step functions application logic (server-side polling daemon)

3. Email service template

4. Feature flag configuration

5. (Something in the monolith to trigger the workflow, probably?)

This wasn't an entirely small engineering org - 300-400+ devs?

I agree, though, is the point. I think folk don't put enough thought into the development story when going this route. I think monorepos are the only sensible way to go about it once folk have cross-service work to accomplish, and monoliths are a _good_ way to build applications for longer than folk give them credit. That said, some monoliths are more productive than others. Slow startup/compilation can destroy productivity.
> I don’t know why the experience for the current top commenter

Meta: the experience for readers of your comment would be much better if you'd chosen to reply to that not-now-currently top commenter.

I think almost certainly it was this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22636726

But that may not be clear at all to later readers if there are many comments here.
Yes, the network is non-deterministic. The point of a reliable protocol is to make it the outcome deterministic despite any underlying non-determinism. So why include timeouts in your protocol which just adds back the non-determinism?
This does give me some relief that Boris is taking little or no part in the important decision making and just rubber stamping what experts agree on.
Despite being unable to play it for I don’t know how long, my VHS copy of this is still a prized possession. It was my introduction to Ted Nelson’s ideas as well as a raft of other things and is also a beautiful creation in its own right.
This is the right answer, but it's a reality that accounts are very frequently shared, because of laziness, cost, or simply that the service doesn't have good (or any) support for multiple accounts
Yea, the test itself is incredibly simple. The challenge to scale it up is regulations and bureaucracy, because they all fear the liability of a test that can sometimes produce false negatives.
What's the better alternative? At at time like this we need immediate action. I value human lives over due process, personally.
You should tweet at companies with a link to the site if they reach a certain number of upvotes. A more positive version of this site would be interesting too. A lot of companies are doing the right thing
>when I hit a share button on a page

Why would the share button be on a page? Surely this should be a native browser/OS function (as implemented km android, for instance)
Examples are the most important part of you docs sometimes. There are at least two reasons for visiting docs:

* Want to understand generally how to use a new concept, typically at the class level (or more trickily at the two-or-three-classes level), e.g. how do I create a thread?

* Already familiar with the concept but want to do something specific, typically at the method level, e.g. how to test whether a string starts with a particular prefix?

There was a good post on Hackers News a few months ago breaking down documentation visitors into four categories, so there's at least two more.

I think examples are very important in the first case, typically you want an example led-approach to explaining new concepts. But examples are a lot less important for method-level questions, and are often (not always) totally redundant if you have really clear and precise information about the method and its parameters.

Edit: But just to be clear, I agree that examples are really important and you should definitely put them in your docs (at the class level and above).

Edit 2: Here's the article [1] and HN dicussion [2]. In that terminology, I was distinguishing "explanation" and "reference". The other two types are "tutorial" and "how-to guide".

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20200312211539/https://www.divio...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21289832
Thanks for the pointer to that tool, it worked for me and will probably help me get past a lot more paywalls.
Yep unfortunately true. I recently saw an official document from local CDC in my home country. There were two URLs "find more info at" in the document:

file:///C:/Users/blabla/something.pdf

httpx://who.int/something?fbclid=<200-hundred-chars>
Paying $1000/month to everyone is $327 billion/month or $3.9 trillion every year. With most people not working you'd have to print that money, destroying the dollar.

Also $1000/month is not even close to enough in most areas to live off. Rent + food + health insurance is a lot more than $1000 for most people.
That's like saying all product review sites are bad. Knowing which companies don't value your life at all is a very useful piece of information when looking for future jobs.
This makes me...upset...and glad. As if it takes a virus to realise and change behaviour.

Edit: another upside was mentioned earlier in the CO2 drop. Will we in the future see politicans limiting number of aircrafts / year?
Nice guitar websites for scales/chords
There is no authority behind them. Author will just remove the site/comment if first "we will sue you" letter comes.

For example: https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1240769043776163840?s=20

DHH has huge respect in industry, they will not piss him off, but some site? Nah. ;)
GI system signs are presenting complaint in half of Covid-19 patients [pdf]
I think their holy grail would be to become part of our genome like many others have:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/04/science/ancient-viruses-d...
My experience is that bureaucracy stems from something - it has a cause, regardless of the outcome. My personal experience is that 99% of it is avoiding litigation.

Not sure what that adds to the conversation, just my experience with forms and layers of people paid to do nothing but sign them.
Well that's a cease and desist magnet
“Blue blood” has nothing to do with argyria: https://www.etymonline.com/word/blue-blood
It's a difference in culture that must not be underestimated. South East Asian societies have a long history of autocratic leadership and a much lower sense of individuality among the population.

South Korea wasn't a democracy for most of its history and it shows as soon as drastic measures need to be taken. The first reaction among the populous in the West is resistance against any form of government mandated measures due to a deep mistrust. Add to that federal structures versus centralised government and you get to the results we see today.

Calls for strong leadership end in dictatorships because measures taken in times of crisis tend not tobe taken back once the crisis is over. This is nothing new - this is how the Roman Empire got its emperors after all.
Not entirely unnoticed, cfr:
https://voxeu.org/article/intergenerational-ties-and-case-fa...
Where I live the common advice is to ever forage for non-white edible mushrooms only. And of course still always do a positive identification with the help of a modern illustrated edible mushroom picking guidebook. In addition to identification instructions for good mushrooms, they include references and pictures of every known similar-looking non-edible mushroom, so you can do the positive identification.

But even with pictures, good guidebook and caution, experts still advice against picking white edible mushrooms at all. The risk of accidentally picking a destroying angel is not worth it, as any forest that has e.g. champignons (Agaricus) is going to have other good, non-white mushrooms as well.
Review sites also allow you to post things that are positive.
Couldn't agree more, I have the HD Netflix account and I literally couldn't give a flying fuck if they drop to SD.

I'm far more worried about my mum than whether TV is SD for a month during a global pandemic.

Fuck me people are ridiculous at times.
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But that's not reliable either. Average age on the Diamond Princess was 58. With 1/3 being over 70. Average age in the US is 38, with 15.2% being over 65.

Given that age is a very large component here, I don't think you can extrapolate data from the Diamond Princess to the general population.