skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Routific | Engineers and Designers | Vancouver, BC | Full-time | Onsite & Visa | https://routific.com

At Routific we’re helping hundreds of businesses around the globe save time and fuel with route optimization. Our mission? To make route optimization accessible to every last-mile delivery company. Named one of Fast Company’s “World Changing Ideas”, we are creating a more sustainable world by reducing waste and greenhouse gas emissions.

Headquartered in beautiful Vancouver BC, with sweeping views of the ocean and mountains. To learn more about who we are, our engineering culture, and whether this is the right place for you, read our Key Values profile: https://www.keyvalues.com/routific

Check out our open roles:

* Senior Product Designer: https://angel.co/company/routific/jobs/655608-senior-product...

* Sr. Full-Stack Engineer: https://angel.co/company/routific/jobs/590774-sr-full-stack-...

Email misa [at] routific.com if you have any questions
Drupal Association Statement Re: Financial Effects of Covid-19
Blood from coronavirus survivors might save lives
Man, their website copy is cringe city:

"3 Availability Settings
Available means you’re free to chat if someone needs you.

Busy mode means you’re pretending to be busy so other users have to hit you up to see if you’re free to chat.

And away, well that obviously means you’re in the toilet."

This kind of cutsie stuff doesn't make me think they take the convergence of my private space and work space seriously.
If you really want more time quest is a bit of a rabbit hole
Regarding your point on consumers, we put our PWA/TWA into the app store (for the reason you outlined) - and now get a raft of negative reviews that the TWA is the same as the mobile site... Which is frustrating, because that's the point.

Making it clear why a TWA is in the app store is hard in itself. Trying to explain why it's better for consumers over a native app + mobile site is even harder.

See these reviews for yourself here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.openrent
It doesn't matter. Hospitals are being overloaded and people are dying in hallways for lack of care. Ever seen that at this scale in influenza epidemics before? Maybe not since 1918.
Home screen web app data will be deleted onlY be deleted after 7 days of active use of that web app without any user interaction, which is nearly impossible. So the whole premise of the OP is false.
All kids are different: My youngest is currently a toddler, and the area where I work is large and there's so many toys that I just let her roam around. Most of the time she plays with toys but sometimes she needs to sit in my lap. Even when my wife is home watching the kids, I'll bring my youngest up to give my wife a break.

When my oldest was a toddler she demanded constant attention, and she's still that way. The only way to not give her constant attention is to have her play with another child.

One thing to consider is to ask your first grader to watch your toddler, and work in a room that's large enough where you are present but not stepping on each other. Most of school is babysitting anyway, so you can probably dedicate 2 to 3 hours a day for academics and be fine.

Also, don't forget that toddlers need naps! My wife is an essential worker, so when she's at work I can get about an hour of uninterrupted time when my kids are down for a nap.
They may well support it up to the point that it kills them. I expect it to be popular to tell them there is nothing to worry about and they'll probably be fine.
I've seen the cloud agnostic nature of Kuberbetes mentioned in many posts here. This is only true on the surface for a significant number of use cases and deployment models.

Once petabytes of data are out there in your GCP or AWS environment, "portability" will be costly due to extortionistic pricing of egress bandwidth.
As of right now, covid-19 is killing about 2,200 people/day, compared to about 3,300 people/day for car accidents. So it hasn't caught up yet, but it's still on an exponential climb and will probably get there in another week or so, and then keep right on climbing.

This whole "the flu/cars/heart disease is way worse" shtick people are leaning on has got to stop. It's true until exponential growth suddenly means it's not.

EDIT: And those are the worldwide numbers. In the US specifically, covid-19 is killing about 200 people/day, compared to 100 people/day for car accidents, and is of course going to go way up from here.
No

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory

Based on the author's criteria:

1) The event is a surprise (to the observer).
2) The event has a major effect.
3) After the first recorded instance of the event, it is rationalized by hindsight, as if it could have been expected; that is, the relevant data were available but unaccounted for in risk mitigation programs. The same is true for the personal perception by individuals.

It fails on the surprise aspect. Pandemics are expected. Failure to prepare for them does not make it a surprise.

List of epidemics from wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics
Maybe not a bad first approximation, but this approach would suggest I should be asleep always...

Sometimes information can be handy, even if all you're getting is an automated way of collecting information you already had access to.
Because the situation is out of control and the madman President of the US doesn’t have the ability to establish confidence.

Any outcome is possible right now, including nationalizing a shitshow too big to fail bank.

You’re better off speculating in consumer staples that are cheap. There’s a lot of misery ahead, places like McDonalds are a potential good investments. Still better if you have cash is to wait for the waves of bankruptcies and whatever emerges.

For example, every US state that depends on income taxes is broke for the next quarter (the deadline for taxes was pushed to July), and the relief bill doesn’t close the gap. That alone will impact Medicaid payments and municipal government.
> We have no slaves today because renting turned out to be cheaper than owning with advancement of infrastructure and technology.

Nonsense, I have an embarrassing number of acquaintances who've admitted to wanting slaves and that they'd have them if it weren't illegal.

It's important to keep in mind that there's no shortage of people who'd be slave owners if only it were legal.

What you see in the prison system is a modern variant but only accessible to very few. Conventional slavery was damn near ubiquitous, accessible to many.

We have no slaves because it's illegal.
They think they have been able to correct for that.

> Due to the emergence of the coronavirus, Kinsa is receiving two to three times more thermometer readings per day than in previous flu seasons. Historically, Kinsa’s methods have been able to account for a sharp rise in the number of people taking tests, said Benjamin Dalziel, a professor at Oregon State University who studies infectious diseases. For his research, Dalziel has ensured that a spike in testing didn’t lead to inaccurate predictions, and so he believes the current decline in illness is a result of social distancing, and not a statistical anomaly. (Dalziel has had research funded by Kinsa in the past).
> Any Pascal programmer can go from writing Pascal to Oberon to Java to ALGOL to Go with ten minutes per language, in any order, despite the differences in syntax.

I don’t know if you actually believe this, or you’re defining write as in literally type letters that compile instead of being able to write useful productive code in each.

The rest of your comment is more wtfs kind of like that one.

This is not a productive use of my time because either you have no idea what you’re talking about, or you do but you’re intentionally throwing basic reasoning skills straight out the window and leaning heavily into playing games with semantics to support your point at all costs.

Now I’ll be charitable and assume the latter, but if that’s your goal, then what more is there to say?

Yes, Android vs Java is a pink bicycle vs a green one. Pat yourself on the back for that revelation.
I got an email from my recruiter at a medium-sized VC-funded startup in Mountain View basically saying “if things don’t change by June we won’t be able to continue move forward with your internship”. I appreciated the transparency and that’s about as good of an an answer as I could’ve expected given the sheer uncertainty of everything going on right now.
Just imagine how many fewer people would fall ill each year with the flu if we didn’t shake hands as our default greeting?
You Won’t Believe My Morning
Haha are you me? I moved back to PCs because of the same issue. Time Machine doesn't cut it and the pushes apple have been making have just made making a logical backup system nigh impossible.
Do you know if Breath of the Wild was Nintendo's engine or (as I've heard) Unreal/Havok?
Show HN: Peer-to-Peer Minecraft Server
Yes. It's also why all Macs still don't have greater than 128gb hard drives even when nvme has gotten considerably cheaper.

I probably will not buy another Apple product until MacOs gets phased out and IpadOS becomes their new platform.
this is a ridiculous statement, you constantly refer to "him", i can only persume you are referring to our current president. You do know that the U.S. has been increasing debt since way before his tenure, right?
I'm impressed.

I have a database with 15k documents, each with around 70 pages of text, HTML formatted.

I'm using ElasticSearch currently, with the Searchkick gem.

30 min playing with MeiliSearch. So far:

- Blazing fast to index, like 10x more performant than using ElasticSearch / Searchkick;

- Blazing fast to search, at least 3x faster in all my random tests so far;

- Literally zero config;

- Uses 140MB of RAM currently, while in my experience ElasticSearch would crash with anything less than 1GB, and needs at least 1.5GB to be usable in production.
Very enjoyable. I couldn't help imagine this expanded to the next step of conquest. The filesize and space limitations could evolve into management of physical resources and moving compute centers around to avoid attack.
I obviously needed to read this more closely.
Is nonlocality inherent in all identical particles in the universe?
Very much agreed with your stance. As far as I understand the hysteria surrounding the covid, people seem to forget that saving people is a cost analysis. Ideally the virus could be annihilated in a authoritarian regime with very heavy lock-downs.

We should aim for a policy that fits with our society and not try to imitate regimes where other courses of actions are more viable (e.g. China has very good population control and thus can afford lock-downs, whereas Western nations have more emphasis on personal and civic responsibility and may have better ways of dealing with it).

I would love to say I trust our government and the decision they made, but I'm afraid I don't.

Imo we should prioritize helping at-risk population and allowing them to quarantine if needed, and let each person assess their own risk (with help) w/r to that virus and act accordingly, while making sure they have access to the resources they need.

As a side note, this follows a trend I notice in society to treat people as sheep that cannot think for themselves and must be protected (which is warranted for some people in view of the latest hysteria).
i approve
Do you really think we're going to come out of this period causing people to lose their jobs, lose their savings, lose their loved ones, not see their friends, stop going to sports and social events… and everyone's going to be like "Hey, that was fun, let's do it again next year"?
That's not really true. Mine has been working and I have been posting my trades for people. What's funny is as the number of people following the trade grows, the odds of the trade hitting has been going up since.
I've definitely seen/used that map, which as far as I know is one of the authoritative ones worldwide. I wasn't able to see how to paginate back in time with that map to view growth, which was one of my primary motives for building this one. Is there a way to do that with the John Hopkins map?
There's an Android app called Gadgetbridge which is open source and keeps your data local. I use it with an Android watch (I forget which one exactly). I don't know how it compares in quality with the phone-home vendor app, since I replaced that immediately.

https://gadgetbridge.org/
The "car accidents" fallacy.

1. "New thing X puts us at risk of losing Y lives every day."

2. "We lose Y lives to car accidents every day".

3. "Ergo, X is harmless!"

Except you now have 2Y lives lost every day.

Furthermore, car accidents kill an insane amount of people, and cars suck. This is not the bar.
There are people who build and grok models (A) and people who build epidemiological models (B) and then people who built epidemiological models of infectious diseases (C).

It is a common error for folks in set A to believe that they can understand models built by folks in set C. It is a subtle but serious error for folks in set B to believe they can understand models by set C e.g. John Katz of Yale who is a doctor focusing on diets and wrote a woefully misguided article in the NY Times.

Roughly, I find the confounding factors about models about the current epidemic seem to the following:

1- 1% of the population severely affected etc. (see: Diamond Princess). What they fail to appreciate is that the Diamond Princess was an enclosed environment and the outbreak was controlled and limited to the population on board. In the general population, a virus with an R0 of 3 will infect 50,000+ people in 10 infection steps.

2- What most people miss is the collision of the 1% severity with the capacity of the medical system. This second-order effect is something hard to understand. 1% of the US is 3.6 million. Even if 10% of those cases turn up at the ER in the same year and occupy the beds for 2 weeks each it will be a disaster.

3- #1 and #2 interacts with life as usual demands on the health care system – accidents, heart attacks, strokes, etc. to create third order effects – more deaths as there are no beds and no personnel to deal with them.

4- PPE running short and causing infections amongst medical personnel leading to their quarantine, hospitalization or death (Wuhan, Italy, Spain) decimates their ranks and accentuates the stress on the health care system……. 20% of lost capacity translates to some fraction more deaths and more stress on the rest of the medical population.

I am sure there are factors I have missed.

We have seen many contrarian viewpoints. None of these contrarian thinkers make any concrete suggestions (Ionnadis, Katz, Friedman, Gillespie, Hanson) except making ominous predictions to how wrong we are and we need more data. Meanwhile ER doctors say this is the worst they have ever seen and bodies keep piling up. These contrarian thinkers provide no simulations of how saving the economy will lead to lesser deaths. Just hand waving and finger jabbing.

The contrarians seem to think that the playbook to deal with the epidemic has been improvised. Or that this is something modelers are thinking up on the fly. These playbooks have existed for decades with very good understanding of the dynamics and were used during SARs, Ebola and heck even back during the Spanish Flu. What seems to be lacking was parameters specific to Covid-19. Its R0, CFR, co-morbidities, etc.

The reason Taiwan, Korea and Singapore were able to act so decisively and fast was that they just dusted of the SARs playbook and knew almost exactly what to do. Taiwan enforced the first measures in early Jan.

I will take the word of the viral epidemiologists over the contrarian's armchair speculations and continue to overreact. I recommend you should too.
Fun game. It reminds me of a MUD (without the multi-player component). I wonder what a multi-player version of something like this would look like
Developers conferences can be useful if you get to talk to the right people.

I was given a pass to Microsoft Build one year because we were looking to build stuff on Azure but weren't sure which services were mature and which were not. I talked to almost every single PM who had a booth there (and at MS, PMs are also developers). I learned that if you push MS PMs hard enough and ask the right questions, most will drop the marketing facade and give you the insider's view. (after all, developers -- by personality trait -- generally hate two-faced marketing talk and would genuinely rather talk about the tech)

This unfiltered insider's view is decidedly quite different from Microsoft's enterprise marketing's messaging. Attending Microsoft Build and talking to PMs helped us avoid investing our efforts in Azure services that turned out to be dead-ends. (many of Azure's GA stuff are feature complete but not truly production-ready) Short of running POCs, there exist few other low-effort means of procuring this intelligence other than by talking to (honest) Azure consultants at Meetups who have to deal with this stuff in daily production.

My conclusion from the conference (corroborated with my own dev experience) was that the parts of Azure that were built on pre-existing Microsoft technology (like VMs and SQL Servers) were generally solid and could be relied upon.

Whereas many new-fangled PaaS/SaaS cloud-only offerings tend not to be as battle-tested and would often fail on corner cases, so one would be prudent to think twice about putting mission-critical workloads on them. Also, one learns that despite the glossy marketing material, some Azure offerings turned to not have had any dev activity on them due to low uptake. There are still maturity issues in Azure today, and my gut feel is that most enterprises that do run on Azure mostly use their IaaS (VMs, SQL) offerings -- these are the most mature -- rather than their PaaS and SaaS offerings.

The common refrain from marketing folks is that cloud development is a moving target, and what was true a week ago might not be true now (a trivially true statement but of no practical use).
i approver
Not sure why you got down voted, I can only agree.

Social distancing only slows distribution it doesn't prevent it reliably also some disease are spread by animals which are not at all affected by social distancing.

And then vaccines are also not enough as it had shown for some disease where we did try to eliminate them by handing out free vaccines in affected countries.

Lastly social distancing has a super high cost if continued. Not only economically but a super high health cost. Humans are not meant to live permanently social distanced they are inherently social animals and the internet can't really replace it. E.g. for people fighting depression social distancing can be like poison. It prevents them or at least restrict them from doing many the thinks which can help fighting depression and causes "physical" isolation (Internet is helping but has limits, it's not helping enough to counter it). Another group most likely majorly negatively affected are people with "home" problems, like violent partners or parents (or just to controlling partners or parents). To just name some example.
I'm currently doing Bandit@Overthewire. I think there is some stuff there that should be useful later down the road.

Thanks.
I'm pleased to see the changes in the HPA, having pod scale-up/down periods be tied to a systemwide setting was a bit painful.
Tangent. How would a rental owner sanitize a unit after occupancy, relative to Covid-19? And how could a renter be confident that such sanitization had been done?
Now there are devices for clinical at-home sleep monitoring, say for screening for apnea. Still uncomfortable but at least you are at home.
I really hope this helps kill the concept of handshaking entirely.

Unfortunately, there's still a large segment of dirty-handed people who think you can judge a person based on their handshake.
This will be a very good silver lining. Bows, elbow bumps. Not sure what the standard greeting will be, but getting away from handshakes and cheek kissing will make all of us healthier.
Neat. Poorly optimized queues can have a significant impact on performance, doubling throughput for disk encryption with some queue tweaks is pretty significant.
Coyote: Making it easier for developers to build reliable asynchronous software
Good riddance. They would purchase great conferences, like Hadoop World which costed only $200 to attend, and turn them into $1500 affairs.

Wish there were more very tech focused conferences in the US like Devoxx in Europe. No filler. No hidden sales pitches.
> I also think there's the simple fact that the vast majority of even educated people have a hard time understanding simple statistics.

I'm educated and I don't see valid statistics. Without total comprehensive direct and antibodies tests we just don't have valid statistics data. We MUST test everyone (in proper statistical sense) to obtain valid data to work with. Instead we got all media histerically fixated upon single topic and hence total panic.
This past February I had the honor of giving my first ever keynote presentation. The conference was sponsored by my employer. That said, aside from mentioning that I worked for said employer, I never mentioned it again nor did I try to sell anyone anything.

I had some of the best most awesome conversations during the coffee and lunch breaks. I can only hope that I gave a fraction of insight during my keynote that I received during the hallway talks.
Just make sure the fist photo of you is a photo of you attached to some Ferris bueller like string contraption, then change it once or twice. Done.
You can have the opinion that majority vote establishes rights, although by that logic democratically enacted laws prohibiting homosexuality, abortion, etc are not immoral, but that doesn't support the claim that these types of laws are unanimously consensual.

Laws are imposed on people with or without their consent. At no point does a vote taking place confer that everyone consented.
This is just temporary but effective way to lessen the spread of contagious disease. No other country wants to be the next Italy.
What's stopping you from using the ARMv6 version?
Input Latency Simulator
You err on the side of cutting "too much", because a. as the original author suggested, you want to cut once and b. because the downside of cutting "too much" is better than the downside of cutting too little. For everyone.
Looks like a sword from Zelda 1.
*mislabeled at a Venetian monastery's museum, which was full of stuff from (various definitions of Armenia).
What Is SEO and Why Do You Need SEO
Density only affects the speed of spread. It largely[1] doesn't affect how many people will die. Over time everyone will get infected unless the virus is wiped out.

[1] there is speculation that greater exposure to the virus may make some people sicker
/I Considered Harmful
“Brita Filter for Blood” Aims to Remove Harmful Cytokines for Covid-19 Patients
At that scale it is probably a better option to look into something like AWS Snowball and ship it on physical drives.

At the petabyte scale there will probably be huge cost savings to using your own private cloud on your own hardware.
Yes,

https://cr.yp.to/antiforgery/cachetiming-20050414.pdf
I mean, in fairness to the PP, they do _not_ mention gogs at all in the FAQ.
Much of the test interpretation has to do with the correlation of sleep structure to changes in your vitals, I.e., I don’t care if it was the worst night of your sleeping life, if you had X number of apnic events per unit time sleeping, that data is unchanged by the fact that you had trouble sleeping.