skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some quick feedback specific to the listings I got when I plugged in "Germany": almost everything I found is internships. You mention in a comment elsewhere that intern is the new entry-level, but over here internships are almost exclusively for current students, and the ones I peeked at all had that restriction. And taking on internships in parallel to University is rare here (at the Universities I'm aware of), at least in CS.

Maybe you could consider adding a filter to remove internships? Otherwise the site is rather useless for non-students here.
Some feedback on the site, I hope you don't mind:

- some of the images on the cards do not load; maybe they're just missing? Would be better to have a more indicative default image in that case

- getting a few CORS related errors and some TypeErrors in the console

- not a massive fan of the logo

- when the loading text is displayed after searching, the main container (jobs-container) becomes small and drags the footer up with it, leaving white space underneath the footer. Should remain a fixed size.

- when no results are found it just seems to hang on the "Loading..." text

- the Apply button does not behave like a normal link. I would like to 1) see where it's taking me when I hover over it and 2) be able to middle-click on it and open a new tab

- is there pagination?

I'm using Firefox. Overall, I like the design and it's a decent idea. Good job!
Isn't an important aspect of learning Physics is being able to conduct experiments in a lab?
Great article, I love learning more about language influence. I was wondering something:

> Smalltalk wasn’t the only casualty of the “Javapocalypse”: Java also marginalized Eiffel, Ada95, and pretty much everything else in the OOP world. The interesting question isn’t “Why did Smalltalk die”, it’s “Why did C++ survive”. I think it’s because C++ had better C interop so was easier to extend into legacy systems.

Maybe it's linked to performance? Even today some application are rewritten from Java to C++ (or clones are made) to gain performance (like with Cassandra and Scylla).
Or watch Chris Curry, Steve Furber and Hermann Hauser watching "Micro Men":
http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/news/55409/
No, no interview. He's a friend of mine but I kept his problem in my head to possibly provide some solution.
Anyone else remember "too soon" when it comes to making jokes?

Maybe we are seeing "it's never going to not be soon, don't even think of it"
Just avoid COVID-19 cure "jokes"
The US “rescue package” gives Mnuchin a $5T slush fund, doesn't help Americans
Productive peeps and geeks: What're you favorite keyboard shortcuts on Mac?
I can't get your site to display. Once everything is loaded, all I get is a white page and the favicon.
Cmon it’s the most magnificent of corporate jokiness times. Always funny even when it’s not a global disaster. How can you bring down such a rich tradition in which corporations aim only to bring some light to your day?

Organized, planned, workshopped humor on an industrial scale!! What Ho!
In Germany, and other European countries, there is a tool called "Kurzarbeit". It allows a company to reduce the workforces hours and temporarily cut pay. The state supports it with tax breaks. The result is that a worker only works i.e. 60%, income drops to 80% (bc of the tax breaks) and the company saves a lot of money.

The key point: people keep their jobs AND companies keep their trained staff. So when the crisis is over, they are ready to ramp up again. Also, since people keep their jobs, consumption does not drop that low.

This helped the Germany economy massively to recover from the 2008 crisis.

Not sure if it would work the same way for all parts of the economy, but it definitively works for the manufacturing industry.
While that is clearly true, it doesn't change the fact that every population to encounter this virus so far has overwhelmed the available medical provisions. There are people in Italy choosing to drown in their own bodily fluids rather than face the dying the same way in isolation.

It doesn't really matter whether the odds are more like winning a bottle of wine in a charity raffle or losing a game of Russian roulette.
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> however in Europe most ISPs saw no need to throttle video as the current situation merely makes the usual peak last longer.

"Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-51968302
Last rumour I picked up from the news where I live, in the UK, is that the current plan is:

1. Shut down most of the economy to dampen the enormity of the tidal wave as peak pandemic hits, to reduce the overwhelm in intensive care units, and thereby reduce deaths.

2. After the peak (shape and size altered by 1) has passed and it is decaying, if the shutdown ends abruptly then the pandemic here will start up all over again. So instead, the shutdown will be eased off alongside extensive personal testing and individually self-targeted isolation.

I worry that 2 won't work so well because there are a lot of people who will turn into spreaders: Test negative at home for "had the virus", but in the phase where people who had the virus can get back out, will be happy to get out and pretend they had it already had it, hidden in plain sight among those who have. After all we already saw, here in the UK, that a lot of people are happy to be spreaders on the grounds that "only sick and old people are dying anyway".
Doubt there are bronze meteorites known to humanity.

Either way, copper, the major component of bronze, is a product of exploding supernovas. That's cool enough.
And no "quarantine is over" type stuff.
The reason why the Spanish flu hit so hard in 1918 is that countries were not willing to quarantine people in fear that it would hurt their wartime economies.
HN doesn't do much in the way of humour anyway.
I wouldn't recommend either because i find it to be impossible to learn physics or other complex ideas from an audio stream. But i don't think feynmann was at his core disrespectful towards women, regardless of his intermittent usage of swear words. Not from the accounts I read anyways. so that kind of criticism is ultimately more of the old social conservative critique against the bachelor lifestyle.
What browser are you using so we can do some testing?
First result I got searching for Python remote jobs required years of experience.
"I really want the first screen after installing PWAs to be their privacy policy or detailing which permissions/how they use them."

Wouldn't it make more sense, to display this info before you install a pwa?
5 years ago, I had an interview with Jane Street. At that time I was interested in functional programming but not in OCaml. I think I had a fair chance but I bombed a technical interview. I do not have a "prestigious college" background and at that time I only had like a year of PHP experience. The interview format was also quite good.

I am not sure if the software they are writing is "elite" but OCaml is raising the bar a bit higher.
Bosch develops rapid test for Covid-19
Another highly influential programming language not listed in the article is Self (http://www.selflanguage.org). Although I've taken two graduate-level courses in programming language theory, I didn't learn about Self until just a few years ago when I was bitten by the Smalltalk and Lisp bugs and started reading about the history of these languages and their environments. One of Self's most significant contributions is the idea of prototype-based programming, which is the influence behind JavaScript's traditional lack of classes (though newer versions of JavaScript have support for classes).

I don't know if Self was ever commercialized; I do know that once Java was released Sun focused much of its attention on promoting Java at the exclusion of other object-oriented environments that Sun invested in (such as the OpenStep Objective-C API, which was actually jointly developed by NeXT and Sun). But Self is probably one of the most influential programming languages; it's just a shame that this language was never brought up in any of the computer science courses I've taken.
I advise everyone to flag this submission as it's not really readable by most people, because of the account-wall.
I was born in 83 and i remember the changes to the computing course being discussed by my teacher at the time. I did the last year of the 'old' course, which as I like to tell people had 6502 asm in it. He was an old school electrical engineer and wasn't' happy about the coming changes to the curriculum!

If I recall correctly, the government made a decision at the time get rid of all the interesting stuff and change it to IT only with word etc. and that sounds like what you had to do. My opinion would be the raspberry pi movement was in part a direct response to this. Getting back to the old ways we taught kids in this country and providing the cheap accessible technology such as spectrums that people like me could actually have in their bedrooms. Plus every school i think had a BBC micro, which i think was pretty impressive foresight for the time.
Aren't some unicorns like Uber still running on venture capital?
They have dark UX patterns that makes the content creators mark a setting for doing this. Most of them are not aware it introduces an account-wall for their articles.
> gargantuan ecosystem of standard JavaScript libraries and the communities and companies that support them, instead of rolling your own half-assed bastard stepchild C# imitation libraries that require constant maintenance

You can't possibly be serious here. You are comparing an ecosystem where the package manager can be gamed to includes malware in your code, where a small project need includes 1000+ libraries some having just one function in them, where core projects used by GAFAM can become unmaintained because of lack of funding, where most modules are created by random developers and will break your code on update to an ecosystem with a two decade old battle-tested extensive base class library made entirely by professionals, maintained by one of the biggest tech corp with a safe package manager. Also breaking API change from third party library are easily detected thanks to the type system.
Thank you for your feedback. Yes, we are working on adding more jobs for every country. And categories/ filtering should be ready in the next few weeks.
Anyone use bevcomm? I have fiber to the house at 300Mbps but rarely get it. I wanted 1Gps but apparently my ONT can’t handle it. I’d get it replaced but trying to avoid covid_19 at this time.
That's a serious problem though. A lot of people looking for entry level developer jobs aren't kids in college. We need something that filters out all the internship stuff. I'm not against internships per se, but I can't afford to work for no pay.
Why key performance indicators are crucial amidst a (public health) crisis
Your post above compared deaths so far due to COVID-19 to yearly deaths due to influenza. That's a very silly comparison, because we're only in the very early stages of the outbreak.

The outbreak is growing exponentially at this point, and basic epidemiological models say that it will continue to do so until a significant fraction of the population becomes infected. COVID-19 is estimated to have an R_0 of around 2.4, meaning that if nothing is done to lower transmission, the epidemic will only begin to recede once approximately 1-1/2.4 = 0.58 (58%) of the population is infected.

The current doubling time for the epidemic is 3 days in the US, meaning that the US will reach the saturation level of ~58% of the population infected sometime this May.

In the face of the cold logic of exponential growth in epidemiology, you can't try to reassure people by pointing to the current numbers of infections. You have to look at R_0 (~2.4), the level of preexisting immunity (0%), and the mortality rate (~1%), and act accordingly. I don't want to see 2 million Americans dead by the end of May. Pointing out that only a few hundred have died so far and asking me to ignore basic epidemiology doesn't reassure me.
The first job in the list right now is a manager position requiring 10+ years of experience!

Perhaps some filtration based on some simple regex could help get rid of at least the most basic errors? :)
You seem stuck in the past and project your problems onto others. For many, IM and chat rooms do not cause productivity problems. Different companies use Slack and other tools in their own way, have their own policies as to what is expected and what not.

The client has enough options available you can set as you like as to not disturb you.

Email has its own problems. Sometimes you need answers to important questions promptly. @<user> works better then, at the same time, it is less intrusive than a phone call.

Also, it is work time, you have to expect to be on the ready, and answer people that needs something from you, so they can get their work done, too. It is not your leisure time.

Some people here talk about work like they think it is their own personal project time.
We're social animals, this is hardcoded part of our brain.
Managing solitude require training as anything else.
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There's been a cheap, 10 minute antibody (ELISA?) test kit from SureScreen for sometime. It only works after someone develops antibodies.

For initial infection, rtPCR is the gold standard and takes at least 45 minutes as of writing.

https://www.surescreen.com/products/covid-19-coronavirus-rap...
All true although it’s a great hobby for being stuck in the house and likely safer than buying beer currently.
If the death rate turns out to be 0.5% as claimed by the virologists on the German nightly news, I'll stand corrected.
They say that the dark number of unreported cases is a factor of ten of what is reported, but if it is a factor of ten in Germany and South Korea, then it has to be a factor of 100 in places like the US, UK, Spain, and Italy.
I like clear data presentation and many people mistake complex data presentation for quality. Just compare the CDC site and the worldometer site. Anybody can do simple calculations to interpret worldometer data, but the CDC site presentation is harder to parse. I think this is a deliberate form of gatekeeping. Incidentally, from where I am in Germany, I can only view the first page of the Nature article you linked. As with all articles of its sort, the devil is in the details.
While I share some of your feelings about IM at work I have learnt it depends on the personalities within the team.

Extroverts and Introverts have different needs. Throw in the needs of Creatives or Agreeable people into the mix and there is a very wide spectrum of different needs.

Assuming all can communicate one way with one tool is a bad idea. Good managers/leaders have some intuitive sense of this.

Especially during crisis. Trait differences and unmet needs get amplified if not handled sensitively.

So whatever heuristics you want to develop on top of your observations - take personalities within your team into account - they all handle stress/info overload differently - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revised_NEO_Personality_Invent...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22690831

Don't assume shedding stops once you have had it and got better.
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In Amsterdam we are hiring backend software engineers with solid experience in building, running and scaling out cloud-native microservices (preferably in Ruby and/or Go). We value a hacker mindset, clean coding and a natural aversion to complexity, or if you're a glass-half-empty person: an affinity for simplicity.

We're also looking for a site reliability engineer to help us out in the cloud.

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Hi, to answer your questions.

* 2 parts.

- Vertical scale: We use LMDB as a key-value store. This one uses the power of memory mapping. It made our search engine use mainly the disk and will do not need a machine that will have TB of RAM.

- Horizontal scale. We are working on sharding and replications (Raft). Development is progressing well, and the functionality should come out soon.

* Currently, it is not monitored at all. This feature is planned. https://github.com/meilisearch/MeiliSearch/issues/523

* We use a queue for updates. You can find here the complete guide https://docs.meilisearch.com/guides/advanced_guides/asynchro...

* As I said previously, we are working on HA with a raft consensus.

* We will add snapshots in no time (disk folder saved in s3). A little more time for backups (version agnostic, need indexing).

We are already working with Louis Vuitton on an application in production. The app is in production from 9 months, and there hasn't been a single problem.
Yes, almost all my complaints about rust doc is in formatting, sectioning, and grouping. The content is good.

But those display issues make it unusable unless you know what you are already looking for.
Self has an even bigger legacy, the JVM is basically all the technology that made Self fast ported over to Java.
David Ungar pioneered not only Self and prototype based inheritance, but also generational garbage collection, and polymorphic inline caching.

Before Sun cannibalised the Self team into Java, it was actually slow as a snail.

Another fun fact, a reduced version of Self was used the programming language for most of the Apple Newton, because Dylan was taking too long to get off the Ground.
And that is the precise reason that the Raspberry Pi was born. Your age group was particularly unfortunate to be the first wave where the user interface of computers was being almost exclusively designed for non-technical users, so the delights of a programming prompt as the first thing you saw on power up were no more.
Coyote is very useful for developing and testing asynchronous services particularly in the context of hard to find async bugs. We can feel confident in the quality of the services we build and deploy to production using Coyote.
Fortune 500 in Portland, Oregon. My home Internet is more than twice as fast as my office line.
You need: 1. Usenet provider (this allows you to download the links) and Usenet indexer (this allows you to search for content you want because files like movies usually have obfuscated filenames). Example of the former is Frugal Usenet, example of the latter is Drunken Slug (free-ish) or DogNZB (paid). One of the many things you need to watch out for with providers is retention, the length of time they keep the files so you can download them. In general, the older content you find on the indexer, the less likely it's still going to be available. The downloading itself can be done in an automated way (for example with Sonarr and the like) or kind-of manual with tools like SABnzbd.
Thank you very much for your feedback. We love it.

- Our default company image is a blank gray square
- Will look into the cors error + the other ones
- Yes, lots of revisions are in the works for the next couple of weeks
- Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. I will have those changed
- Pagination is still in progress and should be ready in a few weeks.

Thank you again!
> This is definitely now how archaeologists think

I think this is a typo and should be "definitely not how"
That's the rtPCR expensive test for early detection. Self-swab of the front of the nose is now possible without a nasopharyngeal swab.

A 15 minute test cannot possibly do rtPCR which takes 45 minutes minimum, so this could only be an antibody test for who has recovered or is recovering. It's totally worthless in a clinical setting.
A lot of the clichés we use don't apply any more pencil pusher is one of them
Thank you for your feedback. Will work on the filtering of jobs
I whole heartedly agree. Kinsa’s data immediately shouts out that there’s a non-intuitive behavior being demonstrated.

I would also make an argument that individuals who invest in smart thermometers would be more concerned about illness than the typical population and thus highly responsive to governmental declarations of states emergency.

I think it’s really hard and misleading to look at this data and make any larger conclusions.
As I said some people would take levity badly, I don't necessarily agree with them, but there are people who often say things are too serious to joke about or during.

on edit: submitted before your edit.
Thank you for your feedback! Yes, we have a tight regex, but still crawls through. Will improve on that.
> You don't need fiat money to run a company anymore.

You'll need "contributors" with plenty of fiat money then (or real jobs on the side), unless their land lord and grocery store etc take your token as payment.
if you work for smaller or non-tech companies maybe. My employers in the last 5 years have all had at least 1Gbps, current one has 10Gbps and a 2Gbps backup.
Honestly, I was (perhaps part knowingly) uninformed and ignorant until the spread outside of China started making the news, so nothing worth noting until the past 4 weeks or so.

Yourself?
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You have to ask yourself what drives exponential growth, and what eventually breaks the exponential.

What drives exponential growth in an epidemic is the fact that each person infects some number of other people, on average. The more people are sick, the more people get infected each day. Growth is proportional to size, so you've got an exponential curve.

What stops exponential growth in an epidemic is when so many people are immune that the average sick person isn't able to infect more than one other person. At that point, the epidemic dies off exponentially.

You only reach the exponential decrease phase once a significant fraction of the population has immunity. That only happens once they've gotten sick and recovered.

Based on the transmissibility of COVID-19, it's expected to eventually infect 60% of the world population, unless a vaccine is developed before it does.
Do people sit in front of the computer watch/listen-to these instead of reading something like https://www.newline.co/fullstack-react/ ? I mean - without committing suicide?

If so, ... how?
I think you should ask the reverse question: are there many apps out there that are not just a frontend to a web service?
This is meaningless. rtPCR is the gold standard, which this obviously isn't. Testing for antibodies is clinically-worthless except for who is now immune or had it in the past and doesn't need a vaccine.
Yeah it is an instant recipe for being downvoted. :-(
Note that you still have to enter your credit card number and remember to cancel before the month is up if you don’t want to get billed.
Yes, I understand. Categories/filtering is still in beta and should be released in a few weeks.
Good rule of thumb, is April fools is funny, only if the recipient laughs with you afterwards.

Spreading misinformation is not funny. Making others miserable is not funny. Schadenfraude is not funny.

We need levity and laughter more than ever. Doing it well is where the dividing line is. I'd suggest do it well, or don't do it at all.