skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Why Did WebEx Lose?
With COVID-19, it seems like all of America is talking about zoom.

Yet, when you read the search snippets for Zoom and WebEx, they both claim to be the "leading Enterprise solution" for video conferencing.

However, it seems clear that Zoom is the real winner.

And WebEx is at best a irrelevant second. The Bing to Zoom's Google.

But, when I was in college from '99-'03 WebEx was the first mover and clear leader.

I don't remember WebEx being terrible.

And from my memory they work almost the same.

Any take on what happened? And lessons for entrepreneurs?
The poor little dolphins!

Ha ha just kidding, I've had dolphin it's very very good, but I feel it's immoral and a little like cannibalism since they are probably smarter than us.
I'm not the type to 'want to speak to the manager' for my self-imposed problems but the more I hear about people coming out ahead the more I think I need to change my ways.
There is an ophthalmologist/comedian on Twitter @dglaucomflecken with an entertaining, somewhat tongue in cheek feed with similar sentiments (https://twitter.com/DGlaucomflecken/status/12389545581407723...)
This data is not accurate. I flagged this post because the headline is substantially wrong.

See https://twitter.com/lymanstoneky/status/1244433376741748736 and also the link posted by rjtobin.
Based on my own experience, Cognitive behavioral therapy can help with problems like this. You do not need to talk to therapist, CBT is well suited for self help, just try to stick to well known, evidence based books.
That just isn’t consistent with other countries in the region which have much more reliable data though. I may not believe a word the Chinese government says, but I do believe South Korea, and Singapore, and Taiwan.
Already happening. Instead of reserving, they're mining bitcoin by spinning up tens of thousands of dollars in infrastructure in the cloud.
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That sounds great, but woof, it is expensive ($1,036 normally, $880 right now for those following along at home). Seeing as I'm hoping to be back in an office a few months from now, I was hoping to ideally spend more in the $100-$300 range.
We are entering a new era. We need honesty, integrity, and humility. We need to lower our expectations of others and raise our own standards instead. We can no longer pretend that the hard things are someone else's responsibility.

Right now we're stuck with academics creating models that attempt to predict outcomes.

We need pandemic models that give us insight into how we can gain leverage over those outcomes.

That means assumptions, variables, long term forecasts, and short term checkpoints for testing and recalibrating the assumptions.

Many of the decision makers and influencers of the world are still in sport mode.

Which is why this is probably going to look a lot more like war.
haha you still go to church
I've never heard about this. Can you say more about the University of London MA and their programmes?
You left out the obvious comparison to general gun deaths for some reason
K is being used in the financial market for at least 25 years, having been dominant through most of this time. It's certainly not a toy language.

Although I'm not a K programmer (I've done some J in the past), the point that K programmers make is that the code IS readable once you get used to it. One of the benefits commonly mentioned is that you can keep the whole program in your mind at once. I can't do that with my own Go and Python programs :)
Since they’re predominantly focused on when it’s about kids, I’ll add those stats since I have them handy.

Causes of death, 2016, ages 0 to 14 (60,975,441 population estimate, 32,709 deaths reported):

- Congenital defects: 5,598 (17.11% of deaths reported)

- "Otherwise unclassified": 3,161 (9.66% of deaths reported)

- Motor vehicle accidents: 1,455 (4.44% of deaths reported)

- Cancer: 1,284 (3.93% of deaths reported)

- Accidental hanging, strangulation, and suffocation: 1,215 (3.71% of deaths reported)

- Major cardiovascular disease: 901 (2.75% of deaths reported)

- Drowning: 713 (2.18% of deaths reported)

- Non-gun murder: 663 (2.03% of deaths reported)

- Accidents not explicitly listed: 657 (2.01% of deaths reported)

- Influenza & pneumonia: 356 (1.09% of deaths reported)

- Gun murder: 238 (0.73% of deaths reported)

- Firearms accidents: 74 (0.23% of deaths reported)

The mortality rate for someone between the ages of 0 and 14 in 2016 was 0.897%. That means the chances of death from a firearm for that age group was 0.0086%.

Sources:

- Centers for Disease Control. National Vital Statistics Reports, Vol. 67, No. 5. "Deaths: Final Data for 2016" Table 6.

- US Census. Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Selected Age Groups by Sex for the United States, States, Counties, and Puerto Rico Commonwealth and Municipios: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2018.

- Social Security Administration. Period Life Table, 2016.

Note: CDC numbers are based off reported cases across a variety of age groups. They do not represent an exact number but are instead meant to be treated relatively (e.g., 4.44% of child deaths are due to car accidents)
I'm a person who knows nothing about these things, and my quick googling didn't help me - how "fast" is 54MHz wide uplink? Can it be measured in internet network speeds, or in what kind of way can I compare the speed of it?
It doesn't. They're just not the only evil ones, and thus I find it's wrong to use such a title. Either call them all out or none. "Always-listening voice assistant" would have worked well in place of Alexa.
Covid-19 treatments you may already have around your house
Justice Department investigates lawmakers who dumped stock
Flu season. Also check out http://www.euromomo.eu/
> I've re-read it recently, and I think you should give it another go

I'm afraid found it to be one of the worst books I've ever read. As I said, I bounced off this one hard.

> Regarding your Sophons hypothesis, at speed of light you can go 7 times around the earth in 1 second; you'd have to be pretty precise with your timing to make your plan work.

A second is a huge amount of time by the standards of modern physics. We wouldn't even need to separate out the colliders by any great distance; even a foot of separation would take a whole nanosecond for a sophon to cover.

Another approach would be to design a collider that could measure many collisions at once. Can the Trisolarans produce a thousand sophons on short notice? What about a million, or a billion? And given the latency the Trisolarans have to work with, they'd have to plan at least four years in advance.

Now maybe the Trisolarans have ways to prevent this, but the idea is never discussed, despite it being an obvious thing to try first.

For that matter, there's very few things that are tried. The idea that all the countries in the world would band together and try only one or two things over the course of 400 years is just bizarre.

> And as for your last point, I think Luo Ji had only an hypothesis at this point, and wanted to be 100% sure before calling the bluff (and besides, he had time).

He had time because he implemented a backup plan after the Trisolarans prevented the Sun from being used as a broadcasting station. But why take the risk? What does he have to lose? Either he's right and the Trisolarans will bargain with him, or he's wrong and nothing will happen. Given that Earth is doomed anyway, there's no reason not to try immediately before the Trisolarans are in a position where they can stop him.

Also it seems bizarre that in 400 years no-one once considered calling for help.
Actually to me, Bliss not getting new features or changes (just maintenance by Lea Verou), is a good thing. Upgrading libs and breaking changes, takes time — stability is nice :- )

I agree that React is fast enough. React is pretty large though, takes a bit time to parse and compile the code, on mobile. And none of its features are needed in this case, and could instead cause conflicts with other libs.

What I'd do, if anything, is a custom build / fork of Bliss that removes most of the code, so 3 kb becomes Bliss maybe just 1 kb "Mini-Bliss".
I have seen some other people using an FPGA board to maintain instructions at a specific clock rate and interfacing with it via LinuxCNC.
A vedik student predicted the coronavirus in Jun'19
Not really to purposefully be different. If you know the history of APL and K it was to originally make a better and more unified math notation. Both have been in production for a long time (APL since like the 60s and K's original version was 90s)

Both R and APL/K are great for data science and have great tools. I wouldn't call either a toy (not sure if you were just referring to this particular task or the technology in general). K is commonly used in kxsystems's kdb+ product and deep pocketed quants pay top dollar for it.
This is absolutely true, of course. I should probably have added "or you can just, you know, give somebody a roll or two of toilet paper." :)

I plan to risk technically violating the "shelter at home" guidelines to bring a 6-ounce bottle of hand sanitizer to a friend in a different city next weekend, assuming my order actually arrives. (It's a little crazy that the stuff is virtually currency at this point.)
Ok, but with 150k covid infections already the numbers will rise sharply in the next couple of weeks.
Kernelnewbies provides a nice community changelog[0]. It is a skeleton as I post this, but it'll be useful later on, as is the case with previous Linux releases.

[0]: https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_5.6
You may be forgetting that the sun causes cancer[0].

0: https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/causes-of-canc...
Steelcase Leap.

I went and sat in a bunch of high end office chairs including the Herman Miller Aeron, Herman Miller Embody, and Steelcase Gesture. I feel like the HM chairs are a lot more "opinionated" about how you sit, and sitting wrong will be punished with pain (e.g. back of the legs for folding your legs under the chair). I have heard that shorter people find them more comfortable though (6'1" here).

The Steelcase Gesture is a good chair too, but the arms on the Leap are leaps and bounds better (fixed Vs. semi-lock on the Gesture). I just feel like for computer/mouse users, having fixed arms makes a lot more sense than infinitely moveable ones that don't lock as well.

It was absolutely the right decision to spend almost $1K on a chair. I've already owned it longer than any other chair and it remains comfortable after a few initial weeks of tweaking.
Good grief. Just stop gathering in groups for a couple of months.
If you're in the Bay Area, you can get them used on CL in that range. That's how I got mine.
OK, since we're now in evil question territory: How long should the wire to the router be to store everything? Assuming no buffer in the router and gygabit ethernet.
Hi! I do this as well. Do you do any categorization of your cards? Also, do you do any longer term goal setting and planning?
I think the normal rules are out the window. Nobody is going to find an employment gap beginning in March of 2020 very remarkable.
For sorting 3,5,8,2,7: you take 0000000000, representing all 10 single digit numbers (0-9), and encode the given numbers into it as 0011010110. Now you just read out each one in order: 2,3,5,7,8. No need to store the actual numbers themselves.

It's possible that I'm getting this wrong, but this is my understanding of it.
It looks to me like it's very similar to a subset of sed, but with a more powerful regex library. But many programs in this language probably have near line-for-line translations into sed if they don't use newer regex features.

A lot of people (including me) have basically only learned the s command in sed and don't usually think about all of the more sophisticated sed features.
Same here :- ) Just a bit later, fall / winter 2014.

Thanks for the link. I think I saw that page, or sth similar, back then. ... Now I found an old question I posted at StackOverflow about jQuery + React:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27646347/is-it-okay-to-d...
Covid-19 Sanity – Covid-19 papers from bioRxiv/medRxiv searchable and sortable
Raytracing in Excel
Not to mention the evergreen concern of having stones thrown at their houses.
I'm not 100% sure this would work but possibly you could see a chain of custody of the product. If it says "I was delivered to Kroger yesterday. I was distributed by Kroger to grocery store #123 today. I was placed on the shelf by employee Bobby Circuits two hours ago." it would be hard to fake this
I'd spend my effort elsewhere.

Specifically, rather than fighting over which type of solder is less dangerous to inhale, I'd focus on promoting the use of solder fume extractors.

Even basic models purchasable on platforms like aliexpress, which are as you'd expect inexpensive, do make a world of a difference on exposure to fumes.

Yet most people solder without these.
I'm trying to suggest, as gently as possible, that a time when our medical system is verging on being flooded may not be the best of all possible moments imaginable to add a significant resource-consumer in the form of an experimental mass training program. I am attempting to encourage more systemic thinking and greater consideration of context. I understand that some may disagree with some or all of these arguments.

Please accept my deepest apologies if I have in any way seemed to imply that the current reactive strategy is an ideal long-term solution. I do not in any way think this.

Don't hesitate to ask if there's anything else I can clarify for you - I frequently fail to express myself as well as I'd like.
> I believe the point is that the minimum amount of training required to be of greater help than hindrance (i.e., net benefit) in an ICU and running ventilators is sufficiently high that it's not a small thing to spin up a cohort.

Point of contention is what it seems like to me. There's certainly no shortage of people asserting that point, but what confuses me is, how does everyone know with such high certainty what is or is not possible, when it's never been tried before (afaik)? Has anything even remotely similar been tried before?
At least in the USA if you are shot and killed odds are much higher you committed suicide compared to getting shot by someone else.
It's the artificially low prices of
the big stores that encourage hoarding and aldo middle men to get in the act and buy it up to profit. Raise the prices and people won't hoard and you eliminate the opportunity for price arbitrage when speculators take advantage of the artificially low prices in the store to sell on the open market to the highest bidder. If prices rise across the board the supply will meet demand and there will be no room for price arbitrage which only appears in dysfunctional markets where prices are artificially set and are not allowed to float.
Never happened to me. If there are no letters after unit numbers, and the delivery person sees a delivery for unit 522B, they'll leave it at 522.
Are you sure you didn't have dolphin fish AKA mahi mahi?
I wonder why new "we will all die to tin whiskers" articles stopped appearing 5 years ago. It used to be a really big thing, but now even all the new military projects are RoHS without any issues.

Did not get your link to Jim Williams article. Care to elaborate?
No, I am the same as you — lead free is different, but not worse. Just like you I started using pretty much both from the start. I think the perception of lead free solder as beeing worse or harder to solder is mostly due to braking with one's habits. A bit like a subtle version of driving your car in the UK as a continental European: all the signs seem to be at the wrong side.

Lead free behaves differently for sure (although how exactly also depends on the mixture, iron power, temperature), but as you I actually find it better and not worse.
The top half reminds me a bit of the old arcade game "Missile Command."
I honestly do not get Piketty.

AT ALL.

To say that “Inequality is neither economic nor technological. It is ideological and political.“ makes no sense. He is trying to say inequality is not natural, which is the absolute dumbest thing that anybody with a mind could say.

EVERY animal species has inequality. Insects as well. The mere fact that we have herbivores and carnivores and omnivores mandates this!

Now maybe I am missing something, and ants are really ideological. Who knew!
I am not, but maybe they can be found in Austin too
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Me: I think the statements of the US Surgeon General are usually trustworthy, at least more so than the opinion section of the Boston Globe.

You: you think that whatever the official government official says must be true

Do you see the issue here?
He wouldn’t buy them unless he thought the government would bail out the airlines.
I’m surprised by the number of commenters who believe lead-free solder is difficult to work with. When it comes to soldering, it being easy comes down to:

1. Using good soldering techniques and practicing a bit.

2. Using good quality flux.

3. Using an iron with consistent temperature control and a tip that isn’t corroded.

4. Lastly, the actual solder alloy.
Because they would need to put together a moderator team, and then 2 years from now find some way to monetize it to justify the products existence to the bean counters. The suck at moderating reviews for products they already have reviews for (apps, podcasts, etc) why would they want to add another failure to that list?
Before I flag this: The advice put forward on that page is debunked crap, linking it to real studies doesn't make it any more real. The tonic water / quinine one for example correctly identified that it doesn't make sense and is potentially dangerous. Stop sharing this.

Edit: just realized that's your own site OP. Please, please reflect on what you want to achieve with it and if this misleading advice is really doing anybody any good.
https://www.euromomo.eu/outputs/zscore_country_total.html
Getting through university, especially in tough programs such as math, hard sciences, or engineering, is the only rite of passage we have left.

Not really true. Anyone who wants a more traditional “rite of passage” to adulthood can join the military at 18 and go to boot camp.
Paywall bypass: http://archive.is/INUDK
Despite having used the "we're solving problems" argument myself on occasion, I think what we're really doing is identifying problems and assisting with possible solutions using particular knowledge of our domain.

Somebody wants something done within particular constraints, so our job is to identify potential issues that may occur, such as scalability problems, costing issues, UX concerns, etc. And help explain to that client such concerns and possible solutions or compromises, and let the client decide on the solution.

Once actually implementing some plan, we have some creative freedom on the implementation details, but I'd hardly call that solving a problem (apart from it being your own problem on how to get the design coded up).
Facts don't care about your feelings.
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Oh, because you use App Engine Standard? Did you reconsider being locked into App Engine? What about App Engine Flexible? https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/custom-runt...

PyPy might give you a 2-4x speedup, and if it wasn't for App Engine Standard, might be as easy as dropping it in instead of CPython, while Go is a total rewrite. Seems strange you wouldn't at least do a deeper dive on PyPy...
It's good that people are fast enough to error-correct bold claims before they get too many eyeballs, but I am still shocked that smart people post these things publicly with such authority without first thinking through how they could be wrong. You're watching in real time what the value of the peer review process is, even if it's slow.
Maybe your iron needs some inspection — older and less powerful irons don't manage to prevent temperature dips as effectively as new ones where the temperature sensing is integrated in the tip.

I solder lead free mostly for over a decade now and getting a good modern soldering station was hands down the best thing ever for lead free
All the Coronavirus Statistics are Flawed
I visited some friends in South America and they had just bought a property out in the countryside and were building a house. They had a shed for housing their dog food (they rescued street animals) and, to my surprise, the inside of the walls were built with stacked-up Jack Daniels bottles. They covered the outside with wood paneling so it looked like a normal shack from the outside. I have no idea where they got so many bottles (my friend had a whiskey habit but this would have been a lot of drinking), but apparently this is a common thing to do over there

Articles like these pop up every now and then and I can't help but think of my friend's dogfood shack.

(Oh, and the house was built by a proper construction crew, with wood beams and all, not bottles...)
Looks quite reasonable. I'm hopeful for a better introductory C text[1]. The author has plenty of street cred, the material covered looks good.

K&R is a good reference, but not good for learning the language IMO.

1: I love Plum's books (starting with learning to program in C), but can't recommend them since the language has changed so much in the 37 years since it came out.
CSSO (CSS Optimizer) cleans, compresses, and restructures your CSS
An artificial impact on the asteroid 162173 Ryugu formed a crater
OP is almost certainly referring to Birkbeck https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birkbeck,_University_of_London

It’s a well respected institution and it’s graduates are well regarded by employers.
The hoarders benefit massively from hoarding. They benefit from a regulation that prevents the markets from responding to shortages and spikes in demand. They have no problem whatsoever deciding how to allocate their resources in that situation, which is the entire problem, because the market doesn’t force them to.

An individual will always, every single time, without fail, know what they need better than a 3rd party who nominates themselves to make decisions on behalf of others. If you remove market forces from the situation, and establish an authority to decide who gets rationed what, it will always impact the efficiency of those resource allocation decisions.
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Technically, it is the skill level. Indeed there is a very strong causal relationship between skill and experience, but we have no data in the realm being discussed so it may be helpful if we were to explicitly realize we are speculating, as I'd think this may improve the quality of our thinking and decision making.
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra'Ode to Joy'with 19 musicians playing from homes
I haven't seen much correlation between degree-ed-ness and capability. But, I have seen the belief you are talking about. It's very wide spread, especially in HR departments.
Anatomy of Data Source V2 Read API in Spark 3.0
> The concise syntax particularly shines in interactive cases

If you can tolerate the learning-curve though.

For comparison, I do appreciate that many (most?) Linux shell utilities and command-line programs in general have adopted standard conventions for arguments (-f for short, --full for verbose) which make it easier for people new to a program to take a cryptic command-line and look-up the full-versions of the abbreviated commands to see what's going on - PowerShell does the same thing with its strict aliasing of cmdlets. Unfortunately I can't see that K (or many other programming languages really) do the same thing, where a a short, cryptic program can be syntactically expanded to one using verbose syntax with no changes in program semantics (unless you count VB.NET vs C# equivalence, heh).

Is there any automated explainer tools for the K language for beginners?