skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've learned a ton about the homeless population and shelter process.

I've been a volunteer leading health assessments and triage (via volunteer Telehealth nurses) at our local men's shelter. The shelter has even experienced a complete move in the last week.

A few huge points, however:

* Homelessness isn't always a choice - and especially in this situation it's causing panic.

* Our shelter system needs much greater support, and many organizations need better communication and integration.

* Paper is alive and well some places, others are quite a bit better technologically. There is much room for process improvement.

* While I am selfishly getting out of my own house and interacting with people, none of them are in anywhere near an ideal situation - and it's affected my mental health somewhat. I'm grateful for personal protective equipment, but reuse does concern me.

So much more I could go on about, but I can say during this period I've learned a ton more about homelessness, the process, and have kept people from entering the shelter thanks to our fantastic volunteer nurses who need to practice in a limited capacity for COVID-19 screening.

Volunteering is also something that has turned into quite a calling for me right now as well.
>Honestly, you think I don't know about docker? You think I don't know about the cloud? "Infrastructure as code" oooh buzzwords, you're just using a shittier domain specific language to write something that you can also do with Regular code (such as python, no buzzwords needed).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
"loans" given to businesses often turn into grants when the principal is written off in a few years time after the public spotlight has passed.

Sometimes government even announces that they intend to do that at fancy private dinners with a wink and a nudge...
After programming in assembly for hobby for six years in middle and high school, 4 years in college, and professionally for almost 25, nothing about software development is “fun”. It’s just a way for money to appear in my bank account. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t dislike software development, but every hour of continuous learning I do is a combination of keeping me competitive at my current level or to make more money depending on where I am in life.
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400-year-old Greenland shark ‘longest-living vertebrate’ (2016)
Interesting idea but:

- How do you handle ambiguity? e.g what happens when sci-hub.idk and scihub.idk differ?

- Aren’t you concerned by the fact that Wikipedia is open to editing by the public?
There are no good reasons. Filtering implies opex, capex and man power. Also some customers are anti-filtering, basically accept everything or we wold leave to another uplink who won't filter us. I would say ~30% of organisations do not maintain their IRR data properly, notably this https://www.apnic.net/get-ip/faqs/route-management/ and https://www.apnic.net/manage-ip/using-whois/guide/as-set/
(same fotr ARIN, RIPE, AfriNIC)
Not literature, but a YouTube playlist. Edgar from Artefexian does short videos on realistic worldbuilding and constructed languages.

https://youtu.be/J5xU-8Kb63Y How to build a classical solar system
Learning React Native, being a backend developer I lost in touch with front end development. It is interesting to explore this realm of the stack.
May I suggest dryer lint as tinder. I keep all of mine in a bucket for just that purpose.
https://www.manrs.org/ would disagree with your reasoning.
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As a user, I have yet to see a SPA that was an improvement on an old-style multi-request page, so good luck with that! And usually, it is much more of a slow-down with developers liberaly resorting to multiple in-page requests instead of prefetching the data early.

But you specifically mentioned focus on developer productivity — note that developers might be more productive if they work on stuff they want to work on too (eg. developers not familiar with "modern" JS frameworks might be motivated to work on a SPA using them). Perhaps you can establish better what your developers would be more productive at long term by doing a survey to establish what technologies are they interested in learning, and what they feel they know best today? And then you can make a call for what will be only a moderate push forward (i.e. do not have everyone do everything anew).

I get your point with hype but I think SPAs are long past the hype today — they have their use, and can provide some code structure clarity and organisation as well. But to get to a seamless experience like gmail.com is a gargantuan effort (the same holds true for non-SPA web pages, but the focus there is different, and they can be more efficient even if they are not seamless).
AI Model for Data-Driven Prediction of Coronavirus Clinical Severity
in a room called chess lets try it
Hey mate, AQ2 in Aus is still kicking. Funnily enough we've had 8v8 games this past week in Aus. The adu community is still active and i've been trying to migrate people from the FB to the discord. Which is ... Slow.

https://discord.gg/TbG3tzt

Come say hi, the new AQ2PRO client is really quite good.

topdeck
The ability to do this is effectively what enables DNS traffic amplification attacks (and others).

Trust has been broadly effective, but also quite damaging at times. It's part of why I'm glad https is nigh universal - http's trust allowed stuff like Firesheep and all the hotel shit-injection that used to be so prevalent.
Ask HN: App Store Status in Review for Weeks
I submitted my app to the App Store 2 weeks ago but it's stuck in "In Review" status. I emailed them and requested expedite review. They replied saying review takes time.

I've never had my app be in review for so long. I know due to COVID, the Play Store has a long wait but after a few days, it was approved.

Is anyone else experiencing this? Any advice? I'm out of options and it's really hurting my business.
Location: Houston, TX, US
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No. Travel when restrictions lifted
Technologies: Linux, HPC, bash, CI/CD, Agile (scrum manager), people manager
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donaldharper/
Email: donald.m.harper //at// gmail.com

Systems automation and installation automation for Linux has been my main area of work over the last 20 years.
The bus driver is bisqwit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bIcbnDXSRg
You missed a few about:config settings then as it is trivial to land in cloudflare captcha hell with firefox.
it comes down to what exactly is the configuration for. Is it a few settings (server urls, ports, table names, s3 buckets, directory paths, usernames and passwords), or are you actually scripting the tool? Build systems almost straddle the two worlds - they're kind of somewhere between config and scripting. At some point you gotta make the call: if the configuration file is hard to write, check first if it's a problem with the tool the configuration is for. then second, check if what you're actually doing is programming, not configuring. This is repeating what others have wrote, but I solidly agree- at some threshold of complexity you've got to stop calling it "configuration", and start calling it a greenspun's 10th:

http://wiki.c2.com/?GreenspunsTenthRuleOfProgramming
Not really, see some explanation there https://dyn.com/blog/iran-leaks-censorship-via-bgp-hijacks/ and there
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzLPKuAOe50
https://rootshirechess.glitch.me/?roomname=chess&view=room
What is your current text editor?
This. I’m surprised 3D printing hasn’t been employed more aggressively to cut down the complexity of production & sourcing. I’d imagine MM3D being used to create electro active polymer pumps acting in series to create the displacements (~.5L), and parts like pressure sensors designed in a simple albeit more mechanical fashion.

Props to Elon tho for taking on the task!
As an introvert, I've found that I'm actually much more uncomfortable with group video chats than with interacting with people in person, in part because of the impossibility of escaping attention without that escape itself becoming obvious. I've had no such problems with voice chat, though.
At work, our customers are the Oligarchist Cell Phone Companies (about three at this time). As I was joking with a higher up about adapting agile programming, it doesn't matter if we're on a two-week sprint when our customer is on a two-year sprint. And yes, it took over two years to get them to adapt a change.
They can be filtered via RPKI.
Chuck [1] is what clicked for me, as it is C/Java-like with the DSP basics built-in.
Im biased here however as I eventually became one of its developers.
Its easy to get started although unfortunately also easy to outgrow :)

SonicPi/Overtone or Gibber are also nice also as they are based off of existing languages.

[1] https://chuck.stanford.edu/
There’s a book called The Principles of Correct Practice for Guitar [0] that I found to be helpful. It’s not at all about playing specific songs or chords but entirely devoted to the mechanics of how to practice, how to hold the guitar, how to notice and relax tension, how to build speed, stuff like that. It’s a bit meta but I think it’d set you up with a good foundation.

[0] https://www.guitarprinciples.com/shop/the-principles-of-corr...
Such great memories of playing PoP in my teens! I wish I could get as excited about some new game/software as I did back then. In those days there really were some titles that would come along and just knock your socks off. Doesn't happen much anymore...a sign of the times I guess.

Thanks for taking time to share!
Why do you say Facebook has the means to mitigate this quite easily? That's not really true as I understand it.

The problem is that these announcements are made by third parties, and accepted by fourth parties, both of which Facebook has no control over.

While it's possible for Facebook to implement some controls over what routes THEY accept and therefor what routes Facebook sends traffic TO - it cannot control where others send traffic. If a third party advertises Facebooks routes to a fourth party, and they accept them, Facebook cannot do anything directly about that. And then those fourth parties accepting the routes will send traffic TO Facebook via the third party.
This. Trickle-down economics does work, but when capital has access to global markets, it trickles way, way down past our own labor pool.
Ask HN: Is there a tl;dr service for videos/podcasts?
I've always wondered if there is service that automatically takes the bits that take the most important bits from a long form audio or video and summarizes it down to a few minutes. If this service existed it would mean time saving for a big portion of watch time of any long video leading to hundreds of saved watch hours per year. I wonder how this can be done with different approaches including machine learning or just manual crowdsourced heuristics. It would be similar to TLDR This [0], but for more than just text. In fact I wonder what would happen if one ran the transcripts from a video through that site.

[0] https://tldrthis.com
N95s? The articles about surgical masks and they cost, $0.02ea from China.
>You say you have skills. Everybody says that. Prove it.

I feel like this is a game of chicken that FAANG can win, but NJ Unemployment Office (or whatever) cannot.

The shortage isn't really cash. You could hire some bright high school students for cheap, and, given enough time, and half-supervision by an experienced dev (who doesn't even know COBOL), they could fix whatever bugs are ailing the system. You could hire a couple (again, COBOL-ignorant!) web devs at or above market rate, and they could also deliver a working system. It would take time, but they could do it.

The actual shortage is management. They don't have anyone who'd be confident fixing things if said high school students screwed up. They don't have backups, or don't know how they work. It's unlikely they know what actually needs to be done.

So what they actually need is a tech lead. But they think they just need "programmers," so they advertise for programmers (with inflated requirements, because they need them to actually be a lead) and the pay is commensurate for "programmers," rather than what they actually need.
Why does this remind me of a certain other game...
Let's stay on topic rather than make passive aggressive comments on my intelligence.

You're implying that my comments are stupid and arrogant. Prove it if you can, let's get to the bottom of whether or not "architects" is a worthless specialty or not. I think you know I'm right and the only thing you have left are personal comments on my intelligence.
There are a few Minecraft mods that implement this kind of behavior, and I could swear I saw it baked into a shooter game somewhere but I can't remember which one.
Some of them, where origin didn't match ROA. The rest can be filtered by bgp filters based on IRR data. IRR filtering would cut more that 80% of that leak.
I’ve been learning it over the last week or so since I saw it pop up here. I think it could make a worthwhile pidgin for people without a common language, it is so simple. The heavy contextual dependence and simplicity make it harder to justify as a language proper. We are so complex in our modern cultures, and toki pona is so simple! That was the point, after all - “pona” means both good and simple. I haven’t yet seen non-english speakers really using it online but I admit to not looking all that hard.
Here's a great course from Udemy using Elixir and Phoenix:
https://www.udemy.com/course/the-complete-elixir-and-phoenix...
As someone who works with doctors every day, what I hear is that we don’t know what comorbidities these people may have had, either unreported or unaware to the individual themselves. Also, vaping seems to be a problem for younger folk since it damages the lining inside the lungs making them more vulnerable. Vaping use is also not reported all the time with this.
Definitely concerning, just wanted to give some perspective.
New Streaming Service Quibi Has Just Launched with Bite-Sized Shows
Woah.

Made one similar a few days ago.

tablegame.org

It requires login, and is based on webrtc.

Free for up to 6 people.
Facebook released a pretty impressive SOTA system with public data sources a few weeks ago
Short answer: No.

Long answer:

I did COBOL development on mainframes for the Canadian government and Xerox from 1996 - 1998, my first "real jobs" after university.

COBOL in isolation isn't that bad a language. With a bit of discipline ("structured programming") it can be fairly readable. Most of the time it's used for large scale batch record processing in big institutions (e.g., governments, banks, insurance companies).

The problem with using COBOL in a mainframe environment is that mainframes are basically an evolutionary dead end so you're stuck using the associated gunk that has hardly changed since the 70's (editors, JCL, CICS). JCL in particular is notoriously user hostile and has been called "the worst programming language ever designed" by Fred Brooks, who managed its development (http://dtsc.dfw.ibm.com/MVSDS/'HTTPD2.APPS.ZOSCLASS.PDF(ZCLA...).
Nice work! Sometimes I seem to be directed to a wikipedia page as opposed to a URL. For example, with `aaronsw.idk` or `google.idk`. I wonder why that's the case?
Two things: German and Differential Geometry.

German is just because it's fun and it's my best second language by far, so I'd like to get fully fluent.

Differential Geometry is a diversion from working through Gravitation by Misner, Thorne, et al. I found I needed more math. Now it has kind of become an end in itself, however. It's the hardest thing I've studied since college (which was a long time ago).
Perl? If only. We're talking COBOL here.
That's why god invented comment blocks. But some people view them as code smell, which i find very strange. And no, good naming is not always enough.
Maybe you can put these on Archive.org?
Crystal Lang - I couldn't find a JS framework I liked that also had good Typescript support, so I took a longshot in building a no-js webapp.
California OSHA has made it a legal requirement for companies to have N95 masks for employees in the past.
Honestly, I also had a long reply but I thought why bother? You haven’t gotten past the first step to knowing what you don’t know.

We all thought we were the smartest people in the room at one point, you’ll grow out of it too one day.
It's weird, halfway through the article the author suddenly had a change of heart about preventing interested parties from openly discussing their perspectives on the matter.

Better than the alternative, which is maintaining a strict gatekeeping mentality, but probably warrants comment?
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I'm gonna call this thermonuclear programming... Exploding your program with another program.
The heights seem to be broken on firefox developer edition. I don't have Firefox installed to test on there, but I assume it'd be the same.

The chess board and the camera space are about 100 px of height.
Most companies go bankrupt in a lot less than 100 years... In most cases, the full value of the contract would never be paid.
I've been reading through Bartosz Milewski's Category Theory for Programmers, and trying to do all the challenge questions.

https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-p...
As a minor nitpick, the word is "Corps".
Smart to have hospitals sign longer term contracts for supply now. Sounds like he learned his lesson last time.

Also this guy sounds kind of butt hurt about buy American rheteroic. I agree but if you are charging 5x on a commodity vs china, I mean rah rah America only goes so far.
Honestly, if price is an issue to you, you likely don’t need their enterprise offerings (yes I know there are exceptions).

The idea is for most users to be on the free / open tier and then monetize off of enterprise users with specific demands and less cash sensitivity.
Oh I understood you worked on it full time, yeah I understand writing one as a hobby project. Thanks for replying.
I have a hard time believing that the only thing that's keeping people from stealing shit is that there's a cop with a gun somewhere down the line.

Is that the case for you? Or anyone else you know?

If you know how to garden, help other people garden. That way your neighborhood will have enough food and might even be able to help out others that need it.
Will definitely check this out. I did think about trying to roll my own no-timer version and possibly add other “low tech” games like checkers, etc.
For the downvoters: SERIOUSLY DO NOT DO THIS AT HOME! Let the medical professionals put in your stitches.

I seriously can't believe I have to say this.
Perhaps because in other countries loosing the job does not happen from one day to another. In my country there is 2 months period for lay off. So the employer still has to pay you a salary for 2 months. In case there is hope things can get back to normal in 2 months loosing the employee that you would need later makes no sense.
I think it directs to the correct link when it is labeled `URL` in wiki. In the other cases the link is labeled `Website`.
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My issue with leveraged ETFs is, quite simply, the 30,000 foot view of results: They suck.

Even though NUGT and DUST are from the same fund company and purport to do the opposite of each other, they both lost substantial amounts of muppet money over the last year!!!

You're trying to analyze these things mathematically, I'm just saying "look at the actual results over a years time".

I suspect (without checking in detail) that UGLD is doing better is because it's an ETN and not an ETF. Usually an ETN is a debt obligation of a financial counter-party, in this case Credit Suisse.

How Credit Suisse manages their debt agreement (the ETN) is up to them. These can be black boxes to the outside world. It's possible that CS is buying or selling physical gold or gold futures to hedge their exposure, but they don't have to be. It's simply a financial contract.

Right now CS is a good financial risk. But the same might have been said about Lehman Brothers before the great recession. They were counter-parties to some ETNs and people who owned those were screwed when Lehman went bust: https://www.etf.com/sections/features-and-news/lehman-bros-e...

I agree with you that a leveraged ETF they can simply borrow money to increase leverage. (Not much different from how leveraged hedge funds operate). But for some reason they don't operate that way. So it must be somehow advantageous for them to use futures. Maybe because it's difficult to "short" something like e.g. WTI crude in a standardized way on an exchange? You can be long or short a futures contract for gold or WTI, that's a liquid market. But shorting the physical commodity might be harder?
That's only true if there are <= 3 "clusters" of switch case values, else compilers do smarter things. See https://youtu.be/gMqSinyL8uk
Looks the same to me. https://godbolt.org/z/CfhD5k Switches were invented mostly because they were an easy hint to the compiler to reduce to a tree search, but because compilers are smart today, they're obsolete unless you just prefer their syntax.

Even if the cases are consecutive, most compiler optimizers are smart enough to determine that the ASTs are equivalent.
I work in a startup doing STT. We have reached SOTA on lowest CER in our language among industry. The main reason we are doing well is not because we have smart engineers tuning on fancy model, but rather we developed novel method to collect tremendous amount of usable data from via internet (crawling speech and text transcripts, using subtitles from movies, etc). Implementing interesting paper improves 1%, but pouring in more data improves 10%. I guess this is why big guys aren't exposing what data they've used.
It takes a fortune to collect just 100 hours of clean speech-to-text labeled data, and they will never meet user expectations in market.
You're correct. Many compilers will emit jump tables if the domain is dense enough. Also, even if compiling to a bunch of conditional jumps, they'll usually emit them to require O(log N) conditional jumps (equivalent to a binary tree of nested ifs) instead of the O(N) linear arrangement suggested by the GP.
Shortages are the inevitable result of anti-gouging laws.
Yeah, Chrome only atm. The chat software it uses (Jit.si) doesn’t work in FF either..
Learning to increase my sexual prowess via experimentation.
This is exactly why Gulp was such a refreshing change of pace from Grunt. Gulp was "just JS" APIs, and made it _so much easier_ to understand what the heck was going on during build.
The most obvious example of this right now is Florida, where the current unemployment aid system was intentionally designed to make it difficult to maintain benefits and to make it easier to count firings as 'for cause', to reduce the official state unemployment statistics.
As a great opportunity to learn, volunteers behind SWI-Prolog will very soon organize another round of the online class they did back in 2018: https://twitter.com/SWI_Prolog/status/1246440776470536192
im learning clojure and building a web app. honestly this is by far the coolest language ive used and i love it. im having so much fun.

outside of that im trying to learn polish as well
They do. And? Most businesses do not plan for this kind of disaster. Once in a blue moon, the ones that do are better off for it, but they have to survive decades of poor competitiveness to see that benefit.
Say thanks! We've heard feedback about the timer too, so we're implementing more options and other board games too.

Ours works in firefox/mobile for video chat no problem, but still may have some bugs.