skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main difference between breadth first search, and depth first search is that it is applicable to different types of problems.

It's great to master something, but depth first thinkers also tend to be content with the external peer recognition of their narrow niche, without challenging it or moving it forward. It's a lot like fox/hedgehog and other tropes. So to use breadth as a euphemism for charlatanism is a bit tendentious. From what I can tell, the main indicator of being a charlatan is losing political battles.

I saw the guy on Rogan and I sympathize with the challenge of having both the breadth and depth to wade into that band of status anxiety where mediocre talents feel threatened by cross disciplinary thinkers focused on a bigger picture. They can behave like an immune response and pile on, so it's a hard spot to be in.

Couldn't say whether he was or wasn't, but to be sure, depth-first thinking has equivalent limits.
Thank you so much. Really nice seeing your work being appreciated.
My doctor interacts via a patient portal online.
What made you change your mind to view it as so horrible?
What's interesting is that most VC startups have minimal to no cashflow. That's a completely different context from a typical business surviving on operational revenue.

I don't know if Angelist is still this way but it strikes me as odd to see so many pre-revenue startups claiming financial distress with million-dollar capital raises and no product/market fit or any business model.
I had the same experience with Lowe’s. My takeaway was that nobody really cares about online orders bc they are a tiny fraction of Lowe’s business. When you call them, they direct online orders to a different extension - that told me right away the left hand didn’t know what the right hand was doing.
He's not, OP is being sarcastic.

Naval reads some books and repeats their ideas on Twitter without crediting the source. Those who've read all the same books know the real source and can see this clearly.
If you owe the bank a million dollars, you have a problem.

If a million people owe the bank a million dollars, the bank has a problem.
Cronovirus crisis causes big need for COBOL Programmers
Thanks, I'll check them out
Particularly with fractional reserve banking.
A couple of us from the Eot-Wash group are active on HN. Happy to answer questions.

Hopefully the lead author (an HN-lurker, as far as I know) will jump in to bask in the limelight and answer your questions :).
Exactly. The large project I'm working on has 100k LOC that I've personally written. However out od curiosity once I ran CLOC on the vendor folder... and it gave up after 2.5 million LOC. I could never possibly understand all the details going on in there lol.
https://www.co2meter.com/products/personal-co2-monitor?varia...

this one, it's 400$ and totally worth it. I've probably made up easily $400 in productivity in a month.
SourceForge is the crappiest major download site in the past 20 plus years.
I took State Farm to small claims court. They paid to upgrade it to general division at the last possible moment, which significantly increases the logistics and complexity of the case. I think they did it as an intimidation tactic. Corporations are horrible.
JSON Is Case Sensitive. You Don't Have to Be
Interesting tidbit at the at end of the article I thought others may enjoy:

> Allstate reports that while accidents are less frequent, the crashes that do occur seem to be more severe. The likely culprit? Speed: Drivers can go faster than usual on pandemic-emptied streets.
maybe it's a regional thing? everyone I know has a ps4 and I only know one or two people with an xbox
Examples of Productized Services
the google play version supports Portuguese, English, Spanish and Chinese, but it got ads.
it mostly still does. You _can_ synthesize it but the yield's godawful.
Lets go directly to polifact then:

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/17/instagram-...

"The video makes it seem like Trump is calling the disease itself a hoax, which he hasn’t done. The words are Trump’s, but the editing is Biden’s."

"Trump’s comments feed into a conspiracy theory that claims Democrats and the media are fabricating the threat of COVID-19 to hurt the economy and, by extension, the president’s re-election chances. And the president appeared to downplay the threat of the virus at several points in recent weeks.

But the Biden campaign’s ad is misleading. It’s an example of what the Washington Post calls "splicing," or "editing together disparate videos" that "fundamentally alters the story that is being told."
783 comments and no one noticed Warren Buffett's name was misspelled?
There are API services that let you identify the type of number provided by the user. VoIP lines don't identify the same way as landlines which don't identify the same way as actual SIM-backed mobiles. They blacklist lots of providers and number types.

My first account I was able to get was via a number I rented on dtmf.io. The account was suspended (across all "servers" in Discord) in a few minutes when I linked a few of my IRL friends in a Discord chat to that Discord article on my own website. I've not been able to sign up again since, despite having blown something like 40EUR on numbers from different countries/providers trying to get a new one.

Even when it works, it's at least 10 minutes of solving CAPTCHAs to log in, each and every time, and sometimes the Google CAPTCHA hits some other exit node rate limit and just tells you to fuck off entirely, making login impossible even with a working account.
http://archive.is/PjdCU
This is my biggest gripe with unions in the US: that they can basically force you to join the union against your will if you want to perform certain jobs. The Teacher's Union is notorious for this.

There was a fairly recent ruling from the SCOTUS that struck down compelling non union members to pay union dues. It was as recently as 2018 or 2019. Cant remember the case name, but it originated in Illinois (a very, very pro union state).
Where in this timeline do you see evidence that information their healthcare system had suggesting how severe COVID-19 was, was being intentionally covered up? I just see how unfortunate it is that they realized COVID-19's severity too late, else the Wuhan residents who left prior to the lockdown would not have been able to travel as freely as they did.
Equinox will not be making invoice payments until further notice
> figure out how to extract the private key from the ID,

I never said the private key would be embedded inside the ID. In fact, I would think a paper copy at home would be most appropriate.

> Associating public keys with names

DMV, Passports, Banks, RealID already get our fingerprints. In fact, these could be SALT to the private key kept separate.

I hear your argument about centralization, but that genie is already out of the bottle. Making it better is a good idea, no? Also, if any vulnerability occurs, I can go back to DMV and register a new PP pair.

Still, I do like your idea of having PP pairs beyond just centralized entities.. start using them everywhere you have an account.
As a developer with most of my experience in boutique and enterprise eCommerce, I am surprised this is a conversation piece! There are plenty of large and small online retailers who are doing just fine. If you think Amazon has everything you are definitely mistaken, but for many it's probably enough of everything.

I encourage everyone to buy directly from manufacturers and local businesses where possible, especially if you are not from the US. We feel like we want an Amazon dominant market, but the effects it has on what products exist and what businesses thrive is somewhat insidious and unseen.
This endless lost of spec sections sounds a lot like waterfall. It's a formula for a gigantic document that one person writes and nobody ever reads. And when they do, the real world has already caused half of it to be outdated.
Amazon third-party seller here. If a Prime product is showing a long delivery time, try to look for non-Prime offers. You want to find offers that say "Ships from and sold by X," where X is NOT Amazon. The reason being, these sellers have their own fulfillment and may be able to beat Amazon's speed by a wide margin.

We now offer this for our product, and I know a lot of other sellers are doing the same. We used to only have a Prime (Fulfilled by Amazon) offer, but this crisis caused us to adapt as customers were getting 1-month delivery estimates.

We enabled "Fulfilled by Merchant" offers on our account, and I sent some inventory to my apartment (and ordered lots of shipping boxes). Within a couple days, the self-fulfilled option got the "buy box" on Amazon, so now most people viewing our listing will see a delivery estimate of about one week. It doesn't have the "Prime" badge, but we get a decent number of orders through this, enough to survive.

We send out all orders with First Class Mail, and I pack them up around 3PM each business day in order to get them to the post office by the 5PM cutoff. It appears most customers are receiving orders between 2 and 5 days after ordering (including the opposite coast). This is even faster than the time estimate customers see on Amazon, and way faster than Prime.

Disclaimer: your mileage may vary.
The author's abuse of the apostrophe hurts :(
No one’s coming. It’s up to us
In time, the profs will retire, and undergraduates will become profs. Those will expect proofs to have been checked before submission.

Mathematics might fission into two fields, one with proofs that cannot practically be formally checked, ultimately akin to philosophy, and rigorous maths that will demand finite checks. Moving results from the former to the latter will occupy some. Exploring whether, and under what conditions, that is possible, for any given result, will have its own interest.
This doesn't remove the contradiction, it only moves the contradiction into the article.

It's not as though the article makes a soft claim which should be interpreted generously, it makes a very strong claim - "at most linearly" - despite the fact that there are all sorts of exceptions. That is certainly not "at most linearly", perhaps "at base case linearly".
Interesting read, I think he's on to something! Though I tend to wince at collective calls like "help all of us to learn faster" & "help all of us to get better faster"

Not everyone actually wants to learn or improve, so why are people framing their platitudes this way?
You can do that already in vscode easily with the container remote add-on.
The Resurrection of Phenotypic Drug Discovery
In terms of commercial renting in the "better" states, this is why the government requires reserves, lending only at a percentage of their income, and take consider economic downturn in underwriting decisions.

I say this in regards to commercial lending though. Residential is no holds barred, anything goes cause banks and mortgage companies house people without any consideration if it's reasonable.
Problem is they were more specific prefixes for quite a few people and that trumps everything.
As another commenter has pointed out, AngelList’s recruiting/job hunting service is in poor shape.

I was headhunted and when I test-drove their app I actually considered the idea that they had feature-flagged my email address and were showing me a dysfunctional version to see how honest I would be in my assessment.

Using their recruiting tool is similarly confounding. It’s just such a PITA I know candidates are getting ignored via that channel at my current employer.
I laughed really hard, thanks.
According to this article, masks can be reused (and critically, retain their electrostatic charge) by baking in an oven for 30 minutes at 160 F or steaming for 3-10 minutes (this article says 3, the CDC site says 10 I think):

https://utrf.tennessee.edu/information-faqs-performance-prot...

The CDC recommends not reusing masks, but sometimes it may be necessary.

Another option is to have 5 masks in a paper bag and rotate them every day. The virus should be dead after 5 days.

Another option I read is to steam a mask in the microwave using a plastic bag with 60ml (6 tbsp) of water for 3-10 minutes once steam is generated.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/ppe-strategy/d...

I am only passing on information I read and am not qualified to judge its accuracy.
Whenever you feel saying "all of us" your credibility goes down to zero.
Is this supposed to link to some specific article? The link takes me to a general coronavirus landing page.
This is not legal advice but I do have some experience with sample banks. In the absence of more information, I would approach the exported samples as if you were using them from Sonuscore directly. The license for that is here:

https://sonuscore.com/guests/manuals/Free_Orchestra_Chords_M...

If you read that license, you'll notice that the featured website does not appear to really comply with the license of the samples they're using. Like most sample banks licences, it specifically disallows redistributing the raw samples. That is, unless they got a special license.
Many companies require you sign a contracting to use their service (or in this case to be employed by them) that says you agree to binding arbitration
5th result.
>But who actually gains when e.g. a gay couple can't buy a cake?

The Christian baker who did not want to bake them a cake, but who was being compelled by the state to act against his personal religious beliefs?

Who loses when the gay couple can just go to another baker, one who doesn't let his/her religious beliefs get in the way of business? What did they hope to gain by ignoring every other baker in town who was willing to bake their cake, shopping around until they found a baker who refused them? Was it ever about a cake or rather about using gay rights as weapon to attack Christians?
Honest question, what kind of environments are you working in where you don't / can't have these?
Reminds me of Chip's Challenge. :)
This is awesome. Here is some feedback:

1. Add a landing page for foreign brands who want to break into India. Use AWS / IP detect etc to reroute them to a US/EU specific landing page and show the influence cards with USD / GBP pricing.

The positive "shock" of seeing such an awesome and clear value proposition with the $$$ will make you stand out.

2. Develop an interactive iPhone demo on your webpage (see this https://en.ubank.ru/) - As a user scrolls, a profile image will load and as you keep scrolling, at some point, it will show a screen of a BRAND NAME being talked about or shown by an influencer.

3. Make your influencer URLs SEO friendly. Right now you've got a profile name as first name and last name - If I'm Google stalking some influencer/celebrity/whoever (your link should be in the top 3)

4. Design a good logo that's synonymous to your product
Had the disorienting experience of listening to this very episode while absently browsing hacker news and reading this comment
Exponential decay is exponential growth in reverse, so for example, if the R were 2 during the growth phase, and the R is now 0.5, you would expect it to take the same amount of time to decrease as it did to build up.

If the R were reduced to 0.99 it would take years to go away. To give you an idea, after 10 rounds of people getting infected, spreading it onward, and recovering, the number of cases would only have decayed to around 90% of its peak value (0.99 ^ 10 = 0.904)
For those who don't know this game is called Sokoban. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokoban
What a fantastic blog post - both technically as well as deeply human and touching. Really looking forward to seeing the physical book coming to life.

This part makes it clear the passion and attention to details that the author pours into his books:

"I hand letter everything. It takes a long time. I used to do graphic design, and I have this weird tic where any time I see something that looks handwritten, I look for multiple instances of the same letter to see if they are different or if the design just used a handwriting font. It’s almost always a handwriting font and I die a little inside to see the illusion evaporate.

Well, this is my damned book and no reader will ever feel that disappointment. Every single fucking letter in every one of the illustrations was hand lettered and is unique."
When panic buying set in here in the UK a few weeks ago I was out driving with my wife and commented that people seemed to be driving very aggressively and impatiently. A few minutes later after making that comment, and saying I felt the same impulse, we passed a crash scene. Also a few days ago I drove past another crash scene with a car all smashed up at the front by the side of the road. I suspect people feel stressed and distracted, and particularly during panic buying a ‘survival of the fittest’ mentality set in a bit.

All anecdotal though, I’m sure the insurance numbers don’t lie, there must be many factors at play. I live in a dense urban area, so maybe there are locale specific effects.
And what company is going to write in a default judgement for the plaintiff in their ToS?
> The idea is you pay a premium not knowing if you'll need it or not, and they take on all the risk if you do need it.

It's not getting your premium back because you didn't need it. You'd still get back this portion of the premium even if you get into a car accident on your way to the grocery store, because it's not about you, it's about everybody else. The average risk went down, so the average premium went down.

This certainly happens in the other direction too, they'll raise your premium for the next period if the average risk goes up. But their marketing departments aren't stupid. Sending everybody a check right now makes their "largess" more conspicuous to customers than sending everybody a smaller bill next quarter. It also keeps you from canceling your policy with them and switching to someone else currently offering a lower rate because of the currently lower risk.
The US has a very flexible labor market that allows for easy entry and exit, but can appear (and be) ruthless in its drive for efficiency.

Europe is great for workers who get lucky enough to get a contract (French unemployment is often 2-3x US unemployment), don't want to leave, and don't want to be rich.

Average US GDP per capita is 35% higher than France and Britain, despite having large numbers of poorly educated immigrants. Furthermore, tax rates are much lower in the US than in Europe, so people can actually consume quite a bit more.
Well, I'm pretty sure. The negotiation between the teacher's union on the administration is a closed-door meeting, but I follow district politics very closely.

Perceived equity issues fed into this as well. The result, of course, is that parents who have time to teach kids have kids who are learning, while the vast majority of the district is learning nothing. With remote learning, the results would be less differential. But I guess the districts feels worse about inequities it contributes to than ones that arise out of inaction. We have a 1:1 program, so all students have technology.

But I would the union preempted this, and is what made this discussion moot.
was looking for tires -the site looks great. Thanks!
That was my point. The customer won't pay for any financial loss, so therefore the financial institution would.
It looks like it was a specific post on the page.

The direct link is https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/coronavirus-2020-04-06/card...

It'd be nice to update the HN link to the direct link.
What to bake if you run out of an ingredient
The Coronation, an Essay by Charles Eisenstein
I have Sjogrens. A cousin to Lupus.

One month after starting this drug I noticed a decrease in symptoms.

I stopped taking it for a couple weeks. Symptoms started again.

So works but is slow.
The stimulant aspect however hits in an hour and last all day, and into the next morning. And oddly seems have some viagra like effects.
I have to really be careful if I take other stimulants.

Antibiotics also keep symptoms at bay, but doctors won’t write script despite success.

This drug does a lot to the body. Good and bad.
US State Calls Off Tuesday Election in Face of Coronavirus Emergency
I'm having increasingly bad experiences on Amazon. The most obvious ones are common problems - the reviews can't be trusted, and they're no longer price leaders in many cases. But there are some new experiences I'm running into now.

Today, for the first time ever, I was double-charged for the same order. Customer support claims I was only charged once and there's no way to upload them a screenshot of my card statement so that they can see what I'm seeing. To be clear, these are two real charges (not pending charges or temporary authorizations) for the same order.
Interesting thoughts, thanks for sharing.
Yes, but then the rest of the sentences after that go to great length to explain his actual programming background, in QuickBASIC, and how he applied his knowledge of fundamentals to the scenario at hand.
>The world is going to end in 12 years..." " is a recent famous quote by a prominent Democrat.

This isn't true, and you should probably cut whatever source told it to you out of your life. The world is going to end if we don't take action within 12 years, which is the gist of what the IPCC report says.
Kind of weird title to quantify as “some”
Glad to hear this exists, but is there anything like it for Firefox?
Thanks for this. This could be really useful.
If you're looking for a brass tax review of Quibi this isn't it. If you're looking for a superficial analysis of Quibi in the romantically optimistic writing style endemic to today's media writers then you might enjoy it.

Quibi's premise might be new but the market they're competing in sure isnt. They want users to pay for access to a catalogue that is currently a sea of garbage and unlike Netflix or YouTube they don't have the raw content volume needed to micro-target users with trash that at least suits their underserved tastes. The entire value of Quibi is the idea that media should be transitioning towards formats that favor mobile and this is something that any of the established players could copy in an instant because most of the 'tech' is just having two camera choices at all times (for portrait vs. landscape orientations).
For the better? I’m not asking out of preference, I’m asking out of actual conclusion: is trading the operational overhead of running LDAP for a usually homegrown, usually wobbly automated scripting soufflé that turns Make into a distributed system objectively better? Has nobody stopped to ask, is DevOps and CI/CD the best framework we can achieve? Did nobody think to ask before they told your agency it was the ‘right’ methodology and the objectively best way to build industrial, business process software in the government sector? Did the changing times come from ideology and belief or identified process gaps?

I ask because I think there’s something better. I don’t know what it is yet, but I want to find out. I’m worried about wastage in DevOps methodologies, a system where nobody is incentivized to care about the right things, going on to spook the policymakers on doing software before we find out if the DevOps and Cloud worlds, both, are objectively the best way to do software for their purposes. I strongly, strongly feel like the craft is on the wrong path, and persuasive successes in industry are getting to the right ears before we know if the discipline to efficiently handle agile infrastructure with today’s tooling is even possible. I’m not convinced DevOps will organically find the right calculus to spur the kind of systems research that took us to not only where we are, but that which will take us where we need to go.

Speaking of, I’m lazily glancing at Agile here as well but I’m not prepared for a coherent argument there, beyond pointing out that we now have better tooling for managing specifications, particularly formal and mathematical ones, than the waterfall development experiences that prompted agile thinking. We need more systems research, tinkering, rethinking POSIX, all of it.