skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But what are we comparing this to? NASA and the Soviet's space program accomplished more with a fraction of the resources and had a better success rate.
Sorry try https://www.hygen.io
Didn't like the missing www
Keep in mind that config files are not just about writing them. They are also about reading, and in my personal experience, when I encounter a heavily scripted config file in some javascript project, my inclination is to flatten it out to a plain JSON file just so I can see what it's actually doing.

This is the beginning of the logic that lead to things like Automake, and completely impenetrable makefiles. The problem with programmable scripted config isn't the writing of it. it's the reading and maintenance. Programmed config is a layer of obfuscation, that I, as a maintainer, need to spend time and mental effort decoding to get work done.
Aw man, sorry to hear that. Sounds like your making the best of it though!
Ginko Bioworks.

Apparently it's grown quite a bit since I've spoken to my friend. When we last checked in, it was a little startup. Now, it's a $2.4 billion dollar operation. I guess my friend is probably worth a few hundred million right now.
> the law considers it to be store property

So we can call it vandalism then. And I would certainly ask my guests for some reparations if they defecated on my clothes/floor and then walked out like nothing happened, and I certainly would not invite them back!
I have to work harder now? I am not sure how people get time to learn in this quarantine?
I disagree.

Those configs would be unmanageable. You would no longer be able to set a value, interfaces like `git config` or your-favorite-preferences-GUI-pane wouldn't be possible. And, generally speaking, I believe it's a bad and non-user-friendly thing.

However, it makes perfect sense to use a programming language, if your program is programmable and is meant to be programmable. Like a shell's rc files.

It's also probably okay to use programs as configs, if everything related to the program is built decoratively, so all the configuration files are generated (from some higher-order configuration) and not meant to be ever manipulated, only replaced with the newly generated versions. Programmatically generating programs is simple, programmatically manipulating programs is not.

It is also fine if you explicitly want to restrict an ability to manipulate the configuration or create management interfaces, requiring human programming (whenever the tool is meant to be programmable or not). Feels like a weird idea, but I can see this being considered as a trade-off.
The Trickeration Routine, a solo jazz routine by the late Norma Miller, one of the original Whitey's Lindy Hoppers from the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem. It's one of the harder group routines out there because unlike the very popular Shim Sham[1], there are no repeating sections.

Also just started trying to learn Svelte today. And I'm about to jump on the breadmaking bandwagon.

Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIhi4BuDSf4

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF9WmOlO4ww
Have you tried Internal? https://internal.io/

It's great for engineering teams that want to add custom HTTP services, hook into GraphQL mutations, and/or add custom SQL - but want to empower non devs, lazy devs or simply devs that want to focus on their core product. We started working on Internal after realizing that most companies can't dedicate valuable engineering time to build and constantly maintain/upgrade their internal tools.

I've led engineering teams from seed to series C companies (10 - 50+ people) for several years. Maintenance and permissioning are always the biggest problems when it comes to building these tools yourself, so we've built Internal with these things in mind by focusing on how startups actually go from zero to one and then scale beyond that.

When you use Internal, we offer a CRUD tool with fine grained permissions, auditability and controls to get you started. In my experience, most startups use open source software for this or build it themselves. Both of these approaches reach their limits very quickly in terms of quality and maintainability and lead to tons of issues when trying to pass audits down the line.

With respect to flexibility, it's there when you need it. We offer a feature called Spaces for when you need to customize the UI and build tools quickly, but we do this in a way that keeps you from shooting yourself in the foot. You can build Spaces without SQL or javascript knowledge and you can quickly create useful tools without needing to know how to code. If you need additional customization after that, we allow you to hook into existing business logic via http services or graphql endpoints and expose that to the end-user as "functions" which can be consumed when configuring a Space. We also offer several out-of-the-box integrations including Salesforce and Stripe so you can quickly integrate with existing services with little to no effort.

Let me know if you would like to talk or want a demo. You can also just sign up and try it out yourself.
Any reason why you chose Omnisphere in particular?
I’m not familiar with avatar chat, but it does seem VR would solve some of the problems mentioned in the article (seeing the whole body, meaningful interactions, side conversations). The problem with VR is it’s not widely used at the moment. Maybe this will change as a result?
This is a good point. We take a lot of skills for granted that required to successfully use a DMV/MVA office. If the truly compare the processes, which is actually worse?
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$ sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
i965-va-driver intel-media-va-driver libaacs0 libaom0 libass9 libavcodec58 libavdevice58 libavfilter7 libavformat58
libavresample4 libavutil56 libbdplus0 libbluray2 libbs2b0 libchromaprint1 libcodec2-0.8.1 libcrystalhd3 libdc1394-22
libflite1 libgme0 libgsm1 libigdgmm5 liblilv-0-0 libmysofa0 libnorm1 libopenal-data libopenal1 libopenjp2-7
libopenmpt0 libpgm-5.2-0 libpostproc55 librubberband2 libsdl2-2.0-0 libserd-0-0 libshine3 libsnappy1v5 libsndio7.0
libsord-0-0 libsratom-0-0 libssh-gcrypt-4 libswresample3 libswscale5 libva-drm2 libva-x11-2 libva2 libvdpau1
libvidstab1.1 libx264-155 libx265-165 libxvidcore4 libzmq5 libzvbi-common libzvbi0 mesa-va-drivers
mesa-vdpau-drivers va-driver-all vdpau-driver-all
Suggested packages:
ffmpeg-doc i965-va-driver-shaders libbluray-bdj firmware-crystalhd libportaudio2 serdi sndiod sordi libvdpau-va-gl1
nvidia-vdpau-driver nvidia-legacy-340xx-vdpau-driver nvidia-legacy-304xx-vdpau-driver
The following NEW packages will be installed:
ffmpeg i965-va-driver intel-media-va-driver libaacs0 libaom0 libass9 libavcodec58 libavdevice58 libavfilter7
libavformat58 libavresample4 libavutil56 libbdplus0 libbluray2 libbs2b0 libchromaprint1 libcodec2-0.8.1
libcrystalhd3 libdc1394-22 libflite1 libgme0 libgsm1 libigdgmm5 liblilv-0-0 libmysofa0 libnorm1 libopenal-data
libopenal1 libopenjp2-7 libopenmpt0 libpgm-5.2-0 libpostproc55 librubberband2 libsdl2-2.0-0 libserd-0-0 libshine3
libsnappy1v5 libsndio7.0 libsord-0-0 libsratom-0-0 libssh-gcrypt-4 libswresample3 libswscale5 libva-drm2 libva-x11-2
libva2 libvdpau1 libvidstab1.1 libx264-155 libx265-165 libxvidcore4 libzmq5 libzvbi-common libzvbi0 mesa-va-drivers
mesa-vdpau-drivers va-driver-all vdpau-driver-all
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After this operation, 145 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n

vs

$ npm install ffmpeg-static

> ffmpeg-static@4.1.0 install /home/gregg/temp/node_modules/ffmpeg-static
> node install.js

Downloading ffmpeg [||||||||||||||||||||] 100% 0.0s

+ ffmpeg-static@4.1.0
added 19 packages from 52 contributors and audited 21 packages in 14.318s
found 0 vulnerabilities

No admin need, no system libs to install, it just works.
Currently I'm learning video editing on Davinci Resolve.

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/

I collect examples of advanced C++.
Noticed the lack of educational content at this subject, and planning a short course, something like "Exceptional C++" style, but on video.

In our distributed team we have a practice to make video presentations for colleagues, so I have experience of delivering visual content to tech audience. However, I see that particular course like a high-quality content, with diagrams, animations etc.

That's how I found Davinci Resolve, and you know, it's fun to learn it (even it crashes more than production-ready application supposed to). The only thing that buzz me, is not to forget about the initial goal:)
It could only be exponential if the population was infinite. It has to be more of a bell curve, because as infection grows, there are fewer hosts to infect, and therefore growth would start to decline.
That's exactly the behavior that anti-"price-gouging" laws disincentivize.
Where I work, architects are responsible for disambiguating requirements and breaking down the implementation across teams into achievable milestones. It’s the intersection of technical chops and social skills. One of those is a lot easier to develop than the other.

A good architect makes it seem like their job is easy, but there’s nothing easy about taking a vague idea and leading a huge cross-team effort to solve it.
In industry organic chemists earn about 7 figures. Unfortunately, the first one or two are zero
My 6 year old daughter and I are building a quadruped walking cat robot. We are both learning a lot of new concepts as we go.

Our robot is not operational yet, so I will include a YouTube link below of the creator with a couple of his own completed “cats”.

https://youtu.be/OrYmIbtmmJI
Good luck! I'm doing the same thing, I actually enjoy some of it, I've learned a few things too.
Exactly! Financially the word for this is regulatory arbitrage. Since he was selling the masks at the same price before the crisis though I suspect that long term contracts would not fall afoul of whatever price gouging laws there are. It's also what it sounds like he is already doing, and maybe more socially acceptable.
Covid-19 response: New Jersey urgently needs COBOL programmers
It's just a button. During uncertain times at least we can do something together
Show HN: DNS over Wikipedia
Hey HN,

I saw a thread a while ago (linked in README) discussing how Wikipedia does a good job keeping track of the domains of websites like Sci-Hub or The Pirate Bay. Someone mentioned checking Wikipedia to find links to these sites, so I thought this would be a fun thing to automate!

To try it out, install an extension or modify your hosts file, then type in the name of a website with the TLD `.idk`.

For example: scihub.idk -> sci-hub.tw

Cheers!
Depends. What contracts will he have to take on to meet that? I think that’s his complaint. He can’t get what he needs on the spot market most of the time, he has to sign a supply contract and machinery maintenance contracts and everything else. At best, if he can’t make use of the extra capacity when the world isn’t experiencing a critical pandemic, he breaks even on the pandemic work. At worst, he loses his shirt again.

The materials you are talking about aren’t usually found on a warehouse shelf because they deteriorate over time. You wouldn’t want to put expired material through a machine because it becomes brittle and breaks.

And as for why we haven’t started tracking materials more closely? Kushner’s running this show. The word you’re looking for is incompetence.
Awesome, never heard of it!

Graphile (https://www.graphile.org/) seems to be very similar, although I discovered it just a week ago (also on HN), and haven't had a chance to explore it yet.
And it would be unimaginably more pollutant for each country to manufacture its own everything.
In General Relativity time is absolute throughout the same inertial reference frame...
Huh. I know the show, but I managed to never see more than a few seconds of it at any one time ;)
Cool concept! Are people paying to attend the event?
Locus Archives Document the History of Sci-Fi
Ask HN: Should I join a biotech startup as the first engineer?
Hey,
So just like the title says.
About me: I'm a junior developer. I've worked at 2 startups before, both building the main backend infrastructure, usually with a small team to start with. First time 3, second time 4. I’m pretty familiar with scaling a company to suit certain needs. 4 YOE total.

Company: The company is a biotech company that deals with image processing.

My concern: I would be the first engineer. They have a lot of technical debt, they've been very hacky with the process and just doing things that are not quite scalable. I would be the first engineer for about the first year, so not any mentorship.

Despite this, I’m interested because I think this is a space that I am not familiar with but have a lot of interest in. I was very upfront that I will definitely be slow, they are just happy to have anyone on the team. I’m relatively young so I’d really like to take a risk like such, but do you think it would be better to continue to build YOE at a big company? Just, I’m not sure if I would get an opportunity like this again. I like the idea of being “uncomfortable” and challenging myself. tl;dr: With 4 YOE should I join a biotech startup as the first software engineer?
I'd like to learn Node and Plotly next so that I can build some UIs in JupyterLab 2.0
Tiger at New York's Bronx Zoo tests positive for coronavirus
It feels to me that a system that doesn't tolerate massive technical debt is a better system.

I think the same phenomena exists with Linux and dynamic linking. Linux is incredibly less crufty than Windows because userspace compatibility isn't so long-lasting, APIs can be deprecated, garbage removed.
Great writing. This should replace the syllabus for very many Comp Sci / Soft Eng "Intro to Compilers/Interpreters" courses as many do not come close to this level of detail.
Almost all hospitals don't make profit. They don't have the $$ to sign contracts like that for everything they need.
The problem is that Go makes you write about 5x as much as Rails would, and much of it by copy-pasting.
Mathworks Simulink. You can model your components, simulate fairly complex systems, auto-generate C implementations, and use a bunch of other fantastic tools (like Simulink Design Optimization to discover and tune critical parameters) that integrate into the workflow.
I have almost no knowledge of biology past a weak high school education and that sentence gives me an approximate understanding. It's not gibberish if you look at what it says and carefully read it.
I'm also learning Russian at the moment! I'm a native English speaker and am presently dealing with the current global events while cooped up in Siberia.

What have you found difficult? What resources are you using? For me, I tried memorizing the rules for cases, but it was a complete waste of time: it was trivia disconnected from any usage of the language. What is (slowly) working for me is focusing on a single phrase with common words (e.g. в сибири, два пива).

Aside from the obvious resources (a good app/textbook; Anki), I have really learned a lot of the fiddly bits from this YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/russiangrammar
I learned about mutant testing earlier this week (testing your tests by semi-randomized source code modification).

Cool talk about the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNMBOj7JUPs
I think most modern game engines have visual coding now. Unreal has Blueprints out of the box, and Unity has Playmaker as de-facto standard.
Just trying to have it make sense in my head. Surprised primary care numbers are down. Had that in my head as essential.
Another way to frame the situation: America is in dire need of surgical masks, and its top manufacturer is more interested in martyring themselves than to help out.

It seems like this is what the Defense Production Act is for? It's not like GM, where invoking the act doesn't seem to speed anything along because they don't make ventilators normally, and have to spend several days retooling their factories. In this case, you have a manufacturer that has excess capacity and is simply refusing to use it.

Also, how is this supposed to make people trust American manufacturers any more than the Chinese? The Chinese are actually _making_ masks at full capacity and exporting them... meanwhile, our own homegrown industries are busy navel-gazing and feeling bitter about some past slights.
Testim.io, point and click e2e automation you can record and replay on your CI.
Actually I didn't phrase that right. Anything else they want to pay the engineer they have to pay for out of pocket -- they can't charge the government for it.
Italy gave China PPE to help with coronavirus – then China made them buy it back
There has yet to be a mechanism for how and why shit hits the fan. If someone can propose a non-handwavy path to it, then I'll start to prepare.

But also, I've planted a garden, I've started getting to know my neighbors, I'm looking at buying land. All the preppers I know emphasize that it's the community that's gonna make or break how it all turns out, not one guy hoarding bullets and AKs
Wow this is a lengthy post is there anyone who could explain it to me?

In other words I need some

'Crafting "Crafting Interpreters"' Interpreters
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiropractic
Thank you for the link. You are right that duo does not support group calls in the browser yet.
I'm about 40 hours into learning Rails myself, and talk about hitting wall. Learning from home on your own with no mentor is brutal, especially since there is a very specific thing I am trying to do, so the basic TODO apps just don't cut it.
No, this is another one of Musk's submarines with the added bonus that he's been running around Twitter trying to downplay the seriousness of the coronavirus outbreak:

https://jalopnik.com/elon-musk-has-played-an-extremely-dange...

He's avoided calling anyone a paedophile this time around so that's something.
It’s About Time for You to Start Making Money on Fiverr Today
In addition to that I believe I've read that SCTP can't traverse all of the networks that TCP and UDP can, so any universal datagram protocol will have to build on UDP.
Hmm, looking through archive.org it looks like four years ago it was more The Daily WTF and today it's mostly like memegen.

Top of front page (4 years ago): My teacher thinks he's a programmer http://i.imgur.com/32nfQXZ.png

Top now: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/fvhk9l/a_b...
The machinery require maintenance and software contracts from the suppliers.

The raw inputs require delivery contracts from the suppliers and is currently also in short supply. He can’t get his same preferential pricing outside of his supply contracts, or his suppliers may not even be able to deliver it, or they’d require he increase his contract buy.

He may not believe in hiring hourly manufacturing employees on contract without benefits. The amount of time he spends training them and watching them cycle in and out has a cost.

Sure, it could be done. Is it worth it? Obviously not, or he’d be doing it.
One weird thing that I often see is that "technological progress" indexes by various agencies (Facebook's comes to mind as the first one) gives the US a good position. Yet we hear these horror stories. There seems to be a massive dissonance between different areas and professions in the US.

Can anyone confirm or correct me and explain why these indexes are like that?
Right, those are the kind of permissions I had trouble with. That gist works for reads based on membership (even if a little unintuitive), but I couldn't figure out how do writes that validate using roles & permissions.
How to take care of a toddler from 5 AM - 8 PM while trying to manage work and phone calls. Then how to not fall asleep while I"m working on projects until 1 AM. So learning how to function on 4-6 hours of sleep.
Get a grip on Chrome Extension risks [video]
If you have an iPhone the Night Sky app is pretty incredible. It's not the most intuitive but it has a really good AR function that lets you point it up at the night sky and it will help you find anything from planets to stars to satellites.
>Where I work, architects are responsible for disambiguating requirements and breaking down the implementation across teams into achievable milestones. It’s the intersection of technical chops and social skills. One of those is a lot easier to develop than the other.

Good thing we're on the internet where we can talk about the actual reality and lay everything out as it is without worrying about the social and political bureaucracy that infests corporate culture.

That being said, isn't what you described the role of the tech lead or manager? The best tech lead ultimately derives technical architecture by aggregating the expertise of the team and puts that plan into motion exactly as you said.

The term "architect" usually implies greater knowledge of "architecture" where the "architect" uses this "greater knowledge" to lay down a high level plan of the infrastructure. Additionally your initial post implied that this is what you think, because this is what you study for interviews.

Like I said, usually the architecture role is actually ends up in practice becoming an ex-engineer manager. That's the only actual role they can fit while maintaining the respect of the engineers and without being completely useless. This is basically what you described about yourself.
Inferring the mammal tree (2019)
Why can't he hire people on a fixed term contract to avoid unemployment?
Agreed, but still radically simpler than the convoluted means testing that we do now. If welfare critics care about the efficiency of the public dollar, this seems like a simple measure to get more benefit at lower cost.
Here in Hong Kong, folks have set up six mask production lines already, working round the clock to produce surgical masks. Don't know how they managed to get the equipment but kudos to them.

That's because people don't hate businesses and businesspeople, and are thankful for their effort.

Low-quality surgical masks here retail for 40-50 USD per box (50pcs), and there are no plans to introduce any price controls. That means that resourceful people are stimulated to abandon their family and regular jobs, and work round the clock to set up production lines, because they want to earn money.

I assume in America the sentiment towards businesspeople and pricing is somewhat different.
So basically he's a businessman who couldn't figure out how to meet a sudden demand for his product, and his solution is to just ignore it this time.
Walter Ong on Romanticism and Technology (2014)
Had it March 9th-14th. Was crappy; not much cough though, but the cough I did have was very dry and hacky and not like a cold. The chills and fever and diarrhea and not eating for 4 days or sleeping for 6 also sucked. Now I've been inside since then.
Covid-19: The mystery of why the coronavirus kills some young people
The certificate of need is one regularly mentioned.

The attachment of medical insurance to employment is another.

If you don't already know at least a few of these, you're probably a student or not interested.
Boeing tried that. Went really well.
The Age of M-Pesa
The $0.10 figure comes from the article... I think these might just be surgical masks not N95 masks.
Yes, I agree, the title is clear;

I point this out because in every conversation about new receptor sites for taste, I see questions about what new flavors or experiences the "discovery" could create - which is (probably) not the _direction_ that implications from this discovery will flow.

For example, MSG was first "discovered" (more correctly, synthesized) in 1908 but the receptor sites (such as mGlu4) were not identified until much later. Glutamic acid was already being added to tons of foodstuff (kombu, mushrooms, stock, gravy, etc) even if the compound and reasoning was unknown. Isolating the compound "making stuff taste good" came before determining the receptor site.