skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You must utilize the software beyond the vendors' design goals before you can be as effective as you could before there was software.
Now THAT is how you do a root cause analysis. I don't own a pair of these headphones, but I'm sending this out to my coworkers as an example of thorough work. Very very well done!

Ironically... also looking at purchasing their product
Also weapons.
What happens when, Kubernetes edition
If it would have situation altering effects we would already know. Huge effects would have been seen very early in the wide spread application of it.
You're absolutely right. The thing is that they have access to way better technology--and they're not shy about it. I'm not just talking about their live facial recognition. But also their access to Cleaview AI's database (https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/28/met-police-used-controversial...)

Or just consider what Cressida Dick said (Metropolitan Commissioner) regarding how they should use data: "we absolutely must be in the exploitation business”(https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/2020/02/the-guardian-big-brot...)
This is an example of administrative burden. In this case, it's due to bureaucratic incompetence, but it is often an intentional policy lever to limit access to benefits:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/28/upshot/admini...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/upshot/medicaid-enrollmen...
Maybe the only example I’ve seen of technology failing to keep up with proposed changes to the law/policy, usually it’s the other way around:

> New York, she added, also had a distinctly punitive approach when calculating benefits for part-time workers that withholds 25 percent of what they receive in a week for each day they work, no matter how many hours they put in. That means that if an unemployed actress spent just an hour or two a day three days a week delivering groceries for a service like Instacart, she would forfeit 75 percent of her weekly check.

> Legislation to change the rule appeared to have the support of Mr. Cuomo and legislative leaders last year, she said, but no bill was ever signed into law. Mr. Blum said he was told why: The Labor Department’s primitive computers could not be reprogrammed quickly enough to make the adjustment.

So they failed to modernize the technology and then used the outdated system as an excuse not to modernize the law.
All is a strong word. This implies that since 2009, no protocol has emerged which is able to overcome some of Bitcoin’s pitfalls, or has different trade-offs that place it ahead for some specific usecases, i.a. day-to-day use cryptocurrency.
One of the problem for groups working on NK issues is that SK heavily penetrates them at the human and technical level in order to control and mostly disrupt their operations. It goes in swings and roundabouts but SK is at best ambivalent about these sort of operations. Especially as government policy changes. It makes working on NK operations like this quite tricky.
Your article on it is great!

https://blog.vjeux.com/2020/uncategorized/reflections-on-exc...
That indicates they are broken. Completion scripts must not break basic completion features like completing shell variables.
The initial pass line bet pays even money and is where most of the house edge derives from. Unless you have a very low minimum bet and very high odds, you are unlikely to break even with free drinks. If you can find one of these casinos, though, it's a great way to learn the game.
You could probably make groups of them perform computation.

You could sell cycles on the zombie cloud.
It might be lucrative but every account I've seen has said it's endless frustration.
2020 is the new 1984...
https://twitter.com/Lukewearechange/status/12426745374913208...
Well strictly speaking, #1 is the correct answer.

It will unfortunately be the final answer for all of us.
Fax is often used in healthcare. As bad as it is, it has the advantage of being universal - there is no vendor lock in. When the alternative is lots of separate systems with their own incompatible file formats and terrible user experience, faxing a document (which produces a paper copy on the other side) might be the easiest way.
Generating music from scratch using Python
Of course it is. People just have Trump Derangement Syndrome and it's clouding their judgment. Get over it. Or not. Hey, in fact, if not, just don't take it. One less libtard voter.
I am not sure exactly what qualifies as ""look at how smart I am" bullshit", but as someone making a toy language, exploring how a concept taken to its extreme in a language re-contextualizes other features is the main purpose of making it.

I have made a fair number of decisions against ergonomics in favor of less objectively important ideals because I don't plan to support people working on real problems. However, I do plan to make a self-hosting compiler though so I will have to deal with any issues I do make.

> that authors of such projects seem unable to resist

It definitely is very tempting to add things beyond the scope of a useful language (at a toy scale). I restricted myself from most such things by requiring strict C compatibility. You can't have a fancy type system and interop with C strongly.
Only if you are interested in working on legacy systems in large bureaucracies.

This may or may not pay well. My understanding is that most of the well paying side of this has actually invested in migrating off COBOL over the last decade.
For all the legacy Cobol out there and the amount of money everyone always says there is in this part of the industry, does there exist any cross compilers targeting Cobol lang or would it be possible for interop with other langs to slowly move away from the old systems?
My not-very-recent-at-all experience with COBOL is that COBOL is used in the most boring applications at the largest institutions. If you find your self looking for work you might have to move to a different city.
South Africa: 14-year-old girl raped to death despite lockdown
On the Cruelty of Teaching Computer Science (Dijkstra) [pdf]
The Haitian elites were not fine in their disaster. And other elites (viz the American south's elites) knew it. That's the point.
Exactly! On one hand some scientists swear by these drugs and on the other hand other scientists are opposing it. It is science after all. It either works or it doesn't. There is no "probably isn't the answer" in this. It is almost like Big Pharma is fighting out their battles through these scientists.
That's absurd. If you don't like to cook or you aren't good at it, ordering food is not lighting money on fire.

That's like saying that you're lighting money on fire when you play video games or watch tv. You could have just went to the library and rented a book for free. It's the same logic and could be applied to almost any aspect of entertainment or really anything that could ever be considered "extra."

You're lighting money on fire by cooking all that food. Eat rice and chicken broth and take a multivitamin. You're probably getting more nutrients that way than most of America anyway. So anything extra would be lighting money on fire right? That steak cost way more than those eggs, that bread costs more than rice; light the money on fire.

See what I did there?

Just because there is a cheaper alternative out there does not automatically mean that the more expensive option is a waste of money...
Question: Sure, we can send you anything you need, you just need to fax us your ID.
Answer: I can not do sofrom where I am now.
Question: Why so? Were are you located?
Answer: 21st century
I can only chalk it up to a combination of misaligned incentives, cost cutting, and legacy technology. These vary with locality but wear the same veneer. Some aspects are surprisingly seamless. Some are seamless but hidden behind unnecessary complexity. Some are just downright archaic. It's like a tired beast that exists because its heart won't quit.
I'm not so sure. Let's say it halves the number of deaths or halves the time it takes for someone to get better. But also it requires a certain dose to be most effective. How would you know in this fog of war? You'd still have many patients who are sick or dying.

The whole point of this article is that it's really hard to know without controlled, randomized trials. And I agree.
Prevent Senior in Brazil, an health operator with mosts of its patients on risk groups (60+ yo) are using hydroxychloroquine on all its COVID-19 patients with tremendous success.

Right now I choose to believe on MD in front line rather then in Health Societies, FDA, WHO and those bureaucrats who let the virus spread all around due to its incompetence
That was my take away. Imagine awarding these government contracts to foreign body shops
I hope not. I remember stagflation from the Carter-era, it was a pretty dismal time.
Bingo. This is exactly what I meant.

And when the industry / economy in contraction, the first jobs to go is the "excess fat" of those 80% non-productive that accounts for 80% of wages. The remaining 20% are the high value contributors, which honestly represents what the true employment should have been.

VC economics are not the same as general market economics.
It's really a shame the whole world stops at the border of the USA so there is no other place this debate could happen.
"If there was any effect of this drug on COVID-19, it was minimal. Hydroxychloroquine, whose toxicity is far lower, may be safer than chloroquine. But that doesn't matter if the drugs are ineffective."

What's political about that?

The whole idea that if there were a simple and cheap cure that it would be politicized to the point where it won't see widespread application is ridiculous.
Ask HN: How to view offline files Android browsers
Recently I found out that I have more than 2 Gb in storage of Brave browser. But I could only see the URL and size of storage. Fx almost 1 Gb for Mozilla.com. This was a surprise. But I can't find a way to view the different files on the android phone. Is there some way to give one self permission to fx view these directories?
Remember, PG is a Lisper.
Collectively, we need to get over the idea of all-or-nothing solutions to Coronavirus.

We're not going to wake up one day with a "cure" for COVID-19. No one in the medical field actually expects Hydroxychloroquine to produce miraculous recoveries at this point. The idea is that any treatment that slows the progress of the infection will also buy the patient's immune system more time to fight the infection. If we can push the peak symptoms back even 1-2 days relative to untreated individuals, that gives the immune system that much extra time to mount an effective defense against the virus.

When we finally confirm which treatments, if any, are useful for slowing the progress of the infections, we can combine them with earlier testing and identification to help reduce the number of patients who require hospitalization. It won't look like a cure, but it will be making improvements in treatment outcomes and reducing the burden on hospitals.

At this scale, a small modification of disease severity can still be useful for minimizing the burden on hospitals, even if it doesn't fit the narrative of a miracle cure.
'deserved' has nothing to do with it. The American South elites deserved it almost as much as the Haitian planters did; and they were likely correct to fear it, contrary to Stross's glib dismissal of their fears as irrational.
IIRC from reading the book PayPal Wars, Elon wanted to switch PayPal over to Windows because he saw it as the future. At the time, PayPal was on Unix. Max Levchin and the other main programmers didn’t want to switch. The disagreement on platform eventually came to a head and Elon was replaced by the board with Peter Thiel.

If you haven’t read PayPal Wars, it’s a great book.
Exactly! This comment reflects the best summation of what I meant and how I feel. The schadenfreude is directed at the COMPANIES not the INDIVIDUALS. And honestly it's directed at the VC.
Programmable gate arrays - The neanderthal of the FPGA family tree. A lot of functions that started life as discrete logic (eg glue logic, address decoding, video output) got moved into GALs because they're much more suited to mass production. But from my point of view, they just introduce a "black box" into the design so I can no longer trace every single function.

As an example, if you have a very simple design with a 32k rom chip and a 32k ram chip, address decoding - controlling which chip is going to provide that address, is dirt simple. You take the highest bit of the address and use it as the enable line on one chip. Then you run the same signal through a NOT gate, and provide it as the enable to the other. So for addresses 0x0000 through 0x7fff, the high bit is 0, and one chip is enabled, and for addresses 0x8000 onwards, the high bit is 1, and the other chip is enabled instead. So when I address 0x8000, I'm actually addressing location 0 on the 2nd chip.

But when you look at contemporary designs, 32k & 64k ram chips were either unavailable, or an unnecessary expense. It's not unusual to see old-school devices with a whole cluster of 1k ram chips - and my nice, understandable decoding starts to get expensive. Now you're trying to compare the top 6 address bits, with lots of replication for each ram chip. If I were to do it, I'd probably use two 74138 chips to do binary-to-decimal, and then an AND gate per ram chip to compare the outputs. For 32k of ram, and at 4 AND gates per 7408, we end up with 2x74138 and 8x7408.

So as a hobbyist, I'd much prefer this as I can still describe the entire process end-to-end. For mass-production, replacing 10 discrete-logic chips with one programmable-logic chip, is several wins.
That doesn’t help. You can’t imagine the times I see

Get_Customer_1
Get_Customer_2
Get_Customer_3

As far as version control, if someone does make a change to the unversioned “Get_Customer” and I want to switch branches. How do I make sure all of the stored procedures are in sync?
you don't get 150k free places requests.
DM/DE are just two of the simplest theories that can explain the observations (galaxy rotation/accelerating expansion). The "underlying assumptions" are those measurements, and these are being retaken and questioned every year, even though they're held at high confidence.
Where I live (in RI) the lock down is to flatten the curve. Not simply to allow time to make ventilators. We are lacking ALL PPE. We’re also in the process of constructing field hospitals since We lack the hospital beds. Without PPE it will spread through our healthcare providers quicker and without hospital beds more people will die. Yeah ventilators would be nice too. But they’re not the main bottleneck.
This link is kind of ironic.
it turned out a waste of time for the video.
> What's the reason for such a sad state of technology?

I think being pioneers is one factor, so they are first to adopt some technologies and then there are procedures and backwards compatibility to maintain. For instance, a while ago I learned that charging using the raised numbers in credit cards can be done still in some places in the US. In my country credit cards arrived much later, skipping that phase, and so we didn't have technical/procedural debt when transitioning to NFC credit card reading/mobile apps.

Similar things happen in many other fields, I think it is one of the hidden costs of being first adopters. For instance banks and airliners where pioneers in the use of IT, and now many are stuck with obsolete mainframes, languages and GUIs. The grocery shop around the corner adopted IT just a few years ago, and they have a shiny, modern tactile system instead of a green phosphor GUI done in COBOL.
I wish there was a universal paper to OCR protocol.
Having layout and component design decoupled is the way to go in largescale component driven systems. Not Necessary in your small wordPress theme like site though
My workflow usually reads something like this:

1. Import data using hand-written SQL from SQL server (read_sql)

2. Perform various filtering, aggregation, math (loc, iterrows/itertuples, groupby, agg)

3. Push results either out to delivery file or back to source server (to_csv, to_excel, to_sql).

Really bread and butter stuff, but the relative ease and stability of using pandas to do it is the attraction.
This is great insight. We protect bad companies because we want to protect good employees. In the process we reward bad management and bad investors and the good employees get shafted anyways.
I'm grimly curious, are the Rupert Murdoch media outlets overseas pushing these drugs as enthusiastically as they're doing here in the US?
For reference seasonal flu is around 0.1% and also increases with age, so Covid-19 is at least 6X as deadly as the flu.

This article also doesn't mention lasting effects. I have seen reports of people with bad cases being left with lung damage but I have seen no statistics on this. Everyone is focusing on mortality so I wonder if they're bothering to collect this info. If it leaves a lot of people with pulmonary scar tissue that's a big deal.
This may be the first recipe list I’ve ever seen that doesn’t include a 20 page essay on family history followed by half a dozen ads. I like the design
Not to diminish the possible successes, but without a randomized control trial, there is no way the success can reliably be attributed to the medications.

That's not to say they should stop prescribing it, simply due to lack of formal trials. But the perceived benefits should not be taken at face value, yet.
A certain mindset is bothered by observing others apparently wasting effort they don't need to. It has nothing to do with any benefit or loss for the observer. Very roughly, one can think of it as a sort of altruism focused on efficiency.

This mindset may be appeased by demonstrating why you don't believe your actions are actually a waste of effort.
I think there's something even more than requiring equipment. Making art requires waste. You cannot be minimalist in creating, you have to be free with paper, paint and ink. The style can be minimalist, but over time you will end up with a library of sketchbooks and have probably burned through tons of supplies.
> What's political about that?

Then why does the title say that Hydroxychloroquine "probably" isn't the answer? It either works or it doesn't. If the drugs are ineffective just say so. Why beat around the bush with a "probably"?
> 6 (Hiring Bad Programmers) - This one also became a horrifying monster. Graham says "In practice what happens is that the business guys choose people they think are good programmers (it says here on his resume that he's a Microsoft Certified Developer) but who aren't." Darkly hilarious in hindsight.

Anecdotally I see a variant on this a lot. Many times I've seen programmers get hired based on pedigree. "You worked at [xyz company or on abc project] you must be an amazing programmer!"
RT.com has run a story calling these 5G coronavirus links "baseless conspiracy theories" [0]. In another story they say the same thing, and talk about "expert scientific studies repeatedly concluding that the high-speed communications system does not pose a threat to humans" [-1].

This is interesting because RT.com in 2018 and 2019 was one of the major source of baseless anti-5G health stories. Examples:

• 5G Wireless: A Dangerous 'Experiment on Humanity' [1]

• Could 5G put more kids at risk for cancer? [2]

• How To Survive Dangers of 5G [3]

• Cancer risk? 5G wireless speeds could be dangerous [4]

• ‘Totally insane’: Telecomm Industry ignores 5G dangers [5]

RT.com videos on YouTube average over 1 million viewers per day, which is higher than any actual news outlet, and their claims are then repeated by many blogs and social media sites and other websites and then others pick it up from there, often losing the attribution to RT.com along the way so [6].

I wonder what caused RT.com's apparent flip on 5G?

[-1] https://www.rt.com/sport/484967-coronavirus-5g-amir-khan/

[0] https://www.rt.com/uk/484877-5g-coronavirus-conspiracies-moc...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_f9gpg4t6c

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpXEyP0WMrk

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO1gZhwqCvI

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmLwuM0_MJg

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML7wx_5n2z8

[6] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/12/science/5g-phone-safety-h...
Fake Vaccines, Counterfeit, Hacking: How Dark Web Criminals Are Abusing Covid-19
It also gives users the trust of being able to run their preferred firmware on the hardware they own. Then they don't have to avoid upgrading as seen in e.g. this other HN comment [0].

I totally understand dev's wanting their customers to run the latest version for a number of reasons. And it being hard or even impossible for e.g. online services to keep older versions available. It's totally reasonable to have the default setup auto update or strongly push the latest version. But a motivated user wanting to run a specific version should have the ability to do so. Especially when we are talking about hardware.

Yes, some users will be idiots and cause support work. But if the companies behavior indicates no one using the product can be trusted to not act like an unreasonable idiot, it's not a big stretch that customers will think the same about the producer.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22783345
All of modern society operates this way. It's called division of labor. In order for there to be a software engineer, there have to be people working to feed him, clothe him, build his house, produce his computers, extract energy to power everything, etc.
I'm certainly not justifying the state of affairs, but there are a lot of private institutions that still operate with faxes as well. They'll accept an original document either snail-mailed or faxed. The easier and quicker option is obviously fax.

Of course the fax encoding and their document management system will likely muddy the details up. So the actual person processing the document will call to confirm the details, and half the time you end up emailing them a crystal clear image file anyway.

I think it's more a legal technology and workflow problem than a computing technology problem. When fax machines were new technology, the legal work was done to bless accepting facsimiles of raised seal documents. Now "modern" B2B faxing works good enough, so this work hasn't been done for emailed images. (And ironically with a good scan you can actually see the physical relief of a raised seal)

FWIW another thing I've found is that even when you can upload image files directly to a document management system, you likely want those to be black and white (not greyscale!), otherwise they will be turned to black and white with an unpredictable threshold, also destroying details.
School Faces FBI Probe for Using Webcams on Laptops to Watch Students at Home
pgbouncer is also a speed optimisation, not just scaling, all agreed, pgsql lags in this currently.

but the default 150ish connections ouf of the box mean 150 workers which means 20ish 8 core VMs for your e.g. django app (1 worker/core), which is a lot of scaling already and a good business problem to have, not just an app demo. Most internal projects never make it even there.
Probably as in 'not yet 100% sure'. As a measure of probability based on available evidence.
Posted this on twitter, and will re-offer here. At my company
, we have had to build an e-fax platform due to faxing still being used heavily in the medical space. If anyone needs to fax documents for unemployment, DM me on twitter or email me (email in HN profile) and I'll set you up so that you can fax for free.