skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a lie by omission. The governor of New York has acknowledged several times that they have enough now, but anticipate running out at some point in the future. The gap between what he anticipated from the models last week and the hospitalizations on the ground is ~3x right now. Which is something CNN won't explicitly tell you, but you can easily see it from multiple public sources.
Which 2000-year period? Do you mean from the year 0 to 2000, or 20 to 2020, or 1600 to 3600?

The Gregorian calendar wasn't standardised until 1582.
Thanks for the heads up about Reaper! I've been meaning to get back into music production.
Also a fraction of the DSP capabilities, even with the available third-party plugins (chugins).
"The issue is profits hidden to the taxman that can still be paid out as profit to the investors. "

This is specifically an issue of international repatriation and has little to do with anything else really - and your OP doesn't really aim at that.

Amazon is a poor example because they're not in the business of fancy IP arbitrage: this is what Apple, Google and FB do. Less so Amazon.

But the problem is that US taxation with respect to repatriation is messed up.

1) US corporate tax is very high - the highest in the developed world.
2) US expects companies to pay 'full tax' when repatriated money, even already taxed money. Every other country just expects a 2-5% repatriation tax.

The US tax system is not designed for globalism.

What the US and the world need to do is find a new harmony which will entail:

1) Lower US corporate taxes
2) Close all the special loopholes
3) Get rid of double-taxation on remuneration
3) Especially for digital and IP - taxes need to be paid in the local state where business is done. FB is selling ads and consumers are consuming them in France, then a good chunk of taxes need to go there. Same for Google. The US is going to have to eat this or face punitive war forever from EU and other nations.
You say you have skills. Everybody says that. Prove it.

Assume the interviewer doesn't have time for a multi-day interview in which your skills are tested. Maybe the employer lost the last person with equivalent skills, so a non-technical interviewer is trying to find a replacement person.
Thank you for taking things at face value instead of hysterically posting that I am a Trotskyist, I appreciate it! I have one comment here which is that soviet is just the Russian word for council and originally meant bottom-up, democratic structures of workers and soldiers that eventually took power because they and only they were willing to end WWI, give land to the peasants, and break the power of the capitalist class. Then, due mostly to Russia's extreme backwardness as well as attack by literally 28 capitalist countries including all the previous belligerents of WW1, the USSR degenerated into a bureaucratic monstrosity that fetishized the word "soviet".

The original Bolsheviks predicted this and had no hope of success without socialism being achieved in a rich country and coming to their aid; Russia did not have the economic basis for socialism. As Trotsky put it, "When there is little bread, the purchasers are compelled to stand in line. When the lines are very long, it is necessary to appoint a policeman to keep order. Such is the starting point of the power of the Soviet bureaucracy."

Capitalism is hurtling towards revolutionary crisis and stopping it is impossible, but if we achieve socialism on a better basis than Russia did, I'm optimistic we can overcome their specific problems. This has to be dramatically more democratic than Russia but the comparison point is, right now, nurses are fired if they wear masks in many hospitals (https://theintercept.com/2020/03/24/kaiser-permanente-nurses...). We have the economic basis to transcend this, we just have to do it.
Logic programming is badly underapplied in general, I think. Most of the amazing work in this area never seems to have gotten far out of academia (if at all) -- Prolog being the almost singular exception.

Would be awesome to see some motivating examples for this application. It sounds really cool!
I am definitely amazed and grateful like others by the work involved in writing this book. The attention to detail is visible from the first parts of the README. Clear explanations for everything.

I am also a sucker for clean written Makefiles. I have "Managing Projects with GNU Make" book that I keep in my to-read list (shamefully putting reading it off).
Checking out the Makefile in the repository was a delight.
Yeah.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/laevus

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sinister#Latin

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scaevus#Latin

and so on in numerous languages.
> Surely no-one really believes that political will was thwarted here by failed technology?

Have no clue about the political will here, but the outdated failed technology story sounds very believable to me!
AWS, and finally getting stuck into The Pragmatic Programmer.
>if you're spending your day on Twitter right now, it's shredding your psychological health

>Twitter seems to have evolved more into just really stressed out people yelling at public officials

these are both good points, but i think that there should be a bit of context: by and large in the US, public officials are performing unexpectedly, astoundingly, and utterly unforgivably poorly in their responses to the coronavirus.

it's the correct response to be anxious about the wholesale failure of public and private institutions, and it's the correct response to be livid about it and to channel anger towards those who are letting the country down in its greatest time of need.

it's fashionable to say that disconnecting is important for your mental health. it isn't that the idea of disconnecting for the sake of mental health is in any way incorrect. but democracies function via the will of the public being reflected in the actions of individuals and institutions. if public officials don't have people giving them an earful, they will in all likelihood continue to act in a way which harms the public.

in other words: without the endless hammering of the anxious and unstable twitterati and those like them, the public health response to the coronavirus in the US would likely be even worse than the near worst-case response that we're seeing. it's bad for the people doing it, but it's part of the democratic process at this point.
I am quite surprised MySQL or MariaDB is not mentioned more. It seems like a standard to me. Almost every serious software supports it. Of course it doesn't have some extra features like GIS but for generic RDB it performs well. And there is also Galera cluster btw...
That does not sound too bad. I stand corrected.

I find surprising that numbers are not represented concatenating decimal digits (just after a quick look at the dictionary, I would imagine you could say 63 as luka wan en wan tu and you could say 2042 as tu en ala en tu tu en tu, or something like that). But I guess there are still many things I can say with numbers up to 500.

Thanks, with your computer project and your comments you practically convinced me of giving toki pona a try after all.
This was updated April 4: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covidvi...

“The percentage of deaths attributed to pneumonia and influenza is 8.2% which is above the epidemic threshold of 7.2%. Deaths due to pneumonia have increased sharply since the end of February, while those due to influenza increased modestly through early March and declined this week. Deaths attributed specifically to COVID-19 will be reported next week.”
WayScript lets you trigger scripts in Python, SQL, Javascript, etc. It also lets you instantly set up endpoints for 'instant APIs', dashboards, and script automation.

https://wayscript.com

The platform supports complex data structures and is very customizable. It also is community focused and allows developers to contribute scripts, APIs, and other content to the platform.

You can watch a bunch of tutorials on their YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv1JpM-XII0PMnqoCJfZA2g
While it is writen in typescript, it's still aimed towards JS first.
An outstanding mod with a lot of work going in to improve game play still till this day. Tournaments are being ran and the game is actually starting re-growth from all the hard work the development team is putting in. I think this game should definitely be on valve's steam 'free to play' option. I think the majority of gamers would enjoy getting into a game like this, especially the older lads.
The test they gave only tests for live viral load. It's possible there were cases that were asymptomatic, the immune system took care of it, and when tested they showed no virus, even though they had it.

The only real way we can know for sure is giving mass random antibody tests to a population.
I was at an aerospace company. In aerospace, specs matter, because part A has to plug into part B. You can remove the Pratt and Whitney engines from an airliner and substitute Rolls-Royce engines. One is not emulating the other; they both meet the same spec. DoD used to be big on having multiple sources, all making interchangeable units to the same spec.

We used to say, "if A won't work with B, check the spec. If A doesn't match the spec, A is broken. If B doesn't match the spec, B is broken. If you can't tell, the spec is broken.

Much of this worked in the early TCP/IP days because DoD was funding most of the players, both industrial and academic. They wanted interoperabilty.

There's much less of that today. Compatibility tends to involve reverse engineering the dominant player's product.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=setup+email

I think the reasons pro / contra have not changed in the past few years.
It is shameful that the US has abandoned its manufacturing base and allowed its productive capacity to be destroyed. The pandemic exposes how weak this makes us, but I don’t know that things will change when the pandemic eventually ends. Once things calm down, I doubt people will retain the ability to see the downsides of always chasing the absolute lowest cost supplier.
I agree that Discord seems like an odd place to find this information, but I'm curious to know what prevents you from creating a Discord account?
Spent the weekend mentoring students who are building projects using React and Python.
It also lets you judge whether other models are useful. If you see a model claiming an IFR the lower bound of 0.5%, it's wrong.
WAN is not the same as WLAN.
The majority of people are 'at-will'. Which is not the same as a contractor, but for the purpose of your question it may as well be.

In some cases you may have severance pay defined by the terms of the employer, but that became pretty rare as something that would be promised after the 2008 recession. It still happens but not like it used to.

Generally speaking you are 'at will' in the United states, so you can be let go for any reason that is not explicitly illegal to do so for (i.e. race, old age, etc.) You could theoretically get let go because the owner decided 'I found a penny on the ground today and I decided it was a sign to fire you'.

On one hand this is because, inversely speaking, you, again, typically allowed to quit at any moment for any reason you want. Including getting another job. This does however handwave away the asymmetry in finding a replacement for an employee versus finding a new employer. It's also concerning in this modern age where some Sandwich shops try to get line workers to sign noncompetes.
I think people talking about extending Toki Pona may be missing the point. This is the Brainfuck of human languages. It's almost the simplest language imaginable. It's an experiment to see how simple a language can be and how many words do you really need for day to day activities.

The area is poorly understood, but language has impact on how we think. The supposed advantages of Toki Pona - happiness through simplicity - may be a bit overstated, but it's interesting and probably harmless. Like PyPy, it may might* not have value on its own, but it gives food for thought and produces insight.

* weasel words
It won't change. People will always act in their own interest. They're not going to pay 5x the price for masks (2c from China, 10c from this guy) if they don't have to. Who knows when this will happen again? They might pay those higher prices for 10 years (which is apparently how long it's been since last time he had to ramp up production) before it makes any difference.

They likely also won't stock up on masks for financial reasons, too. It costs money to have storage space for them.
> "This is incorrect. You're reducing the number of deaths. Think of it like this: imagine 2% of people need ICU care. 100% of those that don't get ICU care die."

Quoting my earlier reply: "According to the article, ICU capacity is currently at a quarter. They could probably "afford" a higher rate, and be done with it faster."

I'm obviously aware of that. Now we're just arguing how high the numbers are, but we agree that they exist. You're arguing Sweden will have numbers so high, they will be overwhelmed. I believe the infected number is significantly higher than measured, and we're about 1/3rds of peak, so Sweden, in my opinion, will peak at about 75% ICU capacity.

My second point still stands.

EDIT: Or, to apply reductio ad absurdum to your argument, if we go all the way and attempt to minimize that number to the extreme, we could be facing a lockdown lasting years and have ICU capacity barely scratch 1% above nominal (on the contrary - it would decrease, as reduced societal activity initially incurs less deaths/ICU cases from e.g. accidents).
I work with tmetric (my choice)

It has four levels so it can match your need or what you negotiate with boss/client

Ad hoc timer, per issue timer , fully integrated with gitlab etc, screenshotting

I never needed/allowed the screenshotting but it is there
I think it's a question of how far outside the Overton window your own viewpoint lives.

Newspapers may pester governments with annoying questions about specific institutional failures and corrupt individuals, but they'll tend to be aligned on what the institution was supposed to achieve, what faithfully executing an office would look like.

The New York Times will ask the NYPD, "Why did you beat up that guy in a routine traffic stop?" or "How is it possible that you billed more overtime hours than there are in a week?". Not "Why haven't you shot the rich yet?"
On the "low-code" side, you might be interested in Refinery.

https://refinery.io

It lets you build and deploy applications super, super quickly on top of AWS Lambda. You build applications by composing high-level building blocks, which are small business logic units and are chained together on a visual graph of your application.

The cool this is that you can re-use "code blocks" across projects and they follow the same input/output rules (plain JSON) so you can mix + match languages in a single project. If you want to make an API endpoint, you just add an API Endpoint block, wire that to a code block, then wire that to a response. Easy. Same with Cron jobs -- you just link a timer to a code block and you're good.

Logs are handled in the UI for you so you don't have to muck with AWS at all (the deployment to AWS is effectively an implementation detail that you don't have to know about). Pricing is the same as AWS (usage based) -- we just add a surcharge as a flat percentage.

It started out as a side project to solve a similar frustration to the ones you're describing, and it's snowballed from there (I'm a co-author of Refinery). :P

It's still fairly early (and we're adding big features still). Feedback is welcome!

Some examples:

- List of demo apps https://refinery.io/discover

- Map/reduce using fan-out transitions https://docs.refinery.io/tutorials/fan-out-fan-in/

- Docs on the different Block types https://docs.refinery.io/blocks/
>So the question is obviously, how do we change the news ecosystem from what it is, to a system that makes people better informed?

I think that other than marginal gains, this is a pipedream. The reason the news media is the way it is is due to the choices of the people consuming it. A change in the industry itself is unlikely to put a dent into this, because people will just go elsewhere to get the 'news' they want to hear.

We would need some kind of a fundamental change in society. Maybe if we completely revamped the style of childhood education, it would be possible to change what people look for in the news. I think that practically such a fundamental change is next to impossible. People talk a lot about how we need changes to the education system, but they're usually either spewing hot air or only want small changes.
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I hate to say it, but I got no discernible advantage from my non-trivial coding projects during my last job search. My time would have been far better spent just grinding leetcode, from a purely economic perspective. I wouldn’t have had nearly as much fun, but I probably would have gotten more offers.
From one perspective this is true.

From another perspective, he's having trouble getting long time contracts. Hospitals could give him that extra 90c per mask (10c per mask per the article, 1$ suggested price in your comment) by signing a contract to buy x masks every year for 10 years instead of just signing a contract to buy x masks.

It seems that the actual problem might just be hospitals being stingy.
Compare https://pyoxidizer.readthedocs.io/en/v0.4.0/config.html#file... to https://pyoxidizer.readthedocs.io/en/stable/config.html#file....

In PyOxidizer's case, I wanted to create virtual pipelines of actions to perform. In TOML, we could create sections to express each stage in a logical pipeline. But if you wanted to share stages between pipelines, you were out of luck. With Starlark, you can define a stage as a function and have multiple functions reference it because is "just" calling a function.

I suppose I could have defined names for stages and made this work in TOML. So let's use a slightly more complicated example.

PyOxidizer config files need to allow filtering of resources. Essentially, call fn(x) to determine whether something is relevant. In the TOML world, we had to define explicit stages that applied filtering semantics: there were config primitives dedicated to applying filtering logic. PyOxidizer's config files had to expose primitives that could perform filtering logic desired by end-users. By contrast, Starlark exposes an iterable of objects and config files can examine attributes of each object and deploy their own logic for determining whether said object is relevant. This is far more powerful, as config files can define their own filtering rules in a programming language without being constrained by what the TOML-based config syntax supports.
The 1, 2, n pattern
Self Hosted World Maps
All I can think about with these models in general is the book: Jurassic Park. A lot of talk about chaos theory in the book(kind of skimmed over in the movie). I don't know how accurate all of it is, but it seems trying to model how a dinosaur park would work in the modern day could be a lot like modeling what a virus will do(although probably easier to model a Dinosaur park)
I’m sure they’d be happy to authorize a rewrite - as long as you can do it in two weeks, breaking every task down to a four-point “story” before you’ve even looked at the scope.
I think you're definitely right, I'll try to give it a try using javascript, and learn the basics of network server along the way. The reason I wanna do it in elixir is that I wanna learn another language, right now javascript is the only one I can say that I know kind of well, all my side projects are in js, so I guess I'm a bit bored of it.
May I ask what resources did you use to learn it?
> But in reality, having integrity and ethics in business is actually more profitable over the long term.

This seems like a fairy tale you tell young naive business majors with no experience. The real world isn't like that.

You think oil companies, tech companies, defense companies, tobacco companies, banks, etc have been profitable for decades because of integrity and ethics? No you become profitable and wealthy by being amoral and cutthroat then paying PR firms to spread the news about how good you were all along.

Do you think Google, Facebook, Apple, etc are so profitable because they are moral? Do you think Nike became Nike by having integrity and ethics or by exploiting cheap labor overseas?
Show HN: Pitch, a free podcast hosting platform
You'd still have to specify the system before you could use it, and that would probably require new syntax/grammar to be added to the language. ( Silly analogy: "C has latin character support; why can't it support Roman numerals?" )
Have you any thoughts on medikanren? I think they are generally _thinking_ as you do but in the short term that project is more about searching medical knowledge bases as opposed to logical programming of/with genes.
Hi Show HN,

I'm really honored to share with you what me and my colleagues have been working on as a side project since the beginning of this year.

We are a three people team, all three of us are engineers or en route to a degree in engineering and this poses a nice challenge, since the product, UI and marketing we all have to figure out as we code the MVP.

Our Stack:

* Node.js with Typescript and Nest.js for Backend

* React over Next.js for Frontend

* PostgreSQL for database

Pitch is a podcast hosting platform that allows Content Creators to host their podcasts for free, without any severe limitation, such as minutes, number of episodes, number of podcasts, etc. I believe that the incentives of a paid platform are really bad, because they severely restrain the ability of any podcast to grow or even to bootstrap, as you have to pay for the scale or might have to pay to use it anytime in the future. Many people just have podcasts as a hobby and it is not nice to pay a non-null amount of dollars for having a hobby.

With that in mind, we are going to grow our user base first and then offer an optional revenue share program for the content creator. I believe this incentive is good because growing the content creator's reach is as much a success for them as it would be for us, making this model the perfect alignment of interests between us and the content creator. Of course there are other variables that we will also optimize for, such as user satisfaction - one of our KPIs - and quality of the advertising/content.

Podcast hosting is one of the tools we are offering our users and we will add other tools, such as one-click distribution, RSS feed, Analytics dashboard, etc.

I really hope to have some feedback - good or otherwise - so that I can improve my product and have this side-project become a company that I can grow and impact society positively.
Spanish Government Aims to Roll Out Basic Income ‘Soon’
I'm learning Rust language, I'm reading through the official Rust book at the moment. I have to say the book very well written and easy to follow. I'm looking forward to using Rust full time sometime in the future.
He could make two SKUs, one at the regular price made by the normal shift and one made on the other two shifts with different cost structure and pricing.
Lower taxes should not enter the equation until we have reasonable budget. Until then the argument is a conversation of cuts vs higher taxes, or a combination of the twp
One of my favorite classic articles is this post from 2003 by Eric Sink, "The .NET Abstraction Pile", which lists 46 separate abstractions that are involved from clicking the "Check In" button in a networked version control system:

https://ericsink.com/Abstraction_Pile.html
Ah so there are people out there like this, who think random pop culture references will 'bring a smile' to someone editing the code.

Please don't. 'Avoid being cryptic' - but please, throw in a reference no-one might get or something unrelated to the purpose of a variable. Give me a break.