skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or underestimating the bureaucracy of the system. I did some work for a startup that interfaced with the government, and basically the government insists on doing everything in triplicate, getting approval from multiple layers of hierarchy, and does things on a yearly cadence.

I think the average HN-er doesn't realize just how slow/inefficient government really is. But when you read these stories it's apparent that the problem exists at an institutional level, and isn't really as simple as people think.
That's not true at all. In another comment of mine I discussed this. They generally get their equipment outside of the community. They are no longer self sufficient in the sense that you think they are. They might make some shit but for sure go to Costco and stuff like that. The costco close to where I live even has a place for their horse and buggies(which should be outlawed IMO. The cruelty to horses is undeniable and the Amish don't even pay road taxes).

You have a big misconception about Amish. They are not minimalists in any sense of the word. Don't let the button thing fool you. They're just a shitty cult at this point.
You are an individual. Nation-wide statistics are somewhat relevant - there can be more or fewer jobs available, and more or fewer people looking, and that does matter - but in the end, you only need one job.
Thanks, should suffice!
Look, in my opinion the rejection of store bought bread made with the Chorleywood process to go for sourdough or anything else trendy is not entirely rational, there is much to recommend bread baked the conventional way with a machine. It means you ain't spending your time scheduling your life around some silly baking affectation but you get your bread.

That is a fair comment that needs a few words to understand. I appreciate that to those that can only write one liners this could appear as a 'rant'. But it is not.

However, I do now have a reason to rant, to rant about those that write things such as your comment without explaining in full why the need is there for sugar in bread.
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Yes! After 25 (virtual) feet, the audio and video are automatically disconnected. It saves bandwidth as well.
Yep, if your startup plan has a good chunk of the budget dedicated to "how does the business survive global thermonuclear war" you are wasting money, time and focus.
Interesting, can you share the name a book, preferably rife with examples, where I can learn about the "In all societies in which there is a power vacuum gangs take over." thesis?
Yeah, the weird thing about Lynnwood was that pretty much each piece of it, each house, most of the buildings, and even the national fast food chains, are nice! And there's tons of nature. There was a glorious bike/ped path near my house. But somehow the "macro-structure", if you will, is "atomized". By being spread out and organized as in-fill from the road grid you wind up with car culture and weirdly lifeless neighborhoods.

Otho: "We're dealing with negative entertainment potential. There's absolutely no organic flow through."

Delia: "I noticed that, too. It's like a giant ant farm."
I read “Effective Go”[0], but what really helps me is browsing through the sources of various Go projects and libs in Github. I also keep a tab of Go’s packages docs open [1]. And of course there’s StackOverflow. In general I prefer learning from source code rather than books.

0 - https://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html
1 - https://golang.org/pkg/
> I guess it depends on how pleasant the job is to you, how often you need it done, and how much it costs to get it done relative to your own salary.

Yes, this is the most important point I think.
Earlier this week, I accidentally dropped a box full of old computer parts that hadn't been touched in almost a year. Some old hard drives flew out and crashed on the floor.

I thought "good thing everything on those drives is backed up, and nothing critical was lost."

Yesterday I got a call from one of the former owners of one of these drives. They lost the USB stick I gave them a long time ago with their software license key that I pulled from one of those drives.

The drives I had been hoarding could have saved us $500 on Adelo POS software. One man's trash really can be another's treasure.
This is somewhat similar to the European vs American (highly simplified) view on insurances.
This game is a beautiful piece of living internet history. We still play competitively, the emergent gameplay continues to evolve. Most of the community have been playing for over 20 years, and a huge percentage of the players are contributing to code, art etc.
Nobody's going to eat the government's lunch.
There are still people around today who know COBOL, but how many years will that last?
They can't get accurate numbers because patients aren't even allowed the test, allowed to be admitted to hospitals. While the researchers will be able to retrieve some facts they won't be able to count those that never made it into the system.
No because we don't tell them when recruiting. Lol. It's because we only need small percentage to know it and they get to work on other stacks.
Well, it's Forbes. They aren't really writing for blue-collar or retail workers, or even for lower-level retail managers.
> where cranks use Curry-Howard to justify their ridiculous beliefs

I'm not an abstract thinker so that correspondence is not interesting to me (open to being educated though if it is applicable to my daily work), but to what ridiculous beliefs do you refer? TIA
It seems the contract was granted some time ago (2017?) so it's unlikely this is a choice. But yes, I think municipal/local government contracts should look to source these things locally
Wow! My blocking is doing great! :-)
Fair enough! Amazon is a good example for it in the logistics space.
You are assuming that there really is a low-risk group. As we have seen the risk of death MIGHT be lower for some people but the difference is not complete and younger, healthier people are dying, too. These are people’s lives you are using to gain that herd immunity.

If we had wide-spread testing, we might be able to let some people know that they have recovered from exposure and are likely safe to return to a more normal life.
> Right now in the audio community, Sonys are the the consensus recommendation unless you expect to take many calls on them.

Ok, but I bought both and returned the Sonys because “the consensus” was wrong imo. I have first hand knowledge with both. I paid $275 for the Bose 700s.

Maybe my first hand experience is wrong.
> The reality is, if you wish to combine self reliance and minimalism, you essentially must embrace a life of poverty.

Some of the happiest days of my life have been when I labored to field dress a moose I had just shot and then canoe with it for days down an isolated river near the arctic. Or helping my brother build his house or working in the vegetable garden.

If you call that poverty, you're missing the point entirely.

I believe your disconnect comes from you thinking "The only kind of minimalism is extreme minimalism" which doesn't have to be true. I have a lot less "stuff" than most people, so I consider my self a minimalist, but I still have possessions I value and enjoy that I'm not capable of making or repairing myself (rifle, laptop). That's OK. Minimalism doesn't mean "Have nothing you didn't make with you own bare hands", it means "Have less things, and only the things that bring you happiness".
Like so many things in life, it's not black and white like you're trying to make it out to be.
> Sometimes law enshrines the ability for access using particular technologies.

> Government is often about supporting as close to 100% access as possible.

Isn't that a good thing? You probably don't need the latest whizbang tech stack and UI framework that needs a screaming CPU, tons of memory, and a 4G connection to implement a usable government service website.

You do need a good design process at both the UX and data processing level, focused on clarity and simplicity, with lots of unit and integration tests.
My condolences to all those laid off.

May their talents be put to better use immediately!
When I had to learn it it was on a s/390. Would the 370 translate well?
"As a comparison, Germany has a <2% fatality rate"

Germany's good numbers may not hold.

20 days ago Germany had 7256 cases. Italy had 27977.

10 days ago Germany had 37307 cases. Italy had 74383.

0 days ago Germany had 96076 cases. Italy had 124629.

The point being that Germany saw the outbreak take hold considerably after Italy. Italy had a very low original death rate as well -- approximately 2% weeks into the outbreak. This virus takes weeks to kill most of its victims.

14 days ago Germany had a death rate of 0.375%.

7 days ago, Germany had a death to case rate of 0.75%.

Today it's at 1.5%. It has increased every day between.

The fact that Italy is a hyper-social society, while Germany, at least from my probably wrong foreign view, is quite the opposite, probably changed the path of the disease, accelerating its spread in Italy.
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I personally know at least 5 people with the symptoms, who haven’t been tested.
I am just trying to create my first loaf using sourdough so I have no experience on this (I will bake tomorrow) and I have read a book that says that the more you leave the dough the taster it becomes.

The normal recipe is to leave 24 hours the dough in fridge and it says that you can leave it for 48 or even 96 hours :)
Having multiple revenue streams doesn’t help when the entire economy is screwed.

This is true. A couple on my block are an architect, and a yoga instructor. Two very diverse income streams.

Now both are unemployed.

A guy I sold a web site to was one of those people who was big on diversity of income.

His portfolio covered everything from hotel services to restaurants to antiques restoration to a couple of small factories. All are closed. His diverse income is gone.
Hey folks! Happy Sunday. Hope everyone is doing great.

I made SSC to see if we could get an alternative to the traditional strength sporting organization. We have been using the same model for decades--top down, typically federated organizations.

SSC places power in the hands of its members. Members can alter the rules of the lifts. They are also the judges of lifts.

SSC is asynchronous by default--i.e., no need for colocated competitions (great in times of pandemics!).

Anyhow, I would love any feedback if you have the time.

Thanks!
-Tyler
Agree, didn't think of a lot of the points you make. However from my experience, "this needs to be improved long term" will stay exactly as is, forever, in favor of business requirements and it will be improved only when the business absolutely demands it to be.
Meh, I kind of think you're both right. I mean, while Google was just the evolution of a search engine, they did solve a very specific unsolved problem that the founders identified (namely, how to rank results in a manner that was a much better indicator of relevance and quality). When it comes to Facebook, people forget that before them, using your real name and identity online in a social network was extremely rare.

Similarly, there were loads of dating apps before Tinder, but they solved a very specific problem: how to let either partner indicate interest withOUT letting the other partner know unless there was a match, in an intuitive way.

So yes, there are not many startups that are bold ideas that are completely new (for exceptions see Elon Musk), but they mostly DO bring something fundamentally new to the table.
Flutter web support is in beta. I've never heard of anyone using it. Don't you think you are swimming upstream there too?
Thanks for the feedback.

The main motivation behind building this tool was to make onboarding easier on Apache Airflow. There was no standard structure for a airflow projects and setting it up on local can be a nightmare sometimes. The simple CLI tool makes it very easy to create and test your project locally before deploying it to your production or staging environment via your CI/CD.

Right now we are using a docker-compose file which brings up all the Airflow services but we are also currently working on providing a command to control individual process.

Qubole is not a cloud but a self managed Data Platform. Deploying on Qubole means just putting all the Dag files on the machine (AWS/ GCP/ Azure) where airflow is running. Qubole provides out of the box solutions for running airflow on your cloud with a click of a button.
We offer bunch of different things (Spark, Presto, notebooks, etc) and have a great eco system build around Airflow.
Same awsome game updated to 2020 standards !
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I have the opposite opinion. US funding sources for science and engineering tend to be very government-heavy rather than industry-based; but in my experience those government grants, particularly DoD, emphasize research with specific practical ends. The obvious exception is NSF, but Europe also has similar obvious exceptions at about the same rate.

The big difference between the US and Europe, however, is that universities in the US depend on grants to fund PhD students. Many (most?) European countries have national funding programs for their PhDs, which frees up both the students and their advisors to work on whatever fancies them regardless of practicality. France is particularly notorious for this. US academics do not have this luxury.

In my field, by far the lion's share of impractical (Fun! I love it! But impractical) work comes from Europe.
You can use the headphones without the Bose app, and if you really need to configure something, download it, configure, and delete. The assistant integration is totally opt-in
It is not possible for an un-falsified theory to be a failed theory. Instead, among theories there is only more interesting and less interesting. It is up to each researcher to individually decide which theory they think is the most interesting, on the basis of what is the most promising. There is no scientific basis for doing that, because by definition we are talking about trying to guess which theories future evidence will support.

Some people argue that since so much of the supersymmetric theory parameter space has been ruled out, that this reflects negatively on supersymmetry as a whole. However you must understand that this is exactly the kind of non-empirical argument that some stringers get so much flak for deploying. Nobody knows what the prior distribution should be over parameter space and it is not possible to do something like applying a uniform distribution, because if you do something as simple as algebraically re-arrange the parameters the uniform distribution over the new parameters will not be equal to the uniform distribution over the old parameters.

I can give you a concrete example to illustrate the fallacy of trying to measure the "volume" of the ruled-out parameter space. Suppose there is a grain of rice somewhere on a chessboard, and you are trying to find it by asking a person who can see the board whether the grain is in zone 1, zone 2, and so on. You count all the way up to zone 63, and the person who can see the board says "no" to every query. You conclude that if the grain is not on 63/64ths of the board it is unlikely to be on the board at all. Later, you happen to walk in to the room with the chessboard, only to discover that the man in the room had drawn a weird grid that mapped zones 1 through 63 to different parts of square A1, and mapped 64 to the entire rest of the board.
If you're using your clipboard, it's invariably going to be at the wrong level of indentation regardless. What's the correct level of indentation? 0? 1? more? There's no generally correct answer, so you're going to have to use the block indent feature on your editor anyway.
The Spanish Flu is a bad example: a pandemic that infected 500 million people wasn't even the leading story due to everyone being engulfed in an extremely brutal war. The consequences in the aftermath can't be separated out.
I'd suggest that the importance of having multiple revenue streams has never been clearer.

I'd say that even more important is picking the right employer. The next time you apply for a job, ask what the company did during the virus. If it didn't take care of its employees during COVID, it's not going to suddenly be a good company now.

If the company didn't exist during COVID, I think it's perfectly legitimate to ask what the leaders were doing during COVID and how they treated their people at those companies.
How antennas work, very high level:

1. Accelerate an electron, get a photon. A good transmitting antenna is something that is an efficient structure for accelerating electrons.

2. Antennas are reciprocal. They receive as well as they transmit.

3. Resonant structures are often used because you can keep more electrons accelerating with less energy -- the damp finger on the rim of a wine glass effect.

4. Power can be directed by appropriately phasing the radiating sub-structures to create constructive and destructive interference in the radiated energy.

The rest is modeled simply with a set of simultaneous three dimensional second-order partial differential equations.
If the theory is right it wouldn't be the only name in the song Dylan uses as a play on words or with double meaning. The first reference is sandwiched right up against a bunch of rumination on the nature of Kennedy's murder and the people who carried it out.
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On the contrary, the amazing programmer at xyz company may have a lot of skills that they developed from working on a large number of different projects, systems, teams and so on, because the large company has provided them with the chances to practice all those skills.
From what I've seen, most DIY folks spend far more (and are therefore poorer) all things considered, such as time and expense of storage space for tools and what that capital could be doing otherwise over time.
Hey there be careful pointing out that articles like this are worthless and just about privilege - hn doesn't take kindly to being called out.

current downvote: -2
The strongest companies that will emerge from this crisis, will be those tech companies that focus first on remote collaboration.

Your workforce doesn’t get killed. But most tech engineers are young anyways, so they should survive this virus.

And your workforce is decentralized, so you can have business continuity in a disaster scenario.
We'll see…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/05/sweden-prepare...
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Knew they existed somewhere, did not know bother to read them. Careless? Yeah, probably. But it has rarely bitten me. Usually I'm good at reading the room.
To be clear, the "automatically caught" exception Markus lists in his integer_si example was caught and displayed by the Scryer toplevel.
There is a package for DRF that adds automatic validation from type annotations:
https://github.com/rsinger86/drf-typed-views
(disclaimer: I'm the author)

Regarding other commentary on DRF: I wonder how many pain points result from trying to squeeze non-CRUD operations into DRF's ModelViewSet/ModelSerializer constructs? My company's approach has been to use that DRF magic for dumb CRUD resources and use plain function-based views for everything else, with the freedom to use Pydantic/Marshmallow/etc. This has made us very productive and I can't image having to write create/update/delete/get/list operations one at a time.

That said, I'm sure there are use cases that DRF isn't suited for and I would definitely look at FastAPI for new projects.
Thank you, for figuring that one out. An official EU website that requires you to disable your adblocker in order to figure out their address, that's a first. One more bit of proof to me that this website is administered outside of the normal EU website property regime (as if the domain name wasn't proof enough).
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Yes, you're right! It should say "water" instead of "salt"...and it's too late to edit now.

I too have a hard time with the percentages - it's a ratio against the weight of the flour, not a proportion of the entire dry mass. I guess that's why they call them "baker's percentages", as opposed to "the common understanding of percentages" :)
Water temperature is best around body temperature, any higher or lower and you'll have issues as you described.

Leaving it for ten minutes/waiting for the flour to hydrate then mixing again can help out when the temperature is off.
I get that for sure. But one of the lessons I take away from Toyota's history is that continuous improvement can make a big difference if it's tackled systemically.

There's a graph in one of Mike Rother's books, probably Toyota Kata that shows per-worker productivity of major automotive manufacturers. Toyota started behind; they were catching up from Japan's decimation in WWII. the US Big 3 eventually leveled off. Toyota caught up and then just kept going, allowing them to produce much better cars for much less.

At some point a US automaker in trying to understand it ordered parts from a Japanese supplier. When they received the parts, they did their standard QA checks, measuring part size and variance. Except they couldn't measure the variance, because their instruments weren't precise enough. That high precision allowed downstream improvements: higher quality, lower cost.

So sure, the local optimization of order entry from 3 weeks to 1 day removed a bottleneck, improving the whole flow of the system. But it's not like the system had no bottlenecks. As always, the bottleneck just goes somewhere else. And even when a given process isn't the bottleneck, removing waste is always beneficial. The problem isn't that the change isn't worthwhile. It's that a company's threshold for "significant" is too high.
TL;DR If you're a SaaS company, mightydash.com lets your users pick a plan, pay you and get access to what they paid for. Takes 15 mins and saves you at least a week of engineering

Hello all, we've built a ton of SaaS apps in the past year, and payments have always been a headache. Yes, Stripe provides all the infrastructure to handle the grungy stuff, but you still have to build a ton of on top of it to get to something a customer can use. Decided to scratch my own itch and built mightydash.com to solve this.

This is all the stuff I've had to build myself that MightyDash enables out of the box:
- Let users add, change or remove a credit card
- Select a plan
- Let a user downgrade/cancel a plan, but make sure the user still retains access to features they paid for till the next billing period
- Let a user upgrade a plan and explain that they'll be prorated (so they don't complain to support)
- In my app, restrict access to a feature based on the user's plan (eg - you can only send 100 emails on the free plan)
- Add a limited promo (allow 500 people to use promo code DEAL for 1 month free)
- Add a no credit-card trial

It's early and works for React/Node atm, but can easily extend it to your stack if you reach out.

I've looked at Chargebee, Recurly and more. They offer a lot of options, but not the exact set of things that someone needs to get a SaaS product off the ground instantly.

Would love to understand if this has been a problem for you too and what else you'd want handled for you
I think Malandrew is trolling.
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When computing interfaces stop being, generally, awful and arcane and requiring learning all kinds of voodoo rituals and tea-leaf reading to use (which becomes knowledge of how the systems are put together if you go into programming, of course—"oh that button's probably disappearing then re-appearing when you click it because [implementation detail]")
Wrap potatoes individually in foil, bake until you like the texture (definitely more than five minutes).
Switching sections might help. Managers are needed in mask building factories.