skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My software side projects became my career.

I write down my various ideas. I then think about them occasionally for months or even years before committing to working, writing additional notes. This reduces the chance of abandoning an idea for something else after starting development.

I tend to do multi-year projects, so I have to be careful how I spend my time.
I am doing deeplearning.ai. The course seems to be really nice.
I need an end goal with actual people using what I'm making to be really motivated. And having achieved that on some open source projects (one in particular with tons of usage, now deprecated), I need some kind of personal increase in value to hold my interest. Maybe that will change once I'm financially independent but I think focusing on increasing value is a good thing and value can mean different things (doesn't always have to be money but often is -- there is some value from being one of the big contributors on an open source project but, having been there, the value is typically seems to be very low even if you have 1M+ downloads).

That said, deploy, maintenance and support can be a grind. I like the challenge but your experience may vary.
WASM Synth: Building a Synthesizer with C++ and WebAssembly
> compilers/interpreters are just programs

And what's more they're simpler programs than most web applications. A compiler is conceptually a pure function. No need to worry about provisioning anything, any APIs, Docker images. A compiler is just a function from one array of bytes to another array of bytes.
The thing with Jaeger is you will likely need to deploy other services with it. For example, if you use Istio, pods need sidecars with non-negligible resource requirements. You'll need EFK / Prometheus.

You should include the salaries to deploy, debug, and maintain in the calculation. Not just Jaeger, all the supporting systems too. Finding people (you'll need more than one most likely) is a challenge as well.

You probably don't need distributed tracing at first, I have only seen a few people at this point. Start with basic logging and metrics if you have none today.
Hm ... Should we spend these 2 billion here on a multi-faceted pandemic response plan, or buy another air-craft-carrier? Let's do the carrier!
Do the elderly not wish to watch after the younger generations? Because schools are disease labs.
> We can actually measure how much was "choice" and how much was "defaults" because at that time there were versions of IE for Mac and Unix.

Let's see your measurement then. I worked among people that used Mac and Unix back then and most of them were anti-Microsoft zealots or brainwashed by the anti-Microsoft zealots. Aside from that - they were in the vast minority, but more importantly: They weren't getting the same product as on Windows. Furthermore, IE was the default on OSX from 1998-2003. How'd that work out?

Google pushing Chrome from google.com is nowhere near the same thing as "being the default browser". Not even close. And it goes against your idea that "users not doing something" is what gets you a higher market share. It doesn't explain the rise of Firefox at all. As well, Chrome got popular in tech circles before they even started doing that.

Tech circles is where all this starts. Once we like something, we push our families, friends and businesses to use it.

> Look at Firefox -- it's not doing anything like that, it's a better browser by a lot of metrics, and it's losing market share.

It's a worse browser by just about every metric.
Sara Blakely Is Giving $5M to Support Female-Run Small Businesses
In Python, `range(1, 17)` produces the numbers 1-16. I hard-coded it just for your favorites.

A better way to solve it is to look at the `len()` of the results, and stop when it gets to 0:

p = 1
while True:
r = requests.get(f'https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=app4soft&p={p}')
s = BeautifulSoup(r.text, 'html.parser')
faves = [{'title': a.text, 'url': a['href']} for a in s.select('a.storylink')]
print(faves)
p += 1
if len(faves) == 0:
break
> We just couldn't watch/read/listen-to anything we wanted on a whim.

And that's often a good thing! I find that I read books a lot less now, because there's less motivation to invest deeply in any one book when it's almost certainly not the best one, and there's that niggling background feeling that I could go out and find something even better to read if I browsed a little more ….
Isn't this exactly how they're doing it? They're only mailing out checks to people who didn't use direct deposit for their taxes.
Sports Analysis with Pandas – Real vs. Barca
I am an independent voter not registered with either party, but the constant, years-long attempts to take perhaps truly flawed policy, but exaggerate its awfulness beyond all reason, is disturbing. I suspect it's having the opposite of the intended effect with the voters. People aren't so easy to fool, and when they think you're trying really hard to fool them they do the opposite of what you're trying to get them to do.

Even more disturbing is that whenever I read a post like this, I get the feeling that it made someone really happy, and they wrote it with a smile on their face.

I am concerned that the people who hate Trump so much might be willing to do almost anything to prevent him from being elected again. For example, I wonder if the resistance to trying hydroxychloroquine is at least in part because some people secretly wish for the virus to continue killing people so they can blame Trump for it. I wonder if, back when he wanted to close the borders due to the virus, someone who secretly dislikes him but is in his circle of advisors, strongly urged him to keep the borders open so he could be blamed for it later.

Okay, so that last paragraph sounds a little paranoid. But after years of people just taking absolutely anything and trying to find something to attack him with, after the streets filled with people screaming "not my president", after the lies willing to be told about Brett Kavanaugh, I really can't put much past the zealously anti-Trump people, who I distinguish from ordinary people who happened to vote for someone else.
Hairstylist, doctors play critical role in Ford's coronavirus face shield design
I'm someone who has intermittent panic attacks and all of that sounds like panic attacks to me.
You needn't even remote in IntelliJ runs on windows mac and linux.
I believe the issue in London is the parks can get so busy, you can't maintain social distancing. Or at least, some parks can, when there's no coronavirus, and the weather is good, at weekends.
I already began social distancing more than a month before the guidelines were released, and I didn't need to wait for the government to tell me to do it. My lungs seem to be working fine as of now.
You have excluded the category 'living wage job + social safety net', a system that seems to work in many countries.

Would Walmart go backrupt or employ noticeably fewer people if wages and taxes were higher? I don't think so, as similar companies exist in many economies with better wages. Is it inflationary? Only if the wages grow disproportionally with the economy (like costs have in health care). Basically richer people are effectively charged more for their shopping, and shareholders see less profit.

People employed at below cost of living wages (reliant on welfare for basics) by definition can't save much, and in the US are excluded from education and quality health care. I couldn't be happy with a system that perpetuates that just to get groceries 1% cheaper.
From NYC ICU: Are we treating the wrong disease? Does Covid-19 Cause ARDS?
I have the same issue. I try to remember a quote, origin I can't remember, "If we want to do anything, we must not try to do everything."

If you're interested, want to help me work on my web project? :-) I'm not a front end web dev and am having a slow go at it.
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_better_artic...:

> Wikipedia is an international encyclopedia. People who read Wikipedia have different backgrounds, education and opinions. Make your article accessible and understandable for as many readers as possible. Assume readers are reading the article to learn. It is possible that the reader knows nothing about the subject, so the article needs to explain the subject fully.
They are as stretchable as elastic so accuracy is not even a goal. It's more like a live spreadsheet with nice sliders, I don't see any attempt to fidelity worth taking seriously.
Headspace.com is down after being featured on NY coronavirus briefing
Thanks for the feedback. 100% agree, we will make that bolder and bigger so it's super clear
No, you misinterpret what I said. They should most definitely help out - by aiding in manufacturing a known working design at bigger scale.
The SoC (Tegra X1) was released in 2013.

The Switch came out in 2017.

So it's not really that new.

Also Nvidia has failed to sell it to the tablet/mobile market.
I see the same issue in optical flow. Everyone and their grandma are overfitting Sintel.

But everyday phenomena, like changing light conditions or trees with many small branches cause the SOTA to fail miserably.

I even approached research teams with my new data set that they could use to measure generalization, but the response has been frosty or hostile. Nobody likes to confirm that their amazing new paper is worthless for real world usage.
Pricing Models and Page Designs from Top SaaS Products
Yes I have this problem. No I haven't found a fix. One thing I do is keep a trello board of "product ideas". I have a couple hundred. I review them and move the ones I feel are best by various criteria (ease to build, value to others, income potential, etc) to the top of a "I Keep Coming Back to These" list. I only allow myself 5 on this list.

Really, I should just allow myself 1, and focus on that. I'm just so bogged down with day job and family life, I haven't done it. Some days I console myself that I'm doing the right thing keeping a steady well-paying day job and providing for the fam. Other days, I'm ready to toss it all and do my own thing. What I hope will happen is a small break in day job where I can fit in and focus on side gig.
Setoids are also very relevant in constructive math, for similar reasons. Quotient types/sets basically conflate cases where one can easily normalize the elements of some equivalent class vs. cases where this cannot be done effectively, and that's not a good approach at all.
Introduction to the technology stack used at Shiro Games (Evoland, Northgard)
What concerns me is the repeated mentioning of using training data from China, when we suspect the data they've released is inaccurate.
Python and R APIs for collaborating on datasets
Fascinating, but a little hard to use.
Great references -- thanks!
Playing with Apache Storm on Docker – Like a Boss
You ever see one VIM or Emacs user try to use someone else’s setup? I’d be shocked if there were any productivity gains... this seems like something that managers want to say but is disconnected from reality.
"The buck stops here", said someone.

It is the president the one who sets the tone and priority for these issues, and having been wisely advised, he obviously sat around, downplayed the issue, and yes, his response was absolute sinophobia given that a couple dozen additional measures would have have to be shown to display competency in this.

He is easily the most incompetent person that could lead this crisis.
Seeing as the engineers all touched their faces multiple times during the video (fidgeting with their poorly-fitted masks), I think it's safe to assume they know little to nothing about medical care, and this ventilator looks cool but will have no real world usefulness.
Turkey distributes each citizen five 3-ply masks a week for free
duh?

Why has this shown up multiple times on HN?
Lots of partisan voting in this thread but I thought this was well said. I'm more concerned about the systemic failures in this case.
That's a nice whataboutism.
Yesterday, Governor Coumo said it almost looks like New York was close to a peak but that it was still too early to tell because there's not enough data, yet.
This is common for most people, at least in the beginning. This is the nature of creative projects because it's just always going to be easier to think of an idea than execute it.

1) you have to recognize that the dopamine rush of new ideas will not carry you through the project to completion in the same way it drove you to start. Inspiration is useful, but it's fleeting or at best inconsistent. The sooner you stop relying on inspiration to last, the sooner you'll learn to find other ways of motivating yourself. That being said, it's useful for inspiration to fade. This can help you decide the difference between a project that's really useful or was just an idea you had that is not necessarily worth your time.

It also depends on how you work. Some people prefer long bouts of work and long breaks, others prefer a little bit each day. It doesnt matter which or both you try, just keep moving forward.

2) Nearly everyone who creates things has way more ideas or unfinished projects or projects that didnt work out than completed projects.

3) finished projects rarely end up the way you expected and wanted in the beginning. The sooner you accept this the sooner you can be flexible throughout the process to bring what's feasible to completion, rather than an idea that hit many snags

4) related to #3 is learn to recognize asymptotic progress. In other words, many projects are never "finished". You'll always have more to add, and that's ok. You can keep adding, but dont let that hinder taking a break or showing version 1 to the world. Recognizing "good enough" is important
Your point is taken. However, when a point to a discussion is made that shows logic and is a contribution, it will get downvoted simply because people do not want to try to support a losing argument.

It allows trolls the ability to affect the conversation unpunished.

Edit: I.e. you're a troll if you just driveby downvote a comment without rebuttal. And, if the comment has already been rebutted, you can voice your vote by upvoting the rebuttal just as easily as if you had downvoted the parent.
Simplifying Complexity Plagued Architectures
Keep the scope small so you’ll be done fast

Become accountable, e.g. partner up with somebody else
Actually, what you describe is a bigger problem than simply static maintenance. Overwhelmingly what happens is that, that "rewrite some services in go" and run them on AWS frequently means that the project is never 100% rewritten in go on AWS because some part gets moved to GCE or whatever in a couple years, and then someone else takes over with different priorities, and they never finish your go/aws migration, etc, etc, etc. In 40 years your project is now written in a dozen different scripting languages, running on a Rube Goldberg number of different platforms.

I've worked with people migrating off these machines, and yes they are everywhere in any business/goverment older than 20 years. Companies/Government orgs to this day have hpux/solaris/aix/zos/ztpf/nonstop/iseries/vms/NT/etc systems all over their critical infrastructure because those were the great/new technology at some point.

For whatever reason, overwhelmingly the rewrites turn out to be much more difficult than originally expected. Particularly as the original platform/software gets older. The people working on the original software stack weren't idiots, nor did they spend their days playing tetris. If that software has a couple man-decades worth of effort put into it, your probably not going to be able to rewrite it in less and maintain its functionality and quality.
what has worked pretty nicely for me is working on something with someone. its nice to know you are working on something and are not alone. it also helps with accountability.

i know not everyone will be able to work with someone but this is just from my experience.
Hey simias, we (Arena) would love to post retroactive accuracy for the different models so far, can work on that or post it to github
Show HN: OpenAPT first release – Automate your APT repositories layouts
> produced by a company that sucks

Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
The best thing that you can do to give a project legs is to get other people involved. Even if you don't have someone who can work on coding with you, just sharing it and enrolling other people in your vision for a project is the number one way to give you the motivation to continue working on it.
Actually speaking yes. I spent a lot of time to think about it. Here is my little thought process to keep my motivation;

Why am I working? Why am I spending my 1/3 of my time with my daily job. Is career real thing or other words is it really necessary to make money? Does it really matter to have high work satisfaction even though you earn little?
I am working because of money. Money doesn't bring happiness but it brings freedom. At the end of the day what I need is freedom. It doesn't matter if I have shinny career if I can earn same money with something else.
I have limited time and more money to become free. So I need to use my time wisely to get more money to become free eventually. It doesn't matter if I am using shiny programming language, technology or IDE. At the end of the day nobody will give a shit about what I am using. Quickest is the best because I have counted days in my life. I don't have time to learn new things every time I start a new projects. I already know everything I need to make money. Learning is not a goal but it is a reward when I become free.
I can recommend this book, too. Most helpful for me was the concept of the scanner personality.

Sometimes it just seems as you are not finishing things, for me, it's more like I'm letting some things rest for quite a long time but pick them up again later. I'm just craving variety to get fresh input for all the other things and I see this as a skill. Today I am glad that I haven't unlearned to play around.

It has its benefits, tons of it, I was only unhappy with it as long as I've let others stigmatize me as lazy or undisciplined for how I am.
Prepare for large wage cuts if you are younger and work in a small firm
> Further it suggests that our goals of gender and racial parity in industry cannot occur without some penalty to merit, which may be worse for society.

Sure, now go out and prove that that's actually what happened and that the penalty is worse than the benefit of elevating of people who used to have no status to even play the game.
> He single handedly dismantled the CDC when he became president.

From what I can tell, that was a 2021 budget proposal (done before this all started) that hasn't been approved or taken effect.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-cut-cdc-budget/

Based on this chart (and the article you posted) he has proposed cuts to their non-infection disease related programs but congress has kept the funding intact.

https://envirodatagov.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Screen-...
How to use events in Node.js the right way
If only an aircraft carrier only cost 2 billion....
> For example, I wonder if the resistance to trying hydroxychloroquine is at least in part because some people secretly wish for the virus to continue killing people so they can blame Trump for it.

Indeed, the media response to the trump administration is almost certainly going to secure his re-election.

EDIT; downvoters are delusional. Independent of your thoughts on the man, it is clear that the American people don't trust the media and trust him instead. The massive media and democrat efforts to slander him have mostly slid off.
Right now financial independence motivates me. I just keep imagining how if I had N customers what I could do with my time other than work for someone else.
ChucK brings back memories!

I was involved with the Oxford Laptop Orchestra in 2012, and did a few "programming for musicians" lessons in ChucK. Writeups here:

https://blog.afandian.com/tags/oxlork/
Reader view on safari works brilliantly on this site, if you’re using an iPhone of course.
Google allows G Suite administrators to monitor and audit user emails
Maybe it should have read, "No one would heed a Pentagon report for years"
"People aren't so easy to fool"

Yes they are lol.

"I wonder if the resistance to trying hydroxychloroquine is at least in part because some people secretly wish for the virus to continue killing people so they can blame Trump for it"

Case in point right here. What a ridiculous claim. Your mind is already made up so you'll believe what you want. That's just the reality of post-truth. Not what is being said but who is saying it and in what narrative of power dynamics are they saying it.

These "I'm independent but..." comments are absurd. I'm not sure what apologizing for one of the worst presidents of all time gets you, and he certainly doesn't need your sympathy and defense. He's the most powerful person in the world, so just remember the power dynamics at play here.
This isn't true. You may only be hearing about the failures because that makes a better news story. 3M, for instance, increased production of masks in January because they knew demand would go up. There are surely countless others.
don't you mean trillion?
I see your 2 billion for a carrier and raise you $1 trillion for the F35

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/21/magazine/f35-joint-strike...
There are two major differences, though. Cars are much more similar to airplanes than they are to ventilators, and the lead time for the war effort is much longer. We missed the window for rushing experimental ventilators into production. Looking at projections[1], there's about a 5-10 day window to get these into the hands of doctors. China donating 1000 ventilators to NYC is a much bigger deal.

1: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2020-coronavirus-where-is...
Dispelling the myth: a hangover has nothing to do with dehydration
Imagine making headline news when you do your job
Could you give a good source that discusses how the data is thought to be inaccurate and how it may be adjusted for?
DO you realize that these are car manufacturing companies trying to figure out how they can build ventilators. To build based on existing know-how will likely be incredibly expensive and prohibitive. As such, it is reasonably to expect them build these ventilators based on the realities of their current supply chain, technology, factory capabilities etc.

It is so surprising that I have to explain this to a tech audience.
Bill Gates also knew about this threat for years, and so did the audience who watched that talk

https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates_the_next_outbreak_we_re...

Just saying, there is plenty of blame to go around for all of us, once this pandemic crisis is resolved.
Can you take a bit more about the environmental program and what you're doing with ML?
It's definitely not entirely Trump, but I notice that two of the three entities you listed are staffed and run by the Trump administration.

People also talk about the US pandemic prevention team being disbanded a few years ago. What I haven't heard anyone talk about is how much work they did in other countries. I'd assume some of that involved monitoring for disease outbreaks across the world, but they probably were more essential in poor and less developed nations.

China, I suspect, insists on taking care of their own stuff for the most part and doesn't want the US in there monitoring disease outbreaks, similar to how the US doesn't want China operating in our country. I'd be interested in actual information about this, though.
> Most of the blame should lie solidly on Trump and how he runs the presidency.

Most of the blame should lie with the Chinese and the WHO.

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/taiwan-who-coronavir...
The article doesn't take in account of the possibility of vaccination available in the next year or so. Yes, people will meanwhile die. Yes, there will be short-term segregation. But I highly doubt that, once vaccination is widely available, the city will remain segregated into "safe" zones and poorer "infected" zones. That sounds dystopian at best.