skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this is meant to be salient to the current situation e.g. with hydroxychloroquine, I'm afraid it has missed the mark by a long distance. In Bayesian terms, the prior for parachutes helping when falling from great heights is extremely strong. It would take extraordinarily strong evidence to dissuade us from the idea that they are effective, given our prior knowledge of physics and the effect of high velocity collisions on the human body. The priors for a particular immunosuppressant being effective against a particular virus are not nearly so strong.

Fortunately, some folks are doing actually high quality research on this right now, so we should have more solid evidence on this topic soon.
Teaching normalization past 1NF in basic DB courses considered harmful
After I bought an electric car, I kept my other car around just in case. I figured I'd rent it out on Turo since I wasn't concerned about maintaining the condition of the vehicle (it's a 6 year old Nissan).

Even though I wasn't concerned about my car being mishandled by renters, I couldn't believe the condition some renters would return it. After this experience, I would NEVER rent out a nice car through these services. If people treat your car like shit, imagine what they do to big rental car company's vehicles.
Nice. A lot of people have said that tools like Glimpse and ExplodingTopics are cool and fascinating but they find it hard to find a concrete use case for them. once you find that target audience, I recommend really nailing down that value proposition. Rather than rely on people trying to find a job to be done for it.
Fascinating... thanks for the additional info!
> Published 13 December 2018

It probably has nothing to do with the current situation, barring a time machine, which should probably get its own article.
I have to keep location services (android) disabled to keep my daily movement from appearing in google location history.
Wiki disagrees with you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactical_nuclear_weapon
You don't. You really don't need that for years and years in a row. When you need, you do need some tools though.

I see we can have all kinds of analogies; I guess habits play a big role here. Different places in USA have different house styles - it's a big country.
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Why would an internal-combustion piston-thrashing motor be less noisy than a nuclear heat-powered turbine?
Positive delivery receipts from an SMS aggregator have approximately zero diagnostic value.

If you want them to mean something, you need to have a direct connection with the carrier of your user, and you have to know that the carrier or their network doesn't just fake positive delivery receipts at some point in the system to make numbers look good. With an aggregator between you and the carrier, you have no way of knowing when the delivery path changed and the intermediary faked a delivery report.

The absence of a positive delivery receipt doesn't really mean anything either. Negative delivery reports have some information content though.

My context is sending verification codes though; receiving a code back from a user is a much better measure of successful delivery to the user than a delivery receipt. If you're sending news or something where there's no measurable direct action taken as a result of the message, I guess a delivery receipt is better than nothing, maybe?

Realtime measurement and thompson sampling or multi-armed bandit with as many credible providers as you can manage is the best way forward, don't send retries through the same provider either.
Startups are in way better shape than traditional small businesses.

By our very nature, we need months of runway just to keep running. We're designed to weather this kind of storm because "zero revenue" is the default state.

Hearing about Bird cutting 30% of their workforce is awful. But it's nothing compared to the thin-margin Mom & Pop, or medium sized private enterprise that had 1 week of cash on hand and ceased operations overnight.

My friends and family in startups are doing fine, for the moment. It's those that chose to work at the more stable, traditional work environments that are getting wiped out, and much less likely to return when the economy starts back. Because when it does, there will be money ready for investment - extending your runway to get there for a startup is more straightforward. But when you're a bigger business with little cash and no-one is buying assets right now, you literally are unable to make any decision to help.

I've got friends in manufacturing, hospitality, services, and so on that will not return to work because their businesses are going to or have already failed, for good. That's the fucking terrifying thing happening right now and it's more deserving of attention than us tech bros.
So we should watch out for the canaries and the whales then ..
Show HN: Ctrl+f – NLP API to find and replace named entities
git bisect and got blame are underrated tools, that in my opinion get lost in the conversation about should-you-squash-or-not. They really have diminishing returns when you start squashing huge feature branches into a single commit.
Because investing in a .com would be bonkers.
Often, a "startup" just means a private company that plans to go public but hasn't done so yet (as opposed to already public companies, and private companies that don't plan on going public)
Yes, significant equity in a large valuation. If you don't want to be a "large valuation" company, then don't talk to VCs and hire a good bizdev.
I guess I would say that Russia does not fear Sweden's submarines, and that the article does not make an adequate argument that it does. What Russia has a problem with is one that it has had for centuries and been unable to resolve.

Since the end of the Great Northern War Russia's best ports are on the Baltic, and Russia has had a large strategic focus on the North - reference https://www.doria.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/156474/sundberg_... - but the Baltic is in a lousy strategic placement. If you were playing a military game you would want to expend a lot of manpower and economic might to get other ports that you could use, but they have never really managed this because unlike a military board game you can't just roll the dice a bunch of times and move your counters into Iran and solve your problems. I mean Russia won the war, but they didn't win the war enough to not be hemmed in by the Kattegat and better positions of Denmark and Sweden in the area.

Sweden's submarines are just the latest iteration of this long term problem.
I still see Tesla commonly called a startup
I mean, sure, but the fact that the objection is old doesn't mean it's wrong. While I wouldn't say there's a clear cutoff point in terms of time or employees between "startup" and "not a startup," there's got to be some point at which we say "company X was a startup, but really isn't one now."
Google was a startup, but we wouldn't call it one now any more than we'd call Apple a startup, right? How about Facebook? They're younger, they pushed that whole "move fast and break things" schtick. But with a billion users and worldwide offices and an actual corporate campus, I'm gonna say "no, not anymore," aren't you?

So I think it's fair to ask whether Airbnb, a profitable company with 12,000 employees and annual revenues of $3B+ for the last few years, can really be called a "startup" now. They were a startup. But now? Eh...
the app I used for meditation wanted you to acknowledge distracting thoughts head on, then move back to meditation. I'd see this as similar, you acknowledge it's interesting but don't have time now, bookmark it and move on. If you didn't acknowledge it, it might nag at you to go back and read it thru out the day.
I agree with you about Airbnb. Airbnb itself will be fine, but those who bought a property to rent out are hurting.

But Bird/Lime are in deep trouble, and not just because of cost of the scooters they own. Who is going to rent one, not knowing the health status of the previous renter?
The submitted title was "React in 33 lines". We've since changed it. This is a case where rewriting the title did the article a disservice. To my ear there is a subtle but significant difference between that and "33 line React", which is what the author actually said.

"React in 33 lines" sounds reductionist. With the actual title, there's an implicit "a" (i.e. an indefinite article) at the start, i.e. "A 33-line React". In other words: a short exercise exploring the core idea of React. Not a claim of total equivalence.

Submitters: please read the site guidelines. They include "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." Much of the time, when people rewrite a title, they make it more misleading or linkbait, even if they didn't mean to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Frankly, as a solo I'm thinking of just looking into SBA help (USA).
This thread is what a failed tech community looks like.
Still doesn’t make this article with discussing.

It’s a military submarine.

Most people will understand implicitly it’s deadly.

Thus Russia fears it.

And no I won’t abide the forum rules.

Violating a TOS isn’t illegal and I don’t have to import your requirements in a society ruled by law

Make the forum private if you don’t like it

It’s not really discussing much of value anyway except the occasional github project, this stuff is all debated better elsewhere.

Stuck at home though and mind is wandering. Gonna go do something more interesting than go in circles online
When I was working on Fitmeal, back in 2016, I implemented a large NLP module to find food entities in text messages.

This week, I refactored that code and made it accessible through an API.

I'd like to hear your thoughts.
Ask HN: Are hospitals using Zoom for online appointments violating HIPAA?
I've noticed a lot of medical providers are using Zoom to conduct doctors appointments online, and was wondering if this violates, or could potentially violate, HIPAA.
The government has actually done it more than once. After the first time companies started saving up more cash in the expectation that it would happen again.
It is poetic comparison. Calculations performed out of curiosity.

My point was "comparison with greatest of its time, is it possible today?"

Your question based around "look how magnificent our civilization is."

And perfect counterbalance to your question would be "How does one compare biggest city of its time with New York City?" [1] [2]. I don't like such questions, they already contain judgement. And that I think is pointless.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_urban_community_siz...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_cities
Because batteries. You can’t turn off a nuclear power plant and go really silent.
Haha, I love this. Here's the real point of the paper IMO:

> Conclusions Parachute use did not reduce death or major traumatic injury when jumping from aircraft in the first randomized evaluation of this intervention. However, the trial was only able to enroll participants on small stationary aircraft on the ground, suggesting cautious extrapolation to high altitude jumps. _When beliefs regarding the effectiveness of an intervention exist in the community, randomized trials might selectively enroll individuals with a lower perceived likelihood of benefit, thus diminishing the applicability of the results to clinical practice._

I wonder what else that's applicable to?
The term "elite panic" is a very real thing based in actual historical events.

It traces its roots to the French Revolution, Russian Revolution, and Maoist Revolution, where the rich/elite were slaughtered and imprisoned by mobs of peasants.

By comparison, the middle class didn't exist when these revolutions took place. The "middle class" is a very new construct that is only a few decades old, dating back to the post WWII economic boom.
> I'm glad that they improved their delivery, but one thing I find frustrating about our industry is how often we all seem to be reinventing the wheel

The problem is you pick a SMS aggregator. They all tell you they have global coverage, and direct routes. They all tell you that their routing algorithm is the best of all the aggregators. And they're all full of BS.

If they weren't full of BS, I wouldn't have had a nice job managing verification code sending for a big messaging company though, so I guess it worked out for me. :P If SMS worked in general, the messaging company probably wouldn't have existed.
So I’m curious will property and rental prices drop in San Francisco now that funding is drying up? Can’t seem to find much information about that. For example a friend of mine who was laid off still has to pay $3300 / month for his studio. Curious how long this will last for?
Thanks for distilling that down. I didn't read the article. I agree that the current POTUS is more a symptom than a cause.

I suspect that empires, much like organisms, are born, grow, mature and eventually succumb to senescence. Part of this is developing wealth and then spending more and more of the society's output to defend it from threats, real or imagined. It seems like at some point the defense becomes an end in itself and drains resources from things like keeping up infrastructure and taking care of citizens.

Business entities such as large corporations seem to see a similar life cycle, though defense is not what drains them. I suspect it is more related to layers of management.
Good start-up CEOs struggle with this because many of them do care for their employees at a personal level, but they also have an obligation to the owners/investors to be financially successful. And the most findnacially successful CEOs are going to put investors first when they are up against the wall. I assume they rationalize it by saying that if the company is successful that is better in the long run for everyone.
The value of bonds for shale oil companies supports my argument and refutes yours.
My god, we have to use git in school and no one knows about rebasing. A group member made commits with profanity in messages (ha-ha, so funny, now how about some useful messages though?) and it turned out at the end we had to submit the repo. Everyone was panicking until I told them I could change the message in literally half a minute.

Rebasing cleans up my commits so much. It is nice being able to have a chain of nice, logical commits even in the middle of a hairy refactor.
> It is laborious and easy to mess up and takes time (1 to 2 months) to do correctly.

Sounds like a manual software testing. What are the chances of automating entire process? Whenever I see bio/chemists working it seems very manual job. I assume someone already tried it, but perhaps only for specific area rather than making universal robot?
> I had always pictured canning as a thing people did in the twenties, not in modern era (unless they were hipsters),

Preppers and Mormons are huge into canning. Lots of Mormons have "canning parties" that double as social events for family/friends/neighbors.
Duh...?
That's definitely not all I tell people to do. And I not only give people instructions, but also personal help when they have trouble installing things.

I've been teaching non-programmers for years, and know that they need help getting it set up. I try to offer as much as possible of that kind of help in the course.
I just had a look at the dom implementation and it similar to what I have done in typescript. There is only so many ways you can skin a cat.

If you are wishing to do something similar yourself it is worth looking at hyperscript source code:

https://github.com/hyperhype/hyperscript
> Elite panic is the phenomenon by which rich and/or privileged people imagine that in times of chaos all social constraints break down and everyone around them will try to rob, rape, and murder them... It's a world-view you'd expect of unreconstructed pre-Enlightenment aristocrats... It's also fundamentally wrong.

This statement is so profoundly ignorant and offensive that it's hard to reply to it. It's almost literally equivalent to Holocaust denial - the Holocaust was very much about the poor German masses rising up to murder the wealthy Jewish elites. History is replete with other examples of poor people overthrowing and then murdering the rich: the French revolution, the Russian revolution, the Cuban revolution, etc etc. In rhetoric, the revolutionary slogan is "we're going to take money from the rich", but what happens in reality is more like "we're going to take the money from the rich and then murder them".
The definition hasn't changed. There's a lot of misuse and abuse for marketing purposes.
Itanium was good for high performance computing -- numerical simulations of physical phenomena. That's what I used it for. It was ok-to-poor for other workloads. I seem to recall basic utilities like "grep" being slower on my expensive employer-provided Linux/Itanium 2 workstation than on my budget x86/Linux desktop.

I can believe than a new VLIW processor can indeed perform well on HPC and ML workloads. But that doesn't sound particularly "universal" to me. Will people get good performance running relational databases on it? Graph algorithms? Compilers? Existing Java applications?
I know the published study has nothing to do with the current situation. I'm referring to the motivation for posting/upvoting/commenting on it right now. For context, there is a significant push in the online COVID discussion space for discarding rational methods when evaluating potential COVID treatments. I've seen comments in this direction both here and on Reddit. That's the only reason I brought it up.

For anyone just upvoting or discussing this because they thought it was funny or interesting, more power to them.
The actual film isn't linked from the article, but here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvVaFE5O3eY
I live alone at sea. Here's how to be happy in isolation
You can turn off the diesel generator. You can't turn off the cooling pumps of a nuclear reactor.
I also use OneNote at work for capturing anything worth remembering in a meeting, and screen grabs from a webex. It captures the text in images and indexes it for searching later, which I do frequently. I don't mix personal notes and tasks into this notebook.

For several years I've used Google Tasks for organizing my personal notes because it's cross platform and works like my brain. I have a small list of things to do today, that rotates frequently, a well-organized larger "Backlog" that I pull from after I've emptied the "Today" list. There are other topical lists like "Music" for notes and tasks that don't usually get flagged as done. Some bookmarks get into Tasks, if I'm pretty sure I'll use them again. But mainly I save stories in Newsblur if I think they're worth revisiting.
I use a Mac, it's true -- but I also have plenty of people using Windows and Linux in the course. I try to help everyone to get it installed on their systems.

Also: The Mac comes with Python 2. I'm using Python 3, and hope that everyone will indeed install it!
Reminds me of the recent interview of Pr Raoult who's been using chloroquine to treat covid-19 in France. Here's a google translated extract:

To those who say that we need thirty multicenter studies and a thousand patients included, I answer that if we were to apply the rules of current methodologists, we would have to redo a study on the interest of the parachute. Take 100 people, half with parachutes and the other without and count the dead at the end to see what is most effective.
When you have a treatment that works against zero other treatment available, this treatment should become the benchmark.
And it's my freedom to prescribe as a doctor. We don't have to obey government orders to treat the sick. The recommendations of the High Health Authority are an indication, but it does not oblige you. Since Hippocrates, the doctor has done for the best, in the state of his knowledge and in the state of science.

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&u=https%3...
A nuclear reactor must always stay "on". This leaves a very minute level of sound that can be picked up using special modern sensor equipment.

A diesel motor on the other hand can be shut off completely and on demand, and the submarine can run off their battery which is completely silent.
(This was originally a reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22777156)
Because it's a damn refined sterling piston-whispering engine. Also what the others said about batteries.
Not sure why this comment is being downvoted. It's just a factual statement, when you see a very conspicuous absence of information about the cause of death in a young person it's almost invariably overdose or suicide. I thought that was common knowledge.
You can self-host zoom: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201363093-Deployin...
My motivation in posting it was that I stumbled across it and found it funny.
“You’ve got mail!”
That's got to be the exception rather than rule.
Hahaha so true. The one I rebranded itself as "scaleup" around its 10th birthday when "startup" became untenable.
In 2002 after dot.bomb, prices held flat for a while.
A fair of vacancies in SoMa.

The 2008 recession sort of bypassed tech.
Universities are kind of a special case, I wouldn't generalize on them.
For some reason the original article did not link to the article on the same website explaining why.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/how-one-cheap-sub...

The US Navy war gamed against these type of subs and did not win overwhelmingly - they then turned around and rented them from Sweden to develop new strategies. Of course staying away from the coast is a strategy.
The postgres developers are not living in an ivory tower, they are solving real problems for real customers. There is so much enthusiasm that the original author felt there was not enough dissent.

Maybe you should learn and understand why people are happy with postgres in the first place, and then understand your complaints in that broader picture. Then you wouldn't resort to mockery and other unproductive comments.
There's reason to be skeptical of him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didier_Raoult#Ban_from_publish...

> In 2006, Raoult and four other co-authors were banned for one year from publishing in the journals of the American Society for Microbiology, after a reviewer for Infection and Immunity discovered that two images in a figure from the revised manuscript of a paper about mouse modelling for typhus were identical to figures from the originally submitted manuscript, even though they were supposed to represent a different experiment.
I'm doing the same. Works perfectly.
Notion would be a great tool for me, but the lack of a desktop client for Linux and a usable client for Android makes it useless.
The strategic oil reserve doesn’t protect us from being a net oil importer. It’s always going to be a tiny fraction of 1% of our existing supplies, and a small percentage of our annual consumption.

It literally does nothing but subsidize US oil producers and mildly reduce price spikes for limited periods.