skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I can't quite figure out ...

That's simple to figure out, and it is not specific to hospitals. Some purchasing manager says "hmmm ... I'm paying $100,000 per year for this product. But I can buy it overseas for only $20,000". Score!

At the end of the year, that purchasing manager writes a report to his manager saying something like "saved the hospital $10,000,000 by optimizing our supply chain". Or some such.

How much some random operation costs doesn't factor into his decisions at all. That's not what he's being compensated for.

The only way this mindset changes is if top management insists on it. But usually top management is constantly pushing to cut costs. Their bonuses depend on it.
What I'd like in an online party platform is a shared social area divided into conversations you can join. This is for both social bandwidth and network bandwidth. In real life conversations naturally form and fork off into new ones.

This needs to be more than just separate channels for it to work well. There should be some bleeding of audio between adjacent conversations, and maybe some limited video. I'm thinking perhaps "avatars" of people that get updated once a minute with their current video feed so you can look around the shared social area and get an idea of what is going on and have some sort of shared atmosphere. Maybe a shared background music track?
Here’s a real-world example: clangd, the language server, takes a file with the compiler flags it should use for completion. clangd works with C, C++, Objective-C, and Objective-C++; obviously, I would like to use different flags for each. Currently I get around this problem by running four “instances” of clangd, one for each language, each with its own configuration file. I wouldn’t need to do this if the configuration file was a script that could dynamically generate flags by looking at the source code and inferring what flags would be appropriate.
I think what they're saying is that it literally makes no difference, not negligible difference. At some point you have to do the branching that decides which part of the logic in the state machine runs next. Dynamic dispatch is essentially just a way to do this kind of branching.
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British 5G towers are being set on fire because of Covid conspiracy theories
Good luck keeping a cat confined inside a restricted space.
Not on Twitter, quit FB in 2017, and I saw this coming months ago. Coming at this from a reasoned perspective, it is fairly easy to evaluate the wheat from the chaff were it comes to public discourse.

The social media hive-mind seems more like an out of control mob flailing about aimlessly. It's polarizing sentiment analysis stoked semi-random clubbing. But who can blame people if their leadership proves time and again to be untrustworthy and have very other priorities than preserving the public health? And no, this is not only a digg at specific 'current administrations' wherever on this planet.

One of the things most disheartening to me was to see 'scientists' putting policy before truth.
This isn't that debate IMO, the media is just taking the phrase "basic income" and sticking it on top of unemployment insurance and Keynesian economic ideas around increasing consumption in times of an economic crisis.

I don't think countries care about basic income nor should they in a time like this. Right now it is about keeping people employed and with enough money to cover rent, food, etc.
It seems like you had the same motivation as me, connecting with the family. For quite some time it has bugged me how bad the UX on some things are, like photo sharing or video calling. Try to explain to your grandmother how to see shared photos on an iPad, and then try to do look at the same picture while on a call. Impossible!

I voiced this to a friend and he suggested to just create a simple webpage that has a controller and viewer, nothing fancy. Tied together with Shortcuts I was hoping to make a one-click button that initiated a FaceTime call and opened the webpage in fullscreen. The latter part seems harder, due to limitations in Shortcuts, but so far I've successfully been able to have her press the Home-button and then click the bookmark for this service to open the viewer. Perhaps a Jitsi Meet integration is just what I need.

Being able to view pictures this way has been truly amazing. My dad has digitized a lot of old pictures, and it's so engaging for her to explain what farm a given picture was taking on, and who is in the picture. Things like that. She really enjoys it. I don't understand how this isn't built into FaceTime or something similar. Seems like such an obvious thing.

Shameless plug, and be warned it's quite bandwidth intense, in true disruptive start-up fashion it lacks everything, like optimization and security: https://github.com/vegardx/abuela
> v uses the motif from Beethovens Vth

Brilliant observation, this one will be impossible to forget now!

edit: And I'm glad you found it useful! I've always wanted to learn Morse but never found the time/inspiration before that little learning app, which made the dive in so easy!
What you describe here is a deeply problematic fallacy and in fact what journalists already do. They are very, very far from your hypothetical "33% to Tom, 33% to Dick, 33% to Harry" scenario and it's one of the factors that undermines trust in journalism.

What actually happens is this:

1. Journalists have a story they want to write. They probably already decided what the message is going to be, but let's be generous and assume they didn't.

2. They consult a rolodex of, almost exclusively, government funded academics. This is true even if the story they're writing is about activity or science that takes place only in the private sector and for which the academics in question have no actual experience. They may consult two or three grant funded academics if they want their story to seem especially robust. If they give the private sector a chance to reply at all (often not) they will cite one or two sentences of a brief phone call in which the person being talked to doesn't know what they're trying to defend themselves against and is probably just confused. It's not a real interview with an actual in-house expert.

3. This story is then published as "Experts say, ..." even if what the chosen experts say flatly contradicts common sense or things that can be checked with 10 minutes and a search engine.

4. Readers comment below the line, pointing out the flaws in the story. If a specific company is involved, they may do a blog post explaining their side of the story which the journalists will either completely ignore, or if they think they can get away with it, selectively quote one or two sentences in a misleading way.

Industrial scientists/engineers are sometimes assumed to be inherently evil and untrustworthy. But the whole idea that journalists are untrusted because they very rarely quote people in industry is a saw of the left; it's not true, which is why the examples given always seem so curiously weird and out of date. Tobacco industry? when was the last time you even read a newspaper article about them? Oil corporations? Those firms that have spent the last 15 years rebranding themselves as energy companies because they now make solar panels too?

There's a lot of really good analysis of the trouble journalism has got itself in for, and a significant part of the blame is laid at the feet of journalists uncritically reporting anything academics say as the Whole Truth and Nothing But The Truth, when in fact they routinely contradict each other, make up statistics, report obvious common sense as "findings", are hugely over-confident in their own predictive abilities, mis-use statistics and so on.

A good book to read on the topic is "Wrong" by David Freedman:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8134625-wrong

He's a former journalist and so has direct experience of this problem. He cites many examples where expert testimony caused misleading or wrong stories to be published, but IIRC none of them involved corporate scientists. Mostly academics like nutritionists, psychologists and so on.
So this IKEA thing is a 16x16 LED box. (btw: Ikea is evil)

Related: LEDmePlay 32x32 LED box with some cool games:

http://www.mithotronic.de/ledmeplay.php

The actual 32x32 RGB panel (6mm pitch) is around $19 from AliExpress. There is even a handheld version with 4mm dot pitch.
Flagged, as the title is super misleading, this isn't about basic income, it is about rolling out unemployment insurance + economic relief to people. Nothing long term here, just another gov working to save the economy and people.
Strange that this is not mentioned at all in the Spanish press. Maybe the original story has been mistranslated or blown out of proportion.
"Always color code your spies." - Sun Tzu
Learning database systems now.
Andy Pavlo made two of his great classes public. Class materials and videos are online. Thomas Neumann's papers are also really good.

- https://15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2019/schedule.html
- https://15721.courses.cs.cmu.edu/spring2020/schedule.html
- https://umbra-db.com/
- https://hyper-db.de/
Yeah, sorry, last time the CSS got updated was 2010... what specifically makes it 'unreadable' for you?
Doing this part-time studying + working thing right now, finishing up my first year of Informatics/CS after changing my major.

For school, I'm learning networking. Finding it a bit dry, especially learning about packet structures and such. The book we're using, "Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach" by Kurose & Ross[1] is great and the authors' personalities really shine through!

For work I'm learning about databases and how to gain access to it from a web app. The world of databases (specifically PostgreSQL) and SQL is entirely new to me. Currently trying to figure out how to best connect my Flask app with my Postgres DB.

Currently learning Rust whenever I have the time/motivation. It's a great language with some really clever design choices, but it's a pain in the ass to learn, especially without experience with lower-level languages. The incredible amount of other cool languages, such as Clojure and Elixir, can make it hard to stay focused!

Also been meaning to get into vector graphics (Affinity Designer[2] is on sale right now) and philosophy, but you know...the usual excuses. Honestly, the incredible amount of CS-related topics I know nothing about, including some really basic ones, makes it hard to study anything else out of sheer guilt.

As for philosophy, if anyone are curious, a book that was recommended to me by a philosophy major buddy is "The Problems of Philosophy" by Bertrand Russell[3].

[1] https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/computer-networking-a-top-down...
[2] https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/designer/
[3] https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-problems-of-philosophy_ber...
Arbitrage is a transaction that involves no negative cash flow at any probabilistic or temporal state and a positive cash flow in at least one state; in simple terms, it is the possibility of a risk-free profit after transaction costs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitrage

There's no arbitrage for the factory taking a loan, it is just a business risk.
Interesting, why did you use a canvas for the chess board? I would probably have used svg/html and mouse events
I'm really enjoying the book!
Latest Csound object for Max is here:
https://github.com/csound/csound_tilde/releases
And I've not had an reports of problems with Cabbage in Live 10. It's what I use myself for testing..
That is an awful website for people in the EU. 4 different pop ups then 20 seconds after page load a final one saying you can't read the page outside the USA.
The fact that one article is split to N pages, for one thing. I gave up on page 2.
Sometimes “valid” doesn’t mean “illegal to have in a configuration file”, it just means that “in this specific case, the configuration should have a certain value”. For example, on my Mac I should prefix my commands with “g” if I want to access GNU tools, while on most Linux systems I don’t need to do this. Trying to run gsed on Ubuntu would be “invalid” in this case but a parser can’t help me here.
From the article

"But the government’s broader ambition is that basic income becomes an instrument “that stays forever, that becomes a structural instrument, a permanent instrument,” she said."
I really cannot get my head around it. What is "strong" in a signal? What physical variable is stronger? I assume "strong" or "more power" means that the signal attenuates less over time/distance, but what is causing this lesser attenuation?
Same here :)

Just started reading

At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others by Sarah Bakewell

It has a really nice narrative and tells the story of the aforementioned. Kierkegaard also makes some occurrences.
I respectfully disagree. I feel it is safe to say that Zoom have some serious issues in their development process. It seems every other day there is some new issue. Install fuckery on macOS, lying about E2EE, including code they did not properly understand, etc.

We talk so much about wanting to protect children that we should not be using software that gives audio and video access to their computers that we do not have confidence in.
With plain PostgreSQL you have to write your own backend logic to access the database. The whole point of Hasura is exposing your DB via a GraphQL API with some bells and whistles (like authorization).

About lock-in... it's open source software, so you're as locked in as you'd be with, say, Rails or Django. It doesn't do anything special to PostgreSQL so you can always rewrite the API later from scratch, or build something else on top of its GraphQL API.
>I even scared one vendor so badly just explaining that I was going to do this that we never heard from them again.

You can't drop that and walk away without naming them.
Yep. I had a better opinion on Bloomberg news before.
I think 'a lot' is maybe a bit an exaggeration; also, besides maybe Jane Street, it is usually only a small portion of the IT department. But I love to hear more as I am in finance (only encountering Java/.NET basically).
This looks interesting, especially since it supports encryption, which i consider mandatory.

I'm wondering what cloud provider² that works with rclone offers the most storage per dollar? Caveat: I only need 100GB.

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² ideally in Europe
just installed rclone yesterday to push a lot of files to OVH cloud object store.
Bonus points to OVH for providing the option to export rclone config from their UI.
I had always assumed that Expat was called that because James Clark lived in Thailand.
Rclone is mainly for keeping files in sync/transferring files between multiple storage providers, for example copying a file to GDrive/Dropbox when such file is added to S3 or locally. It supports multiple storage providers.

Borg is for backups. It doesn't support any storage provider.

One can use both of them jointly, creating borg backups and saving them on GDrive for example.
> “order by priority” reads so well in English

I had my suspicions that programming reads very different to native speakers, and I guess here's a case when it's better to have English as a second language: I heard a ding-a-ling in my head immediately upon seeing the absence of ‘desc’.
Whether or not you're doing science doesn't depend on which software tools you use, it depends on whether you're advancing the frontier of human knowledge. If you're producing publishable scientific research, you're doing science. If you aren't, you're probably not doing science.

I don't think the article is saying otherwise, it's just highlighting a similarity between what type systems do, and the sort of reasoning we associate with science.
You can use rclone sync with `--backup-dir` which is a flag stolen straight from rsync so you can keep old versions of your data.

You do something like this

rclone sync /path/to/source remote:destination/current --backup-dir remote:destination/$(date -I)

Which will give you a complete current backup and sparse historical backups.

So for historical backups you can have deduplication, but rclone doesn't support deduplication within the sync though, so if you have two identical files within a directory, rclone will upload them both.

I don't know Borg very well but you can use it to back up to an rclone mount. I did look into making a borg server for rclone so it could speak borg protocol directly over ssh. It wouldn't be too hard, but the protocol isn't documented so it would mean reverse engineering the python code.
> Writing Csound code feels more like patching a modular synthesizer rather than writing a computer program.

I agree with this point. I am using Csound for creating VST plugins (with Cabbage framework[1]) for which is Csound extremely productive. I can have working prototype (which I can actually play on my keyboard) ready in something like 15 minutes.

Once you get over somewhat strange syntax[2] and understand difference between k-time and i-time[3] you can do any DSP processing without actually diving into hard math.

Cabbage has nice beginner documentation on Csound[4].

[1]: https://cabbageaudio.com/

[2]: output operand, paramA, paramB

[3]: k-time - on every step of audio processing, i-time - on initialization of instrument/note

[4]: https://cabbageaudio.com/docs/file_structure_and_syntax/
most likely backblaze B2.

Edit:
OVH ?
A bit of background here since I keep seeing the craziness that is going on in the US. While jobs in Spain are not great, the social safety net is quite good in general. With the coronavirus, most jobs were frozen into place with a government unemployment plan (ERTE).

This administrative tool existed before where the company could put your job on pause for a specified amount of time. This way you get full unemployment benefits from the government, and after said period finishes you keep your job as it was before. In practice it is commonly used to try different jobs meanwhile or to take some time off after working for a while in a company.

So in the current covid-19 situation, the government has mandated that most (all?) of the people who cannot work during this time to be on this program. They have also frozen mortgages and rent payments. This is amazing for the society at large, since it means most people will be able to not go bankrupt during this time. The two big worries right now are what will happen to the companies (and those frozen jobs) and where will the govt get the money if the situation gets too long.

So a basic income program would not be such a large change here as it would be e.g. in the US. It's still massive of course, because it'd apply to students and everyone who didn't have a job before, but I think it's important to clarify the background.

EDIT: I haven't read anything about a basic income in the Spanish news yet so I cannot say about the accuracy of these news.
>> including code they did not properly understand, etc.
Yeah we understand all of our code, right? I'm developing an Electron app. I let you guess how much I know about the code behind electron/chronium.

>> We talk so much about wanting to protect children that we should not be using software that gives audio and video access to their computers that we do not have confidence in.

Let's start banning facebook. Shall we?
What space do you take ?
Toki pona is surprisingly expressive for a language that contains so few words.

Thanks for the translation!
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I found a bookmark a while ago that attempts to make sites like this readable. Not good at all, but almost works.

"javascript:(function() { document.querySelectorAll('*').forEach(function(n) { var p = getComputedStyle(n).getPropertyValue('position'); if (p === 'fixed' || p === 'sticky') { n.style.cssText += ' ; position: absolute !important;'; } }); })();"
The age probably gives a misleading impression anyway, giving the idea that dynamic, change-the-world things are not done by 50 year olds.

But a widely cited statistic (don't know if it's true of course) is that the average age of a founder of a successful startup is 45.

https://hbr.org/2018/07/research-the-average-age-of-a-succes...
Some people find artistic expression to be as important or more important than "useful problems" like space travel.
That also has to do with the state of software in Japan. For a very long time, being a software developer was seen as much less prestigious than being an electronic engineeer and a bit more akin to a secretary that codes up the requirements...

So the best and the brightest did not tend to go into software and the typical state of software engineering in a lot of big japanese companies was extremely bad... It's getting better but it's still not great.

Nintendo also has a tendency to outsource a lot of their software development (IIRC the SDK for the wii and the DS was outsourced to intelligent systems who themselves then outsourced part of it)

This is of course a generalization as things goes and there are great things coming out of Japan (hello Ruby!) but having lived there, there was a marked difference between the software engineering culture in Japan and the one I saw in the US and Europe, with Japan being easily a decade or more behind.
Currently building something with Svelte.

It's not as breezy as I was hoping...
You can use Zoom online without installing anything.
As GameGear owner, the set of batteries could hardly hold a couple of hours playing Sonic, meaning I used to play a portable device usually plugged in, while the GameBoy would last days.
What are you even referring to? Did you ever hear a claim that AI were supposed to protect us from biological viruses for some reason in the next couple of decades?
You've got to remember that the average IQ is 100. There are a lot of people in the UK below this, just look at Brexit and who we elected, sigh....
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A pretty good model is the one I've found in this random Google Sheet:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PqMVPU0VYcDWrUnDh1Cs...

Basically, it uses the fact that mean time from contagion to death is 17,3 days. For France, it gives reasonably accurate predictions. Best than almost any other model I've seen, in fact.