skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That it was in the realm of possibility doesn't make it not a 'black swan'. Black swans by definition are possible.

COVID-19 is unequivocally a Black Swan.

Hopefully, we get a CDC 'mini Army' like Korea/Taiwan have so this doesn't happen again.
No other controller has come close to the GC triggers. Big swoopy buttons that cradle your finger and have both an analog measurement and a click at the end.
I started one at http://wyounas.com. I plan on posting about books I read, teams, engineering management, and startups.

Another one I maintain is http://pythontraininghq.com. It is all things Python. I am hoping share my lessons learned at various startups that used Python:)
All of Verizon's former yahoo/aol properties (techcrunch, engadget, tumblr) have become utterly unusable with no optout (or so deeply buried I haven't found it), I don't even bother following these links anymore.
https://e-dorigatti.github.io/

I started writing this when I started my PhD last summer. I write about my research on immunoinformatics, and topics in statistics, computer science that I find interesting.

My two latest posts are titled "Automatic differentiation from scratch" and "Limits of single-hidden-layer neural networks". RSS: https://e-dorigatti.github.io/feed.xml

Btw, can anybody suggest a good alternative to google analytics?
Privacy policy: https://man.sr.ht/privacy.md

Imprints on websites are only required in a few countries. Frankly, I find it absurd that on the one hand, my contact details as a domain owner are being removed from WHOIS citing data protection, but on the other hand I am required by law to put the same information on the website I'm running on the domain.
A very good market i can think of is Indian weddings ...
There are lots of parts of the economy that are still working. Why break them? Why not help only those who actually need it?
https://a3nm.net/blog

Ridiculously infrequent (but there's RSS of course, so who cares). Random postings about stuff that interests me (software, theoretical computer science and research, language).

The blog is purely static with no Javascript or cookies or ads or analytics of any kind.

Why you should read it: I don't know, I'm not really looking for an audience :) but I do think I qualify as an actual human being
I can recommend the Eclipse MAT tool if you want to do this kind of thing locally. A little awkward when you need to do advanced searches through the heap, but generally pretty good.
YOU SHOULD READ MY BLOG TO EXPRESS YOUR HATRED TOWARDS MEDIUM!! JK

I'm working as a data scientist at a Fintech company in south Asia. I primarily write about Python, its quirks and how you can use those in your own favor. Like how you can use `contextmanager` decorator to decouple your logging and exception handler logics from your core logic, turning functions into generics with `singledispatch` etc.

https://rednafi.github.io/digressions/
I cant start the game, getting some errors and connections to doubleclick.
index.html:177 Uncaught DOMException: Failed to read the 'localStorage' property from 'Window': Access is denied for this document.
at loadGame (https://v6p9d9t4.ssl.hwcdn.net/html/2099093/index.html:177:3...)
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loadGame @ index.html:177
textures.onload @ index.html:217
load (async)
loadAssets @ index.html:216
(anonymous) @ index.html:225
www-embed-player.js:438 GET https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/id net::ERR_BLOCKED_BY_CLIENT
Xe @ www-embed-player.js:438
We @ www-embed-player.js:424
(anonymous) @ www-embed-player.js:726
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I usually have so many email discussions going on there's no way I can keep the context in my head. I come to each email without a context, so I need to come up to speed.

And each email can have several points running in parallel, so I get a collection of comments, none of which mean anything without their context, so I need to go hunting.

Top-posting kills my productivity.

With in-line replies, especially with colour coding (as most email clients now do) you can skim down to find the reply first, if that's what you refer. It seems to me that in-line replies would serve you just as well as they serve me.

But you're certainly right that without more structure, email in it's current form can't make both of us happy, and for me, it's simply vile.
Abolish Silicon Valley – Wendy Liu
Organize projects with all the tools an individual needs
I think NASA (or space industries in general) has the same problems as Navy (or military industries in general), they don't want to change anything that works. Reliability is one of their paramount KPIs, and what has survived for more than a decade is considered tested for a decade and will have precedence for managers in this space.
My ISP is currently investigating ...

Edit: Now fixed ... by coincidence there was a DDOS on the machine hosting my site. Should now be OK.
Certainly - because you're an independent and autonomous individual, and that's why your personal and unique choice of "Coca Cola", which was not at all engineered by corporate marketing.

Assuming you're in the US - at least try one of these regional drinks (simple search here - I'm no expert):

https://www.tasteofhome.com/collection/best-regional-sodas/
The disease will never die out on its own. The question raised is hat are we waiting for and how long are we willing to wait for it.

If the answer is that we are waiting for nothing, perhaps we shouldn't.

If the answer is that we are waiting in lock-down 1-2 years for a vaccine and vaccinations, maybe we shouldn't.
Exactly, this is true in many places in Spain and latin-america as well.

You wouldn't be able to have a software design session in English, but they would understand specific English words and even use them when speaking Spanish generally.
The landlords don't need to care about the retail apocalypse. They can just rent out to whatever retail competitor decided to actually take advantage of the real solution.
I don't know, container is an abstract idea, and that's all. Can you run apps within a contained OS environment?

LXC is one way to do so, runc is another way to do so, docker is a third way to do so, all for Linux. Now if you took some other OS, there'd be different solutions, each with slightly different details and thus properties, but same idea.

I mean, do you ask people what SQL is? And get frustrated if they don't start talking about MySQL specific details like InnoDB and what not?

Don't know, I feel I can't agree with you, do devs feel there's less magic involved in VMs? Honestly, I have less idea what VMs are built on top of than I do for containers.
I use nextdns.io and can't visit any of these sites due to them all redirecting via guce.advertising.com with a URI like: https://guce.advertising.com/collectIdentifiers?sessionId=3_...

Feels like cross-site intrusive tracking... probably is.

I could whitelist in nextdns.io but it's such a dark pattern that I use the block page as a nice warning that I really don't want to go to any of these sites.
> Unions have suffered from a bad reputation in the United States over the past few decades.

When I see "unions" such as "game worker unite" which is more of a communist political party than a union, or what Kickstarter union wants (have more say on what campaigns can be featured on Kickstarter or not, which is not what a union should be about), I understand why American unions have such a bad rep. These 2 examples aren't what unions should be about. What does a say in moderation policies on a platform has to do with worker conditions? Nothing.
I am a statistician / data scientist who blogs about nifty sampling methods, which are frequently used in rendering computer graphics such as: ray-tracing (via Quasi-Monte Carlo methods), object placement, dithering, etc...

http://www.extremelearning.com.au

All these methods try to find the most efficient sampling techniques that minimize various undesirable effects such as aliasing.

Techniques and topics include: blue noise distributions; low discrepancy quasirandom sequences; orthogonal grid-based sampling; and even-sampling on the surface of n-spheres.

My most favourite articles (two of which have previously been featured on HN) include:

* "The unreasonable effectiveness of quasirandom sequences" http://extremelearning.com.au/unreasonable-effectiveness-of-...

* "A new method to construct isotropic blue noise with uniform projections" http://extremelearning.com.au/isotropic-blue-noise-point-set...

* "Evenly distributing points on a sphere" http://extremelearning.com.au/evenly-distributing-points-on-...

I hope that someone finds some of these useful and interesting.
;)
>> 1. Is the sort of thing ever outsourced to, for example, India? Or wherever else is a common place for call centres if it’s no longer there

I don't know if there are call centers full of phone sex workers. You'd have the same background noise you get when calling any call center. And the workers would have to get paid when nothing was happening.

Here's a read on the topic:

https://www.businessinsider.com/reality-of-being-a-phone-sex...

>> 2. Is anyone currently doing this with chat bots and speech synthesisers?

Me: Hey Google, talk dirty to me.

Google: Manure. Dust. Crusty crumbs on the floor. <Poop emoji>

I can only report that Google does not talk dirty to me at this time.
Here is an async/await/coroutine (lib)uring binding written in C++, plus performance suggestions, benchmarks and demo usage. Be sure to check it
https://github.com/CarterLi/liburing4cpp
> say you did have a 3D chip printer, but you didn’t know how it worked and you couldn’t look inside, would that be open source?

How could that possibly be Open Source? :)

If it breaks, or you want to modify it, then it's a no go.

The stuff you'd be able to create from such a thing could be, but the 3D chip printer itself... nope.
Just use a Firefox container.
https://blog.gingerlime.com (RSS available)

Latest posts:

* ranting about bunq bank price hike / tracking

* who wants to be hired tips

* Apple privacy and advertising ID (posting it on HN got me downvoted a couple of times but I don’t know why)

* the cup of coffee pricing fallacy (which was reasonably popular on HN)
http://forwardscattering.org/ - You should read it if you are interested in software development, especially with C++, functional languages, high performance software, computer science, or physics.
https://ruairidh.dev

It's a mix of my projects (things like computer vision for face detection, and recognising knives in images), to beginner articles on JS.

I'm a former lawyer turned software engineer, and am documenting what I have learned.
When I saw the can design I immediately thought that it looks like the art style of "David Boring" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Boring), turns out it was really Daniel Clowes who designed it. "Ghost world" is one of my favorite stories & movies as well, but I didn't hear about O.K. soda before. Fascinating!

While I really like the art style and dark touch I think it was probably too niche or too off-putting for most people.
What about "addiction" to foreign students' talent? STEM research in the US benefits hugely from its ability to siphon off the top students from all over the world. In China, for example, the best students from top-tier universities tend to go abroad for their graduate studies. American labs get a steady supply of the top international grad students. Many of them remain in the US afterwards, which boosts related industries in the US.
It’s a quick rundown of the community-supported afterlife of Pebble, Chumby, Nabaztag and the Little Printer.

Content blockers putting in the work on this clickbaiting headline.
The same can be said about phones. Apple loves to sell big screens so they can sell more content and apps, but I just want a compact phone.
In my experience honda parts do match 1:1 and I don't think they'd waste the effort on maintaining a stock of pre-painted parts if the receiving body shop was going to have to paint it anyway.
Not just foreign. In the US even many university prefed out of state students, but will never admit to it.
Unicorns are just symptomatic of the decadence of late capitalism. Companies that can only exist because of an overabundance of greater fools who create a short-term "success" from purely trading the inflated capital of a popular but failing startup - totally divorced from its actual business. The enormous prevalence of fraud and reward for failure, of front-runners, bent sell-side analysts, the wretched hive of scum and villany that is Wall St.

A better world is possible.
I think so too. Also, the "free" online pdf converters seem like great way to harvest tons of data.
Just being curious about the cost, why running environment or VMs, the platform matters? Region matters for data transfer costs that I can understand.

I can relate more with the number of spans based pricing because eventually spans are saved to DB apart from the cost of running Jaeger infra.
Can you please provide more details into how the running environment, the VMs, the platform, the other components affect the cost? Will be helpful
https://parallelthoughts.xyz Only a couple posts so far, one that made HN and Reddit front page. I mostly write about data engineering, and have some systems posts in the pipeline - experiments with Rust, Performance Analysis, debugging stories etc.
To form a balanced opinion, wouldn’t you want to read CC critical literature too?
I think the point the OPs was making is that yes, as you say, developers can use containers without knowing these differences, but that there are actually real and important differences and maybe it would be better if more devs were aware of them.
Vaultproject.io as an Acme CA
One example: I can't seem to get dig to work with URI records (but I might be missing some flag). Doing `dig URI _kerberos.hasvickygoneonholiday.com` returns "no servers could be reached" while doing `kdig URI _kerberos.hasvickygoneonholiday.com` returns the proper records.

So seems to be a proper DNS record, but I can't make it work with dig.
You can already use Csound in VCV Rack. Check out this project:
https://github.com/rorywalsh/CabbageRack
Show HN: Proverbidioms: Fun Hidden Object Game based on famous painting
> , just like mp3's were around for decades before the iPod

That sounded wrong intuitively, so I decided to look it up: Wikipedia claims that mp3 was initially released in 1993, and the iPod was initially released in 2001, so not decades and not even a full decade.
The first sentence above is, for a physicist, the key result. It says that, for the most common way one could modify gravity to incorporate a new force-mediator, the new interaction has to turn on at distances shorter than 39 microns.

At distances longer than that, these measurements show that gravity acts, and in a way that roughly follows the inverse-square law. (at distances of ~100 microns it very-much follows the ISL, and at distances longer than that, it really follows the ISL).

The easy way to think about this result: we are on the cusp of showing that gravity acts over distances shorter than the width of a human hair. Only the finest human hairs are smaller in diameter.

For many years, my goal in life (see HN handle) was to push this limit below 10-microns. Turns out that is really hard to do :).
American schools are banning Zoom and switching to Microsoft Teams
> the word “astonished” comes across a little weird

... this is what gives me an opportunity to describe the principle :-)

and for those who know it - they already know what I mean.
Could have been neat if the email client would detect if it was top or bottom posting, and have an option to scroll to the new bits automatically...
Correction, sorry, seems we have (in France) over a 100 adult hospitalized patients infected, that are post renal transplant (less than 5 years post transplant it seems). Not heard of liver transplant cases, or even child transplant cases (even more fragile).
https://www.arkleseizure.net/, it isn't awesome and you shouldn't read it.
In Dublin, where the housing crisis is supported by an overabundance of "student accommodation" and airbnb rentals, the housing crisis disappeared overnight because of this virus. A friend of mine said she found a small apartment for two in Dublin 5 for 800 euro a month. Unbelievable.
>Get a greenscreen and OBS if you want to go a bit further. Overlay yourself on the presentation if you want.

Is this just an idea or have you done it? How hard was it?

I see there are greenscreen tutorials for OBS and this seems pretty exciting.
https://www.gabrielgamil.com
There is no real reason to read it. At least yet. Only few posts.
Mine is: https://folcon.github.io.

Where are all the github.io blogs, or am I in a minority for deciding to go with a simple github.io?

Granted my blog's pretty small and I may change my mind as it slowly grows bigger.

It's mainly for documenting dev experiences/projects, so if that's your jam, go ahead!
Watch the Cash Flow
How to work with someone else’s data
I think coke tastes good
I have mixed feelings about Weinstein, but I am not a physicist. He said on Joe Rogan podcast that he was a not professional physicist, and he sounded quite modest about the correcness of his theories, said that he was looking for constructive feedback. To me, that's a sign of a self-aware person.

On the other hand, he kind of uses his Portal community and podcast - where there are interesting important discussions on many social issues - to promote his theory. This theory sounds smart for non-physicists, they cannot see flaws in it, and he preaches passionately about it - thus he can ignite enthusiasm in his community about the theory and grow the cult of the unrecognised genius, misunderstood and rejected by official science community.

Dr.Weinstein, please, write a book, a paper, elaborate on some response before pushing your theory on masses. This can discredit your other important activities.
If I have 8 services sending a combined total of 100GB of traces per day and 1 extra service that alone sends 100GB of traces per day, how is your pricing justified either to LightStep or as a customer?
Please take what I'm about to say as a (hopefully) interesting discussion, and not an attack. We've never met in real life, so neither of us knows what's in the other's head!

I feel like, based on reading your article, you believe that anyone who likes top-posting is just lazy or confused about what's best -- for example "It seems to me that in-line replies would serve you just as well as they serve me."

So, you seem convinced that what I want makes your life miserable (not denying that!), but what you want would make me, and all the other top posters in the world (which, as you say, is most email writers and also email program creators) basically as happy as we are now.

This isn't true. I like top-posting on most threads. I don't like in-line. In-line tends to encourage (in my experience) massive posts, where people end up having several related conversations in parallel, and also huge point-by-point rebuttals.

I'm NOT saying you have to "join us", and I'd certainly be happy with a new answer which makes us all happy! But don't assume we just need to be "educated" against top-posting.
https://allenleein.github.io/

I write mostly about venture capital and business strategy.

Latest posts:

- Andreessen vs. Thiel (HN front page)

- Lean Is for Mediocre Minds

- The Upside of Creation

- iPhone as a Service
Unless i know you, you can add another to your sample. I’m exactly like your friend. I grew up in Yugoslavia and likewise, i find it hard to identify as (north) Macedonian. It was, at least for some of us a really great society to grow up in. I miss it many aspects of that life.
Top posting is a pain in the butt if you're using mailing lists or newsgroups where you have a large number of mails/posts to follow up, and where the replies are typically arguments that tackle the parent section by section.
You can buy the consumables for a paint job for a few dozen bucks, and then charge for a day or two of labor. You make 800 eur. Selling labor is how your body shop makes money.

Or you can buy a new bumper for 600 eur, charge a thin margin on it, and then add maybe one hour of labor. Most of what you charge goes to Honda, you make maybe 150 eur, and then hope the next job comes soon so that your tools and people don't sit idle for too long.
It’s still too presumptive to assume that there’s going to be a vaccine, or that the virus won’t mutate too quickly.
Normally contribute here under a different username, but this is my blog: https://codeformore.com

It's got what _I_ believe to be a bunch of good articles about developer job searching.
Show HN: Dashboard with Customizable Covid-19 plots (log-scale, normalized)
Pharmacelera’s Quantum Drug Discovery Remedy
Eh, "pulla" is not the correct Swedish translation for "pull". It would be "dra" or "rycka". There is a GitHub repository where bunch of Swedish developers have tried to translate the entire git vocabulary into Swedish, you can see it here: https://github.com/bjorne/git-pa-svenska

Table shows that "pull" is usually referred to as "pulla" but the suggestion is to change it to "rycka". If you do know Swedish, there is a discussion about the naming of "pull" here: https://github.com/bjorne/git-pa-svenska/issues/30
Arbitration is extremely disruptive. If someone takes you to arbitration, you pay $1k non-refundable, simply because they want to take you to court.

If you do end up in court, it's another $20k just for JAMS fees. Again, non-refundable, doesn't matter if you win or lose.

So if someone is trying to take you to arbitration over less than $20k, it really doesn't matter AT ALL if they are right or not, it makes sense to settle for whatever amount you can convince them to agree to.

You can kill a company with frivolous arbitrations, just by having enough people willing to file one. Doesn't matter if those people have been wronged.
I write about infrastructure and AI (subscribe to get emails once a few months https://sdan.io/subscribe).

In particular I write posts about setting up your own servers (one about hosting your website from your Raspberry Pi at home and WireGuard is coming up) and about handling massive loads as well as interesting AI topics such as how Transformers work or new and exciting AI papers.

You can check it out here: https://sdan.io/blog and subscribe for infrequent emails here: https://sdan.io/subscribe.
_blink_ Err. No. I'm not advocating for a bank bail out. The joke about avocado toast pointed in that direction, but was a bit opaque.

I think there's basically a pyramid. at the tippy top, there are fabulously profitable large organizations. Those are built on smaller organizations, recursively down to people.

I've got no problems giving a 20 year old who thought a magna shop was their way to riches a bailout. they're young and dumb, will learn and do better next time. The bigger you are, the more responsible you need to be. Banks should be elite. they evaluated the alternatives and made the best bet they could.

Essentially at the lowest level, be super tolerant. the higher up an organization gets, the more responsibility they take on. if that's too scary, don't grow. if you need the net, keep the net. if you don't, well, best of luck.

I know it doesn't work this way. I think it should, but I can't wave a magic wand and make the world work like I want it to.

I think if everybody has enough money to buy food and possibly pay rent, all the other layers "above" will sort themselves out by clever people. The bottom drives the market. The top is like a whale eating krill. Everybody wants to be the whale. but if there's no krill, there's not much of anything.