skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will add that I think the argument being made is: it is received wisdom that if you don't ease the seam, you can't match up a pattern, and they are refuting that. If I understand this correctly I think this article is right, there are geometric ways around that ... but I think the original wisdom applies to a context of fashion surrounding the sleeve cap. The way that the sleeve is attached is itself subject to fashion, such that easing is partly to achieve an effect, and not just to match things up.
So, it depends on what you’re talking about; language or organizational need.

Go is an imperfect match for Java The language, largely because of the whole Generics thing. But if you’re talking about how teams use Java and Go, they’re a good match now.

Go was designed for large companies like Google to have a huge number of engineers and produce consistent, quality code, all while constantly on boarding people and moving them around. From an organizational perspective there are a ton of Java shops that use Java for similar reasons, plus the ability to cheaply and quickly acquire contractors who know Java.
The geoid deviates from the ellipsoid by an amount on the order of tens of metres - from -106m in southern India, to +85m in Iceland. This has effects on satellite orbits as well as on ocean surface, although that is affected further by ocean circulation (meaning it is not locally flat) and subsequently by tides.
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I've read that ACE and ARB inhibitors promote the generation of nitric oxide.
While I don't think anyone would argue that we are testing anything approaching "enough" people in the US, I would certainly not say we're testing "almost nobody". Looking at Politico's testing tracker ( https://www.politico.com/interactives/2020/coronavirus-testi... ), most states outside of the hotspots in the Northeastern US have administered about 10x as many tests as they have positive cases.

New York and the surrounding areas are obviously a different matter, but at this stage I suspect that even if they did have enough physical tests and capacity to process them they would not have anywhere near enough medical staff to physically administer them. There's also the tradeoff that asking hundreds of thousands of people to leave their dwellings to seek testing would do more harm than good in areas where that necessarily involves walking, public transportation, etc.
The logo turtle uses relative position and orientation for graphics. To do this with easylang you need a bit of trigometry.

https://easylang.online/ide/?code=%23%20turtle%20graphics%0A...
The dig at JS developers is completely uncalled-for.

I'm a JS developer and I admire the way Clojure has seemed to skip both the hype and disillusionment phases and jump straight to the productivity plateau.
WHO says looking into reports of some Covid patients testing positive again
It's not the variance, it's the worst-case analysis that is helpful. You take decisions that lower the worst-case outcome.

Sure, there is lots that can be said about COVID-19. Epidemiology is a fairly well-studied field, and we have experience with aerosol-transmitted respiratory viruses. We have a pretty good feel for the transmissibility, getting better all the time. Pretty good feel for the disease course, and getting more specific about the different phases of treatment all the time. Pretty good feel for the R0 in many conditions, and the serial interval, and so on.

"Is there anything that can be said with certainty" is a dangerous position to be pushing on the public. It is the very thing that autocrats and dictators try to induce in populations through propaganda and disinformation, so that reason and self-help are surrendered. When there is no way to know truth, truth is what the Leader says it is. And we don't want to go there.
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Thank you for mentioning, finding and linking to this!
Python has typing as of 3.5, although it’s limited to third party tools. Still useful.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html

Also why is OOP considered an anti-pattern?
I’ve been meaning to write a blog post about it soon.
Scala has the reputation of being fun to create stuff with, but horrendous when understanding other people’s creations. Is this still true?
Fish has it as well.
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I very recently (about a year ago) joined a shop that is primarily into functional programming (FP) and I got my first exposure to Scala as well as F# through work projects. As a long time user of Java/OOP here are my thoughts on Scala and why it has so many things things going against it. Consider the following:

1) First, Scala is designed and developed by "ivory" tower academics primarily for research/PhD thesis purposes. Nothing wrong with that. But that also means language features are added not to solve a practical problem but mostly to show that "it can be done"/"prove a point". When you are awake at 3 AM early in the morning because a release made in the evening went awry and you are trying to grep though logs/code to see what caused the issue I can assure you that debates about "pure" versus "impure", Monads, Kleisli arrow will be further from your mind. So the problem that Scala seems to suffer from is that of "image".

2) Second, Scala is neither a fully functional (FP) nor object oriented (OOP). Support for mixed/multi-paradigm sounds nice on paper but let me ask this question: do you know of any hard core FP programmer who is excited about inheritance or abstract classes or other OOP features? Vice-versa the same thing can be said about many OOP programmers lukewarm response towards many functional features of Scala. I believe that support for mixed/multiple paradigms has hindered large scale adoption of Scala. The language seems to be caught at cross-roads not knowing which way to advance next.

3) Third is lack of niche. True, I absolutely love "Spark" and primarily use it to extract/manipulate data from HDFS/Hive storage but I am gradually gravitating towards "Python" libraries due to their ease of use. What about better Java? Kotlin check. What about sidecar systems used by DevOps? Go check. What about a better designed system language? Rust check. The days of pure general purpose programming languages are truly over and Scala will be in great peril if it fails to expand into newer niches. Without broadening its programmer base it will finally run out of people that can design newer language features in light of ever advancing progresses in processor, OS and memory architectures.

Just my two cents.
Yes! Now I definitely have to check the next one I see or find! It really could be this monster! Will try to get footage of them overpowering then releasing bees.

Only problem is how to share my findings in a month or two when they are active!?
Performance. Internal representation.
You are not actually modifying things in place. Those are the equivalent of linked lists not arrays. That quicksort is not quick at all because the append operation in Haskell is linear. You can't use those lists to implement quicksort.
https://macwright.org/

‘published since 2011.’ Topics change gradually. Mostly things I do, read, and like.
>It also doesn't hurt that the average criminal skews dumber than the average law-abiding citizen to begin with.

Is this true? I'd be interested to see the research for this. I would believe that the average convict is dumber than the average law-abiding citizen, but how many criminals are lumped in with the law-abiding citizens simply because they don't say "oh yeah, I break the law all the time"?
When interviewed for engineering position at Google 6-7 years ago I asked:

"How is the weather at OfficeWhereIAppliedTo?"

It was a really honest question because sunny weather is something that I really care for as I am from mediterian.

The reaction was really positive - everyone was laughing and interview ended in a very positive and relaxed tone.

At the end I didn't get the offer - but that's because I was too slow at solving algorithmic problems.
Sure but a lot of that scope is regularly added on to kubernetes clusters (metrics, logging, etc) so unless you keep your cluster super lean you will end up with a large attach surface anyway.
The markings feel familiar. Of course I am not being objective and need to actually get one in front of me to check when they are in season.
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Either way it's good to ask then. If they think you're mental then you really don't want to work for them.
When scheduling an interview, you can state that you also have some questions you want to ask, and politely ask for time to be included in the schedule.

If they refuse, that also tells you something about the company.

At least in the interviews I've participated in (both as applicant and as host) it's always been a mutual affair, both parties trying to figure out if there is good fit.
Why don't we pay infected people to stay in quarantine?
I think there's a time and place for that. Early in my career, I'd like that.
Maybe it’s just me, but “optional” is a word I hate seeing in language design, because I’m thinking of how many code reviewers I’ve met that have a hard time with “optional”.
It is a typical display of inferiority.
Because the keys, from my understanding, change every day. So if someone is infected, you can only track them for the relevant days because those are the keys they would give you.

You could simply set it up to delete your own keys after 14 days, for example.
Made it to hacker news!! Congrats all!!

I wonder if you would consider open sourcing the map creation component? I’d love to contribute

I tried this for a passover and unfortunately the servers were really laggy at that time so we stuck with zoom/Jitsi and gave up the fadeout

For primoserver, it’s similar but definitely needs a larger map, appeared to have lag issues on calls.
I'm way beyond ':D'...
I treat Npm packages like a JavaScript and PHP. There was a need and it was done. In the short run it is good enough. But in the long run it may become complicated. For example what about essencial packages that wont be maintained anymore? What about depending on millions of lines of code from unknown sources? What about single dependency that is npm? It is a risk too.
It was a public chat. Anyone could participate/watch/monitor.

The blame lies not with Zoom. The blame lies with Hamas - the group which arrested the people.
Nobody likes the WebPKI. But if you posted the private key for any trusted CA on Pastebin, it would be a very big deal. People around the world would get paged, and many of them would actually have to come in to work.

Contrast that with DNSSEC. The root key for the entire Internet, the one they have the secret Stonecutters ceremony to establish, could end up on Pastebin tomorrow and nothing would happen. Nothing would happen the next day either. Weeks could elapse and nothing would happen.

What's more, the comparison holds if you go back a year, 2 years, 10 years. The WebPKI is old (though evolving, unlike DNSSEC, for which things like transparency logs remain defensively evoked hypotheticals), but it has been important throughout it's life.

Hell, the application of DNSSEC we're talking about here is subsidiary to the WebPKI --- it's simply making sure that mail servers speak WebPKI-secured TLS to each other!
I've personally found that leaving no time for the candidate's questions is a warning sign.

If a company isn't thinking carefully about how they interview you, are they going to think carefully about the work they want you to do?
For those who are interested in The Day the Universe Changed, you can find copies of the episodes at the internet archive or on Dailymotion. It really is well worth watching.
That makes a whole lot of sense, I didn’t think about the “noisiness”/imperfection of the labels. That’s a great point. Thanks!
James Burke, and Richard Rhodes as well, are the reason I began to see history as something important and useful, a way of understanding both "how science happens" as well as "why our society is the way it is".

This knowledge, in the way it is presented, leaves the viewer or reader with a sense of agency, that what they do can either intentionally or not cause outcomes with great consequence.

It leaves one feeling one can do important things.
> Why do we teach linguistics with messy real-world languages instead of conlangs that most clearly distill the principles we want to teach?

Because we're not teaching language science in that case, we're teaching proficiency in an actual language.

An industry language is fine for a software engineering degree, or a technician degree of some sort.
Most definitely agree - once you get over it, it's not confusing it all. But statements such as "x = x + 1" ARE confusing to newcomers, from my experience.

Essentially all Basic interpreters in the 80s accepted "let" to start assignment, but did not require it. Some (e.g. ZX Spectrum Basic) did require it.
It has impact for antiserum blood plasma transfusion, where you take blood from a recovered Covid19 patient and give to one with a severe case. If 8% does not have anti bodies you may need to get blood plasma from several donors to hedge the statistical odds of 8% do not develop anti bodies. Say you get blood plasma from three donators is that 0.08 times 0.08 times 0.08? At least it would be safer with two middle aged donors.
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I still have no idea what a "sleeve cap ease" is, but reading that post is fascinatingly esoteric.
Can you point me to some of those twitters? Sounds entertaining.
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That's like saying there's no strong argument for what is so bad about milk chocolate. Either you like it or you don't.
So most people who know almost nothing about programming hate Racket. Can't say I find that compelling.
Yep I use http://uptimerobot.com for it. It's mostly just keyword alerts where it expects a certain keyword is in the reply. If there isn't, it's probably down and it alerts me. The alerts I get via Telegram.
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The distance between the speaker and ear drum.
A complete guide to setting up a Plex media server with automated downloads
This game requires collaboration and leverages the "doer" and "thinker" model. The negative is that the players will all need to buy a low-cost license.
https://apps.apple.com/app/keep-talking-nobody-explodes/id14...
How to downplay the severity of the problem:

Ignore the ridiculously small functionality scope that acceptably qualifies for a js package in a way that does not exist in any other ecosystem and ads a big multiplier in front of all the other risks involved.
> Nine of the 10 of the patients who did not develop detectable levels of coronavirus antibodies were 40 years old or younger.

So, a small number of the people who are most likely to have asymptomatic, mild or sub-clinical bouts of CV19 don't immediately develop immunity or measurable resistance on their first exposure. This finding (if confirmed) won't have a significant impact on hospital surges or fatalities.

The other thing to remember is that the same effect is seen in vaccines and other viruses. Nothing is ever 100% because humans are different. Also, serological tests for antibodies aren't perfect either. My understanding is the very best reach 95% accuracy.
So what's Shopify's goal in supporting TruffleRuby ? isn't Ruby 3x3 promise good enough? Is Shopify looking to optimise memory footprint or speed or both?
Ask HN: Predictions for future post Covid-19?
Pandemics, chaos and economic down turn are not always a bad thing! I, for one, am very excited about the prospect of the future and birth of completely new opportunities! These sort of events have a tendency of clearing out industries of old, rusty and obsolete players, making room for people brave and observant enough to try new innovative ideas!

This is a global pandemic and no one has any clue what's "actually" going to happen to our macro/micro economy, jobs, real estate, businesses, society, local politics, geo political relations, potential wars and etc...! All we can do is guess ... and from guessing we can develop predictions and hopefully move to innovate!

Please share your positive and negative thoughts on the near future. i.e. 2-5 years!

The governments, specially USA, have moved to release a huge stimulus packages worth trillions ($2-8+T). However, I personally think it's premature and misses the entire core of the epidemic and USA's own nature of capitalism. They simply try to copy 2008 QE strategy and assume business as usual once people move out of quarantine! It's only a failed attempt at short-term avoidance and delay of the inevitable.

Restaurants, movie theatres, concerts, weddings, hotels & vacations and most other social structures will not get packed with people immediately. It will take years for them to become booming businesses once again. But if things are going to be different, how would they look like? share your guess...
It seems like a weird thing about React, or maybe how you're using it, that this is a problem. Most packages, and the language itself, handle multiple simultaneous versions of dependencies without issue. If packages are doing the old-fashioned "stick a property on window" thing instead of just getting required or imported browserify-style, they can step on each others' toes (and it's totally possible that React is dumb enough to step on its own toes). It has been years since that was necessary. browserify or more recent tools like parcel or webpack should be used instead.
epub: https://landing.google.com/sre/static/pdf/srs-epub.epub

Mobi: https://landing.google.com/sre/static/pdf/srs-mobi.mobi
I approach defense similar to Swiss cheese model.
You can't cover everything at every level, but if you have multiple levels, the probability of failure drops significantly.

You can decide not to drive a car in order not to die, at the cost of inconvenience and money because now you limit your options for groceries etc, and you limit the fun you have because your travel options are limited.
For this use case, you need selective fidelity and shared control over a sampler, with each sample having low resolution video, high quality audio and an arbitrary number of tags or notations (with a time range).
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I'm working to connect learners to assignments from real companies
Hey guys! I'm trying to make the educational process more efficient by adding real practice into it.

Problem

After talking to some people and also based on my experience, there is not enough practice during the educational process. Either tasks are outdated and do not represent the current realities of the industry, or are too narrow. I personally was in this situation when I was transitioning from Finance and Marketing background to Software engineering. After learning programming I wasn't feeling confident about my knowledge and also had problems with employment. Only after a while and doing a bunch of small tasks for friends it got better.

Solution

I'm thinking of somehow including assignments from real companies into some courses. To understand it better, I first would like to know what other learners find important. Mostly I'm interested in learners who are transitioning careers or are planning to use the knowledge from the course for practice.

Here are some questions that I'm interested in:

How important are the practical assignments during the course?

How comfortable are you in applying new skill for real-world industry problems after passing the course?

If you had a choice, would you choose to do assignments from real companies during the course?

If you would, then what would be the most important aspect for that?

Having supervision

Clear guidelines

Communication with the company

Proper proficiency matching

Peer to peer support

Other

What do you guys think? Curious to hear your opinion.
Border lockdowns do not stop community spread unless perfect. It's like the spark that starts a fire.
The goal was to get rid of tabs, not to let them grow exponentially! :c
Another really good thing to ask is about culture. And not in the blunt "what is your culture like?", but rather frame it as dichotomies.

Do you default to action, or default to inaction?

How do you value quality of code vs. speed of delivery?

Do you prefer your engineer to do pure engineering, or prefer to get involved with the business side?

If you had a short production outage, and a root cause cannot be found easily, how much time would the team spend searching for it (before giving up)? Would that change if the same error occurred twice? Three times?

Questions like this that don't have an obvious, universal answer (IMHO) are a really good way to get a glimpse into the culture.
In my mind, GraalVM native compilation has superseded scala-native.

GraalVM native compilation works really well. Many projects will compile to native out of the box. Many more with a bit of reflection config that's autogenerated. The native executables are slim, statically linked so they "just work", and startup instantly as one would expect.

Scala is now a great choice for CLI tools.
Drawful 2 is great for zoom happy hours. https://www.jackboxgames.com/were-giving-away-drawful-2-for-...

And it's free for a few weeks.
Hmm only in the context of HN. I don't think the general public reads it in a blaming Zoom way.
I would like to see a word frequency count gathered from all the articles written on all these blogs and see if there’s any interesting patterns.

Bonus if you can segment the data by date as well so we can see trends over time.

A person that builds such a system would have access to some pretty useful data.