skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just googled this and I found a discussion here: https://twitter.com/koeppelmann/status/1245037948099330048

"Testing capacity in Germany will be increased by up to factor 10 to up to 400,000 a day (!) by doing pooled testing. E.g mix 16 samples and if negative - all are negative, otherwise binary search for the positive(s). Could of course be used worldwide."

He quotes a tweet with a link to this study: https://idw-online.de/de/news743899
I'd take a cue from pretty much every other retail business who does financing. "Low-cost financing available" in some general place, then on each tile just have "(or as low as $X/mo)" or something like that. When I look at it now, it's apparent that the the totals are different between up-front and financed prices, which makes me think I need to break out a calculator, which tells me there's about a 10% finance charge, which then makes me second-thought the purchase in general. K.I.S.S.! ;)
The US is extremely divided. Even in these times the political class and society could not get over their differences.

The lack of a social net and out of control capitalism are also massive issues.

The president was downplaying the virus.

The US doesn't look like the most powerful country in the world, nor as a leader.
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> It’s all “far away”, as someone who is near sighted I absolutely have to use glasses in VR

Yeah, me too. As far as my eye is concerned, most things are "far away". Interestingly though, I can read things in VR "farther" than I can in real life. I am not exactly sure what the convergence looks like.
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Most of North America was also covered by ocean at some points.

Neither of which is spectacularly good for the North American economy.
I can't tell what you think should have happened differently here
It sounds wasteful until you've been with a company that outgrew its management structure. I spent many years at a place that grew from 200 to 800 people in about 3 years. We prided ourselves on the flat org and high level of responsibility. But as we approached the 500 mark, the cracks really started to show:

- Things truly requiring management handling (like raises, big expenses, hiring, etc.) took FOREVER in the best case because of the bottleneck at the top. More commonly, they got lost/dropped without explanation.

- Flow of sensitive information was slow and inconsistent because the only way to communicate with a flat org is all-or-nothing.

- Specialist engineers found themselves trying to track too many projects before they realized the overload was a problem (this was me)

- The president (and effective sole owner) was still deeply involved in all projects and regularly exercised veto rights. As the project load increased, the vetos landed later and later - some times after we'd already spent 50% of the budget! This left our customers up a creek and our reputation suffered.
Why do I need Git?
We do it similarly except we push an image to a docker registry (backed by multi-region S3), then you can use e.g. ansible to pull it to 5, 10, 25, 100% of your machines. It "feels" like push though, except that you're staging the artifact somewhere. But when booting a new host it'll fetch it from the same place.
Reading through the top level comments, they are all a form of surface level aversion to the unfamiliar. It really highlights that many industry trends are based on hot takes and not any sort of deep analysis. This makes sense why Javascript and C++ will remain as entrenched favorites despite their technical flaws.

For those who actually spent time with Swift, and realize its value and potential, consider yourself lucky that large portions of the industry have an ill informed aversion to it. That creates opportunity that can be taken advantage of in the next 5 years. Developers who invest in Swift early can become market leaders, or run circles around teams struggling with slowness of python, over-complexity of c++.

Top three comments paraphrased:

> 1) "huh? Foundation?"

but you have no qualms with `if __name__ == "__main__"` ?

> 2) "The name is pretentious"

is that an example of the well-substantiated and deep technical analysis HN is famous for?

> 3) Swift is "a bit verbose and heavy handed" so Google FAILED by not making yet another language.
Nice launch! Here's some feedback:

At first I found it hard to find the "next" arrow at the bottom. After scrolling through the first page, I gave up trying to find the next arrow and moved on to looking at the filters. Because all the text was greyed out, at first I thought they were unavailable, like perhaps you have to first sign up for an account before you can use the filters.

I would have liked the "size" filters to be multiple-selection; I wanted to see all medium and large art, but couldn't select both.

One suggestion: add the ability for some people to create curations. I know I'm not going to like a majority of the art that's listed, so being able to find a couple people with similar taste and browsing their selections would make it more likely I'd stay more engaged with the platform.

But perhaps I'm just not the target audience, too. I'm an art collector with a couple dozen pieces, in the $X00 to $X000 range. I prefer galleries to online marketplaces, because the curation provides real value to me; I consistently patronize the couple of galleries that match my preferences, and the limited selection in each exhibition reduces decision fatigue while providing reasons to come back consistently over time.

Good luck!
Love the site, and honestly not unreasonable prices compared to galleries in my area (Chicago). Love the banana for scale feature!
I loved the Elm architecture even though I left it behind a couple of years ago because it developed into an explosion of files with a fairly large project.

I hardly interacted with the community (although I think I remember that slack bot correcting people for using 'guys') but the architecture is both conceptually simple and great and should be emulated.
Like off-shored protective medical gear, off-shored pharmaceuticals manufacturing, and now a country full of unskilled 20 somethings that can only do phone apps and coffee baristas.

Companies will not like it, consumers will not like it,
State budgets will not like it,

But like cobol programmers, we need to learn how to make things and build our own supply chain.

My old employer did not listen last year when I retired. Nobody was assigned to make an annual change to a REXX program. I learned it on my own because it predated me.
But the process was so rigorous because we had to be our own RACF Admin to make our own RACF I’d to get to the datasets to change, then run the programs, but they got rid of printers connected to the mainframe and tighter up FTP so much that if took days to refresh passwords and ftp print files to your pc hard drive.
Then run programs in C# that scalped off the first column and read the mainframe page skips....

Am I was suppose to teach this to a C# programmer who would not need to run this for 6 more months.
I blame management. They loved outside consultants and treated our own programmers like loading dock employees, write ups when 5 minutes late for work.

They wanted me to take a brand new high end pc with me when I retired. I left it on my desk when I left. They had 6 months to learn it.
Fascinating, an actual idea about consciousness that I havent heard before
Correct, the appropriate function is time.monotonic().
Keeping a "local air layer" near your skin is not going to help at all with summer cooling. You need constant sweat evaporation to cool off. I don't think a beard is going to have much effect either way, since it's small, and our cheeks and chins are not designed to radiate heat or even sweat much compared to most of the body.
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Weirdly enough, they also have a European version of the privacy policy, at https://privacy.icq.com/legal/privacypolicy/eu which is quite different (but no word on encryption), and on https://icq.com/security-calls/en it states that video calls ARE e2e encrypted, its a weird mix of parts encrypted, parts not, part GDPR, some not it seems.
For Yelp it seems like it's more of a failure to innovate and grow beyond their initial review site concept. The idea was good, but easily challengrd by others who bring additional utility to the table like OpenTable and Google Maps.
True. You're right that the topic of deflation is handled rather "bluntly". Also, I can see some benefits of inflation - for example to slowly dilute govt debt after some government gets over-indebted. My point is that it cannot be judged by a simple always good / always bad attitude.
Typescript. We try not to be type/pl theory fanatics. Choose your tools well. Haskell is great since the core of our product is an interpreter/compiler with multiple stages. But I don't wanna use it everywhere.

Personally I'd be using JS (or TS) + jQuery. Almost no dependencies, but a lot more manual. No one would be happy on the team if we did this of course. And it can be impractical
I've seen "motion smoothing" options for VR spectators in some games - not entirely sure that's what they do, but I assume it is.
Yes.

From the article:

Dr Feigl-Ding explains that R0 is the “R reproductive number at time 0 before countermeasures”.

He points out that this is not the R(effective) at current time under mitigation measures such as distancing and testing, tracing and quarantine, which are expected to slash chains of transmission.
This is amazing!

Have you thought about adding details about what materials the artists used besides noting the basic supplies like “canvas” and “oil stick”?

As a buyer, some may be interested specifically on what colour name / brand of materials the artists used. And if ambitious, why they used those items over others?
I have used lots of different ones over the years, right now I am using one I don't want to mention simply because we won't be staying on it ourselves (and I won't recommend something I won't use).

That said, there are lots of services that do it well, the key of course is the service itself has to be reputable and solid, not knocking anyones homespun version, but your monitoring is only as reliable as their service. This is why we are going to move ourselves again.

For one I have used in the past, "uptime" worked well for a couple of my clients, was reliable and stable.
Monkeys made their way from Africa to South America at least twice
But they’re almost certainly moving to a new platform with a community, which is much easier than trying to build one from scratch.
They work just fine with the remote via Jamf or what have you.

Deprovisionig might not work right, but that's rarely needed.
MetalLB in action – load balancer services in on-prem environment
"Paraconsistent logic" by no means points out any particular logic: There are a lot of logics that are called paraconsistent because they have models refuting ex falso. But I've yet to see one that was useful for anything or illuminated anything about truth.

There are a lot of useless formal logics out there.
Again, you own your code dependencies[0]. A patch would be quickly released by software security experts, which every half-competent developer could apply to their product on their own. That's the benefit of ownership - you get to fix things. With software, you don't even need spare parts.

Depending on services is where the fragility starts. They're single points of failure, unless you have a plan to quickly switch to an equivalent competitor.

--

[0] - Unless they have a time-limited commercial license. Then they're essentially a service.
That's a really charitable explanation and I think it explains some percentage of labor, but not nearly all of it (not even the majority of it, IMO). Yes, there is more going on behind the scenes in every company than you'd ever know about. But I think the majority of labor follows the pareto principle-- there are maybe 100 employees in every company of, say, 1000 people that do nearly all the work, and 900 employees that do very little to nothing at all at best (and produce negative value at worst).

Why that is the case in every business, I haven't been able to figure out. I suspect it's because when businesses reach that size, the efficient market effects become greatly overstated in the short term, so these businesses naturally acquire a lot of fat.

One piece of evidence for this is that private equity exists. You can buy a business, fire a quarter of the people, then sell it and make a lot of money without hurting the operations at all.
This is my SMS notification sound now. So far no one has mentioned knowing what it is :[
If you’re so inclined, you can look up your local Denny’s for proof of the opposite. They are a big time advertiser with pretty poor reviews on average.
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Counterpoint: MIT scientists translate coronavirus protein structure into music
If you google the photo of "Margaret Chan and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus" , you will find more interesting story
It appears that Middle managers are downvoting you in force.
Looks like you've made the first Artix reference on HN in 7 years:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

(The name has since been used for a Linux distro and a FPGA board, but HN Search supports omitting terms.)

A revived link to the site made pg go "Holy shit." in 2007. That doesn't happen often either:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46411

Whilst searching, I ran across another Artix ("In 2002 I created the original AdventureQuest"). Also cool!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21245308
> I'm not sure why TweetNaCl is even considered a serious crypto library.

Probably because its authors are all big-name people and their paper says:

> We have placed TweetNaCl into the public domain, and we encourage applications to make use of it.
Your comment makes zero sense, let me explain: most people use signal through the iOS app. It is very easy to shut down an iOS app.

Hope you got it!
The main shift I've noticed (as a layman) is that people are thinking the illness is more contagious and less fatal than first thought. That explains the downward revisions in future deaths, but it also means that physical distancing is more effective and more important than first thought. Because a carrier that stays home is infecting ~5 less people rather than ~2 less people.

The thing I'm worried about today is population centers deciding to relax mitigation before they've vastly increased testing capacity.
They really don't make a good case, because the case for the moon is much weaker than Mars.

• The moon has much more limited scientific value compared to Mars. Mars has a 4 billion year history that may have included life and may still include life.

• Despite that much greater distance due to Aerobraking Mars takes less fuel to land on and it's easier to land large cargo ships on.

• Mars has far more resources, it's awash with water and CO2 making fuel production easy, and metals are literally laying about on the surface. The moon is a desert of rocks and dust that only has water in polar craters that is likely mixed into rock percentages at absolute zero.

• Mars is far easier to survive long periods on. The moon is a desert of dangerously razor sharp dust that alternates between two weeks of intense heat and two weeks of near absolute zero temperatures. Mars atmosphere is thin but it means it's temperature ranges are far less extreme, and it's surface soil has been eroded. It also has a lower radiation environment, but that's a minor concern. Most importability water and CO2 and metals are easy to access.

• Returning people from Mars is much easier than the Moon because high volume in-situ fuel production on Mars is easy, while probably not going to be possible on the Moon for decades.

Virtually all lunar research can be done tele-robotically since it's only 3 seconds away. That's impossible on Mars, where we've had a robot trying to dig a hole for over a year. Sending humans to Mars will vastly increase our scientific knowledge of Mars, they will explore more of Mars in a few weeks than rovers have in 50 years.

The answer is send more robots to the moon, but send the astronauts to Mars.
Python isn’t alone in that. Designing a date&time library is so tricky that, even after having seen zillions of languages fail and then replace their date&time library with a better one, most new languages still can’t do it right the first time.

I think the main reason is that people keep thinking that a simple API is possible, and that more complex stuff can initially be ignored, or moved to a separate corner of the library.

The problem isn’t simple, though. You have “what time is it?” vs “what time is it here?”, “how much time did this take?” cannot be computed from two answers to “what time is it?”, different calendars, different ideas about when there were leap years, border changes can mean that ‘here’ was in a different time zone a year ago, depending on where you are in a country, etc.

I guess we need the equivalent of ICU for dates and times. We have the time zone database, but that isn’t enough.
> Why it’s so hard to make a good Covid-19 model

Because there's no downside to the authors for overpredicting deaths and resource use, and _a lot_ of downside for underpredicting. So all the "bad" things get taken into account, and all the "good" things are ignored.

One thing I've reinforced in my view of the world is that common sense is very uncommon indeed. "2 million deaths" my ass. I hope people reconsider their trust in other models that are "hard to make".
I just filled it out! I didn't realize from the previous HN post Signal was threatening to leave the U.S. market altogether! I don't recall if they have ever done that before. So I'm taking this seriously.
Yup. Exactly right. And they think the 26 year old outside consultant knows how to fix the problem better than the 50 year old government programmer, who management has spent 17 years beating down their self respect.
"Well" and "good" as predicate adjectives are both completely fine grammatically. Al's lyrics there are just telling people not to confuse the separate idiomatic meanings of "doing well" and "doing good".

For "I am well/good", I think what you have in mind is that there's a classic nitpick over which refers to health and which doesn't. Some people claim that "I am well" means the speaker is healthy, and object to using it otherwise or to using "good" with the same meaning (e.g. James Brown's "I feel good"). But I think most sources dismiss this claim as outdated or just confused, and consider both usages acceptable.
What version did you last use?

Boot times still aren't ideal, but I find it takes about .1 seconds to launch a julia repl now. First time to plot is still a bit painful due to JIT overhead, but that's coming down very aggressively (there will be a big improvement in 1.5, the next release with differential compilation levels for different modules), and we now have PackageCompiler.jl for bundling packages into your Sysimage so they don't need to be recompiled every time to you reboot julia.

I also think the tooling is quite strong, we have ana amazingly powerful type system and I would classify discovering multiple dispatch as a religious experience.
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Love the idea! Just some small feedback on your website: When I try to go back from your website, it keeps asking me to login. It's probably due to the fact that it automatically sends me to the /artworks page and when I try to go back it sends me to the / one, triggering the login popup.
Anyway, good luck!
I really love the idea. I'd use it if this included artists from Europe (purely due to shipping costs that is, not that I have anything against US artists of course).

Maybe in the future, you could expand into the EU market..?
Most people are bad at telling stories in general, both recounting events in a captivating way and making up tales to entertain. Like anything, you get better at it with practice. All cultures have a history of sitting around the campfire and listening to the elders spin yarns. What else would you do at night? Your average caveman was probably a more engaging speaker than most people today.
What questions are they likely to ask me before I hire them?
Hello everyone,

I currently have 2 potential employees who can acquire clients for my agency.

I am yet to interview them tomorrow.

What questions are they likely to ask me before I hire them?

Thank you in advance! :)
Thank you for this! May it be shared far and wide until we can stop using these silly codewords.
She should have been voted out of office in the last election. Her performance as a representative for CA has been incredibly abysmal. The way she handled the Kavanaugh allegations really changed my mind about her.

She seems like an old time Senator, steeped in politics but out of touch with the reality of the state she represents.
Thanks for bringing this bug to our attention. I'll make sure this is added to the top of our bug-fix queue.

Were you a guest user or logged in when this happened?
> an engineer is designated as the deploy commander in charge of rolling out the new build to production.

When I last did ops we pushed the automation and alerting hard, so the idea of someone being formally assigned to a deployment is interesting. This sounds like they have a ton of manual or semi scripted steps. At some point, removing the dedicated deployment commander and relying on alerting is helpful, although preference of where that point is can be debated.
The server is also open source
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server
Do you mind sharing your approach to how you make that shift from "amygdala to the prefrontal cortex"? Is it similar to practicing mindfulness with a focus on the now?
We've recommended normalizing data as a pattern for years [0], but never had any official tooling to support that use case. Redux Toolkit 1.3 now has a new `createEntityAdapter` API that can help with the process of inserting and updating normalized data [1].

[0] https://redux.js.org/recipes/structuring-reducers/normalizin...

[1] https://redux-toolkit.js.org/api/createEntityAdapter
Will Religion Spread the Coronavirus?
Why the stupid downvotes? Signal's walled garden can be its demise.
Spatial Awareness #15 – The newsletter is back and better than ever
My spatial newsletter is back, after an impromptu 4-month break. The world may have changed for the worse in that time, but the newsletter certainly hasn't. Lots of beautiful and interesting maps and spatial content. Hope you enjoy it :)
I don't know the answer to the land management piece. I do know that we live in a world that increasingly makes it hard for people just do a thing and make a living, without a college degree, a raft load of student loans and on and on.

I do know we have too little well-paid manual labor and too much of a divide between the have and have nots. I know you don't need much more than a gold pan to get started, which can be had for under ten dollars from places like Walmart.

I didn't research the land owenership/public management of rivers angle very much. I do know that it's not illegal in some places to dredge rivers on public land, which is extremely disruptive of the ecosystem.

This is more of less the summary of the research I did into the subject:

https://sandiegohomelesssurvivalguide.blogspot.com/2016/11/h...
I updated the post yesterday with new links and information, and tweeted a mention of having done that. Apparently someone thought it was worth submitting.

(tbh I'd forgotten it actually hit the front of HN when I wrote it the first time!)
> France is set to become the first country where publishers have succeeded in wresting payment from Google for their content.

Is it? Or will Google simply not carry their content?