skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was a data scientist for one year. Experienced many of the adverse situations explained in the article, plus I thought it isn't for me. I joined my next job as a software engineer (after an extensive interview prep). Couldn't be happier. Still doing plenty of data science. But my product is actually a product, not the analysis (as is often the case with DS). I feel "more central" to the project, to the company. I'm still building ML models, features etc for a living.
Demanding a partial refund would be a reasonable thing to try and negotiate: the damage has to fall on someone and both parties have a right to defend their interests. Asking for a free pass, on the other hand, means asking for every other Yale graduate to pay a cost ("You went to Yale? The place with free passes?") while also not asking for the product they really paid for (education). It's a statement that the paper is more important to them than what the paper represents: a total and open admission of defeat by Goodhart's law.
IS&T is largely internal, but there are a number of IS&T owned external web apps for registration, surveys, and support related things. I worked in IS&T on teams developing them years ago.
This certainly varies by country. In the US and many other countries travel insurance typically excludes pandemics.
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> Buying back shares is, in some ways, paying off your debt.

So you buy back shares when they are at the 52 week high and sell more shares when they are at the 52 week low... that's brilliant.

Share buybacks make sense for companies with strong balance sheets and little/ no debt load. For example: Apple. They make zero sense for companies with weak balance sheets and tons of debts (e.g. Most of the airlines).
Heh, reminds me of neuromancer
Very cool, thank you for sharing. I've been a part of the Kylin community for over a year now and it has been a great experience. The project is really pretty cool. I know some people think of it as just another OLAP engine - but it is way more than that.

If you're part of a team working with huge datasets, take a look at it, and if you're looking for a great open source project to get involved with, join us!
This is the basis for several sequencing-based test protocols in development. It's called barcoding, and the massively parallel sequencing of tens of thousands of barcoded pooled sequences is called bar-seq.

See e.g. https://twitter.com/hsalis/status/1241121806473461760
Funny enough Slack itself recently open-sourced https://github.com/slackhq/nebula which does exactly that.
I think Pay deferral is a much better solution. It is hard to ever get a pay rise after a pay cut. That is why Salary raise on the whole dont catch up as fast as economy after 2008.
World’s dirtiest air gets cleaner after India’s lockdown
If your Genius is taking 10 minutes to check you in, I think that's a problem with them/their training rather than IS&T.
> What do you really need a first and last name separated for anyways? Sorting?... Sorting by last name isn't usually important...

When paying customers / clients want to sort by last name, because “that’s how we do things”, then you sort by last name. So it’s only important when you want to make money.

Edit to add: your customers also don’t care that someone somewhere has 6 first names and no last name. “This wasn’t a problem with our old software.”
Radar's owned by IS&T.

IS&T was completely broken under Jobs and hadn't changed much under Cook while I was there.
It is much more likely these would continue to operate as short term rentals, but with a new owner. And in a lot of cases these investors can ride out a couple months of no bookings. The CARES act covers mortgages for many investors of residential property, offering forbearance of the mortgage.
So says the peanut gallery.

> laying non-essential staff that can quickly be recruited during recovery

That's pretty much my point. AirBnB could lay off a ton of people to slow their burn, but if they can get financing, they don't have to. I'm not sure why you see that as a failing.
Viewing/editing of another userland process is usually done using ptrace(2). Yama Linux security module prevents that unless you are root to disable it. It is active by default on Ubuntu.

Also reading /proc/nnnn/mem does not work even for your own processes and even though file node protections seem to allow it, not sure where that security enhancement comes from.
> starting doses likely matter as well.

That is something that I've been wondering about too. I work in biotech but not as a scientist. These things are tricky to nail down as they seem to be very individual specific. Theoretically, in an exponential growth model, it wouldn't matter if you were inoculated with 20000 or 200000 virons, after the incubation period post-infection, you're going to be generating a huge amount, millions and millions, of virus particles in either case. Certainly, if you keep getting exposed, you're immune system is going to get overwhelmed quickly, but for a single event, I don't think it matters.
No, it's right in the context of the comment I was replying to, which had customers interacting with IS&T webpages. Internal apps are decidedly mediocre for the employees who use them but there are many more impactful things that would affect customers than that.
If there's somehow no need to show anything past page 10, then by all means, just do that. But most applications can't get away with that.

There are plenty of resources for pagination online.

For example, your [Next Page] button could use a `where date > {date of last item on prev page}` since you have an index on date. e.g. <a href="/things?after={prevDate}">Next</a>.

A forum topic could have a consecutive and contiguous "index" on each of its posts that starts at 0 and increments. Now going to page 1000 is simply a matter of grabbing posts between index 990 to 1000 which is instant.
It would have been much easier to say that if weaponised, an XSS vulnerability can access resources across the entire domain as if they were the victim, and should effectively be considered an account hijack of any exploited victims.

It really has nothing to do with homepaths, or even user-supplied data whatsoever.
>but it's still preferable to receive a smaller dose of the virus.

Could you explain why you believe that? I haven't found anything definitive on this topic.
One reason that argument doesn't work is the effects of focus. When you're intensely focused on something, momentum builds up that is like a high-speed train. You can't do nimble switching, even to easier things. One might imagine that they'd forget to, say, pay a utility bill as well.

(I have no inside information and am simply guessing based on past experience with unrelated things.)
As a counterargument (or perhaps as a corollary), backend programming is also a treadmill these days. It may not have the churn of the world of front-end Web programming, but the world of backend programming in 2020 is quite different from that of 2010. As someone who does mostly backend work, within the past decade I've seen the rise of cloud services, non-relational databases, the Hadoop ecosystem, distributed storage systems, containers, the increased use of languages outside of C/C++/Java for systems programming (e.g., Python, Go, Rust, Clojure, Scala), machine learning, and CUDA, among many other technologies that were either nonexistent or were in their infancy in 2010. A person who stayed stuck in the world of 2010 might be overwhelmed by how much has changed in the past decade. Heck, even C++ has changed dramatically over the past decade; someone coding in C++98 would need to get up to speed with C++11's fundamental changes as well as changes added in later versions.

Now, there are some levels that haven't changed as much in the past decade. The kernels of today's most widely used operating systems are still written in C, and x86-64 still remains the dominant instruction set despite an increased challenge by ARM64 and the possibility of RISC-V. Someone writing kernel-level code in 2010 would feel at home today in 2020, notwithstanding the natural kernel code changes that have always happened. However, the job markets for kernel developers, compiler developers, and those writing low-level system software are much smaller than the job market for backend programmers overall, and it's possible that a laid-off low-level systems software engineer would have to get up to speed in all of the advances that happened in higher levels of the stack in order to more easily find another job.
I have the exact same feeling right now.
Extensive previous discussion (mentioned in the article itself): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22782097
Covid-19 Exposes the American System’s Systemic Decay
Developing in a Monorepo While Still Using Webpack
Thank you so much. The amount of paywalled WSS articles on HN is too damn high.
The article uses the wonderful "WLOG" acronym, short for WLOTAIG, which is in turn short for "Without Loss of That All-Important Generality".

Piling on, I wouldn't mind seeing a formalization of Grigori Perelman's proof of the Poincaré conjecture. But I am probably dreaming.
Out of curiosity, did the sibling replies to your comment (all of which are accurate!) answer your question, in the sense that you now understand?
That looked too interesting to pass. I signed up immediately for the print magazine delivered to my door, every quarter. Thanks a lot for mentioning that. I really look forward to seeing it in person!
You think that being aware of our own inevitable deaths, and the eventual end of the universe, is a coping mechanism to avoid the unbearable reality of closed software platforms? Am I talking to Richard Stallman?
Well what sacrifice are you willing to make, exactly?

Do you actually think your share of the shared sacrifice should be - getting a discount on a new Tesla?

Or, was it that when you referenced the idea of “shared sacrifice”, you were not personally planning on sacrificing anything yourself - merely intending to criticize others for not doing so?
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> Now that you've had a chance to experience it, what's your perspective?

The current situation is not representative of typical remote working conditions. I am fortunate in that I do not have relatives that need care or children that are home from school (yet), and that I have an extra room with a door that I can close, a comfortable chair, and a nice view out the window. Many people do not have these luxuries at the moment; a lot of my coworkers in the Bay Area have 2-3 children home from school, are sharing cramped apartment spaces, and have an unergonomic setup with poor internet connectivity.

If anything, I worry that the current situation may drive the possibility of remote work backwards a bit.
You literally have not a clue what you're talking about but you think because you now know what R0 that you're a fucking expert. You probably think cycle helmets should be mandatory.

TL;DR. you are a dumb over confident cunt who needs to sit down and shut up.
No, not really.

If every business had to consider every possible risk scenario (WW3?) then nothing would function. We need a kind of 'insurance' that nobody else will provide. The government is well-positioned to do that if they do it responsibly.

These companies are generally not getting free money - they are getting loans, or in some cases the gov. is getting equity. The government could have actually made a profit were they to have held their auto-bailouts a little longer.

The reality is, Auto Companies cannot prepare for an 'apocalypse' in an adjacent, much bigger market - banking.

Credit is the right thing to do to keep that system going, again the government did loose a few billion, but it was small in the grand scheme, moreover, they should have broken even.

There are quite a few social programs provided by gov for individuals, moreover, those are 'freebies'. The gov is not taking a chunk of 'ownership of you' and they're generally not extending loans.

Banks also paid back their loans, the sneaky thing there was when the Fed allowed banks to dump mortgages on them at face value - which was a 'bailout' of banks and home-owners.

Of all the things that drive unfairness and inequality - these are not them. These are generally good bits of intervention.

Low-interest rates that drive massive home inflation is a primary driver of inequality. Lack of some kind of socialized medicine. Lack of reasonable healthcare regulations. Garbage public schools in some areas. Prison Industrial Complex. These are much more obvious areas for reform.
Ask HN: Jukedeck (AI music generator) open source alternative?
Anyone know of a really good JukeDeck alternative? For those who don't know, JukeDeck was an AI music generator but it was acquired by TikTok last year. Thanks!
I am trying to do this a long time. But no success.
Might they rent out designers in a Client Services model, where they help owners take good pictures and basically tart up the property profiles?
I remember watching some demo where authors put a separate server per REST endpoint of a basic JavaScript/AJAX shop-like app. That was a peak microservices time.
IS&S is much more stable than IS&T, but you'll likely get light, unofficial disdain from software engineering because the organization has a reputation of working on some of the poorer-quality products at the moment. I have heard from the grapevine that Apple is hiring aggressively at the moment, and I wouldn't expect a layoff given that they're huge and fairly financially secure. Large corporations usually weather recessions fairly well. But I have no firsthand experience with your particular situation and I'm just a random person on the internet, so YMMV.
Likely they're mostly photographers. Airbnb hires a lot of professional photographers to take listing photos. Here's an example job posting: https://careers.airbnb.com/contractors/1404981/
I believe this paper qualifies as scientific/medical lit:

COVID-19: Attacks the 1-Beta Chain of Hemoglobin and Captures the Porphyrin to Inhibit Human Heme Metabolism
SOURCE:
https://chemrxiv.org/articles/COVID-19_Disease_ORF8_and_Surf...
The local taxes are rarely based on the street address and typically coincides with a larger municipal division.

The problem in that case is trying to use the “address” for two purposes which may not be aligned, getting goods to the buyer and trying to find their tax domicile.
I've been remote for years and can't wait for all the people in my home to get back to their regular workplace / school routines. I miss my ~7 hours of daily solitude.
We also had (the antecedents of) "brown". (-:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh4aWZRtTwU (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22324298)
Hmm...ourworldindata shows the doubling time as having increased to 10 days in France, new cases declining and the curve flattening, so not sure where this person is getting their data and/or analysis, but it seems clearly wrong.

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus
I've been following your blog since a long while back. Keep it up.
The spacecraft that utterly transformed SpaceX has flown its last mission
> Does Radar belongs to IS&T?

Yes, but I think they have a dedicated team to it now?
I would even say - the general public needs to boycott Zoom and shift to something else that's open. Large scale (never this large in the history of mankind) data collection of facial features across the globe along with other meta data such as name and email address, perhaps a phone number - this is unprecedented amount of data that any government agency would kill to have. Just in a couple of months, the world has given up privacy in a snap. I would say the same thing about Facebook.

Look at what we've created: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLo3e1Pak-Y
Late to the party. I write a data science blog but I can only use esoteric programming languages.

It's a blast.

https://andrewnc.github.io/blog/blog.html
There’s also the issue of data scientists just not having a seat at the table. Anyone can validate their point by using data to support their answer just like anyone can validate their opinion by doing a google search.

In my mind I see more data scientists being ignored or turned into “yes men”(https://www.interviewquery.com/blog-do-they-want-a-data-scie...)
That might help to some extent depending on the use case, but the tectonic plates are moving all the time, and shifting a lot in some places where you have geological events like earthquakes. A set of GPS coordinates may no longer point to your current (moved) location accurately in that case.
From the article:

> This list is by no means exhaustive. If you need examples of real names which disprove any of the above commonly held misconceptions, I will happily introduce you to several.

...

> 40. People have names.
However these locational jurisdiction details will be unique (i.e. a state, a country, a city, a trading block, a tax code etc).

These can be different to the address details which is nothing more than a postal address to where the goods/letters need to be posted.

In other words the former details should be explicitly provide in a fault tolerant manner (i.e. drop down lists) and not parsed from the details found in the address.
Wait, Canadian here, American's don't have electric kettles?
You would adjust it before you put all of your other PPE on.
I think this is okay, provided they issue a cash-value voucher that does not expire (or expires at least 2 years out). There shouldn't be any nonsense about things being locked to the same region or destination because people may no longer be interested in going to the same place in the future, plus for international trips they may not be eligible for a visa in the future if the purpose of the trip no longer exists.

To be even better, it should not be locked to the same person either. If I have no use to fly (example) Hawaiian Airlines, I should be able to sell that voucher to others.
That's one issue I see with NoSql, data is not normalized and consistency goes out of the window if database is big enough and the volume of data is big enough. That might not matter if you work on a search engine, social network, music suggestion app, but for most business apps and for most websites, having inconsistency is really bad.

On the other hand, having some data denormalized can improve performance as you can avoid expensive joins. It's for designer to see if they need to trade consistency for performance and in what measure. I'd avoid it, I'd prefer to add more servers, use load balancing, use caches.
By the time a web app has megabytes of JS and fetches just to show its initial content, is it actually saving money?
Yelp itself is roughly like this actually, a few large apartment buildings are on there. One of the places I used to live offered us a Starbucks gift card if we wrote a positive review.
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I used to beg people I met online to host pages for me, give me shell access, etc. I was a child in the very early 90s with basically no money.
> What are you going to pay the interest with, your negative profits?

Capital structure arbitrage means that there's a market for any public company's junk bonds regardless of their balance sheet position. What matters is the likelihood of collapse, as measured by put option pricing.

The logic is pretty straightforward. You buy the bond, put options on the common equity, and short the appropriate treasury futures contract. If the company fails to pay the bond as agreed, you get your money back via the put options. If they don't, you collect the excess premium of the junk bonds, minus the cost of delivering the short treasury futures contracts and the premium paid for the put options that are expiring worthless.

At no point does the actual creditworthiness of the company matter in this analysis. The arbitrageurs need not care. If the equity market believes that they have a future, they're either right and you get paid back on the junk bonds, or they're wrong and you pick their pocket shorting the company.
Looks like there's an organized "smug attack" going on against The Economist. I wonder who's trying to undermine its credibility?

I've been reading the Economist for a couple of decades and while it's not perfect smugness is not prominent amongst its vices.
So Airbnb should be bailed out because government imposed the barriers by closing short term rentals.
Well then I could just go back to enlightenment’s terminal :)
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Let's always be honest (a scientist cannot lie out of principle because experiments produce evidence that if not properly observed will destroy any chance of replication and thus the ultimate eventual adoption of new useful technology into society). I've heard some workers in this region (aged 20-30) preface their verbal dialogue with phrases like "seriously, honestly, I'm not gonna lie, for real though, literally".

I know that these are akin to "loading time" phrases that people habitually use to interject into a talkative group or to introduce their vocal tone before the meat content is transmitted to multiple listeners. But it is the nature of the phrases that suggest the existence of lies or an exaggerated reality that fascinates me (you had me thinking of honesty or lying before you had me thinking about the nature's ninja assassin metaphor).

I do not see it as a bad thing - this is only our natural response (clues are in these "harmless" phrases inserted into everyday conversation) to a few decades of concerned tax paying citizens being fed questionable or far-fetched content from their media outlets as a method of attempted economic subjugation?
An advice I think is worth adding to the list is: use indexing.
Sure, it's not like they have complex admin tools, customer service systems and lots of other internal systems...
WHO haunted by old tweet saying China found no human transmission of coronavirus
https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152

Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China🇨🇳.
What a joke of a paper. I could poke a million holes in their assumptions, not to mention their ridiculously simplistic and completely erroneous cost model. There is no way either of them have more than a breath's worth of experience in parcel logistics.
Acronym city right here.
Because South Korea govt was allowed to look at citizens credit card transaction data and cell phone location data to enforce quarantine, something US cannot do without creating very unpopular laws.

US can do what China did, heavy handed lock people inside with supplies and test anyone who moves outside of the house. You test positive you either go into mandatory quarantine (hospital) or you get an ankle monitor.

China method works better than SK method when you think about how we got the TSA and how it helps our daily lives
This sort of sarcasm does not foster quality discussion.
When people start manufacturing and shipping a million a week, then perhaps the Prusa design would be worth mentioning.
Mailtrap, which is listed as an alternative Ruby library, is also available as a service: https://mailtrap.io/
Viral dose does indeed matter. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/01/opinion/coronavirus-viral...

It’s analogous to containing a new virus outbreak before it becomes an exponentially growing pandemic.
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Isn’t that 127 address a bogon?
Where in the article does it say that "Viruses are Largely Unrelated to Life on Earth"?