skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's all about reducing the feedback loop. Expression based, late binding languages with interactive environments can't be topped.
Why didn't it eat it's sun? It's like a Roman dad joke.
Thanks - that's not too bad.

If people can sort out logistics well enough then it sounds like it could be extremely helpful for implementing broad scale testing.
Yes, the server signing its scripts would do it, provided the server doesn't blindly sign attacker-submitted code. Some servers might...
There are ways to write code in a manner that leaves a documentation trail.

I write about that here: https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/leaving-a-legacy/
IoT Improving the Scope of Business Data
They literally print their printers on their printers.

So no, they do mass-produce with them: https://youtu.be/BjoQw5fGk6Q
The link in the Anandtech forum points to the ExtremeOverclocking leaderboards for Folding@Home, which is a Stanford project to do distributed protein folding. They're currently placing COVID-19 related projects at max priority.

My understanding is that Amazon is devoting a chunk of spare AWS capacity to folding for the project. In the last week or so, they've done about 300k work units (essentially they've run that many simulations all the way through).
Also makes for the best GC benchmark out there.
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I spent 13 years maintaining a large-ish system that separated first- and last names for customers.

Separating makes searching/indexing on last name easier.

The alternative would be to put last names first by convention, which renders them unusable for anything else; or go insane trying to find a universal way of splitting and recombining for display.

Keeping them separate inevitably results in a convention to put company names in the last name field for corporations, and failed searches when the convention is broken.

It's one of those questions that I suspect will keep bugging me until I die.
If anyone wants to know what this possible solution is I have written it up here in non-technical language [0].

0. https://www.tillett.info/2020/04/05/a-solution-to-covid-19/

Edit. HN seems to have put me on the “posting too fast” treadmill so I will have to edit this post.

While effectively the same as a vaccine, it is quite different. Any such attenuated strain identified can be used outside of the regulatory system. This is the real key to the idea.

Edit 2. I am not a crank - well at least I don’t think I am. I have a PhD in microbiology and I have been a professor in microbiology and virology. I now work in the biotech industry. Have a look at the about me section of my blog to check into my background if you care about these things.
How long can the federal government be actively opposed to the interests of states before the whole thing crumbles? At some point the conflict would manifest itself as a reduced quality of life I'd think?
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> Ask HN: Should WFH Be a Mandated Option for All Remote-Capable Jobs?

Here in Italy that's the case already. More than that actually:

If your line of business is not vital to the basic functioning of the nation (think of: utilities, grocery stores, journalism, banking, public transport) then you can either work from home or close down.

Basically yes, is a mandated option. The other option is closing down.
It's been said that NeWS could have been the web.
Totally agree. Huge plaudits to Jack for doing this. There’s a real opportunity cost to what he’s doing here, this is real generosity and those who slate Zuckerberg for his pathetic donation should be the first to stand up and applaud Jack.
> by default should cookies only resolve to a single URL, and programmers have to whitelist subpaths?

That sounds sensible! I always wondered why the origin and cookie scope isn’t limited to the full URL of the resource that set it and only explicitly extendable by something like <link rel=“same-origin”...>

Basically make every URL it’s own security and permissions sandbox but allow the programmer some latitude to extend it (and probably the administrator of parent directories/domains some capability to restrict how far up/across the tree a URL can reach, with the default perhaps being to allow only within same domain and path.)
Yes i believe both Nissan and Honda are maintaining health insurance. Totally agree. Can't imagine 30 days in an ICU on a ventilator would be inexpensive here in the states.
PR and they thought they could get away with hosts shouldering the costs
Based on the "Results" page on the F@H site [0], they have managed to produce some reasonably useful results over the years. At first glance, it definitely seems like what they're doing could be helpful for COVID-19, as they're currently in the exaflop range of available computing power and are using it to identify druggable targets on some of the virus' proteins.

[0] https://foldingathome.org/papers-results/
Follow the money should be the clue here to why this happens. It's a clever plot IMO - states and hospitals pay for supplies, feds seize them, feds redistribute them to other states - for payment or political favors (i.e. praising Trump on Twitter), probably.
No. GET is defined to be nullipotent, or having no side effects. That is not the same as "not making a change."

To be pedantic, every GET request to a modern website makes a state change somewhere... to a log file, to a database, to a tracking system. The difference is it has no side effect for the user (i.e. your comment gets duplicated or your order placed twice)
”I wish I could find the original article I read about hashlife”

Possibly https://www.drdobbs.com/jvm/an-algorithm-for-compressing-spa...? Or https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Exploiting-regularitie...?
> As an older person it feels as if it's a niche that could probably still be filled profitably by someone with the right stuff and marketing.

I mean, there is - it's Instax [1] from FUJIFILM. Basically a polaroid instant camera on steroids. At least here in Germany, I see some kids running around with it. I think it also features an App, where you can set filters and anything, and print it from your phone on a portable printer, which would tick another item on your list.

[1] https://instax.com/
I think it does start to. Maybe it doesn’t entirely. But give the guy credit and let’s see where he goes with this.
There is a good New Yorker article on the matter this week:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/06/how-does-the-c...
I would expect "data science" is doing some form of numerical analysis. Otherwise it's just record keeping... with computers.
So they probably need to let go of those staff and projects rather than raising money at high interest?
I worry my comment wasn't substantive, but in this case I refer specifically to confiscation of _medical supplies_ during a _pandemic_. It disincentivizes being a well prepared or resourceful organization if your stuff will get taken anyway. When do those disincentives break the whole system?
Let's start with an easy question, what is CAL?
Java only added first class functions relatively recently
Reminds me of little Bobby Tables.

https://xkcd.com/327/
…and yet, still more visually noisy than the same function written in Haskell.

Not that it actually matters, of course.
If we're talking about Lisps, I've found Racket to be considerably more expressive, and incidentally, more beautiful as well. If we're talking about beauty of any language, I think many would agree that APL takes the cake.
That's subjective though. The guests who raised the disputes presumably think Airbnb did a great job.

Dispute resolution is essentially marketing. When a host tells people they lost a dispute most people don't care because they're not going to be in that position. Most people can't afford to buy property to let on Airbnb. Even it they are in a position to buy and let a property, so long as Airbnb have more supply than demand then they're happy - they're getting every booking they can. Having another host in an area that already has hosts doesn't add much to their business. (If you were the only host in the area then you'd be much more likely to win disputes.)

When a guest tells people they lost then everyone can imagine being in that position, and might stop wanting to use Airbnb. That has a measurable impact on Airbnb's revenue.

The key thing to remember with any company that runs both sides of a marketplace is that they care about themselves more than either party in a dispute. I have no idea about the numbers, but if Airbnb side with hosts more than 10% of the time I'd be absolutely amazed. In popular areas it's probably less than 5%.
This article is perfect if you're just getting started.

There's lore around design tricks to get the most out of a database, but it's often implementation or domain specific.

You'll learn what rules to break, and why, as you solve real life production problems.

FWIW - you can go a long, long, long way before de-normalising is actually necessary.
Nothing is going to protect you from getting fired if you decide to just stop doing your job after they ask you to WFH.
Here's a good start to functional programming: don't modify any variables. I'm sure you can get the hang of it. It's pretty simple.
>There is not an ontological reality for the meanings of words. It means what you want it to mean.

Obviously there is a possible range of meaning for a word for a culture at any point in time, but there is in the end a limit to what the word dishonest can mean in our present context. This is why I do not expect to get served a cheddar and jalapeno omelet when I walk into a funeral home and order a dishonest.
If it's only for that narrow use case then a million per week seems excessive and unnecessary.
What software would have been used to do the animations on this page?
Relieve pressure, sure. Free pass? What? I mean they still need to do the coursework. The school should refund their tuition and room/board, and allow them to complete the semester later.
It will get too wide, that's why HN and Reddit do it like they do.
> I don't see anything profound here

[borderline trolling, but...] In general, the syntax doesn't matter much. Most programming language discussions focus on the syntax, but in the long term and in larger applications that's not the important part.

From my personal opinion, based on using Clojure for about ten years, and maintaining a SaaS business based on it for the last four: what really matters are many little features taken together. The sequence abstractions and functions, great data structures and their interop, defined serialization for data structures, core.async, transducers, spec — each of those can be picked apart as "nothing profound" by itself. And yet together they form a tool which removes most friction from programming and lets me focus on the problem domain.
How did we end up in a place where everyone believes they have to go SaaS to make any money at all?
It's slower when used as an output option because it only has an effect on ffmpeg's output; that is, ffmpeg literally has to decode the whole stream up to that point because it doesn't know it can seek.

I believe this has no effect on whether or not you can cut precisely - if transcoding is not enabled, even if ffmpeg is sticking the frames before the first keyframe in the output file, they're effectively garbage from the point of view of the decoder (which might explain why you see artifacts in some players).
It took two weeks but I found an answer. It seems to trace to budget cuts forced by the tea party:

https://www.propublica.org/article/us-emergency-medical-stoc...
Hotspots are not getting excess of supplies. The stuff goes to places politically aligned with president.

The same federal government that said few days ago that "The notion of the federal stockpile was it’s supposed to be our stockpile. It’s not supposed to be states’ stockpiles that they then use"

The same federal government that claimed governors should find their own supplies.

The same federal government that gives masks to private companies and then have countries outbid each other for them.
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You might want to summarize this in the submitted post itself to reduce friction for the readers (and thereby maybe increasing the odds of success).
I don't understand why Apple telling Chinese factories to build PPE is helpful. There's massive worldwide demand for this stuff, the factories don't need apple's help to figure that out.
'Mandated' is a strong word... I think we should take away taxcuts and subsidies for a lot of industries like oil - and give it to companies who do WFH as we're seeing a HUGE benefit to the environment as a result.

So, not 'mandated' but 'highly encouraged'.
I agree with this strategy but I don't agree with the whole idea of "if you don't agree with something you should suggest an alternative solution." Telling everyone they're about to fly over the side of a cliff is a great contribution and dissuading people from making that contribution despite not having an immediate solution is really problematic. I have unfortunately seen too many cases where people aren't willing to step back and reconsider their situation because they are too committed to the first solution they came up with and moving full speed ahead is the only thing they see as an option unless there is an immediately available alternative.
We truly live in such amazing times, where the principle of the transaction is more important than the achieved competency. This isn't Walmart, it's an education system. If they're not getting educated, the degree is completely meaningless.
Have you read the post?

It specifically mentions that and even names github.io as an example.
Will they ever have an iOS or Android equivalent of ROMs?

Yes. Torrent sites are littered with archives full of apk files already.
I'd imagine the flexibility you get from 3d printing could have a double edge: on one hand anyone can fork the design, which gives enormous potential for iterative development; on the other hand forks lead to a lack of interchangeable parts.

Are people iterating on the design much?
'Machine learning algorithms'

Nothing to see here, just trying to make a quick buck using the pandemic
As a person doing data science / ML in the last 4 years, I mostly agree with your points. Especially about the hype driven demand for DS/ML. One thing that is often neglected though is the exploration part it. There really is a lot of data out/in there that your company knows anything about, but can probably benefit from knowing. E.g. even a simple crawl of a popular jobs/ads/... site done diligently for e.g. 6 months can reveal many interesting insights about market structure and trends. Google and its mission to organize all data in the world exist for a reason. This however is in stark contrast with the approach that most executives take. Instead of managing it as a well thought strategic/long term investment, they want to time-box it, to get immediate value and to show off to senior management or customers. I've seen this tendency in both big corporations (mid-level management) and startups, which makes me think that the confounding variable is the fund/incentive management process. In both big corps and startups, there is a limited time&budget to show meaningful results and people optimize for that, which often involves taking shortcuts, neglecting strategy and outright lying.
In contrast to that, I've seen projects driven by wealthy individuals, who don't look for immediate value, but are scratching an itch (e.g. curiosity). These usually fare better than the former as long as budgets don't get out of hand (to exhaust the cash cow). I would argue that these are most successful, because of better alignment of motivation (person paying the bill) and execution (person driving the process).
The post is pretty much just a summary, but I will post it here too.

Edit. HN is not letting me reply to people with questions (shaking small fist). If would like me to answer anything then post a question on my blog.
It seems that the name Roku curses your product (or programming language) into not being used.
This is why I bought a RokuTV. Every other smart TV vendor has multiple generations of abandoned platforms under their belt.
No question it's been suboptimal but "insanely incompetent" seems a stretch. The most logical comparison would be to other similar countries. The U.S. handling seems to have been much better than UK, France, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Iran. Similar to Denmark, Austria, Germany, etc.

South Korea and China seem to be doing well but if they don't achieve herd immunity, and other states do, they might end up prolonging their pain significantly. Although they'll probably be better off because they'll have time to prepare and benefit from medical advances.

It's hard to judge while we're in the middle of this. The demographics and cultural habits probably play a big role. The reports generated after this is all over will tell us who did what well. I predict the U.S. response will be shown to have been much too slow, lacking in sufficent preparation, but not insanely incompetent when compared globally.
While the diagnosis is obviously correct, this proposed cure will never take except with OCD-ridden hair splitters (and there it won't be necessary). Why? Because people would have to burn a glucose molecule for activating a brain cell. That will never happen.
Because the way the Fed is doing this is by giving the PPE to private contractors who then distribute to the highest bidder, not the hot spots or the most in need. The alternative is having FEMA distribute, an agency which is highly experienced in moving aid quickly by now.
Excitement has waned a bit.

Seen as verbose.

Also it's been used in places it shouldn't have been, so 'REST sucks'

Over the past few years, APIs I've had to use have been around a 50/50 split between REST & RPC-ish things.

And in the last month... 1 SOAP interface (!)
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Nice work! Would definitely like to see the complete write up and code you talk about at the end, especially if you manage to test it on mkv or mp4 containers.
What's the transaction rate for bitcoin these days? Is it still a handful of transactions per hour? What are the transaction costs?
I have been in the data Analytics space for 15+ years. The one mantra I try to always focus is what’s the business impact of what our team is creating.

This is a simple yet very powerful rule that helps us quickly disband ideas that:

1. Do not have a robust testing mechanism. No model is useful unless it performs in the real world. Measuring this is a severely non-trivial problem with multiple operational considerations.

For e.g. are you able to run manage true control/test groups? How do you build a “reverse” data pipeline to verify your models? And, if you are required to update model weights constantly, where and how will you update the model parameters?

2. Conversely, some of the most impactful products I worked on were probably delivered in simple excel sheets or had just under 20 lines in my Jupyter notebook. Not every business problem is demanding a deep learning network. For e.g. we worked on a data-driven capacity forecasting exercise for a call-centre. I can tell you that the sophistication of the model was the last thing on my mind as I had to work on careful interpretation and data collection.

3. Data Science departments should sit closer to business than what appears to be the trend correctly. At least business data science teams ( Apart from technical data teams focusing on product analytics to improve performance etc ). Courses and academic programs, I think, have developed a bias towards tools and techniques without the underlying analytical interpretative techniques needed to work with data. For e.g a new data scientist in my team delivered excellent code but she couldn’t detect logical misses in the data (for e.g losing some data during processing, using columns with almost all data missing)

On the other end of this spectrum, we are in the lagging end of the hype bubble still so there are many top leaders who are expecting to plug in “data science” and realise Billions of dollars in savings, new sales etc.
There is a very real issue if the company pays too high a price for its share buybacks. Taken in the extreme case of the corona virus there is a very real difference if the company (say the airlines) did a buyback of a set amount of shares in January 2020 versus if the company did a buyback of the exact amount of shares buyback today, post corona virus crash.
It's an interesting combination considering that states can't rely on federal stockpiles, either. It's a failed state at some point and we may well be accelerating to that point.
Please tell us how much it costs. Why would anyone trial any software without knowing the potential cost?

Edit: The only reason I can think of is if they had no intention whatsoever of proceeding to purchase it.
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A Logitech 925e ($99 USD MSRP) currently goes for $180-$260 on eBay and $358 on Amazon.
Why not use Twilio for this?
This kind of mentality lead to huge fuckup that were the ASCII code-pages, and we are still suffering fallout from that.

I still cannot input one of letters in my name into most systems for example.

There is a decent middle ground, as you can store first-name(or equivalent), last name(or equivalent) for sorting purposes... and a display name which is culture sensitive.
This is the perfect example why protest voting (voting for someone because you are against something - the other party, the establishment) is so dangerous.

You should only vote if are truly and in favour of and see the good reasoning of someone’s ideas and who has shown a good track record. Voting out of emotion to stick it to the other team is like stabbing yourself with a dagger.

> Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.
I cant speak about AirBnB, but the reason bailouts are unpopular with some companies...say...airline companies is because they purposely implemented stock buy-backs and wasted most their reserve cash chasing EPS. Now they come for money. How is that fair to other companies which remained cautious and maintained cash reserves?
And you have to pay domain registration fees too, yeah?
The broader question though is how does your offering compare to Clickhouse?
Having more open source software is always good, so congrats on putting something out there.

I'm very curious why this takes the approach it appears to take: running two docker containers with opensmtpd in one of them, and then scanning the maildir for message content; compared to what the numerous existing solutions (mailcatcher, mailtrap, mailhog, maildump) all do: run an in-process SMTP server.
I think people like us (at least me) miss a lot of things, some more important than others, and we have to carefully choose what we spend out time on :)
We didn't. Hardly anyone went to University in the UK at that time, compared to now.
> I predict the U.S. response will be shown to have been much too slow, lacking in sufficent preparation, but not insanely incompetent when compared globally.

Why are you comparing globally? It's the wealthiest nation, always brags about itself being #1, and is the global hegemon, yet we're supposed to compare it to it's satellite states.
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