skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wekan uses meteor.js which is really one of the worst frameworks out there. It breaks on so many ocasions and has really bad OS support. Event he current maintainer kind of dislikes the framework... The worst part about metor is that it forces you to use MongoDB!
How to Work with Streaming Data in AWS Redshift
Nobody in Scotland wears them either TBH! It's cold up there.
I find it funny. In my small country, progressives prefer the English language and borrowing customs from the West because they think maintaining our own identity, our customs, our local food, our traditions, our culture, our language and our identity as people is something "conservative", "subversive" and "reactionary".

Meanwhile, progressives in English speaking countries think the contrary is true.
I'd like to see an org-chart depth analysis for different organizations. It'd be interesting to map bureaucratic processes to the structure of an org chart and verify Conway's law.

The U.S. Army uses the concept of a span of control that dictates each level of hierarchy should have between 2 and 5 reports. There's about 10 levels between a private and the secretary of the army. The Active Duty Army is about 470k which works out to 3.7 reports per level from 470000^(1/10). There's about 1M total personnel which works out to 3.9 reports per level.

Google has 114k employees. With your ideal of 7, that works out to 5.3 reports per level given by 114000^(1/7). I'd be pretty surprised if there's a depth of 12 at Google. That's 2.6 reports per level.
Thank you for taking the time to write such a beautiful comment
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I disagree, software scales much better than, say, designing a bridge.
Pass the salt: The minute details that helped Germany build virus defenses
Paradox of Thrift
Up to now we've been helping communities with their own native apps but today we are excited to launch the self-serve PWA version of our platform.

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wget / curl or your OS package manager
can you tell me a bit more about this? i wanted something like this for a small api i have but ended up using marshmallow to validate jsons against defined schemas which i think is a bit overkill.
The Swiss federal railways experimented with rolling supermarkets [0], a rolling Starbucks [1][2] and a rolling McDonald's [3].

[0] https://www.srf.ch/static/cms/images/960w/3527cc.jpg

[1] http://media7.news.ch/news/680/339117-c0ed039d03cc1b9f5e5986...

[2] https://img.blick.ch/news/2535226-v4-starbucks-mitarbeiterin...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRYaL_A4ftM
The chinese themselves actually prefer playing on local servers due to the amount of shit talking they get while playing on global servers. Unending amount of Tiananmen copypasta and free Hong Kong slogan its sickening.

Source: voicechats on csgo
My local supermarket has 2-3 times more DVDs than Blu-Rays.
Zoom or Not to Zoom?
That's funny, I had no cfeedback to give until I closed that pop-up and it promptly scrolled me all the way back to the top even though I was still only halfway through reading the article.
Until you leave your house and use your mobile phone as a mobile phone, and then all access is granted to the data-sucking fiends.

And I say this as someone who runs Pi-Hole. But I feel like it is a battle I am using.
Image Detection as a Service
Can someone explain this to us on the other side of the Atlantic? I mean, seen from Norway it looks totally insane.

How can such a large proportion of people be so financially insecure that a couple of weeks unemployment means that they are going hungry in the wealthiest country in the world?
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Many things can impact can impact how a company might be valued. Enterprise Value (EV) is a commonly used valuation metric that subtracts cash and adds debt to the market cap as calculated by share price. Netflix has an EV of $183b and Disney has an EV $228b. Then there’s other assets and liabilities, revenue and expenses, and ratios, trends, and speculation to go with that.
I follow some practices from Cal Newport Deep Work [1].
In this case it is about scheduling your day (see also this blogpost [2]).

I really like the feature in paymo to schedule your working day with tasks that do exist in a kanban board.
It ensures that you can quickly see what you're working on when picking things to do during the day and it also ensures that everything you do is in a kanban board.

I understand that most people probably don't miss this feature but I have a hard time going back to a system that does not have this.

[1]: https://www.calnewport.com/books/deep-work/

[2]: https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2015/09/29/deep-habits-three...
Buy a simple rubber jack insert. Problem solved.

>Am sure a manufacturer with better QA than OnePlus

Funny, IMO my 7T is by far the best quality phone I have tried and that includes Apple and Google phones.
The rules of linguistic evolution apply just as much online as they do face to face. The complexity and uniqueness of a language is inversely proportional to how much contact its speakers have with non-speakers, especially ones learning the language as adults. Some contact starts to grind the sharp edges off, like losing clicks. More contact begins morphing the grammar, such as changing order from subject-object-verb to subject-verb-object. Eventually they blend together, or if their populations are too uneven, one is absorbed.

Ultimately you have to make a choice. Do you wall yourself off to keep foreign language from overly influencing you or do you give up a part of yourself to join the conversation?

Anecdotally, the working class people I've talked to care a lot more about the opportunities they get from learning English than they do about preserving the legacy of their language.
Let me add to the recommendations to try Doom. I've written up some notes on workflows in Doom: https://noelwelsh.com/posts/2019-01-10-doom-emacs.html

I didn't find anything similar when I got started using it, so it might be useful to you.
Coronavirus: ICO temporarily relaxes regulatory approach
As much as our industry sucks at interviewing, it sucks at performance management even more.

A congenial but mediocre developer can stick around forever in most places once they're in.

This performance management weakness also makes me suspicious of various companies claiming to have nailed the interview process.
I think people are missing the point. I know that most SE owners liked it because of its compact size but from company side this product was never about the size. Its focus is to be cheapest, most affordable entry level iPhone and the way it is achieved is by optimising production and reusing same components. Apple tried to make cheap iPhone with 5c in 2013. SE was continuation of same idea just better executed and it become much more successful. I never had any illusions that Apple will make completely new design just for SE. They have done exactly the same cost effective product as previously so no surprises here.
I just checked in NL, it's far from 500Euros, more 800
Given the close economic and cultural ties between the west coast and Asia, I find it very hard to believe that Coronavirus travelled through Europe to NYC before it travelled directly from China to LA or SF.
I was living in Germany when I decided to do this. I am studying at a university in Sweden.

I don't really know the programs in the US very well. I didn't look at any when I was considering the field. Do you want to try to do a masters and then get into industry, or rather then continue with a PhD?
That's why I said "or better yet NextDNS", which is not tied to your home.
The Binary Vector Clock
> Can’t get over the fact that even food banks are apparently drive-through operations in the US, in what appears to be a suburban wasteland...

I thought the car pickup was happening because buildings have been closed for social distancing?
I mentor fresh graduates and help them find jobs as part of my work at https://thelycaeum.in - We introduce people to Emacs and I use a bunch of videos which I made for another side project to help them learn it and these might be useful for you. They're available at http://emacsmovies.org/blog/where_to_begin/ - I specifically avoid starter kits and other such stuff and focus on teaching how to get comfortable with basic ideas of the editor. Good luck and welcome. :)
>Are startup founders "special" in a way they do not use Adsense?

I don't find depending on Adsense for revenue great, good or healthy, but I presume for many small web sites there's no other option.

>Is the web not build / run by startups?

What is the Web? What is a start-up? If by Web you mean WWW, and by start-up you mean "new shiny online businesses which are perceived by lots of public as being cool and trendy and are funded by VC", then the answer is no.

We have WWW since Tim Berners Lee invented it, and it ran just fine before "start-ups" were a thing.
Adventures in Compose – The Doom fire effect
You can disable the volume on most phones. Granted "most phones" mean android.
Good.

They lag hard and they seem to hack and use cheats at higher percentages than non Chinese. There are lots of movements to segregate Chinese players onto their own servers in games like DotA 2 and Cs:go. The CCP decided that the people who spam the copypasta about how bad the CCP is were actually making an impact.

China literally got trolled out of video games - but it's because they trolled the world first. Reap what you sow...
Doctors kids become doctors and doctors are well paid.

This is anecdotal, but my elementary school class was full of doctors kids and I can tell you that the doctor parents would almost disown their kid if they didn't get into medical school. Doctors seem to have a very strong opinion on the medical field being the only right option.

So in that sense it's more of a correlation with money, and a causation through inheritance.
Nope. Just stating why it's not a simple on/off switch.
Probably a better camera, new battery, significantly better performance from the chip.

If you’re happy enough with your phone as is then you’re good for now.

I suspect you’re exactly the target audience for this phone though (happy enough to trade cutting edge specs you don’t need for better value - I’m the same).

In any case it’s probably good to know there’s a very familiar drop-in replacement for your existing phone when it gets unusable that isn’t going to break the bank though, right?
You raise some interesting points. A few thoughts.

Generally, psychological conditions can be considered on a spectrum, an analogue scale (i.e. from you have none of this trait or condition, to you display huge amounts). You're absolutely right that the point at which Hoarding Disorder becomes diagnosable (currently, per DSM-5) is determined by the real-world effects on someone's life becoming severe and displaying a number of features. [0]

However, I'd argue that for this subject, considering only the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria is too simplistic:

a) There are plenty of people whose hoarding behaviour falls short of the formal diagnostic criteria, but which do still cause some level of problem for them in their life, or for other people who are in their life. (For example, you could have someone whose home conditions don't meet the diagnostic criteria, but who no longer receive visits from family or friends because of the state of their house.)

b) The diagnostic criteria to a large extent represent a traditional, common-sense, real-world societal view - i.e. it's fine to collect things, until it starts to make you unwell, and unsafe in your physical environment.

c) The diagnostic criteria are updated seldom, and slowly. [1]

As such, it's not infeasible that DSM-5 might lag behind (potential, arguable) alternate forms of hoarding disorder - such as digital hoarding. Consider someone who spends huge amounts of money on storage media and electricity, to the detriment of their financial well-being and maybe close relationships. Or someone who spends so much of their time downloading and categorising their digital belongings, that they miss sleep and make themselves unwell, or avoid social engagement and have detrimental effects on close relationships. These cases might not be diagnosable within DSM-5, but I'd argue that they would still be representative of psychopathology... and may in time (in DSM-7? :) ) be diagnosable in their own right.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK519704/table/ch3.t29/
[1] https://www.psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/practice/dsm
There was also much less radiation that got out in the Fukushima accident.

Levels are so low, that you can't make predictions that are bases on real data. You can only extrapolate the cancer risk from higher doses.

Every coal and gas plant does around the same harm as a Fukushima accident every year if you look at the deaths they cause.

https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
> please consider where this will lead the country.

Procopius of Caesarea wrote in History of the Wars in 545 CE:

In every city the population has been divided for a long time past into the Blue and the Green factions [...] And they fight against their opponents knowing not for what end they imperil themselves [...] So there grows up in them against their fellow men a hostility which has no cause, and at no time does it cease or disappear, for it gives place neither to the ties of marriage nor of relationship nor of friendship, and the case is the same even though those who differ with respect to these colours be brothers or any other kin.

Spoiler: Blue and Green were indeed sports teams.
If you're proposing an investment of effort to find new information, it's absolutely fair game to ask what we will do with that information--how we will benefit from it.

a) We find a naturally attenuated strain and do nothing to promote or spread it.

b) We find such a strain and treat it like a vaccine candidate with all the testing.

c) We find such a strain and treat it like a vaccine candidate but without all the testing.

If someone does a) or b) they are on solid legal and scientific ground, but arguably have not created any new benefit beyond what is already happening to develop a vaccine.

Whoever does c) would certainly deliver a benefit in terms of speed... but if they cause any unexpected harm, would be exposed to legal liability.

I guess my fundamental question is whether the hard part of developing a vaccine is attenuating the virus or proving such attenuation is safe. Epidemiology can help us find natural versions of the former, but it can't help us with the latter.

Epidemiology cannot satisfy a question of safety. It can only identify risk factors, as John Snow did with the water pump. If your idea succeeds, at best we will be able to say "this strain seems to be a low risk factor for serious illness or death in this population." Then what?

The critical moment for cholera was to run an experiment: remove the pump handle and see what happens. But in the case of vaccines or vaccine-like strains, we are not talking about an experiment to remove a risk factor, we are talking about spreading a risk factor after properly qualifying its risk as low. That is much harder to do. The only way is to run a bunch of experiments.
Out of interest, how much does that approach cost, I did have a quick look at the Azure CDN pricing page but that didn't really help ;-)
Lying would be illegal...
Haha

Deity = undocumented API

Theology = reverse engineering

Schism = new version breaks backward compatibility
It's basically Cloudfront + S3
Not the OP, but I mentioned this after your last relaunch post - IIRC your initial post had one podcast feed and your relaunch had a new feed. I think ideally you should have kept the same feed, or published a short clip episode telling people to resubscribe. I came very close to missing the new eps myself if your relaunch post missed me. Hindsight is 20/20 :)

Thanks for all the work you and your performers have put in. Can’t wait to listen to the new eps.
It doesn't and you're not. That would obviously make no sense.
MIT Julia class on Covid-19 Modeling
But user behavior data is a much bigger fraction of total storage use than video.
There have been a couple of articles recently about this:

"L.A. Times to Furlough Workers as Ad Revenue ‘Nearly Eliminated’" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22872711

"As YouTube traffic soars, YouTubers say pay is plummeting" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22856324
Question regarding Iodine-131: is it still being generated inside the spent fuel / nuclear waste in Chernobyl? From what I could gather, Iodine-131 is mostly a fission byproduct, and is not present in any of the 4 decay chains[1].

If none is still being generated, there should not be any significant quantity left considering it has a half-life of only 8 days.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decay_chain
Thanks for the note.

I had to read the book three times before I figured out what was going on.
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Tesla sells a product. Whether or not their business model around the product will work and whether the company is well administered is debatable.

With Theranos the experts were skeptical that the product was theoretically even possible, and they never demonstrated it working to anyone. All the “demonstrations” involved cheap tricks of shuffling people from room to room so lab techs could manually process the samples.

Furthermore anyone doing basic due process could’ve gotten a traditional lab test and compared to the Theranos tests, exactly like investigative reporters did later. Such an obvious test would’ve revealed problems much earlier, and nobody on the inside decided to try that.

At least with Tesla you can actually buy a car and actually drive it.
Maybe, just maybe, the lab studying viruses in bats was located in a region with many bats, and many viruses? The potential of these viruses jumping to humans was the reason for the lab in the first place, after all.

I imagine Iowa State University does some research into diseases afflicting corn. But if some new corn fungus shows up in Iowa, it’s probably because corn covers half the state, not because the lab is located there.

Geneticists have already explained that the virus is perfectly natural: all the genes are similar to preciously-seen viruses, and genetic engineering leaves tell-tale signatures of the methods. That would seem to diminish any possible role of the lab to just being the place of transmission, something that could have happened just as easily outside the lab, where an expanding human population is in daily contact with the wildlife they’re encroaching on.

That “wet market” theory is indeed far from certain. Bats aren’t eaten as often as people seem to think, and they are usually not eaten raw.

What’s far more likely is simply someone coming in contact with bat shit. Bats like caves, and human dwelling often are even better. They live really close to humans and there is ample opportunity for contamination.

I live in the middle of Berlin, and I have bats catching mosquitos right outside my window in the summer. If bats can make a living here, with climate on the cold side and every building being tightly isolated and passing every inspection German bureaucrats have come up with, imagine how much they enjoy the somewhat wilder structures of a quickly growing city.

It deserves mention that it’s no coincidence these cables happen to be leaked now. It’s an administration trying to deflect blame. Yet they fail to do even that properly: these cables only raise the possibility of this lab being involved in any way. But what they prove definitely is that there was ample warning in time.

And what difference would it make? Short of an intentional release (which only the most deluded conspiracy nuts believe), it’s negligence at best. That doesn’t change the fact that the federal government ignored dozens of warnings and wasted eight to twelve weeks.

9/11 was very obviously intentional, and the national security establishment still got raked over the coals for it. Imagine 9/11, but with ten similar attacks in other countries starting in late May, Interpol declaring it a “world-wide threat”, and a bunch of small terrorist attacks in Washington State at the end of July.
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Sorry, I meant to link this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20880686

(I can't edit the post anymore)
Ubuntu Core Cybersecurity Analysis [pdf]
In Swift optional types are marked by a question mark (exactly as I suggested). Unwrapping an optional makes it non-optional, so the exclamation point has the opposite meaning.
Why per address, you ask? My opinion on why is because it is a finite namespace, so if any single person took a disproportionate amount of names it would adversely impact others. You can approach that by assigning a cost to addresses and adjusting as necessary and/or using quotas to limit abuse/over use of the namespace. In addition, an email provider’s reputation hinges on its ability to prevent abuse on its own platform; the ability to acquire huge numbers of addresses or rapidly switch between addresses would effectively make the provider a safe haven for spammers who are difficult to block externally without blocking the whole provider.

This is mostly conjecture, though; I don’t actually know for sure how it’s viewed by providers and I also don’t have a complete view of how SPAM prevention actually works (certainly seems complicated.)
Homer’s wine-dark sea leads down an interesting rabbit-hole of thinking about perception, other minds, shared labels for sensations, how one individual consciousness is shaped by (exists only in context of?) others, and the implications of the information age with more extensive inter-mind connections and increasingly numerous and specific shared labels.
I built our local python community's website and to be honest I have no idea about what all is to be considered while designing a page.

The only thing I kept in mind was that almost all our members were using really bad 2g connections and so the site had to be super lightweight.

Anything you can help with/tell us to improve would go a long way.

https://www.pyjaipur.org/
https://github.com/PyJaipur/PyJaipur/tree/master/website
I am aware that shame is a powerful emotion, but I am not sure that a drug habit is the same as not having food. Food is something we all need, drugs are not. Food is a mandatory, drugs are optional. If I decide to take up something that is optional, dealing with the repercussions of my choice is part of me choosing to do said action. Food is very different.

I remember Death of a Salesman being about how the father carried on away from home and his son found out, and how he killed himself over the shame of it and how it affected his son. I thought it was more about the repercussions of his selfish actions than being purely about the emotions that he himself felt. If anything, the father was not a figure to be emulated.

In these sad situations, it is clear that there is a flotilla of other individuals who are also sadly in the same situation, so it isn't a "shame" queue that the "non shamed" observers can stand at a distance and deride.

If I was too ashamed/proud to be seen queuing for food (we all do at a checkout in supermarkets anyway?), I would perfectly expect someone to ask me if I considered starving as more important than my presented image. Which would I rather be: embarrassed, or starving?
> As if covid-19 was not enough already.

And war with Russia, yes.
How HR is getting automated?
Japan's xenophobia is so strong that they don't care about doing what they need to to get back on top (embrace immigration). The USA may be headed in that direction but we are no where near the shitstorm of demographics and xenophobia that Japan is dealing with.