skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"France is going to release lockdown in a month."

I highly doubt that will happen. The preferred approach seems to be incremental opening to try and control the transmission rate. There might be one or two very stupid leaders who want to open things up with a bang (cough Trump cough), but the European nations currently easing restrictions seem to being doing so very cautiously.
Well, all the items in the list are already "heritage" (you can include the demoscene too, which at >20 years old can also be considered "heritage" in our fast-moving field). Generally things which get on these UNESCO lists are those which a country considers to be particularly important/unique/characteristic of the country, and the benefit is attracting attention to them and thus contributing to their continued existence/protection.

One random example: there are lots of Roman ruins, but if the 4th-century palace of a Roman emperor is almost continually inhabited and turned into a medieval city, that's pretty unique and worthy of the UNESCO list (https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/97/).
Anime, Manga, and Video Game Datasets for Machine Learning
There used to be a startup "Mercado" in the dot com days where consumers could form buyer's groups. It worked well for a while until the downturn.
As a french, I'm ok if amazon suspends deliveries.

We have plenty of other websites to order from: fnac, darty, ruducommerce, cdiscount, etc.

This is going to be good for the french economy, and a good message to american giants that they are not above the law.
For all the faults our driving culture has created, there's definitely something calming for me about the whole thing (once you're outside the crush of big-city traffic).

Kinda related to what the author says in the article, there's just something about hitting the road, either alone or with a friend, playing some classic rock, and just driving (whether or not there's a destination) that gives me space to think and is soothing. Not sure why or if anyone else has the same experience.
Are you a lawyer or are there jobs that you find stimulating without the overhead of getting accredited/years of school?
not related to the article itself, but Church (or Scott) encoding is, to me, one of the most eye-opening FP concepts – in order to describe a data type, you just write the way it can be pattern-matched on. and that's essentially describing how the value can "drive" your program's control flow, because you give it one or more continuations to call with some arguments.

a church¹ encoding of booleans:

false = λ f t -> f ()
true = λ f t -> t ()

just says that, given a boolean value, you can choose one of two control flow paths, i.e. do

case myBool of
False -> "a"
True -> "b"

or using the church-encoded version:

myBoolEnc
(λ () -> "a")
(λ () -> "b")

a product type just means "you can do stuff using the parts", i.e.

threeAndFive = λ k -> k 3 5
trueAndFoo = λ k -> k true "foo"

and that just means you can do e.g.

case myPair of
(a, b) -> a+b

or, using the church encoded version

myPairEnc
(λ a b -> a+b)

it's like the ultimate "inversion of control" - the values are driving the program by calling the continuations passed to them! tbh i always get chills when i think about this, bc it just seems like such a deep thing... lambdas really are the ultimate everything, especially values :)

(and now, a handwavy, possibly rambling conclusion)

to me, this embodies the fact that booleans, numbers and other values have no inherent meaning - what matters about them is that we can, via pattern matching or something else, distinguish e.g. True and False, or 0 and 13 and 725, and do different things. like, the bits we use to represent binary numbers have no meaning either; what matters about a particular pattern of bits is how it changes the execution of a program relative to other patterns of bits that could be in its place.

---

¹ with some added () to work in non-lazy languages and to highlight that the type `Bool` is just the sum `Unit + Unit`
>Reclaim the wealth from capital, push back capital and fund public innovation.

Being born in Eastern Europe, having experienced communism when I was a kid - which meant lack of food, living in improper conditions (cold, frequently shutdowns of utilities), scarcity of common goods, relative poverty, low development, poor healthcare, censorship, violation of most rights - and thinking of tens of millions of deaths caused worldwide by communism, I don't really understand why some westerners are pushing to it instead of being happy they didn't experience it.
Lentils, green peas (frozen/dried), chickpeas, beans,....
I left before I got into it. It seemed like the whole field went to web & mobile & saas, none of which I care for. And interesting things like OS research got largely killed by excessively complex hardware & software stacks and bloat that must be supported or nobody will look at the thing. Freedom got attacked (saas, centeralization, nat and other efforts to kill p2p, drm, browser & web apps to enslave you instead of user agent and desktop software to empower you, portability and choice got killed for "our way or the highway", list goes on) quite hard, hackers across the board dropped principles for "pragmatism" or whatever. None of the job ads I saw had had anything in them that resonated with me. So I got depressed, dropped out of high school and gave up on going to college.

Since then? I did stints in various unskilled & skilled blue collar jobs. Can't say I had much passion for any of them. So now I'm back, without education (mild regret but I can always study more myself; I think education should be increasingly on-demand and lifelong), but at least the pay is better and I get to work in a clean office while listening to music of my choice. I think the field still sucks (well, I imagine there are jobs I would really like but the chances of finding them, without leaving my country and family and everything behind, is probably quite slim), the grass wasn't very green on the other side.

Of course, I'm still a hacker at heart and I hope to create something nice one of these days. Probably nothing commercial.
Despite Covid-19, Tanzania's President Calls for Snake Farming to Supply China
I would add there is a conflict of interest in the software industry. Big companies which could invent products to (really) optimize software development would not do that because they will have less developers (business channels at the end) to sell their offerings. Most developers around the world are wasting time doing the same thing over and over instead of having good secure, robust frameworks and UX/UI builders/tools.
I predict things will largely look the same as they did before within 1-2 years; at least in America. Hard to predict what'll happen in other countries.

There will probably be small changes (less handshaking, more acceptance of wearing masks when sick with anything, remote work somewhat more popular), but I don't think this is going to change American society in the way people think it will. Maybe healthcare reform and UBI will come sooner than they otherwise would've, but they're still far away.
Shortly after 9/11 was a period of reduced air travel that affected air quality in measurable ways.

Has air traffic dropped off enough to log similar changes?
One idea I've always wanted to try out if I had the knowledge and time is creating a text editor in Racket that effectively worked like Emacs, but instead of elisp you leveraged the language creation features of Racket. So your init.el could be #lang Python and then you would configure it using Python, or #lang Java or even #lang elisp. Of course all of those languages are just being translated back into Racket but that's not the point. The idea would be that you could customize the editor using the syntax you preferred.

There are definitely some cons to this approach. But the goals would be accessibility and customizability for the end user especially people without a programming background.

Oh and you could choose Emacs or Vim keybinding and all editor functionality would be supported using either.
How do you handle listening to songs on mobile devices across the internet? I'm currently using Resilio Sync (trying to hack around for selective sync support in Syncthing) meanwhile to get albums I want onto my phone.

I haven't yet looked into things like Plex, Kodi or Emby.
I stated my career early - while I was still in high school. I went from bagging groceries and doing checkouts at a grocery store to programming for a local company my senior year of high school. I continued doing this for my first couple years of college.

But then dot-bomb happened and it looked like the party was over. I looked down at the job opportunities after graduation. I didn't really want to spend the rest of my life wearing a tie, writing bank software and sitting in a cubicle every day, so I decided to try something different.

I became a seasonal park ranger. And it was awesome.

Like most jobs, I got it through knowing someone. My grandparents had volunteered for the NPS and were able to connect me with the right people. I became a seasonal park ranger at Yellowstone.

It's not for everyone. The pay is not great, but you do get lots of good benefits because it's a government job. And you're often living in remote areas (the nearest grocery store was an hour and a half drive from where I was stationed). It's also not conducive to family life if that's your thing (again, the closest school was 1.5 hours away and everyone around me was my coworkers). And the days are long, helping tourists, checking permits, etc. Permanent jobs are also incredibly hard to get - you usually have to do years of seasonal work to accrue enough seniority to get considered for a permanent position.

But the benefits? Being able to crack open a drink after a long day and look up at more stars than I ever thought existed - I spent many nights on the front porch of my cabin looking up at the Milky Way. Hiking, camping, boating on the weekends are easy because I was right there in the park. Clean air, clean water. A good group of coworkers (for me) who legit really care about protecting these astounding natural resources. And a feeling that you're really making a difference and reaching people.

I did this for a few years and they were among my happiest years prior to my marriage. Ultimately, I ended up going back into tech after things recovered. But there are days that I really miss the outdoors and wearing the uniform.
"This meeting is to announce we've settled on an architecture for the next gen grid optimization program: Electron UI with a Ruby on Rails app underneath the hood that calls to AWS Lambda for anything that's cpu-heavy. State is persisted to Firebase as serialized YAML, which should scale really well. And to our normal crowd of performance zealots, don't even start with your normal "latency" and "outages" griping. We're comfortable with this stack and besides, we can waste a _lot_ of cycles before we start missing deadlines!"
According to the article, these flights are running empty for legal and regulatory reasons, not because they are carrying cargo.
Support local businesses if you can. Buy stamps if you can.
The number of cases is just a fantasy in most countries. The death toll is also fake, but it's more difficult to manipulate, so it's a better metric.

Just notice that it's strange that the same bug causes very different rates cases/deaths in different places.

The best metric is comparing the average of deaths in same dates past year to total deaths now and dividing per million of inhabitants.
You can build docker images with Nix (https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#sec-pkgs-dockerTools), but right now it wouldn't make much sense to use the NixOS modules (like nginx) for that. The modules in NixOS assume a systemd based environment and are thus not suitable for use in containers (in the end, most service modules generated systemd units).

What you can do, though, is use Nix to build a container image with an nginx config. You just can't use the abstractions present in NixOS as-is to generate the nginx config, you'd have to write the nginx config yourself (just as you would if you use a Dockerfile). You could perhaps re-use parts, or modify the NixOS modules, though.
I've been working in this space for a few years, as an engineer and now founder, and I think a lot of savvy investors are beyond this.

In my experience, everyone who is informed acknowledges that ML is very powerful, but the algorithms are widely accessible.

Instead, it seems that investors are looking for a company that protects itself with a proprietary source of data that allows for results that are unobtainable by competitors. Also, to a lesser extent, domain expertise that allows them to tailor existing ML architectures specifically for the problem at hand.
They're losing millions of dollars every week. Will they still be eager to say yes?
That's because the bulk of the money doesn't actually flow to the economy. Banks, multinational(cartels) and other rent seekers hoard the money.

1. Banks build their reserves to lend but they don't change lending standards so the money doesn't flow out.

2. multinationals buy stock back to raise stock values up instead of bigger dividends

3. coastal real estates prices just go up and up.

4. educational costs have skyrocket over the decades. Did calculus become more complex?
But does that work on AMD ?
From what I can tell, low-margin companies just buy walmart computers and use AOL email accounts.

Once they are in the 10-20 employee range they start looking for either a part-timer or a managed service provider (MSP). They'll also want this if they have basically any compliance targets (most of mine get audited by the FDIC or a reinsurer).

On the MSP side we use an RMM tool to automate workstation and server management across all our clients, handle audits, plan their infrastructure growth, manage the more complicated saas apps like O365/G-suite, etc.

Most basic companies are fairly hands-off once you have them in a good spot, I think I spent more time through coronavirus helping them iron down their bureaucracy re: WFH than actual technical challenges.

Very few of my clients are interested in India and geographic proximity plays a larger role in provider selection than any other factor. We get face2face with every client at least once a month and can actually show up to handle an issue when needed.
It's perfectly rational to want to buy twice as much flour if it's the same price it normally is, but not be willing to pay extra for the organic flour. It depends on the individuals willingness to pay and their estimation of the probability that the situation gets much worse.

For most Americans, they will eventually use their normal brand of flour, so buying extra is essentially no extra cost. (Time-value of money over, say, 6 months means that we're talking about a 1% difference here.) It's a cheap hedge against supply disruptions. But that's not very likely to happen. The organic brand is often at least 20% more expensive, making the calculus not worthwhile.

Put another way, if you expect flour prices to rise 10%, you should buy as much flour as you will use before it goes bad at today's prices, and 0 organic flour at a 20% premium.
France has 143k cases now.

France has done 1/2 as many tests per million than the US. That alone can explain the lower infection rate in France. Deaths in France are 3x that of the US per million. By all the metrics I see, the US is doing much better than France.

All data source from https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
I agree with your point in general, but this claim is overblown:

> If we respond to COVID-19 like we do with the flu, we could see 150-200 million infected because it spreads more easily, those numbers would overwhelm the country, maybe have 20-35 Million dead

Even without any medical treatment at all, the death rate from COVID-19 is much lower than 13%. It might even be below 1%, once you factor in all the asymptomatic cases that we're only just starting to discover from blood antibody testing. So we're still talking about millions of deaths, which would be absolutely horrible enough in its own right, but we're not looking at double digit death numbers. COVID-19 fortunately isn't that deadly. Other diseases are though ... so in a way, as bad as this seems, we did still get somewhat lucky.
Super nice, love the simple & effective UI! Congrats!
Bigtable is exactly this. An entire database is saved in a small number of files which are are append-only (and therefore can be written fully linearly).

Reads of a single record usually only read a single disk block. In-memory indexes to locate the block are fairly small, even for 1B+ records.

Reads of a range of records do N range reads of blocks, where N is typically < 5, and the number of bytes read compared to the number of bytes returned to the user is typically <10% overhead.
Yes, I agree that creating more complex extensions is cumbersome. Would love to have ready-to-use python dicts + string functions!
You may have missed some of the nuance in the GP's argument.
If that were really the case then everyone would make dynamic pages that always claimed to be created 6 hours ago.

In reality Google knows perfectly well when the page was created (or first seen by their spider, which is almost the same thing these days) without relying on metadata.
To counter that, I've been running 11x 4TB WD Red (WD40EFRX) since 2013 and zero failures, with 10 drives in RAIDZ2 and 1 warm spare.

I have them in a 4U chassis in the attic, with 5 case fans blowing through; two on the rear and three across all the bays. It's a 24 bay box, but I've not yet had pressing need to fill the rest of the bays.
I think time tracking in GitLab originated as a way to track time if you're working for multiple clients, but I'm not sure.
Gloo API Gateway introduces new developer portal
I think there is a lot to this idea. I've wondered whether something like the False Claims Act (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_Claims_Act) could be expanded or modified (or just used) to fund journalism.

Not perfect by any means but it would protect one of the most important functions of the papers.
Hi pushcx, they actually copied the technical details. https://www.domboxmail.com/news/apple-copied-our-product#how
What Happened to Lee
What are the things that you think other devs would label over engineering but was instrumental in your project not becoming an unmaintainable mess?
I've mainly been eating a lot of meals with beans as an ingredient, like chili and burritos, then eating stuff like hummus for snacks. Almost all of the ingredients for chili and burritos are canned or jarred and have a shelf life of at least a year. I've also found that vegan meat substitues are usually in stock, and while they aren't non-perishable, they aren't hard to find.
Any day of the week, I'd much prefer to be tracked by Google trying to sell me things than have my every action tracked by the government through my government-issued phone. If those are my only two options, give me Google any day.
Looking at Backblaze I would recommend only Hitachi and Toshiba drives ...
> it's hard to maintain social distancing while doing it because the way the crews operate

I have no idea how to quantify it, but social distancing at a grocery store, surrounded by an ever-rotating group of people, seems much more risky than a work-crew, which is composed of the same 6 people all day.
It's still early enough in the pandemic that the effect you're seeing here might only be that denser areas get it first, not that they get it worse. People in less dense areas do still regularly come in close contact with other people, so there is the potential for the virus to spread there even if the people live spread out on farms or whatever.

Given it a few more months and I suspect that the differences between the urbs and suburbs will be less.
In a population of 325 million, not really. I remember back in March when the media was saying at least 6 million people would die and that bodies would be piling up in the streets. Currently seems like the biggest threat will be unemployment and continued economic downturn
Manga 109 is a cool repository but I wonder how it can be used in a machine learning model and for what purpose?
Gloo API Gateway Version 1.3 – Dev Portal, WebAssembly, Knative
Amiga demoscene has introduced me to the electronic music, cutting-edge 3D graphics, and generative art. And it's been inspiring that such cool things can be written by small groups of amateurs.

I'm super happy it has got recognition.
Bit off topic

Ooooh, I like the look of that site.
The stat that they're specifically referring to is the case fatality rate, but that has a lot more to do with the denominator (Sweden's utter failure to test) than the numerator (actual number of deaths).
Dude, the entire field of Machine learning is an attempt to find a global optimum. It is an attempt to turn what is otherwise a design problem into a calculation.

To say that global optimums are moot or don't exist is categorically wrong. Global optimums and trade offs exist in equal measure everywhere. I value good judgment in both.

Catering to one extreme is unwise on every level.

>Expecting candidates to lead with absolutism like in your post os a good recipe for finding Brilliant Jerks.

First off I never said or implied this. My post is just saying that not Everything is a design tradeoff. Second off are you implying I'm a Jerk? Did you just call me a Jerk?
If only there was a way to do that without creating multiple accounts.

At least my company doesn't host anything on public guthub (guthub for enterprises has everything) so they don't need to be connected. If you have personal and company stuff you are in trouble even if you separate them.
Precisely. The person I replied to said that it was always luck.

A single datapoint can't prove a general claim. But a single counterpoint can disprove a claim.
Did not quit yet, but slowly moving away.

I did a Ruby bootcamp 4 years ago at the age of 18, because I always liked computers and hacking around a bit. 4 years later I don't regret doing it, I learned a lot, but I have to motivate myself too much to keep on going with programming.

I find more joy in doing activities where I get to use my hands and body, being active all day. Last year I started working at a bakery which was so much fun and these quarantine days I have been starting repair an old house and painting artworks.

I guess I'll have to find out how to turn that into a living, but it gives me more joy then chasing the money that is in the tech industry. We'll see how it goes!
Our organization tried Nix for many years. Most of our problems were around usability, lack of documentation (including zero docstrings or type annotations in nixpkgs), and the overt unfamiliarity of the Nix expression language (asking a whole organization to learn something that seems deliberately cryptic isn't a recipe for success), and a long tail of other things. Still, at its core Nix for package management seems like the future; I just have no confidence that they're going to iron out those issues in the next 4-5 years.

Of course, none of that speaks to Guix as I haven't used it, but hopefully it's awesome and solves all of those problems.
The opposite. There is a hypothesis that, by quarantining everyone with symptoms, the milder asymptomatic versions are allowed to spread
Sure, but then every time the user does anything that might scroll the point off the screen, he has to remember to C-<SPC> C-<SPC> first. Installing a new habit that has to activate before such a wide range of editing operations can take a lot of time, during which the user is less productive because part of his attention is devoted to installing the new habit.
And all those other websites should have to comply with the exact same restrictions or shut down. The law should not be applied unequally to just one company.