skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using chat and meet for a few months. Chat has seen no new features added in months, the UI is atrocious (switching from a dark terminal window to a Google chat tab will burn your retina), it offers no customization besides the colour of your emojis and even the official Google bots can't understand basic requests like "Schedule a meeting with everyone in this room". Slack is way way (way) ahead of it.

The integration with Meet consists of a single "invite to video call" button that creates a new video call and inserts the link into your message. There's no option to stop people from inviting you to new calls/set your Google chat status as busy when accepting a call.

Meet itself is also frustrating to use for anything more than a 2-3 person meeting; it doesn't display more than 4 video feeds at once on your screen. It's also unable to save settings between video calls (if you don't want to have incoming and outgoing 720p streams all the time you have to change the settings at the start of every call). Zoom and even Jitsi are both miles ahead of it.

There is no reason to use either product besides the fact that they come with enterprise Gmail accounts. They both still feel like prototypes or minimum viable products (especially Chat).
I don’t see the issue. The internet exists now and you can access a world of content in seconds. I didn’t get any of this, ever in my mediocre education - I don’t see why so much focus should be placed on these elites at the expense of everyone else.
welp - that didnt last long.
Sure.

1. Introduction to the Theory of Computation - Sipser and Introduction to Algorithms - CLRS (for the Algorithms course)

2. Machine Learning - Tom Mitchell

3. Artificial Intelligence - A Modern Approach - Russell and Norvig

4. Design of Everyday Things - Norman (for HCI)

5. Operating Systems in Three Easy Pieces [0]

Most of the courses had their own notes, slides and suggested research papers as primary reading and the textbooks were mostly used as a secondary reference.

[0] - http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/
In my opinion, it's a totally different approach that accomplishes roughly the same thing. I agree that manually vacuuming is better, but you probably don't have the wherewithal to do it daily. The average amount of dirt on your floors after manually cleaning once or twice a week is probably the same, or more, as what a Roomba leaves on the floors after cleaning daily. That's really where it shines: relentlessly cleaning every day.
It could.

Previous studies suggested that the strain circulating in NYC is of European origin, whereas the California strain, arriving earlier, was of Asian origin.

It's always possible that the NYC one is more fatal. We don't have data, but it is possible.

Thing is, though, at the peak, NYC was seeing a 60% positive rate on tests and is still seeing something near 30%. That pretty much guaranteed that the vast, vast majority of NY cases were not detected, and still probably are not.

(Italy is back around 5-6% again, for example)

It must be the case that a dramatic percentage of NYC is infected. Certainly not more than 100% as some oversimplified maths suggest, and likely not 80%+ that would be very comforting -- but quite likely between 30% and 45%, given the Stanford and LA studies, and the NYC testing data.
The people leaving due to financial hardships weren't making much money so they pulled the average income down. After they were gone, average income of the remaining creators was 60% higher.

Or something like that perhaps.
Nitpick: "My First VB4 Program" - VB6 came out in 1998
Hee hee...so I can draw devil horns and moustaches on my co-workers in boring meetings? Excellent!

"helps you give better presentations by letting you annotate any screen, highlight your cursor, and more"

Awww...
I'd really love a Macintosh System 7.1 version of this.
It's the first time in many years that I look at a new language and it feels good. I had no WTF moment, thinking "how could a human mind came up with this?" or "why do they want us to feel miserable doing that?"

I only wonder how it would feel using it on real world problems.

One question to the author: is there string interpolation?

world = "world"
print "hello #{world}"

Finally, the links in the Docs section of the footer are 404 and the link to GitHub links the home page of GitHub, not the project.
Because Soviet math textbooks target a different audience: those kids who really enjoy math and derive pleasure in a bit of complexity (think Sheldon Cooper from BBT). You can call them elitist. Nobody cares about the other kids.

US textbooks, on the other hand, are targeted towards more general audience--the average student. That doesn't make them bad, just different.
My son started in the Russian School of Math - a pretty popular after-school program in many US cities. What is fascinating is the core theory that algebra can be grasped by children as young as 6. And there seems to be some truth to this given my son's experience.

One random shout-out: I think if more of us learned math from folks like 3 Blue 1 Brown we would love it enough to explore it more. I don't know if I'm smart enough to have become a master mathematician but I find myself falling in love with math with every video he puts out.
It says on the linked wiki page:

"The campaign is credited with reducing litter on Texas highways roughly 72% between 1987 and 1990"

So it seems to have worked very well!
Bronx Science was founded in 1938. It has graduated eight nobel prize winners, seven in physics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronx_High_School_of_Science

And, per Wikipedia, many of the faculty came from Stuyvesant, founded 1904 (which has itself had 4 nobel prize winners).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuyvesant_High_School
Changing People's Opinion
Thats too little my dear.
Ask HN: Why are load balancers so expensive?
If it wasn't for kubernetes, I probably wouldn't care about load balancers in my personal projects. But since things are the way they are, why do load balancers have to cost so much?
Given the suspected incubation time of around 6 days, a doubling time of 2 days would correspond to an R0 of 8, which seems improbably high.
Yes that makes sense... I think I used curses once like 10+ years ago, and other than that haven't done any TUI programming.

So I'm interested in what people are using now, and it seems like there are some nice new libraries.
This is an interesting idea. Something that I have been thinking in the context of qualifying the quality of a nation's education program is how these things should be considered given that division of labor is the standard mode of operation. Germany for instance has a highly tracked education system, and consequently it has some world class scientists as well as some very talented mechanics but I suspect neither group is very good at the other's specialty. A country can have poor average math scores but be globally competitive in mathematics as long as some collection of people are trained well. The US for instance is largely terrible at mathematics (on average), but we have also produced a large number of world class mathematicians and scientists because we eventually dedicate serious resources toward training a small subset of the population to do these things well.
Section 5 would be better with a laundry listing of at least three unrelated sources observing a security audit at sourceware and runtime level.
How to Find Number of Files in a Directory and Subdirectories
> Or is this just the classic engineers thinking they know better in all fields, rather than just the one they're educated in?

My first "real" job was tech support for a small regional ISP (these were the dial up days). Despite being in a fairly rural area and the frustration that could cause, without a doubt the worst customers I had to deal with were always doctors and lawyers.
If you disallow grouping openly, people will group surreptitiously and the impact will be much the same. Some form of power structure always develops in any grouping of people, whether it is open or hidden and this has been widely documented in anthropology.

I think the most famous one was a write-up about power structures in women power movements in the 70s (I forget the author's name) another one more recently examining Valve software.
If you don't commit fraud, the only two issues you'll see are that:

1) a small subset of sites will refuse to complete the transaction, as their anti-fraud thresholds are set to deny likely-fraudulent browsers such as yours; and,

2) you will be much more easily fingerprinted and tracked online due to your specific combination of extremely uncommon non-default settings in your browser (which may well mitigate #1 if you're originating from a residential IP address).

If you purchase high-value audio gear or clothing or gift cards — basically, high value things can be resold on eBay immediately — you may find your transaction held for review while someone phone calls you to prove that you're you, but for everyday Amazon or etc. purchasing it's unlikely to matter at all.
I ... have no issue with those Chromium changes. I don't want Google to control the web, but I certainly wish there more standards based work went into designing a set of controls that was default across all browsers that was coherent, consistent, and was a safe default if you didn't want a theme. Sadly, Bootstrap become this a while ago, followed by a plethora of other web "defaults" that you just plunk into the top of your HTML file to get a whole new design without changing much.

I'm hoping Firefox Foundation or something like that will do some work in this area.
Since they're KARMA points:

Before enlightenment; chop wood and carry water.

After enlightenment: chop wood and carry water.
The thing I don't get about the outrage in this thread is what the actual harm is. Is there any plausible way you could be harmed by someone tracking your mouse movements?
at least for cars, craigslist started charging $5 for private parties to make a post, but facebook is free.
Note that Switzerland is ~10x smaller than Texas.
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Wow. By that argument, one could just as easily label top universities with high scholastic admissions requirements to be “inequitable”, and thus unacceptable.

Equal opportunity does not imply equal outcome—even for a perfectly fair school. Quite the opposite! In fact, I’m glad I got rejected from several schools... their high bar helped guide me to something that worked better for me anyway.
Blog post time!
But guess what: there’s literally no other options when it comes to spinning rust, WD owns most of the brands.
You're just shadowing the previous binding with a new one, not actually mutating anything[1]:

λ> let foo = 1
λ> let foo = 2
λ> foo
=> 2

could be rewritten[2] as

λ> let foo = 1 in ( let foo = 2 in foo )
=> 2

which makes the semantics more clear.

This idiom is also quite common in Clojure, another famously immutable-first language:

(let [foo 1
foo 2]
foo)
;; => 2

In my opinion (predominantly informed by my experience with those two languages contrasted with the usual suspects from mutable-OOP-land), the benefit of immutability isn't what's happening in your own local scope, since it's typically quite easy to track what your immediate context is doing to a variable. Instead, it's the language-enforced promise that the only changes to local values can come from local actions: your function and method calls can never have spooky side effects, nor can other threads if you're in some hellish concurrent environment.

In this light, Chaos's apparent syntactic sugar of

a[15] = 44

to mean (using some hand-wavey pidgin)

a = a.updateAt(15,44)

seems quite reasonable and fully in the spirit of immutability as a meaningful language feature.

[1] In my scratchwork project, my repl actually yells at me with an annoying warning about this:

<interactive>:8:5-7: warning: [-Wname-shadowing]
This binding for ‘foo’ shadows the existing binding
defined at <interactive>:6:5

[2] I believe that the haskell repl actually functions like a do-block, so the pedantically correct desugaring possibly involves lambdas and bind, but that's not really an interesting distinction here IMO and makes the example less clear.
I point at what I read, what I look at; this is just eye tracking. Is there a browser extension that can block this nonsense?
After this is all said and done, there will be a lot of people in leadership roles, both private and public, that will escape accountability for their actions (or lack thereof) during this pandemic.
no, this hangouts is still that hangouts. the slack competitor is "hangouts chat", the regular old hangouts app from 5 years ago is still going strong and most likely what somebody is talking about when they talk about hangouts.

IIRC, hangouts chat is still only available to paid g-suite customers.
Though I wouldn't be surprised to hear that happen, I doubt 73% of inmates are in a situation where that could cause their imminent death. It would take a ton of work for those kinds of events to happen while w medical team listing some other health issue as the cause of death
Because this type of education is more about job prep and placement. It's not education that people pay for just to have.

If hiring slows down, which it has, then these schools don't have anywhere to place students.
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The bootcamp model doesn’t seem like it would work well in a recession since new grads end up competing for any open positions with laid off people with more experience. I can’t imagine that Lambda would be able to place as many students now as they did before all else being equal and if they tried to sell their ISAs to a financing firm of course they are going to account for the new reality and request a much steeper discount than they did before.

If you’re thinking of Lambda as a student then even if you don’t have to pay tuition you still have all your living costs to think about. Probably does not make sense do Lambda if you would otherwise be leaving a job and dig into savings and then enter a questionable job market.
Very less, people are routinely arrested for simple things like posting on FB on Twitter. And there is some Draconian sedition law, almost all critisim of government can be persecuted under that.

Also the freedom of speech guarantees are very watered down in comparison with the USA.
Inmates still have to consent, and the right of that choice.
Everything starts with trust, of course. We've proven ourselves in several large projects and within our open source community before. The client knows that.

There's never any estimate of "so much hours will be spent in total on this research", we just honestly communicate with the client along the way, and they give us their trust.

Whether we can keep that trust is up to us.
Once, when I was taking a music theory class, I tried to use the Z3 constraint solver to automatically harmonize melodies… it worked surprisingly well! https://github.com/kach/recreational-rosette/tree/master/mus...
I kind of assumed people were aware of events since 26 March. For instance, on 26 March, 3.3m weekly unemployment reports was by far the largest ever reported.

I also suspect some of that type of reporting may lag, and if a ceo or finance team orders it to be shown daily, may be surprised at what a week or two of reporting lag does in the time of the aforementioned events.
> You know, I would argue India is a much more functional democracy than USA at the moment. Unfortunately, it isn't because India has suddenly become more democratic. Fortunately, we are at least not committing guillotine-level crimes. For example, we don't have the biggest businesses being bailed out while 20+ million people are simultaneously unemployed.

Whataboutism does nothing but add more misery.

And why are you asking people to assassinate mark Zuckerberg...on hn. Check the guidelines please.
> I don’t see why so much focus should be placed on these elites at the expense of everyone else.

Because the big breakthroughs and innovations in math and science are achieved by the elites and not by the mediocre masses.

This doesn't mean that we should neglect the mediocre masses (I'm one of them, by the way), they do good, important work. But they're are not sufficient.
Mark Twain wrote an essay about avoiding his bed, as many back then died in their own.

http://www.twainquotes.com/Galaxy/187102d.html
golang has got nothing on Java's (and the JVM's) performance, monitoring, profiling, GCs, etc. Not to mention all the new features Java is getting which are not even on golang's roadmap, such as records and pattern matching. This is not even touching on golang's bad design decisions that won't get fixed (e.g. structural typing of interfaces).
Can you give an example of what negligence might be happening here?
Which is exactly why it gets problematic.
> I am generally suspicious of anyone who voluntary pursues academia

That's very unfair imo.
The majority of people I know in academia don't fit this profile at all.
There is obviously disappointing stuff happening, but people generally still are working/teaching in good faith.
Their UX for viewing creations is absolutely atrocious. If you're going to write a site like a JavaScript SPA, at least do it well.

Scrolling down the stream of a large creator brings down my i7 Macbook Pro to its knees. That should not be happening at all.

Finally, Patreon's 'no refund whatsoever' policy is acceptable for donation jars, but with the growth of creators offering $100-$250+ tiers, it is only going to hurt Patreon and its brand, and possibly in contravention of consumer protection laws in many countries (including Australia). When there is an explicit promise to provide XYZ in exchange for $$$, you need to fulfil that promise.

Yes, sellers hate PayPal disputes and chargebacks, but there's a reason why buyers overwhelmingly prefer PayPal and most businesses see a substantial uplift when integrating it: customers feel more confident!

The reality is that small artists and creators are often unreliable, and if patrons feel like they're scammed or unreliable (e.g. pledge $50 for a t-shirt, do not get t-shirt, patreon support tells them there's nothing they can do), that's only going turn away patrons for life.
> because of the traditional scarcity of equipment, Russian students and scientists had to think rather than experiment

This heavily resonated with me. Early in my career (late 90's - early 00's), I had to develop the skill of dry running (basically running a given block of code with given inputs in my head and predicting the outcomes) because of scarcity.

I was in a domain where I had to build 100,000+ lines of C++ into a single executable, manually deploy to a remote Solaris machine and wait for up to 5 minutes for system re-initialization before I could run a simple test.

Needless to say, we learned to predict what our code does as we wrote it. The idea of unit tests re-running automatically as you write new code in the IDE would have been dismissed as an unattainable heaven (or maybe even considered downright satanic).
New grads are now competing with a bunch of laid off engineers with experience for open roles. I would imagine it would be much harder now to find a role than before, and Lambda doesn’t get paid since it runs off the ISA model.

If Lambda tries to sell their ISAs, which they admit they sometimes do, the buyer is going to request a much steeper discount now than before if they are willing to buy the loans at all.
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That was actually my first OS (well, my first OS on my own personal machine, growing up we had older OSs like Commodore 64).
Over the past few years people were saying that self-driving cars would be the end of car ownership as we know it, that the masses would adopt car sharing, and if you needed a car you would just summon one on your phone.

The coronavirus has revealed how bad that idea was. Everyone who has a privately owned car is glad they have it, and they won't forget that once this is all over.
I'll try to help reframe it into a context were it is harder for you to disagree

> the role of criminal law is to save innocent people

e.g. Law abiding tax payers, companies that hired the people who didn't want to use seat belts, their families and anyome else who would suffer if they were injured

> from bad people

in this case careless drivers who'd drive without a seatbelt.

Not related to you but possibly mildly interesting and somewhat related to reckless driving and reckless behavior generally :

Around here I guess we are the spoiled brats of the world, so when quarantine laws went into effect employees in permanent positions who were quarantined still get full pay.

Then it turned out a number of people took advantage of even this, crossed the border into Sweden (who has a totally different approach, they still -last I heard - go for "herd immunity now" it seems)

After all, food is cheaper on the Swedish side and then you get a paid holiday, right?

So we recently changed the rules to make sure that wont work anymore ;-)

Seriously: some people amaze me in how little personal benefit they have to have see to put everyone at risk.
How many prisoners per cell though? This is not going to be anything like a normal transmission rate as these people do not have 'personal space'
"0 deaths so far" is an addition to the title. They probably didn't draw it out in the title because it's not significant - there's generally about a 3 week time span for serious cases to turn deadly.
Why couldn't R0 be significantly higher than normal in a facility with extremely high density and poor hiegene?
I really like the idea of raw unedited data. The closer we get to captured scientific data the better the feeling of exploring the planet in real life is for me. The whole artistic spirit of realism leaves me a bit flat because it ends up being like Jurassic park dinosaurs - the missing parts filled in with frog DNA and jacked up for theme park amusement. Colours blown out, infinite camera perspectives, musical stings and character plot or gamified systems of interaction.

Exploring raw data is closer to participating in electronic discovery than exploring an artists attempt at making a huge empty planet palatable to the spending consumer.
So no solace, because it's even worse. Jio is a bigger danger than FB to us Indians, we just don’t seem to realize/care (as in being an information monopoly). I don’t think even Jio realizes it. They may believe that they are doing God’s service in providing affordable 21st century services to the masses. But that’s how the really bad stuff usually starts.
I'm not really sure what you're saying here, that you can't lie or be misleading using mathematics and statistics?
Apologies I stand corrected! No idea how I missed that. Thanks!
have you ever tried to walk a non-technical friend or relative through setting up a router?

"as simple as setting up a router" means it's too complicated for ~90% of people.
You can convert them into internet dollars
I think it's really the NeXTSTEP aesthetic.
Comparing the Bay to the American education system as a whole is unfair. In the more rural part of California I grew up we had no options available to us at all. There was the high school, and the more trade-focused high school that only existed as somewhere to put kids who had been expelled from the normal high school.
Not enforcing policies among employees to prevent infection
Looks like my RAID NAS at home is safe (from this at least) then. Thank you :)
Adjuncts aren't allowed to fail that many students. They will be pressured to keep the pass rate up to keep the pipeline filled with mediocre students.
That sounds.... chaotic
FinTech Korean Startups that are minting success
Apparently they couldn’t raise prices without losing out to Lyft and Uber, and the cars were expensive to service and maintain.