skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This might or might not be relevant, but I had an idea for a Typeform-based way you can deploy services. You would fill out an online form on what you want, and a service would automatically provision an instance of that service for you.

Services as a service. I found people make a lot of great tech but without the ability to ship it easily it doesn't mean a lot. Provisioning is a hassle even most devops engineers don't want to do in their spare time. So, make it easy.

...would you use this? I might build it regardless, I want to deploy my own video conferencing solution for two hours at a time and then tear it down after a meeting for security and cost reasons.
There's the theory of Vitamin-D deficiency. It would make some sense given NYC's climate and time of year. In LA, people likely are exposed to the sun year round. It would be interesting to see if other respiratory illnesses exhibit a similar pattern between these two cities, as I understand Vitamin-D levels have an affect those as well.

But also, NYC is considerably more dense, so diseases spread far more rapidly. Especially so considering heavy public transit use versus, what I would say is, extreme overuse of personal vehicles.
I was in the market for a robot vacuum and went with iRobot over Xiamoi/Roborock or Neato, to a big part because of their stance to privacy, but also because of things like they stopping military robots to focus on the consumer markets, embracing 'hackers' with the create robots and their patented dual rubber brush design that's in most of their robots.

The product that I use right now, the i7+ (bought a 960 first and returned it) has been pretty fantastic. It feels like an actual smart automatic cleaning system that takes care of my place and cleans itself with the station that came with it.

Tech wise - other products use Lidar so they can run in the dark and create the map much faster and more accurately than vSlam that my Roomba uses, so that'd be a nice thing to have but I don't really run it in the dark anyway.

The Roomba exceeded my expectations so much that I went and bought their cheapest dumb mopping robot, the Braava 240 and even though it doesn't have smart navigation or maps, it's great. Just fill it up, put it in the corner, press start and it'll mop everywhere.

In total I spent a lot more money than I wanted to spend but my place has never been cleaner. No more cat hair or dust bunnies flying around, no crumbs in my carpet, I sneeze much less, everything gets mopped regularly, and for the roomba all I have to do is change the dust bag in the station once in a while (besides occasional cleaning of parts). If either of them breaks I would without hesitation re-buy them.

I'm excited to see what they'll come up with next, but I also hope they won't get left behind with innovation and tech. The others (esp Roborock) iterate much faster, cost less and pack more features that often get rolled out to their older robots as well (no-go zones for example. iRobot didn't add them to their older camera-based robots like the 960 and kept them for i7 and higher)
Really wish archive.is and Cloudflare could get over their problems, since I use cloudflare's DNS resolver, none of these links work. Oh well.
Mathematics and problem solving are not mutually exclusive - understanding one is usually a sign you understand the other. Programming is just a layer of abstraction over one of these things.
I'm from Lithuania.

My dad had present from our relatives in Canada - basketball shoes (eventually stolen) and a calculator. That calculator pulled a lot of favours over time, he was the only one in town to have one. Dad couldn't believe you could just order anything from catalogue in 70s. Anything the world, you can buy. Such a unreal concept. He also got Beatles LP from somewhere (eventually confiscated from teachers).

It's a good point the access to many basics weren't there. I've finished high school in 2006, got my first PC in 1998. Very quickly I've learned to solve math problems using graphing calculator apps. Cheated my German classes by translating from German to English using Babelfish then to Lithuanian.

The only other time I ever had to do derivatives and integrals was math class at university... while studying for management degree!
Especially while unemployment is paying $2400/month on top of your normal payment. Many workers are better off just being temporarily laid off and getting a pay raise.
"abstract algebra", are you sure you aren't talking about analysis? It's not usually used as an introduction anyway.
they own cruise, which will open its own car-sharing platform in the future. Seems directly related to me.
Ah, I did not dive that deep. Now I am curious what the impact of deep copies on performance is, and if the language employs any clever optimizations to improve performance.
This is doing something different though. It first declares a as a num, then assigns it. There's not really a great equivalent in Haskell syntax, but in C:

int a = 5;
a = 7;
You're not crazy. I "had a friend" with one of the signs with '(litter)' in "their" collection of highway signs.
I don't really understand why Patreon needs so many employees. We're talking about almost 300 people to just supervise a fully automated process. The tech has already been built almost a decade ago and hasn't changed much, so it can't require that much engineering work. It's also an easy problem (take X amount of money, divide it between Y people, pay them out) and they ironed out any potential issues over the years.

For what it's worth I've stopped using Patreon when they included some Facebook tracking (among others) on the membership management page that when blocked will crash the entire front-end and make the entire page unusable.
I read stories like this and daydream about a having a consulting position where I go around to board rooms and act as a devil's advocate to all their ideas. Maybe it's that much easier in hindsight, but I can tell from a distance that the numbers will never make sense. "yes guys, uber and car share is going to be a big deal and I understand your urge to do something, but this is going to burn cash and never turn a profit".
>But i do believe that being able to manipulate numbers very quickly leads to a quality of its own, and can make understanding harder concepts easier.

Can you elaborate on this? Are you supposed to introspect while you're applying the quadratic formua 1000 times? How does being able to quickly add/subtract/multiply/divide help you better understand abstract concepts?
Or possibly a critical security hole in commenting.
Why unfortunately? This all seems like ultimately a good thing, although it may be unfortunate for some individuals in the short term.
I really can't trust myself to write a specification. I know this because I have written errors in tests before - even when all I'm doing is trying to work out some properties that the answer ought to have, I can still make a mistake. It's just usually less likely that I would make a mistake, because the specification is simpler than the algorithm.

So, it is not really fair to downplay the chance that you could have a wrong specification, although it would be equally wrong to use that as an excuse to downplay the value of Coq.
...and all those hardcore math books still couldnt help avoid a society that is now run by a bunch of thugs and "thieves in law".
I'm open to a suggestion on how to explain it in a better way.
NY subway averages almost 2 billion riders annually.

SF averages 50 million.

If SF had a subway system that handled 40x the amount of people you could start to draw some comparisons.
Was expecting to find economic logic, got nothing but accusations of a 'neolib plot'.
In fact, the Soviet approach also emphasized solving problems. There are books entirely devoted to problem sets, and there are other books devoted entirely to theory. My grandfather was a Professor of Mathematics at Moscow State University before we emigrated, and as I was growing up, he would always stress that it does one no good to just know about swimming if you can't actually swim. The people who learn the most are the ones who have competency in both theory and application. To get that competency, you alternate between focused practice in one and the other, just like an athlete alternates training different muscle groups.
$100M in annual revenue is generally considered the rough bar to go public. Various estimates put them somewhere between $30-50M in revenue for 2019. Another 2-3xing doesn't seem out of the question.
$2400/month is less than $30k/year. I highly doubt any of the people getting laid of from Patreon are getting a raise by going on unemployment.
I don't believe you that Soviet body builders only used free weights. https://www.rbth.com/history/329827-bodybuilding-outlawed-in...
I feel like it's worth pointing out here, for Americans who don't know better (no blame implied), that the French have one of the best mathematical pipelines in the world. They have almost as many Nobels (13 vs. 11) despite having 1/5 the population. Guardian article about them here:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/may/31/europa-french-...

So please don't think France is a backwater that just doesn't know how to do math - on the contrary, it may be the best country in the world to be born into, if you want to be a mathematician.

For what it's worth, I'm an American who honestly is pretty bad at math, but I try to keep learning, though I'm past an age where it will matter in college or higher education.
What are you clarifying here?
From South Korea https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/coronavirus/maryl...
AFAIK that's a myth. Don't have the original source but a quick google:

https://www.networkworld.com/article/2891297/the-myth-about-...
Almost 8k could be affected by federal emergency loan data breach
Supporting the government in lawful operations is not evil. There are many, many examples of the abuse of power by the government. But at least in the US, there is a system of checks and balances including freedom of the press and an independent judiciary.

If we give up faith in those things then we will succumb to a lawless, might-makes-right society. What makes you think you know better than the duly elected and appointed representatives of the people? Ok, fine. Tell it to a judge. But if you lose, then comply.

TL;DR: I don’t like “the man” either, but in the end, the man is us. We thwart him at our peril.
How to Manage Your Loneliness
>This company never made sense to me from a “venture scale” perspective. It’s big, sure, but are the financials really ever going to be strong enough to go public? I guess I don’t see it.

It looks like the company's biggest creator brings roughly $5k a month for Patreon and only one other creator has their financials public and brings in even 40% of that [1]. There is certainly money to be made in that business, but I just don't see how they scale revenue in any large way without pissing off either patrons or creators.

[1] - https://graphtreon.com/patreon-creators
Oh yes. I can't wait to think of a product to build using this design system.
It's a good thing that millions of people have lost their jobs at what were otherwise well functioning businesses because of a global pandemic that also, by the way, is going to end up killing hundreds of thousands of people?

Uh huh.
OT, but does anyone know where the "learnings" phrase in corporatese come from? I noticed it five or six years ago and now it's everywhere. The first time I heard it was from a German VP and I assumed it was some sort of odd transliteration or maybe a Borat reference, but that hypothesis is obviously invalidated.
I'm a little surprised people are using ls in scripts. I'm normally using find, with the mill separator to deal with spaces in filenames.
* Product is successful

* Hire lots of people because that's what successful companies do

* Product development slows way down, because you hired too fast (Mythical Man Month stuff kicks in, where adding more people to a team can slow development down, if not done carefully and thoughtfully)

* Notice that development is slow, so you hire even more people to try and speed it up

At least that's been my experience at 3 different companies.
How is Zipcar doing? Maven seemed to have better cars at a better price. What's the difference in their business models?

Interesting that with everyone sheltering in place, now would be the time where some people realize that they may not need to own a car. Zipcar, and maybe Maven could have, been great for occasional use scenearios.
My favorite sequence of maps in a book was “Black Hawk Down”. The first chapter begins with a world map, showing Somalia, and it lays the geopolitical setting for the events. The second chapter has a map of Somalia, showing where Mogadishu is, and sets the scene there. It keeps zooming in, until the final chapter shows a map so tight it has individual people (who you have since met) and which side of the street they were on.
In my experience, those rote mental muscles mean that the basics are never slowing you down when tackling a harder problem. It's comparable to having a perfectly organized toolbox vs a mess of tools in your shed - you can do the same things, but you're free to focus on the core of the current task instead of distractions in the trivial parts.
An epic gamble exposed the rot inside Hin Leong oil trading empire
Do you mean the Fields Medal?
What are you talking about? What are the odds of this? I mean really, like out of all the CP allegations, how many of them are fabricated by the police?
The supreme irony of Joel taking a hard line “we own everything you do 24/7/365 if you work for us, and forget about making open source software” stance is that he uses Nginx as his web server.

Nginx got in some legal issues because it started out as an employee’s side project: https://lwn.net/Articles/807324/

If Joel practiced what he preaches, and thinks no employees have a right to develop OSS software while on the company payroll, he needs to stop using nginx right now.
The Void conundrum is that most software does not support LibreSSL's APIs, and that is especially rough because Void is rolling release. OpenBSD does not write patches for the latest Qt release, so people with little crypto experience have to write those patches.
> it's not being tracked

Why wouldn't it be tracked?
I assume you are arguing THC does not cause long term effects on the brain (not nicotine does)

It's not hard to find many journal articles that conclude it might -

DOI: 10.3233/JAD-160833 or https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6182105/

What journal articles conclude it might not?

That would change my opinion to "may or may not cause damage"
Ah but individuals are more complicated than national stereotypes!

And that is a very old joke, from the 19th or early 20th century, when the world was Euro-centric.
A Chrome extension for deleting your Slack messages
> throttle your raid rebuild to take 12 days, and don’t issue reads or writes during that time

So, 12 days of downtime for the NAS. Doesn't sound like a very NAS-specific product to me. That's 3.3% downtime in 12 months from a single HDD failure. 12 days of sweating on another HDD not failing during the rebuild process.

Not fit for purpose.
I don’t think that is true, especially when you consider that if the USA didn’t project power, Russia might not either, and then the Canadian military is just exchanging bottles of liquor with the Danes.

The fact that the world is polarized around two or three superpowers creates its own problems for the other counties. The USA not projecting any power wouldn’t necessarily require its former allies to acquire bigger militaries. The size of the EU’s combined military is already comparable to Russia’s for example. Japan and South Korea would be in much harder spots, comparatively.
I have been working with a trainer for many years, and almost everything we do is with free weights and a bench. Free weights are much more difficult because you need to keep them stable. Machines trick you into thinking you are using more weight, but you are leveraging the machine. The only machines I like are leg press and cable machines that still make you keep stability.

A true bench press with a bar is much better than a machine imitation of the same muscle groups.
i'm russian (born during the soviet era) and you're wrong

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doping_in_Russia#Background:_S...
Patron seems like a classic long tail situation. The fall off to 100th place is only 1/7th the number of subscribers and 1000th place ~1/37th the number of subscribers as first place.

Patreon’s fees range from 5-12% so they could easily be making more make more money from the 10,000 to 100,000 creators than they do the top 10,000. Further, people can hide earnings which makes estimates of their finances difficult.
Still hard to believe. Just pray it's a live and let live. Get rid of the bullies and manipulators.move forward always.
This, and we need to encourage more fusion investment.
The linked article points to the fact that because the Soviets were resource-constrained, theory was more accessible than equipment which drove the education system to favor theoretical training.

I wonder if there's a trade-off to this. On one hand you produce some really elite theoretical minds (Pontryagin, Lyapunov, Kolmogorov, etc.). But the counterfactual is that it excludes those with high IQ but are more practically-oriented as well as late-bloomers who didn't take to math early but would have become reasonable applied mathematicians (I belong to this category). I guess we will never know.

To draw a parallel, one of the criticisms of the French system -- where mathematics is treated as the most important arbiter of intelligence (for grandes ecoles admissions) -- is that other aptitudes are almost seen as secondary. It optimizes too much for a very narrow aptitude -- which is great for producing Fields Medalists, but underoptimizes for talent elsewhere.

In my experience, while the American education system on the other hand is kind of a piece of cake from K-12, it somehow manages to catch up at the college level (more or less). At the graduate level, the differences in ability between a U.S. graduate student and a Soviet-system/Eastern European educated one is largely diminished. And it does this without over-optimizing for any particular aptitude so deep expertise is developed over a broader field in the U.S.
Ha! Yes I do. In fact you can tell my amateur-ness from this, that this misstatement didn't immediately jump out as wrong (though I do know there is no Nobel for math, when I stop and think about it).

I should have said the Fields Medal, as indicated in the article.
> traditional scarcity of equipment

This sort of thing likely led to what one of my Russian professors was pretty proud of: That Soviet microbiologists with some bacteria, a pH meter, and some basic chemicals like sodium citrate could bang out publications, with some well-designed and elegant experiments. We Americans, on the other hand, would spend thousands of dollars on fancy machines, reagents, etc. and were less productive.
I'm embarrassed that I haven't thought of this much before. Imagine everyone running as independents and Congress being all independents. It could work.
US didn't have a reliable test for SARS-Cov-2 virus till just over a month ago.

Deaths per capita is "fun" considering that you're comparing Netherlands to all of US. US actually has a lot of ICU beds... And yet New York State has a higher death rate per capita than Netherlands. (similar populations, btw)

US has been doing as bad as Italy in certain areas - notably the poorer areas of NYC have been hit harder, than the wealthier. (Which is literally the opposite of Italy, where the wealthier north got hit hard)
If you believe it's only Soviet body builders who took steroids, you're in for a rude awakening.
This is interesting given that, like the article suggests, patron contributions were still growing last month. Seems like they either wanted an excuse to "right-size" and this is a great opportunity, or they're expecting a significant hit to patron contributions on the back of mass unemployment, which would make the rest of the year rather painful.
Russia had brilliant mathematicians even before the October revolution, however, the Soviet Union gave another incentive to become an academic - it pretty much guaranteed a highly respected job, even if the salary was modest, but also allowed most of the academics to not get involved in politics. So in a country where you couldn't form a business, being an academic or a doctor was pretty much the best career choice.
Quarantine work + 5 Year old without childcare = Extremely Difficult
Show HN: Repeter, your.domain.com to localhost:3000 – AWS Automation
This is what people are conditioned to nowadays, 3 dollars is too much for something that is actually beneficial.
If TCP congestion control is an issue for Netflix, it would be addressable on the server side, and I'm guessing they would address it in the FreeBSD kernel. Looking through the congestion control directory, there's not a lot of changes coming from Netflix; although, the TCP_STATS one [1] looks interesting, and some of the others indicate they're probably doing some testing (bug fixes and code cleanup).

Switching from TCP to TCP over UDP in order to run congestion control (and other things, such as segmentation) in userspace instead of kernel space makes more sense if you don't control the kernel; but Netflix controls the kernel on the content appliances. Netflix has also put a lot of effort into moving more of the processing into the kernel to avoid copying data and context switches between the kernel and userspace; moving congestion control into userspace would most likely have a large negative impact on their serving bandwidth per appliance.

[1] https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20655
You could drill down further.

In the wealthier north of Italy, was it the wealthier areas or the poorer areas that got hit hardest?
Some more reproducible builds history (it has been around since at least the 1990s):

https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/History
No, learning math was never more important to an average Russian than it was to an average American. An average Russian has never knew math any better than an average American.

Source: attended school in both countries.
>> We built it to match the reliability standards of European upright vacuums, something of which we were very proud. Of course, we didn’t anticipate that our customers would run their Roomba once per day, rather than the once per week average the European standard set – and as the first generation of Roomba robots broke down two years ahead of schedule

This is a super interesting insight for when you're building consumer products. When you make something super-easy to do, expect usage to 10x or even 100x. I've seen high-unit economics consumer products build with cost estimates that assume an average user doing task X once a month. If we make it possible to do the task with a free app, even though it costs us $Y to do this, our total monthly cost per user is $Y. These estimates then get blown out the water when users start doing the task 10 times a month.
I think technical education in the soviet union was a lot stronger than it was in the free world, at least in the 20th century. When I was 16, I was enrolled in the top high-school maths units in the early 1980s in Australia. Maths was about 1/3 of the academic contact hours and the curriculum was pretty standard across all the Australian states.

A family from the Ukraine somehow managed to immigrate to Australia and their 16 year old girl was enrolled on our maths classes. She was years ahead of the rest of the class.

She said she was a very mediocre maths student at home in the Ukraine, said quite a few times that in her opinion we had been taught basically nothing in the Australian system. I don't know how much maths the average soviet citizen learned, but I got the strong impression that soviet students who were actually interested in the subject got a much better mathematical education than they would have in Australia/US/UK.