skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's perfectly possible to not ask for a fee on your websites. Plenty of websites will continue to exist for free even though they could ask for money.

Also, the internet is already something that users have to pay for. Users pay their ISP every month for access. We envision a world where this utility payment extends to cover the content creators in addition to the infrastructure providers.
Nice. I like that it goes over your local network and has a way to reverse transfer from the remote browser.
It is a lot more sustainable than the alternatives.
My point is that a lot of people have this Atlas Shrugged view of the world, where the noble entrepreneur is lashed to earth by envious, regulation loving, Democratic bureaucrats. But if take that view, then we'll get rid of regulations that are really useful and save lives. You're already seeing this with the rollback of environmental regs. The regulations that stifle innovation are written by "captains of industry" themselves, because manipulation of government via corruption is way easier and far more predictable than R&D/innovation.

So my point is you're missing the point. The symptom is regulation but many regulations are very important. We need anticorruption legislation, we need to break up monopolies, and we need a wealth tax so people can't just strike gold (or cheat people who strike gold), invest in existing ossified industries, rake in cap gains/rent while contributing absolutely nothing, and corrupt our political system with their wealth (and demand that the companies they've invested in also do so in the name of shareholder profits) in order to protect it.
It’s not a fixed cost.
I've got a theory about our reaction to the virus, and it's related to the idea that many people want a general strike. Before coronavirus hit, many people were frustrated with everything: capitalism, politics, wages, etc. Yet the world kept turning. With this shutdown, and the knowledge of the economic effects, it has become a tool to hold the system hostage and demand accountability.

My basis for this theory is that I believe if everyone who was mad about everything before, could organize effectively and shut down the economy like we're doing now, without needing a virus, I believe they would, as a protest. It's a form of a general strike, in a sense, and it's forcing everyone to talk about capitalism, healthcare, wages, etc. Even though it hurts us.

So in my opinion, people are collectively going to make it as painful and drawn out as it can be, because it's too useful as a tool to highlight issues that they feel haven't been adequately addressed. This is not to say that I don't believe that "flattening the curve" is real or effective (I do), but I believe there are more powerful subconscious factors at play here.
If you find sed useful I would encourage you to check out Perl (https://www.perl.org/).

It has all of the powerful regular expression capabilities that sed has plus much more.
This is intresting:

% of investments exited 484 71 58 77 89 22

I guess that on avg, 70% of startup exit, vs the common belief of failure rate of 90%.

I.e the failure rate is 30%.
About half of the reinfected have symptoms.
You can use Brzozowski's derivatives of regular expressions[1] to lazily get a state machine from a RE. I made a simple FSM using a trampoline function[2] to imitate a kind of table-drive GOTO design.[3]

[1] "Derivatives of Regular Expressions", Janusz A. Brzozowski
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/321239.321249

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trampoline_(computing)#High-le...

[3] http://joypy.osdn.io/notebooks/Derivatives_of_Regular_Expres...
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And what qualifies anyone here to discount his advice? He's not bringing down stone tablets from Mt. Sinai, just writing about his own thoughts and experiences. If you're not interested, don't read it.
> In fact, I think building is how we reboot the American dream. The things we build in huge quantities, like computers and TVs, drop rapidly in price. The things we don’t, like housing, schools, and hospitals, skyrocket in price. What’s the American dream? The opportunity to have a home of your own, and a family you can provide for. We need to break the rapidly escalating price curves for housing, education, and healthcare, to make sure that every American can realize the dream, and the only way to do that is to build.

You could lower the immigration rate and ignore trans-nationalist calls to perpetually increase the GDP, primarily for their benefit. The Asian Tigers + Japan (minus Singapore, with a higher rate, but it's not a true democracy), don't have this problem. You could perhaps more importantly do better to alleviate world poverty, a strong driver of population growth, consequently immigration, consequently large environmental footprints from increasingly more people adopting 1st world lifestyles, such as this American dream of the house, car, education & healthcare, flights overseas, etc.
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> We honor them before sports events.

FYI: they buy that, with tax dollars. Same way they get editorial control over hollywood movies in which military hardware is featured.

It’s part of the advertising budget. It’s no accident that these mass events seem to be widely aligned with the military. It’s an explicit taxpayer-funded propaganda campaign.

That said, the military and private surveillance companies can both do evil, and their evils can indeed synergize: tech databases can be used to determine who to mass murder, e.g. Palantir, or PRISM, resulting in more murder and terror than without the tech involved.
I'm not sure Lucid was a great example of Common Lisp success because they eventually converted to being a C++ IDE supplier (albeit one based on Emacs, so still Lisp-related but not CL). I hadn't heard of L, but that seems in line with Brooks' earlier criticism that the language was too big.
The thing is: a good fit at the tail end (with bad data) may very well be a very bad fit for the global (nonlinear) curve. Because you cannot linearize the data or the model.

Non-linear fitting is VERY hard to do well. And with pathetic data like now, it is doomed.
'Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz aren’t Covid-19 experts, but they're talking about it on TV
Why the hell is this voted down? It's true. There is a sacrifice that must be made between saving lives and saving businesses that is very real.

Ideally we want to save lives but there will be a line drawn somewhere where we must open up businesses again.
The person you're replying to clearly doesn't know what inalienable means.
I don't get it. He starts with a vignette about driving by a Starbucks and wishing he was sitting in the half-hour-long drive-thru line. Huh? His neural patterns are apparently configured to fire in a way that is totally alien and unrelatable to me.

I don't think the article improved from there.
The problem is that all these articles rely on assumption that China is trustworthy, while it absolutely is not. I do not understand, why so many people immediately deny the whole possibility that the virus came out of the lab, as if was some heretic idea. I mean, a scientist has to be open-minded; taking into account the systemic unreliability of Chinese information, rigidity of their political system, recent orders to not publish information about the origins of the virus there is no way someone should rule out the possibility of accidental release. I saw in some other posts a point that if it was true a war is unavoidable, and therefore it is a "bad, dangerous" hypothesis and in needs to be suppressed. Well science does not work this way.
5 years ago you could turn off bluetooth and wifi in ios and it would stay off.

Now it turns itself back on every day.

It will roll out as opt in, then as opt-in but enabled-by-default, then the turn off will only be temporary

rfid pocket seems to be the only solution.
South Korea: 234 deaths 8042 recovered. China: 4632 deaths, 77k recovered[1]. Their treatment protocol is an order of magnitude better than every other country. What are they doing that we're not? This is a huge glaring discrepancy. What's the difference between their treatment protocols and everyone else's?

[1]https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
I wonder if classic chip-off methods would work (they no longer work on mobile devices due to encryption advances)
To be honest, I would've prefaced my previous comment with "I suppose the HN bubble wouldn't get this..". It felt like an unfair thing to say but it's probably true that half the people here don't have a clue what life is like for the working classes right now.

We're not immune from this situation either. If the working classes can't.. work, then everything that keeps us comfortable falls out from underneath.
> "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

One of the most misunderstood quotes on the internet
While Arrow exists I don't think its representative of the community overall.
If you do them in parallel, your latency is still 4 hours. Okay, it's not cheap.
There was no lack of foresight.

But in a dynamic economy is really hard to sustain the cost of continuous preparedness because needs are infinite.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/george-bush-2005-wait-pandem...
As someone on the other side... it sucks have to pay extra to publish in a journal supporting open access (if you don't do open access, publishing is cheaper)
I was bored of university by my third year. I was itching to get out and work. About 2 years later I would have loved to be back at university... Grass is always greener, right?

My reasons were probably different to yours. The computer world certainly wasn't as 'fast' at that point and I was by no means some kind of super student. And FWIW, I don't think my degree really opened any doors after, and 2 or 3 years later I don't think anyone cared at all.

THAT said, stick it out - in the grand scheme of things you don't have long left. Firstly, you'll avoid the "why did you drop out? Will you stick this job out?" questions in every interview you go to for the next few years. Secondly, you won't look back and go "why didn't I just finish that" (which may or may not happen - but only one path means it definitely won't).

Fill your spare time with other stuff. Do courses online, start side projects, find a non CS hobby. It's good practice anyway - pretty much every job from this point onwards will have periods where you think "this is shit" for one reason or another.

Lastly, enjoy yourself. You'll probably only get to do college once and when you look back, it's a tiny sliver of life.
https://toonclip.com/player?key1=802d8d51ec

Animation here.
Incredibly dumb question, but doesn't datadog monitor errors out of the box?
That's why it's called a conspiracy theory, not a consistency theory.
My point is that you get increased complexity when trying to handle all of the various different situations local solutions were specifically adapted for. Adding the type of logic you describe in that particular example might seem manageable, but there’s a real risk of it ballooning and making what used to be simple rules for a given area require a lot more paperwork/checks/etc, much of which would be irrelevant.

Like with all things, you need balance; some standards can work universally while remaining simple. Others can’t. But in general I think trying to impose universal, robust standards leads to a lot of the over regulation the article and other commenters fault for the lack of building in the west.

Fewer, minimal standards decided by people on a local level seems generally better, imo. There will still be incentives to use universal, simple standards where appropriate, as that typically enables access to a wider range of products and services, and the complex logic of deciding when certain standards should apply vs when they shouldn’t can be distributed/allowed to be flexible and adaptive.
Google's "infrastructure" is just people asking you to make a bug (issue) and put

// TODO(b/<bug number>): Fix this up

during code review. Sometimes I'll just put TODO(<username>) if I don't really care about keeping an eye on it.
Yeah, I had a bit of a baby face when I first became a parent so got some of those same things. As soon as one of them called me "daddy" the ice melted
He bought the FPGA, modified it, and sold you a compromised one.
You are discounting the millions of people who can not afford to call someone and get a prescription for a zpack.

It’s not all brain surgery and organ replacement.
A tool like the paper encourages won't hurt, but in my experience the biggest problem with tech debt isn't on the identification side; it's on the resourcing side.

I've worked at a few places with a big big backlog of, I guess, SATD. But saying a particular bit of code is "bad" is not enough to get funding/resources to fix the issue.

Usually other departments have a say in resourcing. Depends on your org who they are, but some collection of product, sales, CS, or marketing. Once the code ships and the feature is working well-enough to accomplish its business objectives, developers have lost all leverage to circle back and fix the tech debt. Those other depts don't care how "healthy" the code is; code is only a binary works/doesn't signal to them.

I encourage teams to not make these lists without first thinking about how the list gets consumed. Writing an apology comment or SATD ticket are definitely going to make you feel less guilty about what you're shipping. But it won't help you fix the debt. You have to address that upstream, by injecting engineering concerns into your company's resourcing decisions. Or slow down initial delivery to get it right the first time when engineers still have leverage.
The current narrative is that anyone who thinks this quarentine is poorly managed is a Trump supporter.

This couldn't be further from the truth.

They have made it political.
I'm actually slightly worried as Singapore seemed to have handled the crisis quite well with only 1000ish cases for the longest time, but have now had cases balloon from only around 1350 total cases two weeks ago to 6000 today.

Certainly, a lot of it has to with migrant workers and their living situations, but it also underscores how even when you have things under control, the virus can spread rapidly when your guard is down.
I do not believe any conspiracy theory about Gates and vaccines or anything else. But his comment about voting for Trump if the other candidate raise his taxes too much doesn't support the non greed argument ( he reiterated it after saying he was kidding with a straw man argument).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMMZ1Qzr1ag
Not the fact that the US military intelligence apparatus has real-time warrantless access to the data they pretend is sacred?
You should enjoy my post from yesterday: https://herebeseaswines.net/essays/2020-04-18-a-bash-perl

Yes, I wanna learn Perl! :)
The reason it is hard is that it is using a stateless model to approximate an inherently stateful and often chaotic process.

Take tech adoption for example. Often incorrectly represented as s-curves, they are the result of the inherent cost/benefit of the technology combined with the stateful diffusion process of communication and inherently human resistance to change. And being inherently stateful, you can have chaotic influences in that diffusion process. For example, the idea of microservice architecture had an absolutely massive diffusion jump the moment Amazon sent out that now-famous email mandating adoption. It wasn't linear, it wasn't exponential...it was a discrete step, and a very large one at that. These are everywhere too, because communication doesn't propogate like bacteria grows, it propagates due to extremely non-linear levels of influence. Bill Smith, 45 year old mid-level programmer for a tiny Midwest bank, will never have the tech-adoption influence levels of a Steve Jobs or Alan May or Linus Torvalds.

A better option for modeling would be to use Monte Carlo methods or systems methods. Something that acknowledges the inherent statefulness of the process.
The long solo, for sure. The one that starts about around 2:35 on the album version. The single edit removes it.
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What I saw were people not wearing masks holding signs that spoke of the Freedom, communism, hoax.

I didn’t see any sign saying, “I’m broke”, or “I’m out of work”, or “I’m starving”.

I’m going with the selfish narcissistic behavior option.
South Korea started testing very early:

“South Korea's foreign minister, Kang Kyung-wha, speaking to the BBC last week, said the key lessons from her country are that it developed testing for the virus even before it had a significant number of cases. "In mid-January, our health authorities quickly conferred with the research institutions here [to develop a test]," Kang said. "And then they shared that result with the pharmaceutical companies, who then produced the reagent [chemical] and the equipment needed for the testing."
I don't know. As I said, I am a junior web developer so it is hard for me to generalize. Perhaps no-one use it? But I enjoy it. :)
Are there any realistic attempts, fictional or otherwise, at describing a market encouraging a more balanced society, but reasonably, but not excessively, rewarding successful risk takers?
Look at the circumstance under which the Patriot Act was created
Simple question: Why doesn’t the following work?

Say I work for a repressive regime. To do business in our economy (tag into subways, etc), you need to install an app with GACT enabled.

Now, whenever we arrest a political opponent, we get their GACT device key, and flag all of their associates as political dissidents, and arrest them too.

This seems like an invaluable tool for oppression.
This could depend on the motivations of their contact. If they need to impress e.g. warlords in order to manipulate, there is a good chance they will arrive armed. This is after all their ticket to the access they need, and they may only have one chance. Access operations are tailored to fit the target.
One possible answer for societal betterment
CNN's average reader couldn't pick Magnus Carlsen out of a police lineup. At that point you either try grasping at whatever semblance of credibility you have: "Chess prodigy finally defeats Magnus Carlsen in a blitz tournament", or go for those allegedly profitable clicks and title the article "Iranian teen SHOCKS Magnus Carlsen".

It's all trash. The headline is insulting to Magnus. It's insulting to Firouzja. It's insulting to the readers.
That app would have to be approved by Apple, which they wouldn't do
I agree, but calling someone to get a zpack is not a good example as it's been under regulated if anything:

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2016/p0503-unnecessary-pr...

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/820736

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/asp/overuse-overprescribing-of-an...
> The generosity and solidarity [...] have been missing in Germany’s response to poorer European nations in the south, which were hit hardest by the virus.

Germany gave away many hundreds of respirators, took in hundreds of patients from all neighboring countries (including Italy). Italy was offered money under the ESM which they didn't want. All while high ranking officials from Italy called Germans Nazis multiple times. All that although the Italian population has a higher median wealth, lower taxes, higher rate of home ownership and lower retirement age.

And we're still the bad guys.
Thanks for the links, definitely gonna check it out!
If you're bored because the work is too easy, some options are:

-Study ahead of your lectures by using online sources and use the time freed up for something else.

-Ask your adviser to permit you to take advanced courses without meeting the prerequisites. If you're worried about GPA, there's usually an option to audit courses without getting a grade for it.

-Dig deeper into what your courses are teaching you. Undergraduate level courses often have graduate level courses that dive deeper into the same topic.

-Take courses in a different field to broaden your skills; particularly important if you think you're going to a FAANG. A statistics course would be good to have under your belt. Technical writing courses (most engineers can barely put together a sensible presentation or report) would also be good. The possibilities are endless.

(As an aside, if you think you're tired of monotony now, wait until you've been on the job a few years and the shine wears off.)
Generator send() was actually added way back in Python 2.5! [1]

[1] https://docs.python.org/2.5/whatsnew/pep-342.html
>Many of us will have learnt in school that if there are three parameters to be found, you need three data points to define the function.

4 points are needed in my universe.
> EU comes to mind...

No it doesn't, any examples? EU laws are voted on by the member countries and some even have veto power.

> and what kind of electrical plug to use (I've noticed that the British one could seem a little safer).

They're not, they're more expensive and designed in a time when those safety features were still relevant.
If patio11 ever read this, he would say:

fake quote> Raise your price! Raise your price! Raise your price!

https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/saas_pric...

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2006/08/14/you-can-probably-stand-...

Also, the price structure is too complicated. How much should I pay for an obscure blog that is hit from time to time with a small HN visit?

Take a look at https://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/04/03/fantasy-tarsnap/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7523953 801 points | Apr 3, 2014 | 311 comments. But note that cperviva actualy lowered his price a few days after this post. Not everyone agree with patio11 :).
People who don't have a degree don't seem to really comprehend the benefits of having a degree because people simply don't tell you what they're willing to do for you as employers until you have a degree. Doors will open for you as someone with the degree that you wouldn't even know were there without one.

It is valuable because it is so hard. It is like getting an SSL certificate. It's really hard to do that or at least it used to be, but by doing so you can safely and verifiably prove to everybody that you are who you say you are. The degree is similar but it says that you can do what you say you can do.
... have you known any of those personally?

I somewhat get your point, but the top .1% of intelligence and 1% of intelligence probably share more in common socially and within the social structures of education.
Tangential: I wish we had open betting/prediction markets for everything. At the risk of being naive, I had this idea of matching speculators with insurance buyers on a platform. Example: If I'm hosting an outdoor event in 2 days and I want to hedge against it raining on that day, I can buy insurance (bet against sunny) and get paid if it rains. Speculators can make money by selling insurance. Sort of like options trading but for real world events. Does this exist? Is it even legal?
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Agree, he is not some crank. I don't understand the flagging system on this site at all
> because they eventually converted to being a C++ IDE supplier

They followed the market. The Common Lisp product was great.

> but that seems in line with Brooks' earlier criticism that the language was too big

Lucid CL implemented all of Common Lisp and more.

L is a Lisp for embedded systems. It's a subset of Common Lisp - nothing unusual.
I don't understand this fixation on things being either engineered or perfectly natural.

The spillover event could have occurred in a lab. Selective breeding exists. This is well-explained in the paper, which it appears you didn't actually read.
So you'd rather let this pandemic continue for many months while we wait for all that research to result in anything useful?