skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Simplifying what the other person said, what is social status a function of? You say having friends and being popular is all about being able to make friends, which is only partially true. Social status is also a function of being good at what your peers consider important.

Anecdotally, and based on depictions in movies and TV, status for American kids is directly related to how well they do at sports. Doing well in your subjects and "trying" in class can either lead to ostracisation at worst or at best doesn't make a difference to your social status.

Whereas in other places, such as where I grew up, kids who tried hard and did well in their subjects had the highest social status. They were the "coolest", in the eyes of their peers. Rewards in status meant that such effort was positively reinforced.

You know how Hermione Granger is thought to be a know-it-all and insufferable? I could never understand that. Where I grew up she'd have been the most popular kid. Most other kids would have wished they could be more like her.
:) glad to be of help. Keep on producing great things.
Shoutout to git grep. I use `git grep -n -E --untracked` (via a small wrapper) a lot more than I use ripgrep. It's even faster than ripgrep for me.
A number of countries have most of their populations under what is effectively house arrest

Meanwhile, the virus still permeates, those same populations' collective immunity has barely changed, and we're only marginally closer to a vaccine

The fundamentals won't have changed when we do get around to removing the lockdowns
My speculation is that Azure was in ZA first though because of Office 365 however!
> I'm an American, so the usual caveats apply

What do you mean with usual caveats?
> Chromium's rendering engine is faster than most native cross platform toolkits.

Which toolkits are you referring to, and do you truly just mean the renderer, or the entire engine?

Chromiums renderer is pretty fast. Not as fast as direct rendering like Sublime Text does, but for very complex scenes, it will beat Gtk and Qt.

However, it's expensive to build scenegraphs for it (needed on every change), and partial updates are far more expensive than they need to be.

The end result is that, for something like an editor, Gtk and Qt will beat Chromium for responsiveness by a large margin, despite having much less performant renderers for the time being.

(You can get around some of these costs by using WebGL of course, but if you're doing manual rendering you have already thrown most of the reason for Electron out of the window, so why not do it natively where it will be even faster?)

> The memory consumption doesn't bother me either or come anywhere close to bottlenecking me, because I'm a professional using professional hardware.

This is an awful argument. That I have beefy workstation machines doesn't really matter when I'm usually mobile on a low-power laptop.

The difference between using VSCode and sublime/vim is several hours of battery life, and the difference between a comfortable lap and a warm lap.

This idiocy of "it's fine, there's enough resources" is why my colleagues expensive MacBook Pro's are hyperventilating 24/7, and it's a problem for poorer individuals that might not afford a powerful machine.

> Sublime is also pretty featureless compared to VSCode as well.

Matter of taste.

Sublime Text still has a very long list of plugins, and certainly does everything I will ever need an editor to do. I see no reason to pay the penalty of Electron to get support for NyanCat cursor plugins.

VSCode is also pretty featureless if you compare it to vim, and if we pull Emacs into the discussion, VSCode ends up looking more like nano/Notepad.
That’s how I use SourceTree and now Fork. They are really good for the daily work like staging and showing diffs. But their use is questionable for other operations.
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> So what does that tell me?

That you look at very unreliable data that is even more difficult to compare across countries?
Based upon this survey, more than a quarter of people don't want the United States shut down. That's a considerable proportion. That's the amount of people who vote in a president.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/494028-poll-more-th...
Learn about modelling. Database is more than just storing data. Drink less koolaid of NoSQL, any NoSQL. It is trading initial result with future development time. SQL has been battlefield tested. No amount of "convenience" is more convenient than learning the fundamentals.
... Not exactly an MVC but a separation between view and business using the subscriber pattern.
The main issue iirc is that people keep stealing their undersea cabling [1] meaning that their speeds are often significantly reduced.

[1] http://texyt.com/vietnam+internet+cable+stolen+by+thieves+00...
> 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.

Yes, indeed. Most people don't realize that the soviets were awful at product engineering. Their consumer-oriented products (TVs, radios, cars) were pretty terrible when compared to their western counterparts. My pet theory is that this was, in part, due to the over-emphasis in theoretical approaches instead of practical applications (that plus the lack of resources and the communist ethos against consumerism).
> caused by wildlife

Can you further explain this part? It sounds so out there with undersea cable.

The only thing I can think of is that wildfire cause erosion in soil which wash off into the sea and damage the end point?
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Interesting theory that reminds me of the Japanese researcher’s paper posted around early April which proposed that shallow breaths of alcohol vapor (by dissolving boiling water into whiskey or sake) could “disinfect” the lungs, and provide relief from
COVID-19.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22742835

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> It doesn't appear to factor in aspects unique to cycling, for instance difference in elevation, when calculating the best route.

This quote is followed immediately by a screen capture showing the text 'Mostly flat' underneath the journey time and distance.

In fact in Edinburgh, UK my experience with Google Maps has been that it automatically selects routes that use more cycle paths, roads with cycle lanes, and flatter or downhill options. Maybe this is different per city?
This might not add that much to the conversation, but the only thing I can think to say here is;

Of course.

The large institutions are more savvy, have staff they can devote to finding this money, and have more connections to the banks.

The small businesses who actually need this money are run by the owner, and may have an accountant, but certainly don't have someone who can jump through the arbitrary hoops put in place by banks.

Also,

>More than 300,000 customers [. . .] applied for loans through the Paycheck Protection Program[. . .]. About 18,000 were funded, for a 6% success rate.

Are you fucking kidding with this? I feel actually insulted by this number.

And finally:

>The bank is among four lenders now facing accusations in a lawsuit that they prioritized the biggest loans in order to earn higher fees.

Of course. I am upset at myself for hoping anyone in this process would act like a decent human being. I don't know what to do with the anger I'm feeling. Any thoughts on where this energy should go?
Best estimate, until the next archaeological discovery.

As long as we don't equate estimates with facts, we're good.
There is also this often link-to essay by Paul Graham, called "revenge of the nerds" [1], that was also one of the reasons why I wrote about the situation in US high-schools (of which I have no direct experience).

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/icad.html
> * we find specifics about transmission and can avoid it with low-impact responses instead of lockdown

I think this is a very important point, and I have some hopes that we will. Austria reopened smaller shops (below a certain number of square meters; supermarkets and other "essential" stores were open all the time) eight days ago, with a limit on how many customers may be admitted at a time, and a requirement to wear masks. If this were dangerous, we should have started to see a rise in new cases per day, but they have mostly been sinking over this period. Further businesses will follow in the coming weeks, with the numbers being monitored. I think that over the next few months we should get pretty good data on what seems to work and what doesn't.

The solution will not be limited to "wash your hands, don't touch your face" like we thought in early March, but neither is this virus impossible to keep in check using some hygienic and distancing measures.
Being a software dev, what is the fastest and safest way to financial freedom?
Hope you are all doing well in these hard times. I was diagnosed with Lymphoma cancer few months ago. I'm a young married man (just turned 30) with no prior health issues (I don't smoke neither drink) so the news was very hard to hear.

Thanks to god and the help of doctors and chemotherapy, I'm now in complete remission but stays under control (cancer still may be back anytime).

At the moment I'm still in sick leave and I don't plan to go back to my regular 9-5 corp job. Actually I don't want to for many personal reasons.

I would like to achieve a financial freedom and I'm looking for advices!

- I do front and back-end development for more than 7 years but I'm also good at ui design (with sketch) and seo
- I don't have a portfolio
- I don't have clients

What should I do right now?

Toptal seems to be good but I heard that the screening process is very hard. Is there similar platforms?

Thank you!
Thanks for the thoughtful response!

My own experience w/ Rust is limited to just kicking the tires implementing my favorite toy problem, but it was incredibly positive -- my solution ended up faster than my previous best (in C++) while also having extremely-straightforward, clean code.

(Something that particularly blew my mind was crossbeam_channel being (arguably) nicer than Go's built-in channels, and being able to spread work over threads w/ zero possibility of races -- that's some fuckin' cool shit.)

That experience, combined w/ observation of tools like fd and ripgrep, have convinced me that rust is actually unlocking a higher level of quality for software, at least in practice, if not in theory.

Your answer has not disabused me of the perception! :-)

> Although of course there are alternatives to ripgrep written in C or C++, so I'm not sure how compelling of an argument that is.

But they're not as good as ripgrep ;-)
The age claims listed are generally disputed. Differences in opinion can result from different definitions of "city" as well as "continuous habitation" and historical evidence is often disputed. Caveats (and sources) to the validity of each claim are discussed in the "Notes" column.

Literally the introduction.
Azure bandwidth out of their Africa datacenters is $0.181 per GB, while AWS is $0.154 per GB, will be interesting to see if this forces Azure prices down.
To extend what I'm trying to say is that customers shouldn't have to do this and that updating of this data (which ideally should be in a machine readable format, much like ip-ranges.json) is just another step. I would like to hope that AWS already has playbooks for taking a region out of closed-beta and making it GA. If the listing of af-south-1 is already present on other sections of documentation this may already be the case.

I'll send the feedback through anyhow.
Ok, then less holy hell wtf. Although I think though most of the cases they have are still relatively recent because I could swear I remember Sweden having less numbers of people than Denmark with it about a month ago.

When I look at this chart of death rates they had 451 dead on April 2 https://www.statista.com/statistics/1105753/cumulative-coron...

which argues a much lower number of cases back then (haven't been able to find how many active cases they had then though, so I may be wrong)

I think this article is right on target

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/swedish-coronav...

on edit: added "then Denmark"
I archived this page at:

http://archive.today/QMNUX
We needn't go to the margins of Bill Gates somehow creating corona virus. Here's some of the blatant lies and misinformation that came straight out of the supposedly legitimate leadership.

* Masks don't work, and you're too stupid to wear one anyways (WHO and US Surgeon General)

* There is no human to human transmission (WHO)

* The fact that there is a biolab in the exact area where the virus started spreading from is just a wild coincidence you racist (media Cathedral)

I have a hard time blaming people for going down conspiracy theory rabbit holes about Gates when all the people who should be setting us straight have no credibility.
> AFAIU Tegnell is meaning that the swedish approach is the same in that the measures will have the same effect as complete and total lockdown, just not forced by the government? So the difference is actually quite subtle (enforced by law vs enforced by the people) or am I misunderstanding here?

The outcome might be "the same" (only history will tell us if this is actually true) but the path we're trying to follow is not the same as any other country. This is why it is unique. Not the outcome, the path.

> I see what you mean, but given that the experts are also saying that it is not necessary, should it be pushed through anyway?

FWIW there are many in the scientific community in Sweden who desperately do not agree with Anders. Ideally a technocracy is great, but this does not feel like a technocracy. I'm not saying that because of political pressures, but because the "do nothing" approach is not based in any science that anybody can cite.

> If I understand your point here correctly, is that you feel that having uptodate numbers is more important than the government agencies currently do?

I'm saying that it's not possible to forecast this kind of virus without adequate testing _and_ very strong communication. Most countries are "OK" until they suddenly aren't.. then the peak of the issue comes 1-2 weeks /after/ they realise there is a problem.

>WHy is the 4-7 dag lag important with the twice-per-week meetings with regional authorities?

If people were presenting symptoms quickly then it would help map the spread of the virus and inform opinion on when the healthcare system will be overwhelmed so we can prepare.

> Going out with symptoms is an offence so I assume your PT was told to go home? [snip]

Nobody is taking this seriously. She thinks she just had a fever and a sore throat. I suggested it was possibly COVID-19 related to which she said "I doubt it very much" and that was the end of it.

> What are your thoughts on the Swedish Public Health Agency's information that masks are not needed?

That was a recommendation across the globe, but it's been contested and the current recommendation from most healthcare agencies is to use masks, with the empasis on tring to make your own and not to consume the medical grade ones : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/apr/21/scientists-...

> Just fyi, I'm also Swedish and live in Stockholm so also seeing all this first-hand. And I put a lot of faith into what the government and their agencies are saying so it's interesting to hear from someone who doesn't!

For context I'm not natively Swedish, I'm natively British, so maybe I don't share so much the culture of high trust in the government. But I'm also gravely dismayed by the sheer and flagrant violation of the recommendations even by Swedes.

The prevailing mindset is not only selfish it is based on the notion that "If I break the rules but nobody else does I'll be fine". It is very common for bars and restaurants to be full (like I previously mentioned) groups of people going shopping and hanging around in parks with the warm weather.

The virus has not killed so many in Skane yet.. but I do fear for the future.
Being against parties was a cliché of 18th century thought. Edmund Burke first pointed out that parties could be more than just conspiracies against the public interest:

Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.... It is the business of the politician, who is the philosopher in action, to find out proper means towards those ends, and to employ them with effect. Therefore every honourable connexion will avow it as their first purpose, to pursue every just method to put the men who hold their opinions into such a condition as may enable them to carry their common plans into execution, with all the power and authority of the State.

https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/796#Burke_0005-01_348

Slightly offtopic: it's unfortunate when people, perhaps technically brilliant people, come up with naïve solutions to political problems, showing little awareness that there are long and sophisticated traditions of thinking about these issues.
Take a week or two off. Let this slip your mind for a while.
Quitting a job can be exciting at first but VERY stressful when money run out.
Take time off, apply here and there see what comes back after your holiday.
First couple of years after university can be stressful and the first job or two are expected to be like that.

I had a contractor working for me who came and openly talked about this with me. After digging into the problem more, we found it is about the chemistry of the team and he was not getting along with their manager. He changed the job, got a lower pay and life continued fine for him.
The point here is to identify the trigger than eliminate it.
You can't! You can really only make QT apps with them. I think it's funny that people see the lack of features and visual distinction as an advantage.
I sometimes feel in the minority. I love databases. When I work in the Ruby on Rails ORM ActiveRecord I can actually visualize the SQL it is generating in my head and also do all sorts of tricks when needed.
Comparing death rates across countries is highly misguided because is depends directly on the testing strategy. The sickness is not different in Sweden than in Denmark and neither country's health care system is overburdened (even in Stockholm, worst hit region of Sweden) which would otherwise be a strong contributing factor to a higher death rate. So there is little reasons to believe that there should be a difference, let alone such a stark one.
Looking for someone to help build interactive video software
I'm looking to build a quick and dirty alpha video software for a very specific use case. Think Zoom, but with a customized front end-user interface. Was thinking it could be built with Twilio / WebRTC. If anyone is interested in helping / knows anyone, please drop me an email: nathaniel.jewell@gmail.com.
https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/loans/coronavirus-relie... has a section for “Who Can Apply”, which I’ll quote below:

Who Can Apply

The following entities affected by Coronavirus (COVID-19) may be eligible:

* Any small business concern that meets SBA’s size standards (either the industry based sized standard or the alternative size standard)

* Any business, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, 501(c)(19) veterans organization, or Tribal business concern (sec. 31(b)(2)(C) of the Small Business Act) with the greater of:

- 500 employees, or

- That meets the SBA industry size standard if more than 500

* Any business with a NAICS Code that begins with 72 (Accommodations and Food Services) that has more than one physical location and employs less than 500 per location

* Sole proprietors, independent contractors, and self-employed persons
This might not confound things if current consumption of Nicotine is the protective element. people who quit previously are not currently consuming nicotine.
I've found HN to be incredibly unpredictable when it comes to public opinion. I've had comments start out with a dozen up votes only to sink into the negatives hours later, and comments that spent a day at negative four suddenly rise into the positives.
Can't get enough of that picture in the article.
Not patent-free, royalty-free.
I'd be very concerned if download size wouldn't scale with the size of the map, so I'm not quite sure what your point is. Nobody uses lookup tables for routing (that would require quadratic space to store). If you really want to use something that could be described as lookup tables (even though "set intersection" would be more accurate), have a look at hub labeling. But that still requires a lot of space and isn't particularly suitable for traffic updates, so it's clearly not what any of the maps services use, online or offline.
From my total outside perspective to both, development and patreon, it is that there is more to platform business than just reach and number of users. I mean without users, it is pointless. But without value for the users, it is kind pointless as well. Or not pointless, but falling short of the potential.

EDIT: 200 people, depending on the business, is still in start-up teritory if the company is not decades old.
Oh, no question about that. When I was a kid, I tended to assume that my parents always were available to drop what they're doing and engage with you.

(And which, incidentally, is surely a reason why many parents are finding working from home during quarantine to be so difficult.)
> I suspect this was what attracted developers to noSQL databases like Mongo in the first place -- it's more attuned to a programmatic mindset.

Well, it's more attuned to the dynamically typed mindset, sure. Programmers who understand the value of static type systems should understand the value of relational schemas.
This. It is known as acquiring taste, and mostly takes time and effort/research. I would also add that 'any' music you haven't heard before is new music, it doesn't have to be freshly minted to be new or relevant. As someone be mentioned above about the Italian 60'/70s scene it was a hotbed of creativity that's still being discovered/unearthed today, I've spent years digging through certain areas of music and still get surprised decades down the line.
Good, it's a horrible pointless industry
The touching up of photos by NASA is really interesting - I don’t want to fuel all of the mars conspiracies but undeniable that a lot of stuff in the mars photos is obviously airbrushed and there has been a transition from everything on mars being red hued to blue sky with lots of greys and browns in the landscape, it shows that NASA has taken a lot of artistic license. The Viking probes all had color calibration plates attached, so I’m pretty sure someone made the decision to tint the photos because “the public expected the red planet to be red”, then someone else made a different decision, so slowly the red hue is being replaced with natural colors just to save face.
Not really. That is exactly the point the article is trying to make. Developers need to care about these things - _enough to know who to go get help from_. That is the minimum. Also 10 years is an exaggeration. 2 years working on a non-trivial backend should expose one to these problems.

From what I have seen, products built without caring about these will usually get rebuilt a year from the original release - either by the same company or by a competitor who killed them.
Well, miles andc metres is basicallyh identical to miles and yards, so it's not that weird...
This video was shot in 2016 (at EC2s 10 year anniversary): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Gk_I_0eMDA ... almost all of the folks in this video are still there.
Show HN: Search more than 16,000 lute pieces in French tablature
> Any thoughts on where this energy should go?

Voting, and making sure everyone you know votes too.