skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“When the cholera was raging in Naples; when the people were dying by the hundreds and hundreds every day; when every concern for the public welfare was swallowed up in selfish private interest, and every citizen made the taking care of himself his sole object, these men banded themselves together and went about nursing the sick and burying the dead. Their noble efforts cost many of them their lives.”

The parallels of today are striking. It is fortunate this time around that we know considerably more about the communicative properties of bacteria and viruses to at least provide some semblance of protection for doctors and nurses.
Ok, well I don't think I'm ossified but I'm crazy expensive (basically as it isn't worth moving from my job, especially taking the time to do inevitable take home project, I require a 16% pay hike to consider it which puts me at the highest rate for Danish programmers with my level of seniority in Copenhagen according to surveys)

So I wonder - is there any relation of crazy expensive and ossified in your experience? Are crazy expensive programmers just as likely to be ossified as not (I knew a DB guy that I thought was a little ossified about 11 years ago and I thought he was crazy expensive)

If they are crazy expensive but not ossified maybe that argues experience and always learning new things which might be a sign of someone being worth the crazy expensive (obviously I like to think I'm worth what people keep paying me)
I'm surprised anyone beyond C# and game programmers still code on Windows. It must be constant agony.
The article you link shows smoking to be a risk factor. That's why you can't do this with demographic surveys: Smoking != tobacco != nicotine.

Nicotine has been shown to be a dangerous chemical all on its own, but that's also true of almost any drug taken without medical regulation or supervision. Whether this is safe to do or not should be left to the professionals.
People won’t literally forget for many years, but the coronavirus will not be in the minds of most people in the future once the wave(s) are over.

The 1918 flu had a big impact, but a lot of other things happened in the 20th century!
Which firms should pay dividends?
"My money is within a month Sweden going into full lockdown"

I'm willing to take the other side of this bet. Do you have a way of organising it?
Government and Healthcare systems are intermixed in this case.

The healthcare system recommends staying away from doctors offices to prevent the risk of spreading the virus, thus you will not be tested until it progresses badly enough to go to ICU.
(The 80/20 rule applies below, some developers do care)

Developers... just don't care. They want to spin up an ORM, point it at a URI, and forget about it.

I've fought this for over a decade now as a DBA, SRE, DevOps, and architect. Most of the developers don't want to deal with anything infrastructure-wise; they want to spend all the time they can just focusing on the problem they're writing software to solve.

Observeability, reliability, scalability - these are all words that are translated into either "someone else's problem" or "unproductive busywork" in their minds.
I have no idea whether the paper is good or not, but an off-hand tangential comment in an interview is hardly a debunking.

Also note that if you have to react to an emergency you might not have the luxury to wait for the data and evaluate all possibilities.

Of course you should definitely reevaluate your decisions as data come in.

edit:

I can't see a direct comparison in your links, but FWIW euromomo [1] is showing a large spike in excess deaths for Sweden.

edit2:

as pointed elsethread, neighbouring Norway and Finland are seeing a very different scenario; the graphs show pretty much no excess mortality.

[1] https://www.euromomo.eu/outputs/zscore_country_total.html
Look at the earning potential of those with IQ 90 vs 110 - which is largely based upon the subjects speed of answering timed questions. Maybe some enlightenment there...

Woops! Sorry. That google search just leads to a plethora of racist dogma pages with pretend data labelling ethnic groups. I'd hoped for some data across a single population.

Anyway, we learned something from that. Alien races with real significant differences will be treated vastly differently. Just like we unfairly treat one another over insignificant differences.
Do it. I’ve been in your situation before and wish I’d quit much earlier than I did.

The scala job market is good and only getting better. If you’re good at the functional aspects you’ll be considered for clojure/Haskell jobs too.
What else can they do at scale?

A hard drive or SSD is a complex device. Are you going to expect the customer service people help you dump the firmware out that JTAG port? People like that can be trained and equipped with simple diagnostics and remedy options, they can't be expected to get into the fine details of product selection.
Yes, we all get that, it's been rammed down our throats for months.
"The Beatles have yet to be beaten in pop music"

They set a standard which was followed/copied for decades - self-contained music group writing/performing their own material. And they were really good at it.

The one thing that didn't get copied from them in most cases was multiple singers. They didn't really have a 'front man'. They had a lot of harmony singing. These are keys missing from most of the bands that copied them over the years.

The voices worked well together, but were distinct enough, and the songs were distinct enough, that one could enjoy 'George' Beatles music without caring much for 'Paul' Beatles music (for example).

If you don't like Bono's voice, you're going to struggle with liking U2. If you don't like Stipe's voice, you'll have a hard time being an REM fan. Don't like Mick Jagger's voice? Tough luck on digging the Stones too much.

There was also enough variety to allow almost everyone to be able to find some Beatles track they love (or at least like).
This alone made me stop reading. There is absolutely no reason for this. It's an extra thing I have to think about when reading/writing code with literally zero benefit. Now people new to the language have extra stuff to learn. Languages need less ways to do the same thing. Not more.
https://quillette.com/2018/09/07/academic-activists-send-a-p...
Why we can't build
I think you've been misinformed here. Their strategy is still herd immunity. Some officials have said that's a bad way to characterize it - that their strategy consists of the things they do to mitigate harm, not the epidemiological fact that will eventually bring the outbreak to an end. (And I think that's fair - nobody calls the strategies that were applied during the Spanish Flu "herd immunity".) But they don't have any plan for ending the outbreak other than lots of people catching it and becoming immune.
I have young kids also. I use the virtual walls to have it run in the kitchen only (thrice weekly) - by far the place with the most crumbs.

On occasion, I'll manually run it in other rooms after picking up the toys/clothes/unicorns/mermaids/fairies/and rainbows.
You right, that may be too far. But I don't know if we assume that direct democracy works well in the face of extremely important, time critical, issues requiring a lot of specialized information. I still have faith in democracy finding decent leaders, but I don't know if the populace has the required ability to consider all the nuance of this pandemic we're facing and then making an educated, forward thinking, and in all probability incredibly painful decision. It's been clear from a lot of the arguments I've heard people neither have a good grasp on exponential growth and it's consequences in terms of containment, nor on the timeline or steps required to get this all under control.
As opposed to the aristocracy we have now?

How many Senators and Congresspeople (and MPs in the UK) aren't multi-millionaires?
> AUTOINCREMENT’ing can be harmful

I'll add that they should never be trusted to not jump around either! I imagine everyone makes this mistake at least once in their life.

There is a very high chance that the database will skip a few numbers from time to time. You will then have someone from an accounting department asking where Record #XX is.
An American calls his or her parents "you" when talking to them.

Asians always address their parents with words meaning "mother" or "father". Calling them "you" is extremely rude.

We can go on and on how vastly different the norms on respecting parents (and teachers).
It looks like some kind of sharing is part of the offer: https://www.permanent.org/digital-archives/services/exclusiv...

I would like to see more details on this. Bandwidth-limited sharing would still be economically feasible up to a point.

If they have run the numbers and are careful to leave a generous safety margin, I can see this working out. Eventually it will fail, as everything does, but it could last a very long time before that happens.

One more thought: if they are successful, they may accumulate a substantial endowment, at which point the primary risk is capture of that endowment by unethical board members. They have a good board right now, but will that always be the case? Time will tell.
FWIW, if you've been burned by them: either through paying for substandard education or otherwise mislead it would likely be of interest to people here to hear the specifics. Vague attacks on them ungrounded in facts just make it difficult for anyone to see your perspective.

I know people burned by bootcamps in the sense that they should have been told up front that they didn't have a strong enough foundation for the bootcamp to be worthwhile. This was before the days of salary reimbursements, so they just paid outright (installment plans). I also know people who had their instructors go missing for weeks of the program replaced by unqualified recent grads. Finally every bootcamp lies about their placement rates it seems.

All that being said I work with a few bootcamp grads and they are very talented and productive developers.
The part later in that episode where the PM shows up to the high table is pretty classic too.
Branching Pattern: Healthy Branch
I don't know what it is about the 95, 98, 2000 era of Windows UI and aesthetics but I still strongly prefer it.
Netflix's UI, more specifically, is anti-Search.

Search is a binary proposition. Netflix either has the content you're searching for, or it does not. Because Netflix is optimizing for total time spent on platform, this is a bad proposition, from their perspective.

That's why the Netflix home screen has become a circus of autoplaying videos, "recommended for you" queues, and "watch it again." The goal, from a UX perspective, is to stimulate you into watching something you didn't come there wanting to watch.
In my case It has helped me understanding more about marketing, seo, and how social media works... I do something completely diferentes, but this knowledge has rounded my profile.
I have Viettel fiber and I very rarely feel the effects of cable disruptions. Most times I wouldn't even notice until someone complains about it on an expat or neighborhood group.

This is less the case for people using other providers.
It's generally better to work out with free-weights because of the stabilization aspect, yes. Saying that Free weights are better flat-out is wrong in my opinion. Every piece of equipment in the gym is a tool if used effectively and at the right time. Your "core" program will be done with free-weights yes, the other equipment is great for auxiliary uses that compliment your program. Machines are great for end of workout sets because you're likely already fairly fatigued and form may be compromised. You can get that little extra by using machines to ensure perfect form while also safely adding that extra stimulation for the muscle groups being trained.
I understand permanence is hard to achieve, but why do you claim it correlates with for-profit as opposed to nonprofit motivations?

A subjective look at the world suggests that institutions which have preserved artifacts (including digital artifacts) over a long time scale have been likelier to be non-profit than for-profit.
What other lossless "video" format is widely available in browsers?
That sort of flexibility does not sound as though it would scale well as the data get big.
Why is that suddenly a problem? We always had it. Most people posing danger to others in one or the other way. Driving a car is the most obvious example but there are countless other
Cases are an unreliable metric because Sweden has done less testing per capita than Norway/Finland/Denmark. However, its deaths per capita is notably higher (and rising - from 14th global rank to 10th in the last couple weeks)

Sweden: 192 per million

Denmark: 66 per million

Norway: 34 per million

Finland: 27 per million
Kill the Heritic!
A regular car like a Toyota Corolla or something isn't very expensive for the average adult. Unless they live in a dense area and have to pay for parking.
I have a few types of data:

* Most data is reasonably small, and super-critical. I might have legal documents, personal emails, source code, etc. My business might have basic employee information, or sales transactions. Most of that, efficiently-stored, would fit in a box of 1.44MB floppies.

* I have medium-sized data like photos (product, family, etc).

* I have big data, like videos. A workplace might have surveillance videos, while I might have copies of movies I like, and ISOs of software I bought.

The above is a bit of a obfuscated to not reveal personal information (I took analogies to the types of data I and my business have).

In many cases, it doesn't make sense to have multiple storage locations and to manage all that yourself (management gets too expensive). It's cheaper to keep your big stuff on expensive media than to take time or to hire a software engineer.

At some point, I also start to either discard things explicitly (erase a file), or implicitly (photos/videos with lossy compression). A question is when that happens.

The answer, I think, just moved from "at 8TB, on a WD drive" to "at 1TB, on an SSD."
But how does this interact with Unix command line tools? Any "sandboxing" system that A) either makes comamnd line usage inconvenient or B) completely ignore command line usage is going to create a rift.

Most of these "interactive sandbox UX" approaches basically create a "developer sandbox" where the command line tools can all play together but cannot access external data. And this is where things go downhill. Developers (or even users) DO want from time to time to write a script that accesses their contacts, gets the current GPS position and then does some munching with Perl for whatever obscure reason. Developers DO want from time to time to read whatever stuff Netflix program is storing on their private storage (oh noes!), or what the PDF reading program wants to send to the net.

And then you hit either A or B from above. If A, developer is annoyed and disables your sandboxing, and you are back to stage 1. If B, you are already at stage 1 and developer is annoyed seeing that random Perl scripts can apparently read your contacts list.

I find that any sandboxing approach that fails to actually think of command line usage is just falling in the trap of the "Android/iOS-centric world view". "Apps" may be glorified websites which are trivial to sandbox, but the more generic concept of "programs" is not. This is not only about command line scripts. Command line scripts interact with pipes. Programs, however, interact between themselves in ways we cannot even think of right now.

Which is why year after year you still see completely unsandboxed PCs being used for "productivity" despite tablets and anything else with the Android/iOS model.
Could be bureaucratic categories he fell into
Y Combinator graduate H1 closes on $12.9M for professional healthcare database
Back to Basics: Data Flow
If only there wasn't such a thing as externalized costs...
This has always been the case and is a risk of living in human society. Your life may end at any time due to someone else's irresponsible behavior.
Plot twist: Fishermen are purposefully collecting underwater cables and selling them for scrape.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2541664/fishermen-pull...

Of course there are also accidental breakages and other things. That is to say there are many root causes, not necessarily intuitive.
If its not doing it for you and you can support yourself for a bit, quitting is not a bad option. Not enjoying the bulk of something you do every day will destroy you... BUT... As someone who has done the rounds, I'll offer this bit of advice for what its worth:

1.) The grass is not necessarily greener on the other side of the fence. Have you got an idea of what you want to do? What you will accept? Even if you just want to leave, you need a plan. Otherwise you'll take something worse out of desparation down the line.

2.) Even if you find a "dream job" or even just a better job things always change. Especially in London. This might also be the case for the job you are in. Is it a temporary rut you are in? Like another commenter said, do you like the company but not the current position? If so the company might do a lot to retain you rather than see you walk.

3.) Exploit your network to explore options before leaving. Use the current situation as a chance to seriously look and to build a plan. Its easier to find a job when you already have one that to find one when you are desparate. I am sure you have but... If you have friends or connections at other places tap them up. You never know...

4.) This lockdown is doing funny things with all our heads. Take a deep breath, work out if its just the insanity of the situation that is clouding your vision. If you commute into London normally and now you are stuck at home, you might be suprised how much energy that city imparts when you are in there.

I have experienced this first hand. I mean... Its nice to have flexible working, to be at home and in the city because the opposite is also true, London can really bite you! But... London in the summer, especially after work in the City... One of the best places in the world.

If after all those questions your mind is still set on leaving, then you are making the right choice! Hell there is no wrong choice. We only live once!

Best of luck mate!
Education is a series of increasingly smaller lies
IANAL and I don't claim to understand any of this well, but I would naively assume that if Company A collected data under a binding legal agreement that they can only use it for X, then they go bankrupt, that shouldn't give Company B the ability to buy the data as a "liquidation asset" then do anything they feel like with it. Shouldn't the binding restrictions "move" with the data?
I was the nerd in my class and I was bullied at primary school in Poland in 90s, but that's because I had lots of pretty obvious sicknesses (asthma, skin allergies, half the time I was going to school with my arms bandaged, I wasn't participating in sports, etc.).

Being good at everything was actually cooler than being bad, especially if you were pretending you're naturally smart and didn't have to work to achieve that. I never understood how come kids in American TV are bullied for being smarter than the others, usually being smart is an advantage. On the other hand if you worked hard for grades or (even worse) were a favorite of some teacher and sucked up to her - you were a "kujon" and that was very uncool.

So everybody pretended they are brilliant and never study for even 10 minutes just know everything :)
I live in Stockholm, Sweden, so while I acknowledge my bias I'd bet my money on the fact that other countries will change their approach rather than Sweden starting to follow others.

While there are some undeniable social (think multiple generations in a household), geographical and cultural (swedes are notorious in keeping their distance from other swedes) differences at play here, other European countries have gone for a "people can't be trusted so we must restrict individual freedom". While there is certainly some good reasons to think that this will work the means used to implement this have some really sad consequences. Look at France, people are getting fined and in some cases brutalized; protests are sparking in places where strict measures have been implemented, not because they are unfair but because they affect people unfairly! Easy for well-off people to "leave early, far and for a long time" but far from everyone has that luxury (oh if you understand French, check out Twitter on the "lockdown diaries" parodies and compare that to how people in the suburbs of Paris are being treated!). This is without even starting to talk about how the economic impacts will be spread amongst social classes. To me Sweden has chosen the most socially (in this case as opposed to morally) fair route to handle this crisis.

That being said, it's morally very difficult to defend this strategy in the face of a higher death toll amongst seniors in care homes. I cannot come up with a single argument that I don't know will get shot down immediately and that is a good sign that it's probably not morally optimal. We live in a time of humanism and human life comes first, rightly so but even with that said, it shouldn't hide the picture and justify every consequence out there. The approaches in many countries are incredibly reactive and short sighted in that regard.
Understanding BERT and Search Relevance (2019)
Low official case numbers in Sweden are meaningless. They made a strategic decision not to track untested cases which would be presumed COVID-19 cases in most countries and they perform an almost negligible number of tests in Sweden which are officially restricted to be used for certain specific at-risk demographics.

The number of deaths per capita will give a clearer picture of the underlying situation comparing against the rest of Scandinavia, but that of course lags behind the number of cases by a few weeks.
Beautiful work, thanks so much :) I'll keep poking at fonts and see what I can learn https://github.com/jdan/98.css/issues/10

I love that we arrived at the ~same solution using inset shadows for the buttons. Makes me feel validated.
So potentially the next step is specialists covering whole regions where the latency of fiber is still acceptable. Then as the equipment and training for telesurgery becomes more available/costs come down, you might see it used for smaller benefits of sterilization and travel/cleaning time within a hospital, even for more common/less specialized surgeries, and even if it's just a surgeon located at the same building or facility.
If energy was sufficiently expensive, we would just build greenhouses like so: https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/12/reinventing-the-gree...
> <div> elements stitched together to pretend to be something else than boxes of text.

As a Norwegian <div> makes perfect sense, as "div" is a common shorthand for "diverse" meaning "various" or "miscellaneous". At least that's what I always think of when writing <div>.
ex-YU? GDR?
The media will bend over backwards to avoid mentioning the fact that while most European countries strip mined their health care systems, Sweden didn't.

The EU has asked member states to cut their health care systems 63 times since 2012. Their response to this reminds me of their response to Greece; callous and fucking dumb.

Neoliberal "ideology" is great for people at the top of the pryamid, until it isn't.
> Crashed the tab for me on Safari and they themselves say it's Chome only.

It apparently does work in Firefox, but only at higher bitrate HD mode so it's not great if you don't have the bandwidth.
As someone who is opposed to his plan I feel the other way round. The more data we get the more it seems to have worked. And Tegnell has increased in popularity.

Was his plan the best one? I am skeptical, but it is far from as stupid as I originally thought.