skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not a fair point. People here talk about guilds and apprenticeships occasionally and that's what residencies are. You have a high, secure lifetime salary afterwards. It's a hard job, but it's just a career stage in an otherwise lucrative (although sometimes a difficult, stressful, and dangerous) career path.
Yes! Pizza stone! Best 12 euros I've ever spent.

This[0] is the kind of results I'm able to get in a normal Ikea electric oven that maxes out at 250 C. Another thing you can do with it is experiment with a Weber-like barbecue...

[0] https://imgur.com/a/7MDWyv4
There was a report in France 2 and some pictures of papers the "friendly neighbors" put on nurses' appartment doors asking them to move out.
Ask HN: Imperial College Pandemic Code?
On 22nd March, Neil Ferguson wrote (on twitter), concerning the Imperial College COVID19 model

I wrote the code (thousands of lines of undocumented C) 13+ years
ago to model flu pandemics ... With Microsoft and GitHub stepping
in to offer support ... we hope to make v1 releases of both the
source and front end in the next 7-10 days

https://threader.app/thread/1241835454707699713

I keep checking the ICL GitHub repo, but no sign of this. I know there are some MS readers here, anyone have an ETA for the release yet?
Refusing to accept responsibility for your own errors is more an ego problem than the alternative.
There is definitely a trend of tech bros 1831'ing biology. While it is very annoying, I do think we should try to be more charitable in how we respond to them. It's ultimately a good thing that other people are interested in what we are doing.
This is not how reserve banking works, doesn't reflect how much the US pays to service it's bonds, misses the fact that the fed creates new money and loans it out, it doesn't have obligations it can default on, misses the fact that the US would have to default on its debt to erase it, misses the fact that there isn't that much gold in the world (if the us stole every oz of gold on the planet it would have to devalue it's currency by half to return to the gold standard)

.... On and on and on.

This is honest gibberish.
"high cost of living markets are basically propped up by the surrounding economy."

Yes - to the extent that surrounding economy can support the general COL. So if/when the surrounding economy can no longer support a relatively high COL (in this example of mortage/rent = housing), why not just let the COL adjust proportionately to the surrounding economy?

So in the event the surrounding economy is strong & growing, the COL is also high and rising (as we've experiences over the past ~10 years). But when the surrounding economy is bad and declining, the COL should lower to match, no?

"As for the handouts part of your comment, what do you consider a handout? The stimulus checks? Is QE considered a handout? "

Yes, among others, these programs and others like it are only artificially propping up high COL areas (housing, for example) that otherwise would experience a correction (down) tied to their respective surrounding economies.
> We've already had to ask you not to do this kind of thing.

When did it become HN policy to cherry-pick long ago examples from among a plethora of highly-regarded comments like that? Pretty clearly other users think I've paid any debt to this community since whatever incident you're referring to (and I don't remember any) many times over. Bringing it up like this seems pretty empty and nasty in itself.
I think your argumentation lacks evidence. Where is the evidence for your very strong claims?
>> they only really care that people are alive.

They care in the same way that farmers care about their sheep being alive...
>Why do software engineers constantly try to project that they are a special snowflake of a profession?

I agree but this point is orthogonal to the main point. Plumbers and electricians build to code in an environment where physical reality remains constant and they operate on expected inputs. A civil engineer is not held to account for a failure if gravity suddenly reverses itself. If I shock a circuit board with static electricity and it fails is that an electrical engineer's fault? If I put 20,000 psi through a household plumbing system and it fails is it the plumber's fault? These designs are only expected to operate in a narrow range on a small number of expected inputs / variables and that is easier.

Software can basically expect infinite permutations of inputs at any time and is expected to give good outputs and no bugs 100% of the time?
If you want to get into the weeds on this, try to be balanced (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NKVD#Spanish_Civil_War)

The Spanish Civil War soon became more about blue-on-blue infighting between traditional leftists and straight-up Stalinist agents. Orwell did not flee Spain because of the Nationalists closing in, he was being hunted by soviet agents.
Yes, but apparently that is already too far gone for anyone to remember and not hard enough to hit all history books...
The president was suggesting and shilling hydroxychloroquine for weeks based on the advise of the CDC? The president went on TV last night and mused about and got his staff to commit to investigating drinking / injecting / huffing disinfectant and putting 'powerful' light into bodies based on the advice of the CDC?

I really doubt that.

Now you may be right that he gets his info from advisors but the quality of advice is only as good as the advisors. Considering he has removed a vast number of competent experienced people and replaced them with sycophants with no experience may reduce that quality. His daughter and son in law are special advisors.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/people/ivanka-trump/

Also I did not say he gets his info from facebook, I said he is similar to people who do.

https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-jared-kushner-fa...
Zurich is a city of 300,000 people or so, New York is a hundred times larger.
Recognize Text in Images on Android with Firebase’s ML Kit
> And then the media blasts protestors as right wing gun waving people who want haircuts.

Except ... they are? From what I've seen the protestors are all for increased policed powers (Thin Blue Line type supporters), just not when it applies to _them_ - i.e. now.
I replaced the Google Hangout recommendation with Discord. Thanks for the heads up!
There website is struggling right now. It took ~10 seconds for github login to popup after multiple clicks and I keep getting an error when trying to start a project.

It might be all the traffic from the HN newsletter?
> At that point, the right wing, funded by the desperate corporate state which needs to stem the rising tide of labor activism, will blame coastal elite liberals and immigrants for their problems and there will be some kind of fascist coup, followed potentially by war, (but probably not).

You had me until "funded by the desperate corporate state", who want absolutely nothing to do with the right wing. If anything, we'll see a continued rise in Totalitarian Liberalism rather than any kind of right-wing renaissance.

> there will be some kind of fascist coup

You need a Great Man for that, and there are none on the horizon.
This is a stellar summary of Trump's skills.
Then be more accurate with your words and not irresponsibly spreading misinformation.
The analogy has always been strained, since national debt just doesn’t work like personal debt.

Also, when you can borrow at sub-inflation rates, there’s rarely an incentive to stop.
‘would of’ followed by ‘would have’ in the same sentence! you’re grammar trolling, aren’t you?
However this saves us from inflation, since the money circulates among the wealthy and corporations rather than among the common person.
If you have dark skin, certainly not. The whole point of having dark skin is so the UV doesn't make its way into your flesh, where it can wreak havoc.
> how much of our law, literature, politics, ethics, and aesthetics come from, like, four or five Greek guys.

I always wondered what the world would have been like if these people got fervent followers and governed nations/cultures instead of the religious "prophets"
Thank you for all the memories !!
>Do we need to dig in and tear out the quote word by word now before we're even allowed to refute it?

Are you actually a new account? Because if so, be warned - that is exactly how HN works a lot of the time.
.. and now Californians you understand why us rednecks like our guns so much XD
> I am not sure why you (and every other person that replied) assumes that I am suggesting an in-house solution when I explicitly wrote "freedom to choose between vendors".

I used "build in house" as a simple example of a broader principle--if there is a "freedom to choose" option that magically lets you migrate from one platform to another at zero cost while imposing no overhead over the AWS solution, then absolutely you should do it. But generally these solutions require a significant up front investment and rarely actually deliver on their promise of abstracting away the underlying platform (now you're wed to $ABSTRACTION on AWS, for example), but that's another story.

> That's pretty much the textbook definition of debt.

Nonsense. That's not debt, it's deciding to wait to pay for something in cash until you know you want to buy it. It's not debt to wait to spend $30K (cash) on a car until you're sure you want to buy it. The "tech debt" analogy is intended to convey interest--you know you want to change course but you do the expedient thing now knowing that you're going to continually bump into it (each bump is "interest") until you can pay it off properly. This is the opposite--if you build it in house or use a dodgy "platform-agnostic" abstraction, you're going to be paying interest on something you will very likely never even need!
I am not sure where you are getting the delusional idea that the Soviet Union supported the Nationalists since they were the biggest backers of the Republicans and by the later stages of the war had complete control over the Republican leadership.
I think you should practice/hone your JS skills and bring them up to ES6/TypeScript level. I wouldn't bother learning another framework but instead focus on becoming highly proficient in the language details. I've been using executeprogram.com and have been real happy with how it is set up. Not sure if there are other options.
They were all software engineers.
Somehow that page 404'd on me and just showed "Not Found".
I nearly closed it thinking I had read what I had come to read... XD
Sadly, the American grocery store is not optimized for consumers, so we can't draw many inferences from it. It's true that no-frills versions of commodity products are a good deal compared with heavily marketed products. But I don't see any reason to think letting individual stores dominate that market segment would be necessarily better for consumers.
An emergency room doctor in Miami has temporarily lost custody of her 4-year-old daughter while she treats patients during the coronavirus pandemic.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/13/us/custody-coronavirus-er-doc...
After my working life had induced anxiety, panic attacks, and a host of other issues which really started to rear their ugly head I’ve become a much more religious person. On top of the professional help I’ve sought out for these issues, it has also helped a lot in my case when you internalize deep that work/money/material success really doesn’t matter in the grand scheme and there’s a greater goal to work towards.
I didn’t say I had anything against anybody who has kids and falls on hard times. I understand that makes my comment rather off topic in this thread. I do know a lot of people who definitely did not have their finances in order and decided to have children anyway. The children are the ones who suffer most in these cases! This is super irresponsible and selfish. Hell, I once knew a couple who literally said they might have a third child because it would be easier with the extra child support money...
Why is firing workers inconsistent with paying dividends? They kind of feel like two sides of the same coin: a company can't find a better return on its capital so it divests itself of the resource (labor or cash).
Find Yourself (Online)
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Aren't Unity still using PhysX?

A lot of engines are still using PhysX (albeit stuck on version 3.x). Upgrading a physics engine is often a pain point, either because it is so tightly integrated in the code base or because game assets have been tuned for the current physics implementation and even a small accuracy or behavior change will require assets to be re-tuned.
Why is printing money a bad thing at this point in time?

I see two strong reasons that printing money is the right move:

1) Wealth inequality is high relative to recent history. Printing money is a very effective way to even some of that out. Possibly the only form of 'wealth tax' that can actually be executed successfully.

2) The US debt / GDP fraction is still relatively low compared to many other countries.
Well, the biohacker movement begs to differ on the garage part, but academic biologists would beg to differ with the biohackers there. I agree that there arent the diversity of opinion that you get in programming here (I'm certainly not amy sort of expert myself, new grad here), but that might come with time. Just having the experience of having studied biology, worked in a lab, written proposals and papers, all go a long way. Imagine we had a biology forum that was a bunch of biologists that barely knew what a computer was discussing the latest media hype around AI. Would be pretty bad. But then even people with just an undergrad or masters level of CS training and some work experience with actual programming could make that discussion a thousand times better, even if they aren't AI experts.

Right now, with all the COVID type articles being posted, it feels a bit like that. I'm not a trained virologist, and I dont know how many trained virologist there are on HN. But a basic perspective on what is the diagnostic test (I've done plenty of QPCR), what is primer design, what are antibody tests, and basic virology like what does it mean to be an rna virus, how is remdesivir supposed to work, etc tends to be missing, and I think k people with my level of experience can provide that. I've studied enough healthcare management to know the terminology at least and be able to discuss a placebo controlled trial versus not, and there are a lot of people with that level of basic knowledge than can contribute. And I've seen those sorts of explanations that are quite good. I've also noticed some pushback from people with at least a basic level of statistical/epidemiological training to the narrative that the risks of COVID are overblown, with discussions of exponential growth and SIR models. There are a few glimpses buried on what can be a pretty large initial onslaught of nonsense of actual biological knowledge. I dont think you need 50 years experience to provide that, though of course that would make the perspectives that much richer and deeper.
Rumors of Further Layoffs at DigitalOcean
Righteous!

I had heard vague rumblings that something like this might be in the works, back when I was at Lenovo. Glad to see them actually take this step.

Now more than ever, I could see my next new laptop being a ThinkPad.
Does anyone in the restaurant industry honestly feel as though their establishments are necessary?
I found the coffee in italy unremarkable compared to any other decent cafe in any of dozen random european countries.

There are three cafes local to me that are better than pretty much anything you'd get in italy.

Italian espresso is just... extremely plain. Decent, but boring.
Where are you sourcing the dictionary entries from? Is it just something like Wiktionary or did you license data from a commercial provider?
A Plea for Product Engineers
Yes, they do, except they call it a caffettiera. Every house in italy I've been to has one or more. This is in the north, the south might be different. But it's not the same as an espresso machine.
we would only know which approach worked best after the end of pandemic. An integral (e.g. total number of deaths) of the curve matters as much if not more as its shape.
> In the COVID-19 case the major problem is the bacterial sepsis caused by the infection.

This does not appear to be at all true.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/how-does-coronavirus...
I just had a quick look on Google News, some stories seem legit:

In Montpellier, owners shutting down hot water and heating to force a nurse to move out:

https://www.la-croix.com/Sciences-et-ethique/Sante/Coronavir...

In Marseille, neighbors left an anonymous note asking to 2 sisters working as nurse and firefighter to leave the residence:

https://www.ouest-france.fr/sante/virus/coronavirus/coronavi...
I'm confused at your inclusion of the word liberal here. These policies are not what I would consider to be liberal. Liberal as in laissez-faire capitalist democracies who should not impede on my ability to gather, demonstrate, worship, etc.?

So we're basically saying that the liberal democracies don't want to be liberal anymore? I'm just sort of confused as to who the purported boogeyman is in this case.
My theory would be that they’re the highest volume sellers, and where the margins are thinnest.
Imagine if electricians let their customers opt out of electrical code compliance...
They wrote:

> If you have purchased a drive, please call our customer care if you are experiencing performance or any other technical issues. We will have options for you. We are here to help.
I think everything you wrote here is false, so I am not sure how to reply. Will try to keep it respectful and short:

First, about the as_tibble - it returns the same thing as tibble:

tb_iris <- as_tibble(iris)
length(unique(tb_iris[,"Species"]))
> 1

Second, about the incorrect version:

> packageVersion("tibble")
[1] ‘3.0.1’

Which is also the current version on CRAN.

Third, about the classes:

You say:

> Once a tibble has been formed, it should work EXACTLY the way a data.frame works because R objects can have multiple classes.

This is not the case. You can add any class to any object in R S3 system. So people behind tibble can call their tibble a data.frame but it gives no guarantee that it will behave like one.

More about this problem here (and you can also find replies from tidyverse authors) https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-package-devel/2017q3/001896...
GitHub CLI 0.7
The New York Times had a similar story: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/03/nyregion/co-op-board-coro...

The Doctor Came to Save Lives. The Co-op Board Told Him to Get Lost.
Oh wow! I think I could finally be tempted to get an X1..!
And it ostensibly has the same mechanism of action this, which the FDA already approved recently for compassionate use:

https://www.fiercebiotech.com/medtech/fda-expands-access-to-...

I'm not fan of Trump, but the attacks on him over this and hydroxychloroquine are ridiculous.
It's hard to qualify what is 'best' without knowing what parts of the site are most important to you, but here are my thoughts. There are some sites or pages that are specific to an industry.

For example, county bee clubs and state beekeeper associations typically have a Facebook group. Facebook, reddit, association/industry websites/forums can give you the ability to create a profile, share information, and connect with others. In-person meetings and conferences are an option too.
Who is the targeted editor of a config file? If it's another programmer, just use config.py and make life easy on yourself.
> This doesn't really sound "successful" in the traditional sense.

I'm not sure the "traditional sense" of successful was what he was going for. However, it was successful, nevertheless.
R is the worst programming language I've touched. I usually hear in response, "it may be quirky, but it has a lot of well-tested functions useful for data analysis."

This confidence seems misplaced. Experienced developers using better languages with better tooling create bugs all the time. How likely is it that R packages, written by specialists (or grad students) whose main focus is often not programming but some other discipline, in a language full of "quirks," are going to be really reliable?

One quirk that got me the last time I touched R was that functions and variables live in different namespaces, so you could assign 4 to foo and then call it.

Fun fact, a lot of the R source code is machine translated from Fortran to C, but it has been cleaned up a lot. https://github.com/wch/r-source/search?p=1&q=f2c&unscoped_q=...
India was very quick in passing an ordinance imposing harsh penalties on attacking healthcare workers though.
I tried three different email addresses (aliases, really) and had the same problem with all of them.
don't forget the crucial group_by() / summarise()
It's low contrast which increases the time needed to decipher the glyphs in your mind.
There are also those proponents of nebulizing (dilute) peroxide. While I wouldn't try this myself, peroxide modulates lymphocytes and would surely result in a decrease in viral load. Peroxide is not unknown to the body, given the various endogenous peroxidases that catalyze it. Dilution would seem to be critical, though. I have wondered whether it wasn't worth some controlled studies, if they haven't happened already (shrug)
This is very good. Manufacturers will make sure that the hardware is fully supported.
There is also System76 and I think you can buy laptops from Dell as well w/ Ubuntu preinstalled
Source ingredients that are only available in one location on earth, and cook using a device which is very uncommon in most households. Sure, easy.
Even without the specific downsides of snap that you've noted, having two parallel package managers that each have zero visibility into each other feels like such an antipattern and UX failure to me. Needing to use two different tools to figure out what's actually installed on my system annoys me to no end, and, like you, it's pretty much caused me to abandon the *buntus at this point.
Defaulting on the debt means anyone owning treasury bonds lose their money.
That's something I've noticed as well, and the worst part is how willing people are to turn on their neighbors. I've lost count of the amount of times I've seen comments along the lines of "screw your freedoms, millions of people will die if you don't give up your rights". People calling the police on hairstylist neighbors who are trying to do house calls because they can't pay their rent otherwise, etc. Not to mention the whole "prove that you're an essential employee, otherwise you'll get fined for leaving your house" that is the exact opposite of innocent until proven guilty.
I mean, I've actually worked in bioinformatics and with biologists who have studied sexual species their entire life and my top-level comment was one of the ones that got buried.

The main thing to learn from this is you can't really talk about this stuff because people don't want certain things to be true. Biologists tended to talk about this stuff openly with me after a few drinks. They dare not speak about it most of the time.
The reason why moka pot is so famous has also to do with massive post-war production. Alessi and Bialetti used to make moka pots with equipment originally used to produce mortar shells for WW2. The main difference between the Alessi and Bialetti coffee makers were that the latter used the traditional 8 sided shape which aided in screwing-unscrewing.

Renato Bialetti, which I was lucky enough to greet, got his ashes put in an oversized moka pot, which was blessed during his funeral[0]. He was known for driving some of his factory workers out for lunch on Fridays, on his expensive car.

[0] https://www.corriere.it/cronache/16_febbraio_16/funerali-bia...