skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got completely sucked into it (the philosophy and "story" being a big part of that). It was fun to try and optimize, fun to follow events, and cathartic to reach the end. Sometimes I would take breaks at points while income built up in the background, but I also spent plenty of time optimizing. And I don't normally enjoy grinding.
Found some of the points in this article to be contradictory. Author argues that carefully measured growth will win in the years to come, but also suggests that companies need to go all in on SG&A since having more staff means more growth.

Personally, I agree with the carefully measured growth part, but I also think small teams still have a lot of power. Investing in SG&A still isn't going to be as fruitful as R&D. The Internet hasn't halted yet – there's still a lot more to uncover. The physical world gives us a perception that everything is finite – that everyone's fighting over the same resources. A zero sum mindset (which would certainly make the case for more capital spend on SG&A). But in the virtual world of the Internet, the universe is ever-expanding and new ways of doing things are being discovered at every corner.
Find a friend with a hobby linode server who will put it up for free.
On android and desktop notifications work well. We use push notifications to inform users when their PWA is approved.

IOS it is still not supported yet but should be soon
Checkout our product, Domestica. It's an offline capable PWA to help you manage tasks, budgeting, cooking, shopping, and more. You can even self host it.

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My mom ended up shipping us her spare one. Thankfully.
Must make it tempting to have limited communication systems, like Magic the Gathering: Arena, where players can only choose from a handful of benign emotes.
The healthcare system in the US isn't a marketplace either. For markets to function you have to know how much something will cost before you buy it, and you have to be able to make decisions based on cost. For most Americans, health pricing is a black box indirected by hospitals and insurance companies. And good luck getting an ambulance to take you to a cheaper hospital in an emergency.
> Amazon Prime doesn't guarantee that any item you want will come in two days.

So you're saying their deal is "pay us $120/year but we make no commitment to provide anything in exchange?"
Do you see the asymetry here? It makes no sense to "argue" for travel restrictions after the genie is out of the bottle. There is no "going back" to a restricted state.

If they had started with the strong restrictions and then loosened it up after more information/debate/evidence of safety, then things would be better. But instead they let it go and claimed that "absence of evidence" is the same as "evidence of absence". Completely irresponsible. This is why the WHO's response to it is so infuriating.
I'm on Safari and I clicked through to the HN app, and was basically presented with a blank page with some headings:

https://imgur.com/a/jqUw5Gl

I assume this isn't what it should look like.

Sorry about the bug report here, I couldn't find any contact link.
OP's whole point is it's not a good sample because people were recruited while grocery shopping...I can't think of a more tech industry-oriented view of the world; most people work from home on zoom and use instacart right??

No. I'd expect people who order deliveries online and can do their entire job on Zoom/slack all day to be a minority to the point where including them in the study would be covered in a sampling error.
This is a well-known issue, but what is your solution? Ban internet and go back to the 90s? It's pointless to gripe about this without a good alternative.
Amazon's white-collar workers wake up
> It's just that from my own personal experiences I've encountered few veterans in my life

Lots of veterans don't advertise the fact that they are.
Ask HN: Did anyone else notice that the gates are closed?
I'm sure I have a bit of a outlier opinion about the quarantine. I actually think we should end it as soon as possible. I don't know what the exact death rate is. I've heard between .8 and 7% of people who get it die. I think we just need to accept this as something that happens in nature sometimes. But instead we're taking on so much debt that the United States is going to end up as a third world country. It's helping out the rich now at the expense of the poor now and in the future. It's going to cause inflation an increase the wealth gap between the rich and poor. This is going to disproportionately affect the poor by a lot. That is just my opinion though I could be wrong I'm certainly not an expert but that is what I think.

So with that in mind I started looking around for coronavirus protest groups and guess what. They're all censored. The gates are closed they control everything you see.
The reaction of Dr. Birx as he was speaking really speaks volumes to the ethical bankruptcy she feels washing over her as she does nothing to correct him[1].

[1] https://twitter.com/Daniel_Lewis3/status/1253482576699969537
Sometimes I think that is "I never have to update all this theory ... that's easier."
contact is at the bottom of the About page.

Appreciate the bug report! will look into it
I'm no expert but I believe in wasm memory and code are separate.
Ahh, the same WHO that itself has spread misinformation on covid-19? (E.g., that there is no human-to-human transmission when they knew there was.)
> I'm just going through them and making the same rebuttal.

> People are stupid -- especially people who think they're smart contrarians.

Speak for yourself.
They don't. Common etiquette there is to wear a mask when sick (they also wear them for allergies and warmth), but the majority (pre-covid) do not.
The median is an average, one of many (though the most common thing people mean when they say “average” is “arithmetic mean”.)
Or better yet, do a simple survey and ask the participants how frequently they go to the grocery store. And if you see a correlation between frequency and infection rate, then try and adjust your weights accordingly.

These bias issues are well known among survey designers. There are ways that you can try and account for them. It seems like maybe the medical community is too used to having control groups in their studies?
There are near instant tests for flue in most every urgent care center I've been to (easier and faster than getting a dr appt.)

Whenever I have gone or brought my kids when sick, they perform the test to rule out any potential need for antibiotics. When I asked, they said it's systematically reported to the the CDC as part of their flu surveillance system, whether positive or negative. That surveillance network is significantly more robust than a survey.
There is no equipment setup or hardware requirements. The Quest is a VR console that works out of the box. Everything works on the headset itself, so there's no need to set up the IR beacons that the other headsets require.
Life is more important than money. Disagreeing with that is a sign of psychopathy.
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>PWA's have room to grow but have a lot of benefits over native apps

Just gonna leave us hangin'?
what are your thoughts on recent news apple is removing functionality important to PWAs?
When you're right-wing, causing death is a feature, not a bug.
I'm being completely earnest here. You might not believe this, but some "contrarians" are so braindead that they get their news from 4chan. It's a serious problem.
One guy's useless tricks can be another's essential flexibility. Especially when you consider code generation.
The reason they don't do this is a legal one. As a platform, they are not liable for what their sellers sell (copyright/trademark/counterfeit), but as a marketplace they would have deeper liability. A central marketplace also gives brands the ability to search through all Shopify stores, basically giving them a search engine to find infringement.

How do I know this? 10 years in ecommerce with a different ecomm platform.
My new favorite recipient of objects is Out-ConsoleGridView (along with the normal gridview).

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/introducing-consol...
DigitalOcean (or any of the $5 VPS) with Debian 10, you will need to know "basics" like SSH and typing some commands (a bunch of sudo apt-get _____) and then you are done. The only thing you don't have with DigitalOcean is domain name registration but everything else is there. Use them for DNS! They have some pre-built stuff for your list here but I would just spin up a blank Debian 10 box.

You can also get a free tier at Amazon AWS but you have to learn all the EC2 stuff and almost piece yourself a server one piece at a time (like the good old days where you build your own PC but clicking buttons) -- IMHO this takes much longer than just doing a $5 VPS and typing things. So if you want to learn Amazon AWS stuff, this may be a good path but it is going to take a lot longer
Many lines of evidence indicate that it is.
It's not black and white. A person who goes to the store more often has a greater chance of being tested, than someone who goes infrequently.

There's also the issue that people are trying to avoid other human beings right now, including the human beings administering tests. People who are social distancing more effectively are less likely to agree to a test.
All due respect, but this is lunacy. The way the guy reacted then hung up is unconscionable. The WHO is clearly corrupted by China's money.

And the US is still connected to Taiwan and provides them military support. And we have a $250M 'de facto' embassy there.

Honestly, I'm so shocked and dismayed by your comment, that I think I want to stop participating on Hacker News. Your perspective is relativism ad infinitum. This is the thing I fight most against.

This isn't a community for hackers & painters anymore. Eternal Relativism is impossible to win against.
We're almost entirely migrated into GCP now, roughly 95% done. Here's a CodeAsCraft article from when we started the project in 2018 about how we selected GCP vs AWS or Azure, and what the expected effort to migrate would be: https://codeascraft.com/2018/01/04/selecting-a-cloud-provide...
Uh what do you think the difference is now? Joe The Plumber was a stereotype for a reason.
Cloudflare network issues in Ashburn and North America
https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/88q3kbzrp2pf

Had some monitoring alarms trigger in AWS (US-East1) related to sending HTTP requests, seems like this is likely the cause.
The same WHO that dragged its ass in declaring a pandemic, showered the CCP with non stop praise, and tells me I don't need to wear any protection?

Yeah, uh I'm not going to listen to anything that corrupt organization has to say.

I'm more dismayed that so many people are actually listening to them at all.
>This sounds a like an argument that social programs are extortion

I think the point is that human behavior at scale is not really that different from natural disasters. Not protecting against poverty in your surroundings would be comparable to building in a flood zone. Fixing that problem is not extortion anymore than building dams is paying protection money to the sea - there's no poor people shouting "cover my basic needs or else", but we know enough about our own race to know the issues that emerge with poverty.
Here is the key point:

> elPrep allows users to specify arbitrary combinations of SAM/BAM operations as a single pipeline in one command line.

The assumption is that your native environment for data analysis is bash and you have to expose anything that you might want to do in bash. Further,

> elPrep also accommodates functional steps provided by third-party tool writers

That is, they are attempting to provide general semantics in a bash command line that they can handle arbitrary functions being dropped into their program.

Remember, the average salary of a job requiring both programming and biology knowledge is much lower than the average salary of a job requiring programming knowledge alone, so as bioinformaticists build skill to the point where they can be employable as programmers, they mostly leave bioinformatics.

Those who have escaped bash have usually done so into Python these days, which creates a class system of those gluing things together in Python versus those implementing algorithms in C or C++.
How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2020
“Widely ack’ed in academia” That’s the problem right there. It’s a justified question to ask, does academia really know what being poor is
Yes. Hiwever, it is valid to compare the CFR of one pandemic to the CFR of another pandemic if you find the CFR from the same relative point in time of that other pandemic.
Sure, but it's still data for the groups that they sampled. It would be better to have data for truly random samples.

But even then, you'd want demographic data for each subject. And then you could compare appropriate subsets of the results with this study.

With such data, you could explore risk factors, effectiveness of quarantines, and so on.
Australia has the exact blue Kraft boxes in all supermarkets. Even back home in the Netherlands, macaroni and cheese is both in my children's "my first cookbook" style books, as well as various variations in my fashionable "comfort food" books. Also I somewhat collect old-ish cookbooks, and it's a staple in German and Belgian cookbooks from the 1950 onwards.
Biggest thing for me would be instant installs and no/much less space taken on local storage.
very interesting how these things come and go. one day we talk about flat-file frameworks and, for a long period of time, we forget about them. i remember when joomla, wordpress, and the other bazillion php frameworks were all coming about and we debated flat-files vs database-backed frameworks.

one that stood out at the time among flat-filers was textpattern -- not sure if the very yellowish branding was the reason.

databases won over flat-files though. primarily because the web needed to scale. it is also worth mentioning sqlite which at the time was, and still is, a perfect middle ground.
What we must all do after the quarantines to prevent the next ones
At least 50% must be at or under the median.

Exactly half under is correct only for if none is exactly at the median, which requires (but is not necessarily the case when) there are an even number of measures.
One of the UK gas supply companies has a pilot project which is adding 20% hydrogen into network to reduce CO2 emissions.

https://hydeploy.co.uk/about/news/uks-first-grid-injected-hy...
Are you affiliated with the company? I chuckle when I see this hosting shop pop up on HN. They had advertisements on the dividers at the Safeway in Mountain View. Was wondering how they worked that.
Apologies if it comes out as such. My only intention is to make thought provoking comments
"Insurance companies do not itemize the premiums paid by which external factors affect the amount"

Of course not. You can still estimate numbers to your own satisfaction though, and according to my idea of logic you must have done that in order to call them incredibly large, even in a very rough sense.

I have no particular standard of evidence I'm trying to impose on you; I'm just asking for what convinced you of your opinion that complying with civil rights laws is incredibly expensive. As long as your opinion is genuine, you are able to share its basis.

People get too hung up on fighting over whose standards evidence must meet, and I think in a lot of cases, better communication would happen by simply looking within and honestly saying "this is why I think X and you make up your own mind".
Maybe so, but then you still have the problem, because in a big organization, some newbie is always present and going to make that first mistake. So you still need to make it hard for people to make mistakes.
There are constant new outbreaks, at the rate of several per year. (If you want to try to keep up, see here: https://promedmail.org/ ) The vast majority fizzle out, and for the rest, travel restrictions are not often useful or necessary. Recent examples of this include SARS, MERS, swine flu, Zika, several hemorrhagic fevers, and resurgences of diseases like measles and plague. If the WHO responded to all of these with a call for a global travel ban, travel would never be allowed.
I disagree with this strongly — good games are not a grind and not all games have leveling mechanics.
Over 30 workers at an Amazon warehouse in Carteret, NJ, have contracted Covid-19
I can't read this...there are no pictures!
> Neither of your two examples have anything to do with the CFAA.

They demonstrate that legal ownership is not the same as the legal right to do whatever you want with what you own.

> AWS provides compute services, they do not rent computers. They make this clear in their terms.

Good luck hoodwinking a judge with that argument.
If you want something fire and forget and since this is simple I would go with a serverless solution. Static files (with some little JS) hosted on some CDN and serverless database. One option is AWS dynamodb and their CDN, a more friendly beginner solution is firebase. You can't get more low maintenance than that.
Heard about it, but that only applies when PWA's are running in the browser. When installed on the home screen it will not have an effect
Neat site, but the "Why PWA's?" section is laughable.

> FREE to install

> HTTPS is required meaning you data is secure

> Takes up less storage on your phone. No need to pay extra money for higher storage

> No in app purchases or ads. Just a clean and simple app experience

> Has an offline mode. Apps can be used in areas where this is no internet connection

All of them are either misleading or completely wrong. The comparison randomly switches from websites to phone apps whenever convenient.

It would be a lot better to provide a more objective description of what PWAs even are.
Games express meaning whether the creators intend it or not.
As I mentioned in a few posts elsewhere in this page, 4chan was a better source of information than the WHO back in January.

You might be in earnest, but you're behaving like a contrarian who thinks they know more than they do. "You have become the very thing you sought to destroy."
Few things to be said here.

First, people are, in general, really bad at navigating traumatic events and situations. Now if you've been through some real Sh!tty situations in your past, you're better able to navigate new ones, but don't make the assumption if you are able to navigate them, they can as well. Giving them 10 different sources of information including things like 5G being to blame and other disinformation can create more problems than its worth including riots.

Second, The WHO has been flogged thoroughly by the US government in the States and rightfully so given the misleading statements that were made at the onset about the ability of china to keep the virus contained. You look at the WHO ARCGIS webpage for Covid and it's got outbreaks with 30 people in a circle the same size as the US outbreak; there's some degree of obvious derision by the WHO for the west in general and the US in particular which in my estimation, factored into what they communicated. At this point it's hitting every country, so every country is going to request a reform and furthermore every country is going to be look for other trade partners aside from china.

Youtube at this point is an international utility so they are siding with an international firm; in the short term this is wise. Long-term, you can expect a US institution to take over as the authority as the vast majority of medical research worldwide is done in the US.
Second this. DO is insanely easy to use and it provides solid footwork to delve into a bit of an actual production deployment process.
Army Research Shows How Do-It-Yourself Facemasks Can Be as Safe as N95s
Apple has lived on this motto.

Google is joining them.
I held out hope for PWAs for so long but I think React Native has won.
I ran against Jon Hardister in 2018 (and got licked by his money machine). I pitched similar arguments during my campaign and the response was tepid, at best.

I’m also highly, highly skeptical that this is the correct approach for NC this cycle. It would be much more impactful in midterm election with fewer candidates at the top of the ticket.
The central kind of thing that this ban is meant to prevent is people posting on Youtube to drink bleach as a COVID cure and laughing over the ensuing deaths. We've disapproved of that kind of speech for centuries -- this slope isn't nearly as slippery as you think it is.
apple is lagging behind on PWA support but PWA's are definitely coming either way. the reason why apple is lagging on support is because it will take a significant hit on their app store revenues as PWA's remove having to go throw third parties such as apple
My advice is to read Neil Postman's works, specifically
1) Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 2) How to Watch TV News, and especially 3) Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology if you think legacy/boomer media has any more credibility (especially today) than some random in their bedroom.

I'd also recommend reading Sharyl Attkisson's
The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
and
Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama's Washington

That random in their bedroom is the fourth estate now.
folcon.github.io :)...
> Human dimensions are closer to a normal distribution

Human height is (it's the textbook example of a real, intuitive_that is, using the normal linear scale—physical measure that is a good fit for a normal distribution) plenty of other human dimensions are not.
But I don't want them to burn down someone else's prod, I want them to keep building features for my company.

(Worse, if the other company has a misuse-resistant deployment system like the one the author alludes to, they might not burn down that company's prod and then beat us in the market while we're busy interviewing replacements!)
Idaho farm is giving away 2M potatoes because coronavirus has hurt demand
> at worst the back glass might crack

this isn't broken??
This is one of those completely false things that people only believe is true by repetition. Go back and actually read the full set of WHO statements in mid-January. They have a bunch of statements saying that nations should get prepared, one saying that specific studies haven’t yet found hard evidence for person-to-person transmission (because at that point most of the cases they’d managed to find were tied to the market). The WHO never, ever said that it can’t be transmitted, and they absolutely never said that people should do nothing about COVID-19. They were urging nations to act for months before they actually did.
Used to do everything on Digital Ocean but had better performance on Vultr for the same price.

But either will do. My use was crypto trading bots, also using SQLite for storage.
The presence of antibodies is not sufficient for herd immunity. For herd immunity you need those antibodies to stick around.
Where I'm from (very rural Northern California) there are quite a lot of old apple trees, some more or less tended, some entirely feral, AFAIK none of them harvested for sale anymore. The bears love them.

None are listed on the AppleSearch site, which doesn't surprise me: the first non-indigenous people showed up here in the 1840's and by then apple cultivation was a big deal elsewhere.

But it makes me wonder: do feral apple trees not eventually form their own varietals through mutation?

(IANAB, for $B == 'Botanist', obviously.)
I don't think any video game has a meaningful reward loop, and I say this as a game developer. What makes a game's loop good or not to me is if it provides a fulfilling relationship with its audience.