skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the most direct route, a seven minute walk, required going up a stairway and going near a construction zone. My robot instead opted to drive to the nearest main road, which almost doubled the travel distance.

My first thought was: yet another reason that ramps required by the ADA are useful, beyond just serving people in wheelchairs. Universal design for the win!

My second thought was: at some point, these ramps/paths will probably be overrun by delivery robots, to the extent that wheelchair users will have difficulty navigating ramps/paths that were originally built with them in mind. We'll have to make sure that delivery robots work in concert to allow humans to pass (e.g., by all moving to one side of the lane).
> I don't know. Not much about all this setup feels appealing.

Exactly. While reading the post all I could think of were flashbacks of dependency hell and not one thing I was reading appeared to be helpful in eliminating it. But now I have to put up with the crazy cryptic language that I've never seen before.

Thanks, but no thanks.
I Was Warned: Madness and Advancement in the Hollywood Trenches
It’s not the sole metric you’d need to regress against. Once those folks get off the plane they are in much closer contact with the rest of the population.
Sweden isn't doing that well. Sweden is expected to have about 10,000 deaths and they should have about 2,000 deaths if their health system works about as well as Switzerland. See Seattle's ihme projections: https://covid19.healthdata.org/sweden. For reference Sweden has about 10 mil pop, Switzerland has 8.5 mil. Sweden is expected to kill about 8,000 people unnecessarily.
Yes please, I would buy this.
I’m seeing a lot of in between in my own friend/friend of friends networks. Particularly in SF it seems a lot of people don’t quite think this is a hoax, but just aren’t very concerned and are stretching the boundaries of the stay at home order as much as they can. Big groups are meeting up in parks where they don’t all live walking distance away, just hanging out having picnics. Lots of people are eating together in the street outside of takeout places. And lots of politicians are even encouraging this kind of thing.

So aside from the shit show of the Trump administration, I’m not seeing even the areas that are being praised as being the “best” in America really take this seriously.

At this point, it looks like we’re way off the trajectory of squashing the outbreak. The curve has plateaued, but we aren’t on track to get the numbers low enough to safely open businesses again and go back to containment and contact tracing. We’re failing at the “hammer” stage of the hammer and the dance, and it seems to me like the probable outcome at this point is a whack a mole of continuous, half hearted hammering for the next year or more where we won’t be able to lift this lockdown much at all.
Good point about support - I think this scenario could be more realistic if there were regulations in place which force manufacturers to enable third party repair (schematics, sale of parts etc).

It's working well already with cars - in places where labor is cheap things like older BMWs get extended life, as the same repairs wouldn't be affordable in other places, and as a consumer you get the benefit of driving a decent car for a reasonable price.

I see quite a bit of refurbishers in my area selling ex-leased laptops for a low price with a warranty, so it looks like the market finds a way.

My point is, there are upsides to buying new, but I think the environmental downside is much much greater.
IPv4 Technical solution to resolve the IPv4 Exhaustion problem
I opened the account with my personal address. Then later, I added a secondary email address to it so that I could post items to my personal account by emailing them from my work email. I didn't realize that Trello would interpret this as the account now being owned by my employer and, in hindsight, I don't think I could have foreseen this.
Coronavirus: French police seize 140k black market masks
That clearly isn't what they mean, they are talking about society taking steps to minimize the financial harm.

The feasibility of succeeding at that is a different thing than your question.
> This is a good example of how terrible messy JavaScript library creation is.

Meanwhile over in .Net-land, after 15+ years of smooth sailing (5+ if you only count from the introduction of NuGet), the transition from full framework to .Net Core has made a multi-year long migraine out of packaging and managing dependencies.

I ran into multiple scenarios where even Microsoft-authored BCL packages were broken and needed updates to resolve only packaging issues. It's a lot better now than during v1.x days, but I still have hacks in my builds to work around some still broken referencing bits.
It will only show websites that are cached.
and are in https://github.com/NDevTK/CacheAttack/blob/master/rules
Did you watch "Avenue 5"? It's dumb, but it's got Hugh Laurie, so I did.

The thing is, it's really dark. I have a pretty dark streak in my sense of humor, but were are a lot of moments when I thought to myself, "Did these guys forget that this show bills itself as a comedy?"

SPOILER ALERT

I think the most horrible scene was when some of the passengers get the idea that they aren't really trapped in space, that it's all a simulation and they're really on Earth after all. And so they decide they want to leave. Through the airlock...

And Captain Laurie and the engineer who won't shut up about being underappreciated by the morons around her (Why would you care about their opinions? They're morons) are in between them and the airlock.

Now maybe this means I'm a bad person, but my first gut reaction was, "Hey, let them go outside. It's evolution in action. A problem that solves itself, yeah?"

But then my real self kicks in and points out that, unless I try my very hardest to prevent these fucking morons from sucking vacuum, letting them spacewalk sans spacesuit is tantamount to murder. And I'm not a murderer.

Even though they are useless fucking morons who seemingly only exist to cause problems, standing by and letting them kill themselves is wrong. You'll hate yourself if you do.

That's the downside of self-awareness and intelligence. If you are the only person on the spaceship who knows the score guess where the buck stops?
The point of the degree is to have it and then pretend it doesn't matter.
Or just teach them to not go into other people's property? I didn't when I was their age. Families had fences to designate property.
The thing missed is that the spread from China was based on travel from Wuhan primarily. NYC infections came from Iran and Italy.

Saying that New York's approach wasn't science based is absurd. The most notable screwup was the delay in school closures due to the dependence that many have on getting breakfast and lunch at school. IMO, at the time I don't think awareness that asymptomatic "super spreaders" may exist was known. (Assuming that is true, much of the data known to CDC is now classified so it's difficult to really know!)
What's the M in FAANMG?
> POSIX filenames are a series of bytes. That's all you get, and it makes things strikingly simple.

But not windows, or a number of filesystems. Hell the vast majority of the time posix filenames are ASCII, and therefore utf8 compatible.

The rare cases where they aren't break all kinds of other tools because...

> Trying to wedge Unicode in at this level is a recipe for disaster,

Blame every terminal emulator and os in common use. They all display filenames in unicode. So pythons in good company here.

Since you have to display filenames, they need an encoding.
Most headsets come with omnidirectional microphones. Even some "noise cancelling" microphones are actually omnidirectional, just with an arm long enough to be reasonably close to the mouth. When I recently decided I need a cardioid microphone on my headset, I've ended up spending about $300 total.
I would not consider myself very smart.

Took me multiple years, probably a decade between my first hello world and my first job, to become a programmer.

I just didn't give up
In addition, the whole idea that a system must have a privileged locale is silly in our connected world. Even assuming a single process (which can be talking to endpoints in many countries) should be locked to a specific locale is nonsense.

The beauty of LANG=C is that it's the only true lingua franca of modern computing. It's a place where all software and programmers can "meet" without privileging any particular locale.

We have 'gettext' and friends for speaking to humans in particular locales. Embedding i18n into core system design just doesn't work.
Part of that is probably racism, etc is going down, it's becoming more normal to be different. Maybe?
Will Covid-19 change the parking business?
Even CRUD apps can have fun stuff: APIs, live GUI updates for everyone else logged in when a user makes a change, security (both designing and pentesting), building your own toolbox for accelerating development of the next one, usage monitoring etc. Some of these will impress clients and make your superior recognize you as a talent. This will make it more fun and open up new possibilities all by itself.
The last 40 days helped answer the Q:what would you do with 6mo of free time
Lockdowns were the wrong solution, imo. I think we've underestimated the spread pre-lockdown and the spread during lockdown (grocery stores etc.). We'll know once broad antibody tests are administered. But if the virus has already spread to 30, 40, heck 50 percent of the population, then what the heck are we doing in lockdown...
> Sports betting is illegal in my state, yet the poker games at my local casino...

So gambling is still allowed in your state. I'm saying to ban it completely so the entire market is closed.

It won't be too difficult to crack down on private gambling sites as well. The issue in the US is that each state has its own laws, so this won't work unless there is a ban at the federal level.

> Legalized gambling doesn’t just save lives by keeping it out of organized crime control, it makes it far less costly for participants, and making its negative impacts on society much lower.

I don't agree. There are countries where gambling is banned, and they don't have a gambling or crime problem.
So, by your own admission, you aren't intelligent enough to excel in your current profession. You're not interested in pivoting to adjacent fields. Your constraints are basically that you're not capable of, or interested in, any technical, or tech adjacent, fields. HN might have a hard time helping you here, since the fields you're ruling out are exactly what the site focuses on.

It sounds like you're basically at square one. Do you have another skill set? Are you particularly interested in some other field? It's difficult for a stranger to give you life advice when all we know is what you are not interested in or capable of. Tell us more about what does feel engaging for you, and we may be able to help more.
Probably Microsoft
This is a Tinkerbell argument, but it's accurate enough. Python 2 will exist in some form, while people believe in it enough. But as you say, that support is likely to be paid.

Many deployments rely on more than a supported cpython binary. External packages and the rest of the server stack. The Python community has largely dropped Python 2 support. If you don't need that, great. If you do... Then what?

You could pay people to support your entire stack. You could upgrade. It's that choice that makes Python 2 dead.

You can still run Windows 2000. Doesn't mean it's not dead.
That is an important question to ask, but I think in this case the answer is that it's helpful.

That other 99% really don't seem to know for sure lockdowns are effective; the only arguments I've ever seen them present are "my model says they're effective" or "it would be strange in principle if they weren't". (Some laypeople draw dishonest comparisons to control measures for the Spanish Flu, but epidemiologists know that these measures didn't include orders to stay at home or close all businesses.)
It really gives me great pleasure to find gems like this article on HN. I can't see a future in which I'd otherwise gained the insights I've now gained through reading (your?) piece about the complexity of blurring complex shapes. Thanks for that.
Also, you can not copy that caption from the image message, you have to type it again.
How would you know? I'm not being snarky, I'm asking, what are the concrete metrics that would let us gauge our optimal reaction?
The revisionist history attempts by the "scientists" in Seattle are staggering.

On Feb 26th, every single level of the Seattle "scientific" community laughed at Ms. Reid, the Superintendent of the Northshore School District when she closed Bothell High School over a potent positive case of a staff member that travelled overseas. She wanted to make sure her students were safe and the building was disinfected.

The "scientific" King County Deptartment of Health went as far as to specifcally send out a document stating that closure was unwarranted - they did not just sit there and let her do her job - they went out of their way to ensure the public was informed they thought she was nuts.

You do not get to do that and then claim to be the greatest organization of all time 2 days later.
This doesn't pass the smell test, imo.
Deno Benchmarks
I made a scrappy program (bash/java/sqlite) for my first real job as an adult back when I was in my early twenties that actually was a data entry job. It only took a weekend to make and I ended up fully automating my work and then I quit.
I measured over 1k jeans: slim fit and skinny fit don't mean what you think
This sounds kindof like a pathological mode of thinking I sometimes get into. So here’s what I do to escape that mode of thinking/feeling when I find myself in it. Hopefully it will help.

If you find yourself having trouble figuring something out, do not beat yourself up over how much trouble you’re having. That type of thought takes you down a really rough negative spiral.

Instead, focus on your desire and will to figure it out or get it done. Believe in your ability to figure it out and then go prove yourself right by using your will to do so to power the work that will get your where you want to go.

You have the power to pull yourself out of the rut, and you can get help from folks like counselors and peers too. But fundamentally, I have found that it takes a strong internal will to get out of a rut. I think that you can find that will and act upon it.
The key phrase was 'for me'. That 'me' could be working on an existing code base that does a bit more than show a web page and can't be written in flavour of the month toolkits.
Faasm: High-performance stateful serverless runtime based on WebAssembly
Those places do care about school name to the same extent. You'll get a junior position there, if you have a Harvard/Yale/Princeton degree, but you're not advancing unless you come from a well-connected (and likely wealthy) family. Attending a top-tier school is often just a proxy for wealth and connectedness. The companies you mentioned keep the prestige of the company high by hiring from the Ivy League, but the unconnected hoi polloi end up doing shit work for a decade until they figure out they're in a dead end.
Ask HN: What scientific phenomenon do you wish someone would explain better?
I've been studying viruses lately, and have found that the line between virus/exosome/self is much more blurry than I realized. But, given the niche interest in the subject, most articles are not written with an overview in mind.

What sorts of topics make you feel this way?
I would strongly agree with this — learning and retention for me come easily when I’m interested, but are near impossible when I feel it’s irrelevant or I’m just not interested. Whether or not I’m gifted in something I’m interested in doesn’t really matter (and my suggestion is to not worry about this) since my interest gives me the perseverance and patience to learn and do well regardless of innate skill.
It's not always correct, no.

Fortunately there's another identifier - the Unique Property Reference Number (UPRN) - that exists to, well, uniquely identify every property in the UK.

Currently it's proprietary but from July 2020 it will be available for use under the Open Government License.[0]

[0] https://mhclgdigital.blog.gov.uk/2020/04/02/unique-property-...
I've been hearing from my local shops, too, that they do not like DoorDash or GrubHub. Apparently it makes restaurants look bad? And I guess they skim too much off the top? I've definitely been asked to do take out or use the company's delivery service when possible.

I guess Chick-Fil-A took notice of that, too.

If you can, I would call the local shops you're ordering from and see if they would rather you do delivery with them, too, especially if it's a really local shop, not something a town over.
> have any conference that will include remote people from our desks,

This is great for the participants, but absolute hell for everyone else in open offices, or even shared offices.
When was the last time you were working on something and lost track of time? This an indicator that you were in a flow state. Dont go for something you love doing - not everyone has that. Find something you can focus on, and that you can zone out while doing. This is honestly all most people can hope for.
His daughter:

“”I can also, strangely enough, tolerate vodka and bourbon.”

The idea that alcohol, one of the most well-documented toxic substances, is among the few things that Peterson’s body will tolerate may be illuminating. It implies that when it comes to dieting, the inherent properties of the substances ingested can be less important than the eater’s conceptualizations of them—as either tolerable or intolerable, good or bad. What’s actually therapeutic may be the act of elimination itself.“

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article...
How to Scrape Dynamic Websites Like Amazon-Part 2?
Yeah, I guess the real question here is "do you love programming?" If you do you can make it work, it's a matter of not giving up and instead tweaking your learning system, practicing more and better, etc. If you don't you need to find another area.

Programming is a very demanding trade, and I don't think you can do it just for the paycheck, you need to have some degree of passion for it. If someone disagrees with me about this I'd love to hear different takes.
Like this one?

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/s...

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1239975682643357696.html

Is 1.1M is "holding up well"?
One hypothesis to consider is the drastic decline in teen smoking rates. Nicotine is a powerful anti-psychotic. Smoking rates among the schizotypal are nearly double the rest of the population, even when controlling for common explanatory factors.

Social isolation, anxiety, depression, mild cognitive impairment and avoidant behavior are all signs of untreated schizophrenia. It's possible in the past that those with sub-clinical schizotypal personalities self-medicated with tobacco. Removing that would result in a sub-segment of the population becoming significantly less functional in a pronounced way.
> Still, to this day, I see people doing things with “modern” platforms like Kubernetes and such and I chuckle. Had that in Condor 15 years ago in many cases. :)

I'm reading the docs and it seems used mostly for solving long running math problems like protein folding or seti at home?

Can it be used for scaling a website too? I think that's k8s "killer" feature heh.
Affiliate maarketingIs 15 minutes of your time worth $300?
i find cfn has a higher barrier to entry and is more verbose for small projects but scales much better than terraform (which breaks down entirely once you need to manage thousands of resources across more than handful of providers)

(yes i've tried terragrunt, it's not an answer)
I wish I had done it that way, although I definitely had the wrong partner at the time. I’m older now. There’s never a good time. There’s never a perfect partner. Set priorities and standards early at a minimum acceptable level and take the first match. Optimization will fail you every time. My biggest regrets are all from rejecting ‘good enough’.
Jim scoring: a probabilistic pub quiz for nerds
Agree. In my family we weren't allowed to trespass and had designated areas that were public where we would go off and adventure. Some involved a short bike ride. We weren't allowed to just go start playing in someone else's yard.

Ninja edit: but in my anecdotal experience there are a ton of parents that don't do this and are shocked/insulted when you ask them politely to keep their kids off of your private property.
> Maybe we need this. A drawn-out decimation to teach future generations...

You're hoping for death and destruction just to teach people your lesson? Really??

Personally, I'll be glad to be wrong about everything to avoid that outcome.
How long have you been programming professionally? Do you think you are giving yourself a fair assessment based on how long you have been working in the industry? I ask to rule out the possibility that you are being hard on yourself or maybe have imposter syndrom. you say you find crud app building easy, this is not a statement which the general non-it population could say.
Did you attend courses before working (university, college etc.)?
Do you have good on the job mentorship or are you trying to figure everything out yourself? Do you have a person who is more senior who can give you honest constructive feedback and guidance?

If youve already made the decision you are leaving programming... Can you think of things you have enjoyed about your career to date (i.e. coding, testing, designing, meeting people etc)? and what was it that steered you towards the career in the first place?
Americans do use a range of language too:

[okay, not bad, decent, awesome, fantabulous]

Depending on where you are, that might maps onto:

[horrible, passable, average, good, excellent]

In a management setting, those communications are sometimes obvious, but just as often you get into dynamics like:

* American managed by non-American: Constantly feeling criticized, like they're failing.

* Non-American managed by American: Often, not realizing when something went wrong.

Both sides need to be aware of the difference for this to work. It's a fair learning curve, but well worth it.
I’m making a point, not quoting the man.
That’s not a problem with education, people are just stupid.
You know, for all the nerding out about how package managers do their work and how “correct” they are, they all still pale in comparison to how easy and intuitive homebrew is to use.

I’m running Linux and pacman/yay are great but if something is screwed up I miss being able to run brew doctor to figure out what’s wrong or add a tap for some weird thing here or there.

I know I’ll get crucified for saying it but usability counts for a lot and apt, dpkg, yum, dnf, and yes, even nix suck. All the correctness and perfection don’t matter if nobody uses or wants to use your software.
Are you also a bath procrastinator? Bath manager reminds you of the guilt
My intuition is that you’d get more out of therapy than a career change right now. This sounds more like burnout or a lack of interest to me. But framing it as a lack of intelligence says a lot about how you view yourself, which could make a career change much harder than it needs to be.