skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I’m the odd one out but there was some study that showed most people stick to the same tastes they developed in their teenage years - music, food, hobbies, etc.

Is this just how old people become boring or caricatures of themselves?

Perhaps this is my own personal experience but it’s hard to adapt to something new when the rush of nostalgia when listening to old jams is so satisfying. You “fall in love” with the same albums and songs all over.
If they're specced to be (military, aerospace), sure. But the move from vacuum tubes to transistors, for all its incredible advantages, made everything a lot more EM vulnerable.
The word "dissected" is doing a lot of work there. "Any" makes it, arguably, hyperbolic. Obviously we can't take too literally any statement about a field being alive or dead. Research is alive in these fields but pedagogy is mostly not.
Kubernetes, the technology that Anthos manages for users, is open source. The code base that does that managing is not open source afaik.
Aren't there old coal mines where it can be dumped ?

Since its raw crude I presume, you won't have leeching problems.

https://www.mining-technology.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/8...

You could store 100 tanker worth of oil here.
Genera Concepts [pdf]
Thank you. And seriously, that was so much marketing gibberish, I had no idea what they were trying to feed me.
They are angry of course but is Mr. Hoekstra wrong factually or even arguably morally?
> One such early adopter is Plaid, a Japanese tech company providing real-time visibility into user activity online. Plaid’s customers rely on their always-available analytics service to make changes in real-time and continuously improve the user experience.

Edit: They're talking about a different company

Odd categorization of Plaid, they (at least primarily) provide an API for linking (logging in to) users' bank accounts and scraping information from the bank websites.
LiveView is much much easier to understand if you have a solid understanding of how Elixir works in a non-webdev setting, because Phoenix hides a lot of the process architecture that it's leveraging to serve pages, and it's front-and center in LiveView.

And also, it's easy to find help for Flask and Rails by googling because... It's been around longer. LiveView has been GA for less than a year, and even some major shifts have come around (like mount/2 suddenly becoming mount/3 in one of the last releases).
reposted in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22948443
Hi miki123211, I wrote up a transcription for you. It details the code he's talking about, along with the context of what's going on, and why.

https://pastebin.com/raw/WxH0uAsf

If Pastebin doesn't work for you, let me know and I can get it hosted at a different location.

My apologies if there are any mistakes in this. I'm not familiar with Phoenix, but found this video very interesting, so wanted to make sure it could be shared.
That's one reason why I chose Yerevan, actually! Old Armenian (1600 years old) and modern Armenian are fairly similar! Same writing system with only small changes, and modern Armenians (or at least the handful of random Armenians I've asked) can understand old Armenian. It takes a good bit of extra effort, but it's definitely possible.

Fascinating language (and alphabet) by the way.
Maybe the person you are replying to should have qualified “popular open source repositories”.
Hey Guys,

Podio is a Podcast client application, using:

iTunes public API.

Fetch each podcast data by creating the Netlify Lambda function.

and parsing the RSS XML feed with the cheerio package and return the result as a JSON. (the lambda function).

After finished this project, I believe all my future projects will be written with Typescript + twin.macro both make me more productive.

Howler.js for handling audio, so I made a React context wrapper for the state and functions so I can access it from any component.
I agree with you the problem was loss of focus related but not in the way you frame it. MLeap's original focus was to deliver a transformative visual experience through Dynamic Light Field Display. This worked, was presented to investors, and made smart people's jaws drop. It took a room of equipment to deliver, but they were funded at risk by smart people to develop this experience in a consumer format.

Fast Forward so many years and what got delivered in ML1 ? A consumer format device not capable of delivering on that original vision experience.

Your comment suggests MLeap should have early on baked in expectations for a substandard visual experience in a first mass market consumer product. I disagree. Instead, they should have planned on miniaturization problems and baked in expectations for first delivery of a ground breaking visual experience product not available in a mass market consumer device footprint or price point.

MLeap's killer app should have been their visual experience. That was the day one focus and it got lost along the way, as you say 'pulled in a ton of different directions'.

I tell people I would have bought a $10,000 Motorcycle helmet with a backpack from MLeap if that was able to produce just a good part of original Dynamic Light Field AR experience. Is that a fast moving mass market consumer device ? No, but obviously the ML1 was not either.

I am reminded of Theranos and their maniacal insistence on using 'one drop of blood' and how it defined the format of every component, when it is possible they would have succeeded with just a little more flexibility on that design principle.

As with Theranos setting back the IoT medical space, I fear that the MLeap experience will set back spatial computing in the short to mid term, however I think both these fields are at very early stages of transforming our living environments over the long term.
That system looks terrible for handling cancer and pre-existing conditions.
I agree. The SQL language is in desperate need of an "upgrade" to a proper functional language. It's missing so many basic features that it's just painful.

For example, why do I have to repeat expressions in the SELECT, GROUP BY and ORDER BY clauses!?

E.g:

SELECT
LEFT(Foo,4) as Prefix,
COUNT(1) as N
FROM MyTable
GROUP BY LEFT(Foo,4)
ORDER BY LEFT(Foo,4)

This gets really obnoxious for complex expressions. I mean sure, I can break things out into functions, or use the WITH clause, but both of those often end up being more verbose, not less. This is solved in functional languages such as Haskell with the "where" or "let" clauses (not to be confused with the SQL WHERE filter).

I wish I could do something like:

SELECT
Prefix,
COUNT(1) as N
FROM MyTable
GROUP BY Prefix
ORDER BY Prefix
LET Prefix = LEFT(Foo,4)

Similarly, it's crazy to me that most SQL dialects don't allow relational functions to be passed around as proper data types. This kind of thing comes up a lot when implementing row-level security.

I'd like to be able to write "view functions" that can take any relation as an input, as long as it contains some column, and then add on some joins or filters based on that column. Imagine you have a bunch of tables that link to the "Customers" table via a "CustomerID" column or whatever. It would be great to be able to natively write a query that says "AddCustomerName" or "FilterDisabledCustomers". These would take an existing relation (table/view/function) as an input, and return a new relation as the output with an extra column or filtered rows.

This kind of modular style made up of small chunks of code that can be elegantly composed is just not possible or very messy in most SQL platforms. It's typical of most modern functional languages, and I think the "next gen" query language that replaces SQL will look more like Haskell and less like COBOL.
The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard [0] has been around for ~25 years but it still took quite a long time before most Linux distros decided to adhere to it (for the most part; some still do "non-standard" things at times).

Now that we're to that point, please stop screwing it up and coming up wih your own locations for application binaries, data, etc.

To be clear, the "/data" directory -- under which Moloch's pre-built packages apparently install to, according to the README [1] -- is not part of the FHS.

---

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard

[1]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aol/moloch/master/release/...
Right now in the SF Bay Area, ICUs are below typical seasonal usage and the usage has been declining slowly for 3 weeks. I'm not saying we should "relax", but I think we have evidence that the slightly looser controls employed from mid-March to early April were effective-- that would be a good first step to go to now. Odds are that results in continued reduction, but if it results in slow growth instead we'd be OK in the time it takes to notice, react, and have the effect of our reaction seen.

Frequent, small changes are good. Not big steps and milestones.

Population behavior has further changed in beneficial ways, too-- e.g. mask wearing. Step back to the initial health order -now-. In a couple weeks, consider opening a slightly larger chunk of retail. After each step, watch what happens.
> Not relative to number of cases: Germany locked down later than UK, but a week earlier on the exponential growth curve.

Not according to the Financial Times graph in the post I was commenting on. Germany went into lockdown at 3000 cases per day, while the UK went into lockdown at 700 cases per day, and Spain at 600 cases per day, according to that.

Is the FT graph wrong? Do you have a better data source that proves your point?
Those are (mostly) good bacteria though.

Some theorize the baby needs the mother's poop, to start it's own digestive microbiome. It works that way in other species, but I don't know if it's more than speculation for humans.

You also need a skin microbiome, but you can get that later.
Reaper DAW comes bundled with Reamote, which has a similar scope
> I believe that if you took one of the existing common cold coronaviruses, and introduced it to an immunologically naive population, you'd get a huge incident wave and a whole lot of excess death.

Doubtful or you'd see waves of death in children from cold viruses. Common cold viruses have had lots of time to evolve so that they transmit well but don't kill very much.

Presumably it's also why our immune systems don't waste time building up permanent immunity against them. There's much more of an evolutionary pressure to be permanently immune to something that can kill or maim you, if you survive.
Claiming that the ADA or civil rights imposes huge costs compared to some baseline is incredible to me. Can you provide some detail and quantify that?
A little off topic and maybe a dumb question but why does a consumer products company that hasn't shipped a product yet and isn't selling anything have offices in 4 cities around the world? Like what are Magic Leap employees doing in New Zealand when HQ is in Florida?
There's a word hovering in the background throughout this article, but it never makes it onto the page: judgement.

In software development, for example, there is a lot of explicit knowledge to learn, and then there are the mental models about how one should apply that knowledge - e.g. SOLID - but these models do not tell you exactly what to do (in particular, there are all sorts of ways of using the rules to justify bad decisions.) It takes good judgment, honed by experience, to apply the rules effectively.
It's a different company: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/plaid-inc
Quest has had serious supply chain problems since early November. They were unavailable for the entire month of December.
> I think they just never had a great product

Bingo. If the product works as advertised I could justify the cost just in replacing existing screens, I could have a dozen virtual terminals floating around, I could replace my large TV, etc. All with zero new content required.

The problem is it doesn't seem to work as advertised.
I heard Divvy, Brex, Slab, and PagerDuty use elixir, so if you're a bay area startup, there's a good chance you're already using elixir as part of your business stack.
Antichamber is a puzzle game that uses the same thing in a ton of extremely fun ways. I highly recommend it.
> Isn't this whole process of debate and individual responsibility basically irrevocably tainted in the age of mass misinformation?

The problem is not misinformation. The problem is whether a country is really willing to enforce a law that says every citizen has a positive responsibility to not infect others.

If you really enforce that law, then anyone who gets COVID-19 because they didn't take reasonable precautions, and then infects someone else, is legally liable for damages. They could be sued for all of the health care costs of anyone they infect. They could be sued for wrongful death if someone they infect dies. Depending on the circumstances and the details of the statute, they could be liable to criminal charges.

That's what "individual responsibility" means--holding individuals responsible, legally, when they harm others. And in a legal environment like that, misinformation isn't a problem, because people who act on misinformation end up harming others and being held responsible, and since nobody wants to be in that position, everyone learns, in their own self-interest, to not act on misinformation. Which in turn means that information sources that continually propagate misinformation die because nobody listens to them. And information sources that can reliably report accurate information thrive, and have an incentive to continue reporting accurate information.

> This might be a good time when a representative democracy, composed of people who are willing to listen to experts and make the hard, unpopular, decisions, would be the best choice.

Representative democracy will only be composed of such people if people have a strong incentive to act on accurate information and to not act on misinformation. Which, as you yourself point out, does not describe societies today.
"At Plaid we provide real-time data analysis of over 6.8 billion online users" err what? Not even Facebook has 6.8 billion users. Or probably not even CloudFlare. Is this part of the Visa acquisition? Maybe they'd have that many users but I still kind of doubt "online users."
So to be more accurate the problem is not open source being unable to compete with commercial stuff on technical merits.

If you read some of Xiph's development blogs (with work on new audio or video coders such as aforementioned AV1), a lot of the process is carefully going around the "inventions" that the bug bucks have declared as their property at the patent office.
Idk. There's so many confounding factors. I don't know when they stopped the vaccination, but maybe it was recent enough that the vulnerable (elderly) did actually receive the vaccination? Maybe temperature does matter. Maybe they're just behind on the curve. We can only wait and see as more clinical data becomes available.
Mt. Rainier is only visible from Seattle on exceptionally clear days.
Luckily, this kind of supply shock isn't possible with produce. </sarcasm>

This isn't a problem specific to meat at all; the same kind of interruption to supply chains can occur anywhere through the economy. So you don't necessarily have the option of falling back on veggies.
Airbnb Is Banking on a Post-Pandemic Travel Boom
Archivist: Tool for Archiving and Exploring
This sounds like a perfect use case for object oriented programming. “I want something mostly like that thing that already exists, but with a slight variation.“ Or hooks, if you’re one of those weird Lisp programmers.

Unfortunately, virtually all regex engines I’ve ever seen were an opaque black box with no ability to modify the functionality at all.
But it’s exactly the kind of country I want to live in. It’s my life, my right to do what I want within reason. Within reason should err on freedom.
They lead non-sedentary lives involving manual labor, keeping their bodies in good health. They also don't have frankenfood and tend to have actual food instead. I'm surprised people don't understand just how important these 2 factors are towards longevity.
They’ve never had any meaningful market share on the high end.
"Did shutting down huge swaths of the economy "improve society"

Well, how many lives does the lack of pollution save? People talk about suffering from being unemployed, but if that can be dealt with by temporary wealth redistribution...
Cool. Have you done so successfully?

I have bought and read nearly every book about Charlie Munger. My conclusion is that 'have a checklist of mental models' is how he says he does what he does. He reasons a lot by analogy to things he's seen or read before, or to ideas in other fields. This does not mean it is the core of his expertise.

The second nuance is that checklisting works better in 'wicked' fields of expertise (I'm using the definition from Hogarth et all, 2015 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0963721415591878). Stockpicking is one of those. If you are attempting to gain expertise in a field that isn't wicked, well ... good luck improving by having a checklist of mental models.
From an empty repo, how many minutes do you think it would take one to do what Chris McCord did in Phoenix Live View in Blazor?
Apple released a bug fix update last June for phones back to the 2011 iPhone 4s.....

https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/07/22/apple-issues-ios-...
> the core issue (at least in the US) is that a large fraction of informed citizens have moved to coastal cities

No, a large fraction of citizens who think they are better informed have moved to coastal cities. Most of them are mistaken. If they are so well informed, why are the coastal cities they live in the places with the highest per capita crime rates and the highest cost of living?
The US has a federal minimum wage of $7.25. Maybe some state has a lower minimum wage law, but if so it isn’t in force.

If I were making minimum wage I’d probably be more in the “buy an iPhone SE every 4 years” rather than “buy a top iPhone every 2 years” category.

But if I are going to critique other people’s spending patterns, I’d start with anyone who bought a new car, not a phone.
Cheaper to build a site and dunp files to a bucket than running Wordpress code on every request.
Richard J. Hofstadter would like a word.
And Duo is integrated with Messages. You can launch a Duo video call within a Messages conversation.
Ebikes can already outrange most bus routes. I'm building a battery pack right now that should give a range of 150-180kms realistically, for about 300$CAD. That said, it's going to be pretty heavy at 10kg, but that's less than the amount of textbooks I was carrying just a few years ago :)
Um yes. Was surprised to see colostrum discussed in the context of cows and not just humans in general. Every parent should be aware of this fact.
The China evidence was fairly compelling (they did contact tracing and were unable to find a single case where the child was the transmitter).

Schools didn't close in Australia (although many parents kept their children at home). There have been zero cases traced to child transmission, even in a few cases where a teacher or worker at a school got it from another place and brought it to school and those individual schools had to be closed.

There was a single cluster based around a school in Sydney but it was found to be parent-to-parent transmission.

Singapore didn't close schools during their early phase (until 2 weeks ago) and contact traced every single case. Zero were attributable to child-to-child contact.

It's possible this is all luck though.
Yeah I thought the total number of people with internet access was under 5 billion. But also, it's a different company, not the fintech Plaid
I recently read "Kerala History and Its Makers" by Sreedhara Menon. It focuses on the southern state of Kerala, as the name suggests. A relatively light read and probably good for beginners. It covers a broad range of time quickly. The author also comes across as unbiased and there is little to no speculation, which I like very much in non-fiction books.
My understanding is Apple has a pretty good margin while most other manufacturers are hardly profitable. It’s a competitive industry. Nobody is charging twice as much as they need to because nobody has that kind of market power.
> Doubtful or you'd see waves of death in children from cold viruses.

We don't see waves of death in children from COVID-19. The juvenile immune system is different. Children right now have the opportunity to pick up SARS-COV-2 antibodies without a whole lot of personal risk. Elderly adults, not so much.

> Doubtful or you'd see waves of death in children from cold viruses. Common cold viruses have had lots of time to evolve so that they transmit well but don't kill very much.

Everyone assumes that viruses evolve towards lower virulence, but this is only one direction that things can be pressured to evolve. COVID-19 manages to have a very high R0 by a high latent period. Producing a higher viral load enhances spread / R0 but also causes eventual severe illness.

COVID-19's fatality rate is only a disadvantage inasmuch as it causes population-wide behavior changes. It doesn't make people get excessively sick and stay home in a way that they spread the disease less, so we can't really be sure that it will evolve towards lower pathogenicity/virulence.

> There's much more of an evolutionary pressure to be permanently immune to something that can kill or maim you, if you survive.

We have plenty of things we don't build permanent immunity to that kill or maim us-- including SARS-COV-2, MERS, malaria, etc. I doubt this is mankind's first encounter with a really nasty coronavirus.
ICUs are below occupancy, but hospitals even in the Midwest are declining to do elective procedures because they can’t get enough PPE to handle run of the mill stuff.

The US had been losing actual Hospital capacity every week, even with empty beds.

When those beds fill in wave 2, get ready to donate your rain ponchos and industrial garbage bags.
I'm gonna reference what you said again:

> The US needs a renaissance of the importance and virtue of public service.

"importance and virtue of public service".

Unless you consider there is such a thing as public service without government, and that your "virtue" here, used along "renaissance" and "importance" doesn't suggest it needs to be more virtuous, I'd argue it's you who needs to be better at explanation.

Now, on a more important note, if your vision of the private sector is reduced to people working on online ads, I suggest you look beyond the software industry and consider smart people working in very important industries, in research, energy, medicine, finance, millions of people making our lives possible in ways than no public servant will ever be able to even just dream about.

So if anything imo, we don't need more public servants, aren't there enough people telling us how to live our lives? If renaissance we need, is on the importance and virtue of a good day's work as a way to better ourselves and society.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4...
So he made the biggest achievement in his life at the age of 48, and waited another another 15 years for it to become reality. Never too late.
Even if you actually believe this, Riot is not known for their high-quality code. This sounds a bit snarky but is entirely serious: Giving games root rights is bad enough, I absolutely don't want to run anything in kernel space from the same people who wrote the client for League of Legends.

And it's not even about trusting that Riot are not bad actors, tencent conspiracy nonsense aside, it's about leaving that trash running with that level of access in a way that some malicious process could use to elevate its permissions. That is the (ab)use case that worries me.