skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the story of my development life! I know I'm human, and as such, I will err, but I really don't want to be erring as humans do in production.

I feel like my "capacity to err over time" graph is U shaped with a bit of an M tendency towards the end - as a newbie, lots of ways to make mistakes without realising, then as my skills increased, realised the "known unknowns", and coded and released very cautiously, but when I blurred into a senior, ran the risk of thinking "I know this" without checking that all my assumptions and prior knowledge held true, and learned the caution of the intermediate developer again.
> Why would a government build an expensive, high tech piece of equipment, then not ensure it could fit the operator?

Why would they send a $250M probe to Mars, and not ensure a consistent set of units is used?

I mean, putting the above two examples aside, one could list plenty of much bigger screwups by the government. Why is this person assuming a competent government?

I wish I knew the name for this fallacy, but it is essentially a restatement of "I can't think why X would behave this way, so it must be because Y." Or as I tend to call it: "Out of ignorance, comes certainty". I mean, you just admitted you didn't know! How are you drawing conclusions?

I blame Arthur Conan Doyle: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7471034-once-you-eliminate-...
You could surely find recommendations (should they exist) for unilateral imposition of rules in relation to recent epidemics like Ebola. After all your argument above was:

If this virus had come in some African country, they would have no problem in closing everything out - as anyone that understands tail risks would. But because it's China, then the recommendations for actions come after the evidence can not be hidden anymore. It is immoral.

Now I agree the coronavirus situation is without precedent, but if you're going to make assertions that they would have done X here while only doing Y there, you need to back it up with some evidence for your claims about X.
Not if he outsourced the reading of said book to a foreign company. He would would have to check if their reading was the same as his every hour for 18 months that would have taken him 3 days to read it himself. Slowly.
The Secretary in question is a woman. Don’t just assume all secretaries are men, that’s sexist.
So what’s all this talk about annotation?
Although programs function in an ideal universe amenable to proof and theory and therefore perfect for calculation and theoretical approaches rather than engineering "best practices," what you describe has not been the case in the industry.

The irony is airplanes live in a unideal universe where no theory can predict anything to a perfect degree and testing must take precedence. However when building an airplane, aerospace engineers use far more theory than software engineers even when testing and engineering best practices is an absolute requirement for the unpredictable nature of real world physics acting on an airplane.

I feel the reason why the world is the way it is is due to necessity. A buggy program is (usually) an annoyance. A buggy airplane is (always) a disaster. It is necessary to prevent disasters but it is not necessary to eliminate an annoyance.
>Yes, ignore all the overwhelmed hospitals and the sudden jump in mortality in Italy and Spain that made them decide to lock everything down after they already had a crisis on their hands. Rail more about a transnational organization with a long though often imperfect record of epidemiological expertise. Those bureaucrats in Geneva are personally ruining your life.

Not one of these statements reflects any stated positions of the parent. All are hyperbolic mis-characterizations.
use that as your requirements for an open source or at least vendor-neutral equivalent

My clients are all expending far too much energy trying to be cloud vendor neutral with the engineering capacity of your average non-tech large mid-market company. It's killing productivity. They went from VMWare in the data center and open source DevOps tooling to multi-cloud vendor-agnostic container-orchestration all in the name of "cloud but not with vendor-lock in". Meanwhile they could be actually achieving business objectives with these "seductive" managed services.

Here's one simple example, one client is spending about $250,000/yr on what could be accomplished with AWS Cognito for $250/month. But "no", they say, "then we'd be locked in to AWS".

I just can't.
Please don't break the site guidelines by going on about downvotes. It just adds noise, and since it's against the rules, usually guarantees more downvotes.

If you think there's something abusive going on, email hn@ycombinator.com so we can look into it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You think it’s increasing? Over what time frame?

At least in North America, racism and white supremacy is a fraction of what it was 50 years ago.
This is an awful reason not to use Jitsi.

We can't check our attendee lists for intruders before enabling passwords if something's important enough to require a password? Cmon.
I see, I guess we had different definitions of "indie", but I think what you said sounds reasonable and there is value to understanding the humble origins of someone regardless of their current standing.
I suggest you research the topic of "transfer pricing".
Honestly my biggest complaint is just that it's more verbose than bash which is admittedly pretty cryptic at times. Now that I've learned bash though, I have little need to move to PowerShell.

Bash is tough to learn at first because its syntax is alien but I've learned enough to get things done with it.
MMT doesn't argue that fiscal deficits don't matter, it states that the only constraint is inflation, which is more related to the real economy (eg. supply/demand, trade / current account deficits).

MMT doesn't necessarily condone the Fed's recent round of unlimited QE. Most MMT advocates if anything would probably prefer that money going directly to the people (ie. helicopter money) or to fund ambitious federal programs (eg. job guarantee, UBI, investment) than bailing out mortgage bond investors.
Question for people with gameplay experience of both/all - how does Animal Crossing compare to the Harvest Moon games? Or Stardew Valley?

I have a massive soft spot for Harvest Moon because I wrote my first code ever (in Python) to figure out what was the best crop to plant in summer - the answer was turnips, and 17 years later, I still remember that.
Rust certainly comes with its share of complexity, but it might be worth clarifying that Rust doesn't have this specific problem of implicit constructors called all over the place. Instead, everything uses move semantics by default.
I block all calls from non-contact numbers, and I have never experienced a spoofing of a contact number, so IME call blocking works very well.
I heard that story about fiber optics somewhere on the African continent 15 years ago

so now I don't believe either story, unless this is a common entrepreneurial endeavor I've been sleeping on
>I'm not saying your example is wrong, but the fact that it's from nearly 20 years ago is very telling.

telling in what way? This behavior hasn't really slowed down, and was persistent through the Obama administration, too.

Many, including myself, feel as if that behavior is par for the course with regards to NYT. Chomsky refers to it as the NYT's special role of 'creating history'[0].

That's why they have some strange ability to be cited realistically by serious people, even when they're entirely wrong about something.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsiBl2CaDFg
I stumbled across an anonymous payment processor that accepts all kinds of shady business, like online casinos and escorts. They accept payment via gift cards to Amazon and elsewhere. Maybe this is how they convert that into cash. I was puzzled about how that would work.
>I don't know what your native language is

Dutch?
My bank’s policy is simple: we will never call you.
Why are people still not liking electron apps? Are they using machines from before 2010 and some system resources is a limiting factor?

Also, I would vastly prefer electron apps instead of using a native toolkit that's not following the interface guideline of the OS that looks to be using free icon set from the 90s instead of using Font Awesome or similar.
I'm Dutch and have never seen this in a supermarket, nor has anyone ever served it to me, nor was is in any cookbook I ever read. Are you sure?
My five year old daughter has a villager and decorates her house. I think the enhancements that would make the game easier for adults would make it harder for young children to grasp. She doesn’t accidentally buy 500 stacks of flowers then cry because her bells are gone.
I know online arguments can be super frustrating, but can you please not be a jerk in your posts here, regardless of how wrong other people or you feel they are? You posted something like half a dozen swipes in this thread that broke that site guidelines. This is the sort of thing that degrades discussion badly because the toxins compound.

It sounds like you know more about this field than others. That's great—but then the thing to do is share some of what you know, so we all can learn. If you mix it with cheap shots and swipes, that not only breaks HN's rules, it discredits the truth you're trying to advance, which is not in your interests or anyone else's.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Super helpful, thanks for touching on what does and doesn't have an immediate need for you.

re: ~/Booste directory, just pushed and update yesterday that allows you to move your filesync directory around to wherever you want. It's not quite perfect yet, as I haven't built a way to clean old project files out of the codebox. But your new repo will overwrite anything that'd get int the way, so functionally, you're good to go there.

There's a "booste upload bulk" command, which takes a .boosteignored "bulk/" directory, for hefting code up to the codebox without bogging down filesync. Haven't get built a "booste download bulk" command, since customer pull recently has been more web-dev oriented, but I'll get on that once more ML folks play with Booste.

Codeboxes have auto-spindown. Default four hours live, but could make a command to monitor processes and spindown once done. Like a flag "booste --stop-when-done python3 train.py"

Nothing for Jupiter notebooks yet, and it's frankly going to be a tough technical nut to crack. Interested in exploring though.

(Edit: added below)

As for cloud flexibility, I'm sure more enterprise scale companies would absolutely require to host Booste on their own infrastructure. Like a bring-you-own-server model. Bring-you-own-server and multi-cloud not in the works in the near future, but perhaps mid-long term.
Indeed, anyone can also write code over-abusing lambdas in a functional language, but lambdas are also quite useful in the majority of cases. On the other hand, can you point out a single situation where swapping int and typedef in a type definition brings anything good?

Likewise, in your example, I doubt that this could bring anything. Is there a practical obfuscation method based on that quirk in Rust, or a reason for keeping it in the syntax? I cannot tell, but maybe you can?

Overall, the problem that I have with this is not that it is silly, it is that it makes it harder to understand and maintain. In some cases, it requires active engineering to fix the issue, but the language should be designed so that most of these problems are taken care of by design.

Also, many people seem to enjoy the fact the C can be bent that way. I don't mean to remove that from them, I just think that for system programming, it should be less permissive. Perhaps a 'strict mode' could be devised, not at the syntax level like in javascript (which I suppose couldn't be avoided), but as compiler flag (like the c++ people did it).
> No. As far as I can tell, approximately 100% of people in New York want to be tested, for many different reasons. You're assuming something and projecting it as truth.

In NY, the issue was not about wanting to be tested, it was about "are you there when they're picking people to test"; quoting from the article, which is very thin on info, people were selected "at 40 locations that included grocery and big-box stores". (In Santa Clara, with the Facebook ads, people "wanting to be tested" by going to a testing center is not anywhere close to 100%.)

The assumption that people who are at grocery and big-box stores are representative, infection-wise, of the population of a whole is not obviously true to me. Many other posters in this thread point out reasons why they might be more likely to be infected.

> But by your own logic, there can be no "random sample"...we can't tie people down and force them to be tested

This approach may go against American sensibilities, but other states (SK, DE, IT) have had better luck with the approach of sampling everyone in a town/region/area. Or at least pick people truly at random, not just a random sample of people who happen to show up in a public place in the middle of a pandemic with a shelter-in-place order in effect. (Also, I'm not sure how "my own logic" makes any claims about the impossibility of a random sample, could you elaborate?)

Even in America, you can at least try to account for the ways in which your sample is likely to be different from a truly random sample. The study by Stanford in Santa Clara county I know at least tried to do this, but of course you can't account for "thinks is infected" as a demographic attribute because that's the dependent variable; I don't know if the NYC study did this type of accounting, but I assume they tried to too.

> The truth is, the New York study did pretty much what we always do to get a random sample: asked a bunch of people at random to participate in the program.

You clearly know about sample bias, so I'm not sure why you think going to a single location (or even 40 single locations) and randomly asking people to be sampled is a good way to get a random sample. Think about going to every Costco and Whole Foods in the state and asking "people at random" for their political views. You're going to get a biased sample, even though you're nominally asking people at random. You can try to account for bias, based on demographic factors you observe in your sample that correlate with political views, right?

But we don't know enough about infection rate to be able to effectively account for infection rate given that people who are showing up at grocery and big-box stores on a random day are more likely to be exposed (they're at a store!) and thus more likely to have been infected than the population as a whole? Literally the only info you have is that they're more likely to be infected -- there aren't well-established demographic correlates with infection.
Welcome to scientific programming :)
Certificates act as a great filtering mechanism for developers - if a company highly values them, the dev should skip that job application.

Seriously though, placing high value on industry certs is a red flag that they don't know how to hire devs. I don't know if that's a variable worth optimizing for.
This always gets spread around HN as some kind of conspiracy theory. The webkit team has implemented many of the features required for PWAs and has many more on their roadmap. In fact there is probably enough there already for PWAs to compete with some classes of native apps.
PWA's aren't for developers with the time and resources to build native apps. It's for web developers who want to improve the mobile experience on their sites.
> You could do that, but the way to write it in the bash way would be `dir | select -first 3`

I would have said "ls | head -n3" as well. I've never heard of "select". I just tried your suggestion and it doesn't appear to work:

$ dir | select -first 3
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `3'
Smarter people work on harder problems, breaking things in more obscure ways, so you need other smart people to protect the service from breaking for customers...
I don't think anyone disagrees that the sample has bias. On the other hand, since the majority of people have no choice but to grocery shop in person, I do not think the sample is as tilted as you imply.

And even if it were--- it's notable that it's this easy to find a subgroup with cleared infections this far above what was anticipated to be found across NY/NYC.

And-- it's remarkably consistent with statistical estimates made through a variety of other means, e.g. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.18.20070821v...
Y740S starts at $1099.
It's been that way for a couple of months at least. This login screen can be blocked with adblockers, but the fact that it's making rounds only now kind of shows that no one was using it anyway
Weird how I can't join pixelfed.social. I tried looking up how to register and the registration link is supposed to be there on the homepage according to their help center, but all I see is a login form
.NET Core 3.1 LTS General Availability on App Service
DWM, too.
Coronavirus: Trump suggests injecting disinfectant as treatment
Fasting might be easier than quitting sweets outright. Doing a 36-hour fast once a week is incredibly effective (basically skip a whole day, plus sleep)
All phases will be testing for safety to varying degrees.

So... a challenge trial at phase III will still have risks. Right now, I don’t think we have any vaccines ready to enter phase III?

COVID19 does seem to be actively spreading in the population currently. So I don’t think there would be an issue finding participants for a phase III trial.

At the point that we’re ready for phase III trials. If there is no population where COVID19 is actively spreading, perhaps challenge trials could be considered?
> the WHO are not a political entity so they do not want to comment at all on political issues;

The WHO is very much a political entity in the pockets of the Chinese Communist Party. There's a difference between refusing to comment on Taiwan and pretending like Taiwan doesn't exist.

Ignoring the political aspect, they've dealt with this crisis terribly, being slow to respond and giving downright false advice like telling people not to wear masks.
How exactly do you figure? Google has built a company around it deciding what information gets to be seen. They’ve done this for decades. Apple sells computer hardware. Even if Apple has recently started curating information, they still only curate a fraction of a percent of what Google does.

Suggesting that Apple has historically been at fault here and that Google is now just joining them sounds incredibly biased.
I believe on Android there is some deeper integration with google pay. I’m on mobile so I can’t find a link right now.
By advertising this here, is your growth plan based on gaining customers who are banned, or disgruntled at the system of moderation on YouTube?

If that is the case, you may end up with a less savoury community than you hope for. Voat is an example here.
Norway had it, maybe still, have not touched a landline for decades.
Hi Craig! Big fan of your "work" related to walking. Thanks for doing it. Currently in Kyoto for several weeks (normally based in San Francisco). I hope I'll be able to join you for a walk before I get back to the US.
Youtube also demonitized Chris Martenson's channel "Peak Prosperity" back in January when it was warning about the coronavirus crisis months before the WHO posthumous announcement of there being a pandemic.
I mean that in the limit, adding the n+c'th person isn't just useless, it's devastating. If the optimal (in terms of calendar date of completion) size for a project is (say) three people, it is entirely possible, if not almost certain, that putting 30 people on the project will push the expected completion date to infinity. In other words, the project will fail.

Now, you might say, "I will just bench those other 27 people" and have them play cards or something. In most organizations, though, you cannot do this. Instead, they must be seen to be useful somehow. And if you have 30 people with their hands in a three-person project, no matter how peripherally, failure is all but guaranteed.

I have seen this many times.
I don't know Forth, Perl, or even Rust enough to discuss them on that basis, but having other languages allowing it doesn't mean that C should be lenient about it either, or does it?

Now, don't get me wrong, I do not dislike C, I've practiced it a lot, and I come back to it from time to time when I need to. But I would rather use a language where many of these forms are forbidden for readability and maintainability.
Standard Cyborg is hiring an iOS SDK eng to work on mobile machine perception
>You could do that, but the way to write it in the bash way would be `dir | select -first 3`

Fyi, `dir | select -first 3` also works in PowerShell.
> I think you can accomplish this by using the URL, and it would be significantly cleaner than the input pop-up.

I just pushed a minor update to use the url for the session names.
Isn't that why most people use Docker nowadays?
What I took away from MMM was less concrete, actionable suggestions you can implement, and more "things to watch out for" in the development process. Things like the second system effect, and Brooks' Law (adding people to a late project makes it later) are red flags. You can't always avoid them (management will add warm bodies in desperation, you probably can't convince them otherwise). But at least when you see second system effect happening you can often try to mitigate it by design/architecture decisions.

I would also say the lessons around keeping teams small have been taken to heart in industry somewhat, e.g. in the notion of the two-pizza team at Amazon.

That said, some of Brooks' suggestions, such as the "surgical team" concept, are more products of their era and haven't aged well.
Your app is great don't listen to that guy. Who browses with a keyboard? only him.
Richard Dawkins recently said that HK is doing well because it followed the recommendations of the WHO.

Which is literally not the case. They wore masks, and protested to get borders closed to non-citizens asap. If the citizens had not taken things into their own hands I fear they wouldn't be in such a good position as they are now.

The WHO needs to be dismantled. china has far too much influential power in the WHO. There should be 0 politics within the WHO, no pandering to the ccp. They should exist to help everyone in the world during an outbreak like this.
One of our applications receive more than 10m hits a day through Kong, which uses Redis for its rate limit plugin. We put a t3.micro for that and never had any issue.
In reality, during our performance tests we got to much higher volumes and it always worked fine. What kind of issue with network did you encounter? Micro, small and medium should have the same network capacity.
So, t3.micros cost $7.4, yes, but if you do just 1 year no-upfront reservation it should be around $4.9 (it's usually a third in saving). I think the value proposition is too weak to even consider it, at least to me.

However, as someone else also mentioned, we need alternatives to other AWS services, those that are expensive enough to run them on prem.
The day you offer cheap Elasticsearch, ClickHouse, documentdb, etc, I'll kill my Hetzner machines and will come to you, sir.
Amazon seem to have a disadvantage here though. This kind of tool is aimed at non-developers who want to glue stuff together. With Zapier, they register an account and get stuck in – straightforward. With AWS, they register an account and are instantly overwhelmed with a million different things. AWS is too big and unfocused for the target market. I've seen developers hit a wall once they get on board AWS because it's just too much to deal with. You think the AWS dashboard is any friendlier to non-developers?
Swine Flu. There, n=1. Go on now, you have your counterexample.