skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i'm really curious what state this was in. some states are quite lax both legally and in terms of public opinion (e.g. Wisconsin) but most are pretty harsh.
What is an emergency podcast?

A podcast made to monetize an emergency, clearly.
"do X using AI/ML", "do X using robotics" seem to be a pretty effective template.
Indeed, this high Specific Energy (~2000 Wh/kg) would be enough to make electric airplanes feasible and economical.

Heck, even high-altitude supersonic electric "jets", because you don't need oxygen to run electric motors!
The writing's been on the wall for MIPS for ages. AFAIK it's not better than ARM in any meaningful way.
Generally speaking, video compression algorithms are 'lossy' (cause a reduction in quality) and need to be able to 'see' the video in order to compress it. The compression typically removes details that are not perceivable by humans (this is also the case for image and audio compression), and by sending just the changes from frame to frame, rather than each entire frame. For both of these, the compression algorithm needs knowledge of the video stream, which would be impossible if it's compressed.

You could try to use a lossless compression algorithm (such as used by zip), but those are effectively useless on video in general, and even more so on encrypted data, which appears to be random.
The brilliant thing about financial markets is that anyone can put their money where their mouth is. If you believe you've spotted some inefficiency, then put up some cash and enjoy your spoils.
In my humble opinion, mental models are like software design patterns. You kinda have to understand them to understand them, otherwise you end up falling into the "when all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail" situation, which I guess is a mental model too!
> What major sites are currently using Elixir?

Besides what was listed already, if you're looking for info on people running Elixir / Phoenix in production there's this podcast: https://runninginproduction.com/tags/phoenix

One guy was pumping over 7 billion log events a month through it.

Another one (remote.com episode) serves 100k+ daily requests.

Each podcast episode goes through how the app was built and how it's deployed at a high level, but still has enough details to apply those things back to your own projects.

With that said, if anyone is running Elixir or Phoenix in production and sees this and wants to be on the show, just head over to the above link and click "become a guest" on the top right. I'd love to have you on, both big and small sites are welcome.
> highly performant API that outperformed REST at scale -- it's called SQL

You are conflating many disparate things here.

SQL is a language (DSL) for accessing data. REST is a protocol and a data transport method (one could surmise a way to do REST without HTTP, but when reasonable people refer to REST they mean HTTP (over TCP (over IP (etc.)))).

Even REST is not an API. You can't do anything with a GET or a POST without other abstractions built on top of that. So I don't understand how anyone could make performance claims beyond something like "HTTP is slow" and "binary transport is faster", with regards to SQL vs. REST/HTTP.

SQL does not define how you receive your data. Databases have different methods of sending SQL and responding to SQL. Oracle, MSSQL, MySQL, etc.

> This centralization of the core logic becomes especially powerful if the database is accessed from multiple consumers

That's the entire point of an API. Any API. REST APIs, even.
Newkits – Webapp created to support football teams during Covid-19
Death by Specificity – Rich Hickey
One interpretation of that as a strategy is "in a crisis with imperfect information we should centralise all power to popular people".

If someone working to evidence (ie, science) can't make good decisions how on earth will strong leadership help? We've seen crisises that led to actual war time situations (pretty much all the wars in the Middle East, particularly when recently the 'strong leadership' in the US when they speculated wrongly that Saddam Hussein had WMDs) where with benefit of hindsight the entire planet would probably have been better off with weaker leaders, more evidence and people just sticking to their normal routines.

Centralising power without a proven strategy is going to lead to more misses than hits. Even now, we don't know what the endgame here is. The lockdowns could still conceivably be failures if they turn out to have delayed all the deaths by 12 months instead of preventing them. We don't know. It is too early to say what did or didn't work.
If you're the kind of person I think you are, then it's going to take all of the energy you can muster to convince yourself to vote for leftists/American democratic socialists in the next election. But I promise you, those are the only people who are going to help you in this situation. Not necessarily because they'll get what they want, or because their ideas are good, but because the threat of them coming into power will force banks et al. to reassess just how much they want to push it.
Europe Contact-Tracing App May Be More Privacy-Invading Than Apple and Google’s
My job I was at previously has a management team so out of touch that employees show up to the office physically, but spaced apart, meanwhile management is work from home.

Is that not the biggest FU a company could give its employees? They gave them all a $1 raise (woopee when you're making 12) to compensate them. All because they didn't want them to work from home either. Old people clinging to old ways, namely, do as I say not as I do.
He's the president, if he cared, he'd prioritize SMBs. He's the check and balance. Instead, congress, judicial, and executive are now all effectively Republican controlled, with Trump de-facto leading the party because McConnell decided to go with it. Trump can pass the buck during one of the biggest losses of life in US history & the biggest recessions, but as the ultimate elected check, no way should we give a free pass. He should do his job, leave, or get the blame.

Anyways, this has gotten beyond HN. As an SMB owner, it's pretty clear what is and isn't happening.
The Russia hoax was never a hoax. Election was influenced
I do agree, but note I did say another 2 - 3 trillion in small business loans / grants. Is that enough? I am not sure, but I do agree that if not managed correctly much like the housing crisis those with cash will swoop in and buy the distressed businesses. I just don't see how what we are doing currently is going to prevent that though. The white house is actively picking winners and losers in the business world with almost no congressional oversight and has fired the IG responsible for it.
For discourse, it seems.
That's like saying we'll never build a device that moves faster than we can run because evolution produced perfect locomotion for us. Or that we'll never be able to communicate further than we can yell, because evolution produced strong lungs for us.

There are plenty of cases where evolution failed. Allergies for instance... our own immune system reacting quite imperfectly to a harmless substance. That doesn't sound like pinnacle of evolution perfection to me.

There is a time that science wins and a time that natural things win. What if science added those antibodies to the formula? What about people who are unable to breast feed.
I have no affection towards go or any language. They're just tools. You sounded elitist calling something magic and pointing out someone's age as part of your point. And your passive aggressiveness to my response is proof of it. I "genuinely" hope you're doing alright too.
Eliminating traffic deaths isn’t a totally unrealistic goal.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/oslo-traffic...
More like 4x. Where can you get anything past about 250 Wh/kg?
Bill Gurley is stepping away from an active role at Benchmark, 21 years
Sam Harris and others left the platform when he was banned - this is the exodus I am referring to
That's in Stockholm, so the question is still, what about the rest of the country, they don't have the built up immunity. What's the exit from here?
Here's another good explanation of what some of the issues are:

https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2020/04/12/contact-traci...

The problem of trolling seems important to solve.
> If it's so inefficient, it should be pretty trivial to make superior risk-adjusted returns, no?

With equal access to market opportunities, maybe.
Heh, I wasn't being passive aggressive, I was being serious. Take a breath, man.

Also "magic" is not a new term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_(programming)
Everybody wanted a pocket computer and when that finally became viable with the iPhone, the market exploded.

We knew what we wanted, but the interface was a problem and Apple solved it.

We knew what we wanted but we could not get there, until then.

None of the bitcoin/blockchain people can exactly explain why blockchain or bitcoin is relevant. Even after 11 years they can't.

> than demonstrating the future role of the State meddling in people's personal finance.

A citizen pays their due taxes, as required to run a decent society. Cryptopeople just want to have a means for tax evasion: to support criminal behaviour.

> Are you just another Krugman, who still didn't realise the internet's potential in 1998?

Haha, I don't think so. The purpose of the internet was very clear. It was just too hyped. But it recovered. crypto and blockchain are hyped, but the purpose is not clear at all. Big difference.

> Oh, and "cryptocurrencies" are like the Intranets of the 90s. Everyone wants their own, for now, until they realize that being part of the global digital money network has far more advantages than trying to work with walled gardens.

We have already money. And we already have means to pay people in other countries. And they are overall more convenient and the transaction costs are not an issue for most applications.
Thanks for letting me know. It’s so frustrating that laptops don’t have replaceable batteries these days as the batteries will last for much less time than the rest of the laptop. Plus, if you use your laptop plugged into the ac socket most the time like I do, this is not good for battery life and this could also be avoided if the battery was removable.
You haven't answered the question though: if finance isn't useful, why do people keep using it and paying for it?

You for instance (forgive me getting personal) don't have to engage in high volume trading products using Blackrock Aladdin. You can just get a job, get paid, and spend what you earn.
If spot instance price is the only communication channel between you and the cloud provider to achieve this, it's hard to do a good job at it. For example, if the spot price was $0.60 one hour ago, and $0.55 right now, and you still have 13 hours of latency left for your job's execution, should you start triggering it or not? (how do you figure out your bid level?) You could have statistical data to have an intuition what's the lowest price that's been hit historically on similar days of the week in the past etc, but it's inexact and overly complicated.

If the cloud provider becomes aware of the remaining latency you have at your disposal for the job's execution, they can do a much better job. They would be able to look across the entire job execution queue in that datacenter, each job having a specific remaining duration for its execution, they would know the predicted pattern of carbon/solar/wind split for the next hours, and the implementation of the system would sit just on the cloud provider side (making the life of the customers easier and simple).

Of course, in the end, the benefit is towards our planet, but this is much more likely to succeed if the proper cloud API exists and the implementation initiatives are properly aligned to avoid redundant implementations on the customer side.
Ha, so I learned two things about Moloch today.

I didn't have that strong of an association of Moloch with big cities as it felt like when I looked it up for the above answer, so I googled a bit of its usage on news sites and it looks like in Germany it is almost exclusively used for big cities, whereas in Switzerland, cities is the most common usage but it is applied way more liberally.

Within a minute or so I saw it used to refer to: The EU, a government bicycle program, a 2km long tunnel in Zürich, iTunes, the Tour de France, Goldman Sachs and fashion.
We have a tendency to group all ancient cities together in our minds, but the difference between Luxor/Thebes(3200BC) and Rome(753BC) is about the same as between Rome and New York City(1624).
Preach Brother!

Moloch is a serious open source project, run by serious people who care about network security. They published their code under an open source license, showing off just how confident they are that it is solid. You can use this project to inspect packets on your network, you can learn how they built it and become a valuable network security engineer with a job somewhere finding people trying to hack in to your site. You can propose modifications to make this even better (and if your code is good enough, it will get accepted and used by security teams around the world). Or you could focus on the name they chose and the name of the company at the time this was published.

I'd seize the opportunity to talk tech and focus on network security. Infosec jobs pay better than brand marketing jobs.
Yeah much less creepy
And on the NZ side, it calls Bluff a city. It's a town (whose population peaked at 3000) near Invercargill, which is itself, only just a city.

https://www.worldhistoryofbluff.org.nz
> You know, the president doesn't write legislation

The President is the most powerful single actor in setting the content of legislation.

> That's on Congress

In the parliamentary system, that would be obviously true; the US has a strong presidential system, making that far less true.
Body Fitness: Putting It First into Your Lives
No they always sent their young children out to walk the roads and pick up cans for the family.
I mean, technically, that's what Google's solution ends up doing.

Their DCs are globally distributed, so their timings on when they'd actually be doing the heavy lifting is shuffled around.
I've heard about a merger between two companies.

One use Java, the other used Perl.

At some point both teams were told that they had to add a particular feature.

The Perl team was done well before the Java team.

This was a story from one of the Perl trainers. I don't remember enough about the rest of the video in order to find it online.
As one of the Hackaday comments mentioned, the original Walkman must have used samarium cobalt magnets rather than neodymium magnets. SmCo magnets were known since the early 1960s but neodymium magnets were discovered in 1984, 5 years after the Walkman launched:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samarium%E2%80%93cobalt_magnet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neodymium_magnet#History
It's a funny table. A mix of historic record (indicating eg most of the Greek cities) Vs archeological evidence of some kind of habitation Vs some myth/oral history. Overall very arbitrary what is and is not considered a city or at starting point.
Well, good times were had!
Screw-ups will happen no matter how much wishful thinking and effort is spent preventing them. If you assume perfection in things then you will be sorely disappointed by most everything.
Two words: Rex Research

In the aftermath of WWII the so-called "Men in Black" were formed, not to police aliens (what a conceit!) but to sequester dangerous technology like free energy and anti-gravity.

With great responsibility comes great power.

There are all kinds of awesome technologies but each one is as dangerous as it is powerful, and we are fucking nuts, so it's kept a secret. Rex Research is one of the "holes" where the knowledge is allowed to leak out as a kind of pressure-release valve.
> Saying that Trump is to blame for the implementation details because he has the veto power is a little silly.

Only in that it's silly to ignore that he's to blame for the implementation details since implementation details are pretty much what the Executive branch does.
I don't get it when people people use strong descriptors like "unease" and "jarring" when describing UIs. I don't think I've ever had a UI that made me feel fearful for my life/psychological well-being like that.
I get your joke, and it's not advertising but lobbying by the large corporations who make baby formula a recommended thing, eg sponsor a thinktank etc, and it's always 100% profit motive. Maybe we should get them off our backs and be aware that most of their products may be worse for us. And ideally change the mechanisms by which they are controlling the government. It's a tough fight because they are organized and have money and we aren't organized and our efforts need to be tenfold.
Indeed, religions also disagree amongst themselves what is right and wrong. This has been a primary source of conflict throughout human history. Many times, both sides believe God (or whatever their equivalent is) is on their side.
Reminds me of "Contact". Why build one, when you can build two for twice the price? :)
Well, there's already a database called Voldemort...
From art to action – Joanie Lemercier on art, tech and climate emergency
WAVE computing used to be working on CGRA [1] chip as deep learning accelerators. I got in touch with a few folks there. They apparently failed that endeavor and pivoted to MIPS.

[1] https://wavecomp.ai/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/WP_CGRA.pdf
> I don't trust Evans at all

Anyone that follows him closely on Twitter Should know this. He's the type of person that just throws predictions everywhere so he can say "I told you so", but never owns up the ones that don't crystallize.
Makes me wonder if this came to pass. Could an electric car be too light? Is there a minimum weight a car needs to be?

If the battery got small and you don’t have the ice, could it be a problem? Would they add weights?
Yes, SATAN was already taken!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Administrator_Tool_fo...
Engineers' Corner: On COBOL and Legacy Systems
> This assumes people value having a greater supply of housing... If this were true, wouldn't they just support building more housing generally?

I’m not sure most people (or most cities) are saying they want a greater supply of housing. I suspect most people want to keep the character of a city and keep prices reasonable by mitigating against vampiric tendencies of some landowners/horders.
It probably won't work very well in the US though since workers' rights are much weaker in the US than they are in Sweden.

Telling people to stay home if they have any symptoms only works if people are actually able to stay home from their jobs.
Story Thieves: The Stolen Chapters
The anti-china propaganda is so self-unaware. In a post about Zuckerburg investing $5.7 billion, china is the "financial colonist". The saddest aspect of the anti-china propagandist is that they are actually arguing china's point. China limits foreign investment precisely because of "financial colonialism". So you are in fact praising china and saying india should be like china. Almost all of the world's FDI is non-chinese. Most of the world's FDI is from europe.
Gatsby can also let you use react components to do some pretty clever things around image resizing, effects, etc that you might expect from a static site generator but couldn’t achieve with just a frontend framework.
Learn about the Matrix Organizational Structure, Advantages and Disadvantages
No, that analogy with digital photography is really bad.

You know, it was immediately clear why digital photography would be so beneficial: no film. Instant gratification / feedback. So less hassle.

It would be only a matter of years before the tech - as with moore's law - would catch up. Which it did.

Blockchain is not obvious at all. It doesn't seem to solve a problem we have.

Maybe blockchain shows that we do trust each other more than we think.
Any clues as to Half-Life 3?
Is the title a reference to Deming's book? ;-)
I'm in the camp of Dolph Lundgren honestly. You cannot tell me this virus has a higher mortality rate than any other major outbrekas like cholera, polio, tuberculosis, leprosy, etc. If we're worried about old people dying, tell them to stay inside. I don't get why we gotta halt the economy for less than 10% of the population. I personally feel it was a major overreaction by governments.

People get weird when they come to grips with their mortality. Yes ideally we don't want people to die en masse but have we gotten so cozy that we forget it's still a fact of life? People die, tragically and often.

This shutdown is going to have larger long term ramifications to our system than if we just let it spread like normal. Those numbers reported, do we know if they're even accurate? What if a doctor was like "welp it sounds like Corona, so I'm just gonna say it is."
Look, I agree with you that stricter measures probably have an effect. All countries have some forms of restrictions, all countries have flattened their curves, no-one is really seeing crazy exponential growth, common sense dictates that it's working.

But a lot of people in this thread are arguing that Sweden should have enforced stricter measures because that should have decreased the deaths further. And that position is unsupported, because there are comparable countries with stricter measures than Sweden that have a higher per-capita death count, for example the UK or Belgium. Looking at excess mortality the picture is similar. Sweden is absolutely not doing great, but it's not doing bad either.

If stricter measures always resulted in less deaths, as you argue, why are so many countries doing worse than Sweden? Why are more people dying in those countries? Is their population stupider? Unluckier? More defiant towards government? Clearly there are multiple other unknown factors at work here, which is why there's no evidence that stricter measures in Sweden would have an effect.
article doesn't provide any citation to the article it is summarizing...
Actually putting on a headset and getting the experience is not equivalent to smoke and mirrors, even if it is optimized for that one room
I would say that I have seen no discernible pattern, so I have learnt that it is imprudent to judge a developer by their age. People do learn over time, but some people learn more "cogently" than others, i.e. some get more out of one year's worth of learning than others get in 10.
Those are some good looking dashboards.
This would be genuinely interesting to me, as I use cloud backup to store private, but not secret data.

That is, I'm interested in not having my family photos and personal files mined.
To make it useful, I'd also want the service to handle encryption in a way that doesn't require me to self-encrypt and upload huge files all the time or anything of that sort.

As entitled as that may sound: If you want my money, you'd have to provide apps that integrate with the usual OS's, encrypting the data locally and seamlessly.

Now, they say they will use amazon for storage. That's a tough sell until I see what's the actual program looks like. I MIGHT be willing to trust a non-profit which existence is linked to ethical behavior. I will certainly not trust amazon without doing my own encryption. And if I feel like I gotta do that, I am not paying for an intermediate.
Moloch is free. :-)
I'm 36 and didn't start programming until I was 29. Tried to work with people on a project, got frustrated and decided to do it myself. I only did full time programming for a very short time, but I still write code for my job regularly and do side projects here and there for fun. I know full time engineers at big tech companies that didn't start programming until their late 30s. I'd say there isn't such a thing as a late bloomer because life isn't linear like society would like you to believe.