skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think your first point is good and agree with it. Even within optimizing for that (rather than output/worker or output/salary), I think it's fair to examine whether specific choices are optimized for the same case that you are facing. Not everything done by very successful companies should be replicated in your business.
Ask HN: Best current mailing list manager?
Of the mailman, ecartis, etc. genre; not the newsletter marketing mass shot genre.

Ecartis has done sterling work for years but even back then it was effectively abandonware. Something nice and simple I can run in Docker or a single binary would be perfect.
FWIW read the WHO's COVID-19 situation reports [1] pretty regularly, and was interested yesterday to find Kosovo listed with the following footnote:

> All references to Kosovo should be understood to be in the context of the United Nations Security Council resolution 1244 (1999).

Which means, AFAICT, "We're not saying whether Kosovo is or is not a separate country, please don't flame us about it."

[1] https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2...
Wi-Fi over Coax
This is a ridiculous oversimplification that doesn't scale at all to larger orgs. Every modular component in its own repo? That basically means creating a repo for every library. You could easily be managing thousands of repos with negative benefit.

People seem to be afraid of using a single repo for some reason. It's really simple though. You should have one repo per "release cycle" that you have. Anything meant to be deployed together should be in the same repo. Things not meant to be deployed together should be in different repos. With the right tooling, that is what solves most problems.
Codota picks up $12M for an AI platform that auto-completes developers’ code
Can code help you design? Interview w. Tobias Ahlin (GitHub, Minecraft, Spotify)
A bootstrapped Uber-like company can't survive the entry of a funded Uber-like company in that local market, as their expected initial promotional campaign and discounts will have you running at a loss for months which you can't afford unless you have substantial cash reserves.

This particular example (prolonged "dumping" of services far below cost in the business of taxi-like-services) is what we've seen in practice a bunch of times in many cities as there have been multiple 'waves' of richly funded new entrants trying to come in.
A counterpoint is that war could also be anguishing slow. An enemy could be moving across a land for months or even years and you would just get occassional news and rumours as they got ever closer. People knew that the enemy was coming, but not neccessarily when. That is a different kind of stress.
MSG is to me the poster child of most things are OK in moderation. The problem is most people are pretty terrible in practicing moderation and so they're essentially consuming super salt in large quantities which certainly can't be good for you.

MSG can really make certain dishes taste delicious, but that doesn't mean you need to dump tablespoons of the stuff into everything you eat. In Japan, many foods contain MSG; just not enough to be your weekly serving's worth.
> We have some flexibility on our American usage of "quite" but it means "nearly" or "almost completely", unless it means "totally!" So to say "that's not quite right" means you're close but something is off.

I don't think this is illustrating two different uses. Note that "not completely right" means the same thing as "not quite right", but this is meant to illustrate that "quite" doesn't always mean "completely".
Don't install Wordpress. Pay for a hosted/managed blog. Wordpress.com (or one of the others).

Static blogs mostly suck because they have no UI for the user. You're generally required to run your own text editor, manage all files yourself, run some build scripts, deal with the errors. Oh, and likely you need to be on a PC/Mac instead of a phone or tablet so less options.

OTOH Wordpress requires constant maintenance. Like literally every month or more often you're required to install updates and if you install any plugins you're required to stay on top of those too. I got off wordpress for precisely those reasons. I run a static blog but, in part because of the friction vs WordPress I rarely post anymore.
Not an expert but the Wikipedia on it is quite good on the various schools of thought.

Edit - I just lost 20 mins reading the start of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_world which is interesting on that stuff
Yes, name your computed columns. Makes your life easier.
In Germany, atleast under IGMETAL, we have the same set of rules.
Essential Data Science Techniques and Data Scientists Methods
I don’t know, this article maybe makes sense through an american lens, i’m open to that idea.

From my view, GDPR has had a few impacting benefits to me personally already.

I’ve been notified of security breaches 3 times now that i’m confident either wouldn’t have been reported or would but 18 months later. I’ve been able to move my ISP as a result. Getting closer to that idea that customers will punish you if you mess up - in this case i was able to learn about their mistake thanks to GDPR.
Oh god that was lame
First one's easy. You've got a bunch of electronically controlled switches (transistors), and you encode a higher voltage as 1, and something near ground as 0.

You can build logic gates out of 2 or 3 transistors, and combine those logic gates into more complex gates until you've got a computer.

But how does a transistor work? Basically, you've got semiconducting materials of two types (Phosphorus or Boron doped silicon), one of which wants a few more electrons to be a conductor, and the other wants a few less electrons to be a conductor. If you stick the two types next to each other, the electron-wanting (N) one snatches up the electrons from the electron-offering (P) one, and you get an Electric field going from the P to N. Now, that alone makes a diode. Already cool, nonlinear electronics. But what if we go N-P-N? Now we've got two electric fields, going opposite directions. With three leads, you can adjust the strength of those electric fields with one, creating a variable resistor, a transistor.
This 100%! The companies sure as hell aren't "volunteering" to make the vaccines.
Ah, but do they know where in the event loop, for example, "microtasks" get executed as opposed to... I forget.. tasks? In other words, how execution of promises is different from the execution of setTimeout?
Static VS dynamic website with JAM stack website in between
Sex expression is strongly, but not perfectly, correlated with the existence or absence of the Y chromosome. Genetically, and biologically, sex determination can be complicated by, at least: nonfunctional Y, XXY, XYY, and other issues. In these cases, (about 1% of the general population), sex is not determined biologically according to the binary standard.

This doesn’t even take into account social sex determination, or gender identification, which are psychological (and physiological!) in scope & involve a much more complicated biological system.
The Hill: The Data Is In – Stop the Panic and End the Isolation
Backup Deduplication Explained
Without agreeing with it or endorsing it's thesis, that is a beautifully written piece. Cheers.
The years in HN titles traditionally indicate when the article was written, not when it occurred. This one should probably read 2015 instead of 1955.
> Anti-MIC comment

Depends on where you draw your ethical boundaries? I mean it's a lucrative career in itself and you get to work in cutting edge tech that hopefully never gets proliferated to other countries (esp. the oppressive ones).
> Does the issue become individual corrections?

> In other words, camera lenses are small so manufacturing defects are more noticeable. Therefore, each smartphone requires a different correction.

Well, yes, and no, and yes. Small camera lenses are probably going to be more evident in certain defects. On the other hand, there are typically less elements in smaller camera lenses, which is nice as the less of those there are, the less the chance of other defects.

Taking a picture like mentioned above could absolutely create a 'per-camera/phone' correction profile. May not be able to correct every type of defect but I could see it being useful for some lenses. I know for Sony cameras, there have been a couple models where a large percentage of the copies produced have -one- soft corner.
From reading articles, I got the impression Windows is one monorepo (but it doesn’t include Office) and e.g. Visual Stduio is another. So it’s true that Microsoft doesn’t use a monorepo as a whole, but e.g. just Windows itself is a codebase significantly larger and more diverse than 99% of companies would have, and it does have multiple “independents” products - Notepad is an independent module from Solitaire and they are both independent of essentially everything else, whereas e.g. File Explorer, the win32 subsystem and the kernel often need to be updated together for new features.

GoogBook made it early, but re-evaluated. For sure, they found the cost of switching is higher than any potential benefit. I must say that I have not found anyone describing benefits other than “git is faster for smaller repositories” (which was very true but is only slightly true with sparse checkouts and shallow branches these days) and “I like it that way”.

Yosefk has a convincing article about “if your culture is bad, it doesn’t matter; if your culture is good, monorepos are technically easier until you hit some scale wall but then they don’t become harder that multirepo at that scale” IIRc.

But w.r.t Microsoft I admit I’m not very well informed, thank you for setting the record straight.
Mark Twain put it best: The weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire.
Yes and no. I can't lie, I was really hoping for a significant company to be put up against a wall and shot, maybe a major retailer that won't let you check out online without giving a phone number or whatever. The notion of data being a toxic asset[1] still hasn't really sunk into the higher ranks of most large orgs.

However, I've found GDPR deletion requests to be a pretty strong cudgel. For the last 10 years or so I've been sending deletion requests for accounts when I no longer need them. Prior to GDPR, about 50% of responses would be along the lines of "in the nicest possible way, we don't care about you enough to do that so please fuck off". Reading between the lines, I assumed that about 50% of websites were implemented poorly and didn't properly support deletion.

Post GDPR, all but one request have been given a polite "we have done as you have requested, we hope to see you as a customer again". GDPR has both legitimized the process of requesting that your data has been deleted after you're finished using a service, and has legitimized the concerns of all those developers who were never able to get engineering time to properly support account deletion.

So it's been a success, it could be succeeding more but I'm not unhappy. I would still like to see at least one company get ICBM'd in order to remind larger entities that they've got responsibilities to society too, not just their shareholders.

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/03/data_is_a_tox...
Someone already uploaded this trash and it's still fucking trash.
I stopped using shampoo just over a year ago and even though I've known many people say shampooing is pointless I was still amazed at how little effect the change had on my hair. The current lockdown is an ideal time to try it.

In the context of advertising and marketing it is interesting to consider why we use shampoo at all.
that's actually a pretty effective way for overwriting/replacing your bad memories with something new. Less drastic / and practical examples:

Say you went through a really bad breakup and your partner let you down by cheating on you with your best friend. You still love them and really want to those memories gone. You got 2 options:

1) stop listening to favorite songs, no longer visit specific restaurants or pubs, stop doing a sport you did together,

2) replace these memories by doing exactly those things with your new partner. soon you will have forgotten about them. Instead what remains is that activity/place now being your memory and not associated to another person (or the 2 of you).
Decimation was a military punishment. I cannot think of any time it was used on civilians. It was employed not just for mutiny, but for desertion and cowardice. If your unit panicked and routed during a battle, it might very well be subjected to decimation later - probably a powerful motivator.
Light grey text on a light green background means this is not readable.
I've wondered the same thing lately whenever someone here posits that defaults cause the destruction of money.

I'd love to see this properly explained, because it definitely has a counter intuitive ring to me.
Mmmm I'm deeply wary of an absence of evidence about a condition which civilization today still can't actually acknowledge properly existing being evidence of its absence.

"Gun cleaning" accidents, as the socially accepted cover for male suicide by people everyone wants to ignore were suffering from depression or PTSD.
Also, illness and mortality was far more definitive prior to modern medical breakthroughs.

Prior to world war 2, getting ill from a wide range of highly deadly or incapacitating diseases (polio for example) was quite common and far more fatal then it is today.

The culture around mortality has changed a lot in my opinion.
They have everything the same with old subtree.
From commit message, history, object ID, commit ID.

git-subtree(1) also allows splitting subtree.

git-subtree(1) uses plumbing git command, which is stable interface, unlike this one, which uses porcelain command.

IIRC, Git’s maintainer uses git-subtree(1) to merge gitk and git-gui to Git.
something something 5 eyes?
JobRunr – An easy way to perform distributed background processing in Java
Yep, imagining/visualizing something goes without an actual visual experience for me. I've always assumed the same thing applies to most people, but I guess I do have some degree of aphantasia.

I can imagine something, but it's like rendering a layer with the opacity brought all the way down to 0, but my "mental computer" knows it's there and can tell its shape, color, all its features & details in 3D space... without seeing the actual visual image.

Dreaming on the other hand is usually multi-sensory and especially visual for me. Much like being awake or in a VR environment, but with internally generated input.

Have you spend time really consciously investigating your sleep? To the point of interrupting it with alarms etc..? I'm someone who's very interested in my dreams: for years, every night before sleep I wonder what I will dream, sometimes I get lucid during the dream, and when I awake my first instinct is to recall my dreams. I think this is why I dream so much. I wonder if the same thing applies to visualization and whether or not aphantasia is "curable" through consciously exercising visualization.
I’m building one here, using a mock implementation of Apple’s framework based on their documentation:

https://github.com/CrunchyBagel/TracePrivately/
Whoever defaulted spent the money on something else, so it's still in circulation somewhere, just not in a form the original creditor can get hold of.
Per the Chinese government, only 4600 people have died in China, and they only have 83 cases left. So only 23k will die world wide. That's less than the normal number of seasonal flu. If you believe the Chinese numbers...
What Open Source Technology Can and Can’t Do to Fix Elections
How some of these edits are not attributed to trolling, I don't know.
>Second, it's easy to fake PGP:

An odd way to put it, but yes, the simplicity of the OpenPGP standard is one of its greatest strengths. Somehow the standard has resisted just a ton of stuff that would be pointless over the long term over a great many years.
To say it's complicated is an understatement, there are literally entire books written about it [1]. It's rarely that simple but if one act states X is allowed and another act of the same jurisdiction states the exact opposite (assuming both laws are legally valid), then the most recent law prevails. The principle behind it is that the current parliament/legislature shouldn't be able restrict what future parliaments make laws on (the exception being the Constitution). Otherwise the government of today could make a law thats says 'X is illegal and no law can ever change this'.

[1] https://www.federationpress.com.au/bookstore/book.asp?isbn=9...

[edit: typos]
The 90% is probably wrong[1]. Anyway, the current method is saving 10%-34% of the patients. Nobody can guaranty that is perfect, but it's the best guess after years of treating patients with similar symptoms.

[1] What is the original source of the 90%? Is it from this article: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2765184
From the article:

> The study included all sequentially hospitalized patients between March 1, 2020, and April 4, 2020, inclusive of these dates.

> As of April 4, 2020, for patients requiring mechanical ventilation (n = 1151, 20.2%), 38 (3.3%) were discharged alive, 282 (24.5%) died, and 831 (72.2%) remained in hospital.

If you ignore the 831 patients that were still in the hospital, and consider only the 38 that survived and the 282 that died, you get 282/(282+38)=88%. It is a very short time. What are the odds for people that survive more than 4 days in the hospital?
A changing magnetic field induces a current in a material, which creates an opposing magnetic field which slows the moving magnet.
That piece of advice was probably valid in the 1970s: The computers were far too slow and far too expensive for any kind of random testing to make sense. Fuzzing became popular when multi-core CPUs became commonplace and RAM more affordable.
With <100 daily new infections probability to successfully trace the source and check all contacts and eventually quarantine them is very high in Germany for sure. Might take a while, but there is no other real way.
> I wonder which company successfully runs a monorepo in git.

Google. They're not using git, but their own scm: https://research.google/pubs/pub45424/
One I've noticed is patterns of misuse of pronoun case in conjoined noun phrases. Americans are more likely to use "me" for the subject, as in "Tom and me did thus and so". The British are more likely to use "I" as the object of a preposition, as in "He gave it to Tom and I". I suspect this is because British teachers are more likely to correct and shame students who commit the first error, so they decide the subject forms are the safer bet.
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While people in developing countries will be suffering shortly because of lack of protein and malnutrition, I'm sure many in the West will celebrate this as a great step towards veganism.
15 minutes was part of the definition for a casual contact 2 months ago, a lot earlier than the app and the social distancing rules.

https://www.health.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/2020...
Australian here and we definitely use "gotten":
- I've gotten to know him.
- I hadn't gotten the concept yet, but then ... etc.

I think it's the British that have lost the use of "gotten" in favour of "got".
"daunting: making you feel slightly frightened or worried about your ability to achieve something"

Do you think that students at prestigious universities are somehow immune to feelings like this? Pursuing your first independent project, especially with high standards, can be daunting for anyone.
FWIW I believe this has become a somewhat outdated view of how people historically dealt with the death of children. It appeals to a sort of historical logic without really being supported by the record.

Lazy citation: here are some askhistorians threads on evidence and how scholarship ended up going in this direction

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/7vbohl/how_d...

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/41953k/what_...
Nope, explicitly not [1]:

"Those privacy principles are not going to change," said Gary Davis, Apple's global director of privacy. "They are fundamental privacy principles that are needed to make this work."

[1] https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/04/24/apple-google-in-a...
Good that you did that! But for most locations that is not done. See the last NRW elections where it was later discovered that votes of the voldemord party have been zeroed in many locations. Or the endless stories of tampered mail votes.

I'm not against paper voting at all, just saying that they aren't automatic tamper proof.
In British English, "The waiter will be with you momentarily" means the waiter will be with you and then leave very quickly afterwards.
"I'd rather be a hypocrite than be the same person forever." That was my favorite anecdote in the movie and probably the moral of their story. A powerful message that I hope more people pick up.
It's still quite lame to try and get the article deleted based on that. Libertarian socialism is an ideology which exists and is noteworthy enough to get an encyclopedia article, whether or not the name is self-contradictory.
Cars can go a lot faster than a bicycle (assuming safety is a concern, there is a reason I don't have a motorcycle - which isn't to say cars are safe) thus per unit time you can get more distance in a car. Which is back to my point: you are throwing away the point of the city with that argument. I realize parking takes more space, but it will be ages before the city rebuilds to the new reality and until then it isn't functioning like it should.
The scale is so big fo me it's not possible to actually comprehend it. The distance to the nearest star is so vast I can't get a grip on it mentally. just one lightyear is unimaginably huge.

So I can only think about interstellar and intergalactic distances relative to this measure, which itself I can't comprehend.
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"The FlatSat CTF Event occurs with FlatSat hardware and a virtual/simulated space environment."

For the uninitiated: when an operator builds a satellite they usually build at least 3 or 4 of the same bird for every one they launch. This includes the initial "FlatSat" which is a fully working prototype but built onto a flat proto-board rather than the launched form factor, this makes troubleshooting easier in the initial stages. Later on these development prototypes can also be used to troubleshoot problems that occur in space.

So somewhere there is an Air Force warehouse packed to the gills with all the development and flat-sats that were never intended to fly. Although obviously they would never use real hardware on an event like this for a number of reasons, if they did it would only be for old hardware that's been retired. But still an interesting idea.
Systems tend towards low-energy states (because small perturbations keep things from getting stuck at local minima or saddle points. The lowest potential energy configuration for a bunch of particles pulled together by gravity is a sphere, because every point is as close to to the middle as possible.
Single sentence utterances like this are rare. In context this distinction doesn't actually provide non-redundant information. So calling this "quite useful" is a bit of a stretch.