skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn’t ignore your personal aspirations and go back to the 9-5. We only get one life. Live it how you want, for yourself. Sometimes that means doing scary things or things others don’t want you to do.

Financial freedom is a mindset and an approach to money where you always have more than you need. The way you achieve that is to spend less than you earn. Someone can be financially free working at a café.

I would radically reduce your spending to what is actually needed, to reduce pressure from quitting your job. Forget about being rich from quitting your 9-5 and realize you can be happier with less money. You can be happy without new clothes, a car, Netflix subscriptions, eating out, video games, etc.

If you want to freelance, my most effective strategy to acquire clients was to email startups looking for full time engineers and offer to do contract work for slightly lower rates on my own terms. Worked especially well for startups that had listings open for more than a few months. Most startups can’t afford decent engineers, so take advantage. That’s what I would do without a network.

If you have the skills you can find clients. Research freelancing. Be proactive. Take action. You will see results.

If you need any help or want to talk email me, it’s in my profile.
Finally some reputable competition for Zoom. Will definitely be using these to host my weekly book club discussion meetings once it launches.

If only it was end to end encrypted...
Imagine how naive our immune systems would become. It could have unpredictable effects, like increasing the rate of novel zoonotic disease transmissions.

Maybe something like this is what set the stage for the common cold wiping out the aliens in War of the Worlds.
Either the webpage is incorrect or uses a non-obvious formula to calculate inclusive costs (Data Retrieval, Data scanned, API charges along with Data storage)?

Re: Storage: Deep Archive's ~$0.001 per GiB whilst IA buckets are ~$0.01; a 10x difference.

API charges for data retrieval from Deep Archive is 100x (?) (~$0.1004 per thousand reqs) expensive than IA buckets ($0.001).

Data retrieval for Deep Archive is 2x ($0.02 per GiB) the cost of IA ($0.01).

https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/
American Empire’s ‘Doctor Death’
My Palo Alto firewall reports:

Web Page Blocked

Access to the web page you were trying to visit has been blocked in accordance with company policy. Please contact your system administrator if you believe this is in error.

URL: helpmedecideplease.com/

Category: gambling
It's critical? Don't use hobbyist software for that then. Take Debian or CentOS or something else with a non-cavalier development culture.
The first number is so laughably far away from reality. Do you have any idea how many hours a week you would have to work to make $60k at $15/hr? Does the average warehouse worker make double the starting rate or work 70 hour weeks?

As someone who works in the industry I do agree however that they do an okay job taking care of their people compared to others. But nobody is going to write an article about how shit it is to work at a warehouse owned by a company no one has ever heard of. Amazon has actually done a lot for people at those places too though, if there is an amazon warehouse nearby starting at $15 an hour nobody is going to come work for you for barely above minimum wage anymore, it has definitely put some out competitive wage pressure.
Open Floor Plan Could Help Spread Coronavirus
I think Pop_Os is becoming the next Ubuntu. It's already captured a huge percentage of the gaming community. If you read r/linux_gaming a huge amount seem to be using it.
I ordered a few back in the day - the sleeve design was really nicely done.
What do you want to learn? How to pass interviews, or actual fundamentals? For that matter, fundamentals of what?
Those authors may have been first, but I seriously doubt they were a significant influence on the term's popularity. If there's one thing I've learned from reading a lot of CS papers, it's that pretty much any word you pick out of a hat has been used as an acronym by somebody.

The paper you link to doesn't use "shard" as a noun, and in fact it doesn't describe a system that has "shards" in the sense that UO and just about everyone else since then has understood that term, i.e. independent partitions of a dataset:

> The reader is referred to [SBK] for a detailed description of the architecture of the SHARD system. Briefly, the main ideas are as follows. The network consists of a collection of nodes, each of which has a copy of the complete database.

(emphasis mine)

Additionally, according to Google Scholar, that paper was only ever cited 21 times. I checked the 16 of those citations for which full-text is available, and not a single one of them used the word "shard" as anything other than a passing reference to the name of the system itself.
A regular ELISA/immunoassay is: surface->Ab->protein<-Ab+signal. In school these are taught as "sandwich-assays". Basically you have one antibody to bind your molecule of interest to your substrate, and then another second which binds the bound molecule... which has been bound to the surface. This second antibody is decorated with an enzyme which will do something fancy (color-change) or a fluorescent protein to light-up if we shoot it with a laser. SPR is a label-free approach which results in an optical response in real-time as molecules associate with the SPR sensor. Detection is then a function of how long you need to let things bind to the sensor before your ability to detect the signal optically.

Sounds like your undergrad kid has been paying attention in class...
I have plenty of meaning. I’d just like some actual freedom.
But then...

> Did xtraeme resign or was he banned?

> Timing is everything. The ticket which expressed xtraeme’s desire to resign was opened first, then over the next hour he lashed out at several project members. The resignation was processed per his wishes, and per his conduct torwards others a ban was applied at the organization level.

That's not a "yes, he resigned." That's dodgy political talk.
Warning: Facebook

(Had it said that in the title of the post, I'd have skipped this story.)
I didn't get even that far with VS Code snap.

I realize I have to soon upgrade from Ubuntu 16.04, so a while ago I installed 19.10 to see what to roughly expect from 20.04, as there are quite a few changes. Trying things out, I installed VS Code from the Ubuntu Store; I was quite disappointed to see things going south right on the Welcome page, as the snap version of vscode couldn't even open a web browser (instead, Firefox promptly crashed every time).

Of course, being able to open a web browser from VS Code isn't a necessity, but for some reason for me it just seemed like the install was rather broken by default, and surely almost no one could have used it much not to notice a simple thing like that right away – and the thought that even if the problem was noticed and simply shrugged at didn't really make me want to see what else did not work.
They should just go ahead and do it regardless, like the various Trek fan groups have done. If they aren't going to re-hash the same jokes, they could make an unrelated game that doesn't use any CastleRock assets, then leak an "illegal texture pack" that swaps around names to convert the game into the real deal.
Hasn't that always been everyone's argument? That's the crux of Pueyo's "dance" [1], that as long as you've contained the initial outbreak, you can pretty much go back to normal if you track movement and have the capacity to test everyone who comes in contact with an infected person.

[1]: https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-learning-how-to-d...
I honestly don't understand anything that was in this article. Continuous delivery is directly applicable to agile. They are complimentary, but not even really related. From my point of view, the essence of agile development is just continuous improvement. The notion of user stories is a proxy to delivering a small unit of user value from idea to tested and deployed as quickly as possible without having to worry about future requirements.
Test complexity (sample prep, test workflow) is a real challenge to achieving testing scales at orders of magnitude above what is presently available.

We should hopefully have boring old ELISA antigen tests shortly, thanks to Abbott and many of the other folks we've all heard from. The real challenge is scaling testing beyond what can be reasonably implemented from central lab facilities.
Packaging and maintaining microk8s is a significant effort to do with apt. You are asking if someone managed to do all the work to package microk8s and keep managing it as a deb package.
Elon Musk's Starlink Satellite Internet Service Might Be Available in November
Of course not, it's a novel virus, with novel transmission characteristics, there is no evidence for any of the interventions against it until someone tries them, and even then the evidence is usually inconclusive. Such is life.
If my primary monitor is to the right of my secondary monitor, do applications open on the primary monitor or the 'left' monitor? Also, do applications remember which monitor they were last opened on?
We like doing pizzas on our grill, which can get to 500F+ easy enough. A cheap pizza stone works really well on there and has a bonus of not heating up the house in the summer.
HN does show base url fb.com in the title.
Anecdotal: In the city where I live, my family hasn't been able to buy flour for the past 4 weeks. It's always out of stock. I hear from clerks that they get it occasionally but it sells out in under an hour. My closest grocery store also allots the first hour after they open to seniors and others who are vulnerable and most of the time, the flour is gone during this hour.

Since we export so much grain every year, I'm amazed that there's such a massive shortage of flour. I don't know if it's the shortage of grains or mills.
Per this document it appears that (frequent) Delta second stage explosions were one of the most significant contributors. By 1981 27% of all tracked debris (of orbital period under 225 minutes) were from Delta second stage explosions. (I'm guessing these are considered high velocity debris). It's quite interesting that NASA was surprised by this (asking McDonnell-Douglas to find out why in May of 1981) considering how long they had been launching the Delta rockets and tracking debris. From the document, NASA officials continually approved work to track orbital debris, but often didn't give the reports administrative attention.
This looks a lot like the xyproblem[1] which I have fallen prey to many times. You start out by thinking about something - highways in your case - then you formulate a model, which might turn out to work or might not. But then you make the mistake of asking about your own formulation of the problem rather than the original problem. From my own experience, even if your formulation turns out to be right, asking about the original context will usually result in higher quality answers.

[1]: http://xyproblem.info/
With the cloud, I have learn about computers and I have to learn about AWS/GCP/Azure's version of computers. The cognitive overload just barely equals not having to maintain my own boxes.

Pick you poison, maintain your own boxes or maintain your own YAML files and spend a lot of time trying to figure out billing.
This is fucking buzzfeed
Here’s my output for trying to figure out what I am going to do for dinner:

1. pizza: 54
2. beer: 54
3. italian: 45
4. home cooked food: 44
5. thai: 42
6. mexican: 34

It’s fair to say the quality of the decisions this tool will enable is bounded by the ability of the user to make good decisions :-)
What if you're trying to fit a large amount of data into the smallest physical form factor possible?

What if you have data you want to write once and then store for an extended period?

What if you're just on an ultra low budget?
It'd also be nice if after submitting for one and selecting enter that it autofocuses on the input for the next question so you can start typing without clicking on it.
I'm spreading misinformation by saying deaths per week won't tell us what stage of the pandemic we're in?

> Number of deaths DO matter in relation to: 1. Human suffering (perhaps the most important metric) 2. Learning how we prevent further deaths (calculating hospital and materials dissemination needs)

Did I ever suggest otherwise? Literally all I said about "number of deaths" was that it does not tell us how close we are to the pandemic being over. You just brought up a bunch of other stuff to feel good about yourself.

I really did think you people were smarter though. Apparently you haven't even learned how to read something before you reply to it.

> If you believe enough information is known about herd-immunity in relation to Corona, you are dangerously misinformed.

Again, I never said anything about this. Please learn how to read. I'm not claiming to know how we reach the level of "herd immunity" we need to get out of this. I just said "herd immunity" or a vaccine would be the solution here. Am I wrong about that? Jesus fucking christ, the only thing HN does better than Reddit is self-righteousness and smug asshats.
This is an extremely weird argument to get into.
What I Have Come to Believe
Wow, a considerably smaller radius than the race that runs around one city block over 5,000 times:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Transcendence_3100_Mile_R...
Rick Rhodes could really build ‘em!
What I understand is that's how it worked everywhere. Lots of small mills that took a cut as payment.

Friend of mine mentioned a while back one of his 12 year old nieces in India getting bread. Started with measuring out a wheat into a bucket. Then going down the street to a place that ground it into flour. Then to a place that turned that into dough. A place next door that beat it into shape. Finally to the baker. Each place took a bit as payment.

This isn't like way back when, it was a couple of years ago.

BTW: There is a working gristmill in St Helena, closed till further notice of course. I think they run it a couple of times a year.

https://napaoutdoors.org/parks/bale-grist-mill-state-histori...
> A dentist gets to try on fake tooth before drilling a real tooth.

Are you saying you went straight to writing production code before you ever studied any software engineering? Sounds unusual for practitioners of an industry endowed with such a critical responsibility.

A dentist can easily kill someone through malpractice... There's no code review, there's no test environment, and there are always difficult (often time-sensitive) decisions to make and difficult people to deal with.

If all you know is estimating story points and merging pull requests to make your burn-down chart look pretty you probably shouldn't be so confident that your profession is more difficult or more superior than one that you have no understanding of.
The graphs on this page shows the situation for NY. It is clear that the risk can't be compared with 2009's H1N1. It's sobering. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/10/upshot/corona...

We need to give the scientists and medical professionals and industry more time to figure out how best to prevent this. There are many reports of 40-50 day illnesses in young people due to not clearing the virus.
And the poorly named 'mild' case can be rough. It's (badly imo) defined as when a patient doesn't require hospital. It should be called moderate I think. [1]

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/what-coronavirus-mild-sympto...
To Be a Patriot: A Statement from Epik
I may have missed this, but how physically is this test done?

Is it “spit in a tube” or “swab the back of the throat”?
I'd be really surprised if these were real- '401(k), health, vision, and dental benefits'. Anyone can offer 401k without matching, medical without contributing to the premium.
1. Snaps provide granular confinement to the applications.
Is there a network tool CLI that happens not to read/write local files? You can forbid access to the filesystem, forbid access to the X server and all other resources.

2. Is the whole packaging a pain? Just do the work once and create the snapcraft.yaml packaging file that describes the whole process. You can even use the snap build server to rebuild fresh snap packages (in six architectures) as soon as you make a commit to your repository.

3. Are you a software company that wants to distribute your software? You can do all the snap building in-house.

4. The same snap works in many many distributions.
Tesla escalates battle over alleged theft of robocar secrets
Showdown looms between Silicon Valley, U.S. states over contact tracing apps
China had dispatched detachments of specialists to evaluate the unknown disease in mid December. They knew they were facing a new coronavirus ala SARS end of December and started closing Wuhan then other provinces in January. Not the chill lockdown like Europe, real lockdown where they close all transports, scan all citizens at checkpoints and have the police beatup people going out without masks.

Napping is not the word for that.
Personally prefer both NY style and deep dish over Neapolitan. Neapolitans are beautiful and have good flavors, but I think the floppy structure is much worse.
These specific satellites have no security. They just retransmit any signal that comes at them. Makes me wonder who else is using them...
A Pickpocket's Tale: The spectacular thefts of Apollo Robbins (2013)
I'm not the person you're replying to, but my answer would be "stay curious, and don't be afraid to follow that curiosity down a lot of rabbit holes".
no.

I also know that they donate (or at least donated before now) hosting service to lobste.rs

I found them just by searching through like anybody else would.

I had never seen their ads.

are you affiliated with any of their competitors?
A stock installation of Ubuntu 20.04 only has very few snaps. I think the only important one is the Snap Store/Ubuntu Software. If you can put up with the Snap Store, you can avoid (if you really want that) installing further snap packages.
Peep Show is criminally underrated in the US
Part of the reason that DevOps culture became a professional movement was to treat both as an end-to-end problem.

Which stops misunderstandings like throwing the code to “Ops” and expecting the VMware admin to understand how an app behaves.

User response time is a fairly simple metric to measure if you’re a developer. They should expose that, and other metrics, that the customer values.

This is one of the reason I’ve enjoyed some “true” agile teams with a strong product owner: they encourage an end-to-end focus on outcomes.
The static_cast vs. reinterpret_cast is also executable documentation for your readers. Sounds like you have a strong handle on this, and it's a free opportunity to make your future maintainers' lives a little bit easier.
I remember someone asking Jerry what he thought of the "modern seinfeld" twitter account and his response was a really dismissive "eh not a fan". Id totally play it but I have trouble seeing it ever being approved.
You are comparing

- Case A: Donald Trump runs his companies starting at year X and meanwhile leads a lavish lifestyle, ending up with N1 dollars.

- Case B: Donald Trump puts all his money in index funds and spends nothing, ending up with N2 dollars.

As far as I can tell, you are saying N2 > N1, therefore he would have been better off investing in index funds. But you are comparing apples to oranges if you have different spending habits between the cases. It could be that running his private plane or plating things in gold or whatever would have drained his index fund investment totally.
I'm not familiar with the acronym PSM. Can you expand?

Are you familiar with the work of Dr. Chui at UCSF? His group has done some really cool work using mNGS to detect/diagnose emerging/rare infections in critically-ill patients with refractory encephalopathy
Buzzfeed News has some very high quality journalism. Separate division from their entertainment division, I wouldn’t dismiss this out of hand.
That actually does sound a lot like the situation with speeding on freeways, at least in flyover country.
We've been having this argument for several years and there is more trolling than ever. In past email conversation i've given you examples of people organizing on 8chan to target threads here. You always end up saying you need more convincing examples. Fine, if you want to wallow in toxicity at source go look at kiwifarms.net or /tech/ forums on imageboards for examples of both targeting HN stories directly and general discussions of waging cultural warfare in the social space around technology.

I think your fire analogy is off. An occasional conflagration in a highly-populated city doesn't do anything to promote the quality of the environment. Quite the opposite.

Since I made an explicit analogy to a forest, rewriting it to be about something else kind of makes my point for me.
Oh I agree! If we assume the proto-zagrosian hypothesis is true and then assume that the munda language family existed in India along with the later dravidian languages or maybe even prior to that - there is no reason to believe that these account for all languages spoken in India around 8000BCE - 4000BCE.

Afaik, it’s still very possible that entire language families that were even older have now gone extinct.

My point was to show how old 4,500BCE was. As you point out, that alone doesn’t rule out a city at Varanasi around 4500BCE.
Sure, its not for everyone. To each their own.
ELISA tests don’t need to be done at central lab facilities; there are plenty of machines on the market with varying levels of automation (and many already in hospitals, even in ones that aren’t particularly outstanding). I’m curious what barrier to scaling those with COVID (either by making more of these machines, or repurposing other test capacity) you’ve identified that makes bringing a totally new machine to market more attractive, from a scaling perspective.
I would think if 'login' was simple enough to write as a single story then that login feature would be next to useless.

The task of login is more about security, access control, authorization and tracking, not just giving the user access to a web landing page.

That level of complexity makes it a project in itself.
I'm the one who brought up the EU. The purpose was as a size comparison. Look at the differences
in covid "stage" between different EU states - that difference is primarily a function of geography - the time it takes for the virus to spread is about the same as the time it takes to isolate and suppress it.

Now consider that the US is substantially larger and more sparsely populated. That alone ensures that it doesn't make any more sense to say "US is at stage 1" than it does to say "EU is at stage one", because that fails to capture the range of different stages in different geographic regions (countries/states). That doesn't even begin to capture policy differences.

That was the sole reason I brought it up. Nothing defensive anywhere.
Exactly. They will never face their deserved punishment. Imagine if another country that was a supposed ally did this...