skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fact that US still have to break down so much into racial cohorts in polls is weird. And offer nothing of value other than the generalizations like "who tend to be poorer" that doesn't help the discussion nor analysis. What do you do with this information in this context?

How about breaking down by religion or something else that at least points to what kind of media/message the group is more exposed to? or something that hints at extraneous interests, like homeowners or not. There are so much better ways to break down this data.
I saw the 1970s. We had 14% inflation. That came from somewhere.
The course is CMU’s 38-801 (evidence based teaching in STEM). I don’t think there is a course website, but CMU’s course design page has a pretty good overview of the material covered [0]. It was a cool project-based course that covered a lot of different teaching methods (including active learning), assessment and feedback, and course design. A lot of this was motivated by primary teaching and learning literature. We also read through this book [1], which I found pretty interesting.

The learning principles in the summary you linked are also major themes we covered in the course, but I think the emphasis is a bit different because the 38-801 audience is primarily future educators (who are of course also lifelong learners)

0: https://www.cmu.edu/teaching/designteach/index.html
1: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3557656/
Just to build on Catalin's answer. We are actively working on an implementation of QUIC's transport layer (i.e. packet encryption and decryption), along with a proof of cryptographic security. This is what Catalin linked to (https://github.com/project-everest/everquic-crypto). EverQuic-Crypto builds upon two previous projects: EverParse, a library of verified low-level parsers and serializers which we apply to the QUIC network formats, and EverCrypt, a cryptographic provider with agility and multiplexing, which we use for all the cryptography, e.g. packet number encryption, AEAD, etc.

This is not yet a full QUIC implementation, but we have plans for extending this codebase to cover more of the QUIC protocol.
For Alfred powerpack users, there is a workflow for this. I use it all the time :)

https://github.com/surrealroad/alfred-reminders
It's indeed a weird thing. It should have been an easy addition to the standard library. But instead people either pass around pointer/length pairs all the time - or even worse: They rely on null-terminated strings / arrays.

I had discussions with people who claimed that null terminated strings are the only idiomatic thing to do in C - because that is how C does strings. They assumed that since the standard library only provided methods which acted on those kinds of strings it was a preferred way to do things. Even though that is a lot less efficient than the string/array types that other languages use as defaults.
Does anyone else find the headline really weird? Having "17%" next to "hundreds more" makes the "hundreds more" look like the important figure, whereas in actuality the "17%" is really the important figure.
Ask HN: Why do you think GitHub has been down so much lately?
GitHub has been down a lot lately. A look at https://www.githubstatus.com/ shows a worrying pattern of unreliability. Anyone here with insight into why this is, or want to wager a guess as to what might be going on?
Thanks for the reply. I tested with my wife's phone. It fit pretty well so I went for the iPhone 11. It came yesterday and I love it, not the least because I can type easier.
I just exposed myself to radiation from the largest fusion reactor in the solar system! Should I panic?

....errr....

Wait.

I have just been slipped a note that the first sentence I wrote means "I just went for a walk in sunshine."
I'm not sure I totally understand what you're trying to communicate but I didn't say we need to invent gender neutral terms for every German word. I said formal German is moving away from describing people using words that only exist as either masculine or feminine. So depending on where you sample your data it's not unusual to encounter these speech patterns. (Of course, if an ML algorithm can pick that up is a different question.)

And (this is an opinion now) I don't think that's "disgusting". Agreed, it's kinda clunky to always mention both variants but stereotypes are subtle and this is one thing we can do that's not too invasive. Of course this isn't an ideal solution either because gender non-conformity exists and the German language has no good way of addressing a lot of that. (But there are deeper cultural problems there.)

Also, I'm not sure what you mean with "Krankenbruder" but it sounds like something from /r/ich_iel.
Ok, excuse me for just complaining, but this study setup seems... bad.

That is, I believe the prior indication was fairly low to null that antiviral drugs would significantly help the treatment of a severe respiratory infection -- in the first place. You don't give someone Tamiflu when they have a sufficiently severe flu pneumonia and fever to be hospitalized, do you?

Antivirals are usually indicated for treatment when an infection is still in its early, mild, pre-hospitalization stages. I understand that it's easier to recruit study subjects with severe COVID-19 than mild at this stage, but still, doesn't this study amount to looking for one's keys under the lamp-post because it's brighter there?
What is interference?

A bit of history. Several years ago, as part of an internal project, we tried to create a data analysis service that meets the following minimum requirements:

- as simple as possible integration with an existing java application
- support for persistent data storage
- indices support
- support for a distributed database and distributed operations, such as the ability to insert or modify data in a database from any of the available nodes
- the easiest cluster deployment
- transaction support
- basic SQL support with complex event processing and stream SQL support

One of the outcomes of this development was an open source product branch called interference. What can this service do?

Easy integration with java application. You include the library and then simply manage all the interference functions from within the java application using session methods, JPA annotations, queries and direct access to table objects.
Interference is a distributed service. This means that this service can be used within a distributed cluster, or you can build a distributed event-driven application based solely on this service, without any additional services like coordinators and so on.

Now, we suggest you use interference as a distributed platform when developing data analysis applications.

Interference is not an RDBMS in the usual sense. You do not use JDBC or anything like that to access the data. Instead, direct object-relational mapping is used that works directly with persistent storage and remote event transport mechanisms.

In the next time, we plan to publish an article with a detailed review of the service architecture and performance metrics.

Now, read the documentation for a detailed understanding. We are always happy to answer your questions.
Before going full microservices, try writing your code in a hyper modularized way and see if this doesn’t solve your problem first.
I really don't think Waymo needs Lyft or Uber to dominate the ride hailing market in the future.

If they can make a better self-driving car than anyone else, they will win the ride-hailing market. People have no loyalty to Lyft or Uber. They will use whatever is the cheapest/most convenient.
As someone who had issues with this before, can second this is the best advice. As well as running it by someone else to see if they're picking up on the narrative you're trying to convey.
This sounds like an argument for "anything that makes it easier for police to find people is bad", which I think is a pretty extreme position.
The left politicians I’m referring to have their hands completely tied by the centrist majority who won’t act on this, and people who profit from high rent turn around, point to the lack of political action they caused, and say it means the politically blocked proposed solutions are “unviable”.

Also you’re just incorrect about rent control. SF has it in a tiny fraction of apartments. Of course rents elsewhere are skyrocketing.
It's like the Chapter 7 vs Chapter 11 for our friends in the US.
Travel has certainly been a great deal affected, but the 737 Max was a pretty massive disaster in an of itself.

With the coronavirus this is a huge 1-2 blow to Boeing.

I wonder how much of their go forward business will be military contracts, as the their civilian aviation business seems to be dead for the next 3-5 years.

They can get the 737 Max recertified to fly, but I think the damage to the reputation is done, so they probably will need to release a brand new plane to be competitive. Not sure on the design to production timeline for an airplane, but that's where I assumed 3-5 years.
That report on what Fauci said is a bit garbled. The NIH news release is here: https://www.niaid.nih.gov/news-events/nih-clinical-trial-sho...
Zero. If I can’t remember it well enough to google it, I don’t need to see it again.
Wise locks down $5.7M to scale its challenger bank designed for small
I'm sure the current economic situation plays a role in the decision to layoff.

But, i wonder, in general, if all these layoffs are to some degree something overdue that companies wanted to do anyways and are now just taking the opportunity to do it whilst still saving face.
> Boeing said it hopes to reach its job cut targets through voluntary means, including buyouts and early retirement offers. Employees who take the buyout will receive three months of health care and one week of pay for every year they have worked at Boeing, up to 26 years, the company told workers last week.

I don't have any reference here because I have worked only in europe or asia, but is this a good offer? I don't think its a very good offer. Why will someone take this?
Microsoft’s chief environmental officer on why we need a Planetary Computer
It's not a personal project, but for work. Basically to run our mobile backend (nginx, spring boot, mongodb, rabbitmq, etc), staging and production. And all that needs redundancy of course.

We manage them using Ansible.
Of course. Many large cities have been run exclusively by Democrats for decades and are notoriously corrupt, for example Chicago and Illinois more generally.

The facts that are denied will be those that run counter to the prevailing sacred cows of whatever movement it is. One that especially irks me on the Democratic side of the fence is denying that the minimum wage has a cost in jobs, despite near universal belief from economists that this is the case.
Yeah, you're right about the significance... but (just using the data they provided in the summary), it does look like a trend, which might be better fleshed out with more numbers. It does seem to at least demonstrate the safety of the drug, but I'm not sure if that was the point of this study.

This was the trial with patients with severe disease, so there is still a decent amount to be learned about potential for effects earlier in treatment. But there are other ongoing studies for earlier timepoints.

https://www.gilead.com/purpose/advancing-global-health/covid...

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04257656
Not OC but from my experience because you have some nested DIVs and spans and some other node elements for each data item when you first load your data you get a big hang/freeze because the browsers are still slow at creating this elements, this is a browser issue I think, because most of the time you want to have a big list of similar items there should not be such a giant work of creating and computing similar DOM elements but I assume because of how complex css engine is you get this giant freeze.
What if there are 10 independent studies, all showing positive, but not statistically significant effect?
I think that falls under the saying: "Integrity is how you behave when you think nobody is looking".
I've got a friend who now works from home. Took them all of 3 days to set up. And yet they want her back in the office as soon as possible. Mind boggling to be honest. She's saving so much time and money not commuting and still does the same amount of work.

She says she doesn't like it though, the office environment is better. So there's that.
Monolith vs microservice feels like a higher level case of the expression problem.
Show HN: Publish API endpoints in seconds (PoC)
Hi HN! I'm Elias, here to present Camarere (PROOF OF CONCEPT):

A proxy server + python package combo to publish API endpoints in very few lines of code:

(CLI) $ pip install camarere

(python)

# Import the camarere client

from camarere import Cmrr

# Instantiate the client to authenticate

cmrr = Cmrr('https://cmrr.es')

#> Using temporary user_id="pPh4nVeAu", token="zs5j9rKJR6bLT4bD6PU"

#> Head over to https://cmrr.es to create a permanent user.

# Create a new endpoint (your computer acts as the server)

cmrr.serve(lambda name='World': 'Hello ' + name, 'hello')

#>serving <lambda> at https://cmrr.es/call/pPh4nVeAu/hello?name=World

print('\nCall this from another notebook (anywhere in the world):\n',
"cmrr.call('hello', kwargs={'name': 'stranger'}, user_id='"+cmrr.user_id+"')")

----

I'm building this to scratch my own itch in two areas:

- Prototype web app backends faster

- Quickly distribute compute in cases with complicated dependencies

If this interests you, please visit https://github.com/e-neuman/camarere or register your email at https://cmrr.es and I’ll select the first group for a closed beta.

As always, all feedback is welcome!
>The author of this post has rediscovered some fundamental ideas in optimization just by tinkering around! Neat!

I checked the guy’s LinkedIn, he has 5 years of econometrics and data science education. I am honestly perplexed how anything in this article could come off as new to someone with such background.
This sounds exactly like what tamiflu does, if you have the flu, get it prescribed early, your duration of having the flu goes from a week+ to 4-5 days. With that scenario being: taking the drug(tamiflu) very early. It is my suspicion that the earlier Remdesivir is taken the better the outcome. These patients are all somewhat late in the disease progression. So not surprised to see these results although the time to improve is a nice bonus.
I see that Insomnia Designer supports Graph QL. Are there any templates or tutorials for building something simple using GraphQL?
Statistical significance is not a bright-line test. The p value reported is the probability that the observed effects occur if there are actually no effects. Notably, p is always greater than zero.

In general, when less data is available, larger p values are considered more interesting, while when more data is available, p must be smaller to be interesting. In particle physics, p < 0.001 means almost nothing. In the particular quoted line, p = 0.07ish which is above the human-defined, conventional threshold of 0.05 but in this case there are almost no other useful data and so the phenomenon is interesting.
On my xubuntu laptop, I observe the opposite. Firefox leaks memory until I need to restart it, several times a day. However, Chrome reliably releases memory, and I never need to restart it.
Actually in a cynical sense this may actually be good for Boeing (not in absolute terms, but in terms of market share). A downturn in the industry gives them more time to get a replacement ready before orders start picking up. The size of the market void into which Airbus could have jumped with extra A320 orders has shunk, basically.
No Trump Social AI
> it does provide no evidence for the specific hypothesis

It does provide some evidence: we are more likely to see this result in a world where the hypothesis is true than a world where it is false.
Going off the links at the top, it's Genbank[1] or FASTA[2] (although the stuff on the FASTA version doesn't really match the example on the FASTA explanation.)

[1] http://scikit-bio.org/docs/0.5.2/generated/skbio.io.format.g...

[2] https://zhanglab.ccmb.med.umich.edu/FASTA/
Not in the early 1980s at least. You're put in a school year based on birthday, the school year starting in September. You then started at school on your 5th birthday.

It may be different nowadays; it would make way more sense to have everyone start in September. I live in The Netherlands and here kids start as soon as they turn 4. They then spend two-three years in the young kids class depending on maturity.
Sorry, I don't know how to best ELI5 the problem space as well as I probably should.

SHA256(x) is a hash function that transforms some string x (of any length) into a fixed size output.

SHA256(x) is deterministic. Every x maps to one 256-bit output.

SHA256(predictable junk) is going to look random, but will actually be predictable. This becomes security theater.
I assumed it was important as a power game thing (if you care about my business so much come out here and stand in front of me). When this is all over the people who say "why do you need to fly me out there, we teleconferenced for 2 months" will get slowly written out of the e-mail chains.
Some quite knowledgeable people in the field of BSD networking, including Henning Brauer, maintainer of OpenBSD's PF, have little love for instruction given on site you are linking to:

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=130105013025396&w=2
It's an elitist mirror to 4chan's edgelord culture in many ways.
This is great. I'm a huge fan of Insomnia for testing APIs and I've been looking for a good tool to help with the design aspect.
There's still a huge difference between meeting people in the halls at conferences or working with them during a seminar-visit and looking at video-conference screens.
Managing the engine is not the most important part of flying, especially for ultralight aircraft. And in fact, the best pilots tend to be also experienced glider pilots.

Also, one specificity of ultralight flying, or at least the way I was taught, is to not trust the engine, no matter how reliable it is supposed to be. One aspect is to make the final approach unpowered. Of course, the engine is still running, but ideally, you should pull the throttle all the way back and leave it here, as if the engine had failed. This is in contrast to the 3° slope commonly taught in general aviation.

Of course, a pilot who only flew on an electric plane needs some time with a flight instructor in order to learn the quirks of gas engines, but that should be quick compared to the time it takes to actually learn how to fly.
That is a gross oversimplification. They are a huge multinational, even if they had saved their entire net income of over a billion euros it would not have been enough.
You type all this with what I'm sure is meant to be a sarcastic tone but the reality is that all human beings are merely vehicles of economic value as far as the economy and government are concerned.

Perhaps next time your parents and their friends told you that they wished you'd call or write more you could respond with something other than "OK Boomer."
Thanks for sharing your experience with GitLab and the point you made about hosting your own runners.

Gitlab allows developers to iterate faster, with smaller code changes and the integrated approach allows developers to compress the cycle times. GitLab being open source allows everyone to make a contribution to the project.
I completely agree with you, but... How about don't vote in leaders that only care about helping out their rich buddies then?

The Scandinavian countries have moved to pay all payrolls to keep people paid during all this madness, instead of just bailing out large debt holders.
Never mind that several smaller airlines of national importance went bankrupt in recent years because of EU regulation against state aid. Now that the big ones need it, the regulation is out the window.
Because it, in ideal terms, is how much it costs to buy the company outright?
man... again with this project? this is a many-re-submit with astroturfed discussion created by the author
How to deploy AWS Lambda applications with ease
If you're a renter you live in a home that a landlord built or paid someone else to build. And if people stop paying rent then they stop paying people to build. Construction workers lose their jobs and our housing problems are made worse.

And don't have any illusions about the rich losing here. Most units are owned by small time landlords who will be wiped out by a rent freeze. Those units will be gobbled up on the cheap by rich people that can borrow money at cheap rates.
Lisp Based Distributed Knowledge Graph Platform
I've noticed the same thing but haven't been able to come up with a solution that isn't just saying "stop being such absolute jackasses when it comes to communication, schools" (and then having them actually do that) or yet another communication channel that may or may not take off enough to make me some money but, however well-functioning and well-intended, won't actually solve the problem, instead adding to it by creating one more way for schools to disjointedly spam parents.
Amazon does SOA with 1 service <--> 3 to 10 engineers.

This is much bigger than the typical microservices, and by choice.
lol. Yeah. I have spent a lot of time on other apps. I used to teach Photoshop and Illustrator at the local college. However the complexity of using those apps just felt like a lot. Moreso as I taught students how to make flyers and even simple websites, struggling with tools that would have been easier to use in MS Word. A huge part of the class was teaching the principles of design, which would have been easier had certain tools not been in the way so often. I did encourage my students to try out other software to see if they liked it better.

These days I really like the simplicity of LO Draw, for example. Any time I need a new map for a campaign, it's really easy to just add a new page to the main document. And there are zero licensing issues to track along with the many others I already track. Plus the principles of design work the same, so with this "one simple trick" (25+ years of illustration and design experience) I can get superior graphics quality results with the same tools that others think are not so great.

There's some nostalgia in there too; I used StarOffice from the moment I heard it was free. Back in the '90s that was kind of a big deal to a poor university student.
Ryanair isn't 'doing fine', it's trying to force customers to accept vouchers instead of the cash refunds it is legally obliged to provide.

And the idea that Google and Facebook could do a good job of maintaining the profitability of an airline whilst being obliged to pay the capital costs of aircraft it's banned from flying is the epitome of Silicon Valley arrogance.
Let's be honest, Google and Facebook haven't even adapted their core competency of connecting people digitally well to this crisis - otherwise there's no way people would be grudgingly using Zoom instead...
I guess, if they started paying now. But the (high) taxes have been collected for so long the state has some considerable savings by now...
Acquisitions by large tech companies could [0] be put on hold for now. Even if it's not, there could be a stronger push by antitrust.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/28/warren-ocasio-cortez-pande...
They are also seeing record traffic so they might be doing alright. We'll find out when they report earnings later today.
If you reduce a matrix to its Cholesky decomposition you can save about half the space because you only need to store the diagonal and lower triangle. IIRC the gradients are also relatively tame for Cholesky-matrices vs their full counterparts.