skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was just laid off so I can appreciate both sides. On one side I like to discuss tech-business topics, on the other I really feel like the crowd here is a little more callous than it should be. I don't have solutions, just offering an observation.
No. I'm a remote software developer and my wife is a mom. We optimized our life to be able to do this effectively and have complete freedom. Took a while to get to this point, but we're there and enjoying the rewards.
Thanks. I'd love some ELI5s on this.

My last gig had some newly minted CS graduates who proposed complimenting our monitoring with some anomaly detection.

Having done a bit of both data mining and optimization, a lifetime ago, I could kinda follow the big data and machine learning stuff the kids were doing.

Whereas anomaly detection and fault prediction seem magical to me.
He might be more concerned about the sales prospects instead of operational expenses. Automakers are getting hit really hard by this pandemic, and they need a healthy economy to sell cars.

Many economic forecasts are saying that a full recovery is 2-4 years away, although there are many different opinions.
I could put that blog together in a weekend.
Vitamin D isn’t even really a vitamin, if it were we wouldn’t be able to synthesize it. It’s actually a hormone.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I think I’m going to take my next call out on the porch.
I'll checkout histre.com
Company Cutting Vinyl like they did in 1960s
molytics sounds cool!

I thought about so many names ... checked the domains => taken :D
Based on what we've heard from Google yesterday, and FB's Q1 results just now, it looks like the much heralded ad crunch is turning into not much more than a speed bump.
Relevant: vitamin D may actually be a marker of sunlight/UV deficiency (and a deficiency of other beneficial light-produced artifacts):

https://www.outsideonline.com/2380751/sunscreen-sun-exposure...
I don't have anything against fastmail's calendar but I personally also regressed to a paper planner. I just find that I am more engaged with my planning this way, while the digital calendar sorta does its own thing and spits notifications at me for stuff I've forgotten about.

I still use digital for work since it's collaborative but my personal stuff is all inscribed on a dead tree, now.
I understand that's how lots of big companies operate, but I disagree that's how companies have to or should operate. The 80k thing isn't he notion that you'd get 80k success stories (you won't), but rather that if you had a .01% success rate, you'd still end up with 8 successful companies out of that, and the market is big enough for those 8 companies doing different things, making lots of money, and creating jobs/value. But more importantly, I feel like it would be better for us as societies.
Is there any text chat rooms planned or is this something that would have to be used in combination with another software?
I am sorry. Just like I am missing how someone would work on a farm without any expectation of return on their investment, I fail to see how "there is profit to be made", however you want to call it.

Also, with farming at least there is the notion of resource constraints. To be a farmer one needs to have access to land and dedicate some time to actually work on it.

With storage, unless the hard disk manufacturers start holding their production and use it to offer storage directly, what is the resource that other people can't have?

What would stop anyone to see that Filecoin network bids of (say) $1/TB-month and think "oh, I can buy some disks and offer $0.95/TB-month, and I will get my money back in 3 months", only to be outbid by someone who thinks they can offer $0.90/TB-month and recoup costs in six-months", until we get to the point where the time to break-even gets longer than the lifetime of the disks...
Do you mean the landing page or the app? :)
If I can just offer one bit of feedback, if you just type any email and password in the "Sign in / Register" page, it just creates an account for you if it doesn't exist.

There's a ton of reasons you don't want that, and should probably have a separate "sign up" flow for email/password login. Here's a few:

1. It's not at all clear you can actually do that. One guy in the comments below thinks you can only sign up using Github/Gitlab/etc.

2. Many of us have multiple emails, what if I don't remember what email I used for your service? Every time I try the wrong one, it'll just create a separate account, and it'll take me a few minutes to realize this isn't my account, but I just created a new one.

3. No double "password confirmation". Some sites skip this step now, so I guess it's not required, but not having it is part of why people will think this isn't a sign up field.
> If you are constantly passing large amounts of data between the JS thread and the Native thread or constantly changing the layout (which passes data between the threads) you are doing it wrong.

I’m working on an alternative to React Native that does exactly this, and it works absolutely fine: React NativeScript.

In NativeScript (and thus also React NativeScript), the JS logic and the UI both execute on the UI thread. Furthermore, you can synchronously access any native API without needing to set up bridging code; bindings to the whole Obj-C/Java runtimes are ready-generated.

https://github.com/shirakaba/react-nativescript

https://react-nativescript.netlify.com/
I’m still confused about why this exists when you can install Ubuntu server and i3...
Or just hire a social media manager
I completely agree. I view this as a competitive advantage personally.

Like any skill, practice is the most important thing. Training helps, especially grammar & structure coaching. That said, tools can help:

- Hemmingway[0] has been useful to me. I often use it to revise things I write elsewhere.

- Grammarly [1] seems good, but I refuse to pipe everything I write to (another) cloud. If I could run it locally or get a private on-prem instance for my firm, that would be great.

- Microsoft's new AI Editor [2] seems promising.

[0] http://www.hemingwayapp.com/

[1] https://www.grammarly.com/

[2] https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-365-blog/in...
Well, they did use to call it Upper Volta with rockets
Could you elaborate on how giving life to a human being and dedicating the next 20 years of your own life (and the major part of your income) on bringing the child up is self-centered and repulsive? How on earth can you derive the parenting quality from the reason the child was conceived? What, in your opinion, is a non-repulsive way or reason to get a child? Until not that long ago, the overwhelming majority of children was born because their parents wanted to have sex, and quite possibly lots of it. Does this also disgust you?
I feel like this is a very expected finding. It would be more compelling to see the covid-19 severity among patients with and without VDI but matched by egfr or one of the many many other confounders. A lot of things are correlated with severity of metabolic disease that could be the thing that makes covid-19 severe in this population.
Thanks for the addition of the funding sources. Everything now makes perfect sense.
IFR for flu is less than 0.1% according to the CDC.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html
COVID thankfully is less likely to mutate than other types of viruses, so once COVID-19 is gone, it will most likely stay gone. However, gone here meaning world wide.

How much the world can safely open up businesses is directly correlated to testing. Eg, it's easy for schools to open up when they require testing every day for every student when they come in. On the other extreme, it's hard for schools to open up when there is no testing being done.

A second and even third wave is highly likely without proper testing. It will take longer for a vaccine to be created than we can shelter in place, unless we get very lucky.

The alternative is a country does not shelter in place, and it builds up herd immunity. A lot of people will die. It's not the ideal option.

At the end of the day it comes down to tests. The more we have the more the economy can open up.
Ask HN: What is the % of bots on social media now?
I've read about numbers from 10% up to 40, few years ago (then it was "a purge" on FB and Twitter). I wonder how ML helped it or make it harder to spread. Some of it are for nefarious purposes and I think the threat is being overlooked. I couldn't find recent data.
When leaving review comments our internal system is to use a blocking/non-blocking flag along with the classic three RFC keywords (MAY/SHOULD/MUST - often in bold) as two examples:

You MAY wish to improve readability here by binding these values to a local variable

We're using string building in this query with user input we MUST not allow any SQL injection routes.
Stock appears to be soaring after hours.
> The rentseekers were encouraged under successive Tory and New Labour governments with schemes such as 'buy to let'. Now they are the only truly protected sector of society. The rich get richer.

There's some truth to this, but I wouldn't say rentseekers are the only truly protected sector of society. My parents put their life savings into buying a block of flats in the 90s. They borrowed from every single person they knew and took out a mortgage against their own home and put most of their subsequent savings into paying off the mortgage sooner.

The last mortage payment is due end of this year and they were looking forward to leaving their full time jobs whilst maintaining their little property 'empire'.

So far this month they've had 3 tenants call asking for rent reductions, 1 totally unable to pay rent and another insisting on a 20% discount because their friend's landlords are offering the same.

Maintaining that block of 10 flats is no picnic. It means you're on call to unblock toilets on bank holidays or clean, paint, draft tenancy agreements and file paperwork on your evenings and weekends.

Of course - owning an appreciating asset means you're better off than someone who doesn't but you're not quite sitting pretty.
I now and then blog articles on http://johnbokma.com/blog/.
I also blog daily on https://plurrrr.com/ but it's mostly link dumping.
“Just like other coronaviruses”

There you go
I'm not sure that's sad. People should do the things they enjoy, including randomly browsing and chatting on an app.

People can spend time on gaming, TV, music, reading novel, sleep, rolling on the floor, watching K-Dramas... And that's fine. It's a misconception that humans need to optimize for productivity. Some people optimize for happiness instead (myself included), and there is nothing sad about that. In fact, I'm pretty happy :).
FWIW: I stopped this[1] recently on Wikipedia.

I'm sure someone could chase up more authoritative references.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immune_system#Vitamin_D
Most of the big sites were built by a couple of coders in a few weekends. Google was online a few months after the page rank paper was published. Twitter took a small team a couple of months for the initial release. Zuckerberg famously wrote facebook in a couple of weekends.

Most of the explosive growth of those companies was built on essentially weekend projects by a handful of coders, or even one person.

You absolutely can write a billion dollar app in a weekend. If you have the right idea at the right time, with the right connections.
The tug could be more like a powerbank. It would not physically pull the aircraft up but assist by providing power. The aircraft could launch on its own but it is advantageous to use a tug because this increases the range or energy reserves that the aircraft itself has.

(outline of a launch: aircraft and tug are connected by cable before launch, both lift-off, gain altitude, cable is detached, aircraft moves on and tug returns to launch site)
This is quite literally the case of it being better to be lucky than good!
"START THE GAME ALREADY!"

Oof. The Flood of memories was strong.
This is great, but I noticed that the output doesn't fully support OpenAPI 3.0.0, particularly the use of "oneOf" responses. I believe it's because you're calling out to swagger-ui and swagger-ui doesn't support these: https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-ui/issues/3803

A lot of APIs in the wild actually do utilize oneOf responses (e.g. for returning rich structured errors that have an enum and a human-readable description but which all share the same HTTP status code) -- I know at least at $DAYJOB this was a major deterrent from using OpenAPI.
Oof. Sorry to hear the FE dev gives up like that. You may become a JS expert if that carries on.

> the solutions seem to be super hacky when I've found other frameworks out there that handle these things out the box or more gracefully.

I'm curious to hear what alternative frameworks handled these things better? The only one I've used recently, other than React, is Vue.
Microsoft Q3 2020 Earnings Call Presentation [pdf]
Just wow. Hope your dictators benevolent.

Just as our legal system is adversarial, where two "teams" enter a court to at least attempt justice, it seems crucial to a successful political system that there be a dialectic between opposing views, hoping compromise benefits the whole.

Comments such as this, dismissing a huge portion of fellow citizens out of hand, without so much as recognizing that "they" might be trying to do what's best in their eyes is so far from a democratic ideal...
"So you want to argue Poland with 8.5% growth has higher living standards than Germany" - why would I want to argue that?

I mean I've said absolutely nothing about living standards and neither did you? Why not simply read what I've written instead of inventing arguments for me to make?

I've provided some basic numbers and references which directly contradict your claim that Germany benefitted most from the structures of the EU.

I give up. I tried to explain some reasons why you might be getting downvoted but it's been a waste of time.
Yep - it's easy to look back at all of the bad HN predictions from two years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16683278

General HN anti-FB sentiment has been wrong on this issue for a long time.
I am (for a few more weeks) a PM at a fairly popular applicant tracker company. I was just laid off. While recruiting is the first to get affected, you're underestimating how much of a bellwether HR tech truly is. If we're suffering this much, it's pretty clear what's about to happen. I've seen our internal data, things will be bad for a while.
There are many aspects of the culture of reddit which is poisoning the culture of hackernews during this pandemic, to save time I'll just address the portion of reddit culture that is evidenced here: the practice of pretending to invent something that already exists and naming it in a manner somewhat analogous to its existing name.

The is a special case of the culture of repetitive, unimaginative, formulaic humor threads in which a series of people pretend to engage in a conversation in earnest, but the entire thread is satire, or meta, or fake invention, etc.

Edit: It seems to me that there is a correlation between the users who participate in these kinds of threads, and the users who damage the culture of HN in other ways. I'm not speaking of the specific users in this particular humor thread, but what I've seen in the past of humor threads in general. Clicking on their profile and viewing past comments, I've found that humor-thread participants often also engage in ideological battle, rely heavily on emotionally manipulative rhetoric, make low quality fallacious arguments, etc.
People's attention spans are ridiculously short. If the person is actively looking for the content, sure, that obviously won't work. However, if it's a more casual browser, then going to a site that takes a long time to load between different pages is definitely a way to get them to not visit it any more. This even works on tech-savvy people, as opposed to just blocking a site which will just get them to use a proxy.

> Is that a thing countries do, like if they want to "punish" a site while retaining plausible deniability?

China and Russia do this with a lot of western sites, from what I've heard.
I have been using facebook for nearly 15 years, and there has never been a time at which your exact statement wasn't true. It has been both hated and fast-growing for pretty much its whole existence.
Already tried that, the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation. The founders quickly discovered the federal government was too weak.

But alas, one of those founders, Jefferson, argued we should rewrite the constitution every 19 years.

And another founder, Hamilton, argued that ambition must be made to counteract ambition. And that government is a reflection on human nature, most directly its citizens.
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed51.asp
Also, the absorption of it orally appears to be kind of finicky.
No, I do believe that there is a significant difference between depression and the ennui the article talks about. I think the article just fails to clarify the difference.
I also had a vitamin D deficiency that was found after a particularly bad string of colds, my Dr told me to take a supplement(5000ius daily) of vitamin D and have not seen anything like it since. Apparently windows cars/office block sunlight's ability to create vitamin D in a person so a car ride or sitting near an office window does not provide any help. And if you are in a office job you are def. not getting enough vitamin D.
Somewhat related: in spite of this complexity, Slack desktop is missing options in closely related functionality. The only way to avoid a visible badge appearing on a slack workspace is to sign out entirely, which lands you in the tire fire of trying to reauthenticate to a slack.

So you can silence notifications, but unless you're good at ignoring those little red dots, you'll still be distracted.
Facebook Q1 2020 Results [pdf]
Lots (most) people of colour are below their threshold of "VDI" (vitamin D insufficiency) and perfectly healthy.

The fact that the study doesn't talk about base rates for ethnicities is pretty "striking" (to use a word they breathlessly, and wrongly, use).
Where you live determines whether this it true or not. That's why we should have more granular policy decisions.
We don't need the GOP for that. Both the RNC and DNC have dramatically changed their positions over the past 30-40 years. That could happen again (and probably will) if either party suffers a life-threatening loss in elections.

Or another party will rise to power, and one of the current powerhouses will fade away.
I invested in Tesla because Elon is obsessive and bat shit crazy. To each their own risk adjusted investment strategies.

BRK.B for some, 420 funding secured for others. I'm paying for the crazy. Sometimes the crazy bites back, but them the breaks.
What is insane is that peoples user-agents do not format documents the way their users want.
Connecting with friends/family over Facebook doesn't count as socializing? How about communicating over Whatsapp or Messenger?
I doubt it. He's worth $38.5 billion; $26b of that is in Tesla. He can shave off hundreds of millions of dollars from that any day of the week - if he cared to do so.

The compensation package is relatively small compared to his existing wealth already contained in Tesla. Wanting the company to succeed is what most likely motivates him, not the compensation package (which is aligned with his existing interests, even if you think he's primarily in it for the $26b (little evidence to support that, he's personally loaded with debt because he refuses to sell, that's called being all in; any good financial advisor would call it dangerous concentration and a poor choice to take on debt instead of selling)).
Air France also want the profits from KLM which actually runs well compared to AF. I wouldn’t mind if they split up again.
In this world, the degree is necessary for many better paid jobs. Essential workers jobs are jobs those people will be happy to leave for another. I agree they should be paid more for risk they take and to compensate for them needing to isolate themselves from older relatives.

Besides, on your own, you will get demotivated and lonely fast, you will have no idea what is worth learning and what is not worth learning alone in that library.
I wonder about this as an efficiency thing. Instead of search, let's use a charity as an example. Why does XYZ charity need a zillion people? Why does it spend so much on TV ads? The answer tends to be that hiring more people and advertising more brings in more net dollars. You add and add until the marginal cost of another ad/hire/whatever matches the marginal gain. It makes total sense for the charity to do this, but as a potential donor, now less of your dollars go to the thing you care about and more go to admin, advertisers, etc. It's like friction in the system. To compete with you, now other people have to spend on ads, and the whole ecosystem is less efficient.

I think there's an analogy here for for profit companies. Maybe if instead of adding a tiny marginal dollar for BigCo, you could add a big marginal dollar for SmallCo, and society's per capita productivity is lower? I can't pinpoint whether the analogy works for companies, but I suspect it does.
> I'm certain HFT vols are up in the volatility. Not sure that proves or disproves anything.

You said that HFTs jump out when things get volatile. But then I show you evidence that they trade more in high volatility. Do you not see the contradiction?

> HFT is hugely expensive to maintain. Staffing and equipment costs are massive.

HFT firm equipment costs are a few racks of high end servers and some expensive networking equipment, and a few dozen to few hundred highly paid engineers. Before HFT there were literally _thousands_ of human traders working at different banks doing the same work by hand. Sure in an absolute sense HFT is expensive, but relative to the alternative it is cheap.

> HFT choose not to trade on exchanges with delays because they want to exploit latency advantages. That's why govt should regulate this on all exchanges to just wipe it out.

If HFT is so bad, then the non-HFT market participants should choose to trade at the delay exchanges that make it harder for HFTs. But they choose not to, generally, because the liquidity - and thus trading costs are higher than trading at the non-delay exchanges.

> Consolidation is not good because it will collapse into a monopoly. Which will require regulation also, because markets do not "work" on their own.

First you say that HFT is bad because costs are high, but now you say that falling costs are bad because it will lead to monopoly - do you see the contradiction? For what its worth, Although there are fewer firms there is still a lot of competition among the remaining firms.
I don't think so tbh. Time will tell.
The only reason anyone would buy them is because tesla forced them to take electric seriously. And now that's why they can't, they need in-house tech or they're just Teslas with different chassis shapes.

Its a sad paradox.
Hi there - currently, we encourage you to use Pragli alongside a text tool (Slack, Teams, even just email). We will evaluate whether or not it makes sense to build one as we go.
It is like the passengers discussing if they must carry a box with 10 pounds of oranges in each life boat, find some paddles, a plastic cover, or paint the Eyes of Horus in them before launching them.

The first three look useful, but I'm not sure if they improve the chance of survival too much. You need some time to find them and enough room in the boat, so it is a trade off if they are useful at all.
Does anyone know of a rule of thumb for how much time spent in direct sunlight is equivalent to a Vitamin D supplement? Is an hour per day (on average) sufficient?