skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fake birdfeeder is required for Amazon Basic birds, which are delivered by counterfeit drones...
Tends to be "high-risk, high-reward".
Holy hell, the source archive is huge.

I just saw how that the demo is slow to boot and wanted to see the horror of the code.

Ok no, there is no code in the archive. Only images.
Because they have no money.

Having money is a feedback loop. You can't negotiate if you're skint.
But many people invest in commercial real estate directly or indirectly, and all those travel/retail industry companies were advertising customers for google/fb, and their unemployed workers are customers for Apple and Amazon who now have no money.

That the stock market doesn't reflect main street yet after the biggest stimulus in history is perhaps unsurprising but also a little worrying.
Sure, but the hard part of "getting paid on the internet for content" was never really "there isn't an open standard for payments!" – it was that established payment providers didn't generally want to enable transactions for certain types of content or to certain actors and/or charged prohibitive fees for the privilege of performing transactions at all.
Because it looks imperative.
That's certainly a possibility, and in those situations an offer usually isn't given at all. If we (a) know a candidate will only accept the top end of the range and (b) the candidate doesn't qualify or interview at that level, there's no reason to make an offer at all.

When a range is given, in my experience a candidate will usually say "I'd only be interested at the top of that range" from the beginning if that's indeed the case. The point I made in my initial comment is more aligned to situations when a candidate says they are OK with the range but don't 'commit' (prior to interviews) on where they feel they qualify on that range.
Why do they have to make exceptions? Absent a government mandate there is no requirement and, unfortunately, the mortgage is secured by the underlying property.

I fully expect, and you should too, foreclosures to skyrocket and people to be on the street. The banking sector is not in the business of shares sacrifice and the US government isn’t in the business of letting the banks collapse.

This lockdown will kill people. Let’s not be blind to that fact out of some sense of moral righteousness or some hope of humanity being found by faceless corporations.
re: “we've experienced a profound demonstration of interdependence”

Wise people have always known this is true. All meaning in life comes from fellowship with friends and family and local social connections (actually, web based friends in other countries are enriching also).

I agree with the idea that most gig economy platforms are getting hammered. An exception is InstaCart. My wife and I have been giving about $40 tips to the shoppers who deliver our food. Two of them told me that InstaCart has allowed them to keep supporting their families, and they were pleased with the gig work.
Thanks, this is a good suggestion. The docs definitely need a lot of work still!
I missed pretty much the same amount of school during SARS in Hong Kong in 2003. This was before any sort of remote learning was possible, I didn’t do school work for pretty much a whole semester. I didn’t feel that this held me back at all, however there were a few key differences in my end:

- I was in 4th grade where school was less rigorous

- I went to a private international school

- While my parents were busy working, I still had a stable home environment to count on
It's not clear how bad things would actually be without the lockdown. There is a continuum, and I'm sure there is a much happier medium than what we currently have.
Look at Detroit if you want a good idea.
This is true in all fields. Everyone always over estimates their own profession's impact on the big picture.
> They don't necessarily force you to implement the single responsibility principle, but they do a good job of pushing you.

In my experience, if your services are developed by the same people, and not separated by teams, engineers will often tightly couple the services with fragile and opaque dependent changes regardless.

While in monolith this is painful, at least you have a complete stack trace and the ability to run things through a step debugger you orient yourself. In a distributed system tribal knowledge tends to be your only savior.

When we design systems, we need to spend more time thinking about what is most likely to happen as opposed to what we feel should happen.
You're right, that's fair, technically India can do this if it wants to forever isolate itself from the rest of the global economy and into greater levels of poverty than ever before.

I had assumed India didn't want to be a closed system.
> This whole thing just starts over if we EVER go back to normal unless a vaccine is invented.

We can get to normal faster if effective pharmacological treatments come out from the ongoing trials. If we can treat it, or at least prevent it from being severe, it is not a problem of public health anymore.
What Koreans Think of Wearing Masks During Covid-19
QE has led to inflation, but it's lead to the good kind of inflation: increases in stock and real estate prices; and not to the bad kind: increases in food and energy prices (for the USA, at least). A side-effect of QE is the decrease in bond yields, pushing capital into stocks and real estate, which furthers the goal of propping up asset prices.

I am worried that QE will eventually lead to a collapse in yields across the entire economy. QE is great at maintaining or increasing the price of assets, but unless the productivity underlying the asset continues to grow, then yields will continue a trend towards 0. It doesn't help that the people who benefit the most from QE, are also the those who never need to liquidate their assets. These investors are perfectly happy to watch the paper value of their assets explode while yields remain the same.
I don't think that's true. The mindset I've consistently seen is that people do agree with the dichotomy, and are just willing to sacrifice the economy because they don't think it's very important. How many times has the line been trotted out that we can't sacrifice human lives for the sake of the economy?
In Python, scipy actually supports a lot of different optimization methods, including Nelder-Mead.
Could someone elaborate on "Being enthusiastic is worth 25 IQ points" ?
Recession is a semi-technical term that is often defined as a fall in GDP for two successive quarters.
"Monolith vs Micro-services?" is philosophy at this point. It's a good brain exercise, a great starter for debate, it reveals a lot of insights... all because there is no actual answer.
There is a good free e-book that can shed a bit of light on the mechanics of why markets can rally when the real economy seems to be in deep recession.

https://www.principles.com/big-debt-crises/

Basically when money printer goes brrr then prices of financial assets tend to go up. The unfair bit about this is that these kind of assets are mostly owned by the rich, which makes the wealth gap even bigger.
I suspect the downvotes are due to a lack of critical engagement. Even the Holodomor link offers a litany of reasons that aren't just "socialism," and we've been interfering in Venezuela for decades, not limited to: harsh sanctions, coup attempts, cutting off access to foreign markets, blocking access to its own funds stored outside the country, and so on. In addition to all the hoarding of food and medicine inside the country. There's a lot going on, and "third world oil country with US-unfriendly foreign and domestic policy in a region dominated by US interference" certainly also hurts countries that don't have "socialism" to blame. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortages_in_Venezuela

Regarding US government incompetence in benefits: Not everywhere has distributing benefits been so inefficient (see: Denmark or Germany, among others). It's almost like a decades-long program of cutting funding and introducing tons of red tape undermines public confidence in social spending. I'm sure that's unintentional!
I don't think US companies felt much pain, certainly it was nothing compared to being forced to shut for months, or having most of their customers forced to shut/stay at home.
As the component tree grows in size, even the render call and diffing become a wasteful, costly operation.
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Lack of strong unions is one contributing factor. Companies have all the power, and this situation is giving them even more power. No one dares risking losing their job in these conditions when so many others are already out of work and would take any paying job without complaint.
See also:

“COMPUTER-RELATED HORROR STORIES, FOLKLORE, AND ANECDOTES”

https://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/humor/Unix/computer.folkl...

“Computer Stupidities”

http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/
No-code founders are on the rise. Are they making money?
Yup when your job is gone and your finances are suffering and your loved ones are in pain, just remember who allowed this Disaster to happen

The Chinese government.

And also remember which party ignores/pretend it isn’t a threat.

Democrats.
I just need to know why that garbageware is so slow. Show me the code! :)

What happened to the good old days of 'wish' and friends?
Obvious in retrospect, but very surprising to my inexperienced past self:

I'd been working on some C code for an hour or two. It wasn't behaving how I expected it to (and at the time I knew nothing of debuggers), so I added a print statement and recompiled. I got a compilation error: something like "Syntax error on line 123: #incl5de <stdio.h>". Shocked, I scrolled to that line in my text editor to fix the typo, but it wasn't there. I compiled the same code again and there were no errors.

Turns out there wasn't a bug in my code! I immediately shut down my computer because my RAM was going bad. To this day, what surprises me most is that my computer was able to successfully boot and behave normally for an hour or two, even though random bits were apparently being flipped.
First of all, that number is clearly exaggerated. No current evidence supports the claim that a million people in the USA dying of covid is remotely plausible.

Now to the substance of your argument: this has little to do with capitalism. If most people are not working for a long period of time, in any society, even a non-capitalist one, then that society will rapidly become dramatically materially poorer.

We make choices to improve material conditions at possibly increased health risks all the time. Longevity is not the only metric for overall quality of life.

I would happily accept some increased risk of my own death for the lockdown to be over. Correctly navigating the tradeoff requires figuring out how much increased risk of death is acceptable, not asserting that it’s zero.
The issue with the broader economy is the number of professional organizations that are now doing layoffs, on a broad scale those jobs are slower to come back then the retail and service industry jobs that were initially lost. Those people won't be spending money as a result, and there will be further slowdown.
What has happened over the past few decades has been with companies:

1) A shift to JIT stock control and resource management
2) Shift towards paying dividends over building up reserves for rainy days
3) Valuing of companies with more weight upon public perception and perceived prospects over tangible assets on the books.

With many other factors that all, whilst small, add up to a market with companies driven by a way of working that is more volatile towards any unknown changes as less prepared by design to handle any rainy days periods.

This is also not just a company thing, but a personal thing with the shift in mentality to buy now pay later over save now, buy later. Mostly driven by low interest rates, which have been kept low as a way to manage currency value as a way to manage inflation. That along with any crash saw people with high interest rates as much larger and quicker to drive an economic crash with debts. Though mostly, to drive consumer spending so GDP looks good and the perception helps that countries credit rating. Making them able to borrow more for even less. Consumers with no incentive to save, buy more, borrow more, everything looks nice.

But of course there is more to it than that, but the whole drive towards lower interest rates has over the decades bestowed a culture more included to think short-term and deal with the long-term later and enjoy the sun. This has permeated in many forms and creates what I would call a false economy.

So after the moore's law of interest rates started to hit a limit as they could not shrink any lower, they invented QE, which worked and helped avoid reality of things catching up with the markets for many a time. But then even that can only go so far, so the new tool - negative interest rates.

This of course, all tricks to help balance the books and keep the whole financial system rolling ahead without it taking a reality audit and adjusting down instead of being over valued due to perception of constant growth.

But with a big rainy day that is global, things in any market would take a hit, how much of that depends as many companies will die, but how many of them will be due to the way they operate and not the `market snap`(sorry Marvel, I'm using it) we are experiencing.

If anything, whilst many jobs will be lost, more attention to local sourcing will be given and that will create not only jobs, but more stable jobs. At least to until the fashion of outsourcing comes back and we end up with Detroit mark2.

Also be new opportunities/jobs - certainly be a boom for many internet companies. Also see alas another nail in many a high street and with that, things will change, how much of that does transpire is unsure for certain. But certainly see more things local produced instead of imported, with that production has been slowly clustering globally and in some area's has become centered. So insourcing may well become a word used more than outsourcing when it comes to production and materials resources.

About the only thing I do know for sure, even after this - people will use more soap than before.
Exactly. Buying pro-grade anything before you have proven need is a giant waste.

A while back I was thinking I wanted a standing desk. My first urge was, "Find the best and buy it!" Instead I prototyped something out of an ironing board and a highly adjustable laptop stand. That's been adequate for months, and it's taught me a lot about what will work for me, and what "best" actually means. Eventually I'll get around to buying something professional. But it won't be the thing novice me thought was the right one. And it could have easily turned out that I didn't need one at all.
That would be fine, if it offered once.

VS Code pops up three notification windows every time I open a .py despite me having closed them literally hundreds of times now.

Apparently it’s smarter than me, and just knows I need its plugins and system integrations despite a year of adamantly refusing.
dialog, wish, whiptail...
I don't know about DataJet or Matillion but I do know about NiFi.

One reason would be that it's Open Source, easily extendable and you can host it yourself if needed.

(I'm not saying that this is a good reason for everyone but for some)
Yeah, snoring is the killer. I never had a problem with taking a nap in the office, but I tend to snore, so that gets noticed. Fortunately, last office I worked in, almost everyone was taking a nap at some point during the day (often unintentionally), so nobody gave anyone any hard time about it.
"Doctor, it hurts when I do this."

"Don't do that."

The standard recommendations for buying a house, in my opinion, are recommendations for buying a house you can barely afford. I recommend buying houses you can comfortably afford, and put some extra principal payments in towards the beginning if at all possible. (Especially if you're just starting now-ish... I suspect the whole "but you could have put it in the stock market instead and made tons more money" both looks a bit less appealing than it did a year ago, and may take a bit before it's advice that would turn out well again.)

An HN-specific nuance is that I might as well be saying "don't live in the valley"... you want to call that an exception, eh, go ahead, you're an adult. But in general I recommend that.

(Also, you have to check the area you are in. Where I happen to live & in the price zone I'm in, mortgages are quite a bit cheaper than rent. Though that may not be true in another year!)
The pleasure of saving some $ will be instantaneous and will not repeat. The regret of something having bad (or barely ok) performance is permanent and will repeat every time you use it.
>The bar (which is already dismally low) will have to be lowered further for them to graduate, and how/when will it ever be raised back again?

You don't have to lower the bar. There are other options. There is no fundamental law of physics that says a generation has to graduate at age X, so we -- the society -- should be perfectly able to delay that process for a year, instead of lowering the bar.

That said, there's something deeply wrong either with the society as a whole or with the HN audience if you read "poor kids roam the street like packs of feral dogs asking for money for food" and you say that the biggest long term problem is the lowering of the bar because kids skipped school.
The economic damage at least was always going to happen. It's a direct consequence of the pandemic itself (and people's natural fear-based reactions to isolate themselves to reduce their risk).

It's not like you can relax social distancing and have the economy do well, especially not when the death toll really starts ramping up and people fear for their lives every time they leave home. There isn't any choice available in which there isn't a bad recession.
I have several kids at home, all at different elementary grade levels and it’s not at all easy to keep them on track, motivated, and actually learning something while trying to get work done myself. The kids have been cooped up and its hard to keep the kids from bickering. Schools are not helping. They are giving assignments but telling kids things won’t be graded or are optional, etc... so kids don’t want to do some things. We have to undo that and push them to do it.

Given how competitive our society has become I am terrified that we will get behind.
UFO Vibrating at FTL Speed
What does a UFO vibrating at FTL speed look like to the eye?
Revolutions happen when the gap between public pretension and private reality becomes too large.

The same could be said of stock market crashes.
Assuming the state’s computer systems and unemployment department personnel can handle it. Which they obviously can’t since millions and millions of people have requested unemployment assistance but are met with error messages and busy signals on the phone, and don’t have the money they need.
Academics post open letter on UK NHSX tracker
> As a researcher, the monitoring and fault-propagation / modeling work they’ve done to get it to stay up at all is impressive, but it’s not clear all of that tooling would be necessary if they didn’t have to reason about N^2 fault tolerance scenarios, where N = 100’s of microservices. That’s on the order of one fault tolerance scenario for each atom in the universe.

That doesn't seem true. I would imagine that at Netflix scale, you probably have request tracing libraries that can give you a graph of service dependencies. Whether it's worthwhile to consume that, or easier to just let Chaos Monkey run rampant is another question.

Also, I very rarely have issues with Netflix. Typically when I do I can just exit the stream and restart it. Anecdata, but I could count on one hand the number of times I've had a title just not play, or Netflix be down entirely.
> Everything that is with knowing was written in English or has been translated to it.

It's a rule of thumb, a practical rule for life at the same level than buying groceries.
I'm well aware that language incarnations form a very esoteric space, worth studying and caring about if you are in the right profession, or have the time and the inclination.
Could you share your thoughts on why real estate may be dicey in the years to come?
I recall one of my colleagues at British telecom who told a story that when debugging random noise on the line.

It turned out to be the subscribers (a little old lady) budgie swinging on its perch was causing the problem.
You're correct in that Google doesn't discriminate between paying and non-paying customers: It happily abuses the privacy of it's paying customers too.

Many of Google's uses of data are not specific to whether or not someone is using G Suite or consumer Gmail as far as I am aware.
why should anyone try to "contradict" what amounts to you posting anecdotes about people being mean to you on twitter?
Tcl/Tk is like this up to eleven (in positive sense).
I expect it's a bigger problem for high schoolers in general--especially seniors if it ends up meaning some students don't graduate and just drop out.

If I think back to my grade school experience, I was admittedly a pretty good student but I can't really imagine any single semester being all that critical. (And, in fact, I ended up skipping 8th grade.)
Also it's owned by Facebook, so you just know there's some backdoors built in.
Hey my apologies: The site should be back up. If you get a cloudflare error try reloading a few times.

Otherwise you can read it here on Github: https://github.com/dpbriggs/dpbriggs-blog/blob/master/blog/2...
Trends in subgroups can indicate a different trend. The above comment is not about a linear trend. It's about an average statistic for a population based on a sample that's not representative of the population age distribution for a process that probably isn't linear across ages. If the older half becomes symptomatic 100% of the time, and the younger half becomes symptomatic 0% of the time, it's very misleading, though not technically incorrect to say people become symptomatic 50% of the time. There's a huge impact on how to handle the problem.
It was a great conference. In the last month, there has been a wealth of information from conferences re-organized to be virtual. I hope this is a permanent trend.
"Essential business" designations are central planning, and I've seen reasonably influential people argue that we could keep them going indefinitely if we had to.
Whatever monothlic or microservice, it's all about modularity.
Monothlic or microservice is just the implementation on how you achive modularity.

So the problem here, to me, is how you design the modularity for your system, not how you implement it.
Reactive Forms Benefits: Conditional Validation
Tried to use this library with opencv in a realtime rtp video+audio feed project last week.
Code for the writing tobpipes made a bunch of silly assumptions about how/when ffmpeg would be used.
Especially if 0.01% of the people who would have sent an iMessage now decide to mail a photograph. As an example.

Every incremental degradation in a product results in alternative-seeking behavior.
An Asymmetric Alternative to Correlation
You have to go back a bit and see why the fuss over rendering performance even exists:

https://johnresig.com/blog/the-dom-is-a-mess/

If the vdom can do the diff and sync all the changes to one DOM update, you only trigger one re-layout. That’s one of the main reasons to have the vdom, to offset shitty DOM performance by using app memory. The browser really sucked/sucks.

I urge everyone to keep track of the history of JS frameworks, and why we even gravitate towards these frameworks.