skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every taken a statistics class? I recommend it, done right you can get good enough results with just a few samples. There is no need for 19,200,000 (6000 acres at 32000 plants per acre, reasonable numbers for a large corn grower) samples, you can't look at them all anyway. Turns out that farmer can get by with far less samples with the right analysis.

University and seed researchers sometimes do the plant by plant analysis you are taking about. They are looking at just a few hundred samples though and only getting slightly better data.
Using RAPIDS to find more accurate walking distance
I came to say the opposite! Before kids you can get out of a funk by taking some random vacation to middle of nowhere, taking a sabbatical or random time off work, spend an uninterrupted day at the library, whatever. Once the little ones come along you get about five minutes per day to solve your problem.
Seems a little silly to blame english when people bend terminology to muddy the waters on purpose. When 'serverless' means easily using a server and 'we have our own datacenter' means 'we don't have our own data center and rent from someone else' maybe the problem is people trying to stretch the significance of what they are doing.

If someone says 'I own my house' and they actually mean 'I rent an apartment', no one is going to say 'oh well, english is an imprecise language'.
Terrorism is always wrong and always hurts the causes it attempts to advance. Thus, even when committed for a good cause it's counterproductive.

If Kaczynski had good ideas, he did them a terrible disservice by resorting to terrorism.
It's only a good debt if you have something useful to do with that hour you save. If it's just to spend more time watching TV then walking to work is the better investment by far.
Imagine the cartoon with the dialogue "yes, millions of people continued to live in subsistence farming and faced an early death, but for a beautiful moment in time the Yangtze Finless Porpoise continued to reproduce"
Well, with -5% growth that's not going to be such a problem.
"US is still a little behind" is a bit too understated I'd say - the US measures haven't even managed to make the number of active cases stop growing. They are shrinking in Germany since about the beginning of april.
Companies That Are Building Contact Tracing Apps to Track Employees
Whoever gives a number first loses leverage.
I wonder the same. The reason I use Telegram is because it's the only thing I can convince a significant enough number of friends and family to move over to because of the superior user experience and non-Facebook, not because it's the most privacy-friendly solution out there. If I could choose a platform, it would probably be Wire, but the UX is pretty bad and I don't see my mom using that.
"Get in" -> arrive here (i.e., let's continue the discussion in person)

"Get it" --> understand (i.e., you need to take some time to realize why I'm right).
Anything more and it gets super tedious to maintain 6 feet of separation and still be able to hear each other.
I think engineers are worse negotiators than companies. That way companies which want to gain on that can play the game.
What a rude thing to say.
Fintechs Entered Lucrative Incumbents in Europe
Usually, it happens to me when I'm mentally exhausted, or when I do nothing for a long period of time.

Here are a few tricks that work for me:

* Don't force yourself to get things done. You need rest, not shame.

* Get properly bored. Mindlessly consuming content just makes it last longer.

* Do something easy and different. I usually run myself a bath or go for a walk. It's enough to get me off the computer and to get ideas flowing again.

* Get some rest. Write this evening off, and relax for a bit. The rest will wait.
Because once they select you, they immediately want to low-ball you.

Government Jobs are completely transparent in this regard. You know exactly what you're going to make when you apply for the job.
It's pretty great where I live in Europe in a country where they don't even operate. If I buy on Amazon.de, they ship products from Germany and items usually arrive within a week including going through customs, as they remove EU VAT and include local VAT at time of purchase (which probably clues you in to which country I live in). This avoids the massive customs processing fees, extra VAT, and wait times I would incur from most other international sellers.

Their prices are almost always the lowest I can find on books, similar to Book Depository which they also now apparently own. Other items like the small kitchen appliances I've bought on the DE site are also almost always cheaper than I can find in brick and mortar stores.

I'm not sure they have the same grocery service in most European markets that they have in the US, where as I understand it the grocery orders are handled rather separately with local selections.
> Isn't that exactly the situation you'd be in in a non-functional language by default? E.g. in C, evaluation order for function arguments is indeterminate

I don't know any non-meme program where entire call stacks would be in a function call. The worst cases I've seen of this were things such as

f(i, i++)

which is a far cry from the issues you'd have in anything doing lazy evaluation of a program graph
Most ORMs have built-in support for this. For example Laravel's Eloquent automatically filters out `deleted_at` records
A little broader? You mean reaching everyone on the planet for almost no cost?
This is a huge difference, it used to be only nation states and huge actors could spread and maintain disinformation on this level, now an individual can do it with a GPU.

One set of shared delusions is not the same as an anarchy of delusions.
Because interactions and dynamics between species goes a little further than “bats bother me, let’s make them extinct”

Saying species become naturally extinct so nothing to see here is very similar to saying the planet has cycles of warming up and down so we’re all good here. Of course it never happened as fast and on the magnitude that it has in the last 100 years but never mind it’s probably nothing to worry about, I don’t particularly love winter as much as I do summer.
Good news for stocks, it means the Fed will keep printing trillions of dollars.
> By not actively mentioning a salary on a job advert, they can invite potential applicants to pitch themselves at a level they'd be willing to do the work (the low end) all the way to what they'd like to get in an ideal world (the high end).

That doesn't seem much like a two way street, that seems more like a blind silent auction where lowest bidder wins. Naturally skills and experience come into play in part, but if multiple people can meet the expectations of the role, then they are bidding against each other. I'm not sure what the employee gets out of it.

> Any efficiency gains from salary disclosure would be minor compared to the "inefficiency" of the hiring process in totality.

For the company possibly, but not for the employee. Being able to see what a company is willing to pay would really help refine an employees search.
I use a rpi4 running raspbian and resillio sync (https://www.resilio.com/) for my internal photo backups and data syncing. It also shares outside my local network well but the users need the software installed.
VS Code is an open source IDE
There is an API on iOS: UIApplicationUserDidTakeScreenshotNotification

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiapplicatio...
Boeing doing so poorly is heartbreaking. Come on, Shopify is almost as worth as Boeing now by marketcap. Trying to let that sink in.

Also I live 20 mins from the Boeing Mega Factory in Everett and the technological marvel of making flying beasts have been a great source of inspiration.

Now Boeing is a source of “how to fuck up a great company”.
I'm curious about when the transition from "vikings" to "pirates" occurred, for Scandinavians who travel in long boats robbing and pillaging.
There have been a couple of incidents of self-destructing installers, yes. "rm -rf /${VARIABLE}" where the variable isn't set, that kind of thing.
This article identifies some places where economic growth is the deeper, non-proximal cause of biodiversity loss, but that doesn't mean the two are incompatible. The answer I personally prefer is to take the brakes off of urbanization, packing humans into taller and denser places like Singapore and Hong Kong, and letting the surrounding lands be wild. I know that urban living isn't to everyone's taste, but elevators are the most efficient and environmentally friendly public transportation we have, and so long as we need to cultivate some land to live, we might as well cultivate it as much as possible (by putting tall buildings on it, for example).
>Just because Congress didn't make the gubernatorial orders doesn't excuse state governors from these constitutional rights violations.

They aren't constitutional rights violations by definition. Congress (and, explicitly, as written, only Congress as a body) is prevented from passing laws at a national level forcing states to violate their citizens' right to speech and assembly, but states have the right to do so of their own accord (as states by default claim all powers not given to the Federal government), and precedent has allowed it under exigent circumstances, such as 9/11 and prior pandemics.

One could argue that the lockdown orders are unnecessary, but I think that would only be apparent in hindsight, and even then it would turn out to be a misuse of power that states legitimately have, but not abuse or an unlawful exercise of power, unless certain conspiracy theories about "globalist elites" turned out to be true (spoiler: they won't.)
A couple of times, I found myself in a situation where I'm just opening a position and haven't hired developers in this particular stack and this particular skill level for a while, I may not even know what's a current market rate for this position would be. I'd get an overall idea after talking to 5-10 candidates, estimating their skill level and listening to what's their asking price is.

It's not even about trying to low-ball someone. Low-balling might be good in short-term, but not in long-term - both from perspective of a manager who's trying to do best by the company (because you want to build trust with your employees), and from a perspective of a political manipulator (when you inflate salaries of people you manage and budget of your department, you become more important in the hierarchy - saving company money won't earn you as much political points). What it is about is simply not having enough information about the market.
Here’s the full, direct quote. Please let me know where the dishonesty is:

"And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or, or almost a cleaning? Because you see it gets on the lungs and it does a tremendous number, so it will be interesting to check that. So that you're going to have to use medical doctors.”

Your only possible argument for him not suggesting the injection of disinfectants is that it’s barely a coherent thought, like most of his brainless dribble.

But if your defense for stupid statements is that the president of the United States is illiterate, you need to take a hard look in the mirror.
> Our original theory was that it had to do with cosmic rays causing bit-flips. This was a well known problem with installations in that area, having caused multi-month delays for some of the larger supercomputer installations in the area. But we'd already corrected for that.

Wow, I sense a more interesting story in here. Care to reveal how it was first found out and how common it actually is?
Given that that Jan and Feb seemed largely fine, the rate of decline in March was probably around 3x the quarter's headline figure -- call it -15%, give or take.

April was much worse, without a doubt. Anything between a -25% and -50% GDP decline seems possible for April.
I did not buy a house because I expected it to appreciate in value. I bought a house because the alternative was to pay rent.

Rent is a service. A renter does not get anything of inherent, transferable value out of the exchange. A renter is also subject to the whims of his/her landlord and, from my experience, a renter has to move regularly to avoid rent increases and bad landlords.

The majority of my mortgage payment goes towards ownership of a product - my house - which has inherent, transferable value. When I'm ready to move again, I can sell my house and put that money towards acquiring a new one using less debt. Meanwhile, I don't have to worry about landlord problems or rent increases so I can wait to move until I am ready.

I'd say that's a perfectly good reason to take on some debt. After all, if that money wasn't going to the bank, then it would just go to a landlord instead.

EDIT: I'm not saying rent is bad. It is a perfectly reasonable option for many people depending on their preferences and circumstances. I just wanted to highlight the reasons why I chose to take on some debt to buy a house, regardless of whether it will appreciate in value.
i don’t get it. what’s next, visual bubble sort?
This is one of my biggest gripes with VSCode: it's always doing things for me. Like I don't need automatic updates, and I don't need suggestions popping up in the corner about which extensions to install.

Clippy didn't die, MS just moved him into the background.
From grade 7 to grade 12 my education was heavily writing focused. I didn't take a history, civics, or English test that wasn't 100% written. In college I took classes that were focused on writing as well, mostly because I could write better than I could study for/take a test.

That has made me an adult with no real skills except the ability to communicate very well. More specifically, I'm able to write very well. And I find it staggering how many people cannot write with any quality.

Rewinding to college - I funded my beer and fun fund by writing other people's term papers. The first year or two out of school I paid the rent by writing other people's term papers. I run a marketing business now and despite my hatred for spending the time writing longform, a good chunk of our revenue comes from people overpaying for content simply because finding good writers is hard.

While many people say that understanding how to code is perhaps the most valuable skill available to young people during their education, I would offer that writing well is of greater significance and use. There are plenty of excellent careers, vocations, and paths in life where any measure of success can be reached without knowing how to code. There are far fewer where not being able to write is not a hindrance.
That just sounds like the shared libraries needed to make breaking changes less often. If you're going to make changes to core code, it's going to take time to get everything up to date no matter how your code is organized. In other words, shared code needs to be treated just like a third-party library/service (both from the developers and users points of view).
I have a wife and a child who use Meet regularly, both via sub-$400 laptops. No issues that they've reported.
I'm in Western Canada, too. Seeing the same thing here.

Cases keep dropping, regardless.

I suspect a late cold snap and some snow a month ago, followed by a lot of rains in the last couple weeks, have also helped.

Calgary is having trouble -- that's where most of the cases are in AB -- but case load across AB and Western provinces is stable and below projections.

edit: cases in the province, via the CBC:

Calgary zone: 3,366

South zone: 685

Edmonton zone: 486

North zone: 202

Central zone: 84

Unknown: 27

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/covid-19-deena-hinsh...
A few lines afterward:
"Subsequent early cases in the West or East of France (B2334/B2340, clade V and GE1583, clade S), all with recent history of travel to Italy, add to the genomic diversity of viruses from Northern Italy, but also do not appear to have seeded local transmission with the current sampling "

And in the abstract (and from the French press like "Les Echos"[0])
"In parallel, our genomic data reveals the later predominant circulation of a major clade in many French regions, and implies local circulation of the virus in undocumented infections prior to the wave of COVID-19 cases. "

[0] https://www.lesechos.fr/economie-france/social/coronavirus-e...
Secure and scalable Jitsi video conferencing tool self-hosted with Jelastic
The answer is very simple: they don't want to pay their prospective employees any more than they have to. If they put a job listing for $70k and a developer currently making $50k applies and gets it, he gets a 20 thousand dollar raise.

On the other hand, if the employer requires the applicant's current salary on the application, and Mr. Qualified Engineer applies, they can offer him $55k instead (just enough to make him consider the offer if he's unhappy with his current job).

Using this strategy, the employer can make sure their employees never know their real worth, since every raise/promotion/new job they get is based on a "just good enough" improvement over their current salary.
How does economic collapse alter the mortality rate?
What are you concerned about and what are you preaching about in vague, motivational quotes? Have you even ever done any embedded software development in a shipping industrial product? The only industrial flash available at the time (SLC) and already spec'ed in the manufacturing BOM had a warranted cycle time of 10^5 writes. It was doing upwards of 10^6 just fine, but it would've taken months to get close to 10^7. The desired goal was to make the flash live 10-20+ years while writing log data to spare space including data points such as temperature, voltage, errors, etc. for as long as possible.
I think the sense which the original article talks about is an important one: You can generally use vanilla libraries for non-UI stuff. You don't generally need to use anything React specific.

This is in contrast to frameworks like Angular which try to reinvent to entire ecosystem in an "Angular style". Which is a massive pain if the Angular version has a bug, doesn't implement the feature you need, or is simply far too complicated because it's trying to be everything to everyone. In React, there are usually 2 or 3 options for everything with different trade-offs. And this is amazing, because you can pick the library that works for your project.
> It precisely does not focus on rote memorization.

This is where the disconnect is. It may have very well been designed with that goal in mind, but common core is is memorization in another form. The form of memorization is worse than the traditional form because it involves more steps, and the steps are very unintuitive.

I don't think kids will be able to explain why it works. They might be able to recite definitions and phrases that they were forced to memorize, but they won't be able to put it into their own words. I know, because I've seen it first hand from a kid I consider to be bright. We can blame parents, we can blame teachers, but it doesn't matter. Common core is not optimized or appropriate for childhood education in the US.
That's really unfounded, unless you're talking about an experience you had years ago when the platform was still in the early stages.

The current Gen 2 cloud (OCI) is very much capable. I would strongly suggest you either have a high level look at the products available (start here [1]), peruse the documentation [2], or have a go yourself with a free account [3].

Happy to continue this chat about actual products you thought were lacking, or your experience.

[1] https://www.oracle.com/cloud/
[2] https://docs.cloud.oracle.com/en-us/
[3] https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free
Oh, I do.

So show us the model (we still do that right?) when the death by virus numbers are less than the death by poverty numbers.

But you can't becuase you didn't. You just "feel" its time.
If think you at risk then you stay at home. If you force other to stay at home you too violates the personal rights of those individuals.
I know you're a troll, but just so you don't have a chance to misinform.

VS Code is open source. It's MIT licensed. You can get the source code here: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode
"TAE Technologies, formerly known as Tri-Alpha Energy, announced last year that its fusion reactor was five years from commercialization."

Fusion reactors, like flying cars and urine-powered batteries, is always just 5 years into the future! Or maybe putting a line like this into news stories about fusion is a modern day "Occult Hand Society" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Occult_Hand)
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode

MIT Licenced

Am I missing something?
I understand that the economy and the market are different but I'm so confused. The S&P is up ~12% this month, despite massive unemployment, a shrinking economy, and serious long-term questions about the outlook.

Is most of the 12% just market speculation that the virus issue will pass without a long-term earnings hit?
In this market good news is neutral and bad news is good.
The subject is discussed at length (and referenced by the repo) here https://www.gwern.net/Self-decrypting-files for those interested in more. Gwern has mentioned it at least once on HN previously as well https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16295313
> At my company, for instance, there are a number of us who were hired at the same time under the same position. But we have varying levels of skill/experience, and our salaries can reflect that even though our title may not

Do you know that the salaries match that skill/experience line? Did you all just happen to request the right amount of money that plots you correctly, even though you didn't know what the other people were requesting, nor what the company is willing to pay?
A podcast episode on precisely this phenomenon, titled "more from less": https://www.econtalk.org/andrew-mcafee-on-more-from-less/.
Ah, it wasn't clear to me that games end. That would be helpful to put on the results page e.g. "Send me an email with my result and top results". FWIW that would be a lot more compelling of an opt-in to build your list that doing so before the game ;)
Spot on! I once read that Warren Buffet doesn't recommend leverage greater than 1.4x and I can only say I agree fully. The fact that most of the people find 5x leverage "normal" is scary.
bats are amazing animals and fill a crucial biodynamical role in the ecosystem, for instance, pollinating many beneficial plants important to human survival.
I think what that means is, if you have a GSuite account, you can let anonymous users join your Meet. But if you just have an individual, personal account, you cannot.

So, if you are a G shop already, then it shouldn't prevent your customers from joining your meeting without having a Google account. But if you're trying to host that meeting via a personal Gmail account, you will run into a problem if a non-Google account tries to join.
LibreOffice 7.0 Will Finally Remove Adobe Flash Player Support
+1 for Deepl. Google Translate's quality is very close to Deepl and for a long time I couldn't tell which is better, but I recently discovered that Deepl does German brainfuck sentences correctly and Google and Microsoft Translate both mess it up. (In German you can say "the ball has the dog" and by conjugating "the" correctly ("der ball" and "den hund", iirc, or the other way around, I can never remember) it can mean "the dog has the ball" despite being in the wrong order.)

Aside from self-hosted email, my list is very similar to yours, I just wanted to highlight Deepl because few people seem to know it and it's a German company so I trust that a whole lot more from the outset.
This is exactly the kind of bullshit that keeps us from becoming an interplanetary species.
This is not what Section 230 says, although it is a suspiciously popular misunderstanding of it: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/04/no-section-230-does-no...