skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please get professional help, do no underestimate the importance. I do believe another undertaken advice is around hitting the gym.
Try to find the root cause.
Write down every small tasks in your mind into a notebook and clear them one by one.
I get your point and I broadly agree, but it's a bit rich to label OP as part of "a huge permanent underclass". He or she is applying for and may well get an extremely lucrative role at one of the most famous companies in the world, putting them squarely in the "1%" of humanity as a whole.

That doesn't scream underclass to me
Where’s the reason for thinking Trump knows when he is lying, but not Elon?
To its credit, Clojure is also a Sadistic Perversion Language that "Injects itself into the corporate scene, then subverts from within."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22910702

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZyvIHYn2zk

https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/vulk-blog/ThePervertsGuid...
Youtube is Google's video monopoly. If there was an actual market with many providers, then you might make a case. However, a monopolist doesn't get to make these kinds of decisions.

Would we stand for it if the local electric monopoly started pulling the plug on abortion clinics? On churches?

A monopoly gets limited discretion in exchange for the monopoly.
I think what is clear is that China, the initial epicenter, exported far fewer cases than Europe. This can be seen by examining countries around China and far more integrated with China and overseas Chinese communities. Really this is a disease mainly spread by close contact. So the dominant spreaders are those with high community contact. I remember the feeling of OMG when seeing the announcement of all the high flying jetsetting group getting hit in March. I am on the west coast, yet our cases didn't start going exponential until after Europe exploded. Yes Seattle and Bay Area were likely seeded from China. But it started with low count, and coupled with our sprawl and high percentage of Asians who were attuned to the seriousness of the outbreak in China, it was a simmering outbreak. The east coast otoh got a major frontal assault from Europe.
It certainly is. They put in quite a bit into Maker and Dfinity, for example.
Well on the corporate side, there's a spectrum from SpaceX to Theranos. On the government side there's a spectrum from Switzerland to North Korea...

I'll admit there are many good and bad examples of both, but I think the average company does more good than the average government.
The New York Times' report on the exorbitantly overpriced Second Avenue Subway work highlighted extensive union featherbedding in that instance, which probably explains some (but not all) of the cost premium.

Another plausible factor is the push to privatization and contracting in the US public sector removing effective management from the picture, so that the public sector is no longer capable of cost control. For example, by realizing when bidders on contracts are bullshitting too high or too low, or by pushing people to suggest cheaper designs.

A corollary to the previous point is that the US generally seems unwilling to look at foreign countries (especially countries not named Canada or the UK) for insights into what can be done better. This can result in people not adopting newer, cheaper technologies in a kind of NIH syndrome.

Another possible factor is that, for several kinds of projects, the US's diverging rules (e.g., FRA regulations basically banning all European rolling stock until they were revised a year or two ago) combined with a relatively low install base could be preventing economies of scale to make things cheaper.

There's lots of plausible factors. Actually digging into what makes them so expensive is very time-consuming, and I suspect there is very little pressure (let alone ability!) from anyone on any side of the political spectrum to actually make it happen. It's much easier to pick the factor you personally believe in and say it's so without any evidence to back it up.
As I replied elsewhere to a similar point about falsifiability:

> Note that this classic "pro-lockdown" talking point is an unfalsifiable claim.

If you want to get down to epistemological arguments, then we should be clear: we can't know ANYTHING about the real world for certain and all no claim about the natural world is falsifiable; the only claims we can make are those that are tautological or conceptual only. The scientific method itself does not stand on anything more than sand from an epistemological perspective.

Obviously, that's a ridiculous way to think about the world and not helpful. What we CAN do is see the changes in trajectory of the virus growth rate caused by the lockdown; and extrapolate based on the data that we've seen about how it would grow without the lockdown. This is what a large number of domain experts (including data scientists with domain knowledge) have been doing, and they believe the lockdown has been necessary (and will continue to be, at least in part).

> Also we should note that social distancing and lockdown are different things, and it _appears_ that the former is much more responsible for the slowed rate of transmission.

For someone talking about the falsifiability of claims, you should take note that this is a unfalsifiable claim, and one that's intuitively ridiculous (as the lockdown causes more social distancing than would happen otherwise).

Obviously, we can't lock the entire civilization down forever, and nobody has made such an argument - there will be a gradual easing of restrictions over the coming months, but there's an expectation that we might see another wave of virus transmission in the fall.
As a disclaimer every court in the nation can operate differently although they're all kinda similar.

Adoption records in the USA were sealed last century. Seems to be a temporary fad that's going away. Maybe it was a Spanish Flu thing.

Anyway if you try to pull my long deceased great-great-uncle's records for genealogy, they simply give you a negative result to the query, although "everyone knows" he was adopted.
Keep it simple, if it is only you making changes and your primary business is selling on the site and not the software then just use something like rsync or ssh/scp etc and script it. At most use something like ansible, chef or puppet.

If your primary thing is the software and you are deploying many times a week, then it can make more sense to have more sophisticated controls, but even then as one person a few scripts is usually plenty good enough.

If your primary business is the products you sell and not the software, I would be curious why you chose to build a shopping cart/e-commerce solution. There are so many good solutions out there it is usually just a distraction to build your own unless you have hit a large scale or are in just such a custom niche that nothing works for your product/service unless you write it.
Marconi's Patents were denied as there was prior art by Nikola Tesla which predates Popov, so Nikola Tesla invented the radio.
Projects can sometimes be just for fun. I started with two goals: 1) Learn how Erlang internals work 2) Learn Rust (this was the first time I was writing Rust)

After I achieved both of those I decided I'll keep going if there's any interest in the project. There wasn't, so I moved on.
Small and Large Projects to Make You a Better Developer
yeah, CLU is what I was referring to
Are fnids anything like Fnords?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fnord

Or are they more like Vermicious Knids?

https://roalddahl.fandom.com/wiki/Vermicious_Knids
I had it misspelled as 'crypt' for a bit, unintentionally further insulting both Yarvin and Morrissey fans.
people here are describing Urbit like they're discussing the meaning of the monolith in 2001, or the true meaning of Christmas. I like your take because you're describing what the code is, rather than the objectives or use-cases. it feels like TempleOS to me because (to me) the code is the point. it's an exercise towards creating a specific architecture as an end.
Just to join in: since it's "human nature", I think it's reasonable to consider only things which are relatively universal / innate, not learned things like social norms.

2,000 years is very little time on a genetic timescale, I wouldn't expect to see many changes. Some, sure, but not much.
Now, obviously, someone has to run this through Jukebox?

https://openai.com/blog/jukebox/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23032243
But of a selection bias, don't you think? Places that do it right probably don't need to hire consultants.
I had to just turn off most “correction” features because it was more frustrating to manually fix wrong autocompletes than to simply type in a continuous flow.

And plenty of blame should be reserved for the keyboard design itself, causing mistakes. I literally started developing a new keyboard extension as a side project for no reason other than to move keys that constantly tripped me up. (Worst offenders are the stupidly-close backspace and action buttons so that half the time I send wrong text when I meant to delete a letter.)
> To my thinking, Redis fit very well in the "lightweight linux thing" category.

It sounds like you don't follow Redis then.

That ship sailed years ago. Redis has at least 10 major features in addition to the caching you're talking about, including search. Redis is a kind of database now.

If you just want a cache, use memcached.

Half of my jiras at one company were related to enabling SSL for Redis due to compliance reasons (all for internal use.) Now those can be closed.
Very cool! I was looking for something like this about a month ago when I was building an example web application for firmware developers. Firmware engineers aren't expected to know anything about databases and usually don't, so I just wanted some dumb JSON store in the cloud that didn't need any provisioning.

In the end, I went with Heroku and it's included PostgreSQL offering and stomached the complexity, but along the way I found https://jsonbox.io/, which I thought was neat and seems very similar.
> Why did you decide to spend a year building something before releasing it? Wouldn't you want to validate the value your product brings to the table before spending that long on it?

One year is not that much for a one man band but a) I believe I know the value it brings and b) even with a valuable idea you're still very far away from a successful product/company.
The current status quo in the US Healthcare system is a byproduct of the mechanisms of government. It's not some crazy accident of the market, rather it is the inevitable result of a series of policies passed at state, local, and federal levels over the past half century.

The fact that health insurance isn’t portable, and is rather tied to employment is a consequence of 1) the WW2 era wage ceilings imposed on private corporations, which resulted in employers competing for labor by providing health benefits, followed by 2) the ability for employers to deduct insurance premiums from payroll taxes (which costs the government $280 billion per year), and finally, 3) the Federal government imposed mandate on employers to provide health insurance. This is in contrast with other countries that employ private insurance, like the Netherlands and Switzerland, where insurance is tied to the individual, not the employer.

The lack of price transparency logically follows from the fact that patients never really care how much their treatments cost, since employer sponsored insurance covers everything anyway. Large corporations are less price sensitive than individuals, which exacerbates the price inflation over decades.

Certificate of need laws, where local hospitals get to decide if a new, competing hospital may open (imagine Uber being able to decide if Lyft may ply), and the residency system requiring 10+ years of schooling to practice has resulted in inevitable supply constraints, further driving up costs[1].

Medicare, which provides healthcare for free for the elderly, removed the most engaged buyers from the market, suffocating price discovery for medical goods and services. Not only that, the elderly tend to be the richest people in the country - those above the age of 55 account for 73% of wealth in America. Boomers are disproportionately rich, and yet they also enjoy some of the most generous welfare on top of that.

The resulting kafkaesque Frankenstein of a system was created through decades of well-intentioned government regulation at all levels of the Government. Healthcare is one of the least free markets in the US.

University education costs as much as it does because the Federal government guarantees any loan for any degree, regardless of the expected ability to pay upon graduation. This causes inevitable inflation in University sticker price, because they're going to be paid the money anyway regardless of a student's financial outcome. The guaranteed loan results in zero skin in the game for Universities.

[1] https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/10/25/doctors-sal...
I wanted to tackle distribution eventually, but it was also by far the most complex part of the implementation.
In many countries wire transfers cost nothing to the customer and maybe 1-2 cents to the business account holder. No need for blockchain if you just want cheap payments without protections.
Here [0] is but one example of Urbit's suboptimality: Their encoding into C is insecure, and they have no interest in changing it.

Writing a new operating system is hard. Taking lots of questionable paths, like writing "jet" templates [1] that call directly into existing C libraries, or defining a brand-new Boolean type that doesn't behave like standard Booleans, is not the right way to build confidence in any kind of quality, let alone optimality.

Also, as a word-choice note, "optimal" means "best". Urbit is clearly not the best operating system, because there is clearly no metric by which to measure it against other OSs. It doesn't support the same sorts of hardware or APIs or processes or other common components of our craft. "optimal" is a terrible word to use around greenfield projects and nebulous designs; reserve it for when you can prove that your approach truly is the best one.

[0] https://github.com/urbit/urbit/issues/752

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_metaprogramming
Linux Upskill Challenge
20 years ago me would probably be kinda underwhelmed how we ain't all running 10 Ghz chips in 2020.

[0] https://hanweiconsulting.com/cpu-frequency-world-record-hist...
EPS is similar to 'Rent per Home'.

Even though the # of houses in a city is arbitrary, when you buy a home, you want to know how much Rent Equivalent are you getting every month. Now, you can clearly price the house.
Democratic governments.

China seems to have a decent strategy going.
I wonder what fraction of consumption people who’ve been lost their income during the crisis is. If 20% of the workforce is laid off, does that mean consumption will go down 20%? Is the salary/spending power of the group who were laid off representative of the entire workforce? Or does it skew in a particular direction.

I ask because one explanation of the disconnect is that consumer spending in general hasn’t actually dropped that much, it’s just moved away from in-person small businesses.
Why Strawberries Got Bigger
Formula 1 DeepRacer ProAm Special Event
Except the original attempt: public schools.
Whether or not you like/dislike EEE, the fact remains that MS openness to Embrace helps them today to quickly implement different technologies into Microsoft's own stack.

They may have stopped the "Extend & Extinguish" part, but they haven't forgotten how to Embrace.
Apple keeps private browsing tabs open until you close them - I think.
Are you taking inflation into account? A $60K starting salary in 1980 is equivalent to a $190K starting salary today.
Video tutorial on building your first iOS app
Could you throw out some names you liked? I tried See thinking it would be really good. I was unfortunately really disappointed and stopped watching after a little over halfway through the season. It diminished my faith in the platform because it was so heavily marketed.

Your comment makes me willing to give it another shot before my year is up.
I think we're mostly in agreement.

>If you have ANY third-party scripts running on your site you have a risk that they are spying on your users by choice or they've been hacked, e.g. Ticketmaster/Magecart[1].

>In both your examples, you'd want to restrict what third-party code lives on what part of the site. In a similar way, you don't want your adtech partners running code on your checkout pages. You want to remove the need to trust entirely.

Yes, I agree. I wrote my first post because I believed many users mistakenly thought that Stripe wouldn't execute until the user called loadStripe, as I found it unintuitive that Stripe actually loaded and began tracking before the app ever called the library. The post included steps for limiting Stripe to individual pages and using CSP to enforce protections.

>Your second scenario doesn't feel that realistic at all. You are worried that Stripe is going to have enough URLs logged to have a useful dating history for a user and then somebody is going to hack Stripe to gain access to this data (perhaps a nefarious employee), exfiltrate enough of it to reconstruct, then publish the history.

>If this is a concern, you should have total control over your entire infrastructure. If you are on AWS perhaps there's a chance that somebody will hack ELB so they can get a complete history of all your users too?

To clarify, I don't believe that it's the most likely vector of attack. If I'm a small enough player that I need to rely on Stripe for payment processing, Stripe almost undoubtedly has a better security team than I do.

I'm just saying that in line with your first point, the safest form of trust is no trust at all. If Stripe gives me the ability to limit how much data they collect from my site, it reduces the risk of the data being leaked in transit or in Stripe's storage. I agree those risks are low given Stripe's track record, but they're still higher than if Stripe wasn't collecting sensitive data at all.
I really curious what was their tact with that?
"We see based on your record that you're not worth as much as we thought..."
As the example originating this subthread shows, quantitative finance isn't even close to the only option for a lucrative career available to those educated in the hard sciences.
Pip 20.1 has been released
Yes, and it’s proven for me during the Covid-19 lockdown, but I’ve always suspected as much.
The case for optimising YouTube thumbnails BEFORE publishing
I'm not talking about banned communities, I'm talking about communities that didn't like the directions their moderators were taking.
For anyone like me wondering what a PGO is: https://source.android.com/devices/tech/perf/pgo
Just watched their tiling window managed demo: neat! I am going to steal some ideas from it for my tiling WM for Windows (hope they don't mind!).
Great Article on Naked Short Selling and Market Manipulation
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23037389
You certainly add a useful perspective, I am sure. However, by working in tech you aren't doing philosophy, you are doing tech.
I remember reading something someplace that was something like ... the problem with being old and full of wisdom is it's hard to share that wisdom with the people that need it most without sounding like an old condescending jerk. Plus, they won't listen anyways. The best you can hope for is that when they are old and full of wisdom they'll remember you and think "hey that old guy was right" . I know when I was 25 I was damn sure I knew better than anyone twice my age.
Basically the same here with variations across different State and local jurisdictions.
Under the hood of GraalVM JIT Optimizations (2018)
When a new guy on the team refers to base64 encoding as encryption. /me - oh you must be new here?

Serious note - welcome to the future. Nothing is private anymore.
> But the difference between the stupidities cherished by the Idiocracy set injecting fish cleaner, and the ones pushed in places like the Atlantic, is that the jackasses among the “expert” class compound their wrongness by being so sure of themselves that they force others to go along.

Damn. Taibbi's not looking to make this debate any calmer, is he?
main thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23007042
I feel the same way, and as someone who has struggled to make his open source projects look like anything other than roaring garbage, I am perplexed, and jealous, and guess somehow a little hopeful?

I can totally imagine making something like Sir Hat (sorry) a part-time project and, in an alternate universe where I am a better coder and more dedicated than I actually am, producing something super solid after a few years. I cannot, however, imagine any universe in which I would produce something that looked as good as this.

I recommended it to the Emacs developers (who are considering moving to some sort of forge-alike site) in part because it seems to fit the FSF's principles, but more because the aesthetics are what Emacs should aspire to: plain text that looks good.
Thanks for the response, I really appreciate it. I'll look into the tools you suggested. Our current processes are archaic and overdue for an upgrade.

> Shopify
I wish I could -- my industry requires some custom work that Shopify can't provide. It's frustrating, but I'll admit it's refreshing to be exposed to these new challenges. I guess I'm just a bit late to the party :)
> There's a reason many ancient religions forbid loaning money at interest entirely

There's also the jubilee[1] concept when it comes to debt, property rights and slavery. It's interesting that even in ancient times, both debt and property were recognized as forms of power and control similar to slavery.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilee_(biblical)
Python Insider: Pip 20.1 has been released
I don't see the problem. It's Amazon's money; they are entitled to spend it however they want.

I think a lot of people are mad at Amazon for various things; undercutting mom-and-pop businesses in niche markets, paying people to deliver packages almost for free, busting warehouse unions, counterfeit items, etc. The solution is to not fund Amazon. Move your servers elsewhere. Shop at Target. Ask your representatives to make stronger labor laws.

But all in all, I don't think it's intrinsically wrong to start selling an internal tool and then end up making a lot of money from it. If Amazon weren't dominating online retail, someone else would be. Nobody wants to go to a store. It's boring and there isn't a very good selection. That is not the fault of cloud computing.
Don't worry, the video actually mentions explicit support for XML in their Blockchain tools, too, around minute 46. Faxes too!
So one thing we're working hard to do- is minimize the status updates required. For example- we built a simple home/dashboard where statuses can be updated with one click and individuals can focus on their priority tasks during the sprint.

We feel strongly about minimizing the amount of time spent wading through tickets and updating statuses. Currently working on a few other ideas/features that are related to status changes based on source control. Stay tuned.

As for power differential, the question is how do you instill a sense of camaraderie in individual engineers, and enable managers to load sprints with actual team data vs subjective measures. We're still working on improving this front - but so far - our "home" feature has been liked by both engineers and engineering managers.