skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at the site, and the authors comment, this looks like a quick weekend project made for fun.

I wouldn’t spend too much time reading into it or critiquing it’s honesty. It clear the author is just making fun of Goop through the medium of AI. Making out as anything more than that would be like critiquing The Onion for not providing sources.
I broadly agree with you here. I believe what you're saying is that once you're economically productive in your first language, you get the most bang out of your second language by picking a second language that encourages concepts and idioms not encouraged by your first language. In this way, your second language is really there to improve the way you think about your first language.

However, I would word (2) a bit differently, otherwise tons of people will be learning INTERCAL and BrainFuck. For a second language, consider only languages that are at least popular enough to have good learning resources. (This is a pretty low bar... there are probably hundreds of such languages.) Look at which concepts and idioms are encouraged by each language, ignore those concepts and idioms encouraged by your first language, and try and score the usefulness of the remaining concepts and idioms. Do a bit of research reading up on the pros/cons of the idioms and concepts to help you score them.

The goal here is to pick up concepts and idioms by learning your second language, which will then diversify the way you think about your first language.

I would absolutely look at the machine code generated by one of your languages (or bytecode, if none of your languages compile to native code or have a JIT that can dump out assembly) to understand what's going on, but I wouldn't suggest learning to write assembler as one of your two first languages. Most of the usefulness of assembler can be gained from learning to read it.
That's true - it's why I said you need a native library (something like numpy, but as a NIF) to back it up.
You have been though trauma - whether or not it was self inflicted or your fault or anyone else's fault is nto the issue here at the moment. You are still in the midst of it (gathered from your writing) and it will pass (hopefully).

Look around and see if there is something you can do that involves service to your community (however you define that). For me volunteering as an EMT on weekends has helped me a lot.

Finding something where you feel like what you are doing is meaningful - even if in a very local small way - gets you grounded.

Good luck!
With aging populations and more expensive healthcare funding, health inflation is far higher.

The only real way to compare is to create a healthcare inflation index on a per capita basis from a group of like countries and look at funding that way.
Realistically that means no brand lasting longer than about ten years, and the total elimination of lots of century-old brands that people have fond relationships with. It's a stupidly excessive hammer that fails to address the real problems. And it's probably going to suffer the obvious free speech challenges.
I really like languages like Rust and Go and they certainly are good languages and I would love to use either on a regular basis as a freelance webdev.

But with two recent projects I‘ve worked on neither would be even feasible.

In one there was a requirement to generate custom designed PDFs, and in the other I had to implement authentication via SAML.

Other language ecosystems that would be feasible in these cases: Nodejs, .NET, Java or Clojure because it can live in either of those.

PHP doesn’t just have mature, battle tested and well documented web-frameworks. It also has libraries which do complex things that are very unattractive like PDF generation/manipulation and complicated standards like SAML.
Guayaquil Ecuador is hot and humid and they have a pretty bad death rate.
Where in the technical document does it say anything about a "phone model number"? It explicitly describes what data is to be sent at the different stages, and I see no mention of anything like that.

Where does it say anything about associating a name with the installation ID?

The risk of potentially commingling the graph built from notifications with other data sets is explicitly acknowledged and discussed, and is obviously the big drawback of a centralised notification system like this. Precautions to be taken to prevent abuse are also discussed.

It seems to me that most of your objections here, and in your comment on the other thread, are attacking straw men and ignoring the technical details and logical arguments presented in the document.
It sounds like the recyclers need to co-ordinate with their customers better. If they can't send it in unlocked then refuse the item. It can't be that hard to administer.

Personally I'm glad these devices are useless if they are stolen.
That area (North side of Paris) is interesting and very important, I think.

First that's where CDG airport is. This is the second largest airport in Europe by passenger traffic and the main gateway into Paris for tourists (not least Chinese tourists).

Second, that's where Paris' Gare du Nord is. This is the largest train station in Europe by traffic, where trains from CDG airport arrive, and the start of high speed trains to London, Brussels, Amsterdam.

So to me it's not surprising that this virus arrived there early.

But it also means that the area should be monitored closely, not only by French authorities, but by British ones, etc. as well because any highly contagious disease that shows up there will be around Europe in no time.
That is impressive.
I wonder how it would look like if you would show all stuff flying up there! Would it be like earth has a messy bad hair day?
The lockdown measures can be shown to have very clear effects merely by looking at the data. I've tracked data directly from John's Hopkins & state dept of health websites, and just off the top of my head without looking at the spreadsheet can say that the growth rate massively (tho insufficiently) is reduced by the lockdown.

Without lockdown, the daily increases in cases & deaths showed a doubling rate of every 3-4 days, sometimes faster. This is also what was reported in Italy earlier in the crisis.

Now, the doubling days in the locked down areas consistently exceeds 25 dsys.

This is not subtle, it is blatantly empirically obvious in the data. No need for theorizing.

I mention that the lockdown may be insufficient, or insufficiently implemented because the growth factor is still on a plateau generally exceeding 1.0,which means that we still have a net spreading, or positive growth rate, i.e., it is not yet being extinguished, only slowed.

So we will need to do more. From looking at other results, that will involve ubiquitous masks, glasses, gloves ang overwhelming program of testing, tracking, & targeted isolation.

Meanwhile, another MIT study (iirc) showed the effects of minor lockdown violations. With full isolation the societal exposure is limited to the essentworkets and their families, about 26% of the population. But if only one household member goes visiting others, the societal exposure increases to 90%++. Just a little casual 'it's no big deal' attitude screws up the whole thing.

Stay well out there, folks.
>The governments of the west need to be capable, but still protect the privacy of their people - that isn't an easy problem

You're right, it's a hard problem. And until these companies or institutions can prove that they are doing this, why should we trust them?

>who haven’t even tried to read about the protocol they’re working on.

The companies will collect and store the tracking data, and the government will, one way or another, have access to it. What is so difficult to understand about that?

"It will only be used for good" is laughably naive, as history had demonstrated repeatedly.

>If you care about these issues then you're the type of person that should be involved in solving it

Protesting and making your opinions known is way to help solve the problem.
I was concerned about that myself, but so far so good. I suspect the ability to charge on either side makes a difference. I usually plug in on whatever side is closer to a wall and out of the way. Combined with all the other usb-c/tb benefits, i think the tradeoff is worth it.
> This is absolutely not the case, and you know it. Almost every language has a wealth of HTTP tools and frameworks, and many of them come built-in.

Lots of languages have HTTP tools and frameworks, but not many of them are even comparable in scope to Symfony or Laravel. Out of curiosity, can anyone point me at some frameworks in other languages that have the following things built-in?

* Route matching and dispatch

* URL generation (generate a URL for some route) including signed and temporary URLs

* Middlewares

* Abstractions for dealing with incoming HTTP requests (getting headers, body, uploaded files etc.)

* Abstractions for creating and sending HTTP responses (headers, body etc.)

* CSRF protection

* Database drivers for a couple of backends (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite etc.)

* Database migrations

* Database seeding

* Views/HTML rendering

* Logging capabilities (configurable backends like rotating log files, syslog, Slack etc.)

* Sessions with different storage backends (filesystem, Redis etc.)

* Request validation ("this field is required, has to be a string, between x and y characters long" etc.)

* Translation and localization

* Broadcasting through WebSockets

* Caching with a couple of backends (filesystem, database, Redis etc.)

* Email sending with a couple of backends (SMTP, Mailgun, SES etc.)

* Notifications with different channels (Email, SMS etc.) and backends (SMTP, Mailgun, Twilio etc.)

* Job queues with different backends (database, Redis, SQS etc.)

* Scheduled jobs

* Authentication (different flavors like regular sessions, API tokens etc.)

* Authorization

* Hashing

* Encryption

* Query builder

* ORM with relations between objects, JSON serialization etc.

* CLI commands with option/argument parsing, colored output, progress bars etc.

* Events, including async handling of events

* File storage with a couple of backends (local filesystem, S3 etc.)

* Pagination

* Payment integration

* Full text search with different backends (database, Algolia etc.)

This is basically the feature set of Laravel, I probably missed some things too.

And I don't mean "oh yeah I'm sure there's a library for that" - I mean fully integrated, first-party, tested, dead simple to use and available by default.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I seriously doubt this just exists in any language.
Yes, we had got 6 AMD first gen Ryzen CPUs at my old job. Some of them were super instable on Linux. I tried a few magic solution and tricks but they always crashed eventually.

In my new job, I have a co-worker who is an AMD fan boy. He also had a first gen Razen CPU on his workstation. He got an Intel CPU after one crash and everything is fine since. He is still upset about it. Though he got a new Ryzen CPU at home and he says it's stable.
> it’s doomed to stay that way and probably become extinct

Well yes, it probably is. That's another reason why everyone is ignoring it.
If nature did it 3 times (more, we now know), it’s a bit presumptuous to say humans won’t be able to.
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> However, the CSS was generated. From YAML. The YAML was generated from JSON. the JSON was pulled from mongo. The Mongo was updated through a strictly validated XSLT that had an enumeration of colors.

I thought you were exaggerating to make a joke. Sigh.

> I left. Company is worth over $100 million today, looks like I'm the loser I guess.

Somebody played the lottery and won. 99.9999% played and lost.

You are not a "loser" for not playing the lottery.
If the virus jumped species naturally from bats, chances are transmission to humans happened more than once, through a long time period.

There could very well be a less infectious, less severe strain circulating out there.
> - What is medical inflation compared to overall inflation?

In the G7, per year

1970-1980 13%
1980-1990 8%
1990-2000 5%
2000-2010 6%
2010-2018 4%

> What do other countries spend?

Far more than the UK

> - Are we getting value for money?

A notoriously difficult question with healthcare

> - Are key statistics getting worse despite increase budgets?

That depends on how you define the statistics, which is massively subjective

> - How does population factor in to spending?

Older populations lead to more health spending
They are apparently under an extremely strict lock down though.

Still I suspect the extreme differences between countries and even regions between countries will be studied for many years to come.
Since you mention a faster JBuilder alternative,

I enjoy using jb:

https://github.com/amatsuda/jb
You are the only one making a false statement
People doing real jobs with their computers know this.
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The mantle is (mostly) not liquid. It can transmit shear waves, which a liquid cannot do. The convection is occurring in a solid, by plastic deformation.

What's sad is that Kelvin could have used his reasoning to determine that this convection must have been occurring, and from that inferred that continents likely drift around, driven by convection. But he was driven by religious convictions to try to demonstrate evolution couldn't have occurred because there wasn't enough time.
As the paper notes, there are also systems that are vulnerable to various kinds of abuse by malicious actors and there are systems that are not. The price of using an unauthenticated, distributed system instead is likely to be greater vulnerability to some of those forms of attack and/or a dependency on verifiable test results that causes possibly very damaging delays in sending out notifications.
Very polite, what can I say.

Ok, I'll rephrase that:

Django and RoR aren't that far off.
Probably similar to using dreamweaver visual editor vs. writing code to make a website.
> I feel like as a society we've swung so far away from institutional trust that now nothing good can actually emerge. The anti-vax movement is a perfect example where the collective work of thousands of people over decades to save millions of lives just gets tossed aside because some celebrity 'feels' like there's a connection that isn't there, and in the process, the level of public harm becomes severe

This is not an accident. A great deal of work has gone into destroying public trust and the capacity of institutions to make impartial decisions based on data. Partly from the profit motive, partly for destructive political purposes. And a lot of people in the tech industry and on here actively support the right to destroy that work by posting the most thoroughly debunked and dangerous lies on popular tech platforms - again for their own ideological purposes.
- No proper multithreading

Maybe you are not familiar with PHP multithreading in recent times but I have been using https://github.com/krakjoe/pthreads and works perfectly. No process forking.
you can translate your thoughts into sound without having to have any sort of manual dexterity or years of practice
I have a very cpu intensive application in Rust, that is able to use all cores given to it.

I am thinking about going for the Epyc 7502p with 32 cores but having a hard time knowing if the Threadripper counterpart with 32 cores would be better given its higher frequency.

Guess it is very hard to answer but which one would you go for? Will the threadripper perform much better?
It's painful, isn't it. I think about it again from time to time, and it reminds me to take my time as you do...
This can be considered another interface to making music. You can “code” to make music, live if you wish.
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And literally every data from every country that has been on lockdown proves you wrong.
OT: why are you "polskibus"?
> the variance of the incompetence of US presidents isn't very high

Bush: thousands dead through incompetence in the USA (Katrina, 9/11)
Obama:
Trump: thousands dead through incompetence and malice in the USA (ICE, COVID-19)

I've taken out the "overseas wars" because that's shared across all of them.
why aren't the "more expressive" (which in this post seems to be a synonym for "functional") languages used in these fields

Because very often the best solution does not win, which is why we are still using x86(_64), Unix, etc.

Python is a good example of worse is better. A functional language could provide more elegant abstractions. But for most people the ML APIs that Python provides are good enough. By taking a pragmatic approach, Python was faster to capture some niches, including machine learning and data science. Now we are at a point that even if another language had better abstractions and had similar library support, it would face an uphill battle because of inertia. Why would someone invest in learning another language for machine learning when Python is good enough?

To me it seems that only a language that has both a good model development story and a good deployment story stands a chance to compete with Python, since deployment (especially on mobile/embedded devices) is a weak point of the Python ML ecosystem.
> SARS-CoV-2 is the virus. covid-19 is the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2.

it is very simple to remember: the one named after the disease is the virus, the one named after the virus is the disease.

/facepalm.
What was ever 'tech' about Juul?
This is part one of a two part essay.

Part two: https://www.cringely.com/2020/04/17/covid-19-lessons-from-th...
Source needed on that first claim. I've spent a decent amount of time in some developing countries and I came out with no confidence that these types of labor laws are ordinarily enforced, if they even exist. I think you grossly overestimate these protections for relatively low-skilled labor outside of the developed world.

I'm not taking the claim you replied to at face value (it's exceedingly extreme to even be plausibly true) but they at least included a "probably" to allow for some doubt.
"the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes. History teems with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not suppressed forever, it may be thrown back for centuries."

– John Stuart Mill, On Liberty https://www.utilitarianism.com/ol/two.html
> How many racists would you guess are in the USA?

Obviously that depends on how you define "racist". If you define it as "votes for an explicit racist from a racist party espousing distinctly racist policies", about 62M.
> $5,000 display

Ahh yeah the display that when you criticize the price people cried it was a great deal because it was up to spec with $30,000 screens. Then when tested it can't actually function where you would use one of those because it's not quite up to spec you get told "What do you expect? It's $5000 not $30,000"

So what do we have? Just an overpriced screen that can't be used for the professional work it was claimed to be for for YouTuber tech reviewers to show off with.
i think the whole point is that some of those things are not 100% necessary to build great stuff.
That's called Minutes[1] and is super helpful to have.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minutes
Sicp, the ultimate.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/...
So cute. What are some use-cases for these reflective features?
Juul is owned by big tobacco (Philip Morris).
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> I wouldn't care so much if it's optional.

This is exactly the argument that android/ios apps, google accounts etc, is it optional or not. I couldn't go to the gym where I paid in advance because I didn't have supported phone (latest android or ios). You'll always have a choice right, now it's the choice to wash your clothes by hand. Who knows next time you might not get an apartment without a gov approved android/ios app on your phone, it's a brave good old world again.
Where does it say the government is limited to that?
> which doesn't happen for the reactions involved in the Sun

You might want to rephrase that, after all a mass loss occurs in any reaction, it's just not as significant as a whole nucleon.
Little tangent, but what do you consider better than Unix? I don’t have much experience with anything else so I’m curious.
> but pretty hard to proceed with some code that works with a DB when the connection can't be established

When you can't query your DB, you hit your resident memory cache. Redis, Memcached, etc. You probably have background threads that do cache invalidation, queue management, etc.

You frequently have to be more reliable than your database.

> he responded that it was not required in a web context, as web servers already have threads per request so its a mute point.

I use multiple threads in a single request flow frequently. Dispatching requests to other services or data stores, updating in-memory caches or queues (not Redis, but living within the app itself), etc. It's an important tool.

> Ok now you have just thrown away one of the main benefits of PHP. Remember, Rasmus is a C programmer, not a PHP programmer, so he wanted to leverage that HUGE library of existing C-code from his new scripting language, from the very beginning, deliberately by design.

Good for him. I don't see why that matters for anyone else. It's ugly and inconsistent, takes time to memorize, and leads to errors.

> Yes because each request is a synchronous thread, as described above above. By design.

This limits you to writing basic CRUD. And so many other languages offer this.
Yeah definitely easier to deploy on a raspberry than docker but means an extra device
no PHP framework is similar to the thing that NextJS/Reactis doing. The output is the same (well, isn’t the point of web framework is to spit out HTML?) but the methodology is totally different.
> So who is to judge whether or not he should be allowed to spread his ideas?

People who don't think you should make up stuff in medical studies? Which he has a documented history of doing.

Or people who don't think a half-arsed study of questionable value should be held up as a breakthrough against COVID-19 when it demonstrably is not?
> Instead it has to use fashionable technology and be extremely complicated so other programmers can see how incredibly clever they are!

You are describing "CV-driven development", where people want to use heavily marketed technology brands in their CV as a substitute for real skill and experience.
It is partly recirculated and it is a good thing.

The recirculated air is filtered, so viruses and bacteria are not really a problem. What recirculation brings is better airflow and humidity.

On a plane, the outside air is incredibly cold and dry. The cold is not a problem: air is heated by the engines before it enters the cabin. Humidifying the air would be a problem however as it would require heavy humidifiers and water tanks.

The idea that 100% of the air is recirculated is obviously wrong, we would all die of hypoxia it it was.
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The only issue of that I still encounter is hosters misconfiguring the php.ini, rarely.

There is no shell accessible on these servers, it's on the project to include all dependencies. Composer in this world is strictly not for users, but only for developers. That's a good thing.
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still, no proper multithreading, in comparison with Java, C#, Elixir...