skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me explain a bit better. Who is getting it now and requiring medical attention might not be the same going forward. There are a limited number of high risk people. High risk people is not everyone.

For example, I heard a new report that said the Bronx NYC has the highest per capita C19 infaction rate of any community nationally. Freightening? Maybe. How many other communities are similar to the Bronx? Similarly, how many living situations are similar to assisted living facilities. Taking edge and atypical cases and extrapolating that out over 330 million isn't a good model.

Yes. C19 is highly contagious. But we also know - from data - it is more likely to kill the weak than the strong.
It's like #222 on #FFF ... not bad contrast?
@arkadiyt Thanks - I see your point. However, I believe you can also think about it as a service - similar to how Disqus can be added to your static site. That is, the site is static, but the results for the search are handled with a service. In this case the "service" - Elasticsearch - is tightly coupled to your static site's revision.
+1 Kudos for providing the repl.it tool.

The classroom/assignment feature [i] is absolutely brilliant! Also, now might be a great time to do another [ii] hackathon.

[i] https://docs.repl.it/classrooms/intro

[ii] https://repl.it/talk/announcements/Massively_Multiplayer_Hac...
Why not release a randomly selected sample of 100 comments?

A random sample should be sufficient to see whats going on, if its sufficiently widespread to affect results.
>They also haven't given you enough information to know the size of the pro-NN batch they investigated, so we still don't know that it's "massive."

There's thousands of people who said they didn't leave the respective comments. That's enough to be statistically significant and to extrapolate across the whole sample.

There might be selection bias, as only a small percentage of people responded.
You might want to consider jumping ship and go into the RHEL/CentOS world.

Stability and predictability is their main strenght. Each release is supported for a veeeeery long time.
This reminds me of the LP3 player attached to the parallel port (LPx). You could cat an mp3 file (up to 192 kbps) to /dev/lp1 it and it would play it back in hardware. Worked with almost any computer, and also had with plugins for XMMS and Winamp.
I expect to see a rise in SSD form factor home NAS boards & enclosures. The pain-point right now is the PSU. If its built in it usually incurs the fan.
This was for a company with just under 300k employees - you need approval from multiple people for everything.

From the marketing, blogs etc, Ubuntu Core does seem to be targeted at everyone, not just people that would drop $15k/y like it was nothing.

It's almost like a trap - it sounds perfect for IoT, so you start wasting your time building a PoC, and then much later you find out about the costs. And as another commenter mentioned, they also charge you for doing updates on top!
This isn't really that helpful since actual numbers arent updated that frequently, you'll get erroneous reads etc. Its also probably actively harmful for your mental health to keep looking at numbers you cant do anything about. To each their own I guess
Oh I laughed so hard!!
Computing has come a loooooong way since the early 80s.
Oh what a gift is for humanity, what a great tool (not the specific word processor but hey, we've all made mistakes).
Snap doesn’t work well in distributions that don’t support Apparmor, so you will run into various issues.

The biggest concern I have with Snap is that it’s hardcoded to a store controlled by Canonical. The store itself is closed source. Snaps can be side loaded, but doing so is a huge pain. Snap also requires you sign a CLA with Canonical, allowing them to relicense the ecosystem however they see fit.
You are wrong. There is a printable steganography along with the pure digital.
Yeah, it's because (1) I started this doc over a year ago when I was still at Salesforce (which owns/employees use Quip) and (2) AFAIK Google Docs still doesn't have native code block support :/
I think I'd be able to do all of these in my daily work, probably not as efficiently, with minor references to syntax guides (I don't use window functions often enough).

In an interview, presumably my logic would, hopefully, shine through minor issues of syntax.

Where would that put me? Maybe "okay to decent" when dealing with "medium-hard" questions?

I would fail utterly at DBA management SQL and stored procedures, my responsibilities skew towards data analysis.
My preference is history podcasts with single narrators which are generally a fixed length 45 minutes to an hour.

You Must Remember This
A good podcast on the history of Hollywood and has some interesting insights if you're into old movies. This episode on Marilyn Monroe was interesting just to show how little she started out with: http://www.youmustrememberthispodcast.com/episodes/youmustre...

The History of Ancient Greece
This can get bogged down in terminology some times, but its necessary due to the amount of detail the podcast gets into.
This episode on Pericles and his role in Athenian democracy I found to be interesting because of the details on the extremes they went to:
http://www.thehistoryofancientgreece.com/2017/05/044-democra...

Tides of History
This has a lot of flavor and is pretty good at framing topics. I really liked the insight that Charles V was in a sense the Paul Atreides of Middle Age Europe.
https://wondery.com/shows/tides-of-history/
Why would they need Bluetooth permission for?
It would be helpful to show output result for each.
> Many components for making safety-critical systems are commonly available in non-certified variants.

Can you elaborate on this?
Agreed, if the top contributors fell in the 95% bucket :)
Imo EVERY senior/principal engineer is underpayed if compared to juniors based on contribution value. And this is OK
I'm working with nextjs... mostly out of a desire to learn it because I've heard so much about it.
George Orwell Review of “WE” by E. I. Zamyatin (1946)
Yea, “ First determine the name of your WiFi interface by issuing the command : nmcli d “

I knew that, but only in the back of my head. If the internet wasn’t working, you know, a WiFi problem, I would have a very tough time remembering that. Which is the point, trying to remember the voodoo.

And if I had to ask grandma to type in nmcli d then read me what she sees? Well, if anyone wants to prove me wrong, I’ll set my grandma up on Linux and give her your cell number.

I get that there are a lot of Linux fans here, but be realistic, it’s not for most people and never will be. You need autism or have never worked outside of tech lack the empathy of how mass computer users interact with their machines.
That WWII example is Operations-Research. The key point here is that the 'counter-intuitive' part has solid data science behind it. P.M.S. Blackett was a nobel class scientist. So I guess the key learning is: be formidably smart. It might also need to be said both Blackett and Dyson (I believe) bitterly reflected on their advice being misunderstood.
Jesus, this is a bad article. It's filled with several very bad attempts at humor and buries the lede but my main problem is that it's just wrong.

"there is an enduring mystery to dirt: where does it come from?", "Mystery of dirt’s origins is a thorny experimental problem"

Why would they try to pretend nobody knows where soil comes from!? Did they not even bother to Google the word "soil"? "Soil formation" is the third heading on Wikipedia. There's an entire field dedicated to soil formation: pedogenesis! Soil science isn't some new start-up field where everything's unknown - soil scientists can give you a pretty damned good estimate of not only where soil comes from but how many nutrients it will have over time, what microbes are in it, what will happen to the soil over time, etc etc.

Unfortunately this kind of thing seems to be par for the course for SciAm. A writer picks out some random new research and writes about it as if it's groundbreaking. Unfortunately, 99.5% of research isn't the discovery of DNA, it's "we tested if bacteria A has more xyz than bacteria B and the difference was not statistically significant."

I'm reminded of https://xkcd.com/683/
Good catch -- I can add that in as an alternate solution. Thanks!
eh...

In enterprise/saas... you eventually always have a solution looking for a problem. You have a salesforce or whatnot, and you have to sell it.
$500 per hour, 8 hours a day, 5 days a week gives $20k a week, $80k a month or (let's be charitable and say you earn a $40k bonus) $1 million a year. I don't know what the split between benefits and pure salary is in America, but let's put it at 2/3. Does the average engineer at a big corp really pull in $666.000 a year..?
Of course!

Now the thing to do is for me to recreate your list on github.
All software has bugs. Also, how are the application developers supposed to test for every single environment?

In an ideal world, you could get away with pushing all updates automatically, but I for one would rather not get my production server get totalled because of a botched update.

*edit to fix question mark
I’m not using “ignorant” as a pejorative here. I literally mean this in the sense of not realizing that other systems exist and are dramatically less awful. I too used to be ignorant here, until I started using Linux extensively before eventually switching to a Mac.

And yes, I understand that there are people who are forced to use Windows professionally or for gaming (like myself), there are people who use Windows because they don’t like (or want to pay for) Mac hardware, and I understand that there are even people who aren’t ignorant about other operating systems who prefer Windows. On the whole though I conclude that the overwhelming majority of users who could use a Mac and don’t simply do so out of a combination of unawareness and/or inertia.

To your second point, literally none of my complaints are something I could have any possible level of control over, no matter my level of personal investment. Windows’ nested layers of awfulness driven by slavish adherence to backward compatibility are quite literally something I could never visibly impact even if I dedicated my life to doing so. The fact that Mac apps, by and large, try to be “good citizens” of the platform while Windows is a free-for-all of developers doing anything and everything however they see fit is in a similar boat.
> Engineers don't take you seriously, if you act as though you have any doubt in yourself

As an engineer, me and my firsthand experience do not agree with this.

On the other hand, where I worked the entire team is involved and onboard with setting goals and prioritizing things that need to be done. We absolutely don't expect our manager to understand more than we do on our service.
Thurded
Gnomoria is a game halfway between the two
Yes, forgot to mention they also charge for updates! Pricing page[0]

[0] https://ubuntu.com/pricing/devices
Does my balanced ternary expansion obviate the need for documentation? No. Drop a reference to the paper/website describing the algorithm you're doing. If it's, say, trig that you're doing, use clear variable names and explain how you derived the formula.
Show HN: Create your own mobile ordering app without code, using a Google Sheet
> An avid practitioner of retail therapy, he's excited to share his findings with you.

Yikes, is retail therapy really a thing? Assuming this is a real website, there are so many things both wrong and sad here. :( You don't need to buy things (especially on Aliexpress) to be happy, to enjoy life, to make friends.

I hope the lockdown many people here are experiencing will at least make us a bit more aware of the madness of ultra-consumption we live in.

Edit: okay fine, I clicked on the ”Terms of Service”. I still don't really get the point of this website. Can you explain?
Android trojan EventBot abuses accessibility services to clear out bank accounts
Could a neural network have predicted this pandemic’s impact?
No primary source listed in that news report, which makes the news highly suspect. Preinstall after pandemic would be easily challenged in courts. Govt can get away with it now because of epidemic emergency laws.
Not sure why, but on my phone it's barely readable.
Show HN: Ballcone is a fast and lightweight server-side Web analytics solution
Behaviors around locking and concurrency are not standard. Not only do they vary widely across RDBMS implementations, they also vary depending on how you configure a specific RDBMS implementation in many cases.

Some databases use lock structures that automatically detect and resolve deadlocks, so from a user standpoint there are no deadlocks but deadlock resolution has visible side effects that are implementation defined.
I mean, he's not wrong. The world is scary as shit and after making lots of money building technology and being sold on 'making the world a better place' and it turning into making more money for someone else technologists have to feel that they should do something to help out.

I've even fallen for that trap, writing a little Android app that can help businesses put up signs about COVID-19 after the 'grand reopening of the US' without realizing that most of those people will go bankrupt and have their live savings and have their future crushed by something we might not be able to stop without burying millions of Americans.
Did Firefox not ship with widevine?
Hey guys,

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It can help business owners get set up a mobile ordering app using a Google Sheet. No programming skills required. No registration needed.

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Zuper Zmall Zound Zynth (JavaScript Sound Generator)
Agreed. I can see this driving some people crazy.
It is to evoke empathy.
You can't write query plans directly because you would have to manually take into account a number of factors that the query planner considers for you automatically, such as size of the table, statistics on the distribution of values, whether there are indexes that could be used to speed the query, and so on. Some SQL dialects (like Microsoft's T-SQL) do give you some ability to influence the decisions the query planner makes, though, like forcing it to use specific indexes, or forcing it to use scans or seeks.
I agree with the absurd for any gc language, but doesnt mean it is not happening:
https://plumbr.io/blog/garbage-collection/revealing-the-leng...

Would love to see a worst case analysis for go though. (My worry is, that long running applications are more prone to extensive gc stw, since os starts to swap pages, and gc tries to access them, might take a while)

Of course if you can guarantee that go always has stw gc for less than a second (or even 10 seconds) that would be great (and make go a hard real time language, of course not a very fast one)
Let's put aside Schmidt for a moment, I think it's naive to assume other nations won't have their best talent work on ML, image recognition and AI.

That being said, I am not American, so my opinion on this is irrelevant.
> There is almost no one that is worth tens of thousands per hour.

Sure, but there are plenty of business problems worth solving even if it takes millions. You're not paying for the person, you're paying for someone to solve your problem.
That's odd seeing as (somewhat to the chagrin of many SAFE Network community members) the MaidSafe team generally does not participate in conferences. Maybe you're confusing SAFE with something like Substratum or Skycoin or some such...

Also, MaidSafe consistently shares a dev update every week Perhaps now's a great opportunity for you to read up on the current state of development. Here's the most recent update: https://safenetforum.org/t/safe-network-dev-update-april-30-...
Just disable snapd after you have achieved your ideal configuration. But yes, this should be a setting somewhere...
I have three machine, one is Windows, one is Ubuntu, and one is Mac. The statement was relative. I never said Windows was understandable. I said more understandable. Nineties-era Debian, I felt I understood every piece of, to where I could fill in details with documentation or code in a few minutes.

2020-era Ubuntu developed the same layeritis as Windows, only worse. Microsoft cleaned up a little bit from the bad, old Windows 95 days too. Windows 10 is slightly simpler than Windows 95, but a heck of a lot more stable.
Only the old Mac Minis from 2012 and before have user expandable RAM, the newer ones have the RAM and storage soldered on.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205041
Who the f downvoted that

Pathetic. The internet has been taken over by hoards of self-righteous, naive, know-it-all's from Silicon Valley who for the most part grew up in the Suburbs living sheltered lives...Ideologues who have spent most of their life in school and staring at a computer screen...

We are doomed

Link to rule 105
https://www.sec.gov/about/offices/ocie/risk-alert-091713-rul...

Compilation of financial scandals (probably the most extensive online)
https://thefinancialoligarchs.com/scandals/
Oh wow, that contrast is terrible (Chrome Mobile, Android).
Give us a sample of what you're showcasing. At the moment you're just saying "GIVE ME AN EMAIL" to recieve... what?
Yes -- making this a proper webpage with an embedded SQL editor like selectstarsql.com does would be a good next step
> IMO Docker and containers in general are deployment tools, not packaging systems

Obviously it sits at the boundary, but a "Dockerfile" is (at least when properly used) a recipe for reliably reproducing a specific version of software packaged in a format that can be deployed to all sorts of systems with absolutely minimal dependence on host configuration.

That's what people who want a "mission critical Snap" almost certainly want.
That's how it can tell you were very close to someone -- all of the other tracking apps do it that way, too.
If anyone is reading this and considers $150 per hour "low", do reach out to the email in my profile. Here in the Netherlands the going rate for a AI engineer is more around $90, so I'd be happy to pick up the work.
Great resource. Thanks for sharing.
Do you have any more resource recomondations besides the ones in the article? Maybe a book?
Enclosure prices are ridiculous, someone needs to enter that market and slaughter it.
And that's why we now have BOTH /etc/debian_version AND /etc/os-release. Systemd didn't lead to debian getting rid of the former. So now, not only do you have people writing code that behaves differently (or, more likely, breaks) on different OS versions, it has two different files that it will look at for this.

I wonder how long it'll be before the contents of that file start resembling a user-agent string, complete with "Ubuntu-16.10/Compatible"
+1 Insightful.

> GNOME Calculator was put on the ISO as a snap to help us test the whole “seeding snaps” process, not because it was a fast-moving, CVE-prone applications. Chromium, Firefox and LibreOffice fall more into that category.

Ok so the whole snap thing comes down to updating browsers. Is this for real? I want the web, not the browser to change daily, or to consume more bandwidth than my www usage :)
Blender Motion Tracking (Room Transformation)
Hm, doesn't sound like the MaidSafe I know.
Started working at MaidSafe last year, after being a community member for some years.
There's only been devs at the company since end of last year.
But anyway, back in the days when there was marketing people at MaidSafe, if anything I only perceived them as very discrete and humble - almost excessively so - and that was not only compared to the crazy crypto world, but to any type of business.
I guess others can make up their mind about that thing by themselves.
I understand that some people value their privacy above all else, but balancing this with decent anti-spam is really tricky. As someone who runs a (not large, not small) Discord guild, I personally would find it impossible to keep any public guild of any decent size running if the anti-spam were any less protective than it currently is.

It's unfortunate that this excludes some users but I think those users end up being a vocal minority. I think the benefit here (conversations without spam) outweighs the cost of privacy. And could one not just get a burner phone or something to satisfy the phone requirement?

Obviously there is a place in the world for FOSS services that preserve privacy or federate so you can manage your privacy effectively, but I think Discord eschews this for user convenience and it ends up being a tradeoff that a lot of people agree with.

(note that I will be experimenting with Matrix bridging and such in the near term future, because I too don't absolutely love Discord. But I can at least say I understand and agree with the tradeoffs and the intentions behind them.)
Or you could go the Amazon AWS for C route and give make a define with the name of MilicsecondsPerSecond, and a separate define that makes that at 1000.

If you want to go full spectrum the other way.
Yep, Ollien made a similar point. Currently some of the questions have expected output but not all.
How are humans good at chess?
I think it's not quite that simple.

Individual HR people may not all be critical thinkers, but HR people do salary research and keep up with trends in hiring. They have their own professional communities where they discuss this stuff. Even if they aren't all individually doing it, some within the HR communities look at such things and talk about it with others. They use this to advise each other and their execs if nothing else.

HR industry groups could, as a body, look into whether "the industry standard" is getting hiring results as well as employee churn, satisfaction, and company-reported satisfaction with their hiring outcomes and make that information available to HR people and then to whomever needs to take it into account in strategic decisions.
Quality pixelart is more expensive than 3D assets. You get all angles and bone based animation from a model while you have to draw every animation frame in every angle manually with 2D approach. On top of that a 3D world brings easier customisation and reusability of assets.
Anybody know anything about a new Bitcoin mining site RastBTC?
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1256342997643526151.html
This is the silliest thing I’ve read all day. Did you read what you wrote?
A general method to synthesize and sinter bulk ceramics in seconds
Thank you for this! You concisely answered the question I kept having throughout the wikipedia page and these threads. Obviously there's a world in which stack programming lets you be productive, its flourished, but what is that environment? Bootstrapping, new hardware, working at pre-OS levels, these are all places I don't have to think very much about, so I appreciate the reminder and context for why Forth is powerful there.