skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is that for someone starting out, web development looks complex. And it is. I know it because I teach this stuff. Ignoring 99% of the industry and use the bare minimum to write a web app is something an expert does. When you’re a beginner you lack the knowledge to recognize expertise. And when most tutorials suggest a heavy stack you‘ll likely stick with the majority. And even when you’re lucky and learn how to write simple web apps from scratch, CSS, HTML and JS are anything but sensible technologies, even with the latest additions that admittedly improved things a lot.
Show HN: A pipeline orchestration system for collaborative distributed computing
Hello HN,

Today we are launching DockGrid, a pipeline orchestration system that enables the user to connect any Linux machine into a computational grid.

The main purpose of our platform is to make better use of local computational resources. Be it a server, a workstation, a desktop, or even notebooks, you can create a grid (and clusters) to run your pipelines and save money on cloud computing.

We are in an early stage, so the product still has some rough edges, but we realized that with this COVID situation and all the recent layoffs in IT we needed to accelerate our launch and try to help.

So if you are a biotech or a research organization doing work related to COVID, send us an email and we will be glad to extend your trial to up to six months.

Would love to hear your feedback.
Happy processing!

https://www.dockgrid.com
If you read the articles, I would say that the companies listed above (like the NYT) are not the ones outsourcing, the outsourcing is quite limited in scope, and mostly is design jobs, not writing jobs.

I thought it was a great analogy.
Nice tutorial, can you do one with Vanilla JS as I don't use React.
Rights are not limited to "legal" rights.
I’ll do comments first and then code. It’s a lot faster for me to keep a flow and pseudocode and then write the code in between. If the comments are two pedestrian afterwards (increment i), I will erase the comments.

I started this technique early in my career back in the late 90s after reading “Code Complete”.

It also helps me to pick back up faster if I get interrupted.
Who can say. Different owners may have different priorities.
I hope DEFCON can figure it out also. They have a lot less money to pull it off though. Sad. One of the few things I was looking forward to this year.
Hey - maintainer of ReasonReact here. We don't believe in mandating the tools that people use and there are plenty of good reasons to use TS, Flow, PureScript, Rust, etc. Folks on the Messenger Web team in Facebook like Reason as their language of choice. Reason is used heavily on Messaging code in the old facebook.com and in this rebuilt version.

The rebuilding of facebook.com was done quickly and involves almost every web team at Facebook. Almost all of these folks are familiar with Flow and only some are familiar with Reason. Asking every engineer at FB to learn Reason at the same time in addition to the already massive number of new things would have been adding unnecessary risk to this already incredibly risky project.
IANAAccountant, but I think the investment was in the past, and this announcement is that they are ditching the investment. But I could be reading that wrong.
I think it totally makes sense why you would feel that way.

I do want to mention that we know that somewhere between 25-50% of COVID-19 cases appear to be entirely asymptomatic (as opposed to pre-symptomatic). So almost half of people who get it won't even realize it, of those with symptoms, only a small fraction will go on to experience the serious respiratory issues that characterize COVID-19.

So it makes sense that you know first-hand how horrible breathing problems are. But I just wanted to be clear that, it's actually not irrational for someone to not want to stay inside for months to avoid a disease that in their specific case would almost certainly be mild. It just goes into what a person's priors are.
God, reading that is so depressing.
GitHub is Microsoft, what's wrong with GitLab?
Reminds me of the Feltron report[1], in the self-quantization realm. The person did it for 10 years and stopped in 2014. The accent was put on the visualization.

http://feltron.com/FAR14.html
My Airtable spreadsheet of vetted Fiverr illustrators under $10
Started life as a private list for a small group of hacker friends - we've tried over 200 between us and waded through a lot of rubbish! Hopefully helpful for bootstrappers :)
Roomba is a very old concept, missing almost everything that makes modern robots interesting. No vision; not much memory; no model of the environment; no knowledge of physics. Just a tuned mechanism and simple algorithm to wander around an barely pick up some dirt.

Don't get me wrong; its terribly useful. I own a knockoff. But not a model of what robots could be, today. Think of facial-recognition drones delivering voice messages to people in a crowd. Think auto-drive cars and the terabytes of data and kilowatts of energy they command. Think of the Netflix algorithm for suggesting movies. Lightyears beyond Roomba.

Yes, automation will eat our lunch. Because automation is eating our lunch. Factories, city planning, scheduling, diagnosing - all sorts of automated processes are in industry and consumer space right now. Just ask Siri about it if you still have doubts.
Vulnerable to abuse as those workers are, that situation is not close to what was done to the slaves. You do undocumented workers a disservice by advocating their cause with so exaggerated a claim. I suggest reading https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/in-depth/news/2019/06/0.... It's hard to find the stomach even to read about. That was a whole different level of violence and brutality, and it doesn't minimize anybody's plight now to say so.
Not quite in my opinion as a Web and Java developer. Java is a high performance, beautiful language. React/Angular/Vue are more like Java Server Side frameworks such as Spring etc which are Overly Complicated and Bulky.
You're right, but the philosophical natural right is even more permissive.

The law is our way of tempering the natural right.
I think most people appreciate candor. Attempts to hide self promotion definitely garners more criticism on hn.
I'm a literal marathon runner, and couldn't have said it better myself. Oh, also — you have to take frequent breaks from training and racing to recover between these damaging efforts to let your body and mind rest and rebuild. Overtraining (burnout) can and does happen and is incompatible with optimal performance, anyway.
Admitted that I wasn't an outlier-level smart kid (so often top of class but not top of school), when I was done understanding the requirements, I could always find a way to study things from different angles, think about the why's, how to derive the formula we had to memorize, why the on-paper division method works where we just had to memorize the steps, etc.

Now if someone is a real outlier in IQ, then maybe these things are still too easy, but you can't design the system for the 1% smartest. They have to go to special schools really.

But anyways, schools are already tiered somewhat at least in Hungary. You get admitted based on centralized test scores, so your peers are roughly similar.
Haha same, admittedly I don't have a child, I am the child, I can't wait to get into Hytale and work on mods, servers, whatever. Hypixel is singlehandedly the reason I got into Minecraft and Minecraft is the reason I ended up learning Java. That Java knowledge has earned me a respectable income as I go through college. I owe a lot to Hypixel/Studios man :D
Well, one primary benefit seems to be to make loading indicators/spinners into first-class components.
You can't buy a contract for 1c. You need to pay the margin, and the margin for futures is not calculated based on current price, it's calculated with SPAN, that considers different scenarios in which you can lose money.

For example, for this contract Bloomber says IB asked for $30 margin. But the margin is usually $7000 for this contract, that it was IB should have requested as collateral at least for each contract. in a day with that volatility should be much higher in IB, as they take that also in consideration, probably around $20000 per contract.

The problem was that IB didn't consider scenarios in which the price can go below 0. The software was designed in that way. But it shouldn't.
GitHub Announces ‘Codespaces’ for In-Browser Coding
nice to see hosted on source hut
Why is this forum flooded with bloomberg articles who has a free limit of two articles?
Minor nit: market makers typically aren’t there to speculate, they’re there to provide liquidity and make small profits per trade doing so. Most market makers try their best to trade down to no position overnight, since they don’t want to be long or short in anything.
Haves and have notes is a divide that has existed for nearly the entirety of human history. It's not usually what people are referring to when they talk about the extent of the American divide currently. It's really more in reference to the fact that republicans and democrats rarely cross the aisle to support something that the other side is supporting. In this sense, the American divide has gotten wider because it's much rarer to find a republican and democrat willing to agree on something than it was in the past.

Here's a pretty interesting visualization that better explains the idea: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/figure?id=10.1371/...
I can't claim to know how today compares to our past, but what strikes me about today is how close I feel we are in terms of values and ideas, yet how divided we are politically.

Without saying my political beliefs, I've had conversations about immigration, taxes, race, and religion with people both on and against my side of the aisle, with people of diverse backgrounds.

It's crazy to me how much we agree on and how minor our differences are, and how even those differences are seen through the lens of different means to a similar, just end.

Right up until the point that you start discussing political party or even specific politicians.

Then, it gets personal. Then, the very moral fiber of your being is up for questioning, commonality in goals or values be damned.
lol, am i the only one reading this with w3m _because_ i like that?
No, they also have the choice to implement proper safety measures. You sound as if you believe the employer is entitled to abuse every bit of power they have over an employee.

Edit: speaking of "ultimatums," what do you call a strike? Is it only an "ultimatum" (thus unacceptable) when one person does it, but not when a large group does it?
IBKR doesn't allow to trade CL in the day of settlement, only cash-settled contracts:

QM - https://www.cmegroup.com/trading/energy/crude-oil/emini-crud...

WTI - https://www.theice.com/products/213/WTI-Crude-Futures
Dune (1985) Deleted Scenes with Intro by Rafaella De Laurentiis
I hadn't seen that, thanks for depressing me even more on a Friday. Looking at the downvotes to my post, some of those 25% are also on HN.
Thanks for succinctly clarifying.

At the end of the day, your keybase device key is, itself, simply encrypted with your keybase password. The point I've been trying to make clear is:

> Your private keys are as secure as any private, encrypted piece of data that you might send out over the wire, so long as your devices are secure, that is.
I was lucky at one point to work with product owners who understood that latency translated to lost revenue and so they helped champion the idea that engineering excellence was actually valuable, and that squeezing out performance was itself a worthy goal. It helped that we could compare our metrics to comparable sites, and could give upper management bragging rights when our pages loaded faster than bigger higher staffed “competitors”.

But otherwise, I think you tend to be right, in a lot of areas even an extra second of latency doesn’t matter, and more features will move the needle more.
Most people simply weren't exposed to a very wide spectrum of beliefs. Mass media focused on hard news, and it was either local and/or controlled by a few groups.

The wider diversity of media that came later allowed more opportunity for people to 1) find a viewpoint they more closely identify with, and 2) become outraged about viewpoints vastly different than their own.
Ask HN: What's the best internal knowledge base
Our company is scaling, and we're looking for a knowledge base to use internally to help train new hires and share knowledge across departments.

We're looking for good security and stability, versioning of some kind so changes aren't lost, ease-of-use so computer novices can comfortably edit things, and solid full-text search.

In a perfect world, we'd find one that's open source that we can host ourselves.

Does anyone have any recommendations?
Doesn't quite cut it, does it? "Go read some history books" is not a reference.

The parent comment made a bunch of statements. Asking the reader to read an entire book to verify the validity of any of them is wrong.

References come with page numbers for a reason.
Vitamin D and Covid -19: The Evidence So Far
They're vocal because social media encourages them to be. They tweet out their crazy views and by dinnertime it's all over CNN and millions of people are suddenly listening to them.
>Ridesharing fares are obviously underpriced … and if they were raised 30% to make them sustainable, it becomes "not worth it" for a good chunk of people who use ridesharing as a supplement to car, bus, transit, etc.

Though right now seems like a pretty good time to raise prices to the degree that they haven't already. I suspect that for some time to come those who can afford to do so will pay a significant premium to avoid public transit.
React is bloated and slow, but there are dozens of frameworks other than React.

https://krausest.github.io/js-framework-benchmark/current.ht...
I don't get this article: it feels to me like a member of the older generation saying "I had to walk fifteen miles to school in the snow! Barefoot! Uphill! Both ways!".

To me it's a bit like whataboutmanship: "you think it's bad now? what about the 1970s, eh?".

Just because things were bad back then doesn't mean they're not _also bad_ now. Just because things are better it doesn't mean we shouldn't try to improve.
Think America was divided in the 1970s? Try the 1860s.

And if you somehow think that the US Civil War doesn't count because it was soldiers fighting, remember that one of the precursors to the war occurred in Kansas. In the 1850s, civilians from both sides invaded and fought to kick the other side out so they could rig Kansas' vote on slavery. It was violence between civilians and obvious attempts to manipulate a democratic vote by both sides.

I'm not saying that the division now or in the 1970s is acceptable, but America's history (and that of many other "civilized" countries) is bathed in blood. Politicians win elections by having a "better" stance on the issues compared to their opponent. If they can make an issue divisive and considered a deal-breaker then they can keep supporters on their side, even if they are screwing their constituents on many smaller issues. This is why abortion is equated with premeditated murder on one side and complete forfeiture of a woman's autonomy on the other. This is why gun control is equated with supporting mass shootings on one side and the complete abandonment of freedom and the US Constitution on the other.

We should strive to be better, but realize that this isn't the worst it's ever been. It does seem like in the past couple decades, the increasing flood of information has made many aware of the divisions. Previously you could have lived you life in your community where most of the people think like you.
Some good React alternatives?
Every hour that you work for $15/hour is a loss. It's an hour that you don't get back, in exchange for a pittance. It's only not a risk in the sense there was never any real chance of reward.

Bezos did take some meaningful risks, but at some point, any sense of risk is meaningless. $10 million is enough for anyone to live out a more financially comfortable life than a $15/hour worker without ever working again. Jeff Bezos has more than 10,000 times that. What exactly has Bezos risked since he made is first $10 million? A slightly less comfortable life, with a smaller number next to his name?

Maybe you think $10 million is too low a number, but whatever number you think is more money than anyone could reasonably make use of, I don't think you can honestly disagree that Bezos passed that long ago, and has not taken a meaningful risk since.

For me, this isn't about hating Bezos or Amazon. It's about loving normal people who have to struggle just to get by when there is so much excess available. I don't always succeed, but I try very hard to base my ideology in love.
> 1)Not difficult to hire for. JS frameworks are currently in the sweet spot where they're both widely popular and "cool". Consequently it's not hard to find good candidates

If someone is good at JS why not hot hire him? Wouldn't a professional be up & running with ANY framework you throw at him in a month or less?
Hi,

I'm coming from a "RemoteLeads" lead. I'm a french computer science engineer that started to work as a freelance web developer about a year ago. I would like to know more about the job description, which SDK/Libraries would be involved. I have 2 years of experience with Javascript (and about 1 year overlapping with Typescript). I also have plenty of experience working on personal python projects, with the typical ML libraries (sklearn) and more recent things (TensorFlow, some Reinforcement Learning Libraries).

I gave a quick look at your project, and it seems pretty interesting. If I understand well, it's aiming to redirect the data necessary for ads towards user's devices storage. This kind of project that aims at improving privacy and ethics in something that I find at the moment abusive (ads and cookie tracking) would really drive me.

You can reach me at luc.cadoret@gmail.com for further details about the application.

Cheers,
Luc
It is some interesting irony that all the top level comments on this page are being downvoted.
It absolutely is a crime to knowingly spread an infectious disease in many states. For example: https://www.shouselaw.com/willful-exposure
Thank you. This is one of the first things I tell people in my web-dev workshop. They're probably not going to be building websites, they most likely will be building web applications.
How to Mordhau ( Meme Montage)
If you have code splitting many chunks will remain the same.
I would love to use Ubuntu as my main device but unfortunately there are always some stupid driver issues.
I tested Ubuntu 20 last week and couldn't get second screen working through HDMI. For the sake of it :(
And, furthermore, assuming the availability of self-driving at the highest degree of difficulty--namely relatively dense cities.
Then I mischaracterized your critique. I do think the author is combative. This is an unfortunately common problem in science discussions, but I think within the community is has become normalized to such a point that anyone that isn't a junior isn't really put off from it. I do think this is a thing the community can work on in general that would help bring people in (imo, everyone should be doing "science").
I've spent the last few days picking through Neil Ferguson's Covid model
Related: "I don't watch or even own a TV" [watches Netflix/YouTube on a laptop six hours a day]
In neither case, do you have the right to promote or otherwise further actions that will unnecessarily cause the death of innocents.
It's interesting that you find the the technicalities of my comparison more concerning than the actual modern day slavery taking place right under our noses. Rather than speak out for current victims being exploited right now, you are choosing to say "well it's not as bad as X". Take a step back and see how that is harmful.
There's a lot to like in what you write. Back to the book I referenced above ... disagreeing here has several facets. First you have to be aware you can disagree. You have to be aware you have choice and use it. Disagreement is not a firing offense. Bosses are not entitled. Second, how it's done is important: if I disagree through a defensive behavior (again see book) that will go bad ... If at the end a decision is made and feel like I had no choice or my ego won't allow it ... well that's another potential concern. Again disagreement isn't often itself the real problem. The real problems are: what if I know I can disagree but I don't? Lack of courage my side or unsafe environment made by management? If management tells me they've made their decision contradicting my input which applies: I feel listened to and feel like my input was taken seriously? That's good. Or perhaps I'm insecure and can't deal with loosing control. If I don't have self awareness here I might blame, critisize management or play victim. That can be bad. Maybe I just can't admit my assessment was incomplete or wrong. Also likely to hit into problems. And in any of this I refuse to change, I can sink the team in the limit.
Ask HN: Makers, would you choose Laravel for a new project?
From what I gather lurking around internet/twitter, it seems Laravel is the new hot backend framework in the maker/bootstrapping community. PHP being bad has almost become a joke and I see some really smart people creating with that stack.

Given that HN crowd loves Ruby on Rails for quickly scaffolding a backend, I just wanna gather some info from those who have launched successful projects with PHP and Laravel.

1. Would you consider your choice of tech stack a good or a bad choice from a business perspective?

2. Why did you choose Laravel and not Rails or Django in the first place?

3. Having built or maintained a PHP/Laravel project, would you choose this stack again or go with something else(Django/Rails).

4. Do you believe that modern JS frameworks will make traditional MVC backend frameworks almost irrelevant for most use cases(CRUD)?
Kotlin is really very similar to C#. Java developers shouldn't have much of a problem either (now that Java finally has lambdas), and I hear Scala is mostly a superset of Kotlin.

GraphQL and (Kotlin or C# or Java or Scala) probably isn't that small of a niche.

Edit: Also, Kotlin does have near total compatibility with Java and can use any Java library (aside from the most magical bytecode-rewriting annotation processors) so I don't understand what you're saying about having to rewrite things that exist.
The article includes most of that.
Data Science Is Transforming the Finance Industry
And what about those students who didn't take internships while going to school because they don't like alternating between work and school?
Here's a presentation they did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW32yUEymvU

It sounds like they'd left the boat at the time.
But this is exactly what Republicans want. Shrink government spending.
Weird, cancerous brain tumor should be an emergency one would think.
The big firms still fail quite often. See Microsoft's multiple attempts to get into mobile.

I expect most of the bigger companies to succeed at converting any desktop product to an online version, and get their customers to adopt it, but beyond that I think you'll see a lot of flops.
> 2.9 billion is 3 unicorns.

Hmm, unicorns are usually defined by $1B valuation, while the number of $2.9B in loss is related to revenue. So I think the comparison doesn't hold, it's apples to oranges.
Life Sciences Observations #9