skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm higher-risk due to past lung disease and have been taking this incredibly seriously due to not wanting to go through pneumonia again.

I've been taking the social distancing stuff seriously, wearing a mask every time I go out, and have taken steps to get deliveries when I can to ensure I maximize the time at home.

The sky's not falling but I am a bit "scared" as you put it.
Amazon full truckload services now in 48 US states
https://archive.md/SkzfN
Even safety conscious employers have a hard time reacting to new and different safety related areas.

For instance, see the USCSB's video on the BP Texas City refinery explosion. The refinery operator had a great record for safety, but it was measuring individual worker safety, ie PPE and recordable injuries. It was not measuring Process safety.

https://www.csb.gov/bp-america-refinery-explosion/

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Edit: I should probably make clear that I don't think BP actually had a great safety record. I think they measured and cared about a certain class of safety, but not another class of safety, and that's the point I was trying to make.
It's a good question. Most markets have (or at least used to; I've been out of this a long time) a special class of speculator called a market-maker; they get discounted fees in exchange for providing liquidity. That way a seller doesn't have to wait around for a buyer.

Speculators in theory also provide liquidity, and in theory also contribute to keeping the prices "correct" (meaning at levels that reflect what's known). But it's not like any given speculator personally cares about that; they're just looking to gamble and win. Last I heard there was reasonable evidence that more gets spent on speculation than is delivered in benefits to the economy. So you suspicion is not unwarranted.

But there's another class of people who neither create nor consume the product, but have some financial interest in something related. E.g., suppose you sell farm equipment. You know that if wheat farmers have a bad year, you'll have a bad year, because they will put off buying your new tractors. To even things out, you can use wheat derivatives to essentially buy insurance on wheat prices. If wheat prices are normal, you lose a little money. But if they fall through the floor, you make money, hopefully counterbalancing the income from lost sales.

When this activity is significant enough, it can lead to the creation of synthetic commodities. E.g., if you are in the snowplowing business, maybe you want to insure against winters being abnormally snowy. You could maybe do something with a fuel oil future. But that's kinda tenuous. Instead now you can just trade weather futures: https://www.cmegroup.com/trading/weather/
I think there might be a market for that but probably not as formal as the trading of oil futures themselves. Basically a more private transaction on a marketplace that isn't as visible or as liquid as the futures.
Yes, the market is asset prices, so it's only going to reflect the reality of asset prices.

Unfortunately, statistics such as how many children get nutritional food or the number of hours parents get to spend with their children or how many families get to eat dinner together aren't optimized for.
I once had an issue where it appeared my servers were leaking less than a byte of memory per request (WTF? less than a byte?).

It took months to find the bug. Turns out it started leaking once the filesystem quota was reached, the log tried to roll and failed. All logging messages were just building up in a queue. It was a definite face-palm moment once found, but yeah, took months to get there.

I had a similar issue w/ a high-res timer that was causing spurious socket timeouts. Only found because...logs were saying operations were taking +200 years to complete. That was about 6 weeks of time during development.
The article sticks to performance expenses upon the end user where it has the data.

I am more curious how much frameworks cost at development time. Framework advocates always claim their pet framework makes development so much faster and cheaper but there is no data on that. That begs a few questions:

Do frameworks reduce hours of labor to build an application? If so how much?

Do frameworks lower the maintenance expense of a given application? If so how much? That number should include any sunset or revisions due to changes in the framework not associated to changes in the business requirements.

Do frameworks reduce the team size or business support staff to ship an application? If so how much?

Do frameworks lower developer hiring expenses and wages? If so how much?
>ER admissions are down 50% or more depending in county.

This isn't as significant as you might think...
There is a large (very large in some communities) percentage of ER visits that aren't for real emergencies; rather, they are used for routine stuff, for which people with good insurance would go to their pediatrician or Urgent Care Clinic.

If you are broke, have crappy or no insurance, and can't afford a scrip of antibiotics, when your kid gets a fever or sore throat, you go to the ER. That's routine for -- I would bet -- hundreds of thousands of people throughout the year.
> There are plenty of examples in the modern web of terrible React/etc implementations but that doesn't mean the approach in itself is bad.

If the creators of React can't get it right, then what hope is there?
The common thread in a lot of this is disregard for end user experience. But I think the biggest reason that these discussions never go anywhere is that people are using the same tools for wildly different purposes.

At a guess, I'd say that a webapp for a financial services company is going to be loaded once then interacted with heavily? Single Page App model. In that instance the time taken to download, parse and execute JS upfront isn't a big deal. Same as Gmail: when it loads, it takes a couple of seconds, then I leave the tab active for who knows how long. Plus in this situation the audience is relatively monolithic: a lot of desktops, and most of them fast.

The problem is people taking lessons learned in that environment and applying them elsewhere. Shopping sites, news sites, essentially anything that people arrive to from a Google search pay a much bigger price for a giant payload. Users can and will leave your site if it's taking too long to load. They'll be running on all kinds of devices, including low-end Androids with very underpowered CPUs.

Whenever I see a site like that implementing a full React page with Redux and who knows what else bolted on, I cringe. It's not an appropriate use of tools. But these days people only look at developer productivity (we can add so many more features so much faster!) rather than focusing on the experience in the user's hand.
Rest in peace Terry, you were gods programmer.
This website doesn’t work in iOS Safari. Gives error:
“NotAllowedError: The request is not allowed by the user agent or the platform in the current context, possibly because the user denied permission.”
> A curve was trending exponential, and flattened with lockdown. What's the alternate scenario for what caused the curve to flatten?

You cannot honestly believe this. 'Trending exponential' is such a useless buzzword. Exponential growth is only scary depending on the exponent itself. Our models on what that exponent were were absolutely, completely off by orders of magnitude. Just look at Sweden, they were estimating 40k deaths by now and only have three thousand something.

Certainly, early action helped flatten the curve, but the original estimates for what the curve would be were incredibly off. There was no overwhelming of hospitals in the US at all, despite warnings that they were imminent, even with behavioral changes. Our country's scientific advisers need to look inward at this point and figure out what went wrong with the models.
You can buy FFAs
> the subscription price would probably be quite modest

Yes. It would be set to the minimum required to dissuade banned users (e.g. spammers) from continuing to create new accounts. This amount would still likely be well above cost.
But not much. You can hardly compare anything Roomba has ever done to even, say, Boston Dynamics.
Its not that people are deferring medical service, they are being deferred. I have a friend who needs brain surgery to remove a cancerous tumor, and its deferred until non-emergency surgeries can open up.
Microsoft VP Asks AWS to ‘Stand Down’ on Jedi Cloud Protests
Some Q&A invalidates quickly and would probably need to be touched up every year or so. How to account for both?

I’ve seen answers regarding my two major areas of interest - AWS and .Net Core being updated by the original authors as new features came out and new versions of the framework are released.
Supporting dark mode == 2 bad UI instead of 1 good one.

f.lux works well with normal UI, replicating natural light.
https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/?country=WORLD&fuel=...

With regards to Thorium and Fusion. Again i don't think anyone here really appreciates how hard a problem energy storage is. Fuel Cells that can actually be used like oil or gas or coal is sci-fi and the some still to be seen magic grid won't change that.

A good tell is that I have gotten 20 downvotes from this discussion but not a single piece of evidence that what I am saying is wrong. Not a single technology or system in use at scale. Only wishful thinking.
Which ones? At least several of the largest theme parks chains do offer free water, you can google it. Many allow bringing refillable bottles. I’d speculate it might be a medical liability issue to not offer tap water to guests in a closed environment summer activity.

None of that changes whether it’s profitable or a good idea to give away water or drinks.

https://www.themeparkinsider.com/flume/200908/1350/
The threat of collapsing healthcare system is really hard to estimate. Most of our treatment options are not especially effective against the disease. In the event that triaging needs to occur, you don't cause that many extra deaths by triaging those with the highest risk of dying, given treatment.

Spain may have reduced deaths in the short term, but there's no particular reason it hasn't just spread them over a longer period of time. You can't eradicate this disease permanently without closing your borders permanently.
Good lord, if you actually need the oil, then take delivery!

The issue here is total speculators using PHYSICALLY settled contracts to speculate who don't want delivery.

The number of people who need WTI are pretty few - refiners and some small others. Seriously - with WTI you still need to refine it - airlines CANNOT just load WTI into their tanks.

These sob stories from folks who supposedly were bidding to take delivery of physical oil (unrefined) from a condo somewhere are ridiculous.

To trade futures you need to certify you understand them. I'd love to see the form this guy filled out listing what was likely a fair bit of bogus experience.

I'm fine with all these idiots getting burned.
JITs already do this kind of thing, it is called escape analysis, it is just quite hard to get right.

Also many GC based languages are adding some form of linear types, so that you can still enjoy the productivity of having a GC around, while being able to get hold of these kind of tools.

https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/OwnershipMan...

https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/wikis/linear-types
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_spending_in_the_Uni...
Yeah i was feeling so out of the loop wondering wth everyone is taking about.. where is the carousel? Checked the page 2 times before I saw that button under everything else. It looks like the sort of thing companies do when they don't want you to click on something! It's such a bad theme.

edit: after checking out the entire article now, it is quite insightful to be honest. Lots of interesting research and data. I think they should just make a simple html version like the craigslist website and it will be a super hit.
If someone makes an open-source, easy-to-use, self-hosted API integration with Zoom that lets me set time limits (with Google Calendar integration to determine length) on Zoom calls and (1) somehow posts a warning ~5min before the end and (2) terminates the call at the end, I would pay for it. (If someone reading this is seriously interested in hacking on this, get in touch with me by tagging me (@sqs) in a GitHub issue or something, and I can lay out more detailed specs.) I don't want to pay more than one person for it, so I'm not sure how to coordinate, but I would pay like $2000 USD.
The new design is so laughably bad. I was trying to send a message to someone on the website, it took 10+ seconds to open the chat window then when typing it couldn't keep up with my typing (I'm not an especially fast typer either). It was like having a 5 second ping over SSH. This is on top of the (pinned) tab regularly needing to be closed as it slowly takes up system resources.

This is all on my 8core/32gb workstation. I can't even imagine how much utterly useless crap they are running in JS to make that kind of experience.

On the bright side it does mean I am weaning myself off as keeping a pinned tab open is a non starter so I can't just have a quick refresh. And I'll be fucked if I'm installing their apps on my phone.

So I guess thanks needs to goto the FB engineers for making their new website so utterly garbage that the tiny dopamine hits driven by the FB algorithms are worth less than the pain caused when using the site.
I forgot most of the details already but as far as I remember, some classes of splines are 4 dimensional constructs that are then projected to 3 dimension to get your 3d spline curve.
Presumably he means they would've happened in the same time period otherwise it's a meaningless statement. On a long enough timescale everyone who died of Covid would've died anyway.
Both cache invalidation and naming things are hard activities because they require precognition to be done well.
A lot of businesses are impacted by the price of oil even if they don’t directly take delivery. It serves as a really valuable hedge for airlines for example, where it’s a key cost driver, even if it has to go through a refinery first.
A Problem with Circular Dependencies in Software Systems (and Lockdowns)
On a related note, I see big tech still hiring and picking up a lot of the best people who are either laid off or taking a pay cut.
Let’s go on this tangent, why is Reddit’s frontend so sluggish and lacking quality of life improvements that should be in place by now?

Surely they are hiring world-class devs, so what’s holding them back?
Sure, but a majority of trading was done on CME futures. In either case, you still ran into the issue of negative prices. USO only recently started explicitly stating that they would also potentially invest in ICE futures alongside CME futures.
AR app copies real objects and pastes them as 3D files right into Photoshop
All sorts of confounding variables. Hard to test just one variable at a time.
I can't help there, I suppose that is the same when someone feel attacked in their beliefs religious or political, some people get really aggressive about that.
What about option #3 - going to hospital puts you in danger of catching COVID?

If you have pre-existing conditions, catching COVID is a lot more dangerous than if you don't.

Who typically goes to the hospital for medical treatment?

People with pre-existing conditions.

"I don't want to go to the ER, because I might catch COVID from another patient, or doctor" is a very justifiable fear.

This is just the consequence of the virus spreading to the community - not the consequence of mitigating the spread of the virus through the community.
There is a substantial subfield doing embedded deep learning - they absolutely care about energy efficiency.
Intel really made their own bed on this one. Anyone with a few grad classes and some interest could tell you what changes to make at each generation to capture more performance. Intel consistently under-delivered on those fronts. It was not because they did not have the technical knowhow, because that part is easy. The people making decisions at Intel were not interested in giving customers the same or better value for their money without competition. Competition came and their pants were still down. Intel's pants continue to stay down since it takes so long to pull them up. They got greedy and they're paying for it.
I was a product manager for the Spotify C SDK. Thousands of smart speakers use it without problem. Any pain in not using it was a problem Sonos created for itself.

Sonos not liking the implementation details that were acceptable to oodles of other smart speaker manufacturers is not an example of Spotify not being open. Totally agree Spotify could improve the DX, but not a matter of openness.
The extra divs are an obfuscation technique, intended to frustrate scrapers and browser extensions.
New Firebird 3 driver for Python 3
Completely agree. Their mobile app, TWS, API, and websites are all a nightmare. I left them as soon as I stopped trading on margin (the only really compelling reason to use them for a retail trader/investor).
Quitting your job makes you ineligible for unemployment -- that's why the company called it their "resignation"
I saw the CuMn reference and thought they're leveraging quantum spin dynamics in glass alloys.

It's not quantum parallelism but quantum annealing that I was referring to. Very different models of computation.

So this seems to be about neuromorphic computing, not quantum annealing. In that case, the question about why would this be better than GPU models of computation is very valid. Maybe cheaper and less energy? But I doubt that it would be practical if it significantly underperforms in comparison.

EDIT:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/10/what-problems-can-yo...

If you down-vote, please explain. Else, what's the benefit?
> then most must be "speculation" by people who cannot actually produce the asset.

Let's just call it what it is: gambling.
Alcohol use sends a person with impaired judgement and often times a short fuse into the public space to wreak havoc. By the millions.

How many fist fights, rapes, harassment, spouse and child beatings, car crashes, on the job accidents, chronic illness, and early deaths must society be forced to accept just so people with disposable income can enjoy a nice red wine with their meal?

Seems pretty selfish.
I don't understand how you think a 2-3 second load time is "fast" for such an enormous platform and the actual content the user sees. I sure get that Facebook is way more than that, but to think a page loading in 2-3 seconds is fast is something you could've gotten away with in 2000, but in 2020..? I genuinely don't understand why you find it quick.
I'm not convinced that the 100kb is what's causing the perf problems though. It's not that hard to make a React app that loads almost instantly. There are lots of huge, slow react apps, but that's due to poor engineering choices not the framework.
I'm going to guess there's two teams involved on the IB side of things. There's financial engine team which processes and handles trades. And there is the UI team that displays the data and allows people to create trades. I bet the engine handled these fine and issue was that the UI team had data validation checks to prevent negative values.
> A life's worth is not infinite, so there must be some value associated with it. If the cost of doing something exceeds the values of the lives it is saving it is prudent to stop doing it.

This gets ugly fast. How much do you value your life versus how much an economist who has never met you does?
Then run that same test on your young child or elderly grandparent.
It might be the best measure we have, but it’s a terrible one.
Seattle to permanently close 20 miles of streets so residents can walk and bike
This gadget doesn't have any hidden layers, though. It does OK in comparison to a simple linear classifier. If you can make and train a multi-layer architecture with perovskite, that starts to get interesting.
Show HN: A 3D visualization of covid19 in cities of Brazil using deck.gl
I think private equity has a large role to play in this. It's sad to me that people point the finger at innovative companies like Amazon, when the real culprits are people who just finance and gut medium size companies you've never heard of in order to eat up the margin that was previously going to workers and extract it for themselves and their LPs.
RakuDist – service to test Raku distributions
I found a streamer that was really cool. Followed. Honestly great product. It's like StumbleUpon but for streamers.
The implication is they would have died soon, like in the next 6 months.

About half of Covid deaths are in nursing homes. The median lifespan after entering a nursing home is 5 months, and the mean is 13 months.

Coronavirus is very infectious, so if it enters a nursing home, it could easily spread and wipe out everyone who was on the brink of dearth, or on a fragile state.
> For a non-critical issue this would lower the quality of discourse slightly, but it's not an exceptional problem. In the case of critical major issues involving active disinformation this is highly irresponsible behavior.

Assuming your description of "the" problem is accurate (I suspect it isn't - and it's "a" problem, not "the" problem, pardon the nitpicking), what do you propose should be done about it? On an individual basis, a community basis, a governmental basis, etc - what should be do? Because as far as I can tell, we (the citizens of planet Earth) seem to be stuck in this recursive loop of anger, finger pointing, and general failure. And it doesn't seem like anyone else notices.

Well, mostly no one.

https://i.imgur.com/QA6vSzC.png
How Syndicated Rounds of Funding Work
Apple plans gradual reopening of US retail stores beginning next week
How to run your startup in a recession
What's the reason for redoing a website that provides the same functionality? Why use an SPA for basic website features?
It doesn’t matter if the traffic is lower or higher if advertising revenue is down.

Yahoo was struggling as an independent company from the initial dot com bust until it was acquired and it was one of the top ten most visited websites.
Was OP referring to the fact that V8 namespace is available inside JSFiddle?

Because I was a bit surprised about that and made me wonder if opening this JSFiddle on Safari would work at all (I’m on a phone so I can’t test).
Isn't showing up shirtless to a video chat with a stranger a huge violation of trust in itself? I'd be much more inclined to consider "shirtlessness" (to give this phenomenon a short name) to be a sign of aggression, rather than of innocence and of trust in others.
Who would they lock their prices in with if not for speculators?
I can only applaud this. We have seen this happen in many cities in Europe, and the effect has been overwhelmingly positive.

Pollution, noise, danger and the sheer amount of _space_ that cars take for themselves are negatives that, at least in cities, are not outweighed by the benefits cars bring.
I think I am basically the same. I can go literally weeks without noise as long as I'm productively working. I don't miss it.

Eventually the silence does get deafening but it usually only takes a short trip to a mall or something for me to be refreshed and not want sound for another several days.

I'm incredibly sensitive to it.
The extra bytes across the wire come at a cost of worse search engine performance (extremely costly for ecommerce) and bad accessibility for people using screen readers. #2 I also don't agree with. The JS ecosystem seems like the opposite of "build UIs quickly". You can't swing a stick without hitting like 5 tools you have to use.
My point was that you need to do reading and research on your own in order to get the most out of a an education there is not enough time for a professor to go over everything. I'm not sure why you are surprised you didn't get much out of it if you only did the minimum. You have the opportunity in university to do and learn almost anything you want./