skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would further describe 'weird' as being out of the norm for the company and where hires come from. In general, I have a 'weird' budget of 1.0 thing(s) for non-critical projects.

Recently, I've been spending it on Vuejs/TypeScript (with Go backend) at a company that uses React/TypeScript, GraphQL, Rails/Ruby, and Go.
What company is this? Sounds cool what you are doing
when people outside of vietnam who are infected travel there, they will have to shut everything down again, whereas Sweden will have herd immunity faster than any other country
Welcome to capitalism... If what you're building is solving a valuable problem, and you don't build it fast enough, someone else will build it quicker and shittier but still solve the problem. You're getting shit slow apps because you use them when they're delivered to you.
wc -l < ~/.bashrc

=> 568 lines
> [1]: https://xkcd.com/1782/

That made me LOL so loud. Thanks for your very thoughtful response. Appreciated.
For sure and to be completely clear, I don't want to stay inside, I just think it's the most responsible move.

Like you said though it comes down to priors, and I'll add risk tolerance, and some pro-social behavior (I won't risk my neighbor even if it might be fine for me). I work in startups and have a few failed companies under my belt my risk tolerance in business is very high but not with health, you read that as 25-50% of cases are asymptomatic and an even smaller percent develop the very horrible symptoms, I read that as there is a 75%-50% chance I'd be symptomatic and a non 0 chance I'd be seriously ill with symptoms I'm already averse to through experience with them even though I'm otherwise young and healthy.

Edit: I'll add in, besides the above my biggest motivator for staying inside is that even if I was fine, to me its untenable to potentially spread it to someone who has a higher chance of not being fine through no fault of their own.
This is going to have a slow, but material impact on house prices in the Bay area over the next few years.
At a company I used to work for, we worked so hard to make sure our web app would load extremely fast… just to end up losing the battle with the data and analytics team for analytics scripts. They used a tag manager (tealium) which by itself can be used for good but it ultimately gave the other team the ability to overload our site with 3rd party scripts.
This was my experience at Facebook. Attempting things with a small team (or heaven forbid by yourself) was heavily frowned upon because it didn't justify manager and director salaries. As a result you ended up with poorly performing over-engineered code bases that prefered complex, expensive systems that would take multiple teams to build, but for whatever reason complexity that would improve performance was frowned upon. I'm sure this is common at many big tech companies. I didn't work on the mainline FB app but it seemed like part of the culture.
Yeah, back in 2014

https://opencv.org/opencv-ported-to-google-chrome-nacl-and-p...
Ask HN: How should I find customers for my product?
I’m having trouble determining whether I’m selling my product wrong or I’m selling my product right enough and I just need to remain persistent.

What I’m trying to sell is https://choremate.co. I explain how it works in depth here: https://keyankousha.com/the-best-chore-chart-in-the-world.html

So far I’ve tried a few things:
1. talking to local student housing coops
2. sitting on the UC Davis campus with a sign “free candy for advice” and asking for their opinions on the product/pitching it (I’d get ~5-8 people/hr coming up)
3. reaching out to people looking for roommates on craigslist (but I was understandably banned for doing that)

I was able to iterate quite a bit from the “free candy” approach as that had the most signal but it isn’t viable anymore given the pandemic, and it still didn’t result in any sales. Similarly the student coops are empty now.

Basically, am I doing this right? Am I supposed to feel this uncertain? Any advice? I’m a programmer by trade and temperament, doing this without co-founders or mentors, so it’s hard to know what to do or expect.
You can also get a graph this data via FRED, but you won’t have much control over the display (so if you want to roll your own, you should).
Not even, users can just 'not play' (or play less) if the game's no fun.
Shocking Video – A woman with boxing gloves beats a dog
Really? You must have some smart tooling.
What are some recommended alternative platforms that provide api access?
WHO readies coronavirus app for checking symptoms, possibly contact tracing
Coronavirus blood-clot mystery intensifies
I've purchased a desk and workstation...
But I'm still typically on the couch with my laptop. Its difficult.
Four Quadrants of Satisologie
"The World Health Organization (WHO) plans to launch an app this month to enable people in under-resourced countries to assess whether they may have the novel coronavirus, and is considering a Bluetooth-based contact tracing feature too, an official told Reuters on Friday."

"Engineers and designers, including some who previously worked at Alphabet Inc’s Google and Microsoft Corp, have been volunteering for weeks to develop the new app with about five of them overseeing the process. They are designing it open-source on the hosting service GitHub [0], meaning code is open to public input."

[0] https://github.com/WorldHealthOrganization/app
What you argue here could probably be said about half the companies admitted to any YC batch, and still there are successes. Maybe the glass can be half full too?
I've invested in uber so here's my take -

If uber leaves growth mode and makes smarter investments in new services/markets, they can be profitable. They have positive margin on ridesharing in most markets. I believe uber eats could also earn money in the short term. And I want them to continue investing in last-mile delivery (which I believe they have canceled for now).

Even though eats isn't earning a lot now, I believe that once all the money-burning food delivery startups go out of business and the market price for food delivery is no longer so depressed, it's a solid business Uber can make money on. I would prefer Uber just switch the business off in markets where it's impossible to turn a profit and just restart the networks/ecosystem once delivery prices normalize, but Uber is uniquely strong here because they are the only food delivery platform to also have a huge driver network they can easily tap into.

Last mile delivery is also very synergistic with their business and IMO it's just something they need to spend time on getting right and building relationships with big partners. Once this, eats, and rideshare are all working well together you have a really synergestic business. I think if Uber can pass on the efficiency/demand gains from these three products working in tandem to drivers, they can also work towards building a stronger moat around their network.

AV is the big unknown. However I find it much more plausible that Waymo and Tesla will vendor out the details of the rideshare service rather than build their own from scratch. Going from scratch is kind of risky, because it makes the whole venture dependent on the success of the vertical and requires good execution on getting people to actually use the service - it's much safer to simply sell the tech to automakers, rideshare, etc. since we know there is already demand for it there (I think there are also brand implications to Waymo/Google/Alphabet and Tesla that will make them hesitant to vertically integrate). Uber is of course also working on AV and in their case, they already have the messy business side of that vertical figured out, so I think their upside is a lot higher.
It reads like a vulcan who just came across human language and is baffled at how illogical is, while missing the meaning behind the phrasing entirely.

It hurt its self in it's confusion dot jpg etc
> The risk of COVID to me is low. The risk to society of me going about my daily business as if nothing has happened is high. There are social adjustments that do little to reduce my risk, but decrease overall risk, and unsurprisingly, people who don't understand, or don't care about the difference between the two, push back on them.

This is not a fair characterization. Rather, it could be said that the externalities of suspension of elective surgeries, widespread business closures, widespread social isolation and unprecedented fear (which is certainly disproportionate to the risk, _even in those with comorbidities_), are all factors that those who are parroting the "Stay home!" party line are neglecting.

I don't think it's fair to say that those who argue against the path we've taken are doing so because of their purely personal risk factors. When highly interconnected systems - like the global supply chain - unravel, it's very hard to predict the full ramifications there. It might be good to start with the impact of these lockdowns on the global food supply and the estimates of 100+ million extra cases of starvation. (I generally try to focus on other factors because quite frankly, to flip your rhetorical technique around, I think that many in favor of these lockdowns don't really care too much about how lockdowns impact conditions in third-world countries and thus I largely try to talk about the direct first-world impact).

I don't think those in favor of lockdown are trying to do harm, their intentions are good. But the poor understanding of key concepts such as _what an economy actually is_ is leading to a number of irrational statements being made: for example, the argument that re-opening business is "trading human lives for money". The actual reality is much more nuanced.

While on the contrary, perhaps it's just been in my online interactions, but arguing against lockdown/indefinite containment is consistently characterized as either motivated by self-interest or due to the perceived personal risk being low. In essence, the "you clearly don't care about old peoples' lives" argument.

--

I've been doing a pseudo-experiment where I've been asking acquaintances of mine what they think the overall infection fatality rate of COVID-19 is, and also what they think their personal risk is. Everyone I've talked to has overestimated the mortality risk both to others and to themselves by an order of magnitude. For example, many have told me that they think the infection fatality rate is 2.2% overall, or 4-5%, etc.

In one case a largely healthy young 20-something estimated their personal risk of death at 2%. That's multiple orders of magnitude off.

This pseudo-experiment of mine proves nothing, but it's an interesting insight into what people think. (Many of my social groups are very transparently "liberal"-leaning and disproportionate panic in the US is split on party lines so that's not very surprising).
>It's unfortunate, but that's the way it works

If this is the way it works, why are we in this situation? This kind of thing happens every few years. Some renegade upper-class guy quits and throws in his or her lot with the common folk. It's so stereotypical it's literally the plot for about a third of Hollywood movies.

What he's doing is right. He's exactly saying that this isn't performance art, it's not a media story about him. Talk to the people who are affected, working people, and give them a voice.
Thanks for the information. I have been using IB and their API and had always wondered about the quality of their code base. I assumed there was a lot of legacy with their systems - I just had little idea of how well they were managing things internally.

For my limited requirements, Interactive Brokers does seem to meet needs, but do you know of a platform that is highly regarded that is accessible for clients outside of the States?

Interactive Brokers seemed to tick a lot of boxes at the time when I chose them.
How so? Both political parties fucked this up, but one party more than another stands to gain from pretending like they didn't.

Edit: also my statements are factual as far as I can tell. We had since January to prepare, and instead our leaders -- political party aside -- decided to fuck around and play misinformation games with the public instead.
Off topic, but that reminded me of some horror stories from my chemistry days:

Dimethylmercury able to kill through 2 drops absorbed through a latex glove: https://www.acsh.org/news/2016/06/06/two-drops-of-death-dime...

And of course the amazing series of ‘things I won’t work with’. E.g.: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2014/10/10/th...
Light orange links on white aren't easy to read.
Not everything can be measured in deaths. For every one dead in the US, there are 500~ who lost a job. One death is a tragedy but what about those 30 million families now that have a breadwinner out of work?
This virus is clearly not the plague that it was projected to be. Why are we destroying the economy and the lives of millions of young Americans just so that the few at risk people can live 3 months longer?
> had my twitch credentials stuffed

"Credential stuffing" is such a goofy, overly fancy term for reusing or having a crappy password.
> The challenges are continuing in the second quarter. In April, rides were down 80% globally compared to last year, Khosrowshahi said. But rides have been increasing for the past three weeks and bookings in large cities across Georgia and Texas, two states that started re-opening, are up 43% and 50% respectively from their lowest points, he said.

This isn't exactly what he said, but 1 * (1-0.80) * 1.43 is... -72% from the original.
It's a minefield of potential bugs:

this.$todoList = qs('.todo-list');

This bit will only work if there's only one `.todo-list` on the page and it'll break if you try to use more than one component.

const listItem = target.parentElement.parentElement;

This will break the second you change the template and have to add a wrapper for any reason.

input.value = target.innerText;

Using the DOM to store your data is just wrong. Browsers can and will change then contents of your nodes if they feel like it. They can strip whitespace, for example. This would be a problem if you're trying to use some kind of change detection.

this.$todoList.innerHTML = this.template.itemList(items);

Better hope that whoever wrote itemList knows to escape the data properly. Have you noticed how XSS used to be a much more common issue until the advent of view frameworks? Experience has taught us that at least for security you simply cannot depend on the developers to always do the right thing, especially since their experience level might
be all over the place.

const elem = qs(`[data-id="${id}"]`);

if (elem) {
this.$todoList.removeChild(elem);
}

Global selector again, it also depends on the elem being the child of $todoList which is not guaranteed if there's any change to the template.

listItem.className = completed ? 'completed' : '';

This will clear any other classes that the element might have on it. You might add some styling to it and then wonder why it breaks after you click a button.

target.dataset.iscanceled = true;

Storing data on elements is also risky, since there's a lot of other code that updates innerHTML wholesale so your element might not be there anymore.

This is just one file. The point I'm trying to make is that this direct DOM manipulation makes for brittle code and only works for very simple cases. Once you have even a small amount of behavior, any sane developer will want to abstract it out a bit and you'll end up with a framework anyway. Better to choose a low overhead one from the beginning.
Bold of you to think there will be any such thing as lasting herd immunity via natural infection, when no other human coronavirus induces such immunity.
Where are you getting 2MB from?
Our UK family neighbour told us the milk used to be delivered via a big urn on a horse and cart in the 50's. As the cart came along customers would come out with jugs and the milk was ladled out to them. Then things progressed to a centralized milk bottling factory and delivery first by horse then by electric float...
If it's self-hostable, yes please.
Ubisoft is going to start letting people return to the office starting from the 11th of May (this Monday).

It will be in stages, where people who use specialised equipment (such as high end artistic systems such as well calibrated touch displays, or people who have sound design rooms) will return first, and they will be required to keep at least a seat of distance from their nearest neighbour. I believe we will rapidly return to the office assuming nothing bad occurs following the first wave.

To say we as a company are not truly ready for remote work would be a major understatement, our entire security model depends on us being on premises, in fact, if it weren't for our recent migration to office365 (and AzureAD) it would not have been possible _at all_. File shares are inaccessible, along with HR resources, basically nothing except outlook is available externally.

That said: this has been a fantastic experience for me, my backlog of tasks has become anemic, I attribute this to the fact that I have a home office with real visual and auditory privacy, we aggressively pursue even denser open office landscapes in our studios.[0] I wonder if it's the same in Google, though I somehow suspect not...

I really hope there is some permanence to the remote working situation for us. Does anyone have a similar experience to me?

[0]: Our office: https://youtu.be/Nse-7cJhxpQ?t=92 (screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/km0UcVk.png)
I pointed it out to my wife once, but the general look was that of disbelief. It was clearly internalized that this is how things should be. The prisoners are not slaves. They are prisoners. They have a debt to society and they better work it off. If anything, things are too easy on the prison population. It was an interesting revelation. I doubt this is an uncommon view.
This is covered fairly well by Medcram [1] Be sure to go through their last 68 videos. They are quite informative.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOlVkES_kC8
At least no weird room searches by Caesars this year
Tired: "DEFCON is cancelled"

Wired: "'DEFCON is cancelled' jokes are cancelled"

I look forward to the virtual talks from both events. Some incredible talent in both pools.
Dopamine feedback from imaginary points, and validation from mostly like minded peers makes users keep coming back to this website. Otherwise user retention would non-existent.
I still think a file should have at least some small comment at the top to help orient the reader and set expectations.
I worry about offices that open but still allow people to work from home. I think there will be pressures for people to go into the office, creating density issues, or miss out on promotions, etc.
As WFH becomes the norm, office life will become shittier over time. Less budgeting will go into fancy offices, they will become more spartan unassuming buildings. People who have to go to offices to work will be seen as second class citizens too poor or too unequipped to do any work from home. They will be seen as slow, old school workers who become more of a liability for workplace harassment policies or accidents. If you have an excellent home with a great internet connection then why go to a dirty, nasty, public office where you sit in an uncomfortable chair using cheap equipment and even risk being groped in a hallway or break room? Not to mention the risk of being killed along your commute twice a day. All while the remote workers sit gently in their favorite spot by the warm glow of a sunlit window, quietly getting tasks done as they listen to soft music coming from their home speakers. When the workday ends the office worker has to make a mad rush and brave traffic to get home. The remote worker can end the day whenever the time is right, with all the ceremony of an index finger bringing their laptop lid down to a close; what’s for dinner honey?

Very few people will choose to go to an office, working from home is a status symbol and a sign of being a well educated knowledge worker. This is even the case now during the pandemic where plenty of people boast they would be fine staying home all year while the poor and destitute are begging to go back to an office or worksite because it’s the only way they can put food on the table. Their value is mostly in their physical bodies, not their pure knowledge.

And if you can’t work from home, you’ll choose to work from some communal workspace or cafe of your choosing before ever choosing to make a dreaded commute to an office.
There is a strong analogy between even your garden variety deep learning and annealing/statistical physics: learning rate is analogous to temperature. Boltzmann machines, which have gone out of favor in recent years, are explicitly crystal models: the Hamiltonian has the same form as an Ising model.

No need to appeal to anything qUanTuM though. This is all standard equilibrium statistical mechanics. Quantum annealing may or may not have an advantage over simulated annealing/classical methods (have not kept up with the D-wave literature) - but the underlying physics is all classical. Just a fancy optimization technique.
Can we stop posting reddit tier click bait articles about "REVOLUTIONARY THING WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING" based off one tiny study or speculation?
The CDC has been monitoring a broad-spectrum increase in mortality across the US even after accounting for covid19-related deaths. From https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2020/04/2...

> The "excess deaths" surpassed COVID-19 fatalities in those states by a combined 4,563 people. Experts suspect that unconfirmed coronavirus cases could be responsible for some of those deaths, but it might also be related to a shift in other causes of death. For example, some doctors speculate people might be dying from illnesses from which they would normally recover because the pandemic has changed access to health care.

> “Our ER, as well as many others, are seeing far fewer patients because people are scared to come in.”

There are graphs.

This has added to a lot of the confusion and misinformation surrounding coronavirus response, since people are hearing that hospitals and ERs around the country are seeing fewer patients -- dramatically fewer, in some cases -- and conflating that with the coronavirus risk being unexpectedly low, which isn't true.
They have an opcode for this : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire_(computing...
I don't think you're a conspiracy nut, and you're right that the risk is fairly small right now in places where there have been few confirmed cases. But an exponential growth rate means the risk not small for very long. Covid-19 is the leading cause of death in the US right now. That we don't have the ability to test people before they go back to work is a huge problem. We can't even catch when someone has a fever.

> In Philadelphia, half of the cases are in nursing homes, and more than half are of people older than 60 years of age

That has little to do with the infection rate and a lot to do with who gets tested. In nursing homes people are getting monitored all day. There are many countries that are far more dense than the US that are currently open, because they test everywhere and prevent people effected from being out.
Seems a bit hyperbolic to me. All signs point to greater spread than previously known in places like NYC, meaning majority of people who had it either had no symptoms or extremely mild symptoms and didn’t even notice.
If you've ever lived in the Third World, you know that their news sources are total rubbish so people come to rely on the people they trust. But then that was hijacked through SMS/WhatsApp forwards that are things like this (everyone knows you won't type out a link from a picture).

It's actually such good propaganda, and I think it didn't really manifest fully formed (i.e. no one came up with the full concept) but through an evolutionary process as some was more effective than others. I am fascinated by the viral evolution of these things.