skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't need to master one stack to get up to speed. For that investment to pay off you only need to be almost as good as you were with your old stack, which isn't hard if you already are not proficient.
Why would they be targets any more than they are now? If anything they would be less, because you stop getting all the "cop shoots innocent civilian" stories that are driving that sentiment. Meanwhile attacking a police offer would still be a life-ruining mistake, because you still go to jail for a very long time.
Sorry, I won’t take blame for that.

Still haven’t found a use case for React/Angular or SASS/whatever.

If I’m guilty of something is not recognizing the validity of those tools, as I’m sure there are.

But 2MB CSS is simply inconceivable to me.
If they make the job impossible or dangerous, it might at least count as "constructive termination", so they'd be eligible for unemployment.
Tesla had 20% salary reduction.
Yeah I've noticed this as well. For me, it's zero. For a colleague of mine, 6 friends/family died.

What I'm very curious about is the impact of super-spreader events. There's some indication that say 10% of activities are responsible for 90% of the infections, e.g. a football stadium, a concert etc.

What I wonder is, what does the distribution look like? 1% of activities cause 90% of cases, or 30/70?

And then, what happens to the R0 / infection rate, if you can ban/restrict those high-impact activities in particular? Does the coronavirus then start to mimic the impact of a much more benign issue such as the flu? Or would the effect be minimal, and does that mean that a second wave around august and follow-up lockdown is basically guaranteed?

That to me is what everything is banking on, with a vaccine 9-18 months away, markets will be butchered if we get a second wave+lockdown. If that doesn't happen, then unemployment figures / markets will probably recover relatively quickly given the relatively decent economic fundamentals going into this crisis, and the unprecedented government / central bank support packages.
As far as I understand, some MIT legal department OK'ed this release. Your question about a license is of course very legitimate, and someone posted a GitHub issue about it.
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Implying that these dev shops simply won't just hire any college grad with a pulse and pay them 40k to do the same job the Ukrainian did, or worse.

The real problem is the incentive structure, and of course, difficulty of the job that is programming.
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So did the WHO. They have been excoriated by millions for supposedly saying you shouldn't wear a mask. But from the beginning they were advising that you keep your distance from others, cough into your sleeve, and wear a mask if you get sick (otherwise, save them for health care workers).

Lockdowns were invented by panicking authoritarian politicians. The ruling class showed its true nature and was all too eager to copy China's brutal boot-on-throat approach to crisis management.
> What is it exactly that turned chat roulette into that?

Being on the internet?
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> But there is plenty of evidence that humans can live perfectly well on a plant based diet if they eat the right plants .

Vitamin B-12

From https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements-vitamin-b12/art...

“However, if you follow a vegetarian or vegan diet, you might be prone to deficiency because plant foods don't contain vitamin B-12. ”
I feel this is somewhat outdated advice.

Thanks to restrictive firewalls, much incoming and outgoing traffic to services is tunneled over HTTP/HTTPS and uses the standard 80/443 ports. There are also legitimate reasons to have 80/443 open such as access to security systems, your home router, etc. They can't block incoming 80 or 443 without breaking a lot of things, so they won't. It's not the 90's anymore.

You really have to worry more about hitting your 1TB Comcast bandwidth cap.
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That's not even close to what GP is saying.

The extent of the lockdowns means foot shortages are starting, and massive numbers of people are facing starvation. We're approaching the point where this may end up worse than if we hadn't done any lockdown at all.

Getting a middle-ground between medical professionals and economists would (hopefully) have avoided the worst of both outcomes.
Said every decade for the past how many centuries?
Can you solve the "calendar events not showing up at the right place at the right time" issue I'm having too? My google calendar seems a bit unreliable these days.
I'll ask any physicists out there. A 4th spatial dimension probably doesn't exist, right?

Even if we couldn't perceive shapes across a 4th dimension, we would still perceive things moving through the 4th dimension like we see in 4D toys. In reality we don't ever see anything like this (spatially anyway). Is that correct?
We're not talking about the folks in bunny suits here, obviously.
Humanism is a fairly common value system.
Depends on what your goals are as an API designer. If you want a fast and scalable approach, your suggestion would indeed be most appropriate. On the other hand, most users are likely best served with a parser that just returns a single object, which they then can interact with as they desire.
While it is crazy, all of the animals listed are already some of the largest physical beings on the planet. Multiply them to 10000x the size of other animal populations, and this is what the scale will turn to.
And the stock market is unfazed. So now you know where most of that money (trillions of relief for Covid) trickled to. The financial markets. We basically printed money to assuage the fear and anxiety of the speculators to whom the world is beholden
Literally noone is saying "go back to normal". If the goal was to get it to burn out, the initial statement should have been "we need to isolate until it burns out".

That was not the initial sell to the public.
I guess they probably could build a nice and fast website if it was up to them. But there's probably a lot more requirements than just that.

Things like https://twitter.com/wolfiechristl/status/1071473931784212480... are probably not decided on and implemented by the engineering team but are coming down as a requirement from the top. This is probably the case for a lot of other decisions that slow down the page ("We need this A/B test framework", "this needs to be hidden to increase retention",...)
Everyone hates slow webpages. Not just geeks. We can all argue over whether minimalism or eye-candy is preferred. But if your site feels like running in mud, it's frustrating regardless of the design.

And all these SPA, client-side rendered, sites seems guilty of this. You navigate to a page, and it loads up "instantly", except you see nothing but gray placeholder images. Then content starts loading in, but haphazardly. You see a link you want to click, and you go to click it, when BAM! it jumps down 37 pixels because some stupid widget just loaded above it on the page.

I really hate the modern web. Not the look of it, or the styling. The mechanics and slowness.
I use Trello mostly, and keep my notes in Apple Notes.
It’s really only recently coming into focus. Because if you look sector by sector it’s not clear (in terms of emissions). But when you look close it’s clear that a sector like chemical production is heavily weighted towards producing fertilizer. And the majority of that is being used to grow animal feed. Or the transportation sector, a lot of which is shipping food all over the world. And land-use change, deforestation, etc, to create grazing land or grow conventional mono crops — again, mostly for animal feed.

Basically, in our current system, plant foods are an edge product of an animal agriculture system. To be more sustainable, we probably want the opposite — meat as an edge product of a plant-focused agriculture.

The picture in my head is a more decentralized system — regional farms, urban farms, etc. And probably a carbon tax which would make meat a little pricier. It doesn’t have to disappear, but the externalities should be baked into the cost.
The directions for integrating SDKs are usually something along the lines of "Add Firebase to your Podfile", which often adds way more than you need.

Given that these devs were likely in a hurry, it wouldn't surprise me if they forgot to go back and clean this up after getting it working.
But, perhaps ironically, Slashdot was killed because its design updates made it more "designer-y" but much less usable. I remember one update in particular that added a ton of whitespace, gave it a "cleaner" look I guess, but it meant there were like 1/4 of the posts on the screen so it just took longer to peruse the comments. They also f'd up how they showed voting so it became much harder to just scan for popular comments and valuable discussion. I remember going to Slashdot pretty much daily and after that update just said screw this, will have to find something else.

Design updates can be useful, but just like for engineers, "beware lots of highly paid people looking for something to do".
> forcing me to interact with the page more to see the same information

Product Lead to Zuck: user engagement up 5% after this update!

Zuck: great, here's your bonus check
The US is also one of the worst examples of a government.

Since Amazon is a US based corporation it should be controlled by the “worst example of government”?
If you are deficient there you can take supplements.
Do they still use PHP on backend. If so ick
Yeah. Generally the way to become established on Twitch (without relying on YouTube) is to become part of a pre-existing community as a viewer and subscriber yourself, and then to receive raids from established streamers in that community.

Most of my viewing experience is with retro game speedrunning and the specific advice for that community is to pick a game you want to learn and follow the best players. The world record holders and their friends tend to be very happy to share advice and tips for their game with new runners. This is great because it helps you establish a relationship with them without being “that guy” who is just there to try and promote his streaming channel (those people are universally reviled and often banned for unsolicited promotion). Instead, if you’re a legitimate member of the community, learning and improving at the game, then the big streamers may be happy to send you a raid.

It’s very much not a get rich quick scheme. It’s more like moving to a small town. You need to put yourself out there and ingratiate yourself to the community in order to gain trust and become a respected member. The above advice should be largely adaptable to any form of streaming with an established community.
Humans, basically — the majority of agriculture.
I only have anecdata but all that I have of it points to agencies being heavy Ruby/Rails users and React as well.

Both of them work well since they impose a structure and programming model that basically works for a lot of business software, so you can focus on the domain problems and move quickly over the standard tasks like an asset pipeline or account management.
I agree. 5 years ago Intel put Skylake out. This was what they had, and it was great; it was years ahead the competition. They did not have anything else secret even better and ready to go out, because that makes absolutely no sense: if you can crush the competition even more, just do it...

After that the story is well known: their microarch were tied to their node, and Intel's 10nm was a failure, and still is not up to what the competition is doing. They started to backport the next microarch to 14 too late IMO. They may release new ones on 14nm; or they may suddenly manage to strongly improve their 10nm (not likely, it is usually very gradual at this stage)

And it is again obvious that even in the last 3 years, they had nothing (on the microarch side that they could produce on their mainstream node) they were able to rush as a fallback to counteract Zen, otherwise why would they not have done it?

Now they are clearly behind on the process, and on the microarch Zen 2 is good enough and does not need to compete much against Sunny Cove, plus if Intel releases a backport of Sunny Cove for their 14nm it may be against Zen 3...
Just because you did it first, doesn’t mean you did it best. There are so many things in the US that have previously or currently systematically denied liberty to large subsets of americans - but I guess you can publicly advocate for violence against specific groups of people, which you can’t do in many other countries, so you win there! :P

Since I know that someone is going to reply “like what?!?” here’s an example I recently learned about: it wasn’t until 1963 that public defenders were widely available as a result of a supreme court ruling. So equal protection under the law was clearly not available before 1963. We all know the rich Can afford better defense to this day, but can you call it justice if you don’t even get a lawyer?

Contemporary example: drive west from el paso for an hour or so, today. Well, not today, but when it’s safe to travel. The border patrol checkpoint along i-10 will check your papers if you’re visibly latinx. Freedom!
This is interesting data, but unless there's a way to normalize this against the feature set of the sites in question, then there's way too much selection bias to use this to draw any meaningful conclusions.
I wrote a GPS coordinate mapping tool for a fun project once. I wrote it on a train, and I didn't have the device that was going to use it. I sent them the link and they said it worked perfectly. I doubt the code was very good, but we just used the first version for the project.
Why are you assuming "socialization" means "government control"? I would rather have various social systems be run through a cooperative, distributed-power, federated organizational model.

"The government would love to have more power over tech" - the government fawns over big tech anyway. And the love is returned - with large tech companies helping the US government's military endeavors, and performing mass surveillance and feeding the subjects slanted pro-regime news.
Again - who cares about dns cache poisoning when your cert chain is sound and your browser is sensible about cert downgrades (which all of them are now)? Who cares about how secure the AP is? It’s an encrypted, securely authenticated connection. That’s the whole point of the cert chain. The AP can be as malicious and evil as it wants - good luck usefully tampering with or impersonating my bank’s public key.

Again, what’s the threat model here? Exploiting a browser vulnerability? Maybe?
All websites need SSL, even if the content is not sensitive. Someone could inject something like "I'm raising money for a charity, send money >>HERE<<, thanks!" and people that goes on your non sensitive website could get tricked.
That's just a simple example, but a more competent attacker would also use your unencrypted traffic to inject malicious code that target some browser vulnerability, or make the visitor download a malware, ...
Yes, science can be pedantic at times, but I do believe that it's necessary to describe terms before you discuss why they're important. For me, this article reads exactly as I was taught to write technical papers. It builds upon the definition of "species" to make an argument against the reoccurring claims that this virus is mutating to become more transmissible. Of course, I did study microbiology at university, so I can see how others might find it too focused on the jargon.

What this pandemic has taught me over anything else is that wielding scientific terms without proper understanding is damaging to progress of science itself. It becomes difficult to tease apart legend from fact, especially for those not trained to do so. I go crazy every day listening to half-baked hypotheses and conspiracies that don't understand the foundations for the things they're claiming.

All this said, Dr. Racaniello is very gracious and humble. He has dedicated his life to teaching, both in the classroom and through his podcasts. I highly suggest sending him your concerns about his discourse and subscribing to his podacast TWIV [0]. He and his colleagues respond to every email at the end of each podcast.

[0] http://www.microbe.tv/twiv/
You made an assumption there. What's another possibility?

https://twitter.com/Kingfreespeech/status/125862859092672921...
Something really, really annoying about this site: it uses automatically-progressing carousels that cause content reflow below them in the page.

I encounter this sort of thing so often, and it’s really, really bad. Positively awful. Super disconcerting.

In most cases like this, it’s just that one slide is longer than the others. In this case, there are a couple like that, but also for the rest, image tags have been used without specifying their dimensions, so they take up no space as the carousel slide enters, and then once the image starts loading they reflow instantaneously as the dimenions are known.

Please, if you have a carousel, you must make sure that its height never changes as it progresses. (And please always put width and height on your images, too, so the intrinsic aspect ratio can be applied properly.)

Oh, and auto-progressing carousels as a whole are a blight, but a sometimes-just-barely-tolerable one. So long as they’ll just stop progressing once I interact with them! Please!

Does anyone like carousels? I encounter software developers railing against them, I encounter normal people railing against them (from recently, a non-techie had one request about a new site, that the carousel inserted by the developer of the prototype—because it was a part of the WordPress theme used—be removed), I honestly can’t think of having encountered a single person that likes carousels. They’re just all-round irritating.
I think you could add Twitter and New Reddit to the list as well.
I think cops should be specifically banned from owning guns, even personally, until every current cop is removed from the policing system and all policies are replaced.

The current system teaches them to be terrified, criminal psychopaths with no understanding of human beings or deescalation. Giving them a gun is not protection, it's culpable negligence.

The people we are letting become cops in America are the exact people who should a) never be handed a weapon and b) never be given authority.
Even before I had a family member killed by police, my rule of thumb has been to only call the police in life or death situations - because the act of calling them turns it into a life or death situation.
Wow. That made me way more nostalgic than I was expecting.
"You are likely to be eaten by a Grue.
If this predicament seems particularly cruel,
consider whose fault it might be;
not a torch or a match in your inventory."
https://youtu.be/4nigRT2KmCE
> Are you saying it's good enough because you and your dearest have it good?

In North-Western Europe? It's good enough for everyone, more than good enough, it's too much, we're suffering the illnesses of abundance, not of scarcity, we're obese, not starving, we're bored, not busy.

The lowest 10% has never lived a better life, objectively. I assume your issue isn't objective measurements but relative qualities? I.e. how good is the poorest person's life compared to the richest? It's still pretty damn great. We do have a class-gap in life expectancy, but it's small, much, much smaller than it was a hundred years ago and let's not talk about any time before that.

> For most of humans history, humans have worked a few hours a day, or 15 hours/week.

First of all that's inaccurate because you're counting "work" as in "work for money". A subsistence farmer has never worked 15 hours/week, and even someone who has worked in some form of employment has had a lot more home-work than they do now. Specialization means everyone works more in one thing but doesn't have to work a little bit in everything.

Second: they've lived very simple and quite short lives. We can have that as well, but we don't. We want to live healthy and long and have retirements where we don't work at all that span 10-20% of our adult life span. That's unprecedented on a large scale.

> People should only work as much as necessary

What's necessary? Should they have a purse for a rainy day? Then they'll have to work more than what's strictly necessary for today's survival. Should they have retirement? Well, add another 20% and so on.

> We shouldn't try to create such big communities like the US, or Denmark for that matter.

I absolutely agree, but that's not going to happen.

UBI may well be the fuel you need for the acceleration of society's splintering. Maybe you can try the small commune afterwards, if anyone is still alive.

> Actually more people in absolute numbers are not able to meet their basic nutritional needs every single they than ever before[2] so while I have it pretty great, it's pretty damn bad a huge amount of people.

Right, but we're talking about modern societies, not the situation in the third world, aren't we? How many people in Denmark aren't able to meet their basic nutritional needs?

> Also I'm not sure why you think we couldn't at least build something like this again, if all else failed.

Oh, I'm sure we could. It's just that we'll have to wade through rivers of blood and endure unimaginable amounts of human suffering. We do not just stand on the shoulders of giants, we stand on the bones of the many that lived and died before us to bring about the world we have today. If we get thrown back a few hundred years, we'll probably get back here again, but it'll take a while, and it will take a lot of blood, sweat and tears.

It's easy to speak from the privileged position of wealthy peacefulness about how easy it was achieved and to wager it on a coin flip. It's a different story for those that achieved it, much like the politicians that send soldiers to war and the soldiers that do the dying and the killing.
The 0.5% estimate is based on seroprevalence studies (which take into account the asymptomatic infected). The crude case fatality rate is more like 5%, which is definitely an overestimate.

Also >0.2% of NYC has already died, so it's not possible for the fatality rate to be substantially below 0.5%.
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Sure, you can own your own data but if you're serving a public website does it make any difference?
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Thanks, I’m very glad to hear!

I had looked at IRCv3 briefly when starting the project, but it looked like IRCv3 didn’t solve netsplits.

Have I overlooked anything (or has something changed), or did you just ask out of curiosity?

Keep me posted regarding how RobustIRC is going for your network!
While pretty interesting, do you gain anything from this over purely software Neural Nets running on standard silicon chips(cpu, gpu, tpu, etc.)?
On the contrary, it does seem like jumping through these kinds of hoops has become strictly necessary if you are building web apps you would like to be responsive.
The concept of outsourcing for a writing job is weird. You don't see The New Yorker outsourcing their essays to Pakistan, Hollywood outsourcing their scripts to Ukraine, the NYT outsourcing their reporting to the Philippines, etc.

Tech seems to be the only industry that thinks that hiring writers from overseas to produce content is somehow going to result in anything viable.
If you like to get to know history of computers then check The Innovators by Isaacson Walter
Oil crash busted broker’s computers and inflicted big losses
Portland is doing something similar: https://beta.portland.gov/eudaly/news/2020/4/28/transportati...
"I’m funny how, I mean funny like I’m a clown?"

In all seriousness, I'd like to support you but I won't, not for this. As somebody else said, in this very thread, it doesn't really stand out and the alternatives are many.

Stick to what you do best.