skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I try to build systems that don't rely on sustained human discipline or the necessity of shoehorning into known organization units."
+1 I completely agree on this.

The doc should have grown over time. Do you just append to the doc as you learn something new or do you organise learnings within the doc. I am asking this because if there is no structure there wouldn't there be too much of context switches when you go over them ?
"Deep learning" is the latest buzzword to get all the dollars nowadays. In a past decade corporations used to even fund Second Life for use at work.
> Even if the syndrome you decided to tout is 100% COVID-19s fault, it has still only killed 3 children. That is the definition of statistically insignificant.

This is literally not true. I think you're trying to claim it's not a big deal because most children who contract covid will not die in this way. But this doesn't have any relationship to the statistical analysis of significance that tries to determine causality. In your hypothetical you've stipulated that covid19 is 100% at fault. There's no need for statistics in this case because the confidence at 100% i.e. somehow science has proved the mechanism in your hypothetical.

> Again – statistically, with our current knowledge, children in general do not have much to fear from this virus.

You could have said the same thing about AIDS. Statistically with current knowledge circa 1981 straight people had nothing to fear from AIDS. Statistically in 1983, years after the initial outbreak the proportion of people dying from AIDS as opposed to those who were living with HIV was infinitesimal. And then people started dying at higher, alarming rates. That took over a decade. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_in_the_United_States#...)

I'm not saying covid is AIDS, but we're mere months into this thing and noticing strange syndromes in children. To blanket claim that "statics show us" anything with the certainty you're projecting is shortsighted.
Right, and those cowboys at SFAMOUS_COMPANY obviously haven't read the latest blog posts that clearly show $HYPED_TECHNOLOGY doesn't support $HIPSTER_PARADIGM in an async I/O functional stackless copy on write environment, meaning $FLASHY_LANGUAGE can't be used with dependent types unless you don't mind your static analyser giving false positives every time you try to multiplex coroutines in your template meta-programming frameworks; what were they thinking?
For the love of god, don't use NiFi to trigger an Airflow DAG.
I think people age at different rates.

My Dad is in his mid 80's and plays four hours of sports a day, or at least he was before the pandemic hit.

When I was in my mid-20's I had to impress the hell out of potential clients to get work, as I looked like I was 15, and girls my own age wouldn't look at me as I was too young. I never drank, so bars weren't an issue. When I was in my early forties, 15-20 year old girls were still coming on to me. I will be 50 next year, and I finally look like I'm in my 20s or 30s, and still get those looks from University-aged girls whenever I venture where they hang out.

A couple of years ago, my now 43 year old partner was mistaken for her teenage doppelganger and asked to the high school prom by three different boys while walking home from work.

It was annoying earlier, but now I look forward to turning out to be one of the immortals.
This is fun, I'd like to see the same visualization on posts as submissions. I think the points are more interesting than the number of replies.
...and, there's nothing particularly preventing a similar approach in JS (keywords would need to be strings, and... data manipulation in JS is relatively a huge pain compared to Clojure)
> [..] he'd have just given it all to WHO...

You'll be happy to hear that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is not just any supporter of WHO, but their second largest.

That's second largest including all the world governments'. Their donation makes up around 10% of WHO's total financing, with only the United States contributing more (for now).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization#Pres...

But your larger point is definitely valid. It's a perennial debate if such individually organised altruistic endeavours aren't liable to waste their money due to incompetence/lack of coordination/self-aggrendization/etc.
it is not easier. you cannot engineer what you don't understand. for all the progress that has been made there is still a lot we don't know about how life works in general. not to mention the ethical can of worms this opens.
Only time will tell for certain but the preemptive measures places like Seattle have taken appear to be paying dividends. Living in rural Texas is much more concerning than living in Seattle during COVID19.

As for space, cities have lacked space for as long as cities have existed but people continue to migrate for the opportunity. I wouldn't be surprised if housing prices drop from short-term rentals reentering the market as single-family homes or long-term rentals.

The decision is not so clear cut.
> Now that Arduino is running an ESP32 or ARM chip or has FPGA acceleration

I recently used a Teensy for exactly the reasons you gave, but I'm not familiar with Arduino's with ARM or FPGA. That sounds very interesting, do you have some links where we can learn more?
One of my last teams used gods from Greek mythology (e.g. Apollo [1], Ares [2]), and another nearby team used Pokemon names. Lots of folks started using similar naming conventions and eventually a clear naming manifesto was sent to all engineers to discourage this practice for new services.

It's much easier to discuss and reason about complex systems when the names are self-explanatory, especially when you get to 100s or 1000s of names.

[1] https://www.memsql.com/blog/case-study-scalable-sql-database...

[2] https://eng.uber.com/aresdb/
Estimates of people testing positive for the coronavirus in England (10 May)
The article covers that fact pretty clearly at the end no?
Since I started to combine React context + useReducer, I never felt the need to set up a Redux config. It's much simple with the same power.
It provides pages/routing, JS/CSS compiling/bundling, and even optional static site bundling. It's basically the missing pieces for a deployable react app.
Hey Ben, thanks for that write up! You may not have time for this, but your article and the intersection of food/recipes and computer science would make a good book, at least I would read it.

I wrote [1] about 12 years ago in Clojure because for health reasons I had to track my intake of vitamin K, then decided to track all nutrients in the USDA nutrition database. I am working on a semantic web product (with another semantic product in planning) but maybe the end of this year will get to rewriting my food web app in Common Lisp and as a macOS app. I am adding a link to your article and these comments here to my notes for that project. Useful stuff.

[1] http://cookingspace.com
I've still got a lot of lit to read on the topic, but in terms of what it effectively manifests as, monetary policy seems to be some sort of bastard child of psychology and economics in the sense you hardly ever see the lever pulled until people start to lose faith in the system. There's probably some economic/fiscal buzzword for it, but that is the observation I've noticed just from reading on things.

The factor of just how much psychology plays into it, or at least "seems to, but doesn't", is what is most interesting to me.

Given J. P. Morgan's insistence that banking is first and foremost a business built firmly on its capacity to inspire trust, I can't really square the idea of monetary policy, its application, and its mechanism of action being entirely divorced from the collective psychology of the base participants in the economic system. Though I'm pretty sure I'll find some literature that suggests otherwise once I get looking.
Interesting, just yesterday I migrated a site from react-static to Gatsby (because of a nasty bug that’s been open in react-static for ages, seems to be struggling somewhat for maintenance) because I thought Gatsby looked simpler than next.js, haha.

Perhaps it was just that Gatsby felt closer to react-static’s model and it was more readily apparent how to adapt a react-static site to Gatsby with as few changes as possible, using their createPage api to replace the route config in react-static and bypassing all the GraphQL as described in https://www.gatsbyjs.org/docs/using-gatsby-without-graphql/ - I didn’t have time to do a detailed comparison of frameworks or rebuild large parts of the site.

I was pleasantly surprised how quick and easy the migration was, took me about 90 mins for a site with about six templates and Gatsby seems to build faster and has a much better ecosystem of plugins etc. I wrote up the process at a high level at https://github.com/react-static/react-static/issues/1203#iss... if anyone is interested in the specifics

Did I understand correctly that next.js isn’t just a static site generator and ideally you have a server side component too? This was what started confusing me in their docs, but perhaps I got the wrong end of the stick.

I’ll have to give next.js a proper look next time I’m building a site from scratch anyway!
"Perceived load time" is not a panacea, and not a substitute for actual metrics. Do you actually go interview users on what they perceive? If one doesn't, and is instead just looking at the code _they_ wrote and thinking "yeah my code feels fast", that's biased, unscientific, and objectively an inferior quality assessment strategy than just looking at TTFB/TTI/etc and deriving conclusions from those hard numbers.
databricks has other optimizations on top of open source spark version, are you maintaining your own version of spark or using the vanilla version of spark.

One thing I constantly deal with is how to optimize spark, how to use ganglia and spark ui to dig into what is causing data skew and slowness while running jobs. Is this something that you do better than databricks?
I've read in the past (sorry, don't have the link right now) that Sony also did some hardball with licensing.

In particular I've been told that they threatened Capcom over Mega Man 8 and X4, saying that if those didn't also show up on PSX, Capcom would lose their publishing license on PSX. If true, that would certainly add a bit of heat on licensees to publish on PSX and would result in Sega losing a lot of third-party exclusives.
> since you can't rule out cross-reactivity with another coronavirus

If that causes a false positive, wouldn't a second test yield the same result?
I agree that tests have a high false positive rate, but still how would you interpret results we got?
I tried and gave up after an hour or two. If you're a js developer it might be easy, for regular developers I didn't find it simple at all. Would be great if someone had instructions on how to create a simple blog with a nice template.
I read this book on micro tasks by the guy that started the one pushup challenge. I have been doing pushups every day for over a year now. It takes a while to make it a habit, but it does work.
It also results in newer iterations of products and software losing support for shortcuts and accelerators, because no one values or knows about them anymore, until every interface becomes dumbed down and considers touch as the primary and only possible way of interaction.
reducing caloric intake may work, but it's also as important when you eat (ie fasting / intermittent fasting).

also, you can reduce caloric intake all you want, if you eat crap and don't sleep properly you're still going to have a bad time
If you take every Monday off then this shouldn't be a problem anymore.
Cycles also runs on GPUs.
I'm not sure, like you said it's kind of hard to tell with the US bias social media and the media in general.

From recently memory though, I don't think there was cases of this in the States https://apnews.com/4ac3679b6f39e8bd2561c1c8eeafd855

(But we're definitely more radical in other areas like protesters with guns).
Thermal scanners are deployed to detect the virus. But they dont work
Isn't the bootloader chip the only not-open thing?
Better 2D performance and more RAM. The lack of RAM kneecapped the Capcom fighting game ports on PSX.
> Just because a Ferrari is faster than a Corvette

to quote Rick & Morty: "Must be nice!"
IIUC you both were just talking past each other? one was talking about SSR to a full hydrated SPA, the other about a MPA with some hydration here and there.

I have been doing the latter for some time with https://github.com/airbnb/hypernova for a rails API.
AWS Networking 101
> they always find a way to worm out of the EC compensation directive

That's not been my experience. I had a cancelled return flight, received an SMS about 6 hours before the scheduled departure. I was able to exchange online my flight for another one going to Budapest (I just wanted to be anywhere in the EU at least) where I stayed for the night and took another plane home.

Once home, I submitted all this to their customer service and I was totally reimbursed, even though the cancellation was due to a strike in Brussels and not their fault. I was honestly surprised not to have to fight.
Hatching a plan to save egg farm and 80k hens
He mentions it in the video at around the 1:53 mark.
Where does it say that LabCorp uses the Abbott Architect platform? Couldn't find it on their website. (Unlike, say, healthlabs.com)
1k USD vs 1.1k vs 1.4k vs 1.43k - says the comparison table near the end. Since they are in the same ballpark I want to know the numbers for benchmarks as well. If they are in the same ballpark then this is worth buying, otherwise I don't value my privacy just for the sake of it and lose instead 100% performance. So, any links to benchmarks as well?
> it made sense for them at the time to spend their resources elsewhere.

Not necessarily. Government officials can be quite petty. They love to take the glory for good things. And outsource blames.

If Bill gave out millions of masks, food, bought ventilators and stuff, the narrative would still be negative. Politicians would assume he's trying to run for office and act accordingly.

The anti-vaccine movement would take his preparations as PROOF that he created the virus.
I'm curious what will happen where I work. Upper management has always hated working from home and part time work. I think eventually they'll go back to their set ways, but it will be some time in late 2021.
Well, when one considers "no payload/data" flows through this system and it is merely managing metadata & workflow status, I wonder if it is web-scale enough :P your team will now ask for a cluster of these monstrosities.
Guide to Implementing Zero Inbox via Gmail IMAP
Does anyone have a screenshot they'd be willing to share of what the results look like in light of the fact that we've bear-hugged this site?
I would love just a simple one-click print-current-page-to-PDF button that managed to capture the whole page, and did something intelligent about infinite scroll sites.
Think TIBCO data pipelines.

You create sources of data and can have non-technical (or maybe non-developer) roles wire together these data pipelines with transformations, aggregations etc.
Things like "SOLID principles" are what I call "Dunning–Kruger Traps".

They lure the newbie (or worse, beginner experts) with a "learn me and become an expert" bait.

They usually don't stand on a substantial merit. They are hyped up by some famous nerd and it perpetuates because every body hears someone talk about it.

I can literally make up other legitimate sounding principles on the spot that mean nothing.

If you hype it up enough people will start repeating it. Until the little kid notices that the emperor is walking around all naked.
An Interactive CSRF Demo
Generally, I don't see any insurmountable impediment to outsourcing to India. I don't know of any reason they couldn't have outsourced successfully.

The experience I had there was a disaster... because of the company they chose to use to outsource just couldn't keep capable people on staff for more than a month or two. The folks who stayed, were just terrible / couldn't troubleshoot their way out of a box and IMO had some perverse incentives. I suspect there was an incentive revolving around "closed cases" and like all metrics that got abused and it was costly for everyone.

My email was filled with "please assign this case to duxup" cases that were in the hands of our outsource partners (and sometimes the bay area..) because folks recognized the case wasn't going anywhere fast.

The company even tried hiring folks locally at an office they had but again they couldn't keep anyone (probably again paying poorly) who was good very long.

I don't know the job market in India (then or now) but I suspect they simply weren't paying well / had a very poor partner outsourcing company.

I've had some visibility to various outsourcing efforts and every time it seems that the companies they partner with just don't provide much in the way of stable talent. I would assume it is possible to find a company who does, but I just haven't had that experience. I suspect that is more random chance than anything else.

Personally I suspect that most companies just decide, "We're outsourcing and we're going to save X amount!" and without knowing or caring they priced their way into poorly done outsourcing ... and only that. Interesting enough, I heard we hadn't saved much of any money long term with the outsourcing effort. Largely hiring just didn't keep up with sales and any savings in support costs there were attributed to outsourced support.

It was somewhat amusing as many of the Bay area staff were from India (they weren't H1Bs, they were citizens), and man nobody hated the the outsourced support more than those guys ;)
Yes, but this is considered by many to be scandalous and I doubt it will continue to be so high-priced long-term.
React runs webpack by default. Are you telling me there are large prod websites running on a dev server in kubernetes somewhere? Because I'd definitely not feel confident putting that into production. (I am genuinely curious how is FE run nowadays with cloud-native stacks)

And of course TLS termination and load balancing aside, you do that in your orchestration platform (so, Kubernetes typically).
Seems crazy to think that it was that slow eh? And these days I get annoyed when I get below 2 megabytes a second, lol
I stand corrected. Been a while. heh
I started building my partner's portfolio with Next and was very pleased with its simplicity.

However I had to switch to Gatsby because of its superior support for responsive images.

With Next I couldn't find a way to cache all the generated variants of images between builds, which made the site take more than 5 minutes to build.

Gatsby ecosystem seems more mature also.
Yeah - I think that's a fair criticism.

I'd suspect uneducated makes it worse, but that might not even be true (maybe uneducated people are more willing to change their mind? maybe they're less effective at rationalizing bullshit?).

Maybe it's less about education and more about intelligence broadly defined or less about both and more about practicing 'rationality' specifically, but that ties into critical thinking.

I could see it being either way, or likely some combination of all of it.
Per Capita Covid Maps
WeWork’s woes cause mortgage-backed bonds to tumble
My company has been pushing for years the idea to limit the number of recipients to each email you send, simply because people spend so much time reading and managing email.
First side project – personal portfolio / blog
Hello HN!

After 3 years of working as a backend developer, I'm here to share my very first side project. My personal portfolio.

It's written with Jekyll and it started as a github pages test, but almost after a year of constant use I moved it a couple of days ago to Google's Firebase. Mainly because I need to learn to use Google systems.

Please, be gentle as this is my very first solo project that's useful (for me) but any kind of feedback is welcome.
This made my day. Instantly reminded me of the MongoDB webscale video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
> the other about a MPA with some hydration here and there

except it's not "here-and-there". everything down from `<html>` is re-SSR'd and fully re-hydrated on each page load.

here-and-there is what jquery does.
Fake GPS does it.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blogspot.n...
TIBCO = ?
Oh 100%. If I run into a seemingly unsolvable technical challenge, I go eat and it takes my mind off of it.

But I'm not sure that's a healthy pattern. Better would be to go for a walk or the like.
In case anybody missed this: https://instagram-engineering.com/dismissing-python-garbage-...
Bill Gates and his foundation have invested quite a deal into his image, not the least his investment in media companies, which have resulted in wall-to-wall positive coverage in the press and a Netflix documentary celebrating him. His style is different, but I would say he’s possibly as successful at marketing himself as Trump or Musk.

Your “10 out of 100” question isn’t relevant because that not an accurate depiction of Gates and his foundation’s ties to Epstein.
Interesting - can you expand on this: "Had this process been built using go or crystal or something like that it probably would have been less than a megabyte and able to run with 512mb of ram"?
honest question / thought - I wonder what the time difference is between you getting to the hospital in an emergency (heart attack / stroke) vs myself in my rural scenario. Your walking distance isn't going to matter at that point but traffic will. Or do the hospitals have a sort of emergency foot patrol than can be dispatched to you?

(I'm sure that sounds goofy, but it's a serious question/thought. I've never lived in an area that could be dubbed 'urban')
there is a huge difference between enjoying food and being a slave to food.

the best example I have in this bucket is sugar. If you depend on sugar you're basically a drug addict (i know, i know, but just because it's socially acceptable does not make it okay. there is research out there that show sugar is as bad as cocaine when it comes to how addictive it is and on the health effect).

if you could pick just one intervention you could do quitting sugar is what you want (maybe if you're smoking, quitting smoking, but after that sugar is the nastiest thing you can put into your system)
Mozilla evaluates video chat platform security
There is a difference between concluding that someone may need to see a mental health professional to check out that angle and acting like someone is a nutter for being concerned that the failure of doctors to pinpoint the problem might actually prove deadly. One is about getting actual answers. The other is about blowing off the patient, being dismissive and belittling legitimate concerns and it routinely proves deadly.

In my experience and from everything I have read, the latter is far too common. It is much more common than the former.
Our universe is definitely not described by anti-de Sitter space. It might be de Sitter space though.
The ARM Cortex-M7 architecture is not open, not sure if that’s what the OP was referring to. RISC-V would be an example of an open architecture.
This looks pretty spiffy. I think it'd be really neat to look at the content and show repeating topics / keywords.
Old Languages Like COBOL Stick Around for Good Reasons