skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Travel from New York City Seeded Wave of U.S. Outbreaks
I am the same with most of those. Medium being a particular pain in the butt. But almost every website uses cookies, I don't see them being such a problem.
A perfect proof for GP's/TFA's point.

To this I'll only add that "follow these instructions carefully + magic happens" works only for ~6 months after a tutorial is published, longer than that and some dependency or toolchain update somewhere is bound to break the instructions in a way incomprehensible to a novice.
I had the displeasure of working with this sort of "scientific" code. My experience is that anything this messy is just wrong. It's not about appearance. It is so complex, messy, untestable and twisted that it is in the end incapable of giving the correct answer.

The overall conclusion may be correct, who knows, but based on my experience, I do not believe, at all, any numerical predictions of this code.

That does lend itself to retracting the paper.
From one of these:

"An interferring CEO who thinks he knows everything and any project can completed by one engineer in 2 weeks, maybe 3 if it's really complicated

[...]

If you do have to work with Stephen Wolfram, may god help you. 30 years ago, he was a genius with ideas ahead of his time and he managed to productize them. Today, he is still a genius with ideas that would have been ahead of their time 20 years ago. He is failing to lead this company to the future, and his main method of leading is screaming like a toddler who is told they can't go to the beach during a hurricane.

If you are in upper management or project management, you will have to meet with him multiple times per week. In these meetings he will ask for updates on features and products he invented a week ago and be angry they are not ready to be pushed to production yet. After he finishes loudly complaining about how slow and bad everyone is, then he'll go on to request entirely new things that he expects to get immediately. Priorities are never clear, and when you try to get him to guide you, he he has no idea what he actually wants other than "everything".

His irrationality and personal attacks drive people to tears."

Maybe I am overly harsh, but to me, it sounds like Steve Jobs minus being actually at the frontier of innovation.
Postgres! You're not saying Orac, aren't you? :)
Coronavirus: Professor Bing Liu's murder fuels wild theories
> Suppose I’m not familiar with him or am not convinced he’s a megalomaniac. (...) but what evidence would you present to convince me of that claim?

Unless you are going to work for him, it is largely irrelevant whether he's a megalomaniac or not. He's a person that has produced very interesting and useful work (e.g., mathematica). You can take the good things about him and forget about his pompous/annoying stuff.
> You can launch HA kubernetes clusters with cluster API. vSphere, openstack and even bare metal pxe all have providers

I've been looking for a decent solution for pxe and cluster-api. I've not pushed the button on any as I feel like they're all a little immature. Admittedly I've not had time to set up any in a test env yet. Any recommendations?
That code reminds me of a program that emulated an old Wyse Color Terminal.
Could have called it YCommentator :)
Interesting article, although the author mixes two different problems:

(1) the fact that "cloud" (or in fact any virtualized system) is hard to debug, especially when it comes to performance problems;

(2) the fact that most often "cloud" systems come packaged with "elasticity" solutions;

Unfortunately I think both issues described are true, however none of them are deal-breakers. Uncertainty when comes to performance can be taken into account, as it happens at many layers, not only the OS / VM, including the programming language level due to garbage collection.

Now regarding the auto-scaling based on CPU, this is unfortunately too true... All cloud providers (I have experience with AWS) are quick to sell you CPU-based auto-scaling. However CPU usage doesn't always translate to a true load metric, especially for applications with non-uniform request patterns.

This is why I have taken another approach: identify the number of requests a single VM can handle in parallel, and if that threshold is reached, although the server will queue requests and serve them in a FIFO manner, start creating new VM's.

(With AWS auto-scaling group rules it is a little bit more complex, but that is the gist of it.)
Yea i had a keyone silver but returned it within 2 days because the screen literally fell out!

Replaced with a black edition. Used as phone for a while. Perfectly usable, but just felt very slow. If it had been a bit faster, and a bit larger, it would have been nearly perfect. loved the keyboard and high res screen. Poor camera alas due to no software tweaks.

I'm glad others are pin\ing for this kind of device. Really miss them.
Of course it's a general rule, you see it everywhere. All parents should keep bees for a proper education of their children.

Someone should make an app for spaceless people to find spaceceful countryside friends to help keep their bees.
These can be complementary. Eg in actor systems you “tell” an actor what to do by sending a message, which sits in the actor’s inbox until it pulls work. This allows the actor to pull work at a rate it can manage.
Regarding "overfitting":
I posted an interpolation video here -https://twitter.com/arfafax/status/1258344026706599937?s=20

This demonstrates, at the very least, that it isn't simply memorizing the datapoints. You can see that it is able to smoothly transition between images of Zootopia characters and other characters, which indicates that it has learned a lot more about the actual features.

I believe the prevalence of certain characters (Zootopia, Sonic characters, Pokemon) showing up is because a large portion of the input space maps to those regions of the latent space. So I'd expect there to be a roughly equal proportion of images that look like Nick Wilde in the random samples as there are in the training data.
When I was in academia I was stuck using the HPC facilities at my institution. I was lucky to get about 30 cores and my jobs took many months to run to get out of the queue (overall I used about a decade of CPU time).

I'm quite sure that 2 months of my time waiting for results (and the impact on colleagues occupying their HPC cluster) was worth the $9k or so it would have cost to rent enough VMs to get my results in about 4 hours or so instead of 2 months.

That's not counting the hours of machine and my time wasted building enough support for the awful queueing and execution environment it used which was almost impossible to mock up locally.
According to Le Monde (~ French NY Times), it's this research that prompted the French government to urgently implement this "lock down" solution. It was criticized by some French scientists in the government's own expert group.

But I don't really blame Ferguson. If President Macron listens to him, or Alex Jones, or any other crank or random guy with an opinion and a model, instead of his own experts, he is the one to blame. I think the culture of the "safety principle" and excessive caution is also to blame.

https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2020/03/15/coronaviru...
Me neither.

But I see some heavy Slack, Arch and Void proponents.
France had social tension prior to the virus (3 month prior healthcare workers were gassed during a protest). If anything we have less social tension now, but it might be starting to build up too and explode.

And we are more than self-sufficient concerning agricultural product even with the reduced output caused by the pandemic. We could also reduce our meat intake by 10%, doing so would allow us to export as much food as we did in 2019.
Shaders are are a great place to use "pull".

Take an image that is 1024x1024 that you want to display as a 256x256 image.

The simple way to do this is to visit every pixel in the the source and write it to the display buffer [x'=x/4, y'=y/4].
3 out 4 of those writes will just get written over in the display buffer.

A more efficient way is step though display buffer space and calculate where that pixel came from (reverse transform) [x'=4x, y'=4y]
… because the the rest of us lack empathy and are too dumb to be enable to imagine anything that we don't experience ourselves?
What do you do about backups? I saw you only have one DC, are you worried about that DC being flooded etc and losing all your data?
If I'm not mistaken, it still transpiles TypeScript to Javascript. It just has the TypeScript compiler built into deno itself, but the transpilation step is still happening (just kind of invisibly to the user).
The ego which is almost essential for success in business makes it almost impossible to succeed in science.
Launch HN: Computer vision solutions to keep stores safe during Covid-19
A self-killing web site requested by a customer (2011)
> On a personal level, I’d go further and suggest that all academic epidemiology be defunded.

Wow, next they'll review one doctors handwriting and conclude that hospitals should be defunded, with their job handled by horse doctors...

Non-intended randomness is of course bad, but it's bad mainly because it makes it harder to track down causes of actually important problems with the produced distributions.

The worst problem this all out murder attempt can muster is that the code is hard to debug which frankly is should be the default assumption for all research code, not too persuasive. Models are after all just tools: what is critical is that you've made reliable predictions, not that the tools themselves are easy to use correctly.

A more interesting critique would be something along the lines of this: https://www.nicholaslewis.org/imperial-college-uk-covid-19-n... (however it's not by a subject matter expert so the problems they find might well be because the misunderstood some detail).
I knew without clicking that it had to be Japanese… fascinating product…
Only the obnoxious "dark theme" -> removed
>Can we agree that each restaurant having a separate app is one of the dumbest outcomes imaginable?

Nope, can't agree there. Every outlet/brand should have it's own app in my book.
It is hard to get the hang of Django is because the polls tutorial isn't helpful to actually understand Django and no one wrote this book yet, but I think Nigel has done a great job:
https://djangobook.com/mastering-django-2-book/
Oh crap! I meant Fukushima.
This shouldn’t be the top comment. Yes, switching fields and expecting to just work professionally is naive and insulting towards the other profession. Has web dev a lot of legacy cruft and suffers from over-engineering? Absolutely. Even for seasoned programmers starting web dev is harder than it needs to be. Front end development has JS frameworks, CSS or compile-to-CSS languages, templating, web packing, JS transpilers, tree pruning, multiple package managers and what not. But in the end it’s just a bunch of text, images and buttons.
No, it's more about having standard laws about burglary in every town so you don't have to re-read them every time you get in the car.
My current blog is hosted on wordpress.com. It's good for writing but it's quite awful for technical writing (inserting code and such).

I'm in the slow process of making a new blog for technical content and notes, using org-mode + html export / publish functionality + custom css. So far I've got some pleasing css, gitlab-ci and now I'm working on adding some automation and templating for pages and blog entries.

I'm not sure whether I want to host it directly on my own hardware or host it into something like S3 or gitlab pages.
Mechanical engineers in the US (including aerospace) regularly use freedom units
if there were a way to delete all my posts and my account I would do that. the hacker news community has become thoroughly disappointing to
me and I retroactively want all my contributions withdrawn. i want nothing to do with it.
Still using Hetzner for some of the services. They had some reliability issues in early days with servers randomly stopping or rebooting but not anymore. Cheaper than AWS definitely if you compare apples to apples.
Nice, congrats on the launch.

One thing I've been wanting for a while is a pluggable database client. I find being able to "see" a database helps me understand structure and concepts more.

With FoundationDB one of the things that I've really struggled with is visualising the layers of the schema. I doubt there's a market for a FoundationDB GUI client, but being able to write a plugin for an existing client (I don't have good GUI skills) would be a great option.
Came here to say this. Solid hardware running IOS with a good quality camera at $399 is a price/performance sweet spot IMO.
Do you mean PaaS, not SaaS? What other good PaaS exist besides heroku?
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-... - you're a couple orders of magnitude off the actual death toll.
Hey now, how could anything be better than foil? You can reliably steal enough of it from any nearby kitchen, and it does the job well enough, what's the downside? ;)
Every time a new space/rocket/propulsion story shows up, it makes me try to get to the mun and back again for the next few hours.
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Whose ideas? His employee, as usual, came up with everything. Wolfram just put his name on Gorard's work, because that's what Wolfram does.

Edit: Downvoters, got evidence? Here's Gorard's papers [0] [1], and Wolfram is clearly taking credit for this work upon which only Gorard's name appears. Gorard doesn't do themselves any favors, by name-dropping Wolfram constantly. Almost as if Wolfram employs Gorard and pressures them heavily to incorporate the name-dropping...

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.14810

[1] https://www.wolframcloud.com/obj/wolframphysics/Documents/so...
It may be worth keeping a notepad, journal, or even a blog that you can document snippets and things you've learned if you're finding that you're using Google or StackOverflow often to try and solve the same problems.

I personally just keep around a handful of markdown files split up into different categories for things I use every few months, but can never remember the exact command or series of commands to accomplish it.

I've also had a few coworkers and friends who have hosted blogs (some public, some private) for the same purposes.

Documenting them in your own words will also likely help with the knowledge retention so you may even find that you won't need to look it up next time it happens.
He does not generally sound like an amazing CEO either.
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> when we stopped [MS] we paved the way for Google to do the same thing!

Well, from a antitrust perspective, having TWO giants in the space is better than having only ONE giant.

Ideally we'd now apply to Google the same pressure and further split the field. Alas, politics are complicated.
> So it worked "better", yes.

Now I don't understand what you were replying to. I thought it was "South Korea is anomalous. Has literally any other country been able to replicate their success?" I don't see how it "worked better" answers whether it "replicated S.K.'s success". I'd argue it didn't because it didn't have S.K's problem (having not become a massive issue)

> It's not about closing down or opening up, but proper preparation and responses according to the circumstances. So we can draw ideas from countries that manage better.

Can we learn from Taiwan? Sure, and probably will. But their situation was never what we are facing now.

> If the goal is herd immunity, of course, it's not better. However, that comes with heavy costs and there's no consensus which strategy is best. Likely, the differeing strategies will converge somewhat. We can live fine with a scaled-down, controlled pandemic.

I also agree that this hope for herd immunity is a risky bet. Given it has already mutated at the hook site, I don't think a vaccine or antibodies is going to save us. If we reach herd immunity or develop a vaccine for one strain, then another may spread again like wildfire, just like the flu.
I think when the economy is hit hard a lot of companies are going to have to look at what they can do to make sure they remain profitable since investor appetite has changed. This means some companies will have to look at what is being spent on cloud providers. Renting RAM by the hour makes sense if you are optimistic about future revenue growth, but if the market changes and you have to worry about how you can sustain profits while just keeping your current customer base then this makes a lot less sense. The cloud vs on prem argument also really includes all the things in between, e.g. colo, managed servers, VPSes and also better tooling to manage your own VM and container clusters on these, which I think will now get increased attention and competition when people are considering alternatives to the big cloud providers in order to bring down costs.
But with hindsight we might still assess it was the wrong measure.

I suspect we will be debating that for years or even decades.
No this is not correct. The drums were just a Maestro Rhythm King Unit[1]. The pads had no dynamics at all. The dynamics were basically a foot pedal that controlled the volume. Both the volume pedals and the guts of the Maestro Rhythm King are visible in their 1975 appearance of on the BBC's "Tomorrow's World" where they play Autobahn[2]. There was no "circuit bending" going on.

[1] http://www.maindragmusic.com/ca-1970-maestro-rhythm-king-mrk...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ2goij2J94
Year old boy escapes from door locks
mission impossible for a baby who escaped from infant safety gate.
watch how he does it.
> And there are frameworks, platforms and plugins which allow you to do what you described without little coding.

Name three.

I'm not joking. I'd love to know about a data table library that meets following requirements:

- Doesn't commit me, the user, to one of the infinite combinations of ridiculous JS build chains. Instead, it should be accessible as a single-file JS dependency in transpiled form. It may use a ridiculous JS build chain for building itself, but I don't want to care about that.

- Doesn't commit me to one of the few big JS SPA frameworks (which each comes with its own combination of ridiculous JS build chains). I want a table, not the kitchen sink, and definitely not the whole meat processing plant.

- Doesn't commit me to particular styling.

- Can handle thousands of rows on a single page.

- Has the most basic ability to: sort each column, and sort by multiple columns.

- Has the ability to do a per-column search across all data (that all matters if it paginates the data)

- Doesn't interfere with browser search, and/or allows a full-table search on all data if paginated.

- Has the ability to filter out ranges of values. Bonus points for extra type-specific affordances.

- Bonus points for the ability to dump its contents into CSV (file or clipboard). Though this could presumably be handled with a small amount of code on my side.

- Extra bonus points: has some minimal pivoting ability.

I haven't found any meeting these requirements, where IMO these should be the default (and if browsers are ever going to standardize on some data table implementation, I'm going to petition for all of these to be included).
What's wrong with comparing the code results to a hash of a known result?
Idk about the States, but memorizing and reciting poetry is standard in Polish elementary and high schools. For example, as an assignment everybody is given about two weeks to memorize a poem such as this:
https://literat.ug.edu.pl/amwiersz/0004.htm
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If you’re going from foo.example.com to api.example.com, sure, SameSite won’t protect you because those two origins are considered same-site. So don’t do that: keep your API calls on foo.example.com, with domain=foo.example.com cookies.

Also, I seem to recall the PSL maintainers requesting at some point that people not do what you describe, because it wouldn’t scale at all.
I personally don't like much the term "deniers", because there are a lot of unknowns on this virus and what it does, and there is no agreement on many fronts.

Also, doing these generalizations groups together people with very questionable theories ("It's the 5G") with others that have more nuanced criticism.

Personally (and yes, I am a scientist) try to look up whatever is said in the media, either by journalists or experts, no matter if the results end up matching 100% what it is said (often it is less, and on some cases there is no match).

I think there should be fairly high standards of scientific rigor even in published code, especially if this might impact public policy actions, like we should expect high rigor in biological and epidemiological studies.
So now that the IDE is on the web, it would be pretty neat to be able to automatically launch interactive debugging sessions when breakpoints are hit in CI jobs.

Does any CI solution already offer something like this?
Good points though I considered REST to be more like best practises than theory. One could see it either way i think.
Because instead of fixing genuine problems and making it easier people invent new languages and frameworks to do things in their own way.
If you read the lockdownskeptics cite, "hard to debug" is not the problem. Non-determinism in the output is the issue, and if this is indeed the case, why would anyone trust the results? Do a bunch of runs and average is not a good answer.
> Models are after all just tools: what is critical is that you've made reliable predictions, not that the tools themselves are easy to use correctly.

Reliable and reproducible. I think this discussion, even if the code ends up being correct and the model OK, is worth having. It might not change anything today, but could set new (hopefully better!) standards tomorrow.

That said, that "personal level" statement is absolutely out of the line.
I don't have any experience in scientific research, so that's a fair justification.
I built an alerting service to do exactly that for you.

https://ctadvisor.lolware.net/
Just because something is a standard doesn't mean it's right. It also doesn't mean the law shouldn't discourage it.

And just because people don't care doesn't mean a company is automatically allowed to track people.

If the law were followed by the letter and companies weren't using dark patterns or ambiguous marketing-speak to convince people to allow cookies, only people with pro-tracking stances would allow it.
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Not quite. I'm very familiar with the concept of "fake it till you make it", but I don't think it works as much as its proponents claim. Perhaps it can have a similar effect internally, sometimes.

But the approach I'm talking about is not about "faking", but rather operating _as if_ something really is true, because it might be, or might become so by your acting that way.

In some ways it's the other way around; you're operating as if the rest of the world is behind/wrong and you're forging ahead while waiting for it to catch up.
Imagine trying to collaborate with Wolfram on a topic that you are an expert in and he is not. Now imagine why he wouldn’t like the peer review process.
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