skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The democrats have always banged that drum on domestic issues

So the Democrats are usually the ones in favor of authoritarian War on Drugs measures to prevent domestic overdose deaths? Mandatory employee drug testing? Having the police arrest inconvenient/"unsanitary" protesters?

> the republicans have always prioritized businesses over public and worker safety

Walmart, Pfizer and Netflix are doing fine. The airlines are screwed, but that's already done, they can't go bankrupt twice at once and people aren't going to want to get on a plane for recreational purposes anytime soon even if we reopen.

It's workers who are suffering the most from continuing to not have a paycheck. If you look at what labor unions are saying, it's more along the lines of "here's how we think we should reopen" and not "we don't want to reopen" -- is it normal for Republicans and labor unions to be on the same page?
This reminds me of an issue I had to debug over a decade ago. Our product had its own protocol written atop TCP, but its handshake was written in a way such that it was much slower than it should have been due to delays caused by the Nagle algorithm.

Turning on TCP_NODELAY was a quick-n-dirty fix, but the real fix was to rewrite the handshake to be more compatible with the inner workings of TCP.
Oh, wait, I got it! "Buy our product", right?
As a 55 and over with a dad who's 85 and over one can excuse me for not being on the herd immunity train.

I also have friends who've gotten sick and suffered impaired health. Figure the 80/20 rule. 80 people suffer impaired health for every 20 that die. We're talking about 1 in 50 having damaged health.
0.25% IFR is among the lowest we've seen yet, on the plus side. Lower than Gangelt @ 0.36%.
Hmm, hypothetically if you blanket refuse to respond to coutnernotices, could you lose your protection from liability under DMCA in general? Like even in cases where no notice has been followed? Don't you have to follow the procedures, including responding to counter notices, to be get the protection from liability under DMCA in the first place?

Even if in theory, in practice we know the risk is vanishingly low of actually being held liable for much.
Regulation is a start. In the short history of the commercial internet, we have seen that any notion of "self-regulation" is a joke. The reason some of these particularly acute problems in your industry exist is because there is zero regulation. It is also why the industry is so profitable, and why those profits can be channeled to a select few particpants without much resistance. The conflict of interest that stands in the way of changing the status quo is insurmountable without having at least some rules. History so far has shown there is no practical way to restrain this type of activity without some legal basis. No amounts of money from advertising and investors are going to solve these problems.

No one wants regulation but without it, a few large companies are going to be the ones making the "rules". The future of the internet's design will be crafted to fuel their continued survival. I have been watching this happen since the birth of the web. It is easier to see when you do not work in the industry.

Imagine if advertising did not subsidise your work and you had to sell your software. How much would people pay? Yes, there would be motivation to write original, quality software. But this is a terrifying idea to today's software "engineers". The hell with good software, they want to get paid. Advertisers can make that happen.

If someone really believes the internet and advertising are like chocolate and peanut butter -- they go great together -- just look at what has happened to "news", a profession that, like today's "tech" industry, relies on advertising to survive. Every day people come to HN to complain about the ridiculous headlines, bias, sensationalism, etc. We are losing serious journalism. We are also losing serious software. From where I sit, we are losing a lot. Whatever we are gaining seems like a poor tradeoff.
Since wasm has native browser support it doesn’t really feels like it fits into this group. I have a feeling in a few years wasm will be pretty common.
Ok, when Roomba advertises 'computer vision' they're conjuring up images of recognizing rooms, finding furniture and pets, maybe building a model of your house. But what that DSP is delivering? Maybe a little feature-extraction, just so it can calculate relative motion/distance of a wall or obstacle. Calculated and forgotten.

In the scheme of computer vision sophistication, its right down there with a fly's eye. That was my point, and I believe it was well understood. The pedantry of insisting it is computer vision full stop. Well, yes, about 1% of what computer vision could be. Niggling over that point is what's annoying. Instead of a good-faith discussion of how primitive this is, how tiny a feature it is, how miniscule the benefit it brings the consumer. How its pasted on the Roomba feature list because, hey, cameras are cheap and we can sell that feature for maybe $100 because the consumer doesn't know.
> it was absurd to expect anyone to want this as their full time job for even a month or two

That gave me a true 'kids these days' moment...

In my day within a spanish bank, as a team of 4 interns, we spent over 6 months reviewing/documenting an entire proprietary platform C codebase (full of gotos, endian-dependent hacks, post-compile patches and every horrible thing you could imagine), and then with a larger (~3x) team about 12 months cleaning, porting and expanding that codebase to a clean platform (if you can call SCO Unix 'clean').

What sort of dynamics prevent a product startup like Dropbox build an engineering team that includes the capability to do such a task?
> My friends and have been using the eye roll emoji to signal we're being sarcastic for about 10 years.

But why would you assume this works for a random stranger? It seems much more logical to assume they’ll interpret the thing you’ve written as being said while actually rolling your eyes.

That said, it seems entirely appropriate to look down on someone that doesn’t test their code before deploying.
Thanks, flat nose 84 SPG. But brake lines corroded out, so I need to run new brake lines. Which is a project I've been putting off for almost 3 years now :-)
It’s also a losing strategy long-term, because many of your existing customers will start just using GH to order, and eventually GH will own that relationship, not you. In the customer’s mind, “want food = Grubhub app”, not deli.
I'm sure there are some completely (technologically) clueless owners that are happy with this arrangement.

But for anyone with a hint of business sense, why would you hand over the keys for your online presence to another company? Assuming the restaurant owner doesn't control the domain in this relationship.
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Your source also argues that the trend is probably turning around.
I can smell the enterprise ball-of-mud spaghetti code from here :)
> It would be a boom for the economy

Why? Are they inefficient? Have their resources been mis-allocated?

> jobs

For the sake of jobs? That pay more or less?

> create much needed competition

Are they charging too much?
Potentially, but it's not unheard of for a disease to be differently severe in different places for inscrutable reasons. (Of course, that also does suggest those of us outside of England shouldn't generalize the findings too far.)
I truly do not understand why so many jumped from Coffeescript. I still use it and still believe I can be more concise and expressive in Coffeescript. Typescript and ES2015 picked up a lot of wonderful things, but I find myself writing a lot less boilerplate in Coffeescript. I will continue to "do me". I dev in Coffeescript and publish in JS. The project even made it a focus to transpile to readable/friendly JS. No biggie.

I would not publish things like this, though :)

console.log [ i if i % 3 and i % 5, 'fizz' unless i % 3, 'buzz' unless i % 5 ].join '' for i in [ 1 .. 100 ]

Separately, I bought overpriced raspberry pi's instead of cheaper alternatives because I knew the community was a strong source of support. Modern JS has a much larger community than Coffeescript 2.
> The only value in a standup is when team members actually share ideas about what they're working on

Or for management to track what you are doing and hold you accountable to deadlines and ask why you are late.
The "herd immunity train" doesn't mean we should get people in high-risk categories (even 55+, let alone 85+) infected. It means we should get the lowest risk people infected, which blankets the high-risk people in coverage. Regardless of where you stand on that plan, it's worth calling out.
We're talking about Wisconsin legislature here and they have not.
I suppose what I am getting at is that, like with many things, humams tend to gravitate towards adopting definitions around the governing body (experts) certification. We can get into problems, like certified organic, when there are too many bodies creating standards. There was actually an analogous conversation in Cuelang about this, w.r.t. user registered builtins, Cue code which can no longer be used with cue, and the worry of fracturing the ecosystem.
> If you tell people you're thinking about replacing standups with something more efficient, you've tipped your hand that the current situation might be inefficient.

Oh, well yeah, if you put it like that you might have a problem. "These processes are for you, if they're not serving the team or if you think something else could work better, let's talk about it and fix it" as a blanket policy for agile policies (which is supposed to be the norm in agile) is another thing entirely.

> On a similar topic: I worked in a department that tried to adopt a version of Elon Musk's famous "If you're not adding value, walk out of a meeting" rule. The people who hated meetings made it a point to not add any value in meetings, so they could get up and leave as soon as possible. This forced everyone else to have followup 1:1s with the people who walked out so they could be essentially re-capture their required meeting participation.

I have a feeling better meeting planning & pre-meeting communication would fix that and let you retain the "walk out if you can" rule, if desired, but it'd probably have to be so good that it'd far exceed the norm for that sort of thing, so yeah, probably impractical most places.

> A lot employees are drawn to work concepts that reduce their workload at the expense of their manager's. It's less efficient to make a manager play a game of telephone to spread information around than it is to get everyone together for a 15-minute standup, but if someone thinks they can reclaim those 15 minutes and force their manager to bring them any relevant info, it's a net win. In the real world, this becomes an inefficient and lossy system, but it sounds good if all you see is an extra 15 minutes saved in your day.

Yeah, that's probably true in some cases. I still think if you're having 15 minute standups and cutting that doesn't reduce total time for the process, that's strange. Though, yes, it might cause your manager to spend a little more time on it, personally—but taking two or three minutes to scan standup messages and make sure followups happened where relevant (most days this ought to be basically no work) seems like team lead stuff anyway, not manager stuff, which can just mean "whichever developer you've told to do that" if you don't have a designated lead (~every developer I've met over age 25 is very eager to do anything that can be described as leadership on a résumé so finding someone to take that on ought to be easy) and I'm not sure why a manager'd need to be involved most of the time chatting with anyone but the lead over standup stuff, and then only if their input's needed to unblock something or bring in someone outside the team who's too far above the lead's "pay grade" for them to do it themselves, which'd usually be a "let's talk after the standup" conversation anyway (though maybe not, I guess, if they're taking more than five minutes flat).
So why not raise the cost of submitting arbitrary user content?
Vice Media CEO slams Big Tech as ‘great threat to journalism’ in layoffs memo
Just in time for the elections! Pretty transparent.
Most common ones in my environment are various forms of smiles. What do you see that means you have to look it up? (genuinely curious)
As a company grows, its technology edge or problems often show up in the results. For instance, Google's used commodity hardware when it needed to scale search, allowing them to index more of the web, maintaining its edge, which brought more users. Twitter has had problems on product iteration. This potentially is due to its tech stack or execution, but either way it shows up in its results relative to Facebook.

There are cases where the early tech is valuable to an acquiring company. Apple's acquisition of FoundationDB comes to mind. A company could also be interested if say they needed a bunch of Go developers to rewrite their backend, and an acquihire deal made the most sense.
Break them up into what?
Use R:

> plot(polyroot(c(1,-1,1,-1,1,-1)))
> Which sites? Name and shame.

Or even better, report them to https://webcompat.com
That's not the 80/20 rule. There must be empirical estimates of that number.
Does Firefox have the useful extensions that Chrome has? Are they as safe or safer?
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Js isn't native. It's not c it's not c++, it's not Java or even fucking python.

It's a webscripting language. Which is totally fine but it will never be native.
I wonder if there's an economic argument, at useful scales, to using FPGA's in general purpose servers to accelerate network performance. The purpose-built ASICs would win on cost-per-unit every time, but the FPGA would have some adaptability to new protocols or algorithms that the ASIC wouldn't.
https://www.screwfix.com/p/ideal-standard-alto-ecotherm-surf...
Their normal death rate is ~1%, right? Are we sure that there would be little to no overlap between these groups and they'd end up with a death rate of 1.25%?
The user doesn't see their website. The content is loaded to google, google gets advert traffic, etc. etc. as well as the stuff outlined in the article. That's what is wrong with it.
Web devs should not be using that stuff until it has broader support.
That isn’t likely to change the deaths under 45’s by much if it all as the ONS figures only a additionally include out of hospital deaths primarily form care homes and hospices in which the average age will be well above 45.

If you remove comorbidities in the under 45 pool the rate drops even further for the most part if you are under 45 and healthy your chances of dying from covid-19 are exceedingly small.
As long as they don't print lies and don't play favorites, ideally.
That's not entirely accurate - Cisco open sourced VPP which they use in many products:

https://blogs.cisco.com/sp/a-bigger-helping-of-internet-plea...

https://docs.fd.io/vpp/16.09/

While they still obviously make custom ASICs, they've moved towards more software where possible.
How does #3 help when many Americans clearly prioritize themselves over other people?
Fed study ties 1918 flu pandemic to Nazi Party gains
Ugh, similarly, in one of my previous jobs we had a guy that was underperforming (I don't know why, he seemed smart, but it wasn't working out). Every day the standup turned into like 10 minutes of management and management lacky's bullying the guy and treating him like a child. It must have been awful for him (one day he just quit with no notice), but it was incredibly uncomfortable for the rest of us too -- I definitely didn't want to start my day every day with a long conversation about how this guy wasn't getting his work done.

I would honestly be more ok with standups if there was a bit more honesty about what it's for. If management just said "we need some visibility", I totally get that, I just hate how it's being marketed as if it's for my benefit.

I've been a professional developer for about 15 years, so if you multiply it by 15*261 (workdays in a year approximately), then I've been to about 3915 standup meetings. I can't recall a single one where I thought "glad we did that, we might have missed something huge if we didn't have a standup"
> When there is an increase in the cost of false negative, both monetary and in terms of status and reputation, then Google is going to optimize to reduce false negatives at the expense of creating more false positives.

The problem is that Google optimizes for cost and doesn't give an iota of damn about accuracy.

Fine their ass when they are legally wrong and suddenly Google will become really good at figuring things out. And, if there is enough cost, they'll even allocate some people to the problem.
Don’t believe the conspiracy theories you hear about coronavirus and HIV
RDS maxes out RAM at 768GiB, if we're comparing managed to managed.

If you're approaching that point, you already are going to need an analytics pipeline, a search DB, etc, because maintaining ever growing indices will kill your latency. You probably can get away with aggregations for a bit longer, but if the number of rows you aggregate is growing too, eventually you will need to come up with something and the way you do that with Dynamo off a stream isn't a bad way to go about it with MySql either.

Looking at the tables I have access to, they all come under 5ms for both read/write. This is the same ballpark as our MySql apps for similar style queries (i.e. not aggegrations).

Sadly my favorite reason to use Dynamo is political, not technical. Since it somehow is not classified as a database at my company, the DBAs don't 'own' it. So I don't have to wait 2-3 months for them to manually configure something.

Conway's law strikes again.
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How is this different than the past two or three generations and television?

Personally, I grew up reading any sort of book and then switched to nonfiction and magazine articles. My habits haven't changed considerably with the internet. I may be an outlier but I don't enjoy video in general and don't watch it on TV or online.

My experience with recent children is that they read books, watch video on TV and online, play physically and with toys, and also play video games. That's almost exactly what my life was like growing up in the '80s.
Sounds a little pre-meditated, if you're that worried why don't you go get tested :) Also I think you would be hard pressed to isolate where your infection originated if you were positive - so you might not have the best luck with suing your co-worker. Also that just sounds a little nuts.
Every mom and pop restaurant out there has a web page they paid for when they opened, then likely never thought of again. With obsolete menu items, old phone number or whatever. Can't count the number of times I've had to use Yelp or whatever because the business' own page was useless?
I think that was just sour grapes from the people who didn't have cool stylish masks.
Meant to include in my initial "highlights" comment:

Estimated "peak" daily infections was 23 March, with 500k infections. Estimate for daily infections as of 10 May closer to 10k; estimated country-wide Rt at 0.75, still well below 1.

Method seems to be from this 2009 paper, "Bayesian modeling to unmask and predict influenza A/H1N1pdm dynamics in London":

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3215054/

Not equipped to evaluate their method, really; but if it's reasonably accurate, then the UK is not currently really headed towards "natural herd immunity".
A low power device, powered by a battery, and put into a safe. Tell a friend to lock the safe with a code, go somewhere unknown to you, and block you from all kinds of contact for a month.
Wild guess here.
Think of your problem/goal starting from the other end.

(crass generalization) non technical people tend to see the "idea" they have isolated out of the sea of possibilities as the important thing.

Now that this important idea has been identified
I just need someone to stuff some "supports" under it and we are done!

top down

From the other direction, great ideas are a dime a dozen.
Enormous amounts of (outwardly invisible) time have been spent
exploring the landscape these "supports" would need
to sit on the down to the bedrock.
There may be things that are just to obvious
to consider explaining why that particular idea
is not worth the effort.
Maybe it is boring or sub optimal or infeasible,
or just dumb.

A hacker (what ever that means anymore) would be more apt
to consider what they had on hand and where they were and
most importantly, how they could inject some cleverness
into the building of their supports,
then climb up and see where they had gotten themselves.

bottom up

All obvious gross simplifications for illustration purposes.

If you are endeavouring to address a disconnect,
first of all kudos to you for making the effort.

Two paths that could help are

Better illustrator of "the idea". The everyday marketing
of the idea to the masses is not going to help here.
You would need to demonstrate the value added that
would make what ever reluctance there is be set aside.

The other is experience what is causing the reluctance;
get some blisters yourself.
This comes up a lot on the teams I've worked on.

But ultimately, the entire reason you have to go to standup and remind people to do their job is because they are not doing their job. It's surprising the number of people that can't be assed to make a simple to-do list and follow through on it and the number of meetings that are necessary to remind them of this fact.

I mean... what is the failure here? Is this not what Jira and the hundreds of other project management systems is designed to do? It's baffling, to say the least.
At the very end in a parenthetical the author includes:

> (NB - alt text is really important for visually impaired users. Please don't needlessly clutter their timeline with garbage.)

What is the impact on screen readers? Do visually impaired users have to suffer through 1000 base64 characters being read aloud?

At the very least it seems like this warning should be at the top of the article with a disclaimer to only use this method for good reasons (eg after recovering your Twitter account post-hack or as a one-time proof of identity).

Please don't use this and end up discouraging software and services from properly supporting accessibility features!
Those are literally the words in the statute. I'd be more interested if you could find a case upheld on appeal of someone being actually found guilty of perjury for filing a DMCA claim against non-infringing content. Because if it is never actually enforced then it's a distinction without a difference anyway. In either case fraudulent DMCA notices are rampant and the perpetrators face no consequences.
I thought the DMCA reporting system was basically made for Google (maybe by Google???) so they could have a middle-ground. They shift responsibility to content owners, through the law; then sell themselves as virtuous through ContentID and keep enough infringing content to not too deleteriously effect their platform -- collecting ad revenue even on content they allow that's infringing.

You can say what you like, but that's genius level politics-business IMO.
Daily standups for status updates and whatever is – in my experience, 15 years at this point – entirely useless. As a way to shoot the breeze in the morning just to say hi though, it's really effective, especially when remote. I've been working 100% remotely for the past five years, give or take, and if I didn't have those 15 minutes of just shooting the breeze with people I'd never get my water cooler fix. Your mileage may vary, I guess.