skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lockdowns vs no lockdown is an false dichotomy. The lockdown didn’t impact many people like myself, and many people can still be financially impacted even without a lockdown. Some people and businesses have actually been thriving. So your model is too black and white and doesn’t really match reality.
Roughly half a million fatalities in the second Iraq war and about 150K in Afghanistan. (All numbers are of course disputed).

Of those they were about 4.5K and 1.5K US government employees (e.g. soldiers). Those are the only ones the NYT would bother to list, of course, but I had hoped even that meager portion might provoke some attention.

Your position echoes Stalin’s calculus that “quantity has a quality all it’s own. In both cases action (and inaction) by a few caused enormous misery for whole populations, though now the country has used its weapon of ignorance to attack itself.
The thing is, if you don't want to loose a lot of performance on that storage, either a bought or a built NAS will set you back 1000+ bucks; you can run an idling desktop PC for at least 5 years for that price (80 W idle power consumption, 30 ct/kWh electricity cost).
That sounds like a pretty bumpy on-boarding, least of all the group activities, but most importantly: disparate systems that seem like a ball of mud with a bunch of rituals attached.

I've had on-boarding that was basically: set up SSO creds + 2FA, login to the wiki, read all of the things, install your own damn tools. I had a PR open by the end of the day.

I've been at the complete opposite end as well: no PC for the first 3 days, multiple systems with unique logins and varying password requirements, file multiple tickets in some ancient (HEAT) ticketing system for access to different things, setting up meetings with different teams just to find the code and infra that it all runs on.

Some companies end up with solutions that just don't age well. Most of us struggle through it because we know on-boarding will eventually end. The group activities are probably not a good indicator of things to come, but tangled systems are.
We also do not know the seroconversion rate for mild or asymptomatic cases (every study measuring this seems to use an entirely-hospitalized or mostly-hospitalized cohort).

EDIT: Hey hey it looks like some information is finally coming out, and what do you know, it supports the idea that milder cases don't develop IgG antibodies as often: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.21.108308v1
Agreed, its not a vanilla SQLite but can give you a rough idea of the quality of SQLite codebase.
It looks like Dell no longer sells this model. What other Dell models would have similar hardware compatibilities?
Edited [1]: Ironically, one sign of brilliance is the ability to hold two seemingly contradictory ideas in your head. I think many people who interacted with Steve Jobs would classify him as a jerk. However, if Apple was more inclined towards mitigating his jerky behavior, it might not be where it is today.

Reality is complicated. You don't get at the truth by finding the absolutist statement that is correct most of the time. You have to conduct a more holistic analysis than that. What causes this person to be a jerk? Has the very behavior that caused them to be a jerk also led to the founding of this company? Would they lose their passion if we tried to cage them like a pet bird? If so, how critical is their passion to this company? What if they're absolutely, 100% right about something and they're being a "jerk" because they are trying to communicate precisely how much they think they're right and how wrong everyone else is? How right have they been in the past?

On top of asking the right questions, you need to do a first principles analysis. What drives this company to be profitable in a competitive context? Why do we want to reduce tension in this company? Is it because that tension is bad for profit? Are you sure?

[1]: I removed the following from the top of my comment: "There are "No" brilliant jerks? Absolutely none? What evidence is that based on?" because a below commenter is right that it doesn't really fit the primary meaning of the headline. My core point remains pretty much the same though.
Agreed, Python’s async model is the easiest one for me to think about by far and there’s so many high quality libraries
Sorry, but after using Golang with its very simple and powerful goroutines and channels approach to concurrency, this seems like a convoluted mess. When I need concurrency, I certainly don't think of Python as the right tool.

Python seems to have lost its way after the 2 to 3 shift and is no longer what I'd consider "pythonic".
The reason for the grumpiness is that, marketing or not, software works and exists. The opposite doesn't happen.

Cue in the stereotypical markethead rappresentation: vapid, buzzword filled, socially successful.
I'm not sure what you mean, takeout is typically 10% to 20% cheaper than the same food served to you at the table.
I am a contractor that works for Apple (specifically the Austin campus and live on the East coast) and always stay at the domain when I go. I’ve had a few times people convinced me to stay downtown but it’s really not worth the hassle. That being said the hotels at the domain are nice and the lyft drivers know the Apple campus very well.
"a persistent data structure is a data structure that always preserves the previous version of itself when it is modified. Such data structures are effectively immutable, as their operations do not (visibly) update the structure in-place, but instead always yield a new updated structure. The term was introduced in Driscoll, Sarnak, Sleator, and Tarjans' 1986 article".
It's effectively the same thing.

A third name for the same thing is "append only".
How much income do they make on grubhub outside the tip the customer pays?
I guess you've answered my question, but to be clear, you do not instrument/analyse the code, you treat it as a black box which you hammer on externally, is that right?
better than the xps13 dev aka ubuntu edition?
I guess I'm odd, or I wasn't suggesting they'd place a hotel somewhere else just that they're adding one at all in that location given the lack of amenities/points of interest/etc., which is one of the few perks of business travel.

That said, I'll stand down completely on my knee-jerk comment on this because if you take the total visitors to Apple's Austin campus, some of those folks would not want to stay where the action is and so, to your point, the ones who want action can take an Uber. Everyone wins in that case, I suppose.

Also, if you don't think someone at Apple brought up the benefit of the hotel being at the campus itself and how that might factor into productivity you're less cynical about corporate America than I am (not a stretch; I'm pretty cynical).
Yes I feel like all modernn ui design is optimized to make an app not look intimidating.

But sacrifices feature discovery and click fatigue in order to do achieve that goal.
For every strain thats above 20% there are 10 more that are above 15%.
So like if I was on a team one time with Ken Iverson, John McCarthy, and Peter Norvig and the team did a lot of acid and masturbating at their desks whenever they found a really cool bug to fix I would write an article (and probably found a management movement) to have programmers take acid and masturbate at their desks.

hence, stuff like this "Some teams go even further and require that the issue number is tracked in every commit." well, I was on a team that did this and a lot of other stuff listed here but as it happens it wasn't one of the most productive teams I've ever been on.
Phenotypic plasticity long-term memory aids adaptation to ancestral environments
Yep, the closest decent hotels are either in the Domain (7-9 minute drive) or the Arboretum (again 7-9 minute drive). The offices (old and new, as the current one is only about 2km away) are basically in a suburban area with nothing really but housing and small strip centers nearby.
mongodb's business model, forever, has been to get developers to write code, be damned the fact that you can't support it reliably on a cloudy day.
Advice for the young scientist (by John Baez)
And in Portuguese:
https://logic-forall.blogspot.com/2020/05/telling-stuff-as-i...
I do this because its cheaper. Taxes are another 30% in CA and being a medical patient is virtually meaningless anymore. I buy on bang for the buck alone.
Not directly related to the topic, but this is the first time I’ve seen renders of this new campus and it surprises me that it’s so car-dependent and suburban. It kind of disappoints me especially from a company publicly emphasizing environmental responsibility.

That same aspect really surprised me about Apple Park: how the building is so futuristic, but then getting there requires you hop in your regressive oil-burning couch on wheels.
Personally, I would never again work for a company that made me drive down a highway to a giant parking garage complex. I want transit-oriented development and I want to live and work near transit lines, in walkable areas with mixed-use amenities.

If my choices in 2020 are remote work, suburban car commute, or downtown city office commute watching YouTube on a bus or train, one of these options is the clear last-place option.

My parents told me an anecdote of how they recently drove to the center of town (the old part built for walking) just to get out and walk around, as if this is a normal and not-insane byproduct of our misguided city planning. Their home is so isolated and pedestrian-hostile that they have to drive a vehicle just to find somewhere pleasant to exist. (The same story goes for getting to a park or outdoor recreation area)

Suburbs have all the downsides of a city with none of the upsides of rural life.

Obviously, it’s not Apple’s fault that most American cities happened to make massive city planning mistakes after World War II. But it seems like so many of those mistakes continue to be perpetuated by all parties involved.
May I ask why the down votes?
One thing I haven't seen any blogs write about is that multiprocessing in 3.8.x uses `spawn()` and not `fork()`[0] on MacOS. Granted, most applications are not running on OS X Server, but an update that changes a low level API like that led to some issues where running code locally will fail when running it remotely will work. The following code will run anywhere except on MacOS on 3.8.x, where it crashes with `_pickle.PicklingError` as it tries to resolve the name `func` that is not in the new stack:

import multiprocessing
some_data = {1: "one", 2: "two"}
func = lambda: some_data.get(2)
process = multiprocessing.Process(target=func)
process.start()

[0]: https://bugs.python.org/issue33725
> because the first iteration of the tax would have destroyed grocery stores

> This iteration is targeting the 800 largest employers in Seattle, many of whom aren’t currently profitable.

Citations needed. Citing a few articles quoting a few politicians does not count.

Creating an alt account to make this one comment not really trust-inspiring either.
As another commenter pointed out, it might be worth making the titles "An evaluation of X" going forward – better for HN and probably better everywhere else this is shared too.
I assume it's a simple matter of real-estate price. There's lots of empty land in the area, and we all know how expensive stuff has gotten towards downtown. Also, many of the stodgier/enterprise-y big tech companies are up north (Dell, HP, GM, Oracle, etc.) which I assume is at least partly due to proximity to the suburbs. Older employees probably care more about that than exploring.
How^H^H^H Who is this "renowned scientist"?

What says the netiquette about reposting content of private slack groups in imgur?

Edit: "How" -> "Who" (Sorry about the typo.)
I've had worse.

Someone has set the machine up with a raid 10 of SSDs and no monitoring.

At some point the RAID controller battery died, increasing the load on the SSDs. Who knows when that happened, no monitoring.

Then I guess the SSDs failed one by one. I have no idea in which order, or how long the gaps were between the failures. Like I said, it would have been nice to have some kind of monitoring.

Eventually the 3rd SSD died, and the machine died, finally calling attention to the problem.

To top it all off, it had recently been discovered that the backups were incomplete, and everyone was still arguing over the best way to close the backup hole.

So we forced to pull the SSDs and send them off to professionals for recovery. I believe we spent several thousand for express recovery.

So yeah. Don't forget monitoring/alerting.
> that this virus can be handled by mostly OTC supplements

This is simply not true. Most of his recent[1] videos have discussed his hypothesis about how the virus may be causing oxidative stress when it abuses the ACE2 receptor, and how this might explain why some people are asymptomatic and others people need ventilators or die. Most people can handle the dramatic increase in reactive oxides, while those of us with diabetes/etc may have already spent some of the protective capacity and may not the necessary "defense in depth".

This is speculation about the mechanism causing the damage; the closest I've heard in those videos to anything related to how the virus "can be handled" is some high-level speculation that can basically be summarized as "if the problem is oxidative stress, maybe we should investigate trying to mitigate the damage with antioxidants?" That would probably be in addition to existing treatments, not some kind of "holistic medicine" nonsense that thinks you can replace the usual treatments with vitamins.

[1] I'm assuming you're referring to the "Coronavirus Pandemic Update" videos on the channel since the [1] link above (update 63).
> A jail broken/rooted device may not have the same protections since jail breaking is typically circumventing that sort of threat protection.

So your argument is that walled garden devices are less secure assuming there exist methods to convert it into a general purpose computer, which they empirically do.

Shouldn't this be an argument for such devices to be less trusted? After all, you can't always tell when this has happened (so you better assume it has), whereas as you say the devices designed to be operated under that threat model would then be more secure.
i feel like this is the reaction of everyone having ever tried to setup postgres replication. With your audience, you deciding for a particular setup will probably help a LOT of people, and ultimately the postgres project as well.
That just seems like a poor choice of api design for forEach, rather than a fundamental problem with implicit returns.
“The Modern Web”
Thank You, Cloudflare
I take you for granted. I have over 50 domains under one account. Some with very complex DNS logic. All free.

I don't know what I would do without you.

If your pricing offered a monthly fee, instead of per domain, I'd be happy to pay.

Thank you.
I agree that the multi-year publication timelines for journals are in general silly. I agree that keeping up with a field by reading journals doesn't work. If by editorial review you mean "the editor alone decides", I don't think that's a good replacement.

I think the computer science publication model of a few conferences per year with ~3 month submit-to-decision timelines, based on 3-5 reviews per paper, is pretty good. But it's probably not appropriate for fields with deep contributions that take substantial time to verify, like math.
If you test all the situations you care about and statically type check, the one situation you thought you didn't care about and that wasn't caught by the type checker is going to fuck you in production.

It's not useful to talk about a binary "bugs versus no bugs", because "no bugs" isn't plausible in most codebases.

It's also not useful to talk about "more bugs versus fewer bugs" because that's only part of the picture: the other parts of the picture are how much development effort was necessary to achieve the level of bugs you have, and whether the number of bugs you have, and when you have them, is acceptable.

If it's a life or death application where any bugs at runtime are unacceptable, then of course we want static types, but static types aren't enough: I'd also want a theorem prover, fuzzer, a large number of human testers, and a bunch of other things that require way too much effort to be useful in an average software project.

The vast majority of software projects, runtime bugs are acceptable as long as they don't lose data, cause downtime, or expose private information. If you catch these bugs during unit testing instead of 30 seconds earlier at compile time, that's fine. Static types might catch a few more bugs, but it is very much not in evidence that the level of effort involved is lower than equivalent unit testing in situations where reliability requirements are typical.
The cases are related because in both implementations it is unlikely that a human computer reader ever halts.
An in-place update seems counter to the whole immutable premise. There must be a middle ground of in-place with record. Like, (1/2/2020, John, oldAddress) becomes (1/2/2020, John, oldAddress) --> (3/4/2020, John, newAddress) becomes (1/2/2020, deletionRequestName1, deletionRequestAddress1) --> (3/4/2020, deletionRequestName1, deletionRequestAddress2) --> (5/6/2020, GDPRDelete, deletionRequestName1, deletionRequestAddress1, deletionRequestAddress2) or something. That doesn't feel quite right, but it feels like there's some nice combo somewhere that keeps the auditing and history and most of the simplicity.

Or maybe there's a cryptographic solution, like (1/2/2020, ALKXJDS, CNDSLKDJ) becomes (1/2/2020, ALKXJDS, CNDSLKDJ) --> (3/4/2020, ALKXJDS, QWERTYYUIOP) becomes (1/2/2020, ALKXJDS, CNDSLKDJ) --> (3/4/2020, ALKXJDS, QWERTYYUIOP) --> (5/6/2020, we threw away the cryptographic keys to decode ALKXJDS's info).
I'm not "worried" nor experiencing an "urge." Please skip the concern trolling.

What I do have an interest in is HN's accepted decorum, which I admittedly stepped outside of when I implored you to stop digging yourself such a hole.

HN is far from perfect but there is a culture of respectful discourse here, which is part of the reason for its value IMO.
Your correction is not fine. English is my first language, and I am telling you that the way you wrote the sentence makes it incorrect. It's probably your grammar more than your misunderstanding of the facts. Another commenter said the same.

The sentence taken as a whole does not make the wrong part right. That you think we must not have noticed the rest of the sentence demonstrates that you don't know why it is wrong. You are choosing to get defensive instead of accepting a correction to your grammar that you acknowledge as being funky.

> Maybe my English wasn't clear.

What is the effective difference between your English being unclear and the correction being written in a way that makes it wrong?
This is what happens when you go to brian at the genius bar for a quote.
Because he is. The content were unorganized in Slack. Thousands of messages. Used imgur to highlight what he said about QC. That's it.
Not normal in my experience and spending hours cloning a dev environment sounds just broken. This is obviously a large co - they should have a standard build they hand out and all the credentials should be ready to go.

Sounds like some one in HR has built a little empire out of this.

My first job onboardings consisted of a tour being issued my lab coat and being shown the portacabin that was my office.

Then it was go and se Keith he will give you a quick run down on how a PDP11 works and there is a book on Fortran in the company library learn it
Costs don't scale linear with the production of more meals. If the variable costs (like food and staff) are lower than or roughly equal to the fixed costs (like rent) then 30% off the face price of food might be still be a money making proposition.

That being said, it's becoming increasingly clear that restaurants and delivery services need to be co-designing to make widespread delivery work long term.
Yeah, I think you're right. Totally possible and likely. And like I wrote in another reply Covid may make the "suburbs" everywhere a lot more interesting. That said, not sure the suburbanites want my personal version of "interesting" because I think the suburbs are the way they are because the people who live there like them that way.
I have some experience with these questions.

1. Management, and involvement of management in particular. When you're an individual contributor, it can often be motivating and validating to hear praise and interest from a manager, director, VP or beyond.

2. It's not hopeless. In that case there are two courses of action required a) engage the team and build an atmosphere of psychological safety; this is done by giving focused, time-relevant feedback, both positive and critical, on behavior in group settings (e.g. "That question you asked in stand-up was critical. I'm glad you brought it up.") b) push out (fire, transfer, etc) negative influencers and those who don't contribute, once enough time has passed since instituting team culture changes.

2.b might sound harsh, but in normal circumstances a group of people will reject and disassociate with a member who no longer shares their values. In a work setting a manager has to do this or they risk the productive and positive team members leaving.
Having few choices is entirely different from being coerced.

This is a common intellectual mistake, and source of much confusion.

Also, note that the companies "taking advantage" of this are losing tons of money doing it.
If you need to do CPU bound computations use a thread pool.
Rust morons, whose income depends on talking, activism and manipulation, have taken over this thread.

Hence the usual stupidity.
Yeah, the major toll roads in Austin are essentially empty enough that you never have to go below the speed limit. The campuses are off Parmer Ln, which isn’t in bad shape, it’s actually a pretty decent divided highway with 3 lanes on either side, but it’s not walkable or bikable at all and there are a ton of traffic lights.
i'm not sure what you mean by pg not being a "distributed" database. it has replication and sharding functionalities that let it run in various clustering configuration. This looks enough to me to qualify it for aphyr tests.
Don't forget overcoming fear. SICP helped me most in that I overcame unconscious barriers of fear of complexity. The only way to defeat those is to embrace complexity and fight through it.
There are good people with high energy too, it isn't something reserved for just the jerks.
If you want to integrate with the data science ecosystem, would you use modern Python for APIs as well, or do Go services with minimal Python bits?

EDIT: coming from someone who has had great experiences with FastAPI and Uvicorn combined with Dask and Redis.
Hah yeah, it’s probably any thinkpad.

The X1 carbon is such a better built machine that there isn’t even a comparison. The XPS13 looks good but feels cheap, also good luck getting service from dell if anything breaks.
> regular power plug

What's a 'regular' power plug? I thought these weren't standardised beyond USB-C?
An and Complex Triple Spiral Designed Using 15,000 Dominoes Topples Beautifully
It may be something to do with audio, see Chromium's console:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1gpEX5mTiDO7hkJEkOzqhbSBnbW...

Does the entire web page depend on audio working?
I was looking to buy a laptop from Tuxedo Computers, but I've read the same customer service experience from other people. Their positive trustpilot reviews are mostly generic short and always 2 days apart, which seems like fake reviews to me.
They are related in that they both implement FizzBuzz in a way that is highly unlikely to be ever used, nor recommended to be used.
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