skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Where did we get the idea that engineers are hired to do only one thing?

At a certain size or number of self run services, they very well might be. I used to be the guy that did the set up for these sort of self managed solutions, and ran them day to day. In some shops the workload was high enough we needed multiple people like me doing it. Or a whole team. Doing DevOps style management of them just let us do it with fewer people - it certainly didn't make it feasible for developers to do the day to day management of these services and still write code.
Here is a medical journal sufficient?

This is more study than was given to full lockdowns.

This was posted to Hacker News a few weeks ago as well.

https://thorax.bmj.com/content/early/2020/05/27/thoraxjnl-20...

"We understand that you think that the lockdowns are bunk "

Correction...lockdowns ARE bunk.

WHERES THE SECOND WAVE?

Why hasn't Sweden followed the model of exponential explosion that was used to justify the lockdowns.

The flat curver movement was unscientific and wrong and you would do well to fight unscientific attacks on your civil freedoms with all of your vigour going forward because this isn't the last time this will be attempted.
How to Set Meaningful Goals Using Mindfulness
I often end up frustrated when jumping back from pytest to old projects that are still using unitest
I really like pytests's fixtures and it's caplog stuff. Out of interest, what do you prefer in unittest?
I think you could apply your argument to any use of objects, unless there are virtual methods involved. So you probably would have to be pretty generally against the use of objects to agree.
> Why not just install the required version of Python, maybe from a 3rd party repo

That's the thing. pyenv just downloads the source code of the specified Python version, and then compiles it on your machine. They did that to be agnostic of the OS you're running on.
Dutchies represent!

Kut-zooi zeg
Maybe @Microsoft has something in the drawers that would be interesting for OP and propose as a contingency plan? That'd be a way to make amend :)
> In a way it is dark matter, as dark matter was the name of the hidden variable in the cosmos responsible for the rest of the gravitational interaction that we see.

They're not the same, because the missing baryonic matter doesn't explain the observations that we attribute to dark matter. The missing baryonic matter problem is in addition to the dark matter problem. The most recent episode of Ask a Spaceman covers this, in case you're interested: https://www.pmsutter.com/shows/askaspaceman-archive/2020/5/2....
I think it's a very enthusiastic post. Anything can be over engineered - and generally young enthusiastic programmers are keen to learn about the options.
Next, Twitter will start fact checking every Bigfoot and UFO tweet.
Isn't that overkill? When are we going to start liquid cooling our raspberry pis? I expect someone to tell me that's already a thing....
FWIW, Ketamine is not a psychedelic. It's a dissociative.
I had to look up what memoization is- guess I’m getting rusty? But it turns out it’s just a new word for an old concept (caching).

I’ve always done it this way:

double calculation(double arg) {

thread_local bool prev_arg_valid = false;
thread_local double prev_arg;
thread_local double prev_result;

double result;
if(prev_arg_valid && prev_arg == arg)
result = prev_result;
else {
//do the calculation
result = ...;
prev_arg = arg;
prev_result = result;
prev_arg_valid = true;
}
return result;

}

Doing it this way is something you would only ever do if you knew beforehand the user would be asking for the same value over and over, but it’s clean and invisible to the calling code and doesn’t break your assumptions about what the function is going to return.

The memoization pattern is valid too of course, I just find it interesting I’ve always done the same thing when advantageous but in a different way.
I'm a bit sad that the University of Phoenix was used as the example. They just settled for $191 million with the FTC at the end of last year for various scummy practices.
This isn't solving the galactic rotation curve. This is about intergalactic matter. The problem of unknown sources of gravity within galaxies, for which dark matter is the leading hypothesis, remains unproven.
It might reverse the sanctions, but that would be too late for twitter.
What are they doing about people with childcare problems?
There is nothing to indicate any effectiveness whatsoever; how many shows were cancelled as a result? The post even said they'd go ahead and check stuff. Does anyone think they WOULDN'T have checked that show equipment for one of the biggest rock bands of the day if they found no brown M&M's? Really?
It was not an ad hom attack. Saying someone is being dishonest is not an ad hom attack when you didn't even make any point. You made a single statement "These sources fail to prove that Twitter fact checking is wrong." without any exact points on any of the sources I provided. You gave a 1 line "not true" comment. An ad hom attack is when I am not "criticizing the points you are making" but you never really made any points except just say "fails to prove." That's like you writing a research paper filled with sources and your professor gives you a 0/100 with a one line response "fails to prove."

My comment literally states from a NYTimes article that stats agree with me:

> “votes cast by mail are less likely to be counted, more likely to be compromised & more likely to be contested than those cast in a voting booth, statistics show.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/us/politics/as-more-vote-...

This case from just last week had a 19% fraud:

> Close Results In Paterson Vote Plagued By Fraud Claims; Over 3K Ballots Seemingly Set Aside

> A county spokesman said 16,747 vote-by-mail ballots were received, but the county's official results page shows 13,557 votes were counted — with uncounted ballots representing 19 percent of all votes cast

> The spokesman later told the Paterson Press that the additional 2,390 disqualifications were due to the election board comparing signatures on the ballots to those previously on file for voters, and the new ones not matching up. The spokesman also would not explain the breakdown of what ward those ballots were from, or which candidates were voted for in those disqualified ballots. According to the Paterson Press, four wards had more votes go uncounted than the winner's margin of victory — meaning the uncounted ballots possibly could have tipped the election in favor of one of the candidates.

Unless you can actually counter my sources without crying victim of "ad hom" attack which I certainly didn't, my original statement stands true.
Doesn't a monthly fee mean you'll require users to sign in? In the purest sense that's tracking, you're just promising to immediately forget all of the correlations you're making between users and queries. I think you'd need a privacy policy/payment contract that adds a liability to the business to maintain privacy for users to trust that you aren't and wont track them.
By looking at the video it looks like an anomaly in the Amazonas. What is causing this? Deforestation?

If so we need to change economic system to one based on nature. So that eco systems have an economic value. Ie a tree in Amazonas has a value to earth and its inhabitants since it provides oxygen. In current market economic system common resources are not priced fully. It may be profitable to chop down tree and sell the wood. Use previous Amazonas land for example to create more farmland to breed cows.
Nice I might have to check Ubuntu out for the Pi. I was also debating going the openSUSE route.
gatsby.js, github, netlify
About page says, "Distributed Camp is a unique event produced by Bimo Studio" and Bimo Studio's website is blank except for the domain name:

<h1>bimo.studio</h1>

so this is totally anonymous?
As I said in another reply: The post even said they'd go ahead and check stuff. Does anyone think they WOULDN'T have checked that show equipment for one of the biggest rock bands of the day if they found no brown M&M's? Really?
I agree. Here is not the proper place.
> It's true that the A64 family only goes up to 2GB.

I think they technically go up to 3GB, but making a board with that is messy.
Nice explanation (as expected from Fowler). Yep, mix that with a bit of interpolation and an iterator, maybe wrapped in an object and you have something readable and flexible. Not sure why people want to make regex any harder than they need to be?
Well, poetry gives you a lock file, separation between dev dependencies and runtime dependencies, and easy deployments to PyPI.
If you're hacking a oneof-script you might not need these features, but for "real" projects Poetry is invaluable.
"I got mine, fuck everyone else".
Helios64, the ultimate ARM based NAS board
> "fuck that" to picking the brown m&ms out as the same kind of person who goes "10A circuits should be fine. They build safety margins into those"

You've never worked with an electrician. This is not how these things work.

I love that this story gives people the warm fuzzies; enough to downvote. =D
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23334873
Thinkpad X230 can be picked up for around $100. I use one as my daily driver, another $70 or so picks you up an SSD and a 16GB ram kit.
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Simple, you don't.
Not every application has secrets that need to be stored on someone else's computer.
It's funny because one of the major recommendations is to keep having Zoom meetings. So, what's the point.

Do they have an open office?
In Canada at least, the Real Canadian Superstore chain has set up InstaCart as their "official grocery delivery" partner. When you go to the Superstore website and click "Shop Delivery", you go through an InstaCart flow.

Although I suspect complaining to either the store itself or to InstaCart is going to be relatively futile, it seems that having the store managers bubble their complaints upward to regional managers may be more effective than complaining directly to InstaCart. Corporate makes decisions like that partnership, and if all of the store managers in a region are making the same complaint to HQ, maybe something might change. Maybe.
Fibery vs. Airtable. We connect your Bases
In C you would do

my_lib_cool_func(myobj, 1, 2, 3);

so you don't pollute the global namespace excessively. Having it accessed through the object avoids that.
>Nexis : | LexisNexis

>[Search domain www.lexisnexis.com.my/en-my/products/nexis.page] www.lexisnexis.com.my/en-my/products/nexis.page

>Nexis is an online service for your strategic news and business research. Search for content from 35,000 publications. Conduct accurate searches of the 35,000 international sources in the Nexis online service. Make informed business decisions after getting the latest news and market reports.

this was the 8th result for me in DDG, with no filters or customisation or anything
>> Snowpack is a O(1) build system… Every file goes through a linear input -> build -> output build pipeline

> Seems like O(n) to me?

Big O notation describes how for a given operation (sorting a list), a given measurement (e.g. items compared, memory used, CPU cycles) grows in relation to a set of variables describing the input to the operation (number of elements).

Here their operation is 'a single-file incremental compilation', they're measuring how many files need recompiling in total, and the only variable n is 'the number of files in the project'.

In that case, Snowpack is O(1), and most other bundlers are O(n). They're not wrong.

You can argue that that's not an interesting point, or that there's other measurements that matter more ofc. It's not wrong though, and imo incremental single-file changes are a thing you care about here, and only ever processing one file in doing so is an interesting distinction between Snowpack and other bundlers.

Big O notation is not (ever) defining any detail of the operation in terms of every possible conflating variable. All Big O comparisons include implicit definitions: the exact same sorting algorithm could be described as both O(nlogn) for item comparisons required per n items in the list, or O(kn^2) for memory copies required per k bytes of largest item & n items, and both are accurate & useful descriptions.

(Sorry to be pedantic, but there's a _lot_ of replies here that have misunderstood big O entirely)
For certain applications, the form factor and power usage are both relevant. So if you really need a small low power computer at that price point, you don't have a ton of options (although there's always the RockPro64 [0]).

Once any of those requirements is loosened the other options start to look way better. So if you want a low power ARM computer and aren't concerned with the size as much, you can always get an old used Chromebook instead - which is well worth the money, but only IF you need any of the extra stuff it comes with (monitor/keyboard/mouse/battery/storage/camera/etc etc...). If you just want raw compute, then you can just buy an old x86 box like you say, but that will cost you in power and size.

I think some people just like to tinker on these little gizmos specifically, though. You read blog posts about running Kubernetes on Pis, and the immediate question is "why would you do that rather than just virtualizing stuff on an old x86 box?" The answer is really just "well, it's fun to work with little computers" which is presumably a factor for a lot of people.

[0] https://store.pine64.org/?product=rockpro64-4gb-single-board...
Might give it a try. Been using ne or Nice Editor when I cant be bothered with any of the usual ones. I have used them all and know enough to move around at least. It all depends on the system I am on.

The one benefit Emacs has always had is you can configure it once and edit files over SSH on any system. Not many other editors have this level of editing.
My understanding was that it's while it is in bulk storage in warehouses. It keeps the rat population down. I've been trying to find evidence that I'm correct about this and like another commenter has posted, it may be that I'm confusing the Morinaga problems with Nestle. However, I was sure I heard about Nestle before I heard about Morinaga, but... My memory isn't the greatest :-(
Pick some simple project and just do it. For me it was a tick-tack-toe on a browser. Building that during a weekend taught me more than all the courses I had studied before that. I started learning JS 5 years ago and have been working as a software developer 3 years now.
For sure these people are quacks, but if you're curious to take the next turn down the rabbit hole, let me seed you.

Even the concept of senses and reality are concepts in your mind and consequences of the model you have accepted as reality. So the problem recurses on itself, too. Can you directly experience your mind? Is the feeling of your mind delivered to you through a sense you haven't realized is a sense yet? Can you trust that sense? Total radical skepticism lies below that. But it's only logical. You can't escape that tarpit at the bottom. Or maybe it's the screen isn't there for anything to be projected onto?

So we have to rebuild from what we can sense, sure. What is repeatable. We must develop an axiom that what is repeatable is real. That what we can understand, the system, the model, the prediction, is real. We believe the planets and stars are real because we can draw maps and pass them between us and furthermore make predictions about where the stars and planets will go based on our mathematical models. But even our models tell us that the world is too huge of a system to compute even the slightest more than the tiniest fraction of a smidgen of it all. We don't even have computers big enough to fold proteins. Yet they do. And what we don't have models for--we can't predict. Is it unreal, then? Where did our axiom go? What is real and isn't? I'm not so sure it's logic that decides that, after all. Because you gotta have faith that them there proteins are getting folded right, because you can't. fucking. check it!
So if a client side app is just an “app”, what differentiates it from a server side app?
Moving Upstream
I thought the Cambrian explosion was more closely related to the oxidization of the atmosphere by pond scum. Free oxygen becoming available in the atmosphere for organisms to use allowed the formation of collagen and chitin, both of which are necessary to form the large structures complex life needs, and also allowed for more efficient breathing, which allowed for larger and more complex life.
I’ve had my eye on httpx for a while. Could you elaborate on your reasons for changing and your experience with it?
The Business of Building Utopia (2020)
Is migration from 32 bits possible?
You don’t agree with an idea so it’s silly? Passing around state via variables is no more tedious than the extra syntax for class definitions, constructors, member variable access, extra semantics related to objects, extra keywords related to visibility, etc.

You can encapsulate functionality without objects. There is nothing that you can do with an object that you can’t do with a closure, and the closure version will be 1/10th the size and have 1/10th the semantic programming language elements. That is why you see ‘object-hating’ all over the industry. It hasn’t lived up to its promise.

Objects aren’t simpler, inherently. It’s just what you know, today, and you’re unwilling to acknowledge your biases.
Yeah I think that the psychological harm, much like some other drugs, can be underrated. Another example of a drug people see as harmless is cannabis, which can reliably give people (including myself) intense anxiety and panic attacks. It is conjecture on my part but I can't think that it is healthy for your mind to subject yourself to intense feelings of anxiety.

These days I steer clear of all drugs except for my SSRIs and alcohol, the latter being basically the only recreational drug I've taken that seems to not put me at some level of psychological turbulence.
Show HN: A website for making patches for the OP-1 and OP-Z synths
Weird, I'm pretty sure there were climate protests in the 70's and people who denied it. Didn't know Facebook was that old.
Planned weakening of social media law may not have intended effect
Why macros vs decorators?
Only if you take U(1) as your gauge group. If you pick a non-abelian group the equations are not linear and solutions are not superposable.
Most of my direct reports work from home full time, just like most people in our company. We look at the output from our teams and we frankly don't care if people are checking Facebook on their phones during business hours. Focusing on the work that's getting done results in everybody being happier than micromanaging how people spend their time.
Unfortunately, I sympathize with the anti-mask requirement sentiment, even though I wear one in indoor public spaces like grocers. I don't think people should be shamed or that they should be mandated.

When I read into it it's not always clear masks work well to limit egress of virus, and I do think the scientific community is to blame to some extent for presenting things as "masks are scientific and lack of masks is not." This approach might only worsen things relative to a message of "we don't really know but it's a good idea to be prudent."

Linked scientific articles advocating masks I find are often misleading. They often are based on other viruses that potentially have other transmission properties, or make questionable assumptions, like that the mask is an n95 mask or is wet cloth. When I have found actual studies of SARS-CoV-2 with dry fabric of the sort most masks are made of, the masks work, but not nearly as well as you might think.

The problems with masks have really been underscored for me practically too. I've tried a couple of masks now, fit to my face, and I've run into a telling problem: when I breathe in mildly colder air, my breath shoots out from underneath my mask and fogs my glasses immensely. Not only is it evident in a very visible way that when I'm wearing the mask it's not actually blocking airflow very well, but then I have to constantly adjust things because I can't see, and sometimes have to resort to removing the mask entirely.

I still wear the mask and the fogging has gotten better as it's warmed, but my overall impression is that there are good reasons people might not wear masks, and I think the evidence in favor of them is much weaker and less rigorous than is often acknowledged. I think if the scientific community were being honest, they'd say they don't work great, but it's something, and every bit can count. That message seems to be enough; it would go a long way.
>1. How to pay for stuff in the web in the same way you can pay with cash in the real world.

This one is a bit easier. Prepaid credit cards are frequently accepted online and can be purchased with cash. The fees are a bit high as is but there's no reason merchants can't create more of these and likely even lower the prices.

Alternatively your CC provider could potentially act as a privacy guard by providing randomized rotating onetime transaction numbers as well, I know some pay services like Samsung pay do this to some degree already by creating virtual cards that require a third party to authenticate without giving your actual account, though I believe those virtual cards remain fairly static. With more potential entropy (large GUID), it seems reasonable you could rotate those on the fly.
The disparity in the magnitudes of energy involved should mean human activity has a negligible effect. When you consider how massive earth is, how massive the core is, and how much energy it takes for the core to have the angular momentum it currently does, what few things we are doing to the crust aren't relevant except in very localized areas that do not extend to the height of these satellites.
I think Swift does this too?
> The problem is the scientific community did not immediately denounce those scientists that clearly were putting policy before science.

Who said this though? This seems like a caricature. All I remember is a bunch of confusing messaging from the WHO and a bunch of tut-tutting from experts warning people not to hoard or stockpile PPE that was needed more pressingly by health care workers.

Can you be specific about who said what, and when, that "destroyed the whole of the scientific community's credibility"? I just don't see it. In my world by late march everyone was wearing homespun masks form Etsy...
The counter argument looks like this. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mail-in-ballot-voter-fraud...

But in addition to direct counterarguments, there's also the need to consider effects and what beliefs about what is happening predict should be observable.

How does one reconcile these cherry picks against the larger pattern that states that allow no-excuse-needed mail-in voting don't have higher fraud rates than states that do?
Have aliased micro to `mi`, so I don't have any excuse to use vi / nano over it.
And frankly, it's just works — syntax highlighting, intuitive shortcuts, good input controls.
>> you passed over someone because he was ambitious outside of work

Many see that as a sign that they won't be 100% focused on the task at hand.
A few years ago, I investigated if there is a business opportunity in quality search.

The biggest hurdle I found no way around is the content. Not all but a lot of high-quality information is paid. You get access to it as a user but not if you want to index it as a platform. And you need a lot of different providers to have good coverage. That might get easier if you have lots of users, but you do not get users without content. The platform chicken-egg problem.

Profitable niches like Bloomberg’s business information definitively exist but this would not be the high-quality generic search engine you described.
No, the problem is just moved inside the container.
React and APOLLO = Speed up development with mocks
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