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Markus Persson / notch - Creator of Minecraft ($1.6BN)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Persson

And more recently:

Tom Preston-Werner / mojombo - Founder of GitHub ($1.25BN)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Preston-Werner
This should terrify any researcher working with a private company’s data. I think top journals need to change their policy here ably data availability, especially when private companies get involved.
Come back, zinc!
Another option is just the actual null hypothesis:
"Study finds that ideology has no impact on perception of facts."

Which doesn't seem surprising at all to me... After all, is the sky red if Trump says it is?
Trying to jump to a political conclusion is a waste of time. It would make more sense that the study was fake science specifically designed to be discovered, to make Trump look better. See? It is just pointless to hypothesise without strong independent information, which is lacking at present.
Note that blog posts can't be 'Show HN' https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

(Sometimes an annoucement of a feature can be Show HN if it better describes what has been build compared to submitting the actual work).
Do you mean that everything in the news should be dominated by a single topic?

Not only is it somewhat nearsighted (if perhaps sometimes tempting) to suggest that everything and everyone should put their focus on a single matter and stop focusing on anything else, it also leads to people getting weary really fast.
Or have the money to buy ads.
"Outside Plato's Cave" is the name of the submitter's newsletter that they have been excessively posting on HN. (10+ posts in the past day)
In the best scenario, this whole story is an illustration of incompetence, in the worst case, this is a sign of corruption. In both, more scrutiny is needed.
I like easydns - don't know who they resell thru, but it's awesome being able to call and get a real engineer on the phone and not a call center.

I've been using them for years, and never had any technical issues...
Probably just more people getting tested, finally.

I wouldn't worry too much about it.
Could you expand on the problems you see with the JVM and ecosystem? I was skeptical, but it hasn't been a problem for us so far, and having java libraries and good java interop has helped us more than it has hurt.
Google tends to be at the top of that list, though. It wasn't always. When I first started doing that, MSN was on top, usually followed by Yahoo. For a while, Google Sheets were being used for phishing. You can put HTML in a spreadsheet cell, apparently.

I used to contact nonprofits and small businesses which showed up on that list. Inevitably,they'd had a break-in. With some nagging, I could cut the size of the list in half.
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That’s great if your dealing exclusively with CSV files and a fixed set of data types, but the point is that this approach in Clojure is universal regardless of where the data is coming from, or going to.

Everything comes in as a map, gets manipulated with the powerful set of core Clojure core functions, and spit back out as a different shaped map.

It’s a very flexible approach to dealing with data, and that is one of the main appeals of Clojure.
I think it's a weird challenge. Like what's the shortest height that you're very confident that most people (> 50%) would consider tall? This is a tough question. You might get silence and tentative answers if you asked it. You might get different answers in different circumstances. But it doesn't mean "tall" is a concept we can't reason about confidently.

"What is the least X that you're confident of f(X)?" is just a hard question for any uncertain or vaguely defined X. Doubly so for an uncertain and vaguely defined X. But I don't think it tells us that much about X.
So "dunno" is not a good enough reason to allow use of potentially damaging drugs. So we're still at "block".
> An honest person has nothing to fear from the lies of another.

Some problems with this:

1. an honest person in a democracy must fear how ads influence her neighbors, regardless of how they influence her

2. honesty does not buy you an all-seeing eye, so honest people can be fooled by a dishonest person's lies

3. lies are laundered when they are repeated by well-meaning, fooled honest people, so whatever superpowers one honest person has against dishonesty, they are neutralized by this kryptonite
> The university of Minnesota has a clinical trial out showing no early benefit of HCQ treatment.

They have yet to publish the results on whether it benefits patients during the early onset of symptoms. [1]

Is hydroxychloroquine paired with zinc in the two studies? That has been the central claim of people supporting hydroxychloroquine this entire time and so far I've yet to see them used together in an early treatment / preventative study in the US (perhaps they've done so in Europe or China?).

[1] "A separate U trial is examining whether it benefits patients after early onset of symptoms, but results haven’t been published."

https://www.startribune.com/anti-malaria-drug-in-u-of-m-tria...
I'm not sure what country you live in, but here in the US, the overwhelming majority of activity was not suspended.

My city has been in lockdown for two months, yet I look out my window, and see a full freeway of people going to work, going from work, transporting goods, transporting themselves...

Look through the list of essential activities in your local shutdown orders. By the time you get through all the pages of it, you'll be wondering what the hell is left that's non-essential.
Yes. Take risks for the rest of your life and live through ups and downs, and you'll be fine.
Have you ever been in a grocery store outside the US? Am I really the one disconnected?

The grocery stores obviously don't care about unemployment stats, but federal government incentivizing "job creation" without getting into specifics about the utility, necessity, etc. of those jobs is a real problem. Everyone who drives for Uber has a "job" but that is hardly anything to survive on.
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"The researchers didn't get an image of an atom"

You could say the same about any image produced by a scientific instrument these days. Any astronomical image has a huge amount of data behind it, but we don't sit around saying "gee, there are no actual images, isn't that a shame".

If you don't want to call something an image, you can call it a diagram produced by a data processing program, but whatever you call it, it's disappointing if it's not provided.
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The POTUS is certainly advised by some very smart people but he has a mind of his own.

Analysis of his tweets have shown they often match the programming of his favorite Fox News TV shows exactly. (A time stamped remark based on something he sees on fox, then an equal delay and a new Tweet based on programming a similar amount later in the show).

This dynamic tension between the advice of experts and Fox News that Trump receives played out very visible in the HCQ saga where Dr. Fauci in the live press conferences kept trying to walk back Trump’s remarks in the same conferences. https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/20/trump-coronavirus-drug-j...

> WASHINGTON — President Trump on Friday admitted that his enthusiasm for an antimalarial drug unproven as a coronavirus treatment was based largely on gut instinct, after an open disagreement with the nation’s top infectious disease expert at a White House press briefing.

> When reporters asked Tony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, whether the drug hydroxychloroquine was effective at preventing coronavirus, he said simply: “The answer is no.”

> But when Trump came back to the microphone, he told reporters that “we ought to give it a try.”

> “I think we disagree a little bit,” Trump added. “I feel good about it. That’s all it is, just a feeling, you know, smart guy. I feel good about it.”
I think the problem is what I call the wealth step.

So, you have 4 layers:

- poor

- doing ok

- rich

- super rich ( > 1 billion)

Each generation can only go up 1 step. It's mostly that show because of social aspects.

And I don't think rich people or their children will be programmers. They will probably employ them.

Fyi, It's extremely rare that you can skip a step.
I'm not saying that lockdown didn't save lives. I'm saying it's no longer necessary. The purpose of lockdown is to keep the number of infections below the point that they overwhelm the medical system.
The stock market is a game of expectations and essentially is a graph of how rich people feel about the economy.
Whom should we elect? The loudmouth confused old man from the urban Northeast who grabs pussies? Or Trump?

This voting thing doesn't seem to work the way we're told it works.
> JavaScript is the only language that is able to cover everything end to end

I also recommend js to ppl who want to learn to code, for the same reasons (I.e. both frontend and backend in js).

+ Writing browser games can motivate some students
Plenty of room at Top: What will drive computer performance after Moore’s law?
Data science: https://datatau.net/
Here is a great example of why I keep pointing out how difficult it is to be a critical thinker. There isn't a single source to go to that gives the current status of HCQ + COVID, and there are dozens of links to journals in this thread that are making my head spin. So when people ask my opinion on HCQ, my answer is now: "I don't know, we don't have enough data that has been studied and approved by multiple peer-reviewed journals, because one isn't enough."

This doesn't shake my attitude toward science in the slightest, but it does leave me feeling very uninformed. But maybe, just maybe, that is the correct phase-state to be in given the data? Or have I been zone-flooded?
While I’m all for a future full of electric cars, I wonder what kind of financial burden this will put on petrol stations or even if charging stations fit the same paradigm as gas pumps since they take much longer to charge
Maybe read the welcome message again: https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

It could help you construct a more thoughtful comment next time. It's the most important principle and really simple to pursue.
Teaching mathematics is a huge and important part of the mathematical endeavour, but that's not all that there is to it, and I don't think that's what Bourbaki was trying to do [0]. No one should learn, at least not initially, from a Bourbaki book—a sentiment with which I expect even his, uhm, constituents would agree [0]—but I suspect most professional mathematicians find the Bourbaki œuvre useful as a reference, both for facts they know that aren't otherwise written down, and for facts that are on the borders of their expertise and require only a spot check to confirm or dispute. Certainly I use it that way.

[0] EDIT: I am wrong about this historical fact, although I believe it doesn't change my point about modern usage. Wikipedia says:
> While teaching at the University of Strasbourg, Henri Cartan complained to his colleague André Weil of the inadequacy of available course material, which prompted Weil to propose a meeting with others in Paris to collectively write a modern analysis textbook.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki).
>> Grids really feel to me like a rite of passage for front end developers,

Agreed!

The last two jobs I interviewed for the code challenge was a) hit this API endpoint, b) pull the data and put into a table and c) make said table responsive and accessible.

The majority of front-end work these days is either forms or tables. Get good at both and you'll have steady work forever.
None of this has anything to do with political sway. I'm talking about the economic depression that will ensue if we keep the economy closed. That will hurt the poor more than the rich. Economic depressions cause people to lose money - if you start at a higher place, you're better off when you lose 30% or more of your net worth. It has nothing to do with political influence.
This is HN, everybody knows you can't use a 3D model to produce images, "pictures" as laypeople call them.
The group was a "Camerata"!
There was a great talk at Rubyconf 2019 by Jessica Kerr about groups like this all over history who move their respective fields forward much faster than their contemporaries. She draws parallels to John Von Neumann's group, Van Gogh and friends, and more.

She talks about how the groups work together for a time doing great things, and then, and perhaps more importantly, the members of the group go on to do amazing things on their own or even start "invisible colleges" of their own.

Talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oeigCANJVQ&list=PLE7tQUdRKc...

Slides:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/zcgmrmz35jthvv3/Camerata-rubyconf....
Rentals are a useful innovation because the transaction is beneficial for both parties.

The leasor turns their large investment into a stream of payments, and the leasee turns their stream of payments into use of a large investment without having to make such an investment and without needing to have the capability to make that investment.

Avoiding making a large investment in property makes it easier for the leasee to move if needed, since there aren't significant costs to unwind a lease like there are to unwinding property ownership.
Sure, permanent exclusives are generally only first party. Bungie/halo was one but thats because MS at the time didn't have enough first party studios.
SMTP needs to die too. Is there even a competing protocol in the pipeline that would mandate encryption and prevent the spoofing of the sender? Every piece of duck tape on top of smtp (startrls, spf, dkim) are optional, cannot be relied on, and often isn’t relied on.
Another AWS employee here.

I'm pretty indifferent to this. I've used Slack a few times for open-source projects and customer contact - it's fine, but I haven't seen anything which sets it apart besides mindshare. Hopefully access to the paid features will change my stance.

Chime gets a lot of flak, but frankly it's the best video conferencing tool I've used, so I'm glad that part will stay. The main downside to Chime as a chat tool is also IMO its biggest positive - the fact that no-one else uses it. I never had to be too mindful in Chime rooms about speaking out of school, but with Slack as the default for both internal and external communication that might have to change.
> ≤ "expands" in J to <: Definitely not more verbose.

I mean, in a fixed-width font (as people tend to use for programming) it's literally twice as long. That adds up.
Early Google engineers are either not billionaires or became executives, divorced from architecture, long ago.

Otherwise, I think becoming a billionaire while purely working on software is extremely unlikely, bordering on impossible. Billion-dollar net worths necessitate leading billion-dollar businesses, and those aren't made solely with code.
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Ah, thanks I had a good laugh! An honest loud laugh. Agree 100% though.
Brian has already been through swatting, had a hacker send heroin and police to his home. I believe there was another article where he was warned by the FBI to take precautions as there was a threat against his life (I might be confusing him with someone else... it's been a while since I worked in infosec).

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/02/men-who-sent-swat-team-h...
>very bloated java ecosystem

Why waste time reinventing what java has already solved?
Just tried this and the install size is 796Mb of which 513Mb is node modules. The initialised git repo is a whopping 274Mb - WTF? I re-initialised git, excluding node_modules and it's now 244k. I recommend the author leaves `git init` to the user.
Thomas Friedman had the perfect assessment of Zuckerberg - a wannabe Rupert Murdoch of our generation.
Right now, sure. But I think we're talking longer term. We've been in an asset/debt bubble for quite a while. Some would argue decades. Inflation may be the least painful way out.
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This comment cannot be upvoted enough IMHO. This scandal is the medical science equivalent of Enron, and it could've easily been covered up in a world where a oligopoly determines the truth.

I think the even bigger danger here is when people want to point out flaws in policies like Section 230 and Net Neutrality. The incentives are huge for these companies to either bury or suppress dissenting views that impact their bottom lines.
> What exactly is "not fully understood" about Blackrock's role in the "outlandish valuations" of Apple and Microsoft? Blackrock is the #2 shareholder in each, after Vanguard, and owns 6.3% and 6.8% respectively. Much of that is in index funds like the iShares S&P 500 ETF or the Russell 1000 Growth ETF.

I don't know what the original post's argument was on this but you could make an argument that the growth of passive investing largely caused by Blackrock and Vanguard has led to stretched valuations in a lot things. The mere fact that these companies make it easier and cheaper to invest means there's more money floating around chasing fewer and fewer shares given less public companies since Sarbanes-Oxley and the rapid growth of PE/M&A.
The first time I saw pipes in action I was coming from Apple and PC DOS land. It blew my mind. The re-usability of so many /bin tools, and being able to stuff my own into that pattern was amazing.

If you like pipes and multimedia, checkout gstreamer, it has taken the custom pipeline example to real-time.
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Censorship is alive and well at HN. Apparently the moderators have silently intervened and moved this post off of the front page.

Edit: Now this post is back on the front page. Moderation by algorithms is confusing, especially when the rules keep changing. What's important is to encourage respectful, reasoned discussion on any topic.
I guess the founders of whatapps though I wouldn't know how much architecting/programming they did at the time the company sold to Facebook. The company was 55 people at that point. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/whatsapps-55-employee...
The issues being brought up are very similar to the things talked about in PG's "The Lesson to Unlearn" [1], i.e. "hackable" tests in university.

IMO, I don't think there is anything wrong with expecting candidates to be knowledgable about basic algo/data structure for a SWE role -- instead, the issues are with the evaluation process. Namely that it's become hackable using these preperation services (resulting in false-positives), it doesn't capture or indicate a candidate's real-world knowledge/experience/abilities, and the typical questions and whiteboard approach is likely outdated when there are probably better alternatives.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/lesson.html
Over the last three years I've become a single-issue voter/activist. That issue is seeing Trump on death row. Ideally along with the other Trumps + Barr, Whitaker, and so many others. But I'll settle for just Donny.
That's Perl role, not Python. You are like 20 years late, kid.
Have fun with that shitty whitespace syntax. At least Perl can be refactorized.
I Sometimes record when I’m having sex” – KiDi
The reality is that although we've improved, we're still slow getting data reliably, analyzing and understanding it. Science is actually a very manual labor.
> ice40 is popular in the hobbyist market exclusively because of the reverse engineering work. I doubt it has made much of a blip in commercial use.

The worst part is that I won't even consider a Lattice part for commercial products because I know they don't have the development resources over time to compete against Xilinx and Altera nee Intel.

Open sourcing their toolchain would actually change that calculation.
Cryo EM is really cool (not just in temperature! ;-) ) technology! :) Recently I had a chance to go on a tour in the two-part CEITEC research center in Brno, a city with long history of electron microscopy manufacturing and research.

One part of the CEITEC research center does "dry" tech - chemistry, robotics, motor and machine control and chips. Of course, they have quite a lot of cutting edge electron microscopes to image various nano structures. All looking super high tech as you watch their shiny metal over the clean room window. All the machines stand on concrete slabs embedded into the hill below the building to avoid vibrations and have ultra high vacuum inside.

The other part of CEITEC does "wet" research - proteins, cells, bacteria, microorganisms. Of course also they have cutting edge, cry electron microscopes. These looked quite different to the other ones - it was a huge black cube, reaching almost the high ceiling of the room. You could not see all the glistening internal components like in the previous case. In this case they even let us to the room itself - apparently given all the volatiles in the samples, the cleanliness requirements in the room containing the machine are not as strict & it likely (my guess) needs to keep quite a bit part of the machine at very low temperatures, explaining all the covers. IIRC the software controlling the camera runs on Linux & engineers from Brno working for one of the big EM manufacturers were involved in building this enormous cryo EM machine, which was a pretty nice touch. :)
if they didn't have evidence as of 3rd of June, then where does trump accusation come from, did he pulled it from where sun doesn't shine?

He picked an organization out of thin air, accused it of being responsible for looting and riots, even announced that they will be classified as a terrorist organization without ANY evidence? It doesn't look like something that should be happening in a free country. It is especially dangerous, since because antifa isn't a real organization anyone could be labeled as being from antifa and wouldn't have any way to defend themselves.
Todaro and others have been collating HCQ studies for weeks, as visible on Twitter. It's not a competition for credit, except against misleading studies. You can review the Google doc above, which is more than a month old. It contains a list of HCQ studies which include components likely to increase success: early treatment in time to slow viral replication with a combination of HCQ and zinc.

These successful HCQ studies, full of reports of lives saved, are worthy of attention.
Most companies are only using open source as a weapon [1].

When people say that "MS gets open source now", what it really means is the MS gets how OS can be used to further its goals. Not that they have fundamentally changed.

MS will have graduated to the next level of maturity when it open sources something that is strategic to the ecosystem and the ecosystem as a whole benefits (Windows NT 4?) or something that is obviously making them money.

[1] https://www.gwern.net/Complement
Are there any examples of "doppelganger" photos online? Now I'm curious about what Germany is using to do the matching.
How that would work? I park my car in the petrol station and return 8hours later?
This is actually quite genius
The problem for these people seems to be that Amazon does it far more effectively than other retailers, which isn't really a "break them up now!" kind of argument lol.
Originally the plan was to only allow taking of passport photos at local government citizen services offices (which is where passport applications occur). Photographers successfully made the case that this destroys their businesses (usually 30-40 percent of revenue). It appears that now photographers must digitally upload the photo to a government website. Details on that are still unknown.

This article (in German) is pretty good.

https://www.golem.de/news/foto-morphing-regierung-macht-digi...
Less of a burden than just losing all their customers which don't need petrol anymore.