skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Succinct and accurate. A couple of real examples: the famous LTCM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-Term_Capital_Management blew up in one of the late 90s financial crises by doing something that was almost exactly that (writing a lot of puts)

The 2008 mortgage crisis didn't have unlimited downside, but an awful lot of parties were making tiny slivers of money off things they thought had zero chance of default whose default risk was both higher and correlated.

Nuclear power arguably goes in this category too: it's mostly great, which is why people quoting numbers of deaths claim it's safe, apart from the couple of catastrophes that have left huge areas of contaminated land.

If you're trying something that has no risk to others and the worst case for you is the loss of your investment, feel free to go for it. If the worst case affects others negatively or your liability might be more than your investment, you should definitely think twice.

Oh, and be very careful about margin investing and options trading for non-specialists.
The iPhone 12 launch is delayed according to chip supplier
Correct link is: https://github.com/cris691/bulgogi
A too little known fact: PyPI is pronounced Py-pee-ai, whereas PyPy is pronounced Py-py.

If everybody knew that, I think the confusion would mostly disappear.
Honest questions from non-user of Ruby:

* Do Ruby gems contain all binary depedencies statically linked into them?

* Is there a list of exceptions that are guaranteed to be present on target platform (see manylinux [1]).

The fact that you answered "Gems" rather than "something better" means the answer to both must be "yes" but I wanted to check.

[1] https://github.com/pypa/manylinux
Bad URL. Resubmitted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23455385
A framework is not a collection of libraries. You are still writing the top level code that glues all the libraries together.

A framework is that top level code, and it provides extension points or a pluggable system for the parts the framework author anticipated you needing to customize.

Works great within the boundaries, but gets very difficult once you want to step outside the framework author's preconceived notions about what one would want to do with their framework.

With the library approach, you have to invent some of your own conventions for routing and such at the top level, but you have a full understanding of it and can more easily extend it to handle new use cases.

Most projects outgrow a framework, at which point they tend to invent their own but it's a huge amount of technical debt to handle.
I’m sorry your getting such a hard time from HN.
If you look at the comment chain, you see:

- I don’t like lazy

- ocaml is like Haskell but strict

- I want higher kinded types

(note this is a feature you can turn on in Haskell but ocaml does not have it[1]. The commenter is implying that ocaml is therefore not a sufficient strict Haskell)

- you say that higher kinded types are an option, which is true for Haskell but not for ocaml which is being proposed.

[1] there are ways to sort-of do higher kinder types in ocaml but they are not ergonomic and feel a bit hacky to me.
I see that has a reference to European Scrambling Systems 5 – The Black Book by John McCormac. I actually have a copy of that, it gives a rather entertaining overview of the arms race between the broadcasters and the hackers.
What do you think that way (of the government collecting 300m firearms) might be?
SQLite with Python Tutorial
> The Z80 asm version of Collapse OS self-hosts on a RC2014 with a 5K shell on ROM, a 5K assembler binary loaded in RAM from SD card (but that could be in ROM, that's why I count it as ROM in my project's feature highlights) and 8K of RAM. That is, it can assemble itself from source within those resources.

Meanwhile, you can't compile rustc on a 32-bit system because it runs out of address space...
A sidenote: how great would it be if someday an abounded, well written, non buggy piece of code could just stand the test of time like math does?

Instead we throw projects and programming languages faster than I change my wardrobe. :)
I think this kind of stuff would be nice to tune into the same way that I look at HN. I don’t think it’s great for targeted watching, but good for discovery.
As a "dev" who develops mostly for other "devs" this distinction is not so clear to me.
I choose to trust MS are using the telemetry for improving VS Code, which I genuinely love, and accept the "risk" that MS somehow abuses the telemetry. I see this risk way lower than e.g. Google or Facebook abusing data they can collect about me.
I have created the project only for learning purposes

tensor looks really good with a lot of functionalities and proper benchmarks

I could probably compare the performance and see how I can improve.
If you want to use Scheme instead of Common Lisp, I found Biwascheme to be quite easy to use.

https://www.biwascheme.org/index.html
One of my ideas for an end game is to get a PhD in something genuinely useful (cancer research?) and then work as a researcher. This way, you take care of something greater than yourself and your immediate family.

If I were better at dealing with people, I'd probably go into local politics. The government is always a mess and a person who is not there to fill his pockets/stroke his ego would be a net plus.
The Teachable Machine FAQ (https://teachablemachine.withgoogle.com/faq#Saving-&-Exporti...) says yes. See the "Can I use Teachable Machine models with other libraries and platforms?" question.
Not only conservatives...

It is a straw-man but I think the woke circle isn't that different from religion for some proponents. Different dogmata, same zeal.

And while I don't like people being too sensitive that you refrain from stating anything substantial in public without PR support, this statement is particularly bad.

The lockdown protesters make clear that experts don't decide about their freedoms. This statement just provides evidence for the validity of their point in my opinion.
> I can’t believe it’s the bridge.

Spat out my drink at this comment.
This is pretty handy, thank you.
You don't even need to go to Southern Mexico for that. There's a small enclave town in Phoenix, Arizona, called Guadalupe. It's a Mexican / native community. In the centre of town, there's a public square flanked by two Catholic churches.[1] One is a very traditional Catholic church. The other is a syncretic church which (according to people I knew in the community) mixed in many elements of Yaqui spirituality.

The survival of native spirituality, even within syncretic religion, is always somehow reassuring to me, given how much cultural vandalism occurred during the colonisation of the Americas.

1: https://www.google.com/maps/@33.3690036,-111.9644457,3a,15.4...
NY State does not have an IFR of 0.5%. You are probably quoting Cuomo's press briefing https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2020/04/23/governo... which claims 0.5% based on this math:

15740 deaths ÷ 2700000 infected = 0.58% (they round to 0.5%)

However they note that the official state death count (15740 deaths) «only indicates deaths that happened in a hospital or a nursing home, and does not include coronavirus-related deaths that occurred in a home, which means the official death count is likely higher than that official number»

The true number of deaths, including home deaths, is 20759 as of the date of Cuomo's press briefing, April 24 (source: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nytimes/covid-19-data/mast...)

Furthermore, all the figures quoted by Cuomo were provisional, mid-study. The serosurvey actually completed on April 28 and was published here: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.25.20113050v... The final figures as of this date were:

22777 deaths ÷ (19450000 state population × 14.0% infected) = IFR of 0.84%

It is important to take deaths as of April 28 in order to minimize right censoring.

«Both the UK and NY State had a policy of sending recovering patients to nursing home»

Spain and Brazil did not do this and still exhibit an IFR of 1% add per the serosurveys I referenced.
Ask HN: Moving from a startup to a big co, what should I be aware of?
To add more context to my question, I’m currently in a product leadership position at a ~300 person SaaS company and I found my way here by way of a semi-decent exit as part of a startup’s founding team. However, I have been considering a switch to a much bigger company (Microsoft, Google, AWS) of late. All I’ve ever learnt over the last decade has been by operating in a capital constrained environment. Moreover, I don’t have a lot of reserve energy in the tank to direct it at another startup after 10 years of blood, sweat and toil.

I often find myself thinking of and seeking out experiences from my peers at these behemoths on how decisions are made and products get built there. On one hand, I’m scared of slowly going further away from all my learnings as an entrepreneur (a lot of which haven’t come easy!!!) but on the other I feel like not having had relevant experience in the right BU/product within a big co is limiting my field of vision. What are some things I should consider before switching?
@malnourish has a good point, though. Quite often police respond to calls that require a social worker or mental health professional. And in some of those cases, the police decides that a bullet is the best solution to the problem that they are equipped to provide. Many problems require very different solutions, and many police officers are not equipped to provide those solutions. That is a major problem.

Either police officers need to be trained as social workers and mental health professionals, or part of their work needs to be taken over by those that have that training.
Not a dropout but I moved to partime work and quit living in a big city and moved to semi urban area. Since then I've been working on fun things
What about sport? Something challenging, that requires years to master, e.g. martial arts or skateboarding or climbing? I feel like our happiness is tightly correlated with how much physical activity we get. I feel most happy and satisfied with life and myself, when I'm completely physically exhausted.
Who do you trust instead? Seriously asking, because dismissing somethig is always the easy part.

Regarding the masks, I went deepy down that rabbit hole in February and March. Most production happens in China. China didn't produce anything, needed what was there for themselves and had closed down a lot cities and ports and such. At the same time, demand increased by orders of magnitude around the world. hence the shortage. China didn't buy masks en mass from other countries, they didn't need to. A ,ot of fraud happened as soon as production resumed. No, people who, with a financial interest, tried to help sort out the shortage once the German government failed to do so, are sitting on tons of masks they bought in good faith for 5 - 10 times the normal price. Currently prces are down to roughly 2x the pre-Covid-19 prices. See the problem? People hoarding made the issue even worse.

Hordng mass during that period for retail sales or your own use, thus preventing PPE from getting to medical care professionals, is the deffinition of hoarding.

All of your mentioned institutions are publishing or using studies. Go look them up. But maybe accept that the people behind them know more about the subject than you do.
Do you provide your lib as a dmg for mac users or through the windows app store ? Do you provide a entry in the start menu for it ? An icon on the desktop ?
Yes, I am thinking mostly about the ease of porting the app to different platforms. This is particularly relevant to Xournal/Xournal++ as they are terrific tools, but the hardware that these tools are optimized for typically does not run GNU/Linux. If you think that finding a good Linux laptop is a challenge, try to find a good Linux laptop with a stylus. And there's nothing in the form factor of an iPad, for example.
I think the framing of police brutality and racism as a public health issue is one I've not seen before. It's quite interesting because it gives an apolitical basis for assessing the question of whether the protests are a good idea (albeit one that doesn't take into account all factors, such as discrimination that doesn't lead to physical injury).
Not so much the data probably, but some of the services. I was thinking more business / consumer sides split. Of course given what sort of data shows up in my credit report (annoyingly outdated) I'd be okay with them being shut down too.
> Lots of global warming sceptics point to some subset of experts who are themselves sceptics

Yes, this is exactly why you should:

1. Consult more than one expert, until you've found a clear majority. And then trust in that majority

2. Pick either a couple experts who are the most highly regarded in their field. Or use random sampling to pick a couple experts from among a pool of equally qualified experts

As you yourself pointed out, people who fall for fallacies often form their own judgement first, and then cherry-pick experts to lend more support to their argument. This is precisely the danger in telling lay people to trust in their own judgement.

Cherry-picking of experts is the opposite of expert-guided decision making, because the cherry-picking part is being driven by lay judgement, not expert recommendation. A truly expert-driven approach would rely either on the most highly regarded experts, or random sampling from a pool of equally qualified experts. This leaves minimal room for cherry-picking and confirmation bias.
It should require a click action in my book. Bad web standards (== bad google)
Based on the fact that it gets my current time right (in Asia), I have to assume it adjusts to whatever location you are connecting from.
War and Peace is a soap opera, but has some good one-liners.
Hundreds join line at NYC ATM to access unemployment benefits
Well edited video is the most time consuming content to make, unedited video is the least time consuming content to make.

Keeping an article up to date is the reason wikis were invented
The real cost of TLDs
As a relative novice to backend can you share how a GraphQl avoids lock in compared to, for example, a rest API?
You are assuming that people’s behaviors are identical when wearing and not wearing masks.

This is what we do not know (still).

There are plenty of results in life science far more counterintuitive than the hypothesis, “people are less strict about social distancing when wearing masks.”
Ask HN: What is IN your personal knowledge management system?
I think work is a gas. It expands to fill all available time, and you can compress it but the the pressure will rise.
Is it your experience that a significant portion of folks who write code in some form or fashion have "researched sorting algorithms?"
> Almost.

What do you mean by almost? Just do it already. Then post all the imaginary/alternative stats here below.
As a full time Python developer (though it's not my only tool in the toolshet) I've been looking at Nim for a while. I think it looks healthy currently. I'm wanting to give it a shot, and projects like Prologue are what I'm sort of waiting on before I dive in there.

There's a few things that concern me, like looking at the tutorial the echo statement is not a function, reminds me of Python before Python 3. Also the pascalCase function for readLine. I think I see why Python mainly uses single word functions for things, to avoid the debate about variable naming conventions as much as possible. Though now the community agrees on underscores mainly. Though this doesn't concern me as much so long as it remains consistent.
But that sample may not be representative of the demographics of the people who got infected. It is possible that a lot more people in care homes have been infected than the grocery store sample, because of the policy of sending covid patients there (and the fact that the staff must have physical contact with each of the patients every day and therefore it will spread within a care home may very quickly).

If it is the case, you don't expect the same death rate to scale up as the wider population continues to get infected (if it is still happening, the virus is rather showing signs of going away).
Show HN: LayoutAid – Auto Layout using function builders for Apple platforms
Why wouldn't they invest if potential profitability of investment was higher than that of not spending their money?

The problem is, the poor have almost no access and no knowledge of the savings instruments other than cash, so that means that in some way inflation forcibly drains their money to risk investment.
As a teacher who uses versioned TeX for all of my artifacts, this isn’t the panacea you hope for. Many of my documents will only compile on my machine because I a have a bunch of dependencies scattered about. There are also many types of artifact that require an order of magnitude more work to produce in TeX compared to something like OmniGraffle or PowerPoint.

Even if you could somehow overcome the technical hurdles, you’d run into the problem of teaching materials not possessing even a partial order.

Even if you somehow get teachers to agree on a lattice or total order for teaching artifacts, you’d need to deal with the idea that producing teaching materials is a way for the teacher to synthesize the content they are about to teach. Often the artifact is something of a byproduct of the process of the teacher making sense of the rhetorical situation the are about to undertake. If you just snag the highest rated artifact, that process doesn’t happen.
I didn't hear any virologist claiming that isolation isn't a health risk.But it seems to take more time to have serious effects, COVID-19 on the other hand has the short term effect of overwhelming a health care system an causing thousands of deaths. And the lock-downs have never been planned to be permanent, were they?
Lol no I just send them an email with the url of a private git repo containing my code/experiments, and let them sort it out XD The pleasures of academia.
Pi-Hole only blocks entire hosts - which is great for devices (/apps) on the network that cannot install adblockers. But for a webbrowser you'll need an extension to block many additional trackers/scripts.
Could open source graphics drivers become a better option than proprietary?
Just because too few people say this when the topic comes up: I prefer frameworks

At least for something like this. I want an opinionated framework that comes with a structure, an architecture and a philosophy. I want the right decisions to already have been made and I would like there to be one obvious place to put everything and one obvious way to do things.

I want to focus on my application and not be tempted to do lots of bike-shedding. I want to pick up someone else's project and instantly know where everything is likely to be.
- There are a fixed number of funded PhD spots but there's really no limit to the number of PhD spots in a faculty. I don't know if this was the case but if you can fund your own PhD, very few universities will refuse your admission. Anyway, PhDs are extremely cheap labor - most of the research money is spent on materials/hardware and travel expenses for PIs.

- The vast majority of PhDs don't do anything productive with their research topic or work in their research field later on. Doing a PhD is about advancing human knowledge and a lot of personal growth - it has very little to do with productivity. The current trend is that you get burned out and sick of your research area and decide to do something totally different. There are very few areas where you do a PhD for credentials or to advance in your career.
Thoughts on Zero Trust
Supreme Court Weighs Qualified Immunity for Police Accused of Misconduct
It's a significantly younger language than Ruby, so no, the ecosystem is not as diverse (yet). It is quite populated though - for a taste you can browse at sites like https://crystalshards.xyz/ or https://shards.info/.
On that point I will definitely agree. We need to end the drug war. Legalise and regulate marijuana, and decriminalise all other drugs. If there is single policy which marginalises and unfairly impacts the working class and particularly African-Americans, it is current drug policies.

But who, in the midst of all this, is putting the pressure on to reverse drug policy?
Many jobs have random drug testing and they're perfectly legal.

Even worse, Uhual will not hire nicotine users: https://www.uhaul.com/Articles/About/19926/U-Haul-To-Impleme...
True. Depending on the deployment scenario there could be some additional factors. For example, take a static site that runs on netlify. There is a hook on headless CMS save that triggers a build. The build is usually quick, but its not instant (like Wordpress for example).
Offtopic but for anyone wanting something like VSCode's remote extensions but foss there is tramp mode in emacs which lets you edit files over ssh and a few other protocols.
Because my personal devices are personal devices, and I got the iPad in order to do research for a business I'm building on the side. I didn't think I wouldn't be able to use both seamlessly just because of an arbitrary decision on Apple corporate's side
Obviously not every other country is the same. The situation is not that the US does everything one way, and the entire rest of the world does it another way; there are about 200 different countries, and they all do things differently in some ways. Some countries get most things right, some get most things wrong, but most countries get some things right and some things wrong.

There's a lot to learn and improve by looking at how other countries solve their problems.

This was also the topic of Michael Moore's Where To Invade Next. Instead of taking other countries' oil, the US should take other countries' ideas, and Moore had a couple of suggestions for interesting ideas from other countries, like school lunches from France, prison system from Norway, etc.
The article assumes that SpaceShipOne's design was actually a good design. It wasn't.

To be precise, it was a good design to satisfy the artificial requirements of the prize, but nothing else. The design doesn't scale. The hybrid rocket motor has been the source of countless headaches, lousy performance, and more than a decade of delays, the feathering mechanism has already cost the life of a test pilot, and the need for a pilot plus co-pilot severely reduces the payload capacity.

Now, the article's thesis – that good and bad ideas are sometimes hard to distinguish before they've been tried – is still true, but the author chose a bad example.
Only 21% of Covid19 deaths in New York State occurred in nursing homes. Recent source (few days old): https://www.kff.org/health-costs/issue-brief/state-data-and-...
I started using the pipenv this weekend and it seems like it's pretty good for at least maintaining an environment within a project. I found it friendly at least.

That being said, I'll admit I don't know much about what it means to be pythonic. What do you think the drawbacks are to pipenv-type approach and what would be more pythonic in your mind ?
Actual looting has been occurring in New York [0] as we discover that the police either lack the willpower or resources to actually protect American businesses. And who knows what is happening for ordinary law-and-order problems.

If someone manages to carry a "disarm and leave it to the police" argument with that evidence in recent memory it will go down in the history books as one of the great political accomplishments of the 21st century. Anyone who ever argued in favour guns in self defence was talking at least in part about moments in history like these.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/nyregion/nyc-looting-prot...
I always enjoy reading about hidden treasures. But reading that people have died looking for it puts it into perspective.
The Impending Doom of Expiring Root CAs and Legacy Clients
why would a "non-technical" team pick this product over something more universally hostable and well known, with established plugin ecosystem and developers on tap, like Wordpress?