skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO: Python is a garbage language, and should never be used for professional applications. Try to write an app whose very first block is a try/except for KeyboardInterrupt, with or without an if __name__ == '__main__' block. Now run the program a couple dozen times, and press ctrl+c as fast as you can. You will wind up with a debug-level stack trace dump for an uncaught KeyboardInterrupt exception from the core libraries that is thrown before your first line of userland code is parsed or executed. Python runs so much internal setup code before your first line of code is even considered. It's literally impossible to write a Python program that doesn't dump debug garbage to its output, without writing a separate bash script that uses trap to proxy SIGINT and SIGTERM to the running process. Python is a fucking joke in my eyes; and this is before discussing the way async/await was implemented by gutting the core of the language in a way that makes zero fucking sense. Python is a total… fucking… joke. It has some nice features when all you care is about the syntax and ease of development, but the fact is it's a terribly broken language. Use C. Or C++. Or Rust. Or Go. Or Ruby, or literally no joke… even PHP. Python is literally THAT HORRIBLE once you understand its internals. It absolutely disgusts me to say, but PHP with its single-threaded model is put together better than Python.

tldr; Do not use Python. It makes certain tasks seem easy, but all it truly does is make you look like an idiot developer. Pick literally any other language, as Python has screwed up too many basic concepts (related to POSIX and expectations from C) to be taken seriously.
Successful or not they lied to the public openly about the benefits of wearing masks. Not only does this destroy whatever credibility they had with the public, but it also shields government and health officials who failed to stockpile enough masks for inevitable outbreaks and offshored our medical productive capacity to China from accountability (making it more likely we will face the same shortages during the next, inevitable crisis).
EKS is a feature parity product. The pricing makes that painfully obvious.
I just got bored. Bored with myself, with my own company.

It's a terrible way to live. Drinking too much :-(
There are some MMOs that only allow players to trade with premium currency. It's a pretty neat idea because it means everyone can get access to cash shop items. It also avoids currency inflation problems because the currency isn't created out of thin air by killing monsters, selling items to NPCs or completing quests.
I have a Perl problem right now. It's not the Perl interpreter at all, which as you say runs the old code fine. It's the hierarchy (read as "dungheap") of package dependencies that have changed since the last primary software version was installed.
Airplane cockpit design is also "cluttered", but the people who will be using the cockpit interface (trained pilots) want that. The cockpit is designed for the pilot, and in every case design should be catered to the needs of the user. I work in UX specifically and try to oppose designing same-y interfaces at every turn. Different apps have different users with different needs. Unfortunately, this is an uphill battle as we've established some mystical need for "branded" interfaces that all look and act the same, regardless of the function or user need.
Thanks for the kind words! (I’m the author and also daily reader of Hacker News, but generally just lurk.) Happy to answer any questions; email is generally best.
Please stop spreading false information.

Baidu search index for SARS: https://imgur.com/a/3Sca2v8 .

The uptick started at mid-Dec. There is a tiny bump in early October, however, if you hover over it, the bump shows posts about comparing economic activity to the 2003 SARS period, not related to the disease.
Wasn't Yahoo! Bing powered at that time? :)
> but it is hard to say that in the end, consumers are on the loosing end.

Consumers are actual humans with complex lives that often also include producing things. Every seller that Amazon drives out of business is a consumer (or consumers) that no longer has an income. That's how this harms consumers.
Karen is simply that friend that nobody likes. Karen is a douchebag. Google “Dane Cook the friend nobody likes”. That is the origin of “Karen”
The problem isn't just what you see, the problem is sustainability for the whole ecosystem as a whole. FB has a lot of money but how do you know they won't determine at some point this is not sustainable and in two years you have to learn some other framework?
Quite a lot of Japanese people seem to recognise characters less by their shape and more by the stroke connections, in my experience. No matter what the tool used to write it, legibility really requires writing the characters in the correct order for the most part.
I was able to quote and finish two homeowner's policies without downloading and installing the application. It was a great experience. The only issue was modifying the policy prior to it being accepted by mortgage servicer (part of escrow).
You are committing the same fallacy at Derek Chauvin, who got called to someone passing a possibly fake $20 bill and sat on the suspect's neck until he died. This isn't how it's supposed to work, everyone is supposed to get their day on court and get the lawful punishment.

Any protester who is arrested may or may not have caused property damage (most didn't move away when told to, I wonder how many will have their charges dropped), but there is no reason at all not to take name and address quickly and send them on their way.

But police seems to enjoy to inflict extrajudicial punishment, which is why no one likes them. They should be treated like Ronald Reagan treated aircraft controllers: fire them all and hire new ones to make a clean sheet.
I think it's because people grow to hate languages they merely dislike but are forced to use for a long period of time.

At least, that's why I hate Javascript. I don't care for it, and thanks to the web I basically had no other option for around a decade.
Because third world economies run on stuff from the 1980s. Most of the world still doesn't have WiFi routers.
Website Growing and Need Help
So I built a website that is experiencing way more growth than I expected. I know that is generally considered a good thing. But having built this all by myself, there are a lot of things - probably legally - that I need to start considering. I am really looking for help on how people take a prototype that starts growing into something more professional and corporate. Not sure where to look.
Swarm being dead is news to me, we use it for our on-prem bits without issue (though we only have a few of them).

We use ECS for the majority of our container orchestration and love it.
Android Binder Pentest tool was born
> What makes craigslist look like shit?

You said "poorly looking sites" can't work well. But Craigslist works fine, even though it's visual design is as homely as anything you'll find.

The point is that "visual design" is not "design". If you don't like my example, surely you can think of others.
This looks more like someone proved some trivial lemmas about lists and wrote the simplest possible DSL to do some list manipulations rather than anything close to resembling a serious piece of work on formally verified text editors.

This is first-lecture-learning-Coq level stuff to be completely honest; it's interesting if you've never seen Coq before, but it's not really what it claims to be at all. The amount of work to go from this to "formalizing full-nlown text editors, such as vim" is enormous.

If we remove the proof scripts (and duplicated statements of Lemmas/Theorems in Gallina and mathematical notation) since these would never be included in a published paper (only as an accompanying artefact unless a novel tactic/proof scripting method is the actual topic of the paper), the length of the paper almost halves and the amount of substance becomes clearer.
I like the built-in search. It would work great as a personalized start page akin to iGoogle from way back. [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGoogle
Science as you know it is dead: https://guscost.com/2020/05/12/pandemic-woo/
Google “Dane Cook the friend that nobody likes”. That is the origin of Karen. Nothing sexist or racist about it.
Interesting to contrast this with [1], which works on formalizing rich text editors (for HTML).

1. https://medium.engineering/why-contenteditable-is-terrible-1...
I am a pretty experienced psychedelic user. It has been transformative in helping my mental health. I'm happy to answer any questions from people who are interested in using psychedelics to help break thru mental pain and trauma.
I really enjoyed reading this.
I don't see an abnormal trend if you increase the coverage to 3 or 5 years.

The number of people searching for related keywords is about the same for 2015, 2016 -> 2019 for those regions.
Don't forget to set gpu_mem in config.txt. It looks like you are running with the default, which is 64MB for the GPU. I'm guessing you are not using the GPU in this application and should reduce this value to the bare minimum (which I don't recall, sorry)
https://patient.labcorp.com/covid-19-antibody-test

It’s $10 with insurance with one caveat that your state may not allow self testing without seeing a doctor.
I agree, in my experience the request to add citations is usually because there is fairly obvious context missing, and the reviewer wants to make the connection/comparison is made. Sometimes it's the authors own papers, but that's selection bias at work - if they didn't work in the area, they probably wouldn't be reviewing it.
Haters gonna hate.

Every retailer has a store brand. Why is it a public good that I have to pay a premium price for a cable from a pre-approved seller? Why should anyone selling on Amazon think that they have an exclusive relationship with their customers? Sellers can, and always have, cannibalized one another's products. Yes, in school it's cheating, but in retail it's called competition.

Every retailer can compete with Amazon on any axis they want to, whether it's selection, price or service. Walmart does, IKEA does, and Ebay and Etsy and FreshDirect and Target and Powells. I buy online from all of these companies.

Amazon never seems to get credit for things that it does that are good for society. There are the obvious things, like trustworthy ecommerce, huge selection, fast shipping and low prices. But then there are things like raising the minimum hourly wage to $15/hr, supplying PPE and food during a pandemic and providing tax revenue through salaries. Add to that creating new economic sectors and leading the world in distributed s/w development. None of these things is inevitable, none of these things are easy to do.
If it was the Leidenfrost effect in action, it seems like you would get better results by ladling in a little water instead of high-smoke-point oil.

If Leidenfrost is what makes the omelette slide, why do you need oil at all?
They don't need their automated chat bot to handle everything to have a competitive advantage. I once made a claim through Lemonade. My case was simple: my bike was stolen, and I had a police report, a picture of bike, and also the original purchase receipt. My claim was entirely automated.

The point is not to build a chat bot that handles everything, but a chat bot that handles a larger fraction of claims than competitors. And that drives down costs.
IMO, it is pretty easy to see why an extrapolation is faulty. Let us look at two different reasons:

1. Density. China and South Korea are far more dense than most of the western world. Seoul has a density of 42,000 per square mile. New York City, the densest city in the US, has a density of 23,000 per square mile. The next top 10 most populous cities in the USA have an average density of 5,000 per square mile. Over half of South Koreans live in an urban environment, while less than 25% of Americans do. Density, and the number of interactions someone has in a day, is a major determining factor in the spread of any airborne virus.

Density also has implications for transit use, which in NYC was shown to be a large source of transmission.

2. Demographics. Italy, the United States and Sweden all have very different demographics and cultures. In Italy, many people live in multi-generational housing, and nursing home usage is far lower than the United States. The average age of Italy is also higher. Sweden is more like the US in terms of nursing homes, but still lower. As the older folks are far more likely to die from this, or even have detectable infections, the way each country manages their aging population will have a huge impact on mortality.

For example, people going about their day like normal, and then returning to their shared home with their Grandma would put Grandma at a much higher risk of infection. That is the Italy scenario. In the United States, where the old either live independently or in a group home, their vectors are much more limited. Test and trace everyone going to and working at a nursing home. It should also be noted that the areas if NYC most heavily hit are also more multi-generational than the rest of the city and country.

So see, you can't take one nation and extrapolate it out to the world. That is a faulty model and those who championed it should know better.
Wanted to mention the same. Though I kind of disagree with the conclusion.
Though the have a lot of problems with the stability of their service, it also means they know what they want to solve with their current architecture. So we'll see
The popularity of searches for SARS never went above 7 before late Dec. when cases of pneumonia were already popping up in the news. There was no signficant difference between searches from July 2019 to November 2019. If you look at the same data exactly one year ago in 2018 you'll find that the prevalence of searches for cough and SARs were actually much higher in 2018[0] (prevalences in the 70s and 50s in 2018 vs prevalence that were less than 10 in 2019). So unless you're suggesting Covid-19 actually started in 2018 it seems any correlation between search volume and cases of covid-19 fails to disprove the null hypothesis.

Plus there's the fact that you're looking at data in English for a search engine blocked in China.

[0] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2018-07-01%202...
> Although I'm not all that keen on psychedelics and disassociatives, I've tried at least 13 antidepressants and only 1 of them has done anything. The only one that's worked has been mirtazapine* with the caveats of partial GI paralysis and major weight gain. I was on it for 9 years. I tried others as my cognitive faculties and alertness have been declining over the past 2 years.

I’m also on mirtazapine and have been for a few years. It’s the first antidepressant I tried and the doc choose it because I also have insomnia and anxiety. It’s worked well for all three conditions so I’m happy with it. Are you saying you thought it was causing cognitive decline and that’s why you tried others? Wondering if it’s something I should look out for. I can understand the concern because
diphenhydramine has been associated with dementia, and it’s an antihistamine like mirtazapine. However, I read that the anticholinergic property of diphenhydramine was thought to be implicated here, and mirtazapine is not anticholinergic.

I actually used diphenhydramine nightly as a sleep aid for a few years while I was in college until a doctor told me to stop, long before I ever talked to a psychiatrist. Oops. It’s probably not a coincidence I ended up on mirtazapine.
Antitrust is kind of a nebulous smell test (I'll know shit when I smell it kinda thing), and from before the internet era, so I don't think the distinction exists. It's more about how consumers end up interacting with the market due to the actions of the companies being prosecuted/regulated.

The issue in this case would be that Amazon is manipulating the markets involved by effectively being the market. If FooCorp was a minor player in the market, didn't buy up competing marketplaces, and was clear about it's brand as a seller of Foo products that would be fine (think Costco and Kirkland Signature branded products). The issue with Amazon is that it is half of all eCommerce, buys up competing marketplaces to shutter them, it is hellishly difficult to determine what is an Amazon sold product and a marketplace sold product on their site, and their brand is as a marketplace.
I think it should be fine if you form a very small group and only ever meet these same people (optimally outside with a bit of distance of course). It shouldn't be that much different from people living in a medium-size household and much better for mental health.
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I don't know if you realize how massive the React user-base is at this point. That would be like saying, "how do you know they won't determine at some point python is not sustainable and in two years you have to learn some other language?" I mean, I guess. But even in that scenario, I'm sure the hundreds of companies who depend on it would pick up the slack.
Show HN: Watch what files any Linux process accesses
I would like to agree, but given that we have no evidence for this and a history that has not supported this assertion- we cannot make that claim.

Only time will tell.
Late in replying, but my company has drop in build rules for Go binaries that automatically publish both deb and brew packages.
I also have a small caveat. If you have a docker setup or a similar style of setup, if it is not obvious how to do this by hand, then you should write documentation on how to do it. Honestly, my standard is that you should have the same level of setup instructions as you would expect from a good open source project of the same complexity.
Those kind of patterns sound like they are business-motivated and not form over function. Look at sites like Facebook or Reddit that are perfectly suited to mobile web but aggressively push users to apps. Apps make for a walled-in experience and more engagement. And they let companies push more and more features you didn't ask for.
K8s is a nice api on top of gnu/linux. Want a iptables rule? Write a yaml (network policy). Want a storage for you app? Write a yaml (persistent volume) etc etc.

For people who already know Linux, kubernetes comes naturally because it is pretty obvious.

But indeed, by experience, many companies can go to "unicorn scale" with two or three boxes.
Airbnb. [1] [2]

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Chesky

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Gebbia

That’s 2 out of 3 co-founders.
You need to be very careful extrapolating your personal experiences towards the masses.

Humans are a violent, vengeful, petty species. Modern society does a great job of discouraging and masking those qualities, making the youngsters of this generation feel like those qualities hardly exist!

They do, and brain altering drugs might re-activate those qualities and then some, you need to be very careful.
Why Instacart is focusing on acquiring smaller grocery partners
The rates for frontend are not high though.
Kummerspeck
No one should be telling you that you have to take them, that's as wrong as forcing your religion on somebody. You do you. And as I said, it isn't for everyone.

There's enough research and annecdotal evidence to show that there are indeed positive effects for a lot of people who take them, however.

Certainly, if you're not open to reflecting, you're not going to not going to come to any realization no matter how stoned or sober you are.

And no, I wouldn't say psychedelics get you access to some hidden realty. We all have access to the same thing, they just make it easier to access more of it quicker than if you, say, spent ten years of your life meditating every day. As I said, it's a shortcut, and for some people it can be the kick in the pants that they need to get the ball rolling.
>>> What is authentication going to look like in 10 years?

>>> Jermoluk: Full sovereign identity. You should be in charge of your own identity.

Yes. I mean this seems so obvious but it is refreshing to see someone, anyone, say it.

Even I have a plan for a gravataar-like service for client certificates, so it's not like this is hard stuff.
Churches are indoors, protests are outdoors typically.
I think what Amazon is saying here is if it is just about slapping a logo on something Amazon can do it better and cheaper than all of these 3rd parties.

In some of these categories it is basically heaps of 3rd parties slapping logos on the same stuff and the winner is whoever best games the reviews for search rankings. They are now annoyed that in some cases Amazon decides that there is no winner.
It works because his opposition is still somehow convinced he's just "Trump", some rambling mad man who found his way into the white house, and not the POTUS, commander-in-chief, with access to intelligence.
The title is very misleading.

A WHO official did, indeed, state that asymptomatic transmission was "rare," but, the article goes on to say "She noted that the answer is not definitive," and then goes on to quote the director of the Harvard Global Health Institute and an infectious disease expert from Baylor University expressing doubt.
Basically that's called web of trust and was implemented by GPG for decades. It seems that even geeks don't really use that.
I wouldn't think it's missing the point, you have a different topic there.

And the A/B comparison doesn't have much room for common ground to control for. Perhaps not a single study comparing both, but separate studies (many) of different treatment methods and replications of those treatment methods and then meta-analysis studies on the whole lot. (and much of this already exists)
Also, in context of an alien civilization finding our XX century probes a million years from now, I think they could reconstruct the location anyway - I'd assume there would be only one combination of pulsars you could pattern-match to what's on Voyager plaques, even if each of them shifted in frequency a bit.
Go has removed all uses of blacklist/whitelist and master/slave
that's tragic. it seems the funnels of money that exist can't get anywhere meaningful without aggressive fundraising and being first to some buzzword
How to Choose Your College Degree
Vanilla JS for UI work is like using Windows Forms (the Microsoft tech from 2002 for building windows UI in .NET). Unless you want something pretty basic, you are going to be writing your own frameworks. Maybe not a bad thing from a learning perspective, but I'd prefer a battle tested framework in general.
In their most recent quarter--

Net earned premium 25.3
Net investment income 0.9
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Total revenue 26.2

Expense

Loss and loss adjustment expense, net 18.2
Other insurance expense 3.3
Sales and marketing 19.2
Technology development 3.5
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Even if what you said is real the game itself wouldn't actually run on the blockchain as a smart contract.

Cryptokitties is a testament to how pathetic the blockchain is as a platform for complicated games. The fact that possessing a hash representing the genome of a cat is enough to qualify as a game is laughable. I've played lots of highly simplified games that involved breeding animals and optimizing for specific traits and what cryptokitties offered was just one mechanic in an entire system consisting of dozens of interacting mechanics and MMOs like WOW go way beyond a dozen mechanics.
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