skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't think that's fair at all. It rather sounds like partisan political positioning. Indeed I doubt that leaders in any country that made a strong and effective response to the virus would try to discredit the WHO. I'm in South Korea and know that the WHO has been absolutely crucial to the successful and ongoing response to the novel coronavirus here. Ask and I will supply a slide deck of evidence. As merely one example South Korea had a working test in two weeks because of WHO data and indeed Chinese data shared through the WHO. Without the WHO it's likely we in South Korea would have to have had a lockdown.

The WHO weren't perfect, they were human. They have limits and they can't really criticize member states. And how about the US response (your moniker implies you're from the US)? To be quite honest, I find the WHO response flawed but essential. The USA's medical/epidemiological response was/is almost, I mean I want to say... criminally negligent. Beyond flawed. The financial response is another story. But the US didn't even try to make tests until it was way too late, indeed avoided and inhibited testing (remember "I like the numbers where they are"?), still hasn't instituted a national tracing program or a coordination of municipal tracing programs (which are pathetically weak in general), had already disabled its own pandemic response team if I recall, bickered and argued amongst itself while its own citizens were dying, lied and denied, had top leaders (indeed the top leader) claiming on television initially that the virus didn't exist and was a hoax, then that it was all China's fault for doing the same things that the US did (lying and denying), had a large amount of the population refusing to wear face masks because a medical issue had been irreparably politicized, and then when the entire world is in the pangs of this plague actually defunded the WHO, blaming the doctor for the disease. Among South Koreans I have heard again and again, "Is the US really an advanced nation? How can they be so incompetent and callous?" And South Korea is usually among the world's most pro-US countries. So, maybe recall the Christian parable about criticizing the splinter in your brother's eye and never noticing the plank in your own? If the WHO is discredited, then the US...

I know this sounds ranty, but please, please, enough is enough. Does this matter to Hacker News people? Well, it's gotten to the point that yes, it matters a lot.

Oh by the way part of the US coronavirus response has been to attack skilled immigration, immigration bans that the likes of Stephen Miller hope to render permanent. That's a boon for US tech?

Here's a Der Spiegel article in English about the WHO response.
https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/europe-made-mista...
That is completely believable actually. Legal threats are very effective at silencing whistle blower reports. The response in these cases is that the faculty (head of the research group and the Dean) suffer reputational damage equivalent to the misconduct penalty of the offender. That is, exclusion from research (including supervision, presenting at conferences), retraction of their publications, demotion or termination. Without this, the old boys network will have its way.
Sear in the rear (edited link) https://amazingribs.com/more-technique-and-science/more-cook...
There’s no one close to Google in the US. After a big drop, there’s no one REMOTELY close to Bing for 2nd best results. Bing dropping DDG in 2020 or 2021 would be a death kneel for them for US search results. Probably many other countries too. Yandex is too far off right now to be a replacement. I haven’t checked Yandex in a bit of time though. Perhaps they drastically improved.

People in tech circles always say DDG has a crawler. I know they do. No one ever says how big it is. I have a hard time believing it’s crawling more than a couple percent what Bing is crawling.
Culture fit in remote teams – a founder’s perspective
Hey Hackers!

Culture fit is an obvious concern for businesses making their first remote hire. It’s different when everyone’s working in the same office: people naturally get to know each other through hundreds of small exchanges during the day. New employees soak the company culture at a visceral, almost magical level — similar to how children learn to talk without any systematic effort from their parents.

Remote work is a different matter. When all the exchanges are limited, scheduled, and happening via Zoom, little room remains for this magic to take place. Naturally, as employers, we start believing that our task to choose the RIGHT person from the very beginning becomes even more crucial.

I personally share the "Good to Great" approach, which says that your focus must be on getting the right people on the bus in the first place. If you get your recruitment right, the culture would emerge naturally - as it always does when similar-minded people are gathered in one place. Even if that 'place' is virtual.

As an early adopter of remote work, all of my businesses have adhered to a “remote-first” protocol for the last 10 years. I have shared some of the key things I learned in this blog post: https://youteam.io/blog/culture-fit-in-remote-teams-a-founders-perspective/

Would love to learn your thoughts!
FWIW, I really liked learning about System 1 and System 2 thinking[0], based only on “No thought, just monkey level reactions” you might also enjoy reading more about it.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow
Dart can now produce self-contained, native executables for macOS, Win and Linux
I'd put blue down to slightly more generic "manipulation and control". It's the primary place for counterspells and other ways to screw with the opponent.
How predictable: someone on HN thinks that if something makes money, it must be okay!

Why bring a product to market at all if Amazon will just position their own version of your product in front of yours as soon as you have any success? This stifles innovation.

How could you possibly think that it doesn't harm consumers when products are sorted by "Whether or not Amazon makes it" rather than something users care about, like quality or price?

> Should amazon jack up the price, consumers will just switch to another whitelabel/run of the mill variant from another seller.

Sure, but now you're putting the burden of finding those other variants onto the user--this is a problem which marketplaces like Amazon are supposed to solve, not complicate.

> It will be problematic if amazon dumps on the market and drives theirs party sellers out of existence, but I don’t think that is the case here.

Oh, well as long as you don't think it, it must not be true!
If you said the Earth was flat you'd be wrong, if you said the Earth was a sphere, you'd also be wrong, but if you said the second was just as wrong as the first, you'd be more wrong than either. Yadda yadda.

The article is flat Earth wrong.

Garfield needed a design reason to force players to include and exclude whole swaths of cards. Separating them by some arbitrary distinction solved that. Then he slapped some flavor on top of that.

There are serious color-pie breaks in the first set. Why? Because the philosophy wasn't a primary or even secondary concern.
Virtually all contracts will specify a jurisdiction for any disputes. In the case of employment contracts it's almost always where the company is registered. Moving to California likely doesn't help at all.
As an industrial engineer, monads are the best solution I've ever found to the cross-cutting concern problem. I need to be able to put custom cross-cutting concerns on my functions - things like must-happen-in-database-transaction, record-in-audit-log, must-have-this-authorisation-level, record-these-statistics. If your language doesn't have monads, you end up using reflective proxies, metaclasses, decorators, bytecode modification, macros, or something equally incomprehensible.

I'd love to have a better alternative. Maybe one day one of these "effect systems" will actually get a production-quality implementation. But until then monads are the least-bad option out of everything that I've seen tried.
This makes me think Amazon it starting to worry a bit more about Google Cloud. Have they been gaining a lot on Amazon recently?
A code generator to JS should produce code that will work flawlessly in a decade-old browser. One of the benefits of working in such a thing in the first place is to be isolated from the churning toilet bowl, and some of the value of that is negated if the project lets itself be churned.
They should stop trying to be nannies to over a billion people, period.
In the past I lucked out by people with a following finding it and linking to me. I've had less success making that happen on purpose. The thing that works for me is being consistent (posting your new music every week, etc) so that people who are true fans learn to expect you. It also took me a while to get comfortable telling people what I was working on (well, I still am getting comfortable with that). I suggest telling 10 people you know, seeing how it goes, then another 10, etc.
That’s not clear if DDG’s US and European results were using Bing or not in late 2009.

I know for sure people have said DDG is better over time. I can’t imagine it was very good in 2008 or 2009.
They probably don't expect to win. They just want to throw as much sand in the competitor's faces as possible, and also pay their key staff as little as they can get away with, made easier if there are higher switching costs.
I quit using Netscape because it crashed far more often than Explorer. Nobody tried to stop me from using Netscape. I had no trouble pushing a button and installing it.

Netscape in those days was a borderline unusable product, and trying to blame Microsoft is misplaced.

Have you ever tried to install another browser on your kindle?

Also, much of the drama in the trial was about Microsoft removing Explorer from the distribution, not about barriers to the installation of Netscape.
It's very possibly deliberate in order to manufacture consent. I mean, who born in the past 40 years be "for" racism or sexism as traditionally defined?

But for the past decade or two, sexism and racism have been taught in universities as "systemic sexism/racism" rather than the classical meaning. If you've seen any debate online about academia "indoctrinating" youth, and creating "social justice warriors", this is basically what they're referring to.

So now anyone that doesn't immediately accept these newly moved goalposts is themselves a racist or a sexist. This has obviously led to quite a degradation in social discourse.
I don’t actually think we disagree that much. The problem is that we were supposed to use our early lockdowns in the “high cases” states (NY/NJ/CA) to control the epidemic and bring it down to manageable levels. At least in NY/NJ this seems to have worked. We were supposed to use our lockdowns in the “low cases” states to bring the caseload down near zero. This has not really worked that well, largely because the lockdowns were poorly implemented, and because states ended them before they had really crushed community spread to a level where testing and tracing could work.

Now there’s superficial (early) evidence that many of the low-cases states are entering a second stage of exponential growth. There may not be much room for us to simply manage the caseload at some “acceptable level” if those states really catch fire. The problem is that the only tool we have to manage this — if indeed it bears out and hospitals become overwhelmed - is another lockdown. But the lockdowns have become a political hot potato, and at least one side is dead-set against them. It seems unlikely that we’ll be able to use this tool again until things get Very Bad.

Compare this to most of continental Europe, where both high-case and low-case nations have succeeded with lockdowns, and governments are moving into a phase where careful management is likely to control the epidemic entirely going forward.
I think the combination of your username and not layering constant condemnation on China is what's doing it.

I've been called a wumao for saying that there's no chance that China covered up (literally) hundreds of thousands of COVID-19 deaths.
Did you look at the transcripts? They do not have very good accuracy. A better solution probably should do those things; this one I'm assuming is not.
All my friends are doing this to get out and protest. I've also started doing it from the weekend.
Arrogance. Younger programmers or people just getting into the industry assume they can automatically just do it better without taking the time to understand what is already out there. Reading and maintaining existing code is harder that writing your own.

Laziness. Rather than work from the lowest level denominator (what can vanilla javascript do for you?), do a quick google, see some random comment somewhere on the internet that uses library X and just add it to the lumbering Frankenstein's monster of dependencies without a care for the future.

React + Redux + Typescript is nice in terms of frontend development, but the shear number of packages required for a small list of direct dependencies is staggering. Really it is absurd. It was created by people who have the above two tendencies I would say.
Thank you; I will. I won't post to something I own without marking it as something I own in the future.
Which channel though? In each of these cities there are several frequencies...
> But if you want to also call that "racist" then what term do you use for something like Jim Crow laws in the US or apartheid South Africa where racism was truly and without doubt systemic?

Being racist has nothing to do with laws or power structure. It is believing that people of some other race are inferior.

Racism supported by laws/government is called ultra-right-wing state, nationalism, segregation, apartheid.
Every time “Magic: The Gathering” is mentioned it seriously throws off my phrase parsing for like half a minute. What about “the magic”? What is “the gathering color wheel”? I wish “Magic: The Gathering” was in quotes.
Seems like y'all are definitely positioned right in the market, though, if everyone's using you! Do you do any marketing aimed specifically at developers of these apps?
This actually would solve one of my use cases that broadcastify itself does not. I don't listen to the scanner often, and often when I do it's in response to hearing sirens or seeing something. By then, the call has already gone out so tuning in to the scanner isn't all that helpful. Having transcripts of recent calls available would be quite useful.
It's also possible that some of those other papers were also right, and those diseases just haven't hit yet.
Not necessarily related to card games but as a hiring manager I do take into account non work related hobbies.

For example, I played on a nationally ranked college club sport team(paintball) and was also the club president and team captain at the same time. This was on top of getting a dual-BA/MBA. Running the club and team was essentially the same as running a small business or medium sized department in a larger firm with a budget of $50K (this was all volunteer) and a "staff" of 20+ people.

The experience taught me that anyone who has done:

- full time college

- played, at a minimum, a club sport or was part of a debate team, competitive dance whatever

- was also an officer in said organization

had the wherewithal to "volunteer" three times for activities that required a large amount of commitment, discipline and organizational abilities. In other words, they chose to do more than the people who were just students.

I am, of course, biased because this was my background. That being said, I have always found a strong correlation between people with the trifecta of college/extracurricular/officer and the skills necessary to do well in a work setting.

YMMMV
Sure, that may be true. And Microsoft also engaged in anticompetitive behavior. The behavior is still illegal, whether or not Netscape crashed.

If Microsoft had competed and won on technical merit and/or marketing, that would have been fine. But they didn't.
> Why (administratively)slow an entire neighborhood for one heavy user?

Because somebody with power, within Cox, can do it.

It has to be that simple.
The go libary (along with our other language-specific libs) is a thin wrapper around envkey-fetch -- https://github.com/envkey/envkey-fetch

When a process starts, envkeygo makes a request to our config service (via envkey-fetch) to fetch the encrypted config, then decrypts the config and sets them on the environment so they can be retrieved with `os.Getenv`. Both the lookup id (for fetching the encrypted config) and the encryption passphrase for decryption are initially passed in via an ENVKEY=... environment variable--you can think of it as a single environment variable that "expands" into all the others that you need.

Latency on a request is generally in the 150-300ms range from the US (our primary servers are in us-east-1).

EnvKey is strongly consistent and transactional, so once you make a change to your config, it will be available immediately for any subsequent requests. For now, it's still up to you to restart servers/services yourself after a change. With the v2, this will be scriptable.

We'll eventually hire outside the US too, but for now I'm trying to keep the timezone spread and administrative burden low :)
It's even easier to trick the authors into believing you (the reviewer) is someone else.

E.g: ask the authors to cite two papers of another researcher (as was mentioned somewhere in the thread as making it easy to guess who the reviewer is), ask to compare to results of that researcher more thoroughly, use some writing style typical of that researcher country of origin, etc.

It's especially easy if you are familiar with works from the other researchers for instance because you also reviewed their work.
This is almost a reverse sear, which, imho, is the best way to cook a medium+ thickness steak, especially ribeye or filet.

I preheat 250-300 and watch a remote meat thermometer until the steak is 95% to desired temp. Usually takes 30-45 minutes. Then I crank up a skillet with ghee until it just starts smoking (~500F) and sear the hell out of the steaks for only a minute on each side. Perfect crust every time. Let rest for about 10 minutes.
Thanks for the hint, I would be surprised if this old Pi actually has any GPU.
I also want that world, but we don't currently live there :)
Mmmhh - I’m not a font designer, but just someone who chooses fonts for websites on a regular basis.

And I’ve often found myself frustrated about not finding a good representative page of text, allowing me to evaluate fonts better than just single sentences.

So this is a hugely welcome addition to my toolkit - definitely replacing pangrams for me and big thanks to Mr. Hoefler for making it publicly available.
Are there any examples of demand forecasting ? Thanks.
Thank you!

On latency, the thing other tools used to really bring it down is a wired USB connection.

And yes: This is something in which there will be an almost desperate amount of interest in some communities. I think the bottleneck on how much attention it receives is, quite frankly, whether individuals in those communities find out about it.

I'm committed at about 160% capacity for the rest of the fiscal year, but if this were a more normal time, I'd probably hack on this myself.
Correct. Edited comment to clarify.

I think there's some possibly quibbling around the edges around what exact would be included, or not. E.g. a rule that bonus / commissions don't have to be included, as long as that doesn't lead to < 75% of previous year's comp would still be ok with me.
Nice but mostly incoherent - "Google Launcher new job and I want to play better third-party colder or does the people from the vegetable okay"
Eating parasite corpses objectively isn't worse than any other live matter in a fish.

As a society we live bathed in feces. The fecal-oral route is the most common way in which we get food poisoning. Yet it's only when the feces is pathogen-laden that we actually get food poisoning.

Worrying about dead parasites seems a little pointless when most people don't even wash their hands correctly.
If you don't know then you don't have to report. I don't think initially they knew that human to human transmission was possible.
Are you in the US?

I live in Mexico and even hardcore Apple fans don't use it here. It's either Waze or Google Maps.
The first time I hit an issue, autossh was the first proposed solution but I preferred to not include more dependencies. Also, I believed it should be possible to handle this with plain ssh + systemd.

Do you have any experiences with autossh/ssh to share?
IBM no longer offers general purpose facial recognition or analysis software
Some people do. I do. On places with vocal minority (or in general sometimes) like HN, reddit, Twitter, you’ll see many more people tout the trendy/cool DDG. As you said Bing/Microsoft aren’t cool.

I’m talking about the majority of these people who outside of basic ad/tracker blocking and using DDG, don’t stick to caring about privacy above most other things.

A lot of what I’m saying doesn’t count for HN’s crowd as much as other bigger sites.

I don’t have any backing for this statement. Just what i believe from common sense looking around.
All good my friend, it's just a message board on the internet :)
We've been using EKS since it went GA. We haven't had a single control plane outage that I am aware of.
This is a nit, but SARS and COVID aren't the names of the respective viral agents; they're the names for the diseases that the viruses cause.

The virus that causes SARS is called SARS-CoV, and the virus that causes COVID-19 is SARS-CoV-2
It was definitely the case in the early days. It is evidenced by the "boons", cards that cost 1 and do 3 of one thing the color is supposed to do best.

The white one, Healing Salve, is very weak, it has later been replaced by a strictly better card.

The red (Lightning Bolt), green (Giant Growth) and black (Dark Ritual) are very solid cards and were seen in most decks of their respective colors in the early days of Magic, would be a bit too powerful today.

The blue one, Ancestral Recall, is part of the "power 9": the 9 most famous, overpowered and expensive Magic cards. It didn't make it past the ironically called "unlimited" edition.

https://mtg.gamepedia.com/Boon
Maybe we should “defund the police” and never call 911 when we get burgled, assaulted and murdered. How about we start with Beverly Hills.
Have you taken a look at the output?

I selected the NYC scanner and found many examples like this:

June 8, 2020 9:03 PM EDT: "Google Launcher new job and I want to play better third-party colder or does the people from the vegetable okay"
And that's just the back-end stuff. Around the same time Netscape Navigator was taking off and people were getting their first dose of interactive Javascript on the web. As a child who was used to playing Wing Commander II and Wolfenstein 3D on DOS; I almost fell out of my chair.
This is an opinion piece, not reporting, and in my opinion it's quite skewed.

One of my step sons has been joining the protests. He and most others there wore a mask and all those with him did their best to keep 6ft apart, and they have all been very successful.

The only times they got closer was when police corralled them off and then shot rubber bullets at them, tear gassed them with canisters, or pepper sprayed them.

So, to a large degree it has been the police that created conditions that may have increased their risk of exposure.
The problem isn't the speed, if it were, I would certainly use something more powerful than an old Pi.

The actual problem is that some websites block IPs from known cloud providers, so, it doesn't matter which headers you use because what's blacklisted is the IP address.
The tech industry just needs to take a cue from the finance industry and standardize garden leave.
This is a good call. Or (at a minimum) some agreed upon fraction of salary.
They are less expensive than losing the occasional war.