skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, experts do know a lot more about the virus than an average person.

But, AFAIK, experts don't really have answers to these questions:

- How long does the immunity last?

- How much do asymptomatic people transmit?

- How much do pre-symptomatic people transmit?

- Related to the previous two questions, what percent of cases got infected from symptomatic people?

- What percent of cases got infected from contaminated surfaces, what percent -- from aerosols, what percent -- from droplets?

To a non-expert like me the questions above sound super essential. It's been more than half a year since the virus spread began. How come we still don't know? And so, while calling experts clueless is not polite, does it sound like such a stretch? Maybe it's OK, if experts actually admit they have no clue at the moment?

"... revise their answers as more data comes in?"

This should be a totally normal thing to do, I agree.
India: 50k years-old lake mysteriously turns pink, scientists probe cause
To me this whole thing reads more like the plot and gameplay of the next Far Cry game. What a time to be alive.
The phrase is not outdated. It's not "used by the military" because that would literally be a war crime. Cotton's tweet may be a war crime -- it needn't be an order, even making that threat is a war crime.

https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/customary-ihl/eng/docs/v1_rul...
I think it's going to be difficult to sustain without either strong leadership or strong collective decision making ; my gut tells me it's going to go the way of Zuccoti Park rather Christiana.

It would be nice if it could sustain itself, but it will likely creak under its own weight in a month or so.
Here's some:

Badger Workshop is UK-based https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSQRZgy9lvGsLrWn6sFHZHw

Nick Zammeti is UK-based https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3-0S7vXfwYY2jj5EkMpymA

Rag N Bone Brown is UK-based https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVyE_6jEtVZGmYGXtUOL5FQ

Ishitani Furniture is Japanese https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7FkqjV8SU5I8FCHXQSQe9Q

Giaco Whatever (some woodworking) is Italian https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYH-XXUE2QDaWKvABsWJh8w

Cactus! Workshop is from Spain: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCupK5wJGXHDemXmHFMCMtHA

Lignum is based in Croatia https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfSdejZFhw0rrDFlj9McyNA

Marius Hornberger is German https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn7lavsPdVGV0qmEEBT6NyA

Laura Kampf is German https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRix1GJvSBNDpEFY561eSzw

Ollari's is based in Hungary https://www.youtube.com/user/Sepirabbit
What to do when your boss takes credit for your work
>Deep Blue could evaluate 200 million different moves... per second. And that’s from 1997.

And still he lost against Kasparov. Which doesn't happen now, top engines haven't been beaten by humans since ~2006.
Yes in some municipalities, they do not create a security out of the debt, but I believe the majority of municipalities do.
>Are you trying to claim that Internet Archive purposely tried to set a precedent, knowing they don't have enough money to actually do it?

Well, at least there's an implicit admission justice is bought by the highest bidder.
I watched that video, I saw someone coming in and defacing peoples homes. The people filming asked if they had permission, then asked the person to stop. The person refused to stop painting and pushed the group of folks and there was a scuffle that ended with the tagger walking away.

Aside, intentionally or unintentionally, calling a group of predominantly black people "thugs" is a common dog whistle.
I think you’re right. But I also think that things might get a little better if we shone a light on the judges who are allowing these things to happen. They are supposed to judge, not be rubber stamps for whatever the police want. For example, the media will tell us the names of the cops who murder people when executing a warrant, as they should; but I don’t remember a single article where the judge who signed the warrant was named, or where the reporter tried to interview the judge, to ask what evidence justified, say, a no-knock warrant. Not that a judge would grant such an interview, but at least the judge can be named, and the question raised.
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I would love to know what the bug was, sadly we'll probably never know. I imagine the engineer responsible for `NEVER 349` made a mistake that ended up flipping a single bit, to the `ALWAYS 349` position...
Might be time for the Magpie stack, Rust based static file blog generator (compiled via WebAssembly) via AWS Lamdas written in Go, wait no, Deno.

Or should there be a Rust based React framework? How would that work? If it exists then it’s gotta be more performant, so yeah, let’s use that.

I don’t know if this is magpie enough now days. It’s hard to even make fun of this because the irony is even the joke becomes outdated lol.
Right, which is why you want to start getting the data served by seeders outside of the Internet Archive proper.

The Pirate Bay is all magnet links. A model to be considered.
Really? You don't think a corporations blunder that took lives and led to riots is deserving of inclusion?

I can say Pepsi certainly doesn't want it there, your motivations are interely baffling though.
That decade was from the time I was 12 until I was 22. I was a short fat kid with a computer - what else was I going to do? By the time I got to college, I started having a social life.

I got into exercise and fitness after college and my circle started consisting of non-geek professionals who were active. That became my hobby.

Once I had to look at a computer all day, I wanted to do anything else besides looking at a computer after work. You can’t imagine how much fun it was to transform from “computer geek” during the day to “outgoing drill sergeant fitness instructor” in the evening.

I have turned down two or three decent paying ($120/hr+) side contracting opportunities because I would rather just spend time doing anything else when I get off of work.

As far as travel, post-Covid, my job will require extensive travel. I should be able to get frequent flier miles for my personal use.
See also a video from a couple of years ago covering some details of the aircraft and in-flight experience: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16124271
A Reflection on JavaScript Hate
Bitmovin (YC S15) Hires Solutions Architects in Denver
Sounds like a Silicon Valley scene!
An empirical study of obsolete answers on Stack Overflow [pdf]
That's why "racism" has been redefined. Because it makes it morally convenient in the quest to "undo" past injustice.

On a side note: welcome to the Twilight Zone.
But if I don’t have followers who’ll be left to love me? And how will I know?
And besides website performance, their recommender on news feed, jobs, similar profiles even their search is terrible. And while the news feed is probably heavily biased to influencers' posts (same as other social media platforms), I keep getting job recommendations for architect jobs just because i had a past job with "data architect" title.
Relocating during the Covid-19 pandemic
That has, until recently, been my philosophy for a long time. See my sibling comment for context.

Another example of where modelling both saved time and helped make a system more reliable: about 6 months ago, I took on a project that involved integrating a Bluetooth-Iridium gateway into an existing app, so that the app could work in areas with no wifi or cell connectivity. There’s a lot of things going on here: the Iridium modem has a limited queue size, transmissions are not instant, connectivity to the constellation fades in and out, Bluetooth randomly disconnects, etc.

My gut reaction is to slowly build it out. Start with the low-level BLE stuff and build layers on top. Which I did do to shake out the functionality. But before I went and built the whole thing, I stopped and tried to build a TLA+ model of the system. That modelling was only somewhat successful; based on the constraints applied by each part, I discovered that it would be impossible to make the entire system reliable. What the model did, though, was highlight specific failure cases that would need to be detected and reported to the user.

I agree that, in the end, the source code ends up being a detailed and precise specification of what the system does. What I’m realizing more and more though is that putting together more abstract models of the system ahead of time can save a ton of time by forcing you to think through cases that would (in my experience) end up with dirty hacks when they’re discovered after 90% of the code has been written.

It’s not the approach required for every project. I still love firing up a Python or Lisp REPL and hacking away. It’s way more fun! But for certain types of software, it’s very much not the appropriate way to work.
Public-Health Experts Are Not Hypocrites
Yeah, I expect it'll be an eddy in the river of history and expend its energy pretty quickly. But it has some folks involved that have leadership experience, so it'll be interesting to watch.
Zoom Blocks Activist After Tiananmen Vigil
This is the "few bad apples" fallacy. Some failures are of individuals, some failures are SYSTEMIC.
Sure, it may not be HR's function. That's my point. Even with the paperwork, HR effectively never acts as a counterbalance to a bad manager. That's why I list it as one of the reasons why the paperwork that the grandparent poster has to do is often part of a system that only keeps honest people honest.

When I think back to some of the most egregious workplace culture issues in recent memory, such as Uber (Susan Fowler) or Riot Games, HR was, by the most charitable interpretation, unable to stop obviously bad things from happening. By a more literal read of the news at the time, HR was complicit.
You might like Rex Kruger's channel. He has a large shop and lots of machines, but he mainly focuses on hand tools and doing things cheaply/diy when it comes to his YouTube content. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj4SLNED1DiNPHComZTCbzw

No affiliation. I just found him a couple weeks ago and have been really enjoying it.
And thank goodness they have not. Otherwise, the NYT would be entirely devoid of sense.
China's Religious Awakening After Mao
Well so actually we have both now.

For WebSockets, all of the code is async, so I'm already using `asyncpg` for any database stuff that is happening there.

With regards to why are the sync endpoints faster, I think it is a number of things, some of which are userland changes that could've been made under Flask, but all of which are somewhat related to the switch. With regards to things that FastAPI itself has changed, I think using a (de)serialization lib like Pydantic and serializing to JSON by default (which is what we were doing under Flask anyway, though with Marshmallow) makes a lot of the code paths in the underlying lib a bit faster, because with Flask there was more "magic" going on behind the scenes. For userland stuff, I think partly because there is less magic going in the background (I really like FastAPIs dependency injection system), it's made it easier to identify the bottlenecks and optimize hot code paths.
Sorry, this is offtopic. You have asked how is it possible - I've answered. Dynamic vs static discussed elsewhere in the thread, no silver bullet. I prefer to optimize against unresponsive author [0]. Chose your own distro

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23458020
That tweet is apparently a fake.
They already had 20,000,000 books (yes that's a real number) available. The ones with Controlled Digital Lending allowed a single DRM-encrusted copy to be loaned out for each physical copy that they owned. This isn't explicitly allowed by any law but publishers hadn't challenged its claim of fair use and a lot of libraries use this technique. What was new with the NEL was just removing the one-copy-at-a-time limit. But the lawsuit is challenging the whole concept, including what other libraries are doing.
> Reinforces the broken belief that the best way to evaluate things is based on the perception of others, rather than the intrinsic qualities (like those you mentioned)

It's not always the best way, it's a shortcut. While you're spending time figuring out which JSON library is the best by some metric that might ultimately be irrelevant to the task at hand, I'm going with the popular option that is almost certainly "good enough" for me - otherwise it wouldn't be popular. That gives me an advantage over you, 98% of the time.

> Adopts a purely consumeristic view of open source

I don't see how this relates to popularity. Most users of open source will always be consumers, whether something is popular or not. However, if something is popular, the likelihood of someone to contribute back also grows.

Furthermore, if something is popular and there's an issue, somebody else will most likely run into it before me, write about it, get feedback on it, and so on. That's a valuable contribution, even though it isn't code.
Note that everything in software development is R&D. Building (not operating) Gmail and Android and Office and Azure are R&D.
The channel smart features are powered by HbbTV (Arte+7, BBC Red Button, France.tv Salto, etc.), they should work on non-smart TVs that are connected to the Internet.
> But in the end, there is no right or guarantee that every person will get a job, be able to keep a house, or will not lose wealth.

That's true for most people, but it's simply not true for the wealthy in practice. The government did try to make an example of a few players in the 2008 collapse, but for the most part, the message sent by the handling of the 2008 crisis was that if you're a big enough company and you take a risk that doesn't pay off, the poor and middle class will be forced to subsidize your mistake.
It’s been awhile since I tried a static feed. But basically, the client NuGet command had to read the directory structure to find all of the NuGet packages and versions instead of using an API where the server had everything indexed already.
How much it really costs to send money abroad with each bank
The early home installations for electric power where mindbogglingly unsafe.
Just admitted that their OS is subpar and they dislike customers. Good move Microsoft.
The engineering behind Apple devices
Tim Harford: can the pandemic help us fix our technology problem?
The recruiter asks for your cv as a way to get paid.

If you submit a resume to a recruiter they can submit on your behalf to a company. If you submit to many in the same firm some will use the date received in order to assign any money earned.

Without this rule you would have people sending in resumes without the person's knowledge.
The idea of hiding all the icons when not on the screen surprised me... I've been using computers since 1979, and never thought of doing that. I do like his point about the increasingly small and easy to miss targets that GUIs have been forcing on us... especially now that my laptop has a 1920x1080 display and a crappy NO BUTTON touch pad. (more than 1/2 of the time I get a right-click instead of left-click!)

If I could somehow activate a menu with maximum 8 choices in each keyboard direction (that are NOT subject to automatic moving around, so that a given motion is repeatable)... and cascade that as many levels deep as required.... I could get a lot more done, a lot faster.

It was worth the watch time, thanks!
Sometimes there is no income. For instance, I used to work for a Credit Union. The board members were elected by account holders. The board members were considered "volunteers". They are legally not allowed to receive compensation for their role.
Extending this, news wouldn’t exist in its current form.

Broadcasts would be much more honest too:

“Hello everyone. There’s a pandemic sweeping the globe, which is unfortunate, but also cancer outcomes are the best they’ve ever been. Overall things are getting better.

Enjoy your weekend and we’ll be back on Monday. If something genuinely important changes. Otherwise, take a walk and maybe get some fresh air instead.

Clint Brockenheimer, Channel 1 news”
An in-line filter is annoying though, as the replacement light on my non-DRM fridge is actually useful. It lights up when it's time to order a new filter. And then again when it's actually time to replace. And the filter isn't behind the fridge, it's right upfront.
That's absurd. He works on human+chess research. He obviously hasn't given up on human insight.

What he has given up on is a single human beating a computer.
This is a very charitable interpretation of fair use.

>The transformative factor seems rather clear. People want the many altered things and consider it different enough to go out of their way to find it (despite it not reducing their out-of-pocket cost).

Is it really that transformative? It might be from a user-privacy point of view, but if consider all parts of the operating system, it's negligible.

>The nature of the work is that it is a tool rather than a work of fiction which is also in favor of fair use.

This seems to be a misinterpretation of the law. That part of the test (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use#2._Nature_of_the_copy...) was intended to prevent copyrighting of facts. In this regard, an operating system is probably closer to fiction than non-fiction. I'm not aware of any exception for "tools".

>The amount taken is substantial, but it has already been ruled that even 100% taken can still be fair use. It also contributes a great many man-hours of work though which means it wasn't just a blind copy/paste either.

Again, if you consider the entire operating system, even weeks/months of effort by a single person would be dwarfed by the millions (tens of? hundreds of?) of man-hours that went into making the entire OS.
Amazon's facial recognition stunt is pure PR
Really only posted to help break this high school mythology the general public has with science. There’s a long time of conflict before just mass acceptance and adoption. And it’s not as tribalist as it seems.
I assure you that's utterly false. There's tons of "Razes" in the country where I'm from, and very few police officers.
My TRS 80 is rocking.
> From a professional standpoint LinkedIn gave me a lot of value for free

Could you please explain like what value you derive out of it. LinkedIn primary purpose is to build your professional network so that you can find your next job easily. It does not work out because programmers does not vouch for someone unless they have worked directly in my experience.
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Hi all, I'm a software developer looking to form long term partnerships with companies in Berlin (remote also ok). I have 4.5 years experience in frontend and backend roles and a little bit of experience with devops tasks as well.

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What advantages does Pyinfra have over NixOps?

https://github.com/NixOS/nixops
Indeed, in Eastern Germany most electronic devices even came with a complete circuit diagram to ease self repair.
Delay and RepeatForever in SwiftUI
Capitol Hill's police precinct has been abandoned, however, police are still responding to 9-1-1 calls to the area.

This feels very much overblown.

Seattle Times has an article that outlines similar "occupy" protests.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/welcome-to-the-cap...
...living in evolving anarchy has benefits though. I suspect that San Francisco’s open air drug market with dangerously cheap methamphetamine is one of the dirty secrets behind the engine of creation of Silicon Valley.
For interest, bloodletting might have some good health benefits and be due for a comeback... or encourage blood donation.

https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/the-potential-benefi...
Maybe it's me, but I was expecting this to be something to do with Arduino, given the name and the colour they've chosen for the logo.
The basics of hand tools can be had for a pittance. A #4, #5, and #7 or #8 Bailey style plane can be had for $50-$100 apiece on eBay and they'll last forever. They new Stanley Sweetheart chisels are a steal at ~$20 a piece if you buy a set on sale. If that's too much, the US-made Buck Brothers chisels are about $10 a piece at Home Depot. You want the ones with the clear yellow handles.

It's worth buying your first dovetail saw and/or tenon saw new so you know what it should cut like, but you can buy subsequent saws used and sharpen them yourself.

The expensive bits are the sharpening stuff and the layout tools. For sharpening, I spent $200 on the set of 220/1000 4000/8000 Norton water stones, and $40 on a used grinder. You can get by with a grinder, a $15 oil stone, and a strop.

Layout tools are pricey because they start overlapping machinist tools and come with commensurate accuracy. You don't need a square accurate to .001" over a foot for woodworking, but your options are pretty much that or one accurate to .030" over a foot, which is emphatically not good enough for woodworking. But depending on how you work, you need those tools for machine work anyway.

You don't need to spend a fortune on most of the hand tools. Whether or not you find the maintenance a nightmare or not is mostly a matter of committing to learning and practicing until it's second nature.
Summer is coming and lockdown is over: It’s time of Ddays
Glad to see the #Occupy franchise has a new installment out.
In addition - regarding the European theater, the most important contribution of the US was keeping the USSR to the Elbe, otherwise the entirety of continental Europe would have fallen under communist rule.
How The Economist presidential forecast works
That doesn't sound like a good excuse for him. Sociopathic behaviors have existed since time immemorial, and the old approach before any form of formal law enforcement even existed was for tribes to enact social law enforcement and isolate or exile such undesirable elements-- and tyrants are born when you got enough armed people on your side to override societal rule.

EDIT: Replaced a term for a more neutral one.
I would add a debugger to this list.

The one built into GHCi is the only working one I know of, and it has major failings (such as telling me that variables aren't in scope when they clearly are).
You are surprisingly likely to have a living doppelganger (2016)
Hey Matthias,

Long time admirer of your work. I'm curious how you manage the massive amount of content on the site. Is your website plain HTML and CSS? Or are you using some kind of cms?

Cheers,
Ben
Hang on, are you asking about projects like the AI one that picks out violent protestors from the crowd via facial recognition or are you meaning software that helps protestors organise non-violent movements?
I use LinkedIn to harass engineers as big companies to fix bugs the company doesn't care to know about... Or ask questions about why they don't take better approaches.
Working from Home, with Robots
What would be the advantage of GraphQL over gRPC in a REST replacement scenario?
Because your software may be compromised.

Because your hardware may be compromised.

Because their software may be compromised.

Because their hardware may be compromised.

Because the cryptographic algorithm you're using may be compromised.

Because your 'trusted party' may be compromised.

Because there may be a camera in your room.

Because there may be a camera in their room.

Lots of threat vectors, lots of reasons to assume surveillance.