skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not. Bookkeeping for a small business really doesn't take much time. I spend about 2 hours a month working the books, then come January, I have my accountant's clerk come back and do a final pass over everything to prep for taxes.
Yes, not zero risk. But to give you an idea of the risk, here are the numbers from England (only, not entire UK):

- Total COVID deaths: 28,137

- Deaths, 0-19 years of age: 18

- Deaths, 0-19 years of age, no pre-existing condition: 3

You are definitely going to see individual news reports on those 3 cases because they are exceptional and scary. But you aren't going to see individual news reports on the 25,721 people aged over 60 who died of COVID during the same period.

And keep in mind that not only are the raw numbers astronomically higher for the older age ranges, but those older age ranges are also much smaller populations. So it's even worse than it appears.

For example, 15,020 people aged 80+ died of COVID. But 80+ year olds are only 4.6% of the population in England. Under 18s make up more like 25% of the population but only account for 18 deaths. That's about as close to low risk as you can get without being zero risk.
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Without getting into the weeds around all the Apple debates lately what are some practical advantages I would get from running a proper version of Firefox with Gecko on iOS vs the WebKit wrapper? or is it more about encouraging competition and pushing mobile browsers forward?
Show HN: Snailchat – Chat at the pace of real life letters
I'm the sort of person that doesn't like responding to messages straight away. I don't like being instantly accessible, I think that's an ill of the modern world.

As well as not wanting to spend all my time on my phone, I also want to take the time to write out quality responses. I've had enough of people getting annoyed at my slow replies as if I owe them a fast response.

To combat this, I made a chat Web App where chat messages get delivered at the pace of real life letters. On top of that, there's no annoying notifications or other annoying bloat.

Have a look, and if you want to reach out to me on the app my username is snailchat.
When i found a open printer (by accident) i printed a nice letter on it that they should put the printer behind a firewall or at least into a private network.
My go to plan is based on debuggers. So whichever language you can find a GREAT debugger in is the one to go with.

Second criteria would be a language which I knew an expert in. There are plenty of good languages, but when you are stuck or need advise, there is nothing like being able to call up your brother and 'discuss' how you plan to do things.

Portability is a nice feature, but with all the available virtual environments, it is less important. Although I must say to be able to occasionally program on my phone, during a boring meeting, would be nice.
> Progress has been slow going, in large part because commercial entities desperately want access to the full registration data of domains – which includes people’s home addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses – and have been trying to find ways around the privacy protections.

Ouch. This is going to make it very hard for people to host content on the web anonymously, forcing them to link their entire identity to their website. This sucks.
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Thanks for your feedback, I am pleased to know that you like it!

- This is a c5.metal instance (AWS) with 48 physical cores and 192 GB of memory. We use only 24 of those 48 cores.

- If I understand your example well, the query "select * from trips where trip_type = 'Dispatch' and pickup_datetime = '2018-03' and vendor_id = 'VTS';" should be similar. There is no limit in how many filters you can specify in the where clause, it will also have a very minor (if any) impact on the performance.

- Currently yes but this is something we are working on. Out of order insertions is one of our priority and you can expect this to be implemented in a very near future.

- Currently no. However, the way data is stored means that columns are extremely compressible as you mentioned. Our internal API (how we store, access/retrieve columns) would make it easy for us to implement compression, we will do it if this is something important for our users. In the meantime, a filesystem like BTRFS or ZFS would do a nice job (if disk usage is your concern).

- GROUP BY is automatically inferred, users don't need to specify it explicitly, you can find more details about this here: https://questdb.io/docs/sqlExtensions#important-differences-...

EDIT: fix typos
> US citizens are armed to their teeth

With the justification of “We need the power to resist against a government who turns on its citizens” - now that that’s clearly BS, maybe time to tighten the gun laws and de-escalate the whole country? :P
Honestly, I got my foot in the door and now get to work on pretty cool ML stuff as a DS.

I'm gonna stick it out for a few years (I like my job) and pivot to ML-PM right as there is a glut of technical people in the field.

In my experience, product/program managers that understand ML are a very rare breed, and often end up being the bottleneck when it comes to taking an ML model from research to users.

At the same time, becoming a PM too soon will be me being all talk no substance. Don't want that.
Big difference is Ford, VW, et al had local dealer networks that not only fixed the cars, but turned the lessons and data learned in the fixing back into engineering improvements upstream. The net result of this is over a span of years Ford and VW buyers would see the product get better each time they bought a new one.

Android will always be a low budget product as a market, because it's run by Google. Google doesn't care about its customers at all, but for the data they generate and its impact on ad sales.

Every time a user opens the Google app store, they can expect it to be worse than the time they opened it previously. Every time an Android user buys a new device, it's a crap shoot what sort of hardware issues it will have, even if it's Google or Samsung branded.
1. This is a list of publicly known supercomputers (it’s likely that the intelligence community have larger secret assets).

2. Most of the largest super computers are owned by states.
It’s not guilt by association, it’s guilt by action. The action of deciding to work for the company with such a mission / clientele. Especially in a role requiring enough technical knowledge to know what’s going on.
Made my own userstyle to alter it all.
I removed a lot of the rounded corners on pretty much everything.
They're still round (2px perhaps), but not as dramatic as they are being served.
Only problem is that I didn't save the damn thing before my browser crashed.
And critically, made avatars square again
There are at least 3 cargo bikes doing the school run at my daughters small primary now. Not in London.
Redis does have tests, especially for the clustering feature..

https://github.com/antirez/redis/tree/unstable/tests/cluster...
There's different ways of looking at statistics. Most statistics are about the death rates for infected cases per age group, which doesn't account for situations where elderly people are kept from coming into contact with the virus in the first place.

Unfortunately, I'm unable to find good global statistics on absolute number of deaths broken down per age group.

I have come across the claim I mentioned in response to a claim that young people almost never die from this. That is simply not true: young people do die, but it looks like half is indeed an exaggeration. Even so, the claim that it's in the double digits is also false; in the US, 610 people under 44 have died[0]. Claims that young people are perfectly safe are dangerous, even if the danger is a lot higher for older people.

[0] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se...
Bugs can always be introduced into master.

The question is where do you want to discover them? You either run tests against the feature branch before merging or you have to gate your master branch into a version on a test system before it is promoted to production.

CI/CD can be chaos but the Facebook philosophy is that we would rather you delivered 1000 features per day and be able to quickly fix anything you might break in the process rather than release 1 thing a day that is fully tested. Might not work for your system but it makes sense to them.
When we made the cruise from Europe to America, we stayed 1 night in Reykyavik, Iceland.

We were lucky enough to be able to see the northern lights from a small boat in the sea at night.

It was a magical experience, I even managed t(after the tour guide cconfigured the camera settings for me in (M)anual mode) to get some photos with my little mirrorless sony.

Have to edit those yet though
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Unclear whether this is legit, or if you're being facetious to demonstrate a point. I'm gonna bet on the latter, seeing as this is HN!

You intended to supply a local gang with guns and ammo to earn profit from it, along with the other actions you took. You purposefully set out to profit from their criminal behaviour in full knowledge of what that entailed.

I'm not surprised your wife left you. Good on her.

Here is a circumstance where your point is not valid, where there is no malicious intent:

- Developer A in dept X finds out developer B in dept Y is working on Z. Is uncomfortable with anything to do with Z.

- Dev A raises this with line manager C and gets pushed back.

- Dev A tries to raise this up higher. Gets push back.

- Dev A decides to leave the company because the workplace has now become increasingly hostile.

Dev A tried to do the right thing and raise up the fact that project Z was unethical. By presuming guilt by association, Dev A is treated exactly the same as Dev B.

Consider engineers at Google. Did every Google engineer work on project dragonfly? Did every engineer know about it until it was leaked to the press? Do the project zero team work on ad tracking?

Bringing it back to your example now. If you were an accountant for a printing shop that just happened to be a front, but you never knew about it or suspected it, that's another story. There's no intent to profit from or knowledge of the criminality. Now you're an innocent bystander who was taking advantage of.

If your wife left you in this situation, I'd feel for you.

This is why we presume innocence until guilt is proven. I, for one, would rather some guilty people slip through the net of justice if it helps us to not habitually punish innocent people for crimes they did not commit.

The world is not perfect, nothing is ever black and white.
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There are a few first principles from which we can design code.

The first is: Requirements change.

For many reasons. User needs change. Business processes change. Technology evolves.

If you're going to keep up, you must design code that is easy to change.

Code that is easy to change tends to be code that can work with lots of different code.

Code that can work with lots of different code tends to lean towards the general end of the spectrum, rather than being too specific.

Designing code that is modular does not mean that you need to over-engineer, and it doesn't even mean that it needs to be used more than once.

It should mean that the code has locality: The ability to understand the full effect of the code without also understanding the full context of the code around it or the full history and future life of every external variable it uses.

It may sound to new developers like I'm talking about something complicated, but it's the opposite:

Code that can be easily adapted to future use-cases tends to be more simple. It tends to know the least about it's environment. It tends to do only one thing, but do it so well as to be perhaps the optimal solution.

What follows from the first principle is perhaps the most important principle in software development. Remember this and you'll find yourself needing to do a small fraction of the work you once did to produce the same value:

A small change in requirements should lead to only a small change in implementation.
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What would be the incentive for someone who has collected an expensive dataset to list in on your marketplace (or dataset-directory, I don't know how you would call it)? I'm just wondering what incentive structure would get a marketplace like this off the ground.

Once you have a big marketplace, then it's a clear value for any engineer who wants easy access to quality datasets (for experimentation, transfer learning...)
I don't think for most people dying is the scary outcome, like you say it's very very unlikely for a healthy young person.

But what is the odds that you survive but then require kidney transplant or lung transplant or have leave ICU only to face weeks or months of recovery. This latter bit is a unknown to me, so I don't know what my actual risk is.
> I had some issue with the standard string type and after a bunch of searching and trying other things, nothing worked

Post some code!
It's one of the most amazing and surprising things I've seen in the last 12 months in machine learning (I follow and work in the field).

It surprises me a lot more than the excellent performance of GPT-3 on text generation for example. GPT-3 is amazing but looking at GPT-1 -> GPT-2 -> GPT-3 it isn't surprising. Counting on the other hand is something I wouldn't have expected from a summarizer.
Hm? It is changing from a system were it is very hard to host content anonymously to one where it is (domains currently require full name, address, phone and email to register). Not the other way around.
Are you sure you read his blog entry?

> The second reason is more prosaic: some people want to kill me or ruin my life, and I would prefer not to make it too easy. I’ve received various death threats. I had someone on an anti-psychiatry subreddit put out a bounty for any information that could take me down (the mods deleted the post quickly, which I am grateful for). I’ve had dissatisfied blog readers call my work pretending to be dissatisfied patients in order to get me fired. And I recently learned that someone on SSC got SWATted in a way that they link to using their real name on the blog. I live with ten housemates including a three-year-old and an infant, and I would prefer this not happen to me or to them. Although I realize I accept some risk of this just by writing a blog with imperfect anonymity, getting doxxed on national news would take it to another level.

He doesn't name cancel culture, but it's obvious it's a part of what he's worried about.
Ostracizing someone is not harrasment. It's the opposite.
yeah I'm sure facebooksucks.org is phishing facebook accounts
I am not sure that convincing someone by not talking to them has a high success rate...
I didn't not say ostracising from society, just from our community. Regarding fair trial, this is not a legal matter, it is a moral judgement. And working for a company who is actively helping authoritarian governments to prosecute and kill dissidents is making a choice. That is not guilt by association, you _are_ helping with your actions.

Your argumentation is exactly how how totalitarian governments commit atrocities, divide the responsibilities up enough so that every little cog can justify to themselves that what they are doing is not morally wrong. I know I'm coming close to invoking Godwins law, but Oskar Gröning had a moral (and even legal) responsibility for his actions, even if he did not kill anyone himself.
Hmm. This actually has legs - CO2 can't be present in liquid air, because it freezes at only about -80 rather than the -200ish for air. So at some point CO2 "snow" will collect in the system. Unfortunately it's ~0.04% of the air, so this will take a long time to collect much. But if it's removed anyway, sure. Then you have to work out where to put it.
Just a quick note about that:

> does not have to wait for a DNS resolver to respond

The browser (or the system) caches DNS responses and the query for a blocked domain won't be repeated for quite some time.
And there might not be a second/third wave. Some countries observe the virus weakening. People who would've died two months ago if they caught it are now showing milder symptoms. We have 80 year olds now who would need a ventilator two months ago recovering completely as per some doctors from Europe (Italy, Serbia).
That's a fair point but usually that is solved by disclosing an additional datapoint like the date of birth of the person.
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This is so useful and silly I love it. Would have been perfect for my late 90s geocities site, had the functionality existed back then.
I haven't used HNNs in practice but it seems that the main difference from common NNs is that the loss function incorporates gradients. It's not a new type of a neuron.
Then facebook can do that through the official means by submitting requests. They want to skip that process. I'd prefer their requests to be vetted before personal information is divulged. That way there is oversight.

We've already seen with the DMCA what happens when you give free-reign to companies in this area.
Neh, the better an engineer gets, the better they are at asking questions which make the person with the idea realize there are some problems with his idea. These problems may be fixable.

Shooting down ideas is not productive. Making sure ideas are realizable is.
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In my country the breakdown for excess deaths is:

15 - 44 = 27

45 - 64 = 589

75 - 84 = 1356

85 + = 1761

If you are under 40 your risk of dying seems to be very very low.
$15k is a cheap family policy in most of the country. My wife and I pay $24k/year for the cheapest silver option with a low deductible. My wife gets pneumonia and bronchitis almost annually, and every few years gets hospitalized. On top of that, she has 5 medications she takes for her asthma and allergies that without insurance would add up to almost $1000/mo, so sure we could go uninsured and save close to $12k/year, but the second she gets pneumonia and ends up in urgent care or the ER, we've lost all of the savings. And that is just her, I have to get my blood drawn quarterly for a thyroid condition, and each time they bill that to the insurance it's $1600.

So sure $15k is ridiculous to pay for health insurance, but in the US, its the cheap option for a family.
Close to 0, if you're reasonably healthy.
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I love Tantacrul's videos, and was pleased to see he's now working on MuseScore. He finally gets to put his money where his mouth is, and I'm fairly confident that he (and yourself) will do a great job with MS4.

Best wishes and happy coding to the team!
All true and good points. The mailing list in question is controlled exclusively by myself and Kimiko Ishizaka and is only used to announce new projects by Kimiko.
Well, I guess I should say you can have a pandemic without a fear-mongering news media that significantly exacerbates it.

I personally am not "fearful" of COVID-19, as are many (most) people I know, so it is clearly possible for the general human.
> only to face weeks or months of recovery.

FTR, this also happens with other respiratory diseases. You can also take quite a bit of time (months) to fully recover from "regular" pneumonia.
But choosing to work for a company who helps authoritan governments to prosecute journalists and dissidents is an action, and I will judge you for it.
> On the other hand, their product is just a tool which can be used for good (stopping terrorists) or evil (spying on human rights activists).

That applies to lots of technology things though. With the NSO group specifically though, wouldn't their tech have Sales people that need to actively court and sell it to potential customers?
>> What I'm curious is about is the percentage of people (younger or otherwise) who either develop no symptoms or develop symptoms so mild as to not be attributed to the virus. Do such people exist?

My spouse and I both work in a hospital. She got covid and so did one of our two siblings. Neither of them had any symptoms (spouse is in her 50's, our sibling is twenty plus.) I never got it nor did our other sibling. I also don't have antibodies. Go figure... it makes no sense to me.

As a side note: we are not in patient care, however when this was at it's early peak here in the States--I don't know how the nurses, aides, and doctors were able to do their jobs everyday. It was fricken scary walking through the halls and passing workers dressed in plastic; what with all the unknowns at that time, and the news reports of death throughout the world. Those workers deserve respect if not outright awe and a Huge Cash Bonus... Huge.
Wow I can clearly see my transition from junior to mid-level based on this.
It does not feel like GotHub anymore. The old layout always had a more robust feel. Now it is too modern. The main thing that bugs me is that the languages of the repository are at the bottom right now instead of the top.
Because speech recognition quality is a product of data harvesting, the one thing Google does well?
Children’s hierarchical belief structure in real and non-real figures
I'm not saying people shouldn't freely chose to sacrifice something, quite the opposite.

I don't think some sacrifices should be required. It will always be a grey area: you can't have everything in life, there's only so many hours in a day.

Another thing that may not be okay, is that when you tool at the top 5 regret of the dying, most men regret having worked so hard. So why are we pretending this is what they want?
Thanks. And now I have discovered the "End" button!
> History books will not be kind to our past and present handling of covid-19.

History has not been approving of the casual disregard for human life and probably won’t be in this case either.

For the US, I think history will judge us harshly for our overall lack of response. (We’re scaling back pretty much every response for short-sighted political reasons even as cases are starting to spike again.)
Were you a founder? Owner? etc?

It is tough to go from 'big fish - little pond' to 'little fish - big pond'. The drop in adrenaline is probably the drive in the depression.

Did you take a break? Have you taken time to just think about what you want in life? I personally recommend travel, by yourself, to give you time to think and feel. Hint hint - a bicycle and 3 months alone is great.

Optionally, visit a life coach or psychologist. Someone to talk it out with.
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Thomas Philippon (NYU professor) has nice new book "The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets" https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674237544

Here is an interview with Philippon that has some of the main points: https://promarket.org/2019/12/09/the-lack-of-competition-has...
Yep, people forget that 'pagerank' was Google's secret sauce and it was literally ML. It looked at data to compute parameters of a model (edge probabilities) and rank a set of candidate results.
I was doing my estimation based on an LLC, since most people don't set up S-Corps. I do operate through as an S-Corp, and I pay myself ~60%, and put 20% into my SEP-IRA.
Despite the implications to people who understand the relevance for data matching purposes.... the majority of people in my experience don’t actually care about sharing their birthday. Even without the year it’s a powerful de-anonymising datapoint.