skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this sounds very interesting and helpful.
I still don't understand, and refuse to pay for, basic TV in the United States. Bunny ear is now a digital receiver with even more local broadcast options. And yt brings no value add, imho.
You are absolutely right. My mistake, poor choice of words. I was speaking to the loss of public information that came from hard work from many individuals. It's like the loss of many academic papers and studies. Gotta start back from square one.
One thing I've noticed with regards to discrimination at a couple I have worked is the treatment of mediocrity. At one American software shop I worked at early in my career I would see mediocre African American employees catch shit for being mediocre, but mediocre white people would not. So basically if you were not white you needed to be a stellar performer.

No one is perfect and everyone makes mistakes, and most of us are somewhere on the scale between great and crap. My partner and I joke about this concept of the mediocre white man, and how their workplace is dominated by these mediocre white men. Whereas if you're a woman, or if you're not white, you're not allowed to be mediocre. You gotta be great.

There are essentially two separate sets of measurements; one for white men and one for everyone else. And I notice this as a white man.
I'm deeply turned off by Oni2's pre-release increasing price model.
>By bringing in utilities like electricity, gas, and water, and setting up “proprietary containers,” the company hopes to turn parking lots into reconfigurable community hubs. Lots might be “formatted” to include mobile kitchens, beer gardens, retail pop-ups, vertical farms, auto-body shops, medical services, rental stations for electric vehicles, and so on. “We have these pods, which arguably are not pretty, but they’re functional. They can support any kind of application,” Ari Ojalvo, the C.E.O. of Reef, told me. “If you want to put a grocery store in there, put a grocery store in there. Laundry, put laundry.” Ojalvo compares his company to Apple: just as the App Store allows developers to create and sell iOS-based tools and services, so Reef provides infrastructure for parking-based businesses. “Apple uses connectivity as a platform; we use proximity as a platform. We allow third-party applications to stand on this proximity platform and get closer to consumers,” he said.

Okay so they are buying real estate and renting it to businesses.

That's a perfectly sound business plan. But I think we are just through the fucking looking glass with this language about "platforms" and "apps" applying to regular old businesses which involve humans being in a physical space.

If replacing the term "retail space" with "proximity platform" isn't the most inane tech bro crap I have ever heard in my life...

"parking-based businesses"...excuse me am I having a stroke?
I've ran into this issue myself and it's not filesystem watchers missing the point, it's actually something not supported in a number of operating systems. Thus you then either have to resort to nasty user-space hacks (which will be comparatively slow and resource hungry) or accept that you can't watch nested directories.

A more technical description is mentioned here: https://github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify/issues/18
Use Speedlify to continuously measure site performance
Read a version of this book pre-release and loved it!

Distills much of the best advice you can get if you hang out for a few years on HN into an easily shareable package.

Would recommend as a graduation gift or career starter for the new tech person in your life. But also super valuable for folks who have been in the industry as well. The chapter on "Marketing Yourself" contains some reminders that I found really helpful:

- Keep online presence 90% positive

- Be consistent (same profile pic everywhere, etc)

- Be "The Guy" (or non-guy) for a specific, unique, easily-grasped value prop

- Don't chase celebrity or short-term optimizations (posting times, weekly metrics, etc)
I really wish YT would drop the 10 minute cutoff for mid-roll ads. It's a destructive incentive to the platform. Let creators put ads wherever they want on whatever length video they want (within reason and with abuse checks). Then you won't get 7 minute videos with 3 minutes of added fluff just so they can be better monetized.

And we can ignore creators who over-monetize if we want (or buy Premium or use adblocking).
Maybe we should check into the financial records of those funding the observation.
I like the way the ancient greeks did it. Every year we write a name of the person that we want removed from public office. The person with the most votes gets banished for 10 years.
Because sponsor does not control the message?
If anyone interested in knowing more about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upanayana
So navigating from one page to another with an animation is not something that can be done in a secure way? Really? If so then the web really is dead.
There is barely a comparison to be made. Lua is faster, LuaJIT is much faster, lua is much easier to embed and lua is much more elegant and way less awkward to program in. TCL ends up being funky and lua ends up working.

When there was no competition in the space of already made scripting languages that were easy to embed (except for possibly perl) TCL had a place, but it is a relic of the past now and for good reason.
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This is google: a company that whose practices is borderline malware, especially on Android.
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That said arguably that there are many kinds of methods for funding the creation of drugs. The existing system isn't the only way. Your statement is literally, "stick with the status quo". The NIH should fund and produce these drugs, no patents, free for all to produce.
Just because it is doesn't mean it ought to be. This, in fact, seems to be a pretty clear indication of why alternative funding methods should be considered.
Imagine there are two societies like this. One invests in building huts and storing food, the other one doesn't. They don't have to maintain the food storage and huts. The labor is spent on something else that advances society. Let's say this gives them a 1% advantage in advancing society every year. After 100 years the 1% advantage turns into 1.001^100 = 2.7. The society that didn't invest in the disaster plan advanced much more.

When you tie up your resources you can't invest it into something else. Governments know this very well. That's why they borrow money to invest it into projects that will have a higher payoff than the interest.

At some point in disaster planning you need to ask what the impact of the preparation is vs the impact of the disaster itself. Obviously officials can't say after a disaster that the reason they didn't prepare was that they calculated that the cost to prepare was higher than the likelihood of the disaster times the cost of the disaster. If the officials admitted that then they would seem heartless. They say instead: "There was no way to see it coming."

If you think this line of thinking by officials is unreasonable, then I'd like to ask you: do you have a bomb shelter at home? Why not? The Swiss do: [0]

>"Every inhabitant must have a protected place that can be reached quickly from his place of residence".

>"Apartment block owners are required to construct and fit out shelters in all new dwellings".

>(Articles 45 and 46 of the Swiss Federal Law on Civil Protection).

Obviously this is an expensive law. The Swiss can afford it, because they're one if the richest countries in the world. In the case of disaster the Swiss are prepared. The rest of us are not.

[0] https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/always-be-prepared_how-ready-is...
This is an EXCELLENT write-up. Thank you for both doing what you’re doing and for explaining it so well. I’m a software guy and have always found biosciences to be a mysterious black box, and you’ve cracked it open it in a wonderfully enlightening way.

Best of luck to your team and the project!
I saw the same kind of discrimination in an Indian office I used to manage part of (that is to say, a fair number of the staff functionally reported to me but all the local management and HR decisions happened in India). It was interesting, though: the office was in Chennai and they essentially banned even interviewing anyone from outside Tamil Nadu, no matter how qualified. Perhaps someone from Andhra Pradesh or Kerala got in every now and then, but no one from farther afield.
A Dyson sphere/swarm has huge emissions on the infrared band that would be easy to detect on the tens of millions of light years distance.

Edit: AFAIK, this group didn't look for that. But the fact that nobody ever found one is telling.
Ask HN: How do you manage your remote coding meetings?
> it still becomes the purpose of the standup.

Also, the meetings are a bit useless for the developers -- they can just chat directly instead, and look in Trello/sth to see what the others are doing.

So the for oneself most meaningful thing to do, during the meetings, is to impress the managers / others listening?

Since the meetings barely hello with getting real work done anyway
"This is just like cable but with extra steps"

I don't get how everyone was in the "cut the cord" movement not too long ago when all we really have done is create another cord. $70 a month is way too much for a bunch of channels included with basic $30 package in my area:

https://www.moneysavingpro.com/tv-providers/comcast-channels...
Just what we need - more uncaring ECMA programmers putting out substandard, massively slow, non-native code...
Some rambling as I try to figure out what I intend to convey.

During normal times, humans behave in irrational ways. During testing times (with a pandemic, unemployment, violence, corruption), humans seem to behave irrationally and exhibit frustrations akin to taking it out on someone/some group even though the cause and the resolution (or the ability to bring a resolution) lie elsewhere. Somewhere in this mix, from well intentioned and otherwise logical or educated people, we see utterly incomprehensible support for certain non-progressive ideals, bigotry and outright violence.

I don’t know what could really help. But there seem to be some fundamental problems (in Maslow’s hierarchy of needs) that have become exacerbated and are snowballing and manifesting in many other areas. To those on the fence or amenable to change their views, solving some of these problems could help bring them to the table and be willing to listen (and then change).
> The language that exposes the machine as cleanly as possible is clearly C.

It exposes the PDP-11 most cleanly. For modern machines the mismatch between the C abstract machine and the actual hardware has been steadily increasing for decades. It's still close to the hardware compared to almost all other languages, but it is by no means "as cleanly as possible". It's not portable assembly like in the days of yore.
yes, I just saw the discussions in the support chat.
that thread is bit long to carry and comes in between when you sit to take a dump in Indian style (squatting style). Hence it's suggested to put it on left ear to keep it up.
Turkey determined to control social media platforms, Erdogan says
J’bang – Having fun with Java scripting
WarzoneTracker – A database website for reporting Warzone Hackers
In Ireland, both are used. A public [owned/sector] company is a government owned company while a public [limited] company (plc) is a company who's shares can be freely traded. Just "Public company" on its own can be context dependent, as publicly owned companies are often referred to as just public companies when referring to things like public-private partnerships or privatisation.

At least public sector and public vs private in the context of privatisation are used in the UK also.
Thanks so much for the positive feedback! Forgive the very long read but yes biosciences can be a little opaque at times.
I'm making one, it wont be open-source but i'll respect privacy, allow free self-hosting... imagine a discord(call features) + slack(paid for companies).

https://imgur.com/uSA8AMs.png
https://imgur.com/P9ckNBn.png
https://imgur.com/L9fDMKQ.png

Ram usage is currently at 12-50mb on windows, up to 90mb with 50 messages with images(unoptimized, no virtual scrolling yet).

The server will be a single binary, there is still a lot to do: pin messages, emojis, avatars, community avatar, search... i want it (server+desktop) to be done by the end of the year.
The first thing that happened when I enabled this, is that VMWare Workstation (a signed app that passes smartscreen stuff) was denied access to its data folder in the documents folder. No notification from Windows.

Not a good first impression, and I don't really want to learn the file access patterns of all the things I use.
They agreed to stop a few years ago. Redbox used to break the "buy only" window of DVD releases. Meaning you could rent a movie from Redbox before it was available to rent on any streaming service.

They buckled from pressure from studios and agreed to stop for the reason you gave.

It kind of seemed at the time that they used their right to do this as a negotiating tactic in getting better prices from distributors.
EEX was down today as well.
Is his book available for purchase anywhere? Sounds fascinating.
inotifywait can do this just fine. Here's an emulation of `entr` with an `include pattern`:

inotifywait -rq -m -e close_write --format %f . | grep '\.rules$'

Sure, there may races due to limitations of underlying OS interfaces, but no such races really matter when you edit with mammal speed, so it's perfectly sufficient, and so it is perfectly possible to make good file system watcher, without any user-space power-hungry hacks.
thank you! yes in fact v0.1.x of the book was published thru leanpub. but i found their build process buggy and nondeterministic - the same exact source material would sometimes succeed in building and sometimes fail, with no stacktrace or helpful error message. The leanpub founders are aware of this, but to save my sanity after a 5 hour session randomly debugging from a distance i had to leave
Regarding voice and video calls over the internet
Here's the difference: People who stole software, but agree it's wrong have a moral compass. Those who try to rationalize it don't.
This is such an easy problem to solve. All orders must stand for at least 1 minute before they can be cancelled. It stops all this crazy nonsense to try to move the price and arbitrage the pennies.
I've used julia and lua and tend to think if people complain about indexes starting at 1 instead of C's offsets starting at 0, they can't be working on anything too difficult, because it just isn't a big issue in the grand scheme of things.
thanks a TON forrest! your advocacy and lending your platform to help give a leg up to others in our industry has been super inspiring to me and I hope to do the same in future!!

edit: for those who don't know - forrest does a Cloud Resume Challenge where he helps people get started with a career in the cloud - laying out exact steps and offering his personal network to anyone* who completes them: https://forrestbrazeal.com/2020/04/23/the-cloud-resume-chall...

*he has 2 conditions, listed on the blogpost
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There are graphical versions of vim. Gvim is my main editor. It's a bit of a hybrid, since many things that would exploit the GUI in an IDE are still textual in vim. But it has quite a few benefits over pure command line.
Have a source for that statement? All I found were speculations by traders.
> Would it be possible to claim another caste and just roll with it? What if one changed their surname to something usually associated with a certain caste?

It is entirely possible, however it does require you to learn nuances of that caste. Otherwise you will get caught out especially while discussing with elders. That said when it comes to marriage there’s no way to hide your caste. The priest knows your parents their relatives and what not. Their surnames being different will cause all kinds of red lights to go off.

Also, for governmental purposes you are expected to produce “caste certificate” which you can’t forge. So it’s not unusual for people in India to marry into lower caste to reap the benefits of governmental reservation.

So, the answer is nuanced. If you want to take advantage of surname in a private company like say Cisco then go for it. For any other purpose, changing surname alone isn’t sufficient. In fact it’s impossible to hide your caste.

While we are at it, it’s worth noting that “caste” refers to two distinct and intertwined hierarchical structures called “varna” and “jati”. Which means even among Brahmins (the upper most caste, intact Brahmin is a Varna and not Jati) there’s a hierarchy, priest being the top most. Jatis are sometimes referred as “sub-caste”.

This Jati is so pervasive in India that even the non-Hindu religions such as Sikhism and “Lingayat” which were explicitly formed to be away from the Hindu caste system couldn’t escape it. So we now have a few dozen Jati within Sikhism and Lingayats with an overly of Verna.

As an academic topic it’s a fascinating one. The roots of this codified structure is still not clear, it’s an active area of research. Recent advancements in human evolutionary genetics is revealing some interesting insights but long way to go.
Small startups will pay peanuts. Also remote jobs will usually pay less because the supply is much higher, you compete with 100x more devs than the local devs, some from poorer countries where 20/h is a good rate.
I have a couple of dedicated servers in colocation and run my own email server. It's taken more than two years of having all recipients clicking "not spam" and applying to anti-blacklists, ensuring DKIM,SSL Et cetera to actually obtain a decent success rate.

Google, Microsoft really are the destroyers of the internet.
I was told it had to do with practicality. Using the right arm to lean into the wall because ascending can get exhausting.
I don't know if it is about racism. I think it's normal to become defensive when accused. If I say "your ML model is garbage" I am sure they will (maybe, if I am high-profile too) provide an explanation on why or why not.
Computers use a much more complicated encoding, if you specify them in as much detail as Gödel did.
Mmh. interesting. I have been using watch + redo to do this.
You’d be surprised. A reasonable portion of our SaaS subscribers don’t login for a month, or three, or even 24.
Wikipedia is probably the most obvious modern exemplar of this. The editors of most mathematics articles clearly are much fonder of playing with the equations editor than they are of actually explaining things.
> ...in the context of accumulating data, is trying to obtain more/better data NOT a good thing?

Depends if ALL data is collected or ONLY data that supports certain viewpoints.
I'm not a financial expert, but I think "börsennotiert" (listed on the stock exchange) is much more common than "kotiert", at least in Germany.
> Code browsing and inspection is somewhat hampered by the fact its CLI.

That's interesting because code browsing and inspection are by far the most important reason why I use a modern IDE. I tolerate all their weaknesses (slow, high memory consumption, errors after updates, etc.) because of this. I am surprised that somebody would say "I am using editor XYZ despite its weaknesses in code browsing and inspection".
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What works in other systems (intercom, for example) is allowing callers to pass a user ID with every call. Then you can match on that and unsubscribe the user rather than the email itself.
A few random thoughts I'm curious about (full disclosure: I worked in anti-infectives R&D as a bioinformatician early in my career for a major pharma)

1) One big challenge in synthesis is ensuring compound purity. Even when I was working in pharma, it was often the case that some of the compounds in the screening library could be contaminated with intermediates. This is murder for any kind of anti-infectives research because you end up with false-positives for toxic intermediates. Since your assay is often, "does the compound kill the bug?" the answer for most chemicals is, "yes!". How do you ensure the purity of what you deliver to your customers? If I'm a medicinal chemist wanting to try this, I want to know that I'm not getting a vial of brick dust back.

2) Just because you have a mechanism to synthesize, doesn't mean the yield is going to be great. Does your algorithm factor in yield when selecting the route?

3) When I started reading your post I thought, "Hats off to these folks, this is a super hard problem that no shortage of extremely smart people have spent years trying to solve." Then I got to the moonshot section! The number of small molecule antiviral drugs with efficacy is vanishingly small. I understand why you would try to tackle this, but it truly is a moonshot.

4) I can't help but wonder what Derek Lowe (https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/) thinks of all this, have you guys tried to reach out to him?
He is. He quit being a user of Twitter after a public argument about bias in ML
Facebook to remove anti-government 'Boogaloo' groups
There are a few. I am using VSCodeVim[1] with the default settings (besides the typical `jj` command)

I love it, and using anything else feels weird. I remember having some problems with it before as well, but I haven't bothered looking at the settings or anything for months. I had to go back just now to see if I had any weird configs set up, (I don't)

[1]https://github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim.git
That's a great description. For now we are focused on helping others discover novel drugs (rather than developing our own) and we think using ML to design 'recipes', while solving logistical challenges of shipping molecules around the globe, is a really key part of that process. And yes the manufacturers do use our ML generated recipes to make the compounds.

Outside of this we also engage clients on more in-depth partnerships where we help design, make and test new drug candidates but again our real value-add/USP here is the 'make' stage.
News Flash: doctor isn't the top of our class system.

Even if you become a doctor you still won't be a part of the aristocracy.

The best you can do is upper middle class. That might mean you're the head of a FTSE100 company, which is still pretty good but you won't be upper class until the Queen dishes out a knighthood for all great works of charity you'll do.

...and even then though you'll probably still wear the wrong kind of shoes and hold your knife a bit funny at supper.
As countless others have explained, this is an incredibly obtuse way of looking at it since they wouldn't have died in the nearly total majority of cases if it weren't for COVID.

This is provably the case, since the average death rate is very steady year on year, yet shot up this year. People are dying in droves from something, and if not COVID then what do you propose? Hell, in reality the US and other countries are underreporting their figures, because there's still a whole tonne of unexplained deaths above the COVID numbers and no other explanation as to why those deaths have occurred.

See the following for further explanation.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronav...

[2]: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53233066
Once your cross the line from democracy to dictator, everything becomes legit in your eyes
Common lisp exposes two of these three to the programmer, (stack and heap) and some implementations offer globals as an extension.

A lot of myths about lisp being conceptually pure come from poorly taught college classes. If there were one active lisp user for every time I've heard "Lisp? The only thing I remember about that is that it doesn't have loops," then the lisp community would be a large thriving community.
Unless it's true. Look at any court case for example. If you only heard one side you'd think that side was obviously right.