skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if society was more tolerant of bigots and their symbols, then Dylan Roof might not have murdered nine people

In your defense, that may be the surface level interpretation of what I said. However, I am not saying that in any way shape or form. Closer to what I'm saying is that, censorship artificially reduces the number of monsters in our polity that we are able to identify. They are prevented from expression so we don't hear or see them and thus have the mistaken belief that more progress has been made when that couldn't be further from the truth.

I want people to be open with their racism/bigotry, so that I know to steer clear.
What’s Not in the Box
> Incompetent private organizations fail and go away

I'll keep that in mind next time I read a thread about tech consulting shops or ISPs...

> and lose only the money of their investors and not unwilling third parties.

Well, there's also the employees, anyone invested in massively managed funds that include the private organization, etc. Who are all willing participants. But really only in the same sense that you, too, could get a graduate degree in a STEM field and immediately emigrate to another country.
It depends on what the app does though. One of the ways people cope with things like that is escapism. If your app can provide that then it can help some people. Eg a game or an app for stories, jokes etc.

Another thing that can help with depression is exercise. But it's difficult to exercise while depressed. If you can somehow build an app that tricks people into exercising (like Pokémon Go "tricked" people into going outside) then that could help too.

It's not as weird as it sounds.
You can copy-paste styled text, images, and other kinds of non-plaintext data, so it couldn't be implemented quite that simply.
It’s only a matter of time before hard drugs are legalized, similar to marijuana. It’ll probably take 20 years, but we will get there.

I know Vancouver setup a legal opioid vending machine as a test run. Doctor checks you out, prescribes a legal opioid (hydromorphone in this case). You scan your badge and your dose pops out.

No more stealing, prostituing, robbing, or other “hustle”. You just take your dose. Much lower risk of overdose and far fewer complications from shooting street drugs.

I’ve read about addicts in these types of programs and suddenly they don’t have to hustle for 12 hours a day. They can get a job. Or, they just have the time to stop and think about their life and what direction they want it to go in.

Not claiming it’s a panacea at all. But it’s better than the situation we’re in now.
They had the fact they'd broken the system leak to the criminals before they finished their operation.

Seems like they can't be trusted with proper secrets, doesn't it?
Why do you think this? The 737 is the most popular airplane of all time, and airline orders are trending towards smaller planes. Airbus can't make enough A320NEOs to capitalize on the slowing orders from the MAX situation, and the MAX is still a very competitive product.

Aviation regulations are often written in blood, and while the MAX is obviously not in a great place, it's not necessarily doomed forever. Nobody thinks twice about the batteries on a 787 anymore, or the pylon assemblies on the DC10.
It's unfortunate that in this industry, on a lot of teams, "high performer" means "sloppy coder who lets his co-workers finish their project."

The problems he encountered with his dumbass solution were EASILY foreseen by an even noob coder. What did he "get done"? How did writing his own shitty version of a database add value to the company? He is good at finishing his own pointless tasks quickly, maybe, but if I was in charge of the team he would be looking for a new job after this stunt.

Sick-to-death of these cowboys. Nothing is ever "done", the majority of expense in software development comes in during maintenance, not during initial implementation.
My bad: it's exec(), not eval(). And I wrote dataclasses, so you'd think I'd know better!

The issue is that it's dynamically generating methods. There has to be a way to get dynamically created code into python for this use case.
Since 99% of the people in the world do not know the nuances of computerland, I just say that I work on computers.
It's written in small print under the screenshot of the "units widget" here [1]:

"Number of indexed records is capped at roughly 10% of annual search volume. See FAQ for more information."

The FAQ says:

"When using Annual Commitment pricing (minimum one year commitment and 1,200 units), each unit contains 1,000 searches x 12 = 12,000 searches during the year, and 100 x 12 = 1,200 maximum of records at any point in the year."

[1] https://www.algolia.com/pricing/
Also from the same article: "But experts caution that rising hospitalizations today will likely result in a spike in deaths in the coming weeks, and those who require ICU care for COVID-19 but recover often leave the hospital with lasting health problems."

Why did you ignore the line right after the statement you quoted? What we've seen over and over in each wave of the coronavirus is that the deaths lag behind the number of cases by a few weeks [1]. What you're arguing for is irrational and against the facts of the situation because the reason why we've seen an increase in cases is because our state opened up too early and too recklessly!

How can you honestly argue that there won't be an increase of cases when the economy opens when we're facing down exactly that situation?

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-deaths-can-still...
LFortran author here. We will get there. I spent a lot of time in the last year bootstrapping our efforts around https://fortran-lang.org/, which was very successful. I have shifted my focus on LFortran again now.
How can seceded states commit treason against a union that they aren't part of?

> resulted in the mass murder of hundreds of thousands

In other words, a war
Show HN: FluentCard – Flutter app for practicing Chinese
https://fluentcard.com/

I made this app using Flutter over the past several months, and thought about it a lot longer than that. I've been learning Chinese for a while, and I'm somewhere in the back half of HSK4 in terms of fluency.

At its heart FluentCard is a flashcard app, but it has features around writing and it works entirely offline after the initial data download.

For most of my studies, I've been using Anki to practice. While I am extremely appreciative of Anki and its community, I found in learning Chinese it lacked a few things I really needed:

- Ease of creating new flashcards. I'd often be in a situation where I didn't know how to translate a word or sentence, and wanted to note it down for later translation.

- Writing. In Chinese, not only are the characters themselves important, but the order of strokes. I had my own simple workflow for it, but it wasn't ideal.

- Sentences. The app finds words you don't have sentences for, and prompts you to create them. I'm working on a grammar pattern builder feature now to generate sentences too.

Other Chinese specific apps were great, but they often focused on beginners and didn't work offline - and one of the prime times for studying I had was while commuting to/from work in the subway.

Feedback would be greatly appreciated, both on the technical side (the last mobile app I made was for BlackBerry!) as well as from a practicality/feature side.

It uses data for strokes from this amazing project by Shaunak Kishore: https://github.com/skishore/makemeahanzi
Unsure if /s or a smiley needs to be appended to your comment ;) I hereby invoke Poe's Law.
> At DuckDuckGo, we do not collect or share any personal information.

> These requests are anonymous and the information is used only by us to improve our products.

There are some philosophical questions here, like: What information is personal information? What information is personally identifying information? What information can be made into personally identifying information, even if it's not personally identifying in its raw form?

Maybe DuckDuckGo is really genuine about protecting its users' privacy. But if it is at all possible for the information it collects -- even if ostensibly anonymous -- to be used to fingerprint users, then regardless of whether DuckDuckGo intends to fingerprint users, there's a vector there that some other party (government, hacker, or otherwise) might try to leverage. I'm not saying it would be worth their time to do so. But it would be nice if DuckDuckGo were to either affirm or deny that the data it collects could conceivably be used for fingerprinting.
This ignores that the "Confederate flag" isn't even the Confederate flag, it's the Virginia specific one.

The point it became a "southern symbol" is a previous set of edgy teenagers and racists who flew it while legislating against black people and trying to stop civil rights.

The point of that iconography is to be a racist dogwhistle, and it's been a very successful one over the past hundred years
Yes, there's a reason people specialize in framing and can charge a lot of money for their talent. It's both a skill and an art.
Sadly, IBM has not the same penchant for striking design as Seymour Cray had.

Well... Their quantum computer is quite striking. I wish they did that with the more mundane machines.
Yeah, you got it. The diagonal() matrix is not actually created since you really don't need all the elements in the final computation.
FWIW I discovered yesterday the Slack app is doing this too (at least if there’s images on the clipboard), as is the Kaiser Permanente app. TikTok is not remotely unique in this regard.
I don't think there's any question that it was a response to the A380, and it's quite plausible they wouldn't have developed it without the A380. That said, compared with the A380 development the 747-8 will have been cheap to develop, and had an impact on the market as a whole even if it scarcely made much money.
People are stuck at home now, unemployed, fearful about the present and future, and if opioids were legalized now I have no doubt that dependence and overdoses would surge. Most people fundamentally don't understand drugs or addiction.

Granted I personally believe drugs should be at least decriminalized but I'm well aware that there will be a cost and people have a right to be opposed.

If the last few months have taught me anything, it's that the average person really isn't capable of avoiding decisions that harm themselves and those around them with any consistency. Obviously we already have laws for murder and such but drugs also as it happens have a [lesser] external cost.
That is a disingenuous comparison and you know it. Calling some an asshole vs calling them a racial slur are not in the same ballpark.

That you don't think you can communicate without swearing and slurs says more about you and gaming culture than it does about censorship.
It would be clearer if he linked to https://jlk.fjfi.cvut.cz/arch/manpages/man/resolved.conf.5.e... then.

Anyway, in default config, there will be only the file I mentioned. And whole this issue is about default configuration.
Moving a TerraForm managed infrastructure, which has higher complexity than one ec2 instance, to another provider basically means rewriting most TerraForm code.
I don't see TF to lower the barrier of vendor lockin really.
This is great advice. Just have some minor thoughts to tack on.

Post-mortems are great for many reasons. For the case of GP, one particular advantage is that they align senior peoples' understanding: we shouldn't do X again. If you have a strong narrative for why a project failed, post-mortems are a formal setting in which you can present this narrative with concrete evidence to higher-ups.

In the future, when you see warning signs that a mistake is approaching repetition, you can raise the concern up the chain, invoking the memory of the post-mortem to motivate their intervention.

I also totally agree that a sincere and high-quality code review process is required for high quality code. Your 2119 recommendation is excellent. I'd also recommend doing some reading on commit message templates that smart people follow, they've improved my commit game, big-time.
> If you tell people you’ll take care of their losses for them and they can keep all of the profits, who would say no?! That’s not capitalism in any respectable sense; that’s crony capitalism.

i think, to some extent, with the accumulation and employment of captial (the point of "capitalism"), its intuitive to surmise that employment of capital also entails co-opting governments for their own benefit to further improve the ability to accumulate and employ more capital (get the govt to bail you out, rewrite the rules of finance etc)

so, maybe saying just "this isnt capitalsim" isnt going far enough, maybe instead it is the result of capitalism
Thanks for the benchmarks. Do you see some intrinsic reason why a Fortran compiler couldn't do these optimizations? I would think it would know all the information so it would be the ideal place to optimize it.
A PhD student simulated a day in the life of a Covid 19-era college campus
I was wondering if they'd try something like that for https://www.lastweekinaws.com--it's critical of them, and they've had a few angles over the years to go after it (trademark, suspending the domain, etc).

Years into the experiment I can safely say that their tolerance for criticism extends far beyond what I'm willing to test out, as I am not a human dumpster goblin.
It all sounds funny but the final solution is not far away except the JSON bit. FriendFeed 11 years ago first popularized the concept of storing schema-less data in MySQL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=496946. Uber did the similar thing a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16251143

I've been building an open-source alternative on mobile that based on similar concept (SQLite + FlatBuffers): https://dflat.io/ SQLite own schema is already awesome, but in this way, you can have sum-types, better schema upgrade guarantees, index building can be asynchronously etc.
TikTok spying on its users and security issues? [video]
As a marketer, there's valuable competitive info that is sometimes inadvertently included in these around targeting, testing, etc.
How did you get involved with this kind of work?
What's there to link or elaborate? Look at the number of people applying for unemployment (I looked it up for you [1]). With a record number of people on unemployment and no real end in sight to the pandemic, something has to break.

Basically, it doesn't matter how quickly we re-open if people don't have any money to spend, don't feel comfortable spending, and aren't leaving their homes.

[1] https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/unemployment-rate
Being produced out of state doesn't get you out of it. If you import something from out of state, the act of importing causes VAT to be due on its value. If you then add value in the factory, you owe that too. The total VAT is always equal to the sale price. (If you like to promote exports you then give a refund for products not sold in the state.)
You are never an asshole for telling the truth.

I've dealt with this before, it is a form of gas-lighting. Some people are good at making everyone else into a bully when THEY are the actual bully. Like the kid who keeps splashing you in a pool, but runs off and cries and tells when you splash them back.

Standing up for yourself sometimes makes you look/feel like an asshole. That doesn't mean you are wrong or that you shouldn't do it.

edit: Check out the book "Radical Candor" if you regularly struggle with expressing negative feedback
Don't forget Greece, who might have invented the first analog computer 2000 years ago.

( In Antikythera )
> To be frank - that seems very selfish.

No, it seems logical: if the elderly are at risk, by all means, let them shelter at home and give them money without destroying the economy (as the elderly as less likely to be employed).

Even better, for old people who need to work, give them full pay every week, and just ask them in return to stay at home and use uber eats.

But we didn't do that. Too bad: it would still have saved a lot of money (and the actual economy)

> I hope that we'll have a vaccine soon

I will be generous enough to not claim my dose, to let you and others test it first, to make sure there are no autoimmune diseases or other bad things it can trigger
I worked with someone that was keen to use reductionist logic and arguments...

we ended up with a lot of shitty solutions to problems that were hard to maintain, hard to extend, and hard to use because the more "complex" solution was really just a fancy version of a folder and some text files.
According to this article, the US is actually one of the only countries in which that law holds: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/duvergers-law-dead...

I can't put my finger on it but there's something about US culture that leads to sharp polarisation in social, racial, religious and political spheres.
> Because the 747 is so old, most of the development costs are long since amortized. This gives Boeing more pricing flexibility if the two companies are competing head to head. The A380 otoh needed to earn back lot of money to get back to breakeven for Airbus, so Airbus did not have the same pricing flexibility as Boeing.

How does that work, given that development costs are a sunk cost[1]? The accountants shouldn't care. If it's necessary to compete, the development costs should no longer matter.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost
It also wipes out the opportunity for future retirees to benefit from market corrections which are historically how most wealth for middle class retirees is built. So you've now sacrificed far more future retirees accounts for those who shouldn't have such high market exposure that they are hurt by a correction.

If this isn't a wake up call that individuals have no business managing their own retirement, I don't know what is.
I live in Vancouver but am from Texas. I think the way they are dealing with the opiod issue in BC is on point and the right way to deal with the crisis.
I think so. Individual states don't control federal monetary policy, so the failure to pass additional stimulus packages so far means that state governments are in a precarious financial state, much like many of us are, personally, and any corporations we're involved with. Even in states with with the political will to continue benefits packages that would allow people to continue not working in service of public health, aren't able to afford to do so.
we are in so deep now :) just have one thing to add: Boeing has not pulled the plug on anything, it's the customers not ordering. 747 is open for business and sadly, based on your deep dive, Boeing seems not expect more orders of any variant.

oh, one more thing: in terms of passenger versions, there are two Air Force One's on order, aren't there? yeah yeah, I know, it's not AF1 if the president's not on it.
I am going to stop here and not reply further, because I think we're going in circles. Again: Section 230 is an exception for tech companies. It allows them less accountability than other businesses. There is no law enforcing stricter responsibility for tech companies than broadcast companies.

Which means, if Fox News isn't held accountable enough, you shouldn't see any reason for Section 230 to exist: It's not protecting tech companies from any effective law as it is, so removing it won't harm anyone.
It’s such a shame that an institution like this, backed by an estate that can fund it indefinitely, gets shut down purely because some middle managers saw a dip in cashflow during a pandemic. It’s utter idiocy at the core.
No. No Poe's Law, no /s, no smiley. Maybe things are different in Scotland but in the US if you tell someone to kill themselves and say the US president should be killed, that's about as serious an offense as I can imagine. It doesn't even matter how you feel about the US president, you could be the most anti-Trump person in the world but you still shouldn't expect to say someone should kill the US president and expect that you'll have zero repercussions for it.
Of the two examples I gave you, I can agree on one. People afraid to go to the ER could be considered a consequence of the pandemic - the lockdown doesn't say "Don't go to the ER if you need to". But lockdown did say "Don't make unnecessary trips to anywhere, not even the grocery store." Many of us interpreted that as avoiding unnecessary trips to the doctor also, which is why I for one have not had an annual physical so far this year.
In Italy we work approximately 220 days a year, 5 days a week, we have 52 weekends (as everybody else) 24 days of payed holidays and another 10 days of national holidays.

six months, 6 days a week it's about 160 days.

Working an hour and half more everyday day is like working 7/7, so about 185 working days.

It's totally doable.

But admittedly not for a long time and not if you're forced to do it
> Our Quantitative easing and corporate bailouts are in the trillions, why would we not pay out significantly less for people who are struggling to find jobs? Why does the till start counting when its normal people affected?

Seriously, this is just bleating, tired banker/cronyist narrative we've always seen when the Economy blows up like in 2008; there are billions/trillions for Bankers destroying the economy but if that is re-directed to the People who have lost their jobs because of State incompetence hell breaks loose--I worked in Culinary so I'm one of those, but I have a diverse skill-set so I can pivot unlike mnay of my co-workers. Also, I've been immersed in the Hong Kong struggle since 2014, and when this mystery pandemic kicked off in mid-January and the CCP was forcing borders open there and dissappearing journalists, citizens and punishing physicians I knew the spread was going to happen if all nations didn't contain it as China was not going to. Flash forward to February and the CCD did this despite what was coming out in PUBLIC MEDIA:

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/public-health/2020/03/02/cor...

https://ktla.com/news/nationworld/wuhan-evacuee-released-fro...

Hong Kong was already quarantining by mid Janurary and their economy and the protests started to decrease due to the influx of Mainlanders invading HK and overwhelming the Medical Industry.

The fact that this spread throughout the rest of the World was an inevitability as travel remained, I was personally in San Antonio when they released those people from Wuhan on my way back from Boca Chica headed back to Colorado.

This is State incompetence at its most extreme sense and should be just as a stark wake up call as Police Brutality was for Society; the fact is this is a scale issue, not an individual party one should not be ignored. There was no way anyone would accept a shutdown of the Economy of any significant size,or even on a logistical level even when they were gawking at Wuhan leaked videos in early January and commenting on Social Media about it.

The only ones that did were small city-states like Hong Kong, Taiwan and larger island nations like New Zealand and South Korea who are on constant alarm due to N. Korean and CCP interference and constant missile alarms so knew how to mobolize when needed--a very undesirable.miserable thing when you realize the SK population is 41 million, or roughly that of California.

In summary: some would have you believe that the People, especially those who have had their Industry and entire Life's work destroyed, don't deserve to have financial support but are often those who pay the most in real terms for the ever increase in taxes/cost of living.

But God-forbid the Jamie Dimon's or Lloyd Blankfein's of the World go without their corporate welfare. F-them, seriously: even when Dimon/JP Morgan came out in support of Bitcoin I only hoped he gets his much deserved comeuppance soon.
Congratulations on that, btw! Watching this shit finally come down in your hometown feels REALLY GOOD.