skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I know the age distribution of covid-19 related deaths have been exactly the same in Sweden as other countries (+/- some standard deviation)

Do you have data to demonstrate that the age distribution is different?
I'm personally working on migrating a DB I've had for tracking some economic time-series data from Influx to TimescaleDB, and I have to say Outflux is the most savage tool name ever.
There was previous discussion around written asynchronous communication being a superpower.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23577228

I feel that Slack dominance is hurting the productivity, because:

- It's impossible to be productive using Slack or Teams alone. The ultimate power move is to write things up in a company wiki, google doc or an internal blog

- Slack is incentivized to keep you IN Slack, for engagement. They don't have their own permanent-knowledge-base-software, so they pretend it's not needed.

It's a different case with Teams, because they offer quite a roster of software to write things up permanently - like sharepoint or office365 and will likely pursue integrating tighter and tighter.

Because Slack is a standalone product, they will push for using chat in the workplaces MORE. Microsoft can offer chat as a "when needed" basis.

The logistics of trying to be productive on a company group chat led me to create a free "Win at Slack" mini-course:
https://deliber.at/chat/
Aws should start taking blame for this shit, then maybe they would start auditing their customers setups...
It's absolutely the same. Before, you'd outsource homework and grading in the large introductory classes to awful proprietary tech, the fact that now you have people who can't put a proper recording of their class together doesn't make it worse.
Just because someone is broke does not mean they don’t have Safety net. It’s easy to make no money when you can always move back home or get support from family. But if you have no safety net (financial family support), then not making money is a really difficult thing to try.
In most cases, additional plumbing is not even necessary, as it's often tied to a single object instantiated in the main function (database client, connection pool, config map, ...). The Arc<RwLock<T>> would go in that object.
I hate when I ask something about globals on SO and I get the same blanket answer. Why does every programmer feel the need to tell me that "globals make it hard to reason about the state of your program?" Unfortunately most systems are global based. OpenGL has one global state. A database connection is a global. Either you can use globals to model these things properly or you can complicate it by not using globals. The library will be using globals under the hood anyways.
X1 has a 15w ULP CPU. Is it the performance that doesn't satisfy you? If so, the 45W Ryzen should indeed blow it out of water.

I cannot find any new machine on the market with the OLED screen X1 has though.
There can be disadvantages for technically competent folks too. I'm really missing going over technical ideas on a whiteboard with colleagues.
Also 7 days ago[1][2][3] but no upvote love so far. Which is curious given the (possibly short term, until these images join training corpus?) privacy benefits

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23845760
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23842016
[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23837565
I just ran through the tutorial, and I really liked the $-for-reactivity part. That's clever and good.

But then they introduced a whole new language for loops and control structures, and I really prefer JSX for that. JSX nails a sweet spot of bog-standard Javascript/Typescript, with enough HTML syntactic sugar to very natural web-pagey parts. As long as TS/JS is already in there, I'd rather use it everywhere.

I don't know it well enough to know if that's a necessary feature, or if the language will evolve to something closer to my sensibilities. I will probably give it a try in the future, especially if I want something more performance focused. (The virtual DOM overhead is real and the separate state mechanism is far less elegant than Svelte's solution.)
Feel free to steal the idea! I'm a bit busy building out another idea I had haha.
Not quite. The key difference is that dictatorships will also shut down independent publications they accuse of wrongspeech.

Nobody is arguing Stormfront should be shut down. In fact, the argument looks more like "Twitter is no more obligated to host the QAnon conspiracy theory than Stormfront is to host a weekly editorial from the head of the Anti-Defamation League."
I've noticed this mentioned somewhere else, but I'm not aware of "The last psychiatrist".

I tried googling around and I don't see much information on what happened. Why was he deanonymised?

Could you give me a quick rundown of the situation?
> The batches and checks are too big and the team is too small making it marginally useful unless youre a b2b saas or dev tool company, and it's filled with tech climbers.

>
1. Batches too big or the team is too small. Back in the day it was you and like 20 other companies. but you got the personal attention of people like @paulg @jesslivingston @tlbtlbtlb and a tight knit network of similarly driven people doing shit that was actually new.

> Today the batches are huge. They still tell you to be "heads down just building and selling", but the game has changed completely. Its more about getting facetime with partners, building hype, and fundraising strategy than anything else.

...
Interesting. We're using apollo-server on top of an existing REST api and to add a single field our process is:

- update the graphql schema

- implement any resolvers

and we're done. More things happen in the background, but a developer doesn't have to do anything. It's all auto generated when the file is saved or a build happens.
From your statement about “anyone who gains access to the account would still be able to read and write DMs, even when they would be encrypted” I thought we were looking for an approach that gives more security. Having the account password seed the encryption would still leave us with the same problem.

Easiest way I have seen is when an apple device asks if you want to share the wifi password with another device.
A priori, if you expect me to make a factual determination based on what the NYT says, and what Tucker Carlson says, I'm gonna pick NYT unless I see some other evidence.
Since we're throwing trillions around these days (needed, absolutely,) I'd quietly sneak a few billion is vital things that are harder to fund in normal times.

OK, here are $x Billion, make us #1 in this field.
Not as i expected but, great work, continue, maybe in the future it doesn't just a display of only 5 different things that i already know, and one of them isn't clickable.
timescale is a postgres extension. 'postgres as a platform' is an interesting world to live in.

postgres built-in RBAC is clunky or people would be relying on it, but an ecosystem of postgres plugins could include cleaner or smaller versions of this feature.

Even things like complex migrations (github's gh-ost, for example) could exist as DB plugins.
Few facts from the excellent An-225 pilot interview and the plane tour video [1] put by @prehistoricdog in this comment section:

- The plane, when empty, can fly for about 16 hours without refueling covering about 13000 km

- Cruise speed is 800 km/h (maximum 840 km/h)

- Fully fueled plane can include 350-370 m.tons of kerosene (around 450000 liters)

- When empty it consumes 16 m.tons of fuel every hour, when fully loaded with cargo - 22 m.tons/h

- The weight of the plane is 290 m.tons (with all the cargo loading equipment and spares carried along)

- There are 35 seats and 20 beds for crew, engineers and cargo escort personnel

- Important for plane spotter, I guess :) Right before departure, at the beginning of a runway, the plane always stays for 4 minutes stationary with engines running at 70% thrust to heat them up, which is imposed by their manufacturer

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TX9L62_Eac (in russian with english subs)
90M datapoints per minute means 90M/60=1.5M datapoints per second. Such amounts of data may be easily handled by specialized time series databases even in a single-node setup [1].

> What if a developer wants to add a new dimension to their metrics, would that require us to perform an online table migration?

Specialized time series databases usually don't need defining any schema upfront - just ingest metrics with new dimensions (labels) whenever you wish. I'm unsure whether this works with TimescaleDB.

[1] https://victoriametrics.github.io/CaseStudies.html
I believe one of the Swedish epidemiologists who helped engineer Sweden's COVID response said not to compare the death rates today, but a year from today and see how they compare then.
A good mental model for graduate school is that it is a feudal system. There is essentially no oversight of professors by a larger executive branch. I mean, they can't literally murder you, but they can drive you to suicide. (Jason Altom)

If you get lucky, you get a professor that believes in you (this can be one of the most rewarding experiences I know of).

If you aren't lucky, then things will get really rough. I've seen professors:
- Spike their student's candidicy at the last minute (meaning the student had to switch groups in their last year, essentially having to redo their PhD in another group)
- Spike student papers
- finding out where their former student was applying for jobs, calling and spiking their job application (talking shit)
- various abuses (yelling at student for not working on Christmas, humiliating student for years in public, sexual harassment)

I could go on. If you haven't been through grad school, you might ask "why not leave/vote with your feet?"

But understand the power dynamic: in really broad strokes, the student works towards a reward (being a Dr/PhD) that will take, on average, 5-6 years. Getting that reward is completely up to your supervisor's discretion. It's like if you worked at a startup for six years for minimum wage, but if your boss agrees to it, you will get a million dollar payout (also, your boss can't be fired, ever.) And that's just a minimum-- success in academia is dependent on getting full throated letters of rec from your supervisor, so they also have to really like you.

So your professional success is completely up to one person: if they decide to fuck you over, that can be 4 years of work down the drain.

When I was in graduate school, I never saw the faculty/department intervene in any of the abusive situations. The only thing that protects students are soft processes, like knowing which professors are really bad. The Yelp idea is good, simply because it increases that ability.

And those abuses I talked about? A majority of my cohort dealt with that (at a large, well known University), it's not isolated to a few bad apples.
A lot of people did that years ago, when Twitter's response to a notorious Twitter troll being elected as President of the United States was to modify their TOS so that there's a "newsworthiness" carve-out that keeps trolls on Twitter.
Agree with this comment. I think it is awesome that OP worked on a design system for the first time, that’s great experience to have, but it doesn’t warrant further diluting the market with another unfinished system.
I saw the following model work: offer a compilation of your best (or themed xyz..) articles for money. Add that you can mostly find these scattered on the site anyway. Very fair, and people would pay for getting an organized package vs clicking through random posts.
A couple people thought this video could warrant its own discussion thread when I posted it in a comment [0]

We often use writing as a tool to think, which is useful as it helps facilitate incrementally forming thoughts. However, we also use writing as a tool communication. The main message of this video is effectively "Don't expect your readers to care about the writing you used to think!". Then, the lecturer teaches us different ways writers who wrote for thought can re-orient their writing for be best received by readers.

In terms of differences, writing for thought usually is incremental and explores a problem space. On the other hand, writing for communication usually seeks to expose and then resolve gaps in a mindset. One is converging the whole way, the other needs to diverge before converging. Effectively, making the reader care.

The lecturer also explains how important words can be, insofar as they show you as part of an 'in' or an 'out' group. To be an academic and have your work received well by other academics, you need to communicate like an academic, written communication is no exception.

The video isn't short, but well worth your time.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23912252
The company wiki/internal blog depends on people reading it though. The perk of group chats is usually smaller messages that can spark interest in discussions.

Zulip honestly seems like they've solved this problem better than Slack though.
The fact that it's an imperfect filtering function doesn't mean that it's not a filtering function.
It's almost as if this isn't nearly as bad as people scream
Portland's Wall of Moms Joined by Dads with Leaf Blowers Against Trump's Police
> Any company that would like to see itself become multinational has to adapt to local cultures

Good luck on that. General consensus out here in Asia is that western people are lazy ( but not everyone feels this way! Some people consider westerners to be lazy and nice..)

Traditional Asian culture, this is my own Non controversial opinion coming, values hard work. A bunch of people I know who work in Science park in Taiwan are actually afraid of being productive because if they were to become more efficient then suddenly they would be working so much more. No managers reward productivity out here with a shorter work day.

If the rest of the world were to mandate four day work weeks by law, and flourish doing such, then the companies out here would rub their hands together greedily because they will dominate with their work culture and punishingly long hours.

So much about Japan is best in the world but their work culture is soul crushing.
Dupe

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23916314
I think GP meant MS might prefer people not install Office and use the online version instead. I don't know if there's a difference in pricing and if it's possible to only get the online or the offline version.

Using the online versions allows them to have everybody at the same level all the time, which might mean easier support.

I for one prefer the online versions. They work fairly well in Firefox on Linux. Outlook online is way nicer to use than the installed one. Much, much snappier...
Worth noting an MRT is of low value for prevention. Small lesions would be invisible and you could very well progress from nothing visible to seriously sick in 6 month. We really need some marker for before we get unhindered growth.

Even if we had 100% precise AI assisted image analysis, once a year fullbody MRI... the MRI resolution would still not catch the "before things escalate quickly" pre stage of cancer. With imagery catching _most cancers early is inherently a thing of mostly luck.
This looks safe, and most importantly correct setup, but looks like it will not support Twillo use case
What massive group of people is not indistinguishable from a cult? A book exists that argues that all mass movements (religion, cults, political parties) have very similar characteristics and can be analyzed with the same lens. I have no doubt that "supporters of X" can also be put in the same group where in this case X = higher education.

I've never read this book but it was published several decades ago and I agree with the premise. Unfortunately I forgot which book it was so this comment is partly an effort to see if anyone else knows which book this is so I can finally get around to reading it.
Packard Bell?
YC is an incubator, not a game show.
Yes! Subresource Integrity is the exact counter-measure to this kind of attack:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Subres...

However, on Twilio's documentation site, they do not include the integrity attribute in their examples:
https://www.twilio.com/docs/taskrouter/js-sdk/workspace/task...
Thanks (To both of you)! I've submitted [0] it and hopefully others resonate with it as well and that fosters more discussion around it

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23917587
> I don't know where you work but no one where I work considers the current situation fine

why not?

My previous team was distributed across three sites with some people WFH and it worked really well.

Admittedly the people WFH, myself included, had a home office (i.e. a dedicated room for work), the lack of which, I guess, is the main reason for a lot of people not enjoying WFH, that and the children running around :)
Early Treatment of Patients That Should Be Ramped-Up as Key to Pandemic Crisis
At work, we call them blueprints :). A fantastic way to get early feedback before writing any code, especially important for junior teams who may forget to think about failure cases and operability.
It's not about notoriety. It's simply the physics of interacting with the public. If you don't like the results you need to change the physics to private. There is nothing that can guarantee your anonymity or pseudonymity as you distribute your information to public actors. They can correlate your actions regardless of your wishes on the matter. That's what doxxing is.
$25k is like 2 developer months + ops overhead. I don't think that's going to buy anything but high margin/quickly realizable ideas like B2B SaaS and developer tools.
I like your comment, but for the wrong reason: Explaining what a method DOES, goes against encapsulation principles. It creates coupling to implementation details, when what should be provided is just the interface. Any explanation can be exposed in business domain logic and documentation.
> Personally, I like to know professionals' opinions on the major debates of their profession. e.g., for mental health professionals: What is their opinion on the debates around the validity and usefulness of the DSM?

That's... risky. There are accreditation boards and professional orgs for a reason, and if they're pushing questionable science or standards they still control what the requirements are.

Debating it behind closed doors with your peers is one thing, but it's another to air dirty laundry to the public. A professional puts out their doubts about [X] to the general public and then it gets picked up by cranks, "official doctor says [X] is bullshit, and that alternative [Y] might hold promise." And then people start buying healing crystals or Jordan Peterson or something.
Social media could not have originated anywhere else in the world because the platforms were built on freedoms and opportunities guaranteed by the US.

Facebook was a way for people who went to Harvard to tell people they went to Harvard without having to actually say it, and for everyone else to be seen know them - Facebook didn't build Harvard, but it is an effect of it.

Twitter is an artifact of speech protections and nerds, and now that it has arrived it's trying to cast off the taint of trade to become a walled suburb safe for middle class banalities. Did a few thousand lines of code create billions in value, or did a society with a network effect produce it?
That's the point, they don't need market optimization to continue improving their product. They are just leveraging it because it's a weapon provided to them. There is no lack of adequate competition in the chat space and no need for the government to make MS stop including the products it wants to in its office suite.

While this individual action may appear on the surface a net gain for everybody (though you surely meant everybody but Microsoft), the net negatives of continued unnecessary government interference in tech are harder to recognize since each just increases legislative momentum. Then we get surprised we weren't stauncher and more principled when the heavier hand is shown.
I take it FAMGAN is FAANG+Microsoft? Googling failed to turn up any other usages of this term.
It's not really that educational tbh. I am not a bash guru, nor do I wish to be one, so the second question left me cold with no desire to proceed any further.

It's a fun game for those with the skills, but an instructional tool it is not.
A database connection perhaps, but different connections to the same database will see different states of the database depending on the isolation level of the current transaction.
Dangerous seems a bit extreme. If developers aren't builders, then what are they?
The countries have significantly different lifespans and normal mortality, because of health care systems, age distribution, culture, genes etc.

It doesn't really give anything sensible when you compare unadjusted total mortality per capita across countries.
Most large for-profit schools are primarily online, and have long been. Huge in-person campuses are primarily public universities.
What UI components did you use to build the site.
We are definitely at a disadvantage in terms of having robust technical discussions before implementing new features at my work. Something that previously would be discussed by the whole team is now either just implemented solo or discussed between one or two other people before moving forward.

One of the big issues we've had, which I think we're getting better at, is not realizing how much others on the team are in the dark when you had a discussion but no one else was in on it. This led to a lot of friction and frustration in March / April for us.
you can hire a rockstar dev for that plus equity.
I'm doing a research on the way students learn programming in online classes. We tried making the student interact with each others by using Zoom's "breakout rooms" feature with mixed results.

What's interesting is that while students attended to online classes way less, they understood the class content way more, because they felt less pressure and could work at their on speed.
I agree. For some degrees it's less of an issue but for areas of study like chemistry, biology, physics and many others, access to the college's physical resources like laboratories is part of what you're paying for. I don't know how you solve this problem with the current constraints imposed by COVID-19, but you can't expect these students to pay full-price for an inferior education.
> Yeah I noped out of this as soon as I saw it.

I must be misunderstanding you; I read that as you stopped reading the entire thread because there was a single point you disagree with. Is that what you mean?