skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you want 80% of a big nice pie or 100% of a nasty imaginary non existent pie?
Because you prefer “Jamaican”? Or “African American”? Or nothing? I can’t tell what you mean from context.

I don’t think “black” “white” and “brown” can go away as descriptors like “blond” and “redhead”, but maybe someday they will stop being identity categories. America already has large non-native black populations in certain areas (West Africans, Somalis, West Indies, etc.), but I think the country still thinks of Black = African American = descendent of U.S. slaves for now, because the non-native blacks are still mostly focused regionally, like Somalis in Minnesota.

I guess this is another reason for the treadmill: distinctions that were implicit before maybe need to be made explicit as different things become salient.
The market is the highest it’s ever been. A lot of unicorns have waited for years to IPO and it there’s never been a better time to do it.
Trying to take advantage of all the capital available and momentum in the market. Same thing happened the couple years before the dotcom bust in 2000.
They're going to have to add a new section "daily S-1 filings" if this keeps up, we can put it next to the show hn link.
This is actually pretty normal, unless there has just been a crash:

https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/ipos

If you start studying the capital markets you'll quickly learn just how little you've known about the economy before. Look at any object on your desk - know how was that thing made? Someone out there has manufactured the thing, there was a few if not a few dozen corporations involved.
The official Rails guides are worth reading and even if you don't want to use Rails are worth checking out as an example if how to do a framework guide well.
Disclaimer: I work for Red Hat but I have zero internal insight into this. I'm just a happy Fedora desktop user

I wouldn't say it means nothing because Fedora is looked at as a proving ground for inclusion in RHEL, but I would agree that one shouldn't read much into it.

There are plenty of software packaged/supported on Fedora that isn't and won't be shipped in RHEL. BTRFS may or may not just be yet another one like that. I've heard/seen more excitement about Stratis (which does seem awesome so far) than I have btrfs.
We're near the top of a huge an unprecedented bubble in tech stocks. Top 5 stocks are tech and are 23% of the S&P 500, all time highs in the middle of a pandemic with the global economy stuttering. That's a greater concentration than the year 2000. So it's a good time to IPO for tech stocks.
Most undesirable actions by the powerful have a rational character. It's bizzare to me that this is so commonly used as a defense. It says to me that the problems are seen to be individuals, not systems of power.

Note: I'm not commenting on the specific case here, just this argument in general.
If you're doing this, you're in a cloud environment that's also proximate to a blob store, and can trivially host your own registry.
I'm not a fan of the product but at least this isn't a company built on labor exploitation or fucking up some existing ecosystem.
The advice is not about not asking dumb questions.

> When I ask a vague, dumb plea, I am intentionally trying to weed out the pedantic people who would rather write a blog post about how dumb I am than stop to help me.

What you're really doing is whittling down your audience to only those who have a lot of time on their hands. (There's a lot of overlap between that group and the one you're trying to avoid.)
I had the exact same question. Pg 127 seems to give the answer.

> Date Available for Sale in the Public : The 91st day after the date of this prospectus (First Release).

Edit: Seems like I was wrong. This is for current shareholders. I saw somewhere on the internet sometime in October. That's a wild guess though.
I will take any excuse to post this article. Government subsidized corporate property development (thinking also of sports stadiums) is a rip off
https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/12/21217060/foxconn-wisconsi...
‘This Market Is Nuts’: S&P 500 Hits Record, Defying Economic Devastation
I do agree that the iOS situation is far more important.
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Fun fact: there's been an enormous drop in youth mortality, ~10%, over the last 6 months: https://twitter.com/lymanstoneky/status/1296868460195192832

You can say the lockdown might not be "emotionally" healthy. But it seems it has been healthy in a more literal sense.
It's very easy to choose these trade offs yourself by modifying the kernel and creating your own version. Linux gets far higher real world use, meaning that even if there are errors, they will be patched upstream and you can integrate those into your patch. Code re-use helps us in this respect.

Barring a few small details, it's possible to configure linux to be a deterministic-scheduled RTOS or whatever you want, really. I think it's a good idea to use a (hardened) version of linux for these systems, and other rigorous design principles will handle the rest (for example, testing, signed binaries, program determinism, fault tolerance and redundancy).
They should be hidden from the homepage. I stopped visiting TechCrunch a very long time ago when the majority of their posts became fundraising news.
5 IPOs (S-1 filings) from Silicon Valley today:

- Unity (San Francisco)
- Jfrog (Sunnyvale)
- Snowflake (San Mateo)
- SumoLogic (Redwood City)
- Asana (San Francisco)
List of most recent S-1 statements filed
If all of these companies are rushing in to get some of dumb money (probably not the correct phrase for this) floating around would it also mean these companies aren't worth investing in?
It seems that you’re implying that allowing intelligence agencies unlimited discretion in spying on their own populations is necessary in order to “win” against hostile foreign powers.

This seems like a fairly extraordinary claim that you haven’t backed with either evidence or logic.
Being consistent, personable, and kind has helped me advance more in my career than any one specific technical skill. Funny people are generally endearing, and it is usually easier and more productive to work with folks you get along with than ones you don't.
SQL instance is fast and for transactional systems - like stock exchange, purchasing something,... called schema on write.

DW is for analytics and reporting.

Data Lake is like many DWs together and other, often "garbage" data, which "might" be useful in future analysis, ML and stuff. It's the unstructured graveyard of data (joking). Schema is defined on read.
I added different variants of lammps to a Guix channel we maintain at our institute:

https://github.com/BIMSBbioinfo/guix-bimsb/blob/master/bimsb...

Thankfully, Guix makes it easy to take an existing package definition and create an altered variant of it.
https://github.com/uber/kraken
Wow OK you're then an interesting data point that make me accept to begin doubting about the supremacy of C#/Kotlin over Go.
Employees Are So Unhappy
We don't export democracy, we export capitalism.
Thanks for sharing that.

In my experience, a lot of what we perceive as "extraordinary," is actually marketing. Some people are extraordinary self-promoters. It seems that every other person I see on LinkedIn announces that they are a "polymath."

Many of these folks are, in fact, really brilliant/creative/hard-working/whatever, but I have known folks that no one notices, that absolutely blow me away in their products and skills. No one notices them, because they don't stand around with megaphones.

They're too busy being extraordinary.

For me, I'm pretty good at what I do. Am I "extraordinary"? I don't really care. There's always some kid in a Hanoi Internet cafe that can shred my best, so I need to be happy with what I can do.
The other side of the argument is that if the facade is not there, if they only admit rich people, the university will lose its reputation and become irrelevant overnight.

The thing that gives elite universities their reputation both their academic reputation and the elites that attend them. If they lose the academic reputation, the unis become irrelevant and might as well be a party house for rich people; no one will care except tabloids. If they lose the elites, the universities will still be prestigious universities.

So to spell it out, what I’m saying is that rich people attending elite universities are not important for elite universities. It mainly benefits rich people.
There's another aspect too: when kids are in a classroom together, there's a peer-pressure effect. If all the other kids are listening quietly and doing their worksheets, the remaining children are likely to fall in line (not 100% guaranteed, of course). My observations of Zoom classes with young kids this spring is that this effect did not occur virtually.

Not to mention that home is filled with lots of fun, distracting stuff that the kids otherwise wouldn't have access to during the school day in a classroom.
Guessing you don't use said labor exploiting services?
Do you really need all your private images to be derived directly from the upstream? Don't you start every image with:

FROM foo
RUN apt-get upgrade etc

?

Then why not have a set of base images, derived directly from upstream that get built every so often and have your private images be derived from that? This will not only relieve the stres on DockerHub and prevent you from having to pay the 5/month, but also give your security people a hook to run their tests and make your private images build faster, since all the system updates won't happen every time you change the code.
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Here's a fun game: create an HN client that recreates the same UX problems that these anti-social "netiquette" guides attempted to address.

In other words-- in what specific way can you fuck up the UI of HN to cause users to become so timid and confused that they create posts asking if it's ok to post here.

Another fun one would be to screw up the UX for replying such that an average of 2% of each thread is filled with veterans telling neophytes not to create top posts but to instead reply underneath the comment they're responding to.
hahaha. yep.

A senior executive at my company would sometimes ping me with "got a minute?"

And whenever I saw it, I'd always think

> I'm about to get a raise or i'm about to get fired

When it's HR, or someone where the person sending the message is significantly more powerful than the person receiving it should consider that their "ping" might be interpreted as negatively as possible, unless they specifically indicate that everything is fine.

(Turns out the VP was reaching out with some question about how we logged data to a 3rd party tool, not to fire me. :phew:)

This was particularly challenging when a meeting would be scheduled.

> VP: Hey wonder_er, I just put a meeting on your calendar to chat tomorrow

spends 24 hours wondering if I'm going to be fired

turns out the call was to say "good work, here's your annual performance bonus".
I can't believe that they will succeed in the long run as an independent player IN the cloud.

They are always going to be less integrated and less infrastructure-cost-efficient than the native options (Redshift and BigQuery), without the R&D budgets and with incremental friction (sales) and risk (data privacy and cybersecurity).

AWS really should get around to buying them, like they should have bought Looker or Tableau or Mode or Fivetran or DBT, etc, ect.
Yes, it's pure masochism.
How is this different from any enterprise sales growth company? Not a surprise
Nvidia already has the ability to build world beating data-center products using the three 'legs' of GPU (where it already dominates), the Mellanox technology it's acquired and Arm CPUs (where of course with an architecture license its free to improve on existing Arm designs). It already has a potential moat by virtue of its unique access to these three technologies together.

So why would it pay $30bn+ to own Arm? Because it would have the ability to directly hinder the businesses (and customers) of its current and potential competitors who have invested in the development of Arm based products. Not just in the data center but in mobile and in products that are used by billions of people around the world. That can't be right.
None of these seem to be listed on that page yet.
I might be able to provide context as a money manager and employee of a pre-IPO startup that considered IPOing right now.

Companies prefer to IPO when they show the strongest growth as it likely will lead to the highest valuation at time of IPO -- regardless of other fundamentals (such as profitability). These companies are likely doing very well for a combination of reasons:
- Lockdown has increased use of their services
- The market is in a large upswing right now

This makes their growth look phenomenal to investors, and likely, their board members who want to cash out see this as an opportunity.

There has been a bit of a "dead zone" for around the last year with people thinking the market was going to slow down for a recession and it has been considered hard to "raise money". A lot of people also believe a longer recession is still coming (I'm one of them).

This means that we likely have a short window where growth / income look fantastic for a few companies. The next opportunity might be in 2-3 years.

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Also, as an investor, I think this is terrible practice as I believe the fundamentals of the investment are far more important than black swan-type of events giving you a growth spurt.
Trump's capital gains tax policies that have deprived our government of vital revenue are increasingly likely to go away next year. Rich people have bribed the Republican party for decades to make it so that "investment" income is taxed at ~15% vs ~25% for the working person's hard earned income.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13891344
With the caveat that while in some cases, like computational science, numerical analysis, machine learning algorithms, computer-assisted proofs, and so on, details of the code could be crucial, in other cases, they should not matter that much. I too have the impression that the HN public tends to over-value the importance of code in these cases when it is mostly a tool for evaluating a scientific result.
Ask HN: How hard it is to create custom device on Apple Lightning port
From my understanding the lightning port it is not fully compatible with USB. What is necessary to create a device that is using this port?
I got this from the doctor:

Magnesium is interesting. A lot of these vitamins and minerals interact, in ways many doctors have forgotten. Magnesium is essential for calcium metabolism, so I often recommend it for anyone who takes calcium. It does help with muscle cramps and many take it for insomnia. Magnesium isn't a miracle drug, any more than Vitamin D, but it is a necessary mineral, and people do really notice improvements with muscle soreness. If cramps are the main issue you have, some people swear by magnesium malate - the malic acid in it may also help with sore muscles.
This is all interesting, but the second half of the article pretty much says that the headline is a bit of a stretch. The potential date range for the tested bones is wide enough that they could have died after Columbus's return.

> Molly Zuckerman, a bioarchaeologist at Mississippi State University who studies ancient Treponemal disease, praises the researchers’ feat of extracting Treponemal DNA, but notes that the sample date ranges are wide and can’t fully disprove the Columbus hypothesis. “This paper does not provide that kind of golden prize of evidence of syphilis in the pre-Columbian period in the Old World.”
I think the point is that the underlying metrics have a degree of randomness which we need to recognize. Instead of just deciding what is good enough to make it at Harvard and have that be the cutoff, you could certainly set the cutoff higher but still have randomness after that point. Don’t introduce arbitrary sorting when that is really not possible.

I TA’d a class where we used a grading metric sort of like this. It turns out that it is a lot easier to grade assignments by grouping them into 5 buckets than it is to give an extremely precise point value to everything.
> Here is the news: we will never add them to the new tool. No TypeScript, no compilation, no routes, nothing.

I think that's part of the issue. You have built something outside of an ecosystem. Have you planned for what will happen after you leave? Have you been on the receiving end of inheriting a codebase written in a language (like ClojureScript) that was buzzy for a while but then never took off? It happened to a lot of people with Coffeescript.

> Good news you're not, right?

Are you sure that's good news? Because what I see here is a poor choice of a niche language (ClojureScript) which lacks traction and will probably die long term. Moreover, because it lacks an ecosystem (or more accurately, that ecosystem is not the exact flavor you want), you've taken liberties to write things completely from scratch. Why not use Next.JS? Why not use Rails + Turbolinks? Why not reconsider writing crucial infrastructure from scratch when it already exists in many forms? Most damningly, why should you be trusted to reinvent the wheel if you lack the patience or thoroughness to go through previous solutions to this problem and put together a convincing argument for why they fall short and you need to make something new?

These technical decisions around infrastructure, stack and ecosystem are ticking time-bombs. They are almost certainly a long term technical risk and an eventual roadblock to recruitment/onboarding. I think it's unfortunate that you have wasted your time reinventing problems that have already been solved instead of focusing your talents onto areas which deliver more value to your customer. As you are working on e-commerce, this could be anything from marketing and demand acquisition to checkout funnel conversion to fulfillment, up-selling and cross-selling.

If your organization's leadership incentivized engineers to seek these kinds of investments, it would probably result in you choosing a stable stack (which, while imperfect, is good enough, has a larger ecosystem of maintainers than just the company, and so has less of a risk of blowing up in a few years) so that you could focus on investing into more customer-centric engineering. It's a shame because I think that this kind of engineering is the kind that helps engineers grow and mature in seniority. It gives them the capability to become technical and people leaders, who are exactly the kind that most companies that employ leaders need to have.

But that can never happen when engineers don't develop the judgment to determine which problems are strategically valuable to the business and which ones amount merely to overhead. And of course, many companies see no need to invest in or to empower their engineers this way, so this kind of thing keeps on happening because you need to work on something stimulating or what would be the point of work? Feel free to disagree, but based on what I've seen, I think you are working on the latter. I guess all I could ask you is imagine what kind of amazing results you and the company would see if you focused all that incredible energy you put into this infrastructure into delivering customer value!
Cool piece, thanks.
It's interesting data but we need to keep in mind that the demonstrated correlation is between "Vit D deficiency" and "worse COVID ICU outcomes". We don't have much yet (that I'm aware of) on D3 mega-supplementation specifically on those who were not D3 deficient to start with.
100% agreed with this, with a few more items to add to the list:

3. The people you hear about most are heard about most because they're newsworthy in some way. That tends to mean someone who's extraordinary good at something, or at least has the marketing skill to make it seem that way.

They'll also be the types who'll get a lot of attention on social media, since people are more likely to share extraordinary stories than ordinary ones.

So you get an unrealistic picture, simply because you're seeing all the outliers.

4. People who aren't very good at something tend not to share that, whereas those who do will share it. If you're a fitness buff who can bench press 400 lbs, you're the type of person most likely to post to a fitness subreddit, or Discord server, or on relevant hashtags on Twitter/Facebook/Instagram. The many others who are out of shape? Not so much.

Either way, it all leads to a situation where success/skill is drastically overrepresented online compared to its commonness in the population as a whole.
Wow, this is a torrent of IPOs today. Investors / boards are wanting to get money out before things turn south I feel.

Aside from that, I'm surprised how much it costs Asana on engineering R&D, for essentially a ticket management system. How does a team grow to ~300+ developers ($89M R&D) to figure out how to attach PDFs and videos to tickets, and email people when there's a change in status? (ok yes I'm oversimplifying a bit, but not that much)

And (as with all such companies) how much they need to pour into Marketing/Sales to sell this thing. These above costs basically wipe out the gross profits by 2x.
I don’t think anyone who’s adopted systemd can call themselves a curmudgeon :)
More like these are good companies that are ready to IPO and the window of opportunity closes if there is a crash. So go now or go in 2+ years?
Not to mention, what even is merit? Is it present skill? Potential for future skill? I know plenty of people who are advanced not because they're brilliant, but because they got started earlier, because they had parents who enrolled them into math camp, because they went to schools that taught a more in depth curriculum.
"they accept the top 10% of each high school's class into all UT schools"

Sort of. Most of them that want to go to UT want UT Austin. There's not enough room there for all of them.
Wouldn't the obvious fix for this be to reduce the amount of power that is available to people in this way? In other words, reducing the amount of power that we give to institutions (like government) whose membership is largely determined by these factors, instead of by people having to produce actual results in the real world?
You're welcome. It was a labor of love.

After completing this, I thought geez I should just make this a book. It's a relatively fringe subject, but hey maybe it'd be a good use of a sabbatical or something.

There is a lot of investor interest in advanced nuclear reactors because of climate change, so it could be useful to make this info more broadly available.
Your rhetoric is simplistic and unhelpful. Isn't it funny how little attention is paid to terrorist attacks that don't happen?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_thwarted_Islamic_terro...

https://www.google.com/search?q=ring+wing+terror+plot+foiled...

There's a balance here. To be free, we have to protect ourselves from plots like these, otherwise we would live in fear. At the same time, this protection itself threatens other kinds of freedom, like the freedom from surveillance and interference by our own governments. We have to be cognizant of this balance. We need whistle-blowers, watchdogs, and so on. But we also need state intelligence.
It is nothing more than a greatly-timed opportunistic race to the finish. The same rush happened in August and September 2019 and right now they are at it again, before they lose out as they nearly did due to the virus and also towards other uncertain characteristics happening in 2020.