skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Steve says he can’t speak for me, but in this case… he basically can. The timelines are a little different (late ’00s for me instead of late ’90s), but the trajectory was the same, and the feature gaps he alludes to here were definitely a part of it.

I recall arguing in 2012 or so that types were useless… with a colleague who had a background with OCaml. The problem was that when we said “types” I meant something completely different than he did. (Jerrad, if you happen to read this, you were right. )
From glancing at the source code I believe this uses the same algorithm as df from coreutils. It outputs pretty much useless data for btrfs, which needs to be handled differently. See:

$ btrfs fi df
$ btrfs fi us
Good grief, matplotlib and the whole scientific computing stack are abysmal. Every function takes dozens of arguments, but any given call only has to pass some subset, and depending on the subset and their runtime types, the function just tries to guess what the caller wanted to do. I get that this stuff was written by amateurs, but in a saner world this stuff would have been addressed by now. Anyway, I moved on from Python to Go and I’m super happy (!!performance!!, !!package management!!, editor tooling, top notch document generation, quality ecosystem, !!static binaries!!, and types—even if Go’s type system isn’t as robust as Rust’s, it still goes a long way).
it unfair as most people will not know how to make the necessary drama

The solution to a deep problem is not to kick down the ladder a few people have found to climb out of it.
Moving fast and breaking things are not the same thing, but they're correlated. Certainly they are not orthogonal.
Great idea!

Two points:

1. Why can't I upvote ideas just by clicking on the ^ button on the main page? Redirecting to the idea page doesn't seem very logical.

2. Most importantly: why do I have to type email again to subscribe when you already have my email on file? Shouldn't this be a simple 'Subscribe' button?
What's the benefit of coding a visual diagram over drawing it?

I was at first thinking of automated verification rules that force your diagram to commute over a set of rules you specify but even drawing tools can specify this.

Any people who diagram a lot have an opinion on this?
Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne on Fatherhood and the Dark Side of LSD
I was a believer in office work being superior to working from home. Then with covid I had to work from home. I hated it for the first 2 months. Then perhaps I became institutionalized because now I prefer it. Without a commute I have more time for sleep and child care related things. Plus I am more focused.

If the office ever reopens then I will probably only go in one or two days a week, and all of my employees can choose their own schedules also. We will just mandate coming in for certain meetings.
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>To your first point, would you argue art is not the field of human interest with beauty as its ideal? Would you argue art strives for ugliness? Art holds ugliness and "badness" as its ideal? I find that to be a very untenable position to hold.

Originally maybe, which may be why your quotes are so old. There are certainly some segments of the art community that put beauty as the ultimate ideal. If you are looking for decorative art to display in your home, you probably want something that is nice to look at. However I believe since the modernist movement the ideal has shifted to be more about eliciting an emotional reaction. Sometimes the emotions that an artists wishes to evoke are negative in which case ugly or upsetting imagery might be more appropriate.

>Therefore, since this work of art is the antithesis of beauty (ugliness, as you yourself say), it is also bad art

I really don't think you are going to get many art critics to agree with a "Guernica is bad, actually" take.
Excellent medcram video on D re covid

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Mdc7T2UTHBI
ICANN should never have assigned .zip, there's just too much potential for abuse, confusion giving away a common extension as a TLD.
Talking to your friends specifically and directly is a nuisance?
I used an HP-41CV for years until it broke. I did buy a 28 at some point after that and I just didn't care for it. I was looking at the SwissMicro HP-42 clone the other week. I could really be tempted by that or this one. But, honestly, I have a couple of the landscape HP calculators and those are more than enough for anything I do and I have a 41CX app on my iPhone.
> There was that massive 2000 comment thread the other month about some big company doing something evil and then it turned out they didn't do it.

Can you link to this? Not trying to be meta, I just don't believe random claims on the internet without any evidence.
This is argument from authority, but an exquisite one.
I think what people with enough instrumentation and metrics collection, like google, are going to find are there are teams that are 10x to 100x more productive during the pandemic and other teams that are 1/10th to 1/100th as productive during the pandemic.

There's no one size fits all but for teams or people who perform WAY better in WFH having it as an option that isn't looked down upon is very comforting. I may be able to move far away from the city at some point in my career. I am extremely eager to do so and I don't think I am alone.

For what I pay for rent I could be buying a large house in other parts of the US or central America
Simple DSLs are sort of Haskell's bread and butter, I'm actually somewhat surprised there isn't a decent flowchart DSL in Haskell (I know about https://diagrams.github.io/gallery.html, but it didn't seem straightforward enough to get a simple flowchart going).
Do you work at Google? If not, I’m not sure why you would care one way or another. This doesn’t affect you.
The buzzwords. And the apparent assumption that you can just “pick up” programming. Going from 0 (or CS50 online) to producing useful code will take several years at least. And as another person commented, idea, market, people, and execution make or break a startup, not programming languages or buzzwords such as blockchain.

Maybe find a technical co-founder who already has the technical expertise.
At my company, a subset of developers have ssh access, if other developers need something that requires ssh access they work with someone who has it. But unless you are a very early startup, I don't see why every developer would need ssh access.
I think this goes a bit broader than just social media. It really has to do with the concept of ownership of words/handles/subdomains on third-party systems.

Who owns a twitter handle? Who owns an Instagram account handle? Do people with trademarks have a right to their trademark on a third-party system?

I work at AWS. Some of our services allow you to customize subdomains (AWS SSO, as an example). There have been customers (typically large enterprises) that assert they should have rights to a specific subdomain within AWS. These subdomains typically relate to their business name or various trademarks.

Should these customers have rights to these names? If I'm a small business (or perhaps an individual) and reserve companyxyz.amazonapps.com, should a company have recourse to take that away from me?

It's a question that hasn't really been collectively answered within the digital space. And until this question is answered, there are going to continue to be issues.
So, I cannot read the article without disabling adblocker, which I won't do, but here is their source anyway: https://www.bumc.bu.edu/busm/2020/09/25/adequate-levels-of-v...
This is the nth study to talk about this. It's pretty well demonstrated by now that there is a correlation between vitD levels and covid-19 mortality. What is not clear is:

- given that a deficiency is bad, does it matter if you have more than just the normal amount? In other words, does this only matter if you have a deficiency?

- given that sunlight increases natural vitamin D production, could it be, not the vit D per se, but rather the sunlight exposure, that has the beneficial effect?

- could this even just be a case of healthy people getting out more, hence getting more sunlight and thus vitamin D, and healthy people also dying less from covid-19 (or almost anything else)?

What I would like to see is a study where they increase vit D levels, sunlight levels, both, or neither, and compare the mortality rates. If you don't feel it's ethical to do the neither option, you could compare to previous averages when neither was done. So far I have seen no evidence that this is being done, but hopefully soon?
I don’t know much about solar tech, it sounds simple but how easy is this to do on a big scale? - eg does having an open circuit damage the panels if they are illuminated?
In my experience, types (at least in the kinds of languages I like) and tests are orthogonal, though people enamored of either often try to use it to do the work the other is best at. I both TDD and TDD: that is, I do both type-driven and test-driven development, and the combo is incredible.

I strongly suspect that if and as I’m able to add tools like formal methods, logic programming, etc. to my tool belt they will similarly become orthogonal tools for correctness that I can employ where appropriate.
It's worth noting the swift evolution of tooling in support of this under the current pressures.
This is great as it isolates vit D from other factors (e.g. balanced diet, spending more time in the sun).
I just wanted to corroborate this. Im originally from up north and have lived in texas for over 30 years and my brain still interprets a southern accent as ignorant/lack of education. I still have cognitive dissonance when I hear rocket scientists from nasa (houston) with southern accents.
interestingly enough the WeWork model might get more popular post-covid - either for individuals to have some office outside the home or for companies to rent out of as satellites for remote workers
> just the vast areas that many people with crappy passports can travel with no visas involved whatsoever.

Yeah, they can, but somehow they don't which might be related that most of these vast areas are empty (especially Russia) or lack any infrastructure making the digital nomad-lifestyle so "nice" (or even basic personal security for large parts of Africa).

Also I'm not sure, how they intend to travel to e.g. Europe: a remote-work "I'm a digital nomad"-setup won't cut it, so they have to have cash for their stay (and a plan, where to stay?!).

> "Visa fees are likely a month's income" is ridiculous, unless you're going to cherry pick the most extreme examples. Russian average salary is around 50k rub/mo,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_income#/media/File:Coun... now guess who's cherry-picking.

> so you can stay for around 20 days by having about one month's average Russian salary in your bank account.

I don't know how many people in the US/... have about a month of the average US/... salary in their bank account. My guess: not so many and the ones (like the sw-eng. HN-crowd) can be considered "quite rich" by all means. Also I thought that digital nomadism/this sort of traveling entailed doing it more than half a month at a time. While this is certainly possible, having a filled bankaccount (with some multiples of your month gross income) seems to be a general requirement. I doubt you get a visa for France having "no job" and 600€s. Paying a human trafficker is easily thrice this amount and seems to be in high-demand for a lot of the "bad passport"-kind of countries...

So no, this is not something anybody can do, but just a rich kid's hobby.
I chuckled, but more importantly, think of the comp savings when you hire from outside the Bay Area (if Google can get a decent remote hiring process in place, much smaller companies have but TBD if Google has the fortitude to). Lots of folks who otherwise couldn’t work for Google now can, and will get paid more than their market probably allowed for previously.
Blood tests of serum levels etc.
Panel of various tests using your blood.
Take it from someone working in a remote office. This only works so long as everyone is remote. Once the majority of folks are back in an office suddenly those not there are seen as “other” and not part of the core team.
Yes, for me the big revelation was when I learned OCaml (coming from Erlang) it was such a massive relief, it felt like half of my brain got freed to think about things that matter. After that, once it clicked, most languages of this caliber feel "at home" and I can use them quite easily - F#, Rust, Swift, TypeScript.
if we could go back I wonder if it would be better if we had required a leading dot in domain names ".google.com"
Well just as i post this another person posts an answer for me: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096007602...
And mypy is still very immature. You can’t denote a recursive type (e.g., a JSON type) or specify a callback that takes keyword arguments. Even getting it to load type annotations from third party packages is hard in many cases. Worse, it seems to be improving at a snail’s pace if at all.
For anyone who missed it, here’s the original thread that made the false claim on Twitter that Apple keeps it 30% cut when a customer requests a refund: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23987584

Here’s the follow up retraction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23995750
It's the BBC. "Lake Jackson, Texas" isn't going to mean anything to most of its audience.
I suppose he has read and agreed to Terms of Service when he signed up, which gives the company ability to do anything with their account. Facebook is not in the wrong here against this guy, just some employee did not follow the Facebook's internal rules.
Oh, man. I was skeptical about OP's Facebook employee hack thing at first, but then I read this medium write up. Not good.
Yes, 100%.

The tutorial on git is super cool, but for me the thought of constructing my own tutorials using a framework that got you here is even cooler.
>Reducing the scope of the sprint to something that should be very easy to deliver on

The scope isn't your decision, it's the team's decision. They should only be committing to

Do three things:

1) Track the work committed to work completed ratio. You want to goal this towards 90%. It's a great metric because it's not easily game-able and it serves your team's interest.

2) Make sure all tasks are broken down into small chunks (no task should be a >3 day worth of work task). If you have a developer who has 1 ticket for the entire sprint then your tasks are too big and need to be broken down.

3) Get the team to commit early and often. It sounds like right now you might be doing "mini-waterfall" whereas you want something more like Scrum. There should be visible progress on Day 2, even if it is just notes on what they are thinking through to implement.
I thought the same thing about a month ago, but then it went away.
What does cranked up mean in this title/context?
This is not the future at all, it's the past.
I really liked Andrew mead's javascript course, and his react course. They are both on o'reilly learning, so you might have access to that through a local library etc
I think this thread firmly establishes the range of such a proportion, but we’ll need the n of ‘mrits social network to arrive at a number. It’s somewhere between “they know a few people” and “their entire waking life is surrounded by Facebook employees” (poor soul) which also bounds our calculations.

This is openly discussed with bemusement on my non-Instagram team is what I can say.
we see this vocational awe with other professions where the number of folks who want to do it wildly exceeds the amount of funding (public or private) available for the work.

and it's self-fufilling, to some extent. you grow up and hear about how $profession is so wonderful, and you're a bit more likely to go into it. now there's just a few more people trained for it than necessary. supply and demand drops wages a bit, mythologizing increases to make the workers feel better, another slight increase in folks wanting to go into the field, process repeats.
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>If people mean the EU or Western Europe when they say "Europe" then that's fine

Yep, that's what I refer to. I imagine most Americans do as well. From my perspective, I don't expect Europeans to automatically include considerations of Alaska.

>it's arguably similar to people from Europe only regarding the US as the two coasts!

A well-known term in the USA is "fly-over country." That refers to all the land between the two coasts. Our own "coasties" already view the rest of the country as another world. We already do that to ourseleves!
Listening.

Spending 70% of what you make(either make more or spend less). Save 30% of what you make (make more or spend less)(see the pattern?)

Read books. Minimum 6 per year. Aim for 1 per month and see how it works out.

Pick your news sources carefully. Don't read ALL the news. Reading about the imports of Beetroots in Slovenia has zero impact to your life (unless you are in the beetroot business in Ljubljana).

Chose what to click/read. Everyone and everything wants your attention/time/money. Give it to the things that YOU will benefit from (to avoid misunderstandings: volunteering for -unpaid- charity work is good for YOU/your soul).

Edit - News: I scroll in the "front page" of 5-6 websites, read just the titles. I only read the analyses that seem intelligent, opinion articles that will challenge me. Just the facts, without aby analysis and or historical references can be misleading.
Where is this? I feel like I should have seen something about this on the news... If this is Covid-related, you should know that time spent outside in the sun away from crowds is better for your health than time spent in any situation inside.
Example of country where you are not allowed to go outside at all (except during temporary quarantine of a couple of weeks)?

I now that even during France's confinement (which is over now), people were still allowed to leave their house for solitary outdoor exercise and walks.
Well the difference between "hey my dad works at Xbox and will ban you" and this is this is now past tense. So it would be a case of you getting banned on Xbox and someone going "Yea that was my dad".
> If the answer is 'testing' then types are indeed an obvious gap in the language

Will you not be testing your code anyways? Will you not have unit tests and integ tests and have it run in a devo environment first? Before going to production?

If so, then what would the gap be? If you catch those same type errors as you test, and you will be testing anyways?
Yeah, but you'd only see that in sedimenting areas there were uplifted and then weathered; like orogenized river deltas. After that, you'd need to have a lot of samples in the sediment so that there'd be enough exposed rock to care to look at all. Then you'd need enough sample in the rock to detect above background noise. Then you'd need to conclusively explain away any natural causes for the presence of the asphalt, which is naturally occurring anyway.

I'm not saying it's impossible, but it would take a lot of luck.
> And yet, that rule is stupid.

Doesn't matter. They can still do it to anyone anyway.

> But your logic instagram could just give @kyliejenner to some random person, and you think she would have no recourse?

Well yes. They (Facebook) own the platform, it's a privately owned company and they can do whatever they like either via the ToS or in general. You don't own your account handle. They reserve the right to terminate your account or disable the handle at any time.
Based on the metric I’m guessing you don’t live in USA? Here we have vast expanses of designated wilderness area (well over 1M sq km), where it can be really quite fun to get up to speed while enjoying the views.
I would strongly encourage you not to dive into learning React or AWS. Both are very good to learn about if your goal is to become an employee at a tech company, but not so much for a solo founder.

React itself is fine and relatively straight-forward, but its ecosystem is massive and there are many competing options for several accompanying libraries. AWS includes a powerful array of services, but it's considerably more time-consuming to learn than other hosting options such as Render.com.

I'd say your best bet is to just use an MVC-ish back-end framework and sprinkles of JavaScript. Once you've done well enough to hire a few engineers, then maybe start thinking about React, AWS, more complex devops, etc.

At the beginning, the most important thing is speed.
I dunno, it does seem reasonable to me. Including your (albeit too wide) statement.

I refuse to live in a flood plain. Why would you? Not only do i not want my house to be destroyed, but the insurance alone is a good incentive to not live there.

If fire repeatedly pops up in my neighborhood i'll do the same thing, move. Why wouldn't you?

If the insurance would be insane because statistically it's likely to repeatedly happen why should taxpayers fund that sinkhole? I'm normally super liberal with taxes, but there has to be a balance. I believe in "free" healthcare, but we can't promote bad health patterns, as it would be a needless drain on the healthcare costs. Likewise i'd support taxpayers covering these types of disasters, but if you know the area is insanely prone to disasters why should the taxpayers fund it?

You're playing the victim card too hard mate. I get your point, but i don't think it's a "region bigot" issue here. Yes, people should move out of fire prone areas, why on earth would you think otherwise?
Original paper link (1)

From the discussion section: "In acquired immunity pathways, 1,25(OH)2D has more modulating effect. 1,25(OH)2D inhibits activation of B-cells [29] and immunoglobulin synthesis [29]. This hormone also promotes Treg cells, which are responsible for anti-infectious action by inducing IL-10 production. This leads to suppression of Th1, and Th17 cells and IFNγ, IL-17, IL-6, IL-23 and IL-2 production and makes Th2 cells predominant. Th2 cells limits inflammatory processes by inhibiting Th1 cell-mediated cytokines and tumour necrosis factor α (TNFα) [11, 30, 31]."

Yes this could all be correlative, but lets assume for a moment that the effect is causal and as significant as this study is finding. It may seem like the effect of Vitamin D on the adaptive immune system doesn't make sense ... decreasing the antibody response and pushing the T-cell population towards a more TH2-type response. So, at least in terms of the adaptive immune system, Vitamin D is actually ~calming~ the immune system down, at least with regard to severe inflammation.

One way to make sense of this result would be as another piece of evidence pointing to some people's immune hyper-activation('cytokine storm') as one of the forces behind severe covid19 disease. This tends to be happening in the second and third week of infection and leads to much more devastating results on the body, and in particular, the lungs with ARDS (2).

(1) https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
(2) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10067-020-05190-5
Nobody's done the kind of study that would establish that yet.