skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Even just being recognize you as 'other' can get old, like being asked "where are you from" or riding the bus in Chicago and having to answer questions about my ethnicity from whoever was feeling tipsy enough to ask them."

Chicago, infamous MAGA country.

Where the city buses are ruled by white supremacists harassing all innocent people who look different from them!

In a city that is only 31.7% non-Hispanic white, they have a lot of work to do!
At the end of the day, this is a political decision. Science does not provide the answer on what to do, just the facts.

Politics must decide whether to subject a large fraction of the population to the risk of this disease or whether to convince or coerce people to not go to football games, movie theaters and cocktail parties for a year or two.

Luckily, we as individuals still have the choice of not getting infected, although the risks of everyday activities increase dramatically when there are high levels of transmission in the community.
Ah, I missed that reference. I would be down to try free nuclear jerky.
> Good area. Wish more people wore masks though.

Huh? We have a mask mandate in Dane County. Everyone wears them, by law.
The IRS could absolutely be simpler though, but then people might not grumble about paying our taxes and who wants that.
Pierre Menard, Author of the Quijote.
The FAQ reads "What3Words is not an open standard". Placekey might be open, how the values are encoded is published in the Technical specs, but the database in central and owned by one company.

From the PDF "In order to maintain the What part of a Placekey, SafeGraph maintains databases of addresses and POI. Incoming addresses and POI are either matched against pre-existing places in our databases, or they are assigned new Placekeys in our database."

"Should a business ping the Placekey API with a massive number of requests—in the millions per month, for example—we may invite you to help us cover those computing costs." I understand the intent, it's providing an API and that has a cost. But isn't the risk the limits are set lower and lower in the future since there is no competition to generating placekeys?
from what i know, Posthog is focused more on app/product analytics while we're focused on web analytics.
The interesting thing is that the herd immunity threshold, be it from vaccinations or from countless people becoming infected, depends on the R0. (I guess the herd immunity threshold is just 1/R0, because R0 times this threshold would need to approach 1. But I am not an expert....)

But, the R0 is not static. It is the number of average new cases one infected case causes. This also depends on what people do, how their housing and working situation is, and so on. If people practice social distancing and hygiene measures, this number is lower, therefore, by definition, the R0 is also lower. Because behavior is not static, the R0 is neither.

In other words, the R0 also depends on collective behavior - and so does the herd immunity threshold.
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A missing feature is not the same thing as poor design. If you need time spans in your project it could be a fault, but every product has missing features and choosing a product that is missing features you want might be a poor decision - depending upon other tradeoffs you're making.
This reminds me of when we launched the VAST (https://www.iab.com/guidelines/vast/) standard in online video advertising. Standards lift all boats. Congrats on the launch as this is a big step forward for location based products.
No offense intended, but a generic marketing elevator pitch for a technical product makes me grumpy. I want to see the technical details, but I'm not signing up for your website just to dig for them. So this creates a missed opportunity where people like me will now not share it with their team.
This isn't a study. It's a letter to the editor that includes a case report.

It's odd to me that anyone would mistake it for a study, actually, seeing as it says "Letter to the Editor" right at the top and has no gross morphological features in common with a research paper. No one seems to be trying to represent it as something it makes no pretense of being, except for people who seem to want to discount it without any significant consideration. That's an odd correlation to observe, but there is a lot that's odd about how people have reacted to this pandemic, I suppose.
As with everything in life: Get your ego out of the way.

People tend to identify themselves with technology they mastered and miss out on all the improvements that happen. This works for a few decades if they're lucky, but someday they're old and wonder why nobody values their skills in an obsolete technology.

We can't all maintain Cobol code bases when we are 50.
The tech skills that I think are critical to a software dev:

Git and version control, learn them as in depth as you have time for. Every decent dev environment has these and the amount of people lacking this basic knowledge is staggering.

Bash/Linux or powershell/windows same thing. You can get an amazing amount of things done with shell scripting in your OS. Unless you have an insane amount of time I would pick one and learn in depth. These are rich systems.

A dynamic programming language in depth. There are so many concepts that will transfer between languages that if you know one in depth, you'll be able to pick another one up pretty fast as it's just semantics at that point.

SQL, this is an essential part of dev life and you will understand ORMs and data management better.

The personal skills:

Communication obviously. This is such a vague term and I think is abused as people just say 'lERn to CoMmUNicate' with no actionable advice. Things like politeness, small talk, respect for other's etc.

At the same time know when to be honest. I've seen the best communicators tell management exactly what management wants to hear over and over and projects kept being behind or over budget because there was a dysfunctional connection between the manager and the engineer who kept B.S.ing them with what they wanted to hear and the nitwit manager eating it up and for some reason never learning.

Systems reasoning, learn to understand the system from the line of code up through the stacks to the whole. Sounds cliche and it is but it will make you a better programmer.

Debugging. This will be most of your life. The more you understand the system, the better you are at it.

Managing upwards. Keep your manager happy and communicate your work to them.
I'd argue that many users that end up with surprise bills are either inexperienced or are deploying something small without giving it much thought.

In those cases, the users will either not know or not think about such expense limits.

The solution is to set relatively strict limits by default and even occasionally warn users about unused/underutilized resources.

But as you said: such features are bad for the bottom line .

And I can appreciate the enormous difficulty of competing with the big 3.
> It's tremendously difficult to compete against the AWS's of the world, putting work into features specifically to minimize how much people spend seems like a good way to fail a company.

It's also something that people actively dislike about AWS, and thus a good selling point. Albeit it's probably mostly smaller projects that care about this.
My own hot take on this:

If the fundamental unit of value is provided by people, then the potential to get work done scales with the number of people engaged and ready to do it.

In a city like New York, there are a lot of talented people that are engaged in value creation. That creates an economic ecosystem that provides the potential to take an idea and bring it to value delivery with low friction.

Vibrancy, then, is the attribute where idea potential is able to reach value delivery with low friction.

This is evidenced by a lot of what the other posters have mentioned: restaurants, the arts, startups, etc. These are the result of that potential existing within the ecosystem.
I can't help but think that requiring tech firms to declare a "single line of business" just changes the ecosystem to a federation of "independent" companies under a holding company without really changing the market itself.

If the law can't break up Alphabet it's toothless, and if it can break up Alphabet I don't see how it couldn't also break up any major consolidation firm that gets into the business of buying and flipping companies.
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You adapt to where you live.

The fun things you do in the city are different from the fun things you do not in the city or in a different city.

You need to live somewhere for longer than a weekend to settle in and figure out what is noteworthy about an area.
It should be perfectly fine because screego only transfers data and doesn't do video encoding or similar stuff.
'High Speed' Mobile? I have been summoned.

Definitely a 5G iPhone is coming.
sarcastic hyperbole is unhelpful at the best of times, but in this case it isn't really established to what extent "trends of racism in the Midwest against minorities firsthand" has been seen. The sole reason we might assume is that dexwiz mentions that they "Moved from the Midwest to the Bay Area" with no more detail than that.

How much of the midwest, where, for how long; what did they witness firsthand? what did they hear?

It's a stretch to assume so much without projecting your own assumptions about the midwest.

> Have you considered that their experiences may actually be true?

We don't have experiences, we have conclusions. and without knowledge of the experiences that inform them, it's hard to judge their truth. There's also the issue of what "the midwest is unfriendly to non-white people" means; taken to either absolute is crazy: "any racism in the midwest means the midwest is racist", "any tolerance in the midwest means the midwest isn't racist". Clearly, the statement needs qualification to be useful, it's not a matter of "true or false" without clear thresholds.
This is really great.

I tried to watch my hands as I typed and I noticed I only seem to type with two fingers from each hand, mostly the index finger.

I've been typing like this for years, has anyone re-trained themselves to use proper 10 finger typing or even switched straight to something like DVORAK?

Was it worth the effort?
> Price / GB of DRAM hasn't actually fallen much in the 10 years of progression.[1]

It has been 10 years since the last company not known to be a party to DRAM cartels has left the market.
That would be fun. It’s like when you’re driving a hybrid car you get dashboard feedback saying how well (or not) you’re doing and it’s quite encouraging!

Again - great idea. Nicely done!
> The people who were working there were forced discuss or be "activists" by other coworkers.

Source? I have no idea what this is referring to.

Effective neutrality due to lack of will or resources is one thing. But a declaration of neutrality is a message to other actors that you will not intervene in their affairs. It is a rejection of the cultural norm that extremism (outside the company) should be tempered. Sounds pretty political to me, but maybe you and I are working with different definitions of politics.
Ads provide something to other companies, but I would agree not much to society at large. But that's because ads are the monetization -- their purpose isn't to provide value to the end users. It's like asking, what value does taking money from customers provide them? Well, the product/service they paid for. Ads monetize all sorts of useful products and services at scale like information, communication, and entertainment. Google being free means someone that wouldn't be able to afford a $25/mo (or way more) subscription gets equally good access to information. YouTube being free means people have access to entertainment created by independent creators who can be compensated for their efforts without being a part of a large organization. Facebook et al. being free means everyone can be connected without any one person being left out because they can't afford it. I think you know all of these things and we're basically debating on where the balance is between value from service and the cost of privacy, etc.
Eventually, but not on release.
Just my 2cents, alot of people mentioned alot criteria which I heard during my days as (empathy : backend engineer, abstract thinking : android dev, communication: company tech lead). But I think the core is the mindset to self improve that's best for you right NOW (self discipline).

This is really really really hard to do, since we are mostly lazy beings who rather click 50 arrow up key to find the one important command than remembering it or just dont mind to repeat a mundane process without finding a shortcut to do it faster. Programmers who I met that manage to finish a task in 10 minutes instead of 1 day usually have this trait. But I guess this applies to other jobs as well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Btw, I used to work as a part timer at my university department. One day one of the staff ask me to reformat about 90 Excels document to her desire format, she spend 10 minutes showing me how to type them out one by one. After this, I went to setup Python environment in that computer and google how to read excel docs. In a few hours I have finish the work that what would took me more than half a day to finish.
You’re not obligated to do anything, especially not to help me and others better understand you or make your comments useful.

“The south” ranges from Virginia to Texas. Maybe you lived everywhere and experienced discrimination everywhere.

For me, I grew up in a down of a 1000 people and live just a few hours away in a town with maybe one of the most diverse cultures (including LGBT) in the country.

If I said that because I experienced discrimination in my shitkicker little town that the entire south was similar, that would be wrong, and not very helpful to anyone trying to understand the south.

I suppose you can avoid absolutes and generalizations if you want to help others. But you definitely aren’t obligated to help anyone.

But generalizations jump out at me and annoy me because I’ve frequently encountered jerks saying something about perverts or crime stats and then just fall back on that they were just honestly relating their experience. But there is a difference between my experience and me saying that my experience applies to others. Especially if not backed by data and a suitable generalization.
> Worth noting that the "BH so massive even light can't escape" meme, a staple of popular science, wouldn't make sense since photons don't have mass.

Even worse, it is frequently explained with an analogy to escape velocity. You have a certain escape velocity at the surface of the Moon, the analogy starts, and your rocket needs to exceed that to get out. Gravity is stronger at the surface of Earth, so escape velocity there is higher, and rockets need to go even faster.

At the event horizon, gravity is strong enough that escape velocity is the speed of light, and so nothing can get out because you can't go faster than light.

Great--except the escape velocity thing only applies to trying to get out ballistically. (Current rockets are essentially ballistic because they expend most of their fuel while still deep in Earth's gravity well).

Escape velocity explains why someone inside the event horizon can't throw things out of the black hole using a catapult, or using a rocket that expends all its fuel before reaching the event horizon.

It doesn't explain why something with continuous thrust could not get out. It doesn't explain why someone inside couldn't build a ladder that extends past the event horizon and simply climb out. It doesn't explain why someone outside could not lower a tether in and pull someone out.
Least vertically integrated?

They have their own ecomerse platform, running on their own compute, selling products they brand and manufacture, complete with warehouses and a delivery fleet
I looked again to see if I was imagining things. The first picture I see is all screws and nails? The bits above as well as behind the chair are the parts that concern me. Lots of pieces that can shear off and drop that arm in your lap. One of those cleats has a screw going in at a very acute angle. for instance.

I'm going to quibble with the other response about the arm above being over-engineering. You're copying existing designs instead of trying to work out your own geometries. You could probably move the moving parts behind the monitor, but I don't know how hard a time you'd have keeping the footprint from increasing.
I don't think any do. Washington almost had a non compete ban, and hopefully it goes through next time.

I would never consider a state that didn't even have parental leave benefits, simply because I would rather my descendants live in a state with some level of protections for employees versus employers. Although a mix of California's laws about overtime pay, giving option of sitting, non competes, and personal projects plus Washington's minimum wages for both hourly and salaried exempt employees would be ideal.
Anecdotal evidence about cases like yours have made me really weary about getting infected since February. I wish there was more scientific investigation into how often there are long term consequences of Covid disease so the public could make more informed decisions. In any case, thanks for sharing and hope you get better soon.
There are other reports of this: https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/facebook-covid-support-g...

That said - I would expect some extremely rare outcomes in a sample of 35 million people. We live in a connected world: https://www.gwern.net/Littlewood

I really want to see good stats.

Even for, the simple you would think, case of CFR - what are the current reliable numbers here? In https://ourworldindata.org/mortality-risk-covid I only see cumulative nubers - that is not very informative when we can see how the mortality now is incomparable with the mortality in April and May, we need monthly or weekly cohorts data!
HN when discussing their own project milestones: "Agile everything! Organic features."

HN when discussing a new product: "OUTRAGE! It must support EVERYTHING I want on launch day!"
I hope you are aware that 50 year olds started working 1990 to 1995 or even later, when there was a lot more than just COBOL going on.

In fact, a 50 year old is more likely to have caught the rise of desktop GUIs and of Linux than have spent a career doing COBOL.
+1 from a two-months user. Haven't had the time to mess around with Umami so I jumped on it. UI needs some polish, otherwise a solid alternative.
The author had no specific expectations. The author received a report of an error, investigated, found that MySQL's TIME did not match EF Core's expectations for a timespan (hence causing the error):

> for a brief moment I assumed the incorrection in this value was the hundreds of hours, as one could reasonably assume that maybe TIME values were capped at 24 hours, or that a different syntax was needed for values spanning multiple days

And then it turned out that wasn't the case and they basically got nerd-sniped by the issue into finding out why the type had such weird bounds.
What makes developers to lean towards YAML when JSON and JSON5 are more developer friendly?

I personally hate YAML config files.
So if Apple pre-buys digital apps, and resells them with some markup and maybe a rebranding, then its ok?

No, because that doesn't change the economic reality of the transaction, that the end-user is the actual customer and Apple is just acting as a transient purchaser.

If Apple were to pre-buy digital apps ahead of time, and them offer those purchased licenses on the app store, then that could be okay. But a JIT pre-buy is not a pre-buy at all.

(Believe it or not, but courts are adept at piercing through sham transactions, and such transactions usually make things worse.)
I agree with you that there is another disease going around but lots of people are talking about it.

I can't tell if you're making a joke but anxiety has all those symptoms and it's obviously increasing and people are talking about it.
This is a good point, there is more to antitrust laws than just economics, they were put in place to protect our democratic republic. Senator John Sherman is quoted: "If we will not endure a king as a political power we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of any of the necessaries of life." The Sherman Antitrust Act is the foundation of modern antitrust law.
Being more specific about the locale would help. Nashville is not Atlanta, NOLA is not Tampa when it comes to flavors of discriminatory attitudes - and rural or suburban attitudes are different as well. Describing where you went to for relief also adds even more context.
The essential skill needed to be an <anything> is to be interested in it and enjoy it. Paul Graham writes (somewhere in his essays, couldn't find it with a quick scan) that the notion of 'aptitude' is highly suspicious. We get better at things by doing them, and after doing them for a long time we look like we have an aptitude.

A caveat: Just as being interested in and liking to play a sport won't get you to play at the top levels without talent as well, there are lots of programmer's jobs that will be out of reach, but others WILL be in reach.
I won’t mention the dropbox trope!
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How does this play in with the fact that the DDR5 is clocked at 4800mHz and the DDR4 is at 3200? Would we not expect a 50% improvement with respect to transfer rates with a 50% increase in clock? I really don't know.

There are even 4800mHz DDR4 DIMMs available now, even if they are niche.

EDIT: DDR4 is 3200 not 3800.
Unfortunate is the pricing.

Its a no go for me and a small business to use this. 250 is just too much with infra costs at 200 and free doesn't give us any guarantee at all.
It's fantastic the pion[0] is enabling so many new projects to leverage webrtc. If you want to build a webrtc based application, check it out!

[0]https://pion.ly
FWIW, even keeping an interval in a single number still imposes limits. As proven by the epoch's 2038 problem.
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I created a report for Github, this is a leak on their side.

And contacted ShuttleIO by mail.

This could be ugly, Shuttle asks for broad permissions on Github.
My usual answer to what it takes to be a career programmer is 'you need to be able to sit down and concentrate on a problem for most of the day.'

If you can do that, the rest of the techniques can be learned with time and effort.
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I totally agree - I think I'm probably coming off as disagreeing with you though.

I think the difference for me is that the importance of communication for solo programming is a bit of a sliding scale depending on what your goals are. There aren't many exceptions when you work on a team. When I use the word importance, I'm tying it to a notion of necessity in relation to some goal. Team goals trump individual goals in organizations.

if you have no intention of making your code available for someone else to read / use / modify, the benefit for having readable code is really for yourself in six months and nobody else.

you also don't need to tell anyone what you're doing, so being able to clearly / succinctly explain what it is and why it's useful isn't a necessity. Does that make it an unimportant skill? No, it's just that the goals are different
I’ve been threatening to make this for years haha! Glad you a actually did bravo!