skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Branding aside, AFAICS the track and trace programme has very little to do with the NHS.

One might suggest, however, that when setting up a scheme to deal with a public health matter and to create technologies to assist with that, hiring some experts on public health and technology might have been a good idea. It looks like a lot of the senior figures actually have a background in retail and the recruitment process was more like staffing a commercial call centre than a medical helpline.

(The article is not wrong about the data processing side either, of course. How these systems meet even basic data protection standards, never mind the more stringent requirements for processing sensitive data, is still a mystery to me.)
Bathtub Curve
Yes there is (supporting AMQP 0.9.1) See here: https://joram.ow2.io/index.html
When it's about a proper noun with a clear authoritative source, I would say yes.
Any algorithm can be expressed with iteration only (or recursion only, for that matter, with asymptotically no computational overhead, if you know the general method). Recursion and iteration are thinking tools first and foremost; I'd argue that those examples are the best ones precisely because most people think about those in iterative terms.

(edit: grammar)
It is entirely possible that looking at how to perform the procedure prevents fringe failures of surgery. Imagine your surgeon does his job extremely well but it turns out he performed the wrong surgery on the wrong patient because he trusted his memory too much.
> it was as simple as:

This just hides all the complexity behind a yet another layer of abstractions.

The moment something breaks due to a minor upgrade, you're screwed.
This Hanoi implementation moves stacks of odd sizes and even sizes to different destinations, but the spec says it should move towers of any size to the same destination.
And you realize that in a way they where the same humans like we are today ... maybe they did have fewer troubles
The thread is 7 years old, and DO hired competent people along the way.

The issue is not that it happened, or that they had clueless staff; the issue is that their board and senior management thought that the best way to respond to their own error was to blatantly lie in their blog that there was no problem at all.

It seems to have worked; they're massively valuable now.
Sounds like most of Reddit to be fair.
I feel bad for people writing all those unread newsletters
The kind of crime that fences, walls, gated communities, electric fencing, and metal bars serve to protect against are the kinds of crimes that are deprioritised by corrupt governments who would rather have their law enforcement look into monitoring and suppressing political dissent because that's more of a direct threat to their power.

If a society is willing to give up their privacy then governments can be lazier because they'll be more aware of their direct threats, therefore they need less awareness of actual societal problems, which are indirect threats.
> I'm going to guess that you have to tip them as well?

Regular tipping of gas station attendants is not really a part of New Jersey culture. But people tend to give tips before the holidays, and sometimes during especially bad weather.
Igalia seems like such a great company. They are doing lots of important and exciting things in open source. Sure, they get paid for it and all that, but it seems like such a cool idea. I am glad it seems to work for them
Webpack Headache
Johns Hopkins Poker Course
Internationalization and Google Spreadsheet = ️
Another good course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-s5...
inherit_errexit
If set, command substitution inherits the value of the errexit option,
instead of unsetting it in the subshell environment. This option is
enabled when posix mode is enabled.

So must I presume older versions were already doing that without needing an option set?
I do see your point but let me say a bit about performance, performance matters a whole lot if your software is being used seriously all day long for getting things done in the real world.

If your software is going to be someone's day job it can't afford to be slow because users would take note and complain loud and clear because it's wasting their time. Just imagine git taking 15mins for showing diffs, would you accept that for an improvement in code readability and straightforwardness.

So for different industries there are different X's that matter a whole lot more than mere readability and developer convenience.
I think OP suggest fully automatic tracking.
If it's a solid in that state, will it remain a solid if you remove the container?
It very much depends on the contact tracing apps.

Some contract tracing apps have been developed with privacy built-in right from the start, for example the "official" German one recommended by the German government [1].

The technical means exist that data can be collected decentralised in such a way that only in case of an infection, with consent of the persons involved, information is passed on to others.

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/german-covid-19-warning-app-wins-on-us...
Sounds like anything political on Reddit.
That level of specialization doesn’t really exist in the US outside of the Oklahoma Surgery Center. Surgeons do a kind of surgery, not a particular surgery. That’s part of why some Indian surgical places are so good; much, much more specialization than is the norm in North America or Europe.
Can you provide links to any of those weird regressions?
Nevermind the article, I find the design, scrolling and layout of the site fascinating (desktop).
Even if they are, they affect the market, because so many people read it.
I'd see the equivalence is more choosing video game characters, where you now have far more options.
When your Business says, “Tech ain't Rocket Science”
And yet pilots often read checklists, even after thousands of flight hours. In fact, they are often required to. It is a way to make sure they don't skip steps that are important in case of emergency. Emergencies don't happen often, and it is easy to forget them when things become routine.

So it is understandable you want an experienced surgeon to do your procedure, but if a surgeon is reading a textbook, it doesn't mean he is less experienced than one who doesn't. He may be less confident, but if you consider the Dunning–Kruger effect, it is not necessarily a bad thing.
Mathematical notation is context-dependent and denser than code, you can't map directly from one to the other.
I would rather surgical teams had industry-standard automated tracking technology with (for example) bar codes and radio frequency tags, than a checklist.
> In this screenshot, this app is using 286MB of memory and the official Slack app is using 200MB, how is this better?

Yes not sure where they got the 1.2x ratio in their favor, although if we're only rounding to the nearest unit the official slack uses 220MB, not 200.

TBF the machine has plenty of memory available, so trading some memory for less CPU time, less GPU time, better idling and faster startup seems… a pretty good tradeoff.

The one thing I'm doubtful of is whether the official slack application really does nothing but wrap the webapp with no additional functions?
If anyone is unfamiliar with WSB this is a good (albeit tongue-in-cheek) summary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg85H26wyLk
I think the problem is more that certain influential technologists have failed to heed the warnings of dissenters in their own field. There have been large bodies of work from technologists critical of the creeping technological panopticon that becomes possible via increased interconnectivity since at least the 1980s.
Image Stacking and Signal Quality
An independent developer - sure. But Google developers should not be actively making other browser's access worse. (They did)
Thx Robinhood. Plus Robinhood partners get to front all of those trades anyways, right?
I like this trader who posts his trades: https://gregorymannarino.substack.com I do not act on it. If I was to buy more stock it would be something 'boring' like s&p500 tracker.
On the other hand, tesla doesn't offer many choices. Maybe took a page from the iphone colors playbook.
No, you'd return it or buy it out, but that begs the questions - if you had two identical models, but different colors, would the less desirable color have a lower residual at the end of the lease?

I'd assume so since the dealer needs to off-load it and if it's a wacky color, they won't get as much.

Or maybe the choice of colors for lease vehicles is limited to ones that aren't hard to off-load at the end of the lease?
"...Take it as a fact that you’ll commonly have higher standards than your audience. This applies to software, actors, musicians, whatever..."

Can you explain this a bit more? I do not see this is commonly true, it is the exception and not the rule in many cases of 'someone and their audience'.

It might be true that that 'someone' believes it, however misguided.
Show HN: Simple AWS CloudFront site easily gets Lighthouse score 100
AMZ Driverless Fully Autonomous Racing System
Tiny little projects From Beginners – Learn By Doing
There's little money in selling broccoli and kale.

But the science is very clear. Eat more veggies and fruits.
> 1% priceless insight

Are there real examples of this? Not "the stock was discussed on r/WSB and then went up," but a cogent line of validated analysis one would pay for on Wall Street?
Educational examples are rarely "real world", and anything "real world" is usually too complex to make the underlying principles clear. In quicksort, for example, any genuine example code has to deal with the partitioning code, and then the recursion aspect is swamped with the details of getting the partitioning right. Trying to avoid that by simply describing the algorithm is generally unsatisfying.

I'm going to write a follow-up post to this with a genuine real-world (well, pure maths calculation) example ... perhaps you will find that more satisfying.
A really cool student competition!

More info here: https://driverless.amzracing.ch/

Lots of code on github: https://github.com/AMZ-Driverless/fsd-resources
Authors node is people who don't know where to put their time and need some push.
You've got a motivation problem.

Basically you want someone to take the risk to take your ideas onwards and then take the credit... Most people won't do that without some financial or other motivation.

Question you need to ask is - why would I care about your solution?
> Ripcord is great, if you're willing to take the functionality tradeoff in exchange for not using 800MB of RAM. I'm quite willing to do that.

In OP's context you're also using a Qt application of macos, which is as much a match made in heaven as using x11 applications on macos (very much not).
Wait a second, does it yield an exact inverse or a numerical approximation?
> industry-standard automated tracking technology with (for example) bar codes and radio frequency tags, than a checklist

The book referenced, The Checklist Manifesto, is worth a read. Checklists outperform automated tracking technologies because checklists don't silently fail.
I'm aware that the content is lacking, but I'm honestly a little bit fascinated by the speed of AWS Route53 + CloudFront and how easy and cheap it was to deploy a static site.

I am now working on generating the actual site in Jekyll.
> but a bunch of Java is easier to figure out, because it's plain as a cloth sack.

I think you have been lucky! I have seen plenty of Java which was confusingly overdesigned.
Very cool. This could give Plot.ly a run for its money in the data science community.

Also regarding Figure 2, and at the risk of sounding cliché: my inner graphic designer is weeping at the use of Comic Sans as their choice of code font.
Thats a great explanation. I always though freshwater sailor was just an insult.
Tolstoy as philosopher
How do you mount your phone to the top of the laptop screen?
Show HN: A catalog of PHP applications running on .NET Core
what is a big deal then? Unusable area? Mining coal or rare earth for solar panel already do that for you on a two order of magnitude difference at least (not counting detroyed montaintops and water pollution). Population displacement? Yeah, again an order of magnitude inferior to dammage caused by mining (this time counting water pollution). Not counting when hydro power fail: two order of magnitude differential just counting china barrage failure.

Would you dissmiss hydro power because of the barrage incident then? Because last time i checked, the death toll, the displacment toll and the lost land caused by hydro power were a lot more than nuclear for sensibly the same power production.

Is it waste that grind your gear? Yeah, speak to the people who live near cadmium mines where nothing can grow anymore.
Also a Co2 surplus in high atmosphere last around 100 000 years (order of magnitude here). Compare that to the dangerous radioactive waste. Also, coal mining and burning cause the area around to be more radioactive than the area around fukushima, or French uranium mines. Weird, no?

You know why you really don't like nuclear power? Its because with solar panel, oil and coal, the externalities are paid by poor populations in China, India, Africa or south America. So its better for you (or me). Its because hydro power failure only happened in poor countries. Or rather, country you don't really know or care about. Italia, Brazil, China barrage failure each have death toll superior to fukushima + chernobyl counting displacement caused deaths (avoidable deaths).
Yes what you cite has little to do with mergers and acquisitions (m&a) that the parent post was talking about. While the examples i gave were acquisitions that got congressional attention
Gay Chase
> If you are not between the ages of eighteen and forty-five, or if you happen to be a woman, you may not know what Dungeons & Dragons is, exactly, or why you would want to get involved with it, even in the context of an essay in a respectable magazine such as this one.

Why does it need to be mentioned that as a woman, you may not know D&D?

I usually loathe the sexism debates on the Internet despite their importance (I loathe the 'how', not the 'why'). But it's gotta be called out, that's an unnecessarily degrading sentence where I lost all respect for the author in a single punch.

I know it's predominately nerd/male. I don't play D&D but the only people I know who play it are one guy and two women. So that sentence really bewildered me and it shines a light on why not more women feel comfortable playing this stuff.
> Robinhood partners get to front all of those trades

If you give me, your broker, an order to buy 100 shares of Apple, and I buy Apple stock before executing your order, that's front running.

If you give me, your market maker, an order to buy 100 shares of Apple and I sell them to you out of my inventory, I'm making a market, not front running. If you give me, your execution partner, an order to buy 100 shares of Apple and I sell them to you at the national best offer (NBBO) while simultaneously or immediately thereafter buying them somewhere else for a lower price, I'm giving you execution for a price, not front running.
Reddit’s Censorship of the Great Barrington Declaration
Sure, but aljazeera can sign a deepfake with their key just as readily as a real video, the signature does not ensure the realness of the video - it can only establish a part of it's "chain of sources".
I seem to be one of the lucky 10.000 today. I was not aware that this kind of information is collected like this.
Why Look at Flying Saucers?
Relevant thread (includes links): https://sunbeam.city/@tty/103297788574962594
Is coding a must-have life skill of the future?
The added value of commercial threat intelligence [pdf]
Smart Mask News #20
Tree navigation, such as file system, is probably the best real world example off the top of my head.
I am not sure for normal app. But, for gaming, it is common to download the app from third party app store.
There's a quantum aspect to learning, if your learn speckles of everything, your 'energy' level doesn't go up. If you go breadth first, you have to cross some pragmatic, practical, real newness barriers, keep that in mind.
Or if they're playing 4D chess and want more investors to make stupid mistakes by taking advice from WSB. One person's loss is another person's gain.
The first, and last, new car I had was a special red. Funny enough, it increased resale value. Hard to find used cars in anything else than various shades of white, grey or black. So black it is now.

Ah, and sand with a bright orange roof on my hobby/project car.
Given that the Tesla Model 3 has limited customization options and has now become the “California Camry” (meaning, they’re everywhere), wrapping has become very popular in the Tesla community as a way of differentiating your car.
An above post mentioned it is actually not google implementing it, but Igalia:

https://mathml.igalia.com/
Is there an independent reference for this?

In my experience, checklists almost always silently fail.

[Edited to add: 2015 column in Nature suggests studies giving positive results to checklists don't replicate:
https://www.nature.com/news/hospital-checklists-are-meant-to... ]
Restrictions on everyone seem to be the alternative (Madrid and Paris are restricting everyone again). That is going to be far worse for the economy.
* Captains of Crush.

(There's only one captain of crunch, and he's too busy cleaning up after a berry-related mishap to help anyone.)
> The best advice from the worst investors on the internet

I like the catch phrase, lol
Reason not the need: Self-storage and the dream of infinite space
Working Around the Cap Theorem with Eric Brewer
Why not just use npm at that point?
Red also fades badly.
Comparing anyone to Mr Glitter comes with some less-than-savoury baggage. Instead, here's a link to an article describing the second careers of ten other famous musicians - https://www.considerable.com/work/second-careers/famous-musi...
An interesting read on writing is Stephen King's "On Writing - A Memoir of The Craft":

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10569.On_Writing

One of the things he mentions in his book is to be judicious in editing your own texts, removing any words that do not add to the actual message that you're trying to get across. For instance, in the last sentence, I ought to have removed the word 'actual'.

I think some of this advice could probably apply to this article as well.
“Powered by” buttons for customer acquisition
WebGL Xmas Experiments
Artvee – Download Hi-Res Public Domain Art, Posters and Illustrations
Parcel is a rare thing in the JS world: a tool I’ve actually found useful and efficient. As a bundler, it does indeed do a lot of things correctly out of the box, and as a direct result the experience of using it is far more pleasant than most such tools.

However, it is also a tool for one job: bundling. If you also want to do things like unit testing or running any sort of linter or style checker over your code, you probably need to figure out how to get those tools to read your TS or ES20xx code as well. You might still need a handful of additional libraries to implement your test suite. You might still need to configure your preferred style and which rules you want to enforce in your static analyser(s).

So even if Parcel was flawless about installing what you needed for your dev and production builds automatically, you’d still end up needing to install a bunch of other tools and write a bunch of other configuration files. The overall efficiency of setting up a realistic development environment, even using Parcel, is still limited by a kind of Amdahl’s Law problem.
Amazing, the quality makes you feel as if you're there.

Sometimes the coloring looks a bit odd, e.g. here:

https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net/collections/herbe...

For others, I almost can't believe it's hand painted, this looks like it's a real color photograph with such fine detail and natural colors:

https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net/collections/herbe...

Actually, it's almost always the red paint that's the most clearly manually done, I wonder what made the blue/green/yellow easier, maybe just because they're more subtle
I read the article, but started to get a bit disappointed, when it got to competing and advancing one's career/impact. It espouses a different motivation from the one that drives me.

I'm not against these. After all, it's why most folks get into whatever they are doing. We all need to keep a roof over our heads, and food on the table. We also want to feel good about what we do. It's just not why I do what I do.

I do what I do, directly as a love of the craft, and all my work is an act of creation.

I get up early every morning, and walk a couple of miles. It's usually dark, when I do, and I use the time to sort through what I'll be doing that day. A lot of that "sorting" is a moral and motivational inventory. I figure out what I want to do, and also why I want to do it. If I can't come up with a compelling why, then I have to reconsider the what.

I do enjoy writing. I've done a lot of it[0], and will do more. I don't have a schedule for writing prose. I tend to churn something out once a month or so, but I will sometimes do a couple of articles in fairly quick succession.

I do them for myself. It's nice if people read them, but they really help me to clarify what and why I do, as well as how. Like everything else I do, I apply a lot of polish and refinement; even if I am the only person that will ever read it. One of my habits, is that everything I do, I do as "ship." When even my casual throwaway experiments consist of a level of quality not seen in many large-scale industrial apps, then the stuff I'm serious about, is likely to be fairly robust.

The one daily thing that I like to do, is write code every day. Not just LeetCode (in fact, I never practice that stuff). I like to write "keeper" code, every day, 366 days a year. Of course, I'm not able to actually get that done every day, but I get most days done. My GH Activity Graph is pretty much solid green[1].

I've been at this game a while, and a lot of what I do is almost "instinctual." Basically, "muscle memory." When I'm working on a a project, I don't whip out my GoF Design Patterns book, and figure out which of the Basic Patterns I'll be using, or my copy of Rapid Development, to set out a project plan; I just start writing an OBSERVER or ADAPTER, without bothering to call it that. In fact, the only reason that I tend to use industry jargon, is when I'm trying to leave a trail of breadcrumbs for maintainers. Otherwise, I often make up my own terminology.

I'm a bit "on the spectrum," and tend to live in my own world. It can be a massively productive world, but is insular.

When I write -especially about how I do stuff, it often forces me to get out of "muscle memory," and into the same world everyone else lives in. I have to explain what I do to an audience that is larger than just myself.

So, it's great if people like what I write, but it really doesn't matter that much (at, least, to me).

[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/

[1] https://github.com/ChrisMarshallNY#github-stuff
MathJax is more complete than KaTeX and it is supported on GitHub Pages, see also https://g14n.info/2014/09/math-on-github-pages/