skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The lecture COVID-19 data analytics was given at the Technical University Kaiserslautern, Germany, Summer 2020.
The goal is to transport the best practices of data science from the industry while developing a COVID-19 analysis prototype.

The student should learn the process of modeling (Python) and a methodology to approach a business problem.

The final result will be a dynamic dashboard - which can be updated by one click - of COVID-19 data with filtered and calculated data sets like the current Doubling Rate of confirmed cases

Techniques used are REST Services, Python Pandas, scikit-learn, Facebook Prophet, Plotly, Dash, and SIR virus spread simulations + bonus section Tableau for visual analytics

The lecture was recorded quite early during the pandemic in March 2020 when the lecturer was in quarantine and had to prepare for the new lecture season purely in remote style. Any feedback for improvement is welcome.
best regards
Frank
It's not other people's bugs. It's your bugs. You created them in the first place, and somebody is offering to help you _for free_ by reporting them. Charging them for helping you is outright stupid.
I did read the article and it is all public data irrespective of what you want.
> no javascript

To be clear, sourcehut does occasionally use JavaScript, it’s just very conservative and optional.
You are thinking of “selective availability” which was turned off over 20 years ago https://www.gps.gov/systems/gps/modernization/sa/
It's funny but I happen to be reading this on a desktop with an AGM (sealed lead acid in fiberglass) battery backup.
To be clear, I would work on a ASP.NET WebForms project again before I ever touch another RoR project.
Yeah totally.

The best talk I ever heard related to YC was from Adam d’Angelo at a startup school (#2?) - where he spent most of his time quietly just saying to people: use your connections. And for 5% of the audience I’m sure it went in one ear and out the other.

There’s a lot to be said for being forced to slow down and learn the content around smart peers and professors tho.

Agreed possible online just requires more drive and focus and the number of people who can / have the time / interest / motivation to do that starts to trail off (but the world is large).

The other big thing schools like this do to you is inject a healthy dose of competitiveness for the rest of your life since you know there are a lot of things that aren’t special about the people there but are about their results.
> I can tell you that all bug reports are always processed for free and on a high priority

Even if they come from someone who’s pirating your software instead of paying for it?
"More news outlets" you say. That prase includes the word "news". without saying anything about what "news" is. Traditionally that's factual, correct information about new developments in some geographic area or other part of the world.

The Trump that spews 50 lies per day isn't going to open an company that's restricted to or even focused on factually correct stories, so I think it's wrong to call that a news outlet, even if Trump himself does so.

See https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/07/13/president... for example.

If you want to argue that opening a fifty-lies-per-day streaming site is a good idea and fine for the world, by all means do so. But please don't call it news.
The difference is nukes.
now just get me to flying altitude
I assume you mean SLE instead of "SEL"?
- Running

- Breathing/Pranayama

- Avoiding wheat and sugar

- Eating leafy greens and dry fruits
the last few days in the US were a rollercoaster but anxiety is not depression.
Oversharing is a thing with modern media. But, does the emotional response really feel different than in person interactions?
I agree with you too. I think it's a mix of exec and management dont fully grasp the job and its implications if you shortcut too much. At the same time, too many data sci are in it for the keyword/sexiness of the job and are not of the personality type to take hardline stands. Inexperience leads to a lack of trust from higher ups. A lack of backbone from the experienced results in performing more incompetence. Which results in more lack of trust. Experienced personnel leave, more inexperienced comes in and do things the cheap, shortcut, buy bad data way, plus no backbone to combat against this when seen... and you see how this can spiral into a shitshow that I've been noticing in some consulting projects I've been in.

But yes, data collection should be part of their job. I'm having a hard time understanding why the person who analyzes the data should have a good word at least in what data is collected.
1. For me, music that I like and especially Mozart can improve my mood and make me feel much more relaxed and in the moment.

2. Meeting with Friends! although in Covid times it is much difficult. Even if you meet with a friend or family once or twice a week it can make a different.

3. Learning something new that interests you by taking online courses.

4. Sometimes just going offline and just resting and letting you mind wander can improve your mood.
> They can't do that AND profess to support free speech within their club.

This is, empirically, false.

Just as the right can chant “freedom of religion” and mean by that “freedom of my religion to impose it's views on others while others are suppressed”, they can also chant “freedom of speech” and mean the exact same thing with “speech” in place of “religion”.
Minimum level flight speed is called an aircraft’s stall speeds, which is different than their ideal glide speeds. Wingsuits have a glide ratio of ~2.5:1 (horizontal:vertical) which is not that much better than just falling as a normal skydiver can hit 1:1.

To maintain level flight they need to generate a lot more lift, while carrying the extra weight of an engine. By comparison a 747 has a glide ratio of 15:1 and depending on specific model and how much weight it has onboard it will stall in level flight around 180MPH. While many aircraft can fly at much lower speeds, a wingsuit is a terrible aircraft.
I think they did a fine job considering all the constraints. The ISA was created in 1999, but the first widely used 64-bit OS (vista) didn't release until 7 years later. In truth, I doubt 64-bit systems became more than half of all systems until a couple years after the release of Window 7 in 2009 (a full decade later).

Every transistor used for x86_64 that couldn't also be used for x86 was a competitive liability (increasing size, power, R&D, etc without any real payoff). I think their decisions make a lot of sense given all the constraints.
If you want speech install festival just like you would on desktop.
It is free. It's so free that you are not just not paying, you even have the freedom to fix the issue yourself.

And contributing the fix upstream is not selfless either. You don't want to keep dragging the patch along with every new release. You want it upstream so that you can forget about it.

Just as much as the maintainer can now fix a bug which somebody else for free reported and even contributed a patch. Refusing to even listen is mindbogglingly stupid.

Of course there can be disagreement about whether the bug is worth fixing or whether the patch is a good solution. But that's a different story.
The Reddit and Twitter controls, at least, are attempts to stem the tide of bots and spam. They’re trying to keep the quality of discussion higher on their platform, and I appreciate that as a user. I think the controls are reasonable.

Facebook is creepy as fuck though. Recently I was logging on from a new location, and haven’t given them my phone number for 2FA. The only option they provided was for me to send in photos of my DRIVER’S LICENSE - are you kidding me?
> and optional.

This is imho the most important part.
All three of those services are centralized though. I'm talking about things I can host.
In short, it's a matter of attitude.

No, you're not obligated to respond to bug reports, but bug reports do provide value to your project, and not acknowledging that value is just as rude as their expectation that you fix it.

The correct way to address this is an auto responder that says "Thank you for the bug report - we appreciate it; however, as this is a volunteer project, we do not guarantee
a response, timely or otherwise. If you have a commercial, pressing need for this bug to be solved, we suggest filing a paid support ticket here: <link>."

An important point is that reviewing a PR is also a time-consuming effort, the only difference is that it requires time on the submitter's part as well; I would be wary of recommending submitting a PR without talking to me first, since I may not have time to review it either, and then you've just wasted your time.
Just what we need, stronger filter bubbles and less debate across ideological divides.
It is extremely difficult to disagree with Eric Schmidt:

"The context of social networks serving as amplifiers for idiots and crazy people is not what we intended".
Leaving curation to the user means certain users will have good feeds and others will have horrible feeds, with the default being horrible feeds.

Thus, Twitter is horrible, no matter the fake emotional output of a single user's anecdotal experience.
I think they do contribute to local economy. Google provides services which make lives of millions of people better. Search and maps are two. Android is another one. It's only thanks to Android being developed people have access to amazingly cheap powerful and useful devices.
Maps saves billions for people: you don't need to buy overpriced shitty navi devices anymore. You save tons of time. Android is worth billions for EU citizens as well. Otherwise we would be stuck with shitty quality or overpriced luxury electronics. Search allows customers to not overspend when online shopping at the very least.

Both Google and Amazon make our lives so much better that even if they don't pay any taxes ever again it's worth having them. Of course that they don't pay taxes is a lie (VAT is included in their services and they have tens of thousands of employees in Europe who pay taxes on their salaries, the only thing they don't pay is a corporate tax).

I sure hope Google lobbies for laws. Otherwise we would be stuck with what local lobbies like French or German publishers want and we already know it's a mess way bigger than what Sundar Pichai would come up with if he could write the law himself.

And yes, I realize that what those companies do with privacy is not ideal. Still I remember how it sucked shopping for books in English being a student in a poor country before Amazon came along. I remember how expensive and how terrible experience navi devices were before Google Maps came along. I remember the joy and disbelief when I've first seen Google Earth: a 3d smooth map of the whole world with zoom to top it and it's completely free to use!

Google and Amazon made my life better, saved me tons of money and time, allowed me to get education and entertainment not only better but for fraction of the cost. Meanwhile when I think what EU legislators brought me: cookie law which doesn't change anything but forces me to click on pop-ups like it's 90s again. GDPR which is hot mess of a law which contributed to my life in form of endless forms I have to sign and endless privacy messages I have to listen to. The way it's implemented means I have to waste a lot of time driving now because some companies and doctor offices are no longer willing to communicate by email. Many websites not being available without VPN connection. The next thing EU sets its eyes on is crippling free speech even more. Don't get me started on all the small business killing regulation like VAT MOSS. It would be worse if the regulators didn't feel at least some heat from tech companies.
Cool. Can you back up your statements with some kind of verified proof?
IME almost everyone who's "self taught" started with some kind of mentor.
> Is the network really that much more essential to a consulting career than a PM career?

Yes. I sell projects to my former classmates all the time, and if I ever find myself out of a job, I could have a half dozen interviews within a month. The network is absolutely amazing if you go to one of the top 20 or so schools and have some people skills. You can't really make use of the network if you're a PM.

> And is the hours-adjusted total income of a consulting career that much better for wealth building than an extra million bucks pre-tax at age 30?

Lifetime income for a partner at a consulting company can easily top $30 million -- with the benefit of being able to blow the escape hatch and land in a VP role in industry if you burn out on the consulting work.
Server side Blazor is promissing to me. Simpler development by merging frontend and backend into one C# codebase but might not work well on unstable connections due to websockets. Some of my clients fall into this case.

I'm keeping a close eye on it. I also need to test how it scales with regards to handling traffic.
So you think they are not a combination of a a lot of people working in different locations at different times under different policies, and that it must be one big 'person' doing one thing?

If we're going to be that far removed from reality you might as well live in the woods and fling poo at each other.
Late to the thread, but there's an open source app called fluxtream (no S) that was designed as a personal data logger and aggregator. It might be useful for inspiration. I haven't gotten around to trying it, and don't know how well maintained it is now.
One of the statements I see a lot is that mouseless, keyboard only HCI is faster. But as far as I know, to the extent that any real studies have been done at all, this assertion is false.

I don't have the references at hand but I think people like Alan Kay and designers at Apple would think it crazy to even suggest that a keyboard only HCI is more efficient.
Unfortunately, I imagine that GitHub would kill an anti-stale bot even faster than their stale bot kills issues.
if these networks end up being used to organize terrorist activity, as they have been, they will be shutdown
I agree,its not a nice way. Rather repo owner should encourage people to submit it as bug report and not the support ticket.
later they should add tags like "volunteer contribution required","Sponsor requested". such tags to bug will do both things implicitly.
Yes, it works quite fine. Even web browsing is not too horrible if you really need it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdKNugT-mTQ

Enough for HN browsing, for sure. Even on a 1440p display.
You may find some answers in these stories. Ultimately it may mean going to court and have judges decide the amount of similarities.

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2018/07/24/the-rise-of-board...
I think editor choice is pretty subjective, but for me it's two main things:

1) Editing speed. I'm far from a Vim power user, but anytime I have to use a different editor, I'm frustrated by how slow and cumbersome it is to edit code. It feels like trying to run in water.

2) Ubiquity. It's so nice to just use the same editor everywhere, especially remotely and/or on low-powered devices.

On point #1: This is not just an issue of familiarity either; I've used way too many editors over the years, vim wasn't my first choice, and I resisted it for a long time. Once I bit the bullet (due to point #2, above), I found that the learning curve was really steep as expected. But an interesting thing happened soon after that: long before I felt proficient in Vim, the speed of editing files in Vim surpassed the speed of making the same changes in any other editor.
Old song that became so relevant and accurate recently, also from the brazilian Raul Seixas, "The day that the world stopped": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8zbYY41Vus

A bit of trivia: Paulo Coelho started his career composing songs to this guy.
> Since the majority of the media leans left and is unlikely to move to the right this currently means there is a need for right-wing main stream media to even out the field.

This is the opposite of your proposed ideal.

> It should be clear to anyone but those blinded by their own ideology that having a less politically biased media would be a good thing.

You should be promoting apolitical news, not increasingly polarized news to "even it out". Moving more right or left doesn't bring anyone closer together.
Plasma Mobile works fine on a mainline Linux kernel with a GNU userspace so there is no need to create an additional abstraction layer.

There is a project called Halium that allowed in the early days to run plasma mobile on top of the Android userspace, but we stopped working on it when all the plasma developers got their Pinephone and this was easier to work with.
> It is a little bit less likely that you dislike heartland America when you spent a year working with Fred the Farmboy before you headed to Princeton.

I find it interesting you choose this as an example, and not rather say that "Fred the Farmboy" might actually see those
"librul coastal elites" or "ivory tower intellectuals" as people like himself. The latter are terms I've actually seen used.

But on the topic of a Civilian Conservation Corp, yes, definitely bring that back!
Somewhere in the 10% range if you stick with it. Plenty of folks leave to director / VP level roles in industry before they make it though -- the job of a partner isn't one that everyone enjoys.
> You? The other maintainer didn't ask you to do that. You're not entitled to even a minute of another person's time just because you unilaterally decided to dedicate hours of yours on something.

This is just basic human decency. If someone puts in effort to help you or contribute to something you've created, just be a decent person and respond to them. It costs you nothing. There's a difference between being entitled to something and just doing something because it's the right thing to do.

No one is entitled to my gratitude because they hold the door open for me. I didn't ask them to do that. But I say "thank you" anyway because it's the right thing to do and the world would be a worse place if we were all assholes to each other always worrying about what we are and aren't "entitled" to.

This is the whole spirit of open source software. If you don't want to be bothered by other people putting in effort to collaborate with you, then don't make your project open source, or just keep it closed to issues and PRs altogether.
What I want has nothing to do with it. They got my data without my input or approval and lost said info. The onus to make this right is on them, thus the recommendation to freeze credit and one free year of credit monitoring.

Did you say the same for the equifax breach?

You thinking the information being public, complete and in a searchable format is nothing big doesn't lessen the very real impacton literally millions of people.
They work at Facebook on react native. I’m guessing they know react.
>It's still a good way to follow current events

This is where the major problem lies and you don't even realize you're complicit in it. The "current events" blasted out on Twitter are curated by Twitter admins to only show what they want to show. They place heavy over-weighting on events and discussion that they want everyone to see. They hide hashtags they don't want trending. They don't show a pure list of what's actually trending. They shadow-ban users that talk about topics they don't want talked about. They give priority to media outlets that are also involved in heavy censorship, therefore adding extra fake credibility to false narratives. And the latest is the whole "Fact check" thing, where they only fact check the discussion that they want discredited (even if it's 100% true).

You are an example how censorship is so powerful. When people believe they've found a "good way to follow current events", and refuse to question the accuracy of the medium, they quickly become prone to believing false narratives. Currently, the elites who own the media are doing everything in their power to further the left's agenda. (The active campaign is their attempt to cover up and discredit any discussion of election fraud. Also, you probably didn't hear that Zuckerberg donated half a billion dollars towards democrat vote-counting strategies) Many people want to bury their head in the sand because it aligns with their political beliefs. Hopefully this is a wake up call to some.
Thanks for that! It’s very clear now.
Damage to multiple organs in 'long' Covid cases
These right wing cesspools are dangerous places. Because the hate can be nurtured there and grown out of sight of decent people. A clear example of that was the way the Charlottesville murder at the Unite the Right rally was planned on their private Discord. The deplorable subreddits also incubated a lot of very harmful people.
> > let's be great to one another.

> I think that includes giving other maintainers the benefit of the doubt. That includes not taking being ignored as a personal insult, I think.

While I wholeheartedly agree with this, and also want everybody to be nice, it's not necessary for open source to work. A maintainer who refuses gratis help in form of bug reports is just a maintainer who leaves gratis things on the table they could pick up. Other projects who take the gratis help will do better. Evolution will weed out the idiots who don't get it.

Think Linux would have gotten big if Linus had said "stupid people, they think I take their contributions for free"? No, he deliberately used a model where thousands of people worldwide contribute to his project for free!
I pretty much just start all of my projects, no matter how small, with Django. Working with microframeworks or serverless is great at first but as soon as you need any more of the typical features that a webapp requires then you start pulling in dependencies or re-implementing half of Django yourself anyway. First you just need a little url router to some basic views. OK that's great, anything can do that. Now you need to validate some forms. Now you need to manage some session cookies. Now you need to let users reset their passwords. Now you need to look at your data and maybe export a csv. It just goes on and on.
Totally agree. My use case: 3 seconds max (launch), 3 seconds in-flight would be out of sight— total power on time between charges is well below one minute. I’m tempted to guess that this would be the most efficient way of converting electricity in wing suit applications as well.
I remember finding it really interesting when I read it in college (2002ish). Still think about it occasionally.
Wow.. Some people have managed to build a seriously high tolerance for risk.
Sorry! I meant calls, but thank you for the tip ; I did not know that either.
What you do with CloudFlare Workers can be done on AWS with Lambda@Edge [1].

[1]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/lambda-edge.htm...
The underlying technology (read-only btrfs system snapshots) is actually much older than CoreOS (in SLE it was introduced somewhere in SLE 11 IIRC) and the idea to use it in a similar way as this is almost as old.

It has multiple advantages over rpm-ostree's approach:

- Much faster (no need to manage thousands of hardlinks)

- Arbitrary modifications can be done easily in a chroot

- Not only /usr is snapshotted

- No need for layering and rebases (rpm-ostree has a base image + rpms on top, which this doesn't need)

- RPMs just work as-is, there are no hacks with %post scripts and so on
LOL using Robert Kennedy as a source. You fucking anti-vaxxers.

In fact, there were only 17 cases of vaccine-derived poliovirus cases between 2000 and 2017.

Source:
https://thelogicalindian.com/fact-check/bill-gates-polio-vac...
I'd say obfuscation is creating a level of indirection just to look modular. Moving things complex dependent side effects into separate functions just hides what is going on instead of clarifying it.

void MajorFunction( void ) {
MinorFunction1();
MinorFunction2();
MinorFunction3();
}

This can often be better inlined because then the complexity is obvious.