skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And the sister of the brother who died there is asking for people to please not go there and for the link to be deleted (from the group; I'm not sure they realize how viral it went).

That seems a very strange request given that it is public land. If it were private property that would be different, but this location is owned by the public.

Also, if it’s a memorial, it seems he might want people to visit it. Isn’t that the point of a memorial? To remember something?
Whoever is running marketing at hey.com seems to be very inspired by the marketing that Cards Against Humanity has been doing.
YOLO!

/s

[I was watching the local, weekly COVID status update and one of our county health officials broke down and started crying. This isn't a joking matter.]
Definitely interesting. Makes me wonder about the performance of sum types for error handling (e.g., Result in Rust).
Well you can certainly have your own perspective, I just disagree 100% with it and will use whatever means I have to make sure that the tiny bits of nature we have left are preserved to the extent possible. Some aluminum "art" in the middle of nowhere is a perversion and should be garbage collected. That's my view, which I will use dollars and my vote toward.
Your counterexample is a straw man argument where the example approaches abuse.

My reasoning of why employee surveillance is fine is that there's a genuine purpose/need (measuring employee productivity) while personal privacy is retained (e.g. don't import personal information into the corporate 365 environment and personal privacy is retained). I'm not saying the metrics provided by 365 are correct, but I don't see the legal argument against it.
My understanding is that metabolic-induced stress (degradation, esspecially genetic) was a major factor.

It's also possible that earlier similar transitions occured but were overwhelmed by the surviving eukaryotic line, whether due to greater metabolic effectiveness, superior repair capabilities, or other factors.
Bitcoin Is Near All-Time Highs and the Mainstream Doesn't Care Yet
What, pray tell, do you think the "L" in "DSL" represents?
The fishy parts are about cloud-mercato
Not scaleway
Women have to deal with near-constant harassment on dating apps. That's a pretty big disincentive to stay active on an app.
As someone recently working in hospitals (in Europe), no it cannot. Medical issues can rapidly and permanently reduce you to government support, which is guaranteed to destroy your financial situation quickly.

Also, quite a lot of treatments are not done, or have absurd waiting lists, so you’ll be tempted to get yourself into medical bankruptcy anyway by going private/abroad. Either that or accept delayed subpar care. Or no care at all.
I've run into many more performance issues with editor latency (i.e. tsserver) than with compiling (tsc). Unfortunately, these tend to be harder to diagnose.

The worst turned out to be a crashing bug in tsserver that manifested as autocomplete and error checking feeling sluggish, I think because the language service kept restarting. It made me feel grumpy about TS for a month or two before I finally looked at the server logs (using the instructions on this page). That quickly led me to this bug: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/35036. Even though it took a while to get fixed, I felt immensely better that the problem was real, acknowledged, etc.

Nowadays my biggest performance issue is with the Material-UI typings.
Many organizations with good intent and survive on donations end up astray - see Red Cross and Haiti.

Donating money to some organization that claims they will plant trees to offset some amount of greenhouse gas emissions is a lot like trusting the American Red Cross to build houses and schools after a disaster. You're hoping they do what they promise (and instead of doing that, the American Red Cross billed majority of the donations as "Administrative Fees"[1]).

So, in reality you may or may not be "cleaning up after yourself". Actually, you're not cleaning up after yourself... you're outsourcing that job (and don't actually care if it gets done) so you can feel free to release more greenhouse gases.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2015/06/03/411524156/in-search-of-the-re...
This app infects your computer with COVID-19 statistics
not OP, but I prefer https://github.com/azkaban/azkaban to airflow
If sin were a globally distributed problem where:

1. the aggregate amount of sin in the world caused suffering

2. indulgences actually reduced the aggregate amount of sin in the world

then the indulgence system would make perfect sense. I agree there are problems with offsets and many of them aren't credible, but this indulgences metaphor has never made sense to me.
Doubt it. Cellular endosymbiosis has happened lots of times on Earth. Besides the common algae symbiosis, I once read a paper that contained a casual reference to dinoflagellate-based organnelles in a larger cell. And dinoflagellates are eukaryotes themselves!
Because being the last person to die would be ... good?
KubeCon NA 2020 Key Takeaways: Platforms, Safety, and End Users
This has not been my experience consulting at all.

Unless you're working for a small company directly for the owner you will be dealing with someone who has to convince their boss the project was a success or you were responsible for the failure. And you need to care about a lot of metrics and outcomes to make that you are successful as measured by those metrics, or that it doesn't look like you are responsible for the failure.

Just doing a great job doesn't cut it. No client ever really wants on day 90 what they signed up for on day 1. For most clients the person who is signing your checks, the person you work with on a day to day basis, and the people who will be using your apps will be different people. They will all have different ideas of what success and failure are, and they all have other people they are responsible to. And all of these tensions need to be managed successfully, and this involves a ton of BS that is completely unrelated to what a naïve engineer would describe as "delivering value".

In a normal job your boss is usually your friend, and looks bad if he throws you under the bus. This is not the same for a lot of consulting engagements where people are highly motived to blame their failures on you.
I just get a "Cookie Absent" redirect.
When you have one data point, you can fit whatever curve you want to it!
Show HN: Conducto – Use Python to write, run, view and debug DevOps pipelines
That's a good thought. I wonder if such a case mod as I propose could be done non-destructively. That is, if you were done with the modern PC inside, could you easily re-convert it back to a NeXTcube? I have no real idea, since I've never seen inside of one. :/
How is a Barista's work different in SF vs Oklahoma? Making coffee is the same process (and I'm talking about regular baristas). It is unequal pay for the same work, in different locations.
For me its mostly "Spring 2020", "Summer 2020" etc. Which is what I was listening to around that time
When distributed systems Go wrong (transcript)
I've read around 75% of the aluminum ever produced is still in use today. If you machine a new surface on aluminum, it will form an aluminum oxide layer in a matter of hours. I believe (but am not certain) this effectively prevents it from degrading the way steel does over time.

Aluminum can recycling rates tend to be higher in states that offer deposit programs. Back when they were getting introduced in the 80's, $0.05/container had a lot more buying power than it does today. It's enough of an annoyance now, they'd be best off eliminating it or increasing it to ~$0.15 or so. Or since this is HackerNews, maybe we could use block chain technology to verify each can is properly recycled and reimburse with bitcoin.
Hey everyone! This is our sandbox to see the code and execution of a pipeline directly in the browser (although typically you would edit your code on your local machine). In this case, the pipeline is building, testing, and deploying a simple Flask app. There are a few other DevOps and data science pipeline examples in the sandbox too. Check out https://www.conducto.com/docs to see how it works.
And you need to reinvent what glibc does with nsswitch.
Seems reasonably solid AFAICT?
Thanks for the loss function reference! I wonder if there’s something waiting to be discovered here about doing gradient descent but only taking steps with some probability. Definitely something to think about, I can’t imagine this idea hasn’t been explored before.
Thanks a lot for the insightful comments, I’ve definitely seen that work in a very new light after knowing about it for years!!
Basecamp sure knows their funnel. First the App Store drama, now this - hats off to whoever is marketing this thing.
They even say in the instructions:

Admittedly, this challenge far oversimplifies the depth of the quantitative problems Jane Streeters work on daily, and Jane Street is happy with the performance of its existing trading model for this particular question.
I'm thinking of it more on an org level though - i.e. have one person who all scheduling goes through, with the expectation that they're continuously optimizing everyone's calendars.
Backbone never got really popular here (Sweden). I still see some legacy apps running Angular but React took over from jQuery quite fast in 2015 or so. What I have noticed thouhg is that people who like MVC-frameworks tend to like using libraries similar to Vue and those who have more of an application approach to web apps tend to like React. Personally I think I got a bad first impression from Vue and have had a hard time trying to get to like it (I know it is popular). I think libraries such as Svelte and dev environments similar to Snowpack will gain traction the coming years. Focus on Developer Experience and doing the heavy lifting in the dev environment.
I've used Scaleway for several projects across many years, personal experience for those interested:

Pros:

- often free/unmetered bandwidth - very useful for some projects

- relatively cheap prices

- low downtime in general

- decent support ticket response times

Cons:

- CPU is generally rather slow, very noticeable compared to mainstream providers like AWS, GC, etc

- little selection of some parameters such as location (only Paris, Amsertdam, Warsaw)

- have had some issues with stopping/starting instances being absurdly slow due to how they move the entire disk around in the past

I think they're a decent choice for side projects that are intended to run at a low cost scale, since the unmetered bandwidth can add up to a lot of savings compared to some competitors (they don't lie about unmetered either - I used to have a $4/month instance that sometimes used >10TB/month, and they never complained), but I likely wouldn't use them for a serious or high-growth startup.
"Surely makes sense to be open to meet as many people as possible?"

Tell me that after a dozen awkward first dates! The more particular I have become about finding new people to go out with, the better the quality of my dates. Now, I usually feel more or less certain I'll at least get along with the person. And yeah, I missed out on another dozen potential dates, some of which probably would also be good matches, but many surely would not be.
Yeah.

This looks to me like a hubristic level of extrapolation from a single data point.
I’m not sure most people would be comfortable with doctors that have zero on-the-job training. There are some places that don’t require it or only require it for a short period but I think most people are in the camp that residency programs are a good thing and not an artificial barrier.
Mostly because it’s impossible to accurately predict the market - and this is just a competition to see who can build the best model.
Tolerance is out of fashion at Cambridge University
Unless the derivative work was created with permission.
Jane Street is big in OCaml and CompSci worlds but the only guy I know who worked there did ETF arbitrage/redemption/creation which has to be one of the most boring businesses on the street. Is it worth working there (aside from the salaries)?
Genuine question: Does that work if you use the different browsers for different purposes? Like chrome for work, firefox for personal stuff, safari when on mobile, firefox private mode for… other personal stuff.

Seems like the browsing patterns would be very different depending on browser.
Medical license rules differ by state, but doctors need at least 1 year of postgraduate training to apply for a license (though without completing a residency, which is 3 years at a minimum, career options are severely limited).
I'm pretty sure rich and famous men do that outside of Asia too. They're not doing it because they can't find women who would sleep with them.
One thing women absolutely do not want are men who make sweeping generalizations about all women, based on no evidence or compelling arguments.
Now.. this is the kind of performance art/marketing scheme I can get behind.
Mysterious metal monolith discovered in rural Utah
This is just personal opinion: The one-way flow has made functional React components very noisy in terms of state and effects management.

For examples, here's a comparison implementing the same functionality using React hooks and Svelte: https://github.com/joshnuss/react-hooks-in-svelte

Now, there are ways to handle all this with less code in React as well (for example, MobX), but the current de facto defaults with hooks and Redux create so. much. boilerplate. for. every. little. thing.
A lot of these comments are suggesting CSS frameworks. If you're looking for built-out templates, https://html5up.net/ provides decent ones.
It makes sense. We had multiple "resets" of life on Earth (not all the way back to zero), but we only developed intelligence once it seems.

As for the chance of life, very hard to predict since we only know of our case.
Well-written summary about the current[^] state of Coronavirus vaccine research by a NYC microbiology professor. Much easier to read on Threadreader: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1310372301314101250.html

[^] "(this was written 2 months ago before we had Phase III data)" https://twitter.com/florian_krammer/status/13312080156016599...
This is an interesting take. Are the total bytes of text, pictures, and video produced by the news media some significant fraction of the total bytes output by humanity? I'm not sure but also I'm not sure why it matters.

I wonder why people seem to be surprised/upset/perturbed at news media polarization. Humans read the news for fun/excitement/engagement/etc. The vast majority don't have to read the news, they choose to. They choose to read the news over engaging in some other activity that might be more fun/etc. Therefore the news competes with all other fun things to do. Opinion and polarization are more fun and exciting and outrage-inducing than dry, unbiased, fact-based reporting - so you see more and more of the former and less and less of the latter.

This is because of how humans are. This isn't because there are mean content producers. The content that wins is a reflection of humanity. Generally we like to consume content that invokes emotion; facts are boring.

As an aside, I watch (with what I wish wasn't a touch of schadenfreude) as people get upset at the decline of the newspaper industry. I guess it turns out that humans don't really care about journalistic ethics - they just want a hit of dopamine. The noble-ness of journalism IS noble and to be lauded, because it prescribes a standard that goes against the grain of the typical media consumer.
Instead of declaring a message and creating it with a call to the (now obsolete) module specific to the structure being transmitted, one simply passed the structure to the message-send api. The conversion template to 'Message' automatically rewrote the structure argument as a message argument.

I was re-writing the driver as a simple C++ set of pure virtual objects and implementations for my hardware. So when I scavenged code to send a certain structure as a message, I simply didn't make the old calls. I remember I did (for some reason) edit all the old modules to use the new API, to prove it still worked I guess. A long afternoon of search and replace.

The (Korean?) company that owned the driver must have had a team or something. It was extremely brain-dead code for every element of an 802.11/ethernet abstraction as a separate module, done twice (once for the driver; once for the module firmware). Double structure definitions for everything.

My team wanted a walk-thru of the existing driver. I scheduled two hours, one before lunch and one after. I opened with "I've brought just the 500 most significant modules today, and we're going to walk thru a connection and message send". Proceeded to open dozens of nested module references on a very long path from triggering a connection attempt to exchanging the first message for negotiation. The hour was up.

Nobody came to the 2nd hour after lunch.
As I noted in another response, you can't cast a rectangular prism and expect a good result. You'd need to add some angle to the edges to ensure it solidifies correctly, but doing so takes away from the monolith feel.

That's also a lot of polishing for the finish you would get from sand casting.
> The AMA has a Chief Strategy Officer who was paid $1,130,000 in 2018.

> The AMA has a Chief Operating Officer who was paid $1,350,000 in 2018.

> The AMA has a Chief Financial Officer who was paid … huh? … only $730,000 in 2018. Wow, that’s weird. I mean, she’s the only woman in the C-suite, but I’m sure that has nothing to do with it. I think we all know that being a CFO is nowhere near as rigorous or demanding a job as being a ((checks notes)) Chief Strategy Officer...

> That’s Jim Madara... telling us that the core challenge for the medical profession in general and the AMA in particular will be finding ways to address health inequity – the disparate healthcare outcomes for Americans stemming from food and housing insecurity, limited access to transportation, and above all, income inequality.

A great demonstration of what "diversity," "the triple bottom line," "social responsibility" and "addressing income inequality" really looks like at the corporate level.
For those too lazy to read the article, it's 91% faster in 2020 as compared to 2019.
Progress bars are great when they convey meaningful information... sometimes it's nice to know if you have time to grab a coffee, or actually eat lunch. In my experience (when having to supply said bars) is that they serve primarily to tell the hapless user that things are still happening. In other words, the actual number is not important...what is important is real feedback that things are still happening and it's worth waiting. Or things are b0rked and you should start over. I don't care about a real time or % progress bar...just something that honestly (to OP's point) lets me know that things aren't screwed.

Edit: typos
This looks like you just kept buying monitors without ever giving one away.

Although they all look like 24". I would have expected you to gradually buy better models
Sorry, yes, I meant "Click". Thanks for the correction.
you forgot prototype before jquery
Always randomly clicked through it ie Form filler.

https://fakefiller.com/

Feel your pain
Apple security chief tried to bribe police with iPads for gun licences
Luigi from Spotify:

https://github.com/spotify/luigi

We’ve been using it for complex update workflows for about 5 yrs now, and it just works.

It doesn’t do scheduling or have a fancy ui, but it’s a solid workhorse.
Always calibrate the dating advice by the attractiveness of the person giving it. It's just a very different game for different types of people.
Ask HN: Building Syslog Server from Scratch
Hello,

I have 5 days off and I will staying home for thanksgiving. I have plenty of time and I wanted to learn few things and build something.

I wanted to write a syslog collector that has APIs and database. I wanted to know what latest trends that I can use to build something cool. One other advantage is that, it can be really helpful for my work as well.

I did some google search,

- Elasticsearch
- Logstash
- Time series data.

What stack should I use. I'm willing to learn anything.

Thank you and happy thanksgiving :)
The biggest issue isn't domestic medical school slots, it's a lack of residency training slots (for which federal funding was capped in 1996). If more residency slots were available with adequate funding, these positions could easily be filled with foreign medical graduates that have passed the US's medical boards (USMLE steps 1 & 2, with 3 taken during or after intern year).
Indeed. Women want the best 5% from the available pool. If you're not in the top 5% on Tinder, go find a smaller and more selective pool and you'll do fine.

Also, Tinder has a very specific age demographic which skews younger - which is when women are most desirable. Women start having a harder time once they reach 35, and a nearly impossible time when they reach 50.
You find a lot of these guys in the space industry.
If that "certain timespan" was the eighties then what you are seeing is more that they used the exact same colors... which were designed to be seen on yellowish newsprint that sucked in a ton of ink, instead of bright white glossy paper that all the ink sits right on top of.

Over time people mostly quit doing that. Once it became reasonably easy and affordable to deal with a multi-layer 300dpi (or better, it's always nice to be able to have your minor mistakes vanish when it's shrunk to print size) file, and for that file to get turned into four CMYK plates, comics colors started to look a lot better than when everything had to be planned in watercolors over a xerox, then turned into those four CMYK plates by hand.
We should also remember that Jane Street is primarily an ETF market maker. Their main business isn't betting on prices of stocks or managing a portfolio.

I've only taken a quick look at the data, but the problem doesn't seem to be focused on their core competencies, but instead is much more general.
Precisely. Something taking astoundingly long to evolve isn't conclusive evidence that it's highly improbable (although it might suggest it). It could very well be highly probable. One reason is as you mention is prerequisites. Another reason could be that the solution is deep in the search tree, and while it takes ages to find it, the search algorithm will eventually do so. Consider a global optimizer running on a concave surface for a long period of time, all it needs is time.
Kenjitsu (2010)
How much of this is people paying for faster connections to work from home vs actual infrastructure build out?
Big discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25190668
year add: speed twice
The future of programming – see code change implications in real time
Given it was shit in 2019... so...?
It’s not a natural location for animals. It is federally managed land for camping, hunting, and 4 wheeling.

Inexperienced people die venturing into nature all the time. The solution is to warn and educate people, not discourage them from enjoying the outdoors.
(Note: Loved this story, so I don't want this comment to be interpreted criticism.)

If you strip away the machine learning/computer/math part, the story is: After 88 first dates, Chris finds someone he thinks he wants to marry. (Article says from the first 55 1st dates -> 3 2nd dates -> 1 3rd date).

It seems possible that going on 88 random dates would lead to a similarly shaped funnel.

While "use math" sounds like smart strategy, many (most probably?) happily married people have not gone on 88 actual first dates.