skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heck more than one. Try "Determining the optimal strategy for reopening schools, the impact of test and trace interventions, and the risk of occurrence of a second COVID-19 epidemic wave in the UK: a modelling study"

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4...

Published August. Based on the Covasim model, paper describing it here:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.10.20097469v...

The model takes its IFR data from Verity et al (see table 2), which is about 4x too high because it's taken from Wuhan evacuee data in January. The Verity paper that calculated this had access to a bigger and better dataset, the Diamond Princess cruise ship which they acknowledged they had looked at, and which yielded a lower IFR, but they didn't use it:

https://www.nicholaslewis.org/covid-19-updated-data-implies-...

"The Verity et al. CFR estimates were derived primarily from Chinese data, which reflected non-random testing ... When Verity et al. was prepared, the final death toll was not known. The data available only ran to 5 March 2020, at which point 7 passengers had died."

There's an analysis of the school re-opening paper that explains all this here. It also claims the paper used values for k (over-dispersion) from February, when there were hardly any cases on which to calculate that: https://lockdownsceptics.org/schools-paper/

Here's another paper that used an IFR of 1% in May:

https://www.nicholaslewis.org/did-lockdowns-really-save-3-mi...

And another paper that assumed a 1% IFR in June:

https://github.com/ptti/ptti/blob/master/docs/PTTI-Covid-19-...

Analysis: https://lockdownsceptics.org/new-ucl-paper-on-contact-tracin...

That one didn't even bother to give a citation for its source, just assumed a value that was 4x too high.

Here are some current, reasonably up to date and sourced IFR estimating papers: https://swprs.org/studies-on-covid-19-lethality/

Epidemiologists know IFR rates fall over time because they always do. Yet they continued to use the earliest calculated value they could find, based on a tiny dataset that wasn't even the best available, because it gives the highest value and that lets them make the most dramatic results. This is a systematically untrustworthy field, they literally do not care about their own reliability at all.
Your quote seems to be describing what Microsoft observed from the attackers on the compromised machines with SolarWinds Orion not how the software was compromised in the first place.

See detailed version: https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2020/12/13/customer-guidance...

> In actions observed at the Microsoft cloud, attackers have either gained administrative access using compromised privileged account credentials (e.g. stolen passwords) or by forging SAML tokens using compromised SAML token signing certificates.

> Although we do not know how the backdoor code made it into the library, from the recent campaigns, research indicates that the attackers might have compromised internal build or distribution systems of SolarWinds, embedding backdoor code into a legitimate SolarWinds library with the file name SolarWinds.Orion.Core.BusinessLayer.dll.
> Already exists: https://vaxafarm.is/pages/english . They are growing for the local market only.

Very cool!
I just want to give a quick shout out to 42.

They're closed for Covid19 right now. But if you can wait for them to open up, this is a good place to look into - https://www.42.us.org/ or https://www.42.fr/ (if you're in Europe).
Your plan A should be to start programming on your own and learning from youtube.
- 250x less water

- Sun/heat/light maybe needs to be converted but it's always used in the right amount for each crop

- Controlled environments protected from plagues, floods, fires... Crops are not lost due to uncontrollable events and a lot of savings in chemicals to protect them from bugs

- Saving the cost of SCM (transport and intermediaries) which is sometimes much bigger than producing. In farming is actually almost always the case, to my knowledge

- 365 days a year of efficient production

- Good for the environment to save so much in transport

- Independence from other countries. Very important for small ones like Denmark that wouldn't have alternative to planting on their own soil.

To be honest, the only con I see is that this perfectly automated gardens produce much less tasty food because they are given the exact amount of water and minerals needed to generate the product, but the real soil somehow must add a lot of flavor, even if it's not relevant to produce the fruit, because I really feel a big difference of taste between hydroponic food and classic farming.
I suspect a lot of Elon's companies would start to do better without him, TBH.
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> A well-considered class should own an interesting decision and the data needed to make it, not just one or the other.

This is not about abstract/non-abstract, Java, C or C# .

This is about 99% of people not being able to write decent OOP code.
This is not about "programmers" not getting that first awe inspiring feeling when they first see decent OOP code, it is about not caring, not event after 15+ years of programming OOP languages.

This is why I always see endless @Service and @Entity code, completely separated, like it's 1996 and we have procedures and structures in Borland Pascal.
Because it gets deleted (silenced & censored): https://www.reddit.com/r/LambdaSchool/comments/k7bmj6/it_wou...
I think this is the wrong question. Any commitment to education is an investment. At that point, you should be thinking in terms of ROI.
You mean that's the mission the want to sell. I mean, can you tell me of even one company that states their mission is 'increase the share value'? Or even something close to that?
> People could be ingesting the equivalent of a credit card of plastic a week, a 2019 study by WWF International concluded, mainly in plastic-infused drinking water but also via food like shellfish, which tends to be eaten whole so the plastic in their digestive systems is also consumed.

It is what it is, could be. Yes the worst water in the world contains this much plastic, but I seriously doubt it is anywhere close to normal(I wouldn't mind to be wrong though)
> Ideally, interview protocols to improve lie-detection should (a) encourage forthcoming verbal strategies from truth tellers and (b) encourage withholding verbal strategies from liars.

I'm not sure this is always true.

I've been playing A LOT of card game named Cheat, it's basically training how to lie and how to detect lying better.

The game is about losing all your cards placing 1 or 3+ of them at once on the stack, but they have to match the previously announced card by suit or color (and then suit has to be adjacent - like 3 of spades matches 4 of spades but not 5 of spades). You place them backs-up and have to announce what they are (you only announce the part that matches - like "three aces") and you're allowed to cheat (putting more cards than you said or placing other cards than you said you did) but if someone checks you immediately after your turn - either he or you take all the cards from the stack depending on who was right.

There are lots of other variants but that was what we found the most interesting.

It's a very good simulator of lying because there is hidden information and people might be able to tell when you lie (if you announce three aces and somebody has two for example). But then people can also ask around if others have aces to check you. But other people might lie to make them take cards.

There's lots of strategies including pretending to lie and pretending to pretend to lie etc. It goes many levels deep. Simple strategies like "provide many details to show you don't lie" or "provide few details to pretend you lie" usually lose to more sophisticated ones.
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I would think discipline, peer learning and also what you don't know you don't know can be picked up much more in person than by exploring yourself.
They show the helmet design they are referring to in the gallery below (it's from the caption of the helmet picture on the Reuters site). It's obviously not the kind of helmet you'd fight a structural fire with.
I propose a very new unconventional type of asset. It is effectively equivalent to a UBI but since it is also an asset the central bank can easily control it.

The central bank does an IPO and sells UBI tokens at a fixed price. Say $100. If you own at least one token then you will gain a dividend of 1 UBI token per month. To prevent abuse there is a government run exchange where this token can be bought on that verifies your identity. This means you are heavily incentivized to sell your tokens to other people for less than $100 yourself. It's basically an "anti" asset. It's relative utility shrinks the more you own. The central bank then can buy tokens back at any price it desires. The beauty of this system is that the wealthy are a minority so any money that the central bank distributes by buying UBI tokens will primarily go the less wealthy because they are the majority. Since you get one token per month and the central bank can set the minimum value of the token it is effectively a UBI. If consumer inflation heats up the central bank can always stop buying tokens because it isn't a true UBI that people depend on.
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Cyclists are also much more likely to swerve because a bee hit their eye or their chain slipped.
You can learn everything you need on your own without a degree or bootcamp. All you need is a starter project and an interest. You can Google everything.

Pick an easy language. I recommend Javascript or Python. There's a wealth of learning material and you can use these two languages to build a wide variety of things.

Pick something fun: a simple game, an interactive website, a blog, etc. Make it your objective, and instill in yourself a deep desire to make it. But don't get caught up on making it perfect.

Read a tutorial or two, experiment, and try to apply what you learned to the thing you want to build.

It'll take a lot of time. Whatever time you think it takes, multiply that figure by three. Don't stress out. You can't conceive of all the roadblocks or what you don't know.

If you get stuck, ask questions on Reddit, StackOverflow, Discord, etc. Learning how to ask questions builds your mental model of how this stuff fits together. Eventually you'll be able to answer a lot of your own questions.

Block out an entire weekend and go for it.
Tesla still has a 10% tariff there, which is fairly significant.
Cargo cult. One interface per one concrete class. It drove me nuts, it still drives me nuts that we are still having debates about it in 2020.
In NL, world famous for its cyclist-friendly policies, whenever there is a car / bicycle collision, the car driver is ALWAYS responsible, even if the cyclist ignored a red light or whatever. The driver will always be safe, but they are operating heavy machinery, so it's up to them to keep safety of the more vulnerable road users in mind.

That said, around where I live, car / cyclist collisions are still pretty frequent; I live in an area with a lot of roundabouts where cyclists have right-of-way, but because of angles, darkness, rain etc, visibility of cyclists is often very low.
I've been working actively on making it work (see ath11k mailing list). We're pretty close now as the connection is stable, but the changes aren't going to make it into 5.10 I'd guess ;). There was a new test branch released overnight that should work for you.
The website faq says 25mbps.

https://projectwaves.net/faq
Right, I hadn't meant to imply Zig is free of UB. It aims to improve on C's wild-west UB rules not by having no UB, but by having only a manageable dose of it, and supporting good optional runtime checks.

Zig's approach is essentially that of Ada. You can ask the Ada compiler for runtime checks, or promise the compiler that your code is free of undefined behaviour and have your code run at the speed of light (C), or go haywire if you got it wrong. Sadly C is less suited to runtime checks, arrays are dealt with through raw pointers so range checks aren't easy for the compiler to add automatically. You can though ask GCC to generate checks (trap-on-failure) for things like dereferencing NULL, or signed arithmetic overflow.
Isn't their selling point that you don't have to pay unless you get hired? I haven't read the fine print though.
42-styled schools also exist, generally loosely affiliated. A friend of mine started CODAM (42 in Amsterdam, essentially; https://www.codam.nl/) around a year ago and has been quite happy so far. I recently started working with him on a couple projects and honestly I can tell the education and the syllabus he got was high quality.
I think many people here miss the point when they point to search. The upside of an arguably arbitrary manual organization is that now everybody who contributes to it have to play book. They have to put in the effort to not break the system, and it can result in overall less chaos.

You can have additional tagging and full text search on top of it.
Tesla 'self-driving' (even 'full self driving') is a rebranded driver assist (although an advanced one). Not only is Tesla behind the others, they're basically in completely different worlds. No-one I've talked to in the self-driving car industry considers their approach to have merit if you're looking for an actually autonomous car. This is an excellent example of how marketing can decieve.
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I’m not an electrical engineer but batteries don’t give perfect output constantly so your three percent might have been correct. It’s an hard problem and if you want it to be “it should always be able to go to zero” then they will just increase the margin of when to shut down and people will wonder where their battery life went.
Don't agree with you on that. There's quite a few great games in apple arcade. Pilgrims, Beyond a Steel Sky, Neo Cab, Necrobarista, Takeshi and Hiroshi

Those are more indie titles, they are rather original and different from AAA titles and don't have the refinement of AAA titles when it comes to graphics et al. But they are absolutely not paint-by-numbers
> It’s interesting that pg is a big fan though...

...as an investor.

He may not be intimately familiar with the actual situations of the students from his PoV (mostly throguh conversations with Austen or his team).

But then again, this is far from the first time a negative comment has come out against Lambda. And his position hasn't changed so far. So, there is that.
I think what we are saying is mostly just talking about how strong the evidence (how it has gone) is, for the outcome that it will be like that in the future.

I don't think I'm "clearly smarter", I just happen to have taken a class that said a little about stochastic processes, which I think are neat, and therefore jumped at a chance to try to apply it a little bit. I don't have any deep understanding of investment. (contravariant might though, idk.)
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For reasons I don’t know why, I don’t see these buttons. Not sure if it’s because some of the colleagues I’m chatting with are on Hangouts presumably. Have not bothered to ask that with them though.
I think Java programmers (and their buddies in C# and similar land) can benifit from adapting a straight forward functional style of programming.

Not the stream, map, reduce stuff.

But simply writing functions without side-effects and separating data from functions.

"Remember that software is at its core procedural."

That may be true in some sense. But most Java code is in fact not procedural but stateless in the sense that most often state is store in a database or another external system.
>> My guess is the cynics are the ones who usually comment while people who are more positive will probably be more likely to just upvote?

> It irks me to see this comment pattern regularly being called out as "HN specific"

I've heard this general rule vocalized on social media as "Fans like, haters comment".

If you get loads of upvotes for an idea and a lot of flack, those pushing back is not your audience and can safely be ignored. You are not doing anyone any favors by trying to appease everyone.
I think parent meant it's too cheap? I have a license for Excel, so I can confidently say that the margins work for me, for my expenses and lifestyle. Assuming I hit at least 100 customers, of course. At 500 or 1000 customers I'd retire and write a book.
You can think in terms of ROI only if you have enough resources to dedicate 48 months to study. Otherwise it's just a race against time to become profitable.

That is, to be able to think in terms of ROI is a privilege.
You could ask the same question for any university program. It's the degree that opens doors. HR doesn't care for your EdX or udemy certs.
You can get a degree for muuuuch less in europe. In france it'd be something like 1k€ at most over your whole post-high-school studies unless you go to specialized art school or something like that.
Here's the counter argument: https://heyluddite.com/post/4043411544/how-to-name-folders
> I don't care if the rider was in the wrong, you're a lot more squishy on a bike than in a plastic housing with a motor.

This is so weird to me. It’s the complete opposite in the Netherlands. Because you are in a car, and you are best protected, you’re basically always in the wrong if you hit a cyclist or pedestrian, regardless of what they were doing (at least that’s what I was taught).
They're working on it, with a rather elegant solution: https://www.datprotocol.com/deps/0008-multiwriter/
If you're using both the degree and the bootcamp to achieve the same goal (e.g. a paying job), then surely being ready for employment sooner is preferable?
Depends; do you get 48 months worth of education in 6 months? I doubt it. A lot of learning also takes time to process, to settle in.

That said, half my 4 year software engineering education was hands-on, figure-it-out-yourself stuff; a year of internships and a ton of group projects.
It goes both ways.

I've seen beautiful abstractions that make a lot of sense, a la DDD that saved companies a lot of money.
I've seen a senior architect almost shed a tear when I told him I loved the way he used the Bridge Design pattern in a project and how easy it was to implement some feature because of it (I don't remember the example.)
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You're probably right in your general conclusion. I definitely understand - I'm on the "unorganized and chaotic" end of the scale. That is, I desperately try to get myself organized. I have been, for almost two decades now. I've started with GTD, done it numerous times, and went through pretty much anything I could find on-line. What always happened is as you describe: it "doesn't matter how beautiful the system is, (...) - a couple of months later it will lie abandoned and forgotten".

But! Every now and then, something from one of these systems will stick for longer. Perhaps a technique, or vocabulary, or a piece of tooling. Over time, it coalesces into this chaotic, very idiosyncratic organizational system that kind of works for you. I'm definitely much more productive today than I was those two decades ago.
Strawman argument. I never tried to justify the value using traditional metrics. Then you go and knock down your own traditional metrics argument.

And you try to tell me to concede. Do you not have any other way to evaluate stocks than traditional metrics?

You had no idea at what price point I invested. I mostly invested in the 200s and 300s pre-split. It split 5/1. It is over 600 today. Does a 60b valuation of Tesla sound like a deal?

When all you have is a hammer, everything that isn’t a nail must be bad.
D, in the aptly named betterC mode
Since you asked for specifics, there is a comment in the original reddit thread where OP talks about a sort of "bait-n-switch" type situation going on in the current cohort where they go into a lot more detail.

For the initiated, it shouldn't be too hard to verify.
one could also just ship less javascript - the linked page requires 350(!)kb of javascript - for a site that could very well be a static one
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It's upsetting to see Lambda making so many negative headlines because it truly is in a position to do the most Good and provide the most value (especially after Dev Bootcamp and Hack Reactor were acquired).

I attended Dev Bootcamp in early 2013, when bootcamps were still largely unknown, and had a transformative time. Just stellar teachers all around that compensated for any perceived weakness in curriculum. The industry business model hasn't changed much, so this implies to me that a bootcamp is really only as good as its instructors and the amount they care.
The BBC had a comedy based on its own bizarre inner workings - which was actually pretty funny:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W1A_(TV_series)
Barrier is good but breaks if you use more than one input language. Still using it for mouse but have to use two keyboards.
I really am just curious about the decision making process behind choosing Lambda vs traditional college vs Moocs (with certificates).
Hah. You remind me of almost every other intervention in medicine.

I remember e.g. when heart failure was treated with beta-agonists (every doctor at lectures: "It makes sense! The heart is struggling, so we give it a boost!").

Then they did some studies and found that while the heart output increased, people were dying faster. So they decided to do the exact opposite and switch to beta-blockers (every doctor at lectures: "It makes sense! A dimmer candle burns for longer!").

Then they found out beta-blockers made things worse too. I have no idea what they do nowadays, but I'm sure doctors still have a rationalisation-by-analogy explanation for it, whatever that is.
> Nintendo switch controller support sounds interesting!

I have been successfully using the DKMS-based driver with my Pro Controller for some time already. But it's always nice to get rid of a moving part in the stack.
It is just human nature actually.
Just like only X% of programmers really "get" recursion, only (X/10)% really like/feel OOP and abstract thought in general.
And re the contact email domain, thanks for the feedback, will fix that soon. I'm planning to do some stuff with DNS to support silent CDN switching between providers, so I don't want to put my MX records on it yet. Might have to slide it around on Cloudflare or Route53 a few times till I figure out all the details.
What good is it if they just sign you up, do nothing and show up on pay day to collect without actually giving you the promised experience?
i thing some clever layering of spring beans makes for good job security. The problem is that you have to reconnect the binary dependencies to the original source versions, but that's an 'implementation detail', isn't it?
Quick googling give news that Tesla was attacked because they exposed a Kubernetes administration console to internet without password protection.
I recently launched an open-source 3D mapping library https://github.com/felixpalmer/procedural-gl-js/ which can be configured to display imagery tiles for 3rd party providers. However, to make 3D terrain, elevation data is needed, and for this I wanted to have a simple, friction-less API that would work seamlessly with the library.

Hence: www.nasadem.xyz. The API is fully operational, and has served over 200k requests over the last month. While I built this primarily for the purpose above, the image format is easy to understand and could be used to power any other apps that need elevation data. Right now the data is returned as an image, but in the future other options are being considered, like returning the elevation at a given point, or along a route.