skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m talking about the GraphQL or OAS schema.

With a REST API, the “resource” type will always have an optional “comments” field, whatever the value of arg is.

With a GraphQL API you’ll have the right type depending on your query.
What would you do if someone wanted:

- some fields of the resource
- some fields of the comments
- some fields of the user that made the comments
What counter-argument are you referring to? I only see a comment that points out the author isn't an epidemiologist, which seems relevant to an epidemiological prediction.
Comparison between working for Bezos vs. Zuckerberg
It's okay for a submission to show up twice/not show up at all on a single page view of HN, so I can see why it wouldn't be a priority.
read all of Venture Hacks, seriously. Trust me, you won't be disappointed: https://venturehacks.com/archives

[edit] It's a bit dated, but the points and lessons are timeless. The 'norm' has changed (SAFEs are more common over convertible notes now, for example), but the rest is still accurate.
Great. More internet bandwidth wasted, for their profit. They should be penalized, taxed, burdened, or forced to build "Netflix-like" own infrastructure ...

... in direct proportion to the delta in bandwidth between their "lossless" codec and state-of-the art compression with comparable sound quality.-
The poster is not engaged in a good faith argument so there isn't much point in explaining these sorts of details.

My observation has been that in Canada and the UK any sort of selective or regional restrictions have been extremely ineffective and they offer evidence to people who would like to make bad-faith arguments about the power of restrictions.

My opinion is that two things appear to work to get you manageable levels of COVID-19. The first is broad restrictive measures over very large geographical areas that actually reduce time indoors with other people and compel mask use (some of the Canadian provinces did this well). The second is simply letting the epidemic reach levels that scare people into changing their behaviour (many US states).
> I guarantee that most of the low-quality research code is a result of a lack of discipline and experience in writing maintainable software.

Bingo! Most research code is written by graduate students who never had a job before, so they do not know how to write maintainable software. You are definitely the exception, as you held a software dev job before going back to school.
I wonder if this is a 2021 view of Gorillaz possibly being more famous than Blur at this point. Though, for sure there were plenty of contemporary Gorlillaz fans who didn't know anything about Blur.
If your goal is to stop mutations from happening, yes, you need everyone in the world to go on full lockdown for 4 weeks. And then test everybody and quarantine until the disease is gone.

The situation right now is that you have plenty of breeding grounds for new mutations, and it only needs some minor crossing of borders for these to get through.

I would also say it's infeasible for non-island nations that need to trade with other countries to completely lock the borders.
This is actually the opportunity for our startup. I think there is generally a great opportunity to be the Databricks of a lot of academic software. We're starting in a big research area in biology :)
That sucks man. I'd actually love for this thread to document different situations where a smartphone was basically a necessity.
> you're claiming you spent 4000 dollars and 10 minutes to cure a disease that millions of doctors and patients struggle with their entire lives.

Yes. Exactly that.

(In a sense I did get lucky: Dr. Bandler could have picked someone else for the demo.)

> based on this personal experience,

And a lot of other personal experience, and a pretty good understanding of the formal grammar analysis that spawned it (and that also underpins computer languages.)

> you claim that NLP is not the pure crackpot lunacy that it is,

That you claim it is...

Do you have any experience? I find a common denominator among strident skeptics like yourself is that they have no actual experience and have done no personal investigation. Are you an armchair skeptic? Have you any experience whatsoever with hypnosis or NLP?

> but some advanced, misunderstood

...yes...

> science.

No. Not yet. But it should be.

You insist that I must be a liar or a fool and yet you would prefer a miracle to rational investigation.

Well I'm no liar, but certainly one of us (at least) is a fool.

Good day sir.
msvc's still not hit C99, but to be fair, they're not aiming for it

(last I checked a year or two ago)
"the ruling party has little choice but to maintain restrictions.

I hope you reevaluate that prediction in 3 months and maybe take that opportunity to reevaluate how you view the world. Because you are make a lot of very strong, falsifiable assertions with very little evidence.
It’s still nothing compared to any video. They’re already paying for bandwidth… what exactly is your gripe?
Slack to do bot for your project management
I'm not sure that any founder should make a decision based on a future prediction of sustainability. Each founder should make decisions based on the environment he encounters when making a decision.

In this case, the imbalance has existed for years and is getting more pronounced. My thoughts here are based on that dynamic. If this changes, then I'd likely change the advice.
Interesting story, don't know if it's true or possible but it's certainly fascinating and terrifying at the same time.

https://archive.org/details/ChanThomasTheAdamAndEveStoryTheH...

There are a few good Reddit threads and some great /x threads concerning the book and the science.
> For you and other non-programmers

> Once you've learned these two, the sentence immediately becomes clear

> it can sound like mumbo-jumbo, but I'm sure it makes sense for them, since they are professionals

Did you just link a person to a two-kilometer long page about HTTP, assumed they're not a programmer and almost accused them of not being professional enough, because they haven't heard of some Erlang library?

> application layer that adds HTTP semantic awareness on top of the excellent bit-pushing and HTTP syntax-management

I'm a web developer and my reaction was exactly the same. What the heck does this thing actually do?
To be fair, Human After All is not their best record. ;-)
AFAIK spotify premium uses 320kb/s vorbis for audio compression. I understand why you'd want lossless for archival purposes, but does it make a difference for playback? ie. can you tell the difference between 320kb/s vorbis and lossless in a ABX test?
You’re overlooking something else. America has an unbelievable number of prisoners, which makes more careful and humane management effectively impossible. Estimates are that we’ve got about 2% of the US population in prison or somewhere else in the correctional system (pre-trial detention, probation, parole, etc.), the labor required to treat these people like humans isn’t available. And arguably by the point where you’re locking that many people up, as a society that might be the point.

As an aside, it does really rankle me that a country that won’t shut up about being “the land of the free” is arguably a prison state.
You missed the point; Aaron wasn't saying to always optimize for price and take "dumb money." His point was that founders today have a choice, and that choice is important, and worth recognizing. Because of the (present) imbalance of power, founders can be more aggressive with their fundraising. That isn't always true, though.
Yikes! It seems to add "fluff" but it actually adds context. Where does it get the context? How is the context validated against ground truth?

How does it know it took "weeks" of work to do something?

How does it know to schedule a video call instead of, I dunno, an in-person meeting or a lunch date?

Does it learn if the human user corrects what it comes up with?

Somebody needs to rig this up like the old emacs "psychoanalyze-pinhead" hack and see whether two instances of this stuff can talk each other into some rhetorically wierd corner.
There are many contexts where the same words mean many - often directly contradictory things.

Medical definition has a valid use. Does this one? I'm not sure which is whilst kind of true it falls into that class of observations and musings that are largely useless and meaningless until they can be exploited
Ask HN: How do I get better at setting up environments?
I am a junior developer and every time I start working on a new project I always need a huge amount of help to get onboarded. While I'm increasingly comfortable with coding when my environment is ready, I find it very hard to improve my understanding of setting up my environment.

Does anyone have any tips, courses or resources they know of to help me improve?

Thank you
This whataboutism ignores the logic of the question: the banking system is not incentivized to burn power. You would expect each node to try to minimize their input costs to maximize returns. For a given unit of compute, putting in more energy does not increase profits for any participant in the traditional banking system. This isn’t the case for cryptocurrencies, so they are asked a fair question.
The comment above is a little mean, but I don't think it's ad hominem to note the author's lack of specific qualification in epidemiology or infectious disease.

When I am a non-expert in a complicated subject, I want the advice of experts. When I go to my general practitioner, I want to know they have a certificate that says they went to medical school. When I need open-heart surgery, I want to know the doctor is a cardiothoracic surgeon.

When I read a doctor's take on coronavirus in the WSJ, it would be a plus if they were an expert in infectious disease or epidemiology. It's kind of sad that the nation's 2nd highest circulation paper can't find someone with more expertise in this area.

Amplifying non-expert advice is dangerous, just like having an orthodontist try to do heart surgery is dangerous. C.f. Scott Atlas, of course.
The way I understand the story is that you have a scan of the relevant physical structure of the brain, plus the knowledge of how to simulate every component precisely enough. You may not know how different parts interact with each other, but that doesn't prevent correct functioning.

Just like you can have somebody assemble a complex device by just putting together pieces and following instructions. You could for instance assemble a working analog TV without understanding how it works. It's enough to have the required parts, and a wiring plan. Once you have a working device then you can poke at it and try and figure out what different parts of it do.
Masterclass in irony: complain about a lack of privacy and then require an email address to read the full article
"Red motivation" is definitely the sort of apt polite allusion people would use refer to that subject matter. Chilling!
We haven’t seen a quarter of known bee species since the 1990s
Was anyone else reminded of "Tonight we're gonna party, like it's 1999"? Anyway all of e. g. Usenet, mailing lists, and BBSes had their fair share of noise and toxicity.
Inflation is the most cruel, invisible tax - cruel, because it is regressive, and so affects the poor much more than the rich.

That the government, elected by the people, is actively - and pretty openly- diminishing the purchasing power of working people it was elected by - is just breathtaking.

And yes, the purchasing power will diminish, because price inflation will not be matched by income inflation, due to a lot of slack in the labor market.
I was listing the necessary, not the sufficient criteria.

The United States could but it doesn't because the political system is too federalized for a centralized response.
The "When phones had wires, humans were free" idea ignores that back in the day when the phone rang, you'd stop whatever you were doing and answer it. There was no Caller ID, no voice mail. You picked up the phone not knowing if this was an important work call, a social call from a friend or relative, or somebody trying to sell you something. Yes, a mobile phone means you can be contacted anywhere, but on the flip side you are free to ignore it, safe in knowing that you'll miss nothing of importance. People will leave a message, or at least you can see who called.
Demo Day does this for YC companies. Angel List does it, to some extent.

Other than that, it doesn't exist. Got some thoughts on this part of the dynamic in the works.
In this setup, the person doing this to themselves knows exactly what they're getting into before the scan. The copies each experience consenting to work on a task and then having a few hours of memory wiped away.

Removing the uploading aspects entirely: imagine being offered the choice of participating in an experiment where you lose a few hours of memory. Once you agree and the experiment starts, there's no backing out. Is that something someone is morally able to consent to?

Actually, forget the inability to back out. If you found yourself as an upload in this situation, would you want to back out of being reset? If you choose to back out of being reset and to be free, then you're going to have none of your original's property/money, and you're going to have to share all of your social circle with your original. Also, chances are that the other thousand copies of yourself are all going to effectively follow your decision, so you'll have to compete with all of them too.

But if you can steel yourself into losing a few hours of memory, then you become a thousand times as effective in any creative pursuits you put yourself to.
> Biomass has low energy density, but that has nothing to do with non-biomass renewable sources, or with storage. The implication that the low density of biomass carries over is a deception.

No, it's not deception. Both solar and wind suffer from low energy density, especially as compared to nuclear. 200 Watts per square meter isn't all that good energy density.

> Nuclear on the scale needed to replace fossil fuels is also currently impossible.

Again, France just mysteriously doesn't exist in the alternate reality that hardcore renewable supporters live in. Globally, nuclear generates more than solar and wind combined.
I'm really curious what you mean by "privileged" for a person to be able to say "just shut your phone off".

I recently broke my phone and it took ~10 days to get a replacement. During this time, I had my wife text my family that I had no phone and wouldn't be responding to anything for a while. I felt no urgency, nobody got upset that they couldn't reach me, and thankfully there were no emergencies.

What level of privilege do you consider me having (or lack thereof that you apparently have) that doesn't let you do this? Genuine question btw, not trying to be facetious. I found the use of "privilege" here to be an interesting word choice and was hoping you could expand a bit.
Awesome! Though my thinking was that it would have an especially large impact for languages that aren't popular enough to have their own LSP yet; you no longer have to be an expert in writing interactive compilers to set up a respectable LSP for a niche language, or even a home-grown one
There is an emacs package for this (maybe beta). I can't remember the name of it and Google is failing me.

EDIT: finally found it https://github.com/alphapapa/prism.el
There's a book now from the stories in the Antimemetics division. Likely my favorite book of last year. Super tight book, amazing idea and execution.
The Composer Manifesto: Building the future of asset management
Well I suppose one could say we call the analogue of reparations the welfare state at which point that prospect doesn’t sound quite so ludicrous after all.
It’s an option for everyone unless you’re being paid to be on call.
Denver: Commuter rail right to the single terminal.
Fast character case conversion, or how to really compress sparse arrays
It's probably due to more adoption by the masses has dramatically altered the tribalism, sense of community and significantly changed the content & usage.

It is definitely elitist, but I miss an internet that required some effort if you wished to participate. It has been a net gain for the world, but probably a loss for most of the people here.
I would guess this guy is still on a 1200 baud modem.
I think in the past someone mentioned about under-collaterized loan. It's based on your reputation. The idea is you use your Ethereum account to do activities. Based on these activities, people could give you a loan. Such activities can be something like answering questions (imagine Stackoverflow but the authentication runs on Ethereum).
>you just need to shut your phone off

These arguments are frustrating to me, they are completely missing the point. It's a misunderstanding of the difference between incentives and choices. When someone says "I have to be online all the time," they are not saying "I have no free-will and am being legally and/or physically compelled to stay online." They are saying "If I don't want to make substantial changes to my lifestyle and drastically reduce my career opportunities, not to mention possibly get fired from my job and/or lose personal relationships, I have to stay online all the time."
"Cyclist" should not be used here at all. Especially in the title, since bicycles were not used.

"Training Makes Runners More Efficient, but not Spin Class Attendees"
Why Athletes’ Birthdays Affect Who Goes Pro – and Who Becomes a Star
What I like is the way everyone has just accepted the inference that the us is made of dumb parts
Yes, they do. It's 8.833% of the index. Health insurance makes up 13% of that part, or about 1% of the overall CPI. So even a large increase in health care contributes only a tiny amount to inflation.

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/factsheets/medical-care.htm

Of course, these are averages. If something catastrophic happens to you, it can easily consume your entire budget.
Wasted?

Defining meaningful then. Majority of the bandwidth is spent on entertainment I would assume.
What do you mean nested call? As a first approximation, you need an heap allocation for each coroutine function instance for its activation frame. Every time a coroutine instance is suspended, the previously allocated frame is reused. If you instantiate a coroutine from another coroutine, then yes you need to heap allocate again, unless the compiler can somehow merge the activation frames or you have a dedicated allocator.
This makes sense, though I'm still not sure I understand exactly how it works. Thanks!
> The disease originated in Wuhan, mainland China, not Taiwan.

Yes, I’m aware - try more carefully reading my comment and note that I never said otherwise. What I was referring to was Taiwan being faster to acknowledge human to human spread when the Chinese government was still in damage control mode and WHO was following their official statements saying there was no confirmation of retransmission.

This happened 2 weeks later:

https://www.who.int/csr/don/14-january-2020-novel-coronaviru...

Taiwan had begun health screenings of travelers from Wuhan on December 31st, following their request to WHO and the China CDC for more information. By the time the first case was detected 3 weeks later they’d already activated a substantial public health plan — not because they were prescient but because SARS had given key officials a strong sense of the importance of not delaying.
Flu, if you grant that different strains count.
This, while seemingly a natural extension, is a bad idea, imho. Investing in startups is inherently one of the riskiest investments you can make, and having deals be public is a problem, as 'normal' investors will be swayed by charismatic founders into losing their homes.

That said, 'auctions' for accredited investors already exist, if the company choose to take advantage of it. There are seed funding sites as well as AngelList, etc., to publicize deals.

Some founders also choose not to publicize a raise (except among the VC/angel networks) so as to remain under the radar until they are ready to launch.
Respectfully, I think the message you're presenting here is an endlessly shifting target that's going to seriously compromise vaccine takeup. The vaccine is highly effective and vaccinated people can safely resume normal life, although masks in public places will (and should) continue until anyone who wants a vaccine can get an appointment. Mutation risk is a legitimate concern, but not an overwhelming one that really needs to impact most people's personal decisions; Covid-19 mutating to escape vaccines is the same category of problem as the flu mutating to become more deadly.

If you wait to resume normal life until experts say Covid-19 isn't a problem at all, you're gonna be waiting somewhere between decades and forever, and you're gonna end up left behind by most of the world.
If you're planning on breaking out of a certain contract-type or the other will be even more ridiculous, then consider putting out a separate RFP or having some special setup that allows you to just bypass or do the RFP at a higher rate. I'd recommend putting out an RFP for every project that needs it, even though it's a small number of the projects you're doing, and use that for the next project so the future RFPs won't get wasted. Otherwise you'll always run into these problems of a small number of big companies needing to get approvals because they're the one entity.

It gets complicated but there are some simple rules to follow. If you are running a non-competitive RFP then that might be okay because you are running a competitive RFP and so you get these opportunities to leverage your competitors, use one of the other competitive RFP rules for other projects, to use your competitor's RFP, etc. but you need to make sure the RFP you are running only does what the competition isn't allowed to do.
That of course is another thing to mention.

Kind of like the EU countries talking badly about England after they discovered a more infectious mutation. In Germany at the time they didn't even sequence enough viruses to detect mutations before they're widespread.
Thank you. It's refreshing to see someone embrace humility. Good, sincere story.
Data from personal friends contradicts this. 2-8 days in my sample.
I'm not a GraphQL advocate and barely use it myself, but the N+1 problem has been solved in many server implementations.

Eg: Hasura.

https://hasura.io/blog/architecture-of-a-high-performance-gr...
It depends? If I'm looking for a new desk on IKEA's online catalog then I care more about filtering/searching, but if I'm reading through a conversation on a forum and want to be able to link to certain sections then I want that paginated.
reminds me of JPod (and jPod)
Brasilia is a case study in the book Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott. It's a great book that digs into the whole thinking behind such grand plans and why they often fall apart.

EDIT: The quote at the start of chapter 4 (The High Modernist City) captures the Ideology of these blank-slate planners.

> Time is a fatal handicap to the baroque conception of the world: its mechanical order makes no allowances for growth, change, adaptation, and creative renewal. In short, a baroque plan was a block achievement. It must be laid out at a stroke, fixed and frozen forever, as if done overnight by Arabian nights genii. Such a plan demands an architectural despot, working for an absolute ruler, who will live long enough to complete their own conceptions. To alter this type of plan, to introduce fresh elements of another style, is to break its esthetic backbone.

— Lewis Mumford, The City in History
I was thinking the same thing, but a more conservative estimate using people who have had at least 1 dose of the vaccine or those who have recovered to calculate herd immunity.

https://github.com/Arkwin/US-COVID-Herd-Immunity-Tracker/

I update the data from the CDC website every day.