skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What Is the Difference Between Seed and Series A Rounds
I made an open application for someone to receive feee weekly mentorship to become a software engineer. I asked for a < 1 minute video. 18/20 applications didn’t include it. Made picking someone really easy.
The risk are so low, vast majority of people will survive covid just fine regardless of vaccine or any other precautions.

It is pandemic but the risk has been overly exaggerated.

Florida can host superbowl recently with almost full attendance.
I wrote a tool to test translations
I decided to have my store text translated into all possible languages. My first idea was to simply use google translate, but I was not confident it would be good enough. I received an offer for all languages and it sounded good + the translation service seemed to be valued highly. After about a week I received the files. I speak German and had sent an English text to be translated. Because I'm not much of a writer, I had German translated too. I'm glad I did.

The German translation was absolutely terrible. Checking with Google Translate it was a very close match, a few weird changes even made it worse. I had a friend check Dutch and he said "it makes my head hurt". At this point I lost all confidence in the translations and decided to write a tool to hopefully help me evaluate. So that's what I have been doing for the past 2 days. The numbers are pretty, but it might not mean as much as I hope. I'm also unsure how to handle some of the languages, but maybe I can get a hint in the comments.

https://www.falkenbrew.com/translator/index.html

The tool allows you to paste two texts and compare them, in the drop-down you can select translations that I have had done.

I added all human translations and the corresponding AI translation (copy paste). Interestingly it seems Google Translate does not always deliver exactly the same results. But it's quite obvious where the correlations are. I did check a few with DeepL too and the Zulu AI translation seems to use a deprecated google API.

What I am completely unsure about is what these correlations really mean. If the AI translation is really good, the correlation can be high without it being an issue.
Where is statuspage.io hosted?
If they did, wouldn't it be a good sign if someone came along and said, hey, this doesn't align with our values, and was able to get it removed?
Yeah and it’s clear that they are making this stuff too: “Utilizing the SARS-CoV infectious clone, we generated and characterized a chimeric virus expressing the spike of bat coronavirus SHC014 in a mouse adapted SARS-CoV backbone”

https://www.med.unc.edu/orfeome/files/2018/03/a-sars-like-cl...

another interesting find: http://ge.usembassy.gov/fact-sheet-activity-at-the-wuhan-ins...

The U.S. government has reason to believe that several researchers inside the WIV became sick in autumn 2019, before the first identified case of the outbreak, with symptoms consistent with both COVID-19 and common seasonal illnesses. This raises questions about the credibility of WIV senior researcher Shi Zhengli’s public claim that there was “zero infection” among the WIV’s staff and students of SARS-CoV-2 or SARS-related viruses.

Accidental infections in labs have caused several previous virus outbreaks in China and elsewhere, including a 2004 SARS outbreak in Beijing that infected nine people, killing one.

The CCP has prevented independent journalists, investigators, and global health authorities from interviewing researchers at the WIV, including those who were ill in the fall of 2019.

Any credible inquiry into the origin of the virus must include interviews with these researchers and a full accounting of their previously unreported illness.
That's a great interview. You really get the sense he saw the engineering as a way to optimise the user experience. He wasn't just trying to put some tape in a tiny box for the sake of it.
Please feel free to point me to any developed country that has successfully replaced fossil fuel and nuclear baseload generation with renewables and energy storage.

I'll save you the time. No one has done it. And no, not because evil mustachio-twirling Koch brothers are pulling the strings. Because the technology does not exist at scale to do this.

Or do you want to continue with your speculative science fiction daydreams?
Please note this the next time someone in your organization or outside rails against dockerizing crucial infrastructure versus maintaining some well manicured packer/ansible/puppet/chef/salt scripts that rely on apt/deb/rpm/apk for instances that are occasionally manually tweaked in emergencies.

Docker isn't always the right choice, but I personally feel a lot more empowered to run infrastructure pieces that are dockerized because the inputs and outputs are much more explicit and easier to manipulate and change in isolation (I don't have to remember 3 directories where config could be, I just mount the one volume for example).
Powerful Caching with Redis for Node.js Applications
I wouldn‘t say its buried, at least not in the discussions I have been in, but the problem is that even with custom queries you are still in this weird place between fully managed ORM queries and raw SQL queries. How does the result map to data structures? How does it handle colliding column names in joins? Does the ORM handle over complete control when using custom SQL? There are tons of questions like these that are not uniformly answered by different ORMs.

I am not saying that ORMs never work. They sure do in a lot of cases, and some ORMs more than others. But an ORM is not a silver bullet – far from it. There are gotchas, and you need to invest time in understanding how they work. Just as you need to understand how SQL works.
Which of those ideas does it cover? I’m working with SQL Server as well, and I’d say none.
Web security: the must-know for developers
Could you be a little more specific how these aspects manifest themselves, please?
The bigger problem with ORMs is not that they require you to learn a new language, but that they are abstractions and very leaky ones at that. Typically they add a lot of complexity, caching (which seems like a great idea until you have a lot of fast updating data), make it harder to scale horizontally and so on. They also usually do not have a good impedance match with the underlying storage layers resulting in a lot of tricks to do stuff that would have been easier done by bypassing the ORM, but that then gives you inconsistent data because now you are also bypassing the cache of objects.
TLDR - A replacement for the discontinued Google App Engine Launcher with some improvements

Since I’m not a ‘Professional’ developer and I hate playing around in Command Line (Terminal), Google App Engine Launcher was a life saver. Go to a UI and see all my projects in a table. Select a Project and click a button to run it, view the logs, deploy to Production. I didn’t have to muck around with command line arguments to remember the different commands and/or flags needed to run my projects.

GAE Launcher helped me talk to non-expert programmers about learning to code and building Apps. Once, I bought a laptop for someone who had just gotten into college and as as a way of encouraging (making it easier) this person to learn to code, I pre-installed Python & GAE Launcher on the laptop.

Then Google stopped supporting GAE Launcher. I kept my installed version and used it till last year when it was ‘effectively’ killed (you can no longer use it to deploy to Production). I switched to gcloud but I had all of my earlier listed problems.

I decided to build a replacement. I get to solve my own problem and learn new stuff (Electron, Vue, etc).

I also get to change a few functionalities I didn’t like in the original tool and some things I don't like with the command line e.g.

a) typing in flags in a textbook has been replaced with checkboxes on the UI

b) deploying also deploys your index and cron files (in gcloud command line, you'll have to execute 3 separate commands)
Apparently just a few unanswered questions bar the truth according to the study released by this Dr. Steven Quay. Highly doubt we'll get answers because of the nation that is sitting on the answers.

"A Bayesian analysis concludes beyond a reasonable doubt that SARS-CoV-2 is not a natural zoonosis but instead is laboratory derived"

- https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/new-study-by-dr-ste...

The first 12 pages of the PDF read like a sci-fy thriller. Link to the PDF (scroll down the page a bit):

- https://zenodo.org/record/4477081
Until recently I was never part of the hiring process at any company because I was simply too new. I always thought how it was insane that people would say "I only spend 30 seconds on each resume", that I would somehow be better and do a more thoughtful analysis of the candidate.

Boy was I wrong, the amount of resume you can get for a job is crazy and most candidates are absolutely not a good fit. I even had one person put the wrong LinkedIn profile link in their resume so it pointed to someone else with the same name but a lot more experience.
The EU aspires to a single market for telecommunications services but is taking a long time to get there. I found an entire master's thesis on the remaining obstacles: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/278390832_Title_A_s...
Is the objective of hobbies to ‘get good’ at them? That sounds exhausting.

If someone lists ‘skiing’ as a hobby I’m not expecting them to have Olympic medals to back that up. ‘It says here on your resume that you play guitar. Well, let’s see how you fair in a guitar battle with Slash from accounting’

This is just more of that hyper competitive ‘well rounded college applicant’ performative high school stuff, isn’t it? It’s not enough to just have an interest - you need evidence of performing at a competitive level.
Show HN: Bucket – Simple Feature Analytics
I am not a physicist by any means, so this may come off as a dumb question, but: If gravity waves have been discovered, and they move at the speed of light (speed of causality?), being thrown off by the most energetic events in the universe, how can something like an Alcubierre drive even work when essentially it is also a gravitational wave generated by far less energy?
A Python library for generative art creation
Apple to Invest over 1B Euros in Munich Silicon Design Center
If you are poor, by definition you have low or no stocks.
https://xkcd.com/radiation/sources.html you're free to read the sources yourself
That is absolutely phenomenal. I assume your Python code had functional stylings that would translate well into how the team used Scala?

What was the rest of your experience like there? Sounds like a place that thinks at a deeper level than most.
It would be nice, but at the same time, running mssql in a docker container is a thing now, and it goes pretty far towards solving those issues, at least for my use cases.

>You don’t have to go deep before incompatibilities with ansi sql... top/limit statements.
Neither TOP nor LIMIT are ANSI. We didn't get syntax in ANSI SQL for constraining rows until SQL 2008, with FETCH FIRST N ROWS. You could do it in SQL 2003 with window functions, but that was a bit wordy.
Conversational AI Architectures Powered by Nvidia: Tools Guide
Now that is weird. I fully understand not having a backup service in place, but no data backup either?
Searching Graphs – Graphs for Data Science
Doesn’t that mean the YouTube creator relationship is an employer-employee relationship?

If it was company-contractor relationship, payment wouldn’t be taxable, only the contractors surplus.

On top of that. How do creators abroad get a tax refund for their expenses?

says the European who has never done business with the US and doesn’t know what he is saying...
This was interesting up until I found this line in the documentation. Which is having authentication based on cookies is a non-starter for many organizations at this point.

> Authelia relies on session cookies to authenticate users. When the user visits a website of the protected domain example.com for the first time, Authelia detects that there is no cookie for that user. Consequently, Authelia redirects the user to the login portal through which the user should authenticate to get a cookie which is valid for *.example.com,
There is a cool calculator of what happen if you travel around with constant 1G acceleration.

Long story short: to travel to Alpha Centauri it would take for the traveller still about 4 years, and when back at home, people would have aged only some months more than the astronauts.

Crazy things happen if you decide to go on galaxy-wide trips though, to the astronauts because space contraction they perceive their own trip as happening still rather quick, a 100 000 ly trip (the size of our galaxy, for reference) takes 22 years for someone inside a spaceship with 1g acceleration, perfectly doable. But people outside still see it taking 100 000 years... (meaning they will be 100 000 years "older" from the point of view of the astronauts)

After I found all this out, I concluded space travel isn't THAT hard, assuming you have a way to accelerate constantly at 1g for 22 years (that is the hardest part actually), you can get anywhere in the galaxy in a human lifetime, no need for generation ships, cryogenics or other crazy tech.

In fact even going to other galaxies is easy, a trip to Andromeda takes 28 years!

Mind you, all those calculations were done assuming you will burn at 1g until half the distance, and then burn at 1g to brake, if you don't brake you can get even faster to places (although that wouldn't be very useful I guess).

According to google the universe is 93 billion ly wide. If you accelerate (and decelerate later) at constant 1g, this trip takes 49 years for the astronaut!
Hi, I’m the solo founder of Bucket. I’ve built this tool to easily measure the success of software features. Out of the box, Bucket will tell you how many users are engaging with your feature, and how often (daily, weekly, monthly). That’s it! It’s simple but enough to be actionable.

I’ve needed something like this in previous SaaS companies. For whatever reason, traditional product analytics platforms were never adopted outside of a small group of product managers. Bucket is analytics for the individual features.

I hope that software teams (engineers, designers, product, etc.) will consider using this. Sometimes we need to ship less new features and iterate on existing ones. Maybe even delete some features once in a while! :)

Feedback very welcome!
My distaste is simple: The abstraction that is an ORM is leaky AF. Optimizing an automatic query is a PITA. Doing more than simple joins across tables is hard. Falling back to pure SQL quickly becomes untenable across an application (because each instance quickly becomes an ad-hoc workaround).

And to be frank, CRUD apps created with an ORM that remain as simple CRUD apps are the vast minority of the work that I’ve done in my career. Everything else evolves into something where we inevitably end up working around the ORM more than using it as-is.

The solution in my opinion: SQL generators (like linq and such). ORMs often include these as an after thought, but pulling in a full ORM for the sql generation is like pulling in a semi truck for its generator; it’s too easy to start experimenting with the toys stored in the trailer.
> industry where these reviews are not permitted.

That should be Google's problem, if it wasn't above the law.

(Which country/industry?)
> Yeah, but planes aren't generally any better at this either.

> The point is, these systems require the same kind of checks, instruction, and constant supervision that Level 2 autonomous driving systems do.

Well, that was basically my point. The solutions and more importantly the mindset (the machine will just fly/drive itself) can't be easily transferred from aircraft to road vehicles and just because we're doing one thing (half-assedly) in planes doesn't mean we can (or even should) attempt to do a similar thing in cars.
My money is on Israel. Sorry.
I once read that there's something somewhat unique about the immune system of bats (very permissive?) that allows viruses to live in bats relatively undisturbed, allowing them a lot of time to mutate and thrive without affecting the bats much.

Edit: "Several studies have indicated that bats have unique defense mechanisms that allow them to be persistently or latently infected with viruses. Factors leading to an increase in the viral load of persistently infected bats would facilitate shedding of virus." Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6410205/
“Utilizing the SARS-CoV infectious clone, we generated and characterized a chimeric virus expressing the spike of bat coronavirus SHC014 in a mouse adapted SARS-CoV backbone”

https://www.med.unc.edu/orfeome/files/2018/03/a-sars-like-cl...

and speaking of Wuhan...

http://ge.usembassy.gov/fact-sheet-activity-at-the-wuhan-ins...

The U.S. government has reason to believe that several researchers inside the WIV became sick in autumn 2019, before the first identified case of the outbreak, with symptoms consistent with both COVID-19 and common seasonal illnesses. This raises questions about the credibility of WIV senior researcher Shi Zhengli’s public claim that there was “zero infection” among the WIV’s staff and students of SARS-CoV-2 or SARS-related viruses.

Accidental infections in labs have caused several previous virus outbreaks in China and elsewhere, including a 2004 SARS outbreak in Beijing that infected nine people, killing one.

The CCP has prevented independent journalists, investigators, and global health authorities from interviewing researchers at the WIV, including those who were ill in the fall of 2019.

Any credible inquiry into the origin of the virus must include interviews with these researchers and a full accounting of their previously unreported illness.
> But some people call it "warm audio."

This just reminded me of that comic strip with the hipster collecting vinyl, being asked why.

It was the high price + the inconvenience that attracted me

Cover-art is obviously cooler; since it's bigger. But other than that vinyl is such a strange "fashion".
If aliens ever visited us they may be blown away that the majority of our bodies are made up of rocket fuel.
Emacs config in github, org notes in dropbox.

I did this for a little while, but now I just use org notes on my work computer, and the ios notes app for personal things. Org need not consume everything.
This was not a reddit-esque comment. But a real one that could actually be discussed like adults on HN. I believe my statement/comment.
I'm not them but I could see how, for some services, having a savvy client who pays attention to these details will result in a cheaper client to service. Perhaps that particular product/service costs more to deliver when clients are missing on some very elementary diligence.
Targeting Twitter, Russia slows down traffic to websites with 't.co' in address
On March 10, Russian media watchdog Roskomnadzor went on the offensive against Twitter, declaring that it will slow down traffic after network's refusal to delete tweets over thousands of requests. The "slowdown" affected large segments of the Internet for Russians - just like three years ago, when Roskomnadzor attempted to ban Telegram messaging app.
This time the problem was trivial: the system searched 't.co' in links without any additional parameters which led to 'slowdowns' of rt.com, reddit.com, microsoft.com, etc.

(Link in Russian)
> you should never use positional semantics in your SQL

If I'm understanding you, that along with your mention of a SQL builder means, for example, in Python, you'd expect

CreateUser(name="blah")

As opposed to something like

db.Exec("INSERT INTO users (name) values (?)", "blah")

Is that correct? I think we're agreeing on reducing the amount of raw SQL being tossed around within the code.
It's interesting that I've not yet seen the free speech argument break out here; when it comes to qanon nonsense people are very keen to defend the right of posters and denounce any removal as censorship.
Twitter update from pc with a photo of the machine: https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1369320446827528192
Allaire can be bad while being a smart person, at least according to one of my former coworkers who worked at Allaire.
The 12th law of Jante is that you are not to think you are good enough to change the laws of Jante.
Fair enough. My experience is limited to large corporations with bloated, slow procurement processes. So I would be really surprised if legal would get back to me about something like this. That said, I don't think I've ever encoutered these type of jokes.
This Is How Your Brain Walks the Dog–A Dialogue
Why should Apple decide what part I put in the phone? If the phone is out of warranty then I should be able to use batteries, screens, chargers or software that is not blessed by Apple's grace.

When I was a kid we were "repairing" our cheap watches by using parts from broken ones, at most what Apple could do is print a giant warning on the boot screen that the phone is no longer blessed by Apple so people that want their thing repaired will not be "tricked".
If you fired everyone who ever lied you'd have nobody in your company.
The biggest problem is that there is no baseline of competency. Seriously, when somebody asks for minimally passable competency for employment as a software developer what do you point to in 5 words of less? Software doesn't have that so instead you get a bunch of posturing and smoke signals. Seriously think about how you would explain this to your non-developer uncle who is an educated professional of any other industry.

Think about it like this:

What is the minimal passable qualifier to be a lawyer: a law license. What is the minimal passable qualifier to be a truck driver: a CDL. It is illegal to do those, and many other, jobs without the minimum qualifier.

Worse is this tooling bullshit. No carpenter or mechanic creates a resume detailing their job experience using a screw driver or a hammer. Those are just assumed. If a candidate felt the need to mention stupidity like that you don't hire them. For some reason software has that backwards which invites and encourages incompetent people to apply and degrades competent people to compete with unnecessary stupidity.