skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you serious?

If anything, politicians have vastly under-managed the situation, timidly afraid of offending constituents' offense at any inconvenience, and only partially at best following sound science.

In states that did issue orders for masks and stay-at-home, the orders were weak, late, and lifted early, resulting in multiple waves that only abate now because of the rapid deployment of vaccines.

Most importantly, there was very little and late funding to cover the costs of those who should most have been shut down, group travel, entertainment, dining, etc. - should have been fully shut down immediately, and everyone's costs covered.

6-10 weeks of hard shutdown, while standing up a full masking, test/trace/isolate protocol would have handled it, yet few countries did it.

A few countries did implement early, strong, and effective measures, such as New Zealand. They also then opened up many months earlier than the rest of the world with near-normal life.

Where are the politicians "drunk with power" who are restarting lockdowns for their own gratification?

Where is the advantage for such a "drunk on power" politician? What could they possible gain by unnecessarily implementing measures that are seen at best by the smart ones who understand it as a necessary inconvenience, and by the rest as an assault on them?

Even flat-out authoritarians do no such thing. E.g., China, who is unashamed to run literal concentration camps for Uyghur minorities, and who did hard lockdowns at the start, is not opening up as soon as scientifically feasible.

Unless you can show some citations of evidence, this looks a lot less like a real phenomenon, and more like a pseudo-libertarian teenager's trope.
Because they're vegan cheeses.

There's a lot of cultures with strong vegan food traditions, or at least, there's plenty of dishes that are naturally vegan. Vegan cheese doesn't fall into those traditions, it's a processed food product meant to provide a substitute for cheese without using animal products. That's really the only standard by which it can be judged, how well it succeeds at what it's trying to do.
The hospitals weren't (all) overwhelmed but were focused on managing the pandemic. Fewer appointments scheduled, procedures pushed back, no weekend services, that kind of thing. Perhaps an element of patients huddling at home and being less proactive in their own care.

(Btw I'm not in healthcare. If anything my point is a logical alternative to the idea that overwhelmed covid wards could be the only thing affecting other services. But it's my impression of how things seemed to be, at least in the UK).
The levels of inhumanity and doublespeak in here are staggering. This post attempts to euphemize 65 people losing their incomes, and probably healthcare, to the point that it reads almost as farce. Not to mention what the impact will be on those remaining, students and staff alike.

"...they believe it's impossible to make this model work.

We strongly disagree." This is wildly insensitive to those involved. I find it hard to imagine how the 65 people laid off today are going to make that make sense when trying to look for new jobs.

"...today's restructuring and right-sizing..." Is this to say that the 65 people who lost their jobs today were somehow wrong? Again, it staggers me how lacking in empathy these words about people losing their jobs, and probably healthcare, indefinitely.

"For employers looking to hire senior product, engineering, design, community management, or instructional staff, we'll be sharing a list of interested staff looking for their next opportunity on social media" And good luck current students; these people will take all the jobs you're aiming for.

Wow.
I've taken an interest in learning more about both the history of logistics, as well as modern practices.

Any more links (books or otherwise) you could share?
> Surely protesting against racism is what is makes the US weak. Not income inequality or the almost complete lack of social security net or poor access to education.

Yes it does give the appearance of weakness, especially when foreign newspapers feature photos of our burning downtowns.

When people from other countries mention it to me, they're not congratulating us for being woke, they're asking what's wrong with us.

Maybe somebody indoctrinated you that achieving cultural Marxism is our #1 goal, but that's just navel-gazing.

BTW, you're not sarcastic, you're just ignorant. After the Detroit riots in the 60s, the burned areas weren't rebuilt, hurting the very people who torched them, and that was over 50 years ago.
Reaper is a great DAW. It had/has features not in other DAWs (folder tracks predated Logic is one I use personally). It's fast, efficient, and can be installed in a portable manner. Agree with simple actions being simple; it's easy to ripple edit or crossfade by dragging in from the edge of a clip -- more UI region based than other DAWs' mode-based flows.

Back when I started using it, when v3 was new, IMO it was held back slightly by -- no judgment, we all start somewhere and can have fun playing with tools -- one user segment of novices using it for free indefinitely against the license since the trial is WinRAR-style -- and another user segment that seemed to be more interested in customizing the interface and trying different skins than hitting the record button (maybe appropriate given its winamp heritage!). But it's used in professional studios; you can see it pop up in youtube music production videos in the background in studio tours where they're going over tens of thousands of dollars in analog gear.

However - I agree with a sibling post's note that Logic in particular comes with a ton of extra content. I never use apple loops but they're everywhere. There's pretty decent organ/piano/synths included in there. There are products built off a Camel Audio acquisition years ago, some of which cost more than Logic itself. The modeled compressors/eqs are sleepers since many people start buying third-party equivalents. I don't think you should choose a DAW based on value, but I believe dollar for dollar Logic beats out anything except where you divide by zero.

Logic has also had seven years of free updates. Reaper gives you two major versions then you repurchase. Both of those are among the better deals in the industry.

All that said, IMO the best DAW is the one you know or enjoy the interface of, and the second best one is the one used by people you're collaborating with. Also IMO I see way too often the temptation that if you _just_ switched to a new DAW or got a new plugin that magically your album would write itself and you'd find an audience.

Or to directly answer your question, IMO no there's not a big difference. They're both worth more than their asking price. Realistically computers are so efficient now and all DAW software is fairly to very good once you learn the interface. It's one of those things that we take for granted these days but would be completely amazing to someone 30 years ago. Pro Tools' 30th anniversary is coming up and back in the first version most processing was destructive and offline. Now you can run dozens of tracks of simulated instruments and recorded audio with studio-grade effects processing in realtime with cycles to spare.
It's not partisan to say that the leader of the free world is senile.

What I said is not "interesting", it's well-known, just not on HN. It's also only the tip of the iceberg on how close to war we are.

The CCP is a gang of thugs with nuclear weapons.
There are a few shots showing the floorplan and utilities.

This illustrates the bath and kitchen areas. Looks as if there's a cooktop but no oven. The bath includes a sink, shower, and WC.

https://www.yankodesign.com/images/design_news/2021/02/a-3d-...
Bah! I think you may be right. A quick google corroborates it was referenced in english as early as the 14th century. I’ve been annoyed at the term milk for non lactose based liquids for a while now. I’d assumed it was modern marketing usurping the term. Now I have to find some other thing to be mildly annoyed at.
POSIX defines what a POSIX compliant fork() must do.
> That said, there are multiple definitions of "malice". To some of the developers involved, posting unverified patches from an experimental static-analysis tool without disclosing their nature is a malicious act. It is another form of experiment involving non-consenting humans.

What an absurd statement. Malice implies intent ie: the goal was to do harm. There was never any malice - not in the hypocrite commits and certainly not in the static analysis findings.
> Are there any useful embedded projects?

Probably 80%+ of embedded projects involve reading some sensors and doing something conditional with the output, either sending data somewhere or controlling an actuator. That's a very broad definition, but an awful lot of (frankly poorly made) hardware you can buy does that.

The main difference is that scaling/selling embedded stuff is a lot more difficult than throwing up a website that anyone can view or `git clone`. In principle you can release all your schematics as open source (and if you can, you should), but unless you're going to start manufacturing your widget, people will have to physically build it themselves. That's a fairly high bar, but take a look at the success of Adafruit and Sparkfun - DIY kits are perennially popular.

Also have a look at Tindie, where people sell their own projects.

The sweet spot for hobbyist electronics is building niche things that would normally be extremely expensive to buy off the shelf because there is no economy of scale. Once you understand how to glue things together (with digital electronics), a lot of things become possible. I'm currently working on a daylight-simulating alarm clock, because the off-the-shelf stuff is very expensive for what amounts to a dimmable lamp in a box (even when you go down the route of sourcing quality, high-CRI LEDs with cool-warm dimming, etc).
Open source beyond the market (2019)
Surprise, surprise, you can't speedrun engineering skills.
You mean maybe they just like the taste of pretend-dairy, not as a reminder of the taste of dairy, but as something new? Then why call it "vegan cheese"? That just smacks of self-deception to me.
This is very far from being true as a generic statement. My parents are around 80 and they are not the only ones of this age I know who can use these devices pretty efficiently. (They both have an android smart phone plus they have a Linux laptop. They use these all the time. Oh, and they watch content and listen to internet radio on their Kodi running on a RasPi.)

Of course not all 80 year old will be able to use these efficiently or, for that matter will like using them, but that's a different story. You can still make those easier to use (e.g. with a customized android skin/ui) or build a thing that somewhat looks like an actual but specialized computer.
I think I got sick a lot from poorly ventilated meeting rooms. I can recall multiple times coming into a room with stale air smell and get sick not long after.
> Stats, Linear Algebra AND Data Wrangling: 4 Weeks

Ridiculous. Introductory statistics and linear algebra are two separate undergraduate level courses. And if you want a real grasp of statistics, you need to learn probability theory first, which is another semester long course.

To say nothing of "data wrangling", whatever the fuck it means.
Pure hucksterese. How do people still fall for this? You don't even need to start to parse the content to know you're being conned.
Startup Gets Backing to Create Clearing Firm for Equities
US-backed assassination attempt on Belarus president failed
"While the AstraZeneca vaccine has been the focus, other vaccines have also been reporting adverse events. Searching the EMA EV database for Moderna vaccine reports for deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism identified 29 DVTs, of which 12 also had pulmonary embolism; no reported deaths or fatal events [16]. Similarly, searching for the Pfizer vaccine reports, 13 DVTs were found in the same study period, from 17 February to 12 March, as this paper reporting on the AstraZeneca vaccine adverse events. With the Pfizer vaccine, 11 people also developed pulmonary embolism and two died [16]."

Seems to be the case that Pfizer and Moderna didn't get in as much trouble with clot risk I guess?
Fun factoid: in Chinese, there are different terms for soy juice (豆浆 doujiang), freshly made from soy and meant to taste like it, and Western-style soy milk (豆奶 dounai), which adds in all sorts of weird additives, particularly oil, and ends up tasting like neither. The latter did not exist in China until the concept was imported from the West, and remains far more niche (coffee shops, packaged drinks) than the original.
leetcode/hackerrank is the worst thing to happen to tech interviews this decade.
Productive people are just lazy in a different way.
Your numbers are too low. The actual revenue for Amazon is $100B+. How come you are reporting net revenue so low?
‘Gifting-as-a-Service’ Companies Want to Rid the World of Unused Corporate Swag
Ah yes. Ad hominems without any substance at all. As I expected.

What you are experiencing is white fragility. You can read more about the phenomenon here: https://libjournal.uncg.edu/ijcp/article/view/249

The truth is that when discussing societal power in the US, both race and socioeconomic status are hugely relevant. And have been since the founding of this country, when by law only well-off white men could vote.

I understand facing that frankly makes some people, you included, uncomfortable to the point of irrationality. I suggest you get over it, as the issues are not going away.
Brain on Zoom – TechCrunch
How about a culture and social support system where you can just stay home and rest if you feel something's up? Probably a lot more efficient than a mask, and would probably help with lots of other problems as well.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26946972

Not all degrees are 100k. Lots of STEM degrees pay themselves off. The real issue is the time commitment. Most code school students (IME) are career changers that can't afford to spend 2-4 years changing skillsets. Also, Lambda School caps ISA at 30k, which I would argue is insane for a 6 month fulltime program. To your 100k example, college is actually cheaper.
Will they take you with zero engineering experience? Because my local trades union will take you from zero to an electrical journeyman (a friend of mine went through such a program and now runs a crew in California performing electrical infra overhauls). I am unaware of any engineering org that’ll take you right off the street to productive commits. If anything, everyone is looking for the cream of the crop.
I misread your last comment, apologies for that.

I just don't understand you acknowledging that healthcare choice being locked behind employment and insurance companies middlemen being a problem yet still wanting "healthcare choice." What does that mean to you if you don't have the others any longer?
It was generated from the CDC data available here: https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/mortality.html
>"Unless you're running on your own servers residing in your own data centers and your servers in turn are running an open OS such as Linux"

You are teaching fish how to swim.

I host my own servers and also standby dedicated servers on Hetzner. Sure In theory ISP and Hetzner (two completely different companies on different continents) can conspire and temporarily cut my oxygen but probability of it messing with my business vs Google / Apple is incomparable.

>"If you want to provide products and services to them then there's a devil you're going to be forced to dance with, unless you want to build and operate your own cloud."

I am sorry but I can't see any "devil". even though I was running my own servers since 2000. I do not need cloud as my backend are my own high performance servers written in C++. Over the years I kept changing hardware every once in a while and have never needed more than one box to serve my production. My current production box is 24 core CPU with 512GB RAM and handles load just fine without breaking much sweat.

So yes I am in as much control of my own business as reasonably possible and no I do not spend much time maintaining it. I can recreate complete server on new hardware from the scratch by running single shell script written by yours truly.

Consumer facing end is Windows Desktop Application that does not need any figgin store.
The job is at a fast food restaurant.
Ehh, you could come close to condensing 1-2 college courses into 4 weeks. It wouldn't be fun though.
If you miss the old Opera UI/UX then Otter may be a decent replacement. If you want what would have been the actual continuation of the old Opera then go for Vivaldi (made by some of the old Opera team members).
This is a weird phenomenon that I see across discussion platforms - it's like reverse sealioning, where legitimate good-faith questions are taken as evidence of supporting the other position.

In deeply complex and high-stakes systems, the details matter a lot; I haven't thought about it too deeply but my intuition says that they're the only thing that matters. Unintended consequences (like my salary depression example above) need to be carefully considered. There is inherent inequality built into a naive system like you suggest: an apartment in SF is worth multiples of an apartment in OK, are we alright with that? (don't answer, just an example). The details and their impact are important.
A well-known Norwegian economic commentator pointed this out in a newspaper article a few weeks ago. You'll eventually be forced to maintain an R~=1 no matter what you do, so it's best for everyone if your cases have a low baseline when that happens. The measures will be the same, but the baseline risk can either be terrible or okay.

You can almost see the phenomenon in real time during this pandemic. Countries that have low trust in authorities will still freak out when the epidemic hits biblical proportions, and do various forms of impromptu distancing measures which will bring the R number down. Then when the signs of panic subside, they'll loosen them. And so on.

Societies with high trust in authorities will still pressure their authorities to loosen up when things feel safe, with predictible results, leading to further lockdowns.
Pretty sure "data wrangling" boils down to god-tier regex knowledge - which is less theoretical heavy-lifting than an acquired art that comes with practice.
You assign precourse work that rejects 98% of applicants. That helps select students with existing experience, sometimes even STEM degrees.

According to the example contract on their site, their income share agreements last up to seven years. Even if they fail to teach a student anything, the student can spend years studying on their own (or even get a degree), and still owe money.
Fork isn't an idea that users need to have. Devs may need to know what their OS API's fork() does. No-one else cares.
Most code schools (including Lambda School) don't really train students effectively. It's closer to a crash course in a bunch of different topics. Students that graduate often aren't actually able to perform whatever they were supposed to have learned effectively on the job. Worse, to pad hiring stats, lots of code schools also will hire recent grads that cannot find employment as instructors. They technically aren't lying when they say "95% of graduates get a job within 6 months", but their statistics would be a lot worse if you looked at those hired _externally_.

Code schools are actually pretty gross. The idea is fine, but reality and greed kind of ruin them.
In one sense, I suppose so. But usually stocks are evaluated on a percent basis and not a dollar basis.
Depends what your ambitions are. I've seen SF devs move into architecture then move into tech consulting and make good money and grow strong careers. I've seen tech consultants grow to be partners at places like Deloitte or independent management consultants.

There's a whole industry in technology that doesn't' involve writing code and often pays very well. I once helped a large cosmetics company completely transform their business by designing and guiding their enterprise architecture. From crap order processing and slow delivery to best in class customer experience and very efficient supply chain. I didn't write a single line of code but I did bill them over 140k for less than 6 months of work.

After 10 years of SF, I would expect to be leading a large practice at a global consulting firm otherwise billing myself out as an SF architect for a very a healthy day rate.

If your ambition is to write javascript forever, then SF isn't really for you. I went from junior java dev to a top 1% salary off the back of a platform similar to SF and I did it in less than a decade.
> I don’t appreciate being told what I can and cannot say in this manner.

I didn't tell you what to say, I'm pleading with you and everyone else to stop spreading misinformation that is costing an innocent man his reputation.

> As for attacking people, you’re doing a whole lot more than me, which unlike you, wasn’t my intent.

You called Aditya's response "disgusting".
> Lambda pioneered the income share agreement (ISA) in the career
> and technical education space, and we're now watching many of
> the schools who followed us abandon their ISA offerings because
> they believe it's impossible to make this model work. We strongly
> disagree. In fact, many things at Lambda School are working very
> well, and we are...

> ...laying off 65 Lambda School employees.
I get what you’re saying here, but think you’re being a little too harsh. I’m not sure what else to call a reduction in force for PR purposes, I don’t imaging just saying “fired 65 people” is productive.

In this comment:

“ "For employers looking to hire senior product, engineering, design, community management, or instructional staff, we'll be sharing a list of interested staff looking for their next opportunity on social media" And good luck current students; these people will take all the jobs you're aiming for.”

Sounds like Lambda School grads are pretty junior and they’re giving people that are senior a good recommendation. I don’t think there’s much overlap between LS boot camp grads and senior people leaving LS as employees. Maybe I’m wrong?
Why Wasn't I Consulted?
> To anchor discussion

cough
Data science bootcamps don't make much sense to me unless the student is coming from a STEM background. If someone has studied engineering and already had courses in linear algebra,stats, basic programming, then it shouldn't be hard to learn the more practical data science stuff
It's cramming. Simple as that.

Enough buzzword to pass an interview. Unless someone already has a pretty solid degree, it's impossible to learn the fundamentals that quickly. And if they do, they should take grad classes on data science, not go into a bootcamp...
No I did not misunderstand you. Though my quote did indicate age, that was a coincidence.

Socialist policies are largely favored by the morons, they really do not see the slippery slope.
> Can someone explain how you can train Data Scientists in 6 months?

You don't. You show them slideshows and hold their hand through a bunch of labs and then give them a certificate saying they graduated.
I agree in the abstract, but Rust is a step-function improvement compared to most other mainstream languages. It is hard to go back to writing, say, C or C++ once you have a few years of Rust experience—not because you've lost competence in them but because Rust offloads most of the complexity onto the compiler in a way that's simply not possible with older languages. You really start leaning on the affine types, the compile-time mutability xor aliasing checks, the pervasive checking of thread-safety...
I don't think I could retain the information if it was that compressed, either.
Ya, as I understand, that's all this python ci lib is doing. I find it a little annoying that your first have to start a worker to create the pipeline file, and then again to run the pipelines steps