skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ignoring hard problems like memory safety and parallelization (let's say), I think the biggest soft problem that I experience is optimizing the amount of time spent doing work relative to setting up boilerplate - mainly during web programming, i.e. it took me literally a few days to work out how to use code from and deploy node_modules without cheating.

Not trivial but maybe automated by some meta-meta-build tool?
In extremely small volumes, CDs are very cheap. Bands just burn CD-Rs.

Digital files are even cheaper.

I doubt vinyl is cheaper at any scale. At least in the UK, 250 packaged CDs are 60% of the cost of 250 unpacked vinyls.
Makes me a bit nostalgic but I don't miss the CLACK! in the middle of a song as the head repositions to the next set of tracks. I still have a crate of tapes somewhere up in the garage.
The mortality rate could be an order of magnitude higher than the flu.

The flu in the US kills less than 0.1% of infected. 12,000 - 80,000 people die every year, just in the US. (where nearly half the population gets a flu vaccine every year and there is health infrastructure to treat the worst cases).

The new coronavirus' mortality rate is very unknown, but if it's anywhere close to the 2% number, and it spreads in a similar way to the flu, it could easily cause the deaths of millions of people.
Yeah true, I guess it wouldn't be a question of $.50 on the dollar vs nothing. Maybe extending the repayment period so that payments are lower but it increases the total financing costs?

It just seems to me that if a company is doing something profitably, that would be the company I would want to lend money to.
Comparing yourself to others is a sure way of feeling upset , there’s always going to be people with more money than you.

Life isn’t just about money or work. I have less net worth than you and a lot more years under my belt, the country I am in doesn’t pay as much for software engineers and that’s ok.
This is fun, however it seems like it would be easier and more reliable to just put some dogs next to a gigantic magnet.
There are a number of confounds related to sunlight and other geophysical parameters (wind) that are not controlled for in this study. A magnet would demonstrate a clear causal link much faster than forcing some grad students to watch dogs pooping in uncontrolled settings.
Though I suppose people who own 4T magnets are probably not cool with some random person showing up with a dozen dogs and a couple of compost bags.
Every time you Google something, you create an enormous carbon footprint. Every time you drive. Every time you eat. Every time you watch a movie.
Being a mobile payment system like that under Western regulations would be awfully close to a heavily-regulated bank. PayPal, for example, goes to great lengths to specifically stress that it is not a bank and doesn't need to be regulated like one.

Honestly, with the chip readers these days also widely accepting NFC payments (Google/Apple/Samsung Pay) I think it'll allow the US to leapfrog WeChat and AliPay by obviating the need for yet another financial middleman.
I can't understand for the life of me why USA don't make awards of costs to successful defendants, is there a logic to it that I'm missing?
I am not a biologist, and that sounds weird to me:

Aren't viruses dependent on hosts?
Dogs get feng shui.
We only agree that the church is tight with its money with respect to how that money is used to benefit members and the unfortunate that should probably be the beneficiaries of good old christian charity.

But tight with its money amongst those that control it? Neither of us know...because it is a secret. A secrecy that has no benefit but to protect those who control it from scrutiny.

I don't know how you could view either of those things as a "good thing" in the traditional christian understanding of good.
Generally they want to license the IP to you, which might be a good idea as it adds prestige, plus they will defend it in court. Note that even if your technology did not infringe on their patents, your marketing claims might have appeared to.

Many schools try to make money by licensing patents, even giant public schools (oddly). Faculty and research staff are pressed to make invention disclosures of ongoing research that hasn't been published yet, and the school decides if it can make money patenting it. If they do, the inventor gets a cut.

In terms of ownership, all govt funding of the research means is the govt itself gets a free license to use it, not the public.
As an example of just how far we are from this, generally the bootloader hasn't even passed off to the OS within the first 100ms.
Easymotion Like Navigation for Tmux
We went on an off-site a while back,and stayed in a house that had been the home of a major Spanish publisher,and I spent every spare moment just looking through the book shelves. It says so much about someone.
A fast way to jump wherever you want in your terminal without using the mouse. tmux-jump is written in ruby and can easily be installed via tpm.
Microservices Development with DevSpace and Kubernetes
ConferenceCall.biz – A never-ending conference call
System for running N feedback which are rails inspired Golang webapps
if you have structured settlements and you need cash now

call JG wentworth if you need cash now
I would create a cross-platform GPU-targeted GUI framework for .NET Core. Something like Avalonia, only without skia, directly on top of D3D11, GL, GLES or Metal. Modern GPUs are awesome, can directly render very complicated vector graphics. Outside Windows not used for GUI despite there's need for that, slow mobile CPUs + very high rez displays are both common.
You're getting downvoted but you're right. Getting cheap energy when the sun is shining or wind is blowing is great, but we can't ignore the value of reliability, which skyrockets when it's in short supply.

This is why all NREL and OECD studies into deep decarbonization with intermittent resources show grid integration costs skyrocketing above 50-80% variable penetration in electricity markets.

E.g.: https://www.oecd-nea.org/ndd/pubs/2019/7299-system-costs.pdf
Oh my you are so right, i browse with adblock and no js normally, the normal experience is quite rough ^^
Paint3D is an atrocious, poorly-designed app. Tools are all over the place, familiar shortcuts have disappeared, and the UI looks like it was designed for the Windows 8 vision of Windows-on-a-tablet. No thanks. WIN+R, mspaint, ENTER--every time.
Anyone can play the question game. A cursory twitter search #coronavirus will reveal that the situation is more serious that the W.H.O is letting on
I can second this. I left over a decade ago. I've moved through four states, and probably a dozen addresses in that time. This is the first year where missionaries have not shown up at my door. I always had the same conversation with them: "Elders, I left the church for a reason and have no desire to come back. If you ever need water or to use the restroom, you are welcome to come by. I understand that what you are doing is hard, but you are not welcome to teach." I would never see the same elders twice.

(I also detailed some of my leaving in hopes that it helps others)
There are environments where you can’t install additional. It’s a real problem if you don’t have notepad. It would actually be really nice if they beefed it up a little.
Again, how do you know that what you are assuming is "common" isn't just a warped perception due to distillation effects of internet fora?

My brother and his wife asked us not to bring up church stuff to them, and like normal humans and family members who respect each other, we obliged. And it's a two way street; when they come visit us we still say prayers for meals and they don't make a bug fuss about it.
I use one large mind-dump file (~15 years) in Apple Notes and keep todos for the next day on a single sheet of paper which I throw out in the evening — why would anyone archive their accomplished tasks? I love destroying the past every single day.
A 120-watt laser like the one in the Lasersaur can maybe cut 6-mm MDF at 50 mm/sec. A typical plasma cutter can maybe cut 6-mm mild steel at 50 mm/sec. https://www.makeitfrom.com/compare/ASTM-A36-SS400-S275-Struc... suggests that A36 mild steel is 25 times as rigid and 25 times as strong as MDF.† So I think that in some sense a plasma cutter is about 25 times as useful as a low-power laser cutter like this one.

Of course, there are a multitude of other properties to consider. Mild steel fails through ductile deformation; MDF fails through brittle fracture. Mild steel rusts when it gets wet; MDF swells and loses most of its strength. Steel weighs 8 g/cc, and MDF weighs 0.75 g/cc. (That means that if you can make the steel thin enough, you can get the same tensile strength as MDF with 60% less weight using steel. You might even be able to cut the steel with a laser cutter, though probably a higher-power one.) Steel is cold to sit on and not breathable like MDF. MDF won't cut your fingers if you don't deburr it. Lasersaur claims precision of 30–100 μm, and even 100 μm is hard to reach with plasma cutting. Steel rings because its elasticity is almost perfect, with a Q over 1000, while MDF thuds because it has a lot of elastic hysteresis, so it eats vibration for breakfast; by the same token, though, it is not suitable for high-precision positioning. Lasersaur can cut some transparent materials, while a plasma cutter can only cut metals. And plasma torches are kind of dangerous but far less treacherous than a 100-watt laser.

But, at the crudest, most oversimplified level, you can build things just as fast and 25 times as skookum with a plasma CNC table, or several times as fast and just as skookum, or equally skookum and much lighter. And a lot of the same design principles carry over, although plasma torches have more trouble with sharp corners than laser cutters do, because they can't ramp their power down to zero.

† According to that site, A36 has a Young's modulus of 190 GPa and an ultimate tensile strength of 480 MPa, though you probably don't really want to exceed its yield stress of 290 MPa. MDF has a Young's modulus of 4 GPa (no word on whether that's in-plane or transverse) and a tensile strength of 18 MPa.
Formally specify all the commonly used languages, runtimes and APIs, so that we could translate programs between them. Then make sure that all programs such translated can be compiled, so that we don't waste resources by running inefficient VMs.
Earthquake build-up produces electric fields.

It would be a different sensory system.
There's too many damn libraries
This. Even MS salespeople never try to slip in “windows search barring” in place of “googling”.
In engineering: There should be a single global content-addressed namespace for data. The space should be unguessable, rather than enumerable or searchable. The effect would be to end all problems of networked data storage, and also to end copyright. DNS, Bittorrent, IPFS are all fine attempts, but also clear and abject failures. If it's not possible, then we should prove the impossibility.

In theory: Prove that one-way functions don't exist, or explicitly construct one. Similarly, prove that P!=NP, or similarly settle the question.
No, not really. Could be a list of elm tree species, or something even more specific (most famous elm trees, species vulnerable to some disease, etc) that's immediately obvious if you're plugged in to the arborist community instead of the hacker community.
Surcharging is becoming more common with a couple companies like CardX focusing on it: https://thepaypers.com/expert-opinion/credit-card-surchargin...

Particularly driven by https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expressions_Hair_Design_v._S...
You may not be rabid in opposition to religion or caustic towards personal adherents--that's not what I had in mind--but your second paragraph to me clearly reads as anti-religion.

Apocalyptic teachings or teachings that the church will become part of a world government are part of religion. (I happen to disagree with these things, if you are referring to what I think of).

What you still seem to be saying is that those beliefs disqualify them from being allowed to amass wealth. You aren't saying it is ill-gotten wealth. You are saying their beliefs disqualify them from having wealth. I refer to my original point.
How does CD suck among digital formats (at least, from a sound quality perspective)?

For what it's worth, I am a member of a private music tracker and there are plenty of vinyl rips available. I've found that in many cases, the vinyl rips (which are digital files, by the way) sound better than the CD. This isn't because a) vinyl is better and b) CDs suck, it's because the CD masters in many cases compress the audio more and there's less dynamic range. Ironically, CDs have a lot more dynamic range than vinyl!
Do you only put new entries in at the top of the file?
Ah, the impossible holy grail of businessmen and marketeers everywhere
The reason I've read is that it's a leftover from when they lived in the wild, and it would help make sure they don't lay down on top of something dangerous, like a snake or ant colony. It would also make since to do it before pooping since they're going to be in a vulnerable position.
I have separate text files for todo and notes. I use Notepad on Windows and it has a nice (though not very well known) F5 feature to insert current dateTime. Certainly not surprising given the name of the program is notepad. I also extensively use Autohotkey to quickly open up the desired file by pressing a system-wide keystroke.
I also keep these text files in a remote git repository so there's a history to restore from in case I accidentally delete something
You don't need that many participants in a bubble for it to have systematic impact. You just need enough participants inconveniently placed throughout the economy who stop paying their bills to various people.
It seems I have bookmarked and forgotten this page long time ago. Thank you for helping me remember it.
The comfortable life is killing us
I found that using an iPad with the Pencil has been a great middle ground. The OCR in the various Notes apps (including stock) is able to recognize my horrendous writing (it’s really bad).
And yet, with no explicit cap on welfare spending, the church only claims about $40 million per year on charitable giving.

As a percentage of their revenue, that is monstrously pathetic. I have a better chance of feeding the poor by giving my money to a Fyre Festival who will take 95% of the money and skip town but pay 5% to a local vendor who buys shitty bread from a local company who employs a poor person for minimum wage.
Cotton Candy (2010)
> This sounds like a situation where no one can win 100% of the time. Some people who are left alone after leaving the church complain that they're "alienated" by their neighbors, while those whose neighbors try to keep them involved are victims of "invasive harassment".

You're getting downvoted because both can be true.

How would you feel if your closest friends and/or family stopped talking to you because of how they voted? Or if they didn't stop talking, if they only talked about how you voted wrong (you know, basically Thanksgiving dinner but more frequently). What people miss is their friends and family. And in the end, do you really want a friendship back if you were only friends because you shared the same religion? That's what these people are saying. I say that as someone who went through it.

As far as the missionary problem, dkarl explained that pretty well.
Chef and hating it.
These viruses seem to be as ancient as cellular life, and may preserve genes that did not become incorporated into the last common ancestor of living beings. That, or new protein families evolve even today.
Use rufus to burn a linux iso and install over the top. No more windows. Really need something? Run it in wine.

Break away from Microsofts abusive ecosystem.
Nice. Got a little hit counter at the bottom too. Ah the good old days of the web. I remember when it was all about "hits", "impressions", and "banner ads".
I guess that many don't isolate IoT stuff in at least a vLAN. And I guess that's because "consumer" routers don't have such features.

It's pitiful.
Are you using RFC1918 networks or are you using public subnets you have actual delegation for?
British English speaker here - Lego was always a collective noun for me, like sheep. You might have a piece of lego, and some lego, but never 'a lego' or some legos.

It was oddly jarring to come across Americans on the internet, who had a totally different take on this!

(yes I realise you can have "a sheep", my example isn't quite right! Perhaps it's more like sand or rice)
I wonder if such software market exist for non-farmers equipment, like Teslas, other modern passenger cars etc.
Credit card companies make money off the fees, so why would they want to lower them? The pressure for low fees must come from retailers.

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22277404 on the rise of surcharging
As long as you never use Undo...
Show HN: TikTok for NSFW Videos (NSFW)
This sounds contrived to me.

If you know whether people actually delivers or not, this is an easy discipline issue: point out that you know, and that working from home is a privilege that will be withdrawn if performance slips.

What I tend to find is that managers often believe productivity is higher in the office because they see people engrossed in their computers, without seeing what people are actually doing, and believe they're in control.

If you think you need a high touch system to handle this, then it suggest you doubt your current systems ability to pick up actual performance vs. whether they look busy.
1. Alex Pakhunov: https://blog.not-a-kernel-guy.com/

Alex Pakhunov (aka 'Not a kernel guy') is Sr. Software Engineer, Flight Software at SpaceX.

He born and graduated in Ukraine, but now is U.S. citizen.[0,1]

[0] https://twitter.com/alexeypa/status/958886120825081856

[1] https://blog.not-a-kernel-guy.com/about/
I started following this outbreak about two weeks ago, when confirmed number of cases was still below 300 and 17 people had died. The confirmed cases were almost wholly contained in China, primarily just Wuhan province. At the time there was a lot of debate about the seriousness of the virus and the risk of a pandemic, and I was mostly sitting on the fence, looking back to SARS/Ebola and figuring a quarantine might be able to burn it out.

Today confirmed cases stand at 34,964, with 725 dead, and the virus spread to nearly 30 countries. I'd highly recommend this interview from a couple days ago with Neil Ferguson, director of the Institute for Disease and Emergency Analytics at Imperial College London's School of Public Health[1]

Some highlights I'll quote, based on his team's modeling of the true situation vs. the necessarily incomplete confirmed cases:

- China: estimated 10% of total cases detected

- International: estimated 25% of total cases detected

- estimated 50,000 new infections per day in China

- Doubling every 5 days

- Onset to death can take up to 20 days (in fact I think we've seen deaths up to 30 days post-infection now)

The NYT today[2] also quotes leading experts that this virus is almost certain to become a pandemic, and no one can with certainty predict the consequences. All of which is just to say, I think it's time to stop the hot takes about how unseriously you're taking the situation. There seems to now be unanimity among global experts, who are taking it very very seriously indeed. The actions of widespread border closures, travel and economic shutdowns and China forcefully quarantining 500 million citizens also ought to suggest that governments are treating this far differently than the flu or in fact any sort of viral outbreak in perhaps modern history.

[1] https://youtu.be/ALQTdCYGISw
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/02/health/coronavirus-pandem...
I use a single text file, have done this for decades. I dump everything into it and don't worry too much about structure, it's an incredible resource for "remembering" minutia, things like "what was that server that i thought might have had some issues last August?" Just a quick control-S and I'm there. My current 7+ year old notes file has about 100K lines in it right now. I can tell you what I was doing last year, or the year before, on this day, in seconds.

I just type

note (maybe some text here)

and it cracks open Emacs on the notes file, adds a timestamp, appends the optional text, and then I can just type or paste something in. Nearly frictionless, that's key. Great for writing those miserable annual reviews, too (easy answers to "what have I worked on in the past year?")

I use plain old notebooks (simple blank sketchpads, or something bound like a Moleskin/Lecchturm) for meetings, interviews, walking around datacenters and so forth where a keyboard is awkward and anyway, drawings.

I've tried the EverNote/OneNote/etc. apps and none of them were as convenient or as easy to use, or as portable.
Source of truth, if you're not afraid of a couple more clicks to get to the data: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2...