skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting that langserver.org is actually run by SourceGraph and it's still out of date.
Amazon tells employees to pause nonessential travel in U.S. due to coronavirus
> I've talked with perfectly otherwise intelligent friends who didn't know that on Facebook Messenger, clicking the Phone icon on the top-right of the screen that's present in every single chat view allows you to have a voice call with the person in the chat.

My friend, there are a lot of icons in every program. When the smart developer relies on the stupid user (emphasis mine) to guess what he wants without bothering to put a text label or a tooltip describing the role of the button don't expect wonders. And since "material design" it is really difficult to say if an UI element is a button, or a label or just a decoration without clicking on it and opening the Gates of hell.

> It could not get more obvious than this. Some people just need to be taught. They will never discover on their own.

There was a saying "The only intuitive interface is the nipple". Some people with children say it's an overstatement.
It should simply mean "this name and bio has been verified" (so that other people whose name happens to be "Donald Trump" for example can't have a bio that say's their the President).

Twitter started using it for endorsements -- and taking the blue check away from controversial people with unpopular views. That makes little sense to me.
Ask HN: What's the Heroku for Data?
Heroku made it so easy to one-click deploy a web application. What's the equivalent for building a data pipeline, data warehouse, or data lake?
Cruises also skew significantly older than the overall population. It’ll be awhile until we know the final numbers, but what we know so far is reassuring.
Just because the abuser eventually gets replaced, doesn't mean the abuse stops (as mentioned, the replacement then settles into the same behaviour until another competitor comes along). If there's a non-abusive option 20% of the time, and 80% of the time there's only an abusive option, that doesn't strike me as 'working'. I would say the ratio would need to be 90% to 10% (i.e. any company starting to abuse its position loses it very very quickly, and the replacement does not engage in such behaviour for a while), in order for such a system to be anywhere near acceptable.
As I understand it, it's like HN voting, but where the guidelines say you must work hard & espouse Core Values, and the points do matter.

And these appraisals are weekly, shared with your colleagues, and administered by a Slackbot. Welcome to 2020.
Not the greatest recording, but fantastic lightning talk kinda along the same lines but for code, "Mark Dominus - Debugging the De Bruijn Sequence (YAPC::Asia 2007)"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QhtuG4htrb0
Do what I do - copy it forward every couple years onto new media.

My oldest files are from 1977 - proof:

https://github.com/DigitalMars/Empire-for-PDP-10

My files have gone from magtape to 8" floppy to various 5.25" floppy to 3.5 floppy to zip drives to cdroms to dvdroms, then to hard disks of ever-increasing size.

(My old hard drives are completely unreadable now.)

I'm sorry I never kept my punch card decks. I'm sure there was nothing but crap on them, but it would be fun to see what kind of crap it was.
I guess I think the atoms are the mind so if the atoms make the decision the mind makes the decision.
Here's a tutorial:

https://github.com/ocamllabs/ocaml-effects-tutorial
That's effectively a future without the web at all.
Correlation, causation, etc.
Things conspicuously not mentioned that always drives me nuts: Medical oxygen.
This would be great audio/visual sampling content for musicians and the like.
> If you look at the leader board of HN

There's a leader board?
That is me, yes -- thank you! Actually the password save capability was mandated by Sony. At that time they wouldn't approve your game if you didn't offer a card-less save mode. I guess they thought requiring people to have memory cards made the base system too expensive.

Fun fact: the code to convert the bits of saved game state to PS controller buttons used modular exponentiation, as in the RSA algorithm. Carl de Marcken suggested this method; I asked him to recommend something because at the time I really didn't know anything about hashing or crypto. There's an HN post somewhere from a guy who reversed engineered it.

After Crash I joined Carl at ITA Software (now Google Flights), where he was Chief Scientist.
I don't rely on standard personal protection goods.

I'm not really comfortable talking about what I do rely on in public. There's a very long history of people being incredibly ugly to me, outright accusing me of being insane and of making up stories out of a sick need for attention. I've literally been accused of having Munchausen.

Though we don't interact often, you've been uncommonly kind and respectful to me in a sea of what often feels like outright abusive and sadistic behavior.

So if you are interested in talking with me privately about what I do in hopes of expanding your options and trying to protect you and yours, I'm willing to chat and leave it completely up to you whether or not you use any of that information.

Consider it to be an offer of a personal favor. If you don't think I can possibly help you, it's okay. Maybe you honestly don't recall my diagnosis or understand what that's supposed to mean.

I'm sorry you are under so much stress.
>10% bleach should also work but it’s nastier

You mean concentrated (~5%) bleach that's been diluted 1:10, so it's ~0.5% bleach, right?

Something that was actually 10% strength would be way too strong for cleaning.
my employer/client (Dutch government) is taking the same approach. I don't like it, especially because they are the government. They should be a little bit more paranoid about these things.
> but Mozilla Suite didn't really derive from them

I think it would be just slightly more accurate to say, that it didn't derive from them at all, as the original Netscape codebase was scrapped.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Mozilla_Application...
OK, that makes more sense. There's no legal issue, but there are definitely highly varying opinions about the ethics of reporting someone's death before officials have announced it to the family. Kobe Bryant's death is a recent obvious example.
I've started more and more using help to find items in big menus quickly, it's actually pretty neat macOS feature...
Security is a set of compromises.
I am not commenting on whether that should be allowed or not: I am saying only that (1) religions like this absolutely do exist, (2) this license obviously discriminates against them, and (3) because of the wording of the OSD, this license cannot meet the definition because of the interaction between (2) and the discrimination against persons/groups clause. This is not a value judgement on my part.
Yep, it's a 'momentary push-to-make' if you want a couple of search terms.

i.e. after press it returns to its previous state (momentary), and on press it 'makes' (as opposed to 'breaks') the circuit, or 'bridge' between pins as you said.

Which is why my screwdriver works - I momentarily hold it across the pins, making a connection between them.
You could always bond a couple of 1Gbps ports together, not as elegant, but certainly something hackable with what you have perhaps and with that - cheaper and good stop gap to eek out a little bit more life.
> I watched it for three hours and it got to the final scene to reveal whodunnit and the tape ran out.

I felt this, hard. So many things I recorded ended up like that, or worse, turned into my mom's soap operas - Santa Barbara, in specific. Ugh.
Yes, people have done studies and it shows if your above 50 you have a munch higher chance of dying from the disease.

I’d say though you’re fear mongering posting a comment like this, why ? Maybe you don’t realise ?
While it may actually mean something here... every CTO says they care. The more candid ones will follow up with comments about prioritization and profitability and cost control. But what matters are the actual actions they take. Now again, I gives CF better than usual chances, just... I wouldn't take it too much to heart.
I work at Google so I'll give examples from Google land

* Google BigQuery (data warehouse) https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/

* Google Dataflow https://cloud.google.com/dataflow/

* Looker https://cloud.google.com/looker

More on data analytics: https://cloud.google.com/products#section-6 databases: https://cloud.google.com/products#databases

Most of these solutions are 'serverless' similar to Heroku model (you don't manage the infrastructure, it scales based on demand, you pay per usage).
Project Greek Island
I can't think of any situation in which a U.S. media outlet wouldn't publish both the name and photo

It happens. I remember when I worked in newsrooms very occasionally the surviving spouse of a serviceman wouldn't want the death publicized. It was unusual, but it happens.
FCC Proposes to Fine Wireless Carriers $200M for Selling Customer Location Data
Make sure there are clear milestones and metrics with an earn-in vesting schedule. The last thing you need is a stranger who immediately owns 25 or 50% of your company doing nothing except collecting rent 9or encumbering you’re business.

That said, if the arrangement can be structured to be fair to both parties this sounds like a great deal.

One particular thing I’d warn techies about are “business guys” asking for an ever longer list of uncompensated enhancements, only after which they put in their effort. If anyone suggests this — run. Both sides need skin in the game.
I'm writing you an e-mail parallel to this comment. I've been reading your comments on this site for years now - they often stand out as particularly insightful - so I do remember some of the context.
Fast food delivery drone service to begin operating in Dublin
Fortran always seems like such an odd looking language to a modern developer like myself, who's learned a fair share of languages.

I want to sit down and figure it out one day given how prominent it was (and still is for many critical systems).
Joplin. OSS Evernote with excellent web clipping; I especially like that you can capture text as markdown.
Sanders' new tax policy raises alarms in Silicon Valley
Disruptive self-quarantines serve a purpose even in the case of an out-of-control epidemic. The mortality rate isn't very high, but the number of hospital beds for severe cases are limited. Ditto the number of diseased people who can be away from work at once without having disproportionate effects on society. A 10% sick rate might be managable over the course of a year, but a 60% sick rate over two months is probably not.

Aggressive self-quarantines reduces the peak number of diseased, and hence improves both the prospects of both the seriously ill (who will have medical treatment available) and society's ability to keep functioning while the epidemic runs its course.
The footer has a link titled Lists. The leader board is the top entry on that page.
Grist spreadsheets have a page where you can review all formulas as code https://support.getgrist.com/formulas/#code-viewer - I find this handy when figuring out someone else's spreadsheet, or my own once I've forgotten how they work, and would love to see this become a standard spreadsheet feature (disclosure: I work on Grist)
You can’t see how there are legal and ethical issues with publish the name and photo of, say, a murder victim?

Ethical issues, yes. Legal issues, no.

In the Untied States, publishing the name of a murder victim is not illegal. It's a matter of public record.
And, right on cue: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/a-second-case-of-coron...

Here we go...
You'd think that this would make it evident, but every person I've said this to said "no, you still have a 50-50 chance". I just give up after that.
SpaceX wins the $117M launch contract to explore Psyche’s heavy metal asteroid
I am intrigued. It would help if you could share some success stories where you have done this, perhaps with before and after.
> This is both Google's default policy (not feeling well? go home)

I can’t imagine many tech companies (or even salaried office jobs) having very different default policies.

That is sort of missing the point in an emerging pandemic.
Blitz.js – Full Stack Serverless React App Framework
I... guess? ... that you're supposed to check off pomodoros as you do a task, and I... guess?!?... that once you've checked off all the pomodoros in your printed calendar, the task is supposed to be done...?...

Is that what you're supposed to do with those tomatoes?

Here's a few pieces of advice:

1. People just aren't that good at estimating their time.
2. You need to use paper for more than just a counter. If I just want a counter, I'll use stones in a bowl.
3. You need a reason why people would want to keep around their printed copies of the number of pomodoros.

Here's how I would change things: Think about helping people get better at estimating the number of pomodoros they took to do an exercise.

The printout should have a date, a description of the task, and an obvious way to count off pomodoros BEYOND THE NUMBER ESTIMATED.

Suggest that people refer back to previous printouts of pomodoros, so they can figure out why tasks are taking longer than estimated. (Tasks never take shorter than estimated.)

That might be useful. But you'll still need to say why it's better to have this printed out, than to have this information on your tablet, hidden behind a password.
I am not surprised they give blue tickets to the biggest kissers. You just have to be a certain type. regular people? naw. Well in their defense if it was not exclusive and "hard" to get then what would be the value?
That was a very scary video. I was physically cringing all throughout watching it and when he drank from the same bottle vocalizing 'no!'. Very depressing.
> there's no reason that an extension couldn't do what it did in XUL

The XUL-webextension transition resulted in a huge loss of API surface. This cost us vim keybindings, tree style tabs, the ability to modify the new tab page, and probably some other things that I'm forgetting. While they eventually added some replacements, it's still not 100% back to where it was (ex. tree style tabs now works, but can't hide the original tab bar).
50-70% IPA is actually a more effective disinfectant than 99%; the water helps it penetrate cell walls, I'm told.
It's just A/B testing happens to align well with being an employee, not caring about the company, the future of the company, only caring to impress your boss short term and then getting promoted or leaving for another company. It's like a perfect selfish short term instrument for that, it doesn't burden you with mid and long term consequences.

But it's actually pretty hard to find something where A/B testing would be appropriate, outside of measuring effectiveness of ads of course, since they are naturally short term and consequence-free.
Just to be clear, I don't think Assange would be considered "problematic" for anything like xenophobia, but rather his history of aiding and facilitating the release of information that governments find to be inconvenient.
That is super cool. At the time -- I was like 12 -- all those horizontal and vertical blank hacks on the Atari 800 seemed like total black magic to me. I had no idea you could even hook the VBLANK or HBLANK interrupt on PS1. Wow.
I am a big supporter of part time too. I can't overstate the importance of work-life balance. Work less, work better, and don't forget yourself nor your family.

However reading the description, I can't tell whether the potential hire fits this category.

Are they looking to have 2 jobs in parallel? What would their side thing be, is it different enough that they wouldn't be working on both concurrently?

If they want to be away from writing software 2 days a week to fulfill a hobby (e.g restore a boat, paint or whatever) then it makes a lot of sense. They will be happy, grateful, and the culture will be great.

If they are seeking part time in order to work for 2 startups or setup their own side business, then I'm not so sure.
>the ridiculously hot summers in Australasia

Are no hotter than many other years, decades ago.

>resulting in bushfires, famine and drought

There is no evidence linking the fires to "climate change". And I can find no evidence of any such famine even existing. Droughts are caused by depleting the water supply, not by warm weather. Warm weather increases rain.

>seas taking over the cities

Has not happened. The rate of sea level rise has been stable for the 120 years we have good data. It has not accelerated.

>are all demonstrable effects of climate change

None of them are. They are things people insist MUST be caused by "climate change", but do so only using "common sense", rather than any actual evidence. Demonstrable requires evidence, not "common sense".
He was a genius and an inspiration for many people, why can't we just admit that he was wrong in one accessory domain (relative to his work and legacy) and not turn him into a romantic Don Quixote fighting against the "bad politics-based consensus" of climate change?
In the US, homeless people have a much lower life expectancy than housed people and other categories of poor people also generally have lower life expectancies. You don't have to be pronounced dead from literal starvation for poverty to kill you.

I guess that's a "yes, well-heeled people really are completely oblivious to what actual poverty means."

Which would explain an awful lot of super shitty policies in the world.
Yes, but it is running off an FPGA
YouTube rejects about 78% of appeals to get removed videos put back up
They have zero fatalities so far. But don't for one second believe that having double pneumonia is a walk in the park and the lung tissue scars will be with you for life. I had pneumonia when I was 24 and to this day I have my reminders of that event. You end up with reduced lung capacity, scarring and you'll be more vulnerable to re-infection.
the logic is they don't want the economy to shut down just yet, whereas they wouldnt like unnecessary things like parties to infect people that could then force them to enact measures that would shut down the economy.
Not particularly user friendly, yet, but Arweave [0] was built specifically for this use case.

0. https://www.arweave.org/archiving.html
You've at least heard of (if not used) a programming language heavily inspired by Miranda: Haskell. A lot of things about Miranda were really interesting; it reflects modern languages in some ways, but looks completely foreign in other ways. Like Haskell, whitespace was significant; unlike Haskell, it was fast. Really fast.

It was one of the pioneering purely-functional languages, but seems to have been mostly forgotten. That's unfortunate, because in many ways it still is superior to its successors. Their fault for keeping it proprietary for so long, really.
> taking extremely disruptive steps to minimize spread of the virus is only worthwhile (in any sense) if it actually works

China has demonstrated that disruptive steps have flattened the epidemic curve.

> having those people die despite giving the economy a 10% haircut for the year would be worse

Do you imagine that there is a society in which this stupid Sophie’s Choice hypothetical actually plays out as you suggest?

If an uncontained pandemic is hospitalizing and killing their friends and relatives and overwhelming the healthcare system, do you think people will (a) show up to work and be productive and (b) continue to spend money as they did prior to the pandemic in order to sustain economic growth?

An uncontained pandemic is ipso facto an economic threat. Flattening the epidemic curve is good for people’s health and good for the economy.
> The vast majority will not learn that ctrl + click does right-click, and that you can enable scrollbars again to actually see if there is more content to view.

How are they suppose to learn that ? Is it described in a help text somewhere ? How about Shift + Click ? Or Caps Lock + Click ? Will this destroy my document ?
Now seriously. People (except children) have a lot of other things to do instead of doing detective work.
The Fortran I used for Empire was FORTRAN-10, a DEC variant with many extensions to the then-Standard FORTRAN IV.

There was an earlier Empire I wrote in BASIC, but alas it was lost. Some of its vestiges remain in the Fortran version, such as a variable named Z6. (Variables in that BASIC were one letter and one digit.)
Life at Embassy Tokyo After Pearl Harbor
> Web-browser, advanced e-mail, newsgroup and feed client, IRC chat, and HTML editing made simple—all your Internet needs in one application.

emacs on xul

In all seriousness though I have a hard time imagining why anyone would want this ... both from a developer standpoint and a user standpoint. The recent change history is a bunch of "most of ABC other Mozilla product's code has been pulled in for X.Y.Z version, go read those notes to see what is new" and describes cherry-picking bugfixes from arbitrary versions of Firefox (60, 72, ...?)

Sounds like an absolute maintenance nightmare (or perhaps a labor of masochistic love, depending on how you look at it) of constantly cherry picking other upstream stuff into one single app for what looks like a relatively small gain. If you had no choice (ie, what linux distribution maintainers spend a lot of time on) sure, go for it, but I can use Firefox, Thunderbird, etc... as standalone apps and still have them connected using my local OS and regular old open web technologies.
It does make you wonder though, how interested is the general public in figures like Assange and Snowden? How much interest and knowledge does the general public have in them compared to pop culture figures?
The memory controller supports ECC if Apple cared about it they would’ve forced Intel’s hand a long time ago it would not be particularly difficult for Apple to request a custom SKU with ECC enabled.
I was happy to see WHO has coronavirus.com.

Edit: Ha, not even owned by them.
>> In particular, Authy, LastPass and 1password have a giant attack surface compared to a simple app like Google Authenticator.

Source? I've seen some vulnerabilities over time, but the "giant attack surface"?
> I remember back then accelerators setting were highlighted in all programming books I have read.

... back then. Now this is not cool anymore.
The website is maintained by SourceGraph so of course there’s going to be some bias.

That being said, the website is editable on GitHub [1] so people can submit fixes if needed.

I’ve been using “gopls” [2] since Feb 2019 and I’m very happy with the functionality.

Rebecca Stambler, Heschi Kreinick, Muir Manders and the rest of the team are doing a wonderful job.

I encourage everyone to join the #gopls channel in the Gophers Slack group [3] to follow the updates.

[1] https://github.com/langserver/langserver.github.io

[2] https://github.com/golang/tools/tree/master/gopls

[3] https://invite.slack.golangbridge.org/
it is a badge created by a single platform, it only has value for those who use the platform. cultural, hell I bet a good number of twitter users don't know what it means.
On the flip side, as someone that has a few crates on crates.io, and is familiar with at least some of the internal workings of git and how commit data is pushed, the postmortem reads entirely reasonably to me.
There's fairly little evidence that COVID spreads from unsymptomatic carriers. They may, but not significantly.
There have been APUs listed in Mac drivers since forever since they are part of the driver blob they get from AMD it doesn’t mean much.
The Apocalypse Is Here
Not the worst idea ever... tbh

Project Orion:
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/enginelist3.php...

Given what we have available to us. It gives us the most propulsive force. Lots of hard problems to solve :)
You can learn from other people's mistakes. Of course, you need the experience of learning about them, but that's more scalable than experiencing all the mistakes yourself.