skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Verification should serve the purpose of verification alone and not related to what Twitter agrees with as a company or not. They're a platform and should act as one. https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/123129080521149644..., https://twitter.com/timsweeneyepic/status/101608430676101529...
That explains a bit more why you're facing such difficulties. Here are some ideas that could help:

Pick a topic that is not very difficult, but not trivial. Let's say "categorization of data" - you wouldn't believe how many companies need that with the latest ML hype. Create a static page with a bit of bio - native english, whatever you know about tech, + talk about categorization, give some examples, etc. Github Pages is free, so that should work. Same on Linkedin and whatever is used in NL. Go to Upwork, Fiver, etc. and apply to all jobs related to this - include your bio, static website, your "examples". Here is an example kind of post, but there should be plenty - https://www.upwork.com/job/Startup-Database-Data-Entry-and-C....

If you can, try to do the above for more topics to increase your chances, from the top of my mind:

- Find websites that do some kind of aggregation but can benefit from manual work - aggregators for jobs, rentals, products, etc. and offer your help.

- Teach english online

- Review product descriptions

- Find leads based on keywords
Well it's no surprise and disappointing conclusions from the Milgram experiments and history, we already know ~40% of people are cowards, completely stupid/cruel and eager to believe con artist politicians, adopt fascism and genocide.
It's still shitty and weird behavior. Not simple at all.
My step mom was recently going through a bunch of old vhs tapes looking for wedding footage of her mother’s wedding. 99% of the tapes are television from the early 2000s. She was going to just throw them away! So now I’ve got 30 tapes of early 2000s gold. I’m going to digitize them and upload them to YouTube.
It's just annoying that some snooty reporter is trying to shit on this great man's legacy by speaking of things they do not understand.
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I don't know, but think it's reasonable to think that part of the reason for the 'W' shaped mortality curves in 1918 was not that the virulence of the 1918 flu was higher for people 20-40, but rather the incidence of infection was just much higher for all those soldiers running around in transport ships etc in Europe.

Another example where we draw inferences on something phenomena, without taking into account the broader context (in this case incidence rate)

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/1/05-0979-f2
It doesn't make Go much less safer than Java. Go is a safe language.

Working long enough with Java I saw all the problems with exceptions and NPE and can tell you that those problems are less prominent with Go.
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Security scandal around WhatsApp shows the need for decentralised messengers
> overly broad assumptions (e.g name=`${firstName} ${lastName}`)

So an internal application I work on has communication between teams where first + last isn't a given. So I'm constantly paranoid if I'm going to get it right (usually just don't communicate name at all, just make statements).

Fast forward to a month ago when I started working on a rewrite and while constructing the users (and actually making them users within a company instead of effectively companies themselves), I added an enum for NameOrder and separated the two fields.

Not particularly important to the application in the grand scheme of things, but geez, it feels mildly freeing that it won't be so ambiguous in the future.
My resources are US-centric, but this is what I can direct you to:

https://www.reddit.com/r/GigWorks/comments/e81eba/welcome/

Hope that helps. Best of luck.

Edit: I will add There's nothing wrong with you. The gig economy is proving to be a painful transition for a lot of people.
i cant help but feel Go is the new Javascript. Everyone wants to complain about how its semantics as a language do not align with their favorite programming paradigm. In this case, having complex, algebraic type-based abstractions that attempt to accurately reflect subtleties that are rarely important.

Yes, Go, as Javascript has unique failure cases and subtleties, but they are (as of 2020) very productive languages within their particular paradigms. That's not to say either language is beyond criticism, of course. But it's a little silly to think that a language that supports the 99.9% of writing a service well, but does the .1% badly as a tradeoff for simplicity is a fundamentally broken language because it doesn't share those aspirations. We might as well be complaining about the lack of pointer arithmetic in Python.
I have 30 year old CDs that play as good as the first time, as well as older vinyl discs.

I'm sure I own 20 year old DVDs in same condition.
Curious claim, considering OCaml fares pretty well in many language comparison benchmarks.
I'd like to see (and might even work on), and overlay filter to plug that analog hole. This would probably be entirely outside of the web browser (perhaps as a custom VNC client) and would simply grey out ads and other obnoxious content. It wouldn't stop any downloading, but it might be smart enough to X out of those stupid pop-up ads automatically.

Easier said than done, of course.

For the record, I've no problem with "fair" advertising, the kind that used to appear in newspapers and magazines in the 1970s, for example. (Well, aside from its use as a virus vector.) But modern day web ads are simply abusive in too many cases.
>“Using a personal photo and including personal details in a reporter’s biography made participants feel they knew the reporter better, but this feeling didn’t influence readers’ attitudes about a news organization more broadly,”

IME, people trust individuals more than institutions. So, their level of trust for the news organization doesn't really matter if they trust the specific journalist.
Exactly, this wasn't an overnight change. It was a gradual process which is how it should be done. Banning cars on a major road overnight with no plan in place will obviously result in chaos. Nobody is suggesting this.
I didn't downvote you, but you are mistaken.

I don't know about Go GC but your comment about Haskell is very off.

> Not sure how Haskell's GC works, but I'm guessing it more or less depends on Haskell's immutability guarantees.

This is false. Just because you see immutability on the surface doesn't mean the GC still sees a lot of immutability.

Several reasons. The first is that even pure code can depend on interior mutability in a safe way using the ST monad, or in an unsafe way using the IO monad. (The GC can't just say, I give up when a user uses an unsafe function.) You might think that interior mutability is rarely used, but that'd still be wrong. Even something as commonplace as a hash map (from unordered-containers) uses interior mutability under the hood. Just read the source code and you'll see it. Here: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/unordered-containers-0.2.... Just grep for runST.

The bigger problem is laziness. How is laziness implemented? A value is represented as an unevaluated thunk, a closure to compute the value. When the value is needed, the closure is run and then replaced by the resulting data. This is mutability. And this is something that almost every Haskell program relies on.

I've explained this many times on HN. See eg https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21674749
No, I don't. Because I don't equate ideas and property.
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I clicked that link expecting Linus Torvalds and was very confused. The mononym "Linus" is already taken :-) It would be very exciting to see Linus Torvalds playing with giant amounts of RAM but sadly he doesn't seem to make a lot of videos like that.
Check out joeyh's stuff, https://joeyh.name/, esp https://joeyh.name/offgrid/

Energy storage, whether purchased batteries or built gravity storage is likely most useful.

Having consistent access to power through predictable reserves makes energy way more useful to you. You can do laundry at night, or run a heater, etc.

Storing energy allows you to adapt your power usage to your needs and preferences, instead of adapting your needs and preferences to power availability—which has daily and seasonal limitations.
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Case in point, close to where my humble abode is, there is a newly built artscape center, a supposed hub of a condo tower with spaces for installations and happenings. Well, since it is a newly built unit, it falls outside of rental control bylaws, thanks to the boneheaded legislature introduced by the wrecking ball that is Doug Ford, and the rents there promptly went up 20% or so at the end of the initial one year leases, so all the struggling artists that this artscape hub was supposed to provide home to, started leaving in droves.
I think you're thinking of Everything Is Broken by Quinn Norton https://medium.com/message/everything-is-broken-81e5f33a24e1
My mother who is 83 works out with a trainer who focuses on the elderly 3 times a week. All they do is stretching and balance exercises. To paraphrase her, at this age not falling is far more important then 45 minutes on the exercise bike.
All languages which uses Result or Either types...?
Ask HN: How do you create a good brand?
curious about this topic as I'm working more these days on my company's brand. any thoughts/tips?
Google should absolutely have special restrictions now that there is a confirmed case in the office though. There should be a quarantine in place for everyone they came into contact with for at least 14 days.
To a typical consumer "Moore's Law" used to mean they could buy a computer that's the same price but twice as fast as the one they bought a couple of years ago. That trend has been dead for a while now.

The technical definition of Moore's Law is still standing, but it's relevance has retreated into areas where relatively few people notice. E.g. massively multi-core server chips and flagship phone SoCs.
Wouldn't it make more sense to stick this view persisted state in your Redux store? (and write it to LocalStorage with a throttle). Dan Abramov does it that way in [0]

It would make handling your data much more sane (it all lives in one place, your Redux store), making it easier to sync (just sync your store's state), solve the key collision issues (with the author's implementation, separate components can overwrite each other's data).

[0] https://egghead.io/lessons/javascript-redux-persisting-the-s...
> why should I use a cane?

To beat young whippersnappers!
I feel that we've done ourselves a disservice by referring to them as ad blockers rather than content blockers or, better yet, virus blockers. With malicious ads being the primary vector for compromising a person's computer, calling these tools virus blockers would not only be more accurate, but it would make it harder for sites to counter their use from a public relations point of view.

Could you imagine visiting a web site only to have it tell you to disable your virus blocker to view the web page? Yet, web sites make the same requests of your "ad blocker" even though the end result is the same. They want you to disable your security protections and risk infection to view a web page.[1]

Sadly, I believe we've already lost this battle and are worse off for it.

1. https://www.networkworld.com/article/3021113/forbes-malware-...
Well said.

It’s important environmentalists consider the whole and do cost benefit analyses of intervention.

I see much less of a cost to quality of life in reducing planned obsolescence and increasing the reusability of things than I do in decreasing carbon emissions wholesale. The transportation benefits of gasoline are enormous, and it makes less sense to restrict something so practical and beneficial than it does to try to reduce something as wasteful and pointless as intentionally making a product difficult to repair and maintain long term.

I’m very sympathetic to Dyson’s criticism of the status quo, although I don’t know enough to have an opinion on whether carbon emissions may be beneficial on net. He advocated for practicality rather than dogmatic belief, and was interested in simple interventions like changing land management and tilling practices if carbon emissions are actually as detrimental as are being touted, rather than dramatic energy reduction or conversion to expensive and currently less viable energy sources.

Regardless of whether or not people believe CO2 is on net beneficial for the planet, I think he was right in calling out the difficulty in having an apolitical, non-interested and practically minded perspective on climate change and environmental impact that goes against dogma. The science should speak for itself, and any candid and open good faith discussion to determine whether alternative perspectives are valid should be welcomed. Dyson’s argument that carbon emissions are probably good on net might be wrong, but his position was in good faith and well constructed. Any such position should be transparently engaged with rather than dismissed as uneducated.
> However, I don't think one good deed should excuse past bad behavior and one should be careful about glorifying someone to the extent that we ignore their misdeeds.

I disagree. What you say is true in a lot of cases [1], but you're devaluing personal growth way too much. This guy's "one good deed" was a drastic and radical break with his misdeed of overpaying himself. He deserves all the glory he can get for that.

[1] For instance: a businessman who spent his life exploiting thousands to make himself rich, who then engages in some half-ass charity at the end of his life.
This is really cool, congrats. :-)

Are you aware of Ted Nelson's ZigZag data model? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZigZag_(software) It seems like that might work well with Wildcard.
> Exceptions have a bad reputation because C++ and Java botched them.

Okay...

> You need an exception hierarchy, where you can catch exception types near the tree root and get all the children of that exception type.

Didn't Java do exactly that?
I'm not sure I understand what he means by meta game.

Is it adapting to rule changes?
Or simply focusing on abusing the rules instead of just being good at the fundamentals of the game?
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They aren't even telling other employees who it was, so employees literally have ZERO idea how at-risk they (and their families) are.
After going down this rabbit hole, I concluded that M-Disc is the right trade off at the moment. They’re not too expensive, the writers are available, they’ll last, and they could be reverse engineered if discovered in the future.

The second choice is using hard drives (easily available) and every so often power them up and copy data to new drives.

If you have a small quantity of data, then encode and laser print onto paper, with a font designed for optical scanning or QR code’s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC
We found that working inside a docker container isn't usually turn-key.

You need to figure out a system to get UID/GIDs in sync between the container and the host (otherwise you mess up permissions of files in your repository. This isn't terribly hard, but is annoying boilerplate to keep writing.

Plus, docker-compose doesn't really offer command discovery. Looking at a docker compose file, I don't know how to run the project's build steps, or run their linter or tests. Having to look that up is, in my opinion, annoying.

In general, we try to provide sane defaults, so that users (and to some extent maintainers) don't need to understand Docker and how it works in order to start using it.
I don't get this argument. If your mind deterministically makes a given decision in a given circumstance then that's what your mind decided to do. Another mind would make a different decision. That seems like your mind determined the outcome and that sounds like free will?
I have to say that list has gotten waaay longer since last time I saw it.

LSP really has been a massive success, and despite being made by MS, has been one of the main reasons I’ve been able to keep using Emacs and not migrated to other more IDE-like editors.

MS deserves som serious credit here for being one of the few players willing to think in protocols these days. Protocols vs products makes a big difference.
The linked article is recommending Authy over Authenticator because backing up codes on multiple devices is too hard. If you're going to disable remote backup on Authy, then there's almost no advantage to switching away from Authenticator in the first place. Authy also doesn't allow local export of tokens, so there's no advantage there. I guess with Authenticator you lose the ability to lock your local tokens with a 4-digit pin, but who cares? 4-digit pins are not secure.

I just checked on an old installation of Authy, and as far as I can tell there is no way to remove a phone number from the app itself, only change it. Maybe when you're installing you can skip that step. You can turn off remote backup entirely, but see above.

If you use Authy, fine. It's still better than nothing. Really, getting people to use 2FA at all is the important battle, and the fight over which 2FA app is best is probably a waste of time. But Zdnet should not have written an article recommending people switch away from Authenticator to Authy when Authy's primary selling point is actually an attack vector that its own support website recommends disabling[0].

More to the point, the setting makes me trust Authy less in other security areas, because it's an attack vector that they easily could have plugged years ago -- and it makes me think they haven't actually thought that much about security. It's just bad UX to ask users for an encryption password when a single setting will non-transparently bypass that password requirement for some tokens.

[0]: https://support.authy.com/hc/en-us/articles/360012427914-Is-...
Density affects high end processors too. We already are past the point where it's necessary to throttle down to protect a processor from self-destruction. Nobody wants to employ the sort of heat exchanger necessary to keep running full bore all the time. Power consumption takes a back seat to power density.
There's a huge difference from getting stock grants from FAANGM and getting options from startups, which may easily turn into funny money. The recent underwhelming tech IPOs from Uber, and perhaps worrying upcoming IPOs from AirBnB, indicate that even options from unicorns might be of debatable worth. It's just not money in the bank in the same way those from the tech giants are.
We have taken — and will continue to take — all necessary precautionary measures... as we prioritize everyone’s health and safety

...

Google’s Zurich office will remain open

So they've taken all necessary precautions except the one that would actually prioritize health and safety by asking all employees in that office (or at least those on the same floor/seating area as the infected employee) to work from home and self-isolate.

I thought the germ theory of disease was already well accepted and we had a pretty good idea of how pandemics spread.
This almost read like a bot wrote it...

> A manufacturer has alerted us to a shortage of a human drug that was recently added to the drug shortages list. The manufacturer just notified us that this shortage is related to a site affected by coronavirus. The shortage is due to an issue with manufacturing of an active pharmaceutical ingredient used in the drug. It is important to note that there are other alternatives that can be used by patients. We are working with the manufacturer as well as other manufacturers to mitigate the shortage. We will do everything possible to mitigate the shortage.

They don't name the manufacturer, the drug, or really much of anything.
Nebula isn't a physician-ordered test, nor does it come with the bioinformatics pipeline needed for rare conditions or genetic counseling. It's quite simply a different product for a different purpose.
I also found it odd that nobody ever talks about the NICs. I wonder if they're buggy or deficient in some way. STH said "We were able to pass 10Gbps of traffic through the NIC" so there is some software support. https://www.servethehome.com/amd-epyc-3251-benchmarks-and-re...
I'm an iOS user, but I suspect I'll end up switching back to Android for my next phone in 4/5 years.

Is there a way around this where you can say "no, just let me install from anywhere" or is it forced unless you root the device?
I feel like the article is missing an important milestone about release of Brave browser for Android circa 2017/2018 (it's only briefly mentioned at the end).

It changed the landscape on Android in my opinion: it was the first browser that was as good as Chrome (fast, same look & feel -- being a fork of Chromium -- plus regularly updated and having strong, credible technical team behind it) but also having ad blocking built-in and other additional privacy measures. Soon Opera added ad blocking as well, and other browsers (except Chrome) followed.
It's akin to saying "Why is everyone concerned about this Volcano erupting? Plants will flourish in the resulting rich, volcanic soil"

The statement is completely true, but it misses the point as to why people are concerned and glosses over a lot of negatives.
People who hold the above opinion, can you explain what makes you confident in your position, given that it’s in opposition to essentially the entire worldwide public health community?
Seems hard to get hold of M-DISCs now.

Are they still produced?
In this case, the adversaries are end users
Ha. The guy's train of thought was clearly, "If this guy's legs aren't broken, they're going to be."
In this scenario, the safest bet is just a 14 day quarantine for the entire office. There are probably legal reasons why they Google can't disclose. If health authorities do contact traces, it will get out anyway. But there's nothing stopping Google from doing this besides carelessness
The Register's take on this story: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/26/nsa_calllogging_pro...
Maybe in purpose to avoid drugs related panic purchases.
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Have a look at https://www.codiwork.com
Something to do with cloud computing, but not for any of the FANG + Microsoft companies.
Wine ARM Support
Erlang is less and less used in telecoms and it's the only place if was really used, lot of things have switch to C/C++/Java.

As for the reason why it has less complains it's pretty simple no one uses Erlang and it's a niche, it's not a generic purpose language. I can't even tell a single known application or library written in Erlang.
At some point something has to give though. Security and convenience are constantly at odds with each other. My opinion is that it's far better to convince people that it's worth the inconvenience rather than watering the security down to the point where it's basically pointless. And if they take the consideration that the extra security isn't worth it for them, then that's the choice they make.
Who is honestly clicking on all these ads that makes advertising worthwhile?

I am honestly baffled sometimes how this all works... In my 30+ years of internet usage in one form or another I have rarely, rarely, rarely ever clicked on a freakin ad. Yes, I've generally had them blocked for the most part. But when they aren't blocked, I see what the content is and why would I even want to click on one!

Color me confused who is keeping the web running by clicking on ads.
It would be a fraction of that without API gateway, not sure what it is needed for. I deploy directly to Lambda@Edge and it is an order of magnitude cheaper.
The reality is it only takes 2-3 seconds to allow it, it’s a direct link to the relevant setting. Once you allow it for that app (say, Chrome or Google Drive) you don’t have to do it again unless, of course, you disable it.