skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pandemics aren't really natural disasters are they? A natural disaster is physical phenomena, usually geologically or weather based, like hurricanes, earthquakes, tornados, etc. Recovery time from those types of events isn't very quick, espeically if the country is underdeveloped - look at how long it took Puerto Rico from Hurrican Harvey, Joplin from the 2011 tornado, Haiti's 2010 earthquake, etc.
Loved those interviews. Thank you.
Mainframes are interesting to me (but I think a lot of things are interesting) :)

I found this one site with links to books on mainframes: http://www.mainframes.com/Books.html

If IBM is investing in 14nm tech for mainframes, it's not dead tech. A quick search revealed the following:

"""
70% of the world's production data, and 55% of world's enterprise transactions, took place on mainframes (2016)
"""

http://ibmmainframes.com/wiki/who-uses-mainframes.html
Thanks! We're not currently planning on implementing a hierarchical resource quota in HNC, but HNC is trying to define a definition of hierarchy that could certainly be used to create a HRQ. Give me a shout if you're interested in contributing.
All that text and it doesn't mention that the offending character is a U+00A0 NO-BREAK SPACE with UTF-8 bytes C2 A0.
Preach. I teach a little "into to web dev" workshop that starts with a slide explaining that static sites, SSRs, and SPAs are all perfectly acceptable. They're different tools for different use cases.
I read somewhere that the distinction of Kalamata olive oil is reserved only for oil that comes from Kalamata, Greece. It's high end, but honestly the flavour is absolutely worth it. Furthermore, higher end products are usually less likely to be tampered with in a race to the bottom.
The barrier is not always high https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45X4VP8CGtk
I've worked from home 9 of the last 10 years and much, much preferred the year of going into an office, being better at separating work/leisure, etc.

I don't understand the appeal of doing either full-time. I can see myself being comfortable with a mix of home and office, there are advantages to each in different scenarios.

It's not just tech, lots of jobs are tech adjacent or tech-augmented and can do this. More so than we thought ten years ago.

But in short, it's not for everyone. I'm bored of it. It makes work part of my life one way or another. I like directly interacting other humans sometimes.

There's gotta be a balance, as with most things in life.
You might also be interested in the project-based course on GNNs by octavian.ai which is here: https://www.octavian.ai/machine-learning-on-graphs-course You don't need to sign up -- the notebooks get posted to this page. Signup is only if you want to receive notifications.
If you're compiling to wasm, you don't have access to JS directly.
http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists.... quotes the email from him that apparently finally got him banned.
I think we know that living near major roads is bad for you. So to figure out the dose you'd have to measure it at different distances. Volume and type of traffic. If you live near a major road you probably want to run an air cleaner with a hepa filter and not go outside to much or on busy days.

https://www.lung.org/our-initiatives/healthy-air/outdoor/air...
Lol, this site is such a bubble.
>[...] and https://www.reddit.com/r/coronavirus for general news

A couple of weeks ago I saw a comment alleging that the subreddit had a pro-china bias[1]. Personally, I've noticed some patterns that seem to be consistent with those allegations:

* I frequent /r/all. when the subreddit shows up on /r/all (first or second page), it's almost always negative news about some country other than china

* I visited the subreddit on occasion and negative news about china are... few and never anywhere close to the top. At the writing of this comment[2] the only post about china is good news about a 100 year old man recovering from the infection.

* A few days ago there were stories of a hotel collapse in china (it was used to quarantine patients). Posts from various subreddits were showing up on /r/all (first page), however in the /r/coronavirus subreddit the story was in the middle of the first page. You'd think that if such a story was showing up on /r/all, that it'd be #1 or #2 place in the subreddit.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22438754

[2] https://archive.is/DBWSj
Extra virgin only means it has been subject to the least amount of filtering standard to the industry. This gives it the most flavour of the olive oils.
Why would I sacrifice my finances because a company that didn’t have a business plan that allowed them to pay their employees market value? If the owner’s sold the business would they give you part of the proceeds?

I bet they talk about the company “being like a family”, don’t they?
Could the CDC intentionally be avoiding increasing testing to avoid panic? If the numbers are to be believed, no matter what we'll see a sizable number of infected this year and risk losing many of the elderly.

This is the only logical explanation at this point. Or you can replace "avoid panic" with "avoid bad press for Trump".
"Single page" isn't the why it's the how. It enables you to take a JavaScript-first approach which in turn makes building complicated applications easier.
Sorry, but what a load of garbage.

1) The vast majority of work is NOT "knowledge work"--it is schlepping things around. Who are the biggest employers and what do they do?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_employers_in_t...

Take a good look at that list. It's almost ALL about schlepping things around. That's takes people--in person.

2) Short term is incompatible with real social existence.

You have bills every month. Your child is stuck in a specific school for 3/4 of a year or more. You're going to your sister's wedding next year.

Sure, maybe if I'm a brogrammer in the Bay Area with no life, I don't care about getting upended continually. The rest of us with lives need money and need it on a schedule.

3) Most people aren't productive remotely because they are barely productive in person.

The vast majority of people are simply not productive without some level of oversight. Most companies don't need unicorn productivity, they simply need people to produce a little something every day. Most people working most jobs don't want to think or work too hard, do want to do a little something and then simply go home to their real lives.
SV companies are constantly trying to get you to move back to the area after you leave.

Talent outside the bay lags behind so its not as desirable for those companies. Not to mention the valley culture is a bit guild like
Hairdresser is going to be a tough one, but I suspect the barista jobs are easily automated.
Anyone heard any rumblings about storage supply chain issues causing issues with cloud storage availability or pricing? I remember the floods in Thailand that caused a critical disk shortage in 2011. I’m worried that might happen again with Chinese and other factories offline.
UK reader here. “Continue reading this article

Register with an email address”..
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Backs Away from Canadian Gas Project
The leap from static HTML to PHP misses a big chunk of dynamic web site growth that started to produce a lot of the bad patterns that lived on.

As simple and nice as static HTML is, it's inefficient. The reason we care about this now is mostly:

A) A lot of people just hate Javascript. And a lot of that hate is understandable.
B) People still worry about the crawlability of their SPAs

JS has a lot of problems but it's also fixing some of these by growing really fast (paradoxically, also one of its problems).

Bots will get more comprehensively better at rendering client-side only apps.
Here's something I could say about these accusations:

"Interesting, this sounds like something a Koch-funded hit-job on Gates would say. In fact, it also sounds like what a spokesperson for Big Hand Sanitizer would say. Or really, if you think about it, if there are aliens immune to SARS-CoV-2 who want to cleanse the earth, this is a reasonable first attempt as they gauge our reactions."

It is easy to generate adversarial hypotheses with non-zero probability. But that's not an intelligent way to live one's life. It leads to poor life outcomes if effort is not spent on those hypothetical outcomes proportional to their likelihood (and I suspect, in this case, merely stating the hypothesis has exceeded that effort threshold).
The best part is that this is from an email newsletter and has broken HTML at the end.
It's not going to normalize WFH, but it will normalize paying for WFH-related software. Companies that start using new collaboration tools aren't going to stop paying the 50k a year or whatever for them once the epidemic is over, because they were hard to get approved and it isn't their money anyway. But you'll still need to mostly start going to the office again.
>visit farm shops

And come up with a good estimate for their production capacity vs sales...
California will pay people unable to work because of Covid-19, and their carers
> WFH

What the heck is WFH? He uses this weird acronym and doesn't define it. Oh, wait, Work From Home. OK. Some people might not be able to guess this without a lot of thought, like me.

> CBD

Sheesh, more of this crap. People, define the damn acronym first time you use it ok. Not everyone is a Mason with a secret code book. Usability 101.

> LNKD

> USV post

I see. Author is pretentious nit. FTNAAs. TAPAOSHIR. Please don't post this wanky stuff any more, OP.

Edit: OP Abe Winter flagging this confirms he is absolutely a grade A category 1 pretentious nit. Learn to write. What a maroon. Would. Not. Hire. Define your narcissistic personal acronyms Abe, you pretentious fatuous incompetent. PS only doing namecalling because of absurdly flagged my legitimate commentary, which is an act of extreme violence and censorship, making one an enemy of reasonable discourse. No wonder this, the precious snowflakes who "cancel" anyone with legitimate valid criticism. Complete losers.
You've clearly not had to work in a corporate environment on an old PC with a locked down copy of Outlook...

Gawd.. now that's terrible.

But yeah... I don't agree Gmail is terrible, but I'd like it to be better.

Ive been on a few months after it launched, and got a service that's been reliable and stable for that long, I have to give it a lot of credit!
> A well-known standard in this regard is XMPP and another competing is Matrix. XMPP is much older and part of the 'official' standards by the Internet Engineering Task Force, while Matrix is younger and setting a stronger focus on what the server should do.

It's a bit disingenuous to sell XMPP as a single IETF standard (RFC 6120 only covers core) when it is not. It is many standards known as XEPs (XMPP Extension Protocols) https://xmpp.org/extensions/

They are hugely fragmented and many many clients support some but not others. (Just take a look at the case of E2EE on XMPP), some support OTR, some support OMEMO, some do both, and neither work for other channels like VOIP. If you ever do any kind of federation you're going to want strong E2EE for privacy reasons.

It's also worth noting that the Matrix developers had quite a bit of experience developing XMPP software before they undertook the Matrix project. The specification https://matrix.org/docs/spec is an maintained document with a reference client (Riot) which has helped third party developers with implementation and example.
I run a bionic and focal full mirror, and even just keeping a mirror working right with debmirror is a huge complicated mess. I don’t understand why there isn’t an overhaul of the packaging tools and mirror structure to make it a lot simpler.
Since the problem with WFH seems to be lack of casual interactions, I wonder if it could be solved with very imposing video calling. Something like an always-on whole wall display showing another office, so you can see people from a distance, approach them at the wall, wave them over, hear background sounds, etc? Perhaps displays and internet bandwidth are only now (or not yet?) cheap enough to do this in your house.
All the WFH companies must be salivating at this situation. Are there any public investment opportunities (other than Zoom)?
TLDR; just check the charts.

Persons without a college degree die more often of suicide/substance abuse, marry less, are less happy and suffer more chronic pain than those with college degree. Here college degree appears to be a proxy for income and income inequality being the main driver of these effects.
A small employer (or individual payer) is buying insurance, and the insurance company is going to need a good reserve because the maximum benefit is large relative to premiums.

A large company often self-insures the healthcare cost, and is buying health plan administration. If high costs are not observed, the reserves can roll over to future years. Even if they don't self-insure, the possibility can be used to negotiate lower prices, and having data on past claims can show a less risky pool, etc.
I don't think I implied governments should have a monopoly over health care? There are many other options. For example, I'm wondering why isn't health insurance covering testing? It'd save them money if it helped limit the spread of disease.
Sick leave should be unlimited. Have the employee skype a nurse for 10 minutes if you think they are faking it.
Ok I’ll bite, what on earth is the connection between Uyghurs and C?
> But the web is about presenting content first and foremost

This is where the article started going wrong. I don't care about the web -- it's a tool for me to do my job. I use the web because it's a much better alternative to shipping a Swing app. I don't care what the web is "about" and neither do my clients.

Also I do think it's funny the JAM stack he's referencing is just the jQuery stack of 5-10 years ago.
Is it really that easy to write reliable software for mainframes? What sort of abstraction do you get from them that you don't get in commodity hardware?

Nice easy shot at Robinhood of course, but they're a very young company. Do the big banks really have a fundamental edge that's not just more invested hours?
Self-selection.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_selection
Pretty spot on, actually.
TLDR: Author's disregard of the history of markup languages leads him to design his own for unconvincing reasons.

Originally, markup seemed like a great idea.

Originally and currently, markup languages represent documents very well.

However those days are gone.

No, all that's gone are the late 1990's / early 2000's irrational overreach and misapplication of markup languages to RPC (e.g. SOAP), build configuration (e.g. ant), etc.

The main reason that Good Old Fashioned Markup (GOFM)
has been abandoned is that traditional systems have
no abstraction mechanism.

Established markup languages have not been abandoned for representing documents.

There’s nothing corresponding to functions (in a
functional language) or methods (in an OO language).

Descriptive markup languages (e.g. XML, HTML, etc) have no such functional or procedural abstraction mechanism by design. Procedural markup languages (e.g. PostScript, troff, TeX, etc) do, but the article offers no clear statement regarding how Markup Macro Processor (MPP) improves on existing mechanisms.

Absent in general are any explanation of where MPP fits in this space and any justification of why MPP merits consideration presently.

There’s XSLT and other proposals but they’re so complex
they’re not suitable for non-techies, in my opinion.

XSLT is wonderfully powerful for transforming XML but was never intended to be "suitable for non-techies."

[...]

The article goes on to describe a templating system for the author's non-standard markup language that appears to blend JavaScript, CSS, and DOM manipulation. No attempt is made to describe its advantages over React's JSX -- JSX isn't even mentioned.

At this point, I moved on (and regretted the little consideration already given). A new markup language has a high hurdle to clear to justify consideration in 2020. I see nothing new and nothing of value here over existing, official or de facto standard markup languages or templating systems.
Why? Private health insurance in the US is largely unaffordable due to regulations. Small businesses, ie consultancies with one practitioner, are prevented from joining together to negotiate health fees. Similar obstacles occur for individuals working 1099. How about removing those regulations first before going with a public option?
As software developers we can probably empathize. I know I have been working on production code and found years old comments written by me along the following lines:

//Hacky solution to get a working prototype, should be refactored before deployment.

Legislative and regulatory debt can be a problem just like technical debt.
“In the system that measures how much fuel is in the tank, Boeing dropped a feature designed to prevent wires rubbing together. It removed sealant from certain areas judged to no longer be vulnerable to sparking. It removed clamps designed to ensure hydraulic tubing didn’t come loose inside the tank.”

“Most of the design changes reduce complexity, cost and weight. Boeing has steadily reduced the cost of building the 787, a vital part of its drive to recoup the $22 billion in still-outstanding 787 production costs deferred into the future.”

The rot is far worse than I suspected. Unbelievable.
This ignores OPs point that if remote work is normalized, they won't be asking you for anything anymore.
"Catastrophic for failed/failing petro-kleptocracies Iraq, Iran, etc - may prove existential 1-2 punch when paired with COVID19.”

Good!
Won’t people just migrate to the wealthier countries anyway? No one wants to stay in Greece, people want to go to Germany, the UK or France.
It’s also because JS raced to integrate features which were considered standard elsewhere, back in the dark ages with anonymous self executing functions.
Their oil-funded sovereign wealth fund has a value of 1T USD [0]. If they manage to achieve modest 4.4% returns, those returns would represent 10% of GDP. Last year, it returned 187B USD [1], or the equivalent of 42% of GDP (though I don't believe the fund's returns are considered part of GDP).

[0] https://www.nbim.no/en/

[1] https://www.nbim.no/contentassets/3d447c795db84a18b54df8dd87...
No, there are goals that require delayed gratification. You’re saying getting out of poverty is hard, so don’t do it. You’re saying don’t exercise, it hurts. Hate gutters In bowling? No problem, you’re as good as anyone, it’s the thought that counts.

Sometimes you gotta eat shit because it’s the right thing to do. Changing the goals won’t fool anyone, not even yourself.

No ones born knowing how to code, it takes practice, it’s not fun, it can be deeply hurtful sometimes, hell all careers can hurt bad

Painful lessons aren’t worth it cus they’re painful? We’ve crossed the rubicon. Point of no return is way over yonder
agreed, it goes a lot further back than ww2 https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114045...
The textbook case is the 2004 tsunami and tourism in Thailand. Most of the destroyed infrastructure was replaced in about a year and tourist numbers (measured by number of passengers to Phuket Airport) recovered shortly thereafter.

The short-term effect of Covid-19 on Chinese manufacturing have been absolutely devistating - I honestly can't think of another feasible event that would cause the same level of slowdown that you saw last month. However the recover is in progress, and while it's going to take some time, odds are that everything will more or less return to normal in another couple of months.
Western Democracies on Trial as China Halts Coronavirus Spread
Are you trying to say that it is wide and heavy as well :)

Joke aside, how are people actually getting started in this space? And more importantly, is it "worth it" financially? Is the mainframe skill shortage ("dreaded COBOL"?) a real thing?
It doesn't really seem worth engaging further with pseudo arguments like 'Market failures exist, but they exist where they exist and not where they don't.'
>From there, it’s only a few more levels of difficulty to unlock international talent at 1/4 of the price.

Nah, I bet language barriers and substantial time zone difference will keep most companies out of that mix. You'd need to change the company a bit more to accommodate that.
There is literally almost no data. We are barely testing at all in the US. And even if we were, the goal here isn't good science, it's preventing deaths. People who get tested "random Joe" at home and get a positive result are less likely to infect others.
The point of having group plans is having groups. One person is not a group as groups exist to pool risk.
How much of US oil production is unprofitable at $30/bbl?
Red will be self hosted at some point. I know they're working towards it, so it shouldn't put you off forever.
Google confirms microformats are still a supported metadata format for content
I’m glad this is being raised, because it’s almost never discussed in the same “why is American healthcare so screwed up” discussion. It’s also a relatively important point re: the arguments people make against for-profit healthcare, precisely because we’ve had a system for almost a century where third parties are negotiating prices with providers under heavy regulation/incentivizing of the government.
Hell, I still write the HTML and push it to Github where Github Pages and Cloudflare put it up on the Web for me. I've never seen any reason to use Markup when I can just Mark my text Up in HTML pretty simply. If you write a site correctly (a site, not a webapp) it'll render in anything from the original Netscape to the Wii Browser (tested working with my site), Internet Explorer 8 (working), Links2 (working), and the latest Chrome.

A site like YouTube doesn't need to work with old stuff like Netscape or IE but if your site primarily focuses on text there's next to no reason there should be Javascript on your site. Sites like danluu's[0] and Michael Norman Williams'[1] may not look the best but they just work.

My website: https://www.instantfloppy.net/ (though admittedly I don't spend as much time on it as I should)

[0]: https://danluu.com/

[1]: http://michaelnormanwilliams.com/
as a link: https://reddit.com/r/sml
Think about this:

The office is 5-20 minutes away. There is a good work culture. You have friends at the office. You can easily go home for a quick errand at lunch. WFH wouldn't be as appealing.

Now consider:

The office is 1 hour away on a good day. Traffic is very frustrating. Parking is expensive, same with transit which is hard to get an hour away. You get home at 6 if you're lucky. After 2 frustrating commutes and a rough day at work, and having to wake up very early to make the commute, you don't feel like working out. You get the point.
He did want to be a rails maintainer. Did you miss that part?He wasn’t willing to do the work for it. So where’s the lesson? What are we applauding?

Changing goal posts is cheating yourself. Self discipline a sin now?

It’s the American stigma of failure, deeply flawed national trait

The argument is that hard work saps energy and can damage your self esteem so therefore it’s evil. No matter the benefits, they’re not worth it if they don’t come easy.

This is like bizarro Silicon Valley
He is comparing the society in USA where many people work hard for very few rich people which in return offer charity to feudal societies.
Not to poor people, an extremely obvious fact that some people seem to wilfully ignore.
Presumably the fact that iOS had vulnerabilities that allowed for watering-hole style zero-day attacks on Uyghurs in China.
From an accounting perspective, sure. But you also gain influence, reputation and power.
What's the functional difference between that and a clinical trial, from the perspective of the patients?
And people think the refugee problem is bad now. Wait till all the middle eastern economies collapse.