skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SaaS companies can and will try multiple growth methods till they find what sticks for their particular niche. It only is called execution when it succeeds. Todays success playbook may result in tomorrows graveyard.

Execution can also be accelerated with the right type of advisors and investors. Not every startup will have that luxury.

The composition and experience and network of the team can be a big plus especially in Enterprise SaaS where there can be long sales cycles.

Execution can include:

Strategic investors

Strategic advisors

Mindshare

PR

Technology partnerships

Technology alliances

Channel partnerships

Sales acumen

Marketing acumen

Developer evangelism

Free trials

Freemium model

SEO

SEM

Leveraging social media

Leveraging podcasts

Referral program

Affiliate program

And so many more variables... including fund raising prowess that can be used to minimize the competition.
"If an employee does not have any accrued or available paid sick leave, however, (e.g., if the employee has already used all of his or her accrued and available paid sick leave under the employer’s policy, including as consistent with Labor Code section 233), and if the employee has an unscheduled absence that would otherwise violate the employer’s attendance policy, the paid sick leave law does not prohibit the employer from giving the employee an “occurrence” for such absence, even if the employee was actually sick and/or could have used paid sick leave for the absence if he or she had any such leave accrued. The paid sick leave law does not “protect” all time off taken by an employee for illness or related purposes; it “protects” only an employee’s accrued and available paid sick leave as specified in the statute."
For GPS, satellites just broadcast same signal for everybody. It won't be feasible to send that powerful signal for just a costumer cell phone and it is about signal strength. They transmit tiny amount of data and it is not required your phone to able to receive all the data.
New Census algorithm wiping out cities’ populations and miscounting minorities
I have photic sneeze reflex, hypnic jerk, and TIL exploding head syndrome. I associate hypnic jerk with a sensation of falling, whereas exploding head syndrome is a loud bang and bright flash. They both make you jump. I didn't know there was a different term for the loud bang/flash type.
Be careful with this line of reasoning.

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

I'm often curious about the relationship between this concept to solipsism.
I used Nuklear for a couple of project that needed a little bit of UI, it's pretty neat to add some UI to an OpenGL or similar project. It's more targeted at "game UIs" and the like tho, where the UI isn't the main component..
And not having the disease exist is best. We do our best with what we've got and keep pushing every line of attack. Something is better than nothing.
It's like a seat belt. You are only happy to have it when shit his the fan. Lol.
Git bisect solved a problem I had before. I had exhausted debugging and even println debugging, in the end I had to find out which commit introduced the bug. Once I found the change it was very easy to fix.
This is the company: http://www.marginalunit.com/panorama.html

They provide a dashboard that helps electricity transmission companies make better bids on transmission contracts.
I assume this is being posted in response to this report of a Chinese scientist injecting herself with an untested Coronavirus vaccine:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v74p5y/a-chinese-doctor-i...
I agree, I have no clue what point the author's trying to make here. After criticizing the WSJ's reporting and heavily implying it's reporting is inaccurate, even going so far as to suggest the WSJ article is unethically false and labeling it "fake news", the author then goes on to confirm the key accusations in the WSJ article but reframes them in a way that minimizes their significance. The author goes on to building a straw-man argument that all telco manufacturers/operators do similar things for law enforcement so we shouldn't be concerned about Huawei's practices but then goes through some mental gymnastics explaining China's authoritarian government surveillance and intel operations are sanctioned by Chinese law so Huawei aiding the Chinese government is no different than a US telco honoring a request from law enforcement. This article is disingenuous at best and comes off as blatant astroturfing. It's also interesting to note, the author mentions working directly with Huawei engineers in the article.
I think you're confusing "allowing people to do what they want" with "institutionalizing socioeconomic factors that push people apart and keep them there".

When you have to drive 2 hours each way to and from the city every day to work your minimum-wage janitorial job in a tech office, how much time do you have left over to help build a community?

When you're stressed to the breaking point, staring down the barrels of a hundred different problems without the money and/or time to solve all of them, depressed and anxious and not sleeping, how much time and energy do you have left over to build a community?

These problems stem from the same root as those described in OP's link: a government that doesn't care about its citizenry, and corporations taking advantage of that fact to squeeze workers for all they're worth in order to enrich a very few at the top.

But sure, let's prevent people from seeking better opportunities outside of their current abusive relationships with individuals and corporations. Great—that'll really level the playing field. I think you really hit the nail on the head!
Another important market for IBM punch card technology during the 40's https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/04/hitlers...
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21289827 (domain has changed since the last post)
At least in the US, we have Uniform Tire Quality Grading [0]. According to Consumer Reports, which tested at least 47 tires, "most tires should live up to their mileage warranty claims"[1].

I've seen "high-quality" tires with a very low treadwear rating and I've seen "low-quality" or "cheap" tires with a very high treadwear rating. But the press release only mentions "high-quality" without defining "quality" at all. Which adds to the dubious nature of the claims.

[0] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Tire_Quality_Grading

[1] https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2015/09/the-tru...
In the US you have options if you have disposable assets somewhere on the order of cash payment for required services (or have an exceptional insurance plan, but chances are very good those two are correlated).

Otherwise your ceiling looks more or less like Canadian care (your floor, of course, can be considerably worse).
Kr00k – formally known as CVE-2019-15126 – is a vulnerability in Broadcom and Cypress Wi-Fi chips that allows unauthorized decryption of some WPA2-encrypted traffic.
(from link on this link)

Headline above on top is too alarmist - and largely wrong.
You hit the nail on the head. The code review tool at my company links together all the commits that were in that code review, when there’s more than one package, I mean. It’s super helpful to look at what all was changed across packages and understand how the code base evolved.
> The effective subsidies to rural living matter on a daily basis - rural life would essentially end without them.

It would also mean the end of most cities as there would be no one to feed them. So who is subsidizing whose lifestyle again?
> Most restaurant employees are paid below minimum wage and expected to make up the rest in tips.

To note, only three provinces (the three most populous) have separate minimum wages for servers.

> Coming in to work while you are sick is socially accepted.

I hate this so much. I cause enough of a stink in my office about this that people in my department don't do it, but it boggles my mind that people with a lenient remote work policy and unlimited sick days would still choose to come into the office when sick if I didn't complain to HR about it.
Coronavirus Impacts on Bitcoin and Financial Market
I love reading through revision history but it's so, so easy to mess up given people and time.

We have a long history spread across several different (generations of) SCMs. I see each of the following quite often:

Most recent revisions (version A, code comments date code to the 90s):

- 2011-02-03: Migrate to git

- 2008-01-12: Migrate to SVN

- ~Fin~

Most recent revisions (version B):

- 2018-12-12: Split <X> out into own file

- ~Fin~

Most recent revisions (version C, sweet monorepo blogpost edition):

- 2019-10-01: Create monorepo for <Team/Superteam/Division>

- ~Fin~

---

It's hard to do transitions between SCMs (or between repos) right. For instance, when you follow the recommended steps for moving to a monorepo in git, the history is maintained but not shown in GitHub. It's so easy for well meaning people to destroy history or make it inaccessible for practical purposes when cleaning up dead code, reorganizing code, etc. Even if the history is still maintained (e.g. if there was a file rename in the same repository, you could use git log --follow, if you're trying to find when a particular snippet first came into existence, you can use git log -S<snippet>) but practically as soon as I run into one of the above, that's the end of the line.
Then budget tyres surely wouldn't make a difference?
The studs in tyres are small carbide rods, which will easily chew through a soft material like asphalt. A rubber tyre would seem to be quite a bit softer than asphalt in colder conditions, so I have a hard time imagining the rubber wearing the asphalt down so significantly.
I’d also take this opportunity to ask them what they really wish to achieve with their tracking tools. Maybe they can reduce that overhead with a more minimal solution?
I think America is anything but a society, more a bunch of folks that happen to be sharing the same tract of land, compared to other cultures.

Hyper-individualism has its shortcomings and as you framed it, the piper has come to collect the money and there's been a lot interest owed.

Hope we are wrong but wouldn't hold my breath.

Disclaimer, haven't set foot in the US yet so I'm only extrapolating from what I have been able to observe from far away.
Won't kill you immediately.
If that USA figure is just tax, and doesn't include what people have to pay for health insurance, it's not really comparable, is it?
But starlink.
Seriously how are they going to make it work?
What makes it "secure"? A project with that claim should have some documentation.
Cut him some slack for having grown up with the Red Terror in Hungary.
If it needs to be prescribed it needs to past trials, as with half dozen drugs already identified
As far as I know, China stopped flights only from the Wuhan and the other main cities that were affected; Italy stopped all flights from China.

Did the problem originate from Chinese tourists in Italy? Two cases in Rome, as far as I know, about a month ago; both were treated and have recovered.

There are no major problems in the city of Prato; also, as far as I know, there are no large Chinese communities in the areas where things are really bad.
There is less value in old commits, but you don't know which one will prove valuable, so all of them have to be there.

2019 fix, of a 2011 breakage:

http://www.kylheku.com/cgit/txr/commit/?id=3a91828748385d8d6...

2020 removal of 2009 misfeature:

http://www.kylheku.com/cgit/txr/commit/?id=24bd936a9fa671599...

The TXR project only goes back to 2009.

We can fix these kinds of things without reference to the past, but the process would feel uniformed and impaired.

Not everything is in the code; there are sometimes questions of requirements, which are not always properly captured in documentation.

We need all the historic questions to be able to figure out the whole situation: what happened to the requirments as well as the code, and how it all relates.
Not sure why you're being downvoted because that's what they've been announcing. Whether they uphold their agreement is a different story but this what we're being told by the insurers.
I once worked on a codebase where almost every mystery in the code could be traced back to a commit "Moving TIM one level down", and no further.
NodeGui – Cross platform desktop apps using Node.js and CSS
What is the prescribed dosage?

Also, curious if there is any difference between chloroquine phosphate and sulphate, since I came across both while just reading up on it. Or, either works.
Yes: I used it last week to source a problem we've had since 2012.
It helped rephrase our discussion about how it was missed, why it was introduced, add discuss why it sat in waiting for 8 years.

More importantly: we have a clear date in this case for what versions we need to considering releasing patch fixes.

In some cases this can be useful: even when the functional problem it causes is not easily evident in previous versions.
Do we have enough information to do this kind estimate for serious or critical symptoms, rather than just deaths? What are the chances of somebody in a given age bracket needing breathing support?
http://archive.md/6g6nO
Scott Adams (creator of the Dilbert comic) offers similar career advice: https://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/07/car...
Coronavirus ‘highly sensitive’ to high temperatures
Can confirm. In Uruguayan Spanish too.
Not really, the individual STL algorithms haven't changed. Partition is still a one line loop. Some things can be left alone.
It could make lives worse too.

Suppose there are multiple such systems, each with different sets of users. Someone's infected while at a train station, and only 25% of the people are contacted. Should those who are not contacted feel safe? Or extra worried, compared to how they would have reacted for having no such system?

As I wrote: "What benefit is there to participate? Wouldn't the majority of those people prefer to enable location tracking on their phone instead of manual QR checks? "

If most would prefer automatic GPS tracking over manual QR checks, the what you're proposing would result in multiple systems and incomplete coverage both for users and for people who would set up the QR codes.
That only shows me the first few paragraphs.
Use of this service constitutes acceptance of these terms.
The Nature article actually mentions the drug in question - camostat mesylate - as one of the TMPRSS2 inhibitors under investigation. (And given how often "this should work, for sure!" drug trials fail to pan out, I'm not sure that "this works in theory, here's why" is that good of an indicator)
Why "Octo"?
And can you spot a non json/http based service in their stack ? (no redis and sqlserver don't count because they don't own those)

https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/17/stack-overflow-the-ar...
don't know if there's a later one.

EDIT: I see they store their redis values in protobuf which is probably more due to memory utilization rather than serialization performance concerns
Powerful Chrome Extensions for Freelance Web Developers
I suspect that if the industry ever moves away from git in the next 5-20 years, it will be because there's another SCM that has this capability.

Just like DVCS "solved" branching and merging, following history through renames, splits, and other structural will make SCM 2x better.
Or management team.
The Hypa Flux from Argos: a cheap and cheerful netbook – if Linux-resistant
I'm just curious but... did this actually fix anything other than the spec?

The reason I ask is that I find myself (with Rails particularly) spending an awful lot of time on maintaining tests that were written by a much younger and much less experienced developer (me, a few years ago).

And I've come to the slow realisation that a lot of what I was testing wasn't really important.

I'm not saying the author shouldn't have written the spec, or that the spec wasn't valuable. But maybe the true bug here was that rspec matchers don't honour utf-8 spaces and perhaps they should? I dunno. Just thinking out loud here.
As somebody who has a bad habit of downloading lots of apps I want to try, and then never tries most of them, the biggest thing that prevents me from trying an app is when I have to sign up for an account before I can see how it works. These apps are very much a subjective choice based on how the app works and the GUI. I don't like giving out my email to an app that I may not keep for long if it doesn't fit my needs. If the app is already regarded highly I'm more likely to give it a try anyway, but with new competitors in a sea of other habit tracking apps claiming to be backed by science and to be taking "a different approach" I'm more skeptical.

This is not to criticize your app of course, or to single you out. I haven't tried it because I'm not sure how it works and I'd rather not give out my email until I think that I might actually like to give it a shot and stick with it. Maybe I care a bit more about my privacy than the average person, but it feels a bit like walking into a brick-and-mortar store and the sales person asking for my name and phone number first thing. For iOS even adding sign in with Apple (which I believe is now required by the App Store guidelines if you offer other options like Google or Facebook) would make this better for me personally so that I can use private email forwarding.
https://archive.md/M0b2L
"Federer, who started playing tennis at age eight, became Switzerland's junior champion when he was 14."

Is that what's considered late?
Yes, same here - I'm the star of the Bald & Beautiful in my family, but I don't want to influence my receding hair choices to them, unless you plan on landing male role in future Fast & Furious, Die Hard, or any Rock-infused movie.
https://archive.md/7Cnvz
From the footer:> Unfadeable, so please don't try to fade this.

What does that mean?
Interactive map of evolutionary relationships between species of life on planet
Don't miss the re-tweet down farther in the thread:

"I'm an epidemiologist. For 5 years I was specifically a flu/respiratory virus epidemiologist. I was asked on multiple occasions what I thought was the most effective thing we could do to improve the severity of flu season.

That's an easy answer. Universal paid sick leave."

https://twitter.com/Just_Eleanora/status/1233030130345246720
> "I've been a C++ developer for the past 12 years, how do I become a web developer?"

That's just wrong way to put it. This C++ has been used for something (kernel, embedded, system level programming, games). That's the meaningful area of "specialization", with C++ being one of the tools used there.
Are you a "West Wing" fan?

The whole point of a unitary centrally-controlled state apparatus like that in China is that leadership of the type you describe does not exist. If it did exist, it would not exist locally. Local officials are to follow directions, which come from more central authorities. Sometimes they follow directions poorly, because they're more concerned with their personal well-being than that of their subjects. That's understandable, because those orders themselves came from the same motivation on their bosses' parts.

Am I criticizing the form of government that the Chinese people endure? Yes! It is much like most other forms of government endured by humanity.
Despite being "trapped in a bureaucracy" Canadians experience healthcare outcomes that are, on average, better than those experienced by Americans.
Care is prioritized by need and urgency - not by money, but this results in a fairer and more equitable system.
Ah, ok. I guess that would make better sense than German flag.
> I am not sure whether bookmarks or signed sections are "extremely useful".

Well, they are. You try using a thousand page manual that doesn't have a section outline, or try sending around PDFs whose authenticity is legally important (to people who aren't capable of using gpg). This is only scratching the surface - there are many features which are important to people with e.g. accessibility needs which aren't directly visible.

> This has some minor advantages, but it's also a large attack surface.

These are not a large attack surface. TIFF, JavaScript/PostScript, 3D content and video (yes - PDFs can contain video!) are a "large attack surface".

> As jrowley said, if you trust the reader to sanitize it safely, why not trust it to open normal PDF files safely?

Well, firstly, I emphasised how "PDF readers are supposed to automatically 'turn off' non-PDF/A features", so I already acknowledge the caveat. And as far as "trusting them" goes, disabling the decoding of certain features involves very few LOC. Completely implementing the whole specification for the more exotic PDF features is an incomparably huge number of LOC, which are proportionately more likely to have flaws.
SpaceX successfully lands its 50th rocket
China looks like its growth has flatlined, while the rest of the world is moving along an exponential curve.

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594...

Also, notice that 57k out of 81k have recovered.
A Collection of Covid-19 Company Policies
The most predictable disaster in the history of the human race (2015)
We asked, you told us: Just about everyone uses dark mode
I figured there are probably a LOT of unreported cases in the US because most are not severe and never get diagnosed. But if that were true, we should see a small number of deaths all over the country rather than a few pockets of them.
M-f/M-b = Meta-f/Meta-b (the Meta key is usually mapped to the Alt key on typical PC keyboards): move forward/backward a word. In vim, the equivalent is normal mode w/b.

C-a/C-e = Control-a/Control-e: move to beginning/end of line. In vim, normal mode 0/$.
A lot of plastics are pretty much chemically inert under a wide variety of conditions though.
If 80 year old thinks that not playing video is more regretful than not working out, then nothing anyone says about living a good life or being productive applies to you
Then he must also had lived through White Terror: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Terror_(Hungary)
>The professional therefore acts in the face of fear, when the amateur fears a big creative endeavor he waits for the fear to disappear, the professional knows this will never happen and starts anyway."

It sounds like the most fundamental and precise definition of (the reason of) procrastination.
Ah-ha, weird, after immediately seeing the flag, I went to Wikipedia...but on the Chinese flags page they didn't list the flag that you found...which does answer the mystery for me! Thanks!
It's just plain bad for business, which is the main aspect of it all that I don't understand.

If one employee comes into work sick, chances are everybody who works in close proximity to them all day will be sick by the end of the week.

"We are all sick because so-and-so was sick last week." is a phrase I hear constantly coming out of my significant other's mouth.

She works in the food industry as well.

Surely that must lower profits in some way, shape or form.

Whether it's customers being wary of buying your products in the future (I personally will not go back into that cafe with the hand-coughing server for example), or your entire work force just being sluggish and high on cold medication for a week straight.

I suppose it doesn't matter in the eyes of the manager because everybody is going to come into work as usual whether they are sick or not anyways.

I asked her what she thought about sealing viruses inside of dark airtight packaging that is kept cool until sale, (they sell packaged chocolate) and she just assumed it was nothing to worry about.