skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it actually a requirement for asylum applications to be open in UN member states? Not too clued up on that myself.

Additionally, UN doesn't seem to want to lift a finger for Greece in this situation either or suggest some alternative. If you've read even the tiniest bit about Greco-Turkish relations, you'd know that doing nothing would be a complete ego suicide for either country.

The EU wants to defend its piece of pie and is being helpful this time round at least, especially since bucking to Erdogan's constant blackmailing is not a recipe for having a healthy treasury.

Lastly, Greek bureaucracy is terrible enough that even with asylum applications postponed, the same amount of work on the current ones would be done. All sane and capable Greeks left the country already.
Authorities in India have responded to Covid-19
I do by definition (because I enjoy reading some of the conversations), but it could easily be used just as a news site. So I’m my mind it’s usually in a separate place than other social media. Also, as much as I’ve heard some people critique the quality of conversations on HN, it’s definitely a lot better than most, if not all, other conversation based platforms.

Maybe random forums are better, but I don’t consider those social media really.
I would call it a forum. You can’t follow people, which I would consider a necessary condition for social media.
The half-DNA of eggs is selected as they divide from ancestor cells.

Eggs of a woman (baby/fetus) develop while in mother's womb, but they are more immediately inside the fetus, are formed from the cells of the fetus and are descendants of the same single cell zygote as (most) of the cells that form the woman's body.
You still can read it in this reply: http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists....
ESR posted a long string of emails, many worse than this. Saying this one is the reason he was banned is cherry picking things in his favor.
Show HN: From a small shell script to a cross-platform project templating tool
You’re just taking the opposite extreme.

Yes, you have to shovel a lot of shit to get to the top. But you also have to dump a lot of people (and jobs, and interests, and homes) to find people and places that really complement you.

Maximum progress is made by people who can both trust their inner voice, AND can grit their teeth. The really hard part is using the former to know when to apply the latter.

The only thing I wish someone had told me is you only get one chance to start those “we were here together from the start” relationships. So before you set off on that big search, really think about whether there is something or someone around you that you might want to know in the end, alpha to omega, and stay in touch with those people or places. Because if you disappear for 10 years, you won’t be able to go back.
Ah yeah, calling people you disagree with Marxists. That really elevates the conversation.
There’s about five major spectre classes at this point and they have different mitigation’s. Some are done in the os. Some are done in hardware.
I'd feel conflicted about it. Maybe that's secretly the "best" answer? ;)
The article acknowledges that tax rates are significantly higher in Sweden in order to pay for these benefits.

Has anyone modeled typical take home income (after taxes) over a lifetime vs the costs of procuring similar parental services in each country (daycare for example)?

My hypothesis would be that in the US, you’d probably still come out ahead in net income even after paying for these services. Could be wrong of course, but that’s my best guess.
> People with the reflex tend to sneeze when they see bright things such as the sun.

I have this and I also sneeze every time I eat peppermint.
France has had a continuous epidemic since early on, but Germany successfully contained the first outbreak (thanks to one phone call from China at the right time), then it was all quiet for a while and only now Germany is catching up in case count, at a very high speed. This means that Frances, with a comparable total, has far more cases that are old enough to have already played out negatively.
That's a prime example of survivorship bias, projects that spent their runway optimizing for machine resources are not around to have their problems recognized.
DingTalk is a product from Alibaba, which also owns Taobao and Alibaba Cloud. DingTalk celebrated 200 million registered users back in August 2019. So this online course surge is probably not that a big stretch for them.
Got this three times yesterday. Not a fan. Probably had 4 or 500 incidents total in my life.
As someone who has no idea about the context and doesn't know about ESR, can someone explain what's going on here?
I ran into this sort of heavily individualistic attitude a lot when I was traveling around places in remote nature-y states like Utah, New Mexico, Arkansas, etc.

And I can empathize. Many people feel aggrieved that they work much harder for much less than people who live in coastal cities, and under much worse conditions. Honestly, I think that perspective is pretty accurate.

But there's also a refusal to see that people in those areas make enormous demands on the government to subsidize their preferred lifestyle in such remote areas. Roads, telecoms, and food/water/gas services cost money and make major impacts on the environment, but the same people complaining about big government will often use their next breath to grouse about bumpy roads and brag about how they abuse BLM lands as if they were their own private property. Sometimes it feels like you're trying to explain the tragedy of the commons to a locust.

Still, most people have a lot of respect and admiration for the land that they live and rely on. I was once talking to someone about the USFS' forest road system, and they said something like: "I know, isn't it terrific? I can just drive or bike out to where the trees and fish and deer are. But could you imagine if they tried to do that today? The environmentalists would shut 'em down and the conservatives would say it's too expensive!"

We really need fewer absolutists in our governance; there are plenty of things that most people agree on, but which are vetoed by the extreme wings of our two exclusive political parties.

Also, there really is something special about the remote wilderness, and whatever that something is, the American West exemplifies it. Some people seem to viscerally need wild spaces; they're part of what make us human, and they remind everyone that you are more of a guest than a landlord on Earth.
My septum was surgically corrected but I still have the sneeze thing.
Well, there is nothing wrong with being an amateur. Recall that the root word means “love”. And I don’t think it’s necessary to hold a professional in higher regard than an amateur, either. Though you’d almost certainly pay the professional more money.
In France the rubber tyre lobby is so strong, the got them on subway cars. No joke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber-tyred_metro
Cancel culture at it again. They could've told him to knock it off and that other people are on the other end of email privately, at least. Ban everyone and create a useless safe space where nothing happens.
I’m really sorry but SI is SI. It’s literally “km” for kilometre and “kg” for kilogram.
> Only software from the Mac App Store is required to use the traditional Sandbox

Nit: not every App Store app must be sandboxed.
The question is not whether it elevates the conversation, but whether this is a sufficient reason for a ban.
I've never gotten a job offering 30 days, neither in Germany nor Austria - I think more commonly it was about 25 days.
Oh wow, I didn't know the name for this but absolutely experience it. The most disturbing part for me personally is the gasping for air part, or as the article states, " sensation that feels as if they have stopped breathing and have to make a deliberate effort to breathe again."
Twitter is a place where people will take the contrarian point to the most obvious of statements to "dunk" on people who they perceive as the goliath in their warped view of reality. Nassim knew damn well what Elon meant with his tweet and chose to misinterpret it. [0]

[0] “If the word ‘panic’ means ‘exaggerated’ reaction, could be so at the individual level but NOT at the collective one"
While the author's main point has some merit and is worth discussing, the example chosen is wrong, and the reason it's wrong is the reason you should take a beat before you consider ever rolling your own solution.

So now we've got some simple code to copy files between machines, because we hired someone who was too academic to figure out how to set up a simple FTP server. Here's what comes next:

1. We need to open firewall ports so these two machines can communicate. What are they? Who knows. If it were FTP, the sysadmin would know.

2. We need authentication; we can't just allow any old machines to connect. If we were using FTP, we'd have that built-in. And it would have been audited, so we can have at least baseline confidence in its safety and accuracy.

3. We can't go having the disk overflow. We need something to manage quotas, because even though we trust our users, sometimes software goes rogue. Maybe the default FTP server can't handle this, but some other product can.

4. We need logging so there's an audit trail, in case something goes wrong and we need to track it down.

And on and on and hey look you've reinvented FTP and now no one else on your team knows how it works, it's full of bugs, you've hardcoded a bunch of inefficiencies, there's no documentation, we have to explain what it is and how it works to the operations team, and hey here comes the boss asking us to make sure it works over SSL.

If you think you can do it better, make sure you think about what you're doing.
This happens to me very frequently. It’s kind of freaky how accurate the description of the symptoms are in this Wikipedia article - even down to the gif depicting the flashes I see. Reassuring to know it’s a known condition, especially one with such a dramatic name.

It comes and goes for me, but it’s pretty frightening during the periods when it happens. The stress explanation sounds plausible.
When I worked at a large, decade+ big tech company there were several times I looked at running code that was over a decade old. I was working in a section of the business that hadn't existed for more than a decade, so that somewhat bounded how old code could be in my domain, but somehow my team ended up responsible for one thing that was much older, and understanding it took some reading.

There were other core systems that I also read sometimes that were older, and it was extremely useful to understand their construction and function.
The question remains: what will happen when everyone returns to work and school? I would expect infections to flare up again. What then?
Nursing homes and other long-term care units also have the lowest quality of care and staff ratings in the industry. Typically plagued by overstaffing, unhappy workers, etc.
Yes. A high UTQG rating will mean your tires will last forever at the expense of traction, road noise, etc. The last set of tires I bought at Costco lasted 70k miles, but also increased wet stopping distance and introduced a roar to cabin noise. My latest set have a UTQG near 0 and will only last about 10k miles but they make no noise and have insane amounts of grip (think race car tire)
Let's Do the Math on Coronavirus
In part because of the larger context. In part because it sounds like sarcasm, not like you are genuinely agreeing that Linus actually deserves special treatment because of his stature.

I've defended Linus once or twice. I'm also glad he chose to take some time off and rethink things.

I can't think of any women we give similar accommodation to. That doesn't mean they don't exist. But the reality is that Linus is in a league all his own. It just sounds catty to make comparisons to him in that fashion.

I imagine if we genuinely had a "female Einstein," she would be pretty unique and would carve out her own unique relationship to the world at large.

I'm sincerely not trying to bust your chops.
Thieves steal 40-inch plasma TV from police station
Everything is easy when you know how to do it.

It's that learning curve. . .
Saving 50% gets you 3dB. You'll need something on the order of 20dB. The inverse-square law bites hard.
Sadly it's important to know where the data is coming from, and what the provider is doing with the data. Ease-of-use is great, but without more information about the company I personally won't use it.
Let me Google that for you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond

Also, check Worldcat and do your own research rather than expecting people to spoon feed you like a baby. :P
Oh boy, I enjoyed that. Everytime I sit down to face a nasty problem I get a little sick, but as I start working a flow slowly starts to build, and before I know it the Starbucks I'm at is empty.

I wouldn't consider myself a professional, but I know how to beat my own inner dialogues it seems
Scandinavian countries are not socialist and using the word "socialist" (as Bernie does) to advocate for social-democratic policies is both inaccurate and unnecessarily polarizing.
What does "worse" mean?

Are tire particles, more than exhaust gases, contributing to the greenhouse effect that causes global warming?

How about the total carbon? How many tankfuls of gas does a car incinerate in between tire changes?
One of the most interesting things about the Laravel ecosystem is how an open source project has allowed multiple independent businesses spring up around the core project that facilitate things like management, deployment, etc. I know laravel is not unique in this respect, and that lots of the tooling around it is from Taylor Otwell (founder) but there are lots of others as well.

I’ve always been impressed by how developer quality of life is such a high priority goal of Laravel. I think much of its adoption, and the successful businesses that have sprung up around it is a validation that they’ve done that right.
> Where do you expect a MacOS user to find out whether a random file is accessible to an app?

As I said: when a dialog pops up.

Btw, that’s not an ad hominem attack, it’s reasonable doubt about your experience with the subject matter given what you have expressed and left out so far. If you’re not even a user then it’s apparently pointless to explain further. Anyway, it’s still pointless to explain further when you know what you’re talking about yet still insist on conflating concepts, but stop pretending it was somehow personal.
Five ball juggling robot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9asDO_1A27U

Three ball juggling / devil stick robot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKJEbs64Y2o

Partner juggling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83eGcht7IiI
Apparently this is very common with infants and young children. My two-year old sneezes in sunlight all the time. I mentioned it to our doctor (not because I was worried, just as an interesting comment) and he said most kids do this and some grow out of it.
> Your handrolled solution is likely worse than the library anyway

This assumption led to a lot of O(n^2) left-padding happening over the years, via left-pad from node.js.

Ideally libraries would be well-tested and of high quality, but at this point there may be too many of them to vet.

My own 2 cents is that if it's easier to implement the code from scratch than to evaluate and choose a library, perhaps the invent-it-here choice works best.
We started using a dishwasher when our kid came. It turns out a dishwasher does a much better job of cleaning and drying dishes (hence better disinfection) than doing them by hand, especially milk bottles.
Sometimes we just get stubborn like little children and no amount of logic can get us out of that. Happens to me too sometimes.

Sometimes getting that little meaningless thing you want in your life is very important. If you can't even get a simple dishwasher when you _want_ it, then what's the point?

Just getting the thing is probably more advantegous from a psychological standpoint.
Really?

Because I'm single, and I've done both, and the dishwasher is very clearly easier and faster to me. Maybe you have a secret dishwashing technique that I don't know?

A decent dishwasher doesn't require much maintenance at all. And the very, very little that it does is generally a more interesting use of time than washing dishes is anyway. But I started using dishwashers maybe 5-6 years ago, and I can count on one hand the number of times I've needed to mess around with fixing one.
I agree code history can be used as a form of documentation, but in cases like this looking through years of code to find the decisions/reasons leading to a particular design seems like inefficient communication. It seems like "real" documentation with a few sentences explaining directly would be more suitable.
Most them are SA-/SW-SREs, SRMs or other technical leads or managers.
Focus on things/projects you can’t stop thinking about, not tasks. Tasks are just the steps you take.

Of course you won’t love every task, some might even be downright terrible, but if you can’t stop thinking of the overall goal, then keep going.

But if you find yourself not caring about the end goal, time to reconsider.
"The War of Art," if anyone needs a source.
Tim Ferris has an interesting podcast on subject: https://tim.blog/2007/09/14/the-top-5-reasons-to-be-a-jack-o...

“Jack of all trades, master of many” and “specialization is for insects”
I would think that a ban should be based on what you do to the tone of the conversation.

With that said, I don’t see how this email meets that standard.
I couldn't read past the first twelve pages of his book since he hadn't moved on from restating how great he was.
Be T-shaped: a jack of all trades, but a master of some.
I second. Most data and anecdata says you need to be a solid generalist software engineer to be hired at Google. You may have some specialty (the vast majority don't), but a single area of expertise won't take you there.

Vide the famous tweet (https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768):

"Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but you can’t invert a binary tree on a whiteboard so fuck off."

To be clear, I think that Google has a reason for that:

- They use standardized hiring procedure (they need to work at a scale).

- A startup/software/machine learning whizz kind won't be useful (or would be dangerous) if they contributed code that does not meet other software enginering criteria.
In the 70s I live in an apartment adjacent to Interstate H-1 in Honolulu. Same experience. Lanai furniture black. Don't know if tire or exhaust caused, but it was black and disturbing and probably in my lungs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_H-1
For reference, the ESD that is mentioned in another of ESR's messages (and the one that some argue costed him the ban): https://ethicalsource.dev/definition/

I am not sure how that would work. Point 5, "Creators have the right to solicit reasonable compensation from any commercial entity that benefits from the software" alone is a huge mess. What does solicit means? Or benefit? Can the commercial entity just answer "thanks for trying, but no"?

Quoting the movie Trolls, "that's not a plan, that's a wishlist".
I'd like to water that generalization down a bit: Unrealistic expectations and following/giving bad career advice are multigenerational human problems that have likely plagued humanity for millenia. I'd wager this problem began in earnest the moment humans started farming.

Generational division is also nothing new.

Please try to respond to the bad advice, and not provide generational troll bait. I'm not saying this with any authority, I just want to keep the level of discourse on HN from devolving.

Please don't respond to this if you disagree, just give it a down vote so the discussion stays on topic.
1. If you were Joe Armstrong or at his level, probably not.

2. If you're Joe Armstrong the amount of time you're wasting is negligible, and you don't need to worry about working with an unneeded dependency. I mean I would be wasting a significant amount of time because I'm not Joe Armstrong but there are things I get asked to do that other people would use a library for and I think what, why?

3. Opacity is in the eye of the beholder. If you're working on a project only you and a few people you know can handle it will ever look at, then you are that beholder. If you're working for a big organization as a consultant and your contract runs down in a month, think of the worst guy you have ever worked with that was still a programmer - that guy is the beholder.

4. If you write a comment then they won't make the assumption.

Later: Why the downvote?

Even Later: Upvoted, so I guess someone didn't like or maybe just clicked wrong.
He has been told that many, many times, over the course of years.

The problem isn't that nobody told ESR to knock it off, the problem is that ESR believes this style is perfectly okay and there's no reason to change.
Without viruses we would not be here in our present state.

The mammalian placenta uses ancient virus protein called syncytin to bond "other" to "own" and thus bypass the effect of the mother's immune system.
How are his comments irresponsible? All he said is that the panic is dumb. That's it. Are you are suggesting that people should be panicking? Which includes stockpiling, paranoia and racism disguised as fear of the virus.

Definition: A sudden, overpowering feeling of fear, often affecting many people at once
You need to look up China mining operations. They pop up “data centers” anywhere there is free or cheap electricity. Sounds like a perfect operation for factories that must use electricity
These seem like ineffective measures. Planes and trains seem like great vectors for letting the virus live on surfaces. What kind of disinfecting protocols are they following? I have doubts that the hustle and bustle of a typical restaurant would allow the 1m apart rule to be well implemented.
Most European countries are not poor. Not at all. By any definition. However, European countries typically do not encourage regless forms of capitalism (consequently reducing the GDP) and also consider the social aspects of public spending more important than the military ones.
> I am surprised.

I think this all turns to reddit (the comments are very much Reddit like) because this is the 20billionth article about 'following you passion' basically. And this title really seems to annoy people who have seen it all before; most people cannot just drop everything and do whatever. No matter if you are thinking 24/7 about playing in a bluesband; most (by far and wide) people cannot and will never be able to do that unless they win the lottery. And then you have all the negative thoughts; the anxiety attacks and the cravings that you really should not give into... It is all not so surprising response wise, but I thought it would just drop out and be dead before this went so much Reddit. That usually does not happen.
Waymo CEO: Cars with Driver Assistance Are Not Self-Driving Cars
So all our presidential candidates (sitting or otherwise) have some relatively bad odds.
Chinese firms produce virus testing kits for other countries
Please use remotemeeting.io with latest Chrome
I'm happy to accept your hypothesis that US citizens will come out on top for lifetime net income, but this article was about the human costs, like having children or not.

What cost is forgoing having a family? Is that even calculated? My hypothesis is that it's not and all those people that simply weren't able to have a child because of work and healthcare costs are simply, and conveniently, ignored.

It's ok though, we can always import more fresh meat into the great American Dream.