skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use the "push to kindle" browser extension for online content, which seems to work fine for this page: https://pushtokindle.fivefilters.org/send.php?url=https%3A%2...

The content is sent to the Kindle via the email service: https://www.amazon.com/gp/sendtokindle/email

Depending on your Kindle settings, you may have to set the FROM address in the push-to-kindle page.
Lets say AR/VR it does become important... It doesn't seem to be exploding, but it is growing... so, lets say.

What does buying ML buy you? The goal isn't to own a product. The goal is the product. When Google bought Android, it was a two years (and a lot of money) away from being the only sane option for manufacturers not named apple.

ML is years and billions away from (I assume) an entrant in a high-end subsector of the market.

The counter-example to google's android is MSFT's nokia/windows mobile experience. A money suck and no benefit.
Reminder that the MySQL Timestamp type is still 32-bit. And probably will be until 2037, if we're lucky.
Not me because our team has to show to our manager that we're willing to "go the extra mile" for our manager's ego :)

Luckily the death rate is very low for my age bracket (1 in 1000) so I've been rewarded with much less traffic than usual.

Long Island egos never cease to amaze me.
What is to be done about coronavirus?
This is like an MVP, where you quickly find out if people actually want it; if they do, you get motivation. A step earlier is an actual prototype, where am inventor sees whether the idea works or not; if so, it's motivating.

Not sure how this applies to proof, which has to be perfect to work at all. Pehaps Tao's skeleton, then filling in the most crucial parts first, is exactly this.
Why would they?

This issue here is, I think, that employees _at Gitlab_ aren't paid the same for the same work depending on where they live. The issue isn't that in general developers are paid depending on where they live.
It was a man-made meat market, so one would hope that at least some improvement is expected there.
Perhaps this is simply structural, multiple generations are not living together (less elderly among infected) there is more ICU capability (easier to put people in need under intensive care).

I could not find demographic breakdown of infected in Germany. This could suggest if these assumptions could be true.
What does .NET do to make code generation easy?
> What I don't agree with is the pay scale they use based on your location. If you have the same skills, you should be paid the same.

This chain seems to have lots of excuses for not paying same salary for same value added, but I think it is about the same as the thing with sweat equity being somehow less valuable than cash equity.

Only real reason they f#ck you is because they can.
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thanks! I honestly believe it's a waste of time to 'follow' anyone online. social media is a mistake, has almost 0 positive influence.
Could you explain to me how it is unfair for people who choose to live in expensive places that people who don't choose that lifestyle get paid exactly the same amount for the same work?
Annoying ringtones in the office have declined a lot in the last couple of years, and part of that seems to be due to smart watches.
Guys, you are missing the point - these stereotypes, however true they might have been (or not), are over currently for Europe. Restaurants are empty or closed, people limit their social interaction and overall exposure to minimum. It doesn't matter much if we speak about Sweden or Italy or anything in between.

What will happen or won't in US or Europe is not anymore dependent on these behaviors.
"Cleaning the cell" usually means they'll toss everything in the cell around, victim inmate included.
Downvoters:

Apologize.
Every single Shopify employee has a laptop they can take home.
Don’t forget firing some people based on their nationality. Gitlab’s good at that!
This is all true, but for now China has developed antibody based fast test kit that can give response in 20 minutes without laboratory testing and knowing them they could produce it in huge quantities.

Now they simply have to apply constant mass testing to keep the outbreak under control.
From what I've read, China tries to get people to go grocery shopping only once per week. They are the only ones who appear to manage to get the infection rate from 1.3x down to 0.3x in the past days.
Thanks! Really an awesome project and great documentation.
Apart from being a turn-off, the location factors are also off:

Poland - 33.3

Czech Republic - 37

Belarus - 41

Moldova - 41
Another working idea from me would be that if someone really hates cookies, and somehow manages to live over consequences. then these should be just disabled in the browser side, either globally or per site. Server-side cookie warning solution is prime sample of wasteful privacy theater, nothing more.
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"token screening at the airports"

I don't think I've ever had anything that even counts as token screening flying into the UK from Europe - passport check is automated and I've never even seen someone at customs for many years.
these containment measures are important but considering that there are no numbers on tests it really is just a distraction from the fact that no tests are being done in the US.

It makes him look like a "strong leader" in front of his base and lends an appearance of "we don't stop from drastic measures even it hurts the economy" (which he was accused of before).

Any time a talking-head goes in front of a camera, the only question that should be asked is "how many tests did we do today, yesterday? ... where is the data for it?". Without the transparency for the numbers of tests all other measures are just a distraction. Anyone who speaks about stuff before these numbers are public knowledge needs to be kicked off the air and down the street (metaphorically).

Also reporters who engage them and do not insist on extracting the numbers before continuing the conversation are complicit.
This is a bit awkward, but a good reminder that actually 'embarrassing' show stopper bugs aren't necessarily as bad as you think.

As a result of this, here we all are, talking about and thinking about redis. I know I wouldn't have otherwise. It's funny, but stuff like this can turn out to be a net positive once you're over that feeling of 'argh, production went down!' :-)
I can't respond to the original post so I'm just replying here:

You were right.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22334831
People from the UK who have holidays planned in the US would be better of with the UK being included in the ban, because they would then be able to get refunds for their flights etc.
Not sure if that changed since its inception but originally windows store was exactly this: no SLI/Crossfire, v-sync always on, no overlays. Basically it was isolated from using the driver properly.
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In my opinion it's rather wide. I already feel certain lack of screen width even with full-screen terminal with two tmux panes, one taken by vim with four windows (1920x1080, 11pt Consolas; I would love to have three 80-char columns with gaps, but it's not enough even for 79-char ones).

Similarly, for print/web publishing most monospace fonts are overly wide and don't play well with the surrounding fonts when used inline or require reduced point size for blocks of code. The very few exceptions are Knuth mono fonts, they look fabulous in print and, I guess, PragmataPro, although I haven't used it myself.

So, in my opinion, trying to make an even wider font is going in a wrong direction.
Proper notification and sound customisations are needed in iOS badly.

Can't turn off the dial tone or batch notifications together (e.g. max 1 notification per 5 minutes) is really annoying.

Such basic things I don't know why aren't implemented.
Gross, deprived of compassion and detached from reality. You can catch COVID more than once.
love the downvoting happening here for politically incorrect, but factual things.
You seem to be reading something in my comment that isn't there. I'm not diverting anything. I explicitly stated that I'm in agreement with tda's comment. tda mentioned the European point of view. As a person from and living in a European country I find it important (or at minimum: interesting) to be aware of our own issues in the domain being discussed.

That's definitely not irrelevant to whatever discussion you feel the need to enforce, if people from the US want to improve fight against their prison system by promoting the European models, they should be aware of its shortcoming. In any case that's worth discussing.

Anyway, I'm not that interested in justifying my previous comments, I don't see why I should have to. So I will stop here. Have a good time for the rest of the day.
Govt Used Facial Recognition Tech During Delhi Riots
Which democratic(* - I was going to use Western) nations do though? Seriously the freedom enjoyed by those in these nations and the significant time any global conflict or pandemic have pretty much restricted the ability of leadership in those countries from taking action that would have any true effect short of trying to implement martial law, which in most countries would be met with protests and in some with courts being tied up.

Now I will not attempt to speak for Europe but the US government could certainly push short public advisories and messages to adults and children through broadcast TV and even get the cooperation of streaming services as well. Short thirty to ninety second spots that give helpful non panic information.

The US President is hamstrung by both political disagreement and the law. There were articles he is loathe to declare any national emergency declaration until approached by the governors of many of the states. If he did without states approaching him and asking you can damn well guarantee there were would be Democrats out there claiming he was trying to be a Dictator and comparing him to Putin. The same article concerning the declaration also reveals all the behind the scenes work going on with Congress to get funds in place before any message is put forth so that the government as a whole looks to be cooperating as well as acting appropriately.
That is ok. When you start your own distributed company, you could fix that.
Currencies are too broad though; as has been stated, cost of living in SF is a multiple of that elsewhere, and that's just in the EU. It's similar in the Netherlands (where Gitlab is from), where living in the urban western cities (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, the Hague, Utrecht) is unaffordable for the vast majority of people, but that's where all the tech companies decide to settle because that's also where a lot of the tech people have moved to. Somehow. The fact that a lot of people live in run-down overpriced housing or shared student living spaces seems to be ignored there.

I for one would love to be encouraged to move further out to the countryside. That's the long-term plan anyway.
Covid-19 reduces economic activity, which reduces pollution, which saves lives
Good question. At least the bubbles aren't red...
Isn't that because of US sanctions? Blame them.
Actually incorrect in textbook sense, but widely accepted in recent years to avoid specifying gender.
Thanks, you're right I didn't look into this enough.
They're showing 987 for USA. Surely, that's a bit outdated?
The thing is, with Google at your fingertips, you can build almost anything. You don't need to deep dive on all these technologies, but you can probably gather just enough information in a short time.

However it still takes a lot of effort and most of your free time. You have to be extremely driven to complete such a complex project.
Why do you have it as a PDF hidden behind a call-to-action reminiscent of a sign-up though? Turn it into a website, that'll make it a lot more accessible - assuming getting people to read it is the goal, of course.
I need the luxury of "ElectroLuminescence", otherwise the F-91W is of course the choice of a true Spartan.
Cost of living is different in different places.
This only works if you pay everyone at the rate you pay in the most expensive location.

I think you can understand why that’s not a great idea from a company sustainability stand point.
Or just work for Basecamp, which locks all of their salaries at the San Francisco avg even though everyone works remotely and they are based in the Midwest.

Probably has something to do with how few people they employ.
As is Nikkei, Financial Times, and The Economist.
Maybe they're little late to the party
Depending on to which country they intended to travel exactly but all the western side of Europe is on the brink of COVID-19 explosion. Germany, France and Spain are just 7-10 days behind Italy based on number of corona virus infections. The rest are possibly around 2 weeks behind, I have not run the numbers for every country (disclosure: I am not a medical professional, my estimates are based on simple time series but at this stage of the infection these have been proven to be accurate enough).
Not really their fault is it? It's more of the fault of US policy in general.
>What I don't agree with is the pay scale they use based on your location. If you have the same skills, you should be paid the same.

Why? How is it any different from moving manufacturing or support to a country with lower cost of living? A honest question.
Using the new ESPRESSO instrument on ESO’s VLT in the Chilean Atacama Desert, the astronomers identified for the first time chemical variations on an ultra-hot gas giant planet. They detected a strong signature of iron vapour at the evening border that separates the planet’s day side from its night side. “Surprisingly, however, we do not see the iron vapour in the morning,” says Ehrenreich. The reason, he says, is that “it is raining iron on the night side of this extreme exoplanet.”
I remember watching a talk where a formal methods researcher was talking about how, with the help of some grad students, they rebuilt one of Boeing's helicopter drone's flight control systems to use sel4 in a collaboration with DARPA. From memory the external security researchers could easily compromise the existing software, but failed to penetrate into the formally verified sel4 rewrite, even when they were given backdoor access to one of the subsystems as a helping hand. Every time they tried to escape the subsytem, seL4 would reboot them, leading the security researchers to say that it was the most secure flight control system they'd ever tested.

I'll see if I can dig it up - feel free to take it skeptically, I don't know how easy this experience was to reproduce. It was a pretty cool case study, however.

Edit:

This was the one! "Kathleen Fisher - From quadcopters to helicopters" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH0tDGk19_c

Here's a mirror of an article from the ACM with more details: https://sudonull.com/post/3016
How about stop making OSS products and then dropping support for them any time they get popular, thus screwing many people over?
Ok, lets say we live in the same street, work in the same office, do the same work and we both provide exactly the same value to the company.

Lets say your mother has given you her old car to drive and you just pay insurance and gas.

Lets say I bought a Ferrari Roma.

What you are saying is that you'd find it unfair if I were paid 'as little' as you, because I have to deal with the expenses of paying off my Ferrari. I'll take that deal.
Even their initial stratospheric valuation came almost solely from them being a potential competitor to Apple's product, or an ip blocker, and an expectation that Apple will spare no money to buy them.

There are a couple problems with this theory. Firstly, it's pure speculation that Apple are even trying to make an AR headset. They might not be. Secondly, if Apple are and they've managed to get as far as making PCBs in Shenzhen without licensing any IP from Magic Leap then Apple believe they don't need to license the IP. Apple might be infringing and ML might be able to sue, but that's speculation. If Apple has managed to make a headset without infringing then ML's IP is basically worthless because no one else will need it either if they take whatever route Apple have taken.

To be honest I imagine if Apple wanted access to ML's tech they would just have invested in them during one of the many rounds ML went through, and then negotiated a favourable licence agreement between the two companies. It would have been much cheaper, they'd have access to the tech earlier, and it would have prevented someone else offering more.
> That’s not really true. There are companies with a few employees in expensive locations and many in low income regions. If you switched everyone to the same salary you’d bankrupt the company. I certain don’t assume to know what Gitlab’s financials look like.

There's a slight of hand going on here, where you at first assume all employees are fungible, to mention it's not possible for some firms to pay all employees the same.

But then you ignore that, before someone is hired, when they're merely a potential-hire, they _are_ (basically) fungible with all the other potential-hires. If you can afford the most expensive one, you can afford the cheaper one.

No one suggested paying everyone the same huge amount. But if you are paying Huge Amount X, that can go anywhere.
>Should everybody be incentivized to relocate to a developing country or tax haven because of the internet and your equality rule?

Yes, actually. Well, tax havens shouldn't be legal in the first place, but getting people with good salaries into poorer countries is good, because they pay taxes there.

Of course, the vast majority of people would actually not go to poor countries, they would simply leave cities. Which is also something that should definitely be incentivized.
Not bad, but I think 24” is too small for 4k, I would have to use scaling which detracts from desktop real estate.
Sourcegraph is open core like how GitLab and VS Code are open core. You can run "Sourcegraph OSS" and get limited features, or you can run Sourcegraph (see https://docs.sourcegraph.com/#quickstart) and get all the features, but you need a license key when you hit the user limit.
You are constantly moving the goalposts. I have tried to challenge your position of the Linux kernel not having enough maintainers stating the maintainer system is not as scalable as you say. I even found a scientific paper studying this.

You acknowledged nothing of this, rather singled out one email and spout nonsense:

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So I fail to see how contentiousness and being more confrontational than not is helping there.

What the hell, everything I talked about up to now is being LESS confrontational.

This was my last reply, don't bother replying to me, I am not engaging further. This was a waste of my time.
Yeah, you need a influenza epidemic expert, all the rests are just repeating second-hand information.
As in no scaling? Yes.
Most importantly, H1B holders are not permanent residents. It's very much a temporary. Most countries that are issuing travel bans exclude citizens and permanent residents.
AFAIK (correct me if I am wrong), but must cases in DK, NO, SE are still brought back from Italy.
Why would they want to ban them?
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> Many more meals are take-out or drive-thru

Wait until all the coronavirus infected hourly workers, who can't get treated because of a lack of healthcare and who have to continue going to work so they can pay rent, infect everyone through the take-out food :)
Virtual desktops that can be resized/placed anywhere. Imagine working at a monitor but that monitor can be anywhere in your frame of view and resized at will.
Does anybody know for certain if friday midnight means friday 00:00 am or friday 11:59 pm?
Basically, start of day friday or end of day?
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What do you mean by bind-execute? I'm guessing you mean sending multiple statements in a string where the first PREPAREs and the rest EXECUTE? I haven't benchmarked anything like that.

I've done lots of exploring and profiling and comparing of the best ways to do big upserts into a variety of DBs. For Postgres, I've messed around with CTEs but found INSERT ON CONFLICT UPDATE to be fastest. And inserting large numbers of rows is a clear win over individual statements round-tripping.
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Ask HN: GitHub Community Advisors – Is GitHub Outsourcing Support?
Hi all,

I've been having problems with a Github Pages build failing on one of my repositories. I sent out a note (filled a form at https://support.github.com/contact) to Github support, and about 50 minutes later got a response:

> From: GitHub <alerts@directly.com>
> Subject: XXXXXX answered your GitHub question "Github pages build failing"
> XXXXXX is typing an answer right now for your question "Github pages build
> failing". Feel free to visit your conversation with ****** at any time by
> opening the link below.
>
> XXXXXX said: "Hi xxxx, Your issue seems similar to a thread I recently read,
> it might help......."
>
> View answer: https://github.directly.com/p/xxxx?xxxxxx

(I removed the last part of the link). Opening it brings me to https://rtm-github.mw-directly.com/:

> You're now talking with a GitHub Community Advisor!
> Community Advisors are NOT GitHub employees.
> They are fellow GitHub users like you, who are very experienced and can provide
> helpful, fast answers to most questions.
> If at any time you need help from a GitHub Support employee, please let the
> Community Advisor know that you'd like to speak to us and they will transfer you.

(BTW the linked page does not work in FireFox (the answer part does not appear)).

I've had contact with GitHub support a few times in the past and the experience was always professional and positive. Apparently now they are outsourcing their support to a company (directly.com) doing bots ("Bots Are Hard, We Make It Easy") who apparently masquerade as actual GitHub users, and pretend to be official Github representatives (look at the From header). Googling for "github community advisors" or "github directly" shows 0 relevant results. This seems disingenuous at best on GitHub's part...

Anybody else had that experience, or is this something new? Anyone from GitHub care to comment?

(edited for formatting)
I have found the worldometer page easier to use than the others : https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
A simple and useful reminder tool at this difficult time. Thank you Matt and Lemi
Same for other countries - this seems to be lagging.
Then, the first positive result that you get should mean that the whole plane is at risk, after all we are talking of people that have been jammed together on the plane for some 8 hours (on the same recirculating air) and then kept (possibly also jammed together) for another 5-6 hours at the airport to wait for the results, that is - from what I can understand of the way the virus is transmitted - the perfect environment to diffuse the virus.

The only meaningful way I can imagine (not doable in practice) is having travelers lodged at a departure airport hotel, and be tested before taking the flight.
I really hate that some of the elements on the page are translated into a different language, seemingly based on my IP. When did it become acceptable to ignore my browser or my system language settings? The same thing happens on other Google services (like Google Groups), but I noticed this trend on other websites too.
I'm again reminded how much we depend on and how we owe these these unnamed heroes of modern age who maintain and develop software we take for granted in our every day lives. Kudos to the author.

And interesting to find out after years of using it that psycopg2 actually doesn't use prepared statements underneath.
Ireland and the UK are not part of that "mass of land" :-)
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