skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like this is in the works already, but the boolean operators in OpenGrok are so intuitive and powerful. I use them every single day and the lack of support in Sourcegraph immediately disqualified it for us. For example yesterday I was looking for Dropwizard Managed classes not annotated with @Singleton so I did:

Managed && !"@Singleton"

(I'm omitting the fully-qualified class name for brevity)

If I also wanted to look for HealthCheck classes I could update the query to:

(Managed || HealthCheck) && !"@Singleton"

I think it also helps that OpenGrok has a separate input for filtering file paths (completely splitting the "where" and the "what" parts of the query). And this file path search supports the same boolean operators. So if I want to narrow my search to two particular repositories I could put CrmSearch || AutomationPlatform into the File Path input. And because this input only handles file paths, I don't need to remember any special syntax. Whereas if you clump the entire query into a single input, then users need a way to tell you whether a search term applies to file paths or file contents.
Gotta cut the strategy space somewhere.
Oh awesome, looking forward to your submission! I'll see what I can do about the filters.
That's another valid reason, but it doesn't allow to dismiss factor of cost of employee entirely.

Company, I work for, has office in capital city, and offices in smaller cities. Talent pool of capital city would easily accommodate us. Other offices exist because it's cheaper to hire there. If cost would be the same, they would simply cease to exist. Cost difference in means of the building is less than 5% of overall monthly budget, so, while helping it's not deciding factor.
"this one was not too bad at explaining the thinking of ruling elites"

By inventing a completely unsupported rationalization/conspiracy theory?

"Ruling elites" are not omnipotent, and paradoxically most are in the most vulnerable demographic. And as others said, it is a situation where one can be damned regardless of which way they act.

In the case of strong containment/quarantines, unless you're willing to completely close the borders indefinitely at this point it is futile doing maximum containment: it's past the point where you can stop it, as the world managed to do with SARS and MERS.

At this point every government is vulnerable to every other government, and further vulnerable to the possibility that there are super-carriers spreading it. And FWIW, a number of countries have a done a very good job of managing it, but again it isn't a closed-loop.
NASA’s SLS Moon rocket is 2 years behind and billions over budget
Are the employees in San Francisco required to be there? If so, yes they should get San Francisco wages. However for people who can work anywhere it should be the same wages - if you want to live in San Francisco don't work for us we will hire the cheaper people in Des Monies who are just as good. If they can't hire people in Des Moises cheaper that means they are not paying enough
KaiOS Technologies and Mozilla partner to enhance Gecko engine for KaiOS
I'm not in it for the audience.. in any case, maximalism is mostly a self-assigned title and the author of that blog describes himself as such

edit: how can something that is being discovered be late? The work on PoS is almost completely greenfield and far from trivial. Many people made many far too optimistic comments about how long it would take to get it right but no one can say it's late...
PWAs don't have real network access. You are restricted like a website(i.e CORS)
One wise ex drunk I know summed up his steps: 1) Action. 2) Group.

The "brand name" of the group is not so relevant.
> Then you aren't looking hard enough.

> That you don't see it hyped on TV doesn't mean it is not there.

no need to be condescending. and who watches t.v. or ads?

your response doesn't elaborate on anything. i don't know what your company is. and just because you say you have lots of projects doesn't give me any information.

can you elaborate? i humbly asked what the actual applications are, and you just listed a bunch of potential fields of use. because i have heard of various applications in those fields, but i don't get the overall usefulness that matches the hype. for example, in medical, how is VR useful? don't you need to be able to see what's actually going on and not be in VR land? if one is getting a live camera feed with overlays, is that really considered VR? i have seen applications of 3D viewing, but i don't see how that's better than using a monitor with improved input devices.

in the case of practical immersive activities, i suppose i could have listed that as useful.
It is a course exercise. The additional insight is that there are multiple ways to solve this exercise, one that most students would chose and another, explored in the article.
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That’s going to be the flood that follows fire, disease and presumably famine when crops start failing.

Thumbs up for the 21st century what a corker.
If you're refusing to pursue a job at Gitlab because it would pay less then the market rate where you live then the issue isn't that their salaries vary geographically but just that they don't pay enough in your area. If you you object even though they pay higher than your local market rate then you have a weird aversion to money that I don't see a reason for anyone else to care about.
There's some talk about desktop application, but how will it work? Will people need to download something like the JRE to run WASM programs?
Without contradicting your general point, Spiegel’s bet worth is so illiquid (so solid? :) ) that I’m not sure what it really would be if he wanted to get cash out
Hmm,Trump even suspended traveling from Europe..
You're being overly dramatic. While in general you might be correct, in this specific case you are not and your fear mongering isn't helping anyone.
Good lord I hope Gabbard isn’t the one that’s left
I Don't Use Classes
Maybe your IP is located in russia according to the geo IP database they are using.
Will be interesting to see if Coronavirus helps at all with climate change.

I assume there will be a lot less flights, cars on the road etc. when cities start getting shut down.
The natural human instinct is to look to leadership during a crisis. This is why Bush’s competency in the eyes of the public was harmed after Katrina. This is why McCain’s “maverick” rep harmed him against “steady” Obama during the financial crisis.

If the coronavirus starts impacting the lives of Americans in a widespread manner (shuddered schools, closed offices, loss of jobs), the same instinct will kick in.
We don't give a damn. :)
The context here is an all-remote company though. As such they have rejected the advantages of proximity. They should be searching out the great but cheap people who want to live elsewhere.
> The reality is probably closer to the fact that there isn't anything governments can do about it.

They can proactively close schools, government jobs. They can roll out bailout programs to encourage business closings that would otherwise cause the businesses to go bankrupt. They can aggressively close borders, and enforce quarantines with military force. They can mandate the production of respirators, testing kits and other medical necessities.

Government can do A LOT that no other actor can, so I don't quite get where you're coming from with this statement.
In firefox as soon as it loads, hit reader mode.
This is a fantastic, and wholly plausible, explanation best summed up as "damned if you do, damned if you don't".
Sitemaps or screenreaders.txt
No, that's not the real reason.

In the places where they have shut down schools, they can't really do it either. But when government says "do X" and has good reasons, the institutions comply. I'm in the board of a private institution in a country with a shutdown order, and there was really no discussion between the board members that this institution would shut down too, despite there being no legal backing at all.
> The former has more incentives to be proactive and minimize costs

On an individual basis perhaps in theory, but not on a population basis. See underinsured people afraid to go to a doctor until their condition is so bad it warrants an ER visit.

The actual numbers of the cost-effectiveness of US healthcare also shows the complete opposite of "minimizing costs" where it's twice as expensive as any other system
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As I understood it: No.

> His speech said all travel from Europe would be suspended but a presidential proclamation later said it would only apply to anyone who had been in the EU's Schengen border-free area in the 14 days before their arrival in the US.

You been in (Schengen) Europe the last 14 days? And not being an exempted person (eg US citizen/resident)? Then you are not going.

You could probably go to London, stay there 14 days and then go on. Problem is, in 2 weeks time, travel will likely be farther restricted.
> (i.e. their action was "correct" but not "correct enough") because their neighboring countries (e.g. Germany - not technically a neighbor but within Schengen Zone) failed to act.

The Italian cluster most likely stems from an initial infection in Germany which occurred 10 days before the first flight bans anywhere. Italy probably failed, because it reduced testing to only include symptomatic cases at a critical time ( https://www.adnkronos.com/fatti/cronaca/2020/02/27/coronavir... ), not because Germany did not disallow flights at a time where it was already community spreading in Europe.
Just that the majority if governments in Europe are taking steps, pretty radical ones at that. For no other pandemic, SARS, MERS, various flus or Ebola was anything even near to what's done now.

I wouldn't like to be the one to meet the decision, so. Because the cost of closing down a country for a couple of weeks is enormous. So when do put these actions in place? I have no idea, but it seems to be pretty difficult to get the timing right.

There is no point in crying wolf over these actions online, or even worse about what should have been done in hindsight. There are whole staffs doing nothing else right now, experts in their respective fields. So the best we, as a public, can do right now is to get out of these people's way. We follow guidelines like washing hands and reducing contact. We go self quarantine. We take steps we can in our social and professional environment. We send our employees into WFH or close certain cites if that's not possible. We work with authorities to come up with plans and contingencies if our companies are relevant in that regard.
I hate to break it to you guys, but the reason Shitsville, TN has has a higher multiplier is not because someone at Gitlab is terribly confused about the relative cost of living in Shitsville, TN vs Paris and London.
Google is a spyware company with spyware apps and services.

So of course they spy on school kids. It’s what the company does.
I'm not in the US either.

I see a lot of what you mention on online mediums.

But it's usually quite different than what's really happening IRL.

People love to play the panic game online, but I've seen only quiet order around me.

Yesterday, my entire neighborhood has been evacuated because of a bomb, we were all grouped in an hospital, where we were questioned about possible fever.

In airports, I see people wearing masks, facing cancelled flights. I see stores with huge queues to buy stock of food.

It all happens in a calm and civil manner.

Maybe I'm optimistic, but I'm nicely surprised by the way people act right now, despite all the blame we want to place.
And the economy
> The levenshtein distance between tourist and terrorist is only 4, so my prognosis looks bleak.

The distance in speech is not that far off either, I've found. When I visited the US for the first time, the border agent asked me what I was there for. Tourism, I said. My English pronunciation not being clear enough, he said "excuse me? Can you say that again? TERRORISM?". After that I learned to just say "vacation".
Falsehoods programmers believe about time: "3. Years have 365 days." Dinosaurs had 372 days per year!

https://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-program...
Don’t know what sort of userbase they had, but I’m just disappointed that my list app I used to plan things with family and friends no longer has sync options and will be owned by Microsoft instead of being just a small, quality project.
I doubt it. If and when the virus passes, people will revert to their previous patterns. This is seen as a temporary inconvenience by the general population. Why change their behaviour moving forward?
There just waiting for the death count to jump so they won’t be blamed for taking radical action that will hurt the economy.

The deaths are the cover they need, so action will come in the next few weeks.
(This subthread was originally in reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22552902)
I was disappointed that the article didn't mention Alistair Cockburn, who came up with this architecture style, which is also sometimes called ports and adapters. I like hexagonal architecture a lot, but I change one aspect. Instead of Interactors I use composable Functors and Pipes. A Functor is an Interactor that takes in one Entity and produces an Entity. A Pipe is software that implements one of the different Router patterns from Enterprise Integration Patterns (https://www.enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com/patterns/messa...). I guess you'd call what I use a hybrid of the EIP style and the Hexagonal style.
Last Sunday it was 8th of March, International Women's Day, and the current spanish government has appropriated it to the point that women from other political parties are not welcomed in the protests that happen that day.

When gatherings of people started to be canceled all around the world, the government kept going ahead with the plans because this is a key event for their agenda.

The very next day, they acknowledged that the virus is out of control in several regions in Spain, started to take very aggressive measures that are only increasing each day.

Today, it has been announced that Irene Montero, head of the women rights ministry, that lead the main protest that day, has tested positive for coronavirus.

Stupidity at its finest
Because it’s Yahoo TechCrunch which wants to set tracking cookies on 20 domains because they’d rather have no visitor than one they can’t invasively track. Typically I just go back once I see the consent form, that does work.
have you heard of airplane mode?
Mr Trump said the EU had “failed to take the same precautions” that the US had taken when it banned travel from China.
It's a bit of a shame the article failed to mention the browser which started implementing various fingerprint resistance techniques many years ago -- the Tor Browser Bundle. Unlike Brave they don't randomise your fingerprint, they make all of their user's fingerprints look the same. We'll have to see how effective the randomisation technique is, but I'd be worried that statistical analysis (even something a simple as averaging) would result in the real fingerprint being uncovered.
Most people do not see any personal cost of healthcare and thus are not turning more left-wing. The left-wing party is pushing that view, but they are not changing anybodies mind.

Similar for the right wing.
Not so many less flights. Airlines need to use their slots or loose them. Ergo: Lots of (near) empty flights.

Edit: Reference: https://www.businessinsider.de/international/coronavirus-air...
I'm talking from the perspective of 1-2 months ago. Now it's too late for any preventive action anyways.
Is that why now two countries have had mass quarantines?

It's a balancing act between lowering infections/death and economic impact.
Japan is an island, Germany is in the Schengen area and has lots of travellers to and from Italy and other European countries
Is it unreasonable for a random Indian company not to pay the same wages as one in SF (assuming the work is the same)? What about if both companies are consultancies doing projects for Gitlab? If differences in those cases are fine, why is there a sudden change if the employees of the above companies start working for Gitlab directly rather than through a proxy?
Meanwhile, the ice in the arctic is increasing against all doomer predictions.

https://i1.wp.com/ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/plots/icecover/osisaf_...
Yeah I think it works like that too.

Yet at the same time I think dang has the ability to move any post up or down/re-prioritizing or re-ranking based on his intellect, instead of a natural, organic ranking. It becomes a forced therapy session by dang. We also cannot know if this happens, since those moves would be invisible to everyone else on the site (except to other admins/moderators). I do not think it’s far fetched to think he has this power, seeing as karma scores are conveniently hidden for all posts (except for the author of each individual post).

I’m a little disturbed that dang seems to ‘steer’ conversations based on his own interests. There’s a bunch of smart people here and I don’t understand why he goes past his role as administrator to interject into certain threads. It’s ‘bad hosting’ in my eyes.

With my questions I’m trying to understand what the rules of the game are, to see whether I like them or not and whether I want to keep playing (engaging on HN).
First: SARS-CoV-2 is the virus, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-CoronaVirus-2. COVID-19 is COronaVIrus Disease-2019 which is the disease caused by CoV-2.

Second: Flattening the curve isn't about shortening any duration.

The Y axis is the number of infected.

In the Red Line scenario, like packets overflowing a buffer, patients above the dashed line will (have to) be medically neglected. Rest assured, our immune system will eventually gain the upper hand, the virus will eventually decides its job done, red line settles, we'll congratulate the lucky few who won scarce beds at surviving hospitals, as well as those who treated themselves next to remains of deceased hospital staffs. Then we will assemble at rubble of our cities and start walking towards the former glory of human civilization up until 2020(hyper exaggeration).

The Blue Line, "Flattening the curve", lets us avoid that apocalyptic situation: by boldly suppressing infection early on and spreading it out to a longer duration, ignoring economical disaster ensuing, no patient will be left behind. The hope is that by allowing every patients to be semi-adequately treated WHEN infected(not IF infected), total population of alive and recovered combined at the end of this pandemic at maybe late 2022 or so is going to be far better than the Red Line scenario. So we'd want to flatten the curve.

Green, is just a pipe dream. Makes no sense. If that's possible we might as well get production back up full over in China.

I think there's an important, sub-vocally communicated notion: the containment had failed long ago, and there is an ongoing pandemic. Many stays asymptomatic, some experience manageable illness, some would need to stay at ICUs, around 0.5-1% life will be lost, but we will all(~70%) get infected. Ideas that requires or aims at containing infection or isolating infected few are useless. We must all accept that almost all of us are situationally required to "schedule" an infection, and fortunately, exact time, place or severity of it is left to our discretion.

We must be aware of these facts, and must use it to our maximum advantage, starting from washing hands often.
I think the combination of climate change news and Coronavirus news demonstrate so well how poorly humans respond to non-immediate versus immediate threats. Even when the non-immediate threat is potentially huge.
Not sure what you mean, it does do completion just like the regular Powershell terminal window.
Be careful about vitamins in the US though because the industry is entirely unregulated and many vitamin companies are pyramid schemes, so you have very little guarantee that what’s on the bottle is in the pills.

Naturemade is the only brand that comes to mind with external lab certification of ingredients and being free from contamination, but I’m sure there are others:

https://www.consumerreports.org/supplements/how-to-choose-su...
Using a website that seems to be focused on video content as a demonstration of (in)accessibility for the blind seems a little unusual... perhaps something like a news site --- which has lots of textual content --- would make a better example.
Or government is acting according to the threat it poses. It has been three months now since it has moved globally. Likely longer actually. This isn't a plague killing everyone in its wake. It is the newest Y2k, 2012, Bird Flu, or Global warming hysteria push by governments and the media. Look at news from China, they are using it to be more in control except now with support. This going to blow over with little interuptions due to the virus itself. I bet more deaths arise from lack of service due to people inundating the ERs with negative cases than the virus causes.
You cannot directly purchase the Hololens yet, and even if you could it’s $3,500.
Made a single page website to stay informed about Covid-19 situation
Please, KaiOS -- make a high end phone and hit the market that Mozilla never did with FFOS -- wealthy developers who want a platform completely unburdened with apple or google.

I'm not sure what's actually interesting about this partnership, it seems obvious, but one thing I think is a huge problem is that they're mentioning Gecko so much -- they should be trying to move to Servo as fast as possible.

There is already a project called servonk[0] that shows this might be very possible.

[0]: https://github.com/fabricedesre/servonk
All Irish Schools, colleges, childcare facilities to close over Covid-19
Fundamental rights are even more mythical than long-standing norms.
I simply fail to understand how, despite the rising mountain of evidence, some people still are able to deny the reality of the climate crisis we're facing.

Even if you have ideological or economical reasons for wanting to believe the climate crisis to be a hoax - at one point or another the drive for self-preservation simply has to kick in, doesn't it?

Ever and ever again when I see some new dire study about how our predatory exploitation of our ecological support system is degrading its capability to actually support us, I think to myself: "This is it. Now they just have to finally start supporting measures to stop killing ourselves." But I always get disappointed - there are still way too many people that absolutely fail to grasp how terminal a situation we're rushing into.

The human capability for self-deception is truly amazing.
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In winter, water freezes. Well done! Fantastic observation!
Nobody is giving chest x-rays to older people here who have died, apparently of pneumonia.
They haven't got laws on the books to do this? - the UK Passed some enabling legislation in Jan I believe
I like this a lot. It feels like a much healthier starting point than diving head first into the discovery feeds of the platforms.
Well, if the world moves to a global recession for some period, then one would expect reusing and recycling to increase, and useless crap production and recreational travel to decrease. That could reduce emissions for a period of time.

It's not something to be gleeful about, but could be a silver lining in case of a recession.
Given what the current POTUS has gotten away with, as with many others in power everywhere, I don't have much faith in the accountability we can expect.
Countries seem to be making aggressive moves to stop the virus. If only there was the same level of urgency for climate change.
I'm not saying healthcare is bad ("sloppiness" wasn't a good choice of a term). In fact it's very well organised.

It's more that the Dutch seem to be extremely... relaxed, maybe a bit fatalistic, about illness. It's a "suck it up" attitude. The fact that they're so slow in taking action now doesn't surprise me.