skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) It doesn't matter if you're rich and living paycheck to paycheck. This is argument actually supports the idea that UBI won't cause inflation because clearly there is still inefficiencies in market capture if people are rich AND living paycheck to paycheck. (like I said above, inflation doesn't really happen when you don't have full market capture).

2) Selection bias is a thing. While there are rich Americans living paycheck to paycheck, most of the people in this situation are not rich.

3) I'm not sure I'd consider a smartphone an expensive electronic. You can get one for under $100 and a plan that is <$20/mo. This isn't exactly breaking the bank...

4) I also wouldn't call a cell phone a luxury item in today's society. Even a smart phone. You can't get a job without a phone number, which now usually means texting included. A smart phone just means you have a single device that can also get you on the internet. Again, we're talking about a purchase that is well under $1k, has high utility, and is being held onto for years.

Sure, this isn't poor like poor in Africa, but does that really matter? We don't live in Africa. We live in a rich society, I'd like to live in a wealthy society. One where our poorest can get shelter and food. If our definition of poor becomes having constant access to housing, food, health care, and are able to do so on 40hrs/wk, and nothing more, I'd call that a success. But we're clearly not there yet. If we have that, I don't care if someone has a trillion dollars and can buy rocket ships because we're in a post scarcity society (maybe not world, but society).
Philipp Stollenmayer: The King of Casual Mobile Games (2017)
Now with Quarkus on JVM (and to some degree also Asp.NET) the compiled languages has become so lightweight that I'm feeling the last reasons that existed for using problematic languages like PHP, Javascript and Python are disappearing.

They'll hopefully be restricted to small niches were they won't do much harm :-)

I realize this might be annoying but I'm not trying to annoy anyone, I'm trying to get a point through.

(And yes, I do have some experience here, I was significantly better and more productive with both JS, PHP and Python before I really learned Java.)
w.r.t "if you use tabs instead of spaces you're just wrong", can you expand on that?

Do you mean 'wrong' in the sense of 'wrong according to the rules enforced by the linter' or 'wrong philosophically' ? If it's the latter, how is that wrong and is not even a subject for debate?

This is an honest question, I guess I just don't see how something like this can "just" be wrong (to me it's irrelevant and not worth the ink used to write such statements in code reviews... though I'm playing devil's advocate here obviously :-) ).

PS: of course if pre-submit checks enforce the rules, then as you said it becomes a non-issue. I have
been in environments where there are no such tool-enforced checks, yet people comment on it endlessly, routinely blocking code reviews for whitespace issues...
> living in the UK, I am waiting for this country to

I thought you were going to talk about electric sockets.
Face masks to prevent transmission of influenza virus: a systematic review
4 red flag assumptions:
- "you think"
- "they planned"
- "getting more funding"
- "end of the year"
UPDATE: The PlantUML team responded to my question, and says this is a very temporary license change.

https://forum.plantuml.net/11018/will-you-reconsider-the-cor...
I'm skeptical that applying decompilers to C makes sense for these old games that were most likely programmed originally in assembler. Many of the examples in the post show the decompiled C being more complicated due to type casts, creation of temporary variables, missing inputs and even entire missing instructions, etc.

Maybe it's just that I've worked with Z80 assembler a fair bit, but I feel like what's going on is much clearer when you're operating in the same language as the original authors were, able to see exactly what it's doing instead of a rough approximation of some C that would generate semantically equivalent code.
As a freelancer I've had zero online presence, not even LinkedIn. I have almost only ever got assignments through connections and reaching out to businesses myself.

Garret, just emailed you.
We are hiring, not sure where you are but we offer relocation. For now we are working from home, so for now that probably wouldn't be an issue.

https://careers.blizzard.com/en-us/openings/onAAbfws
Where's google, apple, etc. etc.
Fuckers have a lot of brain power right?
Can't help out? Heck, Google can't even set up a web site.
I guess China really does own them.
"The scientists found that severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was detectable in aerosols for up to three hours..."

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/03/200317150116.h...

That indicates airborne transmission is a vector.
I agree, automating this so as to make it a non-issue is really the only way to deal with this at scale (i.e. in presence of a lot of change and many reviewers).
The feeling of wetness is something that you get used to once you realize that your butt clean.

On the flip side, most people who use toilet paper think their butts will get completely clean. That is actually not the case.

But either is not a big deal because the skin in that hind area is quite resilient.

To the surprise of many people, the game-changer in bathroom hygiene is properly washing hands after using the toilet. People in developing countries lack access to clean water and soap. Nobody really misses toilet paper.
It previously had an insult as the last sentence. I'm glad it was edited and I'm sorry it's too late for me to delete my request now.
> 3D artist, illustrators, graphic designers, UI/UX designers, photographers, videographers, musicians,

Lots of use cases in many of these professions. In particular, there are a lot of professional artists/ illustrators have switched to the iPad. I also know there is an active community of iPad accessories and software for musicians.

Also, while many of the above mentioned professionals can't move their entire workflow to the iPad, quite of few of them have already moved big portions of their workflows to the iPad.

This isn't a zero sum game. For a lot of professionals there is room in their toolbox for multiple computers.
Oh, yeah, should have specified that, that’s France for me :).
I can sort of twist my mind far enough to see what you're saying about not using the resources leaves those resources available to everyone else. But...

I could have it both ways. I could lend the dollar to A, and get paid back a decade later with interest. Now I have (more than) a dollar after the decade. But that dollar is still worth 1/2000 of the year's output, so I also got paid for everyone else's gains, even when I didn't leave them the resources (because A had the resources, because I lent the dollar to A).

Even within your perspective, I have a hard time seeing how that would be considered just.
So... then disable them using the instructions on that github gist that you already linked? What exactly is the gripe here? There is no need for a fork when you've already disseminated the information needed to rectify the problem. I don't know what else anyone would consider adequate -- web advertising and tracking is not going to magically go away or diminish just because browsers have less features. Focus on one thing at a time, please.
Ohioan here. DeWine (governor of Ohio) actually ordered the primary halted in defiance of a court order on Monday.

It was only later that night that the Ohio Supreme Court sided with him, but the election was kind of already thrown into disarray by then.

We need more leaders like him who are willing to take personal risks during this crisis. I say this as a Democrat by the way.
Are you mixing up Plan9 with some legendary vapourware OS, MULTICS or something? Maybe the HURD? (NB: not entirely vapourware, but less finished than Plan9). Because Plan9 was (and is) a real system that you could (and can) run.
We built something into our registry that squashes layers of an image into a compressed rootfs archive. Edge nodes map an image back to one of these files when launching an app. This cut launch time for large images in remote regions from tens of seconds to a few hundred ms. Much of that infrastructure is actually running on fly itself!
That is assuming you can detect one part positive when mixed with 92 parts negative?
Depending on the country and an observer’s cynicism, I think the majority of nations understood early on that it was already far too late to significantly dampen the impact of such a deadly and infectious virus.

The United States government was thoroughly informed of this risk via Operation Dark Winter but never geared up for it - perhaps this is best managed by states once the infection crosses the border, but preparations on those levels weren’t completed either.
We've had one for about five years and become "those people" telling everyone about how great it is.

I can't imagine not having one.

I hope that future North American building codes include a GFCI plug placed near toilets for the fancy plugin kind.
I totally agree that you can't fit all programmers into one bucket. I think we should be able to describe some general patterns in programmer workflows such that we can give concrete advice to programmers about what kind of hardware they would need.

A perfect example of this the recent Level1Techs video about compiling an Unreal engine game using the AMD Threadripper 3990X[1]. Some concrete advice:

1. Often the heaviest aspect of a programmer's workflow isn't compiling the code, but running automated tests using VMs and stuff

2. compilers tend to benefit from large cache sizes and good single-threaded performance. Multi-threaded performance only makes a difference in limited scenarios.

I've also heard that storage performance, and in particular storage latency, can make a big difference on compiler performance, but the difference is starker on Windows than on Linux because NTFS is a lot slower than many Linux file systems (EXT4, XFS, etc.).

The thing is, we as programmers don't have a good mental model for how the software tools we use (IDEs, virtualization/docker, compilers) scale with modern hardware, and very few technology reviewers are producing content that would help us understand.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQa6r6Ci1jg
I would add Rebol & Erlang.
keyboards are meant to be used without looking at them. with the introduction of the touchbar, you have to look at what you're pressing. it's like a giant touch screen in a car, it works, but you have to look at it, where as if you have buttons, you can find what you want to do by feel/memory.

on a personal note, i've randomly refreshed webpages because i've overreached on the number row with the touch bar.
Realtime tSNE Visualization of Covid-19 Chest X-rays
Does anyone have advice on what to do if you think your company will lay you off? For example, would it be best to get laid off, then immediately seek unemployment? Or, best to negotiate NOW for a severance package that includes healthcare in hopes of your boss thinking that is a better option for them? Or, resign for some reason?
It’s not possible to predict the future, so I disagree with your stance that it was obvious a virus could cause an economic downturn like this. It comes across as victim blaming to me.
Yeah, it's almost certainly way overblown. People are freaking out over a bad flu season. I could see a case made in a future retrospective that the exponential increase we're seeing in cases is actually an exponential increase in the number of available tests disseminated.

Until we have antibody tests, the PCR-based tests we're using will only tell us if you actively have the disease not if you had it ages ago and already recovered. This disease could have easily spread unnoticed (due to the overwhelmingly mild flulike symptoms most people get) for months. Due to its highly-contageous nature, it probably did.

Until we calm down and analyze what all actually happened my guess is just as good as anyone else.
When you go to Chernobyl disaster's wikipedia page, it says:

> Deaths: 42 acute and delayed (several months), less than 100 at present, possibly several thousand long term extra cases of cancer

In other words, if you just count people killed at the site, Chernobyl killed less people than Nigerian oil pipe explosion of 1998, or 2000, or 2003, or 2006. (Damn, why does Nigeria have so many disasters?) Hardly nobody remembers them, because fossil-fuel deaths aren't newsworthy, unlike radiation deaths.

Of course, if you count the number of extra cancer deaths attributable to Chernobyl, it becomes much higher - maybe thousands, which is basically what you called "according to some models do some other stuff that if you squint hard..."

Compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges, and nuclear always comes out safer.
Good point. Any idea on the costs associated with implementing something like carbon capture?
They’re likely also the smallest possible thing that a company can cut. I doubt anyone will save their company by cutting Slack.
My intuition is that layoffs will be limited to speculative ventures; i.e., startups that aren't profitable yet and/or are highly dependent on outside investment. Risk is suddenly very unattractive, which is a major turnaround from 6 months ago.

I don't think tech in general is in trouble. As a whole it's probably one of the least in-trouble sectors as the world moves online. We'll just see a lot of developers shifting from moonshots to projects that create real value, which may not be a bad thing.
I have been told I will be laid off this month end. I am on H1B and am completely freaking out because I have only 1 year experience and a student loan. To be honest, I kind of saw this coming a month ago and started applying. But, I have had no luck. I even submitted an ask HN yesterday to discuss and get ideas.
I hope we are not conflating conservative values with monoculturalism and you meant to ask about two different values. Also, as someone who has been at the receiving end of monoculturalism crowd, I hope they find enlightenment eventually.
This is what happens when there's a leadership vacuum at the top. People start trying to figure it out for themselves.

I've been loudly talking about what's happening in Italy, because we had time to get ready in the US if we took it seriously.
How to make enhanced teeth and gum
That's something we're certainly thinking about, but we need to get compute right first!
Wuhan is on track for zero new cases by the end of this month after starting the quarantine on January 23. So, in no way is the collapse of their heath system part of a total quarantine. But, I am saying what happens after that? Do you shut everything down on the next case, when infections it 100 or 10,000 etc.

Basically the quarantine option has a known outcome in the short term, and doing nothing as millions die is another option. But, they have such high costs and are so far apart a middle ground seems desirable.
Well, /usr/local is set as its own partition on OpenBSD so it can have different mounting instructions.

b1c4a5629703d4fd.d /usr ffs rw,nodev 1 2
b1c4a5629703d4fd.e /usr/local ffs rw,wxallowed,nodev 1 2

I tend to do the evil thing of always creating an /opt just for my stuff that is system wide. So, I do have an /opt/bin/ so I don't mess with the system or package level stuff.
Neither am I, but... As I recall from Biology Class, a successful virus does not kill its host.
Not technically the US, but the Confederacy did experience hyperinflation during the war. They ran the printing presses at full-tilt without anything tangible to back them up. And obviously once the tide of the war shifted things got real bad.
> Tiny, but very influential with deep pockets.

While this is true, it doesn't follow that every product they produce should serve developers first and foremost. The Mac is the computer I use for development. The iPad is the computer I prefer to use for photo editing/ sketching/ house planning/ and casual use. If I wasn't a developer professionally, I suspect the iPad would be my "Big" computer.
No, Author Sylvia Browne Didn't Predict the Coronavirus Outbreak
The poop shouldn't get blasted if the water pressure is regulated correctly.

> So, ok, using wet paper can get you much cleaner and is gentler than dry paper

Yes, this is the main idea.
They seem to be falling all over themselves trying to help since (almost) everyone thinks it isn't such a good idea to send all the old people off to the woods to get eaten by wolves.

Probably the one time in human history the evil bankers can actually point and say "it wasn't us this time, really!!!"
Don't shave your ass-hair: https://www.craigslist.org/about/best/lax/35274458.html
Dispassionate Examination of Empirical Evidence Re Positional Punctuation in SQL
Could you check-in with the new company? I'm in a similar situation and checked-in with mine, and they said they were happy to onboard me remotely, no problem.
I assume it may make a difference with unemployment payments.
Yes. Agreed
How is the hotel owner going to maliciously comply in this scenario?
You can do this with tmux and ssh
Neat idea, but what about my database? Where does that live?

Do you do anything to speed up latency from the edge to the database?
This just sounds like a panicked person spreading panic in turn...please give some attention to the emotional burden caused by telling people they are about to (in your opinion) get caught up in "Soviet Union" style living.

The CNN article is an opinion piece which is effectively advising caution and even sources reliable information that FDIC protection is still in place. The tone is completely different...please be more responsible.
One of those heavily overloaded acronyms - in the UK it's Cabinet Office Briefing Room A, which is where all the emergency briefings are done from. So "cobra committee" gets mentioned on the news a lot.
Start interviewing again. Seriously. Worst case scenario your new job works out. That's pretty good downside.
and which preserves the functional separations between the hier elements and doesn't require changing any backup procedures.
By not following the patterns or advice herein
Ehh I attribute it to the rise of wannabe data scientists who want to fit a sigmoid to everything, as well as influencer culture. People would be trying to get their LinkedIn likes no matter what leadership came out with.
Russia deploying coronavirus disinformation to sow panic in West EU document say
Same question here. My 2011 Air is basically unusable now, so I've been waiting for this machine. i3, or $300 more for the i5 (which was my first inclination). Then you get into the i5 machine and they offer an i7 for another $150.

My work won't be processor intensive, just a personal machine. But given how long I kept my old one, I intend to keep this one for a long time, and I'm not sure where the best price:performance tradeoff is. I could argue going low-end and replacing it sooner, or high end, and keeping it forever.
> That heat isn't magical, it needs energy from somewhere meaning you need to run power there someway.

Well, if you have a reservoir before the bidet, it'll get from ambient water temperature to ambient air temperature if it sits long enough. How many litres does a bidet use at a time? Nowhere to slot a 2L reservoir?

Getting the water to 22C should be far more tolerable than the 5-8C many of us are used to in winter.
Which is essentially the Microsoft Windows hier.
I've seen and worked for companies in that situation, you have a 200/300M valuation on the bull market but you are running out of cash and expecting to get a new round based on great growth numbers or achieved goals. When I was there we got the round and were saved, but I can see that not happening in the current situation.
The latency is due to those physical constraints, as you say and as discussed in the article. But that doesn't mean that IP constraints hinder the embarrassingly parallel scale out of multiple new machines put together by different people in different places.

Now, having 100 new machines ready in 5 months might be little better than 3 new ones in 5 months.

I don't mean to be one of those assholes that presumes software subsumes all problems, but my experience working with engineers is that they confuse a non-software hard part with a non-software critical path: even though software is the easy part, there are still gains to be had from making the easy part easier.
Open sourced toolkit for predicting people vulnerable to Covid-19
"Bold and significant" eh? Kind of like the "bold and significant" test kits that never materialized, or the "bold and significant" quarantine process we should've instituted as soon as the first patient was discovered.
Key Differences Between Respirators and Masks [pdf]
That was my experience at previous employers, but not my current one. We have some shared test environments in the cloud, but individualized test environments are discouraged. They're in the process of rolling out more powerful workstation laptops to provide us with enough horsepower to do testing locally.

That's why I'm tempted to build a custom workstation at home: so that I always have access to the compute resources I need to do my job.
Git 2.25.2
The bigger risk is probably a huge deflationary spiral given the huge decline in demand caused by consumers not engaging in the economy.
>Firefox is filling up with ads, tracking, and mandatory plugins.

What's the basis of this claim? I use FF as my default browser, and I have not experienced anything like this?
I have been planning a graphql adapter for presto, so we can query graphql apis as though they were sql tables.

I guess it is inevitable that somehow some sql database will be exposed via graphql, and someone will use something like presto to make it appear to be an SQL database again...
on-site even right now? Isn't everyone in CA or WA supposed to be WFH and shelter-in-place?
Arguably there has been a leadership vacuum for decades, where expert bureaucrats are lecturing and patronizing the population, while themselves are being proven wrong and clueless more often than not, with no negative consequences, see the 2008 crisis, etc.
I've been really happy with an x1 yoga so far.
You can get single-gang GFCI light switches:

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Leviton-15-Amp-125-Volt-Combo-Se...

Couldn't find them in Canada though. Had to buy from USA.

Now my toothbrush can charge for more than 5 minutes a day (the lamp had a socket on it, but again, wouldn't want to use that for a bidet!)
Ask HN: How can I help (Germany)
Because of the coronavirus I don't have anything to do right now. I'm a student living in Germany and the start of my semester was moved by 2 weeks. Traveling isn't an option either for obvious reasons. Any ideas about where I could volunteer / assist to help alleviate the situation?

I'm not qualified to be at a hospital, but could maybe do some coding (studying CS). All ideas are welcome.
Plenty of users notice that the web is slow, and complain about it. Unfortunately, they have no idea why so they blame their mobile or broadband provider.
Running! Weekly mileage has doubled in the last two weeks! -- although mostly due to pretty much every other activity shutting down (ski areas, gyms etc) vs stress.
Well, if the government was matching a curve to it, on a public website that had updates daily, supported by professionals, then I think there would be less demand for random people to do it.
How would you know the fever is because of Corona virus?

Are you going to assume all fevers are Corona? That seems a bit biased and over-reactionary
Violet implements the most common voice UX Patterns and makes using them be easier.

The typical enterprise web app can be said to consist of just navigation (i.e. menus, breadcrumbs, tabs, accordions) and forms (to collect data). Most voice apps can be broken down similarly, and Violet is really a great tool at supporting them.