skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, it's especially good timing to be starting a business during a financial crisis. I know, I've lived through 1987, 1993, 1998, 2002, 2008 and now c-19.

During these times when people are getting RIF'd (Reduction in Force), they're understandably panicked, nervous, in shock, etc. Most employees are not thinking of what service or product they can cobble together and bring to market, but how to swiftly rejoin the job market.

This leads to a shortage of new startups spinning up as well, because the economy has gone to the dumpster. Good times, bull markets and strong economies make everyone feel more confident. Who wants to gamble when the world is going to hades in a handbasket? Not a lot of people.

Then there's the cost factor. My experience during past financial implosions, demand for everything plummets. I get the idea we're living in more of a robber-baron era than even just 5 years ago, but still, you'll be able to negotiate everything from office rents to infrastructure, salaries of new hires, hotels and airfares for business travel.

Obviously, I am going to throw my hat into this ring for these very reasons. Good luck and good day!
I'm happy to see another big project commiting to Vue, but found the rationale funny to say the least, having seen the same kind of analysis multiple times. For example, these requirements:

- UI elements created within the framework are reactive (update automatically in response to changes in data or user input) by default
- The framework is heavily optimized for performance

should automatically exclude React itself, but it seems to have been the second option. Despite appearances React is not very reactive, especially with hooks where you do dependency management yourself. Performance is not a given either, nothing is memoized by default and it's all up to the implementer (or the state management system) to actually optimize rendering at all.

The 'large community' mindset which automatically dismisses Svelte and Preact all the time is the most heartbreaking. If we worked with the herd mentality five years ago, neither or React or Vue would have been born and some variant of Backbone would still be the most used view library.
1. Age distribution of people living there

2. It would skew the numbers (by conjecture) if a higher proportion of people were old because then a higher proportion of people acquiring the disease would have high fever.
> in some instances, the illusion of safety can be harmful

> you can catch some shallow bugs around types

> If Typescript is giving you a false sense of confidence about using random libraries

> Badly documented dependencies are not a problem that Typescript solves.

Seriously, what is your claim? That if you have a badly documented third party library with wrong typings then typescript doesn't help? Well, that's some news! Try the same library with no documentation at all then, so you won't get a false sense of safety. If that is your problem, why don't you just avoid importing typings for libraries?

And I don't get this insistence on bugs and safety. Sure, typescript probably prevents you from doing really stupid stuff sometimes, but that's not the main reason I use it. I use it because it both allows me to write much more complex code and speeds up dramatically the development- because the tool takes on itself what is otherwise a heavy cognitive load: remembering and inferring interfaces and signatures that are there all the time, even if implicitly.
I think GP is probably being sarcastic...
How about a Linux version? (Edit: Yes, I enthusiastically use a Linux tablet)
App developers care about the barrier to getting users to use their app. The barrier to getting a user to click on a weblink is much, much lower than the barrier to getting them to install an app.
Elon.
I wouldn’t bother. I’ve always found it easier and better (for reinforcement) to transcribe my notes/drawings into org-mode.
[Violent suggestion deleted.]

I believe the gentleman's actions should be submitted to the relevant ethics committee.

Harumph.
There's nothing in there about 4K not being 4K, just some griping about low bitrates.

On computers you can access some debug stats https://www.reddit.com/r/netflix/comments/2fkylx/hidden_netf... and Roku also has it https://community.roku.com/t5/Channel-Issues-Questions/Someh...
> It seems like such a guide would almost be an inversion of some of the principles in this guide: in troll games, you tend to learn only by dying; the puzzles always require things you forgot in the previous room, and you can’t go back

This guide exists because the inversion was the norm. Especially true of Sierra games, somewhat less true of LucasArts.

Leisure Suit Larry is a prime example of trolling. You die a myriad number of quite humorous ways in order to solve the puzzles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Rrh_YBZBC0

> can you create satire that makes sense without knowing what it’s satirizing?

Looking at IWTBTG, I'm sensing the satire is in the game mechanics. Adventure games don't really work that way. They don't have physics or action like Mario, that you could poke fun of. Adventure games work with mouse hovering, clicking, and typing simple phrases. Those mechanics don't really lend themselves to satire, because the game is not really about the mechanics. It's about the logic of puzzles. Which, as Leisure Suit Larry, Kings Quest, etc. all show, satire in adventure games has existed since nearly the beginning. However, even back then the satire was quite meta and self-referential. Take, for example, the Boss Key (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_key):

> The first few games in Sierra's Leisure Suit Larry series included a boss key in the pulldown menus (shortcut usually Ctrl+B). However, when this is used, it results in an instantaneous game over with the first game saying "Sorry, but you'll have to restore your game; when you panic, I forget everything!"

Perhaps a better example of this sort of meta-level of messing with adventure game mechanics is the game Eternal Darkness, on the GameCube. They developed this mechanism of a "Sanity meter" and certain effects would occur if your sanity dropped to a certain level. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_Darkness

> While minor effects include a skewed camera angle, heads of statues following the character, and unsettling noises, stronger effects include bleeding on walls and ceilings, entering a room that is unrealistic before finding that the character never left the previous room, the character suddenly dying, and fourth wall breaking effects such as "To Be Continued" promotions for a "sequel", and simulated errors and anomalies of the TV or GameCube. While the latter does not affect gameplay, they can be misconstrued by the player as being actual technical malfunctions.

Eternal Darkness was not satire, though. They were playing it straight, and when a popup appears telling you to reconnect the GameCube controller, you would really check it and then start questioning your own sanity.
Billing addresses are easy to fake.
We accomplished more in a couple weeks with this perspective than we had in the previous couple of months. This also let us commit to a real project plan and timeline. Unfortunately, the client wasn’t happy about the projected and past expense, and shut down the project weeks after the development team was starting to show traction.

It's amazing how long big companies will let consultant-led software projects go on with zero tangible progress as long as the consultants tell them that the project isn't in gear yet, they're struggling to overcome problems that pre-date them, and they have a plan to start making a ton of progress as soon as they can start working the right way that they know how to. The business doesn't have a way to forecast the project, because their forecast would have to be based on something they haven't seen yet. The minute someone says "we're making good progress" the business will extrapolate that out and realize the project is a money pit.
Yeah, that's why they should say something. I was not aware I was getting lower quality, I thought the movies look awful.
Can I use this argument to the people/corporations I owe? "Oh just get over it and accept things, it's not yesterday anymore you can't just expect delivery on contracts!"
Automated accessibility testing with jest and axe
I want to chime in here and say the number one thing that helped me sleep better: less stress. Everything else didn't do shit. I tried pills, breathing exercises, routines, food, etc... Didn't work.

I went from barely being able to pay bills month to month with no luxuries (people look at what I lived in at the time as a prison jail cell), working on a degree I hated at a university I hated, living in a city I hated, no physical affection or love, and overall very lonely ... to perpetually having a job I hate, being in a decent relationship, not making anywhere near enough to afford the area but can afford the bills I do have, and still pretty lonely. Region isn't great either but mostly cause it's so expensive. Life still sucks but it's not the pure hell I was in before.

I don't fall asleep super fast. But I don't wake up as much in the middle of the night. (And I can fall back asleep) I don't deal with it taking 3-4 hours on the regular to fall asleep - about 30 minutes to an hour now. (I watch random educational YouTube videos) I don't deal with my mind racing and trying to figure out how to solve every problem... Even if I wish sometimes I did have that fire under my ass to keep me moving. I don't have more stressful periods where I sleep maybe 30 minutes to an hour a day and a week feels like a month or more. I'm less stressed. It was the number 1 thing that helped me and I noticed it immediately. And I always knew that was the issue.

Because of that, there was no cure except to get rid of the stressors. So I finally graduated, I got a job after many months of toil that ended up paying me, I finally met someone who would be in a relationship with me (took 26 years), and I got out of Seattle. It took forever.

Going to be 30 soon enough. I feel like when I do have my birthday, the stress will come back thanks to feeling wildly underaccomplished. Woo... But I'll manage as long as I don't live in Seattle again.
Geeeeee ! They said in the article that the previous gen chip was, but didn't explicitely confirm for the new one, so I didn't dare to hope. Thanks for the confirmation !
Peak vs off-peak prices for electricity aren't that far apart—up to a factor of 3 in my area for residential service. And that's for a fixed schedule of peak/shoulder/off-peak hours. More dynamic demand-based pricing of electricity doesn't work all that well for residential service; it basically requires automated load-shifting that's far more practical for industrial customers than residential.

The cost curve for internet service during peak hours is a lot steeper. I think it would take much more than a 3x price multiplier during peak hours to get any noticeable demand reduction beyond what streaming applications already do by dropping down to lower resolutions automatically. (Assuming that the base cost for off-peak usage is remotely realistic, ie. orders of magnitude lower than the metered prices we pay for cellular data in the US.)
Note: This is the company that is acquiring NPM. Which now also is going to have to deal with the messy reality of us sanctions, if they'd been dodging them before. Prior to this it wouldn't have been entirely beyond the pale for NPM to move ownership to another country if it proved to onerous. The threshold for "too onerous" is likely to be significantly higher at Microsoft / Github.
Like anything as complex as a pandemic the answer is, it depends.

Are we overreacting? That depends on what your definition is on how to react to a pandemic. On one hand we don't freak out over influenza in the same way.

Let's look at it this way: Influenza('19-'20) has a projected hospitalization:death ratio between 3.2% and 15%[1].

hospitalizations: 370,000 – 670,000
deaths: 22,000 – 55,000

COVID-19:
- As of March 16, a total of 4,226 COVID-19 cases had been reported in the United States
- 508 (12%) patients known to have been hospitalized[2]
- 108 (21%) deaths from COVID have occurred in the US[3]

This means about 21% of those who are hospitalized in the US have died from COVID.

It's not only significant, but significantly higher than influenza.

We should be reacting to this: social distancing, monitoring symptoms and avoiding the ER and visiting doctors unless we have an emergency.

Those are things everyone can work to do although there are some folks who can't distance themselves socially(doctors, firefighters, restaurant workers, etc) and it's important the rest of us do our best to support them.

Just like some folks are allergic to vaccines, it's critical those of us that are able to get vaccines to protect those with compromised immune systems or that are unable to get the vaccine.

In short: We're not overreacting, if anything the data shows we're underreacting.

[1] - https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-e...
[2] - https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6912e2.htm
[3] - https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/coronavirus-disease-cov...
That's the page on a shared hosting service, not served by me. See the site history page (still in the same place that it was a couple of years ago when it came up on Hacker News).
Is there any way to export the data into a standard, editable file format? (Ideally something like markdown...)? I hate to build up a huge library of notes that are only usable in one piece of software...
Show HN: Hover macOS-See window contents in floating always-on-top windows
Yep, I assume he used his company card.

What really got me is that breakfast at hobee's was something like $15 for the two of us. Crazy!
Put a CDN Like Cloudflare in Front of Firebase
And you get to rent the latest hardware than use likely old machines ... I mean you use the existing machines as dumb terminals but still
Minute amounts, yes, but again, just rinse it after use and it's the nozzle anyways not the whole unit.
Not always at a great bitrate though.

I haven't really torrented anything in a while but I doubt there are many 20GB+ Blu-ray quality rips out there that you can download in a reasonable amount of time.

EDIT: after reading the replies I stand corrected; it seems like there are some better quality uploads out there than I thought.
Well actually, no, it's exactly like insider trading. Literally.

Senator dumped up to $1.6M of stock after reassuring public on Covid-19 (propublica.org) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22631832
Are you in Europe? I'd love to know how are services like Hulu or YouTube holding up?
Classic MacOS had multitasking (cooperative...), but it was missing memory protection. The same was true of earlier 68K-based OSes (Atari, Amiga.)
I definitely concur that the radically different architectures weren't good for developer productivity. There was a lot of crazy going on.

I guess it just seems like we're now wasting money on duplicate consoles. It feels like it would be better if Sony and Microsoft created a "standard" for manufacturers to build to. Zen 2 3.5GHz with a specified level of Radeon graphics and 16GB of RAM (with a bit more specifics). You could still have exclusives to your platform - Microsoft has DirectX, Xbox Live, and other exclusive software features. Developers would still want access to a platform for their games.

Don't they usually lose money on the actual hardware?

Nintendo is doing a slightly different thing with the Switch, but the PS4/XBONE and PS5/XBX it seems like they're just making people pay twice for the same hardware just because they've locked up some exclusives.

What's the business model there? 1) Lose lots of money selling a console; 2) We'll pay to develop first-party games that we'll sell to fewer people because they're exclusive; 3) We'll pay third-parties to make their games exclusive to our platform (as compensation for the lost sales due to exclusivity); 4) charge huge licensing fees for access to the platform for non-exclusive developers.

It just seems like there are a lot of money-losing (and consumer-happiness-losing) steps to get to #4. That's a lot of loss to society just to get to #4.

I guess the reason why they can charge such high prices for licensing is that developers know that consumers will likely only purchase one system. If people had access to both systems on a single box, then developers could negotiate them against each other. Now, developers can't negotiate them against each other unless they want to lose out on a lot of potential customers.
while this is cool..... these are usually put in a "who's hiring" post. Except for YC companies, and those you can't comment on, they are link only
I tried LiquidText some time ago, as it looked well suited for the intense period of self-learning I was about to embark on. It was indeed very good overall, except for the lack of one essential feature, which was an absolute deal-breaker:

I can't search for my own notes.

The searches turn up everything in the texts written by others that you put into this app, but not the stuff you yourself write.

No serious learning from any non-trivial text is possible unless the learner can engage in a dialogue with the text. There are entire books and academic journals dedicated to marginalia and reader commentary through the centuries. I'm not going to use a piece of learning-related technology if it renders me completely unable to go back to my own thoughts on a subject, which I put work into.
Instead, you resort to a sort of ad hominem.

You appealed to authority, it's pretty legitimate to point out that it isn't actually an authority on the subject.

If the information provided is so poor, you should easily be able to disprove the claims.

As previously pointed out, only 10% of gold is used in industry.
What's fantastic about native apps?

I mean, I know why nation-state attackers love them - it's super easy to exploit them, and once you do, you have full access to everything in the user account (including all browser login sessions). But what's the advantage to users?
If you pirate it originally yourself, sure.

Pirated content from other people that lies about what it is isn't unheard of, though.
Where Is Japan's Coronavirus Explosion?
plan to add any other auth apart from Google?
This seems backwards. Desktop/GUI application developers have separate layout/theming engines and you don't see them asking for theming frameworks to be intertwined with components properties.
Gitea supports "log in with GitHub" if the site-owner has enabled it; and the UI is immediately familiar.
I'm sure that there have also been takedowns that weren't terrible mistakes, but merely procedural. And given the disclosure that GitHub implements sanctions loosely, far more repos are likely at risk.
De-paywalled: http://archive.md/OwUxD
You both need to read http://jdebp.uk./FGA/web-fully-qualified-domain-name.html , including the Hacker News person's reminiscences. (-:
I'm not sure what you mean by "de-empathize".

Here's the official pricing calculator[1] - note that ingress and egress costs are included in all relevant services. Also note that for something like S3 (which is probably what the article mentions the "earthdata cloud" is based on), the pricing details are right there on the description page[2].

There is no evidence of any malfeasance by AWS here, just lots of casting aspersions. What specifically do you want that was not provided?

[1]: https://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html

[2]: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/
I'd agree with all the points you just made. I'd also offer that if one is using public cloud than a lot of the orchestration is already taken care of for you.
> Anyone here uses Mathematica besides Physics or pure mathematics?

My adviser (a physicist) uses Mathematica for all non-physics computations as well. It's a clunky language for general purpose computation and doesn't play well with external programs and libraries. The user experience on Linux can also be quite haphazard with frequent crashes and lack of good HiDPI support (I haven't used version 12.1). It's also hard to run headless programs written in Wolfram language. But if you're okay doing everything inside the Mathematica GUI and don't care about the fact that it's a walled ecosystem, don't have a preferred text editor, and don't particularly care for Unix's one-thing-well philosophy, Mathematica might work for you.
If you want to see a doctor saying the same thing, just do a search on YouTube. I'm not really sure it changes the credibility of the information.
I'm not so sure that unikernels are the way forward. And in general, angry rants about technologies from the CEO of a company entirely devoted to some competing technology is generally best taken with a large grain of salt.

Undoubtedly there are risks to having the flexibility that a full OS provides, but the benefits to troubleshooting, incident-response, resource-sharing, and just plain operational flexibility are huge. Until there's a good story for managing unikernel-based microVMs at scale, they aren't going to make a dent in container-world.

I suspect the path we'll actually see pursued is more along the lines of Bottlerocket (https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket), which is basically the Linux kernel plus a containerd API that works with Kubernetes but doesn't expose nearly as much surface area.
> Another case for piracy I guess.

The notion here is, because of these annoying steps and gotchas, there will not be 4k rips of their content floating around. I don't keep up on the piracy scene these days but I have to imagine that it can still be done, as with the setup from the blog. So goes the story of DRM, it is a painful step that doesn't quite prevent piracy - but if you're netflix or other streaming services, you're working closely with the implementors of the DRM tech (microsoft, widevine, others) and you're not going to just throw in the towel given that it's always a work in progress.

Sometimes there are also licensing requirements around having DRM attached, probably applies to Netflix in certain cases (although less and less these days).
Exploring calling conventions with x86 assembly (2016)
I like to play games on my couch, without having to hassle with settings or upgrades. I also like having a media center attached to my tv.

Yes, one can hook up a PC to a tv. No, that is not without hassle and upgrades. I want a box to play games and watch shows and movies.
Could this be useful to you?
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Rather the differences between protocols employed. Streaming video can be sent in chunks where latency doesn't matter that much (within certain tolerances, of course.) Realtime voice and video doesn't have that.
If you are in the Bay Area, this is an illegal violation of the mandatory shelter in place order, and is punishable as a misdemeanor.