skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://medium.com/@donhopkins/the-x-windows-disaster-128d39...

>X will not run in these 4 bit overlay planes. This is because I’m using Motif, which is so sophisticated it forces you to put a 1" thick border around each window in case your mouse is so worthless you can’t hit anything you aim at, so you need widgets designed from the same style manual as the runway at Moscow International Airport. My program has a browser that actually uses different colors to distinguish different kinds of nodes. Unlike a PC Jr, however, this workstation with $150,000 worth of 28 bits-per-pixel supercharged display hardware cannot display more than 16 colors at a time. If you’re using the Motif self-abuse kit, asking for the 17th color causes your program to crash horribly.

>So, thinks I to myself cleverly, I shall run X windows on the graphics plane. This means X will not use the overlay planes, which have special hardware for cursors. This also means I cannot use the super cool 3D graphics hardware either, because in order to draw a cube, I would have to “steal” the frame buffer from X, which is surly and uncooperative about that sort of thing.

>What it does give me, however, is a unique pleasure. The overlay plane is used for /dev/console, which means all console messages get printed in 10 Point Troglodyte Bold, superimposed in white over whatever else is on my screen, like for example, a demo that I may be happen to be giving at the time. Every time anyone in the lab prints to the printer attached to my machine, or NFS wets its pants with a timeout, or some file server threatens to go down in only 3 hours for scheduled maintenance, another message goes onto my screen like a court reporter with Turett’s syndrome.

>The usual X commands for refreshing the screen are helpless to remove this incontinence, because X has no access to the overlay planes. I had to write a program in C to be invoked from some xterm window that does nothing but wipes up after the mess on the overlay planes.

>My super 3D graphics, then, runs only on /dev/crt1, and X windows runs only on /dev/crt0. Of course, this means I cannot move my mouse over to the 3d graphics display, but as the HP technical support person said “Why would you ever need to point to something that you’ve drawn in 3D?”

>Of course, HP claims X has a mode which allows you to run X in the overlay planes and “see through” to the graphics planes underneath. But of course, after 3 months of calls to HP technical support, we agreed that that doesn’t actually work with my particular hardware configuration. You see, I have the top-of-the-line Turbo SRX model (not one, but two on a single workstation!), and they’ve only tested it on the simpler, less advanced configurations. When you’ve got a hip, forward-thinking software innovator like Hewlett-Packard, they think running X windows release 2 is pretty advanced.
It sets the minimum size of the case.
A large number of unknown people from the general public have been in contact with the dine-in table. Only a handful of kitchen staff are in contact with surfaces involved in preparing takeout.

Eating at home is still a better idea for the reasons you state, but takeout is an acceptable if less-ideal alternative.
Why would it be surprising that several links are posted the day when something is announced?
It keeps the grep command itself from showing up in the output.
https://thenextsystem.org/learn/stories/crisis-next-time-pla...

Among other things, nationalization would all but eliminate institutional resistance to, and subversion of, public policy and regulations.
If we're splitting hair like that then practically any company is "pretty essential."
Start with it scrolled to the right?
Capacity of testing is a major issue, and as cases increase, turn around goes down. Tests have to be used where they will be useful and influence management.
For charting, absolutely. If OpenTable had visualized this as a two-axis line chart I would have not have complained.

My comment was addressing the OP's criticism regarding how tabular data was displayed in the article.
One of the things I rarely see discussed or even mentioned is the ability for designers to easily provide incremental design improvements to engineers.

Software development now has long established practices to develop and deliver incrementally. Where it is understood that you are delivering value piecemally.

With the disconnect present between design and development, I think design is still lacking in working out how to approach problems incrementally. All too often, you are handed down a design to deliver in one go, when you can't reasonably do that.

Perhaps it's my lack of familiarity with the field, but that's my perception. (To be clear, majority of software devs still struggle with it too, but core principles have been known and applied for 20 years).

Do any of the tools mentioned (or not) specifically focus on that aspect of coordination?
You are seriously oversimplifying reality to fit it into your world views, here.
Every detail about Covid-19 (visualization tools created to know better)
There may be near infinite opportunities to invest, but that does not mean they can be profitable.

Also, if something is a good investment, it doesn't mean it is a good investment for a given company.
Yeah this is really cool! To your point about WorkOS.js -- how would a customer know where to find their SAML metadata? Some of this can be done inline in WorkOS.js, of course.

But no amount of inline docs in WorkOS.js's UI is going to get around the high-level guidance docs, both for your customers ("where do I even start") and your customers' customers ("how do I fit my IdP peg into your SP round hole").
No, Venezuela is a poignant example of what nationalization does to companies and industries. They simply bog down in eventual corruption and massive inefficiency to the point of stopping or limping along.

The counter opposite example is China and their industries, but that implies an even worse kind of relationship that greatly exploits people and their labor.
An American example is: A company outsourced all its production over the last few years to China. With the global pandemic production of the goods in China came to a halt. The company experiences a crash due to their inability to get the goods from China. In its place competitors who kept production domestic but who had higher production costs would now rise to the top. If you "bail out" every bad company you distort the market completely and reward non-efficient behavior.
Government price fixing always leads to some combination of:

1. shortages

2. gluts

3. black markets
I have shortness of breath, cannot go up the stairs in our house without having to stop and rest. 37 years old and otherwise quite healthy. Have underlying autoimmune disease, and am on immunomod. Coughing and light fever. I’ve had this for 5 days. When I called the hospital they told me to come in and get tested, but when I came to the hospital they did not test me.

The doctor told me, it wouldn’t make a difference anyway. No matter what the test would show he would tell me the same thing: go home, isolate yourself, and come back if your fever worsens.

Once your area reach a certain number of persons affected, there is little use to try to track each one. When they have changed to a strategy of trying to protect the weak, and just slow down the spread. Testing doesn’t really add much value or information.
> I saw that all notifications/alerts are disabled anyway, and yet I end up getting a bunch of alert spam!

Yup, that matches my experience, that's (partially) why I called the site "unusable"
No, they’re talking about just one thing - not receiving pay.
>How is an electric car factory an essential business?

Because it's not like a restaurant that you can close and then open a month later with little consequence to the public. If you stop production of components or cars, you will not have them later on to restart the economy.

Most of the world uses lean manufacturing. Closing down some factories will mean that entire production chains will shut down. All the companies that service those chains will shut down. And when the virus passes, you will have no cars, no components for cars, and no easy way to restart manufacturing.

Even without shutdowns the entire system will take a huge hit dues to changes in demand. (Which will drop to nothing for some thing and skyrocket for others.)
In times of climate change, is it? If you can run one machine instead of 60, that is not just a financial win, it is also a ecology win. Not to mention that having 60 machines suddenly requires additional complexity in other parts: Load balancers, memcaches, distributed somethings. Performance also buys simplicity.
In that case the thing to do is to email us, as I explained when I banned you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22607174. Please don't post about it here. That's also in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
I was more thinking something like the National Flood Insurance program. Corporate taxes would be similar if the airlines and other bailoutable industries had to pay a higher rate to compensate, but right now they don't.
Yes, better from a personal standpoint, but jeez, from a humanitarian perspective, can you really blame any restaurant owner from wanting to make payroll at any cost so that their employees can continue to feed themselves, pay rent, and take care of their loved ones?
If you liked ToolTalk, you'll LOVE ChatRoulette.
It probably employs a non-negligible amount of people in the area
Ah, but that's "Captain Hindsight" eh?

Many people (right or wrong) legitimately thought that opening up to China would crack the authoritarian government.
How? Unemployment is limited to half your pay.
A reduction in hours can qualify you for unemployment insurance.
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Unemployment now covers coronavirus.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/coronavirus/what-to-do-if-yo...
Printing money if it can’t be used to buy stuff is a recipe for inflation and we’re in that kind of a situation: it’s a serious supply-demand shock, not some financial wizardry gone wrong. Supply got stretched or severed last month and now demand is crashing while supply is coming back online. It’s a disaster which can’t be mitigated by cheap money and is the reason why rates might need to be raised - too much money available and no use for it.
Sure, we would certainly have less wealth in the absence of easy money. But we had paupers, merchants and nobility for several millennia's worth of limited quantities of precious metals being the only money, so it stretches credulity to pretend that hard money has any kind of egalitarian upside other than levelling down.
I agree, I'd like it if all app platforms were portable, secure, and linkable by default. Given that they aren't, my allegiance is with the web.
Our reciprocity should be asymmetric. We should hit them where it hurts them, not us. And it hurts us to compromise our values.
The way it was done in the past is by being ridiculously stronger than the other participant. So you let your Pakistani or Iraqi counterpart make a big show to appear strong to their people and you do nothing because you still have them under your thumb. Unfortunately, China is now one of America’s peers so it’s necessary to establish the level playing field.
What did you use to build your documentation site?
Or to just nationalize them, many other countries have government owned airlines.
Le maire is a complete idiot who doesn't understand markets or economy, he simply doesn't have received the education for such.
My feeling is that it's more often than not the norm, society-wide speaking.

However, at places like HN, usually people and discussions are more rational and fact-based.

I've seen this happening in other circumstances and on other topics, that people who are educated and respected becoming mindless drones, or loss a significant portion of their reasoning ability and rationality whenever a certain note is played. Sometimes decency is lost too.

But then, I expect better on HN and I'm glad the moderator(s?) is doing something about it.

Cheers.
> FDIC and NCUA are not bottomless pits of money

"FDIC insurance is backed by the full faith and credit of the United States government." [1]

Given that FDIC insurance is backed by the United States government, if the FDIC system is unable to cover its losses, wouldn't that represent the United States defaulting on its obligations?

I'm not saying that's impossible, but it seems like FDIC could represent a...pretty large bit of money.

[1] From: https://www.fdic.gov/deposit/deposits/faq.html
Can someone explain to me how this is problematic? If you go to a grocery store, you will see store-brand items promoted too. They will be cheaper and possibly more prominent on the shelves than name-brand items. They might even be in disguise (e.g. Archer Farms is a Target brand).

How is this any worse or wrong?
I agree with you on tariffs, IP, currency. But I disagree on journalism: provoking China to expel American journalists is the last thing one wants when trying to serve American interests.
Nice.

>Stock buybacks done as open-market repurchases emerged as a major use of corporate funds in the mid-1980s after the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted Rule 10b-18, which gives corporate executives a safe harbor against stock-price manipulation charges that otherwise might have applied.

The 1980's, every damn time. I swear the 80's may as well be called the decade of economic time bomb construction.

They are also preaching to the choir with stock buybacks being toxic. The incentives really never seemed to line up as anything approaching good for anybody but someone trying to time the market. It is interesting that the behavior would have previously been classified as market manipulation prior to the 80's rule change.
Arguably, reciprocity and a strong independent nationalistic streak are the principles the US were founded on.

For example, dumping tea into the Boston harbor to protest taxes imposed by a “””foreign””” government
We agree, we're just arguing semantics I think. I'd support the idea of a specific program airlines paid into under a federal office that would then provide relief during catastrophic events.
>But I still don't know why - if this is the case - why people who are still employed/working full time, getting their regular paycheck, just working from home, would feel the need to stop whatever domestic services they had in place.

Because there's a pandemic going on and they don't want outside people in their house? Also, some of these services are now illegal in many cities including SF (Child/adult/senior care is still allowed. I'm assuming cleaners aren't.)
The entirety of the point that was made is "people are different and have different opinions" which is a retort to a clumsily-framed statement serving primarily as rhetoric and not fact. Shooting semantic fish in the rhetorical barrel is what makes people "no fun at parties" and something that has become a stereotype -- no, a meme -- on HN.
Zero percent interest loans over a long enough repayment period (eg. ten years) would work though. It allows spreading the immediate loss in sales over a much longer period.

Not that it would happen though.
Jailbreak a kindle. They are super low power and cheap with lots of features - I’m guessing a 5W solar panel would be overkill if you only update the screen irregularly.
Survival Kit Searches Surge as Americans Confront Coronavirus Pandemic
We'll s/biased/credible/ on this one.

Can you think of any cases where he might be right? How often do you hit, for instance, "This code cleanly fit its original construction, but now I have to add some complexity for new cases, and Rust is making that harder?" Put another way, once you're familiar with the borrow checker, how often do you find yourself or your teams fighting it?
Show HN: I live in SF, & I've built a slack like telerobotics platform: remo.tv
DNC should admit the primaries are a charade and cancel them and pick the candidate they’re going to pick anyway. The process is so clearly nondemocratic. They keep finding new ways to suppress voters, fiddle with results, etc.
Why would you when your account exclusively posts what I assume are ads?

The only thing remotely related to security on that page is that you use TLS in a client/server setting. That's not remotely better than what the person you're replying to suggested, which is also 100 times less suspicious looking than a random landing page with generic looking icons.
Mattermost + Jitsi is scratching the itch really well for us. We recently moved the company from Slack to self-hosted Mattermost, and we've been using Jitsi for video conferencing, but I went ahead and set up a self-hosted Jitsi install as well, so that we have capacity in case the shared services get overwhelmed.
>Our entire fiat monetary system really is incredibly bizarre and borderline fraudulent when you think about it in close enough detail

I mean, almost every social construct is bizarre and borderline fraudulent when you get into it in granular detail. Why does someone paid by taxes working in a government created 200+ years ago get involved in my choice on who I marry or live with? Why does an arbitrary marker on a map indicating someone 'owns' a piece of the earth mean I can't walk across the actual physical ground?

They're social constructs. They're not natural. They're supposed to be bizarre. That's the point.
You should start learning how the world works. First step get out of your cocoon.
Why not break this into:

N% have lost jobs

N% have lost hours

We don't have N% have dead or infected with cv, do we?
Very few human tools utilizing this concept are common to any degree.

Github Issues doesn't have issue dependencies at all.

Salesforce "Action Plan" view is a plain list, no deps at all, as far as I have seen.

Todoist doesn't do dependencies.

Bugzilla does dependency graph, wow: https://bugs.gentoo.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=706426&hid...

I guess JIRA supports deps, but I don't think it's the tool which people here would want to use to be able to decompose their big undertakings, especially personal ones.

TaskWarrior supports deps, but it's not a mainstream tool and deps were fairly hard to use in it AFAIR.
I went to the website. I read the FAQ. I didn't get it...

Then I watched the explainer video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOj25i_BmMQ

Then I got it!

Handshake (and other technologies like it) are very, very important to the future of a free and open internet.

Reason: Current websites are dependent on domain names, which are in turn dependent on ICANN and CA's.

If they fail -- then so does your website!

(A chain is only as strong as the weakest link, as the old expression goes...)

This, and other future technologies like it (basically, moving DNS to a blockchain) get rid of the above dependency chain (or could act to supplement it, in the case of a failure).

That's why this technology (and others in the future that will duplicate the blockchain functionality of this) are so important!

ICANN and CA's could, theoretically, accidentally or intentionally censor/redirect your site, and/or destroy your e-commerce business/livelihood!

Now, we assume Good Faith on their part (they are after all, reputable companies!), but the ethos of the Internet has always been about routing around single points of failure, potential or otherwise.

While ICANN and CA's may use redundant servers in geographically separate regions -- that's no absolute guarantee that war/famine/zombie apocalypse or other "acts of God" -- would not/could not render them useless in the future...

That's why (if you're running or planning to run) a website, you might need this, or something like this, now or in the future...
Energy storage deployments to increase 7x between 2019 and 2021: WoodMac
I don't see any evidence of anthropomorphizing the economy or dehumanizing the individual here in the comment you are replying to.

Maybe you need to reread what you commented on
Entirety of ML/sci-python world is not run by "developers", but by those working in the field.

That's usually the driver of quality, even if pure software engineers could easily find stuff to criticise.
My charitable read would be to append: "... so they don't have to risk being infected at this time."

A less charitable read is also quite possible.
Hopefully they are also putting in strong guards to ensure that these extra shipments truly are life-saving supplies.

My worry is that (if local store shelves are any indication) they’re just shipping paranoid people 800 rolls of toilet paper. And it’s terrible that warehouse employees will be basically strained to the breaking point to make up for selfishness and uneducated masses.
Loosing a fully paying job is never preferable to unemployment in the US.

E.g. “ If you are eligible to receive unemployment, the weekly benefit rate in Indiana is 47% of your average weekly wage (to come up with your average weekly wage, divide your total wages during the base period by 52). The weekly benefit rate is subject to a minimum of $50 and a maximum of $390. You may receive benefits for a maximum of 26 weeks.”
Oh really? You're selling contaminated improperly packaged medical supplies at 10x - 100x the original price.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ETU-_paU0AIjwnK?format=jpg&name=...

World-class my ass.
The thing that really doesn't seem to work in the Austrian model is the whole "hard money" superstition... the idea that money should be an immutable store of value. I really think it is a superstition of sorts, since I don't think the rationale or the underlying model work in the real world.

Not only does this seem to fall down in a variety of ways in practice, but I have philosophical issues with it. The value in the economy is in capital, goods, and services. Money has no value. You can't eat it, drink it, live in it, or use it for anything. It's a medium of value exchange, not a value of its own.

In fact one of the desirable characteristics of money is that it's useless for other purposes, otherwise those other purposes compete with its money use case. Cryptocurrency does check that box, but so far all popular cryptocurrencies are built on hard money assumptions. It would be theoretically possible to build a cryptocurrency that wasn't, but there are issues like how to make the inflation targeting algorithm not be trivially game-able by 'whales.' (Real world whales do in fact try to game central banks, so this is not fiction... of course central banks are AI-complete so they have a better chance of resisting this.)

Most of the affinity for Austrianism is really rooted in a dislike for central banking and the assumed authoritarianism that goes with it, but I am not convinced that these issues are intrinsically inseparable. I don't see why libertarianism necessitates Austrian hard money finance or why hard money prohibits totalitarianism in any way. Since totalitarians have guns they can easily just confiscate and monopolize any hard currency. Cryptocurrency is no different, since rubber hose cryptography is highly effective.
Unfortunately, I don't think part-time employees can collect unemployment. I'm guessing part-timers were the most effected, since that includes most restaurant workers.
Based on public data, I'd say most are.
https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Facebook-Salaries-E40772.ht...
People (in this language) read from left to right, so they're used to what is on the left coming before what is on the right. If you have a time series that keeps growing, trim or scale it to the display size, or change the sample rate, or give some UI options to let them vary those parameters. Don't ask people to invert their expectation of "before" and "after". Those are too fundamental.
As far as I can tell, contractors aren't included in this initiative.
Why Radio Buttons and Checkboxes Can’t Co-Exist
oh my god, why?! just why!?

What the world needs is the inverse program of "jc", where an unparseable json string is expanded into a flat list of lines all of the form "field.subfield=value"
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