skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone is moaning about availability of toilet paper.
The solution to the pandemic is so obvious.

Just stop the sale of all toilet paper,

1. Handshakes will become a thing of the past.
2. People will do a much better job of washing their hands.
3. Social distancing will increase.

Isn't that what everybody wants?
blasting wet feces droplets all over the place

This is the only thing I don't get about bidets. Unless I'm missing something it's like unavoidable to get droplets on your hand/spreayer for the manual types? I personally wouldn't really care, but I just wonder why not more people make a fuzz about this. Again, maybe I'm missing something.
I can take a power bank with me if I need more battery. I probably can't leave the 320Wh thick boy at home if I want to get rid of some weight. Around 2.5kg is probably the max I would carry and even then, that's very annoying. Note, that's about how much the Thinkpad P50 weighs. If you want to offer battery life, it should be an option, but you should have a base option that is reasonable, but has the potential for upgrades. Modularity is cool.

How about a 17 inch notebook with a 100Wh battery + 100Wh battery extension and a good display that weighs 3kg~ (with only one of the batteries)?
if the workers want to buy the stock up while it's cheap or bankrupt then why not? The whole point of a bankruptcy is that the company literally is worth less than zero.. Whoever buys it would owe the bank a ton of money and have to pay the bank out of their own pocket until they become profitable. Workers are free to do that, but if no one wants to do that, then the bank steps in and takes ownership.
Still using PureOS, just so I know any problems are caused by me and not some strange hardware/software issue. It's a perfectly serviceable Debian-based distro, haven't had an issue with it so far.
Lol, I think you should rephrase yourself a little. I first read that as "I spent a lot of time bushwhacking off"
Isn't it measuring round trip time though?
FDIC approves Square's industrial banking license
and also teachers, schools & universities: https://www.git-tower.com/education
Don't we all :)
BeyondCorp gives you basic access to unprotected things on the network (intranet, google apps, etc), but not to secure systems, source code, etc.
The Risks of Building Too Many BIO Labs
well, yeah, but in a big city you can choose which group of narrow minded, holier-than-though folks you want to associate with. In smaller towns or cities you just don't have that option...
> Except... the pricing is awful.

Of all the product lines Apple has, the iPad is their product line with the most flexible pricing. Everything from the $250 base model up to the iPad Pro at $1000 ($1,350 with the keyboard). If you don't need the iPad Pro, there are three other models below that.

Even their highest priced iPads aren't very expensive. If you are a business buying a computer, it's less than one week's wages for the most expensive iPad.

> It's like they designed a product for a real niche

You have this almost exactly the opposite. The iPad is the mainstream product and the PC is the niche product. The overwhelming majority of people can do everything they need on the iPad. It's the niche users (Developers, Video Editors, etc) who require the additional flexibility a PC offers.

> you can get the new Macbook Air they just announced for basically the same exact cost as an iPad Pro + keyboard, and that comes with a full-featured OS.

Fundamentally, you get a MacBook (or Windows/ Linux) if you need the flexibility of having a desktop PC. A lot of people prefer the simplicity iPadOS offers.

Also, it's not just the most expensive iPad Pro versus the least expensive Mac. If you don't need the pencil or the nicer keyboard, you could get the iPad Air or the base iPad for significantly less.

> but you're getting a better OS on a computer with better specs.

You are confusing more flexible for better. The two operating systems target different purposes. For a lot of people the iPad OS is the better experience. Also, I haven't seen the benchmarks yet, but I suspect that like with the prior generation, this iPad Pro is significantly faster than the base MacBook Air.
env is part of POSIX, so I guess your phone just doesn’t make the symlink. (If it’s busybox, perhaps it still has the applet compiled in?)
Yikes, that’s quite something
In addition to the cost of paperwork, there's also the issue of paying out unused PTO. In many cases like mine, this can add up to many thousands of dollars per employee.
SO, we've summoned the monster that almost destroyed us all in 2008.
Virtual Events is the new norm. Pixz is paving the way
Let’s face it, social distancing has made life kind of boring.

No vacations, birthday parties, shows, meetups, startup conferences, festivals or concerts.

In this new world of isolation, people are yearning to connect and share with others.

What if we could have virtual events to fill this void?

A private virtual venue where we could share photos in real-time on a shared interest or topic just as we would in person. For example, someone could host a virtual dog show or fashion show. Anyone in the group could submit photos of their dog or outfits and people could like and comment in real-time from the comfort of their living room.

My name is Michael Kelso and I am the founder of Pixz (https://pixzapp.com)—a new photo sharing app for groups and events that allows people to crowdsource photos together in real-time without hashtags or uploads. We quietly launched our startup in January and have been growing steadily until COVID-19.

The cancellation of events led us to rethink our business model and come up with creative ways to continue to grow our startup. We had to take a hard pivot, but one I believe is timely and well-suited for the world of tomorrow.

You can schedule an event like "Cupcake Challenge" and invite people to join. Photos taken with Pixz are shared instantly and privately. Other group members can comment, like, and share photos in real-time. At the end, the person with the most likes or comments wins the challenge.

I believe Pixz is a platform that can meet the need for social connection and bring people out of isolation.

Pixz is a free download available in the app stores.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pixz/id1491306184
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pixz.io.pixz&hl=en_US

Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdlNOgh-t1o

Thanks for your support.

- Michael
Have you tested recently? I’m familiar with a few of the key combinations that should work (by sending the replacement key for escape), but they haven’t been working.

Just tested and it doesn’t work (to confirm).
Developers are expensive, very expensive.

Such is the accepted wisdom in much of the industry, but I'm a bit of a sceptic on this score. Of course developer time is expensive, particularly if you're in somewhere like the Bay Area where salaries are an extra 0 compared to most of the world. But we live in an era of virtualisation and outsourcing (sorry, "cloud computing") when businesses will knowingly pay many times the cost of just buying a set of servers and sticking them in a rack in order to have someone else buy a much bigger server, subdivide it into virtual servers, and lease them at a huge mark-up. All kinds of justifications have been given for this, many of which I suspect don't stand up to scrutiny anywhere other than boardrooms and maybe golf courses.

There's a nice write-up somewhere, though regrettably I can't immediately find it, of the economics of cloud-hosting an application built using modern trends. IIRC, it pitched typical auto-scaling architectures consisting of many ephemeral VMs running microservices and some sort of orchestration to manage everything against just buying a small number of highly specified machines and getting on with the job using a more traditional set of skills and tools. Put another way, it was the modern trend for making everything extremely horizontally scalable using more hardware and virtualisation against a more traditional vertical scaling approach using more efficient software to keep within the capacity of a small number of big machines. The conclusion was astonishingly bad for the modern/trendy case, to the point where doing it was looking borderline insane unless your application drops into a goldilocks zone in terms of capacity and resources required that relatively few applications will ever get near, and those that do may then move beyond it on the other side. And yet that horizontal scaling strategy is viewed almost as the default today for many new software businesses, because hiring people who are good enough to write the more efficient software is assumed to be too expensive.
possibly. I couldn't get a clear answer from Dell on what their disk management system was doing, so it got really hard to work out what was going on and where the problem was. I tried everything I could think of and the internet could suggest.
Enough is Enough – Let it Expire
It's not just about whether it exists but also the version.

For example, on my (Mac) laptop, /bin/bash is bash 3.2.57 (released in 2007), while "/usr/bin/env bash" gets the version installed by homebrew which is 4.4.19 (released in 2016).
Frankly, they are both assholes.
In Praise of Phone Calls
yeah they have a bunch of open bugs about performance making it unusable, they are even rewriting their rendering to use Metal underneath
Not laid off but was just put on furlough
So it won't 'contract' (forshorten?/rotate?) if you move around it? That would be neat.
Because their not going to is not a reason. They should in fact issue more shares, diluting the current ownership. No one wants to buy them because no one has money and so they have to sell extra low.
Serverless SSR for SEO of JavaScript websites react, Vue, angular, meteor, etc.
Since when Dlang is "Variant on C++"
Also, they have Dark Basic but not DIV ??
Found this concept about a modular Mac Mini "Pro"
the technology is not there yet but could be developed in the future

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuZlMROiSXQ
Press release here: https://squareup.com/us/en/press/ilc-update
Coronavirus: Tesla workers must use PTO to get paid if sick, scared, can't work
One thing you can consider -> the RAM costs are very high if you upgrade through Apple. You can spec out a Mac Mini with the lowest possible RAM and then do the RAM upgrade yourself to save $600.

The whole process takes about 20mins and there's professional YouTube videos that take you every step of the way.

This is exactly what I did and it was a breeze (I didn't have much prior experience messing with computer internals). It might look complicated, but it's really not.

If you do go this route, I'd recommend OWC RAM since they're guaranteed to work with Mac and they also tell a little $7 toolkit that has the TORX screwdrivers you need to do the RAM upgrade -> https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/TOOLKITMM18/

Here's a video of the process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKyv0QP4XPQ
> Sadly, I wholeheartedly believe that the owners are using the coronavirus as an excuse to close their already-failing company.

If you feel the company has been failing, then I doubt this is an excuse. It's just the straw that is breaking the proverbial camel's back.
What? Where do I get my free money? Also, unemployment is not nearly enough for most people (it barely will cover a family's utilities and cell phones).
Gold is such an odd form of value. If money, as Felix Martin puts it, is a social technology then gold is an antisocial technology. (1)

Gold and silver look great in a recession because they (unlike the buyer) do not panic. However, in the long run they provide virtually no value to society (unless you make some fancy jewelry or cover your toilet seat) and frankly I find owning large amounts of gold to be a silly proposition.

If society were to collapse I don’t think anyone would be hoarding gold or silver... unless your Blackbeard or Scrooge McDuck.

Edit: forgot to link :/
(1) https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2014/04/13/book...
True, you could see this coming a month ago. This narrative is very naive.

I closed all my stock positions back when the first cases outside China started to pop up, and nobody seemed to care enough to control it. I've been buying puts ever since, and could not be happier. When life gives you lemons, you need to make a lemonade, and not make excuses for your bad calls.
Dude, if you don’t want a new phone don’t buy one. It’s ok. Nobody will get upset.
The issue is it's premature to even call these listings "projects." I can write "create vaccine for covid for free distribution" on this list, what does that achieve?

There are concrete things we can all do, and probably ways for we programmers to contribute using our professional skills, but just wishing for a million ventilators is a distraction, not a contribution or even a project to be brutally honest.
Wasn't that the dust problem, though? Admitting that there's a problem when people are taking out class-action lawsuits against you seems a little late to me. And again, rather than a "we're so sorry, we made a huge mistake" speech, it's more of a "we're such an amazing company, we're going to fix your faulty laptops for free!" speech.
i think you forgot the link to felix martin's article?
From what I've observed in the US, both major political parties are advocates of socializing the downside. The current Canadian federal government, though very left-leaning, is also a strong advocate of this policy.

I think often people frame this issue incorrectly. As much as I have my own opinions of what 'isms' or parties are superior, we should be discussing the incentives we've built into our political systems that encourage politicians of all stripes to make decisions like this. Politicians avoid a very visible event with high damage to a single entity (major bank or airline going bankrupt), compared to difficult to trace moderate damage spread across everyone over a long period of time. It's very low cost to the politicians to impose a bail-out, they don't face the long-term slow moving economic and social damage.

I feel confident large businesses would behave far more sensibly with a long-term vision if they knew there wasn't a taxpayer below them ready to catch them when they fail performing financial stunts.
Yes, this week. Throwaway account because it's not public yet. I've been active in startup land and HN > 10 years, technical founder with one exit. This cycle looks like it will be worse than 2001 or 2008.
Because tinkering is fun and fun is good.
The only reason trillions of dollars haven't been spent cleaning up the byproducts of burning fossil fuels is because we just dump it into the environment instead. If the fossil fuel industry were held accountable for the waste, it would be much more expensive than the boondoggle that is Yucca mountain. (Particularly if CO2 emissions are properly considered...)
> In most cases, you don't even need the extra features, like fan or warm water. Regular cold water is nowhere near as bad as you'd assume.

Depends how cold your cold water is. Can be a 10-15C difference between Northern US and Southern US in winter.

Also becomes important if you're sizing a tankless water heater:

https://www.tanklesshotwaterguide.ca/2012/06/ground-water-te...

Finally, warmer water will dissolve whatever it hits better, instead of just suspending.
CVE-2019-20044 Zsh
Dec. 31: Wuhan health officials confirm 27 cases of illness and close a market they think is related to the virus' spread. China tells the World Health Organization’s China office about the cases of an unknown illness.

Jan. 19: Beijing sends epidemiologists to Wuhan.

As soon as Taiwan learned of what was going on December 31, it took action, starting screening of airline passengers from Wuhan on the aircraft before people deplaned. This is while the Chinese government was ignorant of the problem, local officials were covering up the outbreak, and World Health Organization officials at China's behest continued to block Taiwan from joining WHO (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/13/how-taiwan-is-...).

Even though Taiwan had direct flights to Wuhan and was the last stop of the Diamond Princess cruise ship before it was quarantined in Japan, it had only a few dozen cases by the end of February. The government and people of Taiwan learned a lot from SARS (https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/3/10/21171722/taiwan...), and their response should be seen as a model for the rest of the world.
Why not just have the rails app exposing GQL also expose the customer UI/etc?
My sales buddy played me this audiobook during a cross country road trip, it’s about the voice in your head, mostly the type of simple advice no one gives but it’s useful to hear spelled out explicitly, worth a listen

The Power of Now by Ekhart Tolle https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Power-of-Now-Audiobook/B002V0...

(The last part of the book gets a bit woo-woo but the earlier bits are useful for sure)

Another audiobook for stress is Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

https://www.audible.com/pd/Meditations-Audiobook/B004IBRMZS

You’re afraid because you predict things will worsen, and that’s normal...just remember we only control our own decisions, and that’s all we need to focus on right now
I realise it's how things are today and not going to change any time soon, but it still feels like we as an industry have moved all too easily in a very wasteful direction. Sure, with RAM you can just buy more, but it's symptomatic of a wider malaise. Other capacities, particularly CPU core speeds, have long since stopped increasing on a nice exponential-looking curve to compensate for writing ever more layers of ever more bloated software in the name of (presumed) greater programmer efficiency. It just feels like we've lost the kind of clever, efficient culture that we used to have, and I'm not sure we weren't sold a bill of goods in return.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-11-19/apple-goo...

"“Like somehow we’re hurting some employees? We’re not,” Catmull said. “While I have responsibility for the payroll, I have responsibility for the long term also,” Catmull said. “I don’t apologize for this."
This project looks useful, but I don't see any conservative values. What if someone values monoculturalism?
Moving things into Drafts is the single worst thing they've done, topping even the super-terrible rich-text changes.

Copying something into Drafts, sure, I can see that. But moving it? Absolutely broken to the point of unusability.
It's hard to give exact examples now I'm not behind a Windows machine. But I didn't have a great time finding stuff on a non-English machine even when I typed in the name exactly as it appeared in the top bar when I finally found it and opened it.
Unix is a better environment for everything but gaming, and I am not a gamer. Everything is unequivocally better on a Mac, again, with the exception of gaming. Despite what you will hear around the HN echo chamber these days, macOS is a very legitimate Unix and a good one at that. People complain when they run into userland issues, but their blame on Apple is misplaced.

If you are a gamer, use Windows. If you are working in a .net shop, use Windows. If you are using special software that demands Windows, use it. For everyone else, macOS is the right way to go.

I still use Windows frequently as a consultant - either in testing or in onsite infrastructure deployments on Windows Server hosts. It sucks to use. You will rarely run into a smooth scenario, and due to the proprietary nature of everything you are stuck with whatever is available in the docs or whatever the support team says, assuming you purchased the right support license.

Their greatest contribution to the world is RDP, which is the only saving grace on Windows as far as I am concerned.
Really sorry for everyone affected by the current situation.

We have open roles at DuckDuckGo for SREs and director level hands-on engineers (in mobile and frontend). There should be a senior frontend engineer role coming up soon too. Check out all open roles at: https://duckduckgo.com/hiring/#open.

We're a fully distributed team of 85 aiming to raise the standard of trust online and have been profitable for over 5 years now. Here's a chart depicting our growth: https://duckduckgo.com/traffic.

If have questions, feel free to reach out via Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zbyszmo/
IMO this seems like an absolutely insane move. Now is not the time to take on piles of risk. Just stay safe and look around again when the world normalizes.
> pay out our PTO plans

https://www.paycor.com/resource-center/pto-payout-laws-by-st...
typically use a few sheets of tp to dry off afterwards, so you'll know if you're done or not
They absolutely can. The rule of law permits things like martial law in emergencies, as well as a lot of powers in the various steps that lead up to that.
> At some point, governments will likely realize that they need to send younger segments of the population back to work

A problem being that, 60%-100% of your teams end up getting it and being incapable of work for 2 weeks, in staggered cases. So cutting the workforce in age, then in 60% segments of 2 week periods; of which 1-8% might die.

A thought is that a few changes are likely to come from this;

1. We'll be more remote

2. We'll have smaller teams

3. No more all hands meetings or open offices
Totally valid point. I think they were simply surviving by merit of the fact that the market was good, and really any major speedbump would have caused the company to fail. It's an excuse in the sense that they're not addressing that the reason coronavirus has destroyed the business is because it was built on a poor foundation.
minor nit - initrd/initramfs don't really precede linux
It's not awful. It's just that I wish I had actual keys every time I use it.
Should work, I think.
It just seems like there are much more interesting projects available for "tinkering" than building a slow, barely usable Kubernetes cluster.
A couple of things: one is that there is additional legal/compliance stuff to deal with for each additional country (EU might count as one, when it comes to that), but the bigger reason is that we wanted more overlap in working times. It's also less expensive when we do get together in person at headquarters in California (which has typically been 3-4 times a year).
Ok, that’s fine. It’s your life. If you want to go and work in a factory, good for you.

I had a conversation like this with a friend of mine a few years ago. He was complaining about the lack of manufacturing jobs here in the UK and that we needed real jobs for real people. So I pointed at his 5 year old son playing nearby and said ok. What sort of factory would he like his son to work in when he grows up? What sort of education did he plan for him that would best suit him for factory life? Silence.