skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Early 30s and childless. I've never liked working from home

I'll chime in here.. perhaps you don't like working from because you are childless? In my opinion it's the the opposite of what people are thinking... I think you would find that the people who like working from home are ones with kids (let's say >5 where they can at least take care of themselves long enough without worry of instant death.. infants/toddlers are obviously an exception here, unless you have a stay-at-home spouse and a separate part of the home).

The reason is that when you have kids you have a day-to-day schedule with them that is vital for the family's sanity. Your kids also will start to have schedules like school & activities. Also, you simply want to see and spend time with your kids. Being gone/unavailable from the moment you wake up until 6pm might not be an issue for people when they are a little younger without kids, because they still have the whole night to do whatever. I was like that in my 20s. I worked until 6/7pm and I didn't mind at all. I had plenty of energy afterwards to unwind without basically a care in the world.

In my late 30s with young kids, I am supremely lucky to work from home (I have done this full time for like 7 years so this is nothing new to me). I get to spend a LOT more time with my kids, take care of the house (billions of more things to do with kids around), and all that jazz without worrying about being fixed into a schedule where I would never see them.

I guess I could go on and on.. but that's my view on all of this.
Rent?

The government has not declared a rent holiday ..
I remember receiving letters in the mail to remind me it was time to renew my domain name. They were sent around the time my domain was set to expire, except they were sent from a different registrar.

It was written in a way that made it easy to miss the fact that the sender of the letter was not my registrar. IIRC, the letter contained scary language like "you must renew to keep your domain name!".

I only noticed the fine print that said it was a solicitation for business because I was curious why this other registrar was contacting me.
You might want to check out the TV miniseries Chernobyl.
Not sure why GPG got in the picture.
As other connectors have pointed out, changing Git identities is a trivial operation that can be done in so many different ways.
In Norway, the fishmonger was named Hermetix (as in, canned food), and - two of my favourites - the Greek tour operator Setopenextrabus (Schedule an additional bus) and the drunken legionnaire Sophus Antabus.
> In HN, insubstantial comments are downvoted, irrespective of politeness or reasonable disclaimers.

That is undoubtedly true. It may even be consistent with official site guidelines (which I don't think make any claim to be perfect - "perfect is the opposite of good" as they say).

Might this also be true: "In HN, comments are sometimes downvoted, irrespective of whether the comment is insubstantial, off-topic, or incorrect. The reasons behind this are incredibly complex."
Do This at Home During a Pandemic
One of the many things that annoy me about Markdown is the complexity of generating it and the difficulty of converting a Markdown document into a normal form. However recently I stumbled across this project:

https://github.com/bobertlo/vmd

I've not tried it, but it sounds interesting.
Mixed feelings about markdown. I think its great but the number of dialects is likely a possible issue. Perhaps a linter or sanity checker is required? Tables are an example, but no reason to dump markdown.

But I'll still write markdown since its easy to generate and relatively easy to transform into a lot of something else.
yes ... $4000 US Dollars for a one bedroom is literal crazy talk. Obviously, people are willing and able to pay those prices right now because they have to live specifically there to get those specific jobs. But if they could work remote, they could live anywhere their heart desires ... closer to family, closer to friends, closer to nature, closer to a local music scene, closer to the beach ... whatever their heart desires.

Obviously many people have laid down roots in those extremely high cost of living areas at this point so just moving can be tough, but we need to spread out man, cause $4000 a month for a tin can just ain't a good life.
There's a huge difference between mob justice and a policy set by the state directly.
If you start thinking as margin as a relationship between two or more blocks instead of property on a block, some of the issues with it are solved.

Whenever possible, I try to use the sibling selector for this –

.header + .nav {
margin: //
}

This way, both header and nav elements remain re-usable and the margin only comes into play if they're used in a specific layout, and it is defined in its parent.
This article feels like it was written out of panic and anxiety. The analogy feels pretty weak.
It's not communist thinking - it's the future. A small section of society siphoning-off vast wealth while contributing next to nothing is simply unsustainable. Dictatorial politics aside, the reason China is leaving western economies looking like the relics of a bygone age is mainly down to state regulation of property and business ownership.
If you insist on using Pis (IMHO you're quickly at the point where a (potentially used) NUC or small office PC is the better choice), why would you go for extra expense and effort for PoE? Just connect a 5V PSU to the power pins? I guess it gives you individual power switching without any DIY, but other than that?
Being bankrupted by a landlord also comes with other problems.

The biggest expense renters typically have is ..... rent. And for many businesses it’s a major expense too.

Governments are desperately coming up with financial support packages for what? To give to landlords?
Is there any country that has faced and contained covid 19 that has not had to shutdown in some way? I'm not even sure what that would look like.
Yes, you're right. Better let this play out and see what happens, people's lives are less important vs. your ability to stream HD content because you have a great connection.
I just reference other functions by name. That’s usually enough. My coworkers and my future self are adults and can use ‘find’.

edit: I do use more qualified names, though:

className.methodName or filename.extension:function_name
Amazon, eBay, Etsy, Google, Facebook...Even Shopify Blocking Mask Sales
Interestingly the more common view is that Vue feels less vanilla Javascripty than React.

When I am writing React I am writing Javascript (usually a bit obscured with JSX).

With Vue a large part of functionality is in v-directives.

That doesn't change the fact that Vue is easier to learn for those new to webdev than React.

Students who just started learning Javascript can usually pick up Vue but I am yet to see someone with little JS experience pick up React in a hurry.
How are you abused if I give you an option to volunteer?
Youtube and other sites are voluntarily lowering their bandwidth because 4k video is probably less important that somebody's online class. I'm sure they save a pretty penny as well.
yes, that's quite a bit different.
I wish more ASMR content were available on music streaming services instead of with bulky videos on YouTube!
I used to just make text files, now I use markdown. Blame GitHub ;)
I'm guessing bringing a drone to do a survey would ruin the fun of these excursions for you? :)
It didn't just gently mock the grown-up world, some of the characters were straight-up caricatures of political figures and other famous people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Asterix_characters#Car...
Today I set up a "lunch chat" in Jitsi and invited my coworkers during our standup. We ended up having a great discussion, and an unintended benefit is that our user advocate from our parent company that is only in our office once a week was able to join as well.
Even if the absolute numbers are lower, I would still expect to see a premium of closer to 60% for an additional bedroom.
Congrats on reinventing your baby (again) and props for making it free during this pandemic.

Can you shed any light on what WebRTC server you use? ie. Jitsi, Janus, etc.

This is HN after all - be great to get a nutshell description of the tech stack and after all your experience at iTeleport, Screenhero, Slack, etc. the things you've learned from a technology and even bootstrapping/product market fit standpoint?
About reST. It's not just difficult to write, most of the time it's also jarring to read.
Org-mode isn't very rosy to write either but at least I can scan the document and understand how it will render.

For the language that focuses on readability Python has completely missed the boat here.
> I don’t believe anyone here has claimed there is only one variable that explains any countries better or worse ability with regard to this pandemic, or anything for that matter.

I don't believe I said "anyone here has claimed there is only one variable that explains any countries better or worse ability with regard to this pandemic."

I propose that something very interesting is going on here, at the object level. I also propose, more speculatively and provocatively, that something very interesting is also happening at the meta-level: a reluctance to discuss the phenomenon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant
We regularly euthanize diseased pigs and chickens because of viral outbreaks - sometimes millions at a time. We would do well to try not eating so much animal protein.
Most Makefiles Should .DELETE_ON_ERROR
They are, there are dozens of suppliers. I don't know how quickly we will get all the 3.5m tests but in smaller quantities they are available now
so what's happen to these people? it sucks that you can report them hand over fist and nothing happens to them and they continue to operate and scam people.
Hah, good idea but IIRC drones are banned in the park.
This doesn’t contradict anything I said
Invoking the DPA might be a lot like calling in a gaggle of executives to "save" a failing software project by individually directing the hour-by-hour work of each programmer. Would it work? Maybe. But there are an awful lot of ifs, and experience suggests that it's often disastrous.

Sometimes it's better to just make sure that everyone knows that something is really important, and then let them try to get it done for you.
But who should the government punish? Everyone equally? The richest X%? The poorest X%? Particular industr[y,ies]?

If everyone says “not us, somebody else!” there will be no redistribution.
ReST has essentially a 1:1 mapping to DocBook. You can export its internal DOM as an XML file and XSLT it straight into DocBook. I wouldn't exactly call it limited. It is also the only plaintext markup with a standardized extension mechanism when it doesn't do what you need.
I think you mean since Thatcher.
> What will they spend it on?

Essentials, rent, utilities, insurance, vehicle costs, drugs, alcohol, tobacco, entertainment, gambling, software, online gaming, anything that can be picked up or delivered from industries that are still operating. Maybe they'll save some of it and spend it latter, or invest it now or later.
"Remember that whatever works best for you, it’s still better than having to malloc and free by hand. Happy allocating!"

Nice, they are saying exactly the same as those pesky game developers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK50z_gUpZI
Pick the lowest resolution, usually 144. The audio quality seems unchanged and the video network bandwidth greatly reduced.
On Android you have to pay extra to not watch the video.
Videos usually have key frames (full pictures) after ever interval of x seconds/frames. So new data will be sent occasionally even with no changes.
Ask HN: Do plug n' play music viz libs exist?
I would like to contribute to the open media / CC movement, but since my artistic talent is non-exist I'd like to generate visualizations from music on jamendo and share them on peertube.

A trusty server is in my possession, and python as well as javascript are my friends.
Making my own visualizations didn't turn out too well since they all look very nooby. Vertex shading doesn't really interest me either.

So, a lib with a few presets that I could integrate into a script would be amazing. My google-fu is failing me and hopefully someone here can help out.
LLVM 10.0
Waiting for “The Final Plague”
Right, so based on what I know, I can't speak to the state of his mind or all the things he said that indicate it. So if you think some people are wrong and your opinion is right, you might consider explaining why.
It was the <div class="white">White Rabbit</div>

It emerged at the time when HTML was the lingua franca of the Web. Nowadays with so many new ways to create web pages you can't count on it, so contributors who aren't familiar with it will spend unnecessary time on fixing HTML and CSS instead of fixing the docs.
The real 'hack' is to subscribe to Google Play Music All Access. A music streaming service that rivals Spotify, and comes with YouTube Premium (and YT Music) bundled in.
I'm not sure if it would be able to mitigate a cytokine storm, but it could prevent it. When DW was on it for sepsis due to an auto-inflammatory condition, her progression was much slower than what I've read about cytokine storm.
> I think the answer is to give up on wanting things to be presented in a specific way.

I can't see how that's ever going to happen. You're going to tell Apple or a professional graphic designer to not care about small details in the way their pages are presented? Raw data and semantics isn't the single most important thing in all cases.
*Two parties since the advent of Third Way-ism.
So what? Why should society provide security for the gamblers of the property free-for-all? They took the risk. Too bad if it goes bad. Try working for your income instead of trying to get something for nothing.
If you're a fan of markdown, take a look at reStructuredText (RST). The syntax is very similar to markdown, e.g. italics, bold, and ``code``, but includes things that are inextricably missing from markdown, like definition lists, tables, footnotes, citations, comments, etc.

I think the best counter argument to your comment is that RST has all of the benefits you've listed (easy to write, readable by technical and non-technical users, and translatable into HTML and other formats) plus more. The syntax of RST is just as lightweight as markdown, making RST appropriate in all of the same places.

In use cases where markdown is under-defined, e.g. technical documentation, there are a variety of competing syntaxes, e.g. the non-standard ``{.foo}`` syntax or the competing flavors of tables. On the other hand, RST has a pair of extensible constructs, called roles and directives, that allows various systems to add features in a portable way. If a particular system doesn't support a particular role/directive, there is a graceful fallback. This is in contrast with markdown where the fallback is to dump your custom syntax into the document as plain text.

FWIW, this comment is valid RST.

https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtex...

P.S. The HN web UI swallows my examples of bold and italics in the first paragraph.
>It's adding a degree of separation in the same way that saying water instead of dihydrogen monoxide adds a degree of separation between the name and knowledge of chemistry.

The degree of separation in our discussion has to do with adding an additional step to knowing the origin of a virus. What would the intent behind your example be?

You're the only one saying "removed" here. Removal and abstraction/adding an extra degree of separation are not the same thing. Removal means you can't access the information at all, no matter how many additional steps you take. If removal is what you have had in mind all along, that goes back to where I was going with my original question, and your response here provides me with a definite answer. Thank you :)
Bias warning: I am a public school teacher myself.

And this is also exactly what I feel the people who are now pushing for online schooling in general don't get (apart from the fact there's a non-negligible part of the population that doesn't have consistent/good internet access). There's a lot more to school than just going and learning 'stuff that doesn't affect real life', as some seem to believe. It's about social learning as well, and they're completely underestimating how much this happens in schools.
Youtube doesn't offer a "no video" option for free because the ToS for the free service says you are not allowed to separate the video and audio streams. This is to prevent free streaming on devices like Sonos since it's harder (if possible at all) to monetize those videos. It's also why when using the free service the app doesn't allow streaming with the screen off.

A 0 pixel video would defeat this by being in effect an audio stream separated from the video. I always wondered why manufacturers don't just resize the video stream to 1 pixel and use any of the device LEDs to "display" the video thus bypassing this part of the ToS.
US man dies after taking drug he thought stopped virus
Large businesses which rely on direct sales to consumers frequently set sales quotas so high that salespeople are effectively forced to cheat or even break the law. When caught, the executives have plausible deniability because they never explicitly ordered anyone to act unethically. It was all just implied.
Archive before it gets hugged to death... https://archive.is/7HxHk
Children/teenagers are also losing a time of their life they will never get back. For example, if you're a junior in high school looking to get recruited to college for a spring sport, you're basically out of luck. This kind of extended hiatus from everyday life can alter entire life trajectories.
I have a MacBook Pro 15", which is too big and actually pretty much resent and hate.

an iPad Pro 11" which I absolutely love, but is abysmal and no where near any good for coding on.

And currently eyeing that MacBook Air with a massive 2TB, 16GB, and i7 option for still less than the lowest end 16" MacBook Pro and just barely more than the stock 13" high end MacBook Pro.
You are double the price of knowbe4. How do you expect to possibly compete?
Coronavirus Stimulus Offered via New Digital Dollar
I think Trump is in a damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don't predicament.

He _could_ enforce a federal 18-month lockdown and wait for a vaccine to become available (assuming that we _can_ make a vaccine for this within the timelines proposed). As software engineers, we know that we almost always optimize for Big-O, so assuming that the US will be effectively shut down for 18 months is probably the best way to model this, especially since waves of people seem to become symptomatic at different times. I don't have hard data to back this, but I don't think the US could afford to keep millions of people fed and housed for that long, and recovering from that is likely to take WAY longer than us finding a way to control this virus. This could cause us to lose our global hegemony and have dire long-term effects.

He _could_ also basically say "yolo" and keep the US running at full force. People's jobs will be protected and society will continue to function...until people start dying en masse because herd infection happens before herd immunity. The stats tell us that people are _more than likely not_ going to die from this, but more people could die if hospitals run out of capacity and protective gear.

In either case, we don't know when hospitals will run out of capacity, though we _think_ that this will happen sooner to much sooner if we cover our ears and pretend that things are fine.

Also, this is a completely unique situation since we haven't had a large scale pandemic like this before aside from smaller-scale ones like SARS or MERS and the last big one happened in a completely different generation.

I have my opinions about our current administration, but I would not want to be Trump right now because this sounds like a vortex of suck.
> false sense of security - gives the person the impression they are protected and allows them to lower their guard in other area's that they might now if they weren't wearing it.

Using this argument bullet poof vests and helmets "make things worse".

In my experience a mask is a conspicuous reminder of an unusual/dangerous situation - that I would definitely forget about at certain times if I was not wearing a mask - and to be constantly on my guard.
I’d say my website, which is a growing knowledge base for CloudOps related matters, works really rather quite nicely: https://thecloud.coach/

Thanks to MkDocs and the Material theme, as well as plugins and extension, this whole setup looks great and scales really well to any device.

I think the author’s article speaks purely to documenting code. I’d say code is much harder to document and I think I’d agree even MkDocs (and the setup I’m using) wouldn’t be good for pure code documentation. But documentation for a project?

Nah. You’re completely wrong on this one.

Edit: down voting without providing as rebuttal is childish, at best.
Nono, volunteers have better health than non-volunteers.

Volunteers have enough wealth to volunteer (or, as stated, can get hooked up with better opportunities, but gotta jump over that first barrier).

Lots of things you would need to (obviously) control for.

Dunno if I’ll ever see a double-blinded randomized trial on volunteering though.
Taiwan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_T...
I didn't say the market is correctly pricing anything. I'm saying if it is correctly pricing securities, then it can't be used as evidence they are nonviable.

I mean, circular reasoning is one level of stupidity, but getting it going with a counterfactual is just enraging to me.
NewPipe free on f-droid and it allows "download audio" in whatever format is available, it's great on phone for music from non-traditional studio sources (NewWaveRetro) etc.
Plenty of states in America give tenants nearly zero protections
The guy is a zillionaire. The idea that he's primarily motivated by the desire to be a double-zillionaire seems like a bit of a stretch. Personally, I think he'd rather continue to be adored by the masses.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22669467
As a counterpoint, I had an MP3 discman from Rio [0], and the thing was magic. Each disc could hold 10-15 full albums, and I also made shuffle playlist CDs of 180ish tracks each. While it's obviously not pocketable, it was great for car audio, I stuck with it for a long while into the iPod era, since it had functionally infinite storage.

[0] https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/D1afoHzHkMS...
The point is that layout should be handled at the highest level possible. Have a CSS file at the application shell component level which defines a baseline margin and grid for components, then have individual page component level CSS that can tweak those layouts where needed. Actual UI components should then only ever need to use padding.
You gotta crack some eggs to cook a global geographic Internet mystery potential hoax.
Potentially, though there are other solutions that could be used. There was a product they used a while back during the transition to x86 architecture that did code translation, for example.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickTransit
It's a textbook wicked problem[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem
Kind of BS when your travel destination has been closed on you. Other airlines are refunding in full for cancelled flights. SWA decided to not cancel any flights, and therefore refund zero to everyone. Kind of crappy.

Under normal circumstances, with passengers simply changing their minds - ya, I'd expect SWA to hold for to their policy. But in the current climate, with everything on lockdown, I'd expect a little flexibility. People are losing their income, and SWA just pockets your money for doing literally nothing.
You do understand why they are doing this right?