skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's effectively the complete opposite of how to actually eliminate errors. The way engineers do it involves depersonalizing it to get away from blame games, assessing all contributing causes, doing proper risk modeling and working to improve the systems so that they rely on human frailty as little as possible.

Skin in the game is an easy concept we're all familiar with, but it generally leads to adverse behavior like gaming the numbers instead of fixing the problems.

See, e.g. http://www.hazardcontrol.com/factsheets/principles/core-prin...

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"Herein, the term “unsafe condition” is retained, but the term “unsafe act” is rejected as historically leading to error or incomplete cause analysis.

Rather, inappropriate human actions or inactions of persons that contribute to accidents (resulting from error or human nature associated with the common relevant human factor capabilities and limitations of men and women) are called “unsafe actions,” defined as unsafe system use methods and procedures, without any initial implication of fault or blame."
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/the-bacterial-horror-of-...

Although, I imagine the liberal application of far-UVC lighting for free air antiseptic purposes in the loo might mitigate the issue to an extent.
Confluence is what I was thinking of when he was talking about cross-reference! Paste a page link in and it continues to work even when the page moves or is retitled. Embed a section of one page in another page. Macros that collect all pages with certain parents or properties. I adore Confluence and it is semantic -- header levels, "tips" vs "warnings", and expandos to signify "stuff you don't need to read right now".
Many of these retailers were barely holding on as it was. Any "wealth" that they have is heavily encumbered by debt. They have bills to pay and severely reduced income. Someone's not getting paid.
This is awesome. MDs in American and Europe should turn their social media attention to MDs in S. Korea and China... get frontline tips from them. As for PMG, I love it. My wife is an MD and she is on it all the time. Real valuable information there.
I don't actually mind platforms personalising ads & content based on information I explicitly provide. I just don't want them stalking me around the web and trying to collect information behind my back.
Windows 10 Outperforming Linux on A –$5000 Laptop, Ubuntu Beating Clear Linux
You realize that the retail business can be quite difficult and that a monthlong shuttering can and will drive many into bankruptcy. Rent payments without income will put the nail in the coffin for many businesses.

I do agree with your sentiment. Paying their workers who are probably struggling significantly at the moment would be ideal. I don't feel that landlords need the $'s as much as those workers.
Looks like anywhere between 3 times per day and 3 times per week is considered normal (https://muschealth.org/medical-services/geriatrics-and-aging...)
Bufferbloat.net
I've been working from home (80+%)for the last 5 years and it's the best thing that ever happened to me. At the same time I have been taking classes from Coursera, Udemy, YouTube, Vimeo, BrightTalk, and more. I also have a Netflix subscription.

Losing some quality on Netflix didn't hurt me. Wathing trainings on 720 instead of 1080 was also just fine (and I do need to save locally, watch again, take screenshots, write on them, meaning I need good quality).

Most video conferences are not audio-only with perhaps a low-quality/bitrate screenshare. We are moving to the direction of "all of us" using it, and cutting corners in quality while companies gear up to increase capacity/bandwidth/throughput. It won't take a week, but once we get to the next level, and I hope we stay there (WFH, commute/polue less) we'll all be in a better place!
Their products are also built like a tank.

I've gotten 20 years of use out of their original upright vacuum model so far.
Is it the government's job to hold the proverbial hot potato in events like this?
My comment is a little tongue in cheek but Here is "How I became a more productive by becoming a worse programmer"

- I stopped worrying about best practices and just do it.

- I hardly refactor my code unless I'm using the same thing for the fifth time. I just copy-paste it instead.

- I never think about optimizing code until I really really need to.

- I write what gets the shit done quickly. I don't care if writing a Class would have been better than a function.

- I love old boring technologies and believe you can still make amazing websites with just PHP and jQuery.

- I don't come up with clever one-liners anymore. I write a 10 line for loop which I could easily replace with a clever one-line code golf.

- Instead of writing my own code, I usually search Stackoverflow first to see if I can do some copy-paste it instead.
The authors are mocking of caribbean pirates, not of black people. The character speaks with a thick caribbean accent and is a stereotype of a strong and dumb man in a multiracial team that acts by greed (and are punished again and again for that). Is not problematic at all. I've always seen him as a Latino character in fact.

There are thousands of other strong, brutish, malevolent, greedy or dumb-as-bricks white characters in Asterix also. The main antagonists are almost invariably white. They mock of almost any white stereotype and made fun of almost each european country and culture.

...But they don't trash it or are disrespectful. The histories always include positive characters ambassadors of those cultures, friends or relatives, that get in trouble and ally with the main characters to solve the problem together. They are treated always by Asterix as equals without hesitation, with one bold exception: A black woman.

In Asterix and Cleopatra the main characters are sent in a mission to help an african old friend in trouble and the druid goes also (to learn about some discoveries of african people). The friend is depicted as smart, hard worker and educated (architect chief). Another main character in the comic is Cleopatra, depicted as a beauty, very sophisticated and well bred government in charge, their main flaw is being whimsical. This is one of the few characters that is depicted not as equal, but over the main male characters, in an upper class.

And this comic was released in 1963. If there is something that Asterix isn't, is racist.
A machine which is turned off is much slower and more secure than a machine which is turned on, but for some reason people insist on turning their computers on.

Security mechanisms which prevent you from doing the thing you're setting out to do are worthless. Making a computer too slow to be useful is one of the ways to do that. In this specific case, if moving Little Snitch's functionality to userland means that the performance hit of running it was large enough that I have to turn it off when doing network performance sensitive things (say, video conferences) then it'd be a net loss in security compared to the status quo of it running in kernel mode.
Let's print many trillions to save Trump resorts in the middle of a pandemic. Hollywood usually is too conservative in imagination.
The goal is to get organized. Whatever the solution might be I'm sure people will call it communism and they might not be to far off either.

Wait! You just gave me a hilarious idea! If people have to stay home for months we might as well pay them to enroll in some kind of online course. You know, re-education, only without the camp.
That’s really important to remember, but I don’t see why it should affect discussion here.

Presumably we aren’t talking about volunteering the time of other people, but ourselves. If we can all afford to do it, isn’t it something to be encouraged, especially since it will charitably benefit those who cannot afford to do it?
I am not really a libertarian. I do not support race-based reparations (which is the most common form proposed), because the Americans that owe the families of today (the slaveowners) are dead. However, insofar as any personal wealth could be traced to their estates, yes they ought to be paid out to the families of any slave on those estates. This is also true of former free blacks that owned black slaves.

That is to say, I am against reparations because I am against collective guilt for something that only some individuals in that collective are responsible for. I am certainly not opposed to collective restitution though, and do think that the descendants of former slaves ought to be compensated.

So, if the government wanted to open up civil lawsuits so that African American descendants of slaves (and slaves from other ethnic groups) could sue their former 'master's' or their former 'master's' children or descendants for wealth inherited, and made a process by which such investigations could be carried out in a reasonable and fair manner, then yes, that would be great.

That being said, libertarianism does quite often support reparations. Not all libertarians of course, but there are lots of libertarians that do, and justify it based on the fact that a person denied liberty deserves restitution, including their descendants.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/return-of-stolen-property-a-li...

Walter Block, a prominent Austrian economics libertarian also makes the case for some kind of reparations:

https://mises.org/wire/reparations-vs-property-rights
Pretty much all hand dryers spread microbes like you wouldn't believe. I've taken to just letting my hands air dry, but I'm in a very dry climate where that happens very quickly.
Why buy VOO if SPY has very liquid options available? Gives you much more flexibility.
I do think it was influenced by troff, since they do bear some visual similarities. A little googling didn't find what it was, but I do believe it was directly related to this: http://www.sngx2.com.br/Help/Epson%20ESC-P2%20Printer%20Comm...

Except that the escape was replaced by a dot for the driver that converted it, and more "user friendly" formats like title (which was centered, bold and underlined). But I'm literally guessing since it was so long ago.
Facebook Reality Labs is working on something called Codec Avatars. The goal of this is exactly what you describe. Check it out!
Agile Manifesto Needs Overhaul
Now with Covid-19 causing widespread teleworking, control freak type companies are grappling with trusting their employees. The Agile Manifesto is almost 20 years old and with its principle of face/face communication, collocation has become a euphemism for command and control which is not agile. These huge impressive campus facilities that cause horrendous commutes except for the executives who live nearby are not agile. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Tj_YWykvs9TImjPkM1tJxZDuCkruhsdGgSSoTCg7q2A/edit
I don't think the wallpaper by itself is anything special, but I absolutely love how it makes the window control traffic lights pop.

Here's a Finder window on my computer. I'm running Mavericks, but with some UI hacks to bring it closer to Snow Leopard. And of course, the Snow Leopard desktop picture in the background.
https://i.ibb.co/S6hCkhQ/Screen-Shot-2020-03-24-at-8-07-28-P...
Depends on many variables, but salaries might be able to lower as people take advantage of moving to places with lower cost of living.
I think you can call libc by importing the C headers "automagically" but zig does also give you some of these things in its (admittedly still poorly documented) std lib:

std.os.fork: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/lib/std/os.zig#L2...
std.os.fcntl: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/lib/std/os.zig#L3...
The UK has this situation where Tories insisted on privatising the utilities even though they are a natural monopoly. So the actual delivery (of gas or electricity) was given to a company to do but then "supply" to customers is on paper something customers can switch, even though obviously the actual gas or electricity delivered to your home can't be switched because that would be horribly impractical.

The idea was people can choose a better "supplier" - maybe it's a famous brand or they liked the TV advert or it just offers better prices. These days a lot of them offer "100% Green electricity". You're getting the same electricity as ever, but they've got a spreadsheet which shows they bought the requisite amount of "credits" for solar or wind or whatever not coal. Not quite pointless, but maybe about the same practical impact as signing a petition. Anyway of course it turns out consumers don't like change (this is the Conservative party, you'd think they might know a thing or two about that) and so most people stuck with the "incumbent" they were assigned based on where they lived even if it had worse customer service and higher prices.

But just keeping 80+% of the market wasn't enough. Incumbent suppliers wanted 100% of "their" market, so for way too long (until businesses actually got fined real money for this after being caught on camera too often) they'd do stuff like a sales guy is given a badge which says "District manager" or something, not "Sales" - and dressed up like an actual maintenance guy and he shows up at homes that have switched to a different supplier. He's all apologetic, "Sorry to bother you," but he just needs you to sign some paperwork because of a "problem". Maybe he looks at a meter, pretends to examine the cables or pipework... He doesn't mention that he's a sales person and the "problem" is that you're paying less money to somebody else for the same product. You sign, "All done, you won't have any more problems" and you only find out when the bill arrives from an unfamiliar supplier what sort of "problem" it was you were having.

Of course if you spent a few minutes reading the paperwork it says what you're signing, so it won't fool the average HN reader, but "Technically not scamming most smart people" isn't the standard we ought to be setting for anybody, much less essential utilities.
World War 3 supposedly started in January by some accounts, but is nearly forgotten now. What's some mystery flu in China got on that as far as headlines go?

Sure, we can answer this with a bit of hindsight, but it's amazing how quickly we forget even wildly incorrect predictions.
Lets make everyone the owner of the place they live in right now. It is our country and we can do what we like? no?
Only $600 per mask!
where to invest when the central banks have massive qe?
And Why ?
Most people would be shocked at the nonsensical premise.

There's an existential threat to the nation (and globe), which has the potential to wipe out 5% of the population within weeks. (Assuming overwhelmed medical facilities, which will 100% happen without intervention, the death rate climbs to about 4-5% as we see in Italy). Literally millions of Americans dying in their homes, in the streets - all avoidable. 15% of Americans suffering ongoing health issues.

This 'liberty ideology' is not only irrational because said 'economic property' will be destroyed anyhow unless the government does act assertively, but it's also completely missing the point, but we're also talking about human lives and existential calamity.

Of course 'the goddam gubermint' is not some externalized entity - it's you. So if 'gubermint' needs to pay you for your material grievances, guess where they'll get the money?

From you.

So how about the government follow your advice: they pay us each $10 000 for our material property damage, but first, they tax us each $10 000 in order to be able to pay for said damages. See how that works?
Requires Congress to act, as they have fiscal policy authority (versus the monetary policy authority granted to the Federal Reserve).

If neither are assisting, you have to play hardball yourself. Banks and commercial REITs have more to lose right now than retail tenants, hence why those businesses are firing the first shot and putting their offer to landlords on the table. “Pray I don’t alter the deal further”

This does not work for residential leases.
I'm not sure what qualifies as an "adventure game", but the Half Life games are more accurately described as a first person shooter with mild platforming and puzzles to solve.

This one isn't any different aside from the lack of platforming due to the VR constraint.

What exactly were you expecting?
No kidding. I really like swiftui, the declarative model is great and it’s so much less of a pain than React-native, but trying to decipher the error messages for it while I was learning swift was comically bad at times.
> It doesn't appear to me that the article linked in the rebuttal thread appears to address any of the points made in this article.

The arguments are weak to mind boggling, and the technical nit-picking would better addressed by suggestions on how to support those minor features in markdown.

It makes absolutely no sense to complain about the document format when commenting on documentation.
Most of these people are passersby on the street who would have no opportunity to touch something I've touched.

I heard from someone who wore a mask recently who was flat-out told, "You're overreacting." It's not just caution, there is some kind of social insistence that the masks are not necessary and even to be discouraged, which I even sense in myself when I'm out and about without a mask and see others wearing them. It's natural for whatever reason, but we should be cognizant that it's just better than if people don't have protection enough to fight that tendency.
bacteria only, thankfully.
“The court system is just going to get flooded with a million of these disputes between tenants and landlords,”

I'm absolutely not a big fan of collectivism, but sometimes, individualism just doesn't work. Sometimes, you have to step in and solve problems collectively. No, it won't be fair, yes it will be one-size-fits-all, no you can't please everyone. Suck it up, buttercup.

Whether you like it or not, we're in this current shit together, all of us.
Thanks. Well so far. Same to you
Nice! I think it is not chance that XML and Lisp pair so well. After all, XSLT evolved from DSSSL that was based on a subset of scheme! [1]

I've been using XSLT3 with Saxon-HE [2] + Clojure these days and I'm quite enjoying it. I use RelaxNG for validation (may sprinkle a bit of Schematron in the future).

Another pairing of XML and Lisp that I remember is Qexo [3].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_Style_Semantics_and_S...

2: http://saxonica.com/products/products.xml

3: https://www.gnu.org/software/qexo/
You never know. I know some landlords for whom the rent is their primary retirement income.
No, they're ripping of Mom and Pop's pensions.
Hopefully the landlords realize there is not going to be anybody lining up to take over these leases if they evict. Forgiving a couple months so a business doesn't have to close is almost certainly the shrewd business choice as well as the moral one.
Keep in mind this number is just as certain as saying 5% at this time.
All rent should be suspended, across the board, for everyone. Rent is a passive expense that businesses and individuals alike who are not getting any income right now will have no hope of paying.
I was a military wife. I raised and homeschooled two special-needs kids so they would have some hope of being functional. They are in their thirties and still live with me. I have an incurable medical condition that is, itself, an extremely huge burden to live with.

My plate is quite full, thank you. I wish my problems were as relatively minor as "I work two jobs." That requires a level of good health and energy I have never had and would have killed me had I ever tried it.

I stand by my opinion that it's amazingly stupid for the world to insist that everyone must give their opinion, even those who have extremely uninformed opinions for reasons largely beyond their control.

If people want to vote in spite of not doing a lot of research, I think that's fine. But please don't make me vote against my will.
For commercial landlords, we should probably let them stop paying their mortgages, etc., and then the Fed can give 0% loans to the banks who hold the other side of those loans.

It's the ciiircle of cash!
Only when it is unoccupied I hope!

https://www.self.com/story/people-who-attended-this-sexy-neo...
Global Catastrophic Risk
Admittedly it's been decades since I've done any C (literally since 1999, except for an LD_PRELOAD shim I wrote about 5 years ago) but being someone who prefers C and other ALGOL-syntax derivates I find the syntax to be relatively easy to grok. One advantage over C is that the confusing pointer/array/function pointer thing has a well-defined order in Zig, there's no "spiral order" nonsense going on.
I used to criticize the big tech companies for stockpiling dozens of billions of dollars instead of investing them into their businesses, but it's only now I can see why a move like that was wise.

If at all possible, businesses, like people, should keep a rainy day fund. I wonder if all the companies that used their money for stock buybacks are kicking themselves in the foot right now.
I was under the impression that the NHS had been sourcing ventilators from a French manufacturer, but France decided to nationalize that manufacturer and stop exports.

Although I do wonder how much of a home-built solution will be "designed" versus, say "jury-rigged".
There may be structural problems, but the current administration contributed significantly the poor response to this epidemic. Had they kept existing infrastructure and people in place, things could have gone significantly better.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-...

https://blog.ucsusa.org/anita-desikan/trump-administration-h...
Project ARTICHOKE
Hey président says beautiful virus will leave by Easter and all beautiful creatures will be fine and prosperous. 60% of Americans agree too.
Some of it this was spot on, especially doing research. Very rarely you will be doing something completely novel and it always good to look at how other people have solved a problem.

However the old "Learn C" and "Write a compiler" which are within meme territory tbh. It is more important generally to understand what a particular in whatever language you are using to know what the compiler / interpreter / run-time is doing under the hood as most developers will be working with a high level language.

I've seen a lot of "how to improve as a programmer" articles and IMO what seems to be left out is learning how to do things as simply as possible. Many of the software systems I've worked on is so over-engineered, many simple websites are huge both client and server side and they usually don't warrant it.
Realistically, who else is the landlord going to rent the space to right now? Seems to me it's in the landlord's interest to corporate. All lessees are going to be in more-or-less the same boat.

What surprises me is that they didn't just work this out quietly...
I've seen multiple production systems rewritten in Rust and the consensus of the developers working on it is that, while the Rust version was more performant, the majority of that performance is attributable to the rewrite itself and not the language. And that a performance-focused rewrite in the original language would have also seen huge performance gains.

As the truism goes, if you require your software to be performant, you must first make Performance a Requirement.