skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They do, at least if done properly.

I once when I lived in a rural area, with a small PO received a despicable scam focusing on elders, containing a return-postage-guaranteed envelope. The postmistress couldn't provide direct instructions, but enough for me to surmise that anything I could actually fit in the envelope would work.

I filled it as full as possible with thin lead sheet (often used for flashing around chimney-roof intersections), a bit of reinforcing clear packing tape around the edges, and a nasty note. When I brought it back for mailing, I got a bit of a smile and assurance that it would go properly.

Satisfying, and if everyone did it...
Ok, I will bet this is true! Sorry you weren't given more latitude in Slack. Anyway you have my support. Starting tomorrow we will be giving a full try to screen.so.

Why not making a Slack-like chat system as well? It seems a natural expansion. (I am the CEO of SerpApi. Feel free to email me at julien at serpapi.com)
Can UK's NHS protect 250K volunteers? Or even get them gloves and masks?
It's kind of a shame that the thumbnails are 1400x1050. I mean, it's a thumbnail, ~500p would be absolutely fine (probably even less), and the load times would have been much better.
I've always thought that the equivalent of Albert Uderzo in the USA was Carl Barks. I'm not sure why, but the adventures Uncle Scrooge got up to remind me of the adventures Asterix got up to.
My company uses Knowbe4, and I'm constantly frustrated how it considers it a fail if I only click a link vs entering in credentials. Sometimes it's tough to tell if something is phishing when your checking email on your phone. Does Riot work the same way? Or do you test to see if users notice issues once they've actually opened something in the browser?
This only shows that time evolution on the observer‘s branch of the wave function is not reversible. Considering the whole wave function, the time evolution is still unitary.
Its it?

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=AdamWulk...
Creal bring real-life detail and depth to the virtual world
I've had third party cookies blocked for years in Firefox. It doesn't break much.
The OP gives a good example: https://seek-oss.github.io/braid-design-system/components/St...

This is overengineering, something that should be handled in a view with a CSS class, instead of an abstraction that ends up translating back into a CSS class after the overhead of parsing the abstraction.

I think in the case of your original comment to me, you're arguing something different. You want to bold the first word of an article or apply a line break after the first two words. For a use like that, there's nothing you can do other than to put some kind of view-related functionality in your code, and I agree. But handling that in code isn't fixing something for the sake of fixing it, because there's no way that it could be handled natively by the view in the context of whatever data you pipe into it dynamically.

A CSS class that provides margins to items in a div can be handled natively by the view and should.
> the NHS is already struggling with waiting time up to 4 hours in hospitals

Interestingly, my local hospital emailed today and said that "Emergency Department attendance figures have fallen by 130 cases per day, or around 40% as a result of this crisis"
How I became a better programmer (2017)
Whatever happen to copyright … .
Pandoc does the job for me: https://pandoc.org/
> after seven days of Safari use without user interaction on the site

If it's a PWA that's regularly used you should be fine. But if not, yeah, that's going to be very annoying.
Your response assumes that suffering from an ~untreated hospital-worthy primary disease is better than a treated primary disease plus a difficult secondary infection.
Norway's unemployment rate soars to above 10%
>Is it because it has the largest surface area of freshwater lakes?

Yes. Per Wikipedia "The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water, variously classed as the world's largest lake or a full-fledged sea."
The criterion we use is: did the previous post get significant attention? 87 points and 36 comments is way over that threshold.

When a discussion is particularly good, we sometimes override that. This one seems pretty generic to me, though, especially in light of how many coronavirus threads HN has been seeing. I'm not sure there's even a single comment below that is reacting to more than what's in the title: "outbreak", "not ready", and "Bill Gates".
So much for the advertisement-powered web. Congratulations, privacy people: you win. I hope the new web is everything you hoped. If it isn't, you have only yourselves to blame. Enjoy the paywalls.
That it is this seems obvious to me, and I'm a Trump supporter. An extremely disappointed one, but nonetheless.
Not if they need money; then they have a way of disappearing when a paying gig shows up.
Yes you are right, I have edited my post. It is pretty late.
For one, the governor can't do much about dying industries. Cuomo has, in fact, invested billions in trying to spur investment in upstate and western New York and failed because businesses just aren't interested in being there. It's been decades of decline.

Secondly, if you watch his briefing, he's not calling for longer shutdowns or anything like that. He is calling for ventilators. He needs 30,000 ventilators or people are going to die. The crisis in New York is urgent and acute. Infection rate is higher than anywhere in the country and growing quickly. They expect it to hit a peak in 14-21 days and they don't have enough resources and the federal government can do something to help and they aren't. NY State is already on full lockdown and has already pulled every lever it has to ramp up their response and it's not enough. Federal action is desperately needed and it's not forthcoming.
This was not a quantum mechanical simulation, the wave function is not relevant for this.
Use Markdown until it no longer meets your needs, then switch to something more complex. Markdown will likely handle 90% of most people’s needs.

Any system that asks you to edit tables in a text editor is asking for trouble. That is a good time to look at a structured editor.
> It's ingrained in Japanese culture that they often put too much pressure on themselves.

This just sounds like reverse Orientalism. Japanese culture might have a bigger emphasis on civic duties, but on a national level it's clearly a hit and miss: consider that WW2 apologists are still popular in some sector of Japan. (And I'm not trying to blame Japan here, I mean, most countries aren't much better.)
Censor and censorship bring with them different connotations, connotations that you purposely want to include; do you agree on that?

It's not adding a degree of separation between name and knowledge, no. It's removing unnecessary and also potentially-damaging information from the name of a pathogen. Why are you not advocating for a name like SARS-CoV-2, which contains more information and is more accurate?
Yes, database transactions should be heavily leveraged wherever possible. We've often had to write services which create multiple resources in response to user requests. As an example, create an entry in the database and trigger the creation of, say, an Azure storage account. Transactions across independent services and resources don't work and correctness requires thoughtful design. In the more general case, whenever your service talks to more than micro-service to complete an operation, you will probably have to think through issues of consistency and transactionality.
I built a natural language health and nutrition journal for Telegram and SMS, but once it was working I didn't want to use it. I'm not convinced that keeping a meticulous log solves a real problem. Loosely structured journaling is definitely good, but not because of the data it encodes; it's benefit is the self-awareness that arises from putting thoughts and observations down in writing.

I think software people over-estimate the usefulness of software for guiding personal decisions and behaviors. There are far better ways to gain insight and control over your impulses and habits, ex. meditation, conversations with a friend, a skilled coach, community involvement, reading books... The one exception might be medical. Biometric logging could improve medical insights, but that carries a big vulnerability to exploits on that data.
Sivaji's raiding attacks are also a good example. His army was a very small group of horsemen (at least in the beginning), but was very, very effective in being a major headache to Mughals and others
Your "headline" is just too general..especially for advertising asciidoc ... for sure there are use cases for both

If you do that kind of stuff with people, it would be called "racism" or "discrimination" ...not a good start ;-)

Why should anybody use asciidoc (over md) for a simple doc or user guide ... ? My customers wouldn't pay the premium, because there is no added value for them if I would "learn" asciidoc for these tasks.

And maybe next time better use a term like "I don't use..." people don't like to get told what they have to do. ;-))
Most people don't understand collapsing margins. I know I don't. I always have to read up when I deal with margins.

And protip: Whenever you have a CSS problem, think: "Oh, I'll just use negative margins!"
What? All the parsers going away? Of course not. But it means that I never have to worry about installing an application to read my documentation/notes. As long as I have something that can display plain text, I can read my documents on any device, on any OS, on any terminal, printed out, etc. and they will just work.
It's somewhat ironic that the author's "I wrote two books in it" LeanPub flavored Markdown format is now deprecated, in favor of Markua, a "newer, better, not-finished-yet" flavor. From the author's link https://leanpub.com/lfm/read:

"Both LFM and Markua are dialects of Markdown. Markua is newer and better than LFM, but there are still some advanced features in Markua that aren’t finished yet."

That's probably the largest criticism of Markdown - it was too incomplete, resulting in many different flavors, each of which may be incompatible with others.

That said - documentation in some consistent format is infinitely better than no documentation. Can always Pandoc https://pandoc.org/
Yeah, I think Steve was a little bit too enthusiastic about U2. He liked it, he figured everyone else would like it too.
I would be interesting in this answer as well. There is actually quite heave competition in this space: PhishMe, PhishLabs, IronScales, MediaPro, KnowBe4, Wombat (acquired by ProofPoint).

What convinced YC to invest in your company?
The QE money never has been mopped up, nor can it be mopped up quickly. QE has caused asset price inflation. Also, QE is already back in effect, they're just not calling it QE.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren...

By contrast, paying wages to otherwise idle workers isn't going to make much of a dent in the CPI. If it did, there would be a clear correlation between unemployment rate and consumer prices.
Their very cheapest fare category does have some clearly stated limitations:

"Wanna Get Away fares

Fares are reusable, but not fully refundable. If you cancel your flight, the value of your ticket can be applied to future travel for up to 12 months. Fares may carry some usage, advance purchase, or other conditions."
Chinese Land Reform
> Has Markdown ever been the reason why things were poorly documented?

Yes. Anytime you see technical docs without structure or links to the functions and classes being discussed, it's because of Markdown.
Viruses can mutate, changing their protein coating so as not to be recognized by your immune system. Why do you think the common cold has not gone away, or why new flu shots are needed every season?

We simply do not know what this virus will do.

The Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 came in waves, and they were different.
Well, you have to kill me to notice my liver, and still it's not a parasite.
Every time I hear "X provides more functionality than Markdown", consider it a strong reason to choose MD.
I think that The Rule of Least Power (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_least_power)

> suggests choosing the least powerful [computer] language suitable for a given purpose

is a good guideline. For every "I need feature X" there should be a question if using this feature is actually beneficial.
For general typesetting, we can use general XML, with custom tags. Or anything.

To be clear - I don't mean that MD is the solution for documentation. For many things, we clearly need a different tool. For example, for mathematical papers (with many formulae and cross-references) while we can hack MD to do the job, most likely it won't be the right tool.

> Basic functionality often needed when writing documentation aren't part of the original markdown spec and require non-standard extensions: tables, footnote, table-of-content, cross references are good examples of this.

Most of these things, IMHO, are standard solutions, but not as good when you ask why? E.g. instead of footnotes, inline links (it is not printed on paper, is it?), hand-written table are rarely readable as usually other formats are better, you can easily generate TOC from MD headers structure, etc.
You do know that you can select the resolution you want, right?
I've given up trying to use Confluence. Our internal instance is a wasteland of smoldering ruins. It is such a hideously bad tool on so many levels, including a "search" feature that will fail you even if you search by exact title.
If this is really about protecting users and not about kneecapping web apps shouldn't Apple also wipe user data in native apps that haven't been used in a week?
Firefox for a Better Web offering privacy and faster access to great content
same with Alexa devices. There is a separate hardware chip that activates the rest of the stuff only after you say the trigger word. Which is also the reason for why you cannot choose an arbitrary word to activate the device with, you can only choose between about 4 different preset activation words in the settings.
Show HN: Coronavirus map tool: tl;dr measures and testing information worldwide
It's the same with iOS too - I've kept the milky way over a snowy mountain top since whatever version it was released because if you change it you lose it (well you have to search around and get it back from the internet).
I thought ping was measured round trip to the central server, and not to the other user?

If you're able to go p2p though then it doesn't matter.
Yeah, that seems potentially destructive for apps that want users to have a local only copy. You would need to provide a full import / export option in case someone goes on vacation.
I and my team use two tools for documentation:
- markdown (+ plantuml), because that’s plainext with not enough rules to bother them and keep them away from what they actually want to do. And it can do tables.
- LaTeX, because if you already decided to do it properly and put away the IDE you can use the big tools and not something in between
I have the ASUS version of that monitor -- still works well, and a 24" horizontal-oriented next to it for inbox & document reading. If I upgraded I'd go for 34" curved.
No it's not.. I am a developer but my god it seems that 90% of the people here are of the extreme privacy + low level programmers who think that any programmer outside of a phd in computer science isn't doing it right because they doing dissertation type work everytime they code.

This is basically slashdot with a different color scheme..
M'enfin

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My understanding was that yes, if the user doesn't interact with the site in 7 days then the stored data (in cookies and localStorage) will be deleted.
I was a Screenhero customer for about 3 years. I used it daily for pair programming and it was far and away the best screen sharing tool I have experienced. Being able to have both people use the mouse and type on the same screen was a game changer. I’m extremely excited to try out this new product.
Chinese actually fought there and won at one point.
Native apps don't really have the problem of third-party ad networks storing data intermixed with app data in this way, though.
There is a big difference between being abused by your employer, on which you depend with your livelihood, and being a volunteer, who can literally walk away anytime without consequences.
There's a book about this called "The singular universe and the reality of time" by a physicist and a natural philosopher. They think that if we take time as real (not emergent) and irreversible then it could help resolve some of the problems in physics. Like for example the fact that the multiverse theory is untestable. They also emphasise that mathematics (which is reversible) is just a really powerful tool. But it's not reality and modern physics has somewhat mistaken the map for the territory.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singular_Universe_and_th...
Excellent. Thanks for linking this
As a young child I learned more about ancient European history from Asterix than I did at school. Of course a lot of it was plain fiction, but the historical references made imprints on me, and it wasn't hard to separate that from the fiction, as I grew older. So I thank you Uderzo (and Goscinny) for bringing that education into my life.
Le Journal de Spirou et Le Journal de Tintin were my whole childhood.
I wasn't under the impression that markdown is criticized so often on here as claimed in the article.

However, from my experience of constantly dragging my colleagues to writing some small spec/docs, I would definitely fail if they had to learn anything at all in order to do so.
The seven day wipe is going to encourage further adoption of Facebook or Google centralized logins, since this flow makes state restoration after a cookie wipe least painful. (Even saved login-passwords combinations can become de-synchronized between devices.) I don't think the theoretical benefits of enhanced privacy are worth the concrete costs of internet centralization.
Yeah but those "low level details" are not portable between computer architectures, so why not stop whining.

And you can actually USE these low level details if you really want, with very low friction (if you are willing to lock down to specific architectures). Are you STILL whining?

C level (or Pascal if you're masochistic) is still a very nice abstraction, and for a lot of people it's everything they care about 99% of the time, to get all the control they need, while simultaneously ensuring they're not wasting any time fighting pointless language features that are mutually incompatible.

In the end everybody's using whatever they like. https://twitter.com/fabynou/status/1242517783092400129
How are asymptomatic people having heart attacks being coded as covid-19 deaths?
I've been using Little Snitch since 2.0 and I agree, it's very impressive software. I had the same reaction to seeing the map features -- eye opening to say the least and a very, very interesting feature!
The name is too generic. Think searchability.

What was that product name? Screenmaster screenlord turboscreen are all more likely to get potential customers to remember and find you.

It’s a terrible name as is.
Not the GP, but I'd rather be alive and rich than alive and poor, and I'd rather be alive and poor than dead.

But say I assign utilities like this:

Alive+rich = 5
Alive+poor = 1
Dead = 0

So 50% alive+rich, 50% dead has utility 2.5, while 100% alive+poor has utility 1.
> By showing up at the office every workday, early in the morning, you are indicating your commitment to the company and to delivering value for their investment in you.

There's a term for that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presenteeism
> Competition in any space is extremely valuable.

Sure, no argument there. But the original comment said that in this case it is "much needed", suggesting something more specific than just "competition is generally good".

Lots of comments here are making non-specific arguments that "competition" leads directly to improvements in products/technology. It seems to me what is missing here is a concrete idea for making an ad-blocker work better, not an avenue for making a new/different approach available. (In particular, the goals of this project seem to be much more about working around upcoming Chrome extension changes rather than about improving the behavior in some way)
In HN, insubstantial comments are downvoted, irrespective of politeness or reasonable disclaimers.

For instance, say, "I fully acknowledge that this is just bunk told in jest to small children, but perhaps the Moon could really be made of Roquefort cheese." is not a HN-worthy comment.
I already do all my work in markdown. I got into the habit because of github, and haven't turned back since. The "killer feature" was that my documents work absolutely everywhere, and can easily be converted to a Word, PDF or HTML document on a whim. Leave the format "prettiness" to style sheets where it belongs. The side effect is that it clobbers the multiple-styles problem many corporate documents amass after more than a few people have edited them. The number of documents I've worked with that had UK, Canadian and US English all embedded in a paragraph-by-paragraph manner over the years...

Mind you, I started out in that frame of mind, since at the end of the 80's I used to write all my documents in a format that I no longer remember the name of. What I do remember is that it used dot codes, so something italicized would start with .i and .u for underlining. The purpose was to allow the dot matrix printers to over-strike, which provided much higher print resolution than the printer would normally be capable of. It had higher level codes for things like titles, etc, which is the connection I make to markdown.

Markdown languages allow you to get things looking reasonably good with extremely few attention-diverting things like format getting in the way of progress.
Okay. But we can demonstrate the existence of gravity. Let go of an apple and watch it drop.

I have yet to see a demonstration of divine intervention.
The best ones are:

Asterix and Cleopatra

Asterix The Legionary

Asterix in Britain

I really wouldn't rate any of those three higher than the others, although Cleopatra the art is probably the best (also I believe in the opinion of people with more developed aesthetic sense than mine). The Britain one might be slightly colored by my nostalgia in that case, it was a favorite from my youth.

There are some others that are I think great but slightly not as great

Asterix and the Big Fight

Asterix in Switzerland (another youthful favorite)

The Mansions of The Gods

Asterix_the_Gladiator

You could of course start with the first one
Asterix The Gaul, but it is noticeably not as great as many later ones. But on the other hand it is probably greater than most comics ever.

on edit: fixed formatting.
Ask HN: Who's Hiring Ontologists?
Due to the recession, I know several people who were working as ontologists and now find themselves out of work.

For those who don't know (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology), an ontologist is someone who specializes in organizing concepts into groups and hierarchies, but also higher-order structures. Taxonomist is a related line of work.

In today's tech scene, people with this skillset seem to most often be tasked with designing and building out structured knowledge graphs. Several of the individuals I know also have experience writing Lisp.

This is a fairly niche category, which is why I'm posting it separately from the recent job threads. Please let me know if you have any leads.
Seems to be hugged to death: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:keIYYf...
Ping is round trip to central server. I clarified to say the time to the other user is not two round trips away if you go through the central server, only one.

P.S. Sorry for all the ninja edits. I was thinking you'd not see the comment so quickly.