skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think arduino is a good place to start. If you want something slightly different I like the teensy which is arduino compatible and can plug into a breadboard.
I'd pick up a basic electronics kit as well that includes a bread board and a bunch of components and then you can actually make some basic circuits with LEDs and sensors.

https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/teensy31.html
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=basic+electronics+kit+for+breadbo...
Say some community gathers and makes a "public infrastructure" endpoint. Collects some funds, buys a box for X years.

Maybe later another feature to do a round of public funds again when the life time ends if the endpoint remains useful after X years. But no has authority to delete it.

Could be a DNS server or Mail server or NTP.
I don't see how AsciiDoc source is any more or less readable than Markdown. AsciiDoc does everything Markdown does, but since there's a specification there are no inconsistencies.

It also has features beyond that. You don't need to use them.

Edit: here's an example from KiCAD's documentation ("Raw" to view the source, as GitHub supports AsciiDoc as well as Markdown) https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-doc/blob/master/src/getting_s...
NASA’s 3D view of methane tracks sources and movement around the world
That's the easiest place to rinse them.

I've lived with babies using cloth diapers. After changing a diaper, it went into the toilet. After settling the baby, you swish the diaper around with tongs, flush, and then repeat rinsing and flushing. Then you hold the rinsed diapers in a pail, for a few days, until there are enough to wash.

But sometimes you forget. And then someone gets surprised when they go to use the toilet ;)
Covid-19 India Tracker with Patient location history
Officially it's macOS now.
Personally I use markdown where I can (e.g. my website articles etc.) But I can imagine that for some math-heavy specs the LateX would be a better choice (but I would go with embedding Latex parts into Markdown documents scenario)
Interesting point! I guess the galactic version of UTC would have to include specification of the inertial frame the event occurred in. For the purposes of ordering times could be converted to the time in some standard reference frame, the galactic centre of mass maybe.

Libraries for handling time would need to include functions for converting times between frames.
> I find it bleak that we expect our societies and markets to function, solely driven by "selfish" value-chasing individuals.

the inherent problem of today's society is exactly because it rewards people who are "selfish" and value-chasing far more then having a far more communical mindset.

In terms of value extraction from society, those who play selfish win, and they win at the expense of others.

I would even like to add that they might even be rewarded for this behaviour at large in our current economic system. Because the system is very bad at including costs of external factors. These external factors right now are being paid for by society at large. A prime example of this would be enviromental costs and bailouts with too little strings attached.
Sorta. The old name still works, when referring to a proper old release. Going forward the OS family is referred to as macOS.
Implementing a S3 client from scratch is no longer simple. V4 signature and payload signing is a pain and you have to read the doc a dozen times before you can successfully implement it.
Ask HN: Advice for staying in the job market while homeless?
Hello HN,

I've lived as a "hand to mouth" freelancer for a while and can no longer keep up with rent due to clients shutting down. I have over a dozen job applications under way, but obviously progress is slow and even if I do get an offer it won't pay off until I'm "on the streets".

I do have good friends who will let me stay on their couches for some time. Given the circumstances I'm afraid that I'll be stuck in this situation until my food budget is used up, at which point I don't know what to do.

Frankly I feel like throwing myself into the river right now, but obviously that is not helping anyone.

I have a fairly niche skill set that no one wants. My specialty is building and running complex on-prem infrastructure (in the petabytes and teraflops range), though in the recent years I've been doing DevOps in the cloud like everyone else. I'm also contributing to a wide range of free software projects, but no potential employers seem to care about that.

I don't even know what I'm asking here. A cry for help obviously, but with no room for actual advice! Probably I just want someone to say "it's going to be okay" because I can't see it myself.

Virtual hug, anyone? :-(
Generate a new key and update the global git config with the new public key hash. Then add the new public key to Github/Gitlab to support verification of signed commits with new key.
I’m particularly going off my hazy memory here but there were two things - invading nepal was not worth the cost since nepal doesn’t have much of natural resources and the terrain is tough. The Indo-Gangetic plains south of it were much richer and easier to control. Second, the British for some reason were very terrified of Gurkhas.
How would you write out a rebranding like Mac OS X to macOS
For an event that is not happening until July and cost more than ALL the other sporting event combined, I say it is not greed but sensible.
Chrome is switch some rules around that will render current ad blockers useless.
Why 10? Why not the last 50 years, or last 100?
You also have to take into account what might happen if millions of people loose their shit. People that have nothing to loose are dangerous. Never underestimate stupid people in large groups.
At the time of me writing this comment, yours is light grey (due to downvotes I presume - is there any other possible cause?).

A statement that includes explicit acknowledgement of uncertainty should not be downvoted (unless there is another reason contained within), full stop. If this was /r/politics, fine, but it isn't.

This is causing harm to society that we have very little means of seeing (at least not without an investment of significant effort and time, something most people tend to avoid whenever possible).

I have deliberately not included acknowledgement of uncertainty, for two reasons.
Bill Gates says the US missed chance to avoid shutdown and should stay closed
Yeah I don't fully get this whole anti-Markdown sentiment.

Have I ever ran into limitations with Markdown? Yes.

Has Markdown ever been the reason why things were poorly documented? No.

Whatever gets people to document stuff, and maintain and update that documentation.
Tor is by far the best browser. However as a part of compartmentalisation I use un-googled chromium and right now it is struggling to install anything (others have this issue.)
This story is amazing. Thank you so much
Generally, most of the Asterix comics that were written by Goscinny with illustrations by Uderzo are good. The later ones only by Uderzo or nowadays even by other authors are not always as good as the original ones.
Why not let the parent lay its children out? In my experience, a lot of engineers resort to things like spacer components due to not being very good at css. Flex, grid and even table layout should give just about everything needed for all but the most crazy layout needs. With flex and grid, you can often build responsive layouts without needing media queries.
It's a cute thought. Maybe this will drive India towards improving their internet, healthcare and infrastructure. One can dream...
For context, posted after this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22677161
Distilling this to concise words, it reads: "Urbit is a network built to last, and owned by its users."

This actually sounds interesting, and could motivate me to read more about it. The marketing speak they use online and in their emails? Not so much.
As a related note, this is what I think we really lose as we move to computing environments like the iPhone with absolutely mandatory code signing.

I've heard it said that "oh, if you're a kid with an iPad and you just want to learn, you can download the little Swift playgrounds app, easy!"

But the thing is that the children I've worked with don't want to create stuff inside a toy app that only other people with the toy app can use—they want to create programs that feel real. Sure, maybe the only thing that real app does is display a guess-the-numbers game, but still, you can install it on the computers of your parents and friends and say "look, I made this app!"

iOS devices just don't let you do it. Android, Windows, and macOS does, and I really hope we don't loose that in the name of security.
This comment applies to any viral disease that spreads amongst humans. What warrants a complete shutdown this time around when we didn't do the same for H1N1, SARS etc?
actually, unless your job is absolutely essential (food supply, medical, telecommunications, water, power etc) staying home is exactly how you can help, because it flattens the curve.
Very true. In addition, no one wants to risk having a small bill go to collection because of the horrible way our credit reporting systems (don't) work. It is like big companies who settle to save money and move on with life. These people are despicable.
I read all of them over and over again as a child, then one more full reading in my 20s. They were even better as an adult. One of the oddities is that the names in English are actually much funnier than the original French names, e.g. Unhygienix the fishmonger, Getafix the druid, Fullyautomatix who makes the weapons. These two authors brought so many hours, days and years of joy. A life well lived
Oh interesting, I didn't realize. Thanks!
Seriously, “Please document you’re code in the first place” is a great post to promote! :)
Show HN: How to host a lockdown party with live DJs in an underground VR club
I've done my time with LaTeX for years, arguing for its virtues, and once I discovered that I could write Markdown and convert it to LaTeX with Pandoc, I haven't looked back. I feel like a lot (though admittedly not all) of the Markdown rough-edges go away after that. Granted, I don't use Pandoc for "documentation", just technical writing, so maybe that's irrelevant.

Most of the criticisms listed here aren't wrong exactly, but I feel are a bit short-sighted. If you tell people to stop using a language that's well-supported as a rendering tarket in their favorite code-sharing repo, they're not just going to switch to AsciiDoc or TeX and host a PDF on Dropbox...they're going to stop writing documentation entirely, or just do some crappy attempt of doing "documentation in the comments".

As it stands, I think slightly-NSFW quote says it well: "Documentation is like sex...when it's good it's great, when it's bad it's still better than nothing.".
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> Telling countries they shouldn't close their borders for fear of "creating stigma"

That's a huge misrepresentation of why WHO made those recommendations. The main point is that closing borders is ineffective and so you end up with only the negatives of doing that (and WHO stressed more the negatives around how it affects global supply chains and such for medical things).
Is the drug testing portion of the application still in effect?

I find the concept an invasion of basic privacy and while I'd love to work at USDS someday I can't see myself submitting to such a process.
It would be novel to see a bunch of flabby athletes trying to catch their breath during different events. Could add events like doing a cannonball into the pool, seeing who can jiggle their flab the longest, or anything else for which Homer Simpson would be a medal contender. Truth be told, they probably look more amazing as sedentary couch potatoes than I would in peak physical condition.
You may be able to install and run Screen on Windows, although to be 100% honest, we haven’t spent a lot of time outside the assumption that the user has the access they need. If you can drop us an email at team@screen.so, one of us will make sure to follow up with you once we try it out.
How does your product substantially differ from theirs in such a way that you believe it won't run afoul of broadcasters' rights?
A Backdoor Is a Backdoor Is a Backdoor
WTF are you blathering on about. Pointing out that some random news outlet isn't a valid source of medical info and maybe sticking to actual medical sites isn't "right-wing", or anything else. Since I'm not Indian, not right-wing and don't have a clue what a hijra is your apparent attempt at an "insult" falls resoundingly flat. Pretty sad your own clearly deeply held biases (whatever they are) prevent you from objective understanding.
Seems to be a hot topic recently. I first discovered https://www.hoxhunt.com/, there are probably some other competitors as well, what makes you different?
As long as you can make a network connection between the two hosts (either directly or mediated via a server in the middle), you should be fine. We haven’t tested specifically between China and the US, though.
These burdens are put in place to prevent employer (as in superiors, not the folks you serve) abuse. They would abuse government servants here and there if it were easily replaced.
I feel for the author. However, I strongly disagree with the conclusions here in practice. A lot of this boils down to "other tools are better," and that's true, but the issue is that it's really, really hard to get people to write documentation, and handing them a perfect but complex tool means they're less likely to actually go through with it.

I've written every kind of documentation in Markdown, and it's not a panacea, but it does work. I'll talk about the article's points first, though:

> Lack of specification

https://commonmark.org/. It's not perfect, but GFM and it are (slowly) unifying. Pick one, document that that's the one you support, and you're done.

> Flavors

See answer 1.

> Lack of Extensibility

While it does not have an extension system, that doesn't mean that you can't do it. As long as you only add things, you should be good to go. Most things you'd want that aren't in the spec proper have some sort of existing extension that will solve your problems.

This is not ideal, but it's also not insurmountable. This is the only true negative I agree with on this list, I just don't think it's the end of the world.

> Lack of Semantic Meaning.

While this is true in a sense, at the same time, CommonMark lets you put any string on a code fence, which means that you can add whatever sematnic you'd like.

> Markdown is now dependent on specific HTML classes, and page design

No more dependent on those classes than on whatever other semantic marker you were trying to do, and if you want to change them, do what you'd have to do with the semantic: configure your tooling to put out something else.

> Document content is no longer portable to other output formats

This problem would still exist if semantics were there; someone has to write the mapping.

> Conversion to other markup tools and page designs becomes much harder

I disagree, but there's also no justification, so it's hard to respond.

> Lock-In and Lack of Portability.

This is a non-issue in practice. It's just like any other format.

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All of Rust's documentation is in Markdown. We've overcome these challenges in a few ways:

* Choosing CommonMark

* Defining some additional, backwards-compatible with regular Markdown semantics. If you don't use them, you won't get as nice of an output in some cases, but if you do, stuff is a lot nicer. This includes things like "Show an icon to indicate that this does not compile" or "run this code sample as a test" or "this is a summary line and then this is a body."

* Writing Markdown to other format compilers. The Rust book (540 pages for its first printing) was written 100% in Markdown. Our editors don't use Markdown, they use Word. Carol, my co-author, wrote a DOCX to Markdown compiler in XSLT[1]. We write Markdown, compile it to HTML, concatenate it all into one big document, and send it to them. They open it in Word, they leave comments, we take the resulting DOCX, compile it back to Markdown, and address things.

[1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/book/blob/master/tools/docx-to-...
London Exhibition centre turning into 4000 bed Covid-19 hospital to open in days
Mac OS, then Mac OS X, then OS X, and now macOS. Probably Mac OS again some time soon to go full circle.
Difference is that, cells can replace and repair themselves, this virus cannot.
I put together a list of 14 books recommended by Alan Kay
Very nice. But I fear it will add fuel to Trump's "china virus" blame strategy, with negative long term consequences.

It's too bad there isn't more analysis, like could it have been stopped. Obviously it can't be stopped at 4 cases (you don't yet understand what you are looking at). And China's delayed action made it too late to contain it to Wuhan. But could they even have contained it? When there are few cases, lockdown seems overkill and people just don't believe it. Even today, with all we know, people are frolicking at beaches and clubs and bars, and our leaders are saying one thing (stay home) and doing another (visibly going out for social gatherings). So, even had China instituted lockdowns early, likely there would have been more violation. And once it escaped Wuhan, every other city would have had to react perfectly.
Happy to hear that! :D
>V4 signature and payload signing is pain

Don't be overly discouraged :-)

I have a reliable (if a bit ugly) implementation in under 3kb of sparse PHP OOP code. Yes it took a few hours to iron out the last kinks, and one extra refactor to free up a mistakenly bound variable. It might have helped that it was the first version I implemented, thus no need to match impedance of older interface.

On the plus side, the signing is designed as self-contained, and neither implementation nor API calls spill to too many parts of request handling.

>you have to read the doc a dozen times before you can successfully implement it

Very much so - it does require a small 'eureka' moment. It's hard to put your finger on what exactly makes it hard to get right the first time around. At the very least it is written from a somewhat peculiar viewpoint.

Fortunately the primitives used are common enough to be available in typical standard libraries.
We quite literally do do what you're saying with general influenza that also takes folks outside the 20-50 range as collateral damage to keep the economy float. Hence your comment is meaningless without understanding how much more severe and infectious covid-19 is.
Apparently someone says it does exist and is going to prove it when the park opens again in mid-april[0].

> TAUB: Since we have published the story, we've heard from a reader who claims that Moose Boulder does, in fact, exist and that when the park reopens this summer, they're going to go out there and take pictures and send it back to us to prove. And, you know, that would be awesome.

[0]: https://www.npr.org/2020/03/13/815546895/the-lonely-non-isla...
Wonder why no one likes to talk about what happened to the Hindu population in Pakistan since partition.

>Prior to 1947, Hindus constituted between 14% to 23% of the population of what is now Pakistan, that is more than the current percentage of Muslims in India. Cities like Karachi (about 50%) and Lahore (roughly 30%) had sizeable number of Hindus. Today, as per the 1998 census, Hindus comprise a mere 1.6%.

Meanwhile the Muslim population in India has grown as a percentage.
It took about a week for retailers in the midwestern US to restock and put buying limits in place on TP and staple foods. The buying limits (i.e. limit 2 packages of 12 rolls of TP) were pretty sensible, and for the most part, solved the problem here. It was surreal seeing 1/2 empty shelves at grocery stores, though.
Margin is usually added in response to nearby elements. Making assumptions about nearby elements is what makes components hard to reuse.
HTML is for styling. JSON is for content.

If you've heard "separate content from presentation" all your career, you might autonomically hear it as "separate HTML from CSS". I used to.

In a React app world, your content hasn't lived in HTML for a long time. It lives in your DB, and comes to you through JSON.

Your React codebase exists to style that JSON. That includes "HTML" (JSX), CSS, and whatever else you've got in there.

Since your HTML is for styling, and your CSS if for styling, why separate them? If you do, you're not separating content from presentation, you're separating presentation from presentation, and that's just wasteful.

Personally, I'd prefer to use inline styles for everything, though of course will use CSS for :hover of @media queries where I have to.
The article does not suggest any of those ideas you think it presents (especially, it does NOT suggest an react equivalent of "spacer.gif") and your comment completely misses the point of the article.
Looks boring to me though. I like the galaxy ones better.
We can't buy groceries, nor pay rent nor utilities with volunteer hours. So long as we're subjected to Capitalist demands, we'll be forced to demand Capitalist compensation, or perish.
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Perdue Farms Workers Walk Out over Coronavirus Concerns
Hospitals often have to set up tents in parking lots to deal with flu cases when the influx is much higher than average. We don't provision for peak flu; we provision for something less than the flu average.
> If for whatever reason uBlock Origin went away tomorrow there would be a void to fill.

If for whatever reason uBlock Origin went away tomorrow there would be a fork. uBlock Origin is the second (or third, I forget) fork of the original project.
It's now better, I am currently in India with 500mbps uplink through local ISP.
If Markdown gets you the features you need, go for it. In my experience, it usually doesn't, except for the simplest projects. So I use reStructuredText, so that I don't have to deal with someone telling me I need to use DITA because the documentation is too low-fidelity.
I have an ASUS laptop with FireWire, it was able to copy to an iPod quickly too.
I'd go with one of these:

* macOS (née Mac OS X)

* macos (formerly Mac OS X)
Anything before the death of Goscinny, that is up to and including nr. 24, Asterix in Belgium. Some personal favourites are all the ones named Asterix in <area name>, Asterix and Cleopatra (that nose!), Asterix and the Normans, Asterix and the Soothsayer, but it's extremely hard to choose.

Also, check out other franco-belgian comics like Lucky Luke and Gaston Lagaffe.
USPS wouldn't exist without junk mail. I thank the junk senders for their patronage of our postal system.
I bought the Luxe Bidet Neo 180 on Amazon for $41 in 2017.

Easy to install and no electricity needed. They are out of stock now, but if you can get one, they are amazing.
This. It is exactly what happened about a year ago when this performance study[1] was published. In the months that followed, uBlock Origin, Brave and Adblock Plus all worked pretty hard on improving the performance of their content blocking engine, and used the benchmark and open-source dataset from the study to measure their optimizations.

The result is that now, all users of either of these extensions benefit from a better and faster product, thanks to emulation between competing projects. This would not necessarily happen in the absence of competition. In the end, users benefit.

(Disclaimer: I am one of the authors of the performance study)

[1]: https://whotracks.me/blog/adblockers_performance_study.html