skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Markdown has no standard table syntax, unless you drop into HTML - for reference: https://talk.commonmark.org/t/tables-in-pure-markdown/81

Nearly every parser implements one of the various flavors, which sometimes don't always work correctly.

Markdown is fine for first drafts, then to be pulled into ReStructureText or some other text-oriented but slightly more structured format. I'll give a shout out to Pandoc for making this easy (and for converting between Markdown flavors)
This is really clever! It's like increasing taxes as a company gets bigger, or making people pay exponentially more for the second/third bottle of hand sanitizer.

Reminds me of the concept of "protecting players from themselves" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L8vAGGitr8)

Good idea.
I agree, using the USB bus for inter node communication seems like a poor design choice. Anyone got any insight on why they wouldnt use the much faster ethernet connection?
This scenario is not realistic though
you should offer a 2 level split.

Then people have an incentive not just to refer colleagues that might be interested in the job but that might know someone.
"or nowadays even by other authors are not always as good as the original ones."

That is a very strong euphemism ...

But my nephews and niece still enjoyed them, so I try not to be too harsh.
Keeping Government Out of Your Business
Counterintuitively, you are more likely to be better at privacy if you are in the business of selling data, especially in the current regulatory climate.

The websites that have been the worst at maintaining my privacy were those that primarily sold physical products or medical services. You'd be amazed how many organizations broker data now.
My friend who is Asian (not Chinese) says she and her family are experiencing similar treatment. They get stared at harshly everywhere they go, which never happened before this crisis. They also don't want to go out anymore to get necessities because of this.
And in other news, the sky is blue
We lose 30K+ people a year to car accidents, but we keep the roads and cars moving, because we accept that the collapse of those systems would cause more hardship and suffering and death than the systems themselves. We know lung cancer kills a lot of people, as well as liver disease, but we continue to allow for alcohol and cigarettes to be sold, because we know that the pain and suffering of enforcing the laws against those things is more expensive than the diseases themselves. We make all kinds of trade-offs in society. I'm arguing for: protecting the vulnerable and supporting them financially through the crisis but enabling the large bulk of our 20-50 year old workforce to keep the lights on by going back to work and engaging in commerce. That can involve all sorts of compromises with regards to hygiene, but it has to happen. We have tons of debt as a country, there are real systemic risks to continuing like this indefinitely.
LearnerShape, AI-driven workforce skills startup
Ruby on Rails developer
Full-time (part time possible for right candidate)
£45-60K (depending on experience) plus equity Central London (remote in UK for right candidate)

We are looking for a creative, ambitious Ruby on Rails web developer to help us address one of the key education problems posed by technological change: the need for workforces and individuals to retrain and learn new skills for new roles. We are an early-stage startup with substantial funding from Innovate UK, the UK’s government innovation agency.

We are developing a web-based platform that uses data science and machine learning to model individuals’ competences and target skills, then make job and learning recommendations. We are looking for a web developer with strong experience with HTML/CSS, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript and jQuery, and experience with both frontend (browser) and backend (Rails) programming. You would also interact and assist with our overall tech stack, which runs on Amazon Web Services, and includes core services implemented using Python, PostgreSQL and Flask.

We have highly experienced founders, strong partnerships, and links with academia. You would work with our small, growing development team and a UI/UX designer to develop the front end of our platform, using adaptive/responsive design for multiple devices, according to a well-defined roadmap. You must have the ability to work independently and develop your own ideas, while being a team player. You should be comfortable with a fast-moving, collegial and sometimes high-pressure startup environment.

Required skills:

-Strong experience with Ruby on Rails (our web backend service)

-Excellent knowledge of HTML/CSS, the DOM and AJAX/HTTP requests

-Strong experience with JavaScript, including jQuery

-Experience with adaptive/responsive web design

-Familiarity with SQL (ideally PostgreSQL) and ActiveRecord in Rails

-Familiarity with agile and test-driven development

Applications to jobs@learnershape.com
What other things did you learn through this research, if I may ask?
Someone took ECON 102. Got a C.

Hint: Not all, or even most, companies "participating for-profit culture of capitalism" are publicly traded and answerable to shareholders.
What is your tech stack? Wasn't clear from the job descriptions what you use on the backend
Your template string logic doesn't actually mitigate the problem. Short-circuit evaluation in JavaScript means that `falsey && something_else` will always evaluate to `falsey` and then you'll still get undefined in your className string. You would have to use a ternary to avoid this.
I haven't found a markdown implementation that doesn't support basic table formatting: https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheats...

It doesn't do native nested tables, or that sort of thing, but for that I'd either drop to HTML or use Pandoc to embed something else inside Markdown. Tables are not fun to format in _any_ plain text language.
You don't need two round trips, only one trip to the server then one trip to the other user, so one RTT. Also, 15ms ping is considered good for gaming, but you can do like 8ms with a good consumer-grade connection.

Could even go directly peer-to-peer if everyone sets up port forwarding and the software is sophisticated enough to coordinate that.

I'm optimistic about the network side if everyone involved is geared up for it. Don't know about the ends and the server. How much latency can a singer tolerate? For reference, if two singers stand 10m apart, the sound takes at least 29ms to travel through the air.
Disable javascript and it loads fine.
Oh, these are great. I just wish they would have included Quantum Foam, which was very similar to the Cheetah and Puma one, but in graphite gray and with more contrast in the highlights. I think it was the default in Mac OS 9.

It’s been very hard to find in decent resolution and quality. I’ve tried to use various upscaling tools, I’ve tried to do it manually (reconstructing it with vectors), but I’ve never been quite happy with the result.
It's an interesting analogy. Instinctual human response is in a way letting nature take over, and suspending analytical thinking. Govt policy making and intervention is more akin to latter, wouldn't you say?
An interesting read: https://www.popehat.com/2011/09/25/anatomy-of-a-scam-chapter.... A series of articles about a similar mail fraud, this one using printer toner instead.

In chapter one, Ken explains why this is absolutely fraud:

> Whether a communication is fraudulent — for the purposes of criminal law, torts, or consumer protection law — depends upon communications as a whole. Scammers cannot insulate themselves with fine print, hidden disclosures, or contradictory disclaimers when the entire solicitation is intended to defraud and is misleading to a reasonable person.

Although the mailing in OP is somewhat less scammy, on the totality of the evidence, any reasonable person would clearly decide that it is mail fraud.
People might find the story in The Hot Zone interesting. I read it years ago. I googled it recently and it was available online for free in PDF form.

It's mostly about Ebola. The pertinent detail here is that tribal elders told people to stop going to the white man's hospital and that helped stop it (as just one detail of an overall strategy).

(I completely misread the comment I'm replying to the first go round. If you have an email notification of a nutty sounding reply, I apologise.)
I really enjoy retirement-aged-Bill Gates' nonpartisan, pragmatic approach to humanitarianism. He often feels like the only adult left in the room (or at least, adult that still has any interest at all in the well-being of the world at large).
The point is that "discover an animal that doesn't breathe oxygen" is purely a word semantic game.

Not breathing oxygen isn't interesting; anaerobic bacteria do that. If we call those "animals", then we already have non-oxygen-breathing animals.

By the way, the following is from ten years ago:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2907586/

If that discovery found "animals", then it is rightly the first one.
It's good they're getting made, but the quantity and timeline is problematic. The US has on the order of 100,000 ventilators, and needs on the order of 1 million.

1000 per month won't really do much. It's a start is all.
Thanks for the pointer. I've set 'app.normandy.enabled' to false, hopefully that is the last way someone can change something on my computer without my knowledge.
If you like the galaxy photos, the original photographer is Rob Gendler: http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/
Concurrent rebuttal thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22677970

Edit: ah, the original post in this sequence was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22675165. It set off the flamewar detector. (Apparently markdown does.) We've turned that penalty off, so it's back on the front page now.
Fair enough, I just thought it was a humorous aphorism more than anything.

Yes, documentation can be out of date but even then it's often still more useful than not having any. I agree with markdown being a lower barrier of entry than most other stuff, increasing its appeal.
> What will they spend it on?

Amazon.
Markdown: “the shittiest markup language I have seen so far.” (2017)
> As the result, the base Markdown syntax can have an extra set of features available only in a particular specification.

The big win of Markdown is that the source reads just fine, without conversion to html. The source itself is formatted, especially a monospace font. That makes it easy to write, since you can still easily attend to both content and formatting while writing it. It also makes it readable by folks in terminal or text editor. That also means that if your converter doesn't support some special feature, it will just leave it there and you can still just read it.

On the other hand, if as a reader or writer I have to go to some other part of the document or some entirely separate file, e.g. to find out the value of an attribute or edit an included external code snippet, that really interrupts the process. Same for computing if-else clauses.
Soooo... like Firefox has done be default since June 2019 then https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/09/03/todays-firefox-bloc... ?

I guess later is better than never, but this seems like something they could have done long ago.
I would bet before Easter. Certainly as soon as he can convince enough people that the medical community and epidemiologist are "biased", "hysterical" and issue "fake publications". The best way to see it coming is by monitoring the tone of Sinclair broadcasting and Murdoch's media

But there is no possible way to predict it because the policy will almost certainly be changed suddenly by a tweet. If there are enough dates announced with enough ambiguity it will be possible for his lackeys to retroactively claim the date was announced in advanced. Indeed, this is the likely reason there is such confusion now.
The keys have a User ID packet with a userId field that contains a name and email address, which is an identity. I prefer to keep my identities separate from one another. For me it's not necessarily about security, it's more so about compartmentalization.
How do you get the latency so low :D
Why are all the planets on the same orbital plane? [video]
that right there is worth another year's donation, although I have to say how is it even possible - surely these aren't out of copyright?
1. Tables are not in the spec.

2. StackExchange Markdown is a prominent example of no-tables.
Average is meaningless in this context. US Men hit a 2% chance of death at 68, which jumps to 3.6% at 75. At 85 that jumps to 9.6%, and by 95 your at 26% and the numbers keep increasing. A 50:50 mix of 85 year old men and 38 year old men have vastly higher risk of death than a group of just 62 year olds.

Except those higher odds of death are strongly associated with major heath issues. So, simply excluding the sickest 5% of the population makes a huge difference in survival rates.
Still sorta remember my startnet.bat from '94ish:

lsl
3c50{3,5,9}
ipxodi
netx

rem Somthing about F: drive goes here
rem Then login

There was no fiddling with network or node addresses. I think networks were somehow configured thru the Netware server, but can't remember.
Instinctual Politics
Aka: people who already have money provide the best free services.
Because as far as we know it’s respiratory and asymptomatic for many days.

Someone who has a heart attack during the asymptomatic period was probably going to have one anyway.
Even a president with assets in a blind trust would know that helping the economy would almost certainly help their portfolio.
I am a big fan of LaTEX and write pretty much anything that would ever need to be printed in LaTEX. A former co-worker requested me to write stuff in markdown instead. When I asked why, he (jokingly) told me, Markdown is for people that don't (want) to understand LaTEX yet like the typesetting.

These days, I just use pandoc to translate markdown to PDF if I need to print and get almost LaTEX like typesetting.
> Unlike a single process where you can use locks and other primitives to write correct code, there is no locking mechanism we can use to protect access to these global shared resources.

Databases provide transactions. This mechanism is also an inspiration for a synchronisation model called Software Transactional Memory proposed for Haskell, and used as "the" synchronisation model in Clojure. Locks and semaphores are rather lower-level primitives and it's harder for humans to reason about them with an ease comparable to using CSP or STM.
Still dreaming of a way to block cookies per-domain

Edit: someone just told me you can do it with osx adguard, in the user rules you can set "||domain.com^$cookie" to block all cookies from domain.com
I would recommend to look at the titles and choose based on a subject that interests you - the series makes very clever jokes about a lot of the history of the places they visit, and you'll get more of them if you're a little familiar with the material. A personal favourite for example is the one with the Goths, and a lot of the jokes there allude to the actual history of the Gothic tribes. If you're interested in any of the titular places, that's as good a place to start as any.
I have difficulty putting into words how much I loathe technical writing that is structured anything like a textbook or dissertation.

It's a pain in the ass to use, and I wish more people would focus on concise and easily referenced/searched/indexed material in markdown rather than novels written in TeX.

For example, Agner Fog's writings are fantastic content, and awful to navigate. The Rust Programming Language does exist in book form, but I find myself referencing it constantly as a technical manual and it would suck to do that if weren't structured the way it is using mdbook.

For the love of all that is sacred, please stop writing technical manuals like I'm going to ever going to read the whole thing. Every piece of information should be short, fit entirely in a reasonably sized browser window, be indexed for search, and if it lends itself to cross-referencing it should be filled with links to itself.

That's the kind of thing that markdown and site generators using markdown excel at.
> Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards.

Please respect the guidelines of our community!
How does this compare to dumping and loading for full databases? I have a number of cloning processes that do that, should I look into this instead?
The issue is many people who have been laid off need money for _exactly_ those things. For tech workers the quarantine is a minor inconvenience at best. For those less fortunate, it is existential.
You mean like instead of abusing them by asking them to volunteer?
Well then what’s the alternative? Using the same spacer component everywhere is bad because the designer might want to change the spacing in only one spot? Okay. But what if the designer wants to change the spacing in all spots? That’s a much more likely scenario in my experience, but the point is you need to be able to do both.
One nit: "Of course, for chefs, typically you're also the one doing the prep so you're not really saving any work" is very much not the case. Chefs, working in professional kitchens, rarely do prep. Home cooks have to, but in a professional kitchen, a chef working the prep station is exceptionally rare.
The blog post you reference clearly describes a limited blocklist. As the submission says, no other mainstream browser has blocked all third-party cookies yet.
From the article:

> Safari continues to pave the way for privacy on the web, this time as the first mainstream browser to fully block third-party cookies by default. As far as we know, only the Tor Browser has featured full third-party cookie blocking by default before Safari, but Brave just has a few exceptions left in its blocking so in practice they are in the same good place. We know Chrome wants this behavior too and they announced that they’ll be shipping it by 2022.
Subscribe to the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal.
>because unfortunately people don't see a difference between the Chinese government and the Chinese people

Then teach people to behave like adults, don't gaslight the rest of us by forcing racism into a reasonable and inoffensive scientific term.

When you spread this inane idea that "Chinese Virus" is a racist or sinophobic designation, you're literally playing into the hands of Chinese astroturfing propaganda (Russians aren't the only ones with troll farms).

And when dang shows up and silences anything remotely critical of the CCP under the guise of "nationalistic flamebait", and primarily censors comments critical of the CCP, he is helping, along with Reddit and most other major online platforms, to bias the collective narrative in favor of CCP propaganda. This "racism" nonsense is literally one of their talking points.

dang if you read this, let me say that I appreciate what you do for the HN community, thanks to your stewardship this place has become an institution. However I would ask that you please be mindful of the fact that there is a propaganda war raging all over the internet right now and when platforms selectively censor certain viewpoints they effectively choose winners, which ultimately shapes collective policy. Though it may be a sensitive topic, the potential dishonesty of the CCP is absolutely germane to most of our COVID19 discussions because they in turn are often based on official CCP infection statistics. Criticism of the CCP is neither nationalistic or xenophobic and this is a discussion that needs to happen somewhere.
I know because I got 3 months severance a couple years back and I wish I had started looking immediately.
A better approach is to turn it into a game: reward those who report suspected phishing emails, security breaches, tailgating into secure areas, USB devices left around, etc. and have red teams doing this stuff periodically. Punitive measures don't really work. Friendly competition with rewards does work, though.
My understanding is that the ethernet module on the raspberry pi is a usb device, not a pci device.
The plan is happening in the UK.

People in vulnerable groups have been told to shield.

There's not much point continuing this conversation: you've been factually incorrect in every single reply you've made to me.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-on-shiel...
How could it slip through the cracks and still charge the company the full charge?
Markdown actually doesn't have tables - they're only in extensions or if implemented in HTML: https://talk.commonmark.org/t/tables-in-pure-markdown/81
https://archive.md/1HsQ2
Emergency powers should override that.
Everyone seems to be talking about the name, and for the life of me I can't figure out why. I'm well aware of GNU screen, but it hadn't come to mind until I saw all the comments. Keep the name—or don't; maybe ask someone who know more about marketing than most engineers ;)

Now I've been doing it as well... What I really wanted to say is thank you for launching this product in a time where it's desperately needed by many people and making it free. You said elsewhere that you're bootstrapped and I really don't want to think of the server costs coming your way, so I seriously do commend you.

One thing I always do first with products like this is take a look at the privacy policy: I probably care more than the average person, but I feel like people, or at least companies and institutions, also care quite a lot in Germany. The policy mentions that video data is transferred through third parties and not stored, but as far as I can tell it doesn't say anything about whether the data is analyzed in real time nor about the privacy policies of the third parties applying (or not). I want to assume the best and I understand that legalese can be a kind of a pain, but it would be wonderful to get some clarification here.
The Asian countries that faired better in this pandemic for now are all Confucian societies, and the undertone of such societies is the top-down conformist culture.
> this is a common theme among people who do lot's of sports. I did plenty of marathons, trail competitions in my time and a day without exercise felt like absolute agony mentally.

And then along comes coronavirus, and the privation for exercise addicts while under quarantine is so much less than what many are experiencing, but it's real—and no-one takes "it's hard not to exercise" seriously.
Some of the original French ones are hilariously funny. Have a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Asterix_characters for their meaning.

I especially like "Abraracourcix" and "Assurancetourix".
Modelling transmission and control of the Covid-19 pandemic in Australia [pdf]
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.

Edit to add: okay, so a sibling comment claims the reason is a Confucian, culture. But that’s narrow, everything is always multi-factorial. It’s good to see and discuss one aspect, but not at the expense of other considerations.
Covid-19: Landlords will kill our economy
The SoC used in the Pi 3 does not have an Ethernet MAC. It's always provided via USB. The CM3 does not have a USB Ethernet device onboard, it's provided by the carrier board.
Start with the first one.

Have a read of this thread to get other suggestions, but also to see how important a good translation is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18255513
Centralized quarantine, not just lockdowns, may be required to control Covid-19
When I leave the home, my mom has to tell me to be careful since if bad people mistake me for Chinese they may beat me up.

Note: I live in SoCal

Sad times.
A very deserving company that’s for sure! They care about their customers more than any company.
That is what it means. The only workaround is to require the user to login and to keep a backup of the data on your server.