skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also don't have an account, so I got the same message as you. I wonder how Medium decides which stories are fenced with "create an account" page and which not, because most of the stories I can read normally.
I'm sure a buyer can be found at the right price, it's called supply and demand.

We wanted a free market for housing and ended up with EUR 500k studios in Paris. Can't people wrap their minds around the fact that house prices also go down?
This highlights a longstanding issue of PWA definition and how to position it against modern web practices and features. What is a PWA? Why is it even a thing?
I know, but not even close to the same thing. Those one line summaries that make scanning easy are very useful.
Brits working from home told to turn microwave off to improve WiFi signal
There weren't masks to wear.
I linked to something on Erights.org a few days ago http://www.erights.org/

I think E was more influential than its distribution would suggest.
I'm just about old enough to remember the BBC project itself, and yes: it was basically the only effort to teach people to program, which was part of why it was so unique and impressive. Computing GCSE was largely useless.
That’s exactly right. On the other side of the shutdown, you need to do proactive screening and quarantining people who came in contact with sick people to create the conditions where you can safely ease the shutdown.

Absent that, there’s not much point of the shutdown. I guess it buys time for medical professionals to retrain and gather supplies, which is crucial.
An excellent list. Pretty much hits the nail on the head. The only thing I would is this:

Often times, well known phenomena and concepts are NOT explained well specifically because they are well known. Whether it's a lecturer or a YouTube video, lots of sources tend to skimp out on the fundamentals. Having said that, don't let it discourage you. It took me forever to discover what the Uncertainty Principle actually means and how it manifests itself in real life. This is related to point 5) I guess.
> No it’s not. Using it like that is a lasagna of dirty hacks.

First it's a bunch of dirty hacks. Then it's an informal convention. Then it's a standard. Lots of technology evolved that way.

All the stakeholders driving the web standards forward are focusing on making it a more powerful application platform.

> The web is for structured text with hyperlinks, everything else is bullshit that doesn’t belong on the web.

That's your personal opinion on what the web platform should be, not what it is. Of course it's a crappy platform in many respects. Of course a lot of people don't like the way it goes. It doesn't matter.
> the performance requirements could be of the form "Here's some data, I need an answer in an hour"

I have never been in the case where the answer to the question "when" wasn't "as fast as physically possible".
Nice to see an Open-Source Project in this area. But I don't see the point of "just another" SIEM. Why is everyone trying to collect, normalize and and trigger on log data?

Logs are probably the worst source one can have. And its faulty by design. Why not think of something new? A better source for your data would be something to start with. Maybe an intelligent infrastructure for data collection could make it more useful with more relevant data. Only ship relevant data from relevant sources if additional info is required. Maybe that would be a great solution. It would at least be something new.
How does wearing masks create more of them?
How does vala compare to other GUI focused languages?
In the US, most providers are operating under a near total government-granted any government-protected monopoly. They like to pretend there’s competition in the market but that’s mostly smoke and mirrors, designed explicitly to preserve their special status as the only game in town.

The fact that they are oversubscribed to the point where it doesn’t work well in an emergency would not be such a big deal - except that they are granted a moat.

They can and should be held to a higher standard as a result. The term “critical infrastructure” comes to mind.
Bitcoinethereumbinary.com Launches Bitcoin and Ethereum Binary Options Trading
> as far as I know the only existing implementation is in python

Pandoc supports rST.
I think they added people manually. They had a lot of manpower.
I do mobile Unity dev professionally on a team of 50+. A large game will be mostly textures or other art assets. You should profile your builds. The majority is probably texture asset compression, packaging, that sort of thing. Your build should not be dominated by compilation time. Running the Cacheserver can also help with this to some degree.

You can like Javascript more but know that you're doing something wrong if its taking you an hour to build a mobile game in Unity.

Edit: You should look into Rider too. I much prefer it over MonoDevelop. A mid 2014 MBP could be poor if you're running a low RAM config. They only went up to 16GB and if you have 8 you could be hitting swap and it'll be dog slow.
I'm still wondering how people manage to get bored in today's age.

You have millions of journals, books, music tracks, tv shows, films and video games. You have tutorials on youtube to learn new skill, such as cooking, yoga, DIY, coding, etc. You can chat, phone or email to all your relatives and friends.

You can take the opportunity to produce something, write, build, create, imagine. Even without a computer you can write or draw.

You can take time for yourself, sleep more, meditate, rest, do things slowly.

Please explain it to me, I genuinely don't understand.
"To keep reading this story, create a free account." - No.
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Hello friends.

Is there a way to make a twitter account anonymously via TorBrowser without giving a phone number?

I think I can save lives but I do not want to risk being identified. I am worried to say too much.

Is there a way? Or can someone ask Mr Dorsey to change requirements. Is phone number so important to his company's profit? We need to speak.

I hope dearly to find good news.
> It'll be interesting to see what changes come as they start eating their own dog food.

They use Teams, actually.
Hi, many answers to these questions. But first, I'll put you on the link to the public roadmap. A lot of the stuff we're working on is in there. If you need/love a feature, please add a heart emoji on it. https://github.com/orgs/meilisearch/projects/2

- Currently, we only support single filters. The multiple filters option is coming soon. https://github.com/meilisearch/MeiliSearch/issues/425

- Custom ranking rules on the fly is something imaginable on our solution. We didn't do it yet because it complexifies the search query parameters. We are waiting for feedback like yours to implement this kind of feature.

- To return only the field you need, it's already possible during the search https://docs.meilisearch.com/guides/advanced_guides/search_p.... To restrict attributes to search in during the query. We had this feature on a previous version. But like the last answer, no one used it, and it complexifies the search query.
> This means that changing it means changing the compiler,

Wow. What a terrible decision. I'm quite surprised that people actually agreed to that.

I originally said it was shit but I toned it down a little. The information isn't bad, just too difficult to find if you don't already know exactly what you are looking for. You work on rust core so I don't think you are the best person to judge.

The good part is this can mostly be solved by better formatting and adding a top one-one summary section that groups similar functions and traits (creation, mutation, lookup, etc). With just that you could even convince me to ignore the terrible formatting in the lower section.

The general take away is that the docs are too difficult to scan and if you don't already know something exists and its name, the docs aren't very useful.
Of course Russian government is lying. The Russians President has spent his whole adult life oppressing his own country and just made himself dictator for life.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk: New York gigafactory will reopen for ventilator production
Being honest about their utility can create the motive to ramp up production and improve distribution. This already happened in Taiwan.
> They have so much software developers

That answers your question TBH; I'm sure that every week, a team in Google goes "Let's use our 20% time to make a NEW chat app, only better!", and every year or so, one of those experiments makes it to the board who goes "Yeah this is the best thing ever, let's kill <yesterday's chat app> in favor of this!"

I feel like it's down to a lack of focus as a company on the one side, and too much of a shift in focus on the other.

What they should do (IMO) is to capitalize on that shift from Google to Alphabet and create a sub-company dedicated to chat, instead of leaving it to whatever organizational structure Google itself has. Make it their primary reason for existing instead of "a project a team within Google happens to be working on at the moment"

(caveat: this is based entirely on a very superficial view of Google and how things are organized internally. I'm sure there's a whole floor or building dedicated to one project. Probably not Hangouts though, that product is 'done' and all they do now is keeping it alive, maybe some support for paying customers)
We are currently working on the sharding and the replication (Raft). Development is progressing well and the functionality should come out soon.
Despite having a CS degree I had never heard of CLU, which is a shame. Author is Barbara Liskov of the Liskov Substitution Principle, influential in early OO design.
If your builds take a long time, it's definetly asset pipeline and not code. At this point, you should migrate your project to asset bundles to avoid rebuilding assets on every build - it should save you a lot of time.
Can world leaders agree on a global response to Covid-19 with online diplomacy?
Interesting to see, but I get the impression (purely anecdotal) that once companies have picked Slack, they'll stick with it for years to come. It quickly becomes part of their core communications, and moving to a competitor or back to what they had before is not easy to do (for purely organizational or people reasons, nothing technological - I've only ever used Slack as a very fleeting communications medium, I've never seen it used to drive automation. Maybe some reporting like 'build xyz failed' or 'there is a new issue', but that can be easily switched back to email).
Hi m0ver, I made a similar thing back in the day https://github.com/skyrim/hlviewer.js

It uses original file formats (dem, bsp, wad, ...), so you don't have to generate anything. You can view all current KZ world records with it here http://hlviewer.stefan100.com/
Algorithmic Regulation
When manufacturing consent is broken because the lies are so obvious.
I was born in 76, so I do vaguely remember the BBC computer literacy programmes - I think we were shown episodes on the big TV that the teacher would wheel into the classroom on a trolley.

I don't remember there being a lot of programming content in the school curriculum per se, but BASIC programming generally was absolutely massive back then. On the 8-bit micros we had at the time, it wasn't even possible to load a game without typing a BASIC command, and it was only a small step from there to writing small programs to print rude words on the screen.

Both I and an entire generation of UK programmers learned to program from the Usborne computing books, some of which they've now made available free in PDF form: https://usborne.com/browse-books/features/computer-and-codin...
Yes, that gets the CPU running - but for practical work you usually need to do some board-specific setup like configuring clocks and turning on the DRAM.
There's actually even more than this to low price. I have seen knock-off ST-Link dongles with STM32F103C8 MCUs that are not supposed to have enough flash memory for the stlink firmware, yet they functioned.

How? Turns out they physically have more flash memory, but the accessible flash area is limited by programming tools and documentation to 64KiB (most likely price segmentation, but maybe there's a flash page remapping mechanism that would allow to bin devices based on manufacturing yield).
It is way too difficult to find a function you don't know exists, and I'm not going memorize the api.

It doesn't even come remotely close to the CPU docs. It isn't sectioned just a dumb list of methods where similar methods can be pages away from each other (eg all the methods to look up or index into a data structure should be grouped).

Maybe I just have a higher standard than most rust users.
Pointless rules lawyering.

It's delisted because it doesn't

>typically has a high case-fatality rate

But they don't have a criterion for "massive case rate"

So they are ignoring half the product "case fatality rate * case incident rate" and ignoring the effect of overwhelming medical resources causing increasing fatality rate.
I think I missed the window too, there was one BBC computer available to our class and all we did was play "Granny's Garden" upon it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granny%27s_Garden

(There was some turn-based strategy-game too, where you had to raise taxes, and get elected. I recall almost nothing about it.)
FWIW, I was unable to get Blackhole working reliably (having dealt with this problem several times on Windows, Linux and Mac in the past). It seems very sensitive to which devices are being used in aggregate audio outputs. Might be MacOS's fault, but in any case it didn't work very well when I tried it.
Try sending an AR video capture to someone over the web, lol
>Email is still a way better tool for long complex asynchronous opinionated discussions.

Every experienced and/or powerful person I've worked with felt and preached exactly the opposite: whatever happens, absolutely do not ever have a complex conversation over email. Pick up a phone, schedule a meeting, walk over to them, just make the decision unilaterally, literally anything else.
That's very interesting and something I've been looking for the past months, so thank you for sharing!
Personally I feel I am desperate for some humour in the current climate. I'm going into my birthday tomorrow isolated and in a few days would greatly appreciate a chuckle. Go for it.
As a Chinese living in Auckland, I thought I would be safe here. After the first case detected in the North Shore City about one month ago, people here divided over the virus a lot. Some people were taking it seriously, the other people were not. When I read news and posts from Chinese media, I was so terrified. However when I read news from NZ media like stuff, I felt its not a big deal. I was quite split also. The eventually lockdown is a relief to me.
I saw a video, police man already check if people are going out for essential services on street.
Also it's grateful we have lots of natural place to go in neighborhood. I do think quarantine here will be much easier than in China.
Google moves summer internships to a virtual format this year due to coronavirus
Is this problem not already solved by search filters on job search sites?
Paxos sync protocol targets such use cases, and even accounts for intermittent outages of one or many servers
A Light Box in Heavy Times
It really should not be "xterm-" anything. This is another misnomer.

* http://jdebp.uk./Softwares/nosh/guide/commands/TERM.xml#MIS-...

* https://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#other_vers...

The correct terminal type, per Dickey terminfo, is "kitty". (The PuTTY variant KiTTY is apparently also "putty".) And the terminfo database lends itself both to copying individual records and to having extra records in one's home directory.

* https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/terminfo.ti.html#tic-ki...

* https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/terminfo.ti.html#tic-pu...
Wish I had seen this hours ago.

Their data is visualized at https://healthweather.us/

I’ve been checking this daily for the last week or so.
Anyone knows of a good reference for numerical methods for quantum mechanics ?
This consensus you are pointing to is the consensus that livestock is a leading cause of deforestation. There is no consensus that eliminating meat from all diets is the solution to that problem. There is also no consensus that it is the only problem.

I have no idea what point you are trying to make with oil executives and oilsands. My general statement was in regards to the use of slaves (or indentured servants if you prefer) in the Arabic peninsula which doesn't seem to bother most people (because indeed most people aren't aware of it).
Every word you said is true. Yet you entirely missed the point of O'Reilly conferences.

> Quite frankly I won't miss large, overpriced, junket confs like O'Reilly's.

It's not all about you, and you're not the center of the universe.

This isn't commonly known, but the O'Reilly Open Source Conference was specifically glitzy so the global press had a good experience broadcasting it, and promoting Open Source, since around 2000. They also had about 10 simultaneous tracks, which requires a large venue. That costs real money.

> They were too expensive for most people to justify attending without corporate sponsorship.

Their prices are clearly posted on their registration pages, and they offer generous alumni discounts. And most IT people work for ... wait for it ... corporations.

> The expo halls were full of enterprise sales pitches with minimal substance.

Companies pay for those booths. If you don't like their pitch, you can ask for a technical contact to followup. Or not visit them.

Personally, I walked around to each booth and ask for an overview of their products and asked detailed questions, then blogged about it for others who couldn't make it to the conference.

So they are valuable, if you're in the right frame of mind.

> They also had sponsored keynotes which tended to be sales pitches.

The larger sponsors have the chance to do a keynote. That's how it works. A small percentage of keynotes at O'Reilly conferences are outright sales pitches. The rest aren't. The most valuable ones I saw were the 451 Group market analyses of upcoming trends, which I wasn't expecting to be valuable initially.

Ironically, I heard the most complaints about a keynote delivered by a world expert on HA from VMware - the problem wasn't the talk, the problem was he was a decade ahead of most of the attendees. lol.

The Percona Conference does it right: they have a track with a dedicated room for vendor-sponsored talks. So everybody knows what to expect before sitting down. Yet they still get plenty of attendees.

> If you go to meet people instead of selling your product go to smaller confs put on by local organizers.

Or, you know, you could just go to a bar. But I'm sure you would gripe about the wallpaper color they chose, right?
I was more surprised to see a major CEO hanging out with friends in a restaurant after the pandemic was declared. I’d been in isolation half a week by that point, and was wondering what “the masses” were still doing going out.

I’m astounded to see that smart people were still out socializing by then.
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You can easily reuse an n95 mask, someone did a study that 15 minutes in a rice cooker or 30 minutes in an oven at 70 C should make it reusable

Here's the study https://m.box.com/shared_item/https%3A%2F%2Fstanfordmedicine...

Can't find anything about the rice cooker though.
Claiming that something is illegal, and pointing out that no-one has been prosecuted for it, are not contradictory.
It's pretty much always the case in such situations that the terminal emulator is not XTerm and the "xterm" entry in termcap/terminfo simply does not describe it.
Structural Design Pattern: Facade
It is not an assumption just arithmetic. Median time to first symptom is 6 days. Median time from first symptom to hospitalization is 5-7 days. Median time to death is about 7 days. Add them up and the median time from contact to death is about 3 weeks.
Also, natural history museums are good places to discover new species.

- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/meet-the-new-s...: “Helgen notes that two out of three new mammal species are discovered in museum collection cabinets”

- https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/09/190925120420.h...: “New species of crocodile discovered in museum collections”

- http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141230-the-new-species-hidi...: “Here are five extraordinary new species that have been discovered in museums in recent years”
For the same reason that someone positing a technical blog would host ads from quackery products ("do this every day!").
Yes, you can filter by "entry-level" on job-boards, but you have to do that for every job board. There is not one source for specifically "entry-level" positions.
My fiber ISP is doubling my speed for free during the 21 day nationwide lockdown ... currently on 50/50 Mbps.
True, but that itself is a symptom of bigger problems. The problem isn't which people should or shouldn't have masks. The problem is a lack of supply chain capacity and inventory, and the SNS should have 6 billion masks and 100k ventilators.

Lying to people doesn't help public health or fix the problems of the federal government failing to act. The AARC told HHS to get their act together about the SNS on ventilators, but the govt didn't.
There are a few things present in COBOL that I would like to see lifted into more modern languages. One is the use of the full stop as an expression terminator, as in English, instead of the semicolon. Another is the whole "picture" mechanism for number formats.

More languages should also steal Verilog's use of _ as an optional digit separator. It's just arrived in C# 7.
Looks cool. Responsive layout, please. Painful to browse on iOS phone.
> As a general rule April Fools has become less popular on the web the more widespread it has become

Agree. Most are somewhere between tedious and boring. “Oh look, we changed our company name to [something amusing only to a pencil pusher]. Aren’t we funny. Buy our products.”

> some people might take levity badly given the current world situation

Disagree and fuck them. The last thing we need is doom and gloom [0]. Few situations ought to be handled with solemnity. Including funerals. We gain nothing and only make it worse. What we do need is levity. Some light-heartedness.

[0] Music genres of that name are encouraged though

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Hard disagree. We need levity now more than ever as we stare into the abyss, and there has been a growing trend to be less whimsical and more serious in hackerdom/technology business in general over the last few decades (eg the MSFT blanket easter egg ban).

Hoist the jolly roger, and give me your best jokes ever this year.

PS: DEFCON is cancelled
Robots are hardly pervasive though.
First off, we are talking about WHOLE society, not a single responsible user.

>You touch your face less (read: zero) when in environments in which you're wearing the mask.

That is factually incorrect. Im in Japan right now where vast majority wear masks. People touch face when they want to smoke - because of the mask. When you talk for a bit you have to adjust the mask. Ive seen people scraching there face through the mask. Take it off to talk on the phone.
Not a single person takes it off correctly - they just grab by the centre. Why? Maybe they dont know any better or they think its ok because they have a mask.

>The micro-environment of "your mouth and nose" is not going to breed any more virus than the environment

Thats not the risk model. Virus stays longer in humid enviroment, which meas that masks becomes a more potent vector. Yoxu touch it, leave it on the desk. People reuse their masks, since there is a shortage.

False sense of security - people engaging in risky behavoiur. Highest number of deaths on roads happen when conditions are perfect. People drive faster because the road is dry and visibility is good.