skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do often complain about the quality of software but that is because i complain about the quality of most of the software. The foundation we work on is usually much more robust than what it was in the 90s, it is the stuff that we build on top that is shaky.

And a big issue (at least on the desktop) is that in many cases we keep throwing away old stuff and reinvent new stuff with their new bugs and issues, instead of fixing that old stuff (and i do not think that it is a coincidence that most of the stable foundation is actually old stuff that had a lot of people trying to fix its issues instead of throwing everything away).
To say that somebody had a "noble goal" is to state that their intentions were good, not malicious. That is not the same as being correct. You are pointing out that they were shortsighted fools who did more damage than good, which I agree with, but that's not incompatible with having good intentions.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
How does it fail to handle rooms of people? I ask because I’ve used consumer Skype to host a half dozen folks on two occasions in the past two weeks. Or is your definition of “room” larger than a mere six people?
Often a valid tangentialy comment gets rightly downvoted simply because its current vote total puts it higher on the page than more relevant comments.
Hmm, I wonder what the theoretical foundation is. Looks like you are searching for counter examples to a set of assertions. How general/expressive is the language you describe these assertions in? How do you implement the search?
Interesting that https://mapfilterfold.com/ and
https://hackernewsbooks.com/top-books-on-hacker-news look to be attempting the same goal but with different results.

Curious what's different under the hood.
Let's try to not put people down for self learning. Knowledge can be found anywhere. Those that mock people like this will soon find themselves left behind with ancient university based education. Unless you plan to re-enroll every 10 years the world will pass you by if you are not self learning.
Thanks for the reply. I’ll checkout flow-ui.com. Put my email down.

My context for asking the question was that I’m building https://boomadmin.com where I’m trying to make it super easy to build easy-to-use admin/content management interface for database backed apps.

Your detailed feedback is very helpful for me.
Peer 2 peer doesn't scale for video conferencing with many users. Jitsi only does it for two participants. Everything larger has to go through the server.
I agree, but Zoom is a publicly traded company. Their incentives aren't necessarily aligned with the public good.

The question is "why should Zoom leadership care about the recent privacy concerns if the vast majority of their customers don't care?"

Their stock is up over 6% today while the market is down 4% (volatility caveats here obviously). So far the privacy concerns don't seem to be impacting the companies short or long term prospects, so I wouldn't expect the company to do the right thing.
All data is just numbers. A book is just numbers. Software is just numbers.

If you can have a license on anything, you have to be able to license numbers.

The law isn't like pure logic... not all numbers are the same, even if they are the same number.

What colour are your bits?
https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
To add to that. mainland China banned citizens from traveling to Taiwan as individual tourists 2019 July because of other reasons. So yes Taiwan did not have huge flows of mainland Chinese.

https://time.com/5639832/china-bans-travel-taiwan-tourists/
Do you have any good sources for places to start learining powershell? I'm pretty comfortable in bash, but powershell scares me.
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Very very well. I haven't seen any issues with zoom and yet mine and everyone else's usage has gone up 10-100x. It's very user friendly and It Just Works.

Meanwhile, my company's VOIP acting funny. Conference calls not working. My wife was having issues with skype.

Yes, there are alternatives out there, but i'm yet to see one that is easy to use and reliable in the same way.
Here's what I don't understand... If viruses and bacteria are all over your body and do some useful things, how can some be bad? What separates 'bad' virus from a good virus?
This website appears to have more fine-grained statistics for the New York City area (ironically): https://accelerator.weather.com/bi/?perspective=dashboard&pa...
Does anyone know what could Facebook do with such video calling data?

PS- I hate misuse of my data as much as the next person.
> I don't see much evidence for this happening in the UK, where the project is based.

Reduction in a 40% of UK funding applicants in the last years:

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50044659

Lets see how the nice promises will perform at the end

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/uk-cues-big-funding-...
Jitsi is nice for just video chat with a few participants (I use it where possible). Zoom is the more polished product, with more features and better scaling (Zoom calls with 90 attendees just work in my experience, I'd not trust Jitsi with that)
Is that really a question? If some people are good and do useful things, how can there be murderers?

{ edit: explanation }
Viruses are tiny fragments of dna and proteins that are only there to throw a monkey wrench into your cells. Sometimes that monkey wrench does fairly harmless things. These viruses thrive, because they find lots of healthy hosts over a long period of time.

But some break things badly, reproduce out of control or change your cells' functions to be less optimal. These don't do as well, since their hosts don't thrive.

The viruses don't 'care' what they're doing; they're just bits of junk that mutate a lot. The ones that kill things quickly, tend to die out.

The only reason the world isn't full of horrible murdering viruses (any more than it is) is, statistics. Not some grand plan or kindly act of nature.
I keep seeing that "next couple of weeks" phenomenon. At what point can we be assured that we crossed those ever-critical couple of weeks? It keeps pushing out.

I am thinking that Corona is killing the same people who would have died from regular flu for the most part, i.e. it's not in addition to normal deaths. I understand that this is a minority opinion, but data may bear it out eventually.
Thank you for your feedback. Happy you enjoyed it!
Read an article about how to be unproductive.
How to Not Let the Coronavirus Steal Your Mental Health While You’re at Home
Fighting Covid-19 with GCP – quarantine tracking system
Would you be so kind as to share a few resources?

Thank you
Not this data, but I like Johns Hopkins rendering of their data:

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...
We often run rooms of 200+ people in our organization, which zoom handles without issue. Skype however does not, in our experience.
I think having to disable the autoupdate in win10 is the most requested thing for IT helpdesks these days.

As a result of this complete ignorance to ergonomics, the windows ecosystem is returning back to WinXP years, and windows users are now getting pwned by years old exploits again.

I think microsoft best achievement in win7 was that it was working "out of the box" without having to hack it. Now, win10 again requires to be hacked right out of the box just to work.

People now install stuff like https://www.novirusthanks.org/products/win-update-stop/ or https://securityxploded.com/windows-autoupdate-disable.php and countless others.

But when they finally need to update, the half broken windows install may give up the ghost, because the update script can't account for hundreds of ways how windows internals may have been altered, and so they learn to not to update at all, and switch to antiviruses, qihoo and other "crapware clearners" in the end
Why do we have supermarkets? I mean I can instead just go down to my local carrot farmer and buy a bag. Same with my local potato farmer. Then I go to the Kraft factory to buy some KD.
You are focusing on an important metric - the growth rate!

What is the source of the data? How frequently is it updated?

Bookmarked. :)

Edit: Oh, I see the source now. I see they also have an API. My questions are pointless now. :|
I can’t say what happened there (Hangouts works fine for me in Firefox), but Zoom won’t let you use Firefox at all if you want audio.
No, you have arrived at the answer.

The counts are wrong by orders of magnitude.

Now follow through with what that means.
> What does their product do so much better than the others that I'd put up with this shit?

I'll share my perspective as an academic. Many of us have adopted Zoom, practically overnight, for our teaching, for one-on-one meetings with students, and even for conferences [1].

The answer is: It just works. It's easy. It does what we want it to, with a minimum of fuss.

As someone who now has a whole bunch of unanticipated shit to deal with, this is one less thing to worry about.

I definitely share your objection in principle. If this situation continues long into the future (a terrifying thought), then perhaps I'll revisit my choice of software. But in the short term, to be honest, I don't much care.

[1] https://www.daniellitt.com/agonize/
I've been using WordPress for 4 years with good scaling and no downtime. It's only "slow as hell" if you don't actually know WordPress (which most WordPress users don't). ;)
VSCode is not an IDE, prove me wrong
This site has some of what you want.

https://wuflu.live
"Oh boy, I can hear the sophomore software engineering studio students firing up their word processors from here" works just as well.

I don't think the critique was of self-learning or bootcamps. It was a critique of a certain sort of cringe-worthy self-promotion.

And not just cringe-worthy. Spreading information based upon a cursory analysis of some CSV files without any training or experience in epidemiology, public health, public communications, etc. seems... irresponsible.

Also, off-topic, but most of my peers at university taught themselves how to program years before starting college -- typically in middle/early high school. And I mean actually taught themselves, from books and zine tutorials, not 'attended a formal course of instruction that was offered by a venture-backed firm instead of a formal course of instruction at a traditional university'. I guess times have changed, but the characterization of university students in CS as 'not self-taught programmers' is definitely the opposite of my experience. You came into the CS degree knowing how to program and learned how to do CS. And the characterization of "anything not university" as "self-taught" -- even formal courses of instruction that cost five figures -- is even more strange.
A lot of masks sold retail can’t be used in hospital settings in America. Many hospitals have strict rules about procurement and origination of things like N95 masks. Meanwhile, I can order comparable masks from China and have them in less than a week in quantity. It’s very much cultural as well as government response (why we are sucking so much at controlling this).
That, indeed, answers my last question, thank you. I suspected the answer might be along the lines of “it’s not a tech support shit show”, but my one opportunity to use it this week was cancelled. I’ll try again on Saturday for something someone else is hosting, and find out for myself.
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Why?

Wondering what the reasoning is for this?

Family member works in a similar dept at large hospital and they have stopped seeing patients.
If you go that route, perhaps have 1-2 months of groceries and toiletries delivered?

That would give the groceries enough time to decontaminate before you touched them, even if later on nobody is able to make deliveries to you.

I don't know about refrigerated / frozen foods though. Not sure how long covid19 remains viable when frozen.
Gouged prices, middlemen and medical supply chaos
If you have gigabit internet, maybe.

If you don't then Docker seems to be a system to make a 50 kb download into a 5 GB download.

People don't know how to build something and they think Docker is going to solve that but no, now you have two problems because you still need to build the Docker image.
I use DT almost exclusively for my photo editing since over a decade.

While it is absolutely true that you can do professional work with this you have a very steep learning curve, bad UX and feature overload.

The latter is really a core reason for the bad UX: developers love to add features. Every feature you add becomes another module or another slider.

Every slider or widget you add creates an extra dimension for the parameter vector an artist has to explore to get the result they want.

Less is more. This is contraintuitive for developers. As a developer I would say it is because of the warm, wholesome feeling that adding another feature gives you when you do. :)

Choosing what to leave out or how to combine stuff into fewer widgets is one of the hardest parts of software product development.

And this is the missing piece in so much OSS software.

Just for example, the Phase One (DT-like commercial app) HDR module (which just allows HDR compression of shadows & highlights) has two sliders that cover 95% of use cases.

DT has seven sliders & one dropdown in it's Shadows & Highlights module. Yes, they probably cover the other 5% but a what price?

That's why professional creative software still has an edge and that's why the prospect of being able to run macOS graphical software on Linux is very exciting to me.
Very droll indeed. I don't use homebrew so I don't know how is it managed, but I have generally believe Debian maintainers to be more credible than random github user. When I see install instructions like these I always at least skim the instal script before running it. And of course Debian packages are signed unlike downloading script from unsecured website like in this case where you risk MitM attack.
My experience is diametrically opposite to that. All of our clients are large enterprises and the security and privacy features are very closely examined during procurement literally every time. We haven't had a single client conversation that is remotely like what you're describing.

Might be because our clients are banks but they really care about this stuff.
> Yes it is. It's a specific subset of people (the poor) that can be picked apart from the rest (the non-poor).

I think the issue is that it doesn't necessarily refer to the people mentioned in the first clause. To me it sounds like a non-sequitur, e.g. 'I met those refugees on the road, so I [went elsewhere and] asked the poor a few questions [to see if they would have some insight on the refugees I met earlier].'
For China many Chinese emigrants are returning home with the virus with them. as they don't trust their local healthcare systems.

One example:
https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/biogen-parts-way-employe...
I’m getting “error establishing database connection”
I'm a reader and care, so at least one.
Coding in DOS, saving before executing your program became a reflex because any hard freeze in your program would force you to reset the machine. It wasn't rare, and practically unavoidable if you're trying to do something clever like a TSR. Or doing something interesting with graphics - if you got left in a weird mode, you might have to type blind to recover, or give up and reset.
The UK cabinet has been meeting on Zoom during the crisis. It was in a media shot issued by 10 downing st yesterday.
Github repo:

https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data
I've used Skype (for business and normal Skype), FaceTime etc. The Zoom experience is just much better for larger groups (> 10).

I use Teams at work and would say it is comparable to Zoom in terms of AV quality (Microsoft owns both Skype and Teams portfolios, but Teams is built on a modern codebase that runs on different, markedly superior infra than Skype). Unfortunately Teams only works in the enterprise (O365), and it is still fairly new so it doesn't have a lot of the collab functionality like whiteboarding and breakout rooms that Zoom has.

Privacy issues aside, Zoom really is a better product. People are more forgiving of a product's peccadillos when it just works.
> I don't see enough people making this point: the young will be very vulnerable if left untreated

Why are you pointing out "the young" here?
god damn it NYT, "New York City" is not a county. Why can't I get borough by borough breakdowns? (each borough is its own county)

edit: someone else posted this, which DOES give county-by-county breakdowns: https://accelerator.weather.com/bi/?perspective=dashboard&pa...
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You might see how useful they are quite soon.

“The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that’s required to make it work. The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust. Banks must be trusted to hold our money and transfer it electronically, but they lend it out in waves of credit bubbles with barely a fraction in reserve.”

– Satoshi Nakamoto

We are currently at banks being required to keep a ridiculous zero percent in reserve.
Thank you for the write-up that was super interesting. If you don’t mind I have a question about the microservices. What is theit goal? Serving the data from the database? If not, then there is business logic you can’t Possibly generate, so what exactly do you generate?
By selectively breeding them to be more efficient at breaking down plastics faster, one might be increasing the risk of a runaway 'plastic-rot'.

I'm not concerned yet though, since current landfill sites are effectively perfect selective breeding grounds for 'plastic rot', yet so far we haven't detected any significant increase in the breakdown speeds of plastics in the environment.
Yeah I hate ZOOM sooo much.

First there was the issue with them turning on the camera by default. At least you could turn that off. Then there was the spyware they installed on every Mac without even asking for consent. And now this...

Since the spyware thing I refuse to install their crap on my machine, but one of our suppliers still uses it and the web client is very choppy.. But they'll just have to put up with it. I'm never installing it again.
Ha, funny seeing this mentioned on HN, this student was my Professor for Astrophysics during my time in this field. He was a great mentor and taught me (and others) quite a lot, in particular about outreach and science communication. The Zooniverse project is amazing and citizen science in general is a great idea. However, you mention the crux of the issue already: the tasks need to be enjoyable. Looking at galaxies that potentially no other human ever laid eyes on is pretty much as exciting as it may get. A former colleague of mine (in the group of the mentioned student) worked on this interesting structure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanny%27s_Voorwerp that was discovered by one citizen scientist in the Zooniverse project (hence the name). It's one of the coolest success stories of crowd-sourced research I've heard about.
Yep, if his family hadn't made that mistake he might be alive and they'd simply be bankrupt instead
NeRF: Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis
Not just Zoom, basically every company.
Deep enough to require stitching - from a kitchen knife
db error :p
This is correct. I would say there is still no PS alternative on Linux.

I use Natron a lot for retouching but few people will know about or consider this because it is aimed at film compositing.

But if one wanted to create something better than PS on Linux, looking at professional compositing apps (Nuke, Fusion, etc.) and their OSS clones like Natron would probably be a good starting point.
Really trying to figure out a response that isnt flip - but if you give up your principals when something is difficult, why have them at all?
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DOS wasn't functional enough to be described as stable; it did almost nothing but look after the files on your file system and provide a few APIs, via interrupts, for programs to read and write files and perform console I/O. Stability was almost entirely the responsibility of the program you ran on top.
Ask HN: Leaving Code on a Good Note?
I find it easier to get back to code, when leaving a complex feature in a semi-completed, but non-breaking, state. This makes coming back to the code easier and the shower-problem-solving flows easier that way, the opposite makes it harder to think about what I actually wish to achieve with said feature. Is this something you can relate to?
Interesting, but it's a lot easier to just toss out the inkjet and buy an inexpensive laser printer. You can even buy a small-office color laser printer for $200-300 these days. And 3rd-party toner cartridges for these printers are ubiquitous and cheap and work fine. Why does anyone use inkjets any more? The entire industry is just a big scam.
I think it's just the Times firing a shot across the bows of other newspapers who will re-publish the data as their own without attribution.

Newspapers sometimes do jerky things like that.
OP, how do you propose that Bitcoin be shut down? How would you go about it?
Reporters Without Borders: A free Chinese press might have halted Covid
I've been downloading this daily and watching some things. Mostly deaths in the US:

https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/download-tod...
tl;dr - "So in short, I think that cryptocurrencies provide nothing of value to society. They do however facilitate crime and contribute to climate change."

Is this satire?

I'm wondering if this author covertly intends to strengthen the perceived utility of through this article.

Yes, near-free & instant to exchange, borderless, alternative to gov't, privacy-preserving, competitively evolving etc. digital money provides 'nothing of value'. /s
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I ordered a number of masks yesterday from Aliexpress. It works. Shipping is slower than usual, but not crazy.
Do this such that I who have the resources can also pay for electives if I want to and we can talk. Put my healthcare decisions in the hands of a government body and its a non-starter.
Very cool. I see that respeaker has even a 6 mic array for the pi: https://respeaker.io/6_mic_array/
Since "Bouell" isn't a word, but it is a name, and "Bouells" is a plausible misspelling of "bowels", it could be a pun connecting the two. (medical bowel care and a person named Bouell)
Being able to see it with your own eyes, and be there is the cool thing about this. Anyone can watch video of the trench.
I think the sentiment is good, but... IMO this list isn't very easy to read - especially as more entries will be added. I think you need at least a couple of screenshots, a paragraph of what the app is all about and preferably some sort of category to group them.
> Therefore, I would propose to shut them all down.

How?
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> Java checked exceptions

Actually CLU checked exceptions, Modula-3 exception sets, C++ exception specifications.
Have you tried tracking these numbers even at the state level? The data entry/scraping aspect alone is substantial, but when you get down to the nitty gritty of the wildly varying ways that each agency (state and county) reports these numbers, then you're essentially required to have an opinionated framework and domain knowledge to maintain a consistent, canonical dataset.
Which is a long way of saying that Zoom is one the few companies that has been around long enough to deal with all the edge cases. Throw a few devs in a room for a bit and you'll get a perfectly usable video chat for 1-1 or a small group, but you won't get Zoom.