skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure entering "grocery worker union" or similar terms into your favorite search engine will turn up ample evidence of the fact that unions for grocery workers do indeed exist.
> American citizen expatriates pay tax.

Not if they give up their citizenship for a small fee. Plenty of countries want rich citizens and would be willing to give them citizenship.

> We live in a society. :)

Oh, so because society is stronger than one individual, it's right for them to exercise their force? That sounds like might makes right. Your ethics are atrocious.

Part of that society is that if two people agree to give each other money in exchange for things, the one who pays cash for an equivalent asset doesn't come asking for it back. Otherwise, you must be okay with employers asking for wages back.
I've still got five even after letting most expire over the years. Turns out that it is quite easy to have a great idea and devote just enough energy to it to register the domain name.

It is very easy to delude yourself that the idea is so great that dozens of other people are just about to hit submit and take the name (and idea) away from you.

I get as far as learning some new technology, which is great, but not far enough to get to a useful MVP.

There is also a lot of housekeeping to sort out for a real service, which is a time and sometimes cost issue for something that must be bootstrapped.

The underlying issue is that many worthwhile ideas are hard and need solid effort and commitment to execute. Registering a domain name does get you very far.
perhaps some weird nostalgia thing? I first saw it in... 1998? was at a web dev shop, and most of the Mac people there were all in love with bbedit. it seemed fairly odd and slow (as did most of the Mac stuff they ran), but it might have been one of the only decent text editors around at that time? I wasn't much of a Mac person then (as likely evidenced by my comments above).
20 years ago I downloaded a text version of the Jargon File [1] and read it back to front. It wasn't dry at all and gave me an insight into the 60's/70's Silicon Valley hacker culture...

[1] I don't know where I got it 20 years ago but DDGing gave me https://jargon-file.org/archive/
what are you talking about? it says it right there in literally bold letters on the home page in response to "what" rather than "why":

>Chapel is a modern programming language that is...

>parallel: contains first-class concepts for concurrent and parallel computation

>productive: designed with programmability and performance in mind

>portable: runs on laptops, clusters, the cloud, and HPC systems

>scalable: supports locality-oriented features for distributed memory systems

are you such a literalist you need literally "why? because ..."

i have a question for you: why do so many hners jump on the same silly meme over and over again even when it's not accurate?
You can't "boost" your immune system.

The best thing you can do is to not hamper it. Eat varied diet, ensure you get sane proportions of basic nutrients and make sure to support your gut bacteria.

Don't poison yourself with crap food. Stay away from sugar and alcohol.

Try to maintain your aerobic capacity even if you stay at home. When push comes to shove this additional capacity might make it easier for you to survive.
Linguists call "I think" when used this way a "stance marker"[0]. It's definitely not redundant: it reveals pragmatic information[1] about the context you're speaking in, namely by tempering your stance and revealing your level of confidence in the statement you're making.

See this for example: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SC59wwEkK64tvQsDb9hC/full

[0] Here, "stance" means: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stance_(linguistics)

[1] For more info, see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatics
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Thanks, S_A_P, for responding. I do still have some money left, but the coronavirus lockdown and widespread talk of hiring freezes have me a little on edge.

I would not say I am desperate. But, as my moniker suggests, I am confused -- mainly about how to find opportunities to which I am suited (even if they're not my personal ideal.) Sometimes I wish I had left Mandarin aside as a curiosity, and gone all-in on computers. Other times I wish the opposite. Ah, well.
Analysis: Pandemic’s effects will now take IT spending negative for the year
Singapore, Coronavirus Model, Threatens Prison for Social Distancing Violators
Headline should technically read:

"Zoom Removes Code That Sends Data to Facebook when you first open the app"

as per the article:

"Motherboard downloaded the update and verified that it does not send data to Facebook upon opening."

It's a bit naive to just assume that just because they don't send the data right away, that it's not getting sent at some point later on.
There is a nice Sankey diagram of where all the money is going from DataIsBeautiful on Reddit .... >

[shameless plug] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22708372
It could be, but there's also reason to believe it will recover very quickly.

In 2008, the economy 'woke up' and realized that it was based on a huge amount of false data. Imagine if every home in America was not worth the stated value. That's a lot.

If we can move past coronavirus and get most people back to work, most economic interests will believe there's no reason we can't get back to the 'good times' quickly. It will be a bull ride. Companies will want to expand rapidly and there will be common agreement about that.

So yes, there will be some dominos to pick up and some crazy problems with government debt - but if China is able to 'make stuff' most people are able to travel etc. then I feel it will be a 'v-shaped' recovery. Much quicker than 2008.

This all depends on if restaurants, hotels, airlines, factories are able to get back moving again.
As somebody who has been writing in these technologies for 20 years I disagree. The entire purpose of jQuery, for example, was exactly because talent was rare. Keep in mind jQuery was around for years before it was popular. It was its Sizzle engine masking the standard DOM methods that made it popular.

When talent is rare you can artificially widen the availability of talent by lowering the barrier of entry. Lower qualified job candidates are dependent on the crutches that allowed them entry, though, which comes at a cost of lost innovation potential and productivity overhead. The cliche don't reinvent the wheel is completely about developers distancing themselves from innovation. When talent is suddenly and explosively available to the job market there isn't a valid business reason to do that especially as companies have smaller budgets for hiring fewer developers and more developers are competing for fewer available positions.
Yes, they're really quite childish.
As a counter, overpopulation isn’t necessarily a good thing. The waste alone can create issues on land and water.
Thanks for the example, looked into them a bit. Sounds like they're negotiating for some benefits amid the current pandemic: http://www.ufcw.org/coronavirus/workers/

Wishing them the best of luck.

That's unfortunate that they don't cover gig workers. A good chunk of our employment is now in "gig work".
Legitimate businesses and their customers subsidizing VCs and their managers, highly paid employees, and customers.
Pretty awesome, what about APIs? Also there is a problem/bug in creating test sites. "Site name has to start with e2e-test..." but no way to enter that prefix. Might temporarily intentional
Full Audio from the 1979 LP Record “First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival”
I am a tad too young to have encountered it, I was picking up X programming in the wave where motif was heading out. I remember Xt/Xaw which I believe had some commonalities with Motif. Then the first version of gtk I played with was 1.x.
They just laid off most of workforce
If Zoom "takes its users' privacy extremely seriously" and their "customers’ privacy is incredibly important" then why would they be releasing software without a strong knowledge of what third party code they're adding in, and what exfiltration might be happening as a result? They hold user privacy in such high regard and yet are releasing a program without even hooking it up to a network monitor for five minutes?

Someone's lying here.
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> Then advocate for a better healthcare system and government accountability

Yes. But failing that, I'll take contact tracing and risking fines for breaking quarantine - which I would now be liable for, assuming I had also even been able to be tested in order to become a confirmed case, which is apparently too much to ask at the moment - over the combination of adtech surveillance for no greater point than to make money, and incompetent government response that seems all but guaranteed to end five or six figures' worth of lives minimum, that we have now.
Corona virus news filter, for your mental health
Microsoft staff giggle beneath the weight of 52,000-person Reply-All email storm
Watch Brad Chamberlain's video. His definition of productivity by seasoned HPC people:

...I was born to suffer...

How true.
Interview with Maxim Grew of Intrepid Camera [video]
> "Right To Try" is a return to legal snake oil.

Is that really so bad in 2020, when we have access to the information we actually need to learn about snake oil?
Searchfox is super handy for spelunking through the Mozilla codebase. For example: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/search?q=Netscape+Comm...
Digitaltrees, thanks for responding. I presume you mean "patent lawyer." One or two acquaintances have suggested I go to law school. I can see how I might come to enjoy law, but if I am going to pursue graduate education, I think computers would be a better fit overall.

That said, I'll at least look into the possibility, and ask my lawyer friends to give me an honest perspective on what law school is like. Thanks again.
Show HN: Do you love 8 bits art and time lapse videos? I got something for you
Funny, but that's not the question I asked. I'm not trying to start a fight here, I simply asked for evidence that the unions are "strong" as you said.

For my side, I guess I could point to the fact that Walmart workers as a whole have never been able to unionize, mostly due to the intervention of Walmart.
(https://populardemocracy.org/news/how-walmart-persuades-its-...)
Singapore does not have a mask wearing culture. Neither has it told everyone to stay home. But it has closed borders n pubs.
Intro to General Purpose Hash Functions
Ask HN: Applying for Remote Developer Roles
I'm coming to find I prefer remote developer roles over physical. On LinkedIn, it's discussed as if they're all over the place. I have a CS degree and 15 months of industry experience.

What is an effective way and place to apply for a remote position?
The same is true of so many of the things that are suddenly deemed unnecessary in this time of crisis. Let's be judicious about which gatekeepers and rent seekers we choose to bring back online.
Also, air treated with UV light smells terribly. I was raised in Bulgaria and like in most Soviet bloc countries, during the winter, all kids were getting irradiated daily at kindergartens and schools for 5 minutes to get vitamin D. That smell around the UV lamp is so strong in my memory! Of course, we all wore goggles.
This is absolutely common. Business will require tracking/authentication/etc, contracts will be signed, developers will implement the provided SDK. Nobody will inspect the data being sent.

> releasing a program without even hooking it up to a network monitor for five minutes

How many times have you seen anyone do that? Unfortunately that is the reality - my personal take is to simply try to avoid vendor libraries at all costs, but it's hard to sell.
This video is from a mini series I've been making while developing a 2D engine with a tile map editor. I'm testing the format to see if people like these kind of videos.

Feel free to let me know if you would like to see me writing the code to create projects like this.
Yes, it's like people try to make more science of it than it really is...
You are absolutely correct that "Red Star Over CC" is a medium-term plan, not a short-term one. Thanks for chiming in.
Is it because of the Danger Triangle?

If you pluck those hairs, germs and particles near the follicles can get inside and cause an infection. He described the concept of a "danger triangle," or the area on the face between your mouth and nose that's susceptible to passing infections on to the brain.

https://www.businessinsider.com/why-you-shouldnt-pluck-your-...
> we decided to remove the Facebook SDK in our iOS client and have reconfigured the feature so that users will still be able to log in with Facebook via their browser.

Since they removed the Facebook SDK entirely, whatever mechanism Facebook used to collect the info doesn’t exist any more. Instead of being able to collect the data at all times, wouldn’t FB only have a vector to do so through web login? At that point, I assume they could do fingerprinting in the browser to collect some info, but at least the cannot do it on the system level any more.

It still seems like this is a big improvement. Though, I imagine most folks will have at least one other app using the FB SDK, so it’s not like the root cause is fixed.
No. At least I don't think so. I remember he was a francophone who believed that the french revolution was the most important event in the last 500 years. I remember a few of us arguing that the american revolution was more important since it came first and inspired the french revolution. Not to mention the fact that we eventually became the dominant world power and not the french. Easily one of the best professors I've had.
If it does the same thing and has the same name and creator, is it really a different project? Many software releases are actually complete rewrites under the hood.

The only reason what became Net News Wire 5 originally had a different name is because NNW was owned by BlackPixel at that point.
We solved invoicing at our startup. We built our own web app for that
I think you reacted too strongly, IMO. I only said some. People and their doctors are the MOST concerned with their lives...not you, not politicians, and not FDA staffers.

If I want to treat my (illegal war) PTSD, depression or anxiety with novel treatments like 2CB, LSD, or MDMA, that is my choice. It immoral to restrict my supply with the barrel of a gun.
Boeing’s crisis started long before CV19. The 737 Max debacle was already weighing heavily on their balance sheet.

The point is, it’s hard to predict the future. Who knows if the future will bring a fatal bug in your software, a pandemic, or both. But regardless, we all know tough times will always happen, and to therefore be prepared.
Sony cameras sold in Japan are infamous for not having English language options.
Needs to have a mode normalized by population, IMO. Currently the graphs are misleading if one would like to see how bad things are in a given country.
I hate using AirBnB. We used it once during an extended stay in Milan and the apartment was horribly dusty (I have allergies), the maid practically worthless and the "host" in no way matched the persona presented on the site (a pleasant looking woman vs the angry man we actually talked to).

But one thing I don't hear complained about enough: Having to share your home with AirBnB guests.

We live in a luxury condo in a major metro. A number of the owners in our building are absentee (probably not even in country) and they AirBnB. Nothing like paying a small fortune for a home and facilities and then having to share your pool with a bunch of obnoxious travelers who think they're in a fucking hotel.

We've tried to work with the company that manages our building but it's nearly impossible to stop, short of policing all of the residents. And it's illegal where we live! AirBnB doesn't give a shit. The offending owners (technically our neighbors) don't give a shit.

Honestly, I'd love to see them tank.
Why Zoom Video’s Sky-High Stock Will Fall to Earth When Pandemic Ends
The technology below can do it in 15 seconds. An ingenious 18 year old glucoses meter company hacked a glucose meter to do it. Interesting past between them and JNJ. They submitted it for EAU.

http://www.pharmatechsolutions.co/assets/inserts/20200318_Ge...
Society might be better if tipping were not baked into the system, but there it is: wage scales, labor and tax codes have completed normalization of tipping, at least in the US.

Your principled act of rebellion will produce not reform of commercial culture, but only distress for those who serve you -- and for yourself.
Now I feel dumb. I completely forgot that connection, and skipped over the blatant “Motherboard, Tech by Vice” in the title. It’s been a long week...

Don’t mind me, just fixing that mistake.
I would like this, especially for tests (I understand being more restrictive for treatment but still disagree with the winner take all corpratism that results under current regime)
I'm all for providing health care (not insurance) via taxes. I think the burden of (mandatory) sick time should fall on the company, because otherwise you create an enormous parallel bureaucracy and require a one-size-fits-all solution to a problem that requires a lot more nuance. As to other benefits, it depends, but a lot of those are probably best left in the hands of the company in that they're another form of compensation. E.g., places like Google and Twitter provide staff meals, but I think it makes little sense to have a federal Department of Lunch. Better to leave it to employees and companies to jointly work out locally optimum solutions.
They monopolize supply chains. Not a specific market. Walmart has a reputation for exploiting companies to solely work for them because the money is too good. Then they force them to make it at insignificant margins until they can't anymore. Amazon as well.
Such a simple idea executed with style.

$1,924,018 pledged of $50,000 goal

Bravo!
I think my doctor and I can make those choices best from a wide spectrum of solutions, not only those lobbyied for by Giliad.
I agree it’s a niche problem. It also sucks that I’ve had this problem for almost 20 years now and it’s still a problem.
To join the strike they’d have to be working first no? So perhaps the best thing is for them to start scanning.
A Spur to the Biotech Century Ahead
Here’s a $25 gift card - but first sign this paper that forfeits your ability to sue the company or accuse it or any wrongdoing doing this crisis.
That sort of decision (absence of filter for non-smoking listings) would be owned more by the Product org than visual designers or engineers. It's an appreciable criticism, but I don't think you can blame the people developing the interaction patterns for that.
If a company only has one manager for "hundreds" of employees, this has to be very low on the scale of the ways the company is doing badly for its workers.
I worked on the bbc machine (and its precursors). Was employee 21 at Acorn. Wish I could say I contributed significantly, but not really. I was there though! Wrote some of the Atom OS among many other things. And the “filing system” that wrote files to cassette tape. Now that was a startup (Acorn, I mean).
I find the state of the environment so shockingly depressing, it's incredible. What would I give to see the world like that?
In my condo, AirBnB & general bad renters was enforced by HoA fines.

However, my HoA was fine-happy and generally useless othwrwise
I have the Samsung NX300 mirrorless camera sitting in a drawer. It was actually a fantastic camera for its time, quite a lot like the Sony A6xxxx series (I have the A6300), and with very good lenses such as the 20mm pancake.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22707365
Lol. NSFW, perhaps? That is, theoretically, if anyone was "at" work right now.
If it puts you at ease at all, rather than not being mentioned enough, that actually seems to be one of the most common complaints about Airbnb.
Wow not a lot of love for AirBnB here. I've had the opposite experience, traveling with a baby or sometimes with my parents - I've found it a MUCH better experience to book an entire apartment for my holidays instead of individual hotel rooms. Works out a lot cheaper and gives us a far better travel experience with access to a kitchen, and a living room to relax in.
Show HN: We solved invoicing at our startup: built our own web app for that
Ask HN: Is there demand for super wide generalists?
As a web developer I feel like I get paid probably unreasonably well for a specific skill while I have a whole bucket of skills off to the side which languish. It's starting to feel more and more unfulfilling to me as I go on yet its hard for me to imagine who would really be able to benefit from such a super wide skill set.

Quick history: I graduated with a degree in economics during the great recession but taught myself ruby and Javascript based web dev because I perceived it to be a more lucrative career and have been working as a developer for 10 years ever since . So I feel pretty in tune with a large range of tech after programming for 10 years but on the other hand, I've always stayed well versed in macro economics, especially international trade and monetary policy.

Off to the side of that I have a decent understanding of how financial markets work to the point where I can hold reasonably deep conversations with friends in finance and have some personal experience trading.

Off to the side of that, I started flipping houses in my spare time and learned not only about plumbing, electrical and carpentry but also about sales, accounting project management, architecture and interior design.

So to sum it up I've picked up a mix of

-programming and technical product development

- understanding of financial markets and many macro econ topics

- light but non trivial knowledge of several different trades

- the hard and soft skill picked up on the real estate transactions

- all sorts of other little skill all over the place

Im not trying to be cocky here, my skills in each of these areas are each drastically worse than the people who focus on them full time (hopefully with the exception of the tech stuff) but I was wondering if anyone has found ways to use super broad skill sets like these. The only thing that comes to mind is maybe niche areas of finance but I wouldn't even be sure where to look and I wouldnt be sure how to pitch my experience.

Any thoughts or similar experiences would be appreciated.
I’ll take 4 boxes of Trump cereal and 3 boxes of Biden cereal, please.
I was first using a dumb phone but soon realized that I need at least a maps application when I am abroad in a foreign city. Not being able to search for addresses on the go is also very unhandy if you don't wanna visit police stations around the world.

For my current Android I decided to get an upstream open source one (one out of four, to be exact, because there are not many blob free ones). Switched to OmniROM head builds without any google integrations, which kinda has the same effect as a dumb phone.

You would not believe what runs through gapps. Searching a bus? Nope, requires google. Take a note? Nope, requires google. Edit a markdown file? Nope, requires google.

f-droid and its analysis of apk files is a godsend.

My phone stays silent, with ublock0 in Firefox, and never shows a notification if I don't want it to. Use contact stars for allowance of emergency calls in DND mode.

I love it when I realize I haven't eaten at 21:00 because I could keep up the focus so much.
Your implication being that the average American who is negatively affected by a public employee union strike takes the side of the government and blames workers for inconveniencing them?
Thats the question I am struggling with, what does it takes to set up infrastructure for masks on scale, maybe somewhat lower quality for the population. Compared to the cost of shutting down lives of people which would have a very long term impact.