skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a lot of us working from home now. Interviews, meetings, and even mundane social interaction have suddenly shifted to virtual. I appreciated the effort put into this guide to the new world of work.

How has your work been impacted by working remotely?
Maybe Pulsar gets close. Your general question regarding Kafka reminds me of this: https://medium.com/@rad_g/the-case-for-kafka-cold-storage-32...

I’ve written that.

Edit: kafka jira did not get far: https://issues.apache.org/jira/plugins/servlet/mobile#issue/...
Didn't notice this before but their branding is actually pretty slick.

Sweet domain name and the logo is great too

The fact that they release music for free is cool too
Thanks!

Paul Graham essays are included and can be found at: https://ycadvice.com/?category=Paul%20Graham%20Essays

If you click on sub-topics after that, you can see all the sub-categories for his essays :)

For Sam Altman, we have all his startup resources at: https://ycadvice.com/?people=Sam%20Altman
Because the security / privacy focused video conferencing apps are getting no traction. Because the tradeoffs for security / privacy (more difficult onboarding for an individual on new devices, more difficult inviting, poorer video quality etc) seem to have scared people away from those options (which do exist) and into the arms of zoom which has made ease of use it's entire focus.

You can set your own meeting room to be join-able BY ANYONE with an ID that DOES NOT CHANGE. Terrible security - great convenience.

Business and educators get feedback if students etc are using other programs other than zoom while on call. TERRIBLE for privacy (zoom tracking which windows are foreground etc) - nice convenience for teachers and bosses who like this.

At every turn, zoom has emphasized things like this.
Are electives not covered by your insurance? Do you pay for them entirely out of pocket?
> I think users would feel incentivized to play this over any of the stupid casual online games with no positive real-life implications

With all due respect, I think this is wrong. People play games that are fun, regardless of real-life implications. If you can make a fun game that is socially-conscious, more power to you. But socially-conscious by itself does not make a killer game.
I don't think I understand the use of the word "Introvert." That, to me, has nothing at all to do with focus or attention or lack thereof? I suppose there could be a suggestion of introspection, but that also has nothing to do necessarily with introversion other than the same prefix.
While true, this is more of a Google problem than a 2FA problem.

Google will lock you out of your account even without 2FA if it cannot recognize you. It happened to me on a Google Apps account that does not have 2FA.[1] Customer service should be present to handle edge cases.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21168834
Thanks for raising this point on whether or not 'community' can be reasonably used here, as it's an important one. Admittedly, I did not push deeper on the term 'community' at first, though I notice that the HN Welcome tab refers to this space as a 'community site'. That may well just be a descriptor for the site, but that doesn't adequately address your point. I haven't trained as an anthropologist, so the aspect about 'shared resources and problems' is helpful for me see here. Would you say, 'community' can be multiple in its definition by different members of a group? Would you say that any or all all members of a group must collectively agree on the status of their group as a 'community' to in fact be considered a community?
Spain sent testkits back to China because they were unreliable
Think twice before using Zoom. They have a lot of engineers in China developing the core technology. You would be foolish to conduct meetings and share sensitive docs over zoom. Communist party is listening to everything.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/26/zoom-key-profit-driver-ahead...
Yes, this is due to the virus, not the previous financial health of the companies. YOu have companies in danger of folding because creditors may be hesitant to give fixed-term loans to a company for which no one can determine a business resumption date. That does not reflect on the pre-virus financial health of the companies. Any company would find trouble with liquidity when its business model has been suspended suddenly and indefinitely.
Trent Reznor is a treasure and all around great guy.
Looks like a good summary. Will read. But at the rate the discipline moves I feel like we need one of these every couple of months for everyone (not just "lay" scientists). Anyone know a good journal or something that produces a similar sort of survey frequently? Like once a quarter?
How long did it take you to learn Python?
When I first started lurking here, I would have agreed with you. As the community has grown, I'd say it's more center-right than center-left nowadays.

There's the unsurprising pro-business attitude that has a heavy libertarian lean, the 'don't tell me what I can and can't say, SJW' to the social commentary, lots of 'they need to work harder' attitude towards the less-fortunate, and also the 'government is always out to get us' conspiracy theorists have become more common. That sort of commenting has been around for a while, but it's really grown in recent years.
They'll just leave the United States, then?

Why is it 'fair'? They made their money by giving people things they wanted in exchange for money the people were happy to give them. How is taking it back fair?
Covid-19 Projections
Roche have a legal problem. Their lysis buffer is completely unpatentable, it's a standard reagent whose composition has been published many times over and is obvious to any biochemist. And once you disclose the makeup you can't claim trade secret either.

The sanest way for Roche would be to price accordingly, buying your own kit saves technician labour, but we can't have than, can we?
You can’t automate it with cron, but Google Takeout does let you schedule exports every two months (six a year), and you can choose to have the file added to a cloud drive or have a download link emailed. It’s not ideal, but it’s better than it was. For mail, there are some really good command-line backup implementations that’s you can automate with cron. When I worked in a GSuite workplace, I used gmvault to backup my inbox every week (IMAP would work too but I was paranoid and my inbox was crucial to my job). Apparently there is now a better alternative than that but for mail anyway — and likely files in GDrive — there are options.
This is exactly how it works in the UK - universal coverage of everyone via the NHS, and additional elective procedures covered either via private insurance or direct payment at private facilities.
can you provide a list of examples?
Google cancels its infamous April Fools’ jokes this year
Show HN: To practice Django I built an Invoicing, Inventory and Books app
Astrotech Developing New Test for Covid-19 Using Your Breath
The Usefulness of Python’s Permutations and Combinations Functions
Most work being done on significant open source projects is by people who are being paid for that work.
An historian on Twitter suggested people should keep journals of how COVID-19 affects their everyday lives.

I've been doing it as a method of self-reflection, and found it really valuable. I end up not just enumerating the changes to my life, but exploring how I am responding to them, trying to describe how they're affecting me emotionally, etc.

It's just for me, so I don't worry about missing days or being dramatic, or writing in an organized manner. But it's been really interesting, and not at all the chore I expected.
thank you for the hint. There are many works of Russell Ackoff. Could you recommend one of these for this regard?
And I addressed everything you said....

But then don’t hire a bunch of old school net ops folks who got one certification and call themselves consultants when all they know how to do are lift and shifts.
100%, The Social Network soundtrack that was Reznor and Atticus Ross project is my go to for deep focus work.
> Where did they get this capital?

I would assume people gave it to them in exchange for goods that those same people were unwilling to produce?

> It's a sad state of things when Americans go hungry solely due to billionaires hoarding wealth on private islands.

No one is going hungry. People have paid unemployment insurance and will be getting a stimulus check anyway.

> ut our "economic system" says they're not allowed to access it until a billionaire decides they're good enough to be employed to make them richer.

You don't need a billionaire to employ you. Just make something your neighbor wants and charge them for it. I made a small fortune selling tomato starts to my neighbors. Which billionaire employed me? Maybe people should start asking what they can do for others instead of waiting for someone to spell it out for them.
This is such a simple, clever idea. I make what feels like hundreds of decisions a day (exaggeration but it feels like that sometimes) and I frequently finish the day exhausted and unable to remember anything.

I’m going to whip up a web app for this.
Ask HN: Is it right to decrease the price of our app to help fight pandemic
Connecton (Mac app to make/receive calls handsfree from your laptop) has decreased price from $9 to $2 to help this work from home situation we thought of decreasing the app pricing for people working from home. Some people have been suggesting it as a wrong move.
I think people are missing the fact that ZOOM doesn't actually clean up its act. It has lots to profit from selling user data.
Key human factors behaviours to help when working under pressure
I don't think you can. Job performance is something that gets figured out on the fly.

Unless you're working in a crazy standardized operation thats a moving target.

e.g. We've got a ton of manager & they all sorta do their own thing...they gravitate towards their strong suit essentially. You can't really test for that in advance.

Some people excel at leading 30 man teams on stable jobs. Others excel at being parachuted into technical shitshows and sorting it out. Very different personal attributes.

It's a crap shoot as tracker1 says and will continue to be one
> IQ tests (for interviewing) are typically spatial comparisons, some math, logic puzzles, reading comprehension, and pattern recognition

I definitely got these in tech interviews. Thoughtworks gave me one last year.
You can opt-in to sharing data via the Apple Research app.

https://www.apple.com/ios/research-app/
Absolutely not. I actually tried this.

As soon as something goes wrong with your solution - everyone goes, why aren't we using zoom. Literally totally non-techies - that will be their first bit of feedback (I tried to go with google hangouts).
I love this one:

"Back in 2007, Trent Reznor did something a little different with the release of "Year Zero". He essentially created a game...a mystery...a unique marketing campaign. This was an incredibly complex campaign with clues buried all over the world. "

https://omny.fm/shows/ongoing-history-of-new-music/nine-inch...
Just because you are Bad Guy doesn't mean you are bad... guy.

Just because you have open source doesn't mean you are Open Source.
Slack screenshare doesn't work at all at iOS (As in if you are on an iPad/iPhone, and someone else screenshares, you can't see their screen at all)
Free Virtual Conference Webflow Cloneable
Free as in beer...
You can't re-use oil products that have been combusted.
U.K. Says 3.5M Antibody Tests Coming in Days
"The only method that works is quarantine"

Literally nobody in the epi community believes that. Would you please state your credentials, or cite a credible source for that statement? (For the opposite, please do read takes from Trevor Bedford, Mark Lipsitch, Carl Bergstrom, Andy Slavitt or really pretty much anybody in the field)

We (the US) are currently in a state were suppression is the only prudent tool. As SK has shown, contact tracing & testing help a lot once you're not completely inundated by cases (and actually have a meaningful supply of equipment)

Yes, there are privacy concerns. Work on them. Address them. But blanket statements like "only quarantine works" are extremely detrimental to public health efforts - the last thing you want is an "all or nothing" mindset
If someone's at risk of dying on the way to the hospital making a CVS run is not the right call.
Hi there, when it happened, did that experience of being downvoted change your perspective on the 'health' of HN? can you say more about contrasts between a human conversation and the conversations on HN?
We’ve gone from under $9 trillion about 15 years ago, to I’m guessing, $25 trillion in national debt.

After this one is over, perhaps we can add a few billion for research into diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, pancreatic cancer, etc ...

...and the millions that Bill Gates asked for pandemic research 5 years ago.
In ferrets!

(The article says: infection in ferrets, which are the standard animal model for human influenza infection.)
Which 1.0 though?! They hit 1.0 a few times.
Their financial reserves will disappear way faster if they keep it in dollars. Maybe not so much when they switch to gold. We'll see.
NIN / Trent Reznor has done some incredibly cool stuff around their releases before, for anyone interested I recommend checking out this talk from MIDEM a while back

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Njuo1puB1lg
So why the timing to rename it? Why now?

I am asking that because you did not address it in my original comment, so I am going to harp on it again. Why now?
Where is this requirement to seek alternatives?

Both in high school and college I used PLENTY of stuff that I didn't want to and was never provided "alternatives" if I didn't consent. Seriously, endpoint protection products centrally controlled with total system access control are not uncommon in these settings.

You are claiming I can opt out of all of this if it invades my privacy?

The school had a third party vendor that tracked every keycard access to every lock on campus - I'd def like to opt out of that!
> I think having to disable the autoupdate in win10 is the most requested thing for IT helpdesks these days.

That has not happened even once to me, and what company allows users to decide?

I can tell you that the majority of calls to my desk from mac users are a direct result of not updating. The Windows machines all have their updates controlled by WSUS, a standard component on an AD network. I have very close to zero problems with Windows 10 updates.
A recession could create high quality acquihire opportunities
I feel sometimes you get upvoted or downvoted more depending on politics more on the inner comment quality.

For pure tech and startup comments, I would say it's very healthy.
This is an awesome idea! I've been thinking that a product like this should exist and have long been wondering how you could automate it. But maybe in the end you can't easily...
> Job performance is a satisficing measure: you only need to get someone who's good enough to perform the duties you need of them. (Yes, even in software engineering.)

Is that really the case for software? I mean, I'm very skeptical of the "only the best and brightest" nonsense, as I think it selects for the wrong people. But I'm also skeptical of the "eh, good enough" heuristic.

Right now I'm helping a friend deal with a code base that was built by an outside dev shop. It undeniably works; the business has been running on it for a number of years. And honestly, like most software, it's not a complicated app; mostly CRUD stuff. But overall it's a spaghetti snarl. Any given concept might be in the code, or in a config file, or driven by SQL data, or even driven by JSON blobs stuffed into the database, mutated by the main code base, and passed along to the JS front end.

Now that I can see the code, I understand why the dev shop needed so many people working on it, and why all features were hard to do. It's because when you use a lot of mediocre programmers, they all create work for themselves and one another. Not intentionally, but just because they aren't able to see how the differing approaches and sloppy work slowly diminish productivity.

So although I agree with you that a lot of companies hire on vanity metrics, I'm really skeptical that "whoever, as long as they barely qualify" is a better approach.
No one wants to clean toilets
A little more padding for the top buttons to distance them from the notification bar a little would be great!
The correct unit is the Whales. 3 to 8 times the size of Whales.
Well at least now that Yahoo has shut down groups, that problem has gone away.
I agree. Indie Hackers is more positive IMO
An SBA loan is been hanging over my father's head ever since 2008, and he's had no way to dismiss it beyond bankruptcy, which he's been trying very hard to avoid. His retirement is gone, he lost the warehouse that he was conducting business from, and he no longer owns his business.

Be very very careful getting one of these.
Emily's a hacker who does a lot for fun and amusement. I get the sense that doing this in an efficient and effective way was not the end goal.
That's not the reason, though.
Stay put.
That's your best choice.
Your home / apt is the environment over which you have the most control.
Order a bunch of water and TP and delicious snacks from amazon and twitch your heart out.

When you have to come into contact with people, wear gloves, a mask (you can make it yourself, and sterilize it too), and eye protection (safety glasses). We call it MEGG, but you probably won't need the gown.

Here is how some of my colleges do it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-tw-7XRV5w
Wapi.fm Developer Radio
Cynicism is easy and for whatever reason in the cultural zeitgeist tearing down other people/ideas/things is seen as being an intellectual.
Nice write up. The logic of the sleep and wakeup code, which explicitly pass control from writer to reader and back again, clearly shows how pipes lead to the more refined Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) concept.
Strange how nature works sometimes. An arrangement of proteins sheathed by a layer of lipids can kill billions of people.
FDA Approves Clinical Trials to Use Antibodies from Recovered Patients
"First week of February" is the week after the last earnings release, if any time isn't covered by a blackout period wouldn't it be that?
Came here to mention that these are two follow-up albums to Nine Inch Nail's original release of Ghosts I-IV, almost 12 years ago.

The Ghosts album marks the first time Nine Inch Nails released an album under Creative Commons, as they decided to go fully independent with publishing their music at this point (after a fight with Interscope).

Since then they still manage to produce and publish their own music to much success and go on tours. After listening to Ghosts V-VI, I definitely prefer VI myself as it's much more dark and chaotic while at times being peaceful and melodic. Glad to see Trent and his friends create another great addition to the Ghosts collection.
When I first started lurking here, I would have agreed with you. As the community has grown, I'd say it's more center-right than center-left nowadays.

Interesting. My subjective experience leads me to feel the progression has been exactly opposite of that. When I first started here, the site did seem somewhat libertarian leaning, pro-capitalism, pro-entrepreneurship, etc. (not to mention more optimistic and less cynical overall). But over time the prevailing zeitgeist here definitely seems to have shifted to a more anti-capitalist, pro-government, collectivism oriented outlook.
He went to study CS in college, so he gets the concepts of the software industry (open-source, having a great website...).
Rethinking academic priorities during a pandemic
> IQ has nothing to do with whether you know CS basics or not, that's the problem.

In practice the Google/Facebook interview has nothing to do with knowing the CS basics either.

Edit: In practice understanding CS basics is the baseline that gets you to the interview - kind of like English is the baseline for an IQ test delivered in English.
Well HN is more of an advertisement for YC companies and their products/services. It draws in people who are more likely to be their customers, people who love trying new stuff and thinking something new might be the solution they were looking for, people with a lot of cash to help try out such new solutions and get the ball rolling. That's why it's full of novelty in the posts and comments, and focuses its moderating energy on drawing in the best-of-the-best and the worldwide experts, because those at the forefront are often the very same who love novelty, and because they draw crowds of the same type. But it really is an advertisement machine first and foremost, and every single thing, from the posts to the comments, is meant to facilitate that.
Since nobody else has explained why so far, the smoking gun that makes it clear it's not a dot matrix printer is that dot matrix printers put ink onto paper using pins to strike a ribbon.

They work on the same principle as typewriters did, which also used a ribbon. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter_ribbon)

The reason they're called "dot matrix" was to distinguish them from another contemporary type of printer that had type (letterforms) built directly into a ball or wheel, so that instead of an array of pins, a raised metal piece in the shape of (say) an "A" would strike the ribbon. ("Daisy wheel" printers were of this type.) These had nicer-looking, non-pixellated type, but they were slow and couldn't do any graphics.

So if this really were a dot-matrix printer, she would have been putting highlighter ink onto a ribbon, but she was putting ink into a reservoir.
You might have to file a lawsuit and then you might be able to get it through discovery.
I don't understand this. I haven't seen "praise"? I have seen realistic assessments of the ultimate effectiveness, but I see this as vastly different from "praise".

I think the majority of people in the US that have observed how they handle it see their approach as overly harsh.
Real-time COVID-19 Global Cases
At a major academic medical center, we’ve been using it for massive town hall and department meetings and it has been working flawlessly. Very impressed.
Four Cups a Day: Health Benefits of Drinking That Much Coffee (2018)
It is the age of tech-nihilism after all.
I'm surprised this is still an issue, even after Bluetooth 5. Anyone know if there are plans to fix it?
>I think a sceptical [sp] attitude towards technology is reasonable

But HN has a skeptical attitude towards everything. HN, if we're being honest, stopped being a tech discussion forum a while ago. A user is free to ignore the multitude of other subjects that HN discusses in a day, and focus exclusively on the tech posts if they wish. But it's been my observation that a post about whatever political, economic, or historic subject will draw more mindshare per minute resident on the front page. And of course, posts will be largely negative. That's the nature of HN.

And, not only HN. I think this is the nature of most online discussion forums unfortunately. Before we can get to the point of comparing a healthy online forum with a non-healthy forum, we'd have to concede that it's difficult to find a healthy online forum at all. I'm not talking about online forums where all users are known to each other. Like the medical forums you find in use at certain healthcare delivery networks. You would expect such professional forums to be a bit more contemplative. I'm speaking of average, completely ungated online forum. In these environments, a healthy ecosystem will become more and more elusive with growth. Not really aware of any demonstrated working solution to that issue.

None of this is really the fault of HN, it's just the nature of user behavior in ungated online forums.
Looks like a cool device for high-virus areas like front-line health care workers.