skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry if I wasn't clear enough about this but I was more trying to make a point that physical input is safer, and that the trend towards touchscreens in general worries me. So a return to "normal", which I guess is not so normal these days, is for me very welcome. Touchscreens in cars cause safety issues for other reasons, namely those of distraction, but my concern is what the future will look like if touchscreen normality takes the upper hand over safety concerns.
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> There aren't any masks and gloves available to anyone.

I mean, for N95, maybe. Surgical masks you can buy from China. On Amazon. They'll ship by air mail, but I'm sure Amazon could get them even quicker.
It's important to acknowledge that there is a benefit: Apple products' value increases in relation to other platforms' when they introduce more exclusive offerings. The right to do this without repercussions is hurting IT. Big IT business is rife with anti-competitive crap that noone should put up with.
Hopefully Apple will enable multiple identities for apps as part of their new push for single signon. They recently added multiple device users for schools. Enterprise users can have per-app VPNs.

Ironically, because Google and Microsoft collaboration apps don't have iOS platform control, they are much more flexible in supporting multiple user identities.

There are many scenarios where information needs to be separated (projects, consultants, cross-org teams, OSS projects) and multiple identities are a proven means of separation and compliance. This needs to be possible without Enterprise MDM.
I wonder if something like https://github.com/zserge/webview but using Lua for the backend side (to avoid the need to recompile it) would be lightweight in just the right ways while still being (almost) as good as Electron?
> well, you can today by swapping malloc for a GC-enabled implementation

You don't need GC for this (at least, in the sense of "we'll call free for you"), you just need to verify that things passed to free were handed out via malloc.
I'm very curious. Can you pleas share some specifics.
Top complaint of my Civic, touchccreen controlled volume/mute. TS buttons just don't cut it for some things.
There is a certain tendency I see, especially in recent grads in the SCM, of learning a lot of operations research. Which totally valid, these gals and guys are running circles around me as gar as big data and data science is concerned.

One should not forget so, that supply chains and logistics are still running on a huge amount of physical paper. Process is still king. The basic principles don't change simply because thing become digital. Take a classic Kanban system. That still runs on a piece of cardboard. Using fax to sent Kanban cards around is probably all the amount of digitalization that needs. And Kanbans are still one of the most robust solutions around.

From what I learned about CS so far, both fields are very logical. So go ahead and learn about the idea. Interesting field, and one that can only benefit from innovative solutions!
My mistake then. That doesn't seem to be part of the information in the article, or I missed it somehow.
It is great, and one of the other main weather apps that I use. But it lacks alerts. Dark Sky gives these (literally "Light Rain Starting in 20 Minutes" or "Heavy Rain Starting in 5 Minutes".

Dark Sky also does a fair job of showing general forecast and chances of things over the next week or so.

While I use Windy as an app for me to check and see what's going on, it's not nearly there on the prediction front. Much less notifications that help with "Woah -- heavy rain, time to head back to the car" or "Just a drizzle, cool, let's keep going".
I’m convinced that this is a good thing, and hope there are going to be enough potential maintainers on the supply side.
> commercial applications

This would just be part of the ecosystem. We've already learned to coexist in the shorter-range wifi spectrum. There's no reason only hobbyists should be able to access the spectrum, since that means that commercial applications would be disallowed from operating with robust tools when crisis comes.

What exactly is wrong with commercial use coexisting with hobbyist use? And what is the experimentation supposed to lead to? If we allow commercial application, then we might actually see an effective mesh network set up. I mean, if I could build a meshnet in the Ham radio spectrum and sell access, I'd do it: I'd be able to build it right, it would be reliable, and people would be glad it existed. But it's not worth the years of effort if it can't be commercial.
It might be that I use pretty standard hardware and don't have any fancy requirements, but really, I have evangelized several people and installed mostly Xubuntu in their laptops and I haven't had problems.
The article could be a_lot_ more concise. Here’s what I got out of it as the takeaway:

> And that helps us understand why Recursive Cactus spends so much time practicing. He’s training himself partially because his current company isn’t developing his skills.

Exactly. Recursive Calculus wants a better job, (a lot) higher pay, a better environment. So he spends time prepping for this.

And companies who can offer all of this, and get a lot of interest already, they are selective, minimising false positives in the hiring process. They expect working code in the coding challenge, a good attitude and some other skills like demonstrating decent systems design. Recursive Calculus also preps so much as his interview process to his current place was different and he _really_ wants to nail these interviews, get a bunch of offers and get into a bidding war before saying bye to his current workplace he’d love to leave for something better.

There wasn’t really any actionable thing in this article that I found, or applicable advice. The end.
Just stop the anti-ORM bs. Most applications need simple select queries, and often want to walk the obejct / relation graph. Prism looks awesome, and has great TS support. If you want to concatenate sql for each frikking query, be my guest. I have better things to do with my time, such as responding to this kind of stuff.

For "small" and "large" queries, just use the ORM.
For "complex" queries, just use SQL.
Thanks a lot! Yeah, don't know why other sites don't show what you are going to learn!
Literally applied to a job posting hours ago.
Shutting down Android functionality is interesting since Apple did not do that for the Shazam acquisition in 2018 (the PR for that doesn't mention Android at all: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/09/apple-acquires-shazam...)

In fact, Apple has released more apps for Android such as Apple Music in recent years.
Is the overconfidence documented anywhere, in terms of its effect? Is the problem avoided by having a reasonable sense of security?
That safe and ancillary services like armed guards or insurance could quite likely cost more than 0.5% per annum.
Probably the closest you'll find today is LLVM IR (or maybe there's a slightly closer IR in some other compiler). In terms of languages you'd actually like to program yourself, Rust and C++ are slightly closer, but that's mostly a factor of trying to incorporate more hardware features rather than modelling hardware better.
There was an ACM article with a similar sentiment recently: "C Is Not a Low-level Language - Your computer is not a fast PDP-11."

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479

HN discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16967675
I am really sorry but foggy windshield is definitely safety critical.
Outside of limiting their own legal liability, it's a cargo cult.
The fences are really annoying in the West of the US. I like the way Scotland does it. You have the right to pass through privately owned land so cross country hiking is possible. Here in California there is always a good chance that some fence will block you. It’s also bad for animals. As far as I know bears will have trouble getting over barbed wire fences so their territory gets restricted a lot.
In macaques they found reinfection was not possible.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.13.990226v1

The news stories about reinfection are suspect because there's a high false positive and false negative rate to the tests.
Yes, that's the thing. Exactly. APIs are by definition leaky. Look at Python v2 v3 debacle. So it has to be really well planned, even then possibly not worth it.
You still map objects to relations.
"You lost me at 'under $30k', I'm trying to figure out how to credibly raise prices, not lower them", Head of Strategy, Automaker XYZ.
This. The original hackers didn't bother with the legality of what they did - it was interesting and awesome, and some of them went to jail for it, but it was worth it.

I'm with you on this idea.
A friend bought a Tesla and he was very pleased with it. He insisted I drive it. I couldn't stand it. It was obviously designed to not have a human drive it. My friend doesn't care for driving, but I love it.

I think that's where the touch screen comes in. The driver is secondary. They have to let the driver access things, but they don't have to make it safe or convenient.

Now that the self driving hype is dying down, perhaps the driver will be put first again.
> I'm still curious why everyone thinks Zoom "just works" while others don't.

I'm also curious. I subscribed to Whereby (https://whereby.com/), where I can send people a URL, which they click and land in my conference room. There is ZERO software they need to install.

[For all the "well, actually" folks: yes, it "only" works in every modern browser out there, and it works "only" for up to 12 people. Fine with me.]

Zoom has more features, but there are many other solutions that work much better and are WAY simpler. It's just that Zoom is well known, and it's easiest to choose the tool that everyone has heard about.
I was just posting this on another forum. But I want to learn more about scalability and availability and microservices. I am quite familiar with fullstack and various databases but I need a hands on experience. Does micro have some sort of tutorials that build microservices from scratch?
My nieces and nephews seem to have zero problems navigating a touch screen and type faster than I can.

Might not be intuitive to us, but it definitely is to them.
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If it has borrowed any concepts from Eclipse IDE (like workspaces and hidden dirs stuffed with XML)... it’s a hard pass for me.
I mean, if true - I offer my congratulations to the Dark Sky founders and I wish them the best of luck.

That said - part of me is wondering, it's April 1st tomorrow. Part of me is REALLY hoping it is a joke too!

EDIT: Grammar!
am I reading this wrong or is this really "just" some sort of "private" DNS zone management for your services?
Very disappointed. I've been a Dark Sky API user since 2015. It's a huge disappointment that a cash flush, closed ecosystem company is purchasing and shutting down a unique data source for point prediction weather forecasts.
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An airplane cockpit has two pilots and literally several hundred physical buttons. No one wants to drive that car.

In cars we're mainly talking about the volume and fan speed. Personally I much prefer knobs for those. But I wouldn't call those critical safety systems.
I think you are wrong. I have seen it happen more than once, even in my current company. Especially when companies use mostly online tools, like our case, it's a no brainer.
Yeah, I wouldn't call Simchi fun to read neither. Still a good book covering the basics. I still enjoyed reading it, but I am a strange guy when it comes to SCM.
Caffeine might be better in this scenario, but amphetamine has some auto triggers and custom settings for keeping the system awake but still turning off the screen, etc.
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Awesome; thanks v much!!
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The trend towards a touchscreen interface seems like a nod to startrek and the LCARS OS.
And many (myself included) think that the compiler should not warn about this code, even if it can potentially exhibit undefined behavior, because it would make it impossible to write code at all without warnings. (A good static analyzer or code reviewer should call it out, though.)
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> The moral debate is not lives vs money. It is lives vs lives. It will take months, perhaps years, if ever, before we can assess the wider implications of what we are doing. The damage to children’s education, the excess suicides, the increase in mental health problems, the taking away of resources from other health problems that we were dealing with effectively. Those who need medical help now but won’t seek it, or might not be offered it. And what about the effects on food production and global commerce, that will have unquantifiable consequences for people of all ages, perhaps especially in developing economies?
What I was trying to say was more that avionics are by nature risk averse, so if they're doing something it's probably worth understanding why. So it's not so much "it's safe because it's in an airplane", I was more going for "consider why this very safety-focused environment looks different". So sure, I might be in the wrong if what I said was interpreted as a simple appeal to authority, but I was trying to get a point across that people spent a lot of time trying to make and keep these systems secure, so let's try to learn from that instead of invalidate it as being simply old or outdated (which Boeing themselves ironically seem to be guilty of).
> Am I and this one other forum poster just doing something totally bizarre yet the same?

One might uncharitably suggest that using macOS and expecting standard decades-old Unix behaviour is itself bizarre … but that's also true of using Linux with systemd (viz., nohup no longer nohups, or systemd-resolved, or innumerable other broken bits).

It's almost as though no-one cares about quality anymore.
Apologies for the apparent astroturfing. I do work for Amazon but everything I post on social media is 100% my personal opinion. Nobody from work has ever asked me to do anything on social media to make the company look better.

Having said that, my opinions are a little more pro-corporate than most of the commenters here due to my personal experience.
You left out the last part: "Touchscreens are a cost saving measure, not a feature."
> Our API service for existing customers is not changing today, but we will no longer accept new signups. The API will continue to function through the end of 2021.

And yet another functional API shut down and privatized. This is the way of the web now, a few companies owning the data, and nothing cool left to mess around with.

I can't be the only one who has noticed this trend happening for years. You used to be able to scroll to the footer of practically any service and find an API link. No more.
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Apple Acquires Weather App Dark Sky
And please tell me... how often is the cash and carry spread there enough to cover the typical margin fees charged to retail investors?
https://twitter.com/mojombo/status/1244877311196856320
Limits legal liability of the site.

Gives site reasons to bar users.

But I don't think it should give site the ability to prosecute users. That power should lie with the state. If a user hacks to get into a server, the state already has laws against that, just call the cops. But you can't point to a clause in your ToS saying, "User X broke term Y, which is hacking." No. The state defines what actions are hacking.
You have to look at the scale. Humans are trying to control every last price of land and there are no predators to stop them. If beavers were blocking every river most likely some predator would take care of that very soon.
That thoroughly misses the point. They could do both. There is zero reason to shrink the addressable market other than Apple not wanting to play with others.
So you mean Sublime Text? (Yes I understand it isn't open source)
There seems to be a generational lag between infant mortality (or mortality before reproduction) and fertility rate.

Many places still have very high mortality-before-reproduction rates and correspondingly high birthrates, or at least generational recent ones.

It seems, simply, that overpopulation is a problem which solves itself. High standard of living seems to come with high costs and emphasis on investing in children far more combined with delaying children until proper resources can be had. The result? Fewer children.

The doom and gloom about overpopulation was overblown and doesn't look to be a problem. We have enough food production capability (especially with new lands to open up with global warming), hunger comes from dysfunctional economies, not lack of food.

It doesn't make much sense to think about global population as a whole when there is such variability. You can't compare Manhattan to sub-Saharan Africa at all, they are totally different worlds (or perhaps a hundred or two years apart developmentally).
Or provided to governments as per local laws and regulations. Very concerning given how many companies are trusting their internal secrets to Zoom.
The section in that article about 'Defining “Intelligence”' is similar to a previous discussion on HN about whether a FAANG interview is just "an IQ test which is disguised as a relevant skills test for legal reasons". [1] This article does a good job of supporting that claim. Theoretically, both IQ tests & FAANG interviews test for whatever "innate intelligence", but in practice, both of them can be gamed by grinding brainteasers & leetcode respectively.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22705057
this is fine, so long as you're looking to get hired by a megacorp (fine,faang.) but for most people theres a point of diminishing returns. Do you want to spend six months to a year out of your life drilling for a $10k raise working for a company that works you like a rented mule anyhow, or do you settle with your present quality of life and conclude 70k is enough to do whatever you wanted to reasonably do anyway.

Then theres the variable of google et. al. and their random eleven-round interviews. Are you patient enough to sit through questions like "how many kegs of beer on a schoolbus" and "how to build a datacenter on the moon" from some grinning techbro only to be told youre re-invited to another round of interviews?

Finally, age. You can cram and cram but if youre over 50 your chances of building that moon datacenter are better than getting hired.
Nice, that's pretty much what I had to do to fix this. I used the bluetooth explorer to force AAC, and force zoom to use the internal MacBook mic
Actually, the guideline I've heard is that memcpy should be used, since memcpy has the magic property of copying the bytes without affecting the destination type. Unions are only legal in C99 and newer (although C99 erroneously includes this in its list of undefined behavior--this was fixed in C11); C89 and any version of C++ don't permit this behavior.
That's true, web standard made OS less critical for an average user, and time let some other native apps improve and polish (things like krita and blender comes to mind)
Apple purchases hyperlocal weather app Dark Sky, killing Android apps
That's a very good point. The number of people they are helping will drastically increase if that integration happens. It's unfortunate that the direct users who aren't on Apple's platforms can't continue to use it anymore.
"people would like to use wrong tool for the job"

That's actually a great way to learn. I do that intentionally sometimes to force myself to understand a problem better. Sometimes it even works[1]!

I'm half serious here. Clearly when something is important and needs to be timely, choosing the right tool is important. But my comment is not sarcastic, either: choosing the wrong tool really is a great way to understand your tools and the problem more deeply.

[1] https://github.com/jeff-davis/postgres-extension.rs
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> Nit: HIPPA is not a US law, but HIPAA is. ;-)

Touché! I'm even HIPAA trained and have to deal with it all the time yet I chronically make that error. I can't even see it when proof reading. Ouch.
I suspect this is due to a feature being enabled for canonicalization and that the key part is the presence of the colon rather than the port number. On a 10.15.4 system, I see a line in the debug output which is not present in the screenshot:

> debug1: resolve_canonicalize: hostname example.org:7999 is an unrecognised address

If instead I use `-p` or a config-file option, everything works as expected.
I dunno, when it comes to configuring monitor settings, I'd trade a touch screen menu for any of the physical button configuration schemes on any monitor or TV i've ever owned.
It's a separate desktop, but not a separate window-station, let alone a separate session. The clipboard and atom table are not separate, because they belong to the window station; and a session is something rather different on Windows NT.

* http://jdebp.uk./FGA/windows-nt-session.html
My Mazda 3 sGT (and current year model) already does this and it's a joy to use, no touchscreen climate control!

Pics:
http://www.2wired2tired.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Mazda...

https://blogmedia.dealerfire.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/45...
So, wear a cloth mask, or a bandanna over your mouth and nose. Leave the N95s and surgical masks for the doc.
I'm not sure. I work mainly within that 5% and that is where the name GIMP was a barrier for me. If Glimpse was around at the time, it would have been a good alternative.

For what it's worth, the Glimpse FAQ claims to have checked the meaning of "Glimpse" in every known language.
> a few companies owning the data

The data are public [1]. Dark Sky et al process and repackage those data, along with their own analytics and UI.

[1] https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/webservices/v2
Ugh! Blue light should never be used at night.
I don't wanna pay taxes.

Paying taxes anyway
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During this quarantine period I'm looking for a biotech / bioinformatics side project to work on -- does anybody have any suggestions?

I'm a software engineer, but if you have non software related ideas then please share those too for anyone else that is interested.

Another way of framing this question: what projects are worth working on right now?

Thank you!
You can still die if the driver spends too long messing with air conditioner settings instead of focusing on the road.

CarPlay and Android Auto make this problem worse, IMO. Now you have app publishers writing arbitrarily complex UIs for cars. Spotify is a bitch to use while driving and because of Apple's reluctance to enable Siri support for third party apps, it's not very controllable by voice.
What are you comparing it to? I think C++ tooling is fairly decent. (By the way, what do you work on?)
So build it yourself? Like seriously are we really nitpicking over the installer and binaries now which the source is available for the actual product? It really feels like the industry is never happy if it has anything to do with microsoft.
This is actually more true than people realize. Gold is down to flat even after the the huge Fed announcements. The CRB index has been getting crushed in the last month. But this short-term liquidity demand is going to go away. The real inflation story is going to be when it does and the economy settles down. Then we will have all these programs that pumped huge amounts of money into the system, and unless they are sanitized watch out. I've seen people losing a lot of money on gold calls, but i think the proper time for that is going to be when this short-term credit demand has dried up and business starts returning to normal.
So you would rather buy a safe and take out insurance than pay a fee to someone who already has both (i.e a bank)?