skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. Although I will note that labor unions were also more powerful then, which allowed a broader class of people to have jobs that offered benefits.

I don’t disagree that the system was still selective as to who had access, but the Reagan-era attack on organized labor and workers rights had sweeping, sweeping impact that continues today.

The problem is that many boomers (sorry mom and dad), who had more entry-level or even middle-class jobs in the 70s and then went on to big corporate jobs in the 80s, either are unaware of this shift or are unwilling to acknowledge it happened. People say, “well when I was your age my health insurance was free or super cheap” — as if that is applicable 40+ years later. It’s similar to my uncle not understanding why someone like me, who makes well into six figures a year, has no aspirations of home ownership, not understanding that the only cities I’m willing to live don’t have housing equivalent to my rent for under $1m. He just thinks, “I bought a house at your age” — not realizing his house was $80k and even with inflation, wouldn’t be possible now. Or like how I had to explain to my mother that no, despite working for the second-most valuable company in the world (technically it has the highest market cap today), I do not have a pension. I laughed when she asked.
I will look into that thank you :)
And planes are mainly being parked, not reused for cargo. Probably because of the capacity and fuel price issue.
Just what the world needed!
Put your egos aside and experiment the unconventional 🧪
Especially in these times anybody who indicates a decline in performance might be having serious personal issues that you might want to approach with empathy rather than cutting them off like a gangrenous limb.
happens all the time that you ask for a replica and the dealer secretly plants a multi million dollar artwork in your bedroom. Seems legit. :D
They did talk about themselves. The whole post is written only in the first person.
It's possible to be both compiled and have a vm, like jvm and erlang (notably, erlang has a repl)
90% of the population also probably don't care about dark mode as much as some people in the tech bubble.
> Go starts to falter compared to Haskell.

Not just Haskell, but any mature OO language/runtime as well (JVM, .NET). The fact remains that golang is popular because of Google's name behind it. While its concurrency model is somewhat decent, its warts get in the way very quickly for any non-trivial project.
I'm interested in well written CS papers that have immediate practical value for a generalist backend software engineer.
This never made sense under WeWork. Hopefully will help stabilize their future and maintain a service that’s used by many.

Still not really sure what the “business” here is but the site and its network are certainly popular.
How many 32-bit ARM phones without AES units are there still around?
I think the push-back is that it's not black and white. If we end up in a situation where somehow we get 10x the number of ventilators and staffing becomes the limiting factor, you can bet that hospitals will get creative on how to operate them. You're right, pulling in people off the street is not the place to start (even 1337 Javascript coders). I would think you would start with trained physicians from other disciplines, PA's, NP's, RN's.
What, the Parliament building was too fireproof?
This is an important historical fact that many people don’t know.
> and their climate is similar to the US unlike Taiwan and SE Asian countries.

Do you mean political climate? I don’t think the weather over regions that large can be generalised in any meaningful way.
True there's ambiguity there and the sentence alone really only conveys that the topic isn't one that the stater wants to focus on any further at the moment.

Generally however, I think there's some assumption or perhaps prior demonstration that implies a lack of care to start.

It's tough to describe. "I could care less what you do with your money" may come with a long understood history that not much care was given to this topic the past (i.e. we haven't discussed it before), and if we are now arguing about it because because some prior discussion escalated, I am indicating that I preferred the status quo with that statement (albeit in a way that probably doesn't defuse tensions in this particular example :).
We can subtract traffic accidents, homicides, suicides, falls etc and compare only remaining numbers.
They could have dumped their index funds for cash for a huge profit.
The next American revolution will be televised
> some people in the tech bubble

Wouldn't that be SO's target market?
The title should be "StackOverflow now has a dark mode" instead of "StackOverflow has now a dark mode".
The browser is not the app I had in mind.
> I get some hate my Open Source project & actively abuse downvotes/flagging to censor me.

The "hate" (I'd say critique) is not against GUN as a project nor the code or the project itself. It's about you constantly posting about GUN.

> "you always post GUN in discussions about CRDTs & decentralization."

This is a bit unfair, that's not a direct quote of what I wrote, and I'm sure you know this. What I wrote is this: "every post that is slightly related to CRDTs or decentralization". The "slightly" part is important, because many of your comments mentioning GUN is on submissions not related to GUN at all. For example, if a submission is about Mastodon, I'm fairly certain I'll see a comment from you promoting GUN with your usual metrics.

Again, I have nothing against GUN itself, but people do get tired, even if it's interesting the first time, when someone continues to mention their project over and over again.

Others have mentioned this to you in the past as well (one example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21383815) but it doesn't seem to stick. Maybe it's time for dang or other moderators to have a chat with you, if they haven't already.

Because I'm bored, here is some examples of comments you've made promoting GUN on unrelated posts with low effort content in order to get in a link to GUNs website (in the last 3 months) [maybe this list will help you realize what people are getting tired off]

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22498939

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22448631

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22439616

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22233236

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21730879
As though a) we actually know that particle flavors come in threes and b) any human being's opinion on this is worth more than that of the schizophrenic on the corner who at least believes he is talking to God.
Cool, didn't know that. The extension allows for whitelisting, dynamic toggling, etc. FYI.
Yes, of course that number is sacred! Just ignore all the following examples: there are four bases in our DNA. Most animals have four feet. The vallancy of carbon (basis of life on earth) is four. We have four fundamental forces. The New Testament has four evangelists. Our economy runs on $, which happens to be above the number 4! Obviously, four is the universal balancing number! \s
He is also wrong about there having been no follow-up. Here it is, though only about a smaller fraction of the passengers.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3551331
I don't get how sites like Meetup can be "struggling". Shouldn't a company that runs a site like Meetup be pretty lean, only needing a handful of people to work on it? Seems like it would cost very little to maintain, but what do I know.
I've worked from home for the past two years. I'm a bit worried that the sudden wave of people working from home unprepared is going to give the whole thing a bad reputation, making it more difficult for people like me to continue to work from home. My employer has saved a lot of money closing down various facilities but was already considering reopening them because times were good. We're an essential industry so likely will come out of this crisis in a good situation. Cheap real estate might tempt someone in the C suite to make every come back into the offices again.
Why do developers prefer dark mode for pretty much everything from IDE to OS to iOS?

Edit: added missing 'much'
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And how did they resolve their problem?
I mean it just kind of has to be higher for anything to make sense. The depreciation/fixed costs of operating a 767 for an hour is around $10k plus another $20k or so for fuel. That's a couple hundred grand for an 8 hour flight before you even get started with the expense of actually running an airline as a business.

So we know the post guessing $30k in passenger revenue for a typical flight is in the wrong order of magnitude.

For the number I kind of picked 15 cents out of my ass, it's a number I've seen in the past year in earnings reports for the majors and it easily gets us into the basic range we're talking about. Just google the terms RASM, PRASM, and CASM and you'll find a ton of info, that's the basic jargon used in the business to come up with info of this type.
I agree that they're reasonable demands, but I'd also state that the business models were never really sustainable in the first place, so prices probably need to be raised in order to do so. I used to have a view into their delivery economics and they looked insurmountable. My friend, who currently works for Amazon's delivery program for Fresh and Now, tells me that only a few markets have achieved profitability, and even then we're talking about averaging cents per order. An increase in costs of >$5/order would mean either an increase in prices or a huge hit to cash flow.
Oh definitely. It’s just a little less bad then shutting down current students, which would make no sense at all (they’re already not in the brick-and-mortal system so there’s no funding moving).
It's beta, the average user isn't supposed to see it yet:

"We want to share it with our community, especially our power users, and gather feedback so we can improve, iterate, and expand Dark Mode in the future."

One of the beta is "System setting" which pulls the default from the browsers "prefers-color-scheme" value (which by default pulls it's value from the system scheme). When it's ready to roll out fully this seems to be the likely path they are planning.
Thank you. I can't add, at all.

I am going to edit the post to permanently enshrine my inability to do basic math. :)
Ha. University library silence seems to be in serious decline these days. Not long ago I was in one I'd describe as a cocktail party atmosphere. My theory is that universities have become more desperate to ply their students with various perks and services, they're more reluctant to crack the whip on anything that smacks of discipline.
What kind of informed? Buried in hundreds of pages of policy documents, that they make you 'acknowledge'? A separate network use agreement when employed giving cart blanche? Or something specific and upfront?
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I find it easier on the eyes if I stare at a screen the whole day.
Both the U.S. and China spread propaganda.

Both governments do bad things. Both do good things. The world is not black and white.

You don't need to pit the two against each other. The world is a big place, with a varied history. We're all people.
And what if their movement is hurting my employment, and thus my livelihood? The attitude you're suggesting is basically holding me hostage to your demands, regardless of if they're reasonable or not.
It sounds like they would be eligible to apply on their own.
Late with Cobra is different from most insurance because you can pay the month after you receive services, not before.

This also allows you a little more flexibility than with a traditional plan where you have to prepay. For instance, if you're going to enroll in a new plan as of January, and don't end up using any medical services in December, you can decide in January not to pay for that month and Cobra will terminate coverage.

You don't have that option with a normal plan.
Here's the fun part: they can't kick anyone out. It's not built into the Lisbon Treaty. There's no provision for that. You can withdraw as the UK did but that's all. The remaining countries would need to draw up a new treaty without the country to be kicked out and face probably an endless torrent of lawsuits if they terminate the Lisbon Treaty.
Listen to the moment the guns fell silent ending World War I
Thanks Don, as always your posts are from a wonderful alternative timeline. Perhaps we can rejoin it someday.
#yang2020
An entertaining introduction into the zoo of subatomic particles: http://enwp.org/Atom_%28Asimov_book%29
> Thot Leaders

That's a completely different industry, I think.

> The added cruft, not so much. We have generics! We have type theory! We have lambdas! We have functional programming! We have threads! We have futures! We have async!

Generics, lambdas, and threads are must-have basics. Futures and async are the same thing. Rust doesn't "have functional programming", unless you mean chaining `map` and `collect` methods, in which case Java also has functional programming.

HTTP and error handling are third-party libraries. Multiple choices in this area are a direct result of not trying to bundle the kitchen sink with the language. These things don't standardize in a year.
I prefer consistency. The system setting, is the best here. If my system is dark, go dark, if light, go light. At night, dark is great, in a bright room, light wins. Shifting between the extremes is horrid.
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For anyone wanting to have a wonderful 90s flashback featuring the theft of high-end art, you can't do worse during shelter in place than to watch the Thomas Crown Affair: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0155267/
Sure you could run meetup with a handful of people, but VC funded companies tend to have loads of cash to rapidly expand and hire hundreds of people, who do everything possible to grow the company 100% per year until usually all the users are disillusioned, growth can't be maintained, and the service dies.
Sounds pretty disruptive to me :) At least they put energy into something useful instead of wasting millions on a logo...
Sanitizers are made with alcohol, which are presumably in low supply. It doesn't take that much labor to actually make the sanitizer. All you need to to is mix two ingredients together and bottle it.
There are a lot of companies that should probably be 5 people in a basement somewhere run in the cloud... but everyone wants the VC money, big offices, huge teams and such. Maybe the whole current situation will change attitudes back toward lean and mean which always seems to be when tech does it’s best work.
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Trump has elevated Chinese issues into familiar grievance politics that many people are unable to assess the situation impartially. I've seen so many posts on western social media of conditions in quarantined Chinese cities being suppressed or dismissed as propaganda/shill that people are failing to accept reality, deluding themselves into unpreparedness. Also many are simply ignorant of Chinese-western relationship dynamics to comment usefully.

The fact is, China has always been on don't trust and verify relationship. You don't listen to what they say, but watch what they do. And China is one of the most watched country by foreign analysis and intelligence officials everywhere. If shutting down a city and then the country is less of an urgent indicator than their numbers collated together during an uncharted event, then you're focusing on the wrong thing. This is well understood by people in China policy who cultivate relationships with Chinese counterparts as part of intelligence gathering... intelligence that countries failed to act on. For example the Chinese CDC was basically modeled after and trained by the US CDC. There are many unofficial channels between Chinese and HK/Taiwan/US medical communities which is one reason why HK and Taiwan was so ahead of the curve. There's also thousands of expats in China and millions of Chinese diaspora with connections to the mainland. There's no shortage of information on a massively public crisis like this, there are only people who don't know how to look, or looked and decided to ignore what they found. And more disconcertingly, on a diplomatic level between western countries - the possibility that information isn't being shared behind the usual channels because lack of US leadership in the last few years has undermined world order.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233717660_Thirty_Ye...

Much of the "research" around DV is propaganda by ideological advocacy groups. The actual research shows that it's more like 50/50, and about 70% of the time when it's only one partner being abusive, it's the woman.

The most violent relationships are lesbian relationships, followed by heterosexual relationships, followed by gay relationships. Clearly if it were true that "men are the cause of DV because they are protecting their patriarchal power", we would expect the opposite correlation.
This seems redundant. What could be darker than the way they treat their volunteer moderators?
I cannot comment on developers' preferences as a whole, but I personally have several large floaters (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floater) and using a display with a bright background makes them very noticeable and distracting. Which is why I use Dark Reader (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/eimadpbcbfnmbkopoo...) for websites and dark themes in my OS/terminal/IDEs. It's not just an aesthetic choice.
I'd assume these news also apply to the properties on stackexchange that have a lot of non-tech content. As for the rest they probably want them to create accounts, that'd be one way to do it.
Interestingly as I understand it part of the point is that by stealing the original you are able to create both better counterfeits and a market for them.

Think about it — obviously no one will buy a counterfeit "Starry Night" or whatever if it's hanging in a museum. But if it's stolen, all of a sudden there's the possibility that they can buy the original.

Not only that, but the counterfeit, created with extensive access to the original, is likely to be almost indistinguishable from it except by experts.

So the thieves steal the original, make a few copies, sell those for millions saying each is the original, then return the original to the museum. The best part is, the people who bought the counterfeits can't exactly go to the police. It's the perfect crime!

Sound crazy? This is what is speculated to have happened to the Mona Lisa some time ago.

The "Tony Soprano types" are probably more common - and perhaps less savvy - than you might expect. The type of person who thinks one can buy a hot van Gogh for a few million bucks is a pretty ripe target for counterfeiters.
It thought it was supposed to be a big thing.
https://www.ft.com/content/2a70a02a-644a-11ea-a6cd-df28cc3c6...

Taiwan says WHO failed to act on coronavirus transmission warning:
relationship with Beijing blamed for not sharing alert over human-to-human infection

without paywall: https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2020-03-24/taiwan...

"We asked them whether there's a possibility of human-to-human transmission. We indeed asked them and reminded them of the matter," Chou said. He said the WHO confirmed it had received the letter but did not respond to it.
Doesn’t instacart work similar to Uber in that their algorithm is setting prices behind the scenes to try and clear the market between shoppers and customers?
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Yes and given they are doing “contactless delivery” now how much risk is there really in contracting this virus from just being outside (especially since most people are inside)?
"Now do note that this requires a far more complex executor model than most async/await toolkits (including this tutorial) provide."

I'm assuming the async/await language support in Rust is intrinsically tied to a cooperative approach, which is the part I'm questioning. Obviously a kernel needs to be able to generically work in an asynchronous fashion... the question is, is this asynchronous fashion appropriate?

If the Rust async/await support is indeed so flexible that with some work you could tie it together with a pre-emptive runtime of your own custom creation (as would make sense for an OS kernel), or some intermediate support that may not be "pre-emptive" but would be fully immune by-construction to the sort of issues I'm worried about, then, yes, by all means use it.

But a fundamentally cooperative kernel would really worry me. You'd be looking at freezing the whole kernel, and likely the whole machine, if anything, anywhere, goes wrong with the cooperation. It won't take a lot of scale before that's a problem.

And that's the worst case. Kernels strike me as very likely to also have to deal with the starvation situations that cooperative multitasking can have, where one "task" never gives up control. Even if this doesn't freeze the machine, this can cause significant, human-visible latency issues to emerge.
First hit on google:

> More than 40% of domestic violence victims are male, report reveals

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/sep/05/men-victims-...
Head good things about the WorkPros. Wish the design was a bit better.

How long have you had it and how do you like it?

I'm surprised there isn't a modern/stylish chair that can compete with HM/Steelcase and hit the $400ish range. Maybe I just don't understand enough about the materials and manufacturing costs necessary, but seems like this should be doable -- and the deeper I research brands who try this (like Autonomous.ai), the more I read about the chairs being creaky, poppy, and sometimes uncomfortable.

A Casper/Purple/Saatva for office chairs seems ripe for this climate (WFH).
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I think that's too dismissive of some undeniably strong trends over the last 20 years. Remote work will continue to increase, brick and mortar retail will continue to suffer, more and more education will occur online and support for a more mainstream healthcare system will continue to increase. These things are all already happening and there is nothing to suggest these trends will slow or stop. But there is plenty of reason to believe this pandemic will accelerate those trends, simply by virtue of fast-forwarding the current trajectory.

Maybe the OP was offering a somewhat extreme take, but none of these phenomenon are controversial and no "pre-conceived notions" are required to acknowledge obvious trends already in progress.