skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have been using WebEx and Slack heavily and it's been working pretty well. We have a good culture of using iCloud to collaborate with documents and it really is a product which is dog-fooded thoroughly.

I obviously can't give you any specifics but I would say the transition to remote work has been a success so far and management has been using this time as an opportunity to showcase our autonomy.
I agree normally. 100%. At the risk of double posting from a thread above, what about Amazon's hazard of customer defection / new regulatory burden if people taking, and quitting these jobs, both, start dropping or spreading it? What if public perception becomes: "Amazon could have done a lot to prevent this tragedy, but didn't".

A cynical person might even float the idea that Amazon WANTS that to happen so that there IS a regulatory burden because it can bear it and its would-be competitors / start-ups can't.

But that's too dark even for me... for now.

So back to original question- what about the risk of future, widespread #AmazonHate ?
There is absolutely no affiliation between Netflix and NextDNS.
I sometime forget the international nature of the folks on this site. Rephrase that question but about his feelings toward Americans, Englishs or Russians.

To answer your question, yes he did. He was racist amd embittered for many years. Sometime before I was born he began to soften that hate. He is different now but sometimes I still see it beneath the surface.
So under ordinary circumstances, when they do their Controlled Digital Lending, for each copy they lend out there's an actual dead-tree book sitting on a shelf somewhere?
That's the thing, it doesn't. I had both SIP and Gatekeeper turned off.

Presumably, without SIP you could in theory either edit the tcc database directly or patch the checks in memory, but implementing that kind of hack is beyond my skill level. And a hack shouldn't be required—there should be at minimum a command line switch for SIP-disabled machines.
What is bmc software?
A library to interact with Postgres in go
That seems cool in a movie, just like the mafia seems cool in movies. In real life it's just bad. When millions of dollars are at stake for a criminal gang, people are going to end up dying.

No cheers to the art thieves - go do something useful with your lives.
I don't know about rentals, but Facebook Marketplace has taken over the "buy and sell stuff" market. I tried listing something on both services a few weeks ago - CL gave me a dozen scams, maybe one real reply. Facebook gave me a half dozen real inquiries.

I don't even bother with craigslist anymore.
The other glaring issue is that Apple still didn't build enough space for all of its Cupertino employees in the new HQ. Some unfortunates are still toiling away in crappy leased offices scattered around town.
This is patently untrue. I looked up the wife of my colleague who is the epitome of small itme author and sure enough it's there. You go on mobilism, it's there. Do not try to paint pirates in a positive light. I know them inside out: I have been a software pirate since 1985, I have been the co-sysop of the one of the largest warez FTP sites in Central Europe in what now seems a different life (this was decades ago, it was mostly over by 2003 and fully over in 2004). Noone, absolutely noone cares what they steal. And these days I still pirate my ebooks but then I order the physical book and donate it to the local library and then delete the pirated copy. Only way to deal with DRM and lack of physical space.
Duh the chinese have told you they would do this. If someone says they will do something believe them. Blame the western countries who been blatantly appeasing china. We forgot how bad these socialist dictatorships can be
Intel are finally starting to license motherboards on Ryzen (Asrock had one certified in Febuary) so it's not impossible,
Spoiler alert! It is fake. It is "interpretation".
Well if someone is in a panic and they are buying something because of that panic I am going to continue calling that panic buying.

I’m sure that the definition or your understanding of that definition will catch up to my forward thinking at some point.
Agree with this.

I live in a newish housing estate in a relatively affluent area of the UK, where every single house has the same cladding, the same colour of roof, the same colour of doors, the same colour and style of windows, the same small patch of grass out the front, and each house is separated by less than 2m.

Walking around the place feels... wrong, hollow, eerie somehow. And yet, many people seem to love this homogeneous kind of place.

Thing is, as you point out, it doesn't have to be this way - it's local planning regulations and NIMBY neighbours that are the problem. Why does every house need to look almost identical? Why do I need permission to paint my front door a different colour?

It's not prefabrication that prevents diversity - it's policy.
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I wish people would stop automatically recommending Algo, for instance it doesn't support Arch. It's the best if your platform is supported. Otherwise, it's easier to just manually set up everything.
It could be that there is too much money in science - there are too many under-qualified people jamming up the system. Requiring more administration and overhead to make them effective. Jamming the information channels with bad studies, reducing the signal to noise ratio.
I think this is great news!

A couple particularly welcome adjustments are the more visible focus indicator, and keyboard-friendly color picker. I'm glad they accomplished the touch improvements without making any of the controls bigger (at least not in their inactive, "collapsed" state).

My only nitpick is the coloring dissonance between "input" controls; some are black (text fields, dropdowns, buttons, etc.) while others are blue (checkmark, radio button, slider). Also feel the round shape of the new sliders looks less appealing, but that's utterly subjective.
Why WOULDN'T you? It's not as if you're losing out on anything by doing so.
It also pollutes your browser history with a ton of navigation routes. Not the end of the world, but I feel a project with this ambition needs to have flawless standards to succeed.
This is one reason why it's really not natural for some of us to do whiteboard coding interviews, or even CoderPad, etc. interviews. It's like trying to pee when someone is watching you, although that's not an analogy I would encourage job seekers to make to a hiring manager.
Who is comparing this to custom embedded solutions ? Android and Windows tablets are dropin substitutes in this scenario that are cheaper and more flexible.
And box office receipts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_office_futures
The killer app for the iPad is to be paired with Zoom as a sketching device for meetings, a shared whiteboard that actually works and you can write rapidly and accurately on.
How certain where they that the cease-fire would be successful?
The deciding factor is how complex the code is. You can add a ludicrous amount of complexity into a React app before you've even implemented your first actual feature. People do it all the time. Those people will always get smashed in the marketplace if they have no other advantages and a competitor that's developing PG style with a lean team of actual experts.
It's one thing for the book to be available on this library.

It's another for one to directly lose out on potential sales due to that availability.
I had a good career, done some amazing things, but utterly shite art remuneration and got taken advantage of by many employers and mate-crime, also not a greedy person, and been told I'm too good natured for my own good, too intelligent for my own good and that's by many professionals and smart people, sadly that's all they could do beyond say that I've done all the right things and been failed.

SLeep the issue, they live vampire hours and terrible flat for noise and with that, it's a slow death.

When I accepted this place I asked:
1) I need a silent area at night
2) No heroin users as had issue in past

I was lied to and suffered ever since, apparently downstairs is the biggest known crackhead heroin user in the area and been instrumental in bringing heroin into the area and with that, it's been downhill ever since at a time I didn't need it and now I'm mid 50's, burned out so many times, physical and mental health issues, I'm spent and never going to get back to full time work and even then. I have no stability in routine due to antisocial impacts that still happen to this day and....see other comments.
They are probably hired because of their contact network. As an engineer it might appear that new customers just magically show up. Depending on the sales model you probably can't just spend it all on ads.
The equivalent of the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.'
For reference, Intel's first 14nm mobile processors were introduced from late 2014 through mid 2015. They've done one major microarchitecture update since then, and the rest of their microarchitecture and fab refinements in the intervening years have been minor updates as they're in a holding pattern waiting for their fabs to deliver a 10nm process that is viable for mass production.

The first 10nm process was such an abject failure that Intel now prefers to pretend it didn't happen. The second 10nm process produced laptop processors that began shipping last fall, but are still mixed in with 14nm processors that are branded as part of the same generation.
Having cut my programming teeth on a Visual Basic analogue and later Cocoa/AppKit, both of which have a similarly rich roster of widgets, going into front end web development was somewhat shocking and frustrating. Where I would've been writing application logic, I was instead writing common widgets from scratch.

It's hard to believe that this has barely changed in the decade+ since then. The web has grown and matured immensely as a platform, yet it's still necessary to bring in (often heavy) third party libraries to not spend all our time writing basic widgets.

At minimum, browsers should provide basics like recycler views that can satisfy a majority of use cases with a little CSS and act as a foundation for libraries to build upon for the use cases they can't. One shouldn't need to pull in heavy third party code for such common functionality.
Took me a while to get into the groove, but now I'm more productive than ever. Some tips:

- Designate a separate room or area as your workspace. This will help you establish boundaries and have separate contexts for working / relaxing.

- Stick roughly to your normal schedule. Once work hours are over, stop until the next day.

- Get dressed as if you are going to the office. I find that this gives me a psychological boost of taking work more seriously.

I also benefit from a short (~20 min) power nap after lunch, which isn't always possible at the office.
You know what, you're kinda right as that would explain so much, more victims they have, bigger budgets, it's just....so so wrong.
Nothing better reflects the insanity of WW1 than 11/11/18. The sheer ridiculousness of needless slaughter to allow a few old men the vanity of stopping a war at 11 is the most WW1 thing ever.
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Yes, there are a number of warehouses with millions of books in boxes, indexed down to the book (hence the metadata of a book has a physical location in it).
> Building on site is not very expensive

Compared to building the same stuff in a factory, it is.
> Who is this for, what's the point?

People who want to learn and/or want something simple. This version is super simple with the whole application being a ~150 line shell script. This makes it very easy to understand and adapt.

Eg. I have a file-server that runs our DHCP and DNS. I've looked into using Pi-hole's setup on it before and it just wasn't worth the trouble due to mismatches between their setup and mine. OTOH this version is very easy to understand and tweak to my needs (eg. using unbound vs. dnsmasq).
And the old adage of "measure output, not input" comes to the fore again.

If you don't trust your staff to do good work when you're not looking, you hired the wrong people.

On the other hand, if productivity is within acceptable limits then why the need for monitoring in the first place?
I'm not sure, then; I know I don't see them…
Still a misleading title. Meetup isn’t being spun off. CEO David Siegel even sent out an email this morning (I’m an organizer who pays $200 / year for the privilege) with the same title.

Meetup was acquired by AlleyCorp and “other private investors” according the the TechCrunch article.
My apologies, I thought you were making a point that building is fast even without pre-assembly in a factory. I see that you actually mean that the everything else takes several years, no matter how quickly the building goes up. Sorry for the misunderstanding!
What kind of problems with IDEs are you running into with Rust? I've used Intellij and Clion with the Rust plugin and they seem to have all the standard IDE bells and whistles - inferred type annotations, autocomplete, autoimport, interactive debugging, refactoring, etc. I haven't tried VSCode but from what I understand that's even more popular than the Jetbrains tools so I would guess that it works pretty well too.
Scrolling through this conversation has been interesting, but I have to resonate with your comment.

After reading Dune, what they do mattered much more to me, and it's changed how I appreciate dialog in film. When it's done right, and the actors do things in resonance, it's like you can see right into the soul of a character.
Well people pay large sums for prints of the Great Wave, of which many thousands were made and are still being made. (Of course the trick is to know which prints are the earliest ones)
Yes, but the severity of a lot of problems would be ameliorated by simply not doing the very obviously wrong thing.
Would you be willing to share the series that you're working on?

I'm looking to design my own home and very much agree with what you have to say. I'd be interested in hearing more of your thoughts.
"Pirates go out of their way to minimize the impact that their actions have on small time authors."

Citation, please.
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There were four options given in the Wikipedia article, which are:

1. retaliate with nuclear weapons;

2. not retaliate;

3. use his or her own judgement; or

4. place the submarine under an allied country's command, if possible. The documentary mentions Australia and the United States.

To me, it seems like the order that I would give those options in would be 4,3,2,1. This is because the most sensible option would be to listen to your country's allies (as they are likely to have Britain's best interests in mind). The second best option is to trust the crew, as the situation that resulted in an entire governmental destruction probably wouldn't respond well to any blanket statements like 1 and 2. Option 2 makes the next amount of sense because defaulting to no nuclear weapons is generally a smart policy. What do you believe should be the correct order?
I have never heard of or expected this from my "binary choice components". To my knowledge, switches are used on iOS, while checkboxes are a macOS thing (though they just added support for iOS-style switches, but with a very specific purpose).
> IUE-CWA Local 86004 President Jake Aguanaga offered his plant, located in Arkansas City, Kansas, as an example of how much manufacturing capacity could be converted: more than 52 percent of his workforce has been laid off, and several football fields worth of factory space are currently sitting idle. “If GE trusts us to build, maintain, and test engines which go on a variety of aircraft where millions of lives are at stake, why wouldn’t they trust us to build ventilators?” he said.

This reminds me of the story of Audi's unions demand electric model for main German plant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13986889

Unions don't just exist for the workers. If management acts shortsighted in such a way that their jobs are impacted, they can force management to make better business decisions.
Pirvacy Tools also has their own subreddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/privacytoolsio

I also highly recommend self-hosting: https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted
Going to admit that I only scanned through the video.

More so than in smaller formats, B&W is cheaper. Older style emulsions (cubic grain) are also cheaper than newer style (tabular / shell / whatever). Litho film is cheaper still.

B&W is USD$1-$3 per shot in 4x5, and if you process yourself you’re only paying for your own time and consumables. Newer styles like Delta, T-Max go for $2-$3. Older styles like HP5, FP4, Tri-X go for $1.50-$2.50. Budget lines like Arista can be found around $1/sheet.

Ortho litho (what is being used in the video) has always been dirt cheap by comparison. It’s like $0.30 per sheet. Basically, all of the technical innovation that has gone into modern film is simply not used in ortho litho. You just need high contrast and resolution, that’s it. So you don’t need complicated sensitizing dyes or anything of that sort.
It seems to me that it is way easier to get funding for medical research vs straight up biology. That might be wrong.

Biology is what all of medical research eventually hinges on and any significant breakthrough in biology tends to make vast swaths of medical science irrelevant and in a sense a waste of money.

It is super easy to contribute to the search for treatments for particular diseases but how do you contribute to the fundamental research that ultimately fixes problems?
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More than that, I would guess that they will defend themselves with an argument like the following.

They will claim that they are lending out copies of books locked up in other libraries. And there are librarians from said libraries willing to testify that they have agreed to allow this. They have ceased tracking inventory because getting a detailed inventory under current conditions is challenging. But they believe that the number of copies that they have available exceeds the number that will get lent.

If challenged, they will have the number of book X lent out on file. As long as they can find more libraries willing to say "We authorize them to lend the copy we can't lend physically because of quarantine" than they lent copies, this argument has a shot.
You can't cancel a meetup subscription online, you have to submit a ticket.

You can start a subscription online however.

Another sign of a failed company, trying to hold onto those who want to leave.

Seems like its chargeback time.
Yeah, that's a good point. Hopefully they'll get testing rolled out here soon!
Hmm, good question. Probably yes.
After all, if medical professionals would see a benefit of simple devices, who am I to question them.

However, every single professional whom I've talked to, or whose comments I read, argued that well-trained professionals are the real bottleneck. None of them said they would try out a minimalist ventilator.

I can really understand the desire to do something in order to help those who work on the frontline.
However, all this effort and ingenuity would be better spent on other projects:

- personal protective equipment (masks, face shields)

- simple replacement parts

- maybe some simple devices (e.g., CPAP, air filters)
This has been the argument for software piracy for the longest time and it's a convincing one: a student can't afford Adobe Photoshop but if they use a pirated copy once they are at a company they will want to use it. Or, in less charitable terms, you can't get blood from a stone, so why bother.

This argument is so untrue for books it's not even funny. There is a huge treasure trove of free ebooks available and very often you can get a used mass paperback for less than a dollar. And there's no win from a pirated copy.
You can get 3D printed reproductions, too:

- https://gizmodo.com/heres-how-to-get-your-own-picasso-for-un...

- https://www.digitalmeetsculture.net/article/van-gogh-museum-... (probably a bit higher in quality and price, but I can’t find a link for it)

- https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/business/van-gogh-museum-edi... (probably even better, but likely also very pricey)
It's a GIF. Hence the name Gifcap...
Copyright infringement is generally a civil matter. That means someone has to bother to sue you before there are legal consequences. They're betting that publishers won't take the PR hit of suing a non-profit providing a public service during an emergency. And since the opt-out is so easy, the amount of damages someone could claim are probably pretty darn small.
> Best to let the experts in government decide on how capitalism should play out

I'm having a hard time parsing that thought. It seems self contradictory, at least if you view capitalism as primarily defined as voluntary trades free from government interference.
Does your grocery offer pickup? Normally it's $5 at mine, but free for now, and you don't have to get out of your car or interact with anyone, just pop the trunk.
I feel like the deciding factor might to do with team size, skill, and cohesion as team. Having a smallish team makes it possible (although not easy) to have a team that are all high performers. And that team can easily outperform one 2x-5x as large if not more, because there is a large communication overhead to scaling to more people. If you have competent people who "just get" each other, then communication flows and doesn't actually take up much time.

The technology choices follow on from this. If you have a smart team, then you can pick technologies that solve the problem most efficiently, rather than the lowest common denominator that everyone will be able to use, or what's most fashionable (you see this in every field: the "good" people are often following trends or best practices (and doing it well), but the very best tend to have a much more nuanced judgement. They know about the latest thing, they'll use it sometimes, but they keep their own council, and they're not afraid to go off and do something unorthodox if it makes sense for the situation they're in.

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Side point: Incidentally, React is actually on my list of go-to productive boring technologies. It's definitely overused (despite building React apps in my day job, my personal website is built with Hugo, and a lot of sites would be better off with server-rendered Django/Rails/Laravel), but where you need that complex client-side interactivity I think it's the generally best tool for the job.
Have you seen <input type="datetime-local"> ? I’m not sure how good the browser support for it is yet but you could probably polyfill pretty easily.
There's a small cottage industry of purchasers who will buy heavily depressed for chump change. It can be strategic to help offset other gains in a tax year.

The purchaser collects a service fee and a lottery ticket for the random "XYZ Inc sold patent to IBM for $10 million during company liquidation."
I find it a little sad that windows support is considered essential (and its lack is a dealbreaker), but linux support is not, even though developers predominantly use macos and linux.
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