skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every time I read one of these types of articles I have an "Am I taking crazy pills" experience.

I get that as an educational experience this is interesting, but the level of complexity required to generate static html is extraordinary. Just the amount of tooling and conceptual understanding necessary is so crazy.

I've been working on building out a simple Electron app recently and considered React, but realized with little to no interactivity it would be insane overkill. However, one of the most popular boilerplates out there combines react, redux, typescript, webpack, etc, etc.

There seems to be this default right now of 'over-engineering' everything. It's like people have forgotten how to make simple things.
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prob not if you agree to it. You are getting paid to work, the computer is owned by the company so ...
Is anyone working at a tech company where this is happening to you? I can't imagine the stress this would cause someone.

If anyone is considering leaving the enterprise, and going freelance. Think twice, especially in the current climate - https://medium.com/@alexellisuk/what-you-need-to-know-before...
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I had a setup like this. The IT Office which was its own room, then had 4 of those L cubicles in it.

If you're reading this and you have this setup - don't take the bait to move to the newly remodeled building - it's a trap!
Some people view those texts as infallible sources of information. Other people view those texts not as sources of information at all but as lunacy. The reality is somewhere in the middle, but it's also a spectrum.

Science verifies information. The issue with these texts is that it's very, very hard to verify anything being said. It's much easier to provide counterexamples to disprove it.

By using the phrase "independent mind," I mean: it's worthwhile investigating these texts, but go in with a truth-seeking mentality, not a disproving mentality.
Who needs actually translators when Google works enough well general used?
Saudi-Russia oil war is a game theory masterstroke
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/17/magazine/what-is-the-valu...

art theft also makes for good journalism (about the same theft, heist story) https://www.nrc.nl/kunsthal-en/

and its still profitable, for people who are good at it. https://www.gq.com/story/secrets-of-the-worlds-greatest-art-...

war is a little different, but leads to similar results https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2014/04/degenerate-art-corne...

finally, not so much direct theft, but Art World Satan (his own self curated image) Stefan Simchowitz is interesting in his own right, buying up all of someones paintings before they are famous, and flipping them, once he hypes them up enough as the next big thing. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/magazine/the-art-worlds-p... https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/08/is-silicon-valley-de... https://hyperallergic.com/452852/the-notorious-stefan-simcho... https://hyperallergic.com/172910/stefan-simchowitz-isnt-as-c... https://www.lamag.com/longform/man-art-gallery-owners-love-h... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-12/hot-new-a... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-02-06/art-flipp... https://www.vulture.com/2014/03/saltz-on-the-great-and-power...

>Ulman had not yet heard all the stories about Simchowitz’s generosity and its fatal attraction for young, penniless artists whom he lured into Faustian bargains. He would provide them with “all those adult things” they needed and so often lacked: room, board, materials. In exchange for extraordinary support, Simchowitz asked not for his artists’ souls but for their art, a deal that many of his protégés lived to regret.

one more about the girl whos legs got destroyed in the grayhound accident https://outline.com/LgJMGd
Data/reporting scope could be made anonymous and more local; on a city/town level (e.g. "Dec 22, 2019 | Severe flu case reported in X district of Wuhan (30°34'21.2"N 114°12'30.0"E) - potential for outbreak").

At high level of exposure, as you said, the Chinese gov may track down anyone behind such report, despite the anonymity. It may even block investigative entry/inquiry to the entire city. How do we solve that? I don't know but I suppose that, in the grand order of things and following this pandemic, we shouldn't be living in a world where any government is allowed to work against such public health efforts and get us into another quagmire that we could have simply avoided, which again rolls back to international relations, politics and trade and is tricky to solve but shouldn't stand in the way of trying these things out. We can't simply give up to the way the world is set up at any point in time.
Everyone was bailed out but the fed effectively. The people that hedged end up a little behind, because they paid a premium to be hedged. Such is the joy of fed action: the biggest risk takers profit the most. But no one has lost because of this...
My institution tried to implement "productivity" software during the shutdown. I, and one other director, were the sole voices of reason, saying "this is a waste of money and time when we're busy enough as it is".

We apparently were persuasive, they cancelled that buy. Then, once we were out, executive leadership tried to implement a 'task tracking' timesheet to be filled out by every employee.

I took a HUGE chance on my career. I e-mailed all leadership and the board, explaining that implementing this was needless busy work. If we were working remotely, and the expectations were that the same things were getting done, implementing something like this and NOT when we were physically present would just prove that 'management' at our institution meant control of people's lives.

We're higher education, and everyone is slightly anti-establishment in some fashion. This put the hair up on everyone's neck. One hellstorm of an e-mail thread later, and they killed that form, too.

Management just needs to realize that people fuck around at work. It is not important whether that is at physical work, or remote. It will happen. What is important is that you evaluate the work done, and, unless you're working on billable hours, evaluate whether there are more efficient ways to do business. If you enter those conversations honestly, then your people will have just enough time to fuck around, while still being super productive.

Being human is part of work. Fucking around with the people you spend a lot of time with is part of being human.
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I think you're right that the level of abstraction is the same but the language ergonomics are drastically different. Go was designed so that anyone coming out of school could read/understand/write it very quickly. I'm not a Go expert and I can reason about code pretty well and even write some stuff.

That's absolutely NOT true of Haskell. It's a much more nuanced language and while I'm sure it's great once you learn it, the learning curve is steep. Because of that I think it's much easier to hire Go developers than Haskell developers too
All of those things are possible while maintaining social distancing. If you are young, then 4 months is whatever, you have plenty of time left in your life.

You are right, the cost/benefit is not there if you care only for yourself and you are not someone who is immune-compromised. The ask is that you consider other people (do you have any family or friends who could die from this?) and even if you have mild or no symptoms, you could act as a carrier that infects other people and may even be responsible for the disease that kills them.
A little too late now isn't it? Even if they were going to kick Hungary out of the EU, Orban would be an idiot to give up that power.
They're gig workers trying to make ends meet, not drafted soldiers. I can't believe this is the take you got from this.
Well, you were allowed to cross that out.
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There was never a reason this wasn't open access, except to hoard information. Someone archive this and make it free forever.
One of the draws of going to a museum is to see the originals. If you know it's a fake then it takes away from the mystique.
Microsoft announces Money in Excel powered by Plaid
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_with_submarines

Radio and satellite comms on the periscopes, among other things.
> - Even more growth for Amazon, Walmart, and Target

Why Walmart and Target? Aren't they also traditional retail?
What are you doing to help?
Here's a bunch of things that Haskell has better solutions for that I run into in Go all the time:

* ResourceT is composable defer

* Streaming libraries (I use conduit due to familiarity) mean I don't have to write wonky loops to process data in constant memory

* ExceptT & Either is more composable error handling

* Parametric Polymorphism all around, but especially when it comes to concurrency (no need to hand-roll goroutine rube goldberg machines!) and collections (same but for hand-rolled loops)

* Async exceptions mean you can't have runaway threads
without added implementation burden (I'm looking at you select + Context!)

* Sum types for a variety of use-cases :)
Yes, Active Oberon already had it in the mid 90's.

Symbian also had it, both called them active objects.
Has the codebase been audited now?
Note: I think I haven't experienced the level of severity you're experiencing but have experienced wrist/finger pains often with excess use of keyboard.

1. Try this exercise: stretch straight both of your arms in front of you, make a fist with each and then move both first clockwise and then anti-clockwise, about20 times each. I've used this exercise when I've had pain in my wrists. Do it once daily (in morning) if it's helpful.

2. Immediately you need to take a break of couple or so days at least without any keyboard activity and give rest to your wrists. Along with exercises like above.

3. Use an external full-length keyboard. Place it on your thighs while working so the wrist rest on a soft area. Alternatively, you can put something soft on the table but your legs are available everywhere you go. Stop using laptop built-in keyboard.
I upvoted you because I think you are making a partially valid point. a woman attempted to physically restrain me from leaving her apartment once after I turned her down. in the moment, I found it more pathetic than scary. it wasn't until the next day that I thought about how differently I would view that situation if the genders were reversed (or how badly it might have gone for me if I actually had to fight her in her own home). the threat of physical violence from partners is probably not as serious for most men as it is for most women, but I think it is also wrong to casually dismiss men who don't realize in the moment that they are being abused. not being able to immediately categorize abuse doesn't necessarily mean the harm isn't done.
I can not imagine wanting to work for someplace that doesn't have the infrastructure to allow for remote work. I'm lucky enough to be able to be choosy about who receives my labor and it's unfortunate that some people have to be relegate to working for bosses who fail to connect with people on a basic interpersonal level. It would be a good outcome for allowing remote work to become a new normal. Give the workers the option. You rely on them and your boss job is meaningless without them.
Churches remain a huge transmission vector that nobody wants to shut down because it's a cultural touchstone for large parts of the community. Church choirs are probably just the most dangerous aspect of that.

It's much easier to point the finger at millennials on spring break (pro tip: millennials haven't gone on spring break for 10 years now), but this is one of those things where boomers are refusing to stop behavior that is enabling super-spreading.
Huh. I figured that "jive" was a musical term first-and-foremost, and therefore to say "jiving with" was a bit like saying "grooving with" or more generally "in sync with."

But apparently the use of the word "jive" to mean "talking nonsense" is the older, original usage, and the type of music/dance is named after the term, rather than the other way around. TIL.
"The entire [American] public discourse about the novel coronavirus has been shot through with anti-Asian rhetoric."

This is untrue. The author is lazily beating his well-worn anti-American drum.
Satellites, and surfacing to periscope depth (or enough to otherwise deploy an antenna) at predetermined, randomized and secret intervals?
You're not arguing that heroes make sacrifices. You're arguing for some people to be sacrificed. I see nothing noble there.

And it seems a rather self-defeating argument, besides. Assuming you haven't yet got COVID-19, would you really like the people who handle your food and ship your goods to be working asymptomatic and shedding virus, and unequipped to protect either themselves or you?
you recognize... I'm the one who spent years in the US Navy operating submarines?
> China is a totalitarian state that quite literally controls information; Japan and the US are not in any real sense.

The US has a long history of spreading misinformation and lies too. Japan also tried to cover up its WW2 crimes.

Point is, all governments want to control information to a certain degree.
All I/O is asynchronous. Or rather, synchronous I/O is a subset of asynchronous. Often, in kernel I/O systems, you are communicating with, say, a disk controller that will take some time to process your request. You will want to do other stuff while the device finishes and process the results only when the device signals success or failure.
For those wondering: From the site:
"
Conflict-free Replicated Data Type (CRDT) is a data structure that simplifies distributed data storage systems and multi-user applications.

In many systems, copies of some data need to be stored on multiple computers (known as replicas). Examples of such systems include:

Mobile apps that store data on the local device, and that need to sync that data to other devices belonging to the same user (such as calendars, notes, contacts, or reminders);
Distributed databases, which maintain multiple replicas of the data (in the same datacenter or in different locations) so that the system continues working correctly if some of the replicas are offline;
Collaboration software, such as Google Docs, Trello, Figma, or many others, in which several users can concurrently make changes to the same file or data;
Large-scale data storage and processing systems, which replicate data in order to achieve global scalability.

All such systems need to deal with the fact that the data may be concurrently modified on different replicas.
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> defaulting the in-app tip amount to at least 10% of the order total.

There was controversy in the past with DoorDash effectively pocketing the tips (https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/dc-attorney-gene...) which makes me wary about tipping in these apps -- are InstaCart and Amazon doing the same?
Because people love cats? Not everything has to be useful. I love my cat and am keeping him.
The capacity is not fungible, even if with force of law. Further, even if this had been started 3 months ago, I sincerely doubt that the work would be bearing much fruit even now.

Ventilators, generally, may be "well known", but the design and operation of a modern ventilator is probably not something that is "well known".

Doing this kind of stuff is much more complex than our ability to scramble. The key is to think about this kind of crap before it becomes necessary. Without that, we won't have what we need on time. Things like this are just not solvable by throwing money at it after the fact.
It's how his earlier works looked like
- The shuttering of many media outlets.
Is this really a war they want to start, considering the people they're messing with were often hired for their computer skills?
It's easy to be deceived by the fact that it looks like there's one floor of non-office and 40+ floors of office in a downtown.
Please don't use things I wrote as a coatrack to hang advertisements of your blockchain DNS replacement.
Holy shit imagine this being what you're focused on right now, of all things.
An accusation of domestic abuse would be taken far more seriously than an accusation of "being outside without a reason", I would think. Especially if you're a police officer, trained to respond to domestic violence calls, but never really trained about the seriousness of epidemic management.
I ran into this once:

Another team (team A) needed a lot of help and my team (Team B) was 'similar'. So we were brought on to help despite Team A's objections that we surely couldn't do the job.

So we went to work and were out performing them from day 1.

Team A's management was not happy and was sure we were somehow 'gaming the system'. They had all sorts of ways and theories on how Team B must be doing it and convinced another layer of management to get someone from the outside to investigate.

They investigated and found the only folks 'gaming the system' (they were doing a lot of underhanded things to manipulate KPIs and etc).... were Team A.

Sometimes the folks out there throwing a lot of shade and being excessively suspicious only think of those things about others ... because they would do it and they assume everyone else would too.

With unfounded accusations and etc, I've found that to be true time and time again.
There is one significant difference: Windows did context-switches in the blocking calls and did not rely on the program code having "the right structure" needed for straight co-routines to work.

The difference between preemptive and cooperative multitasking is not whether you do full context switches, but whether there is a way to do context switch at a point where the process does not expect it (ie. by handling some kind of timer interrupt as scheduling opportunity).
Increasing entropy mitigates brute force attacks but not necessarily rainbow table attacks, hence the distinction. If every user had a unique password, rainbow tables would be rendered useless. This is why it's important to reduce the likelihood that a randomly generated password is comprised of a common pattern.
Both Walmart and Target have taken huge strides in moving their business online, and in a lot of features/perks are comparable to Amazon now (especially in price and shipping speeds; Walmart price-matches Amazon and gives free two-day shipping on every order over $35 without a Prime-esque requirement, for example).
There are a number of projects among recent ventilator threads, if anyone wants to compare:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Plus, "couldn't care less", though I'm fighting a losing fight.
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Yeap, same here. 5.5 was especially buggy for me, with frequent hangs while under heavy load. So far so good on 5.6.
> unlikely-to-be-convicted cases

Unfortunately this doesn't mean what people might think it means. "Unlikely-to-be-convicted" doesn't mean much when the police have so many tools available to force confessions, whether the person is guilty or not.

*Not comparing to CCP
example output, US Persons by Age-Sex 50+ by Census Tract, nationwide.. exec. time 1230 ms. local, no clouds

-[ RECORD 221408 ]----+
mtable_2_pkey | 18744349
geoid | 08000US361198400084000000900
geo_name | Census Tract 9, Yonkers city,
Yonkers city, Westchester County, New York
Total_Population | 2307
Male | 1085
male over 50 est. | 285
Female | 1222
female over 50 est. | 272
-[ RECORD 221409 ]----+
mtable_2_pkey | 18754394
geoid | 08000US421338704887048000900
geo_name | Census Tract 9, York city, York city, York County, Pennsylvania
Total_Population | 7100
Male | 3934
male over 50 est. | 1453
Female | 3166
female over 50 est. | 1347
-[ RECORD 221410 ]----+
mtable_2_pkey | 18776479
geoid | 14000US42133000900
geo_name | Census Tract 9, York County,
Pennsylvania
Total_Population | 1169
Male | 667
male over 50 est. | 226
Female | 502
female over 50 est. | 240
This is mildly infuriating, I’d quit on the spot because of 1) dignity, I’m not a slave 2) this is illegal in most jurisdictions 3) this shit means trust between employer-employee is non-existant in both directions, that’s not a way to get any decent work done
San Francisco plague of 1900–1904
No, but boxes who lack hardware acceleration might care about battery life.
At least with Amazon/Whole Foods, it says the entire tip goes to the workers.
PLEASE, Let's collect all Open-Source Ventilator projects in single article on Wikipeda![0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_ventilator
butts in seats equals results
Wow - at one consulting/project shop place I worked, a manager questioned the veracity of my buddy's time-sheet entries. We both quit that evening with zero notice and started our own company.
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SoftBank to let internet satellite company OneWeb file for bankruptcy
So? Having a traffic cam and/or having a traffic cam live feed does not prove that country has a 'mass surveillance network'.
My family has ordered online from all three of these retailers during this pandemic. Walmart and Target may have roots in traditional retail, but their online pipeline is quite robust these days.
Oligarchs, shady statesmen, (cyber)criminals, druglords, warlords. I'm sure there are plenty of people in the market for stolen work from one of the most famous painters.
>especially in performance-review-obsessed cultures.

I can't wait for performance reviews to just die. I'm middle-management at my institution, and I see my job as making sure my teams have what they need and are insulated from the bullshit enough to get done what they need to get done, how they see best to do it.

And then performance reviews happen. I can't do their jobs. I don't want to do their jobs. That's the reason I hire them instead of doing it myself. How can I tell them they're not doing a good job or what to improve on? Their metrics are met, their clients are being appropriately serviced. WHY???

Because we need a way to quantify human performance when we have to downsize. That's why. It's dark, but I'm convinced that's what is at the root of corporate performance reviews across the US.
If you mean protobuf, here's a link to the discussion on why it wasn't included in v2.0.0. That said, we'll explore adding non-JSON formats (like XSD and protobuf) to the specicification this year.
And composition is primitive also for a Van Gogh. The figure is well placed, but the tree at the left is asking for an axe. The same artist than studied the color theory to place the right combinations of colours close. Early work, or trying to be 'realistic', I suppose.
I bought one with my own money for the office after having one for my wife who worked from home for a couple of years.

Then we went WFH due to the pandemic and I took a trip to the office and brought home mine from there.

Great chairs!
I'm not arguing that taking a stance is bad per se, i'm arguing that almost anything you might want to take a stance on is subjective.

As an example:
Reduce harm: depends on perspective (define harm?), timeframe, priorities.
Avoid collapse of what?, current society? which one? all of them ?
Maximise benefit is the same as reduce harm in its subjectiveness and "everyone" is a big ask given that some perspectives on certain points are potentially mutually exclusive.

A somewhat topical example would be:

"Let everyone get covid-19 by not imposing measures designed to stop the spread, that way the stock market takes less of a plunge because [Insert economic reasons here]"
vs
"Impose measures to follow the model that most analysis(from current data) agrees will minimise the loss of life, at the cost of the stock market taking a hit"

How do you maximise benefit for both parties in that case? only impose half off the measures? who decides what is the fair middle ground ?