skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked a job where to get something scanned you had to go the neighborhood mailbox place and FAX it to the fax number this org had so it would show up electronically.

I kid you not - obviously they had a deal on faxing for like 50% off, but it was still SUPER timeconsuming and pretty expensive.

Anyways, I configured one of their state of the art copiers to allow them to securely scan to users local folders. I set permissions dropbox style (upload, list but no read / download / delete). It was like I was a god briefly. Then someone in IT found out and the party ended big time.

Realize this isn't that long ago - we are talking some orgs / IT departments are SERIOUSLY retro. I could tell many funny stories (and some sad ones) about folks working around the IT department.

Another common IT workaround was that if a device was not on approved list (basically everything except some junky low bid stuff and definitely no no macs / no ipads) and you had a need (ie marketing / media department wanted to do something with kids shooting and editing video as a feel good, and ipads were great for that and the offical machines sucked) is they would hire a consultant to help them edit, and then put a procurement for the equipment through the consulting bill. Consultant got to mark it all up, but it didn't have to go through the IT purchasing process where ipad's were banned. Was time consuming but I saw it work.

Anyways, I know EXACTLY the type of org who buys these expensive video conferencing systems that fall over when you need them!
As a random person on the internet, going from one metro to another seems counterproductive.
One thing that might make a difference is to have a count of comments below mine - I often check my own 'thread' and it would be useful to have something like "you made 6 comments made in past day, and people have left 14 sub comments, 3 in last 2 hours".

If I cared I could dive down and see where conversations were happening. as it is I really only spot a top couple.

I guess it's halfway between real state and ephemeral
If your language can't even be formatted properly if it refers to code elsewhere, I have to wonder what the fuck compilers do: Can't parse the file until we've loaded some unknown number of other files, the names of which we can't determine until we parse the file, which we can't do until we've loaded an unknown number of... C++ by way of MC Escher, sounds like.

Common Lisp has big, meaty, possibly-undecidable macros which compilers need to expand, but Common Lisp formatters are piss-easy because the basic grammar doesn't change unless you go so wild you invent Dylan or something.

So, yes: In the general case of Really Advanced Programming Languages, the amount of information you need to format is the same as the amount of information you need to compile, but that's fine, because it means you can flip it around and see that if you can't format cleanly you're never going to compile anyway, so what's the point of formatting code you can't even use?
Kinda. The original NetNewsWire was made by the same guy behind the current NetNewsWire. It's just that there was a period in between where NetNewsWire was owned and developed by someone else.
They also seem to have forgotten those bloody Romans rocking up and duffing up us Britons in 55 and 54BC then in 43AD getting the job done. Then those blasted Saxons, Jutes and Angles wandering on in and doing the same to us Romano-Britons in about 400AD. Oh and vikings and that. Picts, Irish, Celts and stuff.

(lol) You'll never guess what. 1066. Fucking great bunch of neo-froggies, err Norsemen or something waft on in and duff up us Romano-British, Saxons, Angels, Welsh, Scots, Cornish, Old uncle Tom Cobbley and all (and all.)

I'm not sure which Britain actually invaded which variety of India because I don't think you can use such trite terms. The India of C18/19 is not the India of today and neither is Britain.

Today I personally identify as a Briton first and English second. Some of my forebears were German(ish) in C17. My surname is Gerdes: does that make me a German? How does that work out for my great uncle leaping out of a Dakota aircraft over war torn Arnhem. He's a Briton (Englishman) (a Saxon?), trying to liberate a part of the Netherlands - Dutch (Saxons?) from a bunch of Germans (Saxons?). Notice how close the English word Dutch is to Deutsche. I lived in West Germany as a British forces dependent for about 10 years. Those are years that I cherish.

I'm talking about history on a scale of about 30-70 years (we were in the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1970-80s) with direct personal attachment and you are alluding to something that happened ~300 years ago in a world that you may not have even been a part of.

History is history mate. You don't have to like it.
thanks for the reply, I think the point you make about having noticed yourself 'doing some of the things that annoy' you is helpful to see be brought up, and I'm wondering if you can say more about 'confident ignorance', as well as 'weird behavior' you have made an effort to 'remove' yourself from but that HN 'brings...forth'?
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Model of COVID19 outbreak hospital resource use in US
Agreed. According to the IRS, you need an EIN if you have employees (and I'm also assuming if you sell alcohol but I'll admit I'm having a hard time finding info about the ATF section) so at a bare minimum we could assume that bar has zero employees?

It could also be that they don't have their EIN handy and would need to go to an office somewhere to retrieve it but are unable to visit their lawyer's office due to covid-19?

https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...
A healthy online community is one that I can learn from, where I can find insightful discussions.
That's what attracts me the most to HN. I've learned a ton since discovering it, some things had a direct positive impact on my life.

This doesn't come without a cost : HN is highly addictive, like every other social media website.

This is not necessarily the criteria I use to determine 'health' in offline communities. There is a "human" side that is more important offline.

What I miss the most about HN : the ability to have discussions around political and controversial topics. I can't understand why a community like HN isn't able to have thoughtful, well reasoned discussions around political and controcersial issues. When those don't get flagged or hidden by moderators, I enjoy them a lot.
Have you ever considered technical writing? If you're a good writer with CS/engineering, you'd have a definite leg up over other applicants (even if you don't have direct tech writing experience). I'm a tech writer (English + CS background) and I love my job. I know quite a few tech writers who dabble in docs-related automation/process improvement projects.
I've also been handwriting small thank you notes and "kudo cards" the last few years ... it just never occurred to me that people here needed the same type of validation as those I interact with IRL.
Rare ozone hole opens over Arctic – and it’s big
No good deed goes unpunished it seems.
Many grocery stores already have strong unions.

Nobody is "sending in" gig workers. Isnt the whole point of gig work that the worker can choose whether to pick up a gig and go in or not?
Per-capita, more goes to the maritimes.
Note the caveat: ‘ The projections assume the continuation of strong social distancing measures and other protective measures.’
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It would be good if they expanded their COVID-19 response to more trips booked in advance of the pandemic. I had something booked way in advance, starting April 15, and they still want me to be on the hook for a stay in a country no one can legally enter.
It’s not surprising infectious agents contribute to neurodegeneration. They are an insult to your body.

Much like a car rusting out over time due to salt in the winters.
there isn't really a good way to lay off remote workers
What am I missing about BBEdit? I’ve tried to get into it a few times and it just seems archaic and weird and less capable vs even my emacs setup, let alone something like Visual Studio Code these days.
They're working on porting it. See Oxidation Project: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Oxidation#Rust_Components

e: Edit url to point to rust status in Firefox
I once ran into a similar problem with trying to make a regular grid with hexagons, except that I was trying to do a hex grid wrapped around a sphere.

Here's what I came up with:

https://wiki.haskell.org/IcoGrid

I treated the sphere as an icosahedron where each "side" is a triangular hex grid. At each vertex is a pentagonal cell. To get the sides to fit together nicely, I had to rotate them a little bit.

There may be a simpler way to do it, but it worked.
ruby has rubocop, although it is more basic.
> Many grocery stores already have strong unions.

Some but not most:

https://laborunionreport.com/2019/04/23/eight-of-the-top-10-...

> Nobody is "sending in" gig workers. Isnt the whole point of gig work that the worker can choose whether to pick up a gig and go in or not?

Oh yes, the US economy, in its majestic equality, allows the rich as well as the poor to expose themselves to a dangerous, novel virus in exchange for low wage work.
Patents are not granted for what they achieve, but instead how they achieve it. So the patent is for a specific methodology of "using voice commands [...]". Not that the content of the patent is novel -- I have not looked deep into it personally. It is likely a general BS methodology that the troll never used for a real product.
> And his family would have been bankrupt from the ambulance ride alone, never mind the cost of the treatment. A family that can't afford health insurance for a 17 year old cannot afford healthcare in the US at all. Let alone emergency healthcare.

This ^. I don't have health insurance, I can't afford it right now. If I had covid-19 and I was very serious where the bill would be hundreds of thousands of dollars, I would rather choose to die than to bankrupt my family.

US has one of the highest rates of preventable deaths.
Doesn't that method assume we know the mortality rate, which we absolutely do not right now? It also would fail to account for any kind of containment measures.
Thats a great side effect when dealing with being exposed to the virus, but I think health professionals would not recommend this instead of a vaccine.
Not wearing masks for Covid-19 is a ‘big mistake,’ top Chinese scientist says
Didn't say it's different / better / worse. Stated my perception
I've been using zoom for more than a three years now, and I want to know if Zoom is providing transcripts of private 1 on 1 conversations to the room owner.

Just to clarify - the zoom room is not mine. We are using it across a group of like 10, for a group meetings - sometimes all of us, sometimes subgroups, sometimes one on one.

I can not imagine a world where a company would do that, but given the recent events, I am not ruling out this level of creepines.

Zoom?
> It’s great that gig workers were included in the CARE bill.

This was specifically advocated for by Senator Sanders. He threatened to tighten the restrictions even further on the $500 billion bailout of corporations if this condition was not met.

https://twitter.com/RespectableLaw/status/124303461436252569...
That's an important point. As much as I'd like my manager to look me in the eye as they tell me I'm laid off, I'd be super pissed if they flew me to San Francisco just to lay me off then left me stewing the whole flight home.
Not the lysis buffer.
You might also want to implement changing the image without using JS: https://kyusuf.com/post/completely-css-tabs/
I really hate to mention this, but this perhaps answered an question of mine about why quality of code in Zoom is so low.

When I installed Zoom for Mac for the first time, I noticed it took a while to start up and caused beachballing. So I grabbed a sample of the process via Activity Monitor. To my utter horror, the Zoom binary is shelling out by calling system(3) on the fucking main thread.

I just verified this is the case on the latest version of Zoom for Mac. The binary zoom.us.app/Contents/Frameworks/zmLoader.bundle/Contents/MacOS/zmLoader invokes system(3) on three separate occasions in two functions: -[ZPMBSystemHelper disablePTAutoRestoreWindow] and -[ZPMBSystemHelper disableConfAutoRestoreWindow].

And looking at what the string was, it's just a fucking call to defaults(1). Now I'm not a Mac programming expert but I cannot understand why Zoom needs to change its own preference settings this way. This just screams sloppy software engineering quality. I guess this is what you get when you outsource software engineering.

I would not be surprised at all if someone reports vulnerabilities in Zoom, whether deliberate or accidental.
Is Firefox still using using that horrible COM-workalike from Netscape/Mozilla (XPCOM)? This was the thing that immediately turned me off from this codebase back in the late 90s.

To this day, I remember the excitement from the buildup to the first open source release of "Mozilla (Netscape 4.something)"... and then downloading the code and seeing this horrible complexity. And suddenly understanding why Netscape was so dysfunctional.
What Causes Inertia?
Bokehlicious Selfies
Here is a blog post about adding the bokeh effect to selfies using deep-learning.

http://rahulrav.com/blog/bokehlicious.html
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It's just sad that we've had this theory for over thirty years and continued to pursue the amyloid hypothesis in spite of overwhelming failure of treatments targeting amyloid.

My father has fairly late-stage Alzheimers and I can't help but think we'd have a treatment by now.
Don't mess around in the US for peanuts if you can speak/read/write Mandarin and English. Head to Shenzhen without delay. If you happen to be white, then you're worth your weight in gold. If you can do technical things, then you're a magician too. Furthermore, you could even sell yourself as a manual proofreader/editor/translator as well.

Relocate your abilities where they can be best utilized and compensated where things are designed, engineered and/or manufactured.
Don't companies not pay taxes for gig workers to get unemployment?

Is there going to be any change to that?
So true!

It's sad it's so hard to tell if someone is going to be a terrible boss or if there are systemic issues.

Some of the best interviews I've had, have had the worst bosses, and vice versa. Though, totally anecdotal, especially given I can only go off of the jobs I've accepted which is a sample set of the best interviews I've had.
Since you posted, the top comment is a discussion chain about the actual new stimulus loans.

I forget whose rule it is, it applies here. :)
No. Gig workers are "self employed", who traditionally do not pay unemployment insurance such that traditional employers do (as a sole proprietor; if you incorporate and pay yourself as an employee, you would then be eligible for unemployment insurance; I imagine this is very rare as a gig worker, and unsure if any platforms support such a configuration).

This legislation doesn't change that, but it likely pulls some of those gig workers out of the system, as they might collect more on unemployment than working limited gig work available. TBD if this puts supply pressures on platforms.

Personal opinion: The stimulus is generous enough it's going to cause gig platforms to bleed out, as the stimulus is directed at the workers, not at the platforms. Bird is already performing mass layoffs. [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22707935
> As long as you never work with anyone who disagrees with your style

> [...] and the only points to discuss are naming and software design,not the placement of spaces and newlines

lol. In my 15 years working with different people in different companies
I think I never had a serious argument about code formatting or a
serious discussion about placement of spaces and newlines (at most small
talk about those issues on coffee & cigarette breaks).

Once you are used to jump between different projects and languages you
just accept to use the style which is given.
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In fairness, I doubt Booking or any hotel would either.
WWI and WWII can be seen as one war, which was the attempt by Germany to displace the UK and wider Anglo world as the dominant western power. I think it makes sense to group the wars together.

I don't know how widespread this view is.
I disagree.

The same rules apply to taking remote workers on.

Slow and gradual onboarding with care and nurture to take them on.

Careful individually planned offboarding to help them transition.

It's hard to do and doesn't positively impact bottom line initially but it avoids resentment in the vertical(market) which is super important for long term growth.
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Interesting, thank you for that
> What exactly would be the appeal of this?

You could get to see the Earth from an entirely new, potentially life-changing perspective

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnkHRtpTztc
I thought this was super common knowledge, yet I reviewed a co-workers pull request the other day and found files filled with eval (easily 30 usages) as well as global state (treated and mutated as if it was thread local).

The most annoying part was that what they wanted to do didn’t even require eval and they refused to fix it even after I’d found a safe, non-eval way to do it.
Seriously, I've followed her for a while on Twitter, and she does a lot of really fun crazy stuff. I've really enjoyed having a twitter feed centered around positive, fun feeds.
I suppose, but why would you single out Zoom and expect them to act more decent and morally than any other company? Is there any reason you would expect this?
I actually had no idea most long-term projects were presented in year-of-expenditure dollars. As someone who pays attention to this stuff, if I didn't realize, I'd wager nobody voting realizes this either.
Its likely unrelated to the behavior and more about focusing on yourself. which is technically the definition of the word

We're just too used to the psychological definition
It’s possibly just perception, but a week or so ago there seemed to be a mass of China versus US bickering and trolling, then the threads were all deleted. It was really grim. Dang seemed to be moderating it then presumably had to resort to killing the lot.
Whoever they are, they do a great job.
Somewhat reminiscent of that "we'll raise money for publishers and keep it for them too" thing Brave browser were doing until the internet blasted them for it...
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It’s fine, the government has incentivized not working. Why work when the government will pay everything for you, and you can’t get evicted.
Data Science interviews almost always have a take home interview as the technical challenge. The in person interviews tend to be cultural fit interviews.

This is because DS work is larger than a bug fix, implementing a new feature, and even larger than writing a program from scratch. Even a small DS problem is a multi day problem. Most interviews allow one to take weeks to do a "quick" 2-3 day problem.

This process may be out of necessity, but I feel it reduces noise. You really do have a better idea of knowing what you're getting.

Software Engineers may groan at the idea of a take home project, but just throwing this out here: What if a company let the interviewer choose between a take home problem or an in person 30 min style white board interview? What kind of results would come from that? Would the people who take the take home interview work out better at the company, or would the whiteboard interviewers end up working out better?
How do you get a working visa for China?
The subject of transfer payments has been discussed below. I want to mention two more ways energy industry in Alberta has contributed to well-being elsewhere.

1. Even ignoring equalization payments, federal corporate taxes from oil and gas companies and federal income taxes from high salaries they paid their employees have contributed more to federal revenues, which gets spent across the nation, not just in the province it is collected in.

2. For the past few decades, oil prices and the value of Canadian dollar have moved in tandem. It makes sense when you consider that even though oil is not a huge part of Canada's GDP, it is a huge part of its exports. At its peak, high oil prices brought the value of Canadian dollar above US dollar a few years ago (I think it got as high as 1 CAD = 1.3 USD at one point). The current crash sank Canadian dollar to less than 70 cents US. Anyone earning a salary in Canadian dollars enjoyed the higher purchasing power (for imported goods, vacations, and cross-border shopping) in the good times.
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3.3 million people just lost their jobs in this first month of quarantine, with unknown millions more to come.

You think they’re all just lazy?
There are many major American companies that will be bankrupt in a few months if quarantine continues.

No business projects revenue dropping by almost 100% overnight.
Yes, I really like the Thucydides trap framework, but this perspective must be seen from the PoV of the current hegemon. None of the Axis powers wanted to fight the US or even Britain, but the Atlanticist hegemon saw the development of Eurasian powers as unacceptable and must be put down.
Clicky: http://rahulrav.com/blog/bokehlicious.html

Post with text instead of a URL have a penalty here, so it's more difficult to get to the front page. Try submitting it again. You can add a comment after submitting, for example explaining that you are the author and you are happy to answer questions.
There aren't enough masks available, and it reasonable for health care workers to be given highest priority access to them.
Better than all the Mad Shitters
The organization behind this, Gig Workers Collective, was only formed last month.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/10/gig-workers-collective/

I have a hard time believing in such a short time they were able to organize anything resembling a majority.
The "brave" browser collects donations on behalf of arbitrary websites but we don't seem to be up in arms about that. (Although we should be.)
Excited to share the launch of a project my friend and I have been working on over the past month or so called VSLeague. It's a platform for watching online simulated sporting events. Tonight's game starts at 6:00pm with the Dallas Cowboy's playing the Tennessee Titans.

Any feedback is greatly appreciated!
From the article: “Vanessa and I have been organizing for four years,” Clarke said.
This site suffers from extreme group-think. Comments are essentially predictable, as anyone who disagrees with the public opinion will either refrain from posting or not get upvotes anyway. This is what you get from sorting content by vote count. I think that, ironically, the problem is technical and not so much social.
Sorry if this is a naïve question. Once you have the timer running, are you supposed to keep focus on the art getting generated or you can focus on the work you are doing? (Say reading, in that sense you are focused on the reading and not touching your phone).
Privacy legislation in America has not kept up with technology. But if you're going to a public school you can at least take political action at the School Board level.

https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/privacy-students
I didn’t say that at all. I said that due to recent policy decisions, the government has incentivized workers not to work.

In a normal free market economy, when people get laid off, their labor is reallocated to a different sector in the economy. Now there’s no reason to look for another job, if your rent is guaranteed and the government checks come in every month for four months on top of unemployment.