skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've worked as a programmer for 15 years. I did a Philosophy degree.

I can run circles around some programmers with a CS degree.

CS degrees have always been an odd qualification, mainly because so much of it is completely unrelated to professional programming. You can get a high mark and still be unable to write a non-trivial program on your own.

When I originally started doing my Chemistry degree, we did huge amounts of lab work compared to the odd class or two CS students did.

You don't come out of uni a good progammer if you study CS, while you will come out of uni a good chemist, biologist or engineer.

And that really sums up the problem with this line of argument.
IIS used (still does?) to randomly kill its own processes at random because chances are, if its been running "long enough" its leaking memory anyway.
You forgot Step 8, your open source organization is infiltrated by SJW's and you are kicked off your own mailing list for making comments that go against their radical agenda which has nothing to do with promoting open source software. See the case of Eric S. Raymond, founder of the OSI.
https://lunduke.com/posts/2020-03-9-b/
System tray, for what?

To lunch an app, I find a shortcut command the fastest way to get something up.

Background running processes, that's the only use case for a system tray icon I can think of. Here again a command does the trick.

To me the reasons kde and gnome are what they are is because users understand how an an OS works and can use the command line.

I like my OSX desktop experience, but I still feel more productive on Gnome.
The virus will be contained at some point, and then we can talk about responsibility. If China's policy on wildlife led to this pandemic, then they absolutely deserve to be shamed into changing their policies (permanently this time). They knew better.
Ask HN: How to transition from developer to full time UX designer?
I've been thinking about it for a while.

I'm a front-end developer with almost 6 years of experience. I've been around, I did some back-end dev, then a lot of front-end.

I was thinking about transitioning to something with less coding and more user - oriented.

I have to do a little of UI design as a font-end dev, but let's face it, we are so deep in the fixing bugs and architecturing the stuff that there is not much cognitive energy to do a real good UX job.

Any advice about how to approach an employer for a full-time UX Design job OR a full time Product Owner job with a front-end developer experience ?

Note : I just accepted a job as a Technical Leader for a front-end team. I'm not very happy about it, I was aiming for something with a lot less code and a lot more design, maybe even no code at all and more of a Product Owner/BA kind of job. I kind of accepted because of the salary they offered. I regret it now. But during my job hunt I couldn't land an interview for a UX Design position or a more Product Owner/BA kind of job.
> Does anyone know if Google and Apple are working on this?

It would probably illegal to create an app for contact tracing. E.g. it's legal for Apple to have an iPhone app called Reminders, but if they were marketing it as a tool to help people to remember to take their medication then that would be illegal because it hasn't undergone testing to prove that it increases medication adherence or whatever. That's why the FDA banned doctors from using checklists to remind them to wash their hands before surgery.
At those concentrations I suspect there is a whole lot of substances that kill the virus (along with the host).
It's pretty cheap if the use case is, "the computer will be turned off before I worry about an attacker".
Good points! It doesn't seem like it'd help unless there's a really compute expensive portion. I doubt any parsing would be a limiting factor.
Didn't know that Apple was working on this. I'm not a huge Apple fan but they certainly did the right thing by not telling Trump (of whom I'm neither a fan nor a hater) or by having a strong NDA to cover the work so that it couldn't be announced...
I mean... they have. Remember when they pledged to "don't be evil"? Remember all of their cool initiatives that crashed and burned and were killed quickly?
For our use, faulty KN95 masks are better than nothing. Maybe they suck but it’s better than nothing and probably better than home made masks. You have to shop around and find reputable sellers that have been in business a while to mitigate risks as much as possible. I trust Aliexpress slightly less than Amazon these days which says a lot. Amazon used to have my unquestioning trust. Now I barely use them in favor of other retailers.
> Zoom has an extremely valuable service, which it performs very well—better than anybody else, apparently.

Objection - best advertised (or should I say "best" advertised) doesn't equal best. I'd be truly surprised if somebody actually presented convincing arguments that Zoom service is better than anybody else.
No. If you want to use Firehose, you need to transfer data from Kafka to Kinesis first. You can probably use one of many Kafka Connect Sinks for this. Eg: https://github.com/awslabs/kinesis-kafka-connector

At that point, might as well set up a Kafka Connect cluster with a Kafka Connect Sink, and dump to S3 yourself.
There Is No “Linux” Platform (Part 2)
I've been using Firefox on Fedora for both Zoom and Hangouts for at least two years. No problems.

Slack, on the other hand, can go to hell.
Option B: Or we could raise our blood alcohol level at 60%-70% by volume, apparently that kills the virus :)
Absolutely not. HN is far too insular and full of self-assured personalities who think themselves experts on topics far outside their expertise to be considered healthy. It is also filled to the brim with groupthink, reality denial, and often a complete lack of both empathy and perspective. A significant chunk of this is likely due to the demographic skew of commenters here combined with the negative aspects of being technically-minded enough to want to participate in HN in the first place. That being said, it's still superior to most online communities due to its focus specifically on technical topics (you get a lot of focused content and actual experts chiming in) and the moderation (both from the HN org and self-policing to prevent inane meme comments typical of communities like reddit).

Here's what a healthy online community has: respect for other members, maturity, empathy, self-awareness, strong moderation, and a diverse enough set of views from participants to make conversations well-rounded and thought provoking.

How and why I arrived here: the subreddits I frequented degraded in quality to the point where I wanted a less-mainstream tech news aggregator, and several redditors recommended HN. I actually had no interest in commenting here until I got far enough along in my career to have actual insight to share on relevant topics. I suspect I'm quite a bit older than most HN participants these days.

Why I stay: a larger portion of content here aligns with my interests and career than elsewhere online and the overall experience has not yet degraded to reddit levels of picking through trash to find gems.
but they will return. LV wasn't destroyed by a biblical flood and the jobs are lost forever. you're looking at it at a different scale than the study (which is apparently 2 years).

even if your friends become homeless (let's hope it doesn't come to that), the jobs will return and someone will take them. there definitely will be some degree of fortunes that change at the exit of all this. but in economic terms, if 2 people lose their low paying jobs and 1 person gets a 2x+1 high paying job, the economy has grown.
Most recent information on aerosolized LASAG is dated 2018 [0]

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5841227/
Citing Coronavirus Pandemic, EPA Indefinitely Suspends Environmental Rules
Trees have rings because the earth's axis is tilted
The more local the state is, the easier it is to reason about since less code can reach it. And invalid state is a major source of bugs.

And the more global the state is, the less modular the system becomes, which makes it more difficult to test and adapt to new requirements.

That being said, it's more important to know why than memorizing/following rules, every good decision is some kind of compromise.
I don't know, I'd probably turn mine on just so that I can get notified if I am within proximity of a high infection risk stranger. I would love to have that kind of notification.

Just for now. Uninstall when the pandemic clears.
There actually is a program you can do for this, it's called weight loss bet. I've done it before and "won" $180 against the people I was competing against. It's very motivational imo, you can choose either to compete against randoms or people you know. We did a pool from work.
They can track that from the clickthroughs. The adtech economy is far richer that just showing ads and tracking ads -- the suggestion is that they're feeding data from your use of Zoom to enrich your advertising id(s) to help others provide you the most relevant possible advertising experience / track the living daylights out of you.

Delete according to world-view.
If I were you, I would stay in NYC and try to stay as clean/isolated as possible.

If the theory that people who already got covid19 develop immunity from it and won't catch it again is true, then one thing to realize is that NYC (and Italy and others) will become a "safe" place sooner than other places. Yes, there's the horrible downside that a lot of people are dying, but since so many people already caught it (and so many will catch it in the next days/weeks), after this peak passes you'll reach a point where mostly everybody around you will be immune, so you will benefit from herd immunity. If you move to another city, one where the number of cases is still increasing, it will likely take longer for this stage to be reached.

I should note that I'm not advocating in favor of society pursuing herd immunity strategies: letting people die is never a good strategy. I am just pointing the fact that the since the curve is not very flat in NY, herd immunity will be a thing there sooner than in other places. It's happening whether we like it or not.

I'm not a doctor and I'd love to hear arguments on how this theory could be wrong.
The fact that they are online is stopping a bunch of people from shouting at nobody in particular to "dim the lights", "play this (local) playlist", "turn ac on", "play two random episodes of paw patrol"... Eg. me.

Many of those who are concerned with apps phoning home would be the ones to keep their data and media locally too!
Calvin- Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems [pdf]
The article brings up a lot of points, and whether they hold up to scrutiny should be dealt with in the comments, not by flagging the article.
> I know entrepreneurs / developers sitting on both sides of this table - doing the copying and being copied.

Exactly - if there's a successful business format, it wont stay a niche product without copycats forever. It's unlikely that showing your revenues will have any greater impact than being a number one featured product through any other route.

You can be copied if you stay silent and just do direct sales as well - if you're a company reliant on broad reach of a semi-technical, small-business (/revenue aspirational) audience, it seems like it's worth the risk.
Apple has likely spO2 data as well as heart rate data form millions of Apple Watch users that can be used to partially diagnose this infection.

The watch is capable of measuring spO2 even if it’s not displaying the information and even if it’s no 100% accurate drops over a large enough time period combined with elevated heart rate would indicate a respiratory infection.

Whilst I agree that the data isn’t useful for most individuals releasing it to authorities around the world after anonymization would likely be quite valuable.

I might have had a mild infection don’t know if it was COVID-19 but it was A respiratory infection for sure.

Myself and my girlfriend were sick she had a fever I barely registered above normal we had coughs, sore throat I still can’t smell smoked salmon and she has stomach issues too.

It’s pretty much all gone now but one thing for sure we both had pretty high resting heart rate, as high as 110 during the worst of it.

My normal awake resting rate is around 65, it’s still around 80 despite all symptoms going away and trying to do some pushups today I realized that I’m extremely weak despite not feeling bad.

I usually do 5 sets of 20 pushups (controller, full range of motion) with a 50lbs resistance band today I felt myself gasping for air after 8-10.
You'd know better than me, but to my knowledge the borrow checker prevents having aliasing mutable references without unsafe (or cell). Leaving aside the merits of actually doing this in real code, it's ultimately something the compiler has to consider.

Similarly, is splitting borrows still an issue? I think that'd apply here as well, and has a much more legitimate purpose in real code.
That would be 12 325mg aspirins. Which is too much, but almost in the ballpark.
Virtual reality without vision: A haptic and auditory white cane to navigate
this is specifically the reason minidisc is built around a lossy compression codec so there would be at least some generational loss from copying.

Sony themselves were/are a label and this led to deliberate worsening of their electronics at times.
Even earlier there was Jasper https://github.com/jasperproject/jasper-client/commit/96a608... (2014)
that's very cool, but what the heck is on this server that made it worthwhile to move it like that?!
harvard needs to pay their food service workers
Sure! In a PWA, storing login tokens in the keyring would not be possible. So as I said, on iOS the localstorage (and cookies) would be cleared in low disk space conditions anyway. So the PWA experience was already not good!
I've been following this project for a long time, but I have to ask what are the advantages over using Kafka Connect Sinks?

https://docs.confluent.io/current/connect/kafka-connect-s3/i...
One possible explanation is that many plants and berries which are poisonous to humans are not poisonous to other animals.

For other plants it may be advantageous to be poisonous to one species and not another
Money Affirmations to Become a Millionaire Law of Attraction
Stylegan for Evil: Trypophobia and Clockwork Oranging
To keep my own ideas out of the original post, I really enjoy Lua and C, but working on multithreading in Lua is not very fun, and I wish I could work as fast as I do in C as I do in Lua with the latter being a scripting language.

I wish a new programming language would come around that had the simplicity of either but with some nice primitives for multithreading, and the ability to live reload compiled code.

I want the speed of C, ability to do simple multithreading, but also the speed of developing on Lua.

Since it would be a new programming language, I'd also enjoy FFI to interact with existing C libraries, much like the mostly automatic FFI from LuaJIT works, where you don't have to manually write bindings to the language.
Yeah, they know what towers you are hitting.
There could be a big market in custom face masks; not just printed fabrics for disposables but more comfortable and durable fashion accessory masks that take disposable filters.

lobbying for the Internet access to become a public utility is going to be big. "Last mile" is hard, so big telcos have stopped trying to do it. They dont want anyone else doing it either so i don't know if it has a chance; probably not, without something like strict censorship and tracking to make the "police state" fans jump on the bandwagon too.

"Back to the land / Self sufficiency / tiny houses" are in for a brief spike of interest for the remainder of the year and possibly beyond; but that has limits. Intrinsically rural and when people discover it involves dirt, work, and failures they get discouraged. Lots of people who have tolerated cohabitation wont anymore, however, so all sorts of housing will probably bounce high.
the “screening” bit is barebones. so basically if you have any symptoms call 911?
Low-Ego, this is not only for remote-first teams but even when you are face to face. Primary culture to get things moving and produce quality.
At first I thought your animation wasn't working. Then it got to the last few days.

Wow.
That's not a FOSS StackOverflow, it's a cross between several platforms.

For those interested, There's already another initiative for a free, non-commercial, community-governed StackExchange alternative, called codidact: https://codidact.org/

I don't know that it's good (or bad), I just know there's been planning work going on around it, following the recent upheavals and resignations on the StackExchange network.
Sure they do, it's a major repair bill for many people. If we wind up with critical infrastructure that was previously stable randomly rotting, it will likely disrupt our current uptime rates, require expensive preventative measures and repairs, and in the end limit access to services due to the added costs. The dangers of hidden rot to electrical lines in buildings is one of the scariest possibilities.
I would say Racket Scheme with the 40 years of infrastructure that Common Lisp has.
https://fauna.com/ core functions are based out this paper
They just (like yesterday) fixed a bug that prevented Meet from working in Firefox in some cases, such as when privacy.resistFingerprinting was set to true. Give it another go.
Was Odysseus a fool for tying himself to a mast to avoid the temptation of the sirens?

An underrated element of self-control is designing your environment to achieve the outcomes you want.
This uses unnecessarily accusatory wording. But it is also both unhelpful and just flat out wrong - Facebook gets data fed from a lot of sources - it can start stitching up that data into a picture of you without you ever creating a Facebook account.
I agree with your assessment 100%. Does anyone else out there get frustrated with "bare hands" conventions? That's where you have to manually follow a verbose convention or write things like glue manually, when the compiler/runtime could do more of the heavy lifting automatically for us.

For example, say we want to hide low-level threading primitives due to their danger. So we implement a channel system like Go. But we run into a problem where copying data is expensive, so the compiler/runtime has an elaborate mechanism to pass everything by reference and verify that two threads don't try to write the same data. I'm glossing over details here, but basically we end up with Rust.

But what if we questioned our initial assumptions and borrowed techniques from other languages? So we decide to pass everything by value and use a mechanism like copy-on-write (COW) so that mutable data isn't actually copied until it's changed. Now we end up with something more like Clojure and state begins to look more like git under the hood. But novices can just be told that piping data between threads is a free operation unless it's mutated.

To me, the second approach has numerous advantages. I can't prove it mathematically, but my instincts and experience tell me that both approaches can be made to have nearly identical performance. So on a very basic level, I don't quite understand why Rust is a thing. And I look at tons of languages today and sense those fundamental code smells that nobody seems to talk about like boxing, not automatically converting for to foreach to higher level functions (by statically tracing side effects), making us manually write prototypes/headers, etc etc etc.

I really feel that if we could gather all of the best aspects of every language (for example the "having the system on hand" convenience of PHP, the vector processing of MATLAB, the "automagically convert this code to SIMD to run on the GPU" of Julia <- do I have this right?), then we could design a language that satisfies every instinct we have as developers (so that we almost don't need a manual) while at the same time giving us the formalism and performance of the more advanced languages like Haskell. What I'm trying to say is that I think that safe functional programming could be made to look nearly identical to Javascript, or even some of the spoken-language attempts like HyperTalk.

The handwaving around the bare hands stuff is what tires me out as a coder today because fundamentally I just don't view it as necessary. I really believe that there is always a better way, and that we can evolve towards that.
Hmmm - that's all fair! Though I'm not very sure why one would want to execute Applescript on Linux - scripts are typically either so platform-integrated that they're useless on non-Mac platforms or so generic that they're trivially replicated in languages like Python or Ruby.

I'd consider diskutil and plutil vaguely part of the "Xcode toolchain" (as in, using them (especially from outside macOS) is largely geared towards app development). That's certainly a huge use case for Darling - I actually think it would be interesting if they explicitly (but maybe not very loudly?) aimed for giving people access to iOS/macOS development without Mac hardware, rather than trying to be a general-purpose emulation layer.
BTH News 27March2020 – Between the Hacks
US Space Force launches satellite after short delay
Love it!

Had been needing this forever... I used to use time.is, but this is _decent_ :)
Contagion: Handle a sanitary crisis in a browser mini-game
> that can be used by ordinary people without error

Social media has been great for airline oxygen mask designers as it has shown the failure rates of real world emergencies. I imagine that even with highly trained people like medical staff, the problems of proper PPE usage are just so much worse. People have a really hard time understanding things clearly.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/18/passengers-fail-to-wear-oxyg...
What they didn't write, is that there will be no Olympic village next year then.
They already sold all the new apartments. And now they have add contracts to all those buyers to let the private appartment for 3 weeks to the athletes. Or something like this. Hotels? In Tokyo during the high Olympic season? Tents?
Design for the sake of shipping, not for the sake of design.
On the contrary, contact tracing (plus widespread testing) will be necessary in places where outbreaks are eventually brought under control and life slowly starts returning to normal.

Of course, many places will need extensive lockdowns to reach that point.
California DMV Virtual Field Office
I'm in the exact same boat. Two weeks ago I thought about leaving to stay with family who live an hour outside Boston. Two things stopped me. The first was my family members are all still going to work (even though Boston is pretty bad and there's a handful of confirmed cases in their local area). The second was I worried about bringing it back from New York with me an infecting my retired parents.

The nice thing about NYC is that I literally don't have to leave my apartment. I get all groceries delivered (perishables from Whole Foods, non-perishables from Walmart). Medication for my condition is delivered as well. I'm blessed enough to have a doorman so the only exposure I have to the outside world is going down to my lobby to pick up the packages which I do late at night to avoid running into anyone else.

My only concern would be if I did get sick and was hundreds of miles away from any of my family members. However as far as risk of getting sick goes I'm pretty confident that bunkering in my apartment is the right call.