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I'm anticipating a lot of downvotes, but I couldn't think of a less healthy online platform except for maybe Reddit or Facebook.

Really, the best way to use HN is to keep a list of the interesting blogs that get posted here. I check in every now and then and add the blogs to my RSS list and away I go.

Year after year, HN gets worse and worse. It's constant complaining and whining, the discussions are INCREDIBLY trivial and just vapor-y. Show HN, for example. In Show HN, someone is presenting the community something they designed, created, implemented, polished, there's weeks or months or years of effort involved. Most of the time, the comments of these posts are "Oh, well the text-margin is 1px off" or some stupid detail that nobody using the product actually cares about, and then the rest are complaining about those comments, like what I'm guilty of doing right now.

I don't really know what could be done to fix it. Finally, let me add this: If you want the most pleasant HN experience, click the LINK, and stay far away from the comments.
Yes, I'd say for what it's trying to achieve it's pretty healthy and the responses here seem to confirm that. The limit of text only and the voting mechanism prevent the worst instincts and I think the moderation is okay.

I'd heard about it shortly after it started and have been following ever since although not as much as I used to.

I like it as a place to get exposed to "modern" software topics but I feel like I get more value out of it after learning the overall bias of the commenters.

I feel (no proof whatsoever) that the downvoting behavior suggests juvenile members are the heaviest voters.
Defaulting to opt-out, instead of opt-in, creates work for those, who'd like to have nothing to do with it.

It's only fair to make it opt-in, if you're then also getting compensated for it.
Wouldn't you think after that prompt that this is something the business owner wants to happen, and not something that Yelp decided to create without coordination, and potentially conflicting with the actual businesses plans of raising money?

"All the proceeds go directly to the business" also seems unlikely if there wasn't any coordination to set up payouts beforehand.
What do you call a place with no 7/11?
Masoton doesn't encode useful information in the URL like the author described in the first section.
The Death of Midwit Expertise
There are also possibly other routes for the inherent property costs. The details haven't been clear but it it looking like lease payments might be freezable pretty soon.

The one thing that businesses absolutely shouldn't be doing right now, though, is retaining surplus staff. This is depressing and such, but the correct way for us to deal with this issue as a society is to push those folks who need assistance in these times onto unemployment and bolster that program, giving the best chances for business to come through the far side of the pandemic able to open their doors again.

If you state/locality has laws around temporary layoffs this is the perfect time to exercise them, most such laws will defer any mandatory severance[1] until the employee is refused work or fired - but still allows those employees access to safety net funding.

Please do note, I've been following Canada a bunch closer than the US but it is my impression that the US response is working pretty similarly.

1. Usually not a thing in the US, but it is pretty standard elsewhere.
I'm not a teacher but my sister in law is. Her day is now just 1 on 1 with each of her students back to back. They are all under 13.

In general it's not considered a risk because their parents are usually nearby if not actually on the call.
Hangouts Meet is for G Suite users only. No way to use it for free.
Still open: How retailers vie to be considered “essential” in a lockdown
Showing the real impact of ignoring social distancing via Cell Phone Tracking
I completely agree that if you're designing an sort of assessment process, you should go through it yourself or ask other engineers to go through it so it's reasonably scoped in terms of expected time commitment. You can also use assessment tools that specifically limit how much time an engineer can invest in working on the challenge, which is also useful in showing how much progress each candidate made in a set amount of time. The problem with this approach can often be that the candidate feels like they're working against the clock though, which isn't "real world."
Exactly. Even when both people use Slack, if they aren't on the same slack it's a huge pain.
The "earth is healing, we are the virus" narrative is overblown (and ecofascistic), but it's good to remember that humans are not special. We push other life forms out of our spaces, but many of those life forms continue a marginal existence. The end of humanity would not be the end of life and being reminded of that is a useful check on our tendency to put ourselves at the center of "the" world (instead of just the center of our world).
I think they take issue with Yelp deciding they need charity for them. Many reputable business don't want to beg or appear desperate.
In a young person with no co-morbid conditions, the risk is not 2%, it's 0.1% -- at most, and we're all going to get it. #flattenthecurve is not about containment, it's about slowing the spread so that hospital capacity to care for the small fraction who need it can be ramped to match. Sooner or later some 270 million Americans will have had it, and we'll develop herd immunity. It'll most likely end up a seasonal virus like the flu.

With the high R0 and the fact so many people end up with no symptoms, negligible symptoms or mild flu-like symptoms, it can't really be stopped.

I'd volunteer. Not that I think we should, though.
The reasons seem obvious. It's this the third pandemic for them in the past 10 years. SARS, Bird flu, Corvid-19 this is not a good trend if people start to notice
Not always. Shockingly (or I guess not shockingly by todays standards) some MiniDiscs have copy protection on the track listing! However a majority of CDs I owned with CD-TEXT would happily label everything correctly. This was the reason I used my PS2 rather than my regular CD player which also had optical out but did not do the CD-TEXT.

I have read that CD-TEXT data is not transferred over optical however it most certainly worked for me. I made at least 100 MiniDiscs this way. Perhaps it was something special with how the PS2 did things that was not to the standard? Who knows. I have searched for information but never found anything concrete except for a few others who agreed with me that it did work as they used to do it the same way. Nothing official sadly.
I'm sure prices vary. The $10-$15k is for bankruptcy lawyers in SF/BayArea in 2018.
Includes the $2 trillion package about to be signed?
If it'd save a bunch of lives, I'd volunteer if someone were hired to help my wife with the kids (along with a generous insurance package and wage) and if it were early in the pandemic where there's still plenty of healthcare system capacity.
I also notice HN voting tends to punish very brief positive comments. Sometimes it's nice to see some positive encouragement, even if the comment doesn't go into any deeper analysis or constructive criticism.
The Coronavirus-Proof Nation
I once heard that an acquaintance had participated in a study for which he was injected with a flu virus. I never verified this however.
I said this at the beginning of the crisis and first major rush to Zoom by many companies: their start-up friendly business model is going to bite them hard when they have to blitzscale services and there will be growing pains while they find the right non-vc-subsidized pricing model for long-term customers.

I think we can cut them some slack for now as they are under more pressure then many other tech companies. They managed to make a great product - so presumably they'll be able to build the right processes for the company itself soon too.
Wow, this is a massive oversight. What product manager thought this was a good idea without making it an opt-in? There isn't even an opt-out.

1) Owners who aren't active on Yelp may never notice this feature, and so the money is never claimed.

This is big, your customers think they are supporting you and instead they support Yelp.

2) Yelp may be taking a cut? But I can't find any evidence to substantiate this claim.

Even if they were not taking a cut, they can make interest earnings on the parked money.

Personally, I would not allow Yelp to do this on my behalf because I own the relationship with my customers, not Yelp.
How old are you? Asking for the data.
I haven't touched it in ages but "where wizards stay up late" is about the origins of the internet
That doesn't mean we have to be forever. Extreme distancing / lockdown will be needed to get the outbreaks under control, but once that point is reached, extensive testing and contact tracing will be needed to relax those measures without triggering a massive resurgence, unless we want to wait a year or more for a vaccine.
Keep in mind deepspeech is an implement of speech recognition algorithm... the results will largely depend on model used which typically require lots of manual labor
I would say Go doesn't limit the number of abstractions, it limits the number of ways in which abstractions can be created. Or maybe better put, it doesn't provide a very rich set of abstraction facilities.
Two lesser known books that I enjoyed: 1) "Colossus: The secrets of Bletchley Park's code-breaking computers", and 2) "The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal".

One thing I learned from the "Colossus" book was the contribution of British engineers to early computers (Tommy Flowers in particular). They didn't get the credit they deserved because their work was kept secret for so long.
Brian Kernighan gives credit to Doug McIlroy for coming up with the idea in 1964. Quoting from _UNIX A History and a Memoir_, page 68:

"To put my strongest concerns in a nutshell: 1. we should have some way of coupling programs like garden hose..."

from a Bell Labs internal memo.

Kernighan's book is a great read, BTW. Highly recommend to all UNIX nerds.
Not relevant. There are trillions of vehicle trips each year. In 2018, only 36,560 deaths. The likelihood of a fatal car accident is a less than 1% of 1% of 1%.

There have been only a few hundred thousand cases of COVID19 so far, and thousands of deaths. The fatality rate is many magnitudes greater.
thanks, would you say that 'learning a lot' is an indicator, for you, of 'health' in an online community, such as HN? in what ways does being 'about as civil' shape your sense of HN 'health'?
Banks are changing their credit models
My guess is that they feel like Yelp is kind of taking over responsibility without their permission? I'm not a business owner but I imagine I'd feel quite protective of all aspects of it, especially when asking for money (even in dire circumstances)
> standard fare

Aka "common sense" aka "anything that will fit within the Overton window"

Not to be confused with "decent, moral behavior"
“Rate at which the discipline moves” is mostly churn, not progress. Important insights come at a slower rate — at the speed of human understanding, not at the speed of conference papers. Good papers from even decades ago are likely to still be useful — in fact, they will have the key ideas presented simply and clearly, without much jargon or hype. Yes, deep learning practice moves quite fast these days, but that’s just the veneer on top of those deeper ideas, trying out tweaks and variations. That’s not completely an indictment of deep learning, rather, any nascent field has a lot of confusing bustle.
Really easy to use and definitely a helpful resource. Thanks!
I don't read that tweet as praise for China at all, and I'm curious why you do. It seems pretty obviously a dig against the US administration that, when Italy needed help, we refused to provide it while China stepped up. It's an expression of shame at our national impotence.

Now, I suspect you wouldn't agree with that perspective either. But it's definitely not praise for China.

As far as the article to which it links... that's all factual stuff. The PRC absolutely has exported a ton of PPE equipment and assigned a bunch of well-documented medical personnel to hot regions. That's good, as far as it goes. It doesn't say anything about what they're doing inside the PRC, but it absolutely is helpful that they're doing it externally.
Yes, those two apply to you as well. Don’t squelch discourse just because it isn’t convenient for your CCP.
Pretty sure they alude to that in Ringworld
Show HN: Balto, an API to Send iMessages
Taking comfort in the potential extinction of humanity because at least there would be some non-sapient critters still around strikes me as an odd value system. Couldn't you make the analogous argument that the extinction of all life on Earth would be fine since it would have absolutely no effect on the vast majority of the universe?
Optimising UE4 Project Builds with Cloud Native Infrastructure and Containers
That tweet was referring to shipments from China to Italy, many of which were paid for and orders. Some were donated, but the articles present it as a grand gesture instead of Italy attempting to provision their own supplies on the market.

It’s a sad mix of propaganda and temporary faith in a shaky globally supply chain.
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The first thing you learn in accounting school is which numbers are real (revenue) and which are made up (profit).
Hey HN, proud to share balto, an API to send iMessages from a new phone number. I originally built this out to take advantage of the iMessage features (specifically read receipts and videos) after sadly learning that these features are severely limited when using Twilio or other SMS providers.

From there I went down a crazy rabbit hole, talking to apple support, shopping on eBay for an old iPhone, digging through poorly documented JXA (javascript to control your mac), and eventually landing on a MVP which today supports sending new iMessages from a custom phone number and looking at read receipts (if the other party has them turned on); with many more features on the way (think full videos, audio recording, tapbacks, group chats, etc.)

Love this community and the valuable feedback y’all provide!
I posted this because I found it to be disturbing from a privacy point of view. Apparently the data comes from "X-mode Social", googling that leads to this website which is currently 504ing: https://xmode.io/, which makes it hard to tell if this is fake or not.
3) They have their own plans to make money now, and this conflicts with it

3.5) worse if said messaging tied around not wanting donations, but e.g. selling gift cards or other things that give a benefit instead

4) They now have extra work to do that they didn't ask for

5) Yelp claiming "all proceeds going directly to the business" without having set up a channel for proceeds to be transferred
I mean imagine you have a bar and although you needed to close it due to covid19 you are still good financially. If all of a sudden someone else decided to ask your customers for money because you might need it, wouldn’t that be weird? I wonder why such things aren’t just opt-in. I mean it’s a really nice and good thing, but Yelp proactively activating it makes me believe they are bad people and have some kind of revenue/fee share model in place.
I’d be pissed off, if I have a business the last thing you want customers and suppliers knowing you are struggling
If someone accepts your -$10 bid the house will totally be worth that by definition. Remember the $1 houses from Detroit a decade ago. They weren't even worth $1 due to the tax liability that came with them, and they didn't sell for that reason.
That's beyond recognition in that article. They're calling Beijing a "global leader." A response of purposeful coverup and suppressing dissenters is in no way showing leadership.
But what happens when all prices go up? If everyone gets paid more, wouldn't the UBI be worthless? Landlords will just raise prices since working people will always have more money (UBI + salary) than non workers? Just like now? Same goes for almost every service.

Real supply and demand will stay the same, real economic production will probably stay the same too. So what's the point? 2000$ only feels a lot right now because it's an amount of money that represents a lot of work for a lot of people. Sure, you can link some small scale UBI experiments, but they have all been done in the context of a broader economy where the amounts given still had purchasing power.

There's a reason why most economists don't agree with UBI. I know people on HN love to discredit economists, but the push for UBI here is ridiculous. It is akin to simply denying a whole scientific field because you feel it's are wrong
Very true. I'd suggest the OP to look up the video on how Israel uses teams to edit Wikipedia articles to put their territory in a positive light as a good starting point. Also check out this page on Cryptome about forum spies. They are still very much out there and more organized and financed now than ever before. Most people don't pay attention to these things:
https://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm
Here in southern Ontario the coyotes are still pretty cowardly. I live rural (but close to town) and I might see them from 100 feet away before they skitishly run off. Except for one time there was one that brazenly marched down our driveway in broad daylight. Not sure how long that one lived for, never saw it again...

The ones in town are a bit less shy.

What's strange is last night our chickens were attacked by an eastern red fox. Usually they're super skittish and shy around humans, but as I (along with 3 other people) was rescuing my rooster from under a car, this one kept circling around, thinking he was going to get his prey back from us. Not scared at all.

(FWIW roosters are amazing animals... this one seems to have charged the fox to get it to drop one of the hens, and then fought with it and decoyed it away from the hens a good 200 feet down to the road, then it hid under a car of some people who passed by and witnessed this all happening and stopped. All birds survived, just missing some feathers. Rooster gets lots of treats today.)
> Can you give an example of what you're talking about?

Pretty much all (there's probably some exceptions, because English) nouns that are syntactically plural and written identically to an adjective are mass nouns used exclusively with the definite article and with the sense of “those (usually specifically people, but this can vary by context) to whom the adjective applies as a mass”. In addition to poor, you have strong, weak, educated, etc.

Nouns where there is a singular form written identically to the adjective tend to have a plural with two senses, both a countable sense that is a normal plural of the singular form and an uncountable sense identical to that of spelled-like-adjective plurals. Examples include Italian/Italians, etc.
Bit weird to see them in broad daylight, but we definitely have an urban coyote problem in the US.

I swear the most common "crazy story from my vet" is the soccer mom that rescues a litter of puppies that she found on her run...
It puts the owner of a for-profit business in the position of looking like they are looking for handouts from their customers. Someone who is strongly against that (on grounds of either ethics or pride IMO) would be justifiably offended, if not quite to the level of vitriol in the headline.
I find it pathetic that people wail to the high heavens about this abstract concept of privacy you mention and pensively quote Benjamin Franklin, while clicking away all their most intimate shit to check out some stupid Facebook game.

Get your priorities right: “you won’t believe...” clickbait no. Contact tracing to stop a disease that turns your lungs to frothy blood-juice. Fuck yes
Agreed that interviews are both a gatekeeping and social ritual, but from the perspective of the employer I do think "the point of a job interview" should very clearly be to identify candidates with the highest probability of being successful in the role.
Just one example: Some places in San Francisco charge their customers for a membership already. Having Yelp do this completely kills the trust your customers have in you.

Yelp does not own the relationship between businesses and customers. I don't understand why this isn't obvious. Hell is full of good intentions.
Toronto for example was full of Coyotes last summer. No need for COVID to see them around. I saw quite a few on my own.
No. There is enough oil on the planet for another 500 years. There is no shortage.
I've never seen the mainstream media question the veracity of the statistics about Covid that came out of China until the evidence is too obvious to ignore. There is plenty of proof that they regularly manipulate their statistics such as GDP.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-08/china-s-g...

https://time.com/5811222/wuhan-coronavirus-death-toll/

etc

Why should any respectable journalist quote their statistics about COVID and conclude how effective their response was without mentioning that they've been known to fabricate statistics? Let alone calling them a 'Global Leader' in response. I've not seen this qualification mentioned once with respect to China's stats on this virus.
Does anyone know how the pipe idea compares to Erlang messaging?

As far as I can tell the implementation of each might look like the other in some ways (a queue of some kind with MutEx guaranteed somehow).

Does anyone have the knowledge to write a little on this? Or maybe point to a similar article for that style of messaging?
Whoever's downvoting this comment, how do you refute the point that export numbers are hard to fake? It would collusion from all of China and all of the importing countries.
I'm doing something similar too! Morning / afternoon / evening pages on my personal blog: https://blog.yingw787.com

I don't think I've ever shared my personal blog before, it's my personal scratchpad as opposed to my professional content on Bytes by Ying, but if it helps people understand how one rando on the Internet processes emotions during this time, maybe I can do some good.
Zimbabwe is such a sad story.
You don't think calling China a "global leader" despite their awful initial actions is praising China?
But they could have done something for him! They could have called an ambulance for him to ensure that he was rushed into a proper healthcare facility! That they didn't and just turned him away because he lacked proper insurance is sick and insane.

That's would have happened in any country with universal healthcare. If I go to a local healthcare facility and they think I'm having symptoms of a heart attack they just don't shrug their shoulders. They would call an ambulance and get me to a real hospital asap.

Look at the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkhnAF7E5xw All they did was refer him to another hospital. Sickening.
(More than) two months of lockdown, not one. So ~38000 cremations “normally”. Spread out to eight funeral homes, you’d expect 4k-5k at each location. (Since people were allegedly locked into apartments or at least apartment complexes, apparently they weren’t picking up ashes until now.) So “thousands” at each location tells us precious nothing.

Article is intentionally misleading, burying the “normal” stats that way.