skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
we all need to do our part for our neighbors and colleagues.

taking care of employees who depend heavily on the company for their lives (the regular employees) is the duty of a company and its wealthy owners. it's not the responsibility of the highly-paid employees (the players) to take care of the low-paid ones, even though some players are going above and beyond in that regard.

it's also not right to shirk that responsibility onto the public via social programs (what walmart does in many places).
> It does not need to be most Americans and a lot of office workers would prefer to be farmers if the wage were correct.

Most everyone would prefer to be farmers (= farm owners = capitalist of at least the petit bourgeoisie, if not actually the haut bourgeoisie) instead of wage laborers.

But, no, I don't think that many office workers would prefer to be manual laborers, whether farm laborers or otherwise. Sure, with enough of a wage premium they might be lured away. But there are limits to the ability to pay higher real wages to farm labor, because food cost is a major basic expense to start with so higher nominal wages for farm labor necessarily (because while there is lots of aggregate profit in food, there's not lots of proportion of profit, which is where the room for absorbing wage increases without price impact comes from) means higher price index, which reduces real wages for everyone, including the farm laborers.
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So we should continue exploiting, is what you are saying?
I'm pretty happy with Affinity Designer (not so much Affinity Photo) and I agree with you I'm worried about their money situation. I even bought both apps twice. Once on Mac and once on Windows.

Like you eluded to IMO they should just do the traditional thing, charge for upgrades?
I am neither Taiwanese or Chinese and have no dog in that fight except as it pertains to avoiding pandemics.

Taiwanese friends tell me that during the SARS outbreak, China refused to share data with them which it shared with every other country. Taiwan was hit very hard because they were flying blind. This led them to establish independent monitoring and early warning systems since they have extensive trade and cultural links with China and large numbers of travelers.

The current VP of Taiwan is an epidemiologist who was the health minister during the SARs outbreak and their current response has been one of the most effective (108 cases, 1 death).

Every country would want to work with Taiwan on this issue not ostracize them like the WHO. They are like a monitoring and early-warning system for these kinds of pathogens coming out of China.
This guy seems to know a great deal about starting a new IT business:

https://www.joisig.com/

Might be worth it checking that out.

EDIT: As a software developer, I also second Basecamp books and their organizational culture (that is explicitly and publicly divulged on their materials - some of them are free).
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The price is set by wholesalers, especially supermarkets. I'm not convinced they can re-eqilibriate the market before the harvest spoils.
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You're right, of course, but the system doesn't regulate itself without moderation comments and unfortunately my job involves posting them. They're a necessary evil, in the same way that some medicines are toxic: one uses them when the alternative is worse.

If it helps at all, such comments are even more tedious to write than to read.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
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> What do you mean by "privatize the profits" here? Are you ignoring taxation?

Are you (excuse my french) fucking kidding me?

Source: https://itep.org/notadime/ (dollars in millions)

Company (U.S.) ~ Income ~ Federal Tax ~ Effective Tax Rate
Alaska Air Group ~ $576 ~ $-5 ~ -1%
Delta Air Lines ~ $5,073 ~ $-187 ~ -4%
JetBlue Airways ~ $219 ~ $-60 ~ -27%

And from this source: https://itep.org/covid-19-is-no-excuse-for-airline-industry-...

The most taxes paid was by Southwest, at 21.4% ... Which is a 60% of my personal tax! When can I get personal tax rates like that???
You may want a physically separated control plane. At least for the BMCs.

Or you want to have your box to have multiple addresses in case one NIC or switch goes bad.
>What do you mean by "privatize the profits" here?

CEO's we getting their fat bonuses (tied to share prices) for years, inflating said prices with buybacks, and now, when shit hit the fan, they are dumping half-bankrupt companies to the public?
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The point is that it’s biologically impossible to test for some things with a finger prick. Theranos was like an electronics company claiming to have “solved” the uncertainty principle. In all these tests people are proposing, you still have to abide by the biological requirements.
Previously submitted as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22708586
The mass comes from the potential energy. Same as a spinning disk has more mass than a disk at rest.

It’s absolutely negligible, but it’s real.
Except of course if you are Google or Facebook themselves since it is considered 1P sign in. Many people don’t see it because they are mostly logging into these big services. Smaller services are just dropping 3P in favor of direct sign up. With auto fill and suggested password the friction is low. I have seen some social apps that don’t want to give up on Facebook login add Apple buttons (Bumble). These are my observations.
"quit my 40 hour work week and have more time for things I enjoy doing"

Given that basically everyone would like to do this, I suggest it's a rather challenging thing to do in that it's highly competitive, and that the vast majority of Entrepreneurs, bootstrapped or otherwise, work longer hours than average.

If you calculate risk into the equation, it does not look good.

If your real objective is 'work-life balance' then there's probably an opportunity for you to contract and consult x-hours a week that has considerably lower risk dynamics.

But if your actual goal is really to start a business, then obviously that's what you want to do.
fwiw: Works fine on Windows 10 Firefox and original Edge.
And then Walmart would fail because everyone would shop at target or Another store. In a low margin business, every percent counts.
For fun, I whipped this up in Rust. I decided to go with an explicit struct to serialize it into, because it makes the error handling easier, and is a bit more idiomatic. I kept unwrap because it's similar to the python semantic of throwing an exception. It's pretty close though!

use chrono::NaiveDateTime;
use serde::*;
use serde_json;

#[derive(Deserialize)]
struct Person {
name: String,
age: u32,
hired: String,
emails: Vec<String>,
}

fn main() {
let data = std::fs::read_to_string("agenda.json").unwrap();
let mut people: Vec<Person> = serde_json::from_str(data).unwrap();

people.sort_by(|a, b| b.name.cmp(&a.name));

for person in &people {
let datetime = NaiveDateTime::parse_from_str(&person.hired, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S").unwrap();
println!(
"{} ({}) - {}",
person.name,
person.age,
datetime.format("%d/%m/%y")
);

for email in &person.emails {
println!(" - {}", email);
}
}
}
Use ncal and awk to Display Second Tuesdays
I understand that the situation is dire. I'm saying we need more options, not fewer.

What we basically have now is a government monopoly network that happens to be Comcast branded. It's bad.
"it is clear that methane from closed mines will be a problem for years to come.”

And only 1% comes through the ventilation systems.
The reason Norway does well with oil in a socialized manner is because their oil per capita is extreme, and the action of extracting and exporting oil from a well-known oil zone is a predictable industrial activity (prices are the primary wild card that you adapt to). It's among the highest per capita oil production in the world. That is not a scenario that replicates to our incompetent Congress managing airlines for a couple hundred million people, and such that the airline finances are a rounding error for the American people (annual checks for maybe $20 per adult), while we shovel more complexity and bloat on the Congressional plate (when they're not doing their job well as it is; do not give them anything else to manage that isn't absolutely necessary). The better way is to implement payback / return requirements for any bailout.

There is a good reason why Norway doesn't lead the world in very many things industrially, a reason why there are not plentiful other examples out of Norway of this model working.
> whilst the netherlands grow mostly flowers.

38 km² of flowers in glasshouses and 272 km² of flowers on open ground.

Total agricultural land use is 18163 km², 11815 km² of which is for growing grass and fodder, most of the remaining 6347 km² is food for human consumption, dominated by potatoes and grain.

So not even 3%.

We do not grow mostly flowers.
On the other hand, with everyone being at home, and a lot of bullshit tasks being eliminated/deferred (my driver's license is automatically good for an extra 6 months), caloric demand is probably down 10%.

As our muscles atrophy, basal metabolic rates will decrease too.

Undetermined what kind of hit to population COVID will cause, but I'm estimating <1%.
I think the engineer before me put a bit of effort into this, but it didn’t work out all that well in this case. This isn’t surprising considering that the standard regex tool on the platform wasn’t known for being particularly performant.
Mine shows nothing: "You have no available activity to show at this time."

I have been running Facebook in the special Firefox container pretty much since it was available. I took off the WhatsApp and Instagram apps from my phone months ago. For me, the number of ads (on Instagram) and integration into Facebook made them expendable.

I don't know if Facebook really has no information or they do but are not showing it to me.

I'd like to do the same with Google but the Google container wants to force all interactions with Google into one container. I've got dedicated containers for different Gmail identities - it was very handy to have a Gmail identity while I was president of the kids' soccer club and then turn the account over to someone else.
Python behaves "sensibly" with regard to this. Semicolons are statement breaks. Endlines are statement breaks, unless theres some reason for them not to be, such as being in a open brace state.
This. I'm not a big user of SSO in general, but on the few sites that I did use it, I'd forget whether I used SSO or not. Also, using SSO locks you into using that vendor. I've a couple of accounts that I'd like to change to normal uname/pwd but am locked into the SSO vendor (which I'm hoping to move away from)
it would be rust
By all means, read the books mentioned in this thread.

And then drop it and just start working.

There is a large swath of self-branded Indie Hackers who cling to books, blogs, conferences etc. but are too paralyzed by all the advice and input to actually do the one thing they need to: get customers.

Disclaimer: I run my own SaaS and visit Indiehacker meetups and stuff. I’m not a nay sayer, just stay skeptical.
Again such a naive viewpoint, in an economy everything is interconnected. If the prices of groceries rise, there are knock-on effects on everything. Yep, EVERYTHING From healthcare to housing, to transport, and whatnot will rise many-x and this bravado will evaporate in the time you took to read this post.
Isn't the point of this change to give farm workers (who like bus drivers, retail workers, etc barely make ends meet) the ability to cover their basic needs more easily. If we could implement this across all low-paid jobs, I would more than happily pay a greater proportion of my own salary on these goods.
What people want to do work that damaged their body, is subject to short term changes in demand due to weather and has high income instability, and leads to no future growth?

$20/hour for temporary backbreaking work in exchange for not being near friends or family, having to move constantly, having to live in a rural area (not what most people want), having no upward income mobility.

The people that do it, do it because they have no better option. Not because they want to.
Not everyone is accepting suggestions like you.

I am a senior dev and I always try to push new ideas to my team lead (senior dev and older than me), but all I get is blatant criticism because he says "I've tested it and didn't like it). A clear example: refusing to move to Spring Boot and still staying on the dead horse JavaEE, which got more complicated and fragmented than ever since Java 9
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uh you have to pick it before you can preserve it
Motif was kind of a running joke back in the early 90s (check the Usenet archive for posts and jokes), just like how JavaScript is today - Everyone was using it, it was in a state of continued development (with a feature creeping tendency), and like other technologies, it has its own limitations. Unsurprisingly, it received a huge number of complaints, its popularity was partially responsible for that. Just like how early Unix had a reputation of unreliability, or how many people complain about JavaScript or web frameworks today. Are they technical milestones? Yes. Is it normal for people to complain about it? Also yes.
To be fair, it's easier to move to 3 now than X years ago. And there's more benefit.
Luckily, compiler authors have gotten the message and are starting to improve on this situation slowly.
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I am not thrilled about the situation, but the alternative, unfortunately, is far worse. The people in Ukraine/Moldova etc. will go deeper into poverty, and people in the west will have to contend with sky-high inflation.
>These projects (whatever Musk says about them when hyping his company) deliver expensive network access to places where it's otherwise not practical to offer service at all. They aren't going head-to-head with Comcast, or even with AOL, they're competing with "Physically take a day's / week's work to the A site where they have network access".

Yeah, there are a lot of places in the US--some of which aren't even really all that rural--that just don't have good Internet options. Today, satellite basically falls into the slightly better than nothing category but it's neither price-competitive nor good if you have essentially any other option. While I know people in tech who make do with only a satellite connection, I'm sure many reading this wouldn't consider that viable and it will be increasingly less so over time.

5G will presumably help in some cases as it rolls out but it certainly won't reach everywhere. And, presumably, over time places that don't have a certain level of Internet access will be increasingly unsuitable at least for long-term residence.
Maybe, but if you're going to defend the health of the community, you need to do exemplify its norms (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), not violate them, while doing so. Otherwise it seems like you're attacking for petty reasons, such as personal or ideological animosity.

It isn't easy. The mind likes to take the experience of being right as an opportunity to also vent surplus emotion or aggression. To catch oneself doing this and forego the satisfaction is not something we do instinctively. Surprisingly, though, the trivial genre of internet comments turns out to be a good place for practice (and lord knows we can all use it).
You missed the part where it was always migrant labor that did this work? The article is specifically about the fiasco of not letting in these people. Or, more accurately, these people saying “no thanks” to the prospect of working for minimum wage while risking their lives.
The Prometheus host agent's CPU utilization metrics can be a bit weird
clang has UBSan, which adds runtime checks for detecting various kinds of undefined behaviour: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer.html
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Most of the ones I've seen are in deserts, or repurposed scrub or highly marginal farmland. Nobody is talking about the forests because that's a very minor case. And that's before we get into rooftop solar.

Find me three solar farms in cleared forest areas.
demand is up in my house, proximity to food storage seems to trump caloric needs
Hardware memory tagging is not a panacea, it just catches egregious memory errors.
Imagine that the intern didn't dare to ask such questions.

a - he could've gone out thinking that performance doesn't matter. but it certainly does in a piece of code being used daily by thousands of devs.

b - he could've thought that the simple implementation is faster but missed the fact that skip is implemented in assembly.

c - he could've realized both but missed the why.

and these failure scenarios are likely to happen because this is an intern we're speaking about.

One or two tricks up your sleeve do not matter but repeat this a 100 times which one do you think would be a better programmer?

I think the willingness to challenge authority figures and to be (often) proven wrong and to learn from it is an essential part of becoming better.

Maybe Tim was understanding because he himself challenged people older than him and in-process learned form them.

Advice like "don't reinvent the wheel", "avoid premature optimization", "write boring code" promote exploitation.
which is the optimal strategy for older agents.

but for newer agents, a higher level of exploration is needed otherwise they would converge into a suboptimal strategy
Cheaper!?!?! I had $1200 one month long distance bill in 1984. That today is effectively free. Only competition made that happen. If AT&T was still in charge we'd be paying by the call and by the byte.
Low wages for field workers (e.g. picking berries) has stunted automation of these tasks, though I think we're now at the level of robotics (especially computer vision) where it's feasible.
Yes, I tried the ReSharper Inspector tool, and it uses clang to find all sorts of code issues, with a friendly UI.
I'd be interested to hear more about what you think will go wrong. It seems like this is an important problem to solve.
Decent people like you who ponder the question are especially the ones taxpayers want to take the money.

A few years ago, a friend of mine was laid off. It had been two months and I was talking to him about his situation. I asked: SO how much do you get from unemployment?

Friend: Well I have not applied for it.

Me: Why not? It is there for exactly your situation.

Friend: I am not desperate yet, and I think others need the money more than I do.

Me: Stop being an idiot! Get the damn money! You are not doing anyone else a favor by not getting it. In addition you dwindle your meager savings down.

Moral of the story: You will not prevent someone who deserves it more from getting the money. You will probably keep some politician from pocketing it as a campaign donation.
There are a few ways to do a 2-3 day data science problem:
1. Random plug and chug / datarobot
2. Copy someone else
3. Expert feature engineering
4. Overly-documented EDA

I don’t think any of this is relevant, but maybe it gives some indication that they can do anything at all. However, most good DS will pass because they‘ve been burned too many times by companies just looking for free help on a problem.

If you’re a DS, don’t ever work on a company-relevant problem for free.
The observation is sound. And also note that pets may be much more likely than (adult) humans to go into contact with some things and areas contaminated by saliva.

As for the stability, unless fur is more hostile than plastic or stainless steel, detectable viable virus at 72 hours is indicated in this recent article by van Doremalen et al.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMc2004973

Experience from other coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-1 and MERS-CoV, shows even longer persistence for some surfaces and environmental conditions.
Please see Table I in Kampf et al. this January

https://www.journalofhospitalinfection.com/article/S0195-670...
Don’t those terminals have hyperlink detection anyways? What’s the need to use special escape sequences in this case?
thank a lot for the issue
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If there is municipal internet, it should set a price that is sustainable but forces other ISPs to compete. Also competition doesn't only mean two of the same thing. More competition helps in general, even when the number of ISPs seems redundant.
I've already donated money to causes. I am willing to donate my skills and time to something as well. Go coder in the Seattle area here.
luckily there has been some research on averting such tragedies: https://wle.cgiar.org/content/elinor-ostrom-%E2%80%9Cnon-tra...
This link concerns only energy-related emissions.
As a senior engineer who is proud of certain strengths and envious of different strengths I see in more often in others than myself, this seems pretty spot on to me.
What if your family moved to a country long after said colonialism ended? Should you be forced to pay reparations for that colonialism (the taxes you pay be used to pay for it)?
> The danger with government nationalizing telecommunications networks is that once it is done, innovation and quality go way down.

Who needs nationalization? The market for transit is reasonably competitive. Local municipalities could install fiber along the roads they already maintain at a modest incremental cost, then offer the service to residents for a monthly fee to pay off the bonds without even spending any taxpayer money.

All you really need from the federal government is to have them do something about incumbent ISPs actively interfering with municipalities that want to do that.

> 4G/5G are decent options

No they're not. The nature of wireless is that it's cheaper if you have a low population density, because one tower for hundreds of people is much cheaper than installing hundreds of miles of fiber for hundreds of people.

It flips completely the other way in anything resembling a city. To get a fraction of the bandwidth available from fiber, you'd need a tower on every street corner, which isn't dramatically less expensive than installing fiber (especially when you count all the spectrum you have to pay for) and is still slower even then.

And cellular is even less attractive when you have Starlink -- then you don't even need the towers. It's great for rural areas. But it's hardly going to have enough aggregate bandwidth to let all of New York City watch Netflix in 4K.
the project site: https://plasma-bigscreen.org/

Looks a lot like Kodi / LibreELEC but with voice control? I can't think of an "app" I need running on my TV Pi, and I certainly aint eager to add an active microphone to any programmable system in my home at this point in history.

I dont see the point. Enlighten me please, anyone?
If the wholesalers want the product to sell it, then they will change the price so that it makes sense to harvest it.
NetBSD has their rump kernel tech, which specifically exists to run chunks of kernel code independently. It can do a lot of neat things (I liked the "run netbsd drivers on other OSs" trick, personally), but one of the big uses they've mentioned is that it helps testing and development.
France allows use of Chloroquine to treat Covid-19 patients
I didn't read his link, but what he explains in his post is basically what China has done, and it seems to be working.