skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like the old joke about only having to outrun the other guy but not the bear, the US is only at risk if it ends up less stable than somewhere else and doesn't manage to trip them up on the way down. It's still hard to see any more realistic alternative; the EU is struggling with the same crisis, and the Chinese government doesn't even want its currency externalised.
I pray you all read the ux bible About Face on interaction design.
Very interesting... I wonder what it would take for a touchscreen keyboard to be as reliable or live as long as a mechanical keyboard. Maybe it already does, but my mental picture and experience of phone screens getting flaky, and taking secondary+ swipes does not give me the confidence a mechanical keyboard does.
It's logical? It's absurd. You can usually pull over a car and get out in the case of a critical hardware failure. There is rarely such a luxury in a plane.
There's less supply of what? We still have plenty of food, plenty of homes, plenty of water. Yeah, we have less Airbnbs getting booked, and Ubers being called, but does that really fucking matter? It only matters to the VCs who have invested in these companies.

Americans don't need to buy their 6th iPhone to save this economy, we just need to focus on what's important. It's very telling of the state of current US politics that when a crisis emerges, everyone says we have to help rich corporations stay rich.
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The Audi MMI system consisting of a central dial is still the most intuitive and least distracting of all car systems I have seen in the market. And, as a bonus, it also works really well with Android Auto and CarPlay - without touchscreen.
> OpenBSD aims to be a secure operating system

Pretty idiotic aim if you're writing it in C.
The conceit that it's a "bar" of any kind is what allows it to continue.
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I agree the standards are bad, for senior devs in particular.
In addition to your points:

Technical understanding of systems in general (networking, CAP, testing, writing maintainable code) are all overlooked in the interview process, though these are what actually make a developer productive.

The older you get the more specialized and optimized you are to learning what matters, which is why most of the older guys suck at these types of interviews.

Imagine interviewing Brendan Gregg by giving him some leetcode problems!
GC was talking about people that need to work with unions (and those in them), not the people actually in the unions. Saying people in unions like unions and so they can't be bad is like saying that oligarchs like being part of an oligarchy so oligarchy can't be bad.

I think unions do good, but they can also be an enemy of progress. Here is a piece about unions that I found on google.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/06/unneces...
If you haven't saved enough money to survive for a year without income, you really only have yourself to blame. Just live a frugal life until you have saved enough. I lived my life frugal for so long, I don't even know how to spend the money I make. I've went years without buying stuff that isn't needed for survival and only spend money on shelter and food. If people can't do this simple thing, they can't expect pity from me.
I've never driven a Tesla, but if so that's cool.
Not just smoke. During explosive decompression the air turns to thick fog, and that's when you'll need to fumble around for the correct controls the most.
SQL is as type-safe as the DB engine allows it to be. PostgreSQL is type-safe. Extracting these types and making them available and usable in your lang-of-choice at compile time is a different problem though.
But that is how IDEs used to be. vim, kdevelop, qt creator, texstudio, ...
I'm curious where you get the assertion that

> Droplets through the air is not primary vector

and

> hand to nose mouth contact is THE primary vector for this illness

In contrast, Johns Hopkins guide currently states:
"Transmission
- By respiratory droplets and by fomite. Virus found in respiratory secretions and saliva.
- Viral shedding by asymptomatic people described, uncertain to what degree this occurs and abets transmission.
- Stool shedding also described, but uncertain what role, if any, that plays."
https://www.hopkinsguides.com/hopkins/view/Johns_Hopkins_ABX...
If you have a point to make, would you care to spell it out more clearly? This is starting to feel like a troll comment, which I didn't expect on HN.
The thing I'd like to see more of is OLED buttons (Optimus Keyboard style). Physical, clicky, mechanical buttons, but each button is a screen. MFD buttons already change their function depending on what mode the screen is in, having the button also be an icon of what it will do can be very nice.

Otherwise I agree. You need the use of the interface to be as automatic as possible, and exploiting muscle memory & tactile feedback are very important for that. Touch screens fail there.
App to help fight queues outside of stores amid Covid-19 quarantine (Belgium)
Ah, so, async/await, while conceptually similar, isn't the same across languages. Rust's semantics here are very different than JS's. I think Rust's implementation would address all of your issues, at least conceptually.

> I don't understand the advantage of copying Javascript model with all of its caveats. I think what's happening is that people just want to run with the context they're already familiar with.

With respect, I think it's because you don't understand it in Rust yet. It was not directly copied from JS, and was certainly not due to familiarity. Read the post! It's very good :)
> Ur anus is leaking gas

Loooooooool lmfao
Are there competitors to DarkSky out there? One of my startups is looking for hyper-local real-time weather forecasting and unless they keep things running as usual then we would probably need to find someone else.
It's worth putting a fine point on what you want to happen. If you have 50% "no shows", there are two main options:

1. More accurate RSVP lists, but fewer total attendees. Putting up barriers to RSVP (ticket prices, deposits, shaming/consequences for no show). People will think more before clicking the button. And while your list will be more accurate, you will scare off people who otherwise might have come.

2. More total people, but inaccurate RSVP lists. By keeping the bar to RSVP low, you'll get people RSVPing that are on the fence. And some fraction of those people will show up. Your total numbers will be higher than the other option, but you'll have a ton of no-shows.

But there's no version where you get 100% of those RSVPers due to a change in app functionality.
Health organizations should keep themselves away from politics.

From aritcle - Taiwanese official Stanley Kao has also said the island has been denied permission to attend the World Health Assembly's annual meetings in recent years.

This is really bad. We are dealing here with lives of people. Hope you understand gravity of current situation.

> You decided to mistrust an entire global organization because one guy duffed an interview.

Looking at situation in China, Yes. China has neither a free press or open access to the internet. So there is not any way to verify covid-19 counts in China. If WHO is so scared to China, how can we trust WHO in Chinese count ?

> Yes the WHO is likely mistreating Taiwan, but its based on the UN and global politics, nothing else.

Epidemic won't see any borders and politics. Hope WHO understands this soon. They are representing world not any country.
2% is not high inflation.
> Lisp is an interesting point. I guess the argunent is that it's the right tool for every job?

Yup, that's more or less the argument, though the argument need not only apply to lisp.

> Unix is a reasonable example of a polyglot environment, but at a high cost.

I'd rather say that Unix is an example of how to effectively drive down the cost of a polyglot environment to a point where it is outweighed by the benefits.

Now, of course the cost is still there, but I would argue that beyond a certain scale you cannot optimize globally on a single runtime (perhaps not even with something like lisp) and so the cost of global consistency is outweighed by cost of being unable to optimize locally.

To put it more succintly, you could not build a system as complex as Unix in a single language[1]

[1] Although Ala Kay's work at VPRI suggests you can, if you choose a sufficiently expressive base language. But even that may have it's limits.
Seems organic to me.

All tweets I found had legitimate accounts behind them.

A cynic might say Houseparty has offered the reward because they know they don't have to pay and for PR.

There wasn't much news media about it before the reward.
Just stop with this billionaires argument please and framing it as workers vs. billionaires. I am more talking about families who will have to pay more now to address some of the Union's demands.
1) I would start by attempting to define sociable.

2) Then find potential factors that may affect sociable. Determine a way to negate these effects.

My opinion is point 1 is a fool's errand. Point 2 is basically impossible. Ex. Someone that is used to interacting with people all day, may be more likely to break a social isolation, whether they are infected or not.

You are trying to fit a narrative to the world. Start by observing what is going on and deducing practices first.
Please explain to me how wage-workers are different from serfs.
It's literally bonkers to me how many people sell out. Is the VLC guy the only person with some integrity? Can we not be satisfied with the money we make from subscribers instead of selling everything including the kitchen sink to some corporate behemoth to swallow it up and kill every open service?

The same thing is happening in the podcasting ecosystem right now. it's turning more and more into a walled garden.
Now would be a great time to do this given the delays of the once-convenient fast shipping times. That said, what are the equal alternatives?

I think for most consumers, some things are absolutely required in order to switch away from Amazon: fast shipping, an inventory of hard-to-find items (e.g. car part or furnace element typically found on Amazon), a good refunds/returns system, and a massive crackdown on counterfeit products.

That last one is really important to me. Vendors are now filling legit containers of brand name items with fake product, then resealing them as new. This is becoming increasingly common now. I've noticed it with food (Pumpkin seeds, noticed a poor re-seal job), vitamins (a hole in the top seal beneath the cap despite being plastic wrapped), and Clorox bromine tablets for a spa (tablets didn't match store bought version). These products have all been obviously tampered with.
The newer ones ditched the capacitive buttons for regular pushbuttons. Unfortunately being budget constrained (or profit motivated) the buttons are the cheap kind that move your monitor when you poke at them (and make creaky sounds of course, to compliment the creaky sound the monitor stand makes haha).

Still, it's an improvement.
We do. Doesn't mean you should waste your money. It's a non-sequitur.
You omitted some facts, like that he was quarantined 18 days after the contact, and no one else who also came in contact was quarantined
List of companies that are hiring or are currently in a hiring freeze
OpenWRT code-execution bug puts millions of devices at risk
Blaming consumerism on Keynesianism rather than, say, advertising and the profit motive is a hell of a bizarre take.
My dad owns a base station that uploads data to WU and since the takeover I've not been able to get a proper API key to have him pull his own data from the WU API.

Luckily the base station is easy to scrape for the raw data locally, but still.
Just that the out-of-the box Open Source VS Code is modified by roughly 5 configuration options (you guessed, telemetry urls), icons and a EULA before it is packaged by Microsoft.

I would not call that closed source. I call that redistributed with pre-configured settings. It is similar to what RedHat is doing to Linux and the GNU user space (if I am not wrong ;))

However, the extension market space, certain debuggers and certain VS Code branded extensions are a different story.
Probably the simplest way would be for the clients to chose a key for E2E encryption, and then to encrypt a copy of that key with some government public key, and save that encrypted copy of the E2E key somewhere that the government can get to when the law requires that they be able to access the plaintext of the encrypted communications.

This lets the tech company comply with the law, without the tech company itself gaining access to the plaintext.
I’m not in the US though...? :)
Ouch. Even the classic aluminum coke/beer can? Or tuna/sardine can etc?

Always just assumed that was the only practical recyclable container. Apparently even those have plastic? Wow.
How is it “edgy”? Good for you.
I still don't get it. For me banning touchscreens from every car interface is a no-brainer.
I would think that would be where good context aware software would come into play.

Shouldn't it just automatically show the surround camera when I am in reverse or in some parking mode? I feel like that could be a setting or a soft button that appears when appropriate.
A lot of people are surprised that K8s isn't a PaaS. Kelsey Hightower himself said however, K8s is a platform for platforms, not the end game itself[1].

[1] https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/93525292372179353...
Seems like many corporations, executives, politicians are blatantly contradicting themselves in the past few weeks
I didn't meant TSLA as a part of premium brands. Rather that TSLA using those large touch screens in their Model S, I think, to a large part drove premium brands into buying into touch screens as a trend.

BTW installing a large touch-screen under the premise of soon-to-be fully self-driving vehicles in 2013's Model S has to be a loooong waiting for "making it easier" ;-)

But I guess the car-makers touch screen folly might be even more attributable to the impact the iPhone made at that time.
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SpaceX’s first operational crew mission adds additional NASA and JAXA astronauts
Indeed, good tomatoes seem to be unavailable in stores at any price (even before all of this).
"Apple acquires" "Google acquires"

Shit like I need any more existential dread right now.

Wake me up when these phrases don't mean that a huge part of the company's userbase gets fucked.

I don't know if this is any better than when they used to just clone 3rd party killer apps (Sherlock). I guess it's more polite to hand over a big bag of money first.
I guess if you could show a cause-effect relationship between covid19 and some neurochemistry, maybe it's more believable.
Remove all the heat sinks and anything else you possible can, preheat an oven to 385 (might want to use a thermometer and some thermal mass if your stove kicks on real hard so you don't overheat), make some tinfoil balls/pyramids and use that to elevate your card above the board, make sure most of the mounted components face up, cook for 10-15 minutes, VERY CAREFULLY remove it, or just turn the oven off and let it cool down again so you don't risk knocking anything while it is semi-solid, reapply heatsinks with new paste and install and test.

Sometimes they need a bit more time or a few degrees or to be done more than once, but it works most of the time. Do not get your oven too hot or you risk causing components to fall off, it isn't actually reaching full melting point, just close enough for solder cracks and tin whiskers to self-heal.

I probably don't need to say this but don't do this with a card that works because it is a small risk. The key is keeping a stable temperature and not rushing it. Ive never had it fail on me, but that could just be luck of the draw.
Making sense of COVID19 through interactive simulations
On of our partners came up with the idea, we bundled forces and whipped up this app in less than a week. The goal is to enable people to check both availability of goods and queue size (like https://tinyurl.com/vw9nfpn). We hope this will prevent people from making unnecessary visits and stay at home as much as possible.

Dutch/French only, with only Belgian stores. iOS version still pending, App Review is really hard on this one, since Apple is very strict on spreading (mis)information about COVID-19, and rightfully so.
I don't think this is entirely true. The GA glass panels love touchscreens, and they are just as FAA-certified as their non-touchscreen counterparts.

You are right that they are flaky. Here's Martin Pauly (great YouTube channel!) using his touchscreen transponder and it just stops working: https://youtu.be/bopcQSJKcD8?t=732
> Touch screens will hopefully never make it into any critical pilot systems

The F-35 Fighter Jet has basically only touch-screens (apart from Hands-on-throttle-and-stick controls for when you are busy pulling Gs)

Depends on your definition of "critical" but I don't think this is a great example.
Housing and wealth inequality: A story of policy trade-offs
I'm guessing this was unintentional by GP, but it's probably true that amazon is the largest company in the world where the founder also owns a major newspaper.
I'm rather surprised; the inabiilty to paint the walls or put up pictures or have pets? The knowledge that you might have to leave at short notice?
I mean in Epic's case, its really more like movie/tv/book deals, except with much more favourable terms to the creators.
The issue is that this prevents him from organizing strikes effectively. That is very problematic.
thanks for writing the exact same thing as the person next to you, but im not talking about "just throwing money", i'm talking about what they do when their ever-increasing war-chest stops increasing and they actually have to build things for people who can't afford their ever more expensive hardware. If apple thinks that they can continue running their ecosystem this way, i'm gonna be cackling in a few years.
Agner Fog's instruction tables list it as issuing ~23 fused uops (a bit more or fewer depending on generation) and a throughput of 1 per ~32 cycles. That seems like it could be microcoded.
Not because of labor unions, it doesn't. In fact the developed nations of the EU tend to have the strongest unions. You're conflating lack of development due to the cold war with... worker unionization?
There was this joke running on Twitter:

If aliens invaded us today our first reaction would be to lower interest rates.
You posted this once and then posted it again as a (non-)reply to the top comment. Please don't do that.
I can relate! I started my SourDough starter SanDy a week and a half ago and have made a couple of great loaves since then. I'm on my way to the store tonight for more flour.
Firstly software engineer is not a protected title in most of the world.

Secondly the major way to properly learn proper software engineering is to join a top company and learn on the job. I don't see software engineering degrees containing anything useful at all compared to computer science degrees, they just contain some ancient practices which most of the industry moved past ages ago. So I don't really see how someone who studied software engineering at school is more of a software engineer than a person who designs and builds distributed systems at Google.
I never would have imagined paying money for a weather app, but last year I did just that by purchasing Dark Sky on iOS. It's just that much better than other weather apps I've tried.

I hope the service continues to be the best in the business as far as accuracy and ease of use goes. Congrats to the team as well.
Duh - of course. Good point. As long as each SP has its own encryption key, this would be a valid solution assuming SP support.
On behalf of the Eclipse Foundation, sorry for the mistake. The reference to the “fees” in the draft version of the Theia announcement posted to eclipse.org this morning was not correct. The official press release that was issued this morning removed the incorrect reference to fees. The release on eclipse.org has now been updated to match the official press release here: https://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20200331-theia.php. Our apologies for this discrepancy and any resulting confusion.
Many countries have some sort of "Competition Commission" whose role is to determine if acquisitions/mergers are bad for either the market or consumers. This might be for monopolistic reasons or other negative issues.

In this case, a platform buying up cross-platform software to eliminate support for competing platforms is clearly causing harm to consumers. In similar situations, a government might legislate to force companies to be either the pipe/platform or a content supplier but not both, to eliminate precisely this type of anti-consumer incentive.
Quarantined 18 days later, and no one else who came in contactvwas quarantined. Say it all.
The Dark Sky app includes this checkbox on my device, implying they have additional data not available to the weather services:

Enlist your device's onboard sensors:

Send Pressure Data: Anonymous periodic barometer readings [toggle]
Interesting that Google makes a ton of apps for iOS but Apple doesn't go the other way.
Even there wind and solar isn't projected to be more than 4% in 2030.
Why? Perhaps we're just assuming we all know how it works. Or, at 2% to -0.5%, it really doesn't make a big difference.
but it didn't, and this is moving the goalposts. the original claim was correct.
The other thing I wonder about is all the extra crap on nearly all bottles: glue and stickers and wrappers and ink. I suspect some/most of what I put into recycling just ends up in a landfill anyway. And what kills me is, if our E2E supply chain was anything resembling sanity, there's no reason the identical bottle couldn't be shipped back to the manufacturer to be washed and reused directly! (...pandemics notwithstanding)

Maybe it's unrealistic, but in light of the efficiency and innovation created by standard-sized shipping containers, I wonder if it would be worthwhile to try to push manufacturers to standardize on various glass bottle shapes and sizes, to make them easy to reuse directly across different products and locations.
From March 11 to March 30 was considerably more than 14 days.
I use a similar technique, but I throw it on a pizza stone for 45 minutes in total with a cup of water evaporating from a heated oven tray underneath the stone to provide steam.

Making bread yourself is incredibly delicious, easy to do, and takes no time at all.

Edit: I also set my oven to 510 Fahrenheit to get a consistent bake, but that may be a quirk of my particular oven.
I live in a place where it’s not good weather most of the year. So I tried some indoor garden with grow light somehow it didn’t work the plants seemed to be sick just gave up. Instead I am stocking up some frozen veggies if they really goes short.
That article has a new anti-reader mode feature I haven’t seen before — there’s an unrelated article on whiskey stones in the reader mode, while the real article is on sourdough.
The human brain doesn’t change on a human timescale. Where there is variability there is natural selection. Do you think the world will select for friendliness?
That's why I love HN! One published new solution and a whole tree of wonderful comments about related tech.
This should work as long as your chosen Entity ID for your second Okta app doesn't match the actual Entity ID of your SP.
https://archive.md/VZmdC
Apple is more in the "selling App Store access" business, not the "weather data" business.
Sprawl is starting to look pretty good right about now.