skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Samsung was in this space too. Gave it up ahead of the curve, seeing how people don't buy cameras anymore. It wasn't a very profitable business for Samsung, despite making a great camera system.
Sony jumped out ahead too. But hasn't really innovated in the last round. They were the best in autofocus, but Canon has great autofocus too. Canon Beats Sony with much more pleasing image colors, and huge lens selection. Panasonic has better stabilization, and makes better video cameras.
I would compare Sony to a 1 inch thick Razor Gaming Laptop. Great on specs. Kind of sucks as a laptop. Still Sony has a very popular midrange camera system. And their low light performance is the best.
Ask HN: What's the most difficult undergraduate level course you've ever taken?
Please don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and destroys the curiosity that it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal

It's an extremely well written book, starting from the very beginning at the time of WWII, tracing people, ideas, struggles, and achievements of great milestones in computer history. It's not your typical dry historical material, but somehow the author made it personal through the eyes of key people that influenced important computer science progresses, and in particular J.C.R. Licklider (Lick), who galvanized a lot efforts across the U.S. in the sixties that resulted in making computing interactive and ultimately personal, rather than batch and business-focused. Many important milestones are discussed, starting with the early days of mechanical computers, vacuum tubes, relays, ENIAC, UNIVAC, through MIT's various efforts during the cold war to help with real-time computing with Whirlwind and the SAGE project; IBM's mainframes dominance in the fifties, and the hacker culture that arose against it at MIT to build interactive computers like the TX-0 and TX-2, to the spin-off of DEC and its minicomputers that changed the game; to building time-sharing systems, and the groundbreaking inventions of Douglas Engelbart and his team at SRI; the rise of the ARPA network; the many great ideas developed at Xerox PARC; and ultimately the personal computer revolution and the Internet.
Abbott to produce 50k 13 minute point of care Covid-19 tests per day
I don't see any "by hand" curation in the issue. It seems you are just another website scraping GitHub trending data and just showing it differently.
Responding to a bad comment with an even worse comment is exactly the wrong way to go, and the site guidelines ask you explicitly not to do that: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Personal attacks in particular will get you banned here, regardless of how wrong another commenter is or you feel they are, so please don't do that.
You mean an argument based on free will and free agency?

Yes it’s exactly the same argument. Except we are talking about adults.
Millions to create that front-end?? Oh man please someone hire me I will only charge half that much. We are too spoiled.
The future of software is passion
And in countries where children need income to eat, we've seen that banning child labor pushes children into the sex trade, because they don't stop needing to eat when you make it illegal for them to work. Hardly a good example of why the argument is wrong.
Indeed this story is real eye opener:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52019509
I’m all for that option also, and we can always add an anti semi colon to write a multi line statement.
It is hard for me to imagine being in Dang’s shoes. Probably daily trying to walk the line. Making tough decisions on when to put an and to inflammatory, unproductive, even abusive threads. All that, while striving to administer as ‘light’ a touch as possible, and foster a healthy, and conducive community.

It must be so stressful. I think it might drive me crazy. Doing thas job will never be perfect, but let’s all give a big ‘Thank you’ to dang (and any other admins?) who put in non-trivial work, to keep this place running smoothly!
The same animal also taking advantage of the lockdown in Boulder, CO: https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/fos9k0/mountain_lions_...
Seriously, how did they get around KYC (“Know Your Customer”) and AML ("Anti-Money Laundering") regulations? GoFundMe, as a MSB ("Money Service Business") is required by law to verify their customers' identitues (https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...). If Yelp did not provide this information, they both are violating MSB regulations.
Coronavirus: Historic $3.1T aid package passes US House, becomes law
South Korea kept their door open pretty much until this week as many expats returned home with the virus from Europe and Americas.

IIRC, most early US cases came from Iran and Italy.
Hey, cool idea. The website looks good. I like how you want to promote "learn by building real projects". Good luck!
Airbnb had Nicholas Gallagher (creator of react-native-for-web, now at Facebook), Leland Richardson (Enzyme, Lottie, now at Google), Jordan Harband (Enzyme). Pretty talented folks. Airbnb was also an early adopter of graphql and was doing some very interesting stuff with it. It must have been a priviledge to work there.
Hey OP here, I am not working on some sinister corp. I work at a biotech startup. We are just concerned about IP theft than anything else. I can't edit the comment anymore...I just wrote down whatever, sorry if that was "hinting" to something more sinister.

By all means, ignore it.
A lot of the code in libnss (security code) looks quite similar to code that was written in the mid 90s. I don't have archives, but browsing multiple files there is a lot of familiarity there.
My main thesis is that you can't dive in with C21 ideals about something that happened 300 years ago! Its not just hopelessly complex, it's a different world.

Britain is not now the same Britain it was then. Back then Britain included Ireland in total, along with a shed load of extra bits, way bigger than these islands. It was a full on Empire where the map of the world had a lot of pink on it. A lot of pink.
Market was already on the brink, COVID is going to be the excuse for many companies that are over the head with debt/investors money and still are running losses.
And not Fred Brooks' "The Mythical Man-Month"?
Ok, since the point is disputed, I guess we'll take the prerecorded message out of the title above.
Wow. Wow. Wow. This is cool. Although I am not a huge fan of Google Assistant but still. Having this in your terminal is pretty cool. Keep it up. Hope this gets more up votes.
The OP is talking about a paid service, which I presume isn’t a gmail.com address (otherwise why the suspension for non-payment?). To add to your advice, just having an own domain doesn’t help if you don’t download and store all mails on a computer or other device so that you don’t have to resort to a server to get older content you need whenever you need it.
This trope is so tired, and the reason for using the NPM/Node ecosystem has never been about talent being rare. Choosing JS at all is because you value developer time over time chasing down suitable third party dependencies, handling build incompatibilities, and generally dealing with the mess that is multi-platform development.
Covid-19 and its impact on the global retail market
We’re Finding Out How Small Our Lives Are
Unfortunately for these workers, with the unprecedented spike in unemployment [1] I suspect Instacart will be able to find a lot of desperate people willing to cross the picket line.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ICSA
Thanks, I appreciate the different examples you gave! Can you tell me more about what makes you believe that what makes a 'community' is its size, instead of say, for example, its coherence, or its norms, or its duration of existence?
Ahem. Soooooooo basically it's just a small app where you add the products your company is using and then...what? What's the point? I really don't see the benefit... Maybe you can tell?
> It always amazes me how the discussion can go so quickly go from "The mighty market solves all problems!" to, "The market is an incredibly fragile flower, and the slightest worker protections will result in mass unemployment and starvation!"

The market will continue to function just fine. It is just that the outcome of manipulating it is usually not what the manipulators intended.

Suppose I thought that Instacart workers were all lovely people who deserved to be millionaires. So, I'll make a law requiring that every Instacart worker be paid one million dollars a year. Do you think this will create my intended outcome? Probably not. The market will continue to function and determine that Instacart is no longer a service that people are willing to pay for, as the cost has become too high.

If there is a collective need to provide paid sick time, health insurance or other benefits, then let's collectively provide it for everyone via taxes. The cost will be cheaper the more we spread it out instead of concentrating it all on this company or that company.
Does this include the image sensor design and fab division, the article is not really clear?
It is kind of (really) weird to be happy that the whole sector will be overflooded with unemployed devs, causing a drop in salaries, simply because you dislike NPM/node. I'm all for good software practices but I still prefer good working conditions and compensation.
Design is slick and mobile friendly.

I specifically like that I can select topics and share that as a link.
FDA grants emergency use authorization for 5-13 minute Covid-19 test
Social media also includes the social profile (with info about you)/friends (followers/watchers),sharing, personalized feeds.

This is more like your local news site. Articles are presented with comments below. Comments can be from real people but anyone can use a fake name. And who gave the comment rarely matters.
I think it is probably a perception thing or may be not. Here is my opinion.

Dang is doing his job and it is tough. He is keeping this place sound and clean. Dang - nothing against you but I see some double standards for e.g. criticizing CCP has far more weight than criticizing western governments. No one gets offended for criticizing the UK Govt or the German Govt or the even the Indian Govt - but when it comes to criticizing the Chinese Govt... we can't do that, it is a flame war. If people get offended, so be it. If someone from China or of Chinese ethnicity is reading this criticism and doesn't like it...well, tough luck. The onus is on the person getting offended, not the offender.

This double standard needs to end (or as I see it through my own lens). Infact, we should be criticizing the CCP even more so than democratic governments.
It’s not completely shutdown. [1]

> On February 1, 2020, Yahoo! removed online access to discussions and all other features except simple membership management, essentially turning all groups into mailing lists.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Groups
> AirBnb uses a lot of dark patterns. The price you see on the UI can be 50% lower, because cleaning fees and other taxes add up very fast. You can't even compare two listing and get an Apple to Apple comparison.

That's kinda normal even for the various hotel booking sites/chains. They almost universally display the average pre-tax/fees price per night. The issue is that taxes and resort fees (which are in of themself very, very bullshitty) frequently make up a meaningful portion of the total cost (double digit percentages) so you still get sticker shock when you click through and get to the checkout screen.
So kind of you to leave them a smidge of their former territory.
Coronavirus: A woman behind India's first testing kit
And so zoom crumbled from the social pressure, while every other service and website is thinking "oof, they didn't realize that everybody does this to do advertising"
So did they just... remove Facebook login? Doesn't seem that likely. Maybe the FB SDK has some flags you can set.
As Motif expertise is now an obsolete skill, I don't think this ages well. Short version: in some places, they don't like how the library works. In others, they are working around library bugs. In all cases, they seem severely pissed off about it, which is probably a bigger issue than Motif.
I kind of disagree with having a decision journal. Because I don’t believe you have a set date or action that will mark a decision. And believing that it’s what make you procrastinate and delay things.
You probably mean most expensive universities in the world no?
WW 2 is the war that took the USA from an isolationist power to global policeman. Conversely it set the UK (and to a lesser extent, France) on the path of liberating their colonies. It also set the state for the UN to be created. And the groundwork for a new international norm against wars of conquest.

Yes, the same countries wound up staying in charge. But it transformed the world.
And fireworks
> Also if your choice is made by thinking "facebook also uses react and i already had to use it at my last job" it would be embarrassing to write this in a public document

I agree that's not a very strong argument when making a tech choice, but still, it has more merit than a lot of resume-oriented-development I see: "we will use new tech X for this project because if we use the same old tech Y as we used for the last project, that will bore us, and there will be better job opportunities with other employers for the people working on the project if we gain experience in trendy new tech X". ... which is a pretty rational way for an individual to select tech, but not at all aligned with the interests of one's employer, or acting professionally & attempting to help one's employer make good decisions.
All the essentials who don't get locked and people are stocking on: health, supermarkets and their providers. Also those who are online or can be easily adapted: streaming, communication, online markets, education, soft development.
amazon is also looking for workers
> "We will be removing the Facebook SDK and reconfiguring the feature so that users will still be able to login with Facebook via their browser. ..."

It sounds like this they're just no longer flat out using the Facebook SDK (which provides a slightly more "native" / "nicer" login flow for apps when used). They're going to do what most (at least, from personal experience) apps do and just show a webview with a redirect back into the app, which doesn't call out to Facebook at all.

EDIT: That is, it doesn't call out to Facebook at all until you start the login flow, which is just opening a browser view to the oauth2 flows..
> Isnt the whole point of gig work that the worker can choose whether to pick up a gig and go in or not?

“Lol”- these gig workers don’t have the same choices your typical google or Facebook or even Fortune 500 IT guy have.

In fact I would suspect many have been pushed to the margins of society and are only “choosing” gig work because the only other option is that their families face hunger, homelessness, or worse.
Related from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11747709

2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7951706

A bit from 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5047197

A bit from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11257792

Various mentions over the years: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
I read this an hour ago and it is still on my mind. I'm a pathological nose picker and this is some hard deterrent
I was really appreciative of the way the first company I worked for handled my departure. Things were changing at the company so I was looking to leave anyway but then they decided to change their structure and I was given a few options in person (lived ~2000 miles from main office) all of which were mutually beneficial from my point of view.

A) stay on and help integrate an external team for up to 16 weeks (reduced hours, freedom to interview and apply elsewhere) B) stay on and wrap up the current sprint and tidy up some documentation for up to 8 weeks C) finish out the week and receive 6 weeks separation pay. All options also allowed me to keep insurance until I found a new position as well as keep my company provided tech. It really made me appreciate the people at the company overall, minus the person who was making the changes (which has since been canned and some of the engineering efforts at the company have stalled which is sad)
Will they raise their pay as well?

I know I'll get downvoted for exposing my point of view, but I'm one of the many people who do not tip the delivery man, so I really hope that they obtain better wages from their employers.
I suppose plucking nose hairs should also be avoided.
Thanks for raising this point - what makes you say that 'technical' and 'social' are separable as it relates to the problem of 'group-think' and 'sorting content by vote count'?
really love the syntax of this language and how they are repurposing existing programming language primitives for parallelism.

but i also just spent quite some time looking for a substantial example of usage and had to give up. the only thing close to that are the unit tests. and the language has been in development since late 2011.

that's somehow dispiriting.

that, in a nutshell, is the unfortunate situation with some of these interesting modern programming languages.
tl;dr, from TFA: "This scheme essentially merges the Fed and Treasury into one organization. So, meet your new Fed chairman, Donald J. Trump."

cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:rAFHXl...
I would rather pay a higher delivery fee and (1) have enough workers to deliver my goods (2) Have them (and me) protected adequately.

The whole way delivery works is broken right now.
Having a robust social safety net so that individuals and companies can be in the business of doing what they do and not planning for pandemics would arguably be a good things. There are a lot of inefficiencies when things aren't done at scale.
I think Javascript/NPM was just an example and that he was complaining about overengineering. There are examples of this in every specialisation (not just front-end) like the companies using Kubernetes when their entire workload could fit on a single machine.
I pretty much guarantee you there's a back end contract between GFM and Yelp sharing some of the admin. Yelp isn't just doing it for free and allowing GFM to pick up money for free, especially with the "suggested 15% donation overhead".
I was looking for the battle of Tollense

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tollense_valley_battlefield

Trojan war would have been nice too
Post–World War II economic expansion
That's a reasonable argument to make, and a correct one.

That's different from the lie which is being given to the population: that they don't help.
The following is a list of my favorite books on software engineering, cyber-security, and the history of IT business development.

Bowden, Mark (2011) Worm: The First Digital World War

Brooks, Frederick (1995) Mythical Man-Month, 2nd ed.

Christensen, Clayton (1997) Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail

Hafner, Katie and Matthew Lyon (1996) Where Wizards Stay Up Late: Origins of the Internet

Hunt, Andrew and David Thomas (1999) Pragmatic Programmer

MacCormick, John (2012) Nine Algorithms that Changed the Future

McConnell, Steve (2004) Code Complete, 2nd ed.

Mitnick, Kevin and William Simon (2002) Art of Deception

Poulsen, Kevin (2011) Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cyber-Crime Underworld

Raymond, Eric (2003) Art of Unix Programming

Stone, Brad (2013) The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

Torvalds, Linus and David Diamond (2001) Just for Fun: Story of an Accidental Revolutionary

Wallace, James and Jim Erickson (1992) Hard Drive: Bill Gates and Making of the Microsoft Empire

Williams, Sam (2002) Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software

Wilson, Mike (1996) The Difference between God and Larry Ellison: Inside Oracle Corp
Abbott Launches 5-Minute Covid-19 Test for Use Almost Anywhere
From the article:

> Motherboard downloaded the update and verified that it does not send data to Facebook upon opening.

Edit: Fixing mental hiccup, nothing to see here.
Glass, of course, is more important and expensive than anything else.
Reminder: The world has a bad case of pandemic. The reason for layoffs is the extreme measures society has been taking to avoid unnecessary face-to-face interactions. One thing that would piss me off more than being fired is catching a disease from the person firing me.
Not all of any of these are broke. Many companies have plenty of demand. Many companies have much greater than usual demand, or are shifting production to meet changed demand (for example, it looks like GM is going to be manufacturing ventilators). Those companies and their employees aren't broke--far from it.

Not to minimize the impact on companies and people who are seeing drastically reduced demand, but it's a serious overstatement to say that all companies and people are.
BBC pulls controversial story on quarantined British woman in Taiwan
Thank you very much for digging this up, and to all the other commenters here for the useful references.
I'm going to start raising money on your behalf and your company's. If you don't like it, you can verify your ID with me to opt-out. If you ever find out because I am not planning to tell you directly.
> spinning off its entire “Electronics Products & Solutions” (EP&S) segment... into an intermediate holding company...

> Restructuring like this happens all the time, often with little to no effect on consumers.

Seems barely newsworthy, just an internal reorg. Not really sure why this is so upvoted. It's not like they're rebranding or bringing in outside investors or doing it to an underperforming division in obvious preparation for selling it.
I walk through there every morning and regularly run into them! They're most active around 6:45am-ish.
I have a "1 inch thick Razor Gaming Laptop". It's an absolutely fantastic notebook computer. It can maintain high power states indefinitely with two huge bottom mounted intake fans. Excellent mobile workstation.

Do NOT use it on your lap.
Is there a specific program you’re referring to? Is this the advance you can get on an SBA Economic Injury Disaster Loan?
Pretty standard in all hotels I’ve stayed. That’s a major factor in me deciding to stick with hotels.
Was he, by any chance, a marxist?
Can someone better-versed in corporate organizational strategy explain the advantages of spinning off a company that remains under the same conglomerate umbrella? I can understand it as an intermediate step to prepare a business unit for a sale, but what other motivations are there?
So, is the ML part just the segmentation, correct?
> Could Dart use this solution, which Python uses and Oil shell now uses?

This works well for Python, because the following causes IndentationError:

x = 1
+ 2

In a language without significant indentation, would this be two statements, an assignment and a separate unary `+` expression? Is that OK?

If not, one possible solution would be to disallow arbitrary expression statements. AFAIK this is what Go does.

> JavaScript has some weird rules, the common gotcha seems to be `return \n {...}`

Disallowing expression statements also fixes this particular example, but it doesn't solve the `return` problem in general. It's not practical to disallow standalone function calls, so `return \n f()` still has the same issue.

Lua solves this by enforcing that a `return` must be the last statement in a block.
Everlane workers tried to form a union and they were all fired https://twitter.com/EverlaneU/status/1243615472307695618

When there are a ton of people looking for work it is not really a good time to be striking