skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heh, maybe we will finally get an honest “follow the money” moment in NY and we’ll get to see exactly why they are still on fax.
I used to run my own mail server for my own domains, then I realized it was cheaper and less hassle to pay someone with more expertise to do it for me.

For $50 a year, Fastmail will handle multiple domains (all aliasing to your main email) and they have a bunch of other nifty features that in my opinion makes it well worth the price: https://www.fastmail.com/pricing/

How much is your time worth, and how much time will you spend administering your own mail server per year?

For me, if I was going to spend more than about half an hour of my time per year managing my own mail server, then that makes something like Fastmail a better option.
1% is about expected at that point, since there is a 14 day lag on average and CFR can only go up over time after new cases trail off, it should end up higher. Look how South Korea eventually rose from .7% to 1.8% (somewhat biased by lots of young people infected early, but most of the rise at least from 1% to 1.8% was just due to the lags involved).

Maybe it is still a good number for their population age demographics and the treatment helps a lot, but it doesn't seem to be showing it to be anything like a game changer.
Oh, no—that was the guy who loved MS and .NET despite working in a Linux-based shop, drove a Chinese-Russian SUV when not riding a roadbike in tight pants, supported Putin and swore about every ten words in both speech and chats, that's all while looking hella dorky. One thing I can't picture him doing is pining for Lisp.

Now, grinding everyone's gears with his abuse of `switch`—that was right up his alley, what with already grinding them with his political commentary outside of code.
I don't trust a developer who is that muscular. Most high level developers spend all their time coding, not working out to look like that. He has a lot of github commits though. Is it possible to game github so it looks like you are highly productive? Genuinely curious.
Why not just build components? They're using a Tesla infotainment touchscreen for the screen, which means custom control software built in a few days...

All of this to make another lie Musk told retroactively true.
There was a big discussion just yesterday:

Ask HN: What do you use to keep track of bookmarks/notes/snippets?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22778123
Seems like a good opportunity to sign 5-year supply contracts with healthcare organizations.
>>It costs money to have storage space for them.

$40 per employee.

My five-man IT company have enough PPE to keep going for 120 days. It cost us $200 a year to maintain it - or $40 per employee.

We have N95, face-shields, and Tyvek bunny suits. We even have N100 half-face respirators for a really serious pathogen.

EDIT: It does cost for storage. At $25 per sq-ft for real estate, it add $50 to the cost. So a total of $50 per employee.

(We have prudently given a lot to the local hospital as we've been working primarily from home. We've also been 3D printing face-shields.)
I poured a lot of effort into creating something similar for my book, but could never get it quite right. So, I backed away to diagrams in Inkscape using squares and curves. The result has been well received, but I've always slightly regretted not being able to create something as elegant as what Crafting Interpreters has been able to achieve.

At some stage in the future, I'll try again I'm sure!
Sennheiser GSP 670 Wireless Gaming Headset Review – A Hard-Hitting Heavyweight
I think Toki Pona is great, don't get me wrong. It's good to explore how small a language can get, and it looks to me like TP did a good work in that regard.

The comparison with programming languages is interesting. I see Toki Pona as lambda calculus: pure, fundamental, very cool, and worth learning. I want something like Lisp: more practical to write programs, but still much simpler than for example Haskell (Esperanto).
I found them on /r/math, actually, but they linked me to Discord.
A CAD file interface for the GEANT4 radiation transport code
Something about this story doesn’t add up. If this were 99% of the manufacturers I know, they would be operating 24/7 right now. Call every available temp agency and load that place up. The only fathomable excuse is if they can’t get enough material. The guy running this company sounds like a politician not a businessman. Edit: not sure why I’m getting downvoted. I’m serious. If this company were near me I would be asking if I could run second shift. In theory this guy is both leaving hundreds of thousands of dollars on the table per day and contributing to our country’s deficiency of equipment while trying to argue for some sort of long term agreement because he has leverage at the moment.
Or the open source equivalent, Open Simulator.

https://opensimworld.com/dir

http://opensimulator.org
Wow, that would make it really easy to implement an alternative HN client.

Related Question: Is this the source code for HN? https://github.com/wting/hackernews
Sorry to say that, but...you use a lot of words and in the end you say nothing...

Some points are just personal preference (like mobile UI) and ecosystem(I really like the function to send a tab to my mobile...can't remember that chrome had it at least I never used it in chrome)

And other points are just wrong/not true ... or missing proof for your strange assumptions...
Unless it contributes additional value in the form of fun or learning valuable skills. Of course, for an email server those traits might be overly-optimistic...
let me know if there's anything unclear of or things you would like to learn more about!
Scaling up means a lot investment but what happens when the demand goes down? You're left with debt from it and little demand. The scaling as such is not the problem here.
I took a quick skim of the article and it looks like all it would take to solve this problem is for him to raise prices (clearly the current prices are below the market clearing rate) and forcing customers to pay upfront (or at least put the money in a trust or something).

>“Last time he geared up and went three shifts a day working his tail off,” the mayor recalled. “As soon as the issue died, he didn’t have any sales. He had to pay unemployment for all these people, and he had to gear down.”

Doesn't seem to be a real issue if those extra costs are factored in

>Hospitals promised to stick with him afterward, but they broke their promise. The allure of cheaper Chinese masks was too great for hospital purchasing groups to ignore.

Ask for money upfront, or get it in writing and sue later.
I’m taking weekends and evening off so I don’t burn out.
I’m working on learning a piano piece by a composer named Kapustin.
If you haven’t listen to him I highly suggest him.
Since I got my degree in piano performance, I’ve not learned any big pieces and I’m excited that I’m finally doing it.
Yes! it's very nice and easy to draw illustrations with it!
My goal is to attain a balance of least dependencies and boilerplate. From what I've read so far it seems that implementing xclient protocols directly would require considerably more boilerplate than using XCB, (and my understanding is that XCB is just that: a generic xclient implementation and nothing more).

Please do elaborate if I'm wrong though! I would be delighted if it's possible to implement a simple subset minimally purely for displaying a pixel buffer without XCB?
I mean, really? Isn't the whole point of the STL to paper over those differences and supply functions with similar semantics for those kind of accesses regardless of the data structure?

About the only reason I can see for array access syntax existing is that in the days before optimizing compilers, people would have lost their mind if array access called into a function each time (with good reason). It took manual programmer intervention to hint what compilers couldn't cleanly infer themselves. We don't need that anymore.
I don’t think we need to make it about personal appearance to criticize this article. The idea that a developer should look a particular way is toxic for the industry, and I wouldn’t want to be turned down for any job just because I didn’t look the part.

The content of the article had plenty to criticize.
>It will represent an opportunity to rebuild an industrial base.

How would this work? Who is going to buy all those expensive (by asian standards) american-made goods?

>We lost that through complacency

AFAIK we lost it because of globalization, which caused the labor market to be flooded cheap labor from developing countries.
Two young girls hospitalized after being gang raped by Muslims near Somalia
Marxism In Our Time, an article by Leon Trotsky. A summary of Marx's theory of capitalism, specifically as it pertained to the great depression in the United States, when incredibly high profits and a surging stock market were accompanied by massive inequality and then it all crashed, causing widespread poverty and social unrest despite society's technical and material ability to provide for everyone. I think it will be very relevant soon.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1939/04/marxism.htm
Whether Mozilla or the test designers are at fault does not change the situation as it stands. You can call the argument tired if you want but that doesn't suddenly imbue Firefox with more compatibility compared to their Chromium competitors.
Why should I post complete errors? Why isn't the message itself enough? (2019)
Russian, Rust, and Domain-Driven Design. Lots to go! Lots of depth to these three rabbit holes, and only two have some overlap.
I found a thread on Indie Hackers on this https://www.indiehackers.com/post/cool-impressive-no-code-pr...
(as far as I can tell, I don't really understand what Prodosy is)

Prosody is always running, whether or not you have it configured with a password. So I'd guess zero extra load.

Additionally, without a password your server is wide open, letting anyone start their own conference calls. I would guess that load could be significantly reduced by stopping unknown people from connecting.

(I still don't understand jitsi meet's architecture well though, so there could be ways around the password)
Post wwii had a lot to do with repurposed war-machine factories that were already paid for. Which happened to align with a new glut of available labor. You've only got half the equation here, at best.
Regarding rule 2: I stumbled across https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/working-with-us/for-journ... which does a decent job of aggregating expert reactions to questions that pop up in the media.

I have many more issues with current journalism than the author of the blog post, rooted in their "fire & forget" nature of publications (no visible revisions, no corrections, almost all currently accessible articles are too old to be useful or even correct).
vue.js for a potential upcoming job requirement. Seems easy enough, but not sure I'd want to use it personally.
The business side: How do you find your customers, position a product, and create demand. What about new markets, segmentation, downstream and upstream?

Bad technology that gets this part right almost always does phenomenally, astoundingly, inconceivably better than great technology that gets it wrong.

I'm tired of building things that only I and a few people really like, like some underground band only a few people know. It's nonsense, I gotta learn how to do the human part better.
The question that this story doesn't answer (unless I missed it) is why hospitals are refusing to sign contracts right now when they are so badly in need of masks. Either that, or pay whatever price is necessary to get the factory to produce more masks without a contract. Is it lack of budget? Legal/administrative hurdles? Something else?
> Configuration files tell a program what to do.

Configuration may be an overloaded term, but in my terminology telling machinery what to do is the function of the code. Configuration gives users, who in general have neither interest nor skill to follow the algorithm paths, some high level options to control the program execution. Thus config files need to be small, clean and well commented. Just my 2c.
Scaling as in just let the machines run longer, normal hours to 24/7 or whatever is necessary, there's more room for a nuanced production if less people are involved right? For clarification I didn't mean scaling as in buying more machines, which I agree would likely require prohibitive investment.

Of course keeping a few machines in the wings is probably cheaper than overtime and unemployment.

[edit] I'd also like to know how difficult it would be to just switch the machine over to making cheaper, non-medical grade masks as demand changes?
One article among many others that would benefit from being simplified on simple.wikipedia.org
N95 masks use a special plastic fabric that can only be produced with really specialized machines. That's usually the bottleneck since it takes months to make and install the required equipment. Also, keep in mind that the production process is already highly automated anyways.
Mailing everyone a check at the scale of the US population is also a technology problem. I don't expect it to go very well -- it will happen slowly, a lot of people entitled to checks won't get them, checks will be sent to the wrong places, etc.
There's an assumption hidden in that: how do we know that "hammering" on the social media teams of elected officials will have any influence on their behavior?
I've heard a similar pattern called the rule of three: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_three_(computer_prog...
Pretty comprehensive list. Thanks for sharing!
Get a group a friends (who are also laid off) together (4 or 5 total people is best), virtually of course, set a meeting schedule, like once or twice a week. At the meeting discuss what you are doing. This is a team meeting. You discuss what you have done, what you are trying, what you are going to do. These people, as a team, keep each other honest on your efforts.

If you find a hot job, you tell your team, because it is your team against the world. You are not so much competing with each other as the 100K other people looking at the job.

Step 2: Make a schedule, hold to it. Discuss it at your team meeting. Schedule in down time, exercise, etc. It is common to want to spend all day looking for a job. Key tool is to work your network.

Step 3: Create multiple resumes. I would have a folder for each job I applied to, even if I reused the resume. I would keep in the folder the information about the job listing.

Step 4: Document - keep track of what you do and how often. When did you apply for a job, when did you have an interview. You know being unemployed is a job, you just do not get paid for it.

Step 5: Develop a strategy. Include list your job criteria / expectations. I had it where I refused to move for a job.

Step 6: Set a date when you need to change strategy. Usually it is like 3 months, but depending you could do it shorter. Myself after 3 months, I stopped looking real hard and attended class to get certified. 3 months after that I dropped the 'no move' requirement, a month later I had a job.

Step 7: Remember it is not your fault, things will get better.

Step 8: well really one, apply for unemployment, and COBRA (health insurance).
>> morality is not a binary choice

I'm not the one claiming it is. I've stated that morality and taxes have no connection. Others in this thread, including you, are claiming that paying less taxes = immoral.

>> Corporations which incorporate in a state like South Dakota or Delaware

A grand total of 3 of the Fortune 500 are incorporated in SD or DE. 110 are in NY or CA. It would appear that by your reasoning, the number of immoral companies who "take advantage of incorporation policies" are overwhelmingly outnumbered by companies with such high morals, they selected the highest tax states.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/303696/us-fortune-500-co...
When you work from home, the answer to that question is "No."
Hell yes! I love hearing about people interested in abstract algebra and wholly support your endeavor! Here is a pretty decent resource on relevant texts:

http://www.cargalmathbooks.com/#Abstract%20Algebra

That page in general is pretty gold for math texts in general.

Also, #math on freenode has lots of algebra-strong users on it, though depending on your luck some can be less helpful than others. I love chatting about this kind of thing with people, so if you would like an ad hoc mentor/study-buddy I would be more than happy to help. Feel free to email me at the address in my profile.

Good luck!
Mobile UI is far from preference in the browser examples I used. Menus and interactive elements at the top of the screen are holdovers from the desktop. Bottom screen menus are vastly easier for exclusive thumb use. Considering that both Focus and Lite adhere to this, I suspect Mozilla knows it as well.
What regulations are those exactly?
Nice, I've built a few keyboards now -- first I practiced making a couple "gherkin" keyboards [0] for fun and then an alps64 [1] using some Alps SKCM Cream Damped switches I harvested from a dead Apple Extended Keyboard II. Probably my favorite build!! It gets a lot of comments from coworkers :)

[0] http://www.40percent.club/2016/11/gherkin.html

[1] https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=69740.0
I really like pluralsight. Convinced my boss we (aka me) needed a subscription :-)
this is so cool, I've been meaning to get a bass guitar and start learning, but I'm always busy doing something else.
You know something? I know a little abstract algebra: groups, subgroups, quotient groups, and the relvent theorems behind them. It's been disappointingly useless to me though. Maybe someday I will take the quotient group of two matrix groups... I'm not sure though.
Would be cool if you could filter by open-source projects
This is tough one to think about mostly because it is not something any of us here can control. It can happen (especially now), but we shouldn’t obsess over it.

Let it be, do your best, don’t dwell.
Why wouldn't capital use the inability of people who are literally passed out and bleeding out on stretchers to price shop, to capital's advantage?
That's a bad example. Take the claim:

- 3 million people lost their jobs <citation link>.

- 3 million people lost their jobs, according to <expert>

- 3 million people lost their jobs, according to <expert>, while <another expert> estimates as many as 5 million during the same time frame.

Which one of these is the best framing of "the truth?" Because rarely is something worth reporting on some axiomatic statement of fact. Not only because boolean states don't normally exist - they're not compelling.

A journalist's job isn't just to tell you something happened. But to give you understanding and context, and make it compelling. What you're asking for is Wikipedia, not the news.
Right so no legit response. Maybe you're the smug obscenity? Just a thought.
I think starting with the global warming example was a poor choice because there are a lot of vested interests who would find something to attack and distort even in a flawless paper.
ColinWright I love your style!
A lot of the reason most people aren’t aware of what we don’t/do know with regards to evolution is due to political correctness.
if you’re asking, you should most definitely NOT. if your concern is cost of many mailboxes, it’s rather trivial to have a wildcard mailbox at the provider (ie, one account that all mail is dumped into) and split it into multiple mailboxes at the client side.
OR this spreadsheet will only lead to nitpicking and grief...

I can't think of any high functioning relationship that uses one. The fact that people think they need one spells doom. It says, if only we had some kind technical solution to what is clearly an interpersonal problem.
Yes, it sounds like what you want is a timeseries DB. Prometheus can handle tens of millions of rows and billions of datapoints with ease, and it's query language is designed for that kind of grouping via set arithmetic.
That level of automation is what I was wondering about, how much it would take to remove humans entirely. Admittedly I was working under the assumption that the producer of the masks wasn't also manufacturing raw materials as that wasn't addressed in the article and may be a separate issue in and of itself.
The author tries to make it as if the scientific models are mainly correct except from one odd mistake which is used to discredit the whole research but this is not exactly the situation. Models are a predictive tools not a scientific fact and we have to remember that.

Nobody can predict how this Corona situation will pan out, different countries take different approaches and the results don't seem to have a conclusive pattern or model, no model can explain the differences between Sweden, Japan, Italy and why they exists. People can sense that the models are just not good enough and it is not because of an odd mistake, the odd mistake is just a scapegoat to a very strong and probably correct gut feeling or common sense about the models margin of error.

The same thing goes for climate change, it is not about the details, it is a deep scepticism about the ability to create a model for futuristic problems of such a complicated system, let alone of the solution to the problems. If we can't even model properly something that is happening right now how can we expect to model the future?

We all remember the modelling of the ozone layer issue, a modelling that in hindsight was wrong as the hole is closing now and nobody can explain why even though with the rise of China the use of the very things that are causing it like aerosols just increased over all and yet the hole is closing.

So I am not saying models are useless as a tool and not that should be entirely ignored, but a bit of scepticism about the ability of scientists to predict the future is pretty healthy.
I grew up in Nashua, and when I looked at your posts about restoring your home it made me nostalgic for New Hampshire. I live in Alaska now and hope to spend the rest of my life here, but NH has the feeling of home that you can only get from having a childhood there. I found your posts a while back, and I always enjoy looking at what you've been up to when I haven't seen it for a while.

I used to run and bike past so many houses that look like this, and some part of me always wanted to do what you're doing. So thank you for sharing your journey!
There’s no source, it would never be made public.
If you google 'when to refactor rule', the first hit is "rule of three" followed by a bunch of other articles also calling it by this name. It's a fairly popular term/idea.
So a bunch of nonsense and no legit response. Neat. Thanks a bunch he responded sarcastically while rolling his eyes. No one has heard of your pet project.