skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Best comment posted at the sciencemag site was why not analyze covid-19 outcomes for USA persons currently prescribed HCQ for Lupus?

It’s a fast results data study.
Where does he make fun of JS devs? Call them idiots? Morons? You're overreacting in a big way. Almost everything he points out is a totally legitimate criticism of the language, not the people who use it, and he does so in a good-natured way. Everybody knows we don't just pick the language we think is "best". Far from it. And on a side note, appealing to how widespread it is seems obviously faulty - I think you probably know how little relationship there often is between usage and quality due to the nature of the software ecosystem.
> What benefit does the Covid-19 epidemic confer that you can compare it to road travel?

Well, going out and working has rather large economic benefits.
What the Consumerization of BI Means for Data Experts
Why should Apple subsidize Android development?
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Oh, ok I didn't read the original article thoroughly. The user still needs to give it the admin password, but the installer can be modified to also execute arbitrary code as the root user.
you know what is more important than platform rules ? satisfying consumers. Remember that tech is made for humans before everything else !

e.g., if a majority (or even strong minority) of people in a country bends a rule, you change the rule to accommodate people, you don't put 30% of your population in jail.
If zoom was a country, it would be the ~10th european country by population, you can't just ignore that.
Keep in mind that this company, Slab, has the tagline of: "A knowledge hub for the remote workplace."

Probably some bias here :)
A more updated version would be that neoliberalism is the opiate of intellectuals. Much (but certainly not all) of Marxism has held up rather well in retrospect (especially teh critique of capitalism), especially in the conditions we face in 2020.
Do you really think that this kind of creative cherry-picking of countries and misrepresentation will convince anyone here?
An HTTP status code for tolerating mistakes in requests
The ones I've seen are a-z, not qwerty:

https://www.simpits.org/articles/Boeing_simtour/simtour30.jp...

And English because anything you'd need to enter, like waypoints or airport IDs use roman/latin letters or numbers.
> Anyone who thinks otherwise is a fool

I think you need to speak to more parents.
What you say here makes sense to me at least - but haven't you been arguing against just about any form of parent-set boundaries/rules elsewhere in this thread?
I think what I realized from this mass WFH situation is that it doesn’t work. It’s inefficient, burdensome, and contains too much friction. I thought mass WFH will be a sign of progress, but I personally hate it.
Words amount to nothing if our wallets won't agree.
A Ruby program that prints its own source code in another language (Brainfuck)
Ah, the classic "fix it just to shut the error up" without actually looking at the cause. Lowest bidder contractor probably.
`git push -f`
Wasn't talking about infrastructure, was talking about the ease of use that led to large market share. Zoom broke lots of platform rules to perform that trick.
I'm not sure about strawberries but aren't farmworkers in general essential workers? Our food supply and delivery chain is what allows others to stay at home.
Square foot garden is perfect for noobs. Plant companion plants. I had great success with it even as a noob.

Agree on pests. You have to keep on top of it.
> Point out any socialist/communist country where this hasn't happened.

Socialist Yugoslavia saw some political imprisonments, mostly immediately after the war as Tito tried to limit Stalin’s influence in the country. But there was never collectivization leading to famine, never killings on a massive scale. The genocide in the region was only unleashed after the end of the socialist era. And before you want to rant about crushing poverty: Yugoslavs in the 1960s and 1970s lived well enough on average that they were conspicuous among tourists on the Istanbul-Kathmandu trail and Indonesia, and many international brands were sold in Yugoslavia just like in any Western European country.
Apologies, had the group configured incorrectly, this should now work. Thanks for letting us know!
Exactly, we leverage Shopify which helps us spin up new stores very quickly. As we further build out the platform and learn more we can always look into a custom build but as you said, our priority is launching many successful stores in a short amount of time.
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You would primarily be working on Java products with RabbitMQ, MariaDB, Consul and ZooKeeper. You would be integrating with products written with python and typescript.

You would be a part of helping migrate television broadcasters to a microservices orientated cloud infrastructure built on top of AWS.

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> have you ever in your professional career worked for a company that employed salespeople?

Yes.

> Do you understand that they mostly do cold outreach to generate revenue?

No, they do not.

> If all the salespeople were to disappear overnight, what would happen to company revenue and how many people would lose their jobs?

The point you're illustrating is that in a world where some companies have sales people, all companies need to have sales people (although not for cold outreach). In the same way as "well some people have guns so I need to have a gun too" isn't a good argument against gun control, you are not making a good argument for cold outreach / salespeople.
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Yes, but the overwhelming consensus I read on other forums is the report of the failure of the work-from-home policy at Yahoo some years ago.

So, this is a counterpoint to the current absolute-statement circulating online.
The idea that many of them would have died anyways within a year or three is rather better supported, though. As is the idea that we need to run a cost-benefit analysis here.
I'd be wary of basing an entire product on another company's product, specially Google.
Reading each byte once only takes a few microseconds. That's not the issue.

What you need is for the slow core of the algorithm to be fixed-speed.

Either by only reading the input bytes during initialization, or by only feeding a fixed number of input bytes into the core during each round.
If we are going to start tallying the body counts of economic ideologies, I think you will find capitalism and its inherent imperialism to be very much in the lead.
In this case they were breaking security rules. The main people that accommodates is hackers.
For most folks, it really is about convenience.

If you propose a new videoconf solution, and the first time a C-suite or major prospect joins the call the call buffers, or someone doesn't have the right drivers installed, or someone doesn't know how to click the link - you are absolutely getting hauled over the coals afterwards.

No one, at any company wants to get the "We're a technology company - why can't we organize a video call?" line.

Convenience is often neglected by people proposing a privacy-conscious, self-hosted FOSS alternative that merely requires you to install it from binary and configure your own Digital Ocean droplet, but it really does matter.
IANAL. I would start with consideration. What's the consideration from the site that would form a contract? Access that is freely granted to the public anyway? Could I write a contract in which the only consideration I give is access to a public park? The counter argument would be that internet sites are private. Something more akin to a store than a public park.

I would also include meeting of the minds. At someplace like a gym, you sign your contract and exchange consideration before being granted access. In other words, in order to gain the consideration of access, you must agree with the gym's offer. Sites with required login to gain access work like that, but not "public" websites. They're more like stores than gyms -- anyone can walk in and access is not restricted. [0] So where is the meeting of the minds when I type in a URL and the page loads?

[0] Access can be revoked, since it's still private property, but then your crime is in not leaving or reentering after revocation -- entering in the first place was legal.
And somehow break the binary's signature?

But the truth is you don't really need to do that. If people are coming to your own domain you can ship them whatever you want. I'd wager that well below 1/1,000,000 users actually verify signatures on binaries. For the huge majority of users, there is little you can do to prevent this.
Not necessarily. Choosing whether to quarantine people is a judgement call, but going into work after being ordered not to is insubordination and trespass.
Since we aren't anywhere closer to fiber everywhere, hopefully some form of subsidized satellite internet (like Starlink from SpaceX) will be the solution especially for rural areas such as Sandwich, NH.
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This is huge. As parent points out, there are some tasks that are very, very hard to do remotely. I'm not aware of anything that's hard to do in an office per se, but there certainly are a lot of tasks which benefit from concentration and focus. Those tasks get easier if the remote environment is calm and the office environment is not.

It seems to me that most software development is primarily the latter sort of work, which may explain why so many people here advocate remote work. But not everything is software yet. Just try debugging a circuit board over a video conference and you'll see what I mean....
I guess Zoom is having its Facebook moment
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It's a small company with huge industry competitors, and it's winning.
And yet people get so pissed off when I call out french post-modernism and critical theory as being uniquely Marxist. At least some on the right see the connection properly (though it's not like they get it right beyond that in most cases, e.g. Peterson)

But to be fair, it's not like those intellectuals are advocating for the authoritarian parts of Marxism. They're advocating for the egalitarian parts as well as his methodology. Marx was a good philosopher, and is certainly a fascinating thinker. Sartre absolutely believes that Marxism and Existentialism are the same thing (read his work search for a method if you don't believe me).

Maybe academics need to make it very clear that just because they dislike capitalism as its practiced doesn't mean that they should immediately run to what appears to be its opposite uncritically. Most left-wing academics just take dialectical materialism and the primacy of the dialectic method of achieving truth as being a given (though Plato/Socrates is responsible for the latter error not Marx). They don't even see how authoritarian that the dialectical method can be. It's why I realized that Paulo Freire was the opposite of liberatory despite trying to write a book "liberating education" (he reveals himself to be obsessed with Dialectics in Pedagogy of the Oppressed).

Yet, for all of the criticism I have of the Marxist method and praxis, I think that equating it to a religion is also incorrect. No one peddling critical theory seriously is going to tell you to believe in its dogma religiously. Though, they may give you worse grades on your papers if you do a bad job of calling out its authoritarian tendencies so maybe there is some truth to the analogy...

And since HN is getting on me for posting too fast (it's necessary to combat the rampant Philosophical disinfo going on), I'll respond here to the commentator whose slandering Kant as being some how similar to Marx and Hegel

Kant is the opposite of a Frankfurt school author and you are sorely mistaken for equating him with the likes of Hegel or Marx.

It sickens me to see how poorly Philosophy is understood even by HN readers. You'll find really quickly that Kant is actually one of the most enlightened scholars of all time (and certainly not even close to a Frankfurt school author) if you read even 5 pages of him! My god! Kant would most likely be horrified by any Marxist or Marx-decending authors works.
Care to elaborate what's inefficient in your current situation? Ex. what your setup is at home, whether you have 12 kids all screaming 24/7 (hah), what situation is causing you ire?
No, but you can seriously damage your mental health (among other problems with "information"), and that is a very real problem.
JACK audio or ALSA monitor device
Well, not yet. Joystick and a little remote device (or something) and maybe one day we will do stuff like this without fully solving machine learning vision type problems.

Please be quiet kids! I'm picking strawberries. Actually, Bobby, come over here. Do you want to play a game while I take a nap?
Just recently I took over a very rapidly evolving project, and I realized that OmniFocus for iOS (as much as I love it with all the custom „perspectives“ I created) is way to slow in quickly capturing and organizing new tasks & projects. That‘s why I temporarily switched to a paper based approach and than rediscovered Things3 (which I used prior to OmniFocus). Now after a week or two I realize how much lighter and quicker Things3 is compared to OF. And how impractical OF on iOS always felt.

OF for Mac is fine. Although I must admit - after using Things3 for a week or two - that OF feels like overkill, interface-wise.

Other Omni products feel like from distant past: OmniOutline (orgmode feels way lighter, better), OmniGraffle was super cool several years ago, but it hasn‘t evolved much.

I feel very sorry for this company because several years ago their products were so unique and typical for the Mac experience. Things have changed.
Good opportunity to put 500% national security tariff on oil imports aside from Mexico and Canada.

Put Texas railroad commission back in charge of oil and gas production to set domestic prices above the cost of production.
Larry Ellison Reveals His Big Data Battle Plan to Fight Coronavirus
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I think the above comment was written to the tune of "Jokingly trying to employ reverse-psychology to get Hacker News users to read literature" rather than serious. No one uses the term "free thinker" unironically.
Multi-Tiered UI Kits for Design Systems
It was April 1st in several countries by the time of that commit.
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> employing mostly Americans

"“Our product development team is largely based in China, where personnel costs are less expensive than in many other jurisdictions,” Zoom wrote in a regulatory filing."

Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/26/zoom-key-profit-driver-ahead...
It's hard to know which sources to believe these days.
Changing the settings wasn't enough after the enigma machine was cracked. And more to the point, Donitz management style made their radio traffic easier to decipher, and he was extremely slow to react when it was clear crews were dying because their radio traffic wasn't secure.
didnt work for me either, I had to use NDI tools
Should we treat incels as terrorists? (2019)
I agree. My cynicism is directed more on the confluence of Apple security issues + Zoom + NSA reference attention grabbing. :)
For an essay of this idea, see https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths
> Suppose you have a block of 4 pixels, represented by 4 24-bit values. Instead of sending the 4 pixel values, send one 24-bit value that is the average of all 4 pixel values, and then the actual 24-bit values for 3 of the 4 pixels.

So you still send 4*24 bits? what's the point?

> If something transporting this needs to lower the bandwidth, it can just drop the E2E discrete pixel stream, leaving just the E2E average stream. The receiver can then use that average value for all 4 pixels, in effect getting a video that is 1/2 the resolution both horizontally and vertically.

But you need knowledge of this protocol, so the sender is the only one able to do this. In that case just encode the downsampled resolution and send that, no tricks needed.
I mean, it's probably an April Fools' Day joke. However, for the person who committed it (who lives in France), it was not April 1st, as far as I'm aware.
Don't do that then.

Maybe we should pay more for strawberries and treat workers better?
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I think OP's comment was more highlighting how dumb the article title is.
wayland is mega broken on HiDPI. Or at least apps are broken on wayland on HiDPI. Very sad
This is the wrong conclusion. I for one love working for my employer. I made peace with the idea that I may be subject to a layoff at some point in my career. The flip side of the coin is that I feel free to look for opportunities any time I want. My employer treats me well, I return the favor. When it's uneconomical for them to keep paying me, they'll do that, when I find a better option, I'll go too, and there's no hard feelings. For as long as the employment continues, I feel proud to do my best, and not just do the absolute minimum.
To be fair, what mobile app is as good at what it does as Omni* is at theirs? Or, to short-circuit exceptions proving a rule, what is the proportion, or furthermore, how many segments of the mobile market has apps as good?