skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dad started out as a COBOL programmer before he got distracted by management and decided being a PM was a better path. This was his explainer to me once:

To hire someone who can do the job reasonably quick and well is really expensive no matter how you slice it. Consider it a 'job well done' if you can persuade them to:

a) Un-retire

and

b) Come out of said retirement to do actual work in the trenches again - as opposed to management.

In the private sector, these people have probably made the equivalent of GS-15 Step 10 for years if not decades. Good luck trying to convince them to jump back in for what is essentially a pay cut.
You keep saying the same irrelevant thing. It doesn’t matter how hard it is to showcase 5M apps, /if you’re taking 30% of the cut from all of them, in exchange for promoting them/.

Fraud at scale is still fraud. This isn’t a difficult concept.
As far as I know, Flutter dev evangelists are trying trying their best to push it into massive adoption.
One thing you may fail to see is the reason for RN's massive adoption, and those are

1. It was released before Flutter, 2015 compared to Flutter's 2017

2. No need to learn a new language. JavaScript is JavaScript. The initial thought of having to learn Dart (which is very similar to JavaScript and Java, but who'll know till they use it?) is a push back

3. RN's similarity to React. It is easier for devs who'd been using React to jump into it, and React has more adoption than Angular

In the end, users don't really care whatever you use. Does your app do what they want/expect?
A pile of unused scooters is probably not that expensive either to store somewhere while they're not used (and many are probably just out on the street). Aren't employee costs going to hurt both models more? Bird already laid of hundreds of their 1,000+ employees. Airbnb has 12,000+ employees.

The scooter companies might have less reserves though, and their market is probably oversaturated even in good times.
Nope. NetBSD...
It's not just low wage workers, it's an incredible amount of small business owners as well. We've been shut down for about three weeks and a significant percentage of restaurants in my area are not even providing take-out anymore.

> remote friendly (developers

The layoffs in software engineer world are still yet to come and we've already seen quite a few. Sure, not nearly as many layoffs as low-wage workers, but you've seen the layoff threads here on HN, right?

This is only the start of the downturn if the US stays shut down.
Well we have some idea, as it's already FDA approved for other uses
WHO's bad advice is responsible for tens of thousands of deaths. I watched their conferences in January. Simultaneously heaping praise on China for their effective quarantines while demanding other countries not cut off flights from China because there was little risk. If every country ignored them and stopped travel, or said every person entering the country has to spend X days in quarantine, this could have been contained. And that's only one part of WHO's failure.
I would think the kind of people who go on a website like HN think this is awesome as well. I know not all the audience of HN is necessarily software / hardware engineers, but definitely there's enough of them on here go drive interest.
That's a fantastic way of showing a company is listening to customer feedback and acting upon it, even if there doesn't seem to be anything wrong.

Apple (and many other companies) could learn something from this transparency.
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Great to hear.
Pythons (AFAIK?) Are aliased under two levels of their version, so you should be able to run python, python3, and python3.8 (or whatever). I suspect that you can also do something nasty with symlinks to extend that further into virtual environments, but I've never tried it.
That's far from a sound business model.
The $600 boost was calculated because it takes the average recipient to full pay, so, yeah it's a high percentage. For high wage workers it's a smaller percentage, both because before the boost there is a benefit cap in most state formulas and because the $600 boost represents a smaller additional percentage, but most workers aren't high-wage workers.
> factual information isn't copyrightable

Tell that to Aaron Swartz.

Sure, if you think of factual information as an abstract concept. But as soon as you put that abstract concept into a concrete representation, that representation is absolutely copyrightable. And when you scrape data you're not scraping abstract information, you're scraping the representation of that information.

Try publishing PDFs of college textbooks online and see how well your "I'm just publishing factual information" argument works.

I'm not saying I agree with the law on this, and I'm also not saying that the way the law was intended should apply to the situation of scraping.
Android 8.1 seems pretty old. It doesn't matter how great the hardware is without good software support.
When does a markdown line get that long?
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These seem to be average / historical data sets, not "is there an accident / traffic jam on my route right now."

Thanks for the excellent work, though!
Please educate yourself.

The vast majority of sanctions on Venezuelans have been directly related to individual elites and their companies. This has nothing to do with Forbes or NYT or WP or whatever other newspaper for which you may have a distaste.

The reason that Venezuelans are starving is because the government has been confiscating private farmland for many years, since the time of Chavez. (I wonder what they are growing on that land now.) This led to a greater level of importation of food, which became unsustainable when the oil price crash of 2014 demolished an easy source of revenue for the government.

Cuba is another example of an impoverished nation in Latin America that is propped up by Russia. Nicaragua is a third.

Panama is one example of a Latin American nation that generates enormous amounts of profit based on past and ongoing US investment. Chile is another.

Even if we ignore recent protests in both countries, I would rather live in Chile than in Nicaragua.

I can tell you that for my part, I am commenting about Venezuela because the submission is a news article about Venezuela. I think that is very obvious and it is a little discouraging that you label my views as "propaganda" just because you don't like or agree with them.
They are going bankrupt. A boom bust cycle is not the most efficient way to operate, and lots of marginal value taps with poor engineering and amateur boom operators leads to massive fugitive emissions. Your investment timeline is myopic.
Maybe not. But re scraping and indexing, there's a quid pro quo.
Everything’s not underfunded. It’s a problem of how the bureaucracies and agencies are created.
Sure. But at this point everyone picks and chooses which laws they care about. I've observed a pretty heavy overlap between people who care a great deal about taxi regulations (most of which exist merely to artificially prop up rent-seeking owners of taxi medallions) and people who consider American immigration law so fundamentally unjust that it should simply not be enforced anymore. Faithfully Obeying All The Rules And Regulations isn't an especially popular ideology, and if you consistently advocate it, you'll end up very unpopular with everyone.
I bought QC 35's a year ago and wish I had sooner. They're very well designed, and reading this makes me respect Bose even more. This is why their brand name is still so trusted.
I assume you’re talking about conflicts from offline -> online?

This example is quite simple - it doesn’t work offline so it doesn’t have any risk of conflicts beyond the usual things a developer would face (2 ‘channels’ with the same name). This obviously sacrifices functionality for simplicity.

We plan to work on client/server conflict resolution at some stage but it’s a fairly deep hole so we need to plan out the best strategy (or multiple strategies?)

Let me know if I misinterpreted your question
Imagine making even a minor change to the COBOL code. It's not likely to be very well structured or comprehensible. I'm guessing there would be a lot of global variables and strange database / file system interfaces. Very hard to do it without breaking something somewhere.

Edit: per the thread starting with vaidhy's comment.
All those apps? I guess my definition of minimalism is different.
I was surprised when a lot of people started expressing concerns about lawlessness recently, because it wasn't obvious to me why this crisis should lead to that.

But are they wrong?
I'm not sure I'd assume that all of that vanillin would come from human sources.

The decomposition of wood creates vanillin, which I assume makes up most of what these folks found.
I can't write to /usr without root, and I can write to home. I also personally like a clear delineation between things that are managed by the package manager and by myself.
I know we’re not supposed to refer to downvotes, but I had cancer and I worked in medicine. My points are valid and downvoting them is analogous is to the collectivist groupthink in medicine.
> And costing them some CPU

On the servers that have no purpose in life but to handle caching. I’d much rather browsers and scrapers alike hit my Apache Trafficserver instances with requests needing to return a Not Modified than wasting time of the app servers.
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My goodness. I've been following this issue, and avoiding upgrading my firmware, for about two years now. But this is so incredibly thorough and shows just how seriously they took these concerns, and validating, or invalidating them.

They really dug deep here, and I respect them all the more for it. I've had really good experiences with Bose products, even though they're priced at a slight premium. They're just VERY high quality.
Before anyone goes collecting sewage samples, consider deriving your scaling factors from discrepencies in ICD-10 diagnostic encoding practices.

- Stacked bar chart: https://twitter.com/OccupyWallSt/status/1246478379064295425/...

- Govt data: https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-Death-Counts-for-Coron...

ICD-10 is really the heart of the matter. Earlier recommendations have asked doctors to encode corona death information using Pneumonia (J12.89) or Bronchitis (J20.8, J40) if positive test results are available, suffixed by B97.29 if authorized by the CDC to do so. We now appear to finally have the pneumonia encoded info thanks to NCHS. Hopefully govt will open source the bronchitis encoded reports too.

See also:

- https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/icd/ICD-10-CM-Official-Coding-...

- https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/icd/ICD-10-CM-April-1-2020-add...

- https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/icd/COVID-19-guidelines-final....
in "vitro” is a magic word, surely enough salt can also inhibits the replication of SARS-CoV-2 in _vitro_.
This is the thing I've seen a lot of tech people missing, they are all "I'll be fine, my company already works from home and our business isn't effected". Yes, but what about your customers businesses? What if they stop paying? Or what about _their_ customers. The entire economy is going to be hit hard, and that will ripple through.
really interesting project, ill try it!
just downloaded and unfortunately there’s a bug that list the same 10 stores like 10 times. so i was scrolling forever just to get to the bottom where it told me “Unfortunately, no one knows what’s in stock there.”

I love the concept though.
best headphones I've owned, buy them for everyone who asks lol
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I'm extremely optimistic about the coronavirus, something like the 90th percentile among positions I've read, and even I think we'll still be facing impacts in 6 months. Even if the lockdowns end this month and the public health problem is considered resolved in June, that won't be enough time to shake off all the effects.

Most businesses will certainly be allowed to open long before then, though.
It's a fair point but I think that the key issue is different. VC funds are a kind of equity investment; the question is whether they are actually delivering results. In the case of some of the top-notch US funds I would guess the answer is yes and will continue to be so.

On the other hand large funds like SoftBank are clearly under-performing. Cracks in that model were already appearing prior to Covid-19. So yes, interest rates are low, and equities should benefit in general. However it does not follow that VC investment funds are overall a good bet. To make that argument you would have to trade off against alternatives like real estate, more traditional industries, on-shoring of supply chains, etc.
Assuming that the report isn't subtly misrepresenting the situation in some way, that's a fantastic job. It adds to my confidence in the hardware/firmware quality of their product.

I do however have lingering concerns about their spyware [0]. Does anyone know if that's been addressed?

[0] https://fortune.com/2017/04/19/bose-headphones-privacy/
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Unihertz Atom, The Smallest 4G Rugged Smartphone in The World, Android 9.0 Pre Unlocked Smart Phone with 4GB RAM and 64GB ROM https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KP8J8YN/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_ZA...

I have one of these and it actually works pretty well. It’s my “phone break” phone as it’s small enough that you don’t want to use it a lot but you can use it if you need to for Spotify, maps or whatever.
Yes, the article states they are being tested in Italy.

One was just approved for the USA 2 days ago. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/health/coronavirus-antibo...
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Is this actually new? With that said, bring back the Palm Pre
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According to POSIX, variables that contain lower-case letters are for application use. If Debian (or whoever) introduces such variable names, they are being nonconforming.

For instance, my programs might be in /home/kaz/bin. Suppose I create a one-letter variable:

k=/home/kaz/bin

Then /home/kaz/bin/foo can be run as

$k/foo

Bash will complete on this. Firstly, $k[Tab] will add the missing slash to make $k/. Then if Tab is hit twice, the completions under /home/kaz/bin are shown.

Since k contains an absolute path, it does not rely on PATH searching.

The programs under $k/ can refer to each other using the $k/ notation, without relying on PATH.

The comma notation relies on PATH. When the ,foo script wants to invoke the ,bar script and just calls it ,bar args ... that relies on PATH containing the directory in which ,bar lives.

For interactive use, I'd use PATH anyway: put /home/kaz/bin at the end. Then if the system shadows one of my programs prog, I can just use ~/utils/prog or $k/prog to detour around the clashing system program. My programs themselves don't rely on PATH for calling each other, so they are immune to the shadowing, and since I added the new PATH element at the end, I haven't perpetrated any shadowing that would break system programs.
Yes, naming of projects was one of the most fun aspects in projects. Seen that play out in many ways, often case of thinking of what you wanted and working out some acronym or reason to go with that. One team the project manger was a fan of the TV show BILKO, so the new invoiceing system became called that once a passable acronym was worked out. Was something like Billing and Invoicing ...was so long ago but was clever and worked. Then their was the buzzword period and marketing departments, so would get whole rafts of things with Rapid as a prefix and the irony played out.

Still, maintenance is the biggest cost of any code that has lived so long, so with that such systems overall may well be agile, you just smooth out the pain over time in a more manageable way.
We have a dentist friend that had to close her office. She is not able to get a loan and this is her business
I'm still astonished we haven't yet been made to pay for that disaster. (Other than a billion more than fixing it would cost and with increased congestion...)
Wonder if they're doing anything similar with the "headphones randomly powering on even though the switch is turned off" issue?
Wow, I am amazed at the level of care. I currently use a QC25, and did not update to 35 because I am not happy about the Siri/Google/Alexa integration. Still, I am definitely floored by the amount of care Bose provides on their product.

I guess my next set of headphones will still be from Bose.
Why does this place shit on Russians like they're not human and defend Chinese people who eat live rats and fry live dogs? Universal law of attraction?
There are 19th century legal cases backing up travel restrictions to prevent disease spread. It’s not something we’re used to after the mid-20th-century eradication of most major diseases from the USA but there is ample precedent in our constitution and laws for it.

For instance, https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/186/380/ “ That from an early day the power of the states to enact and enforce quarantine laws for the safety and the protection of the health of their inhabitants has been recognized by Congress is beyond question. That until Congress has exercised its power on the subject, such state quarantine laws and state laws for the purpose of preventing, eradicating, or controlling the spread of contagious or infectious diseases, are not repugnant to the Constitution of the United States although their operation affects interstate or foreign commerce is not an open question. The doctrine was elaborately examined and stated in Morgan Steamship Company v. Louisiana Board of Health, 118 U. S. 455”
Not saying I don't like it. :)
God yes, that was the best phone I ever owned.
CN has already penetrated Western markets.

Do you expect the Martian Axioms to help you?
Update: I think my question is partially answered here [1]. They seem to want far more information that I'm interested in sharing with them.

[1] https://www.bose.com/en_us/legal/privacy_policy.html
One of the things that most pisses me off about numpy, pandas, and the whole scipy ecosystem is that everything is "immediate mode": all operations evaluate _instantly_ to new arrays or dataframes. There's no opportunity for any component to evaluate a whole expression tree and optimize it, e.g., by loop hoisting.

The right way to design a data analysis DSL is to do it the way Python's dask does it: build an operation graph and execute it as the last step. The trouble is that Dask doesn't get it right either because, as part of its graph formation, it computes sizes of operands, and computing operand sizes can involve huge amounts of computation, and so dask, in effect, is also an "immediate mode" system.

What I really want to see is something lazy that can do sane query planning and that can work within limited system resources. Maybe one day I'll open source the work I've done in this space. Query languages are infinitely nicer for analytics than data processing libraries.
Around the time, just before the COVID Pandemic in India, I was reaching home (Feb 26) in Bangalore and the founder of Sunblaze[1] was flying out. We were able to have an hour of dinner-meeting before he leave for Japan. We were to discuss the opportunity of partnering and helping Indians farmers with a phone that can be sold at the cost price of ₹2,500 (roughly $33 at today's conversion). It runs a modified variant of a prior version of Android.

This phone can be a really cheap minimal phone with some "Smartphone" features. I have a piece with me but I have not yet used it and will be given to the engineering team to play around test our apps for it.

1. https://www.sunblaze.jp
I'm really sorry for your loss.
There is a quadrivalent vaccine available for the flu. And the coronavirus is at least 10x more deadly than the flu. It makes sense to treat it differently.
We don't know the cause of death yet. Due to the overwhelmed medical system in Baltimore we may never know.

It wasn't suicide. Does anyone on this thread (besides me) know James? People, think before you post. Somebody died.
I think startups that cater to providing services to government funded organizations will probably do better, especially with all this new government debt globally in the form of "stimulus".
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Or bleach.
FTR the author was heavily involved in the show.
I don't know much about the report but the wikipedia article you linked to says that the acoustical evidence that causes the report to think there might be a second shooter has been found to be suspect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_assassination_...
and it also says that they didn't think the conspiracy involved the Soviet Union, Cuba, anti-Castro forces, organized crime, or government agencies. That rules out a lot of the popular theories on who may have had JFK killed.
I'm so sorry for your loss.

I don't think we have a system in place at my work, and I don't remember a system for any previous jobs either.
> Longer term, there is absolutely nothing inherent to being a “startup” that will make it any better at weathering the future than any other type of business.

I think the assumption is that "longer term" is "within your runway" for some set of startups. Early stage startups can have years of runway.

If you're a startup that's recently closed an amount that will carry you through this period I think you're probably in the ideal position. There is an open and obvious question as to how long that may be, but if you have multiple years of runway it feels safe.
Cuomo also talked about this. I'll give it to end of April to you have most people back if not early may. This test, unlike the other one, holds a lot of financial weight so it's going to get a lot of people on Wallstreet and small business wanting to sponsor these tests.
Typing a comma is too hard, but that 4-step jerry-rig isn't?
Stuff in /usr/(bin|share|...) might get overwritten by system update or reinstall. A better choice is /usr/local/
Just yesterday there was an exciting post about printing off pages of assembly and reverse engineering archaic encryption using a crayon.

If you thought that was exciting I can't imagine hacking on archaic COBOL codebase could be much worse in terms of quality of tooling!

There's also a much better chance you'll have a say in the replacement if you work on and understand the original.
Ah.. QC35 I and QC35 II, the headphones that won't turn off, but Bose refuses to make it right for the users:

https://community.bose.com/t5/Around-On-Ear-Headphones/QC-35...

Note, the "solution" is buy new headphones if yours are our out of warranty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bugTnRbnhQ&feature=youtu.be
And what about their planned obsolescence strategy like the right ear simultaneously[0] stop working on everybody's QC25s with no replacement or repair option?

[0]: https://community.bose.com/t5/In-Ear-Headphones/Right-ear-st...
I'm thinking about picking up the QC 35's series 2 or the Sony WH-1000MX3's. Any recommendations? Can either of those turn off the noise canceling tech? I'm not a big fan of noise canceling technologies, I'm just looking for a quality sounding wireless headset to pair with my iphone.
I had this issue with the QC 35 version 1, and they shipped me replacement headphones for free.
Sorry, I want to give a response, but I just can't figure out what you're trying to communicate here.
Could you maybe give this a rest? The continued presumption of bad faith is objectionable and not consistent with expected standards of this site. And it is boring.
Antibodies aren't perfect and are not the same person to person. The antibodies for this should work for any mutation for a very long time. Thats why vaccines for previous year flu or flu mutations still work in some part.