skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are discussing the quotation from 2011. See the original comment upthread which reads 'How did that saying about "brightest minds working on ads" go?'

The comment by DavidAdams to which you replied was thanking someone for mentioning the Ginsberg connection in relation to the topic under discussion, i.e. the 2011 'framing' which unambiguously draws on Ginsberg.

I think you're just making trouble, to be honest.
The trick is to also marry another engineer making that much :)

The majority of housing stock listed for sale in SV is being pulled off the market in a panic. I'm not sure what exactly it means, but if I had to guess, I think it's due to a huge reduction in demand.

No one is buying, so sellers don't want their homes to be listed as unsold for a lengthy period of time. Eventually, people will need to sell, and then we'll see a race to the new bottom for the market, which might still be incredibly unaffordable for most.

$300k will take you further then, but the issue will be whether companies will keep paying engineers that much when housing prices no longer warrant it.
"Guess the username" (you didn't even try and it was pretty bloody obvious):

Gerdes (my family name) means the same as the word German. A ger is a spear - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migration_Period_spear. A ger-man is a spear bearing man and gerdes is an old form of that. You lot had a habit of trundling around with spears - hence the name in English.

Using Zoom is of course not an awful thing to do. Just be careful me old fruit. Please.
This post got 10 votes in less than 10 minutes, but it’s not on the front page. Looks like the anti-voting-ring software is working.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7972941
The problem is meant to deal with future conflicts as well as present ones, and re-checking on every update would be a pain. The more memorable and natural your aliases, the more likely they are to get clobbered later ….
Well it might be enough in 6 months!
iOS, Android, Linux, Democrats, Republicans, Zoom???

There is a lot of angry emotional fanboi-ism around Zoom that is very very odd to see in support of a video conferencing app. Whoever is downvoting comments like this, I'd love to hear your POV.

I feel like recent concerns over zoom are actually quite reasonable. I've never been a zoom hater, my company adopted it with my blessing and we continue to use it although we are now having reasonable, IMO, misgivings and considering alternatives.
> It's incredibly straightforward to prevent zoombombing, you simply set a password on your room

The password is the same for everyone. Are you seriously saying that kids won't share the link/password online themselves as pranks? This reduces the risk from "anyone can join" to "anyone with password can join". The waiting rooms helped at least, but the passwords reduce, not stop, zoombombing.
I use GraphQL for most new projects nowadays and I like the types and fetching only what you need, if that's what you're talking about.
Easy there. We're standing on the shoulders of those COBOL giants.

What's obvious in 2020 was cutting-edge and forward-thinking in 1960. The rude kids of 2080 may sneer at your best code circa 2020.
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You don't need live viruses, just their RNA.
I am using OneNote + Chrome bookmarks synced across devices. OneNote's search is quite bad, sometimes it does not work and most of the time it cannot get you where you want, the page layout when you put more content is sometimes terrible, but otherwise it is good enough.
> who started off better than average

I knew him, and you didn't. The idea he was in the top 30% would certainly make him laugh. Lots of store owners barely scrape by.
It's a bit late to be posting this April Fools joke
What's up with the BBC even writing that there is "no credible link" between the two? Why qualify with "credible", when it's more correct to say "the two are unrelated", ie indicating that there is no link whatsoever.

Then again, maybe it's a lost cause, and no amount of clear editing would get the point across to the unthinking idiots who harm us all.
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>> To some extent this reflects their own implicit belief that humanity is by nature grasping, avaricious, amoral, and cruel, and that their status depends on power and violence.

A lot of that sounds like projection.
Maybe exactly for that reason?
oh obviously ... #facepalm
Don't mean to brag, but I already sneer at 2020 code!
Tried to register. URL should be optional, but either way form wasnt accepting domain.
apt search cobol found this.

open-cobol/bionic 1.1-2 amd64
COBOL compiler

Also, I was hoping to find COBOL on learnxinyminutes.com, but didn't :/
I imagine the COBOL programmers are in the high-risk group for coronavirus.
I would assume if someone was sending "awful images" via email it's probably meant to be malicious and probably not a critique.
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Working retail, especially clothing, seems to be one of the easiest ways to become disillusioned with humanity.

Nothing like picking up a pile of clothes in a changing room covered in feces to brighten up your day.
Covid-19: New Jersey Urgently Needs COBOL Programmers
Why is cost even an issue? The cost is nothing compared to all the suffering.

Building up North Korea isn't hard, living in North Korea is hard.
As others point out, by distinguishing domestic from international travel, you're implying that you believe your citizens are smart, intelligent, and know not to travel, but you can't trust other citizens to do that. That implication is what it makes it nationalistic.

More practically, though, is that it's a measure that can only be effective if domestic transmission is not a major cause of new cases, which is true in only very few countries right now (and I believe none of those countries have banned visitors). Enacting such a policy at this late stage is a measure that looks like you're taking a strong stance while having virtually no effect at all, and could well be an attempt to distract from your own failures to contain it beforehand.

Given the way Putin has governed in the past decade, I am rather more inclined to believe that the primary goal of this measure is in fact propaganda.
And let's also be clear that the incidence rate is going up because 1) the popularity of Zoom and 2) because there's a lot of people home going stir crazy.

Saying Zoom has a bombing issue feels like saying Linux doesn't get viruses.
The assumption made here is that democracy is always good.
They just don't think it's harmful.
The server ultimately decides what encoding gets used, so if the CPU cost is too high they can ignore the compression.
They aren't equipped to vet talent. If they hire a mediocre engineer for $180k, their situation has not improved.
Well the person you are replying to said "in small daily small doses". To be honest I think 30 minutes, 2-3 times a day is already well past that.
Small-medium hotel owner here, that used to write code for a living.

What just happened in my industry, is forcing me to go look for a job. I don't think we are going to open for summer season or even if we do its not gonna make enough to live by.

Hundreds or thousands of years ago, a few had all the wealth and then most people were poor. We even had slaves.

I can't believe that in 2020 and with all the knowledge we've acquired as humanity we've allowed a few people to acquire all the wealth.

I am gonna struggle with paying any tax coming my way this year, or even supporting my employees who they very much need the job. And on the other hand, there are corporation that don't need to pay much tax through their umbrellas and then again they pay their employees peanuts so they can have a CEO that is worth in the hundred of billions of $. Sad to see that humanity hasn't improved at all.
Perhaps, but the way it’s moving there will be another 20m+ people without jobs in a month or two (prime working age folks), and with a bunch of industries contracting at the same time it’s likely that recovery will take a while before it all resumes. Hope I’m wrong but it could be a few years before it will bounce back.
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You probably want to delete that link lol. Check the facts.
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... so do we know how fast the RNA degrades in sewer conditions?
Sorry that I confused the terms "round function" and "Fiestel function", I thought my intended meaning would still be clear. The Fiestel construction still takes a non-invertible function and produces an invertible function, in a way that use useful cryptographically. Would you prefer that the article title was "making a useful invertible function out of non-invertible functions"? The Fiestel construction also reduces making a cipher down to (more or less, putting aside key scheduling and number of rounds etc) to producing one extremely good non-invertible function.

You even have a paragraph explaining what the author of the article is explaining, which is how to use a non-invertible function g(x) in an invertible way. So it still seems to me that "But who cares?" is pretty dismissive of the article.
Did software engineering exist back then.
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I've been working remote for only a short time, but it's been interesting to watch as my entire company (its a software company) now goes remote due to COVID-19. There's a lot of people that seem to be having lightbulb moments like, "oh wow, I'm just as much if not more productive than I was before" as well as some people that seem to be having a crisis and not know what to do with themselves. The people that don't know what to do with themselves seem to be correlated with the same people that I previously felt had a negative impact on our velocity.

Any company that truly believes all the talent is on the coasts isn't the kind of small-minded company I would want to work for anyway, so it's kind of moot for me.

But I think there will be a lot more understanding of what jobs work well in a remote setting due to quarantine, and plenty of software companies will realize they can save a ton of money by not retaining an expensive office space, while gathering talent from a wider pool of diverse perspectives.
Yes, along with google. By monopolizing search. You won't ever be able to find Bob's home store online when they push their own stores and paid ads on top of everything else.

This shows a severe lack of imagination. Everyone by definition can’t stand out via organic search. Should you really start a business if your only customer acquisition strategy is SEO and organic search? In MBA speak “What's your unfair advantage”?

And once again, there is an existence proof from dozens of companies that force you to pay for the service outside of the store to use the app. They aren’t just big companies. I mentioned before that the smallish B2B company I use to work at had an app on the store that required health systems to sign a six figure a year contract to use and Apple didn’t see a penny of it.

Speaking of which, I’ve worked for four small B2B companies that had sense enough to not put their customer acquisition destiny in Google’s hands. They actually had a sales force, a contact list, went to industry events, published in industry specific journals, made sure they appeared in the upper right of “Gartner’s Magic Quadrant”, etc.

It still amazes me how many excuses people make for not having a realistic customer acquisition strategy.

Even on the consumer side how many B2C companies have become successful by advertising on relevant podcasts?
I dunno.. online businesses will probably do well in this "new" economy. There's a ton of opportunity to remote work tooling as well. Right now people are hunkered down trying to get the basics in order. Restaurants and grocery stores have had to reconfigure themselves for delivery and curbside pickup. Cloud kitchens will do well here, Instacart is probably doing well too. AirBnB will not do well since they are a function of in person travel. Airlines though have moved to cargo delivery type function. Amazon is obviously cleaning up. If you can make masks or ventilators you are probably going to do really well. Every local community has an instacart like opportunity and some of these are grass roots organized.
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Right, but who? LBJ and southern conservatives? The Mafia? Castro? And why use a shooter with such obvious Soviet connections?

My best guess is southern conservatives who, among other things, hated him for backing down over Bay of Pigs. So they manipulated Oswald into doing it, as a false flag.

And yeah, maybe that's too obvious. Maybe that's the false flag for something far more subtle.
My god. Are you serious? TPS reports are real?
Is this really happening? Lots of very reasonable comments are in fact getting downvoted. Because it is Chinese??? WTF? Are you saying this is a patriotism thing? Or are you saying either Zoom or Chinese organizations are paying people to downvote? Seriously this is bugging me. If this is going on on HN that is a serious violation. Normally HN seems like a sanctuary from crap like that.
I use the Steve Jobs example because everybody knows about him, and his life is well documented.

You don't have to build a trillion dollar company to be nicely successful, but using a nicely successful person as an anecdote is impractical because they are not public figures. But they are still all over the place, in plain sight. It's well within an ordinary person's ability to become one.
It is just another lock in, there are 20M+ registered iOS Developers, I am not even sure if this is 20M individuals or group account meaning number could be even larger. But that is 20M out of the 100M Active Mac users are iOS developers. ( Since you have to use a Mac to develop for iOS )

That is at least 20M lock in due to iOS. Added to many more developers have their Machine paid by company I wont be surprised if there are many more software developers on Mac platform. ( They dont care about the price of the machine nor how long it takes to repair )

That is one reason why Apple, after years of announcing the Mac User Satisfaction rate is no longer doing so in their latest conference and investor meeting. Their growth of Active Mac User has also slowed down dramatically, and hasn't reported a new Active Mac user number for quite a long time.

What all these suggest is that Apple only took action with the Keyboard and MacBook Pro 16" when they saw the sales were slowing. It wasn't the keyboard were not good enough or customers were unhappy with their Machine that brought them action. It was the sales number that did the talk. No one in Apple now has the product / user mindset whether something is good or not. The only product person is gone. And that was Steve Jobs.
I'm sure all 3 users will rejoice the loss of all of that hardware support and functionality.
We quickly forget that not even 120 years ago it was common for kids to be helping their parents butcher chickens and have at least one of their siblings die of a horrible disease.

Humans are more robust to shock than our cozy modern world might have us think.

It is, like you said,the non-stop barrage of horror that crushes people.

I distinctly remember being a bit shocked when I was ~6-8 and my great-grandfather smacked the fish I'd just caught on the gunwales of our boat. sudden, violent, but I pretty quickly realized "well yeah, I guess you do have to kill the fish at some point".

Though I did get messed up by a Discovery channel documentary about spontaneous human combustion when I was a kid. Mostly because I didn't get to finish it.
Related discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22774049

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22762173

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22742565
Ballerinas defy the corporeal in a quest for the ethereal (2019)
It has to be harvested first.
The premise of the app is helping people to not buy substitutes or go without.
Absurd, and:

> The percent that’s applied is usually an industry standard (7% on every dollar) and isn’t subject to much negotiation.

Which is still much less than the 30% of Apple.
The Surgeon General has reversed himself, and even made a video showing how to make a homemade face covering:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPx1yqvJgf4
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One more thing: There's definitely a significant overhead implied by the process-per-connection model - I don't want to deny that.

In my opinion it's at the moment not the most urgent issue wrt connection scalability (the snapshot scalability is independent from process v threads, and measurably the bottleneck), and the amount of work needed to change to a different model is larger.

But I do think we're gonna have to change to threads, in the not too far away future. We can work around all the individual problems, but the cost in complexity is bigger than the advantages of increased isolation. We had to add too much complexity / duplicated infrastructure to e.g. make parallelism work (which needs to map additional shared memory after fork, and thus addresses differ between processes).
It also depends on if you include retirement accounts. It seems nuts to have 3-5 years of savings as cash in taxable accounts. But this is easily doable if you include retirement accounts, which you would start withdrawing from if things were really bad and the choice is to lose your house or withdraw early from 401K/IRA.
States can borrow money if they want, they are called bonds. The Feds can print money or they can sell bonds. That's the difference.
For sure. I'd just hate to be someone who thought signing a 30-yr note on a modest $1.5M 3-bed/2-ba home was a sustainable decision, and is now faced with the almost certain deep recession we're heading into.
The news has long been more entertainment than information, at least in the US. And perhaps Trump stumbling with clown shoes through this whole ordeal is just confirming something you already know, but I'd hope that people who previously voted for him might cast a more critical eye over his actions in light of his shambolic response.
Apple has a history of changing its name multiple times. At some point in the near future it will only be logical to rebrand as iPhone.
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How do I continue physical exercise as we are in lock down and can't go to the gym?
No, it's short for ‘user’.
I think this is an argument about "type" rather than severity. if I call you and threaten your life, it's a very severe offense, but it's not phreaking.
Having had an app on App Store for 5 years, finally moving off. React, Flutter, and PWA make it unnecessary. Personally, I rarely use apps as typing a couple characters in URL bar is easier than scrolling through apps.

Lastly, users are much more prone to drop 1 star reviews for little reason other than getting dev attention. Most of my stars are 5 star or 1 star, seems off.
I wasn't super impressed with the first episode. But if you are generally into documentaries and true crime, the series as a whole is great.
There are some geoip databases that will denote if it's end user networks and if it's fixed (DSL/cable) or mobile.
Hi there, unfortunately no. But I believe I've seen this feature in other products in specialize in this. A quick google revealed https://visualping.io/
I mean, grep will find content in those sections but won’t be limited to those.

To limit it, if you devote the first 3 lines to title, summary, tags

You could extract the first 3 lines of each file and grep those.

If not, if they have a prefix,

title:
summary:
tags:

You could grep those first then grep the output.

grep -E ‘title:|summary:|tags:’ | grep ‘query’

A simple script can be built.
This was a really great video that goes into lots of what most of the crowd sourced ventilators miss in their designs. Worth the watch if you want to know what's important in ventilator design when it comes to not doing injuries to patients.
Instagram accounts from many studio trainers if you want 20 - 30 min workouts.

Barry’s Bootcamp has a daily schedule. NEOU app. Etc
To be clear, it's not an animation, it's video captured from a microscope.
If you are planning to be self sufficient, might I suggest that you also consider growing millets.(if your growing zone allows it)...growing grain is tricky but a hundred foot row of millet is a worthy experiment for this year.
Many things are possible. But a core premise of government procurement is that you award to the cheapest vendor that minimally meets the mandatory requirements. Nobody would deliver a system that would just work with a claim load exponentially higher than the Great Depression.

If New Jersey landed a replacement UI system in 2010, it would be some sort of J2EE monstrosity on some outdated Websphere/JBoss/BEA/Oracle platform probably still dependent on some mainframe component.

The desperation for COBOL people is almost certainly because the (very complex) business rules are embedded in code that has been evolving for decades. Just changing anything is hard because it is a security nightmare (touches tax data, social security, dmv, and more) and regulated by all sorts of security/compliance frameworks that are difficult to implement and sometimes conflicting!
You forgot to mention to use different IP addresses.
Now they have a manually curated feed of 1-2 apps per day, mostly pushing large companies like Nike or UNO

Marco Arment is a one man shop who saw success with both InstaPaper before he sold it and now Overcast. Overcast is often featured in the App Store.

David “Underscore” Smith is another indie Mac developer who is frequently featured in the iOS App Store and the Watch App Store. Not to mention apps like Carrot Weather and Dark Skies.

On another note what shot does an indie musician have to being successful?
Well... there are different scenarios.

1. If you're saying "everybody stay home, the NBA is cancelled, the NCAA tournament is cancelled because of the threat of transmission, but we're going to have the entire state parade in front of a bunch of old people who run our polls"... yeah, that might not be a great idea right now. Deciding to either postpone it or do it mail-only seems rather responsible.

2. Postponing it indefinitely is a whole nother can of worms. You can't just postpone the general election for two years until we have a working vaccine.

So, worst case, we're going to have to conduct the general election by mail only. I think it has to be conducted on time in November, though, to avoid giving rise to conspiracy theories (or to tempt people from taking advantage of the situation...)
Many PMs are obsessed with click optimization. I've been told many times that a certain feature of security method is no-go due to it being "too many clicks" full-stop -.-
Highly recommend Circles for this purpose:
https://circles.app/

You can store random links, notes, check lists, todos, and so on, and optionally share it with others as well.

Notes are plain text so no proprietary formats, and you can download all your notes as a zip file.

Like other commentators I used to use plain text files on local disk but the limitation of that approach is that it is only available on one machine.
Zoom to Teams is definitely frying pan to fire.
> I would be surprised if Zoom hadn't made this the default by Monday.

Zoom already announced that the password option will be set by default starting tomorrow.
In my experience, WebRTC peer-to-peer solutions often struggle keeping a room of 15 in a state that everyone can hear everyone else. Many upstream connections are tiny, and the p2p session management tricks to get through NAT slightly wonky.

And NYC is going to have many students with only a mobile phone plan or similarly bad internet (and a bunch with no internet at all, but that's another discussion). Efficient is important.
You fool me you can't get fooled again.
Isn't that a problem with any video conferencing service then, if the credentials to enter are shared by participants?