skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a taste: https://qntm.org/zomg

>System z is a living fossil; it is computing archaeology; computing palaeontology. System z is an example of the principle "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" carried to its logical extreme. System z and its predecessors haven't broken for forty-five years: the "z" stands for "zero downtime" and some of these machines have been running continuously for decades without a reboot. Nor, therefore, have any of them ever been "fixed".

>It uses EBCDIC, a character encoding wholly incompatible with ASCII featuring such delights as non-contiguous letter sequences. It was, from 1983 to 2000, a 31-bit operating system. (Yes, thirty-one.) It does things with virtualisation of system resources and operating systems themselves that were thirty years ahead of their time, but all the interaction with z machines is still performed through an archaic green screen system from the 1970s, running in an emulator, with a 24x80 character screen. The screen is 80 characters wide because that is how many characters you could fit on a punch card.

>The output from the Job Entry System, however, is 132 characters wide, because that was how many characters you could fit on the line printer where the output came out. Nowadays, of course, the output comes to the green screen. So you always have to scroll left and right to see all of it. The keys for scrolling left and right are F7 and F8. For scrolling up and down? F10 and F11. No, Page Up and Page Down will do nothing.

>To enter a command? You hit the right Ctrl key. "Return" will do nothing. "Enter" will work, of course, but, AS YOU KNOW, "Return" and "Enter" are separate keys on your keyboard. "Return" is just above the right Shift key. "Enter" is way over next to the numeric keypad.
Needs a design-build contract, like the Highway 99 tunnel in Seattle. You get one set of money and only if it works in the end. No change orders or cost plus.
I discovered that our preproduction servers use the free tier while trying to work on some CI/CD issues. Normally we never get anywhere near the limit, unless someone (say, me) is trying to work on the test suite during a time of day when a lot of pushes are happening. Had a few enforced breaks there for a little while.
Pumpkinland, TN will use Zoom. It’s exponentially easier, except for older kids already using Google Classroom.
COBOL was created in 1959. The term software engineering was coined in the 1960s. So it existed for most of COBOL's lifetime.
Wikipedia has an article on the coronavirus epidemic in Russia, including the government's response. Of course, the data may not be reliable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_R...
If cost wasn't an issue, rich countries could already take in millions of refugees from countries where life is very hard. Or they could pump trillions into the countries. They don't because cost is an issue. I am not sure if South Koreans are very happy about the prospect of paying for a reunification. A lot of West Germans would have been perfectly OK with East Germany staying its own democratic state.
I would recommend BBC's Seriously podcast who did an episode in october '18 about the Cod Wars.

The Icelandic trawl cutters from the conflict were a big national pride here, and growing up in Iceland in the 80's you'd hear the stories about how the Icelandic coastguard outwited the British navy recited quite often.
A little better than that, though not Google salaries. Skimming through some open NJ civil service jobs, I'm seeing advertised ranges like $60k-$105k for tech jobs [1] [2]. The pensions are also a lot more generous than most private-sector ones.

[1] https://info.csc.state.nj.us/Vats/WebAnno.aspx?FileNumber=30...

[2] https://info.csc.state.nj.us/Vats/WebAnno.aspx?FileNumber=30...
Ask HN: How's your experience with privacy.com?
I was looking at https://privacy.com/. It seems like a great solution. Wondering what's the HN community's experience with them.
Moldbug's “Plan A for the Coronavirus”
How do you access your Work notes from home, or Home notes from work?
Maybe. Similar to drug testing an entire city using sewage.
Ok. The main point is: the GP was an obviously bad comment for HN, shouldn't have been posted, and we've cut that user an incredible amount of slack already about posting bad-for-HN comments.
Right. You don't want a standing army to address every potential pandemic or other catastrophe. You DO want the ability to repurpose and scale up existing production resources to address face the surprise. You would want to develop competency in massive scaling rather than just some scaling.
Oh you could just use Monopoly and change the community and chance cards by making your own. For example a chance card that can turn the spot you are on into a nature reserve - whoever owns that location. Then anybody landing on that would have to forfeit one of their locations to also be a nature reserve. Then change the definition of winning by whoever has the least money left after the whole board is a nature reserve.

So can modify existing games by changing the rules and adding a few homemade cards of your own making.

Not sure what the market for mod kits for existing board games is like or even if one exists, but if you come up with something that your friends enjoy, maybe a kickstart opportunity and worst case, you will have some fun.
> 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.

There is no need to make up conspiracy theories. Domestic flights are essential in a country the size of Russia, international flights are not. The same thing can be seen elsewhere. For example, TAP Portugal has grounded all flights except those between the mainland and Madeira / Azores.
I've certainly found myself sneering at code I wrote just last week.
This is clever given what we have, but it seems like the wrong solution to the problem.

I already have a PATH order. What would be nice is if typing say `sc` gave me the first `sc` program, but typing `,sc` gave me the one after that.

This would generalize, so if I were stuck with cough several pythons I could call them with `python`, `,python`, `,,python` and so forth.

This would be a shell-level patch but surely not an impossible one.

Ironically, the one person whose workflow this would clobber is the one who wrote this blog post!
NK's nukes are just as much pointed at China as they are pointed at the US/SK. If China decides to choke off their oil NK will be sure to remind China that if their regime falls, they'll be sure to lob some missiles in China's direction first. Thinking of NK is purely a Chinese puppet instead of an independent actor with their own wants and freedom of action really limits the geopolitical cards the US could play here. Imagine if the US could flip NK like how Nixon flipped China against the USSR.
Maybe because they started testing early? Their first cases were in January and they screened everyone in airports since then [0], they performed 639606 tests with 4731 positives. [1][2]

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/china-health-pneumonia-russi...

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_testing
Since it’s a technical term being used to communicate technical information, it really doesn’t matter what a nontechnical person would think it means.
They are past the peak (again based on the info from the original article), so it doesn't seem likely the numbers will change a lot; not to the level of 6%/3%/other numbers being suggested in other sources.
Source?

The real issue is the contract language used by the EU and the member governments specify "pay on delivery" in which the receiving agency will not accept an invoice until the goods are received and inspected as well as 60 to 90 day terms being normal. The EU members are very slow with this acceptance (2 weeks is not abnormal) and combined with the longer payment terms you are looking at 10 to 12 weeks to get paid.

In the US the governments will accept contracts "FOB" which means when the product is ready to ship from the manufacturer the buyer will accept the invoice. Terms tend to be 30 days but 15 is also possible. Plus you tend to get paid on time.

So in a global market with demand the US will always be a preferred customer. They will pay, on average, 6 to 8 weeks faster.

Cash is king in todays world and the EU needs to get used to this or they are going to continue to see such challenges.
Ontario uses a sliding-point system. You're given points for things like language skills, having a job offer, having previously lived in Canada, your educational degree (once verified), being healthy, and sometimes, just random points based on when you applied if they want more immigrants at the time. Then, you're on hold until your points pass the threshold - which adjusts based on how many people they want in. It's not really any less arbitrary, and doesn't reflect the real needs of the labor market: obviously a PhD earns more points than a bachelor's degree, but you need significantly fewer, which is the opposite of what happens under a sliding point system. And notably, while a job offer gets you points, it's not a guaranteed entry, so businesses can't actually reliably sponsor anyone.

Other systems have their cons too, and a lottery is really quite reasonable.
Now this makes me wonder, if Microsoft products on the App Store also gets special treatment with lower cuts than others.

Aside from this issues, I wish Apple maintain the 30% cut on Games, ( Since Games even has its whole own section in App Store anyway ) and lowered the cuts to 20% for everything else. I think that would be a fairer approach to every body.

30% Cuts for all other Apps is just insanely expensive.
My point isn’t that you or the parent that I’m replying to are incorrect at all. You seem to be missing my point entirely.

Feeling schadenfreude when a business fails is tantamount to being happy that someone loses their job. That’s fucked up- and I can’t believe anyone would be stoked about this. Seek help.
Look, I get that you mean that it's worth paying a high cost to stop all that suffering, but the cost not nothing.

The reason it's important to me to say so is that at some point, some actual people with actual (limited) resources, will have to devise a plan to make it all better, and then actually do the plan. That is a huge challenge that involves trade offs and hard decisions. And if you start with magical thinking, instead of extremely realistic reasoning, you're going to end up hurting a lot of people.
Seeing papers like that, I really appreciate what tex did for scientific publishing. (Yes, I understand formatting was not their top concern right now)
I read a book in which the author related the nature of new societies after a breakdown to invasive plants - both being nasty and difficult to deal with, while extracting a lot of resources from a fairly tough environment, but in so doing making those resources bioavailable for more diverse future ecosystems.
You started a flamewar here and then perpetuated it. That's not cool. Would you please follow the site rules and not do this again?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I haven't rate-limited your account again, but this is the kind of thing that causes us to.
> I disagree

Have just read your answer and I totally see your point! I don't agree but it's definitely a judgement call.

Perhaps this would be a better way of expressing my position (with a few simplifications of the current situation):

1/ It seems morally wrong for it to be possible for an American company to buy spyware which exploits security vulnerabilities in another American company's software. The act of exploiting those vulnerabilities is illegal in the United States and against the terms of service of the software developer. The outcome of the exploitation (mass clandestine collection of user data without any permissioning) is also illegal.

2/ The US government could solve this by making it illegal for US companies to use the software, outright. They and other nations could also solve or diminish the issue for foreign nations by precluding private companies within their jurisdiction from building commercial propositions around these vulnerabilities. So both a ban on domestic "import" of the product, and a ban on "export" too.

3/ Clearly government agencies need and will continue to produce and procure software like this in the same way as they need to produce and procure military-grade assault weapons, surface-to-air missiles, and stealth bombers. The production, trafficking, and purchase of these items is highly regulated and tightly controlled: I cannot simply start manufacturing firearms because I have the equipment! This regulation is in part a means of preventing widespread availability of dangerous items getting into the hands of consumers and bad actors.

4/ At the very least, the same ought to apply here: an infosec company wishing to auction exploits or sell spyware SaaS should have to be very tightly regulated by the state, and should be unable to sell any of its products or services to any domestic or foreign entity without state approval — a QUANGO of sorts.
Please do not use HN for political or ideological or nationalistic flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is baffling to me, since I’ve always thought of gzip (or other) compression being applied by the web server (or configured to do so) only to text formats like HTML, JS, CSS, etc. I’m curious to know which badly written server or sites compress already compressed content like images and videos just because a user agent says it’ll accept compressed content?
I did COBOL for about 18 months in the Army in 1967-1968 on a RCA 501. Wonder if I would qualify. None of that other fancy stuff, though. Also RCA 301 assembly language.
Hmmm, I did not see that flattering noun in the Forbes title . . . . .although I agree, he is one of the most successful a-holes business history, although his means of achieving his success are questionable.

Non-paywalled version:

https://outline.com/7ZhRNe
Please stop using HN for political or ideological or nationalistic flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

Personal attacks are particularly not ok.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>on the other hand they have an overabundance of timber.

Oh hey, like America.
For parametrically constructed language according to Noam Chomsky, Sanskrit was best constructed. Chomsky's work of language theory has inspired many compiler designs in early programming. He favored particularly Sanskrit grammarian called 'Panini' and his 500AD work called 'Ashtadyayi'

There was a huge discussion about 8 years back on HN itself.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4729626
Like the other guy said, they're probably just listing their ideal candidate and not what the job may actually require
This assumes that startups can still secure funding to run at zero revenue state.

This will likely become a lot more difficult over the next couple months or longer.
Can you talk about the vanilla a little more? I don’t get that one.
For one thing if you are aware of how your national or local government have responded to the crisis you can vote accordingly the next time elections come up. This may or may not affect you personally, depending on if you do or can vote, but it'll definitely be a factor in many elections across the globe.

Additionally if you were paying attention you might have started taking precautions earlier - getting set up for home-office, ensuring you had supplies (obviously I don't mean panic buying 50kg of pasta, but at least a sensible supply of the essentials to see you through a small period of quarantine) and postponed or cancelled trips into affected areas.

In my case if I was a little more informed and a little less flippant I would have not travelled to Austria for a skiing trip when I did. I thankfully isolated myself for 2 weeks when I came back (which I learned from the news was required by law for those returning from Austria). Plus I learned by the news that losing sense of smell and taste was a likely indicator of Covid-19. I got tested and discovered I was positive. Had I not learned this my girlfriend (who had moved out during my 2 week post-trip quarantine) would have returned and I might have infected her, and I might have been less careful in my apartment building and infected my elderly neighbours.

I actually made my decision to go ahead with my Austria trip before ANY European country entered lockdown, including Italy. Official guidance was that travel was fine, even to many parts of Italy. Had I been paying more attention to the news, I might have been more skeptical (I am not sure about this, though).

Yes the news can be overwhelming, you certainly shouldn't binge it and if you're easily spooked you should maybe take it in small doses otherwise you'll get yourself all worked up for nothing. But burying your head in the sand completely is perhaps too far in the other direction.
It’s not just about restrictions but also new discoveries and a more nuanced coverage than what the big media and government decides to tell us.

Anything that can support critical and informed thinking really.
Yes I think this makes much more sense to me since the / operators align with how the characters in italic looks once it is applied ( Slightly tilted )

And underline.

I dont understand why they aren't used that way any more.
Ask HN: Anyone Here Using Flutter?
I just got started with making apps using Flutter, sort of as a tutorial to the app-building process, yet searching online, the resources are far too few, and its presence on HN jobs almost negligible. Correct me if I'm wrong, but as I understand, React Native/Expo is the most popular cross-platform app-building framework, while Xamarin is steadily increasing its share among bigger firms who can spare the buck. Which leaves flutter, the more convenient of the three for MVP (strictly my opinion), between a rock and a hard place. Do you think Flutter has a future in app building, or is it going to go the way of other Google relics into the abyss?
I think an hour a week is sufficient.

For me the guideline for general population should be basically intermediate strength standards like the prescriptions by NASA, which are hilariously low but calibrated to maximize muscle retention, mission capability and most significantly reduce injury. Mission capability for gen pop is just to have enough muscle so you don't shatter your hips during a bad fall or injure yourself on rudimentary tasks (carrying your kids) that lead to expensive long term care.

The NASA standard was something like bodyweight squats for 6-10s that most people should be able to cultivate quickly and maintain with minimal effort. The difference in space is they have to exercise for 2 hours a day to maintain muscle mass, but on earth you can crack out BW or 1.5xBW squats/deadlift and insipidly low bench/ohp for homework 3x10s in 30m sessions twice a week to maintain. The bar is exceedingly low. Of course that varies depending on genetics, but it's one of those situations where pareto principle comes into play.

Cardio vascular health is different, but mostly it's a balance between NEAT, actual cardio and maintaining a healthy BMI, while strength training maintains an useful amount of muscle mass. Barbell Medicine podcast has a lot of good info on strength training + rehabilitation. It's geared towards the powerlifting crowd, but along your point, one of the broader prescriptions is that frequently movement and exercise is better at healing than pills or other medical interventions, but movement is very infrequently prescribed.
I have Visual Studio play a sound when the build finishes/fails. May not help you if you’re not using Visual Studio, though. I’m not sure is this can be done with VS Code.
> they had employees counting the items because their inventory system wasn't reliable.

That's just the normal way to do inventory, and has no real relationship to the reliability of the inventory system. There's no other way to account for inventory shrinkage (eg. theft, damage).
I can tell you how the stone houses in Quebec fare - they're shit. It's drafty and awful and you have to continually run the heater. Compared to my modern insulated condo with drywall walls and joist-and-beam construction (with a concrete support beam and an entire wall of windows), where I run the heater for maybe 20 minutes a day? It's a difference.
Same question, not sure what your parents meant at all. Unless there are languages italicised that leans to the left ( That would be very interesting )
Operating a modern submarine isn't a skill that you pick up after staying at a Holiday Inn. And no, you wouldn't be able to hijack one "virtually" in the near future.
Thanks, I'll check Org out
The math works out very, very differently for traffic conditions than it does for store availability. With traffic conditions, with a full road of traffic, if even only a couple percent of people have Waze, and then even only a couple percent of those report an accident, for example, you can still be fairly confident the accident occurred.

With stores that have thousands of products, and the app is only useful based on it's accuracy for each individual product, you need many, many more people reporting because their reports are spread over so many products.

TBH, I don't think this idea is workable, mainly because for the most in-demand items where you want a service like this, the inventory changes by the minute. I mean, whole aisles of toilet paper can easily be cleared out in 10 minutes even when purchases are limited to one package per customer. It takes me 10 mins to drive to the nearest grocery store.
I have a pipeline of good to great engineers wasting time in NJ State Universities and Govt agencies moving into my company. Great hunting grounds for people who can grow.
Award Winning CGI Animation "A Mail to Col. John Weits"
I'm not sure I know what you mean. Do you have an example?
Techies: What can we do to help? 3D print ventilators? Process terabytes of data in seconds? AI?!

Govt: We need COBOL programmers.

Techies: I am powerless to help.

But seriously some of the brightest techies I know quit their jobs to do a stint of government work which included slinging VBA and ASP Classic to remove SQL injections from VA websites and other similarly unglamorous tasks with huge impact.

If you want to be patriotic. If you want to make a difference. Government work can do that. You're probably not going to train a neural net to solve coronavirus, but you'll probably be able to stop 1000 hacks from ever happening or get help to someone who really truly needs it.
I feel the same. Talking about my angst with fellow tech workers leads to a similar conclusion: we have nobody to blame but ourselves. We’ve all made this.
There's an in-game app called the Critter Guide that does bugs/fish and what months they're available. It requires you've encountered said bug/fish at least once though I think for it to appear in the guide
It's funny to see the viaduct replacement brought up as a success, but I guess if the state wasn't on the hook for the cost overruns it was probably a pretty good outcome, all things considered.
Pokemon GO, it’s a game.
I've been cynical about liquidity arguments in general too, but actually there's nothing to be sarcastic about here, that's precisely what they're doing. I've used Getaround to avoid having to own a car or go to a car rental office. Unfortunately for them, I don't need to do it more than a couple times a year because Uber/Lyft is more convenient and roughly the same cost.

At least if Getaround disappears, I'll be able to delete my Facebook account. For a long time they were only allowing Facebook or Google based logins.