skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are launching a new product you can't compete against entrenched competition in breadth of features. You need to compete against them by finding a small niche use case or feature and becoming the best piece of software for that niche. Using your tax software example, you would want to become the best tax software ever for pet store owners (random example), then you capture 100% of the pet store market and move out from there.
I think what's missing from this post is who is using a language. For Haskell it's academics/researchers. For Ada it's the US government and associated industries. That's what makes niche languages viable, not overall popularity.

Of course if a language does not have a niche nor popular support then it's going to struggle more.
I’m amazed how well twitter works to prevent leaking adult content into main feed. I guess facebook and reddit does that too, but they are much more likely to have disinformation posts. That said twitter ruined topics by removing some important groups and autofollowing some totally random groups.
The sentences look similar. But that doesn't mean the underlying reality is equivalent.
> If you do choose then you're the one who gives "them a false impression that something is up for negotiation when it is not".

I do not give false impressions because I tell my children when I am giving them an option or an explanation.

When they are young, you require certain behavior of them so that they can develop healthy habits. Things like "eat your vegetables", "wash your hands" or "don't take your younger siblings toys out of their hands" are mandatory because it is important for children to develop habits of health, hygiene, and pro-social behavior.

I may use positive as well as negative reinforcement, but you cannot expect such behavior out of small children purely through negotiation.

When they are older, you grant them more autonomy but require behavior of them as a consequence of the fact that they are your dependents. As a parent, I am both the owner of the house they live in and their legal guardian. That means that I have latitude to set restrictions on their behavior so long as they are a) residents in my house, and b) my legal wards.

When they are old enough, they are perfectly within their rights to seek emancipation. The goal, of course, is to set bounds that are both sufficiently liberal and sufficiently reasonable that the (older) child will have no desire to seek complete autonomy prior to the age of majority.
A Complete Guide to Swift Development on Linux
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16865506
Shelter in the Storm: Writing Inspiration and Strategies During Self-Isolation
Depends heavily on the location, but just expanding a crude tank farm in the US is a multi-year design and permitting job, even when you can just throw money at it. There's also significant ongoing regulatory costs of keeping them, even if they're just sitting idled.

Plus much of storage that exists isn't really for storage, but is a needed buffer on the supply line for steady-state infrastructure, like pipelines and refineries. Some amount of empty is required (both practical and by regulation) to absorb surplus, like in the event of an emergency refinery shut down due to fire.

Other cases are for when pipelined supply isn't single product, or is shared by multiple users... Your plant might need 500k bbl/day, but you only get the pipeline every other day at 1000k bbl/day. Or you get different products on different days.

Part of the US strategic oil reserve's purpose is for what's happening right now, and they've been using it to absorb excess capacity for a few weeks, with a few more weeks to go before full. And this is filling entire underground salt domes with oil, at a scale way beyond any manufactured tank capacity.

We'll probably see more tankers and even rail car tankers repurposed for storage, but I don't see anyone justifying the need to build more fixed storage, unless there's some existing/ contributing need for storage that was already permitted and is suddenly cost justified. But even that is at tiny scales compared to the current surplus.

It's just easier and cheaper to start shutting in the more isolated and/or expensive wells. Which is just storing it in the ground, anyway.
Kmon, Linux Kernel Manager and Activity Monitor
Yes, Sweden was a socialist country for awhile (1960-1994), it no longer is because the experiment failed.

They've been reversing their welfare programs and are rated highly on the economic freedom index.

Taxes are still high to pay for the welfare programs, but as they are reformed I'd assume the government will lower them.

Even so, America once had a 70% income tax, that didn't make us socialist, though it made us economically weak (thanks for the cuts Reagan, you saved us) .

https://fee.org/articles/is-sweden-socialist-no-but/

> Between 1870 and 1950, Sweden had the highest per capita income growth in the world and became one of the richest countries, behind only Switzerland, the U.S., and Denmark.

> In the 1960s, Sweden started to redistribute wealth, which brought wealth creation to a halt.

> By the mid-1990s, the country had growing economic problems because it continued to redistribute wealth it wasn’t creating.

> In 1994, Sweden began implementing the following measures designed to reverse this trend
- Reduce Regulation
- Reduce Government Spending
- Reform their Welfare Programs
- Shrink their Government

tldr: socialism is like crack, you only need to try it once and it'll destroy your life/country.
insurance law nitpick: there are countries where not having an insurance active will cost you dearly just for that fact alone even if the car happily sits in a walled-off garage.
Location: SF, fully equipped and experienced to work remotely

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies/Skills: Certified Scrum Master, Scrum & Kanban Methodologies, Multi-team Coordination, Jira, Python, Containerization, Cloud Infrastructure, Blockchain

Résumé/CV: https://jonpurdy.com/resume-ats.pdf

Work: https://jonpurdy.com/work

Email: hn-202004@jonpurdy.com (will respond from my real one)

I recently moved to SF with my wife (sponsorship NOT required). I'm primarily a Technical Project Manager looking to help teams build software more efficiently. I'm looking to move into a Technical Program Manager or Technical Product Manager role.

I have worn many hats having worked for startups and small companies. I started off building support workflows, tooling, and documentation for an emerging telecom product. I moved into DevOps and infrastructure after that. And in the past couple of years earned my Scrum Master certificate and took on Project and Product Management roles. Have a look at jonpurdy.com/work to see some of the projects I've built or worked on.

Aside from my technical skills, I have a deep understanding of the product development pipeline and SDLC, balancing stakeholder requests with what is technically feasible, and gathering user feedback to improve products over time. Thanks to my education background, I can bridge technical and non-technical teams, help team members improve and achieve their career goals, and communicate succinctly and unambiguously.

Ideally, I'm looking for a SF Bay Area-based startup or growing company that has built (or is close to completing) an MVP and is looking to scale the development team's size and efficiency, technical infrastructure, product documentation, and product support workflows. But I'm open to pretty much any company, large or small.

Thanks and please email me if you have any questions or just want to chat.
Sending you my resume, I like the sounds of this.
There is an unfortunate balance that needs to be struck between economic collapse and death.

...and it would seem logical that the most efficient balance is county-dependent, dependent upon how many are locally infected.

A nationwide hammer seems like it would do lots of economic damage in places that have very few cases.
"OK 2 million dead". Wow, who says something like this? Unreal.

>> In the U.S. a year of life is under $150k

Um, no that's not even close. It's $10M[1] based on VSL. Try your math again.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_life
Wasn't there a drug that all of Europe said was super safe, but the FDA held out on for years, and it ended up causing terrible birth defects?

It's easy to say that a group is unnecessarily cautious/reckless until that cautiousness/recklessness saves lives or kills people. Hindsight 20/20 and all.
Telehealth - Ambra Health (https://ambrahealth.com) | REMOTE | Java / Scala / Linux Engineer, Medical Image Storage and Processing | Full time

At Ambra Health we are doing something meaningful about COVID-19. We make it possible for doctors and patients to collaborate remotely, at locations around the world - including many renowned health centers. This involves managing a lot of medical data, getting it to the right place quickly and reliably over the Internet - some very challenging and interesting engineering problems - especially since tele-radiology is just one of many ways customers use Ambra.

We are looking for a Java and Scala developer with Linux experience to work on our remote-only image storage engineering team. This team works on the storage and image-transforming services of our platform, which handle 8 billion (4PB) medical images in data centers and cloud environments around the world. The ideal candidate would be able to be independently with minimal supervision, seasoned to make good productivity/coding/architecture decisions.

Requirements:

- Java (Scala is a bonus)

- Basic Linux system administration skills

- Must live in USA

Big plus if you've got any of these skills:

- Building server software with multi-threading and concurrency, in a distributed network environment

- Experience with DICOM medical file format

- Experience generating, diagnosing or hacking image formats (such as PNG, JPEG, etc)

- Diagnosing application problems in a Linux environment

Our hiring process is pretty simple - short introduction call, 1-hour phone call with the team to get to know each other, then (if it works for you) a paid part-time trial period to see if we like working together.

Send me an email with your resume: pete+jobs@ambrahealth.com
Sir, I challenge you to a duel! A speed-development duel. ;)
> Layout-isolated component - A component that is unaffected by the parent it is placed within, and does not itself affect the size and position of its siblings.

I'm honestly still surprised that this isn't the default. Beyond maintainability, it's an obvious security problem, which clickjacking made apparent years ago.

The security implications of user interface API apparently isn't well understood outside the capability security community though:

Design of the EROS Trusted Window System, http://srl.cs.jhu.edu/courses/600.439/shap04windowsystem.pdf

> Remember when we were building our apps as a set of screens and pages instead of thinking in components?

If pages were components in the browser, there wouldn't be any difference. Xanadu had something like this way back in the early 90s, ie. page transclusion.
Currently we use the root "physical" console. Generally we avoid IDP outages by keeping our LDAP servers clustered and geographically diversified. Because LDAP is 99.999% of the time reads, not writes, this makes clustering pretty simple.
written in Rust.
Even works on Android: https://imgur.com/a/kJ5j1EX
A general purpose syntax highlighter in pure Go
a smallpox analog now would break this world. covid-19 is a minor inconvenience in comparison. you've given me shivers just by making me think about it.
I'm not concerned about commercial use here. It's about publishing the app without complying with the GPL-3 conditions. It'd be fine had they respected the license and attributed the project.
This is the culmination of about a decade of iteration by a single person, so that may be a sort of be-careful-what-you-wish-for question :)

I'd love to talk more about it - let's set up a time to chat: jon@catchthinkdo.com
Location: NYC
Remote: Remote / Onsite
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Fullstack JavaScript, React, Node.js, WebRTC, Three.js, RTMP, Ruby on Rails, Linux, git, Docker
Résumé/CV: https://jaydgoss.github.io/resume.pdf
Email: jaygoss@gmail.com

Expertise in implementing complex UI, animations, video, and social networks.

10 years of experience as a full-stack JavaScript developer building large scale web and native applications.
I use Signal and Duo a lot to talk to my Dad in India and I can say even with low bandwidth when nothing else works, Duo audio calls are crisp clear.
Is it too sardonic to think that it's only a matter of time before Autodesk tries to buy this too?

For reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autodesk#Corporate_acquisition...

Additional Reference:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sardonic
"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That destroys the curiosity this site exists for."

- https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
tbf loads of people predicted MS would lose power in the nineties. They just thought it would be due to desktop Linux
People do indeed die as a result of economic collapse.
A mask is a limited resource.

WHO says masks do not protect people who do not have coronavirus and they shouldn't wear them, only people who have coronavirus should wear them not to infect others.

WHO says shortage in masks is putting healthcare professionals at risk of being infected by coronavirus, so stop buying masks

This is similar to saying that kevlar vests do not protect you so stop buying them, and that you buying them puts soldiers at risk because they need their protection.

Here's a tweet from the U.S. Surgeon General[0]:

Quote:

"""
Seriously people- STOP BUYING MASKS!

They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if healthcare providers can't get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!
bit.ly/37Ay6Cm
"""

[0]: https://twitter.com/Surgeon_General/status/12440202923658158...
That's what I've noticed as well. When places started doing mandatory lockdowns under the threat of fines or prison, questioning it would usually result in people coming out of the woodwork to say that public health is at risk, so everyone needs to just shut up and do what their told, personal freedoms be damned. The biggest change to me with the lockdowns is that "innocent until proven guilty" is thrown out the window. If you leave your house, it's on you to prove that you weren't breaking the lockdown laws, not on the police to prove that you were going somewhere unauthorized.
I'm in a similar boat. What other similar tools have you found yourself using? For example, Ive been learning the hell out of wget, but I find my tool library lacking or lacking in trust.
The official obs website has a wiki and a forum, that’s probably the best place to go.

I can also help you set it up if you want!
You could just as easily say it's the market that works in the context of politics, the market can only go so far, due to policy limits. I.e you can't build a nuclear reactor without approval so policy can durectly control market competition.
Also hamstrung Feds must negotiate contracts with both hands tied behind their backs, hence the inability of the government to send the already-approved designs and schematics along to another company for manufacture.
"Can't provide a response" should be SERVFAIL.
Indeed, my first thought when I read “agent-forwarding” is “scary”.
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I gained a lot of benefit from the internet, but not from access to lurid content.
Wine, should have specified.
But, really, who wants aerated vodka?
Not to sound negative, but what’s the point?

Does people really still use a Google-based communication program after all the ones Google has killed in the past? Is there an actual user base to reach using them?

Personally I’m avoiding them all and never investing in any of these again.

Also: We’re a few years down Duo still has fewer features than the other Google-owned IM-product it “replaced” ffs.

Rant over. (And yes, I’m still somewhat sore about that whole Gchat thing and how that went down.)
Streaming Out the Monolith
Yeah, and a doctor can get a job anywhere else in a heartbeat. Doctors effectively do all their “whiteboard interviews” up front and don’t have to deal with it later in their career.
Think of "God's plan" as being like a computer program. Even if the "code" doesn't change, it can still yield different outcomes based on run-time inputs. Whether we pray, whether we repent, whether we even believe, etc. are such inputs. Free will says we can choose to do these things are not, but it doesn't mean there won't be divine response. At the very least, this is usually construed as affecting whether we go to heaven or hell. Depending on how far you take it, it can lead all the way to the "prosperity gospel" idea that shows of devotion can be directly tied to immediate and material reward.

Prayer is the button that you push. It might have no effect, and whether it does or not might be preordained, but you still have to push it to find out.
A Thought for Today
I would prefer it to be based on science, reason, and human rights. Any plan that relies on a "national surveillance system" needs revision.
Zoom is using a hook in the macOS installer framework in a way that is not intended.

This is forming a troubling pattern [1]. Zoom will do anything to reduce the number of clicks to start a conference, even if results in a misleading installer prompt or security vulnerability.

[1]: https://www.zdnet.com/article/zoom-defends-use-of-local-web-...
Looks like a great project, and less a question. Do you want to submit it as Show HN? https://news.ycombinator.com/show
Florida has a population with 20% over 65, compare that to New York with 14% in the same age group. This group is most vulnerable to the virus.
I have a separate work laptop. No separate phone though, but that is a good idea ... I have an old iPhone I suppose I could wipe and just use that with work. Apartment is too small to keep things physically separate.
Next step is to build speaker model on device and send it to peer during call setup
This should be one of the big takeaways from Covid-19, but I sadly think that it won't be because people don't fully understand the waste and danger of the way the FDA does things.

Also, their drug regulations don't take into consideration rational decision theory and instead are overly focused on traditional hypothesis testing.

Also, I'd suggest reading the following about how bad regulation kills people: http://www.josiahzayner.com/2020/04/all-my-friends-are-dying...
The title of this doesn't properly match the contents. This is basically a how to set up an enterprise SSH environment using certificates. This doesn't tell you anything about "How to SSH Properly".
Head mounted displays that were immersive as a motorcycle helmet with headphones could suddenly move from being a luxury product to a substitute for a private space for an office in apartments with families.

If I were in the business, I'd be re-marketing HMDs as a work from home privacy solution. What makes something mass market is it serves people and solves a problem for them, not something that's just entertaining.

Edit: and someone's already there: https://www.techradar.com/news/the-cheapest-active-vr-headse...
The reason it's being used is the difference, the fact that it's the exact same feature is irrelevant. That's like saying you don't understand why someone would have a problem with murder because we already use guns for other things.
A fundamental problem of building isolated components in HTML/CSS is that the CSS `display` property sets both an element's inner layout (how it lays out its children) and its outer layout (how it is laid inside it parent).

E.g. you have to make an element "display: inline-flex" to make it an inline flexbox. You can't just make it "flex" and have the parent decide whether it is inline, a block or whatever.

The consequence of this is that a parent component cannot properly layout a child component without knowing its internal layout structure. And if it doesn't don't know the child's layout (if its dynamically supplied for example) then it can't safely do anything with it. So long as this limitation exists, there will never be true layout encapsulation on the web platform.

For a while, the CSS Working Group planned to address this problem through the introduction of separate `display-inside` and `display-outside` properties. This would mean an element could specify its internal layout using `display-inside` while its parent could control its external layout using `display-outside`. Then, in their wisdom, they dropped it from the spec[1].

I mean, it's not like developing with encapsulated components is a popular approach on the web nowadays. It's not like many people are using React, or Angular, or Vue, or Web Components—the W3C's own goddamn multi-year effort to push component-based development—so why bother wasting time adding features that would help?

[1] https://drafts.csswg.org/css-display/#changes-wd
An efficient and effective way to stream data out of a monolithic code base and into a services-based architecture.
Their semantics might be consistent, but they sort of leak into the parent. Height and width are local to what the component renders, and they don't depend on the parent (as long as they aren't relative sizes). But things like margin and align-self change how the parent renders all of its children.

In other words, the view rendered by the component is a function of properties like height and width. But when you throw in margin or align-self, the component now depends on its siblings.

The OO perspective is interesting — I agree that it effectively makes these things hard to express. I now think that it's more of a problem relating to encapsulation and isolation. OO would isolate it through a child component interface while FP would have a function that can't affect siblings.
funny thing, in 2012 Sprint wanted to acquire TMobile. Couldn't pass through the DOJ. TMobile used the failed merger money to build their network. And now the circle is complete, with TMobile, buying out Sprint.
Interesting. What is the revenue model?
I do not think that the quote is relevant to the topic.
You've missed the point of my comment. I never said that the government can't manipulate markets through price floors, ceilings, or subsidies.

I said the market system is amoral. We can't will it to do what we want. You can't force a job to suddenly create $20/hr of economic value by placing a mandatory $20/hr price on it. Basic mathematics doesn't allow that.
It's unlikely that even 1% of the United States has been infected at this point. What does the other 99+% do? Infect themselves?
Does that exist? Does it work for strains?
> Marx wasn’t interested in drafting any exact plan for a post-revolutionary society.

And look what we got. Maybe that was the mistake.
> Indeed, even native apps go to almost comical lengths to not use the CPU on the phone.

This is needed in order to save battery life. But Netflix/FB/Google do not have "substantial" processing power per user. They're providing a centralized service to a very large userbase, and that comes with a requirement to economize on both compute and storage.
13k subscribers. Not bad