skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the idea is not to generate json files, the idea is to not use json files at all.

And even if you don't want to implement logic in config file, there are still advantages in having access to a full language.

For example: with a simple config file

maxAttachmentSize: 33554432,
maxTotalSize: 33816576

with a full language

maxAttachmentSize = 32 * 1024 * 1024; // 32 MB covers 99% of use cases
maxTotalSize = (256 * 1024) + maxAttachmentSize; // 256 kB of text + one big attachment

No logic here, just a more readable file. But that uses several things json doesn't support: comments, arithmetic and variables.
Yep. Actual conspiracies are comparatively banal, and often more to do with covering up incompetence than establishing new world orders with incredible technological advances. To bring up famous examples from the not too distant past, the same administration supposedly capable of secretly planting demolition charges in busy NYC offices without anyone noticing apparently saw it as too risky to secretly plant chemical weapons needed to be 'discovered' somewhere in an entire country under the control of its military.
“These two withered parts allowed for mainstream pricing ($350) and freed the team to work on peripheral innovations like decreasing latency and refining positional tracking.”

The focus on decreasing latency is arguably what differentiated the Rift early on:
https://www.wired.com/2014/05/oculus-rift-4/
Yes, though it's better to define k: $\sum_{k=0}^n k$.
A Pinterest ban would greatly improve google results.
> Or do you believe that there are 1.3 million people in hospitals or cemeteries right now?

No, but I believe that in contrast to the flu, there are millions of healthy people (rightly) staying home right now.

Are you saying that the lockdowns are unwarranted?
We'll see how Sweden fares in the end. I'm not promoting their methods of dealing with the pandemic, but I believe the different health systems affect the outcome more. Italy has around 1/3 to 1/4 the hospital beds per capita of Austria, Germany, South Korea but more than Sweden and the USA.
I don't know if it's actually using VS Code as a base, but since VS Code is under a MIT license, I don't think you can say anyone would be able to rip-off VS Code. If they don't include the license from VS Code, you could say they break the licensing, but it'll be hard to argue that a copy/fork of a project with permissive license would be a rip-off.
I think that at least US governments have done a poor job explaining the motivation behind the drastic precautionary orders. For a brief period, there was much talk of "flattening the curve" but I doubt that many people understand how that gets us to "deliberately wreck the economy."

This is what people who say it's just flu++ are missing, and I am trying to be sympathetic to their lack of knowledge of exponential math and how medical services plan and allocate their resources. It is the government's job to explain how this is very different from the flu and they are utterly failing to do so in many cases.

In fact, I suspect that most people believe that the isolation policies are to protect individuals' health, ie. to prevent even young and healthy people from contracting the virus. And based on this false premise, they are right to be annoyed with the lockdowns.

This is important because in a week or two, when the grocery stores start to empty and the lights start to flicker, the rugged individualist-types in the United States are going to start asking "why are we doing this, exactly?" And there is born civil unrest.

It is the role of state and national governments to answer this question and they have not been effective in doing so. We are doing this because there are O(10^6) preventable deaths in our future. Not because of the danger to any one young healthy person.
No, his point was people shouldn't talk with _absolute confidence_ about things they don't know about.

Usually in everyday life we hint at our confidence level with the language we use: 'might', 'probably', etc. These people have trained themselves not to do that, which they previously have gotten away with.
Shouldn't 'prevailing media sentiment' be an output of the journalism process, rather than an input?
Compared to the SE? Yes

Compared to the 7 which feels like a flimsy piece of trash? Meh they both feel about the same.
This is because nobody is an epidemiologist over-night.
So now you will be able to discard any proposition from those kind of people, those one who are trying so hard to be smart, but that obviously can't become over-night ;)
Materialism Will Be Mocked
I would agree with you on the point on adoption outside the school. Btw, what kind of serious vulnerabilities in Zoom are you talking about? Been using it in a big tech company for almost two years already. Our sec department seems confident with it afaik.
Are you joking? She says a heck of a lot more than that. Her tone is extremely cautious and she's extremely clear that we know very little about this virus, she's describing the current situation of who is dying rather than making baseless predictions about who will die in the future, and all she's saying in that one sentence is that for the current situation, "you have to put it into context". Meanwhile you have snarky Fox News folks spewing "the media mob is telling you the sky is falling down" and "at worst this is like the flu" and "this is the best time to fly" etc. And she even literally tells you "this one is scary..." and tries to explain what about it is scary. Are these glaring difference not obvious or do you just ignore everything except the 1 sentence you can cherry-pick out of context?
The argument all over my facebook feed is that Africa is both the only country with no Coronavirus and the only country with no 5G. But really, these are the same friends arguing for flat earth in a lot of cases.
International Space Station in Street View in Google Maps
I live in Europe and can confirm that it was similar here. E.g. German state media quoting a head physician: https://www.br.de/nachrichten/bayern/schwabinger-chefarzt-co...

(literally saying in the title it's not more dangerous than the flu)

Also, the WHO posted this on Twitter in January, draw your own conclusions: https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152
Ah that explains quite a lot thanks.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22779918
"Theia is designed from the ground to run on Desktop and Cloud"

Which means it's an Electron app - which means between this and Chrome, it sucks down tons of ram and processing power.

Really hoping Nova from panic.com is as good as it looks / native MacOS app.
> [1, 2, 4, 8] is exponential and [1, 3, 5, 7] is linear.

You can't say just from 4 data points. Real data is noisy. Imagine each number is ±1.
GameBoy lasted weeks. I remember reading that it lasted about 40h.
Ask HN: Has anyone stolen/copied your ideas after showing a project on Show HN?
As a sole developer, I'm working on a product for which part of the HN audience is the target market. I would like to show HN a prototype to get some feedback but my concern is that if I show it, some other company (big or small) will copy the innovative ideas and beat me to the market before I have the time to bring the product to a level that people want to buy it.

Have you ever shown your project on Hacker News and experienced a situation where some other Hacker News reader or company has taken your ideas and ran with it?
To be fair, this has had gaps. The GBA SP and original DS were notably less durable than the devices that came before or after. The hinge design was relatively fragile especially with the mechanism being exposed even when closed and relying on relatively narrow plastic straps.

They also felt the need for the original 2DS as a more child safe design than the original 3ds. The 2DS XL on the other hand has a very thin top shell - even I've managed to break a screen on one by putting a laptop on top of it in a bag.

The gameboy series, original 2ds/3ds and DSi are tanks though.
> They have a tendency to show you ads for exactly the thing you don't need anymore because you already found it

Say you searched for a TV a month ago. Now you're seeing lots of ads about TVs. Stupid Google.

But is it? A substantial fraction of those people are returning their TV because something is wrong with it. Now they are looking for another TV set.

Sure, the majority keeps their TV. But it is still profitable to target all those TV buyers, because they have self-selected into the set of people who really want a TV now, and they are willing to pay.

Reaching the fraction of those who need another one is probably[1] very lucrative.

[1] I'm sure Google has run the numbers
CheerpJ 2.1 released,Java bytecode to WASM/JavaScript compiler and runtime
What needs to be noted clearly here I think is that he says it's something more than Dunning Kruger overconfidence but rather an absolute con-man level gamble they are taking as they don't seem to have a downside on this bet. And I guess we have a perfect moment to start providing that downside.
They are even advertising their VSCode extension support.

Looks good to me, Cloud9 was rather limited and I missed my VSCode extensions.

Edit: they have their own extension registry, which makes the whole enterprise seem a bit sub-optimal.
I really think the idea of constantly learning (something new) is pushed too much in our field. I think we should encourage mastery in fewer topics rather than shallow superficial knowledge of lots of things.

It's a balance I know, and we shouldn't be super focused especially early on in our careers. But at my current job we have a huge tech stack and a tiny team, I am constantly learning, but never in any depth, just enough to solve the last bug and then change to something different. It feels very like a very unproductive way of working. Very little of the new tech feels like it actually helps. Kubernetes while we don't actually need to scale for the foreseeable future. NoSQl when we don't actually need to scale. Asynch web servers when synchronous would be fine. A React monstrosity on our frontend, when server side rendering would be perfectly functional for the problems we are trying to solve. Google cloud - fair enough we actually do need that one or something equivalent.

Edit:
On looking through the other answers I see that a significant number are not tech related which is refreshing to see.
Weekly Robotics #85
An observation from inside academia: there are some (potentially many) researchers who use the opportunity to push obscure models and simulations of their research sub-subdomains, even if they have no knowledge about public health, epidemiology, or even strong past real-world success stories of the methods they are advertising. Sometimes, this happens with a "talk to the media first" approach (before subjection of their work to the scrutiny of actual domain experts or even any form of peer review), which is certainly dangerous.
> You're not their customer, advertisers are,

1. I'm well aware of this

2. It doesn't contradict anything I wrote

3. I've read it so many times and seen it misapplied so many times it is getting annoying.

> so it's only natural that the ads you see aren't personalized. That's never been the goal.

I doubt it was the intent of the advertisers to waste expensive impressions on people who weren't in the target audience at all, so I'm pretty sure they expected some personalization WRT which customers gets what ads.

I also very much doubt that it was Googles intention to annoy me to the point where I trash them in public foras, I just don't think they're capable of fixing it anymore as they are way to busy "being Google", e.g. doing cool stuff while not listening to customers (I was planning to add more here, but this single example seems to summarize it well.)

I recognize I might be a bit more direct than usual here and you aren't responsible for the first 97 times I've seen this meme here but as an answer to my question it is not applicable as far as I can see an also generally that meme is just noise here at HN now.

(Anyone who is actually in todays 10000 lucky WRT the "you're not the customer" meme, feel free to prove me wrong.)
Interesting take the mpesa back story. For those interested in the current state of the mobile money industry in Africa and other developing countries I can recommend GSMA [1].

While I think the "send money home" value proposition story in Kenya was crucial, it doesn't really explain why mobile money works (or doesn't work) as a service. This is basically all to do with massive agent networks. The business model isn't as easy to get going as people assume, and most telcos failed to pull it off. Regulation (or lack of it) was also very critical for Kenya's success.

In general mobile money is fascinating to examine though. And it's an absolute game changer in Kenya!

[1] https://www.gsma.com/sotir/
What would you expect from a cloud editor?

FYI, Visual Studio Code is an Electron app. And it's very performant.
Nice! Which visualization tool has been used here?
Prytek increased its investments in Israeli CX software Revuze to $3M
Setup up your own Jitsi Meet server in less than 15 minutes
Specific to your comments on Grunt: mostly agreed w your analysis; IIRC, I felt it was part of why Gulp kind of ate Grunt's lunch when it came on the scene. But that was a long time ago.
1) that’s ridiculous.

2) you still have to pay $100 a year to do push notifications and the effect is almost no one maintains the push severs for open source apps because the people running the actual servers aren’t allowed to.
You can even take it a step further:

if ($foo == 123) {
do1();
}

if ($foo == 123 || $foo == 23) {
do2();
}

do3();
Tim Kennedy on Personal Freedom and Individual Responsibility During a Crisis
The article is a case of rose-coloured glassed. It helps that FLOPS per core has essentially flatlined since 2006. I’m sure Nintendo realise that’s the main reason for the hardware choices.

https://www.quora.com/What-makes-CPU-models-increasingly-fas...
It's an insult drenched in the social politics that are an intrinsic part of our corporate politics. Some positions are useless and ultimately require more politics to stay relevant. Architecture is such a position and you seem to be good at politics.

You don't even know how old I am, you don't even know what level of intelligence I consider myself to be. Yet you make a bunch of baseless comments hinting at my personal character. That is the extent of what you're trying to convey, an insult through and through yet subtle on many levels. Politics, the only essential skill needed to become an architect.

When did I say you can learn everything you need to know by reading some blog posts or Wikipedia? I never said this. I only said that you can do this for 'architecture' and that's why the job role 'software architect' is complete bullshit.

Now let's get back on topic. You disagree with me. You think architects know something about 'architecture' that is beyond Wikipedia and blog posts. Prove it. You think they have some ability that sets them apart from normal engineers. Tell me what that is and why there exists articles like this:

http://www.realfreemarket.org/blog/2012/09/13/never-trust-a-...

I don't want to see another irrelevant comment because that just tells me that you got absolutely nothing left. Prove the worth of a software architect.
You should look at the video again. Her tone is calming and reassuring and she is saying it's scary because it is NEW. Are you deliberately trying to misinterpret it?
Mass media doesn't emphasize credentials of journalists or any credibility for that matter, in other words it is never credible. It's better understood in terms of propaganda, like your link is an example of manufactured consent.
Rhetoric, sophistry, debating. Politics. The goal is to establish UBI before the end of the year. If I had been smart enough I would have specialized in AI.

I think there's untapped potential for techies and scientists to infiltrate the political landscape.

I don't think I'll ever be famous but I'm arguing everyday and pushing hard for people to fight for themselves, and to push the ideas.
Ask HN: On reviewing a candidate's CV what kind of details stand out the most?
What details of a candidate's CV are most eye catching that you put them forward to the next stage of recruitment?

Are there any patterns you generally see from all the resumes of the candidates you put forward for the next stage of recruitment?

Also what details stand out such that you don't consider that candidate because of them?
A premium feel device like Apple feels like a mistake for a device who's audience is largely children. How many people have you seen with iphones with cracked screens? While it's very solid feeling, and yes, better protected against getting scratched by keys, I would wager while the switch is more likely to sustain cosmetic damage (scratches, chips, flaked paint) than an iphone, an iphone is more likely to suffer catastrophic screen failure when dropped. Plastic just doesn't shatter the same way glass does.
Mirror-owner Reach cuts wages, furloughs 20% staff
it turns out I have everything I need to manufacture small qty runs (100s) of effective masks at about $1.60ea. So I'm just going to do it to stock up my household for the duration. QC is my only concern, since I have to use a qualitative test (smell the bacon frying).
I don't mean to say that they are doing anything illegal or unethical. It just looks cheap to post a screenshot that looks like pixel-perfect copy of VS Code. Don't these people have a vision?
People can be capable of organizing conspiracies for their own self-interest and quite poor (or simply disinterested) in coordinating effective action otherwise. This is the story of every corrupt institution in history. You have to think beyond binary frames.
I'm not trying to be rude, but I honestly believe a lot of the complaints people make about how useless Google's search results seem overblown. I use Google all the time, sometimes for obscure results, often for technical stuff, and the worst I've ever had to do is look past the first page, but often the first page suffices.

Google showing results for director's commentary of God of War when someone searches "Lord of War director's commentary" is arguably not a failure on Google's part if more people do search for the game than the movie, regardless of the incorrect title.

That said, I completely agree with the theses of TFA. SEO is a cancer.
I think the issue is that Faucci, Imperial College in the UK, are (as they should) optimising for a single function - to minimise deaths. However, if we followed this approach for road traffic, no car would be allowed to travel further than 10 miles per hour.

Someone needs to take an economic look at the Corona minimisation strategies. We do this already for other policy areas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_life). Does the economic impact divided by the Value of Life look in line with other areas?
I don't think I would quit a company over a more stringent linter.

To me, this is the same attitude that leads to safety hazards in other industries. "I don't need safety measures because -I- am not an idiot".

Even the smartest developers make dumb mistakes. If you can eliminate some of those early with minimal friction, it's worth it. The earlier you catch a mistake, the cheaper it is. Linter rules are less of a hassle than bugs in production.
When was the last Metroid game that is "just as fun and joyful as the previous ones"? Metroid has had a tough 20 years or so. Last I checked Nintendo released a poorer version of a remake some fan released a year earlier.
Just switch off JS for the site and it works perfectly well.
It would still be beautiful without the pointe. For some reason, in many activities, people tend to go to the greatest lengths for even the smallest gains... ballet without pointe would still be ballet, I think non-experts like me would barely notice if they stopped using those - yet all ballet dancers sacrifice their feet for that perhaps last 2%. Why isn't there any ballets that just don't use pointe? Perhaps there is, would be nice to get to know about them.
Pro tip: this applies to you to buddy, you don't even know my background so you don't even know which field I have a PhD in or how much older I am than you.
Conntrack tales – one thousand and one flows
I used to work for a UK SMS SaaS provider.

I'm surprised you'd frequently get false positives. What regions were you sending to?

They were essentially unheard of with the UK networks and very rare with European networks. It was only Middle East and African networks that were troublesome, but they represented a tiny fraction of our traffic. Even then, false positives were rare compared to messages just not getting delivered.
I’m not talking about how you sound on the other end, I’m talking about how the audio quality drops to another profile whenever the mic is active, and that profile has the sound quality of a POTS phone connection from the 90s.

Steps to reproduce:

-listen to music

-make a call at the same time (such that the mic is active)

-the music you were listening to now sounds like you’re hearing it through an old telephone, with the quality you would expect from hearing some “on hold” music.

This sounds contrived (why would you listen to music and make a phone call at the same time?) but in reality each of these modes is a separate Bluetooth profile, and the latter of the two is used whenever the mic is active (for me... that’s across iOS, macOS and Windows. I’ve not tried it on android.) So, if you’re ever using software that holds the mic open, you basically can’t use the QC35’s for any high fidelity audio.
Not OP, but let's say you want to find out the protein content of brussels sprouts.

I would type `protein content brussels sprouts` (without quotes) because I fully understand that the information I'm seeking might be in some tabular form, or phrased in a way I don't anticipate.

Most non-technical people however would type in `What is the protein content of brussels sprouts?` literally.

This leads content creators who see these queries in "keyword analysis tools" to dump SEO-optimized crap into millions of blog posts, with completely irrelevant word soups with countless varations of the question, and the actual information buried deep within that gibberish essay, unreadable by humans, only optimized to drive ad traffic.

Google's optimization for the non-technical use case has lowered the overall search result quality immensely.

There was a time when Google didn't simply ignore some of your search words, or when control characters like +, -, and "" were actually respected (~pre 2010), and the introduction of verbatim mode didn't change much IMHO.
I'd really loved this a few years ago; but now VS Code's "Remote" extension helps most of my issues. It's just brilliant that I can do e.g. embedded dev on a physical Linux box while running the IDE on Windows.
> Now that we've seen the results, let's remember what we saw, because this is the most accurate test of credibility we're ever likely to have.

No, this is a terrible test of credibility. Journalists and politicians often go the other way, amplifying the danger, or outrage, or worry. Taking the outside view, it's overwhelmingly likely that any forecasted pandemic or disaster doesn't happen; we almost always get sky-is-falling predictions and then nothing really seems to happen from the perspective of most viewers or readers. Swine flu, bird flu, ebola, zika, on and on: these have previously in media-market memory been hyped as global catastrophes in the making, and then they turn into localized awfulness. This time, there were many more people than previously who seemed willing to espouse the outside view that this would probably blow over, and it seems incredibly ironic that this time, it didn't go away, and now those same categories of people who have been previously criticized for fear mongering are being lambasted for not fear mongering enough...