skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
hangouts meet does 1080p (whether it works now during the covid pandemic I don't know) and is Google's replacement for the regular hangouts. it has been available for companies and has been part of g-suite for enterprise since 2017.
I think by Goetz the parent meant the book by Brian Goetz -> "Java Concurrency in Practice"
"0123Test" is a better number-containing string for testing, to catch out things that try to interpret the string as a number first and then as a string if that fails. For example, JS's insane parseInt function will give you 123 for "0123Test".
The worm has returned!
Well, I’m not complaining, I’m suggesting an automated reply to notify people that their stuff was submitted. Which is how things usually work when you submit through a recruiting portal.

I’m not complaining about the processing “speed”.
Could you train Corona dogs then that would smell test patients like a check by dogs at the border customs patrol?
I don't k ow about the Venezuelan press, but the Times of London, Popular Mechanics and Deutsche Welle are all reporting it. Plus its April 3rd now...
Also the "source code" is an unaligned quaternary tape of hyper-optimized inter-dependent assembly monolith.
I think there are quite a lot of apps with similar issues or Apple would just have made it mandatory for apps that request camera permissions to be hardened properly.
Just to clarify because it was unclear to me and areas are unintuitive with map projections, it's 1.5 times the size of the United States. The U.S is ~10 million km^2, Antarctica 14 million km^2, and the American continent 42 million km^2
Sending even tens of thousands of SMS is very cheap, just how limited is that budget? :)
Needs more salty Russian Literature references!
Antarctica has been at the (current) south pole for >100 million years
It was the name of the cassette player for the Commodore 64.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_Datasette
> No one will die from this leak either

Certainly the hope, but this could fall short of prophecy.

Which is why, for all the points about rumors, you do make these sorts of official pronouncements.

"Loose lips sink ships" and all that.
I actually agree with the sentiment you’ve expressed. However, it’s the inescapable scale that’s troubling.
Wow, I learned something in here and I was just "trolling" in the test thread!

Thanks!
Google releases location data to show if coronavirus lockdowns working
What _-___________-_ said. The short version: job ads are boring. The long version:

If job ads were threads, each thread would be a generic referendum on the company. Worse, it would be the same referendum over and over.

Job ads are boring, so there wouldn't be anything to discuss other than how one feels about the company, and that's boring except to people who have strong feelings on the topic, and strong feelings on the internet tend to be negative, so the threads would fill up with negative generic comments.

I believe that the hivemind resents boring things, such as submissions where the only new information is "X is hiring", so it gets cranky and fills the vacuum with indignation, basically as the only way to amuse itself in the absence of anything interesting to discuss. It doesn't want to, it just doesn't know any better way to have fun in a vacuum. In practice, what this would look like in a job thread is "I applied in 2015 and never heard back", plus—if there has ever been a negative story X about the company—every variation of X, X, X, repeated increasingly snarkily.

Actually, it's worse. Building a business is a long hard slog. One needs to hire more often than one has scintillating new information for the community to have fun discussing. Therefore, each successive job ad would be even more boring than the previous one, leading to monotonically increasing resentment. Repetition is the enemy of curiosity.

Launch posts don't suffer from this dynamic because by definition, the startup is new, so there's something new to discuss.
Totally agree. "Permaculture" was really just Mollison - a genius and veteran biologist - collating all the best practices and strategies he had observed from land-based cultures, then codifying this knowledge of what works. (Hence, "permanent agriculture".) It couldn't be less controversial.
I agree, this should be spam.
The latter two comments seem pretty useful feedback though
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That lil obsession you all have of calling usa America
A few hundred people with US numbers should be able to sign up, but sending SMS overseas is much more expensive. For example, sending to Switzerland: $0.069 per SMS.
Why is Russia missing?
Elinor Ostrom's 8 Principles for Managing the Commons deserves a mention and deserves inclusion in future additions.
https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2010/03/22/google-is-now-search...

> Sergey Brin, Google’s co-founder, once said the company should start a hedge fund because it had so much information. But Eric Schmidt, Google’s chief executive, reportedly responded, “Sergey, among your many ideas, this is the worst,” since the company would face serious legal problems in starting a hedge fund.

> Regardless of Google’s plans, the company is looking for a trader of foreign government bonds, an analyst for Google’s United States government bond portfolio and a portfolio analyst for agency mortgage-backed securities, according to Business Insider.
I always imagined you looked like the weirdo in the window seat with different sized eyeballs, who he was addressing as "Dang".

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/f8/74/40/f8744035e15d69eb8fd4c70de...
Nobody is saying they didn't, that isn't the point being made.
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> It's interesting that Permaculture is already more than 26 years old.

The date actually had me wondering. At what point do we start to refer to 1994 as the "1900s". We are already 2 decades into the 2000s, but it feels strange to refer to 1994 as the 1900s? Wonder which decade in the 1900s people started feeling comfortable referring to 1894 as "the 1800s".
> Why are these not optional on devices?

Because according to the seller’s analysis, the probability of marginal profit is not sufficient.

>How do we know this is really what consumers want?

“We” don’t, and short of a worldwide poll, one can only guess. The seller, especially as one of the most profitable entities in the world, is presumed to be able to come up with decent market analysis.
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The main reason I use MySQL over Postgres is storage engines. MySQL has storage engines with transparent compression, which allow me to keep an order of magnitude more data than using Postgres. These days its MyRocks, in the past it was TokuDB.

Historically Postgres has thought that the job of the file system, which is basically a bad choice for dbs. MyRocks wipes the floor with it.

TimescaleDB is an interesting new Postgres storage choice. I'm evaluating it. But the free version doesn't do compression on-demand nor transparently. Anyway, it can only get better.
I'd really like to have a smaller phone but the lack of a second sim in iphone is a deal breaker. I don't know how iphone users do when they travel to foreign countries. One particular use case that I have is: get 4g from my foreign sim, and get authentication codes from my bank from my home sim to validate some purchase.
I bought this book at a place called "Hungry Head Books" in Eugene Oregon in 1997. I was working as a projectionist at the time and pretty much had to kill 30 hours a week in the booth. This was before wifi or cell phones so I would buy a few books each week and just sit on the carpet and read while the projectors did their thing.

I was not a fan of the hippies. I lived on 15th and High (that is not a joke) when Jerry Garcia died. The hippies were lost for a bit so they flooded 13th in Eugene until they found Phish and moved on. It was horrible. I'm more of a punk rock guy.

But this book really got me going about permaculture. To the point where it was all I would talk about when I got drunk at parties. And people hated me for it. I guess I know how the bitcoin guys feel.

But I found out my aunt and uncle owned about a hundred acres near Klamath Falls. And they were cool with me doing whatever out there. Tons of lumber and there was already a well. So over a summer we built a cabin with working plumbing and a septic tank. And by cabin I mean the unibomber would have considered it a downgrade. We had no clue about what we were doing.

But it was fun to camp out and build something, even if it was shit. That was about as far as we got. There is now a rotting log cabin out there.
Here's the last line of my post: "Not that I'm knocking PG, 'best' depends upon the problem" I did not want to get into a war with people emotionally involved in their favourite programming tool. The article said 'best'. By that measure PG was worse. Point is it doesn't matter, it's about what problem you are trying to solve and at what price. In many cases PG is best for that - do you understand? I knew people would see it as an attack on PG. It's so childish and predictable. I solve business problems, not cheerlead for a particular RDBMS.

As for what made CTEs so great in MSSQL, I just explained in my first post. Look for 'optimisation fence', and understand that a) PG has changed and b) was not a personal attack.

> I wonder if that really disqualifies Postgres from the same task.

If you have 100GB of data being materialised as a temp table under the hood instead of having the predicates being pushed down, what do you think?

> Are MSSQL CTEs just the hammer for your proverbial nail?

Jesus, they're just a tool to get a job done. As for is there a way round it, probably, it just means more work for the programmer, and more stress for the SQL optimiser which will at some point fail as complexity climbs.

> We use CTEs and temp tables depending on what we need

same.
Most-recommended programming books is very misleading. This is a list of software development lifecycle management books.
> It never translates it's RNA and since RNA is fundamentally less stable of a molecule than DNA, you get really high mutation rates. That "instability" is caused by the lack of a built in error checking mechanism in RNA.

The coronovirues have a proofreader mechanism, which is interesting.

And influenza has more potent evolved countercountermeasures than just high mutation rates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigenic_shift
I wouldn't say PostgreSQL was the analogue of golang: go's initial popular growth for being 'good enough' while being arguably oversimplified, where simplicity masks problems, under the pretence that YANGNI always applies (initial N emphasizing the Not of Aren't), seems much closer to MySQL's history.

PG was driven by engineering correctness, by considering what DBAs 'Are Going to Need'. Sometimes that strictness worked against popular growth but in the end it has worked out well, as many programmers figured out they also needed it. I'd say the programming language analogue would likely be Rust, lets see in 10 years where the 90% case lies.
> Iceland and Britain duked it out in three major confrontations, the navies ramming each other but not firing a shot.

Huh! I had no idea, and just did some research on it. Apparently it started in the 50s and ended in '76.

It kind of gives further context to the Icelandic People's reaction regarding the 2008 Icesave scandal towards the UK. Who went on to put Iceland on the UK's Terrorist list. The UK got paid back in full by 2016.

But I can easily see them being resentful for having the US intervene and stop them from trawling around the Icelandic coast.

Sidenote: according to the this video, shots were fired, and one resulted in the UK having to pay Iceland for the inconvenience of commandeer it:

https://youtu.be/bxu4_AgIL94?t=139
>So can we agree that your problem is not with NVC but with a few people?

No. I was describing what NVC is. The book, this thread, the culture of people like you pushing it in the workplace is what I wrote. The book encourages a language form, the proponents of the book push a language form, you are pushing a 'communication style'.

>I do get the sense from a number of comments (not necessarily yours) that people think they should be able to express themselves at work however they feel most comfortable. That's an unrealistic expectation at any sizable workplace. How you choose to communicate does impact team productivity and is definitely a factor in promotions, continued employment, etc. I don't hire you to do solo work - I hire you to produce results while collaborating with other people. And communication styles do impact how well you will collaborate with people.

Comfort can be good or bad, I don't see it as a property worth examining. Working solo or collaboratively is a fine line, at the end of the day everybody does the work by themselves, you are hired for your individual skills at a particular task. The collaboration aspect is half the job and that half is not worth slavery to a language form for the sake of micromanagement.

Your communication style is not working with me. I don't see the value of your ideas on this topic. The value of the ideas should be self-evident because we are talking about how to communicate. Who's responsibility is that?

Sociology has been dealing with the fundamental attribution error for fifty years. There is little evidence that communicating in any particular style is going to solve problems and instead will likely paper over miss-attributed judgments about an individual's character rather than looking at the situation they are in. We have been working together as groups for thousands of years, it's unlikely a new fad book is going to have a solution to 'communication', one of the most fundamental things we do as humans.

If you're a boss it doesn't matter what I say because you can just set the rules however you like, it's not a workplace where I'd choose to work. I would look forward to working with people that want to talk about mission critical issues more than they want (apparently) to spend talking about feelings and structuring sentences.
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When one enlists or takes a commission, one falls under the UCMJ[1]. One's 1A rights are constrained. Aside: this feeds the distaste of veterans for the authoritarian leanings of so many public figures.

Among the things sailors are ordered NOT to do is talk to the media without running the communications by a Public Affairs Officer. There is also regular OpSec[2] training.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Code_of_Military_Jus...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operations_security
It sounds like a database for AI. Is there any performance report I could read?
Yes, people are trying that. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/highly-trained-dogs-could-...

Note that this article is about a corona symptom, Anosmia, not about the ability to smell patients. According to this [1] source, it only shows up in 30%-60% of cases.

[1]: https://www.entuk.org/sites/default/files/files/Loss%20of%20...
Why PDF? There is nothing in the reports that could not be done with html.
Overtime I've built my own list of lists.

Books lists for Hacker News:

https://toptalkedbooks.com/hackernews

http://hackernewsbooks.com/top-books-on-hacker-news

http://ramiro.org/vis/hn-most-linked-books/

https://mapfilterfold.com/?genre=programming

Most mentioned in Stackoverflow:

https://toptalkedbooks.com/stackoverflow/all

Other aggregated lists:

http://developeronfire.com/book-recommendations

https://medium.com/@YogevSitton/the-ultimate-reading-list-fo...

Curated lists:

Jeff Atwood
https://blog.codinghorror.com/programmers-dont-read-books-bu...

Joel Spolsky
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/11/22/reading-list-fog-c...

DHH David Heinemeier Hansson
https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3375-the-five-programming-boo...

Jason Roell
https://jasonroell.com/2015/03/16/12-most-infuential-books-e...

John Sonmez
https://simpleprogrammer.com/the-ultimate-list-of-programmin...

Khalil Stemmler
https://medium.freecodecamp.org/9-books-for-junior-developer...
Daily Covid-19 Updates: April 2 Recap
I'll use this as an opportunity to ask something.

Are there any stats how many active users does HN have, on how many servers it runs, on which database etc.?

Because I have recently wanted to look at my older saved/upvoted posts/comments on reddit and found out that you can look only at last 1000 posts and it does various other things to save resources. HN doesn't seem to do things like that and still feels much snappier than reddit (yes reddit has much more users, but still impressive imho).
You’re right of course. I’m still uncomfortable with the number of cameras and microphones that found their way into my home. Especially for how rarely I use them. I don’t feel like my life is much better with them around.
Having worked at amazon for 3 years. I don't find it surprising. Amazon, in general, is known for not taking good care of its employees. My experience has been as SWE and its a well know fact of there that if you and your manager don't get along then you have limited time to move to a different team or company before you get PIPed.
Many species exhibit strong sexual selection pressures, it's a natural part of evolution.
It's missing the part at the end that says "for general use"
Plenty of noSQL and even MySQL/mariaDB features beat psql in the right problem space.
good to use, could have a try
I have a scd30 from Sensirion, hooked up to a raspberry pi GPIO pins, with a python script pushing the measurement to InfluxDB and Grafana.

It's super cool how open source projects make it easy to get a great UI, built-in basic statistics etc, with a few hours of datasheet reading.

Word of warning though: make a proper enclosure for the sensor. Mine is now perpetually reading 1400 ppm or above after a fairly rough move, even outside (where it should be about 415 ppm).
Nothing HN-specific, and yeah I also see
jbverschoor as having only one comment without replies in his comments page and yet our entire conversation is shown in reply to this one comment on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22756730

EDIT: scratch that, it shows in reply to
hc91 [flagged] comment, but it in turn was originally a reply to my own, not a top-level comment for the submission.
I have to imagine that it works even _better_ if you believe it's more than just a placebo though, but it'd be interesting to see evidence! That study compared open placebo to nothing. I'd be interested in a study where one group believed they were getting a trial drug and the other group believed they were getting placebo, but really both were getting the same placebo.
In the UK we say "Chelsea tractor". Definitely derogatorily.
BBC to deliver biggest push on education in its history
Hong Kong is available though: https://www.gstatic.com/covid19/mobility/2020-03-29_HK_Mobil...

Still in full lock down.
If you're using a VPN, your location won't show up as mainland China.
Whoa! I love the second link! Is there an orchestrated horizontally-scaled secure decentralized web service I could use to bookmark all the dang cartoons?!
Re your edit, ok i stand corrected, thanks for the correction!
+1 for Sensirion's SCD30 [0], or even better when it comes out, SCD40.

I've tested a lot of different sensors and the SCD30 is more expensive than the Chinese sensors but in my experience it's much more accurate. The problem with all of these sensors is calibration. They naturally drift over time so you need some way to compensate for that. There are a few common approaches:

- Assume that every single day, the sensor is completely immersed in fresh air at some point - this is the way the MH-Z19 series of sensors works. It can make sense in business HVAC systems where it's common to do a fresh air purge every 24h but in a residential environment it's unreliable because there's no guarantee that a room will return to fresh air levels of CO2 (e.g. if a room only has 3-4h unoccupied and the windows aren't open, it might not return to 400ppm). To be clear, this isn't a problem unique to the Chinese sensors. There are also expensive sensors from major and reputable manufacturers that act this way, again, because it's common in commercial HVAC systems to do a daily fresh-air purge.

- The above but a bit more intelligent - this is the SCD30's method: it looks at the previous 7 days of data and only if there were at least 5 days where the baselines are within 50ppm of each other, treats the average of those baselines as the fresh air concentration. This makes it fantastic for residential applications. Even if your room's CO2 levels don't return to 400ppm every day, as long as they don't consistently return to another baseline, the auto-calibration cycle won't run and mess up your data.

- Manually do a baseline calibration every few months: make the user take the sensor outside into fresh air (or vent a building with fresh air) and tell the sensor "the CO2 concentration right now is 400ppm" - this is the only way the MH-Z19 and similar sensors can really be made anything close to accurate.

Also, make sure to avoid anything other than NDIR sensors. There are a lot of "eCO2" sensors that give you estimated CO2 levels based on VOCs, which always results in garbage readings.

Finally, you can usually buy the SCD30 very easily. It's routinely stocked by electronic component distributors so you can just look it up in OctoPart[1]. Make sure to avoid the eval kits though.

[0]: https://www.sensirion.com/en/environmental-sensors/carbon-di...

[1]: https://octopart.com/search?q=Sensirion+SCD30&currency=USD&s...
This is one of those areas where public healthcare isn't necessarily any better - the important barrier is getting the profession to take you seriously, and for many chronic conditions deemed "livable with" that is a problem. Everything from fibromyalgia to endometriosis.
Seems a bit odd indeed. Here's some stuff that shows off 4k and hdr - and you test it on a screen without 4k and proper hdr? Well, no surprise you can't see any effect from 4k and hdr?

Granted the pixel reportedly has a good amoled screen - but I couldn't find any information on it handling hdr signals, beyond that it "boosts" the image (sounds much like the equivalent of audio compression/loudness for visuals).

At any rate, since people have a hard time telling the difference between full HD and 4k in blind tests, I doubt that this could be anything beyond a subtle effect anyway?

I have a 4k hdr TV here, so I'll have to try and see.
Source is Ministry of Health, data is collected by each Region. Specifically this is the free icu rate per region https://infogram.com/tasso-di-occupazione-posti-letto-1h7k23...

Unfortunately it's live without the per-day history, but you should consider that we're at the peak right now.

Considering the many people downvoting I feel like US news suggest otherwise. Weird!
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First of all, Yahoo historically used Oracle Enterprise and MySQL for RDBMS, roughly 50% each.

Large companies use some of everything, but I never saw PG in use there.
COngrats Nick ! I've tested the fill pdf demo on latest FF on WIN10.

I cann add characters; but cannot remove them with DEL or RETURN keys cc https://ibb.co/zX4LQwL

Cheers
Django Declarative access policies/permissions modeled after AWS' IAM policies
Too bad the desktop client is no longer maintained. It can be used to do VoIP to any phone number. We are still using it, but we have a lot of problems on linux because it needs oracle java. Also there are no mobile clients.
Headspace and Youtube were also my experience. I think a large part of getting into meditation is finding a meditation guide(?) with a voice you enjoy listening to.

It sounds really silly, but certain accents (particularly ones close to my own) were quite uncomfortable to listen to, and similarly certain scripts (like you, the "energy mumbo-jumbo") were really distracting.

After trying out a bunch of youtubers I eventually found some with a voice and script that helped me feel at ease, but I'm sure it's a very personal endeavour