skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like how when this happens to companies it's not their fault, but when it happens to people everyone starts berating them for not saving/etc.

Like. What?

Our economic system is beyond broken if we expect companies to have less fiscal sensibilities than individuals.
Exactly. I sure as hell am not going out to eat or sending my kids back to school or... anything I can possibly avoid until I feel safe doing so.

This is a public health crisis. You have to fix that to start fixing the economy.
Podcasts are the fastest growing category of content at the moment. I do agree Apple could do a better job.
I think the OP is trying to say that there is no evidence that apple cares about the user, only its own image in the eyes of users.

There is always an antagonistic relationship between buyers and sellers. Buyers want more money for less features, Sellers want more features for less money.

There is no such thing as "with the user", unless the users are shareholders in the company.
Well duh. The stock market represents some of the companies doing perfectly well right now, like 3M, Amazon, Zoom, Netflix, Costco, Walmart, etc.

Also, why should you even expect the airline industry to be valued less when they in aggregate provide a vital service that would be doing perfectly well were it not for a virus. It makes the most sense to hold and not sell, except for the incredibly weak willed.
Could that be classed as cheating or is this info already in the game?

Note: Not passing judgement if it is, just curious.
Ask HN: Who can help laid-off workers? Please list resources and services.
The goal is to offer free services & goods, but perhaps this could also be generalized to a monthly thread like the hiring ones.

There doesn't seem to be a standard format for helping those in need, so here are some proposed guidelines to shape the list: only post services & resources that are typically not free but are now 100% free with no strings attached.

Qualified: Download widget that normally costs $99.99 for free.

Disqualified: Enroll in trial program that costs $99.99/mo after 30 days. Download widget for free.

Open question: What other criteria should be used to disqualify services & resources and ensure only helpful ones are listed.
> Someone's going to end up getting left holding the bag, and it's going to suck for them, and it's not going to be fair. Life isn't fair. There's going to be edge cases, and those edge cases won't be dealt with correctly, but we can't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

I think you underestimate how big the edge case of "landlord" is and exactly how that would play out. There are more than 50 million commercial properties in the United States and most of the owners have loans against those properties. If we don't bail them out, those loans don't get paid, and then the bank doesn't get paid, if the banks don't get paid, they gain a bunch of assets that no one can afford and go belly up, which we already decided in 2008 is not an outcome the system can tolerate.

There's no "buck stops here" that doesn't end with lenders because our system is built in such a way that debt is the leverage we use to build wealth. As long as that is the case, we either have to choose between unwinding the system and a hitting rock bottom that may not be recoverable or bailing people out and spreading the cost via taxes and inflation.

Trying to target the pain to a specific class of people is nearly impossible in our system, it is giant and interconnected and someone will profit off of that, and it will almost never be the "little guy."
Firefox 74.0.1 patches two critical vulnerabilities exploited in the wild
Amazon is making bank on delivery and whole foods. They likely have more business than ever, and are increasing their prices (as they should, they're providing a vital service!).
Now You Can Fight the Coronavirus on Raspberry Pi (and Your Phone, Too)
Catalina 10.15.4?
Zoom will enable waiting rooms by default to stop Zoombombing
You’re forgetting the possibility that a large percentage of the US population is already infected and asymptomatic, in which case the shutdown was ineffective in the first place.
...what?

I think you completely missed the point of th OODA loop.
Do you have an example query? If you're not using geospatial features, then what indexes does PG offer that the others can't match (either directly with indexes or with better scan/query performance)?
But magnet does not appear in the article?
What jolmg said. Plus, it's one of the best C&H strips ever. If it were up to me, I'd share the link in every comment thread.
That's more than a little like asking "Is Trivial Pursuit doomed by Google?" If the objective for playing chess is to beat a computer, sure. If not, it's game play as usual. The computer might be able to teach you how to play better, but doom is an unlikely result unless AI finds a never-fails solution to the game, like was easily found (by humans) for Tic Tac Toe.
How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin
Inflation doesn’t really punish all “wealth holders” just those that hold cash and cash equivalents. Real estate and the stock market should benefit from inflation when it is paired with some growth. Stagflation, however, is just bad for everyone.
With today's remote work and overuse of the internet, WebRTC is really critical. Same with WebP -- the bandwidth savings there could be immense in a time when we're using more internet than ever. I'm disappointed in Apple's lack of investment in these things, and it feels like they're out of touch.
It is precisely because of the predictable government response to corona that many of these firms are viable at all. That is, many know that they can enter into what is essentially a "bad faith" debt obligation because they know a bailout will likley be available.

There hasn't been any real incentive to save or be fiscally responsible since the 90's. Spend as much as possible. Take on as much debt as you can. If things get bad you can either abandon ship and do it all over again or wait for a bailout which is almost ingrained in the system at this point.

In fact the more debt you have the less you have to worry.
> setting it up on Mac was a pain in the ass

What was your problem? All you need to call is:

docker run --rm --name pg-docker -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=docker -d -p 5432:5432 -v $HOME/docker/volumes/postgres:/var/lib/postgresql/data postgres:latest

...and you are good to go. In depth guide: https://hackernoon.com/dont-install-postgres-docker-pull-pos...
Prolog is the best way to describe these constraints. Nothing else comes close to its declarative power.

The industry will catch on, eventually.
> Has anyone tried any of these FSF sanctioned tools?

GNU seems to assume that average users are willing to tinker and struggle until they get something to work. Average users won't do this. If users are demanding things like animations and transitions, GNU software which can't even get onboarding right will always struggle.

Personal experience:

Bad: Mumble is a nightmare to admin. It has confusing popups and so forth when joining a server. UX is archaic.

Bad: OBS is the wrong tool for the job (however amazing it is when used for the right job). UX is archaic.

Bad: I've always been pretty bullish on XMPP. It's a really great solution that's still looking for a problem to solve. That being said, I have yet to find a client that has the polish of modern chat apps.

Bad: IRC. I still fail to log into freenet some 40% of the time, and I'm an technical user. NICKSERV is a complete DISERVice to the platform. Having to switch to alternate nicks if you disconnect is bizarre.

Middleground: Riot (not mentioned) needs UX work, but comes close.

Middleground: Installed Jami. The onboarding is uncharacteristically competent. Haven't used it for a call.

Good: Mattermost (not mentioned) has a daft name (which users care about!), but competes with Slack pretty nicely.

Good: Discourse is pretty damned incredible.

Good: Etherpad, but has limited use for average users.
> The insanity is that people pushing to re-open the economy are being called shills for wall street.

I don't know where you're hearing this. I think people generally understand that SMBs are getting fucking wrecked by this.

The argument against has nothing to do with Wall Street. It has to do with there being a pandemic and keeping people away from each other. We re-open too soon, people die and this gets even worse.

We _should_ be talking about how businesses weather the storm. But conversations about re-opening the economy are not simply "do we want to stay closed and help rich people or do we care about the little guy."
If you like this kind of behind the scenes, i highly recommend Ken Kocienda's book "Creative Selection" about the development of some parts of the first iPhone.
Thanks maxwell for the answer! Really appreciate it, apologies for asking more but how did you guys handle customer browsers not really up to date or compatible with webrtc back then?
Those are two separate questions, aren't they?

I don't disagree that people are capable of taking risk mitigation steps in the absence of open and transparent information.

But that doesn't mean the absence of open and transparent information is somehow rendered open and transparent.

Overall my point is this: if I'm going to be laid off, the open and transparent thing to do is to tell me as soon as practicable, not to withhold that information just to facilitate a one on one conversation that may or may not meet an unspoken emotional need. There may be reasons for doing the latter, but I view openness and transparency as being antithetical to the withholding of important information.
> Yes, but people are short sighted.

Which comes from being inexperienced as well. And an experienced hand can save you money immediately. Such as selecting a more appropriate programming language to implement the project in. Suggesting an appropriate library to use rather than rolling one's own. Avoiding multithreaded coding disasters. Having a backup system that works. Having a revision control system that works. Knowing that unit tests have an immediate payoff. Avoiding stupid metrics like paying people based on lines of code written. Avoiding rolling your own encryption. Don't transmit passwords in plaintext. Don't do illegal things. Don't leave yourself wide open to lawsuits. Use a real CPA to do your taxes. Keep proper business records so the IRS doesn't hang you. And on and on.

My CPA makes lots of money when some young entrepreneur comes in all terrified that the IRS is auditing him and he kept no records and didn't even file returns.

An experienced hand will tell you to never ignore and never mess with the tax man.

Check out what happened to Will Smith when he paid no attention to the IRS. All his proceeds from "Fresh Prince of Bel Air" went to the IRS as taxes, interest, and penalties.
Thanks! Indeed that was in their opener, but their clarifying statement is broader.

FTA "We suspect that keys may be distributed through these servers. A company primarily catering to North American clients that sometimes distributes encryption keys through servers in China is potentially concerning, given that Zoom may be legally obligated to disclose these keys to authorities in China."

"We suspect" is not the same as "we are certain".
Maybe I'm getting this wrong, or over simplifying things here but my understanding is this means windows now has an overly complicated '#!'?
And lowering anxiety and pain can help with recovery. That kiss is not just comforting and loving, it triggers the body to create endorphin, a natural pain killer.

And that is the effect of a placebo. It does have an effect despite not having any active ingredient, but it does have an effect on the perception of the recipient, and that can trigger all sorts of effects, like relaxation, endorphins etc. that help the patient.

Now you can pooh pooh these effects and claim that they are nothing, but they are real. And personally, I'm fairly sure that all positive effects caused by "alternative treatments" are all related to these sort of things.
Bingo, but that’s kinda the point.

Cash in the short term is probably a fine idea. But low interest rates are meant to encourage deploying capital into risk investments or consumption with the promise of inflation eating your buying power if you hold cash.
Why didn't he just mail Jeff on his Amazon mail. He normally response within an hour.
Why does it suddenly feel like 1999 on the internet?
PS5 and Xbox Series X hardware specifications compared
For me it's the opposite: anything that's not isometric and looks like rollercoaster tycoon or openttd looks bad/weird
Answer to give the recruiter is "I can't say my salary, I signed an NDA, but I can tell you how much I want..."
It wouldn't stop all the layoffs but that isn't the goal. The goal would be to give employees a vote when decisions are made on how to deal with the economic fallout instead of being the passive victims of whatever decision is arrived upon by upper management and the board.

Instead of instantly laying off as many people as possible, the union could have brought other proposals to the table to try and help both the company and employees. Maybe you delay 401k matching until the end of the year instead of paying it every paycheck. Maybe cut employee salaries and hours instead. The union at least gives the employees the chance to voice ideas on how to help the company and themselves make it through instead of finding out that 400+ of your coworkers were let go over Zoom via a two minute prerecorded message.
The capital that most Americans "own" is managed by a very small class of capital managers at elite financial institutions. The point is, who controls the levers of power, and whose interest are they operating them in? The distinction you're making isn't much more than pedantry.

It should be considered remarkable that Marx's observations need only minor adaptations after one hundred fifty fucking years.
I'm in fascinating situation where I have access to two Webex accounts:
1. That of my primary employer
2. That of my consulting client (through primary employer)

I would've assumed they draw upon the same cloud resources; but based on our experience:
1. Client Webex has been basically unusable since day 1 of 100% remote work (~3 weeks ago)
2. Webex through my employer account works 98% of the time for 85% of the people.

I don't know where the bottleneck is with our client's webex - do they have lower tier account (unlikely), or are there some self hosted aspects or authentication aspects that are giving us trouble.

But my lesson learned is - different people will have drastically different experience with a tool for unpredictable / confounding variable reasons :/
Shallow Git Repositories
Siri can also show web results on watch. I believe the News app uses WebView as well.
Very nice but they should unify things a little on Windows. There are so many types of apps and it's not clear when you should use which. For example, Windows Store apps can not snapshot the screen...
But it does increase the entropy per byte, thus making patterns harder to spot.
The most interesting part to me:

> We are working with the new Microsoft Edge browser to take advantage of the Hosted App Model for Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) – converting the web app manifest into an app manifest, package the additional web content into an MSIX package and register it. In this model, a PWA is its own independent app registered to the system even though it is being hosted by Edge.

Can a shared, system-wide Electron runtime be far behind?
> Of course, with this read comes the age old question of "I can build Google/FB with 20 good men, what are they doing?"

Well, this would explain Google's pattern of constantly churning out new products on the theory that hey, maybe someone somewhere wants it.

If you need 20 people to run your actual operations but you've hired 20,000 people, what are the other 20,000 people supposed to do?
I would add

* Is the business important to society as a whole

In my opinion, bailouts aren't about if a company "deserves" to survive, they are about if it's "important to us, as a society" that it survives. If so, we group together and save it (with out taxes).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TN_status#Canadian_citizens
> This is what capitalism is in its essence

Whose capitalism? We (americans anyway) live in a corporate welfare state, and the market isn't even remotely "free."
Akamai's HQ is in Cambridge. I don't know if they're currently hiring, but I expect they're quite busy these days. Might want to check them out.
My big takeaway from this is that Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) will become more like first-class apps on Windows.

Installing a PWA on Windows will make it show up as its own process in Task Manager, listed in start menu and taskbar, listed as its own entry in Add/Remove programs, etc.

This is made possible in part by this Hosted App Model.
I certainly wouldn't dispute that rich people have more power and influence than your average Joe, or that they lead very different lives than him. I just disagree that there's such a thing as a homogenous class of capital owners, who would have or could have "created" the state as a conspiracy to "continue to own and profit from their ownership of capital".
People shouldn't be surprised, but they should be upset.
Take toilet paper. There are shortages, so people are learning how to do more with less. Be it just being a bit less wasteful with the tp to ordering and installing a bidet. This creates long term changes that will result in an overall decrease consumption of TP. This has an impact on the market.

Now, if that was all there is, then it wouldn't matter much except maybe a few toilet paper factories would got from operating 16 hours a day to 15 hours a day. But this is applying everywhere. People are having to stretch food. People are having to learn how to cook. People are learning the importance of having a bit more saved up and a bit more non-perishables stockpiled. These factors will result in less restaurant eating and more bulk buying (not even counting continued virus fears).

People are learning how to socialize from within their homes without leaving. This is pushing more people into electronic conversations. People are having to get more indoors, or at least socially distanced, hobbies. More people are reading, playing games, and watching streaming tv. This will lead to long term changes in consuming patterns.

People who have never ordered off amazon or the like are now doing so for the first time, and some of them will continue to do so. People are buying games digitally who would prefer physical, and in turn this will lead to more digital purchases even once physical purchases become an option again (well, more of an option, since you can still purchase and have delivered).

Each and every one of these changes the economy. And yes, over time people should reorganize and we should continue to be on our merry way. But until that reorganization occurs, there will be people being let go and the equivalent reorganized position may not be open for a few months. Or it may require a different skill set and people aren't going to be able to adjust as easily.
Socialism for the rich, and rugged individualism for the poor.
Yes. Like the random access latency of NVMe SSDs, It isn't zero, but it is practically zero compared to more "traditional" storage tech.
Quite the moral hazard.
I agree this isn't uncommon, but that does nothing to make it acceptable.

Bad security design is unacceptable and this is sort of indicative of a large dissonance when it comes to SV startups. "Disruption" isn't ignoring requirements - if you are able to under price your competitors because you fail to adhere to good practices (or, more importantly, regulations[1]) you're not building a lean and useful product - you've just built a half-assed competitor that can undercut prices because it is incomplete... You're selling something as a competing solution when it only does half the stuff.

There is a lot of good to be said about identifying the 90/10 value components of a problem space and discarding expensive features that would just add complexity for little value - but if those features are requirements you're just failing to actually meet the points consumers (or markets ala regulations) expect and making your profit off of deceit.

1. Looking at you Uber.
> Can a shared, system-wide Electron runtime be far behind?

This is exactly what I was thinking about.
I assume this is your answer to "why would they lie?". It does not answer the question to why should an educational provider care though.

And assuming I'll consider switching to webex the response to encryption in webex is this: https://www.webex.com/content/dam/Webex/eopi/Americas/USA/en...

Which 404's and basically represents my experience with Cisco: "We don't give a shit about you, you already payed us.". Frankly Webex could host the next coming of Jesus and I would not give them any more money.
It seems their corporate motto, instead of the old Google, "Don't be evil" is "Be as evil as possible."
Russian skills, huh? :)
Your insurance will go up if you're unemployed don't bother telling them mate.
Kanopy if your library offers it. Free streaming service, no ads. Lots of good stuff. Depending on one's tastes it might be better than Netflix—some major movies rotate through, lots of classics, quite a few Criterion movies at any given time. Surprisingly poor on the childrens' entertainment front, but that's what PBS is for.
Choosing the Right App for Your Business
Maybe that should tell you that they may have some valid points that are worth considering.
Wuhan death toll evidence points to 40,000+ number (official 2,563)
There is no objective evidence, nothing that I think would be convincing to you. There are plenty of experiences, which many skeptics dismiss as anecdoptal. I can say, here, take this psychedelic, but it would easily be explained as the effects of the psychedelic acting upon the brain. I can say, hey, meet this person, or try this technique ... but it wouldn't matter. Our civilization is simply just not ready for this stuff.

The thing is, there are a lot of phenomena that are difficult to show evidence, even in a laboratory setting. There was one parapsychology experiment that was interesting: a skeptic and a non-skeptic both collaborated and created an experimental protocol. They then watched each other conduct the experiment. The idea being that, each of them have a vested interest in proving or disproving the hypothesis.

Somehow, the skeptic had experimental results showing nothing beyond chance, and the non-skeptic had experimental results showing there is a statistical significance beyond random chance for the phenomena under study.

That can be taken as that, there were some bias that were missing. But what if, for example, it could be as simple as, neither experimenters were truly neutral, and it affected what happened?

Anyways, I'm in the point of my life that I simply don't care enough to try to convince people to believe in one way or another. That emotions behave more than "just" emotion is not something that is special or extraordinary for me. Sometimes, I encounter people for whom they start experiencing this. I help them when I do.
Talented engineers that spend their limited working years figuring out how to extract every last cent from every person on Earth should feel some shame.

I wonder how harshly history will judge them (many of whom are on HN).
It's added as part of the dedicated server, and available for all players on the server. This kind of data is also available in game, but not as detailed.
I don't think it's poorly designed, its just maybe perhaps not all that useful?
This is appreciated. This change did break some things for me, and I've been scrambling to understand what SameSite cookies are and how this affects things.
I have just updated the README with a picture from parentA and parentB, the ones I'm using on to cross fractals.