skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue here is precisely is about recalling the syntax of a low-level approach, not whether you understand it conceptually. It’s the difference between being asked to make a request using curl, and constructing an HTTP request buffer manually without the help of a wrapper to tool to do it for you. It’d be the same as going to an interview, and having the interviewer ask you to complete an HTTP request on the spot using telnet and a keyboard. Sure, you can look it up, but when you do that you’re showing the interviewer you don’t already know.

Many devs know very well how to manipulate the DOM using JQuery, or construct the page they want using React. Most people do not use the low-level pure JS API. Conceptually I totally know how to make things happen in the DOM. Using the JavaScript built-in API, not really. Yeah it’s easy to learn in a weekend, that doesn’t change the fact that the API is tedious, hardly used in practice by most people, and rarely if ever necessary to use for performance reasons.
No Web Push API.

No fixes for SameSite Lax cookies under service worker routes.

No page lifecycle API so we better handle iOS PWAs.
But the core activity is still harm employees at all times. and cut to the bone at every chance to the detriment of employees, that had the original company not sold out, would have had to take better care of their employees and also require more employees as there wouldn't be redundancy between the parent and subsidiary. And all around increases the value to the workers and community. PE over leverage so they have to detriment the employees by default.
If you mean Common Lisp, that’s a Lisp-2 (actually Lisp-N), while JS is a -1. That means there’s no universal obviously “correct” way to do JS interop. It’s complicated...

Closure is a Lisp-1, as is Scheme, and (despite it being at least as “academic” as CL) there are lots of Scheme-in-JS implementations.
Why is the use of facebook sdk for users who have no desire to be associated with facebook nothing ?

If anything there wasn't nearly enough scrutiny of the adware domains in the CORS headers.

Also a "security posture" is corporate speak and has little to do with actual security - quite often the opposite, posturing security is what they have been doing all along.
That file extensions are not the best way to handle metadata is neither here nor there at this point. They don't seem to be going away, so better get used to them.

The problem is you when you need to specify a filename and the displayed value is different that the true value, causing any number of errors, for unexplained reasons. That's the worst kind of simplification in my opinion.

Reminds me of other bad decisions from older Windows versions. Instead of a proper filesystem permissions, Explorer would tell you "Don't look in here, you could break something." I like to call it the "Band-aid over a gaping wound" model.
That's actually the most interesting fact about Zoom I feel like I've learned so far!

Edit: I looked it up... thought it seemed crazy high but it obviously includes all the support staff too. So they might have only 300 engineers total, for example. I guess that's more reasonable. [1]

"As of January 31, 2020, we had 2,532 full-time employees. Of these employees, 1,396 are in the United States and 1,136 are in our international
locations."

"We also operate research and development centers in
China, employing more than 700 employees as of January 31, 2020."

[1] https://investors.zoom.us/static-files/09a01665-5f33-4007-8e...
Handshake can improve how security on the Internet works. There are also geopolitical reasons for why it's important:
https://www.namebase.io/blog/meet-handshake-decentralizing-d...
https://www.namebase.io/blog/you-can-make-a-difference
They don't for Darwin (apple/darwin-xnu is a mirror of content released on opensource.apple.com), but Swift uses it for everything, I believe.
Mandombe Script
Why can't 700 people do development and QA?
This isn’t about having a mental model of the DOM, it’s about whether you know a specific API.
What issues are you having with Korean indexing? I work with Japanese data in PostgreSQL all the time and have never noticed any issues. Japanese is more complicated that Korean, in my opinion.
Hangouts Meet isn't free (as in beer or as in speech). It's just that the premium version is free if you're enrolled for the lower-tier version. Note that this product differs in many ways from the "free" Hangouts.
Jitsi is very good. You can try it out at meet.jit.si or install your own server in about 30 minutes. (Yesterday's updated Debian packages improved things immensely.)
Synology's set of first-party OS packages has 1:1 feature parity (and then some) with every function Server.app either has, or used to have.

We've seen this a number of times with macOS, and some other Apple adventures. Apple will put out something, then if a third-party offering comes along that is equal or better, it cancels the Apple product expecting everyone to switch to the third-party solution.

Off the top of my head, Aperture comes to mind. But I've had this thought before and came with several other examples at the time.

Apple also works the opposite way. If third-party offerings for a particular function are OK, but not great, it will make its own version. Stocks, and several other apps for iPad come to mind.

When the first happens, people complain that Apple is fickle and abandons its customers. When the second happens, people complain that Apple is stifling competition.

Apple is either more schizophrenic, or less predictable, than other big tech companies.
If you keep taking HN threads further into political, nationalistic, or ideological flamewar, we are going to have to ban you.

That's not because we agree or disagree. It's because such threads are predictable, therefore tedious, therefore boring, therefore off topic here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Fellow conservative here. Teddy Roosevelt had a balanced take on capitalism vs the rights of workers in one of his famous speeches. It "failed" at the time, but a lot of the principles ended up catching on: http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/images/research/speeches/t...

(Love the Chesterton quote BTW)
No, you don't allow or push people to die just for a few extra greenbacks.
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People with coronavirus may be most infectious in the first week of symptoms
Hah, I actually just updated my comment to make that kind of thing clearer, and see someone has already pointed it out ;)
Supply chain/production complexity. It's more expensive for them to make the option customizable than it is to ship it for everyone. If there was an appreciable market for consumer-level camera-less machines the math to justify it might look different but there isn't. The vast VAST majority of the demand for hardware without cameras comes from the NatSec type people, and they're all doing bulk orders so they get more leverage to have niche production runs done for them. And even then they don't always get devices without the cameras. They end up having to do awkward things like physically disabling the hardware after the fact or locking out the functionality with custom firmware.
The civilians labor force is about 165 million people, so we’ve added about ~5% to the unemployment rate in the last two weeks (say 9m increase in claims).

Unemployment peaked at around 25% in the 1930s depression. Rough calcs suggest that could be surpassed: https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2020/march/back-en...
The shapes of the Covid-19 economy: V, U, W, L, or?
No one is saying that part was smart
That article has very thin gruel for "taking marching orders from Pelosi": not endorsing some people and asking for civility in Twitter feuds.

Be skeptical of anything written by the National Review about progressives.
Hi Peter, I'm a Canadian working in the US on a TN. I have an H1B petition that was selected by lottery and processed for an out of country status change; I haven't activated it at this. Is it possible to change employers to a comparable role with just the accepted petition? Otherwise is it possible to change from a TN status to an H1B status -- despite the out of country filing -- without having to travel, given the current restrictions?
It happens frequently enough outside major development hubs, especially on the east coast.
Yup, pretty much. See for yourself the list of packages they offer: https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/packages

Qnap isn't far behind neither: https://www.qnap.com/en/app_center/?top_place=1&qts=4.4.1
Report to the license holder/s so they can start compliance.
You'll probably need a SIP provider. I just spent 4 days setting up VICIDial and Asterix as a complete noob; can probably definitively say it's not a replacement for GVoice
Many US states do not currently have restrictions on churches. I was replying to the point that people in rural areas are spread out. My point was that some activities, like church, bring people together into an enclosed space.
My 5k-10k person company directly refutes your parenthesized comment, you are making incorrect assumptions about how everyone runs their businesses.
they're probably just shorting the pvpvp3p33vp
And from that sample site, they seem to have an abundance of time to exploit sales and an excess of freezer/storage space. I'm sure there are counterexamples, but I have always gotten the impression those "eat cheap" sites are run by stay at home parents with an excess of free time or people using them to generate income.
Mercedes is a brand actually owned by Daimler AG...Daimler being the dude who had a daughter called Mercedes...

In Germany both are known. Daimler the business, Mercedes the car...

Kinda Apple and iPhone...then Mac (aka Mercedes Benz Trucks?!)
There must be a real law that could stick. Maybe it's reckless endangerment to impede a doctor helping in an emergency?
God's Query Language
Poorly. Nim is not an object-oriented language.

You could certainly write an expressive web framework in nim, but a django/rails sort of paradigm is not the way.
While it's a shame that the OS X, er, Mac OS Server "app" has basically been killed over the last few years (maybe more than a few at this point), I suspect it just wasn't selling very well. I know it had some great tools for configuring and setting up some services, but if you're a engineering-focused company you're probably going to use Linux for office servers; on the business/office side, you're very likely going to just go with Microsoft; if you need web or server hosting, you're almost certainly doing it off-premises, not with a Mac mini stuffed in the corner.

That mostly leaves enthusiast and small office scenarios, most of which can get by just fine with "non-server" macOS. After all, they've always literally been the same operating system. My Mac mini is a headless media and file server and has, in the past, been the printer server as well -- and all of that's enabled just by clicking boxes in the "Sharing" control panel. (Heck, I could even turn on "content caching" to have it keep a copy of all macOS/iOS software updates on it, which would be great for a small-to-medium office.)
You can feed yourself for $4/day if you already have:
- Cooking supplies (pots, pans, plates, silverware, etc)
- 1h+ / day of free time to spend on cooking and shopping for food
- A fridge and pantry to store food in
- An oven and/or stove to cook your food

For a significant number of people that cannot afford to feed themselves, one or more of these are compounding factors.

By providing meals instead of $, this program is much more equitable.
It's QoS and bufferbloat: https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/
Surprising info from that thread's article indeed, if confirmed:

> A total of 130 of 166 new infections (78%) identified in the 24 hours to the afternoon of Wednesday 1 April were asymptomatic (...)

> China is rigorously testing arrivals from overseas for fear of importing a fresh outbreak of covid-19.

> But let’s just say they are generalisable. And even if they are 10% out, then this suggests the virus is everywhere. If—and I stress, if—the results are representative, then we have to ask, ‘What the hell are we locking down for?’

Thanks for sharing.
In case anyone's thinking of running some multiplayer games in the coming weeks and wants some more advanced economy metrics, I recently started writing a set of patches to add a prometheus /metrics endpoint to the OpenTTD server to use with a grafana dashboard:

https://github.com/grand-central-garbage/openttd-prometheus (warning: grim c++ code)
I don't want to take out loans, and I never want to owe anyone money. I have the money to afford a soda right now, why can't I use that?
For me, MySQL’s quirkiness and lesser adherence to the SQL standard kind of neuter any performance niftiness it might have. I can see using MySQL for something like logging but for production data, I prefer PostgreSQL. It’s much more predictable.
One of the best game soundtracks in the world
I'm not particularly familiar with reiki, but the issue with anything that contends with placebo tends to be that they're not cheap, and people are being lied to and not being told that they're a placebo, expecting a cure-all. You can even buy homeopathic medicine on the shelf, and you're essentially paying $10 for a 2 ounce bottle of water.

I'm not sure of reiki rates, but many of the other things I consider placebo replacements (based on studies of effectiveness) are not cheap. Essential oils, homepathic medicines, rare earth jewelery, etc. All are sold as cure-alls, fail to deliver their promises to a large percentage of the population, and take advantage of people's trust in anecdotal evidence.

If any of these were being marketed in a truthful way I'd be more supportive of them, but currently they seem to be taking advantage of people and promising cures for things that they can't cure. This is actively doing harm to a certain percentage of the population that is trying to use them to cure things like cancer.

I'm fully supportive of doing things that you find helpful. I don't mind my family buying essential oils, or doing whatever they want really. But they also need to understand the truth and limitations.
I struggle with both Civilization and Transport Tycoon in this way: the initial stages are so much more engaging than the management phase that comes afterwards. At least in Civilization I usually end up going to war with someone.

(but to be clear, Transport Tycoon/OpenTTD is an awesome, addictive game all the same)
You do realize development include software engineering, right? 700 people doing programming isn't even remotely surprising.

Not to defend them against the recent security fiasco, but innuendos such as this that links "employees working in China" directly with "shady business" makes me at least uncomfortable.
The whole point of shareholders is to dilute the investment so much that nobody really has a voice. Pick up some of the books by Frederick Lewis Allen, he wrote some great financial history books.
Just as a note on this - low income have higher obesity rates, because many of them live in food deserts, without access to quality produce, or other regular staples. Further, high-calorie, low nutrition foods are cheaper in the US, and therefore more accessible.

Fat people =/= healthy distribution system of food.
So, "lame"?
It's news. As obvious as it may be, it's close enough to unbelievable that it's still sinking in for most people.
Yes, I totally agree with the challenges you describe. And certainly, there are always going to be further avenues of study, whatever the result. For instance, I'm certainly not a Reiki expert, but my understanding is that chakras play a role. One could perhaps narrow the study I described above by having one practitioner intentionally misplace the chakras, while keeping everything else constant, to study specifically whether those locations are indeed meaningful.

If you wanted, you could also approach studying it from another direction, and try to measure the transfer of energy that supposedly occurs. There would be various ways to go about that. Obviously I seriously doubt that a rigorous experiment would actually show an energy transfer from the practitioner, but if it did, and no flaws could be found in the measurement techniques, that would be pretty interesting!
Thanks Peter. Stay awesome
At least I think WebRTC was mentioned, been dying for more fixes to issues.
I managed a set of Asterisk PBXen for about ten years. They're extremely capable.

To get full use of it back then, using high-quality hardware SIP phones was a necessity. These days I think that in-browser phones will work very well for most people.

Interconnection with telcos went from unsanctioned to orderable to being widely marketed during that time. If you know what you're doing you can save a lot of money. If you would prefer to have someone else do the work, the virtual PBX vendors are pretty good.
I have been in this situation too and yes it's not the convenient thing I'd do by default, but it is possible.
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No, it's because you're creating conspirative BS that is so far out of reality it's not even worth considering.

In 15 years of being in the workforce I have never seen any diversity initiative having so much as a modest effect on people taking classes or employment.

You are probably going to get banned because this a racist tirade from an ignoranimus who clearly has no real life experience in neither academia nor industry. It's stupid, delirious, and forgettable.
often time meetings are recorded so they can be played back later for people who didn't attend the meeting.
Related and not as recent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16725375

Recent and not as related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19538715
> Going to some store and lining up is very demoralising thing.

Perhaps, but also it might be just annoying enough so that everybody who really needs the food is able to get it, and people who can afford food don't take it. If that works effectively, we're saving a lot of administrative costs and reducing barriers to entry compared to food stamps where you have to convince the government that you need it.
This is very timely! I'd love to see the logging bits extracted out into its own library so I can use it directly in an existing Phoenix app. I don't really need the GUI bits.
I mean, it's a very slow motion disaster -- so slow it can't be a disaster for us.
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For a lot of people who hang out here, this amounts to baseless FUD.

Technology is not going to contract any time soon. Quite the opposite. It's also really hard to build and distribute technology products well. Good software engineers and tech sector employees will continue to be in high demand for quite a while.

There might be an interim period of depressed income but that will also likely correlate with reductions in cost of living, as a consequence of the same macro factors. The key is that a good technology employee making wise career choices will continue to be able to live somewhere towards the front of the standard-of-living curve.

What might be lost for a while are some of the more extreme tail outcomes (in the many millions of $s) that had become a bit too easily realized in this latest iteration of frothy tech bubbles. Not a big deal. Most of us won't notice any difference.
Jobs guarantee could be popular like awful "workfare", but it's oftenstill stupidly resting on the assumption that full employment is good, and UBI without full employment is inherently inflationary.
Hmm. I'd written that I couldn't reproduce this, but I think I am not on the most recent Catalina build! I will have to try again later.
New data says unemployment rate surged to 4.4% in March but truth is worse
Thanks :) The timer started higher back when it was real colleagues but it allowed people to cheat too much thanks to the team page so by trial and error I eventually settled on 10 seconds.
No, it is absolutely the point, unless you believe that the skill for CEOs was fairly distributed in its proportion of old, white men, or if you feel that whites and Asians objectively make for better engineers, or if you think that blacks make for better jazz musicians.

Drop this ridiculous rationalization of racism and sexism.
Unfortunately, in an economic environment like this a union won't help you. We're seeing many public services staff that are unionized laid off (in Canada) and I'm sure this is happening around the world. By the end of this it's quite likely this will look similar to the Great Depression.
Amazon is delaying Prime Day
Open for contributions! I just wanted to prove out the core concept of scaling the audio. Now that I know that works, really want to dig into making art assets and interactions for people.
OVO are still hiring and planning growth this year: I'm not sure on the ettiquette of reffering people, but sounds like it might be of interest. Cloud first, lots of flexibility in teams running their own microservices and a preference for functional programming (although Scala is popular, haven't seen Haskell yet in production). https://grnh.se/a2f788601us
A bag of uncooked rice doesn't help somebody who's homeless or has had their gas/electric shut off.
A Python Library for Functional Programming
Seems like a reasonable concession to make during these unprecedented times. Sites using CSRF tokens properly should be fine.

Mozilla did the same for their TLS 1.0/TLS 1.1 change: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/02/its-the-boot-for-tls-1-0-a...
And somehow Nim has more support? This is a double standard non-sens.
Btw you can address the startup time (which is reasonable btw, and x2 faster since kotlin 1.4-m1) without aot with tools like http://martiansoftware.com/nailgun/
"...to a significant portion of the population."

Including health experts:

"...depending on the vaccine formulations used and the weight of the infant, some infants could have been exposed to cumulative levels of mercury during the first six months of life that exceeded EPA recommended guidelines for safe intake of methylmercury. As a precautionary measure, the Public Health Service (including FDA, National Institutes of Health [NIH], Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] and Health Resources and Services Administration [HRSA]) and the American Academy of Pediatrics issued a Joint Statement, urging vaccine manufacturers to reduce or eliminate thimerosal in vaccines as soon as possible. The U.S. Public Health Service agencies have collaborated with various investigators to initiate further studies to better understand any possible health effects from exposure to thimerosal in vaccines."

https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/vaccines/thimer...

To this day thimerosal is not included in childhood vaccines, except for some flu shot formulations.