skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has this been proof-read? There's a grammatical error in the second sentence on the first page.

> we found [...] a strictly connection between gender diversity and communication patterns

Obviously this doesn't necessarily reflect the quality of the research but it is jarring to the reader and makes one question what else about the paper has not been checked over before publication
Please don't. You may not owe "these guys" better, but you owe this community better if you're posting to it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Well, just consider that an authentic element of the pre-civilization experience. If it wasn't owned by another human, it was owned by other animals.

If you want a life just handed to you without having to fight for it, civilization's much better at providing that than pre-civilization ever was.
I can understand this sentiment, but a lot of projects and companies (especially startups) want something that "just works" and not something that they'll need to invest resources into maintaining. Something like this can happen on your self-hosted git server and you won't have an SLA or anything to fall back on.
Pro: A worldwide, motivated, unpaid volunteer team is doing their thorough security audit, privacy review and QA testing for them.

Con: After the product was released :)
This is really just big LARPing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_action_role-playing_game

that is for-profit by running classes. It talks about how she goes to bars, and the local library to check her email, and flies to other countries. Article is a bit of an advertorial for her programs (which do sound cool), similar to another one from Outside on this guy's group dirt bike trips: https://www.outsideonline.com/2410685/wilderness-collective-...

Overall takeaway is that organized wilderness travel is something that appeals to techies heavily.
Supposedly Captain Crunch got on the phone with Nixon, so it isn't that far off.
Most Unix systems had 8 character password limits well into the 90's (a limitation of the original DES-based crypt.)
GitHub is down at the worst possible moment for me... Hopefully they'll fix it up soon
What about running repairs in something like Cassandra? In some cases it is by design. Here I'm a little surprised an airliner would even go that long without a reboot
Where I am it’s a packing problem, not a flour supply problem. Previously bakeries, cafes and restaurants bought big sacks every so often.
That has stopped and homes are now wanting 1,2 or 5kg bags and there aren’t any. The flour is available but in the wrong bags.
Chatroulette Zoom Edition
Me too. I am currently using Disable HTML5 Autoplay addon for Firefox which can disable preloading too. I found that useful on metered data
Nowhere in here was there a suggestion of 7 billion people adopting this lifestyle. The only suggestion was that there should be a wild human preserve for those that want to live in this lifestyle.

Obviously not many people want to live like this anyways.
No the issue is that people like your acquaintance rely on other people living life in a way they don't want to in order to subsidize their preferred way of life. I'm all for homesteading by yourself away from society, but the moment you walk into a homeless shelter asking for a meal funded by the people in the rat race that you like to condemn and opt out of, I'm afraid my opinion starts to matter.
React is not a silver bullet. It solves one problem and it solves it very well: dealing with dynamical updating DOM views. There are still many different ways to architect your application but it stops the bikeshedding and reduces the opportunity for bugs at the view layer.
Github (and gitlab) has a large value add with regard to discoverability, issue tracking, user management, hosting simplicity, and usually solid uptime.
GitHub addiction is not just about git itself. It's about the entire ecosystem of pull requests, issues, forking, linking to related projects, CI integrations, hosting for docs, and so on, all integrated under one sign-on umbrella. It is awfully convenient. Yes, for sure you can self-host one of the alternatives like GitLab, or assemble an equivalent set of services from smaller parts. It is absolutely reasonable to suggest that people should - I'm even inclined to agree - but comparing against git all by itself is the wrong comparison.
The toilet paper shortage reminds me of an anecdote I heard about the 1970s gas shortages:

"The country had more gasoline than ever, it was just in people's tanks rather than at the gas station"
I don't know, I use significantly more under those conditions, so it might be roughly a net-0 in terms of paper going through the pipes. Also, commercial toilers typically have a wicked strong flush to them which would probably overcome typical TP use, double use, a roll of paper towels, and maybe even a small tree.
I read American Tabloid first and then Libra after learning that Ellroy cited it as a spiritual inspiration. I also enjoyed American Tabloid more. Libra is a character study of Oswald and a piece of post-modern fiction (about as much as I can say without spoiling things). Tabloid is more straightforward in terms of literary techniques, the plot is more compelling, and in my opinion bigger in scope - it tries to look at the whole system that would bring such an assassination to fruition (meaning, America itself). More than any book I've read it captures a "dark" vision of America - one driven primarily by violence, racism, greed, paranoia, hypocrisy, and corruption. It's got everything - Hollywood, the mob, CIA, FBI, Hoover, Hughes, Hoffa, Vegas, the Kennedys, Cubans, the Klan, and more - and yet it doesn't feel overstuffed. Definitely one of my favorite books.
We use a self-hosted GitLab ourselves and I can honestly say we have more up time than GitHub.

But 9/10 every project we use is on GitHub and our work is stalled. Centralization will be our downfall :(
Appeal for volunteers in UK to be tested for COVID-19 to see how widespead it is
Hangouts has this issue as well.
Ethereum ecosystem will solve this issue in 5 years
What kind of vector operations does the N64 support for his case?
Sometimes it is not just a matter of good maintenance. WP has a bad quality control for plugins and that can be catastrophic: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazon-cloudfront-invali...

> I have had the same issue with the plugin. This was on a simple WooCommerce site with a few thousand products. Notice it incurred over $6,000 in fees.

> Amazon CloudFront Invalidations $6,485.76
> $0.000 per URL – first 1,000 URLs / month.1,000 URL$0.00
> $0.005 per URL – over 1,000 URLs / month.1,297,151 URL$6,485.76

After a user reporting a plugin costing his business over 6000 USD, months go by without proper attention to this issue. If there was good quality control, the plugin should have been pulled. It just shows how the ecosystem is not designed with robustness and security in mind.

But I agree, WP cannot be a proxy to judge how companies treat security. This just illustrates how bad WP itself is.
Once a year I update my webpack, React, and TypeScript versions. And this is for a completely custom webpack toolchain. I don't think that's unusual compared to other technologies.
Throwing my thin wrapper around Material-UI and Final Form into the mix. I personally prefer RFF over Formik because of RFF's ability to control renders.

https://github.com/lookfirst/mui-rff
"As an important output of our survey, participants highlighted that besides technical expertise good communication skills are fundamental for developers within a software team ."

Absolutely true in my experience. A high-performing team of majority women coached me to have our teams write "ground rules" for team communication. The improvement was a big leap forward. Many example ground rules are in my git repo:

https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/ground_rules
Great Thankyou. I’ll also add they list breakout rooms as a key feature. How’s that to use as a teacher/facilitator?
And when you don't need any of that, how do you signal that you do not need it?
I'm not sure. I found it by Googling. I think, given there are several authors listed that, yes, it has been proof-read.

Generally I wouldn't consider the occasional typo to be indicative of the quality of the underlying research. Zooming in on a minor detail in an attempt to paint the paper negatively seems needlessly pedantic, but that's just my opinion.
Related: microdroplets, between droplets and aerosols:

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/ataglance/845/
I love the content on Tik-Tok (America's youths are hilarious!), but I'm also excited for anything that will get YouTube off it's ruinous path of forcing creators to stretch a video that should be ~2 minutes into something 10 minutes long.
This is rather No True Scotsman. A lot of people say the same thing about every failed socialist state from the 20th century too. China is primarily a planned economy, and means of production are primarily controlled “by the people” (really by the central authority which claims to represent them). It has allowed a restricted level of market activity, and a restricted level of private property (though the party retains a significant level of control over said activity). The same could be said for every socialist state in history. If you follow this line of reasoning, either every nation in the history of the world is socialist, or there has never been a true socialist country. Neither of those conclusions are reasonable, obviously.
> I was in the Windows division on a team handling all the incoming telemetry

How did your team live with yourselves? Dedicated to scaling a backend to ensure Windows could adequately spy on users.
"In September 1813 Colburn was being exhibited in Dublin. Colburn was pitted against the 8-year-old William Rowan Hamilton in a mental arithmetic contest, with Colburn emerging the clear victor. In reaction to his defeat, Hamilton dedicated less time to studying languages and more time to studying mathematics."

This is the same Hamilton that brought amazing contributions to physics and algebra. I didn't realize Hamilton was also a child prodigy, although it isn't surprising.
> the cost of suddenly aborting in the middle of an action

This is where FMEA (Failure Modes Effects Analysis) is useful: the likelihood of critical failures is assessed and the ones that are both dangerous and unacceptably likely to occur are removed by design. The rest are assigned specific ways of being handled.

In this particular case, the severity of the failure (not completing a test) is relatively, but not unacceptably high, but the fault is very unlikely to occur since it requires that (a) a lab violate the maintenance protocol we specified and (b) it happens during the time period between a test starting and ending. In all other cases it's a non-issue.

If we were to continue running in this scenario, the outcome could be far worse than shutting down since we would now have the possibility of providing incorrect diagnostic data to a physician. Again, the FMEA would say that although shutting down is bad, continuing to run is far worse.
Interesting you bring up a point about Jeep. Never once in the US I've heard of a non-Jeep-made SUV referred to as a "Jeep". But back when I lived in Russia, every single SUV was referred to as a "Jeep". I don't even know of another word for SUV in Russian. Not trying to argue against you btw, I just personally find stuff like this interesting.

EDIT: just checked the wikipedia page for SUV in russian, and yep, in the second paragraph it says that SUVs are usually referred to as "Jeeps" in post-Soviet countries.
Hopefully does not depend on github webhooks for replication!
Think of how much faster and deadlier the spread of the Plague would have been with modern air travel and modern levels of travel and shipping. Think of how much worse the Plague would have been if food and supplies were even more dependent on international trade and if communities were much less self-sufficient. International commerce now is in an entirely different scale than during the Plague.
Trader Joe’s makes the best kleenex. And my iPhone captures the best kodak moments.

I also enjoy facetiming via Slack.

And of course googling for music is best done on Spotify.
Possibly, but being charitable, this is a preprint written by someone how specializes in software engineering, and it is written in their second language.
A typo seems like a fair mistake in these circumstances.
Bidets have become extremely hard to come by as well.
More I read about it, the more NVC seems essentially like a progressive NLP. It has the same hypnotic misdirection and playing on peoples emotions, while directing them to a zero sum end.

I'd argue further that the approach of pretending everyone's interests are legitimate also normalizes objectively terrible people.
Definitely "RAD:", not "RAM:".

RAM is a filesystem and not reboot persistent.

RAD is a block device and reboot persistent.

Article on RAD usage: http://www.amigareport.com/ar139/p1-6.html

Annotated disassembly: http://wandel.ca/homepage/execdis/ramdrive_disassembly.txt

It's fresh to me, because I still use my Amiga computers.
Yes! At its dumbest, just keep some dough from your last yeasted batch and feed it flour (70g flour, 100g water). Rise times go way up but that’s the point, you get more flavour that way.
Absolutely agree. Most of the time this kind of lifestyle is only partially possible and still requires reliance on modern world and its people.
How Amazon treats its warehouse workers seems relevant and topical to a thread about a change in how it is treating its workers.
I think it was also a brand of computer - specific cassette tapes for cassette storage. I was briefly confused at why such retro storage was chosen.
It's not "pretty much the same". Have a separation between Gemfile and Gemfile.lock is a huge improvement over just having requirements.txt. Having good, easy to use commands, that manages this stuff for your in a way that works well for the vast majority of use cases (i.e. bundler), is far better than the ill-defined, ad-hoc, mess that is requirements.txt management.
Maybe, but once you get past the hump of "Oh my god what am I doing?" It's a much better system overall. Same thing with work from home. Covid is a bad thing obviously, but it may end up being a good thing for the American worker and American family, bringing about a rise in homeschooling, as well as rise in work from home, resulting in more cohesive families in which parents are actually able to take an active hand in the raising of children, rather than delegating it to schools and daycares.
Have to be honest, I've always thought complaints about trademarked products in works of fiction were a silly thing to begin with. Why shouldn't a fictional universe feature products and businesses found in the real world? Are we supposedly to randomly assume all other universes don't have humvees or macbooks or the Red Cross? Who's to say the same people/companies/organisations would even be responsible in that work of fiction?

The law should basically just say there's no trademark violation in featuring a real world product/service in a fictional work so long as it couldn't reasonably be confused as a piece of marketing by the creator of said product or person. Obviously the work shouldn't be about say, Mickey Mouse, but it should be perfectly fine to feature say, Disney and their products as background elements in a fictional work without the approval of Disney.

Just seems ridiculous to have it work any other way.
Is the body odor as bad as I imagine it is?
Brazilian Portuguese now available on DeepL Translator
NASA, Japan add 2 more astronauts to SpaceX's first operational Crew Dragon
If admissible, this may be evidence in a wider case for a labor law violation. The NY Atty General was notably unhappy about what had transpired: https://www.npr.org/2020/03/31/824423595/new-york-attorney-g...

...Until events unfold more, we cannot speculate as to the charges (if any) will be brought against Amazon.
Shocking: Men and women aren't equal.
Unless you have the (ops) capacity to host it yourself reliably, chances are GitHub will be up more than your self-hosted solution.

As I'm typing this, I'm waiting for GitHub to recover so I can deploy an update to a rather important project for a big client. However, I'm happy it's their engineers to be scrambling to fix their git hosting, instead of me context switching from my work and rushing to duct-tape piece of plumbing I really don't care to think about.
I agree with you in principle, but I would point out that our long, precarious supply chains are the exact result of most professionals earning money to outsource things. I'm sure it's still a good deal, but it's less of a good deal than it looked like before supply chains started breaking left and right.
Just managed to push something, but the web interface is still down.

EDIT: (21:00 UTC ) Just got in :D
With an extensive skill set and knowledge base that is probably larger than everything you know about computers. How much of your life could you build from first principles?
> good communication skills are fundamental for developers within a software team

This is absolutely true. Fundamentally, a great engineer is doing a TON of communicating -- writing technical designs, whiteboarding different approaches, explaining reasoning in code reviews, breaking down tasks for more junior engineers, coaching and mentoring others, interviewing... and about a million other things. The role of communication only increases as the problem complexity and scope increases.
I wonder if Amazon is throwing Zapolsky under the bus.
Unstated assumption is that it can't mean both thrice baked and baked with electricity.
I agree, but do all functions use 'this'?
Users have a vested interest in not having their connections MITMed. End-user security is not an "agenda" or a "vested interest". And portraying MITM attacks and similar security holes as "inspection" is spin.

See also RFC 7258 (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7258), "Pervasive Monitoring is an Attack". Protocols that enable interception are broken and will be replaced with protocols that do not.
Or maybe he didn't...

https://twitter.com/28delayslater/status/1245769940138893312

People just love ripping on him.
I have had a Service Down Ticket open with Azure now for four days with out as much as a call back from them. Just today I finally got the automated email saying they acknowledge my issue. My system is totally dead in the water on Azure.

On the other hand amazon just called me to make sure everything was ok. Their system has been a rock.
> This is what technical debt gets you.

Becoming one of the top names in video conferencing and displacing dozens of established players virtually overnight? Sign me up.
What if I took your product and had it fail spectacularly in my movie?
Bitterness is overextraction, which involves tweaking either grind size (extraction speed) and/or brew time (extraction duration), and of course whether you press the Espro, and consume from the vessel (spent grind still impacting flavor) versus pouring brew into a separate mug.

edit: It should also be mentioned, since AP is a relatively unconventional approach to coffee prep, it has evolved over time that many prefer to brew in the AP at significantly lower temperatures than other methods. AP instructions even suggest a 176F brew temperature, which when followed makes it more challenging to get bitter overextractions, when grind size and brew time are maintained. Consistency is a major attribute to AP.
I don't know why you're getting down-voted. Must be people that've never read about mass media in Manufacturing Consent.
Right, I remember listening to an episode of Revisionist History about that [1]. Outrageous and shameful.

I'd have to listen to the episode again, but I think the most outrageous and shameful thing about it is that it wasn't actually necessary. The way Gladwell portrays it, they died mostly due to the personal spite of one person.

[1] http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/15-the-prime-minister...
OK, but, knowing this, how is it somehow "unfair" that you can't... what... steal this land from the people who have it now so you can drop out of society?

That seems just as unfair, but from a different perspective.
James Webb Space Telescope unfolds its mirror for the first time [video]
> There have been shortages in Hong Kong, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

All English-speaking countries, and, until now, moderately hit by the pandemic.

I don't know about Italy or Germany (except that there seemed to be few photos of empty shelves running around the Internet), but I can testify that here in France, there is no visible toilet paper shortage, or people fighting in the aisles of the supermarkets to get the last roll.

Yet all "rich" countries, with the possible exception of Japan, use toilet paper in the same manner. So why the difference between countries?
Why would you want to use the old APIs for new code? Surely the benefit of API stability is that your old code that you don't want to change still works? It's not like they're introducing new things every week. It's more like once a year there are major new features, and the old ones still work.
Have you checked this?

https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s10/samsung-galaxy-s...
Having worked with one of their products, as far as I'm concerned, it is the latter.

To the point that I am wondering if their "big bad" reputation is not just a publicity stunt to attract wannabe big brothers.
Samuel L. Jackson Says Stay the F**k at Home
Those red exclamation points have convinced me this is legitimate.
This is a good point, but it could be worded better.

One of the things a site reliability engineer should think about is how well the site can be operated when dependencies have issue. After an incident like this, even if you were able to recover, it's worth thinking about how things could have gone better.

In the past I had a painful experience with one application I was supporting that needed to install NPM packages on deployment. We couldn't successfully deploy (or scale up) for the duration of that outage. In that case we realized it was safer to switch to server images with all assets pre-installed and an NPM cache to give the build a better chance of succeeding. The next NPM outage we only noticed after the fact :)

Not certain how this particular deployment pipeline is failing due to the GitHub outage, but a post-mortem to discuss may be helpful and protect against future issues.
Well, I guess I'm done working for the day.
>I have yet to find an easy way to implement a simple "Press any key to accept this call" where the first person to answer AND press any key gets the call

Would you be interested in a functions script that does this? I've got one kicking around I can share.
> During the test, Webb's mirror was hooked up to specialized gravity-offsetting equipment that simulated the zero-gravity environment in space.

Can someone describe how you can gravity-offset on earth? Doesn't that require a reduced-gravity aircraft to achieve?
That's a good point. I can't say whether we've ever hit the mark on that generally. However, old news broadcasts (you can find them on Youtube) do seem a lot less emotional and more neutral. They probably still had their biases; I am unsure. However, I feel like HN is often sources from outlets like Vox and Vice, both of which are recognized as having a strong bias (see https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-ratings). We can at least do better, even if we can't be perfect.
Covid-19 Impact on AWS
Thanks, googling found this[1] statement by Quest that they have a backlog of 115,000 tests, down from 160,000 on March 25th. It would be interesting to know what percentage of the California backlog is contained within that.

[1] https://newsroom.questdiagnostics.com/COVIDTestingUpdates
You mean as opposed to Release? Or something else?