skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are many great online free games. I'd like to see someone compile a big list of all of the great free games you can play right in your browser:

Codenames: https://www.horsepaste.com/

Secret Hitler: http://secrethitler.io/

Plenty of other board games in the browser:

https://tabletopia.com

https://boardgamearena.com/

There are also lots of io games, I've been playing a lot of curvytron.com

There's also a pile of Jackbox games, where only the host needs to buy the game and participant can play from their phone using jackbox.tv and the code.
J. Kenji Lopez-Alt wrote a really good COVID-19 Food Safety Guide [0]. You may find it useful when preparing food at home or dealing with food delivery. He's also really active on Twitter and Reddit, so you can probably ask him more specific questions or even this question and he'll reply with some good, professional advice.

[0] https://www.seriouseats.com/2020/03/food-safety-and-coronavi...
Having exactly the same issue here, i have been working on many software side projects since a while (for 7 years now) and never launched a successful product. For the most of ideas i built about 30/40 % of the platform (user management, profile, authentication, backend apis, emails, architecture, messaging systems, dockerization, other stuff, blogs ...). For me the real obstacles (and what make me give up) were how to put the key features that make my solution better than others. I feel motivated and very exicited for some time but then it collapsed because i need to digg more for the best solution.
Examples: 1-how to add e2e video/messaging encryption to an appointment medical app. 2- how to use sms alternative solution to web/mobile apps for farmers who don't have internet connection without using other third parties. 3- build a learning platform for kids but figure out how to provide the cheapest computer solution (raspberry based maybe) because these kids cannot afford a computer.
I learnt a lot from these projects both in technical and business aspects but i still feel the imposter syndrome every time i talk about my ideas or when i see another solution similar to my idea who works just fine.
But i'm sure that hard things need more hard work.
Thank you for this thread.
Amidst C-19, CloudKitchens Emerges From Stealth
Hi, yes of course. We can talk by DM in twitter (@juanantonio488).
Really surprising numbers! Haven't seen it on other news media.
Beautiful, this is great. I really appreciate it.
My intention is to inform, not to blame. :)

Otherwise, I agree with your suggestion [of providing more guidance on the reply screen] Until a better solution is implemented, would you help spread the word when you see code quotes used this way?

Edit: I'm not sure that modifying the presentation of code quotes fully solves the problem, as we still benefit from having two types of quotes, wrap and nowrap.
Yes. We use one, also in a reefer, to store cheese from our cheese plant. It's an alternate thermostat, basically. It has a small electric heating element that you attach to the AC unit's temperature sensor, and then you stick the coolbot's sensor in the fins of the AC unit. Works great!
I've really appreciated that Android has started telling me when apps are pulling my location in the background. Every once in a while I am ok with that application doing it, but for the vast majority I immediately disable that app's location access.

After a couple weeks, I'm much more confident that my location data isn't leaking all over the place.
Just to add another suggestion, Tabletop Simulator on Steam is pretty great and on sale now [1]. My friends and I used it to play our first online game of Catan on Saturday night, we used Discord for voice chat. We all have the boxed version but obviously we can't get together...

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/286160/Tabletop_Simulator...
pro tip: I find that when things sell out on Amazon, there is often a lag before it sells out on sites that cater to businesses. The first place to check is staples.com, but I've even started placing a few orders with restaurant supply stores and such.
Very different from the type they have, but you can also play pictionary with the whiteboard feature.

Anybody have examples of games you can play with in combination with Zoom and a Google Presentation?
That's a good use case for blockchain, in regards to the "consensus aggregation of data" that you mentioned.
I third it! Every guitar I buy from them has come with personal images of the exact guitar, you can even view everything before you buy it!

Sweetwater reps are also really competitive on pricing. I like reverb for hard to find used gear, but I always end up shooting over prices from there to my Sweetwater rep, not once have they not beat it.
Do you find that it just pushes the argument "up the stack"? And now instead of the discussion being about the code you're arguing about which outcome would be less astonishing? It seems like it would move the conversation from concrete to abstract and subjective. If the person replies "this is how I would expect it to work" you can't really argue with that, because maybe that is what they'd expect, even if that's not what you think a generic person would expect.

Also, in my experience, one of the major holes that mediocre devs have is that they struggle to look at things from a different perspective (either the perspective of a user or the perspective of another developer). This principle is fully based on putting yourself in someone else's shoes and thinking about what they would expect, which is exactly what these devs struggle with.
This. One of my less enjoyable jobs, as an admin, would be going into the GSuite jungle to track down and delete emails and messages containing data that clients had sent to us, or one colleague had shared with another, which included personal information that we were not supposed to be storing or processing because GDPR. Or tracking down a former colleague's 1-2-1 email exchanges with a client which included a work spec, or agreement for a change request, which the client later denied ever agreeing to because they didn't want to pay the bill.

My least enjoyable job would be going into the admin to recover emails "deleted" by disgruntled employees who got wind that they were about to be let go. Why they tried to delete their emails - I'll never know. They should've realised that Google hates deleting anything from their clouds.

One of my happiest days at that job was the day I got told I didn't have to be a GSuite admin anymore and could go do some proper coding work instead.
https://www.goodeggs.com/sfbay/home - Can be busy but slots are opening up

https://zeroshop.co/ - Limited selection but good availability

Can't speak to if they deliver to you, but both do in Menlo Park.
Possibly sleep apnea?
That's very kind of you, we'll keep it in mind! Many thanks.
Back in college I used to love Foursquare (about 9 years ago). It was fun, lightweight, addicting (competing to be 'mayor' of my apartment building). Actually I feel like all social media was fun back then. When they split off the actual fun part into it's own app, I knew the fun was just dead. Sure Swarm was more polished, but I didn't really understand why would I move out to another app to do what I was already doing in the Foursquare app. I think a better product owner could have kept it unified somehow.

But alas, Foursquare simply had no way of making money. The often quoted 'How Not to Die' by pg seems especially relevant to foursquare. Compare the company they started out as, to the company they are now. They may not have 'died', but they sure as hell aren't the same company, product, or userbase. They figured how to not die by pulling a Ship of Theseus, replacing fun with features, features with ads, replacing ads with 'tools'.

Is there a way for social media to stay fun and profitable? I guess Instagram is probably the closest thing to staying fun, though for some reason I never latched on to Instagram. Perhaps it's focus on vanity never really resonated with me. When I think of goofy fun, I don't think of Instagram - Instagram is for the beautiful and that's not what I think of myself as.

Reading the line 'Foursquare is No. 1 when it comes to attribution and ad effectiveness, when it comes to app developer tools' is so the opposite of what I considered Foursquare to be when I used it.
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Yukihiro Matsumoto, creator of Ruby:

> Everyone has an individual background. Someone may come from Python, someone else may come from Perl, and they may be surprised by different aspects of the language. Then they come up to me and say, 'I was surprised by this feature of the language, so Ruby violates the principle of least surprise.'

> Wait. Wait. The principle of least surprise is not for you only. The principle of least surprise means principle of least my surprise. And it means the principle of least surprise after you learn Ruby very well. For example, I was a C++ programmer before I started designing Ruby. I programmed in C++ exclusively for two or three years. And after two years of C++ programming, it still surprises me.
Going from 0 to 192 in Monthly Organic Search Traffic
I think a good tip is that you don't have to explain all your reasons all the time e.g. it's okay to say you're too busy without having to justify what you're busy with.
Chinese Government VPN Servers Targeted in Zero-Day Attack
There's a Game Boy in the Nintendo store in New York that was in the Gulf War, the plastic is badly burned but the console is still on and playing Tetris.
Nordstrom does it well. I buy shirts and things and they arrive reasonably packaged, and include a return print out ready to go. Returning an item is as simple as putting the print out on the outside of a box and leaving it for the mail collector.
Mcmaster-carr is fantastic:

https://www.mcmaster.com/

Very simple UI with access to technical diagrams. Good pricing. If I order before noon or 2pm or something, here in the bay area I receive the items next day.

I wish all web stores could be like this.
Just this week I had an issue with Costco.com.

Ordered an item, their delivery estimate was 3-5 days. 7 days passed and the item hasn't shipped. No updated ETA or any information/communication on how long it might take.

Decided to cancel and order from an alternative vendor (who would communicate better, frankly). Was unable to even cancel it online (cancel button was missing, in contradiction to their help docs).

Tried to use Online Chat to cancel, which was seemingly offline/broken for multiple days. Finally called their customer service number, and it was cancelled within the hour (which credit where credit is due was one of the best telephone customer service experiences I've had).

Took all of 10 days to NOT receive a 3-5 day item from Costco.com, the replacement item ordered elsewhere arrived in 48 hours. Still don't know how long the Costco.com item would have taken because they never communicated that.
Multiple Node Pools on Azure Kubernetes Service
We played this the other week https://skribbl.io/ and had a zoom call alongside.

It's online pictionary and seemed to work very well, although admittedly the scoring does depend on people's typing speed
Yes, but mine seemed to be from my CPAP pressure set too high. Seems like overoxygenation is a real issue and it was terrible. Now that I'm back to properly titrated, I've found I gain an edge from 4mg of galantamine supplement from Doublewood Supplements. I've tried other companies, but Doublewood seems to be more potent.

This compound is an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor, so it increases acetylcholine in the brian. It is known to help Alzheimer's patients early in the disease to stay sharp. This fact worries me since I am an ApoE4 heterozygote and so the fact that it works for me may mean I have something wrong :/
Sure, Amazon might not be the only one, but every time I tried to buy somewhere else, something happened.

They charged me twice, charged me to never sent me the product and forcing me to waste 2 weeks, sent to the wrong address, etc.

Amazon seems to be the only one that can actually do their job properly without hassles.
It's as if you haven't read the article or discussion.
This is never a good argument. We can't let these smaller companies completely flout all privacy/tracking rules just so that they can sustain. The model is broken to start with.
There's a slash missing from the end of the URL, so the links to games aren't working (for me anyway). If you start here, they will work:

https://netgames.io/games/
The Io language is a very simple & elegant homoiconic language. It was introduced as one of the seven languages in the '7 Languages in 7 Weeks' book. It's basically influenced by Lisp and Self, Smalltalk.

Two of the best Io-related blog posts by _why:

* Io Has a Very Clean Mirror - https://viewsourcecode.org/why/hackety.org/2008/01/05/ioHasA...

* Lazy Bricks, Lazy Mortar - https://viewsourcecode.org/why/hackety.org/2008/01/10/lazyBr...

And some code examples:

* Making an Account object - https://github.com/IoLanguage/io/blob/master/samples/misc/Ac...
* Bottles of Beer - https://github.com/IoLanguage/io/blob/master/samples/misc/Bo...
I've 2 main things going right now. IRL I am working on my culinary skills. Cooking has always been my passion but doesn't pay bills hence I write code. Been mostly working basics, learning proper knife skills, focusing on doing recipes from scratch and experimenting a bit to gain intuition about how things like emulsification work.

On the code side I am building a logs database in Rust. I have previous experience building databases and in particular time series databases so most of the learning here is mostly about Rust which I have used before but not for this type of project. Also getting deeper into regular expressions, query languages (parsing/lexing/AST) and query optimisation than I have in the past.

Rust is growing on me more than it did in the past. I think a) because it's a much better language than it was when I used it previously and b) my experiences since I worked with it last have garnered me more respect for it's design decisions and type system.

Feeling like I am learning lots of stuff right now despite being trapped inside so that is good. :)
Yes. And some days I feel much sharper than usual.

For me I think it is routine related. I almost never have 'dumb' days during the work week but they're fairly common for me on the weekend.
Nice set of articles, thank you! io_uring is actually pretty easy to use with liburing, and seeing more people adopt it is exciting.

The problem with io_uring, really, is that every kernel release has now become much, much more exciting than the last one due to all the improvements (c.f. 5.7 now having buffer selection primops, big deal!) I'm constantly, anxiously, ever-awaiting the next kernel release... :(
That's when the journal volume containing this paper will be published.
Surgical tape for sensitive skin works pretty well for this as long as you get a good seal over your mouth.
Zoom admits user data ‘mistakenly’ routed through China
I once had an argument about usage of exceptions for flow control and I mentioned this principle.

The developer replied, mostly tongue in cheek to be fair:

Well, it doesn't astonish me
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Because if no coronavirus this would be rather a good year. The December-February looked better than on average.

The thing you are missing though is that crisis started mid March. It feels like forever (because of shelter at home), but it is a very short time and every few days the number of cases doubles. Most of that doesn't register on graphs that spans multiple years (look at the dates).
Depending on what you want you will probably have better luck calling (not online, a voice call) your local lumber yard. They deal with contractors all the time who call their orders in for delivery so this is business as usual. They wouldn't know how to help you if you walked in the door.

Make sure you setup an account with a salesman. They work on commission, but if you know what you want they know exactly how to enter your order so your small order is easy to handle. (contractors often give them a blueprint and tell them to deliver materials which is work for them although it is more money)
I had this same issue for years, had seen doctors and a psychologist. Was tested and learned I had ADHD. Meds, coping strategies and general self-awareness helped in a big way.

But I also had this specific issue on certain days lingering even with ADHD treatment. My doctor suggested I had sleep apnea. Possibly related to sleep habits and possibly a very soft lumpy mattress. My wife and I got a new firm mattress and it really did the trick.
A guess: it’s probably just heuristics based on things being panic-bought, high demand, suddenly high number of searches, etc. Obviously they don’t “know” some subset of essential items, that would be difficult, error-prone, and they would inevitably miss certain things which would lead to complaints and bad press.
Probably depends on the item. I'm outside of Boston and I don't think any order has taken longer than 2 days--other than a couple I picked delayed shipping in exchange for a digital credit. (And even those arrived on the early side of their estimate.)
All good points. But paulsutter's message remains: young people are at significant risk. Yes, the risk for older people and those with pre-existing conditions in higher. But the parent poster's characterization of the risk for young people as "very little" is dangerous.
Yeah. All the time. You can't expect top tier performance from yourself all days, everyone has an off day every now and then.

I never figured out why. But ultimately, it doesn't really matter... I imagine that humans are naturally cyclical on the scale of weeks to months.

Different people have different levels of cycles. Bipolar people are cyclical to the point where they cycle between depression / hyperactivity... but even "normal" people have ups and downs.

We aren't machines. We work differently at different times.
That's changing. People in India did donate in flying colors in the last one week. To help with Covid19, PM-CARES fund was announced by Prime Minister Modi on March 28th. In a week since then, it has raised almost a billion USD. The super rich did donate well. But so did the common people - via UPI digital payments. See news coverage here: https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/pm-cares-fund-her...
It’s an insult. Covid-19 is in the best case 30 times as deadly as the flu while being twice as contagious. Calling it just a flu and downplaying it is actively causing thousands of deaths.
I had a Home Depot order delivered recently, zero padding. It was just a cardboard box surrounding the product, and the product itself had little internal packaging (inc. Lithium Ion batteries). I'm surprised Home Depot hasn't started fires before.

Luckily the product I ordered worked fine, but I wasn't best pleased when I opened it. It was pretty obvious the manufacturer designed the product packaging for retail shelves only, and Home Depot just assumed it was shipping-grade protection.
That danger is contingent on credulous readers being in position to act on the misinformation. When people here speculate about an airliner's flight envelope, misled readers generally aren't going to go crash 737s.
I know I have learned a ton from HN comments. They are a goldmine of information and people willing to explain and mostly engage in educational respectful discourse.

I don't think anyone here will have a problem explaining the mechanics to you if you politely asked or were open to it. Your tone comes off as extremely aggressive and defensive to boot. Statements like - "what exactly is your problem" does not engender mutually beneficial back and forth.

It takes time to craft a correct and well-researched response. It is not incumbent on me to correct your misunderstandings. I might consider volunteering my time if you presented a minimal facade of civility and gratitude.

You have shown none of these.
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We have had great experiences with Krogers substitutions. Usually, the substitute with a greater quantity for the same price or better quality.
Actually being taken care of, no. But relying on their employers to take care of them and do the right thing, yes. This is an eye-opening event for a lot of people.
No one is flouting a privacy rule.

You are talking about a group of people using freeware in exchange for their data.

No need to disable the functionality as it’s entirely opt in.
Those are good examples, though in most of them it's still clearly a residence, not a workplace. So I would expect there to be protocols in place for securely forwarding items which are personal in nature— particularly since this is not a tech problem, it's something people in these kinds of roles would have been dealing with decades ago.

Certainly for myself many years ago as a university student, I acknowledged that my lodgings were temporary and had anything of any importance at all sent to my parents' address.
The article describes how to add your own Jitsi server to your self hosted Riot. But does this affect my desktop and mobile clients as well? And how do I set up my own Jitsi server when I use only the mobile and desktop apps from Riot?
We've changed the title from "An interesting old paper (1960) entitled “Cyborgs ans Space”". We've changed the URL from https://satrdv.substack.com/p/oneweb-airbus-esa-virgin-orbit... to that link. Thanks!
One of my relatives suffered three SIM swap attacks over about six months. I asked our carrier after the first two times what we could do to prevent it from occurring again. The answer each time boiled down to "nothing." After the third time, my relative got a new phone number.

I'd love to be able to opt in to having to provide a photo id at a physical location in order to complete the SIM swap.

Or maybe the carrier can try to call or text the number for some sort of confirmation process. In our case, we never even got a warning that the swap was going to occur. We found out after my relative's email account was compromised.

This issue alone is enough to make me want to switch carriers, but AFAIK, all of them do not provide robust protection measures for this issue. I've considered Google Fi, but it might have poor coverage where some of my relatives are.