skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh come on, please stop this “it only works in police states” rhetoric. It’s not true, nor is the slippery slope argument.

Asking people to undergo testing and voluntary quarantine is perfectly within democratic bounds of civic duty and anyone with a iota of ethic is more than willing to collaborate. It’s also fair for a democratic society to compensate for any economic loss incurred.

It’s not necessary to use the iron fist except for the most egregiously anti-social deniers, but that’s the same as with the neighbors that refuse to turn down the volume of their music after 24:00
It is easy to imagine this being an opening paragraph in the history books for the WWIII chapter. Large chunks of the world economy are currently on ice and we haven't even seen what horrible economic policies governments are going to use to respond to this in the medium term. I bet that when the dust settles it'll be just like every other crisis where the situation is decidedly different and substantially worse.

The economy is both critical and far too complicated for anyone to understand exactly what is going on at the moment. We could be looking at anything from a temporary wobble that disappears in 6 months to a long-rolling 20 year catastrophe.
And still no movement on finally getting Bug 1178764 out the door, despite every other major browser supporting it. Nope, instead they'd rather faff about with the address bar to resounding universal disgust.

[Bug 1178764]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1178765
You should probably have a look at grobots[0]

It includes both "hardware design" and programming. Hardware design in the form of balancing power usage vs capability. A big honking amount of solar panels is convenient, but then the mass of your grobot increases and you need a bigger more power hungry engine too. Software design in the form of a small but very capable stack based language.

One of the fun parts about grobots is you get more than one robot and cooperation between your robots is pretty important! There's a fair few published robots, ranging from simple algea-tactics (Just sit there and photosynthize) to bee-like swarms with workers and queens to stationary robots with big cannons that depend on a small and nimble scout to pick out targets at a distance.

[0] http://grobots.sourceforge.net/
Being highly user-configurable used to be the best reason to use Firefox, but Mozilla seem to be have become openly hostile towards that flexibility in recent times, even when it made the experience far worse for lots of users. These days, being probably more trustworthy when it comes to privacy and phoning home is more-or-less the only benefit Firefox has compared to just using Chrome/Safari/Edge that comes out of the box with your device.
I already assumed a restart was required (the plain update1 one requires a restart, too). Still makes no difference to click behavior.
... No.
A week on HN wouldn't be complete without the traditional "hiring is broken" blog post.
Estimates of the Undetected Rate Among the SARS-CoV-2 Infected in Iceland [pdf]
The idea that freedom depends on tens of thousands dying from needless incompetence is very demonstrative of why America is such a mess in general right now.
Just stop and think about it for a second. End to End Encryption means that the data is encrypted between TWO ends, your device and the device of your chat partner.

Now, by downloading and decrypting it on another device, you are adding a THIRD end where is is accessible. To achieve that, you have basically two options: one is to pass over decryption keys to a new device (potentially breaking E2EE security model for another guy who does not expect you to use 2 devices without his explicit authorization), and another approach is to do an own encrypted archive to store data and sync between your devices. You basically encrypt data and store it on a server, decrypting it with your password or certificate or something that you share between devices. It's not E2EE at all, actually, cause you'll be breaking the security model for some convenience, because the idea of e2ee is to communicate only with devices, each and every one of which were authorized by you. If you don't follow this rule, you make a travesty out of E2EE, basically stating that all you really need is a nice and cozy feeling of being secure, not true security.

You have to face it: true E2EE is not achievable without significant sacrifices of user experience.
I have met both Evan and Richard, having been a member of the SF Elm Meetup group. My experiences have shown me that they are both deeply empathetic individuals who are very methodical in their approach to improving the language.

Evan spends every Meetup exclusively focused on attendees who've no it's very little experience with the language, basically giving them a personal guided tour. In these sessions here is very kind and patient - and a skilled teacher.

Richard is friendly as well and does a great job communicating the vendors of Elm's design and how best to take advantage of it. He is also a senior practitioner who writes Elm on a daily basis.

NoRedInk is truly powered by Elm, and that has helped them hire very easily despite not having tons of cash to throw around (they make education software).

So at the end of the day, I've come to view them as true believers in a very particular vision for the language. It is compelling, especially when walked through it by Evan. But they have a lot personally on that vision.

In many ways, they view themselves as taking the long slow road to what will be the "UI language of the future". They want many people to try the language and see the benefits of immutability, purity, and declarative UI. They want people to follow their lead and use those principles in using Elm in their projects.

But in their eyes, Elm is not done. They have no interest in people coming in and suggesting that Elm should be something else. At times, that's lead to some rash behavior that looks bad. But as practical as Elm is for many projects it is not Pragmatic. And that turns people off.

And if it turns you off, I'd leave Elm off your list of choices for a language in your production projects...for now.

It is yet to be seen if Evan's vision will succeed in it's goal of making functional, declarative, strongly typed UI programming "mainstream". But he's proven that he is committed to that vision regardless of a large host of workaday engineers asking him to compromise in some way.

Maybe some day, custom operators come back. Maybe some day there will be type classes. But I can guarantee that day won't come until the vision is complete and you see Elm 1.0

PS: I fully empathize with the people turned off by this approach by the way, but I can't help but truly appreciate someone doggedly standing firm on their design principles and seeing it though despite it costing them an opportunity at widespread fame. I have no long term contact with the Elm core team, and no projects using Elm currently. Maybe when I see 1.0 :-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropospheric_propagation

It’s episodic and well known phenomenon to any amateur radio operator that prefers the vhf/uhf bands.
Except that it hasn't been a problem for years on e.g. GNOME. X11 applications work fine and are not blurry. They generally use 2x scaling. Only old Gtk2+ applications such as Inkscape and GIMP have small icons, but there is probably a workaround.

Sure, if you use Sway, you get blurry X11 applications. If this is a problem for you, don't use Sway ;).
It's common to all developing nations, and the US (which is both a developing nation and a developed nation in one).
I haven't dived deep into this topic, and this isn't a challenge to what you're saying, but what are your thoughts on the points here:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03784...

TBH, unless you work directly in an area like this and stay up to date, it's a question of faith in experts either way. It basically becomes an appeal to authority, and as you can see, if you have multiple putative authorities, it becomes difficult to select.
Show HN: Menubar app that enables Windows alt-key shortcuts in Mac Excel
Re-write or re-type. Use your laziness as a force for good to cut out extraneous stuff.
I hear the phrase "peer review" thrown around so much it's reaching semantic satiation. I get that it's the way respected science gets done, but it's also the laziest possible critique because you're literally asking for someone else to think about it for you.
Perhaps I’ve missed something in your argument then. I’d need to understand exactly how you are planning to promote the spread of the attenuated form. If you’re talking about a “sequencing driven” Pox party [1] then I suspect you will run into issues. Particularly if you were to say that the Pox party will infect you with an attenuated form of the virus and vaccinate.

Both the diagnostic (sequencing or otherwise) and claim that you are vaccinating individuals would seem like they’d require regulatory approval. But I’d be interested in evidence that suggests this is not the case in a modern context.

Overall, it seems like the idea is as dangerous as deploying an untested mRNA vaccine. Because of this, I’d suspect that regulatory or other authorities would get involved.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pox_party
And then you realize other languages don't need all this extra effort and work and planning.
Can't recommend enough. I am currently doing this and loving it.
>Those willing to trade liberty for security deserve neither.

That's a thought terminating cliche, not a response, as well as a complete misinterpretation of Ben Franklin's intent[0], thus not even a valid argument from authority.

[0]https://www.npr.org/2015/03/02/390245038/ben-franklins-famou...
> This is only good if you want to work for big government granted monopolies where you are just a cog in a big machine.

People I met who lived in that era didn't describe it that way to me. They were prideful of what they'd accomplished.

> Government imposed 200% duty on German machinery and now my competitor who is in Singapore can easily import that machine because he isn't paying 200% import duty on importer machine.

Best way to deal with this is to get the local industry to reverse engineer the machine and produce a copy. Intellectual property be damned. This boosts local industry, improves the local economy, allows independent innovations, reduces the nation's dependence on foreign markets, etc.

Obviously, the established players don't want this. They want developing countries to buy their stuff instead of making their own. Intellectual property is the true government-mandated monopoly.

> How is my product going to be able to compete in international export market when my investment is already double of my competitor.

The point is to focus on the needs of your people first and foreigners second. The fact is companies don't care all that much about their secondary markets. I've seen products for sale here with labels printed in spanish: they didn't even care enough to create labels for us.

The trick is to make your own people your primary market. The US does this, Japan does this. Why should other countries be any different?

> I am going to import end product form someone who is able to create the end product at cheaper cost then put my label on top of it and sell locally. What did I learn? Just slap label, market and print money?

It's a lot easier to develop an existing industry than to create one out of nowhere. Industry could start by simply assembling parts. When the industrialists see a return on their investment, they can expand the scope of their operations and perform R&D.
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It really works both ways, but most people only focus on one.

E.G. "Imagine being a peaceful farm owner family and a bunch of preppers with assault machine guns who spent lifetime secretly hoping for a zombie apocalypse come to steal your food." etc.
Source? What platforms?
Can we confidently say what has or hasn't been avoided by anyone? It seems a little early to be counting our chickens.
> Why would you need 1ms ping...

Remote desktop, ssh, VoIP, gaming... anything that's interactive. All of those work better and are more fun to use with low latency.

Even plain web browsing can be much more enjoyable with a low latency connection assuming there's no other bottleneck.
Underrepresented groups are actively recruited but don't get more attempts. If you think otherwise just ask an engineer from an underrepresented groups about their recruiting experiences. They would probably know better. All their interviews include an underrepresented candidate, so their sample size is probably larger :)

The active recruitment is to counterbalance the fact that referrals, one of the biggest sources of talent, is not a diverse pipeline. Everyone's network is mostly male and white or Asian. This is even true of engineers from underrepresented groups. If you want a shot at hiring qualified underrepresented candidates, you have to actively recruit them. Your existing workforce cannot help identify them. That's what's meant by diversity and inclusion.

Now whether you agree that diversity and inclusion are worthwhile is another discussion altogether.
Firefox comes pretty much broken out of the box if you don't use config flags.
Comments below indicate people's shock at the price: $1500.

ReMarkable isn't cheap either: $400
Had to go to other pages to find docs butt you can nest the lists too.

- melon

- test

- test2

- and more

- and more
The photo in the article looks cool, showing a full page of the New York Times in tiny dense font on a huge screen. But is anyone really going to want to read a paper in that format by standing next to a wall for an hour while squatting to various heights to allow their head to be level with the text they are reading?
Also see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17782121 (2018)
But is training + market rate more expensive than hiring + market rate ?

Also, it seems to ignore the fact that training people is actually an incredibly useful thing to do to hone your skills as a senior dev, and that having to teach forces you to cristallize, simplify and explain thoughts and processes that you possibly never challenged before.

Tbh, I think I'm more productive and learning more when I have a decent intern to coach in my team than otherwise. So it's really a win-win situation.
Commodore is (now) a title, not a rank. It was not always that way.

Commodore can refer to a Rear Admiral (Lower Half), which was Grace Hopper's rank (IIRC it was awarded long after her retirement). Commodore can also refer to a group commander -- for instance our Destroyer Squadrons are commanded by a Commodore, who is an O-6. Same with Naval Special Warfare Groups.

Commodore as a title and a rank has a long and storied history all the way back to the days of sail in the British Navy.
I really enjoyed the course on the Science of Exercise - https://www.coursera.org/learn/science-exercise.

I always wondered if there was a comprehensive way to understand how different fitness regimes and diets actually help or don't help. This course was amazing and helped my understand the fundamentals. A bit technical - goes into the basics of biology, but even without that information, this was a great course. The instructor is Dr. Robert S. Mazzeo, who has been studying, researching and teaching in the field of exercise science for over 40 years.

I have actually applied several of the principles in my workout regime and started to see the effects over the last few months. I highly recommend this one.
Google infects the Gboard spacebar with it's logo
One problem is the cost of these devices. The unit shown in this article sells for $1500. Another is the slow refresh rate, which is often-times fine for tasks like reading a large set of text (ebooks, entire newspaper sheets, etc), but might not be well suited for touchscreen use where UI elements need to react to user interactions in a timely manner. The project in the OP skips user controls altogether, meaning you can't actually read anything beyond the front page.

eInk is cool, and the technology continues to be developed, but it's still a niche solution applicable to limited use cases due to the slow refresh and high cost.
I have a dev who can / will do it. Our website is in WP right now.
Much like the dangerous virus can mutate to a less harmful version of itself, isn't there a risk that the benign version could mutate back to a (more) dangerous form if spread this way?
Principles of scalable front end projects
It is quite possible. I used to use packet radio on 144.45MHz, and when the conditions were right I could reach a BBS ~200km away. That's not terribly exciting, but both stations were pretty low to the ground, not very powerful or directional, and definitely not in line of sight.

For reference, according to wikipedia, if one station was at sea level and the other about 1500m above, you'd expect line of sight to be around 160km.

Similarly, around the same time of year (January or so) but less frequently we used to get VHF TV interference from a station on the same frequency but more like 1000km away (if I'm remembering the source station right, it was a long time ago), strong enough to interfere with the more local transmission.

Radio+atmospheric effects can get weird.
France is living in a parallel universe.
And yet again the speed argument. It's not about the langauge really. If you want, you can make Python program run fast. Anecdotal evidence: https://wordsandbuttons.online/outperforming_everything_with...

But you don't want that. You want the underlying libraries to be fast and Python code to be cute. And that's the right way to go.

Part of my department's job is adopting the researchers' prototypes in Python and making them fast in C++. First of all, it's not about making them radically fast, it's about making them some 10% - 100% faster. I guess, the best I've heard about was 3x. Second, there were cases when C++ remakes were even slower than the prototypes in Python.

This phenomenon has an explanation. If 99% of what it does is done by NumPy, then we really compete with NumPy.

For instance, it might be built for more recent architecture and using better superscalars. Researchers can afford the very recent builds but we have to support a lot of users with a lot of PCs so we're basically stuck in 2010 with out target architecture.

And even this small detail matters more for the performance than the glue it was all brought together with.
I hate time constraints. That is why I hate whiteboarding as well.

My brain just not work that way. If I have to modify something in a project I already worked on. That's fine. But interviews always ask tho build something from the ground up.

Once I got the requirements I need a few hours to think about it, before I write any actual code. I usually do something else while I do this. On a job, it's when I home and do some chores and my mind can wander around freely. But I can't make this process much faster. If I'm on the clock I have to sit down and start spitting out code. Also, there is no time for any major refactoring if you went in a wrong direction. This adds a lot of unnecessary stress.

I like it when you have a day or an afternoon to finish a 3 hours long task. I work faster if there's no time pressure.
Honestly, I think it comes down to establishing and visualizing clear goals. With really strong and clearly defined goals, you reach a point sometimes where there's nothing you can do except the thing you don't want to, and then you do it.
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Love the idea! I guest I will be willing to pay depending on how much I get from those software deals and the number of hours of mentoring
Automatically putting highlighted text into the clipboard is an old, old Unix convention. I personally hate it, along with the middle-click to paste action. AFAIK neither of those behaviors can be disabled, and I find them both extremely surprising, unintuitive and harmful. I guess some people like it, but if I could turn all that off, I'd be thrilled.
Based on the core team communication, if you fork the project, you are persona non grata in Elm.
Read the precedents. There's no question that infectious disease carriers can be forcibly quarantined. But forcing apparently healthy people to undergo an invasive medical procedure (a search) in order to exercise their right to assemble would be another thing altogether. And long-term curfews for adults have never been upheld.
Not sure what this has to do with ui changes. What do you think you are going to accomplish by whining about how a project providing free software is not prioritizing your pet feature request?
I don't think it is impossible, but in such an unlikely case, I'd require direct proof to the antisemitic propaganda from the Hungarian government in relation to the (populist indeed) George Soros campaign.
> incapable of saving everyone or preventing any infections

True in that no government can save everyone and prevent all infections. Therefore all government is shit, even thoughthey clearly all aren't.

How's your plans for creating your own vaccine coming along, have you started that virology and epidemiology course, and how's the new laboratory progressing? And that new supercomputer, and the chemicals (better not buy from anyone else, make your own!), and the various other kit that only a prepper can do properly. Fill us in, do.
https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/pull/2064
That won't work in India nor America. What everyone imagines is one or two people sneaking around trying to steal things and being thwarted by a big family. The reality is groups will quickly form. First 10 people then 20 and soon little militias of 100 people will be raiding. Do you really think several towers is going to make a difference to a small 100 person well armed militia?
> Oh come on, please stop this “it only works in police states” rhetoric. It’s not true, nor is the slippery slope argument.

Vietnam is a police state. Singapore is a police state. South Korea is a police state. China is a police state. HK is a police state.

> Asking people to undergo testing and voluntary quarantine is perfectly within democratic bounds of civic duty and anyone with a iota of ethic is more than willing to collaborate.

Asking for a voluntary quarantine is different from quarantining people. US states have asked people to voluntarily quarantine. The argument that is being offered is that voluntary quarantine is not enough.

> It’s not necessary to use the iron fist except for the most egregiously anti-social deniers, but that’s the same as with the neighbors that refuse to turn down the volume of their music after 24:00

It is a civil and not a criminal violation.
If it all ends up generating Javascript, why don't people learn to write good Javascript.

Rather than compound problems with unnecessary incompetence and calling it functional and typed. The only thing typed I discovered is undefined incompetence from Elm to C++.

There is always an excuse to complicate problems when you are incompetent and invent useless languages.
> Do you have any idea what the justification for this behavior is?

I don't know, but I would hazard a guess that the most common action in the URL bar is to copy the URL to paste elsewhere. Highlighting the text automatically gives the user the opportunity to immediately hit Ctrl-C. I think it's an improvement.