skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a great point I always struggle with coming up with UIs for side projects, but really everything I come up with will always look cheap compared to the efforts of 13 experts.
The article's criticism about the 0.18 to 0.19 issues is spot-on, but I agree with you that the author comes off as feeling entitled.

The reason why Elm is fun to work with is that it's Evan sharing his hobby project with you. And that's it. There is no support, no long-term maintenance, no implied warranty, nothing. Still, it works for me :) and it is Open Source in the way that I can fix bugs myself, if I have to.

One of the reasons why I chose to not do open source myself is because of people like the author here. You give someone free source code for a useful tool and they'll come back and ask for you to fix their issues.

For example, I once patched a Heroku buildpack because I needed it to work. Due to how GitHub works, my fork was public. A while later, Heroku linked to it. And then I started getting a lot of messages from whiny entitled pricks. Apparently, they thought that it would be my duty to provide support to them. For free, of course, because it's open source...

I'm pretty sure Evan had a similar experience and that's why Elm comes with no support, no warranty, and no way for you to influence it.
How do they do business?

Are those Chinese representing private companies, or state companies?
Give AppGyver a whirl folks:
https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/06/appgyver-launches-composer...
Since big companies can raise capital with really low interest rates... isn't the stock market basically a big Casino game? Name of the game is to guess what everybody else is gonna do and come out ahead. Most are just investing for a return. Seems pointless.
"Meanwhile, a report from Imperial College London that made headlines for its dire, modeling-based forecasts predicted about 2.2 million U.S. deaths from the coronavirus, if nobody changes their everyday behavior."

On the other hand, they're still quoting that study, which was very out of date well before the 31st.
That's why herpesviridae are so successful. In the US a full half of folks have HSV-1 (cold sores).
Twenty years ago was the year 2000. Trillian first shipped as freeware that year, and shipped its for-pay "Pro" version in 2002. Jabber/XMPP development only started in 1999, and didn't reach RFC status until 2004. Google Talk didn't ship until 2005, and didn't support federation until 2006. The heyday of "XMPP all the things" was from 2008-2012 or so, with the high water mark being the adoption of XMPP by Facebook Chat circa 2010. (A decision they eventually reversed a few years later.)

IRC was of course always open, but that's kind of orthogonal to this discussion as it never really had any traction with the general public the way AIM, ICQ, Yahoo! Messenger, etc. did.
FWIW the specific biological mechanism for fatigue you described is not accurate: https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/16/health/nutrition/16run.ht... but your basic point that you will eventually get tired enough that you can't move any further is true,
The ICQ “uh-oh!” sound is still the iMessage custom sound for my best friend’s contact, because I remember spending sleepless muddy summer nights of 1999 chatting with him on the crazy realtime chat feature.
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Shameless plug but I created an app exactly for this purpose: https://www.apilope.com

You can schedule test flows and validate responses as well.

Edit: my cert is expired, I’ll fix this (now that I have a lot of time to spare:)
Death, downturn and dramatic digitalisation – Covid-19’s legacy-to-be
I fully agree with everything listed in this article. One point he alluded to (by mentioning the "friendly" exclamation marks) but didn't fully address is the Elm community's bizarre and infuriating language policing.

You can't say the word "guys" in the Slack channel, or a bot will come and correct you, and tell you to say "folks" instead. And from then on, you'll notice the core team all use the word "folks" incessantly in their writing, it's like some weird cult. You'll notice it from the quotes of Evan and Richard in this article.

The forbidden JavaScript FFI is called either "kernel modules" or "native code" despite it being neither. They also claim it's an "implementation detail" or "flaw" despite the fact that it's obviously not.

There are more examples. If you go against any of these rules then you're ostracized.

I quit using Elm because of this problem above all else. I recognize the need to have respectful rules for conversation but having a dialect of newspeak that you're forced to use is just too ridiculous.
MATLAB's foothold in academia is due to legacy familiarity, cheap (but not free) academic licensing, a nice IDE, and good toolboxes for certain niches (Simulink, Control Toolbox). I used MATLAB for 12 years in academia and would consider myself an advanced user.

However, when I left academia (engineering) 8 years ago, its use was already declining in graduate level research, and right before I left most professors had already switched their undergrad instructional materials to using Python and Scilab. I observed this happening at many other institutions as well. Anecdotally, this trend started maybe 10 years ago in North America, and is happening at various rates around the world.

I'm in industry now and MATLAB usage has declined precipitously due to exorbitant licensing costs and just a poor fit for productionization in a modern software stack. Most have switched to Python or some other language. My perception is that MATLAB has become something of a niche language outside of academia -- it's akin to what SPSS/Minitab are in statistics.
thanks. Good to know. I'll be sure to bring my reading glasses when I go try on headsets. Something I would have likely neglected to do otherwise.
Revenge? Spite? A feeling of importance and control in a situation completely out of their control? Shits and giggles?

Not sure angry human beings are the most rational actors in most cases.
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Well that's kinda rich. California does a remarkably good job of integrating people from distant lands. Only thing that grates is people from other states coming here and demanding the government be as shitty and regressive as the one they left behind. Frankly that's something foreign immigrants typically don't do.
> I consider increasing the Fed's balance sheet by 10x to working exactly against the mandate of keeping the value of money steady. How else might that action be interpreted?

If they don't do it, there will be a lot of deflation. With it there won't be as much. So the money printing is making prices more stable. (There will probably still be some deflation unless they go further, which they should.)
Why then have nations?
The models I have seen made model and then tested how it reacts as assumptions (or variables) changes.

Then there were models that specifically searched best case scenario or worst case scenario. The assumptions were clearly stated too, so you was able to determine whether you agree with then or not.

They made predictions about asymptomatic cases before those were actually measured. They made predictions before those hit the news.

They were also pretty open about unknowns and explicitely said what they are not trying to predict.
> two of the three FAANG companies

three?
I would say the contrary, WhatsApp is Telegram with 1 year lag.
Medtronic open source its ventilators
The approvals usually come from other engineers. It stems from having to modify highly-sensitive code which usually has an owner you need to work with to get an approval.
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I've never used braille but the situation I was envisioning was a blind person on the tube, receiving a message, they can listen to it with earphones plugged in, but may not want to speak the response out loud.

In this case they would type the message using this keyboard, and could have it read back out loud to check it.
Thanks Changdizzle! There are a few ways to filter—you can filter by medium by clicking the "Photography" "3D" or "Illustration" boxes, or you can filter by artist by going to the Shops page in the top nav. Or, you can search prints for tags. Did you have something else in mind?
Pair Programming Without Keyboard
I don't see the relevance of app stores to the sale of artworks...?

Auctions take a small cut because they are resellers of art. The artist doesn't get paid when a work sells at auction, the previous owner does.

Art is usually sold by galleries, and the standard cut there is 50%. On top of that, artist and gallery often share discounts, so a work that is sold for a 20% discount means the artist will only see 40% of the total price. For artists, this will be a pleasant surprise rather than a steep expense.
I won't argue that Modernism is right. My position is that Modernism was moving in the right direction, that I don't know where to go next, but postmodernism definitely is not the right direction.

I think it is right to say that postmodernism was born out of the nuclear shadow. I think it a degenerate expression of nihilism as I believe I recognize certain philosophical missteps. Summa summarum one must adopt a constructivist approach to logic and be very weary of double negation. "No dichotomy and nothing to deny" is a double negation and certain conclusions can not be made from it. We can in particular not conclude that all information is of equal value from the equality of information channels. We currently do not have the means to conclude that the medium is the whole of the message, but postmodernism seems to claim we do.

Edit: That probably came off as a bit arbitrary. I'm not very good at communicating this stuff outside of dialogue so please only see this as something to frame a perspective with a fair bit of thought behind it, and not as a convincing argument.
I had a friend in Missouri who said they had to get a permit for a shed of any size, so consulting local regs is super necessary. Heck, the Dwellito people should already be able to help with this as a part of the sales process, having zip-code level PDFs of requirements or something.
Pancake is the 2D view observers see when they're looking at the monitor (i.e. that what gets recorded).

Yeah, both rotation and translation would be filtered in the idea I had, so that small wiggling motions aren't as visible.
Virtual Desktop already has many customizable features that allow you to work the way you're describing. I've worked in it before, and it was very immersive, though there was of course some fatigue.

You can have just one window at a time, and with a good headset, the wiggle is not significant. You can even adjust it so that your workspace follows you when your head turns.
Great talk indeed.

I feel like it might be helpful to online communities to add a real "intent" field to their posting forms, like here in this video: https://youtu.be/o_4EX4dPppA?t=2489
I don't actually personally do this kind of alignment, but it was the easiest example for me to come up with to illustrate the problem of needing to align text on different lines.
Tesla is not the first automaker to follow these steps. The whole industry is in roughly the same position and considering or implementing the same moves to remain solvent for the next few months.
In elm you'd do one of two things: keep all the arguments on one line, or put each on its own line. At least, according to the formatter's opinion (which is honestly so nice to use when it just snaps everything into place every time you hit cmd-s). Of course, this convention is violated all the time when listing all the public exports of a package (with good reason IMHO; it lets your group similar things onto lines together) so it's not much of a convention: https://github.com/rundis/elm-bootstrap/commit/e412efe628854...
I had to re-read those two sentences several times cause I was sure I misread them... Apparently not.
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Wow, as an artist and founder of a similar initiative [0], I have to admit you've absolutely nailed it with Art in Res. Have you got any job openings? :)

[0] https://binnedart.com
Don't forget the multiplier on how many more internal systems a company has vs its external ones. It's not uncommon at all to see thousands of engineers at a large company working on internal-only systems, covering the full gamut of every need of a large corporation. Hell, even just the facilities management systems for the office spaces are complicated.
> - Why fixed installments? Why not say "this piece costs 300$ buy now, or pay 10 installments of 35$ or 20x20$" (forget the numbers, just an example).

We're considering adding more options like that. The only reason we haven't so far is that we're weighing it against overwhelming people with too many options and also other features we want to implement.

> - why are there so few pictures of the work? If I buy a piece of art I want to look at it from all angles, get up close, see the structure, see it from far, see the frame etc.

I totally agree with you on this. This is actually one of the features we want to add before adding additional installment options.

> - since you got excited from seeing artists' workspace, why not show them to us? Why not show those cool warehouses/storage containers/houses where the art is piled floor to ceiling?
> - When I click on an artist's bio, the last thing I want to see is a full-bleed picture of his face. I want to see where he works, how he is inspired or how this piece was formed.

Again, I couldn't agree more. For the time being, we've been getting our photos from the artists themselves and they tend to have better portraits of themselves than shots of them visible in their studios.

- out of curiosity: how did you come up with the 30/70 split between fees/artist's check? How do the artists respond? Have you had anyone say the fees are too high?

Traditional brick-and-mortar galleries take a 50% cut so we're taking significantly less than that. We also 'insure' the art ourselves: if someone stops paying and the artwork can't be reclaimed, we pay the artist their full cut anyway, even if it's a loss to us.
Thread of the blog post (source of the article): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22815112
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Is this open for Canada based artists?
Yes, I think you're right, turning down the power level is usually implemented as cycling the magnetron. But you need to be smart in how you do it if you're not going to wear out the microwave unnecessarily by using cycles that are too short. If you are cooking something big you can do 50% with 30s on / 30s off, while if it's small you might need 2s on / 2s off. Hence the relatively complex controls.
You're not hiring more middle managers because you want too, no large companies have to promote engineers to senior engineering managers to handle the complexities of approvals required by compliance such as SOC2,SOC3,ISO27001,FedRAMP, GDPR, etc.

I've worked at companies were every line of code has to be reviewed and approved by a lawyer. Yes a lawyer (usually a former engineer that the company paid to go to law school) is reviewing some dumb little javascript or python script for license and legal compliance.
The WHO technically said they were looking into it and that they had not confirmed it spread human to human. That’s totally different from “we have looked into it and can confirm it does not spread human to human.”
A version of that saying I like is: “success is like a fart; only your own smells good.”
It's been 25 years and deployment is stuck at 1%, with virtually none of the major tech companies --- Microsoft included, since none of their zones are signed --- in that set.

Microsoft cosponsored MTA-STS, the competing solution that doesn't use DNSSEC.

I think you're right: Microsoft is doing this because European customers are demanding it. DNSSEC is moribund. It may be a quirky thing that companies in Europe do, but it isn't going anywhere elsewhere.
I came across a similar, though more detailed, article about a month ago: https://www.pcgamer.com/the-researchers-who-once-studied-wow...
It's not just him at the WHO.

https://thefederalist.com/2020/04/09/why-the-who-is-a-danger...
gawk and bash aren't UX generating tools

quoting: "And a further consequence of this is that non-English developers and end users are discriminated against, due to the difficulty of formatting numbers and dates in correct ways for non-English locales."

The issue seems to be hypocrisy of the Core team and not that it isn't true open source. Forking a language is suitable only for extraordinarily situations, Elm language might be good but ultimately it's not that extraordinarily good.
I think the idea that everything can be understood by everybody, even by those that don't want to expend any effort is a problematic one. Plenty of people don't want to understand, they just want a strong man to lead them and Trump gives them the image of that. Fortunately he's not really a strong man because then the USA would be in even more trouble than it is today. God forbid that an Erdogan or Putin type gains direct control over the United States.

Facts aren't always clear cut, they aren't always simple and the world is complex. Knowing that your intended target is unable to understand a certain piece of evidence does not mean that there is a credible path to you being able to 'package' it and them understanding it anyway, especially if understanding it would lead to conclusions about their way of life that are incompatible with the way they would like things to pan out.

A conman has a much easier job there. That's asymmetrical and I do not see any solution here. That you hope this can be done speaks to your credit, I am not so sure.
What happens is that when a pure software company is a startup it is severely constrained in what it can execute on. As it gains traction, it receives funding and revenue that allows it to invest in more people to get more done. In the beginning the marginal ROI of each hire is high, but as they grow it slowly decreases and may become dominated by communication overhead if proper structure isn't added. But as long as growth is on pace, they will keep hiring to stay ahead of the curve and squeeze as many gains as possible. When VC money is at play, management will be pressured to grow at all cost, and worry less about the downside because the investors are looking for the grand slam. There's never any shortage of internal stakeholders who will have ideas of where to put heads to good use.

In short: they have 6000 because that's what leadership thought they could afford. Obviously a 10-year bull market leading up to the current lockdown situation puts them in a rough spot.
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/r/woodworking is more about finishing and fine work to me, I'd suggest starting at /r/homeimprovement. heck, i wouldn't doubt that there's a /r/backyardbattlestations sub too, though!
Yep you're right––I probably should've specified this. I think larger/gov't-operated grants probably won't use this, but I'm hoping smaller and private funders like you suggested would be the way to go

Thanks for the advice!
The WHO constantly downplayed this pandemic and kowtowed to China

See also: The whole WHO/Taiwan debacle, which is still ongoing.

The WHO is OK risking the lives of people in Taiwan in order to keep the mainland happy. You would think that the WHO would put the health of people, regardless of where they live, ahead of politics.
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Wow, for the first time in decades I see a sliver of hope for IBM's relevance.
I also eventually came to the conclusion that elm Will be forever niche and can’t become a mainstream language.

I agree with so much of what Evan says in principle, but every time the project development style is criticized, someone pastes a link of Evan basically telling everyone to sit down, shut up, and wait. Which is Evan’s right, but rhetorically speaking, this is horrible. Just a little charm can go such a long way.
Apple is developing a feature for using apps without requiring full downloads
We must start asking: is this good for the bottom line and the country. Fiduciaries, including business executives are currently required to do everything within the law to maximize profits for shareholder - even if that means doing things that are bad for the country in the long term. The current "race to the bottom" approach seems like a great way to run a country into the ground - which is now on spectacular display as we see the impacts of relying on an authoritarian, communist regime for PPE and many other essentials.
To a Better World
Yes, they hired a 24 year old college grad into personnel and she/he copied some old specs used by companies that wanted to bring in H1b programmers from off-shore.

The job specs were 40 lines long and pay was $60,000 a year for 10 years experience.

Then there were the places that brought in consultants that were doing a big rewrite, ignored the local staff and impressed management with their dark blue suits and white shirts, and left 6 years later without the project done.
During that time the best of their own programmers left and they were left with the dregs and those a few years from retirement.
Thought about doing this but I remember how we were treated. I left a job like that in Texas, worked in a shop in Connecticut with a room full of empty cubicles, and one very old guy and one new hire who knew Access.

Even the Director of MIS was being cut there but allowed to stay a few more months to apply for other jobs without saying he was unemployed.

I left.
> It is simply modern humans who have no need for the adaption our ancestors have gifted us with.

I agreed up until this. Of course, I disagreed with my evolutionary biology profs in college, too, on this subject.

These adaptations and others are still operating and still changing. They're not a point in time change to us, they're a bell curve of adaptation over time. We're adapting in some measure right now to things like modern technology, although technology may continue to be a moving target long enough that we'll never finish adapting before it changes again.

Modern humans are just animals in a rectilinear jungle, still evolving, adapting, and changing.
Sorry, I could have been clearer and said something like RNA fragments (non-infectious residue of the virus). It's true that in a clinical situation, you need to treat the positive PCR as infectious until proven otherwise. But from a research standpoint, it seems possible that someone who previously had a high viral load in their lungs, and is now recovering, could have detectable Sars-Cov2 RNA fragments for a period of time despite the presence of endogenous RNAse. And they might not be contagious.
You realize there is a centralized identity here: The house, or whatever identifies it e.g. street and number.

Also, as a counterpoint, most countries have much stronger centralized identities than the USA, and much less trouble with identity theft.
If one implements ECDSA, but does not follow SECG, one is also doing it wrong on multiple levels. Yet here we are.
Are companies afraid that opposing the Anti-Encryption Bill will automatically label them as in favor of online child exploitation?

I'm honestly curious about why there's no widespread opposition to the bill yet.