skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is really no simple answer but I would start by clearly defining roles on who is responsible for priorities, who is responsible for facilitating the prioritization process and who is responsible for defining what processes are used to change priorities.

If it is decided that business us responsible, utilize a single backlog that the business can see and let them fight over the prioritization with defined practices.

Depending on the size of the company and overall development model I might use some framework (or pick suitable parts) like Less or SaFE to kickstart the new development process and then utilize larger scale retros to optimize the workflow continuously but in a structured manner.
It's a sickness of society to treat young people as "lifestyle" (or possessions, or hobbies) of their parents. If we think of them as people in their own right, then the argument for providing them with education, social support etc makes more sense. It helps to think of your own childhood. When you were were younger you benefited from the wealth of your parents, the structure of your society and the goodwill of other people. Those things have been eroded over time and young people today have less support then they had 20-30 years ago, and much less than they had 50-60 years ago. When a crisis like this happens, they too are going to suffer. This is a defining event for their generation even more than it is for working adults.
Questions to ask at the end of a technical interview (2017)
There's a big difference between "the things we did weren't enough" and "if we had done something, it probably wouldn't have worked anyway".

One is a measured opinion, the other is an excuse. Which are you willing to accept from your government?

Also, when the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee dumps up to $1.7M in stock right before a market crash, you have to question the timing.
Don’t forget WiFi router Mac address triangulation.
I read some time in the last few years that Asian giant hornets were migrating into Europe. It's an easier migratory route than across the Pacific. I wonder whether the spread of apiculture has produced a food bridge they can exploit.

Here's the first hit I turned up on Google: https://www.thesun.ie/tech/5302630/giant-asian-hornet-invade...
From the What is ReactOS page:

> ReactOS is an operating system.

> Our own main features are:

> ReactOS is able to run Windows software

> ReactOS is able to run Windows drivers

> ReactOS looks-like Windows

> ReactOS is free and open source

https://reactos.org/what-is-reactos/
Was being factious.
This isn't FMLA and isn't limited to parents at my company.
Everyone gets this benefit now!
Unfortunately, you will never see this level-headed, common sense approach promoted by the main-stream media.
Prefer associative ontologies to hierarchical taxonomies
More Than 30M Years Ago, Monkeys Rafted Across The Atlantic to South America
Big Tech moves into government vacuum on coronavirus
Extremely broke.

https://www.truthinaccounting.org/news/detail/financial-stat...

Other than defaulting on their debt, they can’t do any thing about it as the money was spent decades ago in the form of defined benefit pension payments in the future. If all the recipients of those future defined benefit pension payments died, then that would also lower their debt.
How does this poor man's log10 calculator trick work?
False.

>GigaIR: 512 Mbit/s – 1 Gbit/s, NRZI, 2-ASK, 4-ASK, 8b/10b

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared_Data_Association
PDF is a high-quality vector format that displays the same on every device, can be produced by many different applications but use the same viewer, and has a public specification that's an ISO standard. There's very little competition. Compressed PostScript is clunky, slow, and still big, XPS was too late, DJVU is primarily for scans. Things like Word or HTML display differently on different devices, Word and many other formats are or were proprietary.
Pig-action: a Github Action for managing pull requests and issues
Just find this cute github action
Good. This means less heat, and a much faster transmission.
> I think his post is a little bit more fearmongering than is necessary.

I think that is being unnecessarily charitable because of his high status. His math and his assumptions on this point are completely broken. So broken that if he were some rando, no one would have even read the rest of his thread, much less commented on it at on the front page of hacker news.
That looks a lot like Visual Basic, except it allows you to name the patterns.

sub letters
dim char as string
do
char = inputbox("Enter lower-case character or digit. No data ends.")
select case char
case "a", "e", "i", "o", "u"
msgbox "The letter " & char & " is a vowel."
case "b", "c", "d", "f", "g", "h", _
"j" to "n", "p" to "t", "v" to "z"
msgbox "The letter " & char & " is a consonant."
case "0" to "9"
msgbox char & " is a digit."
case else
exit do
end select
loop
end sub

(This example is actually LibreOffice Basic, as I'm not on a Windows machine right now, but it should be the same in VBA and VB6.)
> remote-only

Oh, that changes a lot. I think it would be a lot easier for people to log in a couple hours here and there as part of a trial than to commute to an office and spend an entire day.

I actually like this a lot, thank you for posting. Maybe the COVID-19 situation provides companies around the world with enough experience on remote work to make this kind of remote trial more attractive.
Yikes, this is prep for big brother's guilt by association. I wouldn't want to test positive for anything the state can track (radical ideas? you're now a positive in this system). Opt out.
Ive stopped buying anything with non replaceable batteries after noticing how much junk I accumulated just coz the batteries died. Anyone know of good bluetooth receivers (the types that clip to your pocket) that take an AA or AAA battery?

I am just absolutely fed up of the battery situation. By the time the devices are broken in and you are comfortable, it's time to buy another pair. I am not that rich.
As both are untrustworthy American corporations no matter what they do or say it will always be a huge privacy issue. I would go back to my old SE810i phone the instant this was forced on iOS and Android users. People are already doing this (especially young people) so this will be apple and google shooting themselves in the foot.
Transistor is the powerhouse of the computer.
New York's coronavirus outbreak came from Europe and other parts of the US
Or perhaps you think there are more people against GA here than there actually are.
I can’t find anything concrete, each company does it internally. There are some articles where they publish the starting salary based on your university’s “rank”. Try google translate on this: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.lexpress.fr/emploi/les-atou...

It discusses how there are 6 ranks for business schools, and your salary for the first N years will be based on that. Same for engineering. It’s funny that one of the companies is proud to declare that they can move salaries by “up to 5%!!!” based on the candidate themselves (whereas the school can make a 20-30% difference...)
Tokyo coronavirus emergency threatens internet cafe 'refugees'
When you collect contacts, shouldn't you state the purpose of the communication? If so, I would assume most of the contacts in the address book never consented to being contacted about the non-payment of the bill. So European citizens can't use the app legally.
It's just a blog, matomo is more common in production.
About.me Decentralized
I think the comparison is a bit exaggerated. People generally know how to use ctrl+c and ctrl+v. Keyboard shortcuts aren't that nerdy, some of them are explained in the Windows 95 User Guide.

Meanwhile UI consistency is useful for everyone, not just nerds. I think optimising software for some minimal set of lowest-common-denominator use cases like this is a slippery slope.
Just sharing my experience with Elm. Using it in production for over two years, 150K LOC elm codebase. Yes elm does have some problems, but I’ll choose elm over react/vue etc. for new project, simply because of the awesome development experience.
Neat, reminds me a bit of Monodraw - https://monodraw.helftone.com/
Upgrade? You mean re-write.
similar article on NPR without paywall https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...
Goodbye last shred of privacy.

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions" is an expression that comes to mind.
Do you have more infos on that ?? I live in france and the general message we keep hearing is that every nation is dealing with the crisis alone and that the european union project may die because of that.
I'd say start with some eager functional language such as OCaml without the "object" part. Haskell code is hard to debug cuz you can't rely on good old print.

Monad itself is never a silver bullet. Type systems and Composability are the true power of FP IMO.
Analysis of Coronavirus Pandemic with Pandas
As everyone says, it's a careful balance. However, I want to emphasize how much slicing features down to the absolute minimum can help. What you absolutely don't want is many half finished, unreleased big features. However, using tactics like continuous deployment and feature flags, you can slice features into small bits, always be deploying, and launch to customers as soon as the feature is minimally viable. Then, you have the choice to continue improving it, or pivot to a different feature depending on how people like it, new sales opportunities, etc. Plus, having even minimal versions of features out in people's hands opens people's minds about what they want. You want to move that churn upstream from development to product at the very least, but possibly even further up to stakeholders or clients.
> Q: How many forums do I go to. A: Just two, HN and Reddit and on Reddit, I only browse the topics that I want to. I almost never go to the front page.

TIL Reddit has a frontpage.
70% would certainly seem to be too high. Data from the Diamond Princess showed 17.9% of infected persons never developed symptoms. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6912e3.htm
Not to mention GOTO. If your one of the people who hyperventilates when you see a goto because you learned that it was considered harmful in programmer school then Cobol might not be for you. ;)

You might be surprised about the comments though - depending on the age of the codebase. Mainframes were rented back in the day, you paid by resources consumed, terminal time was precious, and mainframes were often turned off outside business hours.

Because of this a lot of the development actually happened between terminal sessions in flowcharts, pseudo code, documentation, and peer review before the programs were ever modified and run.

If you ever run across really old comp-sci books you’ll typically see them divided into three sections - first section was usually a guide to the author’s terminology and symbology, second part was usually a guide to flow charting and documentation (IBM had standardized forms for developers to use), and then the remainder of the book was the content with lots of explanations of how to work the datasets hugely larger then the memory available to you.

But as time passed and computer time became cheaper many of those formal development practices started to get lax.
Alone? Like with the 500 billion euro EU emergency fund that was agreed yesterday?
Japan to pay firms to leave China, relocate production elsewhere
In the book Cybernetics Weiner examines work on random circuit theory with tunable weights, mentioned as a potential mechanism for replicating black box behavior and even potentially being how life replicates (it was written pre-Watson and Crick).

Link to description of that chapter:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics:_Or_Control_and_Co...

(I think it is the Dennis Gabor part)
Steve Ballmer Going Crazy on Stage
even if covid status isn't sensitive, location & interpersonal associate data is sensitive
Interesting. I think I edit urls many times more often then I type one.
Apple, Google announce plan to help people trace possible coronavirus exposure
It partially hides the bar, you can still click the bookmarks but it makes it uncomfortable.
Steven Erikson was right, lol.
How important is communion in those churches? From what I can see none of them are Anglican, orthodox, or Roman Catholic. They’re all evangelical Protestant.
Ethernet Is Worth It for Video Calls
That's interesting but seems odd. Could you elaborate on why this approach works better for your team?
Apple and Google Team up to trace Covid-19
are accurate weather forecasts not part of society's critical infrastructure?
Are you the author of that medium post? Because if so your childish answer here only proves that you don't really know what you're talking about and that you are merely parroting stuff you heard on internet.
that's the new electronic voting: making easy stuff more complicated and dangerous...

the problem is not not a technological problem, it's a political problem.
Does it mean we will need to eat raw crushed garlic daily alongside wearing masks now?
I am curious about this as well. If we take this "volunteer" word being used in these articles at face value, it means these states are asking for people to work on their systems for free… you've got to be frickin' kidding me. It's such a preposterous idea that I can only believe that it must have been an error or misinterpretation at some level which has entered into and lingered in the news zeitgeist like a fart in the shower and that these states actually do intend to remunerate their contractors at a fair rate. Why else would anyone accept these contracts? Are there really people who are both experienced COBOL devs and such huge fans of the bureaucracy of their states that they'll serve them for free? If there really is any overlap on that Venn diagram, it must be quite small - and shame on every single one of them for devaluing themselves.
This medication has become a political hot potato.

President thinks it may help.

The Backlash is insane.

All these media outlets are hysterical about it. While many doctors are trying it out.

Yes article was pro trump. But the hatred of this treatment is absurd.

I was seeing a lot of headlines about how the virus attacks blood cells. Now I see none.

This crap happens on reddit all the time. Hate to see it here.

I follow this treatment closely as it’s been around for years. And I’ve personally benefited from it.
However getting doctors to prescribe it has been a nightmare.

Every time I get a couple months of normal health when I take the antibiotic. But then I’m out, and it’s years to the next round of it.

The constant dismissal from “experts” is insane.

Let me try a treatment. Let others try a treatment.

So many times I’ve been cold shaking, and doctor still refuses to give an antibiotic. Grab some from a friend. Oh wow I’m better now.
Doctor only upset because I went around them.
It can work relatively well under VirtualBox.
> at that stage the outcomes with invasive ventilation are significantly better than without

You are responding to a thread that has this in it:

>> If it's any comfort, the death rate is so high with ventilators (80%+, which is bad even for ventilators)

How can both statements be true at the same time? Or is the 80%+ incorrect?
Ask HN: What tools do you use for product design/roadmap management?
Not so much a question about what you use to do mockups/ui design (although happy to hear of alternatives to balsamiq, invision, etc), but what tools you use to conceptualize and design the product and roadmap itself.

(Inspired by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22827275 I was interested in what tools people use for this type of thing)
Colors on the Web Are Getting Intense with Display-P3
OK, I wasn't aware of these newer specs, it certainly used to be much more limited.
Java similarly imposes a lot of structure that allows you to more easily find where everything is, but the trade-off is that there is a lot more of this everything to find, whereas in a more flexible language you would have less code to read through and therefore less need for organizing it.
I understand this is just a snarky remark, but IIRC sildenafil is actually being tested.
Haha! Everyone’s with Camp Envy this year! Woot!
Caring for children is an issue for those having them (basically slashing productivity in half). Also too many calls that could be async communication.

Other than that it works amazingly well.
I have already increased my garlic intake quite a lot. Social distancing makes stinky breath less of a concern.
Thanks for posting this. Our computer teacher in high school skipped the outdated COBOL sections (just an intro, around 2004) I realise i'd never seen an actual code sample yet!

Aside, RE testing, a wild guess: could the "accept char" be tested with emulated keyboard inputs?
I tried to learn FP multiple times by learning haskell. Never clicked, tried clojure and I was productive after roughly 2 days.
Haskell has a huge catalog of libraries you can reach for, so you don’t have to reinvent the wheel. That said, the Haskell way can seem very different than what you see in most languages. As an example, IO—or anything causing a side effect—has to happen in the IO Monad. There are good reasons for this, but it takes some getting used to.
Can you expand on this? What do you do during that week?

This runs really counter to my instincts. The first thing I wanted to do at my current job was move from weekly deployments that were lagged by a week of QA to nightly deployments behind feature flags, so product managers could launch quicker, allowing faster feedback loops.
Yup. If I’m doing something quick, then I’ll just use ear protectors - if I’m doing any kind of extended work, then it’s boots, gloves, shin guards, ears, face shield.

I only had to use a chainsaw once without ear protection to swear to never do so again.
Debugging declarative code is always hard, whatever the language. Haskell does allow you to use trace expressions which will output values to standard out, see Debug.Trace.

This is no reason to avoid arguably the most popular (and state-of-the-art) function language and implementation out there.
Germany is for example taking the new cases in Alsace.
Sfff
I generate my blog with a static site generator I wrote, but I don't see how anyone would be able to tell by inspecting the output.

A heuristic that might work would be to add a cachebuster query parameter to the page url (?cb=$RANDOM) and see how long it takes to respond. The idea is that the three most common setups are:

* static site served with apache/nginx/etc, which will just ignore the query param

* dynamic site, which will regenerate the page

* dynamic site behind a cache where the cache doesn't know that the query parameter isn't needed, and so the cachebuster will cause the page to be regenerated
I'd say yes to that in a heartbeat. Thirty days is probably not enough to someone new to programming, but to experienced programmers in various other languages it's probably enough to get the basics down and get over the "know just enough to be dangerous" hump.

If these orgs desperate for devs want to put their money where their mouth is and start a program like that, hit me up. Sure.
I get a lot of these, but got two concerning ones yesterday.

They were both to/from 'catch all' addresses at my domain (hosted on G Suite) and had passed SPF and DMARC. I looked at the headers, and they originally came from an Ecuadorian consumer ISP and failed SPF and DMARC, but then they somehow got forwarded within/by Gmail making Gmail see them as legitimate.

I've never encountered this before but I'm guessing G Suite does something funky with catch all addresses that causes them to be forwarded within Gmail itself and then appear legit?
I worked with a guy like this. He bragged he was the only one that knew the entire legacy codebase and he only shared parts with colleagues on his pretty sizable team to ensure he had a job and fat salary for life.

The the multinational decides a change in direction and fired the entire office, relocating it for regional diversification (this was not offshoring, spreading the work out across multiple teams). This was pretty niche stuff, and he became unemployable until moving across the country.

And I know of a company that similar was outsourced to. Fully outsourced with seemingly no internal expertise. Bleeding their client for increasing support prices year-by-year imagining they could do this for ever. I was in the team in that client that for two years, going from-scratch re-implementing the functionality, no cheap proposition, but within 3 years of in-sourcing the savings were already there.

Not all wizards know magic.
Ask HN: How to teach Python to non-programmers online?
> The primary driver and motivation for politicians should be altruism, do good for the sake of it.

Any system that relies on people being good is a bad system. A good system is one that has good outcomes with weak and venal human beings. The US federal system has its merits but it’s far inferior to Switzerland’s.

> So many people in NGOs etc. are capable of doing just that; working for "the good" even though it pays bad, why should we not expect that from politicians?

Because the government is important. Ideally we want not the best of the people who are motivated by their conception of the good, we want the best, full stop. The average NGO is much less well run than the average company. At the extreme top level where you’re comparing the Gates Foundation with General Electric you’re dealing with at least roughly equivalent levels of competence but if you want the best and you can afford it you shouldn’t self handicap by only hiring those who don’t value money much.
You completely misunderstand reality. When the F-35 comes to liquefy your house, I’m sure your gun will do a lot to defend yourself.

You don’t have the smallest chance of defending yourself from the government, the only thing gun ownership does is let people shoot each other for no good reason. This is an incontrovertible fact proven by statistics of gun ownership countries a.k.a. the US versus others.
There is a difference between acknowledging publicly who you are and doxxing, which I consider to be publicly releasing your phone number and physical address (at least).
Similar idea to which I contributed. This one is built on top of Jitsi.

https://github.com/capnmidnight/lozya
For instance: https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-treating-european-patients...

I think this started without "order" from the central government, more as a result of direct action of hospitals in regions close the borders. It doesn't make sense to not help out when a hospital on one side of the border has free capacity, while another hospital a few kilometers away across the border currently has more patients than it can handle.
Relevant XKCD

https://xkcd.com/947/
> GNU Bash has a magic variable RANDOM that produces random numbers. Assignments to it appear to be ignored.

Assignments are used to seed¹ the random number generator².
This isn't limited to just bash/zsh/etc, it is intrinsic to the process of generating random numbers. Being aware of this is useful as it poses a significant footgun. The /dev/random docs³ provide a nice overview of how it is often handled on various systems at the OS level to deal with reboots.

An example of the fun that this can produce can be seen in a Debian bug⁴, running a script that uses subshells and RANDOM with bash will behave very differently when using zsh. In this instance you have to hope that subshells aren't being used to create unique logs as an example.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_seed

2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_number_generator

3. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki//dev/random

4. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=828180
That’s a fair point! I would have to read HN’s terms of use though. Not sure if that’s allowed or not. I felt good scrapping the comments section since everyone there “opted in “ to share their website to the broader community.