skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a matter of stakes. The Netherlands has no power and very few responsibilities globally. It's often easy to be objective about topics when your stakes are low and distant.

How's that supposed Dutch calm looking when it comes to Italy and fiscal matters these days? I've been following that closely, they've been anything but calm, rational, objective. They're being emotional and subjective, making poor decisions, because it's a very personal subject that is nearby.

The US directly leads the entire military power base of the Western nations, as represented by NATO. And it is the sole backbone to that system. The French and Germans barely have militaries that can project outside of their own borders at this point, and the British are not far behind. China is going the opposite direction, they're a rapidly expanding superpower that is about to project militarily to nearly every corner of the globe, with obvious consequences.

The Netherlands isn't militarily facing off against China in Asia. The US is, every day - and at the eager welcome of numerous nations including Vietnam, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan. The US is the only nation that has directly confronted China and slowed down their annexing of the South China Sea. It won't be the Netherlands that has to make a decision about going to war with China when or if China invades Taiwan to annex them. The Netherlands will barely so much as lift a finger to help; first, they can't do anything because they're weak compared to China; and second they have little real stake in the matter. The US has dozens of allies it is militarily responsible to, countries that count on the US to shield them; the Netherlands has no comparable situation.

The Netherlands has little at stake in the China matter, compared to the US. They're a small trader nation at this point, shielded by larger nations in numerous ways.

So yeah, having dramatically more at stake in every possible way, the US is more charged about the topic than the ... calm and rational Dutch (about a topic they have very little stake in) that don't have to militarily confront China every day.
Don't worry, we readers still exist. I avoid information presented in videos as much as I can in favor of written information.
Yes to all of above (SoftBank, poorly executed, etc.)

But as an idea it is still a great one.

Someone else can come along and can make a success of it in some smaller or in a different way.
I'm kinda lost on the comparison between postgres and... web applications?
Why are you dedicating a full power desktop computer as a firewall?
I think doing globalism right would require everyone to mandate some amount of redundancies be left in the supply chains. Some amount of fat left uncut. All in order to derisk the economy in case a random piece of it gets shut down by force majeure.

I mean, imagine if all of AWS was just a single data centre labeled us-west-1. Imagine something happened to it. This is comparable to how Wuhan shutting down impacted the global supply chains.

(I lack a good web comparison for what happened afterwards - the EU, and recently the US, shutting down, hitting the global supply chains again, this time on the demand side.)
> First CCTV report that I recall was around the 15th.

Could you link to a source? I have not been able to find any sources that definitively point to something concrete (as opposed to merely rumors and heresay).

> There’s even US intel reports dating back to November.

Ah yes, the CIA reports from November. I find this highly suspicious. How did the CIA know about it that early? And if they did know about it that early, why did they not do anything about it, like preparing America for the coming onslaught?

And please forgive me but US reports about China are not exactly the most trustworthy given the current environment.

> But when this started, the Chinese system did what the Chinese system always does: try to save face and pretend all is okay.

Believe what you will. I believe otherwise (or at least, I believe in a more nuanced story than you do): there was indeed face-saving going on by city-level authorities, but once human-to-human transmission was confirmed, the central government stepped in and kicked the city-level authorities on their asses. Now, the city-level authorities have been fired, and I believe the central government will do something to discourage similar behavior in the future.

The Chinese government is not a monolith. See also https://twitter.com/dbey85/status/1246370465209188357?s=20
nobody would have ever figured that out if you didn't tell us, just in case you wondered
Love that siding!

> With double insinuation

Yeah, insulated mine as well to help out with summer heat and cut the noise down a bit (don't like bothering my neighbors with power tools and such). Planning on covering the wall cavities with some 3/4" plywood soon for even more sound isolation.
Dammit, until a few years ago I remembered my id, which was only 6 digits long.
Half the reason that the cloud is a big deal to developers is that you can avoid administering servers.

The other half is that you can avoid server administrators.
Lots of people ITT seem to have an incorrect understanding of the term postmodernism. It basically boils down to the observation that history and human experience don't really move towards a single goal, but instead consists of lots of independent narratives going nowhere in particular.

These observations invalidate Modernist ideas that held that human historical development lead toward specific outcomes or followed observable patterns. For instance, postmodernist thought argues Marx was wrong in thinking that history followed a dialectical pattern, and instead holds that history follows no pattern.
> all business correspondence is property of the organization

This depends on the country.

Absolutely not in France (and probably most of EU), if by business you mean "within a company" (which would be aligned with the idea of looking at correspondance")
Solid point. Uber has raised 26 billion, still don't make a profit and probably aren't going anywhere anytime soon. Just kind of drives me crazy the amount of money dumped into ideas that could start with very little money and become profitable on their own, or they'd just die out because it's not working.
What on earth incentivizes them to not repeat this pattern of behaviour if they can rely on a no-strings-attached cash infusion?

Middle class Americans are expected to have enough cash reserves to survive 2-3 months in case of an emergency. Why is this expectation not in effect for an airline that makes vastly more profit per capita than the average household?

Airlines spent well over 96% of their free cash flow on stock buybacks, enriching their boards of directors, executives, and shareholders. Do you think it's fair that they can make those decisions and still be entitled to favourable loan agreements when their mismanagement comes back to bite them?

Why do we not let the airlines have an asset selloff of their "super expensive machines" in an attempt to bridge the coronavirus gap before giving them public funding? Could they not declare bankruptcy and restructure themselves to survive until shelter in place is over and business returns to normal?

Why does the government bailout not have the cash infusions come in the form of an equity buyout, thus bringing actual consequences to the mismanaged airlines and bringing a more stable guarantee of investment return to the taxpayers who have funded this bailout? Shouldn't having access to socialized coffers come with the caveat that your company must become, in part, socialized?

The system only works if companies feel the pain of their mismanagement. Any whisper of bailing out the airlines without considering the above is disgusting and un-American. You don't get to privatize profits and socialize losses. History has shown that companies do not learn lessons unless they are allowed to fail.
CFAbsoluteTimeGetCurrent is a long deprecated API, so I'm not sure where that's coming from.

A current and more readable way of expressing this would be

let start = Date().timeIntervalSinceReferenceDate

If you don't need exact seconds right away, you can simplify further to just:

let start = Date()

which is easily as simple as the Python example.
Well, Russia and Saudi Arabia have agreed to cut oil production. OPEC+ may follow soon. Hence the markets going super green.

Most the bottom hunters are only following the Covid news. Oil prices are adding to the stock market swings big time.
Except in this case the only countries that got out unscathed took unilateral action rather than listening to the recommendations of the corrupt multi national organizations that are supposedly trying to protect global public health.
Why we're pivoting after making $109,000 in 2019
> That came over to me as "you are obliged to do a lot more work that I want you to do, on your own time and personal cost, and to stop developing the project according to your own vision or you are a bad person".

I mention this in my top-level comment, but here's Rich Hickey of Clojure responding to similar assertions: https://old.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/73yznc/on_whose_au...

> Clojure was not originally primarily a community effort, and it isn't primarily one now. That has to be ok. The presumption that everything is or ought to be a community endeavor is severely broken. A true community respects the autonomy of its participants, else it degenerates into a cult of need/want.

The people who write these "I'm leaving X" posts must know they have disproportional power in such a tiny pond. Imagine writing the same post about Javascript or Java because you thought it was supposed to be a democracy or something. Nobody would even read your post.
> None of them [academics] use Python either.

Here’s a paper by Travis Oliphant describing SciPy that has >2500 citations. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C33&q=pyt...

In many fields of science Python is already the dominant language, in others (like neuroscience), the writing is on the wall for Matlab. Approximately all the momentum, new packages, and new student training in systems neuroscience that I’ve seen in the last 5 years is in Python.
For the amount you could rent a small office out for the whole year or buy a shed or if you are renting you could just move to a bigger place.
Furlough implies they'll be hired back once this is over
I own a gun to defend myself from people who say my beliefs are less than equal and don't deserve to exist! Come and take it.
Open source? Open protocols?

If not, not interested. We have plenty of proprietary instant messages already.
Mine was six digit as well,but can't remember it other than the first digit was 8, so a bit after you signed up.
In jest, I am imagining a bunch of data scientists working late into the night, running the numbers and various scenarios, and then one person finally stands up and says, "FK it, let's just shut down the whole country and hope for the best."
ICQ was cool, but at the time it was just another chat service that I used through Trillian. I really miss Trillian these days
Except those BDFLs give you escape hatches to do whatever you want. Elm removed it. It's the same as Clojure, if they didn't let you use your own Java libraries. Or if you couldn't write C extensions for Python. Rich Hickey isn't going to chastise you for resorting to a Java library if you have to, because despite Clojure being an opinionated language, at the end of the day he's pragmatic, which is why Java interop is so readily available.
I guess the 'office' might work well as a mini gym by itself - forgetting about using it as an office at all.
French seized supplies bound for Britain. Everyone is doing it.

You always protect your own citizens first, then once you're in a position of strength, then you help your neighbor. If you're both in a hole, you have to get out of the hole first before you help your friend out, otherwise you're just both going to be in the hole. Put your mask on before assisting other passengers, etc. So many analogies, but this is very basic behavior and expected. Until a country no longer has a shortage themselves, its only when they have an abundance should they give needed supplies away.
Also consider: why did the city of Stockton, California have to declare bankruptcy? It collects taxes, yet it couldn't pay its bills. Again demonstrating the only causal factor is the ability to control the money supply and taxes are not a control on the money supply.
Can you link to a proof of the equation starting at "The standard error of the sample Median approximates to"?
"ICQ New does not encrypt your communications. In addition, your communications may be routed through different countries - that is the nature of the Internet. ICQ New cannot accept any responsibility for any unauthorized access or loss of Data."

LOL
Show HN: I made a product that helps to collect feedback from users
Also, I believe if your copies of Myst or Riven are up-to-date from Steam or GOG (or the recent collector's edition that was the referenced Kickstarter upthread), they'll use the ScummVM engine under the hood rather than the original engine today.
Hi,

I made a product that helps companies to collect user's feedback, share roadmap and changelog.

Productroad is a platform for users where users can:

- leave feedback and discuss feedback from other users;

- suggest features and upvote them;

- subscribe to post and receive updates from the company team.

Productroad is also a platform for company team where team members can:

- prioritize feedback and show it's status on development roadmap;

- write a changelog;

- track who is working on particular feedback.

Yeah, we are not first who are providing such services. So how we differ from others?

UserVoice.
That service is one of the first in this niche. For now, it's focused on enterprise customers. We are focusing on small to medium businesses providing better user experience, simple and clean interface, transparent pricing. Also, we provide premium support for every customer.

Canny.
This product is great and in many ways, we inspired by Canny. At the same time, we make a more customizable product. We also focused on privacy so we have different access levels, closed accounts, enforced SSO and many other things.

We are eating our dog food and make our roadmap public on feedback.productroad.com you are welcome to vote for our features :)

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My point is that people claim that the market has already priced in the next 6 months. This is not true.
If you're using/contributing to a open source project that is famous for it's non-community development and BDFL leadership style, it should come as no surprise when that continues.

That's pretty much the central thesis of the article. With detail and examples on exactly what the leadership problem is and why it causes challenges for users.

The call for "If you're not happy you should fork the code" comes because this is a explicit expectation of the Elm core team and Evan.

And yet any attempt to do so is described by them as knifing Elm in the back.

What does "open source work" really mean? Open Source talks strictly about the licensing and distribution of the code itself, not the community and everything around.

What I mean by "work" is that it leads to successful projects. By a variety of metrics for success.

It feels like everyone are having two conversations at the same time. Open source as we currently know it, is just about the code. Open communities (or whatever you want to call it) is a separate discussion, and not needed to "make open source work" as you just have to license your code in a specific way to be open source.

Then we can discuss what makes open communities around open source code work, but I think that's a separate thread.

You have it exactly backwards.

You are right that "what is open source" is a different discussion from "what makes open communities around open source work". But this is the appropriate place for the second conversation. And more specifically for discussion of what it is that the Elm leadership is doing that leads to failure, and what it is that users should or shouldn't do given that Elm is being so badly lead.
In a way. WHO was way too cautious and severely underplayed the issue in January and February, but even then, the small recommendations they did make were completely ignored by the entire Western world.
The problem is, the WHO does, they even said this thing wasn't transmitted person to person. And they're supposed to be the authority everyone was saying to listen to.
Chinese cybercriminals target high-value Linux servers with weak defenses
This isn't a programming discussion. It's a discussion of the policies around an open source project. It's totally politics, albeit not on a national scale.
Show HN: Funderbuddy – Apply for multiple grants with 1 application
It seems to me that you have found two problems.
recent comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22815425
Hey all,

So a couple weeks ago, I posted a collection of different grants/funding opportunities with deadlines and all that (https://github.com/sakofchit/fund-my-project).

But as I was going through all these different grants/funding opportunities, I’ve realized that a lot of them ask similar, if not the same questions.

So I wanted to build a platform that simplifies the process of applying to grants and funding opportunities. Rather than having to apply to each grant/opportunity individually, you could apply with just one application. In order for this to work, there would need to be individual funders/grants registered on the site. (There are no funders at the moment, but I’m optimistic)

Searching for grants the fit your niche can be tough, and I genuinely think that this could help with the discoverability of various grants as well.

I wrote more about this here: https://funderbuddy.net/blog

There’s still a lot of work that still needs to be done. Let me know what you think!

Also feel free to follow @funderbuddy on Twitter for updates! (https://twitter.com/funderbuddy) and feel free to join the discord server (https://discord.gg/4j8zqrZ)
Non-native speakers like me did not figure it out. I learned it on some web site.
Computational thinking class in Julia enables Covid-19 response
> The elm-lang/cookie repo README starts with "Cookies are an ancient mistake of web browsers. They make a bunch of security problems quite easy, so consider this an expert library."

What an arrogant and opinionated way to start a documentation.
If wages followed asset prices, it likely wouldn't matter. If everyone was making 4-6 times what they were a decade ago, the playing field would be level.
I didn't know that
Oh, that's a bold move. I doubt this would happen on ClojureScript, in fact, I see the opposite sometimes, some people in the community complain about how Java and JS ruins Clojure/Script and makes everything worse, and why isn't there a native Clojure, where you'd never have to deal with the host. And the core stance tends to be that being hosted is the whole point from the beginning.

I can see the frustration with Elm though, especially that it was enacted as part of a version upgrade. If it was from the start, people would know what to expect, but this seems like a huge backward breaking change. I'd be annoyed as well.

In Clojure/Script, a lot of the tensions are more about what should be a community provided library, and what should be lifted as officially included in core. I see the core team tends to favour most language extensions to be kept as a library. And often when people want changes to the language to be made, the answer is that Clojure/Script is designed to allow user level changes, so whatever you don't like you can change for yourself. Some people still arn't happy about that, they want their ideas to become the standard.

A lot of that stems from it being a Lisp. There's very little of Clojure/Script that actually necessitates changes to the compiler itself. Even the core functionality, most of it is implemented on the basic primitives the compiler gives, so you can happily change and extend almost anything if you disagree with the core team's choices.

Back to Elm, I know personally, I've never been into a language restricted to only one use case, the web. It seems Elm has always wanted to be more of a framework for web development. A very opinionated one. This seems to be a move even more on that direction. Like if Ruby didn't exist, but only Ruby On Rails did. Correct me if I'm wrong here. It could lead to something nice in the long run, but like any framework, the trade off is that when it doesn't have the feature you need, you're stuck.
What does this provide over what the native OSX tools give you?
Which ratios measure profitability and how are they calculated?
Uhh, what even is ICQ and what is it for? Some sort of chat app? The website is super fancy but fails to answer this simple question.
Poignant first comment on Youtube: "The internet I actually liked..."
Maybe they weren't called bootcamps, but these short webdev training courses have been around since the late 1990s.
Strange that there is no mention of encryption... which is the very first thing I want to see mentioned. I am happy to see a new app because I _do_ feel like there's still no chat app that checks all the boxes (not owned by an advertising-funded/creepy company, E2E, great UI, no weird home-grown ciphers, not funded by the US gov't, cross-platform). But E2E is an absolute must.
Interesting note... Tencent owns QQ. QQ was originally called OICQ, Open ICQ.

There was a great acquired episode on Tencent.
https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/season-3-episode-10-tencent
In 1999, my future wife and I, after an initial in person meeting, chatted incessantly over ICQ. It's how we really got to know each other.

To this day, this 'uh-oh!' sound makes me tingle all over.
New approach to meta-learning yields SOA performance on one-shot learning
GIGO is a principle i learned at audio engineering school and it applies to all input/output relationships across multiple disciplines.

Have a 4k tv but only a 1080 cable box? Your tv will only show 1080.

Did you record too much compression on the master track? Now you have to deal with that in the mix.

GIGO is any time you get an input that will never give a desired or expected output. In circuits, its easy. It works or it doesn’t. In data science, GIGO can be hidden by hiding the assumptions made to reach the level of knowable information from the data provided.

Data scientists have a huge uphill battle right now. It is far more complex than looking at the numbers and trying to find patterns. People can find patterns in clouds.
i think zoom is also the problem
Well done sir! That is a smart looking shed. I love the split doors. Is it setting on a pad or pier blocks?
> Weekly status updates? Project kick-offs? Quarterly and monthly planning? Retrospectives? All are carried out asynchronously, in the form of structured write-ups in Nuclino.

Another criticism of a controversial tech that is actually a pitch for a product. It's a Hacker News staple.

Maybe I'm just getting too cynical.
maybe try entry level project management jobs. i have a business and computer science degree, always more inclined towards the business side rather than technical or coding, and project management is perfect for that, plus it pays well.
On the other hand, you can pretty much just learn Haskell to learn PureScript. All of the differences fit onto a single small docs page: https://github.com/purescript/documentation/blob/master/lang...