skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, I'm impressed at the work you put into this!

I wonder if you'd be willing to open source your measurements. As a stats nerd I'd love to build some models with that data, just for fun.
First time watching those videos! What year is that? They looked way older than 2005
Google is replacing some Android apps in Chrome OS with web apps
>Nobody that contracts this virus should fear death, yet that is what the mainstream media is selling and people are consuming: fear, death, uncertainty.

Except, you know, about 1 in 30 that contracted it in Northern Italian cities with heavy spread and not enough ICUs, and 1 in 10 or so over 70 or with a prior condition...
Because it's an iOS feature which it's exposing.
The parent said unequivocally that minimum wage is a bad idea (and compared it to eugenics of all things), not that it has cons that need to be mitigated.

This is not an uncontroversial opinion, even among economists.
If you got the covid, it's actually 4 orders of magnitude more probable to kill you than being "killed driving to the hospital".
I believe that ways of thinking are so much more powerful than languages or tools that I wouldn't lump them together in the same question.

One way of thinking that has made me a better developer is insisting to myself that I need to understand how things really work. For example, if I've fixed a bug but can't understand why my fix works, I have no way of knowing if I've really fixed the bug or just made one of its symptoms go away (and maybe created two more bugs). Because understanding how a system works requires understanding the systems it interacts with, I've become good at reading and understanding other peoples' code (which seems to be a surprisingly rare skill).

Another way of thinking I believe is useful is to try to approach all problems in a logical way. If I catch myself trying random solutions to see if they work, I stop and think some more, or look at documentation.
The only thing I don't like with exports is it doesn't remember the last export settings, e.g. "Export whole document" is reset every export.
I'm on the sales side of my org and I have to say if I hear of this stuff going on at a company, I immediately start looking elsewhere. Why do people still work for IBM? There's no reason except "it's a steady paycheck", which honestly at this stage probably isn't good enough for quality sales people or quality engineers.
Point is, with a mature GC, you don't need to change your code to change runtime GC behaviour - in fact, in JVM land, any usage of `System.gc` or similar in code is very much a code smell.

To give a broad example, and to repeat the parent comment, I can avoid "ballast" by setting -Xms. But it goes further, if I have an existing JVM code base, and want to run it using a GC that exhibits similar low GC pause time to the Go GC, assuming I'm compatible with Java 12+ I can use the command line option -XX:+UseShenandoahGC without changing my code.

If Shenandoah isn't producing the behaviour I want, I can change to another algorithm with -XX:+UseG1GC for example.

I totally understand that Go's trying to avoid such complexity, but to quote Python's zen, complex is better than complicated. And I consider writing code to influence underlying runtime behaviour to be needlessly complicated.
If you can capture enough people’s attention, you can profit from it, whether it be from an admission fee or from advertising, or even asking for donations.

The original Million Dollar Homepage from 2005 wasn’t just ambitious - it was absurd. One pixel for one dollar? A website with an oddly specific title and purpose? The goal of a million dollars? The novelty of it all quickly captured the attention of people, and soon, the press. In under a year, every single one of those outrageously expensive ad slots were sold, and Alex Tew - just a student at the time - walked away a millionaire.

Hundreds of spectators decided they weren’t going to miss out on an opportunity to make a bunch of money fast and easy. So-called “pixel ad” websites began popping up everywhere. They would change a few things up, in an attempt to recreate the novelty which drove the original to success. One such website called itself the ten-thousand dollar homepage. Another tried to sell a single pixel for a million dollars. None were successful.

The idea of permanently selling previously worthless ad-space at a high price for a high profit had already been done. Despite their efforts, these copy-cat websites were not original enough and did not capture people’s attention.

Is the idea of a bunch of 3D rendered rectangles enough to capture people’s attention? I don’t think so.

The “Million Dollar Metropolis” is not even close to a sequel. It’s the latest in a long series of failed get-rich-quick schemes.

And as long as I’ve captured your attention with this comment, consider leaving a donation with the link in my bio.
I'm sure Ticketmaster knows this is illegal. They probably weighed their options and saw:

1) refund every ticket as required and run out of money immediately

2) do whatever they can to have some operating capital, and maybe continue existing until summer 2021-ish when live music is once again legal, then deal with a lawsuit in a time when courts are once again operating

I loathe Ticketmaster, so #1 seems fine to me, but I get their decision as a business. Honestly even #2 seems like a hail mary.
Take a short break if you can.
Use it to meditate.

Try to understand what makes programming unpleasant for you. Is it the language? Is it the framework which you are using? Is it the tools? Is it a particular ecosystem? It's about what you are tasked to do? It's about how the development process at your organization is set up?

Try to change what bothers you. Try to identify what you would like and make a goal reaching that point.

If you end up discovering that you don't like anything about programming, so be it. Maybe it's time for a caree change.

In my previous job I was a game developer and I began to dislike what I did. Now I am a web developer and I enjoy it.
"Indeed, in our experience, no medicine was particularly useful. Instead, the most effective solution was oxygen. For around 60% of our patients, oxygen saturation was improved by using oxygen masks with a reservoir bag. In more severe cases, we would also use a nasal cannula and an oxygen mask to increase the volume of oxygen."
Code Highlighting: Server or Client?
But why would Google pay YouTube creators out of pocket when the creators are perfectly willing to upload for free, as they have from the beginning?
There's a lot of history to this left hand, right hand protocol. I'm assuming you do it in this tradition, or at least as a nod to it?
Billions of people in affected areas do it every day...
> Doesn't Google have millions of dollars in cash on hand.

Well, millions with a “b”.

> Perhaps it could pay YouTube content creators.

It...does.

> What consumers might become aware of during lockdown is that the internet, including the web, still continuses to work without any online ads.

It doesn't work without a revenue stream for the online service providers, whether that's ads (regular, “free” YouTube) or membership fees (YouTube Premium).
Just because a position is filled, that doesn't necessarily mean it's filled by the most-talented person.

It's entirely possible to lose out on remote talent by skimping on the remote experience, while still "successfully" filling the position.
The myth of the developer that can't code
Great feedback - thanks for the questions.

-Re: your first question, we are aiming to build a team of broadly-skilled experts with depth. Ultimately we will ensure the coaching experts are well-qualified.

-There will definitely be money-back guarantees. Also, we are considering free trial periods
basically no one died or got infected... lovely story. and as the great w would say, mission accomplished.
> Having difficulty finding work after graduating high school or university is a common complaint among Australian youth, in my experience.

Those numbers don't look all that different from the US. Are people pursuing minimum wage jobs after graduating high school or university? Even high school graduates with no intention of pursuing higher schooling seem to pursue a vocation at something higher than minimum wage.
Are you stuck in the rut of doing corporate cruft? I'm there, and it's unbearably boring. I'm finding inspiration in personal projects. Currently I'm investigating the effect of gerrymandering in the House elections. While I have strong personal political views, I'm doing this purely as a pet project. At the same time, I have to experiment with datasets and data sources outside of my day-to-day area of expertise. I don't have a deadline, but it's interesting. And I'm doing it in a Python, which is a new language for me.
Bottom line, it's a challenging problem, and a language challenge, so at the same time I'm expanding my skills.
I'm guessing the intent was more along the lines of "Car trips generally are more deadly on an annual basis and we don't stress about that. In fact, if you try to encourage people to walk, bike and take public transit based on the idea that car trips kill and maim, you will be generally blown off."
The argument you're making requires that you are making a significant personal investment in yourself at that $4 an hour job, which I have yet to find such an example of. I'd be happy to hear about some.

Internships for lucrative fields where knowledge experience/investment pay off have no issues existing in economies with minimum wages as very clearly demonstrated by the fields of software engineering, businesses, and many other fields. Not to mention that most minimum wage laws make exceptions or reductions for internships, and people do unpaid internships often for things like PolySci students for political campaigns.

So, yes, we should continue to support internships that invest in people and we already regularly make such considerations in minimum wage laws. $4 an hour jobs in a place where $8 an hour is the minimum wage is not an example of an internship where you are going to learn something valuable, though I am open to hearing about these jobs. The cost of an intern is often far less the pay and much more the hours of those senior to them who would be teaching. Minimum wage is not standing in the way there.

Even if these jobs exist, what percentage of $4 jobs will those be? In reality this will be exploited by large corporations every time, pricing as low as the market will let them, irregardless of livability.
Sky net may have needed help from humans to maintain itself, like the Stephen King short story “Trucks”, where the eponymous living trucks force humans to refuel them
HR: tell me about the most exciting project you did.
Me, Senior Developer in Cyberdine: actually, T-800, despite of our customer insisted on using Cobol
That's a completely different thing. The minimum wage wasn't originally only offered to white people: it was mandated for everyone, for the purpose of rendering those with lower-paying jobs (people of color, immigrants) unemployed, or preventing them from competing with whites. The briefing paper at https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/bp017.pdf discusses this.

"The law provided that all federal construction contractors with contracts inexcess of $5,000 or more must pay their workers the "prevailing wage," which in practice meant the wages ofunionized labor. The measure passed because Congressmen saw the bill as protection for local, unionized[12] white workers' salaries in the fierce labor market of the Depression.[13] In particular, white union workers were angry that black workers who were barred from unions were migrating to the North in search of jobs in the building trades and undercutting "white" wages.[14] The comments of various congressmen reveal the racial animus that motivated the sponsors and supporters of the bill. In 1930, Representative John J. Cochran of Missouri stated that he had "received numerous complaints in recent months about southern contractors employing low-paid colored mechanics getting work and bringing the employees from the South."[15] Representative Clayton Allgood, supporting Davis-Bacon on the floor of the House, complained of "cheap colored labor" that "is in competition with white labor throughout the country."[16]"
Desktop Linux. Always something needs to be set up, always something breaking, always something needed to be fixed, always had a problem to solve.
Someone who couldn't afford $20 for something that lasts more than a month? If this person exists it's because they place a below-average value on toilet paper, not because they don't have $20.

And there aren't enough millionaires for their toilet paper buying habits to have a meaningful effect on the market unless they each start buying millions of rolls, which is a ridiculous hypothetical with no chance of really happening.
Hi I'm the CEO of Namebase. You're right that's the best way to bid anonymously on Namebase right now. We're also going to add the ability to bid anonymously directly on Namebase. The account verification is only required for purchasing HNS which we need to do due to regulatory restrictions in the US.
Fran Lebowitz Is Never Leaving New York
>automation and robotics is the only solution.

Maybe to us idealist techies wishing for a fair world, but to the people with big bucks who own and run the show as long as there is someone willing to work for cheaper than it is to develop, buy and run machines it's not worth investing in automation and the world is currently not in short supply of cheap labor unfortunately. There is always a cheaper place with poor oppressed people ripe for exploitation.

Hell, I've worked in tech companies where it was cheaper to send all the mind numbing repetitive stuff nobody wanted to do to some developing nation rather than figuring out how to automate it because management isn't good at thinking long term.

Same in the European tech sector, it's cheaper for companies to invest is visa sponsorships, recruitment fees and relocation packages to import devs from developing nations to put downward pressure on the market and create this image of scarcity than it is to invest in the local talent pool to make wages more competitive.
Look up the symptoms of lassa fever. It could not possibly be confused for anything else. Besides, it occurs in specific locales.
Now someone needs to write an x86 emulator in 6502 asm and boot windows.
fbs author here. Thank you for the mention :-)
Hello , I have read somewhere the initial post of this thread and I am courious how he/she is going and a cuestion to all of you affected.... Did you ever had a pneumonia before COVID? Dont be afraid people! There are some news around the scientists that now are beeing paid to not ask cuestions, only a few do..... Be afraid of beeing forced or persuaded the get or take antiretroviral drugs combined with high doseage of Cortison,, as the "severe" cases are treated... Voices raise that they are treated to death, there are no scientific evidences that the letality of untreated cases would be higher,,, the staus quo looks to me the opposit way arround... These drugs, specially the antiviral, itslike chemotherapy... Dont fear ,fear is the problem I think, fear made that the whole scientific world didnt stop a second to think and overreacted, fatal errors are happing and there are interests that those happen... Lagarde once said,,,, the elderly are a problem... It that women of the money, cold as ice.. Cheers and healthyness too all.. english is not my motherlanguage and my keyboard is not of my team neither ,,,,,, there sre doubts about those tests that say you are positiv,, positiv of a cold or flu or pneumonia , yes, because those get teted,,, I bet we all are positiv,,, or negativ,, you know what I am trying to say? In Spain and Italy things dont match, medicines started to do science and its not well seen..... NO EVIDENCES , rather the other way round, THAT A UNTREATED sever "COVID" is as deadly as a treated, no evidences at all..... but the suspect thats the other way round......
B-Sides: Graham Greene’s “Stamboul Train”
C. I think its impossible to prove that any given $1 of advertising earns back $1 in profit for any sufficiently complex advertiser.

Targeted ads for largely online companies: If your customer sees an advertisement on Facebook and YouTube, and sees a few sponsored search results on Bing, then opens an ad in an Amazon mobile app six months later and converts, which ad was effective? Which was priced right? Lets assume you can 100% correlate all of this activity. Can you justify spending $X on platform Y will return >$X?

Brand awareness ads for largely offline companies: Your products are largely sold at retail, and you are a large multinational company like Coca Cola or Nestle. Which of your ad campaigns this quarter drove sales? Can you justify spending $X on platform Y will return >$X?
India's tests/M is 149. Brazil's 296. Compared to 8894 of USA as of today.

Positive % out of tests: USA ~20%, India: ~5%, Brazil: ~38%.

But at least here in India we test when we are like really really really really sure this person possibly has COVID-19 (if not the very symptoms then either extremely close proximity of a COVID +ve or at a cluster). So that's also there.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Ask HN: My HN reputation is decreasing no matter what I do
Using HN for few years, I am frustrated with how the blackbox of HN reputation. What did I do wrong?
Correction:

In the example, there should be an additonal \r\n after "Connection: close".
> What do you think that chart would look like if people were just 'left alone to get a bad cough'?

quite similar if it's as contagious as we're told.
But unlike your solution, it works on mobile, tablets, Smart-TVs, Chromecasts and other set-top boxes.

And creators get paid too.

You’re simply being cheap. Don’t even pretend there’s anything technically or UX wise superior about the way you’ve chosen to avoid YouTube ads, and on desktop PCs only.
How do ads get blocked in the DNS level?
Quest Diagnostics is dismissing temporary, contract workers
Because of my priors, I believe this is true. My prior being that we should not expect any given random drug to be efficient against a particular virus. But this doesn't count as strong evidence against these medicines any more than the French studies count in favor. (They both count, just very little.)
Do not sure why no one mentioned any RSS reader. It saves hours for me.
> Speaking as an economist, I tend to get nervous when other economists talk about circumstances where "morality trumps economics."

Some examples where morality trumps economics that might help to calm you:

- Child labour is illegal in the civilized world

- Slavery is illegal in all or most countries (despite slave labour being more, um, economical than paid labour)

- Emergency services like fire, police, paramedics don't demand payment up-front.

> Companies can't just push one lever to maximum and expect nothing else to change.

They should expect profits to fall. That can happen during a pandemic. Act of God and all that.

> But most importantly, we don't need it. Yes, we've seen some small-time punks buy up too much hand sanitizer, but the big manufacturers are being decent.

And we should gamble our lives on the continued decency of profit-maximizing corporations.
> If you were previously healthy that is far more serious than the "light" covid-19 that many people get, assuming the reading was accurate.

According to interviews with doctors, corona patients experience lower than normal oxygen levels without that being a problem, until it gets very low.
You just described two companies that became the ad channels, so they certainly are a bit of an exception. Even Apple, who has the most word-of-mouth viral product line in all history, used advertisements from the beginning.
When your core existence depends on being the only people able to do a thing, being able to do it with off-the-shelf product begs questions which go to the axium of you being the only people able to do it.

If you understand the role, this doesn't have to be a problem. Hence registry/registrar/delegate separation: the registry is not the delegate. the registrar is not the delegate, and has to meet the demands of systems boundaries implemented by the registry. The delegate has no software limitation and no need to own software because its a role divorced from software. Anything can be out or in source.

Or the CA/RA functional divide in a PKI. Better not to be an amateur implementing crypto, buy off the shelf because your role is to adjudicate what happens, not write systems.
Amazon hiring for additional 75,000 jobs
My question is: are processes the wrong focus? Given a complex problem domain (for example a payroll system), isn't a physical model of the problem domain itself better than an implementation of processes which are hard to determine and subjective in nature? Perhaps another way to put is to question the degree to which which a payroll system might be built on the back of a series of state machines that are often associated with business "processes".

Perhaps such a complex problem domain is a bad example and it is intended to expose processes in some other context?
ESRB introduces a new label to indicate that a game has loot boxes
Letter from CEO Steve Rusckowski
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1022079/000094787120...
Meg Whitman says Quibi reached 1.7M downloads in first week
People complain when companies dismiss workers to survive the crisis, but they also complain when they don't and get bailed out (or assisted) by the government.

American statists are totally out of control... More and more Americans would like to see everything controlled by the government. Very disturbing.
Nice try chicomm operative
See page 4 of https://leanprover-community.github.io/papers/mathlib-paper.... for a part of the hierarchy of algebraic structures in the Lean theorem prover. (If you give it a normed field, it will use this hierarchy to automatically deduce that it is also a ring or a topological space, etc...)
I have nothing against it :-) I was stating that what they were describing is nothing like what was implemented.
Why isn't it a good thing if (corrupt) dealerships go out of business? Less praying on the less-informed, less disposable cars on the road, etc. Seems like a win to everyone.
I cannot understand what you are saying.
The assumption here is that 'doctor's offices' have that kind of cash to throw around? I'm wracking my brain trying to understand who these mythical doctors are who need masks more than hospitals which are the actual front lines of treating COVID-19 and are alarmingly low on PPE.
An extremely energetic supernova from a star in a dense medium
Go out into woods with no devices and just said book. Get a few good night's sleep out there. Focus will come back without thinking.

Your brain is tired, and you are getting older. It's natural. Take a vacation.
Group Is Pirating Medical Device Standards and Sharing Them with DIY Projects
That was quite a ride, felt like reading a YouTube comment.
From NYC ICU: Does Covid-19 Cause ARDS?
This test has not been FDA approved and only has an Emergency Use Authorization which does not test the efficacy as an FDA approval would. Even the linked article says "this test has not been FDA cleared or approved."
wipes the bits they dont consider persisting, but designs a persistence model in ZFS to say "ok: next time, keep this bit"

takes discipline, but interesting.