skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started using Emacs in earnest a few years ago, especially Org-Mode. At first, I tried every customization I came across and loaded up my init file with all the cool mods. But when things went wrong, I had no clue how to fix them.

So after about a year I started over, resetting my config and using Emacs customization over custom elisp writing to get a working init file. It helped me learn a lot. This is the path I recommend: do small customizations using Emacs' built-in features, then learn elisp later.

I learned a lot from this CS prof's videos, and it's a good, practical learning path I'd recommend:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49kBWM3RQQ8&list=PL9KxKa8NpF...

If you're into writing, I maintain a list of resources for writing with Emacs:
https://github.com/thinkhuman/writingwithemacs
Attorney General Barr Refuses to Release 9/11 Documents to Victims' Families
>If I had to interact with people all day, I would die.

I have some bad news for you. As you become a more senior developer you will spend most of your time interacting with people, and a lot less time just "sitting and thinking".
The performance as mentioned on webrtchacks seems promising, I was planning to go with openvidu but now i am more inclined towards mediasoup. My only concerns are, please provide simple tutorials with demo and code explanation (it would be 30 lines of code) so that beginners like me easily understand it. If you check out openvidu they have provided demos for every use case with explanation. It is hard for a beginner to understand all this stuff and there isn't a js v3 broadcasting demo available. Also if you could mention some performance results on various machines like c5.large, c5.xlarge, c5.2xlarge with number of participants it would be helpful.
Thanks a lot
The Theory of the Dead Horse in Scrum
It's not whether or not individual members of a species can survive if it's a little hotter. The problem is that climate change is destroying entire ecosystems in which these individuals exist. A polar bear can do ok in a zoo in San Diego, but polar bears will go extinct once their habitat in the Arctic disappears.
I didn't write a comment suggesting a thing because I considered it unreasonable and on reflection, no, I don't think it's unreasonable.
Surely the use cases for NASs are pretty varied - they're general purpose storage.
> Isaac Ben-Israel, who is not a medical expert, says analysis worldwide shows new cases peaking after about 40 days, slams economic closures; leading doctor dismisses his claims
This is not a logical position.

If Amazon cannot comply with the order in the time NOW given, then their only alternative is to suspend operations.

Whether or not they wasted time in the past, is irrelevant at this point.
I don't understand the bargaining. Was that HNer the CEO of Samsung? What's the point of all this beyond catharsis?
Problems with TypeScript in 2020
Saying that as someone using Emacs for at least 20 years: ignore the zealots, get rid of this FOMO and ask yourself if there are 3 things missing from your tools, things that you would like to have a better way of doing. For these things, find someone experienced with Emacs and ask them to show you how they do it.

Unless your passion is in going meta and focus on building the tools instead of using them, chances are that your current tools can do what you need just fine.
The 24 hour deadline came after Amazon has been failing to comply for over a month.

A month of non-compliance is the middle finger. The 24 hour deadline is a 'This is your last warning'.
Xcode 11.4.1 came out today and it appears to contain the fix for this.
Clearly shows that government has too much power. And guess what? Both can be right.
So far, the results are not looking good: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/miracle-cure-testimonials-a...
It is also known that stress increases white blood cell count [1] which is essentially a mechanism behind autoimmune manifestations.

Overwork leads to a stress. No wonder useful body cells can be attacked producing a whole range of resulting diseases.

The risk of a heart attack also significantly increases when white blood cell count gets high as their presence fuels inflammatory processes in obstructed blood vessels. Eventually this may lead to a full occlusion which is essentially what heart attack is.

[1] https://carrington.edu/blog/researchers-discover-link-mental...
to respond to everyone at once:
I didnt include the link because this is public knowledge anyone can access. It was provided below but the original search doesnt work anymore. it literally worked till today. I do have a picture of it I had taken, but HN doesnt provide the ability to share pictures.

It was a search for 'coronavirus' in china between 8/1/2019 and 01/01/2020. It showed a spike of 100 on September, 21, 2019 and another in December of 2019. However, this search no longer works. All of the traffic came from Hubei Province.

what gnulinux said about '90' searches is wrong. This is 'Google Trends is a search trends feature that shows how frequently a given search term is entered into Google's search engine relative to the site's total search volume over a given period of time.'

IAmEveryone comments are just all wrong. this doesnt mean 'it would have had to been public knowledge'.
It means searches on google were performed on that term, specifically in Hubei Province. and yes, google is 'blocked' in china. That doesnt mean its not used there, just less often.
I've used it on Linux. It works well. There are some issues with cmdlets and sudo, and when using regular gnu tooling as it's not within the pipeline, but overall the experience was positive.
That was my thinking as well. I honestly hated the lack of headphone jack.

After getting an iPhone XS from work - replacing my iPhone 5 - I found that I would actually just leave the adapter on my headset. If I ever used the headset for anything else I would take it off but immediately replug it after being done.

My conclusion is that it's been waaaaay less of an issue that I honestly expected it to be.
I spent way too much time watching this but eventually the trolling part was worth it.
It is thinner, though, with more hardware inside of it.
I use an iPhone SE and an iPhone 8 -- I got the 8 only because the SE's microphone crapped out. I was thinking of buying an 11 Pro, but now I think I'll buy the 2020 SE instead because it's smaller and has the A13.

(I was hoping against hope they'd use the old SE form factor, but I can understand why they don't.)

I wonder how much the new SE will cannibalize sales of the 11's, for customers who aren't price-sensitive but are size-sensitive?
I’m a little surprised considering the recent legislation that should have basically had the government loan you money which would then be forgiven if you retain staff. Is this not working out in practice, or companies of a certain size that are phased out are doing the firing?
making a single customisation in jitsi is a cumbersome task. You have to accept it how it is.
People don't advance a hypothesis without enough anecdotes to say "look over there"

People like you can help fill gaps of savants saying "this isn't a constructive methodology but it isn't inherently without merit" versus "I don't want to believe that because thats not consensus right now" versus "hm thats interesting maybe worth a look sometime before the 2022 congressional committee to fund the epidemiologists?"
> We've got oodles of evidence

There is zero direct evidence for departure from the LNT at the doses that would be relevant for the larger population in a nuclear accident. The reason is simple: for any individual, the extra chance of cancer would be so small that it could not be detected in the very large background of cancer from all sources.
The Public Health Legacy of the 1976 Swine Flu Outbreak
I wonder how AWS market share will be impacted by startup's going through a bear market. No doubt AWS has a big enterprise component that should weather fine, but they're also generally the default 1st choice for a lot much smaller more vulnerable shops.
> Although I do disagree that writing a signed value is useful

Although the Standard defines the behavior of signed-to-unsigned conversion in a way that would yield the same bit pattern as a two's-complement signed number, some compilers will issue warnings if a signed value is implicitly coerced to unsigned. Adding the extra 18 forms would generally require nothing more than defining an extra 24 macros, which seems like a reasonable way to prevent such issues.
Dropbox – Designing with Letters
>I think calling it selfishness is too simplistic.

Probably. But whether it is people's inability to not realize their selfishness, or folks that actively work to benefit the few, the outcome will be the same.

>While Covid-19 was clearly a pretty big problem in China, in the Western Hemisphere we were virtually oblivious to the dangers. Hell, people still went on vacation to northern Italy while warnings were being raised.

There are reasons for that. The public in the US was not informed nearly as early as we should have been. Just look back to when folks dumped stock after the briefing in January. We've had folks like Michael Osterholm telling us for years this was coming. He also warned of our current scenario in the early COVID days. The point is, the information that pandemic risk has been increasing is not new and has been largely ignored.

>Nothing in our evolution has prepared us to deal with distant dangers like the ones we’re facing now.

Some of us are clearly able to comprehend and adapt. But it does seem that we collectively we are still too naive.
That sound like some shit from the Silicon Valley series.
As stupid as it sounds, some of it might be because they are emulating MacOS: a few years back, I found it infuriating that when I hit Alt-Tab on MacOS, the window list would appear on the primary monitor, not on the monitor where the mouse cursor was.
This was one of the most incredibly tragic and moving pieces I've read recently, and serves as a reminder of the fragility of consciousness and being. Thank you for sharing his story.
Had a chance to tour a Trident submarine due to my uncle being its Chief Engineer. Through the eyes of an 8yo it seemed pretty huge, but looking back, the whole crew was packed into a series of tiny bunks between each of the missile tubes. Reading articles like this give a much better perspective as to how genuinely tight it all really was.
How old are you? I'm about to hit 45 and have been on that path for about 2 years now. It started with sleep apnea but I've had that under control for 16 months now. I feel like I'm becoming too slow to be a proficient coder, and I lack the people skills to move to management. I'd pick a lower-stress career, but I've got alimony and need the income.

I've tried getting fit. I've tried improving my sleep. Vitamins, herbs, etc. The only things that work are tobacco(not nicotine, it just makes me sick) and armodafinil in small doses.
But if you rearrange, remove, and then add some letters to Amerisoft it spells MicroSoft. The implication is clear.
These things include universal health care, decent unemployment benefits, job retraining, child care, all things that business people hate because they need to be paid (usually from taxes).
AI techniques used to improve battery health and safety
There are two potential benefits of hcq people are hoping to prove: first as an antiviral, secondly as an immuno modulator for the IL-6 pathway. As a nonspecific antiviral any benefit tends to be for the early stage of the disease, possibly as a prophylaxis or preventive. So to me this trial mostly shows that there is no discernible benefit for hcq as an immuno-modulator. That is disappointing but not too surprising. I hear people with autoimmune problems say that it takes a month or two for the drug's effect to kick in. That is about 12g of cumulative dose, too big to reach in a short time without acute toxicity. I wonder here if also people of the high risk group could benefit from prophylactic use. Is there any truth to the claim that lupus patients on hcq don't suffer from covid? This claim should be easy to check now that we have so many cases of covid around the world.
I'm just not clear on which government is chomping at the bit to cause a recession given an excuse.
I loved and owned quite a few 2.5" HGST travelstars. There were capably of takig insane abuse and worked just fine. Interestingly enough I never got to buy the 1.5TB ones; by the time I needed one it disappeared off the market, the website, everywhere. I never knew why.

192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 2502492302
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 086 086 000 Old_age Always - 142654

^^^ those are a working, happy disk; all due to a "feature" that was on in Ubuntu by default that wanted to idle/spin down the disk every other second and it took me a while to notice.

On contrary I'd worn a 2TB 2.5" Seagate out in 2 years. Bought it new, put it in the same machine the 1TB HGST had been running for 3 years already, the Seagate died earlier - or at least that's what ZFS told me. It's spinning, but it throws weird errors from time to time.

I never had experience with 3.5" Hitachis.

Eons ago there were some interesting disks in the market though; if I remember correctly my father had some Fujitsu SCSI160 or 320 drives which had their normal working temperature around 50-60C.
Yüreğir Klima Servisi
Having vendor lock-in on my pants is a step too far.

And the cheapest pair of pants there is $75, Which is more than I pay for simple clothes like plain pants, and by the time you're getting a whole wardrobe, you're at least halfway to that phone. More if you value diversity in pant-styles.
> Edit: I found the answer, tiny link at the bottom: https://tools.ietf.org/tools/rfcmarkup/

If you read the link, that just adds the HTML markup to plain text ASCII RFCs (which were deprecated in favour of XML, back in 2013 as per RFC 7994.)

RFC 7990 has more details on the format framework. But for actual guidance on the tools used, you probably want to peruse the "Prepare documents" section of the IETF's tools[0] page, or those at rfc-editor.org[1].

[0]: http://tools.ietf.org/

[1]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/pubprocess/tools/

XML, markdown, asciidoc, Bibtex, nroff, and even Word are covered.
This is not accurate and kind of exposes your own bias.

If you listen to virologist podcast, TWIV, they talk about the effectiveness of HCQ. They aren't all "it's amazing!", but they do not make the claim that it doesn't work.
From the perspextive of evolutionary game theory, right? I don't remember exactly what was Schelling's approach, but "game theory", without qualifiers, usually refers to games between given rational players as opposed to say populations with predetermined strategies.
Ok, I'll explain it then.

Person A is enjoying the status quo.

Person B is having a hard time with the status quo.

Person B complains, asking to be included.

Person A complains, "I don't have a problem"

Producer (C) sees the bickering as a muddled frenzy, unable to understand if there is a need or people are being fussy.

--

If you are in a position to discuss phone sizes and someone floats the notion of a smaller phone. And you would "actively" argue against that- Then I would like you to not do that. Not because you're the CEO of samsung, but because someone who could convey critical information to the CEO of samsung might be swayed into inaction (because inaction is easier after all) by those comments.
Çukurova Klima Servisi
Debt financed companies without clear path to revenue are going to be on hold for a while.

Interesting to keep an eye on the CA EDD Warn Act page and see who else shows up:

https://www.edd.ca.gov/Jobs_and_Training/Layoff_Services_WAR...
Yes: https://www.red.org/donate
A single piece of anecdotal evidence does not constitute scientific fact.

~700 pieces of anecdotal evidence is a study.
The idea that nobody has thought to do them seems absurd. I'm getting more and more suspicious the longer we see no results from randomized studies in US cities - it's getting more and more likely that either the tests are turning out to be inaccurate, or the results are turning out to be problematic.

But either way folks are probably being very careful because the results will have significant impact.
Of course not. That's a silly argument also. But if they reduce your taxes for some special reason, like you live in a state that votes a certain way or votes a certain way, then they are giving you the tax money back.
Feel free to check my work here: https://gist.github.com/rgov/63f2f6267fd84e78b0e393451a081ad...

I switched to using the iPhone 11 Pro bezel size because both displays are expected to use OLED technology. That would give:

iPhone 12 (5.4") is 2.64x5.31"
Body size is 24.68% larger than iPhone SE
Screen size is 62.27% larger than iPhone SE
I sleep with wired earbuds and white noise. They're $5 cheapos because they break every couple of months or so. and yeah, when working out, I have another set of cheaper earbuds, wired. Wireless might be nice for workouts, but when I tried it, I just kept having to remember to charge them - yet another 'thing to charge' that I didn't want to bother with.
You want your manufacturers to reuse infrastructure they've already built. Ultimately, you are the one paying for any new infrastructure, not them.

It's called an investment because they make more money on something than they put into it. That money is coming from you.
I never heard of this. Could you elaborate a little bit? It kind of makes sense in my head, but I am curious what the rationale is.
I didn't see anything about stock options in the announcement. Is it in there and I missed it?
Translations from the Amazon twitter thread, that has more details.

Top twitter comment from Amazon: Following the decision of the court on 14th April, we (Amazon Inc) have to temporarily suspend activity in our distribution centers.

Decision from the court, in a screenshot few comments below: We order Amazon Inc to evaluate work-related risks inherent to the covid-19 pandemic, across all its warehouses and to put in place measures expected by article L4121-1 from labor laws (not sure what's in this article)... we order Amazon, until the above measures are put in place and within 24h of being notified of this decision, to restrict warehouse activity to reception of merchandises, preparation and shipping of food items, hygiene items and medical supplies, otherwise it will be subject to a fine of 1M EUR per day late and per infraction.

https://twitter.com/AmazonNewsFR/status/1250481148209369088

https://twitter.com/BlaisePere/status/1250522103952158722/ph....
I would love that, how rent seekers leech the system is not fair.
> Lack of headphone jack is still unacceptable

Sorry, friend, but this ship has sailed. No point calling unacceptable what is now unavoidable.
That wasn’t the problem with Theranos, the problem is Theranos didn’t have a product.
I gave my evidence in the two URLs to YC here, and those two have more good references, including some of the best.

I'm just a private citizen with no more skin in this game than anyone else, so I'm objective, open minded, and willing to learn.

So, of your "overwhelming" evidence, of which I claim there is none that is significant, let's see your three strongest.

By the way: I totally debunked the main piece of evidence, Al Gore's graph of CO2 and temperature from ice cores going back ~800,000 years.

Next, to be science, it has to make accurate predictions, and the predictions were among the worst in the history of science -- wildly wrong. Good science predicted black holes, the neutrino, and the Higgs boson and from some group theory and quantum mechanics can predict the spectral lines of molecules, but the climate science couldn't get future temperatures even close to right. I gave the reverence.

Pictures of swimming polar bears is not good evidence.

Pictures of Arctic ice melting in September is not good evidence; I want to see pictures of Arctic ice, wind velocities, and wind temperatures in February.

Pictures of coral reefs are a terrible way to measure temperature. When I was at the US National Bureau of Standards, we routinely measured temperatures to 0.01 C. Generally we can measure temperature quite accurately; pictures of coral reefs can't compete.

Pictures of glaciers meeting the sea are not good evidence.

Pictures of some one particular glacier in Greenland melting are not good evidence.

We HAD CO2 concentrations go up from 1940 to 1970, and temperatures went down, and that contradicts that higher CO2 concentrations yield higher temperatures.

I gave the reference to MIT's Professor R. Lindzen's comment that the warming since 1900 cannot be CO2 warming.

Droughts, animal deaths, COVID-19 are not good measurements of temperature.

Now, you do have three good pieces of solid scientific evidence for human sources of CO2 causing significant global warming?
Thanks for sharing your story! I work on the machine learning side of things and have recently become very interested in the intersection of machine learning and law - for ex. disputing decisions made by algorithms, usage of machine learning in sentencing etc.
How did you find going back to law school after tech?
You think software VC's are bad? Two of the last biotech IPOs I followed in 2019 were pre-revenue companies: Frequency Therapeutics and Aprea Therapeutics. And this has been going on for decades as pharmaceutical companies steadily ran out of small molecule targets and started to shift drug discovery risk to biotech VCs and the public. I'm not talking about just losing money - they don't even have a product yet because it's still in clinical trials.

Anywhere from 25% to 75% of biotech IPOs in any given year are pre-revenue or unprofitable, depending on how the market is doing. That's obviously a small piece of the healthcare market in total but until the crisis, most other high growth healthcare company were moving in the same unicorn direction because of the easy access to capital.

The problem isn't the startups, its the investors who are advising and incentivizing everyone to grow out of control because they're sitting on too much money and can't find anywhere else that gives decent returns.
TouchID had a 50% failure rate for me; FaceID works essentially perfectly. YMMV.
The rumor is that there will be four phones:

5.4" iPhone 12

6.1" iPhone 12

6.1" iPhone 12 Pro

6.7" iPhone 12 Pro

Given that the 5.4" phone will probably be in the $600-700 range like the current iPhone 11.

https://twitter.com/jon_prosser/status/1247161866603958273/p...
Concentration of wealth characterizes all Capitalist economies - limited concentration as a pre-condition, and an increasing degree of concentration as an ongoing phenomenon and consequence.
Thanks for the 4th link, I couldn't really understand the really sad images and videos coming out of Guayaquil (Ecuador) when comparing them to the rest of South America. Apart from Buenos Aires there are also big metropolises like Sao Paulo or Rio de Janeiro where you couldn't see the same things that were happening in Guayaquil. That vaccination map for South America partly explained the difference for me, at least by correlation.