skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People love 2 day delivery and easy returns. I'd like to see a company in France do this in a short time. Not with the 9 to 4 working hours France wants.
https://www.arnavion.dev/blog/2019-08-04-lets-encrypt-via-az...

https://github.com/Arnavion/acme-azure-function

Specifically https://github.com/Arnavion/acme-azure-function/blob/master/... is the template for the website-side of things, as opposed to the ACME-side of things if you don't care for that.
USA spends 3.1% of GDP on military - which is close to the 2% mandated by NATO. That isn't the reason people can't get food.
Although lots of UK companies won't be making any redundancies until the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme ends. It's much easier to put UK workers on the 80% pay furlough scheme than firing them. As soon as that money dries up expect companies to make lots of mass redundancies. It's going to be interesting to see the UK government's exit strategy from this crisis, immediately terminating the scheme before the economy has recovered will result in a huge increase in unemployment but keeping the scheme means productivity won't recover as people able to work productively are sat at home doing nothing.
Wow, that's a pretty uncharitable interpretation of what I wrote.

I'm not saying they're idiots, and I'm not saying companies should fire employees for airing grievances... but publicly reporting on bad things your employer is doing isn't a good idea if you want to keep your job. I'm not sure why that's surprising to anyone, including the people who got fired.

Clearly Amazon is being a bad actor here overall, both in how they've been not caring about their warehouse workers' health, and how they fired these employees for making a stink about it. But, in general, I don't blame a company for firing employees who trash talk them in public. It's just... kinda common sense that this would happen? But in the specific case of a company doing something like Amazon is doing now, I really want there to be legal protections, because employees should feel safe from retaliation if there's something whistleblower-worthy going on.
There is no linguistic difference between German and English in this respect, only a difference in spelling rules. English usually puts spaces between compounds, German doesn't. If English had the same spelling rules, that "word" would be "legalprotectioninsurancecompanies" rather than "legal protection insurance companies".
In UK employees are more likely to get furloughed, where they are paid 80% of their salary from the government, do not work but keep their job.
I find it surprising that a country as geographically small as the UK wouldn’t find a way to make rail more attractive than flying.
How to Start Flutter Development on Codepen
So I currently have some Google cloud credits for a very computationally intense project. I have a 160 core VM with Debian on it and every time I start up the terminal it blows my mind that this blinking little cursor costs ~$17k per month (if I left it on). For the sake of achieving ludicrous anachronism, I now want to hook this machine up to the teletype.
Karate[1] has its own dsl for describing both json and xml. The output is short, but not very readable. For people new to the project it's rather cryptic. It is easy to maintain though once your team becomes fluent in Karate.

[1] https://github.com/intuit/karate
> All we need is the tests now.

Plus people to then do what they are told...
Using neural networks to track irregular heartbeats
Right, I think it's a "one thing at a time" sort of situation. Like: we have a clear problem with a potential solution that will mitigate the problem immediately. That solution may create other problems, but we do have some time (though, as you suggest, not a lot) to try to fix that up after dealing with the first problem.
Yeah, I think most normal people would just never apply and that's perfectly reasonable. I don't think working at Google is FOR normal people. I am a normal person and I'm pretty sure Google is not suffering from the lack of me! :D

You know, I work in tech but I have never attempted to have a Career in Tech. I definitely don't own a whiteboard and I'm sure I'd never get past the resume stage. (I've only actively applied for a couple of jobs in my life and all in the past year, purely because I thought I should REALLY get some experience with applying for jobs. I actually just had an interview and bombed it so much, omg, at one point I claimed not to know JavaScript! :D I don't think it's for me.)

But out of the rareified circles of HN, I've not found any of the career stuff talked up on here to be necessary anyway. There's more code that needs writing than coders to write it and so long as that's true there'll be work going. I work a few days a week for a company and the rest for myself. I have fun and write code and invent things and people generally give me enough money to pay my bills so I'm happy with that. It's a pretty sweet deal! Before I was a coder I was an unpaid family caregiver (hence no school or credentials or career) so compared to that I can't really imagine a programming job that could really genuinely be BAD. They are all simply gradations of sweet.

My brother (who did massively go to school) works at Google and loves it. I drop in and hang out with him there sometimes and it does seem great for a certain kind of person. And they have so many resources and work on loads of fun games and obviously it would be great to be rich as well. I think it's really clear why it's so attractive. If you think you have a shot then go for it!

But if you know you don't have a shot, why break your heart over it, is my view. It's not a bad thing to be clear eyed about your prospects in life.
It does not seem to be a permanent thing though in OLEDs, after some normal usage it recovers perhaps.
> Assessing the short term health impact of the Great Recession in the European Union: a cross-country panel analysis

> Results

> Overall, during the recent recession, an increase of one percentage point in the standardised unemployment rate has been associated with a statistically significant decrease in the following mortality rates: all-cause-mortality (3.4%), cardiovascular diseases (3.7%), cirrhosis- and chronic liver disease-related mortality (9.2%), motor vehicle accident-related mortality (11.5%), parasitic infection-related mortality (4.1%), but an increase in the suicide rate (34.1%). In general, the effects were more marked in countries with lower levels of social protection, compared to those with higher levels.
Conclusions

> An increase in the unemployment rate during the Great Recession has had a beneficial health effect on average across EU countries, except for suicide mortality. Social protection expenditures appear to help countries “smooth” the health response to a recession, limiting health damage but also forgoing potential health gains that could otherwise result.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009174351...
Nice to see!

I'm on Gnome Linux and ProtonMail only mention Thunderbird in their docs, but I've made the bridge work with Geary too. Geary is a bit more simple and modern looking email client alternative. See https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Geary

Still I normally end up using the web interface for ProtonMail as it fits my workflow better and only need to have one tab open in my browser. They even have a nicer looking beta which also has an in-built dark theme at https://beta.protonmail.com
Oh, I know why it exists (I grew up in New Jersey, which has [had?] similar laws); I'm just reiterating that it exists for stupid reasons.
There is the coping hypothesis, that coping with unemployment causes unhealthy behavior and death [1] and the latent sickness hypothesis [2], that unhealthy behavior is a cause of both unemployment and death. Anecdotally it makes sense - if you are an alcoholic or drug addict you are likely to lose your job as well as die as a result of your behavior - but the actual number of people who die is ostensibly hard to measure.

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3070776/#R41

2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3070776/#R65
German Municipalities Open Data Catalogue
> Though in many parts (whole London area for sure) you are now not allowed to drink and it is illegal.

You can drink on the rail network through most of the country. Most of the longer distance trains either have a drinks/snacks hatch or a trolley that goes up and down the train selling drinks and snacks.

I agree the service is in a pretty dire state and crazy expensive.
Foundation: Advanced JavaScript responsive front-end framework
Or the Falcon Enamel Dining Sets
https://www.falconenamelware.com/
I've considered creating this exact thread multiple times because it rhymes with the regular "Who is hiring?" threads. I think it's fine.
Our government basically hasn't shut down our economy.

To quote, "all jobs are essential services".
Keep in mind:

- A lot if them are not profitable.
- They don't know how long this will last.
- Many planned on growing into profitability over n months and expected they could raise more money if needed.
- Now, there is no growth for many and contractions.
- Investment money is drying up
- they might not have 2 years at their current burn rate to get to profitable status.

In the end, it can be about survival. Their pre coronavirus burn rates are not sustainable. Of course, for some, it is also a continent way to shed staff who appear to be underperforming, freeze raises, and ask more of their employees.
Coronavirus Geotracking Apps and Time Series Databases Analysis
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28772108

> Did the Great Recession affect mortality rates in the metropolitan United States? Effects on mortality by age, gender and cause of death.

> Our finding that all-cause mortality decreased during the Great Recession is consistent with previous studies.

And yes some specific mortality like cancer did increase because of the broken -- profit based -- health care system. But otherwise, no.
Securely connecting external tools to your RDS database
What to ask in a User Interview?
I bought my son a Moto G in 2016. It was dreadfully slow. Not just for games, even simple apps. He was glad when he got upgraded to my hand me down 2014 iPhone 6s, in 2018. I had already replaced the battery.

If high end Android phones are usually two years behind iOS in performance, can you imagine how bad a low end or midrange Android phone is?
Also, the vacation cap thing is so small. It was the first thing that got implemented for Employees in response to Covid. Glad to see it's a "big perk" at your company.
One way of looking at it is your_impact = your_contribution * number_of_users. If you work for a mega corp chances are your contribution is small so you would be better off in a small(er) company.

The more I work as a programmer the more I agree with points 1 and 2. With Coronavirus I'm having the change to work remote 100% of the time and I'm enjoying so far. It's likely that's something I'm going to pursue in the future.
Someone's got a great deal of solidarity I see,
Like most of us, I wanted to write my own games, which I did until I reached professional age.

Now I deeply regret making a profession out of my hobby, for the following reasons:

- Projects in general are unrewarding and uninteresting. People claim the industry is broken due to the hiring process, but I actually find whiteboard interviewing quite fun and challenging. The question for me is not why the hiring process does not mimic a real work scenario, but rather why are our jobs so boring to begin with.

- The industry is infested by puritan and cult like behaviour. Critical thinking is the fastest way to being an outcast and having an unsuccessful career. Plus everyone seems to have realised that you have to be a self-branding narcissist these days.

- Lack of true passion and love for programming in the field. Talking about, I don't know, compilers for example, rewards you with weird stares and disgusted faces.

- The pay isn't that great in Europe to begin with.
Hackers claim to have leaked customer details from some of China's biggest banks
On the Edge of Class Rules
"Public" and "Private" don't magically fix all our rail issues. The Government knows this.

We really must ask more of our politicians than just headline statements.

It's eminently possible that the Gov's idea of an alternative to the private franchise model will be much worse.
I also have a T420 and a T420s , the latter hacked to full HD, yes. :)
Sounds like another half-baked "gotta do something" project.

What's needed is more quarantine areas the size of Javits Center or Moscone Center, not shipping containers, which are essential for ending the lockdown.

One of the problems with the shipping container method are you're distributing the facilities maintenance tasks into a distributed system of multiple failure points.

Another is that if you do lose cooling, containers rapidly heat up in the daytime.
This is the most frictionless implementation I've ever seen for OAuth sign-in, congrats for the work and thank you for the effort. Perfect for lazy folks like me. I'll definitely use it somewhere.
'The sun will shine again,' says Captain Tom, 99, after £12M walk
Upvoting for the looped "st" ligatures in the slides.

+1 would sit through
TL;DR: How to create an object that is its own class in Pharo.
You don't need to be surprised -- rail is more widely used than domestic air travel. (Reminder: regular express services run at up to 125mph; the HS1 -- Channel tunnel -- route maxes out at 180mph, and the HS2 line in development is due to hit 220mph eventually. This isn't Amtrak!)

The real competition for trains is automobiles and coaches, due to road-building having been prioritized since the 1950s. Also, rail fares have risen faster than inflation ever since privatization, and the surplus were siphoned off to the private-sector owners rather than being reinvested in modernization. Hence the current poor state of affairs.
>Though in many parts (whole London area for sure) you are now not allowed to drink and it is illegal.

Not the case, only on TfL services. Commuter trains you can if you like.
It would be nice to have free private npm repositories like the free private github repositories ...
Yep, I can relate to that :)
That's why drop shadows look horrible when I'm looking at my screen at the wrong angle... I knew it was a dithering thing, forgot LCDs were 6-bit.
Statistically-speaking, this will disproportionately effect women and minorities (low performance reviews !necessarily= low performance when implicit bias is present, which again, statistically-speaking, it is). Certainly these times suck for everyone, but there go the careers of black, brown, and female millennials with yet another black mark on their CVs before they've hit their 40s.
Makes a lot more sense than firing the high performers, no?
Guess they might just be using Covid as an excuse to get rid of some people? Wouldn't be ethical, but wouldn't be surprised if some companies took advantage of the situation.
As an end user I've been pretty happy with it. I've used Jenkins, Travis, Github and Circle mostly, and of those I hope to never have to use Travis or Jenkins again, and I've only really used Github for some simple stuff, but rather enjoyed the experience.

Circle however I've used with some fairly lengthy and complex build processes involving multiple parallel builds of Rails apps during upgrades and it's handled the workflow well.

I think they've improved the UI a bit recently, but it's still pretty complex though.
Yeah there's none left, activity is now dominated by caesium 137 which has a 30 year half life.
The ban applies to services operated by TfL - the underground, buses, trams, the Overground, and the DLR.

But it doesn't apply to train services within London operated by train companies. You can get on the train at Finsbury Park, crack open a can, and enjoy it on the way into Moorgate.
Solidarity with people being laid-off, yes. I was laid-off recently. Not fired. I did nothing wrong.
Hi, just wanted to thank you for pivottable.js which I'm using since 6 years ago. I discovered today you're at plotly, I started using dash this year :)
You missed "sort after".

We're both just as bad as each other, the meaning is discernible.
Effects of visiting just one friend CoV19
Ask HN: Who is looking to be fired?
pwsh is great for that too (and has a huge standard library).
Interventions to mitigate spread of SARS-CoV-2 in Singapore: a modelling study
HTTP productscop com/cbd-pain-rub-Canada/
CBD Pain Rub
THC is an inebriating cannabinoid, and it emphatically ties with CB1 and CB2 receptors. CBD, then again, has no such restricting partiality. Things being what they are, by what means can CBD cream for joint torment work? Scientists accept that cannabidiol's belongings are down to backhanded activities. For instance, CBD enacts TRPV1 receptors. These receptors are engaged with managing irritation, internal heat level, and agony.
http://productscop.com/cbd-pain-rub-canada/
Show HN: Open sourcing my Pipes successor project
I wouldn't be surprised if this was a method of rotating staff to reduce salary spending.
The Witcher 3 Nintendo Switch Port, Optimizations Detailed in New GTC 2020 Video
One of the things I love most about my current job is that at some point the whole team has been through the codebase, and no one owns anything. In fact, any one in the team would be hard pressed to tell who wrote what in the first place, even if they themselves did it.

The result is that anything that needs fixing or improving is simply fixed, no questions asked, no feelings hurt. Once code review approves it it goes back into the communal codebase that we all maintain equally, with all credit shared.

At some point, I've gotten to a place where I see it as a bad smell if you can tell a team member's code apart from the rest.
Keeping the scheme is also going to blow a massive hole in the budget. That said, Brexit will likely give them more room to fire up the pound printing presses to paper over the gap.
Performance Testing of Python ORMs Based on the TPC-C Benchmark
> but keeping the scheme means productivity won't recover as people able to work productively are sat at home doing nothing.

Productivity will recover when businesses can use resources productively. It's either keep the scheme running until quarantine measures are reduced enough to allow businesses to start ramping back up and productivity increases again, or remove the scheme and push people to unemployment which is worse for productivity. If the government is daft enough to stop the scheme before the quarantine measures are reduced we're in for a shit-show of a decade.
> Can someone explain?

A CRT screen basically works by firing electrons (or if you want that a bit more scaremongery: a beam of beta radiation) at the phosphor plate, the impact of which makes it emit light. Shades are achieved by varying the intensity of the electron beam and colour is formed by having three different colours of phosphor dot and three beams (and a grid to make sure the right dots were hit by the right electrons), but these details are irrelevant to the burn-in problem.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathode-ray_tube for a longer and better explanation of how it works, and the history of the technology.

Under normal operation this is mostly all fine: the phosphor "recovers" once the beam stops hitting it for a while. The phosphor does degrade (essentially they burn) a little over time with use which is also fine if the wear is level, though it does mean the screen effectively fades a little with age. If you leave a particular image on screen for a long time then it becomes more of a problem because the lit areas degrade and the unlit ones don't. Essentially the phosphor plate develops permanent tan lines. It was not uncommon to see the shadow of login prompts or semi-permanent UI elements burned into screens this way.

It happens to other screen types too, though for slightly different reasons in each case. Plasma screens are particularly sensitive to the problem, but it can affect LCD displays too (some types worse than others). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_burn-in for examples and a bit more detail.

The earliest screen-savers were just turned the screen black. This could lead to machine being powered off accidentally (potentially losing work if a user had walked off without saving) when someone thinks they are off and tries to turn them on, so instead a simple moving message was added, the message to indicate the machine is intentionally on and the movement to stop the message burning in. Other animations were added, with After Dark's iconic flying toasters appearing in ~89, and around the Windows 3.x era it exploded and almost became an art form (anyone else fondly remember the three-and-two-tenths flying toaster brigade, or Johnny Cast-Away?), some people competed to have the best screen-saver, or just the most "them" screensaver along with wallpaper/colour-scheme/other-desktop-customisations, and of course every corporate desktop carried the (bouncing) company branding when idle. Things died down when we became more energy conscious: going back to black screens because turning the whole apparatus off when idle saves energy.
The countries where rail transport is competitive with air transport (France, Japan) have high-speed rail that is separate from regional lines.
Rather than adopt the keg, I'd much prefer to see a gyroscopically balanced cask :D

Doubt we'll see much increase in alcohol sales on trains again now though. A lot of lines already have a ban on drinking due to so many problems. Near me there's a ban between Pontypridd and Merthyr Tydfil specifically, but not the rest of that line.
That is true, up to a certain extent. I'd say that at university, about half of the medical students I met had one or sometimes two parents who were doctors. The rest seemed to come from comfortable middle-class backgrounds.

In my case.... my dad is a doctor and it was sort of expected I become one myself. Its not my thing though, or it wasn't at the time so now (like a lot of people on this forum) I work in engineering. In a way I do regret it now, because I wish I did something "useful" to society.

My younger sister however, did go to med school and is about to finish. She was very driven from a young age - I don't remember her saying she wants to become anything else but a doc. When her and my dad talk, I feel a little left out and only occasionally I have the feeling they look at me and shake their heads.
That only works for screen-width-length runs of text.

Also, cue trainspotters and such putting 10-hour+ 1x-speed captures of the screens running through the entire cycle up on YouTube...
Although I enjoyed the film I found this article more interesting as a story, and more useful as a soource of information too:

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2010/04/wall-street-excerpt-...
Stats of last week layoffs at Lightbend (Akka, Scala) right after 25MM funding round

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22854494
If you just raised 18 months of cash you might find it prudent today to cut burn by 30% to turn that into 24 months of runway.
Lager is far more popular than cask ale in the UK. Cask ale isn't the preferred pint.

https://yougov.co.uk/ratings/food/popularity/beer-cider/all
But isn't the market demanding? At least if I want to have a nice job, with a nice pay... I feel I must raise the ceiling today if I don't want to be in a dead end by the time I reach the 30s (which is just in 2 years).

Thanks for your perspective, sk3nnyy. That newsletter of yours (coderfit) really is some public service. I will definitely be seeing into the ebook.