skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fascinating. No matter how badly Google fucks up, some people still need to worship them and lick their boots. Somebody should do a study about this phenomenon.
Good article. I was looking for the benefits of backlinks and comes to your site.
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Spreading of the wildfires in the exclusion zone has been stopped, rainy days helped with their extinguishing.

Radiation levels are within safe ranges [2].

The wildfires started from the nearby villages where residents were careless with burning their waste. As a response Ukrainian parliament increased fines for such actions by 18 times [3].

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/International/ukraine-wildfires-close...

[2] http://www.srp.ecocentre.kiev.ua/MEDO-PS/index.php

[3] https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/654801.html
Original Content: Netflix’s ‘Tigertail’ tells a melancholy immigrant story
In Windows you can use FTP in Explorer. Or, if you want to do it from the command line, type in Powershell:

>Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $url -OutFile $output

On *nix you might have curl or wget installed.

On Android and iOS use their respective app stores.
1998 is not that recent any more, to be honest. Though admittedly it wasn't called 'tech' back then, but "dot com". Still, it was the same thing: web service startups.
I can confirm this: whilst I never avoided riding due to traffic before, going for road rides now is amazing due to there being practically nobody else on the roads.
I still buy DVDs because I like classic movies and for those movies it doesn't matter whether you watch in dvd quality or Blu-ray. Plus DVD rips are significantly smaller in size and even though I have Blu-rays for some movies I don't have a Blu-ray player on my computer to rip them. So effectively my preference is to buy DVD, unless it's a relatively modern movie (post 90s)
This is impressive. I clicked on that link to show you that my language isn't there. I don't even know how it is possible. The whole website is available in Pular! (Aka fulani / fulfulde / etc) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20702404
I make an active effort to use my native language whenever I get an opportunity to do so. I see it as an accessibility feature. Much easier to understand things when they're in your native language.
That includes the distance between the X and D keys? (-:
ex, not ed.
The Next Browser: The Next Thesis
It's usually easier to write SQL than drag/drop it. For complex joins having a graphical view of the join structure (list? tree? star?) is very helpful if you're new to it, otherwise no. And drag/drop tools don't cover complex stuff like recursive CTEs, and often, simpler stuff too. IME, YMMV. Maybe better graphical tools exist than the ones I have seen.
It happens when the wealthiest country in the world spends more money on war fighting than the other top 10 military spenders in the world - instead of investing in its own infrastructure and social services, it is spending it on demolishing - and then reconstructing - the infrastructure of sovereign states its politically-powerful religious class have deemed enemies of their ideology.

It happens, because America has not been about the American people for decades. America is mostly focused on the destruction of sovereign states it finds guilty of being un-American in style.

Did everyone just suddenly forget that this is the country that has spent more on destroying sovereign states around the world, in the last 50 years, than any other country in the history of the world?
We use this daily in our company. Projects are organized as boards. To solve visibility issues across multiple boards we develop a standalone program to consolidate cards from multiple boards to a user view. There has been issues like CPU usage, UI bugs and build issues but on the whole it is still quite useful.

Development and releases seems haphazard and there are no unit tests. Only eslint.
Exploiting VMware vCenter 6.7 with CVE-2020-3952
How do you determine whether the vote is close? Use a threshold like 66%? What if the vote is very close to 66%, and it's not entirely clear whether it's above or below? It's exactly the same problem as determining whether a candidate has gotten more than 50%, only shifted around.
Build your Iosevka (monospaced) font version on the Mac
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I get what you're saying because I'm in SE Asia now. Here a lot of men carry small bags. In places like the Philippines men even carry small shoulder bags that are purse size. That's why it's a bit different from the West (especially USA) where most men either carry a bigger bag like a backpack and messenger bag or else no bag at all. The fact that the iPhone SE slips easily into a front jeans pocket is a major convenience in the West.
Cool another syntax to learn! -nobody
Is Google killing your memory?
Iodine is only generated in a working reactor.
Masks Mission Accomplished
If bloat is your true problem, having cpu say 5% faster won't solve anything at all. On Android, you can at least revert to clean Lionage/whatever Android installation for most devices, and all folks report remarkable improvement of overall speed of device, sometimes also battery life.

Also, I don't get the phone 'workflow' where you heavily depend on computing power to render some web pages faster. Connection reliability is usually much bigger factor if that's what you really do (which is strange but maybe I am not a typical phone user).
Who's firing? Me. You're fired.
DOS attack means Denial of Service. If you are attacked and your bandwidth costs grow exponentially then how have you protected yourself from a “denial of service” attack? Azure Frontdoor should not advertise itself as “protecting your app from attacks.” It does no such thing.
The “Vitruvian Man” approach to building knowledge, wisdom, and foresight
My Honor Play phone has this problem if the screen is higher than 50% brightness. It's very bad.
Or they found a good market fit with privacy conscious customers and are going all the way. Either way, it's a win for the consumer.
While reading this, I could not stop thinking about how much it parallels the story of Ravel. RadioLab did an episode on it: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/unrav...
I’ve been checking layoffs.fyi every day and it is incredibly bleak
TeXmacs is a marvel, and for literally decades I've wondered why it hasn't seen broader adoption.
> Give a suit a fish and he's happy for a day. Teach a suit to fish and he'll still be back tomorrow for his fish.

With the exception of a very few competent suits I have known... this is so spot on! Love it! Beautifully put!
Ask HN: Will we see investments in fighting infectious diseases?
After September 13 2011 US alone spent trillions of public money to fight terrorism. The "war on terror" started.

Since coronavirus already killed more people in US than september 13 attacks, is it reasonable to predict that a similar amount of public money will be used to fight infectious diseases?

Will we see a "war on diseases" ?
This reminds me of the Model 33 [1] we had connected up to a ZX Spectrum [2], back when I was a kid.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletype_Model_33

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Interface_1
JSON schema and ajv are my go to tools for this: https://github.com/epoberezkin/ajv
https://layoffs.fyi/ for the lazy
As an aside, I have been unable to register for disney+ in Germany. Both my and my partner's payment methods are always rejected with an unknown error. We tried 2 cards each, we even tried using paypal and even that still didn't work. After reaching out to their support on twitter we're still unable to register. The support chat implied that this is a common problem in Germany for some reason.
Apologies! I missed that! I'll look that up since it would server me well, thanks!
> I feel like the GitHub group at Microsoft is now some sort of orphanage for mistreated developer tool startups.

That seems .. not so bad really? Microsoft gets to buy them cheaply, and they don't get obliterated or acquihired, and they don't seem to have Yahoo'd them into slow death either.
Amazon fires at least 3 employees who criticized workplace conditions
Some would say drafty. Especially without underwear.
I think there are advantages during these kind of events (caveat - no violence is involved).

Two reasons -

[1] Men respond to stress differently from women - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tend_and_befriend

For men stress response is more or less always fight or flight. And that instinct increases quick as unknowns multiply as with covid and pressure builds on leaders.

[2] Its a Hyperconnected world these days. Tend and befriend keeps as many of those connections intact while fight or flight breaks connections. While dealing with unknowns/hard problems (like covid) producing good outcomes really hinge on having access to the largest widest distribution of skills and knowledge, unlike when dealing with known issues.

Women leaders will enable different outcomes in this hyperconnected world as they take advantage of that tend and befriend instinct in a hyperconnected setting.

How much better or worse these outcomes will be we will see in the coming years...
Its not inconceivable. Those boots were commonly worn by civilians before the war, and are still used by horse-riders all over the world - its an indicator of wealth, not membership in the Russian Red Army, if anything else.
Yeah. One big reason I'm not counting small countries (that is, anyone much smaller than Germany) is that there's a limited global supply of pretty much every consumable you need to test for coronavirus, and smaller wealthy countries can get a major boost in per-capita testing by just buying up more of the supply. So there's a whole bunch of smaller countries with really substantial per-capita testing advantages over all the larger ones.
Dixa sacked 31 people (25% of staff). They closed a $36M series B in February.
Can you share the program to consolidate cards? We are also using Wekan in our company and would be very interested in that.
Your expectation is that farms should operate at a loss such that no food goes to waste? Businesses that don't make money very quickly will get shut down. Or they could just always underproduce what the market needs in order to ensure that there is no waste.
for trailing whitespace:

(add-hook 'before-save-hook 'delete-trailing-whitespace)

This deletes all whitespace when you save a buffer.
So the US govt declares war on Math. Again. What else is new? Tech won't stop them, we have to vote those assholes out of office.
Ideal for SMS. The Steampunk Message Service.
Looks like the idea is to implement a cellular automaton with a different ruleset on top of Game of Life (using so called metapixels), and then use that to implement a CPU.

This is similar to the Wireworld computer. I liked this quote on its website:

"The design was done by David Moore and Mark Owen, with the help of many others, between 1990 and 1992. It’s a testament to our modesty that it was not until September 2004 that we wrote up our work."

I shall start using that euphemism!
Not core functionality, but worth knowing:

M-x tetris
I frequently use apps with "night" theme (black background, white UI controls). You know how Android apps have "back" button on the top-left corner, right?

There is also a navbar (back/home/recent buttons). In my case it's a white-ish rectangle that's almost always present on screen. By the time Samsung added an option to hide it, the damage was already done.

I have them both burnt in on my screen. I first noticed them after merely 1.5 years of using the phone.

OLED burn in is a 100% real thing.
Law school was fine. Some parts of it were quite difficult, while others were super simple. I had the advantage of already having a lot of experience writing professionally, and exams and papers (and lawyering) require a lot of writing. To do it right, it also takes a lot of reading. Like, a lot.

My best courses, I think because I was already scientifically/technically-minded, were the very math and technical based topics, like tax, retirement, real estate finance, etc, while the ones that I often had more difficulty with were things like family law and criminal law, for example, which were often much less intuitive and much more arbitrary-seeming to me.

Ultimately, law school was pretty easy for me overall. Certainly, I had friends and classmates who thought it was beastly difficult, though I suspect if they looked back at it now, most would say that it wasn't as bad as they felt at the time. It's different for everyone, right? Like anything else, how much you put in is how much you get out. I think that really probably anyone who can make it through an undergraduate program can make it through law school.
How much money did you need to start your business ?
I made the mistake of pressing Degauss on a monitor while holding a magnet next to it.

This basically calibrated the thing to look normal... with the magnet there. It took quite a while to restore to normal.
Andrew Feinstein: The Depth of Crime That WikiLeaks Reveals
Wow, I had no idea Lee was an alumni–I graduated a little too early to really know of Cloudflare at that point. I’ve occasionally been asked if about notable graduates; I guess I have someone to point to now. It’s sad to hear about Lee’s diagnosis; it would have been great to meet him: aside from talking about technical stuff, I’m sure it would have been interesting to hear about his time in high school.
Thank you. That's a very interesting site. A kind of Rosetta Stone.
At one point the US had $100,000 bills, so that would cut down on the stack quite a bit. I believe they have all been discontinued now though.
A good kilt is heavy and warm and if you wear one to a social gathering, it's a hot thing to wear. But wearing it outside is a brave thing to do, particularly in the damp cold air of autumn/winter.

Probably why they have long socks/hose to stop your legs freezing.
I learned, from Hackers by Steven Levy, of Bill Gosper's work on Life at the MIT AI Lab. Apparently they had two versions of Life running on a PDP-10 there, under the ITS operating system. Gosper wrote his in TECO (a programming language used to edit text), and another in MIDAS, written by Mike Speciner. But ITS no longer ran, and the Life programs appear to have been been lost.

Some time afterwards, there was a project to resurrect ITS, which I got involved in. After it was up and running, initially on the SIMH simulator, and later more stably on Ken Harrenstien's klh10 emulator, I wrote a new version of Life for it in MIDAS (PDP-10) assembly language, which is now located at http://www.fmjlang.co.uk/its/life.txt

This drew the attention of Dan Weinreb, who provided some information on the original AI Lab version: https://web.archive.org/web/20050209065438/http://lispmeiste...
One of the best offensive strategies you can have is to make sure all talented people work for you, rather than the competition.

If smaller companies and startups fade away due to coronavirus-induced instability, making sure that their talent winds up with you is a smart move. If you are big enough to afford it, that is, which both of these companies arguably are -- regardless of whether their Q1 and Q2(?) results are worse this year than last.
That would be a creative and different way to hire local unemployed people.

But it'll give you a reputation that makes it difficult to entice the sort of people whose current employers don't want them to leave.
Readlax Brain Games for Speed Reading
Luis Sepúlveda dies in Spain, killed by COVID19
"Could of?"
The KWinFT Project
English translation:

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=es&tl=en&u=https%3...
Trump threatens to unilaterally suspend Congress
In theory the app just becomes the interface and the protocol runs the network, but in practice the implementations are hooked on the idea of being in control of the entire experience, and the app runs the protocol. Also, ActivityPub seems to be more like a vocabulary—apps then use their own data models, extensions, restrictions, &c.; some compatibly (e.g. Pleroma/Mastodon), some not. And from what I’ve seen, if I want to host several apps, each has to be on its own domain. Perhaps this is not a fundamental limitation (I don’t know), but it does seem to be a de facto limitations. I don’t want to host Mastodon at x.chrismorgan.info and post as me@x.chrismorgan.info, something else at y.chrismorgan.info and post as me@y.chrismorgan.info, &c. I want to use one identity across all the apps, and be me@chrismorgan.info for whichever app, which would then match my email address.
Jitsi now actively supports Firefox and other non-Chromium browsers
Yes! To me, the iPhone 4 was the pinnacle of phone design and useability. I'd love to have a modern phone with a decent camera in this form factor. AR, NFC, wireless charging are cool, but I don't really NEED them. A decent camera, a small form factor so it fits in my front pocket and battery life are much more important to me.

I own a iPhone 8 plus now, thinking I could get used to the size. I can't, even after almost 2 years it's still annoying. I love the screen, I love the screen size for viewing videos and playing games, but I loathe the size of the thing itself. I wouldn't mind giving up screen real estate for a smaller form factor phone.
As a Frenchman, never heard of it.
I use both android and apple. Recently got a ipod touch to replace my iphone. I don't understand the need for huge phones. We've got a bunch of ipad pro 12.9" for general tablet tasks.

Now I common carry an android and ipod touch tethered. Best of both worlds. The samsung is small too.
We already have names for all of those colors. They start with 000000 and end with FFFFFF.
In Chrome, the outer marquee needs (CSS to) be forced to full height. https://jsbin.com/rasivitupi/edit?html,output
Blogspam that is copy/pasted from

https://news.mit.edu/2020/energy-harvesting-wi-fi-power-0327

Actual author (Jennifer Chu) and source of graphics (MIT) were not credited.
Not true. Movies were of course shot on film, which has way higher resolution than DVD.

Even old TV shows look better than ever, as long as they were scanned from film. Look at the original Star Trek or Twilight Zone on Blu-Ray.
Do they have an ORM that generates migrations from model definitions nowadays ?
Unclestock: Powerful Independent Stock Screener
I’m sure you mean well, but your comment came across as a little harsh to me, reducing the very real and very saddening decline of such a talented person, along with the people close to him that witnessed this decline firsthand, to a “so? This happens to everyone”. I agree it’s something that we should continue researching, but I don’t think it’s really fair to claim that doctors are apathetic to the issue.
Probably not. The permanent need for power to avoid data slowly disappearing from the device pretty much makes SSDs a non starter for long term storage.
Moderating this would be hell. :)

I’m fairly certain that youtube had this feature at some point. https://www.522productions.com/discontinued-youtube-ends-vid...
Yoga/Breathing?
That's why I have mentioned Total Tests as well. Out of those tests the percentage of tests positive and negative.
I don't think many Scots go around wearing kilts all the time. Whereas in walmer climes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mundu and variants exist.
The 4th and 14th bar wagons in the french TGV (high-speed train) are such a bonus compared to planes (for national trips) and the car !
This is looking 2001-dot-com-crash bad, but much, much faster.

It's worth remembering there are plenty of companies not laying people off, and "normal" will return eventually.

That said, I was watching The Big Short yesterday, and a line that I had noted before haunted me even more: "For every 1% unemployment goes up [in the USA], 40,000 people die".

Stay safe, stay positive.
kube-namespace – never was switching namespaces easier
I bought an aluminum PC case and was quite happy with myself because it was much lighter. It weighed about 5kg instead of 15kg of normal metal ones.

15 years later it is still the case I use today, even though I am thinking about replacing it. Doesn't get much carrying today though.
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Ask HN: Who’s in a Hiring Freeze?
If you haven't seen, these alternatives might also be helpful:

* https://github.com/keleshev/schema
* https://github.com/alecthomas/voluptuous
* https://github.com/Pylons/colander
CircleCI.

Last week during covid crisis, all while announcing a $100m Series E round of financing, they let some employees go and did not offer any severance.

Disorganized management, and with some teams, passive-aggressive management style.

Would not recommend joining...
Reading code is harder than writing and separating taste from business logic is even harder. Often what looks like an ugly wart was a very compact representation of domain knowlege for a special use case. Untangling that knowlege and re-mastering that use case in a refactoring or even rewrite goes wrong far too often.
Shamelessly pluggin my little project here: Learn Emacs the ADHD way: https://github.com/gsforza/emacs-the-adhd-way

It is mostly about learning Emacs without blindly copying configs from GitHub and getting distracted by all the shiny packages one can get.
Real estate: buy when market will be low.

I'm sure there are some opportunities in stock market, financial sector, Forex, but I am not knowledgeable about those sectors.

IT: collaboration and automatization processes.

Commerce: online stores.

Services: food delivery, goods delivery
Imagine the common cold was also cured by some breakthrough in vaccine development. It (or its 200 variants, rather) may be merely unpleasant, but in aggregate, that's a whole lot of unpleasantness (and lost economic output).
And as far as I can tell that’s America only, nevermind Europe and Australia...
Well, hosting "open-source" software on a commercial platform does create something of a cognitive dissonance, doesn't it?
Yes, and the Swiss restaurant cars are even nicer in the long distance trains. I often end up eating or at least having a drink when I travel with them.
Here in the fintech/banking industry is not just frozen, but we have shed most of our contractors to protect jobs, and are giving fte engineers pay cuts
NASA's Mars Curiosity Keeps Rolling as Team Operates Rover from Home
Login Credentials for over 500k Zoom Accounts on Sale via the Dark Web
Again, this issue is not the IMU, it's the whole thing breaking mechanically.
As an online community gets larger, the probability of a member deserving a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1?

That the JS community is huge and overwhelmingly newer to the industry than (for example) me does not excuse bad behaviour. What it _does_ excuse is a lack of awareness of history and historical context. And the solution to that is education.

It pains me to see so many wheel-reinventions, both technical and social. But the flip side is that people who don't know something's not supposed to be possible will _sometimes_ manage to do it anyway.

NPM, on the other hand, seemed very much to be all about package management being a simple problem, and learned the hard way that there's a reason why other systems have more complexity.
Json-schema itself scales down pretty well. But the libraries for validating it do not. Even if your schema is only {}, the build size increment because of pulling in a jsonschema validator is enormous because of all these supported features.