skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Video games. Notable EVE Online
I expect that there was a lot of panic buying at the beginning, but most Amazon groceries at this point are weekly grocery needs.

With restaurants closed and questionable for the foreseeable future, I dont see this changing soon.
The demand fell, supply went up dramatically and there's a new equilibrium.

Very few advertisers are actually in a true "prisoner's dilemma" in the sense that they're fighting tooth and nail in the same market as another company and parsing back advertising will cost them dramatic marketshare. First, a lot of demand is supply constrained - lysol is going to sell their wipes no matter what, so advertisers can easily defect. Secondly, advertisers may be locked in a competition broadly but not in a specific channel. Your youtube channel probably isn't your best ROI or its easy to cut back spend and just invest in your most performant channel - it's often not youtube for these companies.
Last month was the first March without a school shooting in the U.S. since 2002
Jobs. You can build a house employing a crew of contractors. But would you let them redesign your garden? Perhaps, you wouldn't. They'd destroy it by walking around in their heavy-duty boots. There always will more jobs for contractors and fewer jobs for gardeners.

Going back to using Emacs as an example: You know that no one, not a single developer involved in Emacs, has ever gotten paid for it¹ to do it? There are precisely 0 jobs on the market for working on Emacs.

However, I agree with you on one thing - Lisp is a hard-sell if you've never done it before. It took me a few years to finally understand what the "kool-aid" is about.

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¹ Aside from some voluntary donations
Seems like Jitsi relies on Chrom(e|ium) for a lot of things. Desktop sharing? Chrome plugin. Desktop client? Chromium/Electron. I tried setting up an instance for my company to replace zoom, but I can't go around demand that people install any particular browser.
The reality of advertisement for established products is that they need to do it to maintain good will from the media. For example, in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, BP spent billions of dollars in advertisement in all kinds of media. It became very difficult for the media to be too harsh on BP, since in the midsts of the Great Recession, they were one or the largest advertisers. Similarly it is very difficult for the media to say bad things about Coke or the Big automakers when so much of their revenue comes from these big accounts.

Another example (this one not in advertisement) is the situation of Bloomberg. They have one of the largest financial journalism organizations and, AT THE SAME TIME, they sell overvalued software to the largest financial companies in the world. One can only guess what can happen to a financial company that stops paying the fees to Bloomberg. Even though there is no real threat (and most certainly this was never expressed by the company), every financial outlet wants to be on the good side of Bloomberg reporting. The conclusion is that having a journalist institution receiving money from companies that they are covering is a kind of moral hazard that very few people understand, unless you are part of the business.
I definitely feel there is some overreaching going on. Here in Sonoma County parks and beaches are closed but you still can go to stores without mask and the people working at the store aren't wearing masks either. I think the harsher and inconsistent the restrictions get the less people will be willing to put up with them.
Greg Egan has some fantastic writing on considering extra-dimensional space. See Wang's Carpets as the basis for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(novel)
I remember thinking, "oh? this was made by people who can't code!?" then I quit entirely.

Before, stuff would reduce to nothing after use. Will this condition continue to change? Will it stay true? (Remove the check) Will it stay false? (remove that chunk of code) and then remove this.

Sure, it was fun. More important: People wrote things that were truly impressive. Writing something that worked was only the beginning.

Until compilers know which buttons are used most frequently they cant fully optimize. Who knows, maybe one day windos will give me a start menu and allow me to reboot when the application freezes up? Maybe one day text input will have some priority? The bare basics basically?
Quite enjoying my life while staying in actually.
Weird. This actually works. Well, thanks random internet friend.
Note that the “delivered” indicator in iMessage just tells you when it was delivered to the network, and not the recipient. It’s entirely possible to still lose the message after it gets delivered to the network.

The only way you could know for sure if the recipient got the message is if they have read receipts turned on, so that you know when they’ve actually read the message.

And plenty of people have had problems where they took their cell phone number with them to a non-iPhone device but can never receive iMessages, but they also can’t receive regular SMS messages to that number.

There still be plenty of dragons here.
> Minimum wage does not price people out of jobs,

Yes, it quite obviously does.

> it puts a cap on the profit that a corporation can squeeze out of its workers.

No, it doesn't. Competition does that. Minimum wage puts a floor on the economic value of labor that can get hired at all.

It might limit value extraction where there is a monopsony purchaser of labor who is not also a monopoly supplier of the good produced with that labor, but that's not actually all that common a situation.

> Employers who would be paying under it are simply not viable moral businesses

If there is work to be done that genuinely has value less than the minimum wage, is it truly better for society that the worker instead has no job prospects and the one who would have the work done instead has no work done? Who benefits from that.

> Now we can have economic arguments about what is true here, but the purpose of minimum wage today is a moral one and that must be factored in.

Any legitimate moral purpose of minimum wage is served better by taxing business income and high-end personal (including capital) income
and providing a UBI as high as economic productivity can bear without out-of-control inflation.

Which is not to say that in practice minimum wage isn't better than nothing, it's just far from the best means of achieving it's legitimate purposes, in large part due to the adverse consequences it has in limiting employability.
I think they would produce better outcomes if they understood or used the the systems they are buying or at least listened to actual users. I bet healthcare.gov would have gone better if some high level people had actually have tried to sign up for themselves.
I'd agree with this, but I'll also mention that my undergrad degree was actually phenomenally helpful. One or two classes were legitimately beneficial for what they said on the tin (i.e., taught me useful concepts more quickly than I could have learned them on my own, or taught me concepts I never knew I needed, such as agile methodologies), and the rest presented problems in a space I could comparatively safely 'fail' in, that I had to figure out how to solve on my own, both technical and people based ones.

But that said, I also recognize that that may be the exception, and that on the job I might have learned the same things in less time.
'Cool' isn't the word I'd use here.

But I guess it's useful if you already have an ad-hoc build system and you can't/won't migrate to something industrial-strength.
Louisiana closed its schools (NB: corrected my earlier contention of went into lockdown) much earlier than NY and closed essential businesses sooner.

Source: I live in New Orleans, returned from Los Angeles March 9.
GNU readline is always surprising to me, being a Vi guy I almost always `C-x C-e` to edit my command with, you guessed it right: {,n}vi{,m}. But it seems that just taking the time to learn readline will be a very big boost in productivity.
I wouldn't say 'very well', from what I've seen of it in the last couple weeks. The crowd sourcing is not particularly reliable. (Why do you think I'd want to skip 2 seconds in the middle of a conversation just because a sponsor got mentioned?)
I don't think I understand what you are trying to say :)

Either you're saying that the real garden designers can only use Lisp as a tool or you're saying that no other popular OSS projects have been mostly developed by volunteers.

Both cases aren't true so if you're trying to say something else then please elaborate.
Shame. One wonders what allowed for the space for the cubicle culture of the '90s. Cubicles were at least semi-individual offices. Maybe because tech companies were based in the South Bay, where land was more abundant?
Just putting this out there. Indiehackers.com is a community of people building solo-small team profitable businesses.

Check out the top products.

https://www.indiehackers.com/products?sorting=highest-revenu...

There’s also a massive longtail of people making no money too.

Making something that people want and will pay for that sustains a business is hard. It takes a lot of time and effort to get the first few paying customers.
Your answer lies in your question. What would you pay a small amount of money for? Go build that.
Food delivery services are overwhelmed in many areas. It's better that those of us in good health continue doing our own shopping, and leave the available delivery slots for customers at higher risk.
The following acts have had a top 40 hit in every decade since the 80s (80s, 90s, 00s, 10s):

U2

Michael Jackson

Madonna

and "Weird Al" Yankovic

Ironically, Al has parodied the other three. :)
Yes, of course.

I also have decades of muscle memory with using disposable gloves in a lab context, but that's not so useful when you don't have 100 gloves per day to burn through. But even so, I'm always conscious of what I've touched when, and with what.
The GNU readline solution is neat though.
What Is Currying in JavaScript and Why Does IT Matter?
Funny that they don't explicitly mention the analogy to corona but I guess that's still their point. I am wondering if this is an intended jab at Italy. They could have prevented the spread if they had locked down the region where it was occurring first.

This would have been a perfect moment for the EU to shine and to actually resolve an issue.
If they had removed all olive trees within hundred kilometers of the original area, the loss of trees would have been huge, but the impact would have stayed small.
Like corona, the original areas didn't profit from the loss of their trees so they had no incentive to cut them down. With EU funding, the incentive could have been provided.

Similarly, it would have been relatively easy to contain the box tree moth [1] if the first areas had cut down all box trees. They haven't, and now it is a global problem.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cydalima_perspectalis
This is all a huge overkill. Every person in power is getting a chance to flex. Coming back from all the overreach in the USA, if not globally, will be an interesting time.
Nano doesn’t have a plugin interface, but you can customize it so it can run the compiler or formats your code.
Headless CMS and how it’s differentiated with other CMS
Medical oxygen is very important. That should be secured. Doors and other facilities for isolation of patients should be built.

Neither requires very high levels of technology
> Hacker News supposedly has a rule against shallow comments and yet for some reason knee jerk requests for sources with no additional substance to drive the dialogue forward are considered 'reasonable'.

Their statement begged the question, and it was asked.

I wasn't asking out of hostility, but out of curiosity. If the point can be made, and as you say, there is overwhelming evidence, I'd like the self-described expert of their field to provide an authoritative source. That's to the benefit of all readers.

Instead, we have a bunch of hand-wavey replies on both sides with dubious back-up, balanced with maybe a more illuminating discussion about the intersection of morality and economics, specifically regarding slavery and minorities - which I feel somewhat swayed by.

> Minimum wage is a widely studied issue with well documented pros and cons.

Throw us a bone then :) There are many countries around the world that do have a minimum wage, surely there's some data out there we can grok. Perhaps a minimum wage to quality-of-life measure? Inform this naive individual.
Please provide a link to the message in question. It sounds serious.

The main problem with your story is that there is no "main dev from inkscape". There's a rag tag group of fairly junior developers and amazing support volunteers.

But, I could see how the story could get twisted over time. I'm pretty sure I've never shared my bank account details and I'm the worst bastard at Inkscape for asking users to contribute, all users, in any way they can. This is because contributions are lifeblood, not users. Adobe is great because 90% of their users are contributors where as 0.01% of Inkscape users ever contribute.

So consider contributing your passion about Inkscape at chat.inkscape.org there's a ux team and everything.
To be fair, a cat flipping me off and telling me to “go away” in the FAQ may lead to misunderstandings.
What of the UK?
I made games, didnt earn enough to keep it going, and went to corporate. Fortunately this job is a little lax on deadlines/schedules (though not so much on the cruft). Other than that, working on my games or related keeps me alive and looking forward. Spending time reading books helps a lot too.
Why are we building this shit into the browser? Did we forget what user-agent means? I really don't want my browser to be running a consensus algorithm for doubleclick, or whatever the hell the turtledove proposal is.

This article makes it sound like advertisers having a hard time targeting their ads is somehow bad for a user! I see that as a very good thing.

How about, we remove 3rd party cookies, and then don't do anything else?

Even the name of this is gaslighting. Privacy sandbox? More like "A bunch of APIs for advertisers to use, to profile your behavior with native support from your browser, while telling you your privacy is improved because we don't do it with scary cookies anymore." Not quite as catchy I guess.
I would love to see what's wrong with this particular article that's not true. From what I am reading, most of the piece was based on the the doctor's experience.
Both are actually correct. The point of beeing ineffectice is price.. add pricing is so high for most searches/placements that it will cost you 100usd in adds to sell a product with 80usd in margin. Companies will then rationalise this, with an assumption that the “lifetime” value of the customer is > 100usd, or you are paying to gain marketshare etc etc.
I read the article.

Professor Victor Davis Hanson is one of America's smartest and most lateral thinkers. If he proposes a theory, it's a good idea to at least think about.

Because of how highly contagious corona virus is, I agree with him. It also matches the Daily Mail article.

I lean towards lockdown as being a rationalization now that we know ventilators don't work with 66% to 90% mortality, and that we (the US) don't have the testing and tracing capabilities to stop a highly contagious disease.

Most people can't separate their personal fear of death with public policy. This seems to go all the way up our political structure.
That isn't something you can quantify. By all means take reasonable steps to avoid infection, but the most likely outcome is that no matter what we do the majority of us will be infected before a vaccine is available. There are already four other endemic coronaviruses which circulate in humans and SARS-CoV-2 is going to be the fifth.

https://patch.com/california/losgatos/bay-area-s-dr-fauci-ex...
Those keybindings belong to GNU readline https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Readline
That's pretty interesting... anecdotally, I was in SF a few weeks before I had symptoms. I could have caught the end of the wave.
Invite a llama or goat to your next corporate Zoom meeting or video call
I hate to criticise him under these circumstances, and I'm going to leave out the more personal side of things, but: The impression I got was that he was playing up the "free will" angle to appeal to a popular audience, at the expense of the physics. Most academics with a book to sell do that to a certain extent, but I felt that he went past what's reasonable. I won't speculate as to whether that was insincerity as such or belief in his own hype.
Visual Transistor-level Simulation of the 6502 CPU
Why does this work?!?
Depends on your sort algorithm. For some algorithms, they perform worse on an array that is already sorted.

Check your local copy of Knuth, volume 3.
On short commands, it tends to be slow in comparison of using GNU Readline directly
Could you elaborate with some examples of what you mean, and where those might be better alternatives than using the linked tool?
I realize an iPhone 6+ is an old phone. But, this is a simple page with some simple text and simple images that is working so hard to track me that it is completely unreadable even though they really want me to read it.
You know if we start to open/close in cycles in theory it's possible that a manageable equilibrium of cases can be achieved while we work out a prophylactic or cure. Capacity everywhere for supplies is ramping up and I imagine once that happens masks will be commonplace and perhaps the stigma around masks will die once a couple hundred thousand Americans do.
> they were not seeing “through” anything. Everything was laid out in the open, just like when we look at a circle drawn on a piece of paper, we can see the inside of the circle without looking “through” anything.

Brilliant, I had always imagined it as a sort of fuzzy MRI, but of course that's not how it would be at all.

I'm surprised by the next part though. My visual field already presents me with infinitely nested detail, which doesn't seem to depend on the dimensionality of the input. After all there are 1D, 2D, 3D fractals (and beyond!)
The UC Berkeley BARWAN Research Project (1995–1998)
6M cases are still far from broadly spreading, am I reading this right?
I know that this is a big issue for some people, and I understand that. However, the limits are set way below the level considered dangerous and are political. Countries with lower problems or that want to be seen as taking the problem seriously set lower limits.

To put some perspective into it, an average banana contains about 150 Bq/kg from radioactive K-40[1]. K-40 is pretty comparable to Cs-137 biologically but nobody even considers limiting the amount of banana eaten. Bananas are regularly given to infants (which are the population most vulnerable to radiation damage) from six months of age, but nobody bats an eye, because 150 Bq/kg gives you such an extremely low dose.

Wild boar is safe to hunt and eat in the entire country, so yes I'd say your original statement was preposterous. If I was a very prolific hunter and my staple food was boar, I'd be concerned if I lived in one of those areas, but not otherwise.

But then again, in Sweden we live in houses built on granite bedrock with walls made from radioactive lightweight concrete. The radon gas emitted from them gives you a dose magnitudes larger than eating wild boar, mushrooms and berries your entire life.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose
I largely agree with you here, and this entire thread has been an interesting read for me.

I’m actually writing what is turning out to be a research paper ( it started as a blog post ) about software development today.

What the OP is looking for _is_ a change, but it’s not just a change in society. It’s also how software development is viewed as a discipline and a career.

Very roughly put: software engineering is not a respected discipline, not to the level of other engineering disciplines. To create what the OP is looking for, The idea and viewpoint of software engineering needs to be changed as a whole.

To go into it more would be too much in a single post, and it’s part of the reason why I’m going down the rabbit hole with my paper.
Wait, we haven’t talked about UBI yet.
New Azure API Management Visual Studio Code Extension Now Available
Indeed such a good one when you really think about it, but it's above most readers heads.
Because your target consumers are watching more YouTube channels than ever before. Example: as a 3D printing and general "maker" enthusiast, there used to only be a few channels putting out a few videos a month in these categories. Now I'm subbed to probably a dozen and their release frequency is increasing while the overall ad budget has probably not grown much. On a per-channel, per-minute basis, the dollar value has thus gone down.

In other words, creator and content growth outstripped ad spend growth.
Also works on zsh and fish, though fish does not enumerate in the same order. Indeed does not work on sh.

Thanks for the heads up.

Too bad it's not portable, but I guess this is mainly useful in an interactive shell.

I mostly use #!/usr/bin/env sh, so my scripts will remain free of shell Cartesian products and other brace expansions.
Yes, because the marginal utility gained by the people who don't have to pay extra for products during a crisis is significantly more than the marginal utility lost by a (comparatively wealthy) farmer or developer. Remember that most farming done today is factory farming by big shots. Same with property or business development.
Isn't your comment a critique of all free markets?

Food is largely a free market in the US. A billionaire could buy a billion dollars worth of beef tomorrow. But they don't, because why would they?

And in fact, markets have done a better job of feeding people than any centralized planning system has. I don't see why masks would be any different.
It doesn't map to desire perfectly, but it does generally.

If anyone truly needs a mask, (e.g. a delivery driver delivering packages to customers, a doctor, a nurse), that represents an economic need for whatever service they provide.

Their employer will be able to charge a high price for their service, and afford to pay a high price for PPE for them.

Even when the mapping is imperfect, the fact that the rich guy was able to afford a mask while others weren't does some social good: it increases the reward for being wealthy, which promotes more productive behaviour from society at large.
I heard Al Yankovic's first radio airing of "My Bologna" live on Dr. Demento back in 1979. He went to the same college as both my parents. Everything lined up for me to like this guy and think he was great. However, by the time I heard "Eat It" I thought his gimmick was over. I was amazed that he would get media attention in the 90s and the question lingers with each passing decade. I completely agree that the appeal is weird as I have found Al's shtick to be banal for decades.
Of course, some sites are banned on HN. zerohedge.com has been banned for a long time, because its articles tend to be sensationalized, which makes them off topic here. A user vouched for that submission, which unkilled it. Then other users flagged it, and a moderator penalized it as sensational, or at least as not rising above the noise level amid the flood of covid-19 submissions. This is all routine.