skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, but they can. The older folks will remember GitHub being a separate thing but as hundreds of thousands of new devs enter the ecosystem every year, they are introduced to a cool GitHub tool by Microsoft. They don’t know that it was separate nor the animosity towards MS.

You can’t change people’s minds on emotional baggage like this. You just wait for them to die off/retire and target the new blood.
Not every raid configuration though. Just looked at the Red spec sheet, and it specifically says "without being tested for compatibility with your NAS system, optimum performance is not guaranteed." You'd need to find a setup authorized by their compatibility list that breaks for them to admit any fault.
Doom has good reviews AFAICT
Heh, I thought it was going to be a P-box kit :-)

https://hackaday.com/2018/12/14/retrotechtacular-remembering...
Also how is your sleep. 6hrs/day in your 20s is different than 6hrs/day in your 30s.
I am not sure I believe in the implicit premise. Why would, in effect, everyone vote to avoid the randomness? That isn't the way society works in practice, is it?
Is few years back I legit wanted to buy an AM/FM radio. I had A tiny one I loved to listen to while running that broke. I went into radio shack and asked if they, you know, sold radios. They did not. I was crestfallen.
Where have small grocery stores been ordered to close while large ones remained?
Have any examples? Would love to compare.
I'd also be really concerned about security in that application. Web applications tend to do a lot of string processing, and naïve assembly implementations of string processing routines are likely to be vulnerable to all the same errors as a naïve C implementation -- buffer overflows, off-by-one errors, null byte injection...
So: Hoosier Relief Agency.
One story that didn't make it the article:

In September, after we'd released our S-1 but before Cloudflare's IPO, I took two weeks off and went back to my home town of Park City, Utah. (It's actually where Lee and I had been roommates many years before.) That two week period before you go public is known as the quiet period, so I was generally avoiding social media or answering my phone or doing anything other than resting and getting ready for the pre-IPO road show.

We hadn't talked much publicly about Lee's disease, but Michelle and I had written a bit about it in the S-1 Founders Letter:

"Finally, there are two of us signing this letter today, but three people started Cloudflare. Lee Holloway is our third co-founder and the genius who architected our platform and recruited and led our early technical team. Tragically, Lee stepped down from Cloudflare in 2016, suffering the debilitating effects of Frontotemporal Dementia, a rare neurological disease. As we began the confidential process to go public, one of the early decisions was to pick the code name for our IPO. We chose 'Project Holloway' to honor Lee’s contribution. More importantly, on a daily basis, the technical decisions Lee made, and the engineering team he built, are fundamental to the business we have become."

One evening my phone rang and the called ID came up as "Lee Holloway." I checked the number and it was his. I didn't answer and the caller didn't leave a voicemail. My first reaction was that somehow his phone had been hacked or his number was being spoofed and someone was using it to somehow screw with me. Figured someone had read about his disease in the S-1 and was being a jerk.

I reported the call to Cloudflare's security team to investigate. I also texted Lee's wife to let her know to be on the lookout. She wrote back: "No, that's Lee. Sometimes I think when he's feeling nostalgic he reaches out to old friends. He never says anything, but I think it's his way to let you know he's thinking about you."

So I still shoot him text messages from time to time to let him know I'm thinking about him. And I hope, somewhere inside his mind, there's a part of him that still knows that.
> I've been there and only learnt that this "wait to be chosen" attitude never pays off. It's rewarded, but the reward is a pittance compared to what that energy could buy.

Wait to be chosen is the opposite of what I think most people are saying here.

You have to actively find out what is important to your organization and how to make both yourself and other people better in those areas.
Give up programming time for management duties.
So, how do you explain scientific consensus on climate crisis?
If you are in Oakland, Firebrand -- a bakery on Broadway in uptown -- has flour and yeast some mornings on their square site. You order on square, and come by to pick up. https://firebrand-artisan-breads.square.site
SF also lacks the density, and more critically the scale of NYC. Though credit to Mayor London Breed and Gov. Newsom for early and effective action.

Regions hardest hit by COVID-19 seem (informal take) to have largely been large, dense, sprawling cities. with poor public health infrastructure or responses.

In the US, it's currently mostly Northeast cities, generally surrounding New York, doing the worst. Wuhan (11 million) is also huge. Milan (Italy), Madrid (Spain), Tehran (Iran), London (UK) have also fared poorly, especially relative to their countries.

Outbreaks in less populated regions can and do occur. -- though often within institutional populations or equivalents -- cruise ships, retirement / nursing homes, prisons and jails, as well as anti-science religious groups, notably.

And not all megacities have been hit, especially those with solid monitoring systems, response plans, and infrastructure: Hong Kong, Seoul, Taipei, Singapore, especially.

But this is a pattern to watch going forward.

Developing nation megacities seem at high risk.
“You just won the Super Bowl, what are you going to do next?!”

“I’m going to watch Netflix!”
We just finished our 25lb bag from the Ebola panic buying days... make sure before you buy a ton of flour you know what you’re going to do with it. Bread isn’t very good without yeast (good luck finding that), cakes aren’t very good with all purpose flour, pasta is really hard to make without a pasta maker, etc... sorry to be a downer but I’m kind of the opinion that while some flour is good, and it’s certainly good to learn how to use it, don’t expect to transform your kitchen into your favorite bakery. Also... this is just my perspective but Walmart and sams are rocking the supply chain... with some few exceptions we’ve not had to look hard for anything we want and their home delivery process is awesome. Amazon has done a great job too... i do not miss two day shipping at all... as long as I know it’s off my to do list and into their queue I’m good.
Not sure, I may try again with that reasoning.
I think a bunch of Ruby developers went on to become Rust developers, so there might be some good material for ruby devs to get into rust.
Have you looked up what their natural behavior is? It’s really easy to project our likes and dislikes onto animals.
Good suggestion. I felt after writing the comment that I was out of my depth.
Or the PHP framework

https://phalcon.io
“Ducking”
Kine looks awesome. Thanks for the heads up on it.
They did a few other “one-offs.” If you are ever in Tokyo, check out the Nikon Museum, in their Shinagawa headquarters.

Here’s a couple of doozies:

https://www.stuff.tv/news/just-because-they-could-ps100000-n...

https://petapixel.com/2016/06/22/rare-nikon-1200mm-lens-setu...

https://petapixel.com/2013/11/13/ultra-rare-2000mm-f11-nikko...
Nice, I recently heard about the COBOL terminal menus on HN, so that's pretty cool you went and implemented something like that for ruby :)
Can recommend the older iPhone SE. Same size and shape, upgraded specs, latest OS.
Very cool! I wonder if that's true in the Bay Area too.
I think the pizza place at DNA lounge sells TP along with the pizza.
No, falcons are awesome.
As of April 9, according to Wikipedia, the CFR of covid-19 in South Korea reached 1.95%

The early pointing to South Korea’s CFR as low turned out to be misleading in the end due to I guess some issues relating to the data (probably because many cases were ongoing and the persons had neither died nor recovered).
Sweden's decidedly more casual than other OECD / Eurozone countries. NPR were carrying a segment on it this morning.

https://www.npr.org/2020/04/13/833623311/in-sweden-a-differe...
I've used this strategy with a read only replica. It also protects the database from long running and inefficient queries. Highly recommend doing this if you have the budget for it.
This is true for an isolated rural business.

In other cases, a business benefits from having customers park at neighboring businesses. If parking is provided, it will be taken by customers of other businesses.
Hey, looks great! Can't wait to try it out. I wish I could connect to Snowflake.
Yes. You need money and connections.
We had plenty of warning and time to prepare for Y2K and knew for certain that it was coming - neither of which is true for Covid-19. If the entire world had somehow only realized in June 1999 that Y2K would be a problem, they absolutely would have done everything possible to gain even a few more weeks.
It would be great if someone forked this to allow it to function as an XOAUTH2 IMAP proxy for other providers.

This would be particularly useful with big e-mail providers (Google, Microsoft) looking at retiring password based authentication in the near future.
Asymptotically, much like every San Francisco laundromat will be historical, every Earth location will be a world cultural heritage .
Where Retail Sales Spiked and Collapsed in Charts of Lockdown Land
Seamless chat support: There are currently 429 visitor(s) waiting to be served
I bet. The tricky part here is the metadata. A good EA will know importance level of various meetings, flexibility, etc. in a way that is not typically encoded in calendars.
Write Cross-Platform GUI in Swift Like It Is 1998
The forces that made the "phablet" standard are the same thing that makes software today so terrible -- "Let's support our biggest and most profitable use case and screw everyone else!"

This is not what tech is supposed to be about. There's supposed to be options, so all types of users can feel comfortable and at-home. Instead we force all users into a couple of comically-bad stereotypes based on market research pulled out of bullshit sales figures and a focus group's collective asses
Executing JavaScript every frame is not that heavy, but if the main thread is blocked because of something that is, which may even be in another tab, the animation will stutter.

The animations built into the platform can run and remain smooth under a broader range of conditions, which is why they should be preferred if you don't need the level of control that running script via requestAnimationFrame gives you.
People were dying without ventilators in Wuhan and elsewhere. (E.g. all the people in NYC who are dying at home, something like 100 a day last I saw)

The ventilator from what people are saying doesn’t seem to help as much as was hoped, but it’s not like hospitals are killing the patients by putting them on a vent, which is what your comment seems to imply?
Are you using a 5400rpm hdd?

In an existing UI project repo... ci (which clears node_modules) then installs from lock...

added 1880 packages in 23.283s

real 0m24.073s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.135s

Still slower than I'd like... but I'm pretty judicious in terms of what I let come in regarding dependencies. That's react, redux, react-redux, material-ui, parcel (for webpack, babel, etc) and a few other dependencies.

For one of the API packages ci over an existing install...

added 1069 packages in 12.911s

real 0m13.708s
user 0m0.045s
sys 0m0.076s

So either you're including the kitchen sink, or you're running on a really slow drive.
i commit all of my Emacs config to git and use version control, so in theory i can just git checkout abcdef1234 and I'm back up and running.
John Carmack on Python Processing
I don't see anyone here arguing that. An IFR of 0.35, let's say, would be great news at the same time as it would be significantly worse than the flu. Using bad numbers to come up with a 21% CFR is not responsible, and is arguably fearmongering.
Anecdote fight!
Personally I've always found GitLab's design much more user friendly and the code and repository layout is much nicer than the spartan and cold GitHub.

About all Microsoft has dared to change (at least transparently) since obtaining GitHub has been the pricing page, and objectively speaking right now... it's a hot confusing mess.

A mascot featuring tentacles is all too fitting here. I don't know a lot about NPM or JS but it's being described as a dumpster fire which is also all too fitting. And I'm able smirk as I write that with no animosity or skin in the game.
Another solution might gaming “country clubs”. Where you pay/deposit to join the club and access servers/etc., and validated reports of cheating are bans and you lose your deposit.

Not sure if something like that exists (I don’t game really)
I am amazed that I never gave myself a hernia trying to lug a 21" monstrosity of a CRT to LAN parties
It actually uses a time-based interval and tries to move every 5ms. At this resolution, different browsers will handle it differently.

Most web displays run at 60 Hz (16.66ms), making it inefficient to update every 5ms. 144Hz displays do exist and are wonderful, but you should always use requestAnimationFrame anyway.
“Run its course” = 2-3% of the population die due to the virus.

I think the billions in research might be a more humane alternative.
You're right about Python, is harder than it needs to be, it took me a while before I understood how it could be seamlessly integrated with it.

If it helps anyone, here's example where I put my Nix
understanding to make it seamlessly usable: https://github.com/takeda/example_python_project

If you use direnv + lorri you just need to enter directory (if not just type nix-shell) and suddenly you have everything you need and the application is installed (try executing "hello" which will execute the python code, if you modify hello.py it immediately takes effect as if you were using "pip -e")

If you call "nix build" you'll get a result directory with "result/bin/hello" that just works as if it was a binary program (don't need to worry about dependencies)

I think nix needs a tooling that does all of the ground work of setting up dev environment for the most popular languages, because it gets really confusing.
Some kids call 3.5" floppies "save icons" because they've never seen them in any other context
Oh man, the ending credits to that demo blew me away. This was only 3 years after Michael Jackson's Black & White, and a couple after Terminator 2 and here was basically kids doing the same special effect on commodity PCs in real-time. (not to mention commercial game quality 3d terrain)

As for your question: coding used to be really viewed as a creative activity, akin to any other art form. Now it's just data plumbing and CRUD apps. For the people who really still view coding as an art, the demoscene can absolutely be a gateway.

I think the most important thing being in the scene taught me was how to do teamwork on a complex technical project with vague and ambiguous requirements. I didn't encounter another environment like that until maybe grad school and professional development work. It prepared me in ways I still rely on, decades later.

The competitive nature of the scene also prepares people well to work in non-academic/commercial places where the only proof of success is winning. Academia has nothing quite like this.
> I can speak by experience that the tech lead is often not the most technically proficient on the team.

In my experience, this is mostly true. I've worked with some tech leads that had really average skills, at best.

> They are the one who talks with the most people beyond their team.

You're almost there.

Here is what I've noticed, about those who do get promoted (to tech lead and beyond): they get noticed by being the loudest in the room. They do presentations, they organize meetings (that they lead), and they are in the spotlight. Never giving it up to anyone. Me, me, me.

None of that means they are worth a damn, though. Some of these same people have led the company down technical dead ends or strapped the company with expensive tech debt and maintenance. Managers won't care though because that's their guy (or gal). Managers are really poor at recognizing bullshit and really good at justifying decisions they have made. Beyond covering their ass, it's really hard, psychologically, to admit you've really screwed up. And even harder to undo that mistake. This is how companies go under. All the time.

Very few of the tech leads I've witnessed actually help their coworkers. Especially once they've made the promotion. They tend to just vanish at that point, and camp out on projects they want to do and screw everyone else. Out of 10 tech leads, I'd say the ratio is maybe 2-3 good ones.
I get how Hoosiers are a granfalloon (the borders of the state of Indiana being essentially arbitrary), but how are groups defined by a shared philosophy and belief system like the Communist party a granfalloon? Like, what are some examples of groups that everyone would agree are definitely a “karass” rather than a “granfalloon”?
I don't know about gaming, but I do about coding. First, if I look back over the 18 years I knew him, I can see some things that make me think he had the disease the whole time. He was a brilliant coder when he first started working with me out of college, but I think he really hit his peak ability to focus and do amazing things around 2014 — right as we were rolling out Universal SSL. But, even to the end, he was great at coding. In fact, I was told that the doctors said one of the things that was unique about his presentation of the disease was that while most people lose the ability to complete complex tasks first, Lee almost seemed to do the opposite — still thriving on the complex. We brainstormed whether there were coding challenges we could keep sending him after his diagnosis to keep that part of his mind active. It never ended up happening in part because he lost a lot of his verbal communication skills around the same time, but I wonder when you hear him counting under his breath what puzzle he's still solving in his head.
Why can't they keep a fat32 driver around and mount it like they always have?
Only a few years ago in college (2014?) I lived in a fraternity house and frequently had to track people down for updates on projects.

Turns out Apple devices did (or still do?) expose the DNS hostname with a format like: JAKES-iphone-some-guid

I created a little script to ping the local network for known hosts, return a reverse lookup of the hostnames, parse the name from the iPhone hostname, and update their status in little list of who was in the building, in case I needed them for something.
I think... there will still be work. I think it means they will be going heavier on contractors, so they have more 'cushion' to preserve FTE when things unexpectedly go south. At this point, companies simply don't know how the rest of the year will pan out.
They want to buy a community of developers.
If I’m exercising hard and someone says to me, “why aren’t you smiling?” I’d look at them like they’re crazy.

Every emotion has an appropriate context.
Can you use the phone while wireless charging? I often don't charge at night.
Beyond having the money or not. By the time you're in your mid-forties, I just don't have the stamina for late-nights that I did when I was 20, even 30. I'm sure the money, maturity, experience I've accumulated between 20-45 would help, but no doubt the raw endurance is lower. I would not enjoy these legendary 24hr+ rotations that residents apparently have to do.

But hats off to this guy -- i think it's very cool. Makes my daydreams of what I'd like to do post this-job seem quaint and underachieving.
As opposed to long term traders who are suing without having been harmed.

Ideally, in a lawsuit, you want the plaintiff to have suffered some kind of harm at the hands of the defendant.
For anyone else wondering what this is, looks like it downloads encrypted mail from ProtonMail, decrypts it and exposes the unencrypted mail to your email clients as an IMAP server.
There are tons of terrible healthcare startups that are propped up by VCs before they crash and burn.

> invest in technology that is a good for everyone

'Nice to haves' are good for everyone. People want to have fun in life, not just work, eat, sleep, and go to the hospital...
I had a work issued 6s and kept it in my left front pocket.

When I would get into the car, it would eject out of my pocket, as I closed the door.

So, it can definitely handle being smashed in a car door, but it did bend it, and it still worked.

Still have and use an SE w 128MB size for personal use.
Yes Linux! It's Electron (which runs on Linux)
Honestly, I don't know if there is such a thing as the perfect job.

I suspect the daily grind becomes apparent regardless the career
choice.

I can imagine how doing the same thing for 20+ becomes dull and uninteresting, especially if you have arbitrary
deadlines, superiors to report and so on.

The way that I personally cope with this is, accepting the fact that my job is a job and at the end of the day, the only thing that really fulfils my life are good health, exercising and spending time with loved ones.

Whilst I try to enjoy my job as much as I can, it's just a means to an end.

I think a trap that some of us fall into is letting our careers define who we are and once that happens, it becomes very easy to lose the sense of self.
Finally, existence proof for all those Hollywood movies where the hero macgyvers a vacuum cleaner and a radio into a multi dimensional portal.

I mean, it proves you can upvert old stuff anyways ;)
< Everyone claims to not obey it but the force of tribalism is strong. There is no enlightened man above it.

Oh, I think that as a American who disdains both major political parties, I can claim that honor.

> The best use it well.

Sure, modern politicians are great at that.

> The worst are used well by it.

Yep. Sounds about right.

By the way, it's going to destroy your country, too. Surprised that's not obvious. Civil wars suck, I've worked in the aftermath of two. Likely will not go that far in the UK, likely just a breakup and some civil unrest, but there is that risk with any breakup. In the US, I'd say there's a much higher chance.

> You feel gigantic, not like a single man, but like a giant ocean swell.

It's always amazing to me how different individuals can be. The idea of gaining power and feeling great because I'm shouting with thousands of other people gives me the willies. Sure, protests are necessary, but it's not a feeling we should relish. It means our government is failing.

And more often, when large groups of people gather to express emotion, it's for far more malevolent ends.
Prophylaxis is for people who are currently negative (it's pre-exposure, not post). You need to give them the medication (or a placebo) and then wait long enough for a significant fraction of each group to have had an opportunity to become infected, so you can meaningfully compare the trial group with the control group. They're all wearing PPE and such anyway (both groups), so not that many are going to seroconvert even in the control group in just a couple of weeks.
I love it. The fact that one tool and with separate tabs you can connect to multiple database is the best feature. Thank you.
Pairing code, code review, Friday learning seasons where everyone pitches are often far better than organisational concept of mentors.
Like many of us, I'm working from home. It's the rest of life that we're locked in from.
People use a build pipeline for small JS projects? I just open an editor in a directory and start typing.
This is pretty much what subscription gaming services like the mentioned ESEA and FaceIt are and do. The problem is that validating a report of cheating is actually an extremely hard problem. Did the user have this mini-map software running, or just good game sense?