skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everything in that link can be done with inDesign and having data. Finding a way to complete using console or alternative applications would take hacking the inDes app or finding some sort of IFTTT sort of automation when needed, then saving as a high res image, and referencing as a link in your console layout doc. At the end it would have to compile as an image into something (might as well be inDesign) and at that point why not just layout the book with inDesign from the start? Writing the book in a text doc with some tagged markdown for rules, linking text to connected and flowed into styled text boxes that have rules assigned to them, and generating all the charts and sheets necessary to complete. Visual communication isn’t a strongpoint in code interfaces.
I'm not sure if you are aware of the difference, but you can use Chromium instead of Chrome.

I am mainly a Firefox user on NixOS, but for running Chrom{e,ium} I find that Firejail [0] is a good option.
For example, to run chromium in "store" mode and point it to the demo jitsi instance:

firejail --profile=chromium chromium --app="https://meet.jit.si"

In reality, I combine this with `nix-shell` and set it as a shell alias, since Chromium isn't something I use regularly:

nix-shell -p chromium --run "firejail --profile=chromium chromium --app=\"https://meet.jit.si\""

The `--app` option removes browser controls, so it almost behaves like an Electron application.

[0]: https://github.com/netblue30/firejail
That's not true.

When you are the sole author of the program, you clearly can choose whatever license you wish.

As long as you don't mooch off the efforts of others.
The C++ requires exceptions, so with -fno-exceptions, the compiler is not standards compliant.

However, the big companies like Apple, Facebook, and Google simply don’t care about standards compliance in their internal C++ code bases. At least, not as an end goal. There are a lot of good talks about this.
On the other hand, malleable systems are responsible for enormous increases in the productivity of computer users. We may all hate kludgy excel spreadhseets with a nightmare of tangled hacky VBA code, but you see that sort of thing in a lot of businesses' critical workflow because that kinda of malleability by "untrained" users was invaluable in the earlier life of the business.
I love how there’s contradictions, like how for “All good things come to those who wait” meets “Early bird catches the worm”.
> Make sure your todo system is a keybind away at all times.

Can you access your todo system from your phone? I'm always torn on this, and why I keep my todos in google keep.
You're right. C# support is not all the way there, but support continues to improve https://godotengine.org/article/csharp-ios-signals-events and will be better in 4.0 and potentially a 3.2.x release before then.
Permissions fails because if your user has the ability to read the application’s files, they can copy it. If they cannot, then neither can the application itself (aka it cannot run).

Demo versions (as in compiled to be a limited demo) are viable, but was counter to Apple’s image at that time (it doesn’t really show off the experience if you’re getting restricted or nagged).
Fwiw I've found turbolinks gives me enough of an SPA feel that POST reloads aren't a huge problem. If we need a very dynamic experience then Vue would-be my go to tool,but for the other 90% this is fine.
Apple Exposed It Will Now Pay $27M as Fine (Feb 2020)
It's a bullet point on Curtis Yarvin's head-CV: "Successfully reinvented computing and the internet as we know it, creating a better world for everyone."
> wouldn't that lead to a higher ROI when people eventually spend ?

There is an opportunity now to invest and come out ahead in the long run. Most companies are conserving and cutting back right now, given the uncertainty.
In the US, we are currently sitting at 21k deaths (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_t...) after states slowly started locking down throughout March and this month. There are also several stories of hotspots having completely overburdened hospitals with patients dying in hallways. The medical system currently in place is stretched to its absolute limit in many places.

Contrast that with the previous 2018-2019 Flu season, where 34k died with 0 lock downs of any kind. Source: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html

This is nothing like the flu.
I mean, thanks for your effort, but I still am puzzled as to the purpose of making this a complex interactive conversation platform... when the phrases are not able to convey a conversation and it appears random to the participants. It's a lot of behind-the-scenes work / infrastructure for something that is... not useful as a conversational tool.
..care to explain?
You mean https://bubblin.io/book/bookiza-documentation-by-marvin-dani... ?
Show HN: A Go unikernel capable of running GUI programs
>I love immutability it makes things ten times easier.

Me too. Mutable State is to Software as Moving Parts are to Hardware :-)

https://medium.com/@kristiandupont/mutable-state-is-to-softw...
I've worked at Not-Invented-Here shops and it was annoying that the Powers That Be didn't want to use a COTS solution. As much fun as it would be to reinvent DynamoDB, that's not actually going to help our business.

However, even more annoying is working at a Never-Invented-Here organization. I've been at a place which hired brilliant people, but then didn't let them innovate on pretty much anything. Write a simple TCP listener in Python to read a stream of data and then reply to it? That's crazy talk! We need to write a full Django app and deploy it behind Nginx behind a load balancer so that we can pretend it's highly available!

Don't get me wrong: the off the shelf approach is usually the right thing, but sometimes it just adds complication where it didn't need to be. It's insulting to be told you were hired for your expertise, but then not be allowed to actually use it.
Overview: We Preserve Privacy and Maintain Security
This is why I believe it to be an "unpopular opinion" these days as most computing platforms move towards being more locked down and less extensible; for security or complexity reasons these kinds of things seem to get little love or are even axed completely. Usually, the hard part is not security per se, but identifying user intent. You want to come up with a process that ensures that the user who enables potentially dangerous interfaces knows what they are doing. Preventing the user from doing this entirely is an easy but fairly disappointing "solution" to this problem.
But pollution seems to be able to dissipate quickly when abruptly stop polluting.
China Obstructs Hunt for Covid-19 Cure by Canceling “Promising” Gilead Study
And then, suddenly, Linux stops receving the myriad device driver contributions that it does now.
It's probably not about death, it's probably about the no insurance and risk of bankruptcy by hospitalization they fear.
A “software engineer” should be required to be licensed
This reminds me of The Tiny C Compiler "tcc" and its ability to recompile the kernel from source on every boot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_C_Compiler
Will the open office die following Covid-19 pandemic?
So far I’m not sure if people realize that this is a (non-serious) reference to a Borges short story: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlön,_Uqbar,_Orbis_Tertius.
hm, OTRv3 has some pretty major shortcomings - off the top of my head; it's only for 1:1 chat; both users need to be online at the same time to initiate a session; limited to non-elliptic-curve DH; socialist millionaire's protocol for in-band key exchange (but relies on a secret being preshared out-of-band); etc. It was great back in the day, but Double Ratchet (a la Signal & Olm) has replaced it - just as MLS may replace the Double Ratchet in time.
This list isn't intended to suggest a lot of people die from Covid-19, just as you can't deduce the true lethality of the disease by looking at it's statistical significance among a non-representative group while massive countermeasures are employed.
Nice article. I'm all for it ! I use Pandoc and Makefile as well. Except I use Emacs and Inkscape for SVG graphics. IMHO this is the way to produce documents in the 21st century.
TCL was the language used with F5's BigIP for writing custom rules on their load balancer. I' haven't used BigIP in years, so I'm not sure if they still do.

This was the last big thing I wrote in TCL and I still use it to this day:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/scripts/lnsponge/

TCL is a neat language, but these days if I need scripts, I'll usually turn to python or ruby, plus they have a lot of libraries and packages. Like others have said, it's used in a lot of stuff where you need to embed a scripting language for extensions, similar to Lua.
It's already happening in US:

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...

Also in France one big insurer started paying people back, with government asking the other companies to do the same.

https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2020/04/02/coronavir...
I wouldn't go so far as calling it a poor language, but I do feel the same way about the language in the same domains as you. I've recently run into issues with this in a project I'm currently working on
It is weird. I had a similar reaction. My immediate focus was on the use of the word 'normies' as opposed to the original subject of that post. I wonder if the author shot him/herself in the foot by using such language.
Perhaps it's a matter of perspective, but I don't see it as derogatory.

Would you call yourself a normie?
Feudalism is a fairly close model for how IPv4 address allocations work, and if IPv4 is not "widely-used" I don't know what is. It's not like Urbit is adding anything, besides a 64-bit address space (and even then, that's the same size as the space of fully-routable IPv6 networks)
Autopilot != autonomy in cars or in planes.
Interesting. Maybe it’s still being rolled out. They didn’t have this in SNV recently.
Loaded question. Kidding. But one of my side projects invovles a financial piece. It's not technically a service or anything, but rather an informative guide on saving enough for retirement though I haven't finished it yet.

I've always been naturally good with money and I have a friend who is a financial advisor, so having never spoken to a financial advisor before, he did me a favor as a friend to show me that I was on track to retire a millionaire if I kept doing what I was doing. He said I basically had to adjust nothing because I was doing everything right. Never took a finance or business class. I just learned at an early age the difference between wants, needs, and a lavish yearly vacation or getting to travel around the world, which is far greater than any material you'll ever get.

The project is a guide to help people understand the differences of wants and needs, teaching about the stock market and investments, 401ks, working different jobs to make money, saving when you are youngest, when to invest, etc., all to prepare people for a decent retirement. We all define what our retirement will be like, yet many people are surprised when they either learn they do not have enough to retire or they must come to accept a certain lifestyle when there is no more income or they have to return back to work.

Anyways.. that's my "break-in". My friend almost convinced me to quit my job, leave my state, and move to where he lives to work for his company. Specualation that I probably could have doubled my salary, however, at the expense that I actually "make sales" or "open up accounts", as most financial businesses would come to expect. Fortunately, I didn't do that because I love my current job, even if it pays 2 times less, and a few months later, he informed me he left there and got a job working in life insurance. So I'm kind of glad I didn't just go on a whim. But his validation of my expertise certainly sparked me to want to help others, even if I am not in the field professionally.
>Who's going to want to risk themselves or their employees if we can't ensure our own safety?

LOTS of people will, and we can reduce the risk with masks. Provide them to employees, require they wear them, maybe require customers wear them too.
I can’t remember the particulars right now, but there’s a small team that remotely manages the macbooks of Google employees. I suspect that their tools would be a great fit here.
Yeah, I signed up for a computer science class in 7th and 8th grade and this is all we did programming related, didn't learn much at all.
It's still invaluable in highly locked-down office environments. It lets users automate things that they wouldn't be allowed to automate otherwise (needing a full development environment or the ability to run arbitrary executables or access to Powershell).
Good. Eat some vegetables. Most of you are overweight as it is.
> ..care to explain?

The developer of Urbit is better known as an advocate for "neo-ractionary" ideas, which I believe includes things that look like neo-feudalism:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment

IIRC, some of these political ideas are reflected in the design choices of Urbit.
Parent comment was saying that TikTokkers are monetizing by trying to move their fans to their YouTube channel.
I've been selling a couple of WordPress plugins since 2013, mostly piggy-backing on other popular services that were experiencing crazy growth and taking care of their WordPress integration for them (unofficially, some already had one that sucked).

Yearly (subscription) revenue is at about $500K USD now. It has been growing by less than 10% for the last few years as I haven't been that interested in growing it - I want to work less, not more.

So far I haven't seen any negative effects because of COVID-19 in terms of revenue. If anything there seems to be a slight uptick in new subscriptions and slightly fewer support emails per week.

- MC4WP: Mailchimp for WordPress: https://mc4wp.com/

- Boxzilla Plugin: https://boxzillaplugin.com/

- HTML Forms: https://htmlforms.io/
I've been running a World of Warcraft TCG loot website for over 13 years. I started it because my wife needed me off the game because I played too much (she was right), but I still wanted to do something with the game.

https://www.wowtcgloot.com

The recent shutdown has increased interest organically.
> You do need to understand your access patterns well,

I've found that being able to change quickly is more valuable that the marginal performance boost that mongo would give. Denormalization is possible in postgres.

Where have you seen this trade off go well?
Don't bother.

https://hasura.io/
https://www.graphile.org/postgraphile/
https://www.prisma.io/
>Who's going to want to risk themselves or their employees if we can't ensure our own safety?

Me. I will risk myself. And most of my friends, too.
Precisely. Hetzner can provide a dedicated server with an Intel Core i7-2600, 16 GB RAM, and 2x3TB spinning disks for 29,00 €/month before tax with unlimited traffic via their server auction site for orphaned servers [0].

Other Hetzner and many OVH offerings have traffic caps, but these are in the region of ~10TB/month.

[0]: https://www.hetzner.com/sb/
Oh, I agree with your post and appreciate you adding real substance to this thread. I'd say the area's in "decline" as opposed to "dying" but that may be splitting hairs. I do think "dying" implies that there's no hope for revival. Like it's some remote coal town that lives or dies by that single industry. Sure yeah, the manufacturing industry is not doing well here and Racine has fared particularly poorly. That made Mount Pleasant vulnerable to Foxconn but is only one part of the story. There's a lot of political nuance when it comes to Wisconsin and Milwaukee. This deal wasn't getting done without the state government backing it no matter how naive or desperate one municipality was. My point is that it's far more likely corruption or even just normal political incentives drove this deal as opposed to stupidity.
I think it’s good to buy something if you can use it immediately without much customization. If you have to do a lot of customization it’s not that clear. For example we have bought a system that requires extensive customization and a lot of people are starting to wonder if the total effort of building from scratch that does wha we need and not more would have been less than the never ending customizations of a system that can do way more than we need.

There is also the question of brain drain. The IT department in my company has outsourced a lot of the tech work to the point that there aren’t many people left who are capable of making informed purchasing decisions. They mostly read sales presentations, white papers and Gardner reports but they have no ability to really assess things. This shows in them repeatedly buying expensive systems that never get really used.
> Have I made a mistake somewhere?

"At least" 41 deaths among 3 million grocery workers.

I can't imagine we have anything resembling complete data for the number of grocery workers who have died. "At least 41" could be 42; it could be 500. Trying to draw conclusions on the relative safety of a grocery store employee versus the general public from that number is crazy.
Interesting, I had never heard of a country that subsidizes solar or wind by providing loan guarantees... Why would Sweden do it that way? It doesn't seem particularly helpful for a tech with such short loan terms and lower risk than nuclear.
Sounds like outlining
I can see immutable infrastructure and this concept working in a copy-on-write model. For instance, if a service is up and running, a modification can consist of duplicating the infrastructure so you have your own copy and then making the modifications. It localizes the change, and in theory keeps the original unmutated.

I have no idea how this would work in practice. This manifesto seems to go against the grain in other ways, as I'm not sure how it can coexist the economic model of SaaS that has emerged. Also, as others have said, the security and UX implications are big concerns that threaten the feasibility of this idea.
I don't want a mask, or a test. I just want to be left alone to get a bad cough once in a while.

Remind me again how many flu deaths we had this season?
If this is the case with plants across all the states, does this directly mean meat prices are about to skyrocket?
I'd sooner buy channel merch and let a tshirt company take a middleman cut than let google take that middleman cut. Patreon being the middleman is also preferable to further enriching google.
I got tired or waiting to find out what Urbit actually does, so I checked Wikipedia:

Urbit is a decentralized personal server platform. The platform seeks to deconstruct the client-server model in favor of a federated network of personal servers in a peer-to-peer network with a consistent digital identity.

I think every comment I've read so far contains an objection to being called "Normies," so I won't belabor that here. I will say that if the HN audience (highly interested, highly competent) tunes out before you can make your pitch you are doing marketing wrong.
Insights from Shape Up for managing projects
When companies struggle the first thing they tend to pull is advertising. Need some help making this quarter’s numbers? Pull all the TV adverts for a few weeks. “Go dark” as insiders say.

Short term this is all standard. The long term danger for Google and others is when lots of companies realize they probably didn’t need to make all that spend in the first place. That big “reset” is a new normal that advertising dollar driven tech companies will need to adjust to.
Doesn't seem like there are enough masks for this either though. The US is going to need literally billions of masks that are distributed to the population.

Are we doing everything we can to ramp up production as fast as possible?
I seriously doubt that the dramatically increased exposure you get as a grocery store worker makes you safer, and suspect this effect reverses once you control for risk factors.
Serious question, how did they discover this? AFAIK GoL patterns can't be reverse engineered.
Ok, so because i never reaches 4, it assumes the loop doesn't exit due to the 'for' condtion, so it must return true.

That makes sense, but still feels like a broken way to do optimizations.
I thought "Amazon Marketplace" items were fulfilled by Amazon? Maybe I have the different categories mixed up?
Fears of ‘Wild West’ as Covid-19 blood tests hit the market
As aggressive as your post is, I have to agree, and kudos for NPR for not groping for the juicier headline:

> "It is impossible to keep our grocery stores stocked if our plants are not running," Smithfield Foods CEO Kenneth Sullivan said in a statement.

No, it's impossible to keep the _meat aisles_ stocked, which is an aisle I and lots of other Americans couldn't care less about.
Vim + Pandoc + Beamer + pdfpc is also the best way to write Presentations I have found so far:

https://github.com/maxmunzel/talk-algorithms-for-np-hard-pro...
That's part of it, but the content still flows top-to-bottom for the most part and is not quite enterprise-ready, packaged into a standalone app.
Most of US obesity comes from consumption of junk food, so, crunchy fried potato chips and corn puffs don't go away when we run out of meat. Pork grinds and beef jerky being the obvious exceptions, I suppose.
If you're going to call people fat, you gotta post physique.
OT - One of my most personal profound moments was chasing this winter photo [0] and sharing it with a coyote.

I wanted to take a night shot of the Cathedral Rock (that I had seen a few years earlier but didn't take a good photo of it) under the full moon and fresh snow. It took me several years of driving up to Yosemite when there was snow storm and one night I got lucky.

It was around 11 PM when the storm stopped and sky started to clear up. I drove to the spot set my camera and I was able to take two images before the mist disappeared.

While I was taking the long exposure photo all alone in middle of night. There was such profound sense of being so small in a universe so much vaster than what I'm able to comprehend.

Out of nowhere, this coyote quietly walked up to me and stood right next to me looking the same view. I wasn't sure if it was going to bite me or do anything, but it seemed so harmless that I just looked at it and then we both looked at the view. Shortly after the coyote walked away and the mist vaporized, but left something indelible in me.

[0] https://sf.smugmug.com/BW-Landscape/i-tPZrsLz/A
Orthogonal to the topic but Erik Meijer is hilarious
I was being a bit flippant rather than literal with the Ellison comment. I think I read a similar joke on an LKML thread or similar once.
This is might be great news from a societal healthcare perspective. Just like in England during WW2, meat was is short supply, and as a result people had to resolve to eating more vegetables etc. The end results was a generation (for those WW2 years) that never before or after has been as healthy.

Both life expectancy (excluding those in the military) and birth mortality went down

It's a great study in epigenetics.
Earning an income is an important component of self-preservation, and many people would be willing to risk getting the virus if they could go back to work.

Millions of people have been laid off or furloughed and cannot find other work because businesses in their industries have been forced to close indefinitely. Some of them may not have money left to feed their children. They definitely would go back to work if they could.
Italian ANSA uses Blockchain to certify the origin of their stories
this is not as bad as it sounds, people can discover many other sources (also lower cost) of protein. perhaps this leads to decreased meat consumption, not at all a bad thing.
This statement is condescending, presumptive, and privileged.

Perhaps you should consider expanding your data set and practicing positive social interaction.