skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not? Maybe I have a lot of monitors and want to dedicate a small one to a taskbar where I see the full pathname of each editor that has a file open.

People who just randomly click things without even realizing they're clicking may just as well delete random files or worse, the taskbar taking up half the screen is about the most harmless consequence I can think of. If it's really such a worry, add a dialog that asks the user "are you sure you want this?" for anything "weird", with a checkbox to "never ask again". If people "accidentally" click that, too, that is really their problem.
Rotation isn't working on macOS + Chrome for me.
Burger King might give you a free whopper if you can solve math problem
IndieHackers was inspired by posts on HN just like this, got a lot of traction marketing it here, and was acquired by a YC startup too; basically, IndieHackers is an unofficial YC spin-off.
That's not the issue. The issue is the Postal Service was required to prefund its pension plan 75 years in the future, a requirement no other government corporation has: https://ips-dc.org/how-congress-manufactured-a-postal-crisis...
I'm not 100% sure where the 15 GHz equivalent speed calculation comes from.
> What are the laws preventing UPS from delivering to extremely rural areas?

Apparently it's literally illegal for anyone but USPS to put something in your mailbox https://blog.oup.com/2017/07/mailboxes-us-mail/.
Ironically Trump refused to "shutdown" the States a decision he deferred to the Governors.
A bit of context: this is far, far more than any other country - Germany is second with 1.3M tests, and only two other countries have done over a million [0]. Per capita, we're about middle of the pack for well developed countries (excluding very small micro-nations).

[0] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
You're right that flattening the curve wasn't about reducing the overall number of people that are infected -- it was keeping the amount of people that needed treatment below the hospital capacity for the state/country/region. This necessarily means that the number of people that are exposed will be roughly the same as without exposure, but in a longer time-frame. The WaPo simulations do a good job of showing the effects of flattening the curve on the total number of infected at any one time.

And the point of keeping these total number of infected was to not overwhelm the hospitals. When the hospital systems are overloaded, then you start to see deaths from normally treatable causes where the system couldn't keep up with COVID, so couldn't treat an otherwise survivable condition. These numbers aren't being readily reported, but the absolute death rate in places has gone up. Italy has reported some of these numbers and while the COVID death rate is fairly low (but still substantial enough to try to avoid), the impact it has had on the overall death rate of the population is striking.

But, if you extrapolate out the WaPo simulations, there are three possibilities: 1) Total burn where the virus does what it's going to do and whoever survives is (hopefully) immune. Thankfully we didn't go this route. 2) A moderate degree of infection where most of the population has been exposed by the end. This will take a long time to achieve this level of herd immunity and you still have to deal with the death rate of the virus itself. 3) Slowing the infection rate so much that the outbreak burns itself out. This takes time as well, and a lot of discipline. And at the end, there is still a large percentage of the population that is potentially at risk when the virus flares up again. This is likely the scenario we are headed towards.

If we are going to start to remove restrictions before we have a vaccine (which is all but a given), then I interpret "managing the flow of bodies" as controlling where people can travel. Or more likely, contact tracing where we monitor where people travel in near-real time so that if they end up getting infected, then we can retrospectively contact-trace who they may have been in contact with so that they could also be tested and/or quarantined.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/corona-si...
Iirc, there was a lot of arbitrary funding allocated in that bill. For once in its existence, Congress seemingly (as I understand it, I could be wrong) passed a bill which largely affected only what it was supposed to, with a minimal amount of dead weight.

The USPS needs to be preserved, it's essential. The stimulus wasn't the place to do it.
No, it's not automated and does not track changes with the required granularity: what file is changed by what application, what OS package and what reason.
Actually it does have many of those libraries, they just come with a different name, or in commercial only form, without the FOSS variants from Java.
Anyone in the country can send information to anyone else in the country for almost nothing. Is there any other infrastructure that provides this service today?

This kind of unfettered, nearly free (should be entirely free, but I digress) communication is the cornerstone of a healthy society.
Pricing would likely be similar to the free market pricing for prison phone calls. What, $50 per letter, something like that?
I don't see a point except "everybody is doing it". While I don't agree with the person you are responding to, I don't think this is really evidence to the contrary or says anything much about the value of advertising.
Only 3 orders of magnitude. :)

Thanks for the correction.
This is incredibly silly but I love it!
I'm not so sure... I make them pretty much daily, and we print them and call them "books".

I'm not saying you shouldn't be able to tweak them manually, but there's got to be a more ergonomic language for drafting pages than literally dragging objects pixel by pixel, especially when most of the content comes in four forms: tables pasted in from Excel, charts pasted in from Excel, bullet lists and simple graphics around text like circles and squares
The PS also relies on having a legal monopoly on the delivery of first class mail.
Literal or not, it amounts to being the same for their bottom line, and we all pay for it through taxes.
The secret sauce is that TW doesn't actually do currency exchange.

They have their own pools of different currencies, and receive/disburse into/from those pools rather than selling/buying.

So if you send $100 to someone who will receive EU, TW doesn't actually change $100 into EU; they credit your $100 to their dollar pool, and pay the recipient from their EU pool. As long as the pool sizes remain well matched with the inflow/outflow in that currency, TW isn't actually having to deal with any currency conversion at all.

This is simultaneously similar to and utterly different from what banks have done for international transfers. The difference is that TW is free to take on the risk of the rates changing because the risk is reduced substantively.
you're welcome... not sure if tree style tabs has an api i can use to get that information. i actually have a dump of tabs to json in an unreleased version i used for backup and restore but it's not live yet.
Okay, the article’s point is that their position as a semi government agency gives them an unfair advantage vs their private competitors. Of course it does.
Why first principles? Create a do-not-mail list. Make up the funding gap with taxes.
To add to the ongoing list, the USPS is the only delivery service that cannot open up your mail/packages without a warrant.
How comes that every time I post from this account I get few immediate downvotes and when I use other accounts it does not happen?

Interesting...
Honeypot as a Service
and over generations it's even worse
Something tells me for-profit companies will not be as generous to those less fortunate than us.

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2002/07/08/02-1690...
http://nationofpacifica.com/
It's wild watching someone who seems to just be a garbage manager be in charge of something as large as the nation. Micromanaging. Manage via publicity. PR instead of content. Agreement instead of actual thought and discussion. I've left jobs over a combination of two of those things, and it seems like we have all of them right now as a nation.

I wish someone who has direct reported to Trump in the past was on this site and could give insights into his actual managerial style.

edit: I'm not trying to talk politics, if that's why I'm being downvoted. My observations are that he is not a good manager. This is what I see in the news and what I read. Both from external media, the white house, and his own tweets. If you disagree, please explain why. I'm looking for hope and don't see any. I would love to.
One aim of the tool is to make it as easy and simple as possible to use, but thank you for sharing the link.
Throw-away accounts with no identifying information, purposely flaming comments that add nothing to the discussion (nevermind with no citation, sources, or data) are a very non-hn thing. Is there a rule against this kind of low quality participation?
It's illegal for private companies to deliver letters.
US's digital divide 'is going to kill people' as Covid-19 exposes inequalities
Yes. I love this from an executive-action standpoint. They are _doing_ something about something, in the face of a lot of fearful messaging. And that gives the rest of us an even better "emotional/energy vector" which is based on a promise of government support and action in support of business.

We are participants in the most creative and powerful world economy of all time. Regardless of geographical location, cultures are generally more unified and geared toward working together than ever. Markets have shown an impressive amount of resilience in the face of unprecedented fear messaging. People are ready to work hard; in fact they're wearing themselves out by working harder than they have before in many cases.

This is exactly the kind of action we need right now.
And the buildings are all the same. They could be part of the message. If I'm a customer-focused business, let me buy a house in the suburb instead of a skyscraper.
> What kind of apps do you run? A variety of languages/platforms?

Mainly Python, some issues with Musl, but nothing too bad. Anyway, these days I tend to mainly use AntiX.
Because reconciliation across sessions and platforms is non-trivial. Especially with browsers become increasingly adversarial (aka pro-privacy).

https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-reconcile-Facebook-advertisi...
PSA, you can use Inkscape to edit text in (some) PDF's.

Just note (as it says when you import it) to use the internal importer as otherwise you won't have editable text.

Saved me a bunch of work already.

https://twitter.com/gnyman/status/1243103422313836544
> "What's the one thing you would not compromise on as you write code?" Its not hard to figure out the right answer to that one: "I never compromise. Must be perfect.

That is actually the worst possible answer I can think of. Pretty much any answer would be better than that. It demonstrates that the person either:

1. isn't honest or

2. doesn't understand basic engineering concepts
Have you run into any rate limiting on iMessage? We usually see bulk messaging (eg: appointment reminders) getting silently dropped by carriers if over 100 messages are sent from that number in a day.

Additionally, what stops Apple from breaking your service, like so many other unofficial chat APIs?
Not to be pedantic or anything but Cascadia definitely doesn’t include California. Nuh-uh, no way José, no siree.
You mean, I could have written something like "gas or, increasingly, renewables"? Which is what I actually wrote.
Something like this isn't really necessary. I do something like this (bash) all the time when I want to change a part of a filename (renames "foo-bar-baz.txt" to "foo-bar-quux.txt"):

mv foo-bar-{baz,quux}.txt

You can have an 'empty' bit to add or remove something from the name (renames "foo-bar.txt" to "foo-bar-baz.txt"):

mv foo-bar{,-baz}.txt

That will work with pathname parts as well (as in the linked demo video) if you include them in the command.

I guess the linked script is useful if you need to do some complex edits to the filename, since you can't usefully have more than one curly-brace-group for this use case. But in that case honestly I'm fine just double-clicking the first argument to select, and then middle-clicking to paste, and then using the arrow keys to edit.
yeah you can try, for print/OTT the most common way to estimate lift is with DMA segmentation, compare lift in the DMA's which saw the ad versus the DMA's which didn't. but how do you pick the right DMA's to pair, etc. it's hard and i think most people don't do it right; again, it requires very large n to do correctly, which requires very large budgets.

mcdonalds is actually one of the savvier players here, they know that it's hard to quantify brand advertising if you only go off in-store purchases, so they spent very heavily to promote their app and develop a consumer-brand relationship there. now, if you see a mcdonalds ad on youtube, they can (try to) match your youtube ad impression to a purchase done through the app / credit card / other PII.
I'm going to disagree here, though sort of understand what you and the original poster are saying.

In short I've seen the mess that 'unsilled' people make using complex tools. Tools such as databases (my area) are presented as being easy to use by microsoft, who make a lot of effort to make it easy to use. Too easy. Not because I want to keep people out, far from it, but because if they don't know what they are doing they get only so far, then things go bad and they've no idea why. Drag/drop, point/click only goes so far.

I guess no complex tool can be (or should be?) used with concomitant levels of training. It's not an argument for code gurus to make themselves a comfortable walled garden to preside over and keep others out, it's an argument that tools should come with training, always.

The problem these days is the hirers just want everything (blah blah full stack blah) and don't understand the cost of getting it wrong because it works - up to a point. MSSQL, Spark, Kafka, down to failure to understand how CPUs work. They all get treated as black boxes, and that's fine up to a point. Then things break or don't scale. Out of my sphere I see so many websites that have no basic understanding of usability, or standards, or accessibility, security and by web devs that barely understand HTTP.

If it's plain line of business, unimaginative gruntwork that keeps a business alive with spreadsheets etc, then that's what's needed and basic understanding is sufficient. I've done plenty of jobs like that, they keep the economy going, but if you want heftier dev work, I don't think that will suffice.

I guess that makes me sound a snob. Not intended that way, just saying complex tools may not be usable to their full capacity without understanding them. I may be wrong too.
All I ever want to do is use the road. There aren't enough mountain passes. For me, Yosemite is basically a toll road.
It's a random individual's approximation of the value added by their status as a government agency; and no, we patently /don't/ pay for it through taxes (unless you count subsidized borrowing, but that wasn't the original claim and it's more than a little nitpick-y).
GeOS would have been much more responsive...
This calls to mind the concept of The Street in Neal Stevenson's Snowcrash:

"That's why the damn place is so overdeveloped. Put in a sign or a building on the Street and the hundred million richest, hippest, best-connected people on earth will see it every day of their lives."
> Casually hides Cracking the Coding Interview book

Ironically, I'm pretty sure that owning that book is part of the image :)
Yes Osapy is for server-server debugging AND you don't need to install anything
The author showed it at the end of the article. It's the "effective speed" reported by some benchmark programs (including calling subroutines, running for loops, iterating on a string, etc). These are simple and trivial programs and can be highly optimized in a simulator on modern x86_64. Real-world programs, like games, is slower, as acknowledged in the article.
I once read some useful advice to think of documentation in four categories:

For work:

1. Playbook (how to do this thing)

2. Reference (what or where is this thing)

For learning:

3. Tutorial (practical familiarity)

4. Explanation (deep understanding)

I agree that a lot of projects would benefit from more effort in category 4. It might be the most difficult of all to write, though.
Delusional take. The petrodollar system is collapsing. USD will not be the reserve currency for much longer.
This is beautiful. I love reimaginings of good ideas or bad, from the past. I think this is a very innovative way to approach this.
It is indeed understandable on an emotional level. That said, we don’t have to set policy based on a small number of objections. Instead, we can look at the big picture and choose to balance risks.

There is no such thing as completely risk free.
This is great, and it's a big chunk of population, but I keep feeling like we could do better. For example, these three States could do a great job, but there's nothing stopping a bunch of the other States from bungling it (like, say, ignoring health experts and exempting certain groups from mass gathering restrictions). Then those States end up exporting infectious individuals into the States which are doing things right, and creating more clusters.

If only we had some sort of united group of all the States, where the response could be coordinated and centralized for maximum effectiveness.
I live in rural America. If we relied on for-profit, I imagine I would have to drive to the closest pick-up location (40 minutes), as I have to do right now for my UPS/FedEx packages.
I wonder how much we would need to subsidize. As it is the junk mail is adding that money into the system for us.

This seems like a valid idea to look further into.
Their API is absolute garbage. Search is incomplete and streaming consumes GBs/hour even when you're getting no results.
This is a nice alternative to using curly braces, especially when the changes aren't simple substitutions :D
I get the drive for the advertisers, but whats the point for the audience?
The original site had the novel status to gather attention, but for iterations on the idea what calls the consumer to come and see the ads?
Am I missing something?
It’s a critical service. No one should be allowed to profit off of critical services.

Is there an argument to be made that a privatized version could run better? Not unless it gets to leverage people’s need of their mail next to its own greedy need for profit.
The USPS has legally enforced monopolies on various forms of mail delivery:

https://www.cato.org/publications/tax-budget-bulletin/privat...
Perhaps $10 dollars a letter is what it should cost in rural Montana; why is subsidizing a lifestyle choice the post offices business?
It's gas because CO2 is not taxed. Don't tax gas and renewables will prop it up, but also nuclear doesn't stand a chance of competing. Tax CO2, and renewables will displace gas. The CO2 tax for renewables to take over will be lower than the CO2 tax needed for nuclear to take over. So the point you make there doesn't help new nuclear.

What CO2 taxes would do is keep existing nuclear plants operating a bit longer.
I had a USPS package delivered signature required. They just left it in the mailbox. Unfortunately, it wasn't my mailbox, but one of my neighbors. It took me another 3 days to track it down...
$100 a pop to advertise on a site nobody knows anything about?
I realize I'm late to the party, but I've really been enjoying Ben Eater's series on building a simple computer with a 6502.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLowKtXNTBypFbtuVMUVXN...
Imagine a world where state or federal government wants to do mail-in voting, or conduct a census, or mail emergency checks to all Americans, or send out tax refunds, or passports, or birth certificates, and private companies refuse to do it, or charge exorbitant rates. Would you prefer:

a) The government can compel private companies to do any of these things at any time whether they want to or not.

b) The government can do these things by itself.

c) None of these things are possible.

Or, imagine a state election that includes a ballot question about raising taxes on large corporations, and the only company that can deliver and collect ballots is Amazon. Can you think of any problems this could cause?
It always puzzles me why this is the oft suggested answer. Surely the sane default should be to already not receive unnecessary spam? In the digital world, the general consensus seems to agree with this sentiment, I wonder why the same doesn't apply for the real world. If anyone wants your ads, they can sign up for it, delivering it to anyone else should be punishable by law.
I'll be glad if we get a vaccine. If we don't, we must fight it nonetheless. In 2003, we stopped the SRAS epidemic, another coronavirus. We stopped it. There's no vaccine yet. The 2015 MERS isn't completely extinct but it's under control.
Also I think Korea and a few other Asian countries will be virus free soon (those who thought the 2003/2015 epidemics)
I find myself generally unaffected by advertising and would normally fall into the "waste of money" camp, until I started hanging out more with non-engineering types. Seeing them made me realize A) advertising does work, at least for a critical mass of people, and B) advertising doesn't take away their ability to judge a product, no matter how well targeted it is. I've even found they have a superior ability to judge products and services than I do at times because they intuitively jive with the marketing in a way that my engineering brain doesn't (they can piece together subjective qualities about a product/service being marketed to them, and I just think "show me the specs and price." Both approaches have benefits and downsides).
Ads really work. I have a hard time believing there's any company that put effort into having decent ads and found that they did nothing.

The only question is if they are fairly priced. It could be argued that they were overpriced due to over-funded companies overbidding on them trying to growth hack and bot traffic being mixed in.
It's so cool!!

One weird thing, it seems like jumping makes the video restart

EDIT: Okay it seemed to stop doing that after I enabled and disabled my cursor again
Particle Life: Game of life with particles
Interesting, because it seems like I've been seeing an increase in ad displays at the end of videos (not running a Pi-hole yet so I'm still seeing ads on mobile). Anecdata, I know.
US: Amazon stops accepting new online grocery customers amid surging demand
It depends. Significant stake helps of course and despite that, I'd prefer solving problems that need solving than spending a bunch of time on problems that don't :)

There's a balance.
Yes, I think that may be true. It's fairly opaque even to us creators -- I don't know which ads are served, or how many people click, etc. Patreon has been a huge help, and if it gets high enough, I'll probably turn off ads altogether.
That seems fair, unless you want to pay more. Why should someone be subsidizing your housing choice?
He's talking about junk mail. This is mostly what they deliver.
As someone who lives in one of these states, I'm nonplussed at the announcement. It doesn't really seem to say anything concrete that I can tell.

"We've agreed that we will use metrics...we are still deciding what these metrics will be."

I thought the Stay Home, Stay Healthy order (in Washington state) wasn't unreasonable and wasn't just political babble, but I don't really know what to make of this piece. Anyone want to try to explain it like I'm five?