skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The work environment may have burned you out, or the years may have ground away the initial joy of learning. Either way, my suggestion is the same.

Look around for a charity that you value, and that you think could make good use of your skills. Local charities often lack people with programming skills, so your contribution might be very valuable to them.

If things go well, you might revisit the old thrill of overcoming unfamiliar challenges. You may take delight in the fact that you are making a difference to something important that goes well beyond you and what you thought was your career. Almost certainly, you'll also make some new friends who can teach you a thing or two, perhaps about things you've never pondered before.

Keep an eye out for someone you can teach. That way, your skills will be magnified, and you may find yourself looking forward to each new day in a way you haven't in a long time.

Good luck.
Ah, technically correct, the best sort of correctness.
As far as I know, in Swedish å does not have any ambiguity and is always read as "o" (as in "ocean").

My point is that different people pronounce things as they are used to, reflecting it in a writing system leads to complexity and inconsistency.
Personally I don't see the point of doing unit testing to do unit testing when you actually need integration testing. Mocking external services is a waste of time in my humble opinion. It's super time consuming and you can mock it wrongly or have a different behaviour in you mock.

I prefer to use integration tests with sonarqube. 80% is then a good threshold.
I agree with you and would add that it's not just millionaires. People on median incomes are buying masks at these inflated prices from profiteers, so the market is massively inflated.
I’ve done

gcc foo.c -o foo.c

far too many times :(
I've not had time to dig into Nasrudith helpful reply, so I'm replying to you possibly out of that context, therefore possibly wrongly.

That given the question about factual journalism appears answered in the article's 2nd sentence:

> And what if, in spite of your efforts to find out whether the event took place or not

So it's historical investigation. It may be personal narrative too, but that's an addition, not a displacement, of historical investigation.

> It's not trying to settle the question of whether the wolves exist or not.

From the bloody article, which you haven't read "In the weeks and months that followed, I did what I could to investigate the [that 'wolves had ruled the city'] matter more thoroughly" - so he did try to settle the question - if he was not then why was he investigating it?

Reality matters. It describes in the article about the jews' situation - in your view should the jews have simply risen above the reality of the situation? Stayed put and simply made it irrelevant with aloof, fluffy thinking?

Fuck this. This morning I received a text message from a woman who's parents (one still alive, though not long if covid gets to her) were directly affected by the nazis. I don't know the story, I think they escaped europe to come to the UK when things got nasty.

Time passes, people forget, the ground is laid yet again for all the bad shit to happen once more. This literary "can't be arsed" bollocks is part of that paving, and I'm not having it.
VS2019 is pretty damn good.

I use it daily for .net coding, while i use VS code for everything else.
NIH and concrete over generic solutions all the way, before you end up in the soulless hamster wheel of constantly upgrading 3rd party software.
Ask HN: In the current crisis is starting freelancing doable?
Hey everyone,
I'm a full stack JavaScript dev in London with 10 years experience, working as a tech lead in a big company. Because of the Coronavirus directly impacting our revenues, we are being put at 80% pay / 80% time.

Do you think in the current climate it would be doable to start freelancing / consulting? I've already got an LTD setup because I used to be a contractor, but would like to look at turnkey work, where I'm given a project for a fixed price.
Possibly related https://greekcitytimes.com/2020/04/07/an-attack-on-greek-her...
Amazing service! Also loading the page with noscript as I do gives me a quick loading single white page with a narrow column of text. No fancy stuff or funny business. Just the article.
We translate condensate biology into much-needed medicines
Coronavirus could attack T lymphocytes like HIV [pdf]
Windows search in win10 now uses bing.

I am not joking. I found out about it when it stopped working due to bing outrage and had to do registry fix to make it work again.
Another reason to choose Huawei with removed google apps.
How to Manage a Pandemic
One thing that might help for the general population could be iron supplements. Not to prevent infection but to help the body to respond to low oxygen levels if you become infected.
Thing with deaths is that, as others have noted, many go unreported.

What I've looked at so far are IC admissions. As that depends the least on policy I think. Moreover, its the thing we most want to control (i.e. you want peak IC admissions not to go over IC capacity).

I've been using this to judge the effectiveness of measures taken in the Netherlands though. Which is quite different from using it to measure R_0 or R_t in other countries with other data.
But were experiencing shortages because of profiteering.

>In New York police arrested a man who had stockpiled medical gear, allegedly selling it for a 700% mark-up.
The text book answer is LISP
Up-to-date global phylogenetic tree of SARS-CoV-2
Maintainer here. dang suggested I add a comment to the thread to help start possible conversations about the project. So I'll answer 3 self-asked questions.

"Why did you start the project?"

Short answer: I'd spent 3 years trying to get my first job in tech (London). A recruiter took pity on me in 2013 and suggested I build up a portfolio of projects on GitHub to showcase my abilities. I started a project which included an animation on canvas, and took the decision to code the animation using the canvas API rather than an existing library. I got a bit obsessive about the canvas element over the next few years. 7 years later, I'm finally beginning to feel happy and confident in the work.

"What problems does the project solve?"

My view is that there's three big issues with the <canvas> element: accessibility; responsiveness; fun.

Accessibility - because the current canvas element completely fails users who access websites with non-visual browsers and devices. All information contained in the graphic output is a black box to them. This has to change.

Responsiveness - because the current canvas element doesn't know how to play nicely with CSS responsive design patterns.

Fun - because trying to do anything reasonably complex with the Canvas API is not fun.

"What are your hopes for the project?"

I'm not looking for the library to take the frontend world by storm (though it is a nice fantasy).

What would really make me happy would be if maintainers of other canvas libraries look at what I've tried to do with Scrawl-canvas around the areas of accessibility and responsiveness, and add that sort of functionality to their projects - hopefully in even better, more efficient ways.

Oh - and finding some collaborators to work on the project would also be good, because I've spent too long working on it by myself and it could really do with some fresh eyes and opinions.
I think they mean that they do use bash, but the reason that they use it is not ideological. Tricky sentence to work out.
Yes, the CFO can. Even more outrageous, if the CFO did then then the person seibelj knows would be forced to litigate the matter in civil court and ask to have the legal agreement enforced. There is a chance his state employment office would help, but likely the law is more complex than they are equipped to deal with.
Yeah, then you won't be able to get a job anywhere and will puke at the sight of OOP code. Seriously, Clojure is by far my favourite language but with mouths to feed I had to put it down and get serious with JS, Python and Kotlin.
I'm feeling the same way. I really like the idea of jupyter, but it should be a native application, not something running in a browser. Maybe it's also me not being used to working with notebooks, but I find it strange that I manually have to reevaluate all following cells when I change an earlier one. Shouldn't that just happen automatically?

I dabbled a bit with EIN[1], an emacs client for Jupyter, but it didn't work all that well for me. In particular it didn't work well with my dark color scheme and you still needed to run a jupyter server to connect to.

[1] http://millejoh.github.io/emacs-ipython-notebook/
In Conway's game of Life, if you start with a cross as the symbol of death (5x7 grid 00100/00100/11111/00100/00100/00100/00100), you get first a "gravestone", then an egg which is traditional symbol of new life and rebirth. The egg stays around forever, unchanging, perhaps waiting for the right moment (or for you to set one of the two interior pixels).

R.I.P. John Conway.
This tiresome blatant gish galloping conservative bullshit has been getting more and more common on hacker news lately. I wonder if it's because we're getting close to a US election. I find it deeply concerning because hacker news is generally a bastion of intellectually honest discussion (at least relative to the rest of the internet).
@thoraway1010

Thank you for not bothering to read my post. You know, the bit where I said "long-established reputable, not fly-by-night".

You know, the bit where I am talking about a long-established company with offices in the US and Europe ? A company that is regulated in all juristictions, pays its taxes and obeys all laws ?

You know, the bit where I talk about a company that hates "crap" on their network as much as you hate receiving it.

You know, the company that actively takes steps to identify and deal with miscreants on its network ?

Well of course not, because you want to tarnish all VOIP providers with the same brush !
As I understood their comment, they do use bash but not for any ideological reason but rather to get things done.
What stood out about the author being from Guangdong? It's one of the most populous and economically/culturally influential regions of the country. Also Canton is just an archaic spelling of Guangdong, similar to Peking/Beijing.
Who uses that when you have butterflies?

But if one needs to see the name before committing a change, there is https://superuser.com/questions/215950/how-to-expand-on-bash...
This seems like the bug I was having at the time:
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/3912

Or this: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/227017/how-to-chang...

Or this: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/5773

Or:
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/3901

Or: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2047

I don't remember seeing any documentation at the time, but I'm clearly not the only one who's had issues with this exact problem. The last one has recent examples of people not being able to find it, and understandably so. Their documentation is shit, fullstop, and no reasonable service should restart in a loop by default after 90s. That's just asinine.
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I'm 16 years into my career. I still like programming but I wouldn't say that I love it like I used to. At the beginning I would discover and learn new things on a daily basis but now, after 16 years, it's usually more of the same and this is what killed the love for programming for me. I have become a mercenary. And that's ok, because I have a family and more important things than coding for fun.

But every now and then I discover something new and this is when I get excited again. This is what keep the little coder flame burning that is still left within me.

So I try to find something new every month or two that get's me excited again. Doesn't take much time and is very rewarding.
"where even objectively true information"... do you have an example of this? What kind of recent news do you have in mind?

So far, all the Covid19 stats out of China proofed to be fake. But I am happy to stand corrected. What numbers proofed to be correct in hindsight?
Windows 10. Mostly the forced updates and the fact that it randomly turns the laptop on at night (to check for updates?) and spinning fans wake ME up, resulting in worse productivity the day after due to interrupted sleep.
We have no basis for telling whether or not we are special. In fact, we have no basis for telling whether other people are "players" or "NPCs". If we are in a simulation, you have no basis for knowing if we are "made of the same energy and matter" or not, or if you're simulated by the same code, or if the simulation just feeds you sensory data to make it appear that way.
As I just stated, yes, that's called baseload power. It applies equally to hydro power, nuclear, coal, gas and all other baseload types. If you make them larger they can produce more. "Energy batteries" when talking about the electric grid are generally rechargeable, because as I stated otherwise the term is meaningless and just means "baseload power" in general.

Increasing capacity at hydro power stations or other baseload stations isn't as easy as just "putting a larger generator in". Everything needs to be considered and sized up: turbines, piping, outlets, new environmental assessments, etc., just as in any other type of power plant.
> ... poor people are often spending money rationally ...

I claimed that most people spent their money rationally. You're not countering me with that point, we're agreeing. If wealthy people make a habit of spending irrationally they go broke.
I don't doubt that it's a good idea to have some local food production everywhere. But huge olive plantations in Spain, Italy or Greece are not that. They wouldn't exist in this form without trade.

Also, self sufficiency doesn't really work, not for very long at least. After a few weeks, you run out of some chemical or some replacement part.

The right response to a pandemic can't be to return to a medieval style economy.
Evolving normalization-activation layers in deep neural networks
Looking at your PHP example, I was under the impression that random_bytes() was cryptographically secure nowadays, and already generated its pseudorandom sequence non-deterministically?

Can you help me understand why we need to surround the output of random_bytes() if it is already deemed cryptographically secure?

EDIT: Sorry, I have mulled your solution over now and understand that the surrounding detail in the hash is to prevent one form's token being used in a different form. This makes sense, and doesn't imply that random_bytes is deterministic.
> I'm afraid you trivially dismiss how hard this is.

I ask, in what world do you have "slow DNS"? The choices out there is ISP run which virtually always low latency, an anycast run service, or running your own.

I don't care what technology you throw at the problem or who designed it, there really isn't "slow DNS", just bad choices of DNS servers that incur a round-trip latency penalty. I will assert again what keeps DNS "fast" is the aggressive caching of responses.
I posted about some 'God-like' bash shortcuts here:

https://zwischenzugs.com/2019/08/25/seven-god-like-bash-hist...

Number 6 was a 'refer to current line' one.

There are so many ways to do these things that it's hard to get them all under your fingers though. Most of the time I tab my way through the 'problem' anyway.
Buying for resale by definition means that more TP is available for purchase.
I'm interested in pointers on this in general, not just wrt the current climate.
> For example consider the word "энергия" (energy) - the first and the third letters sound the same in this word and the same they sound in English

Apparently, as recently as in the 1950s, both palatalized ("soft") and non-palatalized ("hard") /n/ in the second syllable of this word were recognized as variants of the normal pronunciation in Russian dictionaries.

This has and always will be the case with spelling vs pronunciation. Pronunciation tends to change much faster over time than does spelling.
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I haven't had a chance to dig in too much, just watched most of the videos on the tutorial page so far. But this looks awesome—great work.

Out of curiosity, what are your goals with the project? Is it just for fun and personal research, or do you have anything in mind to do with it beyond that?

I'm surprised it wasn't featured more prominently on the front page and discussed more—but this site is weird that way sometimes...
Getting the other 8MB of RAM working
A GP in Hong Kong is attempting to study this across 1000 people, which is only marginally fewer than the number of cases in Hong Kong as of today (1013 confirmed cases): https://www.otandp.com/blog/estimating-the-longitudinal-sero...

Hong Kong government is also measuring the real time effective reproduction number: https://chp-dashboard.geodata.gov.hk/covid-19/en.html (click on the arrows at the bottom to scroll left and right through various dashboards)
Blenders ui is amazing. It lays out complex UIs and controls beautifully. I'd say I loved blenders interface even more polished than that of photoshop.

There's lots of interest in community asking if the in-house UI system they've created can be separated from the blender codebase so it could be its own GUI framework but IIRC it is not possible.
> We have well known mechanisms to eject objects from star systems so it isn't crazy to have things passing through.

We know it's 'possible' for a tennis ball to go through a wall. But it's not actually within the realms of the possible.

So I guess I still question the 'crazy' part. What are the mathematics here.

If a planet breaks into 5000000000000000 (Earth / Oumuamua) pieces how many hit another solar system? I'd expect zero, but have no idea.

I think it's more likely 1. We missed the fact it went close to another body or it's in a complicated gravity assist eons in the making.
"Please provide a link to the message in question. It sounds serious."

I did not follow development of inkcape and the message I mean, was from around 10+ years ago .. in an interview with whom it sounded like the main dev at the time(don't remember the name). And the statement was a bit hyperbole as well, to get across the point, "you want a lot of things, so send a lot of money, so I can hire lots of people to make them happen, otherwise be patient"

So no worries, no one today is (afaik) abusing inkscape ..
We use it as the Auth layer for our web apps. Generally inside a docker container exposed at id.someappname.com
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I'm not sure if scrolling was the reason for it not working. Maybe it's just an idea that only works once.
> huge olive plantations in Spain, Italy or Greece are not that. They wouldn't exist in this form without trade.

So you would move the "huge olive plantations" from Spain, Italy and Greece to Turkey and Tunisia, which also couldn't exist without trade?
> English doesn't have a clear path to domination despite it being spoken by so many people.

With electing Trump or voting for Brexit native English speakers do not seem to care much.

Ireland now has the biggest natively English speaking population inside the EU. More than ever the EU is a German-French organization.
I love Inkscape, but I hate the UI. What I wouldn't give to have blender-esque ui in Inkscape. That would give illustrator and Corel draw a serious run for their money.
Yes it does... but no commits in three years :(
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https://covidtracking.com/data , a project started by The Atlantic, currently seems to be the best aggregation of the data.
I tried NextDNS out recently, and had a few technical questions about how it was interacting with some specialised DNS software I was testing. I clicked the livechat button on the website and was connected within seconds to someone who understood DNS at the protocol level. It was... unexpected and amazing.
I'm sure that PCem is a capable emulator, but when it comes to Lemmings or Monkey Island, I'd still rather play them in an Amiga emulator ;) - or, in the case of Monkey Island (I/II), using ScummVM or the "special editions" with updated graphics published some years ago (https://store.steampowered.com/app/32360/The_Secret_of_Monke...)
I can't believe I missed that opportunity!!
If This Is the Future, Are You Ok with That?
I read it as: You can think for a reason to do X but doing Y is strictly better, so your reason is invalid.

I'm pretty sure what the comment doesn't say, also in tone, is something like: Here are two options, X and Y, sometimes you might prefer one, sometimes the other. Specifically look at the comment that Godel_unicode is disagreeing with. That comment points out that some people might prefer the other solution X for their own reason.

The way I read it, Godel_unicode replies that the person who is not using Y is "not thinking things through", and is ignoring infinitely many reasons ("The reasons go on forever.") to do Y. Even though you can come up with "a reason" for X the infinitely many reasons for Y clearly beat it, and thus Y is just objectively better.

Maybe the comment was intended more charitably than I read it.
You can't, but this is nothing new. Fonts tend to support a subset of scripts. You just got lucky with Cyrillic that a Helvetica version supporting it exists.

Here you would choose a Mongolian font and add it to the font-stack in CSS for that language, just as you would for Arabic or Chinese. If you want a grotesque typeface that matches Helvetica in style for Mongolian, use one.
Mongolia adopted Cyrillic during its early communist years which saw heavy influence from the USSR. They started adopting their traditional script in schools again a few years ago, but the older people didn't know how to read or write it unfortunately. I saw the traditional script being used sparingly in Ulaanbator around 2017 but as for the rest of the country I don't think I saw it at all, except in Buddhist temples (which were also mostly destroyed during the communist era unfortunately).
Depends heavily on the codebase I guess. The last two places I've worked (startups in London) have been very TDD and we get 95%+ coverage on new code. This mostly Ruby so we have the ease of RSpec of course.
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Yes, but that's not your "professional" work (which is copyright your employer), it's your "amateur" work done in spare time. Which is a pretty exclusionary approach to hiring.

It would be very different if more employers paid more than lip service to professional development and encouraged the publication of personal githubs on "work time" as part of that. It sounds like (some of?) the big Bay Area companies do, but those are the ones after the big hiring barrier.

The actuaries I know spent a lot of time on exams, but also in their early years got some time set aside by their employers for that.
It can run any OS that supports the emulated hardware, not just Windows.
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Agree, I kinda hated the GIMP but then I learned it's logic and I started to like it. The problem is when you used Photoshop before. Some things that you can do there with one click take quite tedious procedure in GIMP. For instance drawing simple rectangle with fill facepalm.
It's not like HIV at all...
Mongolian is also one of the scripts on Chinese bank notes, along with Tibetan and Uyghur, in addition to Chinese characters.
I believe this is about 4 space-like dimensions, not spacetime. Imagine perceiving a 2d image from within the plane: you'd only see width, not height, and lines would be hidden behind other lines. Only if you're in 3d, you can look at the plane from atop and see everything. Similar for looking at a 3d scene from 4 dimensions.