skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a pretty awful article from the age of "putting windows 10 and spying in the title generates easy clicks".

The quoted statement had nothing to do with Windows 10 and was specifically do with Microsoft's digital services like Hotmail & OneDrive, which the statement has now been updated to clarify:

"Finally, we will retain, access, transfer, disclose, and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails in Outlook.com, or files in private folders on OneDrive), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to do any of the following:"

Microsoft doesn't care about your local files, but you agree with the generic "to comply with laws and protect our systems" statement if you decide to use their cloud services.
No that it matters, but it wasn’t a safety issue with the vaccine, but a manufacturing issue. The vaccine was perfectly safe, it just wasn’t manufactured to the correct specification.
It’s not about shorting the market but readjusting your investments to capitalize on rapid recovery. In 2009 turned my $5000 from 1 year of 401k into $14000. It’s just using the down economy in your favor to sell mediocre stocks (everybody looses when the market sags so much) to buy really low stocks/funds that either recover before everything else or grows tremendously from a tremendous loss.
Ask HN: How do you solve the speech to text at the command line problem?
In a world so dependent upon working on your phone, speech to text and command line, how can you possibly utilize all 3 at the same time? How do you get speech to text smart enough to know you need SQL not sequel?
I also found this astonishing.

World Bank data has GDP decreasing by 1.9% during the great recession[1], so I don't know where that 0.1% number comes from.

[1] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG?end=2...
There's the looming CLO debt crisis that just got accelerated. That will be bigger that the CDO crisis in 2009. Corporate debt is 50% of GDP, the highest it's ever been.
Not the original poster, but a mirror in the context of websites usually means a backup copy of a piece of content that is accessible from another source.
What do you call it when real wages don’t go up in a system designed to “encourage productivity?” Since the gains aren’t going to workers at all, they must be going to those at the top, right? That sounds an awful lot like “protecting wealth” to me.
Is it surprising that some people may value things other than just money? Of course there are people who would decide against an opportunity to go work for Google, FaceBook, Twitter, et al. I like to think there are more than a few, but I've no sources to backup any assertions right now.
FDA authorizes production of a new ventilator that costs up to 25x less than
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Alphabet CEO tells employees the company will slow hiring and other investments
Christopher Alexander: The Search for Beauty [pdf]
Yes. I've long been impressed with the single core performance and power efficiency of apple's mobile SoCs. Same-generation SoCs used on a variety of androids can't even compare. Google Maps for example was running like total shit on my old Galaxy S6, switched to iPhone SE (2016) and never looked back.

Really exciting times where an A9-based quality handset can be had for ~$60 on eBay. I expect prices will fall a bit further with this new SE model. And yes, the A9 is completely viable in 2020. Planning on holding onto it for as long as reasonably possible.
There are animal vaccines for coronaviruses that have regulatory approval, just none for humans.

There is zero incentive to make a vaccine for the common cold. Let me introduce you to the multi-tens of billion dollar OTC common cold treatment market.
Whaaat? Send video reply as a comment?
I think it's way too early to see the negative effects.

Wait a few months then let's see how bike sales go.
I've always wanted to work at Cloudflare because of Lee. He was probably the first one from my high school who actually made something that people want (and I also use everyday).
>"Documentation: After the cables were removed from the patch panel, we lost valuable time identifying for data center technicians the critical cables providing external connectivity to be restored. We should take steps to ensure the various cables and panels are labeled for quick identification by anyone working to remediate the problem. This should expedite our ability to access the needed documentation."

So they failed to label their cables? I'm sorry but this is "datacenter 101" stuff. How are none of the cables plugged into your patch panels labeled? Every colo has a label gun you can borrow! Also remote hands will gladly send you a pic of a rack or cabinet to verify what they're looking at.
I'm not talking about a maths or physics degree specifically. I'm talking about having a CS degree or not. The stack overflow survey seems to have shifted towards CS recently; the 2015 results (earliest I could find) imply 52% of professional developers had CS degrees at that point, which was about halfway through my career so far, so 50:50 for people I've worked with sounds about right.

I suspect SO surveys are heavily biased towards younger developers, but even taking those 2019 numbers at face value: about 20% of professional developers have no degree, and of those with degrees it's about 75% CS/information systems/sysadmin/webdev, 17% maths/physics/engineering, and 8% other. So a typical 15-developer team would be 9 with CS degrees, 3 with no degree, 1 with an engineering degree, 1 with maths/science and 1 other. The non-CS folk are not exactly rare unicorns.
Yeah, I was brought back after the final interview to do another round and was verbally told by the recruiter that everything looked great and that she would be extremely surprised if I didn't get an offer.

Guess who got to tell me I didn't get it (again)?

Note to recruiters: don't say that stuff.

Fortunately, I'm still happy in my current job.
"People want to spend money and they are desperate for places to do it."

I dont think people are desperate to spend money.

Your dad likely had a upturn in customers due to mass demand for personal fitness devices.

Due to social distancing, gym closures, anything fitness related for home/personal use is selling out.

When covid-19 lockdowns loosened, I expect downturns in these areas.

The market will be flooded with people trying to do returns and reselling the equipment.
The ugly truth is that no one knows.

People can point to algorithms, QE, things being priced in, speculation that everything will return to normal as quickly as it stopped. Or maybe it'll go the other way and something will trigger a collapse that brings down a house of cards.

Nobody knows with any reasonable amount of certainty. The best we're going to get is when all this blows over and we can do some kind of post-mortem.
Most likely very effective especially if you were to find a strain that didn’t make you seriously ill. Pity nobody seems interested in actually finding such a strain.
Bird photography is my personal example. If you go back ten or twenty years, you quickly notice much of the bird photos of the age have no background- because high power flash was mandatory. But today, while it is a challenge, it is possible to photograph small subjects handheld in natural light- with the latest & greatest equipment.
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> spend their savings on things that are useful (instead of stuffing it in their mattress)

People are literally spending all their money on food and rent, not stuffing it in their mattress. The only ones doing that are the ones on top, hoarding wealth and exploiting their underlings.

> ability to make products people want

Wealthy investors have decided this isn't important, all that's important is cutting costs so they can hoard more wealth, which usually means exporting production out of the country so they can exploit laborers in other countries where they don't have protection through the law. This is why we currently don't have enough masks and rely on foreign countries to produce them for us.

The "world economy" only seems to measure things that make rich people richer, and how effective these things are at doing so.
And yet Netflix's offerings seem more slim than ever. I am scrolling past endless thumbnails of The Shape of Water and I can find nothing to watch.
It's a common misconception that open source is antithetical to profit. The concern is really about the freedom to inspect, modify and distribute the codes which run your computer without restriction.

I hear you, I think MS is prone to mismanage the nicest things we have. And yes part of this will be some PR mess up.

We definitely cannot trust a large cash reserve to guarantee the survival of these technologies, it's just not how businesses work.
Worry not, there's already a pull request fixing this obvious deficiency. Ah, the beauty of free software.

https://github.com/8051Enthusiast/regex2fat/pull/2
> The main benefit of cloud gaming might end up being a significant reduction in cheating.

it'll just turn the cheats from memory manipulation to computer vision -- less powerfully 'psychic', but still fast enough to cheat.
That's not how any of that works nowadays. How do you deal with agricultural commodities futures in such a model, the 'flip side' of which (crop insurance) is central to businesses in certain commodities? Sure you can say 'that whole system is broken and we need to go back to how it was before the Green Revolution', but that's just ignoring all the other changes we've seen in agriculture since then, and which are all subtly interlinked (like, do we want to go back to a system where double-digit percentages of the population work in agriculture? Can we?)
"the system" is designed by people with wealth and is absolutely biased towards protecting it. Its just that encouraging productivity generates them more wealth.
I don't disagree. But IMO a lot of clarity and comprehensibility has been sacrificed in the current implementation. I'd rather have seen a style that de-emphasised control flow keywords and made it easier to use closures, or simply blocks, to express the behaviour that people wanted. I've yet to see a case where what was really needed was NLL rather than better support for lexical lifetimes.
Agree with all these points (also an iPhone SE 2016 user). One more point to consider is whether or not the iPhone SE 2016 will continue to get OS updates.
This is not a good paper and that number of 491,000 children is ludicrous.
Question from a new JS developer: Should I be using NPM to manage my dependencies?

I have recently started getting into JS programming. I have thus far avoided NPM, because I've been trying to use CDNs for all my external dependencies.

My thinking is that it saves me bandwidth costs and potentially saves my user's bandwidth as well if they get a cache hit.

I get the downsides are that I don't control the CDN and they could go offline, but honestly I expect I am much more likely to go down from some mistake in my own deployment rather than a well known CDN being offline.

I am wondering if I am missing something though, because absolutely every JS package I read about suggests you use NPM (some also link a CDN, many don't). Should I be using NPM to manage my JS dependencies instead of using CDNs?
Does anyone know what the "3% contraction" is actually referring to? The IMF report[1] it is based on says GDP, but world GDP contracted 1.9% during the great recession[2], so that doesn't make much sense.

Also, looking at their calculations they have "advanced economies" (basically US, Europe, UK, Japan etc) forecast to contract 6.1%, India expand 1.2% and China 1.0%, ASEAN expans 1.9% and everything else shrink. That can't possibly make a 3% contraction (if 2/3rds of the world's economy shrinks 6%, then 1/3rd can't make it up by expanding 1.5%!).

[1] https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/Issues/2020/04/14/we...

[2] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG?end=2...
> People want to spend money and they are desperate for places to do it.

This will likely change if people start losing sources of income.
Spacemacs shows you what Emacs can be, but adds a lot of complexity that most people don't need.

I am currently a spacemacs user (holy mode, ya dirty heathens) and I like a lot of the built in functionality. However, I think that I will eventually build up my own config from vanilla.
Your ideas are both beautiful and delusional.

Beautiful in that they're painting a much better approach.

Delusional because they address the symptom but stop short of even talking about the underlying cause.

Why do you think this massaging happens? Why do you think we carefully make it so everything always looks good or "not that bad"? That we ignore realities and focus of KPIs basically? Follow the money, whose interests does that serve?

Surely, some economists for decades have been asking for exactly this shift in perspective. Evidently, it hasn't happened, and there is no reason to assume the reasons why have changed. If anything, they just rose in importance for the short-term, as now is less the time for reform than the time to avoid massive, uncontrollable panic.

But hold that thought, really do. Its time will come, and I suspect before too long now (this decade possibly, conservatively the next).
Linux kernel developers would not want to use the third option on your list.
If there’s no vaccine, which reports suggest there may never be, and you can be reinfected, lots of economic activity won’t come back as people will not be going to restaurants, airports, movie theaters, etc. like they were before. Most of these businesses cannot handle a sustained 50% drop.
The "much higher" ranges are still an order of magnitude less than your 1.3 million scenario.
Are short term traders not shareholders at a moment in time? Why are you segmenting shareholders based on length of ownership?
Latency! Lack thereof, actually. I bought an Ipad just to be able to use them. My second Apple product. The first was a Macintosh SE. That says something.
Wuhan Subway: https://www.travelchinaguide.com/cityguides/hubei/wuhan/subw...

Milan: https://www.introducingmilan.com/metro

Seoul: http://www.seoulmetro.co.kr/en/cyberStation.do

And the flip side:

Los Angeles: http://www.orangesmile.com/common/img_metro_maps/los-angeles...

San Francisco: http://mapsof.net/san-francisco/san-francisco-bay-area-metro...
Dang. That is encouraging that they can peruse an open source model.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22884375
Noise is the key, as far as I can tell a FF sensor usually has at least 1 stop more usable ISO compared to a crop of the same generation.

So to get a comparable shutter speed, assuming 1 stop less ISO, you still need that 400mm f/2.8 on crop to match the 600mm f/4 on FF.

Humorously, they have the same front element size.
This comment is really the perfect summation of the issue.

For what it's worth, I'm also a firm believer of "it should be useable with one hand without akwardness". 4.5" would be my perfect size; just slightly smaller than the current small offerings on the market. I currently have an iphone X and really dislike the form factor - it's just too large, and the rounded corners lend themselves to slipping out of the hand. The square edge design really was the easiest the grip - I hope it makes a return on the next iphone pro. The ipad pro has gone back to the square edge design already, so there's some small hope in this regard.
I’m less pessimistic. Microsoft has engineers with a business mindset in charge. For now, it’s true. But we saw node vs IO.js — Microsoft can’t afford a fork or they lose their own control. They won’t close open source, they’ll add subscription or cloud usage fees for large enterprises. The value, like GNU “open core” is that open is popular, while enterprise features on the other hand are expensive. The enterprise is being led now by open source because it’s cheap, then value add to solve the problems they still have around control and oversight, etc.

If anything, I expect basic Visual Studio internals will eventually get open sourced as cheaper to maintain that way than Roslyn rebuild-all-the-things. And VS Code will adopt them and continue to cannibalize VS mindshare.
Because the US is a welfare state, but it's corporate welfare.

The $3 Trillion stimulus package is basically making sure US companies have strong balance sheets.
And this is why we see happy PHP programmers--they've never seen anything else.
The uptick of boredom induced outdoor leisure caused by banning social activity of all kind and an increase of disposable time. Bicycles seem well positioned to do well in this economy.
Bikes are selling because they are an alternative to other spending that is either not allowed or not desired.

People will spend $500-$1000 on a bike while also forgoing $2500-$5000 of travel, entertainment and restaurants (over a year)
You may just want something a bit snappier, say if you are coming from massive bloatware IDE land?
Do you know a lot of major cities with large amounts of free parking?

When city land becomes valuable enough that people in parking lots don't generate more wealth than they would if there wasn't a parking lot, the parking lots get sold and buildings are put there instead.
How does this gel with the current stock market surge in the US?
Even works flawlessly on Safari iOS. All these Game of Life creations are incredible.
US explores possibility that coronavirus started in Chinese lab, not a market
Show HN: Some Light in the Background
App Ideas for Developers Building Solutions for Shops Affected by Covid-19
Over a 100+ Israel's were deported after 9/11, including the dancing Israelis. This news report, that came out shortly after 9/11, covered it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnWSNI7rKf0
Haven't seen any reporting on it since.
Spacemacs has been mentioned multiple times here. I just wanted to recommend using the develop branch of it which is pretty stable and far ahead of master.
Maybe he needs a friend?
Sorry to say but this sounds like a Darwin award. People always worry about the stupidest in society but if it wasn't one thing it would be another for them. If the danger of something is that stupid people act stupidly then I don't see it as a danger at all. This is why people can sell cure all homeopathic drinks that only succeed in making you relieve your bowels or "cleanse your body" as they would say. In this case the people are doubly stupid because not only do they believe something wrong, but they believe it wrong not from a lie, but because they are interpreting "promising trials" as something already working.
And yet the stock market is basically at late 2019 levels when everything was totally fine. Incredible how disconnected it is from the economy.
I like writing life in new programming languages as a sort of non-trivial "Hello World". It was the first program I wrote when I was first learned CUDA/C++ back in 2008 and was a great teaching example.

I remember it being the first thing I wrote in Turbo Pascal for the IBM PC back in 1984 or so.
Can mobile contact-tracing apps help lift lockdown?
Schools have closed in one Australian state at least. More than half of children are at home in my home state, from what I can tell, where schools are not closed. They've polled for the coming term and suggest that two-thirds will be at home.

One serious loss in productivity comes in overseeing homeschooling while trying to work from home. Can't imagine many non-essential businesses are running anywhere near 100%.
The first step on the road to a freeze is a headcount cap. If you have 10k engineers and 2% are fired/quit each year that still means 4 new people are starting each week.
Agreed. I'm only here to see how worked up people can get about another phone that's 98% the same as all the other phones.

As for it being faster than all Android phones. Ok. And? I dont look at my Galaxy and say "if only this was 1 or 2 or 5 or 6.7% faster." We are kind of past the "it should be faster!" for basically ALL smartphones in my view.
The ability of workers to capture their own productivity gains is a lower than it's been in a century. This crisis will push the second derivative lower.
I don't see any code on repo. Why this is on HN?
On the other hand, we mustn't ignore our shared animal-ness either. It seems likely most animals would dislike confinement just as we would.
> Even worse, iOS forces you to use a fake VPN to change DNS servers at all on cellular!

This is a major pain point for me - I'm trying to use both NextDNS and Tailscale on my iPhone SE 2016, and confirmed that they clash with each other. :(
The problem is that there isn't a straight answer to this, see this recent thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22180559

It kind of comes down to how well you can defend yourself from it being called a DOS attack (follow politeness standards and robots.txt), from violating their copyright (generally not problematic if you don't distribute the data), and from violating their terms of service (this is key in the case of twitter and reddit, carefully read their TOS).

However, the scraping of public information like in the case of tweets or reddit posts is the less problematic part. It's when you distribute the data or aggregations of the data that it could be problematic to use scraped public information.
i think this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbBQBmuhhPw

full clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G5I6oikAYA
Robinhood Is Raising New Funds at About $8B Value
The stock market is basically at late 2019 levels when everything was totally fine. The disconnect between the market and the economy is quite dystopian.
That's what I'm currently using, but I think a gif/video would work better for my program. My recording is supposed to run at ~10fps and the asciinema web player can't keep up. I get less than 1fps on the first play-through, and it dips as low as 2fps on subsequent plays.
TL;DR: “TypeScript sucks because JavaScript sucks - namely buggy development file-watchers and npm - and some @types packages for more obscure npm packages are inadequate.”

If that’s the worst people can levy at TypeScript I’d say it’s a pretty danged good language.

What I hate about TypeScript is that it’s made me feel that all other programming languages’ type systems are inadequate in comparison (union and intersection types, Utility types, immutable and read-only views of existing objects, type guards for duck-typing, etc).
It's mostly fine, but you have to restart the shell to have it notice package changes. `Alt-F2 r` works.
This is the pricing people have been expecting for awhile.
Counter point:
The time between my on site interview and hire date was 1 month and 1 day.
I skipped the phone interview so the time from initial referral to offer was under a month.

Having an internal reference may have helped, as did the fact that I told them I was actively interviewing and had offers.
> I don't know why they put extra effort into making their phones worse.

How else will you distinguish between them?
But we don't like talking about M2V[0] anymore because it didn't jibe with the daily propaganda for years that all is well

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2V
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One has to think why the concept of employment is still considered like marriage that require such an extensive ultra-deep multi-level deliberations. Let's say you were local, why it shouldn't be possible to give someone on-the spot offer after half-day of interviews as well as let them go with, say 2 weeks of standard severance if things don't work out?
My story: Interviewed October 2014, they wanted me to start December 2014, I pushed them to Jan 2015. My friend interviewed a week or two after me, started 1 week after me.
The projections without measures were well over a million dead and those projections did not consider the additional deaths of non-covid19 persons due to overloaded hospitals.
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