skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually yes(not that this is particularly dangerous) . It happens litteraly all the time. Ever seen all those "don't try this at home" disclaimers? Also someone published a book called "the anarchist cook book" on how to make rudimentary explosives and manufacture illicit substances such as LSD. You can find a pdf of it with a quick google search.
Too early to tell there.

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/virus-deaths-rise-sw...

> For weeks, the numbers of COVID-19 cases and fatalities were proportionally similar between Sweden and Denmark, but while the economic results of the strict isolation are being felt in Denmark, Sweden’s mortality rate has reached more than 88 dead per million, compared with around 47 dead per million in Denmark.
Its very far from a "law of nature"
First of all, there is no new unification work ongoing. The Unicode Consortium moved on from that by moving on from UCS-2. UCS-2 drove unification as a way to preserve precious codespace.

There used to be language tag codepoints for this, but they've been deprecated. Han unification is an accident of history: a result of UTF-8 not having existed until it was too late!

There's not going to be a different new Unicode for doing away with Han unification, which is why no one mentions it: besides crying about it, what else can one do? Maybe we should revive language tags?

Anyways, isn't the difference between unified Han/Kanji characters mostly stylistic rather than semantic? I'm not denying that many users would get annoyed, but again, what to do about it??
The UX designers never worked in a warehouse, they had no first hand experience. I would find the complaint more valuable from an actual Amazon warehouse workers.

The UX designer probably work in a cushy Amazon corporate office with free snacks and drinks, but amazon warehouse roles are probably under more spartan and strict conditions. How does Amazon warehouse work conditions compare to other warehouse work conditions. That's the better comparable.

If any programmer was thrown into a construction or blue collar work environment they probably won't like the work conditions. But for cost reasons they can't extend the same benefits for people who sort packages the same as people who write code or design screens.

The best way to protest an employer is to not work for them. As UX designers who made it into Amazon they probably have other choices.
Funny how this is a good settling of information presentation .. most websites are low signal high noise (visuals count as noise for me now, I'm old).
I mean, I think we're both in the realm of [citation needed] here. I would argue that people index into strings quite a lot--whether that's because we thought UCS-2 would be enough for anybody or UTF-8 == ASCII and "it's probably fine" is academic. The solution is the same though: don't index into strings, don't assume an encoding until you've validated. That makes any "advantage" UTF-8 has disappear.

If you really think no one made this mistake with UTF-8, just read up on Python 3.
You have a very unrealistic view of how employment works.
You're in luck if you move to Mars! Happens to have a 24:39:35 solar day :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timekeeping_on_Mars
And you only use a subset. And your employer is typically very happy to pay money for productivity.

For sure this is to the benefit of the involved companies. But paying for good tooling is normal not strange. When you go to your local handyman he will tell you a lot about good and expensive tools.
Similar to this, I’ve often wished for an onError that automatically excludes browser extensions somehow, to try and reduce the noise. There’s only so much I can control, and errors triggered by page extension code should somehow be reported back to the extension instead. If we had that, we wouldn’t need as much of this list of errors to ignore: https://github.com/tlk/window.onerror-ignore
What happens in a hurricane zone (or used to happen until laws were passed against it) is everyone outside the zone with a pickup truck and a gas can would fill the can with gas and drive it into the zone and sell it at a profit.

This caused a huge hue and cry about how terrible it was. So the law clamped down on it.

Now people in a hurricane zone get no gas while they wait around for the government to provide some.

So, which is better:

1. gas at a higher price

2. no gas

?
How is this compared to KubeFlow?
Why not just have a keep alive/warm style serverless function to prevent the start up latency?
My brother's a professional comedian, and he's been doing shows from home now. That said, he's not performing his regular sets, both because they can be recorded, and because the interaction with the crowds is no longer the same. However, he's doing more streaming improv now, where the crowd can give input through chat. It's working pretty well for him, but also isn't bringing in much money yet.
Why didn't you wait with the announcements until after the pre-prints were accepted by reputable journals?
I regularly encounter scenarios where extensions break sites, or at least frustrate debugging efforts. I generally make sure all extensions are off prior to doing anything development-related.
It was in the `70s that I first heard the concept "Telecommuting". I knew right off I would have to learn a skill set that allowed me to do that and started exploring the options.

It took me until the late-1990s to get there, but that's when I started working from home full time. Right now I have my office in the basement of our house. It's quiet, and spacious, and cluttered with the stuff I tinker with.

For me, the "shelter in place" thing we're going through hasn't really changed much at all in my routine. I prefer being alone in a quiet space when coding and have spent most of my days doing that for the past 20 years.

Since I could choose anywhere to do it, I chose the Ozark Mountains. I packed up and left Malibu and haven't regretted it for even a moment. I've hardly spent any time at all sitting in traffic since I got here. Before then it was common to spend a couple hours sitting in traffic getting to and from work. And often the same on days off going somewhere to have fun.

But it's not for everyone. My wife is way too social to spend much time alone. Right now she's on the phone or facebook almost all day chatting with friends and family, or watching TV.

I have all kinds of stuff to do aside from coding. We've got a big yard and a few acres of forested land with a menagerie of "critters", a barn, and a big veggie garden. All of them wanting my attention. I spend most all my time at home working on something. Shoot, I have to remember to drive my car now and then to keep the battery charged.

Most of my friends in LA could never live here. My wife struggles with it. She was raised Lake Forest, Il and loves whooping it up "Downtown". For me, all of Los Angeles felt pretty much like a "Downtown". Malibu Canyon St. Park in the Spring is actually a lot like the Ozarks, and I did love it there. But I hated sitting in traffic. I felt like I was wasting my life doing that.
TLDR Scientists still don't understand exactly what gut microbiome do for animals and insects and why some are a lot more diverse than others.
I think most people agree that minimum amount of money should be a basic right of every working person, but a minimum wage isn't the only way of accomplishing this — a guaranteed basic income or a negative income tax are superior alternatives to accomplishing the same goal. The US already has the Earned Income Tax Credit.

When you institute minimum wages (wage floors), businesses pass on those costs to the customer, resulting in inflated prices.

Imagine a pizza maker's market value is (say) $5/hour. They are able to produce (for simplicity's sake) 5 pizza's per hour, or $1/pizza. Including other operating costs + 3-5% profit margin (that's the average for most restaurants), let's say that the pizza sells for $5. Thus the pizza maker can expect to earn $40/day, on the market. Suppose the "livable minimum wage" should be $15/hour, or $120/day. There are 2 ways to guarantee this:

A) The government deposits an extra $80 to the worker, allowing them to make $120 that day. They can buy a pizza for $5, which is about 4% of their daily wage.

B) The government mandates a minimum wage of $15/hour, which means that the labor portion of the pizza cost goes up from $1 to $3 per pizza. The pizza now sells for $7 so that the shop doesn't go out of business. The worker makes $120/day, and can buy a pizza for $7, which is about 6% of their daily wage.

Notice that in (B), the worker is actually worse off, even though they have the same amount of money in their pocket. The worker has to pay a higher percentage of their pay to afford to eat, but this $2 extra means absolutely nothing to a billionaire, it's pennies to a rich person. This is functionally a regressive tax. In scenario (A), the worker is better off, and the welfare system that sustains it can be funded through progressive taxes, which targets rich people.

We as a society (rightly) demand a minimum standard of living for everyone, and we collectively pay for that one way or the other. Either we pay taxes to fund a welfare state, or we pay inflated prices for goods and services to maintain wage floors.

Paying taxes for welfare is more progressive, as the burden falls on richer people. Paying inflated prices for goods and services is regressive as it's a burden that falls equally on the rich and the poor.
So it was prescient to call it a "cocoon".
What you're seeing is an artifact of the topic being divisive. Equally routine: users imagining sinister scenarios because they don't like the straightforward explanation, that people are simply in disagreement.

The same pattern plays out on every divisive topic: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme.... The truth, as far as I can tell after studying the data closely for years now, is that this is pure cognitive bias. One easy way to see this is to notice how people who like and dislike the opposite things have precisely opposing pictures of the bias they think dominates here.

Somehow people find it difficult to understand how someone else, with a different background, might have a very different view. It feels like it can't possibly be sincere—it must be dishonest and disingenuous, such as communist agents under the hood (or shills being paid to astroturf, or whatever lingo fits the theme). In reality, this is how a non-siloed internet forum works: you encounter others who believe very different things than you do.

If it feels weird or odd, that's because we're good at siloing ourselves into places where we don't rub shoulders with such people with such views. HN isn't like that, because it's the same set of stories and comments for everyone. There are millions of people here, all over the world. If a topic is at all divisive, there's at least a million people who strongly disagree with you about it. That's all you need to explain the comments, votes, and flags you dislike.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
We build images in CI and reference that in Pulumi. Not sure what your question is, we use this to deploy an infrastructure environment that includes k8s.
Pandemics and Collective Grief
I work on web.dev and would like your feedback on how we're handling cross-browser compatibility information. I'm aware that it's the biggest frustration for web developers based on the MDN DNA report [1] (overall needs ranking on page 19, items 1, 3, 4, 5).

* Is there an ideal location for cross-browser information? E.g. top of page, bottom of page, middle of page.

* Are we communicating the information effectively? E.g. is there anything important that we're missing.

* (On a more general note) Is there specific guidance related to cross-browser compatibility that you think would be helpful for us to write about? The more specific, the better.

[1] https://mdn-web-dna.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/MDN-Web-DNA-R...
That changed about a week ago.

https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/04/06/coronavirus-update-u...
And depending on how you criticized them (such as by engaging in protected concerted activity like discussing your pay or working conditions), you may be having your legal rights violated and are entitled to remedy under the NLRA.
Blockbuster YouTube Channel ‘Crash Course’ Teams Up with ASU for New Videos
Luckily history has shown that competitors still exist in a world where Microsoft tried hard to “extinguish”. macOS and Linux still exist, Chrome is the most popular browser (not IE), and most people who use Windows are fairly happy with it. You can try to point to Microsoft’s past behavior as proof that the future of GitHub is dystopic, but I don’t think their past behavior was particularly effective at snuffing out all competition and forcing people into their ecosystem. I suppose this is a matter of opinion, but I think being scared of GitHub sliding into terribleness does seem to be in the realm of paranoid conspiracy theories. Even if it does happen, git will always exist and there will always be alternatives.
There are plenty of critical comments about China and the CCP which don't get downvoted or flagged. In fact, there are massive numbers of them. What gets downvoted and flagged are mostly meta deviations (into this sort of off-topic morass) and flamewars. Please don't post like that—it's against the site guidelines, for good reason.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867280.
My view is that free men should contract without (fear of) government coercion.

What is your view?
The search you propose doesn't rebut their comment. We're all aware of the concern about shortages. Their claim was different.

There are stories about NYT hospitals doubling up patients on ventilators, but those stories are explicit about the fact that those hospitals have not run out of vents, and are instead working out the protocols for sharing them when/if it becomes necessary.
Yes, this is an unfortunately buzzwordy phrase. In this case it does have some meaning though - we generate what we call class-frames from the AI - simple logical javascript programs which know how to render documents and talk to the API, but definitely AI Code generation is not a good phrase.
Digital advertising engagement is better than terrestrial. People hate TV & Radio ads and billboards but all they can do is look away or mute or fast forward.

Sure, we have ad block, but digital advertising that performs performs amazingly. When you hit your segment, the money rolls in.
What you're missing is that, in the timescales at issue with price-gouging, both supply and demand are inelastic. So at, say, $10, you'd have 100 units of supply and 200 units of demand, while at $20, you have... 100 units of supply and 200 units of demand.

Higher prices don't discourage hoarders, because a fair fraction of the hoarders are going to be people who are planning on reselling them to desperate people, so they're virtually guaranteed a profit. If you want to discourage hoarders, then enact purchasing limits: limit 1 per person.
Maybe the inside is bigger than the outside to fit all of that stuff in ;-)
The only thing I've seen that seems genuinely better than print debugging most of the time is the Playground concept, which is just print debugging automatically for every line of your program. Debuggers seem like they are useful sometimes, especially if it takes a lot to get into the state you want to debug, but focusing on making small rapid tests and printing lines that are interesting to you seems to keep me from ever actually bothering to setup delve.
Thursday will be 1 month of WFH for me, and until yesterday I was being "minimalist" and just working off my 12" 720p work laptop, until I woke up today with incredible neck/back pain.

Now I'm using the Microsoft Sculpt split keyboard, a Logitech M500 (IMO the best mouse in the world, I keep a few new-in-box in case they ever go out of production), and an cheap 24" Acer monitor from Craigslist. Such a huge upgrade, almost makes Windows usable ;)

I also have a pull-up bar I hit during every Teams meeting, which these days means I'm getting a pretty good workout.
If people can make reasonable decisions all of the time, why do we even have laws? Reasonable people wouldn't violate them anyway.
The resistance you're finding is not people disbelieving you, it's them trying to get you to understand that this is a Bad Thing we should want to change, even though it is true right now.
Yes, I have. The counter argument to that is that all the people who were going to die this year just died in the same week. This would of course temporarily overwhelm mortuaries etc but would result in no excess mortality for the year.

The infection rate numbers are essentially meaningless since governments are testing differently. Others don’t even have any tests at all.

The death numbers are also meaningless unless you know they are truly extra deaths that wouldn’t have occurred otherwise. Some countries are under-counting by only counting hospital deaths. Some countries are over-counting by counting any death with COVID as a COVID death. A death count in itself is meaningless without an expected death count which we almost never see.

Now do I believe we have a real problem? Yes. Can I quantify it? No. Not without excess mortality data like this on an ongoing basis.
JSON-LD allows us to marshall queries into and out of the database as objects in their own right.

The verbosity isn't a problem as we don't actually write queries in JSON-LD. We use a fluent style in a programming language: currently, either Python or Javascript.

OWL as a schema language is quite rich and well developed allowing multiple-hierarchies and complex constraints. Having a well defined rich schema language for graphs is extremely important, and something that isn't widely available.
do you think they deserved it? or are you trying to point out some axiom of employment that exists objectively and independent of exploitative working conditions?
Actually WebSign is still in production at Cyph, and never strictly depended on HPKP, with the caveats that:

1. Rather than simply prevent an attack, it shows a scary warning that compromised code will be run on the next reload, and

2. It relies on things that aren't intended as security features, and so is inherently more fragile than it was originally. In particular, if an attacker could fill up enough of a user's disk space, some browsers may just evict the WebSign instance.

We recommend that regular users of Cyph install the desktop and mobile apps, but it's at least a reasonably safe solution that significantly improves usability.
Friendly input: when you start a comment with “Uhh, ...”, it comes across as if you think the person you’re replying to is stupid. It reads like the equivalent of an eye-roll.
Thought it said symptoms, was disappointed it's only about loss of taste and smell. But the comments have a smorgasbord of other ones listed (including the usual suspects), which was exactly what I was looking for to see if anyone else had my strange symptoms -- a rash across my toes for a few days, and one night of chills, but nothing else:

- rash

- clots in capillaries

- clots in larger blood vessels

- pink eye

- dry cough

- wet cough

- intestinal upset

- fever

- chills

- night sweats

- diarrhea

- runny nose

- more intense sense of taste

- hair loss

- appendicitis

- headache

- worst flu ever
Please do not take HN threads further into nationalistic flamewar. This sort of grandiose, low-information flamebait is the opposite of what we want here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You only need one sentence to explain why ASCII isn't sufficient: There are languages other than English.
I do plan some side projects to do in vanilla JS, which should be more fun. However, at work I'm working on a significant project, and it can become a real drag.
But the definition doesn't work even for commutative rings; as I mention, it says that the only ℤ-module structure on ℤ/2ℤ is the trivial one, which is not the usual understanding of the term. I agree that, if you switch A and R in Hom(A, Z(R)), then an element of the Hom space Hom_{ring}(R, Z(A)) makes A into an R-algebra, but I would argue it's not the only way; there's a map Hom_{ring}(R, Z(A)) -> Hom_{ring}(R, End_{gp}(A)), but it need not be surjective if the rings aren't assumed unital. Consider, for example, a polynomial ring R = k[t] and its ideal A = tR, which has a natural structure of an R-algebra.
For those who don't read all the way down in the article, the disclaimers are relevant:

> Disclaimer: The author has based his analyses and inferences on conversations between the author and an Upwork Insider.

> Disclaimer: The author works for goLance, an UpWork competitor.
That might not be true; if the story itself indicates anything, it's that at least until recently, there were two people who worked for Amazon who were not okay with it. I wouldn't be surprised if there were more who are just afraid to speak out precisely because of the risk of getting fired.
Polarising topics are usually very important. The things most people say about them add little value though. HN is IMO quite a bit better in that area. This is the only place where I sometimes skip a headline and read the comments on article to see if it's worth reading.
As an Amazon employee you can tour warehouses. And warehouse employees can shadow/tour other buildings/organizations. It's pretty commonplace. It's unlikely they'll approve a tour during the middle of COVID (considering tech workers are being forced to work for home). But the UX designers could very easily have personally seen the working conditions of a warehouse.

Further employee affinity groups span organizations. It's not uncommon to have friends in different areas of Amazon (including warehouses). So they could be hearing about conditions from their friends. Amazon employees also have access to internal company information about COVID response.

I'm not taking a stance on whether the UX designers should have been fired. Just pointing out that a UX designer employed by Amazon has more access to information about working conditions in warehouses than 'the rest of us.'
It's hardly a masterclass though, and it wasn't designed that way because Warren Buffet carefully thought about it and decided this was the best way to do it. He just decided to put effectively 0 effort into the website and ended up with a basic HTML file that perhaps wasn't all that out of place in 1990.
Please keep canned arguments and tired tropes off HN.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
in the actual book, Gibson's vision of the future is basically as you describe -- it's extremely weird and alien with little mapping to our current political system. meddling in past timelines is an esoteric hobby for the super-rich.

the Clinton/Trump election is mentioned offhand a handful of times through the book, the protagonists didn't have anything to do with it, and it's just not about that at all.
I think it's worth pointing out that GH was always on this path, to the point where it's actually kind of hard to explain the difference between git and GitHub to fairly technical people.

It's also worth pointing out that it doesn't have to come from malicious intentions.
> Unix paths don’t need to be valid

unless they do.

OSX will most likely barf at or mangle invalid file names (HFS+ requires well-formed UTF-16, which translates to well-formed UTF-8 at the POSIX layer), and there are ZFS systems which are configured with utf8only set.

It would be more precise to say that you can't assume UNIX paths are anything other than garbage.