skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To not trust my company.

I'm part of the team-leaders group, but sometimes the organizer keeps randomly removing or adding me to his meetings, based on the importance of the news to be shared.

It was really amplified during Covid-19 and WFH. Before that, working in a full-office setup, split in different buildings, you wouldn't have noticed this kind of stupid behaviour..or best said, you were aware of it, but in a smaller form.
I mean for some people it is just their faces... Lol
> I read on the message board to unlock the top tier AMD mobile processors you had to guarantee it wouldn't be paired with other crap hardware like vendors done in the past.

Crap HW (utterly terrible keyboards) don't seem to have stalled Apple's Macbook sales though.
AI learns to play a game with an Xbox controller
Facebook is unambiguously being threatened by Congress with unfavorable legislation over not doing things like this.
Hi, let me try and defuse this a little. I'm sure we're both doing our best and these are trying times. Let's endeavor to be civil and not assume things about each other. For example, you have no idea what I did all day, so let me tell you. I work in social good, trying to close the access to justice gap. The way I justify not taking a plane to some hotspot is that I think I can "do the most good" (in the immortal words of Hillary Clinton) as a software engineer working in this field.

I'm not letting you in on this to high road you. I also bought a new phone instead of donating that money to COVID relief, for example.

Rather, my point is that we need to find sustainable ways to improve the world. We're not gonna solve genocide, famine, etc any time soon, and we shouldn't beat ourselves up for enjoying life while we work to improve it. It's the only way it will ever get done.

> Are you saying that it’s immoral to at least consider the implications of a prolonged economic shutdown, or to advance a timetable for reopening that isn’t contingent on waiting 6 months for a vaccine?

I'm confident that isn't what I said. Consider away. Please don't minimize the danger of COVID-19.
but they are also not actionable
I used to work at a healthcare navigation (insurance contractor) company. My biggest advice to you is to start acquiring copies of and saving all of your medical records, and keep them filed and organized.

Years down the road, if you need disability, it can be an arduous process and some of the doctor's visits and notes may be gone (health care companies come and go, have mergers, lose medical records due to old out of date systems, etc). If you need to show a history of decline over the years and don't have that all to submit, they will use it as a reason to reject you.

Getting disability in the US isn't easy- we joked it was "like trying to join the Jewish faith" because they reject everyone three times. Most of our patients would apply multiple times and end up having to hire attorneys to help them apply.

Keeping your records and building a trail of evidence will save you a lot of grief in the long run- even if you don't think you will need it- I would say start saving your documents just in case.
> Rubio doesnt seem to care that Hilton is a nine billion dollar multinational corporation that could afford to keep the lights on in every hotel they franchise for the next year, easily, without federal aid.

Hilton would wait for the hotel owners (who are sometimes what you imagine a family-owned business might be like) to go bust and then would buy the hotel from under them at a firesale price. If they lacked the cash, they would partner with a hedge fund to do it.

As much as it seem that franchisees are part of the larger corporation, they often really aren't. Rather, they are the faceless independent contractors of the hotel business, except ones which have a bit more capital than your lunch delivery driver.

Blocking them from small business funds makes as much sense as stiffing your Uber driver on the tip to protest their corporate culture. Sure, both actions will hurt the parent corporation by reducing the number of people working for them, but it hurts the little guy more.
The overall mortality rate in NYC is more than double the usual [1]. I guess that most people above a certain age have at least one comorbidity such as diabetes or high blood pressure.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/10/upshot/corona...
Maybe the market just isn't asking for them?

High-densisity displays has a cost in term of increased battery level to drive the display, not to mention the associated GPU.

Why take the cost, if nobody is really asking for it?

Anecdote: I may consider a "downgrade" from my current 2K laptop display to a standard 1080p display in my next laptop, because at 14" that really is enough. I’m certainly not going to limit myself to 2K+ devices only.
What support? Said person will just have higher chances to die. Their choice. They're not inflicting death upon the others as accordingly to proposal there are no restrictions on younger carriers without symptoms.
I'm not saying that will be for everyone, just that it is likely to be for many people, and those people may not be able to know if they're in that category until it's too late either. Obviously some landlords will be understanding and defer/waive payments long enough that people can repay, but my common sense says that, as cruel as it might be, what I described will also happen to a lot of people. I imagine in those cases they'll get served with a pay-your-rent-or-we'll-file-for-eviction notice as soon as that's legally possible. And unless some legal barrier is placed, I expect many landlords will evict as soon as they're able so that they can get their own income and pay their own bills.
That's kind of what I've been trying to figure out: when people say they count sheep, do they close their eyes and literally see sheep jumping over a fence as if watching a movie or wearing a VR headset? Even in low resolution... That would be pretty impressive... why would we still need movies and games then? ;)

Of course I can imagine sheep jumping over a fence, even in vivid detail, but this imagining is not really seeing visually like in real life, not even like in a dream. As I said, I would describe seeing things that aren't there (with closed eyelids or not) as hallucinating. Perhaps not being able to do that at will is aphantasia, I don't know, but it would blow my mind if it were
Having been on a jury, I thought requiring a unanimous decision for a conviction was how juries operated in the US in general. I'm surprised to learn that there were states that were an exception. I'm not surprised to learn that said exceptions have racist origins and use. There's been a lot of bullshit on the books put there for racist reasons.

I'd thought said BS was largely gone from the books. Well, regardless how how much BS still remains or doesn't, I'll happily take one more bit of it being removed.
Mirko vs. High-end nomu's full color
"The outside world", by and large, also speaks Unicode.

Java uses UTF-16 throughout, including file paths. So does .NET. All Apple platforms are UTF-16. C++ - if you just look at stdlib, sure, it's byte-centric; but then look at popular frameworks such as Qt.

In practice, this means that, yeah, you can have that odd filename that is technically not Unicode. But the vast majority of code running on the most popular desktop and mobile platforms is going to handle it in a way that expects it to be Unicode. Why should Python go against the trend, and make life more complicated for developers using it in the process?
I usually leave message in the chat like "sorry, gotta go" and wave into the camera when exiting.

Don't have the impression that this is disrupting the conversation too much.
> The Juche theory is the belief that...

Those are just words. The actual philosophy is that the Kim dynasty wants to play god with their own little world, without consequences. They've had 80 years to establish the Socialist Dream and instead continue to be nasty, petty tyrants. They've no more interest in socialism than does a schoolyard bully.

> They want to do it themselves.

They as in the average NK working in a field? He'd happily eat US-provided wheat, if the regime let him do so without punishment.

Or they as in the dynasty who go abroad for education instead of 'doing it themselves' and who relied on Pakistan nuclear scientists instead of 'doing it themselves' and who rely on Chinese and Russian armaments to maintain their regime of fear? I mean to get to Pyongyang you have to fly on a Russian-built airliner...
Do you ever feel pressured to turn it on when everyone else in the call has their video on? I know I do and it's something I need to work on cause I find myself more productive and engage with the camera off for myself.
The company that makes pfSense used to run its (pfSense) firewalls in ESXi, but then I got tired of having to wait for VMware to come up before the firewall(s) would come up.

That, and CARP on VMware is ... tiresome.
bhyve is cool, but ESXi has some good tools.
It is a household stats, has zero info on how it correlates to the actual covid stats.
Louisiana had already rescinded this rule by the time the case got to the US Supreme Court, in fairness to them. Oregon, on the other hand...
Adverity raises $30M to collect, prep, and analyze marketing data
Python 3 has "limited API", which is much better in that regard.

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0384/
I second that. Yeah having it in the title probably helps attract clicks, but it’s really just there for an implicit brag about yourself. This strategy is not a super appreciated thing (by myself as a reader at least).
> What critical language features do you need that are not avaliable in Go?

==> Generics 79%

> what's the biggest challenge you personally face using Go today?

==> Generics 15%

Really? What a surprise. /s

Still wondering if Go 2.0 will actually happen, or be torpedoed like the error improvements.

Anyway, the work appears to be ongoing here https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/187317
I think he means the opposite, which is that he fits the "white christian male" and feels that there is hostility towards towards people who fit the "white christian male" bill.
https://time.com/5817412/sweden-coronavirus/

Yeah... about that.

From a western news outlet point of view, it seems like Sweden is doing it wrong.
When it says "I primarily develop Go on...Linux|Mac|Windows|Etc", is this question referring to the platform the project is intended to run on? Or is it the platform people are actually using their IDE in?

I'm just surprised that Linux only is so high and Windows so low if its referring to the "workstation".
People grossly endangered other peoples lives when they voted in November 2016.
>> I'd thought said BS was largely gone from the books.

It basically was by the time this case was argued. But there was sufficient interest in how to rule on it (see Thomas' concurrence with the judgement only, and Kagan's dissent). The 6-3 split was pretty fractured as evidence for why they wanted to hear it. It is no surprise Gorsuch wrote the court's opinion; he has a particular disdain for things that impede civil liberties.
> ceasing development of the language Python 2 is wholly sensible, ceasing development of the implementation Python 2 (CPython specifically) is not

Development of CPython 2 has ended, bugs and all. It's past its end of life, this is well known and has been known for a long time. Any remaining bugs are the problem of the users, not the responsibility of the former developers.

Sure people will fork it and do stuff with those forks, but those will no longer be new versions of CPython, they will be new versions of some-fork-of-CPython.
> Indeed, if firms could hire locally, they won't jump through the extra hoops to secure work visas

They...could. It would just cost more. This is a controversial topic because everyone has differing experiences on opposite sides of this "debate".
I'm happy for those decisions to be made by educated, trained, licensed professionals according to strict guidelines and under the scrutiny of other similarly qualified people when small numbers of lives are at stake and where it has no chance of persuading anyone that it's alright to potentially let thousands and thousands of people die.
Important lesson.

Now that there's less distractions it's way easier to spot political BS... so much more obvious. What's on your mind now? Are you leaving?
Ubuntu 20.04 Release Candidate ISOs ready for testing
Yeah I had a company issued 2019 top of the line xps 15. It replaced top of the line HP 5 years back.
I would commute a lot and bring my macbook to use in place of the dell. I would dual boot i. I only take out the XPS to get on vpn :-/
Python 3 does not make such assumptions; it uses the appropriate locale encoding.

(IIRC it used to do that in 3.0, but they backtracked very quickly - and 3.0 was effectively treated as a beta by the community at large, anyway.)
There is some work being done here, https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/187317

But I agree with you, as seen by the commit messages they still aren't fully there, and at the end it might just happen as with the error proposal anyway.
Neat article, content wise. I wouldn't call it in-depth because it's very high level, but it is neat.

The presentation could be made much better by getting rid of those tabbed sections and just making the article one long page.
Russia also advocating anti-vaccination movement [0] for quite a long time already, basically any conspiracy freaks, who can make US existence as a state more complicated.

I'm Russian national myself is any. I do not support our regime of course, and left Russia a while ago. But US being so defenseless in the face of that threat surprising me.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45294192
Greedy bastards. Apparently the law says companies with fewer than 500 employees are eligible - that's 500 employees per location!

No wonder the money ran out.
Hindsight is 20/20.

You probably never lived in the age where people were convinced that digital photography would never reach the quality of "real" photography.

If blockchain ever takes of, I'm sure it was all obvious from the start to everyone.

I've lived long enough to know human reasoning.
Show HN: MockItOut – A language agnostic HTTP mock server for quick stub testing
It comes down to what is considered "windows". When the whole external material is glass, glass panes aren't just windows anymore.

That's the full glass buildings returned in your windowless query.
Here is our Twitch Plays implementation: https://www.twitch.tv/bzh314

It supports RLEs [1] so you can quickly create some known shapes or test your own.

Crash course on RLEs:

b=dead, o=alive, $=new line

This is the RLE of xkcd's tribute to John Conway [2]:

2b3o$2bobo$2bobo$3bo$ob3o$bobobo$3bo2bo$2bobo$2bobo!

You can discover plenty of patterns with their RLEs on the Life Wiki [3]

Twitch Plays Conway's Game Of Life has a database of hundreds of patterns.

To learn patterns here's a 40-minute video you can quickly go through: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4XgALyX6w8

For instance you can make a Sir Robin [4] at the origin this way:

!SirRobin 0.0

or the xkcd pattern:

!xkcd 0.0

We also added our own twist, with color rules that lead to the Epic Toy Store Pixel Art [5] and Epic Masterpiece Pixel Art Decoration [6]

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[1] http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Run_Length_Encoded

[2] https://xkcd.com/2293/

[3] https://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Main_Page

[4] https://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Sir_Robin

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH5RzNnamW0

[6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKxKac5YHag
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OFaZcC0lRU&t=937s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGR8VmW6p8c
The amendment doesn’t, but this particular opinion does. The court simply wasn’t asked about lesser crimes, and so didn’t consider them or rule about them. If it ever comes up, I’m sure this case will still be strong precedent.

As far as hung juries goes, the unaninmity cuts both ways: the entire jury has to agree on acquital for that to be the trial outcome as well. In the case of a hung jury, the whole process failed to come to a conclusion, so everything is the same as if the trial had never occurred: the defendant is still charged and unconvicted, and still has the right to a speedy trial. Because the first trial was voided entirely, double-jeopardy doesn’t apply.
Without Google, Docker and Kubernetes, Go would have been as successful as Limbo and Oberon-2, its two main influences.
On Quitting Vim
What Just Happened?
An article in Ieee's Software taht included a reflection by Constantine on where he was inspired (by reading Notes on...)

I appear to have thrown the article away. But it was 2012+/-5 years.
I wonder how much of that is due to 4 years of relentless media smears and conspiracy theories.
ALGOL 68?
I've attempted to engage with people in ideological echo chambers not by citing any specific facts that contradict their beliefs, but by asking them to state their own beliefs using more specific and concrete language. "What exactly is your definition of communism?", "Has Bernie made any specific statements indicating that he supports that policy? If not, what leads you to infer that he does?", etc.

The results? No engagement at all.
https://www.activestate.com/products/python/python-2-7/
You should check out beakerx:

https://github.com/twosigma/beakerx

It'll give you Java, Scala, Kotlin, and Groovy kernels.

I would particularly suggest the Groovy kernels (and Groovy in general) for munging around data with Java. I actually prefer it to pandas/Python except for the less rich ecosystem around machine learning / stats / deep learning.

NB: For the SPA-like side, have a look at Micronaut which will work nicely with Groovy / Kotlin / Java and then you don't need Node, just interface Micronaut directly with your React code.
Are you still using Lab?
Elasticsearch – Search in your local language
Planning to. I hate political BS, even if I'm aware of its importance to "go up the ladder".

But if I'm part of the lead group, but being kept apart, only called when I'm needed..well, it's not a good feeling and my trust is almost gone
You can add Canberra to that list. I know several apartment blocks that are close to collapse, one Owners' Corporation is currently suing the builder (and the local government authority) in a case before the Supreme Court.
Eh, I wouldn’t say very few. Depends on the subject and many merely require that you learn German within a year of attending. This design school, for example, is mostly in English:

Kisd.de
File names? I listed so much more for you than file names.

That HTML you just fetched? How do you know it's Unicode?

That .txt file the user just asked to load? How do you know that's Unicode?

For heaven's sake, when can you actually guarantee that even sys.stdin.read() is going to read Unicode? You can only do that when you're the one piping your own stdin... which is not the common case.

What do you do when your fundamentally invalid assumptions break? Do you just not care and simply present a stack trace to the user and tell them to get lost?

I've gotten tired of these debates though, so just a heads up I may not have the energy to reply if you continue...
If Django Is for web, which framework is for Android?
I am trying it build a mobile app MVP in this regard I have zero down android mobile as my target audience is India where iPhone penetration is very low
My question in one line:
If Django Is for web, which framework is for android?

Details:
my language preference (but I am flexible ):
- I and automation Qa engineer and not a developer but I know Java and use it for automation testing using selenium / rest assured
- Hence I an inclined toward using java and not Katlin to save language learning curve
- I want to build something like small eCommerce/ healthcare etc

Thanks in advance for reading this and your answer! stay safe !
Ask HN: Implication on SaaS of US immigration ban
Prez Trump through an exec order banned immigration in US. How does this decision play for SaaS entrepreneurs with revenues and accounts in US.
Yup, that's pretty much every videoconference meeting.
> No that study explores innovation as a cause of inequality. Which is still bad but not what we're talking about here.

It shows that inequality and innovation are correlated across the globe. There is no way to disentangle causality there, and it almost certainly flows in both directions.

> Oh so this is your point [1]. No I'm not talking about any inequality, that's a ridiculous strawman (and seemingly wrong, judging by other sources inequality and not poverty is still bad for growth). I'm talking about bonkers levels of inequality causing incomes to stagnate while capital gains skyrocket, leaving tons of money in the investment accounts of the rich and not in the savings accounts of the 99% of the rest of us. Wealthy people by and large don't invest in innovation (look at the share of SV VC money for example), they hoard it, which undermines pretty much all of right-wing economic theory. The only policy measure that will fix this is taxation.

No, what it's clear you aren't talking about is inequality at all. If you look at the heading of the very first link you sent, it states my point, in the same words!
You are talking about economic mobility.

> Agree; I don't find wealth immoral or unethical on its own. I do find it immoral under capitalism, where by definition profit comes from exploitation (plundering the commons, upselling labor, etc.) And I don't see a better way to provide for Bezos' workers other than by taxing his immense wealth, which he got from their labor besides.

So you think all labor relations are inherently exploitation? People are incapable of agreeing to exchange their labor for money?

> No, when I say corruption I mean a very specific thing: bribing elected officials for special treatment. There's a whole index called the "Corruption Perception Index" to track the public's perception of corruption (which is damaging in and of itself), and there are studies [7] that measure it [8] more fully.

Sure, but in what way is this corruption blocking the building that Andresen is talking about? I can point you to a myriad of ways in which regulation is doing so. But it's not obvious at all to me that corruption comes into play at all.
that might be a bit out of scope, especially since Mathematica handles matrices and tensors nicely
If Programming Languages Had Honest Slogans
The only thing really terrible is their (lack of) echo cancellation. Otherwise I'm about 90% sure it's just off the shelf OPUS with next to no DSP on top. It's not that bad on its own.

What is terrible is audio hardware on laptops. MacBooks are alright, but just $50 on a headset will go a long ways to solving your problems. Consumers haven't given a shit about audio fidelity for decades honestly, it's just showing today when you are listening to unprocessed audio streams that haven't been optimized for your laptop or phone's fundamentally inferior transducers.

This is a solved problem, for what it's worth. The major audio manufacturers sell products for these use cases. It's not the software at this point, it's actually decent. It's the input and output devices. Thank god for gamers buying these things and driving economies of scale.
Benefits of Forced Experimentation: Evidence from the London Underground (2015) [pdf]
Stanford Duck Syndrome, perhaps? https://www.stanforddaily.com/2018/01/31/duck-syndrome-and-a...
I would suggest to keep the shell scripts calls to the minimum (e.g. compact commands together if possible).

You can still have nice stages separations, but try to avoid the pitfall of doing too much shell invocations.

A good trick is to create a fake "multi-module reactor" pom.xml and grouping all the modules logically there, then you build like

mvn clean install -f reactor-pom.xml -T 8C
Something About the Covid-19 Pandemic Feels Off Kilter
I won’t be an early adopter, but this technology has been a source of great fascination and excitement for me, and I look forward to the day it becomes a mainstream reality.