skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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 think it's pretty obvious, no? "develop Go on" seems pretty self explanatory.
Huh, the link I posted is working for me but apparently not for others. Thanks for this.
Congrats on the funding, but I'd like to know what prompted the name change. ZEIT sounded mysterious and edgy, while Vercel sounds like a company selling expensive handbags (to me).
> VMWares website is utterly impenetrable and it’s like a form of hell trying to get out of the loops

Oh man, yes. The only way to download installation binary of something specific was a direct link to VMWare servers found somewhere on the internet.
Link works for me, but apparently others are getting an error. You can try this: https://www.businessinsider.com/whole-foods-tracks-unionizat...
> Be reasonably secure, which especially means to not crash, leak memory / resources or expose major security vulnerabilities on corrupted / malicious / random input.

Valuable goals but getting them by using C in 2020 in a new project seems a bit of an uphill battle.
This entire thread put a lot of new thoughts into my head also really interesting stuff...
I tried to see if this library would work with CJK fonts, but unfortunately the CJK TrueType fonts shipped with macOS are all in .ttc collections which the library doesn't appear to support (sft_loadfile fails), so there's that.
You're assuming too much. We had just 40 new coronavirus deaths yesterday and the curve has been declining for two weeks (from a top of over 100). We still have a 20% ICU capacity in Stockholm (the hardest hit region).

Yes, we've only been testing people who require medical attention. No-one thinks we only have 15 000 cases. We probably have a hundreds of thousands of cases in Stockholm alone but the consensus in Sweden is that Stockholm will reach herd immunity in May.

Neighbouring countries are starting to ease up their restrictions so I think we will see an explosion of cases there compared to Sweden but let's talk again in a few days to see if it really exploded in Sweden like you claim it will.
The same is true for Minecraft. Try the modpack GT: New Horizons. It turns the game basically into a factory building game, and the depth and amount of content is insane.
just the same as they set the salaries for cleaners they hire from private cleaning co. via a procurement.

should they also rebrand as federal cleaning?
Ask HN: How to Spoof Git Commits?
I have a project from a client as an individual freelancer. They require the repository to be on their team account.

However, I'd like my brother to help with the project with daily commits. How can he spoof his commits so it looks like I'm pushing everyday, not him.
The view of that particular protester was that he thought the virus was a lie. He was also wearing a face mask.
> Nobody says that.

People say things to the effect of “if it is going to happen, it is already priced in” all the time, on HN even.

> All KNOWN future events are priced in.

There are no such thing as known future events. Market participants estimation of the likelihood of future events, weighted by inclination and capacity to invest, are priced in.
Writing Electron apps for me, as a matter of fact, brings back the time when one had to be hyper-mindful of CPU cycles, just like back in the day when I was writing Windows apps in C++.

Everything is going through the prism of "but how much will it cost in terms of performance? Granted, this should be the case for server software as well, but in case of clients, you don't know what ghetto shit your code will run on - you write for the worst possible case. Server specs are unknown.
All too common today! I should internalize this since it seems to happen to me more than it should...
> I feel absolutely shit when I am trying to be relevant

Sounds like you should stop. Obsessing over social media isn't healthy and unless (perhaps even if) you're doing it professionally I very much doubt it's going to bring you value proportional to it's (negative) emotional and psychological impact.
> movie theatres

Only two of Filmstaden's cinemas are open and they are by far the biggest cinema chain in the country. So to say that movie theatres are open is pretty disingenuous.

There was never a law that forced them to close though, they took that initiative themselves after the government started recommending that large crowds should be avoided.
The same goes for all the ski resorts which are now closed.

Sweden's approach is also heavily based on the idea that people who have any symptoms are able to stay home from work. In countries where the workers' rights aren't as strong, that is much more difficult to achieve without stricter regulations.
Anki is a very big and complex project. From what I've heard and seen, it's a mess and the only person who groks it is the main developer. I get why most people are unwilling to contribute to Anki. I've thought about it myself and I decided against it, preferring to tinker on my own personal flashcard project.

It's also a very old project where it's hard to enact change that you might want. So if you have a different vision, there's no way to realistically implement that.
We are finally in the future where hidpi displays mostly make hinting unnecessary.

Even before now, hinting has been a highly questionable pursuit. I believe Freetype enabling its autohinter by default has led to ~20 years of most free software having tortured, ugly misshapen text.
A stopped playing factorio the second I thought “I really need to refactor this pipeline” because that is literally my day job.
The question is what will happen once you ease your restrictions. Nothing is comparable right now.

Not sure why you say the media was praising Sweden's approach. I only saw international media completely bashing Sweden's strategy but that has changed the last week now when the death rate curve is declining in Sweden and we still have ICU capacity.
Show HN: Pattern.css – CSS-only library to fill empty background with patterns
Kubernetes is not about microservice
Fun Theory
Hah, some games already pit cheaters against each other.
Especially when said progressive company is owned by relentless.com
He clearly knows what he is doing so why not hire him as a junior Security professional?
MicroVAX / VAX Replacement Systems
Benefits of Readymady ECommerce Grocery Shopping and Delivery Apps
Stowaway – Multi-hop Proxy Tool for pentesters
The economics and benefits of a low code, agile IT department
There is something interesting going on with those Javascript GeekBench benchmarks worth bearing in mind.

Despite Apple now for years destroying everything but the latest high clocked Intel processors running Chrome (all other browsers get hammered), this doesn't really translate into much real world.

Sure, the JavaScript performance is probably excellent, the best maybe, but I feel like they've only optimized for that.

I don't see video encoding or 3d rendering being a strength of Apple processors any time soon, but I guess even on Desktops that's moving and moved to GPUs.
I think one tweet that stood out to me not sure who it was by is that each social media platform requires a different set of skills to be good at it.

So I think the best step is to pick one social media platform and study people who have successfully gained traction on that specific platform.
A simple development workflow to build software products
You cannot control the BS interview. I had the same type of interview, it was for C# and .Net. All the questions pertained to debugging SQL errors. LOL The interviewers were dicks, and after the interviewer I told their HR I was not interested in the job.

That said. You have 4 choices IMHO -

1) go into management. Although most techies enjoy hands on and would hate this option. Personally I like team lead, as it was techie enough and I became the buffer between the non tech management and the people doing work

2) settle into a secure job. i.e. big company / government. They typically do not lay off as you get older. Although government and universities respect a degree.

3) keep chasing the new tech. This requires a lot of time self learning. You will find some tech will run dry on you. I find this path the hardest, but the most satisfying. But it is not the tact I took as I have a family to feed.

4) become an expert in A tech. Expert to the level that you have a blog on it, you present at conferences etc. This sounds like it would be real cool, but the risk is the tech dies. Yeah Java is still strong, but Pascal is not.
While games like Day of the Tentacle and Monkey Island could be won, they couldn't be lost.
> UNIX could be simple, because it was targeted for a very small group of people, mostly always using ASCII.

This was the very same group of people that developed UTF-8 and implemented it in the simpler Plan 9 system.

If you want CJK support, I am quite sure patches will be welcomed.
New AI algo brings us closer than ever to controlling machines with our minds
> We can absolutely make it through a few months if we have to

What I hear from those I talk with: at what cost? Businesses are permanently closing. People are losing jobs. One report suggested 30% unemployment as an optimistic stat and that is worse than the Great Depression. Another report was that 50% of people under 45 have lost hours, been furloughed, or been laid off. 80% of Americans don’t have $500 in case of an emergency.

A lot of people are more scared of losing their home than of dying even if mortality rates are over 10%. They hear news that mostly immunodeficient and the elderly are at risk and many feel that those populations should keep under quarantine while the rest get back to business as usual.
This is such an odd opinion. The open source world is filled with different implementations of the same idea and while there is a lot of duplication, a lot of good also comes out of it. I'm not sure why somebody making another flashcard program is such an offense to you. I'm not sure why you wouldn't be more supportive of somebody trying his own thing. Competition isn't bad. It's generally a good thing.
Show HN: YC S20 Application Status Update
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Unfortunately we can't give you individual feedback about your application. This page explains why:

https://www.ycombinator.com/whynot/

We hope you reapply for the next batch; in fact, we encourage it. The next batch will run from January—March 2021 and the deadline to apply for it is September 2020. Applying multiple times does not count against you and a surprisingly large number of companies are funded after applying more than once. Over 50% of the startups we accept are repeat applicants.

We also encourage you to check out Y Combinator’s Startup School. It’s a free online course that keeps you focused on improving your startup. Sign up at startupschool.org.

Best of luck,

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Expect is a Tcl extension. You can also put Tk in the mix if you want, to create graphical Expect-based applications. You might know Tk from Tkinter (a Python binding to Tk).

Undroidwish [0] is a Tcl/Tk binary that apparently has experimental support for Wayland (through SDL). It's a spin-off from Androwish [1], but more for desktop/embedded systems.

You might have something there, as Expect is supported for Androwish already.

[0] https://www.androwish.org/home/wiki?name=undroidwish

[1] https://www.androwish.org/
Thank you for that reference. It's astonishing how "experts" can construct complex frameworks for justifying their personal failure of imagination.
Some of the UK/US response was supposedly based on this study [0], which predicted maybe 250,000 deaths if there was no lockdown. That's something like 140 years worth of traffic deaths for the UK, in one go. So yes, we take calculated risks all the time, but the comparison to driving isn't useful IMO.

[0] https://www.ft.com/content/16764a22-69ca-11ea-a3c9-1fe6fedcc...
Using AI to Build Better Chips
Umbra – the missing macOS app for Dark Mode
You have different audience mix around the world (and even within each country) at different times of the day. At certain hours it's more mobile, other hours it's more desktop; more US or more Asia etc. (unclear what data is shown on the graph though)
Seems the author of the article has now addressed this:

> It’s been pointed out that you can get something close to this with R1C1 notation. R[-2]C is the cell two columns to the left on the same row. This notation is not as general; for example we can write left(F+left F).

I'd argue it's more readable too.
Yes, weekly. The $600 from the fed is new in response to the pandemic.
Yes. I scrolled back up to see whether the link was to The Onion.
If by "preprocessing" the string you mean hoping that the input contains, say, "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH GRAVE" instead of U and "COMBINING GRAVE ACCENT", it is an unacceptable luck-based strategy.
Moreover, in practice both alternatives would be implemented in very similar ways (understanding tables of how to adjust the accent for a given letter vs. understanding tables of how the accented letter is decomposed into two glyphs): it's a safe assumption that a "lightweight" library does neither.
You can just turn biters off or put them on peaceful mode. Then do what you want. Also, I'd advise you ignore the popup if it bothers you. It comes up only once per game.

Everything in that game can be automated to minimize hustle, if you'd like it to be. Something I found fun was learing to figure out how to automate everything. For example, a drill outputs coal in a direction. The coal can go directly onto a belt, into a chest, into a smelter, or into another machine. Knowing that, you can figure out how to keep the coal drills operating continuously, without using inserters.

BTW, coal inserters will feed themselves coal if they are pulling coal off of a coal belt. So it's useful for feeding coal into your boilers for generating electricity, but not much else.

Finally, do you have evidence the game devs want you to feel bad? I think they want to produce something that challenges their users who enjoy challenges. You are free to respond to a challenge with frustration. But casting blame on the devs for your negative emotional response to their creation is unfounded.
And yet it is the leading cause of premature death among accidents and thousands of times less safe than alternatives such as trains or airplanes and... surprise, surprise - staying at home!
- "ZEIT is now Vercel. This new identity aligns with our new focus — to provide the ultimate workflow for developing, previewing, and shipping Jamstack sites."

What did the person writing this smoke? And who reads this and doesn't think of the company as being full of shit? Also, rebranding this is an utterly stupid move. Why on earth would you take the Zeit Brand and rename it into this bullshit concoction of words that you now feel to include in your company's mission statement? You throw away so much brand power. Zeit is a real household name in the JS world, so much that even I know it, and I wouldn't touch JavaScript or JAMSTACK with a barge pole. Vercel is just a faceless hull.

Otherwise, congratulations on securing funding, you guys surely deliver a lot of value to a lot of developers and that's commendable.
What's your product ? What added value is it offering to your prospects compared to other's product ? Who are your prospects ?

I'd suggest getting your hand on a marketing 101 book or online courses, take the shortcut here by learning from others and stop trying out things at random.

And depending on your business: be prepared to shell out money in ads. Be very careful. If you don't know how then it's the time yet.
Maybe he doesn't want to drop out of university in his first year, even if an employer does?
Thank you for pointing it out. I am here and I had no idea about it. And just before anyone jumps in saying it is nothing new, note the industrial scale at which it is happening and the impact it may be having. I know I trust local publications a little more.
Has anyone here used Mumble? They put a great deal of effort into lowering latency, and in my experience the results are quite good.

I wish it wasn’t so fringe so I could get non-tech people to use it with me.
Using remote dev boxes can definitely be a huge productivity boon, from having better specs to much faster networks.

Here's an example of how Databricks improved their dev cycle with beefy machines running Bazel + remote cache: https://databricks.com/blog/2019/02/27/speedy-scala-builds-w...
How is this different from hoverfly?
I generally prefer politifact over snopes. Snopes seems to mix news with fact checking, and the search tool does not distinguish between fact checking and news. In addition, politifact ground their articles to political statements that can be sourced to a specific person, time and place. That create a framing for which a broader subject can be discussed, but also limits the scope to that specific statement.
What’s next for OneWeb’s supply chain?
Ironically, the mid-century war on unions began with the state and the company owners acknowledging this very thing and proceeding to implement friendly unions. The result was working people gradually began distrusting their unions more and more, which brought us back to the drawing board.
The newer version is even more interesting and it's just released on the market now: NUC 9 Extreme/Pro Kits. [1]

It's got i9/Xeon options, 3 NVME drives, and even PCIe x4 and PCIe x16 slots. It's bigger but still quite small. The PCIe slots are the killer feature to me.

[1]: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/boards-kits...
Continuous Deployment of Your OpenFaaS Cloud
Ask HN: How do you learn big codebase fast?
Hi HN community! I just got my Facebook summer internship canceled. After some thought, I decided to spend this summer wisely by starting contributing to open-source projects. But, in my previous experience, it has been hard for me to make sense of these big projects (tried to mess up with compilers here and there). Because, there are literally hundreds of interconnected source files, and I don't know where to start from. Could you share your methods and techniques needed to learn these codebases and start contributing as fast as possible?
Yes specifically queuing delay. It is unlikely that any significant proportion of packets are being retried but both servers and network infrastructure will have slightly longer queues.
Is it still the norm is England to require unanimous consent for criminal convictions? If not, then what was the reasoning for changing it and how is it different from the original historical reasoning for unanimous conviction?
It's cool app, but I'll definitely rewrite it, using as inspiration.

Why rewrite you ask?

npm install gives:
added 509 packages from 307 contributors and audited 258096 packages in 11.65s

509 packages WTF?!????????????? Javascript ecosystem is a mess.

I did not believe it, but looks like it's true: `npm ls |grep -v deduped |wc`

512 3359 24956

wait for more: `du -sh node_modules`

56M !?!?!?!?

and final check: `find node_modules -type f|wc `

6745 6745 303596

Verdict: NO, THANK YOU BUT NO.

p.s. among them 6 warnings about using sth deprecated. You can guess how many of 500 of them just dont give a shi^H^H^Hwarning.

npm WARN deprecated request@2.88.2: request has been deprecated, see https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142

npm WARN deprecated resolve-url@0.2.1: https://github.com/lydell/resolve-url#deprecated

npm WARN deprecated urix@0.1.0: Please see https://github.com/lydell/urix#deprecated
npm notice created a lockfile as package-lock.json. You should commit this file.

npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@^2.1.2 (node_modules/jest-haste-map/node_modules/fsevents):

npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents@2.1.2: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"linux","arch":"x64"})
congrats team! 21m series A is hefty even before coronavirus. Good to have locked it in.

I've been following this frontend-gets-fullstack-abilities trend for a while. I think Next.js is the best expression of this idea, and is truly the crown jewel of Vercel and also the React ecosystem.

Unlike other React distros like Gatsby or Create-React-App, Next.js is the first "hybrid" framework that lets you choose whether to deploy static or serverless pages on a per page level. This means you can ship features without being locked into app level architectural choices. Even static pages get a "Preview" mode, solving a key pain point for content workflow. (all with the caveat that you must use a hosting setup capable of supporting these features, and naturally Vercel is the best place to do that if you don't want to roll your own). A few months ago Dan Abramov noted[0]:

> The next wave of techniques won’t be about putting everything on the client. Or doing everything on the server. It will let you move code between them without friction, and adjust the tradeoff to the use case. Take advantage of both. The Middle Way.

I see Next.js as the way most of the ecosystem will experience this colocation of client and server concerns.

The other trend I see is that React is continuing to work on integrated client-and-server experiences. (Note: everything I discuss here are experimental projects by the React team, so should not be taken as an official roadmap). React Suspense's introduction [1] was strongly tied to Relay, which introduces a compiler that offers stronger client-server guarantees for working with GraphQL [2]. React Flight will offer streaming server side rendering [3], while React Blocks will offer a generic way to suspend on queries without such strong coupling to GraphQL [4].

I expect that Next.js will also be the first place most React devs experience these improvements (they may be more under the hood by the time it rolls out), and naturally Vercel benefits.

Lastly, it's also fun to speculate on the future of Vercel outside of being "hosted Next.js". Guillermo's blogpost [5] has the appealing tagline "AWS for frontend developers". How many of those great logos that run Next.js is Vercel actually capturing? Is Vercel appealing enough to them that they also host non-Next.js projects with Vercel? Can we view Vercel as a "No Code backend"? Can Vercel deepen its 3rd party integrations to become a true marketplace/aggregator of frontend demand for backend/api services? What, fundamentally, is Vercel selling other than bandwidth, serverless functions, and devops-as-a-service software? Maybe that's plenty.

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references

0: https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/1193001108102373376

1: https://reactjs.org/blog/2019/11/06/building-great-user-expe...

2: https://dev.to/zth/relay-the-graphql-client-that-wants-to-do...

3: https://www.reddit.com/r/reactjs/comments/dtsi1q/react_fligh...

4: https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/1239013168682274816

5: https://rauchg.com/2020/vercel
I believe the legal term would be "juror tampering" but that's also not in the ruling text.
This. I am certain there are well meaning individuals out there, who responded to the message for one reason or another. But it seems more and more like there is concerted effort to move it in a specific direction. I base it on Trump, Fox News and Patriot radio coverage.
I really liked the zeit brand. Vercel not so much.
I hope that the name grows on me, either way I dont care as long as the tech is great.