skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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> we're doing a massive disservice to our young people which they will have to overcome for the rest of their lives.

Is this actually the case? Much of the most useful science & software comes from people educated in the Americas and Western Europe. I think that non-western schooling methodologies under-value problem solving and overvalue "raw" knowledge.
This hurts their engineer recruitment in the US - which isn't in the shareholders best interest.
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I wonder how these mass layoffs are going to affect junior level hiring. Obviously, they're going to have an effect across all hiring, but the particular dynamic is interesting to me.

I have friends who worked in investment banking in 2008, and several of them have talked about how the industry (or at least their perception of it) became more "diamond-shaped." By this they meant that past the initial hiring freezes, entry-level hiring eventually picked up as normal, but that senior level promotions took a while to pick back up. There was a glut of experienced VPs (more of a mid-level role in IB than in engineering) who were making lateral moves between banks—not competing for entry level roles—but none of them were moving up to higher positions.
The day with the most COVID-19 deaths [so far] in Sweden was yesterday. Sounds like the middle to me. Or maybe the upswing.
200 million per year is a lot of money for anyone. Also if the global ad market doubles, wouldn't facebook capture a lot of that? Also how much more is vietnam growing than other countries?
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Autopsies find first U.S. coronavirus death occurred in early February
> Disney put me in an apartment nearby from which I could walk to their offices, and I tended to get in in the afternoon and work long into the night. Corporate America is not my natural habitat and I think I was regarded with bemusement by most of the Disney employees. We were receiving no money from Disney during this period, and I couldn’t afford to eat, so I lived on whatever I could find in the office kitchen.

It seems odd that Disney was willing to provide housing, but unwilling to spend even a dime for this man to eat.
Git's internal model is fairly simple. Git's CLI is a toxic dumpster fire. What makes it usable is that 95% of the time you only need 5% of the CLI, and that 5% -- while nonsensical -- is small enough to memorize.
The statement omits the fact that mandatory measures can be imposed when it comes to diseases classified as dangerous for the public, which covid-19 is. So while it's the citizen's responsibility not to spread diseases, the law also provides for mandatory isolation of people who are unable or unwilling to follow precautions.

The outbreak has absolutely dominated the news and public discourse for nearly two months now. There's lots of coverage of Sweden's strategy, including opposition to it, and its coverage in foreign press. Politics has been likewise dominated by the government's response and he opposition's reaction to it. I really don't get the feeling that there's a lack of debate on anything covid-related, although the nature of the event means that the usual Swedish process of taking decisions by slowly building up to a consensus cannot apply.
No. A representative democracy, like most nations whose citizens don't directly vote on everything have, have right now.
In the American case, we might have to end one or two of the many foreign wars that we are waging, but we would get by.
Because some of them, like Latin-1, which i mentioned in the comment to which you replied, are supersets of ASCII.
Claiming that any digital service is "permanent" (even in a 10 to 20 year time frame) is quite a bold claim to make.
In theory, yes. Sensitivity and Specificity should be considered. In practice, there's a lot of BS going on in the healthcare system right now - these tests are often taken at face value.

It's unfortunate, but somewhat understandable given the extreme circumstances of our health care environment. If everyone with mild symptoms (likely not COVID related) had to self-isolate for two weeks, we wouldn't have any healthcare workers left to care for people.

This seems to be a "good enough" approach for most healthcare systems.
Testing was discouraged due to lack of reagents. They wanted to make sure what little reagents they had were used for hospitalized people and the elderly. There simply was not enough reagents in Sweden to do contact tracing at any useful scale, so we stopped doing that when we started to get too many cases.

That is what I heard from people I know who work at or close to the labs doing the testing.
Do you happen to know how physically far can be AZs in the same region? The EBS sticking to the same AZ hints that they may be not that close, but I'm also very surprised to discover that 1 AZ != 1 DC
Right. I was imagining that poor people without food can't pay too much for vegetables, while others in EU/US can pay more for flowers.
Different exam boards is not the reason -- a single exam board can (and does) offer the flexibility of topic in areas the National Curriculum allows this, and sticks to what's prescribed elsewhere.

I think if you feel time is wasted for something like history, geography etc that people have uneven knowledge of, that's because they've failed to learn the techniques or fundamentals, and can only apply what they've learned to a single topic. There's little difference to everyone having to study WWII at GCSE, then only knowing what (not why) at A-level.

Science and maths have a lot less flexibility.
So how about 2months of lockdown every 6mths? How sustainable is that? How about 2mths every year?

How long before we realise its not going away? At the 3 year mark when no successful vaccine is found???
What's the point of spying on traffic you can't read?
Is emotion anything other than an instinct? (How would one even tell? Both serious questions, not rhetorical).
Commvault sues startups Cohesity, Rubrik for infringing 7 patents
People are dying from virus because we're not fast enough at clinical research
The Hacker News post that changed the face of higher education
Over the past few months, I've become completely fascinated by Income Share Agreements and how much of an impact they're having on higher education.

The idea of Income Share Agreements has been around since 1955, but they haven't seen mass adoption until recently.

This post covers the recent history of ISA's and how they helped kickstart the coding bootcamp revolution.

Kush Patel, Founder & CEO of App Academy, and I recently had an in-depth recorded conversation exploring this topic: https://bit.ly/2S0jiXR.

From what we could tell... the spark for the coding bootcamp revolution came from a single hacker news post. This one to be specific:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3267133

Back in 2011, Kush and his brother saw this post and decided to enroll.

After the program, Kush saw how quickly other students were able to land jobs and start their software engineering careers.

Seeing this firsthand is what lead him to start App Academy which became the first coding bootcamp to incorporate Income Share Agreements as a financing option.

Others would fast-follow.

Make School in 2014. Lambda School in 2017. Flockjay in 2018. And now, in 2020, hundreds of programs.

ISA's have had a few false starts, but for the first time, it looks as if they're off the races.

Software engineering education became the first killer use case for ISA's. And now, it's quickly seeing mass adoption.

It's so important that we start to see this idea spread now more than ever.

Over 10M Americans filed for the unemployment benefits in the month of March alone.

These individuals need job training and they need it now. Traditional higher education isn't going to cut it.

We need a new method of job training.

One that is accessible from anywhere, provides trade-specific knowledge, and is generally risk-free.

If there was ever a time for ISA's and career accelerators to thrive, it's now.

And it's all thanks to an innocent Hacker News post from 2011
Can you expand a bit? (I'm from Europe.) I went on the White House's job listing website and I see no age restrictions, except "above 18" (https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/jobs-internships/).
I believe the process of renewing one’s experience of listening music is more interesting than renewing the playlist.
Possibly. But there's been a huge signal boost for the extreme views. 50 years ago you couldn't find out about the corona protests and half an hour later be reading website after website after website about how 5G causes a virus.
The obvious softball answers are to talk to professionals (psychs, therapists, etc.), and possible to watch some videos on youtube/udemy/lynda/etc. about communication skills and interactions. I've used them before, and they're useful -- even if just reminders of common-sense stuff.

In the broader sense, there is no way to get good at something without doing it. My old boss used to use the "rock tumbler" analogy, in that a rock tumbler makes rocks smooth by rubbing them against each other a lot. If you want to be a smooth operator in a social sense, then you need to be around people and "rubbing up against them" in a social sense quite a bit. Most of the truly slick, very social people I know interact with others constantly, and have done so in many contexts since they were young. Older manager types have tact and grace because there were years when they didn't...
I raised the issue because for some readers, the distinction may be relevant to their moral positions, especially regarding civic virtue.
Oh, very nice link, thanks!

> AZ’s are physically separated by a meaningful distance, many kilometers, from any other AZ, although all are within 100 km (60 miles) of each other.

This answers my previous question I guess

EDIT: well, actually, no. I wanted to know distance between DC in the same AZ :)
The standard cultural joke that fathers are really into preventing their daughters (but not sons) from having sex is messed up.
I've been seeing that for ages, months at least, maybe years.
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> Today if I want to send someone a photo I took on <insert newfangled application that can send messages here> I need to grant it permissions to read all of my storage

Yes

> That's dumb

In that context, yes.

But:

> An interactive sandbox UX I like a lot is an app giving me a dialog "Allow", "Deny" with an additional "Remember" button

Everytime you'd want to access any file (eg. upload a saved photo to instagram), you'd get a permissions prompt, and everybody clicks "allow all" after the second time.

The workaround is to have the app ask the trusted OS module to open the file selector, and the user then selects the file, and the app only gets access to that one file. This works for instagram for example.

...but! This doesnt work for file browser apps, file synchronisation apps, backup apps, etc. This also doesn't work with instagram, which offers to upload the last photo taken when you select photo (instead of camera), because it doesn't have permission to load it, and that means an additional step just to select the photo. If you want instagram photos to be saved to your device storage, instagram either needs permission to write to some folder, or it has to ask the os (and then user) where to save the photo every time.

If you want security, features and user friendliness, you're basicaly fscked
Isn't it heavily depending on the location of the cable?

I'd expect cables in shallow water in fishing areas to be broken more often than deep floating cables in the middle of the Atlantic.
But that's not really the point. How easy is it to make great UIs with them?

How easily can you make a staggered fade and slide in animation? Responsively change layout? Apply complex styles?
I rarely 'fall out of love' with music I discover but I do have to take a break every once in a while. I spend most of my time listening to new indie releases or genres of the past that I haven't explored before, but then I'll get to urge to just listen to Sgt. Pepper's front to back or something. I find that when I take a break and come back to music I've listened to for years I get a bit of a nostalgia rush for the time when I first heard it. I also start to notice and appreciate parts that I may not have picked up on first listen when I can come back with a fresh mindset.

I also listen to music for 8 hours a day so it's easy to burn out on things but I always come back to things I loved before eventually. Today feels like it's going to be a Built To Spill day.
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FDA authorizes first in-home test for coronavirus
I need any amount of citation for that. For K-12, the 30-40 districts I'm affiliated with have gone to paper packets or online for those with access. The 40-50 colleges I work with regularly have gone all online for at least this semester and summer.

I'm going to need you to cite something to back that up. It is opposite of everything I've seen so far.
I think the concept of having conditionals at the end of functions is more interesting than people here are giving credit. It could go a long way to getting rid of incomprehensible nested if statements.

But all the aliases need to go. What's the point of having three aliases for an import statement other than to confuse new programmers. It seems like one of those ideas that seems good on paper, to include words from first languages, but in the end it'll just end up confusing everybody.
Long time mercurial user here. When I started using git, I found git cli and other UI clients very confusing. Followed many tutorials, etc. But I couldn't stop thinking in terms of hg and transition to git. Fork saved my day. The UI is distraction free and feels like a perfect wrapper over git porcelain than git cli. I started looking into what commands are executed on the UI and repeated the same on Linux to understand and learn more. I'm now comfortable with git cli because of Fork.
This is pretty much the opposite of what's happening. The herd immunity strategy is working, antibody testing shows around 30% of Stockholm is already immune, with their mortality rate comparable to many other countries and lower than a few too.

The media that wants to paint this strategy as terrible and ineffective (despite all evidence to the contrary) is now scrambling to come up with an alternative explanation that allows them to say "but it wouldn't have worked here". A special culture is the perfect explanation.
>I've been listening to...since middle school

This feels like an appeal to tradition or nostalgia. I'd argue you're attempting to create the mentality you had in middle school, not that you like it more or less than other music.
The simplest reason is probably because that type of internal political debate is unlikely to be reported by foreign media, assuming you aren't consuming any Swedish news.

That's not to say that too much discussion of these types of laws have been brought up, but a law was recently (quarantine throws off my sense of time, but I think last week) passed which gave the government significantly more power in terms of ability to close down businesses, airports, harbors, and more without needing to seek parliamentary approval first. This was after a bit of debate regarding the unprecedented nature of such a law and some modifications which were mostly aimed at not giving the government too much power.
Hope for the best of course. But prepare for the worst.
The misinformed weren't winning elections 50 years ago.
I don't think this was a statistical statement, it's colloquial. We're not at the beginning, it's not right at the end, we're "in the middle"
Ask HN: Do you have an e-ID?
In Sweden over 75% of the population has an e-ID app on their phone and we use it for everything.

Do you have an e-ID? If so, how often do you use it, and how does it work?
I have had some luck with herbal teas. Lemon Balm and valerian, in particular, when nothing else is available. The other thing is structure, structure, structure. The unfortunate side-effect of that is that it can end up making you stick out like a sore-thumb in social situations; and it shouldn't necessarily be expected that all people will be okay it.

My significant other has got me started using this pad of "TODO" sheets she's had for years. Has lines and columns for stuff like people to call, things to do/follow up on, etc... which for whatever reason are helping me to stay focused. Something about writing things down on paper makes it a bit easier for me to coerce my brain into a more organized "time to do work now" mode of operation. I don't know if that'll happen for everyone though. I have a hunch it's tapping into some relatively old habits from my primary schooling days.

Another big thing that helps me which may sound funny is A) to dress the part, and B) keep your workspace clear, fresh paper/pen at hand, and only your tools for work immediately available. Some very light concessions for a things like music to play help you get into flow are okay too; the important thing is nothing complex except for what you should be working on. Otherwise your hyperfocus will try to grab on to the preferred task over what you should be doing. In terms of dressing the part, settle on a style of clothing to wear for "work" activities, and consistently wear it for just that. For me, long sleeve button-ups with one pocket on the front and long pants slacks are generally my "time to work" attire. Make sure it fits comfortably and is kept in good condition! You will notice when something is off.

The final bit is a bit of mental trick I may abandon, as I'm not totally sure it's very healthy. However, I do not consider work time "mine". It's weird, but if I imagine that I'm being entrusted with a certain block of time by an employer each day, it helps to sort if get all the mental cats all headed in more or less the same direction.

Finally, a word of caution. If you're stuck on a team or amongst a group of people you don't feel safe with; I.e. the words "prisoner's dilemma" at are at all relevant to your current every day working arrangement, get out now. Switch teams, projects, maybe even look to switch jobs as a last resort. The depression you can work yourself into from having half or more of your subconscious threads trying to navigate a hostile social climate is not at all trivial to claw your way out of.

That's most of the nuggets I've managed to build up. I'm trying out writing documentation whenever I can't focus well enough to do anything really complex and have found that may help at getting me into the right mindset for doing work.

Hope it helps. I've been experimenting in the same realm as well, so I'll be keeping an eye on this thread.
I'm not going to downvote you but this is pretty joyless

Just because the writing is not up to your standards doesn't mean the kid wasn't astonished when they realized you could put a function in a function. Kids love meta stuff (there's a book my niece & nephew were talking about and they were like "it's so weird!!" -- it was meta)

Also it's not that hard of a concept. Give kids some credit.
Is there a pronounced difference between coronavirus cases in Sweden vs neighboring countries? On a per population basis I'm seeing very similar numbers (links below). Anecdotal evidence is one thing, but these charts don't seem to tell that story. That being said, it's unclear to me the degree to which coronavirus statistics provided by different countries can be compared meaningfully, or if this is an apples and oranges situation (for any number of reasons).

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/norway/
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/finland/
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/denmark/

Population numbers:

Sweden: 10.2 million

Norway: 5.4 million

Finland: 5.5 million

Denmark: 5.8 million
There was this movie called Black Panther, you may or may not have heard of it....
Among HCI researchers and UX practitioners, it's well-understood [1] [2] that consistency and standardization in interfaces often improves user experience by helping users lean on pre-existing mental models.

(That said, the question of when to lean on existing convention vs. establish a new one is a difficult one.)

[1] https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ten-usability-heuristics/
[2] https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/princi...
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Traffic is as close to free as it's going to get. Sure, AWS/GCP/Azure charge a lot as a lock-in strategy, but for example DigitalOcean charges $5/TB, while Hetzner and OVH don't charge for traffic for dedicated servers at all.
>Patreon became successful mostly because of the girls charging money for their nudes.

Do you have any numbers to back this up with ? I think you are likely right but if there is any data on this then I would love to see it.

I remember seeing an article where the Patreon CEO said it wasn't sustainable a year or so ago, was this after they started banning nudes ?

Also I recall that Sam Harris, Jordan Peterson and others left the platform due to censorship, which I believe happened around the same time as the CEO statement.
Should your employer/clients do the same for you? :)
They mean they've been conditioned to question or be suspicious of such a claim, likely through past experience.
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There is a lengthier interview by UnHeard with Professor Johan Giesecke (another experienced epidemiologist) of Sweden on YouTube [0]. It’s worthwhile listening to their perspective.

One of the comments he made was that no lockdown would work in democratic countries and the real test will be fatality rates between Sweden and others in 1 year. He believed it’ll be very little difference between those countries that have implement the lockdown and those that haven’t

I had watched the simulation of covid19 infection by 1blue3brown[1] and some of his modeling appeared to me (maybe I misunderstood them) to confirm Swede’s point of view.

Ultimately the same number of people got infected albeit in a “flatter” rate. However one counter point by Johan Giesecke was that these flattening the curve is motivated by the assumption of a static capacity of ER rooms to deal with this pandemic and he pointed out they have increased capacity. Overall I found listening to his side very informative, at least it gave me a different view of looking at from their view.

[0] https://youtu.be/bfN2JWifLCY

[1] https://youtu.be/gxAaO2rsdIs
The point of the article is to trace the ramifications of the shutdown from Bloomberg's plausible audience all the way down the economic ladder to Kenyan flower workers making a couple grand per year. I suspect that the contrast is intentional.
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To my knowledge, not a single country has declared martial law.

Sweden's approach is controversial because irresponsible individuals put responsible others at risk.
[No, it started with XP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearType#Implementations)
Broadcom's Flowdock, an enterprise messaging app, has been down for two days
Could you elaborate on this/provide a source?
I don't know whether they will be around forever, but if we assume they're not trying to scam people, the math can be done. How much does storage amount X cost per year (=$Y), how much money would you need to continuously generate $Y per year? The one-time fee you'd need is $Y.

Whether their math is sound, I have no idea. Whether it's a good idea I don't know either. I don't need "permanent" storage as in "for ever and ever and ever". But that's not necessarily a scam.
No - We don't even have a single standard state-issued physical ID, here in the UK, let alone an electronic version.