skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This kinda sounds like an executive function problem, but something doesn't ADHD up.
That's a theory that develops from "work is the most important thing in your life".

It's not the only correct starting assumption.

Other things that develop from it are "employees shouldn't be allowed to have kids as it might sap mental energy from your job" - which is clearly a ludicrous position, but not dis-similar.
How off do you think this can be? Women go once a week to a medical facility (and that's to an ob-gen, not the emergency room) before birth, but also don't go out in general. You could just as well make the case this is lower than the general population.
I don't agree. Paisley is a well-known pattern type and some people really dislike it. "Shirt without paisley" is not a common request but its meaning is clear (if you do an image search for paisley you get lots of fabric images, so it's not like search engines don't know it.) I'd say the same for "shirt without red buttons." In general the pattern <article of clothing> without <feature> shouldn't be that difficult for search engines---especially since many are tuned for consumers.
Yeah, this also reminded me of the way that Neural networks that play video games might make a new connection that is not super efficient, but by a combination of reasons ended up being more effective than it might usually be in that scenario.

The AI's often end up giving that pathway a try a few more times before giving up on it.
Show HN: Goxygen: A CLI Tool to Generate Web Projects with Go+Angular/React/Vue
If you don't need to install stuff from npm and prefer to hack your own, here's a nice list of CSS patterns to get you started: https://leaverou.github.io/css3patterns/
I just learned it is illegal for many states to engage in deficit spending for emergencies:

"That’s in part because, in many cases, states are legally barred from deficit spending, which means in times of crisis, especially those producing huge budget shortfalls through collapsing tax revenue, they are functionally unable to respond at all. In such situations, the federal government is designed to serve as a backstop, but over and over again throughout this crisis, the White House has said states will get little to no help — that they are entirely on their own. (The federal medical stockpile isn’t meant for the states, as Jared Kushner has said, as though the country is anything more than its states.)"

This is why the Trump government stealing PPE supplies from states is so fucked up:

Source:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/hospitals-face-a-whi...
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But why is this not legal, moral or fair?
I think these are great points. I came to here to understand what people's feelings were on the matter. I don't particularly find 'Zoom' tiring any more so than a regular meeting. Is the problem these days just more meetings than there used to be? Because people are still trying to figure out the whole remote work thing?

And in fact I kinda like them better than regular meetings, because I can walk around the house and do whatever. But I also don't have a webcam requirement either, so maybe that's the difference for me.
I wish browsers were more modular so you could switch the underlying engines, sandboxes, and stuff. Don't want js? Remove the js engine. Don't want css? Remove that part. Don't want webrtc? Remove that. Compile your own flavor bloat free.
Dependencies in computer graphics is still a big holdout unfortunately.

The industry is still not in the process of porting major pieces of the ecosystem.

It’ll be another 3-5 years i estimate
You’re on the right track. Find a different job where they respect your projects and move on. You don’t really have much leverage right now as your current place doesn’t have much inventive to change their policy and doesn’t seem to respect your requests.
Ask HN: How does your web app handle public facing pages?
There are two main schools of thought I've seen on this:

1) Use Wordpress. Have the web app on a subdomain, for example app.example.com and any public facing pages on example.com, and use a CMS like Wordpress serve up any external/public pages (home, about, contact, etc).

Cons:

- You have to use Wordpress. Many front-end devs would prefer to work in a modern framework/library like React/Vue/Angular. (I'll get to the headless CMS in a moment)

- Very hard to use custom designs. If your company has a design library and pre-built corresponding components, then you basically have to have two sets of code.

- VERY difficult to do things like allow a signup/signin modal that is connected to your webapp, rather you have to send users to your signup/signin pages, e.g. app.example.com/register. I also don't know how you handle tracking if you use Segment and the likes.

Pros:

- Easy for non devs to edit content

- Many themes available if you are starting from scratch and can be flexible on design.

2) Use your front-end JS library or just plain old HTML/CSS and build out custom external pages.

Cons:

- Takes more time and effort to build out the pages, since you aren't using a pre-built theme. There are HTML themes you can buy but I've always found them extremely bloated and difficult to wrangle into a front-end framework, and almost always end up tossing them by the wayside.

- Can be difficult for non-devs to edit content. You have to use a headless CMS like Contentful for fetching any content that you may want to change frequently (header text or images for example).

Pros:

- Easy to integrate any custom functionality (tracking, a/b testing, data fetching, etc)

- Much more pleasant development experience. All the code can live in the same repo.

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I would love to hear some of HN's thoughts on this as well, as I've seen both approaches frequently and would like to know if there's something I'm missing about approach #1 especially.
Google drops charges on shopping service to counter Amazon's surging ad sales
White House Erects Blockade Stopping States from Getting Coronavirus PPE
I'm sure it will come, but it looks like the FDA is waiting until the big companies ask for an EUA because they don't trust the startups (or the startups aren't able to do what LabCorp does?)
>> Your right, we should ignore statistical evidence and go with your wife's anecdotal evidence.

I didn't offer anecdotal "evidence" of anything. I told a story from a professional who is on the front lines of this fight to illustrate that the numbers of people who die don't make it clear where the pressures on the medical system come from. They come from people needing care, whether or not they die. In fact whether they eventually die probably has little impact on the overall system load. If your statistical evidence, which is really just the odd bits of studies and reports you probably don't fully understand, disagrees with practitioner experience then it's probably wrong.
Using lighter-than-air Airships to transport heavy loads over long distances
It probably felt like a lot compared to the ~128K the previous generation of consoles had.
Yeah, this is standard practice at Big Cos in the US. I had to jump through hoops to send back contributions for an OSS I was modifying as part of work. This would have been a huge win for the company too, as I wouldn't have to spend time maintaining the software as updates were pushed.

Alas, it took so much time to get approval that we abandon our work and the OSS software. The most I was able to give back to a project that I made serious improvements for was a few bug fixes. And those were done without approval.

I work for a smaller company now and they ask for notification, but don't take ownership of OSS work.
One might argue that a "true count of infections" is not falsifiable -- people aren't getting tested, causes of deaths aren't properly attributed, officials are juking the stats.

A more falsifiable claim is "a breakdown of provision of care in Nagoya, Osaka, and Tokyo, before the end of April".

If patients are in parking lots or bodies are in refrigerated trucks and mass graves, that evidence is harder to hide.

There are 10 days left in April, but at this point, is there any evidence of "a breakdown in the provision of care"?
Unfortunate missed opportunity to build on top of Minetest (an amazing open source clone of minecraft that works really well) instead of re-implementing the hard parts yourself (unless that was part of the fun, which I totally understand!).

If anyone is thinking about doing something like that, you can develop entire games as "Minetest mods"[1] which would have allowed him to mostly just write "business logic." I've started writing a "game" using that myself.

Nonetheless, great idea and I'm glad to see it happen!

[1]: https://dev.minetest.net/Modding_Overview
Quite the contrary in my opinion. This kind of limitations does force many to actually rest after hours.
Everymask is a DIY face mask that uses a custom harness for the perfect seal
Interview with Atlassian's principal design strategist Ben Crothers
Yeah I wonder how much "grading schools & teachers by standardized testing" has discouraged advanced learning programs (because they want to juice their scores). The future historians will condemn this age for holding back talented kids.
Exercise. Balanced nutrition (macro and micro). Sleeping enough to wake without an alarm. Avoiding toxins and intoxicants (nicotine, alcohol, etc.)
Employers start to suspend 401k matching
Air pollution may be key to Covid-19 deaths
this seems nifty, but it's basically impossible to pick some of the smallest countries my clicking on a map, a search field might be useful.

EDIT: also, it might be more interesting to show the progress starting from the first death, or the first 100 cases, to make plots easier to compare.
Who produces the Vanmoof bikes?

When I looked into getting an e-bike I was amazed on how many brands just where reselling products (in their own name) made by a few Chinese factories that also sold the same bicycle on Alibaba.

I ended up getting a Xiaomi C20 which so far has served me well.
The Astounding Drop in Global Fertility Rates Between 1970 and 2014
Not sure if that’s the source but Rachel Maddow was reporting on this for a week now, if I’m not mistaken.
I immediately thought of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_PostScript
High-performance electrolyte solves battery puzzle
Please tell me this is a joke comment
Yeah, this rule is clearly enforced by companies to protect their employees' well-being. Just billion-dollar corporations being sensitive and protective, as per usual. /s
Why do you want to switch to development?
I mean, look at the comorbidity data - heart disease, hypertension, diabetes - aren't the Japanese one of the healthiest people in the world?
Interview with Up and Coming Artist “Max”
Maybe take a look at this one http://desiknio.com/
But don`t know if you can get them in the US.
https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/emergency-situations-med...

The FDA doesn't think it is necessary to go that deep.
Put a mark on the swab, put a rubber band around the mark on the swab and say it has to go back that far. Have a test for adults and another for children.

But, the video from the actual labcorp website someone else posted shows it does not actually have to go very deep.
In the type of experiment they were running, an almost gambling type situation with small amounts of money at stake and some element of random chance, I know that I personally wouldn't always follow the "correct" strategy just because if there isn't enough at stake it might be more fun to go for the "worse" option. Although if there were real high stakes then I don't know how I would behave. I think @hpoe's hypothesis that it has to do with signaling the environment has changed makes a lot of sense. It's hard to know what you would do in an experiment without being in it of course since you can rationalize anything, but I do know that in prior psych/econ studies I've been a subject in I've found it sometimes fun to deliberately gamble the riskier option when it's only a few pennies out of ten bucks for the session at stake.
I go through a cycle like that every so often. I start a new game of factorio after a long break, get super addicted for a week or two, and then get a feeling that its just work, and I'd rather be working on some python project because I don't have to deal with biters attacking me in VS code.

Late game factorio feels exactly like coding, except you can't copy paste as well and make loops and other time saving abstractions.
> Patrick has a ton of credibility

Did? I think he just lost all of it with this arrogant stunt. Especially since he himself said,

Either:

1) I am materially wrong about the most consequential thing I've had to have a view on in 15 years. You should probably degrade your estimate of my ability to think through complex problems.

2) We need a data point to counter "Nobody could possibly have seen this coming."

He didn't predict anything "nobody could possibly have seen coming" and he was also mostly wrong, so...
As to 1), yes, this is about par for the course. Most local news sites are of near this quality.

As to 2), I've no clue. Maybe they are scraping the MLS feeds or Redfin's site in order to appear more legitimate. Honestly, it does feel more legitimate to me as real estate is very serious business. Fake news of c. 2016 didn't have a real estate section per my remembering of them.
This is probably an archival worthy example of corporate PR speak/spin around "we got caught". SMR is pretty clearly not the use case for what they branded "RED" for.

Wishing them a VW level wave of karma.
You only need to swab the edge of your nostril for this test.

https://www.pixel.labcorp.com/covid-19-sample-collection
I think that it's cause and effect issue. Developers who've proven themselves to be reliable and experienced can 'force' their preferences onto employers. And they happen to cost more as well. I don't believe that going remote magically makes you able command higher salary.
ELKS – Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset
In addition to that list, here is one that I think is obvious to some people: The numbers do not justify the panic/lock down.
Interesting article. One challenge though is that there are a lot more gray areas in cycling than in driving. Driving is black and white - you want the fastest route thats legally possible. With cycling, everyone's tolerance for what is a good cycling road is different, and you are constantly making trade offs between road quality and scenery, and distance.

The cycling directions in my town, for example, are great in the sense that they take you on only bike paths with little cars. However, they are often 25% longer than just taking the roads which also have bike lanes. I am comfortable biking on the roads so I prefer the roads, but others might not be. Which set of directions do you present? I guess you could have options for both like "most scenic" and "most direct". However, there will always be people complaining about routes being too roundabout or not safe enough because of preference differences.

I think with cycling sometimes its best to just use the bike directions as a starting off point and then explore from there. Hopefully you can be in a place for long enough to discover the routes that fit you best and stick to them. For me, thats actually a fun part of the activity.
Yes, and it is a legitimate fear. Someone with access to Apple's IP may unintentionally or even inadvertently leak that IP in an open-source project. Say you developed a clever new optimization on the job at Apple. You use the same trick in your open source code, thinking it's no big deal, it's just one small piece of code. But that code is now the property of Apple, and they may consider it more valuable than you do. It may enable, for instance, faster encryption with one of their custom chips. That's an edge they have in the marlet that they might lose were it not for exclusive use of that bit of code. They could lose millions -- meaning they could sue you for millions. In a court of law, it is sufficient to prove that the defendant had access to the infringed work and that their work is substantially similar to the infringed work in order to have a case for copyright infringement.

Rather than risk that sort of loss, Apple and many other companies include clauses forbidding employees from working on outside software projects even in their spare time as standard boilerplate in their employment contracts. If you don't want to play by those rules, don't work for the company. They can find plenty of top-tier engineers who will gladly play by those rules.
is a classic moral dilemma. a train heading for some people on track a or you can pull a lever and send divert it to track b where there is one person. if you do nothing, many die, if you pull the lever, one dies, but you killed him because he wouldn't have died otherwise. what would you do? there isnt one right answer, but our world is complex and we are always making decions that affect everyone else. it turns out different people have different intuitions about what is the 'right' thing to do. thats ok, and people who think this debate is as simple as "we must save lives from the virus at all costs, duh, #stfh" are totally ignorant of that
When is the last time you contacted customer care and got useful advice for a product such as hard drives.

I am wary of so many differentiated products out there. Just in case I want to save 5 cents on an SSD so I can get a 50x increase of 95% latency. Reliability is most important and the way you get there is volume. I'd rather see a good drive that is made in large numbers rather than 100 SOUs that can never really be tested.
1) Arguably it is centrally controlled but technically its not centralized there is no SPOF. So the kind of centralization you refer too may be unwanted for valid reasons but does not affect its function.

2) That's not an inherent property of web search at all. Its the business model of some web search provider.

3) All true but again has nothing to do with web search. The whole privacy things in general is a problem of web monetization anyway. Private data is collected for ads not for search results. web search is not broken, web monetization probably is.

4) I can search the internet freely. I may not find what I'm looking for because there are laws preventing people from putting stuff on the net and in general webhosters are usually privately owned and can decide to not allow certain things. So if you can't find X its probably because X is not on the net or its intentional hidden because its somehow illegal or just generally unwanted or there is simply no one somehow motivated to host it. The internet is kinda backward if you want to insert something you have to play for that while if you take something is usually "free". So for something to be put online there must be a some kind of motivation else simply no one will do it. This is not a flaw in web search at all.
What the internet originally was intended to do seems to be irrelevant. The internet we have now is what we deal with and if enough people want to make a scientific paper library, well then they can build that perfectly fine on the internet we have today. But like I said there must be some kind of motivation. but you can't blame the lack there off to Wikipedia or it's owners and certainly not to web search.

5) Web search is not querying a database where you get 3 results if there are 3 matching entities. Everyone can implement web search the way they want it and think its the most useful. There is nothing to prov. If I search for "1999" I would expect a search engine to give me stuff mostly related to the year 1999. But 1999 is also a prime number. The name of a bunch of albums, tracks, movies and what not. Is the search result now bad because it mostly assumed a year? Its good for me as it did what I expected but may be bad for someone else.

6) Money is the incentives for web search. Obviously that is far from perfect and has a bunch of known flaws but again has nothing to do with web search. Also decentralization/blockchain etc. can not remove the incentive money from the system.

7) That sounds little bit too much conspiracy-theories-like for me. True knowledge over a specific topic is the same regardless of where you got it from.

I already agreed to that in my first reply. There is bunch of stuff concerning with today's popular web search services. But its function not broken and I don't see why it would need to be replaced. If a wheel rolls but sometimes breaks we should address that maybe change the material? maybe put some rubber on it? But not re-invent the wheel.
Node.js version 14 available now
TL;DR: We know we were concealing a material fact from our customers. Please don't sue us.
Probably because you could end up losing your visa and get sued by the Olympic Committee if you say 'Shinzo Abe is suppressing covid-19 research because of the Olympics.' Maybe even jail time.
Also happens in Firefox
Haha of course I meant ">$4T". The number is so big my fingers can't type it. Thanks for the corrective downvotes!
> Memory reads using MOV are not atomic.

They are according to the Intel documentation, as long as they are suitably aligned (which is not an issue for sane code). There are billions of line of codes that require this atomic behaviour. Not only C applications BTW (including the Linux kernel), the mapping of the JVM memory model to x86 also relies on that.

> I postulate that at least GCC is essentially broken and violates the guarantees given in their own manual and the C++ standard.

which guarantee is violated exactly? __atomic_load_n works on pointers of type T and the type implies the (implementation defined) allignemnt. The standard std::atomic<T> is the same. Using locked operations for, say, relaxed loads and stores would be pointlessly expensive and against the spirit of C++11 memory model.

Also lock prefixed operations straddling cachelines are implemented with an extremely slow path costing thousands of clock cycles instead of a couple of dozens; this slow path not only slows down the cpu executing it, but all the cpus in the system. It is so bad that newer Intel CPUS allow the OS to disable this (mis)feature as it is an easy source of DoS. In theory the OS can then catch the fault and emulate the atomic instruction in software: it will be even slower but at least it would only affect the process issuing it.
Follow the money. Who do the CEOs of the cruise ships know that are in Congress?
Does the author control for geography?

Surely remote workers in Europe working for American employers will earn more than their non-remote counterparts, but not the reverse.

(EDIT) I see the author in the original post subset only for US-based workers: "The survey is global, but here I focus on 10,355 U.S. based individuals employed as software engineers on either a part-time, full-time, or independent basis"
Well yeah, the VK in DXVK stands for Vulkan.

Also Tomb Raider 4 uses DirectX 7 which is not supported by DXVK so you'd need to combine it with dgVoodoo2 [0] to translate DX7 -dgVoodoo2-> DX11 -DXVK-> Vulkan, which did work quite well for me with Tomb Raider 4 and 5 while Wine's DirectX 7 implementation had rendering issues at the time.

[0] http://dege.freeweb.hu/
Amid Coronavirus Outbreak, Americans' Views of China Increasingly Negative
Dealing with people you discover that all the weird rules are there because somebody or a situation made them necessary.

For every well meaning well behaving individual there is another that will park his car in your freaking back yard if you don't fence your property.

Would you raise a building while taking into account the surrounding people and context? Well, perhaps. But many others will absolutely destroy the location in all concerns and just maximise square footage.

This problem has no solution! Whatever set of rules you agree upon, somebody will find a creative way to mess with them and a new rule or clarification will need to be added. Then people will complain why so many rules.