skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
dot prefixed files is a kludge that is now a standard rather than an actual hidden attribute like on Windows/NTFS.

The actual heritage is when `ls` was written to exclude .. (dot dot) directories from it's listing the code literally just had the logic to exclude any files which had a dot/period as its first character. Later operators exploited that bug/feature to create items with a dot prefix to make those files and folders hidden. Eventually this became convention.

Whereas systems released more recently understood the need to have a hidden file attribute so made it a first class property.

I do love POSIX and often the first to defend some of Linux or BSDs idiosyncrasies but if there was ever anything that was worth someone saying "I know we've always done it this way but it's shit and it's about time we implemented a proper solution", it would be the dot prefix kludge. (I also know it's easier said than done and would take years for all the tooling to catch up)
You can update when you want and only on changes if it works better for your case.
Real Programmers Drink Tea, have you not heard?

Anyway, 1 a day, max. Tea on the other hand is not counted in cups but in litres, the cup I use holds about half a litre. I go through 3-4 of those on a good day, 1-2 in the evening. During the day it mostly contains a darker fermented tea variety - I buy it by the kilo - usually labelled 'Ceylon', often with some form of horse on the packaging and a horse-related name even though they're different brands. In the evening I often have some green tea, either plain green or jasmine or with star anise. For all-night hacking sessions I like to use a mix of jasmine and Lapsang Souchong (smoked tea).
That's like saying that you won't hire black employees because your customers are racists who don't want to see n-words while they're shopping.
Please tag this with [2018]. Many may have seen this already and might be wondering if there's something new this time.
Show HN: See coronavirus curve flattening in your country
Info from Pittsburg Poison Center, home of Mr. Yuk. https://www.upmc.com/services/poison-center

... it is critical that people understand that intentionally administering cleaners or disinfectants, whether intravenously, by mouth, or inhalation, is incredibly dangerous. The reason these agents work to kill viruses and bacteria is that they are caustic to all living cells and organisms. They would not differentiate healthy human cells from viruses in the body and the overall effect would be incredible injury and damage ...

I mean, it should go without saying.
Having a water cooker that is accurate up to the degree is essential too. I'm experimenting with different temperatures and it's a huge difference. Some coffee is nicer at 91c, some of it is better at 93c.
Slovenia Is Shaping the New Human Centric Society and Pioneering the World in AI
We tried Boggle, it was painful because we had a group at each webcam and one of the people had a really poor connection. The checking of words for uniqueness at the end of the round took forever. Still fun, but I wouldn't play again unless it was one webcam per person. YMMV.
Number one they're not all in agreement. Number two, outright, science does not work on consensus. The only reason climate relies on consensus is because they cannot validate their models. They are stuck on the hypothesis step of the scientific method. It doesn't matter how many people you get to agree with your hypothesis. Without empirical experimentation, it proves nothing. You cannot beat chaos theory. The current crop of climate scientists are not being honest about the extremely exponentially high levels of uncertainty in their forecasts. You would do well to read from first principles on chaos theory and ask yourself whether I'm the crazy one for claiming that the future of our climate is unknowable.

We understand weather far better than we understand climate. And we cannot predict it more than 10 days into the future.

At any rate of you want to hear it from true experts here are a few:

Richard Lindzen, PhD Atmospheric Sciences, MIT
https://youtu.be/X2q9BT2LIUA

Patrick Moore, UBC
https://youtu.be/kHZKo13HV2A

Henrik Svensmark, Danish Space Institute
https://youtu.be/wU1qg8HceGI

Freeman Dyson, Cornell
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BiKfWdXXfIs

NASA admitting they have no model for clouds:
https://youtu.be/ra9AFNco3lI
Pray tell where is the "equity" in an Asian American child of Cambodian refugees having to clear a higher bar than Alexandra Postlethwaite with two white parents in Cherry Hill New Jersey.
I've started using Typora [1] recently. It's the best of both worlds.

[1] https://typora.io
For anyone needing a simple and fast cross-platform toolkit for C++, FLTK is really good. It is easy to build and statically link only the parts you need, and the API/widget selection is pretty good. It looks a little old school/non/native, but it has been useful for me.
The last thing the internet needs is censorship baked in to the protocol
This is... wishful thinking.
EV is definitely exciting, I am surprised it's not already become the dominant new car type.

I feel like in car entertainment and phone integrations are a mismatch in industries, where cars should last 10-20 years or more, their software is going to be out of date in 5 years at best. It would take a system more like Tesla's to keep up, where they have constantly updating vehicle software. But you get that because you're a subscriber to their infrastructure, and you car is constantly internet connected.
Yup, lets look at the actual and physical supply chain of “at scale” to be tackled to succeed.

And i am wishing them success, and my brother is the director of the VA for the entire state of Alaska, an Airforce Colonel (commander, tenth medical wing) and ive personally built/designed/commissioned 10+ hospitals (el camino, sf general, sequoia, nome, and more)

((All on the tech implementation and design side))

Anything i could contribute i would.

(My creds can be freely confirmed)
I think that Jira killed Agile. It's such an overhead on the Agile process. Engineers spend more time documenting stuff in Jira than actually solving problems.
Star Trek Fan Film Guidelines
African Americans don't vote as a block either:
https://time.com/5821170/georgia-democrat-vernon-jones-trump...
Playing with Time – Brian Eno and Will Wright (2006) [video]
I really don't get what market ubuntu is going for here.

People like me who would like a system that works their way, even if it's not the same way as the distribution maintainers - nope. Believe it or not, I don't want my desktop to be full of animations, I want updates to happen on my schedule, and I care about having the active title bar a different colour to the rest.

People who believe in Free As In Freedom - it's still technically free, but for all practical purposes it might as well not be if you have to recompile a core package for things like using a non-standard home directory path. This is one of many things where I sigh and go Freedom wasnt meant to be like this.

The average non-techy user - uses windows anyway, and has access to a much larger software ecosystem as a result.
Thanks, a very well written article!

We are doing research on Very Large Base Interferometry over the network (eVLBI) for radio telescopes across several countries to synchronise big data from astronomical observatories. The new techniques mentioned in the article potentially can really speed up the process for storage, networking and synchronisation.
Or we could just have a mandatory global quarantine for two weeks. Not only Covid, but all transmittable diseases would plummet.
He’s known for being particularly maximalist and experimental in his videos and media presence, which HNers might find interesting from a technical perspective:

https://www.travisscott.com/video/
> It is my belief that the best cure for any disease is to avoid the disease.

That's not a cure. That is prevention.

> As such, I want to avoid ever catching this virus. I’m optimistic that we will eventually have a good vaccine, but until then I need to avoid those who are contagious.

Completely unrealistic. Same person would have said in 1918 that they want to avoid ever catching the flu. Maybe back then some HN users would think it sounds smart, but today we know it sounds just silly, because it's unrealistic, unnatural, against how life works and simply unnecessary.

Try your best to stay healthy, but please stop compromising life in ways which are completely unnatural because there is a possibility that your immune system has to do a bit of work. Our immune system has to work all the time, we are exposed to viruses all the time. This is how nature works. If there's a vaccine then yes let's all get it, like we should with other vaccines. Only a fool wouldn't get vaccinations, but until we have a vaccine let's just respect nature and how nature works and please live life like animals like us are meant to live. Freely.
Elizabeth Warren would disagree.
I need to move to Quebec so I can get out of some bad futures trades!
Most of the statements in this article are false or exaggerated. There are no studies to back them up. These are just personal believes born out of fear.

Computer engineers like him should be shamed in public for speaking so confident about things they have not been trained.

We, as society, should point the finger at such frauds.
Maybe they just choose other groups to associate and tribalize with instead of the ethnic one, like say, the startup community.

If you don't grow up in an asian community or have a lot of asians at your work place, you wouldn't even have an opportunity to form a community, let alone start thinking that you need to prioritize the needs of that community.

The mental calculus to shift to a community-first mindset might be analogous to forming/joining a union. You give up some of your own individual upside to get better benefits together as a group. You'll certainly better improve the "floor" of the group, but harder to tell if doing so ends up improving or lowering the "average" of the whole group.
Thanks for making, very useful to stay on top of the pandemic
There are some downsides to that approach. The <form> element has semantic meaning which is lost if it's missing. Screen readers for blind people, browser features such as form auto-fill etc. might not work as expected without this semantic information.

Most web applications I have seen opt to use the form element. The default form browser behaviour can be suppressed easily.
Most software projects fail and do not deliver value. Code is not delivered, code is not taken into use, code is not used much. Software is capital intensive and risky. Code can be more valuable than gold but its value is determined by many factors other than skill and effort of the developer.
Hmmm burns the coffee easily when used wrong. You need to be right there to control the temperature and cool it off immediately once the water runs out.
Oh don't complain. You're not a woman. You think women get special consideration? On the contrary, if we are rarely raised into a family that thinks we should do STEM (in any culture including asian IMHO asian women at my engineering school has some of the most physically and emotionally violently abusive mother's as in literally hospital visits with bruises post Christmas vacations) but that's if you're lucky enough to be a rich asian women, if you are unfortunate enough to be a white woman you will just get berates for being given a free pass even if you made straight As perfect sat scores and worked hard and made good grades in college.

The fact that you had the luxury to know about theoretical Compsci topics before applying to college might have given you away to a preprepped college student whose parents paid thousands of dollars to help them prep to the SAT and I hate to break it to you but those kids are unfortunately far too common these days.

Perhaps they differentiating yourself with something that doesnt scream: " there is no way in hell I would have been exposed to this if my parents weren't rich"
Thank you!

(wouldn't it be nice if every time a research topic pops up here that there would be a small list of the essential keywords to look for more background information?)
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Memory Hack
To grow to be that charismatic celebration celeb — and the visitor that investors and potential customers are inspired by way of — right here are eleven hints to enhance your talent at remembering names.
understand your motivation.in case you are not clear with yourself that it is important that allows you to take into account a brand new acquaintance's call, you may not, says Kwik. Motivation is the force that drives memory.imagine that there's a suitcase of $100,000 coins — $one hundred,000 cash for you or the charity of your preference if you just recollect the call of the following man or woman you meet? Are you going to keep in mind that person's call? Of direction you're. you're going to be a memory professional. So it has nothing to do along with your potential or your functionality or your ability," says Kwik. as an alternative, your potential to remember a brand new name has to do along with your intrinsic expertise of why it topics. "reasons reap outcomes" in remembering names, he says.
2. attention at the man or woman you are talking to.
https://wellnesscarepills.com/memory-ha
Crawled into this thread to make the same comment. It’s implicit vs explicit. JIRA makes everything so explicit it hurts
I suppose trope has a negative connotation but I view them as tools in a writer's toolbox, not as an indicator of lazy writing.

Having said that, tropes are usually a little more specific or identifiable than just the concept of "mean characters", so it probably wasn't the best use of the word.
I live in a $3 million house and would be COMPLETELY OK with my kids being rejected from their dream schools for poverty-linked affirmative action. They have a vastly easier path to academic achievement, and if they got 90 points on a test and a poor kid got 80 points, that other kid just plain old outperformed them.

You'll find a lot of us out there who are vehemently opposed to race-based affirmative action but would enthusiastically support wealth/class-based affirmative action.
Very cool. This will probably get some kids onto the path of a future programming career. I remember my first PC running MS DOS, being young and curios I just had to try everything, eventually stumbling upon Pascal, and that would basically shape my adult life.

Sometimes I worry about the new generation though, despite the prevalence of technology and information, most grow up on locked down mobile systems, which are made for consumption and don't promote creating very well. They are also very opaque to what's actually happening under the hood. Mobile UI is an godsend for user experience, but it's also one heck of an abstraction layer.

Maybe that's why so many people are trying their luck with becoming influencers, streamers or youtubers, because that's seems like the kind of content creation these devices promote.

Anyway, on the same vein, I was positively surprised when Overwatch added some kind of visual coding environment for custom games a year or so ago. Seemed a bit silly, but give kids the tools, and they'll create. I'm sure that alone will have a real positive impact for many young adults.
In Android 10 you "only" need to deny a permission 3 times until it is auto-rejected without a prompt.

Some apps even try to circumvent this system by showing a "help" screen with instructions on how to re-enable the permission manually, but I only saw this twice.
The author doesn't understand the virus and makes many dubious statements about it.

> Catching this virus is a bit like playing a round of Russian roulette. You’ll probably be fine, but you could end up dead.

This is a poor analogy. In Russian roulette you have a 1 in 6 chance of getting a bullet in the head. The overall infection fatality rate of COVID-19 is under 1%, and the vast majority of fatalities are people with comorbidities.

It's more accurate to say that catching the virus is like Russian roulette only if you have a serious pre-existing condition.

> It is my belief that the best cure for any disease is to avoid the disease.

Avoiding the disease is not a cure. The only cure we have at this time is in fact the opposite: exposure and resulting immunity. This is the population level cure too; as immunity in the population grows, the reproduction rate of the virus declines.

There are still valid reasons for encouraging people to isolate and avoid infection. Like keeping the hospitals running, and minimizing the exposure of vulnerable individuals while the rest of us develop immunity. But curing the disease isn't a reason. And it also postpones the only true cure we have, which is the thing dying off due to herd immunity.

> The great challenge with avoiding this virus is that people with minimal symptoms are responsible for much, if not most, of the disease transmission.

This is true simply because people with minimal symptoms are most of the people who have it. So of course they represent the largest number of transmissions; they are the largest number of cases. Again, getting COVID-19 is not the same as Russian roulette, unless you're already sick.

> It appears that the virus travels through the air, so whenever possible, it’s important to avoid crowds of people or indoor spaces with shared air.

One authority after another has said that the main way this virus is transmitted is through respiratory droplets. Can it aerosolize? Yes. Can someone get sick from inhaling it in that aerosolized state? Probably yes. Is this a common form of transmission? Despite endless media coverage of studies in which the virus was deliberately aerosolized or found to be aerosolized, the answer is no. It is not. Neither the WHO nor the CDC has changed their view on this. Most transmission occurs at home or in tightly packed public transport.

There's no evidence that we need to avoid indoor spaces with shared air. There's an abundance of evidence that we should stay six feet away from each other and wear masks, wherever we are. (Since day one, all health authorities have acknowledged that wearing a mask reduces your risk of spreading the disease to other people.)
You forgot https://github.com/keirf/Greaseweazle
I remember that episode!

Love the Sliders reference. I might stream that all weekend.
Any examples? It really reads like common sense to me.
Yeah, and a group of people in a common geographic area are free to bargain collectively to ensure that businesses don't take advantage of them. In fact, it's so core to human society that the idea is universal.
Echoing the other similar comment, where can I find citations for this annoying drama I now need to take into account?
I really loved this breakdown.

Two useful related thoughts:

1. https://www.perspectiveapi.com via Google that rates comments based on their utility and toxicity

2. Generally adding emotional intelligence and psychology into the picture instead of focusing solely on answering the top-level question directly. Being able to emphasize with the person asking the question is invaluable in figuring out the best way to frame your answer.

Sooooo many developers could use a healthy dose of improvement in #2.
Show HN: The Results
Agree to that point. The German, French and other media repeat that idea in the past weeks.

One of the oldest and largest biomedical institutes, the Robert Koch Institute in Germany, recently had a few press releases, urging for tests for at least ALL respiratory tract infections.

What one of the leading experts, Prof. Drosten, also mentioned is that current (PCR) tests have considerable false positives. The effect of such FP at large scale can hardly be estimated.

I really hope that you are able to find a solution and can bring up a scalable and reliable solution, after the promises. If not, there will only remain the impression that this could be a Silicon Valley type of talk the walk, as people heard it from other companies in the past.
I would read the post with implied ", right?" after every statement given the disclaimer. Sure, it would've been possible (and likely better) to phrase everything as questions directly, but raising interesting talking points to start a discussion is... kind of what we are here for.
Ok, simple basic counterargument.

When is the pandemic over? When does the pervasive testing stop? The argument can - and will - be made that "unless we keep testing until the end of the human race, you will all die tomorrow of a horrible virus-ridden death."

I don't particulary mind doing pervasive testing for awhile. I would desperately not want to live in a world where I could not feed my family unless I give into it.
Zero. 1-2 cups of tea (usually black, but sometimes Chai because my flatmates prefer that).

Guessing my average per day would be 1.5 cups or so.
> might as well live in North Korea

... or Taiwan or South Korea or Singapore

... this is not what a "free country" with the largest prison population on Earth would do
Aren't you asking for "affirmative action", just for yourself and not others?

You'll probably say, no I just want equality and at the moment I'm discriminated against, so if we intentionally tilt things towards my group then things will be fair again but that's what they'd say too.

How can you be sure that whatever social movement and/or beaurocracy that gets invented to fix your problem doesn't then cause someone else (women, Russians, "white" people, older people maybe) to be unfairly overlooked (or even just perceive themselves to be overlooked) and complain that actively helping you must surely be at the expense of some poor deserving person they know?
Pretty lame non-comment.
I wonder why this sort of study comes out at a time when relations between the US and China are at all-time lows. The timing couldn't be better for certain interests.
The "objective recommendation" and "just psychological justification" groups seem to me a vastly different target audiences. For the latter, this tool is already overcomplicated; it could be done as a list of input fields and a button that highlights one of them at random.

I'm glad the tool helped in your case. I can imagine it helping in mine once, but me getting immediately frustrated. In my own philosophy of UX, I generally don't care much about tools you're only going to use once in your life; I focus on ones that you're going to use repeatedly. Repeated use has different priorities - in particular, efficiency over hand holding.
Fully automated software to make high definition animations for your videos
E-Commerce Stocks Soar with Pandemic Gains Seen as Long-Lasting
Trans-Siberian Railway
> Apple Inc. is planning to start selling Mac computers with its own main processors by next year [...] according to people familiar with the matter.

Sounds like it’s just tech experts speculating about this. Which they’ve done for a decade or so.
If a test doesn't give a result in a few seconds the queues at the testing stations will become a perfect venue for spreading the virus.
Good job. I like the metrics about the curve growth, cases doubling in days.
Except that chromium under snaps is pretty unusable unless your home directory is structured exactly the magic way Canonical expects, if you have symbolic links, stuff on other disks, suddenly you can't upload your customer orders, or your PCB CAD designs to be made, you can't save files into /tmp anymore, even if you've been doing that for 3 decades. And it all fails silently, mysteriously, no error messages explaining why stuff has suddenly stopped working.

I'm not against stuff changing, but tell us up front, explain what's changed and make sure that you're not breaking existing things or provide a way for people to keep their existing stuff work, a flag that says that following symbolic links is OK ... and put that UI in Chromium itself, not in some other box somewhere
Because it is usually incorrect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_spacing_in_language_a...
Managing mock data outside production