skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
here is my opinion on `When X is going to replace bash?`

The story goes on like this:

You went to DataCentre, logged in to an internal machine, something happened (eg failure, diagnostic necessary et.al.) which you need to fix.

given condition, you don't have internet connection inside (air-gapped)

- You most likely have man-pages installed and having examples what to do in them,

- `--help` yields some sensible output

- Shell is 'fast', errors are well-known and defined.

Also, take into account of other comments that are discussing `how to do x` and why it doesn't/wouldn't work on PowerShell
Sinovac (which is testing an attenuated vaccine) published some data on a preprint[1] claiming it does not cause ADE.

[1] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.17.046375v1
I didn't know about that upcoming feature. I'm really excited to hear that, so thanks. The PDF thing is a wild oversight, too, but I found SumatraPDF and am really impressed by its light weight and speed and bare-bones ethos. There's barely a UI but man can it handle 53 open PDFs at once.

I have both WSL and dual boot, but I dual boot way more. This is likely because I am a command line idiot, and never got fully fluent with navigating my computing life using one. It's high on my list of skills to master in life, because I know what a force multiplier it can be, but I haven't gotten around to it. I mostly use Linux to write, weirdly enough: from org mode to LaTeX to statistics coding, it's a smooth experience - again because it's pretty "just the basics" and does them well. I have no actual need for Linux - I'd be fine with just windows. I guess it's more aspirational on my part.

Apple's moves: yeah man, they're taking that walled garden shit to serious extremes. I know there's a logic to it that works for them, so I don't begrudge them their choices necessarily. But I did really like the company for a long time, so it's a bummer to see them the way they are now.
I can imagine it might be easy to optimize this test a bit...

By repeating the test every few days, and looking at the patterns of grow/no-grow you would probably get a much better result.
"dir" is commonly available on Linux and "select" is a bash built-in, which is probably why so many of us were confused by the comment :)
It is C that is pretty close to true. Laws don't give states their powers. It is in fact the states that make their own laws, subject to some restrictions from the U.S. Constitution.
As a pwa maker, your point hit the nail on the head.

In pwa we have w & a

For the app part, ux generally does not allow you to right click or pinch & zoom.

For the web part, it does.

The best compromise is media queries and have some ux for mobile and another for desktop.

From a business point of view, im not sure final user will value that investment
I wonder if there a link between high-risk populations and the voting blocs which keep certain governments in power?
Another issue that Instagram has refused to acknowledge has been no-sound-in-stories on Mobile web. It has been this way for more than 6 months[0] and I'm fairly certain it is not a bug - they are intentionally breaking UX to force people to use the app.

[0]: https://old.reddit.com/r/Instagram/comments/dezf9g/no_sound_...
Great collection!!
I never realised that about FaceTime. I am surprised that other "big" names in video conference market never thought of that...
The WHO are themselves spreading misinformation for political reasons.
If HN has trouble with it though, Google is not going to do much better. They are not known for having a masterful grasp of subtleties. Examples? Look at the abysmal quality of their translations, their repetitive and off target ad personalization, their weak and spotty voicemail transcriptions that miss even the name of the caller when it’s in the address book with the number, their dead or dying OSS hosting, their (lack of) care for their own products, their clunky bloat-feel mobile apps, their spam filters that even send Google Alerts to the spam box, their no fucks given customer service, their takedowns... Even their search results which have not seen any innovation for the last decade as far as I can tell. (I mean you can’t filter out or coalesce useless bad copies of stack overflow posts from site scraping copycat sites that appear alongside the original SO search hit? Really? That’s too hard for you, Google?) I don’t think they are any more capable of parsing WHO statements then a crowd of HN posters. Probably worse.
Before the web was in every house we had professional media often pushing crackpot theories and news agents had a whole section of monthly crackpot magazines, one of mine had them right next to the comic section to get picked up by impressionable young people.

Long before all this "5g causes corona virus" in the early 90's my local paper would often have stories about cell phones causing cancer. Long before "china to blame for coronavirus" we had "legitimate" media pushing the link between Iraq and 911. Long before any WHO was at the center of conspiracy theories the UN was.

Let's not even go into things like current affairs shows and fox news. The internet may have made you more aware of the amount of crazy out there, but it was always there.
"No, I will buy a plastic tree for the same price and never buy from you again."
How do these tech "leaders" watch Silicon Valley and then behave exactly like the maligned characters and not see themselves as part of the problem?
Bribing? How about Beijing hand placing the director and then letting the corruption trickle down. There are lots of things you can gain from owning a global organization like the WHO. For one, they will tote your colonies like N.Korea as being "the envy of the developing world." They can be used as a tool to influence your enemies. The only limits are your creativity.
Thanks!

I was really inspired by John Barlow's "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" so I wanted to build something that can reflect my understanding of his vision, an autonomous cyberspace. I've tried to build blockchain, DApp and App in the past two years, all failed because of technical challenges. I'm on the fourth try and we are now building a "Wechat + Twitter" website. It is now open sourced at: https://github.com/Rackar/dao-quasar
Wouldn't it be like reinventing XSL in the end ?
Which is why I said "most cases". It's a small percentage of apps that require maxing out a device's resources. I even mention elsewhere in this thread that they are not as performant as native. You can make vague statements about VM characteristics but in practice they won't have a real impact on most use cases.
To be honest this looks at code as an asset versus a liability. Most code especially glue code is a liability since you need to maintain it and take care of it versus letting a third party vendor like Amazon be responsible for maintenance. In the end a business is trying to build assets and glue code to push, to say Salesforce, may not be a competitive advantage.
I’m torn. On one hand, this reads like your typical former-darling hit piece, bedrocked on out-of-context tales told by ex-employees with an axe to grind.

On the other hand, they really are a paint-by-numbers of so many different but oh-so-stereotypical plagues: too much money too early, arrogant and homogeneous leadership, questionable product focus and even more questionable operational discipline.

Truth is probably somewhere in the middle, but it doesn’t matter. They’re boned. Even if they make it to the other side of the pandemic, the unit economics will likely never work and even if a firesale exit emerges, late-stage preferred will wipe out any common by several multiples. The tragedy of course is that by the time that happens, leadership has already taken money off the table multiple times, so they'll be fine and if anything fail upwards to a cushy EIR spot or their next venture, which will be funded solely on the basis of how fast Bird grew and not how it ultimately failed. (Ain't SV grand.)

Ah, you’d think we’d learn these lessons from all the other times this story has been told, but no.
Protein to create electricity from moisture in the air
Yes, as per the definition in richardfontana's comment. Some ovens in the UK have separate upper and lower compartments, and the smaller one can be switched between an oven and grill function, in which case the heat radiates from the top. This is also used for making toast.
The WHO has such a strong interest in staying diplomatic that sometimes you might need to rely on a local body to protect your interests.
I'm referring to the tweet about human-to-human transmission. When that tweet happened it got alot of criticism. And despite the tweet we continued to wear a mask knowing the benefits of doing so.
Yeah, that's a great recipe - Much more concentrated cheese flavour than you can get with bechemel cheese sauce and easier to make too!
I would hazzard a guess that 1/2 of the worlds economies are only liquid because of tourism in the first place. Indeed, the only outcome of +6months of lockdown I can fathom would be be mass displacement, hunger and unrest.
European mortality monitoring shows increase in excess mortality
When you have people who look just like you giving you ungodly amounts of money, it’s easy to believe your superhero story and ignore everything else. And then you hire people who also look just like you to reinforce it.
We all have powerful non-pecuniary motives: friendship, honor, adventure, etc., and we view ourselves as applying rationality to these pursuits. For example: "If I'm really a friend to Billy, then what I should do here is ...". On your view, that would not constitute rational deliberation.
Years ago (just out of the dialup days) I had internet from a high speed wireless provider (Look) that did the downlink from the CN tower (wireless) and the uplink via phone line. Maybe some sort of hybrid system is still viable.
I prefer Apple just like you.

With that said, I have been noticing more and more people building these insanely powerful desktop machines (a lot of times for less than a MacBook Pro) to keep at home.

Here is where it gets interesting - then the same group of people start walking around with a burner Chromebook that was bought on the cheap with nothing more than a shell with SSH or just simply remote into their desktop via apache guacamole.

Technology is pretty neat.
Security by obscurity with a biometric feature (location) and no backup system.. what could go wrong. And surely more punishment will deter the poor from eating tomorrow's food today.
Without wanting to police the word, because you do you, "indie" comes from "independent", as in "independent of a publisher" (or, in music, where the word comes from, independent of a record label).

It doesn't have to be from a single developer, or even a small dev team, but rather from a team that is in some meaningful sense "independent".

This means, as an interesting example, that Minecraft was at one point about as indie as it is possible to be, and now is about as not-indie as it is possible to be.
I do something similar.

Before they can speak, I say, "Are you selling solar, politics, or religion?"

They always protest, "But I'm not selling anything..." and go into their sales pitch.

I interrupt with again with, "Solar, politics, or religion?"

90% of the time it's solar. I tell them I rent, and they go away.
It seems that all the languages implementation in the benchmarking exercises are utilizing garbage collection (C++ using ref counting) it will be very interesting if someone extend this benchmark using D programming language, arguably the fastest language with GC. The fact that elPrep tool is using functional software architecture [1] and D natively supports functional programming makes me think this type of computing is very well suited for it.

[1] https://github.com/exascience/elprep
Ask HN: Anyone using short videos (indexed) instead of chat form company comms?
The tech is there (extract text from audio, index it).
It could avodid lots of meetings, help with solitude, etc

As long as you can find them again, that is (indexed, text search possible)!
As a D user, I highly doubt that, considering we had raytracers written in templates fourteen years and one major language version ago. [1] What stops them?

[1] http://h3.gd/posts/ctrace/
AC's online experience sucks in large part because Nintendo is paranoid about item duping. This leads to things like everyone needing to pause their gameplay so the save states can be in sync when someone visits and worse rolling back the state of the world if someone disconnects due to bad internet or their console going sleep due to inactivity.

Given the nature of the game I don't understand why they didn't prioritize fun over protecting against duping.

That's nevermind the fact that two friends can't do stuff like terraform or furnish an island together.
I used LXDE in a lot of older machines. It is not very glamorous because the selection of themes icons is not that vast but it uses GTK unlike LXQt.

I have never experienced any odd behaviour or faults. It certainly is not the most beautiful desktop environment but it is stable and very very performant.

(This was using Debian + LXDE)
One sided story. The Verge doesn't get clicks if the story isn't negative.
Fuck YouTube. At first they liberated creators and gave everyone the same upload button.

Now they’re a bunch of fascists pandering to a niche demographic. Being PC is fine in some cases but I firmly believe in freedom of expression / free speech especially
when it’s controversial. Let’s build hours ok folks critical thinking capability.

YouTube is becoming the very thing they tried not to be.

What do I think about wackos on youtube saying covid is the rapture? I think they’re fucking bananas. But I still support their right to say what they want.
Something like Trader Joes would be great for this. Very limited number of SKUs (e.g. 1-2 kinds of wheat bread, rather than 10). If you combine with automation, could get the costs down considerably. But I'd bet most of the labor hours are going to be burned on the delivery itself, not the assembling of the order.
Just regarding your first statement: isn't 'no evidence of X' entirely different than 'evidence of no X'? Seems to me they were saying the first, but you're interpreting it as the second?
Pushing Rules Around
Deploying to 100% of production when the option exists to do a staged rollout[0] isn't "breaking things in more obscure ways," it's ignorance or laziness.

[0] As mentioned in the article.
That depends heavily on where you are located. Here in Germany we have excellent shopping search engines with Geizhals and Idealo.

Particularly Geizhals is an indispensable product research tool since it does a great job of collecting, normalizing and filtering product attributes - it replaces the tedious process of comparing several incomplete spec sheets with different terms, values and units.
I tried exactly the same thing and then left frustrated.

This seems to be exclusively optimized on mobile devices, and is not even properly responsive.
A progressive web app should be usable both as an app and in a browser. This is not the case here.
Maybe I'm taking crazy pills, but what about getting rid of a tip altogether and have a reasonable wage?

All tips do is subsidizing the employer allowing them to pay less and makes customers feel guilty to provide tip, even when there was nothing special about the service or even when it was bad.
Good point, still makes no difference with regards to bait crafting, but at least it's a good reason for the shop not having free-form shopping.
If you don't have a badge and a gun, I'm not opening the door for any reason.

Then when your irrigation system has sprung a leak and is spewing water all over the side of my house, I'm going to go to the valve on the sidewalk in front of your house and turn off the water to your house while your family is trying to shower and make breakfast.

That's exactly what happened when my neighbor refused to answer his door one morning at 6am.
No, it's native 64-bit telemetry. No thunks necessary! This is the new Microsoft.
This is pure evil. Once again the platforms have succeeded to turn an issue that concerns us all into a partisan american issue for all. It's sad to see so much of people working on software actively support this type of platfom power abuse for censorship.
How does it compare to stardew valley (probably the other way around)

If I’ve build my farm and talked to the villages enough to not bother farming anymore is there anything for me in animal crossing?
It is tough for any small group to protect itself from a motivated, well funded, and well informed competitor even using copyright, trade marks and patents.

Part of the reason is that it can take vast sums and years to enforce IP rights against deep pockets.

The other reason, is that no matter how much IP you formally protect, most of any business is not its IP, it is the sales and support channels and services, etc. Even a lean software startup’s code is likely mostly the non-IP code that delivers and supports the IP actually solving a problem.

This means well funded and well informed competitors have a good chance of solving the same problem using a slightly different solution. You saved them work by defining the problem, providing an example solution, and validating the market for solutions to that problem.

Probably the best way for a small team to protect any really valuable IP is if they keep it a Trade Secret, while growing the business until it has the depth of resources, customer engagement, market bisinility and organizational depth so that deep pocket copycats might be successful too, but without stopping your momentum.

Obviously, this strategy depends on being able to deliver new IP to market without disclosing it exists. But customers care more about the results you can give them than how you do it. So innovative code buried in an app may not attract much or any scrutiny.

Aiming initially at underserved or previously unserved markets also avoids attracting competitive attention.

Edit: I think variance in returns has gone up because information tech is making it easier and easier for new organizations to serve larger markets, so more small companies will make it big.

And at the same time, competitors are more likely to notice anything significant, and their are many more competitors observing and reacting globally.

And we now have massive global competitors like Google, Facebook and Amazon that are getting harder to avoid as they attempt and often succeed in dominating one market after adjacent market.

So expected (in the statistical sense, I.e. mean) returns have gone up, but the ease that a startup can be crushed is also higher.

There is a kind of conservation of risk and reward in economics, so it isn’t unexpected that bigger opportunity attracts players who in turn create bigger risks for new players.
I think there's just a pretty narrow range of opinions that you're allowed to express or the regulars that have invested so much time getting karma will make sure you aren't heard.

That does stifle discussion. I dunno if HN users realize how many people just refuse to touch the site because of these dynamics.

But this, I dunno what it's about. There's a really important issue here, and it's not "WHO said you only need a mask while caretaking and local laws say you need to wear a mask ergo contradiction/we're failing the children" ain't it. HN's too smart for takes like that, I don't get it.
It's a good point - and part of the reason I'm asking this is I don't know the answer 100%. Some of it is gut feeling. I guess part of the problem is that by outsourcing this layer of work you actually fail to develop internal competency to do it yourself. Then when later on you find your requirements expand beyond what can be done, you're now functionally incapable of doing it, and you start being constrained by that. I've been in companies that end up paying ridiculous amounts for consultants to do utterly trivial things to systems just because they've been bred to be functionally dependent on systems they don't understand / can't control. That isn't this, but I feel like it's a step towards it.
If you answer the call at all you will be put on the "Answers calls" list and sold to the next company. It's a way of cleaning calling lists from dead numbers.
I'll stick to Futures for; Futures work everywhere now and aren't immediately invoked when called with new.
Rumour on the street is that the advice is in place because local governments don't want people hoarding face masks, because there's a massive shortage of it in most Western countries, [1] so much so that several hospitals have eveb asked for private donations of face masks, and even the Directorate of Health. [2] This is half admitted at least by my own health authorities in Norway.

The advice from the Norwegian "CDC", the NIPH/FHI, was that you shouldn't wear a mask! [3] The claim, as it was broadcast in an interview, was that there is no evidence that wearing a mask protects you from contagion. This again springs out of the advice from the WHO. But they also claimed that it's in fact a danger of spreading the disease by wearing a mask! [4] [5] Except it's pretty controversial, and there are studies that directly contradict the official advice, for instance the now infamous bus study from Wuhan (now retracted),[6] but there are others. FHI has since relaxed this verdict, and there are news stories of them even turning 180 and advicing the use of face masks.[7]

[1] Norwegian language source: https://www.varden.no/nyheter/mangel-pa-munnbind-sykehusene-...
[2] Norwegian language source: https://www.dagsavisen.no/nyheter/innenriks/helsedirektorate...
[3] Norwegian language source: https://www.fhi.no/nettpub/coronavirus/fakta/renhold-og-hygi...
[4] Norwegian language source:
https://www.nrk.no/osloogviken/munnbind-kan-fore-til-mer-smi...
[5] Norwegian language source: https://forskning.no/ntb-sykdommer-virus/fhi-munnbind-gir-fa...
[6] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8094933/How-one-man...
[7] Norwegian language source: https://www.vg.no/nyheter/utenriks/i/GGLm0l/helsedirektorate...
Three of those points can be addressed by proper education by the authorities. And last two points have nothing to do with risks of wearing a mask and more to do with how authorities in a country are addressing the situation.
Perhaps, valueless?
They would need to set the href attribute that points to the url on the card. After doing that you need to prevent the browser from actually going to that url when clicking on the card to prevent a full page refresh.

I think this happens a lot nowadays because we create and style div elements from scratch while also hooking onto more fundamental events and preventing any browser behavior.
LDC 1.21.0 released (D LLVM back end)
That's a great way of putting it. I have enjoyed many Sims and builders up to the point where I know exactly what I need to do but the scale and limitations of the interface and actions available to me just make it feel like an enormous hassle. Up to that point every action was a thrill. That's when a sense of disgust and waste sets in and I quit the game. Often for good.
> This policy will be aimed at exactly people like him. He has been contradicting the authorities all the way.

What advice has he given that contradicts the WHO's guidance?
Native application has level of access to OS features and computer peripherals that PWA can only dream of. Same about performance.

But yes there are classes of applications for which underlying implementation technology does not matter much while browser based access from anywhere is more important.