skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only people who ever come to my door are salespeople and religious nuts
> The company I've founded in 2007 never ever sent out any document in MS Office format, never owned any copy of MS Office, and we survived since then just fine.

It's great that it worked out for you, but that's just not the case in the most business environments I have been dealing with. When a person sends out a document to a customer, and it turns out that customer didn't see the content as intended, alternatives get deleted and MS Office gets reintroduced.

Just to be clear, I'm not a proponent of MS Office. As a matter of fact I run on Mac and Linux and don't have much touching points with Windows, but MS Office is simply a necessity in most business environments.
Do you know of any existing tools for this on the server(less) part and database that aren't hard to setup?
Cross platform support is nice for users as well. I have a number of apps that I can't use on my desktop which is quite annoying. When I use a PWA I know that I can access it from whatever device I am on.
So... if someone mention corona in Taiwan, youtube will delete the video?
> What’s the likelihood that people are going to put their credit card information into some unknown website compared to using Apple/Google for payments?

Outside of HN's bubble, people do that all the time. Or at worst they will use PayPal or an equivalent to make payments.
+1 on this. I bailed out of a startup I was an early engineer at and worked at for close to four years awhile back and immediately my depression and frustration cleared up.
Just a quick thought: depending on how adventurous you feel, you might consider buying ready-made pizza dough from the supermarket, and start with that.

If you like your pizza, the next iteration would be to also make the dough yourself. Expect several iterations / attempts until you can make it well and reproducible, and get a good feel for how much you need.

The first few batches of pizza dough I made were not very good :-).
Millennial's and their future is being stolen with incredible amount of debt creation by boombers and more. So Crypto might offer more than "early retirement". When one class use its all power to ensure certain financial restrictions on returns an opportunities. It's expectable that people looking for other things to get real publicly available returns.
Else Before If
Just as importantly, don’t fall for fetishism. Neapolitan pizza is a very specific style of pizza that, while “authentic” and photogenic, is by no means a superior style of pizza. Especially made poorly, at home, in an oven that is 200 degrees colder than necessary!
Great read, thanks for sharing, there was just a new oven announced, I think it's ooni, which is for this kind of pizza. It's an outdoor propane pizza oven. BTW, I'm not sure you can cook pizza at 500 degrees in 90 seconds like the article says.
I don't think we need to declare "One truth", in order to remove the worst layer of misinformation. It's a false dichotomy.

What is the effectivness of (homemade) masks? Disbuted, so here information should be free
Should you inject disinfectives into you bloodstream to cure Covid-19? No. This is misinformation, is easily identified.

If there is doubt, it should be allowed. There will obviously always be a grey area, but for the time being, a lot of good can be done, without any harm.
I don't see anything mentioned on Xubuntu's wiki release notes [1], but they do mention "The main Ubuntu Release Notes" and section on that page describes snap packages status [2]. We can assume that Xubuntu team don't have much choice in this matter and can only follow the main Ubuntu distro decisions and directions. On the other hand, Xubuntu doesn't come with telemetry/statistics feature during installation and as I was told on IRC channel team doesn't plant to include it - but that's completely different thing, I guess.

[1] - https://wiki.xubuntu.org/releases/20.04/release-notes

[2] - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FocalFossa/ReleaseNotes#Snap_Store
I don't know why people feel the need to downvote instead of clarify, but this page is about runtime speed. The article is about compilation speed.
Interviewed Pieter Levels on How Corona Affected His Open Startups
Keep in mind insects are responsible for some of the most devastating plaques in history.
Creativity Inc is a wonderful book, but Pixar's culture and work environment are exceedingly rare if not entirely unique. For a more realistic, yet still useful example of corporate culture, I would recommend "The Phoenix Project" to students.
Definitely not necessary to buy ingredients "certified" by the "Associazione Vera Pizza Napoletana" but following the traditional methods yields some really tasty pizza.
I'm not sure you replied to the right thread?
I'm so glad we're discussing it on HN, so I can use better analogies: it's feature creep. Imagine a product wich was originally elegant and perfomant, almost in a unix way - but then dozens of product managers, each with best of intentions, started adding features to it. Oh, and the product itself was something akin to operating system kernel in terms of security - having monopoly on violence and able to literally kill people - but all those product managers wouldn't hear about moving all these shiny new features into userland, because of perfomance and ease of development.

That's what a typical modern government is.
It is not a given that there exists an optimal middle ground when it comes to central information control. Similar arguments have been done in regard to encryption controls where the arguments are in favor of backdoors, escrows, export control. But it has been mostly rejected that we need to find a optimal middle ground between giving government access to information and providing encryption for e-commerce depending on the context in which the communication takes place. We either have strong encryption or we don't.

I would also look to inspiration from the past, and here I will copy loosely from a talk by Eben Moglen. Government wants to control communication. Sometimes in a claim of some civilizing mission on the belief that government and only government can really artfully determine who ought to speak to the masses, and sometimes quite explicitly for the purpose of remaining itself in power. But whatever the reason may be, a lust for power or a misguided belief in the superiority of government wisdom about who should speak to many, central information control is an evil whose time has come.

Right now Google is not seen as an essential part of the infrastructure of society. Google can shutdown email, maps, search and Youtube today and we the citizens have no voice to dictate otherwise. No matter how much people rely on Google maps for driving, or have information stored in the cloud that impact their lives, for now those systems are not considered essential. That view however is starting to change as people's lives start to get unseparable from their use of those services. At that point we get the same discussion. Who ought to speak to the masses, and what will that decision be based on? A lust for power, or the belief in the superiority of government wisdom?
I tried Oracle cloud free tier, it was all good until they banned me few days in for no reason (they didn't say in the email).

You'd have to be logged in to contact support :D
He’s getting there! It updates every two weeks.
32-bit Arm has some features that make it less RISC-like than others:

- Predication as a major architectural feature -- every instruction can be conditionally executed
- Complex load-store instructions: ldm/stm can operate on a large set of registers in a single instruction, including performing a branch by loading into the instruction pointer
- 16-bit Thumb instruction format (also optionally present in RISC-V and newer MIPS)

64-bit Arm mostly drops all of the above and is basically a traditional RISC implementation.
This seems like a good thread in which to try to solicit some advice, since it's at least tangentially related.

I was terminated from my last job. In my opinion it was due to my chronic and major depression that I have since been seeking extensive treatment (medication, several months rent in therapy) for. I say "in my opinion" because I really can't rule out that I'm just a lazy, crappy developer who is trying to use mental health as an excuse.

Either way, I've been unemployed for over half a year and am now trying to re-enter the job market. Obviously the gap is a bit of a red flag that I've been candid about to potential employers, in the sense that I speak about a medical issue, not the specifics.

If I could go back in time, I would have quit from my last job before being fired, but honestly I was beyond caring about anything, period, so the consequences of taking the career L barely phased me. There was no upside to being fired, I just didn't care.

Now, I wish I had cared, because it's an elephant in the room I don't really know how to address. Do I tackle it proactively by outright telling everyone I was canned? Do I wait until they call up my former employer to verify my work history?

If anyone else has been in a remotely similar situation I would greatly appreciate any tips or feedback. Please just refrain from telling me I messed up - I definitely know I did.
The Mark 1 Fire Control Computer
If a person with bad eyesight looks across a valley and tells a person with 20-20 vision that the view is terrible, the one with 20-20 isn't likely to agree.
Finally! I always forget to add it, and it inevitably causes frustration.
That's a really dumb argument.

Where do you think the energy and the nutrients from plants come from? It comes from the sun and the soil. So if plants are a middleman, we might as well eat dirt and stay in the sun all day.
The vast majority of successful tech companies definitely treat their code as assets.

I think you’re confusing 2 things. The technical and developmental side, where code is a liability that needs to be maintained, and the business/usage side, where code is definitely an asset that provides your company with additional leverage against competitors.
Thats not the fault of the R developers who wrote a message appropriate for the audience to which they sent it.
The Fine Article:

The computer is about 3 ft wide, 4 ft tall, and 6 ft long. Looking inside the Mark 1 was like looking into a fine mechanical watch. Everything was very compactly designed and organized. The first look is completely mind bending, making one wonder what is all this stuff and how does it work? How could anyone ever have put together something like this and made it work? Especially in 1930.

The components are so packed inside that you can only stick your finger into the components. There is not enough space for your hand or arm to fit inside. All of the components are either parallel or at right angles to each other.

Each component part is built like the mechanical integrator, all in one piece. The component parts are all reasonably strong and the mounting plate it is built on is usually a sheet of steel 1/2" thick. The component parts are usually mounted using 4 to 6 1/4" socket head cap screws. You do not have to be very careful with these parts, as they do not damage easily.

The component parts have input and output gearing and shafting which connects them to the other component parts of the computer. Most of the shafting is 1/4" diameter, some is a little larger. The shafting is held in place by ball bearings, which are held in place by various mounting blocks. Miter gears are used to make 90 degree turns of the shafting which allows them to connect to the various component parts.

A tool box is furnished with the computer. This tool box contains the special tools necessary to reach inside the computer. Some of the tools have small lights on the end of a rod about 3 ft long. The light can be swiveled on the end of the rod, so you can put it far enough into the computer to see with. Other tools are 3 feet long with 90 degree bevel gears at the end. This might hold an Allen wrench, so you could turn an Allen screw or socket head cap screw deep in the computer. As you can guess, working on the internals of the computer while the ship was moving was quite difficult.
> Nobody contests the use of pesticides and pesticide research

To me, the problem is that people do contest the use of pesticides and they also talk down on pesticide research.

There is a lot of emotion involved with this and although I think Earth Girl Arjuna is awesome, somebody has to put the pepperoni on the pizza.
I usually just lurk here but something in your comment made it impossible for me to ignore. I do not want to be rude but think you are behaving exactly like a pushy parent who would cause the sort of trauma OP is facing right now.

This constant push for a 3.5 year old to read books that clearly require more mental effort than is okay for his/her age, play 'logic' games that he/she can get no joy from are a huge red parenting flag. You might have good intentions but your relentless need for him to raise up to these arbitrary standards of yours that have been created without any regards for his/her happiness are going to put so much unsustainable pressure on the kid.

By forcing your kid to play with the games he can not understand or reading the books he doesn't like, you are just stealing his/her childhood. I can only hope that you realize this sooner than later.
Use remote access to virtual macOS build machine
RSA Cryptography Behind the Scenes
Faster JSON Support for iOS/macOS, Part 7: Polishing the Parser
Edit: The video in the article is a pretty good dough "recipe"

If you go down the rabbit hole, when making your dough try to source some double zero flour (00 flour) and experiment with "hydration" percentages which is the ratio of water and flour. These are the two ingredient factors I have found to have the most impact. The "recipes" are much easier than you think - it's mostly a waiting game
That article is mostly correct, and policy wasn't changed very recently. High schools and universities closed mid-March, for example.

But the article is slightly weaselly in its wording. Yes, bars and restaurants are open, but it's take-out or table service only, and you typically leave every other table empty so that people are sitting 2m away from everyone else. The actual bar part of bars and restaurants are closed.

Note how the picture in that article is taken at a low angle so you can't clearly see the spacing between the people at the tables. A photo from the side would show a completely different picture.
> Vendor lock in is very expensive.

Multi-cloud is complicated and not cheap.
If you have 50% of the yield, you require 200% of the current area.

Some pesticides have a flat rate per area, like for example herbicide.
One of the missing ingredients in PowerShell when I tried to use it was network transparency - which I suspect will be hard to solve since it passes .net objects around.

It is not often that I pipe things into or out off ssh, a Unix domain socket or a pipe, but when I do it’s usually significantly easier and more efficient than other ways.

I also often save outputs rather than pipe, to inspect/debug, or avoid re-computation.

I last played with PowerShell on Win7 ages ago so things might have improved dramatically (e.g. if every output is guaranteed to round trip serialize with a network stream).
> Transmeta

...was slow.
> So if anyones analysis is broken, they can still set options(stringsAsFactors=TRUE).

But what are the chances that someone stumbling upon supposedly reproducible analysis happens to know that in R >4.0.0 they need to do this? Especially if the original analysis didn't even specify that it was originally run on R <4.0.0
> Even if we assume unconfirmed cases 5 times that, we're still talking single-digit percentages of the population infected.

Wasn't you point just that we shouldn't assume? I know that there are models looking at a possibility for only 1% of cases being confirmed. That's been in Sweden and not NYC, but just throwing a 5 out there doesn't make a lot of sense.
Has the R core team publicly stated that they disagree with direction Wickham's Tidyverse is going? Genuinely asking as I love the Tidyverse, but would be interested to hear arguments against it.
Embeddable Common Lisp now runs on iOS
The latest release of ECL now runs also on iOS:

https://common-lisp.net/project/ecl/posts/ECL-20424-release.html
Good point, fapjacks.
This is one primary reason I started using read_csv from readr than read.csv of base-R. Everytime you teach someone to read a csv using base-R this always came up somewhere in the middle of an analysis because those strings were read as Factors.
Finding build bottlenecks with C++ Build Insights
Damn, he bakes those at 825F (440 °C), which unfortunately is unattainable with most regular home ovens. Mine e.g. maxes out at 300 °C so it's not hot enough to let the crust rise significantly and produce a nicely charred underside, at least not before completely burning the top.

What I'm currently experimenting with to solve this problem is to put the pizza on a flat, heavy and preheated iron pan or plancha and heat it at maximum power on the induction stove for 3 minutes to get the metal really hot. Then I put it in the oven at 300 °C for around 10 minutes. Doesn't produce perfectly charred pizza but comes a lot closer to what you can achieve with a real pizza oven. Still I'm not fully satisfied with the result, so thanks for the article link, I'll definitely try to apply some tricks mentioned there!
So why is `unsafe` even in the language, then? It would seem to me that it simultaneously undermines safety guarantees, and it can't even ensure performance improvements.
And they never imagined that the announcement of a major release of a popular piece of software would go beyond the mailing list?
You too, take care
Nah. Two jobs ago had wonderful people and we still regularly meet up for drinks (despite the company being a load for shite to work for).

Next job was a lot more family people and we rarely went for drinks together. I am not really in touch with them any more (perfectly nice people but the bonding never happened).
You can train yourself to detect most of these differences, but you do need to try many different “good” versions of something to develop your taste.

But beware, once you have a sophisticated taste for something you can no longer enjoy all the “bad” ones.
It’s outside of the HN bubble that people are less trusting of random websites.

If people were so willing to make payments on random websites, merchants wouldn’t be falling all over themselves to use Amazon’s marketplace and sell their self published books through Kindle.

Not to mention that micropayments on the web has been the holy grail that no one has found in over two decades.

Apple was the first to make $0.99 payments over the internet feasible with iTunes back in 2005. There is much more friction to buying something on the web than just clicking on buy from Amazon/Apple/Google.
Computer Aided Destruction
There is indeed no contract that datetimes without tzinfo are UTC. But there is a contract that they don't have a builtin timezone or DST concept and that you must define handle that separately.
WHO guidelines around masks are not being contradicted by local laws. Both say masks are useful to reduce the spread.

That’s different than saying 5g causes the disease, or worse hand washing compromises the immune system and should be avoided.
R is the quirkiest hard-to-remember programming language I have ever tried learning.
There are both kinds, some are obsessed with over-pruning/mutilating trees and mowing the garden like a golf green (another heresy), some let the nature develop. For example, France has many extended private areas, with forests
Telegram hits 400M monthly active users
I was a (technical, mostly) project manager for about 10 years and then decided I didn't like that career anymore. I am indeed trying to get a small product out there. If, however, that does not work, I'd be looking into employment as a developer. It's kind of hard to gauge how I might operate in a team environment. I also wonder how to even begin assessing my experience level. I am certainly not shooting for the stars, but also getting stuck in a proto-2-proto role would probably be terrible ;)
If it were vectors, clocks, and memory, then Atom would have been a success, but even stripping out everything resulted in a chip (Medfield) that under-performed while using way too much power.

Either the engineers at Intel and AMD are bad at their job (not likely) or the ISA actually does matter.
Tea, beer, garlic: how world copes with lockdown
Understanding T5: Text-to-Text-Transfer-Transformer
You don't have to enforce a conversion from int to bool if you
just want a bool. In this example you don't want to increment by
'bool', you want to increment by 1 or 0 (which are ints). So you
use !!x to convert to bool and back to int.

The reason I'm pointing this out is that often enough I had to
work with code where this distinction was unknown to the author
and you come across code like if (!!x) which is, again, just
nonsense.
Second.

Scaleway + Cloudflare + CapRover, you get the simplicity and joy of using PAAS without the cost. CapRover's one click install is awesome.
> * stringsAsFactors = FALSE is now default breaking a lot of packages (was this really worth changing?)

In my experience, both when I learned R myself back in the day, and teaching others to use it, this is something that trips up newbies over and over again. So from that perspective changing it is good.

OTOH, a lot of existing code will need updating. Oh well..
I think that would only be contradictory if the WHO advice said strictly don't wear a mask otherwise. In this case you're still free to choose to wear a mask even if the WHO doesn't say you should, or if local laws require it so it's not a contradiction even though it's not the exact same advice/requirement.
aren’t you valuing tennis as a sport if you like to talk about it with colleagues? I’d say that interests and values go a long way together.
Economic Crisis and Poverty Might Kill More People Than the Coronavirus
For a quick pizza, I use a "Ooni" pizza oven and the results have been great. It's relatively cheap and you can get the temperatures you are looking for. I joined their first kickstarter and have been buying their ovens ever since:

https://uk.ooni.com/collections/shop-all/products/ooni-koda
Doing it effectively requires organization, yes. Stealing manhole covers, taking them to the forest and breaking them with a club, then selling them at the scrap yard as damaged -- only requires stupidity. Guy probably spent more on gas alone. And this actually happened if you were wondering.

People will literally rip out metal wires from reinforced brick towers making them collapse while they are still inside. You can't make this shit up.
I guess that anyone who's afraid of the phone, will have the same feelings towards meeples, cards, dice and table not to mention spending hour(s) in close proximity to other players. So, probably won't even attend.
How to Create a Verified WhatsApp Business Account?
Marketing addictive substances should just be outlawed. Marketing substances that are both addictive and scientifically proven to harm children/adolescents development specifically targeting teens should be outlawed absolutely - everybody participating in that should be punished, e.g. the way it works with child porn. At the same time people who choose to buy and use the substances without being advertised to should be allowed to.
Those are all small, independent random contributions that naively would lead to a normal distribution per the central limit theorem. But it can't be quite a normal distribution due to the lower bound of 0 (in terms of absolute intelligence, not IQ). A better candidate would be a log-normal distribution which is always right-skewed.