skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can I still just install NVM and use that to install and maintain Node? I assume snap will suffer the same annoyances of apt where I can't trivially get the exact version I want and switch among them.
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For those of us who are educated, the US and capitalism has never obeye it's own rules, the upper classes have always loved the nanny state and taken state subsidies. But the free marketeers like yourself always turn a blind side to the rich to promote nonsense.

Free markets? Don't look too closely at what actually happens.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY
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yes - the first wave appeared to use young people as a transmission vector but didn't harm them compared to the second and third waves where they were hammered as hard as the young and old.
Heh, conveniently the field work is generally funded with someone else’s money :D

Thanks for the heads up! I’m not sure what we’ll settle on exactly yet, but it’s not going to be my personal laptop that I’m bringing out into farmers’ fields this year!
fuck off, nazi
My Millennium Prize challenge for those clamoring to reopen the economy is: How do you reopen Disneyland? (I think Disneyland was even referenced in the article.)

That's a giant social space people would be clamoring to go to. But given Disneyland's mystique and raison d'etre, the logistics right now are impossible.

I don't know how viable the solution proposed here actually is. The skeptics here raise some good points.

But if this solution turned out to be proven, I expect Disneyland would be one of the first places where it was deployed at scale. If we trusted the technology, I'm pretty sure both you and I would be happy to wait 10 minutes to get in. A free COVID screen as part of your price of admission. (It's interesting to consider how they would handle people who failed the screening. A balloon and hauled away in a cheerful corporate van? Maybe Disney starts running COVID resort sanitoriums?)

I also imagine Disney is one of the few organizations out there that could get the queuing sorted out. And I suspect that would be as important as anything. Once perfected, it could serve as a model for others.
Replace '10' if you want another version:

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | sudo -E bash -

sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
> Splitting text into sentences is actually really hard.

It would be a lot less hard if we were able to unambiguously tell the computer whether a period ends a sentence. I wonder how we could possibly do that...

(Less sarcastically: a lot of Unix programs - Emacs, vim, troff, etc. - solve this problem by defaulting to double-spaced sentences, thus resolving the ambiguity. Kinda odd that this ain't the Tex approach; there's already precedent by using doubled-up ``backquotes'' and ``single quotes'' to produce “smart double quotes”, and lone `backquotes' and `single quotes' similarly become ‘smart single quotes’.)
I think the fact that a mortgage was taken out to pay off the debt was used to argue the loser didn’t have adequate assets to cover the bet, and that it was excessive.

I suspect if it was Bill Gates vs. Larry Ellison they wouldn’t have been able to argue the wager was excessive.
He's uneducated, capitalism as the upper class preaches from the universities has never existed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY
It's not on the roadmap right now, the percentage of restaurants with the capability and desire to self-host software is very low.
As long as there are knowledge and cognitive gaps between groups and demographic, there will be luddite. This brings up an interesting thought; Is it in the best interest of politicians to keep the divide and gap?
The Leopold Museum my favorite museum in Vienna, and that's saying a lot.
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they're short-term doomed. long-term, (2021+) -> time will tell.

what they're planning now to do is to invent completly new business, utilising assets they have at hand (relations with hosts, but this is it).

their 'online experiences' is a lesson on 'wishful thinking' or 'painting the grass green'. Quoting article: "we have nearly 100 hosts offering experiences online and thousands more who’ve offered to host experiences".

Let me remind them, that they have at least THREE..FOUR ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE bigger hosts number (problem 1), there is no space in youtube/twitch area for that amount of content creators (problem 2), and most hosts can't do it (problem 3).
i didn't remove it. it was flagged and hidden and i removed it afterwards
Huge energy subsidies... and this has always been the case in the US and all capitalist states.

https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2015/09/28/04/53/sonew0...
An economy that is void of coercion (in the sense of violence or threat of it)

Clarification edit: Coercion in response to coercion is self-defense. If someone physically forced their way to your property, you have a right to defend yourself, and this should be enforced. We need some way make sure there's no coercion in the market.
IMF energy subsidies.

https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2015/09/28/04/53/sonew0...
You'd expect the force majeure clause in this contract[1] to include pandemics.

[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bg_1m1C05YqTJzp5MBZMhlRE...
fishshell is my favorite productivity enhancer for the terminal:
https://fishshell.com/

The primary reason I chose over zsh/bash was that autocompletion just works. If you install it, I highly recommend oh-my-fish as well, which allows you to add packages for look/functionality:
https://github.com/oh-my-fish/oh-my-fish

If you're a zsh user, they have a similar framework: oh-my-zsh:
https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh
> I think the biggest reason people don't modify their cars anymore is simply that they aren't allowed to. Fewer people outright own their cars and their loan and insurance terms and conditions won't let them modify the car, as it would void the vehicle warranty.

I don't buy it. The average car in the US is almost 12 years old. The warranty is up and the loan is paid off.

It also doesn't make sense for the warranty to be affected by things like software changes to the entertainment system which anybody could revert in five minutes if they were causing problems. They should practically want that to happen because it gets people to show up at the dealership with a non-problem you can fix in five minutes which gets them into the dealership where you can upsell them on something or show them all the new cars.

The problem is everybody wants to be a gatekeeper and what they don't realize is that they're Samsung and not Apple. They're much better off to have more and better third party software for their cars by publishing standards and not locking everything down, so more people buy their cars, than to have a walled desert full of nothing because they're trying to control everything.
> A restaurant worker will not be able to create a reputation/make a difference on the scale of a well paid or educated worker.

I'm sure it's what you meant, but I'd like to clarify that this is a feeling, not a fact. It's entirely possible for a restaurant worker to make a difference, just like it's entirely possible for a well paid and well educated worker to make no difference at all. (That's entirely setting aside the fact that what you do and the change you cause with your life is in no way determined by the job you're paid for.)

I think the point is that society tells our less well paid and well educated workers, explicitly and implicitly, that they are worth less and can contribute less, which is what gives rise to this feeling, but also why I think it's so important to clarify that it is a feeling and not a fact.
"deadly despair that arises from the lack of a college degree"
This is a joke right?
The article links to this at the bottom, but just calling it out again because I think it's so useful. I am using git all the time---probably a majority of my terminal relates to git in some way. I think the git bash completion script is extremely useful. https://github.com/git/git/tree/master/contrib/completion

It's incredibly easy (and transparent) to "install" and saves a ton of keystrokes.
> FYI they probably don't have the capability to do a whole lot with location data anyhow.

The only “capability” required is the ability to pay a Palantir invoice and ship data to them.

The UK is another good example of a western country which has attempted to use the COVID-19 crisis to extend government power - it is naive _in the extreme_ to believe that every other western government is not doing the same when this behaviour has not been demonstrated in the past 20 years.
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That is implicit, there's almost nothing I'm completely sure of. I would add that qualification if I had low confidence about the claim.
Ah, that's useful information.

As you say, I refresh incognito mode reasonably often, so that might explain it.

Thanks.
hey no real talk in here, speculation only
On more handy set of emacs-derived keystrokes:

Ctrl-a ctrl-k to clear the current command, or redo a hidden password prompt if you know you fat-fingered it.

ctrl-a jumps the cursor to the beginning of the line, and ctrl-k deletes from current position to the end of the line.

The mnemonic to remember these: "a" is the first position in the alphabet, and jumps you to the first position. "K" is short for "kill.”
Property is naturally coercive, why don't we have the right to repair and own our software? The last 20 years has the videogame industry hacking and stealing videogames en mass since the rise of the internet.

I know because I lived through it. Games before steam and client-server based rpg's that were designed to trick gullible consumers to give up PC game ownership.
Beyond the fact that this is such as small number compared to overall job losses, I have to wonder how many of these "Covid-caused" layoffs are really systemically untenable positions. A big number are also likely pretty traditional roles that happen to be at a startup, vs the immediate image of developers without work.
all of the above currently exists in some form.

I'm sure more of it will come.
You're attacking a straw man. I did not say pure capitalism existed before, but that the US is less capitalist today than before.
Android app not available in the Australian play store?
well yes, plenty of people can memory endlessly and regurgitate the knowledge on demand and go through many years of school

but of course that's not "critical thinking"

and plenty of "gut thinkers" feel they are critical thinkers but lack of education instead defeats them

however questioning and evaluating things for oneself does tend to lead to better results, like say not destroying 5G wireless, following cults religious or political, etc. - doesn't take a Ph.d but does take critical thinking
so you leave this guy's unsourced bullshit but delete my counterposed purely sourced comment as a way of combatting racism? totally makes sense
Covid-19 Testing Project
Docker uses namespaces, cgroups and other facilities that are Linux-specific. (Other OSes implement similar things, but of course they're different implementations.)

A short description, a bit old, but still useful:

https://jvns.ca/blog/2016/10/10/what-even-is-a-container/
hotels rooms in bali are $200 per month now

five stars hotel like westin sells a 2days voucher for 1mil rupiah (~70 usd), valid until dec 31, 2021.
Maybe it doesn't apply to healthcare. I said "usually".
Not only that, but you need to actually pay to download other people's games by the looks of it.

>or unlimited downloading of the published works,

Even if you don't intend to write any of your own code, a server ticket seems to be required to even download code.
Have you read the article in its entirety?
It takes them the full text to convey the major idea.
With poor records on Muslims, Trump, Biden issue Ramadan blessings
I've seen this at one Ralphs (Kroger) location near me.
More likely this is a version of the "Eternal September" problem. Early adopters of Airbnb were more likely to be "true believers" of the idealized vision of a kind/generous host matched with adventurous/courteous guests, but this vision gets diluted over time as the userbase grows. Once Airbnb reached true ubiquity, the general user population is just looking for a good deal and isn't nearly as savvy or as committed to the original ideals; this applies to both hosts and guests, of course.

It's impossible to scale a platform to 10s/100s/1000s millions without finding an ever-lowering lowest common denominator.
My average is about 2 tweets per day (to my timeline), and it has been consistent since the beginning. I wrote 5 blog posts in the first 3 months, but then settled on Twitter.
How on earth do you get 100% up front? I'd have to already be best friends with the person, and have read their code, to take that deal.
Title is wrong. Should be:

Anatomists of Melancholy in the Age of Coronavirus
There was a very good post here in Hacker News explaining why the decisions that GNOME (and others as well) have taken are bad: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22901541
You'll get more "SCSI" when you buy macs, if you're a poser, at least, or a signaller, is probably more polite. 'You' is general of course, but, I think this is how it works. You'll be rolling in the SCSI with a mac, or if you plan to hang out with lots of bald men with the Steve Jobs kind of spiel, or something. I'd guess this is how it works. If any of those things are your thing, you should go for the mac, man.

But all that is a shitty landscape, opinions are mine. I meant no offense. But you see how things work out there.
Or we could stop publishing/upvoting Medium posts...
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> I think it highly unlikely you would get the finance department to go along with this.

It usually involves convincing the customer at the company to convince his purchasing department that a (dummy) pre-project is needed (call it whatever, feasibility study, prototype).
This site is fun but I think it fails to understand what's difficult about making decisions for many people. The site asks you to make a LOT of decisions.
If you want to stop wasting your time, and want to learn something thoroughly and once, I would recommend learning how to use Anki effectively. It has reduced the amount of time it takes to learn new things, while simultaneously allowing me to remember them for far longer periods of time. I can currently stop an online course for months, and return to the same point when I come back, with far more knowledge of the subject than I had when I left.

Anki, like using a calendar and communication tools effectively, is just pushing the burden of organization, memory and attention out of your head, and into your environment. This will not only save you time, but it will also, if set up right, give you that sense of peace of knowing that whatever you are doing is exactly where you should be.

It's solid. I learned about it in "Learning How to Learn", but the mental concept stuff is from "The Organized Mind".
What would happen in such non-coercive society if a poor, homeless person occupies an empty house?
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As I said in another comment, you're attacking a straw man. I did not say pure capitalism existed before, but that the US is less capitalist today than before.
I travel using hotels a lot, because they offer food and great flexibility for extending my stays, but right now I would be scared to share my place with other people, and I feel safer cooking for myself. Hotels have a lot of shared space that will be dangerous until we have a cure/vaccine.
There was an article in NYT that was discussed here a couple months ago that talked about early employees losing their equity is AirBnB didn't go public by 2020. Does anyone know more details about that?
But we do use SMR drives at the high end of the capacity spectrum! Dropbox uses them heavily in their data centers[1], estimating that 40% of their data would be stored on SMR drives at the end of 2019.

Now, that's a data center, but don't consumers sometimes have similar cold-storage use cases? As long as they know what they're buying?

[1] https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/smr-what-we-learned-in-o...
In the US ChromeOS seems to have about 4-6% market share [0] with about 60% share in K-12. As you say, those are US numbers and the K-12 figures are much lower (single digits) elsewhere. Of course, not sure what availability and promotion to school systems even looks like outside the US.

[0] https://calacanis.com/2019/01/02/chrome-os-is-the-ultimate-p...
Yes but it’s very contagious, asymptomatic while contagious _and_ many people who aren’t at risk of death do come into contact with those who are. There are tens of millions of people in the UK who are vulnerable to severe consequences if they catch the disease.
Aren't start-ups by definition systemically untenable?
I was about to suggest using something like Ambassador in response to your comment and then saw at the end you are the Ambassador guy. Loved Ambassador as it made the hell of using Ingress go away for me at the time. I'm focused on OpenStack nowadays, but wanted to give you all a shout-out!
That's coming! It's not implemented in any browsers yet, but it should be soon. It was introduced in "CSS Intrinsic & Extrinsic Sizing Module Level 4".

It will use the property "aspect-ratio" with values like "16/9" or "1/1".

MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/aspect-rati...

Article about it by Rachel Andrew in Smashing Magazine: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2019/03/aspect-ratio-unit-c...
This is not true. Capital requires the use of laws and state violence to enforce a claim upon it.
I can read it with JS disabled.
What are some of your favorite startups in the podcasting space and why?
I understand what you're saying but if anybody on your machine can read the commands, can't they also read your configuration files? Or are you saying a different user on the machine can run `ps` and see my processes but not necessarily my portion of the file system? My thought is if the file is not encrypted on the disk, then any desktop application can read it. So, while I agree that preventing a user from reading bash history is not worth it if they can read your processes, aren't configuration files (if unencrypted) just as insecure?
This seems like fitting the facts to support a narrative. I don't see how having tax-payer funded healthcare would have helped us. There are numerous countries that do have tax-payer funded healthcare that are in the exact same situation as the US. The fact of the matter is there's nothing preventative that can be done for this virus, so wider access to healthcare should not be expected to change anything.
>But given the context you should see it as a game which also teaches you programming

Yeah and they're already teaching kids to accept the need to pay some third party company permission to make their code available on a locked down heavily controlled piece of hardware, just like in real life.
Harvard professor is surely very connected to both administration, regulation, technology and everything else.

It's literally impossible for an outsider to achieve this feat even if he has the initial money at his disposal.
> learning how to use Anki effectively.

I made this exact comment about two weeks ago, you might find it useful:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22855046
What if we would give every person a fix amount of money every week during lifetime. Where money older then a year becomes worthless?
No inherithing, no accumulation, no positive interest.

Because every person is worth the same and all we do, is spending our lifetime doing stuff keeping us busy.
> "We don’t think [American capitalism] is working for people without a four-year college degree — and that’s two-thirds of Americans between the ages of 25 and 64." The coronavirus outbreak, the dire economic forecast, the millions of newly unemployed — all of these recent events raise the stakes of their research.

These are sobering thoughts. To oversimplify, I feel we have sold off the blue-collar jobs to the lowest bidder nations and left nothing for, as the authors point out, "two-thirds of Americans between the ages of 25 and 64."

There will be continued and perhaps a heightened social reckoning.
I would like to see a control group of rich kids without college degrees to find out if it's actually the college degree or the money.

I suspect it's not the college degree at all but money and people with college degrees make more money and have better opportunities on average.
Hey HN, I made this to so that I could keep up to day with the news and current events without any of the sensationalism of news sites.

Wikipedia has a Current Events Portal - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events - which lists all the key events going on in the world each day. This email simply pulls the content from wikipedia and I email it each day.

I don't modify the content at all.
Does anyone have figures for the increase in deaths during the last great recession?

I'm tired of the cure cannot be worse than the disease rhetoric. Economies will recover. The dead won't.
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There are a few strawmen in this post.

1. I never said everybody is stupid. The vast majority of people in Big Tech are great, but there ARE stupid people there too. I resent the implication of your first paragraph.

2. Who said anything about yelling or other toxic behaviors? There are options other than "engineer a foolproof system" and "institute a sado-masochistic management strategy".

3. I never advocated for doing things the hardest way possible, I advocated for doing things correctly (to the best of your ability) even when it is difficult to do so.

The example given in the article is a team choosing to do a global rollout when the option existed to do a staged rollout. There's myriad technical things you can do to make it easier and faster to do a staged rollout, harder to do a global rollout, reduce the risk of a global rollout, etc. etc. ... but what about instilling a healthy respect for production in your colleagues? That's been conspicuously absent from most postmortems I've sat in on.
It’s not cheating. Your opponent knows they’re supposed to keep their throw a secret as long as possible. Otherwise why not just say, “here comes rock” before they start? It’s the same as a pitcher tipping their pitches in baseball.
More examples (Kroger handheld checkout scanners):
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BcAZPh9nuA

And of course Amazon Go
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPZdWuOPaHY
Depends what the owner of that house wants to do. It will be within their right to evacuate that person.

Otherwise if you want a house all you have to do is go bankrupt then pick an empty mansion.
I just booted my 2015 MBA with Mint (Cinnamon) last week and everything worked automatically. It had to install one proprietary driver for WiFi, which the Mint installer prompted me to approve then installed.

I assumed it was because this machine didnt fall into the “newer Macs that have issues with Linux” bucket
This reads like a very pro-customer contract.
"First of all, it’s not “just the flu”. It is something much more dangerous. Catching this virus is a bit like playing a round of Russian roulette. You’ll probably be fine, but you could end up dead."

Whether this virus is more or less dangerous than the flu depends on who you are. For a child it's much less dangerous. This virus is not like Russian Roulette, the outcome of which is random and impossible to predict. It has a much greater likelihood of affecting certain groups than others. Flu is much more random. Like covid and most other respiratory illnesses, the flu is also transmitted by asymptomatic individuals.

Most of the motivating factoids presented in this article are false or misleading. Since the author's stated goal is to never become infected he should hide in a closet until the vaccine is ready.