skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> when you spend 30 seconds making a Reddit submission to save you 3 seconds of googling, what exactly are you accomplishing?

You might have seen someone say "welcome to learning Spanish, if you have any questions just ask!" and simply believed them instead of thinking it was a sperglord den where people were waiting to jump on you for not asking superior enough questions, for one thing. The sidebar of /r/learnspanish even says "If you have a question about anything Spanish-language related, ask and we'll help the best we can!".

For another, when learning something new you're pushing the edge of what you're capable of - what you want is a direct answer to just this sticking point, not a video of "5000 words every beginner MUST know!" or a page of "Twenty False cognates" which might have the answer, or a page of "Introductory Spanish" which is an advert for a training course in another country which isn't even running and hoping you can divert your already-strained attention to digging an answer out of a lot of unrelated stuff; asking a narrow, focused question on just the thing you need might be as much as you can manage. And as you say, you would ask a teacher, you would ask a friend, you would ask an IRC/Discord/etc chat, why would you assume you can't just ask Reddit?

I get it, /r/powershell is full of "how do I get rid of {Name=bob} in my output" because they don't understand the object pipeline, and I answer the ones I want to answer and ignore the ones I don't want to; it simply isn't a sub dedicated to catering "interesting questions for me", and the people who are learning powershell are mostly people with no programming background whatsoever, they're already lost in a pile of syntax, terminology, new tools, grandfathered-in-weird-behaviour, ancient Windows behaviour, filesystem name limitations, web character encoding weirdness, and just can't deal with stopping their five line script to take a course in object orientation before getting any further feedback.

> Like, now everyone has google in their pocket and I only see an uptick in trivial questions. And I think it's because we baby everyone with the mentality seen in your comment instead of training people to be self-reliant.

Agile programmer "Uncle" Bob Martin gave a talk in 2016[1] where he covers the history of programming, from 1 programmer in 1945, through millions in 2016, and estimates a growth rate of number of worldwide programmers doubling every 5 years - that is, every 5 years for the past 70 years, most of the programmers in the world have <6 years experience, continuous state.

You should expect that "everyone has Google in their pocket" leads to an uptick in simple questions simply through growth of people with smartphones, because most people who have a smartphone didn't grow up with the internet, didn't grow up with Google, likely isn't their main hobby or interest, haven't had one (with lots/unlimited mobile data) all that long.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecIWPzGEbFc
Isn't this all stuff that you add after generating the project? For example yarn.lock is created on your first install. Having a pre-generated yarn.lock is a no-go because of the dubious decision to include the full path to the registry the package was sourced from.
Technically I covered that under "fewer features" ;-P
I didn't say race doesn't matter. I said that race is seperable from cultural and historical context. Recent immigration provides a window into that.

Those problems that are more closely bound with culture and history won't be solved by focusing on discrimination/bias/prejudice/profiling (and other racial issues).
Ah ok- I stand corrected - the medical is pretty reasonable. The 401k match takes 3 years to vest.
how do you think people pay into social security and benefits?

By being employed, and by employers being in business. If we had a better system, we'd still have serious issues, and probably far less capacity to react due to the economic drag those kind of systems have.
You roll back one version. Problem is fixed in thirty seconds.
Is there any actual data on this, or is it just one of those things that sounds true so it gets repeated? It seems just as likely that wearing masks would make people more aware that things are not normal.
Good hardware with the exception of the keyboards. Never had a laptop keyboard fail this bad before and then to find out it is glued in and can't really be replaced without leaving my machine in the hands of the company is not an option.
It's interesting how many places have contradictory advice depending on who you're listening to.

Eg. Hong Kong: WHO says it's safe. CDC says it isn't.

One suggestion: If the top-level advice is that water from a country (eg. Japan) is that it's safe, it would be useful to call out particular places in that country where it isn't. (eg. Fukushima in the case of Japan)
I encourage you to look up the top bracket marginal tax rate in the US in the 50s and 60s, the period that is generally considered the golden area.

It's the idiology of trickle down economics that somehow instilled the concept of high taxes for the richest are bad, even though it was never based on evidence (just some handwaving theory why it should work) and in fact has been proven again and again to not work.

So yes short answer make the rich pay their fair share.
The new version of JS.Coach website released
Work has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. I’ve always been obsessed with building stuff. Really, exploring, building, & optimizing things is a vital part of my humanity.

I’m sorry if others have tried to force their version of humanity on you, but what’s de-humanizing to one is the humanity of another.
> This is NOT infinite

True.

> nor remotely large enough.

I do not believe this to be true at all. As numerous other people have pointed out, the government can currently borrow money at next to no cost.

Furthermore, there's a very (conceptually; the implementation is fraught) straightforward method of vastly increasing the government's funds without risking massive future debts: Put our taxes back the way they were during the time we were most productive—the period after WWII, where the top marginal brackets were around 90%.
JS.Coach is a website that helps you choose the best library by using different categories and filters. In the latest update, we tried to focus on improving the performance and support of small screens; Also now you can see the bundle sizes and the download time on different Internet speed in package detail page. We will be supporting a wide range of frameworks and more libraries in Javascript world soon.
The part about clots forming literally as the surgeon was operating seems much more exotic than something so simple as reduced activity.
To Run My Best Marathon at Age 44, I Had to Outrun My Past
Ultimately this is a balance between human well being and accounting well-fare.

The former is so far and away more important than the latter it should not even be a debate.

Re: Human Well Being

1. The danger of this disease is completely unappreciated

There are children dying now, relatively young, low risk people having strokes, many extremely rapid progressions with no explanation, and evidence of absolutely unprecedented long term/permanent damage in organs of survivors. Every single medical person seeing this disease up close is terrified of it.

2. We don't know what reasonable health precautions are

Here I define "reasonable" as- not have every trip to a public space be a game of Russian Roulette.

We are still finding out how the disease spreads, how it acts in the body, what the impacts are- while working through all sorts of fictional reporting from early outbreak centers. We have speculative assertions about immunity, but little concrete evidence. We are very, very far from having a solid, simple, conveyable understanding of what behaviors to engage in in what circumstances, what behaviors not to, and what to do upon possible exposure that is not essential what is being done in "lockdown."

3. We don't have reasonable health governance

In the US we are seeing not only the complete breakdown of rational behavior on the part of the federal government, but also the rise of mafioso behavior in using law enforcement to disrupt normal medical supply delivery.

4. We are a long way from reliable, preventative protocol

Despite all the dollars and efforts going into these efforts it takes time to build up sufficient proof and understanding. 9 women cannot work together to produce a baby in a month.

This is an absolutely unprecedented-in-modern-history human disaster. It is not in any way contained. We are only maybe coming to the end of the beginning.

From an accounting welfare perspective-

The problem businesses and individuals are facing are very simple-

Contractual dollar flows, set up during "normal" times, are largely still expected in these absolutely not normal times.

There is no mechanism to suspend these contracts, no collection of them, no standardization, no understanding of the implications of suspensions other than widespread financial badness.

The flows have to be maintained.

Having the source of all dollars mint them to maintain these flows for an extended period is not hard from a policy perspective, not hard from an implementation perspective, not hard even from a financial system implication perspective.

Maintaining lockdown with a central bank balance sheet funded UBI is the only answer.

It should be so blindingly obvious.
> Anybody on your machine can read the commands you are running, for example with ps.

This is why I always mount /proc with the "hidepid=2" option (as well as the "gid=<n>" option to ensure that doesn't apply to the members of a specific group, such as the "admins" of the box).
In one of Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin presentation you may find the answer. The number of developers duplicates each 5 years. That means that any point in time half of the developers have less than 5 years of experience. Add to that realization the fact that inexperienced developers are learning from other inexperienced developers and you get the answer on why we repeat the same mistakes again and again.

I guess that is a matter of time that the reality changes, we will not duplicate the number of developers indefinitely and experience and good practices will accumulate.

Taking into account the circumstances, we are not doing so badly.
The exit criteria have been defined by the WHO.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/04/15/8340211...

Individual governments such as the UK have established less restrictive conditions.

The key point is building massive capabilities to test and contact trace so any further outbreak can be contained.

Otherwise we will be lurching from lockdown to lockdown.

Just because the US Federal government is unable to define criteria, because they don’t want to increase the manufacturing of test kits for political reasons doesn’t mean every other government has no clue.
Can card companies raise rates on existing debt? Seems like a spiral where intervention is the best option? more defaults -> higher rates to offset risk -> less affordable then more defaults -> repeat
No, the first sign of "leadership issues" was the US and other states not having a plan and the US in particular not having a mechanism for coordinating action between various parts and levels of government.

The lockdowns have come as desperate measures in response to the general confusion and the progression of a deadly epidemic. California is vaguely looking to testing as mechanism for lifting the lockdown. Hopefully, they'll come up with good ideas. The epidemic is still running hot so do have time to think.

Having local authorities improvising isn't the best approach by any means. It's still a better approach than a mob of anti-vaxers, Proud Boys and other right wing types improvising or a president who doesn't know biology improvising, to illustrate the mess we're in.

This mess, however, is one of those situations where it's incumbent on the critic to come up with something actually better that can be implemented rather than whining that a given solution is far from perfect.
> We are potentially looking at the very real risk of starvation in this country if this things is stretched out and the federal government continues to limit its direct aid to citizens.

Very unlikely for the U.S. Food is very cheap, it just happens that prices in the U.S. are inflated because of transportation, branding and the millions of middle men in between. To give you an idea, where I live, 1Kg of pasta costs $0.4 and grains are mostly imported from the US. Rice costs $0.53 and it is imported from Asia.

You can survive on Pasta and vegetables for less than $1, and the U.S. is producing it dirt cheap.
I do review a list of dependencies when I investigate which node package to use. For those for which I can choose, that is.

Sometimes I also take a look at the code.

And I've chosen the one with less dependencies often enough.
I didn't in the first two weeks after I registered (last year), then came the ads ..
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That day will never come. I think lockdown will end when projected cases will be at a level that the health system can handle.
The permissions management is a little tricky to think about at first, but once you get the hang of it I think it's actually quite nice. Setting strict permissions on CLI tools help to ensure that the CLI isn't doing anything nefarious when you're not looking (like sending telemetry data). Since this CLI has --allow-run, I can also have it execute a bin/server script that _does_ have network and read/write permissions, but only in the current app directory.
Histdb is amazing, but requires zsh. I have one continuous history. I'm working on figuring out multi-host history for One True History.

https://github.com/larkery/zsh-histdb

I haven't tried it, but the keywords you are looking for is bash history db/sqlite. E.g.:

https://github.com/thenewwazoo/bash-history-sqlite/blob/mast...
And maybe also dietary changes due to lockdown: Higher sodium, more preservatives, less fruit and vegetables. Less trips to grocery store means buying more food that has a longer shelf-life than people would normally be eating.
Nothing ever happens. Everything is fake. People regularly lie about even the most banal things because everyone is a compulsive liar.

Is this really the worldview you choose to have?
I don't know about medical-grade but it's usually illegal for a brewery to produce alcohol strong enough to be useful as a sanitizer.
And who makes these tests? You seem to be happy to blame the Trump administration when the reality is, there isn't enough capacity to manufacture hundreds of millions of tests this quickly. SK already had that capability.
Too long. Therefor create-react-app is not useable for anything other than toy or hobby projects.
> nobody bothers to use them

Here's the sad but unavoidable truth: the main purpose of Javascript currently is to keep Javascript developers employed.
broadly speaking, you could argue waiting (in lines or other queues) in many instances is an externalized cost placed on consumers to the benefit of commerce/bureacracy. it allows the business/agency to optimize its operations at the expense of the customer. this isn't generally considered when making productivity and efficient allocation arugments in politics/economics.
This would be cool. I usually write up some C snippets and compare what different compilers do with what I have. The compiler explorer makes this really easy
Looks like Business Wars by Wondery hasn’t been mentioned here yet, but I’ve become a fan of late.
Of course we need to factor in malpractice lawsuits, administrative restrictions, tidal paperwork etc. etc. into anything which may have happened to medical professionals' creativity.
Having worked in actual visual programming environments I'd argue that even the most trivial applications are too complicated to mapped out visually. There just isn't enough visual resolution in a screen, or for that matter, in your eye to render it sufficiently. Zoom out and lose detail. Zoom in and use lose context. I've seen programs printed out into huge graphs covering entire boardroom tables and I can assure you nobody benefited from the display.

Ironically the convoluted programs that people think this would be a solution for make for the most disgusting and hard to follow diagrams.
There is residual chlorine or today more likely chloroamine in tap water. Part of the reason for that is to keep pathogens from growing in the pipes. Though depending on season and basic water quality there may be none.

If you care, ascorbic acid or one of it's salts line sodium ascorbate reduces[1] chlorine and chloroamine. Takes just a tiny amount, works instantly.

[1] Chlorine -> chloride. chloroamine-> chloride + NH3.
Bank of Canada has a similar free API

https://www.bankofcanada.ca/valet/docs
Conservatism is one thing, but these guys weren't even in the same generation and both died more than a century ago. Nothing stands still, least of all art. I suspect that over 130 years, many people have disagreed that your "only reason" is "degrading", and many more found other reasons to appreciate these artists as well.
There are multiple reasons for this failure mode, only some of them subject to social learning.

Part of the problem is a learning process, and indeed, I think the Javascript world should have learned some lessons - a lot of the mess was predictable, and predicted. Maybe next time.

But part of the problem is that we pick winners through competition. If we had a functional magic 8-ball, we'd know which [ecosystem/language/distro/OS/anything else] to back and save all the time, money and effort wasted on marketplace sorting. But unless you prefer a command economy, this is how something wins. "We" "picked" Linux this way, and it took a while.
Friendly suggestion: paywalled articles should be somehow flagged explicitly in the title so the community can collectively decide how to treat them and users can choose not to click into or comment on them. The origin domain isn't enough information and the current approach is immensely, needlessly frustrating.
NIH Syndrome is a double-edged sword that persists regardless of innovations.
Why do you say that?

The US seems to have an R0 of right around 1 with lockdowns. Shopping is the major place people continue to intermingle.

If we brought R0<<1, the virus would die off. If R0 > 1, we all get sick eventually.

And aside from that, school and work closures are much more expensive than food delivery. The ROI of not having everyone congregate in stores seems huge in comparison.
Even if they did reopen, do you seriously think there would be a significant number of consumers making large purchases given that we're seeing mass unemployment and people focusing on things they actually need to live?

Reopening isn't going to save those furniture stores when people fundamentally don't have the money to shop like that.
Missed the Canada part. Canada likely has very pure water from snow melt.
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The companies I've worked at have a "docker team" that does all of that, so everyone else can just write code. Continuous integration is enough to identify if there is a bug on Linux that isn't on OSX, but sometimes you just gotta SSH into a Linux box and build there to figure it out.

Requiring docker from the get go sounds painful, but maybe that just comes from my inexperience never having to use it. Like, does CLion, PyCharm, and similar even support building into docker from the get go? Wouldn't that increase build times instead of just building it natively on your machine? Any extra level of complexity is painful until you automate it in a bug free and efficient way, I suppose.
Typically politics, turf wars, etc. If you succeed quickly at something someone with pull has been working on unsuccessfully for a while, you can easily end up with a powerful enemy or just plain fired.

In the real world, getting things done is not your job. Your job is to make your boss look good to his boss. In reasonably functional organizations, the former is aligned to the latter. But they are hardly the rule.
I naively thought that my BCBS plan, which doesn't offer virtual consultations, was going to begin offering them. I mean, that would be like the bare minimum that one would expect. But no.
I hear what you are saying regarding a two tier system. The system is likely 2 tier though due to underfunding, lets fund it properly. In addition, even a two tier system provides for people to get affordable preventative care, something the US is lacking. By catching problems in the beginning you optimally prevent the massive costly issues that occur when an issue has been left unchecked and untreated.

As far as moving to another country, I have no need to, I make a large amount of money here and can afford the health care bills. I want the change for people that are not as advantaged as I am. I am willing to pay more so that they can get it.

As far as change in the US happening soon, I don't know. I think we are at an inflection point with more and more people desiring a change. People are losing their jobs right now and with it their health insurance. The election will potentially be a referendum on increased publicly available insurance.
Huh, yeah, that'd be neat. Specifically just ripping out the peephole optimizer from a backend just for matching would be a great start with a decent amount of value and not a god tier amount of work.

That being said, you're not going to see the really crazy optimizations that compilers can do, because they need a bit of a higher level view of what you're trying to do.
Full inlining might be slower if the branch is easy to predict
May God bless your perceived(?) innocence.
Aw, thank you. I must admit, I'm such a novice with Steam and online games in general that I didn't even know what are "Workshop Mods" until I looked up now. :-)
Spoken like someone who's never seen what people perpetrate in, say, Java.
I'm not surprised it exists (and literally is just a more verbose, indirect way to invoke “!” that nevertheless is a 17 sloc module with a bunch of ancillary files that has one direct and, by way of that one, 17 second-order and, while I didn't check further, probably an even more ridiculous number of more distant, transitive dependendencies.)

I'm just saying it's neither necessary nor consistent with the standard for when a library is a good idea proposed upthread, so suggesting it as part of an attempt at reductio as absurdam on that standard is misplaced.
Liero was amazing as a computer lab game in high school. I think it fit on a floppy so you could share it easily. And it bypassed our locked down school computers because it just ran without being installed or whatnot.

I'm also impressed how well this ran on my budget phone. I can't play but spectating was butter smooth.
What's "yarn zero installs"? Googling did not do it for me.
Meanwhile Tesla continues to not be GPL compliant.
Geez...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=open+plan+study+productivity&t=can...
Yeah, 400000 deaths over 4 months would be in the ballpark of the casualties from an Omaha Beach landing every day.
I'm wondering about the business side of this. This tool sounds useful, but I bet that Mozilla could implement this quite easily if the market wants this, so why would a company pour resources into building something like this?

And as a user, I would probably miss the developer tools.
We seem to have lost the ability to think in terms of collective benefit, if we ever had it.
Very likely to help https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2007800
> Target doesn't have any kind of social distancing policy so it was business as usual, no lines or anything.

In what are is this? Target in the bay area at least has lines with social distancing indicated by line waiting markers on the ground six feet apart, and employees enforcing this.
This is exactly why I don't wear a seatbelt or use condoms. Wouldn't want to have a false sense of security.