skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Someone who is friendless, childless, powerless, weak, and ugly will simply not be able to find many opportunities for virtuous activity over a long period of time, ..."

But nowadays you can always become a coder ...
If Thanos snapped his finger and disappeared the oldest 10% of the population, ~33 million people, I'd wager that would do far less economic damage than keeping everyone on lockdown for 365 days. The rate of the economy shrinking is going to get worse and worse as more companies go out of business.
Oh, better far to live and die under the brave black flag I fly

Than play a sanctimonious part with a pirate head and a pirate heart
"This proposal wasn't accepted into the C standard..."

Walter often shows up on HN, so I'll ask: was this proposal merely on the Dr Dobbs article or did it actually go to a committee for review? If the latter, why wasn't it accepted?

Should C reconsider this? Especially now that C++ has std::span<> and std::string_view<>?
Examples of any influential individuals calling for overthrowing the current economic system and replacing it with a centrally planned economy?
> At least until the end of the year, minimum.

Will people resist sheltering in place until the end of the year? I for sure won't. (and I'm not in the USA).
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My comment is an unresearched, not even cursorially google-searched, from-memory assertion, so take with 5 buckets of salt please, and if I'm wrong I'd like to correct my ignorance, so someone please correct me :)

My understanding is that Wi-Fi, cellular (no matter the 12345G) and radio signals are all harmless in 99.99999% circumstances as they are non-ionizing radiation. They are no more harmful to you than light photons.

In fact, Wi-Fi signals might be safer than light. Since you don't have eyes sensitive to the EM wavelength of Wi-Fi, you can't shine a 'wifi light' too brightly next to you.

Damaging radiation as we think of it is most often in the form of ionizing radiation such as too much sunlight, microwaves that excite water molecules, or high amounts of alpha / beta / gamma particles that can mess with DNA etc. and thus cause cancer as DNA damage accumulates.
> It makes no sense to provide wisdom that clashes with other points

Sometimes when there's a tradeoff to be made, it's best to present the opposing principles one at a time. Yes it's worthwhile to seek to go beyond being the best and be the only. Yes it's good to surround yourself with people smarter than your. These are in tension. You have to figure out the balance for yourself.
That benchmark run is about a year old. Yew is v0.15 now (v0.7 came out a year ago) and has improved substantially (and has keyed components now).
Strangely, LibreOffice.org still lists version 6.5 as the download.
Also look where you don't expect it to be.
Quite a few times I have said "It can't be in there." and it was in fact there...
Eudaimonia at work can be achieved by having trophies and places to focus, at college the professor tries to reach eudaimonia honestly my two cents is that Aristotle can't give us anything for us normal people
I have been using WakaTime [1] for a long time now. Why should I consider switching to your solution?

i can see you have less integrations and there is no data export functionality mentioned in the landing page.

Anyway, best of luck in promoting your app.

[1] https://wakatime.com/
We'll see if the lion's share of the pandemic closures happened in Q2? That's an objective fact. We started feeling it in March but the vast majority of action happened in April.

April is in Q2.
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Cheerful people regroup faster and are still going strong on the 3rd/4th attempt to solve a problem.

The higher-IQ person is more likely to get it right the first time. But there won't be much conviction on try No. 2, and after that, his/her position will be: "It doesn't work. Can't be done. Dumb idea."

In a lot of work that I see, the IQ adjustment might be more like 10-15 points. For gnarly problems, we might still get better results with the really smart guy who's not 100% invested. And even grouchy geniuses can get enthused once they see that their ideas might work in a problem that has most other people stumped.

Still, for problems that just require a lot of different attempts until something clicks, well-aimed enthusiasm can work wonders.
Looks cool. Theres a few typos that I noticed looking over the page.

Int -> in
Depends what your destination is.

- If you're going to "autonomy, independance and self-hosting", it's a step sideways for sure

- If you're going to "stop giving all my information to a central entity" it's definitely a step forward. Giving a part to Google, a part to Facebook and a part to Apple is better than giving everything to one of them, whichever they are.
Hangouts conversations are archived in your gmail, you could search there.
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I agree with this. The failure to contain the spread is the problem and the government wasting all this time means we could have had much better containment by now.
trying to boost the share price maybe? or as is usual with these things they will hide negative results and/or promote something they consider positive because it helps share price but does nothing for patients.
> My question is how much, if any, social unrest this will lead to.

Individuals must answer this question, not just ask it.
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I dont think Xdialog is maintained anymore, dialog is though.
Well, think about what happened to housing after 2008, now consider that this is gonna be 2008 on steroids.
What did you end up using ? Were you trying to output hls stream ?
Wow. Thank you so much for this. I've struggled with the exact same things and have found the moments when men show me the kindness and respect that I, previous to the rape, had just expected of myself and everyone, are the most healing ones. You can't always afford to wait for those though. And I appreciate you sharing your experience on how to heal when no one else is around.
This is a great point of how SEC regulations violate free speech through prior restraint when interpreted too broadly.

If it’s illegal for Musk to make political commentary like this, then that doesn’t mean Musk broke the law, it means the law is unconstitutional.
The actual report that the Bloomberg article keeps referring to but never links:

https://www.bea.gov/news/2020/gross-domestic-product-1st-qua...
Ask HN: Resources for winning US government contracts?
My wife and I have a small business creating software for other small business. Our current customers need WordPress, PHP and administration services.

The Covid slowdown has me considering changing from private companies to government contracts.

I spoke with someone at usfcr.com and got some preliminary information. I trust what they told me but they're also selling their services.

Is there an unbiased resource that'll help me understand what it would take to start with the government contracting industry, specifically for web development?

My concerns

How fair is the playing field? I'm looking to get smaller contracts that total about $200k/year. Are these contracts awarded to an inner-circle of companies/lobbyists that I'd have trouble working my way into?

I'd prefer to work on intranet and public website contracts. How do I find out if there are enough contracts in that range to make it worthwhile?

Is there any data on which programming languages government websites use? PHP, ASP, something else?

Right now, I get most of my work through word-of-mouth. For govt contracts, I'd have to do a lot more selling and I'm concerned it'll consume most of my time.

The USFCR rep told me a popular way to win contracts is to network with procurement officials. I'm also assuming I'll need to bid many times before finally winning a contract.

What's a reasonable amount of time I should budget for sales per awarded contract?

Thanks for help and advice!
I am subscribed to a matched betting service (I would link to it but its in Italian, I'm sure you can find plenty googling), I pay a monthly fee and they provide guides (on a daily base) and tools to take advantage of bookmakers bonuses. After you get the hang of it, it gets quite easy.

A few quirks:
- Depending on gambling laws of your country, it might or might not be possible to do matched betting
- It's not a constant source of income, it decreases over time as you can only exploit welcome bonuses once and bookmakers stop offering promotions to you after they realize you're not a fish. The year I started doing it I was over 4k euros yearly income, now I'm happy if I can get 2k. Still, I'm happy with the amount I get, its a good chunk of my income but for someone with a high salary might not be worth it.
- The coronavirus pandemic slowed things down quite a bit, since currently there are few sport events. So it might be not the best time to start doing it.
Basically, Gilead is claiming that the NIAID's trial of Remdisivir (an antiviral being tested against COVID-19) met its primary endpoint, and that results will be coming out soon. Looks like this trial is randomized/double-blinded/placebo-controlled, which is awesome. It's the first time we're getting proper, interpretable data on this drug and it looks like it'll be good news.
A few years ago, I worked for a hospital system which had their datacenter in Phoenix. We had a large (tens of thousands of square feet) datacenter in supporting a few dozen hospitals and its HVAC system was marginal. On a hot day it could barely keep the datacenter below 80 degrees. This was a facility with hundreds of millions of dollars in equipment, I don't think there were any systems which affected patient care, but pretty much every other type of hospital system was in that building.

When the AC did fail, the building temperature spiked up over 90 degrees within half an hour and eventually climbed up over 100. We spent most of the afternoon shutting down the least critical systems so the most important ones would stay online. Then slowly bringing them back online after HVAC was back online and the building started to cool again in the evening.

I was stunned that they didn't install some kind of redundant HVAC setup after that, or at least one that kept the room at 70 degrees on a hot day.

The other huge facilities failure at that facility was when electricians were working on the (ironically enough) backup power system. They accidentally cut power to the entire datacenter for about 30 seconds.

I've seen more server down-time due to facilities errors than computer hardware by a good margin.
Wait, are you saying that the terms "right/left" are used opposite compared to the US (meaning that the Scandinavian right prefers socialism), or that the term "liberal" is used opposite compared to the US (meaning that Scandinavian liberals oppose socialism)?
It makes sense if the car tends to last 350k+ miles and has only been gently used. There are at least a few models that have pretty consistently been getting up to that or higher before major repair is needed since 2010 or so. I will say I think quality hybrids (again, gently used) are worth more than a lot of their counterparts on this point.
Oh nice one! Thank you for reporting I appreciate
Those make sense to me. Like all maxims, they're overcompressed; they imply a context that the reader has to be able to fill in. But I think they're useful in context.

E.g., the phrase "It is what it is" is on the surface tautological and useless. But in context, it's a valuable reminder about coping with some of the flaws in human consciousness.
Quite. I did have some issue with my server becoming unreachable every couple of weeks at the start of the year for a couple of times. Not sure if it was a fault that I caused or if there was some kind of a networking issue. I know I tinkered with the server a bit earlier, but it seems to have resolved itself without me really doing anything, so it could really be either way.

One problem is also that apparently some Americans have really bad peering to my server. As an European, I can't really confirm if this is the case, but it's what I've heard.
Ha, "Never get involved in a land war in Asia"
>> Returns are likely historically low going forward which is bad for your future retirement.

For sure. People are not factoring in the long-term interest rate here - they should look at the risk-free T-bill rates in the 1980s and how equities performed against them, and what we're looking at as well.
"It encourages development of social skills by imitating adults not you peers. In my particular circle of home schooled children this resulted in being more comfortable holding a conversation with other adults and in general less problematic social behaviors with other children."

When learning a language, the worst thing you can do is practice with fellow learners. It encourages propagation of mistakes, and can result in a miniature broken dialect among your group. I can see an argument that socialization is similar.
The system camera app isn't meant for people who want manual controls. It's the modern version of a Polaroid. The way it works is fundamentally incompatible with manual controls, and adding a separate manual mode would confuse the vast majority of people who have no interest in advanced photography.
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Or make a separate tool that is a GUI to generate the config. We’ll call it metacase
GM had 0% interest for 84 month loans on their trucks for awhile there.

something is very wrong with the lending market when it makes sense to give people free money.
>Younger students (K-12) need interaction with other students and their teachers, not lectures

My son is the kid who relishes every chance to miss school, but was devastated to find out there would be no more school for the year.
Bitwarden is 100% FOSS and was audited by Cure53.

https://github.com/bitwarden

https://cure53.de/pentest-report_bitwarden.pdf

This takes care of the paywall problem, at least.

Alternatively, age (https://age-encryption.org) or Magic Wormhole (https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole) should be viable choices.
It is different that plumbing/carpenting et al are one time gigs. They just walk away collecting their money once they put in their fixed hours. You will not be able to call your plumber at midnight if you feel like some thing that needs to be fixed.

Your analogy might work for short term contractors but not for a full time employment, where essentially you are putting yourself at your employers service virtually 24/7 with almost no extra pay while doing intangible (aka knowledge) work where the employer might get 5x or 200x return out of your work, but essentially you will just get almost linear pay raises (even including performance bonuses).

You cannot compare a full time knowledge worker with a gig worker that does tangible physical work.
Sometimes analogies are clever in that they simplify a concept, I'm not sure you got there.

you are either dead or alive. Economic growth is a percentage.
https://hsinvisiblechildren.org

>Our preliminary research suggests that homeschooled children are at a greater risk of dying from child abuse than are traditionally schooled children.

https://coloradosun.com/2018/10/08/homeschool-child-abuse-co...

>In a 2014 study published in the Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma, Knox seemed to confirm that. Examining cases of severe and fatal child abuse, Knox found that 47 percent of the young victims had been removed from school to be home schooled
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I don’t see that. The paper he linked to in that tweet is a high level review of treatment options.

Where exactly do you see him saying that total prevalence would be 0.1%?
A company I used to work for a few years ago did it pretty well.

To begin with, we agreed on who is asking questions if there were multiple rounds for the interview. If I recall correctly, it was just a straight up spreadsheet with the people interviewing, questions to ask, goal of questions, and possible follow ups. These are questions tailored to the engineer using things on their resume. Instead of being like "tell me about a time you showed leadership" questions (which suck) the questions were about specific things on their resume. Eg: "Susan will ask about how they built a replacement for their payment processing platform, with the goal of seeing if they can describe the challenges of leading a team end-to-end on a project."

For the white-board interviews, we did mock white-board interviews with my current coworkers. These were white-board questions that were less about a "right" answer, and more about how the candidate thinks about problems. By doing mock interviews with these problems, we achieved two things: we made sure we're asking questions that are useful (our current coworkers should be able to answer them) and we made sure that had answers to compare against the candidate. For example, if the candidate had an answer that sounded a lot like someone that we already worked with, then no one can say they "didn't pass" the question.

On the whole I think we spent about a 1:1 ratio of hours of preparation to hours of interviewing.
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Because those who write the rules are going to use the massive number of foreclosures to buy up property dirt cheap like they did in '08 and beyond.

It's a feature, not a bug. We're seeing one of the largest transfers of wealth from the poor to the wealthy ever and it's only getting worse. The cruelty is the point.

Oh also don't forget the number of people who are, or will shortly be, underwater with their car payments too. That's another ticking time bomb.
Well, and being able to balance the fact that the massive spike in unemployment and economic collapse will actually result in lives lost.

That human aspect doesn't seem to be figured in to the situation; as though it is a matter of only money vs life. But the collapse will kill, too.
There was also biflation in the market, as many people have somewhat alluded to - tech stocks and specific sectors have exploded while others have collapsed. There has been a significant redistribution of alpha even if the total losses came in under what they expected.
Quantum was basically a marketing name for Firefox 57; you are probably using it by now :)
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Thanks for your detailed reply. I'm open to being wrong in my views about the gig economy, and will happily continue this conversation in an e-mail.

I know you weren't accusing me of anything; it just occurred to me, while writing n-th comment in this thread, that what I write may be perceived as arrogant or pretentious, so I wanted to add a caveat about it. I know you actually depended on gig work, which is a perspective I lack.
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Hey, congratulation for this tool ! I will use it to find new leads for my sales team !
There's also some very concerning long-term effects for those who have recovered. There's a trend of seeing lung-scarring or other things that I'm sure will come up again int 10 or 15 years. Imagine that happening to a large portion of society.
Plumber's job with a single customer usually lasts one or two days, so the plumber's income is not dependent on any single customer. They might be willing to risk it and take a job without a price set beforehand, because the worst case scenario they lose, say, a single day pay.
Very useful. Big job. Thanks Denis
Another advantage of monoliths is speed. Running on a Local L1-L3 cache will be orders of a magnitude faster than serializing network round trip and deserializing json in micro service.

Performance per watt/dollar of computing.
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One similar story: I was maintaining some C++ code that had a few #ifdefs in it. Someone reported a problem.

I put a breakpoint on the calling code and traced into my code. It went into the #ifdef code I expected, but the problem persisted.

Just to double-check, I let the program run until it hit the breakpoint again and traced in, but this time, it went into the #else code! That code should have been removed by the preprocessor, yet here I was, currenting stepping through it.

After questioning my understanding of the C preprocessor (and my own sanity), I luckily noticed that the module name in the debugger was very slightly different in the two cases mentioned above.

The world finally made sense again. My code was in a header file that was compiled (with different symbols defined) into two different modules and both of those modules were loaded into the same process. When I set the breakpoint in the debugger, it silently set breakpoints in both modules.
Names aren't necessarily unique. It's not hard to imagine a large enough organization having multiple John Smiths on staff, for instance.

As personnel management became more sophisticated and formalized, a unique identifier was needed that was guaranteed to refer to one and only one person. And since SSNs already existed and were guaranteed unique, most of them just used those rather than inventing a unique identifier of their own.
I don't see how this would work to boost the share price? If they're lying about this data it'll kill them as a company.

They're announcing that the drug worked in the trial that most people have been playing close attention to. That is a randomized controlled trial run by the NIH etc. They're not just saying positive results, they say in their press release that "We understand that the trial has met its primary endpoint and that NIAID will provide detailed information at an upcoming briefing" [0]. That's a clear statistical indication that the drug works. If they're lying about that, it'll kill their credibility and tank their stock.

[0] https://www.gilead.com/news-and-press/press-room/press-relea...
You don't understand how urban school districts work if you think you can just get a grade to "repeat itself." Kids will drop out once they're 18 like flies.
Instant oatmeal takes 2 minutes so the term already has no meaning