skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WeWork is effectively worth nothing at this point.

Their revenue surely has tanked given everything and won’t just magically return to normal. They’re sitting on massive liabilities with all the leases and capital they invested in locations. Yes leases could be renegotiated etc. but given WeWork’s woes that long predate COVID-19 it’s very unclear how they survive much longer beyond perhaps being sold for scrap in some sort of fire sale.

It’s crazy to remember that less than a year ago there was serious movement towards a WeWork IPO.
> Cryptocurrency is a decades-old term as well (Bitcoin dates from 2009).

Indeed, but decades (1983 or 1995-1998) older (except for the decentralization): https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ecash&oldid=94837...
I've (admittedly, conceptual only) a couple problem with this approach I'd love to hear folks' thoughts about, with regards to "touch-to-use".

1. I still have a need to "for s in $list_of_servers; ssh -A $s '..'; done"

How many times do I have to push the button? Is there a setting that allows that "push to allow" for a short while? Great, if so:

2) when I ssh into a system and touch the button to allow it, and the push allowed the use of they key for a short while, am I not in the same problem as before - as the system may be compromised and may be performing other operations I'm unawares of?

A solution for this would be to have multiple hardware keys for things I manage: one for $work, one for $personal, another for $github, etc. etc. but then managing them and - especially!! - their SSH agent which may be in memory but relies on the hardware being present, with all issues _that_ entails.... becomes a frigging mess.

So I'm torn... between the simplicity of a hardware key with push-to-allow... and actually being able to _use_ it _securely_.
screen.

If you are out there and you DO NOT want to lose your session due to a network error screen is for you! Even better, you can have your coworkers join your screen or reattach to it and watch you use ssh.
The fact he did all this while at Amazon surely means the WLB is better than reputation?
If you chose the word "desperate" deliberately, would you mind telling us/me why someone with two-to-three decades of experience becomes "desperate" for a job?

What did you work on during those years? Did you keep up with the industry?

I am asking out of interest for both you and me. For you, I want to help you regain confidence that is rightfully yours, because someone with your experience should not need to feel desperate. For me, I want to know if there are objectively speaking potential career missteps one should avoid.
For Crypto-Data Startup, Remote Hiring Is the New Normal
I haven't, I'll look into it.
Token sales are a way to raise money for certain businesses, with different pros and cons than traditionally raising money. If you mandate use of your token for certain actions, then take a percentage of profits to buy-and-burn the token, then it’s similar to a traditional stock.

The way to properly do this is to 100% avoid the United States, or any western nation, and go offshore to a country that allows this (Antigua, Seychelles).

If you think what I’ve written is a horrible scam - that’s fine! No one is making you buy such an asset. Ignore such assets. But there is a global pool of crypto investors who will, and don’t care about what country such a business is incorporated in or being unable to bring any court action. It’s “buyer-beware” and the industry operates on trust to an absurd level.

There is something to be said for a model where you don’t have to grovel to moneyed VCs to raise funding. It’s alternative and it’s an experiment.
In many cases the default is auto correct will pick the word it thinks you want. Unless you turn it off there is no way to force a different word once it has made a choice.

Depends on the keyboard of course, but there really isn't a good override by default.
"cosmetic"?
> I'm not really excited that every meeting participant will be able to see my facial flaws in 4k HDR with dynamic surround.

I recall there being an option in settings where you can limit the send quality of the video.
Amazon's total all-in cost per dev is almost certainly >$300k per year, so more like >$7 million if that's an accurate number.

As far as how it gets approved, that's not enough money to really register at Amazon's scale. I've seen waste similar to that at companies much, much smaller than Amazon that goes entirely un-noticed.
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If I went that route I'd go for Google One or Microsoft Onedrive. Much cheaper and nice apps.

For me the point of using something else is to trust it enough to not add my own encryption, which is a pain especially on mobile.
Google Hangouts, Google Chat: Products that worked real well, had a lot of 3rd party integrations built for it and now deprecated because Google does not want to deal with legacy services. Their incentive structure there is to build the "next thing". Both were pretty "groundbreaking" apps when they came out. Hangouts managed to figure out and resolve a lot of issues of team chats and voice/video streaming issues over poor/unreliable connections. A lot of the novel UI and features they developed is now taken for granted.

Google Meet: An attempt at Zoom. Will soon be deprecated because Google does not want to deal with legacy services and the incentive structure there is to build the "next thing". Maybe Google Conference. Meanwhile Zoom is laser focused.

Google Duo: An attempt at Whatsapp with a whiff of FaceTime. Will soon be deprecated because Google does not want to deal with legacy services and the incentive structure there is to build the "next thing". Maybe Google Trio. Meanwhile Whatsapp, FaceTime are laser focused.
Like the "temporary" Patriot Act?
I want a tool that scans English &#128483; text for names of unicode symbols. Then I want the English language to move to that symbolic writing. You know, because it is fun to see cultures evolve.
Totally not a placebo. Vitamin-D fortified milk was a necessity (for me) in Portland to avoid depression.
Maybe, but you still want the people with renewable infrastructure to be the ones with the capital to create new infrastructure.

Although tbh, nuclear is fine and I don’t care if we have more nuclear power
THINK OF THE TREES!!!!
I'm not sure on the Belgium situation but there is quite the lag between death and reporting of these care home numbers. For a care home death to be counted towards the coronavirus total a death certificate is required which takes time.

There has also been a large deal of controversy over the counting of care home deaths in the UK with the government consistently being called out by care home operators for unbelievable care home death numbers.
My feeling is that the blogpost needs some introduction, stating at least the context of the comments it talks about. Browsing through the comments here at seems about code review, but the blogpost itself never says that.

I think but I'm not sure that's what js8 meant too.
Every time I've encountered it it's just textless programming. Typically these systems are either very limited or Turing complete.

The better ones acknowledge this and allow you to use code when you want/need to.
Which ones? As a dev, if I had one that ejected into readable React (Typescript) code I'd probably use it.
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Transportation is 28% of greenhouse gas emissions in the US [1]; this includes cars, trucks, ships, trains, and planes, but the EPA source does not have a breakdown of it.

But my point stands: while yes, the amount of ICE cars should be reduced, it'll have a relatively low impact. All of the areas in [1] should find ways to lower their emissions footprint. There are companies building trucks using renewables, but it'll take a long time (and development, and likely financial incentives) before the current active truck population has been converted. And there isn't a viable solution for flying yet. Trains could run on renewables but that would require a massive overhaul of the US infrastructure, and it wouldn't be able to compete with flying (in terms of time, capacity, price) if you go across the country, even if it's a high speed train / maglev / hyperloop system.

Tldr, don't stare yourself blind on just one aspect, and definitely don't start blaming the individuals, they can't make an impact even if they all change their ways - it's big companies, industries, etc, things at scale that need to have an overhaul.

[1] https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...
The only problem I could imagine with being 40 is a certain attitude; if you come to interviews too confident and give the impression you're there to teach everyone and show them what's what, it could be off putting; even if you ARE more experienced and are hired as a senior, the people hiring you want to know you're gonna be a good sport and not MR know it all. Or it could be something else completely. But I would definitely explore attitude some more.
I don't think the author is a 1x programmer. He has learned the first secret of 10x programming. It's not about being a genius programmer. Its about being an efficiency expert and a problem solver. Soft skills play an outsized role here. I have seen immensely talented developers with hard skills for days manage to deliver nothing over long periods of time.

Learning that rules are guidelines not religious artifacts handed to us via burning bush is a big step. I can't tell you how many programmers I've seen hobble their own productivity by having overly aggressive code reviews, strict style guidelines, or requiring more testing than is necessary.

Being an outstanding software engineer is 99% knowing when to tenaciously stand your ground("storing state that way will not allow us to scale horizontally. It will save us a few hours now but in order to achieve our larger objectives will take 1000x the effort to unwind; we have to find another way") and when exerting control isn't helping("You can't put this simple, but incredibly important, time sensitive piece of software into production until it has been reviewed by our 6 committees, is re-written to use the companies globally enforced, yet questionably valuable style guideline, and has 113% code coverage")
The earth doesn't care how many people are emitting. It cares about the absolute emissions.

But obviously the earth is comprised of sovereign states, and in order to collaborate you often need to convince those sovereign states that treatment is fair. Given that, if you want to adjust emissions by some divisor, I'd adjust it by land area. Land area is finite on earth. That means that there is some value of CO2 output / m^2 that is sustainable for the planet. That number is consistent. That number applies globally. That number can be a target for everyone. It also can't be faked – some "unreliable" country can't say "hey, global body, you think our population is 1B but it's actually 1.2B, so we get to pollute more". You can't fudge land area like that (there might be some marginal ability to do so, but obviously it is less feasible than with per capita numbers). This has the additional benefit of aligning priorities against worsening conditions in order to incentivize action now. Global warming is causing rising sea levels, which in turn means that countries are losing land area. That means that every year that global warming worsens, your quota will actually decrease.

Meanwhile, population is not finite. If you say to a country as part of an agreement to "get your CO2 output down to this level per capita", then it is a very real possibility that this country's population grows to an extent where that number you used last year is no longer small enough to stave off serious global warming. And that is the purpose of all this, no?

Obviously carrots and sticks will be necessary for any agreement to be effective (until it gets really bad), but either way I think emissions/unit land area as the line in the sand makes more sense than emissions/per capita.

An even better metric would probably be "emissions/unit arable farmland", as it gives weight to both land area and population, but obviously that is much more difficult to establish / less likely to stay static.
Or you can execute a shell inside ytalk.
This is only the tip of the iceberg at least in California they have been aggressive about rejecting claims I get $0 help I have $0 income but I am counted as employed because I was rejected. I also got rejected from foodstamps they're literally trying to starve me to death
Maybe you just aren't as good as you think? Maybe you need to work on interview skills? 4 of the 4 companies I've worked for have had more people over 40 than under 40 who were devs. Blaming the industry for discriminating on age is very easily disproven by looking at all the people over 40 who are devs...
Look at poor countries such as India, over 140 million people face destitution because the economy is closed. Its either death from hunger or covid-19, and I bet a lot of them would gladly take their chances with the virus. [1]

Lockdown is a luxury only the rich countries can afford in the first place, I don't think it makes sense for everyone. Whether Musk is right or not in the American context, will be determined by the end of next winter when the final body count is tallied.

[1]. https://www.ft.com/content/dec12470-894b-11ea-9dcb-fe6871f41...
I only read the start. I'm not sure what I make of someone going from zero to Amazon. Is that normal?
Kills two birds with one stone: gives restaurants an ability to conduct business safely, and takes advantage of the current drop in vehicle traffic to make Vilnius more pedestrian-friendly. I'd love to see cities in the U.S. do this.
Everybody bashing 1-on-1s, but they're really important. A 1on1 doesn't need to last half an hour and be full of red tape. The best managers I've had do a 5 minute check, but ONLY WITH YOU: hey, how are you doing? everything alright? Any issues (personal or professional)? And off you go to keep on working. But you know what? You feel they care and they listen. In these quick 1on1s we've learned multiple important things. For example, the "what do you think is a big time waster" question is usually brought up here, and it's very useful to have the point of view of the dev team.

We're all devs and we love to live isolated: we thrive sitting in a corner with our headphones and coding. But remember we can't escape our human nature. Having someone that listens to you exclusively for 5 minutes, once per week is very valauble.
Ask HN: As a programmer, how should I teach coding to my kid?
My kid is now 8, and he seems very interested in what I do (I work from home).

I want to teach him coding properly, but I don't know where to start.

I don't want to overwhelm him, but I have a tendency of going too far when explaining something, like hooking a differential probe on an ethernet line to explain an HTTP request to my wife (yeah I'm crazy).

What language and environment would you use? I use vim, but I don't know if it's a good idea to teach him that first. Should I use a browser based tool? Should I teach him linux basics?

I have like a million questions sparkling.

What would you do? What did you do? I'm sure I'm not the first, I'd be happy to have your experience.

Thanks
Sure, but this narrative about it being for older people and hemmorhaging younger people has been going on for so long that if it were true, there is no way the growth could have been what it's been, because they would have run out of people in that demographic. The more plausible explanation is that young people are still joining, even if perhaps begrudgingly.
Show HN: Pantry – Free JSON Storage for Personal Projects
I'm so excited to finally be able to share this with you!

Pantry is a free cloud storage service that I've been building for the past few weeks. You can use the API to store & retrieve data for you and your users online for free.

Looking forward to seeing what you all think of it, and please feel free to post suggestions or AMA.

Thanks!
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The Long Decline of American Higher Education Has Begun
If per capita in the US matters that much, I'd expect the drop to be much larger than 8%, given that the country has largely shut down. 75% seems like a pipe dream in that case.
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Yes, Zoom won this battle, as Slack had won the first battle for chat, but they have to stay ahead of everyone else.
Every company has Google or Microsoft suite for e-mail and for office stuff. If Zoom and Slack don't stay significantly better, the beancounters will happily cut them out, because Meet and Teams are "free".
> As far as how it gets approved, that's not enough money to really register at Amazon's scale. I've seen waste similar to that at companies much, much smaller than Amazon that goes entirely un-noticed.

Maybe I'm being dense, but this still doesn't register for me. If 4+ calendar years of work for a single team continues with no noticeable progress, then there's an organizational issue, no matter the size of the company.
This should show that climate change is likely an unwinnable battle with the approach taken to this point. This isn’t the life people want and they’re more than willing to fuck over everyone else to get what they do want.
> I would still prefer to have to trust just one authority for my platform than a multitude of random developers.

Single point of failure.

> > Let this be another nail in the coffin of the "walled garden" farce.

> There is no coffin, the walled gardens are not dying, and have long since become the norm, which happened because the people found them to be better than the alternative: getting apps (and manually updating them) from many different sources of varying quality and convenience.

No. The people have no alternative. How many people are able to install F-Droid on theyr phone ?
WeWork Troubles Take Deeper Bite Out of SoftBank
When the final lifeline for your company is suing your primary investor over competing definitions of just how terrible the company is performing then I’m not sure it’s worth much for either party!
#3 I fat finger the "Z" all the time when trying to hit a comma. Same with the space bar and bottom row.

Should be easy to recognize.
Russia did have sizeable foreign debt, they just didn't default on it.

I think issues in these particular countries is related to a combination of foreign debt and trying to keep their exchange rate within a fixed band.
An airline going bankrupt doesn’t mean that its planes will never fly again. It just means they’ll be flown by by the airline’s creditors once people start flying again.
Those "weird" characters has been used for ASCII and ANSI based text-mode user interfaces since the dawn of UI as a concept.
You are right! And it also doesn't follow that one should discard a piece of information just because it comes from some dude's blog.

I'm also very frustrated about people sharing horrible lies and fakes from blogs or Facebook posts.

But I think we should judge the article by its content rather than by whether it's by a programmer or a doctor.

This is why I like anonymous or nearly-anonymous forums like this one: it forces you to think about the content without being influenced by the author's attractive photo, their fame or credentials, or the letters "MD" next to their name.
I don't understand why are corporations obsessed with decommissioning wikis.
When I was at Red Hat, they tried to decommission local country wiki in favor of their company-wide wiki (Mojo, absolute shit by the way).
They tried for about 2 years, then finally somebody said "what the fuck are we doing" and the migration was stopped. I believe the banner "Decommissioning soon" still hangs there.
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The Emergent Import of the Tangible for the Remote Workplace
Very few organisations really count the cost of things like this internally. And it would have been quoted as "relatively simple" in the beginning; just migrate a wiki from one piece of external software to another, how hard can it be?

("how hard can it be" should be on your Words That Prefigure Expensive Disasters list. It's the business equivalent of "hold my beer and watch this")
> #1 Rules are good

Only when combined with "Rules are made to be broken". Nothing is worse than taking an arbitrary set of rules and turning it into a cult religion.

Other than that and some of the programming language rules (such an opinionated topic) a rare, level headed treatment. Bookmarked for future quotation.
Global Energy Review 2020
The user isn’t assumed to be male. So in your sentence the preferred phrasing is “their location.”
Unified Communications as a Service Market is expected to grow $24.8B by 2024
This is simple because you don't do leetcode enough.
What's up does chat / does duo? We use zoom at work despite being on Google - meet really doesn't always work across even Google account tyoes. Ie Gmail vs gsuite vs some admin left some setting off for an external users domain and they cannot join.

Zoom I can host a no account conference that everyone can join (waiting rooms driving us all crazy)
No, the FCC is not at all strict about having to tag paid material. You may mean the FTC, but as far as I know there is nothing that says that TV shows have to disclose any sponsored segments
This works, but it is risky since I've seen it damage the screen coatings on some of the iMacs. Some of the older ones seemed to have softer coatings.
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> PHP is banned at Amazon due to security reasons, but its successor, Hack, runs a lot of..

Just to be clear, Hack is not PHP's successor. Hack is a fork of PHP developed by Facebook. Hack will not overtake PHP any time soon.

PHP has had security issues in the past. Sure you can do stupid things with it if you want, but modern PHP is security conscious out of the box. Frameworks like Laravel make great default choices about security concerns.
Thanks so much for the link. That was really educational, answered my question completely.
Do you think the hip compliments to you were warranted?
Or are you saying that it's just something people reserve to tell young people. Can't quite tell.
mosh is a lifesaver on flights, where latency typically exceeds 500ms
i.e., have enough saved up to start a startup, and hope to make it big? What happens if it fails? What happens to your retirement, or is the backup plan either continue working till you drop, or rely on kids to carry you thru retirement years?
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> I don't mean to be condescending

Fwiw, I did't read it that way at all. I thought the child's question was a great analogy.
Why not list the entitlements, outright? They might not mean anything to most, but the one's that do understand can raise the alarm.
We wanted Her, instead we got Tinder
Hanlon's razor

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
This week it's patio11's turn to tell us that big companies are big because they need to be big, not because they're inefficient:

https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1255371954443505665

It's always satisfying to read reports from the trenches demonstrating the exact opposite.
30 to 40 min each way sounds terrible. I did it for a couple years, but never again. Especially because the longer the commute, the larger the volatility.
I am currently reading Michael Lopp's book "Managing Humans" and wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone who wants more breadth on this topic. It's a really easy read with some rather poignant examples.
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> "What this gives us is insight into how the sun produces slow and fast solar winds. ... Defining that mechanism is key to predicting when a transition from slow to fast solar wind is going to strike Earth and create a geomagnetic storm."