skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't found a better solution for large meetings (> 50 participants.) Jitsi killed my CPU when I got over 5. Is there something as good as zoom (performance, easy to invite/join) out there for large meetings?
From what I can tell, it’s all
Bandaids on gaping wound.

Pollution scales with energy use, and energy use scales with how far mass has to be moved, which means it all depends on how densely people live.

But people won’t opt to live in higher density unless extremely high taxes on fuel sources are enacted, globally. Also, reduction in population would result in less energy usage.
For me, and for a vast majority of people I'd say, the word "threading" in common parlance implies pre-emptive scheduling with implicit synchronization points.
Should there be laws against depriving shareholder rights in this manner?
If the trademark is abandoned it seems like there will be nothing legally stopping you from doing it.
Well done buddy! I am sure it was a nice amount of effort, so give yourself a pat on the back for releasing something useful into the world.
Thank you for your nice note.

Regarding the Emacs screenshot, here's another, from an early attempt to make Emacs more off-she-shelf usable for Scheme programming: https://www.neilvandyke.org/quack/

An actually better experience in Emacs (and part of what got me psyched to learn Lisps) is for Emacs Lisp programming: with a properly configured/installed Emacs, you can be browsing the documentation with rapid navigation, bringing up hypertext docstrings from your code , with links to the source code (perhaps the source code of Emacs itself), evaluating code that affects your running environment from both REPL and editor, etc. It's different than the Smalltalk-80 environment (which I also used, and wrote a little Smalltalk browser for), but there is some overlap. Modern IDEs let you do some of that, and some other things, but sometimes not as well, and Emacs people had this for a few decades.
>>I'd say that they are more than moderate failures.

So... major failure? Is that what's in between moderate and massive?

If so, I'd love to have a major failure. :)
I didn't say it was, I simply corrected the definition of a word.
In general it's not. That said, when you're picking a language/platform, you should start from questions like: "what are the hard problems?", "what are the lowest effort/most sustainable tools for dealing with those problems?", and "what are the tools that the developers have experience using?"

If your whole team are PHP or Rails veterans and you need to get a complex app off the ground fast, now might not be the best time to switch to Python or JavaScript for the server.

As an example, there's a huge ecosystem for Wordpress (PHP), and if it's not a tech company, piggybacking on Wordpress rather than spinning up a new Node.js based stack might be the most long term maintainable choice.
I understand they invested in a bunch of blockchain companies. I started listening to their podcast and within the episodes it was lead that they started the pod to only prop up their investments and quickly deleted it. This post confirms that I am not wrong. “Blockchain will wrest control from corporations “? Says a VC firm. Stopped reading there. I clicked on it then boing it’s about crypto, they should say blockchain in the title.
> Is there a setting that allows that "push to allow" for a short while?

Yes there is. In a newer firmware.

> 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?

Yes but the window of opportunity for the attacker is smaller. Also: it's your setup that requires multiple key operations within short time interval, for some people touching every time is sufficient and most secure.
Trump Officials Are Said to Press Spies to Link Virus and Wuhan Labs
Technically the blockchain that would be referred to in the GP is more than just a data type. It would also include the algorithm for deciding the next block of valid transactions.

I think the reference is supposed to imply that the consensus mechanism built into the system is responsible for dictating the validity of a transaction as opposed to a human.
Adam Neumann is delusional and/or a con artist. I don't see him being pitied in court.
What's Coming for Auto DevOps
"Its not like other rocket companies have major issues with running operations."

I think in light of the issues with SLS, you might want to reconsider this in terms of Boeing.
Microsoft to add DANE and DNSSEC support to Exchange Online servers
A 10000 nodes cluster with Akka and the Rapid membership protocol
It would probably be easier just to design a png or svg icon for the UI widgets you need. Then you don't have to lobby a consortium and wait for them to accept your icon.
God must love us 1x-ers because He made so many of us!
It's a mix really, peaks of heavy physical work, usually during the summer, lots of downtime in the winter, with mostly animal feeding/milking twice a day. This lifestyle is still somewhat prevalent in Eastern Europe, and one can easily tell apart villagers who work the land and those who work in factories, the latter being more stressed and worn out both physically and mentally. (source: personal observation across several decades)
The goal was to eliminate "we can't switch to Unicode, it doesn't have ® symbols" objections.
Do you have any evidence to support this, or can you suggest steps that one might take to replicate your experience and so help to confirm your suspicions?
Of course there is, but that's not the point. Every large organisation has organisational issues and nobody in the history of humanity has found a way of preventing them yet. The only thing you can do when the group sizes get large is to try and keep the problem under control relative to how bad it is at other large companies.
It is a signal the the person isn't top talent. Because if they were they wouldn't be desperate
Landing a job at Tesla using Facebook ads
Step by step guide how to stand out of the crowd landing a job with Facebook ads.
How recent is that? Whenever I try any link it insists on triggering xdg-open to the doggarn qt client.
Me? I’m a fan of Blub.
Yeah but why?

What do people do with the information that a link is external? Do people think 'I'll follow this link - oh no wait a minute it's external I won't'?
AFAIK neither Son nor SoftBank are liked much by the Japanese public
IBM Java 1.1.8 that was embedded into Lotus Notes 5 (if I remember correctly) didn't have 29th of April if it happened to be on Tuesday.

When you constructed a Date object of 29th of April with such a year that it was a Tuesday, you get the 30th of April when you read back the value. Took a while to figure out why date calculations were sometimes off. The flux of expletives was impressive when we finally did...
>Energy consumption doesn't have to be tied to CO2,

Is it not for the foreseeable future?
People get the polite one the first time, and the undiplomatic “I’m not interested in your opinion” the second time.

When people ask me, I usually say “I have no idea, we’re all stuck on this ride until the end”.
I live in south Louisiana and I am often outside without a shirt or sunscreen on, my skin is not damaged.
SEC commissioner has alluded to the idea of a three year safe harbor for crypto tokens followed by a whole lot of regulation enforcement that would greatly open the door for these types of activities.
I think mostly it just makes other people uncomfortable.
Explanation of website loading time via Chrome Development Console
> A '1x developer' is by definition an average developer. The page is mostly listing basic knowledge that any developer, even a very junior one, should already have

I'm not sure I agree with that. Why is a "10x programmer with 3 years experience" better/worth-more than a "1x programmer with forty years experience" if the output of the latter is higher?

Do I just not understand what you mean? This sounds too much like internet points or something.

I have always thought a "1x" or "10x" developer referred to their output of business features.

Or put simply, if all of your stories were scored equally, this is the number of stories your developer can do in some unit of time.

Now, I know there are probably problems with this, but it seems mostly right, and people who I can give bigger tasks to, are usually the programmers who have done more practice/had more experience.

This reminds me of something.

When I was in school, one of my best friends was good at drawing. People would ask him all the time, "How did you get so good at drawing?" and he would say "Practice!" and they would say, "No no no! You must get it from your Mother because she is good at drawing! You are so Gifted!"

I think it was the practice, and I think programming's the same thing: That practice makes you better.

> Anyone know of any better articles truly targeted at '1x' developers? (This isn't snark, it's an invitation.)

If you think you've just been so low-output for so long it's making you dissatisfied and you don't know how to study/practice anymore, getting a mentor can help you.

This can really help if you've had a nontraditional career, since popular articles are (get this) for the populous, so it can really be hard to figure out what to do without going backwards if you can't look outside and see someone like you but a little further along in the direction you'd like to grow.
Well monkey, it's a dumb rock that has absolutely annihilated life on a mass scale in one cataclysm after another. We're inviting our own destruction by farting up a storm in a century that in previous cycles has taken tens of thousands or even millions of years to create.

You should have more respect for the dumb rock that gave rise the impossibly varied and rich life here. It's our only home in a vast, empty, and horribly inhospitable universe.
Ah. Thanks for the data. Now that you mention it, I realize that plenty of drivers run red lights regularly. And yet I very rarely registered it as an emergency situation, especially compared to cyclists. What is going on?!

* Some cyclists blatantly run a red light in the middle of the cycle, oftentimes out of nowhere. Overall, perceived as unpredictable behavior.

* Some drivers tend to run the yellow, and sometimes pass through the intersection a bit after the red has been on. It just happens that the red cycles overlap a bit, then the other drivers are still stopped, and alert for the road to clear. While annoying to lose 500ms of the start, it is fairly predictable and rarely leads to sudden brake slamming.
Yes

* Most of us have no clue what enjoyment means.

* We are living in a world where others define our purpose and meaning of enjoyment.
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You can't know the morality of the action without modelling all the consequences. Morality is a complex thing, and certainly cannot be determined by just a single number (number of deaths from the virus avoided).
There are two things that non-experts can contribute in a discussion.

The first and most important is "who is the expert". Out of all epidemiologists and government bodies saying different things, who should we listen to?

Secondly, people have other expertises that may be relevant. Experiments have demonstrated that getting people with a lot of different perspectives together can produce better decisions. I recognize that I'm not an expert in respiratory diseases. But I'm pretty good with mathematics, including graph theory and statistics and differential equations. Someone else may know a lot about how supply chains or small businesses are affected by various policies. Or they may be experts in the psychological effects of various levels of isolation.

I also want to mention shouldn't necessarily underestimate the armchair analyst. It's possible to learn a lot on your own. This ties in with the first point I made above, about who is the expert. Evaluating people based on credentials is one way. It's easy and low effort. Taking into account conflicts of interests and track records will improve your evaluation quality a lot. And for most people it's probably not worth their time to evaluate how credible an armchair analyst is.
"Hospital layoffs aren't necessarily because they have overcapacity. Elective procedures were canceled, and all non-covid departments were basically shut down in NYC at the peak."

There is this peculiar internet pattern I've seen many times now, where people seem to believe if they can explain why X happened, they can therefore prove X didn't happen. It is one of those things I just can't wrap my head around. You say in one sentence that hospitals don't have overcapacity right now, then explain exactly why they do.

That's overcapacity. They shut down everything to make capacity for the incoming crush of Covid cases, and those have almost entirely not materialized. So we are grossly overcapacity for Covid cases, in the vast majority of the country.

"In NY"

New York is the outlier. It is not what the entire country should be basing its plans on. It isn't even what the entire State of New York should be basing its plans on.

"so opening up is going to be a collection of 50 plans as well, but that's not no plan."

I didn't say there was no plan. I'm observing that the stated plan is deviating from the actions. Almost everywhere, we have nominally hit the benchmarks that were the initial trigger for re-opening things, but for the most part, anyone reopening things is doing it against massive political pressure and criticism, while people, yea verily even people in power like governors, are pushing for it to continue for more weeks or months with no end criterion given.

I'll reiterate that one possibility is just lag, but if in another month there's still a lot of lockdowns going on in non-outlier areas, that's clearly not going to be what's going on.

(I know there's a lot of grumbling online, but my personal position is, my job is nearly unaffected, our schools are already closed for the rest of the year regardless and I'm planning on staying home no matter what the state does, and I live close enough to one of the outlier areas that I would be perfectly fine with me personally still being in significant lockdown in another month. But what's good for me isn't what's good for everybody in the country.)
The blame for this falls solely on the laughable prospectus they issued ahead of the IPO. I was relieved that everyone in the finance world appeared to call it for what it is.

While I hope the BOJ and the Japanese taxpayer aren't on the hook for Softbank's hubris (not just with WeWork but also Oyo and Uber), I am glad that pension and mutual funds won't have any exposure to this flaming pile of garbage.
> Ready-to-use, serverless, full-stack application built with AWS Lambda, Express.js, React, AWS DynamoDB and AWS HTTP API.

I was curious whether it supported anything other than AWS, on self-hosted "serverless" setups. The components (Lambda, DynamoDB, HTTP API) seem like there would be compatible open-source implementations.

As a complete novice to the "serverless" concept, I found this:

https://www.serverless.com/framework/docs/providers/

> Serverless Framework is deploying your code to a cloud provider like AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Apache OpenWhisk, Cloudflare Workers, or a Kubernetes-based solution like Kubeless.

Filtering for self-hosted, looks like these are what I should start studying:

Kubeless - https://kubeless.io/

Fn - https://fnproject.io/

OpenFaaS - https://www.openfaas.com/

This last one is very interesting for me, but apparently not yet supported by the Serverless Framework. https://forum.serverless.com/t/support-for-openfaas/3023
It's true that a traditional-style init has few bugs on its own, but that means you're moving all the service management, logging, etc. complexity somewhere else, and that gets both buggy and messy. I have many stories of systemd making the overall architecture simpler and thereby both solving bugs and doing things that we had resigned ourselves to not being worth the complexity.

(It's possible other "modern" inits could also do this well, and I do continue to believe that systemd in particular is not the best code even if I agree with its architecture, but it's the best out there as far as I know of the ones that actually exist. Many years ago I ran into an unsolvable bug with Upstart and a particular complex setup that I couldn't even minimize into a useful bug report. I've had problems with systemd, same as I've had problems with, say, Linux and glibc, but they've all been quite solvable.)
There are two broad statements made here in this post which I am a little bit suspicious about them:
one is, the genesis of the internet was created to be free.
and second is the internet which is controlled by the government stifles the innovation.

There is weak evidence that the internet is created to be free. By reviewing the history and the pillars of the networks which were the primitive versions of the internet, and by tracing the evolution, I see a centralized, controlled technology.
Second, many of the greatests innovation are backed by governments, especially in war times.
I've been a developer for about 3 years now.

This is probably my own fault, but I feel pressured to be constantly doing something towards programming. I feel like I should either be reading a book or starting a project.

I have 10+ programming books where I just finished reading one of them and I have way more unfinished projects than I could count.

It's reassuring to see the push-back against the 10x developer idea, I'm starting to feel less guilty now when I spend my free time NOT on programming.

Something that has also helped me out is picking a project to do, and ignoring everyone else's projects. I would always get pulled away with what I'm starting to work on because I see someone using a new technology or doing something unique. When I would see that I would change up my project because I felt it wasn't good enough or that it wouldn't make me a 10x developer. Now I'm just trying to focus on what makes me happy and what I find enjoyable to work on.

I want to ask though - the author works at Amazon and considers himself a 1x developer. What does that mean for everyone else who doesn't work at Amazon or a FAANG company? Is a 1x developer at a FAANG company a 10x developer elsewhere?
If you are working on an HPC cluster:

[1] The ssh package for vscode is great

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh

[2] Also check out rsub which allows you to open a file in your terminal locally

https://github.com/henrikpersson/rsub
There are many new projects that involve Django / Drupal etc.

I myself have spent a lot of time weighing in the pro's and cons of SPA vs. Non-SPA for a recent project.

It's not like all new projects are SPAs.
This sounds a bit similar to - and just as ludicrous as - American taxpayers financially assisting or “bailing out” massive companies which were/are so bad at cash flow management that their runway was/is only 1-3 months, despite hundreds of millions - if not billions - in annual revenue and a varying chunk of that being profit.
Glad they say "no" sometimes
Then why, after lockdowns were in place, did we build all those field hospitals and ventilators that never got used? I suspect it’s because we expected the “with-lockdown” numbers to be far worse than they actually ended up being. In other words, there was an overreaction, only the degree to which we overreacted is in debate.
I guess New York reads Trump's twitter replies looking for medical supply vendors then.
In the study that lead to the "10x developers" term. 1x developer was not the average, but the least good (because they still were able finished the task). You can't measure against the "worst" because they aren't able to provide a deliverable.
> And since when was a smiling poop an ‘element of plain text’

Since the Japanese phone vendors shoved it into the character encoding and forced everyone to deal with it if they wanted to be compatible.
What folks should have said is, "we need the comparable pandemics to double every 2 years".

Some industries need to turn off. We are doing too much across the board.
> they have nothing much to talk about during those vacations either so they spend most of their time visiting random places, taking tons of photos...

My experience is quite the opposite. The vacations you described is how we vactioned in India :).
Vacations here in USA are insane fun by comparision. For example, we go on ski vacations multiple times in the winter, its not too expensive because we buy ikon pass. Kids are now very decent skiers and get better every year. We have tons of fun challenging ourselves on moguls, going into trees that kids love, hiking up a little to find powder stashes.
We do take similar vacations in summer when there is even more to do. I had no idea you could actually have so much fun in vacations until i visited USA, i used to think of them as "something for kids and family".

Options in india are very limited, I used to love going to ancient temples but kids aren't into it that much.
Any ideas on why it happened? I'm impressed you found that bug though.
OK I must be confusing it with something else. Sorry about that!
Presumably when you bought the shares you paid for that specific arrangement. If you don't like the share structure buy another company, or pay less for it.
> The CDC suggests that +42% of the US adult population is obese

For what it's worth, this is the same CDC that suggests that the level of obesity that increases COVID risk is BMI 40+ [0], which is more like 6-7% of the US population.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/need-extra-precaut...
The Laser Battle Against Blood-Sucking Parasites of the Deep (2018)
Oh yes Jesus that's really bad too.
The lockdown is not an appropriate means of stopping climate change. People still need to eat and to heat their homes. We need to switch to sustainable means of providing for these (and other) necessities. We don't need to stop our economy to stop producing CO2. We need to stop burning fossil fuels.
> basically all I meant is that we tend to elevate these figures (Fauci in this case) up as "heroes" and therefore act like they are infallible and thus you cannot express an opinion that contradicts them. That is what I was arguing against.

What you should do is take the time and effort to educate yourself before contradicting them, (such as about basic things like how herd immunity interacts with R0 in a pandemic) and you should present caveats and disclaimers that are online with your own lack of experience, expertise and knowledge.

There might potentially valuable insights in your article, but their value is overshadowed by the way you present all your ignorance with confidence and surity.
What will be the immediate effect of, what, a 90% drop in high-altitude cloud formation by water vapour emitted by jets? The major drop in soot flowing over the north poll?

Immediate and shocking drop in average daily temperatures, and dramatic accumulation of snow in the north polar area over this next winter/spring, I predict.

And, a stunning repudiation of the models that have basically ignored these 2 major factors.
I'd agree with that. Even something to "break up" the view and add ambiguity might make people stop... the road equivalent of a scarecrow, perhaps.. some "scarebikes"? :-

(I've seen a lot of cardboard cutouts of police officers at various petrol stations in recent years. They do make you think twice when you see them out of the corner of your eye.)
The contents of my backups are never the same, not from one single day to the other - so hashes would be useless.
Here is a great twitter thread from Gavin Baker at Atreides Management that may help with how to think about it...but don't expect a straight answer, because there is no straight answer

https://twitter.com/GavinSBaker/status/1255215997730066435

"...the irresistible force of the largest stimulus ever vs. the immovable object of the sharpest economic slowdown in history..."