skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> as if, we the other users of Amazon are not pro-labor and don't care about their labour practices

My intention is not to push this narrative. All of us compromise every day on our values, and some matter more to us than others. Personally I thought I'd never drive a fossil-fuel-based vehicle but that quickly became impractical as my priorities called me beyond a 10-mile radius around my home.

> trying to hold Amazon to higher standards

Do you think Amazon is held to high standards already? I hold them to mediocre standards because I understand they have to compete on an absolutely massive scale in an industry with razor thin margins. But even so, they're not doing all that well. Amazon's coffers are so full they can't re-invest their capital fast enough. So I don't see how anyone can argue that it's bad for society to treat employees as if they're humans who can catch & spread a virus and/or die.
Thanks, don’t worry, I will definitely be working on it as soon as it’s feasible.
I notice that Hasura does not support groupBy. And I don't like a blackbox service. I eventually built my own library: https://github.com/charlie0077/graphql-server-crud/
I am curious to see your thoughts about it.
Unfortunately not, but I’ve bookmarked your comment and I will let you know when I do.
This is just what Ive been looking for! Thanks!
Interesting, at a location near me it was a free-for-all across the store... and no one was social distancing at the checkout line...
I see. I can see this being the reason, yes.
Lol. That being a default feature is such a blatant oversight. I can't believe this is the first time i've heard about it
I highly suspect that many large public universities will make large lectures online and cap in person enrollment for discussion/seminar/lab. You can probably easily ramp up hiring for these since they're mostly grad students, and frankly grad students are cheap (I say this as one).
I don't sense any hostility here, just healthy skepticism. At the risk of sounding condescending, building something for a class assignment is very different from building something that you'd feel comfortable rolling out in production. Hell, one of the commenters upthread worked on the implementation of raft in Apache Kudu. To be perfectly frank, I would take their word on something before that of someone talking about their homework assignment. It's an incredibly useful learning tool, but it takes a lot more work to make it robust.

I really hope you read this gently. (As the HN guidelines say, "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.") I'm not trying to talk down to you or treat you with hostility (and I know that it's really hard to convey that via text). I would just ask that when someone who has professional, real-world experience in something says it is difficult and time-consuming to do it right, you'd avoid assuming they just don't know what they're doing, and that perhaps there are aspects that you haven't considered.

And hey, maybe you or some of the other commenters are just ridiculously smart and focused and can write it in a weekend. But if that's the case, it's pretty uncharitable to push a narrative that it's trivial. Not saying that's what's happening here, but that could be how it's coming off.
Hmm interesting, yeah that's actually true. I think you can solve that if only create a close chain which only editors can share links, right?

Do you want to talk us about that? I would like to schedule a call with if you have 10-15 min?
Then they'd all be working for Amazon now. :-)
Tmux is what makes Linux worth it for me. Or more specifically, the command line. It is incredibly freeing, and discovering it is what made me finally choose the sysadmin path over outright programming.

Fun Fact: Google Cloud Shell is by default Tmux. You can tell, because you don't need to start Tmux up ever if you are in it. Simply hit something like ctrl+b++" and watch your terminal split in two.
Taking a gap year isn’t specially viable for parent students, or even transfer students mainly due to the fact of age discrimination in grad schools and or job markets, ergo the sooner we can graduate the better off we are as prospective grad students and also job candidates. (Am a pure math student who’s on average 2 years older than my peers in classroom)
It’s frustrating to consider, but if we were capable of the level of testing we would need to re open in the next few weeks, why haven’t we started doing it?
That's because Sizuoka isn't economically important and not much people from Tokyo or Kansai region to stop by.

Somebody jokingly said that, by stating the statistics of cases in prefectures, saying, "Appearently, the coronavirus is using the Nozomi (Sinkansen that doesn't stop at Sizuoka)"
> There should always remain a sharp dividing line between non-scientific/scientific and for good reason.

That is a patronizing statement. If science can't defend itself then we're more screwed than we thought. Truth exists outside of Science (to state otherwise would not be a scientific statement, thus a contradiction). That leaves room for crack pot theories to potentially have truth in them. To bar them or dismiss them based off personal bias is crime against healthy intellectual discourse. Who is imposing irrational beliefs on whom? That is where the sharp dividing line should be drawn.
I like TypeScript quite a lot, by itself. You should definitely take a look! Whether you use it with Node, React, Angular, Vue – doesn't matter.

Whether porting existing projects to TypeScript is worth it is of course a question that cannot be answered universally. Depending on how… creative developers were when creating it, it can be incredibly mind-bending.
In my opinion, totally worth it. First, you can transition gradually, just typing one file at a time if you want. Second, the type-safety you get makes incremental refactoring so much easier and makes you more thoughtful about "interfaces" (ie function parameters, etc). It also catches tiny bugs that would otherwise blow up in production.

Yes, sometimes you'll run into weird cases where you have to wrestle the type system, but honestly, in the worst-case you can just ts-ignore those (though you probably want to minimize that).
Same issue but I’ve considered contacting the landlord to renegotiate lease terms or take it to civil court if they refuse to help us during these extra unusual circumstances.
That sounds like a toad problem in the making.

Well, we can probably bring in foxes or something.
> - the graphics "driver" reads values out of certain registers (AL and AH?) at a set interrupt (maybe every X clock cycles?) and writes one pixel to the screen of whatever color those registers had in them

It's actually much simpler than that. After you set the right graphics mode (which for most simple dos demos is usually mode 13h, 256 color on 320x200) then there's an area of the memory that you can write to and it will show up as a pixel.

The "flow control" is usually just that you run your effect n times in these simple demos. Which means it will run faster on a faster CPU, but you usually wouldn't bother implement any form of timing in 256 byte.
That doesn’t capture what’s important. There are plenty of places that could probably have never closed and not had any real spike in infections. It’s places where people live densely that are at the greatest risk. The Bay Area in particular probably isn’t at the top of that list, but it is still a higher risk area. Really we just need more testing, and randomized testing. I think we would all be able to move forward more intelligently if we had data.
So you are denying the evidence also? Look at the global absolute data, which does support this study. The IFR is around 0.3, in some countries much lower 0.03, in some countries at around 1%. The absolute number of deaths are much lower than in a normal flu season. 200.000 this year, with a normal year being at the 250.000-500.000 range. Without vaccination and without proper treatment plans (which turned out flat wrong)

So some newer studies try to find out why and how this disease is so weak. Affected countries, like Belgium, Spain, NL, England, US like to know why their rates are higher. It's not the measures, it's not the weak ICU infrastructure. it's something else. Like age group, seniors living seperately of with the families, diabetes, obesity, air pollution, or other co-morbidities. Currently the numbers are not too troubling, but still would make an interesting study.
How did you like bigscreen?
This is old news. There aren't any new developments. NIMITZ, GOFAST & GIMBAL are what precipitated the flashmob Area 51 raider memes back in September.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_Area_51

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-4ZqTjKmhn5Qr0tCHkCVnqTx...
The AWS Milan region is now open
Coffee has to be forced imo. No one likes coffee from the getgo, and if they tell you they do they really just like sugar and warm milk. It takes a while to overcome the bitterness and notice the taste, kinda like hard liquor. The whole reason why I forced myself to start drinking it was to not fall asleep driving to high school. I worked closing shift so sleep was sparse.
I'm so tired of these charging companies. Especially since I have to "sign up and use our app" for all of them instead of just present my credit card at point of charging because they are all trying to corner the market.

Can we please just get a state government to start installing charging stations in all public lots so these charging companies have to give up their dreams of being a monopoly?
I'd be pretty pissed off about roped-off aisles. When other people in the store aren't very vigilant about maintaining social distancing, having the additional aisles to escape into is a big deal.
Google’s medical AI was super accurate in a lab. Real life was a different story
Distributed transactions are Not Micro-services
> I cannot wait until this whole place is gentrified and cleaned up

The thing you are complaining about Are The Consequences of gentrification. They are the output of the process. The system you advocate for produces that which you are complaining about.

It's not going to be "cleaned up". This is what that process yields. Gentrification creates more "cracks to fall through" and so more people "fall through the cracks" through the financial consequences. These issues are the consequence of it - that's why it happens everywhere things are gentrifying.

These stratifications produce slums, favelas, cantegrils, gecekondus, barrios, karton siti, paraggoupoli, zopadpatti, baraccopoli, putri, perkampungan kumuh... there's words in almost every language for this phenomena. Policies are machines. They produce things.

This is the outcome of the process, globally, for centuries. You can not possibly get to your goal through that method. It does not work.

I know how alluring the logic is, but like counterintuitive math and science, the obvious solution does not work and we need to stop pretending otherwise. Reality doesn't give a damn about personal belief and stubbornness in systems that don't work. You can't will a wrong answer into being right.

It's the material reality.
> How do you handle time with such small code size? I see a timer interrupt for the music, but what about the animation? Is it dependent on the speed of the underlying CPU?

Usually you don't "handle" it in very small demos of the 256b/64b kind, you just run your effect. And yes this means speed will depend on the CPU speed.
Well, don't feel bad. I did the exact same thing, except I had the benefit of your post and its anscestor replies, so I wasted less time.

You don't have to be old -- we still use FTP all the time at my job. Of course, whenever we have a say we use some secure variant, but you don't always have a say (no matter how much you yell, grumble, sermonize about the dangers of insecure tech, etc).

Of course, you probably meant you feel old because "FTP" didn't immediately register to you as "Free To Play". Well, I can't help you there, because by that standard I guess I'm pretty old too.

:-D
1.) One bit of context is that German propaganda during WWI did not allowed death at all in children books. This is something I have from book about occupied territory.

2.) The other is that "folk" likely did not told stories to kids every evening the way we do. This I gather as unprobable after reading book about childhood in Germany before wars. The kids did not get as much individual attention and general attention.

Demographic that was ok with kids working in factories had both parents working 12 hours a day with no weekend. These had 5 years old whole day alone on the streets or "responsible" for gooses with no adult present. There was no one to gently tuck them to bed and tell them story so that they learn "morals" or what. These were overworked adults desperately needing a bit of rest for themselves.

Your kids are not getting bedtime stories at all in that situation.

3.) My observation from kids: We push stories and reading on kids a lot and very soon. Sooner then they actually like it. Small kids like shorter super simple stories. The original form is not for kids not just because it is dark, but also because it is unnecessary long and slow moving for such kid.
gotcha. I think it's disingenuous to effectively say that people are too stupid to make their own decisions regarding personal safety. There're growing calls to ease the lockdowns right now from people with top scientific credentials. I personally know doctors working in large hospitals who have said it's time to ease restrictions in most areas. It doesn't have to be all-or nothing.

https://nypost.com/2020/04/26/science-says-its-time-to-start...
As mentioned in the bug report, the value of padding bytes is unspecified by the C standard. Actually, according to the linked Defect Report mentioned in the bug, there is a bit of discussion on whether the functions you mentioned should be entirely undefined to call or if some exceptions should be carved out. If the functions are legal to call, it is very likely that the results will be some arbitrary reification of the unspecified value.
What this author has settled on looks very similar to commonly used tiling window manager shortcuts (which should not be very surprising, because a lot of the constraints desired by the author apply to the other situation also). In fact, even more directly, the author is basically using TMUX as a the tiling window manager for their terminals. So, I guess the funny thing is, this gives a nice bunch of Tmux shortcuts, unless you're using a tiling WM for your system , in which case this is hopeless :-)

BTW, for any newbies looking to start out with tiling window managers, I would highly recommend Regolith (which is basically i3 with a nice set of conventions).
I'd love to see a form of physical analysis like this extended to a statistical analysis of the likelihood of abiogenesis.

I know 4 billion years is a long time and the earth has a lot of matter rattling on it at any given time, but if every atom in the universe was a computer cranking out a trillion characters per second, you'd only have a 1 in a quarter quadrillion chance of making it to 'a new nation' in the first sentence of the Gettysburg address. Seeing the complexity in even the most trivial biological system just makes me scratch my head and wonder how its possible at all.

I'm not invoking God here. I just see a huge gulf in complexity that is difficult for me to traverse mentally.
The list by itself is of limited use, since each college on the list has made different announcements. I’d say the summary is most have vaguely worded statements leaving open the possibility of either remote learning, in-person learning or some combination of the two.
> providing the minimum level of work necessary

Is that how you measure the value of the business?
Few questions;

- When you say Adwords for search, you mean google.com and not display right? I see a bunch of what you describe across the display network any would only recommend running white-listed sites if doing the latter as there is much encouragement of fat finger and kids who press anything etc here.

- Are you allowing search partners? Id going google search I would strongly recommend sticking to google only as there is often more dodgy around partners but this is auto included in setup.

- What kind of KW and variance: Again assuming search, who big are your KW lists and negatives? Apologies if asking the obvious but is this consistent via KW?

- Geographic restriction: Have you broken the effect down geographically? This can lead to huge variance, and to a letter extent times your running.

- Are the ads pushy? Google and some people will put a bunch of effort towards you getting higher click through but fight that. You need to stay withing bands but too many ads are for an off the cuff example; 'Amazing game that will blow you away" gets clicks whereas you'll perform better by setting expectation with the boring 'Download and install this game' as your headline type thing... naturally if bots it wont help.

Game install can be tricky, from what I've seen it's competitive and low margin which is a challenging start point.
There was a thread about stoicism on HN recently. I tend to watch events along those lines with a cold stare.

'1st world problems', so to speak.
The CARES Act extends unemployment benefits through the end of 2020 delegates to the states what the job search requirement means. States have a strong incentive to interpret it loosely because the federal government is footing the bill. Additionally, the “offered employment” thing is not hard and fast line. Restrictions will be lifted incrementally—there will be no “everyone back to work moment.” Businesses with furloughed employees will want to call them back up sooner rather than later, but workers earning more on unemployment have an incentive to not come back to work as soon as they could. Businesses, particularly smaller ones, aren’t going to be in a position to say “come back or you’re fired.” (Can you imagine the liability?) It’s during that transition period when the incentives could slow down the recovery.
"Learn you a Haskell for great good" - it will stretch your mind and shape-expand the way you think about solving problems

"Java concurrency in practice" - will give you deep insights into the "how" and the "why", on this subject which is very important if you wanna call yourself "advanced"
I wouldn't count on that. Chances are that they managed to capture details that the Navy is not ready to share yet.
It's a step forward though.
No. It is the consequences of almost every major city in the US buying one way bus tickets for its vagrants to SF, compounded with a city wide refusal to police low level street crime.
There's another political solution that would maintain the lockdown while preventing thousands of people from dying by reopening the economy: cancel rent. In NJ, they canceled mortgages but not rent, so the landlords get a free ride. In theory rents are "frozen" but they'll become due in September with back rent owed.

No free ride for the landlord class. Cancel rent!
It’s not a positive consequence. Contrary to popular notions of “bullshit jobs” our economy actually needs all these people to work to maintain our standard of living.
STEM grad students are surprisingly expensive given how poorly they're paid and how valuable their work is (I say this as a former grad student, but also as someone who budgets for them).

Universities will now have to cull "overhead". Grad students and professors will have a golden opportunity about 1-2 years from now to capture a less tiny fraction of the wealth they create. Don't let it go to waste.
Eldred vs Ashcroft held that the CTEA (Sony Bono act) was constitutional.

This is a good point worth bringing up, since the GP seems to imply it isn't with reference to the wording of the constitution's Copyright Clause.

However, it doesn't answer the moral question of whether congress should have passed that law, or whether congress should pass laws to change copyright term lengths to be shorter. That's not the role of the court.
I don't know about the others, but C++ don't have a default implementation as part of the standard. If you want an event loop, you need to use one of the many libraries that provide one.
> Can rack up thousands of downloads for <10 cents per download without any impact on how many users actually use or rate

I'm assuming you use display for this pricing? If so build a white list of acceptable sites or avoid display. Running open network is always waste of cash in y experience, especially mobile devices.
This is also the mindset that no one is owed a neighborhood - if you want to live in it, buy. If you are renting, too bad. You cannot both have the short term flexibility of rent and the desired staying power of buying.
I’m a little surprised by this sentiment (maybe I’m naively optimistic). I’m curious, do you (and others) think elementary and high schools will be back next fall?
Would like to use something like this to aggregate a few DSL connections. Any idea how well it works for that use case?
Will it perform well on all SSD's, or is it optimized to give top performance only on Micron devices?
No. No! This isn't named after the philosopher Foucault
Affordability has nothing to do with gentrification. SF has backwards zoning laws, with insane NIMBY culture.
Our public doctors even are getting death threats. https://www.fr.de/panorama/corona-experte-virologe-christian...

This is the bestknown public figure in Germany who supports the Imperial College Study and the drastic lockdown measures, but his public statements are mostly political, without proper evidence. Never mentioned the IFR, the R0, the absolute numbers, the curves. Our local panic guy.
As Margaret Thatcher said - there is no such thing as society, there are only individual people.

Seems like over last 50 years many people had been brainwashed to believe it is so.

But people are not the largest, quickest or most dangareous species on the planet. Our strongest point had been communicating and working together toward common goals, creating the society and taking care of each other.

Saddly in last 50 years this darwinistic vision of getting ahead at all cost at the expense of the others prevailed.
persistent (for both senses of the word) b-trees are used extensively in couchdb. You can read about their design here:

https://guide.couchdb.org/draft/btree.html
It seems that I fundamentally misunderstand the benefits of TypeScript.
I found myself spending hours and hours on reading the type errors stacktraces and adding types for libraries. Writing TS code takes 2x time than simple JS... and it is extremely painful experience.
In comparison to many old plain JS projects I did - it simply doesn’t make any sense, the TS solves problems which I haven’t experienced at all.
Had the great firewall of china block one of the sites I was building for a customer once many years ago. It could only do it for http and not https so assuming it reads the request from the client works out its a http request to an unauthorized IP and sends the reset packet. You cant read the payload for https so didn't know to send the rst packet i'm assuming. Took a while and some playing with wireshark to work out what was going wrong.

Spoke to someone in the Datacenter we where hosting in and they got us adding to some goverment whitelist and it all started working again.
> Now tmux feels like a regular desktop app and truly boosts the productivity in the terminal. What do you think?

I think it's really nice. Well done!

> Mod+V: split vertically

> Mod+B: split horizontally (“bisect”)

That's smart. I love it!

% and " tend to feel... just weird. I can see the visual cue, but it's always been weird to me nonetheless.