skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like what?

Slack can do it, what are they so special?

I guess maybe in a fluent back and forward it might slow people a little worrying about things they shouldn't. But this is not my experience.

This inability seems the IT industry at it's worse. It's like some Frankenstein putting immutability onto human beings.
Many dictators have been deposed not because they were weak, but because their subjects grew tired of lies and life under their rule.

Gadaffi, Sisi, Ceaușescu, Romanovs were not weak by any objective measure, they were happy to suppress dissent and kill their subjects and still had a functioning security apparatus when deposed, ordinary citizens just refused to cooperate. If almost the entire civilian population refuses to cooperate, regimes cannot function.
And considering how early this pandemic hit in the year, if you were laid off in March you didn't even make 25% of your salary yet. That means your taxes are likely to be quite low for the year, so this is actually a good time to withdraw money from a 401k and take the tax hit.

If I ever have a full year gap between jobs (like some kind of a long sabbatical), I'm going to be doing a lot of Traditional to Roth converting, for exactly this reason.
I see you have not used Jitsi. It's not bad.
Not the OP, but the next question is: Can you force the GC to run?

Perhaps this can be useful: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13950394/forcing-garbage...
I’ve started explicitly telling people in my life that I’m not interested in their non-expert opinions when they weigh in on when we should open up.
Come on. He's pointing out both an explanatory factor, i.e. larger groups of vulnerable clustered together, and also saying that the total deaths may end up being very similar between countries and that it is too early to tell. Without a vaccine or effective treatment, there's no long term alternative to something akin to the Swedish strategy.
Oop, someone's got the zoomies!
Links for screenshots and installation files are added to the Readme.md

Thanks for the hint
Covid-19: Antibody test that claims to be 99% accurate is certified by EU
The hiding mute button also really bugs me - given that it something you generally need to have quickly accessible during a meeting, it really should be always visible & on the same spot. BlueJeans has this right - the button is always acesible and not moving around.

As for keyboard shortcuts - unless they are global, they will not work well if they need window focus as that means you still need to find the browser window in which it is running with your cursor and might as well click a button.
I knew two 10x developers at my previous job. One of them was humble and a great mentor and elevated everyone around him. One was a grump who made everyone around him feel stupid.

Imo toxicity is independent from productivity.
US weekly jobless claims hit 3.84M, topping 30M over the last 6 weeks
>This is no surprise though: canonical has often refused to adopt stuff that have been thoroughly tested and vetted in the rhel world: think of firewalld Vs ufw. Or selinux Vs apparmor. Or cockpit, that has no equivalent in the canonical world afaik.

Ubuntu is baded on Debian, if Red Hat stuff is not in Debian is hard to blame Canonical and not Debian but let me know this mental gymnastics of blame shifting
> That's why users go there

Users go there because it's free, easy to use and has wide variety of content. Users don't go there because some content is or might become randomly unavailable.
محشي+الكرنب
>If you copied that text, you would not really expect the link symbol to be copied along with it.

Because it's not in Unicode it can't be copied. If it was in unicode symbol I would expect it.
Story from yesterday: I foolishly modified fstab, like I did for over a decade, to swap a mountpoint from a local drive to NFS. What happened: `mount -a` ran fine. No errors. Except... the mountpoint was empty, there was no match in `mount` output to the line.

After poking the internet:

After altering fstab one should either run systemctl
daemon-reload (this makes systemd to reparse /etc/fstab
and pick up the changes) or reboot[^1].

So, the summary with systemd: it will break something for everyone sooner or later. It hopefully won't be something you can't fix, but it will make you very angry and in immediate need of a tea break.

BTW, this is not the first one for me, but certainly one of the most frustrating ones, and not because of the behaviour: because of the lack of error messages on stderr or at least in syslog. The messages in ~~syslog~~ journald were casual.

[^1]: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/169909/systemd-keep...
I'm worried about this sudden decrease; can we do something to make the values to return to a normal value?
Optimizing Spark Performance on Kubernetes – Containers
Depends on the performance of the house. Very little 'spitting' if it was built right (e.g. Passivhaus)
Think of this essay as a barbell, in the investment sense of the word. The beginning and the end of it have some really good insights that can be generalized to a lot of technical / development work.

The middle of the essay (Rules 4-16) are useful observations from Mickey's experience. (I don't know him; I am just trying to relate this paragraph of comments to his experience more explicitly.) This is not a bad thing.

If you are a 1x developer yourself who is looking to improve, I think you want to read treatises like this and try to understand your fellow developer's perspective.

Only truly brilliant developers can give generalized language and database platform advice. The other people who give valuable advice at this level are not developers, they are technology evangelists who have a track record of success helping real developers.
I agree with you. I’m actually quite excited to see that chart, because now I might be able to figure out why I often don’t get messages sent to my phone, but the show as unread when I get back to the computer...
It's not oppressive, it's objectifying; it treats you as a resource to be exploited with little to no consideration to your well-being. No reason to voluntarily use it on yourself.
I think there is a similar pattern during the early stages of many technologies. At first they are made by tinkerers for themselves and so are tool for individual empowerment. People then think of that as a core aspect of the technology, but when the technology gets scaled up it turns out to be incidental.
I like that. It sounds like a much more useful Facebook.
Show HN: Libmap – a toy app I wrote which maps locations mentioned in books
Cooperative multitasking usually involves a scheduler. Coroutines are called explicitly, which you can't do through a scheduler.
Wealthy Shielded Billions with Trump Tax Break Before Pandemic
That seems to be classical ad hominem.

For example, I also don't have medical education, yet I am entitled to analyze information and insist that homeopathy, Chinese medicine and chlorine necklaces absolutely do not help against the virus, unlike the educated medical professionals who disagree with me.
Also, advocates of re-opening vastly overestimate their ability to make that happen. I don’t feel safe going outside, so any suggestion that for the good of the economy I should do so will be met with a string of naughty words and continued quarantine on my part. If they want me to go back out and resume regular economic activity, they need to focus on what’ll make that feel safe again.
Library code for sensibly defined pieces 100%... but if you aren't sure of the abstraction, copying code can be more forgiving than making a mess.
Most companies don't need a "10x developer", especially if you're building yet another CRUD web app. You need good, hard working people who love the profession and are good working in a team. That's it. It doesn't take Einstein to do this job. Maybe if you're Shopify it makes sense to hire a few of the greatest Rails developers out there (which they did), but otherwise? This isn't rocket science.
APL is a means of communicating mathematical ideas between people, so it shouldn't be too surprising that it's in Unicode.
> One of the big issues in the pandemic is the spread of misinformation.

Along with censorship and blind worship of authority.

> Now it the time for experts voices to be amplified, not random people with an opinion.

Which experts? The experts you agree with or are politically aligned with? Or all experts?

> I notice in the comments dang supports this post which is a surprise.

An even greater surprise is the attempt to censor people who are giving their honest and fair opinion and assessment - which is not misinformation.

The experts have spoken and people have the right to discuss and offer their opinions. Using your logic, hacker news shouldn't exist because only the "experts" should be allowed a voice.
How to collaborate effectively and manage your brand remotely
I am not in the USA, here it is legal to kick a gay person out.

But the question is not if it is legal or not, but if it is moral.
Out of curiosity, why did/do you not use the Zoom web version? I haven't tried their linux client but if it sucks there is an alternative. The "it just works" crowd probably uses mostly Windows/Mac OS, iOS/Android or the web version.

Getting the join by browser link apparently can be an issues but at least in the edu account I manage there is an admin setting to always provide the join with browser link.
But it's not part of the text, it is a decoration. Even if it was in Unicode, I would not expect it to be part of the copied text.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23030141
How do they handle disabled residents in those zones?
I launched Runnaroo here through a Show HN a couple months back [0].

Since the frequent conversations on HN around search improvements always resonated with me and were such a large influence on many of the choices with the project, I just wanted to share a blog post on the topic.

Hope you find it useful!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22422604
"Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?" -Brian Kernighan

Over time I've come to appreciate this sentiment. Banging out clever code super fast isn't that important... Spending some time up front thinking about types and architecture pays off in the long run. Especially for server side code. Far from being annoying, error messages from the compiler make me feel warm and fuzzy inside.

On the other hand, for quickly prototyping user interfaces, some "stream of consciousness" Javascript might just be good enough.
I wonder if Japanese tax laws are similar to the US in that they incentivize write downs to create net operating losses to offset future profit. For SoftBank, which operates a very profitable core business, losses here could ensure no tax payments for years to come. This happened in 08 with many of the fire sales in the mortgage and banking business.
Pro tip: alt+f4 also mutes... ;)
I can count on my fingers the number of times I've seen a website that was this well made!
Is there much CO2 coming out of that nuclear plant?
Would you also agree with WHO's expert advice against wearing masks and against restricting travel?

These are literally the world's top experts, so you should just accept what they say and do not challenge that.

Is this correct?
Hangouts still exists and is popular, it's not a past product.
I suspect that a large part of the problem are our portals to the web.

The major search engines have a bias towards large commercial sites, likewise for the articles linked to by major news outlets and the recommendations made on social networking sites. There are likely good reasons for this. Links to commercial sites or commercially hosted sites are more reliable and the content being more generic, thus applicable to a larger audience.

None of that means the open web, or open internet, does not exist. It simply means that it is incredibly difficult to discover.
You've just destroyed your own argument.

If you're wearing a mask to protect against droplets then maybe you'd get marginal benefits. But if your concern is virus carried in the water vapour that people exhale, then an N95 isn't nearly enough to protect you.
> What's the < year 2000 equivalent of receiving/responding to a work email at 10pm?

Your horse running away or the wolf jumping into your sheep pen among others.

Humans have never had a dearth of interruptions.

What's sad is, today, most of those interruptions are completely ignorable (no one has a sheep pen thats not well protected and monitored) - yet, we treat that work email at 10pm with the same urgency as one.

Atleast back then, it was your sheep pen.
“You have no credentials or expertise to make public health recommendations” is not an ad hominem.
> unless 100% of the population is administered a test with no risk of false negative or positives.

Actually, the "risk" of false positives or false negatives is dependent on prevalence, 100% is not always required. If you have a test where 5 of 100 cases are false (i.e. 95% times is not wrong), and nobody of these tested is actually infected, you could incorrectly believe that 5% of population is infected even when nobody is, meaning such a conclusion would be completely false.

But if the population is actually already e.g. 50% infected, the same test can "lie" only 5%, giving you 47% or 53% but still being "mostly true" (from the engineering point of view).

So it is important to ignore the test reports as long as they are close to their false positive rate, which they were in a lot of antibody tests done up to now.

Also "false positives" and "false negatives" can lead to wrong handling of the cases, but that's another topic.
China has a moral obligation to reduce emissions because of high absolute values. America has a moral obligation because of high per-capita values.
Try using ssh-import-id to fetch your (or a friend or colleague's) public key from Github!
I couldn't care less about him, I'm more concerned about what his fan club will do.
Alternative to mind maps for learning computer science?
The Wikipedia entry on Mind Maps states that:
"Positive opinions on their effectiveness, however, were much more prominent among students of art and design than in students of computer and information technology, with 62.5% vs 34% (respectively) agreeing that they were able to understand concepts better with mind mapping software."

Given that is the case, what alternative note-taking (concept capturing) tools would you suggest are effective for a person who is learning computer science?

Let's leave Anki aside for a moment - since Anki is arguably better for memorizing facts than understanding concepts.
Of course, you're absolutely right, it's absolutely impossible to remove all risk, but the only factor in the equation you control is you, so I always try to load the die as much in my favour as I can.
Just to properly attribute my work and explain a little how it works, the data comes from the gdelt-hathitrust Google BigQuery dataset of which I created a locally stored Postgres database containing a decently large subset of the results (to reduce query costs). The mapping itself uses an OpenLayers OSM map with the tiles being provided by stamen.
Given that basically nobody wants to end up in a nursing home, but do, often to face neglect and abuse, I'd say that no, we don't really care what happens to old people in nursing homes. Out of sight, out of mind. Yeah, sure, people with a lot of moral indignation will gnash their teeth at such a claim, but I just can't see how they're actually good places to be, and how if we really cared we'd structure our society in a way that makes them necessary.
I feel someone should mention The Last One, from 1981, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_One_(software)
How to Use the Swapper in Golang
You can use Zoom and have them install backdoors and give your information to Facebook.
Yes, that's my daily routine. Sipping coffee and reviewing code. During the day I'm happy to re-review code if I asked for a modification because I only have to check a small part of the code and I'm already familiar with the whole concept.

Reviewing any non-trivial complexity code has a big task switch cost. Reviewing code during the day is bad for productivity.
How much innovation do we really need in this space. My primary request would be for higher fidelity - what do you feel is missing?
Or that both are green and one is underutilized...
The last time I read about it, Snapchat reserved ~80% voting power to the founder.
It's not an either-or. We need all of the above.
Voice of reason
That can change very quickly once the fearmongering on the news stops reaching you.

Here in Hong Kong, people who were obsessively sterilizing everything and were scared to go outside 2 weeks ago are now taking off their masks and going to the beach.
One in five people who had a job in February have filed for unemployment since
> This inability seems the IT industry at it's worse. It's like some Frankenstein putting immutability onto human beings.

I don't understand. Communication has historically not been possible to "edit". There's nothing inhuman about that. If I say something, I've said it. Of course I can later make a correction, but the words I said remain said. The same has been true for the thousands of years we've had written communication, until a few years ago (on some platforms).

Personally, I find editing messages a misfeature. There's few things more annoying than replying to a message, and then finding out that the message you're replying to has been replaced by another one. If a platform has this feature, it makes me less likely to use it.
>One great example of this is the debacle of the Amazon internal wiki migration. Back in 2015, the Amazon InfoSec team banned PHP at the company.

Oof. To be fair, Java is probably way easier to code review.
I think the differences between HK and America are quite a bit more than “fearmongering”.
Ok I see - part of the root of the problem is you are probably using git rather than a version control system that works naturally with large shared repo's like svn?

So it's easier to just have separate repo's - and then that makes sharing code sensibly a nightmare without additional tooling... etc etc because there isn't a single versioning system.

Everything as a separate git repo has a lot to answer for in my opinion.
Unfortunately I think it's too late for a carbon tax. Regulations are the only thing that we know works and can possibly work on the time scale required. Market forces would have maybe had time to work ten years ago...

Edit: To quote unattributed from a friend that does this stuff for work, I don't think they'll mind as long as their name isn't attached:

"I think it’s a distraction from more effective policy. Emission standards like CAFE have worked better than carbon taxes have and also have caused zero national protests in France.

Decarbonizing is an infrastructure replacement problem, which is capital intensive. It needs solutions that encourage, subsidize, and mandate green capital investment. Carbon taxes affects capital decisions at the discount rates of corporations (10%) or consumers (20%ish), which gives them a short time horizon. They also don’t really kick the green tech adoption laggards in the butt enough to get to 99% decarbonization."
Agreed. 1x should be a synonym for ordinary, but as we're seeing here, its meaning had drifted to refer to especially unskilled developers.
People overrate the elegance and readability of languages. You can write elegant and inelegant Java. I've seen python code that is totally unmaintainable and python code that's some of the most elegant out there. You can find Rails code that is some of the most indecipherable spaghetti out there despite Ruby being such an elegant language (the project had Fat Controllers, Fat Views and Fat Stored Procedures...yikes). There's a lot of elegant C code out there then there's C code where you don't wanna touch anything because you're not sure what anything does.

I think the general rule of thumb for languages is pick whichever language has the best community, learning resources and packages for your project.

For example R excels at analyzing data because of the wealth of packages from industry and academia for analyzing data and the tutorials dedicated to statistical analysis in R. Python excels at high performance data driven products because of the wealth of packages for ML, scientific computing, etc and the wealth of resources on doing these things in python.

The exception to this is JS and your point about Phoenix LiveView. Potentially it could be better to pick a single language for frontend and backend to limit context switching while developing frontend and backend.

I haven't used Clojure or Haskell yet so I don't know what they excel at. I also haven't dived into Erlang and Go enough to know which situations either is better for scalable backends.
It has extremely valid market reasons.

Google Hangouts = the original chat+video product which was semi-popular, but never got huge traction and mindshare the way WhatsApp, Slack, the original Skype, or the newer FaceTime did. And now Zoom and Teams.

So Google realized it had to compete better against all of those, all of those being very separate communications channels with different priorities. Hangouts could never be an awesome focused product if it had to be all things to all people.

So the competitor to Facetime/WhatsApp/FB Messenger is Google Duo. It's originally phone-based and designed primarily for 1-1, though it supports small groups.

The competitor to Zoom and Teams is Google Meet. It's enterprise-based for huge meetings.

The competitor to Slack is Google Chat.

And Google Hangouts is this zombie product that used to do everything, but never as well as any of the competitors, and still has moderate consumer usage so they can't kill it, though I'm sure they're doing their best to figure out how to get people to migrate eventually without losing them to a competitor in the process.

So despite all the flak Google gets for a fragmented messaging ecosystem, it's driven by extremely valid market reasons.

And Google isn't a video communications platform, it's a company. With several platforms, serving several totally distinct markets.
Same experience. I learned quite a bit simply by sitting next to an exceptionally good and exceptionally nice developer who was at least a decade older than the rest of the team and enjoyed helping others. He rarely got stressed even in crunch times and that put rest of the team at ease.
Everything is a Remix (2015) [video]
I think that increasing breadth and depth of human knowledge is far more reliable.
I don't think I've ever left a 1:1 feeling like I didn't waste my time, both as a manager and team member. The structure of a 1-1 (as described by the playbook) forces you to see problems where there are none. They are forced and contrived.

A natural check-in every once in a while is much preferred in my book, I trust my team members to bring up actual problems as soon as they see them. A leading question forcing some reflection is fine but forced meetings for the sake of the meeting is wrong.
I used to get called a 10x developer, I was also called a rockstar and a ninja and a 100x dev and every other compliment that was hip.

Then I hit 30. That type of talk stopped.

Then I hit 40. Now I will not be considered for any entry level, mid level, or senior level software dev job anywhere in the United States, despite being very desperate and willing to relocate for anything. Doesn't matter. Too old. I'm supposed to be doing something else by now.

Make a backup plan now.