skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's another problem I run into with this approach, beyond what he describes: It can lead to an outsize amount of rework, because it maximizes the delay before you can start getting feedback from UX or any sort of exploratory or ad-hoc testing.

I remain a bigger fan of the feature flags approach. Even if it's a really nasty redesign and you have to copy/paste an entire view so that you can hack on it in the background and have just a coarse-grained switch to switch between the existing version of the view and the WIP, that's fine, I'd rather have a temporary code freeze on the old version of the view (so you don't accidentally stomp bugfixes or tweaks when switching to the new) than have a project that's big enough it can't be fit into a single sprint get stuck with an outsize risk of nasty surprises late in its development lifecycle.
Source: https://www.iea.org/reports/global-energy-review-2020
Don't know about TV, but if this is a v/podcast, then you need to disclose

https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/ftc...
Funny to browse through their crypto portfolio for a while: https://a16z.com/portfolio/#crypto

For example, they are apperently invested in cryptokitties (the Dapper logo).
I'd suggest changing it by a 12 hour delta. Then you are likely to start encountering it at the beginning of your day instead of in the middle of anything.
Can't wait to install another app that does the same thing as 99 other apps on my phone. I mean, it good for everyone, right? A hundred apps with same functionality that I need to run simultaneously because people are using all of them, that should do something for higher end phones
Comparing COVID-19 to a "Pandemic Flu" is even more disingenuous. Very few people alive today have a memory of the Spanish Flu. When you say that you play into Republican hands because everyone who "wants to believe" will think regular flu. That's what the Fox Newses are pushing, as you are well aware.

Mortality rate for the "regular flu" are well under the mortality rate for ALL age groups except the under 20 folks. (https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=seasonal+flu+death+rate+by+...)

The regular flu does NOT kill significantly more young people than COVID-19. The number of young people killed by either is almost a statistical outlier when comparing against overall deaths.

> Could you clarify this point?

COVID-19 deaths take away far more wellbeing-years per death than the regular flu.
(https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/5-75/v1)
Tons of people, the vast majority of entrepreneurs, make money without a single line of code ever being written at their business.
Getting a grip on AWS IAM with new open-source tool AirIAM
Still don't have a job, though.
>that's not enough money to really register at Amazon's scale.

This viewpoint doesn't really match up with how enterprises operate.

It's possible to function at amazon's scale without meticulous accounting and financial operations. The reason for this is that is extremely easy for wasteful spending to propagate throughout the enterprise if unchecked.

Waste only appears after a project fails...it's easy to point out waste after the fact, but it's downright impossible to call it out as it's happening.
[edit: deleted. Appear to have been rate limited by HN so I can't reply? so withdrawing from the conversation]
The implied detail is “and doing the regular economic activities that ‘opening up’ would entail”. The kinds of economic activities that I have stopped doing during this pandemic are relatively hard to social distance.

I of course actually do go outside, but only to my patio, not to go back to my old gym or coffee shops.
Cool. :)

As a general thought for "making it more presentable", it's probably a good idea to embed a screenshot right into the front page README.

Just from the point of view that "when things look attractive, people are more inclined to check them out".

(Yeah, it's a super generalisation, but it seems to hold true).

As an example, we have a screenshot as nearly the first element people can see:

https://github.com/sqlitebrowser/sqlitebrowser/

Since you already have a bunch of screenshots, it should be fairly simple to make happen.

Maybe these two, as they seem both clean and representative?

https://github.com/DirkJanJansen/Pandora/blob/master/Install...

https://github.com/DirkJanJansen/Pandora/blob/master/Install...
"Shouldn't such an analysis be the basis of any decisions we make?"

No. We can decided to make decisions based purely on the morality of the decision. Given a death rate somewhere between 1% and 3% the question becomes whether we will accept that many deaths, without taking action. There is no need for a cost/benefit analysis, as we can decide the issue entirely on a moral basis.
Peak work was during the industrial revolution.

Also, on farms, people were always working.
For those following along from the side, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art%C5%ABras_Zuokas#Awards_and...
I'm curious as to how this might impact other Vision Fund companies like Fanatics or Mapbox.
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They likely will eventually, but the browser verdict took a long time.

It's also unhelpful that many politicians have realised in retrospect that they quite like having single choke points that can be used to enact legislative control over the public.
Google is trying to kill off classic Hangouts, starting with G Suite and then later consumers. This was started in early 2019 [0] but late last year they shifted timelines.

[0] https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2019/01/upcoming-hangou...
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I've been doing less and less JS stuff, but I actually miss TS at times. I think it won't end up like CoffeeScript, and it's absolutely worth using if you need to write javascript!
Likewise very surprised! I've found that Software Engineering as a field is great for knowledge transferring between jobs -- the ability to design and reason about systems transcends individual languages and tools.

50% sounds about right to me.
Make a backup plan now

Truer words rarely spoken. Tech is Logan's Run, No Country For Old Men.
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Google Meet is fine, but it's lacking a native app on desktop. Google being Google, my bet is that they'll never make one, and that's a pity. Some prefer not installing apps, but many like this separation. Think zoom, slack, teams, etc.
You also need the other side of your trades to have infinite money. But in any case, why are you trading at all if you already have infinite money?
>Sure but that example from the steel industry surely was an outlier? What % of the workforce was still agrarian in the late 19th century?

Steel wasn't particularly an outlier compared to other industrial workplaces. Everything ran around the clock in shifts and shifts were longer with less breaks because low-training factory work tends to gravitate toward conditions that are the minimum of what is legal while still attracting sufficient quality labor. Farmers worked longer and harder before everyone and their brother had plenty of mechanized horsepower at their disposal. All the stuff you have to do to maintain the horse/oxen that you use for work gets tacked on the beginning and end of your workday.
Not only we don't enjoy life we also destroy it (as in climate change)

[Reduced Work Hours as a Means of Slowing Climate Change] https://ecology.iww.org/PDF/misc/climate-change-workshare-20...
And their staff. And all family members of their staff. It's not "impossible", but I don't think any countries have attempted such a nursing-home-only lockdown.
Paris Has a Plan to Keep Cars Out After Lockdown
Arstechnica.com Banned me for speaking up about Paid Bots
i joined the website in 2015 was a loyal visitor, apparently as soon as i started speaking up about all the paid shills and the vote hacking that was going on the Director there did not like this at all.

I was muted from speaking any longer on the boards of my first post. As a few weeks went by i kept seeing more and more subscribers that were voting up all the paid news mainstream media comments that were defending corporate honor but silencing with downvotes all the actual relevant comments in the news sources.

ArsTechnica has a system where they hide a comment if it goes below a certain vote threshold. This is now being abused by paid shills to hide all the relevant comments.

Just like Stackexchange, reddit, and all the other major players adopted systems about votemanipulation i started speaking up about it with ARS and they wouldnt have none of it.

Instead of speaking with me about it, i logged on today to see a message: You were banned because "GoodBye".

If there are any websites like Toms and Gizmodo reading this please do an article on this. The website Arstechnica wants to play like big boys but now has lost any favor with us people who just want an unbiased news source.

They also leverage the paid subscribers to have more voting power, this shifts the comments to the most relevant section of the page. Thus eliminating "QUICKLY" all the most relevant comments that could help other people truly understand what is going on if the editor got it wrong.

Used to be about community. I was there before they switched out there new website theme, i was there when i heard about it through HackerNews. Yet being on there that long didn't matter to them, a voice speaking the truth is always the first to be silenced.

This is not the ArsTechnica i grew up around.
Almost everything I learn on the job is transferable. I use anything I pick up to build associations with how other things work. If someone is throwing away 90% of what is learned, something is wrong.
I had the same experience on my trial, along with SUPER pushy sales people. In the end, after I gave them our setup on DO and they said they'd come up with a proposal for an equivalent setup in Oracle Cloud, they came back and said "can't do it" and their proposal was a little over 3x what our current bill was.
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The drug caused 31% faster recovery.

Fauci says that this will be the standard of care.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-gilead...
A small question. Is PHP still a preferred platform for any sort of complex web development?

I have never even looked at the php site or docs, but I am curious.

In this day and age, is there a subset of Apps that PHP is suited for?
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In my experience being under 40 is not a prerequisite for being hired in software. A suggestion: two of the biggest turnoffs that I personally see and would work hard to avoid (not saying you have either of those):

1. Sounding desperate. Do not cast a very wide net at one company -- you can apply to mid level and principal level positions at different companies, but do not blanket all job postings at one company. Choose one that fits you best and apply there.

2. Attitude. People with lots of experience often come in with "let me tell you how you should be doing this instead" approach which in most cases is a fatal wound. Learn what problems the company is solving and help them within their constraints, including using their tools and languages even if they look suboptimal.

Just as an anecdote, a friend (close to 50) working in software changed positions in Feb-March and had offers within 2 weeks. He chose to sit out at the dying unit to collect retention money; retention $ required not searching for jobs before he was officially let go, so he started his search from the "unemployed" state as well. It is certainly possible, good luck!
The UK shut down too late. People at the time of the Cheltenham Festival (10-13 March) were saying it shouldn't have happened, and now: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/apr/29/racing-ireland...
My day is measurably better having come across this site.
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I think your parent commenter literally said “yes” to your question.

It didn’t sound like an interrogation, it sounded more like a brick wall of “this conversation is over.”

There are definitely diplomatic ways to say this to people or change the subject.
You can now book a Covid-19 test on Chinese ecommerce platforms
In an RTL language, you don't even need to mirror it.

Or, to put it another way: if you think it needs to point to the right, is that because the text you read flows that way?

This then makes me wonder if the large portion of the world's population that read right-to-left find the currently widely-used external link symbol (as discussed in the article) a bit jarring.
The original post was against the review process imposed by the platform owners. I wrote that while not perfect, it helps with security. Then there was one subjective statement on what I'd like for myself. I have limited knowledge of the language; I could have expressed that a little more clearly.
I'm not American, it's just a common expression that starts with "he", not "she".

I guess I should've paid more attention to the context...
Thus the inherent contradiction: Unicode is for text, it must include all existing character sets which it aims to unify, and previous character sets weren’t only used for text.

The obvious hack is to make a custom character set called “Rejected by Unicode”.
> Do you realize that football is the most popular sport in the world and almost every country call it football?

So? Hacker news is an american site and we call it soccer.

> (you know, because you’re controlling a ball with your feet)

Actually, football is a class of games which involve kicking a ball to score a goal. Everything from "football" to soccer to rugby has kicking to score goals/points.

"Sports commonly called football include association football (known as soccer in some countries); gridiron football (specifically American football or Canadian football); Australian rules football; rugby football (either rugby league or rugby union); and Gaelic football."

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

If you really want to be accurate, then you should call it association football. And the word soccer is derived from assocation football.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/soccer
The 5.0 client includes an icon that has this information; after starting a meeting, this currently says "You are connected to the Zoom global network via a datacenter in the United States."

Make what you will of that.
Most of this article could be ripped to shreds based on its accuracy. But that isn't the point - he has developed a set of rules and guidance that work for your average developer just slinging code in an enterprise. And while yes, almost everything he says is "wrong" if we push the details... I can see that they are all "close enough" to build a workable framework for your basic 9-5 1x dev.
So instead of lots of malware you just stick to one.
NYC, while under pretty extreme lockdowns still likely had 25% of its population infected as of over 2 weeks ago.

If the serological surveys are correct, we know two things, it spreads rampantly even under harsh lockdowns and the IFR (infection fatality ratio) is likely <.5%.

I tend to think we should stay locked down to slow the spread if that's even still a thing given how fast it has spread in NYC. But on the bright side, NYC now has an upper bound of 4x the current cases before everyone is already infected and all hopefully immune.
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Sadly, a vast majority of Facebook users have know idea of what an URL is. Big tech is even doing everything it can to make/keep people ignorant of what an URL is, like Google reformatting its result page to make URLs look like breadcrumbs, or Safari and Chrome hiding more and more of the url in the address bar...
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> This explanation mirrors the rejection rationale: you don't need a symbol to be a Unicode character if the document is already rich text;

No, that's not the rejection rationale. The rejection rationale isn't about having access to image tags or CSS. It's about hypertext (click link, go to another text) vs having text (can't click link, no other text). If that was the rationale, they wouldn't allow emojis in unicode, because you could insert them as images.
> At first it was pretty simple, but then we got a lot of new frontend requirements and in no time, managing the front-end state was a total nightmare

If there's one thing I envy backend developers it's the fact that they don't receive even half the requirement changes the front-end does.

But I would refrain from pushing as much logic to the server as possible - it's never the better experience for most users in comparison to striking a balance between having it all on the server vs the client.
Unicode’s box drawing seems to go way beyond ANSI, though, and PETscii was only added very recently (IIRC).
An issue is when there's an issue which people with information are trying to work around, word gets out & the risk becomes exaggerated to societal collapse. Nevermind that a plague could come & kill half the population & society wouldn't collapse. So when people get the idea that we're trying to stop society from collapsing, they expect we'll still see society almost collapse. But instead we're averting a much lower risk (which is still very costly) & so the final price we pay is nowhere near "if we hadn't done X, society would've collapsed"

Basically we need to moderate both opinions which effectively work together: the "there's no problem to begin with" group feels validated by the "the world is ending" group being way off the mark

This happens with global warming too. Some people think everything's going to fall apart within the next 10 years. They're wrong. So others claim there isn't a problem, because they were wrong
This article could have been written at almost any time in the past 50 years. But somehow it lands particularly badly in the middle of a pandemic when some people are far too busy and some are forcibly idled.
We're in a pandemic economy. It's an economic upheaval. Many existing employees provide negative value until businesses adjust.

If they want to survive, adjust they must.

Whichever model we take (lockdown, soft lockdown, no lockdown, or something else entirely), our goal should be to structure economic supports to allow for that restructuring as quick, painless, and job-loss-free as possible. If we don't do that, things will play out exactly as you describe, with a painful adjustment period. If we do that, they can play out better.

But play out they will. Businesses can't force people to stay. If the cost for me to pick an in-person job over an at-home one is $10,000, I'll quit my remote one as soon as I get a job offer $10,000 above my current salary. Businesses can't force me to stay. And vice-versa the other way. That's a free market. And the increased unemployment benefits right now provide some buffer to make those changes.
Isn't that typically already the mindset, since most people set up networks with non-routable (10, 192.168 etc) IP addresses?
Holding people responsible for their decisions isn't blaming the victim. This is their job. They failed at it. NY keeps making bad decisions and then blaming the federal government -- they take credit but push off blame/responsibility. I'm not happy with how my government is handling this.
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> 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.

Do you have something about "unbelievable"? Per BBC:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52284281

"There is a two-week time lag in the data collected for official statistics. The most recent figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) are for the week ending 17 April. At that point, there had been 3,096 Covid-19-related deaths in care homes in England and Wales."

"the Care Quality Commission (CQC)" "already has to be notified when there is a death in a care home. It is also now asking care providers to give daily updates on deaths and the number of confirmed and suspected coronavirus cases.

Between 10 and 25 April, their findings show that 4,343 individuals died in care homes from coronavirus."

Looking at euromomo, it appears to me that the UK did not report some deaths related to Covid-19, the question is only where exactly.

Edit: to pjc50:

> San Marino lost 1,208 people (so far) out of 30k?

No. See again: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/san-marino... Total deaths: 41 == 0.12 percent == 1,208 per million
Well, these types of arguments will get validated in the next few decades as GPS calendar errors break millions of field devices. If it was a big deal, then a lot of effort would be spent to fix the issue. All that will happen is that a bunch of harmless, somewhat useful stuff will turn into harmless, useless stuff. See [0] “Third GPS Rollover”, except know that many cheap GPS receivers made today do not implement the fix.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_formatting_and_storage_bu...
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What percentage of population needs a test to estimate prevalence of a disease?
The future use case will be to use a cryptocurrency as an alternative to company shares.

In 50 years, nobody will be using NASDAQ or NYSE to by shares of companies. Company shares themselves will not exist, there will only be cryptocurrencies and decentralized exchanges. Investors will be paid as capital appreciation through token buybacks.

There are several major financial benefits for this:

- Capital appreciation resulting from token buybacks is not taxed.

- The price of a token accounts not just for the value of the output of its community but also the value of its input since community members must liquidate the token in order to purchase goods or other tokens. Communities which produce more economic value than they consume will have more valuable tokens. It incentivizes not just high production, but also low consumption (which our current system fails to do).

Communities which consume less will hold on to more of their tokens. The market cap of such communities will be more fragile/volatile but overall will grow much faster than that of those communities which which produce the same amount but consume more. This will create incentives for decentralization of wealth because there will be a growth penalty for holding a particularly liquid high-volume token.

I've written a simulation which demonstrates these effect.
> Really poorly-written fake "news" blogs "reporting" lies as truth is fiction. These are all allowed to exist (in the USA) because of the 1st Amendment.

Not if it’s libel. And a convincing deepfake that harms someone’s reputation could easily be interpreted as an act of defamation by the creator, which would mean it’s not protected speech.
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Sure - we know the whitehouse is incompetent - we've known that since day one.
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There is a good reason why you don't compress testing of the vaccine. These "non-experts" pushing fast timetable would expose millions of people to new vaccine before long term effects are known.

It would be horrible thing to discover that vaccination triggers autoimmune disease in 0.1% of the population after you have vaccinated millions of people.

In principle you can compress manufacturing time required by starting manufacturing large quantities before final testing is done. If the vaccine does not work, you just destroy it.
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A slight point on Erlang:

Erlang is good on business logic and not really good on making something "mathematically nice". It is more in the same place than the one you give to Go/Rust. Low latency good performance and great reliability (these things are linked) for web is a classic use of erlang or elixir.