skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> moving to cities

You're absolutely right about de-materialization, but just on this point, migration to cities is probably about over (excluding suburbs, which will probably grow). Most people who aren't in dense areas are happy outside them, because the fact is a very large number of people don't like living in urban areas (those who do are grossly over-represented on this web site.) [0]

[0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/12/18/americans...
The barrier to entry into the market, not the barrier of entry to self driving cars. Uber raised $24B, and Lyft raised $5B (and they’re not even making a self driving car). To my eye these are the only two that’ve ever gained any significant success, as I couldn’t name any other options, and googling produced a small smattering of apps that don’t even work where I live.
VS Codium is an open source IDE. Binaries of VS Code, distributed by Microsoft, contain additions with telemetry and god knows what else, so for all intents and purposes, they should not be considered open source.
uh, no they're not. do you think the chicken fairy is depositing frozen birds in your supermarket? your existence is secured by a chain of people who haven't achieved the level yet for "is it safe for me to go to work?" to even register as a question
Guide to Chrome's Performance Profiler
I'd rather avoid macos gui system as much as possible IMHO
Here's another input filtering bad practice that most US front-end devs don't seem to know about (but really should when they build global websites)

Don't assume a specific keyboard layout when you're trying to filter out non-numeric values in a text field

I use a French keyboard, and numbers on the top keyboard row are accessed with Shift. A unmodified keypress in this row is for various accented characters, quotes, parentheses and a few others. In other words, it's the opposite of a US/UK keyboard.

Almost every week I come across a website (including a large US stock broker) whose numeric fields seem to block out modifier keys. I have to switch my Macbook to US layout just to type those in (because conveniently, they also disable pasting in those fields of course)

This is very widespread (is that part of a popular front-end framework maybe ?) and difficult to report, because most devs in English-speaking countries never experience the issue first-hand.
The bats did nothing wrong. The problem is the way humans treat the bats (and other animals): keeping them captive, in too-small cages, mixed with too many other animals, feeding them the wrong things, etc.
Correct, “them” is always an out-group. “Us” is always an in-group.

Everyone is human, we all bleed red, death is a part of life, and all that.

That doesn’t necessarily mean that we should attribute everyone with credibility, however. But we should certainly attribute everyone with humanity.

Unless “them” identify as non-human, I guess.
Update to the article:
“I just heard from Vocal Synthesis’s creator that the copyright strike was removed, and both videos are back on his channel. He’s not sure if YouTube reversed its decision or Roc Nation removed the claim, but I suspect the latter.”
Vscode is open source technically but not the binary they distribute as well as plugins store and telemetry. Bunch of other little parts as well.

Though, if you used your package manager to update. I don't think the posted issue would have happened.

Try https://vscodium.com/ for a fully open source version
If you are interested in this kind of thing, there are a whole host of "derivative free" optimization methods out there. One I've seen used in particular at a previous job, the Nelder-Mead (downhill simplex) method, always struck me as pretty elegant and intuitive once you've seen it explained. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelder%E2%80%93Mead_method)
Thank you for your comments!

I'll give you some context: I practiced law for 7+ years and I was tired of chasing my clients for the documents I needed to do my job. I couldn't find a solution that could easily be used by lawyers and decided to start this project.
Regarding your points:

- Considering the above, security and confidentiality are a must.

- Yes, clients see localized versions. We will include a language selector for the recipient.

- We plan to sell this license/user/month. Our current approach is outbound + starting some inbound. And yes, we need someone to work on our English copies =)
Electronic medical records for mobile clinics in remote locations
Lori Most is the founder and CEO of BackpackEMR.

Based in Bloomington, Minnesota, BackpackEMR is a medical EMR software designed for mobile clinics in rural, low-income markets. BackpackEMR is the sustainable, portable, non-internet dependent solution for electronic data recording in internationally underserved areas.

Lori Most has been in technology, coding, and design before coding was cool, having worked for prominent companies such as Target and United Health Group. Her pivotal decision to found a startup and create an EMR software came after a volunteering trip to South America.
There are three kinds of semantics for non-collaborating programs that people want from files that are completely incompatible:

- update immediately(ish) seen by other users of the file (e.g. database); the default UNIX semantics, even for executables

- update seen by other users at the next point they open the file (what you want for update-without reboot, can be achieved on UNIX because deleted inodes hang around)

- it's completely impossible for other users to write, rename etc the file (Windows default)
At best, computers can create art-lite commodities. They can't create art (yet), because art is not about creating objects. Or content. Or any of those other words.

The only medium that matters in art is the culture around the art itself. That's what real artists really work with - cultures of perception, social context, and imagination. The objects produced are just souvenirs.

Computers - with or without AI - have exactly zero creative agency. Until that changes they won't be making art.

Randomly exploring a creative space a human has defined is not the same as creating an original artistic or cultural insight, dramatising it with art objects, defending it against cultural attacks, and leaving a lasting legacy.

Of course most artists don't do that either. But they do distill and concentrate human experiences into a saleable form. Computers can't even do that, because they don't have any experiences to distill.
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I hear this all the time and it's overly simplistic. Maybe if I give you a single number that is my true desired value, yes. If I give you a range where the low-end is 25% higher than that true value, I've now anchored discussion at a much higher value and it will be hard for you to reset the anchor.
True for the programming part of front end development, not so much for the making things look good part.
does anyone know of similar tools for linux?
Very happy DigitalOcean customer for 4+ years. Great to see this, too.
Show HN: Jina – open-source cloud-native neural search framework
Crypto is so last decade, I think they still talk about it on Telegram
Is there much point in enabling compositing if we're installing i3 with this method? Would it even make a difference?
I don't accept the premise that it's impossible to lift the entire population out of that existence without unrestrained environmental damage.
"Okay, now hold your laptop's microphone to your chest. I'm going to use this stethoscope on my speaker; it'll be just like you're here."
> About the only thing I don't have access to is little boutique shops. I can even get weed delivered via app.

If that's the case then you're living in the 1% (0.1%?) of places where this is available.

> None of this is a recipe for consumer spending without a sustained injection of cash.

A sustained injection of cash means nothing if it's just paper money without anything backing it. If people aren't out, you know, creating things to sell, then a continuously pumping out money means rampant inflation.
You might be able to find a small niche, like the remote work sites. You wouldn't have any competitive advantage or lasting business though.

In general, salary disclosures don't lead to better outcomes. It's very hard to communicate numbers appropriately. Too low, you're skipped by candidates. Too high, you get candidates with no interest in the underlying business.

For many companies, Glassdoor is effective. I've found companies stating "competitive" compensation are generally aware of the larger market and compensate appropriately.

Most companies that pay terribly are pretty easy to pick out from their job offerings.
Thats 4.8% annualized. The real figure is 1.17% for 3 months.

It's quite impressively small really, considering everyone is sitting at home, and many aren't working at all.
> Honestly the biggest challenge was getting people to use my new email address instead of my Gmail.

That seems odd. An auto reply "this email address is no longer in use" didn't do the trick?
I was never more than a middling coder, but I can write.

I've built a pretty great and remunerative career on being able to understand technical things well enough to write about them for a less technical audience.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinate_descent - Coordinate descent is another nice one that works well for certain problems.
Oh, that's good to know.
I've mentioned this before, but I worked at a competitor to booking.com which had similar kinds of notices.

While I can't speak to booking.com's implementation - the code we were running was actually legitimately implementing these things based on actual data (views/bookings/inventory).

One person got particularly angry that we showed a "last room" tag for a hotel, and then when calling the hotel was told there were plenty of rooms available - and cheaper rooms, too. In that particular case it turns out that hotel was restricting the availability of rooms/rates to us, but not disclosing that.

As for the fees+taxes thing... that's always been a personal annoyance. I forget all the details, but it's very much a market specific things whether it's better to hide/show taxes/fees/etc.

Large portions of people from the US just assume that they are not included in prices, and compare based on that assuming it'll be some percentage higher when actually paying. Showing an all-in price gets you skipped over/ignored for being too expensive.
Debt is risk. What happens when you lose all your income (as millions are right now)? Payments can't get made, and repossessions happen. If losing a job doesn't sound like a disaster to you, you've probably never experienced it, and/or you have the privilege of having a career in an in-demand field.
I was very bullish on self driving cars back in 2016, but nearly half a decade later and it doesn’t seem like we’ve made any progress at all, and it seems like a decent number of experts and industry insiders agree with me.

Self driving cars are coming, sure. But when?
I agree but only to a certain degree, a fresh grad vs mid-level, then a mid-level most certainly have a higher base salary. But for people applying for the same position, salary reflects how good you are at negotiating on top of your perceived value.
I didn't. But it doesn't mean the books did it justice either. Anyway, I was trying to illustrate GP's point of getting back to normalcy, albeit vaguely.
That maybe true. But many of us are contractors that sell our services and the entity doing the selling should quote their price. And if you don't feel slightly embarrassed about your quote probably doing it wrong.
It is still installing Bluetooth support, ansible, terraform and all kind of things. Maybe you could group these so they can be disabled individually. I guess the notion of "useless" package really differs from users to user and doesn't really allow for a "standardized minimalistic experience".
The list of companies on it should give you an idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_S%26P_500_companies

It's mostly companies that do well in any market or have a habit of surviving massive market disruptions. Sort by founded date. Almost all of them are 2000 or older.
Stock market is essentially a sentiment graph. There's no need for it to be linked to any underlying useful metric - it's entirely likely people are investing in stocks simply because all other investments are worse.
I watched the ad and read the comments. I am not a target audience either, but I do respond to visuals. So I watched while mostly ignoring the semi-aspirational talk.

The ad created mixed feelings for me. Frankly, it could have done away with the voice over.
Especially since it did not make much sense.

In a practical sense, the story told through video was sufficient.

Aesthetically, I dislike the new look. It looks nothing like I8 I was expecting to see, but that is a personal preference. Inside looks futuristic and cool, but not much more can be said beyond that.

I am oddly disappointed with BMW. They have all the money they need to unseat Tesla, but they just can't seem to hack it. Eh, maybe Taycan will change the field somewhat.
Good monoliths are highly modularized. But it's a whole different thing to package up a module as a separately deployable unit for external "public" use (external to your app, that is, not your company).

I'm just curious to know, when you said "the easiest and most sensible thing to do is chunk out large parts of the project and put them aside as a microservice" ... were these chunks separately deployable units for external "public" use.
I have always viewed using many micro services as something that adds complexity, something to be used when necessary.

I started working remotely as a consultant in the early 2000s when my wife and I moved to a remote area. I had several development jobs that used the same monolith pattern: I would embed everything in a web app using Apache Tomcat, taking advantage of work threads for background tasks. The only external services were a database and crontab settings to frequently snapshot databases. This pattern was so easy to code to, so easy to debug and deal with any runtime problems. One customer reported that a system ran without stopping for six years (ouch, no OS upgrades??) until they restarted it on a larger server.

Micro services can be great, but not always the best choice when horizontal scaling is not required.
Once all the small businesses close where do you think all the money is going to go?
Spotify's subscribers, usage surge amid coronavirus outbreak
Which happens to be what every sane OS besides UNIX does.
I don't think one necessarily has to redefine economic growth, but perhaps redefine what the kind of growth is that we want.

Japan has not had much growth for 20 years now [1], and Japan is regarded generally as one of the most developed, safe and pleasant countries in the world.

In South Africa, economic growth is a problem in the sense that it needs to be much higher in the traditional sense for sure, but there are certain aspects of the country that have dramatically improved in the last 20 years (and many that have unfortunately declined). The economic indicators don't properly take into account the informal sector, and specifically cash transactions within the informal sector. So for example, many low wage workers now have good brick houses, where only 20 years ago they would have had huts or corrugated iron shacks. There is also now electricity in most places, with the side effect of tree coverage getting better in some rural areas as firewood is not necessary to make food.

I think the inability of the economic and financial sector in Johannesburg (considered the best in Africa) to properly quantify growth in rural areas certainly is a social problem as well, with the economy becoming an abstract concept further removed from many normal people's lives. I also think this is why populist movements gain traction as their vocalisations are easier to understand than the a more sober and reserved economist trying to explain carefully to a crowd why the informal sector isn't properly being quantified and that we need to develop new economic metrics.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Japan#Macro-economi...
A political party and a health service are not comparable. Not to mention the Democratic Party is generally despised.
?? What is the purpose in comparing metrics about our economy recessing based on production of goods vs a market for pieces of company ownership. They are not and never have been the same and there is no law they must follow the same trend
This question resonates with me, as I feel the same internal conflict as you. There's so much I want to do and learn, but I know I can literally never do it all... Which can just feel overwhelming at times.

What has helped me, is to accept to accept that we only have a few years in this life, figure out what actually matters to you and do that.

If optimising the intake of information is what matters to you, then do that!
I thought it was a warning against an "us vs them" mentality; in the end it turns out that everybody is just another one of us.
I struggle with this too. So much to learn, so little time! Here is what I've been doing to cope with that feeling:

1. I prefer books as the source of information, rather than materials online. This gives me structure, and stops me from jumping around like a highly caffeinated monkey. I can sit with a book and progressively relax and get deeper and deeper into a subject.

2. https://histre.com/ - It's an automatic knowledge base that I'm building, and it helps me relax that nothing important will be lost. Links I browse are saved and can be easily found later. I also tag links, so that I can batch process related information later. I'm working on automatic tagging by subject.

3. Mindfulness Meditation. It helps me let go of the grasping. When there is mental churn, I sit with that and watch that feeling. I feel calmer and I'm able to work in a more relaxed, efficient manner.
What Is Euler's Formula Saying?
> do x <- a >>= b ...

Please at least keep everything flowing in the same direction!

do x <- b =<< a ...
They're happy living outside them with their current level of access to cheap energy. If we address the need to fight climate change, cities might become much more comfortable to live in, given the economies of scale their population density allow.
Shame. I was really looking forward to how he would achieve that last half-byte. Maybe 8 ASCII characters and a 4-bit flag for formatting?
AFAIK stocks are up due to the announcements that the lock downs will be ending. However, the surge seems rather short sighted: you can coax stores into reopening, but you can’t force people to go out and shop in them like they used to.
It's different when it's your own child. You see the world through their eyes and the mundane becomes interesting again. Something like tying shoes is such a feat for a kid to achieve. They are on cloud nine for a week once they learn it. This is infectious.
When you have to hire a professional, for example a plumber, do you put out an ad and say "I need to hire a plumber to fix a broken pipe by running a new sewer line out to the street, and the job pays $60.00 per hour". Or do you call around, describe your problem, and see what solutions and cost various plumbers can provide? Basically, "Here's my problem, what is the fix, and how much will it cost?"
I've just added the fit/predict api for Midas.
Will be doing MidasR next when I've time. :)

The change needed is basically to create a MirasR struct and re-purpose the MidasR function into fit and predict.
It's a two-sided market. Not showing salary range inhibits price discovery, preventing developers from asking for their real worth. So companies tend to reflexively hide it to give themselves an advantage.
[citation needed]

Telemetry is plainly visible in the VS Code source: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/tree/8ffcb49f4fbeb250405...
GDP is an objective measurement of a (somewhat) tangible thing (the economy). The measurement has value--it lets you know how the economy is doing. This directs monetary policy and fiscal policy.

You can add any new metrics you want, but 'replacing' GDP strikes me as a good idea only if you want to hide the economic impact of collectivist policies behind a veneer of vague, hand-wayvy 'measurements' like 'human benefit'.
Astronomer proposes the first human-crewed interstellar spaceship
The market is denominated in dollars.

If the dollar gets less valuable due to the government printing cash (or buying bonds or issuing loans they are expected to later write off), then things denominated in dollars increase, even if the real value remains unchanged.

It's hard to tell if the dollar is weakening, because most other currencies are in the exact same position.
My biggest gripe with DDG is that if I search for a business, even when using the exact name, it will almost surely come back with a couple Yelp results (which is like getting a link to a 2005 MySpace page) followed by a dozen Facebook profiles that vaguely resemble the name of the business I was searching for.

This being said DDG was able to take over 99.99% of my searching needs for some time now. And when I have some query that doesn't seem to return anything useful on DDG it turns out Google doesn't really do much better (YMMV).

I still use Youtube and Google Maps heavily compared to alternative services. But for everything else I decided to "spread the joy" and not rely on a single provider of services.
> I cant delete facebook

And people ask why I have su on my phone. I want ownership, nothing more...

Anyway, for public transport directions, have you checked the apps available in F-Droid? The main ones that come to mind are Transportr and Öffi, I don't know if they work (well) whereever you're located though. Newer versions of OsmAnd can also do this to an extent, but doesn't pull the schedules (let alone realtime delays) so it only shows you "you can take bus 6 and then train 9" without knowing anything about their schedules, so that's largely useless at the moment.
Are there any case studies where microservices went well?

From an end user perspective, Netflix runs in “constantly degraded” mod.

From an engineering perspective, they track “number of successful stream starts”, instead of percentage of the time 100% of their services are working. That’s a huge red flag.

As a researcher, the monitoring and fault-propagation / modeling work they’ve done to get it to stay up at all is impressive, but it’s not clear all of that tooling would be necessary if they didn’t have to reason about N^2 fault tolerance scenarios, where N = 100’s of microservices. That’s on the order of one fault tolerance scenario for each atom in the universe.
Then make the wrapper function async and await setMyState?
something like this? (albeit tied to gtk) http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/en/man1/zenity.1...
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When I first read this issue, I was assuming the user was losing unsaved code in their editor, which seemed like user error and I thought they had resolved that issue long ago. After reading the comments and reading the summary again, I'm pretty sure that this is actually the background updater has downloaded, detects that code is closed and starts to update automatically, but since the computer is rebooting, it gets killed.

The first comment about just checking if shutdown is in progress should work.
A lot of times the problem actually comes down to not being able to find out what process is keeping a file open and/or not being able to close the process or file.
Many public school programs are set up more as 'day care for older kids' than 'a place for kids to learn'. It's highly dependent on what part of a city/county you live in, at least in the US, as to whether you'll have a healthy/positive learning environment in a school.
> if the employer requires the applicant's current salary on the application,

I never apply to jobs that ask these questions. It shows they're more concerned about holding you back than competing with the market.