skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Such a powerful claim with no data to back it up, but just a few cases meshed together with fancy rhetoric. I already knew it will be a great article when the author started with a disclaimer about what this post will not be about and then start with a big quote from himself. I was not disappointed.

> It is the idea that the web we interface with should continue to be open and transparent.

This is still the case and I don't see any threat that will likely to change this. Of course, governments will continue to pull off shady things, like break encryption, but we fight back all the time.

The web is fine. It comes in many shapes and forms, there are endless communities and the technology is smoother than ever to build on it.

If you look at the graph of hosts on the internet, it seems to be plateaued at around a billion, almost dead. This could have backed up the author's claim, but he would have entered the numbers territory where it could be read with a totally different outcome.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/264473/number-of-interne...

The web is fine.
> It will save vast amount of time and money.

And it will prevent much animal suffering.
The closest alternative I’ve seen is definitely north east arrow with hook. Personally, I like its simpler appearance. Ideally you would still want to label it on hover with some alt or title attribute text.
> Having a 'visionary' in charge is often a benefit, many would prefer to have Zuckerberg in charge rather than a board of activist investors

Of course but not necessarily because he's 'visionary'. Rather he's shown a considerable willingness to put any moral concerns aside in the interest of increasing profits. If you have any doubts think of how many times he was forced to come public with statements like "we'll do better" without actually doing better. So it makes sense for many to hitch their wagon to him instead of some dissident who may alleviate some of the moral issues at a cost.
There's https://shopkits.eink.com/product/42%CB%9D-monochrome-epaper..., a 42" monochrome display module, but it costs $2500 and it's a component, not a full solution. But, it could be made into a product, the components are all present. It'd likely retail at an easy $5000 - $10000 though, and I don't know if that is competitive with e.g. the Surface Hub (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/business/surface-hub... only found one price for it but it's $10K, but you get a full computer, high resolution color touch screen, etc.
I use meet professionally on a daily basis as my company is a GApps for business customer and most people I talked to are pretty satisfied. Sound, connection and video quality is very good, far better than Slack in my opinion. We had meetings with more than 100 paticipants. Integration in Google Calendar is also a big plus.

One pretty minor thing that bothers me is that the webcam and mic mute toggles and the hang up button are blended in and out on moving the mouse cursor during a call. I'd prefer to at least have the option to let the toggles stay onscreen as I tend to use the mute mic toggle a lot during a meeting. Also there is a moment of awkwardness every time a call ends because many participants look for the end call button.

It's a great thing that I can use my Smartphone as a mic during a meeting. Would be great if this could be expanded to my phones' cam as a webcam replacement.
Consider resolution. With non encrypted video, you receive one hd stream. With 100 people, you'd need 100x the bandwidth, and supporting things like highlighting speaking people would need to be done client side.
Their ruling aligns with my own experience of committees and regulator: strict fundamentalist interpretations of made up rules that borders on the contrariant or lazy.

The meta goal is usability. This shouldn't be a philosophical debate about what constitute a symbol...
I think the fallacies list needs an addition for “wrongly accusing others of logical fallacies and linking it in your response”.
Yeah definitely, I'd stick a few around the house if it was easy to create a nice dashboard from multiple data sources. Current top tasks on to-do list, habbitrpg overview, last nights sleep quality, exercise amount/progress, weight status, indoor air quality, time and weather would be great.
I read a thing on HN the other day that was about being able to change an eink display off of wireless power (not sure if it was "ambient" energy like wifi signals or a directed thing like Qi); it's slow but apparently possible to incrementally change an e-ink screen like that. Could work with solar panels, and I'm sure that could be integrated into the screen.
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This makes it even stranger that of all developped nations only the US didn't manage to get this right.
And that's the real result of this, people will just settle on a collective commandeering of the closest symbol, making the decision irrelevant and retrospectively worse than pointless.

Annoy everyone enough, and we can redefine the nunicode codepoints as rationals and hand the denominator to another group.
I'm a Code Monkey Now
Long story short, a few months ago I had to change jobs due to my previous company being in financial trouble.

The new company seemed very attractive at first,

* seemed to have great culture on the surface,

* best practices followed (some projects at my previous job weren't always 100% great regarding this aspect)

* tech stack that allows me to stay relevant (in my previous job, some of the tools/frameworks used were a bit less mainstream, and I learned the hard way that those are not very marketable when you are looking for a job).

* great salary (higher than I ever had before)

Then a few things happened:

* Our salary was temporarily reduced in response to Covid-19. This was not great, but I was OK with that, I saw that several companies around here (I'm not in the US) had massive redundancies so I was glad they went for a salary reduction instead.

* I realised we were expected to work at a higher pace compared to my previous job. This is OK, I recognise that in my last place we weren't the fastest team around, it's OK for me to work a bit harder as I still enjoy SW development.

* This is the part were I broke and led me to write this post: I realised that I'm basically expected to be a code monkey. Every attempt to start discussions about the architecture, or even about minor things like how we should structure a module, is met with resistance and I'm implicitly reminded I'm here to write code and meet daily goals and I shouldn't waste time. This is not something that I'm going to live well with, I was never in such a position, I was given great autonomy in the past.

* I thought I should move on. But I just started, how would it look on my resume that I've been here for just a few months? In addition, I'm reluctant to leave right now because as mentioned, due to COVID-19, the job market is not great.

What should I do? I'm not in a good mood (quarantine doesn't help) and I would really appreciate some advice right now.
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When I was a kid (teenager) I worked at an indoords shooting range, mind you, not real guns but just BB guns. I was supervising a bunch of school kids do some practice shooting at biathlon targets (just 10m however) and one of them had an issue with the gun with the pellet getting stuck somehow. I had a look at the gun, sorted the pellet out and fired the gun off the hip and hit a bullseye without aiming. Pure luck of course but the kids were like "woaaah" and of course I never told them that it was just luck and not my mad leet shooting skills XD
Americans have bought the idea that everything in the US is so cheap, hook line and sinker, and don't question it. As an American living abroad I hear it all the time. Then I actually put up prices and pretty much everything is cheaper but labor where I am. Everything you need - cars, transport, healthcare, education, good quality fresh food - are usually pretty expensive these days in the US. More niche stuff like hobby equipment yes can be cheaper in the US due to market size.
The brilliant authorities around the world have made it illegal to go to parks. In some places, it is illegal to be outside, in front of your own house.

All this of course reduces vitamin D levels.
Covid-19 crisis will wipe out demand for fossil fuels, says IEA
Yes, agreed. Knowing Afrikaans makes it easy to read dutch.
That's why you have package managers to work with thousands of repos for you.
It wouldn't. That's literally what coroutines are. In-process, lightweight, cooperative multitasking, built in as a language feature (or at least close enough to it).
I use a config file for all my regular SSH connections as well. But I stopped using more than one key when I could not think of a threat model that it addressed.

If the bad guys get a copy of my public key off one remote server, they can't use it to access any other remote server. They would need the private key, which is on my laptop.

And if the bad guys get my laptop, then they get all my keys; having separate private keys for separate servers doesn't help if they're all sitting next to each other on one device.

I do set a password on my private key, though.
Jira is confusing too.
Are the numbers for the ServerAliveCountMax and ServerAliveInterval accidentally swapped? Wouldn't it make much more sense to check every second, and fail if five consecutive checks failed, rather than check only every five seconds, and then fail immediately if one check is dropped due to very transient network issues?
> The page itself is served in both HTTP and HTTPS, can be visited in and outside the LAN.

So why can't you use one of these options:

1. Redirect all users to HTTPS, since you apparently already have a globally valid certificate.

2. Rewrite the tags to use HTTPS only when the page is loaded over HTTPS.

3. Set upgrade-insecure-requests only when the page is loaded over HTTPS.
Well.. Lufthansa does not have a monopoly in Germany. We have solid railway infrastructure within Germany, other Airlines servicing us in all directions. Lufthansa will have to offer competitive prices.

However, yes, flying will become more pricy. Around the world. We will see lower passenger numbers for many many years, mid-term many have to financially recover, long term environmental and viral concerns will be a permanent affect on tourism. Increased digitalization will reduce business travel. And all of that while the costs of the airlines increases due to stable fix costs and increased security/hygiene/... regulations.

So yes, flying will become more expensive. But not due to government sponsorship and monopolies (for LH in Germany).
Huh, the point of the bias towards noticing things that we dislike is interesting, and there's good research backing it. I don't think that it necessarily affects much the comparison of one community against another, though, as one wouldn't be particularly more susceptible to it than another. Still, it likely means that the negatives are not as pronounced as they are perceived to be.

> The HN community doesn't think anything. It's a collection of millions of people.

You could say the same thing about r/The_Donald. And it would be true there, too. But communities, including HN, do often tend to have particular inclinations and behavior as a group, even if there are many individual members who diverge.
I’ll ask tomorrow if I can remember and get back to you.
That's an odd reaction for someone not picking a side.

If there is evidence of systemic racism in the criminal justice system, that needs to be brought to light, and fixing the problem needs to be made the highest political priority.

I believe there is absolutely no evidence of this at all.
"Overall, extremely low frequency magnetic fields were evaluated as possibly carcinogenic to humans (Group 2B)."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK390731/
One of most peculiar tourist attractions in the Wieliczka salt mine near Krakow are signs with a shaft symbol that is not in Unicode. It looks like a # with a · in the middle and appears in texts instead of the word "shaft".
Zoom corrects usage numbers: says it has 300M daily meeting participants
Honestly, to this native speaker, articulated was a perfectly good word choice in this instance & one that I might have made myself.

I agree; I don’t think the alternate meaning of 'jointed movement' is going to occur to the majority of people - it’s really not in common use.
Sure, nobody pretends it is not a special situation. It is still deeply unfair that when you need a bailout I don't allow it, when I need it, it is a special situation so it is OK.
But instructions are given by superiors, while code reviews (generally) by peers. If someone you don't respect starts barking "Change 'this' to 'that'", would you?

I mean sure, in some cases you can completely disassociate from the human side of code, disregard a comment's name in favor of objective truth or however you want to word it, but in a lot of instances you still have to share the same office with that person.
... aren't you then sharing it with the Slack (the service, not the room) too?
When we went all-WFH in March, my company switched to Meet for almost all of our meetings (though some use WebEx), and it's fantastic. Audio quality is great, nobody has trouble connecting, etc.
When you say it like that, I'm pretty impressed that I ran a successful no-construction business by renting an office in an existing building :)
yes, my granny loves working with her package manager with thousands of repos when she wants to install a funny kitty photos app.
Yes and let's not forget that all companies of such size have many skeletons in their closets and directors know all about them and they can be used against the company.

If some of these board members are well connected to lobbyists in Washington, they can change the balance of power.

Facebook's dominance is completely dependent on cheap fiat currency issued by banks at low interest rates. If the economic and political environment changes, Facebook may not survive.

Facebook was founded on an unsound economy where popularity is valued much more highly than profits. In a sound economic environment, popularity by itself is a fickle thing which cannot be relied upon (without it being supported by real net value), but in our new economic age with massive fiat money printing, companies like Facebook have found a way to monopolize user attention and control it in a predictable way.
This is especially important in some cases where you have local shell wrappers around commands that execute on a remote server with SSH.

I do this for my email, for example, where the actual programs for dealing with my email sits on a server, but on each host I have shell scripts with the same name as the original program, except all they do is SSH to the server and run the actual program there. When navigating a GUI that runs these shell wrappers, you get a lot of opening and closing of SSH sessions very quickly.
Hey I don't wanna be wrong, always happy to be learn I am so I can stop ;) if my goal were to scream into the aethter there's easier places.
Twitter does not "require" a phone number, but they'll lock your account very quickly for "suspicious activity" if you don't provide one.

I imagine Google to be similar.
I haven't done code reviews in forever, but when I did them, sure there were some things that were plain wrong, but there were also a lot of things where I wasn't sure if it actually needed a change - a confirmation from the developer would be required.

And then there's things that I would like to see changed, but as a personal preference; when it comes down to it, it doesn't make a difference and I don't really care, so I would posit it as a suggestion instead of a command. Mind you, if I didn't really care either way, I could've chosen to ignore it as well. But you know how some people get <_<
No. The problem is that you have to have that metadata there, where ever it is that you want to point. What if it's not there? Oh yeah, doesn't work. It's just a normal pointer, pointing to an array and header.

If I pick up some library (or system call interface..), and it uses this structure

struct foo {
struct bar a;
char b[64];
};

The metadata field that cello wants is not there. I cannot use cello's "fat pointers" because they are not fat pointers at all. I would have to modify the struct to have array-with-length-header (which is what cello calls a fat pointer.. talk about confusing pointers and arrays!) , which might be impossible if it's someone else's binary interface that I am using.

If I had actual fat pointers, then the size would be simply passed together with the pointer and I wouldn't have to have modify structures to accommodate an extra field. Of course, I can't pass these pointers to functions that expect normal pointers, but it wouldn't make sense to do that anyway, and if implemented right, doing that would require me to misdeclare a function. You would pass normal pointers to old C code that expects and deals with normal pointers.
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Freedom of speech is not freedom of consequences.
The larger point stands it’s just ‘but people are talking about single digit GDP percentage point declines‘ that I was correcting. That said, Pennsylvania and several other states waited until April to order a shutdown, but the observed GDP decline was annualizing a ~1% though there was growth in the ready of Q1.

Long story short, that 4.8% is absolutely worthless.
Shouldn't hackernews have some policy of marking paywalled articles? Something like:

[paywall] Mark Zuckerberg Asserts Control of Facebook, Pushing Aside Dissenters

It would be very helpful to avoid getting irritated by the paywalls. And maybe collectively we could ignore paywalled sources.
> But communities, including HN, do often tend to have particular inclinations and behavior as a group, even if there are many individual members who diverge.

And I'd rather see people seriously discuss the groupthink of those communities rather than just dismiss it due to the fact that it isn't completely universal.
Because the <img> <video> content is served on a LAN machine with custom TLD. HTTPS don't work with that.

However I can use reverse of your methods to redirect every HTTPS to HTTP.
You might be thinking about the "cornerstone".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornerstone
Yes, both Carl Bildt and Lars Løkke are liberals and part of dismantling/developing our system into less socialist or "social" if you prefer.

We certainly don't have central planning, and if that was inherent in the word socialism I guess Lars Løkke wouldn't have had to say "far from a socialist planned economy". It is far from that.
It is also, as I see it, increasingly far from a social(ist) system, but we did use to have more of that, and in my opinion (not alone here) it was better.

I am fairly well educated and have had a good salary when I was working (voluntarily not working right now because I have lots of money and prefer to do other things), but like many others around here I prefer that my money gets spent having a functional society to having more pocket money to buy luxury items.

And I know that from a Liberal/libertarian pov I don't have the right to decide that for others, but from my point of view that kind of exaggerated individualism is dysfunctional and individuals don't exist any more or less than groups. We need both rights and pragmatic optimisation of general wellbeing. Everybody is better off when there is less poverty and misery around.
It seems like everyone is an expert on infectious disease these days. From site reliability engineers to electric car manufacturers.
“No-code” in this article refers to founders who don’t code.
webRTC is great, but in practice still a lot of hurdles to implement, especially for mobile.
It is simply in his financial interest to have everything back to normal as soon as possible...

It does not matter to him if he kills thousands of more people who would have otherwise lived due to over crowded hospitals, by spreading misinformation and convincing people to go back to their normal routines.
Adding more bike paths to reach city center from suburbs and locking down city center for cars should follow next. There are plenty of research which shows that slow traffic brings more business to shops
Yes CO2 emmisions have obviously dropped.
Interestingly levels of most pollutants measurable in the atmosphere have dropped sharply, whilst CO2 levels have continued to rise, ie the crisis has had zero effect on CO2.
Joe Bastardi (weather genius) explains that this is because most CO2 comes from the ocean, not mankind.
He also reminds us that recent warming simce the cool 70’s is mostly driven by slight increases in water vapour in the arctic regions, where it has a dramatic effect, because they are so dry and so cold.
Maybe time to revist those pseudo scientific, crystal ball gazing, climate models, the ones that have to keep postponing their predictions of doom and catastrophe - kind of similar to the recent pandemic models - which have also driven ruinessly expensive policy making.
Hm, apparently what you found is something else (i.e. https://github.com/saljam/webwormhole/issues/5).

There is still an open bug for large file transfers: https://github.com/saljam/webwormhole/issues/4
> Its main rationale appears to be that the external link icon is not an element of plain text. I would agree that is the case. However I would like to point out that emoji and other similar useful symbols are not plain text either yet they have been accepted and continue to be accepted.

The author seems to be using a very limited definition of "plain text". Emoji are clearly used in the same way as latin-character text in communication, so they are effectively plain text.

I think a more effective argument may be that the external-link symbol should be allowed for the same reasons that the power on/off/toggle and eject symbols were allowed.
> 1:1 Most teammates value it

lmaof not at any company where I've worked. Everyone has hated it just hated it

Here is why:

- Its awkward because you often have little or nothing to discuss.

- The person you are speaking to is pretty much powerless should you need something to change

- Its yet another meeting you have to attend
I guess you could emulate the "Photo Texturing" functionality in something like Blender with UV Unwrapping? Will give it a go later.

The "Image Warping" I'm pretty sure you can do in Photoshop these days tho'.
Way to go Lithuania and great idea!
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The pile of poop would not ever get accepted as a character in unicode on its own. It's there because of including an existing character encoding set (IIRC from Japanese featurephone messaging standards), which had a pile of poop character and other emoji, so for purposes of compatibility all the characters of that set must get Unicode mappings.

So there's a situation of dual standards - all the weird characters that were included in any pre-Unicode text encodings for whatever arbitrary reasons are in Unicode and are always going to be there; but all the new weird characters need appropriate justification for inclusion and are likely to be denied.
why would anyone need an app to print a text stating their business is closed?

probably someone was just looking for any reason to get rid of this.
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Hi, anyone knows alternatives to Q2 Biller Direct API? Apparently, Q2 is not taking new clients for this product right now.