skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of folks back East, they say, is leavin' home every day,

Beatin' the hot old dusty way to the California line.

'Cross the desert sands they roll, gettin' out of that old dust bowl,

They think they're goin' to a sugar bowl, but here's what they find

Now, the police at the port of entry say,

"You're number fourteen thousand for today."

Oh, if you ain't got the do re mi, folks, you ain't got the do re mi,

Why, you better go back to beautiful Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Georgia, Tennessee.

California is a garden of Eden, a paradise to live in or see;

But believe it or not, you won't find it so hot

If you ain't got the do re mi.

You want to buy you a home or a farm, that can't deal nobody
harm,

Or take your vacation by the mountains or sea.

Don't swap your old cow for a car, you better stay right where you are,

Better take this little tip from me.

'Cause I look through the want ads every day

But the headlines on the papers always say:

If you ain't got the do re mi, boys, you ain't got the do re mi,

Why, you better go back to beautiful Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Georgia, Tennessee.

California is a garden of Eden, a paradise to live in or see;

But believe it or not, you won't find it so hot

If you ain't got the do re mi.

Words and Music by Woody Guthrie
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If the ships don't float, the navy doesn't navy.

But if the radio doesn’t work the Navy even today can fall back to light signals or even semaphore or flag codes. That’s the point, there isn’t just reliability, there is also redundancy.

If the tanks cannot tank, the army can’t army against a near-peer enemy either...
With other languages there's some hope of a free lunch and it engages our tendency to optimism.

Asking as someone who's mostly only written PHP (and some javascript, more recently): can you expand on this? What kind of "hope of a free lunch" is there with other languages?
Tooling, tooling, tooling!

.net has proper debugging working compared to node.js, has great standard library, can develop 3d games, servers, mobile apps, web apps, machine learning ,desktop apps and even (some) embedded devices.

Great instrumentation and support with quality updates from MS and the community.
The IDE is superb and free (community edition at least), drag & drop desktop & mobile app development (if you wish).

I've worked with PHP for about 4 years (5.x - 7.0 days), .net for the next 6 years and node.js for the last 1 year, and every day i work with node.js i wish i could switch everything to .net because it's sooo much better & smoother experience, and everything just works together so well.
Cool! I wonder if this also does anything to fix audio in Slack calls and Microsoft Teams? Once I spoof the useragent, I mean. :)
They are if they're a representative sample. Margin of error is bounded by 1/sqrt(n) in that case.
I wonder if it'll fix the fans going nuts on google.com/<whatever> video calls.
Well for starters, not allowing open air drug dealing and arresting illegal drug dealers in the streets. Cooperating with ICE, and so on. Starting to take action against homeless that do refuse housing because they enjoy the homeless lifestyle, which in turn will make it less attractive for non-native homeless to come to San Francisco.
I started my career as C dev, working on driver level software. These days I want to stay as far away from hardware as possible. Hardware is horrible, bugs, bugs, bugs, and more bugs.
Go right ahead and please show us all how it's done.
Outlaw street-level drug use.
I always wonder why do companies have to implement oauth2/open id connect. It seems like a big waste in tech to spend so much time implementing the same things by different companies.

can you tell me if there is a good drop in component that I can add to my product and integrate easily to get oauth2/open id connect? I heard good things about identity server but would appreciate if you could share your opinion on it.
Wow, everybody here seems to talk about first amendment, stock price and whatnot, completely ignoring the content of his statement. Hes a billionaire who wants his workers to get back to work, irrespective of their health. Dafuq. HN is such a boot licking community sometimes.

Go ahead, downvote me
What "home brew" protocols and encryption does Salt use?
Yeah the labs were the only benefit any more, otherwise its lots of standing in lines. I went to the "first" WWDC (not called it yet) back in 1986; no mobile devices, so everyone was forced to, gasp, talk with each other. It was tons of fun to hear what other devs were doing, you could learn while standing in line! Plus Apple served us real food, and took us out on trips (in 1986 the whole conference went out on a boat in SF harbor). Last time I went (right before the switch back to San Jose) everyone was looking at their phones or MacBooks and working. It was much harder to engage people in talking.
Yes, that did sound condescending. I'm both a defender and detractor of JavaScript. I'm mostly a detractor of PHP, but could possibly defend it once in a while if I see misinformation.

Peter Norvig at some point came to the realization that the deficiencies of Python relative to Lisp were not deal-breakers, and I don't think that stemmed from his limited experience.
Sounds like family
As a developer with a poor design sense I noticed all that, also (the rest applies to my mac display, FF developer):

things are not perfectly aligned, the menu on the top is a little out of alignment with the button on the right.

the white box in the middle of the blue area is moved out of alignment with everything else, also the text above the white is a little smushed.

quotes could use some padding.

If all these things were fixed I would say Spartan design, I like it.

As it is now I find it a little annoying and ugly, of course without this post to add to I would never have tried to figure out what exactly I didn't like but that's how it goes I guess.
Some stats from https://www.surveysystem.com/sscalc.htm
Plugged in 800,000 as pop size, and 99% as confidence level and 4 as confidence interval.
The number it spits out is 1039
It is a pretty good sample size.
A place with the highest housing prices in the country, where software engineers make over six figures and still have roommates, also happens to have a large number of homeless people - nope, no causality there, it's just that they're all drug addicts or living the H O M E L E S S L I F E S T Y L E or (some other thing that absolves me of any need to have empathy for my fellow people)

Software engineers who move in and give zero shits about their fellow humans are truly the disease of SF, not the homeless.
Are you the spokesperson for actual buddhists?
The conversation I had with a Google engineer implied the appropriate course of action was to embed the secret.

https://github.com/openid/AppAuth-JS/issues/46
From Dell I can buy a 30w charger for £11.63, or a 90w charger for £19.55.

From Apple I get just a mains lead for £19.95. Apple have 30w USB C charger (with mains plug) for £49, and all their other Mac chargers are £79.

The Apple chargers are nice, but I don't get the hostility to the Dell chargers. Why are people looking at the charger?

If we're talking about chargers, what's wrong with the company culture at Apple that nobody says - "hang on, why are we gently electrocuting our users? shall we fix it?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12946673 (note this isn't just people using it in ungrounded outlets, there are UK users in that thread).
I've heard great things about Columbus, OH. Never been there but sounds like a great midwest city with an affordable cost of living and nice college town (The Ohio State University).
This is exactly what my partner and I did. I'm remote and she is COVID-19 remote, so we're sheltering in place in a city we wanted to see. A furnished unit is 1k cheaper than our Bay Area rent was. The weather is great and we get to walk our dog in new parks.

It is an unprecedented time and we're having trouble coming up with reasons to go back. We moved out there for a big n salary for me. That wasn't the work I wanted to do so I'm part time now doing what I enjoy. That really throws off the rent justification though.
It's really nice. Better than any other browser password manager. I've resisted using the browser's until now (I have 1Password) but the sync feature is slick for iOS.
it uses the standard cryptography or pycrypto backends as everything else
Sure, I've thought about leaving myself, but where else can you just take a dump on a sidewalk whenever you feel like it? Or where else can you take anything you want without legal repercussions, as long as it's worth less than $950 misdemeanor limit?

San Francisco is a paradise!
Moderators don't delete content on HN in the sense of removing it altogether. The most we do is kill it, meaning remove it from the default view of the site—but anyone with 'showdead' set to 'yes' in their profile can still see it.
In India,one of the slogans of Lockdown is Stay Home,Stay Safe. I think many other countries have urged their citizens to stay at home aswell.

My concern is, if the risk of transmission is more indoors than outdoors as this study indicates(https://theprint.in/health/sharing-indoor-space-major-infect...), Is staying at home making people Vit-D deficient coz of less exposure to sunlight?

And If this is true, is it one of the factors responsible for severe Covid19 outcomes?

Is this also the reason why old folks are severely affected from Covid19, coz they may tend to stay indoors more, relative to other age groups?
Watch the attached video - it's a really beautiful plume of plasma, and helps visualize what's going on in the diagrams.
Linking to a couple of incidents isn't proof of increase in crime. Rate have actually been steadily declining for years.
Exactly. I work 50-60 hours a week if I get paid by the hour. More if it's my own company. If it's a standard 40 hour week, then that's all I work. That's the deal we agreed to. The company doesn't give me anything for going that extra mile, so I just do regular hours and I save my energy for me.

I've never got a raise or a promotion, except by changing jobs. I got a bonus once. I've also been let go with 0 days notice the day before my birthday, without so much as a thank you. Companies treat you as an expendable cog, and that's what I give them in exchange. It's fair.
at least there is a manual
There is nothing wrong with that sample size. That should give less than a 3% margin of error at 95% confidence.
For me I know about what this data stands for and what it represents, I just don't know what to do _after_ acquiring this sort of data. Any pointers on that? I live in a really poor country where I can't do algotrading anyways but the eventual goal is to venture into that field by moving abroad, any pointers on what I can build right now with free APIs or from data like this?
I say we let them continue "thriving" just like we did for decades. Left wing "activists" keep their steady income so they can continue pretending to solve problems, the homeless will be happy too. As for tax payers, we can scare them with Trump and republicans so they keep voting for us. What do you say? Sounds like a win-win-win to me.
Cooperating with ICE to send these people back to America where they come from? My, my, San Francisco’s atavistic parochialism is really something but calling ones fellow Americans illegal immigrants. That’s good.
90% is the rate. 1200 is the sample size.
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Hey there! We definitely agree with you. While we were trying to avoid asking for permission to run on all sites before gaining our users trust, we also wanted to find the right balance of working on popular sites to show the value of Toucan. For this, we used a list of the top 500 sites around the world without any filter (which there definitely should have been). Thank you so much for pointing this out, as this was not our intention. We will be combing through this list shortly and updating to make sure Toucan is only enabled by default on sites that our users would feel comfortable with. Again, really appreciate your insight here, this is tremendously helpful.
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I think you should give the podcast "Ear Hustle" a listen. It's produced from inside San Quentin prison. I think once you hear these people, you'll see that it's a really nuanced issue. And, even if it doesn't change your opinion, it's full of fascinating stories. https://www.earhustlesq.com/

You know, it was only two years ago when I first sat down to have a conversation with a formerly incarcerated person. This was a guy who been imprisoned for over fifty years for triple murder, two of which were in self defense and one of which he didn't commit. He was only released because it came to light that the judge who ran his trial didn't inform the jury of the "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard of evidence. In fact, the judge did this whenever a Black defendant was being tried, which lead to dozens of Black people being wrongly convicted. When I heard first hand what he had been subjected to while in prison, I realized just how unfair this system is. After fifty years of torture for a crime he should never have been convicted of, he was thrown out on the street with neither an apology nor any resources. No system is infallible enough to judge who has committed a crime when the consequences for making a mistake are so severe.
That only holds true if you assume this sample is representative of the overall population of SF.
> The shadow around the address bar field is reduced in width when a new tab is opened;

I mean, at least they're trying, I guess. Still seems to me like lipstick on a pig.

I'm still trying to figure out what UX problem the expanding bar was intended to address.
Haha, I don’t think you have to tell anyone this. They’ll do it themselves.
Not to be cynical, but this strikes me as more of a ad - or click bait. Search numbers on a website that I, at least, have never heard of is pretty poor evidence for a trend.
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This is nearly always a problem in open communities with voting. Even if such ettiquette is in place, enough people will ignore it or disagree on what it means that it may as well not exist.

As a result, discussions boil down to relatively inoffensive and well-accepted opinions as those who disagree with the hivemind's consensus are either downvoted or are afraid of being downvoted because they know their contribution won't be accepted.

The only online spaces I've seen where this isn't a problem are those that are strongly moderated, for example Reddit's /r/AskHistorians, and spaces where the community is small, tight-knit and known to each other.

In the former case, the responsibility for determining what has any value and what doesn't is left to the moderators, who follow strict, publicly visible rules. Anything left is required to be high-quality.

In the second, either people assume the best of each other or they're more averse to conflict. I like to believe the former.
give them the compassion and support that any one of us deserves as human beings. if they are mental ill, then get them on the medication they need. if they want a job, give them one. if they are on drugs, get them into a program like NA and give them the medication to combat the withdrawl. everyone deserves the help the desire. there is no reason why we should putting each other down.
I think not. Prepare to be gentrified by superior economics.
If after 20 years of PHP experience you arrived at "not 100% sold on node.js" as your most likely alternative, that to me more than anything else signals a strong, ongoing vote for PHP :)
I'm quite confident it's accurate. Downloading is copying. Downloading leaked proprietary source-code infringes the copyrights of the holder. That's as it should be.

If you download a commercial ebook from BitTorrent without having paid for a licence, that's copyright infringement. Nintendo chooses not to put its source-code on the market, so you have no means of acquiring a licence to it. Downloading their copyrighted work in the absence of a proper licence, and in the absence of an exception like fair use (I really doubt that applies here), is copyright infringement, almost by definition.
It's really not.

You also wouldn't expose your database just because it's password-protected?

I bet all these public servers have a firewall running to protect other services.

Shouldn't be hard to include the saltstack port(s) and whitelist the relevant IP addresses.

Also,the main difference with your example is that the clients that connect to webservers and vpns are either not known in advance or don't have static IP addresses.
There are hundreds of these by now. I've even made a simple one (https://covid19data.ml). There's nothing really exceptional here.

I highly recommend this one: https://covidly.com

It is based on the logarithmic technique done by the Minute Physics youtube channel. Logarithmic graphs are great for indicating when exponential trends might be reaching their inflection points.

Also if you're using the Johns Hopkins data, it's got a lot of issues:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/fighting-with-the-data/

I've noticed the U Washington data seems to be using entirely different numbers.
> After updating your code, you can just reload the page. That's it. It's seamless.

This is available with many other languages as well, i.e. https://github.com/cosmtrek/air

It may require an external tool, but the deployment experience is a lot simpler for Go than PHP.
44M US adults now use ‘borrowed’ accounts to access streaming services
How many people on the boat do you need that know celestial navigation?

Easy. The same number that know how to use a GPS. Your one guy may be the first casualty.

We've got plenty of ways to defeat jamming, the newest block of GPS satellites have ways to increase signal power in certain areas and anti-radiation missiles can blow up a jammer.

What do you do when your enemy dumps a load of sand in orbit?
how many times will someone say the same thing ? Isn't this old news ?
Cockroach Labs scores $86.6M Series D as scalable database resonates
Which is about what you expect - Oracle has a sizeable legacy business with which they can exploit. But are they really winning new business without subsidy?
We got hit by this on Saturday night :|
Hey everyone! I wrote this up and felt it might be of interest to both the technical peeps here (Scroll down midway for some EBS & Instance Store benchmarks) as well as the less technical peeps (Stuff near the top for you folks).

Would love to hear any thoughts about the article, my benchmarking methodology, or anything else really!

Happy to answer any questions you might have as well :)
I used caddy on and off for many years and finally went back for good.

For one, the community support is fantastic. Matt, Francis, you will not recognize me from my name here but you were first class helpers (and still are).

The fact that caddy has an API is a breakthrough. Automating config provisioning is a godsend

I belive that you child easily take over Traefik in the edge router space if configuration was a bit more modular (today is is Caddyfile, or API and no external sources of data such as the docker daemon (there was some discussion about that with the owner of Lucas Lorentz @lucaslorentz but it is I think dead-ish).

I moved yesterday all my prod from Traefik to caddy and it works just great.

Thanks a lot for caddy!
It may be a cultural thing, my partner is Hungarian and she has your stereotypical programmers level of bluntness/intolerance of waffle.

She is (hilariously to me since I know her) direct but never rude, her family are all much the same.
If there is no housing available, then why are illegal immigrants tolerated which would arguably make the problem worse? It makes no sense.
Keeping UK over-70s in lockdown could cut restrictions for millions – scientists
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It is probably worth pointing out on this thread that there is a brand new draft (not yet on the working group) attempting to combine extensions and the best practices of OAuth (including these security practices) into a new "2.1" version.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-parecki-oauth-v2-1-02
No, facebook doesn't. The good programmers facebook hires don't work on the legacy PHP code. They do stuff like sigma. Also, I am not describing a problem, I am pointing out that their perceived problem doesn't exist. If I can hire a good programmer and make them write PHP, I could also hire the good programmer and let them write in a tolerable language, so the mythical "its easy to find PHP devs and impossible to find anything else devs" claim is out the window.
I recognize the meter used in that article, looks like a Dylos DC1100 Pro or similar. I own one, they're a bit better than the worst consumer ones, but not of the caliber I would expect for an article doing investigative research. You could certainly get a sense of "better/worse" but I'd be skeptical of any quantitative readings (I've seen mine be off by an order of magnitude or more)
Isaac Asimov asks, “How do people get new ideas?”
Working Through a CI/CD Pipeline
Please help to undo the disillusioning? :)

This is actually a very good time in your life. You can learn a lot about yourself and the world. The problem is not that you've got disillusioned: you're not disillusioned enough. What if that happy state you want to re-create was an illusion too?

You want to get the motivation back and get rid of the demotivation you've accumulated through the years. But what if motivation is an illusion? Doesn't it strike you as odd that instead of doing something we often try to create a motivation that would then make us do what we wanted to do in the first place? What if we could skip that extra step and just do the original thing? :) (And this doesn't mean to substitute positive motivation with negative or something like that. Just no motivation at all.) Similarly, what if instead of suffering from the bad feelings you could just let these feelings be without being driven by them?
From an archiving perspective, this is incredible. I don't trust corporations, even those as wonderful as Nintendo, to do proper archiving of their systems and release it even 100 years on.
Seattle is a great choice. Salaries are similar. The politics aren’t idiotic. No state income tax. Standard of living is just as good.
There is plenty to dislike about javascript but modern versions are really quite nice. We're about to ship our first node backend having been largely a django shop up until now. There is loads to miss about django and python, but it is so nice to not have the context switching between languages and paradigms. It may not be for everyone, but if you're doing modern web, I think the starting point has become javascript everywhere, and then moving away from that on a use-case basis.
Normal flour is not useful, I'm not sure why[1]. But you can buy starch for cooking in most supermarkets[2].

[1] My guess is that normal flour has gluten that makes it sticky and traps the small CO2 bubbles that are produced by the yeast to make bread. I always wondered this.

[2] At least here in Argentina.
Sounds right.

Vaguely related interesting reading on philosophers exploring what it means to learn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_argument#Thought_exp...
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