skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If their description of the software is correct then that part is irrelevant (privacy-wise). I guess with this source-code you could at least figure out if their implementation is as anonymous as they claim it is.
"Wasn't a great sacrifice", what do you know of his personal situation?

It's funny how some can be more critical of the employees that dare to speak out, than the actual companies that have enacted policies that put thousands of workers at risk across the globe.
I don't consider it a waste of resources. It will help them develop their leadership and communication skills. This will be essential if they want to motivate a team of people to achieve something later in life.
"Fun" statistic: in less than half a century, we've gotten rid of around 60% of Earth’s wildlife. [1]

[1] https://www.wwf.org.uk/updates/living-planet-report-2018
Where would I find out if my S6 is going to be patched for this?
U.S. field hospitals stand down, most without treating any Covid-19 patients
This isn't unique to WeChat. How do you think you receive free teleconferencing services from Google?
What kind of agreement that wouldn't come off as too aggressive

In business to business, nobody gets offended when someone else expects to be paid (except people who don't plan to pay, but that's another story or two). In B2B the price is the price. Figure out what you need to charge to make enough money to make it worth your while in the long run. That's actually easy enough to be done in a few hours. Spending time coming up with the perfect price for a one off deal is a waste of time. It's a way of avoiding rejection. Throw a number at it. If it's in the ballpark the deal will move forward. If it's not in the ballpark, plus or minus fifty percent won't make a difference. Good luck.
Making 3D printing filament at home for cheap
What people have been doing recently is radically different from what has been called “home schooling” for many years. Home schooling is where parents provide their children with the education, whereas what’s going on in many places now is a form of distance learning, where the educator is elsewhere; in this instance, the parents are taking the role of enforcer.
I've seen it mentioned with sources on /r/COVID19 a bunch of times.

I think this is the study they might have been referring to? And this is antibodies, not the memory cells mentioned above.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2851497/
Today I read that the "UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook", which has become my new favourite technical book, strongly recommends learning Expect. I had to look it up, this was the first time I learned about it, and it made sense straight away (and, for what it's worth, the book starts with pointing out that mastering Vim is the most important sysadmin skill).
I get that and I suppose there's isn't much incentive to build something like that purely for the hobbyist market. I should have included this in the original post but here's an elaboration of what I was thinking of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23114566
Or ransomware that does so if the ransom is not paid. This can also be done with UEFI variable writes, since the flash where they are stored is... often not of the highest quality!
Alternative to ESTree AST Specification – Escaya AST
The paper you link to is about a battery that reacts oxygen with a metal-sulfur radical.

It does not convert metals between metallic and ionized forms, and does not take sulfur into or out of the complex, so your can't just traverse the periodic table and get there. On practice battery research is about ballacing a much larger set of features, like cycle efficiency and durability, so the obvious metal+halogen solution almost always loses.
Monitor your Node application using Datadog
After he made a million a year from Amazon for six years. No matter when you leave Amazon you’re leaving money on the table since they are always giving employees RSUs that will vest at some later date.
Here's an elaboration of what I was going for: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23114566
"Amazon is a startup at scale"

What does this mean?
This calamity is ripping apart the social fabric of the entire world. The the enormity of cascading consequences is beyond imagination.
Thanks for sharing this analysis.
Trying vscode even in comparison to eclipse made me want to kill myself especially when everyone was saying how great it was.

Did exactly what you're describing here. 4 hours of fucking about to achieve nothing.
The demand won’t remain permanently this high, but a lot of it will remain.

Despite the cultural ubiquity of Amazon, not everyone was getting items delivered for their day to day needs. One barrier is that not everyone got around to creating accounts for online shopping, a barrier that’s been forcibly overcome for basically everyone. The chances of 100% of those people reverting to prior behavior is very, very low.
I put this together for a friend who wanted a lower-end gaming PC, but it's still pretty much what I'd recommend (though you'd definitely want to double the RAM to 32gb): https://secure.newegg.com/wishlist/pd/35088251

Points to note:
-I'm not sure if your $1000 budget was meant to include a monitor, keyboard, or mouse, so this coming in around $700 leaves you a little room
-I would probably want to upgrade the CPU if budget permits: another $130 will get you an 8-core Ryzen 7 3700X, which will be helpful for running multiple containers
-A GTX 1650 Super is way faster than a regular GTX 1650, the difference that $10-20 makes is surprisingly massive
-NVMe SSDs are great, and the Intel 660p is a nice bargain choice. I'd likely step up to the 1TB version for another $60
Will look into it. Thanks.
> Let me start off by asking if either yourself or GP have kids of your own

We have been kids.

> Can this system be optimised? Sure. But who has time? Certainly not the parents.

Then society needs to be optimized for parents too.
This makes me wonder if perhaps sentient life/civilisation is simply incompatible with nature by default. That doesn't make the former bad or mean that we shouldn't try and preserve the nature world, just that I suspect any species that evolves to be like humanity is probably going to have a similar effect on its ecosystem. Any alien world with a sentient species might also be in a similar situation for many of the same reasons.

That might be why space travel is so important to focus on too. A single planet simply doesn't have enough resources for a species with a planet wide civilisation and modern/advanced technology. So you're stuck with the choice of either expanding outwards, sticking with extremely basic tech, or having a far lower population.
Not related at all.
> "user-hostile" on purpose

I seem to recall reading that the keyboards that emacs was originally developed for had the CTRL key in the middle left (where the modern, useless, "caps lock" key is). The awkwardness of the CTRL key on modern keyboards makes emacs seem unnecessarily user-hostile as well, but that's also not something that Stallman could reasonably have predicted.
filtering by game while obvious also means creating a filter bubble - it'd be nice if a you could choose just from 'unpopular games' :)
> Let me start off by asking if either yourself or GP have kids of your own, and just mention for a short moment, talking about how hypocritical parents are, while judging them while not having kids of your own, well...

I am well aware of how much effort it takes to raise a kid and I wish I hadn't existed myself because I don't see why my parents would think it was a wise decision. You don't need to have kids to understand that...that would be stupid.

Your other statements are too broad to answer correctly. There is not enough data, only anecdotes. So I would rather not.

Need more funds to put into research on parenting and stats related to parents.

What is to prove that parents are not spending their time on useless things? Do you have stats backing that they are efficiently using their time because I couldn't find for either? Only that their social media usage is approximately 20% of their working day but that is not useful.

Millennial parents are in bigger debt than the older generation and it's from credit cards but how is that useful considering Millennials had less chance of earning more than their parents?

Millennial spending on temporary experiences is way more even when they are jobless but is that a systematic problem resulting from depression/other mental health problems? Was the previous generation better? Maybe not. Did they do a better job at parenting? I don't know. There is no valid statistical data. Millennials leech off from their parents more, are more dependent so maybe they did do poor job at parenting or the economy is more fucked.

> Can this system be optimised? Sure. But who has time? Certainly not the parents

Why does it need to be parents?

You start putting in effort to get into college as soon as you hit middle school...why not start putting in effort to change the system as soon as you hit an age where you realise you want kids? Even if you don't, what's the problem with wanting everyone else's kids to live better?

Does everyone in the world not have enough time now?
OK, I’ll look into that. Is that a good benchmark? Are there other meaningful ones?
Yep. I host on Scaleway for services I want accessible from the internet. Can’t really beat the price.

Also, despite living in the US, I like that my server is in in Paris. It’s EU and sounds super posh. Ha
People who are in sports and music are an order of magnitude better when they start at a very young age and keep practicing methodically their whole life. If they didn't start at young age, no amount of practice will be enough to catch up. There's some part of the brain that is able to specialize before certain age.

I've been wondering if this would apply to other fields as well. What if someone starts programming at 5 years old and keeps practicing for 5 hours a day?

Maybe that's what's required to get the real genius out of people. I might be wrong but I think there used to be more extraordinary talent before the modern school system.
If the paper is anything like the abstract, this will be wonderful!
I have some big programs that serve more as touchstones for me. I am familiar with the layout and I can see the various functions that work very well.

I tend to do a lot of ETL-like stuff, essentially tanks that roll in one direction relentlessly. If there is an uncaught exception, it gets Pokemon-caught because it is okay if that one row doesn't happen, I can examine the problem later. The tank must roll forward. Each problem encountered in the wild results in another chunk of armor.

Select techniques from different tanks are often handy.
"In its current form, asap is not equipped to handle CONCURRENT programs. Managing memory in
concurrent programs poses its own set of challenges."

So it's doesn't have the fearless concurrency of Rust yet and I wonder if it's possible this approach at all. I guess it's an open research question.
Ask HN: What's Wrong with My Schedule?
Hello HN, I'm a programmer, and I work from home. I thought I had hit the peak of productivity, but not.
I manage to keep the following schedule a few days correctly, but after a few days I return to destructive habits. I am not consistent with my schedule, I end up staying awake browsing with my phone late in the morning, in chats and forums, sleeping late, waking up late, when I wake up, around 13:00 I feel like I have destroyed the morning , and routine. And I return to the chats and forums. I eat junk food compulsively (anxiety maybe?).

----- the schedule that I try to keep ----

Daylight: from 07:00 to 21:00

From Monday to Friday:

- Wake up without alarm clock

- 12:00 to 14:00 work

- break, lunch, relax

- 17:00 to 19:00 work

- 19:00 elliptical

- 23:00 (turn off electronic devices to catch sleep)

after every 40 minutes of work, 10 minutes of rest

Saturdays and Sundays are for rest. (but I don't enjoy due to my low productivity)

---------------------------------------------

I am unable to keep the schedule to the letter, I end up procrastinating and finishing work around 00:00, all day sitting in front of the PC and no exercise. ("hard to work" instead of "hard work" how would say Cal Newport)

I work on a javascript project, I have no income, I have been without income for months, I am about to finish it, and I will go to share revenue. Can the pressure of longing for a more successful future be boycotting my present?

What would my 20% be to give me 80%?

PS: I have suffered a couple of burnouts in my life, anxiety and depression
So his “personal situation” after making a million a year at Amazon is dire?

Amazon is always issuing employees RSUs that vest at dome future date. No matter when he leaves he would have “lost” money.
Very cool idea. I'm having problems to access the website. Maybe the high traffic put it down.
Think they key here is you read a book whilst the prev op just assumed reading random guides on the Internet would be an appropriate way to learn a piece of software for professional use.
The virus isn't mutating nearly as fast as other viruses that we are able to have somewhat decent vaccines for. And we had plenty of candidates for SARS/MERS vaccines that showed good efficacy in preclinical studies. The reason we dont have other coronavirus vaccines isn't because of the science, it's because funding for those previous vaccine programs went away once the diseases went away or didnt turn into a pandemic. Some of those same programs are being restarted now that people care about coronavirus again.

We also have a huge number of vaccine efforts, Including ones targeting regions conserved between both SARS and COVID, so something far more heavily conserved than the mutations Los alamos noted in the receptor binding domains. It's also a probability game where we have 100+ vaccines in development for a disease where there's no obvious biological reason that a vaccine wouldn't work.
It works intermittently. I think it's just being hugged to death atm.
This way of living, with that many people on the planet is not sustainable. We are on a runaway train to extinction and we want it to go faster. The economy!
Just bumped the amount of asgi workers and upped the DO droplet size, should be good now, sorry about that!
Just what we need more imbalance
Bison 3.6 Released
Not on purpose but sometimes I need to get back at an old project and it always takes a few minutes to get my mind around it's architecture again. Sometimes, as I re-understand why I did things a certain way, I get aha-moment and am sort-of proud I guess.
> It’s just many aren’t filing for unemployment because they can’t get through OR they decided not to apply (due to receiving stimulus / severance).

The BLS numbers have nothing to do with unemployment filings. They base their unemployment numbers off two surveys: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.tn.htm

People not looking could skew the numbers, but since the vast majority of the job losses in the report are considered temporary layoffs, and since the BLS always counts temporarily laid off people as "unemployed" regardless of other criteria, I don't expect it to be a significant factor.
Speaking from experience, none of the high school skills apply to my current job or day to day.

Why would this utilitarian argument that doesn't apply to the current curriculum have to apply to the new one?
> prettier support

I use emacs/tide/prettier-js, but the prettier formatting only happens on save. Do you have settings that make emacs adhere to prettier formatting as it goes along?
I disagree with it being useless in the US. Amazon is still how I am largely getting most of my essentials (like groceries) and the occasional non essential right now.

Sure I may have to wait a bit longer to get what I need, but there have only been a few cases where something has been completely out of stock (except for the things that Amazon has publicly said they are no longer selling to consumers and only sending to hospitals, like disinfectant and other medical items)
Do they not use OTUs like for bacteria? (operational taxonomic units)
Writing parsers with parser combinator libraries (personally, I use FParsec on F# and pyparsing on Python) feels like this all the time. I am especially happy about one doubly-recursive, parametric parser I had to write to handle an expression grammar of this kind:

<Expr> ::= <Reference> | <NumericLiteral> | <Expr> '+' <Expr> | ...
<Reference> ::= <identifier> | <ArrayRef>
<ArrayRef> ::= <identifier> '[' <Expr> ']'
<Varname> ::= ... (The parser is parametric in the parser for <Varname>)

... without upsetting the F# typechecker.
This is a great search UI but when you click a link the provided URL is cut off. IE search for journals, click a link and you get sent to the following url:

https://www.oberondesign.com/collections/journals...

which the website reports as a 404
That's why I try to use Firefox whenever I can.
for indie games yup... been rocking mostly indie, rogue like, single player , 2D type stuff. 2013 mac air still going strong!! 500+ hours of darkest dungeon, slay the spire, isaac... serious bang for buck getting hundreds of hours from 3 games totaling like $60 dollars
Can Breathing Like Wim Hof Make Us Superhuman?
Ask HN: How should we spend spare GCP credit?
We have been given a large amount of Google Cloud Platform credit ($70k+), which is due to run out in the the next 5 months.
Our credit burn rate is less than $1k per month, therefore do you have some novel ideas on what we should do with it?

We would like to use it for "good" projects, and not things like running bitcoin miners! We have a background in ML and web software, although being a startup we have limited development time and resources.

If you suggest ML projects are there any readily available datasets for model training?
Many thanks...
Please back this massive claim up with some evidence.

If there is none, please realize that a lot of companies use G Suite and pay for these services, which might allow Google to provide them for free to individuals. I don't know for sure that this is the case, but I have seen no evidence for your 'claim' either.
This is great! One thing that many HN-ers may not know is that Amazon Prime users get a free subscription to give to anyone on Twitch.

It'd be neat if there was a button here that would allow a user to subscribe with Prime; I'm sure these streamers would love that.
Heh? Sentient life and the civilisations it creates are part of nature, where would the incompatibility stem from?

If you’re talking about the phenomenon of some species depleting the resources of their environment, harming their population in the long run, that’s not a phenomenon unique to humans.
twitch is one of the platforms where I feel like I've struggled the most to get viewers. just playing my main game like Dota wasn't too productive since I'm not a pro or super hot so my value proposition there isn't too compelling. Instead I've been trying to focus more on streaming myself programming and learning new scientific or game programming libraries and have been enjoying it quite a bit. My viewer count is veeery slowly increasing but almost noone is subscribing, many of my friends have expressed interest in watching me so my plan is to start letting them know when I'm about to stream to seed some viewers. Also I've realized that the more specific your brand is on social media the more effective, I've been looking at branding myself as a strategy game buff/developer so will be streaming niche strategy games and Unity game development every weekend. I'll re-asses after a month to see if this plan was effective.

I really appreciate this project as going from 0-1 viewers on Twitch where the 1 isn't your friend is challenging.
For single-payer specifically, I’m not sure. If the federal government were indifferent, states could certainly try it; in fact Vermont did.

Where I disagree is that the states are generally on par with the federal government or their Canadian counterparts.

I gave some examples showing that this isn’t the case, legally (the upshot of those cases, if not the actual subject matter) or practically. The counterexamples you provided are’s compelling. In some cases the supporting facts are wrong (most of that $14B is not in bonds and the federal government can move agencies at will; in fact the USDA just shifted tons of people to Kansas). Others may be legally possible but are so politically implausible (Texas switching languages and dragging the federal government along). The Cap-and-Trade Agreement is on uncertain legal ground, even though cross-border part is comparatively weak. No argument that states do have powers, though sanctuary cities and marijuana legalization strike me more as selective enforcement/picking battles than actual reserved powers.

Personally, I would very much like better healthcare and action on climate change, but I think it’ll need national coordination and I’m skeptical that the states can force that, even if they can sometimes slow-walk proposals forcing them to do things themselves.
The U6 number from the report is 22.8%. U6 being folks who are out of a job but not properly on the dole.

I would expect that number to be north of 25% in the upcoming May report.
don’t understand the complaints. this is a quarterly news update. hence the tone. there’s nothing wrong with it.

the defect is that the layoffs are just a paragraph in passing. on its face it appears highly insensitive, but come on. i’ll give benefit of the doubt that it was dealt with internally much better. it only gets an inch of print in this report because it’s a very small factor in the general news of the company.

actually the main defect here is that the HN title is highly editorialized.
> One thing I'd like to see in modern languages is to encourage and simplify working with an (almost) entirely static memory layout, and make manipulations inside this static memory layout safe.

This sounds interesting! What do you mean by (almost) static memory layout? Fixed sizes for everything in a contiguous region, or multiple growing arrays, or something else entirely?

In recent time I have written a few programs in a way that uses only realloc inside dynamic arrays for memory management and never frees. This leads to a big semi-global struct holding all the dynamic arrays, which I am reminded of. (Local functions can then take those arrays, use them, and give them back once they return.)
Ie analytics
In vim, configuration is either through running commands you could run in normal mode in vim, or through vimscript functions. I assume emacs is similar in that regard.

JSON isn't really that easy to read unless it's pretty formatted, and it's somewhat difficult to write (making sure you have every double-quote, every comma, every closing and opening bracket/brace, etc. I always have to run a JSON linter to make sure I didn't miss anything when writing JSON by hand.
If you live in Europe it should be possible..?
AFAIK the eastern block cloned 6502 and many other western chips, so analyzing such a device could be pretty easy in practice due to a lot of "experience". ;-)
In the article that section about the cruise ship talked about voluntary self-infecting and how that would be risky (1-2% death rate).

What this completely ignores is that obviously only young and healthy people would attend those "corona parties" and thus the CFR of the voluntaries would rather be around 0%. And obviously those people wouldn't immediately go see grandpa but instead self-isolate for three weeks.

I hate that so many are pretending that it's like russian roulette when in reality the odds are so highly skewed.