skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does the "best thing or worst thing?" question work?

Is any interviewer really going to tell you the politics are awful, or managers are overbearing? They'll probably give a typical non-answer like "the food is so good you can't help but put on weight".

Candidates do this also when asked their worst traits - it doesn't work.
Elon Musk is my new hero.
Ah, that makes sense my mistake
James Damore dismisses discrimination lawsuit against Google
Regardless of whether Redis is meant to hold ephemeral data in memory, it is well-known to anybody who has had to maintain a Redis instance as part of their deployment that Redis is only effective when used for ephemeral in-memory work.

I understand your defensiveness, but please understand that because of your massive experience with Redis, either you have never lost data with Redis, which means that nobody besides you understands how to run your software in production, or you have lost data with Redis, which means that it's somewhat hypocritical of you to insist that Redis is durable.
It's faster. http://www.httpvshttps.com/
I have to wonder if these actions by Musk are going to hurt the brand image of Tesla.

Sure people buy the car because it has cool gimmick features and is electric, but when you buy a car for $30k+ there's a reason you spent that kind of money: the car is a form of self expression (whether one would like to admit it or not.) When one buys a Tesla, it indicates that they are with the times, both technologically and socially.
encryption works much better when it's setup without discrimination. I mean not the encryption itself; in the end, it's a tool not the aim.
Look, I completely agree with you that the housing crisis is terrible and needs to be fixed, but sniping at proposals for particle accelerators is not the way to express that view! Let's make political comments in contexts where they are appropriate.
Change work-flow?

Figure out what you need in dependencies and set up a job to run overnight when you're asleep and/or at lunchtime or dinner time when you'd be eating/cooking, or any other idle time like a bit of exercise?
Funny story. We suspended a middle schooler earlier this year because he was heard using that word in close proximity to a black teacher. When approached, he swore he had stubbed his toe and cried out n*r in agony. The disciplinarian and I were discussing it and I was adamant that we could forgive his using any other verbiage, up to and including sob or the f-word in that context, but that I could never in a million years believe that anyone would use that particular slur after stubbing a toe or getting a paper cut.
> There wont be some magical new accelerator popping up.

There will and it will come from photonics research.
Even more interesting, and relevant to this discussion, was that the rate didn't decrease again (within the measured time frame) after the fine was removed again! (from the paper linked in your article)
You probably have already, but have you tried Krita? After usuing it I much prefer it over gimp. Inkscape for vector.
Somebody didn’t bring a present for everybody so nobody asked a question to waste everybody presents time before anybody left.

Who’s on first.
> reading the comments, probably because it is not what the title promises.

If that were the case, admins would simply change the title.

I suspect the reason is that it's a tool that is designed to violate a specific site's TOS, which I think this tool does.
There were suspicions of SARS-CoV-2 transmission as well, but don’t think they’ve been confirmed.

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/artic...

Here’s a paper on the 2003 HK SARS toilet event, and applications to COVID-19. Gotta love science.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-1...
It certainly can be done. The author seems to be uninformed on the topic he is writing about.
So this provides an http router written on top of fasthttp?

Why would this be better to use than something like Gin, which has way more features? I would update the docs to be clear about that. What is the advantage of your custom router implementation over others?

Neat project, but it’s hard (at the moment) to see why this would be useful over some of the more mature go web frameworks.

Edit: obviously performance is important, but how much faster is it than gin for example if I am going to be giving up features for speed.
gnome has taken some heat lately so i feel obliged to share some love for it. it's a great DE in that it stays out of my way when i want it to and it offers subtle help to things i need it to (window manage, multitask, etc). i think in 2020 it beats them all (including macos and win) ️
It flabbergasts me to find out that, by 2018 [1], people who are making decisions apparently still hadn't figured out that attempting to censor things (including people's names, of all things) using substring matching doesn't work and is a bad idea.

I mean... I understand that when we were experimenting with things on the internet in 1996 that might have come as a surprise because, you know, you just don't think of everything. But 25 years later?

[1] some of the examples at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem#Other_examp...
MS Flight Simulator vs. Real Life
I enjoy Isaac Arthur's YouTube channel where he explores topics like colonizing Venus. Here's the video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BI-old7YI4I
unions helped kill the car companies
This sounds interesting, could you share any more of your project? I want to get back into c/c++ dev, the modern libraries look great!
This reports that bloomberg reported something, please link the original article in such cases.

in addition, the bloomberg article already has a discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23121522
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Distributed Black Swan Insurance
Of course it does nothing, it's all propaganda!

The economies of the world need to open ASAP!! It's direly important that folks get back to work, else we'll see a repeat of the 08 financial crisis. And this time, it will be more meltdown than crisis.

Give me a free market or give me death!
⇒, the Unicode symbol, is supported in PureScript and Agda out of the box and is supported in Haskell with UnicodeSyntax extension. Personally, I find the ligatures more confusing than support for the actual Unicode symbols (albeit they can be more cumbersome to type if your editor doesn’t help, i.e. ctrl+k "=>" in Vim). Every time someone uses Fira Code in a presentation someone in the audience always has to ask and now you have to go down a rabbit hole of explaining what ligatures even are.
Counterpoint, I also got the WQHD screen, on my T480, and it's great. I absolutely love the print-quality text in my terminals. "Scaling" is not a problem at all - I eventually figured out that the way to get flawless graphics is to ignore all "scaling" settings and simply throw an xrandr command in .xinitrc that forces the DPI to its correct value (144). For some strange reason X11 ignores the real screen DPI (which it knows perfectly well!) and forces it to 96, which is broken behaviour in 2020. Most of the rest of the software ecosystem is a team player, and respects the DPI setting (things that don't are broken - I believe GTK requires an environment variable, but QT respects it). "Scaling" is a broken concept - 12pt font should render at 12pts, no matter your screen size or resolution.
You might be interested in raking a look at Holochain:

https://holochain.org/

I'm by no means an expert in the technology, but it's one attempt at a blockchain alternative that I'm aware of, albeit with different philosophies regarding global consensus.
There's actually been interesting research done about that idea, that people who swear have a smaller vocabulary or are less fluent. It seems that the opposite is actually true¹, people who swear are actually demonstrating a broader fluency. Worth a read!

¹ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03880...
Indeed, government-funded national labs are highly bureaucratic institutions.
The content of the article does not support the poster's extremely editorialized title. Probably should have read the rules before posting:

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.
Google Duo to soon support 32 participants in Group Calls
For one, it has a business model. IFTTT relies on investors' money to offer service to average Joes like you and me.
> The truth is, reading has never really been the pastime of the masses, save, possibly, for a brief period in the 20th century.

Nor has widespread participation in the political process, yet the benefits of democratic society seem worth preserving/enlarging.
Supersymmetry in the time domain and its applications in optics
https://scitechdaily.com/temporal-supersymmetry-breakthrough...
Beyond Castle Wolfenstein (Source Code) by Silas Warner
It drives me nuts how complicated it is to simply have ALL of those 'spotlight' images at login nixed. I don't want any stock photography of landscapes or whatever, thanks - I just want a plain black background.

Unless something's changed in the year or so since I last tried it, it's basically not possible (there was some hacky solution, but it dismayed me, so I never bothered).
I'm presuming you dropped your /s, but it says something about the state of the world that I'm not sure.
It would be interesting to see this done using Linux XDP/eBPF routines.
As far as I know those are all silly conspiracies, I would however hypothesize that those conspiracy theories themselves might be part of a conspiracy theory to misinform the public. Just like the whole "tin foil hat" thing which is obviously silly but in a world where people believe a tin foil hat would prevent mind control, someone talking about MK-ultra would seem just as silly or crazy, I think it's reasonable to theorize these things as false flag campaigns.
This is very clever. You could explore more fun with this technique, such as putting squiggly lines under common misspelling.
Thank you for being a diamond in the rough, Dan. Your tireless work keeping Hacker News a safe haven for free thinkers and polite politic is essential during times like these.
I don’t think the length of time one pays attention to something is a good indicator of its quality.
Ah, the usual "you're using it wrong".

Apple can tweak their font rendering and favor hi-DPI screens if they want, but there's no excuse for messing up with settings that worked well in the past. Is it that hard for mac OS to automatically adjust these settings?

Apple sold their awfully shiny 27" Thunderbolt display until 2016 after all.
Racket is 25
Seems like this is a continuation of another account which has posted nothing but the same kind of thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=som33
> Is there value in swearing?

For kids, I can definitely see it's value in improving their reputation inside kids community by signaling their "grownup abilities".
More words are written, but many of them are worthless drivel.
Sunday morning follow-up reading:

Reading in the Age of Constant Distraction

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/02/08/reading-in-th...

Analog Anchors for the Online Adrift

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/analog-anchors-f...
Used to be breakthroughs could be made by a lens maker accidentally discovering micro biology or the president of the treasury thinking through the mathematics behind his observations and discovering the law of gravity or a patent clerk resolving contradictions between data and theory in his spare time to discover relativity or a barely employed artist describing in detail inventing concepts that would not be created until centuries after his death.

Now we need billions of dollars and all the best minds to even hypothetically make progress.

Maybe something is wrong in the state of scientific research.
There is still CD Project Red which seems to be the last bastion of DRM free games. I hope Activision (aka Tencent) will never buy them out. China is a cancer also in gaming industry.
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS for Raspberry Pi
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is now available for Raspberry Pi, specifically for Raspberry Pi 2, 3, 3+ and 4 models. In addition, they have also announced on their blog that this edition will have the Official Ubuntu Certificate.

https://gadgetcrutches.com/technology/ubuntu-20-04-lts-for-raspberry-pi/
> Meat processing centers are shut down or running at below capacity

Why are meat processing centers shut down?
This site should warn us the code posted to public
https://twitter.com/carbon_noreply

Looking for a way to copy the code, eg.
https://carbon.now.sh/#code-ID
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That admins could change the title doesn't mean users don't feel mislead and flag in the mean time.
Please put a comments section in the page !
Pfft. Elon has always been my hero. :)

But on a more serious note, it is great that we are seeing thought leaders counter-act the media propaganda frenzy regarding this situation. The "big evil businessman" know best that our economy is on shaky ground, and that continuing social distancing measures will immeasurably damage America's position as a global power (and thus its citizens security and freedom) more than a few tens of thousands of deaths will. I, for one, am proud to go back to work. Staying at home isolated is merely fomenting unnecessary chaos and social unrest.
I post this every time someone links to Hossenfelder, but please take her opinions with a grain of salt.

She seems more interested in attacking the "physics establishment" than in giving people a picture of the reality of our situation. Take a look at her articles on LIGO [1] for instance where she makes conspiracy theory level claims saying that the group is lying about their data and that "big physics" is in on it.

My opinion happens to be similar to hers on building the next big collider, but I'm not a high energy physics expert. Given how dishonest she was on the subjects I am familiar with, there's no way that I trust her to give an accurate portrayal of the ones I'm not.

[1] https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/09/whats-up-with-ligo...
I'm in continued amazement that people act like we've beaten this things, when infection rates are shown leveling off. All that shows is that NOT opening, and staying quarantined are effective.
Ye I hate those "Haha I wont tell you where this butieful island is click to know more" clickbaits.

I am fine with the pictures they are nice. But the click bait link is distracting.
Why not to relax restrictions for 2 days, then lockdown for 5 days, then repeat, but test all with symptoms first?
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS for Raspberry Pi
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is now available for Raspberry Pi, specifically for Raspberry Pi 2, 3, 3+ and 4 models. In addition, they have also announced on their blog that this edition will have the Official Ubuntu Certificate.
https://gadgetcrutches.com/technology/ubuntu-20-04-lts-for-raspberry-pi/
New focus on venom-based drug research by Big Pharma
That's the beauty of the free market, put your dollars where you believe they hold worth. I may disagree with your analysis, but I respect your essential freedom to vote with your money.
I have been using that feature to keep all my uni assignments in the same file. Although I export to LaTeX and not html. Though I can export it as a single large webpage with all the assignments on, and it mostly work.
Didn't Tesla push the boundaries on EV, though, whereas traditional car companies were just fine with continuing production of gas based vehicles? I guess there were hybrids but it felt like Toyota was the only big player there.
On a related note, while my wife and I were trying to remember how to put the Apple TV to sleep we accidentally subscribed to Apple Music. I only found out the next day when I saw an email informing us of our 3-month trial.
I'm an Egan fan and really liked Blindsight by Peter Watts.
Large, painful to configure, high latency and difficult to look after.
I don’t see VR taking off anytime soon, but I also think it’s a bit tiresome to say that a product category isn’t successful unless it nears the ubiquity of the smartphone. By that measure, plenty (most all?) profitable and useful products are failures.
My experience with troubleshooting on Windows has led to a lot of websites like this - no-name businesses, a wall of ads, and SEO-optimised content derived from performing the same web search I'm doing.

Unless I add 'Ubuntu' to the search term, troubleshooting on Linux OSes tends to take me to primary sources e.g. internet-hosted manpages and docs.

It's probably just an inevitability of success but it does make the ecosystem more frustrating to use.
Can Salesforce Keep Growing? Five Possibilities for Marc Benioff
It is time we stopped trying to make VR for the broadest appeal. There are people who simply cannot handle the experience either from a motion sickness point of view or otherwise.

What will save VR is games or experiences that focus on quality and immersion rather than trying to please everybody.

The Playstation VR is a good example. It is specifically not for children under 12 yet many of the games seem to be targeted at people with that maturity level.
My impression is that maybe you worry a bit too much about it. Performance anxiety/stage fright/etc. This doesn't help of course, by making it more difficult to have a clear head.

As long as you're getting your point across, everything is fine. It will naturally improve in time with practice, although I can't see any problem with your current way of writing.
I am glad you mentioned China. Many people are too afraid to acknowledge the reality of that authoritarian country, for fear of reprisal from liberal do-gooders.

This acquisition is a shame.
>"What you'd actually need to do to get any information ... is to become an expert ..."

I strongly disagree, citing the logical fallacy of appealing to authority:

https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/logicalfallacies/Appeal-...

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

Taking your claim to heart would require a person to be so focused on becoming an expert (in an academic environment where new studies are constantly published) that they would be so focused on staying abreast of their expertise that they would be unable to comment at all-- for fear of missing some study somewhere. It would require a fanatical obsession with gaining all information and perspectives that one would be precluded from commenting at all: for fear of not being a 100% perfect expert.

Hence, I think one can cite studies without being a 100% perfect expert on all angles within a discipline.

I think your claim lacks introspection to be honest.

>"Most software engineering jobs aren't predominantly about things rather than people"

First I ask "Relative to what?" But let's backup: You state a claim of ratio, "most".

"A claim of ratio, "most" "--

If we're getting into ratios of people within occupations, then I would ask for a quantitative assessment, though I suspect no confident, non-subjective one exists, to prove your point.

"Relative to what?"--

I suspect people's experiences differ-- in my near future, I will be working on an engineering team. However, even there-- I suspect I will largely be sitting at a computer, typing into it for hours, rather than interfacing directly with a human for hours (as I previously did in Sales roles).

Ultimately I dispute your claim via my personal experience: Working on projects (mostly by myself at this point) where I am programming for 6 hours per day and have little human contact, yet still accomplish project goals and receive my paycheck.
Yeah. It gives read/write access to one file. The ideal for this use case would be read only access for one file. I think read/write access for one file follows the principle of least privilege better than read access for all files. https://developers.google.com/drive/api/v2/about-auth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_privilege
What you've said makes no sense. Why shouldn't new tech be required? You're not even comparing similar science topics to modern physics. When you're pushing the boundaries of our knowledge of the universe, there's no human perception that can itself detect anything new.
There's already Windows 10 for both VR and AR, but Microsoft is playing long with this and taking it very slow. It runs most ARM apps flawlessly (on Hololens at least) and is quite focused on the enterprise to approach the industry from there.
With the performance coming from being based on fasthttp, what does the framework offer on top? The README doesn't really mention any features explicitly (other than soft ones like "secure" and "fast").

A comparison with other fasthttp-based frameworks like https://github.com/savsgio/atreugo or https://github.com/gofiber/fiber would also be interesting.

Or maybe a benchmark along the lines of https://github.com/smallnest/go-web-framework-benchmark.

Looking at the commit history (7 commits, most of them from yesterday), the open issues (no way to define URL path variables yet, https://github.com/abahmed/gearbox/issues/15), and the release being v0.0.1, maybe it's a bit too early for a ShowHN?

But if you have a vision of how it will be different and better than existing frameworks and the willingness to keep working on your project, then honestly good luck with it, it might become interesting in the future!
Yes, in both cases.

Web search via search engines is filled with low quality content, rehashed stuff from mainstream media outlets and bad attempts at trying to 'guess' what the user wants rather than showing them what they're actually looking for.

And on site search makes Google search look like perfection by comparison. Trying to search a social media site, internet forum, blog or wiki is often a complete nightmare, and gets you nothing close to what you actually want to find. If your ideal page doesn't come up via auto suggest, then trying to find it is probably going to be a miserable experience.
From a cursory examination of the site I deduce this is either a piece of satire or a silly joke (maybe both). So relax, this is not a serious effort to censor :-)

(Also I commend your child rearing technique vis-a-vis swearing. Seems a very sensible approach.)
When skiing stopped, so did pooping. Workers in Aspen, Vail faced problems
It does not censor the word "nigger"
Auth0 sell a bunch of authentication products that are similar/compete with cognito.

The difference between cognito and auth0 is that auth0 has documentation, code examples and a decent API guide.

Cognito has a poorly documented API, terrible integration guides and even worse debugging options

Once you have it going, cognito is grand. To get there, its a huge learning curve
Show HN: Track Conversations on the Bitcoin Halving
Presumably these delta-v numbers are from some form of earth-orbit. These tend to make a lot more sense, because getting to LEO is mostly not about orbital mechanics, which is where delta-v is the most useful concept.

That said, looking at that wikipedia page these numbers don't match up with any kind of LEO-mars or LEO-venus transfer. Numbers seem to be off by an order of magnitude.
How can infection rate already increase if lockdown measures only eased less than a week ago and the incubation time is about a week?
Oh it can be!

but the documentation is utterly pitiful