skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If possible, I work on a remote machine with a faster connection, if that results in less traffic and is comfortable.
Obama says Trump’s Covid-19 response has been a ‘chaotic disaster’
I think I'm reaching that age where more and more celebrities I'm actually familiar with start to pass away.

I first heard Little Richard in the opening chopper sequence from the original Predator. What a great scene!
Ryanair did fine without a business class
I think we're agreeing. By "not a waste" I mean in the sense of baking a cake: the time spent mixing eggs and sugar and waiting for the oven is not a waste. Going to work for Wall Street in order to build up capital is like preparing the ingredients.
Can anyone explain this in layman’s terms
There was a moment, years ago, when I used VS Code to edit text files because it was faster than Sublime and Notepad++. These days I open it begrudgingly.
This is a rant. Driving in London is cripplingly slow, you need to pay £11.50 a day to drive in the centre, and parking spaces sell for as much as entire houses in provincial towns. https://www.foxtons.co.uk/search?location_ids=290&prop_type=...
They are subjective in the degree to which they are measurable. How would you measure how well a text editor “integrates with a programming language”? There are many ways to measure this, making any single measurement choice subjective to a degree.
If slower meant cheaper tickets I can guarantee that people would want to use it.
Can I play Warcraft 3 on PS3?

EDIT: I see a typo in my above post, I meant to say games that can play on PC and PS4 (as in, cross platform games)

PC-only games have UX that players are much more forgiving of.
This is discussed in the article.
Dan Abramov on how to market your Open Source project (2016)
still, after changing the get_scale, fonts doesn't look like they are rendered in higher resolution.

There should be a separate feature to handle higher-resolution screens.

Anyway, it feels really easy to change anything in this editor.
If reproduction rate stays under 1, it will eventually completely die out on its own.
IMO the take-home tests close to the job's technical requirements and followed by 1-2 technical interviews to discuss its details and potential improvements is probably the best interview method. It gives a chance to both parties to get to know their potential future colleagues and see their technical background, skills and effort on solving an actual problem that could be part of their daily tasks.

And it gives you the right, if you feel 100% ok with what you delivered and you hear an excuse of lack of technical skills to skip the job and look for something else. Whereas having to pass 6 interviews with random CS and DS questions and problems where you have to memorise algorithms which you will never use in your daily work and then finally be rejected because you forgot one of them is way worse and has probably deteriorated the software engineering industry as a whole.
In this kind of modeling, outbreaks are considered to be impossible once transmission is driven below 1. (The herd immunity level is just the level at which the transmission rate is driven below 1 without additional interventions.)
RIP - https://www.linuxjournal.com/

https://www.linuxtoday.com/

https://lwn.net/

Used to check the weather, forget the url. =P
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RaTG13 – the undeniable evidence that the Wuhan coronavirus is man-made
Not to take responsibility away from these financial services companies in how they screw their customers but it's worth mentioning that governments themselves are enormously responsible for causing many payment gateway problems:

Extremely paranoid and grossly onerous regulatory compliance requirements make innovation in this space difficult at best

KYC and AML rules that are both obscure, highly byzantine and don't even allow banks to clearly communicate basics to their clients mean being arbitrarily screwed for really stupid reasons and having little recourse, with financial services companies further getting an excuse to continue abusing by passing some of the blame onto government rules.

Oh and as another comment right near here mentions, payment processors simply cancelling or denying service (sometimes even freezing funds on their own account) for businesses, organizations and individuals who participate in activities that a government (especially the U.S government) doesn't like for arbitrary bullshit "moral" or political reasons. This too is despicable because it often involves economic punishment for people who are doing nothing even remotely illegal.
Perhaps my favorite Little Richard song is "Troubles of the World." It isn't your basic gospel, it has real passion and a kind of horror of the physical realm to it. The organ lurches around like a carousel horse as he sings of both wanting to escape the anguish of earthly life even as he looks forward to being reunited with his parents with all of the feel of revelation in a drunken moment. It was off of his second gospel album, a little break from the rock'n'roll, often attributed to some difficulties he had with a plane being a very sharp sign from God. It borders on the sacrilegious with the sound, but the hope to escape misery in his voice turns the sound into a repudiation of the world.

I'm not religious myself but I can feel what it must be like from the track, a sense that the man wanted to escape this swampy carnival with leering pitchmen even as you sense just how comfortable he is with the environment as a whole, how well he fits in. Salvation must have seemed as out of reach, like any brass ring, to a man lured by the money that came rolling in, flattered by the adulation, pampered by the lifestyle, and at ease with casual accommodation of his apparently voracious (and omnivorous) sexuality. Being a lot further to one side of the Kinsey scale than the other must have been another layer on the leaden robe, however gilt, as he struggled to heed the call.

He would of course go back to rock'n'roll. Like Willie Sutton said, that's where the money is. And it's hard to argue with a paycheck, even as unsteady as they are when they're royalties from the record business.
Yes, it was in response to that person telling Musk to shove his minisub up his ass.
Ummmm...Austin is in Texas...

'Austin is sometimes referred to as the “Silicon Hills”, mainly due to the large number of technology companies who make their home here. Austin includes 3M, Apple Inc., Hewlett-Packard, Google, Facebook, AMD, Applied Materials, Cirrus Logic, Cisco Systems, eBay/PayPal, Bioware, Blizzard Entertainment, Hoover’s, Intel Corporation, National Instruments, Samsung Group, Silicon Laboratories, Oracle Corporation, Hostgator, and United Devices as some of the top companies with have operations in Central Texas.'
"Ya'all gonna make me scream like a white lady..."

LOL

RIP sir.
A court ruling in his favor doesn't make his behavior any less repugnant. I'm both a fan and a critic of Musk. If he had insulted me that way, I would break his nose. It's unacceptable.
The "free movement of talent" sword cuts in multiple directions. The Bay Area is so expensive that a lot of people who didn't start out there simply cannot move there. At least without seriously down-grading their quality of life.

In theory, companies there would offer enough compensation to make it at least a wash with candidates' current situation, but in my experience, they don't.
The result is an extremely successful company.
A practical introduction to Async programming in Rust
I think you're just being overly sensitive to criticism. Not admitting that you're bullshitting is very weak. Maybe the two goes hand in hand.
sure. the AWS console has been very hard to use since forever. Some may even go as far as saying that it improved. The UX is not the selling point of a cloud provider.
We have quite a lot of that in the UK already, the trouble is it isn’t often where people make their daily journeys.
I think the best way to make a framework is as a collection of libraries that are designed to work well together, but can also be used independently. Then users can pick and choose which parts they need.
If the American group was people of colour, they would have a family history of everything being stolen or destroyed even if they actually did better.

This is barely the third generation since the civil rights act was implemented, and social change takes far longer than that.
Overhyped. California, particularly SV may be the best place to start a company if your "early adopters" are other SV people, tech industry, etc.. Cities like Atlanta represent a much more realistic, general-purpose market. In the social media age, I don't think there is much special benefit in SV early adoption mindset. Most consumers are savvy enough today.
Looks like the article is an advertisement for a book, it seems it served its purpose
All this talk of herd immunity is not terribly helpful because we don’t know what “immunity” means in practical terms.

The duration of immunity for other corinaviruses varies quite a bit, the disease has the potential to cause permanent respiratory damage, with uncertain consequences for the possibility of reinfection, and we’re still seeing novel symptoms arise as in the case of the children with Kawasaki-like inflammation in NYC.

I get the strong desire to return to a normal state of affairs, but paving over reality with scientific notions, deployed pseudoscientifically, does very little to get us there.
Please keep nationalistic flamebait off HN. We have enough problems with thread quality without that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Any alternative to youtube faces the same challenges that drove youtube to do what it does. More specifically if they are significantly more relaxed around X, all the really crazy people doing X (ie: why youtube banned X in the first place) will go there causing that platform to get a reputation for being only about X.
Cyber-spinach turns sunlight into sugar
The Tesla of 2007 was a barely existing company on the edge of death having built and delivered literally 0 cars.

The first roadster shipped in 2008. The first Model S in 2012.

If you're saying Tesla would exist let alone be where it is without Elon, we're living in different realities. They would have never shipped a single vehicle without him.
There is absolutely an objective process for identifying criteria and identifying how well it meets those criteria.

First, an open-ended survey among text editor users to identify the features/requirements that matter to them.

Second, tag and categorize those responses into a standardized list of features/requirements.

Third, survey users to determine both the relative importances of those features/requirements, as well as how well each editor meets their needs for each feature/requirement. Both of these can be done using Likert scales, most commonly giving a score between 1 (does not meet needs at all) to 5 (completely meets needs), with intermediate values being "mostly doesn't", "somewhat", and "mostly". Several hundred randomly chosen survey respondents will generally give you the statistical precision you need.

Companies do this all the time. It's bread and butter for many product managers and user researchers, to justify to execs why a particular feature ought to be built rather than other ones (combined with other factors like cost, risk, strategy, etc.).

And there you have it. To answer your specific question, to measure how well a text editor integrates with a programming language, you just ask its users to rate how well it does. Since user opinion is all that matters in the end, that's the objective answer.
I go on business trips to Vegas along with a friend. My friend has been playing blackjack for decades. I'm not a gambler, but counting allows me to join in while mitigating risk (in the long run). We have a really good time.

Initially, I spent about 40 hours training on blackjack counting software. Nowadays, I'll practice for one day before the trip, and I'm sharp again. My "lifetime earnings" are very good, but I'm not trying to make money so much as not lose money.

Counting is only a small part of the game. You need to memorize basic strategy for the different types of tables, as there are subtle differences in rules. You have to know how many decks are left on the shoe. You have to divide the count by the decks remaining and calculate how much to bet based off of this information. Lastly, you have to execute all of this nearly perfectly all while in a loud environment while people are talking to you. Even a small percentage of mistakes can mean negative expected value.
What don't you agree with?
Smart Mask
The aim of the project is to create a mask that provides protection against viruses and bacteria, with an indication of the output of the state parameters of the mask to a smartphone. Composition: air treatment unit, decomp. sensors
It is quite possible your career will suffer if you don't value adulation highly. It is a strong motivator to do well. It is sort of necessary to get adulation in order to get promoted.

That said, the costs of valuing adulation are too high and I've observed an even pathological need to seek praise in myself. It wasn't overt praise seeking but it was buried in there.

The way I fight my need for adulation is with my Christian faith. There is a higher purpose and higher goal than success in my life.
If y'all haven't read John Osterhout's book A Philosophy of Software Design, I highly recommend it.

It is concise and presents a clear view of what makes code easier to work with. I've found its concepts useful when trying to think of what to say during code reviews.
Show HN: Trim leftover styles to speed up Angular tests
There is a lot of engineering talent moving to Austin. I know people who have lived in the Bay for over a decade who have moved, they also own homes here.

Actually makes sense if the novelty of the Bay has worn off. Rent your home in the Valley to newcomers for passive income, buy another home in Austin and make money on a growing housing market.
Yes, we all should be judged at 47 by how consistent we are with our 17 year old selves.
Workflows and Shortcuts for developers – Part 1
I have found it helpful to not judge people on their worst days. We all make mistakes. I hope Elon finds humility with time, but if not, will still appreciate his contributions.
Omni focus web app seems to work just fine for me. I love the ios version - never tried Mac
The paper says that herd immunity can be achived easier when the disease itself does the spreading. Because in "classical" herd immunity the vaccination does not target the active population so well. Instead when the active population gets the virus naturally it will produce stronger herd immunity.
And this by the way is the real beauty of crypto. It may have a lot of friction, problems with potential fraud and associations with criminal activity, but if you want to bill customers with near certainty that no middleman service provider will arbitrarily be able to freeze your funds or boot you off their service for whatever obscure reasons they decide to invent and not share, crypto solves the problem. I just wish it could be streamlined more for wider use.
When a public figure and billionaire publicly calls you a peodphile, that has a much greater negative impact on your life than if you hurt that billionaires feelings.
As the editor is written mostly in Lua, with C taking care of the lower level parts, plugins can typically customise anything limited to what is exposed by Lua and the C API. Beyond adding custom commands, plugins can also do things like patch straight in the DocView's line-drawing function to draw additional content:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3920290/80743752-7...

Or create their own custom "views":

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3920290/81343656-4...

The treeview at the left of the screen is implemented as a normal plugin, and like any other plugin can be removed from lite by simply deleteing the `treeview.lua` file.
Many:

The more the better. - The contrary is true. The busfactor is only relevant to closed source. Design by committee works nowhere. Not in the arts, not in engineering.

The project is not maintained anymore, the latest issue or commit was years ago. - This defines stability. no problems, no changes needed.
Seems to be around how some people are using filesystem heavily. For iterm2 style use its great
FWIW this is basically "dirty rectangles" which was a very common technique for avoiding full screen updates in games back when the hardware wasn't fast enough to do that.
If all companies stopped using Microsoft Word / PowerPoint / Excel and switched to open source I bet you’d see a 60% decline in Windows desktop use at least. Office software compatibility is the golden handcuffs of corporate Desktop OSes.
Interesting study linked from this one: "Cognitive impact after short-term exposure to different proton pump inhibitors" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4696341/
It's not required. He's making a decision that business is best conducted elsewhere, as is his right.

Personally, I don't want to live in a country where unelected officials can unilaterally make decisions that shut down the economy and kill my business and life's work. I'd certainly have a lot to say about it
About the food supply, I would focus on modernizing every country not only China, don't lose the focus of the problem by focusing in the US current preferred target. I can tell you that we still have epidemics that affect pigs here in Romania and markets get to be closed, and infected and uninfected pigs from people households get kiolled in panic(happened this year in my region).
I'm sure his employees appreciate being able to work and make salary while their furloughed friends are worried about making ends meet.

I know I do. Not everyone believes the overreaction is justified.
This is incredibly awesome
13.3 cents (us)/kWh is the US national average for electricity cost, not any given region or source.

Canada's national average (this excludes the territories) is 10 cents (us)/kWh. Québec has the cheapest energy in Canada, primarily due to its proximity to hydroelectric sources, at 5.5 cents (us)/kWh. In parts of the US where hydroelectric is the dominant energy source, prices are comparable.

Including the territories Canada's average is 13 cents (us)/kWh.
I would really like this imposed on a Teams, Zoom, Lync, WebMeeting. This way you cam still be in pajamas...
> the risk-reward profile of things like finance and advertising are much better than other "bigger" pursuits.

That's precisely the problem that I (and Musk it seems) are pointing out. These activities shouldn't have better reward profiles.
Usability is only objective if you use the word in a dictionary sense: "it is possible to use this editor". It is very much subjective in its usual use: how easily it can be used by a certain user to do certain things. Say, to me a text editor without Vim key bindings is not usable. To someone else, Ctrl-C / Ctrl-V bindings may be preferable. 'Usable code editor' and 'usable screenplay editor' are completely different categories, even though both are text editors.

Different approaches to extensibility can exist, all of them good in certain areas. Both Emacs and VS Code are extensible; which approach is better? You'll find different opinions.

You'll need, as a minimum, to specify a language to move "integration with favorite programming language" towards objectivity.
You'd be laughed our of Teterborough if you whipped out your Acer once you get on the plane
You might also be interested in kilo: https://github.com/antirez/kilo
There's no doubt that I already am on a watchlist in the USA. Most anybody who's given talks at hacker cons, and then approached by the mil side of govt is. And frankly, I don't care.

Hacker con sec can be boiled down to 2 simple principles: Update yo shit, and if you have access turned on (ssh, etc) to know their threat model.
Linus did most of his initial work in a country with a healthy middle class and a strong social safety net. Not sure about Zhang's situation but one thing I do see after looking him up is that he hit a home run pretty early and got a clear path toward a real academic career. That's nice if you can pull it off but it's not something I would advise a young person to bet on.

Both of these people also did their work in low capital cost areas with fast revision cycles: CS/software and math. Those are areas where individual scale bootstrapping is actually a possibility. There are no garage spaceships, automobile plants, novel surgical procedures (I hope), or nuclear reactors (excepting that wacko who tried to make one from material from hundreds of smoke detectors and turned his yard into a superfund site).

In America you must support yourself and pay for college (unless you go 100% autodidact, which is very hard in its own way). That relegates any additional work to moonlighting, which is very sub-optimal for concentration and is only possible in a few fields anyway. As you get older you may want to start a family, which eliminates most moonlighting time and demands even higher income for support and long term savings.

So the only way to do it in America is to (a) earn a ton of money early and achieve financial independence and then do your innovative work, or (b) take a vow of poverty and celibacy and live like a monk. I guess there's also (c) which is to find a benefactor or find some way to make your work viable as an angel/VC investment, but the former is extremely rare and the latter is only workable in a few fields that have low barriers to entry (like software) and a fairly rapid time from prototype to potential market. For "atoms" rather than "bits" type stuff the initial investment and time horizon are too big for angel/VC and there are very few benefactors/patrons with pockets that deep.
The govt approached our three cellphone providers to zero rate all educational websites so that no data cost is incurred when using them.

So why can't US providers not do this ???.
Our Dark Past Is Our Bright Future: How the Kremlin Uses and Abuses History
I believe you may be confused. I do not wish any privacy whatsoever for the information I publish unauthenticated on the public web.

Quite the contrary, I wish for the things I publish to be read and understood as widely as possible.

That's how the web works: if your webserver (or web host, or mastodon instance, or whatever) receives a request for a webpage, and then it says "yes, sure, here's the webpage", and sends it to the requesting user, there's no ethical or moral framework which at that point says that the webserver has been wronged by the requesting user having that content. It literally sent it to them voluntarily.

If you (or your server, or your host) hands out data to all comers, it is not reasonable to then say that those other people should not have access to that data. You (or your server, or your host) provided it to them.
The Right to Remote
We know that the vast majority of people will recover fully, and after they recover they'll be immune for a long time. Media reports have severely overstated the uncertainty here; if coronavirus can indeed trigger Kawasaki syndrome, it's only in the same sense that acetaminophen can cause liver damage.
There have been tests for other dimensions. Usually they look for energy leaking into other directions. Here's a recent one that tested gravity: https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/04/gravitys-inverse-squ...
I’m shocked you’re downvoted as you have a level headed opinion that doesn’t polarise and pick objectives. It’s the problem not seen
Because there are accents in spoken sentences. Now if you would include accent marks in the letters it might make it easier to parse. Sadly, as far as I know there are no standard accent marks for kana.