skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is complex, and none of us have the background to make this determination without knowing the full background of the case. However, the standard I learned here was pretty low. In my law class, the example of where apparent authority would apply was an employee wearing a UPS company uniform communicating something. An example of where it would not apply was a UPS employee selling obviously-stolen merchandise out of the back of a truck, claiming to do it on behalf of UPS.

Given that this was:

(a) In an official github repo from the organization

(b) The announcement was made by the co-founder and CTO

It would need to be a complex set of circumstance for apparent authority to NOT apply. I can come up with such circumstances which might apply, but it would have to be a lot more than just saying they didn't authorize their CTO to do this. If you can't take the statements of a CTO at face-value, the world of business would collapse.

(And to re-emphasize: I am not a lawyer. "In my law class" should not convey I went to law school, and taking a couple of law classes does not a lawyer make).
CNBC and financial publications always love to attach a narrative/reason to every stock movement. But the fact is nobody knows. There are just too many participants, each with their own agenda and prejudices.

The “priced in” narrative is just another made up reason, but as you said, it could simply because investors believe the government just won’t let the market fail.
Different groups of doctors around the world are noticing different aspects of the virus. This is normal with a new virus, and does not indicate that there are multiple strains.
Yes, the biggest impediments to a complete renewable vein are sociological, not technology or economic.

Entrenched interests who are resistant to change are passing laws to prevent deployment of cheaper tech for our electrical grid. They have discovered that it only takes a couple hundred thousand dollars to fund state-level elections to capture the politician the control state level policy. And since most utilities operate in at most a handful of states, it's super easy for them to but regulatory capture.

It doesn't hurt that an entire political machine has also been fired up to inspire hatred for renewable tech, without any basis in the reality of how it is currently (and mostly quietly) changing our electrical grid for the better, and massively improving air quality.
Imagine we didn't have already have cookies. If somebody suggested the creation of cookies as they are now, do you think nothing would change?
Yes! Some code reflects what the requirements demand, including error handling, and no more. The design is elegant in that it abstracts properly, is very readable and extensible. Periodically, when I'm feeling down about my abilities, I look over this code and smile.

Often I look at my older code and recognize the stage of development as a coder that I was in. It's usually not cringe-worthy but it makes me pensive about how I would handle it now.

Another joy is when I find out that a module I wrote is being used extensively by other developers. Just recently I found out that a small, single-purpose function I wrote for my specific needs and deployed to our shared library, is fundamental to another team. They asked me about modifying it for requirements they have. The code itself wasn't beautiful but it filled a need and could be understood well-enough to modify by another. It made me happy all day.

And yes, other creative pursuits give me the same joy. Some practice sessions on my drums seem effortless. My ideas seem to flow regardless of the technical difficulty. Likewise, some dinners I make are chef-level tasty and get the desired "yummmm" from my wife and daughter.

Keep a memory of the times when your code makes you smile. Those memories pull you through the down times.
> UX researchers are pretty important today.

If that is true, one has to imagine that their skills are being employed differently than they used to be. It feels to me like UX used to be about serving the user's interests, which is definitely not something modern UX paradigms seem to concern themselves with.
Different product at my dayjob came to mind.

The license costs ~18.000€ per year.
Luckily it‘s a free floating license that can be reserved by the user.
So it can be fully utilised and a wider pool of users sees the benefit and the great value add of the product.

Per user licensing with that pricetag would not have gotten managerial consent
> This may be just too much for the average person

Having to construct your own narrative all the time is most certainly too much for any single person. If I had to come up with my own interpretation of everything, I'd be sitting here crunching data all day long until I go crazy. One always has to choose their fights, and for everything else you have to find someone else to trust.
Here's the solution. And it applies to Red Cross and other related enterprise changing from free to paid.

1. Stop giving away doughnuts
2. Start selling funnel cakes
Look at the number of tests by millions of people.

France has a very very low test count per millions. Basically you can only be tested once you are hospitalized or in rather bad shape.

On the other hand Germany is testing much more generously.

Simply put the number of confirmed case cannot be compared between countries.

Likely France has about 4 times the number of German's case only unconfirmed.
My version of this is called Dogsheep, and involves building tools that suck my data from various sources into SQLite databases so I can query it all using Datasette.

https://dogsheep.github.io/

I enjoyed reading this author's essay on why he doesn't think loading everything into relational databases is the best approach: https://beepb00p.xyz/unnecessary-db.html

I think I have a workarounds for most of the issues he describes there. One example: I mostly create my base table schema automatically based on the shape of the incoming JSON, and automatically add new columns if that JSON has keys I haven't seen before.

Very thought-provoking writing (and software) here.
April 2020 Jobs Report: Historic Devastation
> Or is it literally that cache invalidation is hard?

Yes. It's a problem that repeats across the computing stack, can cause maddening edge-case errors, and doesn't (can't, in the general case) have a clear perfect solution.
I get a blank white page within Palemoon and Firefox within Linux.
Which tool would you suggest for Org-mode?
I have been reading up on it and it almost made me want to use emacs. But if there is a better tool designed for it's purpose..
Has there been a single peep from the federal government about how to make airports and air travel safe?
Well it's open-source, so you can have a look:

https://github.com/kiprotect/klaro

It uses Preact and a few JS helper libraries and includes translations for more than 10 languages currently. It also includes styles by default (though you can get a version without styles). The compressed size is 37 kB which I think is reasonable, smaller is of course better. We haven't prioritized size for now as it's comparable to a PNG/JPG and usually negligible on most sites, we might look into this in the future though.
MakeMyTech – Get your small tech projects done for a minimal budget
Well, its sequel Jigsaw is far worse. If so, set Curses it as the fourth recommended game.
Telegram allows you to chat and send messages to yourself. The search is decent and searches through the rich text description of links you sent too (so you can look for the title of a YouTube video despite having only sent the link).
I’m just thinking about the big tech companies and which CEOs would think long term.

Out of the big 6 tech companies, Facebook, Amazon, and Netflix are still run by their founders.

Microsoft is not run by a founder, but it’s run by a company man with deep understanding of their culture and market.

Apple’s CEO is not really technical, I don’t think he has a clue about what customers want, but at least he’s efficient and understands the operations side. But I do think he is more numbers and investor focus than Jobs was. He does know his weaknesses and it seems like he defers to his VPs - a good thing. I think he at least cares about the company.

Google has never been able to execute outside of advertising so I’m not sure whether it would matter if the founders were still in charge.
I've been a vi user for about 30 years. Once, a few years back, I decided to force myself to use emacs for a year to see if I could understand what people saw in it. Once I realized, 10 months in, that I was counting the days before I would "let" myself use vi again, I finally threw in the towel and bailed on emacs.
Completely agree. I saw this on LinkedIn where some of my ex-colleagues gave it a bunch of "Well said!" platitudes (side note: comments on LinkedIn posts must be the largest collection on useless banal drivel that humanity has ever produced, and in a world of ubiquitous social media, that's saying a lot).

It was so disappointing not because it was wrong - all of the points Brad made about Amazon going to great lengths to protect workers and rejigger processes rang true. But it missed the point and completely did not address at all Amazon's culture WRT responding to whistleblowers. Furthermore, all the other "yeah, that's right!" comments from other very highly paid white collar Amazonians (with barely a peep from Amazon's factory workers, though not unexpected given the medium) came across as extremely tone deaf and the equivalent of the aristocracy congratulating each other over how well they treat the servants.
It's not good for the now unemployed people but hopefully they'll get back on their feet!
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I never said those countries are "back to normal", you're misquoting me. I meant to say they are going back to work. Further compound that by countries like Sweden that are business as usual

You don't need a source. You already know it will lead to higher unemployment since pandemic -> everyone staying home -> businesses halted -> people losing their jobs (although the market has judged this as ephemeral)
On my side, when I use `grid` instead of `table` for the `.row` style, the `min-height` of the video row is respected, otherwise it's disregarded for a reason I do not understand.
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It's just a few dollars, but a big percentage. $20 is very expensive for what you have. You could get a $2.50 IPv6 Vultr instance, $3.50 with IPv4. 500GB traffic there. Scaleway also starts in that price range, and if nothing changed includes unlimited traffic. See https://www.scaleway.com/en/virtual-instances/development/ and https://www.vultr.com/products/cloud-compute/. The domain will cost likely $1 the month.
> the theory that some strains in Iceland are ineffective

I don't see any support at all for that theory though. It is also known that "X show no symptoms" could mean many things, depending who says it and when, and certainly doesn't prove anything alone, only in context, compared to something else, and only when comparison is fair.

For example, from many old news, those "with no symptoms" eventually had the symptoms, it was just that the tests were positive before they developed the symptoms. Second, it is now known that the probability of "having" symptoms is very dependent on the age of the person.
I don't know man, I think Juul is pretty questionable too.
That is indeed the point he makes. That rejecting the institutions isnt a viable strategy. Fixing the institutions however, in order for them not to hijack your emotional state, is probably the right way to go.
Is there a reason for a 10 minute cache duration? Even 1 minute would be fine from a performance point of view
Have you looked at Pluggy much?

It's the Python plugin system that was spun out of pytest. I'm really impressed by it - it's a very clean design, and integrates great with Python packaging.

I'm using it extensively for Datasette, which means myself or others can add new features to the core software without needing to ask permission and in a way which supports trying out crackpot new ideas without sullying the design of the core software.

I've been thinking about usi it for my Dogsheep personal analytics suite too, which is currently split up into a bunch of separate tools in separate repos (since the only unifying interface is that they all spit out SQLite databases).
> Sure you can argue "if you really wanted to do it you would" and that is a fair point but I don't feel the struggle should be so high. Why can't we make it easier for someone in their 30s or 40s, for example, to get a degree and change the direction of their life? So many people are where they are now and cannot change that because the start of their life was disadvantaged through no fault of their own. Now they are adults, give them the chance to be more.

in your opinion, what exactly makes it harder for an older person to go back and get a degree? AFAIK, all the same loans are available to older folks. if someone in their forties were actually willing to live like a college kid for four years, it seems like they would at least be on the same financial footing as kids that don't get support from their parents. is it that the opportunity cost is higher, since they have at least some earning potential already?
You can’t bring a new business or new hires up to speed instantly. Not only are the lockdown months already lost but there’s a ramp up period. Further, some of the companies in the index likely won’t survive. Even if they will be replaced down the road that shouldn’t be reflected in the prices of currently existing companies.

The priced-in explanation is not plausible.
In this case I recommend writing to hn@ycombinator.com and asking them to merge the threads and swap out the URL in this post.
The study examines a factory workplace which may already have a high-level of background noise. Perhaps the effect is non-linear? Anecdotally, two or three coworkers talking near me doesn't feel more distracting than one coworker on the phone.
The issue isn't the demand. Everyone agrees across the isle that treating every ill would generally be great. The issue is who will pay, how will care be given equally, and how will the level of care be maintained or increase?

You can't just claim your car is now an airplane and drive off a cliff. Nor will just attaching wings grant you the power of flight. You can alter a car into a functioning plane, but what do you have to sacrifice in order to make that work?
I am a fullstack developer. It is the same level of complexity because there is an intermediary either way. Web servers do provide authentication capabilities, but commercial web servers have not relied upon that since the late 90s / early 00s. Most web servers use something equivalent to Spring MVC to maintain both authentication and session management largely because the authentication capability supplied by the web server are only there to protect access to the server and thus directly doesn't account for most common security considerations, example OWASP Top 10.

Authentication and session management across a network can be accomplished across a variety of ways. Operating systems prefer Kerberos for remote authentication. Cookies are preferred by developers who fear JavaScript precisely because because they can be written and transmitted without need for JavaScript. The same end result, authentication and session management, can be accomplished with the same complexity without cookies. Complexity refers to the number of steps involved and not the challenge imposed upon the developer.

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

The only reason to prefer an out-dated functionally obsolete technology is fear of disruption. I have explained all this already, please see the comment I linked to from above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23098196
Nope I’m pretty sure it was made by a mod on /r/t_d
Why video game streaming is thriving during social isolation
why the 'answers' are a bunch of meaningless names? is this to be played only in one specific company where those names mean something?
Paywall, incentives to increase clicks, and so forth.
So I'm not hitting the api too much, this is going through a roundabout way to get this data
Going back and being annoyed with your old code means you've improved.
MVVM in Swift: Infinite Scrolling and Image Loading
But if enough opt out, you're back to square one.

It would be of more help if GDPR was enforced in a really painful way (to offenders). GDPR is not about cookies. It's about tracking without explicit consent. If offenders were fined into oblivion it would (hopefully) go away. Fingerprinting relies heavily on client-side Javascript, so attribution shouldn't be a problem.
Under-the-hood of type systems (e.g. TypeScript)
Indeed, but until it brings money to people who have more than they can spend now, it won't flourish.
I've never seen evidence he was racist or homophobic.

I never saw any evidence he used nigger or faggot against black or gay people, or was using it because he thought less of black or gay people.

See more on Wiki, and quite frankly it would mess with the language identification programs the 3 letter agencies will be running on HN -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_A._Davis
My one particular stand out accomplishment was back in the Lumatic (RIP) days. We were a small app that provided pedestrian navigation in cities that included public transit. When we expanded beyond a single city we quickly learned we had to deal with timezones. The straightforward thing was to convert the times in each GTFS feed (the file containing scheduled transit times/stops/etc) to UTC. So I started digging into to the horrors of the tzdata format and spent a solid 8 hours looking into options there, hit a wall, tabled the project for a few days after which time an idea popped into my head: change the timezone for the process serving the city to match the timezone of the city. Sure enough, changing the TZ environment variable worked like a charm and unix did the rest.
I remember observing a 2nd grade classroom (when I was considering being a teacher) and seeing the teacher yell at a kid for going to fast in a practice test, same thing happened to me in 2nd grade. In middle school if I finished in-class work early, I would pull out a book or two, which might be tough to put down when the teacher moved to the next topic. So I think it's pretty common for students going too fast to butt heads with teachers (fortunately most of my teachers liked me for other reasons, which meant the butt-ing head moments did not build and tensions got dispersed)

That being said, the recommendation I heard when I was studying education was to offer enrichment activities. Which allows smart kids to do their own thing without going in front of the rest of the class in the normal material (so that you do not need full-on tracking and class separation). I generally like that recommendation, although it is not a cure-all. I may be biased since this fit my learning style well well since my academic behavior was chronically inconsistent at times (on-set of mental illness), and the enrichment activities often counted for extra credit which helped me make up for times when I was underperforming.

More generally I think letting smart kids build up a cushion of extra credit takes the edge off of the "always-need-to-be-perfect" pressure smart kids often feel.
I can see your concern! I guess I've got several thoughts on it:

- One is along the lines of post-privacy:

Lots of the stuff that I'm collecting one can find online anyway if they deliberately search for it. Tweets/reddit comments/instagram photos, etc.
Some of it isn't public, let's say, Amazon purchases. But would I mind sharing it?
Maybe not, who cares what I buy? Some ML algorithm that would show me ads? Whatever, I don't click on them anyway.

The more stuff I don't mind to be public in the first place, the less is the chance someone can use it against me.
But I understand it's ultimately something very personal.

- Second is that I agree that the security professionals would handle the data much better than me.

I don't even mind Google keeping my data, if only it was easier for me to access it when I need it!
So generally I would happily pay professionals for a service to keep my data safe, being able to access it and integrate together, and for the infrastructure around it.

Same way I'm using a bank to keep my money safe.
But such infrastructure for data simply doesn't exist at the moment, because there is no demand for it from people.

And silos only benefit the companies that keep this data, so the change isn't going to be come from them.
E.g. if you can easily access your tweets through a nice and fast local app, why would you even visit bloated twitter.com, which is trying to 'entertain' and 'engage' you?

I'm hoping that with projects like this, I can inspire people to think differently about their services and tools, and demand (from professionals, i.e. engineers/designers/product managers) for better means of using their own data.
Under the premise that the author is trying to meet readers where they are at, short contrarian comments are largely indistinguishable from trolling behavior in open online fora. "Haha I'm going to go with the honesty." doesn't isn't symptomatic of other interpretations of the behavior.

Don't get me wrong. On it's own, the comment reads as a simple description of a reasonable personal behavior. In the heated context, it doesn't it adds fuel to the fire more than it reflects light on the topic.

Complaining about downvotes is contrary to the HN guidelines. Yes they hurt. They are feedback on the quality of the comment. How might the idea have been written differently in order to be better received by its audience? Better writing is what's in your control.
Why? A farmer works hard to preserve his cows' health (every cow that gets sick is lost money), yet they are fungible units on their way to the meet grinder.

The two things are perfectly compatible.
How would one benchmark or compare running OpenCV from native code and non-native embedded code?

Ask since the intent of the code is not about embedding OpenCV in a browser, but offloading the computation workload from +1 users from a server to the endpoint user’s computer.

Might be wrong, but for a single user, this setup would likely not be optimal.
I canceled my subscription last year because of the soft-core Fox News style "opinion" pieces and fact wrangling they engage in. It is a News Corp publication now. I miss the old WSJ.
Ask HN: What is the most secure chat app?
Considering the WeChat news, is there a chat app I should be recommending to people whenever they want to chat?
> 1. Octave does not have the inclination or man power to replicate all famous toolboxes of matlab.

I am talking about long term. Problems you list are the result of lack of the resources. After many years, even small volunteer effort combines into impressive results. See GNU/Linux.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22988584

> 2. I don't think managers want to give away the ability to pick up a phone and shout at someone when something doesn't work.

Nothing prevents companies from supporting FOSS. I do not see any problem here, apart from wide adoption.
So what happened? The spec was not followed?
Recreating Spotify categories card with Flutter
It’s not that more disease and death is desired by one side, rather there’s political momentum behind not believing that it’s as severe as it’s being reported.

We no longer live in a world with shared truths, and this is the most remarkable manifestation of this new reality.
Pandemics, emergencies, and tragedies are usually what gives us the best indication of what our politicians actually want. For some strange reason, it's not usually the will of the people...
> Instead, we will offer the EdgeFS users a royalty-free license for non-commercial uses subject to the terms of our EULA.

That line is in the DMCA request.

I'd guess the investors were told they were paying for this IP but didn't take fast enough steps to prevent a legitimate officer of the company from open-sourcing it.