skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why shouldn't we remove the lockdown if we can manage to do so without overwhelming hospitals?

The premise of the question is false. The states making aggressive reopening moves are largely on upward trends of cases and show no sign of being able to avoid overwhelming their health systems if they reopen (some are on track to so so with their, often already too lenient, “lockdowns”), and even the states doing more measured reopenings that seem to have the caseload situation more in hand (like California) don't have the surveillance in place to detect a new surge in time to effectively respond. The latter approach is risky but arguably responsible given the context of the grossly negligent federal economic response, but the former is just flatly indefensible.
How did you find writing your apps in Dart when using Flutter? That was one language I haven't been in a rush to learn but the performance metrics you talk about can be quite persuasive.

I've heard a number of people having issues with React Native. I'm curious if that is just an immaturity thing or something more fundamental.
UBI is not meant to be without work on other incomes, it just meant to have a financial safety net without regulations and criteria (below poverty, disabled, location, children, etc.)

If you get $1,000/month right now, things would go smoother, and you still have to pay tax on your new higher wage.

UBI is not a "never work only consume" solution.
Outside of the text editor, I think native emacs keybindings like (C-n, C-p, C-a, C-e, C-k) on OSX are great and I hope they never get rid of them.
Tatar became a name for populations of the former Golden Horde in Europe, such as those of the former Kazan, Crimean, Astrakhan, Qasim, and Siberian Khanates. The form Tartar has its origins in either Latin or French, coming to Western European languages from Turkish and the Persian language (tātār, "mounted messenger"). From the beginning, the extra r was present in the Western forms, and according to the Oxford English Dictionary this was most likely due to an association with Tartarus.

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In Greek mythology, Tartarus (/ˈtɑːrtərəs/; Ancient Greek: Τάρταρος, Tártaros)[1] is the deep abyss that is used as a dungeon of torment and suffering for the wicked and as the prison for the Titans.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatars

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartarus
Many people on the store floor are primarily salespeople. They may not know the corporate strategy, but they know who comes in and what it takes to sell something to them.
"Actors can fake personalities" isn't a particularly rigorous argument in favor of IQ.
The fact that you did not commit the initial theft does not put you in the clear. Source: a lawsuit that I won with exactly that theme.

I don't know where you are but the bulk of the jurisdictions would not look favorable upon you. I agree that your loose interpretation of the law might work out in your favor. But just like downloading copyrighted material is illegal so is downloading copyrighted data from a source that you know does not have the option to legally give you a license to copy or use that data. So from one aspect of the law you are in the clear, from another this is an open-and-shut case of copyright violation and on top of that you will have to work real hard to prove that you weren't the one to steal it in the first place using the 'upload to someplace anonymous, then download it again' trick to whitewash the data.

Some risks are worth taking, this particular one I'd think long and hard about it if the counterparty is the proverbial 800 pound gorilla.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23103251
I wonder what the compliance organism looks like?
Those “academic“ composers had a huge influence on many musicians. They literally invented the techniques that groups like Kraftwerk could built upon. You might not like their music, but please don't underestimate their importance for music history! In fact, artists like Aphex Twin know very well how much they owe to people like Stockhausen.
>They've been avoiding collection calls for years as agencies sell and resell their debt. Piles of unopened mail, etc.

OK but with the exception of fraud and incorrect identity then the rest of the people have a real original debt right? The debt might be sold at a fraction of it's original amount but that's because the debt collector takes a risk to put in time and legwork in exchange for collecting a real legal debt.

I am against exploitative debt fees/interest and I realize the debt collection world is full of shady figures but the narrative of the debtor as victim is a bit oversold.
I could not disagree with you more. Are you in the Bay Area? The Bay Area avoided a calamity primarily because of private companies taking action long before the city and state.

I'd counter that if private companies were completely left in charge, the response may have been better (I would not have said this in January).

Private companies were called in because our public efforts failed. If private companies were leading the charge from day 1, I struggle to see how our response could have been worse than it is today. And I completely disagree that our poor response can be attributed to involvement of private companies.
Generally in my experience with international, you get one or two alcoholic beverages served with each meal (even Spirit airlines will give you a glass of red/white which I thought was impressive considering how stingy they are), and I think the flight attendants are allowed considerably more leeway on handing out free drinks. I've only paid for drinks on international a handful of times.

International flights are also significantly more profitable than short haul, so that might have some impact too.
> That lead to paying work

Typo: it should be “led”, not “lead”
Well this is based on average visitor, so it certainly makes sense—the revenue is more reliable and they can simplify vendors and improve the quality of life, too.

If they were hoping to increase per capita profit year over year without increasing ticket prices, yes, that was a mistake.
Excellent find!!
Show HN: React-only 5-minute RPG
I would like to see that happen then. It might work.

However, even in Vancouver the occupancy tax is not being enforced nearly rigorously enough for such an effect, and the occupancy tax is still too little.
If they could make some kind of a visual layer that makes it look like Word and Photoshop (not in the same time, I'm being realistic here), their name would be remembered in eternity.

Of course, emulating the shortcuts & functionality of Word and Photoshop shouldn't be considered a problem, we are talking Emacs here after all...
Rich people have unserviced debt? Wouldn't that make them poor people?
ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION is an immediate red flag. Yikes.. that's gonna be a no from me.

https://github.com/nhsx/COVID-19-app-Android-BETA/blob/43a16...
The thing is: it doesn't have to go anywhere. You grow nature on it and it's a hill in the end.

However nuclear waste HAS to go somewhere. It has to be taken care of ($$$) and probably for millennia to come by people and governments which can do stuff we can't imagine today.

Not even mentioning failed storage options we're face with today already like Asse...
Samsung phones and Pixels aren’t that bad either.
I am not saying it to be proud, but I tested our 3mb internal app with a 5 year old android phone, and worked.

The only time it was slow is if the browser itself was old (e.g. Chrome 44).
There is a human aspect to software, and when you forget that, and try to force people to adapt to software instead of adapting software to people, you come up with software that naturally is difficult and unpleasant for people to use.

Emacs is built on a philosophy of human nature that deemphasizes the subjective personal experience in favor of (a limited group of people’s theory of) the objective ideal experience.

In a short amount of time, VSCode and it’s ecosystem has almost equally matched what Emacs and its ecosystem took 30+ years to create.
Western languages traditionally called them Tartars. More recently, there has been a trend to use Tatar instead, as that is closer to how the people call themselves. But this is dealing with historical sources in which Tartar was used.
Computer simulations eliminated smallpox? Do tell.
But that's just US culture, European cultures are quite different (wealth is suspect in Germany, for example, a rather collectivist society) and we still have plenty of mindless consumerism.

And really, nobody here is forced to work till they are tired. Yet still, the utopian society where everybody is working on bettering themselves is not happening. At some point I believe we can consider that it's not the circumstances holding them back, it's just not what most people strive for.
“I’ll buy you pizza for helping me move” is an extremely common social interaction, to the point of being a trope. It’s not a bribe, it’s an acknowledgement that helping somebody move is a huge amount of work and some token of appreciation is wise.

GP doesn’t have weird friends.
My experience with Emacs has been a steady upward trajectory, gaining understanding and access to functionality. I now use CIDER and TRAMP every working day, and no true equivalent exists for any other editor (though many are catching up to CIDER, due to Clojure being the better lisp!).

The biggest problems with Emacs, to me, are the rendering performance, the lack of sufficient threading, the default keyboard-accessible windowing commands, and Elisp being unergonomic and sad.

The course I'd chart for an ideal Emacs would be rendering with something like Alacritty†, some default windowing commands similar to tmux, and phasing out Elisp in favour of a Clojure dialect; the last bit would help a lot with introducing some basic sources of concurrency.

† Plus smooth scrolling surfaces, since a text editor generally does not have enough surfaces that the memory overhead of tiled surfaces is a serious issue like it is for general-purpose renderers like web browsers.
> I do understanding that it's entirely feasible for them to rootkit Linux from the BIOS and install malware onto their Thinkpads but I just haven't seen it happen yet

It’s not actually, because the mechanism which allows a vendor to provide “drivers” via UEFI is used by Windows only and nobody else. Windows exclusively is the target of such UEFI abuse.

Lenovo can put as much garbage and bloatware they want in the relevant UEFI firmware-sections, and Linux will simply ignore it, like it always have. No root-kit will be triggered.

As a Linux-user you are actually 100% immune against this abuse. As a ThinkPad-owner doubly so, since this major fuck-up only affected budget/non-Thinkpad product-lines.
> unless your work requires you to use macOS, you have no reason to buy a Macbook

If hardware is all that matters to you, sure. But some people actually prefer the software experience of macOS to that of Windows, for a variety of reasons.
https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/gcc-10
Just to confirm, if I turn off backup, does anything stop working aside from needing at least one device to be operational at any given time?

Edit: Specifically, is key backup tied to the ability to recover account history on a new device, or can I still get that with key backup disabled as long as I have at least one other device active?

Edit 2: Can you address this paragraph:

> One point for super-paranoid users: currently the private key used to sign your own devices and the private key used to sign other users are encrypted by your recovery passphrase/key and stored on the server to allow recovery if you lose all your devices. We also allow signing keys to be shared (gossiped) between devices, but right now the implementation also stores them encrypted on the server too. This restriction will be fixed in future, but for now if you don’t trust your server with encrypted keys, you may want to hold off on using cross-signing.

If I understand correctly, sounds like security is based on the complexity of your recovery passphrase and an implicit assumption that the passphrase doesn't get transmitted to the server... is that correct?
It greatly increased guest satisfaction and I would bet it helped their bottom line a little too.

There will always be people that stick to free water or don't drink anything. By building the drink price into the ticket price, you're essentially getting everyone to pay for a drink.
It's not the async logic that's hard, it's the parsing and handling of the HTTP protocol. Apache had years to get it right and figure out the workarounds for non-compliant black boxes. It's this that keeps it around unfortunately. Its architecture is obsolete and a waste of resources.

Nginx does the async stuff properly I believe but there's still the nonsense of forking child processes.
NHS open-sources contract tracing iOS and Android apps
PCI Express 6.0 Reaches Version 0.5 Ahead of Finalization Next Year
Does it actually require GNOME Keyring or does it just use libsecret? Because libsecret is dope and has been nothing but a joy to work with.
No, they moved it up, to 2023.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/05/nasa-planning-to-lau...
I do commercial collections (B2B). The article states, "Unlike most court rulings, these judgments are issued, as the name indicates, by default and without consideration of the facts of the complaint—and instead are issued in cases where the defendant does not show up to court or respond to the suit." I am licensed in California and Texas, and in both states one must "prove-up" a default before judgment is entered by presenting a "prima facie" case. In other words, you must prove your case before a judgment is entered, even if the defendant does not show up.
It's an important consideration!
I think I would feel much better about this if it was accompanied by a legally binding declaration that the only entity that will ever have access to these data will be NHS, explicitly excluding any other government intelligence agency.

This is not a stab against the people who developed it, in fact I know some of the people involved in the development of the application and they have the highest ethical standards.

The problem is that in the post-Snowden era, no matter the good intentions behind such projects it is naive to not ask for as many safeguards as we possibly can.
Software dev 20+ years: management is right to ask for estimates. It's ok for engineers to write a throwaway design paper to "get into" the problem before turning to jira epics and stories. It's also right for engineers to reject arbitrary dates, pressure to cut corners and so on. But this or the ops story absolutely don't get anybody anywhere.

You wanna move beyond anecdotes and nice sounding business arguments? Read FIRO by Dr. Schutz prob out of print or "Human element" by same. His son Ethan has updated these books.

Look, in normal high functioning groups conflict is normal. What confers distinction there is two things:

- no individual on team is ridgid and unchanging

- conflict is resolved with 100pct buy-in ie not cause the boss yelled, or you were out gamed, politics, favourites. IOW there is trust in the team (together with self awareness, competence etc which the book hits on)

When human factors burn down projects down the issues are quite a bit more about trust, individual self awareness, defensive behaviors, and not resolving the problem in a group way. Trying to eliminate conflict with rules of thumbs is a fool's errand. Conflict itself is not a sign of badness.

References to organizational modalities (the strong boss, the clear vision, and similar sounding approaches) help at the margins only and then only randomly.
Both process startup and terminal can be very slow depending on OS.

I also have a rule, I don't bash novice developers for their lack of knowledge.
Soyuz Escape Capsule Responding Instructions [pdf]
> "We believe that communicating dates produces the wrong incentives. What really matters on a long timescale is 1) priorities and 2) velocity." [1]

I saw this written during the 2017 cryptocurrency craze. Has stuck with me as one of the most insightful things I've ever read. Also a fan of 37 Signals' budgets. [2]

[1] https://medium.com/graphprotocol/introducing-the-graph-4a281...

[2] https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3746-drive-development-with-b...
Cross-signing and end-to-end encryption by default
I always argue adding "helper" or "util" adds nothing to the description of a file/module/class and is better left off
I like to tell the story of how secretaries in the 70s learned how to use and customize Multics Emacs with Emacs Lisp; they were told they were simply customizing their editor, not programming it.
Epic trip man! Central Asia is extremely high on my list. I can not wait.

> I find it cool that I get to choose how much of my life I want to exchange for money.

I agree with you so much, and speaking at events and writing books about what I've done, by number one focus is helping people to realize work/life balance is often a choice.
Newspaper Navigator: a public ML dataset for historic newspapers
What is C-c? I have never used emacs so these comments are very confusing.
When I got a mortgage and refinanced. In both cases shortly after I got letter that my debt was purchased by someone else and from now on my payments supposed to go to a different company.

I suspect it is similar here. They make the loan then sell it to someone else.
That makes a lot of sense. My costs are essentially $0. My time is the largest factor. Agreed the user's are most likely "shortlived", but I collect emails which could be nice for something like a newsletter.
I wanted to see if I could make a demo for an RPG that lived completely in the browser and only used React (which is very doable). I'm a big fan of minimal storytelling and wanted to try a telling one via a simple RPG.

It was a ton of fun getting it to this point and is a backbone I will use to build a full RPG (with fancy assets and animations). If there is interest I will happily make a repo for this.
> There is an bug with the trackpoint and mouse pad that makes the pointer drift randomly.

If it drifts in a single direction in that time, I found it was actually a physical problem and fixed it by cleaning around the trackpoint.

I haven't seen this in software though, I currently have the X1 gen 6. Which do you have? Which bug is it? I'd love to see if there is a way to help.
Actual wallclock time. The code is 100% scalar - LZF is very byte oriented and I haven't found a good way to vectorize it. IPC counts were used to help guide tuning but not a determination of success.

I don't really understand why people think this is controversial. Somehow an Intel cpu on a generation behind process is still competitive with a 7nm CPU with more cache. Intel must have one hell of an architecture to make that possible. AMD did a good job for the most common workloads but they have work to do with Zen3 if they want to maintain that lead when Intel finally figures out its manufacturing.
It would mean 0 new cases.
"Ann Cavoukian, former Ontario privacy commissioner, resigns from Sidewalk Labs", 2018-10-21. https://globalnews.ca/news/4579265/ann-cavoukian-resigns-sid...

"Google's 'Smart City of Surveillance' Faces New Resistance in Toronto", 2018-11-13. https://theintercept.com/2018/11/13/google-quayside-toronto-...
Ask HN: How to introduce a non-programmer to the command line, file system, etc.
I’m a CS major, and my wife is an English major. A little while ago, my wife expressed interest in learning more about how computers work. Not the physics and the silicon or low-level kernel stuff; more userland-level, practical knowledge.

What are some resources to help a non-programmer casually interested in learning more become familiar with the command line, file system, UNIX philosophy, etc.?
Yep, I used to work in finance and I think this is a conclusion that most people have come to (although implementing it is hard given how small Bitcoin is). A few years ago, it was definitely still niche but is pretty much in the mainstream now.

There are other good hedges btw (HFT was one that worked out well this crisis) but I think the weakness of stuff like USTs has been exposed (they basically didn't work because everyone and their grandmother had this position on) so people are going to be looking for alternatives.
Trying to write games for the Spectrum was pretty painful. I got as far as writing some sprite routines using the decimal opcodes in the back of the supplied manual as a reference, saving to cassette whenever I made any progress. But the enterprise basically collapsed under its own impracticality before I got far.

I later learned that a lot of commercial developers were writing code using assemblers on larger systems and subsequently transferring it to the Spectrum.
Mostly cost. The board itself, but also server boards are often hard to find for desktop sockets, so that drives cost for the CPU as well. But, if I get a server board, maybe I'm going to get one with IPMI, and those usually have serial consoles and some limited VGA for KVM over IP too.

I could afford a $800 server project, but I'd rather spend $300.
How funny, I took notes for a class to A/B test this and note taking ruined my ability to internalize data. When I wasn't taking notes, concepts would fly into my head as I'm writing an exam along with the associated memory (where I was sitting that day, whether it was bright out, where the lecturer was standing wrt board). When I took notes, I had all these notes and none of this would happen.

I used pen/paper. I also tried, separately, computer-based stuff and that ruined my ability to concentrate.
A closer example might be autocad (at least older versions). You could do everything with a mouse, but a true expert could type the plans for a building faster than you can imagine.
It's like the monkey banana thing.
Thanks! And am I correct in assuming Slack just has a single target for the iOS app (App), then one for each App Extension? So the root source folders map 1:1 to build targets?
I'm more pointing out that when they talk about that sort of thing, they're often being hypocritical after using "small government" and "free market" arguments five minutes before to denounce everything from social services, to capital gains taxes, to environmental regulation. There's a deep-cutting double-standard. I'd have more respect for it if they just admitted to self-interest, instead of preaching against deregulation except when it negatively impacts them.
> And the old "I have suffered therefore the others have to suffer".

Actually, its an extremely important point. Tools which optimise for the professional are better than those which do so for the noob. Whenever you can achieve both, do so, but never side with the beginner otherwise. People should learn their tools, and they shouldn't be beginners for long, so making things "friendly" at the cost of rewarding expertise is poor design.