skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My first thought is what restaurants he might have been eating at, just because his home is rat free doesnt mean he didnt eat somewhere that wasn't. Unless by "no travel history" the article means they literally didnt leave their house to go to a restaurant or a friend's house or something I dont think that point was addressed.
"Yay, it is 2020, why would anyone care if I add more external resources to my site and expose all my visitors without their knowledge or consent to yet another third, fourth, fifth party that of course will amass powerful data which eventually will be used for other very important and heavenly purposes, stolen, leaked, cross-referenced, sold, abused. The more the merrier!"

Sorry, do I sound upset? Yes, I am upset. It is 2020, and it makes me sad to see such topics still, with all the daily coverage and "common knowledge" about privacy risks, and not a single mention of the issues that come with "free" services that some "great people" have "luckily" built for "us" for the betterment of humanity. The population has zero say, zero defense, zero power. It is only the young web blogger people like Kenton that could make a change here, but it is not happening. :-( Sorry, man, no personal offense.
Oh b.t.w., I see I didn't mention the view-update problem in databases here. That would be a direct application of category theory. [1]

[1] [1] M. Johnson and R. Rosebrugh, Fibrations and universal view updatability, Theoretical Computer Science 388.1, 2007, 109–129.
NPR covered that in another recent story:

> The fallout from such fear has concerned U.S. doctors for weeks while they have tracked a worrying trend: As the pandemic took hold, the number of patients showing up at hospitals with serious cardiovascular emergencies such as strokes and heart attacks has shrunk dramatically.

> Across the U.S., doctors call the drop-off staggering, unlike anything they've seen. And they worry a new wave of patients is headed their way — people who have delayed care and will be sicker and more injured when they finally arrive in emergency rooms.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/05/06/8504549...
You provide a vague list of terms, such as hops, but there was no proof provided. An example of a proof would be a measured comparison, for example: Do cookies require fewer network hops than an alternative storage mechanism. If so how many fewer?
> Surely they are hiring world-class devs, so what’s holding them back?

Facebook Engineering has a notorious "not invented by me" culture, it's not unique there but a lot of our "world-class" engineers are just acting economically rationally and hole-digging on some new bespoke framework or tool to cement their position in the company. You end up with a massive amount of churn and over-engineered vanity projects, and it's manifesting downstream in basically every product we've turned out for the last five years. That's why the applications bloated and terrible.

The joke inside the company is that it used to be "move fast and break things" but now it's "breakfast, vest and move things around". It's really an engineering culture of decadence and waste these days.
The point isn’t that the curve didn’t exist or that it’s relative magnitude wasn’t higher in some cities. The point is that hospitals generally weren’t overrun, therefore, the measures we took effectively flattened the curve enough that all these overflow medical resources weren’t put to use.
SourceHut is not GitHub or GitLab. That's already a plus.
Any idea how effective farm.bot's weeder is? https://genesis.farm.bot/docs/weeder
Across mobile messenger, messenger.com and the messenger desktop app, the website was the only place left where you could have multiple chats open at once. Now that moves to one at a time as well. That is a huge usability regression (unless its been fixed since last time I tried the prerelease. Edit: Just switched back, it does look like they maintained chat windows at the bottom instead of just chatheads on desktop, although I can still only have two chats open at once.) Friend lists also got left with the legacy interface, which cant bode well for them in the long run. They are still facebooks most squandered opportunity.

The neverending quest to reduce information density is a usability disaster, despite the misheld belief that cleanliness = usable. Zooming out on the new fb interface, to restore some information density, leaves a comical amount of whitespace. Wells Fargo has turned its desktop interface into a giant stretched mobile app. Nothing is hyperlinks that support right click or new tab anymore.

https://medium.com/signal-v-noise/why-i-love-ugly-messy-inte...

The cluster f of the old old facebook interface was beautiful.
This is an extremely tired and inaccurate characterization.

Yelling fire in a crowded theater is actually protected by the 1st Amendment, per the Brandenburg v Ohio ruling.

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/its-tim...
Given that you're claiming that it doesn't render on two popular browsers, one of which I believe has the most market share of any browser, maybe your first thought should be that there's something wrong with your setup?
I'd even be happy with "We don't have any evidence yet of multiple strains, and we probably never will"
Kind of orthogonal, but I’ve often faced pushback from Product Managers when trying to future proof a feature that I’m going to ship. The pushback is usually “oh, there’s no way our customers will ever need that!”. Only until many years later will it blow up in your face, with costly consequences.
Just to clarify, I was only estimating a speedup of 4× from vectorization, while the other 8× comes from multithreading.

Fifteen years ago we thought regular expression matching and compilers were unlikely to benefit from vectorization, but now we have Hyperscan and Co-dfns, so they did. So I think it's likely that we will figure out ways to do a wider variety of computations in vectorized ways, now that the rewards are so great.
Do you actually want to go back to the days of companies beating workers when they collapse partway through a 13 hour day and paying them in store credit? Or can you agree that giving government the power to make those things illegal was a good idea?
Why does it matter to the company if you claim unemployment benefits?
Real programmers use a magnetized needle and a steady hand.
Maybe expensive whisky or wine is a better comparison. They're both mass produced and their value derives more from scarcity than better worksmanship.
>but then you owe 8% of the $1 in sales tax, and you've now lost a third of the money you used to have to Uncle Sam so they can give it to Bank of America and Halliburton.

Sounds like a good argument for universal basic income
Why not;D
Hello. I'm Greg and I'm scared. Well met.
The fundamental problem is the way app stores operate: they are maximizing their ability to fleece developers and users. And worse, they’ve created a system where almost every issue causes users to blame only the developer (e.g. bad reviews).

There was very little wrong with the traditional “free trial then buy”, and “buy next major version” model. Also, it crucially preserved the value of software, which is much larger than a few dollars. The only “flaw” was that it’s less money for gatekeepers so the stores have refused to support traditional buying models in any sensible way, over a decade later.

As a developer, I refuse to participate in a subscription or in-app purchase model because it is never what I want as a user of software. It only makes sense for things that are constantly having major content added like TV shows.

A subscription feels like a server asking you for another tip every time you lift your fork while eating. It’s not that I “couldn’t” pay you in this way, and it’s not that I don’t think you need to make money but isn’t this method a little ridiculous?
I'm sorry to say that here in Spain the situation is far worse than that. Number of cases is totally useless. It's just a fantasy, a way that governments, specially ours, use to make up the reality. Actually Spain is with Belgium in the worst place of the world counting the only relevant index: deaths per habitants.

China could be worse, but their deaths number is impossible to know for us. Simplest option is to think it's been much much worse than they say.

Actually number of deaths is almost certainly manipulated here too. The fact that nursing homes and people dying at home haven't been counted has been on the news weeks ago. Government just refused to adjust the numbers even when comunidades started to supply the corrected numbers. Autopsies aren't being made. And there are directives on what to write on death certificates so the virus doesn't appear except in hospitals and if the deceased suffered no other previous conditions. Sometimes last cause like stroke or heart attack are being said to be the cause.

There are already estimations based on previous years deaths and they're a 50% higher at a minimum, just think that traffic and on the job fatalities must be almost non-existent so it's probably more than estimated.

Everything is mediated by politics. Yesterday a high medical officer in Madrid resigned over end of quarantine because one of the two parties in the regional government imposed its views over technical criteria.
Most of the court is under 70.[1] The article says Sotomayor, Thomas, and Ginsburg have criticized qualified immunity. They're the 1st, 3rd, and 5th oldest.

[1] http://www.threestory.com/scotus/
I'll go further and argue that the quality of Office 365 is actually pretty good, all things considered. A lot of people have bad experience with Office because of all the legacy crap Office is tasked with dealing with, or all the truly bizarre use cases thrown at it.
>Can we agree that whatever Jeff Bezos' hourly income is, it's many, many orders of magnitude more than $15/hour?

Irrelevant, as they don't perform the same duty nor did they share the same risk. They're free to start their own companies if they think it's such a surefire way to guaranteed wealth.

>Tell me another company that's mistreating their workers, in any industry, and I'll happily condemn their actions too.

You're assuming that I think Amazon is mistreating their workers as a rule. I believe it happens. I also believe anything can happen when you have almost 800,000 employees.

>And incidentally, it's not like people are pushing for laws that are going to be written to only apply to Amazon. Workers don't have realistic ability to use the bathroom at Amazon: so we should have a law that says workers (at any company) have a right to use the bathroom.

I'm all for this. I don't agree that the bathroom situation is anywhere close to what has been reported but it doesn't matter because we are in agreement on the laws governing all companies part.

>Ah yes, the "we're only allowed to talk about one thing so it shouldn't be this" argument. Why can't we talk about Amazon and the other companies?

I didn't say this, in fact, I said exactly what you said. I'm seeing talk that is 99% Amazon and 1%... everyone else. And that's being generous. I can't remember the last time I saw a headline that talked about these issues elsewhere even though the comments always bring up plenty of alternative examples. How come we're okay with people that stock grocery stores to make $8? Is their job any less hard than boxing things up in an Amazon warehouse? There are way more grocery stores across the country than Amazon warehouses.

>What's the net result of your effort?

Stop right there. I don't pat myself on the back for how noble I am. If it were up to me, I would be directing all this effort to getting Congress to actually pass laws that force these companies to act right rather than begging Bezos to hand out a couple more biscuits. You know, that one tiny thing that representatives are supposed to do for their constituents: pass laws.

>Amazon also loses some workers some months.

Swing and a miss.

>Instead, I'll say that there are other explanations for why people go to work at Amazon--namely, a lack of other employment options. If my options were become homeless or work at Amazon, I'd work at Amazon too.

There you go. The alternative is living on the street. Thank you, Amazon, for lifting people out of homelessness. For that noble deed, we're going to target you for not doing enough while everyone else gets a pass for not doing anything.
Would you like to help a billion people?
I challenge you to #SaveTheWorld from #Coronavirus! Help your friends and neighbors recycle empty soda bottles into face shields and become a hero! #BillionShieldsChallenge #Bottles2Shields
These rates are quite interesting. After I did one freelance project (managed team of 3devs, created prototype of 5G API network component), I am thinking about starting my own small software agency. I was expecting to charge 30-35EUR/hour (Central Europe region), but according to these rates, my expectations are quite low.

Can anyone give me any advice, books or podcasts, how to get better in business negotiation, to be more confident to ask a proper charge?
"I am a builder," the end user replied. "Many of the houses of this town were made under my chop."

http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/unix-koans/end-user.html
For firefox there's a bug discussing the pros and cons of using ICU for boundaries, so at least they are aware of the issue.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=820261
New York City alone is #6 on the worldwide ranking for confirmed cases in countries.
This is an extremely dumb article.

a) Today intense partisan divisiveness and animosity is felt by the overwhelming majority of the US electorate, not just among extremist groups with no formal political representation. Even taking the author's premise that the 70s had more bloodshed for granted, left-right animosity was comparatively low in conventional politics. A crucial factor of this was that the "realignment of the parties" had just begun with the Nixon administration, so there were still a great deal of centrist liberal Republicans and deeply conservative Democrats.

b) Unlike the 70s, extremist politics are represented at the highest levels of government. This is only true of the right, which is highly relevant!

c) Unlike the 70s, political extremism in the US is almost exclusively a right-wing phenomenon, both in government and in the general population. The few radical communists that actually exist in the US have little impact even on socialist discourse. The fact that Democrats have been moving left since 2005 is not at all symmetrical with the Republican plunge into proto-fascism starting in 2009. The lone gunman who attempted to kill Steve Scalise is not at all symmetrical with the masses who swarmed Charlottesville with anti-Semitic chants.

Of course given the source none of this is a surprise. The author rather gives the game away by focusing exclusively on socialist/marxist terrorism. Arsonists don't generally like taking credit for their work.
I once had the idea for a tool which would print the next few crontab runs, to make sure they were staggered correctly. Asked on Stack Overflow how to do it (https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/36307/3645), and someone actually went and implemented it in C! Fast forward a few years, and I've reimplemented most of it in Rust with 98% code coverage (https://gitlab.com/victor-engmark/cronlist). It's very likely neither optimal nor idiomatic, but every time I implement something using TDD it's a hundred times more readable than without, even when using an unfamiliar language.
I have, and I do use it for projects (and plan on using it for more). But I also need C for things that require certain performance I'm unable to get out of Go.
Slavery is still legal in the US (it was never completely banned).

> The Thirteenth Amendment forbade slavery and involuntary servitude, “except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.“

There are about 2.1 million people in the prison system.
They’re forced to work, disproportionately african american, or other minorities. Many were wrongfully convicted. Their work props up a multi-billion dollar industry.

This doesn’t count refugees, who are also forced to work in US immigration camps.

But, yeah, to agree with your point, many people apparently think this is totally OK.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/prison-...

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

https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/making-profits-o...

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/17/us/immigrant-detention-forced...
So what is the most accurate way to tokenize CJK text?
They were also going to be a global logistics/courier business.
I challenge you to SaveTheWorld from Coronavirus soda bottles 2 face shields
Aside from the "proprietary bad" arguments (which is enough to get traction on HN), there are a bunch of practical reasons:

1. It's faster. Mr. Devault, Sourcehut's author, runs a benchmark site that demonstrates this: https://forgeperf.org/

2. The e-mail based workflow is (in my opinion) superior; I don't have to use some clunky web interface.

3. I can run it myself, on-premise, for free.
Every topics is debatable, on the basis that no everyone think the same way, even scientific method. You would think mathematical statement such as 1+1=2 is obviously true, the absolute truth ? No, its still very much debatable, people can argue how to define '1','2','+', what axiom to use, etc.
The underlying library is actually using a single dictionary for both Chinese and Japanese https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/tree/7814980f51bca2000a96...
Help your friends and neighbors recycle empty soda bottles into face shields
The political class may have been unified, but perhaps because so many people didn't participate in politics. Many religious people stayed away or at least did not vote along religious lines, and other large segments were disenfranchised altogether. So the separations may have existed but simply did not play out in the political arena because politics was in the hands of a homogeneous group.
Being a resident of France I have to say that French people are the opposite of that. Same for Japanese people. The only people who get genuinely excited as you butcher their language are Arabic speakers I've noticed.
Many states are going to be in even worse shape.
why is it downvote ? This link just show you can create a basic twitter like application in 10 minutes with the right tool. Imagine how many hours/days it would take with any JavaScript framework !
Easy one. We all come together to agree that the mountain will be mapped 10 miles to the left relative to its current position. Everything else will also be shifted slightly to account for that.
> Its software couldn’t cope with that pesky minus sign, even though it was always technically possible -- though this was an outlandish idea before the pandemic -- for the crude market to go upside down.

Wow, just wow. They are handling millions (billions?) of dollars every day and couldn't find the time to test that they can just DISPLAY a minus sign. That's insane.

And it's not even that outlandish. People were saying it could go into the negative weeks before it happened. This just seems like pure laziness. Just pretend everything is business as usual.
My father needs medical help RN but everyone is putting him off just sending RX over phone no (pain pills though) saying "stay home". ASAP they open we all wheeling him in there for a MRI if we have to camp outside in a waiting line so be it.
That's funny. Not at all the way I read it, but it could totally be read that way. Made me do a double take.

Still, I think my original reading is correct, because I don't think there is any issue with the "quality" of v8 inside of jsfiddle. While imagining Chrome doing its best to identify real words in long strings of Japanese text and failing spectacularly just made me laugh again.
Not sure how that's relevant to my point. You still learned to act in a group and soaked up experiences of various emotions, dilemmas, love, hate, embarrassment, courage etc. Enduring the pointless, the mundane and boring stuff and complaining about it or occasionally rebelling against it is how you bond with others. At least that's how we do it in Eastern Europe.
I got a user whose username ended with a + and the site crashed. Cool idea by the way!
>It almost makes the PGP key seem superfluous, though I suppose it help with legacy this way.

This is actually one of the best "features" of keybase. They've backed everything by some strong pgp crypto roots, but none of their stuff really "operates" using pgp. The fact that they have abstracted it, in my opinion, is part of why people have adopted it so easily.
The truth is now settling in that Uber was a dot bomb?
>>if a company lets someone go inappropriately

The problem with even arriving there is that there are three ways of letting go of someone:

1) just letting them go for any reason, but it requires giving them minimum notice(usually at least a month, but in many places it's 3 months or even more). Companies get around this by just paying the employee their salary for the duration of the notice period and just telling them not to come in any more.

2) both sides can agree to terminate the contract immediately - this usually happens if the employee wants to go somewhere else, but they also have say a 3 month notice period - in that case sometimes you can agree with the company that you will leave immediately but also not receive your 3 month pay.

3) You can let someone go immediately without pay, but only due to gross misconduct - and ooh boy, you better have it very very well documented that it was gross misconduct(like, a recording of someone stealing is usually good enough).

So the entire "letting someone go inappropriately" thing is lessened because it's really hard to argue for in cases 1 and 2, and employers really try to avoid case no. 3 specifically because of the risk of being sued. Most companies would rather just pay you for the remaining time on your contract to let you go immediately than risk being sued.
It turns out that's because ICU uses a combined Chinese/Japanese dictionary instead of separate dictionaries for each language. Which probably is a little more robust if you misdetect some Chinese text as Japanese and vice-versa.
I've found quite a few streamers I really enjoy this way. They always have people coming into the stream saying, "saw you on YouTube, thought I'd check out the stream."
>Futures contracts that CAN BECOME NEGATIVE don't let large leverage when price is near zero, that's NOT TRUE

It clearly is. If I can buy a contract for 1c, I can get 100,000 contracts for 1000usd. Then if the price rises of falls by 1usd, I'm up/down 100,000 dollars. Can you think of any retail product with that sort of leverage?

That's the danger of putting zero in a denominator.
I think Uber is a lost cause, sorry to say but the food delivery business cannot be profitable for a majority of customers to where they will still pay for takeout. Their ATS service(self driving cars etc) was using stolen technology from waymo, now they are forced to using their own technologies they are way behind waymo, aurora, nuro, etc. Even ride hailing which is supposed to be their bread and butter is losing money, trying to up the ride costs and expect a huge drop in riders. Lastly Covid-19 joined the party, nobody wants to ride in a strangers car who could be infected (or visa-versa). This mindset of fear of the virus could take a year or so to subside, by then how much money will they have burnt?
Just noting that I've been a customer since 2014 and didn't receive this email.