skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It purposely makes the slots of time that we book “free” until the day is too full, and only then changes it to busy.

https://blog.reclaim.ai/posts/2020-03-30-dear-hr-are-your-te...

The lunch use case animation might be a simpler way of conceptually explaining the product, just my 2 cents. Thanks for clarifying there.

Corner case: let's continue the idea of a flex lunch of 30 minutes between 11:30 and 2pm. If my work calendar has no events, and someone schedules a meeting from exactly 11:30 to 2pm, does it automatically reject? The person scheduling that meeting would've thought my schedule was free because the time was marked free, since the flex lunch time is only "claimed" once I'm down to 30 minutes of unscheduled time between 11:30 and 2pm.

My personal intent of blocking this 30 minute slot is never publicly visible on the work calendar, since it has no concept of that.

It sounds like Google Calendar (or whatever meeting software companies use) needs to build in these sort of features, since there's no way to do so. Reclaim helps, but if I'm booking my meeting within Google Calendar, and some of my meeting participants use Reclaim, I can't see the sorts of constraints participants are setting on their time.
I responded to another similar comment already but suffice it to say, noting that someone was charismatic is not going to land them the job unless charisma is a valuable skill for the specific job. When hiring engineers we allow a very wide range of “people skills,” because they aren’t critical so long as they’re above a critical threshold.

Not saying this is you necessarily, but your post makes me think of certain friends I’ve had over the years who are very introverted and can be very salty about extroverted and/or “charismatic” people. They tend to judge people who are friendly and outgoing as being vapid or shallow - thinking, I suppose, that if they were deep thinkers, they too would be quiet and not care about social niceties.

I think that’s a really dangerous mental trap to fall into. It is perfectly possible to be both brilliant and charismatic. It is also very possible to learn and improve “people skills,” just as you can learn anything else. Thinking otherwise can lead to badly underestimating or misunderstanding others, and limiting ones self.
When the China plant reopened, how many new cases a day were being reported in that plant’s city? I was under the impression that China didn’t reopen until the detected new infection rate was zero.
At least, it will think it’s you.
China has a lot of STEM expertise, I'm confident they could probably figure it out.
There's some amazing things happening in the Julia ecosystem. See also: https://sciml.ai/
There's lots to like about GNOME. I would say its one of the most polished desktops with lots of first party apps for it. It definitely has the best search of any DE. But I would have a hard time recommending it to most people I know (at least vanilla GNOME). It just breaks too many workflows.

They removed desktop icons which I don't use but lots of people do. The removed the minimize and maximize buttons meaning you either have to close apps or move them to another desktop. The most annoying one for me is that they removed the system tray which just straight up broke a bunch of apps (mostly sync clients like Dropbox).

Now, all of those features can be added back with extensions (which may break in a future release) but I don't thing most people want to deal with that.

Thankfully there are distros like Ubuntu and Manjaro that patch GNOME and add back in missing features.
Carefully worded with "more often" because I knew emacs was an outlier. I was never an emacs person myself so I don't know it first hand, but in do know people used to call it a resource hog a long time ago.
What is "the infamous Felleisen-Wadler paper"?
Because their minds are all still inseparable from their bodies.

You make my point, we are not just our mind, but a mind dynamically interconnected with a civilization in amazingly complex ways. Whether its the medieval catholic church, the interstate highway system, WoW, or the Internet.

Cognition scientists are pretty sure that we think with our bodies, not just our brain. If you totally separated the human body from the human mind, it is by definition not a human anymore. At best it would be closer to the ghost we leave behind online after we die. Just a shadow or footprints. I dont expect us to ever do better than making really convincing animatronic ghosts.
As my parting question I like to ask if there’s any reason they wouldn’t recommend me for the job.

I’ve found this question tends to stun the interviewer, puts them back on their heels to think a bit.

Then, they either tell me about any lingering concern (giving me a chance to address it while still in the room) OR they tell me that the interview went well / what they appreciated from the discussion.
I thought this was a pretty decent article until the very end when the author asserts:

> ...nobody could be bothered to develop a nationwide program to test people for infection and trace their contacts if they were positive, or to adequately support a pause of economic activity...

As for nationwide program to test people, of course nothing was built yet; it's a novel virus and therefore novel tests are needed. If a government had built out contact tracing pre-covid, they would be (rightly) criticized for taking steps in an authoritarian direction. Apple and Google have stepped in and built contact tracing, so to say this hasn't been developed is also factually inaccurate. Finally the comment about the ability to "adequately support a pause of economic activity" is kind of silly. To pause economic activity is to pause everyone's lives. What does it mean to adequately support people when they're no longer allowed to do the things they enjoy?

It was a breath of fresh air to read an article that admitted that this is a difficult trade off, not some kind of easy decision that's being ruined by the other guy. It was disappointing that it was concluded with a similar tone.
That's not because of JS or WASM, that's because of the browser. Using JS or WASM does not mean you need to use a browser, you can for example run quickjs, node or whatever other runtime without bundling a browser.

This editor could have been written in js and use the exact same libs for rendering. If it used one of the smaller js runtimes (like quickjs) I'm guessing it would have been similar in size and pretty close in performance.

I don't get why you are conflating using a certain language with bundling a full browser (like electron does). It's two completely different things.
This isn't going to end until we reach herd immunity. Herd immunity doesn't imply all of us get infected. And the fatalities of this are not among a random 1%, it's primarily known groups that can be quarantined or protected separately.
Active discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23129942

Also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23126517

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23127552

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23129216
It's a catchy name that's fun to say. Being an amusing pun only makes it better. So the answer is yes, it's a wonderful name for a scheme.
> It's probably just an inevitability of success but it does make the ecosystem more frustrating to use.

For searching online, probably yes. If Linux were used by all the people currently using Windows, there would surely be just as much crap.

But for the OS itself, if the current (open) development models of most distributions would remain open and not become like Canonical's Ubuntu, I don't see that such an OS would ever get ads or become frustrating to use as a law of nature. Volunteers don't do work they don't believe in, few people would work on a change or feature they don't think will be an improvement.
paying for and configuring S3 and a CDN when free all-in-one alternatives are available doesn't seem very KISS to me? And then the article isn't even hosted on said personal site...
What guarantee does Bolt provide around mutable aliased references that Rust's `&Cell` doesn't?
ClearviewAI pitches facial recognition to track Covid-19 patients
> And that was simply diversity even at the cost of spending a lot of money and making some sub-optimal decisions.

That's an interesting take considering how little success Google has had in making their tech workforce more gender diverse.

One cynical view might be that the entire thing is a PR exercise, designed to make it appear that Google cares about gender diversity. For the cost of a small amount of money to write some press releases, and no real changes to their hiring policies, they get some good press and stave off criticism.

Damore's memo threatened this from both sides: it makes it look (or was made to look by adversarial press coverage) like Google is hostile to women, and it also threatens to call attention to the diversity Potemkin village set up by HR.
>diamond in the rough

I don't think that means what you think:

>a person who is generally of good character but lacks manners, education, or style.
> CF _could be_ a lot better. Like compile time validation, not just in time.

I've recently finished a project using AWS CDK, which seems to do a certain amount of this. Just using TypeScript and having AWS resource interfaces be fully typed goes a long ways for finding a template mistake quickly.
Out of curiosity, what is the entropy of your input?
ie what's the output of

gzip input.csv -c | wc -c

versus

cat input | wc -l

?
You don't get that mmo's are just rebranded PC RPG's, they are a fake genre invented to convince gullible people like you to give up game ownership.

Someone who was rational would have demanded the server exe and the ability to own ultima online, you could have had the same "MMO" for a fixed price, no montlhy fee and the server EXE.

Client-server is the same as INCOMPLETE SOFTWARE, why would you buy a game or operating system where the second CD/DVD needs a foreign computer with the "key disc" that disables your software remotely? You don't get that the true purpose of "MMO's" was to move undermine software ownership for every piece of software on the planet, you don't get if you accept client-server for one piece of software, you accept it for ALL SOFTWARE.

Because all software is, is a list of binary numbers, instructions, if you are not given a complete set of instructions to run the entire APP locally you are being conned because it won't stop at RPG's, that is how we ended up with "client server" windows 10, no one should want an operating system, or Microsoft office, where part of the applications files is held hostage on some remote server, it's the same as buying incomplete software, or software with a second DVD missing that they mysteriously kept in their office.

You and the rest of mankind are gullible to an insane degree.

You don't get the agenda, so I'll have to spell it out for you.

Imagine we have a 5 PC lan, and the person in the middle of the network is the programmer and he is making games, mainly PC RPG's, that means if he makes a "client server" rpg and you buy his idea "software as a service" he will do that to EVERY FUTURE PIECE OF SOFTWARE to enrich himself, he is now OWNER of that 5 PC network you dolt, including the operating system, including word processor. EVERY SINGLE PIECE OF SOFTWARE CAN BE MADE CLIENT SERVER IN A NETWORKED WORLD.

That means the death of software ownership and personal privacy on your PC.

AKA it's literally stealing the software, there is NO FINANCIAL INCENTIVE to go back to local applications if you buy ANY client-server software.

For 99% of cases, client server anything, whether that is an operating system, game or word processor is irrational.

Because they can now destroy the software you paid for. No one who was rational would buy software with a self-destruct button on it that could be disabled remotely.

You don't grasp that most of us hardware gamers in the 90's were expecting PC RPG' to continue with dedicated servers, and saw the mmo supporting half of the nerd kingdom as clueless and dumb, you are the reason why STEAM exists, steam can only exist in a world where the average game buyer is irrational and doesn't get the corporate agenda.
If immunity after getting it isn't viable, then surely a vaccine isn't either?

Stamping out COVID19 worldwide simply isn't practical, so isn't the omly option to just live with it? We manage to live with far worse things, like ageing.
Dark themes are absolutely essential to some of us with annoying floaters in our vision.
> humility

This is an important value. Please re-read my phrasing:

- "I'd naively think"

- "I don't see"

- "I am skeptical"

I am using words of uncertainty and lack-of-knowledge.

The only claim I make with a certainty is "I have found <link> useful for addressing <personal experience>".
Also in that list is MDL or MUDDLE. This is the language that ZORK was written in.
I think we need to do more in this space. As HackerNews had become more popular, it has begun the inevitable transformation from a place of analysis to a place of advocacy.

...which inevitably results in a drop in quality and substance and a rise in partisanship.

HackerNews thrived for a long time by keeping under the radar, but what we really need now is a new mechanic that rewards dispationate analytic content and substance over partisanship meetoo content.

Behavioral guidelines and moderation don't work long term and don't scale.
Oh, yeah. QEMU 5.0 already uses io_uring. In fact, it uses liburing. Check out the changelog: https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/5.0
This will probably be the best reason to buy an xbox soon.
Fractional Cascading – Optimizing K Binary Searches
The US has more testing capacity than South Korea relative to total population (so we've ramped up significantly), the problem is that our numbers of infected are too high to use that capacity for suppression.
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Unions have a very different culture in the US as compared to Germany. American unions are in a highly adversarial relationship with their employers. This is compounded by a further adversarial relationship between certain political constituencies in the public and unions.

A lot of this can be attributed to the history of the 20th century and the different effects of communism in these respective countries. This may even be reflected in the differing attitudes towards tertiary education and vocational school.

It’s a very complicated issue with a lot of history.
Right, masks are not primarily about protecting the wearer. So if you want to protect yourself from droplets, what tool do you reach for?
> knee replacement

For what it’s worth, I think that in the process of gradual replacement of human organs with their “mechanical” equivalents, the brain will not be the last one to be replaced.
If you store your TF state on S3 and use versioning you'll never have that lost state problem.
like cheap RHEED?
Then it should be easy to demonstrate with smaller scale projects. Where are those demonstrations?
Designing Large (JavaScript) Applications
Finding Shawn Mendes
Show HN: CareBoi – create custom care emojis
You mean Clippy?
I've seen a few of these and, as somebody without anything to do with the running of the email servers, I can say that they have been quite good fun to watch.

The right thing to do, of course, is email the whole group asking them to stop emailing the whole group ....
I think this is the first time it’s ever felt appropriate to me to post an xkcd on hacker news...
https://xkcd.com/356/
Published my first proper product after working as a developer for 10 years
Well, we could have at least waited until masks are widely available and we have a contact tracing system that is able to trace all contacts of contacts of those infected each day. At 1000 infected per day in Germany, this would be 100.000 to 400.000 contacts traced by day.

And of course, we should have kept up the social distancing.
Probably the package would need to be over 1cm tall to withstand that.

(I think that the electric power guys get "30kV/cm" etched into their brains - the field strength at which sparks start to fly between conductors separated by air.)
I've been messing around with Rust and Godot myself over the past year. I think it's a match made in heaven. Sure, there's an occasional hiccup, but nothing major. Although I'm waiting on Godot 4 before continuing my project because I could really do with the better double precision float support, and I don't mind spending time on other projects while waiting.
Or as Feynman put it, "Dogs are easier to understand, but nobody yet knows how dogs work."
MMO's were a scam, they were just rebranded PC RPG's, you don't seem to get you are the gullible one here.

If you buy ANY piece of software in an internet enabled world that you don't own or ontrol, you have just broadcast to the entire corporate world that you are gullible. They will try to client-server EVERY game and EVERY piece of software, what the hell do you think mobile is?

Steam is by definition an irrational piece of corporate malware that shouldn't exist, up until 2004 we were getting complete local applications, or honestly coded PC games. That is why as you go backwards in time before internet penetration reached the computer illiterate, we had level editors, server exe's and dedicated servers embedded inside the main game exe.

Descent 3 came with server executable. MMO's are just RPG's where the server exe isn't given to you. You can see this "MMO" racing game you can play completely "offline" proving that mmo's were a scam. Need for speed world was just a fork of most wanted and rewritten to be client server, AKA a scam. Think of this, you can run Need for speed world entirely from your PC without monthly fee or micro-transactions, then that means that paying a monthly fee for software you don't own is irrational.

https://need-speed-world.en.uptodown.com/windows

Anytime you see a login screen on a piece of game or other software you're seeing stolen software buddy.

You don't get they've already won, the battle was won between 1997 and 2004.

Ultima online and everquest were trial balloons to undermine software ownership on the PC, they are tests of your gullibility to literally steal PC RPG's out from under you.

I know you find this hard to believe, but see the science, I can tell you the facts and you won't reason to the right conclusion, see the science:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
The interplanetary space is probably the best place to build a particle collider - you won't need compensation fields and giant tube[s].
WWW should never have enabled use of custom fonts or colours. The fonts and the colours used for particular elements of a page should be configured system-wide. I always block web fonts anyway.
> A minifigure, 3 blocks high, is repesentative of an average American adult, at 1.753 meters tall

Shouldn't it be the height of an average adult from Denmark? At 1.672m (edit: closer to 1.8) it's a big enough difference to matter. The inaccuracies in this article are disgusting! This is a serious matter that has numerous implications, and is definitely not a joke.

Edit: I meant to post this somewhere else. Sorry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-hundred-meter_Aperture_Sp...

If you mean smaller accelerators, it's unclear what the value in that would be.
Abstract:

Within fifty to a hundred years, a new call of organisms is likely to emerge. These organisms will be artificial in the sense that they will originally be designed by humans. However, they will reproduce, and will evolve into something other then their initial form; they will be "alive" under any reasonable definition of the word. These organisms will evolve in a fundamentally different manner than contemporary biological organisms, since their reproduction will be under at least partial conscious control, giving it a Lamarckian component. The pace of evolutionary change consequently will be extremely rapid. The advent of artificial life will be the most significant historical event since the emergence of human beings. The impact on humanity and the biosphere could be enormous, larger than the industrial revolution, nuclear weapons, or environmental pollution. We must take steps now to shape the emergence of artificial organisms; they have potential to be either the ugliest terrestrial disaster, or the most beautiful creation of humanity.
I think its too dismissive to claim it will have 0 practical applications. Often this type of fundamental research take decades to result in something useful in an unexpected way. We can only go where the roads lead us, who are we to dismiss the roads not taken.
I feel the same but unlike you I don’t care much about doing something practical. Well, I do, but am forgiving if the efficiency is not there. Just playing around with bigbang I came up with some game ideas that would not have come in a different environment. My take is that it is an environment fertile with creativity and ideas due to simplicity of scheme. Those can be taken and rebuilt elsewhere if needed. To me the joy is in the playground.
Ex-Google Engineer James Damore Silently Asks Court to Dismiss Lawsuit
If that's the case everything is political. I'm not sure I accept that.

What I want to say is I don't care about left or right or the agendas of either. Focus on the product, the customers, and the fight. Alexander the Great never had a diversity program. I'm not going to say he was the pinnacle of morality here, but maybe it's a good idea to focus on the important things if you want to be successful.
Also with such highly populated games they have to do a TON of ongoing work to support the infrastructure to the point that they would lose money on customers in a matter of months if they didn't charge subscription fees.
How Did Ancient People Keep Their Food from Rotting?
> Its been a while, but I'm also pretty sure CW has log groups.

This. If you have three sets of logs intermixed together, things have been architected incorrectly.
This video is my best attempt to explain it (not a rickroll, I swear): https://youtu.be/kc9HwsxE1OY
Totally agreed. At the same time, I also feel that someone should be able to separate work and life if they want to. I have one colleague who never turns her camera on, which is perfectly OK too.
Wow, thank you for mentioning EmEditor, I used to keep it as a must-have app when used Windows, preferred it over UltraEdit, EditPlus etc, good memories. Nowadays it's all vscode though.
Preliminary evidence from a China multicenter observational chloroquine study
I’m amazed how this idea seems to endure, even in the face of dozens of countries showing reductions of 90%+ (Italy, Spain, Germany, Austria, Australia, Switzerland, Iceland, Norway, South Korea, France, etc) or even complete elimination (China, NZ).

Just because the US and UK can’t get their act together doesn’t mean it’s impossible.
I don't think this is very damning nor unexpected.

A plant with the degree of _change_ that Tesla has on its product line would likely have a very very dynamic production floor - resulting in more violations.

It also seems that the OSHA rules were not designed for Tesla's unique processes, so many of those violations, if you actually read them, are not relevant to Tesla and have nothing to do with safety.

This problem will go away as their plant process matures and as they are given the opportunity to comment on the next revision of the OSHA automotive plant rules.

Also, there have been no deaths or serious injuries, so it's hard to argue that safety was actually compromised here.
> There are probably good reasons why they think

Exactly! I'd like to know what they are in more detail than the article was able to articulate.
Pinta is the software I use for quick little edits (like adding a red arrow!)
I think you’ve misspelled ‘9’ as ‘6’.