skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't push a commit with a new feature without tests and documentation. Even for your personal projects.

I started doing this a couple of years ago and it's hard to overstate the positive impact this has had on my macro productivity. I can come back to a project I haven't touched in six months and instantly start productively making improvements.

Tests and documentation really are for future you.
Autojump - for quickly jumping between directories

https://github.com/wting/autojump
Sorry, but this story is utter bullshit. Source is unreliable and the only link in the story is to the movie "Trading Places" and the maybe the "WTF Stock Exchange" might be a clue.
At least as a self employed person, unemployment seems...tenuous. And confusing.

I’m a photographer. The website says I’m supposed to report income the week I work, not when I actually receive payment. If someone gives me a deposit for a wedding next year should I count it? Should I be reporting the deposits I got last year when I cover a wedding this year?

I’m allowed to deduct expenses, but they don’t go in to more detail. If I spend more than I make in a week can I carry over the rest of the expense?

It’s pretty stressful just knowing if you’re doing it correctly.
It is also much greener, to reuse your old hardware, especially if it is Sandy Bridge and later (because 1st gen and earlier hardware consumed lots of energy, even in idle; Sandy dropped idle consumption from 50 to 5 watts).
Multiple times per year in a country with 300MM people and what, tens to hundreds of thousands, if not millions of police interactions yearly?

Obviously in the ideal case it would be 0 but that's not realistic and, again, the current rate is far lower than the original poster implied. That's my entire argument. A couple times a year in the news does not justify worrying about being killed during a traffic stop or some other typical, mundane interaction.
The countries that were hit hard were countries that had a collapsed healthcare system to begin with, collapsed through austerity, politicians of these countries only try to safe their ass and re-elect-ability...
Please don't go there to turn it into another "digital nomad" place.
Can someone maybe with lab experience in propulsion or comparable knowledge confirm that their method to measure the thrust of the plasmathruster is in any way comparable to proper thrustmeasurement / produces forcevalues correlatable to those measured with an unobstructed outlet and proper equipment?
Canonical is prime acquisition material.
> Why wouldn't data centers switch when they can get more computing power for less energy and at a lower initial price point?

Uh... because their revenues are down 20%, they have a hiring freeze, and are delaying all capital expenditures? That was my point: there may be technical reasons for people to move away from Intel's products. But the economic reality means that fewer customers will.
Multi-Kubernetes Cluster PostgreSQL Deployments
Try this. They have all the graphs from U1-U6.

http://portalseven.com/employment/unemployment_rate_u6.jsp
Messenger can. Telegram can. Slack can. Signal can. Whatsapp can.
And were any of those accounts that you followed "big streamers"?

The fact that botting exists does not mean that's how most big streamers got started.
I'd really like to understand how does one not care about ads. To me it's like potholes on road. It would require terrific willpower to ignore them.
> Next step: soak the hell out of Amazon for public transit. Seriously. They should go fucking nuts.

Can't speak to it recently, but Amazon has repeatedly paid large lump sums to the city for public transport, to expand routes and coverage of where their offices are. They also 100% cover the cost of ORCA cards for employees, which will cost them a pretty penny with the city. If public transport isn't getting enough money out of Amazon to meet needs, they're undercharging Amazon for those cards.
> On another aside, I have known folks who have worked at IB in the past, and their systems absolutely suck dead goats. Huge masses of legacy C++ code with poor testing.

As a customer I’m not surprised at all. Their software is terrible, especially the simplified web application and their mobile app. Terrible. But their fees are incredibly low. You can convert a million dollar to other popular currencies for less than 20$ at interbank rates. Just nuts.
I'm a life-long English speaker and am 100% OK with changing the language to make it easier to learn.
My wife has CNBC on in the background during the day while we WFH, which is where I saw them talking about it.
> However I find it much more plausible that Waymo and Tesla will vendor out the details of the rideshare service rather than build their own from scratch.

Yeah, but that puts all value add in waymo or Tesla's hands, not Uber's. Uber will have no advantage, and cannot charge juicy margins.
There is a paper describing some of the remote work security stuff from Google (though obviously the paper goes into a lot of things other than that):

https://research.google/pubs/pub45728/
That's fair. To be clear I don't expect it to be a huge money maker in the short term, just something that's worth doing. Long term the margins look much better once the food delivery market starts to see some consolidation/higher margins due to less promotions and subsidies.

Very good point on the supply-side costs for rideshare, hadn't thought of that.
Definitely. I wrote a React application that had a large amount of flexibility requirements for a client. They would need to re-purpose this application to deploy on multiple client sites with a variety of contextual content. I built a sort of navigator wrapper that would allow arbitrary content, but meet a pretty extensive list of contextual requirements as well. It was a fun elegant solution and they were expecting new child pages to take days to add, I showed them how a decent developer could add them in minutes.
People from 4chan donated money for a drumset. He got the drumset and then his parents kicked him out because of the noise.
"Money is not meant to generate money."
- Central banks across the world, moments before lowering interest rates below zero.
But at the same time people will want nicer homes as they're spending more time in them...

I guess people living without gardens are pretty stressed right now.
Ah. "think of"? Or maybe "voice" if we are being behaviorists.
Without understanding the value beforehand it is truly difficult to improve it.
This was going to be my first DEF CON to attend in-person. See you next year!
There's an expectation that productivity will be lower while WFH and higher-ups have said that's okay and expected. That being said... the people around me at least seem to have adapted fully to the new working conditions despite the rough start. I suspect this trend is similar across the company (and other companies).
That is really interesting data. I'd think that Detroit in particular would be fairly hard hit given 1150 deaths there since April.

Beaumont has their own stat sheet which is interesting: https://www.beaumont.org/health-wellness/coronavirus

To me it appears that the quarentine was effective? Look at the chart above - on March 21st the stay at home order went into effect in michigan. They peaked 2 weeks later at 1200 active cases in the hospital. Now its dropped back to the same amount as just before the stay at home order went into effect.

Underemployed seems like... a good position to be in right now, no?
I mean, same reason high fructose corn syrup is in most of the foods we eat...
I frequently think just before committing/pushing, "Time to add some comments!" That doesn't mean the code is fully finished, but it does provide a clear point in time to add them (when needed).
Automate repetitive tasks that can be automated. A task may take ten minutes. Automating it may take hours, and thus seems too expensive.

If this task is going to be done many times, then the automation WILL pay off. Running the automated task might take less time than the manual steps. And you can be doing something else.

The more of these kinds of tasks that you can automate, the bigger of a lever it becomes.

One of the oldest examples would be 'make'.
Daily Crunch: Target acquires Deliv’s delivery tech
What I like about Roam is that it doesn't really proscribe a particular note-taking system at all. It's mostly four main features in my mind: free text documents with a natural hierarchy, very easy to create references to other documents, automatic back-references when you go to a referenced page, and truly embedded sub-documents that can be put into any other document where edits for that sub-document are propagated everywhere its been embedded. And a ton of UX polish.

What I'm missing the most from it is self-hosting, large file support, full point-in-time history, and programmatic access. I want it to be self-hosted because I don't want to lose my "second brain" just because some company couldn't find a viable business model and went belly up 20 years from now. I want large file support so I can put everything in my life in it: pictures, videos, pdfs, web page archive files, source code etc and I don't want to pay uber-$$$ to store huge files in their cloud. And I'd like programmatic access so I can make my own additions. For example, every link/bookmark I add could download the webpage and cache it so I can search its content and so it's not lost when the website changes owners.
The Feds are not some separate entity from the people of the US.

Federal money comes from the same place as state money.
I was young enough in the 70s not to get all of the subtlety, but I think we really are more divided now than back then. Current politics is vicious in a way now that I don't recall back then.

In any case, to get a taste of what things were like then, watch Ken Burns' excellent documentary on the Vietnam War (currently on Netflix?).
Going outside as an individual that is not unwell is not 'knowingly spreading an infectious disease' by any reasonable definition of the phrase. It's reckless at worst, not actively malicious.

If that were the case then literally no-one would be going to work at the moment.
Those developers should read the manual:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTFM
In particular the recent increase in deaths in Sweden is not merely some numbers but a particular phenomenon: The most vulnerable are elderly with health problems. These people are clustered in care centers. For them to remain safe they would have to be isolated from the general population, but unfortunately there have been many clusters of infections in facilities where sick elderly are concentrated. How this latest rise in deaths might have been prevented is a different conversation than the more broad issue of how the rest of society should react.
It's not a meaningless distinction. The goods are consumable. The British public didn't want access to spices as an investment vehicle. Using them was a quality of life improvement.
For reference;

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/video-appears-show-georg...
Its a stretch of the original meaning, but a good one I think.

Building a product before a good indication it is the right thing to build is prematurely optimizing a business.

At any level of a project, it is important to do things in the right order, to avoid wasting unrecoverable time and effort on work that never needed to be done.
Sometimes context should really be next to the code it applies to. If I'm adding pull-to-refresh functionality I might have a commit with ten changed files; there's no reason to put "use a dispatch_async to the main queue here so the animation gets put on the next runloop" in the commit message.
I am not at all a React fanboy, I'm just using is a metaphor for Vue/Angular/React. You're selling Angular short it's still a great framework that is very popular, even better than React for some use cases as it has more out of the box and is more opinionated
SwiftUI Navigation in List View: Programmatically Dismiss Detail
According to The Economist, the average lifetime lost per covid death is over 10 years.

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/05/02/would-mo...
DEFCON: The waffle house of security conferences
"I don't care about this feature" !== "nobody cares about this feature." I feel like this is a fallacy a lot of programmers (myself included) tend to fall into, but it's a dangerous trap.
Castor: A browser for the small Internet, written in Rust
First of all, we absolutely have the legal right — it's well within the confines of the Brandenburg test, so I have no idea what you're on about there.

Second of all, we entertain this tradeoff all the time.

If we just all stopped driving cars, we would save about 35,000 lives per year. It would likely cripple the economy (until we can find alternatives), but we all just decide that it's worth it to not cripple the economy. It's an example of us sacrificing lives for economic activity (or in your words, "profit").

Maybe the tradeoff is actually wrong (and it could be!), but it's by no means illegal to make that tradeoff...
Friends who works at FAANGs say their employers made it clear they would adjust comp downwards if employees were to transfer to new locations during WFH. (hasn't happened yet, but it sounds like that's what would happen if their employees moved to WFH from elsewhere).

The calculation as to whether or not that's worth it would depend on the specifics.
Extremism is on both wings. My Facebook feed is evidence, frinds who have nothing in common except they both know me are separetly posting their exaggerated anti trump left wing Memes. Same for the right wing except they are exaggerated of the pro trump memes
This is not entirely correct. The US Comfort in NYC specifically is as you described, but, lost 1/2 it's capacity by setting up with protections between beds. It still saw almost no people because the need just wasn't there. Under 80 people last I heard. I am not aware of any reports that said fear was a factor in it not being used, do you have that source?
Can anyone explain why Lyft is not experiencing the same pain? I've always used them over Uber (not an investor in either, just a customer) and now as much as ever Lyft just seems to be a smarter, more mature company.
It's incredibly disappointing to see DEF CON, a conference where you can still show up and pay for entry in cash, adopt a centralized, hosted, unencrypted system (Discord) that requires both:

1. that you enter into an abusive legal agreement wherein you agree to give up your civil rights

and

2. that you dox yourself to get an account (you have to give either a non-VPN IP, or a non-VoIP phone number)

My Discord account got banned from being created from Tor and using a burner number and linking my own friends to my own website in DM (because they spy on all the unencrypted messages, natch).

This means I won't be able to participate in DEF CON this year. :(
Ah, that context is really good to know

IMO that badge really cheapens the look and feel of your site and caused me to scrutinize it WAY more than if it hadn't of been there. If it's not official, it's always going to be suspect
For a long time ubers have been more expensive in sydney (which is known to be one of their most profitable markets) for many rides than taxis - there is an added convenience of Uber that taxis are only just catching up to (in terms of seeing where your ride is/wait time) but a fair percentage of the time I prefer taxis these days now - fixed price and the driver generally knows where he’s going instead of following a map and driving like a person who only got behind the wheel last week
Your comment made me remember being amazed by BigPipe and how damn fast that made the app (still called page back those days).
Does the browser stack (HTML/CSS/JavaScript) count as software? If so, I don't see any of those going anywhere. The world wide web probably isn't going to be replaced anytime soon, and web browser fundamentals probably aren't going to change either.

Then again, programming languages and scripting languages in general seem like they'll last forever. Sites and programs may come and go, but the languages they're written in will probably be around for the long haul.
Not to mention that if you're in a day a week for specific meetings (vs it being your "office" the expectations about when you will arrive there are different. You may be able to travel during quieter hours which can be faster and less stressful.
This is not like Twitter or Instagram where you get things or clout purely on your follower numbers. Twitch has viewer counts during a livestream, and it's easy to tell botted accounts or inflated viewer counts based on chat participation. It's relatively easy to spot inflated viewer counts when there are 1,000 viewers on a channel but very few comments in the chat, for example.

And most streamers have a long history of streaming. For example, some of the bigger ones I can think of, Reckful, Destiny, Lirik, Alinity, Tyler1, Day9, etc.
This video is so artfully done, it not only teaches distributed computing in layman's terms but also inspires to check out TRW's offering.
Hmm. I think they are valuable and can be considered separately, like:

1) that we have a constitution that limits federal authority (for what I think are many good historical reasons);

2) socialism/communism has caused big problems, also with many extensively painful historical examples. I relate this to "government cares for us";

3) my beliefs about the nature of life, purpose of government, importance of freedom to choose what one does with one's earnings, etc., also could be considered separately. And that I have learned for myself of God's reality.

4) many others, individually also, I think...if were to take more time on them each. Like my personal experiences with the worst customer service I've ever had, being from federal agencies. Etc. But we don't have to, of course. :)
> Things like ... are probably not decided on and implemented by the engineering team but are coming down as a requirement from the top

Yeah, welcome to the real world. We _all_ have to handle requirements like that, except maybe when we build our portfolio site
How is Ubisoft planning to handle wrongful death lawsuits if their employees -- or their families -- get sick and die as a result of returning too soon?
I think we can, with a little bit of preparation, setup a bridge between Discord and e.g. Matrix.
Futurama had a 4-D "space" white whale in the Bermuda Tetrahedron in S6 E21 "Mobius Dick".
sure, it's great if you can afford the leisure, but 60-80% of americans can't, and it's irresponsible (at best) to ignore that.
I resonate with the feeling of joy of having translated thoughts into a concrete result :)
More often though I find all sorts of loopholes and alternative ways I could've done the same thing. Perhaps, it's because we're viewing an older thought process, and have sufficiently dissociated ourselves with it, so we're able to neutrally critique it.
Awesome! Would be cool to see the extension in non-flat spaces as well, like geometry with a low "speed of light". Clifford algebras can handle that too.
I not only go back and read old code, I still use some code I wrote thirty years ago on a day-to-day basis.
The word "strain" is used to help us communicate.

Viruses get small mutations as they multiply. By now, there is likely huge amount if unique viruses, not a single one. But, most mutations don't actually change anything because they might hit non coding part or maybe she mething unimportant so for the purpose of our communication we lump them together and call them strain.

Most of the time we only start discerning differences when they change the virus behaviour in an interesting way, and most of interesting stuff is around how it propagates, what it does to us and what it is susceptible to.
That's quite a coincidence, I had been planning to use the name `Castor` for a tool I've been thinking about lately.

Any idea what this naming is based on (if anything)?
Rm -rf you will master, there is no try
I WFH "effectively" in an 800 sq foot apartment. If I didn't have a dog, I could probably do so in less space.
It would be interesting to model two humans standing close to each other, and each phone on the closest side of the pairing, then on the opposite side, with the phones rotated at every angle.

Having to traverse two human bodies will create significant variation, and antenna angle will also add to that.

As mentioned in the video [1] this can make people look much further away, making it rather useless at estimating real distance.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgKbllhgESc&feature=youtu.be...
People are not buying nicer homes for a temporary shutdown. I have coworkers video conferencing from a desk in a closet and don't care.
Reviewing the post, it is unclear what if anything this update by DEFCON means to those who had not intended to attend, but might since it is now appears for this year a real-time remote access event only is being held.

What does this mean?
Applied for the Engineering Manager roles -- thank you!
Uo! I want this kind of videos in 2020, so well explained!
> when people outside of vietnam who are infected travel there,

they will be tested, quarantined for two weeks, tested again, and then only if they test negative they will be able to interact with the rest of Vietnam. It's a hundred times easier than controlling a disease running wild in the population.
I stayed at the compound in Pondicherry.

I remember there being some slightly strange rules you had to agree to in order to stay there (e.g. no sex) but the "staff" (don't know if they were employees or devotees?) were welcoming and the accommodations were great. The compound is right on the Bay of Bengal and sleeping in that room with the windows open and the waves crashing was an experience I'll never forget.
This isn't restricted to one country. The UK is one of the few countries with universal tax-funded healthcare that's free at the point of use, and we're still having problems with people dying in their homes rather than going to the hospital due to fear of the coronavirus.
If you have a principle of nondiscrimination and people self-select into different roles, what can you do? Discriminate or accept their differences?
That's part of the magic though. When you reach the state where you both believe (it's useful motivation) and don't believe (because you're not a fool) that what you're doing is definitely going to change the world, you have achieved SV enlightenment.
I don't think he did compare it to the flu. But look, as unpopular as that comparison is, we just don't have numbers that support the original estimates that caused lock downs of 2 million dead in the US. The media pushed worst case over and over, and still is.

I think an uncomfortable stat this coming year will be just how few people will have been reported to died in 2020 of regular flu. It's not saying Covid19 isn't bad in any way to realize that number, will be almost nothing, and that will be suspicious to people going forward for NextTime.
Castor is a Gemini/Gopher/Finger client. Castor is also the second-brightest object in the zodiac constellation of Gemini and one of the brightest stars in the night sky.
I've got a 2015 MBP. FB is pretty sluggish, and I wonder why. When you send someone a list of notifications, it's probably worth getting the data ready in case they click it. And the resource usage is pretty big as well.

The mobile app seems to be just fine though, perhaps they want to push people to use that.