skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe AHK was an early fork of AutoIt. AutoIt was my first language as well. A fun language to write code in. No static typing, easy to use. A little code can do a whole lot. I miss the forums, I wonder what ever happened to everybody there, Gary Valik Validator Larz SmokeN -- some names that come to mind. To think of all the devs that used this language as a stepping stone in their careers. Incredible. Hats off to Jon & Team!
> perhaps I should just view nightly as any other language's "stable".

It depends on the features you enable. Stable is basically just a pinned nightly version with no features enabled, and I'd definitely view "nightly with no features" as more stable than most languages.

Using some of the more experimental features would make it less stable, you can generally get a feel for how stable a feature is by looking at it's tracking issue.

These days most tutorials/books/tools don't seem to use nightly in my experience, though many still do. But if you're primarily looking at blog posts that are pushing the boundaries of the language (e.g. by writing operating systems) I expect that most of them would be using nightly.
While it is difficult to get a useful signal out of EEG, a PCA doesn't show that there is only one 'channel'. A lot of interesting signals have very low power. With multiple EEG sensors, one can focus on smaller spatial regions.
> is barely any more deadly than an average flu.
This is heavily debated and the most optimistic of those estimates it at 10x worse -- current reported numbers are closer to 15-20x worse. NYs current mortality rate for this year compared to the flu is 21x:
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/86176

In addition, a lot of people aren't talking about the fact that this seemingly has left a lot of people with significantly longer lung problems:
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseas...
One sentence and an arbitrary background check is not enough to determine that content is useless and not good in my opinion.
I think perhaps you need to consider that how you interpret something may not be how it was intended, nor what it was meant to convey, and often the best way to respond to something that seems to deeply offend you is to first confirm that you understand what the other party was actually communicating.

For example, what you seem to interpret as people finding humor in the indignity of a botched portion of someone's funeral, others might interpret as a cautionary tale about what can happen if people are not careful about how crematoriums are run, and the pain it can cause to loved ones and the indignity it can cause to the deceased when the people shirk the maintenance required by the tools they use to do their job in these industries. In that respect, it's no different than a story where a cemetary did not maintain their backhoe, and the family showed up for a burial and the grave was not dug because the machine broke.

Given how the post was spawned from a someone noting a Crematorium Management System (and the lack of an open source option), I would hazard that a cautionary tale about what might happen if you aren't managing your Crematorium well is how it should have been interpreted.
Adam, why did you remove your response [1] to the hijacking of Atom packages from the Kite blog?

Kite was collecting usage data without consent through an unrelated and popular Sublime Text package [2], and they've sent the data to an IP address instead of a domain name, presumably to conceal their involvement. Kite has also transferred private package names to that IP address.

When they were discovered, Adam Smith has said that they've forgot that the data collection was taking place [3], after having paid the maintainer of the package to send data to Kite.

This is on top of Kite covertly buying up popular Atom packages to push their service on developers. [4]

I'm surprised their domain wasn't banned from HN, it has been repeatedly demonstrated that Kite can act maliciously whenever it's in their interest.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14857944

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14902630

[3] https://forum.sublimetext.com/t/rfc-default-package-control-...

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14836653
Newsom is playing a win/win. Close it down and go deeper in the red and force the federal government to pay out.

1) Federal govt pays, he wins
2) Federal govt doesn’t pay, he blames the chaos on the federal govt. He wins

This guy needs to be removed from office for gambling with peoples lives
Yes, I live in a country were we have such a system but as far as I know there are some others with similar systems.

Loan payments increase every month, also some other services like insurances are charged this way. But of course your salary is paid in the local currency and doesn't get adjusted at all. The problem is that it is all we have access to, every loan in the country works this way. So there is not much the consumer can do, people want houses, people need to pay for college, people need a car.

In most countries inflation works in your favor, here it works in the banks favor.
Wow. Someone can`t take a compliment...

Do you even Darwin bro?
Hasn't it already been demonstrated that it is impossible to test at these numbers? Furthermore, due to relaxed mnufacturing requirements, something like 50% of the tests are completely unreliable/inaccurate?
Because of aforementioned security protocols. It's much harder to get away with credit card fraud.
Tell people they may have to stay 2 months more in lockdown what do you expect, positive comments?
It's not only a question about how many have to get it to reach herd immunity but also how long this will take. 3 months in lockdown won't cut it and there is no vaccine available in 3 months.

> Some people want to argue the next thing "those are mostly old people or sick people", so too bad for them?

No, they are most vulnerable and should therefor treated differently than other groups that are not. They also don't tend to work. Considering that ~20%-50% of covid deaths are nursing home residents, protecting them should be priority, not shutting it all down in hope it will dry up over the next 3 months, it won't.
If a company tells you "we're a family" that means they are going to damage you psychologically.
All the other ICOs are also scams.
To follow up on what CosmicShadow said, one of my most memorable interviewees was the candidate with an MS Comp Sci who, upon being shown the problem for our team effort design exercise was able to categorize it (something in CS theory I had never heard of), explain what the canonical solution would be, but was completely incapable of writing the for{..} loop that comprised the first part of the solution.

I honestly don't know how it happens. She clearly wasn't an idiot, and she certainly learned a lot of theory but couldn't program her way out of a paper bag. And this was not for an entry level position, either.
This "some businesses are saved" effect that's happening now is the most unfair thing, in my opinion.

If the government wanted to provide support to keep everyone roughly where they were before the pandemic, that's great. But picking and choosing is really unfair.

And it seems to be hurting small business owners and the middle class the most. Unemployment payments max out at what, $4000 per month? Meanwhile a middle class professional in the Bay Area might pay that much just for rent, before considering food or other expenses.
Do you mind sharing that channel. Trying to up my Ableton Live game. Thanks
Nobody is as a bad as Uber.
> "In Germany, we come to work, we put our heads down for seven hours and work, then we all go out and spend two hours drinking beer together before we go home to our families"

Definitely not the case here in Berlin. All of my jobs here had plenty of post-work socialising, some even obligatory.

During work itself, people also tend to spend a lot of time in "kitchen area" or browsing Facebook, chatting on WhatsApp etc.

The "put our heads down for hours" thing is not something I have ever observed.
I'd be happy to wager there are substantially more dermatology visits in your average hospital than there are kidney transplants.

There's a range of severity in "elective" procedures, certainly. There are a lot of procedures folks will willingly postpone right now, and it's not surprising that hospitals are furloughing staff that service them.

It is disingenuous to suggest that furloughs in these elective areas demonstrate an excess of capacity in the ER/ICU.
> The only real choice is a mixed policy that just have strict guidelines for businesses serving customers.

How is this different from what the article proposes?
These goals should really be unique the company.

But as the head architect, its your job to figure out where the company is going and design goals to get them there.

A standard problem is monitoring, or more than one way to host/deploy something so good long term goals might be:

All services must be on platform p

All services must use <<CI system of choice >>

All systems must emit metrics according to spec 1.0

system z will be turned off by march 2021, migrate to new system y

These goals are clear, measurable and only have one instruction. They are not prescriptive.

These goals can be given to the team leads to figure out how to do. You then have to watch them and try and gently steer them away from making new legacy/snowflakes.
German here. I absolutely loathe the formal form. It can be compared to using "Sir" with your superiors. While it is super common to address people informally in younger IT companies, in more traditional ones it is mostly informal.

If they talk formal, run. It's most likely a shithole.

This level of formality between people I find very patriarchal and outdated. Also, with people you just met it becomes somewhat awkward to always ask for which formality to use. English is doing very well without it.
No, MY anecdotes tell a different story altogether!
> A team room means that to ask a co-worker on another team a simple question (or to just see what they are working on) becomes a big deal because you are now entering that other team's space and interrupting a dozen people.

Which is better than interrupting the hundred plus people in the giant open-office space?
Those workloads should be moved to Intune, it's a heck of a lot cheaper for SMBs ($20 for Windows+Office 365+Intune) and not hard to set up. You probably shouldn't be spinning up a new AD forest unless you have an app that needs it, cloud directories are pretty much fine.
I'm in a suburban/semi-rural setting and have found Uber Eats to be more reliable than Grubhub in most cases. It seems like UE might open up GH to more of these markets where restaurants have been slower to warm up to working with a service like GH than restaurants in an urban center.
In this case I think it’s the business auditors (pwc etc) assuring “best practices” that will satisfy the regulators and thus the regulatory auditors (Federal reserve, treasury, FDIC...).

Banks are themselves full of absurd practices but in this one tiny area I’d give them a pass.
You could say that for any informal familiar expression that makes the recipient bristle.

It's so common people joke about it "don't call me dude, bro | don't call me bro, pal" etc etc
Who is saying boycott Tesla?
Really love TabNine [1]. Same thing, AI as an editor addon for super smart completions. Would be interested in knowing how Kite compare!

[1] https://www.tabnine.com/
It'll be interesting to watch Waymo try to make it on their own.

I predict they end up focusing on semi-autonomous trucks instead of cars for regular people.
No, I live in a different city and I am fortunate to still have a job. A different boat exists, and I am in it.
Do you live here? The article certainly mentions that there is already a slow opening occurring. The issue is a lack of trust or faith in the gov't to do that at a good enough pace, or to even do it correctly at all. The angst you are feeling from the comments is from people who live here.
You act as if risk is the same for all groups and we know for a fact that it is not. Covid-19 by in large kills the already sick and the old. They are the ones at risk and their death, though unfortunate, would not as a whole impact the economy in a negative way since most of them are currently not producing anything anyway. And waiting for a vaccine is ridiculous - there has not been a single Covid-19 vaccine ever developed; it is has been too hard to do. Maybe with all the current efforts there might be some breakthrough but relying on that nebulous hope in making our policy decisions seems foolish.
You could install Debian with an encrypted root, then add the Proxmox repositories afterwards.
A 24-hour conference with well known and lesser-known, all high-quality speakers from around the world, on a variety of technology topics, as a fund-raiser for Direct Relief, helping those who have been most impacted by Covid-19.
(in case of curiousity, all of these books are intended for mature adults)

Science Fiction:

Ursula le Guin - The Found and the Lost - this one will be higher impact if you're North American, but it works anywhere. Pretty much any of her books are mind bending and perspective opening. Not that they'd help become a better computer developer say - but you'd probably be a wiser person for the exposure.

C.J.Cherryh - Cyteen - on individual, on programming personality and more.

C.J.Cherryh - Voyager in Night. (on a perspective on alien thinking)

(author has a lot of excellent books as writes for an intelligent and well educated audience. I will note neither are easy reads and the second might be harder to get through)

Nonfiction:

T.E.Lawrence - 7 pillars of wisdom. (watching "Lawrence of Arabia" doesn't hurt either, they sync reasonably well). He was a deeply cynical atheist in a whole series of very violent episodes that shape life in the modern world more than you'd think. This one more for a perspective on history than changing one's own view of the world.

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That was my primary takeaway as well. Some people I've talked to about it didn't quite get that theme from it, but I think it helps frame its point in a less scattershot way. It is still a concept I constantly think about, though it doesn't help me avoid the pitfalls much, which I think is also kind of the point.
"The First Principle" by Osho. About eastern meditation and the difficulty of achieving nirvana. A lot about the paradox of trying to achieve inner peace, but only actually being able to experience it when you don't try to obtain it.

"Philosophy and the Matrix". Part of a pop culture series that takes popular art and has different philosopher break down it into different philosophies. A good way to realize that the same work of art can mean vastly different things depending on the frame of reference.

"Tribe" by Sebastian Junger. The seemingly disconnect that people felt happier when they were experiencing a traumatic event, like war, mainly because they were relying on each other and counted on each other.

"The Social Leap" by William von Hippel. How we went from just another mid-sized ape on the plains of Africa to the most successful large mammal on the planet earth in a few million years. His theory is focused on the social adaptations of early hominids and how that affects us to this day.
> It doesn't have to pay SF wages to workers living in Tulsa.

Not yet. When Tulsa engineers wake up to their value, they hold the cards.

I’ve been on the hiring side for good senior engineers. They’re hard to hire, period.

They take a ton of time to properly screen and by the end of the interview process, the company has wasted so many resources that could have been used for development if they don’t land that person.
Why is it a false god? "QoL Trending in the right direction" seems to be a very myopic way to view the world. When it's clear concentration of wealth has slowly eroded the dignity of many peoples lives, encouraging them to work longer and longer hours in jobs with less benefits "gigs/contracts" while being jerked around by increasingly powerful and untouchable classes of people.

I've experienced this phenomenon very prominently in the life sciences industry where short term precarious contracts are handed out to lower income lab workers. Recently it has become more obvious as all of management has moved to remotely monitoring and dictating the worker's day to day activities while becoming increasingly out of touch with the realities of the people doing the actual work. This is real and also representative.

When there is a culture of respect and dignity of all members of a society sharing similar goals, this sort of thing doesn't happen. Exploitation isn't expedited.
Wages and equality are a form of that respect.

It's not a false god when it performs a function of cultural cohesiveness, you could argue that is what a god does..

Final note: Keeping you're livestock healthy doesn't alleviate them from being livestock.
> “Our hope is that by using the data, we’d be able to slowly lift restrictions over the next three months,” she said. But without widely available therapeutic testing for the coronavirus or rapid at-home versions that would allow people to test themselves daily, it seems unlikely that restrictions would be completely eased.

It sounds like they will lift most restrictions but some restrictions (e.g. bans on very large events) will still be in place.
> They will also be called out for lack of leadership if they don't provide guidance.

Called out by whom? I won't. I don't expect the government to provide me guidance. I'm an adult human being and I don't need a parent.

> The best political safe alternative

I have no interest in a "political safe alternative". Politicians worrying more about their political safety than the good of the people is what got us into this mess. Without a culture of "political safe alternative" the FDA would not have had the power to keep state and local health authorities from coming up with their own testing protocols when it was clear the FDA and the CDC weren't up to the job. And without a culture of too many people waiting for "guidance" from the government, people would not have waited to take obvious common sense precautions against a possible pandemic until the government and the media told them to, way too late.

> Which seems fair?

I have no problem with people who decide for themselves what to do with their own lives having to live with the consequences.

What I have a problem with is someone else claiming the power to decide for me what I am allowed to do, and the only consequences to them if they screw up being "political".
I think perhaps a lot of projects start out using nightly with the assumption that within 6-12 months those features they are using will be in stable.

Whether that generally happens in reality, or people get into a loop of "well, this other new features is nice and in nightly, and we're already in it, so why not", I'm not sure.
The content speaks for itself. Turn on your bullshit meter and dive in!
Pretty sure AHK/AutoIt made its way into many legitimate products despite its binaries being false-positively flagged by anti-viruses
In that scenario an interested party would need to do no more than pay for a small Facebook campaign to get rid of a disagreeable civil servant.

What we need is checks and balances, not an even more volatile method.
It's on Github; did you look for it?
My MS (Software Engineering) classmates usually didn't have that problem but interestingly, someone pointed out to us that it was possible to go through the entire MSSE program without writing a single line of code if you chose the right classes.

I sometimes wonder if they did that by design...
There are so many crappy IoT devices running unpatched Linux, that I doubt it. That is why Azure Sphere was invented, actually...but still there are so many gadgets out there running unmaintained Linux that it's insane.
Strangely, you could be getting paid from the premium bucket. They have that budget. It’s there. You provide the same value as Adam from SF.

Why not you?
In most cases there's no difference and the same arguments would apply also for (against) other ICOs. An ICO can be substantially different in these key aspects and in that case it could be legal, but in most cases they really are intended to be de facto investments in uncertain future profit and risk, i.e. securities.

Here's a random example from two years ago https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-152 of an ICO being shut down and penalties paid. There are more, SEC has been quite active in regulating ICOs.
Income inequality is not intrinsically bad, but we have too much of it in the US. Let's get the ratio of income between the top decile and bottom decile somewhere below 10:1.
It's impossible to test at these numbers today, but there is no technical reason that it can't be achieved in the future.

And the quality issues can be solved as well, it just makes point one even worse -- it'll be that much harder to maintain the testing rate and the quality.

But they are achievable goals.
Agreed. Let's not just give in because many here are unpopular and want to go back to a world that forces someone to sit next to them.

People who define themselves through their work are depressing and need to wake up.

The old future is cancelled. Good. It was a bad future.
Automatic crash avoidance is already a thing that's steadily rolling out to more cars, and improving over time.

For stopping people from driving, you'd have to solve the social issues there first somehow. "Our car stops you from driving if it thinks you're incompetent" isn't something that sells more cars. Maybe the government could mandate it, and that's the government's responsibility.
For what it's worth, none of that subtlety is reflected in the article's 10+ word title, at all.
If you're interested I have a load of scripts that access some command-line audio processing algorithms (non-negative matrix factorisation, harmonic percussive source separation) to do batch processing inside REAPER.

https://github.com/jamesb93/reacoma
> either the IFR there must be much higher than elsewhere (maybe an older sicklier population or something)?

Overloaded ICUs as far as I'm aware.
Hey! I'd love to hear more about this. Want to chat? My email is alex.kantrowitz at Gmail dot com
But even that has a policy implication that stay-at-home order can exempt people of certain age.
Of course anything viewed on a computer screen is still going to be limited by the quality of your screen.
If you're talking about capturing payloads, I think Google appears to agree with you; they went on record as full payload capture being unintentional. I have insufficient personal investiture to argue the private packet capture point further; my personal morality doesn't tend to hinge on what other people should be doing, but what I should be doing. In an ecosystem that doesn't and shouldn't protect me from capture of my packets in the commons, I should be encrypting my packets. Full stop. What other people do is up to them.

If you're talking about any radio packets, SSID name broadcast packets aren't sent with a recipient in mind.
Your work here is done.
I think my experience might have been crippled a bit by having had a mac as my main PC since university, meaning less easy access to a non-locked down Windows installation.

Much the same way as Windows users probably are not big objective C developers...

It just felt like for a server language like .NET that your personal laptop shouldn't really matter much.
There is a lot of money to be made in making "your idea, but more polished and well integrated into an existing ecosystem". Just look at Apple as the prime example.
I thought someone might want to share their document with someone else. I may include in a future release a max number of downloads (i.e. 2 or 30 minutes and then delete)
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