skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you've spent a decade looking at VGA screens, its font will be intensely legible to you, regardless how objectively terrible they definitely are. Our ability to read is pattern recognition, and if your brain's neural network is well trained for the VGA text font, it makes sense that you might love them.

Heck—if you spent years reading your terminal upside down, you'd get very good at that too. Eventually you might get nostalgic for it.
My and my spouses co-workers seem to be split on whether or not they have young kids at home that they're supposed to be watching while they work. My spouse and I are lucky enough to have help watching our kids and seeing them more as well as getting those prep and commute hours back is such a blessing.
It's not about working hard, but about accepting that it's okay to feel challenged by work. Reducing the amount of work is, of course, great, but unless you completely automate your job it's never going to be always easy.
The org chose Scala for the trading application in the hope that developers and researchers could both use it, when previously they had been using very different languages. I thought this went mostly well. Scala enables you to use some shenanigans to pretend that a byte-array is an array of structs, and the 31 other threads of the application ran acceptably on the JVM. As an aside, my impression is that Java is somewhat common in the industry.

The application was tested in an environment that's a lot like production, except that we had substantially fewer cores than an exchange running the same number of matching engines, so the incoming ticks were a bit less bursty. That burstiness was important in this instance. A big reason for the differences between the production environment and the test environment was the cost of hardware.
By that logic why would either of you be paid 6 figures when someone the other side of the world can do the same for 5 figures?

If it doesn't matter where you are to work for the company then why does it matter if you're even in America.
It is important per the article. In all other cases I agree.
The emphasis of plague doctors in that cover is pretty consistent with the things a state will face. Plague has been an essential factor in all government since beginning of time. There even is biblical trilemma for rulers that is basically the option of three days of plauge, three months of fleeing from your enemies, or three years of famine. The answer is rip the band-aid off and accept the plague casualties because the alternatives cost you your kingdom. You can see this playing out now as countries balance lockdowns against the risk of becoming economic clients of larger or powers or losing economic incumbency, and causing a generation lost to a severe depression.

It's why I predicted re-opening before mid-june, as if we lose a spring season, we fall into dependency and long term losses.
Isn't it a privacy problem if all this data (including property listing of a driver) is available publicly on Internet? Just asking as an European guy used with a minimum of privacy.
sounds like a diabolical 'password rule'.
OTP 23
No no no. We all had this playing in our heads:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=s2pphLBmdsQ
If you're going solo or as part of a small team it makes sense. If you have a team that can abstract that away from your so you only have to worry about your work, then whether or not you know the OS itself means nothing. We can bypass the terminal altogether if we wanted, it has nothing to do with personal wishes or desires and everything to do with maximum performance and how the industry (film/anim/vfx) evolved.
Can't agree more. It's a very simple point but I am surprised that people couldn't realize it and even downvoted your view.

IMO, discussing this further will just yield a negative returns as I think there are some fundamental issues/gap between two parties in this thread.

No matter how much ppl kick and scream, the SPA is gonna make the web a much more user friendly place in general. When we fade away and the next generation of us come, they will take this as the new norm easily and happily.
Any pro typescripter have any tips for how best use it in existing Node/React codebase?

This article mentions material-ui and styled-components. My experience with typescript has been cumbersome with these libraries. A lot of time is spent figuring out what ”types” to return. I find this very difficult in most cases and not fun at all.

I figure there must be something wrong in my approach or in my ts config (no explicit any).

In short. How to best handle styled-components/material-ui/other library in ts environment? Or is typescript just to much overhead in these usecases?
Show HN: Get notified when your Google Sheet changes
Hi, developer behind Check Sheet here.

Check Sheet is a free add-on for Google Sheets that adds the ability to define rules that will trigger an email notification when your spreadsheet changes. For example if a certain cell exceeds a value or if all values in a column match a string.

Google Sheets does have very basic notification functionality built in but it can only trigger notifications on any change, you can't narrow it down further than that.

This is the MVP I've built in a couple of months, any feedback is much appreciated.
> As long as browsers don't block these sites

These warnings are a preparation to permanently block pre-TLS1.2 HTTPS. For some time after that, you will still be able to set a hidden preference to unblock them, but sooner or later, the code implementing pre-TLS1.2 HTTPS connections will be removed.
This story really buries the lead imo:

> In 2019, Bay Area startups attracted roughly $46 billion in venture capital, more than twice the amount raised that year by the entire Mighty Middle combined.
The diagrams are nice, but it would be so much better if the nodes were linked to documentation.
They don't handle this by design, and this is called a payment gateway - a simple service that just charges cards. If they were to handle this they would become a merchant of record, and there is FastSpring and Paddle that do it. Because of the different problems they solve they charge more.
How Zocdoc pivoted to video and seized the telehealth boom
No non-trivial company can reasonably be expected to stay in business when 100% of their client base is literally prevented from doing any significant business for months and likely to go bankrupt themselves.

The stock buyback thing is just idiotic. It's just dividends by another name.

Boeing/Airbus are not responsible for the current crisis, unlike the banks in 2008.
Revain is listed on Bittrex exchange and competition
Sadly I just sold an old z80 sign making device from long ago and it had about 10 add on rom font cartridges. Would have been good to give them to this guy.
I think it's more an issue of bikeshedding than judgement:

Editors and their boards are familiar enough (or think they know enough) about distances to issue blanket policies that might say "all distances should be reported in US customary units and/or familiar references such as football fields".

Pelagic zones are obscure enough that there's no policy that says "Prefer 'light', 'murky', 'dark', 'pitch black', and 'in a hole' to the difficult sciencey terms".
Could you post some snippets with which you have difficulties?
Yep. Anyone that claims to have the one true answer, or the one part you need is full of crap. Google isnt even that good, there's no way an auto parts store gets it that right.
It is probably half true.
Yes the article and facts are that it is some Airlines that could go bankrupt. And i guess that Boeing still have a lot of cash reserves.
But, Airlines (ie clients) Bankruptcy could lead to very bad cascading effects on Boeing. Including its own Bankruptcy on a longer term. But certainly the US would not let that happen I suppose.
Fed's Powell says economy may face 'extended period' of weak growth
This is how containers work though. Or did you want more detail about the internals of pivot_root or something?
this is amazing!
Hey, it only took five attempts, apparently crafted with some care to bypass the dup checker, to get it there, too.
... or just have a prominent switch on your search result page.

[ ] Show out-of-stock items.

Unchecked by default, to cater for majority use case.
I would have thought that the Lambda Calculus has a better claim to be 'God's Own Programming Language'.

Apparently McCarthy was aware of, but had not studied, the LC. One quote from the article stuck out:

"McCarthy invented an alternative, the “true” conditional expression, which returns sub-expression A if the supplied test succeeds and sub-expression B if the supplied test fails and which also only evaluates the sub-expression that actually gets returned."

this is how 'true' and 'false' are encoded in the LC, (\x \y x) and (\x \y y) respectively, and the final sentence indicates lazy evaluation.

The early (wrong) choice of dynamic vs static (lexicographical) binding, since corrected, suggest the language was far from 'handed down on stone'.

Homoiconicity is very nice, though I suspect that the macros it has enabled are often perhaps too powerful a tool.
The AHK script that has saved me the most RSI is mapping Caps Lock to double-click. Sounds weird, but didn't take long to pick up, and has saved me uncountable mouse clicks.
Things like vaccines and ICU units didn't exist in Biblical times so perhaps 2000 years of progress has had some effect on the calculus of such an issue.
> IT costs about 10% of revenue (some places are as high as 30%, some as low as 2%).

That’s the total expense, right? Not just employee remuneration.
The so called electric revolution itself has toxic and negative (especially financially, for taxpayers)
When Words Differ from Actions
yeah, this is one of my earliest code in life. I made sure to kept it close to original as possible, I did translate it to English, must have missed one word. thank you for the feedback
What if your signature can't be spelled (mine doesn't mean anything, it's just random symbol) ? Ridiculous
yes I am pt/br
Maybe I'm blind, but I don't see any such download link. Or did you use

2 - Dowload clojure.jar

as a shorthand for

2.1 - Install Maven

2.2 - Install git

2.3 - Clone https://github.com/clojure/clojure.git

2.4 - Run mvn -Plocal -Dmaven.test.skip=true package
I agree. Most people who read "Linux Containers" are going to think of Docker, not LXD.
So here's a plausible expansion of the scenario described:

The student actually does the problem on his own sheet, and does it correctly. But he then just happens to glance over at his neighbor, who he knows is actually really good, and sees a completely different answer. Concerned, he spends a bunch of time going over the problem, and can't figure out where he went wrong, nor how the other student got the answer they did.

So, in a fit of self-doubt, they copy the other student's answer.

I can see how, in that situation, a student might feel like things were unfair: They did try to do the question themselves, and if they'd known there were different exams, they would have just stuck with their own answer.

Of course, in the story as repeated, the student didn't say anything about trying to do the problem themselves first. But you can certainly imagine that happening; so that comes down on the side of, "Tell your students about nearly-identical problems."
It seems like a variant of the Library of Babel problem with a Traveling Salesman twist.
Everything is meaningless.
Find what you like and stick to it.
Exactly. And here's the thing: I would love to use a system that could tell me which part is best for me - as long as it showed me the work. I.e. what exact criteria led to the system determining this given part is one I'm looking for. This is the way to build trust in the relationship with the user.
Publicly traded companies place great importance on their stock share price, which broadly reflects a corporation’s overall financial health. As a rule, the higher a stock price is, the rosier a company’s prospects become.
Great first episode of Talking Politics: A History of Ideas by David Runciman was on Hobbes - https://podcasts.apple.com/pt/podcast/talking-politics-histo...
It should ofc name both and give all the information needed for a beginner to make a educated decision what to use.

But like I said the book may not be the right place for this but there MUST be a place for this and if not then such a place must be created. Many many other languages/frameworks etc. have the same problem.
You won't need sexy VC capital if you can build a business that runs a good profit. Honestly I'm getting more and more cynical of the SF bubble that doesn't seem to be about making great software, but about getting a lot of investor money and going public - prioritizing short-term profits at the expense of the consumer and employees.
1) I loved this video.

2) I did have to take a sip of tea and think about my life when I realised I was watching a video by a Welshman about mining.

3) Although having said this, 'Welsh Bitcoin Miner' is going to fit seamlessly into my West Country themed cyberpunk adventure 'Cider Punk'.
> If Bitcoin cannot be sustained by fees alone, block reward will return.

Somewhere in the next 20 years, before Bitcoin has another 5 halvings (which would reduce the reward to 0.195312 BTC), I expect there will be a proposal for Bitcoin LTS (Long Term Security, sounds better than Bitcoin TE for Tail Emission) which will be a Hard Fork to end further halvings. The ensuing debate could make the 2015 scaling debate look pretty tame...
Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon Engineer Salaries Stay Competitive
I have mixed feelings about this - thanks to the adoption of some modern agricultural practices India can today feed their population without being dependent on foreign countries. If I remember my history / geography lessons right:

- The 'green' revolution made us self-sufficient in growing enough food to feed our large population.

- The 'white' revolution made India one of the largest producer of milk and diary products in the world today.

- The 'yellow' revolution made it possible for India to be the largest producers of vegetable oil in the world today.

But it is true that the cost of this was the slow demise of many indigenous crops. However, with a growing economy (well, now it is in a downward spiral), many indigenous crops are making a return in India albeit they are costlier and not as affordable as some of the cheaper white rice.

More on this here:

- https://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/millets-and-organic/...

> “Millets have been a part of Indian diet for a long time. However, the influence of Western food habits and the goverment’s green revolution that pushed for rice and wheat, reduced the production as well as the consumption of millets. But, efforts of some State governments like Karnataka in popularising millets has helped in rekindling the value of these grains.”

- https://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/food/the-rise-of-nat...
> It most certainly won’t be cheap, or convenient (most times) that much is clear, but its totally do-able even now to remain entirely united to your tx.

If I needed to get you $10,000 and remain entirely untied to the transaction, how would you suggest I proceed?
What did she do wrong for the 3 that did not work?
Yes, and browsers solution has been to tunnel those queries over some protocol that middleboxes can not mess with. Because losing the DNSSEC fields is the lesser of the problems they cause.
First of all, software is not a creative industry. Creatives always took home a small fraction for many obvious reasons.

Software solves hard problems it is constantly evolving and updating so you need lots of personnel to maintain it, with a lot of knowledge so it will never be cheap, and great engineers to create it in the first place.

Take away a bunch of artists nothing will change. Take away a bunch of critical software - the world will stop.

So no, it will last and it will last long, as the world becomes more and more technological.

It is unprecedented because software and computer world in general is a huge breakthrough and is only 30 years old. Music on the other hand is thousands of years.
In middle school I had a social studies teacher that allowed a 3x5 note card for tests. Put it in my laser printer and printed my entire few pages of notes in 4pt font.
Yes.
However, I still remember how much the "tiger mask" anime last episode was intense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqeTXzoBAfQ
For huge diffs, there’s not much that beats `git checkout <branch> && git diff HEAD^`.

For leaving comments, pretty much every system I’ve used has issues. At work we use phabricator; the default settings are atrocious but they can be tuned to something workable.

I sometimes wonder how hard it would be to get diff reviews to be a first (or even second) class citizen of the git ecosystem. That way you can finally get the bliss of leaving review comments in the IDE. They already have “notes” which are vaguely similar, maybe it’s something they’re considering?
> If we stopped making it a game, without points to earn and rewards for points, people wouldn’t cheat.

Have you ever heard of people who wait until the last moment to start work on an assignment, or who study intensively a few days before an important exam?

It's always seemed to me one of the big 'features' of college education you can't get with a library card or internet connection is the unstoppable steamroller of deadlines - slowly but inexorably advancing, reducing your options from 'study now, study later or fail' to only 'study now or fail'

Do you think that exams and assignments provide such a role, and if so would your proposal address that need?
This is phenomenal. The animations at the top were way too quick for me to understand, but they pulled me in. The step-by-step explanations below (alongside the relevant parts of the animation) were very clear and interesting.

I had the big picture from the top of the page, and each section gave me a little more insight into what was going on. Great use of animation, and also very clearly written!

I also like the testimonials.
Have you been checking the unemployment rates recently?
It's that simple! Why didn't we think of that!?

Of course that existed. It didn't matter because the initial state did not meet their mental model of how it worked. We probably could have made it the biggest thing on the page and they still would have ignored it because they were not looking for it.

For unrelated reasons we were not hiding out of stock items by default. Wasn't my call.
I use typescript daily with libraries like those you mentioned. Typescript is not too much overhead, its a huge improvement in the overall developer experience.

The main issue I've had with these libraries and typescript is compiler/IDE performance, which 3.9 seems to suggest improvements.

I'm not quiet sure what issues you are facing without some examples. Given you are listing react libraries, the react community discord server might be a good place to ask specific questions. They have library and typescript specific channels to ask beginner questions in:

https://www.reactiflux.com/
A link to “The Machine Stops” for those curious: http://self.gutenberg.org/wplbn0000627598-the-machine-stops-...?
Google Podcast does not require you to register your podcast. They are not distributing anything copyrighted. They find an RSS feed for a podcast on the web, and they make it available for you to find via search.

Also, private podcasts exist, where you need to put in an RSS feed that isn't in any public listing.

If you didn't read the article, you really should, along with this one[0]. Spotify and Stitcher really are special (bad) cases.

[0]: https://stratechery.com/2019/shopify-and-the-power-of-platfo...
As hated as flash was, there was a whole creative ecosystem of really unique games / art pieces that died off with it. A shame.
Were you as disgusted with the misinformation pushed by medical organisations such as the WHO?
In the fine tradition of Jcala, Jotlin, Jroovy and Jlojure.
We can partially map certain regions of the brain to certain behaviors too.

Some mental illnesses can be classified as "miscomputations" in our brains as well.
Never rent from strict-policy hosts and your cancellation rate will never be ridiculous. I'm a flexible-policy host.
> Elon might be right, just like he was right about his cpap machines instead of full ventilators.

He made some very specific, very incorrect predictions: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1240754657263144960
>> And, right in the middle of the frontispiece, there are two figures wandering the empty city. Their clothes identify them as plague doctors, with their characteristic beaked masks, containing herbs or sponges soaked in vinegar to filter the air.

Alternatively, they could be two people with long, pointy hoods stylized to point backwards.
I'm wondering about the different types of tobacco being used, such as pipe vs cigarette, as those have different patterns of use. One of the studies I read collected that data but didn't report those comparisons.
The prefrontal cortex is the part of the brain associated with executive functions, choosing to eat or not cheese cake. Choosing or not to do impulsivity or not. Of course being present with a wife you would react as such.
I live in a small apartment with my dog. I don't get out enough, it does make you depressed after a while. Luckily I have a some friends that work from home in the area. We take turns going to each other's house for the work day. Gives you a change of scenery while you work, and someone to interact with while working. Although a lot of it is sitting in silence in the same room, just having another human around can boost your mood. At least for me this does wonders.
Why was this downvoted? I don't get it :/
It's a pattern as old as the technology and civilization dependent on it:

1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
— Genesis 11:1–9[6]

Replace the brick for silicon and slime for oil and here we are, dwelling up high in the sky, each in our own filter bubble, unable to discuss the important issues that build society, but managing to unravel it every time we try to fix it with more technological solutions.
> They should have a global leaderboard with "shortest time to dock".

Another IMO interesting metric for a global leaderboard would be "least fuel consumed".
not sure about docker/kubernetes. I've read somewhere that after investigation of source code there were conclusions that source code is not using good practices, a lot of duplication of code and so on thus making conclusion that project has some risks in technical debt or something like that. Would not be good to learn from project which is not well written :)