skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The choice of using the word professor, seems misleading to me. Far more often teachers will adjust their content to ensure optimal performance in tests. Especially in a education system like this.

I can only imagine what side effects this must have for motivation. When you are cautiously trying to appear focused, can you even develop a passion for a subject?
Lol "proper". Type nerds!
Not necessarily looking to become part of a content mill. As I mentioned, I want to write as a personal hobby/creative pursuit. Thank you though.
Wow, this is unbelievably blatant. How can they even use the advertise the restaurant without their consent on Google?
These ads almost look like spam to me like those old internet generic ads.
Most people wouldn't click those, and even if they do, they would back off after all they see is a generic landing page which is not about the original restaurant they were looking for.
3 Step Guide – Boost Your Online Game Player Base via Influencers in StayAtHome
This should be a browser option, not a website option.

If your browser tells the website you want a dark version, you’re getting a dark version. Seems right, doesn’t it?
This is pretty common in places with dual systems, my wife just had surgery on her shoulder in a private clinic but paid for by the public system.
I’m someone that could never really get into talk shows, radio shows or podcasts because I tended to find the speakers too long winded, slow to get their points across and the formats generally encouraged the kind of runtime that discouraged me from giving it my full attention. I mean an hour to listen to something all the way through plus the ads? Pass.

Going back about a dozen years ago if I wanted to watch a video to get some kind of information out of it, I generally found a way to load it up into QuickTime Player and play it back at 2x or 3x.

Nowadays I listen to too many podcasts because two pieces of technology fixed that for me: truly wireless headphones, AirPods originally, Powerbeats Pro presently, and podcast players with variable audio acceleration, namely Overcast, but I think Castro can do it too, and I’m sure there’s equivalents out there in Android. Overcast has two major quality of life improvements that make talk shows not just tolerable, but if you like the speakers, enjoyable. It decreases the playback time by about 40% for me using a combination of a fixed speed adjustment and Smart Speed, and it evens out the voice volume of the speakers so if someone has a bad mic or speaks softly, I can hear what the hell they’re saying.

Without either of these, I wouldn’t be able to tolerate podcasts as a format at all. Even now I favor podcasts that still have shorter base runtimes, Overcast is going to decrease the length regardless, but I don’t want to listen to something for more than 35 minutes, if that.

There’s a lot of good interviews, talk shows, news podcasts and so on that I find superior than the crap I would find on the web, I can easily skip past ads, and I can relax be play a game while the podcast runs more or less in the background. There’s plenty I just wouldn’t hear about or learn about simply because it really isn’t on the web. It might be in a book somewhere, but hearing someone explain their position on this or that or another thing in their own voice in a conversational format is much more enjoyable to me than following their writing and piecing their positions together.

Now you might give this all a try and find you still don’t care for podcasts, or maybe you already did. That’s fine, also fine if you’re not interested at all. Just figured I would give my 2¢ as someone who previously thought along the same lines as you about audio/video mediums. Text has a myriad of advantage over audio and video, but I’m finding audio and video have some advantages as well over text. Having technology available to make it a fair bit less miserable and time consuming an experience was part of what helped me realize that.
There goes my side business idea.
I agree. Browser-builders should provide a way to configure the wants-dark-mode css query.
PyCharm, by the virtue of running on JVM, doesn't take any more memory than allocated to it in VMOptions. So unless you go out of your way to give it too much memory, I am not sure PyCharm is going to take 14GB of memory. I am a heavy user of IntelliJ based products for a long time and I can't remember them taking enough memory to be a problem on a 16GB laptop.

Just out of curiosity, what was your colleague doing?
Good advice. I was actually referring to this: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2016/02/21/malloc/ I read this article a long time ago, and yet I made a similar mistake in my own code.
Can you show an example of such a bug? The only thing I can think of is

return
value

which will get flagged by TS as unreachable code (you can try it in https://www.typescriptlang.org/play)
I've been using a "Hacker News Dark" userstyle [1] with Stylus for years, it's only ~30 lines of CSS with a permissive license (CC0). I'd love to see something like it integrated into HN itself.

It'd also be nice to have a way to enable the dark theme without logging in, alongside a persistent setting for logged-in users. A link in the header/footer to set a cookie is probably the simplest way to accomplish that.

[1]: https://userstyles.org/styles/113994/hacker-news-dark
Never heard of it beign a high five before but it's hard to trust the reasoning that "PERSON" means singular, when the "FOLDED HANDS" aren't folded.
My attempt:

td {
background-color: inherit;
}

.c00 {
color: #D2D2D2 !important;
}

a {
color: #4C709B !important;
}

textarea {
color: #D2D2D2 !important;
background-color: #181818;
}

input {
color: #D2D2D2 !important;
background-color: #181818;
}

table {
background-color: #1C1C1C;
}
FDA halts Bill Gates coronavirus testing program
Would be more interesting Swift on top of WinRT/xlang.
https://github.com/Microsoft/xlang

That would also means you would be able to deal with WinUI XAML and all.
Ever heard of Agile?
After two weeks open? Then there is something I'm doing wrong.
Ironically, Bethesda had regained some goodwill recently because they published some of their titles on GOG (therefore DRM-free) some months ago, but this new move just erased it, especially by doing this as an update (to avoid bad press at launch).
Because no-ones going to pay for them to do that. And most of the staff would quit.

They have families, children, partners. You think they'll give up 12 weeks of their lives locked in with their wards?

You really sound like a dangerous idiot, glad you're not in power.
You are right when you say: it could also be worse.

I concede that it's impossible to disprove my assertion, but it might still be true: we just don't know. I'm arguing that we should embrace the uncertainty and accept that we can't know certain things.

These sorts of articles can cause immense stress in people and are therefore doing harm.

The uncertainties involved are fundamentally unquantifiable. We think we can know, but we make only educated guesses. We should keep doing that, but communication about the results should be honest. A title that states "one billion people will suffer" isn't that.
On mobile I use Firefox and hacker_news_night_mode addon.
11M tests in 10 days: Wuhan lines up after Covid-19 cluster
TypeScript just moves all errors from runtime to compiletime, even the ones nobody would ever realistically encounter. The user's browser is the only typechecker that matters, and that's why end-to-end tests are more important than type-linting.
> If the research is being done in China and the tech is bespoke to the research program in China

The headbands are produced and donated to a Chinese school by an American company! The people protested and the authorities told the school to stop using them.
ICANN Rejects .ORG Sale to Private Equity Firm
Yeah yeah, every troll says they're 'conducting a social experiment'.
I'm not saying things aren't better now than they were in 2000.

I'm just saying that systematic hedge funds make directional bets and hold positions overnight. These activities move the midpoint.

That is a hidden cost not visible in spreads or commissions. The SEC can't even measure that cost, only the intermediaries themselves can.
Dell and HP use same name for MT/DT/SFF/USFF(in Dell nomenclature) within a same product line, e.g. “OptiPlex 5070 DT” and “OptiPlex 5070 USFF”
So many comments suggesting different UI frameworks with varying levels of cross-platform support.

Guys, I hate to say this, just use Java. Its fully cross-platform with a complete UI toolkit that looks native and isn't slow. You're not going to find anything else thats as complete or performant. Java has been focused on this niche forever.

I bet you use Java GUI's all the time without even knowing it. Most of you every day. Tons of IDE's, database visualizers, and other dev tools are made with Java GUI's.

Every Jetbrains tool, DBeaver, DB Visualizer, MySQL Workbench, other stuff I'm too lazy to look up. If you have a tool thats not web with a big UI, its Electron or Java 90% of the time.
This stuff is SciFi and doesn't exist.

FFS if it exists sell it to adults and make $$$

This conspiracy that China has all this secret technology is a bit embarassing to believe.
The economy is crashing, the inflation is rising and that makes UBI look better? How?
This is especially true with `| undefined` helping address the billion dollar mistake.
I think Elon Musk summed up the counter argument to this pretty well on Joe Rogan's podcast:

"If you don't make stuff, there's no stuff. Obviously."
Speaking somewhat anecdotally, Goldman Sachs in 2020 does not resemble Goldman circa 1998 or even 2008. A lot of brain trust was lost following the post-crisis de-risking and vilification. The move into retail finance, to me, solidifies its mystique shedding.
Yeah I meant OOP but mechanically wrote OOO.
I use it for all kinds of things, like computer graphics and various tools in my CLI-driven workflows.

I find it nice to work with, because it has a lot of the nice features Rust does, like affine types, 1st class optional handling, decent single-threaded safety guarantees, and it has a very nice, ergonomic interface. Generally the performance characteristics are not what you would get with Rust, but I am generally more productive in Swift because I don't have to worry about the low level details.

There's definitely some downsides - cross platform support being one of them - but if I'm just working on a tool for me myself to use, I will generally reach for Swift because it's pleasant to work with. I would be happy if I could use it for projects which need to be deployed across different platforms.
Why not an alternate stylesheet (link rel="alternate stylesheet")? I don't know whether Chrome/ium supports it anymore, but Firefox definitely does. It would work with zero JS.
That's a Mac problem.
Commodity SD cards - there's your problem. It's not a camera you need to buy industrial grade to get 0.5-1M write cycles.

Just bought industrial grade SD cards for Siemens PLCs the other day, almost $2k for 32 gig and due to certification for safety only good for ten years regardless of condition/use.

Equivelents spec cards without the magic S word on them are still around $800.

They are actually a different kind of memory used, so I guess not manufactured in same consumer number quantities.

I always liked the look of something like puppy Linux that loaded to ram, pretty sure most Linux variants allow this as an option, that would potentially make use of consumer grade palletable.
I got turned down at a job interview in 2014 because I couldn't code coffeescript. The guy interviewing me went on-and-on about how cool it was. It was exactly like how Typescript is today.
In Talking Politics this week, Helen Thompson pointed out that UBI is a solution for every crisis - it does not diminish the potential upside for UBI (or Land Tax reform also mentioned in the podcast) but UBI and Land Tax are such disruptive changes to our social contract that it can be brought up in context of every crisis - I guess like Covid it affects everything.

The point being if you think UBI will be positive, it will be positive across its whole range of impacts, and that range of impacts is soo huge it can be brought up in almost any context.

Edit: UBI and Land Tax are big enough we should consider them on their own merits, not look for "opportunities" to bring them into the conversation.
Where can we check inflation rates? I thought it was something that was calculated in retrospect.
What a garbage article. Poorly thought out and researched.
Alternative title: People not allowed to work need money more than ever.
People who make universally bad ideas will continue to do so.
Heh, sort of agree. It might well be enjoyable if played for laughs. The problem with Stephenson is I think a lot of people (not necessarily including Stephenson) take him far too seriously...
> The BitPay outcry is totally warranted.

I seem to be OOTL. What happened with BitPay?
People who are terrified don't think straight?

Edit: It is a completely serious answer and the only explanation that makes sense to me for the spate of pro-UBI articles I've noticed but mostly not read because UBI doesn't make sense and a global pandemic doesn't change that.
Okay, but surely that's a workaround for devs who are primarily on non-Mac systems who want to use native features for Mac. What's the win with Swift if I'm developing on Windows over using, say, C# and benefitting from all the support for my primary base and then using something like Xamarin.

I'm on a Mac already (Macbook with 10.14) - am I really going to have to run a VM because of a point release? (That goes for both the OS and Xcode so that's even more absurd)

The standard of their laptops is not good enough any more for me to justify the continued and continuous upgrades. Maybe access to their market would be but I'd need an existing set of customers to justify it, else Visual Studio et al look just as juicy.
But Indian/Pakistani aren't dying at much higher rate in their own country or are they? I've no data.
Meanwhile... https://bpa.st/43UA

and Senegal https://youtu.be/iBma_0oAiMI
Under the Cover of Coronavirus
Postgres RDS on a t2.micro is $15/mo and afaik eligible for free tier.
A cubic polynomial goes to +infinity on one side and -infinity on the other. So taking exp, log, etc won't make it go to 0 on both sides. I can think of two possible explanations: 1) the leading coefficient happens to be 0, so it's actually quadratic fit 2) the leading coefficient is nonzero, so somewhere to the left or right the graph starts rising again, but it's not visible due to cropping. Anyway by now we've spent more time thinking about this than any of the participants, so we should call it a day.
> Another positive sign for UBI is that most Americans seem keen to return to their workplaces. One fear has been that UBI would lead to a couch-potato culture, with people choosing to stay at home even when they’re finally able to leave.

This is an old take that has very rarely (if at all) seen tangible evidence. The Guardian reported on this [0] and so did QZ [1] Even if UBI pushes a small percentage of people to quit their jobs, those people will either move into different jobs that they enjoy more, free to pursue a career they like thanks to financial security, or contribute to society in other ways: creating art, volunteering, etc.

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/12/univer...

[1]: https://qz.com/765902/ubi-wouldnt-mean-everyone-quits-workin...
Whether it is actually good is subjective though.

There are tons of existing cross-platform UI frameworks (Qt, wx, libui, JavaFX, TornadoFX, ...). The comment above says "Everybody would jump to Swift [for new projects] if it meant a cross-platform GUI framework."

And yet people are still wondering why Electron ends up being the technology of choice for so many desktop apps.
UBI gives money to everyone equally, those that really need it don't get enough. For example - I can get a a $500 (or X amount in your country) check every month that I don't need as I can work just fine from home, but someone who might be laid off can barely pay for his rent, food and other necessities.

There is not enough wealth to redistribute in any country (except maybe the Gulf states) so that both anyone in a job or health emergency has enough and also give the same amount to everyone else.

So you have to deliver smaller sums - a patch to this system is to have everyone pay for insurance, proportionally to their income and need, but this the current welfare scheme UBI is supposed to replace.

Covid-19 exactly how disproportionate and random a crisis can be, so a one-size fits all solution doesn't fit anyone.
I just want a UBlock UMatrix browser. Let the rest fight over popularity.
alternative version: http://www.cdglabs.org/thinglab/
> To me, this seems to be putting the cart before the horse, as if the truth of a statement is dependent on its linguistic properties. In practice, it seems to me that usage and semantics are bent to a language-independent (but imperfectly perceived) reality rather than the other way around.

The review touches on this:

> This sounds quite as though it is going to descend into a coherence theory of truth, or even into the sort of linguistic idealism and relativism often associated with Rorty. Brandom is concerned to answer such criticisms, though not merely to reject them ...Brandom’s take on the relation of human intelligence to the real world is complex and cannot be fully captured in this space, and rarely has any philosopher given a more elaborate account of any matter than Brandom gives this one.

So Brandom has an answer for you - but you're going to have to buy the book to hear it haha.

Additionally, you quote:

> I am not convinced that my obligation to believe of a blue thing that it is not also chartreuse is, all things considered, much like my obligation not to hurt people for no good reason.

This is interesting! My guess is that this intuition will be common amongst people who have a non-skeptical view of morality. If you think that morality is part of the fabric of the universe, then it's more plausible that obligations will come in different varieties, and an obligation such as "don't hurt others for no reason" will have a special status.

On the other hand, if you are a moral skeptic and you believe that ethics is essentially about people-trying-to-get-what they-want, Brandom's view perfectly plausible.
The virus crisis makes UBI look worse. We are ~2.5 months into lockdowns in the United States and all people got so far has been a check for $1200.

People who support UBI need to provide a compelling justification for how it can be paid for, especially given how hard it has been, politically and financially, to give a one-time $1200 payment to American households. If it's so hard to do it even one time, how can we do it forever?
That is the thing I dont like about the current Apple.

They used to release things where you see they put a lot of thoughts into it. Now they are half baked. This isn't so much a problem on Apps ( The Product ) where it is constantly being updated and tweaked. But with code you have the hassle to try and keep up. And the pace of improvement is very very slow. To put things into perspective, Swift UI has been development for 4 years. Not exactly the state of things I would like it to be.

Apple also isn't dogfooding much with Swift. And I think that is great. In many ways I starting to feel Swift is like Dylan [1], it is new, it is exciting, and it is fun. But somehow after nearly 6 years Objective-C stills feels better. The syntax may still be god damn awful, but it is small enough to be called elegant. While Swift felt like C++ with better Syntax.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_(programming_language)
It's expected in academia. Even worse, I've seen some main contributors who wrote actual code might not even be included.
its very easy to zip on the fly with C#, Java, JS. No idea why Python has this blind spot
This is the sort of at-scale testing of entire local populations that can provide incredibly powerful insights into this virus; if, of course, testing 11m in 10 days is possible. (A bit worried about the potential to spread infection further given the likely necessity for huge queues, even if outdoors and spaced.) Whatever, kudos to China for making this effort.
The value of money is linked to how much tax revenue can be raised.

UBI means lower taxes = value of money diminishes.

Jobs guarantee is how you implement UBI.

Jobs given out by the state doesn't have to awful.
Great point. There have definitely been some tragedies when people play with dry ice without understanding the dangers. Don’t throw it in the pool and go swimming or try to cover yourself with fog, etc etc. Study up.
I Criticized My University’s Ties to the Chinese Gov, Now I Face Expulsion
A friend of mine had cancer and they had him taking D3 immediately.

also I was out shopping recently and they seemed to sell many varieties of D3, but I didn't see any other D vitamins offered for sale. Is D deficiency really D3 deficiency? or have the other D vitamins sold out?
FWIW it's already viable to use Swift in the micro-service use-case. If you're running logic inside containers it's trivial to get a Swift service up and running.
I would think we, as hackers, on hacker news, would have some unique insight into this.

The software world is built on the back of stuff that was made, not for money, but out of a labor of love, or to impress others, or to scratch our own itch. Our servers run linux, but linux was mostly just linus hacking around. The free software community is about helping each other and building cool things. Most programming languages were birthed not for money, but because the person building them cared about it a lot and wanted to solve a problem for themselves.

UBI would let people who wanted to make stuff actually make stuff, not have to flip burgers 9-5 just to go home and feel too drained to code or write or do whatever it is they really want to do.

There are countless examples throughout history of people building great things and advancing science, not for money, but for recognition or passion.
Speak for yourself. $1200 is life-changing money for some people.
I think the usual solution is to increase income tax? So basically the introduction of UBI is neutral for the average household, the extra money from UBI being equivalent to the extra money lost on taxes
> to give a one-time $1200 payment to American households.

Most households received $2500+. Many of those will have received in excess of 3.5k. Some will have received several thousand
Thank you, this diy particle detector looks pretty neat. Love more reading material on the subject.
> This is an old take that has very rarely (if at all) seen tangible evidence.

It's literally what we face in Germany. Our unemployable are getting housing, health care, TVs etc + cash and they do not move on to jobs they enjoy more, they do not volunteer more, they do not start companies etc.

If you don't see evidence of that in the US, it's because you don't have anything that comes close to unlimited perpetual income with no requirements to work. If you have an economic shut down for a month or two and people expect the "free money" to run out eventually, they'll be eager to get back to work. The situation changes very much if they do not expect it to run out and adapt to the new circumstances where work is optional and considered a hobby.
bottom up economy, rather than trickle down. The fed doubled their balance sheet from 3T to 6T in 3 month. Andrew Yang's UBI was estimated at 1.3T yearly.
Li Jin: Disruption by the Passion Economy
If you want hyperinflation, that's the route to take. The more government is injecting money to businesses, society and people, the more expensive everything is getting.

At the same time this dilutes the wealth of people and companies who have actually saved money.

Countries need LESS socialism and government control - not more.