skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They were never ordered to close, they were ordered to only ship first necessity goods and _they_ decided to close themselves.

I'm not going to cry for Bezos, especially after they had the audacity to ask the government to pay for their employees unemployment benefits. Fuck them and fuck them good, at least it's happening in France and not in the US, these employees are 100% covered and won't end up bankrupt.

PS: It all started when amazon union said that "employees risking their lives and their family lives to ship and deliver video game consoles to strangers is non sense", amazon was found guilty of not following basic health regulations, after which it was ordered to limit their business to essentials items.

The funny thing is that it's exactly what's happening in the US right now but their law doesn't protect employees and puts businesses before people: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/01/retail-workers...
I work in a completely different industry, but it is a well-known principle that if you can show the regulator that you're regulating yourself effectively they'll leave you the fuck alone. As soon as a fuckup becomes public, the regulator will start delving into every detail of your fuckups (of which you have many). It costs money and ties up valuable resources to respond to the regulator when they start getting stuck into details, so it always pays dividends to maintain an outward display of effective self-regulation.

It's in every large company's interests to maintain a steady stream of propaganda to show just how splendid they are at regulating themselves.
Don’t forget that cats serve a purpose outside of being cute and cuddly. <:3)~
I give you the best way to prevent corona virus is to be safe forever
Y̶e̶s̶,̶ ̶b̶u̶t̶ ̶w̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶p̶e̶o̶p̶l̶e̶ ̶e̶x̶c̶l̶a̶i̶m̶ ̶'̶E̶p̶i̶c̶!̶'̶ ̶—̶ ̶w̶h̶i̶c̶h̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶u̶s̶a̶g̶e̶ ̶I̶'̶d̶ ̶w̶a̶g̶e̶r̶ ̶m̶y̶ ̶p̶a̶r̶e̶n̶t̶ ̶w̶a̶s̶ ̶r̶e̶f̶e̶r̶r̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶—̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶'̶r̶e̶ ̶u̶s̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶a̶d̶j̶e̶c̶t̶i̶v̶e̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶m̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶n̶o̶u̶n̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶m̶;̶ ̶i̶.̶e̶.̶,̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶d̶e̶s̶c̶r̶i̶b̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶m̶a̶g̶n̶i̶t̶u̶d̶e̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶a̶w̶e̶s̶o̶m̶e̶n̶e̶s̶s̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶w̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶'̶v̶e̶ ̶j̶u̶s̶t̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶n̶e̶s̶s̶e̶d̶,̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶c̶a̶l̶l̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶a̶ ̶'̶g̶r̶e̶a̶t̶ ̶p̶o̶e̶m̶'̶,̶ ̶o̶r̶ ̶a̶n̶y̶ ̶p̶o̶e̶m̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶a̶n̶y̶ ̶s̶i̶z̶e̶,̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶m̶a̶t̶t̶e̶r̶.̶

EDIT: Nvm, I was unfamiliar with the Scrum term.
Honestly this is probably the right thing to do. My cynical conspiracy is that the ZK dep was organized by cloud vendors to keep customers coming :)

It’s been at least a year and a half since we’ve had severe data loss on our homebrew Kafka cluster, but after the first couple you never look at Kafka+Zk the same way... both iirc were due to leadership election bugs that had been reported many months ago with no progress on a solution.

I have no idea how AWS internally puts up with this. I wouldn’t be surprised if they’d replaced the ZK dependency internally years ago.
> That corporate hologram shit makes my skin crawl.

One reason that I love HN is that the primary mod says shit like that.
Maybe not for single line calls, but for multi-line helps with some readability and git diffs.

$result = thing(

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It would be great to have a filter to cluster themes of blogs so people can find blogs of specific topics.
Start building the things that you want to build, and you'll learn what you need to along the way. This is the strategy that has brought me the most joy and, not coincidentally, it has also been the most effective by far.
By giving it a name, you can refer to it more quickly and precisely with other programmers.
Worth, as from the article is market capitalization. Market Capitalization is shares outstanding times price per share. Price per share is the price at which shares of that company trade at.

You could also look at enterprise value which is market cap + net debt for a better view of size.

In the investment markets people frequently joke about how poor airlines are for an investment. Many of them don’t even own their own planes because they do not make enough money to use the depreciation.
I guess it's like there won't be movies any more, only netflix originals.
Restaurant and bar owners say social distancing could wipe out their industry
I too am in the same boat. I too am overwhelmed by the amount of information out there.
Currently what I do is, I make content, and to make content, I need to learn. Also, If I take up any online class, I make sure there is a certification awarded.
Another thing I do is always try to do something that adds the green square in my github profile.

In short, if you produce more, you will automatically learn more.

Now, what to learn depends entirely on your choice, also for me, I am Ok to quitting if I don't like any course.
Watch live as ULA launches a secretive U.S. military spaceplane live for its
Github should seriously think of making amount of time spent by developers behind a repository.
Even a rough heuristic will do.

This can include not just the time spent on code, documentation, tests, issues.

I guess, it would help other developers empathize better with individual developers who do it for no monetary gains.
which part of `liberte egalite fraternite` does worker exploitation come from?

Amazon is free to do business in France, and they are free not to (as they threatened)

They are not free to exploit people. That is equality and fraternity at it's best.

Always surprised when neocons come out the woodwork with their hetero economic view about some God-given-right to exploit the poor and desperate because they are rich.
Gah, you're right, I accidentally added an extra zero to my council tax!

My effective rate is actually 40%, not 50%. (although this doesn't include VED, fuel duty, insurance tax, alcohol tax, tobacco tax, flight taxes, VAT or any of the myriad of little taxes here and there)
This was a good and amusing article from a law professor about some of the problems with speed cameras in America: https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2017/01/18093/
is it really in trouble? The EU experiment seems like it's in a LOT more trouble. Will the nearly retired Germans bail out COVID Europe? Germany knows it has less than a decade of working population left.
It’s amazing how much you can learn from casual friends. Find a person at the office who knows things and offer to buy them a beer. Likely you will gather more from that exchange than if you had spent that same time studying.
If it's per capita, can't you just list every city that has a lower per-capita rate and claim that it is higher than all of them "combined"?

> Mary gets paid 90k per annum -- which is more than what both Jane and Jill receive per annum combined. It's the same principle.

This is misleading if all you're saying is that both Jane and Jill get paid less than 90k.
The real hacker community doesn't exclusively hang out on 8chan (and wherever people wound up from there), you know. Honestly, in Europe, it's largely a bunch of antifa types.
Principles of game theory come into play at that time isnt it?
I believe the pinnacle of mac text-to-speech was the talking moose.

"How come we never go out anymore?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking_Moose
Thanks a lot guy! By pasting that awful sentence into this thread, you've forced all of us reading here to agree to the license!
This guy seems to be have compe up with a search engine
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23208846
> Well I think there are three things that are needed if the world is to adapt itself to the Industrial Revolution. The troubles we are suffering now are essentially troubles due to adapting ourselves to a new phase of human life, namely the industrial phase. And I think three things are necessary if people are to live happily in the industrial phase. One of these is world government, the second is an approximate economic equality between different parts of the world, and the third is a nearly stationary population.

There's a full transcript here: https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/2019/02/02/a-conversation-with...
Light letters on dark background need more light to maintain legibility. So you might have to increase the point size and adjust the weight and increase leading and tracking. The counters are important for legibility so pay attention to how the font is affected by inversion.
Who sets the questions?

In a parliamentary democracy, the full-time politicians decide what is debated; what is up for debate; what is possible to change through a vote (and what is not possible to change by not putting it up for a vote).

They also decide what civil servants act upon - and what they don't. What is researched and evidenced - and what is not.

Deciding what direction you want to vote on a particular single issue is relatively late in the process of democracy (and conveys relatively little power).

The power to elect a representative is thus much greater, fairer, and more desirable, than the power to flex your vote on single issues.
How exactly does Kafka makes it easier to manage uniqueness constraints, foreign keys, and transactions?
The "bug" -- it's a strawman bug, actually im gonna go with strawbug :) -- is that TZ is supposed to specify what timezone I want to see times written in, and yet when I look at logs the time is not in the timezone I've chosen.

So my ideal would be to be able to set TZ and see logs in TZ time.

My ideal, to use epoch time instead of local time in logs, is because in a large number of cases I'm more interested in the relative time of log entries than the absolute time. Computing relative time (seconds intervals) between log entries is error prone.

I suppose in a sense I'm in both the UTC and non-UTC camp. On reflection, I agree that server logs should be in UTC. I just don't think I should have to read them in UTC or personally operate in UTC.

The ts tool mentioned above sounds perfect, and I'm gonna start playing with it...
There is Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML). Amazon Polly and Google text-to-speech supports it, although the best neural-model based voices only support a small subset.
Festival TTS already implements that[0].

[0] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~awb/festival_demos/sable.html
I agree with this. I would add that if you are looking at the description of the next level up, that most of what is listed is excessive. If I look at my current job description, half of it is either not necessary or it's only necessary to understand the concept.

One other thing that I realized after being in the field for 8 years is that it is becoming more difficult for me to learn in general. When I first started, I could repeat almost all key pieces of information from a meeting verbatim.
https://github.com/KaliedaRik/Scrawl-canvas
Or, in the case of Valeant Pharmaceuticals they just jacked the prices up after buying smaller drug companies and getting rid of all the R&D teams ... that doesn't seem to have incentivized further drug development by them, did it?
Will pay the bill giving away their freedom for some coins as a welfare

Welcome to the 4th reich
Thanks for your Elixir tutorials!

For those who don't know, Alchemist Camp is a YouTube channel and website for learning Elixir: https://alchemist.camp
Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine [pdf]
Not judging you or your friends, but perhaps those who can do hobbies just for fun are in a position of privilege (enough time, money, financial and professional security) to be able to do so? The "hustle culture" is very real and is I think a side effect of the gig economy and the end of the 9-5 secure job with its strict boundaries of work and leisure time. If you still have that kind of job it's easier to have hobbies with no outcome than personal satisfaction (assuming no other "distractions" like small children). Most creators I happen to know are hustling, whether on Github or Wordpress or Etsy or IRL, either trying to make some money on the side or building a portfolio for their career or to help them score their next gig. Those that aren't are retired or have some secure, traditional 9-5.
> what would be a better alternative?

None. I see too often the argument 'it's difficult for company X to follow the law, so how should countries change the law to fit the company needs?'.

I have worked for decades in regulated markets. It sucks to have a dozen implementations to fit each regulation and a thousand similar but slightly different reports. But, we always follow the law, we do what local regulators ask us to do, we filter, or change the content to fit the local government decisions.

Facebook argument is ‘we do not want to follow local laws because that increases cost and makes some business practices illegal in parts of the world. That mindset is destructive and fights agains society needs just to get higher profit.

If you work for Facebook, ask the company to look for experienced companies in regulated markets. And I do not mean just to hire lobbyists but to create a technical infrastructure that allows to follow the rule of law in all countries where it operates. To just lobby for more political power only makes Facebook mindset worse.
A video cannot be right clicked and actually creating a video for a meme is a lot more work.
With the low interest rates, everything that requires a loan sees over-inflation. I think this is what is happening with university tuition.
This Confluent blog is a rehash of earlier conceptual position statement of Jay Kreps, who is now the boss of the Confluent blogger.

https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-wha...

Pointing out (GP and yourself) that this is an 'asymmetric duality' is informative and valid.
This advice may not be applicable to you, but have you tried sleeping during the day and working through the night? I used to struggle with headaches and poor sleep until I realized that I simply couldn't be productive during the day. I often like to joke about how I might have some vampire blood in my lineage.
It’s the default because Java has a history, and it was set when everyone was deploying war files to machines with 512mb total memory and the default worked for 95% of people for the past 25 years. In fact, it’s still good enough for the chocolate factory that has brainwashed you into drinking the static binary milkshake.

Of course there are ways to use all the available ram when you deploy your kubernetes pods, you just have to consult the documentation.

Honestly this criticism is ridiculous I can’t believe I even bothered to reply.
Hm. What browser are you using?
Getting Started with Sass
> Patents could exist

Patents should not exist. They are entitling a commercial entity to a monopoly. Monopoly — BAADD!
Why you SHOULD have a CAREER MENTOR
Making a Googol:1 Reduction with Lego Gears [video]
I do not ask to see candidates GitHub profiles, no.

Whenever you evaluate a candidate on any axis, you have to be very careful about whether or not you’re judging them on something related to work performance or not. In the case of GitHub profiles, you’re also evaluating someone based on whether or not they have the post-work time to contribute to open source work, which is unrelated to their ability to contribute during working hours.

I’ve hired enough amazing engineers who didn’t have time for open source contributions that I’ve decided that open source work is not a meaningful metric for evaluating a potential hire.

Also, my GitHub profile is not impressive; it would be deeply hypocritical for me to hold candidates to a standard I couldn’t meet.
Each country makes its own rules and FB has to abide by all those which are relevant based on how content is distributed? That's rather the point of nation state (or supranational legislative bloc) sovereignty, you don't have to agree with anyone else to make the law.
George Mason University Economics Professor Thinks Variolation Can Solve Corona
Love their self-righteous call to action in the footer.

"just when we need it the most. The Guardian’s honest, authoritative, fact-based reporting has never mattered more. As we face the biggest challenge of our lifetimes, we’ll remain with you, so we can all better understand and combat the crisis. But at this crucial moment, news organisations are facing an existential threat. With advertising revenues plummeting, we risk losing a major source of our funding. More than ever before, we need your support to help fill the gap."

According to The Guardian, The Guardian is honest, authoritative and fact-based.

Easy enough to not use the site if I don't like it. The same applies for FB. Apparently non-violent opt-out isn't enough for The Guardian though. The Guardian (honest, authoritative) proposes that the state should guard us all from FB and their "supreme leader" Zuckerberg.

At what point do the principles of private property and free speech no longer apply to the websites we create?
The graph I looked at (that I was supposed to link in parentheses, but apparently failed) comes from [0] and actually shows crypt() performance as a function of key length, comparing different hashing alorigthms. Admittedly, not purely a sha256 benchmark, but possibly even more relevant to passwords. It looks pretty linear to me, so extrapolating to 50kB gives me 0.3625 seconds.

That being said, I just ran a very simple test with just sha256sum and broke 0.3s only at 32MiB, so either crypt() is doing much more than I tought (is salting _that_ expensive?) or I am reading that post completely wrong.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/a/32909765
Did the Indian government also levy fines of around $100000 per item if only 1 item was categorized as essential but later turned out not to be?
This isn't how the economy works. If thst was the case nobody would ever earn more, which of course isn't true.

Wages are only a small part of a products price, and there also is enough evidence that for example raising the minimum wage does actually help people.

For why it works, its simple: non-rich people spend any extra money, rich people don't do anything useful with their extra money. Which is also why trickle-down economics is a scam when its being presented as a way to help poor or average people. It does work of course as a way to transfer wealth from the poor to the rich.
An "epic" (noun) is a Scrum term for a collection of stories.

I'd say that was the intended usage.
> On the other hand, as far as I see, I am supposed to know many of them.

Why do you think of that? were you hired as the person that knows all of them?

Remember that as software engineers, our job is to solve problems. It doesn't matter what technology, language, or framework as long as you bring value on the table.

The question is what is it that you want to learn? based on that you will figure out what you need to learn and how you will be providing value to future employers.

Personally, I'm heading for a senior position. As a senior (in my current company, may vary from company to company) is to enable others, unblock from potential issues and mentor them on best practices and core values. Based on that, I choose where to focus my learning and what to read/research next.

Of course, I am still a software engineer and still need to learn new technologies maybe or refresh my current knowledge. I do that by reading newsletters, blogs and spending time outside my working hours to those. I will choose to go deeper into a particular technology if I think that it will bring value to our current stack. That's not required though and you can demand from your employee to provide that time for you. I'm doing it because it's my choice to do so.
This is hilarious and eerily real world like.
It depends on the implementation country to country. If you follow articles on something like Yahoo finance, you can see there are multiple opinions. There's also the difference between fiscal policy and monetary policy. From the fiscal policy perspective, you'll see more government spending and likely debt. This could mean higher taxes in the future, maybe. Monetary policy is a little less straightforward they are trying to keep markets liquid with QE and balance inflation/deflation through various means.
Exactly my thoughts. Posted in the "opinion" section, I'll give them that. It's disappointing, I generally like The Guardian, especially what they did around publishing the Snowden docs initially.
What frustrates me most about Quadratic Voting, and in general a lot of ideas promoted by Glen Weyl and his coterie, is that arguments in its favour almost completely ignore the significant additional cognitive burden it places on the populace. American Voters barely understand the difference between the popular vote and the electoral college -- to ask them to view the results of QV votes as fair and legitimate would be a bridge too far. Hell, I know a fair bit of math and CS, and I would feel uncomfortable quickly deciding how to divide my votes across issues, let alone advising other people on what to do.
>What's your cousin going to do when her admittedly valuable youthful beauty inevitably wanes?

retire after becoming a millionaire? It's ridiculous how some of these people make a month. Take a look at this calculator on this page: https://onlyfans.com/how
Oh, there's no doubt many factors/explanations.

Communication can be hard.
Funny, I watched an episode of « Our planet » called « Deep waters » yesterday that is quite related to this article. Life at these depths is really fascinating.
There was a question asking if there exists a recording of the verse mentioned in the title; looks like the post got deleted (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23211366) while I was answering it. Anyway: the Facebook post mentioned above links to their Soundcloud reciting this verse in ominous tones with some modern music. I'm not aware of a more "traditional" recording of the Shishupala Vadha, but there is an earlier work by a different author (Bharavi) whose 15th chapter (canto) has similar constraints (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kir%C4%81t%C4%81r... as mentioned in the article), and there's a recording of that here: https://archive.org/details/kirAtArjunIya-mUlam-vedabhoomi.o... (extracted from a recording with commentary here: https://archive.org/details/KiratarjuneeyamByMahakaviBharavi...) — as you listen to the chapter you can easily tell when these two-consonant or one-consonant verses appear :-)
The court ordered them to a) start following safety guidelines. b) as made necessary by repeated failure to follow a) start to plan improvements and correct issues with their current safety procedures. c) reduce operations to a whitelisted subset of Amazon(TM) product categories until such time that b) is finished and approved.

At no point did the court force Amazon to close its warehouses. That was pure, spite on Amazons part. I even think we are already past the date the court considered for the review and improvements, so if Amazon had complied its warehouses would be running and serving the full product spread again.
The Cure's Robert Smith: 'I'm uncomfortable with politicised musicians'
Filters Stories
I wasn't saying you couldn't call it bad. But I will say demanding it not be bad would be stepping over a line.

If money ever changes hands with the author of that code, that's a different story. But if it's something free you just found, and you have never paid the author anything, then at most you can warn others to not waste their time. You are in no moral or legal position to demand anything.
Asking users for donations is a very different business model to Facebook's history of abusing user data. I'm somewhat perplexed that HN users are apparently unable to see the distinction.

Besides which, someone writing an opinion piece for the guardian has no control over the business model.
FFmpeg: Fix audio and video out of sync problem