skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any thoughts on the article? I'm new to writing I'd appreciate any advice.

Thanks
The note about opening the door resonates with me.
On two different occasions I've come across IT people scratching their heads about how to get into the server closet. On the first occasion the guy with the key was at a BBQ and in no shape to drive. I opened it with a library card.
On the second, the Kisi server controlling the door had crashed (guess where the server was). I opened it with a butter knife. On both occasions I opened the door quicker than my wife can find her keys in her purse.
Lesson 1) Secure your server room against physical attacks
Lesson 2) As you secure your server room make sure you make an emergency plan for how to get in to your newly secured server room.
That people consider civil unrest because they're told to wear masks for a few months in order to prevent countless deaths is more a sign of a broken culture than anything else.
Your "python engineers" couldn't do anything even touching Erlang? What
He states he uses a 2070 now.
Can anyone explain why Tuesday C19 deaths have been 2x Sunday's?
I haven't seen "he's looking for work so let's fire him". But I have seen "George doesn't seem committed let's promote Joe instead". Or "we have to cut someone we should cut Alex because he doesn't seem committed to Acme Corp".
An initial consult is often free, and even a $500 consult would have been worth every penny because the lawyer would have (correctly) told him to back off and let them have the name.

In any event, escalating - even when you think the other party is being a dick - is never the right answer.
Not to mention that everyone can see that as in many countries measures are being loosened with little effect.
Despite the your downvoters, there is good evidence to suggest we are already doing that in the US. According to the CDC, for the week ending in 5/9, there were more COVID19 deaths than there were "excess" deaths.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/COVID19/index.htm

These data are subject to being modified after the fact.
Another nitpick: it hijacks the back button.
It's relevant because we currently have two sides going at each other raising irresponsible levels of hyperbole, virtue/team- signaling and fear mongering on both sides, just in different directions.

Covid is simultaneously currently worse than the flu, but on the order of genuine avoidable human suffering it SHOULD have (and should still) be treated rationally: isolating and protecting the most vulnerable, practicing good hygiene, a moment to reflect on our lifestyles, policies and our self imposed diseases that make us more vulnerable to the virus. It has a mortality function that, statistically, correlates most strongly with a person's already existing X year survival probability. If you plotted out the frequency of ages and deaths over time, it would primarily register as a small blip/compressing of deaths primarily amongst the older.

People who go off on the other end of the spectrum: that this should be the end of society/ socialising, commerce/trade and public life, are just as ridiculous and irresponsible as those who think nothing should be fine, because they illicit fear, partisanship, and stop our finite resources being spent where they do most good, not to mention the harm that's going to come from all the poorly targeted reactions.

In this case it's an opportunity to drop the hyperbole and rationally visit how we deal with healthcare and end of life, because how we deal with the elderly already, especially our experiences with those illnesses I mentioned, are qualitatively worse than the experience of dying relatively quickly from covid, but we accept it because it was "part of the everyday" (or in a lot of societies, deliberately excluded from the everyday so we don't think about it too much).
They had different knobs available to them, and it's not clear given the opportunity that they wouldn't try it. E.g. it was less common for PCs to be connected to the internet and receive OS updates, so they wouldn't have an effective way of using a policy like that.

They certainly did their best to prevent any other OS from being on your hardware.
I'm all for enforcing strong privacy rules, in fact, I stopped using PB very quickly after trying it for the first time, because of the _feeling_ of a lack of privacy/security it gave me (based on no actual evidence), so I'm not defending PB.

That said, calling Google heavy handed is an understatement, and there have been several cases which have made it clear that kicking up a fuss online and being big enough to get some attention is the only means for recourse.
Interesting. Not casting a void pointer return value seems like a bit of a shibboleth for the "C is not a subset of C++" community.
I once worked on a system for notifying customers of events by posting to their APIs. Events came in on a Rabbit queue and got posted.

If a customer's API was down, the event would go back on the queue with a header saying to retry it after some time. You can do some sort of incantation to specifically retrieve messages with a suitable header value, to find messages which are ready to retry. We used exponential backoff, capped at one day, because the API might be down for a week.

I didn't think of RabbitMQ as a database when I started that work, but it looked a lot like it by the time I finished.
It's still ridiculous. The only people I see using these monitors to their full ability are sitting less than a foot away from the monitor. Even then, kinda overkill.

If you sit really close to your monitor then whatever. Can't imagine it's good for posture or your eyes to be focusing so close so often.
When will it give them a reason to stay? ("It seems like everybody else is even worse" doesn't qualify, even though in practice it works.)
Seems way more responsive than Ubports in those videos! I'm going to go try this on my Pinephone, am excited :P
I'd be impressed if these were better than PostgreSQL's JSON features. Do you know how they compare?
I like the "tainted" tab idea. Maybe warn the user if the site attempts any non-GET HTTP request. "Are you sure this site is legitimate? It could be a phishing attempt."
_Permanently totally isolating everyone over 60_ is clearly not feasible. In a scenario where it was allowed spread willy-nilly through the younger population, that isolation would have to be absolute.

And it is not like under 60s are all that safe. In the US 25% of deaths are under 65.
Maybe this will help? https://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html
>> standing next to the all of the horn players blowing their spit all over the place.

That's an aspect of the universal 6-foot rule that everyone seems to forget. It originally appeared as advice for business (restaurants). You don't want to sit too close to someone else in still air. But if we are spitting, singing, shouting, coughing, panting, playing in a Jazz band, or are simply downwind of someone, that 6-foot distance is probably not enough. Airlines have basically said as much about their cabins. If the air is being circulated artificially in a closed environment, specific measured distances are probably irrelevant.
Having just completed a drawing unit in art school, for which a major assessment task was a self-portrait in graphite pencil, I can say with some confidence that this is an unusually good account. Hell, it's excellent.
> Is there a good reason this exists?

Lobbying by resource extractors.
One important thing that's missing from the author's story is the why. What is it that's triggering the robotic take-down notices?
In New York? They’d be fucked. In most of the rest of the country? Simply canceling sporting events, concerts, conventions, and other mass gatherings would probably have been enough. Even the CDC is now saying surface transmission is highly unlikely and that the aforementioned superspreading events were disproportionately responsible for the early exponential growth,
The performance gains are very impressive https://tech.wayfair.com/2013/04/devnull-vs-mongodb-benchmar...
This. I live alone and after 5 weeks my mental health has deteriorated significantly. This is not a situation that can last as is till 2021. We'll have a suicide and mental health crisis.
That's only going to be true if the $4000 extra they spent is used for 40,000+ hours. It's likely closer to be a dollar an hour more for slightly crisper text. (Assuming they use it full time for 2 years)
Nobody can uncritically take his side but what you are implying here is that we should consider him "less" because of an unrelated story.
As of https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/ebola/frequently-as... ebola is not very infectious until you show symptoms. And when you show symtoms (feever, headache, vomitting) you probably won't run into the cinema or restaurant the next day to spread the virus.
I am sorry. I empathize because I know that a great deal of my confidence as a software engineer came thanks to financial security; I don’t fear being fired so I will speak my mind.
However, had I failed to achieve that, would I have stood for myself? Who stays silent because of this? I always feel it is my duty to listen to everybody in the room because of that reason.
This is because those shops read the PG essays, and think that the the shibboleth is Python, it is not. The marker is that that someone is at the fringe and not in the middle of the flock.

I have met lots of engineers who are smack dab in the middle of the flock when it comes to tech stacks, or even _behind_, but they were more than capable. Hire for what you need. But what you think you need and what you actually need is probably not know to you.
I don't understand this thinking. Do you think it's fine if new endemic diseases are added that will kill multiple of 10k or 100k people a year, every year?
Show HN: Android/iOS app to help you relax, focus and be present
Hello everyone!

I hope you all are doing well. I have released this breathing exercise app to help shed some stress and anxiety that we all are experiencing during these difficult times.

Breathe has 3 different breathing exercises which are as follows:
- Equal Breathing: helps you to relax, focus, and be present.
- Box Breathing: also known as four-square breathing heighten performance and concentration while also being a powerful stress reliever.
- 4-7-8 Breathing: also called “The Relaxing Breath,” promotes better sleep and eases the body into a state of calmness and relaxation.
The app also offers the breath-holding test which you can use to test your breath-holding capacity and track it in the app daily.

Features:
- All the exercises are free without any ads :)
- Set notifications to get breathe reminders.
- Guided breathing with the relaxing nature sound.
- Track your progress with intuitive charts.
- Connect the Health App to track your mindful minutes. (iOS only)
- Customizable time duration.

Please feel free to offer your suggestions for more exercise or anything that I can improve in the app. I would love to hear your feedback.

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.havabee.breathe
iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/breathe-relax-focus/id1506712199
btw - have you seen/tried anything like the 'tractyl' [0] or ultimate hacking keyboard[1] ?
I used to use a trackball full-time, and I'm wondering how well a lil 'thumball' works...

[0]https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/dk9b34...

[1] https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/
Eh. This blog post runs a single node process on a 36-core CPU. I'm not a fan of node but that's hardly a meaningful benchmark
I think you can run Mac OS in a VM as long as the VM runs on Apple hardware.
I have a hard time seeing your position here. Because of their actions they broke their own build and made a lot of folks in the open source community upset. Was it even worth it to waste the time fixing their broken build? To investigate the failure and replace a dependency of a dependency? To lose credibility in the community they've evidently just decided to become involved with? I really don't see how that's not worth 30 grand. They have a right to use their name but they don't have the right to use someone else's work.
Erlang's hotswap and Python's hotswap are of comparable power, ie, both are crappy. Being able to do something isn't the same as doing it well.

You can hot swap all languages.
Thanks - I look forward to seeing your post!
As long as it's on Apple hardware, I don't see the issue at work.

Virtual machines on Apple hardware are explicitly allowed in the OSX EULA.
This is a US specific phenomenon, and it's not a new one. I will further argue it is a critical principle for Democracy.

The issue is not being asked to wear a mask, the issue is legally mandating them.

I can ask you to donate money to a political party - you may say no, but me asking is perfectly fine. If I force you under duress to donate - well, that's something else, isn't it?

Freedom is the ability to say no, even if that isn't an optimal choice. Taking that freedom away leads to bad outcomes like arresting people for unpopular views and sending Muslims to "re-education" camps.
MySQL is actually amazing, scale better than PGsql supports Json and is available everywhere. I see no reason to use any other dB for 90% of the use cases u need a dB for
Are AI-Powered Killer Robots Inevitable?
I think this is unfortunately close to the truth. I think Chrome only entertains extensions on desktop since desktop browsers are somewhat competitive. On Android where their bundling deals ensure Chrome is the default browser, they don't really have to bother. They can just disable extensions and therefore ad-blockers.
> It seems to me that your proposal equally chills both of those categories.

People who don't want to face US jurisdiction to keep legitimate content posted are going to be "chilled" as long as the place where they want to post it is in US jurisdiction. But I don't see how "chilling" is a reasonable way to describe this. Every corporation is going to have to be under some jurisdiction; there's no way for anyone to post content that's simply free of any legal jurisdiction, so calling it "chilling" to have to pick one doesn't seem reasonable to me.

> People who aren't legally savvy and don't feel comfortable filing a DMCA counternotice

People who don't feel comfortable with legal documents are going to be "chilled" by any activity that requires them to take legal responsibility by signing a legal document. But again, I don't see how "chilling" is a reasonable way to describe this. Unless you are advocating that people be able to post content with no legal responsibility whatever, which doesn't seem reasonable.

> whether something is fair use is often ambiguous

Yes, and that's why we have law courts, to allow both parties a fair chance to make their case in ambiguous situations before a ruling is made and action is taken.

> Moving the bar will move more cases into the ambiguous area.

What I propose does not "move the bar" at all; it doesn't change the legal definition of what copyright infringement is or what the allowed exceptions are.
NYC and Stockholm antibody tests would indicate an IFR more like 1% or a little over.

Though I'd be cautious about being too confident in antibody study results, for now. A lot can depend on test accuracy (especially where covid is rare anyway).
Excellent!

"I ended up going down the rabbit hole re-implementing array sorting with AVX2 intrinsics, and there’s no reason I should go down alone."

:-)
> "England has had 132k reported cases. London has a population of 8.9M."

I personally know about a dozen people in London who have had probable Covid-19, including myself. None of those cases were ever actually confirmed by testing or "reported" to anyone.
> As for the death rate, the rate to the non vulnerable population is immaterial.

The numbers don't look very immaterial to me. [1] Granted there's a weird amount of variance between regions and there's a lot that isn't certain.

> If you are still questioning whether infection confers immunity, then what other strategy than herd immunity do you suggest? If we don’t develop immunity naturally, there won’t be a vaccine either. Permanent lockdown?

(Let's hope some reasonable amount of immunity is conferred! It seems likely, but I think it's useful to consider the worst case.)

I'd be happy with people doing what they ought to be doing anyway: exercising some caution and doing the obvious things to limit the spreading of the bug. I'm in a constant state of amazement at how bad we are at all of this.

In the crazy worst case where there isn't much immunity conferred by the infection, we could hopefully rely on Darwin to eventually provide us with a less dangerous version of the virus.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortality_due_to_COVID-19#Mort...
As I mentioned, I have two graphics tablets (i.e. without screens), both Wacom, one large and one small. The small one is not very useful, and the larger one (~A4 drawing area) would be even more useful a bit bigger.
You are confusing mandating masks in order to protect the wearer with the real purpose: to protect people around them. Wearing masks protects other people from being infected if you unwittingly have the disease. Clearly, states have the right (and indeed responsibility) to mandate that their citizens do not recklessly endanger other citizens in specific encoded ways. For example, do you think it is unreasonable for there to be speed limits on roads? Or even that if someone shot their firearm around at random in a crowded place and happened to kill someone that they shouldn't be held responsible if they could prove they hadn't specifically meant to hurt anyone, they were just having a bit of a laugh?

Maybe you actually do think the state shouldn't intrude on those freedoms, but you would be in a minority holding those views. Personally, I like laws that impose mask use during pandemics, speed limits on roads and restrictions against firing shots randomly into crowds, because their absence intrudes on my freedom to continue existing.

I even consider it possible to like these things while not considering it reasonable to "share your email with the FBI and agree to be monitored at all times". An analogy about condom use does not explain the connection at all.
I used to use this, but switched to inoreader due to the mobile app and because it was easy to use. Is it time to switch back?
It surprised me too. I started charging a few months ago after it was free for ~7 years. Now I'm making $600 a month off of it.

Paying users seem to be part productivity nerds who maybe aren't technical enough to grok installing from the repo, and part people who just choose to pay for the automatic upgrades or to support the developer. Also, lots of users are web gamers who use it for in-game automation.

I wrote a post about it 1 week after monetizing, if you're curious: https://critter.blog/2020/01/14/week-1-of-monetizing-my-chro...
15 minutes.
These type of experimental interfaces what would make me to consider ordering one! Would love to try now
Same here, and that's ignoring the asymptomatic cases, so you can at least triple/quadruple that number.
I keep seeing this idea that people are demanding the lockdown last forever and everything should be over, but it seems to primarily come from people using it as an attempt to seem rational by taking a standpoint in the perceived middle rather than any sort of reality.

The actual reality is that one side wants people to wear masks and gradually open up in a safe manner because other places that opened up irresponsibly were hit by a second wave of infections. The other side takes mask wearing as fascism and will do literally everything in their power to harass people who wear masks or attempt to bypass the requirement for the sake of making themselves feel better. You calling COVID19 a cakewake is irresponsible hyperbole in itself considering it is dangerous and we should not be under any delusion that it is not. But it is manageable if people don't operate under delusion.
When taken with a right skepticism, then yeah, it is. But especially junior folks should be careful taking stories like that at face value.

Being senior engineer is about much, much, more than just technical chops. I've worked with many people like that - they were extremely good technically, but their attitude alienated them and made it harder (and over time - often impossible) for them to do their jobs. If you think that you need total immunity and authority by reporting to the CEO, then you most likely doesn't understand how your organization operates. Being able to navigate an org and get stuff done, like it or not, is critical skill to being a successful senior engineer at any bigger modern tech company.
Sure, but you need to jump through a bunch of hoops to get a medical marijuana license?

You can order CBD off the internet.
Do you track down their email or just send a message on LinkedIn? How customized are the initial communications (e.g. common elements per type of work or type of company)?
In my opinion, the party that behaved the worst in that exchange was npm. Why do Node developers trust such an unprofessional institution?
The "universal 6-foot rule" is anything but universal. Other countries have recommended 1m, 1.5m, 2m, etc. The distance rules are almost entirely arbitrary and not based on sound science.
With regards to the trademark issue:

> and we’d have no choice but to do all that because you have to enforce trademarks or you lose them.

They aren't threatening him for the fun of it, this is classic trademark stuff.

Also the "solution" he offered them was:

> Yeah, you can buy it for $30.000 for the hassle of giving up with my pet project for bunch of corporate dicks

Would _you_ give this guy $30,000, after he calls you a dick multiple times and tells you in no uncertain terms to fuck off?

No one comes out looking good in this interaction, don't get me wrong, but Azer was super unprofessional and nasty during those interactions. He gets no sympathy from me.
2 years ago, they were worse, from what I recall.
No need to re-enable it every time Chrome starts.
Given both my experience and prior research, I don't believe you that Oracle is ever better than have the stuff on the above list, and I think it's worse than Postgres on every metric.

Every time I need to work with an Oracle DB it costs me weeks of wasted time.

For a specific example, I was migrating a magazine customer to a new platform, and all of the Oracle dumps and reads would silently truncate long textfields... The "Oracle experts" couldn't figure it out, and I had to try 5 different tools before finally finding one that let me read the entire field (it was some flavor of JDBC or something). To me, that's bonkers behavior, and is just one of the reasons I've sworn them off as anything other than con artists.
I once heard that described as "the non-falsifiablility of religion surfacing".

You might have noticed that the answer is never "maybe your situation calls for trying these small tweaks to the vanilla scrum process..." even though Scrum claims to be about retrospectives and continuous process improvement.
This fart of an article surely tries hard to drum up this non issue. Apple did not ‘just’ do anything at all, it’s just the guy from last year getting some more attention by repeating exactly the same story.

‘Now revealing his identity for the very first time’ who cares? Why does that matter? Apple clearly already knows who he is and the public can’t do anything with his name.
> I'm more worried now that I read that I'm not the only one who suspects that people spending prolonged periods of time together are the main cause of the spread of Covid-19.

> At this point what I hope for is that summertime will make a big difference

If the greatest risk of transmission is close contact in enclosed spaces, and most of these spaces (homes, stores, restaurants, offices, mass transit, etc.) are air conditioned (making them cool and dry), why would summer weather have a significant effect on the propagation of the virus?