skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And why all of a sudden is everyone so concerned with what China has been doing for decades (something that, while definitely authoritarian, is not exceedingly nefarious either)?

It's a serious question. We all knew how China works, and even if we thought it's something that goes against some of our values, we never considered it bad enough to be a deal breaker.

So what happened that made us all of a sudden become so fixated about it?
Yes, pretty much this. The last time I tried it, the platform had a dark theme style that wx tried to apply, but then ended up with light grey borders within the dark parts of the widgets and there really wasn't a simple solution - there was an unresolved bug ticket.
Surprised to see JavaScript so low on the average salary by programming language[1]. Browsing HN you'd think that everything outside the browser is dead and long gone.

[1]https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#technology-wh...
That is my understanding as well and I checked mozilla documentation to confirm. [0] That link also covers loading="lazy" attribute for <img> tags, which I've commonly used to defer loading.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/im...
You're making a strong statement in favor of fact checking.

People can lie with statistics and people can lie without statistics. The latter is much easier, but the former is possible, as you lay out.

That's why we need to check whether an alleged fact is true, or at least can be confirmed from multiple sources of evidence so it can be accepted as true for the time being. We can also check statistics for anomalies and errors. Statisticians do that all the time.

All of that is fact checking.
It's too dangerous to give to high risk people.
But you don't have to do that, any more than an invading army has to occupy all centers of power at once. And people aren't going to spread across zillions of decentralized forums because people put value on network effects, and larger networks are worth more than small ones.

Thus Facebook isn't one giant blob of people yelling at each other, but has huge numbers of groups where people can meet, while also being able to find/contact almost anyone else. Of course I participate in small decentralized forums relevant to my specific interests/hobbies, but I don't only watch those, and you probably don't either. That would be like only ever reading local news and skipping news about your state/country/international events. You can do that but you'll be putting yourself at a big disadvantage, which most people prefer not to do.
At the current count of a minimum of 354,000 deaths, we would have to mitigate 26% of traffic deaths world wide for the entire year before it would make up for the fatalities caused by COVID19. So far it appears that traffic fatalities haven't decreased that much during the lockdown. In California, where we have good figures for this sort of thing, there has only been an 8% decrease in fatal accidents for the first 3 months of 2020 despite an 18.6% drop in number of miles driven.

Unfortunately it doesn't seem that the decrease in traffic fatalities will offset more than a fraction of the deaths due to COVID19. Especially considering that the death toll is projected to easily exceed 1 million worldwide.
Useful for me since I have the youtube app on my TV and can pull it up.
Yours is much better. http://bash.org/?946436
Same here on my late 2013 15". Other than a few weird moments back in the 10.9 days when I tried installing Xcode on an external drive, it's run like a champ, upgrades and all. I was nervous about putting Mojave on it, but it's run surprisingly well, albeit a bit slow, although that's expected at this stage of the game.

The same can't be said for the machine it replaced, which began life on 10.5 but was brought to its knees by the combination of an 8600M GT and the 10.7 upgrade.

Right now, I'm waiting until things settle down - because COVID 19 - before pulling the trigger on a 13" Pro.

Discrete GPUs in portables are for masochists.
I dont think many can read properly
Based on the article it sounds like a lot of these are line staff and support staff which is a direct result of a decline in the number of orders. Unfortunately I think there's not much they can realistically do about that.

The sudden shift in staffing comes from the sudden shift in demand.
So censoring hitler online means less police violence?

Please do show me the data.

Baseless nationalism is just as unwelcome from any country as it is fron the USA. Stop it.
> kid ... tech fads

The two times I was called a fad-chaser (literally) was adopting Scala in 2012 and React.js in 2013. AFAICT, that's the label boomers use to dismiss the people who are making progress. Getting the company to use Reactjs in particular drove a huge increase in quality, velocity, and recruiting.
They're brittle as hell when installing additional packages. WSL1 is still brittle at the edges, particularly when attempting to use it instead of a VM to run services, but all of the compilation woes because Cygwin/MSYS/Mingw are special build targets _simply disappear_.

I got tired of having to find patches/hacks/bespoke branches of tools I find interesting just to have them work in half-baked POSIX environments.

If they think Docker is more important than seamless desktop integration then obviously developers like myself are not as important to them as sysadmins who want to run docker services, I suppose.

I really, really want a proper and seamlessly integrated Linux environment on my Windows machine.
Hi HN,

I've bootstrapped my SaaS tool Influence Grid (https://www.influencegrid.com) since December 2019. It's a TikTok influencer search engine used by marketing agencies, consumer brands etc.

I'm looking to sell and thought this doc might be interesting to other HN folk as it goes into how I've built and grown the project, and why I'm selling.

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It's a heuristic. A single, cheap, effective one IMHO, but no heuristic is 100% accurate.
Just a counter datapoint, the Firebase comparison is what got me to click on the link and check it out. I'm a huge Firestore fan... here's what would get me to try something new:

- Better user permissions, ability to actually see my users and user permissions in a UI

- Better ability to choose conflict resolution logic

- Tied to that, ability to get "patches" from the server... right now if a change happens in my Firestore document, the server sends the entire document to the client. I'd love to be able to get a patch with just the changed data (and of course send patches to the server too, which it looks like you would support).

- Join queries to save me from needing to do multiple client -> server trips. If it's SQL I'm guessing you would support this.

Very interesting project! I'll be following your progress.
These are the best kind of hacks. And it makes me think about the high barriers that end up around fixing things like this. If he had tried to make an appeal to get it fixed through official channels, how long would it have taken? Would it have been fixed?
It varies. It's definitely more explicit in my experience of UK and EU systems. In the US, it's not always as explicit, but sometimes approach this in other ways, cf. Honor Councils. Computer science and related areas can be perceived as immature, and this conversation is one indication of this.
If there are so many Chinese people using YouTube their signal would behave no differently than people from other nationalities, no?
Ask HN: What do you miss most from pre-covid-19 life?
What countries? As far as I can tell, relations with Vietnam and Korea are quite good. Possibly historical highs with Vietnam.
Unfortunately, they didn't return it to the artist :(

They didn't know where it came from so they just junked it.
The exact same thing applies to buttons, its just harder to screw up. they also have buttons just fine

https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/04/03/photos-astronauts-trai...
High-effort spam. I've seen URLs advertised by combining 3 accounts worth of ascii-art.

It's almost an art form in itself, like when World of Warcraft trials didn't allow chat and spammers would just sign in to a hundred accounts and die in the shape of the domain name with all the corpses.
Changed from https://markosaric.com/ above. Thanks!
There is the recall option
Equivalent to silencing poor people, which was probably not your intention.
How would that work and what would that accomplish?
You wait long enough and then check whether the prediction was true? If not, the prediction was false.
Slightly different intentions, but your comment about what you can get away with while wearing a hi-vis vest reminded me of this:

https://www.redbull.com/sg-en/bas-keep-walls-2017-13-01

There's a longer documentary on the project somewhere that I can't seem to find right now, but in it they talk about what it took to set up the last jump (starting around 3:00). If I remember right, they actually closed down part of the road (without permission) in order to set up the ramp and make the attempt.
Why? Thats the whole problem.
I have a software dev colleague who doesn't have a home computer. Surprising, but it happens.
Not like there’s any real impact here. Now if Twitter were in the cake business, it’d be a national security imperative to defend their rights as a private entity.
Bear Stearns, Washington Mutual, WorldCom and many others are evidence to the contrary. I'm not sure if Boeing will be "allowed" to fail if it's on that path, but your statement that "Mega corporations and banks are not allowed to fail" is simply false.
US political consultants used specific mailing lists to target ads in the 1960's
Looks like there are some physical buttons underneath the touch screens. Not sure what they do, but hopefully they're used for important stuff.

I just watched one of the astronauts push buttons on the touch screen, and it's shocking how small the icons on the screen are relative to their fingers. I would not want to try to the hit the right icon while accelerating!
You don't need a static economy for UBI to be effective, your whole idea of suppliers charging more just because they know you have more money is flawed. Thats not how real life works, your rent does not increaae when you get a raise, prices don't increase just because wages grew this year.
Maybe online dating sites will follow this pattern
Traveling to other countries.
I enjoy going to the store too, I want to see what I can make and the quality of the food before I get in line to buy it.

I don't think online delivery has changed much since the days of Webvan. When I order on Instacart, Postmates, etc, I get the worst produce, wrong cheese, and just like in the article -- a single banana instead of 1 bunch. Like others have said, the apps need a lot of work, particularly around out of stock items.

Unfortunately, during the pandemic, the lines at the stores were long due to social distancing and overall panic, so I went back to online delivery. The problem was that no where delivered and times were weeks out if anything was available at all! The delivery companies weren't even working the one time in history they should shine and take the grocery market by the horns.

The upside to all this is I ended up going to locally run stores, bodegas, and farmer's markets, which didn't have everything I wanted because they are small, but going to 2 or 3 isn't hat much of a hassle.

As a related side note, my elderly parents did "curb side pickup" for groceries out in Nevada. My mom told me that she often got to "try new foods". It made me laugh, but made me think that for the immuno-vulnerable, do they want to go on a forced diet selected by a low-wage personal shopper?
This is what happens when you let the accountants run the business.

This is so completely not true. Worked with the Finance Dept heavily at my last job. The accountants keep track of the expenses, and make sure everyone is sticking to the budgets...but the accountants don't make the budgets. Management does. The accountants are the ones making sure that the company can actually pay for everything.

To an accountant, a drop in costs is as valuable to the business as a rise in revenue.

This is also false. To an accountant, a drop in costs is literally the exact opposite of a rise in revenue. (For comparison, it would be like saying that to a software developer having a more powerful computer is the same as writing your software to be more efficient.) A drop in costs is only valuable to the accounting team if there's not enough money to pay for everything, because then the drop in costs makes it possible to pay for more of the bills that the rest of the company incurs. The Finance Dept would absolutely prefer to see more revenue over a drop in costs, because revenue is repeatable and sustainable, while reducing costs is not.

Management are the folks that only cares about the bottom line regardless of how it's reached.

Blame management.
Big thread from 6 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21712733. The cutoff for dupes is a year or so:

Fear not, however: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23322730 is there to fill your AMP-fighting needs.
Yes, you are correct that you are essentially paying a premium, but the issue is less about the item's cost and more about the need for time investment and physical presence--correct me if I'm wrong, but it doesn't seem like it's possible to get the same level of un-bruisedness from delivery or curbside pickup that you could from going into the store and picking fruit yourself.
Why do records, tuples need new syntax?
Why not just use Jekyll or Hugo at that point?
Boeing is not allowed to fail, and that fact, more than anything else, explains why they are such a poorly run company.

So the mass layoffs are just a mirage, and not a failure at all, are they?
I'd imagine that is correlated to the significantly higher percentage of non-cisgender/non-male people who report harassment and abuse in workplaces.
I agree if you are not including health care. There is no reason that a company should be responsible for employee’s healthcare in the US. This should be either fully covered by the government or private market with a public option and reasonable subsidies.
It also potentially makes a local worker a lot more fungible with people who aren’t local.
That's... not what canceled out means.
On the one hand, from a systems perspective, this is obviously true.

But I wonder at what point you have to draw the line and quit excusing any and all behavior as the result of misaligned incentives, and simply hold people morally and ethically accountable for the choices they make?
How do you tie this correlation to the negative of that causation?
This was always my issue with using a service provided by the store. But after talking to friends and finally being convinced to try it turns out that:

Grocery store workers are almost never stock holders in the company that are trying to push up their profit margins at all cost in spite of the consumer. Grocery stores either have multiple competitors in an area or face an area where it will become a food desert, people will prefer a grocery store but their existence is no way guaranteed. They also can get their money back on products that didn't sell in certain cases. It's almost always in their interest to get you the best product.

Grocery store workers tend to fall in the category of teenagers getting their first job that aren't trusted with anything meaningful, slackers trusted with the same responsibilities as the teenagers, and butchers/produce specialist/etc that take their job extremely seriously that care about what they do. It was surprising at first talking to them over years but there alot of people that take their role in the food chain extremely serious and really love what they do.

The majority of food is mass produced, including the produce, so most stuff you have atleast a week left to consume if it's out on shelves.

Getting something you didn't want usually ends up being as likely as getting something yourself you didn't want. It's almost always an oversight from someone that is actually intimately familiar with the items because that's their job.

This is in stark comparison to a delivery app employee that really only cares about getting as many deliveries in a day as possible. If you get a single bad onion, they don't care so long as the person getting their shirt from Wal-Mart rates them well and they can just work for multiple services averaging out their numbers. Plus you aren't going to be a dick and not tip them right, what with the whole culture surrounding how you have to tip anyone doing a delivery for you?
I prefer TypeScript to Lua and there are a lot of interesting JavaScript libraries I would want to use.
> I intended to imply causation.

Oh, ok. Would you mind then explaining in detail how it is you came to know(!) what was and was not the comprehensive, multivariate motivation of all the people who voted in Republican primary polls, and how you managed to measure/calculate accurate values for each variable (or at least this one single variable, for each person, or even the aggregate for the overall group)? I mean this question literally, not rhetorically.

> I deeply enjoyed your not-at-all condescending lecture about how gullible, biased, and imprecise I am, though. In return, I will advise you not to be presumptuous about internet strangers' intelligence.

I made no personal criticisms of you, or and presumptions about internet strangers intelligence. Rather, this is just a manifestation of the very things I was referring to.

>> something no one is able to know

> Untrue. What if you just asked voters, "Why did you vote for Trump?" Or what if you asked them, "What issues are important to you?"

a) no one has done that, at scale, and in a form where very specific conclusions (like yours) can be formed

b) even when people answer a question "truthfully", it does not necessarily reflect true cause and effect, which are largely determined by neurological processes in the subconscious mind, that even the very best neurologists/psychologists barely understand, and that even the person in possession of the mind is not privy to. As an example, does it seem you know, absolutely, that the specific things you write here are True(!), absolutely? And yet, if I ask for epistemically sound, confirmable quantitative evidence, are you able to provide any, that does not consist of, or rely heavily upon, a narrative?

> Some of the best predictors of Trump support were...

These are all attempts to measure and understand reality (based in part on some discrete "measurements", assembled into a persuasive narrative form). They are not reality itself. But, this is not to say these these measurements are not accurate - perhaps they are even very accurate - I am simply stating that it is unknown how accurate they are.
To the point. Thanks. Modern capitalism is not good for companies, people and society as a whole.
"Formal Education Importance
Almost 85% of the respondents that are professional developers feel that formal education is at least somewhat important, which is contrary to the popular idiom that you don't need formal education to become a developer. However, almost 16% believe that it is not at all important or necessary."

Well as someone who doesn't have a formal comp. sci. education, this is a bit alarming for me. Personally didn't think the number was that high.
Show HN: When You Should and Shouldn’t Use Node.js for Your Project
Look what's inside Linus Torvalds' latest Linux development PC
They could presumably cut costs even further by a 4-day week.

Does the employee have to bear the brunt without any benefit?
The risks aren't significantly different than from other things people do on a regular basis. People have died from objects falling out of the back of a pickup truck. People have died from a long list of shoddy home improvement projects. People have died (and killed others) from working in an official capacity for the Department of Transportation.

The answer is to do the things that you do safely, not to never do anything.
Me too - we have a large employee-owned no frills supermarket and I've been going there for 25 years. The calming, trance-like experience of picking out my items is something I don't want to miss. I like the walls of cereal, the bulk food bins and the excitement when an item moves to a new location.
SQL Anywhere was an amazing product. What's left out in the article is that it was also really fast.

I had an assignment in 1998 to benchmark it against another pocket database. SQL Anywhere was 100x faster. On the Excel throughput graphs I had to use right and left Y axes for each product. Otherwise product #2 was just a flat line on the X axis. ;-)
Most independents reliably vote one party or the other. The number of "true" independents, who will frequently switch the party they vote for, is about 10%.
I don't think it's entirely fair to say there is no competition in this market. In the end companies are still competing for a limited supply of ethical hackers. Except that it is a bit of an unusual market, since both sides are operating with very limited information.

Perhaps it will become more stable when people realise you can sell negative results as well (either implicitly by cooperating, or through an actual market). Anything that can bridge the gap between hackers wanting to get paid for their efforts and companies wanting to pay for results would help.

More volume would also help, in the end it's hard to sustain a whole industry on just tens or hundreds of millions per year.
Thank you, I really was confused!
> The point here is the safety of it

Yes, which is why all of the studies keep saying that it's too dangerous to use as treatment for covid-19.
My understanding is the only things forthcoming are state bailouts and monetary policy (big business).
As someone with both, both have their place, but HBO is a strong offering. HBO in-house content is way better, and they have a lot more good movies available to watch on demand. I'd say Netflix wins strictly at UI, and variety overall.

That said, I'm curious how the future will play out. I already have Hulu, HBO, Disney Plus, Netflix, and Amazon Prime. The cost and variety is getting out of hand, and I don't even have time to watch them all(I use Hulu the most, and Amazon the least, fwiw). Are we going to soon see reconsolidation of services, back to the cable model?
I have heard no bonus. no merit increases at a large university medical center.
I’m not an expert in the details of Chrome permissions vs. other browsers, and setting aside for the moment the market power of Google/Alphabet, this seems fairly fixable, along the same lines as email spam or ad tracker networks, and a clear case for “caveat emptor”.

How about rewriting any AMP urls in the browser location bar to redirect to the canonical location as an end-user extension, or as an in-content script?
Piggy-backing on your answer, which I also agree with (sorry, parent was flagged):

Proper accessibility normally makes websites better for people who don't need accessibility features. At worst it doesn't make a difference.

Lack of accessibility normally makes websites worse for everyone.
I heavily disagree, as someone who uses C++ as my primary language at my job for the last three years, and who has a lot of experience in many other languages.

It has developed a lot of idiosyncrasies that range from "confusing unique syntax" to "using these two features together will blow your app up with no warning from the compiler".
I have decreased the amount of choice and the amount of shipping required for my food by switching to powdered nutritional shakes like Huel and Soylent. No need to worry about the picker getting the wrong thing and there is less need to worry about the colossal amount of plastic waste my weekly shopping used to create. I feel great and I only wish that there were some way to buy various 'lents in a reusable container I could ship back to them, or better yet pick up locally.
So cool to hear "Dragon copies" over the radio.

For the first time, Dragon can talk back!