skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's starting to affect my psyche

As someone who has worked from home for years, more people and companies need to pay attention to this. It's very, very easy to stay glued to the computer all day, not get any movement, and get cabin fever, especially if you don't live with family.

It took me years of discipline before I could build the habits to make long-term work from home feasible. So many others I know - including in my family - struggle to separate work and personal lives when working from home.

I predict all these companies are going to find that their workers productivity and morale are crashing in six months.

Fixing remote worker loneliness and cabin fever is going to be one of the biggest - and most important - problems in the next few years.
That's tough to sell. Hopefully you built up a good network at the same time.
This reminds me of some comments Quentin Tarantino once made about Netflix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NbxVZC9CJQ.

It wouldn't surprise me if we see more of a trend towards content curation that isn't based on AI recommendation engines, but rather humans who are either friends or celebrities/experts.

Some ideas:
* My friends are watching this
* Martin Scorsese's film influences
* Cinemassacre Monster Madness watch list
Yup like the time when the BND basically helps the US to do industrial espionage against Germany.

And the when the government found out about it (through Snowden) and didn't really do anything.

I mean even if giving asyl to Snowden wasn't possible permanently they could have given it to him for a short time to at least allow him to sadly speak in front of the German government.

Or EU countries allowing extradition to countries which haven't signed the human rights charter (like the US, ironically Russia did sign it).

Through then if we consider how the BND was founded it would be supposing if it's not at least partially undermined by some US intelligence agencies...
> I like their keyboard shortcuts, for example, but these would be difficult (impossible?) to implement on a simple HTML page.

There is a very old (pre-Javascript) attribute called accesskey that allows primitive shortcuts without using JS. [1] Can't really use the same optimal shortcuts as GH, though!

As for the webpage vs web app, is it strange that I still consider GitHub having a webpage-based approach? I think they got a lot of functionality, but I don't really see them as being an SPA.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_att...
Previous discussion (2017): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13891756
Isn't 10k with a 15-20% premium 11.5-12k?

Bitcoin trades at a 15–20% premium (e.g. if the Bitcoin spot price is 10k USD, Cubans will pay 15k–20k CUC for it).
Yes, OkCupid did a study awhile back which they unfortunately took down. You can still find archived versions of it.
> The biggest problem with CLI is discoverability

I don't agree. Discoverability's a big problem with "modern" GUIs too.

> is there a way to make CLI "more discoverable"? Reading the man page doesn't count

Why doesn't reading the man page count? I've learned a hell of a lot more about CLI tools by reading their manual than I have by ... oh wait GUIs often don't come with a manual.
To add to that, Twitter shares dropped significantly on opening and ended the day down -2.75%. By contrast, the S&P rose 1.5% today. In the absence of other confounding variables, this would suggest investors see a material effect of his words.
Bless you! This comment has saved my eternal soul

Where can I begin but by offering you my sincere prayers and grateful brotherly affections

By the power of the holy spirit of Alan Turing allow me to humbly devote my entire life to the pursuit of divine knowledge and wisdom through the study of information technology

In the name of the the computer, the algorithm, and the data amen
Yeah I used Costco for a bit, than realized is about 20% more for us. Since Costco requires everyone to have masks I feel confident going there. It would be better if they were more transparent about it...

FWIW you should "powerwash" all the groceries at home anyways.

Also last I checked, Walmart has free delivery and same price as in store. But I've heard their employees just grab anything for you...so quality of produce is YMMV.
In case anyone didn't notice, this is comparing Gboard (Google's virtual keyboard) on iOS versus Android. It's NOT comparing Apple's voice recognition tech with Google's.
New fuzzing tool finds 26 USB bugs in Linux, Windows, macOS, and FreeBSD
If the keyboard ever worked when I needed it too maybe I would consider itr
Did you seek out carnivore/animal-centric nutrition in response to gut issues, mental health or something else?

I keep stumbling upon anecdotes of significantly improved states of mind since going keto/carnivore. Have you found any discussions putting forward a proposed mechanism behind these reportings?
Could you clarify a bit on "out of band" in this use case? In principle, if you have a way to access your bastion on a completely private--maybe physically separate / leased line--network, then that's going to be extremely secure, but maybe you had a different use case in mind?
Is voicemail popularity some US thing? I actually don't know anybody who uses it.
One alternative is to ban politicians from using these private websites as "official pulpits". As private websites they are under no legal obligation to allow anyone to use them. If politicians want to communicate with constituents, then let them do so through government websites. Why does the US government not create its own "Twitter" service? Government websites are subject to laws and regulations that private websites are not. Unlike private websites they would be required to honour free speech protections under existing US law.

As we know, the private websites have incentives to allow politicians to use them as pulpits because it drives "engagement" and, in some cases, because they want to sell political ads or ad services.
Teenagers are sensitive to the cognitive dissonance that accompanies learning how society works and their place in it, even if they're not yet able to articulate those feelings. Some are more precocious than others but anything a college student would be able to tell you about their relationship to society was developing for years beforehand.
Do your kids get screen time at night? What kind of lighting do you have in your home? Young kids staying up till 6am sounds pretty odd without a lot of artificial blue lighting. If I have a screen-free evening I'm wiped out pretty early. If I'm in front of a screen I don't even feel tired.
Sadly, the solution to Sybil attacks is generally either exclusivity or proof-of-work…
It’s the only system that relies on the willingness of two parties to exchange something of value in a way that it mutually beneficial. Every other system involves the use of force, either explicit or implicit to compel people to act in ways that are contrary to their own interests. Because if it were in their best interest, force wouldn’t be necessary. Capitalism requires a willing buyer and a willing seller. It’s the most free system there is. Inefficiencies obviously can create problems, but in those problems, there are yet infinite possibilities.
Astronomical referred to memory, for disks I called it "massive".
Good old Florida weather. Will try again Saturday.
I get the opposite message: You're saying (and I agree) that even a small group of people chosen to be dedicated to making informed decisions is not able to keep up with the demands it puts on them, specifically they need to make decisions based on very partial information. How is a benevolent dictator supposed to do better? That doesn't make sense.

At least in theory the wisdom of crowds can do better. In practice, it's often hard to argue.
We’ve been too busy with Brexit and now the Coronavirus not exactly being handled well.
In a cool future universe where we can introspect the brain like we do with code the need for statistics based diagnostic criteria might disappear but it's what we've got.

Meeting the criteria is a good sign that you should talk to someone about it and figure out if that's the best explanation for what's happening. It's not a checklist and then "you've got the GAD."
Poems of my Father #3 – The First Snowfall
What a perfect encapsulation of the individualism that drives the special American breed of blame-the-victim mentality. It allows society to erode the well-being of huge swaths of the population while simultaneously making them feel ashamed of their inability to triumph over the ruthless machine grinding them into the dirt.

Yes, we need personal responsibility, but maybe we could also stop making it harder for people to eke out a decent living. Maybe then we could rightfully claim the title of "the land of opportunity". As of now, we rank lower than dozens of other industrialized countries in terms of social mobility and economic equality.
> "no decision" is a decision

"No decision" by leaders in a situation where there is not sufficient justification for ordering everyone to do or not do something, is not the same as "no decision" period. Individuals are still making decisions.

> How good must their track record be before they warrant more weight?

Good enough that their predicted benefits from a policy are reliable enough to justify the costs and risks of that policy.

> If someone who spent a long time studying a very complex problem has an opinion, you listen carefully

Not if they have no track record of accurate predictions. "Studying for a long time" is not a good proxy for that. Lots of people study complex topics for a long time without ever making any accurate predictions.

> saying "there are no experts" when people dedicate their lives to studying a lot of these phenomena is only true if you demand 100% accuracy

You're missing the point. It's not that the accuracy has to be 100%. It's that you're looking at the wrong thing. It doesn't matter how long someone has spent studying a topic. All that matters is their predictive track record. Looking at anything else just distracts you from what matters.
Interesting. I wonder if usage patterns are a factor here. I also dual carried android/iphone (actually, I still do). I honestly consider the iOS of today the buggiest software I've ever used.
There are a tiiiiny number of companies that are controlling global communications, and that should make us all uncomfortable.

I don't think that quite describes the situation. Those with no money often have no recourse against Google, Facebook or CNN. But those with money whether individuals or corporation (even outside the media world), have many ways of shaping opinion, whether that shaping is public relations, SEO, media-creation or legal action.

Just during the time that Facebook has attempted to spread the standard, cautiously wide mainstream view of covid and the shutdown through their information center, I've received an ocean of polarizing false-claims about Covid and the shutdown through sponsored ads. Those ads cost money and they certainly show how today, money, any money, has a voice.
Research:

http://hexhive.epfl.ch/publications/files/20SEC3.pdf

https://nebelwelt.net/publications/files/20SEC3.pdf (mirror)

Tool will be open source. Repo is being prepped and when it is live will be available at:

https://github.com/HexHive/USBFuzz
If you use org-mode, do you really need more than one file?
The problem with this is that the improvements wind up bidding up the land underneath because people know if they get the land the old owner forfeits the improvements.
Just started this today.

Prior, I had been jogging in the evenings, but my asthma had been getting really bad the past week (probably because the grass is pollinating) so I figured it'd be worth switching it up.

Today I've been much more productive, and was more productive earlier in the day, which is nice.

I also hope it helps me fall asleep earlier. Prior, I was falling asleep at roughly 1am and feeling a bit dazed in the morning.
Woodwork. It's woodwork.
In las vegas, our unemployment rate is very close to hitting a third so. No surprise there.
How to manage technical debt with a small team
Sounds a lot like rules 1 and 2:

1. Be attractive.

2. Don't be unattractive.
I recently finished reading "Imagine It Forward" by Beth Comstock. It was story-based lessons from her time at GE and NBC. She discusses the perils of this division. Evidently, per the book, this was been a long time coming.

As a side note, the book is good. I don't want to oversell it but it reminded me of "Creativity, Inc." And while the context is corporate/enterprise, there were plenty of valuable takeaways for any company where people matter and change is a given.
I trust Publix more than I trust Amazon. Maybe that trust is misplaced? I dunno, but that's where my trust lies right now.

Would anyone at Amazon turn my raspberries over and make sure the bottom ones look as good as the top ones?
My employer did 20% across the board, 2 months ago.
Security software.
I believe that most platforms have restrictions barring you from submitting bug reports if you're affiliated with the company offering them.
> not order it in the first place

Which was OP's conclusion so I'm not sure why understanding the nuances of the pricing is helpful
Renault, Nissan Abandon Race for Growth to Focus on Costs
Actually there are some variations of corona which are quite ok. But I don't know if they are sold EU/Worldwide.

So it they had meet in Barcelona they might have ended up with that name (or more likely a tapas name ;)
Maybe technically in terms of ownership, but the QFC brand stands from Kroger IMO. I've never felt such joy in a grocery store.
Yes, I would imagine so. HK seemed to be the only conduit through which trade with the west could flow smoothly. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
We had the same experience as well. When lockdown started, we did a couple of Instacart orders and recommended it to people, until I found out about the stacked charges. If it was just a delivery fee + tip, I'm fine with that, even a transparent fixed percentage. The deception and realizing how much the per-item surcharge + delivery fee + tip was coming out to made me stop using them. Recently I've been using curb-side pickup from stores and its surprisingly convenient and no cost associated. The store workers even refused the cash tip I offered when they came to the car!
>loving the rain cause muh depression

I live in Oregon and I do love the rain. Maybe I am secretly depressed ;-)
The VMS operating system had a standardized command line help UX. Typing HELP gave you an overview of commands available (Curses style) and you could drill down into more specific commands from that.

If you knew the command but not the flags then you could add the HELP flag to get more and more specific information.

See page 1-18 and 1-19 of the user guide:
https://www.isis.stfc.ac.uk/Pages/vms-user-manual.pdf

We had a VMS cluster at college and I found it to be a very nice approach. Quite a bit better than man pages and a lot more consistent in my opinion.

Some of them had easter eggs tucked away in them of course, such as the Datatrieve Wombat:
https://www.ibphoenix.com/resources/documents/history/doc_29...
I see what you are saying. I think it is hard to separate anti-China and pro-democracy. After all, China is against democracy in the case of HK (Backed by example why universal suffrage legislation was crippled). The question comes down to, how to be pro-democratic but not anti-China, especially when CCP-backed media categorized the entire movement to be separatist....
It's not just playing the game though. Think about it from the hiring perspective - if someone on your team strongly vouches for someone, that removes a lot of downside risk in a new candidate (assuming you respect and trust the judgement of your teammate).
What's the team sharing story here? Can I share a folder with other people and collaborate?
How an Upbeat Vaccine News Fueled a Stock Surge, and an Uproar
It seems that American culture and/or economics have, in recent decades, moved toward primarily consumption rather than primarily production. My point of view is that the backlash and anger against capitalism I perceive from younger generations is a result of how unfulfilling consumerism really is.

I think individualism and personal liberty has been conflated with a selfish sort of consumerism, from the end consumer up through corporate cultures. Want something new? Buy it! Are you a business wanting to make inroads in a new sector? Don't research and produce. Acquire!

It is no surprise to me, then, that corporate debt is at an all time high, corporations and individuals are less prepared and resilient than ever, and that this crisis is violently exposing that.
Well, GP is talking about military support for Taiwan.
The land value tax is a Pigovian tax. The idea is that your exclusive use of the land denies others access and they deserve compensation.
To me, this is like when IBM sold off the last of their computer line. It's a little sad, but I also don't want to buy a product from a company that has no incentive or priority to sell or service it.
The article shows the rise in people that meet these criteria over time, based on the same criteria self-reported in the same way.
All I know is we started lock down Mar 15. If Ken Jennings streak started on Mar 15, he is still championing.
> In a cool future universe where we can introspect the brain like we do...

We can do that. It's called fMRI.

> It's not a checklist and then "you've got the GAD."

Yes it is. That's literally exactly what is it.
It's further complicated by the people who sued Trump for blocking them. They won, he had to unblock them.

Considering they could log out (or open a private tab) and view the content, obviously it wasn't access to the information that was fundamental but the act of the President taking a step to reduce someone's access.

With that in mind, the underlying host taking a similar action is either a) Okay because it's their system? or b) Bad because they're blocking or altering the message?

We're in this really weird spot of free speech vs private property vs public forum vs free access vs..
If these companies cannot turn a profit and provide sustainable employment during a mandatory lockdown then there is no hope for this business model.

I’d love to have a maid come by and fold my underwear for $1 a day but unless VC decides to dump a couple $100M chasing that pipe dream it’s not going to happen either.
That's what he means by linking objects together. Though I would describe it as you did; WeakMaps are normally used for associating data with an object, without having the WeakMap entry itself keep the object (aka the WeakMap key) alive. If the object goes away otherwise, the entry will go with it. (Or if the WeakMap goes away, then all of its entries will go away at once.) In terms of "liveness", a WeakMap entry is an "and" edge between the key and the map: the entry is only kept alive if both the key and map are still alive. (And the entry keeps the value alive, though it may not be the only thing doing so.)

WeakMaps (ephemeron tables) were designed specifically to make garbage collection not be observable, for the reasons jgraham described above.

If you really want to know, such as for testing, then WeakRef and FinalizationRegistry are the newer ways to do this. But know that if your app needs this stuff as part of its normal functioning, then there's at least a 90% chance you're doing something wrong. The GC does not run because you think it should run. If anything, it tries to not run, as much as possible. And the more we optimize it, the better it will get at not running. "Running slow code" is worse than "running fast code" is worse than "not running code at all".

(source: I work on the SpiderMonkey GC engine.)
and people in engineering R&D and "engineering culture" (whatever that means) are completed disconnected from reality when it comes to making payroll. And i say this as a software engineer myself.
Amazon Sent Out a Scripted News Segment, and 11 Stations Aired It
That sounds like way more effort than typing !g :P
Startpage is really interesting, appreciate this! I too !g more often than I'd like, I'll try !s.
Am I the only one who likes AMP? Like 99% of news websites etc. are so overloaded with crap to the point where it's impossible to read them on mobile. I'm glad to see an AMP link, it means the content will load quickly.

I feel like we need a solution that works for everyone, not just news companies and search giants, but users as well!
Wal-Mart has the best pickup/delivery web experience out of the four that I've tried as well (the others being Meijer, Target, and Instacart).

They're not my first choice of places to shop, but being able to reserve a slot a full week in advance before you even have to start putting together your order, being able to choose which items can be substituted and which cannot, and being able to add to the order up until about 12 hours before it's scheduled to happen are all pretty nice features that the other places don't seem to have.

And the prices not being any more expensive other than a small flat fee (and tipping the delivery driver if you choose delivery) is nice.
Every problem is a first world problem.
My shoppers usually select BETTER produce than I do.
This sounds like the philosophy that drives the incel groups.

If you were to ask women they would say the exact same thing as well. And internet dating is very heavily driven towards superficial things, whereas if you meet someone IRL you might be able to find things to connect on.
People who are less confident with technology almost never try out things in GUIs in case they break. Those more confident tend to click on things just to see what they do. If a CLI user knows that they can type "--help" at the end of a command to start learning what it can do, I think that's a lot more "discoverable" than GUIs for less confident people.

Although what situation are you in where a not-confident person is even using a CLI?
You are playing word salad with lots of different concepts and it looks like you are making hypotheticals with what we could make companies do.

Companies growing does not make them into utilities. Utilities are providers of very specific commodity services which are specifically defined by statutory law.

Monopolies (as in anti-trust law) are companies which abuse their power to hurt the consumer. Traditional anti-trust law doesn't work against social media companies because consumers pay no cash for the transactions. We could change anti-trust law, but since there is no analog, it's not clear what we would change it to.

> There certainly is precedent for governments compelling utility providers to not restrict their services arbitrarily.

There is also precedent for governments to uphold a concept of "decency" (the same government that defines it as "I know it when I see it") which communities can judge for themselves, without a written definition. I, personally, don't see the judgements that social media companies make as "arbitrary" (they do have written ToS and they attempt to give their content moderators guidelines/baselines for judging decisions).
the typical accountant's understanding of technology and product development even if they're in a company that does that is shockingly shallow
Not to mention the utter crap they produce. Seriously, I can't say I have endured more than 3-5 good series or movies they have produced. I have started to watch a lot of them but instantly the low quality is a clear indication on what's to come.

Most of the stuff they produce are super political when they don't have to be, very bad writing or acting often with a great base story that could have been something great but filled with characters doing completely stupid things.

Some also have a really fucked up message due to the extreme woke-ness like "In the Shadow of the Moon". A movie which starts of pretty good and interesting and then quickly enters a downhill path to the extreme ideologies that seems to fuel companies like Netflix.
ah sigh, I too have some quotes in bash.org qdb.