skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Didn't numerous specialized covid hospitals close in Washington without ever seeing a patient?

The Army field hospital, which was set up to treat non-Covid cases shut down because our medical system wasn't overwhelmed as it was feared we could be. I think that our response in WA had something to do with flattening the curve here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/04/seattles-leade...

And yes, I'm proud to say that due to our response we have been able to send equipment elsewhere. We geared up for the worst, responded, and have been able to help our neighbors. I am pretty proud of that.

> A lot of governors "went it alone" because generally, for anyone under 60 who didn't have multiple co-morbidities, this was just a bad flu season. That gave these governors a grand opportunity to implement And enforce bad policies in the name of keeping people safe.

As I write this, over 100,000 people in our country are dead. This is already like 3 flu seasons. I'm one degree of separation from someone who died at 36. I feel that the policies that have been implemented have been pretty good given how quickly they needed to be devised and implemented. And they've been refined over time.

> The irony of it is, the policies of these governors effectively isolated quarantined those who were most vulnerable to the virus, those in assisted living and nursing homes with those known to be infected with coronavirus effectively turning them into death camps. Your governor effectively executed them, while quarantining anyone least likely to be affected by the covid. The fallout effects from their actions will be felt long after this is over.

I don't understand this argument, and I guess I'll assume positive intent on your part. Seeing the death rates in Washington vs other parts of the world and indeed other parts of the US, we have models for how things could have been / could still be much worse. I don't see how instituting policies that kept massive numbers of other people out of the hospitals, thus reserving the hospital capacity for those most vulnerable to infection, could be seen as anything other than mitigating a bad situation.

EDIT: looking through your comment history, please, take a deep breath and try to at least entertain the possibility that you could be wrong. I pledge to do the same.
"Rebuttal" would work better. Calling it a fact check implies "I'm right, you're wrong. The debate is over."
I persisted till the end and still have no slightest idea what is it that I'm apparently missing.
How’s that working out for you?

I can honestly say that I have never in over 25 years gotten a job based on blindly submitting my resume. My first paid development gig in 1990 was based on someone at another college reaching out to me based on some Mac shareware they found on the ftp Info Mac archives (yeah I’m that old).

My first job was based on an internship I had the year before from bugging the career center at college.

Every subsequent job has been based on either former coworkers recommendations or working with local external recruiters.
One thing to note is that "front door" recruitment is generally more youth oriented than back channels.

Most people apply for jobs out of college. As they age (a) they tend to switch jobs less often and (b) they have accumulated former colleagues, clients and such that can open back-channels.

Work back channels if you can. Otherwise, just keep in mind that the youth bias you experience at the front door is worse than the actual bias.

For practical advice, I suggest you search outside of the software industry... companies that make their money mostly from software. Most jobs are actually in other industries, and I think they're less youth biased.

An "app factory" probably hires very young, mostly
https://dgraph.io/blog/post/dgraph-graphql-hits-ga/
Except that leftists and libs have their own sort of low-value hateful garbage. Which usually doesn't get censored or "fact-checked" on Twitter.
What they should do is to allow user to switch between standard (works like now) mode and battery-conservation mode, where user does not care about battery and system does its best to preserve battery health. I'm using my laptop on charger 99% of time and when I need to transport it, I could switch that mode few hours in advance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVp9rKF3hag

(NSFW-ish)
If you spent 20 years to be at the same level as a college grad, you are not equally qualified. The ability to grow and improve matters. When hiring you project growth and if someone has proven they have limited upside, they aren't as good of a candidate.

Also the old person probably has higher salary expectations.
Historically you are correct, yes. I should have had an asterisk and explanation next to 'always'.

The fun fact that this also brings up is that the KDE Free Qt Foundation also means that if Qt does not keep supporting open source Qt, then the framework code becomes licensed under the BSD.

It is literally in Qt's best interests to keep the open source community by it's side.

This does not detract from my point that the license of Qt is not changing.
France, Italy, Belgium stop hydroxychloroquine use for Covid-19 on safety fears
ByteDance (TikTok Parent Co.) Hit $3B in Net Profit Last Year
Why should that be clear? Judging them by their actions rather than their words, it's quite plain that "free speech extremists" are no such thing, except inasmuch as it applies to them. They demand to be free to say whatever they like, and they demand everyone else be required to listen while they do it.
Ask HN: Privacy laws: Can a stranger video record you in public without consent?
Tell HN: Shutterstock is changing its commission structure
// sorry if I'm wrong but I believe that a significant number of tech companies buy Shutterstock's packages or subscriptions

// throwaway because I'm involved with stock image production

Today Shutterstock announced[1] their new payout levels where they now start to reset authors' commission rates every year. Level 1 starts at 15% per sale, then it goes to 20%, 25%, 30%, 35%, and finally 40% per sale after 25,000 sales which most photographers and illustrators will never achieve in a single year.

They are also switching from the $0.25 flat-rate commissions per image bought via subscription packages to a percentage fee that will result in payouts as low as $0.10 per image. And with the aforementioned yearly commission reset, even popular authors are going to receive these miserable royalties during the first months of each year.

In other words, total payouts are going to drop for 50% or more for the absolute majority of authors (who are usually from low-income countries like Ukraine and Thailand). There is no good reason for this except for Shutterstock being a stagnating rent-seeking company in need of higher quarter earnings. Of course there's no way to influence them because the contributors can't simply delete their portfolios from the largest stock platform out there, even if it pays peanuts per sale.

Most authors upload their content to multiple stocks at once, so please switch to any alternative out there to help them earn more (except for Bigstock because they're owned by Shutterstock).

[1]: https://www.shutterstock.com/blog/contributor-earnings-update
Great advice. Practical.
Why do you say FAANGs aren't right? I'm 45, work for Google, and while the median age is lower than me there are lots and lots of people my age or older around, and many of them are newer hires. I don't particularly like working in a BigCorp, and it's tough to feel like you're ever actually getting anything _done_, but at least I'm not having some 28 year old 'manager' demanding I work weekends and rewiting to use his/her favourite new web framework...

I personally would love to do something else now, and go back to having programming being my passion/hobby instead, but I don't think I can walk away from the money.

And yes, the age bias is real. I hadn't interviewed in 10 years but did so recently and while I am not visually old, my resume certainly shows it, and I could feel the bullsh*t from the younger developers in the interview.
after update status of the battery switched from normal to "service required"
It's indeed not illegal to do so. I'm just trying to explain why most job boards/ platforms don't register/work with age. Why there are a lot of initiatives around woman in tech and not oldies in tech? I'm afraid the answer is; there's a lot of karmapoints to be won first the former, while the latter will hurt your image/brand as the next best thing where magic happens.

(Not saying I agree with this or I like it, it's just what I see).
Not every database application is a public facing web application.

Think about, for instance, a company's internal customer database (including billing, etc), accessed with internal tools. CSR/Support people need to be able to see billing status but not credit card numbers, for example. Different levels of management need to be able to generate reports, but again not get credit card numbers.

For these use cases the opposite is true. The further you take auth and permissions away from the database/devops admins, the more times you're going to need to reinvent auth and permissions boilerplate for every internal tool under the sun.

Which is a pointless exercise if none of the tools in question are ever going to be accessible outside of the company's VPN anyway.

Active Directory / LDAP are not abandoned technologies, after all.
> what makes FB different?

If it's not immediately apparent, pretty much no other medium in history (new or old) had/has the real reach Facebook has now. So taking it out of context and simply defining Facebook as a "new medium" is disingenuous. A firecracker and a bomb only differ in scale, hence the massive difference in how they're seen and treated.

With great power comes great legal and moral responsibility, and greater scrutiny. You can't shrug it off just because others have also done badly at this, especially when nobody else did it badly at such a massive scale.
The age bias is real. I am glad remote work is being embraced by many companies, it will help fight against age bias.
I still think the FOX Toolkit deserves another chance. A lightweight C++ GUI toolkit for Linux and Windows. But I can see that the hard-coded Windows 95 theme, lack of modern browser integration, and little recent activity (but non-zero), might be off-putting.

http://fox-toolkit.org/screenshots/iims3.png

edit Too late I see skriticos2 already mentioned FOX.
The comments defending the fact checking?

Or the comments defending it is okay for big government to step in and threaten to close a private company over fact checking?
This is basically true. Liberal or conservative, everybody I talk to who can communicate ideas without injecting vitriol into every word agrees that 90% of "censorship" of conservatives is just censorship of standard low-value hateful garbage, and that genre of speech, while committed on all sides, is highly overrepresented by conservatives, which makes life hard for the majority of conservatives who are rational.
The UK, Sweden and Brazil have the highest Covid-19 daily death rates globally
Cobra is actually probably the worst CLI package to choose, because it encourages/forces you into a globals-based architecture.

https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/peterbourgon/ff/v3/ffcli is one that I've been using recently, which has been a lot nicer.
The End of Handshakes–For Humans and for Robots
>unless you're willing to work at entry rates

How do you communicate that though? Isn't it considered wrong to just say it because that indicates a lack of confidence?
vcpkg install qt-base

Not sure if it covers all the binaries you are likely to want - it includes qmake (although that's deprecated) and moc (that's probably what you really want). But it only includes enough to build programs, so not e.g. QtDesigner.

It also builds the actual libraries (obviously this command only builds the core ones, but there are other ports e.g. qt5-charts). But on Linux I think they are statically linked, which may not be what you want.
Since Catalina I have been getting daily freezes, where the entire operating system locks up. I can still move the cursor around and audio keeps playing as well, but everything else is completely frozen.

Once in a while the freeze lasts so long the computer crashes resulting in a crash report:

Termination Reason: WATCHDOG, [0x1] monitoring timed out for service

Termination Details: WATCHDOG, checkin with service: WindowServer returned not alive with context:

unresponsive work processor(s): WindowServer main thread

I am at my wits end to what can be causing this. Is anyone else experiencing similar freezes?
Wasn’t it Voltaire who said “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”?

Nonetheless, this is pretty much par for the course for what the world has come to expect.

Edit: It turns out that though phrase is often attributed to Voltaire, it was actually Evelyn Beatrice Hall, as noted by the poster below, to whom I am grateful for the correction.
Not only are younger people cheaper ("We can't pay your bonus with money, but we can pay you in warm labels like rockstar and ninja."), they make less noise when you squeeze them.

If you pull a fast one on a younger person ("Can you come in this weekend? It will only be a temporary thing."), they are more likely to believe you.
Battery health management sounds great!

I wish there was a way to customize this, though: Thinkpads have (on Linux) allowed setting thresholds for "charge only when less than" or "charge only up to" for many years now.

Given that such primitives must also exist as part of 10.15.5 now, I hope that somebody will figure out how to modify the default behavior.
Cue republicans outraged at the president's attack on the first amendment.

..

Lol joking, they love it.
Tesla cuts car prices by up to $5k
>Please note I am not claiming such fraud actually happens,

Though it would be naieve to assume it does not. Internet based crime goes through incredible hurdles today to bypass 2fa and anti fraud measures which are substantially more sophisticated than what the voting system has in place.

To suggest that criminals and nation-state actors would spend enormous effort to spread misinformation and steal credit cards, but completely ignore the far easier voting system, is absurd.
It's more nuanced than that.

I was on an interview loop the other day with a 30-something year old candidate. He had worked for nearly a decade in another industry, but got bored and got a CS degree in his spare time. He was applying as a new grad, and he was treated as a new grad. We hired him because he was pretty darned good- for a new grad. We hired him at a junior level, the same as any other new grad.

It's not about age it's about [growth / years of work]. It's about predicting the future of a candidate and asking if they will grow further.

Like I said, if you've spent 20 years in industry and haven't grown, what have you been doing?

Edit:
A candidate who has not grown in 20 years is not equally qualified as a candidate who just graduated and can do the same things.
So what would you use for a new Node server project? I'm guessing, from one of your other comments, that Fastify would be part of the answer. Would you use an ORM? Any other pieces you can recommend for a typical database-backed server application? I'm just curious, since I've never done a non-trivial project with Node.
A Monday Is a Tuesday Is a Sunday as Covid-19 Disrupts Internal Clocks
Going to the "Royal Road" site they mention on their Patreon:

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/26294/he-who-fights-with-m...

It has a "Statistics" drop down. Expanding that out shows:

Total Views : 7,598,887
Average Views : 32,063

Guessing the average views is per chapter, which they seem to have 237 of at the moment.

Looks like they're fairly popular in their area, and have turned that into a good revenue stream.

---

Their "Scribble Hub" site is showing 760k views for the content there too:

https://www.scribblehub.com/series/41306/he-who-fights-with-...
I think the goal of running Macs hot is to prevent the fans from kicking in for most use-cases. If you're running twelve virtual machines and compiling Chromium simultaneously, then you might need earplugs.
In some ways one goes alongside another, it's getting more difficult financially to have a loving family, do hobbies, travelling unless you earn enough money. You have to play the game a lot to be able to have things
Can Hashicorp Vault run as a local process?
Free speech is not just an American constitutional right; many countries throughout the world consider free speech to be a human right.

So, yeah, many of us get a bit worked up when people are kicked off platforms, because they are being silenced, sometimes to the point of being shut out of the modern internet entirely (when their rights to a DNS address are comprehensively removed).

Hate speech and lies are terrible, but they’re not the only thing being silenced.
Is there a beard dye as well? (I can't believe I'm actually asking this)
oh wow, and that article has the face pollen the original article is talking about.
recently I've been using the zettelkasten method to accomplish exactly this. Small cards, hyperlinked together with whatever other concepts you associate it with. This resource was really helpful: https://zettelkasten.de/posts/overview/
What's Hot in Web Development? – Weekly Picks #129
You are the one wanting, for whatever reason to relate Smalltalk to Modula-2/Oberon, when everyone has replied to you about Xerox PARC "work".

The references are in bitsavers, Xerox PARC section.
> My bet is that you can generate an entire API _and_ basic CRUD browser UI from a db schema

That's what we're building! We already have the auto-APIs, and auto-documentation. The auto-UI is in the works. It essentially is Airtable, but backed by Postgres

Also, we will provide "meta" REST APIs for your database. Want to programmatically add columns or fetch all your database types? No probs.
I'm curious to hear what others think about this as well. I run some WordPress sites in containers and I give each one it's own DB instance. I just create the root account with a strong password, give it to WordPress and call it a day. Makes ops much simpler although it's probably not the best use of resources (e.g. memory).

Any big downsides to doing things this way? I'm no DBA so I appreciate any insights.
I am 48 and passed the screening at a FAANG last year. The interview didn't go well but I was interviewed.
Tell HN: You can now make Chrome show the full URL in the address bar
The way Chrome hides the protocol in the address bar can be challenging at times, but there's now a way to disable that and show the entire URL with the protocol.

1. Enable chrome://flags/#omnibox-context-menu-show-full-urls

2. Right click the address bar

3. Select 'Always show full URLs'

Instead of seeing: news.ycombinator.com
You'll now see: https://news.ycombinator.com
It depends on where you live, like most things that are a law.

For the UK and USA it is true that you can be publicly recorded with no real recourse unless you can tie it to something like harassment, sexual or otherwise.

In Sweden it is illegal to record public places with static cameras, and I highly suspect that the Swedish police/court system would side with you if you decided to pursue a punitive measure of some kind to someone who is fragrantly denying a request not to be recorded.
Mail-in ballots make it much easier to commit voter fraud, I don't see how anyone could possibly argue to the contrary.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/docs/p...
What's going to get you rejected as an older or experienced dev is whether you fall or don't fall for the typical recruitment cons and how well you play along with the usual interview game theory tactics i.e. prisoner's dilemma scenarios.

Last summer I interviewed at a ton of companies and truly I rejected them way before they rejected me but what I learned essentially is that if you fall for the typical recruitment razzmataz as a more experienced dev then they'll assume you're stupid and if you don't fall for it they'll assume you're too smart, if you catch my drift.

Where once we were meant to show enthusiasm now we're supposed to play cool. How many companies lead with "We're pretty casual around here" as if that doesn't actually mean "we'll fire you on a dime"

You have to tread a very fine line that shows you're willing to play dumb while at the same time showing you have the chops -- it's more about how much cognitive dissonance or doublethink you can stomach than anything to do with your vital statistics and all these technical interviews are bollocks compared to fourth year courses in a world where most devs barely speak English but I digress

I have literally seen everything in this industry from from y2k to working with distributed overseas teams to getting tattooed in San Francisco and there's nothing new under the sun except for rife imposterism and rampant entitlement.

They're sizing you up the same way you're sizing them up with respect to the developer stereotypes and management dramas and all that toxic crap while testing you to see if you're willing to play along with their dysfunction and so called "culture fit" aka groupthink mentality.

You can probably tell I have no love left for this lost generation of code monkeys, after having fathered them along with an entire generation of misfits and dreamers whereas now they're all trying to fit in and losing themselves to the machine.

Once they learn how to do adulting maybe they'll learn to have more fun. Until then they're just a bunch of lemmings at the gate.

I'd go further into this downward spiral but I'll show myself out. Think about what you'll look like as a sixty year old wearing hoodies and t shirts and ask yourself whether you've made the right life choices.

Cue the downvotes you filthy scoundrels.
The problem is they've forced people to use the product by hindering their ability to run background services without it. Since Oreo, background services are turned to idle unless they receive high priority push notifications from FCM.
> - Installation of Qt binaries will require a Qt Account

vcpkg install qt5

With vcpkg and other alteratives in the picture, it's far less hassle to use that than mess around with the slow and flaky installer tool.
5 Most common tactics great companies use to get their first customers
Sounds like what they were talking about on the atp.fm podcast recently.
Calling it a fact check implies that there are facts. Facts are real things, they are not up for debate.
Indeed, hence why Facebook fired their reviewers for public content during the 2016 campaign.

But given that that worked out so well, I'm sure there's no problem :P
How Europe is now dwarfing China in EV investments
A shame, since the Lancet paper has problems[1][2] in particular related to the baseline of the HCQ-treated vs non-HCQ treated patients. And by admission of the authors themselves, it is not a substitute of a RCT.

And this before the results of the Minnesota trial are out. At this point I hope those are negative, so that it does not show that countries are overreacting.

[1] https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/05/25/hydroxychl... and related posts

[2] https://twitter.com/StevePhillipsMD/status/12638995692528967...

PS: The title is misleading. The ban is on the use on severe diseases, not all of them, according to the text in the news.
So do not attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by you not understanding the whole picture.
After Twitter fact-check, Trump threatens to regulate or close down social media
My guess is that he can use the fallback when the calculation is not easy.

The part that I find interesting is that for the 20% of an integer he uses a "shortcut", but for the 10% of a decimal he uses the "standard" procedure.