skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two main points. Care about the details, but don't get overwhelmed.

1) Care about the details. Programming languages are incredibly powerful, but there is a lot of subtle effects that even a tiny change of syntax can make (`*` vs `&` in C++ for instance). Try to pay attention to these details and their implications, because that is the key to get to being more productive and also to not making costly mistakes.

That being said, there is a limit to how many details you can keep in your head at one time, so:

2) Don't get overwhelmed. Just try to focus on the problems you're trying to solve, and take a first step towards solving it. IT WON'T BE PERFECT! Just keep going, and always acknowledge that there might be a better solution if you need to go back and improve on what you have. This is what I believe technical interviewers will be looking for: "Can this individual solve problems, and know the value of the trade-offs at hand. Do they know why choosing 'x' over 'y' is the better choice in this situation, and do they also know the cost of choosing 'x' now?". You can only spend so much time worrying about details if you have a deadline to meet, so sometimes you just have to make a decision and live with it.

Good luck and godspeed.
Typically you’d just use a captive portal with sessions that time out. That’s sufficient to keep away all but the most determined leechers.
To make an actual comparison, you’d need a before/after of crime rates there and also a comparison to rate of change in similar towns which didn’t reorganize their force.
That's a 3 million euro question, isn't it. Frankly I have no clue. And even though part of me wishes it did, it's not something anyone can do, even if given the chace. I wouldn't be able to look at someone in the eyes and ask for 3 million for something that your average 14 year old geek can mash up in a week. From what I saw, I'd argue the 14 year old would probably do a better job...
Why Doesn’t the US Have a European-Style Welfare State? [pdf]
New coronavirus losing potency, top Italian doctor says
How many months of 110% income would it take for, say, the middle 80% of US households to have accumulated 6 months worth of savings?
I'm agreeing with you - but isn't that the whole point of a stimulus? Boost short term economy and therefore hope, even if the gains are not long-lasting, the money floating around both helps people pay their bills and motivates them to make purchases?

There is still a couple more months of increased UI. Surely, it will be a huge fall after that, but in a much better place than if there were minimal or no increased benefits to begin with.

I would love to see another half-sized measure - but don't think the fact that it will fall in the future almost proves its usefulness.
That depends on what type of job and career you are looking for, CS is a pretty broad field.

If you are looking for one of those high paying jobs in the top companies and want them without a degree, you will need to impress much more than your graduated peers.
You can view it as a $350 meal discounted to $200. This is all Veblen territory so the target customers are price insensitive.
This comment rendered me speechless.
Neat. I investigated doing something like this a few weeks ago, but it turned out there's a site that has a variety of QR code tools:

https://www.qr-code-generator.com/

(not trying to advertise the site, just saying it wasn't worth my time to reinvent something)
I think the idea was to keep it as a library rather than a complete all-in-one framework. It has it pros and cons
Dart's lack of popularity is indeed in spite of the Google backing. I basically see two reasons. First, though Lars Bak has an impressive pedigree, Strongtalk and V8 aren't as well-known as Plan 9 and Unix. Moreover, rightly or wrongly, Dart had the appearance of "Google's attempt to kill JS", which neither endeared it to Web developers (who were riding a wave of JavaScript hype at the time) nor to other browser manufacturers (who were growing increasingly distrustful of Google's initiatives).
> Why would the fact both are betacoronaviruses entail ace2 is conserved? Is human binding ace2 a common feature of betacoronaviruses? Are you arguing that sars is the more recent ancestor than ratg13?

I'm saying that it's complete nonsense to say that there's a (1/20)^7 chance of 7 amino acids matching. We're talking about viruses that are descended from a common ancestor, not random, independently distributed coin flips.

> ratg13 seems to be a much more recent ancestor.

RaTG13 is not an ancestor of SARS-CoV-2. The two viruses share a common ancestor.

> Why would ace2 be much better preserved between sars2 and sars than between sars2 and ratg13?

ACE2 is a human protein. Neither SARS-CoV-2 nor SARS-CoV have ACE2. If you're talking about the RBD of the S protein, then note that the RBDs of SARS-CoV-2 and SARS-CoV are only 73% homologous, which is a pretty massive difference.

Stepping back for a second, you're diving down the conspiracy-theory rabbit hole with very little prior knowledge of the subject. That's just going to make you easy prey to a lot of nonsense. Really, instead of reading blogs that claim to have found the secret truth about SARS-CoV-2, listen to what respected virologists have to say about it. Do some basic background reading on virology and coronaviruses. Read some review articles from scientific journals.
I had both the Alias and Alias 2. I absolutely loved the Alias because it was so great for texting. The Alias 2 was a cool idea but I felt that the e-ink key refresh was too slow and the keys were mushy.
Sorry, to clarify, if there's good reason to have project specific ignores, that's fine. But most projects have similar/overlapping ignores
Ok, so don't ignore either. You can consider multiple theories at once.
Not quite as old, and but started at tech around the same age. At its core, I still love doing it, even though employers start seriously frowning on hand-on work when you're in your 50s/60s.

Not everything is great: the procession of silly methodologies, the endless train of obviously doomed technologies, and the recent obsession with social justice appearances. But the core of tech is still ripping good fun.
Unfortunately I now have a chronic disease that makes constant health insurance a necessity.

Do you mean family like parents/relatives harping from a distance? If so, they’re just jealous and aren’t worth listening to. As long as you’re smart about your money and make a plan to get a job before you’re tapped out, go for it.
The "president" has his thumb up his ass, because that's actually not a thing he's legally able to do.

Neither is there a domestic terrorism statute, nor is there any legal authority to designate a domestic organization as a terrorist group.

So, even though the "president" is pro-fascist, he's really still got his hands tied there.
Resilio Sync (formerly BitTorrent Sync) uses a modified BitTorrent codebase to do much of what Firefox Send does, without user accounts or registration or even an email address. It would be nice to build this kind of functionality directly into and around BitTorrent proper. That being said, I use Resilio Sync as a free user on multiple platforms and like the product.
Once upon a time I had a business phone line. It came with a free Yellow Pages listing in the category of my choice. If I wanted a display ad it was more, but the listing itself was included in the slightly higher price I paid for having a business line instead of a home line.
Not following the news for my sanity. Was he referring to antifa or actual anti fascists?
> I did read that they're unsure whether it was related to the protests though.

Yes, but there's little doubt that the riots are cover.
This is a total number, it doesn't say to where the money went.

I would only trust medians or the 95 percentile with the current administration.

Statistics are meant to be misleading. It's even in my profile description :)
The history of government is trying to trade out different sets of assholes. It's a hard problem.
I like to also view this as an opportunity for a more efficient resource allocation in the long run. In my view you are trading off short term stability vs. long term efficiency. To be more clear: In Germany we have a vast amount of people who think the government should guarantee most parts of their life, especially their job. Most people will stay at the same employer for their whole life, also because it is relatively hard and costly to lay people off. This leads to very static structures and wrong incentives. People even believe they are trading their time for money and not their productivity for money. I believe it can be healthy letting a shock through to that system from time to time so that a more optimal allocation can be attained. Trying to micromanage to soften a shock only introduces bias to the system reducing its natural variance, leading to a less efficient allocation.
This probably sounds too cheesy, but don't forget to have fun! So, try different domains of CS, and see which one excites you the most!

There are a lot of subtleties of programming, algorithms and there are enough domains to choose from. So, don't follow the crowd, try enough new things to know what excites you, and then be a master at it!
so I guess this is the lies, damned lies, and statistics part of the thread.

Because the question should have been what it was like before, hey

https://www.tapinto.net/towns/camden/sections/law-and-justic...

you're right! It looks like it did work our rather well.
I can’t tell if this is a criticism or an endorsement of Trump. The metaphors and quotes can be taken either way.

Non-stop “so and so is a psychopath” blog ramblings do not move things forward in any way. You don’t like the guy, he does awful shit. Labelling him anything and trying to beat a dead horse with it is just some arm chair bullshit.

People like the rough qualities of trump, they like that he can say shit and get away with it. It signals to them that he is a person with real power. And he is. And this just drives a group of people up the wall.

I’d like to see one politician out there, one successful business person, that doesn’t lie, cheat, steal, gamble, evaluate risk of being exposed every day, guile enemies into showing their hand too early, and a host of other shit that trump does that everyone harps on him for.

You’re not at his level. You don’t even know the games the politicians are playing against each other because you think all of this is directed at you, meanwhile they’re jousting among themselves for who can get away with shit.

He just has fun doing it. It’s the showmanship and gusto that people like. “Bet you didn’t see this coming” and “try to stop me” are his attitudes. Look at the way he looked at his opponents during the election. A lion circling his prey.
Ah, I misunderstood. Yeah, that's silly and I think it's usually a bit tongue-in-cheek or playful. When it's not it's very, very lame. In the Lisp world I associate it with SICP, which I read as falling in the former category. Lispers (and associates) who write after that style are doing so in imitation of that, I suppose, or of some prior work that it also cribbed from that I'm not aware of.
I had ultimate and total freedom to do exactly what I wanted. If that’s not heaven I don’t know what is.
Ehhh. The OpenPandora has been out of production since 2013, and the Pyra has been in development hell since 2014. The ecosystem surrounding these devices is not in a healthy state, in large part because there aren't a lot of them left.
I'd say if you have kids and are wondering strongly about divorce, then you definitely should make a change - it just might not be to actually get divorced. Could be counseling, couples therapy, 3 day retreat for self analysis. Small changes before the biggest change.
That probably depends on the number of iPhones and cars they buy in that period.
> Require local residency for the first ten years of service.

This is a popular idea, but it seems like a bad one. It limits the pool of highly qualified applicants, which we badly need to expand. I've seen arguments in favor of this rule that take the form of "why would you privilege nonresidents in the hiring process?", but that is a non sequitur: not requiring residency isn't a way of privileging nonresidents.

In addition, police officers sometimes point to the difficulty of policing in the places that they live. This seems to me like a secondary consideration, but perhaps one that also merits attention.
That's sort of my point, L5 SWEs aren't making 500K anywhere.
Scientists discover a gene to stay thin
This is a great resource, very well written.
Cryptocurrency in Gaming – Gods Unchained
I'm not into gaming, but this is an incredible new concept. Turning collectible cards into digital assets, using the ETH network and infra-structure.
Many people suffer various setbacks in life ... take medical bankruptcy for example. You never know how it will turn out.
I think you're being downvoted because you're in a thread about police brutality and are attempting to frame this as the fault of the people being brutalized.
Clojurescript with reagent and re-frame (or keechma, hoplon and others) outlasted two generations of Javascript technical churn. Nothing comes close.
VxWorks from Charles River

I think it is Wind River Systems.
Good point. Limiting meals for smaller restaurants wouldn't make any sense.
So based n all the replies, can someone design the most resilient facemask that can never be understood by facial AIs?
Totally off topic, and very much a nitpick, but Ling's Cars isn't a used car dealership, it's a car leasing firm. I care because I'm a fan :-)
>If you had funded your 401(k) and IRAs with an engineer's salary for this many years you should have many millions to live off of.

And then what? Believe it or not, some people consider programming a blessing and fun. If it keeps you engaged, why not continue to get paid for it?
This is what React error boundaries are for, containing the exception and optionally showing a fallback or error.
The Linux Kernel Deprecates the 80 Character Line Coding Style
It's sort of like telepathy, seriously. On Star Trek, there was Deanna Troi who was empathic, telepathic with emotions only.

I actually think it goes even beyond feeling to thought as well. We are extremely sensitive to the inner mental lives of others and respond both consciously and unconsciously. It takes a sociopath or an extremely practiced actor to fool us. For the vast number of people, we can read their inner mental states as easily and effortlessly as reading a roadsign, even if they don't want to be read and are trying to hide their true feelings or opinions. Children are especially easy to read, which is why they can't hide anything from their parents.

And since we can almost all do this, many conversations, especially work conversations exhibit a sort of continuous doublespeak where there's what I say and what I mean and I can't tell you what I mean outright since it would be rude or unprofessional but I know you know what I mean.

But when I notice someone on the spectrum, I start speaking explicitly with the understanding that the content of what I say will be much more important then what I'm feeling.
Why not change to Junit Jupiter 5 and AssertJ or Spock? Lets compare frameworks
Yes, this sounds like a workable path to a better future. The prevalence of cameras and incident footage would steer justice in the right direction IMO. Only if police lose the protection from prosecution.

If that happens we’d see how easy things will “fix” themselves, the police will police themselves too
This works because European countries are very corporatist. There is a high degree of labour organisation and governments, unions, and employers often work together to maintain say, employment rather than responding to market fluctuations.

This is why German unions say in the early 2000s during Germany's "sick man of Europe" period, negotiated stalling pay raises to maintain employment.

In the US (and also often here on HN) this will just be described as inefficient, ignoring market signals or something like it. I don't think it's even possible to coordinate the economy like this in the US.
it sounds to me like it's a custom url scheme built into ios.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/inter-proces...
Endothelial cell infection and endotheliitis in Covid-19
Using code blocks like this is unreadable without left to right scrolling in the viewport on mobile.
Can you give some details about the experience?

I'm curious about this system, but not curious enough to spend a week playing with it.
Based on the videos, maybe 100-300ft?
Fake News About Mark Zuckerberg Goes Viral After Anti-Fact Checking Comments
Not really. Remember when people used Om for React bindings in Clojurescript? Clojurescript changes too. React has been around the whole time though.

Also, along the topic in this thread, I've never met someone who used Clojure/script. It's why I ended up just using Node/Javascript in the end. It gets lonely in the Clojure cave.
How does it relate, security wise, to mirageos? I know it's apples and oranges, but only on security dimention scale, is one far better than the other or hard to say?
Great Lakes

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1994-11-20-941120...
No one seems to complain that all of the quirky websites use three.js. That doesn't seem so different to me.
Yes, print all your passwords and your social security number too
Some kind of affordable price point for a lower end restaurant could definitely play into impulse buying. Why not buy a complete meal?
Hey man, I am interested in doing this. Can't see your email in profile.
Bear in mind that companies at the scale of Space X doing safety critical work tend to parcel up tasks fairly minutely. Everything is compartmentalised, tested separately and there are whole teams devoted to the large scale architecture and integration. There's a joke that back in the space race days, an engineer might be responsible for a single screw on the Saturn V (and you'd be damn sure if the thing blew up, it wasn't your screw that did it). Same thing happens with ESA and NASA contractors.

There are lots of engineers who are basically building things to a spec and aren't what you might call innovating.

I think someone who builds rockets to this level would be absolutely fine in an entry position. They just might need to get some of the theory first. Saying that, he clearly understands mechanical design and control theory.

Didn't one of the chief engineers at SpaceX start out with model rockets?
Elon Musk did not start SpaceX, Tesla or any of the other companies.
Only benefit I get out of keeping my HTML semantic these days is that using 1 div instead of 10 has a big impact on UI performance. Draw fewer DOM nodes is still one of the best bang for buck optimisations you can do.
We did this though. The small business loans are fully forgivable if the business uses it to pay employee salaries.
That really is use case dependent for me. In the context where I have made a thoughtful choice to use a dynamically typed language, I find strong typing seems to make things unnecessary clunky with not much gain, especially in webdev dealing with a lot of JSON and UI display. And if I’m in a situation where JS/dynamic language is not a good choice then I prefer a real statically typed language, not a middle-ground.
First degree is harder to convict, better to send him to jail for a crime he clearly committed than for one we hope we can make a strong enough case for.

If he was charged with first degree murder, he would walk if the high bar was not met.

For the record I agree with you, I'm just saying strategically it is a smarter move to ensure he is convicted for his crimes
> I don't think it's even possible to coordinate the economy like this in the US.

Seems pretty easy for some industries. After years of demonizing OPEC we essentially joined them in "OPEC+" after just a short time of being a net exporter of oil.
The Zxing barcode scanner app does it this way: This [0] is the dispatch code. If it detects WIFI as type, it passes it to a WifiConfigManager [1] which then talks to Android's WifiManager API. On the back end, the addOrUpdateNetwork function of WifiManager [3] calls the method with the same name of IWifiManager [4]. That class has a channel to a WifiStateMachine [5] which sends a message with the command CMD_ADD_OR_UPDATE_NETWORK. It's handled in the same file (but I suppose it's in a different process, now a privileged system process), and calls the addOrUpdateNetwork function of WifiConfigStore [6].

The WifiConfigStore stores its config into a wpa_supplicant compatible file. The file is then passed to the wpa_supplicant service, which is also present on other Linux distros like the GNU/Linux ones, although here the config file is built by a dedicated NetworkManager service (also, some intel folks are building a replacement IIRC). wpa_supplicant is a privileged service that talks to the WiFi card drivers.

[0]: https://github.com/zxing/zxing/blob/0cf3b9be71680f50c90a71ca...

[1]: https://github.com/zxing/zxing/blob/0b9b39a74fb3d7b010fb2979...

[2]: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/net/wifi/Wif...

[3]: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/...

[4]: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/opt/net...

[5]: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/...

[6]: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/opt/net...
S&P downgrades Rolls-Royce to junk status
Ugly but beside the point.
Why arent the police protecting these businesses, if looting is such a concern, rather than instigating peaceful protestors?
Besides, these businesses are all insured; Im certain that Apple and Luxottica, some of the richest companies in the world, can write off the loss.

By contrast, nothing will bring back George Floyd, let alone the countless black people afflicted by police brutality that weren't caught on camera.
With millions still unemployed and a sense that society has left so many behind, COVID in the US was a powder keg looking for a match, and a breakdown of order shouldnt really be unexpected.
Hacker leaks database of dark web hosting provider
Show HN: I made a fast and distraction-free Tech news reader with serverless
NASA pays for the mission, transport XY amount of tonnage to the ISS. The rocket remains owned by SpaceX. In majority of situations, owning a rocket means little as it cannot be reused. Also very few customers have the means to "run" a rocket, NASA fits the bill and it's conceivable NASA could buy a F9 and use it after quite a bit of training, but this makes little sense for them and little sense for SpaceX.
Now do this one: https://www.theblaze.com/news/violent-mob-brutally-beats-dal...
Great article; will keep this in mind for my email/Slack messages at work.

One nitpick:

> The Romans arrived in Britain a couple of thousand years ago, and brought Latin with them. Local tribal leaders had to learn Latin, or else. So they did, and Latin became the language of religion and administration — which is why the words ‘religion’ and ‘administration’ come from Latin.

I'd argue the Normans have much more to do with that; the Romans might've brought Latin with them, sure, but the Old English that came after the Romans lost control was chiefly Germanic (especially considering prior conquests/arrivals by the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes, all of whom spoke Germanic languages). The much-more-recent Norman conquests are what "Latinized" English, by enforcing French as the language of administration (and Latin as the language of religion, as it was for as long as the Catholic Church existed up until the Protestant Reformation made non-Latin languages acceptable for church).

Further, at the time of the Roman conquest few (if any) people in what's now England were speaking anything resembling English; the native peoples of the British Isles were Celtic, and accordingly spoke a Celtic language, very different from any Germanic language like English.