skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A readable incorrect program is worse than an unreadable correct one. That neither is acceptable doesn’t negate that.

I will happily fix a readable but non-working code rather than maintain a working but unreadable code any day under the sun.
> I would gladly return to Windows 98 now if my hardware and software supported it.

Not if you would like to browse web. HTTPS - sorry. But maybe you should give ReactOS a shot with the classic theme: https://reactos.org/ (WinNT era I think)
Nice!

I'm teaching software development and was using freeCodeCamp.

But my students are designers, so the curriculum is often too much and I would like to strip it down. Maybe this is a way to streamline things a bit more in the future.
In my limited experience with car accidents, they generally do.

This car burst into flames overnight while parked. Turns out it was an electrical short in the dashboard wiring. But, cars don't often self-immolate, so the suspicion of wrong-doing caused a delay.

I also don't know if they paid before the investigation was completely closed. They may have, but even at that, it was a few weeks.
I've been pretty removed from the internet a couple of times while traveling under my own power.

In 2006 I was bike touring the US for 5 months. I got limited internet at libraries and hostels along the way. Pay phones were still a viable way to reach people; I did not carry a phone of my own.

In 2010 I thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail. Pay phones were no longer a viable way to reach anybody. I got my dumbphone (I valued battery life over internet) mailed to me at Fontana Dam, NC. I got limited internet at libraries and hostels.

In both cases, I didn't miss the internet and all it provides while I was traveling. I have found that it's really easy to fall right back into the same habits when I returned. I wish I could say that either time made a lasting change in my internetting habits, but I haven't managed it.

In my case, the change was driven by the activity and environment. If you do this in your environment, I'd be curious to hear whether you can parlay the cold-turkey approach into a lasting change.
This doesn't really stand up to the facts. Governments went off the gold standard far before 1971. By this logic the New Deal and WW2 government spending should've caused huge inequality through inflation.

It seems far more about the success of neoliberal policy allowing economic & political power to concentrate. The various ways that concentrated power then kept capturing more and more of the pie can't be reduced to a single simple narrative.

You have for example:

* Tax cuts

* Unregulated Monopolies

* IP law

* Owned Media

* Unlimited Campaign donations

And on and on.
I still can't believe that Google would back an unencrypted messaging platform. It feels like malpractice on the part of their engineers.
Counterweight to Extreme Discourse
New account, long time reader but not generally one to put anything out there. Current events booted me off the bench.

Several employers have asked me to contribute to their PAC (Political Action Committee) and at the same time discourage political discussion at the workplace.

Corporations do not owe employees freedom of speech except in limited situations. However, much of our social interaction happens at or after work with colleagues. I'd estimate 80% of my social interaction as an adult has been related to people I meet at work.

If I must continue to work with a set of people, I may be more motivated to moderate my speech, seek compromise, and find solutions. By discouraging wide political discussion at and around the workplace, have we lost a counterweight to the more extreme political discourse that dominates other forums?

It may be hard to envision anyone moderating their discourse anywhere these days, but take it from this 15-years-in-the-cube software dev: it didn't use to be this way.

Moderate discourse != moderate view. Discourse is the manner in which we interact and our goal in having the conversation. Extreme discourse does not seek a majority. It would rather impose its will. Moderate discourse leaves room for being wrong. You will find compromise in the same room. Strongly held views are welcome. I wrote this using moderate discourse, but I am actually quite livid about this subject. Wrote this starting 4am here in Minnesota while standing watch on my home.

What Employee Speech Is Protected in the Workplace?
https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/legal-and-compliance/employment-law/pages/employee-free-speech-in-the-workplace.aspx

This includes the "right to discuss the terms and conditions of their employment". Which itself includes discussion of employer policies as related to free speech. Oh wait, did I just sink the HR battleship?

By discouraging political speech at work, you silenced the voice of this author. No more.
Show HN: EC2 Spot Instances Advisor 2.0. Compare Pricing, specs and etc
Created a tool - one-page view about for EC2 Spot instances. Compare pricing between regions(10-300% diff), pricing in time, specs and etc.
The air-to-ground ARM missiles were designed to remember where radar stations were with some precision so when they saw the missile coming and shut down, the missile could still hit them. The concept doesn't apply with an airplane that can shut down its radar and maneuver.

If you design an ARM that also has a backup sensor (IR or radar) to follow the maneuvering aircraft, why not just make that the primary sensor? At which point you've got a
standard air-to-air missile, except with some superfluous stuff on it?
I saw the title and i said to myself

"......For now"

This will be a supremely important question to settle in 2 months once moonson season is in full swing

It could completely upend the COVID status quo
Sure its sucks for some people who die or know people who died but for most other people they won't even notice.
Gah!
s/hybridization/subsidization

Damn you autocorrect, I know what I want to say!
I tend to pixelate regions I want to make unrecognizable in photos instead of using a gaussian blur due to this reason. Pixelation should be safe as long as the pixels are large enough, right?

I wonder why Signal didn't do something like that...
Houseparty App: From MVP to Household Name
Back from extinction: effort to return threatened pangolins to the wild
> Asians do not have a historical baggage in USA.

This is simply not true. Though we associate lynchings with blacks, the first mass lynchings in the US was of asians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_massacre_of_1871

The first non-native pogrom was of asians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Springs_massacre

> Do they face similar racism/bias in general (ignore temporary surge like now by Corona)?

They were denied citizenship and the right to own land.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Alien_Land_Law_of_1...

They were banned from immigrating to the US - the first and only national and racial group to have ever been banned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Exclusion_Act

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1924

Dumped into concentration camps - once again the first and only ethnic/racial group to have been put into concentration camps in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_America...

All non-whites faced racial abuse and discrimination. Even white people faced racial abuse and discrimination.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_14,_1891_New_Orleans_lyn...
In the section on "Culture Shock": https://www.jsoftware.com/help/jforc/culture_shock.htm

The triple quotes are ugly.
Quit bellyaching...

I love it. So many arguments in PLT are really just about not ever wanting to leave ones comfort zone. Sometimes you just have to suck it up and do a thing.
Voting gives the process legitimacy. Consent of the governed and all that.
I’ve pulled down both the backend for Matrix and Signal and find that the LOC is a lot simpler with Signal. Plus with a bit of work, selfhosting Signal would require the mobile apps to be configurable (or fixedly reconfigured) toward your own backend server.
Did several months on one of the more remote islands in the Falklands - population: 6 humans, several thousand penguins and several million petrels. Apart from a rotary phone and generators the only other tech experience was the International Space Station flying overhead one night.

The first couple of weeks were a little interesting but after a while you realise that if it was important then you'd hear about it eventually.

Ah, simpler times.
My observation is that "All Lives Matter" is not infrequently used as a derailing technique, to change the subject away from the subject matter that "Black Lives Matter" focuses on.

As such, your "what is important is the subject matter" is an incorrect analysis, as there are multiple matters.

> Systemic racism was a matter of fact in the first half of the previous century in the USA. This is not the case now in the largest part of the country, nor is it true in most parts of Europe.

Please present your evidence. The evidence I've seen from multiple sources, including personal observations, accounts of others, and scholarly research, says otherwise.

Your statement "matter of fact in the first half of the previous century in the USA" understates the legal racism until Civil Rights Act of 1964 - closer to 2/3rds of the 1900s than 1/2.

Part of the systemic racism we see now is a consequence of the laws then, such as redlining and lack of access to what was then "white suburbia", which meant that blacks could not build up anywhere near the same equity that current white Baby Boomers have - equity being one of the main forms of wealth in older people.

So even without specific laws, there's still the effects of legal racism.

> Wikipedia is not exactly the best place to start looking for absolute truth around politically contentious issues.

Shurg. Sure. There's is no single best place for anything. Perhaps you can recommend a better source for how smitty1e might better understand the objects to the term "All Lives Matter" rather than some inside-Wikipedia discussion which sounds more like derailing than something which is important is the subject matter?

For me, my comment should be interpreted as"I have checked this source, the information appears correct to me, and it explains the issues better than I can do in the time I care to write about this topic."
There’s also the fact that WhatsApp is Facebook. I dumped Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp all at the same time and will not install any of them on my devices.
It is not as clear cut as this.
Massachusetts has a population of 6.7M and 7152 deaths.
Sweden has a pop. of 10M with 3K deaths.

Massachusetts is approximately 20,306 sq km, while Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, making Sweden 2,118% larger than Massachusetts.

So the 10M residents of Sweden are much more spread than in MA. Also MA was late in how they have dealt with Covid and the number of cases was progressing much faster.
99% is hyperbole based on Android market share in the US.
Bill Stealey (one of the Microprose founders) was a Pentagon planer before he ventured into games, I think I read somewhere that because of that, his games where vetted before release.
For what it's worth, that hasn't been my experience. I've been working ~9-5:30 as a programmer for my whole career (2008-present) with essentially no late night coding. I think that's been very typical at the places I've worked (defense contractor, mature startup, Google, startup, Google).

I do think the fraction of managers with kids is higher, but I suspect this is just explained by managers generally being older?
That rate is in line with the US and most European countries. The US lost 40 million jobs and spent $4 trillion dollars to achieve the same outcome as Sweden.

And now the US is reopening and attempting a similar approach to Sweden. You can’t shut the world down for months and months waiting for a vaccine.
I think this is a great analogy. A friend is a pro flamenco guitarist; plays all over the world. He's so good that he doesn't really practice to "improve" anymore. He practices to protect his biomechanics by watching himself play in a mirror. He makes adjustments to his body placement so that he can keep playing for the rest of his life.
I'm in the same boat, every time that I have to use Windows I'll get annoyed by how complicated even simple things are. Not to mention the endless amount of menus and setup wizards you have to click through to get anything done.
Anxiety in product development
As described above, the trolls play an important part of the system that does reward small players at the expense of large entities. What if you have a startup that intends on making something, but for myriad reasons you go bust, and then you sell your patent to an enforcement entity? That’s what usually happens in these cases.
yup... to many idiot web developers just jumping google wagon...when they had all the info they ever needed from server logs right from the start.
This is very enlightening and would explain why some regions were hit much harder than others.

The title is misleading, the thesis of this professor is that different areas have differing amounts of immunity to the virus (up to 80% in SOME places), i.e, they had already built up T-cell resistance to similar Corona viruses.

He also shows the growth was never exponential meaning the most places had some immunity, but it isn't 80% everywhere!
Kenya is set to levy a 1,5% digital service tax for all online transactions
As an example of how this works, here's my current keyboard layout (it tends to change every few weeks as I find something else I want sitting on a layer): https://configure.ergodox-ez.com/ergodox-ez/layouts/xbLyp/la...

Holding the key labelled "OSL1" will switch the layout to the "Symbols" tab. The blue keys are dual-function, tapping them will enter the character on top, holding will turn it into the modifier key below. Finally the Gaming layer, toggled by the bottom right key on the keyboard, turns off all the special mappings and turns it into a standard QWERTY keyboard, because my muscle memory for game controls is too deeply entrenched to deal with in the middle of a fight :)
The problem is not zillionaires, the problem is that there are people working full time and can't afford rent. It's not an issue of billionaires being evil, or greedy. It's an issue of bad economic theories (trickle-down) dissuading government from adopting effective policy.
I really hope.

My personal belief is that I dont think this question will truly be settled for you gents until July... unless you are truly able to eradicate the virus before then AND shut down air travel during that period
Voting is not about winning.
Church of England rules Irish inscription on grave stone must have translation
This is cool! I've bookmarked it for future review. Thanks for sharing
Is there a difference in obesity rates between the two populations?
Further, atomic resolution is routine in electron microscopy, it's specifically Cryo EM (a sub-technique aimed at imaging proteins, which are extremely fragile compared to, say, chunks of metal or computer chips) where the advance has happened.

This is phenomenal! The title still feels a bit sensationalized, but don't they all?
How Black employees want to be supported at work during times of protest
With only 4:10000, its not worth being alarmed. I like their approach.
While true, you can take advantage of the fact the most people don't perceive 2 sources of identical noise as 'twice as loud'. And given the extensive dynamic range of sound it is not uncommon to drown out sound with noise that's a few orders of magnitude louder.

Though I reckon it's more likely that the constant noise of drones will drown out the traffic noise than the other way around. Not just because it's constant but also because it's LOUD.
I gave altair a try but I found the data format requirements a pain that got in the way of the nice plotting API. For example, I wanted to plot n lines, stored in a (timestamps, n) shaped matrix. First I had to convert this into a format: (index, line_name, value) where index is the timestamps index in the original matrix, line_name is a unique name given to each line/column, and finally the value. There is a pandas method that helps with this conversion, but it just added one extra confusing step to what I was hoping to be a quick and intuitive plotting tool.

Their write up on the data format is here: https://altair-viz.github.io/user_guide/data.html#long-form-...
Yes, don't know if it counts but I was without a computer and with no data on my mobile for 4 months traveling. Only used the phone for connecting to WiFi at coffeeshops to download maps and check buss/train schedules.

It was the happiest time of my life.

I don't think it is because I did amazing things but because small nagging feelings went away. For example, I don't need to know about the latest protests on the other side of the world. I certainly doesn't need to wake up to violent images and be shown how much the world sucks, because it steals my focus of what I should be focusing on, _myself_ and my carpe diem day (sound narcissistic I know).

I'm not a social person, but boy was it a game changer.

That said... it's very, very easy to get back into old habits and mentality. After 8 months after I returned to work I was probably the same old semi-depressed but joking me but with a little bit more hope. Also very expensive.

But for your question. I don't think there is anything wrong with computers or mobiles, it's when you get internet-access 24/7 instead of one hour per week that things start to get dicey. So I'd try to just limit that instead if possible. It forces you prioritise the things you _actually_ need from those that you don't.
Computer no, but I've had gaps in phones spanning almost a year each. It ended up being quite the inconvenience for others even though I could make due with desktop SMS/Calling apps.
Then they don't mean inequality. That is talking about a living standards.

Inequality problems can be very effectively by taking stuff away from the wealthy. That doesn't work for a living standards problem because there isn't enough real stuff for it to work. Look at the real amount of resources consumed by the mega wealthy and divide it by the number of poor people - the results aren't very impressive. Not the paper wealth, but real consumption.

Jeff Bezos for example may make billions on paper, but his actual personal consumption isn't going to be anywhere near that amount in goods and services. Distribute his real consumption to the poor in New York and it won't make much of a difference, especially over the long term. But absolute inequality would noticeably drop. The poor would appreciate it, but it isn't going to solve systemic living standards problems.
Yeah, the problem people seem to have is with the transferability of patents. But the alternative is some sort of personal right rather than a property right, and the huge companies would run roughshod over a system of personal rights to inventions, only enriching the FAANGS of the world at the expense of literally everyone else. Think it through before you go attacking the patent system.
I know this is silly, but I'm curious what you see. I see a man eaten by an elephant.
I check the new section from time to time and I agree with the link you posted that there is a lot of junk/spam in there. It's no surprise that they can't just be randomly put into the main pages.

Having a look at the 15 latest submissions for example. I roughly see: SEO spam, trump spam, a super complex physics paper, 4 well known news site, 3 university websites, VC spam, spam, one pdf download, a couple of articles, etc...

I think HN could do with a "curated new" section besides the general "new" section. A bit of filtering to remove high volume subjects (virus, climate, trump) and to remove major news sites (new york times, bbc and co) and maybe university/paper sites. That should leave room to lower volume sites and personal blogs. Maybe filter to domains that had at least one article with 100 votes in the past years and see what's left.
Reminds me a bit of Defender of the Favicon: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19262529

Really clever concept, and I like the ease of building levels for it.
I think there's a way to do super-resolution on pixellated video.

It's okay for still images, but videos have a lot of information to leak. Just black everything out.
Ponzu CMS (headless CMS) – change of ownership
> This.

You say "this", and then proceed to state the exact fallacy the OP made as a truthful observation.

> Sweden's path has been conventional.

Yes. Sweden's path has been conventional. Italy's path has been conventional as well.

There is this whole wave of misapprehension and misunderstanding on HN, especially when it comes to the pandemic: "My opinion is backed by facts, therefor all other opinions must be political and I do not need to think about them because my opinion is correct", which is a form of circular reasoning.

> This ultimately comes back to

This ultimately comes back people whose day-job entails shoveling data with computers and being (or at least feeling) smarter than average, and as such feel at least somewhat qualified as a statistician/epidemiologist.

One of the few things that is clear is that the spread and the course of the disease has an enormous amount of unknown confounding factors.

This means that any approach within general ethical boundaries is valid: from making future prediction based on the most advanced epidemiological data to date, to a system-wide shutdown of "doing the things that are very likely to worsen the situation".

None of the scientific advisors to the various democratic governments are complete idiots, and even none of the elected government officials involved are out to willfully wreak havoc on their populations.

Find out what works. Find out what doesn't work and why it doesn't work even though it seems to work elsewhere.

Sweden's approach is valid. Italy's approach is valid. The chances of any one person getting it exactly right the first time are negligible, so there is no point in cheering for what one believed to be the "winning team".

To spell it out for you: you are not right. You are, at best, less wrong. And to paraphrase the OP, "it is about their own opinions, trying to prematurely pat themselves on the back for believing the right thing."
Depends what you mean by "allowed". If the rules say "you definitely can't do this", but there is no penalty for going ahead and doing it anyway, is it allowed?
> quickly create, refresh, and run terminal "shortcuts" for common commands

$ alias shortcut='common command'

> jump around the filesystem

$ r='/long/complicated/dir'
$ cd $r
$ pwd
/long/complicated/dir

> chain them together

$ a=echo
$ b=hello
$ $a $b
hello

So what exactly is the added value here? Is it a manager for shortcuts? Persistence?
Why is microsoft breaking windows even on that list? lol. Seems a bit irrelevant w/ all the other shit going on. But then I've been on arch linux for like 7 years now. You can trust me when I say that because only those of us who use arch linux say we do whenever we have the opportunity to do so.
> but IMO thats better than crashing the whole process

It's not. Crashing the process (if the error remains unhandled at the top level) is the right answer. When the program raises an exception, you want to either handle it or pass it up, not ignore it. It was raised for a reason. Once an error was raised, if the program ignores it and happily continues all bets are off. This is like reasoning out of false premises: everything goes, which is undesirable. Data is probably corrupted, maybe preconditions are unmet.

For this reason, most automated code checkers consider ignoring exceptions a serious antipattern.
You and OP mention Vitamin D as a possible rationale for the differences. But, what about countries like Mexico? No shortage of sun there.
I haven’t used it yet, but tools like TabNine will autocomplete more of your code:

https://www.tabnine.com/

Much of what we type is repetitive.