skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pro Git, Coders at Work both are ~10 years old. A recent one is Site Reliability Engineering published in 2016
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Their intent was to stop a dog from killing another dog, you are discussing the method of doing so as if it was the only stated goal. "I just wanted to kill a pitbull doing nothing minding it's own business".

Why do you think such a terrible leap of logic would work here?
In agrarian societies, children are economically productive. In urbanised industrial/post-industrial societies, children are expensive and thus an economic liability.

Many of the conditions that accompanied falling fertility rates in Europe and America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries are now evident in the developing world.
I've no idea whether they do this or not but it's easy enough to know when a tab or window is focussed or not. I have a games site and use this to pause/unpause games, music, etc.

They could hook this into Google Analytics and subtract the time you spent with that tab/window not focussed from your session duration.

I do fundamentally agree that session duration may not be the worst proxy for worthwhile content or, at least, engaging content, snd I think Google may use it as such.
That has long been a principle of law, not all violations are equal because of extenuating circumstances. One sizes fits all ignoring circumstances is foolishness, not justice even if it leads to 'equality'. There is a difference between smashing a window of a car to rob it or for shits and giggles, and doing it to save a life.
I think I recognize your name. You had a motivational website or blog, Impossible things or something like that?
Schopenhauer wrestled with this problem and came up (paraphrasing so do your own research - lots to read about this discussion) with the telic vs atelic duopoly with respect to meaningfulness. What you seem to have achieved are telic goals - things with a clear end point, like a certain amount of money or no debt or living in a certain place. What he says, and I’ve found in my own life, is that the struggle to achieve these is often motivated by a belief that the end result is more than it actually is in reality and that we are left feeling empty once we’ve achieved them (or emptier than expected). Instead, we should struggle to achieve atelic goals, which have no end. Think of it like being an artisan - there is no endpoint, just continuous honing of a craft. Fatherhood is an example - there’s no “endpoint” - you find meaning from being an ever greater father.

What’s nice about atelic goals is they tend to be mutually exclusive and force you to choose where you will devote your time to lifelong improvement. Telic goals are the opposite - there’s always another race to get under your belt or another country to go visit or a bigger house to buy.
Well, I guess you could probably use document.execCommand to do it, unless that is blocked for JavaScript uri scheme access, or ask for async clipboard access (I wonder what happens if you ask for it from JavaScript uri, should take time to investigate some day)
I'm team "stay home" and I have an uneasy relationship with these protests: I don't love protest as a form of engagement in the first place (it has its place, but its has a lot of limits), and an epidemic wouldn't be my choice for timing it.

That said:

* We had the "I don't wanna stay at home" and "masks are tyranny" protestors a month ago, too... but as far as I know, most governments pretty much let those happen. Hell, they let a lot of those happened with the protestors heavily armed. Protestors drew a lot of criticism but more or less got to do what they wanted.

* Similarly, it's pretty clear that most governments aren't thrilled about BLM protest crowds from a public health standpoint, but have adopted a range of tactics from "cooperate and keep peace" to "actively suppress." Protestors have drawn a mix of support and criticism and... in some cases got a beat down and trip through arrest processing, but in other cases kinda got to do what they wanted. It's not like social justice was just given a pass here; in some ways it actually has faced heavier resistance.

* If we're comparing motives here, are we weighing "the audacity to want to return to work"? Or the audacity to want other people to return to work? And how would we compare that with, say, the desire to be free from being murdered or otherwise singled out for selective enforcement or brutality by officers of state?

* Government direction didn't cause a retreat from social/economic engagement, it coordinated it. Most people would have done exactly the same thing they're doing now absent official direction, just at different times/thresholds, leading to the same eventual economic results but less effective epidemic mitigation. And the only thing that will get everyone back to work is either nihilism or trust that risks are well-managed.
> Pretty typical of everyone that I have (anecdotally) ever met who contends that black violence on whites is the primary issue.

Wait, is this directed to me, or to the comment above me? Because I'm arguing the exact opposite of this, specifically that focusing on and misrepresenting Black-on-White violence takes away from the struggle against oppression endured by the Black community.

It's the OP I'm replying to who's been arguing the Black-on-White violence angle. I'm merely pointing out that they're using a strawman to defend it and that I have no intention of staying engaged when there are a broad array of fallacies being employed one after another.

You and I are on the same page.
Ask HN: Coming urban housing price crash?
With many tech companies realizing that their expensive urban tech offices are not really needed, what are the community's thoughts on the impact of the housing market in major tech hubs?

Thinking about the house I have right now, it's value is mostly from it's proximity to major tech employers (15 minute commute from 2 major companies), and I'm thinking over what to do now. Is selling now and wait to rebuy during a coming crash a winning move? Or will companies not migrate en-masse to permanent WFH?

Would even a 10% transition to WFH have a significant impact on housing prices? (FWIW I'm in the Seattle area where Amazon and Microsoft prop up much of the housing market.)
> From chatting to them over the last week or two, they've said they've been put in a place whereby they can't not post something in support of the protests in either case.

This tells me the protests are working. When people who normally do not pay attention are forced to see what's happening, then change can occur. It's going to be uncomfortable for a lot of people as they come to terms with their own privilege and the plight of other groups. But, growth doesn't occur without first being uncomfortable.

> sentiment around their movement, as dissent or even public agnosticism toward it has been all but quashed

Sentiment will be judged through action and change.
if everyone that protested self isolates at all other times for 20 days after they stop protesting, yes, I agree.
Any other argument other than "The data shows x", or "inferring from the data" is probably not science. The author makes solid points, and gives good reasons to doubt the the climate change consensus, even if those reasons are primarily sociological.

EDIT: Seeing a lot of comments going grey in this thread, but not a lot of arguments.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AM0qqQhgbn0
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23430575

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23437549
> Historical Adobe releases were years apart but you're unhappy with a couple of months because it's a subscription? I can't follow this logic.

I was unhappy with the overall product/service. Since I was paying on a subscription basis, I'd spent less money over those months than I would have on a full release, so had more money to switch to an alternative. There's also no psychological burden of a sunk cost on the status quo - you feel free to switch at any time there's a better alternative.

My problems weren't that Adobe hadn't made general improvements in the six months time frame, it's that I had specific issues that they didn't address, and I didn't want to keep paying a monthly fee to be having those specific issues.
My frontend services handles all user requests (HTML templates, i18n, analytics, authentication). Backend is exclusively focused on business logic, interacting with DB, cron jobs, etc... My projects grew into this naturally, and it was monolith first.
I love that it comes with a piece of paper reminding the viewer that this is a small selection of reality. Biochemistry is much, MUCH more complex than even these two 26 square foot posters.

I'd love to get a similar poster of the entire Linux kernel or, alternatively, the total supply chain for an everyday item like the proverbial pencil.
I’m having trouble understanding your comment and how it relates to the content of the post.
Someone should publish a series on such startups. Intuitively it seems there might be some. But I haven’t seen any articles naming names, describing details.
Minneapolis City Council members announce intent to disband police department
this might be a dumb question but can someone briefly explain why Forth is more suitable over C or other languages in general on post-apocalyptic OS?
> there's zero risk of the government tracking down and punishing protesters after the fact.

ehhh I wouldn't be so sure about that.
What’s the difference between a Tomahawk cruise missile and a drone?

Tomahawk is already (2015) available with reconnaissance camera and loiter mode.

Is the distinction that drone can return to base, or otherwise land and be reused?
IMO Ruby is already being left behind. HTTP/2 is a good example. Rails doesn't support it, and I can't find anything recent saying support will be added soon. Java is notorious for slow innovation yet language level support for HTTP/2 as added years ago and enabled for basically every popular framework. Same with Python, C#, Go, JS.

HTTP/2 is essential if you want good SEO which makes Rails a non-starter for many projects already
i decided to learn rust.
I would agree if couchdb wasn't positioning itself as being exposed directly on the internet. If CouchDB is meant to be proxied behind another system / auth stack, then why does it have CORS support and cookie auth built in?

Both of those features are purely a client-side concern and exist because the original intent of CouchDB was real-time replication to browsers. Otherwise the proxy could do the CORS as well as the authentication and CouchDB would only require an http-level authentication pattern (like basic auth).

Having said that, I do agree that this should be compartmentalized and the end user should be able to pick and choose what features they want to allow, but I don't think that this should continue to be a separate concern that everyone is building themselves, it should be a first-party solution.
I've seen comment citations in the past. I still can't figure out how to get those to work.
'Simpsons' images of George Floyd were not from show [fact check]
It seems similar to how people usually interpret MVP, which all to often is executed as MP and lacks Viability.
You're making my point. You politically support one side more than the other, right down to belittling the side you unsupport as "I need a haircut". Maybe I agree with you politically, but when arguments from principle pivot from one week to the next based on which way the politics point, it's not really about principle.
Also for selling digital goods regional pricing plays a big role in my opinion. Part of the reason why steam is so hugely successful.
there are no calculations being done. They believe in the cause therefore it is justified. They dont believe in the cause of the other side (freedom of movement/commerce) and therefore dont believe they are justified.

They are pretending to base it on science, when it is just another political opinion.
That is so stupid. There are some 40 million black folks in the US. Assume half are men. 20,000,000 divided by 1,000 is 20,000. The actual number of unarmed blacks killed by the police per year is generally 20 or less. Last year it was like 10. You can look it up on the Washington Post database.
A lot of that free content is not just wrong but also convoluted to extremes. I was reading about roles in Asp.net. After watching a few videos, reading a few articles, including the ones from Microsoft,I was none the wiser. Then I pulled out a book I bought a few years ago and it turns out it had a section on about roles.The guy explained the whole thing in just few pages and in a way that even a donkey would understand,while all those websites were showing some unnecessary complexity. I bought some technical books, including some classics and it's so refreshing compared to all that junk on Medium.
and that is why the right to assemble is called an inherent right. it is owned and arbitrated ONLY by the individual. I know that this stuff seemed so boring in civics class, but it is all really rational. You cannot limit free assembly, because that limitation would have to be arbitrated. If it is arbitrated it must be arbitrated by the government. If it is arbitrated by the government the government can become corrupt and self serving and arbitrate based on self-interest... ie. TYRANNY. So it must be the individual that decides. And there are always and perpetually costs and challenges created by this arrangement, but it is the only alternative to tyranny.
Please attend a peaceful protest and observe what's happening and what people are saying. There's probably one near where you live. I believe your question has a faulty premise.
You must feel pretty strongly about it since you made an account just to post that comment. Are you also the one who downvoted my comment just because our experiences have been different?
I thought this is pretty fun project and the idea is just cool right away, but then I went on reading and was surprised by the fact it seems the author is serious. I would be really curious to hear his opinion on why the supply chains should collapse before 2030. Obviously, there wouldn't be a shortage of people in the comments who can start speculating on why it might happen, and, of course, I myself also can provide a couple of feasible scenarios, but nobody of us were serious enough to actually start this project, so his opinion on the matter is somehow quite more interesting to me than it would normally be.
it was clear in april most people are too selfish/small minded to take precautions for much longer. wave two is already incoming.
> The article’s authors are losing sight of the original justification for the lockdowns: “flatten the curve” was about preventing hospitals from being overwhelmed.

Lots of areas have actually mostly eliminated the virus, just not the USA and Europe. Avoiding hospital overwhelm is avoiding the worst case. But if that’s all you do then life is still heavily abnormal until a vaccine.
Don't get me wrong, our users are very intelligent. They've done great things on Zoom.

But technical "whizzkid stuff" (as they call it) is not something they are comfortable with.
The Only Way to Save Higher Education Is to Make It Free
It is so true that the internal mental/ideological structure of most "skepticism" is very similar to religious fundamentalism.

This short article got linked here a few days ago and it's been at the forefront of my mind since then: http://amasci.com/weird/pyrrhon.html
I haven't used XML in our Java apps in many years. Most of them don't contain a single XML file, unless they use Maven, then they have one.
In my experience it’s not about “bad” vs. “good” code, and not about a tradeoff between speed and quality.

It’s more about how much abstraction is built into the system. A mature codebase has a clear purpose and therefore can contain durable, high level, even beautiful abstractions. On the other hand, a founder doesn’t always (nor should they) know what their code will need to do in 6 months time, so they typically avoid writing abstractions.

You can still write good code as a founder—it’s just that good founder code looks different than good BigCo code.
That doesn't make Java a bad choice for building new things
I love this movie. Its well done and some of the characters in it are self described nerds. Typefaces are a fascinating subject one you start to get into them.

"Hacker News" typeface in the upper left (which I believe is Verdana) does not have any serifs on it. Serifs are the extra little points and tails on letters. Hacker News body font and logo does not have serifs, therefore it is sans-serif. 'sans' meaning 'without'.

Sans-serifs are also called grotesque (or grotesk) because it appears as though the letters have had limbs amputated. :D Or at least that's how I remember the term. People definitely though they were ugly when they first appeared.

Text written in a serif typeface is considered more distinguished and authoritative . Imagine the bible written in the same font used on HN here, it would look odd.

Isn't HN authoritative and distinguished? I'll let the reader decide. However you should consider that you are reading the word 'fart' right now in it.

Fart.
For me this is slightly into Poe's Law territory: Is this actual prepper mindset, or tongue-in-cheek?
There is one feature I would like to see: NNTP. Failing that, a strict chronological mode.
Sure, I don't disagree with that, but when the name is a "throwaway", it is a new account, and its only posts are half explanations of simplifications or just outright lies on highly divisive topics, I have no issue connecting the dots.
>I think that restaurants and so on could decide for themself if they want to open or not

I don't see restaurants and shops being forced to open if they don't want to.
Yes, this is happening even at the code level, resulting in a flood of modules/packages with shallow capabilities.
If a common mask protects you 50%, then that is a huge win both as an individual and as a group. Saying Assuming 0% in your calculations is biased.

I think your word “cheapo” is derogatory. Are people just being cheap when they don’t buy an N95 mask?

Saying “cheapo” masks only protect others is an incorrect conclusion: your language is also misleading.
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It's not belittling them - that was their argument.
A similar amount die from tasers, then you have ones that die from chokeholds etc like Floyd, and then you have the ones that "die in police custody".

People are also marching for deaths caused by other citizens that were first swept under the rug, like Ahmaud Arbery.
https://www.nfb.org/ will receive a bunch of new members in 2020.

Someone please explain this to me, in a few short sentences: Why exactly does the US police fire on protesters in the first place? I get the looting part of the problem, but what I saw on 7News seemed like the police had declared war on all protesters, no matter what they were doing.

Also, maybe that is my own sort of bubble, but I found it interesting that it was far easier to find live coverage of the mishaps during protests from foreign stations like from australia then from US media. From afar, it had the air of quite some censorship going on. Same with general coverage of the situation in my own country. I used to read a headline almost on daily basis detailing how crazy trump must be. But given whats going on since the protests started, there is very little coverage about that in local media. Almost as if the media were afraid to spread the sentiment to other countries?
Do you have an example of any economic system in any country in the world, past or present, that could survive the majority of able-bodied people not working for a long period of time?
> Losing your livelihood can kill you, however.

Why is "Reopen all the things!" the only solution, though?

Part of the reason why people got angry is because none of the people involved around the cosplaytriots wanted to consider any other options, and there are many.

1) The fact that losing your job costs you your healthcare is a political problem. The government can decide to extend healthcare by fiat, expand access, or several other choices.

2) The fact that people weren't getting paid unemployment that they filed for is a problem.

3) If you really believed in choice, give people $2,000 per month unconditionally but allow them to choose whether they wish to go back to work. Now we can see the free market in action.

Instead, the only thing on the cosplaytriot protest agenda was "Stay home and die or get back to work and possibly die". That's not exactly a protest sentiment that's going to get much grass roots support.

Putting a gun to people's heads is going to make them angry.
the complexity of the linux kernel (and in man-made things in general) is usually really small compared to biological systems.
In addition to frequency hopping, there are spread spectrum techniques to smear the signal across a wider range of frequencies with lower energy in each frequency. Once asked permission to switch on military radio on a project, the answer was “go ahead, we’ll never notice”
I'm curious as to what you found nightmareish about Pygame... It's SDL.
The point of the lockdown is to prevent overloading the medical infrastructure. No one agreed to stop being around each other until the virus is gone. Since the overloading doesn't seem to be happening no one cares anymore.
Every deal is different, some are flat fees over time(an amp manufacturer paid one friend a few thousand to just have their amp in the background of every video for a year), some are paid demos for one off videos, a lot is affiliate marketing (they get a % from every sale they make from an affiliate link).

Honestly it’s about relationships and numbers. It’s not a perfect science. E.g. My friend was able to say ”I brought this online store $450k worth of sales over 6 months so I want $X to do a video.” Also all three of them sell their own online courses on guitar playing and audio engineering and take comissions from one another to promote them on their channels. Out of every source of income the courses have been the highest ROI, but a lot more work then gear demos.
I am not sure if you are aware, but you replied to one of a few HN moderators.

> You make it sound like posters should write some epic multi-paragraph thumbsucker

He doesn't 'sound' like it. He enforces the rules about how it should be. And I agree with the judgement - the comment he replied to had no real substance. It's a kind of thing you post on a reddit meme thread as a first comment in order to accumulate "likes".
I'd buy a similar poster of the Linux kernel.

I'm sure some astute HN reader could whip up a script that generates illustrative posters of static call graphs given a Git repo!
They can be useful for other roles. Surveillance, ECM, flying in formation and coordinating to simulate a larger aircraft, tricking passive radar sites to go active, etc.