skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I highly recommend everyone learn the readline keys. They apply everywhere, in chrome, messengers, etc. They're the most valuable hotkeys that I've learned other than learning vim.

I set them as the Message Of The Day in my .zshrc (or .bashrc if you don't use zsh) until I memorized them. <c-f> is genric formatting for hotkeys, where c stands for control and you type "f" at same time.

IMPORTANT: For these to be level extremely effective you MUST REMAP your caps lock key to a control key. System Prefs > Keyboard > Modifier Keys button at bottom right

# MOTD
function echo_color() {
local color="$1"
printf "${color}$2\033[0m\n"
}
echo_color "\033[0;90m" "c-f Move forward"
echo_color "\033[0;90m" "c-b Move backward"
echo_color "\033[0;90m" "c-p Move up"
echo_color "\033[0;90m" "c-n Move down"
echo_color "\033[0;90m" "c-a Jump to beginning of line"
echo_color "\033[0;90m" "c-e Jump to end of line"
echo_color "\033[0;90m" "c-d Delete forward"
echo_color "\033[0;90m" "c-h Delete backward"
echo_color "\033[0;90m" "c-k Delete forward to end of line"
echo_color "\033[0;90m" "c-u Delete entire line"

Imagine you want to go up 2 lines to edit a HN comment. You could move your right hand to arrow key, or you can simply press caps with your pinky and type "p" with your other pinky. So much faster! Now you can see why these are so effective, and are really my favorite.

Note that as you start to use these you will be pleased to see they apply in a lot of applications. For example, type command+L in chrome to jump to the address bar and highlight it, now type "news" in the address bar. The autocomplete dropdown will pop up. Now type control+n (readline move down) and you can scroll through the list.

I'm obsessed with optimizations and efficiency and the 2 things mentioned above are the absolute gems. Also, I highly recommend: https://medium.com/vunamhung/set-a-blazingly-fast-keyboard-r...

`0` is a little to fast for me so I prefer speed `1` and it's perfect.
Your maths fails in real life. Seems to be only 10-20% of anti body prevalence is needed for herd immunity due to t-cell protection that wasn't taken into account. The Diamond Princess cruise ship, perfect floating petri dish for experiements, bore this out. Same with London and New York, reach the herd immunity levels of 10-20% and died out.

Try this maths https://judithcurry.com/2020/05/10/why-herd-immunity-to-covi...
This is really the core of it. If you run the numbers, Google makes something like $1 million of profit per year for each engineer at the company. If a product has a 10-person engineering team and isn't bringing in $40 million / year at a 25% profit margin then there are just better things for those engineers to be working on and the product will likely be shut down so that the team can reprioritize.
Except for ⌘, those are ISO 9995 symbols.
>I am looking at my MacBook Pro 2015 right now. There is no symbol for the alt key.

Just FYI, they've corrected this since then. I'm not sure but I believe it was 2017. At that time they also removed the "alt" label so it only says "option" along with the symbol.
On desktop all of it looks like they either didn't do any styling, so I can hardly tell I'm not looking at unstyled HTML (lots of the static elements) or what they did is pretty bad-looking (everything else). Is this representative of the work, or is this presentation just weirdly bad for some reason? What's good about it? What am I missing?
Thanks for your feedback, Paul! To your points:

1. Medium is crappy, agreed. I would prefer to use Ghost and might do that in the future. They say on the internet, no one knows you're a dog, but I guess you are the exception to the rule.

2. Use of scatological language is kind of my specialty. I mean, shit!

3. You say I'm missing the point and then go on to make two points that don't really address the argument I made. Maybe you are the the one that missed the point. But what do I know, I'm just a dog that likes shit.
I think that blue bar is just for lubrication. You can shave just with water if enough of it is there
How else would elected officials play against those who could essentially fund your opponent with collective billions of dollars?

"Government" is made up of many actors and groups, and the fundraising dynamic is that a) corporation gives to incumbent to get favors or b) gives to opponent to remove regulatory pressure from an incumbent not willing to play ball.

What you are seeing is the natural result of corporate control over elections and consequently, politicians.
"your characterization of Damore is low effort and more or less completely wrong".

Your characterization of Damore is equally low effort. The memo is not simply a "relatively straightfoward review of standard Biology and Psychology research". Even if I were to agree that those parts of it were non-controversial, those parts of it are not the point or intention of the memo.

You are completely ignoring the arguments Damore actually makes, that were built on faulty premises and selected studies that validate his worldview. Some of his statements might be non-controversial in isolation, but have been constructed to build a specific narrative about diversity and inclusion. You are also completely ignoring the context in which this memo was distributed, surfaced, and the channels through which it was ultimately publicized.

Damore clearly had an agenda and his own bias against what he perceived as PC-culture at Google. Trying to frame him as some neutral observer of the behavioral psychology of Googlers is ignorant, if not disingenuous.
There was also this business about removing fact-checking of a bunk climate science article at the behest of a Republican congressman:

https://heated.world/p/fact-check-of-viral-climate-misinform...

My interpretation of this is not that Facebook has a conservative bias (what does it even mean for a company to have a bias?), but that Facebook's leaders are well aware that the company are extremely vulnerable to regulation, and that keeping the current administration sweet is a good way of evading regulation. If the US enters 2021 with a Democratic administration not hamstrung by a Republican congress, i would expect the apparent bias to evaporate or reverse.
Right, I'm often asked this about Oil [1]: Why do you want to write programs in shell?

That's not the idea of shell. The idea is that I write programs in Python, JavaScript, R, and C++ regularly, and about 10 different DSLs (SQL, HTML, etc.) And I work on systems written by others, consisting of even more languages.

I need a language to glue them together. A language to express build automation and describe deployed systems. Most big systems consist of more than one language.

Shell is the best language for that, but it's also old and crufty, with poor implementations.

When you program in shell, gcc, git, pip, npm, markdown, rsync, diff, perf, strace, etc. are part of your "standard library".

[1] http://www.oilshell.org/
It's been backwards compatible since the 1.0 release two years ago.
SpaceX claims Starship/Superheavy will be able to launch the first stage thirty times a day and second stage three times a day. I guess we'll see how that works out.
With .config folder at root of project then paths in configs are ../whatever/ instead of whatever/ and ../ is evil plus having ../ on front of every path is noisy.
what would it say about employers? They don't want to jeopardize relations, but they need employees back...
I personally know small mom/pop restaurants, a small private security (rent-a-cop) firm, and a large casino that can't get people to come back because the $600/week bonus.
These aren't 6 figure engineering jobs. these are low skill jobs where the most important skill is showing up on time consistently.
Air India Express Boeing 737-800 Carrying 180 People Crashed
Live Nation's Second-Quarter Revenue Dropped 98% in 2020
Thanks for the tips, I start to try to apply them.
Installed an extension 2 days ago to block websites (hn/reddit/twitter).

My brain is really an asshole and now i slack on discord servers :'(.
I need to fix that now...
search engine vs full-text search engine?
That's true, but personally, I would be really hesitant to get into a market with several large dominant players without a significant edge. The reality of business in the US is constant consolidation towards a small number of huge, anti-competitive players. I can't find the source right now, but I've seen statistics that the total number of businesses in the US is much smaller today than it was, say, 50 years ago.

So I think your expectation, assuming you are in the US, is that your business has one of a few trajectories:

* You deliberately aim for a market with many small businesses and forces that go against consolidation. There are fewer of these over time, but anything explicitly local, has few economies of scale, or where consumers specifically target variety is a good place to look. Think restaurants, luthiers, and other "craft" businesses. Then you can have a long moderate term success while staying small. You probably won't get rich but you might like your life.

* You try to grow very rapidly to get to be a big fish before the other big fish eat you. You take a ride on the VC train and if you're lucky escape with your soul intact.

* You aim to get bought. You lose the experience of it being your business but you might get rich in return.

* You get crushed or bought against your will. Short of simply fading away from lack of success, this is probably the most likely outcome.
This man knows
I need to check this out. I have been using Bootstrap for years, and would like to try something new. I am not a very good front end developer, even though my https://markwatson.com site is now about 27 years old.

I want something batteries included.
Counter point: https://www.projectveritas.com/news/another-facebook-whistle...

Depending on which media outlet you turn to Facebook is trying to skew the election towards Trump or Biden. Depending on your political bias you get the story that fits your narrative. Perhaps our framing is off?
I love osx but the world needs another company that makes great hardware and combines it with a Unix based operating system. I would love to see some competition for Apple.
"Cryptocurrency nonsense" was an idea to create a local economy around Red as an open-source project, based on community-provided services and backed by an ERC-20 token.

Think of it as a solution to the class of problems of the current interest, such as financial compensation to FOSS maintainers, incentives for contributors, tipping high-quality learning material and insightful blog posts, etc.

This didn't pan out in the near-term though. Part of this blockchain move was also a nod toward Rebol's ideas concerned with distributed computing and decentralization (another hot topic): IOS and X-Internet, albeit with smart contracts instead of Reblets. [1]

[1]: http://www.rebol.com/ios/ios-intro.html
I don't know that the US version has any. But there is a risk that algorithms get tuned to influence youth imo. I think all youth-oriented products have this problem, but China is a riskier actor in that regard.

There are a few video when you type "tiktok propaganda" on youtube. Not sure since I haven't used the app.
Ask HN: Any SDRs, AEs or other sales professionals here on HN?
I'm thinking about putting a small group together for sales professionals who are interested in networking and discussing startup topics, and possibly collaborating.

My email is in my profile here for anyone who wants in. I'll set up a small group on podaero.com to chat.
Isn't it what liberals want to do the other way around, when they say that there are too many whites here, too many whites there... gradually pushing for quotas, etc ?
> The real pandemic is the debt bomb that Congress is foisting on the American public ...

And how many Americans has that pandemic killed over the last few months?
Is that relevant? Do you think this will make any difference in China’s internal policies?
All the big tech companies do this, and yes, it is not OK. These organizations are too big, wield too much power, and are like governments unto themselves. For some reason, they have not had the same public perception and have avoided labels like "conglomerate" that have stuck to other companies like Samsung.
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Rules for thriving on higher-level math (illustrated)
Using pytorch/keras/TF from Julia is possible, and even pleasant: https://twitter.com/aureliengeron/status/1277751121440698368

Though I much prefer Flux.jl
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Additional reason: all the infrastructure is changing underneath these projects.

Let’s say you have a Google product for feeding people, let’s call it “Google Feeder”. Now, you need big piles of food to feed people, so you build it on top of “Google Pile System” to manage all of those piles. People like Google Feeder, but it’s not successful enough to fund an engineering team.

At some point, Google Pile System gets replaced by a new system for managing piles, called Humongous. Now, what happens to Google Feeder? You’ve decide that it’s too expensive to migrate it from Google Pile System to Humongous, but the problem is, if you want to spin it off into a separate company, you’d need to migrate it off Google Pile System anyway.
You can map home and end system-wide on Mac. I don't remember the details offhand, so you'll have to search for the method, but it's done with just a config file.

Of course, there are Qt apps, which in their faux-crossplatformity ignore what the system does for them, including these bindings.
The only reason to bring up their credibility in this context is to call into question the accuracy of the quotes.
>Western companies have a difficult time operating in China, but Chinese companies have zero problems operating in western countries.

Ask Elon Musk about the first part, and ask Huawei guy about the latter.
Certainly digital information has to be deliberately preserved and doing so has challenges relative to anything physical. That said, with a few exceptions (e.g. papyrus in very dry conditions), pretty much anything on paper/parchment needs to be deliberately preserved as well. And, as you get to wetter climates e.g. Britain, there is very little preserved from post-Roman Medieval times.

But I won't really argue that preserving the public web should probably be done by public institutions rather than depending almost solely on one non-profit organization. Because it's not reasonable to expect, for example, a website that's been hosted on some provider to be saved forever by that provider once the monthly bill stops being paid. (And that provider will probably go out of business sooner or later anyway.) Do you even want to bet on Google or Facebook being around in 50 or 100 years?
“””Our company mission is to organize the world's * adverts * and make them universally accessible and useful.”””

Fixed. I have no use for Google any more.

They were relevant 10 years ago but no more.
^^ This is the original paper and the full pdf is available. I recommend a brief perusal before posting your "guesses". It's not very long and has pretty graphs.
The power user behavior would be to only do the conversion on cells that are typed as DATE datatype. But that would catch the noobs who don't know to set the cell type.
The US is announcing aluminum tariffs against Canada. Canada's PM announces that aluminum tarrifs are a bad idea and hurt everybody, but until the US gets rid of them, Canada will match them dollar for dollar with its own aluminum tarrifs.

Do you follow the logic in this case?
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> Why should the US allow Chinese companies to operate in the US??

For the same reasons that China should allow American companies to operate in China.
I don't think that's reciprocity. China has punished its citizens for being born in China by banning FB et al. In response, the US has punished its own citizens by banning WeChat et al. Reciprocity would mean that Xi is banned from using Facebook while Trump is banned from WeChat.
"Fire in a crowded theater" is intolerable speech, and so is publicly calling for executions. It's enshrined in jurisprudence.

US only, other nations probably have larger lists of free speech exclusions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...
To build a (small, steady) following.

Twitter is full of weird people who are the core potential audience of my creative/intellectual stuff. (HN in contrast is not.)
Ads that can be turned off. If they’re not adding enough value to users for them to turn them on, get rid of them.
Cory Doctorow just did a whole email on this. In short: contextual ads. Here's the email: https://mail.flarn.com/pipermail/plura-list/2020-August/0001...
Punishing the perpetrators and undoing the damage are two different things. Absolutely more of the second is needed. But what I mentioned functions as a crude form of the first.

Like it or not, kicking out white people isn't just symbolism.

To be clear, I agree that transfer of power was a classic neoliberal failure, and the situation is a travesty.
Ditto – I use some of these daily (mostly c-a, c-e, c-k) and didn't even know about others on your list.

The shell reminder is a neat idea too; thanks for sharing that!
Google would count as a full text search engine then.
I do this all the time every day. It’s my primary mode of work, going from full-screen maximized apps to windowed “desktop” apps, and back, with cmd-tab. I don’t remember ever not being able to do this, but I’ve only started using full screen often within the last few versions.

Maybe I misunderstand you.
Cube sats are about to shake this business up. In the past the cost of entry was very high = few entrants, that went to fewer by predatory pricing against any new entrants.
The old birds are complex beasts that operate across many spectral bands and are task commanded. The Cubes will be single band small units with large lenses and larger sensors. They will accumulate and send data to a ground based cloud and as time goes by will cover the earth in all bands and in all seasons - all of which will be saleable at a price that will make the old commercial monopolists to crap their pants. I am sure they will lobby to limit these cubes, but many are immune to pressure. They might well agree to no military base imagery. A trip to the planetlabs web site does show that a huge acquisitive beurocracy lurks therein as there is zero mention of any sort of fee structure = high fees IMHO, it is not the solution for all mankind that cube sats might bring. Their videos seem to be staffed by summer students??
Will we get flying cars in active use? :)
Not your point but I think there is a definite issue here with perceptions around workplace safety.

The US has a very good level of testing/mask usage. And, to be blunt, just wear a mask and wash your hands...you will be okay. I understand why some groups of people are very worried: if you are obese, if you are over 60, if you work in a hospital/care home...but if you work in an office, it isn't a "Hunger Games" situation.

I don't think furlough/unemployment schemes necessarily created that incentive though. People in some places are clearly being very cautious (I am in the UK, people aren't wearing masks and not being cautious at all...I have seen larger crowds at pubs than ever...no masks) anyway.

So I think the solution to the unemployment problem is a change in message from govt. If you take precautions, you will be okay (again, where I am the message was very urgent and serious...this worked at first but some people are ignoring totally and others are staying at home terrified of their own shadow...so who knows? But I think it would have success generally).
gcc have -Og which turns on optimization steps that can be enabled without sacrificing debugability.
These types of orders are allowed to happen because when other similar orders are issued no one cares.

When there's a charge of domestic violence all guns are removed from the home regardless of if they were part of it or not. A clear 2nd amendment violation, but most people don't care as it seems reasonable.

Carrying a large sum of money, prepare to have that seized unless you can prove it's yours. A clear violation against seizures but no one cares because most people don't carry large sums of money.

It would be easy to continue on and on with examples that clearly violate rights but they effect of minority of people and are considered reasonable by the majority or they simply don't affect the majority.

First they came for the...
I hear from multiple of my small business owner friends, that they are unable to get people to come back to work due to this. It's hard to know what the overall distortion is, but it's definitely a good illustration of the welfare trap where most jobs offer negative marginal utility.
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"Assume every document will become public"
I'm sorry if this is a dumb question, but how do I actually use these? Control + A?
> I have a hard time believing the US actually cares about human rights abuses in other countries, when they are the beneficiaries.

My take is that in this context the human rights argument is not emotional or humanist, but refers to the practical implications of competing against a regime for which human life holds no importance and has no meaningful value. It's impossible to compete with a regime which treats workers as slaves and disregards even basic health and safety measures.
Every country has different rules for their citizens versus those for foreign entities.
Funding a massive police force to curb what essential amounts to socioeconomic issues is highly inefficient. Putting that funding towards building better communities, alleviating the factors associated with crime directly, rather than just trying to patch it by putting public workers in danger.
Be careful not to confuse monopolies with conglomerates. You're right conglomerates mismanage (usually neglect) some divisions, but that wasn't the case with Standard Oil. Esso wasn't a neglected divison; oil is oil.

The new companies being more valuable is interesting. It helped that they were regional monopolies. Maybe people thought the added competition drove growth on its own. Maybe the new companies became crowded trades because rather than just being a bet on oil, it was a bet on oil and who would win in oil.
Per the paper, the treatment was actually a punch that was half liquor, half other things. The liquor was a mix of cognac and light and dark rums.
10 hours/day would leave me K.O for the rest of the day. What's the point? It's probably not even healthy.
Agreed, but is this really the right time? A discussion about the benefits of UBI seems like an excellent discussion to have after making sure all the folks who will be in serious trouble once the $600 payments stop get some help from their government ...
Did you checkout https://tus.io/ before doing your own implementation?
Increased profits from downsizing the labor force as a short term result is probably a very attractive motivator.
More accurately, a copy of vine :p