skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 4. Stuffed with fluff. PDFs tend to lack real substance, compared to regular web pages.

The exact opposite is the case in my experience. Unfortunately the actual substance is often in a PDF and all the web pages pointing to it are superficial, copy and pasted and/or clickbaity fluff.

They then go on about how in web sites the content can be better structured and navigated. Unless I'm misunderstanding the word in English, what has that to do with whether the content has substance?

> [...] This leads to overwhelmingly long and inane PDFs

You mean something akin to a book?
Unfortunately the referenced NewsArticle does not link to the ScholarlyArticle https://schema.org/ScholarlyArticle :

"N95 Mask Decontamination using Standard Hospital Sterilization Technologies" (2020-04) https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.05.20049346v... :

> We sought to test the ability of 4 different decontamination methods including autoclave treatment, ethylene oxide gassing, ionized hydrogen peroxide fogging and vaporized hydrogen peroxide exposure to decontaminate 4 different N95 masks of experimental contamination with SARS-CoV-2 or vesicular stomatitis virus as a surrogate. In addition, we sought to determine whether masks would tolerate repeated cycles of decontamination while maintaining structural and functional integrity. We found that one cycle of treatment with all modalities was effective in decontamination and was associated with no structural or functional deterioration. Vaporized hydrogen peroxide treatment was tolerated to at least 5 cycles by masks. Most notably, standard autoclave treatment was associated with no loss of structural or functional integrity to a minimum of 10 cycles for the 3 pleated mask models. The molded N95 mask however tolerated only 1 cycle. This last finding may be of particular use to institutions globally due to the virtually universal accessibility of autoclaves in health care settings.

The ScholarlyArticle referenced by and linked to by the OP NewsArticle is "Dry Heat as a Decontamination Method for N95 Respirator Reuse" (2020-07) https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.estlett.0c00534 . Said article does not reference "N95 Mask Decontamination using Standard Hospital Sterilization Technologies"
DOI: 10.1101/2020.04.05.20049346v2 . We would do well to record that (article A, seemsToConfirm, Article B) as third-party linked data (only if both articles do specifically test the efficacy of the given sterilization method with the COVID-19 coronavirus)
Generational wealth transfer isn't just your inheritance either:

> It has not been easy for me. And you know I started off in Brooklyn, my father gave me a small loan of a million dollars.

Makes it a bit easier to start a business when you can just ask your parents for a million dollars. Imagine growing up with the idea that a million dollars is a "small loan."
I agree, but I would take it a step further.

If you think it’s easier to find and import a library to test if a number is even than to use the modulus operator in an if clause, should you really be responsible for writing any code at all?

I feel like JavaScript in particular has developed this ecosystem of inexperienced programmers that “don’t know what they don’t know”. I don’t want to discourage anyone, but I feel like other languages (particularly more mature ones) don’t have that problem to the same degree.

For instance, I feel like the cluster module in Node is far easier for people to do things they shouldn’t with than any of the equivalents in C# or Java or even PHP (so it’s not just compiled vs scripting languages).
"Software Engineers" are not the problem. They'll do what their told. That Microsoft President should look higher up the food chain (stuff rots from the head chief). Also the analogy to having a UCMJ-type legal system for "Software Engineers" is just bonkers.
I just searched the thread for the words 'fox' and 'henhouse' but nothing came up. Did I misunderstand the search interface?
> "I have experienced a number of multi-day power outages, and have never had to tape a fridge shut and not use it again, so I disagree pretty strongly with that advice."

How hot was it when this happened? Were you there to manage the situation or did you have to leave?

If you have to leave in a hurry and are not able to empty your fridge, and it is hot, and you are not able to return for a few days, then yes, your fridge will probably never be usable again.

If your fridge is in a cool basement, then yea, you probably just have some food spoilage.
I like the way people used to dress for work.
Yep, but as far as I know, only works with Acrobat Reader. No other reader I tried supports it. Would be nice for presentations.
I'm pretty sure I read the same about Jira tickets.
Yeah that is what I was thinking of, thanks for the assist. Agree that it won’t get big for the same reason.
The problem is not the number of documents he had to do, he didn’t have major concerns on that .

The bribery expected in many of the depts, broken website, all the delays , lack of responses, after 9 months he is not more than half way into the process is the problem .

If they denied him with valid reasoning early on and communicated in reasonable time this won’t be a problem .
Yes, because most people on HN's context is shipping nodejs code.
Sorry I misquoted.

It would require a total of ~15,000$ USD
The Art of Simple Sabotage (2019)
The different components would make different electromagnetic interference patterns. You could tell what the computer was doing (or not doing) from the static.

This is also how some of the first computer generated music was produced.
How would those people have found steady income driving strangers every day without Uber? My mind draws a blank. Uber does not have a monopoly like a stock market. If there's a more effecient way to do this, competitors will find it.
MS is extending extending free Windows 7 security updates to voting systems so that the US can get trough 2020 elections.

There is still Itanium hardware running on Windows Server 2008 R2 (Same Kernel as Win 7) and it's supported until at least 2025.

Safety critical and big enterprise software contracts are often written to keep the system running and updated with minimal changes and cost "Until the iron gets tired".
> while spinoffs like Amazon are publicly shamed for actually employing hundreds of thousands of middle class workers.

They (and dito Walmart and other such employers) are not paying middle class wages though. Usually it should be possible to feed a family upon a single worker's wage to call it "middle class"... but the harsh reality is that many of the workers, especially those working for subcontractors in fulfillment, are nowhere close to such wages - or to working conditions that are usually associated with "middle class", like being allowed to go on a real toilet and not piss in bottles.

Big companies don't want to be shamed? Then they should not let their employees work in shameful conditions!
Any right or principle worth defending will always apply to you as well as to people you don't like.
Here are the stats from NAR. The average price has increased, but the volume is off by 10% year over year. The last slide shows sales volume by price. It isn't what I expected. It looks like sales are up around the median price while both the high and low end are way down.
https://www.nar.realtor/sites/default/files/documents/ehs-06...
> It would sort of be like AMP that way.

You may have noticed that this was pretty much exactly what I was talking about ;) Usability issues aside, nobody fixed their stuff until Google threatened their SEO.
I don't think Sudhir Chaudhary or his news channel will count as local news sources in this context.
The most frustrating thing about web standards is that if we were going to do the whole apps-over-HTTP/HTML thing we could have features and light weight, by building way more functionality directly into HTML. Better form elements with more built-in features, better tables more like what's available in native UI kits, maybe even direct built-in support for major, complex UIs to support ecommerce and banking workflows and such, bring back frames but make them less-shit (seriously, how much of "AJAX" use is, in practice, basically just slightly-less-shit frames?), that kind of thing.

... and then cripple JavaScript so everyone has to use the built-in features and can't get "cute" at the user's expense.

But no, instead we're burning enormous quantities of person-hours doing the same damn thing over and over with bad tools and creatively-broken a11y support and shitty custom animations no-one wants, and wasting huge amounts of energy and users' time.
> People don't want stable jobs anymore.

Sure they do.

> That's why the industries where workers have a modicum of power (law, medicine, finance, tech) are dominated by "flexible" work schedules.

Flexible work schedules and stable jobs are orthogonal concerns. Flexible work schedule is “employee has some freedom to set working schedule without adverse consequence”, stable job is “employee has relative security against loss of income, benefits, and employment”.

People absolutely still want stable jobs (though they are much harder to find), whether or not they also want flexible work schedules.

What has changed is that traditional employment in the private sector isn't nearly as secure as it used to be, which makes the gig-work vs. traditional employment calculus favor the former more than it would have in the past, since the choice is between insecure work without flexibility and slightly more insecure work with flexibility, rather than secure work without flexibility and unsecure work with flexibility.

Also, for many, it's the choice between no work and insecure work, and whether or not people want stable work, they definitely are compelled by our economic system to generally prefer some work over no work.
Yes, but iOS does not proactively beg you to disable location access for Apple Maps, the way it does for Google Maps even if you've been using Google Maps daily since 2007.
Nigeria has a poor data collection culture and this is hampering its progress
I don't know if this is bug or feature:

You can use hex and binary numbers on the left, which leads to invalid svg but the preview still works.
What the Microsoft President said:

"We need a Hippocratic oath for software engineers"

What it would be useful for the Microsoft President to say:

"We need a Hippocratic oath for software engineers, marketing, sales, accounting, customer support, management, senior executive staff, board of directors, ..."
If freezers self-defrost by lowering the internal temperature, won't that spoil the food inside by lowering and raising the temp multiple times?
Another measure is major sector labor productivity (labor inputs vs outputs):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workforce_productivity#/media/...
Seems like that's more and more the case nowadays.

One of the things I absolutely despise about the rise of JS is that many many modern sites won't display anything (just the white BG) unless I allow 3rd party scripts. Is displaying simple blogposts and other textual information with the occasional image or video embed so hard that one needs to load often multiple MBs of JS from multiple external sites?

It's infuriating.
I'm not sure why you feel the need to say this, as the purpose of my post wasn't to challenge any of the other assertions in this thread - rather to provide more information.

I'm not going to debate you because there isn't a debate.
The problem is that the structure isn't one dimensional - it's n-dimensional (e.g. product, technology, lifecycle (dev/support)).

And it's hard to structure anything that works on all of the axis that people want to view the information.
C's 'while' is spelled 'for' in Go
The best-practices we teach our experimental physics students, whether they know it or not, are generally designed to yield experimental apparatus that can last a decade or more with minimal maintenance.

After you've lived through it, a decade is a very short span of time. If you don't have to think about whether or not something is going to break, you have more free cycles to think about something else that needs doing.
Again, how large is the population of people who don't trust Apple's apps not to exfiltrate their data but do trust Apple's OS to enforce restrictions on the apps built-in to the OS?

If, for example, you don't trust Camera with your location data you also need to be concerned about having cellular networking enabled and making sure that Apple's WiFi interface, crash report, software updates, Music/Books/TV, etc. don't share that same data or things like IP addresses which are often effectively the same.

Remember, this is only about code which ships in the OS. If you look at the apps which Apple ships through the app store, they do follow the same controls: my “Apple Store” app only allows location access while I'm using it, I can disable background app refresh, etc.
personally i'm well into putting on my covid "19"
We've used Guru[0] for some of our internal documentation, which will prompt you to re-verify the accuracy of docs on a set schedule. So every six months (configurable per doc), it will prompt the designated person to glance over the doc and say "yup, still good".

I'm undecided as to how well it works, but it seems like it a better solution to the stale data problem than "let's just delete everything and hope we don't ever need it" approach.

[0] getguru.com
Robinhood blows past rivals in record year for retail investing
> Paying them what the high-flying executives make would mean a few dollars per person

Let's radically simplify Uber's stakeholder into five classes: executives, investors, engineers, full-time drivers and occasional drivers.

Each of these five classes of stakeholders have contributed to create Uber's market valuation of $55 billion.

The first three classes are already well compensated because executives, investors and engineers have negotiating leverage.

But the full-time drivers are the one stakeholder class that created much of Uber's value yet receive very little of the value they created.

Maybe they're 10% of the total driver base, or 300,000 workers. How much of Uber's value do they deserve?
> with large resource stores left intact after WW2?

Also that the largest sea empire in the world spent that war desperately buying stuff from us.
This is one of the articles which is pure non sense, but helps drive a rich HN discussion on the topic discussed.

The idea is a very bad idea. Imagine if wikipedia would do that, what will happen. Fortunately they don't and they found other way to fix the problem.

The issue here is: part of the documentation is not up to date anymore

The underlying issue is : the culture of the company probably doesn't encourage written documentation and probably prefer 1-1 communication. As a result documentation is out of date

The right solution is: Dont share documentation in 1-1, always write it on the wiki, and give the ability to people to notify that some part of the page is out of date so that the owner of the document can fix it

This is not a side issue, especially in the "new" world in which a lot of organizations need to work remotely
Well i had a wiki for a big insurance company, the point was...it was for me, my servers, and overall my IT-kb, i tried to bring other peoples in without success. My solution was, if a page had no change in 180 Days the page went automatic into the archive-mode, without being in the search index, but of curse not MY pages ;)
Easy to say when you've never hired anyone.

The parent is right. Software engineering is advantaged by a much more simplistic feedback loop. Software's "Hello, World" is validated in milliseconds. Medicine's "Hello, World" could take 30 years of clinical trials to ensure that you haven't killed anyone. It is easy because it is quick, allowing a greater understanding within an equal amount of time.

In fact, the adage of years of experience comes from learning that actually take years to encounter different circumstances and see the results play out in order to fully understand what you're dealing with. This is almost never a problem for software engineers, especially in the learning phase. Software engineers can gain "years of experience" each day by seeing the results of what they are doing in practically real-time.
THIS ^^^

Google took this approach internally using markdown files (If I remember correctly).

Perforce is also going this way - https://www.perforce.com/manuals/swarm/Content/Swarm/basics.... - but I wish more (right now it's only in their "project overview pages.")

This allows for code reviews on the doc too, easier to auto-generate, fix, etc - than non-file interface like wiki.
I have built applications that have been around for 10 to 15 years.

The only thing that would have been good is to know in advance which ones will last that long - one was a temporary proof of concept!
Modern websites spy on you by default, though.
Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headli...
The way you put it, it sounds like geometric returns are the primary cause of wealth inequality, with generational transfer being a minor blip. Transfer alone is roughly O(1) over time; geometric returns are O(k^t). And imagine if your k < 1!!

Maybe that's the cause of wealth inequality and we should examine that. It seems like income taxation and social subsidies O(t) are unlikely to outcompete exponential processes as ameliorations for the root problem.
PDFs are for printing, they come out almost every printer the way they are suppose to, there are other formats like txt, office and html that are better suited for direct consumption.
It makes sense if you consider why the feature was added in the first place: to catch malicious behavior by apps. eg. apps that tracks your location even after you've closed it, or surreptitiously record you. It doesn't really make sense to do so for first-party apps because apple controls the operating system, so from a security perspective it doesn't add any meaningful security. If apple wanted to be malicious they could disable those alerts from ios, or do their spying from ios itself so it bypasses the app sandbox entirely.
Mitochondria May Hold Keys to Anxiety and Mental Health
What Is Unstructured Data?
Until recently unstructured data was much more difficult to evaluate, due to the hundreds of human hours required to wade through it by hand. Fortunately, advancements in machine learning techniques like data mining, text analysis, and image recognition now make it possible to save time and improve unstructured data analysis.
US banks have something mostly like this: Zelle [1]; the company behind it, Early Warning Systems, is owned by JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Capital One, Wells Fargo, PNC, basically every bank has a stake in it, and every bank supports it. And it works better than Cash App/Venmo; enter phone number or email address, get an instant direct bank-to-bank transfer, no fees, all from the normal bank app you'd already be using.

What we're really talking about with FedNow is not user-facing: Zelle runs on Mastercard Send/Visa Direct, but traditional bank transfers run on ACH, which is very antiquated. FedNow is supposed to replace all of this (though, who's to say if Zelle would actually use it; its possible Visa/Mastercard have stakes in it as well, and they'd lobby against it; but, even in those cases, Visa/Mastercard likely make heavy use of ACH somewhere, and they'd be using FedNow. Its all ACH all the way down)

Zelle's issue is really that most people don't know they have it. For example, Chase has had, for a very long time, QuickPay, which could be used to instantly send money to other Chase customers. Naturally, no one relied on it very often, because if I'm out for drinks with my friends, I'm not going to lead with "Hey, do you have Chase?". QuickPay now uses Zelle, so the bank doesn't matter, but people have their apps.

Its actually the exact same "problem" as WhatsApp is elsewhere in the world. Upgrades to the fundamental, platform-agnostic technologies (SMS->RCS, ACH->Zelle->FedNow) lose stickiness when people have "their app" they'd rather use. In my view, Zelle is one of the greatest tragedies in the US financial system; the banks did everything right with it, its an incredible product, but even very smart people I know refuse to use it, because its not Cash App or whatever.

[1] https://www.zellepay.com/
Incorrect. Modern web pages are garbage and PDFs are far better. No auto-play animations, no animations at all, no bizarre hijacking of scrolling, etc. a multi-hundred page PDF loads in a blink of an eye compared to a advertising tracker-loaded web page.

Screen size-adaptability and reflow remains a problem. It would be better to fix that on the PDF end than to move those uses over to inferior web technologies.
Others are responding in a way that explains your premise, but I actually reject the premise. Specifically, I do not think this is true:

> From a startup perspective, I've always thought it interesting that more people in Europe/rest of the world don't take chances to create companies because of the great safety net there -- at least its not as highly publicized.

There are a lot of startups in Europe; particularly France, UK, Germany, Switzerland and Scandanavia, and they are well publicized locally. I hypothesize they don't get surfaced to the attention of Americans for a few reasons:

1. Essentially no country in Europe provides businesses with as many freedoms as America does. American businesses have more autonomy, and a lot of basic facts about American life primarily exist within the framework of a business (e.g. healthcare). This makes it a less attractive environment for investors, so these startups don't get international attention as easily.

2. Partly as a result of #1, and also because of a reduced cost of living (and thereby labor) in much of Europe, startups in Europe typically don't pay as well as those in America.

This is to say that Europe has lots of entrepreneurialism, it just exists in a less recognizable way compred to America due to cultural, political and economic differences.
I feel like there's a vast difference between documentation relevant to code and a lot of the stuff accumulating in a company wiki. And if you put the latter in a global path, it doesn't become magically better maintained just because your wiki is backed by a repo.

Age without further context is in any case a terrible indicator of relevance. What's IMHO important is a culture of providing the context with your entries.
>(cough Rust cough)

Or Zig? What other potential C replacement are there?
I totally understand setting up manufacturing unit on agricultural land in India is a pain , also you should see it coming as you are using "agricultural" land for manufacturing. Also there is a dedicated industrial zone setup in each states and it would have been easier to do industrial setup there. But I totally get the point, its a cobweb of permissions and N.O.C , not even including under the table settlements , not sure if that was the case here.
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Three cheers for pointing out that this boils down to preference. In years programming C in teams and projects of various sizes and criticality, I've never come across a situation where the asterisk position actually made a difference, other than to incite grumbles from those who prefer it whatever which way. I sincerely look forward to a situation where it does make a difference to the maintainability or correctness of code in a way that can't be addressed with other language syntax, or impedes a team's ability to deliver reliable production software against whatever style guide or coding standard they've adopted.
Ah thanks, that's the case. There's definitely some wrongdoing there but it's murky who is responsible since Google actually got the lyrics from LyricFind who stole it from Genius.