skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The number of people in the US who have died due to government incompetence...

I don't think the US government has a monopoly on incompetence with regard to the pandemic.

We're seeing a massive uptick in cases in the UK at the moment, just a couple of weeks after the government encouraged people to go back to work and re-opened the schools and universities.

I live in a university city in UK. Since March we've been told at various times; to work from home if we possibly can, not to leave the area, to only leave the area to visit one other family, to go back to work if we can, to wear masks in indoor spaces, not to mix in groups of more than 12, not to mix in groups of more than 6... etc. etc. No-one seems to know what the regulations actually are from one week to the next... least of all those in charge.

Then, in the past couple of weeks, the new university year has come around and our city has had its annual influx of 100000+ students from all over the UK.

It's so insane it would be laughable, if it weren't putting lives at risk. You've got the city's inhabits being told to minimise contact with other people and not leave their local area unless absolutely necessary and then, after 6 months of following these guidelines we are suddenly inundated with 100000+ outsiders, from all over the country. And this is happening in university cities up and down the land.

If I'd been asked to come up with a scheme to deliberately spread the virus as widely as possible, I'd have been hard pushed to come up with a better one.

I don't know what the situation is elsewhere but in the UK there's also an obnoxious 'spin doctoring' effort ongoing on to try and take the blame for the failure to control the outbreak away from government and onto the people.

The fact that the UK government were one of the last in Europe to introduce a lockdown; the fact that they've done nothing but chop and change the rules & guidelines ever since, so that no-one actually knows what they are; the fact that the government ordered hundreds of thousands of people back to work, schools and universities while the pandemic was still not properly under control are all brushed under the carpet.

Instead, every government announcement on Covid emphasises that tougher measures will be needed if "people don't follow the guidelines". A nice bit of deflection, to blame the victims of their own incompetence for the failure to keep the pandemic under control.
In Temporary Containers settings:
Isolation tab, Global, Mouse click. Set "Ctrl/Cmd+Left Mouse" to anything but "Never".
NHS estimates put most people who died with covid as being likely to die within 6mo-1yr anyway, so your “5-20 more years” thought experiment is off by an order of magnitude.
https://stranger.idont.date/people.
Really not helping the condescending Googler stereotype there bud. Or perhaps its OK for you to be this way as a tech "elite" that makes $450k a year.
> Print was completely unbundled and commoditized by the Google and Facebook Super Aggregators.

Interesting to see some Substack authors countering this trend by re-bundling their products. Notably: https://everything.substack.com/
In the security industry, getting owned is usually considered a bad thing
If you're using phabricator [1] the "pull request" (diff) message becomes the commit message, including a link back to the diff with all of the comments.

This isn't perfect, if the file gets moved you can lose information, but for the most part, viewing the history of any file gives you all of the information you need. Tools like Xcode let you see the latest commit for every line of code, which is also very useful.

Our team switched to Github for a bit and we replicated the behavior with custom scripts to merge a pr by rebasing and using the pr body, the reviewers, and the pull request url as the commit message.

1. https://www.phacility.com/phabricator/
My bet is on 3 years, then it will be removed. Sorry for the people working on it, I wish you all the best.
> After 18 months engineers began an investigation after a

> cable replacement programme failed to fix the issue.

That sounds like the typical runaround you'll get from network engineers in the UK. It's shameful that an entire village was without proper internet for 18 months. You might think "what does it matter", but remember people run internet businesses or keep in touch with family & friends. Imagine how bad this situation would be for folks during COVID.

For myself the internet used to go down for days at a time, perhaps every couple of weeks. We had BT of speed-dial and knew how to get through the bot automation by mashing the keypad. For maybe 5 years we asked for this to be repaired and got the usual "it must be your system" or "unusually high traffic" - sometimes they would send an engineer down to try and sell us some hardware we didn't need. We even got a business line, but BT couldn't keep that going either.

Eventually we even started collecting signatures of local people willing to buy a fiber internet connection if we paid for one to be fitted and pretty much everybody backed it. Initially we were only asking local businesses, but the demand was high from everywhere. We only needed something like 10% of users to buy in to cover the original costs. After this BT was suddenly motivated to fit fiber and because of the preparations we had begun to make, it was fitted just outside our house.
179 Arrested in Global Dark Web Takedown
The author is right there with you on this. If we consider books a knowledge transfer tool then the basic literacy training provided by most education systems lacks the information pipeline and tooling you describe, see Matuschak on transformative tools for thought [0]. The basic problem space is summarized as "books are surprisingly bad at conveying knowledge, and readers mostly don’t realize it." [1]

0. https://numinous.productions/ttft/

1. https://andymatuschak.org/books/
By that you mean GPON, I guess? Not so here, where it is PTP. And an ISP with excellent peering.
ZIP files can: https://research.swtch.com/zip
What would FirefoxOS have brought to the average consumer or phone manufacturer?

If your selling points are “it’s all web apps and open source, isn’t that great!”, that is a…marketing challenge, to be sure.
I’ve got a Swift Cookbook on GitHub. Some might find it helpful:

https://github.com/melling/SwiftCookBook
My guess is this is the first PS5 rated / approved m.2.
William Cook's paper on the deeper meaning (TM) of the expression problem: "Object-Oriented Programming Versus Abstract Data Types" (http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~wcook/papers/OOPvsADT/CookOOPvsADT...)
What does 1491 teach us?
Blaming the customer isn't a great strategy. They should do customer research to understand these users and decide if they are a niche they should target or can safely ignore.
The Comp Thinking with Julia looks like the perfect intro class for all incoming MIT students. With suitably advanced problems: climate forecasting, epidemiology, convolutional image analysis and ray tracing ;)

https://computationalthinking.mit.edu/Fall20/
It wasn't built specifically for LinkedIn, it fills in the text from the URL: https://idont.date/people.who.indent.with.spaces
Building new Social Stock app and wanna hear you guys rip my idea
Am on a team building a new social investment stock app called Iris which allows you to follow your friends trades/portfolios in real time, check day/week/month demographic leaderboards, & follow "smart" money investors to create better informed stock decisions. The app live on the app store under "Iris Finance". AM here though to see what people think/rip into the idea so we can fix anything we need to.
Folks I'm just getting word that they're cancelling this product.
This really needs some context.
Looks like this Onion article has come true:

https://www.theonion.com/area-man-still-searching-for-hookup...
Revisiting DrupalCon Global: Drupal 7 and Drupal 8 End-of-Life
The returns are indeed diminishing. But in a multi-person household I can totally buy that 20Mbps just doesn't feel like enough. If one of you is doing a big download and then two more try to watch Netflix, that's going to suck. Some of this is made worse because of Buffer Bloat (which you should cure), but ultimately 20Mbps won't stretch very far in a typical 3-4 person household, and some British homes have half a dozen or more Internet users (a newborn isn't using the Internet, but both a toddler watching a cartoon and grandma catching up with old friends on Zoom are).

Also in practice the same services (even if with different branding) are offered to small businesses. If you can't afford to lease serious offer space that might come with dedicated fibre you'll be buying whatever the fastest broadband available to consumers is, and maybe paying extra for it. So if the best available was 20Mbps that's going to suck for an office of twenty people.

So I'm comfortable with plans that say (a) it makes sense to deploy fibre where you're going from scratch and (b) it makes sense to offer 1Gbps where practical even if most of your price sensitive customers are happy at more like 50Mbps. My scepticism is reserved for people who insist that (a) anything less than fibre to every home is a betrayal and (b) everybody "needs" gigabit or better because this will enable some mythical yet-to-be invented new service that justifies the excess.
Data and Reality, 2nd Edition
Comments are the why, code is the how.
That does assume that one closes Firefox, however. While Cookie Autodelete will remove cookies for a site within a few seconds† once the last tab is closed, and correctly handles tabs in containers.

†in case you're redirecting briefly for SSO or similar.
> Poor job prospects and nightly riots

I hope you don't actually believe that's what's happening in American cities.
+ Tilt (an addon that added 3d visualization of web-pages and their elements using Canvas).
Healthy Python Codebase
A surprising number of guys ask women out on LinkedIn.
We were about to leave for vacation in August. The night before we left, the power went off, then came back on. This happened 1, 2, 3, 20 times. I switched off the main breaker and then went outside to see if I could find out what was going on. Nobody was outside and it was hard to tell if other homes had electricity - a lot of people were gone on vacation themselves and it was still bright.

I tried calling electricians but couldn't get anybody out quickly enough so I ended up calling the power company. They dispatched a guy with a small truck with a short cherry-picker.

He was able to diagnose the problem as branches rubbing on the power line. He trimmed around it so I could turn the power back on. Our house was built in 1914 and the tree wasn't there. Somewhere over 100 years the tree in our neighbor's yard was planted and grew large enough to interfere with the power line.

While we were gone the power company replaced the connection with a shorter, more direct line that avoided the tree entirely.

As another poster said, I think your story is better because of your diagnosing the problem yourself.
Preview.app is just so good. It’s my favourite default Mac app by miles.

It and terminal.app have survived the thing Apple does where they update applications and remove all the application’s power to achieve anything.
> After entering data into these fields you can download the file to have the filled out version saved to your computer.

And then what? Fax it? Sounds like a missed opportunity to me. It would be nice if you can add a Submit button to have the data posted to the server, just like any other web-based form.
This site isn't specific to LinkedIn. You can fill it out with anything apparently, even triggering an SSL certificate error if you try to politely warn people on this very site that you are not currently interested in a nerdy, yet romantic relationship:
https://hacker.news.reader.idont.date/on.Hacker.News
What's the frame you find premature?
And this page helps how?
The problem is that updating Android this way doesn't fix the prevalent security issues in proprietary firmware from Qualcomm, e.g. the QualPwn vulnerabilities [1] from that allows remote takeover of the modem. Countless vulnerabilities like these are found every year, and currently-supported phones will get patches for them on a monthly basis, but those without BSP (board support package, i.e. drivers) updates will be left in the dust.

I suspect that the outdated downstream 3.4 kernel isn't even getting security fixes, so the QualPwn root takeover vulnerability (among many others) would be unpatched.

A big step in the right direction would be to work with Linaro, postmarketOS, and other parties actively involved in mainlining Qualcomm chipsets to forward-port the old SoC to a mainline kernel, or at least to a newer downstream Qualcomm kernel version. It's not trivial, but it's possible; I've ported my Pixel 2 XL with a Snapdragon 835 (kernel 4.4) to the 855's kernel version (4.14) with most features working. I never got around to finishing it and polishing it for daily use, but an actual company like Fairphone should have the resources to do so. In fact, there is already a WIP port of the FP2 to pmOS with a mainline kernel [2], and there's more mainlining work for it that has a decent amount of features working [3].

While this doesn't solve the firmware problems (which really can't be dealt with as even OEMs don't get a lot of the source code for the firmware), it still improves security (and performance!) by a lot since most severe vulnerabilities that users are most likely to be hit by are in the kernel. I think this is ultimately going to be the right way to go if Fairphone wants to keep updating devices for so long and patching as many security issues as possible.

Perhaps Fairphone could also negotiate a long-term support contract with Qualcomm? I noticed that the mid-range Snapdragon 660 that started on kernel 4.4 was officially forward-ported to kernel 4.14, probably due to some vendor requesting it.

Don't get me wrong: it's already much better than other manufacturers, and the BSP support problem is out of Fairphone's control, but it's still possible to make the best of the situation on the software side without relying on Qualcomm as much.

[1] https://blade.tencent.com/en/advisories/qualpwn/

[2] https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Fairphone_2_(fairphone-fp...

[3] https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Qualcomm_Snapdragon_800/8...
That’s what OP said yes. That features like PDF fill is essential while things like Pocket are basically non-core side projects.
Similar notion: Never, ever have more than a simple shell script invocation in your CI configuration.

So many projects I've worked on have had nontrivial build-logic or implicit assumptions in their CI configuration which leads to distrust of local reproducibility. Eliminate as many variables and steps to reproducibility as possible. At the very least, create a `ci.sh` script in your project and make all your CI invocations go through that.

If you avoid putting "raw" npm or whatever invocations in your CI config in the first place you won't be tempted to add "just one more option" to your CI config and forget to add that option when running locally.

Such a script also becomes a de-facto API for how to use your project. This can help immensely if all of a sudden, for example, you switch programming languages (or major versions) environment assumptions, etc.
That's good to know! I guess I didn't scroll down far enough to see the form.

But still, the thought of being propositioned on LinkedIn makes me shudder in discomfort.
yep: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24473294
I've been fielding these questions all day. Saying the same thing. It's for "DOS" so you can run _bash_. Ok? People got all excited for Prince of Persia... smh. +1
It's a shame "net neutrality" was co-opted by hostile corporate interests, because the original vision outlined in Tim Wu's 2003 paper was pro-consumer and likely would have led to a much better internet if ever pursued.

You can get his paper here: https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/128...
Google feeds Mozilla. I am astonished this extension is even available in the store.
> Instead, the downloader always had to pay a fine.

No. In many places simple copyright violation is not a crime, and so there are no fines. The rights holders can sue for losses. But this isn't a criminal case between the state and an alleged criminal, it's a case between two citizens (although one of them may be a corporate person).

There are things that tip copyright violation into a criminal offence: doing it as part of business (selling the DVDs that you've downloaded), doing it so much it materially affects the rights holders.
I had to disable it so I could use vim properly unfortunately.
"We exist only to design and launch products, which earns us huge bonuses, and not to actually maintain or improve them, which earns us nothing."
Does your operating system not support this natively from the print dialog?
> But for some reason, Americans (as a whole; I realise HN is probably different) act as if this situation is final and it cannot be fixed by Congress.

Yeah, I can't imagine why Americans don't have faith in the legislative process.

https://www.newsweek.com/mitch-mcconnell-grim-reaper-395-hou...
A small example of this I noticed recently: the Google Weather app (the one that's default in Android, at least for Pixel phones).

A few years ago it used to have air quality index. Then, it just disappeared one day for unknown reasons. According to this article, it disappeared in 2018 https://9to5google.com/2018/11/11/google-weather-missing-air...

So this bug fix or feature regression is probably sitting in their backlog somewhere. Now the past few weeks, the skies in the Bay Area have turned orange and there's extreme unhealthy air quality for weeks. And not a single Google developer thought, hey we really should prioritize fixing that air quality bug now? Does anyone at Google even use Android? How can the skies be orange and it's so dark during daytime from smoke that headlights are on, but no one noticed the Weather app doesn't have air quality index?
This is a great list! Thank you so much. I'll be getting in touch with you for more details. I'd love to learn more about hail and working at the Broad Institute.
These scripts become documentation. Not about what the commands are doing but WHY they are being ran. This in itself brings huge value.
Not really. Prosecutorial discretion is a thing.

Does prosecuting advance the interests of justice? Is this prosecution an efficient use of the limited resources of the prosecutor's office? Given that not everyone is prosecuted, is this prosecution consistent with our own internal standards or rules? How strong is the evidence in the case? How severe was the offense? What is the historical conduct record of the defendant?
But is total compensation competitive? I suspect it is closer than it seems since a career in the federal government can leave you retiring in your fifties getting nearly as much as you were making in the last few years until the day you die. Additionally, you continue to receive all the health benefits.

I don't know of any tech companies offering defined benefit plans and health insurance after you retire.
It makes it convenient to create a boilerplate disclaimer that specific avenues of interaction (including LinkedIn) are inappropriate to ask for dates.
An attempt to shame those people perhaps? I’m not sure it helps. It is just fun.
of course not. You can't threaten to cancel if there's no alternative.
More of the story can be found at [0] but no pictures of actual damage. strangely I cannot find pictures of the actual damage but this [1] NY Times article has a close up of the original torch before it was replaced

[0] https://thesocietyforgentlemenexplorers.com/2019/10/when-ger...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/13/nyregion/stat...
Finally https://sir.idont.date/in.hell
There's plenty of competition in this space - it's not like Airtable invented the genre. Smartsheet predates it by far and went public two years ago.
I met my fiancé unintentionally on LinkedIn. She reached out as recruiter to try and get in touch with HR at my company and we both had gone to the same university at the same time. She also included a link to her music in case I was interested.

I responded saying I had no idea how to help her as a software engineer but that I was surprised we hadn’t crossed paths. I said that I too was a musician and shared a link to some recording I made.

We started emailing due to mutual interest in concerts and our social meetup turned into a date.

It wasn’t intentional but it worked out :)
I didn't say they were wise. I said they took it seriously.
There's the possibility of taking it seriously and doing the wrong thing. There's not really any possibility of saying it's a hoax and doing the right thing.
That's disturbing.
That's what I guessed too. But I wish the author had mentioned something specific that was better with neuralink. There was only programmers were more efficient.
I hit the plateau but managed to break into FAANG, which doesn't seem to have the same plateau. In Cleveland, the plateau seemed to hover around $100K - $120K. I think FAANG or certain unicorn startups avoid the ceiling that most companies hit, though of course it's a challenge to get into them.
i think the confusion comes from the phrase "for those who prefer a DOS environment".

maybe it could be phrased as "for those who want linux but need to run DOS as their main OS"
> The problem is that Apple’s financing programs — both the one pictured above, and also the iPhone Upgrade Program — continue to be funded by 3rd-parties; Apple is making it easier to buy an iPhone, but is still focused on getting its money right away. And, as long as it sticks with this approach, its Apple One bundle feels more like a money-grab, and less like a strategic driver of the business.

To me, I see this as a finance play. Since rates are near zero (and will be for some time), you can effectively leverage your revenues on both ends: servicing debt and factoring accounts receivable.

Since Apple's customers are usually high income buyers, the AR ratings are already high, combined with low rates, means Apple gets 95%+ of the revenues up front. I'm not sure what period for the new subscriptions they have (whether its a quarterly or annual period), but whatever it is, it's genius.
Some people don't get boundaries.

Also, some boundaries are socially fluid; some people think it's grossly inappropriate to use what is obviously a professional contacts site for romantic contacts, and some people (https://futurehappyself.com/2017/09/24/i-met-my-husband-on-l...) do not.
URL of the app https://www.iris.finance/
I guess someone who thinks 'fixing' a problem, without finding out what is causing it, has a high probability of success, would be surprised when it did not work. They are probably surprised every time it doesn't work.
I linked this to a manager friend in SF:

> DeVry (for-profit school drowning in legal issues w/r/t quality and fraud) + non-CS "IT?" degree -- a public state uni would rate higher in general

> probably can drop the helpdesk job, it's a decade ago and has no bearing on CS/SWE/SDE

> can rephrase certain terms like "Used browserstack to check CSS." => "Cross browser + platform testing of CSS and responsiveness with Browserstack"

> seeing requirejs as a skill is very odd. I would not say good or bad, but just "odd", like it feels as if they are just looking for more things to list unnecessarily; in this regard you would want "webpack" or "rollup" in 2013-2014+ as a replacement

> drop the video resume, especially if the majority of it contains pauses and fillers like "uhh, um"

> for the automation developer role, I would be more interested in what CI/CD systems you were using rather than "multiple build steps" - were you running automated browser e2e in gitlab ci?

> your font wildly changes on the helpdesk job - missed copy/paste?
Oh, true, Linux actually uses the term in that context, somehow didn't think of that.