skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unrelated, but I clicked and found this is really good advice up front:

https://stallman.org/articles/dont-watch-covid-tv.html

I know people who cannot move on with their lives or adjust because of overwhelming anxiety due to COVID.

Actually I had a friend who had overwhelming anxiety due to Trump's election too. He thought we were in danger of being killed by North Korea because Trump and the leader were exchanging words a few years ago. It was media saber rattling, but sometimes people can't tell the difference when the they are constantly being shouted at with alarmist "news".

What I do instead is visit the LOCAL newspaper for the COVID guidelines in my area, maybe once a week. Follow the guidelines, but otherwise move on with your life to the degree possible.
When Alaska and Wyoming have the same number of senators as California and New York, the problem becomes not the lack of resources or even the wild inefficiency of serving rural communities, which are problems everywhere in the world that nonetheless have better infrastructure, but plainly, Republicans, which only exist here.
"If you want to rule with ease keep the serfs uneducated and hungry." part of will of Shah of Iran Agha Mohammad Khan to his successor, 1742.
>Man, this thread really bringing out the worst of Hackernews and its so disappointing but unfortunately not surprising to see the complete lack of capacity for empathy from some of the other heavily downvoted commenters.

Now you know.
>I subscribe to the Keynesian philosophy that the government should at the very least hire displaced workers to dig holes in the ground and fill them back up.

Keynes didn't actually advocate this. He just said that it would be stimulative to do this - i.e. that it was sufficient as a means of escaping a liquidity trap.

He was much more keen on public works programs "government as an employer of last resort" that built things like the Lincoln tunnel.

I find it deeply ironic that this myth of what he said is most popular among gold bugs - people who advocate digging up gold and subsequently burying it.
> ” in most cups in the past, let's say, 20 years, there is an eliminatory game with an equally great or greater goal”

What? I honestly can’t remember of a single one. Which goals are you thinking of?
I mean, sure, we're not there yet. If the Guix folks are able to get a bootstrap path going all the way from something like stage0, though, we'll be in a pretty good place I think: http://bootstrappable.org/projects/mes.html

Maybe the current state is closer to WhatsApp than where we'd really like to be, but that should be a challenge rather than a reason to give up.
CodeShip basic builds are not building
Yes, pygame can use the Pi graphics hardware. It supports vulkan, OpenGL, OpenGL ES, and some other modes through SDL2.

Note, the CPUs on the Pi are faster than the gfx hardware, and gfx is usually memory bandwidth limited.
Apathy is an expression of helplessness. Consumers rightfully understand they have virtually no power over whether companies make do things like make products impossible to repair. This is a problem to be fixed at the level of government.
Biohazard: Iconic Symbol Designed to Be “Memorable but Meaningless” (2016)
Why? Are people with deep technical knowledge, both soft and hard, not allowed to profit from that knowledge? Can you point to some conflict of interest in writing a book, speaking, and being a professor while a private citizen? Are you just against capitalism?

The man spent his entire adult life in service to this country and never profited from it while in the act of that service, which you can't say for many of his colleagues.
I was late to the party and didn't start until ANTLR4 https://pragprog.com/titles/tpantlr2/the-definitive-antlr-4-...
I will do it for half of whatever parent will charge. We also have ping pong and kombucha on tap in the waiting room.
Sharjeel,

Good list of topics to cover. Check week 6 though

WEEK 6— Tress

If you’re interviewing for Amazon then Tress are the must-know concept.
I wonder where anti-abortion people come down on this. In their view, isn’t destroying the male egg the same as culling the male chick?
Anecdote time. My GF is an OT, burnt out as hell, and pushing through it. Walking away means just not being paid for a while, because the options are either 1) go to a different facility, which wouldn't make anything better because the whole industry is struggling with covid, or 2) go to a job outside the industry, which means reskilling or making unskilled wages with a bachelor's+master's sized mountain of student loan debt, or 3) just quitting and burning through savings for a while.

Before covid, it was already an abusive job. She doesn't quit a job that is super abusive because it feels like abandoning patients. Her employers take advantage of that. And then the world goes "thanks docs and nurses" and then the rest of the industry on the front lines is like, yeah I guess we're invisible. And if her wages did go up, everyone would just gripe about how abusive it is that healthcare (a human right!) costs so much. She puts up with so much horrible shit, working so much harder than I do for so much less, because her patients really, really matter to her.

If you judge healthcare workers for walking out, understand that they're dealing with tremendous pressure and abuse. If you judge healthcare workers for not walking out, like they're just getting what's coming, reaping what they sow, understand that they do this for reasons that aren't just money, and be thankful that they are willing to give more than they get.

They're burning out helping people. Have empathy.
Reminds me of: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure"

When you're advertising uptime/availability, you're motivated not to report downtime/unavailability. Then the value of such reports is lost; developers start banging their heads trying to figure out if it's a service outage or a bug in their software (yes, informed by personal experience).
Curious what people think about hCaptcha?
That's a subtle point but I think you may be making the right distinction here. There's a difference in both style and ethos between the regular view of the site and the kinds of things that moderators need to keep track of.
And I can't tell, if you are serious by implying the US Army has secretly achieved a working fusion reactor.
They're of the same ilk as Oracle/SAP.

They need to absorb things so their sales team can say "oh we have X feature" regardless of its actual implementability and just leave it to the consultants to struggle and somehow implement a half baked solution that doesn't work in the end.

Oh but that's how they make money also. More products, more features, more crappy integrations = more service contracts, more consulting work, etc.

All a huge scam that enterprises are forced into because they don't want to be "left behind in the digital economy."
In the last couple years Ive been regretting only opting for 8gb ram in my 2015 13" MBP.
"The US FDA refused to approve thalidomide for marketing and distribution. However, the drug was distributed in large quantities for testing purposes, after the American distributor and manufacturer Richardson-Merrell had applied for its approval in September 1960.[citation needed] The official in charge of the FDA review, Frances Oldham Kelsey, did not rely on information from the company, which did not include any test results. Richardson-Merrell was called on to perform tests and report the results. The company demanded approval six times, and was refused each time. Nevertheless, a total of 17 children with thalidomide-induced malformations were born in the US. Oldham Kelsey was given a Presidential award for distinguished service from the federal government for not allowing thalidomide to be approved for sale in the US.[42] "

Although not perfect, the FDA seemed to do the right thing in the case of Thalidomide.
And what is the inrush airspeed when you have that large of a vacuum?

Zero to Mach 5 or 6 just seems like an instantaneous disassembly manuever, both for the craft and the centrifuge itself. Did they find a way to suppress a sonic boom at the exit point?
It's not like ground-up male chicks are wasted. They're used in dog food, fertilizer and possibly Chicken McNuggets.
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Apple develops not just macOS, but also application software like Logic and FCPX. The engineers writing that code need to test it on full-scale projects (probably projects on loan to them from companies like Pixar.)

But moreover, changes to foundational macOS libraries can cause regressions in the performance of this type of software, and so macOS developers working on systems like Quartz, hardware developers working on the Neural Engine, etc., also work with these apps and their datasets as regression-test harnesses.

See also: the Microsoft devs who work on DirectX.

All of this testing requires "workstation" hardware. (Or servers, but Apple definitely isn't making server hardware that can run macOS at this point. IIRC, they're instead keeping macOS BSD-ish enough to be able to write software that can be developed on macOS and then deployed on NetBSD.)
Show HN: Solve with backtracking and visualize with animation Sudoku puzzle
It acts as a virtual camera if you're wondering
In 30+ years I have only received spam on any of those addresses. I suppose that means that "abuse" is appropriately named :-/

A couple of years ago I pointed them at /dev/null. I considered rejecting them but that would not be compliant.
I don't think they have the ability to keep a secret like that. A couple reasons:
1. The act of keeping the secret makes the tech useless. If it's not incorporated into equipment that could use it (e.g. a naval vessel, an isolated firebase) then what good is it? And if it is incorporated and there's a bunch of 20 year old techs working on it, it's going to leak.
2. I don't think they're that bad of people. If they could save us from global warming with fusion tech, not doing so would be a great tragedy. And historically at least the US military just isn't that selfish. For example, they opened up GPS even when they didn't have to. I think they get that a richer/stronger public means a richer/stronger military.
Ask HN: What works well in virtual conferences?
Have you attended any virtual conferences? Professional or otherwise?

Tell me about the things that worked well. This could be anything, from presentation tips, to efficiently-managed breakout rooms, to finding ways to engage participants. How did it make a difference? Give me details!

I’m writing an article about how companies can run better online events, so thinking in terms of “good ideas worth stealing.” Leave out the disappointments; I want to focus on the positive practices.

If you’ve run a virtual event I’m interested in your opinions too, but keep in mind that this is framed as tips-and-tricks worth sharing.
This is exactly what I got out of it as well!
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25209773 (on front page) for more discussion about the outage.
>Arguably firefox won't let you opt-out of automatic updates

Yes it will, but you need to create a policy and be using version 60 which includes the Enterprise Policy Engine.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/products/firefox-enterpris...

The Enterprise Policy Generator add-on will help create the policy file.
Office 365 spies on employees for bosses
What can't you just block him? Why is the a report option at all?
These are direct messages, why are they treating it like a public platform?
Something that strikes me about FreeBSD is you need a certain amount of knowledge going in. On Linux, you can set up a desktop pretty easily. Then you can find out more advanced stuff later on. BSD just dumps you into a shell. You have to know to install this or that metapackage to get a graphical display going and the concepts are different enough from Linux land so that it takes you a while to get going and feel comfortable
Welcome to entire roles. It's about hitting a checklist.

Or, they just didn't like you for another reason and that's an easy excuse.
A PGP capable email client running on your device. Better would be some sort of air gapped device like a Yubikey.
Show HN: Solve with backtracking and visualize solutions of Eight Queen puzzle
100% agree on the fact women get a ton more interest, there are studies and blogs about it, including this experiment:
https://jonmillward.com/blog/attraction-dating/cupid-on-tria...

However, what is interesting, and what they talk about in the link above, a highly attractive women (good pics), will get 10-20x the interest than just an “okay” looking woman.

To your point on software engineer... no woman really cares too much... (unfortunately). There are dozens of software engineers already expressing interest in her, the question that you need to answer for her is “What makes you special?” Can you make her laugh? Do you and her share common interests, etc. Anyway, not a professional here... all of this is based on my observations and “intense learning” over the last 3 months of being single again.
And Messi also did the replica of the other goal (hand of God) against Espanyol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i37HfAE1X8Y
For solving our problems as a species/society/individual we should assume physics is basically over. We should assume either there is not much more to find, or even if there is a lot more there isn't a way to make new technology leverage it.

We don't make this assumption because it is true. I honestly don't think it is true but we should make this assumption because we must ignore the attractive hazard of seeing simply waiting for new physics and new technology to be the solution to our problems.
On the gun thing, I'm not sure what you're talking about. I just tried searching for "gun safety" on YouTube and got tons of results.
You send them the messages, by opt-in, your version seems to suggest something else. Simplest thing is to just stick to the guidelines and use the original title, then add the thing you want to highlight in a comment. The other way ends up taking a non-clickbait title and making it clickbait.
You are correct on all points. The public story is energy, the real story is more about stockpile stewardship. Since we will never derive commercial power from fusion, it would be foolish of Congress to continue to fund this sector with that in mind:

http://progressive.org/op-eds/let-cut-our-losses-on-fusion-e...
>they're likely just like you and me, learning on the fly and doing their best

Correct. In my experience of working at a cellphone repair shop, we looked up most Android repairs on iFixit and/or YouTube before quoting a price. If a tutorial suggested that there was a high likelihood of breaking a given part (usually the screen) during the replacement of an unrelated one, we would throw the cost of that part into the initial quote. Apple products are standard enough that the repairs which can be done were well known to everybody, and we didn't have to research those before giving a quote.
Also, what's to stop us from breeding fat and delicious roosters? It's amazing what selective breeding can accomplish in a few generations, especially with marker assisted selection. Evolution has its own traits "it" has selected for in roosters, but we could easily have our own.
You're right, I misspoke. I meant across regions.

All the abstractions AWS offers (like RDS) make it easy to replicate across regions, but of course not everyone uses those.
You are working on migration plans because there were some rumors about a possible future acquisition?
Yes, it walks your through it step by step. I have https://pragprog.com/titles/tpantlr2/the-definitive-antlr-4-... and at least 1 more of his, forget where it is. I would say it is ageless (at least, until something better than ANTLR comes along—ohm is promising but not sure what the latest is with that).

"The Definitive ANTLR 4 Reference" is absolutely the most understated title I've ever seen in a book. It's really more like "The Book That Will Change How you Look at Programming Languages Forever"

IMO anyway. I guess it depends on how much you've been exposed to parsers and grammars and compiler compilers already.
Stop promoting bad faith arguers, even if you agree with the conclusion? Stop mobbing people for "enabling" $BAD_GUYS and start praising people for catching and dismantling bad arguments even if the argument served the cause which you agree with? I am not seeing this happening much though, it'd require saint-level commitment to the quality of argument which probably not many are capable of and not many would consider a good thing to do.
I am Iranian, just out of my master's degree in Iran, no need to tell me :D . In Iran most of platforms are filtered(twitter, youtube, ...) the TV is national and day and night shows obvious propaganda for government and against anybody they don't approve or anyone who is critical of them. Science, Logic and etc isn't really concerning the major outlets.
Freenet didn't take off in part because there one hosts all kinds of distributed files you don't know the content of, because they are encrypted, but if someday that encryption algorithm is broken, there is a strong chance many people were (unwittingly, but still) hosting child pornography.
I can see a bunch of use cases and pivots! I'd make it for Chrome so you could use it in the education market for example.
To be fair, zoom feels the same. Utterly incoherent and ugly UI without any thought for UX.
But it gained a lot of traction. So maybe it's not that important.
Three members of TMT cybercrime group arrested in Nigeria
there's also https://stop.lying.cloud/
How’s Facebook treating ya?
OBS is already miles ahead in this regard: better customizability, better integration with existing platforms, free, etc.

imo, mmhmm is simple and is really good for presentations in my experience, so perfect fit for corporate workplace crowd
Yea, I was around when Greenwald was devoting much of his time writing against New Atheism's anti-Muslim slant [1]. I am not sure what about criticism of U.S. warmongering is "SJW BS" but I'd be interested to hear the connection. Identity animus can be co-opted by powerful factions just as easily as identity politics...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/apr/03/sam-ha...
Inverse imposter syndrome: I suspect most people of being incompetent at their jobs and just faking it.
There is this Netflix movie “my octopus teacher” where the octopus develops rather advanced hunting and camouflage techniques. Like how it knows how to handle sharks or how to build a shell for itself to hunt a particular type of food. That seems quite intelligent and beyond observing humans studiously in labs.
6-step plan to productively talk about climate change with your family
> I suggest listening more to what vegans have to say about veganism rather than what meateaters have to say about it.

That is precisely what brought me to my conclusion.

> As I said before, I think you're prejudiced towards vegans and don't really understand what we're about.

To the extent that I see the vocal base as having an absolutist view compared to yours, yes. If you're insinuating more connotations associated with your choice of words prejudice, no. You don't know me.

That view is not terribly dissimilar from my own, so I'll grant I understand it well. Congrats on defying my expectations. I was confident you would not.
Sure, if narrowing the set of people you accept increases your match rate this strategy makes sense. But it's not the case in most online dating. The subset of people you're interested in are individuals, who all have different tastes. You can't show different profiles to different people, so a targeted approach is not feasible. Those 5 goth girls Bob is interested in like different types of men.

Likewise, spending a day on crafting a cover letter and resume is a waste of time. A customized cover letter and resume probably takes 15-30 minutes, tops. Why are you worried about forming a connection in an interview when you don't even have an interview yet? Spend a day researching the company in depth once you have an interview scheduled.
Why is that more true for football than it would be for, say, tennis, where hawkeye has been in operation for and widely accepted for years?
Mariko Kasako had a lovely talk on weaving, punch cards, & her own neat DIY work. Fun talk, some good history there too, with a bit of the modern too. The Jacquard loom is featured!

https://youtu.be/e7wwuZnnM9k
I'm thinking of making something like that, the hard part if working with QuickTime apis on Mac to get a virtual camera going.
Ironically I can't even load that page
Vendors MAY use TLS, and Apple didn't (though they say they'll start).

You might want to read the RFC, rather than a blog post about it, before making such confident pronouncments.
We switched a couple of months ago. Integration wasn't more or less difficult, works alright with our test suite. Some users feedback "Why do I have to identify boats?" but otherwise we found no difference number of blocks or user behavior.
JetBrains IDEs, although I'm sure some would disagree with me there
Why are nuclear plants so expensive?
That would definitely help code reviews and maintenance. Is there anything similar for Python?
Thanks for proving my point :)
I see it, but even deeply conservative states do teach the principles of critical thinking. Picking Alabama as a random example (https://www.alsde.edu/sec/sct/COS/2016%20Revised%20Alabama%2...):

* their curriculum explicitly aims to develop "lifelong, critical thinkers"

* they feel "reading, writing, and
critical thinking continue to play central roles in the development of literate individuals"

* students learn to "Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is valid and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; identify false statements and fallacious reasoning"

I understand that you're saying beliefs such as creationism don't stand up to any real critical thought, and I agree. But I feel the same way about many beliefs that left-leaning people tend to hold.
This, I think, is such an important point. We hold too many powerful people in our society less accountable then those with less power. We should be striving to achieve the opposite, the more powerful you are, the more accountable you are, the harsher the penalty is for abusing that power.

If I say something inflammatory on HN, it will get flagged, downvoted, potentially result in a temporary or permanent ban, but if the POTUS says something inflammatory on Twitter, we're all just supposed to let it go? It makes no sense, I am, in the grand scheme of things a nobody, and the POTUS, no matter who occupies that position, is one of, if not the, most powerful person(s) in the world. The current occupant is currently screaming "RIGGED ELECTION" on Twitter, and they're not supposed to put some context, note that it is false?
I think you make good arguments, but #1 is a typical techie argument: Why would I ever use $SaaS if I could just cobble something together with rsync and Excel?
Well, because $SaaS is a much more polished product with all the headaches removed.
All that says is dumping money into an election in a constitutional republic designed specifically to put limits on authoritarian power does not guarantee victory.

I'm comfortable saying there is considerable evidence to back up the argument. However, I suspect any researcher who put forth such a hypothesis might have difficulty finding a grant. Take from that what you will.
Look that first goal broke my heart.
However, real football has uncertainty, it has games where you were robbed. Games where the referee blow the whistle a fraction before the ball hits the net (no goal). When a goal is given you can celebrate, especially in a live match. Now VAR robs something of the game. The second goal would not have happened with the first goal being ruled against. Not driven the next England side to semi-final to almost avenge the 1st goal. VAR is terrible. Football without VAR is like live - full of injustice, full of revenge, full off real emotions.