skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an addendum to the specialization thing, I think that Snapchat was built on Google App Engine basically because it happened to have a really good XMPP gateway or something like that? If anyone has details I'd be interested
Humans are adaption machines, information is only valuable to the extent that it is useful for our immediate and maybe some future higher order survival. Most isn't.
Interesting response to the other article on the Rust-Friday HN Homepage: Using Rust Macros to exfiltrate secrets ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27154534 )
Instead of punishing people for crimes they may have not committed (mistakes happen and innocent people go to jail way too often), why not allow altruistic people come forward as volunteers?
You live already in that world. I have already lost track of the number of "jabs" I've needed to travel to several countries, and this was way before COVID.
I used bitcoin.tax way back in 2018 and it was pretty smooth filing crypto related transactions
Much easier to ruin a career than mess with a corporate cash cow
Doing this, and then never ever following up on it, was how I learned that Chrome on Android changes the tab count to ':D' once you go over 100 tabs open.
Microsoft will retire its Azure Blockchain Service
> What if someone convinced your company to give you a raise and require you to work Saturdays?

I would personally take a raise + extra work. But I would never presume that I have things figured out to the point where I make a website and starting contacting companies so I can push my personal preferences as the clearly superior model for people I've never met in my life. Which is what OP is doing. That's what doesn't sit right with me.
> (They) would fully expect that by early July, all U.S.-based employees will be in the office on a consistent rotational schedule.

> Employee rotations at JPMorgan will be subject to a 50% occupancy cap until U.S. authorities revise their social-distancing guidelines, according to Tuesday’s memo. The bank advised workers that “with this time frame in mind you should start making any needed arrangements to help with your successful return.”

Why are you trying to make it seem like they told you to come in every day starting this week, whether you're vaccinated or not?

1. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-27/jpmorgan-...
And how much antibody response is enough? Is more always better? Or is it diminishing returns?

IIRC one of the tricky things in the development of mRNA vaccines was being careful to not overstimulate the immune systems, triggering autoimmune types of reactions.

It seems plausible to me that there is a "safe" level of immune response, and either too much or too little could be less desirable (maybe for different reasons).
Naysaying != skepticism.
I've always thought of programs as "functional prose". The notion of software engineering may have hidden this somewhat in the past few years, but the two domains have very much in common. Including various strategies to tackle them.

(From which follows somewhat implicitely: Whenever you set up a process for shared project development, also ask yourself, would this work for a shared writing effort?)
36MB is a fatally small container on Linux x86-64, and really nobody should try to use a memcg smaller than 128MB.
Meh. You could do this in C also. Nothing new here.
I would like to understand downvotes for what seemed like relevant, thoughtful questions posed in this comment.
A site that just publishes metadata and SHA-256 hashes for published papers could bootstrap this effort and might actually be legal, or at least would be an interesting court case to follow. I wonder if there have been any interesting legal decisions for that sort of thing?
If a Linux user suggested that, they'd be laughed out of the room. "Yeah, just use this semi-obscure command line tool to forward a port, then set your system to proxy through it" is a technically workable solution, but poor UX.
Most new Java language features seem to chase groovy features more than others, but then again many of the jvm langs do similar features to extend ahead of java's limitations.
I recently read about Shirō Ishii, a Japaneese microbiologist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirō_Ishii) who conducted human experiments during World War-II which resulted in death of close to 10000 humans. More interestingly he was given immunity from war crimes in exchange for full disclosure about his experiments. And the information he provided was deemed invaluable. From the wiki

it (experiment information) "could never have been
obtained in the United States because of scruples
attached to experiments on humans," and "the information
was obtained fairly cheaply."
That's orthogonal to the discussion.

You would anyway need UX designers for that, the issue is leaving that to the developers.

I do my own design sometimes but when I implement a well designed design by a real designer the end result is years light ahead
Pugs cannot give birth naturally. The continued existence of pugs is completely dependent on medical intervention. In other words, pugs are not real. They exist only to the degree that a painting or building exists. They require constant upkeep by an advanced society, which has never existed beyond a few thousand years at a time.

Why would anyone's vision for the future of humanity be an animal that can only exist in the context of an advanced civilization? Why would anyone's vision of humanity be an animal that is dependent for survival on <product> from <company> as though they were cattle? To reduce a human being to a dependent component of a pharmaceutical production chain is an abhorrent moral hazard.

Smallpox was made extinct, and other diseases may be made greatly reduced because they are unique to humanity. But the many coronaviruses are shared between mammals, and are an eternal component of the environment. We have a moral obligation to evolve to suit the environment. That is what it means to be a successful animal.
> much of the most expensive stuff in the process isn’t parallelised

Are you sure? Markdown and template rendering of all pages/sections and image processing is done in parallel. I expect those to be the most expensive stuff. The things that are currently done sequentially are taxonomies (an oversight, the pages in them are rendered in parallel) and the search index generation (oversight as well).
Lizardman's Constant is 4% (2013)
India's vaccine drive went horribly wrong
Please don't break the HN guidelines like this. Fulminating, fault-finding, blaming rants hit on everyone's indignation and attract upvotes, and when we end up being a site where this is the top comment on the top submission, and the whole place fills up with toxic fumes. This isn't the community any of us wants to have.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I use macos for my desktop, but it has gradually become a terminal emulator + firefox + mail. and for mail, I won't move to catalina mail because they nerfed it.

Eventually this will all be linux. I just have to make the time to figure out a good desktop setup.

EDIT: actually preview (space bar in finder) on macos is quite useful.
I believe it was a gasoline pipeline, so the price per barrel is a lot more than that.
No, the vaccinations required for travel were virtually never expected to be taken on an annual basis but rather were good for years. For example, not only was the UN yellow-fever vaccination certificate good for 10 years, but recently the WHO announced that the yellow-fever vaccine now appears to confer life-long immunity, so border officials should accept the certificate regardless of the date on it.
is it possible to include wasm in Tauri apps?
Maybe I'm an idealist, but university should be more than learning algorithms so that you can pass a coding test and get a job. As others have already commented, if you want to learn work skills, go to a trade school.
An Elegant Sufficiency, or the Curious Case of a Victorian Meme (2018)
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I don't know that it is. You should have seen my last workplace.
"Sapience time measurement is sophisticated and designed to be resilient to simple manipulatio nattempts. Merely keeping the computer on for longer or watching videos instead of working does not increase Input. Rather, it would require having the relevant work software as the active window,and giving continuous user input (via mouse, keyboard)."

doesn't sound that sophisticated to me lol. in any case their claim that their output measure (completed tasks) is "rigorous and objective" is questionable to put it mildly: "The company uses a normalized measure of output to make different jobs and roles comparable.For example, for a programmer the output measure might be programming tasks completed divided by tasks assigned, times 100. For other roles, Output might be the number of reviews (e.g., of code) completed relative to the monthly target, or the number of reports delivered relative to the target.". no mention made of the relative effort required for each programming task, or the quality of reports delivered - not to mention no assessment of whether those targets accurately measure anything that's beneficial to the company.
The most promising one is makepad.dev IMO. It works on Mac/Windows/WebGL afaik
Honest question, what's wrong with Finder? I use ForkLift for the heavy lifting (lol), but it works just fine for "navigate to file, open/move/delete file, sort by size/date, tag files, find files".
Goldman Sachs banker quits after making millions on cryptocurrency
Docs for an Open Source Project
Great work!
A bit of an edge case, but you do not handle cyrillic (and potentially other non-latin URLs) correctly. кц.рф didn’t work for me.
Care to explain? I'm not saying Finder is great, but I find it perfectly usable and I've never noticed it drop features willy nilly (as was the case with Nautilus back in the day).
You could even send ETH to the Secret Network and perform token swaps and then send it back to a clean address.
This is actually because of a cargo cult fetishization of longer texts. As most people moved to rapid consumption of many disjoint sound bites, knowledgeable people read more than headlines. Those who then wished to emulate these decided that anything long is meaningful leading to a fetishization of “long form” prose.

You’ll see a pretty high correlation between fans of “long form”, readers of The Atlantic and The New Yorker, and political inclination around being perceived as erudite.

It’s one of those cargo cult mixed with a measure becoming a target.
Interesting that you comment on the part from the Treasury Department, and not the WP piece. The latter references the Senate committee, stating that Kilimnik received highly sensitive campaign data and designated him as a Russian agent. If anything needs skepticism its people like Mate and Greenwald.
For me it was about making a statement.

I had gotten into an argument with a professor on a discussion board. He used derogatory terms to refer to me, which pissed me off. I sent him a virus that was supposed to just damage files and delete some random files. It turns out it propagated onto their main network and crashed the entire universities network.

Suddenly, you feel untouchable (even though the virus had gotten out of control, which I didn't mean it to do). You feel like you can do anything and are beyond the reach of law enforcement. I'd never done anything like that and you felt really powerful, in control. You now had this idea if someone slights you, you have something to shut them down and they can't reach you.

Then the feds show up in your class, bring you to a windowless room on campus you didn't even know existed and start threatening you with jail time while they question you. This happened in the late 90's and the CFAA was still really new and DA's really didn't know how to apply it. I was pretty lucky for sure. The stuff they were threatening me with was like interference with interstate commerce, identity theft, stuff like that. They gave me the old, "You have a bright future kid, don't fuck it up." speech at the end. That was enough to scare me straight so to speak. I lost my campus network access for a year, which sucked, but the whole experience was enough for me to stop doing what I was doing.

It was just in time too, because you saw during the early aughts, the feds really started going after hackers. They started using the broad powers of the CFAA to put some really high profile people in jail with some pretty hefty prison times. To this day, I still look back and feel like I dodged a bullet there.
?? That’s a non-sequitur.

I’m sure if this person feels that just walking in is “culturally intrusive”, then, if they walked in they’d behave like an adult and that would be beside the point?
I'm curious which PFC they are using. A cursory search indicates that PFCs are hazardous to our health. Benzene in particular.
Agreed! The elephants in the room for me are the self-reported hours (Did "hours worked" really increase, or was that time spent changing laundry and running errands that got classified as work time) and the obvious confounder of children being at home rather than in school.
Why the F would anyone use "oh, you can build spam tools with our software!" as the demo?
LA just got America’s first electrified, tech-packed fire truck
...that doesn't sound helpful, to be honest. My experience with group projects wasn't that nobody knew how to coordinate, but that people didn't -want- to. The person who was content to take a C on the project would just not do anything they were responsible for. The person who wanted an A would end up doing it. The professors had no formal method for checking in with the team, nor any real teeth for those who dodged their responsibilities, so even if it was communicated and the slacker(s) took a grade hit, it wasn't much.

(For reference, I had that happen at least twice in school, where the group of us broke up the work and scheduled check-ins, and by the end of it only I had done my part...though being cynical, as the team missed check-ins with various excuses, I had also done everyone else's because I cared about my grade)

Unlike the real world, where if someone is allocated work, and doesn't do it, a manager deals with it. Professors are not interested in being managers.

That said, it DOES sound useful for the real world, where the incentives are better aligned.
The US doesn't have an official language, nothing preventing anyone from running a store using only Lojban if they wanted.
It's one of the reasons I self-published my novel. Of course it may well be it's not good enough and that it would never in a thousand years get picked up by a publisher. But I was certainly not willing to spend months or years even finding out if a publisher wanted it, when I could get it into the hands of readers myself within a few months of finishing writing.

[if you want to maximise the chance of "making it big" traditional publishers are more likely to be able to make that happen, but for my part it's a hobby first and foremost, so that wasn't really a consideration I cared about at the odds of that are extremely poor anyway]
Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26194990 - Feb 2021 (417 comments)
I came across this article when googling to see if a variant upon it from my own family was a quotation!
Any functioning society would gladly sacrifice a serial killer to save millions of innocent children.
We'll see about that whenever Discord wants to cleanup their act for a buyout/IPO/advertiser/whatever and they start banning things that are not corporate-friendly.

Many internet users sure love complaining about "muh free speech" post-facto when they're more than happy to buy into closed ecosystems in the first place.

This is not aimed at you personally by the way, I'm just always frustrated to see this pattern repeating itself year after year and yet users keep hoping to new proprietary platforms. "No but we swear it's different this time you guys!!".
Sure thing, I'll edit the post. Edit: Oh, OK, well nevermind then.
Agreed. To call it terrorism would water down the meaning of the word.
On the other hand, it might send potentially negative signals. Someone who "hacks" on a less-used language might have a programming language fetish, i.e. "why would you ever use Java...Rust is better in every way". And yes, I've met a few of those.
Can you use these urls in tweets?

If so, how many of these urls would fit in a tweet?
As frequently reported in the last year, only a small niche of the scientific community is optimistic that COVID can be eradicated through vaccination. Smallpox had no animal reservoirs, while COVID does.

> Yes people need to take yearly vaccines not to die of horrible diseases. That has been the case for the last few hundred years.

No, it hasn’t. The only common annual vaccination is for influenza, it was introduced only in recent decades, and, as I mentioned, only half the population or less take it annually.
I suggest renaming Hacker News Rust news.
Never Work for Amazon
In the equality utopia the beautiful ones would have to wear masks, and the strong ones would have to wear weights. So everyone would be equal
Since there really isn't any set maximum, I didn't have anything to base it off of. I might actually remove that section since I've seen 24k-long URLs work perfectly fine. Also I would have to do some reworking to have that happen since the url lengthening is all browser-side right now.
This community is as susceptible to fashion trends as any other.
Social behavior shows that what you consider “local” varies in scale. And that scale often is beyond the individual.
They don't actually own the oil they're pumping, right? So if their billing was compromised to the point that they don't know what oil needs to be pumped where, they had a legal duty to refrain from pumping it willynilly.
BT's $700M Job to Rip-and-Replace Huawei 5G
> The evidence we have points to Patient Zero being nowhere near the City of Wuhan.

I've heard this a number of times, but where is the evidence? Where does it point to Patient Zero being (from)?
Understandable, in my case I commuted by bike in 20 min, I have changed 40 min of healthy biking for 2+ hours of extra work.

And these are not cold numbers from an study, it is my reality and it can explain my bad mood of the last times.
You can be lazy with your malice, I think.
Yes. That is what I'm saying. If consent needs to both informed and continuous, it's not possible. It's fundamentally broken.
It's also new for a presidential candidate to literally ask for their assistance on live TV.
I agree it's awful, not to mention the fact that employees weren't informed of the Microsoft tracking software being used in the firstplace, but what's funny is that according to their analytics having yr IDE open & wiggling the mouse cursor counts as "engaged in a relevant task". whereas going on Twitter to get answers about a programming question would be counted as unproductive social media use
This sounds like the opening intro to a dystopian movie.
You might be thinking of this paper about very extensive data from Israel: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2101765

One conclusion a friend of mine wrote about this is "One other surprising thing which is not obvious, but is made very clear from the results, is that it really takes real time for this vaccine to get effective. It only starts becoming truly useful after 2 weeks, but even then keeps getting better with time. This effect is one reason why there was a very real lag between when Israel got vaccinated at a very high percentage of population and when the cases started freefalling (2-3 weeks+). "
Hardly. CP/M-68K was quite well known and it is still in use today -- for instance, here is a modern, build-it-yourself 68008 machine that runs CP/M-68K:
https://hackaday.io/project/177988-68k-mbc-a-3-ics-68008-hom...

One from a decade ago:
https://makezine.com/2010/02/17/building-a-cpm-68k-computer-...

Remember the SORD M5 home computer? CP/M-68K also ran on its big brother, the SORD M68:
https://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=218
With bitcoin you can produce infinitely many public keys/addresses without your private keys ever touching an internet device.
Check front page of HN :)
It might not even be a shot. Would it still be an issue if it was a nasal spray that you can buy at your pharmacy once a year?
i need to check, but i think twitter breaks when you paste one in :grimace:
I think it is because it is not implemented the way (I imagine) URL shorteners to be implemented with a database back-end to map the short tokens to the actual sites. Instead it just performs a reversible transform on the URL. This way the site is really just a static website (and I imagine a lot cheaper for the owner who can't be interested in laying out a lot of money for this).

But this is just a lot of speculation on my part which means I'm probably wrong about at least one aspect.
I think implicit conversions were added originally to support Java compatibility without boilerplate code.

It then turned out that they could be used to simulate extension methods, which is probably the main use case for implicit classes in Scala2.

And implicit parameters were probably just the result of trying to make type classes modular.

The CanBuildFrom approach came later than implicit parameters (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1722726/is-the-scala-2-8...).
I think it's very common in Europe to adapt your working hours to your situation in life. Many of my European friends decrease their hours for a small pay cut since they have children now or have to take care of elderly. Just call HR and discuss the deal. Done.

I recently worked for a Belgium startup in the NY office. Many of my coworkers in the old world had an agreement to work less for less pay. When I asked my HR in US to reduce hours for less pay due to Covid-19 the answer was exactly like OP listed: "we have always done it this way... it's not possible in US ... if you decrease your hours by one hour you will count as half-time employee and lose all benefits".

In an instant I would give up 20% pay for an extra day off. Covid-19 is far from over and lots of parents are still juggling all sorts of issues.
So, they basically admit that the rationale behind masks, 6-feet distance, etc. are invalid, and then at the end, double down on the same advice. Why? Because admitting that (like measles and other viruses) this virus can spread from apartment to apartment, and in urban areas house-to-house, especially at night when wind speed is low, will panic people too much.

It appears that we are going to get the harsh, unvarnished truth (nothing but a vaccine really helps much) in small pieces, to see how much people can tolerate. But we are getting more than a year ago.
I thought it was a documentary?
Back in the early days of web hosting I recall that a customer had a domain name that was literally as long as ICANN would allow at the time. It was very nearly a full sentence. I don't recall the limit but this domain

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.com

is 57 characters (not including .com) and I think that sounds familiar. One could have a lot of fun with that if they wanted to (and such as was done in this case).

Then there's

http://llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogog...
The Finder doesn't even allow me to middle-click to open a folder in a new tab, it's horrible. I miss KDE Dolphin.
Vertical tab in Microsoft Edge is a game changer for me. With it, it is easier for me to scan what tabs I have open, which makes it easier for me to close tabs that I no longer need.
The nasty battle between Silicon Valley and the reporters who write about it
One thing I will say is if you are happy to walk an hour, London is fantastic. Most people don’t want that on their daily commute.

London is in a weird political situation too - the national government is conservative but the mayor is labour. So it’s politically expedient for national government to fuck up London for political points - especially transport budgets.