skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
San Diego CA for that So Cal laid back beach atmosphere plus a good tech scene if you are or can be oriented toward biotech.

Santa Fe NM - feels like it has roots. Unique culture and great food. National Labs - Sandia and Los Alamos not too far away for a good science flavoring.

Boulder CO - great outdoor recreation opportunities, university and research institutes support science and tech vibe
Nothing much. If the infection breaks out near you, avoid crowds, wash your hands frequently, and don't touch your face (especially nose) with said hands. SARS and it's ilk kill the old and sick, not the young, so avoid your grandparents or elderly parents.

If there's little or no infection near you, I wouldn't do anything yet.
Northern Light.
I like the position of kneeling chairs, but when I tried one (a very long time ago), I found the pressure on my shins uncomfortable.

These days I use a fixed yoga ball chair [1] which promotes generally the same posture, but keeps most of the support under your butt.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Gaiam-Classic-Balance-Ball-Chair/dp/B...
> If other countries start to look like China in a month or two, we will be in pandemic conditions throughout the world.

Your "if" is completely unfounded. Outside of China infections are not following any exponential trend at all.
The "Buy it for life" movement would absolutely need to flag software-dependency as an anti-feature. My recent smart TV purchase is regrettably tied to a fixed China-hosted domain name to fetch the main pages, and despite many calls to the manufacturer they refuse to tell me how to change that hard-wired address to another one. I hope the consumers can rally together and create a crowdsourced BIFL database of which brands to avoid, and perhaps how to circumvent these software dependency.
Old school nerds remember setting their calculator watches by calling into the us naval observatory master clock.

https://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/time/telephone-time
This comment seemed like generic "doesn't affect me" flamebait at first; after a 2nd reading I'm not sure if that's the right interpretation. The format of 3 repeating dismissive statements followed by a final statement about falling victim to the previously dismissed problem could be interpreted as a variation on Martin Niemöller's famous poem "First they came ..."[1]. In this interpretation, the comment in line #4 about "those Union meetings" might be a clever reference to "Then they came for the trade unionists" in original poem.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...#Text
I wonder how many times they changed hands
I remember spotting tucows again when 8chan was trying to get back online they used Tucows.

It was like running into that old buddy from school and he lets slip he is into some horrible stuff now...
Personally (on desktop) this design strains my eyes. I want to look in the center where there's nothing to grasp, and there's the official statement, black banner, time boxes, time zone titles in highly varying colors/fonts competing with each other. Also I notice the page auto-refreshing in the background.
I like the tech labor movement idea, as long as it works on practical goals. It could be funded by membership fees and have lawyers on payroll to make some changes in the laws. Noncompetes should be outlawed, for example. Membership should be sufficiently anonymous because I don't trust you enough to disclose my name.

The author seems be dispersing anger over a very broad set of issues. That won't work.

The authors also pressing on existing employees that they should feel guilty and take some action. By this logic, when the US does some questionable things abroad, you should renounce citizenship and leave to Canada. When the Canada's gov makes a questionable move, you leave it immediately for Norway. Eventually you discover that humanity is still mostly driven by egoism and retreat to woods.
So after 3 or 4 clicks, I ended up on an amazon.com page with the book on moral mazes. Can anyone offer a short summary of what a moral maze is?
Even if something is overproduced, if it wears out over time or is eliminated through attrition, eventually it will be valuable if demand doesn't go away. The comic book collection thrown out by parents is proverbial, as well as the cheap sports car owned by young people who trash them. There's a TRS-80 computer I wish I still had, but at some point it was decided that it was worthless...
It's probably still true that no lossless format could possibly beat lossy JPEG for typical photos.

If I understand your example correctly, it only has the lossless algorithm beating JPEG by cheating: the lossless algorithm contains a dictionary of the possible highly compressible images in it, so the algorithm plus the compressed images still weighs more than libjpeg plus the JPEGs. But there are other cases where the lossless algorithm doesn't have to cheat in this way; for example, if you have a bunch of images generated from 5×5-pixel blocks of solid colors whose colors are generated by, say, a known 68-bit LFSR, you can code one of those images losslessly in about 69 bits, but JPEG as typically used will probably not compress them by an atypical amount. Similarly for images generated from the history of an arbitrary 1-D CA, or—to use a somewhat more realistic example—bilevel images of pixel-aligned monospaced text in a largish font neither of whose dimensions is a multiple of 8, say 11×17. All of these represent images with structure that can be straightforwardly extracted to find a lossless representation that is more than an order of magnitude smaller than the uncompressed representation, but where JPEG is not good at exploiting that structure.
doesn't even work without enabling third party JS
The 3rd party company in question is aware: https://status.khoros.com/
Show HN: NearBeach an open sourced project management system
Hello HN, after several years of working on NearBeach I am ready to show the world for some constructive criticism.

https://demo.nearbeach.org <- will contain login information and a short survey at the end to help me improve NearBeach.

If you are curious about the code, you are more than welcome to view it on https://github.com/robotichead/NearBeach

Thank you for your feedback
That seems the obvious interpretation, and it's strange that the article goes on about "faster/slower" and not "visible/invisible" motion.
Hope so...
A quick Google search indicates 1 in every 52, or about 170,000 homeless in London.

That's not the count of rough sleepers, though, that's more like 5000 to 8000.

(Also, IMO, what London has even more than income inequality is wealth inequality. House price appreciation has really added to it; it's not unusual to have little old ladies who are property millionaires, but their houses are decrepit piles of junk and they have no money to do them up. The housing stock is generally in dreadful shape, nowhere commensurate with the value of the land it's sitting on. Large sections of the capital are like this; decrepit, but very expensive.)
I remember using time.gov about 17 years ago. It was "worse" back then: the home page had two buttons: one that displayed a static time in HTML, the other that displayed a Flash or Java element where the seconds ticked. (Worse compared to today, back then it was good for the time and I appreciated the resource.)

Great job to those of you working on this website! The update looks amazing, and I'm sure I will continue using it for years to come!
Do you have an explanation for this? It sound like something straight from science fiction about dangers of automated society.
Thank you for this - can't find Gallaher's report, would you mind linking it again?
If you keep an open mind and look into the literature you might agree that the methods of Science are more about organizing human experience than what things including Reality actually are. The job of science is to reveal more and more about the nature of reality, but we can only describe what we experience. Materialistic monism has been successful in some ways but is ultimately inadequate as a metaphysical position.
I have been shocked recently at how Google.com is no longer the best search engine at many (legal) things I want to find.

Yesterday I was looking for downloadable Word / Excel templates for a certain kind, and wondering why Google wasn't showing me what I KNOW exists on the web.

In exasperation I went to Bing.com. In first few results, it showed me exactly what I was looking for.

Google say they give us what we want, but my story demonstrates that Google now show what they want us to find.

Couldn't help but notice they were significantly de-ranking search results about a competitor's file formats vs. their own. They know I'm looking for DOCX / XLSX files.

Ultimately this is good. By using multiple search engines now, I feel like I'm using The Internet again.

Google is a censored and corporatised filtering of the web - not the web.

This is insane...but it's 2020, and I'm going to check out Lycos.
update "In Indonesia – it’s unlikely to spread much as it’s very hot and humid." so maybe ok https://www.fwdeveryone.com/t/puzmZFQGRTiiquwLa6tT-g/confere...
So you would be ok with running races being won not necessarily by the best runners, but by the racers with the best tech? Would you be ok with any of these? How about other sports, like jumping events, or basketball? I don't see anything wrong with rules limiting technology to keep a sport as it's supposed to be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WnbD0YVAlE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70IpV0C6icY
Am I right to understand that this vulnerability only works when Bluetooth is in discoverable mode?

If yes, then most phones are safe even if they have this vulnerability, it's only when you go in the Bluetooth menu that you are at risk...
Hi! Thank you!

I’m using the Meteor JS full stack framework as the base framework.

Really convenient for an app like this where parts of the code, like the game engine, need to run on the client and server and be identical.

Of course, you could do the same thing with node and web sockets yourself but Meteor JS made it easier for me to get started.

I’m not currently using any client side framework like React or Vue (although both work great in Meteor JS) because I render everything client side in the Canvas tag.

In the future, will probably be moving to the Lance real time JS engine and Pixie for WebGL tendering.
Anything that can be modelled as a graph should work I suppose.
reduction of energy demand

Personally I'd go further and say there's no substantial mitigation of climate change without degrowth amongst wealthy nations. Not popular around here of course, being against the religious beliefs prevalent in tech circles.
A player who is just starting go won't even win with 5 stones on 9x9 for a while, but this is still good advice.
Easy, use CRISPR to make trees immune to chainsaws.
Last thing the CCP needs is martyrs against the state
Can you build a Tesla without fossil fuels?

Think of the production chain, top to bottom. Where did the steel come from?

It’s hypocritical to quit a company over selling products to oil and gas companies when one is themselves unwilling to completely stop consuming oil and gas.

Modern life is essentially made possible by oil, coal, and gas. Nobody, not even the Amish return 100% to the pre-industrial age. There are alternatives but they aren’t complete solutions, not yet. That’s just the reality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVcRxg7teOM

They're under no legal obligation to cancel the transaction if your post-purchase inspection turns up something. In almost every state, used cars are sold AS-IS. It's entirely a 'good will' policy and from this video it sounds like they won't give you money back, but instead allow you to swap with another vehicle in their inventory.
Perfect. Yes, this tooltip is built to save a few clicks for this kind of workflow.

If you have feedback or suggestion, please don't hesitate to reach out in github or here.
My windows 10 clock was 2.5 seconds slow! And even after forcing a 'sync now' in the OS time settings and refreshing the webpage a few seconds later, it stayed unchanged. I happened to close and re-open the tab and it showed up correctly (within a few 10 ms) about 10 seconds after the sync.

I can accept that maybe they only sync the time once per day, but what the heck could take so long to have the newly synced time percolate up into the browser? I have a 4 core cpu, 32 gig of ram and a couple-year old ssd, with nothing of consequence running at the time.
I'm sorry mister or miss throwaway. You have (purposefully?) misinterpreted almost everything I've said in the weird, most twisted and evil way possible. You've made wild accusations without any knowledge of the situation and as such, this shall be our last interaction.
If you want to view "real world" performance try this awesome website[0] on some of your regular sites. It includes comparisons with chrome, chrome+ublock, and brave. Also previous hn discussion[1].

I think the outlier cases are interesting. The Gamespot test[2] loads 2x slower and with 2x page size using default uBlock. Strange glass-card websites these days.

[0] https://webtest.app/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21052969

[2] https://webtest.app/?url=https://www.gamespot.com/
I did something extremely similar with my not-quite-hoarder wife. She had an uncanny ability to ask about a thing the day before it was to make its way out our door. And my “holding pen” was 3 months.
Hi!

I’m working on mobile controls right now that will allow play on mobile browsers. Hope to have that done in the next week.

You can check out my progress here: https://blog.spacefrigates.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVcRxg7teOM
Google Got Its Employees to Eat Their Vegetables by Jane Black
I always read that in my mind as “shit mill” am I alone?
Make Money Online with Free Sports Events in 2020
In my experience it is far easier, faster, and more practical to build a silent air-cooled system than a silent water cooled one.
Maybe Apple will do this for MacBooks in the 2030s. Thats about their pace.
Many under 60 exhibit mild symptoms. Surveillance in Thailand and Malaysia may not be catching many of the infected.
The author of the article makes this out to be something new, while also correctly stating this is decades old. I don’t blame OP for running with the article’s intended subtext.
Thanks so much for checking out for spending the time to check out the policy. We put a lot of thought into making it as human and transparent as possible. And really appreciate the tip.
A laptop with a proprietary power supply? What does that even mean? A custom weird tip?
How can you realistically say that? A country and its nuclear safety inspectors have declared several reactors to be unfit to run, but YOU claim that it is political?

You claim that the plant 'withstood' the earthquake just fine. On what base? An inspection to make such an assessment takes months. It has not been done. How did you know that there were no cracks in the reactor facilities, etc.

There were lots of reasons to close some reactors. You simply have failed to even consider that.

Once one knows more about the risks of a certain reactor, than its simply a new decision whether a reactor is considered to be safe enough. The fukushima reactor was considered safe just before the earthquake and tsunami. It was thought unlikely that such an event happens and with such strength,

Now Japan is having the constant danger of earthquakes and the impact has been underestimated for several reactors. Their sites are now seen to have a higher risk of a strong earthquake causing severe damage.

You claim that it is political. That's the same safety culture which lead to the Fukushima meltdowns: proponents of nuclear power downplaying the risks.
Correct.

Generally in China you buy your way into a hospital bed if it's busy.

And "Big Sickness" (the Chinese term for cancer and heart surgery) ruins family finances, similar to the USA.
I’m planning to do exactly that! Should have an updated post out tomorrow.

You can follow at https://blog.spacefrigates.com
Just admit you buy them. You already understand how it works.
This is my zine from 1997. It uses frames.
http://scenezine.tripod.com/
I’ve noticed this too using an HP Thunderbolt Dock G2 with a 16” and 2x 4K60 monitors. I just assumed it was because it’s summer here and the laptop tends to sit in the sun a bit, but it’d be nice if it got fixed.
Cliffski's blog is one of the only ones I follow that is still active. Not every post is on development progress, but enough that I find it worth following:

http://www.positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/

A couple of recent posts I liked:

https://www.positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/2019/12/16/stability-p...

https://www.positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/2020/01/14/trying-to-a...
Definitely true points, but also worth noting how much easier it is to build a reliable desktop now than just a few years ago. Their own marketing images of the thelios show how empty the case is. With everything but storage, display and power supply on the board there's little left to do beyond mounting the cpu, inserting some sticks of ram from the QVL, plugging in the power supply connectors and maybe a video card and powering up. With the exception of handling the processor everything else is well within the reach of anyone who can plug together and configure a home entertainment system imo. Five years ago, say, getting the BIOS settings right could be a little tricky but that's basically become a no-brainer too.
https://wordsandbuttons.online
> The way the different states are colored according to their time zone and then that color reaching out to the labels on top with those ray-like things is actually pretty clever.

So the different components of this visualization genuinely solve a few different problems around color-blindness (necessary for 508 compliance is my guess, but I'm not an expert here)

Grab a screenshot (https://i.imgur.com/9ynIz5G.jpg) and drop it in here (https://www.color-blindness.com/coblis-color-blindness-simul...)

The only mode where any two zones next to each other are nearly identical is Red-blind/Protanopia (CMK identical, Y 8% higher in UTC-7 compared to UTC-8†). Monochromacy/Achromatopsia is a close second... and that's where the gradients to the clocks come in - even for those users, there's still a mechanism to distinguish those two zones.

I'd guess some serious usability research went into this.

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† RGB, though more accurate since we're talking about a screen, would've been a little more complicated to compare in writing since only yellow changed between the two in CMYK
They may not have known about these protocol flaws at the time they were intercepting the physical devices.

Either that, or they were not vulnerable to these exploits at the time.
Thank you!

You can follow along with my progress at: https://blog.spacefrigates.com
ebay is a good option. I pickup old broken laptops on a semi regular basis, fix them, and give them away, so I keep the old screens around.
Do you not remember the months and months in which it was not possible to buy a baby Yoda doll, at any price?
Had to do a basic CSS implementation to see how it looks in 60fps https://jsbin.com/ledomilaso/edit?output
I second this. My experience with many core machines (32-64 cores) is kinda dissappointing so far.

Yes, running "make -j" on these machines feel amazing at first, but you will soon either 1) run out of memory, or 2) notice that you don't need so many cores anyway due to build dependencies.
A large part of supply and demand is the amount of immediate liquidity. Employers seem to have the upper hand when hiring typically because they have a bunch of options right then whereas few applicants have multiple simultaneous offers and if they do, they don't have many. But that's not the same as supply and demand of labor on a longer timescale.

Somebody who's thought more and more clearly about this could write something better about it, but I felt like pointing out what I think is overlooked.
Inktomi, let's do this!
Agreed. I tend to play games with lower graphical needs, so I feel the effects of lacking Nvidia support less.

Ah, yeah, enterprise level applications are another beast. I'm currently dealing with maintenance and upgrade of legacy VB6 motion control systems at work, and there's just no way any of it can be ported out of Windows (2000).

I somewhat disagree about the Grandma test (at least for going from Windows to Linux; macOS has a very different feel). What do most causal users do with a PC? What I've observed is maybe 60% web browsing, 20% documentation, 20% media. Ubuntu comes with a drop in browser, drop in spreadsheet/text editor, and automatically launched media players. Discoverability is an issue, because none of these applications have exactly the same names, but Ubuntu's Window Key search function is smart enough to find these drop-ins with even vague search terms. With that ability, I'm arguing that the workflow for casual users is very similar, with a minor learning curve for new names and icons.

Windows works great for casual users until: Windows update kicks in, Windows encounters a vague error, Windows unified search stops working (or fails to find files they know are there), or some application won't work for some unknown reason.

Any technology you are familiar with will seem more familiar than any that you aren't; I get that argument. But at the same time, people are capable of learning new things, and they already learned Windows from scratch. It took effort for me to learn how to use Windows, same as other OS's. And with Linux laptops starting to become more of a thing, we're going to see fewer people who's first OS is either Mac or Windows (unfortunately it seems like it's becoming more and more Android or iOS)
Which would punish people like me who will work across 3-4 languages daily and therefore often forget or confuse which library call does what in what language.
Because of the nature of the roles or because they are selective to a fault? It's my experience that most people at a company of that size are "just there". If you have 2 employees, both of them have to be excellent. If you have 200 employees, 2 of them have to be excellent.
Your Team Is Brainstorming All Wrong (2017)
As we see by all the talk about stakeholders. Not to mention ethics, obeying the law, etc.
John Carmack tweets pretty regularly, often about projects. Right now he's taking a solo swing at AGI

https://mobile.twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack
http://virological.org/t/analysis-of-wuhan-coronavirus-deja-...

I don't know who this guy is but he and his son are awesome.
I’m in the same boat. I’m not worried about ratings creep for providers; normalizing based on a user’s other ratings is a solved problem. But being forced to write 300 characters about why you gave a 4 instead of a 5 means I only rate less than 5 to legitimately warn the public.
Show HN: A Repository for People's Routines
Hi!

It does have client side prediction. What it is lacking is a working sync when the updates come back from the server.

I’ve tried and tried to get that part right but it has been difficult.

I recently found the Lance engine and may just port to that since they seem to have figured it out.

You can follow my progress at: https://blog.spacefrigates.com
I'm having a hard time getting a job and this hurts :(
Would you be interested in a GitHub for people's routines?

A simple example is you could find someone's routine for training for a marathon, fork it and merge you additions (based on your experience). But really you could break anything down into a sequence of tasks...
Norway got rich by pumping oil.