skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had the privilege of seeing my parents take care of two of my grandparents in my parents' home after my grandparents couldn't take care of themselves any more. (In one case, for their final week, in the other case, for over 5 years.)

I look forward to taking care of my parents in my home whenever they get to that point.
The law only protects you from actual crimes. There are hundreds of other small provisions which have to be negotiated as part of a contract to be enforceable from a legal perspective.

This is especially true for freelancers, who don't have a single employer and are instead usually paid for deliverables as specified in a contract. Being able to quit anytime doesn't help if you've already spent weeks or months working on a project and never get paid because the company decides on a whim that they don't need your deliverable anymore.
I got around 300+ kills, I did that just by standing at the corner of the map and waited for them. Since they move slow, the turn rate was good enough not to be killed no matter how many spawned.

2 things for improvement:

- Demand more mechanical skill from players: Scale spawn and movement speed higher every 30 seconds, as timer nears 0. Make bullets finite. You could also implement day/night cycle + fog of war.

- Addressing repetitiveness: Shorten to 2-3 minutes. Unless I missed something, give the game an objective other than accuracy and score (find and collect X pieces to win or capture the flag, etc)

Other than that, great job!
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As the article states, every situation is unique.

Would I want to die a home if I had a brain tumor that was causing me to act violent and I wasn't lucid? No, I would want to be a facility.

Would I want to die at home if I had a heart issue that would leave me bedridden but lucid and I would likely just fade away? Sure.
US Forest Service argues that that Appalachian Trail is not land
I forget how much Carter Page was a political rival of Barack Obama somehow.

Thanks for the reminder.
I'm glad that Clojure users seem happy with their language. But it seems like a worrisome sign that their survey has roughly the same number of respondents year after year...

* 2020: 2519 responses

* 2019: 2461 responses

* 2018: 2325 responses

* 2016: 2420 responses
Alibaba's DingTalk gets bad grades from China's stuck-at-home students
Imagine you're a growing startup, and you have a yearly recurring investment (you're growing, after all!) of $1000 that's linearly depreciated over 5 years.

Let's say your income is 1100$ each year.

Your profit, according to accounting, would be 900$ for the first year, counting only $200 of the investment, then for the following years you'll see a profit of $700, $500, $300, and $100, as the investments accumulate. Oh no! A downward trend!

The cash flow, however, will simply show $100 profit each year.

Which one is more representative of the growing business with recurring investments?
Thanks James. I'll keep this in mind and might shoot you guys an email. Cheers and good luck!
On moderation: If you treat platforms as liable for content posted, their only opportunity is to censor anything that might cause them to be liable.

In practice, this amounts to option 2 (the NYT). The NYT is not a forum. It pre-vets all of its content and runs it by a team of editors. You can't run an open forum like HN or Reddit that way. I don't like option 2, because I would argue having a place where anyone can communicate and publish information outside of locked-down, establishment media channels is really good.

If you tell platforms that they won't be liable as long as they don't moderate/censor (the "true platform" argument people bring up), then you've taken away their ability to moderate at all. That's how you end up with every open platform looking like 8Chan (option 1). I would also argue that allowing communities to filter and ban bad actors is necessary for an inclusive, open Internet.

The innovation of Section 230 was that it gave companies, forum owners, and platform maintainers permission to moderate. It created option 3. Owners didn't have to make a decision between blocking everything or nothing, because they couldn't be held liable for user content at all, regardless of their moderation strategy. That meant that they could be as aggressive (or passive) with moderation as they liked without worrying that it would make them liable for any content that they missed.

Section 230 is an attempt to deal with two facts -- first that moderation is fundamental to healthy communities, and second that when users have the ability to instantly post their own content there is no system (human or AI driven) that will ever be able to moderate perfectly.

So far from being a misleading sidenote or a jump in logic, content moderation was the reason why section 230 was passed to begin with. From its very inception, section 230 was always about allowing a middle ground for moderation.[0]

> One of the first legal challenges to Section 230 was the 1997 case Zeran v. America Online, Inc., in which a Federal court affirmed that the purpose of Section 230 as passed by Congress was "to remove the disincentives to self-regulation created by the Stratton Oakmont decision". Under that court's holding, computer service providers who regulated the dissemination of offensive material on their services risked subjecting themselves to liability, because such regulation cast the service provider in the role of a publisher.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230#History
Thank you. Which kind of attorney would handle this: data privacy, tax, consumer protection, something else?
Same here. I just hope we can get assisted suicide for more situations to help ease the passing. I wouldn’t want to occupy my kids’ time if there’s no hope of independent living again.
Is there any way to read this article without enabling javascript?
Physicists grab individual atoms in groundbreaking experiment
Also, DingTalk made a video on Bilibili, begging its users to give higher grades (in Chinese):
https://www.bilibili.com/video/av89441613

The video has got 10M plays in five days.
I am probably wrong, but I think Fido2 keys should be ubiquitous. They provide a hardened solution for some security situations, certainly they could be a good 2nd factor or 3rd, and hopefully they could reduce the password madness we have. Yubico appears focused on the enterprise and high end users resulting in higher prices. Solokeys seems more focused on individual users with lower prices.

Disclaimer I have two Yubico keys, and two Solokeys and they all work for me, but I don't need the extra functionality of the more expensive Yubico keys.
Well this is interesting. Do you think they find opportunities in emerging or developing markets, too?
When I was a teenager we had some natural disaster and the highschools had to share sites, the way they did it was we did school 12-6. We would eat dinner togeather after school I think we enjoyed it despite not being the norm
I feel like more people should consider euthanasia. If caring for you is a huge physical and financial burden, and you're basically waiting to die anyway, why not just get it over with?
> Sure, a Dodge Caravan in 2018 may have a lower inflation-adjusted price than the 1996 model, but the author never claimed that every individual item's price increased faster than the measured rate of inflation.

It was the author that uses the Dodge Caravan example. Obviously not every single item is going to fit the trend, but why pick such an item as your example.

Your other points are also incorrect. For example, auto loan interest rates are half of what they were in 1996: https://images.app.goo.gl/Bn3ACY7GLV8rFsxj7. The total interest paid on a 36 month loan at 8% (common in 1996) is higher than on a 60 month loan at 4.5% (common today).
Sony had a big demo of this in their CES booth a few weeks ago. They showed the camera moving around the Ghostbuster's Ecto-1 car and the background moving as well. You could see from the overhead screens what the final composite looked like. It was pretty awesome, given it was all set up in a booth at a trade fair. [1]

As expensive as all this is now, I think this is really going to make an impact in lower-budget movies. Not having to fly all over the world or having massive sets to film convincing scenes might be a really good thing.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh2Q9pCxuJw
It could be really cool to have in-game art using the exact same assets from the actual film. Even whole scene cinematography could be taken from scene data used in a movie.

I can imagine a consumer experience using high-end VR (say an attraction at Disneyland)... take the assets and cinematography from a scene in a movie, digitally recreate everything that WASN'T already digital from the scene, and then you could relive a scene in VR, with the bonus that you can navigate it in realtime and see it from different perspectives. This would be especially adaptable for franchises like Avatar where everything in the film is already composited in 3D.

On a darker note, you could combine all this with things like the Body Transfer Illusion, take some kinda psychedelic and star in your own horror flick where gruesome things are done to your own body in VR. Good times for the whole family!
Demeaning to cancer patients? Huh. I thought I was writing out a really incredibly obviously clear instance of "if a thing is bad, you cannot criticize it unless you provide an alternative - if you cannot provide a better option, then the thing must not be bad". I didn't realize I needed to scaffold this so much for people to actually focus on the logic being criticized and not get hung up on "but this thing isn't bad!?@!??!" How would you have presented it? Or, do you think it's not actually possible in this context to explain why that construction is illogical without upsetting people who like the school?
Oklo Microreactor Is INL’s First-of-A Kind Haleu-Fueled Nuclear Demonstration
You mean "increase," not "conquer."

No conquering has occurred.
Government paternalism is terrifying. People are going to screw up, and make bad choices, but having choices is better than being treated like a child your entire life.
Note that for a PGP key, the idea of using cheap microcontrollers is significantly worse.

U2F/FIDO2, sure, whatever- the worst failure state there is "your account is only secured by a password", and more likely attacks require physical access. I could post the secrets off the security key I use for my Google account right now and...eh, I'd probably be fine.

PGP? Ohohohoh. Now we're talking about long-term keys and non-forward-secure crypto.

If I leak your keys once- say, through power analysis, glitching, whatever- I can decrypt everything that has ever been encrypted for that key, and everything that ever will be. Compromise is total. Grab the device while it's unlocked, or use a camera, keylogger, or shoulder-surf to get your PIN- or just crack it, decrypting the encrypted keyblobs from flash ... the only thing protecting you is a barely-above-popcorn Cortex-M.

At that point, just use the fTPM in your CPU. Otherwise... hardened hardware is much more important for PGP.

If I had to design a PGP key storage mechanism, I'd probably use a reasonably well-known, well-tested "secure microprocessor"- or a 'TPM-on-a-chip' connected to an untrusted microcontroller (which would be basically just an adapter/protocol translato...hm, no, plaintext would still go across its bus, right? Forget the gpgcard spec right now, might do some link encryption, but that would be good and it's GPG so it probably doesn't. Yeah, no, I think you need the full stack on one die- or else open to attacks like replacing the untrusted microcontroller with one that logs all plaintexts it sees (and...is gpgcard challenge-response? Gotta be ...but if not, can log the pin too...anyways, ignore this aside))

Anyways, a secure microcontroller- hardware crypto engine so the microcontroller code never sees raw key material, hardware rate limiting/lockout if possible, reasonable secure boot, maybe even disable firmware upgrades entirely, self-zeroizes if you sneeze at the wrong time, etc. Attacks are still possible, but the cost goes WAY up- at least past the six figure mark, hopefully.

I'd also ban all use of RSA private keys- too easy to mess up generation, and especially since we're "secure hardware" now which means, apparently, we can't generate primes too good. No, EC keys exclusively.

Anyways ...a commodity STM32 is fine for fido2. Not great, but it's fine.

It's almost a nonstarter for PGP, and honestly any PGP support needs a giant warning label that it shouldn't be relied on to protect against physical attacks.
Most people who were members of socially bad organizations throughout history weren't bad people or doing bad things, but willingly joining and serving a support role for such an organization is itself morally dubious. It's actively helping enable their activities.

For example, if someone got a job on a shark finning boat maintaining the knives, they're still complicit in shark finning even if they're never touched or seen a shark in their life.

And even if their actual role was spying on and helping detain Americans for arbitrary reasons, nobody's going to slap that on their resume. They'd say they were a data aggregating administrative officer.
Ask HN: Do you ever switch theme to adjust for readability during presentations?
Are there any studies or surveys or judging from your personal experience - what is proven to be more readable across audience specifically during remote and in-person demos and presentations?

Do you ever switch theme to adjust for that?
I hate that too.
You are making some pretty big assumptions. Maybe the first gen planes will create a market for fast travel, and then the 2nd gen will double the altitude and skip most of the atmospheric drag.
> I've had the privilege of seeing my parents take care of two of my grandparents in my parents' home after my grandparents couldn't take care of themselves any more. (In one case, for their final week, in the other case, for over 5 years.)

> I look forward to taking care of my parents in my home whenever they get to that point.

I am living this privilege and wouldn't trade it for anything. But something in you changes the first time you have to help your parent out of clothes they pooped in and into the shower. I wasn't prepared for it when it happened, but I believe it has made me stronger (and if anything, dealing with an adult with a decaying mental state feels like good practice for dealing with a teenager). I am so thankful to work in tech where my physical presence is not a necessity and so I can be more present with my family, but sadly this is not true for too many.
Ask HN: The worst cost reduction initiative you've seen/been part of?
For context - I'm an engineer turned sales turned corporate finance guy. As I am grinding through another annual budget and planning season, I realize I am out of ideas to tighten our budgets more.

I'd like to think it's not because I have so much empathy for the teams I used to work for, that I find all of their asks reasonable. I have cut what I considered wasteful and unnecessary. So I think it's just a lack of imagination and force on my part to cut more.

I'd like to source some ideas from you smart bunch here, there must be something I haven't thought of yet. Either high-level ideas (e.g., training programs) or specific examples ("team building" happy hours) are really appreciated...

And as the title suggests, more importantly, I'd like to learn about your experience with cost-cutting gone wrong, so I can avoid paying more in the end.

Thanks very much in advance.
Many companies provide employee pay data to equifax, and equifax sells it to many people:

https://www.fastcompany.com/40508924/equifax-could-be-sellin...
what's your sleeping situation like w/o a mattress?

(I'm waiting for someone to invent & sell some sort of sleeping pod that provides a perfect environment, and keeps me in ideal position for the maximum sleep benefit)
That’s exactly the story that YC darling DropBox has been telling over the last decade. They still aren’t profitable and according to their own disclosures, have no idea when they will become profitable.

Just as as microcosm, how many YC backed companies have reached profitability? Only two have gone public - DropBox and PagerDuty.
Both parties have had multiple turns at the wheel since many of these policies have existed. Whichever party isn't in power blasts the other party for not fixing it. In essence, both parties use social benefits like political bargaining chips for buying votes because they know people will show up for those issues.

This issue is eerily similar to the 'border crisis' we've been facing. The issues surrounding the treatment of immigrants that have been decried as inhumane and unethical were fully in force long before 2016. Of course, it wasn't an issue for the Democratic party until we got closer to the census and the other team was at the helm.

I don't think there's any real evidence that either party has the best interests of the people at heart, or that they have any genuine intent to fix the issues at all.
Yeah, furniture is really frustrating. High end luxury or made-for-the-dumpster junk. As I like to call it, the vanishing middle market.
Fuck off, faggot.
To date, the core of our firmware is also used by NitroKey [1], Signet HC [2] and OnlyKey [3]. We did a pretty significant refactor [4] to make the lib even easier to use as part of our MOSS award [5].

Hopefully we'll see even more products -and thus user adoption- of fido2/webauthn.

If anyone is reading, has a hardware project and would like to add fido2 functionality, please reach out!

[1] https://shop.nitrokey.com/shop/product/nitrokey-fido2-55

[2] https://www.crowdsupply.com/nth-dimension/signet-high-capaci...

[3] https://crp.to/2019/10/onlykey-beta8-release-announcement/

[4] https://github.com/solokeys/solo/pull/344

[5] https://medium.com/solokeyssec/solokeys-achieves-fido2-certi...
...and if you do qualify for a subsidy, you aren't out of the woods yet as far as year to year surprises go. There was a nasty one in my county for people getting subsidies.

There were only two insurers available through the ACA exchange in my county in 2019. They were Kaiser and Premera. The cheapest plans from Kaiser were a pair of bronze level plans (one with an HSA, one without) for about $770/month. The cheapest Premera were bronze plans at something like $1000/month.

An individual in their late 50s just under the subsidy cutoff would get a subsidy of around $660/month, so if they went with a Kaiser bronze plan would be paying around $110/month. Not too bad at all.

For 2020, the same Kaiser and Premera plans are available at about the same cost (actually, they may even have come down a few percent). But there are also two new providers. One of those has a couple plans slightly cheaper than Kaiser, but comparing side by side the Kaiser bronze plans are better in most ways, and Kaiser also has more locations.

That other company's plans, though, are silver plans, not bronze.

The subsidies are keyed to the cost of the second cheapest available silver plan and so these "no better than bronze but for some reason silver" plans greatly lowered the subsidies. What would have been a $660/month subsidy in 2019 is now only about $400/month in 2020, meaning you'd pay this year around $370/month for the cheapest plans in my county.

Going from $110/month to $370/month in a year when the cost of plans went down slightly and the number of insurers on the exchange doubled is pretty damned annoying.
> the open secret is that you can never reach 100% renewables

What, why?
Startups are still the same thing as they have been for 10, 20, even 100 years. You build something of value, and try to convert that value into assets. Acquiring companies won't look so much at your cashflow, but rather you as an asset that complements their existing processes. So the goal is basically to build as much asset as fast as possible, take it as far as you can, and sell that to someone who can take it further.

Bootstrapping is tough for tech, because the curve is usually exponential. If you were selling lasagna, you could easily make $1000 profit the first week, and bootstrapping is easy.

With tech, it's quite common to spend a year trying to get to $1000/week, and then make $30k/week the next year.

You also have to consider competition. There are many kinds of ideas. Making a Tinder for X might not have too much competition, but if you do something that Google/Amazon/Facebook is building, you'll get crushed if you move too slowly.

This is usually where venture backing comes in - investors are happy at getting good returns, and you're happy at skipping years of consulting, etc to pay the bills.

Don't spend too much time negotiating or optimizing; you're aiming for 3300% annual growth and a 20% better deal isn't worth your time. Paul Graham/Viaweb started at 10% for $10k. (http://www.paulgraham.com/ycstart.html) It seems unfair, but it was still a good deal for both sides.
> It's a low-res JPEG with a fixed header to save a bit more space. This is also used to blur sensitive images. You can get even better results with webp.

That is not my experience at all. On images less than 100kb, webp adds an overhead, and doesn't reduce the file size at all. A fixed header is also harder to achieve.
What is the use case for lighting a candle remotely? This seems a lot worse than a candle with a physical ignition button on it.
Moreover, these discontinuities and the perverse incentives that they lead to on the cusps have been elements of these programs for longer than I've been alive.
Because with modern Javascript you get most of the niceties of Clojure (immerjs for immmutability, lodash for data processing, babel for macros) without the disadvantages (no job market, no ecosystem). The debuggers in JS are so good that you don't need the Clojure repl. JS under v8 is also faster at raw processing(single thread but there are also workers now) unless you write Java with parenthesis, which at that point, you are not writing clojure anymore.

OTOH, Rich Hickey has influenced(in good way) a generation of programmers and doesn't get credited enough.