skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worst is the new thread vs reply are confusing... I like in Android that the new thread is a separate floating button to the bottom/right... they should use that UX for their web/desktop interface.

There are a few things I do like better with teams. I haven't used slack much since before it had its' own voice conf/chat, used to use the hangouts integration for that.

In the end, there's parts about them all that suck... I think the biggest mistake with Teams is actually using wiki and files in more than the main channel on very few team groups. Also, creating more team groups is a big issue. I see the same happen with slack, but it's less intrusive.

With slack, I hate that multi-org logins are a pain, if you're in multiple communities.
Meanwhile the City of Houston hasn't cancelled the huge rodeo and livestock show, with nightly concerts, that goes on through March 22
If you are learning about the existence of “youtube-dl” then…

Congratulations! You are one of today’s lucky 10,000 [1]

[1] https://xkcd.com/1053/
Defending Against COVID-19 Cyber Scams
It sounds like they should switch to a binary review system (thumbs up/down). Leave the nuance to the actual review text.
You can usually google articles and it goes around paywalls, otherwise you can just google for Charles Murray's UBI plan.

There are a bunch of UBI plans, which all vary across the political spectrum. Some are financed entirely with progressive wealth taxes, others nearly entirely with cuts to existing programs. The math usually works out decently through some trick or another, like limiting recipients to only {kids, adults} or phasing out by income.
You'd have to look at things like the rate of downregulation of the appropriate brain components that caffeine affects.
For banks sure. But the PE, VC, and hedge fund space have almost no regulations and very little software to serve their needs. I worked at a startup that provided portfolio analytics software and it never was able to actually break into the market in a real way (our valuation was and still is stuck at 200m for 8 years). It’s a really hard problem but if someone can crack it, they potentially could be the next Bloomberg.
Getting sick at conferences is so common that they have a phrase for it: "con flu". https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=con+flu. Glad this was cancelled, it would've been a bad outbreak.
You make a good point, but how would you implement this? Would you place artistic limits on directors? Why do you think that torture scenes are so popular in film and TV - is this an issue with filmmakers trying to satisfy a bloodthirsty audience?
If you get somewhat a big audience you will get weird messages anyway, it doesn't matter if you are a man or women.
For an app that probably have hundred of apps just like it I think it helps go get personal, you want to build trust and bound.
> Its not a question of just building tooling. It is a question of AMD having fewer performance counters. So even organizations like Google with tons of SWEs can't do anything if there are no performance counters, or if the performance counters are not exposed.

Have you tried JTAG?
I don't love it at all, haven't used it since the last Web 1.9 SaaS company I worked in, and hopefully never will again.
I found the SNR to be too low, but perhaps that reflects more on that particular company than Slack itself.
I’ve recently restarted weight training after a few years off due to injury.

I already do plenty of other exercise (martial arts, swimming, yoga, a decent amount of fast paced walking, circuit training) and I used to weight train so my form’s okay and I haven’t experienced anything unusual in terms of soreness.

I’ve been from light weights (~70% of my previous max) slowly up to my previous max from a few years back and not experienced any problems. I feel like I’m close to the limit on each exercise but I’m already at my previous max weights.

And... since I used to do this, I’ve gone keto. So being on keto doesn’t seem to have any observable negative effect on my weight training.

I can’t say what I’m going to hit because I’m moving slowly and carefully. For some real stats you’ll need to find studies. I could just be lucky.
Not necessarily, but good point. I think many people become assholes once they get anywhere to protect what they have. The risk equation flips once you've "made it". People optimize for minimizing loss rather than maximizing for expected value.

If you're going for maximizing ev, I believe my thoughts hold true.
If all rows in a database are null, does that make it meaningless?

No, it doesn't, if the intended value is for it to be null. However, if the intended value is for it to be something else, then it makes the data incorrect.

So, if guests are trying to say every host on Airbnb is amazing, and they are in fact all amazing, then great.

But if not, then we need some other way for guests to indicate "host was not acceptable"
It's a hot button for lawmakers because they want the privilege reserved for themselves. That is why these psychopaths lust after power over others, right? To partake in what money cannot buy.
Recent and related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21895086

Also https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
This seems pretty reasonable but I am curious for how long it will seem so, if we had better testing in place would it be better? If we had the vaccine (for sure) it would be better, but what do we as a society do in the interim.
I just registered for AWS Reinforce (2 day security conference at the beginning of July). I did it feeling pretty good that the worst will have passed by then, but I'd lie if I said I felt 100% about it.
Despite this, I find it monumentally easier to get drivers and software of AMD's website, compared to Intel.

And then there's also "Intel is Removing End of Life Drivers and BIOS Downloads"[0]. Great, if I didn't save them, I need to go to a 3rd party site, run the risk of getting malware, have to compare hashes, etc, etc, etc... This is, in my opinion, an absolute no-go as a vendor, and instantly makes me want to drop them. Which I did, all the PCs my clients get from me are AMD systems now.

AMD is a serious vendor, you can even get the old ATI RAGE drivers off their website.

[0]: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/hardware/intel-is-remo...

EDIT: The linked tweet[1] in the article mirrors my sentiments on this topic almost perfectly:

> "DEAR COMPANIES THAT MAKE HARDWARE:
YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO HOST YOUR DRIVERS UNTIL THE SUN EXPLODES OR YOU GO OUT OF BUSINESS, NOT UNTIL YOU GET TIRED OF HOSTING 20 MEGABYTES"

[1]: https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1172237142485078016
> I feel like Java keeps getting better and better and the compelling argument for the alt JVM languages is getting less interesting

I keep going back to Java optimistically thinking the major problems will be solved but it's always hell compared to coding in Kotlin or Groovy (which I switch back and forth every couple of days). While it's true some fundamental things have been addressed, there's just so much missing from the ergonomics of Java that it is syntatically constrained from fixing, and philosophicaly poorly positioned to address.
Staying home when sick isn't containment?
(not to say some people aren't panicking. Which they of course should stop doing).
Interesting. The prevalence in even lighter films makes me think maybe the phenomenon is driven more by its utility as a plot device, or something along those lines.

For example (just taking a wild guess), if we assume:

- There is an antagonist (individual or organization)

- The characters need to stop whatever the antagonist's plan is, but lack some necessary information

- The antagonist sends some type of minion to stop them from stopping the plan

Defining "torture" as broadly as it seems to be defined here, it would be a very natural plot mechanism for enabling the main characters to accomplish their goal in this scenario. And this scenario, really, is incredibly common. Almost more common in children's movies compared to other movies, because of its simplicity.

Also, it seems even more appealing in this scenario if we assume the characters aren't going to kill anybody (again, for children's movies). If there's a big fight or chase which ends with the protagonists having captured the minion, what do they do with him/her? They can't just let them go, that would be anticlimactic. They can't kill them. Squeezing information out of them before letting them go is satisfying and purposeful and progresses the plot, while still being merciful and family-friendly.
> The author would likely have pointed out that you could have done the same moving trip once by packing a U-Haul truck and driving it from your old home to your new home

A U-Haul would have cost more, have done more damage to the road, have done more damage to the environment, would have been far more difficult to get over the pass (which was under chain controls during one of the trips), would have been far more dangerous to other drivers, and would have been far more difficult to park in reasonable proximity to both the old apartment and the new one without being a massive nuisance to my neighbors.

Regardless, that's just one example. Other examples (among many, many, many others):

- The time I bought a couch from IKEA (not to mention other large pieces of furniture) and hauled it home entirely on my own, which was possible because I own an SUV

- The multiple times I've hauled hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of IT hardware between sites for a company, which was possible because I own an SUV

- The multiple times I've lugged home piles of computers I bought on the cheap, which was possible because I own an SUV

That is, there have been enough times that my SUV has been an absolute godsend that it's more than justified its own existence. All three of those things would've been easier with a pickup truck or cargo van, granted, but a pickup doesn't also allow hauling as many passengers (without significantly sacrificing bed space or making the truck obnoxiously big), and cargo vans (or even minivans with fully removable seats) with 4WD/AWD seem to be less affordably available (else I would pick one up in a heartbeat).
Another cost associated with your 2nd point is the collateral a host would have to burn to comply with take-down notices.
Turn off your phone/tablet and full screen the video. Turn off secondary monitors. Take notes on paper. Turn off email/slack notifications.
I appreciate the feedback. Any recommendations for something legible?
It's not sufficiently containment, due to the high incubation time, there is transmission amongst many who do not think they are sick. That's a property of this virus that makes it different.
Your mind is going to be blown when you learn how TCP/IP works.
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A friend who is organising a large conference starting on Monday has told me that they can't cancel unless the venue or Government force them to as their insurance won't kick in and they'll be several million out of pocket. Many of the sponsors want to pull out and some have, but they don't get their money back for the same reason.
Ask HN: How to Break the Isolation?
I fell into the trap of doing freelance development. The money is good, but not having a fixed workplace or workmates you talk to in person is killing me. The friends I had in school and such have gradually drifted away.

I live in a moderately small town (pop 100k) in West Europe, so developer meetups are right out. Never been very good at forming relationships with people either.

How do you fix this? Where do you meet people? It seems like whenever I casually talk to people, the whole thing just falls apart like a house of cards when they ask you what you do in your spare time or such. Why, yes, I work and I discuss work-related stuff with strangers on the Internet.
Many previous threads going back 12 years, for the curious:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I just started watching Better Call Saul, and I was happy to see that when they tortured a character, he told them what they wanted to hear, but then others were like "You had wirecutters to him...he would have said anything".
Thank you, I feel like I was going crazy reading it.

"Look how awesome the future is"
New Orleans Jazz Fest is late April.
I like the examples to illustrate both sides. I think if you had to always be positive in American you would say:

A: "He always completed his tasks to our complete satisfaction" ("complete" being the superlative)

B: "He always completed his tasks to our satisfaction" ("always" emphasizing the consistency of our satisfaction)

C: "His work was satisfactory"

F: <something that omits any mention his work>

Although B sounds a little awkward to me.
I and several other founders are doing this on the Pioneer livestream next week. It's earlier stage than most YC companies but not afraid of a little transparency https://pioneer.app/livestream

In fact, there are whole communities built around publicly sharing your companies' financial metrics. Eg https://www.indiehackers.com/products
Prometheus Rising by R. A. Wilson.
I built and run a popular prank-calling website (with spin-offs for wake-up calls and call-my-phone-because-I-lost-it amongst others) and the prank calling site allows for caller ID spoofing (disclosure: the site only lets you use a number you’ve verified ownership of) and this “just works” because there’s nothing in SIP and SS7 that’s equivalent to SPF/DKIM/PKI/TLS. Any and all anti-spoofing measures take place between my upstream SIP trunking carrier and the recipients’ service provider.

Such as it is, the entire PSTN/SIP/SS7 ecosystem and infrastructure was designed without any notion of authentication or verification of Caller IDs (just like SMTP’s From: header); I suppose everyone assumed back in the days of landlines that because there’s physical links and an accounting paper-trail then _surely_ the phone companies would dutifully investigate reports of spoofed numbers and disconnect/disable abusers.

I’m unsure how this will pan-out. I’d wager the majority of on-prem PBX and Asterisk boxes are sitting there unmaintained for possibly decades - and many of those systems (e.g. legitimate call-centers) will be entirely dependent on Caller ID “spoofing” to work as-intended.

What’s frustrating to me is how mobile phone networks live in their own separate bubble with minimal interoperability. I’m sure we’re familiar with VoLTE/Wideband-audio on our smartphones - but that’s only supported for calls to recipients in the same network. If you have a fancy on-prem all-IP SIP infrastructure that supports every Wideband audio codec ever made - and have a great trunking provider - you’ll still get nasty analog phone quality if you try to call someone on T-Mobile. If we can’t get things like preserving call quality right then I’m very doubtful we’ll get Caller ID authentication working.
It really depends how many people are flying in from out of town for the event, otherwise the same logic leads to shutting down all schools and stores.
I reached a pretty similar conclusion investigating OFX to add support to Firefly III. I think best case scenario would be to setup OFX connections to the institutions that require the user to enter credentials and manually refresh data. Unfortunately you wouldn't get the benefit of automatic budgeting/spending alerts, but in my case, for just tracking spending, it would work. Right now I have to export each account to csv monthly, and import to Firefly. Fortunately the import settings are saved as JSON so as long as the format doesnt change it works well enough.

I have read in some places that you can get OFX access as an individual if you call the right customer service dept.
The latest episode of OA[1] has a segment that focuses on force majeure clauses and the enforceability of them around COVID-19

[1] https://openargs.com/oa366-your-guide-to-the-coronavirus/
For those like myself wondering, this is close to a $400M revenue impact to Austin as a whole [1]. I expect rescheduling would only recover less than half of that, so it's no surprise it took them so long to make this decision.

[1] https://variety.com/2019/music/news/south-by-southwest-2019-...
A thread from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13102738

Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8669840

(Links for the curious. Reposts are ok after a year or so: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html)
Greenkeeper.io is shutting down, asks users to migrate to Snyksec
The Nintendo Playstation sells for $360k at auction
That sounds incredibly energy-inefficient. On average you have 12.5% of servers running but not contributing and possibly incurring load on other nodes.
When I moved my Philips Hue bridge got damaged. Turns out there is no way (and I tried) to get your lightbulbs to reset and attach to a new bridge. Not very happy with Philips Hue, wish there was a better option out there.
The most useful ML tools 2020
So why leave ratings?

Nearly every time I have a bad experience with a company the problem is systemic, but a bad rating will be associated with the random person who served me. So I don't participate. If the problem is particularly bad I find another supplier.
1. I didn't judge anything. I said I was amused. You inferred judgement.

2. I didn't say it wasn't necessary. The poster of the parent comment did. I didn't work there, I don't know what was necessary. But it's safe to say, if you don't need Kubernetes (which the parent poster said, not me), then you don't need something to abstract Kubernetes (Rancher)...

And also, if I did know the environment, and the environment was incredibly simple, I don't think it's necessary for me to have Kubernetes experience to determine that it is not necessary... Sometimes a couple of VMs in different zones behind a load balancer is just fine...

And if you don't agree, you probably also think a static landing page requires React to be "done properly." How's that for inferring things you didn't say? I've never used React either, I guess I'll never know if I really need it for that landing page!
I don't recall that ever happening. I suppose you could although I think most people would be too embarrassed to do so. Seems like a Seinfeld kind of a situation(John Voight's car.)
I don't know whether it's exclusive. I never claimed that.
I think this study is misleading. They are classifying a huge variety of situations as "torture".

From their paper, they describe one example in Zootopia:

Officer Hopps needs to find the drop-off location for "night howler" flowers (a poisonous flower
that has been weaponized to turn animals "feral"). She turns to an organized crime boss to extract
information from a lackey of the antagonists. The crime boss's polar bear enforcers hold the lackey
over a hole in iced-over water, threatening to throw him in (and ostensibly kill him) if he doesn't
give up the location. "Ice him," says the crime boss. The lackey quickly gives up the desired information and our heroes go on to (spoiler alert) save the day.

Cartoon animals were threatening to throw someone into the water. Is that really "torture"?

Later in the paper, they describe that they include any "threat of pain" to be torture, as long as it isn't self-defense. So a schoolyard bully saying "I'll punch you unless you give me your lunch money" is considered to be torture.

Naturally, with this sort of definition of torture, they discover that most movies contain torture.
An assholes can be completely rational, become incredibly rich and still be an asshole.

It doesn't mean being an asshole it's the best strategy to become rich, it isn't enough to become one and generally I think being good decent human beings is much better for society and for themselves, but the numbers shows that very rich people are usually not among the best people in this world.
The problems seem to be that the person may not know the information and the information may not be easy to verify.

Wouldn't that make torture potentially effective in cases without those issues, such as torturing someone to get them to reveal a password to an encrypted device that you know they use daily?
Last night my friend and I made the call to cancel our little trip focused on the film portion of the event for two reasons:
1. There is a lot of revelry in SXSW despite it being more of a conference than a festival and it did not seem appropriate to take part in that during a pandemic.

2. While we are both young-ish and healthy, it does not seem appropriate to participate in an event that would unquestionably increase the spread of COVID-19 knowing what it is doing to older folks.

Really, the city should have cancelled it days ago. It took all three major labels pulling out this morning to make this happen.

I believe the most substantial takeaway from the coronavirus so far has been how every government seems to be focused measures that support short term finances i.e. worker productivity and consumption rather than taking swift and far reaching measures to combat this virus.

That said, the next high-profile event I'm watching is Burning Man.

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Just a detail on styling. The white text/ black background combination is kind of hard on the eye since it's too much contrast. I would use a lighter shade of black for the background. Something like #0f0f0f would work.
Italy has no idea how many total cases they have, which is why nobody is using their data to calculate a fatality rate.
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For any business with decent size, absolutely. There are a thousand ways to claw back options, and the reason they don't get used is that doing it even once would make hiring practically impossible.

For a small enough company? It falls in the same category as "diluting out of one guy's shares" - bad morals and bad business, but it still happens.
Funding in the Time of Corona Virus
Is that diagram at the beginning supposed to be ironic? Or is it just ironic.
Which is why it boggles my mind that so many people live in a society that encourages no savings social net, no healthcare if you don't go to work, houses that are over 100% mortgaged, car loans, phone loans, furniture loans etc. etc.

This wouldn't be an issue if society just encouraged people to save 10 or 20 grand to have a "just in case" fund to last a few months, and if people got healthcare even when they didn't go to work.
Just hold the hue remote next to the bulb, press and hold I and O until the light starts to flash.
Imageboards?

* Threads are sorted by bump order.

* Posts can include images. Opening posts must include images.

* To reply to a post, you link the ID.

* Hovering over an ID displays the post, and each post also links to its replies.

* No identities.

* Dead threads get deleted.

* Threads automatically refresh every 15 seconds.

It encourages a more fast-paced discussion, which is very conversational and often nearly live.

EDIT: Also trollboxes; like a cross between IRC and guestbooks.
I've seen OTPs described as being a replacement for e2e encryption before, but I just don't see it as actually usable outside of large established organizations (NSA, cartel, etc.) to use for passing short text messages. And even then the usability seems cumbersome enough that they'd only use it when strictly necessary.

Am I missing something?
(Citation needed) I read recently that shopping for an offer, leveraging it for a raise, and then staying was actually the wrong move.
It essentially started a countdown to them letting you go.*

* If you’re indispensable, the rules may not apply to you