skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lucky for us, social waste is not the criteria for taxation, or we’d be dead broke from sharing beliefs on the internet alone.

What is your metric of social waste, and why do you think education has enough to worry about compared all the millions of other socially wasteful things we do when not working?

Us GDP per capita is not going down, and education rates are going up. Both monotonically since the 70s, despite the supposed degree requirements of bank tellers. That alone — the economy — seems to squarely contradict the notion that school is somehow bad for us.

If you’re measuring social productivity in terms of capital, I think you’re failing to account for the increase in income tax the government receives from the average 2x higher salary of educated people. That extra income tax is so much money, it could fund education for every man, woman, and child in the US, and still have 90% of it left for the socially productive spending we do now on such things as maintaining the military industrial complex. We are being taxed for education already, and we are still better off.

It seems like you might also be ignoring the social evidence for education in countries where it is subsidized, like Norway, Finland and others.
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This is a massive accidental experiment on the effectiveness of fully remote teams. Most of these companies are fairly reticent to have even a few workers remote, let alone entire teams/orgs.

It'll be interesting to see if teams push for something closer to full remote wherever it worked well (or if some employees will want it, having not realized what it was like).

Plausibly teams that it works well for will have greater ammunition to push for it, since they have the past experience with it.
I regularly use a pretty GUI-intense program, called REAPER, for editing digital audio. Its a very powerful application, full of amazing features and powerful yet simple tools.

Its a bit daunting at first, and can be overwhelming if you don't really have the patience to dig into it and find where everything is, in terms of grouped functionality.

However, one key thing made learning to use REAPER smooth as butter - the '?' key. This shows the "Action List", which is a list of all the things you can do in REAPER, in a text list .. so I can quickly type '?' - then 'section' and find all the actions related to sections. VERY useful, and quite a great way to explore the periphery of features I would otherwise not have discovered.

In fact, its the very first thing I teach anyone I'm introducing to REAPER, that they should use. I'd say, without this "text-based UI", the rest of the program wouldn't be nearly as accessible. A lot of that has to do with the fact that the REAPER developer seems to have a Power > Eye-candy attitude about the UI design - its clean, minimal, and functional when you first get started - but the UI is also fully tweak-able such that once you start getting productive with it, you find ways to make the GUI really shine (track colours, Layout customisations, etc.)

Anyway, I think its pretty interesting that the entire UI is accessible from the text-based '?' Action list query... I wish more programs would adopt this abstraction.
That’s why I love fish shell! For me the best shell!
I have a '94 Toyota Pickup(right before they rebranded them to the Tacoma)

I have a '93 SR5 pickup with the single cam V6, bought brand new in '94 (only difference from the '94 is the third brake light, AFAIK). I still get people asking about buying it all the time.
How do these experts deal with cultural factors? Would the matching take into account the general culture that the parents are exposed to?
When Cheating Goes Wrong
Porting a JavaScript App to WebAssembly with Rust (Part 3)
Living with academics for many years now, I believe this to be very well put!
sleep would save humanity, it would reduce the errors, the amount of calories burnt, the amount of calories intake the next day etc etc
> The classic MacOS and Windows UIs didn't do that sort of stuff.

Really? I very distinctly remember note/task pads that looked like spiral-bound pads of lined papers, CD players that looked like a real CD player, and calculators looking like an actual physical calculator. Many computers didn't have the power to do fully-realistic stuff just yet, but those that did went to great lengths to be as close to the real deal as possible. See e.g. IRIX's IVcalc ( https://guidebookgallery.org/pics/gui/applications/office/ca... ), or the NeXTStep CD player that even had the damn volume wheel.

Granted, on Windows & friends many applications that shipped with operating systems didn't take it that far until the very late 90s (e.g. Windows Media Player 7, the one launched in late 99/early 00). But that's because they had to account for the low capabilities of entry-level hardware. And even then, there were exceptions (e.g. QuickTime on MacOS 9). But outside the realm of applications that shipped with Windows, as much photorealism as the hardware could give you was generally thought to be a good idea. Many applications, like that whole generation of "super CD player" and "scientific calculator" apps, didn't do anything that the OS equivalent didn't do, they just looked super futuristic and fancy.

It didn't float that well with most professional tools, like Office or Photoshop (or, heh, Paint Shop Pro). But that was true everywhere. Pages for OS X wasn't all lined papers and calligraphy, either. But outside that particular zone things weren't as somber.

And let's not exaggerate the extent to which skeumorphism was generally applied in early iOS, either. Lined paper pads and book readers that showed shelves of books, most applications just stuck to photorealistic icons everywhere and relief buttons.
It may not go as well as would if it weren't so sudden though. I'd say that affects the results when comparing for a company that optimizes for remote.
I am talking about pad/pod machines, where the machine is not prohibitively expensive, but of course a lot compared to a hand filter or other simple coffee making device, and the coffee is of course ridiculously expensive.

Around here (Germany) many people also have coffee machines that automatically grind and brew the coffee. At a few hundred euros they are again not prohibitively expensive, but most people still feel they need them to get one or two cups of coffee a day.

I just met far to many people who believe if your machine costs several hundred euros and your coffee comes out of a pod it must be better than anything you brew by hand and of course brewing by hand takes infinite times longer. Maybe people are more reasonable where you are? Or you just know more knowledgeable coffee lovers than I do. ;-)
Your insurer doesn't give you online access to your proof of insurance?
Every morning at 6am a script wakes up on my PC gets HN's RSS feed (plus a few others), bundles them all up as a nice html list and sends it as a single email to my inbox.

So for me, RSS is very much alive.
I'm wondering how much context plays role in this perception — for example, I'm from Europe and find it somewhat confusing when people from USA talk about BMW/VW as utterly unreliable; here, it's the reverse — people equate VW cars as reliable and unpretentious, while BMW reliable and having great driving dynamics. Many people do consider BMW/VW as well-engineered/well-built quality cars that provide relatively good residuals.
Thank you for articulating that.

The fact that 2/3rd of the answers - so far - to your post seems to completely miss the point and some are even back to arguing about the definition of `dead` or RSS's relevance as a tech running thing in the background is... depressing.
Plenty of London tech companies have too
Pretty sure it's a machine learning model for video segmentation. It doesn't guess the foreground by motion: it guess it with millions of human-annotated masks.

Deep learning is making decades of research obsolete by delivering better results with more generalisation and less time.
It's also the professional's job to convince the boss why their ideas are bad. "This is considered animation spam." or "This is considered a bad practice, but this other way is more effective." or "Our tests have shown that users are annoyed by X."

It doesn't always work, but sometimes it does.
Neither of those things lead to a space-faring civilization.
Thats very confident colour scheme you've got going on there. :)
The compact pickup, yes. It's no wider than, say a Camry.

I have the '93 club cab, so it's a touch longer, but it's dwarfed by an F-150, let alone anything larger.
Why some coronavirus patients are getting inconsistent test results
Fair point. Although companies tend to go out of their way to mitigage possible litigation.
Yes, and don't forget a rotating plane with an image on it, preferably showing off high-tech processing such as alpha-blending and soft specularity. It will look like the future, but from the past.
Nobody saw anything wrong in RSS until Google Reader came along, then everyone started using the reader, then content creators realized that GR is stealing thunder and started dropping RSS, and then GR died and we ended up with no Reader and no RSS.

It's certainly not dead, but it's not as popular as it used to be.
Agreed, I don't use a lot of cash but I do seriously appreciate that it exists. And although infrastructure is robust, it won't be in a crisis or a war situation. Even in Sweden you could look at days, weeks, months without Internet and connectivity if something serious should happen.
This should be upvoted more!

For reference the other HN post and the comments therein - "Let’s use Kubernetes. Now you have eight problems" -
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22491170
You say that, but take a look at all the biggest companies that supply to governments. There is a very good chance they are run by grey haired white men.

Sure, you can get some points for diversity, but in the end, diversity only gets a few small contracts here and there while the establishment rakes in the Lion's share.
The help > search menu is the thing I miss the most from Mac OS since I switched to windows. Especially in programs like Photoshop where there are dozens of nested dropdowns, hitting cmd + ?, typing a few characters, and hitting enter is such a huge boost to productivity when you haven't memorized all of the keyboard shortcuts, and it even works on menu items that don't have a shortcut. The Microsoft office suite has this functionality as well, and I really wish they would integrate it at the system level like Mac OS does.
Jexia asks 11 of their 30 employees to quit without benefits
A github list of all the companies WFH or events changed because of COVID-19
Lawns originated as a display of wealth, showing that you were so wealthy you could afford to have land that wasn't devoted to growing food. This attitude persists, even though the origin is forgotten; the majority of people hanker after displays of status even if they don't consciously understand what they are doing. I don't agree with it (I think lawns are stupid and forests are great) but that's the way it is. To change it would take concerted public education. I believe some US states (Colorado?) have efforts to encourage people to plant native species, for example. When I lived in Australia there were some fairly half-hearted efforts to do the same (though the majority of people still had stupidly wasteful lawns; Australia is mostly desert, it shouldn't look like the UK y'all.)
Does the commercial package have any competitors? If not I'd be asking why not. Either it isn't as simple to rebuild the product as you are assuming, or maybe someone hasn't tried it yet. If it turns out to be feasible you could sell your developer's work cheaper than the commercial package and then open source it once you have made back the development costs.
On the other hand, I would hope that government and banking sites don't use ads and tracking cookies.
I was thinking of this, too. I swim in the water here down to 6 or 7°C in a 7mm wetsuit. It's cold, but it's very bearable and I enjoy it comfortably for the first 45 minutes or so. If I'm diving a lot (I'm usually spearfishing down to 20m or so) I'll often extend that quite a while due to generated heat. I'm not sure what it is, but the exertion of diving combined with breath-holding turns my body into a furnace.

When I first started doing this, I found the water in summer (around 6°C warmer) incredibly cold. I'd shiver if I was snorkelling for a while because my activity was too low. I struggled with that because being so cold would ruin breath-holds. Now I kind of prefer winter dives, because in summer I get unbearably hot. I constantly need to let water into my suit, and I can swim without it for around 1.5 hours.

That adjustment only took a year or so. People are awesome at adapting to environments in that way.
It's a skill that you can practice through meditation. But false-memories and fabricated memories will shoot this idea down long before that stuff comes into play. Memory is no where near reliable enough to be used as evidence like that.
It had peers in the compact pickup category then, e.g. Datsun/Nissan, Isuzu, Chevy LUV. My 80s roommate's LUV was a rebadged Isuzu.
Conversely, I find it really useful to block any notification from the get go.
BACKDOOR

5 years of Intel CPUs and chipsets

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/03/5-yea...
We Pushed a Million Keys to Redis in Seconds
Context is critical. You should be able to get my context. We are not sitting around a fire somewhere nowhere. We are discussing things on hn.
Now, if only you could uninstall the system apps that did this without losing critical functionality…
> Discussions, debates (some rather heated), and decisions focused on the public health response, lack of an adequate supply of smallpox vaccine, ...

They seem to have missed access to testing, forget vaccines, which is the big thing missing today, at least in the US in the first month or so + many other countries. Not to mention following the limitations of the WHO, CDC, et al guidelines in a scenario with plenty of unknowns instead of one we know well like Smallpox (which caused the first epidemics in the Americas, Haiti to be specific, in 1507 with the arrival of Christopher Columbus - the opposite of something novel).

But I guess this bioware scenario is relying heavily on the idea that US intelligence community and (public/private) health care systems will find out exactly what it was rather quickly and already have established testing and vaccines. Which to be honest would be nice to have right now and makes more sense for a biowarfare attack than the global epidemic we currently have.

Edit: nice find by the way, it puts the project in better perspective in regards to scale and participants. From the stuff I've read/watched it seems these "war game" scenarios have become quite frequent in many areas of the US and federally (with plenty thanks to spending on counter-terrorism in places like NYC). Much like the endless NATO wargames since the cold war started and more recently with Russia. The politics and bureaucracy, especially early on, seems inescapable and hard to reliably war game IMO. Especially for something without a clear "adversary" or tactical weapon.
Nuxt is a tool that sets up your entire project including the option for server-side rendering. There are other SSR tools for Vue, and I think in Vue 3 it might be built-in. There's a lot of focus on server-side rendering lately.
> I have a "window system" on my unix box. You see, in the unix world, "system" means "a bunch of unrelated programs."

... and this is still true after almost 30 years!
backdoor of Intel CPUs and chipsets

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/03/5-yea...
Interestingly, I run exactly this in one of my apps. A lot of users never actually figure out my app has notifications, but I sleep a lot better at night knowing that I'm not annoying people with prompts.
How is it possible that a single straw could break the back of a mighty camel? :)

If you're up for it-- jump on in! Other people, ... apparently aren't.
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If this works well I will eat my hat. This represents: companies with no remote-work culture (thus systems that are not fully documented, etc.), forcing employees into this suddenly (so they will not have a proper space at home set up for this... some of them will be in the same room as a crying baby), while their spouse may also be working from home due to the virus, while everyone is also thinking about getting a deadly virus every time they leave the house. I really don't expect much "work" to get done at all.
And i am sure if police wants the site taken down Namecheap will do it.
FB asking for this data is ridiculous. Go through process as anyone else.

I am glad that Namecheap is standing their ground protecting private whois data.
Some sites handle their own advertising, and a few do it in a really cool way. For example, the Penny Arcade web comic only advertises games they like[0], and they hand-draw their own ads for it in the same style as the comics. Sounds like incredibly valuable advertising for those games, and it fits the style of the site.

[0] Or used to. I haven't checked them in years.
Стремительно растет новый проект по заработку
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He told us a story about being in London during ww2 as a teenager. He remarked, with a grin, that he wasn't afraid. Like a teenager, he rather enjoyed the crinkly sound of buildings getting crushed. !

He fell in love with math reading Bell's "Men of Mathematics"
Thanks for the link, at the very least Jeff Kreeftmeijer in 2010 already used the name git-flow for that specific model. I somehow missed all of that.

Plus nvie.com updated its 10-year old post with a notice yesterday and also uses the name git-flow there.

I guess I'd better use the term git workflow in the future.
The answer to "Are they the same age?" is not really "I don't know". Try answering "I don't know" to a question during a quiz or an exam, it's very unlikely that your answer will be considered correct (even if it's actually true that you don't know it).

You don't know the answer to the question "Are they the same age" (but it's either true of false), and you don't know the answer to the question "Do car colors differ" (it's either true or false). If you don't know the answer to either question then you don't know whether the answers differ either.
I don't agree that GUIs are a replacement for the CLI. Yes in the past that is all we had, but really they are completely different and should be considered in parallel. CLIs were never really meant for non-technical users though as far as I'm aware, or at least the end user was already expected to have some kind of established context. I'm not really against exploration in this area but I disagree that CLIs are flawed. I'm biased of course, excuse me while I get back to my UNIX/xterm/tmux/vim development environment.

EDIT: I would like to point out that I've only been in the industry for 6/7 years so it's not like I started my career where this established environment was the only choice.
Pretty unpleasant seeing the term open source applied like this.
Feedbin does it as well.
Might have copied the wrong link in my dude.
If the Swedish government was broke it would still have access to universal healthcare and a free first class education.
My employer dislikes remote work, many will disagree, but I’ll explain why…

The company makes video games and as you can probably guess being creative is very important. Working from home reduces the creativity of every employee not just because the existing tools for telecommute are insufficient to create a good work environment but also because it prevents people from socializing with spontaneity. Add to this the fact that many of the game developers and designers need special hardware (different game consoles, VPN routers, high speed Internet, interactive pen displays, additional software licenses, etc) that the company would have to buy for every single person to maintain the quality and development speed they have from working on-site.

The founders were forced, due to CORVID-19, to implement an emergency protocol in case we have to move all operations off-site. The IT department was already tasked to setup VPN access for all employees, to buy a bunch of expensive equipment, to spend countless of hours training senior programmers and artists in the arts of online meetings, network troubleshooting, activation of software licenses and who knows what else.

I worked for a remote-first company for roughly five years and it was great, but the business was completely different. My team was responsible for the provisioning and management of different cloud services, in fact all our products were Software as a Service (SaaS) so having a reliable Internet connection and a good enough computer was enough to do our job including leadership, management, marketing, engineering, sales, support, etc.

I cannot see this happening in a game studio, it just doesn’t work. I may be wrong but I think there is not a single game studio in the industry with a fully remote work policy. If there are, I bet their success cannot compare with studios of the same size working all on-site.
Tbf, Excel making use of OpenCL kind of makes sense :)
> It blocks tracking / ads on devices where you can’t edit a hosts list (your phone)

Right, but you can use adblockers on them.

> It works for your entire network (everyone in your household)

Fair, but as I mentioned it stops working the moment you step out, which I assume you do with your phone?
Feds wanted a backdoor so they provided a very straightforward way to achieve this.
> while everyone is also thinking about getting a deadly virus every time they leave the house

Am I the only person who isn't worried about the coronavirus? I'm not exaggerating when I say it hasn't effected my life at all, except for the effort it took me to write this comment. I live in San Francisco, if it matters.
This reminds me a bit of the Dynamic Lisp Listener from Symbolics Genera-based Lisp machines.
Investigative reporting is in a tough spot in a capitalist democracy. In a democracy, good reporting is a vital part of the system, but in capitalism, people pay for what they want to see and hear, and that's not always the truth.

Advertisers directly or indirectly impacting the kind of news that gets reported doesn't help.
Machine Learning phd student here! I am currently working on a branch of ML called Continual Learning that deals with this theme exactly. It turns out Artificial Neural Networks have a hard time recalling things they they see in the past [1].

One of the most effective strategies to counter this issue is storing and periodically replaying old training items (i.e. “memories”) for the network [2]. There are also approaches that set out to mimic what we understand of the brain and adopt cue-based approaches [3], but they don’t seem to have reached meaningful outbreaks just yet...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catastrophic_interference
[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.10486
[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.10563
I emailed the primary bitcoin maintainer Wladimir J. van der Laan when the Snowden slides came out, asking specifically for this. The hand-wavey rationale then for not doing it was basically along the lines of “well, anyone can MITM it and people who care about privacy should already be using it over Tor, so it isn’t important”.

I disagreed then and I disagree now, but my C isn’t up to the task (I can read it well enough, but I doubt I could securely implement a network crypto server the first try). Perhaps I will look into adding this to the golang bitcoin implementation, although I doubt it will go much of anywhere without bitcoind/bitcoin-core (the main canonical implementation) supporting it.