skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It just says media contact. I am not clear if that means they actually wrote it or not?

At the top of the article it says Ottawa (which is where the headquarters of the Eclipse Foundation is located). There are a lot of French speakers around there so I assumed it was a French speaker who wrote it.

Regardless it seems like somebody at Eclipse should have reviewed the memo before it was released.
It's very Dropbox-esque…
No-knead bread needs high-hydration dough, which is fashionable nowadays but not to everybody's preference. If you prefer something like normal sandwich bread then a bread machine will make it for you.
The aim of the law is to prevent employers from blocking unionization. Your hypothetical might prevent harm to specific individuals who were fired, but it wouldn't achieve the overall goal of protecting the right to organize. Instead it would rid the employer of the organizers, which is what the employer wants.
It is, but remember Hanlon's razor.
It’s more likely that the yeast is on the flour already, as it’s going to be more likely to be somewhere where there’s a food supply for it.

That’s likely why organic flour is better for starting, as it’s got less in the way of microorganism inhibitors.
Chipping Away at Moore's Law
Large amounts of money offer much more tangible freedom than a moral victory, and can lead to many more moral victories down the line.

Alternatively, people just like money.

I'd much rather take whatever large amount of cash to basically ensure my needs and those of my future offsprings are taken care of for a very long time, if not for life.
Why It’s So Hard to Make a Good Covid-19 Model
My wife created a starter from scratch last year using only water, honey, flour, and raisins. I think the recipe was similar to this (http://www.bellarminemagazine.com/making-your-own-sourdough-...). It has since churned out a loaf or two on a weekly basis (and the discard turns into pizza dough.)

My ability to remain in ketosis is apparently indirectly proportional to the availability of delicious fresh sourdough bread.
Source: https://candor.co/hiring-freezes/
>many plastics and their byproducts

Woah woah. Many? Plastics are useful because they are inert. They are gigantic chains that basically don't react.

Byproducts are part of the process, not the actual plastics. And I'm not sure what you are referring to here.

Sure BPA is potentially unstable, but it's pretty easy to figure out if a chemical is dangerous. Chemicals aren't free, so you know what you are buying.

Source- chem Engineer who worked in polyurethane seating
I've had a lot of fun this year keeping mason bees (native bees). They're solitary and extremely docile (I've messed with their comb homes a lot and they've never minded). They're also extremely good pollinators, much better than honey bees.

After an unsuccessful attempt to use a mason bee hive from Costco, I ripped it out and inserted 3D printed equivalents, which they seem to be more interested in. It's also fun that I get to disassemble the nest and double my brood for next year.

As for the garden, it's hard to determine causation, but I've noticed a much better yield on my stone fruits.

I highly recommend mason bees in your garden next year. They're easy, low maintenance, and kids can get into keeping them.
Something I've wondered about for a while is if we just decreased the variety of things we allow to be put into combined recycling if that would help.

For example, if we eliminate paper and glass entirely from recycling programs and all recycling was plastic and metal. Would this help?

I know a some amount of paper is carbon neutral at this point because planting is required which offsets use.

And a deposit could be charged for glass which would help that.

If we focused on metal, which is profitable and plastic which seems to be most problematic would we be better off?
It's fine, that extra 1/3 is just going to healthcare anyway
I see. That's interesting, you may want to send those comments to your regional forecast office. They have several citizen-science programs like SKYWARN and their ham radio observers, that help them improve their regional forecasts.
I really like Windy
If you mean you sold your home and invested in stock market just before this all happened, you probably lost 20-25% as of right now as opposed to just holding on to the property. A bear market doesn't mean anything about real estate prices, and in practice demand for real estate increases as the stock market and bond market drops
Offline-first businesses bear the biggest grunt of the quarantine. What can be done for them in terms of digital solutions? Let's talk about this.
It takes a few days though.
Dark Sky Has a New Home
This looks great and should surely cover most of the CRUD needs of simpler apps and hopefully even more.
On the other hand, in my experience such complicated abstractions eventually leak, especially due to the complicated nature of the relational model and modern SQL.

For developers not keen on adding a thick indirection layer between the app and the DB, I have been trying to make raw SQL easier and more reliable to use directly in TS with PgTyped[1].

In general, I think most people are more than glad to use raw SQL solution instead of a mapper as long as it has:

1) Realtime parameter/result type inference in their language of choice.

2) Has autocomplete and validation in their IDE

3) Is composable, allowing to join queries/sub-queries..

So far I have been able to implement SQL-in-TS type inference in PgTyped[1] with autocomplete and validation on the way.

[1]: https://github.com/adelsz/pgtyped
This is why we should be hostile to Swift being used outside of the Apple ecosystem.

To all the folks trying to make Swift server development compelling: please stop. Use Golang or Rust instead.

Apple is an antagonist of other platforms/ecosystems, and there's no reason to believe they won't use Swift to force developers to buy and run Macbooks.

Edit: Would the multitude of downvoters provide a counter argument? Why should we tolerate this behavior from Apple?

I'm upset when other companies use the same playbook. There's an equal opportunity for all companies to behave better here. As it stands, I do not support this.
Is that don’t attribute to SEO that which you can attribute to SO?
How YC will be funding the S20 batch
Whatever branch teaches me not to be a joyless pedant, I guess. You should give it a try.

Edit: to be less flip, I find it an excellent place to think about ethics, what things are worth doing, the future, etc. I feel more prone to be "philosophical" when I'm in a wild place. I do not put on a backpack and think, "Ah, today I'm really going to sink my teeth into some epistemology".
No support for multiple return values (in registers). There's structs, but that means returning via memory because, well, see point 1.

Return values in registers are a machine level optimization.
Whether something is in a "register" is up to the CPU today on most CPUs. If you set a value in the last few instruction cycles, and are now using it, it probably hasn't even made it to the L1 cache yet. Even if it was pushed on the stack. That optimization made sense on SPARC, with all those registers. Maybe. Returning a small struct is fine.

There's an argument for multiple return values being unpacked into multiple variables, like Go and Python, but that has little to do with how it works at the machine level.

Missing operations such as popcount, cttz, simultaneous div/rem, or rotates.

Now that most CPUs have hardware for those functions, perhaps more of those functions should be visible at the language level. Here's all the things current x86 descendants can do.[1] Sometimes the compiler can notice that you need both dividend and remainder, or sine and cosine, but some of those are complicated enough it's not going to recognize it.

Traps are UB instead of having more predictable semantics.

That's very CPU-dependent. X86 and successors have precise exceptions, but most other architectures do not. It complicates the CPU considerably and can slow it down, because you can't commit anything to memory until you're sure there's no exception which could require backing out a completed store.

[1] https://software.intel.com/sites/landingpage/IntrinsicsGuide...
It's really Apple's fault. "This package will run a program to determine if the software can be installed." Is just fundamentally a very strange statement to make, loaded with vagueness.

Think about your average user... they are running an installer program... which alerts them that they need to run another program... to determine if they can install the program.... (Which the user thought they were already doing)

The loaded expectation of the user to realize they are granting privileges to a program to determine whether they can install a program is just totally unreasonable.

It just sounds more and more ridiculous written out like this.
The killer feature is that they provide data from the best global model (ECMWF) for free.
Figure this is the place to jump in here. I tried a couple cheaper docks and sent them back to Amazon immediately. I bought a CalDigit, and it's been rock solid for many months now. I connect an external display (Asus 27" 4K) to it, remove it, use the built-in display, and use it in clamshell, off and on, all through the day. Not one problem at all. There's no sugar-coating it; they're at the top of the range for TB3 docks, but mine's been worth every penny. I've been on Catalina since launch day.
Simultating concurrent writes to sqlite3 with multiprocessing and pytest
> What the article is saying is a bit nuanced in that the IDP can theoretically provide a different user identity for each service, but in reality, does that really happen? Seems like if you're doing that you're starting to mix authentication with authorization.

It's not a scenario you're likely to see in the case of corporate SAML use, where people generally don't care about anonymity to SPs, but it happens fairly routinely in Shibboleth environments with multilateral federation. In that scenario, you often want proof of the user's membership of the organization (or their role within it) and the ability to track a specific user of the service, without being able to expose who the user is. In that case, your user identifier attribute ends up being an opaque ID, which is either random or a hash of username+SP-entity-ID+salt. Using that approach, there's no way to tell if user X at journal site A is the same as user Y at journal site B without the assistance of the IdP owner.
MIT's Deb Roy: Let's gather around the “digital hearth”
This only works for new grads. Why would I ever want to quit my job to get hired as an intern? In our industry, quality people overwhelmingly already have jobs, so this way you’re restricting yourself to pool of lower quality candidates on average.
Not making any causal claims about unions, but using the OECD numbers[1]:

(USGDPPC - EU28GDPPC) / AVERAGE(USGDPPC, EU28GDPPC) = 0.338

So the comment you're replying to was correct, for at least one plausible definition of "1/3 lower than the US".

As for the countries you mentioned:

Monaco: < 1 square mile, not reproducible in a larger country

Norway: Giant oil reserves / tiny population, not reproducible without that

Switzerland: Valid

Ireland: GDP numbers shouldn't be taken at face value because tax laws[2] encourage corporations to attribute EU-wide revenues to Ireland. Reported GDP per capita is 135% of the US value, but 2016 median household income[3] was only 87% of the US value[4]. This cuts both ways, though - other EU countries should have their estimates nudged upwards.

Iceland: 92% of US GDP per capita[1]

Denmark: 91% of US GDP per capita[1]

Sweden: 86% of US GDP per capita[1]

Austria: 91% of US GDP per capita[1]

Finland: 79% of US GDP per capita[1]

UK: 75% of US GDP per capita[1]

France: 74% of US GDP per capita[1]

Italy: 68% of US GDP per capita[1]

Spain: 65% of US GDP per capita[1]

EU (all 28 countries): 71% of US GDP per capita[1]

[1] https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=PDB_LV

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement

[3] https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-gpii/geog...

[4] https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...
> If they can make a durable touchscreen keyboard ... that doesn't get crudded up with skin oils and food film

You can already get one of those. Just go to the bathroom, turn on the sink, and put your hands under the stream of water. If you're a touch-screen power user, you can even put water on the screen - and then wipe it off!
You'd still need to bypass TCC.
Are these things certified?

Many recreational pilots fly with uncertified gear (GPS in particular), and even regular smartphone/tablet apps. They also have the required paper documentation and certified instrument but that's just to cover themselves, and as a backup.
Comcast waiving data caps hasn’t hurt its network–why not make it permanent?
Thanks, l‘ll have a look. Building binaries should be possible with the used lambci/lambda Docker image afaik.
> According to Bittner’s research, some BPA-free products actually released synthetic estrogens that were more potent than BPA.

I don't know if that means that "BPA-free" is often deceptive advertising, or it's referring to different additive that's technically not BPA but problematic for other reasons, or what. (Bear in mind, as a layman, my mindset on this stuff is that the burden of proof should be on proving safety, not on proving harm.)
Bank of America is hiring. They hired 2000 people this month.
We agree to many unfair things day to day. It's not clear to me that accepting a contract means that the contract describes a fair arrangement. Fairness is also highly subjective; the employer, for instance, likely has a different opinion as to what is or isn't fair compared to the mass of employees. It's quite possible that even you and I have different ideas of what is and isn't fair. This is precisely why philosophers across the political spectrum have criticized the structuring of society on the basis of the abstract idea of 'fairness'.
Happy to get a group together and discuss! Please email me: `brian${'at'}bractlet${'dot'}com`
>I get a feeling that process as this somehow does not select for top performers that are already working on exciting stuff.

There are senior engineers who essentially work as tech leads making $500K+ at these companies. It's a tradeoff to prepare but if you can essentially double/triple your salary to do comparable work while also getting whatever benefit from brand awareness in your social circles....
I highly recommend books by Peter Reinhart. I prefer to bake with whole grains, so I have his "While Grain Breads: New Techniques, Extraordinary Flavor," but anything by him should be great. His work is definitely based in experience and the science of yeast and flour.
Amazon, treat your workers well, or you won't have a business.
Are you suggesting that there are "levels of broken" here, where an application that doesn't do audience validation will almost certainly screw up group membership assertion?
If you’re wondering if STIR/SHAKEN was a James Bond reference, the answer is yes, and SHAKEN stands for “Signature-based Handling of Asserted information using toKENs”
The DataStax Kubernetes Operator for Apache Cassandra
how did i not know about this!?

This is awesome.. Looks like its Australian as well.. even better!
Wait, so HN normally filters the more odd Unicode characters, but does not filter codes from the Private Use Area?



Note: Since this is the Private Use area, the character you used does not display the same on every device. In my browswer, it displays as a box containing “F8FF”; if I copy it to a nearby terminal window, it shows up as “(t)”. According to the ConScript (unofficial) Unicode Registry for private use characters¹, the character you used is the “KLINGON MUMMIFICATION GLYPH”. I assume that you meant to display some sort of Apple logo? ‭

1. http://www.evertype.com/standards/csur/klingon.html
Does this mean I can start answering my phone again? Are there other vectors for spam calling which are not addressed by this solution?
Real deadlines with consequences
DuckDuckApple
A Cyber Security Analyst' view on remote working
I'd be interested to see how having a conversation with a passenger lines up.
I found dark sky to be uncannily accurate in DC. Predicting rainstorms to the minute.

But in Florida it’s completely wrong about everything. Says clear sky’s when it’s overcast. No clue about rain.

Any ideas why that would be?
I am not seeing a live radar view
Oh no! C'est une catastrophe! Dark Sky was the API with affordable and reliable _historical_ weather data, which my own app depends on. Looking for an alternative will be hard, because there is none.. Damn! :( Monopoly at it's best. Why the hell do they shutdown the API???
Video Tutoring: For Your Organisation
Definitely hang in there and keep practicing. I've worked at two FAANG companies, and for both of them I was rejected many times before finally passing. There seems to be quite a bit of random chance at play. They all allow re-applying, and some recruiters will tell you the minimum interval between applications, so just set your calendar and re-apply again and again.
I didn't realize that IBM bought WU. Explains why I saw the quality tank... I wondered what was up. I ended up deleting it.
Props to the author for explaining in the first line what the company does.
Fair enough, and I'm not claiming that Sweden (or any nordic country) disbanded their welfare system.

My claim is that the Social Democracy that Piketty suggests we return (the kind that was present in the 70s/80s) was rejected by Sweden, and for very sound reasons, and that his positive view of those times should be taken with some degree of skepticism.
I feel like there is another side too, of "plastic replacement" industry that also doesn't particularly have our interests at heart either. Do I really think reusable aluminum drinking straws are the answer to humanity's next crisis? Are plastic straws even in a top 1000 list of humanity's problems? Is the change even a net positive if the average person uses an aluminum one three times and throws it out? Or is it just someone (maybe even well intentioned) looking to make a quick dollar?
Sure, but we would have moved to public transport. Trams, buses, trains , subway. Saving millions of people a year, and trillions of dollars.
So why does Apple want this? What does it get them? Is it just an aquuihire? (Sp)
There's literally no-one here disputing that sick workers should get to stay home. What's being discussed is the proposition that healthy workers who decide to self-isolate should be paid to do so.
I'm planting a garden because I plant a garden every year. Well, I've been doing it for the past 25 years or so anyway. I've gotten quite good with production. I shudder at the thought of a bunch of noobs going out and starting a garden, but hey, I was a noob once too and I learned. My biggest advice for a beginner is to consider your approach to pest control. That means identifying the pests in your area, both bugs and animals, and whether you want to use chemicals or natural methods. Seeing as how I eat produce I prefer using natural methods but you have to realize they're not as effective and you will suffer losses. Sometimes those losses can be severe - you'd be amazed at the amount of damage squirrels, rabbits, crows, and various beetles can do to a garden in short order! The cool thing is you're going to learn about all kinds of new insects you never even knew existed happily munching away on all your produce! Enjoy!
Trolls break into meetings on Zoom
These throwaway lifestyle items is someone elses business, someone elses jobs, someones elses ability to put food on their childrens table.

I totally get the "war on plastic" tendencies when you see how it's hurting our oceans but it's very important to separate that which is something that can be fixed with some underlying idea that plastic in itself is a problem. It's not. It's literally right now saving lives through the ability creating single use masks, gloves, medical instruments, part of ventilators and I could go on.

We are getting a taste of what the world would look like without consumerism and the use of fossil fuels etc. I don't know about you but I prefer consumerism to what we have now.
Are you _sure_ you (and your kids) aren't getting more value out of hours with the family outside than any mechanized thing could provide?
They removed that Facebook sdk after complaints.
It's only a one-day strike. Unless you're openly an organizer, you're not taking much risk. The biggest thing you're thinking about in that situation is going without pay. But also, this is why strikes are only successful when you've got everyone taking part in them. The cost to replace an entire workforce is actually huge, and would shut down operations for a period of time. There would also be a campaign aimed at preventing folks from crossing their picket line: customers, new staff, etc. Enlisting elected leaders, etc.

More generally-speaking, it's illegal to fire NLRA-covered workers for striking. Granted, the penalties are minimal (penalties are backpay MINUS what the worker earned while they waited for the case to resolve itself... no punitive damages). Also, you have to actually win in court, of course -- and I'm guessing Amazon has good attorneys that can win a tough case. But if you're firing the entire workforce, no attorney is that good. It's clearly retaliation.

It's true that during economic downturns it can be hard to successfully organize, people in all industries feel more replaceable. But it's also true that at times when workers are feeling more pain, there can be tremendous activism. Additionally, there have been times in our country's past when workers were far worse off than today and yet risked far more than their jobs (in some cases, their lives) to win the protections we have now.
One of the paper authors here and the one mainly responsible for the rf95modem firmware.

The idea was not only to provide another msg app but a platform that can easily be used for different applications. One use-case in the paper is the chat app, the dtn part is not directly connected to the chat app but also uses the LoRa modem.

The modem firmware (initially developed in 2017/2018) is even more general purpose and is currently used in many different ways in different projects and prototypes. The main selling point is that one can easily connect cheap LoRa hardware to smartphones and desktop computers without microcontroller programming or providing specific device drivers.
Thus, the same modem can be used for messaging as well as environmental monitoring or other IoT applications without the need to reprogram the LoRa modules.
I find the climate control on my Honda Civic to be maddeningly confusing for reasons that aren’t really too related to the fact that it has some touchscreen elements, but I’m glad nonetheless. I feel like forcing things to physical buttons forces certain design decisions that you want anyways.
you can start answering your phone now
Backronym writing is a real gift.
Mazda have also announced the same thing. (https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1121372_why-mazda-is-pur...)

Favorite quote:
“Doing our research, when a driver would reach towards a touch-screen interface in any vehicle, they would unintentionally apply torque to the steering wheel, and the vehicle would drift out of its lane position,”
The Post-Incident Review Issue 2: March 2020
The current ruling coalition of Poland is pro-EU funds only, these notwithstanding they are always sure to blame Brussels for every woe and go out of their way to please Washington instead of integrating with Europe. They're also hard at work trying to make Poland the European outlier ,often even more so than Hungary –the infamous 27:1 European Council president vote comes to mind, more recently the 2050 climate target agreement.
Kind of curious why it took so long. Spoofed calls for fraud, swatting, etc. have been around for at least ten years.