skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It definitely made sense in terms of a good synergy. But WeWork wasn't the right candidate for that. They were really lousy with spending. Their books were in a bad shape. They hired way too many people, so much perks. You have run a co-working space i guess you'd agree the importance of being lean in such business.
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Won’t be great for employment numbers....
Zoom private chat text between attendees is actually public
No Quack.
Lines of code are of negative value; adding more actively harms the project, all else being equal. Contributions are in terms of what features were puchased with that harm (and some features are harmful in and of themselves, but Linus is pretty good at rejecting those contributions, if not the not-worth-their-loc ones).
> It'd be interesting to have a look at that news site forum (if you have a link?).

I doubt that you will find it particularly useful (site in Russian, and I've no idea how reliably that feature works for unregistered users), but anyway: https://www.opennet.ru/forum/

> I wonder how they determine which messages are new. Maybe it's [new since one's last visit]?

It is. While not as powerful as status tracking for individual messages (can't skip some messages for future read as easily, can't mark message as unread etc.), it is enough for most users most of the time.
I accept the criticism.

The leading party in Poland, Law and Justice party, is right-wing populist, not far-right populist. They formed a coalition with far-right party that has moved little bit away from the far-right.

Right-wing populist parties also erode the laws and norms just as far-right. The willingness of Law and Justice party to move together with far-right for support when they need it is problematic.

The main difference in their foreign politics is Russia. Poland was so heavily inoculated against Russia during the WWII that you get nowhere if you go with Russia.

Both are eroding the rules and norms of their countries.
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The point isn't the expenses, as much as those kind of luxuries say a lot about a company's fiscal values.
You can't see the effects of an intervention stopping new coronavirus infections until you wait past the end of the incubation period of the virus. And if you're not testing very aggressively it'll take another week beyond that for mild illnesses to turn into the sort of thing that gets people to the hospital.

Also, technically, if you go from an exponentially increasing problem to getting the same number of infections every day you've "flattened the growth" even though you haven't flattened the number cases.
> Who decides what pay is fair?

>>> ...demand extraordinary pay? Shame on the strikers for exploiting a catastrophe...

I mean, apparently you felt qualified...
ok I read it as minimum 10%, not thinking the UI would let you change it lower.
Their virtual board meeting is time spent worth. https://youtu.be/fw4qTeBvzGg
Lawmakers Question Startups on At-Home Kits for Coronavirus Testing
Agreed. At that price, I'll go to the store myself. Assuming I'm not totally alone, it might be reasonable to expect that this strike will therefore increase the number of people going to central meeting places during the outbreak. Interesting.
>Maybe the whole current situation will change attitudes back toward lean and mean which always seems to be when tech does it’s best work.

If history is any indication, we will learn this lesson, practice if for a little while, forget it, and be retaught it again in 6-12 years.
Free stuff for everyone enables a level of governmental abuse that makes domestic violence seem tame in comparison. The sad state of affairs is many abused people are gaslighted and brainwashed so they stay with the abuser. These forms of coercive mental conditioning can last a lifetime.

It happened to a close friend of mine’s sister. She ended up joining a bizarre religious cult where the leader would find young people and brainwash them into staying with the cult. I attended one of these gatherings and they attempted to recruit me as well. They’d send multiple young women over wearing very revealing clothing, extolling how great the cult was, how great the leader was, etc. But these types of mind control schemes don’t work me.
You might be required to use company resource for private matters depending on what you do. You can't really choose when some of the private things will happen that need immediate reaction.
> this would be illegal in EU

Not quite, but privacy rules that protect employees from overzealous employers are common in most European nations (EU or not), to varying degrees.
StackOverflow introduces dark mode (beta)
Not in any signifnicant way, no. The vapor pressure of lead is incredibly incredibly low. The vapor amounts that would be given off during normal soldering would be miniscule, and would remain incredibly close to the work. You'd basically have to shove the molten lead directly into your nose and snort it to have an effect, if any.

Lead is incredibly dense. I hope it's pretty easy to understand that you have to put a whole lot of energy into it in order to actually get the particles to fly up into your nose or mouth for you to aspirate them. Much more energy than is imparted by the process of soldering.
$2.5 Billion is a lot to the US, especially if it's taxpayer money for a public health issue.

But actually pretty much all countries have stumbled into the same problem. A respiratory pandemic of this magnitude wasn't anticipated by anyone, for reasons that should be investigated further. Now it's very easy to say there should have been a bigger stockpile, but a lot of the voters, especially in the GOP are quite sensitive to government spending, especially for healthcare.

And it's important to remember that there are probably other things countries need stockpiles of, with a similar anticipated risk. For example dialysis machines for a kidney disease pandemic. These things add up quickly, and all you can do is make an educated guess of how far to anticipate any such threat.
Thanks, I was familiar with the anecdote but couldn't remember the source. I did a quick search but didn't find it. I thought it may have happened with a major drug dealer as well? Not sure on that.
Perhaps they would be known as unisquits?
It's like we never learned anything from the VC excesses of the dot com bubble, other than delaying when you IPO.
Are you suggesting people don't need Hadoop, Cassandra, Spark , Kafka ... etc to run a website with 3 forms and 2Gb of data? How dare you?
> I found this true of the mouse on a Mac. Which one? I don't know- it was my cousin's. I don't remember the details but I was looking for a context menu to do some normal context-menu-y stuff like adjust the size of a picture or something- or maybe save a picture in a browser. I couldn't for the life of me figure it out (and I cut my teeth on a Mac+, had all the Inside Macintosh books, fooled around with assembly language programming, and so on). Then my hand accidentally brushed the mouse. Turned out, to get the context menu, you had to brush the mouse.

This feels like some user-specific customization.

The ctrl-click context-menu right-click-substitute has been around since 1997 (Mac OS 8), and various Apple input devices have had different sort of "right click shortcuts" since then (at least after 2007 or so? it took a while) but I don't know of a tap-to-right-click default. "Click the right side of the apparently-buttonless-mouse" and "two finger click" are the most well-known. None of these are intuitive - the context menu stuff was a power user thing in the Mac world in the late 90s), but fairly unchanging.
Just for the record, I was already aware of GUN previously, and think it is a good project to include in the list. We had just forgotten about it when putting together this list of links. I guess I don't check HN all that often. ;)
> making up scores for an imaginary league that's being played.

Real sports might not work this way, but there is an imaginary sport whose virus-immune atheletes continue to compete even now. Jelle's Marble Runs [1] is a Youtube channel that hosts marble races in Olympic or Fomula One fashion, complete with TV-style animations and commentary.

It's all for fun, of course, but it is an interesting look at sports without sports, in a sense.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYJdpnjuSWVOLgGT9fIzL0g
Can AWS S3 optimize images(.WEBP) to save bandwith?
At a high level, your concern is that OSes should not use cooperative multitasking for OS Processes. i.e. using Rust's async-await as the only technology within the OS Scheduler would be a mistake.

The article isn't discussing schedulers, but async-await within the OS codebase in general. Forgetting the scheduler, for example, Interrupt handling and driver code is generally async in nature, and at a base level needs to be cooperative.

while let Some(byte) = keyboard.interrupt().await() {
...
}

In general, certain drivers also need pre-emption, however, given all of the code is written and curated by the kernel devs, they can ensure the code cooperates well.
And I don't want dark mode as the default, as I can't read such pages.
I loved the open office I worked in (as an IC).

When I worked at reddit, we all sat in a single conference room in the corner of the Wired office. There were five of us doing engineering. A huge whiteboard on one wall (with a couch underneath for naps), windows on two walls, and the fourth wall was the door.

It was great. We all had headphones so we could work when we want. When some people needed to collaborate on the whiteboard, we just got up and did it. Usually everyone else ended up joining in, unless they were already deep in their work and didn't notice.

It was the perfect balance of collaboration and privacy.

But it probably worked so well because "the boss" was more like a peer, so you didn't feel watched. He was working on code right beside you.

And when we played games, it was great because you screen cheat off of Steve and he couldn't tell. ;)
Does it cost money to post a Safari Extension to the store? Google and Firefox submissions are free?
I've read that often art thieves are effectively ransoming their stolen art in hopes the victimized museum's pay up.
A delivery of instacart containing $100+ in groceries is different from the average food delivery since the food delivery personnel will very likely be delivering more orders per hour compared to the instacart workers; the $5 extra per delivery might end up meaning more to the food delivery workers than instacart, making it a pretty impossible demand if they want universal integration. Something like "hourly pay increase of $20" would be better.

I also think instacart workers might be at higher risk of virus exposure because, as I understand it, they need to go into the store and pick out groceries - while food delivery workers only really interact with the food bag at the counter. I'm also not sure how often the different contactless delivery options are chosen, but instacart would include more exposure if you needed to hand every grocery bag to the customer compared to one or two food bags.
I’d guess people wouldn’t want this news. At least in the abstract, the policy isn’t absurd.

The test for
Huntington’s (a genetic disease that is 100% fatal and usually starts in your 30s or 40s) might be a good analogue. You’d think everyone would want to know (50% chance if one your parents has it). But IIRC, less than 50% get the test.
Not to be overly alarmist, but the history of these kinds of emergency powers hasn't been great.

Nazi Germany was born from such:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_Fire_Decree

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933
Does it? An Aeron chair runs like $1000. Probably less in bulk. <1% of an engineer's salary. It's in the noise.
Ummmm yeah, dogs sniffing stuff out is about as scientific as polygraph: it only provides probable cause.
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> this thread is not about logic but instead about jealousy of others' abilities to profit in a way that some people think is unethical, despite the fact that it would undeniably result in more masks to combat this crisis. In reality, most of the people with your viewpoint cannot envision themselves scrapping together something and pivoting their entire business on such a short time frame, and they share the relatively common personality trait in which they then don't want others to succeed where they do not.

Were you trying to see how many HN rules you could violate in a single post?
Imagine to be a e-commerce launching itself into masks now. Without insurance, proper due Diligence of suppliers and potentially no way to track batch numbers. And then something like that happens. You are in for a lot of pain.

Apparently you can get coverage, or rather a waiver, from the government if you are a non-profit.

As a side note, the government is now seriously launching itself into procurement. For example German states are starting procurement themselves.
Meetup is a bit of a funny business in that regard (though they're not the only ones). Their pricing isn't even in the noise for most companies using them but it's non-trivial for an individual or volunteer organization that's not getting compensated in any way.
Please find more humanity.
Maybe we could discuss the ideas instead to discuss my knowledge and just say I am wrong. We both could learn something.

Play the neiborghs a role denouncing abusive situations? I think that yes, in my experience they sometimes do it. Therefore more people at home could be traslated easily to more videos, more audios, and more denounces. Am I wrong?

Do the victims choose to ignore that they are being abused? IMHO Yes, they do, for years until the situation can't be hiddden anymore or something happens and the victim suddenly awake.

If the victim does not choose to change and break with their former life, there is not a lot of things that other people can do. In my experience victims lie, systematically, constantly, about the real situation and they actively try to protect their abuser.

Your experience can be different, of course.
One of the places I worked, I remember talking with the admin. She was responsible for ordering food to keep the kitchen stocked. It was a few coffee machines, and a rack full of snacks. No beer, no drinks. IIRC she said it cost something on the order of $50-75k/year, and this was for an office of maybe 150 people or so.

I guess that amount of money is small compared to some engineers' salaries but I was surprised by how expensive it was for coffee & snacks.
It's not an either or, it's a yes and. Everyone should be contacting their representatives in government as much as possible AND these workers should strike to leverage their labor's clear value to get basic essential protections.

If you use these services you are impacted by the health and safety of the workers that make the services possible. You have a stake here. Call your people:

https://ballotpedia.org/Who_represents_me
But then it's not big data, it's just a database and that's not investment grade
The idea that a company on the scale of Meetup could be effectively run by 5 people in a basement strikes me as completely absurd.

I've seen similar comments about companies like Twitter, YouTube, Spotify, and even Facebook and I'm really in awe of how completely out of touch with the reality of what it takes to run a global business with millions of users and customers people have to be to suggest these things.

Do people imagine you can just take the UI, have a few people wire it up to scale in "the cloud" and basically call it a day?
> I mean, apparently you felt qualified...

My benchmark is the market. That people are working for whatever Amazon is paying is evidence that their wages are adequate. What's your line of reasoning? Is Amazon somehow enslaving these people?
There are two ways to look at this: What the words actually communicate, and what you know them to mean. If you told an alien "I could care less", they would have very little information as to your state of caring. Therefore, the phrase fails in that respect.

If, on the other hand, you treat it as a nonsensical synonym for "I don't care", then the phrase would well have been "gooble gooble goo" and it would make no difference, since everyone knows what you mean when you say it.

I find arguing its correctness moot because there's no way to spin the sentence to be correct. At most, you can say "well, you got the point", and that's the end of it, at least when you're dealing with a descriptivist (which you aren't, in this case).
GIMP is still working on getting GEGL into everything after 20 years. Glimpse is allowed a little time to discuss and decide exactly what to do. That won't show in a commit log on a project that's less than a year old.

You can see the issue tracker for a better idea of project activity: https://github.com/glimpse-editor/Glimpse/issues
The people who are in line to take their jobs as-is probably don't want that. They'd prefer that they get fired, so that they can work instead of the people who don't like the job as-is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_wages

Striking generally only works for skilled workers. Unskilled workers going on strike in the middle of some of the highest unemployment figures recently seen is not going to end well for those people. They'll simply be replaced by those who are more hungry.

This is not a problem with the workers, or with the employers, or with the current situation: it is a problem inherent to unskilled, undifferentiated labor.
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This ignores how far the market place has listed to one side already. At this point in time I find it a little hard to summon empathy for billionaires.
unlikely as both parties are beholden to big corps which love the idea of existential crisis (getting fired => lose insurance => medical bankruptcy) preventing normal individuals from engaging in entrepreneurship/competition/healthy lifestyles
"leaving them to rely on grainy photographs to make hardware decisions" - why would the photos be grainy? I would think that the Chinese hardware folks would have decent cameras?
Even as someone working on a really big global app with hundreds of engineers, people also underestimate that although the core of something might not be all that complex, all the auxiliary parts and necessary edge cases add tons of complexity that you have to handle if you want a complete product. You can only get away dodging that for so long.
Paintings are insured. Thieves should be able to sell the paintings back to insurance companies for 10% of their value right?
Three is actually the only choice for harmony.

> What makes two vases on a table less "balanced" than three?

Two leads to dialectic competition between them.

> What about a single vase?

Static world

> Four? Five?

Chaos
How the Compound Team Optimizes Infura Usage to Power Their DeFi Protocol
there isn't, and never was, any sort of onslaught.

There are manufactured fears that "millions of people will come to hungary from africa", that rich jews will set up a dictatorship in hungary, and that the EU will somehow impose itself over the parliament.

None of this has any foundation in reality.
> It's so aggravating and anxiety inducing that I only check a news roundup in the morning and I shut myself away from any other news sources. Not ideal, but at this point it's the only way to make sure I'm not consumed by the constant stream of bad news.

I have attempted to stay away from news media since around 2018. Around last November, I decided to make a complete cut and stop consuming anything "news related" from secondary sources like podcasts, reddit comment threads etc. I expected that I'd live in ignorance, but I'd gain some peace of mind.

This change has had a far greater impact on me than what I had originally assumed. First surprise is that I still find out everything that's going on in the world that's relevant to me or people I care about. Second, I feel like I turned sober for the first time in years - I've had soo much creativity and mental energy that bloomed out of nowhere within a few days after I stopped punishing my thought process with news from the world.

There are a few things I have discovered in the past few months. First, if you put in effort to find very high quality information about an event that you hear about, you will usually find something from primary sources that are orders of magnitude better than anything that's published on popular media. Second, there really aren't that many new things happening in the world all the time - 30 mins of effort a week is usually sufficient to be on top of everything going on.

There are a ton of people who will convince you that it's your moral duty to follow news as closely as possible. It's totally not worth it.
Apple Tests Its Secrecy Somewhere New: Employee Homes
Very genuinely curious, do most people consider these "UX" instead of "UI"?

For me, I'd like to be able to click or at least copy/paste the titles of the studies shown on the map, e.g. when I hover over houston, I can visually read the title of the study, but I can't move my mouse to click or highlight the text, or else the box disappears.

I'm very glad someone is making a dashboard that actually brings "new" information that's presented differently than other people have presented it. Lots of fairly derivative coronavirus dashboards have popped up on ShowHN over the past month or so, but this is the first along these lines.
> The notion of a 'meme' as originally stated is a contagious idea. Some people have a way of explaining things that sounds like a really good idea until you are by yourself

Yes, but the notion of a 'meme' as originally stated relates to attributes of the idea itself, not the person spreading it. What you're talking about is the original notion of "charisma", that the same speech will get a better or worse response from the audience based on the personal qualities of the orator.
I doubt whoever wrote that wanted it behind a Medium paywall, but it is :(
Women in AI – Chelsea Finn: ‘I Certainly Feel Like a Minority’
The satellites don't have to know when the subs are going to come to antenna depth to receive messages. They just broadcast them continuously, and subs receive them when they decide to.
I'm assuming the author is referring to the weather, and the fact Korea is colder in winter and spring.
They asked until they reached the right person? Its not that uncommon of a pattern, sadly.
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Oh man that sucks, it's a good story.
Deno 1.0 will be released May 13, 2020
$90 for 6 months actually.
You are right. Also the Universal Approximation theorem (1) for neural networks guarantees that neural networks can approximate continuous function on compact subsets of R^n, in this case max(x,y).

argmax([x,y]) = (sign(x[0]-x[1])+1)/2

Going beyond continuous functions, can deep learning be used for primality test?

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_approximation_theore...
These aren't paintings that are on display to the public after they're stolen. They're kept in houses and families for generations, and by then, time has laundered their provenance. If you read art news, it's not uncommon for museums to have paintings donated to them by the grandchildren of the person who bought the painting, only to learn half a century later that the painting was stolen.

And if someone doesn't like their stolen painting after a while, there are plenty of dealers who will hook you up with a similarly amoral buyer. The fee is higher, to go with the risk.

There's an entire class of rich people who sometimes go by the label "globalist" who believe they are above national laws, and nations, themselves. They see themselves as "citizens of the world" and sometimes even think they shouldn't need passports to travel because their egos tell them they're so fabulous, and have the money to back it up.

I read a magazine or newspaper article about it last year. Many of them attend that big meeting of super-rich people and the politicians they've bought in Davos each year.