skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> who wants a library full of books they've already read?

Someone who thinks he might read them again.
You realize why he wanted to organize a strike right? Amazon knew that one of his co-workers was infected, and said and did nothing.
More importantly, why does Liz Truss have a flagpole in her house?
I think you’re missing the meat of the argument: relatively speaking these things get cheaper over time. Bread has never been cheaper for most people. The average person can buy 2000 kcal for a few percent of their daily wages. However, in absolute terms, a few bucks today is many multiples of what it would have cost a century ago. The difference is that the increase in wages outpaced the increase in the cost of bread. And that is precisely what drives inflation. And that’s why talking in inflation adjusted terms (“real” terms) is so important. So even though bread costs 10x more than it did a century ago because people are earning 20x more so it’s actually cheaper. Compute works the same. Technological progress makes things cheaper in real terms and this is how quality of life improves.
Sidekick – A High Performance, Lightweight Load Balancer from MinIO
Show HN: Bungholio – Get text messages when a product is available on Amazon
> It's not malicious

By the time you're lying to the user, you are malicious.
No; you should learn Verilog to build a computer. It's a common aspect of Computer Engineering curricula, very educational, and ultimately … not all that useful for most software work, even when doing direct hardware interface.
Do you think Godot is either missing necessary features or has severe performance limitations?
I read the book Sourdough by Robin Sloan a few months back. Your anecdote reminds me of it! You might enjoy reading it -- it's a fun/quirky mix of technology and bread, set in SF.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33916024-sourdough
Medicinal Mushrooms – What They're Good for and How to Use Them
Lol in French defenestration is literally death by jumping out of a window.
>Literally from the yeast in the air?

This is big misconception, most of the yeast comes from flour itself.

Which is why when making your starter you want to use unbleached and/or whole grain flour.
What was performance like js-raycast vs emcc-raycast?
Zoom’s CEO says they are going to fix it and change the defaults: https://twitter.com/ericsyuan/status/1245110791772073985?s=2...
How about treating workers with dignity and respect (by paying them what they're worth and giving proper benefits)? That would be a great start, in case anyone from Amazon is reading this and is curious where to begin.
300 comment earlier today in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22735746
My experience was the total opposite of yours, as a former fast attack submariner. Don't know if things have gotten more strict or more lax, but my experience is now about 5 years outdated.

Things that didn't happen in "my reality" include the Ferguson race riots, San Bernadino shooting, the shooting at the heavy metal concert in France (?), the Mediterranean immigration crisis, and Trump becoming the Republican front runner. We were on pre-deployment work ups and then deployment. We were lucky to get a batch of sports scores.

I guess it depends on the mission and the command's digression.
I support the author here. There was a promise of a marketplace of ideas, making the world a better place, that being interconnected would make the world smarter and democratize knowledge. All that may be true, it may be out there, but it's damn hard to find.

Google, Youtube, Reddit, and Facebook all prioritize freshness. Instead of being exposed to things outside our comfort zones, we take solace protected inside filter bubbles.

Instead of the best answer, what usually floats to the top is the most repeated, the most seod, the newest, the most politically correct.

Google's results are considerably worse than they were and part of that is google trying too hard to think what we want instead of guiding us to ask better questions.
I never understand why companies do this. Its very developer hostile.

Are they having financial problems? Surely Fortnite is keeping the lights on...

Could be a signal of underlying management confusion/instability. Might need to reassess.
There was the "I Am Rich" app: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Rich
> Is this acquisition going to give more people access to a great weather app or less people access to a great weather app?

Perhaps more. It’s a matter of comparing all users of Dark Sky, including via the API and on Android, against the user base of iOS.

And perhaps they’ll be able to use the technology in other countries, bringing in more users than Dark Sky ever could.
related "Trolls break into meetings on Zoom" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22742565
If you have a good suggestion on how to rapidly measure site accuracy and quality I know some VCs who would very much like to chat.

Well, no, I don't. But I highly suspect that they exist and would want to chat.
than to write something like "Atomically [C] is the DNA of all other programming languages"? I do, yes
ITYM Google ruined Google?
Marriott says 5.2M guest records were stolen in another data breach
Having lived in the UK and now the US, the problem is definitely more pronounced over here. In the UK I was receiving a spam call maybe once a week at most. In the US I was getting about 2-3 a week on a pretty new number before blocking all unknown calls.

I assume it's simply more worthwhile to create a fraudulent scheme aimed at a larger population with more potential marks.
Am I alone in finding a lot of signaling transparent and kind of repellant? I realize I'm signaling to a certain crowd by saying that and am not denying that I participate, but it's never seemed hidden to me.

I want to live in a world in which more time is spent increasing merit and competency rather than advertising some sort of proxy. I understand that both merit and competency are impractical to judge without any sort of easily identifiable signal, but the inaccuracy of a lot of those signals and the amount of time, money, and effort wasted on them is kind of mind numbing.
No, there are no notification. I plan to add a notification editor one day where you can configure any notification you want.

That said, the to-do list is super long so it might be a while before this feature is done. I depends on demand.

That said, Rainviewer is working on predicting rain from radar images for up to 2 hours ahead. Check them out and ask when this feature might appear. They might have beta testing and your situation sounds like a good test case.
this is not true. but if you need to carry around proof of passport there is a passport card you can get for North American travel only.
Good advice.

IMO, video conference apps should be designed around mute as the default. The only way to unmute should be modal — holding down the spacebar key (or touch UI equivalent).

This hold-spacebar "enter floor mode" event and its matching exit event should be transmitted out of band to other participants, so they'd get the "floor exchange" signal more reliably and a fraction of a second faster than when relying on video to communicate this.
This is a terrific template! Thanks for creating the site and sharing. I had been looking at various online templates and this is by far the easiest.

I'm going to work on a modified version of this tomorrow probably using cotton with some manual sewing[0].

On a side note: there's been zero talk on protective eyewear so I just want to toss this out into the ether...

Regardless of the suggestions made by the CDC, WHO and/or other organizations that certain protective measures aren't necessary (and later begin to back track), common sense (based on available data) remains our most important defensive weapon until a vaccine is developed (expected late/2020, early2021? Availability to all expected within two years?).

I always thought that the early suggestions that face masks weren't necessary unless you were already symptomatic was absolutely appalling and irresponsible.

I wear eyeglasses, so feel slightly better protected. I wonder if goggles will be the next big suggestion if this virus isn't controlled or if it mutates by next fall/winter.

Current best practices: Social Distancing, Latex Gloves, Face Masks (mouth/nose). (Possibly goggles and/or eyeglasses in some form).

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[0] https://smartairfilters.com/en/blog/best-materials-make-diy-...
Apple buys Dark Sky weather app
> Floor Exchange usually happens seamlessly in most in-person conversations

This is definitely just me (and, I guess, other people like me, but clearly there aren't enough of us to shift the norms in our direction), but I don't find this to be true at all. I have problems with people not recognizing whether I've finished speaking, and even more problems with people deciding that I'm not speaking so they need to continue filling airtime.
That would not be very efficient though, instead of a chilled single truck carrying a days worth of deliveries targeting one geographic area you’d have 20 times as many uber drivers turning up at random times. All of whom have to be paid, not to mention the burning of fuel.

I don’t think uber have the right setup for this and even if they did I can’t see how they have a competitive edge.
This is a feature not a bug, to make joining meetings frictionless. (And in videoconferencing there's little distinction between meeting ID and password anyways -- they form a single access credential.)

To prevent unwanted people from joining, the host simply has to turn on the waiting room feature -- where people who have dialed in have to be explicitly accepted by the host, which can be done individually or en masse.

Overall I'd say the system works pretty well.
Out of curiosity I have no idea how to approach this. Are there indexes of websites available to the public that you are suggesting that can be searched via grep or some simple scripting?
Or are you suggesting writing a web crawler to build our own index?
Or are you suggesting finding curated links to sites?
Larger cities are built on plains because they are more accessible. Easier to forecast without crazy mountains in the way.
If anything, economists are the ones less likely to understand this (and focus on some abstract utility independent of signaling). As for the top books in Amazon's psychology category, they're likely there for people to purchase so they can signal how well read they are about diverse psychological topics.
> These PDFs are sorted by US region but for those outside the US, this may still be useful if your local climate happens to be close to one of the 10 listed here.

Possibly, but seems like it would still be best to determine what's native for your region, not just plant something because it can survive.
Facetime on iOS has this option today, or at least had it in some beta of the OS.
This is the new norm. These hacks are not going to stop until these companies are actually punished for these breaches. One of the many things that are contributing to loss of faith in our system.
I had just switched in late last year after Weather Underground had gotten worse.

Now I have to find another, or just hope that something is better then Weatherbug or whatever the top rated weather app is.
and all SCADA systems
Masks for All
Myers doesn’t want to abolish the weather service, he wants to limit who gets the data they collect.

It certainly wouldn’t be profitable for Accuweather to have to do things like gather weather data and have supercomputers to analyze.
Is including the password in the link always enabled? If you're looking at a link is there a way to tell if it has a password or not? I've had issues in the past where people with the link were unable to join since they didn't know the password.
Didn't know iTerm2 did that. Thanks, I'll check it out - might help a lot.
> why is it Zoom that is blowing up because of this and not any of the other companies?

I suspect it seems that way because Zoom was already more aggressively seeking media spotlight as a growth startup, and experiencing more rapid growth in terms of multiples because it had a much smaller install base to start with than established competitors. Also, Zoom is the center of it's company’s business whereas Slack and Webex are just part of a large stable for their respective firms.
Anthony Levandowski opens up about getting caught between Google and Uber
So you move from apples to googles? At least Apple pretends to care about privacy.
Some years ago when i wanted to search for something, my only concern was to guess how it may be written dont on a page, so Google can find it for me.

I could click next as long as i needed. I could refine query to get better results.

But now result list is extremely limited. Refining query gives the same result.

Google was once a search engine that allowed to discover content. Now, it is not.

You could write an article and Google indexed it and showed it if people searched for it. Now it does not work that way. If your audience visits other pages than yours, it will show irrelevant info from these pages rather than perfect match from yours.

And also Patelisms. Once, a short post was enought for Google to index it. Now it has to be essencially a book. It does not need to answer any question, as long as it has a length of a book and thousands of illustrations.

I wished there was a search engine that finds pages matching query, not guessing answers. Giving the freedom to explore rather than giving cheap crappy answers.
In the 2000s we used to do this, but with the proverbial Linux Desktop.
SEO is behind many of these dynamics, though. The "more accurate"/"better quality" signal is getting so noisy that rewarding freshness and hoping the user meant to search a very current topic is perhaps the best you can do. Quite disappointing of course (since we'd rather have good-quality content be easily reachable) but not entirely unexpected.
The weird thing I know someone who swears by Dark Sky in Seattle, while for me it's been pretty inaccurate.

I think these personal takes are plagued with confirmation bias.
Covid-Net deepCNN design for Covid-19 detection from chest radiography images
You could host that wiki for ten bucks a month.
> Every post of yours is just doubling down on insistently glossing over the realities of racial biases in hiring by painting any attempt to hire diverse candidates as the real racism.

If this is your takeaway, then I don't think you've been getting the message that I've been trying to convey this whole time.

There are benefits and drawbacks of being diverse in tech. You correctly highlight that diverse workers are often subject to more bullying and harassment. On the other hand, many tech companies do discriminate in hiring and that results in greater opportunities being extended to diverse candidates as compared to non-diverse candidates. Both of these are "real racism" (and sexism). Which one is more impactful than the other? That's a subjective question, and people with different experience are going to have different responses.

Someone who is diverse and subject to bullying or harassment might think, if I weren't diverse I might have diminished career opportunities but it'd be worth it to avoid this harassment. By comparison, a non-diverse aspiring tech working might think, If I were diverse I might be subject to more harassment or bullying but the career opportunities would be worth it. Which one is right? They both are, because these are their opinions. Trying to say one is right is like trying to identify the correct flavor of ice cream.

And the "strawmen" are real diversity hiring polices I've encountered. If you're a boot camp grad and you applied to Dropbox between 2014 and 2019 you only got an interview if you were diverse. Dismissing the things I've personally witnessed as strawmen makes me think your opinion comes from a perspective that is not aware of the extent of diversity hiring. Perhaps you'd think differently if you worked at my current and past employers and witnesses our hiring policies.
Yes, but they sometimes have their own private copy of the git executables that can be out of date or with their own peculiarities, such as using their own git-config that the default command-line git in your PATH won't be using.
So, what's the best minute level forecast Android app?

Plus, the best API alternative?
> google trying too hard to think what we want instead of guiding us to ask better questions.

Can you explain what this means?

I see people saying this wrt to Duck Duck Go: "No, the results aren't worse, you just have to re-learn how to search with it" and all they really mean is that you need to stack more context into the search input which is strictly worse since you can already do that in Google if you need to put a finer point on your search.

And they mean that since DDG doesn't know "Elm" is a programming language most of the time, by "re-learning search" they seem to mean adding "lang" to the input. Where "re-learn" seems like a romantic way to phrase this obvious problem of the search engine needing more context. In the same way I had to "re-learn how to use a keyboard" when my crappy 2017 Macbook Pro keys started coming off.

How does your complaint differ from this?
Doesn't work with the arrow keys :(
> Anyways, I think we can all survive without straws

Yip, and that's somewhat the point. But for whatever reason we keep getting lulled into the idea that we can fix the problem of consuming too many resources without actually consuming fewer resources.
That's not what "mediation" is. Mediation is never binding.
" This is why ... it won't be until this year at the earliest that they have non-phone-number identifiers ... Signal simply takes privacy a lot more seriously than other tools"

If they took privacy seriously they would have never asked for people's phone numbers.
> At some point, I wonder when programmers who are required to care about correctness throw up their hands and say "This language isn't reasonably human-sized for a user to know they're using it correctly."

That's a bullshit argument very close to FUD.

You don't need to know the 1400 pages of the C++ standard to use safely a subset of it. Specially with proper tooling to help you.

Do you really think that every web frontend developer knows every W3C/ECMA standard every time they create a website ? Or that they have even an idea of feature the complexity of the Web browser they use. One tips: no they don't.
Is https://openweathermap.org/ useful as an alternative? I haven’t seen it mentioned in discussions about replacing Dark Sky, and I don’t know enough about the field to compare it.
In my experience this sort of decision is always driven by sales / marketing people deciding they want to funnel the users into some other part of the site that nobody currently uses because it's not as good.
I love calisthenics. I do the Recommended Routine over at Reddit Bodyweight Fitness: https://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/wiki/kb/recommend.... I do this routine in addition to my Olympic weightlifting training. I do CrossFit for fitness testing and for that HIIT stimulus, not for "training" training.
Now we just need to render Emacs onto a tesseract.
As everyone in the media wakes up to the fraud that is recycling I'm reminded that Penn and Teller looked into this in 2004.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0771119/
It's not Marriott. I feel a little bad for the big hotel chains whose names are used by telemarketing scammers because their reputations get tarnished.
Aren't passengers much better to have in your car, because they can "copilot" for you?
Does searching articles on wikipedia count?
> If you have a good suggestion on how to rapidly measure site accuracy and quality I know some VCs who would very much like to chat.

Bring back some variety of DMOZ, perhaps in a federated (easy to fork) version. That was quite successful at surfacing the best-quality online resources by topic, and even the early Google index seemed to rely on it quite a bit. But it wasn't a VC-funded project, of course.
Hindsight Bias
We wrote the stars ourselves - normal 5 point star style. If you wrote the stars yourself recruiters would probably cross them out and write in the stars that correctly reflect your diversity status.
> There was a promise of a marketplace of ideas

Said commenter, as they type a comment in a marketplace of ideas where people discuss fairly complex ideas.

The internet is a tool, not a solution. I absolutely disagree that it's hard to find for anyone looking for it. The issue is that most people aren't looking for it, and you can't force them.

A lot of people are just looking for entertainment, and that's perfectly fine. They spent their whole day working hard, come home, and now you want to force them to spend their night studying and discovering new ideas? That may be the internet you want but it's not what people want. The internet can be for more than one thing.
Currently its missing necessary features. The roadmap looks good but I can't ship on a road map.
Bless your innocent soul that has clearly never visited the murky waters of 4chan or worse.

There are literally people on the internet who claim white supremacy, and that the Earth is flat.

There certainly exists similar scum/ignorant idiots who would find this funny.
Your location data.
Algorithmic coding tasks and system design questions are the two types of things you get asked in SWE interviews. They just have practice interviews for both. It's not novel.
GitHub was a complimentary product that fits into Microsoft’s strategy.

Skype was almost certainly some sort of scheme to kill Skype and bring lawful intercept to the platform. Skype at one point owned consumer voip globally.
> they deserve a lot of credit for not selling user data

How can you say that on a day that they sold all the user data?
Whatever happened to the promise of cube desktops with wobbly windows?
I work for a company where almost everyone has a family and kids. We work in FinTech and highly value cultural fit.

I am also single.

However I don’t think this company would generally tolerate brilliant assholes; who would almost certainly not be a good cultural fit.
A lesson in optimizing the wrong cost function. The internet set information free. And like the millennia before, the masses congregated to gossip, laugh, fight, and whatever else helps pass the time.
Isn't a driver's license nearly as easy to renew as a non-driving state ID? I don't see the point, even if you only need to rent a car on rare instances.
I remember compiz! https://launchpad.net/compiz. Looks to be still actively maintained
Definitely not, this article is targeted specifically at people with your worldview.
If it’s important, they can text me. I ain’t listening to voice mail. Eww, what is this, the Middle Ages?
The bread I make most often, the simplest and most delicious one I've had in my life, comes from Reinhart's Artisan Breads Every Day. So I can definitely second the recommendation of his books.
Actually the thread showed they can.

The theory I thought was reasonable for why the OP had troubles, was that Mac touch pads are sensitive enough to treat the separate pads of the paws as multitouch.

Testable: try with individual pad of paw on a Mac touchpad.
If you're in Seattle (ideally near the University District), I'd be happy to share some of my very healthy starter. Leave a window open and I'll huck it in.
Very nice writeup. I ran into a few sites last year that used this and attempted to reverse engineer it myself. I failed miserably because I know nothing about code in the browser, but for some reason it really piqued my interest.

The question that kept coming up for me is, will the arms race ever end? Are we doomed to the fate that consoles had where the entire device is locked down?
Yes, it has a ?pwd query string (which appears to be a base 64 encode of the password)