skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry for being pessimistic, but YC without the in person dinners doesn’t feel like YC. That plus the lack of in person rapport with the rest of the batch mates and partners.
Longest part of any new install was finding the perfect window decorations.
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It is bad news for the US citizens indeed.
Unauthenticated phone number is the last island of privacy in our modern world.
Think about it: from some point all citizens will carry a geolocation tracking device that is directly linked with their ID. The internet access will also be bound to your ID and so on.
There are better ways to fight spam that do not pose a treat to privacy -- think about email or Facebook. There were tons of spammers, but there are commercial spam filters that do well now.

I live in a country where cellphone carriers are legally forced to authenticate users. And this data is used against political opposition and journalists.
Well there's a difference between asking questions with the actual intent to find the answers, and asking just in order to 'both sides' a discussion without contributing any new information. The latter is more akin to sealioning, really.
Covid-19 Hospital Impact Mode for Epidemics (Chime)
On the other hand, when I get smashed with a brick and the hard hat I'm wearing crumples like a paper bag I guess I'm still a little mad at the hard hat company?
I recently finished reading We Are the Nerds, which is about the history of Reddit (the company) and its community. One of the interesting parts was about the moderator of a bunch of subreddits that were full of all kinds of borderline illegal and definitely illegal content (u/violentacrez, if you feel the need to Google for yourself).

If you're a long-time Reddit user, you probably already know this, but here goes: He was eventually exposed by a journalist. Surprisingly, he is actually a pretty normal middle-aged man. He worked as a programmer (and was immediately fired when the news aired). He has a disabled wife for whom he is the sole financial support. If I remember correctly, he has adult children, who were aware of what he did on Reddit and had usernames that referenced their relationship with him. Apparently, he used his time on Reddit as a way to relieve stress, or something like that.

I'm not entirely certain what motivates people to act like that online when they're relatively normal offline, but it seems to be a somewhat common occurrence.
On the other hand, if they integrate it into iOS's default weather app, that would open up a whole trove of walking sensors. And potentially make it the most accurate forecasting service by far.
Another great option is Klara - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.androworks...

Great information density, clean interface and has by the far the best widget of any weather app I've seen. It manages to display so much information with graphs without being visually overloaded.
Agreed, VSCode is my favorite text editor, WSL2 looks to be awesome (I'm waiting for VMware to use it since VMware is required for my job), Github, WinUI looks awesome, etc.

Windows is slowly becoming a very developer friendly platform. Will it work out for Microsoft? Who knows.

I'm more excited for Microsoft than Apple at this point but I am looking forward to seeing iPadOS/macOS later this year.
On a couple of pictures you can see balcony doors, house layouts, ceilings, vents, etc, doors. Every now and then CNN shares photos of the houses of rich and famous. They must be taking them from some magazine. Anyway, I remember looking at Cara Delevingne's amazing home, and I noticed that apart from walls with decorations, furniture, bathtub, etc there was NO view of doors, windows, balcony doors. Basically anything that would give away the location of the rooms (e.g. photo of bedroom with trees outside that would help identify floor and where in the building that room is). I am sure that these people have far more important things (documents) in their homes than Cara (but far worse taste).
Ah yes, you are correct! the iPhone weather app data is from Yahoo.
And for people who live in a cheap area, this can make the YC money last even longer.
And it still is--- it was reintroduced recently.
Unity is in a comfortable position with newer lines of business from VR, architecture, and animation along with its strong position on the long tail of desktop, console, and mobile gaming. They have the marketplace to beat and a userbase beyond comparison. I believe this enables Google-esq behavior and its disconcerting at best.

My son was really into Unity development for a while, but he got discouraged when they deprecated their entire networking stack without providing a suitable replacement (since August 2018) and are even removing support from old LTS releases.

For a multi-billion dollar company to suddenly take down a wiki that hundreds of man-months went into creating, that is visited millions of times each year, with no warning or archive- that is open user hostility. They can certainly afford to keep it around in read-only mode as a static site. An intern could run wget and have a mirror up in a few days tops. If there is unmoderated content they are worried about, they can afford to clean it up. This is wrong.
When you walk into a crocodile pit do we blame the crocodiles for eating you?
Probably this is for aqui-hire + customer lock-in, so I doubt if we'll see any material improvements on the Apple weather app anytime soon.
Seems like having a birthday (and therefore age) for everyone checking into a hotel could be valuable for business intelligence and other analytics.
Bezos did nothing of the sort, that was a policy that existed at Whole Foods before it was bought by Amazon.
Xcode for well-structured (read: Xcode) projects. Sublime Text with clangd for random editing (not an IDE, but it gets good autocompletion and syntax checking from it).
Just on a quick Google, figures from the 1970s suggest you only need 4000 sqft/person.

https://www.growveg.com/guides/growing-enough-food-to-feed-a...
Wow, never heard of paying to drop off a package. Is that common? I thought the shipping fees or postage if gov post office is what’s suppose to pay for that.
Printed magazines recommending the best websites.
Hi, I'm not very proficient in graphical programming, but godot docs say this

> Godot uses a shading language similar to GLSL ES 3.0. Most datatypes and functions are supported, and the few remaining ones will likely be added over time.
Unlike the shader language in Godot 2.x, this implementation is much closer to the original.

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.0/tutorials/shading/shadin...

Godot is relatively new and definitely "not there yet", but at least with its open nature you can do `git clone godot-doc.git` and no top manager can take it away from you.
I was about to do the same. Frankly, I'm pissed.
No, not maybe.
There’s also a nice GUI app called “SD Notary” from a well-respected, long-time Mac app developer (Late Night Software, developer of Script Debugger) https://latenightsw.com/sd-notary-notarizing-made-easy/
Once you add that in, no wonder someone could find a way to tie 90% of human behavior to "signalling." Why did you do something? To convince yourself that you are the sort of person who would do that thing. This story works with a large majority of things people do. That seems too clever by half.
Yeah that is understandable. The data is still going to be surfaced via Duck Duck Go, but that's not the same as having an integrated experience.
I often edit my birthday to coincide with my stays.
We don't need efficiency right now, we need resiliency. Stock is inconsistent and smaller suppliers/grocers are at serious risk. I don't care if necessities cost a little more or take a little longer to show up. I do care that my family stays fed and healthy.
As a Dropbox user, care to elaborate please?
You sound like you have it all figured out, perhaps you can point at which law amazon violated.
Unity or Unreal?
How large are we talking about? I've been able to use these tools on codebases such as WebKit and LLVM…
I'm a software developer. I would just work on some other problem amenable to software.
Until it becomes a liability under the GDPR...
Yep, industry promotes recycling to sell more plastic, and they also discouraged littering to reduce their responsibility to make biodegradable packaging. See https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec...
Brexit shows that there's still a major difference: member states can elect to leave. Economic penalties etc follow, and political fallout, but here in the US we fought a major war to demonstrate that states are _not_ allowed to secede from the union. (As much as many blue states might wish they could ...)
What about video chatting with people ?
I appreciate this piece as it's another option that some acquaintances can look into to help weather the current economic storm.
Complains about Google ruining the Internet, has no RSS link on the website. Stop wining and be the change you seek.
Web rings were common. If you visited a webpage on a particular topic, they would usually contain links to other related sites on a side bar. Dmoz was an old registry and I think Yahoo had a registry at one time as well.
It's a by-product of the main process making a high-value product. Why exactly is using it bad?
Like I said, they should of said don't buy a mask - use a tshirt or scarf. You can't get on plane or go into a store without covering your face. Perfect is the enemy of the good.
The book is brilliant, highly recommended
Everyone should have paid sick leave so they don't have to choose between doing the right thing (staying home) and paying rent. Everyone should have a safe working environment.
Does this mandate do that? It seems like it just enforcing STIR/SHAKEN to prevent spoofed numbers. It doesn't, at least from what I can see, mandate any tying of identity to number. Your 7-11 burner phone and prepaid AT&T number should be fine.
> The new Audi A3’s electronics boss Melanie Limmer told Autocar recently its decision to remove some physical buttons was made as “more and more people are getting into touch functions with smartphones”

That is totally the wrong lesson to take from the popularity of touchscreens on smartphones.

Hardware buttons were eliminated from smartphones for one reason: the devices are small and screen real estate is critically important. So the screens need to take up 100% of the usable area of the front of the device, leaving no room for buttons. (The first iPhone proved how game-changing it was to be able to any web site.)

It's not because touching the screen is better than pressing a button. It's because eliminating buttons is an acceptable sacrifice for something even more important.

But in a car, of course, you don't have these constraints on size, so the reasoning doesn't translate from one type of device to another.

It's the equivalent of saying, hey, we noticed that having only one burner is overwhelmingly popular on camping stoves, and campers really seem to prefer it that way, so for all our new models of kitchen ranges, we are going to just have one burner too.

Of course, I am assuming it even is a sincere belief. It's also possible they have some other reason (maybe cheaper?) and this is just a way of justifying the choice.
No, the opposite is true, as you can see in other comments on this thread.
I haven't used a TRL, so I don't see what's the difference from just using a digital camera that can flip the screen 90 degrees up? Like an Olympus M1 mk. 3, for instance?
Yes, but this only ever impacted categories where for-profit links are common (and over time, people learn to disregard these links). And Google Search still does a pretty good job of searching for relevant businesses, since it's one of the main things that people use it for.
Right now zoom is going through a honeymoon phase. Only us geeks care about its security and privacy. After this is over though, people will start thinking it through and things will look a lot more like how FaceBook is viewed right now...
Yup. one thing I hate about google search is that it gives me what it thinks I want rather than what I'm actually asking for. Also, the "politically correct" bubble mask is in full effect.

Furthermore, it's so heavily weighted to only show results from sites with lots of SEO juice. I can't find what I'm looking for anymore.

There are some areas where google really excels and that's in technical searches. Those are really well done.
It's nice but buggy!
Canada is not enforcing border closures against temporary foreign farm workers.

The US may be about to discover what a combination of its immigration enforcement policies, combined with its unwillingness to pay farmhands wages that Americans can live on, will result in.
I clicked your link, then followed to "if you are sick" [1], and found the advice to be non-helpful for helping people prevent and recover from viral sicknesses.

I'm interested in advice to help people become more 'resilient' against viruses:

> resilient [adj] 1. Capable of returning to an original shape or position, as after having been compressed. See Synonyms at flexible. 2. Able to recover readily, as from misfortune. -https://www.thefreedictionary.com/resilient

I proposed that Zinc might be helpful. Vitamin-D is also indicated on account of the season. Vitamin-B1 may be indicated for people who smoke and/or live in an area with especially polluted air (Wuhan, northern Italy).

The experts should be telling us what to eat and how else to take better care of ourselves while we're sick. But they default to 'don't catch the virus, if you do you'll probably be fine, if not hopefully the medical system will help.' Why can't they give more helpful advice?

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/if-you-are-sick/st...
Open platform for secure application processing
More data for the big company to store on you.

Damn it.
the same is true of compost. It's been shown people will use more disposable utensils if they're told they're compostable (like those corn ones).

"Reduce" comes before "recycle" in the old marketing adage, but unfortunately it seems they're genuinely at odds.
Can we effectively synthesize it with digital methods?
Radar data is hugely noisy and it can be difficult to suss out what is cloud cover with no precipitation, or what is precipitation, plus filtering out biomass and dust. All of these show up as radar returns. There can be shadowing. Dark Sky does its own pre-processing/denoising of radar and so that can lead to different results from NOAA.
Yes, I work at one of the major universities in the US. Watch over the next week as the guidance on this changes.

Frankly, you don't need to be 'qualified' to read review articles in this area--I encourage any logical citizen to do so. Specialist articles?...sure, it's unlikely you will gain much from reading those.
This person's argument is arguably weaker with their gmail address written out inside a H2 tag at the bottom of the page
>What happens when those workers get sick?

The vast majority will have a mild cold and continue working. Covid isn't dangerous enough to the working age population to significantly impact the workforce
https://applehelpwriter.com/2016/08/29/discovering-how-dropb..., and the associated Hacker News discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12463338
I've been using Overdrop [0] for a few months now. Has great widgets and can select from a few different sources for the weather data too.

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=widget.dd.com....
Like I said, the mask doesnt need to be perfect. A cut up tshirt, bedsheet, or scarf is fine. The point it to keep people from touching their faces and to serve as a barrier for a majority of the large particles exiting your mouth when you open it.
i was well aware of the 70s and 80s, that doesn't make it right.
Don't put out posts asking others to upvote you, that easily gets your submissions flagged and potentially gets you banned around here.
Thank you.

Please let them know I welcome questions via email. I'm pretty socially isolated and it actively interferes with figuring out what to write about to inform people on various topics. There would be more content on the site if I had better audience engagement. I don't think well in a vacuum.
Firing someone isn't asking a court to do something. Companies can fire you for all sorts of silly reasons and most of them aren't illegal. The employee is accusing the company of firing them for one of the illegal reasons.
Of course, and you've made exactly my point. Everyone wants to make the process of being outside away from people and engineered objects out to be something more serious than it is. It's not.

Just say you enjoy how you feel in that state and it makes you feel possibly more creative and open (though I assume most people haven't measured whether they actually are more creative or thoughtful over other places while alone and occupied eg. Shower, running, yoga etc..).
This is truly the darkest timeline for that poor blogger. :-P
ctci and leetcode seem to be the unofficial standard tbh
Build tools, services or processes on a blockchain of executions
No. Per TFA: STIR/SHAKEN enables phone companies to verify that the caller ID information transmitted
with a call matches the caller’s phone number.
Also interested in this question. I recently started on my first game project after 4 years of being a professional C# dev and chose unreal because it seemed to be the quickest path to success for a small multiplayer arena battle game. Seems like coding my own networking layer, renderer, animation system, etc. would take way longer.
If you have 13 years experience writing multithreaded code on the jvm and your answer to a statement about js vms struggling crunching data is: WebWorkers, my friend, you just don’t have a clue.
Quarantine does not mean someone is alone. Just that their isolated from most of humanity.
Congratulations, you just described push-to-talk.
Apple making this exclusive to apple makes me less likely to switch to apple products. No app, including something as beloved as dark sky, is meaningful enough to get me to switch platforms, but if I had any good will towards apple it just went out the fucking window.
I'm not normally one to carp about product names—there was a semi-jokey discussion about calling a shared-viewing product 'Covideo' that bothered some people, but I didn't think it was such a big deal—but surely we can do better than this?

Oh, well. As always with open source, it's my place to be grateful for the work you share (thank you!), not to complain about your not doing it on my terms.
The inevitable happened expectedly?
Would love to see the Reference Manual! Need to know how to top up the washer fluid? change out brake lights? no problem!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHv2dIM3t9I
That's quitter talk.
I wouldn't characterize Bill Gates as a loner in the traditional sense, or even an outcast, but decidedly unique and exceptional.

Loners and outcasts are a subset of a diversity.
> What's the difference between a replex and multiple projections of data with different partitions and sort-orders used in C-store and Vertica?

The 3-replicas for failure tolerance are reused, so that the first 3 ordering projections don't add storage costs to the system.

Also the paper doesn't mention it, but the rebuild traffic is also better distributed on failure if the failure of a replica causes a rebuild that draws from a wider set of machines rather than a single one.
How do you know they did? You can buy a company without handing over any sensitive user data. I doubt Apple needs the data if it’s more of an aquihire.
Yep, took me a while to find dark sky after weather underground. Now I'll have to find another.

I'm starting to get real tired of the "get enough users then sell out" model. Wish more people would follow the craiglist model.
Yeah this worked really well for me until the county health department called from an unknown number to tell me my child had been exposed to COVID-19.
SAML is close to what you’d get if you tried to port Kerberos to web technologies. Unfortunately, there are more shitty SAML implementations than Kerberos ones.
It's not much of a quarantine if he's locked in with all his staff.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/boris-johnson-co...

> Johnson, on his doctor’s recommendation, has withdrawn into his chambers for seven days and will forgo all public appearances and in-person group meetings. He will have his food left at the door to his apartment, his aides said.

> “He’s self-isolating in his flat,” said his official spokesman.
I removed Zoom from my Mac following this instruction [0]

Given their security issues as of late, is there further way I could ensure that my machine has completely removed this software?

[0]
VIM BORG CUBE!
"Newer Tech" is not progressing rapidly. Sure there is improvement, but it's not at an exceptional rate. Which is why a 'good' laptop holds its usability for quite a few years.

If you have an urgent need for a new laptop now, then go out and buy the best one you can afford and 'get your feet on the ladder', so to speak.

Then keep that machine for as long as possible while building up a cash balance that will get you a machine in the future that is 5-10 times as good. Don't buy a replacement just because it is just a little bit newer and better, and you can afford it, but only buy a replacement machine that is a whole lot better.

It may be that it takes you 10 years or more for a replacement machine to reach that level. Hence my reasons for keeping my 10-year old ThinkPad T410s. I keep looking for a replacement these days (Lenovo keeps emailing me teaser ads), but I haven't yet found one that is leaps and bounds better than that old T410S.

EDIT. Did I mention the great connectivity of the T410S? It has all these connectors built-in (4x USBs, RJ-45 Ethernet, Express card, Firewire, eSATA, SD Card, DisplayPort, RJ-11 Phone/Modem) with a removable battery pack and a DVD writer as icing on the cake. All the newer machines don't have those. They expect you to plug in a whole bunch of USB adapters, instead. ... Now do you understand why I'm having so much trouble finding a replacement that's better?
Related to this the sales of my gardening app in March were about 100% higher than usual. That's coming off a low base (people don't like paying for apps) but it's a big change. Most of that was in Australia where it's coming into winter so it's not the usual vegetable gardening time. You can't buy vegetable seedlings anywhere at present as they're sold out immediately.
Honestly, it's not a good look for them if they tried to order him into quarantine 18 days after his exposure. I can't defend that based on what I've read from the Amazon supporters here.

But a strike, right now, is not the answer. It's just pouring gasoline on the fire. Counterproductive at all levels. Labor organization is all about picking your battles, and this is the wrong fight in the wrong place at the wrong time. His beef with Amazon needs to be settled in a courtroom, not on a picket line.

The only worse thing he could have done would be to try to lead a strike during a world war.
4chan is a big place with a long history. It's kind of like 50 different websites and communities under one domain, where there's surprisingly little overlap between them all. I think you'd find that most people who visit the less notorious boards on 4chan are your totally normal geek crowd.
Quibi is a video service launching soon that thinks that movies should be less than 10 minutes. And wasn’t vine’s limit about 4?

The most expensive-per-minute cost/minute videos on TV are ads and nowadays the are all a minute long Or less. And most manage to fit in a problem, a little character development, a happy resolution & climax, and then even a little denouement!
DAO to Webhook Connector
Seems like a poor excuse. You can make a read-only version of a Wiki without running wiki software. Just mirror the HTML.

At the very least they could have made this open source
Come on, Adolf Hitler has participated in Kahoot games ever since Kahoot was invented.