skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's in the eye of the beholder. Edit: here's a nice example in this very thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22706035.

I can give you a long list of links that say the opposite.

Edit: I can't help myself.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19194629

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16407769

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21231654

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16750306

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17248326

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21220644

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21641004

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21316611

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17499061

Stop me before I link again.
Technically, yes. My question is if this is an accounting trick to mask that.

If people spend $10 grant money, I believe you can record $10 revenue and $10 expenses. Top line is artificially $10 higher. Bottom line is unchanged.

Again -- this is how I think it works. But I don't know.
In 12 months, it won't matter if there are 10 other products offering a comparable service. Companies won't want to pay the cost of switching for something that's "just as good". It has to be 10x better to justify the switch. Consumers won't switch because everyone else will have Zoom. A videoconferencing app is only useful if both parties have it installed.
I don't know why they can't just hire a bunch of people to take care of stuff like this, like this is so ridiculous that I'm pretty sure someone could make a successful start-up to pay Googlers to enter internal tickets on behalf of people having issues with Google accounts/services.
Study confirms wearable, filter-free, breathing device sterilizes inhaled air [pdf]
Were disc->disc transfers not digital? I would expect to not have to decode/encode (and thus suffer loss, if the encoder weren't deterministic) if you're transferring disc to disc.
I don't recall any of the original Peakist manifestos including your very reasonable caveats about hindsight and uncertainty?

Really though, this is why I sort of stopped worrying about peak oil about a day after I was first exposed to the idea. It was a very absolutist disastrous sea-change phase-transition sort of scenario, and those are relatively rare in real life. (Well, at some level they are very common: everyone is conceived at some time and dies at another. These details disappear in aggregate.) It's much more common for equilibria that have been stable over decades to continue that stability, even if at slightly different locations. Lots of things are more expensive in our modern times than they used to be; somehow society has survived.
This post inspired me to actually try out Jitsi but was put off by their request for access to my Youtube profile when the prompt was "connect your google calendar". WTF?

Anyone know what that permission is even about?
I'd actually be happy to pay substantially for a sufficiently broad spectrum of news from multiple providers

However, $100-$500 to each one that I want to read >5 articles per month is not sustainable.

We need one of two models:

Pay maybe $0.20/article, refundable if I don't finish, don't like it (obviously limiting the number of Refund hits/month to prevent abuse)

Pay once for a selection of feeds, say $100/quarter, and pick your favorite 5 out of 50, get unlimited reads from that batch and 10/month from the rest.

I'd happily sign up for either, but no one publication provides sufficient breadth to support at the demanded price level.
30% accurate? Does that mean it's better to believe the opposite of what the test says most of the time?
That’s right!
Most engineering interview discussions are fruitless
I refuse to upvote on principle a one-liner quip on this site. But you're right, the insincere pretense of a question gives the air of a phony attempt at objectivity.

Of course, that's entirely independent of whether the points are valid or not.
Very magnanimous of big G! Obliging us with virtual trinkets that cost them nothing when most of us be out of jobs soon and a few really unlucky ones may die.
Bet their PR department is made up of lawyers only. Complete lack of empathy and imagination. Full marks for greed and being clever by half.
Let’s see if other companies in valley follow their “lead” in hand waving or actually do something that matters.
Ok, thanks. Then the premise of this article is even weaker. Companies do generate huge profits albeit most of the hidden through accounting engineering. It's more likely that the inflated stock prices represent the actual "value".
Maybe that one email is the login info to their bank?
History has plenty examples of bailouts. “Invisible hand” was never there to begin with, much less 10 years ago.
I've had the opposite experience with a Mac - Whereby worked whereas Zoom just won't. Which means I'm forced to use the Zoom iOS app, sadly, because $work just migrated to Zoom because it can handle the (insane) video all-hands we have every Wednesday (with 20+ people).
A lot of people rely on note-taking apps that allow you quickly and easily to insert information, ready to be retrieved with a simple search.

An information repository is not knowledge.

Luhmann's "Zettelkasten" is often imagined to be an early form of a wiki. Each card is a wiki page, and cross-references are on each card. But that doesn't then help us to understand what Luhmann meant when he said he would "have a conversation with his Zettelkasten".

When, and how?

I have my own theories about this, and am adapting my existing systems of note-taking to try to see if it results in a "conversation" that can "occasionally surprise me", as Luhmann claimed would sometimes happen.

I think the system being developed by Roam Research does more than simply note-taking and cross-connection, but still doesn't achieve what Luhmann described.

Time will tell. Meanwhile, I continue my efforts to see how they compare.
I would say it's a mix. Of course when it comes to health insurance or immigration for example it's left leaning. On the other hand YCombinator and VCs in part operate like banks. At least in the past very long working hours were somehow accepted. These are rather conservative ways to go.
I don't know if out of work oil workers will move out of Alberta, but Alberta is famously full of Newfoundlanders who have left that high-unemployment province. (NL's fishing industry, once its primary employer, has been moribund for a few decades.)

Obviously, a COVID-19-triggered recession would not create an employment boom to replace oil jobs.

(FTR: I support the immediate shutdown of the tar sands, but we need a job replacement/retraining strategy...)
Your question presupposes HN is a community. To the extent that community is “a group of people with shared interests,” I don’t know how you would define that as healthy or not - health refers to fitness for function, and there’s no inherent function in “common interests.” The bar there is essentially, “does the community impede bullshitting and sharing links of interest?” No, it doesn’t, cool, it must be healthy.

But I think most anthropologists define community as traditionally involving shared resources and problems. Traditionally this entailed a geographic proximity, but it didn’t have to (e.g., the HIV activist community in the 80s and 90s). Given that geography isn’t actually a requirement, you might ask a fair question: what proportion of online “communities” are communities at all, and does that relate to their “health”, however you define it. In that instance, you might refer to health as the ability to marshal resources to effectively manage those problems. By that definition, HN isn’t a community at all - it marshals no resources, tackles no problems, and has no common set of either. Health is orthogonal.
Not sure what CS degrees you're talking about, but having done both a Biochemistry and a CS degree as an undergraduate, your description doesn't comport with what I've seen.

I had on average about one lab class a semester as a Biochemist, and on average one programming class a semester as a CS. You couldn't pass the CS class without being able to write code that worked and got more complicated by the end of the semester. By no means did this mean I (or anyone else) was an awesome software engineer by virtue of doing the degree, but I'd put almost anyone with a decent grade from my undergrad program into an entry level position. Same deal with Chemists or Biochemists. I've done a bunch of hiring and can say often bootcamp grads are less able to come up with a sophisticated answer to a problem they haven't studied before.

I say this also as a grad of Insight, a DS bootcamp of sorts.
That's very uncommon in Germany, most ISPs provide a router for free and only charge for upgrades to more expensive ones.
I'd love to see a more detailed description of what you've done.
Med Cram had a segment on this, its believed to be false negatives. As some the current PCR test are highly inaccurate
Wouldn't coding interviews show the same bias?
A recommendation going forward: make sure to host emails on a domain you control yourself. This will allow to change service provider for mail hosting when they act like this.
My first job out of university was answering tech support calls and the interview process was primarily based on the Wonderlic test[0] (famously given to NFL players).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderlic_test
I don't see a conflict. Making people aware of who the supposed insiders/"real community members" are to foster a sense of community has potential value for the group at large.

I don't actually think there is a core community any longer. I don't think everyone on the leader board exchanges emails or something.

I've spent time on the leader board under a previous handle. I appear to be the only woman to have done that. It absolutely wasn't some magic "in" where I suddenly joined some club and all that. I've been around enough to know they aren't all friends or something.

Members of the leader board come and go. Edit: By which I mean making the leader board isn't some kind of permanent status. I'm not the only person who used to be on the leader board and still participates.

A social group of this size fundamentally works differently from a small town. That doesn't mean that only hardcore insiders benefit from a sense of community.

Probably, the reason people talk a lot about famous celebrities and popular movies and TV shows on the internet is because those are touchstones we have in common to help socially orient ourselves, smooth communication, etc.

Fostering a sense of community can help establish community norms, help newcomers orient and figure out how to fit in, etc. No, participating here isn't going to be the same as living in a tiny town of 150 people your entire life. It doesn't need to be to benefit members and for things to generally run better when we apply some means to help establish cultural norms, etc.
> if I did get sick and was hundreds of miles away from any of my family members

I'm concerned about this as well.

> I'm pretty confident that bunkering in my apartment is the right call.

Thank you, that's reassuring
my longstanding argument against theranos, by the way (like, since 2005), was "look. if i go down to the beach with a bucket and take a bucket of water and put it in my super accurate shark detector van, it doesn't mean the beach is safe to swim at!"
If you used a desktop or mobile app, they download a backup of emails locally. If you're just trying to read an old email, you could check your phone or computer's mail app to find the local copy.
> I think Google could afford to spend a couple billions more to fund the manufacturing and distribution of masks and ventillators.

Not couple billions, but still the last bullet point is exactly what you're saying.

> Also, Google employs some of the best marketers on the planet, they should be showing ads for how to wear masks correctly and for practical safety guidelines, and leverage everything they've learned about the human psychology to disperse information that could save lives.

Google seems promoting the following link in their top page (which is perhaps one of the most valuable real estate in the internet).

https://www.google.com/search?q=coronavirus+tips&fbx=dothefi...
To add some more context: for every successful person that reaches Google via social shaming, there are hundreds of cases of people that are not heard. I don't know how to fix this problem at your scale (a gigantic problem), but as I understand it, there is something wrong in your value system which rewards innovation and engineering experience much more than customer satisfaction.
Own the whole thing? While I used zoom at my last job, I don't at my current one.

What does zoom do that something like Google Hangouts or Slack doesn't?
> So surgical masks are just masks with some filtering capability but without a respirator.

Surgical masks mainly prevent droplets from entering your nose and mouth, and your breath/sneezes/coughs from affecting others.
> The answer is: It just works. It's easy. It does what we want it to, with a minimum of fuss.

I guess I'd like to know the details of how its easier than the other of myriad of products on the market for you?

At my company we use Slack Video calls, WebEx, and Zoom, and they seem as identical as each other (I'd argue Slack is easiest since we're all logged into it all the time, but that's us).
> They all requested anonymity when speaking with NPR because those who have challenged the government's handling of the outbreak have been detained.

We need to be more hesitant to praise their pandemic response
Incredible work, I checked out/skimmed over a couple of your videos and kudos to you, seems like a great way to share your knowledge <3

I'll definitely checked them out fully when I feel like it :)

Having said so, and I am thankful for your offer, but I suck at programming. It'd be more than annoying for you to interact with me, and so on. I'd have to learn a programming language from scratch, basically.

¡Gracias por tu respuesta!
Source: https://www.irozhlas.cz/zpravy-domov/ostrava-rychlotesty-kor...
> I’ve found Jitsi to be more than adequate

Just looked it up. Seems to be Chrome only. As a Safari and Firefox user, that ends my decision-making tree with two clicks.
Congrats on this launch -- very cool use of the Polymer tech to create something of value to the whole community. Thanks!
With all the negative press on Google, I was expecting this to be a decent PR move.

Reading the announcement is somewhat sobering though.

Most of it (590 million) are ad "credits" or "grants".
Keep in mind that Google ad revenue in 2019 was 134 billion.

> $250 million in ad grants to help the World Health Organization (WHO) and more than 100 government agencies globally provide critical information on how to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and other measures to help local communities.

It seems odd to me that institutions are supposed to resort to advertising to be shown above all the false, misleading and inaccurate information.

Is the WHO supposed to have a marketing team optimizing ad spending on Google during a pandemic to rank higher than inferior sources?

There ought the be ranking mechanisms or other side channels to keep important information on top in case of a crisis.

This is like fixing a leaking pipe by forcing in water from the outside.

Edit: apparently all ads relating to Coronavirus have been blocked. See below.

--- Small beneficial side effect: for Google: this drives up the prices a bit for pharma and other companies trying to profit with Corona related topics.

> $340 million in Google Ads credits available to all SMBs with active accounts over the past year.

This sounds decent at first, but also seems more like a token gift on further thought.

I reckon the goal here is mainly to avoid losing those customers. Many SMBs are closed, struggling, and will reduce expenses where possible. Marketing is often the easiest to cut right away, and many of those might not return anytime soon.

The hardest hit businesses are those that had to close down (restaurants, shops, etc). They won't be spending money now.

While a small, free marketing budget is good to have , it will also help stabilize/raise prizes more quickly once everything opens again.

This way they keep those customers at least somewhat engaged and can also prop up the numbers a bit.

> A $200 million investment fund that will support NGOs and financial institutions around the world to help provide small businesses with access to capital.

This is certainly the most impactful. Assuming 70% of that money reaches businesses, it could amount in 14_000 loans of 10_000 each.

I'd assume those to be loans though, so the fund probably won't be much of a loss in the medium term.
HN is the first place I realized the political spectrum is less of a line with end points (or more commonly represented as going infinitely in each direction), and more of a circle. Go far enough towards one extreme, and you start approaching the other side. I didn't come to thing because people here are horrible, but because the community allowed different people enough of voice that their could explain their views usefully right along side people with very different views.

I'll note this idea itself is a poor approximation for what is really going on, which is that there are multiple aspects being mapped and they don't all match the traditional political spectrum line. That said, it's still a useful way to think. E.g. there are are two paths to fascism, but people usually only see the one their opponents are on, not their own.
To be fair, both GSuite (business oriented) and Google One (for end users) come with paid support. Not sure to what extent this includes recovering a locked-out account, but it's a thing.
We will! Not the full 24 hours (...it's hard to create 24 hours of good content!), but definitely the best hours :)
GC is obviously optional for OTL. That's definitely one of the tricky bits (note: not a syntactic problem).

For the rest, I think your goal definition is too narrow. Removing every last desire for people to create alternatives is an unreasonable bar for literally any artifact, based on human psychology alone. That's explicitly not my goal (see previous comment), and with anyone who does have that goal you need to have an entirely different conversation (which, again, does not involve syntax).
Google has announced a $800+ billion support package for small businesses and crisis response, $810 billion of that are ad credits and an investment fund for small businesses. There is certainly more that Google could do to fund the manufacturing and distribution of life-saving equipment, even if they do mention it in the last bullet point, without clarifying the amount of financial support.
When noone is forced to do them, the community will have to learn to recognize and honor them as essential public service. This can be done in many ways, not only by paying money.
Tesla files patent for sourcing self-driving training data from its fleet
One person's "shit job", is another persons fun job. We are all brainwashed that "low skill" is bad. I know people who enjoy cleaning. I love cooking, but want to maintain the lifestyle that working in software gives me. If UBI was there in the background, people could pursue their passions. Today, the situation is "what should I pursue so I can make money", not "what should I pursue so I can be happy".
Let's not give racists any opportunities here. Calling it China virus or similar does exactly that, while confusing people with yet another name for this virus.

The Chinese government needs to be called out, but specifically and unambiguously the government.
“In economic terms, the gains from increasing the validity of hiring methods can amount over time to literally millions of dollars,” writes Schmidt regarding the importance of valid assessment methods. “However, this can be viewed from the opposite point of view: By using selection methods with low validity, an organization can lose millions of dollars in reduced production. In a competitive world, these organizations are unnecessarily creating a competitive disadvantage for themselves. By adopting more valid hiring procedures, they could turn this competitive disadvantage into a competitive advantage.”

The problem is that this misunderstands the purpose of the hiring process. The purpose of the hiring process is to get people who are qualified, while signalling that your company hires good people, and staying out of legal trouble along the way.

I'm not sure I agree that an organization can gain "millions of dollars" by fine-tuning its hiring processes to the nth degree. While I absolutely agree that there are skill differences between programmers, I contend that the economic differences attributable to skill between programmers are dwarfed by the economic differences between any automation and no automation. Simply put, having a terrible programmer automate your business processes today is far better than sifting candidates to find the perfect programmer to automate your business process two years from now. Hiring is about satisficing, not optimizing.
That not what Dunning-Kruger effect is.
Does nomachine work if my computer is behind a firewall?
Financial Times[0] is a PWA and with a paid service option.

[0]: http://app.ft.com/
Millions of Americans are about to lose their health insurance in a pandemic
I honestly wonder if more people have been killed by dictators and authoritarian regimes or the black plague. I suspect it's relatively comparable. As technology has progressed, I believe it's become more reasonable to fear man more than nature.
My experience agrees with this.

Another positive trait of the community (imo) is that -- unlike, say, reddit -- it explicitly opposes, and downvotes into oblivion, silly jokes, puns, and even polite or enthusiastic agreement that fails to contribute anything of value.

Substance is king. Or, if you're less generous, the appearance of substance masking all the typical biases is king. Either way, it's a community norm I appreciate, and is what keeps me coming back here.
Doesn't mean they were found not to.
Apple is busy deleting localStorage data from PWA users...

For those who did not read about it: https://andregarzia.com/2020/03/private-client-side-only-pwa...
Slack for video calls was terrible (when I used it last year).

Slack removed screen sharing, which means I can't easily do screen sharing and debugging on the same call.

WebEx and G2M are much less easy to use.
Covid-19: South African woman placed in quarantine ‘kills herself’
> But also a strong libertarian streak.

Maybe that's just availability bias[0] but I feel that crowd has shrunken significantly over time.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22633747
Not a lawyer, but being a Washington resident (see WA wiretapping laws) interviewing over Zoom (thus not working for that company and no having signed any forms/NDAs/waivers) I'm pretty sure someone snooping in or recording the interview without my consent is illegal.