skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, I would have written 'macOS 10.15.4' rather than 'Catalina 10.15.4' partly for this reason (macOS is a stronger brand), but also partly because I think it's more accurate/less redundant.
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Interesting insights into supply chain challenges just a few weeks away. Key quotes:

"I’m tired of hearing the phrase “uncharted territory” because at least in uncharted territory you can pull your canoe over, take a day off, and try to sort through your bearings. We’re in uncharted territory on class-three rapids with a tribe of hyper-intelligent axe-wielding bears chasing us."

"There’s nothing we can do but prepare ourselves for the consequences of decisions already made."

"This week may very well be the worst one because of the nature of the coronavirus incubation period and the impatience of our modern culture. Many of us have been effectively quarantined for two or three weeks already, and we’re feeling the social, psychological, and economic effects of that. It is exhausting, and we want to know that it’s working. But we can’t know that just yet. We need to trust that it’s working even as we see the bad news rolling in this week. We hope we’ll see the effects of our sacrifice translate into reduced cases. We trust that we’re making a difference, but that faith needs to manifest itself as evidence fairly soon or morale will go downhill quickly."

"We’ve taken this pandemic, an event clearly unique in the last 100 years, and layered upon it an economic event without precedent. What happens when the world stands still for four weeks? The simple and terrifying answer is that we don’t know."
Except that HTML/SGML is a format invented for authoring and delivering semistructured text. At the risk of sounding arrogant, the idea is to have domain experts (rather than programmers) create stand-alone documents that can then be rendered and type-checked, can be refined by web developers using text macros, page boilerplate, transformations/stylesheets, and script, and that can (but don't have to be) used for rendering dynamic content from markup or other sources such as services and/or databases, while remaining self-standing, autonomous, type-checkable documents in a larger workflow.
I doubt that they even tried to give this a particularly low radar cross section, it appears to be a project about being stealthy from human ears. There is no mention of radar at all in the article, by the way.
What next, cancel all of comedy?
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Show HN: Left Pad as a Service
> Is the side project for you or them?

A bit of both which is the reason I have a hard time making a decision whether to continue or not. I don't want to be the one who stops at the first obstacle but don' want to be stubborn beyond reason either.
The opposite tends to happen when you've stockpiled a few weeks worth of cigarettes and find yourself sitting around the house all day.
Strings are awesome.

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A few notes:

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If this was posted on the 1st of April, I wouldn't believe it...
How would you pick the options by hand? This way you would introduce the thought and point of view bias of the people working at Google to the results. Additionally how would you pick who is the winner? For example how would you compare a technology article is more correct coming from various sources? They also have their own bias introduced to their content.
Not getting warm with any query/ORM library out there.

My own take of interfacing with an SQL database with Typescript: a query generator that uses mapped types a lot to infer result set types from queries and a schema file.

https://github.com/hoeck/typesafe-query-builder

Not sure if thats a good idea and if the Typescript inference even scales that well when using lots of tables.

Any feedback and criticism would be welcome.
We used to use old nutella jars from france that had lovely images of asterix and obelix on them as glasses. We had a full set back in the day, which was great!
Not end-to-end, at least not by default. There is an end-to-end option you can explicitly activate but it apparently doesn’t support video calls:

https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA34824/what-are-skype-priv...
It's not billions, but the EU is funding some open source software.
https://hexus.net/tech/news/software/125747-14-open-source-p...

I think France is also funding/developing Matrix.
Mandatory link to Wikipedia's article on Nagel's What Is It Like to Be a Bat? [0]

> Nagel famously asserts that “an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism—something it is like for the organism."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_It_Like_to_Be_a_Bat%3F
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Isn't that more like Debian popularity contest ?

https://popcon.debian.org/
Fujifilm's digital cameras come with fantastic built-in digital versions of Kodachrome (called Classic Chrome), Provia, and Velvia. I personally use a X100T but I think all current models have them.
I suppose neurons are already turned for the task at hand. Although I suppose you can change their environment with different chemicals and that would be very close to hyper parameter tuning, after all happy neurons think better.
Or discard the project, since the key variable will remain forever unknowable.
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I dont buy it from Amazon it goes on me or in me. In me referring to things like protein powder and vitamins, but I think if was in the market for other things to put inside me I'd shy away from amazon for those too.
Yes mainly because of proper PKI management overhead.

Wouldn't Wireguard work with a simple shared secret on both ends?
They link to the `P` language, which I did not know about.

https://github.com/p-org/P

I found the link interesting because I have at times wondered what it would look likes if FSM were first class control flow features, akin to `if` and `while`.
I agree with all of the above, but unfortunately no matter how good the intention and clarity of market ("high quality software targeted at a specific group of users"), if that user group is not willing to pay, then you are doing a bad job of solving their problems.

We can lament how sad this news is - and it is - but it does expose that, at some level, the company was not able/willing to meet the needs of their (potential) customers.
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Hold up...does this mean all voip calls need to be authenticated too? Why is no one talking about the privacy implications of this?
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> A better number would be a population death rate weighted by demographics

German article with two bar charts (scroll down a bit), the first chart is showing deaths by age group, the second is showing infections by age group:
https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/swr/datenanalyse-coro... (needs JS enabled)
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Not to mention mixed-DPI. Apple is the only vendor who actually handles HiDPI and mixed-DPI environments really well in my opinion.

macOS can scale different parts of an application differently depending on which screen it is on. So if you are in the process of moving an application from one screen to another, it doesn't change size mid-move.

Windows can't do that, and I've even seen applications where all windows belonging to an application use the same DPI (chosen based on which window is in focus), regardless of the DPI of the screen the window itself is on.

So it seems to me the integration of mixed-DPI into window rendering APIs was not well handled by the development team behind its implementation in Windows.

The most common "solution" I see is lowering the resolution of the high-DPI display, but that's not a solution, that's actually not even a workaround, it is literally removing the problem by pretending my screen is not as good as it is.
You've been breaking the site guidelines by perpetuating this flamewar. Please stop, and please don't perpetuate flamewars on HN in the future.

It doesn't look like you have a pattern of doing this in the past on HN, and (although I've only read a small portion of this thread) I don't see how your comments deserved abuse. But it's necessary to recognize when an argument is going bad fast, and to step away from those sorts of exchanges. HN is for curious conversation, not ideological battle, and when it comes to these tedious tit-for-tat spats the crowd the right hand side of the page because neither party can let go, it really doesn't matter who wins the argument. Actually it would be better to define 'winning' as being first to let go.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Isn't that the point of such fixes?

(And also why a lot of people thought that the Y2k but was over-hyped, when there was a lot of background work which fixed the problems so few people noticed when it did come to roll-over time)
Show HN: Request Screen Recordings with a Link
We could have been like Taiwan and Japan. Seems like a mask mandate and diligent testing with quarantine of infected only is sufficient. Would have saved a lot of headache. And lives.
What? That's crazy to hide such a useful feature!
The advice is old but still valid. If you can avoid big partitions, do so.

Formatting, backing up, data recovery. It's at those moments that smaller partitions give you much less trouble than the bigger ones
You can download a complete archive of all the bookmarks and pages: https://alexwlchan.net/2017/07/backing-up-pinboard-archives/
I worked on a minor, non-secure, tangentially GHCQ-aligned project. They're the most risk averse organisation I've ever met. Like, pathologically risk averse. I'd bet a small mortgage they had no oversight of that call.
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That's true if you live in work-obsessed culture that believes desk time is a more important metric than productivity.
I made this tiny tool that lets you request screen recordings from users or teammates with them having to install an extension or download anything.

It's very much an MVP, but I think it can be useful for requesting design feedback or asking people for a bit more context around bugs. It works in Chrome & Firefox
I’m slightly confused. What about the current pandemic changed their business so much? Do people suddenly have less need for their apps? That seems unlikely. It seems like this has been coming for awhile. OmniGraffle missed the online diagramming collaboration wave, and OmniFocus missed the same thing on the project management side.
And yet they are powerless. Back to recording private conversations like the Stasi then. What a wonderful institution. They're useful how, exactly?

Not smacking their heads into the table nearly hard enough. Not even close.
This is the point where you end up in the realm of philosophy and phenomenology.
I get the same as you for DuckDuckGo, but my Google does look different. I guess Google is customising the results: https://imgur.com/dccAZBg
Very cool, I added this to my 'biohacker' list of links.

And lol @ your Egg Benedict Donburi from Food Wars. I still haven't started season 2... check out Dotchi No Ryouri, it used to run on PBS but can be found on youtube.
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My experience with Shazam is that it has got less good at identifying music since Apple bought it. My guess is that it now ONLY identifies music from the Apple Music catalog.

This suggests that Apple may only buy to augment their product line; whilst still making the core experience worse for everyone overall.

I’ll admit I’ve not done a proper study of post-acquisition Shazam. I’m going on casual observation here.
Hey, thanks for the tips! I've been trying to keep to GL ES 2.0, so PBOs are sadly out of reach at the moment. I might reconsider the version limitation. Maybe there are extensions for sync. If so, I guess I could do things on a worker thread instead.
What about inhaling eucalyptus against SARS-CoV-2 (or influenza)?
That's.... a thing of beauty. Honestly, it brings a tear to my eye.
The original article shows that one company let some people go and a couple more developers have been affected by the current crisis.

For some apps collaboration or centralized control are important and those lend themselves well to web technologies. For others (like the Omni apps), said collaboration and getting mediocre cross platform for free are not as important.
Whenever the government doles out money, the incentives are to do it in return for political favours. To counter that, various processes and institutions enforce checks and balances and accountability. In practice, that takes the form of grant applications, tendering, and the like. That then attracts a bunch of grifters who want to effectively steal the government's money, so the grant process get longer and more complex, and things get more bureaucratic with heavy-handed checks and balances.

If a government anointed any given handful of OS organizations as preferred benefactors of donations, I'd expect grifters to infiltrate those organizations and parasitically siphon off the funds one way or another.

Incentives matter. Government incentives are to be popular, or attract the support of other people who are popular or influential. Being efficient or effective is only a small part of that. I don't know that there's a good solution to the incentive problem.
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over and over in this thread you have been repeatedly told that amazon waited well over 2 weeks to "quarantine" him (and only him, nobody else that was exposed) despite knowing he was exposed (and also did not tell him).

Yet in every post you make, you continue to misrepresent the situation.

You are being hugely dishonest
Seems like if this wasn't a Ponzi scheme, they would stop soliciting new investments on the homepage.
Touch controls in the car should not be used for anything that is supposed to be used while driving. 1) They give no haptic feedback and require to look at them to do anything. 2) They are very finicky if the hands are wet/dirty/sweaty/cold. Knobs can be rotated and buttons pressed without looking. Physical objects can be manipulated as long as you can move your fingers.

One more reason to consider Honda when the time comes to buy a new car. Another reason is their outstanding reliability ratings.
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The level of abuse that you stooped to in this thread is shocking. I'm going to ascribe it to going on tilt, which happens sometimes when another commenter is extremely wrong, or it extremely feels like they are. We've all been there. But please don't behave like this, or anything remotely close to this, on Hacker News again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Death rate also has a lot of caveats. In the Netherlands for example (due to the euthanasia culture? or just NO CODE?) people highly at risk (everyone - even without symptoms or testing positive) are encouraged to think about whether they would even want to be ventilated (and take up valuable resources, spending weeks in coma and have decreased quality of life afterwards). Lots of people don't go to ICUs - only 10% of the deaths happened in an ICU.
> †: I didn't misspell the name of the executable. It's missing an h.

Ty for making me laugh.
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To continue production, they'd need to put at least as much energy into the ground as it takes to restart it as it always going to be cooling. The energy has to come from somewhere.
I'm baffled by the insane number of upvotes this post has. "Honda is putting knobs in their cars" is the least interesting thing posted in HN history
> for a company that you don’t own

I think you're missing the key part here. Most tech workers do have some ownership in the companies which muddies the calculus a little bit. But if you don't have a stake in the company you are literally trading time for money. Work more time for the same money and you're just under-pricing your labor by an equivalent amount.

Also, if you need to work overtime to get good recommendations and promotions that is not a company you want to spend your time at.

Also also, if you need to work overtime to care about the work you're doing then you should re-examine your value system.
Show HN: Switch – help your let-go talent find a new home fast
the ping pong program is very easy to read. I don't know if it scales to bigger ones, but this one is really nice.
Thanks, and quite right. An oversight on my part. Admittedly, programming for Unreal's well outside my realm of experience. I tried it some time ago, but mostly played with it as an art tool. Its coding conventions seemed more opinionated relative to Godot and Unity's, which turned me off, because I was only really looking for a fun toy in a domain outside my experience.
Oklahoma residents and seismologists report fewer micro tremors on weekends when oil well fracking is not pushing fluids into wells.
And it's more quiet.
From the founder: Exactly 1 year ago, my startup was on the edge of bankruptcy and I had to let 30 people go... That was one of the most difficult decisions I had to take in my life

Back then, we made a Google Sheet of these 30 names and shared it with other startups to find them a new home. It was an inefficient process that got hijacked by some headhunters that managed to get their hands on our list

Today, our ecosystem is going through an unprecedented crisis. Startups are laying off like never before and some of my most talented friends are now unemployed

This is why we hacked together this platform. Already dozens of startups have agreed to upload their list of laid-off talent on it and more than 20 VCs are among our supporters

We are announcing it here today so it can serve a broader community of makers and startups in the world. Whether you need to let some people go or you need to hire new talent, we hope it will help
I agree with you on the SEO spam.

But I perceive this as Google losing the battle with SEO. On one hand Google writes the algorithms, and on the other SEO tries to exploit these algorithms to rank as high as possible.

I was thinking that a solution would be instead of page rank, have an author rank. This rank keeps track of authors that are experts at certain topics. When you search for certain keywords, the articles of these known experts are ranked higher.
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Would appreciate some pointers for that; I'm interested in this space. My understanding is that governmental institutions are moving at a glacial pace here. E.g. ADSb took decades to get deployed (mandatory in lots of places as of the beginning of this year) and is technically less than ideal because of a lot of design by committee stuff interfering.

I'm aware of some automated ATC efforts on smaller fields that would otherwise be uncontrolled.
10k members every 15 minutes? Just rebuild it from scratch.
I appreciate your concern for the integrity of the threads, but you've done two things here that we don't allow. You can't bring someone else's personal information and use it as ammunition in an argument like that. It's a form of personal attack, which is not ok. Also, you broke the site guidelines by making accusations of astroturfing without evidence. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here.

The abuses you're worried about are real in principle. The problem is, internet users are a thousand (nay, a million) times too quick to become aggressive about them, which ends up causing a lot more harm than the things they're fighting.

In particular, (1) most people are posting in good faith, even if they happen to be defending their employers; and (2) most internet comments about astroturfing have no foundation. On that last point: if you saw as much data on this as we do, you'd be shocked at how made up and imaginary they are; having studied this closely for years, I can tell you that it's nearly 100% projection. In both of these cases, the putative cures causes more harm than the putative diseases.

The point about not attacking people because of their employers is particularly important. HN has members working for lots of different employers, and one's work tends to be the thing one knows the most about. The last thing we want on this site is a climate of hostility to disincentivize people from posting to threads where they might know something. I'm not talking about this thread (which I haven't read), I'm saying that in general, it's a super bad tradeoff to tolerate this sort of soft-doxxing on HN, so we don't.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Oh and by the way: HN has reams of anti-Amazon discussion and pro-union discussion. Indeed the top comment on the current thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22739059) is a counterexample to what you're saying, and meanwhile the comment you were complaining about was highly downvoted. Such perceptions of HN being biased against one's view are notoriously unreliable; the people who hold opposite views see the community as biased in just the opposite way, and are just as sure about it. You (I don't mean you personally, but all of us) can't trust your ad hoc observations about this, because your pre-existing opinions condition what you notice and how strongly you weight it. It is a well-known cognitive bias, a flaw that we all suffer from.

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

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Not in Berlin, everyone is still traveling around in cars...

But it did snow yesterday as a pleasant surprise, it did not snow for whole winter, I am not sure if it is related to social quarantine procedures, because industry slowed down massively.
If your girlfriend was in a union, why do you say "we paid"?
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Very true. Two years ago I fully switched to qwant and DDG, and never looked back. It's not because these two engines are great, it's because Google's output is as good as random.
- We have way more pixels than what we could have ever guessed in the 1990s (800x600 -> 4k 4096x2160) [0]

- Bandwidth got from 56kbps to ~10s of Gbps (Ethernet, USB, Display and the like)

- Even current systems can't handle the number of CPU threads we have available [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_resolution#/media/File...

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/02/amd-threadripper-399...
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