skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your critique is appreciated and taken constructively! I also readily concede this wasn’t a quantitatively rigourous research study. I would say that some small amount of exaggeration—as long as it doesn’t amount to material misrepresentation or outright counterfactual statements—is highly necessary for engaging writing, and both that and entertainment in general are key rhetorical devices. Slight exaggeration can put the contours of something in sharper relief when illustrating a broad idea. It’s hard to do good human interest writing while spending half one’s time qualifying statements or labouriously reminding the reader of the empirical proportions of things to other things. A portrait is not a photograph.

As the author, it’s not for me to say whether I hit the spot on “entertaining and informative, but a bit of an exaggerator” for everyone, but I can tell you that’s what I was going for in both articles you read. So, thank you — I think? :)

In view of the foregoing:

1. I agree that overall US tax burden is lower than Western European tax burden; my intended point wasn’t at all that it’s equal or higher, merely that a) it’s not _so_ much lower, an order of magnitude lower, or anything like that, and more importantly, that b) given what difference does exist, the much larger difference in government services and social safety net does not correspond.

I think this point could have been easily lost had I spent time on a more comprehensive of tax rates, or belaboured tirelessly that US tax rates are, in the end, somewhat lower.

2. I don’t think I lavished excessive attention on the living cost structure of major cities. The point was instead to explain to hypothetical immigrants where a lot of Americans’ money goes, no matter where they live, including in most tracts of “Middle America”, “flyover country”, “Omaha”, whatever you want to call it.

I live in Augusta, GA myself nowadays (which, for all intents and purposes, approximates a kind of “Omaha”), having lived in Atlanta for ten years and in Athens, GA for a good chunk of my adolescence and adulthood. Much of what I said in the article still applies, I think—the criticism of vacuous suburban layout more so.

I don’t know quantitatively whether “most Americans live in a suburb”, but I would readily and decisively say, on the strength of extensive experience living in and travelling around the US my whole life, that “most places in America conform to suburban layout”. They really do. Some Americans seem to want to quibble with the idea that Irving, TX, or Alpharetta, GA, or Bethesda or whatever are “suburban”, but in terms of the critical lens here, they absolutely all are. The places I have been to in the US that don’t conform to the Standard Suburban Layout are exceptionally few—so few that they can be individually enumerated—and the overwhelming preponderance of US “municipalities” and “communities” do.

3. The procedural emphasis of American jurisprudence definitely corrects for a lot of deficits in the venal systems that preceded it, and there are certainly two sides to this argument.
Being financially successful is good for employees. If you aren't you can't pay people for very long.

The model where companies spend investor funds indefinitely looks pretty dead at this point.
Bytebase (I'm one of the creators) is built for keeping track of notes and snippets on your own or with your team.

Everything you create is one short snippet or "byte" and these snippets can be grouped into different "collections" using tags.

Would love any feedback.

https://bytebase.io
Denmark.
Norway.
Singapore.
New Zealand.
Taiwan.

The fact of the matter is, there’s too many people in America invested in a cynical notion that we should expect the government to “fail,” which makes it easier to keep everything underfunded, which almost guarantees failure (random acts of heroism not withstanding). THAT, more than any single person, is what’s killing America. And that’s a bipartisan cancer.
I'd assume when you apply that comparison to society at large it becomes close to the same thing.
The strategy guide hasn't been published yet, so my guess is this comes from someone who data mined the game.
Sewage could reveal true scale of coronavirus outbreak
My question is this: Why would I use dark mode on SO, or specific sites, if the next site I open will be rendered with the light theme with high probability?
Laid off. 1 month notice, no severance.
Emojis are fundamentally different, as they're essentially just codepoints being displayed. That's fairly easy to implement, as every system has been doing that for years. What you're proposing would require massive rewrites of a lot of software.

I'm also not sure it would even be better; I've never encountered a graphical editor that didn't make me want to throw my computer out the window; stuff like text becoming bold when I don't want it, adding to a list (especially with copy/paste), etc. all tends to be quite annoying and stuff I need to think about. With Markdown, I don't really need to think about the formatting, not more than regular typographic formatting anyway (paragraphs, punctuation, etc.)
Stock prices are mostly bullshit. US equities (particularly growth stocks) have been massively over-valued for years, because of low interest rates and QE.

Nontheless,they have a good business model and will most likely be fine (even if they show no revenue growth, they make a lot of money).

If you're suggesting 30% revenue loss relative to last year, that's probably flat to -10% revenue for each of them, which in the midst of a global pandemic is pretty good.

Like, things are going to be really bad for a whole lot of people, on that we agree.

However, i continue to believe that Goog and FB's businesses will weather the storm a lot better than most other technology companies.
Excitedly read title of article. Disappointed upon discovering it's not that type of club, nor that type of swinging.
I think it’s decent - configuring a clock tree and initialising the peripherals by hand might be a good way to learn the chip but in terms of rapid prototyping I’ll take the GUI driven leg up any day.
Mitsuko Uchida.
I'm curious how this would be an issue; factual information isn't copyrightable, and most of the obvious things that I can think to do with a scraper amount to pulling factual information in bulk. Even if it's information like, "this is the average price for this item across 13 different stores". (Although I'm not a lawyer and only pay attention to American law, so take all of this with the appropriate amount of salt)
there's a big gulf between "lifestyle" and "SV big startup", like startups that aims for 1.25-2x growth per annum, has taken fewer rounds of funding. There's several of them in SV, too.
> His observation is wrong. In all societies in which there is a power vacuum gangs take over. Witness Africa, South America, Burma, and the middle Eastern countries in which we have removed the “dictators.”

And it's particularly amusing because he just mentioned Haiti. What happened in Haiti is precisely why the American plantation class was so terrified: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1804_Haiti_massacre
I thought this happened a week ago when they suspended the Candidates chess tournament.
Yes, everyone fully understands with travel at a complete standstill, none of these companies are viable if the current situation were the norm.

But the current situation is not the norm, people will eventually get back to travelling a lot, and when they do there will be plenty of economic activity to support large companies in the travel business.
How Bad Could a $30 Router Be?
Can’t talk specifically about nuclear subs. But in a normal nuclear reactor once it’s taken sub-critical (fission chain reaction “stops”) still puts out a significant amount of heat.

The reactor may be sub-critical but the fuel still experiences some nuclear decay and puts off quite a bit off heat in the process. You need to continually monitor this and run cooling equipment, otherwise Bad Things happen.

Interestingly this effect is used in the nuclear “batteries” in some space projects like the Mars rover, Curiosity.
You can use https://tefter.io
It's an app I develop which has all the features you need plus a command-line app. https://github.com/tefter/cli
Of course WebRTC is only a requirement if you want to be browser-based. And even then, some solutions use WebRTC data channels for video instead (e.g. Zoom's web version). They could do it, although you'd of course still be trusting the server to serve you the right thing.
Very little of what I've read in the news has been actionable, particularly national/world news. What am I supposed to do with news about hospital supply shortages or crazy shoppers two thousand miles away? My local government's website and some local news stories have had more useful information.

For examples, the top five headlines from lite.cnn.com/en/ right now:

>This nurse demonstrates just how fast germs spread even if you're wearing gloves

I'm not a nurse, and I don't have gloves, so this isn't actionable. It might be if I were a nurse, but I'm not.

>Fact-check: Trump says some states aren't in jeopardy from the virus, denies saying it would go away by April

There is nothing I can do about Trump being an idiot. Not actionable.

> Opinion: Trump put American lives in China's hands

Ditto.

> Supplies could be delayed due to confusion from the White House, companies say

Ditto.

> Trump says HHS secretary meant the 'concept' of a pandemic kept him up at night in 2019 comment

Ditto.
Surely that would just mean that application developers unwilling to comply with Apple's standards and pay its price of admission would be excluded from its App Store? Isn't that what you want, by your own arguments?
Show HN: Good use of Covid-19 social distancing spare time dev projects
Once I got done scrubbing my entire house down for the third time I got to looking around for some potentially fun development projects to make use of my (ample) time indoors.

What fun stuff have you gotten around to these days?
How much of that is just Android and how does Apple stop them from using the same monetization scheme and stop their “innovation”?
If this crop of federal leadership is rotten, I'm not seeing much hope in the possible followup cohorts. The US government has effectively delegated responsibility for the crisis to state governments, and they all seem to be following the same stupid "stay in your home" model. Federal and state, their only solution has been to throw money at the problem, but that doesn't work when you've got no one around who can execute.

Taking control and centralizing all testing? Still barely happening. Isolating infected people? We've got thousands of non-critical COVID-19 patients and we are sending them home to infect their families. Anyone thought to use the hundreds of thousands of vacant hotel rooms for something? But there's no self-starters here. The option of least resistance is to just tell everyone "stay home it will be fine" and hope for the best.

I expected some failures in leadership but this is far beyond what I could've imagined. It's not Republican or Democrat, it's failures all down the line. No one is bringing anything to the table.
I'm not, but do you have some concrete plan for when the polls should have been rescheduled to? A democratic country can't indefinitely postpone elections, no matter what the costs of holding them are.
I'll go first:

https://github.com/krisk84/RetroPie-Setup
If there is a lot of connections actually running transactions, then I'd expect the db will become overwhelmed due to number of transaction, and per-connection overhead is not going to be a problem.

How I understood the problem is thousands of connections, of which most do a query from time to time only.

Judging by the other comments, it seems solutions like that are already available.
So, you wish America was ruled by a Chekist. I would do some research into Felix Dzerzhinsky. It might change your mind on this idea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chekist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Dzerzhinsky
The other comment on this subthread is such a comprehensive rebuttal to your paranoia that I can't add much. But I do want to say this: you should feel ashamed that you've taken valuable medical supplies from front-line responders. There are global shortages of masks and eye protection.

You don't need this equipment, and your paranoia is risking the lives of other people who do.
1) Look at the language style guide. To see the best practices if relevant; or how naming variables in said guide.
2) Name based on a variation of hungarian notation based on data. bCat for boolean for if cat or not; x for item of list; xs for a list of items. Here are more examples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation#Examples
(PS i know hungarian notation has fallen out of favor; modify for the language you are using; and keep it simple)
3) This blog post from Joel Spolsky might be useful https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/05/11/making-wrong-code-...
HTML tables are hard to write, read, and edit though. If you want to make the document easily readable both as HTML and Markdown (quite useful for a README, I think) then it's not a very good option.
GPS is definitely the best way of ascertaining a device's location but far from the only one. Google's own location API lets you access fine location (GPS) or coarse (triangulating via cell towers).
After public outcry and legal action Google stopped driveby data harvesting by Street View vehicles but it remains unclear if they stopped collecting SSIDs and MAC addresses (I guess if you squint hard enough you could say that these are publicly available data points).

It doesn't take too much tin foil to think that android may be phoning home when it detects an SSID, the physical location of which is already known.
As a kid I watched wrestling and remember the Iron Sheik doing some strange things with what looked like giant rolling pins.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MycGlTq8Bb4

Only recently did I learn (episode on JRE) how difficult it is and how much strength it required.
Reminds me of http://www.shovelglove.com/
I was in Portsmouth. I attended Ross back when it was still there from 09-11. Love the island. Was planning to go back this year before covid. How about you?
How exactly consuming all news in small daily doses is helping you? I don't think it's 'extremely' useful, actually I don't think it's useful at all!
It's army is mostly old gear. The USSR was way bigger, stronger and still everything crumbled.

Russia is more scared than you think, since their capital literally became in firing range in a short period.

The enemy is not an army, but internal unrest.
The wonderfully ̶b̶r̶o̶k̶e̶n̶ quirky world of JavaScript
The easy access to arms doesn't destabilise, if anything it stabilises. It does, however, result in a constant tick-over of domestic murders, suicides, accidents, people shot dead by toddlers, and (in the US) seemingly purposeless mass murder-suicides.

Coronavirus has only just overtaken the US's normal firearms death toll.
What the CDC said was that the level of risk was not high enough to warrant non HCWs to wear N95 masks.

If you're an HCW, no question, you had better be PPEing up to the max and following donning and duffing procedures to a T. You have huge exposure, and if you screw up, you're very likely to catch COVID.

If the level of risk is so high that I am not legally allowed to leave my house except for specified purposes, you would have to be utterly foolish to think that wearing the best mask available to you is not an utterly obviously correct precaution. You really need to be incredibly gullible to not see this.

If you're not an HCW, in March, as an American, you had about a 1/1000 chance of being a LAB CONFIRMED case of COVID. 1000 people are dying every day of this in America, and the numbers keep going up. If this continues, we will have millions of deaths from COVID.

Being an HCW now is like being a Formula 1 driver. You had better have a crapload of safety gear, and even then your risk is very high. Your chance of dying in a car accident in the next month is roughly 1/500,000. Your chance of dying of COVID next month is perhaps 1/1000. That's 500x the risk of driving. Your argument comes down to "Well, since you're not driving in a Formula One race, there's no need to put on your seatbelt." If you wouldn't dream of getting behind the wheel without a seatbelt, why would you go outside without a mask when the risk is 500x higher?
Coronavirus in Brooklyn: An ICU Fights for Each Life
Yes, lots of people don't find the official line about the Kennedy assassination or the 9/11 attacks or the MMR vaccine convincing but hey, I don't pay attention to them either.

The idea that you know more about David Kelly's state of mind at the time than his own family is sort of galling.
Talk about moving goalposts. Not only did you move them, you also redefined success.
Google Keep never lets you down
Great idea - I can see this being popular. Small heads-up on responsiveness needing fixed on tablet in portrait view.
Being "on the front lines" does not render your science immune to criticism. That's just not how it works. Doing good science is the only defense against rational criticism.

You're basically asking us to take his word for it because he happens to be treating covid patients. That is not a thing.
Exciting, looking forward to future updates. In relation to pandas and xarray, this would be more inspired by the former?
or just turn you keyboard off?
How Did We Ever Get to the Roaring Twenties?
The ptx is jit by the gpu driver for your device's specific architecture but it's pretty fast. If you know you are targeting a specific device it's possible to aot compile your ptx.
I know. But it wasn't necessary to drop everything else but that storyline.
Hello Nico,

It depends on what you search. Just searching for "fitness" is not enough.

In fact, we did spot a trend. Look at trends like:
- https://treendly.com/trend/at-home-workout?geo=FR
- https://treendly.com/trend/gym-equipment-rental

You can also try searching trends directly in French (but without the special characters, please).

Thanks for commenting!
You're accusing a Jewish writer of Holocaust denial, which should be a bannable offence.
Are you kidding? The 2008 recession killed a ton of tech. The core of traditional Silicon Valley (Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara) had so much vacant office space that large areas zoned industrial felt like ghost towns. Sure, the companies that later became dominant survived. The electronic design automation sector held on because chipmakers couldn't stop doing design work. But it was very tough.
Makes me really appreciate my current company. They did the same Zoom with no chat or participant list. But the CEOs came on video and spoke. They said they debated how to do to this, separately or individually. But they said the best way would be to do it together, with the whole 2500 person company. They said some people would be furloughed. Here is the list of departments and titles affected and not affected. Here is what we are doing to help the people furloughed (health insurance until this is over). It was well done.
When you type in the address bar it autocompletes your Bookmarks. It does the same for History as well, but you can't really sync history across browsers.
It's still all the rage! They are portable too. Perfect for a digital nomad!
It used to be far more customisable for Windows; this is Windows 2.03:

https://guidebookgallery.org/pics/gui/settings/appearance/wi...

3.11:

https://guidebookgallery.org/pics/gui/settings/appearance/wi...

95:

https://guidebookgallery.org/pics/gui/settings/appearance/wi...

...and that dialog remained almost unchanged up until Windows 7:

https://www.dedoimedo.com/images/computers_new_2/windows-7-s...

Unfortunately, after Win7 it was removed, and they basically took away customisation completely in Win10.
Nuking Malmo doesn't take out the subs though. These subs can stay there underwater for 6 months sabotaging Russian activity. Nuking their city will give them a good reason to fight until death.
In Wisconsin there are still auditoriums named Turner Hall in some towns. Monroe is one, and when I was a kid I always wondered who "Mr. Turner" was who it was named after. My dad finally told me it used to be a gymnastics club, and the members were called "turners".
Weirdly enough, I had a quick look at Heathrow arrivals and departures, and there's still loads of flights leaving every 10 minutes, to all kinds of destinations. Multiple flights per day to Rome - I guess if you absolutely, positively have to be in Italy right now! In comparison, my local airport in North of England had a single flight the entire day.
> Even the term “elite panic” is lie.

FYI, there is at least one book written on the subject based on research of real-world disasters

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/21/books/21book.html
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6444492-a-paradise-built...

Cory Doctorow writes about it as well:

https://boingboing.net/2013/04/14/elite-panic-why-rich-peopl...

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/cor...

It is hardly Mr Stross's own idea, and I would not dismiss it so glibly after a minute's thought and a very shallow understanding.
Thanks for the feedback! I'll fix it
Interesting perspective. My employer entertains remote workers and satellite offices only to the extent that it feels the Bay Area is “tapped out.” If that thinking is at all representative of the industry, I think we’re likely to see those options evaporate rather than grow.

There are definitely IT jobs “native” to the Midwest, but they’re overwhelmingly seen as cost centers to be deskilled/automated/offshored rather than value-creating R&D.
Right now, client funding is extremely vulnerable. The startup I was working for in 2001 blew up when clients stopped paying bills due to their own bankruptcy. The one I was working for in 2008 was badly crippled by all the clients we were pre-sales engaged with simply closing their external purchasing.
Mac OS had themes (briefly) back in 1998 [1]. Linux (GTK+ and Qt) still do. Windows has supported custom fonts/colors since at least 1992, even if the result wasn't always tasteful [2].

[1]: https://www.blakespot.com/mac/Images/Gallerypix/drawing2.jpg
[2]: https://blog.codinghorror.com/a-tribute-to-the-windows-31-ho...
> You can find plenty of Windows only successful software that is massively profitable. Where is the same software for Android?

The software that is Windows-only isn't the most successful stuff that everybody has heard of (e.g. Office, Adobe, Chrome), that's the stuff available for both because it has enough demand to justify development even for smaller platforms.

The Windows-only applications are the ones with a niche. It's the control application for some piece of industrial equipment, or some line-of-business application, and then you need Windows because you have that equipment or you're in that line of business. And it's the same thing for Android. They can only justify development for one platform so they choose the most popular one. They're just not apps you'll have heard of if you aren't in that niche.

It's even moreso for Android because many types of applications are prohibited by Apple. Like what's the best BitTorrent app for iPhone? File manager? Remote desktop? Screen recording?

Even the popular apps that exist on both platforms aren't as good on iOS. Firefox has to use Safari under the hood. Maybe that doesn't matter to you. Until the "Firefox" you want to run is Tor Browser, which is designed to resist client fingerprinting in ways that Safari isn't, and then the inability to use that on iOS compromises your security. Similarly, the way Signal does backups on Android (i.e. with its characteristically diligent security properties) isn't allowed on iOS, so it doesn't support backups on iOS at all. So even for apps that exist on both, on iOS they're not as good.