skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there are a lot of people who want to work for services like Uber. Defacto banning them like many seem to want to is counterproductive and somewhat luddite-esque. How to do it without hurting other employment is complex. But banning it isn't an answer, it's just ducking the question...
How California has contained coronavirus – and New York has not
You're lecturing to someone who grew up around these people, and who, paradoxically, has only watched their influence grow over the last thirty years.

So, yeah, thanks for that.
This is an ad. This isn't a genuine request for help. They have everything in place to monetize this.

They've got two massive companies that I know of using their service: Pivotal and Coursera. They've already got a pricing model in place so it's already monetized.

This is an add. People up voting this and acting like it's a sincere request for help have had the wool pulled over their eyes.

I'm honestly expecting to be down voted for this, and that's fine, I can understand why my reaction would be seen as negative, unconstructive, and so on, but posts like this go on indiehackers.com, not HN (unless they're genuinely a hobby project on the side.)
I have heard of people using sous vide to pasteurize both the shells and contents of eggs. This guy seems to have a pretty science-based process (see the "Pasteurized in Shell Egg" section):

http://douglasbaldwin.com/sous-vide.html#Poultry_and_Eggs

This is admittedly another piece of equipment to add to the process, but I suspect that the intersection of "people who own a dehydrator" and "people who own a sous vide machine" is pretty large.
It's asking a question and already knowing the answer to someone who has almost no ability to impact it.

That's like going to McDonald's and asking the cashier if the hamburgers used killed cows in them. And when they say yes, say, "I'm not eating here then!". It's a show.
Another Way to See the Recession: Power Usage Is Way Down
That's an indicator of interest. I actually emailed one of the submitters to repost the article for that reason. (Yes, we're thinking about software to detect cases like this.)

On HN, a submission doesn't count as a dupe unless it has had significant attention. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
These are free apps.

And these apps deserve to have “breaking opening from Finder” and even more restrictions considering they have shown themselves to be completely untrustworthy, insecure, invasive and hostile.
All of our meetings at Google are using GVC (aka Google Meet from gSuites), and while there are people who have reported problems (mostly in low bandwidth situations and/or using Firefox), my experience is that it is quite reliable. I've had video conferences from my Dad's Senior Center (obviously, pre-COVID-19) using a MiFi box, and there things were more reliable if I turned off my camera, but other than that, I've personally never had any problems using Google Meet from either a Linux box running ChromeOS, or a Chromebook. In fact, I've never had to worry about attending meetings remotely so much that I really can't speak to the reports of people complaining about Google Meet being unreliable.
Interesting article. Then I dug in more about the author and no wonder he runs a competing user tracking service that competes directly with google analytics. Sure it does less targeting - but then also provides less data points.
Google BigQuery now has Materialized Views
This line got to me.

> I blended two fresh eggs with ¼ cup of water and pan-scrambled them.

Is adding water to scrambled eggs really a thing that people do? Never in my life have I added water to fresh eggs before scrambling them.
> Artificial Intelligence has a coherent, formal theory

Is the author referring to the "Intelligent agent" paradigm?

Wikipedia has a list of competing theories:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence#Approa...
Self-describing?

Maybe to someone who could make sense of the DDL and read the language the label col names are written in. And understand all the implicit units, rules around nulls/empties, and presence of magic strings (SSN, SKU) and special numbers (-1) and on and on. For that you need something like RDF and a proper data model.
Is that right? Didn't know, TIL. Don't really follow politics all that closely, although I am disappointed that Bernie didn't make it through these primaries.
What does this actually mean--'Linux files' isn't a thing, or did MS make such a thing?

Do they mean files on an ext4 filesystem in WSL/WSL2? Will it also be able to mount an ext4 USB drive?
AFAIK you can't decline clients without getting punished by the company? Sure this ensures service and prevents discrimination but forced worked hurts driver independence.
How do you measure "is it worth" without a good idea of the risks and costs involved in the decision making? Just because it doesn't directly answer your question doesn't mean it's not applicable.

In fact, I'd argue the risk factor is significantly different across startups, so exploring the tradeoffs is the only way to approach the problem generically.

(Disclaimer: I work at Google and was involved with some aspects of the new book.)
As much as I would like to think that, I have to disagree. I've spoken to many somewhat technically savvy people who when informed $product sells your information, are shocked.
The ECHELON affair: the European Parliament and the global interception system [pdf]
It appears you can add your own commands to the commands.ps1 file.

Edit: There's already support for "SYS64738"
This is going to make running teamcity or jenkins from fargate, much simpler.
>Property rights are meaningless if they aren't recognized and enforced legally.

They can be enforced illegally as well. Now that can be viewed as a shadow state and a shadow legal system operating within the primary one, but under such a view we would find that the state exists as soon as any two humans work together and as a consequence the common meanings of words become suspect.

I think a better way of looking at it is that property is supported by violence. Civilized society we give rights to that violence to society to deal with those who don't behave because in general it is more efficient for all of us, but if that society betrays our expectations we will resort to violence against even that society itself.

It also isn't just property rights. All basic concepts, including up to the right to life, follow the same pattern. Thus a society that can destroy property rights is free and capable to destroy rights to life or bodily integrity.
I don't think it's impossible to mix the two successfully, but I think it varies greatly by what the project is. Some things monetize very naturally, other things would completely lose their appeal if you tried to contort them into a product that people pay for.

Example: I did a project for a hackathon at UT when I was in college. The idea was that in this day and age it's still hard to get a file or snippet of text from one device to another unless they share some kind of account sign-in or something. People still email things to themselves.

So I made a website called "Catch" where you can upload a file or a text snippet, get a throwaway 6-digit code with which you can download the thing from any web browser, and after ~15 minutes the artifact is deleted from the server. The whole appeal of it was having absolutely minimum friction.

When we presented our project one of the first things they asked was, "how will you monetize it?". It was something where any sort of sign-up or payment step completely defeated the purpose, so the answer was, "we won't".

But I don't think that's the case for every fun-project. Especially if you take a freemium approach or show ads.
I thought it was about random access memories
> Every Uber/Lyft driver earns well in excess of that.

If you don't account for travel time between gigs, expenses, or additional taxes, they might, but you can't Uber if you don't fill up your gas tank and change the oil in your car.
The impact of Covid-19 on Naspers
well they straight out tell you that firefox is not the browser to use it in at the moment. Android, iOS, and Electron apps all work seamless with me.

Considering your alternatives with zoom clients being banned it's not that far of a stretch.
I was replying to the parents general comment about “STEM career grooming”.
If you are making the wages Uber is paying drivers, you will likely be eligible for ACA subsidies that reduce the monthly premium. If your income is low enough, the full premium price is subsidized.
But it is more of a derived consequence. Maybe not all of their possessions, but enough that you don't enable people to engage in free trade and capitalism.
Could Google Search Trends have been used to help with Covid-19 outbreak
That's US$12.12/hr to save anyone interested the time looking it up
Unicode 14.0 Delayed for 6 Months
My point is that static type checking of APIs does not solve any new problem which static type checking in general does not already solve - That's why I don't agree that it solves API woes specifically. My argument is that it adds no value in that area.

If a developer already does input validation correctly with JavaScript, then switching to TypeScript will not add any value for them in that area.

Furthermore, my first argument (about TS giving false confidence) is that TypeScript does not make it any more likely that an unskilled developer would be able to identify and solve the problem of schema validation when compared to JavaScript... From the unskilled developer's point of view, false confidence (which TypeScript can sometimes provide) is worse than having no confidence at all (which is what JavaScript always provides).

Type checking is 100% about confidence; it gives more confidence. Confidence and correctness are two completely different things and I wanted to point out that there is such a thing as false confidence.
Learning about artificial intelligence: resources for K-12 students
It's worth mentioning that true demand from the Market will pull the optimal product out of a capable team. Thus, having the capable team and understanding at least which markets you are operating in are critical components to the recipe for success. While it's a helpful write-up, a lot goes unsaid. Namely, that one needs to say no to a million things in order to say yes to the few great things that will make the product/company what it is. Just changing or pivoting for sake of pivoting is not exactly right, it should be done based on intuition and data, and also based on paths tread by other successful startups.
Google has been screwing up with Android TV for years. Do you really want an operating system embedded into your TV that has the horrible up date track record of Android?

Besides, the Roku CEO said that they try to keep the build of materials for hardware embedded into TVs below $25. How long will it take Android TV to run on hardware that costs so little?
> Yes, these containers are supposed to be stateless,

You got it backwards. NFS type services help containers be stateless because they are a separate service accessed through an interface where all the state is handled by a third party.

Thus by using a NFS-type service to store your local files, you are free to kill and respawn containers at will because their data is persisted elsewhere.
New Data Shows U.S. Companies Are Definitely Leaving China
I add milk, sometimes. Never water. It might make them fluffier? i.e., more moisture, that converts to steam?
Thank you so much, and you are welcome! That's an awesome slogan!

Some things are hard, yet have no pay-off or are even detrimental. On the other hand, things that pay off are often proportionally hard.

It is not may goal to make it hard, in fact I am doing everything I can to make it as easy as possible. I am very interested in didactic approaches, and always welcome feedback! I would like to make it worth the effort for viewers, and — beyond that — exceed the required effort in value.
We Are Far from Achieving Artificial General Intelligence
I add some milk to eggs when I scramble them, but never water. Not sure if that's weird.
If you avoid firefox and stick to either Chrome or the unofficial (but perfectly working) electron app I've had zero issues. Using the free service (not a self hosted instance) I've had several calls with 10-20 (all video) people and not a single hiccup.

If you are using firefox you will encounter issues
Congrats on the launch.

RPA & low/no-code tools are a very crowded market right now and I don't believe that focusing on selling to developers will get you very far.

Best of luck tho.
200+ opportunities to work on COVID-19, and 60+ places to get funding
More laws, less justice. This can only backfire.
Months at sea prepared me for lockdown on land
Double nuts!
Odin would be Woden in the Germanic naming, hence why Wednesday has a W.
WHO boss racially abused, receives death threats over Covid-19
But do you have a source that backs up your baseless assertion? The world is tired of random guys online saying all type of nonsense and making all sorts of wild claims to then cower behind empty appeals to authority. I can just as easily claim that the pope said to me personally the exact opposite of what you're saying.
Is it possible to view the page you linked without creating an account? It redirects me to your landing page.
> Travel time between gigs

No gig in the world covers that.

> Expenses

On average, after vehicle expenses, Uber drivers make as low as $15/hour[1], and as high as $20/hour. And this is also assuming that one concedes the argument that gigs ought to reimburse expenses, which isn't true for most contract work.

https://www.ridester.com/how-much-do-uber-drivers-make
You could always use a sous vide device to pasteurize eggs before dehydrating them. Crack them, mix them, throw them in a bag, and pasturize them for as long as is appropriate. Easy.
WebRTC fell down for 6 users the other day, so we switched to G2M
That’s pretty embarrassing for google if their own employees prefer zoom over google hangouts.
Another way to preserve eggs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_egg

I've never had the chance to try them, and they don't look appetizing, but now I'm kinda curious how they taste.
Same answer as a week ago, I think: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22754135

lacker put it particularly nicely: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22814338
Just because Google has a lot of money doesn’t mean they’ll go wasting it on software licenses. 24 million might not even come close to what they make per year, but they still have to be considerate on what they spend their money on.
I'm not sure I'd go that far. I think if there is a major, near-unforseeable danger that where public policy requires shutting down business, then I think Bylund has a fair point that it shouldn't be treated as "sucks to be you" entrepreneurial error.

But I also think there's a lot more gray area. What if you were exploiting the fact that something was illegal but not enforced? That doesn't seem to merit a bailout.

What if you were running on extremely tight margins so that a week of lost revenue for any reason, even a justified one like a pandemic, would shut you down? Again, doesn't seem to merit a bailout.
Interesting point. Wikipedia's definition of 'static web page' quite explicitly includes pages that use JavaScript, it just precludes the server from dynamically generating the pages. To quote: Dynamic functionality must be performed on the client side.

An SPA would be expected to use APIs, which wouldn't be static, but if we treat the APIs as separate from the static web page, they might still make the cut.

This random article [1] considers API-powered static website not to be a contradiction.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_web_page

[1] https://hackernoon.com/quickstart-an-api-powered-static-webs...
Docker-compose has always been a great little tool to spin up a collection of integrated services (like a LAMP stack). It has just the right level of complexity for many projects.

Packaging these collections up as reusable apps is smart, but isn't this what kubernetes helm charts are?

From first glance the "Search" domain is very unintuitive. I typed in "web" and "app" with no results. Your better off showing a list of most downloaded or something similar to npm's search.

> "fyi: there's a nonzero chance that the DB will be wiped once we exit alpha and enter beta"

This is honest, but it's not a good look to lose data. If it's possible, simply backup the data between updates... I wouldn't trust something that wipes my data.

Anyway great little project, hope it continues and grows.
Why does it matter whether it is the advertiser themselves who know about me? The wrong is that I am being stalked in the first place.

Why does it matter that advertisers pay more for targeted advertising? The wrong is that it is an option for them to choose in the first place.
> because it costs Google a nontrivial amount of money

It's not just the money it's also additional security vulns to defend.
If you've never been on a conference call where someone can't get their dial-in, audio, camera, screen share, or mute button to work, I'd suspect you've never been in a conference call. These recurring issues are fewer with Zoom. I spent 6 hours on zoom today (ugh), and every day I'm in a 25-to-50-person call that has consistently been buttery smooth.
Easy-to-pick “smart” locks gush personal data, FTC finds
Oh man, awesome. We had a rather janky workload where ECS would spin up an EC2 that would then mount an EFS volume and then write a file over to S3. This is going to make that so much easier and cleaner.

If you're wondering why you'd ever have to do something like that, the answer is SAP.
It's not an ad. It's genuinely a hobby project... We have not made any money on it. There are teams at those companies using our app, not the companies themselves.

My email address and main job / company are in my profile btw.
Isn't the choice of publisher itself a form of ad targeting?

E.g. many advertisers probably believe readers of "The Atlantic" and "Guns and Ammo" segment into two distinct populations. And publishers themselves certainly target media to specific segments, e.g. fashion magazines for young middle-class women versus middle-aged gay rich men have different content
Employment benefits aren't a safety net though. They're not even universally required, and are completely up to the employment contract.
Please, America, do not follow us
Have you looked at the total cost of your insurance -- including what your employer pays? They have to report it to you as part of the ACA. Mine is $25000 a year for family coverage including employer subsidies. Luckily we pay less than $100/month though
Five Lessons on Remote Work from Scaling Gitlab
The West will eventually have to undergo its own Nuremberg Trials. They won't be pretty.

We can't complain that 'we didn't know what was happening' as the media is forever proclaiming how 'victorious' we are in our aggressive wars.
But that's the point, an SPA could well meet your definition.

An SPA could take the form a single index.html file and make use of APIs + JavaScript, rather than pages generated dynamically by the server.
Lock your home office door. You'll need to anyway to be productive with dogs & kids around.
>This reminds me far too much of "mandatory overtime" in America.

The big difference is the ability to consent and not consent. Yes, some places demand mandatory overtime or you will be terminated, but that is it. They won't pay you anymore, but you are free to do whatever else you want. In this case, the alternative is often prison. That changes the equation so that a person is not consenting to a trade (work more hours to have this job instead of finding an alternative) but instead being forced under threat.

This difference is important.

As for the illegal side of things, that is a problem and something we do need to change. Laws should be equally enforced.
Go 1.14.2 and Go 1.13.10 are released
Thank you natural gas!
That's a good idea. Does it work?
Luckily, many other people believe this too which is why we think there's a big opportunity no one has addressed here.
Background sound of an office in case you mise it
I second the use of iots. It has a decent learning curve but is very worth it in the end.
Can you guys stop astroturfing here. Nobody is dumb enough to believe that Google is saving money by not using office.
What about vacuum dehydration? It should be much faster than the other methods. Something like a pressure cooker and a vacuum pump shouldn't be too hard to rig up.
I have been a long user of recordit.co, but it has been a bit outdated, but it's free.

It will be great to have it with a limited space for free usage.
Why do companies hide the link to [domain].com like this? Sign-Up doesn't take you anywhere special, just to the .com domain.

I was looking for the link to the site to see what it was and that wasn't made very obvious.

(Similar issue with email newsletters -- LINK TO YOUR SITE).
Looks like a great little tool. The only question I have is why is it macOS only? Is the entire Zapier company using Apple?

I currently use flameshot for Ubuntu which works pretty well

https://github.com/lupoDharkael/flameshot
time for yet more subsidies to unprofitable businesses.
Well, if you need some you can always download them[0]

[0]https://downloadmoreram.com/
I think $6/mo. for fast, privacy-focused analytics for small sites is very reasonable.

There's no ad revenue to support this business — the website owner is the customer, not the product. That is a different business model from Google analytics or WordPress free analytics.
The only reason I moved from Monosnap is that it started making 32bit-per-component (so 16 bytes per pixel) images on Catalina for me recently. Word doesn’t like those, emails size exploded, etc.
Because I can literally walk away in the middle of a debugging session, grab any random notebook in the house, travel to Djibouti and resume exactly where I left off (ok, replace Djibouti with a random coffee shop). It has completely changed how I work and I love it (mosh + tmux = <3).

ADD: I do switch frequently between my desktop and multiple notebooks. Working this way means I can have a beefy/noisy development server and a light & quiet notebook which just needs mosh.
These are the same guys that were astroturfing mightydash.com on reddit several days ago.
I fear Brazil isn't really testing much.

Anecdotal data: A relative in Brazil got tested three weeks ago and the results still have not come back. (~100k from sao paulo).

They said it would take 10 working days to have the results.

So I wouldn't trust any Brazilian numbers.

(she was diagnosed with pneumonia, but she luckily recovered. in the household everybody else also got sick, and also eventually luckily recovered)
I would also love this feature, but I understand the argument that it's major feature-creep for this project - as I understand, with mosh as implemented it would be difficult to integrate. IIRC they would have to roll some kind of TCP over UDP? I'm not sure, it's been a while since I looked at it. I'm willing to accept a good tool missing features over a poorly maintained tool that at some point had all the features I care about.

And realistically $600 is a pittance compared to the long-term cost of maintaining a feature that has the potential to dramatically increase the size of the code base.
You do a very good job making it approachable. I'll make a PoC this year using Prolog in a specific application regarding contract generation (LawTech). It's surely thanks to your insights!

Now that I know your handle, I'll ping you when I have some news :)
Based on what? Nothing points to a higher mortality rate - but some countries are admittedly not testing a lot. Even if you quadruple the estimated mortality rate, the UK numbers would still be under-represented.
Genius (YC S11) Is Hiring a Senior Full Stack Engineer (NYC or U.S. Remote)
You prefer to be manipulated. I do not.
Yes that's exactly what I am referring to.