skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Given that we had to relocate to Mexico due to coronavirus, my wife and I recently made the difficult decision to officially pull our 12-year old son out of the international school he was attending in China and start him un/home-schooling him. I'm writing a blog about the decision and its results on a somewhat realtime and extremely open and honest basis. Might be useful for some of you thinking about doing the same with your own kids.
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>Researchers, scientists, and people on the ground in China, Taiwan, and South Korea issued early warnings well ahead of the WHO, CDC, and FDA flip flopping on transmit-ability, masks, and testing.

Do you have a rough timeline for 'well ahead'? From what I've read it was classified as zoonotic, because the staff in China who handled the initial cases weren't presenting, and the wet-market was the only causal link. That's when the WHO reported (mid/late Jan) that human-human transmission wasn't possible.

>Unfortunately the average person can’t tell the difference between a researched investigative journalism piece in the New York Times and an opinion column in the New York Times. Most people can’t tell the difference between the Washington Post and the Washington Times. Many people can’t tell the difference between the Chicago Tribune and a random website that stole the Chicago Tribune’s layout.

But its not just "average people", its most people, including HN folks. On any expert topic, when you have no hands-on expertise, you apply "common sense", or read some articles, and then you're back to square one. Most scientific fields are advanced to the point where common sense doesn't get you very far. Not only that, there are a lot of professional explainers who muddy the waters by repeating things without understanding the nuances. I think its fine to say whatever, as long as its fine for me to ask "OK, but what makes your opinion worth something".
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It looks like 2-4% of usage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers

However, there's a big difference between 4% of users and 4% of market. Not everybody out there is a customer, and not all customers buy equally. So the revenue falloff sill surely be smaller.

Typical browser stats also don't account for what people do if something doesn't work. Having browser issues surely will cause some lost sales. But even the least tech-savvy of people will try something on another device, like their phone, or ask somebody to do it for them. Making the revenue impact even smaller.
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So much this. Aside from Biden being MIA, something had seemed very "off" about him recently as well, and it doesn't inspire confidence. I know he's always been a little gaffe-prone, but if you compare recent interviews with speeches he gave historically, it's pretty clear he's lost the edge he used to have.
Anecdotally wework had a two month deposit from my former company which they are refusing to refund - my guess is 4 weeks until the civil suits start stacking up, 6 weeks until the executives bail out in Golden parachutes to cushy FANNG positions, and 8 weeks until low level employees are left holding the bag.
Just a five minute loop of thoughtful nodding and the occasional brow furrow.
It'd be really cool if you could also add how to setup federation :).

edit: for docker with synapse living on subdomain.domain.tld and addresses like @user:domain.tld, I don't know ^^.
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Historically, the facetious reply would be to give this example:

A: Because it breaks the flow of information.

Q: Why is it frowned upon?

A: Putting replies above the original post.

Q: What is top posting?
It's not the screenshare that's the problem, it's the v4l loopback to emulate a webcam
I do not do top posting myself. For email, I am using Heirloom-mailx which only does bottom posting (if I can get external editor to work, then I can make it doing properly).

For NNTP (I wrote my own client in 2019), I always use interleaved posting, deleting the part of the message which is not relevant and adding the reply after the quoted part which is being replied to. For web forums I also do the same (but would prefer they switch to NNTP instead, or to support both which may be better).

I don't use HTML email, and I don't like HTML email. Plain text is better.
The work involved in an effective inline reply is to snip out the irrelevant quote yet still leave enough context for what you were replying to.

An inline reply with a large amount of irrelevant quotes so that people have to hunt down your reply is bad.

An email client that does not keep a thread and people can't effectively trace back old posts to recall context is bad.

A default rich text preference is bad. Email client can easily apply some heuristics or honoring something mark-down-like, but the base need be always in plain text.
> evnt breakpoints

Typo in the first paragraph.
"The only way to win is not to play."

China certainly did not win. The best they could be thought to have done is "lose less badly". Even that is questionable, depending on how much you believe their statistics.
It should be possible to make your point without gratuitous insults. Especially when you're wrong, then it makes you even more of a dick. Thank you. FWIW you are off-topic.
Sorry big brother.
Or perhaps skip it altogether.

Most of my “family” apps is just quick hacks in JavaScript. Simple to throw together, runs on everything with a browser, like the tv, and is easily published on anything serving static files, like github pages.

Edit: For some more hobby like projects C# works out quite nicely though. I’d say it’s probably easier to stick with the beaten path here if not seeing a particular advantage from a functional language. I hear F# is quite nice as far as a functional languages go though.
Okay? Then consider my comment as a protest.
Yup that's a great point. I'd love to see this approach explored further. Is there any risk of tuple collisions in some bizarro NAT situation? I'd guess not, since the remote tuple needs to route to a single destination, but there's some weird stuff out there... eg one could imagine a router abusing the IP protocol to somehow route packets to different destinations despite them having the same return IP/port combo. i'm no networking wizard, but in general i assume if its possible, someone is doing it :)
The difference in our minds is the level of information we provide that goes far beyond any job posting I've ever seen. And, so far beyond the generic careers pages you see everywhere.
Thanks for posting, I’m interested in reading it. However, I’m reading the article on my iPhone and the scrolling hijack is really annoying. It scrolls less well than native scrolling and is jerky and makes it difficult to read. Why do people do this with their blogs?
You could use something like the Duo Network Gateway or Cloudflare Access to protect it.
If there's any likelihood of others being added to an extended email conversation, it should have started in a messaging client where the new people can scroll back through the entire history.

Email is either a one-off group mail, or a conversation between one sender and one recipient. Any other case is for Slack/Skype/IRC/etc.
> I’ve worked with this

How? (this appears to be preview with “sandbox APIs”)

Would you mind expanding on your experience working with this?

> It is however unfortunate that they choose to use OData

Had the same sentiments. They take good step forward and then chose OData (bummer)
Well, anyone can ask you to renounce certain rights, and you can even agree, and courts can (and for certain rights have) rule that you cannot waive those rights. Even if there's a right that is well known you cannot renounced, you can be asked to renounce it, and you can agree to do so, and still not lose the right.

Arbitration can't completely remove access to the courts -- it can (and does) make it harder to get there. Case law for this sort of thing is always evolving, and so is statutory law. It's entirely possible for the courts to modify arbitration sufficiently to make the playing field more even.
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Ugh! I share your pain. It's like reading text in English where the author can't figure out the difference between their, there, and they're.

It really is like nails on a blackboard.

> CYOHSYUN 長春

Chōshun.

> Some are well known in Japan (sakura, nadeshiko), the vast majority are obscure.

This project would benefit from a 'common colours' filter.
So Slack's VoIP uses WebRTC, which connects via UDP/TCP to always send SRTP packets through a TURN proxy (which extends STUN via ICE) to work around usual NAT problems. These guys scanned the TURN and found an SSRF which allowed them to connect to Slack's VPC on AWS using IAM temporary credentials. Interesting.

For fun, read that last paragraph out loud to a non-techy near by and watch their eyes...
And (in most states) are entitled to an exact copy of the report that was delivered.
Thanks @brudgers, I guess label users from the spike as visitors is similar to “curious users”.

What is your blog by the way?
I agree. Even from a capitalist point of view, there is no real free market in real estate, because it's a necessity that's simply not fungible enough. After the last brick is laid, almost every player in the game is literally just siphoning off a portion of someone's income for no good reason.

Realtors offer some value in knowing the market, but that's not worth a 3% commission on both sides of the sale, IMO. I already mentioned landlords. Property managers are essentially the same as landlords, except even more useless most of the time.

The only ones that offer anything of real value post-construction, IMO, are those that facilitate sales: title companies, banks, and realtors. Realtors are the worst of them, because they've enshrined their position in law in many states, and, as I mentioned, their commissions are simply way out of proportion with the value they provide in an age when home listings exist on the internet.
There is a YouTube video with its own url in the video. It was done with partial uploads. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D6L__oR1O9A
My point is there's no point in making "good use" of this money against the backdrop of what's currently happening. It's a symbol, at best.
Internal tools are used by employees who unlike consumers will tolerate more usability friction, non-critical bugs and feature delays than consumers and will compensate for them with their own effort so the tools can still be critical in their core functionality but not polished or well-maintained.

Ironically and anecdotally, WeWork tried to build a strong engineering org for their internal systems before it blew up.
It would be great if the inspector supported dark mode.
My interpreataion:
Create and distribute a library of all possible images (except ones which look like random noise or are otherwise unlikely to ever be needed). When you want to send an image, find it in the library and send its index instead. Use advanced compression (NNs) to reduce the size of the library.
The "psychedelic colours" are a really unfortunate consequence of the fact that Outlook is still incapable of producing sanely quoted text after about 20 years. It's extremely frustrating considering that most email clients did it right back then. Even Gmail manages to get it mostly right most of the time.
If you talk about Saddam's WMDs ... yes, he actually used those before. It's kind of ironic that he later didn't have any.

Yes, the democratic party hasn't been able to win against Trump in a presidential election since 2016. Can't be because there wasn't one, can it? On the other hand, Democrats wiped the floor in any other elections meanwhile. Biggest losses in GOP history. Huge increases in voter turnout. If that doesn't count, what else would count?

And if you vote for third party candidates, you are part of the problem, not the solution. If you didn't want Trump you should have voted for Clinton, from a rational point of view. If you don't like Clinton you should examine why. In my opinion, the hatred against Clinton has more to do with the GOP campaign against her and general misogyny than anything she ever did wrong.
> And if the answer is no, I guess the logical conclusion is that internal tools make very little difference to the success of consumer product companies.

That is on the implicit assumption that businesses are reasonable, and accurately know how to manage tradeoffs. Your counter-hypothesis seems rather likely to me, if we look at the internal behavior of a company. When negotiating, the more dots that you need to connect before reaching "and then we get more money", the weaker of a negotiating position you have. It's the same reason why sales teams get bonuses for making sales, but developers don't get bonuses for enabling sales.
> Plenty of jurisdictions have suspended rent payments.

Many jurisdictions where I am have suspended evictions for non-payment of rent, but not the rent payments themselves. Tenants are still liable for the rent and may be liable for additional interest.

In the U.S., it would probably be unconstitutional for a government to just take away all the rents from landlords.
$50 a piece, with 4 filters included. Steep price from where I stand.Also deliveries June...
all evictions require approval by the LTB ... Landlords are fine to file an eviction but it has to be approved and while no official policy has come out yet it's incredibly reasonable to expect that there will be provisions put in place to keep people from just being insta-evicted once the state of emergency is over.

that said those that can pay their rent SHOULD BE, because I imagine one of the critera for having the LTB rule in your favour is showing you were in a hardship at the time.
> Step 1 is to stop all this platform censorship, especially of clearly crackpot theories.

No, I'm asking what your concrete plan is to teach people to think critically.
You are right, but the "culture" has to be backed up with tools and processes. We can't rely on oral folklore to communicate the requirement and business decisions. People leave the company all the time, assumptions and requirements change.

We need a git repo for requirements and business decisions, with pull requests and approvals, integrated with the main code repo.
Author here - there's no scrolling hijack on my pages. I also dislike this sort of thing. Which iOS are you using?
Some traffic lights actually are blue, or something between blue and green (in the past, I have seen some blue traffic lights in Vancouver too).
There's value in the converse of that data point, though, right? If someone made rent on April 1st (and maybe even more importantly May 1st), that might be an even stronger signal that they'll continue to do so without interruption.
The comment merely repeats what its parent already says.
I found out about it in this book The Body Keeps the Score[1]. Its a massive book, so I would just focus on the Neurofeedback section. But it doesn't have the first hand experience so mileage may vary.
By co-incidence the researcher that pioneered this breakthrough treatment was located in the same city as me. You can see some of the videos[2], but it will be difficult to understand and appreciate unless you spend a lot of time reading papers and learning about the brain. I will say its worth it to learn, especially if you want your ability to focus to go from below average to far above average. Feel free to email me if you want details, I had to become well versed at it out of necessity more than anything.

[1]https://www.amazon.com/Body-Keeps-Score-Healing-Trauma/dp/B0...

[2] http://addcentre.com/page-34/page-28/media.html
Right, but this is about streaming something else instead of the webcam video.
Of course there is. The backdrop is like the weather. In the meantime you could fund a lot of start-ups from that money. Now, arguably, SoftBanks' history is less than stellar but still, the chances of them doing something good with that cash strongly outweigh the chances of WeWork doing something good with that cash.

That still leaves your point about the rest of the trillions that have been printed but that is another topic entirely and can be addressed on its own, and likely in a different thread.
>Let me just ask straight up: Do you believe that private property should not exist?

Absolutely, that would be an ideal. However, don't make the mistake of conflating private property and personal property. A primary residence would be personal property, as would a car, etc.

As for the other "services" you mention, if the housing market weren't distorted by people thinking housing needs to be an inflating asset, most of those problems could solve themselves in a market scenario.
is there any way to transfer e2e chats from matrix.org homeserver account to my own server?
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What do we know about the quality of the tools used by say the chromebook sales analysts ? This isn't spanner or bigtable.
I think you're starting to get it.
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Instagib was my favorite mode back in UT2003/2004. Really forced you to hone your twitch muscles. When you and your opponent were both missing each other, it only upped the frantic tension until one of you bursts into giblets!
I'm a Naborly user (landlord) in the USA. Naborly emailed repeatedly asking for this information (I refused).

Interestingly, they asked about my tenants' payment on April 1st, not even taking into account grace periods or such.

Also, I never signed up to receive their emails, and I've expressly asked them to stop emailing me.
The comments here seem to be divided between two groups:

1. Those who were net denizens pre-Outlook, who grew up with sophisticated mail and news clients that properly threaded discussions, along with strong cultural norms to reply inline, trim quoted messages, and keep signatures short.

2. Those whose first experiences with email were post-Outlook, for whom the norm has always been top-posting.

It's hardly surprising that each group regards the other with suspicion, but I think it's really telling that all the people who regard email as a bad tool for managing lengthy, in-depth discussions between multiple people seem to fall into the second camp.
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Some of those things you can figure out on Glassdoor, though I guess having quantitative metrics are better than reviews from disgruntled employees.

I like this idea, but unfortunately it hangs on the existence of LinkedIn. If for whatever reason LinkedIn changes its structure in a way that makes it impossible to easily obtain this data, such a service would probably sink.

> - What schools did employees go to? What is the education distribution of employees?

How would you interpret this information?

EDIT: On a somewhat related note, I had a side project a while ago that was kind of the inverse, which was a tool for employers where they could track their employee's LinkedIn activity to determine whether an employee was actively looking for another job or likely to quit soon, allowing employers to preemptively fire employees that didn't have a future with the company. I decided not to finish it because I thought it would be a terrible thing to have exist.
Where I live (Calgary, AB) I've literally never had a landlord ask for a reference. Been renting for nearly 20 years. Simply cutting a cheque is always enough around here. My current landlord never even bothered to check if my roomate/SO actually existed when we signed the lease (she wasn't available to view the apartment, literally the only time I met my landlord).

Landlords need tenants more than tenants need landlords. At the end of the day, you can always find somewhere to live even if it's shared tenancy or crashing with friends or family, an empty apartment just costs the landlord money.
Missing in Action?

Other than that political rallies are off for everyone (pandemic, you heard?), he has continued his campaign. If you didn't notice that, you weren't looking in the right places.

Nobody will vote for Trump because Biden's "gaffes". He clearly is more mentally fit than Trump, who can barely string together logical sentences any more.
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God help us. He's even older than Biden, and Biden would be record-setting were he to be elected. Both of these guys should be worried more about surviving COVID19 than anything else at this point.
We worked with SAP on a tech talk about Graph, you can watch it over here: https://events.sap.com/teched/en/session/51579
That doesn't work as well if you're chatting via instant messenger rather than voice chat.
I'm in BC, not Ontario, but no-fault eviction isn't a thing here. You can evict a tenant for reasons such as:

- didn't pay rent

- late paying rent at least three times

- your family is planning to occupy the unit

- unit is uninhabitable

- major damage to property

- broke the terms of the lease

Family occupancy is the most common workaround that landlords use, and it takes a long time to make it happen. Followed by "renoviction" (leaving the unit in disrepair until they can force the tenant out for construction). That is also expensive and takes a long time. In any case, there has to be a reason.
I'm surprised you launched at Cal given your world-view of incentive alignment. I was there right when the department got slammed. Clearly, it wasn't an ideal situation but there was a ton of innovation in the department to meet demand. Additionally, Cal makes it very clear that Profs are expected to teach, and many who teach lower division classes certainly make it their top priority when teaching (thinking of mainly of DeNero, Hug, Garcia, Fox but would also include Babak, Sahai, Vazarani in this group as well).

DeNero led a ton of software development to help 61A scale (fuzz testing projects, automated hints, autograding). Cal recognized that lot of people taking 61A were actually business or biology majors who wanted to know how to code for their own industries, so they added an entirely new major, complete with new courses and its own building, to relieve pressure on the CS department.

A now-standard company (Gradescope) was launched to help TAs grade faster, often returning graded midterms just a day later. Not to mention Piazza, which became standard in all CS classes within one or two semesters.

And not only that, but tons of tutoring resources were available for lower-division classes from other student groups like HKN/UPE (spoiler alert -- most of these tutors were current or former TAs so you got the same level of knowledge without the waits) and ASUC.

I'm sure a lot of people who've given blood, sweat, and tears to scale this program in a resource-dearth environment _because_ they love CS so much would be upset with your characterization of the department's stance.
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> The number of support calls goes up dramatically if you need users to use different browsers, and it causes usability headaches when linking from one system to another, because you can only have one default browser.

Which is precisely why Chromium-based Edge has an IE Mode that uses Trident for given sites so that those legacy systems can be filtered to use a different browser engine from within the same browser UX.
I am curious at what point all those private corporations with their never ending data gathering, scoring, etc will accomplish that exact thing done by China. China profiles their citizens, assigns them social score and the ones that do not get enough points get their rights diminished. We seem to have a lot of black lists that affect our lives. And those lists multiply and grow bigger by the day. But of course as long as we being screwed by corporations rather than the government it is all kosher.