skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really like how you brought to the fore this concept of intuition as it relates to UI/UX in technology products. There’s a certain cachet in being able to operate technical devices. There’s similar social capital to be gained in creating useful results using technology. If only the embedded intuition of operating the device worked with the goal of creating useful results with the device.

The biggest “what were they thinking” part for me is why they cram a whole GUI with config options and menus into a clock when almost every use case for a VCR is already connected to a perfectly workable display which is much better suited to a GUI in the form of the TV. Later VCRs had onscreen rather than on-device GUIs but by then institutional momentum was too far along to redesign the remote when they moved the GUI out of the device and onscreen. Truly a missed opportunity.

I don’t know anyone involved in any VCR product. If I did I’d be asking them a lot of questions. But I have a hard time thinking they meant to make it so hard. They probably were clapping each other on the back and congratulating each other. They were inventing future ways of using content and for that they deserve praise. They just sucked at understanding how hard it is for non experts to put themselves in the mind of experts, someone whose inner mental world has jarringly different contours and whose mental model of reality may have little to no correspondence whatsoever with their own.
Microsoft Teams will use AI to filter typing and other noise from video calls
Why lick? Got COVID signs?
I've used PCI passthrough with VMWare ESXi. It's good when it works, but when it doesn't, you're out of luck. I doubt GP will have much luck with VMs once it gets to 3d acceleration.
When you and your family and your neighbors, village, tribe are worried about where your next meal is coming from, you don’t have much energy for self-expression. See also Maslow’s hierarchy.

China and Russia have similar politics in that they both have long authoritarian histories, as well as Communist histories. I don’t know much about India, but I’d guess that the average Indian and the average Chinese person have similar concerns: how to get enough money to move their family up from poverty or near poverty and into the middle class.
For sure, any network without any moderation is going to quickly fall into chaos. I'm working on a post on decentralized personalized moderation at the moment which should be out in the next day or two :)
The incompetence of the cdc in the early days of the pandemic is truly stunning. I remember when the website on COVID used to say that "no evidence of community spread has been detected" when it later turned out that the reason no community spread was detected was because nobody was looking for it. People with covid symptoms but no known source of transmission weren't allowed to be tested, and then the CDC turned around and said that there was no evidence of community spread because there were no positive tests from people with unknown sources of transmission! And of course it turned out that it had been circulating for who knows how long and we now have an outbreak at this scale.
Swiss hospitals rely on fax to transmit Covid-19 data
Hospitals in Switzerland, allegedly one of the most innovative countries worldwide, heavily rely on fax to transmit Covid-related data to the federal government.

Article in German: https://www.nzz.ch/schweiz/coronavirus-das-bag-kommt-bei-erfassung-der-faelle-kaum-hinterher-ld.1547359

I've been told by a reliable source that someone came up with the idea to use deep-learning to extract the information from the faxes.

Is this tragic, idiotic or completely normal?
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/04/levandowski-says-uber-m...

Levandowski claims that Uber was fully aware of the circumstances of Levandowski's 2016 departure from Google.... Levandwoski says he cooperated fully, giving investigators access to his email accounts and personal files....

Kalanick wasn't concerned. "Uber eats injunctions for breakfast," he allegedly told Levandowski....

Uber's acquisition terms for Otto included a sweeping indemnification commitment for Otto employees, including Levandowski.... Levandowski says Uber specifically promised to protect Levandowski if he was accused of misappropriation of trade secrets or breach of loyalty to a former employer - two of the key accusations Google later leveled against Levandowski. The indemnification clause said that Uber would pay any expenses arising out of a lawsuit from a former employer, including damages.
I'm not sure you can just say what's "normally understood" that easily. I recently saw a friend -- eg, not a Random Internet Troll -- post something that basically said, people joking about gaining weight during the pandemic are fat-shaming.
I agree with all your points!

One piece that will likely help minimize spammy users and multiple accounts is that at launch, it'll be a one-time purchase app.

I do have uncertainties overall, but I'm doing my best to keep the experience clean and safe. If the experience starts to veer towards being a toxic and uncontrollable mess, I'll be quick to shut it down.

Happy to talk more about this because I do see the abuse vectors, and don't take this lightly.

Edit: on your last paragraph, shadow bans are definitely on the table
How does a town of 35K people raise $300MM in annual tax? $8,500 per capita seems very, very high.
This is very helpful, thank you for sharing!
You're misdefining growth. Growth in no way has to be dependent on physical resources, and in fact isn't.

Growth is just as much about increasing efficiency. If you continue to chop down the same amount of sustainable wood year after year, but figure out how to do it at half the price (e.g. because robots), that's 100% growth.

Indeed, look at the huge growth in the services industry over the past several decades. That's not using up extra land, energy, etc.

Now growth can involve using up more resources, or it can not, or it can be a mix. But the problem you seem to have is with resource consumption, not with economic growth generally.
What are you suggesting? Corporations exist to shield the owners from the company's liabilities to a limited extent.
Made some updates to make it more mobile responsive.

Planning to add tags for several activities people could share with each other.
I was given a laptop and told to put any linux distro on it that I wanted. So I'm pretty sure ;-)
What is the general view on Zoox's progress relative to other non-waymo playes. Such as Argo, Aurora and Cruise. There is the widely reported disengagement per mile, but most robotics people know it is just smoke and mirrors meant to make the regulators go away (disclosure, studied/researched robotics in grad school).
There is a middle ground between a growing city and an abandoned town. I run a very small startup in this space and we work with towns who have a growing population but a shrinking downtown business core. Some people can't afford to live in the big cities, some want a lifestyle that they can't get in the city, some have other reasons, but there's a growing problem in the Midwest of bedroom communities. People move into small cities outside of Madison, Detroit, Indianapolis, etc and don't spend a single minute in the central business district. They don't spend a single dollar in the town they live in.

These people wake up in the morning and drive into the big city for work, which needs huge roads running through otherwise small residential areas. Now those roads are too dangerous to cross, so pedestrian traffic plummets. When the people come home, they get their family together and drive back to the big city to go to a concert, visit a museum, or get dinner. We've talked to so many people who live biking distance to their town's central business district but have never been there. They only live in Ada or Lowell, but they spend all their time and money in Grand Rapids. And Fulton Street isn't a road you'd want to walk across, because of all that traffic.

The way it works: a town was thriving with an engaged population spending time and money in the central business district. One person moves away, and someone else moves into their house. This new person is fleeing the big city, but is still economically tied to the big city (not the small town). Now imagine 20 or 30 houses go for sale in this town every year. After a few years, that's a major hit to the small town's economic prospects. Businesses start to close, which accelerates the problem. And many of the newcomers want to live in subdivisions rather than city limits, so houses in city limits are sitting just as vacant as the businesses, and the town has less tax revenue to fix any of the problems. So it gets worse year over year until the town dries up. The only thing left is the major road, the McDonalds, and the gas station. But the people living in those subdivisons just outside of city limits still need to get to the freeway, so the town has to maintain massive roads used mostly by people who aren't paying them any taxes.

This is the story of hundreds of towns in every Midwestern state, tens of thousands of towns across the country. We're building a network of four lane roads through the ruins of small towns and leaving the city council to pay for infrastructure no one is using anymore, with tax income they don't have anymore, for citizens who don't spend any time or money in those towns.
Scuttlebutt is a neat concept, burdened by a bad protocol. Signing a message involves serializing a json object, signing it, adding the signature as a field on that json object, and then serializing it again. To verify, you deserialize the message into an object, remove the signature field, and then reserialize it, and verify the signature against that new serialization. This means that all the clients have to have a json serialization that 100% matches the node.js serialization that the majority (totality?) of current clients use. Any other implementation (I wrote one in Go) becomes a nightmare of chasing rarer and rarer differences that prevent verification, and if you miss one before you serialize your own message with it, suddenly you've poisoned your own journal...

All in all, it's something to study and learn from, but I strongly recommend not becoming involved unless you are 100% happy with being tied into node.js.
It was a good read, thank you!

I also really appreciated your other post[0]. This is what allowed me to understand that SSB is not really a social network but more a p2p protocol to exchange messages where applications can be built on.

[0] https://adecentralizedworld.com/2020/03/a-decentralized-plat...
I just published Covid-19 Tracking API on RapidAPI. Check it out
>Go find yourself a town of 10,000 people that has a massively over-budge roads and water department.

Maybe, but the city mentioned in the article spends 10% of it's budget on infrastructure. That might be more than it should but it's not bankrupting them anytime soon.
I would seriously reconsider this. They won't come to collect it, they will simply file a police report and the police will show up at your home. Depending on the laptop, where you live, your record, this could end up as a felony, and will certainly hinder your future employment.

I know its tempting and it's likely your only recourse but it won't work out for you in the end.
code less, do more water-cooler time, if you can
I could not and left tech
Zoomer is the name of a generation, not a Zoom trademark:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/words-were-wat...
NYC sends a heck of a lot more to the Federal Treasury than it gets back.
I agree there are ways to organize this that would benefit outside readers, but am guessing the simple, consistent structure probably helped the author get to 5 years of TILs!

It's interesting they chose to alphabetize and start many entries w/ verbs.
Here, in order to expedite this process, i've set up a google form to collect info from anyone interested:

https://forms.gle/ueJrw9A7CNomB3yH6

also, I set up a discord server to help facilitate live chat: https://discord.gg/vmg2HSD
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But if you ever venture outside of the 10+ story apartment building.... Especially if the favela is, like, two doors down. People want to live in a neighborhood that's safe, not just a home enclosure- you're missing the 'neighborhood' concept. A safe neighborhood requires x amount of physical distance from the ghetto that muggers, kidnappers etc. cannot easily surmount. The whole concept of safety means that you can walk outside your front door and not be attacked. A building that's the functional equivalent of a panic room, in the middle of bedlam- people don't want that, you still have to travel to the grocery store, take your kids to school, etc.
There is no incentive to find ways to accomplish more or better other than personal drive then, though (and personal drive eventually wears thin on its own, imho). If you have to work 40 hours, even if you get everything done early (in which case you gotta take the next task from the list, a never ending grind -- when do you get to celebrate a job well done?), even if you're head isn't in it (maybe you're not feeling well, or have something else going on, or are just bored, or have a day of mental block), you gotta get your hours in. Even if you have some very focused productive days and get everything done in record time, you gotta get your hours in.
I'm surprised any seasoned C developer would make this mistake. You haven't been able to assume trivial translation of C code to assembly for decades.

Casting from a 'pointer to type A' to a 'pointer to type B' is unsafe in all but a handful of circumstances.

- B is char or unsigned char.

- A is char or unsigned char, and the pointer was previously cast from a pointer to type B.

- Where A is a struct (or a standard layout[0] class in C++) and B is the first member of that structure.

[0] https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/data_members#Stan...
Yes, as it's still under heavy development and has not yet seen heavy usage.

This mentality that things either flip instantly to mass adoption or are "old" needs to die. All the easy stuff that can be done in 6-12 months has already been done. Anything worth doing today is going to take a minimum of 1-2 years of R&D unless it's nothing more than a packaging and polish/branding of something already in existence.
Sounds like an egregious breach of attorney client privilege if true.
I had no idea! TY!
Yes, but the problem is not when the corporation is small, but when it is large. With increased power, it can reach the levels of a nation-state in affecting people, and it is unchangeable as there is no mechanism, unlike voting, to change its behavior. You may say that the customer is always right and so will choose a different product, but this can only be done with a free market, which does not exist currently, and can only exist with strong governments free of monetary influence, as I said before. Sure, pockets of free market, competitive behavior exist, but for large corporations, they are near oligopolies, and people can't switch to another provider. See healthcare, colleges, ISPs, and so on.

Either way, one should be wary of large organizations, regardless of their type such as governmental or corporate.
You'd be surprised. Maybe not Chicago, but there are a lot of cities with zero grocery stores. It was big news in my Midwestern city when a Meijer went in downtown because people living downtown used to have to drive or take the bus outside of the city to do their grocery shopping.

It's always a big question in my city, "can you live here without a car?" and most of it has historically hinged on grocery shopping.
> If a city is going to go bankrupt, it will be because of pension and healthcare costs and not infrastructure maintenance costs. If all else fails infrastructure can be abandoned but pensions and health plans will be politically untouchable, and in some places they are legally untouchable.

There are two issues here: bankruptcy, which is a crappy legal and financial situation to be in, and which you may or may not avoid, and city decline, which can happen even if you avoid bankruptcy. Leaving swaths of the city to rot is the latter, and does not strike me as necessarily better (and certainly not for the residents of those swaths).

Moreover, the infrastructure problems compound any issues with pensions, since if people leave, it will be harder to have the tax base to fulfill previous obligations. Saying that the last expenditure left standing in a financial Armageddon was the one that “did them in” sounds like an oversimplification.
I use the Unlock Medium.com browser extension for Firefox, I don't like medium much myself but its unfortunately the host of a lot of content that gets posted on HN, so I do recommend that extension, there's probably others like it.
But isn't this file processed differently?
There's no need for debouncing to introduce latency under normal circumstances. React immediately to state changes, and whenever you observe a state change begin temporarily ignoring further state changes for long enough for the bouncing to settle. The only added latency is on the falling edge of extremely short presses (or rising edge of extremely short releases), which in practice doesn't happen because of limited speed of the human hand. But note that latency-adding debouncing methods double as noise filters, which this technique does not, so you might want to add a bit of noise filtering (and associated latency) too.
A switch is a mechanical thing, obviously, that must have two metal plates touching one another fur electricity to flow. It takes time for one metal plate to move from position one to position two.

So, while this switching is generally really fast, there is a period of time when the two metal plates are reeeally close, but not touching.

Small bits of dust, grit and/or oxide on the metal can get in the way while the plates are really close, but not touching, causing electricity to flow, then not flow, then flow...

Arcing can also happen when there's higher voltages used too.

This happens a lot when you're using a push button, and also when you're switching on something that uses lots of current.
You can actually hear the problem if you deliberately turn on your light switch really slow... The buzzing you hear is when electricity is arcing across the plates (wearing them out somewhat). It's not a problem for the light, but it's a huge problem for, say, a large pump.
Extreme weather events of 535–536
That's a fair point and certainly a reasonable reason to mandate hours. Thanks for pointing it out.
> Your dates are off.

I think not.

The Lancet reported on January 24th the Time of Onset of the earliest known patients in Wuhan in a nice graphic [0]. The first case onset in Wuhan is reported as December 1st.

"Chinese epidemiologists with the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention published an article on 20th January 2020 stating that the first cluster of (~40) patients with ‘pneumonia of an unknown cause’ had been identified on 21st December 2019". [1]

Much later, just in the last few weeks, new reports have come out trying to trace earlier possible cases of COVID. Here is one such case dating back to November 17th, in Hubei [2]. This was not known in December or January.

There is a pre-print available as of April 8th claiming to have found an earlier case through genome tracing dating as early as mid-September in Guangdong, a southern coastal province in China. [3]

> SARS-2 was circulating outside China in SE Asia before Dec. 15.

Citation needed.

My other dates are straight from the National Review, and I believe they are accurate.

The first known case in the US was discovered on January 21st.

Here is WHO writing on January 5, 2020 [4];

"On 31 December 2019, the WHO China Country Office was informed of cases of pneumonia of unknown etiology (unknown cause) detected in Wuhan City, Hubei Province of China. As of 3 January 2020, a total of 44 patients with pneumonia of unknown etiology have been reported to WHO by the national authorities in China. Of the 44 cases reported, 11 are severely ill, while the remaining 33 patients are in stable condition. According to media reports, the concerned market in Wuhan was closed on 1 January 2020 for environmental sanitation and disinfection."

I claimed that there was nothing that could have been done by the US in the December time frame, and I believe that is self-evident from the timeline. Looking at that statement from the WHO on January 5th, there is nothing in that which could possibly motivate a national quarantine response at that time. Not even in China, but certainly not in the US.

[0] - https://els-jbs-prod-cdn.jbs.elsevierhealth.com/cms/attachme...

Full Text:

(https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...)

[1] - https://bfpg.co.uk/2020/04/covid-19-timeline/

[2] - https://www.livescience.com/first-case-coronavirus-found.htm...

[3] - https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/04/07/2004999117

[4] - https://www.who.int/csr/don/05-january-2020-pneumonia-of-unk...
Contamination at CDC lab delayed rollout of coronavirus tests
This comment makes it sound like Go and Python are pretty much in the same class because neither is perfect. I invite anyone who thinks this way to write considerable (shared-memory) parallel code in both languages and see which they prefer.

As for Go's "set of problems with parallelism", they're pretty much just that sharing memory is hard to do correctly without giving up performance. No languages do this well; Rust and Haskell make it appear easier by making single-threaded code more difficult to write--requiring you to adhere to invariants like functional purity or borrowing. If you're writing Python, you very likely have values that are incompatible with these invariants (you want to onboard new developers quickly and you want your developers to write code quickly and you're willing to trade off on correctness to do so).

Go is absolutely best-in-class if you have typical Python values.
Correct. They were the majority then (social attitudes were the majority then at least) and they aren't now. But the government changed along with those interests, because there was a mechanism for it to change, through voting. Again, a government can't please everyone.
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If "during interviews" was meant to cover any form of questioning then the sentence is obviously and improperly redundant.

>barred from answering questions on the subject during interviews.

vs

>barred from answering questions on the subject when asked questions on the subject.

vs

>barred from answering questions on the subject.

It's a limiting modifier phrase, so the default is to assume it was meant to modify the meaning.
I don’t know why you’d write a snarky comment. You’re confirming what I said: the virus is still spreading in Korea.
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20811936, a related project from 2019.
Interesting that Cyprus is in South Asia according to the 2017 map.
Clearly, the hand-painted clusters are not super insightful or thoughtful.
Not that SSD vendors are much better... see other comments in this post.
Right, but at least anecdotally, all of the first ~20 or so cases where I am were linked to people flying home from Italy.
Seattle also has very, very mild weather. go look at the Midwest. Chicago, Minneapolis, Cleveland, etc. places that have hard freezes, frost heaves, and road salt. when I lived in WI, they had crews to fill potholes with 'hot patch' and after a few years, it's more patch' than concrete