skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My Friends Don’t Work in a Coworking Space
The first page of their blog says it's "the solution for busy people to sync calendars over sms"
What non-menial task has this situation stolen from you that is also more important than solving the current medical crisis?
Norway's number of positive tests was 5% at the current peak of the epidemic, for reference. Testing and isolation measures have been very effective here, so we have not had an overwhelming wave of infections (yet, knock on wood).
> Europe continues to be the most favourable continent for media freedom, despite oppressive policies in certain European Union and Balkan countries. [...] It is followed by the Americas – North, Central and South – even if the regional heavyweights, the United States and Brazil, are becoming models of hostility towards the media. [0]

Big oof. Just when we need the media the most.

This is honestly quite devastating for a country built on the freedom of the press.

At least we've still got access to European news in the US. And Canadian news (16th), which is at least regional and has a strong focus on the US (45th). The US of course sits squarely between the Organization of East Caribbean States and Papua New Guinea. [1]

> Press freedom in the United States continued to suffer during President Donald Trump’s third year in office. Arrests, physical assaults, public denigration and the harassment of journalists continued in 2019, though the numbers of journalists arrested and assaulted were slightly lower than the year prior.

> Much of that ire has come from President Trump and his associates in the federal government, who have demonstrated the United States is no longer a champion of press freedom at home or abroad. [2]

Spicy.

[0] https://rsf.org/en/2020-world-press-freedom-index-entering-d...

[1] https://rsf.org/en/ranking

[2] https://rsf.org/en/united-states
from the summary:

> From the field test, we are confident that TLS 1.3 provides us a better streaming experience.

so they actually measured an improvement in performance metrics.
It's incredible. I just wish pricing came down a bit; I am happy to pay a premium for the form factor but this is too much.
"Everything has been hit. I never in my life thought I'd see a black swan," Pichinson said. "This is a black swan."

He must be pretty young if he can't remember 9/11.
Would they prefer the government to pay salaries of employees whose employers make losses and aren't going to be viable after crisis is over?

If you want to complain about something, you should first (and only) complain about the government itself. It has always spent other people's hard-earned monies, it hasn't cut taxes or laid off tens of thousands of now idle employees and while the burden of maintaining the government is falling on an ever smaller number of profit-making enterprises the government is increasing its spending (and everyone's amount of public debt) without asking for anyone's approval or permission.
Booking may ask for whatever they want. That doesn't mean the government should do it.
> Now is the perfect time to pass all the inconvenient laws, because even if people march out on the streets, you can easily arrest them. And other, non-protesting part of the country will cheer you for it. At least until the other part wants to protest too and realizes it affects them as well.

The governor of VA did exactly that.

He got hit with a massive protest back in January(?) when it looked like he was gonna sign some gun related legislation. He signed a nearly identical bill recently while everyone was busy talking about Covid. Regardless of how you feel about the legislation I think it's a slimy move. I assume other state governors are doing the same things and just haven't heard about them yet.
Agreed, often it's less about the person you are interacting with but about those reading your conversation.
Sometimes investigations can be continued from other countries where silencing journalists is less feasible.

Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daphne_Project
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China’s incompetent response was at worse as bad as, say, the US, UK or the EU’s incompetent response at least a few months later when the scale and dangers of this virus were far more evident.

Heck, in the US the President is still engaging in the kind of denialism and lies that we are calling China incompetent for because they engaged in it in the very beginning of the crisis, where the impact was not clear at all.
deciding your hypothesis after collecting data ?

edit: i think we agree, misunderstanding
May have been? Quick it with the pandemic porn.
> corporate management is the default union

Such a great way of saying it. Also the quote from the original comment:

> "We agree with the overwhelming majority of our Team Members that a direct relationship" [lengthy justification] "is best."

With 'direct relationship', they mean: unmoderated control over employees through corporate management
Similarly, "sandwich with cheese" is probably going to return more relevant results than "sandwich without scorpions"
Ask HN: macOS Catalina for Development Use?
I'm currently still on macOS Mojave, wanting to upgrade for better memory allocation. Is Catalina stable enough to use day to day for development?

EDIT: On memory allocation: somehow in an update Mojave just wrecks the RAM usage and aggressively swaps stuff. I'm down to two/three windows of Chrome (with ~10 tabs each) and a VSCode window. Memory usage is under 4GB Wired + Active, but the OS still prefers to swap (I have 8GB of RAM). Especially after > 1 day of uptime. I'm not sure what's happening.

This screenshot[0] is at what I now consider "worst" scenario, 5 Chrome windows, multiple slack instances in tabs, Miro boards with a lot of objects, 2 VScode windows, 2 node servers. It's clear that the ram is still enough the the OS still swaps. Really bums me.

[0]: https://i.imgur.com/y79t4ps.png
Yes, the problem started when humans decided to domesticate animals during the agricultural revolution. Since then all farm animals exist because we bring them into existence for our convenience.

All sentient beings should have at least one right: the right not to be treated as property.

If we took animals seriously, we would stop treating them as our resources, as our property. But that would mean an end to bringing nonhumans into existence so that we can use them for food, clothing, vivisection, or any other purpose.

It's been scientifically proven that we don't need animal products to be healthy, so humans are basically exploiting animals for no better reason than palate pleasure. And to top it off animal agriculture is having a horrific impact on the environment.

We can live without participating in the exploitation of the vulnerable.

We can live without destroying the environment.

We can live in a way that guarantees a more healthy life.
surveillance is an expertise of epidemiologists though.
"CDC’s failed coronavirus tests were tainted with coronavirus, feds confirm"

So there's that too. Time to go back outside.
It took several hours of individual research, watching talks, reading blog posts; and took several pair-programming sessions of several hours over the span of four weeks to come up with a solution we liked.

We informed our client that this was a new area for us and that we didn't have hands-on experience with, but that we believed it would be beneficial to spend time to explore it, as it would be an elegant solution to several of their business problems. They agreed and we kept them in the loop with weekly meetings.

We're now in the phase of actually implementing real-life processes, the project will probably be in active development for another year or two.
Studies suggest most people may have unknowingly had coronavirus
The US, today, has a whole horde of influential people (including the President, probably) who are attacking Dr Fauci.

At a time where the virus and its lethality is undeniable, and Fauci isn’t even just a random doctor, but probably one of the most decorated doctor in the past few decades.
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Your comment shouldn't be downvoted. It is a bad example to use in NLP talks just because of what you said.
Where are you driving to right now though?

Would expect them to recover better than most other companies, but would be interested to see how they're actually weathering this.
This is very cool.

One suggestion - I highly recommend you mention that you're leveraging nextjs. There is a certain buy-in that nextjs has that would be hard elsewhere.

In fact I would say that I would totally pay an annual subscription for this (even on "starter marketplaces" like themeforest).
It was an “I’m ronery” gif. It claimed it was spam but ... really?
That's a performance comparison against TLS 1.2. It doesn't speak to why they're concerned about authentication+confidentiality+integrity for audio-video streams in the first place.
I have 11 days of on site storage - approx 300 gallons.

It’s diesel, I add stabil and polish it annually. Injectors for my 4 cylinder generator are $350/ea. Can’t fuck around
To be blunt: My personal tailor’s first response should be to do what I asked.

They can certainly also bring some stock to shift, or offer suggestions while I’m trying something on, but if they aren’t listening when I make a direct request or when I clearly say no, then they aren’t really there for me, their customer.
Being good at social media is not worth much by itself. What is the actual goal? Selling something?
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The virus would have shut them down anyway if they had stayed open and their employees and customers became ill. The bad decision making here is the lack of foresight to keep cash on hand to weather a storm like this, despite making record profits in the billions. We are all told if we don’t keep 6 months of cash on hand we are financially negligent. Large companies were begging for money within two weeks of shutdowns happening, after spending so much of their cash on stock buybacks to pump up stock prices.
You know what else is interesting? Their "no sales" sales philosophy. For me its the reason never to buy it. I actually revolt when I hear their reasons. I feel like it comes down to: we are willing to hurt our options for making more profit to prevent people with lesser budgets from buying it. But its very interesting since a lot of people have the opposite reaction. They feel it is more valuable if it doesn't go on sale and they can support the developer by paying a 'fair' price.
> How about the C1s? I've been happily paying $3/mo for a C1 instance to host my personal stuff since

Same here. My impression is that C1 is so dead that nobody in the company remembered to announce discontinuation :( Seriously, check the kernel maintenance if you don't understand what I mean.
Minnesota Public Radio reaches similar conclusions
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/04/20/behind-calls-to-reo...
Indeed, skip the plots and go for the list: https://rsf.org/en/ranking
Don't submit this crap here.
I don’t see how that is relevant.

B>A does not imply A=0
It takes a certain discipline to do that. Not everyone has that discipline, and not everyone cares about being the '10x engineer'. Especially not when they work a 9-5 job which pays the same regardless of being a 1x or 10x.

I have been working for my own businesses for about 8 years now. I learned to value my time, so any improvement in efficiency is welcome. But sometimes you just need to get the job done and not invest time upfront in improving a process. It's always a trade-off in time.
The actual rankings are here:

https://rsf.org/en/ranking

It will be interesting to see how the rankings change next year. In my country, ranked 9th, non-daily publications were banned from operating during lockdown. I expect we will drop a few places.
If we're both in public, we're both accepting a level of risk. Your decision to accept that level of risk is not an infringement by another person.
Some U.S. citizens won’t get coronavirus stimulus checks if spouse is immigrant
Google interns get paid a pretty decent amount (about as much as I was working as a full-time systems analyst for my city government, apparently). Unless they can find a vuln like that a month, they were probably paid better by Google.
Stripes seem to hold an irresistible attraction for impostor “AI”.
Yeah, no shit. Increase in tyranny too if we keep taking this.
The ranking is methodologically problematic in its being relative. If press freedom is curtailed in many countries around the world, their rankings may barely drop - since others "dropped" as well, and since most countries may be above or below them both before and after the change. Same thing for improvement in press freedom.
I am curious why would I care about what do they do with their streams as long as I get adequate playback quality.
Which is why I said "premium laptop". I don't expect lower end laptops to include it regardless of the cost of the controller itself. There's far more than the $9 involved: greater PCB complexity, additional ICs, extra connectors, etc.

But a premium line like HP's Z-series includes TB even in the lowest config (i5-8400, UHD 630 iGPU) starting at ~$3500. I'm reasonably certain that going with AMD CPUs would actually lower the BOM despite the extra $9 TB controller. Intel CPUs are not cheap.
No. I wouldn't use any popular social media if I could. It's for promotion of a project.

To expand on the problem, I have only once or twice susbcribed to an email listing. I consider all the other spam, irrelevant and Will never check them unless forced (some sites do even when you pay them) and other missed to opt out. I don't like seeing people spamming follow me or subscribe to me everywhere either. I know the functionality is there and I would if I want to. I don't care about most of what brands post? I don't want to see a corporate puppy in my feed. I don't want to know that you have a discount running and retweeting this will give a hypothetical chance of winning a giveaway if I have no need for the product. I don't consider businesses intrusive tracking and analytics everywhere ethical. I don't want to participate in signalling that businesses do. Most businesses need to make money and pretending they care more beyond is ughh. Most social media UX sucks. It's unintuitive to use and horrible (see twitter). I have the google paradox, if you can easily find it on google why do I need to share it to you? This is wrong pattern of thinking but this does make me tired mentally when posting something.

Obviously, the problem is entirely me

I keep trying but deep down, I don't even want to support the platform by engaging on them.

It just feels bad to have an ulterior motive behind posting a cute puppy pic.
You most likely did, but not explicitly. You just used a lib that used a channel.
Thanks! That would work easily with GraphCMS!
What's the end goal for which you feel you need to get good at social media?

The thing to consider about "social media" is it's a term that's taken out of the pages of 1984, like the Ministry of Peace. It's social in the way that social experiments or popularity contests are "social", not as in hanging out with friends and feeling good.

There are many, many people whose entire job is to get good at jumping through these hoops, and even then most of them fail.
So the best thing you can do for yourself is decide you're not a monkey or a lab rat.

I'm guessing you have in mind something you'd like to promote, even if it's just yourself and your thoughts. And I second the suggestion to build a tiny audience at first. Even if it's just 5 people who absolutely love what you do - that's a start.

The way to get these people is to step out of dystopia-land and recall how it works in real life, and mimicking that in whatever social network you feel is most relevant to your objectives. For me, that social network is LinkedIn. [I left any others I was on.]

I've written an entire detailed article on how to take this approach, which is different to the traditional "gain a following", but ends up building actual relationships. You might find stuff in it relevant to your needs.

https://medium.com/skill-strong/how-to-network-on-linkedin-w...
Windows has plenty of developer community to keep the 80% market share customers happy with applications and games.
At least they have an asset they can use to survive and make those payments.
Mac vim(1) still requires Python-2. I'm not holding my breath.
I help run a small all-volunteer non-profit that advocates for trail access for mountain bikes (CRAMBA - https://cramba.org), along with trail maintenance, design, building, etc. I've found the best way to get a good response on social media for promoting our topics is to have them be relevant to the audience.

Literally, posts and things that are stuff people are interested in (new trails, COVID-19 closure info, trail conditions, asking what they did on the trails this past weekend) get very good engagement and they get info out there. Stuff that's only peripherally related trying to gain likes and followers and whatnot just seem... meh.

So, the short answer to what works for us? Not trying to game things and providing actual, nice content. It also keeps our audience very focused.
Show HN: Revento - Online Conferences for Developers and Tech People
The "uncanny valley" aspect is something I have experienced, but the big thing for me is the accumulation of three types of events.

(1) People trying to talk at the same time and taking several seconds to sort out who goes first.

(2) Glitches when everything freezes or even gets kicked out and brought back in, taking even longer to resolve.

(3) Wanting to say something and having to wait ages as people with less lag (I'm on the opposite side of the continent from everyone else) keep jumping in without a break.

Each instance of these raises my annoyance level. Dozens upon dozens of them even in a half-hour meeting can leave me totally exhausted from trying to tamp down the anger. By contrast, doing a 1:1 over VC isn't nearly so bad. Maybe an occasional bad moment, but not enough for fatigue to set in. I highly recommend that everyone do that comparison for themselves. The problems tend to increase more than linearly with number of participants, until there are enough that everyone accepts the need for strong moderation and two out of the three issues drop back to near zero.
You could have said the same about modules. Generics are clearly on the roadmap even if they are taking their sweet time about it.
When opening metroeastsun.com one is greeted with the following:

>Help us continue our fight against cronyism, corruption and profligate government borrowing & spending.

Well okay then.

2 things stood out for me which raised questions as a non-American.

1) The quality of the site - are the websites of local US papers usually this decently made? Even if it's just a random WP theme. I was under the impression that they were still perpetually 10 years behind the curve. See https://www.fredericknewspost.com/ for example.

2) The real estate section looks fishy as all hell. Why would they include something like that?
Luckily we've got the central limit theorem on our side, since we've got 180-ish entries, it's going to approximate a standard normal distribution.
Yes, but I don't think we're there yet.

Even if we assume this bill was passed entirely as an attempt to curry favor with voters, it should be clear that such an attempt would be doomed if it tried to favor big companies while claiming to be aimed at little ones.

Congresspeople try hard to avoid obvious lies, especially about things all voters care about, and most especially during an election year.
I'm German and I know of no Germans who where confused by their branding.
ADHD, but no.

First, the audio processing takes a lot of my attention. This obviously depends on the call quality.

Second, RSD and feeling watched all the time. IRL, people are looking at the speaker, so I can scratch my nose in peace.

Third, after all those years of having ADHD, I've adapted to IRL meetings. Given enough time, I'll probably adapt to video calls as well.
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That's called sidetone. You really don't want your computer's sound system to generate that for you because the latency is even more distracting than not having it. It's much better to have it done in hardware, either by having the sound hardware direct mic input directly to the headset or with a headset that has it built in.
It was also called blat in Eastern Europe [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blat_(favors)
The parent had 6969 total votes before.
Like Apple when it was transitioning from Aqua into more Metallic look, followed by Skeuomorphism and now everything should be Dark?
"Sounds of the Bodleian" sounds like a Dr Who episode
I used Anki extensively a few years ago when studying a new language at uni and it helped me a lot, but I just installed it again and not much has changed. It was clunky then and its flaws are showing even more now. Correct me if I’m wrong here, but even something as simple as loading an image from a URL, even though it uses a webview for the cards anyway, simply doesn’t work. Why not take advantage of the web technologies it’s using?

Also, the web client is very bare-bones, unfortunately.
I liked the name “Zeit” much better, but this is still exciting.
30 year vegetarian here, not vegan, but I definitely look askance at all the massively processed fake meats. I'll happily eat seitan, but I make my own out of maybe 6 ingredients.

I don't know too many vegetarians who eat them with any regularity...to me, they're more to transition meat-eaters to vegetarianism than anything else. Or maybe something for me to bring to a BBQ so I can not stand out like a sore thumb AGAIN.
The same regardless of CPU so I considered it irrelevant for the comparison. The difference between an OEM building Intel or AMD based systems is in the fact that the TB controller comes for free with Intel chipsets. The extra PCB complexity, ICs, and connectors are still the OEM's burden.
Hey HN, me and my friend have put together a simple website to find and filter online events for developers and tech people. Any feedback is welcome, and feel free to add your own events!
Fast to create but a long term drain on resources, bugs roll in, libraries need security updates, need to keep people around with the skill sets for all those platforms.
“Dupe” flag makes me think of the article being a dupe or falsified rather than a duplicate. Maybe the moderators here should use a different word.
If it was just about throwing around numbers, you can compare it to 480,000 tobacco deaths per year [0] in the US.

Of course it’s about taking calculated risks everywhere.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/fast...
Well that was totally wrong.

should be: This chapter will not be covering any Scala-specific
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