skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I came here with only high school, and I got in when my visitor visa explored via skill shortage path. I had 2 years of experience at the time.

This was a over a decade ago though.

Not on SV wages, but comfortable enough to be a single income household, supporting family of 4 with home almost paid off (140k USD p.a).
I could consider the primary advantage of a "top" university to be its network and the access it gives you to jobs. Namely, companies that do new grad hiring have a specific list of colleges that they target and will source and review resumes from. Not to say that people from other colleges can't get in, but that you'd have to apply directly and have something standout to get the recruiter to even consider you.
Could the biggest difference between Alphabet & Amazon come down to if the actual founder is still commanding the army? Bezos is probably a god within Amazon this could be a serious competitive advantage. I believe Zuckerberg and Musk also enjoy the force of good they have created themselves. I don't really understand why you would quit in such a position.
Does this actually work?

Usually when this happens to me I write off the service and never interact with them again unless I absolutely have to. If I have a gun to my head I’ll make peace with it but otherwise I’m not going to talk to your sales rep to try your product. Period.

I had this happen with loggly when we first started out and the first sales rep was pleasant enough. I even felt like I got a deal because he customized a plan and was working with us to help our little company succeed. Nice work!

Time passed and they changed who our rep was 3x in one year. Each time it happened they wanted to have a 30 minute call to “get to know me”. I did that twice then told them to get lost and cancelled my contract. Get the notes from the previous sales rep!

I hope that the economics studying folks account for lost sales while trying to maximize their profits because I bet they lose a lot of business this way.
Development of CRISPR as a prophylactic strategy to combat novel coronavirus
this is really creepy. All these data being collected, analyzed and sold to third parties ...
Weird question for you: how much of ripgrep's awesomeness is you/product focus vs. the power of rust?

To put it another way, do you think you could've written ripgrep in another language? In C? In C++? In Go?
A policy that encourages gaslighting.
Right, but I'm saying my setup is no different from the 'fraudsters' you describe, yet I have a seamless shopping experience online.

If I'm able to shop online without issues, why does everyone else 'need' an evercookie?

I'm sure it's helpful, it's the idea that it's necessary is what I take issue with.
> Political parties were banned - and still are - because they were deemed to have caused divisions between people.

What an excellent idea.
Drum banging time: another good use for the UTF8 BOM.
ah yes, this is exactly the same reason why "#nofilter" has bothered me: there's always a filter between raw pixel intensities and what is actually captured / displayed as a photo. and that's completely ignoring things like white balance and HDR...

agreed on the appeal of seeing celestial bodies "as if we were actually there"
How is this any different than loss prevention watching you walk around in a store on cctv and taking note in a notebook if you look suspicious?

Do people routinely avoid all B&M retail stores?
I used to work for a company that transferred a huge amount of money from tenants to landlords. Fraud is a really big deal in that domain, and we were really excited to update our credit card entry forms to use the newer Stripe Elements forms that include this user behavior tracking, to feed into Stripe radar and in turn use Radar’s api to feed the fraud likelihood data in to our own fraud detection platform. This agent behavior tracking is proudly highlighted in Stripe’s documentation as the feature that it is - they’re not being sneaky about this in any way and this feature is incredibly useful to help companies stop fraudsters from doing serious financial harm. In other words, this is not news. If you could somehow prove that Stripe is selling this data, THAT would be a huge story. But as far as we know their explicit claims that they do not is true. Thanks for your awesome anti-fraud features, Stripe - they helped us help people to pay and accept rent safely.
Flash storage is lacking the longevity of HDDs though. They were certainly not suitable for archival the last time I checked.
It sounds like a good idea to be implemented by a technical user, and a solution looking for a problem to every other kind of user. I thought dependency hell was bad but this sounds like a further circle of such hell. I like that I can tell a user to just update their browser and OS and be confident that most users will handle the operation thereof. I know how to tell a non-technical user how to update their web browser in words they can understand. I’m going to have to write a new script for how to explain the scope of the limitations of using a web browser as a compiled application versus the proposed modular architecture just so they can tell me they don’t want or need that.

Choice matters. Sometimes you have to make a choice on behalf of your users. I think that’s what the industry as a whole has done here. Nothing is preventing people from rolling their own modular web browser. Maybe things like Beaker Browser and TOR Browser are versions of that same idea but approached from a specific use case.

Thanks for this comment. I think your idea is good but not for the same reasons that a web browser suite is a good idea for most non-technical users.

https://beakerbrowser.com
> It leads to so much vendor lock-in

Only if your chosen vendor designed for that lock-in. Google Cloud Run is serverless that just runs whatever container serving HTTP you throw at it, no "lambda functions" needed.
In the demo, I used the trackpad on my Macbook Pro. However, if you want to write, I think you may need a stylus.
That said, I don't think recognizing in late March that this virus spreads faster and is harder to control than previous similar ones was much of a leap of insight, and the article does seem a little too self-congratulatory over that.

He made it amply clear to me that it wasn't much of a leap of insight, and the point of his original essay was to create proof that he knew that at the time.

The fact that taking the action that he did resulted in a group of people who put together a compelling enough argument with good enough connections to get the New York Times to write about it DOES seem like it is worthwhile.

As it turned out, having the New York Times asking whether the emperor had clothes caused lots of people in Japan to ask the right question which in turn caused the government to switch courses. The fact that this happened again underscores the point that, on publicly available data at that time, it didn't take an amazing leap of insight to understand that the Japanese story didn't add up.
The Dance of the Porcupines
> where > 90% of the class failed.

I can't imagine this happening in a college class where the instructor get to keep his class next year.
Is BoringSSL affected?
Yeah nobody should be embedding this verbatim to process payments that will fail any pci audit.
Genuine question: a lab tech in the US handling contegious virus samples for analysis costs only 30 bucks an hour? whats the salary of such a lab tech?
Wearing masks in public required starting April 22 in 4 SF Bay Area counties
Generic supermarkets in the US often have widely varying product quality in the same store. For instance, you can buy various types of "parmesan", US made or ersatz or Kraft or whatever, probably some of it's sawdust, but every place I've been to also has genuine and expensive parmigiano reggiano, as well as US made parmesan that's aged and relatively good quality.

Even specific brands will have different prices and quality, like for example the deli/produce section often has products sold by irregular weight that are better than the standardized packages elsewhere in the store.
> I'm not sure I've ever had conversation where university rankings came up outside of specifically talking about where a high school student is thinking about applying.

Most high school students/parents/guidance counselors/etc check the rankings, reputation, average salary of graduates, etc. It even extends to majors and rankings within majors - which might matter more.

> Even then it's not like it's common for people to pick which school to go to out of the ones that accepted them based solely on rankings.

Who said solely? Of course there are many other factors ( location, tuition, scholarships, etc ). But rankings/reputation/etc are a big part of a high schooler's college decision.
I can definitely see that a Roomba would be handy if I otherwise had to vacuum living areas every day or two. (And, under the circumstances of children or pets, I'd probably need to avoid having "packing piles" and wires laying around in any case.)
This is great. Definitely the most thoughtful of these kinds of plugins. I downloaded it and my afternoon was more productive for it.

I think that it forces me to take a moment to stop and answer the question, "Do you really want to spend time on this?" before continuing is going to be quite powerful.

Thanks!
Netflix is already testing AV1 in production. If you enable test participation you may receive AV1 streams right now. Youtube is also now sending AV1 streams, including to newer smart TVs.
+ 10.12+
+ AppKit

Suggestions:
- screenshots are too small and on 10.14 video preview is missing
- touchbar support
- as someone suggested, if you demo sidecar + pencil you will get featured if your app is translated to 5-6 languages
25,000 Passwords Leaked in Plaintext from CDC, WHO, NIH, Gates Foundation
That would make sense of the "all OK" -> "suddenly just about dead" transition. And it wouldn't need to lower O2 absorption by much to get this effect because if CO2 is being expelled normally, the body won't engage its normal can't-breathe responses so the O2 level drops virtually unchecked.

I've read about successful treatment just with hyperbaric oxygen which would also make sense here.
Nit: I dampen a towel for use with envelopes and stamps. Who wants to lick that stuff?
Dual-Functional Plasmonic Photothermal Biosensors for SARS-CoV-2 Detection
So I've been interested in learning prolog ever since I found out it was a language used for AI. I am wondering if it is worth picking up now?

Does it change the way one things about interacting with a computer or a problem?

Is it something that will soon grow?
U.S. State college, a fairly well respected one, happening now. Chemical Engineering. They have no idea how to operate "online/remote". And that matters for classes like Fluid Dynamics, Organic Chem, Differential Analysis, etc. Is there some realistic path for me to escalate?
Why we listen to new music
> The fact that the stripe.js payload is sent in ~cleartext is either a sign that their eng team was unwilling to roll their own encryption, didn't feel it was necessary

It is indeed not necessary when you can just use HTTPS.
and never cross the streams
Yet it says [1]:

> Arrays and the elements of arrays are also immutable

I guess the docs need a bit of rewording. Forcing a deep-copy on variable assignment does not mean the variable itself is immutable.

[1] https://chaos-lang.org/docs/07_immutability
John Clarke: The pandemic and global solidarity
Jack Tar
What did you write it in, out of curiosity? Obj-C and Carbon?
The Case Against a Basic Income (2017)
I'm actually not talking about how to change the politics, but rather the technical aspect of so.

I have no idea how to change the politics of hiring more, I can only hope if I was to ever start a company that I can try to make my own firm so.
This looks great and will come in very useful when presenting visual concepts (keep the audience focused).

One suggestion for future improvement would be auto shape snapping. I assume most will use this with a mouse which can result in squiggly, unsightly lines. A number of iOS note taking apps detect a similar shape and snap to straight lines or perfect circles. Hope that helps and thanks for the app.
Leopold and Loeb
Surveys suggesting vast undercount of coronavirus infections may be unreliable
OpenSSL actually did a breaking API change as recent as 1.1.1e (reverted in 1.1.1f to be fair):

https://bugs.python.org/issue40018

And broke the ABI in 1.0.2g:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1313509

I don't mean to bash on OpenSSL here and agree they generally do an exceptional job at keeping the public interface stable. Just offering some context. These things are difficult.
Yes, which is sufficient. You can call your contacts on skype and then just show them your dick after they pick up... This is neither a Duo problem nor a common complaint (except for in regards to ChatRoulette, where it's also the USP).
Fair enough, but this specific collection of data has not been clearly disclosed by Stripe (until now?).
The setup I did was to just install Xubuntu, then:

apt install cinnamon

Once installed, I logged out, and then picked Cinnamon from the session selection menu (the little gear near the upper right corner). It comes right up, though it won't pick up your preferences from XFCE.

I hadn't realized there was now a Cinnamon spin - is that still in testing? It's not on Ubuntu's list of flavors.
Not commercial real estate. Probably not public transportation. If someone could get self sanitizing door handles to catch on, that would be great.

ButcherBox style businesses may get a lot of traction.

Local business variant of Shopify+Stripe to put DoorDash, UberEats, ChowNow and the like out of business. Possibly a co-op ownership model.

Autonomous delivery services will happen faster and be well received.

Thoughts, nothing more.
Note that most of the initial tests required a nasopharyngeal swab which has to go back into your nose several inches. I'm not surprised that the FDA doubts that people would be able to do that reliably on their own given that even trained people seem to get it wrong a lot (1).

The LabCorp test uses a swab that doesn't go anywhere near as deep (2). For a test kit to be widely distributed, you need to have it be drop dead simple to run perfectly.

Given all this, I'm not sure we should jump to corruption as the reason this is the first at-home test.

1.) https://slate.com/technology/2020/04/coronavirus-testing-fal...

2.) https://www.fiercebiotech.com/medtech/labcorp-s-at-home-coro...
The Relative Weirdness of Birds
It powers the Guix OS, and since its all Guile if you're a fan of lisp it's pretty good.
The crash of the global flower trade
You need to choose your contacts better if you are genuinely concerned by this. They can already call you (and then, presumably, you'll just pick up) and then show you their dick.
Literally nobody is arguing that there ought to be no immigration laws at all. But obviously we can treat the families of natural born citizens better without completely letting the whole system fall to anarchy.
Complex Number Representations
https://archive.md/0inYa
That's what they said when they introduced Hangouts.
> They had it since the beginning

Yes, they have. Read what I said again, I don't dispute this. What Google does now is an improvement over text matchers. I never claimed that what they do now is better than Google circa 2000 (though I don't care to register an opinion either way on that).

Whatever they've done since, their product remains better than text matchers. Mercantile search is better than terrible search.
On the other side of this all I see is that there are very powerful entities that do not want to be constrained. Blood was shed for the rule of law. I don't want to return to feudalism
Three Colors: Blue
People always weign in the decision that they make, because they tend to always think of the possible outcome that will take place the moment they make a choice. This is really an interesting study, I have enjoyed reading it and have managed to get powerful insights.
No horse in this race, but isn't "serverless" via containers on AWS done with Fargate?
Bill Gates on biggest global threat in Reddit AMA (2019)
> The proper use of large-scale meeting products is in corporate or paid environments where you have some kind of guarantee that your chats aren't being recorded or sold.

In banking/financial services, we want guarantees that all chats are being recorded. In lots of other regulated and government fields too.
If it doesn't print the "running with" line, it's running with the same version it was built with:

https://hg.nginx.org/nginx/file/stable-1.18/src/core/nginx.c...
Alastair Morgan talks to Anthony Burgess (1983)
Does it have to be public domain? Maybe you could get in touch with adult entertainment organizations, explain your project, and ask for the data.

Beware a Tres Comas bottle on the delete key.
Patreon lays off 13% of workforce
Wgpu-rs on the web
Raid-6+ (16, 60, 100, etc), Raid-z2+ (raid-z1 being the equiv of raid-5), Ceph, etc
From https://www.almaobservatory.org/en/press-release/alma-reveal...:

"the concentration of CO is higher than anyone has detected in any comet within 2 astronomical units (au) from the Sun,”suggesting that “the comet must have formed from material very rich in CO ice, which is only present at the lowest temperatures found in space, below -420 degrees Fahrenheit (-250 degrees Celsius). [...] If the gases we observed reflect the composition of 2I/Borisov’s birthplace, then it shows that it may have formed in a different way than our own solar system comets, in an extremely cold, outer region of a distant planetary system."
Most people think it is actually the state motto, when it fact it's "Friendship".
Of course it works, otherwise they wouldn’t continue using it.

It’s a simple way to extract the most value from a customer, as well as filter out customers they don’t deem viable for their business.
Gates Foundation, NIH, WHO Emails Hacked and Posted Online
eBay had issues with i18n and entered Japan 28 days after Yahoo auctions.

Oops!
Dvořák in Iowa
267M Facebook profiles sold for $600 on the dark web
Mark Twain in the time of cholera
It's not super fun per se but Stripe is an important infrastructure service and scrutiny comes with the territory. I'm always happy to answer questions.
FPGA Design for Software Engineers, part 3
I wrote it in Swift 5.1 and used Carbon APIs for some features.
I think there’s another part in that they hope to know more about your health than you do. In fact it seems like the entire private healthcare system is designed to have more information on patients, caregivers, pharmacists and so on than the patients know about themselves. All of this is so they can write policies that make them the most money for the company while shortchanging your health outcomes and your health care providers. Why else would cost of hypothetical future potentially-avoidable preventive care be a worry to a health insurance company? One would think that such predictable expenses are one of the only sure things in the health care system.

They know what most people implicitly know but effectively deny indirectly via ignorant inaction: what you don’t know, can hurt you. The insurance companies also know this.
PWA should be the future for apps that don't need much permissions. Why we need individual Chromium for just chat app?
This website contains contains links to lot of these textbooks - https://mirtitles.org
I think the math problem could help, but you also need to ask yourself if you're just going to keep bypassing it anyway.. in which case software is unlikely to help much.

For you I would recommend the book: The Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal. (audiobook is also well narrated)

It's well written and full of great methods for gaining your self control back.
Once I read the "because we say so" part, I was convinced it wasn't legitimate. Also, the paragraph below that is quintessential mumbo-jumbo.
I'm not nearly as certain as you seem to be, about any of the claims you make here.

I remember the debate about creating "Homeland Security". (Starting with the neo-Nazi name...) No one with any management experience, including Bush the Lesser, thought it was a good idea. Organizations that have lost their way due to bureaucratic bullshit are not made more effective by more layers of bureaucratic bullshit. Congress was convinced, however, and W's handlers didn't want to "waste" political capital preventing an obvious disaster. Before this debacle, FEMA had been an effective organization (that incidentally had nothing to do with "security"), largely due to its relative independence from the rest of the executive branch. After this debacle, Hurricane Katrina happened. Everybody agreed to blame the hapless "heck of a job" guy because they hoped we stupid voters would forget when they torpedoed the agency two years before the storm.

Why are we supposed to believe that "inter-agency competition" was the cause of 9/11? The guy who did it, ObL, claimed it was in response to USA military presence on the Peninsula. Why don't we blame that? If we don't blame our stupid military decisions, why not blame the intelligence community for not noticing potential consequences of those stupid decisions, a single decade after they didn't predict the most important thing that ever happened with respect to their "mission"? The unsupervised services are just like the military, in this respect: WWII was a long time ago, and they've never once been judged on their performance since that time. (JFK tried to hold them to a standard, but not for long...) All they have to do is spend money, and at that they excel. 9/11 itself helped them spend a great deal more than they ever had before.

Anyway, even the goofs at NSA could have figured it out in time, if they hadn't just axed ThinThread in favor of Trailblazer. That was a human lapse in judgment that could have taken place at any bureaucratic level. When they make a similar mistake in the next decade, the interference of "Homeland Security" won't have done a thing to prevent it.
Servo maybe?
Thanks for your valuable points. I am currently developing these features and would likely come in the next update. You could easily draw straight lines, arrows, circles, and rectangles.
Ask HN: How do you become a micro investor or angel?
I have some money set aside. I want to take some chances while learning about new technologies that I can invest in. Any recommendations on how to proceed, where can I find the best opportunities to invest?
Is that a possibility? Also, with a NUMA aware OS what kind of performance increases would one likely see on a UMA cpu vs a NUMA one?
GM shuts down car-sharing service Maven
I dunno, that all sounds pretty confusing to me.
Django is a a nice framework to have in your toolbox. It'a a "batteries included" framework that gives you a consistent API for common things you need while developing an application like sessions, database access (it provides an ORM and an autogenerated admin UI based on those models), HTML template rendering, etc. You can extend it with Django REST Framework to expose a REST API (and there's Graphene for GraphQL, though I would not recommend GraphQL for other reasons).
Yes. See xiph.org

Lots of good bits came from FOSS codecs but Daala and friends have never competed with the commercial stuff that have 100s of decades of paid engineering time in development.

Also it’s pretty impossible to do anything in the codec space without tripping over a patent.

That said the very best implementation of the patented and un-free H.264 codec was built as open source (x264) but you still technically need to license all the h.264 patents to use x264 legally in many scenarios or jurisdictions.
I think this virus has been a good test run and now we can put the procedures in place to save us from a real pandemic treat in the future.

Can't imagine the WHO is going to be caught in a second amateur hour with similar embarrassing proportions.