skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He cited color theory. Isn't color theory made up of an arbitrary choice of three colors? Additionally the color spectrum is one dimensional because it's really just frequency of light.

Geometric symmetry on an arbitrary mapping of the actual one dimensional concept of color to a two dimensional plane doesn't really "improve" anything. If you like it, you like it because of your opinion, please don't cite any pseudo science to make your case.
Spoken like someone who's never used EFS in production. With WP, your page loads are incredibly slow with EFS as pointed out by others.

Bah meant for the comment below!
I like a lot of what is said in this piece.

Background: I am currently supporting myself by betting on politics and economics. I was caught jobless when this thing hit, halting my attempt at a career switch into either coding or data science. At the end of February I posted my first forecast for 200k cases by March 20th, giving it a 96% chance.

I feel like there exists the possibility of doing better, and there exist people who are already there but no one wants to listen or change.

Watching this thing since the start of the year has been like watching a preventable slow motion crash, where many people seemed to be trying their hardest to intentionally fail.

Let's not just blame the MSM or "elites" either. I speak to people who confidently assert everything is going to be fine in a year, and when pressed for a probability it's not even in top quartile. Even if it was 90% certain, a 10% chance of a significantly negative outcome is too high.

I can open any thread on HN regarding economics and the general level of arrogant ignorance is staggering. We're on target to massively screw up the economic relief, which will make the economic stimulus phase all the more challenging. People need to be more predisposed to having possible intellectual and knowledge blind spots.

But I'm not all negative, as I remain very optimistic that people will continue to ignore reasonable warnings.
Only concerning if you think any foreign state would be stupid enough to do that (I don't think there is).
> and we promise we won't change the UI more than once every two years unless we really have to

You get that for free by running a stable/LTS distribution.
Is it usual to see healthcare workers dying of flu as well, like they do with COVID due to high viral load?
1500 comments in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22878515
Some WeChat competitors in China:
Chat: Fetion, Doushan, Mi Talk;
Social: Soul, Momo;
Payment: Alipay, Huawei Pay, UnionPay QuickPass
And the apps that offer deliver do so at a loss. The economics do not work so long as people need to get paid. You do not _need_ to use delivery services to pick up fro trendy restaurants that represent a bad equilibrium to all parties asides from yourself. This was a market inefficiency enabled by cheap capital.
I hate points like this. Pretty much all technology starts out for rich people. I mean if you don't have supersonic flight at all its technology will not improve either, neither will the economics of scale.

Air travel itself is already only for the rich, and travel in general is mostly for the rich, if you want to look at it from the poorest in the world.

Elon made this point the best with Tesla, and in 10-20 years the cheapest electric cars will likely be cheaper and better then current cheap gas cars.

I don't believe these 3x cost are actually 'inherent'.
I can absolutely confirm this. A wonderful combination of patient, kind, and super-knowledgeable. He was a very good sounding board in the early days of one of my projects.
The Remote Design Sprint Guide
It seems that there is an easy solution here that is being overlooked.

Allow any country to nominate their ccTLD for conversion to gTLD, and make that automatic when a country dissolves.

Hold an auction for the gTLD for anyone who qualifies under the existing gTLD rules, and the highest bidder gets to run the gTLD. The proceeds of the auction go to the country that owned the ccTLD.

A lot of small countries would probably gladly put up their ccTLDs for auction for the one time cash infusion, and in cases like this, if the country does get turned back over, the acquiring country would probably be glad to have the money.

This solution seems like an everyone wins scenario. The TLD continues to exist and some government gets a small cash infusion.
Tiny mortality times huge number of infected still equals lots of deaths.
Parity checking with a Flip-Flop and XOR gate
The decay of essential social institutes

It's not "decay". Call it like it is -- it's deliberate and directed erosion, backed by propaganda.
> You're comparing what you know now to what was known at the time of each report.

That's a bold claim! I've been following this since December and talked about it in my podcast before people in the US, my co-host included, were taking it very seriously.

Not only that, I was ordered by the Taiwanese CDC to wear a mask for 14 days back in February after taking a brief weekend trip to Japan.

I haven't put much faith in the WHO since experiencing their politically-driven incompetence during SARS 18 years ago when I was a student. In many ways, this entire experience has felt like a replay of SARS, but with a few new verses.
Gotta say, that got dark in a hurry. Hope you're doing OK, in all seriousness.
Verizon Business to Acquire BlueJeans
duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22899272
Good news, it is gone in the next version.
The solution is explained pretty quickly. But the implementation in the rest of the video is still worth watching!
NSA Suite a Cryptography
20.04 is due out in a few days. I hope it's good. 18.04 has been total crap for me. The lock screen randomly won't authenticate, and I am forced to reboot. My USB dock suddenly started randomly disconnecting and reconnecting, after it worked fine for months.

The "Save/Open" button in the file dialog boxes is in the title bar, which is the dumbest thing I have ever seen. Dialog boxes get tied to windows, so when I try to move the dialog out of the way to see my work, it drags the whole damn window. (Some of this is mentioned in the TFA.) I think a lot of these decisions were Gnome-driven, but still... stick with 16.04.
Alternatively, no one enters the market because the monopoly company can still undercut them.

Another bigger problem is that the monopolist pushes the low cost of delivered goods or services on third parties (see the gig economy). That race to the bottom harms people, but there will always be takers for those jobs in any society without a good social security system.
> it doesn't make sense to restrict DNS based on geopolitical boundaries.

Sure it does because those geopolitical boundries make sense for things like e-commerce. As a Canadian, I know that a site having a .ca domain will definitely ship to my address.
I feel like there ought to be a line somewhere. Like, maybe you can access the data because it's public, but to (for example) profit off of it or even share it further, you need more than just the fact that it's public.

For some reason open source licenses come to mind. You can use this code (or image) under terms XYZ and this license has to go with it too. That way, me letting github to show my code publicly doesn't give you license to do whatever you want with it. Or me letting linkedin show my picture doesn't give you license to do whatever you want with it. Maybe we need something like that.
> KISS is sure out of style when it comes to these fool's outrageous egos/budgets.

We will see how it survives this potential long-term economic downturn we are in, or approaching. I laughed out loud when you mentioned K8s for "security".
Microsoft even had MSN Messenger. The former commenter has no excuse, but lazyness and a great lack of understanding of 90/00's computing environment. W9x-w2k/KDE's paradigm were the best ever for a DE based multitasking.

This is a PC. Why does the parent commenter want to _downgrade_ its user experience to the one from a mobile user?
> Physics engine like Bullet or ODE to calculate the simulated trajectories

Probably not, the trajectories are simple parabolic and you can assume perfect elastic collision. Easy enough to implement, compared to interfacing with a physics engine. In fact, it sounded like he approximated the ball by a point and ignored the radius.
Took a while to figure out I could do that. And I only figured it out by accident.
Tabs and conversations aren't files, but it is nice to have a grouping of actions that create/restore/manage whatever the primary context/data-structure the app deals with is, as opposed to making changes to it (edit) or modifying how it's displayed (view). They're very logical categories, just 'file' is not generally enough named now.
Thank you Adam! <3
Yes, search on Montana Mask. The 3D files are available and you could print them at home. Part of the mask is the filter holder which you can stuff with N1900 or greater furnace filters, vacuum cleaner HEPA bags or whatever.
Edit- sorry, it's not quite like the P100, the filter holder is a rectangle in the center of the mask as opposed to the mask in the article that has two filter holders.
Last year Rust was a language I badly wanted to learn. I've had many false starts learning a lower level or "systems" language, which I felt would round off my toolbelt quite well. A lot of principles of CS you don't get exposed to when writing web servers and UIs.

The problem I had was basically the IDE integration in VSCode. RLS was okay but unreliable. And if it only works most of the time, it may as well not work at all. Especially when it only sometimes gave me code completion and type checking (A lot of "unknown" would fill my code).

Then Steve pointed out Rust Analyzer in a previous thread and I was off to the races. Rust Analyzer has gotten _so good_. Having a VSCode setup that gives me immediate feedback for my mistakes and code discovery makes a huge difference (to me at least). Maybe a bit of feedback is that I wish Rust Analyzer hadn't been so hard to discover. Though maybe that's just because it was new.

That, combined with my nightly march through The Rust Book has me well beyond, "I wish I could learn a systems language but !@#$ C and C++ are just so complicated and unforgiving" and into "wow, it's no-longer a matter of _if_ but a matter of how much I want to hone my understanding." Rust is a beautiful language that way. It guides me away from rookie mistakes that would leave me disenchanted after hours of debugging something dumb. (It's hard to be unrelentingly dedicated to learning something new now that I have young kids. When I was a teen it was easy)

I don't want to come off as a Rust fanboy. I have yet to implement much of anything (though hopefully by next year I'll have a Game Boy emulator to show you all). But I want to give thanks and proselytize a little because it has been such an empowering experience.
Yeah, 5-10% of the workforce is fired yearly at Amazon due to forced attrition from stack ranking.
Except you don't have to. Just start typing your password.
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It is still unusable compared to iOS6
Echoing sibling comments. Looks pretty standard. Actually their hangar/shop is cleaner than I would have expected. They probably tidied up a lot.
a ball has mass, radius, and a variable velocity
I think that it can be like how github lets you have public repos that are covered under whatever license you like. Being public doesn't invalidate those licenses. Or if Disney made a movie free on youtube for a day, it doesn't lose legal protection over that movie.
To some apparently yes. I hate it. The URL is an input field, just like on a web form and a single click should place the cursor at the clicked position. That is the damn convention, and anything else just undermines consistency and usability
A possible new tagline: Spreading Covid beyond the speed of sound.
If supersonic travel were ever to be the norm it has to start at the high end first like Tesla did.
> here's how you could ask YouTube: "We have a few interfaces. Please tell us what you like to watch: [...]

This proposal quickly falls apart because your categories are ill-defined based on your preconceptions. I watch a ton of lectures about video games on Youtube (e.g. speed run breakdowns or game lore theories). Do I choose the "Cartoons and video games" bucket or the "Lectures and tutorials" bucket?
Because it's novel and incredibly contagious. Unlike the flu, where many get seasonal flu shots, no one has antibodies for the virus so there's no herd immunity. Meaning it's just spreading like wild fire. And it's all happening at once so healthcare systems are overwhelmed, which affects patient outcomes. I suspect the number of deaths are quite a bit higher because of those dying without getting tested.
Given how little care is given to the Marshallese in the US, where we literally nuked their islands out of existence, I can't imagine anyone's going to care about BIOT any time soon.
What is the role of journalists? The defence that "basically the mainstream view in the US at the time" seems to me the antithesis of why we need journalists at all.

Far too much journalism is either weakly factual, where ideas like masks are taken prima facie and without much thought, or opinion pieces with an ideological bent.

What happened to investigating ideas, to see where they lead? To questioning everyone, no matter their credentials?

The role I would hope journalists would play is to hold people accountable, to question deeply the assumptions that "the mainstream view" entails. This Eric Weinstein tweet hit this home for me: https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/124298155901717299..., which ends with:

> Bring us the heads of the incompetent for removal.
I disagree. I think the CDC did actually perform a cross-benefit analysis on masks during the initial segment of the outbreak. Given the not-incontrovertible, yet positive, efficacy of masks, combined with the implications of a PPE shortage for healthcare workers meant that there probably was a calculated decision made to not recommend masks. Though at this point, without some more transparency, I'm not sure what we can say about the CDC's decisionmaking here.
That's the real value (going forward) of a national health insurance system treating most people and having a financial interest in keeping them healthy long-term.
A bit off-topic since I don't recall it discussing communication a lot, but Stephen Baxter's Time touches on genetically engineered squids for manning space exploration missions. As always, the short lifespan of these creatures is both a blessing and a curse...
That is interesting. I gave my contribution!
Good piece, with accurate criticisms. I've lost count of the number of times designers insisted on re-styling links in some unintuitive way.

I suspect (but cannot prove) that people struggle to channel their natural inclination toward creativity into constructive channels. A big part of the job of a UI is to be familiar and hence easily understood. The best UIs often don't stand out -- they just let you get your work done effortlessly.
Coronavirus has made Amazon a public utility – so we should treat it like one
What I've noticed is the political system seems to increasing lack coherence. Unable to decide on a course of action and wield power accordingly. Totally unable to resist pressure put upon them by powerful domestic and especial foreign actors.

And this feeling that actions that were once unremarkable now seem impossible.
UI design lately sounds more and more like a Monty Python sketch.
> It goes back to 1998 or thereabouts

It goes way back, 1998 was when they open sourced it, the language was in development and use inside Ericsson since 1986.
No, this was a high-volume play boat. About 35 years ago. And it wasn't a kit. I was boating with a club with a shop, and members who knew what they were doing.
What makes you ask that of them? Are you already approaching their point from the opposite angle and want to find out if they've got a bias rather than challenge their point directly?

Are people not allowed to criticise a publication any more without throwing in a token caveat of: "by the way, publications on the other end of the political spectrum do this too, and I equally don't approve of that" to ground their perceived neutrality before someone challenges their argument rather than their motivations?
I made this point earlier, but contrast the difference in tone between Vox workers and Amazon workers in what is really a very similar dispute. Cultivating a healthy working relationship with your unions means that when the world blows up, making hard choices doesn't get covered as an existential disaster.
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Yeah, we tried to apply with a local credit union and a local bank right after the announcement. Both said they'd prioritize their internal customers before processing ours and we've heard nothing since from either.

While being with a local bank would have helped (especially if we had any debt with them), their behavior doesn't put me in a big rush to give them business either.

I've never been naive, but the way America responded to this was with blatant corruption, and it's truly disheartened me. We've shown who we are in a very real way, and I say "we" because we're all complicit and responsible for it.
Indeed, the randomized test in this PR uses alphabets from AB to ABCDEF, because I noticed the same thing - small alphabets make repetitions more likely, which are the tricky cases.
> You're comparing what you know now to what was known at the time of each report.

Not at all.

We are using what we know now to evaluate what tech people said vs what the media said - and the tech people were overwhelmingly right and the media overwhelmingly wrong.
I've been told by some well-placed people (pooh pooh me if you want, I don't care), that a number of PE shops and hedge funds were able to get some pretty big loans to the top of the pile. Many, many, many businesses are in your situation. A very large percentage of the money went places you and I probably wouldn't think it "should" go. The program isn't working.
This was always one of the biggest failings of open source software. Most communities in my experience absolutely explode when anyone suggests an UI change, even if it's to bring the application in line with well-known usability, accessibility or design standards. The only two outliers are GNOME coreutils, which have at least a semblance of consistency in their command structure, and the corresponding BSD tools, which unfortunately have opted for a completely different UI standard.

I'm afraid there's only one way around this: pressure from above. Pressure from the community keeps failing every day. Newbies try something out, rant about the bonkers UI in a forum or bug tracker, and the fans shut them down with what amounts to "it's how we've always done it!" Whoever decided on the UI of many of these have clearly got too big an ego to see that they are hurting users by "differentiating" themselves.
Report of Comments on Proposed Amendment 3 to .COM Registry Agreement [pdf]
I'm seeing three different things in this article: "sunlight", "high temperature", and "humidity". They seem to be conflating all three of those. It's difficult to tell what the actual claim is. I wish I could read the original source.
Those look really cool! Amazing some of the things you find on HN.
Old is much better. Even then it's not perfect. The goddamn sidebar keeps taking up 80% of the screen on my vertical monitor or portrait phone.
The Limits of Clean Energy (2019)
I think it's time to create a Great Firewall for the rest of the World

And while I agree that information related to covid-19 should be freely accessible, in this case we cannot assume that information was merely read and not modified due to whatever nefarious reasons the intruders may have.
Wolfram: The Path to a Fundamental Theory of Physics May Begin with a Hypergraph
Looks exponential to me. After all, the Arrhenius equation (whose constants seem different here than your earlier assumptions) is exponential.
There are a lot more systems going through 510(k) for sure, partially due to new developments, but partially driven really by marketing.

On the other hand there have been ML/AI systems since the mid-late 90s at least, and they haven't for the most part shifted clinical practice much. The reasons for this have not shifted radically in the last decade, although some are moving a bit now.

FDA approval to market doesn't mean anything beyond you have an argument that you haven't introduced new risks (safe) and in at least some cases you can improve something without making others worse (efficacy) but this may in a very narrow indication.

I guess my point is, the purpose of the FDA has never been to ask "does this really work better? should it be the new standard of care?", but rather to balance the risk in new technology or drugs against the potential reward. Even with a PMA it's risk reduction, not proof of how it will play out in the wider world if interactions and practice.
There might be some sampling bias with an HN user dataset. At my company, many of our customer service calls are from older people, especially women, who call because they don't like using the internet (or they don't even have internet). Different voices and patterns of speech. This could be a really different demographic from HN users.
They are though. Tesla is a horrible example, electric cars have better fuel economy, so should have a lower TCO for daily users in the long run. Which has always explicitly been Tesla's goal in the long run.

This plane, while awesome, is not a Tesla, it's never going to be as cheap as a commercial flight, and it's certainly not going to make the world a better place.
Why would you not expect Google to post their code? E.g. the transformer paper had it: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762
Android's backup and restore features still haven't caught up to the iPhone
I noticed that too. I loved the caption on the second photo: "The closeout process is relatively simple, yet requires the highest level of precision possible." LOL. If you look at the picture, one guy is moving a chunk of rough cut lumber, another guy seems to be eyeballing it, there's stacks of plywood sitting there, hand clamps with wooden shims, wires dangling and a bunch of strips of tape with hand written arrows on it.

I'm sure it's all very highly technical work, but that caption and photo was hysterical.
Did anyone else imagine just a very large hoop?
Somewhat OT - but from their FAQ they say they're targeting a price of $200M for the Overture. I'm certainly no expert, but this feels to some extent a bargain given the capability. Capacity 55-75 passengers. A few data points for comparison (all of these approximate of course, with multiple variants available of each):

Airbus A220 - $90M

Airbus A320neo - $110M

Boeing 787 - $140M

Boeing 777 - $320M

Airbus A350 - $325M

Gulfstream G700 - $75M

All of these can of course carry more passengers (except the Gulfstream), but assuming it's somewhat efficient from a fuel perspective, and assuming an airline could sell ~60 business class seats on each leg, I'm optimistic for them - cutting your trip time in half is certainly something to brag about.

For reference, as an example, a British Airways 787-9 used for transatlantic routes seats 8 first, 42 business, 39 premium economy, and 127 economy.