skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't agree. Too simplistic.

Even on the very narrow definition of some GDP-per-capita-like metric. Assume that one country decides to implement the 65y-killswitch. Everyone who possibly can will move to some other country. You just lost the vast majority of your skilled workers.
I don't mind paying for it, but I want to know how much I am paying. The other day I ordered from Instacart and saw the receipt from the grocery, I paid 25% of the total ($200) to get the delivery. There's delivery fee, service fee, tip all exposed, but the markup on the food items was more than all of that combined. That's a bunch of bullshit.
Boom! Very well said.
Discussing a topic controversially is just that, a discussion.

When the Chinese government "attacks" somebody, that person disappears and often dies.

Just wanting to remind people of the difference.
The ability to quickly google a piece of information != knowing, understanding, or being able to use it in any meaningful sense.

The notion that memorization is useless or somehow not integral to the learning process is wrong. When you intuitively know an idea, you can build upon it and combine it with other ideas in a subconscious and long-term way. This isn't possible if you externalize your memory to a computer.
The Grumpy Developer's Guide to Meetings
Note that NYC has seen net outmigration for a few years now [1], so this could be just an acceleration of that trend.

[1] https://nypost.com/2019/12/30/new-york-is-losing-residents-a...
A hobby is something you go out of your way to do because of personal passion. If you approach your job like it's a vacation, then probably.
My guess would be that most people calling in to a call on Zoom from their phone are leaving it on speakerphone and not holding it up to their ear/mouth like you would with an old land-line phone. Opening up an omni-directional mic that has to pick up someone from 1-2 feet away from their mouth is a lot different than an old-school phone that you pick up and hold an inch away from your lips.

You're not paying Apple $1000 for a microphone on a stick when you buy an iPhone, you're buying a computer that has a tiny microphone that works well enough for most normal phone calls to your doctor or whichever. If you care about audio quality as a foremost feature, you do what business people have been doing for years and buy a wireless headset/in-ear with a directional mic that's built for comfort and tuned to pick up audio in the exact distance range of your ear to your mouth.
> surely it must be okay to at least have the discussion

Yeah let's do it. COVID-19 might kill millions of people. Discussion over.
Even if the oil came in physical barrels, the contract is for 1000 barrels of oil, so you would need quite a lot of space in your back yard. That quantity is more like a railroad car full of oil. You might be able to arrange for the oil to be put in a tank car and delivered to a train track somewhere if you wanted to try this, though I suspect you would not make nearly as much money in the process as you think.
High expectations of privacy. I prefer to hide everything, even mundane stuff, than wished I had and I didn't.
Is also not rendered correctly in Firefox 75 (Linux, PC)
I have the same issue with Firefox on a Windows machine. My phone is iOS.
Wormhole: Exposing your local server to the internet with a public URL in Rust
> Must be nice to be rich.

Money is about priorities.

In my case, I'm an environmentalist. A good friend of mine, who's an Uber driver, just bought a Model 3 Dual Motor, same car that I have. (Although I don't know if he paid for enhanced autopiolot.)

> Must be nice to be rich.

Money is also about understanding the difference between the cost of equipment versus the cost of ownership. A gas car costs more to operate than an electric car.

It's easy to misunderstand the cost of an electric vehicle. In general:

1: $60k: I spent (rough numbers) $60k on a Model 3 Dual Motor

2: -$10k: I got $7500 back from the federal government, and $2500k from my state. (Purchased in December 2018)

3: -$10k: I will save (rough numbers) $10k over the life of the car because charging at home is cheaper than buying gas, and because electric cars are much cheaper to maintain. (I had a Leaf for 4 years and only paid to rotate the tires.)

My Model 3 Dual Motor is (roughly) like spending $40k on a gas car. Plenty of middle-class people buy cars in this price range.

The difference is that more of my ongoing costs are in the loan, which never changes, compared to things like gas, where the price fluctuates.
Draw.io does storage federation to OneDrive and others pretty well.
We may have seen two asteroids annihilate each other in another solar system
Ah, there was some C64 software which used the CPU (same as in the C64) in the diskette drive for something. :)
FWIW, a really good (in my opinion) reason to return profits to the owners via dividends or buybacks is that management can often not be trusted to act responsibly when they have access to a huge pile of unused cash. And I think it's worth keeping in mind that many of the owners are normal people and/or normal people's pension programs.
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Netflix's UWP client also supports 4k streaming, alongside 5.1 audio at a slightly-higher bitrate (128kbps IIRC?), but it has the same HDCP and Intel/NVIDIA requirements as far as I know.
> discovered by just a random astute person who commented somewhere

I don't see that this really counts as 'discovered'. I'm sure thousands of people have said It felt like it was written by Rowling about many different books.
This bug really just falls in with "You didn't encrypt and authenticate your data, so anything could have happened".

Sure, this time it's a software design bug in the endpoints, but next time it might be a cosmic ray, or an evil middleman, or a buggy proxy. If data isn't encrypted and authenticated, then you shouldn't care what form it arrives in.
> * You can't tell who's looking at you, so you always feel like you have to remain presentable and vigilant.

Feel free to hit that "Turn off Video" button from time to time. I make liberal use of it.
To those downvoting, what’s incorrect about what I’ve said here?
at my $CORP i religiously encrypt all my traffic where possible because the network team does traffic shaping which breaks things at times.
In a sense, yes, that is what a negative price for oil means: the barrel is more valuable as a place to store oil than the oil being stored.
Maybe this [1] was the link.

[1] https://chemrxiv.org/articles/COVID-19_Disease_ORF8_and_Surf...
> Is this really so hard?

90% of computer engineering isn't writing software. It's logistics, organization, and incentives.

For Python 3, I think it fell down hard on incentives. It was better, but not better enough to justify rewriting code that worked for a lot of teams, for a lot of years.

When you go to make incompatible changes and you find your userbase kicking and screaming against following you, that's not a technological problem, but it is a problem.
not working on mac chrome or safari, so british and such a waste of time.
I find the capitalization of the title here on HN to be rather misleading.

I thought Dropbox was actually testing Sync (https://www.sync.com/) in-house and doing a public comparison.
Can you provide a screenshot?
Universities all have these kinds of intermediate courses: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ckaestne/17313/2018/#schedule is an example of general software architecture like how to identify requirements. Notice all the books on architecture and design being referenced as well. There's startup architecture courses floating around too: https://cmu-17-356.github.io/

For exploring some huge codebase where there is no design documentation one way is just to use a fancy ide and sabotage something to see what it breaks in your ide, then you can trace what code is relying on. Some open source projects have books written about their architecture, you could also start with those then everything you see there is often similar in undocumented projects in my experience, in terms of organization of code like where is the directory containing all the core functionality, where are the feature addons.
An Introduction to Backpropagation and Multilayer Perceptrons
They should not be, but historically and continuing into this day, there are some areas including entire states where there is a clear bias against minorities. This means the defendant is potentially at a disadvantage before the first prosecutor has spoken. Placing a minority on the jury of a minority defendant does not guarantee an acquittal in anyway but it does help to mitigate any ingrained bias the jury may have.

In addition, we are supposed to be judged by a jury of our peers. Considering minorities make up ~40% of the population I don't think its a stretch to say at least 20+% of the jurors should be a minority.

The bar to convict should be high and this helps to ensure that. Rather 10 guilty men go free than one innocent man go to jail.
Show HN: Voiceplace – want multiple convos at the same time in video calls?
The software was named Backrub, before they started the company. I wouldn't call it a rebrand, since they never used that as a company name. Almost every product has a pre-release name that was never used as a brand.
I would not walk away thinking that Google is uninterested in the same goal.

Rather, there were serious differences of opinion regarding the path to get there.
When writing my own font library I found CJK a bit harder but not impossible. Reading all CJK letters and rasterizing them takes like a GB of memory and many seconds.

So what I do is don't parse the font file fully, but store the location where litters live memory and only parse and render them when they are needed. Most CJK letters are never needed.

I don't have good support Arabic and Hebrew, they feel harder.
> Silicon Valley has developed a reputation for building up companies at hyperspeed, propelled by mega-financed investment that can result in overnight fortunes or colossal failures.

> That zero-sum approach is now being reimagined as the coronavirus pandemic, which has spared no industry, rips across the technology sector.

Those are just nonsense words strung together. It doesn’t seem like author understands what “zero sum” means.
Here's a better example:

"shirt without sleeves"

That something that someone may actually search for. (At least the guys at my gym would!) And Amazon gets it mostly wrong.
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Yeah it's probably better to look at health care workers in this case: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/04/15/8349200...
You may know that we have a modern X replacement called Wayland, but you might also be pleased to know that we have a modern NeWS replacement too.

It's called Electron.
Sadly DNS-over-TLS wasn't working for me on some networks (probably filtered or the port blocked), while DNS-over-HTTPS was passing through seamlessly.

I wish Android supported both natively.
In the same sense, Paradox games make you less sympathetic to the classes you're not a part of. Governments and rulers operate under a different set of rules than those of individual rights (except those of a sovereign), civil liberties, and labor conditions. War crimes just become a means to an end. In Factorio, you play the role of invader/exploiter/colonist, even if the role was thrust upon you. In one of the Factorio blog posts, a developer writes:

> Imagine yourself living in a perfectly balanced natural environment. With total freedom. A place where your ancestors have been the inhabitants for centuries. Evolving, understanding, and being part of this peaceful world and rich ecosystem. Totally integrated. On this land you can get aliment easily, due the lack of serious predators and pollution, and with the friendly company of your fellows, the only thing you have to take care is food, relax, and reproduction.

> Imagine that suddenly, something falls down from the sky. Something that starts the extraction of the minerals, and the eradication of your forests. Even further. Imagine that this newcomer, making use of the stolen resources, starts the production of massive machines aimed to automate the robbery and the production of a never ending factory which creates not only pollution in the air and water, desertification on the land, and starvation for your people, but also, creates heavy weapons in order to exterminate you and your entire species.

> Wouldn't you be angry? Isn't that newcomer a sick bastard?

https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-69

Games are abstractions, and in abstractions, all of the complications are stripped away to focus on a specific mechanic. Abstractions in real world reach breaking points: at a certain boundaries, water operates as a different state of matter, in which a "liquid" abstraction/conception no longer applies.
Software Architecture Diagrams as Code
Then please don't use the "Show HN" prefix, which is specifically reserved for things the submitter made.
> The idea of "seeing the ending" of Factorio undermining its appeal seems disconnected from my own experience. I'm not sure how giving up a game with no micro transactions helps that issue with the gaming industry either.

I guess it was the stark realization that the Industry was in the midst of shifting to this predatory business model and that I (seemingly) was also prone to the pitfalls of its optimization that did my head in... I didn't need to divert my attention away from my work or my relationship, and yet I still managed to spend 6 hours a day playing and researching how to get the most efficient layout and upgrades for a game I only found by a random impulse purchase.

I'm well aware that Factorio doesn't have micro txs, as I mentioned: I paid for it in BTC.

I guess it seemed like in my absence the gaming Industry took what was once a seemingly innocent, fun thing you did to pass the time or play with friends with known upfront costs for development/expansions and hardware into an altogether exploitative trap that was refined by what appeared to me at least, as the same addiction based conditioning beavhiour patterns seen in Social media platforms.

Fortnight went on to make over a Billion dollars, countless of stories of kids stealing their parents credit card in the process (and then uploaded to social media) showed how effective their strategies were, at least on impressionable minds; so, I'd say my intuition turned out to be right.

So much so it became a meme:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbAMrNpMrg8

I guess when I saw how underwhelming something like Factorio is when it ends it made me realize I need to cut my losses and focus on something that actually enhances my quality of Life? Facrorio seemed more like a distraction to me, then and now.

Factorio was mildly amusing at best, it reminded me of a more intricate look at what the building up resources portion of RTS games could be; by contrast I'm looking forward and prepared to sinking tons of hours on Cyberpunk 2077 and AoE 4, but that's mainly because they've been in development for so long and I've followed them closely since the beginning.

But, in practice I'm fairly sure that my initial excitement will fizzle out to my other hobbies, as I have so many.

Another anecdote to support this observation: I bought Watch Dogs 1 and 2 for PS4 when 2 came out to support the genre/studio, but I hadn't owned a console since PS2. They sat in their shrink wrap for years.

I recently got the time/chance to play and got a friend to lend me his PS4 when he went on vacation. I played 1 and it was fun in a GTA kind of way and I got to the last mission in about 2 weeks, which I couldn't beat so I went youtube saw the ending(s) and was satisfied enough to then start 2.

I must have gotten 4 hours into it before I lost all interest and just watched the no commentary 'cut-scene movie' someone uploaded in the background while I went back to working on other stuff. I can't even remember how it ends now, which goes to show how much I was paying attention. The plot was solid, and entertaining, I just preferred to do other stuff instead.
I like this theory a lot.

If you're looking to self promote, you can either target the larger audience base of beginner content, or provide domain expertise with advanced topics.... with the gap in the middle then being underrepresented
e.g.

> Comparing deaths onboard with expected deaths based on naive CFR estimates using China data, we estimate IFR and CFR in China to be 0.5% (95% CI: 0.2-1.2%) and 1.1% (95% CI: 0.3-2.4%) respectively.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.05.20031773v...

7 million is 80% of the population, which is at the high end of high estimates for the total portion of the population expected to be infected in the end. That would be more plausible if daily deaths were well into the long tail, but NYC appears to be just past the hump and hundreds/day are still dying.

I would say 30x undercounting (48% infected) is highly optimistic but still plausible if you want to embrace that.
To compile and run on macOS:

Install XQuartz:

$ brew cask install xquartz

Then run it from the terminal:

$ open /Applications/Utilities/XQuartz.app

Clone libschrift from Github, then edit the file config.mk and update lines 14 and 15 as follows:

X11INC = /opt/X11/include
X11LIB = /opt/X11/lib

Then compile and run the demo:

$ make
$ export DISPLAY=":0"
$ ./sftdemo

You should see a "Hello world" app.
LabCorp’s at-home Covid-19 test kit is the first to be authorized by the FDA
The small interests being the families who no longer have a source of income because the government deemed their job non-essential. I know software engineers are still able to work but a lot of people are out of work and may be permanently as lockdowns increase
Why do you invest in a company if you do not trust it to manage itself?
Otherwise, it is not investing, but speculation that stock value will rise to sell for a profit.
I've recently had a simple requirement. To build a site with content gated behind a paywall.

There's no way to have SSR'd gated content without paying a gazillion bucks to either netlify or next for role-based redirects.

Even if I would go for CSR'd content for the gated part, I'd have to fiddle with JWT tokens.

To handle users, I'd have to use a 3rd party service such as oauth, since zeit doesn't support users, and netlify's model is severely limited.

For a CMS, I'd have to again go for a subscription model.

Data and APIs are also another issue. There is no way to use something like Strapi since that needs to have a real DB behind it.

Now, to orchestrate the users for role-base redirects, oauth, payment gateaway data and everything else... I've no idea where to even start.
That's not quite how it happened. People spotted that Galbraith and Rowling had the same agent and the same editor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._K._Rowling#Cormoran_Strike
This sort of thinking is what gets us into this mess

You can't expect businesses to act morally. You must design policy with the incentives in mind which allow you to model how they will behave. "If they don't exploit us because morals, this policy is good" is bad policy
Everything you just said applies to mobile/webdev as well.
No one ever runs displays non-natively to get any of the scaling being discussed here.

Fractional scaling works like that everywhere that I've seen. OSX does the same, and I'm not sure about Windows. The alternative would be properly scalable GUI toolkits which then creates other difficulties in mixed-DPI situations. I don't use that though. Font scaling is more than enough to get 1.3x scaling. Has been for years, and doesn't take the efficiency hit. It doesn't solve the mixed-DPI situation either though.
Yeah that's what I've read a couple of times. I'll have to find a way to make my RAM more useful then..
I went from a €2000 MacBook to a €500 ThinkPad with Ryzen. Before the lockdowns. Not comparable whatsoever. Benchmarks are usually 30% to 300% faster. The Ryzen even blows away my fastest desktop machine with Intel and 4x more RAM.

Unfortunately I cannot benchmark with the fast AMD because it switches frequencies too fast. Lots of state changes. Eg it's faster on higher load than on low load. All my benchmarking logic is wrong. You really need a locked down kernel now for proper measurements.
One of the biggest frustrations with online voice calls is that only one person can talk at a time. In a conference setting, that is fine, however when you want conversations to be spontaneous there is no good solution on the market.

Still exploring the concept :) Feedback greatly appreciated!
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/voiceplace
thanks - the amount of a NYT article I can see before their subscribe banner would fit your summary, but unfortunately they don't use the lede to give me the entire story...
I tied my hostname to my NextDNS account, so that was quite easy to manage as I already keep that one up-to-date through DNS-O-Matic on my router.
> "The three-dimensionality introduces logistical insanity that is startlingly difficult to wrangle, and the first person viewpoint makes planning the factory floor very difficult."

As a former player of the Tekkit mod for Minecraft, the three-dimensionality is what I miss. As good as it is, Factorio is so disappointingly planar, despite the tools they give you to manage belt intersection and materiel transfer.
> 1. Body language- it's important to be able to see people's facial expressions etc to gauge their reactions to things you're saying

> 2. Avoiding interrupting one another- being able to see other people's faces means you can see when they're about to start speaking. That means you're less likely to talk over each other

Do you find this works in practice?

I don't think your average video call setup is good enough for it to make a difference. There's no eye contact, video quality is usually questionable, etc.

If I was a professional negotiator who knew how to read body language in an academic sense, then maybe I could get some use out of video calls. But I don't think I'm able to get the "instinctual" benefits.
I remember playing with this at Adobe when it was in two buildings in Mountain View back in 1990 or so....
> Why do you think we haven’t demanded that tech companies and governments solve this problem?

Privacy is almost always the answer to that one. Either that, or "to protect people from totalitarian governments". Honestly, I understand that, but I'm disappointed that no one goes further and says "Hey, let's see if we can solve both problems at the same time whilst maintaining security and privacy."
They do touch on these issues but only barely. The survey is more about who's using Go the way it is now and how can we help with adoption with what Go is. The survey is not necessarily intended to be a how might we make the Go core language different or "better" sort of thing.

Remember, for a lot of Go developers Go _is_ fine the way it is now. You may get a different set of developers if you add features but you also may lose those who like it the way it is now. There are a lot of applications coded that just don't have a need for the features you mention.
Right? Sounds just like an episode of Star Trek, placed in business sector instead of in space.
No, that's why it is "beyond a reasonable doubt". A guilty conviction is not proving someone guilty, it is saying that your peers have no reason to doubt your guilt.
I wouldn't touch this market with a 10 foot pole. It is absolutely ripe for government intervention and abuse. And if the fed does get involved they aren't going to be in there to bail out the short sellers.
To be perfectly honest, if I were to write an android app today I would probably rather learn RN or Flutter then do native android again.
Survey reveals gap between climate change perceptions and required actions
A possible new back end for Rust
Dropping hashes: an idiom used to demonstrate provenance of documents
This is Hackernews. You're not one of the cool kids if your body and home aren't littered with sensors to gather data on -- and optimize -- every facet of your life.