skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not long after I started consulting, I had to get a D&B account. I don't remember why. But not long after, I was spammed by Yellow Pages. And it went on for many years. Maybe I was short sighted, but I couldn't imagine it being useful for a litigation consultant.
Not sure if I'm missing something, isn't Saliva based testing almost/basically here?

1. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/orasure-technologies-receives...

2. https://www.politico.com/states/new-jersey/story/2020/04/23/...
Do you trust that the housekeeper who gets paid $15/hour and prob cleans 50 rooms a shift is really going to clean your place throughly? Also the amount of traffic in the hotel, the check-in counter, the people in the elevator, the room service food that has gone through multiple sets of hands....yeah sure this is safer.

I rather have an Airbnb that does remote check-in. Once there I will do my own cleaning and not worry about unknown traffic in my place for rest of the stay. In addition I can buy my own groceries therefore reducing another vector point of transmission.

Seems like a better proposition then the hotel IMHO if you really are scared of getting infected.
pi based c64 drive https://hackaday.com/2018/05/07/raspberry-pi-becomes-cycle-e...
Best comment downvoted as usual. Well done, HN.
BCI system gives paralyzed man back his sense of touch with haptic feedback
Took a month to get my debit card from the state and they sent it to the wrong building. They aren’t taking calls or emails. Luckily the incorrect recipient walked it over to my apartment otherwise I would be completely out of luck. The system is at the breaking point and not reliable.
How's the battery life? I dual boot ubuntu and win10 on my T450 and the battery life under win is noticeably better.
this is the right answer. i had to buy a 1541 c64 disk drive to read the back of my c64 disks
And yet, in today's America, a white man only makes $0.89 for each $1.00 an Asian man makes.
So based on skincolor you can tell if I started with 2x the money? You can tell whether he is a millionaire or not? If he lived in a safe area or not? You judge someone based on skincolor, you can back it up with numbers sure, but you didn't judge based on who he is.

Telling people that if only they had a different skincolor that maybe they would have made it. Making the focus on something you cant change is just poison.

If you fix the economic divide violence goes down, substance abuse go down, happiness goes up, and the major beneficiaries are minorities and the ones that will be hit the hardest are the majority group, no racism necessary.
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There has been plenty of discussion about the auto lending market, it's just overshadowed by far bigger recent problems like housing and unemployment amongst a pandemic.
fzf's great. I use it for a quick/easy git branch menu, complete with preview of recent history of each branch: https://pastebin.com/R91bP2qa
Hi, the data is coming from the wikipedia page linked at the bottom. I haven't tried to check if the data was correct or not. But for scuba diving, the page refers to a study by British Sub-Aqua Club. "UK Diving Fatalities Review" and states that there are 5 'micromort' per dive, which means 5 death for one million dives, which is a frequency of death per dive of 0.0005%.
The free LiveCDs were great marketing. As a teenage computer geek, it was way easier to convince casual computer users to try it out when I could lend them a nicely printed CD. And it looked way better than handing them a sketchy CD-R with some marker scribbles on it.
Ask HN: Build a website in 2020 – what's the cool kids?
Hey everyone, I have been off the development world for one year or so and would like to build a personnal website to share some simple content.

So, what's the cool stuff to do these days? Is static websites still a thing or is there a better solution?

My idea is to post like once a week, try to make it as "green" as possible (server and content wise) and use open source. I have knowledge of the basics php, javascript, html and css but would like to learn something new like python.

For example, what do you think of the hugo framework + netlify? like smashing magazine did.

If that's a stupid question and there is already content about it don't hesitate to tell me :)

Thanks already for reading this and have a good day whereever you are.

Cheers,

Julien
Since quarantine and WFH I'm pretty sure I've been overdosing. Earlier this week I was feeling anxious, jittery, and dehydrated. Detoxed from caffeine Wed-Fri and today (Sat) feeling much better. Will ease back into 1 cup a day and drink more water.
I mean, perhaps we should ask the people who enslaved black people, or redlined districts specifically and solely for white anglo-saxon protestants, or segregated schools, or destroyed prosperous black communities—perhaps we should ask them about introducing race into the mix. The reason for policies dedicated to underrepresented minorities is that they were underrepresented for very clear, very egregious reasons.

I'm not a huge fan of the "not introducing race" argument because it purports that the person who is attempting to correct the historical disenfranchisement is somehow the first person to bring race up. When in reality the emphasis on not noticing race is a recent phenomenon.
I max out my history sizes as well as have bash functions to dump/persist them to time stamped archives on command or on logout.
Good one during the corona crisis
That would ruin all the beer barrels though, which would be an expensive mistake.
Talks for Critical Thinking
there are nice chicken scheme bindings for iup as well. http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/5/iup
Seems like every time there's a new mobile RCE they compel us to buy new phones. And for average person who don't, they'll compound the problem with system level contact tracing.

I give up on technology.
edX/coursera when I was 23 living in Europe sleeping on a friend's couch with a bunch of credit card debt. I had never encountered the idea of programming computers before then. Absolutely turned my life around.
I built a popular tool in the same niche [1]. I think your over complicating it. I got decision fatigue just trying to test it.

[1] https://easydecisionmaker.com/
I can't help feeling a bit uneased reading about computer science people doing salespitch for solving a world epidemic.

If a famous medical doctor was trying to convince me that his database product was really the best, while making grandiose statement, i think i'd be very very harsh with them.
Improvised, forces wfh is not the same as being remote at a fully remote company though.
Gaining that influence is a different type of problem than what was being discussed, yes. But health care has a huge set of competing political forces influencing it, and the key to figuring out how to untangle them effectively is to approach things systematically and creatively, just like with any other problem. The problem shouldn't be dismissed as a candidate for systematic examination or given less credence than other types of problems just because it's a political one; we have yet to discover how to build health care organizations that untangle those forces effectively.
I tried it recently and went back to i3. For me, Gnome didn't work well for multi-monitor setups and seems surprisingly lacking in customisations. It did seem very polished though.
The USA has more beer variety, maybe it's more difficult logistically?

No, it's just that for as much that has changed in America since its founding, being a bunch of Puritanical tight asses is still kind of encoded into our societal DNA.
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>In Germany we had the “beer man” who would drop off beer weekly and collect the empties. This should be adopted in the USA.

This is standard practice in the US, empty kegs end up back at a brewery where they are sanitized and refilled. Part of the problem reported here is that kegs aren't being used, leading to a lack of kegs available to be refilled.
We had beer, dairy and bread delivery subscriptions, plus the organic veg delivery -— all pretty nice! In Palo Alto I have subscriptions for dairy, butcher and organic veg. So not that different.

As for beer selection, as in the US the major brands are of a limited nature but there are many small breweries. All subject to the Reinheitsgebot but I doubt it really cramps their style.
I'm baffled too...
Yes. We shouldn't strap on blinders and ignore race, of course. But the activists who go around encouraging people to identify as Black first and individuals second, I think are toxic and ineffective.
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Ping pong tables etc are a sad tool for management to placate the people who drive the company value up

Nowhere is this more apparent than the so-called Hackathon, where you do days of overtime in exchange for a few slices of pizza and worse, are expected to be grateful to management for providing the opportunity to do so! Nothing infantilises the profession more.
I mean you're half right here, but who do you really think in American society is doing that much better than Asians? Hispanics? African Americans? Women? The poor? The middle class for that matter?

The reality is that rich, white men have been entrenched in power since long before American society was a thing. You might consider whether retreating into tribalism and picking a fight over affirmative action is eroding or entrenching that advantage by dividing the consensus to change it.

https://www.vox.com/2018/3/28/17031460/affirmative-action-as...
I think it is a colonial hangover.

It's the same in former British colonies in the Caribbean. We're thought "Proper English" in school and the American spellings are considered wrong. Local dialects are frowned upon in professional settings and writing.
More broken UX: Search for English results
Yeah. I think answers which aren't technically correct but are highly knowledgeable and deeply related are still very useful.

>"there's an invisible jelly everywhere and it wobbles at a finite speed, and that is the speed of light"

As a layperson, is this analogous to "the electromagnetic field is everywhere and wobbles at a finite speed"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerus_clausus in USA since 1918
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You are trying to project the varna system and vedas are preaching good things but only the implementation is bad. That is not true. Division of laborers(not labour) and enforing them over the generations even if you don't believe in karma is baked in to the core philosophy of the vedas.

> That is utterly, laughably, ridiculously false. I can't believe someone with even a modicum of intelligence would say that.

Citiation please. Britishers primary goal is colonization. Missionaries came much later and they did not interfere with the education system.
You may already do it, but you can help by putting the bread in a pre-heated iron pot. This seems to help stabilize the temperature (and it helps top the top burning too).
Suggestion: Maybe edit to add "Ask HN"?
Ozone Therapy
If you meant the management platforms (ex. Rancher) for multi-cloud clusters, it depends.

Infrastructure costs are x% (<20%?) of the e2e cost to run a business. As you go to multi cloud, you have to plan for operationalization, enablement, support plans. Then the business apps need to talk to cloud, internet and on-prem resources. Unless planned properly, you stand to run into issues that may take more time to troubleshoot.

Infrastructure prices are already comparable. How you use it matters. Someone may be using 10 instances of m5-xlarge at 10% utilization for example. Someone else may have automation in place to scale down the infrastructure and pay 70% less. Someone may decide to use non-optimal sizes of node instances, thereby causing numerous pod evictions and keep growing the cluster size on instance count. Someone else may just use the right type of instances for efficient binpacking.

How you use the infrastructure matter.
Unless it's a local beer, they were buying straight from the local distributor. The major breweries do not ship their product to bars.
oh ok thanks!
> McDonalds(?) went through a huge engineering process to attempt to add an ingredient to their pipeline. They found that adding cucumber was fine, but avocado was a step too far for the midwest.

That's something I'd love to read in more details about. Personally, I'd say avocado is a step too far in anything that isn't fruit salad. But so is (pickled) cucumber. I wish they'd remove it from their burgers altogether. The reasoning is, pickled cucumber overwhelms everything else with its sour flavor. McD burgers I experienced (in several countries, Europe and Asia) have a balanced composition of tastes, and that slice of cucumber there is as if someone threw a grenade into it. I usually hunt it down and eat it with my first bite, so that I can enjoy the rest of the burger in peace.
I'm so glad that this thread, although meant to be something else, uncovers all the wrongs in the tech industry from meaningless tech interviews to shitty stand up meetings.
Thanks to probably the best people with the best life philosophy!
This appeal to authority always bothers me. Polymaths are capable of making bigger contributions in any field they involve themselves in than the average phD can in their own field of expertise. Look at Musk, Tesla, Von Neumann, Hughes, Da Vinci, Edison, Ben Franklin.

However, I wouldn't limit this to being a "genius" thing -- there may actually be something significant to being able to apply knowledge and patterns in one or more field to a seemingly unrelated field, and people who tend to be interested enough to learn and think about a lot of different fields in depth have a better base of mental abstractions for inventing in a new field, even if they don't score ridiculously high on an IQ test.

Note that this is just a general rant -- re: the article, I don't think the pitch is particularly interesting or noteworthy.
I admire your optimism that the people in charge might learn from this when they clearly haven't[1] from the last few.

[1] Excepting places like Taiwan, etc., who clearly did learn.
Blame it on developers that think they know unsigned math.

> One of the little experiments I tried was asking people about the rules for unsigned arithmetic in C. It turns out nobody understands how unsigned arithmetic in C works. There are a few obvious things that people understand, but many people don't understand it.

https://www.artima.com/intv/gosling3.html

Since 2014 that Java now has support for unsigned math via methods on its boxed types since Java 8.

And depending on how Valhalla goes, it might gain inline classes for unsigned types, which is pretty much the same thing as having an uint.
Reactez
My backup plan for TP is to turn to old towels and rags. In the Middle Ages the rich used scraps of linen, so that’s the plan. Just don’t flush.
Where I am (New Zealand) there is no shortage of flour, but a shortage of packaging. The vast bulk of flour was previously sold to bakers and other buyers in bulk - 25kg sacks. Now demand is for 1-5kg bags. The flour is here, but it's in the wrong bags and the suppliers have no staff or materials.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&object...
How is that different from loops?
A piece of advice: Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it. Don't wait for it. Just let it happen. It could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot black coffee.
I don't drink coffee, just water or tea sometimes :)
With a PGO cache updated across execution runs and devices (since Android 10 PGO data is shared across the Play Store).
I mean arguably then we would want a totally different character for end of sentence and not two spaces in a row. I think modern tools are smart enough to properly space "Mr. Foo" v."I was sad. John was happy." and if not you can always manually fix the spacing edge cases yourself without modifying the text.
It's based on brewers yeast extract.
"I volunteer!" I gasp. “I volunteer as tribute!”

(AL located currently)
I'd rather use your tool to decide where to go to lunch. I'd rather use OP's tool to decide which city to move to.
To clarify, I never consciously make this conclusion. Over the years I've just removed more config than added, until the point I have ~nothing.
Yes it sucks, that is why it was replaced by ART on Android 5.0.
I find it hard to believe that you haven't made even modest growth as an employee and as a developer in those 3 years. But assuming that is true: in my city, average developer salaries have gone up at least 25% in the past 3 years. Hell, even inflation is a couple percent per year. So you should definitely ask for more pay or start job hunting.
But you understand that New Zealanders aren't going to stay at home for the rest of their lives, yes? So they'll still need an answer to the question of how to safely resume going out.
HN comment sorting is weird. It’s not based solely on upvotes, as far as I can guess. Probably a mixture of upvotes/downvotes/flags much like the homepage is.
Thanks for helping me decide what to do today on my birthday, during lockdown. Board games!
Not a lot. I'm not a huge coffee fan, I'll drink it if it's free and theres nothing else and occasionally I'll buy one, however.
Modelling epidemics involves maths and programming. Of course programmers are going to have a go.
Its never made much sense to me when people hinge their beliefs on entities that have to acquire little companies to round out their portfolios.
Learnings from a failed attempt at raising a VC Fund
Frightening austerity being pushed
I tried "Should I wear mask or not?"
xargs should be there. The most useful tool IMO.
The fix is always to replace static_cast with reinterpret_cast.

I've had cases when I was refactoring and suddenly somewehere in template code the compiler bascially told me that what I was trying to do was plain wrong, i.e. casting between completely unrelated types. In which case the fix is rewrite, not resort to reinterpret_cast.
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> “There is no intervention available to us that will ensure a change in behaviour economically.”

of course we do. you mentioned one yourself: “providing turbo lanes for ‘Class C+‘ drivers”. it’s only a matter of imagination to come up with others.

speed limits are poor proxies for what really impacts lives saved.
> FaceTime and Zoom have a significant cognitive load, too

Why the cogntive load would be lesser in a face to face conversation than digital assuming the internet connectivity is good ?
I subscribe for the very same reason. I only listen to the recordings of the founders voice. The rest, especially the American (sorry) accent I find less soothing.
A huge proportion of capable autodidacts are coders. Especially those who go through grad school for STEM - the skill is invaluable.

So don't be so surprised, these aren't necessarily junior level devs at FAANG spouting off.
How can I tell whether a non-WD drive - say, Seagate - uses SMR or CMR?
It had a hybrid log/js approach around the time google acquired it. I believe one of the first. Was the best product around. As a shared web hosting provider in early/mid2000s it was becoming more than a competitive advantage to offer it.
There are some, like the economist Thomas Sowell for example, who would replace "And yet" with "Despite that".

Also, his writings on race and immigration are required reading if you want to get a more nuanced view on these topics. Did you know that the word slave comes primarily from Slavs, who are actually white people [1]? Were you aware that black Africans enslaved white Europeans at certain times in the past?

There would be far more signal and far less noise in these types of discussions if everyone was asked to spend a few months reading books written by Sowell.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavs
About 3/4 of a large pot, so about 3 large coffees
The Dystopian, Post-Lockdown World of Wuhan
I assume these are going to be branded as completely voluntary. Like, completely voluntary until you want to have health insurance, buy a flight ticket or maybe be employed in certain/most industries. In those cases someone is going to tell you that, you must to be running the app or whatever tool is invented to track your contacts.
Citing Elon Musk in this context is definitely not making the point you think it’s making.
Does Chrome ever ignore the lang attribute?
Let me know if you're interested working on some side hustle :)
Note that while this can be helpful in general, it's often unhelpful on Stack Exchange.

It results in people who do want to know about Y ending up with a high-scoring search result which doesn't contain information about Y.

And even for the original questioner, the discussions about why they want to do Y may well take up more time than it would have taken for them to read an accurate response, decide to rule out doing Y, and go on to ask X separately.
> the characters on Its Always Sunny In Philadelphia are just boring jerks.

Ah! Triggered! /s

I agree that the "jerks" trope is at play here. But I don't think the characters are boring or without their observations on the world. The characters have plenty of observations about arising cultural moments, political issues, etc. Many episodes are essentially "The Gang Takes Opposing Views on X". Then we get to see these characters take each side to weird extremes while learning very little from the experience.

Like the "show about nothing" It's Always Sunny is in its prime during meta commentary episodes like "The Gang Tries Desperately to Win an Award".
Name one aeronautical engineer phD who deserves more credit for giving America the ability to put humans in space next month than Musk.

He's quite involved with technical decisions. His social media behavior is irrelevant here -- this is about the ability to innovate outside of physics or economics, which is what he learned about in college.
Almost all of that is in the form of credit to be used to buy American military equipment and services. It's as much a subsidy for American arms contractors as it's aid to Israel, although yes it is both. Still, it's not cash and they can't just spend it on whatever they like.

Furthermore regarding the linked article, how is a loan guarantee just thrown in to the total. Unless Israel actually defaults on every single loan every year the cost of that is close to zero. Is that really a reasonable assumption to make? So now who's lying.
The Zoom guesswork-based imitation is pretty good, and it seems to be optimized for a single person's movement. It gets confused when there are more actors like a child or dog entering from stage left.
Beware of congratulating yourself on spotting one fallacy (appeal to authority) while faceplanting into another (selection bias).
It's not about tribalism or picking a fight over affirmative action. It's about being treated fairly. We don't call African Americans or Hispanics coming together tribalism. They're just justifiably fighting for their rights. But when Asians want to be treated fairer, it's tribalism now? It's wrong when Asians ask for justice?

There must be a way for all disadvantaged peoples to be treated fairly under the law. I reject the idea and seeming consensus that American society has come to in deciding that it's Asians who should be thrown under the bus in favor of other groups, even though on an individual level, many impoverished Asian people are being passed in favor of other people from wealthy families who happen to be the favored race/ethnicity at the time.

Equality.