skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you share that information, if you don’t mind. I was trying to figure out if the radiation is safe but I couldn’t find anything on the effects of the high frequency signals.
Yeah, I assumed we were talking about crushing a toddler in Rock Paper Scissors. Glad you picked up on that.
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What's your opinion on VSCode. It feels pretty snappy on my laptop, from what I understand it's written in electron
> Where money older then a year becomes worthless? No inherithing, no accumulation, no positive interest.

Rampant inflation as every dollar is shoveled into assets.
Covid and Forced Experiments
Yeah, the problem with crowdfunded hardware like this is that by the time the devices actually ship to backers and there's a wave of hype/excitement, nobody else is able to buy them.

And the original backers are probably bit less excited than they once were, after waiting years since the first wave of hype when they backed the project...
We should have gone with 1.5 spaces as a compromise.
This one isn’t hard Dang. Post the Algolia link all you want, this community is rife with obvious examples of spreading hate and deadly misinformation. You’re not doing enough to keep this a safe place for open discussion
This was my first thought—how do you enforce property rights and ownership of capital?
RPS in the strictest sense is a totally balanced game which cannot have a winning strategy if played completely logically.

Yet, all the RPS algorithm starts from the same premise.

The counter-intuitive reason why there can be winning strategy to RPS is that people try to devise winning strategies. Once you deviate from purely randomly choosing RPS, your adversary can try to analyze your past moves to create a model of your strategy and used that model to defeat you.

As for us poor humans, we're really bad at choosing randomly, so the best RPS players are very good at picking up what type of players you are.

PS: and in any population of players in a tournament, the mere presence of a few that want to have a non-random strategy will win over those without strategy. The strategy-less will just have a random streak of wins and losses no matter who they are facing. Of those with a strategy, the one with the best analysis of their opponent will win.
If looking reasonably native is indeed "miles away from the goal", then I'd argue the goal betrays excessive and needless attention to pixel perfection instead of more important things like, you know, the actual functionality of the app. No user would even notice these differences (let alone complain about them) unless they were both really savvy and really nitpicky.

Comparing Qt v. Tk v. native on Windows and macOS (and Linux, but there is no "native" toolkit so there wasn't anything to compare), not once did I notice any actual significant difference. macOS is the only one that required the slightest bit of adjustment (for the stuff I wrote; no idea about the Qt or Tk programs others wrote), and that's only to make sure it uses the system menu bar instead of shoving one into the top of the window as is normal for Windows and (usually) Linux.
Launching as a Developer
Do you happen to know _why_ Debian decided to require that for Go projects? It's so absurdly complicated.

I've been looking into .deb packaging for Caddy but it really feels like they require us to jump through too many hoops to make it happen. I'd much rather just ship a prebuilt binary.
Coronavirus is spreading fast in US states that may reopen soon, study finds
> as the whole point of most games is about creating a safe place for the mutual exploration of systems

What?

Can you imagine saying to any reasonable person, “do you want to create a safe place for the mutual exploration of systems?” And having them reply, “oh yeah, I would like to play a game.”
I’ve gotten my kid very into Nintendo Labo. You build toys from cardboard that hold the controllers and so you can drive a car in the game with a cardboard wheel, for example. But the whole thing is a veneer on learning how the toys work through additional activities, and then a drag and drop programming interface is available so you can make your own interactive tools using the Switch. He’s not quite old enough to grasp the programming interface, but the discovery section demystifies the abstraction layer of the controller. Its not just a box. Its a box you open up and change.
I feel like you are probably right on these layoffs. There's obviously a lot of startups that just will never make money, because, for lack of a better word, they are dumb.

However, there is an absolutely unprecedented amount of mostly permanent demand destruction with consumers happening right now. The tech industry will be among the last to really feel it as it ripples through to business customers, but I think it will hurt badly.
The snapshot options are much better in fusion, for that solo workflow, then stock virtualbox. I suspect vagrant covers those gaps.

Long running (and pausing) VMs behave better on fusion. I see better stability when pushed hard. Better use of the hardware. Been a long time since I ran benchmarks, but the same VM was about 4-10 seconds faster on a 2 minute process. Not enough to matter for most. The native disk access helps with things that are IO sensitive.

The UI drivers are better... so if you open up and run a Linux desktop, it feels much more native, if that is a thing.

I don't think I've even opened virtualbox in the last couple years... so my comparisons may be dated. YMMV
I think the interesting thing now is that, at least personally, I'm willing to pay hotel-level rates to stay at somewhere run by one of those "true believers". I know one of the things I look for is someone who's got a lot of reviews/a long history, but also seems to be renting just one space (or multiple rooms in the same house). I'm not looking for a deal - if I wanted to be cheap and central and social, I'd stay at a hostel. I'm totally willing to pay a bit more to stay somewhere with a host that cares.
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Somebody made XCom in excel. So I guess excel is a video game engine?
That's @!#!@$ magical!
Yep, we fell for the "good products sell themselves" meme. :/ As engineers, we felt uncomfortable promising the moon like so many other ICOs did (and still do). Blockchain-wise, the system we built was actually very conservative: aside from the file contract payment channels, our consensus design doesn't stray far from Bitcoin. As it turns out, the blockchain is the easy part! The hard part is, once you've got your network of hosts, how do you turn that into a truly great product? Sia is crazy cheap, it streams video at 1Gbps, it's got plenty of 9s, but those metrics don't mean anything in a vacuum. We've finally hit upon a more user-friendly product in Skynet, and we're doing a lot more PR this time, but we've still got a long way to go.
Worked as a housekeeper for a large hotel chain that everyone has heard of back in high school and I can tell you that there is absolutely zero investment into staff at many big hotels.

Housekeepers at my hotel has to fight just to make minimum wage since our pay was pegged to the number of rooms we cleaned (about $2.50 per room). Managers would tell us to clock in late and clock out early so we’d “get paid more”, and most went along with it because it was 2009 and jobs were hard to find.

I realized instantly that these guys were fleecing the housekeeping staff because my checks were always just a little short of where they should’ve been based on hours worked.

I stopped clocking in and clocking out when they told me to, and instead punched my card based on my schedule. My manager caught on and started punching my card for me (which was illegal).

I calculated how much they’d shorted me over that summer, went to the hotel manager’s office, put in my resignation and demanded the extra pay they’d shorted me, which they agreed to.

I’m not saying every big hotel is this shady, but the idea that minimum wage workers are invested in these days is pretty laughable, because there’s a hundred other people ready to take that job.

Those who patronize big hotels tend to get caught up in the marketing, but I assure you that perception in no way aligns with the reality of that work.
This is exactly how we should be dealing with the issue of hateful, bad faith actors in this community; point them out and tell them they don’t belong. Thank you for posting this, truly. We will never beat back the hate that has consumed this site without action like this. Shame on the mods for continuing to use the “we didn’t see it argument.” It no longer holds water
The screens aren’t matte, but they have a pretty decent anti-glare coating.

There’s also no way around using the trackpad sometimes. Using i3 and Vim keybindings wherever possible, I still need my trackpad enough that its relatively poor quality is annoying.
I misread it as "identify planets from your pictures" :)
My first open source project, welcome use it.
so many jobs do not need college degree ... its not degree is a pay. all jobs should pay more if you brought the pay up the question of having a degree would be less important. i know this will be argued that it will cause inflation or why should someone without a degree make as much as me.
Yes. That’s what I did. I’m an ops engineer supporting multiple dev teams who are on varying versions of Node, nvm is all I can use.
>is that mortality rate even among young people would become much higher as soon as hospitals become overwhelmed.

I don't see how this follows. The point the parent was making is that young people don't seem to need hospital care. Why would they suddenly start dying just because 'hospitals are overwhelmed'? They still won't need them...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22947341
Bulgaria testing Covid tracker wristbands
Opioids, prisons, elections, healthcare, education...

Man, what's happening over there?
Such a dark view of the world, maybe the predictions are correct but considering the stressful times we are facing, I figured I would share a more positive prediction or two that have been rolling around my head lately.

I believe there will be a concerted effort to encourage people to get outside from the media and governments, not in big groups but it will soon become the next big thing to get out into the sunshine and fresh air, together but apart. If for no other reason than to improve the public's mental health, but I believe there will be news stories sharing "Studies" about how the sunshine gets into our blood stream.

Those looking for something to invest in during the current crisis, consider sun tanning lotion(sun block too) and I bet that sun glasses will be the next thing to fly off the shelves.

If that prediction is to far out for you and you don't believe it will come to fruition. Maybe consider the fact that there has been a huge uptick in animal adoption recently so we can all look forward to some new viral animal videos making their way to social media!!

Positive thoughts for everyone <3
Why Mitch McConnell wants states to go bankrupt
> "But this is missing what is at stake for Harvard. Harvard wants to increase its prestige, and it does so by having future CEOs, Senators, and Presidents go to Harvard."

Well now, let's examine that.

-Do Asians not have renowned businesspeople and CEOs? The past and present CEOs of Toyota, Alibaba, Sony, Foxconn, Nintendo and other Asian corporate giants demonstrate that this is not true.

-Do Asians not have great heads of state and other statesmen? Naming any individual is likely to be contentious but it's clearly false say that Asia has had fewer great heads of state and politicians across its millennia of history than the West.

-Do Asian not have great minds, whether artistic, scientific, or otherwise? Judging by the STEM (e.g. TSMC, Sony) and artistic output (e.g anime) of Asia, no, that's self-evidently not the case as well.

Thus examined, there is no justification for the suggestion "future CEOs, Senators, and Presidents" are less likely to be Asian and so the above statement becomes apparent for what it is: an attempted justification for racism.

If anyone is still not persuaded: if a poster had attempted to make the same statement regarding _any_ other minority, gender, or religious group, ask yourself what would have happened to that post?
Finished reading the book recently: it cites a range of economic research, if interested. They make the point that a weakening of labor unions over the years also contributed to this, referencing a paper called “Unions and Inequality Over the Twentieth Century” [0].

[0]: https://www.nber.org/papers/w24587
But this situation will also lead to deaths. I already hear the mental hospitals are overflowing.

And really, if we would do everything possible to prevent deaths, we would have tackled traffic, alcohol, poverty, pollution etc. In some countries even poor healthcare overall (Trump is still fighting 'Obamacare').

It's not as black and white as this; the virus isn't the only problem in our society.
Broadly speaking, internal consistency is the best & most important style. So just follow the convention of the codebase you are working in (ideally with a code formatter to help)
Creating a Plan B
TIL, magnificient! It doesn't work on the minimal Centos 7, so you need:

yum install -y bash-completion
bash # a fresh run
You don't get a 17,000% return even with the best insider trading in the world. You get it with luck.
You're correct, but AirBNB encourages people to run untaxed unlicensed hotels, so its even worse than an already terrible system.
Ctrl-u (delete everything from the cursor to the beginning of line) is one less stroke for the very same result :)
Yep I upvoted the whole tree. Agree(d). ++
Run Eclipse with Java 14
I think some are looking at the step function on the IFR. With 90% of the deaths here in WA being people above 60, it is very misleading to look at a single population summary metric.

Put simply, this is more contagious than the flu, likely due to it being novel. It is vastly more deadly than the flu for elderly. Probably more than just an order of magnitude. That is, if you take out the people under 40 from the case rate, the IFR shoots way up. At a frightening level.
There's plenty of educated and well paid workers doing useless, "bullshit" jobs [0]. Look in the admin buildings of any university, or any sclerotic military contractor. In comparison, a friendly waiter whom people like seeing could make a far greater real-world difference.

[0] https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-bullshit-jo...
Well said. And remember, it's not just what your users want, but what some of them need, e.g. accessibility. Enough said about that. :)
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I'm not sure how either of those situations would trip up the system they're using. For a system trained on the background image, what difference does it make if the subject is holding a cup? The cup is not the background image, and it would be obvious in the same way that it's obvious the subject isn't the background image.
When was it more capitalist than today and why?
Several large cities in China that I've been to tend to use pedestrian tunnels at many large intersections. It works pretty well - subway-like staircases at each corner, and nice wide hallway/tunnels going around the whole intersection. Occasionally with some shops.

It has the advantage of being easy on the eyes above-ground. I can imagine in places with serious homelessness issues there could be problems, but the ones I experienced were fairly nice - some more plain than others, but generally graffiti free, well lit, and well used.
This represents a fundamental misunderstanding of what affirmative action is meant to correct. It's not simply about bridging economic divides, any more than college is solely about future earning potential. Rather, as higher education is intended to produce capable, responsible, and sophisticated members of society - in other words, to create a better society - affirmative action is meant to correct for long-standing and extant social bias. The x-points-lower SAT score a black applicant might need versus a comparable white or Asian applicant represents the energy redirected to physical and psychological survival particular to the black experience in America, regardless of income (as the other Mr. Gates will attest). It is not an in-spite-of situation, but a but-for one, writ large across American history and society. With college purporting to be the last stop before an educated adult's entrance into society, it is meant to remediate as well as elevate, for those who pass a minimum bar of competency.

The temptation to reduce affirmative action to an economic argument is especially ironic in that many of the mechanisms used to implement it were first used in the opposite direction, to cast university as beyond a purely economic arrangement, as eminently qualified Jewish students threatened to fill class rolls in the early 20th century. Suddenly, test scores were not important, character was. With the swing to hysteria over race in admissions, the inheritors of the legacy of steel drivers and sharecroppers are subject to less-than-genuine arguments centered around money. Suddenly, character is not important, economic uplift is. Hm.
sorry, english is my second language. Not fabric, but factory.
>spend $40 on a fire extinguisher every few years

Gosh, I hope they last longer then that!

I have a (genuine) Halon fire extinguisher hanging on the wall. According to the internets, Halon was banned in 1994!

The pressure dial on it is still in the green.
Can confirm. Also learned that in 1988 in my typing class. Also learned lower case l instead of a 1. It was for typing speed so you didn't have to reach for the top row.
Fun facts: It is not “radiation” and also not high frequency.
IANAL but the way our in-house counsel explained it to me is that a pandemic shouldn’t necessarily be a force majeure event, which is about the inability of the parties to execute the contract.

A pandemic would cause a force majeure if the work can only happen onsite and the government has shut down the physical offices.

A pandemic may cause a force majeure for a solo contractor if they catch the disease and are in the ICU.

A pandemic would not cause a force majeure because a company has decided to rethink its priorities as a result of a pandemic.

So a pandemic is covered by the concept of a force majeure without being explicit. The again, we were arguing that the pandemic isn’t/wasn’t force majeure so someone else may have other opinions.
Agree with this article - also, another unspoken truth about UX: it is a multiplier, not a constant factor. If your app provides a ton of value, people will suffer through truly awful UX. And the tightest flow can’t save an app nobody wants.
They explicitly look at poverty. It doesn’t explain why these deaths happen among whites but not among non-whites, who have higher poverty rates.
Another person who equates capitalism and the free market.

Capitalism is not the absence of state intervention in the market. Capitalism is the system where one group of individuals owns businesses and other assets and lives off the profit generated by them, and a much larger group sells their labour to the first group, receiving wages in return.
This sounds like a good idea, and I’m planning to try it out. Thanks for sharing!

I find that a lot of the time when I’m figuring out how to solve a problem, I need to read a lot of code. Is that something you do before you sit down with pen and paper?
In the late 19th to early 20th century, due to less government involvement
>Property is naturally coercive, why don't we have the right to repair and own our software?

Many (most?) hardcore libertarians actually oppose intellectual property, because it's not justified under the reasoning used to justify normal property. If someone puts a gun to your head and steals your car, they're clearly using violence to force you to do something you don't want to do (give them your car). If someone downloads a copy of a game you published and shares it with their friends, they're not doing any violence against you or making you do something you don't want to do. They may be making it less likely for other people to pay you money for that game, but under that minimalistic libertarian framework nobody has the obligation to pay you for a game just because you made it.
Excellent point. Asian Americans form an extraordinarily heterogeneous group, spanning all areas of socio-economic status and access to opportunity. Race is an imperfect proxy for what affirmative action attempts to do, which is to normalize circumstantial variables to better assess an individual's potential in the context of his or her environment. Several natural questions follow: 1) what other applicant characteristics better map onto what affirmative action tries to achieve? and 2) if we concede that self-reported race or perceived race is not the right characteristic to adjust for, then how do we create a truly race-blind application process?

Speaking as an Asian-American alumnus of Harvard, I will say that the conversations I've heard in the community are mixed, even among Asians. Most people are aware that discrimination against Asians is a real problem, though they do not believe affirmative action as a principle is at fault; rather, its implementation is imperfect and not nuanced enough. Adding to this debate is the complex piece of how legacy students are treated by admissions, what role money/wealth plays independently of affirmative action, and the overall autonomy and goals of private institutions. And in the end, to what extent should private and public institutions be held liable for how they achieve their diversity goals, and how do you balance this with fairness toward applicants?
Seemed clear enough the first time, just say it out loud so you can get banned.
Can't you hold snapd, and then install with force-depends?
Clearly you have not heard of memes, the only currency that matters.
I like to think that the human work is to minimize entropy.
So the currency would be entropy minimization.
Golfing with Dict
The trade secret argument is silly. As if it really matters if it takes your competitors a month to reverse engineer it from disassembling a binary instead of a week if you publish the source code. You can't mass produce something with a secret in it and expect it to stay a secret.

> Decisions about components + software are made way in advance of the car being made, so softwarey type things are outdated by the time they come out.

They're doing this wrong.

You have an infotainment system which is basically a PC/tablet built into the dash. It should be completely open. Like you should be able to rip it out and replace it with an actual PC or tablet running entirely third party software and it should still be able to do everything.

Then it should talk to all the other parts of the car over ethernet using published standards, no secret APIs. Not publishing the code for the ECU is silly but that allows them to do it and not have that infect everything else in the car, because its internals can be a black box but all the public interfaces aren't.

Then it doesn't matter how outdated your infotainment system is because anybody can install the latest version after the fact or replace it with an entirely third party one and all you need is a "driver" that translates the API version used by the ECU and other vehicle components into something that infotainment system can work with.
Yeah, I would like to see a break down of programmer, PM, designer, customer success, and the such. We could also segment by temp vs fulltime.
I would guess the wealth more than anything is what makes people pushy like that.

Commuting through residential areas by bike, all the most entitled car drivers are found in the wealthy neighborhoods. (For example cutting me off or turning in front of me when I have right of way)