skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Americans are not?

Look at how they bent the knee with Huawei and ZTE. Also can’t figure out how to produce hardware in their home soil, as much as they’d like to.
I also would like to have a WebRTC lib usable from Rust, but it doesn't necessarily need to be written in Rust itself. This one being in Go means it's probably hard/inefficient to write binding for it, but maybe this one (in C) could do the job : https://github.com/rawrtc/rawrtc
Boeing doesn't have rocket operations right now. They are building a rocket as a NASA contractor. NASA runs the operations and NASA made the design of SLS.
Well informed legalized gambling against certain outcomes backed up by contracts with a large sum of people. The goal is to win more bets than it loses. To cover the losses for the times that it does lose the company pools the money you and others pay every month together. Whatever is left in the pool after all the contracts end is how much money the insurance company made. If they have to pay out more than is in the pool, then they lose money. Rinse and repeat.
If you’re encrypting your whole disk (encrypting /root doesn’t give you any benefit) then you will need to enter your passphrase before your system gets as far as reading /etc/shadow.

So that guide basically assumes you either already know your decryption passphrase or you don’t have full disk encryption. In either case, changing roots password wouldn’t lock you out of the root file system
As others have pointed out here, no, I was not off. It's a bit of a shocker to realize how much U is out there. There's a reason one should test your basement for radon before you buy a house.
I'm sorry you had a bad experience with Sway. If you can be more specific, with links to issues, it would be helpful for me to learn to deal with those cases better.

It's worth keeping in mind that maintainers see a lot more issues than you do. It's likely that I've heard and declined your feature a dozen times already, or that it's part of a broader class of problems which has been heard a hundred times. Sometimes, it tests my patience. And sometimes we do just have to say "no" - not every feature or change is desirable, and if we said "yes" to everything, then sway would quickly become a Cronenbergian mess.
And now think about the market. What distinguishes insurance companies? How can they innovate?

Aside from structuring the policies there is little room for innovation. And the competition can easily copy them. What remains is to reduce the sum of the expected claims. This is where blackboxes and stop smoking campaigns come from. But again this is not really that successful.

IMO the most obvious strategy is vertical integration. After all, most people are not interested in insuring against hospital or car repair invoices, but to obtain good health-care or a repaired car.

So insurance companies should try to operate their own hospitals or repair shops, operating them with little profit and stash the savings.
Banjo suspends state surveillance contracts after report details founder’s white
As you point out, school fails horrifically at this goal.

It teaches a huge amount of stuff in a manner that does not help at all in forming opinions on public policy while failing to instil the most important basics, such as an understanding of sampling bias and appreciation for nation-level scale.
It looks like you're wrapping some sort of api from hubhopper, so I guess there is not much you can do about setting up the search engine, but as a general rule you want to give extra weight to specific fields to end up with something useful.

In the case I searched for coronavirus the first hit of some sort of mountain bike podcast ranked higher than a number of podcasts that had coronavirus in the title.
In quest for vaccine, US makes 'big bet' on company with unproven technology
Shouldn't two programs with the same function but written in different languages zip to (just about) equal size, for a sufficiently powerful version of zip?
Totally agreed on point one, I think it is an incredibly sad state of affairs though.

For point two, I'm pretty desensitized to the sad state of affairs that is big-player web service support. The phishing vector of "Hi, I'm calling from Microsoft and need your social security number" is mind boggling. I've had to tell older family members (including lifelong software developers and tenured CS professors) that no major tech company would ever let you speak to a real human to save your life... too many times. I don't see progress happening on that front for some time, but I don't think that should stop them from giving us devs the damn docs. And for who the user would blame, I see a few counterarguments there. First, if I get some weird no-name IOT device, I'm definitely blaming the maker first if there is a problem. I think most consumers place a fair amount of trust in the big tech companies, and would come to the same conclusion. Second, if they want to lock down their platforms, they could just use the Play Store approach, and require adding a developer key somewhere and enabling a dev mode on the smarthome device.
I think we haven‘t seen global failure, we have seen how different governments have come up with different solutions to protect their people. It seems that those with recent experience of handling epidemics (like MERS) have fared much better than those who haven‘t. This is simply a learning curve effect - if a pandemic were to happen again in the next 10 years, responses would be much more swift and also more consistent; it is dependent on the resistence if the healthcare system - state-run systems have much scarcer resources than other systems, decentralized systems are more resistant than centralized ones; it seems dependent on how much policy is influenced by science; populist leaders seem to fare quite badly; and finally it‘s probably a good thing to have a female leader on top.
> Yes, that's right. I was a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and we had government funding and were doing quite well. Google got interested and my group and I came over to work at Google, basically because we both wanted to build a useful quantum computer.

So basically US taxpayers were involuntary seed investors who funded the highest initial risk to achieve validation and proceeded to be wiped out at Round A by Google.
Thing that stood out at a glance:
The box for 'dark mode' is bright green.
The box for 'more features' is dark grey.
And the alternating text colour choices in the dark grey box can be hard to read.

Glad you've pierced the HN bubble and are getting some wide feedback.
> And the hardware needs to be good.

So I am about to start a new job, and the new workplace was about to send a new Macbook Pro out to me, which I didn't want. So I went to do some research for a laptop with any Linux distro preinstalled so that I could go back to them and tell them I'd rather have this.

I found out that there is no decent laptop with Linux preinstalled. System76 has some decent systems, but they didn't come close to what the likes of Dell and Lenovo offer with Windows. For now System76 seems to show most potential in this area though, so it will be interesting to see what they do going forward.
Unavailable?

Clickbite title? Traditionally companies make money by spending less than what they receive...
Which benchmark programs are fastest?
Nicotine and SARS-CoV-2: Covid-19 may be disease of nicotinic cholinergic system
This is not true for most employer-funded group plans.

Of late, High Deductible Health plans have become more common, but clinics and hospitals still do not post prices like other industries, and surprise billing is still the norm.

In fact, IMO the most low hanging fruit problem is that physicians charge different prices for the same treatment depending on who the insurer is, which makes price transparency extremely difficult, and therefore “shopping around” extremely difficult.

Source: I work in health insurance
What UNIX portability?

Back when I was in the university, and Linux kernel was still at 1.0, I had the pleasure to write C and C++ code across Xenix, DG/UX, Aix, HP-UX, Solaris, BSD and naturally Linux also.

There is POSIX, there is what each OS actually do for the implementation defined behaviours, then the whole set of APIs that made each UNIX variant unique and were the selling point of the UNIX clone to start with.

Autoconf and friends did not start out of masochism.
> founder's white

I read it as the contraction for "founder is white".
Headline is cut off.
In other words the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer (this time without starving). Sounds like a great mechanism for those who are wealthy.
Xiaomi is stealing your search history
That doesn't seem like a spammy submission rate, considering the slightly related but different contents.

And because HN is an intelligent community, this post was deemed interesting enough, with the right offering and content, and IMO his behavior is reasonable
The best solution to email filtering is not receiving irrelevant emails in the first place. It’s always funny seeing people bending over backwards to justify terrible inconveniences they’re merely used to.

Plus, an email program that handles automatic cross referencing of tickets and commits? Where can I find that “better email client”?
WRI Aqueduct: Identify and evaluate water risks around the world
I think coming from JavaScript, the wins in writing Rust are much bigger than coming from OCaml.

So, as a JavaScript developer, I currently favor Rust instead of OCaml.
> At this point, it would be easier to just transfer over all the assets incl the PIR to an organization that is more worthy of our trust, such as the EFF.

That would certainly work in the short term.

In the long term however, wouldn't the EFF become a magnet for the types of people currently populating the ICANN board? They see that there is an opportunity there. So I worry that the long term effect would be to ruin the EFF as it is slowly overrun by opportunist that do not care about the core mission.

Not sure what a good long term solution is however.
> If you're hiring, be forthcoming about the dev experience

Now there are so many applicants for one job, I am sure they will. Especially if the dev experience is miserable.
Any company with the ability to measure time-on-site is also at least opening their site.
Usual job description require you to be a full stack engineer, and devops engineer, and hardcore c/c++ engineer and a whole bunch of other things for the price of one intern.

I don't know if OP has actually fully noted the requirements, but the point of this job is to work on improving gestures in Linux and that's all. If these requirements are all that's needed then that's it.
TL;DR: Nicotine appears to help prevent cytokine storms, and this may explain why fewer smokers get hospitalized than you'd otherwise expect from a respiratory disease. Don't start smoking yet, more research needed, etc.
What is awful with it?
And in three months, it will be called Azure DevOps Editor, only to be rebranded to Azure Code Online 6 months after that..

There is precedence with Team Foundation Services & Visual Studio Online -> Visual Studio Team System -> Azure DevOps (which can still be hosted on-prem completely separate from Azure) and yes I'm still salty about that.

Also worth noting that Microsoft explicitly keeps all of the code needed for this feature out of the OSS version of VS Code.
In your entire description, not once do you actually mention the performance of the companies in the stock market. Which is kind of the point of the article.
4K is overkill on a laptop. I recently got a 15" Thinkpad with a 4K screen, and while it looks gorgeous, I doubt I'd notice the difference with QHD. Though QHD is definitely an upgrade compared to FHD.
Got a Dell XPS 15, and the touchpad trashes every other laptop I've tried, but in my opinion, it still doesn't even come close to MBP's trackpad.
She puts (robot) eyes on the street to keep people safer
Email 101: Clickable links in emails are always GET, so extra parameters are set in the query string.

Marketing 101: User actions should take as little clicks as possible, so the action should be performed as soon as the user clicks the (GET) link.
Supported doesn't mean they are at the same feature level as fxgl used to be.

I am still waiting for OpenGL 4.1, the extensions listed here, and hardware video decoding, because from where I sitting glxinfo still reports OpenGL 3.0

https://www.geeks3d.com/20110609/asus-eee-pc-1215b-netbook-r...

So yeah, thanks very much for 2D and less than optimal 3D support.
Also TeXmacs and Guix. Basically most of the GNU software are based on Guile Scheme for extensions.
Higher education was never designed for getting a job. Rich families sent kids to be educated. Lately it is a degree factory. But it doesn't mean your father should have been barred if that is how he choose to spend it.
Broadly, they make money by doing statistical analysis on risk. If they can price the risk more accurately than their competition, then they can capture more premiums for less claim risk.

Maybe it's a function of zip code, sex, age, profession, hobby, weight, etc... while another company will add a question about exercise level and put different multipliers on each of those.

They are constantly refining their statistical models to gain an pricing advantage over the competition without taking on more undo risk.

This applies to all kinds of insurance.

Combating fraud is ALSO a big thing. So they often share lists of customers they believe have defrauded their policies in the past, and are starting to use AI to find which patterns reduce the risk most, as well as getting around certain metrics they aren't allowed to ask about - like ethnicity.
Thanks for sharing, that's encouraging for us. We spent 1.3 yrs building our software, and it took us 8 months to get our first paying customer (we did a lot of long free trials/beta users), and after 1yr since launch we're up to ~$2k MRR, so not far off from you. Seems like we're going at a snail's pace but I guess maybe that's par for the course.
This is the reason bitcoin will never be more than a way to move funds illegally and for a few gamblers to trade it online.

Society is fine with startup founders and "employee number 5" making their fortune because they put in actual effort to build a company.

The bitcoin millionaires happened to mine a few coins in 2011 before most people knew about it and then just did nothing as you said. Zero contribution to society from making that paper (or bit) fortune.

Why on earth would everyone else not on the right internet forum in the early 2010s make the few that were fabulously rich?

Investing in stocks is a similar passive income, but at least in that case the investors money is going towards some business that pays a wage to workers or provides some net benefit to society (hopefully).
I tried, I had to mount the disk. The next update brought it back again.
Maybe you think it's a bit too late to change it but: I'm not sure about the name! Rats don't have a great connotation with most people. Even SoundMouse is a bit friendlier.
I am beginning to think that while POSIX, Unix and X11 might have been innovative and very useful in the '70s and ' 80s, now they are really old and most of the computing landscape changed.

We need better operating systems metaphors.
> I feel being patronized by a large SW vendor who forces me to automatically run his software on my system after each login.

I know this isn’t really related, but we should really get rid of the nasty habit of genderizing people and companies.

In this sentence it would be more appropriate to use “their software,” not “his software.”

A large software vendor most certainly isn’t a “he.”

Edit: every time I point this out on a threads I get downvoted. That’s fine, I don’t really care about that. But it disappoints me to see that because it reflects how so many people are that much against a really simple way to be inclusive. So, I want to emphasize that this is just a polite suggestion, not an inquisition.
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I'd also add that going to your local specialty grocery, you'll probably find that the spices there are actually cheaper as well, sometimes significantly.
Yeah, this. Can't speak for the US but in the UK most of the middle class (at a guess around 50% of the population) has at least some* of their retirement savings in pension funds which rely on capital growth to fulfill their intended purpose.

*most of the rest being in house prices to which the same applies in part.
Is there an RPi alternative (ie. similar size, form etc.) that has better IO/Network speed?

I used RPis for my robot (https://sendc.at/dl/Kjjbt3dij6T733YgWsyv3p3Vv5GPGKO1q5IEFStV...) with daughter boards for motor control) and they wre pretty convenient, but never really considered running anything server-like on them because they have reportedly woeful network performance.
Most people don't learn data structures & algorithms. It has nothing to do with language. Most developers lose their MIND if you suggest a new LIBRARY (or framework, if you dare speak aloud such evil). I hate to say it but career success is all about bragging yourself up and so I rarely interact with reasonably well rounded developers just people who know a little syntax in 1 language blow my bragging skills out of the water.
The runtime needs to be performance, script languages are out.
He seems funny but I can't stand the Youtube-style "ADHD" editing with cuts every 3 femtoseconds. I feel like I'm holding by breath watching it. There's no gap to process what you've just seen or heard.

I get that it's effectively the point: you overwhelm your audience without giving them the time to consider switching to a different video, but I find it frankly unpleasant.
Are you aware of this [0] ? Seems similar

[0] https://learnitfast.io
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Okay.. check Fujitsu Lifebook series of laptops.
I feel like the author probably isn't a native English writer, so maybe give them a break.
That's why I loved OS X 15 years ago. But it's not open source, and it feels like it's getting less open with every new version. But worse is their hardware: I can't access it anymore. In a way, I think they peaked with the 2011 unibody design.
Good point and one I overlooked until you pointed that out. Let's leave genders at the door. A bad vendor is a monster without a gender.
We use JIRA to track our product development with a fairly large team (including 17 engineers) and while JIRA has its pain points, it does have integrations with development workflow.

In our setup, after a PR is merged in Github, the ticket automatically moves to the next “step”, in our case “Ready for QA”.

Beyond that there are automation workflows that accomplish much of what you are asking for here, the issue is that these are complex tools/flows that require a lot of up-front work and continuous maintenance which might not be worthwhile for all teams.
This is the most accurate assessment. Considering how "not secure" email is in general and how easy it is for this information to be passed around behind the scenes this is almost a non-story.

I feel this article really stunk of an attempt to over-sensationalize some sloppy coding that is probably happening on 50% of the websites in the world. To think otherwise is nothing but a utopian view of reality.
Fair enough, but FYI: In some languages, _all_ nouns are genderized and there isn't a gender-neutral form. e.g. in Arabic, "table" is grammatically female, while in Hebrew, it's grammatically male.
For sure. But most people in technology, and even a large number of people adjacent, know of GDB and GIMP so I always use those as my examples of "lisp in the real world".
Europe has shown in recent years that GDP growth can get decoupled from CO2 [1]. Also, it‘s not that the big emittors are poor countries - in the light of long-term survival, on could deal with lower GDPs than what many countries have today. It‘s just a matter of priorities.

[1] eg https://qz.com/791865/climate-change-charting-the-extraordin...
I don’t think secretarial services would help with misrepresentation.

And how much more help would she need?

Georgia Tech has really high admin costs with fees per semester above $1000. That’s just the explicit fees and doesn’t include the admin costs that are included in tuition.
Like in the other comment in this subthread, I had vertical take-off and landing vehicles in mind.
Which will be possible when algebraic types get integrated into OCaml, part of the work has already been integrated due to the ongoing multi-core changes.
Or a 16 core 3950x because works payin and watching a 32 thread beast chomp through a linux compile is legit popcorn worthy.
I think Dang has long ago decided that wouldn't improve HN, and I tend to agree.

Tagging an article as paywalled would imply that it's inaccessible to non-subscribers, which isn't true; inaccessible content is banned from HN.

Paywalled content is only allowed if the paywall can easily be bypassed, so tagging it as paywalled would just cause more confusion, not less.

Everyone accepts it's an imperfect situation. But it's still the least-worst situation.
Peter Zeihan explains the current geopolitical landscape
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This is actually pretty cool. Lately I'm thinking a lot about what a better SRS could look like. Currently the best one in my opinion is Anki, but I want something that is both simpler and more flexible.
Computer scientists create a 'laboratory' to improve streaming video
Scientists Design Super-Light Carbon Nanostructure That's Stronger Than Diamond
Not a large forest, https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/GoUsers, but it expands fastly.
So what breaks if you use "*.[lastname].local" for your home network?
When it started, skype was p2p, and it wasn't anymore after microsoft acquired it.

There are alternatives to skype, obviously. I don't understand why most of those alternatives have a hard time becoming more popular. I'm not even sure those alternatives are p2p.

Because it doesn't require a lot of bandwidth to run a p2p chat/video system, so it seems like it's pretty cheap.
Kind of a lazy one, though. And I say this as a WSJ subscriber who regularly finds the editorials worth reading even when I disagree with them. In this case, it's just knee-jerk anti-anti-capitalism without bothering to understand the nuances of the situation.
> At that rate, I’d need to get between 500 and 1,000 users in order to reach an MRR that would let me go full-time. With that many users, as a solo bootstrapper, I’d be spending all of my time on support.

Sure, maybe initially as you work out the bugs and missing features. But you don’t go from zero users to a thousand overnight, so users 1-10 will probably have more support requests than 990-1000 because you’ve worked the kinks out as you go.

Also, if you’re able to find people that are willing to open their wallet for any amount then you have very engaged users. As they fully integrate your product into their workflows, you can find ways to increase the value you provide to them with upgraded, higher-priced plans, pushing your average monthly revenue per customer up.