skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Completely agree on the not going any faster point. The Mythical Man Month demonstrates this exact concept perfectly.

The budget lever is still available in limited forms e.g. do you devote two engineers from the team to project A or three? The point here is that the engineers have to be already up to speed on the codebase and already know how to work with their colleagues; and adding more on project A leaves fewer for project B, C, and D etc.

Also there is monetary budget. Can I solve an engineering inefficiency by throwing larger servers, or buying a licence for a relevant software service?
A 400$ Ryzen will outperform anything that Apple offers outside the 6000$ Mac Pro, so might as well get a 8 or 12 core CPU?

It's not like it's the law that you need to buy Apple hardware.
I am a solo founder with over 900 customers, and I get bored because they have very few issues or support requests.

You should at least give it a try...

I have a public slack where people help each others most of the time, and I also handle all support requests on the chat.
Every single board member has to go. Every single one of them. 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.

> It was for this reason that the board voted unanimously to approve the deal (aside from one trustee who is recused from PIR matters).

https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2019/12/the-sale-of-pir...
Depends where you live really. Some places say "the band is performing" and treat it as a singular, others say "the band are performing" and treat it as a collection of individuals. I think the latter is more of a UK thing.
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Fed policy inflates asset prices, those assets are owned in large part by wealthy people.

Let's say you bought a house ten years ago and the price has quadrupled. If you sold now, you could buy the same kind of house. No win, no loss.

However, if you took the money to (for example) hire people whose wages have merely doubled, you can now hire twice as many workers.

This is practically free money. Of course there's some speculative risk involved (the Powell Put) but it's modest.

Meanwhile, average consumers have to work their asses off to pay mortgages on overpriced houses.
Well, the problem that at least where I live the experts make statements on public policy outside their domain (e.g., organization of public transport) that are barely practical, if not down right impossible to carry out.

OTOH, someone well versed in economy but not in epidemiology or medicine would fail to understand some of the health implications of the current epidemic.

It's not a problem per se, but that's where the discussion on public policy comes in, weighing all the opinions from the stakeholders, then making a decision (right or wrong, but taking responsiblity for it).

That's why I'm wary of statements like "we will reopen when the scientists say so": it's a deflection of responsibility (they don't carry the burden, rightly so, for their decision, but politics does), and for the politics, a serious step back from its duties.
It's all over the US news that the healthcare system is having this exact same problem - because of all the procedures being cancelled, hospitals are in a terrible financial state and staff are being furloughed, laid off, and having their pay cut all over the place. What's interesting is that Americans seem to think that this is the result of some unique failure in how healthcare is structured over there.
If it was intentional, it was a horrific UX fail. Every ounce of my being convinced me that the way it was presented, I should be able to scale my monitors differently, and the fact that it didn't was just a bug nobody cared to fix.

If it really was intentional, a small dialog or log that explains _why_ I couldn't scale monitors differently would have sufficed, or, simply moving the percentage adjustment control out of the settings for each display.

On that note, 20.04 is supposed to support fractional scaling, but if I try to turn the toggle on, it just fails silently, so are we back to square one, or did a developer somewhere decide some precondition means I can't _currently_ turn it on, but didn't feel it was worth telling me, the user, why?
"In fact, I applaud the non-government organizations taking on the absolutely critical and necessary act of moderating their platforms, they should be doing it vastly more than they are."

To quote a Star Wars movie, "this is how democracies die, with thunderous applause".

These platforms are monopolies due to network effects. You know that. When someone says that they're going to shut down Facebook post for organizing protests, they're not motivated to not have the posting be present. Their motivation is to prevent the protest from happening in the actual physical space. Politicians have pressured these platforms to do this.

Again the agenda isn't to remove offensive content. The agenda is controlling the public. If that doesn't disturb you then you don't really get it.
The issue is that when we hire skilled craftsmen or engineers, we expect them to be familiar with and capable of using the tools of their craft.

You wouldn't hire a carpenter who didn't know how to use a hammer, why do we expect so called "software engineers" to be handheld through using a basic tool like git, which is entirely based on simple structures like a DAG, immutable hashes and pointers?
Non-technical fields are essential but the training and replacement is much easier compared to programmers profession. Not because programmers are genious talented people, simply because in order for a programmer to stay relevant to the field it becomes a norm to spend every possible waking hour in learning new software frameworks, updating skills. I feel guilty even when i watch competetive programmers youtube channel for entertainment. It is possible to treat the software job as a 9 to 5 job and dont have to spend time in updating the skills outside of working hours which is what a significant portion of the developers in service based software companies do. But it comes with a cost. You are at the mercy of the current employer and if they go out of business your chance of getting employed as a software developer is very low. The skill acquired in personal time is used to make the current employer profitable. With this context when people from non-tech departments like hr and accounting does not respond and tries power play is what makes the developers so arrogant.
Telegram seems to be very successful, they've really picked up some big names using their app. Like Milo, and Jacob Wohl and Sargon of Akkad...
> the efficient market hypothesis states that asset prices reflect all current available information.

Obviously interpretations of that information could differ... and some will be right, and some will be wrong.
One thing that bugs me with development workflow tools is how they never really integrate with the true workflow of developers. Once you have a development workflow with Pull Requests, Code reviews, QA etc, it would be nice to be able to encode it into the

What's the true progress of an issue (ticket, work item...)? Why do I need to remember to set a ticket to "resolved" after a PR completes, and so on.

Every place has a different workflow and they are usually very complex, but these tools (Jira, YouTrack, GitHub issues, Azure DevOps, ...) are complex. They are often configurable, yet they still (as far as I'm aware) fail to integrate the process part of things with the code part of things. At best you have some loose integration between version control and process e.g. "this ticket has these changes" but they don't integrate the two processes so that the state-machine that is a ticket (is it done? why is it not? is it because a PR build failed? Is it because an approval that must be done after merge has failed? is it because the issue has several pull requests associated with it and not all are merged yet?).

I absolutely don't mind complexity in these tools. Having an extremely simple post-it process is good. This is the second best. The process complexity in big enterprises and distributed teams will always be there. If I can configure a tool to make it go away I'm glad. The worst situation is when you have a hyper complicated process and no tools to help. That's the situation many businesses are in. "You didn't mark the two fields and change the state to Y and then send the email to the translation person and notify the regional development person about the change! You have to do that".
Its a tough thing to study but I'm not sure the definition of verbosity is particularly good.

>size of the clean (i.e. no comments, normalized white space) GZip’d program source code, in bytes.

Some languages idiomatically use comments and white space to aid readability whereas others use more verbose function and variable naming. Gzip will also encode patterns that could be very verbose (switch statements, unrolled loops, functions with same prefixes...) into very few bytes
Do Your Genes Predispose You to Covid-19?
> Yes corona is mostly deadly to older people, but even for those who do not die there are negative health outcomes which impact their ability to work and take care of themselves. What is the economic impact of that?

We need to know the incidence of these issues. Response needs to be completely different in case they're the majority of cases, or if they happen in the minority.

So far the evidence collected from what I've seen is case reports, so nothing clear or definitive.
Yes, that extra margin is the reason Apple doesn't have to stoop to some of the practices of companies on much slimmer margins.
The writing was on the wall a few months ago but still it's nice to see that this travesty has finally been given the boot.
This isn't countrerintuitive. This isn't just about massive money printing and stimulus packages or some voodoo economics.
People rush to stocks because stocks are long term investments, and there are no other good investments.
How I am handling it (required mail server):

Each email adhering to some rule (magicmarker[a-f0-9]+)goes to my account.

Each registration anywhere gets unique email address generated as magicmarker<b64(hash(domain+salt))>@mydomain.com
Salt is there to keep it unguessable.

When I get any spam, I can redirect it to /dev/null and verify from where it came from to sent hate mail to domain owner or whatever.

0 spam. 0 tracability. Ability to track who sold/leaked my mail address.
Article's argument boils down to the claim that outright inflation would buoy the prices of airlines, hotels, and retailers, and since that isn't happening, therefore QE isn't causing inflation.

Ongoing wealth inequality is producing a divergence in where currency is distributed in the economy, and thus producing an uneven effect on pricing. Where desirable investments exist, excess capital is flooding in to capture limited supply and causing inflation in the prices of those investments. Without a return to high employment, injections into capital markets cannot and will not reach Main Street and restore demand. Where demand is primarily driven by Main Street and is relatively elastic, we are beginning to see deflation, e.g. in the CPI which saw 0.4% deflation in March alone.

Arguing that the dollar, as a single fiat currency, has a single value is slowly becoming an outdated concept. The dollar is increasingly valued by Main Street and decreasingly valued by Wall Street. Ordinarily, this would be bridged by arbitrage - by Wall Street purchasing deflated investments and by Main Street selling inflating assets. But Wall Street can't capitalize on the low price of airline and retail stocks until governments permit those businesses to fully return to the market (whether they go bankrupt or not before that happens still being an open question, in spite of the Fed's injections), and Wall Street is failing to capitalize on other deflated opportunities, most spectacularly the failure to seize the opportunity posed by the collapsing price of oil due to a lack of storage. Meanwhile, Main Street has no appreciating assets to sell - the most common of which used to be real estate, but the failure of housing policy to encourage affordable mortgages and home-ownership has caused more and more of Main Street to rent their housing instead.

So there's real deflation that's being masked by an assets bubble. What will burst the bubble? If the Fed is committed to infinite QE, then eventually, political intervention. Look for the following:

* Intervention in housing: price-controls in rent and mortgages, as they become increasingly inaffordable for a Main Street with no income.

* Intervention in medical care: expansion of Medicare and Medicaid, as the demand for healthcare grows among the unemployed who have lost access to employer-provided health insurance.

* Intervention in additional markets that cater mostly to Main Street demand - food, clothing, energy.

Already we see Trump intervening in meat production to force meat suppliers to stay open. Why does the government have to force meat suppliers to stay open, unless they're no longer profitable because of production cuts (i.e. unavailability of labor) for reasons outside of their control?

The Caracas Stock Exchange, denominated in bolivars, has been doing exceptionally well, some 220% YTD ROI. Anybody in the audience running to purchase bolivars?
The Flag of False Patriotism
A few suggestions:

- Define the long-term goals of an organisation explicitly.

- Interpret these narrowly.

- Give stakeholders a vote, both in the election of officials and on certain topics.

I would argue that there exist (hundreds of) thousands of usually small, non-profit organisations that are run pretty efficiently. I think of pretty much all of the social and sport clubs for adults and kids I know of. A lot of interpersonal drama, but also countless of volunteers and people just working for their local community organised by their hobbies. So there's something about scale and dissociation with the original goals going on.
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That is great feedback - and pretty easy to implement. I'll have a go at it when I have a little free time outside of work. Thanks!
Release (YC W20), a similar product to Foundry: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22486031
The huge number of people killed in drone attacks[1], including a 16 year old US citizen[2] (and the subsequent killing of his younger sister, also reprehensible).

Is killing people in other countries like that not scandalous? I thought it was terrible under Bush Jr so I've no idea how I'm supposed to give Obama a pass.

So, again, I have this president and his 2 predecessors (do I really need to go over Bush Jr?) and in another comment the 3rd predecessor, Clinton, all embroilled in scandals and reprehensible behaviour. I can go on.

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-preside...
[2] https://theintercept.com/2017/01/30/obama-killed-a-16-year-o...
Aha thank you, yes I hadn't thought about that form. Pretty sure I'd still include 'the', not sure. Interesting!
Thanks so much for the kind words, suggestions, and feedback!

Yes, I'm Yusuf here, haha.

1. I believe the pricing is very flexible and competitive when compared to other usual suspects. Let's take Carrd.co as an example. Carrd doesn't offer monthly plans and a plan which offers custom domain costs $19 per year. What if you only need to use a page for 1 month? oneprofile.page with custom domain feature is available for $4 per month on the basic plan. Our yearly plans are 50% off and are far affordable compared to Carrd's. Carrd is great as it allows deeper customizability with CSS and JS. oneprofile.page is perfect for simple and quick use-cases.

2. Yes, you're right. I've been reading a couple of comments about it, too. I'll see what I can do about it!

3. Yes, I aware of it, too. I'm working hard to make it faster and will work on it gradually.

4. Is privacy your concern? Because the in-app analytics are not invasive at all. It simply counts visits and it doesn't detect any more than that e.g. gender, country, age etc. If you want deeper page insights with privacy friendly analytics, you can connect to Fathom or Plausible analytics.

Thank you so much for the nice comment on dark mode! Worked pretty hard to get it right. Still need some polishing though!

Hope you love the experience so far! And please share any other feedback that you have, I'm eager to listen and improve.
If like me you have no idea what’s going on here, it seems to be about book binding techniques/layouts. Just to save a few minutes of “what even is this?”
Yes, though this also affects many people who have retirement accounts and pensions. The difference is primarily between those who derive their income from capital (the financial economy) and those who derive it mostly from labor (the real economy).
I did it via WhatsApp and copying data from TextAreas the first time I played around with it.
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>4. Don't offer large salaries to anyone. The role shouldn't attract people who care about salaries, even if it means you don't attract the "best talent". That "best talent" was probably going to wreck the organisation anyway.

Is this necessarily the right move? I have a vague recollection of reading about Singapore and their approach to attaining top talent to the public sector with high wages. I could be totally wrong!
In this case though, one would assume zero objectivity from any paper. The piece referenced is editorial.
sure; it's fine for colloquial use, but terrible for a headline where the term is ambiguous, and the more common meaning carries a more sensational implication (that is wrong).
Your intuition about how it should work is indeed correct. Some podcasts don't seem to produce a high quality timestamp in the underlying STT engine.

I'll be experimenting with word-level timestamps. Right now I am just getting the timestamp of larger chunks (1-3 sentences).

Thanks for the feedback!
I see you were being sarcastic about there being zero chance you would ever communicate with me again, because you just did one hour later, so I'll reply:

Freedom of speech doesn't give you the right to not be replied to: that's not how it works, and you aren't the dictator of what I "need". But it's 100 percent in your hands to not reply to me, after you proclaim there's zero percent chance you ever will. Since you just broke your word about not communicating with me about anything ever "gain" (sic), by replying to my same post a second time within an hour, I'm certainly under no obligation to you. You have no right to control which threads I read and who I respond to. Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom of consequences from what you said, or censorship of people who disagree with you.
Pretty sure xrandr is just for X. Am on debian with Xfce, so not using wayland at present. AFAICT Wayland is the default option for Gnome sessions on debian, but I fell out with gnome around the 2->3 transition and have never looked back.

My xrandr line is not that easy to read but effectively, after I've set xfce hidpi support to double the size of screen elements, I increase the view window of the smaller screen by a factor of 1.8, and of the larger screen by a factor of 1.2, and put them next to each other -

xrandr --output HDMI-0 --mode 1920x1200 --pos 0x100 --scale 1.8x1.8 --output DP-2 --mode 3840x2160 --primary --scale 1.2x1.2 --pos 3456x-180

If Wayland can do that without so much messing around, great :)
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Possibly TensorFlow
The original Camera app is the only thing I really missed on my OnePlus 3, before I found somebody on XDA distributing the apk.
You need a signaling channel to your peer. This doesn't have to be a server, but it makes things simpler.
Researchers accuse Xiaomi browsers of collecting data, even in Incognito mode
How to See Past Coronavirus Hype
Why? What advantage does Crypto offer that the current financial system doesn’t. It feels to me to be inferior in the fact that transactions can’t be taken back, and don’t have a firm legal framework behind it; in terms of cost and latency, a third party is always going to be able to set up a cheaper to run system. What about current banking and finance makes crypto superior in any way?
I'm not sure that "stack-based subroutine calls" are associated with structured programming. An activation stack is required to ensure reentrancy e.g. if a subroutine might be called from an ISR or a cooperatively-executing task, in addition to suppprting recursion.
Thank you! I always appreciate feedback on how to make it better. Let me know if you have any specific feeback.
Oracle Women Score Major Win in Court Battle over Equal Pay
There's no need for SSN at all.

Everyone is identified by their birth date, the name of their mother and their birth place. (Their own name is not that important, for example twins can pull off identity fraud easily, as they can pretend to have the name of their twin, and how would anyone know!?)

Sure, we can go full 1984 and GATTACA and use biomarkers and papers and whatever. But that just makes puts many edge cases out of scope, doesn't solve them at all.

If someone shows up at the bank and claims to be someone, they can produce documents, either via simple forgery or by stealing someone else's "identity".

They can then pass all the checks the bank runs. (Sure, if there is some database that says don't open accounts for these IDs, then the scammer can start with persuading the admins of that DB to unlock the corresponding ID.)

And this will always happen as long as we allow fallbacks for people to get access to (and create) their accounts after losing (or without creating) a strong cryptographic key (password).
This is more related to how organizations work. That larger organizations tend to need to streamline more in order to scale up number of employees, and do more to maintain acceptable security simply because there's that many more people on board.

If policy is install whatever you want, and if you get hacked, you're fired! This just won't stand in court.
So policy is that IT department is responsible for installations, IT department gets the blame. Infrastructure is sort of "outsourced" within the company.

If you were accountable for those younger first-timers running I2P and Tor within security perimeter, what would you do?
Show HN: Apple Watch app to prevent face touch
Did davestephen's comment help though? Apart from suggesting a .local domain... that's a bad idea, try .lan instead.

Then you could type (for Plex, for example) plex.k8s.lan

Maybe we need the equivalent of traefik for DNS?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23040478
Some surprising names on that list. Mike Godwin?
Future of Corona
Everyone in sales is using the leaked emails. I have so many one-time emails that leaked (haveibeenpwned.com) and someone was smart enough to just use those leaked databases and sell the emails to sales departments.

I always ask the sales person where the hell they found the email because I just used it once somewhere long time ago.
EU chief backs investigation into coronavirus origin
Bruce Aylward: Covid-19 Taiwan interview controversy
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Yeah, I'd argue for the opposite (and often do, in relation to increasing politician's pay).

You want people who don't need to play the game and buddy up to people if they want to improve their lot. You don't want people who see the role as a stepping stone to "better things".
Apple might make it less annoying to unlock your phone while wearing a face mask
Whether variable declaration is 'flipped' or not depends on which languages you're used to. Duck typing has nothing to do with syntax or operators. ':=' is an explicit declaration (with simple type inference). The use of '_' to indicate an unused binding is common to many languages. Multiple return values in Go have about the simplest and most intuitive syntax imaginable. You separate the values with a comma both when returning them and when binding the returned values.