skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a former Toronto resident I'm glad about this. In my eyes, Google lacks the track record or level of trust appropriate to make them a good fit for the project. They fall short on basics like privacy, user experience and commitment.

Toronto has a thriving tech community; I'd love to see some of the less-controversial ideas pioneered on a smaller scale by local small businesses who will eat their own dogfood.
Wait, that's like 4.4*10^7 clock cycles for my laptop!

Here's hello.sh (in bash) on a Raspberry Pi 3B+:

#!/bin/bash
echo "Hello World!"

xxxxx@xxxxxxx:~ $ time ./hello.sh
Hello World!

real 0m0.010s
user 0m0.001s
sys 0m0.010s

Yay, I beat the high score!
Sorry couldn't read it because of the pay wall, but I am interested - how do they solve the storage and transport problem? Always thought that was one of the troubles with solar for much of the region.
That actually does not disprove the GP's point. People do this when the price difference is too high, or when they don't know of any difference of value on both options.

Currently air travel is a completely homogeneous service. There is basically no difference from one company to the other, so it makes no sense not to go with the cheapest (even then, the flight schedule matters). That is not reason for a company to not differentiate itself.

(But I am very skeptical that a free drink would be enough of a difference.)
No IT Crowd, no Blackadder, No Father Ted, and none of the modern reboots (Perrin, Porridge etc).
Democratic governments exist to make their territories a better place, often at the expense of anyone who isn’t a resident of their territory.
I Hired a Team of Secret Shoppers to Find How Businesses Were Opening in Dallas
Why would you want that? Being able to control the mouse cursor without your hands leaving a typing position is great, and the entire point.
https://archive.md/cpfMS
I grew up in the south bay, around the early-googler generation of nouveau-wealth. I assumed the kind of wealth signalling typical then was normal. In my experience, fancy clothes were very abnormal and got you the wrong kind of looks. People liked to live in very nice houses on expensive land, but flaunting your wealth beyond that (and maybe your fast car) was generally looked down upon. Porsches were seen as a mid-life-crisis kinda thing.

I moved to NYC for after high school, and was incredibly shocked to see people actually wearing Gucci, Louis Vuitton, and not feeling self-conscious but rather better for it. I was likewise shocked to see how expensive the trendy secondhand stores were, again compared to the bay area. It all seemed designed so that, if you saw someone dressed in a certain style of clothing (either "boho-chic" or fancy brands), you could be safely confident they were rich.

I used to be repulsed and holier-than-thou about this kind of thing. But now, when I go back to the valley to visit my parents, I recognize the same things flourishing there, where I naively thought the "humble Californian spirit" wouldn't allow them to take root. It's been kind of sad to see the Santana Row-ification of the south bay take place during my lifetime, but everything moves in cycles, I suppose.

Does this match anyone else's experience? Is there a place where humility has survived as a popularly-held virtue, even in the face of not-atypical wealth/abundance?
Where are the "on the Buses" sets? Come on BBC.
TIPS are a risk free hedge against inflation.

Bitcoin is ... not that.
I care a lot about OSS sustainability (my github: https://github.com/transitive-bullshit).

I'm also a firm believer that SaaS is the most viable business model to solve this problem at scale. Sponsorships, ads, grants, etc are all awesome and serve a very useful role, but from an economic standpoint, they will never be able to capture any sort of value proportionate to the value created by open source.

I started working on Saasify with the explicit goal of making it easier for open source developers like myself to "saasify" their code and start selling it online.

I've been working on Saasify for the past 15 months and we're fully bootstrapped.

Large chunks of Saasify are open source on GitHub - here's an article where I discuss the open core business model and Saasify's approach to open source: https://blog.saasify.sh/saasify-open-core/

I'd love to hear your thoughts on Micro SaaS, monetizing APIs, OSS sustainability, and Saasify.
I've advised a couple of people looking to go to school to take a gap-year to hedge risk of the schools having their stuff together.

If there's anything I've noticed about higher education after working in/with it, its that they're constantly behind the curve in just about everything that's not sports/research related.

I would be very scared of having a second-rate experience due to a college (and professors) not being prepared for this to the point I would sit a year out and crank out gen-eds at home in already established online programs.

Take this all with a grain of salt... Maybe I'm paranoid, but I just don't see schools being ready for this and having a solid experience ready for new students by fall unless they've already practiced remote learning/class programs.
One think I like to keep in mind with this sort of situation is that building retirement savings and an emergency fund can have immediate benefits of the added security blanket they provide, aside from the long-term goal of retirement.

Even if someone got a late start or has a high amount of debt and retirement isn't looking so possible, building a safety net and improving your financial situation is never a bad idea.

I just got laid off myself, and while I'm many years away from any kind of potential retirement, my savings over the last several years put my mind at ease because I know I can easily go a year if I have to without any additional employment, even though hopefully I'll have a new job much sooner than that.
Tow things to note,

1. checks store of value for him

> [Paul Tudor Jones] said he evaluated Bitcoin as a store of value and decided it passes the test based on four characteristics: purchasing power, trustworthiness, liquidity and portability.

2. Given the futures curve is in contango, what does that mean for future expected price? https://www.cmegroup.com/trading/equity-index/us-index/bitco...? Up?
Servo may not ever be ready by design, as it is a research project and not meant to stand on its own. The way it's useful is that parts of it occasionally get integrated into regular Gecko as they mature.
Yep. References with the details on what we tried to do in v6, and how we rewrote things in v7:

- https://github.com/reduxjs/react-redux/issues/1177

- https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2018/11/react-redux-histor...
Makes no sense, your immunes, either by vaccine or prior infection fought off by the immune systems are the best to have., Those with active infections are the ones to be rejected. I think the article needs to be reworded to clarify and the tests for virus presence = infectious need to be separated from tests for neutralizing antigens = immune?
But don't worry guys, we're only burning coal to produce 40% of our power!
in other words, yes, it is created "out of nothing" (when handing out the loans) and once the "unexpected bad things" happen it becomes "real" (as in it is on the books and will now have to be accounted for properly)?
> The measured thrust is one order of magnitude larger than the theoretical calculations for radiation pressure alone.

Nice!
Discussed a bit in 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18827158
> The priority is to make sure that businesses essential to our way of life keep operating.

"Essential to our way of life" is actually a pretty expansive category, which encompasses a great deal of stuff that not actually essential by any reasonable definition.
I had a Russian guy want to do something similar with my shop. I bit him. It was awkward. My father told me I should have beaten him instead.
Whether an arbitrary program will end.
https://archive.md/yOzVk
> That works for the simplest of advertiser campaigns, but doesn't scale.

Actually, the examples I'm referring to are at pretty massive scale (>$100mm in spend) all the way down to <$100k. It works across a pretty massive range.

>. How do you break down your audience across platforms? I.e., how do you divide your audience in half across your ads buys on Google & Facebook, to make sure someone excluded from your ads on Google is excluded on Facebook?

This is a challenge for sure and it depends on how you do it, and its also where vendors like LiveRamp and Oracle do so well. As they have very high quality data sets that work across platforms they can do these sorts of tests and exclusions.

However! That isn't actually necessary. Typically when you do a test, you will isolate the test to certain ranges and hold other campaigns constant. As long as you have enough data to create a solid predictive model you can pretty easily isolate your effects between different channels.

> And that's not even the hard problem of how you do it across digital, television, billboards, magazines & so on.

See my above answer :)

> Even if you could get that data, if your campaign is flighted, you don't have enough time to act. If you have a big movie opening or product launch, you can't wait to see the initial response & then optimize.

Now this is a challenge for sure. For big launches, its much harder to create this kind of testing during the campaign. This is why testing ahead of time is important and for big launches media buyers are running off what they already know about a channel vs. testing during.

> These approaches can work for someone taking advantage of the latest Instagram Dropship scam, but they're going to work for where the bulk of advertising dollars are (big brands, movies, cars, consumables, etc.)

Completely disagree.

If anything, this doesn't work at all for small scale advertisers unless they spend real $'s on their campaigns (>$30k/month at least). Technically you could do a test like this at small scale, but unless your CPA is super low or you get a metric ton of clicks and impressions, you won't be able to get a key learning from it.
No AMD option, I don't think.
And protogens:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiSs-sGclcU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HwdsjXEbOQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGOFU62wVco
Google has a pattern of pull out of high profile announcements. Its striking.
And Microsoft Appcenter Analytics:
https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/uk.nhs.nhsx...
Nice work!

I've been exploring using AirTable as a potential back-end for read-sometimes/write-rarely data.
They were! The Maestro unit didn’t have expression inputs, or pad inputs. It only had rhythm presets that you couldn’t change and an external start/stop switch.

It was simple, but it required creativity and some electronics skill (or at least a lot of trial and error and soldering).
My first thought when I saw the headline was the inside of the Tardis. I'm happy that it's not only available, but featured prominently in the announcement.
Peep show was channel 4 right?
TreeSheets
if only they werent plastic. my laptops would be toast after about a year but my mbp is going on 5 (did have to replace the screen, but was done under warranty)
"extract value" -- what does this mean? Sell off the furniture? Fire 50% of the employees? I have image of Richard Gere saying "I buy companies that are in financial difficulties, I break it up into pieces, and I sell that off." Like stealing cars and selling them for parts, right?
It's a bust-out. It's much easier to look at the examples in mob movies, like when they took over the outdoor store in the Sopranos or burned the nightclub in Goodfellas.

They take over a business with existing good will and loot it, using that good will to delay the collapse until they've extracted all the money and left others holding the bag, usually creditors (especially tradeline partners like suppliers, or landlords) and employees.

Ref: https://www.experian.com/assets/decision-analytics/white-pap...
This isn't a case where a guy didn't pay his builder and then no-shows at court.

These are debts sold at >10% of face, often smallish debts that have accrued massive interest. Some agencies specialise in persistent calling. Some specialise in deal-making. Some specialise in legal proceedings. These are the ones we are talking about.

To work, they need to keep legal costs low. They often don't bother to have a case, because they're happy to win just the no shows. That's the formula. Buy 100 notes. Take them to court. 80 or so will no show. You can then try to seize the their assets. The whole thing is premised on the fact that these defendants don't open their mail. Either side making a case to a judge is rare.

It's a misuse of the legal system, and the court shouldn't allow it.
IT crowd and Father Ted were Channel 4, so unlikely to be included in this collection.
Fork incoming~
> So if you hit issues, do what you do on every other system which is "installing older Xcode / Visual Studio" ? That would not be an issue at all if the toolchain wasn't vendored as part of the distro, you'd just have something like rustup that allows you to use whatever version of the toolchain your project requires.

Or you could switch to LTS, which achieves the same thing.
I've thought the same thing. Doesn't IBM hold some patent/royalties on the use of a "trackpoint" though?
I ordered stuff from Banana Republic Factory about a year ago. I was on their email list, saw something I liked in the ad, clicked on it, bought it. It was on sale, a shirt for like $30. I had good experiences with stuff I bought from them in an actual store years prior.

The shirt came, and it was synthetic blend of polyester IIRC- the shirt felt like wearing a garbage bag, but much worse was that the fabric was so thin that you could see through it. I had a white shirt with a light logo on it of a tech company, and you could clearly read the logo through the shirt- and even with a plain white tee on you could clearly see where the sleeve ended on the undershirt- this was something I would have expected to see in the bargain bin of a Walmart for less than $10, not for $30 (which was the sale price) from a reputable brand.

What's worse- is they wouldn't even take it back without a fee of $6- I don't live near a Factory store, and a regular Banana Republic wouldn't take it back. I told the CS rep that they should be embarrassed for even selling something of such low quality, and to not take it back is just appalling. She didn't care, and that's the last I have ever ordered from BR online.
It's estimated that ~14% of common cold cases are caused by coronaviruses (HCoV-OC43, HCoV-229E, HCoV-NL63)... so although it seems particularly difficult, if we do manage to discover how to develop effective vaccines against Covid19, perhaps the silver lining is that vaccines against the related viruses responsible for a significant fraction of the common cold will be in reach.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_coronavirus_OC43
I hear chinese created viruses turn intectees into Maoists, better safe than sorry.
Which says a lot. Having a first generation that comes with compromises and caveats is understandable and unavoidable. It still solves a problem where there's nothing else to even attempt it. In this light the current 5G deployment is indeed just a severely compromised one meant to oversell advantages that are nonexistent today and handwave the disadvantages. You'd have seen a more mature 5G deployment in a few years if the smartphone market didn't need a nudge.
At least on Apples software it takes a picture of the background without you in it and then fills that in as a green screen with anything. Works decently enough.
Yes, most companies do something bad, sometimes and I'm all for forgive-and-forget if the error is understandable and they take steps to correct it. But doing something so way-out egregious as installing a rootkit on customer's machines speaks to a company culture that makes me extremely reluctant to do business with them again.
Yeah some pretty clear propaganda going on... from reading the released summary of the study the vast majority of dependents that did not find employment seem to live in job deserts and economically depressed areas. Obviously UBI won't increase employment if nobody is hiring.
The law of gravity is actually not super simple. Relativistic gravity is an incredibly difficult and complex concept to understand, and the Newtonian law of gravity is simply wrong, enough that it has big impacts on the real world.

Whereas the law of supply and demand is not only preceded by a lot of assumptions that never are true in practice, and even with all those assumptions still has serious exceptions that apply to more and more and more goods as you move from theory to practice.

The laws of supply and demand are simply not useful for analyzing this market. Any attempt to use them will have to be accompanied by more classical incentive analysis and experiments that mean that ignoring it will give you better results than relying on it in this situation. Attempting to apply it gives you ridiculous conclusions, like that demand for housing is increasing everywhere in the world at the same time faster than supply, even when in practice supply is often greater than demand, leading to empty buildings, while prices still rise.
Tool for Video Creators
This is sad. To me Keybase always seemed like it had a big mindshare among techies (more so before the cryptocurrency venture), but never had a good enough market share for its offerings (like chat, for example). As others here have said, Keybase could’ve launched some paid services.

With the shitshow that Zoom has turned out to be (there’s a long article on tidbits.com about the various issues), I don’t have any confidence that any part of Keybase as it exists now will survive. My belief is that it’ll shut down its services sometime this year or the next. I used it very rarely to verify certain identities, but am going to just delete my account and be done now.
> if you are using EC2 or a similar IaaS as if it were just a basic VPS

What more is EC2 than a virtual machine? Sure you have it tied into IAM that's tied into firewalls and whatnot, but that's doesn't make it radically different from a VPS.
Holy shit, that’s sad
I don't know about that. I suspect, generally speaking, per-user billing does not work for the vast majority of SaaS. It can really only work well in communication tools, where (1) most organizations receive a lot of value, (2) there's a network effect in play, and (3) expenses incurred by the provider generally correlate with the number of users. Slack. Jira. Notion. Etc.

For an APM tool like Apollo, only one of these requirements is true. It does provide a lot of value. But, there's no network effect, and their expenses do not correlate with users on the platform. That last point is the craziest one; being long-time users of Meteor and Apollo, I've always questioned the technical and executive leadership behind the Meteor Development Group (now Apollo), and they've done nothing in recent history to give faith that its a well-ran organization.

Retool (https://retool.com/) is another weird one. Amazing, amazing product. Truly transformative; what they're building there is unreal. There's a very light network effect in play, and usage may correlate better with users-in-app than it would with Apollo Engine, but charging per-user still feels weird. For them, I feel some form of bucket'ed plans, which allot X users, Y "applications", plus gated feature sets like SAML and Audit Logging, would make more sense. But, what do I know.
I really wish that rather than a thing that hooks onto the tow hitch you could rent a whole trailer with a small ~20kW diesel with a significant fuel tank, extra trunk, and perhaps even a built-in compressor-based cooler. Definitely put an extra receiver hitch on the back of the trailer for an extra bike rack, etc. And probably some kind of a roof-rack as well.

That way if you're taking a long trip (when you usually need extra luggage) you can also bring all the other stuff. Skis, food, clothes, bikes, kayaks, whatever it is you're doing. It all goes on the trailer.

Yeah it's not all that great that it's burning diesel (or biodiesel or whatever) but if you could convince people to drive strictly electric cars the other 355 days a year I think you'd see big improvements in nearly all metrics people care about nonetheless.
I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that if fast food places charged for condiments or soda refills in America, customers would become violent with employees.

A customer shot employees at a McDonald's because the customer wasn't allowed to dine in the restaurant: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-05-07/police...
Probably due to size?
Tapping social security funds to solve current crisis
>> 2D sails pave the way for reaching other star systems in a human lifespan.

Pave the way? Explain to me how the laser is going to work? There are some fundimental size/optics restrictions here that keep the sail very much a seconday concern in terms of interstellar travel.
I deal with a lot of "works on my machine" bugs, but the reason is we can't go cloud native. Or cloud.

I'm really interesting in a cross platform, rootless and low overhead containerization solution for native desktop apps. I haven't seen one that fits my use cases yet.
Yes, it's called Space Force and it's on Netflix. Can't wait.
Ugh, that’s nasty!

Sounds plausible, though.
Detroit has some of the greatest increases in rent in the US[0]. Despite its population decreasing [1].

As for rural communities, they are not comparable in the slightest to cities.

[0] : https://detroit.curbed.com/2020/3/4/21164568/detroit-rent-ra...

[1] : https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/detroit-populati...
Optically, this is suspect. But, I don't blame Keybase. This is an opportunity for them. I hope Zoom doesn't mess it up.
There would probably be an exception for people in the military or government service. If on the other hand you spent 6 months in the US working for a private business like Google, then it would be fair to tax you.
This is a naive take. Building luxury condos has definitely caused prices to drop, it's just that the effect of increased demand increased prices by more. Without the supply increase housing would be even more expensive.
One step closer to F-Zero. On a more serious note, This is really exciting. I would be interested to see how they would bill for this type of charging.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-Zero
please folks, dont do your banking on open coffee shop wifi
Just look at a typical city council video in the United States. Everyone who is there is old (because they have nothing better to do than spending 4 hours in a city council meeting), 60+, and they're against anything new.
Hmm, I wonder if there could be an interesting incentive alignment with the transaction of charging cars as they drive along a highway and collecting a tax for improving it.

There are other comments about political feasibility, but what if the same system became a way to re-produce the tax for use we originally built into gasoline.

Obviously theres a bunch of tax evasion / self charge cases that would need to be considered.
> but we currently have a crisis of science authority

Did science ever carry any authority on it's own? In the last few decades I've been living in the United States, I honestly don't think it has.

> I'm not sure what to do about it though.

I think what we're seeing now is really organized emotional manipulation on a massive scale. I seriously doubt that any of these conspiracies are truly organic, or if they are, that their current scale is organic.

Worse still is it's impossible to determine who is doing the pumping. Is it "activist" groups looking for funding? Is it "corporate" groups looking for legal leeway? Is it bored kids on the internet looking for entertainment?

As to what to do about it, I think the answer basically starts with a lot more investigative journalism. We don't do that anymore. It creates a vacuum that allows these groups to thrive.