skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What kills me is the argument against a basic standard of living tends to come down to 'but who will be the plumbers, janitors, or fast food workers and retail?'

Well, I, for one, would be a janitor and be perfectly happy for the rest of my life - low stress, low pressure. Seems nice.

Fast food workers and retail would be more difficult, just because people would have to treat them like humans, if they didn't need the money from the job to survive. But that's never talked about.

Sometimes those shitty jobs are only shitty because the people you have to interact with make them that way.

In a prior career, I worked full-time retail management. I actually really liked that job, except for all of the shitty people who asserted their authority over me because I needed the job, and they didn't need to see me as a human due to my job.
> Also, what are you trying to imply by this assertion?

It's just casual nativism/racism - acceptable on HN as long as it's about China.
Just looked in the repository, looks like there is an app for it on f-droid. Do you have experience with Manyverse / would you recommend it?

app https://f-droid.org/app/se.manyver / website https://www.manyver.se/
That has been said about every illness that has subsequently been shown to have a single cause.
I grew up a fan of the track point, back when trackpads were either nonexistent or hot garbage (at least on PC laptops). Which is to say I definitely “learned how to use it”. Then I switched to Mac laptops a decade ago. Since then I’ve got to touch the track point a few more times and it felt so dated. People still tout the precision, but I can get the same level of precision on a quality trackpad, plus much needed fluidity in general, not to mention multitouch gestures.
> Talk to Louisville, where Google put trenches in the roadways

Yes, Louisville was indeed a failure. They tried something different to help speed up laying out lines, and it didn't work. All that is not really relevant to the comment above, which still is true regardless of the issue in Louisville.

> Ignore the title, Google decided not to repair anything

That's misleading, they decided to instead pay the city for the repairs instead of doing it themselves.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/04/googl...
They became easy to get because lenders knew their loans were non-dischargeable. That completely changes the risk equation and to act like it doesn't is an exercise in bad-faith.
This was an amazing read. Thanks for the post. While leading a really small tech team for a fast paced and ever-morphing world of Esports in India, this was a really helpful (It looks like your team plays a lot of CS:CZ. SoStronk is our product #ShamelessPlug). This point of yours caught my attention.

>Be extremely wary of technical debt. Know when to scrap and rewrite systems. We have scrapped and rewritten the majority of our stack, including our critical trading platforms, multiple times, improving them significantly with each iteration. These are tough decisions; extremely important trade-offs. Of course, non-interference from non-technical management is incredible luck.

This is what i have always struggled with. I fear the day someone asks me the version of a few web frontend libraries we use. Being debt free from day 1 is a bit farfetched for our industry. So the balance between "work on that tech debt" vs "build new features" always tips towards the latter. The philosophy till now has been to get it working and don't change what ain't broke. But make sure good engineering practices are always in place as much as possible. Still figuring out where and how do i invent time to fix tech debts and/or rewrite something
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Human-rated probably not, but with SpaceX's rapid iteration strategy, if they leveraged what they're already doing with BFR they could probably get something that size on the moon by then. The fact that they have working rockets going to orbit, as well as a process that iteratively improves on their methods, its not totally unreasonable. Especially when compared to Blue Origin, who has yet to put a single rocket in orbit.
Private equity firms raise funds (usually have a 10yr investment horizon) and use these funds to serve as the equity tranche for a buyout that the remainder is financed with debt. Banks (or other investment firms sometimes nowadays) will provide financing for these buyouts and that financing is later refinanced with syndicated financing through loans or bonds.

There are a decent amount of banks that were in the middle of this process, covid hit, and they are now stuck with those loans on their books.
I converted mine to regular bitcoin.
The IFR of the coronavirus is likely below 1%, and it disproportionately impacts the very old. Many would continue going out and engaging in productive activity, albeit with perhaps more precautions, absent a lockdown.

Looking at the available data, it's highly likely that herd immunity, and the decline in the number of deaths per day, would emerge very quickly, and then most people would carry on with their lives.
The best scenario would be if this led to keybase open-sourcing the server as well. I have no idea how likely that is.
Keybase has been pretty okay with free-speech groups like: https://keybase.io/team/det_disp

I wonder if Zoom will change that or not...
How Climate Change Is Contributing to Skyrocketing Rates of Infectious Disease
> Minimal “AI/ML” for image and document recognition as an aid to operations.

Thank you, for not overhyping an ML deployment, and instead accurately describing the scope and purpose. Also seems like a very good fit for the problem space.

Too many times you'll see that section morphed into some weird marketing technobabble.
We need domain ownership proof based authentication
One wonders what the alternative-history narrative would be
if the US had offered to pay the Brits for their soldiers’ snacks? Perhaps the common UK complaint about US soldiers
in WWII would have been: overpaid, oversexed, overweight, and over here. :-)
Just finished publishing a small game on iOS and Android yesterday. Things have sure changed, development and distribution alike!
Yes, they also use leverage to magnify their outcomes. Since they are equity, their downside is capped (it is a call option essentially, which means they should maximize volatility to increase the option's value). You maximize volatility with financial leverage (debt). This is more profitable when rates are near-zero.

Engaging in risky bets is not "unique" to private equity - this is true of any equityholder (take a look at VC). It is also typically why bondholders include covenants restricting particularly high-risk actions voted upon by equityholders. However creditors have no leverage nowadays because they need to stick their money somewhere (hello high-yield debt) and Treasuries do not provide a reasonable return.

Using debt is not unique to private equity. When rates are low - arguably artificially - it makes sense to binge on debt and volatility.
How Much Do Payday Loan Recipients Pay for Housing?
You forgot about 15” X1E, which is a desktop replacement. It’s still light and portable but comes with higher specs. I have one with UHD screen, 32GB and 1TB. Same weight as a 15” MacBook Pro. Configured with an FHD screen, it’s lighter than MacBook.
NY paid $69M for ventilators to an engineer w/o medical supplies experience
Google unifies all of its messaging and communication apps into a single team
Hum... I've searched the study, and it looks like results are still scheduled to be published this year. Granted that it was a quick search, but I get no source for the claim that the result was negative.

Besides, UBI being cheaper to administer than current social security, failure in finding any difference is a reason to adopt it, not to keep the status quo.
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I'm not sure what non statistical evidence of IQ would be? Would you mind elaborating on this.

> I haven't seen any evidence to suggest that it is strong correlation with an innate, biological, causative metric that closely corresponds to a general, popular notion of "intelligence"--which is of course the use that pop psychology immediately attaches to it.

I don't think you need to correlate IQ with anything physical for it to exist. But it's been correlated with genes, amount of white matter, size of different regions in the brain etc...

Maybe we have a different idea of what IQ means.

I would say the IQ "theory" could be broken down into a couple of distinct hypotheses.

1. Problem solving is a skill/ability - People who are good at solving some types of problems, will be better than average as solving other types of problems.

2. We can test this ability - We can write down problems and ask them to solve them. Because of 1 this tells us how good they will be at solving other problems.

3. This ability helps with some real world tasks - The real world has lots of problems that benefit from problem solving ability.

When we put together this means we can predict a portion of someone's ability at a real world task we care about (like physics or software development) by estimating their problem solving ability through a test. Based on the evidence we currently have I don't know how this couldn't be true.
Well, this isn't like having electricity or not. Mobile internet already exists. What would 5G offer you that 4G doesn't? All I've read about its shortcomings in range tell me implementation will be difficult, and reliable 4G is barely implemented where I live in the second largest city in the U.S. Not trying to be critical, just interested in learning a bit more, how will 5G be any different practically speaking?
Hm. I don't know.

My reasoning is about how much information can be encoded in the format.

The IEEE-754 double format have 11 bits to encode the exponent and 52 bits to encode the fraction.

Therefore, the multiplying factor from double is in the range: 2^1023 to 2^-1022. To give an idea how large this is, the scientist estimate there are about 10^80 atoms in universe, in base 2 this is "little" less than 2^266.

Most application only don't work with numbers on this magnitude. And the ones that does, don't care so much about precision.

Let me know if there is something wrong with my logic.
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It would be great to see a discussion about using Flutter vs everything else they tried. Same wrt to Vue.
We (the TypeScript team) have a bunch of private repos (blog post drafts, planning docs, reproduction repos, rando internal tooling ) on GitHub that are many years old. I'm pretty sure that Sam was mistaken here.
TensorFlow 2.2.0
Like, sure, if you want me to write Hello World, then I can give you a snappy timeline for that. If you want a POC of something very few people have ever implemented before, then that's going to take about a week. If you want that POC to be ready for production, then that's going to take a lot longer than you're comfortable with to test and develop.
Because one of the principles of private equity is to load up a company with debt while growing the bottom line and then offloading it. When it works the banks profit, the company grows and everyone is happy, when it doesn't work they are vultures that made a bad situation worse.

Instead of painful downsizing and adjusting to actual market demand they will keep things floating until it turns around or the company is so far gone that nobody will lend to them anymore.
Unprecedented study across 17m UK health records reveals Covid risk factors
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They still work, until they don't because the vendor stops supporting them.
I absolutely agree. Toronto has either single family homes (low density) or high rise condos (high density), but the medium density part is absolutely missing and it has a pretty negative effect on Toronto, I feel.
Dingbat
Then, "the economy" is bad for individuals, and we need to make some changes.
If I'm reading this correctly, some people still gripe about it. That's unfortunate but doesn't seem like much of a "cost".
Well, yeah, duh.

What do you expect them to do? Hire a PMC and fight a war with the police when they come around to raid the server room? Go into hiding so that the security agency can't steal the upgrade signing key from them?

We can't expect all of the internet to operate like Wikileaks and The Pirate Bay. If the justice system is broken, then the people aren't safe.
I'm not sure that really answers the question, though. My point was that only those with enough technical know-how get to choose to remain private; shouldn't everyone be able to choose as to whether they believe free stuff is a good trade for their privacy?

Also, why do we assume that the choice is between the status quo and the total collapse of the internet ecosystem? That there's no way for digital advertising to generate a profit without gobbling up ever greater amounts of our personal data?
Well, if search didn't find the room, it sounds like a plain old bug. (Or was the room marked ex-directory?) If you can file details at https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues we'll dig into it.

And noted, in terms of the version number being in the wrong place on Riot/Web.
That's different from the Empty Home Tax: https://vancouver.ca/your-government/vacancy-tax-bylaw.aspx
NZ did a great job of jumping on this early. Last week when I looked they something like 1000-2000 confirmed cases? NZ has been able to effectively eradicate the disease there with their early lockdown. It will be interesting to see how things go there over time (second wave? etc)

That is quite a different scenario than in the U.S., where there were hundreds of thousands of infections (millions?), not enough tests to go after eradication at this point, etc.

Were you thinking that the U.S. would be able to maintain a lockdown until eradication, perhaps with contact tracing? Is there evidence that such a plan could work?

I understand your struggle to see my point of view. Ditto! I read a book that posited that people are born with personality differences, and value some things more than others. For example, I feel very strongly about individualism and anti-authority, while others may be more communitarian and authoritarian. The world ultimately benefits from both.

Having said that, I wonder what practical benefits a person who chooses to self-isolate in any of a number of countries where this is endemic gains by forcing other to lockdown against their will when the hospitals are not overflowing. Why should the many young and healthy who face a negligible risk to continue in what is sometimes very difficult circumstances? What is really gained at this point?

Anyways, that was all meant to be a peek into my thinking.
Yes, The Red Cross and almost all blood donor clinics sell their blood for hundreds of percent in markup. NPR also had a good series on that too:
https://www.npr.org/2011/06/10/136931615/blood-bones-and-org...
Rentable portable removable gas generators that attach to you tow hitch are also a decent solution for charging on the go.
There's a third option: that enough time hasn't passed. I said they will eventually become Catholic. A person generally can't understand multiplication until they understand addition.
Don't know anything about it, but here's an article about a keyboard intended for the machine: http://xahlee.info/kbd/racal_norsk_kps_10_keyboard.html

Looks cool.
The data is stored after encryption by client which are open source (and by using boring© crypto schemes).
Many people want the absolute cheapest ticket because having an expensive ticket doesn't really improve your life at all, at least on domestic flights.
For e2e encrypted chat there's https://conversations.im. I've been using it for a while since it lets me bring my own domain and have been very happy. The Android client supports encryption with PGP keys and OMEMO (a double ratchet like Signal uses with some nice key trust options added on top to make it easy for novices, but configurable by experts).
Intel ME cannot be replaced.
I know it isn't ideal, but Fractal is available through Flatpak and Snap
Vancouver is fixing the problem that the parent said is the solution - build a bunch of luxury stock to solve your housing crisis. It doesn’t work out that way in reality, which is what they’re now addressing.
Will it even be good in the city? I live in a city and 4G is pretty crap. Drops the connection all the time, speeds are poor, latency is high.
As with anything in life with leverage, debt-financed buyouts magnify the upside as well as the downside.
AI-generated music that imitates real artists is raising complex legal questions
A few pieces of context - this builds on the insight that underlies WiTricity - https://witricity.com - near-field coupling of designed resonators for non-radiative power transfer. Specifically, this can enable very high efficiency wireless transfer in the near-field of resonators, which at these wavelengths is on the order of 1-5 meters. This is qualitatively different from other approaches to wireless power transfer and does have some real scientific insight which originates from the electromagnetics/ photonic community.

More specifically, this specific results builds on an insight from the same research group which led to a Nature paper in 2017: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature22404/ - that using an non-linear saturable gain element in a parity-time symmetric configuration enables robust power transfer in a range of conditions such as moving and the presences of obstacles. There's interesting underlying science here that shouldn't be missed for the focus on the application.
The key differentiator of Keybase (at least back when I joined during early alpha) is that it links identities across different web properties, so that one can easily find someone’s personal site(s) or profiles on other platforms with cryptographic certainty.

AFIACT this crucial aspect is missing from keys.pub.
Competitive doesn't have to mean faster. It just needs to be available and passable. 4G is pretty close in some markets, but with wide deployment of 5G mmWave, there might be just enough competition with the local cable monopoly to push better prices or speeds or both.

For context I pay a lot for 150 Mbps and really don't have any choice in the matter.
The US is such a weird place.
I haven't heard of this one. Will take a look. I've been cataloguing everything I've found HDL wise and maybe one day I'll put out a potential spec API for what "the best parts" could look like. Similar to the Rust "inspired by" parts.

I completely agree with the Verilog20 idea. That's the way forward 100%.

Cocotb is awesome in my brief usage so far. The thing that remains to be seen though is performance benchmarking. It would be great to compare the sim runs of two identical tests, one in UVM and one in Cocotb. I highly doubt it could match the performance of a well written UVM test, and this becomes an issue as your SOC gets bigger.
I recently found myself in the position you described, to a T. And we did end up switching to scrum...

I've left that company after having been unable to fix the situation, which was ultimately a political problem; as you said, we had an "executive whose philosophy comes largely from unskilled, fungible-labor economies". Is this fixable, or is "leave" the only right answer?
Have you thought about trying thin-film amorphous semiconductors?
The `Bowie Bond' from around the same time, was a much more interesting innovation:

https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2016/01/11/2149761/a-short-histo...
The project, including source code: https://opensafely.org/

Press release: https://opensafely.org/press-releases/2020/05/covid-risk-fac...

Paper (not yet peer-reviewed): https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.06.20092999v...

Interesting part of the thread about how they did it without putting patients' data at risk: https://twitter.com/bengoldacre/status/1258431405450833921
Why don't you like stamping out single family homes?

What is the benefit/cost ratio of 2-3 story houses vs 10 story housing vs 20 vs 30 vs 40?

Houses are for families with kids right? What do kids want? Kids want other kids to play with. Kids want to attend classes and learn stuff. The more options a kid has, the better.

Which area has more kids and therefore classes: low, medium or high density areas?

I understand that there is a trade-off where we don't want 100-story skyscrapers but to me, single family homes are an infrastructure luxury that hasn't been thought through and something we'd benefit from re-considering and re-educating people about.
Had the same thought.

Too bad we can't ask all the UBI recipients their long term mental state(Because there are none) so instead we'll have to go with this persons gut instinct.
Hi HN,

Firebase Realtime Database is a cloud-hosted NoSQL database that can be accessed from your Web, iOS, Android app using Google's Firebase SDK. But, Google doesn't provide an SDK for Apps Script. So, I wrote this library. You can use it to read and write data in Firebase using apps script using the latest ES6 features (promise/async/await).

Looking forward to your feedback.
Wasn't WebKit LGPL (because of the KHTML heritage)? I was under the impression that, for commercial usage, Gecko (with MPL) was more friendly. Either can be made to work, of course.
For the unitiated like me https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIRE_movement
I am not angry about Google Fiber, I'm disappointed.

This project reminds me of Google Fiber in that it had a kind of optimism backed by a tremendous amount of capital, both in cash and in goodwill. For fiber, of course I knew about the incumbents. The 1990s were an enormous giveaway to the telecommunications industry in terms of tax breaks in exchange for a nebulous set of promises and, as far as I can tell, no teeth -- what penalties for failure to deliver? They took the money and devoted it to lobbying and eventually as much regulatory capture as they could manage.

We knew going in that it would be tough. And of course infrastructure, physical infrastructure, is tough. You have legal requirements, like permits and easements. You have the "merely" physical task of digging all of these trenches, mile upon mile. You have an huge outlay of equipment, from ordering to configuration and maintenance. You have the relentless horror of the last mile. Most importantly, the competition wouldn't like it. Not one bit. They even spoke of it. I don't think anyone didn't know this going in, but the promise was that Google could and would deliver results because they knew all of this beforehand.

Somehow, despite all of that, it didn't work out, but they were very certain at the time it would. They even managed to convince me and I come with a fairly dour outlook on these kinds of pitches.

This has much the same smell as did Google Fiber. This I can be a little annoyed at because it sounds as if lessons were not learned.
Because they are competing against other airlines to show you the lowest ticket price. Price has been shown to be the only factor most people consider when buying airline tickets.
From a developer perspective, I prefer to work with cloud providers because I can do more with fewer developers because I'm not dealing with sysadmins too. I can throw up a EMR cluster with minimal effort and get a working product out the door quickly.

These things don't matter for large, established companies because they already have DevOps, SysAdmin, and Development teams. But for smaller dev shops, it absolutely makes a difference when you can generate a good bit more efficiency from your development staff.
The source code for the NHSX Covid-19 BETA Apps
I deleted my account when the crypto-spam emails started to arrive.
Encrypted git repos with ties to team chat...
Andrew Wilkinson on the PE Dance
I was hoping for the best of both worlds - something with a 14" 3K display, very light (don't care too much about thinness TBH), but with a good processor and 32GB of RAM.
Amusement parks are less competitive for entry price. Most cities are lucky if they have one within driving distance. Flights on the other hand are very competitive on price.