skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I splurged and subscribed to X-Plane's global scenery and all planes option on Android.

While it's a limited experience compared to a 3-axis stick and throttle on a mid-high end PC, it's still a lot of fun to pick out places like Gibraltar, Saint Maarten, and other unique situations and fly in and out on HUD / trail view.

(I had my toe in the door, did three hours of PPL instruction, never could follow up on it. And many hours of sims all the way from Sublogic days.)
Bitcoin – Unmasking Satoshi Nakamoto
The human v. algorithm power dynamic here is pretty uneven. The prospect of getting an instant offer from these companies is probably a net-positive for folks who are facing serious financial hardship (e.g. from lost rental income that was paying their mortgage), but the same system that enables it also really encourages unethical algorithmic low-balling.

Will a Redfin/Zillow data scientist use new coronavirus cases / county in their pricing model? Should they?
For 3, how are you adding the disks to the pool? Not as /dev/sdX right?

There are some easy symlinks under /dev/disk/ you can use.

I ten to use either by-uuid/ or by-label/ myself.
CyberSecurity principles. Live with them. Argue them. Apply and iterate them
Meanwhile, doctors working on the frontlines of the COVID-19 crisis aren't able to go where they are needed because of the H-1B rules:

https://www.npr.org/2020/04/18/837855173/immigrant-doctors-f...
>But how much food can you buy...

All the things GP listed were things that enabled him to make money and buy all the things, yet no one got paid for it.
Agreed. But everywhere I know of, including Texas, is indeed aiming to do lots of contact tracing so opening up the economy is safer.
I am also concerned about this, especially medical costs. What alternatives better track this type of inflation?
In optimized code, it is far more likely that one has a programming error in one's source code that an aggressive optimization revealed, rather than a bug in an industrial compiler. For example, an uninitialized variable that ends up sharing a memory location with some other variable whose life-time doesn't overlap in optimized mode rather than having its own memory location without optimization.

That one is caught be a warning, but there are thousands of possible errors that can be exposed this way.

Compilers have bugs all the time, but code in a write-test-debug-cycle typically has many more.
> No doubt nVidia could make a card that enabled games to support models with double the polycount of today's games [...]

The solution is to use tessellation on the GPU, on demand, based on projected size of features.

In blockbuster VFX heavy models are a recent phenomenon because mircopolygon renderer cores were replace with ray-tracing ones.

Models used to be much lighter, subdivided at render time and displacement, both textured as well as resolution unlimited procedural, added the final details.

The same offline rendering techniques that enabled the VFX of the 90's and early 2000's could be utilized in GPUs today to push geometric detail to the next level in realtime graphics.
> This is not fair to people that have spent their lifetimes building businesses and are watching them go bust

What is actually unfair to them is their businesses going bust, but here we are. We can either acknowledge the underlying reasons for why this is happening, or keep ignoring the elephant in the room of the ever-growing debt spiral.

You're shooting the messenger with grandstanding empathy, and that style of comment helps nobody. Indeed, people should be asking for more, rather than letting themselves be disenfranchised by fatalistic propaganda. People should be demanding a competent public health response. People should be demanding timely unemployment benefits that don't hinge on the whims of states forcing businesses to close. People should be demanding loans and disaster payments for small businesses that aren't stacked to benefit large connected companies. People should be demanding the right for workers to walk out over negligent conditions. People should be demanding a commercial rent stoppage. And people should be demanding an end to trickle-up economics so we aren't in these same inflexible overleveraged positions for the next crisis.
Unlike most ‘bets’ or even predictions about market timing that’s specific enough that you can actually turn that into a market position.

Do you have options or futures contracts for November? If not, why not?
> Writing is hard. Why is it hard?

Usually because the underlying ideas are inchoate, so bad writing is often a good diagnostic for muddy thinking.
Just to be perfectly clear here because I'm not sure you're just using my post as a soapbox or if you have misunderstood my argument: I agree that it's clear what real-time means in this context. I disagree that "usually fast enough" guarantees failure for a VST, because in the case of VST, "usually fast enough" is the only guarantee the host operating system will offer your software.

It's not "theorycrafting" to say that real-time music software running in a preemptive multitasking operating system without deterministic process time allocation will have to suffer the possibility of occasional drops. It happens in practice and audio drivers have to be implemented to account for the bulk of it, and the VST API is designed in such a way that failure to fill a buffer on time needn't be fatal.
Genuine question for anti-H1B people on this thread.

Do you think there should be a pathway to immigration for someone not from the US ? (Not just Indians/Chinese)

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Because honestly, there really isn't any at all. If all work visas are supposed to not have a pathway to citizenship. Then how is someone supposed to make it in ?

The diversity PR ? Which is almost explicitly an Anti-big country immigration visa, which even then, only has a 0.5% success rate ? (It is kind of hilarious that the visa thinks EU countries add more diversity to the US than those from other nations)

Or the investor PR ? ie. bribe your way into a GC.

Or be religious minister ? Because for some reason priests are a more productive part of society than people with PhDs.

Or should they be refugees. Which is also GC that has fallen out of favor among US politicians.

You say the H1B is a backdoor. But look at the other categories. People in the arts and general administration abuse the Eb1 GC. On the other hand it is almost impossible to get the EB1 GB without a willing employer (usually needs to be in research) and a top tier PhD.

Also, it is not just Indians. How do you think Europeans have historically immigrated to the US. Come over on an employment visa and then get a GC. Just because the ethnicity of the applicants has changed, doesn't mean that the system wasn't always in place. It is referred to as dual-intent for a reason.

I understand if the US wants to suddenly stop being a country that wants immigrants. But, they continue to sell the American dream, their inclusivity and proudly claim the the creations of 1st and 2nd gen immigrants as their own. That, makes them seem really hypocritical.
The data is a small subset of actual cell phone use, making it misleading and useless.
If the airport were to "close to the public" for any reason he could be considered as a Trespasser.

Heathrow (for example)[0] has a problem with homeless people sleeping there, if they're warned by security staff and found again then they're considered trespassers, and trespass is illegal.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdAVn5JWkhs
FDA grants emergency use authorization for Abbott coronavirus antibody test
This is actually impressive, I'm wondering if we could transfer the smartphone mic to a high quality one with AI
The bigger story here is the comment section. Why are Americans so enamored with conspiracy theories and hate?
I’m honestly not sure about collecting these debts.

In the UK they could technically be discharged through bankruptcy. But that takes a long time and ruins your life (you’ll be barred from a lot of carriers and lose basically everything).

In Qatar, it’s more complex. They use a weird mix of sharia and more western law. I’m not convinced these loans would be sharia compliant so maybe there is some wriggle room there? On the other hand suing the state airline in an absolute monarchy with no judicial independence may be difficult. I don’t think Qatar has a concept of bankruptcy (as all credit should be secured and limited against collateral). So they’re between a rock and a hard place.

Maybe they can flee and find a country (countries) that won’t enforce a Qatar civil judgement? But I think the west generally will so not sure where that leaves...
China’s Spaceplane Projects: A Mapping of Past, Present and Future Programs
That again is fundamentally wrong.

As I said go read the book and learn something. Pro-tip. You completely forgot about consumption and income taxes. And that there is unemployed labour capacity available - anywhere across the world.

There isn't a finite amount of stuff, there is always capacity to expand in a business, but it may take a while, and hardly anything is subject to price auctions (see PPE for details).

What happens when we hit capacity is that there is forced savings. You end up with spending capacity but nothing to buy or nothing you want to buy. In the vernacular your spending becomes ineffective. Excess savings have the same economic effect as taxation.

It's the excess savings that income schemes are trying to offset. But that just moves the problem from the financial sphere into the real sphere - why should I grow you any carrots if you're not contributing your effort to the common good?
Clickable version of your link, since it's a pain to select on mobile: https://imgur.com/Yqh9ILg
I was in talks with a (new-style) 'label' that sells samples, sound packs, and VST plugins. Some of their plugins have been purchased 25k times.

One of the things I've also heard from labels is that not only there's money in the VST world (it's also very crowded, piracy is rampant as noted, etc.), a lot of plugins are ported over to iOS and are sold as "virtual pedals". The number of sales and revenue there was noted as being very interesting.
What edition do you have? I wanted to buy it, but the Braveheart edition was sold out for a long time. I just noticed the "Community Edition: UBports" is available though and might just buy it.
Rust isn't going to make fast, lock free, shared memory data structures magically appear.
TL;DR get the origin to send you an email and look at the email headers.

This won't work for lots of sites. I'd expect it probably also doesn't work sites that use most mail API providers, but maybe some of them have SMTP interfaces and preserve the headers.
> in line with the present administration's immigration policies outside of COVID.

According to [1], the immigration rate under Trump has slightly increased compared to under Obama, and is at 3x what it was during 1960-1975. So the policies you refer to are nothing but ineffectual noise.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_the_United_Stat..., table "Persons obtaining legal permanent resident status by fiscal year"
Ask HN: How do you manage multilingual Slack workspaces?
How do you manage a multilingual Slack workspace where some members only know a single language? In some cases it's straightforward to define a language per channel, but what do you do with channels like #general?

To add some context on my personal pain points:

I've been working mostly with Middle Eastern teams and usually there's a mix of Arabic and English (and sometimes other languages as well), and for some roles like customer support you don't really need to know English and your entire job will require you to be interacting with Arabic only.

An example of where it starts to get messy is when a customer support teammate is trying to report an issue a customer is facing it'll mostly be in Arabic and usually a Slack thread will start there with mostly Arabic replies but most of the dev or QA teams speak English only. What I and other teammates who know both languages have been trying to do is try and summarize the whole discussion in English at some point but this can become very time consuming.

Is there any process or framework that any of you know of or have applied that you think can be of help?

Thanks!
Depends. Most countries have extradition treaties. If someone is wanted in a different country they will arrest them and send them over even though they are not accused of a local crime.

I don't know if Germany/India has one. I would expect it though, most countries figure if you are a criminal you are more likely to commit another crime so better let someone else deal with you before then. Thus such treaties are pretty universal.

There are confounding situations here though. Most countries won't make an international incident over what they consider a minor crime: if Germany hasn't asked India, India is stuck unable to arrest someone they might not want to. Also both countries have to agree on the crimes, if India doesn't consider what he is accused of immoral (seems unlikely), or they dislike the legal punishment they don't have to do anything. Many countries won't extradite murders to the US until the US agrees not to seek the death penalty.
Doesn't work if they use any transactional mail service.
It's really not. That is the literal wording of the quote.
I think what the author is railing against is the tendency to criticize something before becoming deeply familiar with the problem

There's a tendency I've observed nearly everywhere I've worked where a developer wants to totally rewrite some piece of software because "it is garbage." In actuality, his motivations tend to be a combination of "other peoples' code is hard to read and this is not how I would have done it" and not having the depth of familiarity with a problem that you attain doing implementation work.

In any cases, asking why something is a particular way is a good thing to do.
I have an original pinebook and it would be usable for light computing tasks (note taking/light programming in vim, web browsing with FF + no script) if not for the awkward keyboard layout. The other issue with the pinebook is the Mali 400 GPU is not open source, so if you are after a fully open device the pinebook is not it. IIRC there are also some video acceleration issues caused by the Mali 400 drivers.

The new pinebook pro looks like a better product, but I don't own one so I can't really comment.
How would we know the statistical significance of the harm to these children in the case of novel symptom presentation, when we don’t know the rate of overall infection, the duration of immunity, or any myriad other things about the disease path at this point?

Instead of admitting our ignorance of the situation and embracing precaution, you’re painting that ignorance as strength and hiding behind appeals to decorum. So again, which is the more “disgusting” to engage in?
> Contrary to USB, Thunderbolt is a proprietary connectivity standard. Device vendors are required to apply for Intel’s Thunderbolt developer program, in order to obtain access to protocol specifications and the Thunderbolt hardware supply chain. In addition, devices are subject to certification procedures before being admitted to the Thunderbolt ecosystem.

I thought that this had changed with USB-C?!
Also, if you happen to be on a laptop, Gnome 3 on Wayland is a MUCH better experience for touchpad input.

Less of a gnome thing than a wayland thing, but it matters since not that many DEs support it yet.

Basically, after having moved to wayland I find it incredibly difficult to go back and use X on laptops.
The virus appears to impair hematic function in the lungs. The oxygen builds up, and it is quite caustic. It creates what are called ground glass bodies. Since the oxygen is trapped in the lungs and does not move the blood very efficiently, you get hypoxia.
People who rent out Airbnbs which aren’t their primary residence, especially if they took out a bunch of debt for it, are squeezing the housing supply and driving up costs, so I’m not gonna shed too many tears if they get screwed by the algorithm. Let them eat a huge loss as a warning to others so they’re wary to try it again.
What APIs are being used to perform ray tracing in these new games that support it?

Edit: Found a starting point of an answer, covering Nvidia’s hardware at least, at https://developer.nvidia.com/rtx:

> Ray tracing acceleration is leveraged by developers through NVIDIA OptiX, Microsoft DXR enhanced with NVIDIA ray tracing libraries, and the upcoming Vulkan ray tracing API.
Well lambda calculus always looked weird and unapproachable to me until I finally sat down one day and said "I'm going to finally learn this" and it was really, really easy after an hour or two of going through the notation. Sometimes math is like that.
I did try that but still get tons of people apparently streaming games. Also I don't seem to get that many results. Also it would be nice to be able to classify things by language, platform etc.
I don't think its unreasonable to be upset at what Cuban did here. People just want to go back to normal without a billionaire's hired snitch at the table next to them.
Python Eval(): Evaluate Expressions Dynamically
> "... the way you look up or look down when you're trying to recall how you solved a particular problem"

Are you talking about NLP here?
From Loneliness to Silent Freedom
See also unpoly and intercooler, which are more powerful and intended for more fine-grained usage.

https://unpoly.com/

https://intercoolerjs.org/
Every Onboarding Mistake I Made (So You Don't Have To)
I live in an area with a large number of AirBnBs, specifically a beach town near Los Angeles. Me and a few friends were hoping to see a significant drop in home prices due to AirBnB landlords being forced the liquidate under financial duress.

Obviously we didn’t think this would undo decades of disastrous housing policy, but the hope is that some units would cross into striking range for those of us with good jobs. Alas, the price barely moved in my area, much to my surprise and frustration.
>Follow progressive enhancement. . . .

This is advice for a web site owner, and I don't see giving advice to web site owners to be an effective way to help internet users who are very annoyed with the web like I am. Web site owners are embedded in an ecosystem controlled by entities such as Google and Mozilla who either don't know or don't care about the dissatisfaction I and people like me have with the web. I have come to believe that the best way to help internet users who are sufficiently like me is not to try to improve or change the web, but rather to start a new internet service outside of the control of Google, Mozilla, etc. Great grandparent seems to have come to a similar conclusion.

Modern web browsers are designed to satisfy goals X, Y Z, U and W. You are pointing out that browsers can be used to do X. I (along with great grandparent IIUC) are replying, yes, it can, but a new service designed to do X alone will probably do it better with fewer bugs and glitches. And all the web site owners with goals Y, Z, U and W are really getting in our way when we pursue X; our moving to the new service would give us a way to separate ourselves a little from those site owners, saving us a lot of time and annoyance.
Architecture and further details on the GreenArray chip:

http://www.greenarraychips.com/home/documents/index.html#GA1...
Lol this might just happen
https://www.giuspen.com/cherrytree/

Hierarchical structure of notes, which are either plain text or rich text. Supports unicode. Can store notes "one file per node" or "the entire structure in one file". Works on Windows and Linux. Is free and open source. There are no magic characters, so you can copy-paste code without further editing. (This is the part that I dislike about most alternatives; the need to add backslashes before dozens of characters whenever you make notes containing code.) Supports encryption.

How to organize the nodes? I'd say, adaptively... start with one huge file for everything, and optionally separate the parts that grow too large. Or by access rights, e.g. "this needs to be encrypted" or "this I also want to use at work, but this is private". Refactoring is simple.

Right now I have two files I use at home: "Everything" and "Private" (password-protected). One file called "Computer science", which is shared between my private and company computer. And one file I only use on the company computer, containing company-related stuff, including the projects I work on. (For example, "how to do X in project Y" would go to the company file, but general "how to do X in language Z" would go to the shared file.)
What is iBuying? It's not really explained in the article. I'm guessing it's where redfin acts as the agent and facilitates the sales online, but I'm not sure.
Making RSA Great Again or Fishing in an Empty Barrel?
Hacker Folklore – The Funny Origins of Computing Terms
A billion "Up" for The Art of SQL by Faroult
Why Chicken Is Plentiful During the Pandemic and Beef Is Not
The CEO's comments seemed to indicate that the pricing was only to "build in some margin" for unexpected events, as opposed to "squeezing as much juice out as possible."

Having said that, publicly traded companies exist to maximize profit and if extra-lowballing property owners in the hardest hit areas maximizes profit, what should stop them?
I think the OP is referring to the commenters on Mark Cuban's blog (and not the ones on HN)
SpaCy and grammar go hand in hand What do you think of it?
Well stated. It's very clear to say it has a 10 GB limit rather than a vague "don't use this". SimpleDB and DynamoDB are at opposite ends of the scaling spectrum.
As an interviewer, I'd hope the applicant has done similar work

Especially in this market, unless you are, you’re not a special snowflake. You need them a lot more than they need you. Why would you expect them to put in any level of work pre interview?

My last two jobs where I was coming in because they needed my set of skills and I had three offers on the table and probably would have had at least one more of I had waited, yeah the company I worked for spent as much time selling me as I did them. They made sure that they moved fast and made an offer (less than two weeks from application to offer).

But, I’ve applied for my first role at a $BigTech. I started the process near the end of April. I had my first technical interview last week and the next rounds are probably not for two weeks. Who knows how long it will take them to make a decision. I would never have accepted that turn around at smaller companies. But $BigTech doesn’t need me to rescue a failing project or process like my last two companies.
Nice straw man. Where did I mention that?

The money comes from spending the money. And you can do that right up to the point where you run out of unemployment.

In the vernacular where government spending becomes ineffective.
Christ on a bike I wish I'd have read your comment first...

injects lysol
UBI is basic income. What you describe will not bring working people basic housing and basic food. Pensions and unemployment incomes are only a small part of population, you will need to pay everyone.

Taking money from healthcare and putting it in my pocket so I have to pay for it myself doesn't bring me much income you know.
“Family” includes all members of the family, including the parents. If he wanted to refer to just his children he would’ve said “children”.
Redfin buys and flips houses themselves.
Worth keeping in mind that the blackbody emission curve is generated by some pretty simple equations, multiplying the higher density of states at higher energies with the lower probability of states being occupied at higher energies. Not surprising that something similar (exponential suppression of X via the pontryagin dual of X) would show up in other contexts, so I think “coincidence” is actually pretty likely.