skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zoom works great on Linux, it's a proper native app and the quality is excellent. Screensharing is notoriously tricky on Wayland and has been a shifting target that is just now starting to settle, I'm sure it'll eventually work.
Patrons whose interests are diametrically opposed to yours will outbid you. Patrons of billionaires will produce coverage favourable to them, and will have far broader reach than the guy begging for Patereon subs, likes, tweets, follows.
>Doesnt mean no difference but maybe not enough to always charge a premium.

Thats why people call Neiman Marcus 'needless markup' :D
Remote Controlled Fan Timer
You think the abundance of student loans is a good thing?
When you play Leisure Suit Larry for more than 5 hours Larry kills himself
Microsoft isn't turning out for the best, though.

They are just very good at putting a dusting of Open Source sugar on things.
Nothing lasts forever. No software, no programming languages, no operating systems. They will all pass out of use.

I see only git, vim, and emacs lasting until the end of my life.
Ask HN: Do you ever feel that you’ve done “enough” work for a lifetime?
What I am driving at is that I’ve produced an extraordinary amount of writing for work over the past two decades. Enough to fill a book or two, I think:

- Thousands of long-form help docs and troubleshooting articles.

- Hundreds of thousands of thoughtful, considered emails sent to customers, each addressing a unique problem or piece of feedback.

- Entire sections of employee handbooks—hiring, onboarding, training, security, support, and so on.

- Hundreds of product pitches, briefs, specs, and countless iterations to product and marketing copy.

- And more team, business, and feature launch updates than I can remember.

Almost all of this work is still used in one way or another today. And it’s not shoddy work, it’s good stuff. I took pride in writing, self-editing, and presentation. In the long run none of it will matter, but the process of creating the work mattered to me at the time.

I would imagine that many of you are in the same boat—your years have been feverishly productive. That is something to be proud of, right? And yet I find it so difficult to let go of the (artificial) urge to continue to create, to continue to produce, if only because that’s what we are "supposed" to be doing.

I’ve written so much to and for other people that I no longer have the desire to write anything for myself or the people in my life. Does anyone else want to put down the pen for a few years? I think most of us, as purposeful knowledge workers, have produced more content, more work, than our grandparents could have ever needed or wanted to produce throughout their lives.

Surely we have sent enough emails, reviewed enough pull requests, and written enough documentation for a lifetime? I don't mean to imply that I want to stop working. I'm not sure what I am grasping at here.
Such a line of investigation would establish strong empirical grounding for any models you might come up with.

But you'd have to really care about the quality of your model to do all that work.

Models derived from authority may lack such grounding but they are way more convenient.

And convenience is king.
China is a country with even less oversight than the US.

For a company that does security that's concerning.
How a Core AI Algorithm May Work in the Brain
Apple and Google can help the world out of confinement, but time is running out
Show HN: A super simple todo list chat bot
I am a software engineer who works closely with a team of bioinformaticians. Your reply suggests you only have one side of the story.

A bioinformatician is someone who has quite serious programming skills on top of their biology knowledge. They are frequently bottlenecked by compute and so tend to have a good understanding of data structures and algorithms. They usually know 3 or more languages and are no strangers to databases, version control, containers, et cetera.

And yet I recognize the feeling from the article: they get stuck in the heap of complexity we (as an industry) have created around a bog standard web frontend. The majority of us are not doing rocket science - the applications I’m working on today do similar things to the ones I worked on five years ago. Yet somehow, the ‘how’ of it, the whole Rube Goldberg machine, tends to get more convoluted every passing year.

I often get the feeling a nonzero percentage of it is introduced purely so web developers can feel they’re “real engineers” whatever that may be. There’s nothing to prove, now stop piling on junk and reinventing wheels.
https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/docs/v3
>I'd feel more comfortable knowing nobody had nuclear weapons

I think we all would, they're terrifying devices. However, that ship has sailed. People know how to create nuclear weapons, and that information can never be removed from the world. The fact that these weapons CAN exist at all provides all the incentive a nation needs to create their own. The best we can do now is keep eachother in a perpetual Mexican standoff
There was some interesting discussion between the LLHD[1] and MLIR[2] folks about just this topic recently[3]. My takeaway: modeling behavioral HDL semantics in the IR is a huge mess that has to account for all of the complexity in the existing HDL landscape. However, there is hope for modeling structural HDL semantics in an IR that could be the target for many languages.

You mentioned LLVM, and I think of MLIR as sort of a successor to LLVM. I'm hopeful that a low-level HDL IR is standardized as an MLIR dialect, so the compiler ecosystem and the hardware ecosystem can start to unite.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22825107
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22429107
[3] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1x7B0IRdcJ5JBQvfHbPUBcShbTFC...
Let me throw in Popsql (free for 2 saved DB connections, $12/mo for unlimited). I've used a handful of the above but Popsql has become my darling if only because the UI has a productive and inviting feel at a reasonable cost. It's obviously on the expensive side compared to OSS and one-time-licensing-fee products but when I'm firing off dozens of queries per day, it's worth it. As a bonus, their site offers live chat support directly with the engineers so the handful of times I've had some small issues, they've been super helpful.
I've noticed a fairly big distinction in what I learned as science and the philosophy of science as it was practiced up until around the last 20 years or so and now.

Science was based on rigorous falsification. Scientists actively tried to prove themselves and other scientists wrong. Science has always been more about, 'well we know it's not all of these things, so it's probably that until we prove that wrong too'.

Sometime in the last couple decades, it's stopped being like that. Instead it's, 'my models and data say this, so it is this and everything else is wrong'.

Science at this point is really only authority driven because journals and even governments charge exorbitant prices for access to them, cutting out a vast majority of the population from actually partaking in any part of the scientific process.

When all you get is contradictory news reports on a handful of selected research from journalists that barely understand what they're reading, you're going to be stuck with an elitist authority driven system.

There's zero reason for this in todays world other than control and profit. Even within the scientific community, there's 'caste' systems, financial guardianship and other such barriers, keeping again, many people from learning and partaking.

Science isn't hard, it isn't magic, it's a systematic way of looking at the world through observation and falsification. That is all science is. Anyone can do science. I've taken groups of kids, volunteers and many people and in short time, taught them to do science.

It's just people don't really get taught to do this. It's easier to control a population that's trickled information through 'authoritative' sources than it is one that's educated and capable of thinking for themselves.

This is stuff I was literally taught in school, by other scientists. Like, we were actually taught that most people need to be given only the information they need to know, because essentially they're too dumb to understand and scientists should just run things in the world. I'm not making this up, we were actually told this by several of our professors.
Another citation: https://investors.zoom.us/static-files/09a01665-5f33-4007-8e... (warning, PDF)

> We also operate research and development centers in
China, employing more than 700 employees as of January 31, 2020.

You can find more stories from last year talking about that was how Zoom had such a large engineering staff, is that it was cheaper for them to pay for R&D in china than in the US[0].

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/26/zoom-key-profit-driver-ahead...
Despite this article over-hyping what's happening the author summarizes things well.

"So why is Microsoft bleeding overall market share while Ubuntu is gaining so rapidly? One reason, as WindowsLatest points out, could be the COVID-19 pandemic and a significant decrease in company-owned PCs being used at the office.

And perhaps people are exploring alternatives at home."

A lot of people have more free time lately to mess around with new technologies lately across the board so while I'm happy to see that, it doesn't necessarily mean much.

Bringing up Windows 10 here is almost just for show.
Appeasement: How the UK government failed to fight the coronavirus
>"We're thrilled with the match, and we're excited to be working on security that affects everyone we know."

https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/

Argh, yet another for the list. Certain cycles in the tech world are both extremely predictable and regrettable, yet for most of them the sting seems to fade a bit as the decades go by. But the acquisition-for-the-talent/IP-now-great-product-is-toast one somehow never, ever manages to lose its capability to be depressing. On the contrary new ones just make me think back on previous dearly departed that never got an equivalent replacement. It's part of what's made me particularly suspicious about new non-OSS "free" offerings, because that's generally just not sustainable. And the better it is the more I beg them to have some sort of decent paid tier. I guess some though just plain are aiming for a buyout from the start and that is in fact their planned profit/exit strategy, and fair enough but still ouch each time.
I was starting to look at the space of public trustworthy identities, are there any viable alternatives out there that are vouched for in the community?
I'm particularly interested in how you do about understanding the problem in more details, brainstorming solutions, working with your peers and getting feedback/review, and finally what the final set of deliverables are.
Infrastructure Security Without Slowing Down Developers
The reality is that vested interests (Billionaires and nation states and political parties) will have an easier time in buying more favourable journalism under a patronage system, than crowd-funders will.
When the Sun has turned into a red giant and all life on earth is reduced to microbes... Cobol will remain. :)
The masses aren’t militia cosplayers camped outside a Baskin Robbins. They’re retail workers, nurses, bus drivers, etc for whom social democratic policies poll at comfortable majorities. And they’re writing op-eds asking not to be sacrificed for the sake of the economy.

What do you think it would take for you to realize this?
>that same land will be given to another generic developer (Concord/Tridel/whatever) and they'll just do more of same

Pre-COVID I'd likely agree with you, however due the new realities of COVID I believe the future of cities has drastically changed.

I personally don't believe Toronto will recover from COVID to anywhere near the state it held at the end of 2019 and therefore further expansion/housing/real estate development will likely look drastically different.

>Toronto is a fairly conservative place, so it makes sense.

Compared with where? And why would you believe that to be the case?

My own interpretation, having lived there for years, is that the appetite for further infrastructure development has been strangled from Torontonians via very high costs of living, low wages compared to similar cities and high direct & indirect taxes.
> I'm not going to make any prescriptions about how the money be spent, but the important part is that you take it away from those damn rich people!
>Git Virtual File System

Hows that coming along, I wonder.
> the 4G network really is not capable of handling any sort of crowd at least not in my area

As someone living in NYC and using 4G daily with few problems, I suspect this is a problem of your telecom provider not having adequate infrastructure or having a bad configuration for handling many connections to a few nodes.
> Now imagine that SSH going from a Citrix windows desktop running on a Windows 10 VM on your linux laptop. Every key press reacts in around a second. Welcome to banking "security"!

Oh god are you one of my colleagues?
That's my dream.
I live in LA and don't have this issues with crowds disabling me from using 4G.

Regarding the earthquake, yes it is common that you can't access SCEC website right after an earthquake, but this is not a problem with 4G. You can have 10 gbps over fiber and the site still won't be accessible, because the site itself is bogged down by the traffic.
You bought a branded article from their official store? That pretty much guaranteed paying the maximum price.

It depends on the product.

Lately I've seen a lot of items on brand stores lately that are cheaper than in any online marketplace, with the added benefit of being 100% guaranteed to not get something that's fake/used/Amazon/knockoff.
It seems like that strategy is difficult in an efficient market of unethical debt collectors, as intuitively they would be able collect a larger fraction of the debts than the friendly debt collector.
You could just buy older-gen AMD cards? They still work. Like Apple with their hardware, AMD sees no reason to produce new "value" SKUs, when you can just buy their 1–3-gen-old flagship cards for "value" prices.
If Google didn't show ads, the money would all go to the SEO companies.
> Why shouldn't we remove the lockdown if we can manage to do so without overwhelming hospitals?

Because until we have an effective vaccine or treatment, that'd mean something about 2% mortality rate across the infected population, which, without any containment, would be close to 100% as this thing is crazy contagious. That's 6 million dead people.

And keep in mind that 2% is a very optimistic number. Germany has twice as many. In the US about 6% of the confirmed cases are already dead, with only about half recovered. From that 6%, it'd be 22 million dead people.
I am a Keybase user.

I am disappointed by Keybase's impending doom.

If that comes across as negative, it's because it is.
I think you might be skipping a few layers of abstraction there, but you could have something like a parametric PCIe or I2C core that would autogenerate both the hardware (de)serialization logic and the Linux-side driver logic. If your driver was written in Haskell, you could even use the exact same library on the hardware side and the software side. So let's say you have an FPGA card in a PCIe slot - with a change to a single file, you could change the wire protocol on both the Linux side and the FPGA side.
I am not a resource (2015)
Fact or Fiction? Scotland’s Darkest Historical Events
> [...] and updating compilers don't prevent that at all.

This is incorrect. In practice, for larger code bases, upgrading to a newer version of GCC or Clang is something that must be done purposefully, and you must test.

Sometimes it turns out that your code relies on some compiler behavior which has changed. Sometimes newer compilers are stricter than older compilers. There are plenty of real-world cases of these problems!

> Xcode 11 can ship code that works back to macOS 10.6 [...]

There are a number of features that are specific to the macOS toolchain which make this possible. Take a look at the "-mmacosx-version-min" flag on the macOS compiler. This selectively enables and disables various APIs. These features don't solve all the compatibility problems, either.

> Visual Studio 2019 can still optionally target windows fucking XP !

We're talking about Linux here. The Windows toolchain is radically different.
there is no such thing as the "middle class". It's a political concept, not an economic one.

It is absolutely an economic concept.

It has no definition.

It absolutely has a definition - a very clear one: the middle class contains anyone who repeatedly ends up every month with disposable money after all their expenses are paid.

Furthermore, if you try to define it the way is usually defined - as the people making between x% of the median

Nobody except yourself defines middle class they way you claim.

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/strawman
It doesn’t have to be mainstream. A niche product can be viable.

Unless you begin to accept investors money who want an exponential growth at all cost. But if that’s what you want as an investor, no idea why you would invest in Keybase.
The implication behind “we don’t use Redux, we use hooks” is that they’re using React’s Context API directly as a “store”. A component at the top level has some state, probably using the useReducer hook, that state is passed down using a Context Provider, and child components can access the data with useContext.

You can DIY a Redux imitation with hooks pretty easily but making it as performant as Redux is harder.
That’s the one. Thank you
I tried to explain in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23033922

...why a UBI at the US federal level takes away freedom to try better ideas to do good at other levels, is morally wrong, is harmful, and that we can do much more good with persuasion, fundraising, letting states handle it (or smaller scopes), etc etc.

(With down-votes, a thoughtful comment is appreciated; thanks.)
They are in a big rush because they have the power to do whatever they want with local towers, etc.
Local storage?
Multiple cursors, jumping around in the text without the mouse, etc.
Yes, I think that’s a valid way to put it. “is”, though. Because WSL2 is so different, WSL1 will stay, for the time being. You can use both side-by-side.
Governments will always suck but we need them
"Never waste a chance to pee" -- grandpa

def changed my life for the better
This is an excellent answer. I know that mediacom services 98.5% of our area with 1gig fiber... yet somehow our community (neighborhood) doesn't have the option.
> The last stats I saw showed Sweden experiencing 4x deaths per capita compared to its neighbors, which is a clue that eschewing lockdown does make a difference.

The reason why some countries have significantly higher death rates from coronavirus: it permeating nursing homes.

The countries that put in strict controls overall and maximally protected people in nursing homes have the lowest death rates.

Of course, the death rates worldwide are under-reported, and overall, worldwide, on average, the death rate is expected to be double of what is reported. To get an idea of what the true death rate from coronavirus, you would also need to compare previous death rates in previous years--at the same time of year. There is more work to do on that, because you would ideally have projections for if an epidemic never happened this year.
You give different secretKey to each recipient. This way you know who leaked your email.
We don’t know about data plans because 5G hasn’t been widely deployed yet. The same could be said for 3G->4G transition, but then we started seeing caps move from 500MB to 10+GB.

Line of sight connections are great in crowded cities. Large venues can install cells locally for even better performance, and wide deployment of these cells is an accepted part of the deployment.

Power consumption is an issue, but that’s an issue that will improve over time and also applies to any technology upgrade in modern devices.

I don’t list the downsides because each one is either so minor as to be a non-issue, is totally hypothetical and didn’t apply to previous generational upgrades, or a downside that applies to literally any new mobile technology and therefore doesn’t need to be said.
The single largest thing we can do is undo the changes to bankruptcy law signed in 2005, it removed bankruptcy as a tool of the poor to discharge excess debt. It's caused there to be very little downside to lending, and lead to an explosion of debt.
Ask Hackaday: Wink Hubs, Extortion as a Service?
> was it literally 100% for money or did want of these goods play a role:
> cotton, silk, indigo dye, salt, spices, saltpetre, tea, and opium. Surely access to those provides some benefit other than making money, which it also did for them.

This is an utterly meaningless distinction. Money is fungible with all of those goods.
Thanks. Any in particular that you can recommend?
It won’t, because the favored status granted to carriers will put cable out of business, and you’ll be stuck with Ma Bell again.
Comment above says their private stuff is on azure devops
It's not absurd to imagine a lot of people are manipulated into believing whatever the person writing the check wants. We can't pretend Cambridge Analytica never existed.
You should make this a top-level comment.

Ed: or maybe a blog post to be repeatedly deployed in threads like this one.
Profound Ignorance. The more you think you know, the less able you are to learn anything. Being profoundly ignorant doesn't reduce your ability to do anything in life, but it can be uncomfortable for both yourself and others around you. We like thinking we know things, we like hanging with people who know things, whether anybody knows anything or not.
Is this just fear mongering at this point? While I can understand the research value of this, what's the point of this article?

Coronavirus is one if the many virus that make up the common cold which means it's transmitted very easily even by touch. I want to know what kinds of things people are doing where they come in to contact with semen without touching someone. If you are coming in to contact with semen like that, isn't there much greater things to worry about?
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, because I'm not aware of any ways to do this save for writing the Verilog from scratch.
> and then you need to spend 50-100€ to just get boot graphics even though the machine will be headless 99% of the time.

Buy a serial-over-USB patch cable; connect it from the NAS to your laptop; open an STTY emulator on the laptop. No boot graphics needed.
The whole point of it being universal is that UBI gives incentive to work on top of it for more while providing a maintenance floor for those unable to work while still providing some demand for the products which are still needed.

Things would be far more spartan with more of the population on UBI in a shutdown but they would be alive and their "self support" would be an outsized negative externality compared to what they generate.
Nasdaq Composite turns positive for the year
In my case the site was google but yes individual sites are always at risk of going down.
I'm pretty sure I ended up receiving a load of XLM without opting in at all.
I don't think it's true that Zoom has its "entire dev team in China"; doing some research myself reveals Zoom definitely has engineering operations in the US[0][1].

I'm not disagreeing with you on the implications of having engineering teams in China, I think you would like to put that paragraph in your original post to give some context.

[0] Tech job postings in US: https://zoom.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/Zoom/0/refreshFacet/318c8...

[1] H1b filing on engineering positions: https://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=Zoom+Video+Communications+...

edit: better formatting and grammar