skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wayland was designed by people who didn't like the features of X that almost nobody used (X forwarding, for example). And X is still around for those obscure use cases, while Wayland can serve almost everyone with a much simpler and cleaner system.

Now, why Canonical decided to go off and write Mir instead of collaborating on Wayland development, I have no idea.
What's that kung fu line, walk on the right side of the road you are okay, walk on the left side of the road you are okay, walk in the middle you get smashed.

We can decide to take the loss and let most people get infected, or we can be super aggressive about lockdown and contain it. Instead, we seem to have a compromise which is seems to take the loss, but slower with a porous lockdown which will have to last indefinitely. Now the other worlds are imagined in my head, so this may not be the case, but it is hard to look at e.g. New Zealand and not be frustrated by America's response.
The fundamental problem here is that very few sales are 'cold and direct'.

Very seldom does the funnel work like: 'Target sees and ad, buys the product or not'.

All ads ultimately have a lingering buy effect, and all ads are essentially also a form of brand advertising.

When they see your 'test ad' the first time, it makes them more or less likely to buy your product at some future date, the next time they are in-store or whatever.

For some kinds of things what you describe works, but for other kinds of things, and for bigger companies, not so much, or rather, it's harder to do.
The book explains probability theory is a more intuitive way.
From an income redistribution standpoint giving $500 and mostly getting less back can make sense. If you give $500 to 10 people and get zero back, but one of those people earns a billion dollars per year, it could be still be fine. Either way, it's an important datapoint. It should be an intentional decision to do it as wealth redistribution if that's the way we want to go, rather than pretending it's something it isn't.
Between the states. So the President could, for example, close the border between Georgia and South Carolina. But he couldn't, for example, close Georgia internally.
No, the consent modal is for generation of the wallet keys. It says nothing about the fact that if you agree to make a wallet, it will then use your keybase identity keys (different keys, not the shitcoin keys you consented to generate) to sign the attestation and permanently affix the resulting ad for Stellar to your profile.
Ask HN: What is the design process like at large tech companies?
I am working as a freelance designer and lately I've been trying to make my process more well defined. I'd like to know what the process is for designers at large companies like Facebook, Twitter, etc.

Are there any designers who work at large tech companies who might be willing to share?
Hitchcock's Thereminist: Samuel Hoffman's Theremin – A Short Demo
> that's now going to be portioned off to more giant, glass condo buildings

I hope it's something a bit different. Looks like Waterfront Toronto will turn back to the community for new ideas for Quayside.

https://waterfrontoronto.ca/nbe/portal/waterfront/Home/water...
Surely you realize that demand and volume for college has gone up in the US. Also, the US gives out unlimited "free" money to attend. (student loans) And "magically" the pice of college has in fact skyrocketed, or even "soaked up" the excess money.
Make sense. Currently using neither, but both are on my list to eval.
This makes me very sad because I fear it's true. I want to play around building successful side projects, but to get traction I need to play around with ads. To buy ads with my own money and knowing 95% of it will be wasted is too much of a blocker.
Maybe.

Their plan would have implied the eradication of the properties of much of the film industry in the city who would have had to move to likely more expensive locations.

Frankly, I was surprised they were cleared to build residences in that area (or were they?)

When I worked in the film industry down on Commissioners—just a short bit west of Cherry St—there was still phosphorus seeping up through the ground on occasion...

AFAIU Waterfront Toronto has rule over the area and they've done some pretty great work with the Harbourfront area, so I would put faith in them to do a good job with the region. I think their major roadblock (prior to the pandemic) is funding. https://www.waterfrontoronto.ca/nbe/portal/waterfront/Home/w...

https://portlandsto.ca/project-details/
I think the entire article is putting a case together against this religious like thinking. We need numbers, not anecdotes.
All advertising viewed/heard by actual humans has potential to increase sales.

I was not meaning to say that any of those mediums are ineffective, simply that inflated numbers aren't a new problem.

YouTube ads are actually one of the best values right now, because 1) a lot of advertisers are scared of video ads and 2) you get access to search audiences.

That being said, I don't care how great Google tells me my YouTube campaigns were. I care about dollars spent and leads that became paying customers (with a recognition that direct attribution undercounts, so break even is positive).
And that was not obvious from studies of pensioners etc?
“It’s Collapsing Violently”: Coronavirus Is Creating a Fast Fashion Nightmare

https://www.gq.com/story/coronavirus-fast-fashion-dana-thoma...
Good. Toronto doesn't need condo neighbourhoods with gimmicky smart-phone integrations. It needs re-zoning of low density neighbourhoods to allow medium density to be built, thus more uniformly distributing the large and growing population.
I looked at this exact thing yesterday and those are currently the best option. They're also passively cooled which is nice. Having to use NVIDIA is annoying because of the story around Linux support. I mostly worry about these being old new stock and having poor reliability because of that but maybe it's fine.
Okay, I'm imagining it. So what? There is a debate to be had about what sorts of protections we want to provide to debtors. But that's separate and apart from the existence of companies that specialize in debt collection. The latter is simply an example of economic specialization.

The problem everyone has getting their mind around debt collection is that they focus on the after-the-fact situation, instead of the whole picture. If companies cannot collect on debt, they will be less willing to extend credit. When you "help" one person who can't pay their debt, you're hurting several people in the future who won't be extended credit.

Student loans are a good illustration of this. People clamor to make student loans dischargeable in bankruptcy--citing examples of people with hundreds of thousands of dollars in crippling debt. But the median American doesn't have any student debt, and the median debt for people who do is just $30,000. Now as a practical matter, student loan forgiveness would just impact taxpayers, since almost all student debt is owed to the federal government. But if it was a normal debt market, making student loans--which are offered without any security--dischargeable in bankruptcy would cause student loans to dry up for everyone, even the vast majority of people who take on modest, manageable debt.
You can literally order this part for next-day delivery on Newegg. They are also, literally, on the shelf at Central Computer.

https://www.centralcomputer.com/intel-core-i3-9100f-3-6ghz-4...
My brain is minced - Working mom, loosing job soon
Since lockdown, I had been juggling with many things like any parent. Just to let it out - I spend 2 hours cooking every day for a 4 member family. Like for every woman, planning is the hardest part of all. Other things include, cleaning, washing, home making, sitting with my son for his school work, playing with him to keeping him motivated, cheerful, managing everyone's mood (I am the one who looses it soon), so in between comes my actual work. It is a struggle. In the back of my mind I imagine of how to go about official work. But I do not have anymore peace to sit on it for a stretch of 2 hrs. My brain is totally totally minced. I am already forseeing financial troubles. I am sinking. Thanks for listening to my rants!
This is literally a b2b platform. It wouldn't work to remove a paywall. But cool story.
Admittedly I'm prone to posting stories and I'm thinking of not doing so / doing it less.

Look at this story. Some guy, who honestly seems to have pretty questionable judgment did a thing and it was a bad idea.

What does that really have to do with this challenge from MS about a custom version of Linux? I would say almost nothing.
> An independent panel was set up to scrutinise its plans and released a report suggesting some of its ideas were "tech for tech's sake", and potentially unnecessary.

I wonder what could have given them that idea.

> In his blog, Dan Doctoroff said the firm continued to invest in start-ups "working on everything from robotic furniture to digital electricity".

Oh, right.
If your algorithm is already parallel then you go back to making each core do more work per cycle.
> Yes, and updating compilers don't prevent that at all.

You do understand that ABI backward compabitility is not ensured, don't you?

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/abi.html

Some software packages even break between distro releases.

The primary value of a distro is to provide a fixed platform that application developers and users can safely target. Risking ABI breakups just because a rare number of users wish to be on the bleeding edge without wanting to do any of the work to install their own software is something that's very hard to justify.
Keybase is sitting on a potential vidconf goldmine heading to our brave newcov world. Keybase was sitting on top of a VC flush trapdoor opening to the abyss.

Tech doesn't matter nearly so much as market. Marrying better tech chops to better market potential is a rather better investor storytime.

(Doesn't mean it'll work, doesn't mean Keybase tech will, or won't, survive. But the plave to be is Zoom's niche with Keybase's clue.)
Opportunity cost strikes again
Who both also had very high iqs, just not quite high enough at the age of 11 to be included.
Can’t provide a source, but my mother-in-law works as a secretary at a school. Uses her computer 8 hours a day, every day. She has a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard, and a USB-C dock that her monitor is plugged into. That’s all she ever has to use at work. At home she has multiple external hard drives with photos and videos on them, these all have USB-C cables, making the USB-A requirement a non-issue, really. She’s never complained about nor missed a port.

She used to have a thicker HP with all the ports, but this one was still plugged into a dock at work, as that was simply the easiest thing to do.

For her, her daily life has not changed at all going from all the ports to two USB-C.

Just an anecdote.
Great work! I agree that developing in a Kubernetes namespace makes a ton of sense. This is also the direction we want to take the GitLab Web IDE. Kubernetes is the interface to the cloud, both for development, testing, and production.
I sort of agree. In my experience scientists who are also good communicators are rare. Sometimes it's a personality thing but it's also a time thing. Most scientists don't have time to talk about science. They're too busy doing it (and grant writing, and grant writing, and grant writing, and teaching, and grant writing, and grant writing, and ...).
Not paying a debt is a "wrong" and enforcing contractual obligations is one of the core functions of courts.
Stavros thanks for the explanation, how does TileDB avoid downloading the entire matrix and do the slicing (locally)? Are we achieving this by breaking down a big matrix to a set of smaller ones? so that you only down the subset of that the current query need? If this is the case, what is the current measure we have to avoid mismatch on metadata (e.g. some error while uploading them to S3) that links them together? thanks
How is tje security situation? This post from few years paints a sad picture: https://sourceforge.net/p/usbip/mailman/message/35003716/
It looked like a de-anonymization attack and brought phishing attacks to crypto groups using Keybase group chat.

It was badly implemented, badly introduced, and harmful for both users and adoption of the platform.
I'd describe the pattern in slightly different terms: when done right, restrictions in a programming language (or library/framework) are liberating for the programmer.

The restriction of immutability spares the programmer from worrying about whether unknown parts of the codebase are going to decide to mutate an object.

JavaScript's single-thread restriction (not counting web-workers) closes the door on all manner of nasty concurrent-programming problems that can arise in languages that promote overuse of threads. (Last I checked, NetBeans uses over 20 threads.)

Back to the example at hand, C has no restrictions, but that hobbles the programmer when it comes to reasoning about the way memory is handled in a program. It's completely free-form. Rust takes a more restrictive approach, and even enables automated reasoning. (Disclaimer: I don't know much about Rust.)
"Zoom is based in California’s Silicon Valley, but it owns three companies in China that develop its software. The Citizen Lab said the structure allowed the company to lower its development costs, but added “this arrangement may make Zoom responsive to pressure from Chinese authorities.”"

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/apr/24/uk-governmen...

The implication is that China is hostile and leverages their power to censor/collect communication information from companies and their people without checks on this power.

They are aggressive in stealing IP from other companies and blocking software they can't control. They have history of wielding their power to pressure organizations to deny or ignore aspects of their history that they dislike (Taiwan, Cultural Revolution) and they pressure companies to hand over PII on people they find to be political threats without due process.

This is not a country you want to be a steward of an encryption identity standard.
Especially all the ads for a product that I've just bought. Amazon is the worst for this with their 'based on your interests.' I buy one 1 off bike tool and will never buy another bike tool in my life, yet they must think I'm a bike shop.
Enjoy the HN cynicism from July 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17487838
You're describing the broken windows theory. The broken window fallacy is the claim that destruction or waste is good for the economy because the cleanup generates economic activity (with the attendant multipliers). It's a fallacy because it leaves out that the original spender (by the owner of the broken window), on average, displaced other economic activity.
Locatee raises $4M Series A for its workplace analytics platform
I don't block any tracking because I want the web to know me and serve me with the stuff I might want or need.

Logging out of youtube feels like falling kneedeep into the gutter. What I personally want is more and smarter tracking, not less.

When I'm at random site I rather see ads for electronics kits I considered purchasing recently, not liposuction or some other gross random things I would never want or need or even like to be aware of.
San Francisco has changed immensely in just the last decade.

It may not be noticeable if you live there because you only see the incremental day by day changes, but as someone who only sporadically visits the Bay Area: it's nothing like it was in 2010. It's significantly more built up (and out), more skyscrapers, more apartments, more condos, more everything.
A re-fitted snorkel mask can save lives
Keybase is dead long live Keybase2!
This is poetry? It doesn't rhyme.
Coronavirus in semen of Covid-19 patients raises prospect of sexual transmission
> Extended characters in identifiers may now be specified directly in the input encoding (UTF-8, by default), in addition to the UCN syntax (\uNNNN or \UNNNNNNNN) that is already supported:

static const int π = 3;
int get_naïve_pi() {
return π;
}

Lovely!
There's no way to know anything for sure, but it's been experimentally confirmed that animal analogues can't be reinfected and that the antibodies people produce are effective against the virus. Remember that this is an emergency situation; we can't just wait and see, we have to work as fast as possible towards addressing the problem.
We have letsencrypt and permanent.org as non-profits. An idea of a identity and key non-profit sounds like another critical piece we would need for a free, open web
> some VSS-based thing I think

It was Source Depot, a fork of Perforce.

However, IIRC they moved to a git based Git Virtual File System for windows development a few years back..
Maybe have a look at Packet

https://www.packet.com/
Install Pi-Hole on Ubuntu 20.04 Laptop via WiFi
Here is a quick demo of dataframe i/o: reading to/from a pandas dataframe, and then creating and slicing a sparse array with heterogeneous dimensions (int and string):

https://gist.github.com/ihnorton/1544bb169b4ec8cd385e9c3e756...
This sounds like a good idea at first but just don't jump into conclusion about what the pro features should be. Ask you users explicitly, and make your judgement.
Not Mainstream = More Unsecure?
> I want cellular that is competitive with cable internet. I want bandwidth available for IoT devices.

It never will be though. Whatever frequencies you can do wirelessly you can do over a wire without the interference of other users using the same frequency at the same time.

Also a lot of promises 5G offers only sound good on paper. The higher frequencies don't travel well through walls (that's why it uses lower frequencies as well) and the maximum speed being talked can only be obtained during tests, but in the real deployment it has to be shared over all users.

Another problem is that the speeds don't mean sh*t if we have the same data caps, in fact higher speed is worse, because many applications will switch to a higher bitrate and consume more data, even when there's no noticeable difference on a phone.
What makes you think that CALEA applies to Zoom (in the U.S.)?

IANAL, but I'm reasonably confident that it does not.
Because they are known in advance and you could design to exploit their structure.
The psychology behind why some people won't wear masks
Is the total amount being spent on online advertising more than the total amount that was being spent on advertising in general, in say the 90s?

If so, what does it mean for all of those dollars to be more effective?

Does that mean that today's average net user is now subscribing to three different car insurance plans, because of how effectively they've been advertised to?
Sure, we cant shutdown forever, but I dont understand the rush to sacrifice.

Covid will be with us forever now, and in just a few months we already understand a lot more about it than we did at the start.

The longer we can delay mass infection, the more effective our treatment of the disease will be, and the more likely we will have vaccines.

Lets delay for a while, figure out the best treatment methods, and then let it through.
You'd generate ideas by trying to uncover problems that your target audience faces. You can do that by talking to them - or if thats not possible, just doing a lot of the secondary research, or even just observing existing behavior and seeing what has the most friction.
It's even more wasteful if you look at it at a societal level. There's an incredible amount of economic output that's devoted to advertising, so much so that there are large secondary industries (broadcast television, radio, social media, etc.) built around being advertisement delivery vehicles. Yet all of this economic activity is going towards something that's a net negative to society - an enormous amount of distracting material meant to manipulate a persons actions so that they're more beneficial for a company, and often less beneficial for themselves.

Advertising isn't alone in this. It seems like parasitic industries take up a large and growing part of our economic output.
Yes, apologies. I missed the very last bit of your OP, "I don't see either of those happening very soon."
It looks like a paper punch terminal, so the container collects the leftovers after punching
Teatro Premio Cultura a Federico Herrero Director
RON HOWARD VOICE OVER: It was a backdoor.
Because current unemployment support works on the idea that people must be scared by poverty into getting a new job, and so being unemployed is ultimately a state society tries to punish you out off.

If simply giving people money left them more successful at getting a new job, there would really not be any point in all the CV theatre a jobseeker routinely needs to perform.
These are interesting references thanks.

The Commerce Clause seems to specifically give the federal government control over people ENTERING the country and people CROSSING state lines, but doesn't seem to address the federal government declaring statewide lockdowns.

It does seem that the federal government can issue quarantine orders to individuals suspected of being infected, but again this is directed towards a specific person, and is an actual hard quarantine order.

The "Compagnie Francaise de Navigation a Vapeur v. Louisiana State Board of Health" says that the state can enact quarantine laws unless Congress decided preempts them. It seems to handle the opposite case: can the federal government prevent my quarantine? And the answer is only if Congress passes a federal law. This is a big hurdle, because the decision doesn't lie in the Presidents or his administrations hands.
I would presume that, if you have a low-budget application with high scale (e.g. you're a company designing a NAS, or other "Turing-complete but still embedded" system), then you'd ignore both Intel and AMD and look at ARM-based SoC solutions, no? You can get significantly better integrated graphics, for cheaper, on e.g. Nvidia's Tegra platform. Thus why Nintendo—ROI penny-pinchers to a fault—chose it.
> I want 5G

You listed the theoretical advantages of 5G. Whether or not the practice mirrors theory is debatable. But I can't help but noticed you missed listing any disadvantage. Most people are completely unaware of any because they don't make it in the marketing leaflets.

When you say 5G I can just as well read: I want close range, LoS connections, substantially higher power consumption for devices and increased complexity, higher costs, security concerns, and the inability to take advantage of the speed not only because it's purely theoretical but because data plans did not keep up in 99.9% of the world.

Listing only benefits can make even an amputation sound like a great way to keep weight off. I'm all for new tech and advancements but if it feels like 1 step forward, 1 step back then it's not much of an advancement. It's half baked and pushed just to sell "the new stuff".
Well that is how the law reads, but its not how it is applied.

Put it this way the federal government uses the commerce clause to regulate everything from farmers growing marijuana; farmer feeding their live stock excess crops they grew; restaurants from discriminating against diners on race; etc... There is no shortage of case law over 200 years showing how States rights have all but completely eroded to the Federal Government through the commerce clause...you don't see many farms or restaurants crossing state boarders but federal government can regulate them on the basis of effecting interstate commerce.
>a presidential recommendation for something, based on sound reasoning and solid evidence, backed by experts, would be very convincing.

I'm going to catch hell for this because "politics" but ... we're talking about Trump, here. A man who just recently had to walk back a suggestion that doctors look into injecting cleaning solvents as a possible treatment for COVID-19 as "just sarcasm."