skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not as much as I'd like to but more time on repetitive tasks then desired at the same time. I.e. I'd like to do more cooking when I know an ingredient might be getting close to expiration (that damn chicken breasts I let thaw but then forgot to cook because we ended up ordering out for the night) vs making a shopping list and doing 40 checks of how much do we have, what can we make, what did we make recently we either enjoyed and want to try again and tweak, and not repeating meals.

All of that tracking of what my partner and I are making, ingredients, tweaks, etc... is almost entirely in my head or quickly put together google sheets that are categorized but difficult to analyze in any historical fashion.

I'd rather just be better tracking my actions at point of interaction with the goods and free up more time for analytical development and more longitudinal reflection.

I really started focusing on my cooking skills about 4, 5 years ago and have appreciated the result of those efforts. A lot of chef skills I appreciate is the ability to improvise and combine what's around into an incredible dish and I think that something that let my data side push usage and expiration as inputs to that decisioning (arrowroot flour been in there for a year, I should make those fried shrimp we had when we were on whole30).
Any plans to use these in tandem with X-Plane?

Looks really fantastic!
Hillary didn't promise to hire an auditor over, and over for years, then hire an auditor, and then fire the auditor when things started going pear-shaped during the audit. Or, you know, have 30% of her email seized in an AML sting. My point is, the analogy falls over right quick.

I'm also not asking for proof of a negative (that Hillary didn't destroy her emails). I'm asking for proof of an affirmative. That Tether does have funds to back it's liabilities. Should be easy. Bring in KPMG, show them your bank accounts and have them attest to it.

If they do that I'll shout how wrong I was from the rooftops. I'm only asking them to follow through on their numerous, repeated promises over a half decade.

"We are aware of online discussions about Tether’s lack of publicly-available audits. Periodic audits of our bank balances have been performed by the Taiwan-based auditing firm TOPSUN CPAs & Co. The results of those audits were for the benefit of shareholders and were not in a form suitable for public consumption (to begin with, they were in Mandarin)" [1].

... they couldn't share these audits because they were in Mandarin?! Where on earth would they find a translator.

[1] https://tether.to/tether-update/
Love this. SF seems to be progressing rapidly towards the goal

Edit: Does anyone know why PPE supply is the one metric with little progress ? Seems to be the easiest thing to meet
This is another good point. Even for day-to-day transactions, VISA is not instant. The only thing that's instant is the authorization that you can spend X amount of money. But the actual transfer of funds from customer account to merchant account takes days. Whereas, again, with Bitcoin or crypto, it's minutes to settle.
I don’t know about that.
>When I was in my early forties, 15-20 year old girls were still coming on to me. I will be 50 next year

I've read that when Scott McNealy met his future wife (they married when he was 40) she thought that he was a Stanford undergraduate.
I'm just looking at what the bottom half of the population gets. There's on average $1600 per person available. And that's apparently also what the average person in the bottom half already has, since together they apparently own as much as these three billionaires.

So that means if you completely equalize the wealth of the bottom 50% of the population after redistributing the wealth of these billionaires, the average person in that bottom half will still only have $3200.

So maybe they can get their car fixed, but they still can't send their kids to college.
Similar story here, had COVID-19-like symptoms in mid-March, but the Abbott test (administered at CityMD) came back negative.

It makes me wonder what exactly is going on with this test. Do some people not produce antibodies? Is it overly specific to one strain of the virus and other people in NYC got a different strain that doesn't produce compatible antibodies? Was there some non-COVID-19 respiratory infection that hit NYC at around that same time that went under the radar? Is this test somehow just not as good as we think it is?
I think this is unlikely because at some point there would be an large cohort of such persons; discipline among 25 year olds (your figure) regarding reproduction cannot be relied upon. :)
This is also why I love thin shims over already effective solutions
Yes. And in fact a 32 bit microprocessor with a meg of flash and 256K of RAM can run a number of useful OSes that have networking capability.

What I find interesting about the situation is the Arduino environment. The Teensy originated as an "Arduino" type dedicated controller board. The Arduino environment originated on something that had 32K of flash memory and 2K of RAM. (Think Altair 8800 or IMSAI 8080).

It was designed so that people new to embedded controllers could get something running quickly on a very simple processor.

The Cortex-M architecture (which the Teensy uses, as does the STM32 parts) is somewhere between the 68000 and the 80286 in terms of its capability (no MMU though).

On at $30 dev-board (STM32F429-DISCO) from ST-Micro I've run a full shell/loadable program environment with networking based on a FreeRTOS kernel and a shell of my own devising.

It is the Arduino environment that cripples these things, if they ran the equivalent of MS-DOS none of these complaints would make any sense at all. (and they are very capable of running that level of OS)
Chris, I love your work and the AmpHour podcast! Thanks for working to share your knowledge with others, I especially enjoy the episodes where you spend the entire episode interviewing someone in the industry
I believe Quest uses the Roche test.
In regards to human-computer interaction (how we interact and communicate with computers), check out this presentation: https://events.technologyreview.com/video/watch/ramses-alcai...

Emotion is a tricky term because there are so many things that affect and shape one's "emotional state." At Neurable, we measure aspects of emotional spectrum (i.e. specific cognitive states, like focus). More information to come in the near future :)

Re sensors, more sensors add the possibility for more data, which is often used to take higher quality measurements. Neurable uses high quality sensors combined with special algorithms to make sense of the "not so good" data to do what others might need more data to get as clear, or even, a more clear picture.
Last time I used it, I had to log in to be able to join in my browser, and then couldn't see more then one feed at a time.

Kind of limiting, especially compared to jitsi for example.
>"it depends"

Yup, you understood me completely. Because it really does depend on your wants and needs as a seller.

In contemplating your message, I've come to realize that I cannot fully engage in this conversation via HN messages, so feel free to contact me directly if you want. There are a lot of agents that really care about this, as there are many who would say they too are worried that there are bad actors that bring down what is a surprisingly complex domain.

Let me ask this, as I think it's a really interesting thought exercise: how would we determine what was the optimal outcome for a buyer or seller?
Of course it can address the needs of a few by stealing power and avoid the government nationalizing a few rigs. That's utterly useless for the general population.

> But if things go to shit in a country, people can still use Bitcoin and safely transfer value online instead of reverting to trading gold coins in person.

For a small handful of people. That doesn't address the problem on a broad scale. The bar isn't "can Bitcoin address the needs of a small handful of people in Venezuela." Of course it can.

> What about the technology -- do you think it's fascinating that a relatively simple and elegant protocol of incentives and cryptography can result in a self sustaining financial system still running a decade after its release?

I think it's fascinating a single transaction expends 700kWh (enough to drive a Model S from SF to New York) and produces 87 grams of e-waste -- and yet somehow costs less than $0.50, which is due to the socialization of costs in the form of block rewards, aka inflation. Each BTC transaction actually costs about $70.

I think it's fascinating a system brought in to free us from the tyranny of a single entity's ability to freely print currency has had it's pricing entirely subsumed by an entity with the ability to freely print a currency who's symbol is just one character off.

Just because something's simple doesn't make it good.
> Roughly it predicts [2] that the price will settle into a band around 30,000 USD sometime next year.

No, it predicts it will be at $30k at the end of this year, and $100k this time next year [0]. I'm pretty comfortable saying that no, it wont. If I though there was a reasonable, legitimate way to trade against that outcome occuring, I absolutely would. For reference, in the past year, BTC has increased in price by ~$1450 or 20% - getting to $100k would be over 1000% increase.

[0] https://digitalik.net/btc/
I had all the COVID-19 symptoms including the weirdly varying body temperature, and I'm in NYC, but my Abbott test (taken 1.5 months after symptoms) came back negative. Who knows what's going on.
> To extract the device secret value, an attacker needs to connect the target device to an attacker device. As you note, the thunderbolt device leaks the secret value over the untrusted channel.

If victin device is connected to attacker host, then only responses to challenges are potentially leaked. That might allow active mitm, but not cloning the key. That's the whole reason TFA needed to go poking around in flash to get the keys.

Not saying that TB is the best security protocol in the universe, but as far as I can tell the vulnerabilities exposed here are mostly implementation flaws rather than protocol level issues.
Tom, a 22 year old freelancer who isn't a yoga enthusiast but is just trying to make ends meet at 3¢/word.

Or Doreen, a 54 year old freelancer who isn't a yoga enthusiast but is trying to make ends meet at something under 3¢/word.

I haven't actually written for the site in question. I'm not trying to imply that I have. More like saying "Yeah, this is absolutely a thing."

And it's a thing in part because my actual original blogging that's the real deal doesn't get enough tips and Patreon supporters. If people want to see less content marketing to get ad revenue and more quality writing aimed at providing something fresh, they should be looking for independent authors to support whose writing they actually like.

I was providing original content written entirely by me for years before I began doing freelance writing. I would have likely never become a freelance writer if people had been willing to leave tips, promote my writing, engage with me so I would have a better idea of what to provide for my audience and so forth.

If you don't like what's on the internet, go "look in the mirror" so to speak. I've been on Hacker News nearly 11 years and was literally homeless for nearly six of that while people around here told me "Go get a real job. Writing doesn't pay. Your expectation that your writing should be capable of providing a living wage is just silly talk."

It's not so-called market forces at work. It's human choice and those choices are rooted in what we value and all this. If this world isn't the world folks want to see, they can make other choices more in line with what they claim they want instead of "being traffic" while complaining about it.

(Edit: For the record: Most of my freelance writing is content for small business sites and I don't feel the tiniest bit of regret. I like working for a paid service and I blog about that too and get accused of the site being content marketing when it absolutely isn't. http://writepay.blogspot.com/)
> You can look at Sweden and see that is not true. Only .03% of population has died. That is 3% of 1%. [0]

The capitol of sweden is being hit as hard as NYC. And that's despite many social distancing measures in place. The idea that sweden isn't being impacted negatively is wishful thinking.

> It's not as if deadly flu's and other nasty diseases that people have to avoid naturally are not going around all the time anyway.

The resignation that shit's bad, so we should let it get worse is fatalistic and untenable.

> And as if the world can go on shut down indefinitely.

Indeed it can't, no one is proposing that.
Show HN: PCG – A web-based point and click game engine
An early stages pet project of mine I'm finally sinking time into now that the outside is a no-no.
>> violating rules intended to keep people safe.

Ahh the old "greater good", most violations of human rights begin with a speech about the greater good...

>Putting thousands of people at risk in order to qualify

Quantify and prove that risk, and prove that Tesla's mitigation are not effective.

Do so with out using Appeals to Authority, or making a claim that "well the government says"

We are (or are suppose to be) a free society, not serf's of the government
Isn't most of this just Kubernetes running PrestoDB/PrestoSQL?
Bitcoin is useful for when other payment methods are made impossible by financial censorship. For example, if you want to buy a 4chan pass you must pay with digital currency (Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum and Litecoin).
A repentant CEO is gone, but unrepentant gangsters are still celebrities.

Social justice!
Awesome list! I'm sure there are many more out there somewhere, hopefully this can grow as more recordings surface?

Brings me back the glory days of labels like Too Pure and Strange Fruit :)
Why Am I Paying $60 for That Bag of Rice on Amazon.com?
>I'm a bit surprised (and disappointed) something similar does not exist for the Bay Area.

Keep in mind that the total number of COVID deaths in CA is less than than the number of deaths in NY on a single bad week.

While a dashboard like this would be good, I think that an order of magnitude difference warrants perhaps being less disappointed.
> Secretaries were and still are generic, unspecialised workers.

Not at all! They'd often have to train in procedures and lingo for various occupations, so they wouldn't screw it up and could be maximally useful. Medical secretaries, for example, were once a pretty big occupation (I'm sure they still exist, but there were once lots of them) and they absolutely had to train in e.g. medicine names and greek and latin prefixes and meanings (beyond just mega- or whatever). Secretarial training, often with a focus on an in-demand field, used to be something community and junior colleges offered. "Some level of technical knowledge" is consistent with the role secretaries used to perform and the skills they used to have, in many cases, at least when "secretary" didn't mean "door and phone answerer". Acting as an advanced, human file search and process figurer-outer ("can we do this with it?") was also part of their role, coming with the territory of being responsible for filing (and often for producing the documents being filed in the first place).

If we have to go with "team librarian" for language/marketing reasons I'm still on-board, but "secretary" would be a fine label. That their often possessing significant domain knowledge not just as a side-effect of employment & experience but as part of their training is (perhaps?) no longer common knowledge is a sign of how far out of favor real professional-secretarial (that is, secretary to professionals) roles have fallen, I guess.
> scene specific lighting hacks, things that make no physical sense but result in the visual appearance they are after.

The flip side of this is that physically realistic shadows aren't always what you want. Any amateur photographer who has noticed just how awful hard shadows are on faces on clear sunny days has learned this lesson the hard way.

To quote a graphics professor of mine (tongue in cheek), "Physically accurate rendering is a crutch for people who aren't smart enough to cheat their way to the look they want".
I think the snarky point was that the Feds (in theory) exist to provide that sort of coordination.
While the article mentions the current paradigm (accumulated DNA damage as the prevailing view of why our cells slow down), it doesn't address how it is wrong. In which case, cells with the right signals will behave more actively, but this could also lead to faster onset of cancer.

A more interesting approach to me seems almost feasible with current technology, assuming CRISPR will soon be able to replace DNA without causing more side effect DNA damage than it fixes.

Take a healthy human blastocyst, derived from healthy young relatives of the patient (likely to have compatible mitochondrial DNA). Now, determine the patient's original DNA structure. This would occur by sampling various cell lineages and using a statistical model to estimate the original DNA of the patient as a baby. Now, take some stem cells from the blastocyst and replace the DNA with the patient's DNA. Generate a culture of different stem cells and inject them throughout the patient's body. The patient now has cell lineages with fresh telomeres that will be actively dividing for another 6 decades. Perhaps additional signaling regulation would be necessary to prevent types of growth that would be unwanted in adults.

Any experts want to poke holes at this idea? I have no formal training in biotech but I always thought this seemed like the cure to non-structural age related diseases. The harder part seems like cleaning and regrowing new veins and arteries, and brain repair.
Despite dramatic differences in how things are portrayed, it seems like the actual advice for day-to-day living is starting to converge on a consensus. Which sounds pretty reasonable to me.
>Anyway, anything that gets people playing guitar is, in my opinion, a great thing. We live in a golden age of guitar equipment. I don't think it can honestly get much better than it is right now. It's an amazing time to be a guitar player and incredible options are available at amazing prices.

It sure is a great time for guitar equipment, as the digital revolution has made its way there too.

But being a guitar player is also increasingly lonely :
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/lifestyle/the-s...

And it's arguably an opportunity cost for a kid to be pouring so much effort today learning the iconic (but tired) instrument of the boomer generation, when they could be breaking new musical ground instead, mastering Ableton's Push for instance. But to each their own, of course.
I remember using Teensy based on AT90USB1286 microcontroller for 4 quadrant 3phase AC motor torque control. Worked like a charm. Glad to hear they're stilll in business.
The Evolutionary Computation Bestiary
Usually the leaky abstraction will appear later, I remember years ago I was implementing a react component and for some reason the focus was lost from an input when an update was happening. So eventually you are forced to understand what is happening and to apply workarounds. I have experienced a number of issues where some bug suddenly appears and until I read the source code of the abstraction I could not fix it(not only JS frameworks).
I should have rephrased as "disclaimer: what follows is a stereotype, but..."
> Framing people as possibly being "net burden" on society presumes that "the market", and economics, perfectly encodes the value of an activity to society,

If not the market, then what? Why do you think resource allocation scheme X would be better than the market overall? Without prices, we're left with the people best at being loud demagogues deciding the application of society's limited resources. Is that really better? Has it ever worked to produce prosperity or happiness?

Yes, economic value reflects social value, and chasing profit produces social good. Every time somebody's rejected this principle, he's produced poverty and death.
The Strain that was seen in ny was more deadly than the strain seen on the west coast. And I’m not sure how many others are out there.
If you read the FAQ, Coinbase doesn't even issue USDC, Circle does, so Coinbase going out of business won't affect the balances in Circle's bank account or the redeem-ability of USDC. They also actually publish regular audits unlike Tether

https://help.coinbase.com/en/coinbase/getting-started/genera...
While interesting, let's not be deceived by this dashboard or these goals. It gives the impression that NY is on the cusp of opening up. The reality is that any of these metrics can have strong downward trajectory at any time. And some (such as contact tracing) might not even be feasible in some of the boroughs.

Everybody seemed on board when it was "14 days to flatten the curve". Now it's indefinite. I can already see cracks appearing, with many more people outside and meeting together. We weren't meant to live like this, and there's going to be a lot of negative externalities (domestic abuse, child abuse, suicide, drug abuse relapse, etc[1]). Remember, it's only been barely a month.

I predict soon these states are going to either be forced to open because of a rebellious population, or be forced to criminalize a lot of otherwise normal people.

1. https://abc7news.com/coronavirus-domestic-violence-lawyer-ne...
i just ordered one. i have wanted to for so long but buying luxuries isn't me thing. looking forward to it!
He's talking about how tether is backed. If its backed by other coins and or even itself through the smoke screen of other coins then its not really backed at all.

I think in the context here, "pricing with gold" would mean you need to find someone who will actually give you that price in gold.
Maybe add this link to that site's comments and perhaps it will get added.
I don't understand this accusation. There should be a very easy way to see if COVID deaths are over-reported by comparing with last year's death numbers, isn't it ? Unless, we believe magically more people are dying this year due to heart attacks or respiratory diseases

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronav...
Maybe living longer means you don't get cancer. There are animals with extremely low or even zero rates of cancer.
> Why risk living in close quarters if this may be a recurring pattern and pay a premium for doing so.

Your original assertion was renters will move because the city is unsafe during COVID and that suburan areas are worth the price to commute trade-off.

Two suburban areas around Seattle are Snohomish and Pierce counties. Those "safer" suburbs are doing an objectively worse job of following Washington State's "Stay at Home" order [1]. Prior to COVID, hospitals were closing in rural and exurban areas, which reduced capacity during this pandemic [2]. Disregarding SAH/SIP orders and reduced capacity sounds dangerous, not safer and worth saving money.

As for cost, when enough housing capacity was built in Seattle then the rent stabilized. After short-term rentals are converted back into single-family homes or long-term leases then rent should continue to stabilize or decrease. When I last looked, increasing my commute from 25m to over 1h was not worth the savings in rent and would have required purchasing a car.

It's great you prefer the suburbs and there are absolutely people the 'burbs are better suited. Unless you have a valid reason to suggest people are going to move in-mass from cities to the burbs then I find "diminished city living" mistaken and comical.

[1] https://www.unacast.com/covid19/social-distancing-scoreboard...
[2] https://www.npr.org/2020/04/09/829753752/small-town-hospital...