skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not surprisingly, that 11% (plus whatever % is the 1st generation) forms the majority of who I know. It's interesting how people clique.

Less than 2% of the US population is involved in agriculture. We've got more immigrants than farmers.
Agreed, I'd prefer to use all ten fingers at a keyboard on a desktop web interface than waste time with just two on a mobile device. It's just a more productive way to spend your time. Also, I don't have an unlimited data plan anymore, since why would you ever need one if you're social distancing 100% of the time? Ideally I'd switch to prepaid. Half the time I forget where my phone is, and I'm much happier for it.
This is weirdly meta, a blog post about iterating a SaaS product that itself is a tool for customers to manage iterating their own SaaS products. I look forward to the next post about how his content marketing targeting likely users on HN was successful!

As for the actual advice, most of it seems reasonable. However, I fear the insistence on keeping code perfectly organized and the choice of fancy tools might not be pure business pragmatism.
Could you share the OS and editor you're using? we're working to make TabNine super performant.
If you want to act in an anti-social manner, don’t be surprised when you are socially ostracized.
That's what they say, but I just don't buy it. In practice even if you get people together in a place with hallways they always tend to stay in their own departments and even at their own desks. Those vibrant conversations you see with carefully selected people from all demographics exist only in marketing brochures.
I too have deGoogled as much as I can, but I’m hesitant to jump on the hate wagon for this one.

Consider the counter factual - what if google was highly specific about the changes required? Clarifing the boundaries of what’s allow is prone to abuse. This is the same reason why the search algorithms are not explicitly published, but only the spirit is explained.

I would say this is the best solution when there are no perfect solutions.

Perhaps the 14 day period could be longer, but that’s another point of contention.
I'd like to know the ages of the deceased, and if they had any other serious health issues. If the majority of the deceased are indeed old or in poor health, perhaps isolating those from the general prison population would be a prudent precautionary measure to implement.
TL;DR: Load Balancers and a clear policy means the cloud works as advertised.

Seven years ago I was at a medical conference in Portland, Oregon with a panel of "experts" discussing the security and accessibility of medical record systems and wearable devices. There was a principal engineer from Intel on the panel. When someone asked about the cloud, this tall, lanky, long-bearded man with a thick accent stood up and said:

"The cloud? (chuckles) What is the cloud? Where is the cloud? Is it over here? (Points to a table) Is it over there? (points to another table). The cloud is a joke, man. It's a complete joke."

EDIT: added an anecdote for SEO. :)
Covid Targets the Elderly. Why Don’t Our Prevention Efforts?
As a developer, I'm curious to know how 'Step 3' is supposed to work compared to other ways making recommendations.

One of the big problems I have with recommendations is recommending things I've already watched. Netflix used to be so good at the start, now my tastes are just pooled in with what everyone else is watching now.
Solderpunk, the originator of the gemini idea and main shepherd of its direction, has on his git repository examples of clients and servers in < 100 LOC: tildegit.org/solderpunk

The original idea was that it should be something anyone can implement as a weekend project. Most major languages seem to have fairly stable TLS libs (I know from the current clients that Go, Rust, Python, and some version of Lisp - cant remember which - all do).
I disagree with you here because:

1. The article contains more relevant information that you did not show in your point.

2. Those relevant information made your point void

3. I think your point make no sense on the relevant information.

There, I refuted your claim, you have 14 days to change it and show what you learned.
No, something like 1,000 to 100,000
For a few years around 2001, rounded corners were a big part of hp's branding. I was in a dev shop that maintained part of hp.com, and we had to have them everywhere. I didn't work on their site very often myself, but I think that team must have been experts at rounded rectangles. :-) At the time it was still sort of a cool effect on the web.
How are you implementing that.
It sounds really cool
Is Microsoft’s SONiC Winning the War of the NOSes?
How and WHY I'm teaching my kids about my job as part of their homeschooling
I haven't read the extended edition, but anyway you can get this manga in your hands without breaking the bank is worth it. I had to find my copy at a second hand book store.
> GPS signals from hundreds of dB below the noise floor

Nitpick: GPS is more like 20 dB below the noise floor

[1] https://sdrgps.blogspot.com/2016/02/find-signal-in-noise.htm...

But yeah, theoretically you can cook up as much process gain as you need, it just might take a while.
My cofounder and I threw together a virtual table quiz platform. We stream the questions on YouTube live and accept the answers through a web app I built.

We've been able to host quizzes with over 250 teams, scoring their answers in real time. The scoreboard is auto generated and players can make a contribution with stripe.

So far we've given over 6k euros to various local charities. I'm very proud of what we've achieved so far.
Extensive discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23155647 (still #30 on front page now)
You don't have to switch overnight, i simply forwarded all my incoming Gmail e-mails to my new account, and then reply to all my Friends (etc.) from my NEW e-mail address. That way they will all, eventually, automagically update me in their address book. It worked very well :)
From a Bayesian perspective, it’s not entirely accurate to say that there is the same relationship between ridge/Gaussian-prior and lasso/Laplacian-prior. In the first case, ridge regression yields a "proper" Bayesian estimator (e.g., mean of the posterior); the latter is only the MAP estimator, which is not really recommended from a purely Bayesian perspective. Ridge is also a MAP estimator, but that’s in addition to the stronger condition of minimizing the Bayes risk.

There is a way to compute a "true" Bayesian Lasso, but it doesn’t yield a sparse model [0].

[0] http://archived.stat.ufl.edu/casella/Papers/Lasso.pdf
How common is it for French insurance companies to find a way to get out of paying, when a driver they cover gets in an accident?
I got baitbox which is well...

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bait_box

Still pretty cool. I'd totally believe some of these definitions if I didn't see the site.

Also this one which I've seen used quite a bit.
overfamiliarize
https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/overfamiliarize/eyJ3I...
I don't like to leave holes like this in people's comprehension. It's OK if people don't end up with an intuitive feeling for how relatively unlikely different things that don't actually happen are, but I want them to be aware of that category as distinct from things which can't happen because the type of argument needed is different.

The air molecules in the room you're in can't all gather in one corner because that's not possible, it's forbidden by conservation rules.

But they won't gather in two opposite corners only because that's so tremendously unlikely, it would be allowed by conservation but statistically it's ludicrous.

The same is true at the opposite end of the spectrum. Almost all real numbers are normal (in all bases) but the nature of "Almost all" in mathematics is different in an important way from "All" and I want people to grasp this difference when I'm discussing properties of numbers. It definitely is not true that all real numbers are normal, you probably rarely think about any normal numbers at all.
I actually wrote a simple hn script that sends me top stories everyday. If you wanna check it out let me know
The SEC is not preventing blockchain companies from selling securities, but only requiring that the same rules be followed that would allow me to sell shares of my gold mining outfit to the public. The problem isn't risk at all, like you said, plenty of securities sold to the public carry enormous risk. The regulations are in place not to prevent failed businesses but to ensure shareholders get their fair due when a business succeeds and have a basic set of facts when considering investments.

Overstock, for instance, has been able to offer their securities on a blockchain. Their application is different from TON but it shows there is a path to doing this if you follow the rules.
The Confessions of Marcus Hutchins, the Hacker Who Saved the Internet
I always thought it was Transient ElectroMagnetic ProteEction STandard.

Wikipedia says:
TEMPEST (Telecommunications Electronics Materials Protected from Emanating Spurious Transmissions)

This says it is "Telecommunications and Electrical Machinery Protected from Emanations Security"

https://www.patton.com/solution/Tempest-EMI-RFI-Data-Securit...
If you live in a gated residential complex, how is the food delivery person supposed to meet you? Same issue. In my experience, you meet them in the lobby.

Service delivered directly to your hotel room door is typically offered by the hotel exclusively.
The OP is calling this a 'fake market'. That is inaccurate in that of course a certain number of people will pay for food to be delivered. Pizza delivery has been a thing for a long time.

Grubhub has taken a profitable share of the market which makes sense.

Some people believe that new entrants are using private funding to subsidize the price of delivery to gain market share. By doing so, they are expanding the market beyond what the economics of the market support.

Those new entrants would argue that they are doing so because once they lock in customers and restaurants, they can raise their prices or lower their costs and turn a profit.

Where this all ends up is an interesting thought exercise , but it certainly isn't an easy question to answer.
Been nearly an hour now. Can't push to source control. Sigh.
Ask HN: My team lead is incompetent
I've been working with my team lead for 3 years now, and I genuinely think they're dead weight. I'm the defacto team lead because I'm the most technically competent on the team and also because I: mentor the less experienced devs on the team, created the design and roadmap for our software, and help the team lead with practically every decision.

The team lead has difficulty completing simple tasks. They aren't learning the technologies we're using (Git, React, etc.) even though they're allowed to spend all the time they want to learn them. They don't seem competent in our core language (C#), and when given a task to write something new, they wrote it in Basic even though no one else on the team knows it. The team lead doesn't mentor. They don't have a solid grasp on the current state of our software. They rubber-stamp pull requests. When I asked for mentoring regarding interviewing a potential new hire, we didn't really evaluate the candidate in the interview at all (and I received no mentoring on the topic).

I've come to a point where working under the team lead is starting to seriously bother me, and I'm not sure what to do. Any advice?
You're kidding right? You look at every commit of every open source app you use, or that a closed source app is built atop? For me, off the top of my head, that would mean, yes, Chrome, Firefox, the Linux Kernel, Libre Office, Android, VLC...probably plenty more that I am unaware are open source, and that's not even considering the dev tools to do my job. When would I actually have time to have a life?
Yes, rtnerlink is used to configure networking via a netlink socket, and libnetlink provides an abstraction over sending raw datagrams.
On the other hand, keeping the code well maintained and using fancy tools may increase speed over many iterations.
And now that it's easy people try to avoid using rounded corners...
> Also one amazing thing was the guy talking about "shooting a 10-hour dawn"

I watched the whole video on the MAnchurian example, and it sold it obviously for me, but I was only initially thinking of the first demo.

Clearly its hugely beneficial.

What I find interesting is, naughty dog had a bit of a staff turnover for designers and hired film animators (in this case it was a crunch), cgi etc.. Funny how they're now almost cross skillset now. Have to admit, makes me feel older every day.

REF: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-03-14-crunch-once-ag...
The company is distinct from their various products. For instance, their POP services are gratis. The NAG library is proprietary but, when I last knew, probably the majority of it was based on code from Netlib etc.
Im not sure a cursory glance at the 25 millions lines of code will do much if you dont already know what to search.
Access to oil (hopefully something of long term diminishing value) and future shipping lanes.

It’s also Russia’s border with the USA and Canada so would be the place to enter from if you want to try to take out the DEW stations (yeah, sure. But the route to take). Though if that were something I wanted to do I’d either use a sub to drop the, off or launch cruise missiles from subs.
I guess we'll have to see if Unity will havea response on that.
Have to say thou, having billions of triangles without sacrificing FPS is exciting.
I'm having a hard time filtering the information with all those pictures, animations, pop ups, curvy lines and huge text.
I have a sister opinion to this take, which is that artstyle is far more important than graphics, and there is a very important difference between the two that is often ignored by large game studios. \*

Your graphical capability can push a hundred million triangles, but choosing the color, composition, and visual coherence of those triangles is more important to how people interpret your world than anything else. Humans have an extremely attuned visual processor that infers so much about the way the world behaves solely by the way it looks.

The reason that classic games can be immersive despite a low poly count is because the artists have made the visuals behave in a way that is coherent with our internal model of the game world.

An example of this is Portal. The portal gun is an interesting gameplay tool, but the game was able to fully take advantage of it because the artstyle of the game was very tightly coupled with the mechanics. They did a great job of making sure that the visual environment offered clues to how the game mechanics worked, which made it so easy for people to quickly grasp how the portal gun operated in complex environments. Had the artists failed, Portal would have been "oh yeah, I remember that game -- the portal gun was a neat gimmick but it felt clunky."

The easy way out is to just try to make your environments and game mechanics as realistic as possible, essentially borrowing that creation of intuition from the real world. But the most creative games have worlds whose completely novel or alien mechanics are coupled with art direction that preserves this coherence, which makes the world just "click." Putting more triangles on screen makes for much prettier art, but the true substance of a game is something completely different.

\* not on purpose; it's just extremely difficult to pull off.
The obvious one is bringing costs down by automating labour, with self-driving cars etc.

There also may be a 'change the world' sort of outcome, where consumers en masse like the product so much that they change their behaviour and lifestyles, even if it eventually turns out that they spend more overall than they might have before - if people stop owning cars, cease cooking at home, taking away revenue from supermarkets and auto manufacturers. Although this doesn't appear to hold up in the first analysis, second-order effects might start to appear - e.g. if consumers change their lifestyles, can you capture the value that they would have invested in owning a kitchen, or a garage and driveway?

This is all very speculative, I'm not claiming Uber etc can achieve this, just that different equilibria are possible - for instance, I gather that in some Chinese cities street food is incredibly good and cheap while density is high enough to make owning good cooking facilities a real pain.
Can you try micro bench marking Apple Cores? Nobody seems to be doing that, yet people claim they are the best in business.
In a post about a new piece of graphics technology might not be the best place to have this conversation, but I'm glad it popped up. I recently decided to start playing Dwarf Fortress, a game with such terrible graphics it literally takes an act of will to get past them. Seriously, people post a screenshot full of commas and equal signs and say "epic battle, lol!"

Yet, something anazubg happened once I dedicated myself to deciphering the ascii characters: my imagination sprung to life to fill in the gaps. From those bland a-z characters came vaulting ceilings with intricate wall designs. Epic twisting caves. The oddest looking characters.

I compare it to a game of RimWorld, where the graphics make a lot more sense, but turns out limits my need to imagine it being different.
The delivery person goes to the reception and either the call you or send the delivery guy to the room. Also works for packages and other things and hotels are used to this.
I assume gp is referring to a Windows shortcut.
I don't do any academic research, but I do a LOT of science for my job. My PhD definitely provided me with skills and knowledge I could not have easily aquired in the workplace. I'm working on an almost-FAANG doing distributed systems maintenance and design.
Daniel Kalny and I waited the full hour in Second Life but no one else showed up. Daniel of course had never heard of Second Life but had no problem creating an account, making an avatar and finding the shop yesterday. Perhaps on Saturday I will see someone from this rather ephemeral thread :) Why ask questions but not come for answers? Best - Greg
A simple spaced-repetition flashcard system, where the flashcard decks are github gists.

I know Anki and other alternatives exist, but after having written my own private wiki (10 years ago!), I have found value in DIY'ing important tools.
A lot of these can be steered.
Pagani Car company is going after Pagani Design watches
Pagani car company is going after Pagani Design watch company for trademark breach. A lawyer has told PD that they are not providing products or services in the international class that includes watches. So, if they attempted to sue them, they would have a good defense. Is this true?
>We hear you and are eagerly looking to improve things.

Joking aside, isn't this just what people should come to expect from the company that has always tried to normalize the "no support and no service" model?

If these antics start causing GOOG to lose share in the browser market then they may review these policies, but I highly doubt it. At the end of the day GOOG is an ad company and publicly-traded at that. They have a bottom-line and a lot of shareholders watching it.

Support channels/forums are probably not the way to go, in other words. Stop using their browser, stop using their search. That's probably the only way they will be incentivized to change.
Balancing across multiple restaurants is only useful if they have different peaks during the day. It’s mostly useless when they all share similar profiles as you need to employ more people for the peak load at lower efficiency.

Restaurants can also make use of drivers they directly employ durning downtime to do other stuff like sweep up.
Doesn't Mozilla get nearly all its money from Google; I've assumed that actions by Mozilla have been coloured by not wanting to ditch its multi-hundred-million dollar benefactor.

Google has apparently paid Mitchell Baker personally multiple millions of dollars too.

Seems Google know how to manage their risks.

Mozilla seem perhaps even more beholden to ad revenue than Google.
The Boolean Game: use boolean operations with vector graphics
I've had a Chrome extension removed from the store before, I suspect because it conflicted with Google's business model. I would be very wary of building a business on a foundation that another company controls.
ProtonMail user for years too. And non-tech people who get my e-mail immediately like (and ask about) the protonmail.com domain, which opens up an avenue to discuss privacy and the upside of non-Google products.
Isn't hardware store elimination when you order all your lumber, sheet metal, tools, etc. online and have them shipped straight to your door?
I was not taking seriously the PR, but found it funny enough to mention it.
Or see if you're being surveiled.
I love the bezier game by the same creators. I think this is an amazing follow up, because I always struggle how booleans operators work in Sketch. By doing these exercises, now I know.

I wish software vendors would sometimes create some simple exercises, so one could understand their products.

One can dream :)
The dilemma posed was should educators prioritize detering cheating or catching cheating

The severity of punishment, student morality, ect are context only. hence "A non-moral dilemma about cheating"
I believe the suggestion is to incorporate this "bully risk" in your business plan. Some business models might not be profitable anymore if you do this. Others just need additional diversification or more risk capital.
> Some people never do research again after completing a Ph.D. For such people, the Ph.D. was largely a waste of time

I'm in this camp (haven't published since I graduated and joined industry), and I also strongly disagree with this statement. The value of the PhD is how it changes the way you think, how you break down big fuzzy problems, and how it helps you navigate the literature when you need help, and how it helps you know where to look and who to ask.

I've worked on much harder problems than my PhD, but none have felt as hard as the PhD, because of the PhD.
>> Some people never do research again after completing a Ph.D. For such people, the Ph.D. was largely a waste of time.

> Is it? Some of my friends went on to start successful companies after getting their PhDs. I'm a bit envious of them actually, I didn't have that option as my research was on an obscure topic with zero commercial potential.

There's also plenty of industry positions that benefit from you having a PhD. Certain fields can basically require them, like Chemistry. In CS, you might be able to get a lot of them without one, but the PhD lets you get paid to develop your skill set in niche areas.
Gamebreaker AI Effort Gets Under Way
Media Analysis of Amanda Knox in the U.S.
Even more convenient. And when the law enforcement purpose needs them to be fixed on a certain spot, then turn off public access until the investigation is over.
Was working on this before the virus, but still am actively developing it.

https://docs.certera.io

It's a central place to monitor, issue, renew, revoke your Let's Encrypt certificates.
Spot on.

I have consulted with customer contact companies and it was always shocking to see the low productivity. Front line employees, especially the younger age group, would find ingenious ways to circumvent doing actual work while artificially inflating their KPIs. There was even information sharing economy in some companies where the best tricks were traded for goods and services.

To put it in context though, it was by any measure thankless and soul crushing work. And the worst offenders were in cold call centres and strangely in email support teams.