skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mostly I write stuff for people. I've written a lot for IVPN's website, and also for Restore Privacy. I bill at typical meatspace rates.

I've also done some privacy-related development. For example, a client wanted a private IKEv2 server with a nested VPN chain backend. To provide iOS devices with anonymity that was stronger than VPN services provide, but also easy to use.
Tesla is way ahead in gathering a large real world data set, which will be extremely useful down the line.
In my country, Sweden, we have a very generous child welfare and parental leave. I have no children though. By your logic I should be envious and bitter? But I'm proud. It's called solidarity and having a healthy society benefits a childless me as well.

It's not tricky, and has been going on for the last fifty years or so just fine.
I'm planning to work on a project like this at some point soon (worm biology is so cheap you can do it in your garage for the price of a Mercedes). The main roadblock I want to work on is to get more connection strength measurements - we already have the full wiring diagram for the worm connectome, but it's not obvious that the connections are all equal strength, they definitely are not. Many labs are trying to image the neurons firing realtime at the whole organism level, but they're stymied by the head which has a hundred or so neurons in very close proximity (and they typically fire at rates faster than 3D imaging modalities can keep up).

I'm definitely excited to start working on this in a couple of years! My hopeful guess is that observing the full nervous system while it's firing full throttle is the only way to start understanding the algorithms that are running there. And from there hopefully we can start finding patterns!

Needless to say I agree with you. The people who say they have a wiring diagram of the mouse brain need to reign in their enthusiasm. We are not anywhere close to start understanding even a fly or zebrafish brain leave alone a mouse or human one. Sydney Brenner himself agreed (though he's arguably biased towards nematodes).
I think VDI is still Citrix's core competency. They merged XenApp with XenDesktop and later on turned into something called Citrix Workspace, I haven't been following Citrix products other than XenServer (my only interest joining back then).

It's not cheap to run and maintain XenDesktop based VDI infra for remote access. But I agree, ICA (improved RDP) and its client Receiver (works on Linux at least used to ;-) offers unique and seamless user experience working remotely.
A milquetoast hit piece of a beautiful city.

We’re all aware of SFs problems, not sure why this article is worth even a glance.
You cant find good video capture adapters anywhere. Ie, any elgato camlink
Analyzing the demographic flux of a metropolitan area can be really interesting.

That is not what this article is about.
Agreed! I spend a couple hours a week packing bags basically and have found it as a way to relax.

I read Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms by Stamets and subject myself to public shaming on /r/mushroomgrowers, got spawn from North Spore (though there are other several good ones I can recommend if you email me, would probably not recommend going straight to inoculate/spores as you need a more sterile env), bought a fog machine from a mini golf course, racks from home depot, using wood pellets (which come pasteurized as a side effect of pelletization, compared to pasteurizing yourself which is a huge PITA unless you can do it with lime in bulk imho), and a raspberry pi controller to monitor humidity to turn on/off fog machine
If you are cash costrained sell this devices and buy normal pc with monitor
Each card has 3 E3-1585L CPUs, each with 4 cores (8 threads).

Intel's white paper (https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents...) says up to 12 per CPU.

The card uses 235W.

A consumer security DVR can record 16 channels at for $100.

I found a TI chip from 2011 that could encode 6 streams at 1080p30, about 10W for $100.

The biggest advantage I see, as you pointed out, is the fact intel did all the software work and it's practically drop in.
Forget the Bat
It's strange that nuclear devastation for small businesses was never been a consideration during previous recessions.

Then the narrative was always "Cyclical recessions happen - deal with it." Followed by "And how about some tax cuts?"

Beyond that, your question is a solved problem. The answer is called Keynesianism, also known as the New Deal.

Handing out money for nothing is clearly madness. But there is a lot of work that needs to be done, and isn't being done - including affordable health care, infrastructure repair and expansion, more diverse food supplies and farming, education at all levels, and so on.

None of this will happen with the current incumbent, but countries that don't make the leap from a greed economy to a need economy are very likely to end up as failed states within ten years at the outside, economically and politically.
Growing up in Boston specifically - there was quite a lot of awareness of the inequality in the US. Boston has certainly made an effort to address inequality but the old racial divides between communities were quite visible and active racism was still all around me growing up.

In terms of nepotism in particular - we had the Kennedy's, honestly not the worst political dynasty in America but a pretty clear example of name trumping qualifications. I've since emigrated, but I think I was probably disabused of any glorification of the land of opportunity and american exceptionalism by the time I finished middle school.
I'm not sure how you can say that when Grubhub has been operating since 2004, public since 2014, and turned a solid profit up until 2019.
Well done, big government progressives!
Slashdot used to have "flavoured" up/downvotes, and you could set the multipliers in your preferences! So you could turn everyone else's +1funny vote into a -2 in your view if you didn't like the site's sense of humor. That was 29 years ago. I expect my single downvote was factional.

Polarisation is a fight. "Doing something" is likely to get increasingly ugly before it gets better.

But for most websites and news organizations, polarisation is profit. Oddly not for HN, which is aggressively moderated instead.
2AM crying... "Honey, it's your turn."
Uber has been staunchly pro-consumer. Their antics and legal shenanigans were always going up against either the local government or their drivers.

As a customer I’ve never had a complaint about their service outside of the asinine decision to add tipping.
The Wall Street Journal Front Page with Art May 12–11, 2020
If you think young people don't want to completely change the system you are out of touch. Sanders was hugely popular with under 30s. People want change.
Well javascript's package management is designed around the micropackage.

It really doesn't bode well for microservices of any large scale complexity, unless there are concentrated meganodes with limited interconnects like cities and superhighways.
Ask HN: How to Survive in Customer Support?
Those with experience in customer support, how to survive/thrive in customer support without burning out?

After a graduating a coding bootcamp, a friend took a role in customer support in the hope that they could use the experience to eventually transition to software development. However, now they feel burnt out and trapped by the "nature of the role" with its never-ending pile of tickets and goose-chasing in getting problems solved.

I've been solutioning with them to to try and find a way to make the work more bearable, but they are of the opinion that the problem is the job itself.

Context: they work at a <1000-person B2B marketing start up.
They don't <3 desktop Linux and probably never will. To them, Windows and macOS are the major desktop operating systems, and Linux is the server operating system. VS Code likely only runs on Linux because Electron runs on Linux.
I think part of the discomfort is that there is no exam that software engineers have to pass (other than a few states) unlike real engineering professions. I suspect and I suspect many others suspect that a large percentage would not actually be able pass a meaningful exam.

However passing such an exam would probably only be partly correlated to success in the field. Part of this is because exams are imperfect, part because success in the field is not dependent on engineering skill, and part is because the tech field’s success is based on finding/creating/replacing/owning (new) markets rather than pure engineering.

If software is much better than what was there before, even shoddy software engineering will be superior to the existing solutions.
I use Orgzly on Android, and would also love to have something similar on the desktop. I'm not l33t enough to use emacs for org-mode.
how can you be good at "writing emails"?
> we may not be able to serve your site

That's not very comforting.
> (but correctly implemented)

Do you ensure this by simulating it?
Really a disgusting city.
Edit: sorry, I mean 7 miles in one INCH^3 of soil!!
Maybe, maybe your simulation is just buggy. I can write a simulator of how my wife would react to the news I'm cheating on her, and fail miserably, but I'm quite positive I understand how she would actually react.
I spent 15 years in SF. Experience: Paying $4100 for a 2 bedroom, being assaulted on the muni multiple times, trying to explain to my parents why needles litter the sidewalk, going through a detective witness interview (after my neighbor was violently attacked and had her home ransacked). I was willing to stay. I love SF. Once I realized things would only get worse, I left :(
Android Police reports that the cheap grandfathered subscriptions are getting to keep it actually.

This mess seems entirely due to Google's internal management fiefdoms than anything to do with the user.
So just wait until GitHub emails me and then figure it out?
I'm not unreceptive . It's entirely possible that fit militarily aged men under a certain height aren't as impacted by high C02 levels.

However I find it unlikely that they are completely immune to the effect at a dose 10x higher than what the people in the original Harvard study were exposed to.

As to whether long term exposure has a mitigating effect. That's possible, but if the effect is as great as the Harvard study shows, then the navy almost certainly would have noticed the impact on new submariners in the last 80 years.

Btw the original Harvard study was mostly college students, so it's hardly representative either.

Here's another study that shows no impact on military aged people who aren't submariners https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31240239.

And here's a study that showed no impact from an introduction of pure C02 (these weren't submariners either)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ina.12284?c...

And here's another one that shows no cognitive impact at 5,000ppm
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03601...

All the studies I've seen that do show an impact, aren't using just C02, they are more broadly studying poor ventilation--C02 is just one factor. Every study that isolates C02 level shows nothing. The most likely explanation is that if there is an impact on cognition from poor building ventilation, it's not the C02 doing it.

I researched this topic pretty thoroughly a while back. I was worried enough by the hype that I bought a C02 monitor, but after I researched it, I'm not concerned.
It is pondersome.

I think I disagree though. I don't think it's replaceable, unless we're replacing work. With remote work we'll be replacing office culture with online office culture, not hobbies. I suspect they'll inherit some of the problems.

Where we spend huge amounts of time interacting with others that we never choose is what most of our major social structures are. Family, tribe, village, parish.

Work happens to be our most important social structure besides family. It the one that grants you your privileges and titles, so to speak. You can't just replace it with a hobby. Hobby's take much less of your time and have much lower stakes. To be more engaged with what's going in a minor part of your life than a major one.... it's not healthy, IMO.

I'm not crying over office culture getting lost. We can't get rid of it, that's the problem.
It was the worst experience of my development life, building a phone app with it........................ never, never, never again.

If you want to know what it's like to have everything break LITERALLY every few days, use react native.
web sequence diagrams is very good for sequences. https://www.websequencediagrams.com/
It is literally impossible for a sovereign entity like California to go bankrupt. If the state government becomes insolvent then they'll just stop paying some debts and issue IOUs (like with the 2009 budget crisis).
Philip Rosedale alpha launches 3D audio/2D world for live virtual events
Obviously your salary would diminish similarly.
Thank you! Is the censorship that bad here? I thought people wanted access to both sides of the story.
Nozbe, polish to-do app are home office only, check their culture and blogs, they are very interesting
This observation has been around for a while and seems important to me. Robert Putnam’s book 2000 Bowling Alone is a famous example.
Only in tech is this the case - but I don't think that only in tech this necessarily needs to be the case. High impact employees can exist in a wide range of roles, but recent cultural trends have been to push toward commoditization employment so that someone with a different approach is assumed to be a malus rather than fairly evaluated - there are KPIs and if your work style isn't optimized for them you'll flounder in corporate america.
> Other humans share a similar biology, so we have good enough justification to think they're conscious.

That's the way it goes with these arguments: it always comes down to an appeal to what's reasonable or plausible (those who insist consciousness must be an algorithm are doing the same thing, at least until we have algorithms that seem to be making some progress on the hard problem.) One might equally say other humans share a similar physics. When Dennett said "we are all p-zombies", I suspect he was making the point that it would be highly tendentious to take the position that anything both behaving and functioning physically in the manner of a human would not be conscious, except for humans themselves.
> Even the sights and sounds of the city suggest a certain derangement. When the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system was first built in the 1970s, its designers failed to understand the acoustics between wheel, track, and tunnel. Since the nineteenth century, competent railroad engineers have known that a tapered, flanged wheel will handle turns better and generate less noise. For some reason, BART designers ignored this design in favor of a cylindrical wheel with a straight edge.

The "some reason" was to withstand the crosswinds on the Golden Gate Bridge. We only use the top of the bridge's two possible decks, and the bottom deck was slated to carry the BART Marin line: https://i.imgur.com/hVT6fya.jpg
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi congratulated her in a tweet, saying, “I look forward to working with you to continue San Francisco’s proud tradition of standing as a guiding light for progress across America.”

Are you disagreeing with Nancy then? Since the 60's SF has had a continuous (60 years!) progressive rule and this is what we end up with.

Looking at the major problems in SF, I see a direct link to SF government policies:

Crime - stop locking people up!

Homelessness - we just need to spend more money!

Schooling - we just need more money!

Housing - unless it's subsidized, we'll block it every time
Your analogy is actually quite apt here - the wright brothers took inspiration from birds but clearly went with a different model of flight, just like ANN field has. The fundamental concept of the neurons are same, but that doesn't mean the complexity is similar.

Minimally, whatever the complexity inside a Biological neuron maybe, one fundamental propery we need to obtain is thr connection strengths for the entire connectome, which we don't have. Without that we actually don't know the full connectome even of the simplest organisms, and no one to my knowledge has hence actually studied the kind of algorithms that are running in these systems. I would love to be corrected here of xourse.
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When I worked for a large semiconductor company from late 1980's till early 2000's, I saw IT move from a ghastly mix of AIX, HPUX and SunOS terminals & distributed computing to 100% Linux ... in under 2 years!!

It was like someone flipped a switch and suddenly there was only one type of environment for all computing (we used something else besides VNC to manage remote X sessions, I forget what it was, it was some weird launcher for Windows).

IT claimed hundreds of millions in savings due to not having to pay for AIX, HPUX and SunOS licensing. I think the cost is what tipped the scales.
Libra is not selling rights to non-existent tokens. That’s why it’s not a security while TON is a security. No one banned TON, they just said that if you fundraise by sale of tokens then said tokens are securities. Which is a fairly straightforward truth.
Their first mistake was being subject to US jurisdiction.
> and instead tries to revert back to a previous monetary system that was abandoned because it was failing. The consensus among economists is that a deflationary currency is a terrible idea

Much like how usury (aka interest) is such a great idea? It's no wonder those economists will say that, in order to push a corrupt and parasitic economic system which religions have warned about for thousands of years now. Building an economic system on usury is not sustainable, and we're seeing it today.

The previous monetary system worked just fine, it's just that it didn't sit well with the greedy who need interest to live and profit off of people's hard work.
> I'm not saying it makes a lot of sense,

It makes all the sense. If you can get an apple for $1 from seller A and the same quality apple for $5 from seller B, why would you buy from seller B?
It uses JavaScriptCore on iOS because that's the Apple-blessed JS engine. On Android it bundles its own copy of JavaScriptCore.
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze.

> I'd guess this is an effective piece of marketing.

Yes, it really has been good to us. :-)

It is data we would collect internally for our own decision making and tracking even if we didn't release it, and it is only a small amount of work for us (mainly for Andy the author of that blog post) to format it up every 3 months and write some observations down. Since it isn't what we "sell", it would have just gone to waste being hidden. And it results in our name getting "out there" and inevitably every quarter somebody asks "hey, what do these people do that requires 130,000 hard drives anyway?" and then we get a little bump in customers. Cost vs. benefit has been WELL worth it to us.

Along the way (unrelated to making money) it makes us happy that people get some use out of it. Like we find out somebody does their PhD thesis on the raw SMART numbers of the drives or something, we enjoy hearing about it.

Until my dying day I will never understand why Google Storage and Amazon S3 and Microsoft Azure don't release their drive failure statistics. I just don't get it. Those companies have SO MANY DRIVES and they employ people with PhDs in statistics, they MUST have the same info internally but at 100x the scale. I don't get why they don't release the numbers?! But hey, if they want to continue to give us this marketing gift of exclusivity, I'll take it. Maybe they like us and are just doing us a solid.
OK, but freight trains use the normal wheels everywhere else in America, including very windy places.
How can a city with so much income and smart inhabitants become such a #$*@&? What happened?
It feels a bit misleading to immediately attack Boudin for his work in Venezuela. He was a translator there between undergrad and law school. His leftist background is certainly quite interesting but I felt that the early attempt to attack his character by associating him with Chavez comes across as a bit of a stretch that I think hurts the credibility of the author.
(a) Why would you think that? Compare Sweden to Norway exess mortality here [0]
and reformulate your argument. Similar country, similar population density. Similar population in metropolitan area. Please explain to me what are the differences between those countries. I won't even talk about how Australia and NZ support the lockdown policies as those countries are island.

(b) Citation needed. Again [0], why doesn't countries under lockdowns such as israel and norway do not have excess death if lockdowns causes extrem harm? And before the "rich country" argument, why South africa does not have any excess death and even way less death than expected? Those three countries are under sever lockdown. Unless you think it will cause longterm damage to those countries and more time is needed. I guarantee you i had once an asthma strong enough to cause moderate hypoxemia, i will remember this all my life even if it did not last more than a day. I think the lockdown is really easy if im honest. And i know for a fact that at least in France, most cooks and chef de partie are pretty happy with the lockdown too even if they will be the most impacted by the lockdown (75% pay for learning new tricks and doing homestay culinary contests might be the reason why)

(c) Good argument.

> The lack of... shaky basis of this action
[0]. Explain (a) and (b) then

> Specifically, .... which was then back-filled.

Untrue for France [1] (might need google translate for that)

> The government has put itself into a win-win situation.
Yes, agreed but i don't understand why does this matters.

> The veneration of the health care workers is also disgusting, this ridiculous clapping and so on.
Yes, but this is a personnal opinion (i REALLY agree with) and no argument at all.

> More mind-programming for the masses.
Just wanted to point it out: if you read this sentence in a text you don't agree with (like a 9/11 or moonlanding conspiracy theory), what would you think of the person writing this?

If you really care about being rationnal, the question you should always ask is "why do i think this". Why would you think this is programming for the masses and not just herd-like comportment that also happens to fulfill a psychological need?

[0] https://www.ft.com/content/a26fbf7e-48f8-11ea-aeb3-955839e06...
[1] https://www.vie-publique.fr/discours/273933-emmanuel-macron-...
Natura naturans?

Check out within the context of no context for an American take.
I think we can ethically sell things that don't exist to "sophisticated" investors - which is hard to define but probably based on net worth. Maybe limit the $ amount you can invest per person from "poor" investors to $1000 or something. But the question is, is it a scheme or an investment?

That said people buying crazy options on sites like /r/wallstreetbets, or just betting on sports are in the same boat, so where to draw the line? I think it is better to err on the side of controlling such investment schemes though rather than let them run loose.

The solution to the US controlling everything is to set up truly decentralised currencies like Bitcoin and keep a brand or controller out of that. Someone in the world can do this anonymously and it would be hard to shut down. Has anyone shut Bitcoin down yet?
SF's problems are serious enough to warrant discussion. That being said, there is a growing narrative on the right of how the urban (read:liberal) centers are failing. This article is one of many such hit pieces.
Wow, fantastic! Thank you very much!