skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know what you mean by "these studies" as the link is to only one study.

This study does a pretty questionable job of establishing that any amount of vitamin D levels reduces likelihood of severe infection. It doesn't even attempt to say what level of supplementation would lead to what vitamin D levels. So I think the answer to your question is a firm, "No."
Unless they feel the need to yell, they are probably interrupting a small number of people and not hundred plus people. The difference in the open floor plan is that at least they aren't entering the private space of another team. What we saw is that when each team is in their own little silo, people are reluctant to go invade another team's private space unless they knew the person very well. Inter-team knowledge sharing and collaboration really dropped.

While team silos create additional problems, obviously the hundred plus style open floor plans are still pretty horrible. The best approach I have seen is individual offices with shared collaboration areas nearby. People can do deep work by closing their office door. People can pair-program, have someone look over their code, have a private conversation etc. by going to another's office without disturbing everyone else. A shared collaboration area allows for quick easy group discussion when helpful.
The Bitcoin Halving Code
Definitely. This article is from April 23.

The MS KB article says they saw reports on social media but didn't get any telemetry or customer feedback: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4549951/windows-10-...

Of course, if the update leaves your system in an unbootable state you'd expect there to be no telemetry, and the only thing I can imagine more like a black hole than feedback to MS would be feedback to Google, IBM or Oracle.
Is anyone aware of any actual research on this issue? If so, what does it say? Do remote workers actually work less? Do intrusive monitoring apps improve productivity or decrease productivity?

I've always had the sense that people who work remote are perfectly capable of being productive without monitoring. In some ways, depending on your personal situation, being at home can be less distracting than being at the office. On any given day, I would bet that most people in an office only put in 3-4 hours of good work (or less). Much of the rest of the time is spent being distracted by office gossip, meetings, coffee breaks, etc. Why should we expect people working from home to put in 8 solid hours of good focused work when we don't demand the same of people in the office?

It would be nice to see some actual data on this problem. I have an instinct that this is a major overreaction by managers and that it will ultimately drive productivity and retention down. However, I'm open to being proved wrong if this is an issue that has been studied in a rigorous fashion.
So while Uber, Lyft, and Airbnb are getting killed by lack of business, the food delivery companies are getting killed by too much? So much for the gig economy. It's almost as if there's something structurally unsustainable about these companies.
Isn't really anything your team could do? Usually there are lot of fronts people could work on and bring more revenue to the company. Try to find those to redirect your team and implement your solution.
>1. You were brought in to do very specific work (i.e.: migrate something to k8s).

That's how most work gets broken down though. Just find an entry point and start reading code. Read docs, comments, find dependencies, figure out what needs to change in light of your change.

You shouldn't need deep product and tribal knowledge to make simple changes.
I'm going to guess people aren't typically talking about it for a few reasons:

- We started out with self generated and self hosted captcha. It was too easy to beat. Complexity of the image generation turned up until eventually it was easier to just outsource it to someone else. Going to throw out a guess here that reCAPTCHA is far from simple, and likely exceeds what most teams would want to run internally.

- Google has an uptime that's significantly higher than most companies. I'm not defending any of Google's habits or business practices, but I personally wouldn't bet that most companies can run software more reliably than Google.

- As someone else mentioned, fail open is an option in situations like these (depending on the threats you're trying to protect against). For something with a high probability of failure, this could make sense, but I would have a hard time imagining a team allocating time to deal with the case "when Google is down" unless it's truly life or death software (think: surgical robots, autopilots, etc)
> /or overfly US airspace (in a way that gives the US at least some authority over those flights).

Overflight of US airspace doesn't give the US authority over the people inside the airplane. And flights to Canada from Europe or Asia don't overfly the US, except perhaps Alaska, but that's of zero consequence.
Hammerspoon is doing the stuff talked about here using event taps. I don't know if you can reliably use event taps to simulate different modifiers though, or to prevent a modifier from actually taking effect (e.g. if you wanted to remap one modifier to another).

I'm hoping Karabiner Elements figures out some solution going forward. It still works on Catalina but the expectation is the "legacy kext" will no longer function on 10.16.
This is correct. Every headset I’ve purchased has had this feature, but I’ve only purchased gaming headsets.

Edit: this is the headset
https://www.astrogaming.com/en-us/products/headsets/a10-gen-...

Also, this is not an endorsement, I would actually not recommend this headset.
Luckin Coffee fires CEO and COO after accounting scandal
I've worked in the restaurant industry in the US. It's nothing short of horrifying, and often traumatizing for those involved.

I've seen no overtime pay happen, lies from management to get unemployment claims denied, management not actually firing people but just giving them zero or reduced hours to mess with the unemployment claim process, the VISA fuckery you mentioned, harrassment. Intentional scheduling of conflicting days for people with multiple jobs. Being made to work 7 days a week for long periods of time. Being made to repeatedly close late at night / early in the morning and then open the restaurant the next morning, a few hours later, and work a double. Being made to work while sick (this happens a lot).

A gold comment I heard from one manager was "I don't pay overtime because these motherfuckers already take enough of my money" (referring to the employees). This same guy was shaving time slips to keep them below 40 hours.
Nonprofits in the US don't pay taxes.
Orange man bad
The more accurate the rendering is, the more accuracy you expect of everything else.

A game with cartoonish or simplified rendering can get away with one attack animation, one "working" animation etc; but once the rendering becomes realistic, you need better animations and physics, etc.
This is really cool, looks like HDR environments in real life. Makes me wonder if this could be used in conjunction with cameras and some clever image processing algorithms as a camouflage method.
Live code session with CircleCI and Solace: Pipelining a Node.js eventdriven app
The word "can" is very different than "does by default".

Even just doing a static binary for windows and osx will require some VERY complex build systems for most languages. Not with Go. It's simple.

I hope other languages put as much effort as Go has into static linked binaries.
> if you're between that and a power-user then they add too much unpredictability into the system, even if something bad happens only once in a blue moon.

What's the cost-benefit analysis on that? I have literally never had an issue installing updates on the day of release at least since Windows 10 was released, so spending even a few days thinking about it already seems like a wasted cost to me.
Erlang may be the sturgeon of the software world. It has survived since the Triassic and yet is somehow prized for specific use cases and discerning tastes.

It is nowhere near as ancient as sharks, nor as vicious, but it employs some new physiology, and can survive just as long.

But that was a very different world and it sticks out like an outsider, when really it's been there the whole time.

(sorry, this analogy got away from me a bit).
Well, I mean you wouldn't really need to know the spelling. It would be picking the methods from the code, having parsed it. There would be no spelling involved. It's just a matter of it checking that its target is correct-- "Is this the one you wanted to change?" And if the dev doesn't know the answer to that, then they couldn't have made the change without the tool, either.
PyQT with QML / QT Quick is another option for cross-platform (Android, iOS, Windows, Mac, Linux) development, but the widgets aren't native. It's closer to Flutter in that way.

QT Widgets, in contrast, do have native-looking widgets for Mac and Windows. You can use it with Python instead of C++, but it's a bit of a pain, and most of the Qt community seems to be moving towards QML, which is a far better developer experience.
CEOs of other auto manufacturers don't last as long as Musk (he has the longest tenure globally, by far). They also aren't product architect of their company, nor CEO and lead designer of another large manufacturing company either.
Now come up with accessible versions of those tests.
I edited my post, hope you do the same.
I'm not giving management any credit, but I believe they have a pretty good idea why they are hired and paid well, and if it's just "because I've studied this and that, have those certifications and know how to use KPI in a sentence". I don't believe that managers by and large suffer from impostor syndrome and therefore try to gain control of their situation by adding surveillance because of fear.

They may have plenty of room for improvement, but their actions aren't motivated by "I don't know what I'm doing here", rather "I don't trust my employees enough to let them run free". That's a very different motivation and confusing the two will only lead to not understanding actions and reactions.
All engines have bugs.

Unity source code is partially available on github, and full available on commercial license, which is fair.

Then there are plenty of other engines out there, for example Cocos2d-x is number one in Asia for 2D mobile games.
Fortunately I have two teenage girls ... cooking problem is solved :).
Based on the lack of response, I am going to assume that this may have been a one off. Thanks everyone.
> I sent registration instructions to all of them within 8 hours, but only 6 people clicked the link in that email.

I think they drew the wrong conclusion from their data. I don't think it was the double signup that was the problem, it was the delay between signing up and getting the confirmation email.

I think the real lesson here is that confirmation emails need to be short (addressed in the article) and quick.

I know that if I don't get the confirmation email within about a minute, I give up.
Everyone else should just go ahead and reopen as well.
So accessing a web site is illegal? I rarely see explicit "you are allowed to access the HTML files on this server" anywhere.
Ben - thanks for sharing what you learned.

I highly recommend reading "Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability". It doesn't take long to read but is packed with wisdom. It covers the points that Ben makes in his blog post.

https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Make-Think-Revisited-Usability/d...
>In addition to BSoD crashes and connectivity issues, users are also reporting that their settings are being removed and files deleted.

https://betanews.com/2020/04/23/kb4549951-crash-file-deletio...
The straw that broke the camel's back for me was when Uber was a platinum level sponsor of a conference in Oakland on police militarization. And by that I mean a conference whose goal was to promote the use of military gear by police.
Or a wealth tax.
Prytek Leads $7.5M Round for Cyber Defense Platform Orchestra
Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity company Orchestra Group, has raised $7.5 million in the first funding round led by Prytek. Startup is targeting the defensive cybersecurity market, which grows dramatically, as Covid-19 crisis measures increase remote work solutions and companies’ cybersecurity needs.
> They bypass skin color by just measuring levels of Vitamin D directly

People with darker skin will, ceteris paribus, have lower vitamin D levels. And all else is not equal.
Games built on Unreal 4 in the last couple of years look way better than that 2012 UE4 demo. The first few years of games on UE5 might not look like the UE5 demo today, but in a few years they will catch up.
For a proper review, see:

https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/vitamin-d-a-rapid-review-of-th...
Startup idea: A service for collective food ordering for you and your neighbors.

The night before you all vote on the restaurant to order from and the time, then everyone orders their own favorite dish, then the restaurant delivers it to one of the houses.

Benefits: Cheap food! Meet your neighbors!

Downsides: Cheap food... Meet your neighbors...

EDIT: some prior art https://www.restaurantdive.com/news/uber-eats-launches-group...
I've been getting into bread buying. I find a loaf at QFC from Essential Baking Company, one with a stiff crust so that I know it's fresh, then take it to the register to pay for it. It works really well.
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

Clearly, the universe is written in Forth.

Or rather a dialect of it, which has only one fundamental word, and everything else is implemented in terms of that word. How exactly is it done? That's the ineffable part.
Tesla now has the best operating margins of the industry. The net income will explode as the sales of Model Y will increase and exceed those of the 3. They haven't even started making semi and pickup trucks.
IEX Cloud API and Cryptosheets Integration
Yea, stopped using food delivery apps for this exact reason. As a New Yorker, https://www.eatnyc.org/ has been pretty useful for finding what local restaurants are still reliably open for pickup and delivery. They also don't take any commission from restaurants, so I think my goto restaurants actually prefer me using it.
It used four synchronized PCs with a total cost of ~$20,000 to render three 4K panels, which is pocket change for a large production. The LED walls or a single lens costs more than that!

This goes into way more technical details: https://ascmag.com/articles/the-Mandalorian Particularly interesting is how the system had ~10 frames of latency, so excessively fast camera turns would show lower quality renders.
I had a similarly fantastic experience with Mullvad. I just clicked the big "Generate Account" button, and that was that. No email, no password, no sign up page whatsoever.
Hundreds of billions of triangles? How much main memory has the PlayStation 5?
> And theoretically at an absolute minimum any time you see a prisoners dilemma regulation is how you prevent it and make sure that everyone gets their preferred outcome.

I can assure you that not everyone is getting their preferred outcome. That's why the term "prisoners" instead of "willing teammates" are used here.

> Prohibiting outside doors from being locked in a factory increases my freedom as a worker to leave whenever I choose.

As a worker you always can leave whenever you choose. Past. Present. Future.

That does not mean you get to keep your job doing that.

Slaves too had the freedom to leave whenever they chose unless they were in chains. The only issue was the enforcement of certain labor contracts that have since been deemed illegal. To clarify, the slaves were treated as property just like you now treat your pets, in this day and age. If your pet was to flee you would capture it and offer rewards for its re-capture. The concept of it is still alive in this day and age. It's just not phrased in those specific terms.

Your mention of voluntary enslavement indicates you are well aware of what I mentioned and how modern society has just devised new means of enslavement while being compliant with anti-slavery regulations.

> Assault being illegal increases my freedom because I can freely walk down the street without threat of harm.

Absolutely not.

Making something illegal absolutely does not shield you against harm.

Making something legal absolutely does not shield you against harm either.

If you exercised your right of freedom of speech in San Francisco and serenaded Trump, you will see what I mean.

There is no magic cloak that protects you from "illegal" things.

If someone shot you with a machine gun - the former being a criminal activity with various levels of prosecution and the later being literally illegal in most practical sense in the U.S. - you are still shot and injured - illegal or not.

You are still hurt or dead.

The only concern at that point is whether the perpetrator is going to be first caught, and then prosecuted under the laws that make their activity liable for prosecution.

If they run away, tough luck - illegal and all that.

If you are a terrorist on the run, assault is no longer off the table. Saddam and Osama can speak a few words about that.

Any kind of weapons are illegal in Mexico, so it assault. Yet people die of both in Mexico.

Fact remains you are still hurt or dead irregardless of the agility of it.

You dont have the ability to arise from the ashes even if the method of your injury/mortality was illegal.

Physics and biology don't consult the roster of human idiosyncrasies. They follow the rules of science, illegal or not.

The moon rotated around the earth well before, during it was illegal to do so and it continues to.
I wonder how Instacart's business model compares to restaurant/hot food delivery.
Platform decay, decentralized marketplaces, and Urbit
> It's more readable on small screens

Yup!

With over a million views of my content, I have noticed that this style is preferred by an overwhelming majority of readers.

I am sure there are who disagree. I am explicitly open to open dialog with all my channels listed on my profile.

My focus is to reach people and listen to what they have to say.

My objective is to test the clarity of my thoughts and the best way to go about it, I feel, is to discuss it with someone who holds a contrarian view.

That said, I've been having a hard time doing that here on HN as once downvotes (which work like a silencing mechanism here) happen, I literally cant respond back until a few hours have passed since the last downvote.
I cannot - the time is over, so I hope that whoever reads my original post also reads this series of replies.
> I think if you poll most Americans,

Well that's my contention, that the opinion of Americans only matters as far as they're willing to act.

Americans are pushovers, and if they're not willing to do anything other than share their opinions, what good are their opinions?

It would be like if a Union refused to strike, how much "power" would they actually have? The power of a Union is in the coordinated action of the people, not of the coordinated opinion. Likewise, if Americans refuse to act on this, why would they be listened to?
“The failed states of the west will be left behind.“

Best laugh I’ve had in a long time, thanks.
Speech enhancement for professionals – Clear Edge
Hey HN, we are Babblelabs and we recently released our speech enhancement app. It can can remove really strong noises without affecting the speech. Currently works on Windows and we're working on a Mac version.

All you need is a CPU. If you have any questions please ask. It will be good to know the opinions of others.

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This is something I've been mulling over for such a long time and want to resist simple answers.

But this phenomenon seems to hold true no matter the organization: A new hire for position or level X with Y years of experience will ALWAYS have a higher salary than a veteran at that organization with level X and experience Y, for Y > ~2yrs.
I have yet to use a service with this pattern that requires you to click an "Alright, start charging me $15/mo" button once their free trial expires. That would obviously be the most user-friendly thing to do.

So, without that step, you can't say "has nothing to do with hoping people forget to cancel."
It's possible for something to be not new and not a conspiracy but also not good and not right, all at the same time.
> But most of the websites today are not sending sensitive data back and forth, they are simply sending public data from public websites.

Really? Most websites don't have login systems? Don't ever have content you might not want everyone to know you're reading? Don't allow you to post messages you might want to keep separate? Don't allow you to search for things you want to keep private?
There are some good reasons that beaches and parks should be open to the public. There are also good reasons that beaches and parks should not be open to the public.

This study is not one of those reasons. The conclusion of this study is not one of those reasons.
I think the counter-argument here is that by existing in their current form, these products either are now, or will in the future be, used as part of botstorms, exploited for illegal purposes, etc.

I'm sympathetic to your argument, but I've also seen a little tiny "I'm just storing a list of the CDs I own in a text file" apps blow up with multiple gigs of unwanted data, which _probably_ would not have happened with HTTPS.

Overall I'm on the side of "there must be some exceptions," but I have to admit that every month it's harder and harder to think of what the legitimate exceptions might actually be, given the toxic nature of the internet.
Again, you are making a lot of unsubstantiated claims here. Also, there are more options than the two you have presented.

The only thing you can definitely say about Bay Area developers vs others is that they’re paid more money - a result of there being companies with more money located there.

Finally, your entire premise is faulty as you perfectly correlate developer quality and compensation.
It's asinine for factories to be kept closed while big box stores are open. I know some people who work in the latter and they've had customers refusing to wear masks, spitting on employees (cops called), etc. Factories have the ability to strictly regulate distancing and mask use and are heavily monitored places, so they are much safer.
Fresh bread is so different and tastier than store bought. It's easy to make, and can be adopted into almost any meal. It was a fundamental cooking skill lost in the last few generations.

Sorry to hear about your flour situation. Flour is much easier to get for us now. Most stores are restocked in this area (south bay). Even Costco has their mega bags back in stock.
And with that dreadful menuing system I described above, there was no way to automate that. I had even considered using Expect!

So the encouragement has resulted in a detriment to me: more work.

Oh, for a little choice! But the one-size-fits-all parade marches onward.
This is because they are handing out discounts like crazy. I haven't paid for a delivery during this entire crisis and usually get $5 coupon to go with it. DoorDash gave me 30% off the other day and it was on a $100 order. How can that make sense?
We are using Instacart and have been very happy with it. The article doesn't specifically mention Instacart, which seems to actually be doing very well thanks to the pandemic [1]

And as for the other services, from the article it sounds like a lot of the issues are directly related to the pandemic. I think there will be a golden period for them after the pandemic, or perhaps sooner. I would have never used a grocery delivery service before -- the idea of someone choosing & touching my food is unappealing to me. But now that I've used it several times, I am loving it and want to continue using it.

[1] https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/coronavirus-instacart-...