skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correct, on top of that it is a highly presumptuous and naive take. I originally wrote 99% of "geniuses" will never work for a FAANG (I was being generous). First of all there are dozens upon dozens of academic fields besides CS. Most of the people in the top of those fields (think people in medicine,chemistry, math, economics, history, finance and a long etc) will work with Ads. Then you have plenty of geniuses in non-academic fields (guys like Magnus Carlsen or Caruana), poets, writers, musicians, sportsmen, again none of them thinking about how making you click an add. Then you have lots of smart people in CS, but not in the US/Canada etc, plenty of smart Chinese/Indians/Russians and on and on etc who for many reasons wont work for a western company. Then you have also plenty of smart american CS graduates who dont want to work for a FAANG, or will work for a very short time and leave for greener pastures from their POV. All in all, assuming 1% of this generation "geniuses" work in SV is an extremely generous supposition.
I don't think it's a particularly recent notion.

That's why I specified in the United States.
> What is paper is saying is that previous exposure to coronavirus (the common cold) grants some level of immunity to covid19.

It's not saying that. The presence of these antibodies does not necessarily mean any level of immunity against SARS-CoV-2, which is a different virus than the one that triggered these antibodies. The degree to which these antibodies contribute towards immunity against the new virus is unknown, and wasn't evaluated by this study.
Big corporations have a mind, but they aren't conscious in the way we are conscious. Lot more minds exist in the world than consciousness.
You just shot down the book/idea (panpsychism) without providing a single constructive reason. Instead, you applied a derogatory label ('woo'), and attacked the proponents instead of the idea itself, saying: "the proponents of this idea seem a little too convinced...".
Anyone else out there surprised to see Elon "zag" so badly on COVID, including this?

I've always been impressed by his agility with ideas, zigging and zagging and I've been there cheering him on. But on this one it seems like he....went off the cliff, Wiley E. Coyote style.
Why would I want to make any attempt to justify the hypothetical scenarios that you invent? The scenario of people being denied unemployment for refusing to return to work is a hypothetical scenario that you invented. You have presented no evidence that this has occurred. The idea that CA EDD is not providing safe working environments is another hypothetical scenario that you invented and have provided no evidence for. Your hypothetical statistics are also frankly ridiculous. So far ~0.000813% of California's population have died of COVID-19, which is about the same amount of Californians who died in traffic fatalities in 2018. Does California need to justify not providing unemployment benefits to people who think travelling to work is too dangerous? Most people would think that's ridiculous.

Your entire premise is that the standards used by the CA EDD are not sufficient, and that you speculate they're going to increase COVID fatalities by more than an order of magnitude. Yet you can not provide a single reason to justify any of this speculation.
I understand there's a hardship for someone that can't get away for a few hours to travel to the DMV office. But it's the same hardship for everyone.

No it isn't. The marginal costs are different. If you earn $2000 a week and through some mischance have to give up a day's earnings to go the DMV your $400 loss is an annoyance. If you earn $500/week your loss as a percentage of income is the same but the economic impact of losing $100 is probably much bigger.
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Companies like Dominos are mostly delivery, so I would imagine they must profit.
TSMC halts new Huawei orders after US tightens restrictions
obligatory xkcd https://xkcd.com/505/
I might have to see if the winrt bindings are better than the generic rust ecosystem. I think the idea of rust is a good one, but the language isn't really something I would ever recommend for a professional project at this point.

I can get around the fact that using rust sometimes feels like programming with one arm tied behind my back. The real problem is the ecosystem. I've hardly used rust enough to feel like I've got a really broad feel for the ecosystem, but the feeling I have at the moment is that its quite possible to hit deal breaker levels of problems when attempting to combine differing libraries into the same application. Particularity when one is using threads in an application. I needed to pass one libraries reference into a thread, where another library needed to have the instance used in a closure. It turned out to be impossible without either using unsafe code or adding additional traits to both libraries. A trick made much harder because I then had to wrangle cargo to pick up internally maintained versions of libraries instead of the main cargo repos.

So, I get the distinct feeling that rust is great if you can stick to a single threaded programs, or you don't rely on 3rd party libraries. Mix the two, and your in deep trouble.
Here's an admittedly cynical take: Analysts who suggest that the US is weak better serve the defense industry. Even your source suggests the solution is more money...
Merit for businesses is defined by consumer acceptance and consumers love these apps.
CoThings is a realtime counter for shared things
I've started an open source project that helps us to avoid crowded areas if you live in a community, like a shared house or guest house, during COVID-19 pandemic.

It accounts for current number of people using shared areas or utilities in realtime. It uses Elixir + Phoenix's Socket for realtime communication.

Currently there's an only a web app and you need to update the counter manually. However, there's our iOS application that we're developing (and needs more contributors) to connect beacons and count the room usages automatically. https://github.com/rainlab-inc/cothings-ios

Project's website: https://cothings.app

GitHub Repos:

- https://github.com/rainlab-inc/cothings

- https://github.com/rainlab-inc/cothings-ios

- https://github.com/rainlab-inc/cothings-design

- https://github.com/rainlab-inc/cothings-website

Any contributions or feedbacks are welcome!

Thank you all!
The presence of useful forks means that there isn't a single authoritative state. For example, I've had a fork of bash-completion for a over a year, and I use it all the time.

How do I fork a Google doc? At best you can copy and modify, but here's no merge.

Merging is a feature, not a bug (maybe not for all applications, but 99% of them).
"Each Dyson electric car would have needed to make £150,000 to break even".

The electric supercar market is well-covered. The good electric replacements for the Toyota Corolla and the Ford F-150 have yet to ship.
Deepak studies a specific branch called, Ching Cha Ching, which enables him to make lots of money.
But why is the audio quality fine for example on a facetime call. If the two way standard is that bad, wouldn't it be universally bad?

Beyond that, is anyone working on a better one. I can see using AirPods as normal wireless headset if it wasn't for above described issue. They're great otherwise.
/snark
So is that a cluster per app or a namespace per app?
Well honestly, I tapped out after the second 'Go Buy FEEDLY' pitch. But I did miss it, my fault, so I went back. I found said link at the bottom, and clicked it excitedly. Only to be led to some other guys article, yet another pitch for Feedly, and some other subscription service.

Queue price is right fail horn.

A quick scroll to the bottom did eventually mention Vienna RSS, and Tiny Tiny RSS, which both appear to be actively maintained. I guess I'll start there.

Thanks, I did like your writing, and I'm intrigued by the idea of 'gardening' an RSS collection again.
Iceland is on GMT/Western European Time, which is a civil timezone that would allow the implementation of a future DST.

It just happens to be +00:00 to UTC all year right now.

Iceland had DST in the 1960s.
If you think webrtc is a replacement for zoom, then I don't think you have seen what many people are using zoom for. I am unaware of any webrtc implementation that can handle 100 people on a video call. Much less 1,000 or 5,000.

Once you get passed a dozen or so video call users in the same meeting, your options diminish quite a bit. I'm not saying zoom is the only option, but there aren't just tons of easy to use options that do that well.
I grew up with an inbuilt skepticism of hierarchy, authority and work structures. School required tremendous effort to stay on track despite the material being achievable.

Honestly can't say I'll ever enjoy a 'career' where one is plugged into a corporate tree. Been there, done that. I took a small business course a few years ago. The teachers there left a job they had been in for decades to start business, tried it and didn't like it. They then took a job (they call it a 'business') teaching others how to start small businesses. Found it very hard to take them seriously when they had little practical knowledge or experience, despite the reams of information they had collected from others. Some people just aren't wired to be separate from the great corporate tree.

I think too many people sign up to a career simply because it's safe and you don't have to think too much about long term goals. There are of course other virtues to those jobs, but people who are going to hate their job for the rest of their life and underachieve should probably move on out to the less-sheltered world.
Maybe it is just your subjective opinion? I am pretty sure that there are people enjoy writing JS/TS over C++/Python.
You are not reading what is being said.

If an individual has particular safety or health issues regarding returning to the workplace, then their unemployment is not affected.

So they don't have to make the choice you are saying they have to make.
> Trustroots is being discussed as an alternative, but it doesn't have a reference system

I logged in just earlier to have a look, and I see that people do have feedback. I'm not sure if there's anything like 'vouching' that CS used to have.

> Having developers to code the site and moderate the forum would be expensive if paid by the hour, but there are willing volunteers.

I have been to a festival in Australia (the predecessor to burning man) that is completely volunteer run. It's interesting to be a part of operations and see it work, and fail to some extent, and in meat-space the 'look after each other philosophy' can work when everybody is can watch each other.

I'm not sure how that could translate to a platform that has private messaging. I believe CS had a mechanism where communications could be inspected if a complaint was raised.

> Asking for donations is acceptable, a paywall demanding a subscription is not.

I think you're right about this. The people who I enjoyed the most with CS would probably find this offensive, so I'd be more likely to participate in a platform that was donation-based.

My only hesitation is that I lose all my references.

> so that's why your input is needed.

I'll make an effort.
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You'd probably be interested in Igor Ledochowski's hypnosis techniques. He's one of the best people I've seen describe conversational hypnosis and turn it into a framework that is reasonably flawless in practice. After learning his way of thinking about hypnosis, you'll notice the techniques used by politicians quite regularly, and you'll know what they're up to before they even get to the punch line. It's not a coincidence that Bill Clinton suddenly started talking and gesturing like Anthony Robbins during his impeachment trial.

Incidentally, I discovered another path to self-hypnosis - write a few scripts "in the style of" some of the accomplished modern hypnotists such as Igor Ledochowski and Sean Michael Andrews, for an issue that is near and dear to yourself. Really think your way through making scripts that you feel would differentiate their styles while also acknowledging the similarities. Improve them until you are convinced that the scripts you wrote is how they would have hypnotized you. Be able to explain every nuance as if each hypnotist is teaching you their method specific to the problem you are working on.

This makes you write scripts that you'll respond to effectively - using their styles and frameworks, but using your own thought process. It's a kind of Socratic path to self hypnosis, and easily bypasses your "critical factor," as Igor would call it.

Modern hypnotists are all still doing Bandler and Erickson methods in the end, even if barely detectable, but with current language, modern metaphors, and a rapidity that doesn't allow for examination before responding.

The two things that stick out most among all the modern hypnotists: NLP-style pattern interruption, and "embedded commands." Master those, and everything else we know about hypnosis today falls in line.
Who do all of the commentors who are complaining about this think they are talking to? The HN comment system isn't a direct line to God, you know?
> Compared to how average people lived 500 years ago it will most likely be quite a step up.

What about the clear regressions we’re seeing in quality of life for poor communities in America? Flint, MI hasn’t had clean drinking water for several years now. The quality of aggregate healthcare in states like Texas is being compared to countries like Russia. Access to affordable healthcare is a major issue for millions of Americans today.

Nobody cares that life will be better than it was 500 years ago, people care that it’s worse than it was 40 years ago, and wealth inequality is major driver of this decline in quality of life.
I never got an offer but I've rejected interviews (won't take part of the code challenges culture).

At one of them I had a strong recommendation for a specific project which allowed me to skip the initial screening but I declined in an interview as I didn't want to move to the USA and they weren't remote friendly.

I am quite happy where I am in my career and industry ! Feel that I have a huge impact in the business at a global scale. Starting over as just-another-sw-engineer-in-a-large-company doesn't seem attractive.
> At the very least, a degree proves that you can complete something that you started (something pretty difficult at that).

The most "difficult" part of college is paying for it (or "getting" your parents to pay for it.
Your source appears to have bias issues and on top of that their graphs are misleading We don't care about wealth share based on arbitrary buckets, we do care about purchasing parity and how it ties into quality of life - and how that figure has changed over time.
There is data to the contrary.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/class-war-...
I rejected a Google offer in 2012, and they've been bothering me ever since. They seemed really surprised that I didn't feel all warm and fuzzy about their lowball offer. I ended up going to Blizzard and then SpaceX, and I don't regret anything. My big thing is that while the money might have been better at a FAANG, I've done a lot more interesting work I can talk about (and some I can't). But at Google, and Microsoft where I worked for about 10 years, there are frankly so many people (many quite talented) that it's hard to get something interesting or useful to work on. It's just a lot of politics and empire building. Also, the mobility especially for women is pretty bad. We always joked the best way to get a raise was to leave and come back. It was funny because it was so true.
I bet the person physically receiving the wine/goods is some gullible, naive person who has been social engineered into thinking they're working for a legit business.

It's like the 419 emails where they are trying to "recruit a remote working employee in our finance department" where your job is actually to receive fraudulent ACH wire transfers and send the money to some overseas destinations, go to a bitcoin ATM and buy bitcoin to send to the scammer, etc.

If the scammers are reasonably intelligent and have put a degree of thought into how to not get caught doing this, they'll introduce multiple layers of abstraction between the physical delivery of $450 bottles of liquor, and the point at which that booze is turned into (gift cards, bitcoin, ethereum, etc) and ultimately in their hands. They're probably calculating on taking at least a 20-35% haircut on the revenue before the somewhat-cleaned-up cryptocurrency or gift cards makes it to them.
Unless something has changed recently, Fargate is a terrible choice for something that you want up 24x7. IIRC it’s like 2x the cost of similar on demand EC2 instances. It’s better for discrete tasks that can’t run in Lambda because timeout or possibly peak load (although EC2 is probably just as easy if not easier to scale).

But I generally agree with the premise that ECS is a better starting point for people just dipping their toe into containers.
Yes, ToothFairy or etc.
It doesn't fully explain why they priced a $24 pizza at $16. I wouldn't be surprised if they're subsidizing purchases, but just skipping fees doesn't explain that.
FWIW, Autocad, being written in Lisp, had a repl that was fed via the UI, so that you could basically see what the UI was generating and write your own scripts based off that.

I haven't used Autocad in 25 years, so I don't know how much of this is still true.
>but would it actually be sad?

To the fullest extent that you are capable of being sad.
There is no even remotely plausible alternative to this physicalist argument.

I would argue that you aren't nearly as conscious as you think you are. That's the conclusion I've come to after many hours and years on the meditation cushion cultivating awareness of my own cognition. Any thought, choice, or action that you make doesn't actually happen in your conscious brain. You just become aware of it after it's happened. That's all there is.
I got interested and did a more apples to apples comparison:

REVENUES (2019):

Apple: $260B

Facebook: $70.7B

Microsoft: $126B

Amazon: $233B

Alphabet: $162B

TOTAL: $852B

_____________________________

GDPs in 1000's (copy paste from Wikipedia):

1 United States 21,439,453

— European Union 18,705,132

2 China 14,140,163

3 Japan 5,154,475

4 Germany 3,863,344

5 India 2,935,570

6 United Kingdom 2,743,586

7 France 2,707,074

8 Italy 1,988,636

9 Brazil 1,847,020

10 Canada 1,730,914

11 Russia 1,637,892

12 Korea, South 1,629,532

13 Spain 1,397,870

14 Australia 1,376,255

15 Mexico 1,274,175

16 Indonesia 1,111,713

17 Netherlands 902,355

18 Saudi Arabia 779,289

19 Turkey 743,708

20 Switzerland 715,360

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...
Or, it is the age of social distancing. Just order it to a random address and steal it off the porch/lobby area.
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Creature raising is viewed as a partner business with agrarian exercises in rustic India. Creature farming is a fundamental segment of Indian agribusiness, supporting employment of practically 55% of the rustic populace. India is the most elevated animals proprietor of the world.

The domesticated animals division alone contributes about 25.6% of estimation of yield at current costs of complete estimation of yield in farming, angling and ranger service segment. The general commitment of domesticated animals division in complete GDP is about 4.11% at current costs during 2012-13, according to the nineteenth domesticated animals statistics of 2012.

The target of creature raising is to make the domesticated animals helpful for people for an assortment of purposes, a significant number of which have a financial worth. In this manner, it has a major potential for giving non-ranch work and salary in rustic regions.

Capability of the Sector

The Indian dairy industry is relied upon to enlist 15 percent aggravated yearly development till 2020 and rise as Rs 9.4-lakh crore industry.

Dairy items are a significant wellspring of modest and nutritious food to a huge number of individuals in India and the main satisfactory wellspring of creature protein for an enormous vegan fragment of the Indian populace.

Increment in salary and rising way of life has prompted developing interest for dairy items like margarine, cheddar, paneer, yogurt, dessert, and so forth.

The developing interest for dairy items additionally raises the possibilities for related businesses like milk preparing, bundling, coordinations, cafés and restaurants and fares.

Dairy cultivating is a feasible and gainful choice to trim creation in downpour took care of and dry season regions which are a continuous element in India attributable to environmental change.
I sell a native Windows program for monitoring battery life and health. It wouldn't be possible to build as an electron app, at least the battery monitoring part.
Risk of coronavirus spreading in schools is 'extremely low' study finds: https://www.yahoo.com/news/risk-coronavirus-spreading-school...
In the past, homelessness was quite a bit more rare - people simply starved to death.

Did you know one of the major issues facing homeless in Portland is Type-2 diabetes? And that's a genuine concern and one we should address - but the presence or lack thereof of homeless is not an indicator of wealth disparity.
There is a gallery and catalog of Pretext books:

https://pretextbook.org/catalog.html
Lol. I thought the same after reading the title. They probably cancelled it due to its absurd range
"Which brings us to the question - what is the point of all this? These platforms are all losing money. Just think of all the meetings and lines of code and phone calls to make all of these nefarious things happen which just continue to bleed money. Why go through all this trouble?

How did we get to a place where billions of dollars are exchanged in millions of business transactions but there are no winners? My co-host Can and my restaurant friend both defaulted to the notion "delivery is a shitty margin business" when discussing this post.

You have insanely large pools of capital creating an incredibly inefficient money-losing business model.

It's used to subsidize an untenable customer expectation.

Third-party delivery platforms, as they've been built, just seem like the wrong model, but instead of testing, failing, and evolving, they've been subsidized into market dominance.

The more I learn about food delivery platforms, as they exist today, I wonder if we've managed to watch an entire industry evolve artificially and incorrectly."

A contrary view, from 4 days ago, arguing third party food delivery market is not created by VC, the startups are not over-funded and that they are delivering splendid returns to investors.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23171915
Perhaps because ignorance is bliss.

I recall blowback when it was uncovered that DoorDash was not providing 1:1 amount of tips to their dashers.
On a related note, always leave the text on the page as an actual text. Don't put it into an image. This gives visitors a chance to easily translate the text. I've had this horrible experience so many times in a foreign country.

Somewhat ironically most of the time those would be governmental websites or some important announcements.

If you've made this fancy image that looks like a brochure and you must put it on a website and you can't be bothered making it in HTML with text, at least write all the text on the image in alt attribute or under the image.