skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think it’s a nitpick at all. I agree that google is a private company and searchers have the option of using a different search at the click of an icon.

Usually I consider terms like “control” to be hotheaded but if you substitute “is in control of Which results are returned” you can see the consequence could be nefarious. This understanding informed antitrust theory up to the 1980s.

I don’t use Google for anything myself except for communicating with my gf’s kids’ scout troop. That doesn’t mean I think they have a bunch of evil geniuses cackling and rubbing their hands in building 42. The rehetoric makes me think some people do think this.
For married couples, the US has seen an increase in women working for pay from 30% participation to 60% participation from 1955 to present.

https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2017/08/Labor-Force-Parti...

So there was a while when most married women with kids stayed home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAkj32VPcUE
The cost of investing in one perfect system is that this kind of events tend to put us in a very dificult and odd place.

we should not put all the eggs in the same basket even if our quality of life changes.

Regarding quality of life, this economy based on material wealth can only give a sense of well being up to a point.
The point is that it's easy to write and easy to parse. It doesn't matter what your emitter is.
I mean going by a lot of American's perception, only the US way is the correct way, so it must mean that Germany is doing some form of cover up! To make things even better, Germany should ditch its civil law for common law! /s
I still can’t buy a thermometer online.
I’m sorry that you are being downvoted. Your comment is informative and contributes to the discussion.
No barrister or legal historian here,

but fairly certain that a monopoly on permissible communication/speech was and is still held (in title at least) by the Crown

this is pretty much precisely what the 1nd amendment is about and why it was so radical at the time.
So East of town (Austinite here) there's a lot of wide-open space. My money is on something East of 130 toll road near the Circuit of the Americas. I could see a lot of incentives being thrown that way from the Red McCombs family (major funder of COTA, highly influential in TX politics) to build alongside or nearby.
Yes, I can't drive and still only take public transport. It's more convenient than getting a Uber in London. Even taking a black cab can actually be cheaper. So yeah, I fully aware that transportation is important. I wish that would be better covered.
Ah that's disappointing. i wonder if there is any work to create a JS compiler.
> The bigger risk with getting a job at Uber is "will they be in business in 2 years?"

what's median job duration for a software engineer in startup-land anyway? I'd be surprised if it was much over 2 years...

I'd think that if your famous company goes under, folks won't generally hold that against you. Heck, I'd think people who watched it all fall apart would would have the most interesting stories (and valuable lessons about mistakes to avoid).
Then they can actually show what they're compensating for. ;)
It's not really an "allow" kind of deal; a nation's options are limited dealing with the most populous nation on the planet.

Lots of options end in nose-cutting to spite faces, and the winning move starts to look like "don't play" real quick.
I respect you as a moderator and I think that on the whole, you do a good job - but ultimately, the YC logo is up there on the top left of every HN page. You have earned the presumption of goodwill in almost all of your moderation actions, but when incentives favor YC, you need to (and will always need to) go out of your way to prove that you're addressing these issues without bias.

I saw your comment earlier about this particular case - the flamewar detector went off. This would be a good thing to bubble up somewhere for transparency. I've mentioned many times that a public moderation log for HN would be a very good idea, and it would avoid scenarios like this entirely.

Again, I have a lot of respect for you as a moderator, but that is dependent on being able to push back when HN moderation fails. I've gone to bat for you before; it's only fair that I get to criticise you, too. Maybe this was a bit of a low blow, and I apologise for that, but it highlights places where HN moderation can be improved all the same. I don't think that pushing to have all of these discussions in private is going to be acceptable.
1) This is the platform vs publisher discussion. I'm just stating it as a potential case.

2) You agree with me. Again, my point is not that they shouldn't do that, but that the filter they use to do so is so highly subjective and opaque that it's no longer useful.
With fines and jail time if necessary. OSHA can enforce in the workplace - it's quite literally their purview.
Sounds like great news! Am excited to see, where Swift will end. I am no developer but I like to code things and script tasks (at work that's even my job). Already tried many different languages. In the end I always used Python, because i feared that nobody can rewrite my code, if I write it in something more exotic.

Out of interest I spend some evenings in swift (server-side) and it felt some kind of fresh air. Python feels so 'slugish' all the time. But I am worried, if swift will ever be 'useful' server-side.
I disagree wholeheartedly. Electric scooters are fun and useful, especially for commuting in the morning from a drop off location like a train station. The real question is whether or not it can be profitable, which I highly doubt. I would rather just get my own if I needed it.
> With 35+ million Americans unemployed there are more founders available than probably ever before.

The job losses are overwhelmingly in low skill, low education required jobs. Their experiences and domain knowledge are in industries that are currently crippled.

Most just wouldn't have the skills or expertise to found scalable companies.
Doesn't this argument automatically void paternity leave though? And even non-birth parent leave in general?

To me the leave is, yes, in part a health thing, but also just a bit of support (we're talking a few weeks) for the family to adjust to the disruptive event.
Inverter type, for example Honda 10i is portable and not that noisy :)
Online Video Compressor Status
About a year ago, I developed a PS2PDF online video compressor https://www.ps2pdf.com/compress-mp4. People love our video compressor. I get like 3 - 4 thank you emails everyday. It was doing really good until May 4th. Then this happened https://imgur.com/a/toJU9kM. That drop harts. Not sure what leads to this drop. If any SEO guru can explain this, I appreciate that a lot.
In Germany, you usually hear about Threema as the app that you should use if you care about data protection. Signal isn't as well known, but it's gaining traction. Neither currently has even the slightest connection to mobsters, as far as I'm aware.
I need to add this blog to my list of blogs I regularly follow...
Maybe not a bad idea but its ludicrous that WeWork was ever considered and valued like a Tech company, it's a real estate company with hipster interior designers nothing more.
I think you're right, a lot of people underestimate just how risky the real estate market is. Back in the 90s it was seen as a low-risk endeavor. Pretty much guaranteed money and tons of cheap leverage to max out returns. After all, everyone needs houses and the population just keeps going up faster than houses could be built. Especially with immigration.

However the cheap leverage and massive influx of foreign investment kinda fell off which made prices drop like a rock in 2008. I wouldn't be surprised to see it happen again in late 2020 and 2021 when a bunch of people see balloon payments from deferred mortgages.
I honestly wonder what the strategy is. Obviously they are heavily impacted in the short term, but also this is a company that has been losing money from the get go. If the intent is to build and build and build and search for profit eventually, then I'd think they'd weather this storm more than they are. They invested heavily in building up a world-class engineering team and just cut a huge chunk loose. It makes me think they aren't just cutting costs, they are refocussing the business and probably won't reenter some markets.
I use scooters to commute daily, Revel is more dangerous IMO, i have seen a few of them totaled since they came to Miami. Scooters are the least hassle for me.
Lol you should have put an amazon affiliate link, I just bought it right now!
There is so much more to happiness than negative news.

A friend escaped Bosnia during the war. She chose to live in New Zealand, because the top news story of the day was about a cat that was lost. She figured if that was all New Zealand had to worry about, then New Zealand was the country for her. She found gainful employment, raised a kid, and she went to the beach every weekend during the summer. She hated it. She is back in Europe now.
Hm, I've switched to:

DuckDuckGo - search

Brave - browser

Android - you've got me there; but I might switch to Apple next year.

Gmail - ditto, but I'm hoping to switch to proton or similar

Youtube - alternatives like Bitchute exist for banned videos

Fortunately, although the GOOG does have a lot of best-in-class products out there, competition is rising. Consumers benefit from lots of choices.
But the IRS isn't aware of what deductions you have and what credits you qualify for until you tell them. This completely changes your tax liability.

When you actually understand the system, it makes sense why it is the way it is.
I thought it was funny that the first reply comes from someone whose email address was @id.au. (Pretty sure this is unrelated to Id Software but quite a coincidence!)
> Kids can be great, but I truly struggle to grasp why my quality of life has to suffer so that someone I have never met can sit at home with a baby. It does not compute.

It shouldn't, but if your quality of life is being diminished, that's not the kid's fault, nor the mother's.

That's management's fault.
Is it? You already laid off a large percentage of staff. Your product teams will have seen the data showing cratering revenue. Your top engineers are almost certainly already looking for new jobs anyways. You know you are going to have to make this move no matter what. Anyone with a brain knows that the status quo is unsustainable whether you say the quiet part out loud or not.

Better to give people a heads up so they can start getting their resumes in order, hitting up their networks, etc. rather than telling a blatant lie.
I just added a dark mode toggle (no cookies still)! Hope you like!

https://hackerspring.com?darkmode=1
I don't think that's going to be a problem any time soon...
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40% of food in American homes lands in the trash? They only have themselves to blame.

The demand was artificially inflated and now that it's dropping due to lower waste at home, because people are afraid stores won't have what they need, what was made expecting inflated usage, can't be delivered and used.

We brought this upon ourselves. Even worse, we won't learn from it. Once things are back to normal, the rest of the world will copy / continue copying the american gluttony making us susceptible to another situation like this.
Tell that "Uber is not an essential service" to the millions of otherwise unemployable people that were able to feed their families using it. In countries like Brazil, where I'm from, the fall of Uber will have a gigantic impact. Gig economy apps BECAME ESSENTIAL parts of our lives, there's no denying it. But it was never sustainable. When everybody benefits from a product/service, other than the company that offers it, something is wrong. Uber only exists still, because of the FED's massive amount of money being printed and injected in the markets since 2008. Boomer's 401ks subsidized my Uber rides. The american taxpayers money created an amazing amount of wealth all over the world, lifted a lot of people from poverty. But now the party is over. Every unsustainable business eventually will die, just like the Dodos. I needed to write this, sorry. This ideia of Uber not being essential is such a miopic stance, it can only come from a person that can't see the impact, for the good, that gig economy apps had for the poor of the world.
> However, for the entire duration of the experiment I had to resist regular urges to sleep and on several occasions when I did not want to play video games was very close to failing the experiment, having at one point fallen asleep in my chair and being awakened a few minutes later by my wife.

I don't really believe this, and I find this interesting and impressive,but this sounds like a George Costanza scheme after getting caught playing video games or sleeping too much
Nice misleading headline. The titers are lower than Sinovac, and some monkeys (3 out of 6) did exhibit symptoms but no one of them had lung damage. Also, for reasons I can't understand, the dosage was half the one used in the human trial.

Oxford will, according to a statement, also try multiple administrations, exactly like one arm of their trial.

Lastly, some protection is better than no protection.

Personally I'd wait for the trial results before saying, falsely, that it fails to stop the virus.
> Turns out it was the CPU and how crappy AMD handle C-states that save energy

From my experience, Intel is no better.

I have a 4 year old laptop with an Intel CPU that has the same problem, it was never fixed by Intel. [see EDIT]

For the first 3 years of use I just accepted the fact that my laptop would randomly freeze and I would have to reboot it.

One day, I got sick of it and started digging into forums until I found a way to avoid the specific c-state (by modifying kernel boot parameters) that caused the issue.

EDIT: Apparently, it's getting fixed now. Just 5 years late, issue was reported in 2015 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109051
It would be inflationary, as less efficient local labor would also require more workers and higher wages. Food costs would go up but the money would be more contained locally as well. Net net I think it would decrease some consumptions, but perhaps leading to a more sustainable model overall.
I've always mused that we could somehow recover some of the "wasted" time of sleeping. 8 hours every night - a third of a human's lifespan - is just so much time.

Sadly, I've never found any positive research that there's any way to do it safely. When I was younger I found schedules like the Uberman[0] and was amazed by the claim: only 2 hours of sleep a day required, as long as you stuck to a pretty rigid schedule and were disciplined about napping on time. I never had the scheduling freedom available to actually give it a go, and accounts of others trying it seemed to indicate that it was actually pretty awful to keep up.

This article seems promising, but it's a relatively short experiment. Would be interesting to see what happened after a year of 4 hour sleep. Based on the author's description, sounds like their body was trying to force them asleep at every turn and they had to fight through it. That would be hard to maintain long-term.

I truly wish one day we can isolate and synthesize whatever magical thing happens during sleep and recover some useful time. This seems much more practical than life-expectancy extension to me. As long as, of course, employers don't take it upon themselves to increase the workday as well. I'd rather sleep than work.

[0]: https://polyphasic.net/schedules/uberman/
100M people in renewed lockdown in China after spike of new COVID19 cases
FBI links Pensacola shooter, Al-Qaeda via cracked iPhones, ‘no thanks to Apple’
I'll thank them. Thank you, Apple, for supporting privacy in the face of unrelated ultimatums. Privacy for all is privacy for one.
Buying a reasonable used compact car probably costs around 2000$ minimum. And a 2000$ car, no matter how nice, has the potential to require much more $$$ in maintenance when things start breaking.

Believe it or not, there are people out there who don't have $2000 and these people are also the same ones who can't get anyone to lend them money.
It's supposed to be used only for insistently toxic users, since they're less likely to notice and create another account for a while. Using this for blanket censoring is deceitful.
> It's kinda telling that economics treats trained workers as something that springs into existence unbidden. While raising children is mere 'leisure' and government funded education is dead weight loss.

Every word above is false. Gary Becker’s economics of the family has many, many flaws but assuming children happen by accident is not among them. Leisure is not “mere” in economics. It’s everything that’s not work. It’s what work is for. The point is not the production; it's the consumption. If we could do the latter without the former sustainably that would be paradise. There are none, zero, no economists who think government education is dead weight loss. Even Bryan Caplan of The Case Against Education thinks it’s at least 30% human capital building and it’s glaringly obvious after the past few weeks that the child minding function of school is enormously valuable.
No, and this has been widely litigated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...
Fully paid parental leave (typically 8 weeks) is becoming quite common at fortune 500 companies in the US.

Many comment that they're trying to get ahead of the legislation and lawsuits, and buy some goodwill in the process. I'm fully in support!
I think you missed his point, which is that both the Iraqi and US taxi driver provide about the same amount of value, yet while one gets paid more than the other (despite provide equal value). He implies that people don't see this as a problem, and suggests that maybe the salaries of the administrators are something similar.
At worse you might need to spend 20 bucks to replace tired fans.

Mining GPUs run undervolted without powercycling. They're fine.
Not so sure about that. The company was notorious for having teams constantly rollout competing internal libraries/tools and rewrite them over and over, obviously not having enough bottom-line work to keep everyone busy. A smaller workforce may be able to focus on the work that matters, it doesn't have to imply a lower productivity.
Sure, but personally, I'd concentrate more on McConnell, since he's the one who runs the Senate as an authoritarian party-state in which everything is evaluated by how it affects Republican power.

Also, I frankly don't trust Californian politicians of any stripe, "liberal" or "leftist", to implement the left-wing agenda they claim to stand for.
I'm not insinuating anything, it's just a fun story.
What exactly are you defining as "real growth" in order to come to the fantastic conclusion that there hasn't been any?

I'm also fairly certain that the US (and other countries) have been warring a lot in the Middle East in the past 50 years, and many people claim that this is directly related to oil, an "exploited resource".

Has that not been happening either?
> there's no way people who commute every day are doing so for cheaper than actually owning a car.

Yes there is: Public transportation (bus, metro, train). Millions of people get to work using it every day.
Just having a car sit on the street would cost me at least 100$ per month in taxes, insurance, parking and other misc costs. I spend much less on public transportation.

Most people live in dense cities so these services exist. I almost only use Uber/taxis when I need to go to places that are hard to reach or at night.
HCF was great. I can't recommend it highly enough to anyone who hasn't seen it yet, if you have any interest in the history of the computer industry at all. And I say that not because of how historically accurate it is, or isn't. It's just plain good drama. I just finished watching the entire series for the second time, and I wouldn't be shocked if I wind up watching it all a third time at some point in my life.
Not necessarily, besides, people are so used to ads nowadays.
Scooters seem very viable in parts of Los Angeles. Before covid people were using them a lot. It is true that mopeds/ bikes are more functional. But there is something about a scooter where you just stand on it and it is very pleasant, vs something you sit on and feel like maybe you should have a helmet. Anecdotally, I saw scooters used a lot more than bikes in Century City, when both were available.
Here is the data directly from the arizona department of health: https://www.azdhs.gov/preparedness/epidemiology-disease-cont...

I'm a broken record talking about how nytimes/etc. will always pick the more sensational data to sell ads, and how it doesn't matter for them if they're wrong (and how they actually have a financial incentive to be wrong). Maybe it is all just an accident though.
Your comment downplays the number of contractors at Google as if they are rare, but in reality, Google employs ~100k FTEs and ~120k contractors. It's definitely more than just QA testers and kitchen staff.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/technology/google-temp-wo...

You may really have just been on a team that doesn't interact often with contractors, but the reality for the broader company is that contracting is a way of life for much more than just Uber.
We’re not done with our stochastic gradient descent.
Except it's not "SHUT DOWN EVERYTHING". It's shut down all non-essential mass gatherings until we can get a handle on the situation. All of the governors who implemented strict shelter-in-place orders have also released detailed plans for re-opening safely.
I like this. The takeaway from .com was revenue oriented. The takeaway from this bust is unit economic oriented.
> But I think it's very important that the employees of companies are allowed to exercise their own value systems by denying users of hate speech a platform.

I completely agree. That doesn't mean I have to agree with their value systems or stay silent about my discontent (and I'm not implying that you claimed that either).

I'm just tired of hearing the phrase "hate speech" used whenever these discussions happen, as if there were some fundamental human law that we have to protect people from ideas that might offend them - either via regulation or private company policy. Illegal or not, I don't think it helps to talk about "hate speech" in the context of censorship and free speech. It's like having a debate about which curse words are the worst, when really that's missing the point.
My wife and I tried (and succeeded) to get my leave period to overlap with the winter holiday (during which my office is closed). I've had conversations with friends on academic schedules attempting similar things.

Obviously, plans often don't survive first contact with reproductive biology, but sometimes they do, like in my case.
Bitchute seems to be gaining traction. Currently, they're where you go to watch banned videos and banned content producers like Infowars, Soph, etc.
Here: https://wyze.com/thermometer.html

I have one of these and have sanity checked it against another mouth thermometer I have from CVS and the readings agree with one another.

(There have been reports of Chinese-made thermometers lying about their readings)

Looks like there are also a bunch on amazon that will arrive to me anywhere between two days from now and a week from now.
An academic study (2007):

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2656292/
No, but casinos are private businesses with the right to refuse service to anyone, and they tend to exercise that right against people they believe to be counting cards. Card counters are not a protected class.
Latency even over a few feet can matter.