skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm impressed. I've looked through the README, the code, the tests and your comments here, yet I have no idea what this is supposed to do, how it relates to the DOM, how you would use it or why you would use it.
High Court to decide if police can enter your home and steal from you
I get the nostalgia angle -- but why are we discussing a console that's >20 years old?
You Need to Know about the Magic Circle
Yep, the sync is optional (and the only thing they take money for, which makes sense)
Don't worry, the majority of people are like you. I forget the numbers but something like 10% of twitter accounts are making 99% of tweets; reading things online can skew your view of the world. You will only ever hear from the very vocal minorities because the rest of us just don't care.
Be glad for DICOM. In digital pathology we don't even have that. Every manufacturer has their own format. We don't even have proper OS libraries, there is a LGPL library that hasn't been updated for 2 years and GPL one that's up to date but slow as molasses.

EDIT: yes, I meant OpenSlide and BioFormats. BioFormats is in unoptimized Java. Oh yeah, and DICOM for pathology exists and some software tools use it exclusively but none of the manufacturers do. As the only standard some organization press for standardizing on it - forcing all vendors to provide convertors. But those are often slow, buggy and produce huge files.
Dozens of millions of people have been murdered in the name of communism by communists, and I can’t call communists “bandits”?

Do you think you can be taken seriously when you say you oppose censorship?
> And yet anyone can easily switch to e.g. DuckDuckGo. If that's a monopoly, it's not quite the kind of a monopoly we should generally be worried about.

Because people are conditioned by defaults. Google knows this, and so does every other business. Google had a good product, but Google also bought market share by bundling their products with random software (like adobes flash player, which later they unsurprisingly tried to kill), making a deal with Dell to bundle their software/toolbar, etc. Yes anyone in theory can switch, but its not really how people think. People are not as informed as we think they are, or aware of the pros and cons of various competing services and products. That includes most people, even people on this site, so its really not an elitist thing.
Free Virtual Event on Design and Prototyping with the James Dyson Foundation
https://community.worldbrain.io/t/what-happens-with-my-priva...
one aspect would be that some households would collect 2 Parental leaves, others only 1.

Canada has a program to address this where it defines 18 months parental leave across both parents and allows them to choose how to allocate (ie one can transfer their leave to the other).

Keep in mind that developed world parental leaves are usually < 100% salary and upto a fixed maximum. Eg: Canada parents get 33 per cent for up to 61 weeks

https://archive.is/ymOa8
Ironically, it was google that first innovated along these lines with their “chilling effects” project. Any time a URL was removed via a copyright complaint, they would log it. If a search result was censored, you could see the copyright complaint. I’m not sure if they still do this.
10 users? the cheapest one.
LitElement: A simple base class for creating fast, lightweight web components
Rethinking Always Be Coding
FBI: Saudi Officer’s Pensacola Naval Station Attack Was an Al-Qaida Strike
It's not about in unicorns or not. It's about the scope and impact of your projects, both of which have more to do with the size than the PR status of a company. When the quantity of people in a company exceeds the quantity of work, you'll be much more expendable.

Following this type of logic, joining Uber in 2015 or later is a bad idea. Joining airbnb in 2015 is a bad idea. Joining Google now is likely a bad idea. Joining new orgs in AWS is probably a good idea.

A few heuristics that I find useful:
1. Revenue per employee
2. Moving average of number of substantial launches in the past X months
3. Actionable technical blogs that address real challenges directly related to specific business needs. So, no, Uber's why they switched from MySQL to Postgres and then later another article by the same person on why they switched from Postgres to MySQL do not count.
Tell that to the homeless guy in SF who made it his life mission to push scooters into the bay. They even had to make a line item just for him.
I have noticed if I go many days without sleeping, it is easier to make simple mistakes.

Also, creativity seems to degrade.
Let be honest. If your ads are stalking and spying on me then you're way more of an asshole.
Given that sleep deprivation is commonly assumed to lead to worsening reaction times, rote tasks should show an effect. It is interesting they didn't.

Apart from that, I agree that there is more to sleep deprivation than reaction performance. For example, some of my most creative moments were in highly sleep-deprived states. But how am I supposed to measure that?
right. this recession is actually giving cover to let go of a lot of bloat that has built up over the years.
Ask HN: Why did Uber lay-off thousands of employees
Serious question.

I understand that covid-19 has disrupted business for the last 2-3 months in the US and a little more in around the world for global businesses. What I don’t understand is why such a large company that has billions in revenues (even though loss making) could not with stand 2-4 months of distruption and has to lay-off 15% of its workforce.

I am trying to understand what this move by Uber really means? Does it mean that even thought they generate millions or billions in revenue every quarter they are living hand to mouth and hence cannot even withstand 6 months of lower revenues? Surely they can find bridging capital giving hiring is such a expensive activity ?

Or does it mean that this is simply them trying to make things more efficient and using covid as a valid reason/exuse to justify a move thst is overall better for the company in the long run.

Or is this them predicting a very depressed outlook for their business in the medium term that requires them to lay-off rather then seek alternate solutions for short to medium term. If so does this more business will use covid as a forced spring cleaning lever ?

Or something else.
No, there's actually a C++ backend under there that implements the editor, if I recall correctly.
Hospitals tend to have piss-poor security. Their IT budget is usually low, they have one or two sysadmins who are eternally busy fixing things that users have messed up. Pentests are slowly becoming more accepted as a requirement, mostly because the GDPR has come into effect. And those inevitably turn up large lists of criticals.

Typically, gear is left with all the settings at 'default', things are opened up to the net for temporary access which is then never removed again, it's possible for the whole hospital to have only one LAN segment and so on. Ransomware, directed attacks to gain admin privileges and substantial violations of patient confidentiality have all been recorded with great regularity.

I'm assuming that if I have to go into the hospital again for whatever reason that that data will be on the street before I leave the building.
I'm working on a tool which can do exactly this (and it's only one of the features!): https://github.com/karlicoss/promnesia#readme

Here's a link demonstrating the usecase you want (40 seconds video): https://karlicoss.github.io/promnesia-demos/how_did_i_get_he...

I discovered Worldbrain Memex way into the development (unfortunately), but in the near future I will try to evaluate to which extent it's possible to mutually benefit, i.e. base Promnesia extension & backend on Worldbrain's, or contribute some of Promnesia's features to them (maybe even merge completely?)
The N64's control sticks used digital rotary encoders.
Hi! Support for Temporary Containers has just been released.
There are other benefits from decentralization besides just sustainability, such as resiliency and autonomy.
Elon dabbling in civil liberties activism and countering far-left "rose twitter" with the rose emoji and red pill phrase is not "going full alt-right" -- the political spectrum is more nuanced than that.
"they channeled their thoughts toward the fundamental details of having a 'good at-bat.'"

I'll pass.

You can't just use tangential examples of the most successful people. This feels like pop-(pseudo) science.
It's just a rephrasing of the theory that Google is acting like a publisher (information content provider) not a platform (interactive computer service), showing that interpretation is consistent with the text of the law. It's also consistent with the intentions of the lawmakers, as stated[1]:

> the Internet and other interactive computer services offer a forum for a true diversity of political discourse

> to preserve the vibrant and competitive free market that presently exists for the Internet and other interactive computer services

The law was not intended to protect a near-monopoly throwing its weight around in the political arena, or a duopoly blocking competition with their own apps.

And if that interpretation did somehow give the government the power to decide what is and what is not protected, that would still be an improvement over the present situation, because the government at least answers to the people and the Constitution, and right now nothing is protected.

1: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230
If the system is working for you...
I would suggest that a stable housing situation and outlook (even if not owned) might be sufficient on the housing side. Part of the renting problem in the US isn't the ownership arrangement, but rather the precariousness.
I'm not sure I agree. I think some of them were stupid at the time of the investment. The larger the wishful thinking component, the more likely it's a stupid investment.
A lot of what I am reading lately reminds me of the touches of sarcasm I loved reading back in 1998-1999, just when the bubble popped.
Winter is coming, and it might be uglier this time, I also believe this kind of evolutionary pressure is a very good thing.
> Would be hate speech based on gender identity, the immutable trait.

Are gender fluid people considered under this definition? Having a gender identity might be immutable but gender identity is not static. It can change. That by definition is not immutable.
The real question is whether this penalty goes away once you adjust to your new sleep schedule.
Google biggest advantage (and its the same thing Apple and Microsoft are doing) is integration of services that ultimately make the users life easier. Personally I use a Mac and iPhone and all my data is stored in iCloud. I do a lot of my personal work with MS Office and my email is Gmail. But over time I have found that choosing an ecosystem does benefit you. Recently I switched my work tasks to Google suite products and dropped my Apple TV for an android based solution. The main advantage is now my TV, browser (chrome), gmail, youtube are all synced together. I can watch videos on my tv and save others to pick up on my phone later. I can edit my docs anywhere and link them into my emails easily. I have debated moving from Apples Photos to Google Photos so that my images are all centrally located for my own ease of use and cross platform integration. I still back up all files to a secondary drive and forward copies of important emails to my outlook account in case I ever get locked out of my google account, but the integration is really nice.
I don't understand why people are believing this literal fake news, you can look at your state's official stats to see it's not true...
Yes, I agree with this. Everyone is welcome to write their own messy code while in the "get it working" phase, but it needs to be cleaned up and made somewhat verifiable before it is shared with others. I currently work with and mentor software development interns, some of whom are aspiring data scientists, and we make sure to give them training on how to write clean code.
> From what I read in GR theory, once the neutron star gets over mass limit, the gravity becomes that big that light can't escape it any longer.

No, that's not what happens. What happens is that if a neutron star just under the mass limit gains some mass, it collapses into a black hole. It does not just change a little bit. It changes a lot.

There is no such thing as a static object that is "just short" of being a black hole. A theorem called Buchdahl's Theorem says that no static object can be smaller than 9/8 of the Schwarzschild radius for its mass, i.e., 9/8 of the size of a black hole of the same mass. That means there is a finite gap in size between any static object and a black hole. So any transition from some static object, whether it's a neutron star, white dwarf, or anything else, to a black hole can't be a small continuous transition.

> why would a matter suddenly work radically differently under the event horizon?

It's not "matter" that "works differently", it's the geometry of spacetime itself. The geometry of spacetime inside the event horizon is simply different from what you are used to, and has different properties than those your intuition is familiar with. One of those properties is having a singularity a finite time in the future.

> To me it looks like BH should be the very similar lump of neutrons, just so heavy that light can no longer escape. So what? It should still be a spherical lump of neutrons underneath, just denser.

No, that's not what a black hole is at all. A black hole is vacuum inside. It is not an ordinary object made of matter. It is made of very unusual and counterintuitive spacetime geometry. Nothing else.

As for the matter that originally collapsed to form the black hole, it continued to collapse until it reached zero size and formed the singularity. It isn't there any more. While it was collapsing, its physics was the same as for any other body of collapsing matter; nothing about that changed when it fell below the event horizon. But the black hole is not made of the matter that collapsed.

The "black hole" concept you are describing would make sense in Newtonian physics (and indeed John Michell in the 1700s proposed a similar model of a Newtonian gravitating body with escape velocity greater than the speed of light that worked like this), but it is not possible in GR. GR is not the same as Newtonian physics.
Why does that link contain such a screwed up playlist?

Clean link to a different playlist with just the lectures: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLfhkR8m8wYsgLEqr__PI...
Pretty interesting data. 2x of what it was through most of April but still 10% of what it is normally this time of year.
> You really don't see the difference between an editor selecting one person to speak, versus a forum where almost everyone gets to speak?

There is no difference. If I invite people to come to my place to talk in some kind of forum, I have no obligation to let people who I think are disruptive or offensive stay, nor do I have an obligation to preserve any record of their words.
If you had a non-terminal-based app that included a code editor and could compile code, does that still count as a "real" computer?

Or do you want access to the whole terminal experience?
Oh is this the case? I thought their results came from Yandex. I don't really want to have a Yandex account to get my site indexed, so if this is my out I am all about it.
Usability testing: Easy re-testing of your assumptions with Teston
Yes. You can use youtube-dl to get videos and ffplay to watch them.
Also "Who Wants to Be Hired": https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring
I guess people has a bit different view about how sticky platforms are. If I imagine that google would take a political side in the US election and ban all site and comments of the other side, my belief is that it would have a direct impact on the election results and there would be nothing that the banned party could do. Politics right now depend highly on being visible on google search, Youtube and google ad network. A small but noticeable portion of users would move out, but it would not be close enough to compensate the loss and the impact on the political climate would take years to recover.

I would like to be wrong on this and that google do not have this kind of power.
If you're going to spout nonsense that runs counter to the government's official tally, at least cite your source.
Your last point really resonated with me. I've seen a very good friend crash his entire life by a string of bad decisions that led to him being constantly under pressure and burned out.

Ironically the use of some strong nootropics helped him cut the corner and work himself in a saner situation from which he could use to start coming back on his feet.
Do the military reservists have to disclose to potential employers that they are reservists? How often the reservists actually called for service? This is an interesting point, and I'm asking because I have no clue about the realities the military reservists face.
Agreed, especially the stuff about end users. Of course you want to prevent bugs that will impact users, but many of the other things being discussed have nothing to do with whether there is a non-technical person using the software.
Beta Launch: Clingy Domains - trading unused domains
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> However, it's not "just speech." As I linked elsewhere, studies show that after every dogwhistle-ridden Trump speech, violence against minorities increase. We've strayed into Sticks and Stones territory.

Studies would show that a thousand other things are also followed by an increase in violence. In literature, movies, telephone calls – anywhere people communicate with other people, you will find that some people communicate offensive (to someone) ideas, and as a result, other people who are prone to violence will be pushed over the edge and do something harmful. Those who seek violent ideas will find them regardless of censorship. And those who seek positivity and love will find them.

It is absolutely "just speech". We haven't crossed any magical boundary today that we hadn't crossed 229 years ago when the bill of rights was ratified. If you want to fully prevent violence from ever occurring by censoring speech, you're welcome to live in a communist country. But of course, you won't find what you're looking for there either.
Definitely. The company just felt bloated. Feature teams needed 7 or 8 people working constantly on single screens that would be an afterthought in an MVP, just to keep up with the constant changes in architecture and infrastructure. Lots of over-engineering and NIH from veterans that didn't want work on teams. Lots of rewrites due to performance issues. All that without any noticeable change for the customer (other than the website becoming slower). VCs and middle-management kept asking for more developers, though, so everyone was happy, but the general perception was that we would do just as well (or better) with a half, or a third of the staff.
I don't think this it's a refutation of all.

The efficient market hypothesis doesn't assume that the market is _perfect_ -- just that it has priced in all available information.

When an arbitrage opportunity is noticed (i.e. the $20 bill on the ground) it will disappear quickly and ultimately be priced in the market. That's the efficient market hypothesis. That's what happens in the joke.

Because of how quickly these are captured and priced in, the sentiment is that true arbitrage opportunities rare exist and aren't worth looking for. The joke is taking that to the logical extreme, but it doesn't make the general sentiment wrong.
Children are a literal economic investment in the future. The taxpayers pay for them so they reap the benefits of their future productive tax revenue when they are old and can't make any more tax revenue themselves anymore. It's the entire cycle of life, or the original retirement plan.
Government Announces Lockdown of Fast-Food Restaurants to Prevent Heart Disease
When you said AR shopping I thought you meant looking at a product on the shelf and Google glass telling you where you can get it cheaper, offer you an extended warranty, compare to a competitor, etc.

Very cool stuff out there with the HoloLens, although I don't know of any shopping app. You could create your own. Of course a larger audience could be reached with Google cardboard, but that's more VR.

I haven't heard of the iPhone doing doing AR. How does it project into the user's environment?
Those are great controllable animations/simulations! Thanks for sharing that!

I had always wanted to get a physical intuition for how PID changes led to different behaviors. (And for example, in practical life, how an autopilot doesn't wildly overshoot and oscillate around a VOR radial when trying to intersect it).
> I learned about closures, higher order functions, OOP, testing and interacting with API's from it, and it definitely gave me insight into how computers worked.

Well done, I'm honestly impressed :D

> remember that it's a 90's era clone of a 70's era language

That's not an excuse. Lisp is two decades older.

> I find your disdain for R a little annoying ... I'm sorry that you have to deal with horrible legacy R code

This has nothing to do with legacy code - I rarely have to touch that. (Scientific code is rarely reused...). R does offer a lot of great features, I'll grant you that. It has a huge library with great functions for doing statistical analysis and really neat graphics - exactly what it was designed for. As a biologist, I cannot imagine not using it.

But, and this is a big but, as a programming language it is absolutely horrible. I've worked with half a dozen languages, and none of them are anywhere near as big a pain in the backside as R. Most of that has to do with the terrible incongruity of a plethora of mutually-incompatible data types. You know, you have one function that will only work on a data frame, but somehow your data ended up as a list; or you want strings or numbers but have factors; that kind of thing. In no other language do I have to do as much googling while coding, because even basic operations are so willy-nilly idiosyncratic in their details that I keep forgetting how to do them properly. The "tidyverse" and related packages do a lot to make the experience less painful, but pure R remains a linguistic nightmare.
You can provision plugins on startup with something like:
https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/installation/docker/...
> that HN create a publicly available list of "marked off topic / down-weighted / removed / flagged as duplicate" actions

totally agree overall (implementation details are debatable)
Apple Responds to the FBI
Please don't cross into personal attack. Your comment would be fine without the first sentence.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
[dupe-delete] Trump reveals that he is taking hydroxychloroquine
I really like "Ask HN: Name one idea that changed your life" [1] from two weeks ago.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23092657
The stages of grief start with denial. Not gotten very far, have we?
Just use bigquery. The last thing I want these days is to manage a cluster. Next to last thing I want is to worry about the zillion tuneables on hadoop/spark.
Thank you for this amazing, helpful project!

Are there plans for letting power-users style their own custom panels using html, css and js using just the web interface? Meaning without having to develop a plugin.
Am I the only one feeling that we should be thankful that these unicorns (whether actually profitable or driven by crazy VC money) have created so many jobs in the past several years?