skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a heavy Termux user and one who describes Termux as "the killer app for Android" this makes me sad and angry. I was very irritated when they broke ability to send SMS from the termux CLI (in fact I forked and currently build my own version with that patch reverted).

If I wanted a paternalistic platform I would be an iOS user (I don't mean that as a slam, iOS obviously has its place, but it's not for me).
> Uber is not an "essential service".

I agree given no other contexts, but let me refute anecdotally: Brazil for instance has become socially and economic dependable over Uber continuous success. Current situation goes like this:

- Brazil has about 1 million rental cars. Uber drivers have already returned 80% of their vehicles [1][2]. Rentals are down 90%. As cities are beginning to announce harder lockdowns, these will only go further down. [3]

- Rental companies stopped buying new cars for at least a year [4]. At least that matches the fact that almost no new cars are being made since March.[5]

- Rental companies buy directly from manufactures, they're almost half of their sales [6]. And app drivers are a big chunk of their customers.

- Car manufacturers are a big slice of every State's taxes they're in. Less car sales, thousand more layoffs. (lacking links here, sorry)

IMHO, to sum up: at least here, to any politician or car-related executive, Uber success is critical.

[1] https://www.jornalcruzeiro.com.br/sorocaba/locadoras-de-carr... (pt-br)
[2] https://www.bol.uol.com.br/noticias/2020/03/23/coronavirus-s... (pt-br)
[3] https://www.infomoney.com.br/mercados/sem-servico-160-mil-mo... (pt-br)
[4] https://www.uol.com.br/carros/colunas/autodata/2020/05/15/lo... (pt-br)
[5] https://revistaautoesporte.globo.com/Noticias/noticia/2020/0...
[6] https://www.blogdaslocadoras.com.br/locadoras-de-carros/reco...
That's belittling a very serious issue. A lot of these recent anti-lockdown protests have been fueled out of social media by actors peddling extremely questionable narratives.

Holocaust denial has seen a massive revival in Germany, to such a degree that sentiments like that are intermixing with conspiracy theories about the "NWO" supposedly using COVID-19 to finalize their "2000 years old rule", with the help of Bill Gates who apparently wants to microchip everybody on the planet to "depopulate" it.

Trump is supposedly the last and only defense against this take-over by the "deep state", and will soon end it all when he reveals "Obamagate", he apparently also federalized the FED. Tho none of these people could even tell me when that supposedly happened.

While individually these ideas and movements have been floating around the web for quite a while, it's absolutely scary how they are now merging together [0] and being chanted by people in the streets after they got their "Information on the Internet" which regularly means: Facebook groups, YouTube channels and now even Twitch streams, places they usually arrive at after using search engines in the most misleading way possible.

It's like peak Eternal September where people will just believe the most obscure sources when they confirm their already established beliefs, over well-established data, and factual reality, which apparently is all controlled and manipulated by "dark powers behind the scenes". It's depressing and scary because so far I thought rationality will pull trough, people will learn to properly parse information for its validity and sources for their credibility.

That did not happen, the bad actors are now taking over to a point where they stage events in the meat world, openly threatening democratic institutions. I do not know how to stop this, but this can't keep on going like this, it will take us no place good.

[0] https://www.thedailybeast.com/neo-nazis-qanon-nuts-and-hardc...
The PinePhone is $150.
Let's get out the calculator and see what it costs in time and money to raise a child for 18 years and then reconsider whether someone would take on the debt of having a kid that they didn't already plan on having to get some paid time off.
> … which you didn't have to work for?

To rent out property you must first own property. To own property you must buy property. Buying property requires resources. Accumulating enough resources to buy property requires a great deal of work, to say nothing of the effort which goes in to deciding which properties to buy or sell or the opportunity cost of deferring consumption. All of that work occurs before the first rent check is paid or any property management fees are accrued (assuming you hired someone else to manage the property).

The concept may seem alien to someone accustomed to a weekly or biweekly paycheck from their employer, but in many fields, including investment (in real estate or anything else), the majority of the work occurs long before any income is received. The income is no less earned merely because it does not occur in close proximity to the work.
Metacommentary: Every time I see a Bloomberg link on HN, I cross my fingers that it is Matt Levine, and every time it is in fact Matt Levine, it’s pure gold and 100% worth the click. I get the newsletter in my inbox, but since I check HN before my inbox usually, sometimes this is the faster route to some good Money Stuff hilarity.
The better ones are done in front of notaries and they check your identity pretty thoroughly before you sign. They also countersign and keep copies. So for anything really important use that.
Coronavirus: France, Germany propose €500B recovery fund
ok, how estimate this business ?
Instead of paying more in taxes to fund other people's wives to go on a maternity leave, I'd rather use that money for my wife.
If the vendor can just get it right with minimal interaction on my part, I usually prefer not to interact.

In my experience, though, this is rarely true of restaurants, especially the less expensive ones. I usually won't even do drive-through, under the experience-informed observation that they're less likely to mess it up if they know I'll be standing at the counter checking their work.
Hmm. You might want to get an eye test. Not being snarky: when I was 45 or so, having had "perfect" eyesight, someone suggested I get mine tested. Turns out most people loose the ability to focus at short distances with age, but the brain doesn't clue you in. Not being able to tell the difference between 1440 and 4k would be consistent with this. For me even at 13" screen size 4k is very obviously better for coding.
Don’t you find it pretty sad that the Democrats couldn’t come up with somebody people actually are excited to vote for?
Moving the Pi Searcher from Go to Rust
Nobody saw the episode of Bagpuss [1] where the mice just role out a cookie, and then take round the back of the "factory" and deliver it again? Apparently we've been waiting 46 years for this particular innovation to have a real world opportunity!

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0771367/
Pick a restaurant with a co-worker and it starts to make a lot of sense.
With Crostini, you can write and run full Linux apps in a full Linux environment. No bootloader or dev mode shenanigans required.
Proving coercion or lack thereof is hard. If it wasn't everybody and their brother would weasel out of contracts unfavorable to them. Well, not everybody, but still, plenty of people would.
That'd depend on the hospital building out an RS485 infrastructure to support the device, though, which is a nontrivial ask.

Piggybacking off of a cell network is honestly probably the right solution. It doesn't have quite as high resolution as GPS, but that's hardly necessary for the sort of timestamps we're discussing -- even a resolution of a minute or two would be a huge improvement on "hope the tech who installed the equipment set the time correctly".
Ok - but that’s not what you said. We’ve agreed that would lead to the problems already outlined.
Thanks! Those links are really useful. I'm linking to this comment you made in the modmail discussion we're having right now in r/cscareerquestions, so this'll be useful there.
I had this same thought reading it. Anecdotal but my experience with prolonged sleep deprevation was a noticeable decline in my design capabilities.

I'm actually refactoring some of the code/sub systems I created during that time now and some solutions are very wacky...creative, but a super weird way to approach it.

Sleep deprivation might not have been the only contributor, but there a noticeable change in our code base during that time and I distinctly remember worrying about my sleep
My current codebase is 28 hours for a full build on one machine...

I dread having to update the compiler or some core "used nearly everywhere" header file, and wait a whole another 28 hours...
See my other answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23227769
> Your judgement of who is "good" and "bad" may well differ from mine.

One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.
Reminds me of this project from MIT students where they built an analog Segway:

https://techtv.mit.edu/videos/687f4627e5c14a52b24c694f7eeecf...
I figured it out. He should have bought his own drone and interrupted the other drones flight path.
Well that's an interesting rank structure. (I'm sure it'll change soon though)
I think this is normal. Every business goes through ups and downs.
Twitter as a Customer Support Channel in the Neobanking Industry
I kind of get the feeling, that we're trying to build a plane by making the wings flap like a bird.
This changes the game. Restaurants are forced to price higher; now, customers will have to decide if the higher prices are worth it for the type of food they get and the frequency they get it.

There was a 24hr local place that had things like marinated beef + rice for $30 ubereats total, which is exorbitant compared to my usual $12 meals. But I'd order there 2-4 times a week because of deliciousness, habit and convenience.
Where I am (Scotland) it WAS pretty much everything. Only shops selling food, medicine, or maintenance products are allowed to open. All others have been shut for ~2 months now. Driving is strictly forbidden unless you’re travelling to one of these stores that have been ‘deemed essential’. We’re not allowed to meet anyone outside of our household, even in a socially-distanced outside context. I have friends unlucky enough to be living alone and single, and the lockdown is destroying them, to the point that they’re secretly meeting other single friends to stay sane. All of this is in spite of the fact that there are thousands of jobs and activities that can be EASILY done whilst also socially distancing. Of course, it requires vastly more thought and effort to come up with rational guidelines that take into consideration all of this nuance, and governments (mostly because of shortsightedness) haven’t had the time to create more humane lockdown solutions, hence the indiscriminate restrictions that have been brought in by countries the world over.
I wish you good luck. However, be careful with aiming for Happiness as your goal. As a multiple-times-job-quitter dream-pursuiter, I suggest you have a goal more tangible than create wealth and create destiny. That is unless, work had you burned out where you need some time away from all this.
Another example would be simple dreaming. The "you" experiencing the dream is indistinguishable from a conscious being (normal you) at least to itself. It has thoughts, feelings, sensations, and experiences. There can also be other people in your dream, and you can sometimes converse with them. Yet (unless you're dreaming you can read minds) your dream self can't tell what these other dream-people are thinking, even though they're all part of your mind. And they can be indistinguishable to you from conscious beings.
What Is Apache Kylin: An Extreme OLAP Engine on Big Data Platform
Stripe picks $1M in carbon-removal projects to spur industry
The problem is that delivery is a commodity business; there's not much of a moat keeping a DoorDash customer from going somewhere else. The customer is pretty likely to churn if a cheaper alternative shows up, they get cold food, whatever, in which case DoorDash isn't going to record their theoretical future profits.
Reminder to not put these things on the Internet (~2,600 results):

https://beta.shodan.io/search?query=dicom+server+response

We're continuing to see hospitals and other healthcare-related organizations expose services that fall through the cracks due to the relative obscurity of these types of protocols in IT.
The problem is the ARM bespoke-devices ecosystem, not Google. The pre-Android "Linux on mobile" world was far worse wrt. the use of downstream patched kernels. We just didn't care as much, because a kludgy, patched BSP was better than a wholly-closed solution with no source available. Our standards as to what qualifies as "open" have simply become stricter.
"It is akin to valuing Ford at 10x General Motors because Ford has a yoga instructor as CEO"

so tesla
It's a whole neighborhood, multiple blocks, with hundreds of townhouses and several large apartment complexes. It has its own little commercial enclave with a grocery store (that has been well-stocked this whole time!) several restaurants, a cafe, and so on. There's a community garden, a dog run, and some gyms. I think there are tennis and basketball courts somewhere too. It's also ~25 minutes away from downtown by light rail. It's almost like a self-contained small town tucked away at the edge of a large city. I didn't care for it as a kid, but now I see the value of the place.
<Theory X> is a post hoc explanation for how <Subject Y> works. It's not like somebody came up with the theory of how <Subject Y> should work and then built one, like you would a computer.

General relativity is a post hoc explanation for how large-scale spacetime works. It's not like somebody came up with the theory of how the universe should work and then built one, like you would a computer.

Darwinian evolution is a post hoc explanation for how life forms change over time. It's not like somebody came up with the theory of how life on earth should work and then built one, like you would a computer.
> For starters, it's measuring non-fatal illnesses.

This actually helps to mitigate your other point, because all types of industries can have non-fatal injuries from things like overexertion or slips on wet floors but fatal injuries are dominated by dangerous industries like mining, transportation and agriculture that differ by state.

The fatal injury rate between states is quite incomparable in particular because motor vehicle accidents are the leading cause of death among working-aged people, and the rate will be higher in states that are more spread out because workers in all industries there log more vehicle miles for work (and at higher average speeds).

> Finally... there's no mention of the degree of difference at all.

Texas can't be worse if it's better.
It seems like the same weirdness that comes with tying healthcare to employment. If the government paid for X days of parenting or something, regardless of employment, and just said that you have to have the job available when they come back within Y days, then it wouldn't be so different for the working parent versus the stay at home parent.
Sure, vote me down but it's true - extranational powers do not have citizens' rights in the US, and even if they did, pejorative language is not something citizens are insulated from as a right.

Google is siding with a fascist prison-state over Americans' right to free speech, it is deplorable.

And furthermore, the only real justification for a global ban for a US-based company could be "hate speech," which clearly enough communist operatives claimed it was, but just because somebody's feelings are hurt doesn't make something hate speech, it doesn't come down to cancellation politics.

In other words, Google is siding with the Party Room of Control because Google is not an American company. If they were, they would not let this stand.
My post is likely to sound awfully self-referential, if not narcissistic, with all the linking to past comments, but I hope the point is clear that the moderation history is trending toward repeated insights over time. The next step would be to distill those insights into a readable form beyond old search results.
Android 5/6 support dropped by Termux devs this year.

Android 10 is killing Termux terminal app.

Hope, Termux devs would now drop back support for Android 5/6.
Google plans to axe Motion Sense with the Pixel 5
That actually looks decently cheap but has anybody else on HN used this before? I don't think I've heard of it till now.
> Once you've smothered the competition in investor money, you're free to raise prices to profitability and beyond.

Of course, if a company started raising prices to profitability, perhaps it would be "worthwhile" for another group of investors to come along and start the whole cycle over again with a new - excessively funded - startup.
As standards come DICOM is actually pretty good. Sure, manufacturers will do their damnest to mess it up but interop tends to be surprisingly good because - just like with HTML - people tend to write for the lowest common denominator on reception. A typical PACS system will talk to a large number of machines all producing different output for different specialists to look at.

I've looked at about 10 companies using DICOM over the last couple of years and interop was typically the least of their worries. Think about the level of complexity here: anything from single frame BW at high res (say an X-ray) to time series of volumetric scans (for instance CAT).

The smarter companies will use one of the better FOSS libraries to implement the standard, the not-so-smart ones will try to roll their own, burn a ton of resources and will end up playing catch-up.
Every meal box company?
> if we want the next generation of Americans to have happy, healthy childhoods, it seems imperative to provide as much assistance as possible to enable that environment

Define happy

Also what does “as much assistance as possible” mean? This sounds like a feel-good vague statement

Ultimately you are asking people to provide more than what parents are willing to do for their kids

I live in a state that provides free lunch for school kids

There are people in my community that can’t even provide lunch for their kids school

Are those parents doing “as much as possible”?
If you've worked at big companies on products with millions of users (like OP with Uber, Intuit, and Tesla), can't you just detail the specific team and components you developed?
Maybe it's time people stop focusing so much on one race and get involved with everything from the Senate down to city council races.

And maybe it's time people stop treating the president as some kind of hero to get excited about and more someone with a job to do. This isn't partisan, either: Mitt Romney would be doing a far better job with COVID-19 than our current leadership.
Why would you want to send sms from cli? Using the on screen keyboard with quotes and escaping special characters and all?
And most people are completely fine with having ads targeted at them.

You're just raging that other people have a different opinion about their online activity.

Now imagine you quantify the cost of having Google Search. If you search for florist - Google could charge you $10 for the results(florist CPC is very high) and up to $30 per search for a hotel in NYC.
Teams that open source stuff typically have leveraging roles, i.e. they build things that several other teams depend on.

Orthogonally, typically large companies have a maslow hierarchy of sorts: for every infrastructural endeavor, there may be a number of others that are more "nice-to-have" niche projects that aren't really critical to anyone else's ability to deliver results.

The most vulnerable employees are those on niche projects, despite these projects being internally focused (as opposed to open sourced). Infra folks whose work may be open source are typically less vulnerable because they do in fact work on critical, well, infrastructure.
Classically (read: what I was taught in AP Econ 15 years ago), "normative economics", which is prescriptive and meant to inform policy, is divided from from "positive economics", which attempts to describe and rationalize economic activity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normative_economics
Rather than right or wrong, it simply doesn't fit their agenda anymore.

They surely couldn't continue bashing something they planned to transform in a product of theirs. You don't have to become platinum member of the Linux Foundation to contribute code; you do that to put a huge foot in the command center door.
What happened to his AGI work?
Lower communication skills on sleep deprivation are apparent to other people much sooner then to the sleep deprived person. Same goes for drop mood regulation skills. This effect is even larger as other people adjust to drop in those communication and mood regulation skills (e.g. will avoid communication and definitely wont even try harder or more stressful topics.).

I have this as repeated observation from time when I lived with sleep deprived gamer.
Presumably Welch believed in the hiring system he put in place. It was also an audacious claim, which comes with its own rewards. But folks like you let Welch have his cake and eat it too: he gets the praise for making an audacious claim, and then when it turns out false, folks like you make excuses for him.

It's good to be the king, I guess.
If anyone at Uber reads this, feel free to get in touch (Go, Java, SRE) if you want to effectively stay in the same building working for a multinational.

There's not many roles open at the moment, but here's one: https://jobs.ebayclassifiedsgroup.com/job/amsterdam/senior-b...
SSL and the Future of Authenticity (2011)
You posit a false dilemma:

* Accept suppression of intelligent dissent.

* Allow all speech, including unintelligent and hateful speech.

This is evidently false, given:

1) Intelligent, well-reasoned dissent against a platform is permitted on virtually all large platforms on the internet, and this has been the case for decades.

2) Virtually all large platforms censor unintelligent, hateful speech.

Your nightmare scenario of intelligent speech disappearing due to censorship of small-minded vulgarity simply hasn't happened.

Quite the opposite, intelligent speech does disappear when small-minded vulgarity isn't censored. See voat or 4chan or the thousands of other poorly censored, poorly moderated places on the internet. Productive, intelligent communication does not happen in public forums without censorship.

Concerning what-ifs and slippery slopes, call me when someone with a well-reasoned argument is being suppressed by a large platform. All I've ever seen is hate and misinformation being pushed down the drain, and good riddance.

Censoring kids spamming "communist bandit" isn't a problem, not in this universe.

Censoring a professor critiquing communism as a viable form of government would be a problem, but that's neither here nor there.

Meanwhile, legitimate problems in the free speech domain are draconian copyright laws, suppressing science and creativity, and espionage laws, suppressing whistleblowers such as Snowden.

If we've decided that free speech shall be our crusade, and we're in the US, our limited time and resources should be focused on these real, ongoing, and broad-reaching problems.
Parenting is a job, yes. For better or worse, though, there are huge numbers of people willing to do it for free. This is a serious problem if we expect market forces to just sort things out.

My parents were lower middle class and both worked, and my mom took a year off for each kid. They just seemed to accept the idea that kids cost money, not unlike pets.

Is this wrong? I don't really have an opinion. I don't run a business, though.