skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah it's worked really well I recommend it! One other note: the company I work at won the startup lottery and has grown very fast for the last 5 years, which allowed me to see multiple company stages and roles. I break down my notes by what I've learned by company stage and role as well (eg right now when I learn something about Marketing, it goes into the Marketing section of my Growth Stage "chapter"). My doc is ~50 pages so far and I honestly view it as a secret part of my resume at this point.

I also keep a list of blog/Quora/HN/Reddit posts that I've found helpful and timeless in a separate doc. This second doc is also useful, but a mess :-)
How would you recommend they change it to help low-traffic stack exchanges?
I keep hearing about pomodoro as a method of helping people focus, but part of my current fears are being 'removed' from the topic I'm working on mid-way.

I get the feeling that if pomodoros worked, then by the same logic knowing that I have a meeting in 30 minutes would aid my focus, but instead it's the complete opposite, I consider that I can't fill a 30minute window meaningfully and thus do nothing.

Maybe there's something there though, I can't really say I've tried it so I probably should, given how frequently it's mentioned as a solution to these kinds of issues.
> ...build whichever kind of audio/video applications...

Is live streaming a use-case that's under scope? If so, can the client P2P or requires a relay server for all traffic?
Not quite.

Larger cartridges (i.e. 32/64MByte) gave them space in ROM to play with tiled textures. Usually this -did- also involve use of the 4MB RDRAM upgrade.
Other than meds, did you do anything else that was helpful?
No online seller was/is collecting sales tax, except for their own state.

I've always paid sales tax on my Amazon purchases here in Washington.
Both types of investments are valuable because they cause different skills to be developed in the marketplace.

All those $500k to $1M ideas, if successful, will eventually need to hire the kind of talent that honed their skills at companies like Facebook and Uber.

WeWork I can agree on. Not sure what transferrable engineering skills one can learn and improve on at that company.
Tell HN: Google bans my game for referencing Covid-19, which I designed in 2017
Hey i heard about the Podcast Addict app, this is sad news for all of us, because the bots are banning everything that could be a reference to COVID-19 which is quite a hyprocrytical move. They changed their whole Google Hangout app to become Google Meet to profit of the virus.

I designed a game about the Pandemic in January 2017, i was slowly developing it being inspired by Reigns and Plague Inc.

After the COVID happened i continued my work on the game and released the game on 5th of April 2020 after successfull appeal to pre-release ban. I even successfully ran Google and Facebook ads for the game Pre-Register period.

Then after a week the game was banned. I appealed again couple of times but without a success. Now Google Play don't even reply to my emails.
Finally i decided to release the game on Steam, it will be available on 20th May. I put almost a 6 months of work on this game and i felt that i lost all this time because of this unfair ban, but i'm glad i can release the game on Steam without any problem or censorship attempts.

Also i want to emphasize that the game does not contain any COVID-19 references, nor any medical advices nor any propaganda. I designed it to be an universal pandemic/virus game. There are no words like corona, covid, or anything similar.

Screenshots with proofs that i'm saying the truth:
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1RGfllIgAS5hJ2cHhWsmhaotb8H0FgrHy

Source Code from 2018
https://bitbucket.org/PassengerMan/samples/src/master/Cpp/PANGameplayTypes.h
It's not an either-or. Hiring, you want as many independent data points as you can. An ideal candidate would have:

1) A strong resume / linkedin. Worked on projects which were successful. Worked for companies with rigorous recruiting processes. Didn't job hop randomly.

2) Good references from people I trust. In an ideal case, a personal referal.

3) A nice portfolio. I can see artifacts on github, on their web site, and through publications in academic journals.

4) A strong undergraduate school. Passed undergraduate recruiting.

5) A strong interview

6) A history of interest in what we do.

I don't think I've ever met an ideal candidate, but as an applicant, you want to give as many strong signals on all of those fronts as you can.

If all he had was an on-line portfolio, I probably wouldn't hire either.
>So far, any ambition of China towards Taiwan has been limited by the fact that China depends quite on Taiwanese fabs. Remove that, and accidents might happen... which would harm the whole world.

China was already planning on working more and more on their own fabs.

China spent over $6 billion in 2017 and over $10 billion in 2018 on fab equipment. I am not sure if they are on pace but they wanted to produce 40% of their chips by the end of this year and 70% by the end of 2025. These plans were created years ago before all of this started happening.

The worst case scenario is this just expedites any issues between Taiwan and China as TSMC becomes less important to them. With TSMC getting more cozy with the US it may actually benefit Taiwan. The US will be more likely to consider them to be a vital country worth going to war to protect because of TSMC.
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Yes, but the configuration of SELinux can be changed.
I thought zombie media was designed to cater to whites' atavistic fear of an uprising among marginalized minorities?
> My thinking is more so from a position of minimizing suffering

Don't you think that's unfair by nature? How do you justify it?
Dear Lumber Yard https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34423
All the gig economy apps do is ensure the poor stay poor.

When you are working 10-12 hours a day to make ends meet and shoulder the all costs of the depreciating fix assets there is very little opportunity dig yourself out of that hole.

Uber and similar companies are destroying the very small businesses (or squashing their margins into nothing) which traditionally are the environment that the poor can become entrepreneurs and build their own local business.
Part of this is that before the 1970s, the US minimum wage was set so that a full-time job would keep you above the poverty line. People could raise a family, pay a mortgage, etc. on a minimum wage job.

That relationship was broken, but not the assumption that if you are poor, you are lazy.

What this is really doing is providing welfare to all the companies paying below-poverty wages - the taxpayers pay for benefits to allow the workers in those positions to live, while simultaneously increasing corporate profits.

The portion of GDP going to wages has almost never been lower than it is now [1]

It is about corporate regulatory capture redesigning the economy for corporate wealth extraction and not for the benefit of the citizens.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/W270RE1A156NBEA
As a cyclist and DAU I haven’t been a paying user for the past few years. Just subscribed today. This application costs a lot to run and it’s been mostly ads-free unlike Instagram. Pay if you can. Nothing comes free.
Probably more with Fortnite though.
>> I wonder, can US regulators do something about it?

No. 1st Amendment protects hate speech ("Effectively, the Supreme Court unanimously reaffirmed that there is no 'hate speech' exception to the First Amendment."), but this applies only to government, private companies or people can do whatever they want. Not great, but better than the obvious alternatives.
Locking down is the only current viable tactic the US has against C-19. We have:
- terrible testing coverage
- no contact tracing
- massively inefficient healthcare system
- massively inefficient supply lines for masks and gloves
- insufficient social programs to support the unemployed

Either we lock down, mitigate the effects of our already broken systems, or open up and accept that we will be killing citizens under "acceptable losses"
My mistake, it was indeed undone by the FCC rather than the courts. I could have sworn it was undone by SCOTUS, but I guess a refresher is needed every once in a while.

Regardless, I think the main point from the proceedings is: it was only found constitutional because of limited airwaves available (i.e. physical constraint of the medium, or exclusive government licensing). The same rule would not be constitutional if it applied broadly to "the press."[0]

In that sense, my point remains: there's nothing intrinsically exclusive about the medium of Google's websites that would prevent another from competing for the same "airwaves" (other than their perceived popularity), so a requirement that Google shares its "airtime" with others would not be supported by the precedent.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine#Decision...
> I suppose the world of health research is plagued by this erroneous assumption that humans are more or less the same. In some ways sure, but in many ways we are profoundly different.

Sidenote: I came to the conclusion, that this is the crux of all generalizations when it comes to humans. Not all policies will be good for all people. The ideal country might be very different for you and me. Also our diets, the way we build relationships, how we should train our bodies or what constitutes moral lives.
> vr video content. The ability to "stand" on a stage while the orchestra plays Mozart all around you is mind blowing.

So, uh, I've only watched porn so far. Got a link of that orchestra? Sounds cool.
Speaking of declining cognition, I just spent 4 hours wearing a mask at work. Wow! I'm woozy, dizzy, muddleheaded and really cranky. Definitely not at my sharpest. Definitely not in the right frame of mind to be using power-tools.
If you want that, probably Janus is something worth looking at.
The low-effort way is to choose from a tier on https://www.logicalincrements.com/. Their component recommendations are pretty good, and they succinctly explain the different performance you can expect from different components.
I'm interested to hear if HN community thinks their recent threats are credible.
The OP's intent was not to single out a gender. He/she was using a very common catchphrase. Your call-out was really passive-aggressive and uncalled for.

Do you get pressed everytime someone talks about history, and suggest they use the word "herstory" or "perstory" instead?
> The mistake SoftBank made wasn’t investing in them...

The mistake Softbank made was investing in direct competitors without enough control to make those competitors play nicely.

Instead you get companies both buying marketshare using softbank's money that are forced to do so because the other has softbank's money. That's just lighting money on fire. The majority of the investment should have gone to R&D and developing durable assets that bring value in perpetuity. Buying marketshare through promotions is the opposite of that.
Is a good way to think about this as Memex = Evernote + Genius + Privacy?
Didn’t know that, thanks for chiming in. My point stands though.
The N64 blurry textures and washed out color had me thinking initially that my friends TV was broken.
It was only Rare and Factor 5 games on the N64 that really impressed me. Of course they could do nothing for the blurry picture quality. That was a hardware thing that has been fixed with a hardware HDMI mode that offer de-blurring
Is this the last round of layoffs for Uber?
Awesome project! Would like to subscribe to minor updates on your projects. Do you post more often anywhere? Like Secure Scuttlebutt, or anything more common, like blog or Twitter/FB?
I have personally grown disillusioned from current politics and journalism precisely for this. Nearly every article/quote/discussion is around picking flaws of what someone has suggested as a grand solution for a previously unsolved grand problem. I would love to see the thought process behind designing software to get applied to larger problems (crises), something like:

1) Agree upon the top problem(s) we are going to solve
2) Lets discuss solutions
3) Lets pick 1-2 top solutions and agree upon the most massive risks with each
4) Lets find the best balance/path to implement the solution and mitigate risks
5) Iterate

Of course the risks around something huge like nuclear power are not to trifle with but a framework like this, in my opinion, could really help align our society and politics to solve these crises.
> Section 230 provides a very clear definition of what an “Interactive Computer Service” is, and makes it very clear that someone who provides one cannot be considered to be the publisher, full stop.

Note the word "another" in "another information content provider". The law plainly doesn't protect them for content they are responsible (even only in part) for creating, and by paying for some content and not other content, they're taking an active hand in choosing what content is created. In other words, they are, in part, responsible for the creation of that content.

> where is that line?

That's a question to be answered by democracy, not in a corporate board room.

And private control of the means of communication has never been unrestricted. Surely you're familiar with the regulations that once governed the television networks.
Well, sure, but the question was how to profit off of Unicorn demise. I don't think they were looking for riskless bets.
It might not be visible from a regular programmers' perspective (i.e. You don't need to read https://people.freebsd.org/~lstewart/articles/cpumemory.pdf to write a website) but FPGAs are absoutely everywhere already, e.g. Xilinx (the Intel of the FPGA market... as opposed to Intel who are the AMD of the FPGA market) have Market Cap of $21Bn which is quite a lot for a company that is both fairly obscure to investors and doesn't sell directly to consumers.

The issue with this is that FPGAs are expensive to buy as a hobbyist, expensive to buy at small quantities unless you can negotiate with Avnet or similar, and involve using software from the past if you want to program them.

Beyond FPGAs, ASICs are fairly common in very high margin/high volume electronics.
Having this on Urbit seems like a great way to start an Oekaki community.
This is awesome, good job! I like how the interface blends so smoothly with the other existing Landscape apps. What's stopping Urbit from saving these canvas images more quickly, though?
Fair point. I leave the post as is for posterity. I wonder if https://github.com/Microsoft/MS-DOS will improve that situation.
iOS 14 may have a new AR app that can read Apple-branded QR codes
To pick a concrete (if inflammatory) example of the subjectivity of "minority", perhaps it is worth considering the example of "Trump voters". Within the context of the US, they are less than 50% of the population, so would it be hate speech to insult his supporters?

To pick a smaller minority, what about "Baby Boomers". Should the "OK, boomer" meme be banned as hate speech? At 22% of the US population, they constitute a smaller minority than the proportion of non-white Americans (28%, excluding White Hispanics).
Wow. But this case raises the additional point that the subject definitely wants, deserves and is legally entitled to anonymity.
Reworded the question for clarity
I think there's nothing stopping you from attempting that, but you would need some pretty complex client software to get a good experience with P2P live streaming.
Game: Can you read Shang (ancient Chinese writing)?
Various pi boards have been retrofitted into laptops but a Pi Zero in particular is a downgrade in performance from just about any relatively recent laptop/Chromebook. As some of the sibling comments mention, there is more involved with resetting than an accidental non-action during boot.

Even better you can switch to coreboot and load Linux, there's even a Chromebook-specific distro, https://galliumos.org/
Don’t forget if you install Virtual Desktop you can play all your PCVR games wirelessly on it too. I play HL Alyx like this and it’s flawless.
Sorry for misinterpreting you. Still, please don't post generic ideological comments to HN.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
A Brother and Friend Forever
I am far from being an expert on descriptive complexity, and have only skimmed the paper. One spot jumped out at me as a potential error: on page 21, the sentence

"Next we exploit that a choice in state S will be insignificant iff all update sets in Delta_r(S) are isomorphic, so..."

seems suspicious to me. One direction is likely obvious (that an isomorphism between choices proves the insignificance of the choice), but the other direction seems likely to be untrue (if I am interpreting correctly).
I don't buy that argument. Game console developers don't develop on the device they're targeting, and it hasn't really hindered them. So why do mobile devs need to develop on those devices? Mobile form factor and UI just isn't suitable for software development, and the companies making them realize it.

There's a lot wrong with Android development (IMO), but the lack of an on-device dev environment isn't one of them...
> PCVR is an evolutionary dead end a very small percentage of people who can afford them want a gaming PC tower in their home, PCVR is a fraction of a fraction of percentage.

PCVR is no more niche than the demographics for Far Cry 5. If you have the hardware to run a modern AAA game on PC, all you're really missing at that point is the headset. And I don't see Ubisoft refusing to make games for PC because there are too few people with powerful enough PCs. As GPU tech continues to develop and higher performance reaches lower price points, it'll also become more accessible to more people. Though you can already pay 200-250 Euros for a decent GPU now and it'll be more than sufficient for VR gaming.
Why don't you use something like gpx logger ?
I'd actually vote for implementing Taiwan's approach.

The author is nuts of course, thinking Taiwan had no quarantine.
DoorDash engineers are on here too. Unless they want to keep quiet about it ;)
I'm not saying anything about anyone's intent either, but it's also painless and traditional just to refrain from unsolicited corrections of people's word choice when there isn't any ill intent to be talked about.
Be careful, HN put a severe post limit on my account for asking this question in threads about Google misdeeds.

The best answer to your question I received from a Google employee, is that the pay is good and the work is interesting.
> If Google is paying for some content ... then they’re acting like a publisher.

There is case law to the contrary. AOL was granted 230 immunity when the issue at hand was about what a contractor of theirs said.

> That’s a question to be answered by democracy, not in a corporate board room

Or we could encourage a proliferation of choices on the internet, rather than handing whichever party is in power the right to suppress the speech of the other.
Of all the problems that the_donald had, their exclusion of dissenting voices was not one of them. They made it abundantly clear what kind of sub it was, and I think even codified it in the rules.

And I don't quite follow your second concern. Most of the time when I'm socializing I'm not in the mood for pseudo-anonymous debate club, I just want to talk to like-minded people about our shared hobbies. If I want dissenting opinions, I know where to find them.
Over the past 5 years, Strava has aquired the reputation of not fixing any bugs and not adding any useful features. Instead there was just a little bit of churn in the UI, annoying most users.
A better way forward might have been to keep existing features for everyone, but add a number of useful new features for paying subscribers.
> Sure, but the idea of "mankind" is gendered / male-centric in the first place. We just defaulted to male because we always default to male.

That is not actually true. The Old English word for a male human being is wer, as in werewolf; it is cognate to the Latin vir (also meaning a male human being, and the source of modern English words like virile & virtue). That word is no longer in common use in modern English, although I think maybe it survives in some dialects.

The word man(n), OTOH is the gender-neutral Old English word for a human being, as found in such words as woman (from wifman, a wife-man) or leman (a mistress, or love-man), both notably referring to female human beings. It is cognate to modern German mann, again referring to any human being.

The word mankind thus refers to … any kind of man.
But i don’t think they’d be as popular without being free. I have a Garmin watch which has an app, iPhone has fitness tracking built in. Nike has a free app. The list of competitors goes on and on.

Now that they have network effects and switching costs (all my historical data), time to squeeze and monetize.
> but I ended up going with a Noctua NH-U14S which might be a little overkill

Yes. I have the same cooler* on a Threadripper 3970X with 280W TDP. The only thing that it can't handle is a sustained all-core load for >10-15 minutes. Even at all-core load it still turbos above base clock (but less than max turbo).

Technically a different SKU with a larger base plate, but otherwise the same design.
See, I'm good at making "unbreakable" rules, but I'm much better at breaking them.
> Do you just sleep in a dark room until you wake up?

Yes. Although I have no trouble sleeping even if the room isn't dark. Falling asleep is usually a little harder if it's not dark, but once I'm asleep the light doesn't wake me up, unless it's really bright (like sun shining directly through the fully open window).

Maybe light alarm would awake me, not sure how bright they are.
> I had the 'bad luck' not to be born rich, should I let that define my life?

No, but what we, as a society, need to do is cut down on how much luck you need in order to move up.

There was a very nice article at one point that showed that the absolute best students who come from the lowest 20% of the socioeconomic strata barely do as well as the absolute worst students of the highest 20% of the socioeconomic strata. It's basically a proof of "Einstein may exist in <insert poor country>, but we will never know."

That is a hideous loss of human potential. We, as a society, need brilliant people to achieve their maximum potential without luck. And we need people less than absolutely brilliant to not have to fight so stupidly hard to move up.

We had an article (I believe in the LA Times) talking about the problems of the disincentives of being a student from an underprivileged background. The biggest thing that struck me was that STEM fields were simply not in scope--the students coming from these backgrounds simply were blocked. Social worker, lawyer, nurse, etc. were achievable but engineer, scientist, or doctor were absolutely not--through no fault of their own other than the area in which they were born.

You can only fix this by putting a very significant amount of more resource into your education system.
Nope. A monopoly is definitely the lack of other options for suppliers, i.e. a single supplier.

Conversely, a monopsony is the lack of other options for buyers. Words matter.
Police say child still unaccounted for following explosion at home in Markham
Corporations are people too, my friend.