skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're usually stuck polling for stuff like that. I'm a big fan of using things like Advanced Python Scheduler for those sorts of tasks: https://apscheduler.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
If you've ever played or watched a social VR game like VRChat, I think you'd come to believe as I do, that complete social expressiveness is impossible to achieve with current technology. The most experienced and skilled players today can express themselves with their avatars nearly as well as they could with a human body (not to mention the exciting ways they can communicate in VR that they couldn't possibly communicate in person), but the learning curve for that level of expressiveness is akin to learning a proto sign language.

More to the point, VRChat really makes you appreciate the minutiae of physically proximate human communication, like the lengths of pauses between various speakers. The "mute" avatars in VR also make you appreciate how much we communicate with high dimensional facial and body gestures that can't be duplicated with existing video conferencing. I highly recommend interacting with a mute player in VR if you have the chance. Watching a video isn't the same experience, but here's a short clip of two mutes communicating if you have 30 seconds: https://clips.twitch.tv/CrackyMushyAntelopeBloodTrail
I know a couple of people who live out of their vans. I believe them when they say it's not actually that bad and they like it.

But at the end of the day, while I doubt they'd admit it, the main reason either of them do it is because they can't afford anything else, even though they have full-time jobs and work just as hard as the next guy.

Isn't this a sign of a broken housing market? What kind of world are we creating where significant numbers of people are forced out of economic necessity to live in vehicles?
Again, it follows the same pattern of observing American culture, looking for the pre-existing conflicts and just pouring gasoline into whatever side needs it to catch fire.
Oh maybe I'm mistaken. I was under the impression that the COVID payouts were universal.
Instead of merely printing 'ok', the page can request a resource from a server you control, eg via an <img> element.

You could probably even automate this via <meta http-equiv="refresh">, along the lines of (untested):

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5; url=http://example.org/?query-port=43">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://127.0.0.1:42">
<img src="http://example.org/?checked-port=42">
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CVE-2020-1956 Apache Kylin command injection vulnerability
Actually, I did that, numerous times, although it was mostly to do spelling correction or in one case linking to external pages trying to leverage Wikipedia's SEO(?) value (ie. the external pages were discussing the topic in the wiki page in order to promote their own business, which wasn't related at all), which shows that it's clearly easy to get Wikipedia to fulfill its purpose.

So all in all what I did was minor editing, perhaps it doesn't count as what you would mean as an edit immediately reverted by other editors. I have no doubt that there are factions monitoring pages of strategic value, it makes sense for a website of that importance culturally. But it also means that the Wikipedia core community must always remain vigilant about these unfortunate slides.
You shouldn't be seeking relationship advice from random strangers or a reality show in the first place. Given that no one is a verified counselor the sub is largely redundant at best, knowingly harmful at worse. It is rife with low-effort karma farming, and toxicity, among the defaults.
> The fact that it is so widely used and owns such a significant share of the "ways to spread information" market outweighs the fact that the company is private.

That argument seems a slippery slope towards reverse privitization. Who determines what companies are allowed to censor? Who censors the censors? Companies censor content because they are primarily afraid of liability (legal, political, cultural). There are other video sites out there. Just because youtube is popular doesn't prevent people from hosting content on other platforms.
One thing I would really like a clear explanation of:

When public officials in CA cities talk about "affordable housing", there is actually some definition of this, isn't there? And it doesn't usually match what people in casual conversation mean by affordable housing, right?

"Affordable housing" doesn't just mean a normal house or apartment at an affordable price, does it? Does it mean public housing units built and managed by the city? Or it means housing built by private developers, that's only available for renting or ownership by people meeting certain criteria?

If "affordable housing" means public housing complexes, then I think people voting or advocating for it don't really understand what they're getting into. Because those don't really have a great track record of success.
Exactly! Most HN readers don't realize the real amount of talent outside of US waiting for this opportunity. There are thousands of people who would easily work at any top-notch companies but were just not willing to leave their home towns, their families, friends, local lifestyle etc. And now they can easily work to such companies with /2 or /3 of the standard SF wage.
Shopify seems to overcharge for that sort of functionality.

Merchants are paying Shopify per transaction while customers shop on another site & pay using Google Pay, Paypal, FB Pay, or Apple Pay.
Then the ends are no longer awesome, because people would likely be sad about not having their decisions respected by the rest of society.
On a practical level, I agree, working from home is better in many ways. However, you can't forget to think about this on a human level. We are social animals after all. You may not agree but I feel that so much human interaction is non-verbal and it is very difficult to replicate this very natural form of communication over video link. Meetings are great but so many great ideas and initiatives (valuable to your employer or not), friendships, romances and what have you arise from informal and off-the-cuff discussions that take place in offices, at the tea point, at lunch, at 4pm when you are mentally dozing off and the guy next to you starts to talk about how he is remodelling his kitchen. You miss all of that by working from home. The sponteneity, the organic and unplanned human interaction that makes life so great. That being said, I do enjoy working from home but I also like being in the office. Perhaps a more hybrid solution is the future, rather than working from home being the exception, or vice versa.
Where do you go to look for freelance writers?
Chrome plugin / Greasemonkey script to disable WebSockets
I think other people may find it less worth their time than I did if they greatly value the AI behavior.

Folks putting time into a game that takes a while to complete might take quite awhile before they realize AI rage quitting is pretty common.
I agree with your point, and I don't consider RCE a disposition. Still, the average application has about two office actions (CTFR, CTNF, CTRS, CTEQ) before an allowance or abandonment.
My take on the Joe Rogan $100M Spotify deal
Because what I'm saying is objectively true: physical colocation with your coworkers is inherently easier to work with than working remotely and no one in their right mind disputes that. The best you can argue for WFH-first is that it can be made to work.

This is objectively not true for the kind of work I (and many others) do. Physical colocation with coworkers actually makes it harder for knowledge workers to do their work, which is why lawyers and accountants have their own offices even when they're in the same building.
And that is exactly what the story is saying, which is why organ donation is down. The story does not say the roads are safer. You are drawing that conclusion yourself or being led to it by other commenters here. The words "safe" and "safer" are not present in the article.
> This is such a tired argument. YouTube is ubiquitous - it is the primary (read: effectively only) platform for video hosting

Far from it. You can host your video anywhere you like, but you get the most eyeballs and revenue from YouTube, and that's based on user preference and not on some nefarious activity on their part. A lot of what makes them successful as a hosting platform is the same content curation that people like to complain about.
Most proposals are temporary relief in response to the crisis, small scale trials, or campaign promises kept intentionally vague.
China has publicly said that it is very patient in this regard. The only thing that will trigger invasion, is if Taiwan makes a concerted effort towards full independence.

...and while we can say that HK protests and covid-19 have reduced the popularity of unification, it is still, on average, more popular an idea than at any time since the split in 1949.

EDIT: Because I couldn't find any data supporting my above statement, I'll just throw a link with the latest (20yr) trend that mostly just says that the vast vast majority of Taiwanese want to maintain the status quo...

source: http://chinamatters.blogspot.com/2019/01/

...and since China has said publicly that they won't act against Taiwan as long as they don't move away, then the only outcome we're going to see on Taiwan is a whole lot of nothing for the foreseeable future - even if HK students on here want to see Taiwan supporting them - that doesn't seem like that's going to happen.
The alternative is the status quo which is living on the sidewalk with no plumbing nor cleaning nor services. I'd take the tower and make the rooms easy to power wash.
It's repeated here and there kind of everywhere these days, but the correct statement is "most people have gotten a very good taste of transitioning to WFH over night, without time to prepare, in a global pandemic". This is not traditional WFH.
Not understanding where exactly you have been a professor for the past 22 years isn't credibility eradicating?
Take two seconds to understand the situation before you comment. iOS automatically converts images to JPEG from HEIC if you use a standard input. College Board didn't, and then somehow either failed to do QA testing with iOS devices entirely, or did a poor job in not catching this huge bug. The failure here is definitely theirs.
https://www.theverge.com/2015/11/11/9719098/fbi-reportedly-p...
It strikes me that this is most likely to be used as part of an exfiltration mechanism for a malicious JS package or similar.
Where would they go? Every other country has a VAT tax and to pay for the version of UBI that Yang proposes would be a VAT tax at half the European rate.
1850$ for day care is still somewhat high. In TX, you can find daycare for 600$ or so.
People can be onboard 100% with his argument for due process (I am) and simultaneously 100% against his association with Jake Appelbaum, whose (perhaps subcriminal) misbehavior was widely reported in private in our industry prior to the bevy of as-yet-unproven rape accusations.

Appelbaum is and has been a scumbag regardless of the fact of whether or not he has been adjudicated a rapist in a court of law.

People who associate with scumbags (and, indeed, defend them in particular) aren’t great, and can and should be subject to criticism for their choices regarding scumbags.

Fortunately, it isn’t a simple dichotomy. I agree with due process for imprisoning people. I also agree in public criticism of entirely legal misbehavior and freedom of association. I don’t respect people who defend scumbags socially (defending subcriminal scumbags from prison is another matter), and djb is certainly that.
I'm sure most of them do. This is standard practice for companies that operate offices in multiple regions, not just tech, but any company over the past century at least.
I thought Endgame ruined Marvel. Turns out I was wrong.
Birds are brutal. Watch this black stork kill her weakest baby while its siblings wait for the meal.

https://youtu.be/4QkzwXMPDnI
How would this involve being "better" than humans?

The projection here would solely be: "people are social animals and we miss seeing the dolphins; dolphins are social animals and they could miss us too"

That's a much smaller leap than you're suggesting people are making. The other way also seems to risk erring on the "people are special and unique compared to animals" side.
It is not just organs, it is also things like your skin, eyes, etc. I think a lot of people would object to having their face carved out and then have it attached to another person.

I opted in for everything that can be removed while still having a body that is me that people can say goodbye to.
This brings back horrible memories of the janky-ass software we used in calculus for our exams. It took probably 10x longer to answer a question with the GUI because of the symbols and half the time they'd be marked wrong because the system couldn't handle equivalent variations of the correct answer.

I doubt things are much better today. This was probably the "low-tech" solution to a decade+ of dealing with the above problem.
True, perhaps I'm overreacting. I'm just wondering what else a client can make me reformat for their "uniformity standards". My personal website? My haircut?
Many people actually survive on that one check. Alaskans are fiercely independent for the most part, and those living outside the main cities are typically self-sustainable. They own their land, hunt for their meat, grow their veggies, trade for what they don't have, and spend whatever money they do have on the essential tools to sustain that.
Then let’s fix those first before talking about UBI.
Sure, it means the cheapest option... Like "genuine leather".
Yes, but quorum queues don't have many of the features of classic mirrored queues.
We are criticizing them because fixing the software to accept it and batch convert it later should be relatively easy.
Lots of great points made in this thread. Question is, what can we do about it as a collection of individuals? Hackers often like to pretend to be apolitical, when faced with political issues. No wonder, escaping from the turmoils of the real world in technology has always been a sweet sweet delusion. Now the technology itself becomes an instrument of politics, and there's no place left to hide.
Check Point released an open-source fix for Linux memory security hole
Nothing lite about the payment terms. You pay them over a 100 a year plus part of every transaction.

For keeping a database of photos and descriptions & integrating with APIs?

Doesn't that seem overpriced?
(Dated one day before April 1)
I wonder how much retraining you'd have to do for each patch and rule change. In Civ patch to patch how you value things / do things can change fairly dramatically.

Not that you couldn't do it, I just wonder what that would look like.
> there is _zero_ reason for companies not to announce permanent work from home

This is obviously not true. If my employer announced permanent work from home, I would immediately start looking for a new job.
The state of the self-driving car race in 2020
Give me some then! I see maybe some cool stuff in the move to ARM processors. I also don't have the resume or fame or background to get offered the chance to solve them if they're out there - in 2015 there were so many and the average level of competence was so low that people gave me a shot anyways.

I've been trying to learn more about the dark corners of the linux kernel and graphics drivers for now. But its not 2015 and I don't have 3 years of experience in embedded/systems/C++ so no ones gonna hire me for that stuff because my resume just says "generic backend dev lol".
The guidelines are obviously written by a lawyer so Google can have it both ways. (To be fair, most content platforms would have similar lawyerly policies)
Sounds so scary! I'm shivering with fear. Thank you, YouTube! I'm too stupid to think for myself.
The state doesn't choose what to do with my estate, it follows specific rules that are what most people would want. In Denmark, that means that your spouse or children gets the money.
I don’t know about “love” because it has a lot of connotations but try to take a baby from a litter from any animal and watch how crazy mama animal gets. Swans, cats, birds, dogs, bears, whales, whatever.
I think any situation where you know that payment is guaranteed there is the potential for profiteering.

In universal healthcare, insurance knows the government will foot the bill and can tack on a little more.

In my experience this is the case when dealing with large entities. This is slightly the case with government contracts. They are a cash cow of sorts.
I think that was a major point, too, because a significant portion of the money available for social assistance is spent on deciding who can get it and fighting 'fraud'. A blanket universal give is a lot easier.

However - I've always been puzzled by how each person in the US doesn't have a public, singularly identifying number assigned. Doesn't that make even an 'universal' basic income hard to define? How do you guarantee that every person gets one, and only one, BI check every month? How do you find out who is dead and should stop getting one...?

From what I know, SSN are used for stuff like that, but there's all this weird stuff about it (althoug I admit my knowledge of it comes from a half forgotten CGP Grey video, and that the impression that stuck)
If at scale companies are going to deploy new formats at scale they could help out by adding support for said formats to common processing libraries long before the fact.
I'll admit that I didn't read the article, but the headline sounds so much like "the boy who cried wolf" by now.
The problem we face is that social media is about echoing information, not validity, which is how misinformation spreads so rapidly, because it sounds like what people want to hear.

There is no precedent in human history in such a thing. A private entity which controls so much public understanding and opinion.

Making YouTube liable for content would go a long way in helping keep YT content honest, and solve the moderator problem. YT will either moderate or die.

The reason YT could get so popular is because they neither have to moderate, nor fact check, but still get the benefits of being informational. This is true for ALL social media, unfortunately. How would one go about moderating the thousands of hours of content produced every hour in TikTok? Etc.
I think people are rightfully wary about massive employment changes that could have significant negative consequences. I see a slow shift from treating ICs like people with differentiated skillsets to undifferentiated drones. I think that rarely works out for the employee.
This is almost a full day after your post and I don't really have anything to add, but I wanted to thank you for writing this post. It was honest and heartfelt.

I think the worst part of modernity is the over-promise of happiness and a good life through the constant bombardment of marketing. We grow up believing that we're supposed to be always happy and when we're not, we're told that the problem is us.

I have a young daughter and I will always try to keep her grounded about the harships of life and make her see beauty in the struggle for improvement and selflesness. Life is hard, but hard things are worth tackling. There's beauty in the struggle if you seek it. I think it's easier if you know when to zoom in on the day-to-day and when to pan out on the past decade and hope for the next one. Switch between them regularly.
Aww, did I hurt the corporation's feelings?

PR departments have cooped the rhetoric of antibullying campaigns meant to protect children in order to shield corporations from well deserved criticism from people that have even less power against the corporation than a child has against an adult. It's horseshit.
Unfortunately, the alternative to persuasion is belief and trust.
On the other hand, I think there's an argument to be made software should ignore file extensions whenever possible. Is really that hard for the backend to check if the file starts with "\xFF\xD8\xFF\xE0\0\x10JFIF\0\1" or "\x89PNG\r\n\x1A\n"? That would have caught this problem.
Most data on the market rate predates the pandemic. Right now there is basically no childcare available.
Ask HN: What companies were as glorified as FAANG in history?
And What are they doing now?
Antiword: A Free MS Word Document Reader for Linux and RISC OS
Octopus Energy customers told to 'use more electricity'
How is this a ghetto? This is housing that is more spacious than my dorm room. The current situation is accepting a ghetto to exist on the sidewalks where there is no plumbing or services or shelter or a lock or any semblance of safety.
> "Emptier US roads more lethal"

> Likewise a correct fact and not an opinion. And newsworthy because driving right now is more likely to get me killed, and that's something I'd like to know.

"lethal" here means more deaths per mile traveled. that might be because roads everywhere are less safe, or it might mean that a greater fraction of total miles are being driven on inherently unsafe stretches of road (with the same local fatality rates as before the crisis). fatalities include pedestrian deaths as well. maybe there is increased risk for pedestrians but not for drivers. the article doesn't say. there's certainly not enough information to say whether you personally are at greater risk driving.
She was going to do it for free but they insisted on paying her.
Thank you Facebook for being a leader and forcing competitors to at least consider the same, and other companies to cargo cult it.

More jokingly: I guess Facebook employees didn't get the hint when they got the biggest open office plan in the world. Zuck must have been very confused when they made the worst office in the world yet people still showed up. Now he's pretty much telling them to stay away. I assumed he's tired of interacting with "people" all the time, while building a social network.
I find your comment quite interesting, do you mind expanding on the "to develop intelligence" and the "finish the cycle" parts?
$15/mo is far too high at current interest rates so your point stands, but, rich people with steady balances are also paying the bank a fee in the form of an interest-free loan that the bank re-invests.

$15/mo is equivalent to ~$14,400 balance at 1.25% APR [0] so anyone with a higher balance than that across their big bank low-interest/no-interest accounts is paying more than $15/mo.

[0] I chose this number as something you can actually get in an FDIC-insured account at a more generous online bank like Ally
> extremely or very interested in working remotely full time

It sounds like you are not at all interested in working remotely full time
There are still a lot of hard problems to solve, they're just cross-disciplinary.

Software is the infrastructure of the 21st century and if you step out of the tech bubble to things like material science, biotech, etc. you'll see that their infrastructure is garbage despite there being really big returns available.

Developers who can marry modern software to those domains should remain in high demand for decades.
It's an old gist, you should flag it as [2015]
Man this hits deep. I moved out to Southern California a few years ago from the south east. It’s crazy, I can barely afford to buy a house here with a 300k/yr income. Even then it’s gonna be some non remodeled, in need of upgrades 700k home. To get anything decent (new kitchen, windows, working hvac) it’s at-least 900k+. I don’t get how people are buying these homes.
Well, I have Radxa Rock(RK3188) and no distro supports it. With ARM "YOU are the porter" is right for many other distros, except some very popular boards. Even O-Droid's support vary between the boards.
If the government starts giving me enough money each month to subsist while drastically raising taxes on my earnings from employment then I'll simply stop working. I would imagine most people would do the same.