skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really feel for those employees in a time like this. I mean, if you're a web software engineer and you get laid of, there are literally many thousands of companies who would have a need for your skills. If you're an aerospace engineer, how many options are there really besides Boeing and a couple of other big guys?

Curious what folks in the aerospace community think.
Youtube Premium subscribers are customers.
Azure Kubernetes Service Deployment Center with GitHub Actions. (Video Tutorial)
I'm not so sure that's true. Consider:

"All <n-word>s need to go back to Africa." (clearly and overly hateful)

"All black people need to go back to Africa." (still hateful)

"All African-Americans need to go back to Africa." (All words are accepted, but the notion is still rather hateful)

No matter what words one uses it could be considered hate speech by today's definition. Disclaimer: I do not nor do I advocate using racial slurs, the stub in here was just to prove a point.
Is Binding JavaScript and React to GTK Ruining GTK?
All over social media, all day, every day, people accuse others derogatorily of being fascists. Both are political ideologies.

Would you be as happy to see fascism protected from negative commentary online, as you clearly would communism?
Healthy skepticism is great! But every post of yours is perfectly fitting the troll recipe. But just in case you're being genuine, here's my take.

The software is already nice and very usable, even at this early beta stage. There's going to be a million users within a couple years. One thing I've noticed about the PKM community, is that there are a lot of really smart and ambitious people here. You know what that means? Community capital. Guarantee or not, if Obsidian ceases to exist, you possess your data in an open format structure in an open standard, and the latest software you had downloaded will work until a handful of those million users create an open source equivalent.

There's nothing proprietary about backlinking. It's not rocket science. Obsidian is just leading the way with a very enjoyable UX for it.

And I hope they succeed. It seems like they are genuinely seeking a nice balance between creating value for themselves and the community.
Half an hour is very optimistic! The Soyuz expedited rendezvous takes hours. https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/21819/how-did-soyu...
Another one: "I hate onions". Now, replace onions with a derogatory name for another group. We can't prohibit negative words on account they can be used to express negative opinions about other groups of humans.

In the case of communist bandits, it's a criticism of a political ideology, and in particular here one party. Criticism of political parties and ideologies is completely fine, even when expressing insults to them. Expressing threats of violence or other crimes isn't permitted or moral, but expressing dislike or disrespect is perfectly valid. Can anyone say they've never expressed disrespect to any ideology or political party in their life?
and now they own the content. Links will be created to that google URL that last decades. And google can replace the data at that link with whatever they want, whenever they want.
It's probably for the best. Would have costed 10x as much as trains in other countries at 1/4-1/3 the speed. You're paying for a lamborghini and getting a honda civic, and you won't get it for a decade.
So young, fit - should probably have perfect teeth and wear contacts?

you're right of course, just depresing that we've essentially not made much progress in the past 50 years... especially since the people who kicked off this whole thing were some of the least presentable first-impression guys you could ever find (see early photos and descriptions of jobs, gates, etc.)
All efforts have diminishing returns. If the tiny amount of resources our species spends on space exploration were re-directed towards taking care of Earth you wouldn't see any difference there. And also, efforts in space benefit the Earth a lot through things like comms and weather satellites and by learning more about our come by comparing it with other planets. Comparing the atmosphere of Earth with that of Venus and Mars, for instance, told us a lot about the importance of the ozone layer and we might have only just stopped the production of CFCs if it hadn't been for space exploration.
The Gatsby model is Wordpress. Be the default choice, be open source, run a thriving hosting business and empower a huge economy around theming and extending your main product.

The question is whether that model is repeatable.
I'm not saying what the article is describing isn't necessarily happening, but cmon do a little more research than that.

Their entire evidence is bringing up that Lyft and The Container Store Group reduced salaries for the period. They didn't even say by how much.

Even if the labor statistics for the pandemic months isn't here, having your article backbone be "anecdotal data" from 2 companies, neither of whom hire that many people to begin with, makes all the conclusions extrapolated a little doubtful, even if they end up being true.
I find it all frustrating as heck.

The hardest part about building a railway is the land-rights. You need a straight path from A->B, wide enough for at least two lines and fence. But once you have that then re-using that corridor as railway technology improves is very cheap proportionately (e.g. train densities, train speeds, etc).

The problem is that no generation wants to take on the initial "buy in," even if it gets more and more expensive as time goes on (since there's more property/interested parties along the route).
“reproducibility crisis” is a euphemism for “fake science”, which now, by the numbers, accounts for the majority of mainstream establishment science.

Prove me wrong.
Show HN: NPM module → Denoify → Deno module
If you are not afraid of the command line, have a look at smallstep [1]. I use it all the time for JWT debugging, and it can do other things as well.

[1] https://github.com/smallstep/cli
I mean can’t you argue the same about Boeing ? If they stopped existing the airlines would still need support from Boeing for servicing airplanes.
No, I would vote those morons out of office. As it stands I don't have nearly enough money to vote the Alphabet CEO out of office.
I'm not disagreeing with you, but on the other hand.. why? Not sure I understand why something more difficult to read is supposed to be 'better' from a technical standpoint.
The US officially declares that Hong Kong is no longer autonomous from China
The "communist bandits" thing is a Taiwan vs PRC thing -- Mao was basically a bandit for like 10 years while fighting the ROC government. Or the revolutionary vanguard expropriating wealth for the people's liberation, if you'd prefer.

Seems roughly equivalent to calling someone "you syrian terrorist" to me? Not sure where to calibrate it.
Looks like something I can buy at Walmart.
That's funny because after moving to SoCal from the DC area, I was impressed by how good the signage is. I used to joke that in DC "Next right" means "you already passed the exit"

Maybe it's improved since I moved away (early '00s), but it was terrible when I last lived there.
Absolute numbers are useless. How much of that profit is from YouTube rather than search, and how much is that per-user? When the answer comes out to be something like $1/year, how much customer service does that buy?
Coffee’s robust back-up bean isn’t resistant to climate change as once thought
Boeing will not go out of business because the government will not let it happen. All the aerospace industry starting from Boeing and ending with SpaceX is built on the pockets of tax payers. But, of course, the profits are private.
My own policy is to ask the person who arranged the interview what I should wear. In the absence of specific requirements, I'll dress reasonably nicely (long sleeve collared shirt, etc, no tie -- a level or so up from what I normally wear to work). I'll wear a suit and tie if and only if I'm specifically asked to.

(That's for in-person interviews. Remember those?)
Joe Rogan-Spotify deal: The search engine moment for podcasting?
Absolutely amazed that MongoDB is the most wanted database at 19.4%, and is less dreaded than MySQL. What is their marketing team doing that's so effective?
U.S. governments spend almost $7 trillion annually. Federal defense spending is a bit over 10% of that. Does 90% not count as "redirecting tax revenue back to taxpayers?" At what point does it count?
The linked tweet complains that the phrase 五毛 (50 cents) gets deleted. Does the much-discussed 50-Cent Army even exist on non-Chinese sites?

I have a hard time imagining the Chinese government finding people who speak fluent English willing to post for 50 cents a comment, and I've never run across an English-language forum where such activity was apparent. The terms "五毛" and "wumao" are usually just spammed at anyone perceived as insufficiently anti-Chinese.
No, but I study and learn more
Yeah that merge sucks all around in both lanes. The left lane just merges directly into the freeway with no onramp space, while the right lane exits. Meanwhile you've got traffic on I5 which is still coming up on you at 75mph since that's the point where the limit drops, and some of them want off at Nyberg.

Not my favorite interchange, either. Not the worst in Portland by far, but definitely awkward at times.
Isn't bitcoin, by its very nature, "marked"? Perhaps you should change your conspiracy to use Monero or other privacy focused coins as the medium of bribery. :-)
Rebuttal of the Lancet chloroquine paper based on Big Data
Why don’t we just make websites for the deaf blind and retarded and leave the web alone?
I see a lot of the topics/questions here paralleled more and more on-prem.

A decade ago, we assumed the network running on the hardware we owned was safe and didn't bother with things like encryption and authentication if the client was inside our walls. This has changed dramatically, marching towards full zero trust. These days all communication is handled over mTLS and enforce policy on every endpoint. We do these things on bare metal, VMs, or containers. It is easier on the higher layers of abstraction though.

Personally, I think the most interesting part of cloud security is the greater ability to automate parts of the incident response process.
Related articles

- Hacker News 4 month ago https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Crypto%20AG

- April 8, in Dutch https://www.vpro.nl/argos/lees/nieuws/2020/Nederland-maakt-d...

BTW https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome/ works for circumventing economist paywall.
> If google swaps one result for another, 95% of users wont even notice.

Right so exactly the same way the search results page works today?

> The page results will be a tightly restricted iframe-esque window inside of google results

This is completely independent of AMP. Portals work for non-AMP content too.

> which will almost certainly be in a super restricted AMP-esque format that denies sites much control besides what the text says

So you're suggesting that Google will create a new, even more restricted than AMP protocol to be viewed on the search page?
While I haven't had nearly as many bad experiences with Catalina as some other users, I am indeed starting to feel increasingly uneasy with the overall quality of the platform, both as a user and as a developer.

I've been a Mac user since the late 2000s: the first Mac I could afford at the time was a MacMini G4.

When I booted that machine up for the first time I was amazed by the quality and the refinements of the platform. When I started looking digging into the platform as a developer the feeling was exactly the same: care and refinements were almost omnipresent in every aspect of the platform.

While bugs - and even nasty ones - have never been aliens on Mac OS X/macOS, what I've personally started to experience in the past few years is a feeling of neglect toward the platform.

Yes, Catalyst seems to go against this trend: its intent, though, is to ease the porting effort of iOS applications to Mac. A certainly laudable goal.

What would probably be more laudable for Mac users and developers are: core platform stability and quality, API stability, developer documentation overhaul [1].

Our CI breaks every single time there's a minor macOS update and/or an Xcode update: we're at the point where our macOS UITests (XCTest) require more maintenance to keep working than the application itself.
XCTest on macOS has ridiculous bugs. I lost count of the radars we've opened, and the sample apps for reduction we've sent to Apple.

At every single minor macOS upgrade, few users complain that our application "doesn't work anymore" in certain cases. And to be exquisitely blunt: there ain't wrong with the application itself.
Rebooting after a macOS upgrade fixes whatever event tap regression we hit in Quartz.

In general, what I'd personally like to see:

* a less "hysterical" approach to the OS would be so. much. appreciated. (eg: focus on the few important core things, keep them working)

* release when it's ready: this whole marketing driven annual release cycle is unsustainable

I do understand that the vast majority of Apple's income is not Mac related at this point, but WTH...

[1] The whole business with documentation is amazingly summarized by this HN post from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19966135

[Apologies if this comment sounds a bit complaining in nature, that's not what I meant]
IMO, very responsibly, they will disclose their results only after peer review and publishing. I know their paper was revised and is under review.
Tested for safety? We know what it does. It gives a low dose of the virus. If we know most people will get it anyway, then we don't need to know more than that in terms of either safety or efficacy.
This is awesome! great work! I'm in the process of switching from Roam.
That's definitely a scary thought! Can you share any details of what must be public plans to strip everything non-Google of branding? Surely there must be something out there beyond the IETF docs for the protocol, where I don't see any evil plans to Googlify everything in. If anything, it looks like a design intended to allow relaxing the restrictions imposed by AMP.

Perhaps I need to read them more closely.
I have for a long time now extended Hanson's razor with "... and never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by ignorance."

The beauty of it is that it doesn't need to say who is the ignorant one!
will they also ban me if I something against the CPSU?
Bryan Caplan's theory is that this is because people WFH now.

https://www.econlib.org/from-telework-to-flexible-wages/
Sure but that doesn't sound like a great medium->long-term plan. I guess Boeing will get a similar bailout.
There's a great quote on this that's escaping me now, but essentially reproducing other people's experimental results is great for them not so much for you, or just proves that you are competent at running experiments.

Being able to run experiments properly is foundational for new science, but it isn't new science. Unexpected results that cannot be explained by human error (ie, bad experiments) is the origin story for new science.

So when weird results happen without any reasonable, rational explanation, everybody starts to salivate. "Growing anomalies" I expect is a bit like when the aromas start coming out of the kitchen before a big dinner is served.
And this is their Series B, they already took $15M only 8 months ago: https://www.gatsbyjs.org/blog/2019-09-26-announcing-gatsby-1...
> monospace and sans-serif are customizable. Helvetica isn't.

Sure it is: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/change-fonts-and-colors...

> So if user set say 14px as their preferred font size, it would be 19.6 px instead. That's just asshole design.

I don't see that as any different from saying "use 19.6px text unless the user specifically overrides it." Maybe the designer just likes big text! If a user doesn't, they can easily make it smaller.
This law, if implemented fully, will effectively demolish the “one country, two systems” agreement, which has been the basis of Hong Kong’s stability and success for the last 23 years. The Beijing government is pulling out of their side of the deal they made in 1997. What will happen next is not something I can predict, but history shows us some of the things that can happen when communist parties impose their rule onto a new territory. Usually it’s not good for business.
The smart ones already moved out in 1997 to Hongkouver. The ones left in HK are those without the money or skills to emigrate.
I never thought about what i wore to interviews till a coworker who was a decade younger than me who was a part of my interview at the company said she voted no on hiring me because of my “douchebag” interview outfit. For reference my fashion sense is almost too fat for j crew.
Yeah we're basically back to Cable.
If this happens we might get healthier Internet where every service is either a) actually free b) croudfunded on services like SubscribeStar c) has paid tiers d) uses first party ads from sponsors. There are plenty of services monetised like this already.

Third party ad networks are an anomaly and it's time for them to go.
> How hard would be for Chinese intelligence to recruit YouTube moderators

I think it's much simpler than that. There are also just millions upon millions of very nationalistic Chinese citizens (living globally) that would happily abuse the mod button.

There are Google employees... in China... that know exactly how the company works and how to game the system. Maybe they need to be "pressured" by the Chinese gov't - but I wonder if that's even necessary.

Social media is rife with people who will advocate for their country for free and without being asked to.
By that logic Uranus was named after your anus. See simple. And "The Ministry of Truth" always said true things. And the
"Vice and Virtue Ministry" was a noble institution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_and_Virtue_Ministry

Why? because things and people are always named after what they are!
See Biggus Dickus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx_G2a2hL6U
Especially when you can just sit behind cloudflare and gett for free with very little work on your part.

Granted, you then have to trust cloudflare; but it seems like they have been good actors so far considering their privileged position delivering tons of content across the web.
Ah-ha, found the spot in America where you can really benefit from driving a Tesla!
Precisely the argument against UBI. If an employer knows you’re getting money from the government, it’s natural for them to cut your pay to reflect that, or raise prices on consumers. Bringing us right back to where we started.
Your question betrays a basic misunderstanding about what operating systems are.
Nothing on SPECTRE
CCPA only applies is you're a CA resident.
In this case you are trading those all for Google's own.
From what I understand, this happens in Rome all the time. Their subway system encounters a work stoppage due to stumbling onto a new buried building on like a weekly basis. Rome keeps sinking and so there are layers upon layers of buildings on top of each other. While there last May I went to a 14th century chapel they was on top of a fourth century chapel, on top of a send century chapel, on top of a first century villa, on top of an old mint. There is an underground river that would need to be diverted to see if there is something under that but it appears there is.

Fun thing I saw there: this is where St. Cyril was buried and above his tomb there are about a dozen plaques thanking him for bringing literacy to places like Ukraine, Macedonia, etc. Despite them being centuries old I could read them almost perfectly since I can read Russian and Ukrainian. That was incredible.
LED flicker usually has nothing to do with AC power. They LED is being purposely driven pulsed to maximize power efficiency.

Incidentally, incandescent bulbs flicker at 120 Hz (in the US) but it is imperceptible because the light output doesn’t go to zero and it is beyond the flicker fusion threshold (~60 Hz)
Companies who use the government to subsidize their pay in this manner should be taxed into oblivion. Same with employers who keep employees in the safety net to cut costs.

And honestly if a company feels the need to cut the salary of a $30k employee, please point them out so I can never shop there again.
We had something similar briefly happen with grocery delivery services in India. When delivery services resumed following the confusion of our nationwide lockdown, delivery slots were released for a neighbourhood together, and orders for the neighbourhood were lumped and delivered together. Many housing societies would not allow delivery personnel inside, so the lumped orders would be delivered at the community gate.
Arrears is derived from an old French word that literally just means behind. I've seen it used in English with that meaning in ways that are more generic than specifically referring to payments.
I'm not a power electricity guy, but I think of the power grid as an absolutely massive flywheel, electrically speaking. I don't get how the electric company could introduce surges, even if they wanted to. (I have 200A service, which I don't use much of.)
Official blog post: https://www.gatsbyjs.org/blog/2020-05-27-announcing-series-b...
This is an aside but your description of "a briefcase filled with unmarked bitcoin" is hilarious.

More topically, this was automated so it's not like a few bad actors who manually delete comments were to blame.
That's great but isn't a site that must be statically built and deployed to add a new page a niche use case for todays web? You can't use it for a site like HN, a content hub, a social media site, so many use cases that rely heavily on dynamic content from a database. And yes technically you can use it for those things but you're building the static front end with lots of page building logic and complex graphQL queries and ALSO a database backend with your content or CMS as a service like maybe contentful? That's a lot of complexity and unique architecture to maximize for the time to first paint metric. It seems like the Gatsby use case is agencies, branding, advertising campaigns. Which definitely is a sizable market, but sizable enough for what kind of returns on a $28M round?
This. I made Flash games back in the day, some of which were fairly popular. My most played game, Proximity, I came up with the idea at the beginning of the week and had it released on Newgrounds by the end of the week. It was just so easy to make games on that platform, and to collaborate effectively with artists, who could create the art directly in the software and you could incorporate it into the game easily.

I haven't found any platform that's been as easy or quick or easy to collaborate with artists, while at the same time not having too many restrictions in what type of game you want to make, since, and I've floated around from platform to platform since then.

I'm still making games, but I'm doing more analog game design now (board games), which is giving me a little bit of that easy to make (at least the prototypes) and collaborate vibe that I haven't gotten from video games. Currently using MonoGame for video game development at the moment. I've used Unity professionally before, but it's too cumbersome for 2D hobby game development.

I'm actually a little surprised that lightning in a bottle hasn't been able to be replicated properly since then.
I lost my previous hob where I used to work in C/C++. I tried to get a job in Java because i wanted to work in newer technologies. I found a low paying job and I took it since I couldn’t find another . However, I found the switch very difficult and did not last at that job long enough. Why is it that expertise in one language like C does not translate well to other technology areas?