skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the US really wants to show its support for Hong Kong, I think offering expedited immigration for interested . vulnerable citizens might do the trick. Like the US withdrawal during the Fall of Saigon taking a large number of vulnerable South Vietnamese citizens with them.
ah, yes, trove of witty banter that i read obsessively in 1999 or so.

To this day, if you ask me "hey do you know what sucks?" my reflexive answer is gonna be "vacuums!"
It's as simple as toning down the virulance and addiction potential that has been baked into social media over the years. Revert to chronological feeds based on timestamp alone, and not sorting based on how many inflammatory comments and shares they have. Ban more pages that produce and share these misinformed posts. These are problems that these engagement algorithms themselves created, and social media companies are too timid to actually solve for fear of affecting stock price.
> they appear to have no trouble borrowing

In the sense that they can still access liquidity from credit markets, yes. But they're paying a pretty hefty interest rate of 4.50% over the risk-free rate.[1]

That kind of borrowing cost, when compounded, starts to become pretty crippling for any sort of long-term R&D or product development. Compared to a high-grade corporate, a project with a 10-year payback time is 50% more expensive at Boeing's current cost of borrowing.

[1] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/boeing-lands-25-billion-de...
Always fun to see this pop up now and then. My old handle and young wisdom http://bash.org/?7717
> Not the worst in Portland by far, but definitely awkward at times.

That's true. I could probably come up with a decent list of them.

This one in Portland is similar, and it's on a bridge. Everyone on the right wants to go left, everyone on the left wants to go right and all want to do it above 60MPH with as little space in-between as possible. Scares the shit out of me every time.
https://www.google.com/maps/@45.5065751,-122.6714366,3a,60.7...
Imagine being at the meeting where Peter picked Palantir.
Unfortunately I don't, but I hope you understand the meaning behind this facetiousness.
"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito."

- The Dalai Lama
Very cool idea! Still would require unrealistic amounts of memory for a 1994 desktop but super cool :)
I cannot agree more, and yet it’s hard to keep these people out of going concerns.
From my expericence, there are not that many places that you can't have all to yourself if you really want it
Anecdote...
My employer suspended most promotions and merit increases. They also suspended the 401k match. I assume by the time things are back to normal, I'll be out 9-12 months of matching, and will be 18 months without a merit increase. Any longer than that, and I'll be shopping for another position elsewhere. (and they only get that much leeway because it's a nice place to work, I walk to the office in normal times, and simple inertia of a 20 year career there).
at least next.js can do the same thing
The problem is that politics are so corrupt/inefficient in the US that the projects go 4x over budget/time with no consequences for the politicians/bureaucrats/contractors who let things like this happen.

Just look at the Honolulu Rapid Transit Projects and California High Speed Rail projects.
thats awesome! what technology are people using these days to make "flash" games?
Word of the day is always fun. I see this one used in accounting frequently.

This use here is spot on, but not common.

I like uses like this one. Gives a bit of texture to the conversation.
This is both bad policy and politically untenable.

It also adds noise to the discussion which detracts from the very real bad behavior that’s happening here.
That's my point - I replied to someone wanting it to be configurable on macOS; I'm saying why, I'd rather leave it to Apple, I assume they can do a better/more accurate job than me, but sure, it's great that you can do that on Linux if there aren't OEM drivers available with better tuning.
Is the word "fascism" used to refer to current citizens of a particular country, which don't have anything to do with the stuff we hate fascism for? Because the word "communism" is - the comments in question don't attack "communist ideology"; they are derogatory comments aimed at one particular nation.
Show HN: Drawingbots.net – Website for Plotter Enthusiasts
Military support for Taiwan, Republic of China, would be much more interesting.
Aviation has a relatively low percentage of total emissions only because globally almost nobody can afford to fly. For a rich person like you and me, a transatlantic trip is a good way of doubling your emissions for the year.
I'm not touching COBOL anymore for $200K
same!!!
No, "communist bandits" obviously refers to a group of people, not ideology. Furthermore, while you could argue it's about some particular organisation, it's often being used to refer to chinese citizens in general.
Yeah not all of us travel to compare national parks and nature. Bird watching in the Aleutian Islands would be a drag for most of us.

On the other hand, events with friends, lovers, annual festivals (yacht weeks, film festivals, music festivals), getting immersed somewhere else so long that you take classes and go about the day to day with others in the class, actually enjoying taking cross country trains because they are a fast and viable form of transportation. Can't wait till that is viable again! Many of those things are possible in the US, many of the events are just not in the US and their original locations are better for it, there are also lots of people not interested or capable of coming here, who I like to be around.
An an iPhone user, I very often find speech recognition far too slow. It is to the point I rarely use the feature because it often causes frustration. The Google performance here is amazing.

Is this a feature only of Pixel phones?
Ok, "out of control" is a slight exaggeration, but HTTP has become a complete reimplementation of what amounts to TCP or SCTP.
I had an order that asked for "firm tofu" and ended up with mukimame. Which, ya know... pretty close but still pretty far. :P
The first salary cut is bonus, lots of companies chopped off their bonuses.
I don't know why I'm getting downvoted.

Anyone can verify what I'm saying if they go to scholar.google.com
TLDR: Three rural cities.

Given some basic assumptions about the distribution of case rates, it's not at all surprising that a few cities from that fairly large set happen to exceed NYC.

Nothing to see here.
I would guess the filter was told to inform advertisers that those words were present, and then accidentally was set to delete them immediately.

Seems more believable than China infiltrating a foreign company to block two words from appearing in Chinese on a website blocked in China.
That’s a good question, and it depends on how this line is implemented: “It shall also establish a sound legal system in the HKSAR to maintain national security.”

Under the Basic Law, Hong Kong has it’s own legal system, so there is no constitutionally acceptable way Beijing can “establish” new legal system to it’s liking. Perhaps the law is simply a threat, and they won’t take action, but if it is fully implemented, it means the end of the current legal system’s autonomy.

The vagueness of this law is a good example of how the PRC’s legal system is very open-ended compared to other countries, and allows for arbitrary action from China’s rulers.
I don't think its as simple as that. Many of these large companies do so much business with the government, and comply to so many government rules already, at some point you have to wonder to what degree they are separate at all. If lockheed Lockheed Martin, Planatir, or Boeing ceased getting government money, they would probably not exist.
And if Facebook and Twitter really became anti establishment, their stock would tank, and most likely would quickly be taken over or bankrupted.
Coronavirus recovery: Von der Leyen calls €750bn recovery fund 'Europe's moment'
I mean considering Cameo is a specific platform for celebrities and creators to upload customized video messages for fans that buy them, I fail to see how it could even be compared to fiverr at all. It's a platform that does a very specific thing, and does it very well as shown by the talent they have been able to attract. Calling it a rebranded fiverr doesn't even make sense because they don't do similar things...?
I didn't catch covid-19, or maybe I had it at February when I got a little bit sick. Who knows.
In my family or social field nobody got it too, or just didn't know it.
Grew up in Pittsburgh.

PA has the worst highway merging habits and I blame onramps like this. There's a number of them that are too short or have stop signs like this:

https://pghroads.tumblr.com/post/44161958475/the-stop-sign-o...
Leaving Boeing stops the benefits clock instead of resetting it.

A lot of old companies had benefit carrots designed to keep you from leaving, so those benefits come on work anniversaries, rather than cumulative years of service. If you leave at 4 years to start your own company and then get bought or come back, tough luck, you start over.

If you worked at Boeing off and on for your whole career you'd still be in the pension program, even if you kept leaving every 4 years to do something else.
> [...] it's hard to imagine a more hostile language.

C++?
I've done it twice. The response is basically along the lines of "thanks for letting us know, we are aware improvements in signage are needed" and then they never do anything.
Interestingly, job priorities for men and women are not the same[1] : Men place higher importance on "Languages, frameworks, and other technologies I'd be working with", while for women, "Office environment or company culture" and "Flex time or a flexible schedule" come first.

[1] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#work-most-imp...
The problem is that my expenses have gone up because of remote working, and my employers have gone down. I don't even have a proper work-from-home office, so if this is permeant I'll need to upgrade my home. I should be getting paid more, not less.
You can phrase it that way. But it's a deceptive statement. For the most part, people don't switch parties they vote for. They just choose not to vote instead. So taken in aggregate, you could say "we disliked Hillary so we voted for someone worse".

But the more accurate statement is that some groups of people decided not to vote at all because they disliked Hillary, and other groups of people decided to show up and vote.
Yeah, I can't see working entry/lower level positions unless you're prepared to compete with recent grads on salary and hours as well as knowledge.
A post that is of this level of quality shouldn’t be degraded because it left out a category that you find profoundly interesting.

This is a goldmine for people interested in the field of AI, what you do with your talents as an engineer is up to you - build weapons, build medical systems, build whatever you want.

Your moral compass isn’t going to be set by an extra class in your curriculum, it’s set by your life experience.
I would probably call your position on this issue "noise", too, but that's unfair.
I was actually using Joplin for the past year after migrating to evernote. I really liked it but am now migrating to something with a little more flexibility around structuring.

Thinking to structure it around hugo.
I will second this and also add that I think there are unlockable network effects that happen when economic activity can be more dense across the country vs. a few large metropolitan areas. Of course they could use some public transit as well.
Probably because even LEDs have become a low margin business. I've a bunch of the Chinese brand LED bulbs from Amazon and they last for years and there is so much variety. In terms of LED bulb longevity, I think a big part is heat dissipation so the heatsink size and fixture design are critical.
It maybe due to NY's policy at the start of the outbreak, which put recovering Covid patients in nursing homes. It probably spiked their death count without causing a corresponding spike in cases.
Applying Elite Military Training to Civilian Assessments
Google can choose today which site (original or AMP cache) to show in their search results. Today, as an end user, I know, via the URL, when I land on a Google AMP site.

That said, Google already has control of every AMP page because the spec REQUIRES you to load a piece of Google controlled/hosted JS onto your page. That JS can change at any time without "signed exchanges" being aware.
just weaponise YouTube content creators.

My kids used to laugh at Villager News, a dumb but occasionally funny skit show using 3D animation to copy Minecraft. Amazon Video now runs the show on its streaming service.

Basically YouTube became a method to make pilots for tv series.

Imagine all the weird but low cost documentaries i try and find on YouTube - Tods Workshop, Primitive Technology. There will be a thousand such people in thousands of niches.

Google could just flip on a content arm and hand each channel a producer and a decent camera and just own half the content. The other half is documentary / reportage rather than essays.

Honestly thinking of content as action shows or sci-fi 100 episodes is missing the point entirely. Content here on in is still high quality but aimed at a 100,000 people not 20 million.
Could you please elaborate more on why it is completely incorrect? I think the opposite from what I've seen. Touch screens in a space capsule cockpit with UI and fonts that appear to be more of a pizzaz than functional. I think that SpaceX has leaned too much towards decoration while presumably sacrificing a tremendous amount of functional aspects. I don't know for sure because I've not operated those systems but I've seen Everyday Astronaut's YT tour of the Dragon capsule and it is a sad sight. My guess is neither have any of us used those systems, these are observations from limited information.

I am also willing to bet, SpaceX UI designers have never even touched this document: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19940023266
Perhaps, although the first theories posited hold true in my case.

Some were laid off "furloughed", and the rest had a 15% cut. I believe the story from the company which is mostly cold numbers of ensuring they have cash to handle the next couple of months of reduced sales.

If we were in the office, we wouldn't be any more upset or putting pressure on management. What I would normally do if I felt slighted is look for another job, but it's also a rough time for that.

A longer term trend of lower work-from-home wages might be a real thing, but I think it's way to early to separate that from direct financial reaction to an unprecedented economic downturn and uncertainty.
> Please read my comment carefully. I never said 'linked'.

"bundle" does not change anything, you still do not need copyleft on your app.
Thinking all Chinese people are lockstep behind the CCP is racist. It plays into the "Asian hive mind" stereotype.
I fail to see how 8, 9 and 11 harass a particular person but 10 doesn't?

Can 15 really sue the person for defamation? Regardless, IMO, the DNC is part of the government and therefore open to public criticism, especially anonymously. This goes for all the other statements here about government bodies and officials.

I'm having trouble processing "tech-bro" as something worth censoring, but I have to admit it's derogatory and aimed at a particular stereotype, and so it's in the same category as the other statements. But it leads me to wonder: Don't all descriptions of a certain group of people end up falling into that category? Where does the line stop? People will (and have, historically) just start using the non-derogatory descriptions as derogatory ones if you censor the ones they currently use.
There are solutions like Hasura or Fauna which give you a GraphQL server automatically.

How come Firebase still doesn't have some sort of agnostic querying layer?
DefinedCrowd lands $50M to help Mastercard, BMW, improve their AI services
Sure, I'm all for teaching it. It would still face the same issues as other education topics. Use science as an example. It is taught in schools. And yet, we still have a strong anti-science culture in the U.S.
It's the language. If you go into the detailed results here: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#most-loved-dr... that most loved is described as "% of developers who are developing with the language or technology and have expressed interest in continuing to develop with it."
But my understanding of these Wikipedia pages is that, if the deactivated virus is the same as the one it's designed to immunise against, then the treatment is properly termed an inoculation; not a vaccination (which would strictly speaking imply that it was a deactivated virus B administered in order to protect against a virus A)?
Yet Taiwan is also under threat from PRC. Also emigrating (ie leaving born place, family, friends, etc) is not that easy even when money/job is not an issue.
The big difference here is the judge was restricting Trump as a government actor from doing something while the Twitter side of things is Twitter doing something on their own platform. Trump very much was using Twitter as the official place for announcements for a while and if it's the official place to learn government policy you can't block people from seeing it.
Why do you think they removed your respectful comment and deemed it hate speech?
> Ok I'll bite: how is "you are free say what you want but you may have to face a firing squad"

That's not the consequence here.

The consequence is “other private parties might choose not to relay your speech or continue association with you, exercising their own rights to free speech and association.”

Me not allowing you to use my resources to magnify the reach of your message isn't analogous to the state subjecting you to capital punishment.

> The whole POINT of 'free speech' is that there are no consequences.

No, the whole point is that the state doesn't have their thumb on the scale, allowing ideas to succeed or fail by their ability, or not, to attract support from private actors. Legislation in which the state intervenes to prevent private consequences through the exercise of free speech are not only on their face contrary to free speech, but sabotage the operation of the marketplace of ideas.
that sounds good in principle but I still wouldn't feel comfortable with it unless I was aware of similar setups that worked out well for the users.

Not saying such examples aren't out there. I just am unaware of any.
Most of Consumer Lighting had already been sold off. They were working on services like lightgrid management for cities. But even 30 years ago, Lighting was one of the smallest parts of GE.
Right, the actual fix is to change their core business model which they'll never do.
From time to time someone suggests that the present monolithic browser could be replaced by separate programs or facilities that are coordinated by the operating system, but as far as I know, it hasn't yet been done.

For example, this comment by BAReF00t from a couple of months ago [1]:

"Browsers are a case of monolithism (and the inner-platform effect, of course). In actuality, they are multiple different kinds of programs, welded together for no sensible reason: an http fetching daemon, a "runner" to open URLs, several document viewers, a virtual machine, an OS with an API, extensive libraries for everything that the OS below the OS already offered, one or several programming language JIT compiler(s) and runtime(s), and some bits and pieces. In a healthy environment, there would not be a second OS on top of the normal one. And all those parts would be separate software, with standardized interfaces. ..."

Years ago Rob Pike responded this way to complaints that there was no browser for the Plan 9 operating system [2]:

"While that would be better than no browser at all, Mozilla is just the sort of stand-alone monolith that we're trying to argue against. And of course, everyone else in the world is trying to turn their system into a giant web browser. I'd rather see web access be one aspect of a system in which the pieces work in concert."

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21052915

2. http://p9.nyx.link/netlib/9fans/9fans.0007 (post dated 18 Jul 2000 about halfway down)
For me, the only model of acquiring currency from software engineering activities is via product sales (no more selling my time or expertise). To this end, I do have plans in motion; however, some very important points:

- the products I wish to build will take time to do properly and I do not want to be in any kind of rush;

- based on my research, I believe these products could be good earners; however, it will take time and the majority of the revenue will be from the long tail;

- this kind of activity is high risk and I treat it as such. What this means, in practice, is that I put in my 4 hours of focused coding every morning and then go do other, less risky activities;

My experience has taught me to prefer transactional business models. Consultative business models spring from the dark side of The Force ;-).

As a vague teaser: one of the products is a SaaS modernization of a classic desktop database/application dev program complete with a recreation of its programming language; and the other is a game based on the premise of "what is an episode of sleep paralysis and waking dreams like?" I'm excited to be working on both but I have my expectations very firmly in check.
Anyone else wonder why legitimate, thoughtful responses are being downvoted?
Then what exactly should we do? Physical ballot boxes? We can imagine all sorts of ways to tamper with votes that way, surely. Even if there's a paper trail, doesn't somebody somewhere have the ability to tamper with it? We can surely propose a flaw in every possible voting system, can't we?

It seems to me your criticisms very much fall into "letting the perfect be the enemy of the good" territory. States have conducted some version of vote-by-mail or absentee balloting for decades, and there's no evidence I'm aware of that either of these have, in practice, materially increased voter fraud. Furthermore, studies on existing voter fraud conducted by groups like the Brennan Center for Justice and the Heritage Foundation have concluded the incident rates are around 0.0025% -- and that's the high end of the estimates. Even if your concern that a push to move most states to vote-by-mail in the 2020 election causes that number to go up substantially proves valid, how likely is it, truly, that it increases by the two orders of magnitude it would take to bring it up to a quarter of a percent -- and that such an incredible increase goes essentially unnoticed and unchallenged?
Many cheap LEDs flicker at at double line frequency (100Hz or 120Hz depending on the country), because they're driven by rectified AC power with inadequate filtering. Pulsing LEDs only increases efficiency at low brightness, e.g. 7-segment displays, not room lighting. See:
http://donklipstein.com/ledp.html

The flicker fusion threshold for many people is above 60Hz. Remember 60Hz CRTs? 85Hz is a more reliable threshold. And in any case, flicker fusion threshold is only relevant when your eyes are stationary. On eye movement you get phantom array effect. People vary greatly in how sensitive they are to this, and depending on how strong your saccadic masking is, it can be annoying at frequencies well into the kilohertz.
> Bringing us right back to where we started.

Not really, since someone working no time or half-time still gets more money under that regime.
You're saying sourcehut has no feature? Nonsense, it has tons!
I saw the suggestion on twitter that the US and other countries should hand out visas to people from Hong Kong who want to live in a free country (with the hope that the US doesn't continue to decline, from that perspective).
Here's your new 'eyes only' assignment, cleanup crew. Report for duty on Monday ...