skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Finally, what do employees care about theft? It's not coming out of their paycheck. False positives from an anti-theft system seems like a small job nuisance at best -- not something to whistleblow with a "slickly produced video".

I think their is a massive divide from Walmart's Corporate/Tech branch and that of the typical store employee. I overheard one employee saying back in December as we were days away from NYE that she had to remain at work despite having been approved for leave weeks earlier as most of her coworkers simply just didn't show up to work and demanded a raise from her manager. I now always wear earbuds when I go inside of one.

Whereas for the tech employee or risk management office drones they don't face those concerns and instead have to justify a growing budget for their department, perhaps even their jobs in this environment, with these kind of antics.

I inadvertently noticed how easy it is to use their buggy and slow check-out kiosks against them, but since I only ever buy motor oil at Walmart anymore I don't see this being a useful risk. I actually went back and paid for the item when I noticed it made the noise that it scanned but didn't include the item to my checkout price, which was a total pain in the ass that meant standing in line at the nearly always understaffed customer service/return area.

Bobby Lee, the ex-owner of massive Bitcoin exchange in China and the brother of Charlie Lee creator of Litecoin, was ex-Walmart tech. In a recent podcast outlining his previous history in the Bitcoin ecosystem he made it clear they have no shortage of talent there. To what end, is another matter entirely.
well, it's a bit of a hack - it's using https://github.com/kripken/sql.js/ in JS from go via https://github.com/matrix-org/go-sqlite3-js, and persisting its data by snapshotting it to indexeddb via https://github.com/skaegi/idbfs every 30 seconds. Not sure this quite qualifies as ACID ;P
and i don't disagree that it's OK for new grads to work for startups to learn a lot. but a lot of startups hire for senior engineers/staff engineers
Because when the ice melts, the water does not remain where the ice was, but rather enters the ocean. Water entering the ocean anywhere in the world will tend to raise the height of the ocean worldwide.
I am sorry, but it is a subreddit about a president who was somehow elected by nearly 50% of American population. So whatever’s happening there, it implicitly represents the ideas and wishes of quite a lot of people.
This number is for USA. For Canada (as of 7th of May) 82% of deaths have been in long term care [1]

[1] https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/2020/05/07/82-of-ca...
right now, yes. in future, with low bandwidth transports and smarter routing algorithms, it might be okay.
Please don't take HN threads further into generic ideological battle. It makes the threads more repetitive and more nasty.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Is qualified immunity really the issue? The general impression I have is that PDs/DAs straight up refuse to investigate/prosecute abuses of power. It's not like we have a bunch of cases where the case was airtight, but the officer was being acquitted because of qualified immunity.
> That's almost $700 per person per year if you converted it all to a UBI. That's far from insignificant.

Right... but introducing UBI won't remove the necessity of the department of energy, or somebody sitting in an embassy in Russia, or the person who orders toilet paper for the Library of Congress.

We'd save money on administrative overhead for the programs that are supposed to be replaced by UBI, but those salaries aren't what's eating the budget.

> I don't see why I am obligated to pay for someone who refuses to take care of himself.

I don't either, but we're a tiny minority. Well, at least in my country we are, in the US it may look somewhat different.
Astronomer Uses 25-Year-Old Hubble Data to Confirm Planet Proxima Centauri c
I guess the ideal, for me, would be to have a service where I could upload a Nix file, and then have it generate a server from that. Darklang may be working with the general idea, but I'd like to see it for Nix too.
Although I think it's still a long way to usable and interoperable p2p, matrix does support voice+video chat (in 1:1 chats p2p with signaling via matrix; otherwise via jitsi meet integration).

3rd party identifiers like phone numbers and email addresses can be registered and discovered via centralized service. At least for phone numbers it's not really possible decentralized.
No, we really don't. The videos don't lie, trump does.
If you haven't seen it yet there's a 2020 Police Brutality subreddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/2020PoliceBrutality/ - that's very active in cataloguing the increasing number of video evidence of police brutality; 35,000 subscribers, up from 12,000 just this morning.

Warning: there is a lot of disturbing content there.
The 2015 maxed out model was my first MacBook and it's served very well so far. Lately, it does slows to a crawl when running docker, VSCode, and half a dozen electron apps :(, but after reading about the latest builds I'm honestly not sure whether to upgrade or go back to running ubuntu or elementary.
Right, government should not have the right to shutdown churches or the press or political rallies. We ostensibly hold these shared American values but it always breaks down along partisan lines.
Overlays can be very helpful for this type of thing.

I have overlays in ~/.config/nixpkgs/overlays.nix (though you do this various ways)

My overlay file has the form:

let
my-packages-overlay = self: super:
{
foo = super.callPackage ./path/to/package.nix {}
}
in
[ my-packages-overlay ]

Then you can just nix-env -iA your-package.

See: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Overlays
> drawing squiggles to cast spells is not a game mechanic that is inherently extremely fun

Drawing squiggles isn't inherently fun. But dancing your spells now that's hecking fun.

Human culture already uses lots of weird hand symbols to cast all sorts of spells. You can say "hello" with a hand gesture. You can cast teh "I'm sorry spell". There's a great "I need your attention" spell, another for "I can't understand/hear" ... and let's not forget the wonderful repertoire of spells for "You're an idiot"

Hand and body gestures are a fantastic user interface. Computer recognition might not be quite sophisticated enough yet.
https://archive.md/zQh5e
Are you serious?

1. If that were true women would still be unable to vote. Would you tell women in 1905 that "it's a democracy, you don't need to protest, just vote."

2. Even now, we have seen the power that be make it more and more difficult to vote. The current administration is throwing a complete temper tantrum at even the thought of letting people use absentee ballots during a national pandemic, citing the voter fraud boogeyman.
> It doesn't need to be a law passed by Congress.

Then why should I (or anybody) be expected to follow it?

And before you say "modern regulations" I'll point out that my position generally is that regulations instead of law are how we've gotten so deranged in the first place.

Also, the money is fucked.
What does "lead in a bipartisan manner" even mean? In what era of this country did anyone lead in a "bipartisan manner"?
Hmm, I may be misreading your comments in this thread but it sounds like you're not okay with languages simply... evolving?

You are aware that importing words is a thing, right? Even if equivalent words already exist. It's perfectly normal and even healthy for a language to do so.

To me, pullear and deployar are just a lot more clear and there's no ambiguity. "Desplegar" would not be very meaningful to me in the context of my work.

It's all about clarity in my mind and condescension really has nothing to do with it.
Important distinction lies between "life-or-death" and "perceived life-or-death". The leeway given to police over civilians in this matter seems at the root of a lot of these issues.
SmartScreen's current behaviour is more like if browsers pretended HTTP is a security error (It is not. It is just insecure, and labeled as such) and required the same bypass workflow.
There is no reason why it can't be "black people being killed by cops like this MUST stop" and "the rioting and looting MUST stop."

Buried in your reasoning is the idea that the rioting and looting is helping reducing black deaths by cops. I see no reason to believe that.

First, its directly putting people into violent conflict with police. So additional black people have been killed by police caused by the rioting. Second, innocent people are getting killed by the rioting.

Third, there are people who would support police reform but are also terrified of looters and rioters. The riots are giving me a look at what my city looks like without police control, and it is scary. I know that police v. lawlessness is a false dichotomy and I reject that sort of thinking.

There was a consensus that what happened to George Floyd was an atrocity. Even racists thought so. A huge peaceful protest would have raised awareness.

Violence lost that consensus.
To clear the path to some good ol' fashioned bible-thumpin'
Doesn't look programmable? If it is, they did a terrible job marketing it. Either way they did a terrible job marketing..
Or, to put it another way, the surfaces of the Earth closest to and farthest away from the Moon are traveling at the same orbital velocity of the Earth. However, they should be in different orbits; the point closest to the Moon is too slow for the orbit it is in and the point farthest is too fast. The former wants to into a lower orbit while the latter wants to go into a higher orbit.
no. if you're doing it for selfish reasons or jumping on some moral bandwagon it's virtue signaling.

mlk existed when civil rights were not trendy as it now is, therefore he was surely glad free speech existed.
I love to watch recordings of big engines starting. I am so glad there are organizations and individuals preserving these artifacts and keeping them running. My favorite examples below: steam locomotive [1], and stationary pump engine [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx9Q8PphAVo&t=1s

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhlJp1VZMB8
Suppressing content is just one of the means to the ends of maintaining power and control.
> "Wouldn't this mean that the odds of dying from COVID are much higher than dying from a car accident?"

we don't know yet due to the newness of covid, meaning it's steady-state death rate is uncertain, but it seems very unlikely to overtake car accidents.

based on what we do know about covid now, its trajectory, and comparing to relatives, covid will probably only kill you the first time (and mostly if you're late in life) or not at all, so lifetime odds might end up between 1 in 10,000 and 1 in 5000.

lifetime odds of dying in a car accident is relatively known, at 1 in 100, so probably 50-100X more deadly than covid.
Loss is hard to estimate though. What are the losses from a false positive?
1. What good consequences? Lottery winners are more likely to declare bankruptcy after their win, and are no happier than they were before. It's blatant false advertising. The ads even show winners utilizing fake (CGI) technology that doesn't exist. I don't see how this is even legal, except that it's produced by the state. Drug companies are required to list every possible side effect, but lotteries can just make up anything, and ignore any possible downsides.

2. Lottery proceeds are used as an excuse for removing other sources of funding for those things. I've never heard of a case where a public good was better funded after the creation of a lottery. And the people buying lottery tickets tend to be those least able to afford it -- it's a regressive tax.

3. Yes, if you ignore the lotto advertising, the public health announcement is a good use of billboard space. It takes on a completely different meaning, though, in the context of "Ignore statistics and just think about having fun!"

4. The column seems to be about people gambling away their money on risky ventures that will not pay off. Do you not agree that this describes the state lottery?
Functional language with streamlined syntax and copy-on-write composite types
I'm not quite following you, you still seem to be suggesting that they go from ~$18k avg. SS payment + $11k avg. Medicare payment = ~$29k to an $18k per year payment, a loss of $11k per year on average. Am I missing something? What about people who are entirely dependent on SS+Medicare for their meagre retirement?

As you have noticed in your example, most of that money gets eaten up by healthcare costs leaving very little on which to live ($7k), so essentially are you suggesting that most people should no longer retire?
You're describing something a little like NixOps, which is something like a cross between nix and terraform.
There's one reading of the recipe for Holy Anointing Oil that includes Cannabis, making the result basically a topical weed oil.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_anointing_oil
I like the idea of NixOS. It's somewhat hurt by the fact that it's not a first-class OS at most VPS providers. It also doesn't seem to be quite as capable as Ansible yet for configuration. If there isn't a provided variable for the setting you want, there's not a generic way to add a line to a configuration file, for example. (I might be wrong about this!)
On most rubber dome keyboards there is enough space between rubbers to have diode there. You could also put diodes on the other side of PCB.

I am not sure about costs, though, I did not consider membrane keyboards for my research. Membranes are extremely cheap. Not just because of the membranes being cheap but also because there is no assembly (PCB is contacts, no assembly required for switches) and because there might not be need for double-sided PCB. In this case diodes could force double-sided PCB, vias, and maybe even double sided assembly.
I've seen a project by OpenStreetMap to upload dashcam images, and a quick search gave me this: https://openstreetcam.org
But why even require payment for these certificates, since Microsoft according to the article doesn't actually place any value on the certificate itself. You still have to build up reputation separately. In that case, it seems entirely unnecessary to require a paid certificate.
> You can see that some combination of the light sensor and the monitor take nearly 100ms to fully transition.

That's the sensor. It's not a wonderful match for this job.

The linked[1] light sensor module looks like a CdS photoresistor. In its Amazon Q&A, the seller claims "The response time: Rise 30ms Decline 30ms", under unspecified conditions.

Better to use a phototransistor like [2], with a rise time of microseconds. 4 orders of magnitude faster. It's easy - one resistor, and an analog input on the Teensy.

Deja vu. For 3D UI prototyping on my laptop, I diy'ed LCD shutter glasses driven by an arduino with a photosensor reading a white/black square rendered flashing in a screen corner. IIRC, I actually tried a photoresistor first, but the plotted screen response curve times weren't plausible. Only then did I look for a datasheet, and had an "okaaay, that's not the right thing" moment. :/

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N1FKS4L/ [2] https://www.adafruit.com/product/2831
" Like back when we only had physical things it made sense. There was a physical limitation. Now we are trying to apply the same concept in a very different world. I just think that doesn’t hold and we should just have a new definition."

I don't think is true historically though. The idea of copyright for books is that another publisher can't start printing copies of a book someone else wrote and start selling them. This doesn't involve physically taking any of the author's property, and indeed they probably had to buy a copy first before they could make their own copies. I don't see how what the IA is fundamentally different from this, and it seem pretty clear that copyright law was created to stop this sort of thing.
From my experience, options for employees have NO VALUE at all. This is not because VCs and C-Suite don't think that the company will make it, but because they arrange things that way to maximize payouts for themselves.

Here is how this happens. Let's say for argument sake, there are 20 million shares or options floating about. Let's say you own 500k of them. Now Mega_Company and your company New_and_Cool announce a 20 million dollar purchase. You think your might be in for a $300k windfall (or more), but here is what is likely going to happen.

VCs will have a preferred stake that must be satisfied as part of any buyout. Usually this preferred stake will require satisfaction that is a significant multiple of the at risk position. The VC put up a million bucks but now requires the first ten million as part of any buyout.

Next, C-Suite will arrange direct compensation and retention packages outside of the context of common shares/options as part of the buyout. The CEO will get a five million dollar direct payout while the rest of the C-Suite and Board split an addition 5 million.

Then low and behold, your shares/options are worth... Nothing. Imagine that.

An equity position in New_and_Cool is snake oil and should be evaluated as such. Yes, I know there are counter examples and "so and so's secretary" is now living on a private island someplace thanks to their options. In my opinion, these gilded accounts only serve to make the gullible more susceptible.
I have watched quite a bit of handmade hero. As a fun hobby, it looks great, but using that strategy to make an actual game... well, let's just say it doesn't surprise me he's multiple years in and hasn't even gotten to gameplay yet.
I have never imaged OS's—I'm sure it's a fine practice since lots of people do it, but it feels "unclean". I always do clean installs.

That said, I was able to pretty quickly install Windows 7 on a then-just-released Ryzen 3950X last October. I do remember there being one hitch, I think I had to slipstream in USB 3.0 drivers.
Anecdote but my local library uses Hoopla for digital loaning, and they went from 10 loans a month to something like 30 or 40.
Very much agreed; nix is its own world, which makes it really hard to get into. I wish someone had written "nix but in python" (or bash, or whatever) that still used a nix-store equivalent, kept the overall design and the immutable and reproducible packaging, still connected everything by hash, did all the hydra-style build infrastructure.. but didn't use nix-the-language, and made an explicit effort to use more conventional language wherever reasonably possible. Ideally, it'd even let you write expressions in arbitrary languages; it should be perfectly possible to say, "here is a directory containing 'inputs' and 'output' subdirectories based on your declared dependencies; place any build steps you want in build.sh, so long as they deterministically populate 'output' from the package directories in 'inputs'" (and then run the build a few times, without network access, to make sure). I don't see anything in nix that actually needs nix-the-language, or even a functional language at all, and I think nix-the-package-manager would be far more accessible if they'd not tied nix-the-language to everything.
>Per this specific tax distribution, at worst you would increase the tax on the top quintile by 37%. And that's at worst, because there are definitely parts of the existing government that can be replaced by the UBI.

No, you'd increase the tax burden by 37% of their gross income, which is a totally different thing.

Your highest quintile household earning ~$235K per year: if they lived in NYC they'd be paying already about $72K per year in taxes (between Federal/state/local income tax and FICA, assuming it's a married couple).

Your proposal takes an additional $85K per year away from them. It therefore increases their taxes by 118%.

EDIT: also, I just noticed the quintiles in your example don't even sum correctly. You're distributing $180K but only taxing $174K.
My guess would be curfew, crowd was told to leave, and it didn't. That's when teargas starts getting fired from my experience ( crowd told to go home and it doesn't ).
Why should anything, anywhere at any point in time?

I personally don't find this line of questioning fruitful. The trouble is that word 'should'.

Philosophers call it an is-ought problem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem
How is it that this man, Floyd, has been turned into a saint? He was intoxicated and behind the wheel of a car! Had he not been stopped, and killed an innocent child, it might be on the 5 o'clock news but probably not; none of you would care and would still be insisting that everyone be forced to stay quarantined for Covid-19 reasons. Sure, clearly the cops handled this wrong, but what got Floyd there in the 1st place? High on drugs or alcohol, passing counterfeit money, and driving while under the influence - hardly the kind of model citizen/saint we want on the streets. All of you are hypocrites...lambasting people at the beach enjoying the sun and praising people out on the street vandalizing and looting....
Dealing with anxiety? TooDeep app helps you express your emotions anonymously
The inspiration of TooDeep began when I found myself dealing with depression and anxiety. My dad had a life-threatening stroke while battling Prostate Cancer, and my mother was hospitalized due to Breast Cancer complications. I spiraled deeper and deeper into depression, the fear of judgement prevented me from reaching out for help from my family and friends. I knew I needed to release these feelings somehow. So I decided to create a place where I could release my emotions anonymously through audio recordings without the fear of being judged - thus, birthing TooDeep.

TooDeep is a mobile peer-to-peer support platform, where people can anonymously share their thoughts and feelings through audio and text.

TooDeep is currently available for all iOS devices, and will expand to Android devices in late 2020/early 2021.

Link to download: https://apple.co/3gO2PRq
I just had to send my macbook into repair and get a full logicboard replacement, because the USB-C cable fried my mac. So much for an upgrade that costs almost 1k in repair. I hope you have high quality USB-C cables everywhere.
The botched response to COVID-19 will bring the whole institution of modern science crashing down, when all is said and done. Maybe you don't want to believe that, but there it is: https://guscost.com/2020/05/12/pandemic-woo/

By the way, I still have not heard of a single serosurvey being run in South Korea. Why is that?
How to build $100m SaaS business
To build a $100m SaaS business go to market strategy is the key. Back in 2014 when we started, we never knew that there is a framework to look at Go-to-Market (GTM) strategically considering different factors like marketing, sales, product virality, etc.

Read the full post here - https://sesamint.substack.com/p/5-ways-to-build-100m-saas-business

All SaaS founders, VCs, and the community let’s change the dialogue. Let’s start chasing scooters, bikes, cars, campers, and buses. If possible let’s chase the rockets too!
They are still out crushing people. They've decided to target nonviolent protestors instead of looters. Softer targets perhaps.
agreed that there's a lot of work left on p2p (although 1:1 VoIP does work over p2p! :)
Here's another article (May 26th) with stats as of May 22th that claims 42% of C19 deaths are from assisted living:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2020/05/26/nursin...

In a number of states its a much higher percentage.
Is this Hunter S. Thompson in the picture?
If you want a really fun, complex, and good two player game that gets even better when multiplayer, try Star Realms (or Hero Realms for fantasy).

The rules are fairly simple but there are a whole lot of variations and the game is very dynamic.