skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cloudflare said they filtered EDNS subnet passthrough. They did provide alternative location data, though. Given that Cloudflare has _tons_ of data centers, in all parts of the world, this granularity seems good enough for what Archive.is required.

> EDNS IP subsets can be used to better geolocate responses for services that use DNS-based load balancing. However, 1.1.1.1 is delivered across Cloudflare’s entire network that today spans 180 cities. We publish the geolocation information of the IPs that we query from. That allows any network with less density than we have to properly return DNS-targeted results. For a relatively small operator like archive.is, there would be no loss in geo load balancing fidelity relying on the location of the Cloudflare PoP in lieu of EDNS IP subnets.

> We are working with the small number of networks with a higher network/ISP density than Cloudflare (e.g., Netflix, Facebook, Google/YouTube) to come up with an EDNS IP Subnet alternative that gets them the information they need for geolocation targeting without risking user privacy and security. Those conversations have been productive and are ongoing. If archive.is has suggestions along these lines, we’d be happy to consider them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828702
Ronald Reagan’s CIA Briefer on Russiagate and the New China Threat
Ask HN: What tools/apps/etc. are out there in support of antiracism?
This has been touched on in the last few days:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23394972: Ask HN: How can a programmer help with current events?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23388597: Ask HN: Technologies to help prevent abuse of power?

I am re-asking because there isn't a lot of information. I'm aware of the ACLU's Mobile Justice app (https://www.aclu.org/issues/criminal-law-reform/reforming-police/aclu-apps-record-police-conduct). What else is out there?

I'm specifically interested in whether or not tools exist to help hold police accountable. I'm interested in developing something similar to the Mobile Justice app. Similar to the idea of sousveillance, I think there is an opportunity to catalog instances of injustice in order to hold individuals accountable. I am imagining an app that has a real-time, location-aware feed of media references to such instances to corroborate and publicize, potentially supported by facial recognition of offenders to gather evidence of repeat abuse.
The cheaper ones don't come with a timer, do they? Besides, it's not that I haven't found a solution (Magic Lantern lets me set the speed to however long I want), but I dislike the gesture. It's obvious that they're gating features so they can release them in the next model.
The difference is in the times of the French revolution, the elite lived only mere miles away from the angry poor, within striking reach of their wrath whereas now the elites can move to super safe heavens, isolated from the mess they created and suffer no consequences from the angry masses.

Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffett can move with their families to some private island in the Caribbean and wait while things cool down while running their gigs remotely.

The French elite had no such luxury.
In almost all USA industries, there is increasing amount of consolidation. The top 4 companies' in almost any industry has a larger share of the total market: https://www.economist.com/briefing/2016/03/26/too-much-of-a-...

Some consolidation is natural, but a huge part is caused by mergers and acquisitions (M&A) fulled by Private Equity. The M&A benefits the shareholders of participating companies at the expense of consumers, employees, and other companies.
But there’s only a handful of buttons, no? Unless I’m missing something. Might be a dumb question but the Apollo control panels had hundreds. How would you manually fly the Dragon in the event of a screen failure? I’m assuming this question was answered somewhere, since the thing was certified to fly, but I must’ve missed it.

Edit: Is the answer simply "it doesn't, it gets flown remotely from Mission Control"?
Are Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, or the military, known for their cost-effectiveness or wise operation?
Hydroxychloroquine is a really frustrating topic as there's so much bad science involved. The early studies were terrible and didn't give any useful information. And now we have more studies in prestigious journals that appear to be at least problematic, if not based on outright faked data. And on top of that are the politics, endorsing and promoting it before any substantial data could be collected.

We still have no idea whether hydroxychloroquine works or not for COVID19. And the hype is rather harmful and misleading as even if it did work, it is exceedingly unlikely to be a game changer but a small incremental improvement.

This is also certainly a failure of peer review. Though that has always been rather weak for cases of outright fraud and scientific misconduct, it still relies on the researchers to be honest about the data they represent.
> A drug on the market for 60 years (and over the counter in many countries) is “extremely dangerous”?

Yes it can, if used in a different context. You can't generalize stuff in medicine. There are hundreds of factors in play: co-morbidities, genetics, interacting drugs, timelines, dosages, dose delivery forms, routes of entry, previous surgical procedures, demographics...
I would suspect it's location-based.

In Oakland or San Francisco you wouldn't get a passing glance. Even if you upped your tattoo game.
Zoom is popular because it can support 50+ person conferences. P2P really can’t support that many users.
> 40% of NYC's homeless population is LGBT

Source
If I can help it, I'll never everrrrrr consult again.

I had one positive consulting relationship. It was a longer-term project. I was the sole consultant and I was able to work closely with my client and explain tradeoffs between short-term deliverables and longer-term technical debt. My client was also instrumental of course and brought a very understanding approach to the table, and was able to understand the technical side of things.

But of course, that is almost never the case. Even with good intentions, that approach never seems to scale up. Not even a little bit.

Some consulting shops do try to bring a similar approach to the table in a scaled-up way. My current employer hired one of the better-known Ruby shops for a long-term engagement.

On the bright side, I would say that the consulting shop did try their best to manage technical debt and bring a good engineering approach. On the flip side, I would say that the end results were decidedly mixed.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-03/france-se...

https://www.reuters.com/article/brief-the-lancet-editors-iss...

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/may/28/questions-ra...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-lancets-politicized-science...
I’m doubtful of this claim. I’m not an expert but I hear about vortex optical components at lunchtime conversation, and from what I understand these effects have only become exploited in the past 20 years or so. I'm open to correction or further context about this.

See also the first paragraphs of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_vortex, which distinguish between circular polarization from spin angular momentum, vs. orbital angular momentum which is modified by these vortex components.
Stories like this (this one included) keep getting flagged. I appreciate that HN's policy is to generally stay away from politics, but this is not a political act. This is a despotic act. Trump has abandoned the decorum and procedure of politics, and we can no longer treat this as a "politics" -- this is an emergent issue of human rights. This is a direct and brutal attack on our right to peacefully assemble, on our right to free speech, on our right to a free press, on our right to life and liberty.
Note how current "cost effective" supply chains have collapsed significantly [1]. Survival of certain supply chains, distribution networks, and institutions is preferable over a few percentages in cost savings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security ("National security or national defence is the security and defence of a nation state, including its citizens, economy, and institutions, which is regarded as a duty of government.")

Emphasis mine. Conversely, "efficient" businesses like Hertz (who ran at max capital leverage) are realizing the cost of doing so (including Carl Icahn, who lost $1.6 billion in the process). I think it's a bit silly to assume all private businesses are more efficiently operated than government (and does a grave disservice to hard working civil servants), but I'm happy to reply with bankruptcy after bankruptcy to prove my point [2].

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=us+supply+chain+failure+covi... (Google search: US Supply Chain Failure Covid)

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/hanktucker/2020/05/03/coronavir... (Coronavirus Bankruptcy Tracker: These Major Companies Are Failing Amid The Shutdown)
Wanted: A phone and SMS device that easily syncs photos, messages and contacts and has an excellent camera (iPhone or Pixel hobbyist level). No apps, spyware, built-in Google ties. Just shoot photos and be in touch when needed.

Kickstarter, anyone?

I tried the Light Phone II. It is okay, but missing a camera was too much of a hurdle.
You know what would help. More alternatives. What if Instagram, WhatsApp, Youtube, etc were all still independent or there was interopability between Google Circles, Facebook and whatever else?

Watch how fast Facebook would adapt and be monitoring news and trying to conform to the public opinion if they felt they needed to compete.

The only reason we're in this position is because a reduction in real competition in the market and the only power they fear is that of democratically elected representatives.

Elizabeth Warren had this right. Break up the platforms, and force social networks to allow a download of your data in a json format and move to a seperate service. Easily. That is the ONLY regulation we need.
> Where do you draw the line between my living room, where I'm free to regulate who my visitors are and what those visitors can say, and Facebook?

Unless you have 22% of the worlds population passing through your living room this is a pretty poor analogy.

Maybe the town square is more apt.
> you need to start from the basics by explaining the very core of your society.

Well, that's task-dependent. For healthcare billing software, certainly.

But if you're hiring someone to implement the SVG spec in a web browser? Bézier curves are the same no matter where you are in the world.

Indeed, if knowledge of culture was the key wouldn't comparative advantage lead to low-cost-of-living countries' developers dominating technically pure, well-specified work like web browser design?
Why forget about RMS's posts? You know people can be angry about multiple people at once. And many people will be angry at people in their own communities more than others - so if you're following a bunch of tech folk, yes, they're going to focus on the tech folk. And if you follow a bunch of British people with an interest in the royalty, they're going to focus on Prince Andrew and largely ignore RMS - which many did.
That /is/ the Wakefield study.
Another thing is that a lot of people do not want to be remote and enjoy being part of a group they can actually meet.

For example I find pinging off ideas off each other and explaining things much harder on remote due to a lack of a whiteboard or a notepad. No collaboration tool I tried was even remotely a good substitue.

I like the conversations I can have while taking a coffee. And going out for drinks with colleagues from time to time.

I hate working alone in my bubble all day long. I like having the possibility to do so from time to time, but not all the time.

As it was already mentioned in other comments time proximity is important. Managing things like pull requests or user tests over large time differences makes thing considerably slower.

The whole premise of full remote is only valid for a subset of projects and team compositions.
Everything is a TOS violation. The main idea is that with subjective standards you are able to manipulate the actions as you like.
We understand the need for strict scrutiny in 1A restrictions. No trolling by yelling "Fire!" in a crowded non-combusting, crowded theater.

So the question of whether the 'Public interests exception' should apply for a website where any reasonable user knows the content is dodgy on its best day.
Isn't the fact that his stance is un-summarizable kind of the point?

If he had an actual position or policy, it wouldn't take 30 minutes of clawing at the edges to express it. This is the entire strategy. The invisible line can just be moved a little bit every time and we never have to cross it.
at the bottom of the article they mention model rockets and the three levels of certification. Each level grants you access to more powerful motors and therefore higher or larger flights. The hobby is self-goverend by NAR and Tripoli who manage level certification.

It's a fun hobby, although large motors get pricey. The largest can be 4-5 figures per launch. However, you can get very advanced and do things you wouldn't typically expect in a hobby.

Here's a two stage ( 4" diameter booster, 3" diameter sustainer ) reaching over 200k feet in altitude. The Karman Line is about 330k feet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0imcpdLdB8
Guix-HPC: Faster relocatable packs with Fakechroot
There is a truckload of evidence unless you have closed your eyes to it. Anyways many national medical boards of south-asia have adopted HCQ formally.

https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2020/may/29/icmr-wri...

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/hcq-and-ppe-used-t...
Galaxy S20 comes with 1TB expandable storage. With 20MB RAW images you can store 50000 images. Also you can always pay for cloud storage, you can get 2TB for $10 a month.
You're making a lot of assumptions that this is a win for the employees. Besides the fact that the employees in question were quite literally being given the choice of "come work for us or lose your job", there's things like the quote below from TFA:

'Patrick Meade, a senior engineer at Star Theory, said he turned down the job offer from Take-Two. He declined to discuss the events in detail but said he didn’t want to work for a big company where he wouldn’t have the same degree of influence or financial benefits if the game were a hit. “I was at a small studio, where the work I did had a massive impact on our success,” Meade said. “When I see myself at any large corporation, that is fundamentally not true."'

It's not all about wages. (But even if it were, notice that he chose not to take the offer because of the lesser profit sharing. So it's not just a net win, even for those that did take the offer.)
Apple must face U.S. shareholder lawsuit over CEO's iPhone, China comments
The envelope is a little bigger, but it's still hard. Try working with facial tattoos, or (if you are male), wearing anklets to work. Or being polyamorous in a lot of contexts. I could go on...

At enormous costs, gay people and others have widened certain channels a little, but the mindset of conformity still drives us -- so thoroughly that it was even hard to think of examples, a second ago. We are socialized in childhood, and later from our teenage peers, not to step outside the norms for our communities.

We fear to be different, and we fear the different, and it isn't even clear why. Why should I care if someone else is walking around naked? Why should I care if my coworker has tattoos? Or a thousand other things.
That may be true, but as someone who has been actually poor before, and have also known many people who were born into money, I don't think rich people really understand what it means to be poor, hopeless, and also discriminated against.
Just a few weeks ago I was lambasted on HN for saying these Lancet studies shouldn’t be relied on. I was told that I am not an expert and that I should be humble and just accept the science. Ha.
> * You will find plenty of marketing experts all around you, but none of them will work for a commission, which speaks to how much trust they really place in their "skills".

Your product is unproven. How do I know you can convert and retain a qualified audience?
What about an iPhone with no apps on it? (not trying to be snarky, but it seems like it does the things you want).
> Some US states have blocked pharmacies from filling doctor prescriptions for HCQ, instead of advocating for increased manufacturing capacity within US factories that make HCQ/ingredients.

This was done because of a run on HCQ by people who had no business prescribing it such as dentists and others who were abusing their prescribing authority. Meanwhile patients who have depended on HCQ for decades were facing withdrawal because the drug supply had suddenly choked up.

> Meanwhile, we boosted ventilator production, where hospitals received $30K for each late-stage patient placed on ventilation, with only 20% chance of survival.

The 20% chance of survival on a ventilator was a clickbait and has been proven false. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/05/15/8567680...

> The mortality rate among 165 COVID-19 patients placed on a ventilator at Emory was just under 30%. And unlike the New York study, only a few patients were still on a ventilator when the data were collected.

It’s almost the exact opposite - 70-80% of vented patients are surviving.

Meanwhile HCQ/zinc therapy has not shown any benefit despite a rush across the world to try and use it.
The article is junk. Nebulous blather ... Something which software unlike math, physics, Chem, EE, Chem Eng I think tolerates too much.

We could restate title as: "I'm _x_ and won't teach my kids to _x_ and niether should you"

where x is anything more complicated that cleaning a room:

- gardening

- writing a paper

- interpersonal skills

- etc
Ask HN: Software Unionization
It has been my observation that there exists a division between management and engineering in both smaller and larger software companies. As a consequence, management in many software companies has become less about the advocacy of employees and more about controlling people's free will.

Are there any existing software engineers unions?
Has there been any past attempts at creating them? If so, do we know why they failed?

To be clear about what a "union" is in this context:

- Hours should be within "reason" (agreed upon during hiring and salary negotiations) and an employee should not be required to work beyond them, but should be permitted if they so choose of their free volition.

- Wrongful terminations would receive legal support from the community which prevented larger companies from abusing the legal system to prevent justice.

- Hostile work environments for all would be handled through cooperation between union mediators and company advocates.

There would of course be dues, but hopefully the very existence of a union would be enough to dissuade some of these companies from acting ruthlessly.

Any thoughts are welcome, even if they believe this to be a bad idea.
It's a structural issue. Corporations are designed to extract as much value for shareholders as possible, paying employees as little as possible is a part of that. That includes all levels of compensation, such as awarding shares to employees.
You can't just "use AI" to solve record linkage and dataset cleanup; we deal with just data from the US and even then it's a messy problem; cannot imagine how much messier it can be for multinational datasets. There are many companies (including where I work now) which have a lot of data in this regard but you don't hear too much from them because doing any analyses with these large-scale messy datasets is a hard unsolved problem.
The Science and History of Color
Domain names in a dutch auction for 168 hours
For me it was when I saw the strange structure definition and did a double take.
Depends on the environment. If RAM or CPU time is at a premium then no. But that's so rarely an issue these days, especially if you separate UI from the main processing thread.
Yes, but his reply was that they cache DNS results, so someone querying from France would get the cached result, which might be in the US. Seems a bit counterintuitive, but I'm just relaying what he told me.
Best news I've seen all week. Keep it up! And please keep us posted.
I don't think anyone believes that "owning land entitles you to eternally increasing prices".

I think most people accept that owning land/buildings and renting it out to other people is an appropriate type of economic transaction to allow.
OBS (macOS) Virtual Camera
You don't manually fly it? The physical buttons correspond to pre-programmed procedures/abort modes.

They use a touchscreen so they don't need to have hundreds of buttons for things that aren't necessary to have around all the time.
I'd argue the underlying cause is poor wealth distribution. There's lots of demand for labour, just not from people/companies/industries that have the means to the pay for it.
> what’s missing The other two hundred instructions, the runtime, OOP type system, and a few other things.

Also bytecode verifier
I'm very much into photography and I struggle from this whenever I stray outside of my comfort zone, wildlife.
Developers building products that noone uses is the status quo.

There are likely hundreds of thousands, or millions of developer built apps with no users.

Just because a product was built does not meet the only thing left is marketing.

In fact, I would rather have great marketing than a great product.

A lousy product with revenue can be iterated on more quickly than a great product with no revenue.
There may not be an analytic solution, but solving the n-body problem numerically with newtonian physics isn't a difficult thing to do...it's simple enough that it has been used as a benchmark for doing computations:
https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
What happens when a national medical board of the world's most densely populated nation adopts HCQ formally as a preventive and treatment measure for Covid 19 ?

According to American media, there should be hundreds of thousands of people dying of HCQ by now...

https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2020/may/29/icmr-wri...

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/hcq-and-ppe-used-t...
We are trying an approach where for every new hire we must get a diverse set of qualified candidates for the last round of interviews.

The idea is that we don't want our employees to feel they were hired because of their looks, but because they were the best candidate for the job. At the same time, we hope that as a company, this will make us work harder to ensure equal opportunity for underrepresented groups.

What's been challenging is to figure out how should we set the bar to measure our performance on this. Ultimately, it comes down to the representation among our employees, but I believe that setting specific goals earlier in the hiring process would help us get there.
Right. Straight-up headshot type portraits are special in the sense that you don't really want a background there. But you don't need short DoF to remove the background -- you can also shoot against a flat surface.
For a rangefinder style, there's the Fuji X100 series (the latest being X100V). They are not really pocketable though.
But for a big sensor compact that is truly pocketable, nothing beats the Ricoh GR series with its APS-C sensor (the latest being the Ricoh GR III). The older model (GR II) can still be had for under $400, which is a screaming value.