skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish I can take credit for this, Ben Chapman did all the work, I just happened to google it :)

And yeah, 100% agree on video quality, it is so much better than what you get from that potato sensor on MBP
as with most things, the Simpsons did it first...
I expected the insta-downvotes, but why is no one addressing the issue?

Because nobody is obliged to take your bait.
Carbon-neutral energy sources are already cheaper than fossil fuels. The problem is inertia.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesellsmoor/2019/06/15/renewa...
The space tug is there to change the trajectory of the other thing:

1. Tug gets in same position and velocity as its target, and docks.

2. Tug performs some kinda of burn to put both it and its target on the new trajectory.

3. Tug undocks and performs a burn to head off to where ever else it's needed.

If I understand correctly, it's really just a way to avoid putting engines and fuel tanks on things that don't need to change trajectory much.
TIL that “ hupomnemata” is the term for when you take personal notes on the important happenings in your life and periodically you review those notes. I’ve been noticing recently that folks in this community have been sharing software tools for this type of practice (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23101869) and I’m very much looking forward to this type of note taking method taking off.

I’ve had my own hupomnemata for 3 years now, ever since I started working remotely and myanager asked me to keep a log of my daily doings. It’s like having a 1 Second A Day app, but for your thoughts.

Also, this article was a good read but ended up fluffifying towards the end. For a good counter to the article’s thesis, give this a read: https://fs.blog/2012/08/aphorisms-and-the-commodification-of...
Actually that's right! The GUI, called "Presentation Manager", debuted with OS/2 1.1.
think of it this way, most knowledge workers are finally free from being constantly interrupted by people who just feel like stopping by to chat, or don't really know or care that you're focusing on something. Now, there's a tool to bring that back!

<sarcasm>It's only like 15 minutes to get back on task after every single interruption. That won't hamper productivity at all. Much more important for me to get instant answers and boredom reduction whenever i feel like it. </sarcasm>
> That should be obvious.

That's exactly what different cultures look like: it's absolutely not obvious in Eastern Europe where I live. We call each other out on our BS freely and directly, and almost nobody ever gets offended.

It is quite the cultural shock for many of us when we suddenly have to sugar-coat and positive-tone-first every work criticism we express. It can feel like a huge waste of time and energy while if somebody tells me "Dimi, your code in module X sucks!" and I'll just laugh and say "dude, I had only a day to finish that, sorry -- if you don't like it, talk to the boss to give me one more week on it and it's going to be swell".

So no, such things as the one you quoted aren't obvious at all for many. I'd even argue they are only prevalent in the USA but I've seen evidence in both directions so I can't claim anything absolute there.
They also lost a lot of credibility by making ridiculous announcements and fueling media fear mongering. Your dog can give you corona. No evidence of immunity. You can get it from touching things. You can’t get it from touching things. The six foot rule with no real basis. Masks don’t help. Masks do help. Now masks are symbolic. Etc.
Every time you file an H1B Visa, you pay something called a ACWIA Fee (“American Competitiveness and Workforce Improvement Act of 1998”). For employers who have between 1-25 full-time workers, the American Competitiveness and Workforce Improvement Act fee is $750. For employers with 26 or more full-time employees, the fee is $1,500. [1] This fee was established to fund training and education programs administered by the Department of Labor.

As of 2018, there were 420K active H1B visas in the USA. These people need to renew their visas every 3 years (most are Indians and they can never become PR in their lifetime). So that means 300-630 million USD is being added to this fund over a 3 year period.

It would be useful if he could find out where that money went and why isn't it being used to provide scholarships and training to disadvantaged students.

[1] https://www.immi-usa.com/h1b-visa-processing-fees-2016/
There is another way: Common Lisp and smalltalk both have resumable exceptions (although they’re more limited in smalltalk): in an interactive environment, if the exception isn’t handled, you drop into a debugger that lets you pick a recovery strategy. If something like this were standard on phones, you wouldn’t get stuck in a boot loop and Android could provide the option to enable dev mode or check the internet for a solution.
Visual basic had an "ON ERROR RESUME NEXT" feature, which would simply ignore all exceptions and keep running code.

Obviously, when one thing goes wrong in a program, frequently that leads to other things going wrong, but IMO thats better than crashing the whole process.

Sure, you might get unexpected output, but for many usecases, unexpected output is better than no output at all.
You don't even need to resort to commercial apps. A lot of older and niche software simply isn't in the repo.

In Windows land you can download a binary and it will almost certainly run, and 10 years of updates later it will still almost certainly still run.

In Linux land you'll probably have to compile it yourself. And 10 years from now you will probably have to make changes to C files manually because APIs have been changed in your dependencies and then compile it.
It's always fascinating that people are willing to consider geoengineering the climate of the entire planet instead of re-engineering the tax code. Tells us a lot about the system we're living in.

We can block the sun out or shoot ourselves to Mars, but apparently can't pass a law on the consumption of oil
Malaria Drug Promoted by Trump Did Not Prevent Covid Infections, Study Finds
It seems that all you'd need is a single try-catch around the high-level operation. I inherited a system where all the errors were swallowed and it was a nightmare. If something failed it was impossible to tell why.
If Earth was government by one big country, you'd have solid point, but most Americans would prefer that the next trillion dollar companies not all be based in India and China.

Also, what's best for the workers isn't necessarily what is best for society. Globalization is anti-worker, but it helps the consumer with cheaper prices, the company with extra profits, and developing countries afford what developed countries take for granted like antibiotics.
Mark Cerny: The road to Playstation 5
I'd love it if you gave it a try! I've already spent enough hours re-compiling ffmpeg to get nvenc support :)
One of the main reasons I started looking into Julia was because someone smarter than me in the DOE CSGF program was using it (specifically Miles Lubin, who was working on JuMP[1] at the time). I don't know if that's a good way to choose programming languages, but one way or another I'm definitely a Julia convert now. Come for the community, stay for the multiple dispatch!

[1] https://github.com/JuliaOpt/JuMP.jl
I believe it was this:

https://www.singlecare.com/prescription-discount-card/cvs

But it was literally the CVS pharmacist who had me sign up when I went in the first time.

And yes, the cost of drugs are staggering. :( I was super jealous of my Canadian friends, who get one free baby with their national insurance.

I was also jealous of my friend who works at Merck. They make a lot of the drugs, and provide them to their employees for free.
I read your parent as making fun of the often-used argument against the plethora of Linux distributions.

It's true that entering the Linux world is a bit like entering a shoe shop: why can't they just make two versions, home and professional? ;)
You need government to build an ISP in the first place. No private company would be able to negotiate with that many land owners to build out fiber on a large scale.

And once a company does build a network, absent government regulation requiring them to let other companies use it, the existing infrastructure is an enormous barrier to entry.
To your question yes, it’s well known and has been widely covered.

It’s always interesting to me that absence of knowledge of something is taken as a basis for believing that the thing is not happening.

Lowering not invented by Tesla, fair point. It seems I do the same thing too.
Hey Alex, it's as accurate as the data the senator's report, but we've noticed a lot of inaccuracies that are later corrected - maybe some haven't yet been corrected?

Two points on that specific trade: 1) stocks include an entire family's holdings, and the 3M position is held by her husband, 2) We have to estimate the value of ranges that are reported, and we've chosen to use the midpoint but the lower end may be more true (e.g. $5,000,001-$25,000,000 is estimated to be $15,000,000)

Here's the link to the original filing (have to accept terms first): https://efdsearch.senate.gov/search/view/ptr/0c76c4e6-afb1-4...
Correct. Good enough to the average eye to escape hiring someone.
Health care is another example. The government empowers the AMA to strictly control the number of seats in medical school, thereby restricting the supply of doctors and competition.

Licensing, permits, etc, are all ways to limit and prevent competition.
It does not look like it does: http://www.gphoto.org/proj/libgphoto2/support.php
Think I heard of this. You guys are in S2020 YC batch right?

If this was around in 2019, we’d have built the Portal crypto wallet fully serverless.
Also bandied about here in the UK as an accompaniment to that is: "Going to court?"
> The government is the tool used to suppress competition.

Oh? Network effects don't exist? Economies of scale don't exist? Dumping doesn't exist? Branding doesn't exist? The only kind of moat in existence is regulatory capture?

Regulatory capture is real, but it's one of many tools that suppress competition. I can think of one single solitary competitive analysis I've been party to where we decided it was the largest factor.

If only fixing anticompetitive markets were as easy as "drowning the government in a bathtub" we'd have solved this problem ages ago.
No, Theater mode (full-screen Youtube, other apps and games) and video playback in the browser are only available when the car is parked.
aren't their trades a lagging indicator anyhow? it just shows what they've already done so it doesn't seem like it would be helpful
Sure and an argument could be made that the specific things happening in this situation are wrong. That's not the argument that I replied to. I replied to a flippant argument that it is always wrong to charge different people different amounts.

I just went to what I considered a clear counterexample, though it does have problems that it is rare (though local coffee shops and bakeries, for example, fairly regularly will provide things for free to those in need within the store exactly like they would for regular customers).

Is it wrong for universities to provide financial aid to those in need?

Would it be wrong for a city to provide subsidized public transportation? subsidized school lunches?

You can come up with other harder to decide examples. A really good one would be whether it's wrong to charge tourists and locals different amounts. On the one side, this feels unfair to the tourists, why should they have to pay more? Generally, I lean to unfair things being wrong. But, the consequences of charging them the same are, to me, much worse, especially as the means of the two become further and further apart.
I'm characterizing the black bloc mostly by their tactics. Are you saying this guy blends into the group because he's dressing in black and destroying stuff, just like they do?

I think that we should publish short-sleeve mug photos of all these groups, because both anarchists and white supremacists often have identifying tattoos. Let there be light. The more transparency the better.

But unless I manage to convince myself that, somehow, police agent provocateurs or white supremacists were staging riots and destruction at Trump's inauguration (see video below[1], there are many others from those riots by mainstream media outlets), then my prior is currently that most of the people engaging in these tactics are the same people who have done it for the past 2-3 decades, which I've witnessed in person.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr0i6piW_ak

To clarify, are you suggesting that all this the riots, looting, and assaults are being done by agents provocateurs? Most of them? Some of them? Just that one autozone?
I thought it was going to say something like accelerate our orbit so we go a few cm/km (whatever) further to balance incoming energy with outgoing...

see: Mercury vs Neptune
The Case Is Building That Covid-19 Had a Lab Origin
Hacker News flag-kills front page article
I will take Windows's "sometimes there's very little you can do about it" against Linux's "compile it and all its dependencies (probably versions of those dependencies from the same time period, and possibly even their dependencies) from source" any day.
When Google tried to lay fiber in various municipalities, they failed because those municipalities would not permit it.
Wow. Pretty cool. Agree that it doesn't compare to high-performance native libs, but still a huge step up for the web and very professionally packaged!
Nope - no incubator currently. Maybe in the next batch.
What do some of those systems look like? Have any been tried on a large scale? Are they effective? (Honestly asking, I am trying to imagine something other than a police force - or that looks like a police force - that can effectively deal with crime)
This is what I found while I was trying to get GoPro to work with gphoto2[0] - would love to know if you do get it to work somehow.

[0]https://sourceforge.net/p/gphoto/mailman/message/36174298/
Tesla's Australian big battery recoups cost of construction in two years
It is reasonable to give him some benefit of the doubt and take him at his word that he made a mistake and, after reflection, considers the rhetoric too intense. A member of his Defense Science Board resigned [0] in the wake of the decision and one of the former Joint Chiefs [1] spoke out against his actions. I hope he is responding to these voices.

Edit: Link update

0. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/02/secretary...

1. https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/02/politics/mike-mullen-trump-ch...
Very interesting and kinda funny, that you ended up at Debian :) But I can understand that.

One thing that tells me is, that it is good to have multiple operating systems, open ones and proprietary ones. They can all learn from each other. And I long for the day where Windows will offer me an equal commandline experience like Linux and where Linux will give me a decent desktop environment, where "it just works". In some ways we're really close to that day. In many ways not so much.

The only thing which sometimes gets me is, when I think about all the time me and mankind in general did (and will) waste on learning the intricacies of operating systems. It's funny and sad at the same time :)
If we are going to talk fantasy engineering there's a perfectly good moon up there we could move into a total lunar ellipse anytime we need it, say a few days a year.

Of course by then we've mastered FTL so no need.
The civil war took place after the Mexican-American war and the establishment of the border with British Canada. What is the western US now was under US control. Some parts were states, some territories. There was military and political activity all over the region related to the civil war. My ancestors lived in Utah. They didn't go fight, but that doesn't mean they were entirely isolated from the events.
I wish we could invent some kind of haptic interface for touch screens. The flexibility of a touch screen is great but very hard to find things without looking.
There is a mention that CO2 in environment is one thing, and the temperature of the environment is another, though related.

I think Bill Gates has an opinion that we underestimate technological capabilities available for dealing with climate crisis.

Suppose we reduce solar power reaching the planet by 1%. Biosphere will get 1% reduction. How much temperature decrease we'll get and how soon?

Even with undesirable consequences another tool may be valuable to help us get where we want.
As the number of pharmacy companies has declined, there's been a huge creep upwards in the price of generic drugs. Even for non-prescription drugs. Price is no longer even vaguely related to production cost. Look at the price of antacid tablets (which are chalk, calcium carbonate) and cranberry pills (a very cheap product.)
Firefox 77.0.1 released to prevent DDoSing DoH DNS providers
Wrong how? COVID-19 didn't exist until late last year, so how could they have been wrong since 2009? Even if they were wrong, people can be wrong and change based on new information. That's not incompetence, that's learning.

But if not the "elites" (eye roll) then who? The "non-elites" running things now aren't doing a bang up job.
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“Phones are being blocked from taking videos or pictures”
> I am very glad I do not live in Minneapolis.

You know the protests are in all 50 states. Some of the flare-ups are due to responses to pent-up frustration from covid, but a lot are due to police riots/escalation. The rest of the protests are peaceful.

> But what are the second and third order effects of underfunded police departments?

Police departments, for many reasons, are the most over-funded [1]. NYPD went on strike and crime actually went down [2] for the month they didn't police.

The goal is not to "disband" but essentially rewrite the entire purpose of the department. Essentially put the policing function in receivership to be revived with new leadership.

[1] https://theappeal.org/spending-billions-on-policing-then-mil...

[2] https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-proacti...
I posted screenshots to show what I see. Tried in multiple browsers. It is only this story, everything else I can upvote.
Maria Cantwell has a very weird portfolio...
I probably should have said frameworks.

I've personally spent the most time with Yew: https://yew.rs/docs/

Seed appears to be popular: https://seed-rs.org/

And Moxie looks really interesting, is in active development: https://docs.rs/moxie/0.2.3/moxie/

This is a community source: https://www.arewewebyet.org/topics/webassembly/
I have a 46MP DSLR as my primary camera. All small sensor camera photos look awful in comparison especially at full zoom. If nobody views anything larger than their phone screens and Instagram feeds, that level of detail is irrelevant. The end user can't tell.
Body cameras would be good. This would also need to be joined with some policy and law changes, such as amending or abolishing qualified immunity and requiring personal liability insurance.

Along these lines, it would also be good to dissolve or restrict the police union. The union protects bad cops. The goals of the union are in conflict with the interests of the community in these situations. Even FDR was against public unions.

They aren't going to release many their policies or tactics for opsec and efficacy purposes.

A good book (content-wise, maybe not execution-wise) is "We Get Confessions".
> Do you guys actually pay these prices for this stuff, or is it only forgetful travellers who fall for it and end up paying through the nose because they have no other choice?

Usually you can get those cheaper in bulk, like at Costco, or at a pharmacy that your doctor works with, or you can get a discount by showing your insurance card.

But yes, sometimes when desperate, we pay that much too.

We also have these health savings plans where we get a debit card and can buy that stuff with pre-tax money, which is sort of like saving 10-40% depending on your tax bracket.

But yes, it sucks. When I go to other countries I try to stock up. You have better prices and stuff that we can't get here.
Again, I do not deny that governments have been used as a tool for monopolies to form, but it is dubious that they are the only tool used by bad actors, nor is regulatory capture the only method for anticompetitive behavior.
On our current carbon trajectory, we're committing future generations to interventions on this scale, or to catastrophe.

A better, but more expensive idea is to build a giant sunshade at Earth-Sun Lagrange 1, a gravitationally stable point well beyond the Moon's orbit. It could be constructed with raw materials from the Moon and near-Earth asteroids, and the logistical capacity is within the design goals of SpaceX's Starship fleet.

It's expensive, and it's a giant band-aid until planetary CO2 removal is feasible. But building it would make humanity a truly interplanetary species, and benefit all of humanity for about the same cost as a city on Mars.
The law of increasing concentration of capital is probably the most successful prediction made by Karl Marx until now. Just another sample:

"Since the 1950s, food retailing in the UK has undergone a massive shift from high streets, covered markets and district centres full of small independent specialist food shops; grocers, greengrocers, bakers and butchers, to the domination of food retailing by the "big four" supermarket chains; Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's and Morrisons. In 1960 small independent retailers had a 60% share of the food retail market, supermarkets about 20%. Now the small independents share is reduced to 6%, while the multiples' share has increased to 88%.7"
This is specifically for post-exposure prophylaxis, which means (but the paper is not yet out, the news came out too early) it does not help you in preventing infection after you've been exposed to an infected person.

Currently the questions on HCQ are two:

- Is it useful to prevent infection? According to the study, the answer is probably "no".

- Is it useful for early treatment of the disease? This is what another UMN trial (completed and under review, AFAICS) plus SOLIDARITY and RECOVERY are trying to find out. So the current answer is "we don't know yet".

EDIT: I've read the paper. The differences between the two groups are very small. There are some limitations highlighted by the authors (some cases were confirmed by symptoms, rather than PCR), but at least in a mostly younger (median age 40 years) population, prophylaxis with HCQ does not seem to be effective to prevent the disease.

Zinc supplementation does not seem to help, but the authors mention that there were confounding factors.

Now, does HCQ actually help with disease treatment? As I wrote before, this is still an unknown. Other trials are needed (and ongoing) to answer this question.