skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whether you agree with him or not, the key message of the article is that the complete lockdown will likely destroy many careers and people’s financial livelihood. Was and is it worth it?

My personal take is both yes and no. Yes, that some should be quarantined for safety such as older generations, but not a complete lockdown. There is to be a huge wake of financial devastation in the years to come.

Key questions I have:

- is everyone ok with increasing taxes 5% or 10% across the board to pay for the past few months?

- was it worth 10s of millions losing jobs?

- was it worth many people not being able to afford things like nest eggs or education for their children due to economic fallout?

- was it worth many local governments now being in financial ruin due to the past few months?
But if it was profitable then it is enough, you don't have to kill the competition. The problem is when a corporation puts a lot of money and copies you then surpasses you and on top of the ton of developers Chrome had they used shitty tactics like promoting their browser on the google home page and bundling it with other programs.

Opera is a good example. they did a lot of innovation a Google like tyrant is not needed.
I see. Given this clarification, I would argue that your original claim was misleading.
You can see that the record tests are being done with apoferitin or gaba. It all depends on the improved qualiry of direct detection cameras, filters, things like afis, fringe free imaging, ... The innovation goes insanely fast.
What's the best way to get in touch?
>> I don't know why people keep recommending this as a way to break into software dev

2 reasons IMHO:
1. It is a powerful albeit mostly imaginary image/story. A sort of American dream incarnated in SW. Everything is out there, open and within reach so anyone can do it and make it big.
2. A lot of the HN crowd are actually committers to high profile projects (this is the most popular hacker community after all) so they tend to judge by their own story or stories from their circle. I suspect though that the average dev is quite away from this paradigm.

Having tried a few times to just build kubernetes (by now I honestly believe that you need a server farm to do just that) I have to agree with the point you're making. The sheer magnitude and the speed that this behemoth is growing just makes me loose any incentive after a while. Not to mention that you have to actually antagonize with a lot of other noobs to get to these "good-first-issue" PR first. (Diclosure: I'm quite familiar with kube and an experienced dev).

And then there is the other thing. I'm afraid somewhere along the way we missed the point. OS is (was) about doing what you want with no strings attached. Something inside me is twitching in the thought that it has become a (difficult) way to get a nice job and that it is mostly controlled by big Co (which you are effectively begging to throw its eyes over you and your contributions). Dunno if I want to be part in this grind. I prefer doing my own stuff (and GPL them like the good old days).

My 0010 cents.
You are being a revisionist. The Surgeon General himself said that masks don't work.

https://twitter.com/Surgeon_General/status/12337257852839321...

Seriously people- STOP BUYING MASKS!

They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if healthcare providers can’t get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!
Yeah, as we get older, taking care of ourselves becomes more of an imperative. You can drive a car with 10,000 miles pretty aggressively, skip maintenance, etc. and it'll probably still drive great.

Doing the same with a car at 80,000 miles is outright dangerous. But if taken care of properly, older cars can drive just as great as newer ones, and sometimes a well-maintained older car can drive even better than a neglected newer car.
Bit of a bait with the title.
I wonder if any of the tech workers here cheering on the breaking up of Google or Facebook realize that the obscene FAANG compensation packages are only made possible by their massive profit margins, which are in turn enabled by their pseudo-monopoly status.

Monopolies are "bad" because they have the pricing power gouge their customers at the expense of boosting profits. But Google's and Facebook's customers are advertisers! When you support "breaking up tech monopolies" you are basically saying programmers should get paid less money so advertising companies can buy cheaper ads. What an utterly ridiculous and self-destructive thing for tech workers to advocate.
Specialist cops with machine guns were deployed at train stations and airports in case of a major terrorist attack after a couple of them took place across Europe, not to deal with "regular" crime, so the situation is very different.
Among other things, this is obvious BS:

> "There is no scientific evidence they are effective in reducing the risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission

Given that the coronavirus appeared only a few months ago, "no scientific evidence" doesn't mean much because very little research exists on the subject. Also, there is no harm in caution.

Interestingly, they keep suggesting social distancing, which doesn't have much scientific support, either. It's just one of those common sense things.
How does an ISP do ad injection? Where are the ads shown that originate from the ISP?
This is a straight up failure of governments of preventing mergers. If you let all these companies merge or acquire each other without restriction, this is in the inevitable result which ultimately harms the consumer and new entrants to the market.
No. Not hating on it because it's from Apple. Hating on it because they must have more information then they released in the repo.

Perhaps they truly don't have more information and released everything they have – and this is a "what if we were to come together".

But it doesn't feel immediately useful, and so I'm reluctant to believe that companies will bidirectionally contribute to this.
It's your browser's default styling. Only CSS I see is:

article {hyphens: auto;}
Must we always prefix advice with "may not apply to everyone"? I'm personally tired of reading it so often; anyone receiving advice should use some critical thinking and realize that not all (or even any) will apply to them.
Civilized societies are definitely able to produce more food, and shelter at scale using industrial techniques.
The HN title doesn't match the blogpost title ("Our Next Chapter") or the slug, and seems misleading.

It looks like they're dropping the 'Flyer' project, and moving forward with "Project Heaviside".
On most Android phones after 3 fails the fingerprint is disabled. So touch it 3 times with your pinky or any finger that you didn't registered and that will do the trick.
Care to explain more? Having been using Ruby for about 8 years and Crystal for about 4, they actually have an extremely similar syntax and are also semantically very close. To the point where many Ruby scripts are completely valid Crystal, or at the very least require only a few changes.

I do think that people trying to compare Crystal to Ruby kind of miss the point though. Ruby as an interpreted language, even optimized with JIT compilation, will never match the performance you can get out of a true compiled language. By the same token, Crystal as a compiled language will never be as quick to develop with since you have to wait for your code to compile after each change.
I tend to agree. If we're going to go meta, use downvotes as a sorting mechanism so the stuff the community thinks is most valuable winds up at the top, but remove the greying.
Make sure to try out Budget Cuts too, it is also set in 90s-style megacorp offices, but it's a stealth/action game.

Think the Matrix office escape scene, but a full game out of that. (And less crouch-walking, so it's knee-friendly!)
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar, regardless of how strongly you dislike or disagree with what someone else said. That comment being heavily downvoted is an indication that a lot of community members don't agree with it, but they didn't then proceed to break the site guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: it looks like you've been using this site primarily for political battle. We ban accounts that do that, because it destroys what HN is supposed to be for. Some political overlap [1] is inevitable and fine, as long as people stick to the guidelines, but when an account switches into the mode of primarily [2] doing political argument here, rather than curious conversation, we ban it. We have to, because fulfilling the mandate of this place requires that it not burn itself to a crisp [3].

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

[3] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Yes I have. Right in the thick of it. I've seen a lot of destruction at the hands of some very bad people.
By "open source orgs" I mean entities such as all the non-profits which host/support open source projects.

You're right about it being unhealthy, unfortunately. It might be for the best if it dies and is replaced by something else.
Indeed.

I use my Sony a7r II as a webcam on Linux using gphoto2 with v4l2loopback:

https://daniel.lawrence.lu/blog/y2020m03d31/

sudo modprobe v4l2loopback devices=1 exclusive_caps=1 card_label="pupcam"
gphoto2 --stdout --capture-movie | ffmpeg -i - -vcodec rawvideo -pix_fmt yuv420p -f v4l2 /dev/video0
Ask HN: Have you used a holding company, trust, or LLP to manage investments?
Have you, as part of a start-up exit, or for some other reason - had to use a holding company, trust, LLP or other legal structure to hold/manage an investment? Was it expensive? How do you manage it month to month and year to year?
Would anyone do differently in their shoes? It sounds like they volunteered for a task force, and would be facing individual liability with no assistance from their union if sued for any work resulting from staying on the task force.

If you volunteered to program the Foo system at your job, and your company announced that you would be individually liable for any losses anyone suffered for your further work on Foo system, would you keep volunteering to program Foo or would you look to work on other projects?
I'm not so sure that he could to be honest. From an advertising PoV I don't think they'd have much luck - I listened to Ben Shapiro's podcast for a few weeks out of curiosity a while back and his advertisers are really bottom of the barrel stuff. If you've ever checked out Breitbart then.. yea. I doubt you could sustain the server costs. TBH I doubt the Daily Wire would be profitable from its advertising alone, and they don't have nearly the server or personnel costs a huge social media network would. I don't think a Trump affiliated social network would do any better with advertisers.
I work with latest greatest Krios machines, and all the latest HW and I make SW for it. It's great job.
should be Kitty Hawk winds up Flyer
It's a bit sad how there aren't many places on the internet left that strive for the balance between no moderation (for example - various anonymous imageboards) and an extremely biased one (especially towards political opinions, eg. on Reddit and Twitter). In addition to that there are problems with bots made to influence public discussion. In my opinion, that's the main reason why you shouldn't base your opinions on the general public on content you see on the internet - it's relatively easy to manipulate any opinion in a way that it seems supported by a large (and loud) majority.
On Android you can configure it to automatically upload everything to Google Photos
Yeah, the situation isn't what most people would expect. Most gun deaths in the US are suicides and accidents. It's relatively rare that there's an actual gunfight.
Dang the influx of questions wonder how they decide what to answer.
For the longest time, Firefox and Chrome could move passwords from another browser that was on the machine. Maybe give it a shot?
Not sure about Bigfoot, but yes, this is a fairly well funded and organized insurgency. Most definitely.
Many sent people to hardware stores etc to buy masks.
Title is wrong; Kitty Hawk is not shutting down... they are winding down their "Flyer" project (for sub 250lb flight) and focusing on their "Heaviside" plane that is much more capable.
What are your suggestions? Genuinely curious as I find the iOS integration quite excellent, it lets me pick from 1Password directly on the password prompt.
> I don't accuse her of fallaciously implying that I am in complete control of my dental wellbeing.

Of course not. Your dentist does understand the difference between what you can do and can't do. But context matters. And I'd venture your insurance may hold a different idea about personal responsibility.

The same applies to a self-described silicon valley angel investor, founder, podcaster, author and general start-up helper who writes about "investing in mental wealth".
Why do so many people need to be so extreme? Zero is impossible.

If you want to make the development argument, then you should know that bugs are unavoidable. Even from the best developers in the world. No amount of code reviews, tests, or processes will change that.

Can you reduce? Of course. By a really large amount? Probably. But "zero" is an impossible goal. The statement "We can live in a world where the police don't kill people" just makes you look dumb and naive.

8cantwait.org at least has a realistic number backed by studies.
In my case, I doubled my lung capacity through swimming, which did wonders for my health.
> It doesn't need to.

Your interpretation is not compelling (as well as not relevant, due to the presence of the term).

When there is a question, entertained by a court and an emduring legal precedent, ipso facto there was a legal question. An assumption about what needs to be enumerated to exist, is the doctrine of strict constructionism.
Still plenty of career opportunities with them:

https://kittyhawk.aero/careers/
Camera Live works with non-canon models as well, there is at least partial support for some Fuji and nikon in the alpha releases and it looks like the maintainer intends to increase support even further. The heavy lifting appears to be done in libgphoto2 which supports a ton of different models.

In terms of “why don’t you just use ____”, I have scoured the web for any way to use a Nikon as a webcam on macOS (over usb, so without dropping $120 on a camlink which is sold out everywhere now anyway), and the only other thing that exists is an app called ecamm live which costs $20/month forever. For windows and even Linux there are other more affordable or open source options.
> Care to explain more? Having been using Ruby for about 8 years and Crystal for about 4, they actually have an extremely similar syntax and are also semantically very close. To the point where many Ruby scripts are completely valid Crystal, or at the very least require only a few changes.

It doesn't have Kernel#eval. It doesn't have Kernel#send. It doesn't have Kernel#binding. It doesn't has Proc#binding. It doesn't have Kernel#instance_variable_get/set. It doesn't have Binding#local_variable_get/set. It doesn't have BasicObject#method_missing. It doesn't have BasicObject#instance_eval. I could go on. All these methods have extreme far reaching non-local implications on the semantic model and practical performance, and specifically defeat many conventional optimisations.

> To the point where many Ruby scripts are completely valid Crystal, or at the very least require only a few changes.

You can't even load most of the Ruby standard library without these methods!

And it doesn't matter if you use them or not. They're still there and they impact semantics and performance because the fact that you can use them affects performance. You can't even speculate against most of them as they're so non-local.

Rails and the rest of the mainstream Ruby ecosystem fundamentally depend on them.

> and are also semantically very close

Sorry I super disagree with this. They look similar. Dig into it just below the surface? Start to model it formally? Not at all. Method dispatch, which is everything in Ruby, isn't even close.

(Again, Crystal's great as its own thing, it's just not similar to Ruby's semantics. If you don't need Ruby's semantics or you can replicate them at compile time then maybe it's perfect for you.)
> While the US has a rich history of large scale demonstrations, especially in the past few years, they have largely been premeditated and by activist organizations that collaborate with local governments well in advanced.

Do you have a source for this? I'm not aware of any widespread protests that are coordinated by activists AND the government.
My thought would be that it might be funded by his campaign, similar to his other campaign apps and website. Completely hypothetical of course but they could either just make it owned by the campaign, or stand it up at arms-length and have it funded by dark money donations from trump supporting billionaires, kind of like a super PAC? Or just have the campaign buy millions of ads itself on the site to fund server costs.
I can think of nothing that epitomizes privilege more than living in a society with free speech, and being so willing to embrace censorship of ideas, even when they are clearly dumb or even dangerous.

Democracy was a dangerous idea one time.

I get your exhaustion. My dad succumbs to dumb shit all the time. A lot of it is on the mainstream corporate news channels.

Currently, there is some kind of information you and I are both succumbing to coming from "legitimate" sources that you, me, and the authorities trust. The Iraq WMD fiasco was being reported by the New York Times.

How arrogant is it to think that you are the enlightened one who doesn't get misinformed, while everyone else are ignorant rubes who have to be spoon fed curated information?

Was your original conception of the Covid 19 death rate accurate? Mine wasn't. I was dramatically overestimating it. So were the news sources I was reading. If only somebody could have censored them before I was misinformed like the ignorant rube I am. Where were you to protect me?
Someone is going to be busy...

Chariots of the Gods [1]
The GMO Deception [2]
How to End the Autism Epidemic [3]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Chariots-Gods-Erich-von-Daniken-ebook...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/GMO-Deception-Corporations-Government...

[3] https://www.amazon.com/How-Autism-Epidemic-J-B-Handley/dp/16...
I was born in Asia and grew up there, so sorry I am not fully qualified to answer this, nor do I understand. I did grew up as a racial minority and experienced racial and religious persecution. I can comment on those, but regarding default-white, default-male, default-affluent, I have no comments. Maybe my fellow countrymen/women can vouch.

So, go back to the original topic. The topic is about you wanting to keep your mental health/wealth, sanity, inner peace. In this case, you want to avoid trouble as much as possible. People will bother you for everything, anything. You want to minimize this. In Asia, we prefer to keep the harmony, so to speak. Not saying it is perfect, no system or worldview in this world is perfect. Trade-offs everywhere. When you want to keep the harmony, then individual and group rights already take the second place compared to the majority.

In case you want to challenge the default status quo, the mainstream, then you can no longer keep your mental health healthy. It is already a warfare in your mind. It is a trade off. No war can be won without price. By going against the default status quo, you already signed yourself up to the battlefield, starting from your mind, and then, your body. For people who are oppressed, they never had peace from the start anywhere anytime, so asking this question for them is already a privilege, because they are already at war.

But the topic here is not about that, but about keeping your mental health/wealth. Mental health and wealth is like peace, it is a luxury. Those who have the chance to read the article above and relate to it, are living in luxury already. Peace after all, is the privilege of the victors.
This is Reddit so probably by upvotes?
I'm not "redefining" the online advertising market. If anything, practically every single digital marketer in existence considers, for example, FB ads to be very different from Google ads and serve very different purposes. It's you who have (oddly, IMO) redefined the the market by lumping everything together.

And look at your "other large players in the vacation rental market". Perhaps unsurprisingly some of those travel brands are among the largest spenders on AdWords. See Expedia (parent co of VRBO) Chairman Barry Diller's comments on this
exact topic: https://skift.com/2018/10/16/expedias-barry-diller-calls-on-...

If you look at search marketing, which is unique in its ability to target users at the moment of intent, let's look at the players. Google is at over 90% and everyone else is peanuts. I would agree with you that there is overlap with Amazon here, but only in a subset of products (i.e. primarily physical, deliverable products, not services).
My first computer was a 286. My dad brought it home as used salvage in 1987 because the office was going to throw it away. I don’t remember how much memory it had but it had two massive 20mb hard drives. I remember the first game I bought for it was Kings Quest 4. I also remember Windows 3.1 filling one of those drives to capacity.
We webex pretty often.
"So, we should have the cops take out liability insurance and pay damages?"

No, they should get proper training and be held to professional standards.
That will be terribly difficult given that payment processors are also on this ideological censorship train. I think there might be a valid argument as to a single seller refusing to sell something, but once you get three credit card companies towing that line, that's pretty much unavoidable unless you go to crypto (which eliminates most customers).
I remember reading this article when it came out in 2013.

When I re-read it today, I finally saw all the obstacles and discrimination that Ellen Pao and Buddy Fletcher had to overcome just to be in a position to be embroiled in scandals like this.
Had terrible quality sleep for years. Snored, and had various other problems. But I am young and my BMI is 18 so I got brushed off by sleep lab after one night of testing didn't show apneas. Eventually figured out it was all due to my nose which barely functioned after healing crooked from an accident as a child. Septoplasty changed my life.
You know you _say_ that, but during that timespan their annual net income rose from $5B to $22B, and global revenue for the same timespan from $28B to $86B. Eighty-six billion dollars. Can you really call them an also-ran, or Ballmer an unqualified failure?

Yes, they missed the mobile boat and were late to IaaS/PaaS, but to dismiss them for nearly two decades is perhaps unfair.

IMO their biggest failure was losing their developer base. DevDiv really seems to have fallen asleep at the wheel - or to have been neutralized by the OS group.

[0]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/267805/microsofts-global...
Ha! If you're anywhere near Chicago, I might be able to get you on a ride along when things quiet down. It'll change you...
The first sentence is true (and I can't believe how far down this thread it first appeared), but nobody was advocating abolishing server side hashing as well.

Basically, hashing on the client does absolutely nothing for the security of the transfer or storage of the password. Whatever the client passes to the server, whether it's hashed or not, is effectively their password, and intercepting that (again, whether hashed or not) would give an attacker the actual credentials of the user.
Could fitful sleep be a symptom of overtraining?