skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Until recently "to Skype" was the generic term for video calling among most of my friends and family. Given that nobody has actually used Skype for that purpose for 5 years, this crisis has accelerated it's decline and Zoom/WhatsApp/facetime is creeping into our vernacular.

So one crappy clunky video conferencing verb being replaced by another.
I cannot conceive of any situation that would make a 64 character password necessary. Even 256 bits of random data can be encoded into less than 42 printable ASCII characters.

And even that is twice as much as would ever seem necessary.
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I think the bottom line is that he could never really make Reddit work as a site for useful conversations, NOR as successful social media company.

I think this November is going to illustrate just how much of an echo chamber it is, and it will go the way of so many other failed sites before it.
I tried Cascable with my Fuji X-T30. Works well for wireless connection but not for wired.

Another option is Ecamm Live: https://www.ecamm.com/

Camera Live does work with other cameras. Nikon is coming in the next release. See github issues.
Being a police officer is a very high paying job for someone without an education. With overtime, the average pay in many departments is over $100k. For people without an education, who get a massive amount of job perks. The problem is that the job has too much power, which attracts violent, power hungry individuals. Take away their power, and you'll have a police force that desires to make their community a better place.
amazon has already been banning anti vax books for a little while
And yet the protests in London turned violent and attacked the police:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/03/george-floyd-pro...

Either they are not perceived as well as you think or these protests aren't about what they claim to be about.
In the German version that's the Schadenfreude menu.
Aha, nice tip. I have a 1DX I was hoping to try it out on, has stacks of ports but I didn’t understand why it was too old. I’ll give it a shot.
And you can build a tent quick, cheap and fast. Getting customers to tell you want they really need is the silver bullet.
I am really worried about Chinese cyberwarfare while we keep shooting ourselves in the foot. Just look at how easy it is to spy on millions of americans with things like TikTok and Huawei. Google could be a lot worse at the size it currently is. I view Google as almost a kind of university that tries to enhance technology by "poaching" good people and in some sense, allowing them to work on whatever they want while guaranteeing them a very good wage. Aside from the standard Chrome, Android-tier projects, let's think about all the stuff that they've done that has been pretty radically useful. I'm not talking about products, they do a terrible job with maintenance and shutting down products is very infuriating to any user. But it is almost like research projects. So let's just focus on technical contributions to the software engineering field.

Golang, gRPC, Protobuf, Kubernetes, Tensorflow, WebRTC, QUIC protocol, very interesting innovations in camera technology such as NightSight, Google Maps which has changed my life completely. Furthermore, millions of contributions to open source projects and protocols, so many security improvements by the Security & Cryptography teams that I have on occasion worked with.

Personally I wouldn't work for Google because I don't enjoy the kind of atmosphere where there's no real "mission". But doing this much innovation is impossible unless you are funded by the government, or have a money printing business.
I really don't understand why they are writing their own WineD3D Vulkan backend instead of adopting DXVK.
I use it with 1password 4. Works like a charm.
I am using crossover (but because of Catalina and the 64bit thing ;previously using wine) for Mathematica. No issues at all.

I use it for ODE (numericsal and symbolic) and some integration, etc. No fancy stuff but no bugs whatsoever.
I agree, in general, that clear expectations lead to better outcomes. But what you've described is dystopian:

- curfew: a curfew is an extreme tactic that deprives many people of their civil liberties without due process. There are legitimate reasons for curfews to exist at times, but dispersing peaceful protest is not one of them.

- use of tear gas: this is (quite literally) prohibited under the Geneva protocol even in times of war.

- "difficult for police to determine": this suggests that because the job is difficult, the police have leeway to indiscriminately punish whomever is nearby.

Again - I understand why you'd make the argument you made, but the fatal flaw is that it is founded on an utterly dystopian premise. The response from police across the country is unjustified, and a rank violation of everything that Americans supposedly hold dear.
Yes.

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> agree that the reason healthcare workers wear masks is to prevent airborne infections, especially of SARS-Cov-2.

There's a big difference between a healthcare professional spending time in close contact with symptomatic people and a member of the public spending time walking round a supermarket.

And healthcare professionals do not "wear masks", they wear a full set of PPE including gloves, gown, mask, eye protection. They also have access to running water and soap, and alcohol hand gels.

> Peer reviewed studies, or lack thereof, supporting the 6 ft "social" distancing protocol

No, we have studies supporting 1 metre distancing and recommending 2 meter distancing. The evidence for this distancing is much stronger than the evidence for mask wearing.
Right now in my house I have the choice of 3 different cell networks, 2 broadband providers and coming some extra things like satellites. All of them can be swapped in or out without much trouble. I can move houses or even countries to get different options

My email and search though is just a few options and realistically most of my family and friends just one option. Even if I move to the other side of the world that option is still the same.
And yet the protests in London turned violent and attacked the police:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/03/george-floyd-pro...

Either the metropolitan police are not perceived as well as you think they are or these protests aren't about what they claim to be about.
I hadn't read that article before, but I just read it now - I don't see anything in it to indicate that Pao took advantage of situations (at least in the sense of unfairly taking advantage of situations - certainly there's a lot of advantage in the situation of being a VC and this profile paints her as ambitious and driven, but I think it's not what you meant). There's a fair bit in the article to paint Buddy Fletcher as not a great person - money that apparently disappeared from his fund, for instance, and the independent auditor not being that independent. But the article also goes to some length to argue that he tried to convince his wife not to sue KPCB.

This is potentially veering off-topic, but I think it's entirely reasonable for imperfect people to be champions of women in tech or whatever other causes. I know very few perfect people. (In fact one of the common reactions I heard to Susan Fowler's "very strange year" post is how lucky she was that her own behavior was blameless through that year - certainly all the forces that conspired against her had been at Uber and other companies for years before that, but nobody was able to tell a story where they were so clearly faultless, because, well, everyone's human, and sometimes you misjudge things, get into fights where you're in the wrong, etc.)

And in particular I think it's entirely possible - and entirely consistent with the details in the Vanity Fair story - for an imperfect person to have been quite factually sexually harassed and to have suffered for it.
Website dedicated to abolishing qualified immunity
The 82nd airborne division will be out of fuel, ammunition, and food within a week after dropping anywhere in the world, without an international logistics network of shipping to support them, and all the baggage that comes with keeping that network operating.

Look at the massive logistics effort that was necessary to invade and occupy Iraq, a country one-tenth the size of the US, where half the opposition deserted before a shot was fired, half of the rest deserted after the first shots were fired, and where half of its neighbours have US or NATO military bases in them.

No other country in the world is capable of doing this across an ocean.
I doubt very seriously that Amazon was running on Windows servers so I fail to see the relevance of Visual Studio. Even so, the first version of Visual C was released in 1993 (https://winworldpc.com/product/visual-c/1x).

C is not a new language. People have been writing large well structured C code for decades. The first C linter was written in 1978. Even PC-Lint was written for C in 1985.
Do you see a reason to forbid it?
Maybe, maybe not, but it would be a very painful way to do it (particularly since the average person has debt, owns some assets, but doesn't park huge sums in savings accounts or cash under the mattress like prior generations did).

The general proposal to alleviate this problem is to increase the supply of assets. This means investing in the common good. Basic research to create whole new types of things to build, infrastructure to enable businesses to reach new markets, and workforce development so businesses have more effective employees.

This is also often coupled with renewed enforcement of antitrust legislation, to give new players some oxygen and to discourage business models that rely on unprofitable scaling in order to reap monopolistic rewards. Then there is the side benefit that smaller companies have a harder time creating the conditions for regulatory capture.
The school, the boid and the Rusty – boids in Rust (Part 3)
Great, well in this case, this cop acted violently and aggressively towards a senior citizen, who was killed through that cop's action. Not murder, but definitely manslaughter. If you did that to someone, that's what you would be going to jail for, and rightly so.
They don't even need to be paired. The majority of police could be unarmed and armed cops are only dispatched for calls where necessity of force seems likely or when unarmed cops call for armed backup.

Considering how much is spent on weapons training, this would likely be a net cost reduction. "Camera cops" could probably be paid less because they would have less risk of being in violent situations, don't have mental anguish of making life or death decisions daily, and less animosity from the community.
Highly recommend playing the game, even if not a fan of video games. It's wonderfully written and doesn't require a large time commitment. It's also devoid mechanical checks.
Meek Mill Comes After Donald Trump on “Otherside of America”
Not entirely related, but I very much enjoyed the reference to United States vs Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of Coca-Cola[1], which led me to the category of in rem [2] cases. These are most commonly referenced in civil forfeiture cases (e.g. US vs <some amount of money>), and always struck me as slightly ridiculous ("what did the money ever do wrong?").

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Forty_Barrels...
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_rem_jurisdiction
Yep! Some of the price and liquidity impact is the buying and some is just the announcement of buying. Levine had a nice column on it several days ago.
I used to pay $60 for a 30mbps line 2yrs ago in Canada. How is this good?
That's right, I don't mean a nuclear device emp. I mean an emp generated another way.
What kind of computing hardware is used inside the rockets? Off the shelf Intel or AMD cpu's setup in some kind of redundancy or custom hardware? How does the redundancy work, how many CPU's can fail before the rocket can't be controlled anymore? Are they all located in the same place in the rocket, why/why not?
If the customer wants to do it why should the institution care?
Remembering Christo’s Profound Humanism
One challenge is that in many places (especially the most profitable areas), the last mile is already built out. So by saying "municipally owned fiber" you mean laying new pipes to replace existing pipes (significant material cost) or trying to wrestle control of the existing pipes away from large ISPs (significant political cost). A small to medium sized city cannot just tell AT&T "give me your fiber", and it often lacks the capital to put down new fiber. Even if a small project could be completed, the dominant ISP in the area would simply lower their prices enough to make the project uneconomical, thus preventing the project from recouping its costs and staining the idea of publicly owned internet infrastructure.
I would go even further: try to train yourself to use your nose all the time, specially around sleeping. Think of keeping your mouth closed before sleeping and if you wake up noticeably having breathed through your mouth take a mental note to change. It worked for me (no tape required).

(Whatever works for anyone of course. If other methods still leave bad sleep, by all means use a machine!)
South Korea is a positive outlier, it isn't representative of most of the western world
Let's be honest here.

There are no "close-call mistakes" in the situations which have caused outrage. The problem is that the officers involved have excessive support to defend themselves.

If changing that causes some people to "avoid taking a job", good. The public has an interest in them not being in that job.
>you don't even pay for Google

You don't pay for Google with cash. You pay for Google by submitting your free will.
it is not tracking, the conspiracy theory it is supposed to be a 'mark of the beast' that designates someone is part of the new world order founded by the antichrist

the actual technology is a a sub skin electronic ink that is implanted during vaccination that can be read with a cell phone, used to track vaccinations in less developed countries
>The way I see it, if an article didn't address a topic relevant to HN, then it wouldn't rise. It's that simple.

This is, at best, naive. On a site this large, posting come current affairs clickbait is sure to attract a lot of voting from people who think HN is Reddit. Or should be.
Maximizing profits and evaluating success as a Craigslist seller
I use it for Sonos and Office, works great.
Check out Crystal’s official website sometime to learn more about its modern features. Crystal doesn’t have immutability, but does have support for functional programming and union types. “Compile-time guarantees” is such a vaguely specified feature that virtually all programming languages have that, but its type system is actually pretty strong despite how it looks with all the type inference, and even prevents null pointer exceptions unlike a lot of static languages.

It also has a lightweight threading system that makes it work well as a web server. Not quite as elegant as something like Elixir, with its isolated processes, but still nice. It also supports macros, which can make the code a lot more elegant and performant compared to similar languages.
But SARS-CoV-2 is transmitted pretty much like SARS and MERS, and we have a bunch of information about masks for those.

We also have a lot of information about other respiratory viruses.
What Makes a Chip Tamper-Proof
The drug seroquel works wonders and doesn't have negative long-term cognitive side-effects like benzos or Z-drugs do. Also, it's a lot more powerful: I guarantee you, 100%, that you will fall asleep within an hour if you take it.
Neat seeing crystal on here.

I built my startup using crystal and now I write crystal full time.

I’m still only using a single dedicated server with a SQLite database.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7102

Really glad to see Microsoft Word 6.0 bug reports from 2007 finally get closed!
Not sure why you’re being downvoted, this is exactly right.
Could you please stop creating accounts to do flamewar here? It's not in your interest to do that, first because you're contributing to destroying the community that you're participating in, and second because these sorts of attacks just reinforce the people you disagree with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If ever you struggle to understand the mass killings of the 20th century, read this comment right here. This is how it works. Once you identify an abstraction that's more important that human life, anything is permitted.

>risk their lives

Risk other people's lives, you mean.
That last part is easier said than done because you also make non-monetary contributions to your children's life such as the love and care and attention you provide. So saying "no inheritance" is much like saying "I'll give you only the average amount of care so that I don't disadvantage other children."
Racism In, Racism Out
Hmmmm... while it may be beneficial, I have serious difficulty believing that Congress really put that much thought into it. I'm more inclined to think it's a beneficial bug.
So should we carry guns for when cops get out of hand, and start acting like criminals? Your statement seems to suggest that the lives of cops are worth more than the lives of everyone else...
Whoever is giving your team heat about bug metrics needs to read about Goodhart's Law.

There's so many ways to influence number of bugs that it's pointless to measure anything that way. For example, do you make a single bug that lists 15 typos spread around, or 15 bugs (because after all, each typo is a different word and in a different part of the app). Do you accept vague but obviously real bugs while you try to collect enough info over time, or immediately close them as "cannot reproduce"? Is that a bug, or really a feature request?
I ran some electric circuit simulation/PCB design software through Wine for a series of courses that actually worked very well. I think the only installation hurdle was installing the Jet database engine (wasn't included with the install). Real-time simulations were a bit slower than they should have been on my machine (no less than some lower end machines I saw, though). Otherwise, it was on par performance and behavior-wise. That has been my most serious use of it, and I found it to be pretty frustration free.

On the flip side, there was an oscilloscope/fgen software interface that did not work at all thanks to some horrible drivers, but it didn't work on 50% of Windows machines either, so I didn't mind too much. There were alternatives in that case.
Just now diving into the contemporary Doom scene. Seems very lively and fascinating.

Can recommend this podcast I listened to today: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/inthekeep/doom-is-dead
Coming soon? https://9to5google.com/2020/05/08/google-duo-web-group-calls...
Seems like virtue signaling to me. It doesn't negatively impact him long term and it softens the impact of the people saying he didn't do anything meaningful to combat racism on reddit.
> What about improving education, building functional (and trusted) institutions, and having more independent (non-profit driven) media?

They do not work, because the time and cost to create and widely disseminate falsehoods is much less than the time and cost to refute those falsehoods.

See "Firehose of falsehood" [1], which is an apt name for what happens now thanks to the internet and social media greatly lowering the barriers to getting information widely distributed.

As RAND researchers put it, "Don't expect to counter the firehose of falsehood with the squirt gun of truth."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firehose_of_falsehood
You’re thinking of Tetrachloroethylene (perchloroethylene)
The BBC has a bias, so what? They usually get their facts straight, and sometimes the spin is not to my liking, but that doesn’t mean it is poor journalism.
What is your idea of some good 'right wing content' that should have been on reddit's front page?
Sure, I don't disagree with any of this - especially with the almost entirely peaceful protests the last couple of days, curfews are entirely inappropriate. My point is only to say that if they're going to use them, communicating expectations would lead to better outcomes.

But yeah, 100% same page, especially with regard to tear gas.
I've noticed the group that has the significant dislike and distrust of authority figures, and tech companies in general, are the same people who more than happy at giving them carte blanche, gleefully encouraging these sorts of censorship systems.

The basic idea puts an incredible amount of trust in authority figures with systems that have almost no appeals process or transparency - unless of course you happen to be popular enough or stir up enough noise on the internet to get internet gatekeepers attention.

Merely debating whether it's good or bad to be censoring misinformation, while simultaneously glossing over the means, processes, and people being employed to enforce these broad post at megacorps is a giant disingenuous waste of time and riddled with contradictions.
If you have the ability to pay your debt by printing more money, but then default because you don't, is absurd. It just won't happen. They would never choose to not pay when they can simply print more money.

If you want to go down that route, you can say that the US can also cancel its own debt by threatening every country that owns its debt with nuclear missile attacks if they don't cancel the debt.
Anyone can sell the book themselves. Routinely you will see people on HN self publishing technical titles on Leanpub etc. No one is shouting them down or deplatforming them.

Amazon is a private company and they can sell what they want. That seems to bother you, because of a de facto monopoly they hold, but that is beside the point. Why do you think it is an author’s right to have any third party sell their book?
Important to consider privacy around record retention, but I'd love if cops badges were like taxicabs: they are only on duty and supported by the force of law when the light is on and recording is in progress. Ideally, there would be 3+ cameras on the cops body to get a more complete perspective of situations.

Needs systems to limit access to any footage that is not concerning a criminal complaint, but existing cryptographic technology can make it so only the courts have access to the encryption keys if implemented with the right process and key management systems.
Differences in geography, making it harder to effectively lay down HS tracks? Further complicated by old rights of way, surrounded by built up environment, especially in the cities?

It's not like the French TGV/Thalys or the German ICE would run HS right into and out of the cities either.

Maybe in China and Japan, but hey, they are different.
600 medical personnel deaths globally.
Stop. Think. You're making a "perfect is the enemy of the good" argument which ultimately supports police brutality and systemic racism.

(I'll also point out that 8cantwait.org is a Campaign Zero project. Thank you for linking it.)
> Google, Amazon, FB are not the monopolies that you should be worried about.

Not at all?

> For those who are customers of AT&T - how do you like your service? Is it as good as Google?

Google's "support" for their products has one of the worst reputations.
No way. Anything that costs a lot of money runs industrial computing like the RAD750.