skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Failure can be useful, too. I made an iOS app that completely failed to get any sort of traction, but it was useful in getting consulting work, because clients knew that I had experience in iOS, in completing a project, and in getting approved (the process was seen as more troublesome back then), plus they could look at the app and get an idea of what I was capable of. Complete failure as a product, but great success in marketing.
The real story is that you think this is a remotely valid poll.

YouGov is a joke. Massive selection bias in their polling.
Correct; thanks to your advice and GP's, I found this under Settings->Lock screen->Secure lock settings->Show Lockdown option.
First, let's (not be tedious and) agree that the reason healthcare workers wear masks is to prevent airborne infections, especially of SARS-Cov-2.

Now clearly your first and second points contradict each other.

Furthermore the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.

Cf. Peer reviewed studies, or lack thereof, supporting the 6 ft "social" distancing protocol and, up until recently, the use of parachutes while jumping out of a plane.
Are you ready to double the pay of police? If you wanted to go through a lot of training and be held to high standards, you'd probably look for a more lucrative gig than being a cop
A little off topic, but I wonder if we've reached the point where only some trivially tiny proportion of people who aren't poor can reasonably walk away from their employment. Yes, in an ideal world, people would stand up for an issue no matter what it cost them. But right now in America 2020, unless you're already poor, maybe it's just really difficult to take that type of a stand? Probably why, across the political spectrum, we see so much "pseudo-resigning" and "virtual walk outs" at the moment.
It's also a remarkably vacuous thing to say. Of course there's not always scientific evidence for how to respond to new threats in real time. It's perfectly reasonable to make the best decisions you can with the information available. To say what they said is to try to weaponize the totally sensible dictum to "listen to the science" in a context in which they damn well knew that it made no sense (and without any indication that they thought through how their actions might potentially erode public trust in that injunction).
That’s the first thing comes in my mind. I guess this post wasn’t created by someone loves their DSLRs
Nice! I have a Canon 70D for which I simply use:

sudo modprobe v4l2loopback

And then the identical invocation of gphoto2 as yours. Seems gphoto2 includes a wide range of camera support.
Depends on if you want one very large but somewhat lazy defender or a swarm of small, fast and aggressive defenders.
This headline is very misleading. They didn't resign from the police force, just the deployment where they attacked that elderly gentleman.

It's unfortunate that all of them weren't immediately fired for their conscious decision not to address the assault and battery committed by one of their ranks, or to render first aid, and when the man finally was attended to, they dragged a man with what was very likely a cervical spine injury. They're all trained first responders and they knew better.

Final point: if this is what they're comfortable doing in broad daylight in front of a news crew, imagine what they're doing without cameras rolling.
Compare the Flu Pandemic of 1918 and Covid-19 with Caution
Funny that it was already salvage in 1987! You sure you don't have it backwards - the computer was '87 vintage but you got it later? That's when my father bought our first (new!) computer & it was a "turbo xt" (8 or 10mhz 8088).

The very first PC/AT was at most 3 years old at that point & still worth a couple grand. Any 286 would be at least mid-range, as a 386 would probably still cost high 4-figures $.
The anti-pattern is premeditating priority. It is true that you have to consider all angles and ultimately determine where to start, but once you've done that it makes no difference where an issue lies in a list.
> Visionaries get other people to act, and that's important.

Good visionaries can certainly get people to act in good ways.

It appears that there are other kinds of visionaries who get (good?) people to act in bad ways.
> Nobody is willing to pay for mobile operating systems either.

Why not just bundle it in with the cost of the hardware like Apple does?
Show HN: Videos with Science Activities, Engaging for Both Kids and Parents
I am a stay at home mum of twins & previously a scientist. I spend many hours trying to teach my twins through play & the part I struggled the most, is the long preparations. I tried watching Youtube videos with science activities together with my kids. The idea was that we will be watching the videos together, and follow their instructions to setup and play our own science activities! But we failed to this as well! The videos we found were:
Too long and therefore not so interesting for my 4 year olds
Not fun enough to keep young children’s attention
Requiring too many or complicated items that we usually didn’t have at home OR
Not accurate enough for us to replicate the experiments quickly and easily

So, I I did a Youtube channel with videos designed especially for parents & young kids to watch together. Its a channel where you can follow along, together with your child, to prepare and play easy, fun, STEM activities using household items. Encouraging kids to prepare their own activities is benefiting both: parents and children. Parents avoid long preparations and kids learn to follow simple instructions: a useful skill in life!

Here, is a link to my latest video. We use household items to build an un-spillable tray where we can carry and spin toys in full circles without dropping them! When they practice enough, they will also be able to spin their favorite liquids in circles ! It’s a super fun craft that you can easily do with young kids and they will be able to play independently afterwards! Just change the toy which is swinging, add a challenge to it (such as: spin three full circles without dropping it etc) and make it even more engaging! This video & craft teaches kids a lot such as a super simplified explanation of the concepts of inertia, centrifugal and centripetal force. It also allows kids to practice knots, develop focus & improve fine motor skills. .

If you like, please check it out and let me know what do you think...
Yep, it doesn't matter in the slightest how charismatic the founder is if their product isn't going to get traction.

I mean, rate founder charisma versus these things:

* Chaos in product - whenever consumers try the product, it bites them

* Packaging misfit - founder drove an IOS app out when market really needs a web experience

* Product lacks rarity - Founder is driving a new iKnockoff when there are scaled competitors already penetrating the market

The list of things that are more important than the founder's charisma goes on and on.

Frankly the charisma at the helm is really more applicable when the company is fully established and has a fan base. For a startup, if the product needs someone charismatic to get traction, hire someone charismatic to sell it.
I am always amused at how effective the There is no scientific evidence line is. That just means it has not been studied. No one has studied masks on this specific strain? It's new for crying out loud.
This is baffling. 57 police officers symbollically resigning because two officers who nearly killed someone are suspended (not even charged or fired). The union president specifically invokes the Nuremberg defense.

I say symbollically above because the protesting officers will still be paid by the city.

> All officers who resigned from ERT will remain on the job in their regular duties

Is the argument that what happened in the video is acceptable? Maybe they think it's unacceptable but doesn't warrant major action? Can someone explain the ideology here?
In such a polarized emotionally charged environment, some people are unable to emotionally segregate world news from their personal and professional lives.

These people have become paralyzed and unable to function normally. They allow world events to bleed into every conversation, and feel obligated to support their side and ostracizing anyone that disagrees - further isolating them in their bubble.

I think that social media has increased society's emotional surface area to world events. We no longer isolate 30-60 minutes per day to watch balanced reports on the 6 o'clock news - now it's all the time, hyperbolic, and often deceptive.

Our emotions are being weaponized - and November is going to be a real wake-up call where we will see the magnitude of disruptive power that these polarized social media messages can wield.
My entire academic life was affected by always being sleepy. Falling asleep in band class in high school with the saxophone in my mouth, etc. I was a track & field athelete and was in good shape. Finally got a cpap as an adult, along with vitamin d supplements, has improved it.
Berenson isn't a libertarian, the guy who wrote the article (me), is. And I grapple with the dissonance between free market libertarian principles and big tech "take-it-or-leave-it" control over discourse all the time.

As Voltaire says... "uncertainty is an uncomfortable position, but certainty is an absurd one".

Every ideology has these complicated areas within them and you're either aware of them and grapple with it or you ignore them and go full dogmatic.
Fit can also mean a convulsion or spasm, a coughing fit. So fitful is a period full of fits. Hope that helps.
No one expects perfection. Obviously. No one said anything about no mistakes. You pulled that out of nowhere. The issue is accountability for those mistakes. Of which there is not enough. Hence the current protests. What incentive do police have when they investigate themselves and there are no consequences, or slaps on the wrists, transfers to other departments, etc? You would at least get fired for repeatedly shipping buggy code and showing no desire to change it. Except in the case of the police, it would be like your boss investigating the bugs, agreeing with you that they are not in fact bugs, and saying good job, you did what you were supposed to.

No other job functions this way. Why do we let the profession with the power to use deadly force function this way?
While that may be true in theory in practice it is difficult. A big improvement would be if new things needed to be inserted into the backlog at an appropriate place but I don't know if it's possible to do that in Jira.
The New Science of Lockdowns
I like that idea.

It will cost more but what if we pair cops with non cop observers or participants? Like someone trained to talk with people and asses rather than just bust heads. Maybe it could even be volunteer sign a waiver and be a community observer? Or jury duty style even.

Then, if head busting is actually needed (and sadly occasionally it is, please don't be naive) the head buster is on hand. But it should be much rarer.

Something like balance of power in government to prevent one party from doing whatever it wants. That is what seems to be what is missing in police work. It's all one sided and few checks and balances.
The hardware was great for the time so I can only guess that small office didn’t need it any more. This was a small regional satellite office of a much larger company.
Right, to the customer it doesn't matter (just like to the developer it doesn't need to matter either - it just means the work needs to be performed).

However, it matters greatly to other observers - if one person or team is highly out of the norm for rate of bugs, it might be indicative of other problems that need to be worked on (lack of testing, peer review, tasks being assigned beyond the working abilities etc.).

Just like the restaurant analogy - the expectation is that bugs shouldn't be happening to begin with, and when they do, it should be "our fault" to remedy them.
Location is a factor but also tech salaries have seen tremendous continued growth over the last 20 years.

new grads are getting jobs at FAANGs out of college starting at 150-200k+ tc these days.

granted these are mostly in higher col areas - sf, seattle, nyc.

you just need to get a new job if you want to make more money, it's that simple.

in 2015 i had my first job as a junior engineer at a startup at 60k. over 3 years i worked my way up to a tech lead and 100k. not bad but i could've made more faster had i just switched companies sooner.

i finally started interviewing and got up to a 150k offer at another startup of the same size, same area - my current company valued me at 100k and this new company 150k.

a year later this startup was acquired and i negotiated my way into a 200k+ offer at the acquiring company - mostly because the bigger company was bigger and just paid more in general than my small startup company.

making more money isn't that closely tied to your job skills actually. it's tied to your interviewing skills and desire to get a job at a FAANG or similarly large tech company that pays high comps.

i'm not saying it's the easiest thing - the FAANG interviews are fairly hard and require quite a bit of prep. But if you really want it I'm sure you could do it - it's more about dedication, preparation and time than anything else.
> Of the documented rules only minimum password length is even an excusable rule.

Fun fact: bcrypt, still quite popular, has an inherent password length limit. Everything beyond a certain point (56 bytes) is just ignored. It's possible to work around, but that's messy and you're no longer do "the" bcrypt, bye bye interoperability. And if you don't enforce it, someone might do something silly-but-apparently-harmless, like reuse a long passphrase with some randomness at the end. Edge case, but not impossible. Of course in 2020 you probably should be using things like Argon or something (actually haven't researched the current best in a couple of years, so no longer sure)., but AFAIR Rails, for example, still comes with just bcrypt by default.
I think the petroleum mega corps are all going to go bankrupt. Their value is all tied up in what are going to be stranded assets, and as a consequence their stock prices are going to crash and they will no longer be able to take out loans to finance new initiatives, most specifically expanding into renewable energy. And besides that they will be competing against RE companies with a huge head start. In the last couple of years the financial community has been slowly coming to the same conclusion.
I really liked Crystal some years ago, even used in a prototype. Soon I realized that despite its cute syntax and good performance, coming from Elm, I would prefer a simpler language with type safety, good error messages and very fast compile time. Maybe in the next years I'll experiment again, especially due to Lucky web framework.
To some extent, Google broke themselves up when it became Alphabet.
Speaking of E2E Encryption, the Jitsi Team is looking for feedback on their own implementation of E2E over WebRTC.

https://jitsi.org/blog/e2ee/
Sweet! Can you get me signed photos from the Skullcap Crew?!
Copy/paste the link to avoid the error after clicking.
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Yeah, a lot of people don't realise that JavaScript performance is closer to Java than Python, even though the semantics are much closer to Python.
Correct. Go into settings, search for "lockdown" and enable. On my Pixel 3 XL, I can then hold down the power button and while holding it a menu comes up that includes the option to shut it down, reboot, lockdown, or emergency.
This is from "The Stanley Parable". I have not played the game, but looked up the source because I liked the quote; thanks for posting it.

https://thestanleyparable.fandom.com/wiki/Dialogue
"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."

Qualified immunity means they effectively have zero liability. In the few cases of extreme incompetence, it's taxpayers that foot the bill. Those police have no liability, beyond being responsible for fulfilling their job in a reasonable, professional way.

What the union is talking about is legal bills fighting the city (if the members are penalized in any way). And these are members that "volunteered" for a special pay role, not because they are benevolent.

Speaking of which, the union, as so many of them do, has the doublespeak terminology "benevolent" in its name (Buffalo Police Benevolent Association), yet the primary purpose of police unions is to ensure that bad cops keep their jobs, and to fight any and all measures that obtain even the slightest measure of accountability.
If you are worried about a private company "censoring" your speech, you should take this as a sign that you've allowed said company to get far too big. Restricting private speech by increasing the reach of government to limit it will only backfire in the end if your goal is freedom of speech.

The right approach for free speech is smaller companies AND smaller government.
Guns won't go away in the US during our lifetime though no matter what laws are passed or how people feel. It's too deeply embedded.
>doesn't care if there's a pandemic or not

I am suggesting that the our reaction to the issue very much depends on whether there is a pandemic or not, and that the vigor of these protests is not despite the pandemic but because of it.

I can respect and admire the decision that you personally dying of COVID-19 is worth it in order to express this grievance, but the nature of infectious disease is it's not just yourself that you're sacrificing here.
"The first incompleteness theorem states that no consistent system of axioms whose theorems can be listed by an effective procedure (i.e., an algorithm) is capable of proving all truths about the arithmetic of natural numbers. "

Doesn't it follow that you can't write a program that proves all the true things about natural numbers. Therefore there will be true facts about the arithmetic of natural numbers not derivable from the axioms. That's my reading of it.

Basically there will be formulas, you can't get to by following an algorithm from the axioms. But if you lets say randomly stumble on a formula, you can easily prove it works or not.

That's my reading of it.

So for example, we can't write a program that will find all formulas, like for example.

a^2 + b^2 = c^2

But once we have a formula, we can prove that this formula works.
Thats my understanding of this Theorem. Correct me if I'm wrong.

You certainly can't write a state machine for the halting problem either.
This is like a turkey problem -- every day is a jolly day until thanksgiving comes, once a year.
I'm not sure if I agree with the policies of censorship being endorsed right now. It's like the new "fighting child exploitation."

To play devil's advocate, here are some potential negative consequences of censorship:

1) Censored communities may still find other uncensored platforms to move their speech to, and it may be a platform even worse for fostering "bad" speech that is hidden from the public and festers in the dark. For example, Islamic terrorists do pretty well without connecting their members on Reddit or Twitter, and as such, we don't really have an insight into the state of their thoughts.

2) Best case scenario is that banned speech and thought becomes repressed in society due to the difficulty in these people connecting/sharing ideas. This creates a latent risk as at some point all these repressed people may realize they are not alone in thought. It also delays the cure to the problem by treating the symptom.

This brings me to my point that racism, bigotry, and prejudice largely stem from a lack of understanding, experience, and fear. Silencing hate speech or thought is just treating the symptom of the problem. Hiding symptoms and ignoring the underlying causes will result in the disease breeding—in the worst case in the dark—until it becomes explosive. If you address them and fight them by educating, and showing, and assuaging their fears, this will do much more than a temporary censorship will fix for the long term.

Racists are people too, and often just misguided. Censorship, eradication, and vilification are only really viable strategies if you truly believe these people are intrinsically evil and irredeemable. Such tactics will just push them deeper into their entrenched thoughts and solidify their understanding that others don't care about why they think a certain way, but that it's just an Us vs Them fight (which of course they are already inclined towards). See China's handling of Falun Gong. There's no doubt that Chinese elimination strategies towards Falun Gong just entrenched its supporters and gave the Scientology-esque movement more strength than it could have otherwise derived.
We'll get used to sluggish software, in fact we are already there: all contemporary web browsers (the two that are left) became laggy monsters. Such as when you hit "back" and there's absolutely no response for several seconds. Even 10 years ago, this would be considered serious bug. There's no change in sight, everyone just keeps piling code on web.
Summary: some hacker has made his own club with an electronically adjustable head so it can be any iron. It can also be set for a distance, where the head angle is modified during the swing based on the swing speed. He is still working on automatic electronic slice/hook prevention.
Actually it was studied for flu and N95 masks made no difference at all: tested on nurses during a year.
It is sad. It’s the nature of the beast; oversight is as weak as water, foresight limited, opportunities for misuse and insecurity boundless. Trusted organisations have become the frontmen for all this bullshit, and people are frankly being conned en masse.

The problem with all these “atoms for peace” style big data initiatives is that they must naively ignore the weaponisation of data to justify their benefits. Our civilisation having access to big data is like a Neolithic people trying to handle uranium. Not only are we ill equipped to mitigate the dangers involved, we don’t even fully understand what they are yet.

Perhaps one day our species will evolve to the point where we can make use of these wonderful technologies without blowing our society apart in the process. Until then, absence of data is better than presence of mind.
Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
No doubt, but knowing how much PPE my local hospital goes through in a week, it's difficult to believe that hardware stores etc would any significant impact on PPE availability. The most commonly sold type (FFP1) isn't even allowed in hospital settings.
Amazon is insignificant as a book publisher. They could have a near monopoly on selling books, but even that is unlikely.
Yes, they have tons of expertise, but it is mostly in different fields than renewable energy. And their management has the wrong people, from the top to the bottom.
Was Google+ the largest social network that didn't have advertising? In the right hands, Google+ could've been a strong ad-free alternative to Facebook/Instagram and Twitter.
This was the point I stopped playing games, around 1997-8. I was a student, with a franken-PC cobbled together from hand-me-down parts from my brother and dad. There was just no way I could keep up with the new games that were coming out, especially not ones that I could play over LAN with my friends, who had things like Voodoo2 cards.

The speed with which CPUs were improving was amazing. In the 4 years I was at university PCs got about 5 times faster. The SGI Indy workstations in the labs went from being something quite amazing to being run-of-the-mill. And the comparison between the edit systems at the campus TV station that were bought at the beginning of my time there and at the end was night and day. I remember the first would take about a minute to render one second of slow-mo. The one we bought in my final year could do that sort of thing (and lots of effects) in realtime.