skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A majority by number of unique titles, or by sales volume? I would not be surprised to see Amazon publishing a very large fraction of 'long-tail' (almost self-published) books, and these likely make up a large fraction of all titles published.
18th-Century Quaker Dwarf Who Challenged Slavery, Meat-Eating, & Racism (2017)
> recommended against the general public wearing masks.

which masks? for what reasons?

> It is not true that people are flattening that into "masks don't work"...Here's an example:

This is an example... of how the advice got flattened. Quoting from that first link:

"Surgical masks likely have some utility as source control (meaning the wearer limits virus dispersal to another person)"
"Respirators, though, are the only option that can ensure protection for frontline workers dealing with COVID-19 cases, once all of the strategies for optimizing respirator supply have been implemented."

See anything familiar from my earlier comment in there? Surgical masks are not personally protective, but they reduce transmission. Respirators are protective, but should not be general public resort.

The second article? It's talking about a global shortage, so it's clear which kind of masks they're recommending people not wear. Same with the last article... which also has a later section talking about how masks slow transmission and can be effective.

So... yeah. People were absolutely flattening the advice. And apparently some still are.

If you want, you can transform that into a communications argument, but like I said above, that reinforces the position that curation is an important part of the process.
Literally 2' of elastic fabric and some velcro...
Facebook employee resigns in protest over company’s handling of Trump’s posts
I like the reference to a camera as a weapon. It should be used with some discretion, especially by police.
Facebook employees said they were ‘caught in an abusive relationship’ with Trump
> Do not be intimidated; it is your right to record without obstructing.

Be very careful taking this advice. If you weren't already aware, the past week should make it crystal clear that police have absolutely no problem arresting or assaulting you for exercising your rights.
Here's an extended quote of his, found on Snopes fact check.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/surgeon-general-against-ma...
> One of the things [the general public] shouldn’t be doing is going out and buying masks … It has not been proven to be effective in preventing the spread of coronavirus amongst the general public … Folks who don’t know how to wear them properly tend to touch their faces a lot, and actually can increase the spread of coronavirus. You can increase your risk of getting it by wearing a mask if you are not a healthcare provider.
A federated service would be harder to monetize. Which makes me think it would stay usable longer.
Where I'm at, you can't get ATT gigabit fiber without allowing them to do ad injection.
Lol this IS art.
Perchlorate, used in rocket fuels, may be more hazardous than previously thought
> and its the consensus go to by most users

I can't attest to relatively popularity, but this device was independently suggested by both my dentist and my ENT. It works really well.

Tape seems like a great option too, but it seems like it'd come off easily? I might give it a shot.
One of the key things the airline industry did to fix this was record everything. Same on the railways. Cockpit voice recorders on planes, Forward Facing CCTV on trains (there's only one driver usually so recording what they say is unlikely to present useful evidence).

When you tell investigators "A fucking bear was on the track!" the investigators don't believe you. Far more likely you screwed up and have made up this excuse about a bear.

When your train has FFCCTV you know the investigators are going to check it and they are going to see the bear. This country doesn't even have bears - what the actual fuck!

And that pays dividends because now staff have every reason to expect investigators will believe them if they tell the truth, and it means investigators spend less time second guessing human recollection of events which means more time to deal with the actual events of the incident.
I agree with everything you’re saying.

I also think that a hamstrung western company will be steamrolled by international companies with significant state backing/support.

This isn’t a simple equation, there are second and third order effects that we can’t appreciate until after the fact.
> * We need to preserve the supply of surgical masks for at-risk healthcare workers.

Do hospitals get their stocks from hardware stores in boxes of ten? As much as I've seen, they buy from large distributors who prioritize government agencies and often don't serve individual consumers at all.
In my opinion... LinkedIn gets you in the door, your Github profile can get you hired. I'm not sure how many job intros happen via Github to be honest... just from my own experience, I get a ton of calls from LinkedIn... and on the interview side, some higher profile contributions to open-source can help a lot.

For where I work now, our code challenge includes putting the solution on github/gitlab mostly to ensure they at least know git, but as a secondary to their gh profile, which leads to their dev and contributions.

It's not a hard requirement to me. I've known a lot of people in banking and secdef development that cannot participate in open-source, so there are definitely all types.
This won't have a chance to win unless e.g. Cisco/Google/Apple/FB somehow decides to fund a few thousand developers each yearly. And they won't do that unless there's clear incentive for them.

In a way I really hope they won't. How could anything good come out of that?

From an engineering perspective: the software stack is conceptually (if you squint enough) a bit like webkit/chromium, but on top of that you also need cutting edge radio/antenna development.
> What about improving education, building functional (and trusted) institutions, and having more independent (non-profit driven) media?

What would education do except promote good ideas and reject bad ideas? What would trusted institutions do except promote good ideas and reject bad ideas? What would independent media do to improve things except promote good ideas and reject bad ideas?
A nondeterministic Turing machine is no more powerful than its deterministic Turing machine, if you define "powerful" as "can solve problems." If you instead define "powerful" as "can solve problems within a given amount of time," then there may be a distinction.

Put another way, you can simulate a nondeterministic Turing machine with a deterministic one, just as you can simulate a nondeterministic finite-state machine with a deterministic one. However, this simulation does come with increased time and space requirements.
>I can get a 384Mbps down 37Mbps up connection with unlimited usage and no traffic shaping for £50 a month.

After all of the rest of the comment, that's a pretty disappointing result. Fifty quid is currently $63. I can get symmetric gigabit FTTH for $65, or docsis 200 mbit for $40. This is not uncommon in urban areas in the states.
HN does not often add new features. I assume this is the main reason HN has not added Markdown.

I would prefer that HN continues to NOT support Markdown. After all, the entire point of Markdown is that it should be readable in its unprocessed form [1]. Therefore, Markdown obviates its own utility: Why not just present the source text of a comment as-is? Why confuse non-savvy users with behaviour like collapsing line breaks [2]?

[1] "The overriding design goal for Markdown’s formatting syntax is to make it as readable as possible. The idea is that a Markdown-formatted document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking like it’s been marked up with tags or formatting instructions." https://web.archive.org/web/20040402182332/https://daringfir...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22677936
Any company that has diversity hiring numbers that they are supposed to hit is discriminating based on factors outside of performance if it influences their hiring process at all.
It’s kind of like the “virtual walkouts” that tech employees due.
title is 200% wrong: its not zoom inc. Also, only works with Canon.

DSLR are a shitty closed market that prey on the few professionals that still need it. It's like the printer ink cartridge all over again.

Canon had the fortune of being "hacked" (to use proper legal terms after DMCA) and their cameras sales soared because of the free publicity and improved product. Now they are the only ones that maintain a modicum of interoperability that make projects like these a little easier (but still far from decent or stable). From other "DSLR but for now only cannon" projects: this will never support anything else.
The server would need to hold the unsalted hash then. And if those leak, everything you need to calculate the client salt is right there.
How do you know before hand if a domestic violence case does not escalate out of hand? How would you access the danger or lack there of in a particular situation before walking into it?
There is one "almost good cop" who tried to check the man when he was lying on the ground, but quickly one of his colleague pulled him by the vest to tell him they don't do this kind of thing.

Unfortunately he didn't have to courage to stand up for his first feeling.
Not a bad approach. they also have to be visually satisfying choices in colour and you kind of want the rainbow.
Where's the disaster menu?
Python for Programmers (Part 2)
Oh, I know. They'll break your bones and suffer no consequences because "he resisted."
On the other hand: the White House perimeter is gone...100's of angry people are running towards it. What does the government do?
Wine 5.10 Release
Stanley worked for a company in a big building where he was Employee #427.

Employee #427's job was simple: he sat at his desk in Room 427 and he pushed buttons on a keyboard.

Orders came to him through a monitor on his desk telling him what buttons to push, how long to push them, and in what order.

This is what Employee #427 did every day of every month of every year, and although others may have considered it soul rending,

Stanley relished every moment that the orders came in, as though he had been made exactly for this job.

And Stanley was happy.
"Reddit is comprised of a lot of younger people who are indoctrinated to think in certain ways and haven't ventured far outside of their ideological bubble."
This is correct. They have been indoctrinated to respond to any dissenting discourse with cries of 'nazi', 'racist', etc. rather than actual arguments.
This article[0] talks about why at least one company still has maximums. I too can relate to that, at my old job we had a 30 character hard limit because of interop with Oracle systems behind the scenes (we authenticated users twice, once in the web app which could have unlimited passwords stored as PBKDF2, and then again with an Oracle system that was hard restricted). A lot of businesses have backwards compatibility or proprietary systems in the way.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/09/secre...
Something that I think is important about the concept of free speech is that journalists and authors shouldn't be attempting to worry about the first and second order effects of their writings. They can't possibly correctly predict them, because people can't predict the future.

Just take all of your thoughts on digital books on Kindle, switch them to a collection of physical publishers who have a monopoly on printing presses, and ask yourself if you still think it's ok.

What if it's your opinion next time that is censored?

An Australian doctor discovered (about 20 years ago I believe) that a species of bacterium played a huge role in peptic ulcers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Marshall

He was censored, shunned from the medical establishment, and laughed at for years. He was correct.

Why do you place so much blind faith in these institutions to a point where you just KNOW it will never be you being censored? Are you a uniquely enlightened human being who has never had an idea that the majority of the people in the room completely disagreed with?

The medical establishment was censoring Barry Marshall because they were worried about the first and second order effects of people trying to treat ulcers with antibiotics. It was dangerous, they said.

How long before the guns get turned on you, me, or others?
Whether it's a bug or a modification to requirements I'm still the one who works on it. So "not my problem" doesn't exist in my situation. The distinction matters very much when it comes to prioritizing my work. I'm 100% time on projects and jump from one to the next with no pause between. I'm also the only developer who supports the apps I built. Bugs usually jump to the top of the queue. Management puts a lower priority on requests. In order to not hurt my current "customer", I need to make sure past ones don't try gaming the system by declaring bugs when they're not.
So instead of fixing things, he walked away? I mean I get it if he was an employee but a co-founder and a board member?
I'd love to use this to create some visualizations for CS Education. Data Structures and AI often uses graphs to visualize the concepts. I mostly build them using Powerpoint. Looking at the Penrose website, Fig 24 shows something I think could be tweaked to showcase a graph and something like A* search.
The problem is that cops (and prosecutors and judges) protect each other from accountability. If you saw your co-worker hit a pedestrian because they made a mistake driving would you lie for your co-worker and say that the pedestrian jumped out in front of the car? I hope not. Likewise, if you saw your co-worker intentionally hit someone with their car would you lie to protect them? If you did, that would make both of you bad, even though you never hit anyone with your car. That's what people are protesting: the fact that police can brutalize people without consequence.
Show HN: blm.js — add a footer to any site supporting Black Lives Matter
What I am confused about is why does no one who is in the area follow (at a safe distance) some of these unidentified agents to see where they go after they are done with their patrol?
thank you for demonstrating the exact illusion of safety that's so pervasive around mask-wearing. no, masks are marginal, that's the point, they work at the margins.

it's the distancing that's doing the work of "much less coronavirus". for your statement to be relatively true, we'd need to live in a world with no lockdowns and no distancing.
I have never understood American politician's obsession with killing their Golden goose. They did the same with many manufacturing jobs in past and most of those jobs ended up moving to other countries over time. Hurting Google or Facebook is not going to make anything better but will lead to job less, loss of economic opportunity and competitive advantage to other nations.

You are absolutely right that ATT, Comcast etc. are the real monopolies that have been established with the help of government and they need to be broken.

I guess in 10 years they will do the same to Tesla, SpaceX.
I was once reading budgets for the NHS, and I had no idea why there was a line item for glass injuries. Apparently, smashing the bottom of a beer bottle and stabbing someone in the stomach is a popular activity in the UK.
I'm pretty sure all of that is still true. In some cases, for some people, wearing a mask can be neutral or even net-negative. Maybe we learned enough to find that for the population at large wearing masks is better than not, but it's still a trade off.
South Korea has a dense population and just came out of a centrally planned economy wherein they had to create a modern network and just rolled out fiber almost everywhere. That's a very special case. At the 'start' of such central/social reforms, leaps of progress can often be made no doubt, the issue is what happens in the long run.
Canadaian broadband pricing is actually quite reasonable, especially as you have smaller players that are able to buy last mile lines wholesale at/near cost to compete.

Wholesale metro fiber is also considerably less than in the US, as public and utilities infrastructure is much more open. And there is already municipal fiber in Montreal, Calgary, and some suburban parts of Vancouver to name a few.

You also don't have to play games, like with Comcast that periodically raises your pricing arbitrarily and can really rack up if you're not paying attention. A few years back when I kept an apartment in Seattle, I went from $50/mo on promotional offer, to $80/mo regular, and ended up at almost $120/mo by the time I cancelled less than 2 years later. Such practices would never fly in Canada.
My layperson understanding is that there might be legal implications of the "without it being obvious" part. For example, I don't know whether that could be a problem in Massachusetts:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_call_recording_laws#...
There's a Pi distro just for this: https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneyeos

I recommend buying commercial IP cameras for outdoors.
I haven't had a run in with the police in a long time. Based on a lot of the video footage I have been seeing revolving around these riots I would say the problem of police brutality is exceptionally larger than I was giving it credit for being not just a few weeks ago. I hold out hope that the majority of officers aren't like those I have seen in the media (left and right) committing acts of unprovoked, and unnecessary violence, but I am starting to loose some confidence in my conviction.

I have to be honest, I am not sure what the solution is here. On the whole, I think they need better training, but what that would look like.. I am afraid to say that topic is over my head.
Google Wave was a pretty good idea. Apache Wave stuck around for a bit though I don't know if anyone used it.

A lot of the things in Google Wave filtered out. Real time document collaboration is fantastic, and I don't think it existed as much in the public consciousness before Wave.

Google+ had some good ideas. The multiple social circles thing is still the easiest way I've seen that done. I don't know if facebook has fully copied it yet or not.
For medicine, that probably co tributes a lot to the expense of healthcare in the US
Starting an Internal Kubernetes Offering
The reason that the article is written this way is that most human beings enjoy stories about people and events. I assume the reason you don't understand that is you are in this way different from most human beings but are not clearly aware of it.
Also, does anyone remember Chicago's black site?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/24/chicago-poli...

Where are the good men and women, and what is the sum of their good acts in the grand scheme of things?
You touch on a very important point here.

Someone suffering depression, anxiety or any mental health issue rarely follows rational logic in their thinking about themselves or the world. That's what makes it so hard on their support network. It's not something you solve by readily giving particular advice.

Therapists usually don't force their views on their patients either. On the contrary. My therapist explained to me that they simply listen and act as a mirror who reflects without judging on what's being said in a session. They act like a guide you're free to follow. A good therapist is able to establish a bond of trust.

Even so, therapy isn't a magic bullet either. Plenty of patients drop out after a few sessions because they fail to connect with their therapist. This isn't a bad thing in itself: it's better to find someone with whom you do connect. Paradoxically, therapy failing is just as often validating that confirmation bias mental health patients have about therapy.
Americans do more or less support affirmative action programs, but the details matter:

> "Poll results vary widely, for example, according to specific question wordings. In general, historical polling data show that Americans have an overall positive view toward "affirmative action" and programs that increase opportunities for minorities, so long as these do not confer an unfair advantage for minorities in the form of "preferential treatment" or "lower standards."

More concretely, compare the following proposition:

> "Setting quotas for the number of racial minorities hired or accepted, but requiring them to meet the same standards as others (66% favor, 32% oppose)"

To this one:

> "Setting quotas for the number of racial minorities hired or accepted even if it means lowering the standards in order to make up for past discrimination (18% favor, 79% oppose)"

Source: https://news.gallup.com/poll/7660/gallup-brain-bakke-affirma...
yup, & perhaps Google Glass was merely a bit ahead of it's time and not quite the right product-market fit...

any one of these still need to automatically stream to a secure location
That's for audio, not video. If you don't record the audio it wouldn't apply. If you do you shouldn't hide it to be safe.
There are go-to definition plugins that work for Ruby, depending on what editor or IDE you're using. They're just not always perfect, because in a non statically typed language, you can't always know what the implementation of a method is.

Last I checked, there wasn't great editor support for Crystal yet, but that might have changed by now.
Please see my comment to allanniehuis.
It was pretty heavily used by a few communities, like the Ingress one.
We're in the middle of a moral panic.
Watch how companies and individuals trip over each other about who can prostrate themself the most to the black demographic and signal virtue the hardest.
> Fully documented

The documentation is lacking a section header "see also" that explains the differences to prior art/similar software. A programmer cannot tell whether Grid.js provides an advantage over e.g. https://backgridjs.com without wasting a lot of time on experimentation.
A (healthy-weight) roommate of mine would regularly stop breathing in his sleep. He was convinced he was fine until his girlfriend finally got him to do a sleep study. Got his CPAP machine shortly after!
> auto

There are more major automakers who sell products in the US alone than there ever were baby bells. And there are a ton of regional competitors outside of the US.
Please see my comment to allannienhuis.
There is a really good podcast out yesterday with Bill Fleckenstein on QuothTheRaven, and he talked about exactly this:

The idea disagreeing with official discourse is somehow "political". It shouldn't be. But everything is so polarized lately that disagreeing with the methodologies for collating case fatalities, for example, or worrying about the second-order effects of the lockdowns, suddenly that makes you "Pro-Trump", or if you agree with all of the above then you're a progressive. It's insane.

I blame the mainstream media for most of that dynamic. Can't we have a simple pandemic without the entire thing becoming a political football?
How many interactions do police have in a week? If the number is 20 or more then 5% becomes a common occurrence.
Crystal isn't really "typed Ruby" because that would mean it includes all of the same metaprogramming capabilities that Ruby does. Crystal is a lot more limiting than Ruby in this regard. For example, Crystal doesn't allow you to automatically generate class constants.

I would say the elevator pitch is "A systems programming language with an expressive syntax, similar to Ruby".