skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to clarify that this is in NO way verifiable.

There were 0 company polls taken about this on a grand scale.

Most vocal position so far has been large scale dissatisfaction with this decision. But no way to actually know if that is just a ‘vocal’ minority.

So unless this person they ‘surveyed’ did some sort of independent analysis where they sampled a significant portion of the company independently, they are full of shit.

To be clear I am not advocating for either position in this post (though I do have an opinion), but this is just a bold faced lie.
When does one decide to give people second-chances?
True, but those interstellar velocities are mercilessly pitiful in respect to much of use there.
This is because an engineer's interest is not in the actual writing, but the creation of such a blog. To such engineers, I'd say that this is fine, but don't delude yourself into thinking that these are necessary steps to writing when there are much simpler ways, such as Medium or Wordpress as you say.
"Every document belongs to a project": https://github.com/slowernews/hamster-system
Pfft, you can just lasso it
Everything is automated though. There's almost nothing for astronauts to do except pull an abort handle. Instruments and telemetry are shared with ground control, and anyways, they don't need the astronauts to touch anything unless there is so much instrumentation to present that the astronauts have to page through it.
all of my local cvs drugs store mark that as "out of stock" according to the link you posted.

the closest that Walgreens offers, according to their website, actually in store (97201 if you want to look) appears too be around $50 for 500 200mg ibuprofen.
Lenovo Believes in the Linux Desktop
The point would be to get their EV business started at the lowest cost.

MEB is a platform, not a car. There's plenty to do beyond the platform. Ford will be making an MEB car. Here are some of Volkswagen's planned MEB cars so far:

- VW ID.3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPjvgXWA78E

- VW ID.4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dh00utug10

- VW Space Vizzion: https://jalopnik.com/the-volkswagen-space-vizzion-brings-the...

- VW Buzz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfKYr9sgxnw

- SEAT el-Born: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evr55WN5XWo

- Skoda Enyaq: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLTBHGAv5aw

- Audi Q4 e-tron: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiwevzHsCbU

MEB is flexible enough to work with many makes and models of car. MEB is exactly the sort of platform a company new to the car business would want to start with.
Take a look at the Rails jobs in Switzerland, which is mostly a startup stack:

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/search/?currentJobId=189170609...

Quite a few job descriptions are in German / French. In others the description could be in English but they will ask for basic/middle level of German.
And then there are the few (hard to estimate how many) that don't care for language at all.
But when you consider that to begin with the Swiss job market is small, this means it's much harder to find a job there than a place like Germany / Netherlands / UK for an immigrant.
Now sure, some people will happily jump through hoops because Switzerland is undeniable a high salary, low tax, high quality of life country.
I guess I'm not one of those people :p)
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The thing about racism is that it is used to infer information about individuals.

Cops in America use race as a proxy. They are far less likely do something to an old grandma because they know she doesn't represent the same threat as a young male in his 20s.

There are two approaches to deal with it, but only one is highlighted:

- Either make them not use race for any information

- Or help them identify the problematic individuals better

The first approach is what is actively being pursued by most people today, but it hardly solves the problem and it's fighting a rising tide. The more cops are weirded out by judging a black kid out of fear of racism, the more panicky they would feel while dealing with him because they'd be waiting for other pieces of information. For instance, Philando Castile was immediately shot when the cop discovered that he was armed. In a different world, he would have tried to analyse whether this man with his partner and kid in the car was scared of getting arrested or not.

By running a major antiracism campaign cops are now left to use any piece of information other than race to determine the threat level, and this turns out to badly because their internal compass of threat assessment is distorted.

For the second approach, pro-racial training can be made regarding threat assessments. Better databases can be built regarding information on individuals (obviously a problem for most people, but this is a great way to deal with this issue). China style facial recognition technology and going full on surveillance state can clearly help with this issue. In other words either do Israel style profiling or do China style surveillance, but both these things will have major resistance from Americans (but surprisingly arming cops with military weapons is ok).
They usually qualify diversity as "under-represented minorities". You have to be both a minority in the classic sense as well as under-represented.
Slight tangent, does anyone know of any virtual "audio" device (in Mac OS or Windows) that you can attach VSTs / AUs to? I know that technically Zoom allows you to share computer audio but a controlled audio device would allow more granular control of the input.
> But are we really saying that the majority of cops are bad actors?

As with the Floyd case, for every murder by police there are three officers standing by watching and doing nothing, at best.

The examples to watch are Camden NJ and the RUC -> PSNI transition.
These were the guys running that pump and dump crypto scheme right? Well it's good to know they're socially responsible shysters.

I appreciate they're doing something positive, but I've got to feel a lot of skepticism when companies are like "Oh yeah, we've been working on this for 6 months".
> Platforms have protections while they act as a free and open forum. This protection ceases to exist the time you start fiddling with the content

This is a popular belief among people who feel some viewpoints are being "censored" but it has no basis in law or reality. My cynical perspective is that if enough people spread this lie, it will become true in the court of public opinion, which is what the people being "censored" are hoping for. (the scare quotes are because "censorship" is a scary word used in place of "moderation" or "community management" or "spam removal")

Platforms are 100% allowed to take down material that they find objectionable for whatever reason.

The other reply to your comment has posted a link to the actual law: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23408218. I'd encourage you to take a look.
One of the purposes of a proposed 'space tug' is to use slow low thrust but high delta-v, high efficiency engines to do things such as:

Raise the orbit of satellites in LEO which are affected by atmospheric drag. Or re-boost things like the international space station, proposed future Chinese space station, etc.

Extend the lifetime of geostationary satellites which are still electrically functional, but out of station keeping propellant. One such thing docked for the very first time with a satellite earlier this year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Extension_Vehicle

On unmanned missions, slowly move cargo from low earth orbit to destinations at the Moon or Mars. If you can use ion and hall effect type thrusters for your missions to move cargo around, you can establish a logistics supply chain for essential supplies consisting of unmanned craft.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta-v_budget

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_impulse

An interesting example of using ion engines to maintain low earth orbit, through long continual thrust was this mission:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_Field_and_Steady-State...
Yeah, because it's not like we don't appropriate words all over the place anyway, and reuse words for all kinds of similar and dissimilar purposes.

Using "breakpoints" to describe the /points/ where the layout /breaks/ over is not a new term and quite well understood when talking design / layout.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/CSS_layou...

https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_rwd_mediaqueries.asp
Anyone who invests in his business, as a VC or as a customer, deserves whatever calamity befalls them. I’m actually sort-of shocked there wasn’t some provision in his terms of release barring him from starting a similar type of business.

He should hire Elizabeth Holmes (whose father was a low-level Enron employee himself — by all accounts he was wholly unrelated to the whole fraud thing, but it’s still funny) just to bring the 21st century con artists full-circle.
Tell HN: Meet The Co-Founder of Zoosk (Sold for $250 M) and CEO of Dressbarn
It's also a TV show now as well.
If you don't know much about Enron's history and ultimate demise I recommend giving "A conspiracy of fools"[0] a read. It's a long one but there's also an excellent audiobook available. It's very detailed, based on countless interviews and very well fact checked. If it wasn't a true story, it'd be pretty unbelievable fiction, the things management got away with.

Also a cautionary tale of tying your financial stability to your employer more than strictly necessary (your salary). Most employees kept all their retirement savings as Enron stock and got burned badly.

If memory doesn't fail me, the book also mentions Skilling starting to come up with plans for his follow-up venture whenever he got out of prison, shortly after being arrested - which I guess has now been published.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29519.Conspiracy_of_Fool...
Maybe Soundflower?
https://rogueamoeba.com/freebies/soundflower/
> That feels like a leadership failure to me. In that case you'd look at the Chief, the union rep, the Mayor and any other folks who can change the culture but don't.

Yeah, I agree 100%, and this is why the "few bad apples" angle falls apart. This is a widespread problem with the culture of many police departments. It's not enough to fire the murderers themselves, we also need to ask:

- Who hired them?

- Who trained them?

- Who supervised them?

- Who looked into the previous excessive force complaints and decided they weren't a problem?
They're in a JSON file in the repo at the moment. I'll open source them later today when I have a spare moment: https://github.com/feross
Feature request would add to this if you open source it

If Senator is head of a committee, say agriculture, show all underlying assets in that sector
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The app that wants to make money off of India's Top 1%
>"I can't figure out how to turn the HVAC system on in a newish car"

That says nothing about touchscreen interfaces themselves, it says about their poor implementation in certain cars. Just like touchscreen interfaces on phones, they were all various degrees of trash for daily usage, until iPhone came out with touchscreen-oriented UI and lead by example of what touchscreen-oriented UIs for phones are supposed to be, as opposed to just regular phone UI with touchscreen functionality bolted on.

A similar thing can be observed in cars. I had so many hellscape-ish experiences with touchscreens in cars, I can rant about those for days. But then I had an opportunity to extensively test its implementation in Tesla cars, and it was extremely pleasant.

Not that your criticism of touchscreens in modern cars is invalid, it totally is valid. Touchscreen interface implementation in modern cars, on average, is totally inferior to the older physical control interface implementation. Which makes sense, as we had over half a century to perfect that.

However, as demonstrated by the Tesla interface I experienced (hybrid touchscreen+physical controls on the steering wheel), those issues are not inherent to all touchscreen interfaces. The other manufacturers just need to catch up (for some of them, I can already seem them being very close). You cannot just bolt a touchscreen onto the interface designed with physical controls in mind and call it a day. Because that's pretty much why those touchscreen interfaces in most modern cars are awful to use.
...because his stupidity isn't relevant to the point I'm making.

You illustrate my point by assuming that I'm supporting him, just because I'm not criticizing him.
That's the kind of feel-good law that ends up very unenforceable because it ignores technical reality. Not a fan.

If the exact same action does the exact same harm and is legal or illegal based on intent, enforcing that law is going to enrich a lot of lawyers but isn't going to practically rope in many company's behaviors.
This is an example of a tool that solves only a slice of the problem and requires a wizard to operate it.

Plus, it doesn't seem well suited to changing configuration on already deployed machines. If corporate comes and tells you all users must have their machines configured to automatically lock the screen after 5 minutes idle and enable some password requirements this tool would struggle.
I'd be curious what their MRR is for this business.
Who says everyone gets a second chance?
> But if you try to make a claim later, I've never heard of that working. They'd either require that you pay the difference towards the price with insurance first, reject it entirely for not following in-network procedures, or else reimburse you according to out-of-network rates, which will be far lower. I can't imagine any scenario where you'd save money in the end.

Unless you're the provider, in which case there are many cases of providers billing insurance after taking a cash patient. Effectively "reverse balance billing", aka fraud.

If you see instances where providers "accidentally" process your care through your insurer after paying cash, tell your insurer. While it may seem like a non-issue, and that the provider will claim accident, I assure you that for all their (many, many) faults, insurance companies dislike provider fraud too, and similar to credit card chargebacks, too many "accidental" billings will become problematic to the provider.
This is related to videos only: I wanted a way to browse a video collection, quickly search, and preview screenshots before viewing; also wanted to browse external hard drive without connecting it. So I created Video Hub App

https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App - MIT open source

https://videohubapp.com/ - $3.50 minimum price but $3.50 of every sale goes to the cost-effective Against Malaria Foundation
One of these (probably Loopback?) should work https://rogueamoeba.com/

I don't know of free, good alternatives.
Still sounds company-specific to me! Not every company is like that.
The NYPD kidnapped and involuntarily committed a whistleblowing officer who they learned had evidence of their stop-and-frisk quotas.
I can't read the article. Did everyone except the developers get laid off? Or did Take Two hire literally everyone from the smaller co?

edit: Ah I see they hired only about 1/3 of the staff.
Curious where did the money go then if it did not go into competitive salaries?
> Dyson is private, and James Dyson doesn’t want to accept investment or inject his own capital into the effort.

I think this is it. It's not that Dyson couldn't have made an EV. It's more that this would have been an iPhone or Tesla moment for the company where they would have had to bet the farm and that's something only two billionnaires so far have shown any ability to stomach. Pity, (armchair quarter-backing here) I think they could have done it, but it would have taken years off James Dyson himself to get the thing over the line.
The world has changed a lot since 1987, so this post-colonial mindset might need revisiting. I don't know about cotton mills, but now the biggest steel manufacturer in the world is ArcelorMittal, an Indian company. On the other hand, British Steel was initially acquired by Tata, an Indian conglomerate, and recently "rescued" from insolvency by a Chinese investor. Any productivity advantages in manufacturing that might have existed decades ago are clearly gone by now.

I really hope that in the near future at least some African countries could be in a position to move up the value chain and take control of their own destiny as well.
~/tmp - temporary code snippets, checkouts, etc.

~/dev - code repos (dev as in development, not devices ;)

~/projects - symlinks to directories in ~/dev that I'm actively working on

~/.dotfiles - dotfiles git repo with symlinks to the right places

~/notes - a git repo of markdown notes
> we would never allow such assumptions in code reviews

Right.

Today we have the benefit of hindsight, we know how fast processors have become. In the Win3.1 era, noone sane would have predicted this. Even Moore's Law applied to transistor counts, not processor speeds.

What you should ask is: what other assumptions are you implicitly making that you are not currently aware of?
Is there a video of it in action?
I don't know enough about A.I or radiology but if A.I can drive cars or make investment decisions better than humans I can't see why something as technical as reading photos and recognising patterns can't be done by A.I.
Good luck with your research!
The system is the disease
> Please consider clicking through to the link before commenting. You obviously did not do that.

Absolutely uncalled for. I did click through and read the whole article. I was actually unaware of TTY until reading it and did some research into it before coming to the conclusion that it was not something I needed to invest time into.

More importantly, added another person and an internet or phone connection into the loop would add a level time commitment for the person on the other end of the phone that I would find unnecessary, which takes out most if not all of these options.

> There's also accommodations for different disabilities, like the Deaf and hard of hearing via sign language.

This is why I put "somewhat". It's never been an issue beyond leaning in slightly when a cashier is a little soft-spoken and maybe asking someone to repeat something, and certainly never bad enough to learn sign language (out of necessity, I'd still love to learn for myself at some point).

"Hard of hearing" is a veeery wide range, with the vast majority leaning on the weaker end of the spectrum. My personal experience hasn't really needed much in the way of intervention. It just makes phone calls more of a hassle than the average person.

Just not worth an investment.
When tear gas comes to TikTok: how the internet is changing protest
> Alot of those folks were co-opted… at least according to folks like Bill Blunden (belowgotham.com) and John Young (cryptome.org)

I don't know who those people are, nor have I taken the time to analyze their work. But let's assume that some were co-opted, you do realize that ultimately it doesn't matter because the few that weren't are responsible for some of the greatest innovation in citizen's use of cryptography and a non-state issue currency, those being: Wei Dai, Nick Szabo, Hal Finney, Adam Back, Timothy May.

Hell, these people inspired a certain loud mouth Cyberpunk who went on to create wikileaks, and tried to expose covert Nuclear armament by the US prior to that, you may have heard of him as he's currently being used as political football in an extradition case: Julian Assange. And he motivated a guy who went to to work on TOR (Jacob Applebaum) and a former NSA contractor that revealed the extensive abuses of the the Intelligence Agencies around the world (Edward Snowden).

What I'm getting at is that these kind of movements are useful precisely because they do not rely on a single entity or person to steer the actions of said movement.
I would love for MozIlla hubs (or any similar app for that matter) to allow one to set a webcam feed as your avatar's "head".

If anyone knows of such a thing please let me know. Would be perfect for socialising during quarantine and beyond.
PG commented recently "if you do creative work, try to avoid situations where people with less ability than you can tell you what to do, or edit your work". It expands to getting rich.
I would still consider them to be timebomb bugs, though. Even if you're developing for a restricted set of hardware, newer versions of that hardware could very easily violate some corner-cutting assumptions in the future. I would rather spend a little more time now to get something right and future-proof, rather than pass the problem onto future-me, who likely won't have the context anymore to find the issue quickly, or, worse, future-someone-else, who doesn't have the context at all.
> EU also has sanctions against Iran

Not sure exactly which (though I guess there are). Nonetheless, after the JCPOA was signed, EU companies had restarted doing business worth billions with Iran. So the current complete freeze of EU commercial exchanges whit Iran in entirely due to the threat of sanctions from the US (that is, sanctions against EU companies, not against Iran).
Feedback: Where's the video demo? I don't want to install it to see it in action and decide if I want to install it.
It should be easy to integrate game audio engines, such as OpenALSoft.
Perfect advertisement for Librem 5 and PinePhone.
Can you substantiate any of your claims? I've used OBS on macOS for a long time and your experience doesn't correspond to mine.

It's true that there are some performance concerns and hardware encoding isn't available for streaming purposes on macOS due Apple's Video Toolbox API not exposing the appropriate encoder options.

However, I doubt that OBS would be responsible for corrupted video. It uses the industry-standard x264 encoder — if there's a problem with the video, it derives from (A) your settings, and (B) x264. I'm more inclined to believe A than B.

I'm more than happy to use Wirecast if you'll pay for a licence. I and most other people, mostly amateurs, don't have a spare US$599 lying around.
That's very different from my experience. You can't hide "trends", "who to follow", or "topics", and they make it pretty much impossible to do with simple cosmetic filtering, which I certainly don't believe is accidental. I honestly never felt Facebook coming after my attention, with content I don't want to see, nearly as hard.

By the way, the character limit has been doubled to 280 a few years ago.
You don't want to do that. The first situation is not fixable, the second one is.
Well... The guy knows all about securitizing and trading energy.

That said, do you really want to be buying assets from a guy who's claim to fame is how well he is able to hide the risk in esoteric or complex structured products?
Actually it seems like social media companies are choosing who can't lie and who can. Normal users and even most politicians lie on social media everyday, who cares. The problem I see is social media companies targeting specific leaders and what they see as "lies" while ignoring others.

And most importantly, who decides what is a lie?

Either take 230 away from the company and no-one can lie on the platform, or stop censoring/altering users and allow everyone to say what's in their legal right to say.

There's a meme about nothing being true on the internet, why do we need a Ministry of Truth now?
There are several concerning videos of people trying to trigger violence at protests. Here is one list I saw today...

https://old.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/gvmhh6/fbi_...
I worked for a brilliant but ruthless businessman at one point in my career who very openly "stabled PhDs" (his words) in the field (RF engineering / DSP). He'd give them some research projects to play with for years on end just to keep them away from the competition.
I’d also recommend The Smartest Guys in the Room (and the documentary based on the book)

[0]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113576.The_Smartest_Guys...
Original article at https://www.ft.com/content/ac817f39-4ddc-4b50-9084-9d86719be...