skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi! ShareDrop author here. It doesn't use any TURN servers and that's why it doesn't work if one is required.
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Could #2 be covered by a car club / rental-by-the-hour kind of thing? ZipCar in the UK is about £8-10/hour with no monthly, so if you're not making the journey frequently that could be suitable? Obviously requires an available car nearby though.
An authoritarian culture, however, can get work done much quicker while staying with a razor-sharp focus. The whole "democratic" decision-making process takes time and leads to a sequence of decisions spread throughout the time domain, which, taken together, might lead to a suboptimal result compared to what might be achieved by following the steps of an "enlightened benevolent dictator".
I've worked with outsourced programmers before.

Most of them are talented and a joy to work with. However, giving them work is often a form of programming... they will do exactly what you tell them to do, no more and no less.

For example, unless you describe the tests you want them to write, they may not write tests. If they see a possible refactor or optimization, they won't volunteer to do it. One of the frequent side-effects of this is that the project develops more tech debt and slows down with time.

From the perspective of an outsourced programmer, this makes sense. You're optimizing for efficiency. You're in contractor-mode by default because odds are, your career has been heavily contractor work. You haven't been hired to look at the bigger overall picture and you've never been encouraged to develop the agency to make independent decisions.

The most successful teams with outsourced engineering teams have found ways to better integrate them into the team. For example, I know a few startups with engineers domestically in the US whose main purpose is to interact with large teams of engineers in countries like Belarus. This hybrid approach comes with its own challenges but the cost benefits are huge.
Sure. Go to a Ducks Unlimited banquet and tell folks you’re a Democrat and they may contextualize gun control as your agenda. Tell your Bay Area colleagues you’re a Republican and you’ll be contextualized as close minded.

Tell people you’re unaffiliated and they’ll often see you as an antagonist to their pet causes. Don’t tell people anything, and they usually won’t put up a guard.
Even when there's not a lot of apparent advertising, a large portion of the high ranking pages are ads or referral links disguised as informative content.
Whenever you hire someone from a different culture / country, you
need to start from the basics by explaining the very core of your society.

An American programmer might not be too concerned if a body temperature
measurement returns 45 degrees Celcius. Similarly, a patient height of
95in probably wouldn't immediately raise alarm bells for a European
developer.

This is so key and has been overlooked for decades.

In addition to what you wrote, I think it may actually go beyond that?

There's a certain "team unity" that binds good teams together. It's that extra "something" that helps you get through those tough moments and really work together.

I've worked on remote, international teams that HAVE had that kind of esprit de corps. And I've worked on local teams inside the same building that haven't.

But, overall?

In my experience that kind of unity and teamwork is MUCH harder to build across cultures and/or remote work arrangements. And the difficulty is often multiplied by the "mercenary" nature of consulting work in which consultants obviously aren't really incentivized to worry about that sort of thing - in fact you kind of need to form emotional armor and avoid it to an extent.

It can be done, and is absolutely worth doing. (And, in my opinion, it's a form o institutional racism not to...)

In my experience it's often as simple as giving employees some space to banter and chitchat and get to know each other. Can be as simple as a #random or a #chitchat IRC/Slack channel sometimes and/or a company culture that allows for some chitchat and getting-to-know-eachother during daily standups. And if you are working cross-culture, at an absolute bare minimum, do some homework to at least understand each others' holidays and intangibles like differences in etiquette and so forth.

Thing is, in typical offshoring arrangements, much of this is impossible.
> The LinkedIn message went on to say Take-Two was setting up a new studio to keep working on the same game Star Theory had been developing, a sequel to the cult classic Kerbal Space Program. Take-Two was looking to hire all of Star Theory’s development staff to make that happen.

I'm amazed that the contract Star Theory had with Take-Two didn't have a clause prohibiting Take-Two from poaching employees like this.

Edit: A more general question: If I hire a consultancy company to build something for me, would I normally be able to directly hire the employees who did the work? That sounds like the worst possible outcome for a consultancy, so surely contracts prohibit it!?

Edit 2: Lots of people responding that anti-competes are always bad, and I don't disagree, but this feels slightly different.

How about:

Is it ethical for a company to deliberately cause you to be made redundant so they can hire you? (Emailing all employees of a company make it fairly clear it was planned)
To me, I am less convinced that the elevated levels in the Masaai represent an ideal. Do all hunter gatherers have such high levels? Unclear. Perhaps the Masaai have such high levels as a quirk of their genetics, and their particular lifestyle. Does that necessarily translate into an ideal level for all humans? Possible, but there just isn't enough data. On the other hand, there are many studies across populations that find levels plateauing around 20 ng/mL for healthy rural cohorts, with no negative outcomes.

Why does the body stop producing Vitamin D around 50 ng/mL, if it wasn't the ideal? Vitamin D toxicity only kicks in at extremely high levels, several orders of magnitude higher than are naturally produced. So why would nature even bother to set an upper limit at 50 ng/mL? It doesn't, though. Vitamin D3 is produced by a reversible photosynthetic reaction, and is constantly being degraded as well under sun exposure. 50 ng/mL possibly represents the upper limit at the speed with which D3 can be transported away from the dermis, and the limits of natural exposure levels. My feeling is that rather than an evolutionarily fine tuned level, this is a "good enough" local maxima as an upper limit for D3 production under natural conditions. If the Masaai were somehow exposed to 20 hours of full sun, their levels might very well be much higher.

As a thought experiment, if humans were exposed to 20 hours of sunlight, would we evolve fewer keratinocytes to keep vitamin D levels at the 50 ng/mL level? Or perhaps evolve less efficient enzymes to produce lower levels of the precursor? My impression is that there isn't a strong enough disadvantage to higher levels of Vitamin D for evolution to push in that direction. So rather than an ideal level, 50 ng/mL might simply represent the upper limit of what humans can produce under natural conditions.
Among other reasons:
1) High end electrics are a very small market that is now overly crowded: Model III Performance, Model S Performance, Tesla Roadster (may never be produced, but in consideration of most high end buyers), Porsche Taycan, Audi E-Tron, BMW iX3, and more announced almost weekly. Almost none of these will do well given the limited market size for electric cars in this price range.

2). Dyson is proven and could raise capital if they needed to without a marketable proof of concept. They could have IPO'd a sub and raised money. Unlike when Tesla started, electric cars are now proven to work - maybe not in a profitable business model yet, but they are proven to work. They don't need to show off a high end sports car to prove this.
Dude! This has got to be the same with software -- with software it's 100x harder to design the process than the software or at least an order of magnitude wouldn't you say?
I'm curious why did you think it was impossible?
Here's my take: Looking at a programmer as a single type of profession is relatively useless - what matters is domain expertise. Example: If you are a decent C++ programmer without any specific domain expertise then your salary in the US is some amount of dollars. If you are a decent C++ programmer with intricate knowledge about how the Google Adwords auction works then your salary is probably at least two times higher. So if you compare programming salaries you really need to look beyond what they are programming in and start looking at what exactly they are programming.
Totally, have a V-something cordless and the whole thing is just plastic. Even the hinges and stressed parts on the charging dock, I'm just waiting for it to snap.
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A lot of people got hung up in the politics of this issue. A prominent politician endorsed using hydroxycholoroquine.

Bill Maher recently made a good point: "Liberals are falling into lionizing someone because because they are the anti-Trump. Even before the virus America had a far too chronically sick population which is one reason we've lost so many now. We need to demand something better than how the entrenched medical establishment manages symptoms but cures and heals far too little".

I guess pushing "the narrative" was more important than the science.
"When I was a kid, I used to walk around all day with crab apples in my cheeks. One in each cheek."

... A minute passed. "Why?" [Yossarian] found himself forced to ask finally.

Orr tittered triumphantly. "Because they're better than horse chestnuts... When I couldn't get crab apples," Orr continued, "I used horse chestnuts. Horse chestnuts are about the same size as crab apples and actually have a better shape, although the shape doesn't matter a bit."

"Why did you walk around with crab apples in your cheeks?" Yossarian asked again. "That's what I asked."

"Because they've got a better shape than horse chestnuts," Orr answered. "I just told you that."

"Why," swore Yossarian at him approvingly, "you evil-eyed, mechanically aptituded, disaffiliated son of a bitch, did you walk around with anything in your cheeks?"

"I didn't," Orr said, "walk around with anything in my cheeks. I walked around with crab applies in my cheeks. When I couldn't get crab apples I walked around with horse chestnuts. In my cheeks.
If these are the people that dicked over the original team on bonuses and are now getting karma... then good riddance.
The rule about no parallel fifths exists to help the listener distinguish several melodies played together (counterpoint)---a bit like the rules of English style governing unambiguous use of pronouns. In a rhythm guitar part, there typically aren't multiple lines of melody; the whole chord shifts by a fifth.
You're supposed to bounce them off the street so they lose most of their velocity. More than a few of the police force apparently forgot that part of their training.

Note that this only applies to the 35mm/40mm rubber bullets, not the less-than-lethal beanbag/rubber pellet munitions.
Reflections on one year of software engineering
The american public education system is abysmal. But the ones in russia, china or india is pretty good, if you're smart. And the smart ones then immigrate to the highest paid country they can.
They walked away from the deal... no contract.
Nikola Ready for Its Nasdaq Debut
For UI/UX and other design topics there's the very active https://www.designernews.co.

There's datatau.net for data science, but it's not very active. Has great potential but I think the mod(s) have been very quick to shadowban users for posting anything remotely commercial. So now it's just the same few people posting Medium and TowardsDataScience articles. I hope it can be revitalized or someone else makes a better HN clone.
How Elon Musk’s SpaceX Makes Money
Space enthusiasts cheering for India's Chandrayaan2 launch last year
There are experiments like this! One is where circularly polarized light is used to spin up a small piece of glass to really high angular velocity (billions of rotations per second!) [1].

There are also atomic transition selection rules that depend photons transferring angular momentum into or out of an atom electronic orbitals. Essentially, when an electron jumps between the orbitals (s, p, d, etc from chemistry class), it can gain or lose angular momentum depending on its start and end state. But that momentum must be conserved, so in these cases a photon is emitted or absorbed to account for that angular momentum. The topic is kind of addressed here [2], but I'd have to dig up my old AMO notes to find a better reference. Lots of cool physics to dive into here if you're interested!

[1] - https://phys.org/news/2018-07-world-fastest-rotation.html
[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angular_momentum_coupling#Term...
Given the situation in the us currently, installing one of these apps would at least give me pause.
When desktop publishing became a thing back in the 1990s anyone could put a book together. Fancy typesetting, high-dpm printing, kerning, text wrapping, heck it looked great.

You still had to be able to write to create good content. That never changed.

Now anyone can squeeze out polished crap at the touch of a button because the technology makes it simple to produce something that appears sort of like something that used to take experts a lot of work. It still takes experts a lot of work to produce something of quality. The rest of us just produce a lot.
not true. in a truly organic network, where you actually know the graph back to you, it is very difficult for a state actor.

ironically, facebook is in a position that is perfect for this, and they go out of their way to not see it. ...I guess because being able to block content based on dislikes by your immediate friends would make it too hard to expose you to all the sponsored posts.
A lot of people don't do all their work sat in the same spot all day.
It looks like Take-Two studios didn't want to pay the the premium of having another studio do the work, so they switched to recruiting the employees directly instead. And it worked.

> The LinkedIn message went on to say Take-Two was setting up a new studio to keep working on the same game Star Theory had been developing, a sequel to the cult classic Kerbal Space Program. Take-Two was looking to hire all of Star Theory’s development staff to make that happen. “We are offering a compensation package that includes a cash sign-on bonus, an excellent salary, bonus eligibility and other benefits,” Cook wrote.

I won't go so far as to condone Take-Two's actions, but I don't see this entirely as a negative for the employees involved if (and it's a big if) Take-Two chose to pay the employees extra compensation and bonuses instead of giving the money to a middleman.

As someone who went through an acqui-hire only to see our founders walk away with millions while the employees' salaries remained unchanged, I wouldn't be opposed companies directing those acqui-hire funds to hiring bonuses given directly to the employees.
Is smalltalk still vital for key programming techniques like object orientation and condescension?
OWASP Open Security
OWASP Open Security Summit is happening this week.
They had a previous contract for the work up to that point.
They walked away from the acquisition deal, but this:

> the same game Star Theory had been developing

certainly means they had an earlier contract.
No, that's silly. If I had managed to spend the last week without knowing anything about the news, I wouldn't have felt any of this. It's just a natural reaction to troubling events, no need to add magic to it.
Glass is usually a one-time investment that rarely depreciates (though I wonder if my Nikon DSLR primes still fetch the same value these days).

And while my 12-year-old full-frame Nikon D700 might only fetch a token sum now, it'll still take photos that are on a different level from any camera phone out there.

Thousand-dollar phones are a sunk cost, and it's common to only recover between half to two-thirds of the cost after one release cycle.
Thanks for sharing and for your service. Love this. Does the company have any structure to help facilitate people socializing outside their comfort zone?
Hi! ShareDrop author here. Thanks for the suggestion - I've updated it in the repo description and in README file.
Non-HDR isn't anything like what your eyes see.
Like an exorcism?
Really depends on where you are, and who you interact with.

Anecdata: I haven't had any real issues. I have had some worries about undue benefits, and some people become more "careful" once they find out. It really isn't an issue where I live, from my experience.
I have a friend that wants to use Makefiles as a build system for his website, C macros as the templating engine for the HTML, and a JS->C library so his WebAssembly C can access the DOM. Hence, he wants to write his web apps in C lol!

Sorry, the mentioning of Makefiles brought that back. In any case, you might be right, but it's a very simple website and Jekyll is easier. I'll cross the bridge of incompatibility when I come to it. Thanks for the heads up though!
On Analyzing Systems: Your Business Needs Obliquity
> the languages I work in today (Swift, Kotlin, Python, Dart, C).

Are you a mobile app developer?
Or just ask the human being on the phone with you if $ITEM is still being offered for $PRICE. The beauty of communicating with humans instead of machines is there are no rules, you're allowed to go 'off script' like that.
The problem with that is that dictators usually fail to be sufficiently enlightened or benevolent.
Where does the CDC define pepper balls as "tear gas"? It defines them as "riot control agents" in this document https://emergency.cdc.gov/agent/riotcontrol/factsheet.asp saying that these are "sometimes referred to as “tear gas”"

The CDC defines chloroacetophenone (CN) as tear gas https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/ershdb/emergencyresponsecard_29750...

Pepper balls contain oleoresin capsicum (OC) which is different in terms of its chemical composition but produces similar symptoms.

Depending on your definition, it may or may not be the same thing because "tear gas" is an unscientific term.
Hi all!

I just launched my second product (first was: https://mapsofmind.com) - TradesViz: An complete trade logging and analysis platform.

The goal of TradesViz is to assist regular traders to manage and analyze their trades very easily. Most current platforms are either too expensive for beginners or are very limited in what you can do so I tried to address a lot of those pain points while adding features which many traders wished they had in their trade logging platform - one of those features being very flexible charting for any trade on TradesViz.

I'd really appreciate any feedback, opinions! :)

I've also written a few posts on how some features on TradesViz work here: https://www.tradesviz.com/blog/
I think it would feel pretty good to have a database of potentially incriminating evidence against a wide swath of the population that could be used if a person became a high-profile target. For example, if you're in one of those videos and then run for public office 10 years later you better hope the intelligence agencies like your positions and don't want to tank your chances.

So, no, they can't process all of it. But they can more easily trawl it for specific data they need. Especially 10 years from now.
New Brim release: 4.8X speed boost to Windows version and more cool features
"The Model 3 was one of the most popular new cars sold in the UK last year"

I think that's overstating things a bit, it's not even in the top ten?

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/industry/10-best-selling-...

NB They did do very well in April this year, but that's perhaps a bit of an unusual situation!
That’s the same as saying they want to aid foreign government corporate espionage.
So many bad design decisions, those seats are the worst though. Good luck cleaning out all those areas between cushions.
So long as their speech remains legal, social media sites should not be the business of censoring elected officials. That is the job of voters and Congress.

It’s too easy to walk down a slippery slope where suddenly these sites have to regulate in accordance with whatever is the popular opinion of the day.
Here's a better title "Journalist hucksters reinvigorate the fake message that anonymous is back ".

I understand how this might get traction on Reddit or Facebook, but Hacker News?
Ask HN - eBay and Geetest.com?
I'm really curious what the community has to say about this; This morning, I logged into ebay, only to be greeted with a page, telling me to confirm I am not a bot, etc. Here is the proof of the domains: https://i.imgur.com/62P6fyg.png

More importantly, geetest.com? Never heard of this until today. Could someone please verify if this is a known hostile site or not? First the port scans on my windows machine, and now this? Honestly, I'm just confused, and hopefully this affiliation isn't a bad affiliation for ebay.
Dyson Eye 360: https://www.dyson.co.uk/robot-vacuums/dyson-360-heurist-over...

Although the connectivity with their app is a bit rubbish half the time!
Very recent scholarship suggests Beethoven's deafness was less profound than is widely assumed:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/feb/01/beethoven-not-...
Kerlikowske stood them down and it was controversial.
Raman uses org-mode with emacspeak, last I heard. He reports it's the first thing he's found that beats raw HTML for writing HTML.
Rare spindle-shaped neurons from deep inside the brain recorded for first time
No, it's really easy: change a definition's type, and then fix each type error. The errors give you a guided tour of the codebase that's impossible to get without static type checking.
I do like these frameworks. Far more sites should use one of those or the principle behind them. My page [1] uses concrete [2] and has a page load of 125kb (including my picture) and loads in less than one second. I don't need all that bloat that comes with a lot of pages (checkout wired.com for a negative example).

The cards of this one look neat, but in case I need something like that I would add it myself to concrete. Nice place to start never the less.

[1] https://marvinblum.de/

[2] https://concrete.style/
Many countries are now in the situation where they have far more test capacity than referrals for tests. In that context, this sort of app may be useful; it will produce candidates for tests who are more likely to be hits than purely random testing. This is especially the case in places where prevalence of the disease is now extremely low (like Germany).
American Carnage at Lafayette Square [video]
What a weird analysis.

1) A lot of correlation can be meaningful only if you can extract independent variables and have a big enough N.

Given the complexity of human society, we would need 100000 countries to meaningful correlations.

2) "rich oppressive country" is extremely correlated to wealth and "English skills". Silicon Valley is an excellent example.
in other parts of the world the news crews stay behind the police lines. Mostly in more repressive regimes, the news are not considered either free or friendly and are targeted during a riot.
You're missing the conflict at the core of this business model. It motivates the provider to take as long as possible without souring the business relationship, because the faster they work, the less they're getting paid. So the unlimited part is basically marketing BS.
Thanks, this makes a lot more sense and seems much more useful than the justifications I've heard others give. I appreciate it.
It seems to require anything that can run the "Espruino" base, so this link probably covers that: https://www.espruino.com/Other+Boards