skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I assume you mean 'undue' benefits, and not some kind of special undo feature only available to us gays :)

Whoops, fixed :P - Thank you!

> And that is emphatically not true for straight people

That is a good point. I haven't thought of it as homophobia, but perhaps it is.

I definitely recognize that I've been fortunate. Young, in a progressive area, with a good job. Hard to beat.

> 40% of NYC's homeless population is LGBT

I wasn't aware of that, and that is awful.
It's interesting to note that it isn't working-class people—the people who might reasonably feel threatened—who are demanding "safe spaces". It's extremely privileged people educated in elite institutions. These are some of the most privileged people alive with advantages not accessible to the vast majority of the population of any ethnicity or race.
I had a Canon T3i for a long time- it was given to me as a honeymoon gift and while at first I was kind of annoyed with it, I became really interested in photography and took it with me everywhere. The last trip I took it on was in 2018, and my father in law had a pixel- maybe a pixel 2- but I think the original. We were under a roman theater, it was very dim, but we both took a few pictures as it was a really interesting scene. His pictures just blew mine out of the water- mine you could hardly make out the details, his looked like it was well lit.

I was in the process of looking to upgrade, and actually for that trip was hoping I could get an A7 III, (~2k for those unfamiliar with cameras), and eventually did a few months later, and even with a "G" lens (not highest end, but still ~$1k USD just for the lens), the gap between my wife's iphone and even my Galaxy S8 for "typical" photos is really small, and for certain types of action and low-light shots, the cell phones are superior.

I am not sure if I will ever buy another "proper" camera again. People talked for years about the limits of physics on lenses and light and such, but software can overcome those limitations for the most part. It makes me sad, and I maybe even feel a little foolish for spending a few thousand dollars on equipment that is quickly becoming unnecessary for most of my uses.
Just watched the video. I think it is a different approach. The spreadsheets in the video seem row-oriented. It goes more in the direction of a relational database. CubeWeaver is multidimensional, so you don't need a group by function. You can group by a dimension just by creating a new worksheet with less dimensions and copying the data from the original worksheet using a formula. You can also group by an attribute using the JOIN function.
Could someone put that in context of how much that could actually hit them and how realistic it is for that to happen?
> We know and understand the safety profile of this drug well. To think that all of a sudden it became more dangerous was silly and unreasonable.

COVID patients are different from the patients that normally receive chloroquine and the chloroquine doses used for COVID are also higher. There is also the issue of how chloroquine interacts with other drugs such as azythromycin.

This particular study has its problems but other studies on chloroquine were also starting to suggest that chloroquine could have dangerous side effects.

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/05/04/hy...
I’m Canada, usually you have to give everything to the FOIA department, and then they redact it.

I think that would make the keyholders soil themselves if they had to send the keys over even for a second like that.
About time, but my guess is this won't go very far. Google can afford better legal counsel than the government itself. Still, this is a good step in the right direction, and the only way to push back on privacy violations is to make it unprofitable for corporations to get away with it (through fines, taxation, etc).

When privacy violations become unprofitable, "tech" companies will have to go back to making new technology.
There is certainly a reason many cultures gravitate towards authoritarianism, focus is an important quality of productive teams and authoritarianism increases focus.

However, too much focus relative to the complexity of the task at hand is never good, because focus requires ignoring some things. I would theorize that the more complex the task a team is working on, the less authoritarian it can afford its culture to be.
if he wins he'll win via the electoral college again and not the popular vote. There are too many people on the West and East coast for him (and probably any non-Democrat these days) to win the popular vote.

If he loses he could call for a recount I guess but I believe the margin would be wide enough to make it unrealistic.
If you want to talk to dang, send him an email instead of hoping he randomly sees your comment. Also, flagging is something users do, he also can just guess why they might have done so
> This is a responsibility for which journal reviewers can only ever take partial responsibility for both practical and intrinsic reasons.

So what you're saying is we should never fully trust these journals? We should always be skeptical?

That's what I'm saying too...
I don't think people are interpreting the term "poached" as literally as you are. Losing an employee to a competitor is bad for a company, especially bad for a small company, hence the negative connotation.
Is the lawsuit about tracking in Chrome’s “private” mode or Google tracking (or attempting to track) all browsers using “private” mode?
DDG is more of the same, just pushing the "we don't track you" story to the masses, which most of the time is completely irrelevant.

An actual new search engine that does its own indexing is sorely needed.
Jitsi is a great replacement
Post of linux technical lead at Lenovo for the PC team at the Debian mailing list: https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2020/06/msg00004.htm... :

I would really like to have this conversation with the wider community as to what Lenovo and Debian can do to work better together.

As an important example - the X1 Carbon 7 (which is a popular machine) still doesn't work well with any version of Debian (including experimental or testing) as the audio is broken. Debian users have to jump through a few hoops to get it to work. I've let the maintainer know a number of times what is involved to fix that but it's obviously not a priority (as a heads up - Debian on most Lenovo 2020 platforms is going to suck because of this too). I'm not meaning to point fingers - but just explain why it feels as if Debian and the latest hardware is an awkward fit.
68.8.0esr (64-bit)
For me if the camera is a networked computer then I will refuse having my picture taken by it (of course this is futile but I will break most etiquette and accept being labelled rude and unfair to follow my beliefs here).

Of course I try to be symmetric, I never take pictures of anything with my own networked computer.

It is absolutely incredible how entitled people are when it comes to taking group pictures.

If you want to draw me then I will sit still for however long you want. If you have a polaroid or something like that then go nuts, etc.

It's not really about privacy because it's not really a useful way to preserve my privacy, however, it is kind of about privacy since making this distinction (that no one seems to be aware of / willing to make) sometimes reaches people and gets them thinking.
For a website dedicated to UI/UX, it's quite atrocious.
Surprised to learn "unlimited design service" is a thing, offered by several people/companies: https://www.failory.com/blog/unlimited-design-services
KSP takes some liberties with physics, simplifying things so that e.g. the N-body does not apply (that is, your craft are only affected by one body at once). Other challenges are the scale and number precision. It doesn't get it exactly right either, especially when you use the time accelleration, things can go a bit... weird. See https://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/Deep_Space_Kraken
UK despite their grandstanding, I think is still going ahead with Huawei for the time being.
Unlimited Design Services
Football and Basketball are generally more accessible to the wider population than Speed running. Which I believe is what parent post was referring to
Google appears to be claiming that because they warn you about 3rd party trackers this is all fine. They are just another 3rd party tracker it seems.

Maybe it's time to stop treating Google like a technology company. They don't seem to be pushing the internet forward, instead every decision makes the internet worse and has to be rallied against. There is very little research going on outside of increasing advertising effectiveness to scale up the size of the stock buybacks. Watching them continually screw up products like hangouts and chat and stadia and then just abandon them to increase stock buybacks yet again is just infuriating.

Maybe it's time to start treating Google like they are just another annoying 3rd party tracker. That seems to be what they want now.
> As someone who went through an acqui-hire only to see our founders walk away with millions while the employees' salaries remained unchanged

I have always understood acqui-hire as "Big company sees a team of talented devs with good cost structure (aka: manageable salaries) so they pay a one time flat fee to get that team working on their problems"

At no point have I ever expected developers salaries to change during an aqui-hire. They might get a boost after the aqui-hire if they have trouble retaining the devs for whatever reason. But usually the whole point of an aqui hire is the relative low salaries of the employees compared to their performance.
Google's revenue for 2019 was $161 billion, so $5b amounts to about 3.1% of their revenue.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GOOG/financials?p=GOOG
Curation means deleting things too. And I do a lot of that. Not only does it make it much easier to find stuff, but I can keep my entire image collection on an SD card in my phone (around 60 GB of photos over the last 10 years). I frequently browse through my photo collection, and I love that it's all local.

There's no point keeping that blurry photo of a crappy sunset, or 25 near-identical copies of the same thing. I delete ruthlessly, and keep 1-3 photos of each subject.

Importantly, when I look back at my photos, the ones I'm most interested in are the ones with people in them, especially after a sibling was killed in an accident. I keep nearly all of those (except near duplicates). So although I take lots of photos of things, I don't care that much about them, and only keep the good ones.
At the risk of being "that guy", this post really isn't fit for a Show HN:

> Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread.

> ...

> Blog posts, sign-up pages, curated lists, and other reading material can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs.[1]

This is just you sharing your landing page and bragging about how well your business is doing. Congrats on your success, though, and I expect some interesting discussion about the business model in the comments at least.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
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> Disarm the police. That might require disarming the population too.

I totally agree -- As long as I am last in line to turn in my gun. And many civilian and government gun owners agree with me. Remember that the military has guns too, which shoot just as straight domestically and abroad, so we also need to disarm the army, which requires disarming all foreign nations. Now what? I think we'll need a Paxos or Raft cluster or something.
No, you said you wouldn’t trust it at all and that it was 100% political.

HN isn’t the ideal venue for hyperbole.
In many (probably "most") jurisdictions, yes. Certainly there are some that are encrypted, and that trend has accelerated at least a little bit over the last few years. But from what I've seen, plenty of LE agencies (in the US anyway) are still in the clear.

Now, as others have noted, a lot of them have now gone to digital trunked systems (P25, and suchlike) that are more difficult to receive/decode. But that's not "encryption", it's just an annoyance.
In context - compilers and operating systems used to be expensive. Really, really expensive. Hundreds/thousands of dollars per seat per language expensive, in 80s/90s money.

But what really killed that model wasn't the cost - it was the lack of lock-in.

For comparison, Oracle is still really, really expensive, but its market lock-in means that it won't be overtaken by Postgres for some time yet.

Languages are more disposable. There's significant pain involved in shifting to a different code base, but it's not nearly as painful as trying to extract your data from a proprietary DB that considers lock-in a feature.
Thank you for your comment. Most of the solutions indeed take less than a minute. Solution to problem 1 & 3 took 25 sec and that to 5 took 26.

The solution that took 9 minutes involved processing the abstract in each record. The abstracts are quite sizeable on some of these publications. Processing millions of them took time.

The solution that took 48 minutes involved a nested loop effectively reaching the iteration count for 216 years times 256M records which comes to about 55B.

Hope this clarifies things a bit but I am not claiming this to be the most optimized solution. I am sure there is scope for refinements -- this was my take on it.
Media & select journals helped justify trillions of societal costs when many could be saved from
death by early treatment with zinc + zinc ionophore (HCQ/quercetin) therapeutic that costs less than one dollar. Some poorly designed HCQ studies have used late treatment or omitted zinc, which is known not to work. Specific cohorts are also excluded, including cardiac patients with long QT interval and some malaria-prone populations with G6PD gene.

Some US states have blocked pharmacies from filling doctor prescriptions for HCQ, instead of advocating for increased manufacturing capacity within US factories that make HCQ/ingredients. Meanwhile, we boosted ventilator production,
where hospitals received $30K for each late-stage patient placed on ventilation, with only 20% chance of survival. We blocked early treatment that worked and we funded expensive late-stage equipment that did not work.

All this with more global information sharing than ever before in the history of humanity. Since we were collectively unable to filter/parse data generated by wildly different economic incentives, where the consequences were DEATH, how can we design new systemic incentives to avoid repeating such mistakes?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/02/prof-lockdown-ne...

> Neil Ferguson, who became known as “professor lockdown” after convincing Boris Johnson to radically curtail everyday freedoms, acknowledged that, despite relying on “quite similar science”, the Swedish authorities had “got a long way to the same effect” without a full lockdown.
Interesting switzerland is mentioned, there does seem to be a shortage of programmers here, our company recruits a sizeable chunk from abroad. Also, if you search in a local language, especially german, there are a lot of open positions, where fluent command of the local language is required.
Guess that depends on your definition of "benefit". As one developer (from the article) puts it:

> he didn’t want to work for a big company where he wouldn’t have the same degree of influence or financial benefits if the game were a hit. “I was at a small studio, where the work I did had a massive impact on our success,”
Linking directly to the article here: https://www.medicineuncensored.com/a-study-out-of-thin-air

It reads like a Muddy Waters (famous stock shorter) screed. Good stuff. Fair to say the data is made up. The question is, who would be incentivized to do such a thing? Things that make you go hmmm....
Any site is required by law to remove illegal content. Other than that, it's just to please the ad sponsors.
Darn. Happened again with Bluetooth enabled. Pretty bad bug Apple. I've had my brand new 2020 MBA for ~4 weeks and this has happened probably 10-15 times now.
Electric cars are as deep as you make them. I've watched several youtube videos showing disassembling some Zoe components, it's really impressive. Some models use parts of the motor as an inverter during charging.
I think what you're describing is a problem specific to contracted programmers, not foreign programmers. Those are different questions. Contracted software development has been shown time and again to be, well, crap. No matter where the contractors reside. And the reasons, like those you describe above, are fairly clear.
>A drug on the market for 60 years (and over the counter in many countries) is “extremely dangerous

Tylenol has been on the market for a 60 years, often over the counter, but off label recommendations involving a high dose could be deadly. Drugs should always be considered "extremely dangerous."
1 person can be millions of people online. Based on your response I don’t get the perception you understand the gravity of the problem we are facing.
> Why would anyone make a video of stopped traffic?

Because people like you are hell bent on smearing the protests, resorting even to come up with made-up accusations like ambulances stuck in traffic, and any evidence would provide some support to those claims.

But apparently even that is hard to come by. So here we are, stuck with fabrications and imaginary "what if" scenarios.
And the Lancet and the NEJM have also been willing to publish lots of studies that don’t necessarily go with their politics. It’s one of the few places you can read about the facts of the healthcare system, not just the political narratives. So it seems unfair to take the anger at the media out on these journals specifically.
I’m curious which one you have as I’ve been a happy yoga user for many years(2 different models) and never has any issue with quality or Linux support.

I am a long time Linux user so that may be the difference. The fact that you prefer Ubuntu is probably a bit telling about you experience and skill level with Linux on the desktop.
Most consultancies defend themselves from this sort of behaviour in two directions. Firstly there'll be clauses in the consulting contract stating that the client can't hire anyone who's worked on their project for [n] months after completion (sometimes with the caveat that they can, but there'll be a recruitment fee due to the consultancy). Secondly employees of the consultancy will have non-compete clauses in their employment contracts stating much the same thing.

The interesting bit here is if Star Theory are going out of business then any contracts will presumably become void because one of the signatories has ceased to exist.
then it seems disingenuous to write "Work with some of the best designers in the world."
The narrative was never that the drug was good or bad. What people were upset about was that a politician stept in and started pushing for treatments. It makes no difference what so ever if a politician turns out to be correct, it's an absolutely unthinkable thing to do regardless.

Now, you could argue that people wanted the politician to be right or wrong (depending on views) and that this muddled the reporting, and that's probably right.

But it doesn't change the fact that everyone should be upset when their politician starts doing experts' jobs (poorly).
I was a part of a few efforts to offshore some technical support type work across a couple companies. It was highly technical equipment so it wasn't your typical customer service or base level PC support, at the same time there was no reason it shouldn't have worked to offshore.

Every effort failed miserably.

The core of the issue was getting / maintaining talent / a real lack of professionalism in the folks we ended up with / lack of dedication to the job.

If there was any reasonable amount of saving money per workload, you just couldn't get a company to outsource to who actually kept their own workers around long enough to be productive. Anyone who was productive almost immediately proved their worth and left for a better job, or as we suspect the outsourcing companies actually moved them to clients that paid more (in the case of us hiring them directly, we knew they left).

The folks you did get would close cases randomly / played a sort of hardball metrics game where they really just upset customers / state side we'd end up cleaning up the mess. Lots of technically correct solutions / statements that really don't solve the problem... And in the meantime it all ate up a TON of upper and lower management time trying to get things right / set up... meanwhile there was a US, a European, and even in one case a Japan side support team that needed little interaction from management.

Another effort tried to establish a local presence offshore (a few companies already had resources there) ... same results.

The end result was all the effort and costs resulted in it being more expensive to offshore in many cases if you looked at the real numbers.

To be clear I'm sure there are plenty of professional folks out there to be hired (we had plenty of those folks employed FROM those places who were outstanding at their job) I suspect the larger issue was that the savings weren't really that apparent, and what quality / dedication you get for X price isn't always as apparent when someone says "Hey X resource is Y cheaper over there."

Quality and outcomes are hard to calculate / something being cheaper on a spreadsheet doesn't mean it really is.
Exploring Regular Expressions II: Regular Languages and Finite-State Automata
This continues from "Exploring Regular Expressions and Finite-State Recognizers, Part I:"

https://raganwald.com/2019/09/21/regular-expressions.html

HN Discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21829440
It's called "macro" based on the image properties not the subject properties. "Micro" would have been confusing because of microfilm.
I think the UK press would compare anything like that to the Sinclair C5, thus forming public opinion, and thus leaving the whole project dead in the water in the UK:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_C5
Google are an ad company not a technology company
I initially struggled with todo apps. Here's my process after 5 years
I posted about this on Reddit and it was well received: https://www.reddit.com/r/productivity/comments/gupmm4/i_init...

I have a more detailed version with gifs on this twitter thread I linked to: https://twitter.com/todo_whiz/status/1266792176832450560?s=2...).

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I think we're saying the same thing. Vox ruminating on the finer points of canister markings distracts from the true issue here.
Giffgaff is really good about actually getting you on to a plan that suits you. They'll automatically update you to the latest plan at the price point you've set. They'll email you suggesting cheaper plan if you're not using all/most of your allowance. I've even had them gift me an extra GB of data when I went over my plan's allowance.