skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is wonderful, and with the advent of the internet/easy telecommunication, it would be great to be able to order additional things as part of the delivery. I'm particularly interested in the reduction of packaging waste that this would enable.

I've got a local jam maker who creates truly wonderful products. She delivers and also can re-use jars; its one or two steps away from being a milkman type deal. Farmers markets are a great way to find vendors who can do this, at least in my little part of socal. I've got a nut guy, a baker, and a jam maker and I love supporting these kinds of local operations.
Occam's razor says she had the flu and not Covid-19.

Influenza isn't one thing and the flu can have severe symptoms. Swine flu is also still going around. My wife's coworker (large tech company in the Bay Area) was positive for swine flu around March.
Now more than ever, the future of innovation is as disruptive as groundbreaking
The concept of Double Blind is gone, because papers are out on Arxiv the second work is done on them. Within a small research domain, everyone knows what the other person is working on.

You don't know the reviewers, but the reviewers often know who the authors are.
> Any catastrophe that happens so close to the point of becoming a multi-planetary civilisation simply wouldn't catch enough species.

Unless you're missing some sort of fundamental serialization of events, like technology A that enables colonization is also so destructive that it wipes them out. Nuclear power could have been an example.

Perhaps we would need to master genetic engineering in order to survive the ravages of long-term space exposure, and that might inevitably lead to an outbreak that wipes out most of the species.

Or perhaps sufficient automation is needed because biological brains are too slow and imprecise, but sufficient intelligence and automation inevitably yields an AI that supplants them.
It is fun to see how much of this overlaps with the official guidelines for colors [0]. I think that the five colors are better explained in terms of deck strategies and win conditions. Crucially, by design, no color is best, nor is any combination of colors best.

White represents not dying, both by preventing damage and by healing damage. White wins by having more health than their opponents, and outlasting them in battle.

Blue represents drawing the right card, mostly by drawing a lot of cards. Blue wins by controlling spells and hands. (When the article says "knowledge", note that the MTG deck in play is called "the library"!)

Black represents destruction. Black wins by controlling battlefields and removing blockers.

Red represents opportunities in the current moment and the random possibility of change. Red wins by playing on offensive tempo (the "upswing") and attacking vulnerable targets with instant abilities. ("Tempo" here is not quite as in music; it means playing cards turn after turn with a reliable ramping up in cost and effectiveness.)

Green represents growth and the potential for planning. Green wins by playing on defensive tempo (the "downswing") and tilting the battlefield in their favor over many turns.

Ideally, this system of categorizing by color works because there aren't any big strategies to winning that aren't color-aligned. "Milling", the strategy of deliberately destroying your opponent's library, is closely tied to blue and black, which are all about libraries and destruction. Keeping a "zoo", a battlefield full of mid-range on-tempo creatures, is closely tied to red and green, which are the two colors tied to tempo.

[0] https://mtg.gamepedia.com/Color
You think a strong percentage of people switched to Android simply for maps?
It's interesting to see one of the basis of defense is promises made during offer stage.
Anecdotally speaking, and I am not remotely close to Hall's position or responsibilities (an engineer) and in the past, the hiring team has always led me to believe that the non-competes are a standard clause and are not likely to be enforced.

On a separate note, anybody knows if Google would help with legal defense of Hall or ignore this as a private matter?
I have a garden but dealing with bugs and weeds limits my enthusiasm for planting crops outdoors and so in addition to just growing a few things outside I’ve also been growing things in our AeroGarden and am experimenting with Kratky style hydroponics https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kratky_method .
For whatever reason, this comes to mind -

A judge meets a colleague in the corridor who's chuckling and wiping tears from his eyes, saying "Ah, I just heard the best joke of my life!" - "So tell me?" - "I can't, I just assigned 20 years of hard labor for it.."

But the Soviet economic sytem was one where you could go to a shop and ask "You don't have sausage, I suppose?" and they would answer "No! Here we don't have milk, the shop on the other side of the road doesn't have sausage!"
Honestly what the post author is describing sounds about my experience with the Java + Maven deps world about 10 years ago when I last used it. A giant trail of dependencies of questionable quality (and how many problems with commons-logging?).

I have no desire to write JS, really, but it doesn't sound unfamiliar.
Wow I 'm not german... but man... I can imagine all hell breaking down in our offices if came running in yelling to everyone The "Führer is DOWN"
> Anyone who mentions rioters and does not talk about police brutality needs to examine their motives carefully.

Why? Does a rioter murdering someone somehow balance out a bad cop murdering someone? No. You just end up with twice as much awful.
After seeing the devastated shelves in the local supermarket shortly before lockdown, I semi-jokingly bought a load of vegetable seeds wondering whether I’d need to dig up the lawn and turn it into a kitchen garden. Three months later we’ve got a good crop of cucumber, tomatoes, peppers and carrots going.
Seems like there could be a lot of use cases where you don't need anything even close to perfection.
This is a half measure, erasing the painful history without correcting the wrongs of the past. We should keep the blacklist/whitelist terminology, but with their meaning reversed.
Looking at this guy's history, he has a long history of posting misleading propaganda from Guangdong.
My aunt gave me the author’s book as a gift a few years ago. It was quite an astounding read.
I don't disagree with your point on racism existing.

I personally believe profiling is not the same as racism, both have clear definitions. Both also sweep up innocent people and lump them in with miscreants who "look like that" so it's not something to go to the mat over. I basically agree.

What I don't agree with is your over the top rhetoric.

"We've seen 400 years of structural anti-black racism here, with no end in sight. The USA has had more than 240 years to fix that."

This disregards John Brown, the civil war, the civil rights act, affirmative action and a multitude of programs policies and attempts to bring justice and some measure of equality of opportunity to the minority. It also ignores the widespread support of the current protests and paints America with an overly broad brush of racism. In short, it does exactly what racists are accused of doing. I realize you likely read this kind of thing in a book. That doesn't make it any better nor more fair or accurate.

When you say "structural" and attempt to equate profiling with slavery or segregation, both of which were structural in an attempt to imply we are exactly the same place legally and in terms of opportunity, and how the system treats minorities when we manifestly are not, it's offensive, inaccurate and it raise hackles.

I really didn't want to get deep into this, and I'm not debating, but I think this point needs to be raised because there is entirely too much hot and shallow speech about lately and it detracts from the core point.
By your words, let's allow vastly heightened danger to those over 40.

How about, we have national regulations for safe interactions, rules requiring ppe when appropriate, and available ppe. Your company has to provide it if you work together. It turns out its very very hard to provide ppe that protects people when they work closely together (see the meat packing plants, see hospitals). My families economic safety is also impacted if I'm dead or in the hospital with covid, even if they are all in your 'safe' category. Only a few 100 kids will die unnecessarily so we can open the economy?
Companies value people who are dependable, including being a little bit available on vacation. Its not fair but it's true.
It's because not even the foundations are not properly engineered, mostly due to lack of funding (because they can't be sold, and anyway the market doesn't reward proper engineering beyond a basic level, and governments don't massively fund open source), as well as lack of accountability for broken and insecure software.

For instance, look at programming languages: to write provably correct code you need dependent types, but none of the dependently typed languages produce optimal code or have a viable ecosystem. This problem has been unsolved for more than 30 years. We also didn't even have a barely decent production language until Rust in 2015.

Or databases: the best database is PostgreSQL and it doesn't even have things as basic as unsigned integers in core (!!!) and doesn't support multi-master in core (and of course, written in an horrible language, which is C). Again, problem unsolved for more than 30 years.

Or operating systems: all OSes are fundamentally insecure, because they are not written in a proper programming language, and at least the desktop ones don't generally use a hierarchical architecture, but rather have a single gigantic kernel-user boundary (plus they have horrible APIs, written in horrible languages, etc.).

Most other programs have no chance of even being provably correct to a given spec since the foundations are missing, and thus much less of provably correctly implementing the provably optimal solution to a problem. They are not even engineered properly with reasonable expectation of correctness, because there is no liability if you release an incorrect program.

Of course it's not clear if this is fixable without developing a general purpose AI to write the software or massive societal changes.
A big factor in my switching from Android to iOS was Google Maps support coming to CarPlay. So I wouldn’t write it off.
> In all likelihood the reason the average age of COBOL programmers is stable is because COBOL programmers develop their depth of experience and expertise in other languages before moving over to COBOL later in their career.

No, it's probably that there's a steady but small influx of new developers coming in and the bell curve is throwing off the 'average'. Lies, damned lies and statistics.

Answering questions with statistics is a rookie mistake.
It's a shame that client-certificates is implemented in such a clunky way in most browsers and operating systems, because that could also be an easy way to achieve this even without installing anything.
Yeah, VLANs work for a TV that is only trying to connect to your network, but doesn't deal with the case of a TV that will connect to any open SSID (a case that at least one other commenter in this thread claims is already occurring). It wouldn't be difficult to have the TV check different open networks if it's not able to reach a server due to a firewall config on the home network. For anyone living in a relatively dense city, this could be a problem.
Found the Brit. :-)

(What's up with throwing bicycles at horses? That's just mean.)
For anyone who finds the new Grease Pencil tool exciting but intimidating, a YouTuber named Dedouze (whose amazing artwork is the Blender 2.82 splash screen) has a two-part course on drawing and animating with the grease pencil.

Part 1:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c57qq2nE3B0&t=1404s

Part 2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhcNPYxPqhw
A Great Filter? Just the one?

Unaddressed is the scenario wherein multiple filters exist. One or more could be behind us; one or more ahead. And so, not finding life on Mars or Titan or anything nearby would be nothing to celebrate.
"strength tenets we do not have any to 9 available yeah five-year-old advisor. We have several dogs around miracles"
The question is, how many would care if when they searched on their phone the results went to search.apple.com? Again, we're talking about people outside of tech.
In the bus protocol context of master vs slave:

Some combination of bus-controller works ok, bus-arbiter, or bus-writer vs bus-reader or bus-listener, or bus-consumer.

We also have the idea of having two units 'slaved' together. Which I guess would just be 'synced' or 'chained' though 'chaining' in this case is still probably the same metaphor as 'slave'.

Overall I'm not so big on these sorts of efforts. The euphemism treadmill has been going on forever with little apparent impact on the underlying inequities of the world.

To me it feels like the act of changing the language is a way to feel good about doing something without actually doing the hard work of changing the actual beliefs and actions of racism.

That said I don't think it matters all that much: terminology falls in to and out of fashion all the time, and we end up forgetting where most of it comes from (which could be used as an argument for either side).

So uhh long-live whatever!
The same is true in C++ and Java, only the "self" argument is completely hidden in that case.
Got a PBP with Manjaro KDE/Plasma as well. Would also be interested in such optimization.
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You and a lot of others.

A seed distributor I have a distant connection with with was running at about 7x normal volumes.
They were also selling a lot of things that won’t be grown easily at this time of year, so there are likely to be mixed results.
I don't know what Trump's $1200 monthly payment refers to, the welfare payments came from the us federal govt and state govts. A better reference is Andrew Yang's proposed $1000/month payment.
The article suggests that Apple should buy DuckDuckGo, a much smaller player than the top-3 (Google, Bing, Yahoo) for fear of being "uncomfortably dependent on Bing". First, if Apple wanted a search engine, they could have acquired Yahoo for ~4BN a few years back when it went up for sale. Second, as has been mentioned multiple times, DDG's organic search results come from Bing.
I cut my teeth on VB6. Then PHP, .NET and finally Java.

I look back at all the code I wrote.. And it's all bad. Except anything I wrote 2 weeks ago, that was my crowning achievement. In 2 months I'll hate it, but right now - it's perfect.
Another thing to consider is the Fermi paradox arguments assume something like a steady state universe. However, another hypothetical would be this; suppose life appears many places once the universe gets cool enough and thus whatever life has appeared on earth has been developing at a similar speed to whatever life that exists elsewhere. So it's reasonable to think societies as advanced as us exist but it may not be reasonable to expect societies a whole lot more advanced than us exist. Again, how practical and how time-consuming the hypothetical "colonization of a galaxy" would be is relevant and very hard to answer question.
That's not the sort of test under discussion here. The Abbot test and other antibody tests are blood based. I'm sure there are things in the pipeline that can go wrong, but they're much less susceptible to error.

What is important is that antibodies are a sufficient but not necessary indication of past infection. There seem to be plenty of people who don't develop them when exposed, possibly due to effective T-cell immunity.
There are a lot of empty hotel and dorm rooms right now so that would be a good start. A lot of those who have died so far were infected in family homes with many people living in close quarters. We should focus our limited resources on providing safe living spaces where those at highest risk can isolate themselves if they voluntarily choose to do so.
Reversing the meanings would clearly cause damage to understanding any code written pre-2021. "Is this blacklist the old blocked list or the new allowed list?"
State of Work Survey, June 2020
This can be helped (but not solved) by sticking to a few basic things that grow well in your climate. As soon as I try something that is borderline the amount of work requires goes way up.
> That you - and yes, many others - disagree with that argument doesn't make it fundamentally wrong in the way

No, it's fundamentally wrong because only a minority of people use it in this way. Check a dictionary.
Hi HN! Long-time lurker. Would you be willing to answer a short (10 minute or less) survey to help me get understand what "work" looks like across the country and world? If I get enough responses to make the results meaningful, I'll follow-up with findings.

If you don't have the time or don't want to answer a survey, you could also help by sharing the link.

Direct link to the survey is https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeWlK13CpH-tlfUNpIg....

Thank you!
One question for this community related to the discussion: why DON'T you start a startup?

We talk a bit about having enough wealth to feel secure, like you can't lose it all. (17 min in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ticjeKVgA7Q&t=1020s )

PG has a whole post on this: http://www.paulgraham.com/notnot.html

What is your reason?
Google likely considered legal defense as part of the hiring cost when taking someone that high profile.

> the hiring team has always led me to believe that the non-competes are a standard clause and are not likely to be enforced.

Your average engineer is likely easily replaceable. Directors and VPs are hard to replace and a huge win for any company that successfully hires them.
Some of the text though are pretty weak. I have no idea if this is just garbled transcription, or dreamy cop talk...

"movie up and around pain and dreamy I'm not"

or

"happy person that you can just so may I help you"
These racists just "blacklisted" "slave" hahahaha

You can't cure stupid. Just start firing these liars before they create laws stating one of them will have to be in every company. #Communism #inclusion #diversity
good luck mate. looks interesting
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So his argument against political correctness is that it doesn't do enough to advance the ideas of those advocating for it. This is your typical confused conservative trying to argue against liberalism by saying it isn't being liberal enough. Needless to say it's a bad and disingenuous argument.
Periodic reminder that weed and psychedelics are _very_ different things, with different effects. One can't be compared to the other, though people sometimes describe "trippy" weed experiences. Each compound produces its own effect.
> It's also quite difficult to get adequate sputum cultures

Heck yes. PNA cx will come back negative a good 2/3 of the time. Doesn't mean an awful lot.
I blend frozen banana, peanut butter, milk, Greek yogurt, and protein powder together and it’s as good as any milkshake (once you get the proportions right). The frozen banana seems to be the key for giving smoothies a creamy texture.

Everyone: if you drink protein powder mixed with water, you are committing a food crime.
Bill Thurston's answer to “What's a mathematician to do?” (2010)
Our new project, Broadcastify Calls, might be a better fit for this. Instead of 24x7 live streams, we capture and ingest every individual call as a compressed audio file from SDRs (software defined receivers) We can then ingest and present back to consumers playback, rewind, playlist, of those calls. We're now capturing over 100 systems and 800-900 calls a minute... as we solidify the architecture it will be our new direction for how we capture and disseminate public safety audio (Police Scanners)

https://www.broadcastify.com/calls
If you want the perfect edge to edge doneness of sous vide, but you also want an amazing crust then I have an another approach for you.

You sear both sides for 30-45 seconds and then let the steak rest for about 2 minutes, and then repeat until you reach the internal temp you want. Usually about 3 or 4 times for a reasonably thick steak.

I can highly recommend this method and it's also good for cooking large numbers of steaks because you can do 2 or even 3 batches at the same time with the same cast iron pan.
At the risk of stretching the metaphor, what I'm talking about are bearings that separate the wheel from the rest of the car. Maybe you have a thin, outward-facing server that does nothing but authenticate, validate, and sanitize input data, and then redirects that to some internal system that knows for sure exactly what it's going to get, and doesn't get to talk to the outside world directly, and therefore doesn't have to worry about attacks.
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Mental illness... Why don't you stand up for progressivism and just invert the meanings of "whitelist" and "blacklist" ("let's remove the whites! They're the problem!")
This might be cynical but maybe because most individual pieces of software don't matter too much.

Software is much easier to change than other things that humans build. It's easier to replace, sometimes with success, than what other disciplines have to work with. A lot of software isn't used in safety critical areas either so failing is acceptable. Lots of companies on the web have lots of downtime and still make money.

Even poorly written software can absolutely print money with huge margins. And old software that's still around and kicking is often the most successful!! A form of survivorship bias.

Sure, _products_ often matter a lot. But within them and as long as they still solve their problems, it doesn't really matter what's inside. If a product I use as an end user has a lot of internal churn, but still solves my problem adequately, I don't really care for the most part.

Sure, if it's medical software, or aviation software, or software to replace an elevator panel, I might care a lot. But your average web app or desktop program?
And has been widely discussed, Sweden has had a lot of excess deaths. Look at death rates compared to Finland, Norway, Denmark.
> Lobotomized subjects similarly report feeling intense pain but not minding it

I'd sign up for that, actually.
> What is the alternative to k8s that does not need people to have any technical knowledge?

Paying for a managed provider. Heroku, Elastic Beanstalk, GAE, GCP, Fargate, etc. You push some buttons, they manage your cluster/services.

People still think they can get a free lunch by downloading some free software. If that were so, Windows and Mac would be dead and Linux would be the only desktop OS. But good news: I hear 2030 will be the year of the Linux Desktop!
Politics and power plays are everywhere :-(
I agree that the context determines the intent to offend but I think some words may be offensive or at least distracting to some despite the context.

If you have seen a word used in a certain context enough it can become difficult to ignore that context in other uses. Similarly, after watching an actor play a role well it may be hard to separate them from that role while watching other movies.

It may also be useful to imagine master/slave replaced with words that are offensive to you to imagine what it’s like for someone else. For example, if they were called pimp/bitch servers I’m sure others would find that offensive.

Different sets of words will be offensive to different individuals. I’m sure we could find 2 words which are less offensive to all.