skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like this. It's flexible enough that it could be used in times of true crisis, but it's also super-simple, a major under-appreciated aspect of policymaking.

One thing you definitely DON'T want is a California-style "we can spend with majority but raising taxes requires a 2/3 supermajority". That has produced some truly horrific outcomes in government and needs to be repealed. https://www.westerncity.com/article/californias-two-thirds-l...
And taxes. Booze is a good revenue stream for the Gov. And in regulated US states. It's why both booze and weed got "essential" business status in those places.

Where the weed industry is getting more lobbying, well, the effects on laws are clear (that is the lobbying is working to change laws to help (some) of the pot business.
We are tentatively supposed to go back to the office in mid July. We have a few floors in a fifteen story office building. The plan is to bring a reduced group in with those who need to stay remote still having that option. Masks in all common areas but I’m assuming not in your cube.

I don’t think this will work. I don’t believe it’s possible to have safe offices until Covid19 is completely out of the population.

I suspect they will cancel these plans before they go into place or within a month of starting back up.
Your phone’s music player’s list of artists does not use infinite scroll, which explains why you like it. If you scroll to the bottom of your list of artists on your phone, you will see “ZZ Top” and nothing special will happen – you’ve reached the end. File explorers, which you mentioned, also do not use infinite scroll.

“Infinite scroll” means you can never reach the end, because every time you get close to the end, more content is downloaded and your scroll bar readjusts. There is theoretically some end to the content, but most users will never reach it. Examples are Twitter and Facebook feeds.
That’s an interesting idea regarding rotating external request handling. Do the team members not currently on call forward requests to those on call? How do you manage continuity of communication once the rotation has shifted?
Work output as in financial success/reward, prestige or impact, or something else?
Yes, I believe the point was more toward BaFin and German authorities or investigators.

It's interesting thing to realize, short sellers might be good control for the market.
Show HN: Snagd – Easy way for teams to reserve office space
I can recommend "Feedback Control for Computer Systems, Introducing Control Theory to Enterprise Programmers" by Philipp Janert
In a tech crowd like HN, I don't think that's a reasonable solution for most people.

App ecosystems have network effects. Do your {bank, 2FA vendor, paycheck vendor, retirement vendor, etc} all support apps for LineageOS?

Additionally, the number of tech jobs which support those smartphones, their apps, testing websites on smartphone browsers, and the related marketing all require many of us to participate in the core smartphone markets, even if we choose not to use them outside of work.
Ah, wider WASD. I thought it might be all along home-row on an alternative layout.
No I sadly can't really talk about the process much more than this or name the company. We used AWS Elemental and/or Fastly (I left before they choosed). Wowza is great too but there is a big learning curve.

I left before the ground testing so all I have is theoretical. We had a second websocket to control our own system over the product where you could make rooms kinda like Zoom with live editing.
I would really like to know what went wrong with Google especially. They've had years to develop Hangouts and Meet, yet it's so, so behind in both performance and quality. Are both of these products just riddled with technical debt to the point that these improvements take significantly longer than normal?
Consider that this is a lie being peddled both to black people and to white people.
There are some very important distinctions there.

Maybe you said your free version would use targeted ads - which I'm fine with personally.

It's selling data or being dishonest about how the data is used that I have a problem with, so maybe the problem is that your users trust you so they are comfortable with you having and using their data.
It will be more than happy to activate 20 solenoids at once, which is pretty loud. In practical music you'd use the sustain pedal if you wanted more/longer notes held.

I don't feel like stressing it to the point where it might break using 'black MIDI' or some equivalent, the power supply is 35 years old and might give up the ghost.
There's no way to entirely avoid platform risk, unless you're running your app off the grid, on a boat in international waters, using your own hardware, getting online via multiple satellite providers, and taking payments only via Bitcoin.

Otherwise, it's about trying to decide what risks are reasonable, and doing what little you can to influence each platform's behavior toward you, which is what Basecamp is doing.
I understand what they do. I just dont understand why you would do it.

What is the benefit compared to the much simpler, better performance and cheaper option of just running Linux proper and using wine for windows things.
Did you have a good look at the hammer/keyboard sensors? Those are works of art.
"Entrepreneurial State" is an oxymoron...source: Entrepreneur who worked w/ state for many years.
This post would not survive blind review, though.

The author's brand makes it look very insightful but if you look closely it's really cliche. Yeah, no shit, successful people work hard on important problems, they have small-scale laser focus and also large-scale vision.

Seems like the wisdom tree has been plucked, these startup wisdom blogs are getting emptier and emptier (see also Paul Graham...).
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Some of the complaints are about Epic's lack of any interest in the minefields of Linux and macOS support. It's not a PC gaming store, it's emphatically a Windows gaming store. (Some of those complainants seem to overlook how long Steam was Windows-only or how much of the Steam catalog will likely remain Windows-only.)

Most of the rest of the arguments seem to revolve around Epic doing paid (timed) exclusive deals with an interesting cross-section of developers. (Using the weight of their Unreal engine licensing fees to sweeten the pot of what they could offer in some cases.) It's something common to console games, but some PC gamers seemed disturbed to see it on the PC. It also seems to betray a short-term memory with respect to Steam, as Steam also bootstrapped on exclusives such as Half-Life 2. (Half-Life 2 wasn't even a timed exclusive as most of Epic's have been, HL2 still requires Steam in 2020, whether or not you bought it or The Orange Box on a physical disc from a retail store back in the early oughts. Which leaves prevarication room for some Steam fans because Valve did allow multiple stores to sell the game even if it was a platform exclusive to play the game; but it still ignores the historic controversy when Steam did that in the first place and many gamers at the time called it a mistake and the death of PC gaming.)

(ETA: Also, Epic did do one sleazy/evil thing early in the EGS: it scraped private Steam files for friends lists, rather than using documented APIs, to try to bootstrap its social network.)
> Two filmakers paid $25,488 to buy all seats for 5 screenings of their $0 production budget movie

The film studio usually gets the majority of the ticket sales for a movie, so even if they didn't have connections it would cost them much less than a normal person to rent out the theater.

> Arrangements vary, but the movie studio usually ends up with about 60 percent of the proceeds from American box offices.

> ...

> That figure varies according to the usual supply and demand principles — an extremely hot first-run movie may start out with distribution fees up to 90 percent (in other words, 90 percent of the fees during that time are going back to the studio). As the film stays in distribution longer, the fees go down since demand goes down until eventually the theater replaces it with a different film.

https://theweek.com/articles/647394/when-buy-movie-ticket-wh...

Given that the theaters were completely empty at the time, I'm sure they could have negotiated some pretty good rates.
Yes exactly (although it's a little bit like stealing from yourself but I don't exactly understand how these budgets work - most countries spend quite a lot on treating alcoholics or the damage from lost productivity, accidents, etc. that erodes the tax base and probably lose money in the end)
It is still there, sitting right next to the other. So yes, and a G3 is 180 so not quite a baby, it is huge next to the other one. This is - obviously - a matter of some discussion as was turning the living room into a woodshop for the last month or so ;)
What Community Oriented Policing Looks Like
I'm fond of FreshRSS. It almost fills the void left by Google Reader.
“Does a company that has only ever crawled through other peoples content to lift its visibility by their rules really need to keep doing that?”
Yeah I am with you on this. In my current role, I can do R in as much as it links with D. But really I spend a lot of time building that ampersand rather than R or D specifically: constructing a framework to translate research results into a product, testing that product and then being able to guide the research based on the performance of the product.

That is in and of itself interesting, and the work (making earthquake forecasts and seismic hazard/risk models) is generally fun and has a lot more positive human impact than studying earthquakes because they are simply fascinating geophysical phenomena. But there are regularly a lot of great research ideas that go unexplored because we don't have the resources or immediate incentive to investigate them.
Trivia for Slack – fun, interactive team building games for remote teams
IMO (having only watched the film), preparation was meaningless because McCandless had a mentality that led him _toward_ risk -- a kind of death wish. He escalated his personal risk more and more, and eventually suffered the inevitable consequences.

But, I get the impression that in his own head, he didn't feel a choice in the matter, or rather the alternative was worse.

Therein lies the true "moral" of the film, as I personally interpreted it: McCandless was trapped in his own head, no matter how far he traveled he couldn't escape his own mentality. The tragedy is that it seems he himself realized this too late. But, who knows -- personally, I imagine him being at peace with his decision and the ultimate result.
>But if the top 90 of the 100 medical students are chosen and then 10 are chosen because of non-relevant factors (race, gender, etc)... doesn't it become rational (and maybe morally acceptable) to try and avoid choosing those lesser-qualified 10 for your life-or-death surgery?

Isn't that assuming test scores have a linear relationship to ability?
I would pick one of the conscientious hardworking "lesser-scoring" surgeon over the class valedictorian who might just happen to be a functioning alcoholic.
Thank you so much for the comment (I chuckled quite a bit).

The biggest worry I have right now is after a while I might just start getting bored or frustrated. I love learning new things and building too.

Lets see, how it all turns out.. HN wont let me update you after a year though, the post will get archived :(
App stores on the desktop are nowhere as close to their mobile counterparts. Web versions of mobile apps exist, but people always choose to go with the native versions. While on desktops, the opposite is true. I've always wondered why that is the case.
I recently got back into RSS and have been using (free) NetNewsWire on macOS/AppStore (https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire).

Though RSS clients in 2020 really need to be scraping the origin website. 50% of my feeds are just one-liner blurbs.

RSS clients that just do RSS feel anachronistic. I've been browsing some other solutions, but the modern client really should be a hub that can turn any website into a feed.

Someone linked Fraidycat which is on the right path, objective-wise.
They could have pulled his (and his users) UIWebView caches up into Apple HQ to see what it’s really being used for, but it’s all speculation until they make a public accusation (which they might not do if they don’t want to reveal their manner and methods).
Also if you want good data on costs, effects, and lobbying efforts about the alcohol industry Movendi has good resources (a note- their bias is definitely towards higher taxes and strong laws limiting alcohol use so be aware)

https://movendi.ngo/
I would not call public markets a casino, but I suppose some people have pretty liberal definitions for such things.

Public companies have to submit regular financial reports, which are handled by independent auditors. So you can be reasonably sure that a company claiming to make money, is making money. And executives have a legal requirement to protect share holder value.

Buying shares in Apple is much less of a "gamble" than opening your own business.
Those solenoids are super quiet because of how they are designed, the top is made of rubber with a felt insert, the weight also has a felt layer at the top so when it strikes upwards it can so so forcefully but quietly, without the 'clack' associated with solenoids. Finally, the shaft is super thin (2mm) and runs in a nylon guide for reduced friction, and there is a small spring in between so that when it drops it gets slowed down a bit.

As for the 500 ms, there is a setting on the wagon that allows for realtime during playback.
Weight Loss: Quality over Quantity
I gave a talk on this idea few years ago, that even just the metadata of slack messages was enough to make improvements to process. As a support engineer it was useful for us to see when we were asking questions in slack, what the patterns were to improve our team training:

Ticket comes in -> we don't know -> we link to ticket in X channel. Tally the channel links, look at chart, identify patterns.

In an office, this would require me to be an EXTREME micro manager, whereas remotely, I just paid attention and used the meta data to drive our training.

In an office, you could ask the team to keep track, or to tell you what they noticed, but by having a direct tap into the data stream, the team just does the work.

(This requires a high degree of trust, and we were looking _inward_ so it wasn't something that was met with disdain. If we were using this to compare what teams were more responsive and being outwardly critical, well, I don't think that will go over well anywhere.)
What's Tron and why should I care about them? :)
I like FeedMe -- clean and functional interface, supports offline caching, works with common RSS providers too (e.g. I use it with Feedbin) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.seazon.fee...
Medics, fictions, anything that is not considered cool
One of the reasons alcohol sellers got essential business status is because suddenly stopping drinking alcohol can kill people who are dependent drinkers.
> It does not solve that person thinking bigoted things, but it does help prevent them from turning other people into bigots.

I'm not sure how you came to this conclusion. Is it your belief that we are actually capable of silencing bigots? Keep in mind that the largest TV network in the US is Fox News, which is more-or-less openly bigoted. Bigots are capable of writing their own publications and building their own websites.

And I'll just save everyone's time by pre-emptively shooting down that dumb study of Reddit which censorship proponents frequently cite[1]; there's absolutely no evidence that those users didn't simply move over to Voat.

Put yourself in their shoes: if someone tried to censor anti-bigotry speech, wouldn't that mobilize you to find different avenues of speech and speak all the louder? What makes you think that bigots can't or won't do (or haven't already done) the same thing? On the contrary, trying to silence people is more likely to radicalize them than actually succeed in silencing them.

[1] http://comp.social.gatech.edu/papers/cscw18-chand-hate.pdf
A similar argument is "You could always claim that anyone is a murderer, and thus you could imprison anyone. Therefore there should be no legal consequences for murder."

I disagree with this mode of argument that you should not support some action A because someone might perform action A incorrectly or mistakenly.
I don’t think the energy companies are exactly quaking in terror:

http://progressive.org/op-eds/let-cut-our-losses-on-fusion-e...
I specifically installed Waterfox so I could keep using SageRSS. It's ancient, but I've never found anything else that comes close to being as good. People have made modern copies, but they got subtle things like font sizes and preview windows wrong so I found that they all fell in an uncanny valley for me.
It's people being ill prepared in general. When I lived in Colorado I did a lot of hiking, and was always prepared to spend the night if needed.

Now I live on the coast and the most cut off I feel is when I go offshore fishing (particularly in a smallish center console). Even though you have a few friends with you, once you get 30+ miles offshore all you see in any direction is water. Going offshore fishing is more about preparation than almost anything else.
It's a story repeated ad nauseam, but the founder of Zoom came from Cisco, after having been in charge of WebEx there. Cisco had refused to let him do what he saw needed done to radically improve WebEx, and so he left and created Zoom and did it there.

Cisco just saw a product that was successful at the time, and a senior exec that wanted to spend a lot of money to ultimately still only have video conferencing software. They were wrong with their decision, but it's an entirely understandable one.
Cellulose in Dog Food
Taking a dog into the house, we are responsible for it. I believe that everyone should study a lot of information about nutrition and maintenance before taking a pet.It is necessary to check the presence of cellulose in the feed. In General, it is a good opportunity to feed chicken and rice. https://catdog11.com/can-i-boil-chicken-and-rice-for-the-dog...
I read most blogs with Reeder (over 1000 blogs). Top blogs are in 1. folder, the rest are in 2. folder.

Here is an export of all the subscriptions (stored with Inoreader): https://gist.github.com/nikitavoloboev/63b5d2418122fcd6949d8...

How I use Reeder: https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/research/blogs
I was lucky enough to be able to use the Twist app for team communications for some time. I highly recommend it to people willing to go the async way. It feels like a perfect cross between e-mail, forum and slack.
With the weight of your average piano (700 pounds or thereabouts) that would require some major engineering, you're looking at something the size of a regular helicopter to lift it.
I mean sure, except for the ones who aren't.

If the average citizen of the U.S is scarface what is a koch brother then? A monster made up of a thousand scarfaces all shouting say hello to my little friend in unison?

If the average citizen of the U.S is scarface what about someone who works at Greenpeace, doesn't have a car and lives frugally? Probably scarface in comparison to the average untouchable in India but I don't know enough to make that comparison.
I haven't tried this lately, but you get a compiler error if you include <windows.h> and use 'near' and 'far' as variables names (which are holdovers when 'near' and 'far' were keywords for ptrs that supported segmented memory flavors).

A lot of old OpenGL code and uses 'hither' and 'yon' for the near and far clipping plane for this reason. :)
I think the history of Blood Libel is instructive here. The story of Simon of Trent was spread both maliciously and foolishly and led directly to the murders of a large number of jewish people and played a role in centuries long persecution of european jews.

The example you mention is interesting because I think it is a good example of a statement that is both spread maliciously and foolishly. There has been both deep study and serious activism surrounding "black on black crime" yet this phrase persists because it is powerful ammunition from people who seek to persist white supremacy to convince people that people that activism is just whining and should be ignored. If you stood up in a Q&A session at a sociology conference on criminology and asked this you'd be outing yourself as truly ignorant of the field - the same as if you stood up in a Q&A session at an atmospheric science conference and asked "what about milankovitch cycles".

The heterodox academy tips their hand when they bring up examples of thoroughly discredited ideas as things that they should be able to force people to take seriously.
Creating a Vue.js App – Vue.js Series – Part – 1
Source needed on this claim that "BLM(the organization) saying we need to dismantle the nuclear family"
Is this coming up because their app store didn't work very well?
Congratulations to you and the team for the launch!
How many times is Google going to try these things before they realize that's not their differentiator as a business?
I use Tiny Tiny RSS https://tt-rss.org/

screenshot: https://snipboard.io/wb27CO.jpg
Another vote for inoreader. I glady pay inoreader at a higher level than features that I need in order to help ensure I never go thru a google reader debacle again. Inoreader also integrates in facebook pages, twitter accounts and youtube subscriptions to your RSS list.
Well, I wrote a comment and then I decided to delete it and start over, rereading what you wrote and studying it.

First you say it's ridiculous to blame the police.

Then you suggest poverty might be to blame, but you doubt it.

Then you propose the experiment of reducing poverty.

But you don't believe that's the cause! And I don't either. So it seems to me like you're not providing an alternative hypothesis to blaming the police.

I think in order to select evidence, two alternative hypotheses are a pre-requisite. And if you think the one is "ridiculous", then it implies you have another one. You just haven't stated it so I am aware.

Also, your last two sentences really bother me, despite being far from an expert in statistics. Do you think it's reasonable to say that correlation is symmetric, while causality is not? And how in general, do you think you resolve a chicken-and-egg problem where people dispute responsibility? It doesn't seem to me like the answer is simple or purely a matter of statistics.
> universities are conspicuous consumption, internships are conspicuous consumption, entrepreneurship is conspicuous consumption

> scientific research is conspicuous consumption (MIT Media Lab?), book authorship is conspicuous consumption, and political candidacy is conspicuous consumption

Is the paper making all these claims? I don't see them.
> As a result, there are no 1-2% cash back options for cards to keep track of or any other silliness, you can just use your credit card as a method of payment, without thinking about which card to use for what.

In other words, consumers get offered fewer options, which results in a far worse deal, overall, but in exchange they can avoid the hassle of evaluating all the better options they'd have if they hadn't been legislated away.
> the vast majority of companies just turned off all operations to avoid an GDPR mess

Are you saying that regulation is effective? :)
What is supposed to be your point?
> No amount of academic research, statistical results, or empirical results can help you make sense of the world if you can't make assumptions based on common sense perception

You have that COMPLETELY backwards. "Common sense" perception is extremely flawed because the perception of individual humans is limited by their own experiences and forms an incomplete picture of the truth. If your argument is that "common sense" (common according to who?) beats empirical data, it's no better than religion.
"Learn more" => "Contact us"

That's it?