skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are all screens. Rarely I record a design on the whiteboard and I end up in the frame, but I'm fine with it. BTW this also works much better than any spec.

Self consciousness is an interesting problem. I prefer seeing faces on the screen during the stand-up (such as it is in the days of COVID), but I was told many hesitate to be on camera.

Did you ever find a way out of this? Join.me has very small video size, I imagine this is one way to lessen the stress. Alas it doesn't work for me - I need to see the facial expressions because I need to know when I lost the audience, and because I find it hard to pay attention to a disembodied (and heavily compressed) voice.
I do want to seriously address one of the points on this page. Water is, in fact, blue. It sometimes appears green because of algae and other organisms in it. Here is a better explanation than I could have come up with:

> The water is in fact not colorless; even pure water is not colorless, but has a slight blue tint to it, best seen when looking through a long column of water. The blueness in water is not caused by the scattering of light, which is responsible for the sky being blue. Rather, water blueness comes from the water molecules absorbing the red end of the spectrum of visible light. To be even more detailed, the absorption of light in water is due to the way the atoms vibrate and absorb different wavelengths of light. [0]

Likewise, while nitrogen is colorless, oxygen is actually blue as well, which, in turn, means that air is actually slightly blue (this is not the cause of the blue sky -- see [1]).

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[0]: https://www.usgs.gov/special-topic/water-science-school/scie...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayleigh_scattering
I'm not sure if a new particle collider is a good use of that money. But imagine you could put it towards science, innovation (like incentives for starting and running startups or businesses), and social programs (like healthcare, education).

Where would the US be after twenty years of that instead of spending it on military?

People think this idea is crazy, but if I were in charge, I'd keep a small but efficient force that can be scaled up and down quickly for dealing with Iraq or Iran scale enemies, and rely solely on nuclear weapons for defending against hostile superpowers - which is how any superpower conflict is likely to end anyway.

Yeah, you can't play the imperialism game like that, but it doesn't seem worth the cost anyway.
Lots of comments seem to not know about SonarQube[1], which is a meta linter that has been existing for a while now.

[1] https://www.sonarqube.org/
"I could hire half the poor to kill the other half."

And in the end, even those jobs were automated.

Remember, how poorly people are treated now and in the past is how we are treated while the 1% needs something from us (our labor).

Do you honestly expect better treatment when we are useless eaters?
I suspect you phrased this poorly:

1. I set up an LLC.

2. I have a regular job which is earning me income.

3. I put some of that income into a 401K.

4. I direct the 401K to invest in my LLC.

5. As the guy running the LLC, I take that amount of money and pay myself a salary equivalent to what I put in.

How is that money ever going to grow? What's the benefit? You didn't pay taxes? Pretty weak benefit, IMO.

There is such a thing as self directed retirement. People buy real estate with it all the time. The regulations require, though, that any profits made out of it must go back into the retirement account until you're old enough to withdraw. I could use retirement money to buy a broken house, fix it up, and flip it. But all profits have to go back into that account. I cannot keep any for myself.
I use that fact quite a bit when training my labrador; when in the woods, if she ranges too far, I'll just stop and stay completely motionless. She'll fail to see me at about 15-20 meters from me, especially if I'm against a tree or something. Even if I'm not obscured at all.

Soon tho, her nose will pick me and I can then see her eyes 'click' on me eventually. I use that trick to keep her "worried" she'll lose me, so she keeps checking on me at shorter intervals and control her urge to follow a yummy smell.

The interesting thing is that on the other hand, she has no problem tracking a moving object in flight at 100m, like a pigeon. Once I was shooting clay pigeons, and missed one overhead, and a few minutes later she came back all happy with my unbroken clay target, she had tracked it, marked it, and retreived it!
Feel free to criticize. All I said is comparing lives saved to businesses destroyed is ridiculous and stupid as a criticism. Even one life saved is greater than all businesses destroyed, but that's just my opinion. You seem to think losing businesses is worse than losing lives. That's an opinion I call callous. But the reality is, it's stupid to compare the two in the first place.
>if you don't understand a technology and if/why it really is superior to existing solutions, you almost certainly aren't going to make money off it.

Something closely related, but if you do understand a technology, and if/why it really is superior to existing solutions, you would almost certainly already be making money with that technology.

So you do need to question a lot of investments into technology firms that have no revenue? They have no enormously expensive hardware component. (Like there is with, say, concentrated solar thermal technology.) There is often no onerous federal regulatory framework they need to navigate. (As exists for FDA compliant health care tech for instance.) Why are people laying out these enormous investments if not something of a combination of vanity and entertainment?
Think about what it means to buy into an index fund. When my next paycheck comes in, I'm going to use 20% of it to invest in the stock of some S&P 500 companies, even though I don't know most of their names and have no idea what results can be expected from them. Tossing money blindly at random companies isn't completely unproductive, since capital is valuable, but in terms of the underlying social purposes of investing it doesn't accomplish much.
But people literally mean “defund the police” in the sense of “completely eliminate the existing police force in its entirety and build something else from the scorched earth.”

And for black communities it really is true that no police would be an improvement over the current status quo. That’s literally the main tenant of the protests.
I think that an counterargument that can be made against any argument obviously proves too much and has to be ignored.

The alternative is that we accept that all arguments cause murder and must be banned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proving_too_much
Let's talk about a cop asking me for training
> which got the editorial page editor fired, and a main argument was that publishing it threatened the lives of NYT employees

The official editorial note makes no mention of this:

> An editors’ note posted late Friday noted factual inaccuracies and a “needlessly harsh” tone. “The essay fell short of our standards and should not have been published,” the note said.

In the end, criticisms of one for-profit newspaper aren't all that compelling to "free speech". In the same way we don't force a Christian church to allow any atheist to debate evidence against the existence of a god _in_ _a_ _church_, we don't force private companies to publish that which the company doesn't want to publish.

So long as the discussion is happening somewhere in society, I don't know that we must insist that _all_ conversations are happening _everywhere_.
Wow, I completely forgot about this one. I remember this on my flip phone. While a nice bit of nostalgia, IIRC the fees and royalties were very high and the administration to get something submitted was not in the same ballpark of the earliest Apple App Store.
The weird thing is that even with Cisco $$$ Webex still isn't as good as Zoom at streaming. I wanted to watch a Youtube stream simultaneously with friends and tried it out with Webex, Hangouts, and Zoom. Hangouts was unwatchable, maybe 1-2 frames/second, but hey, it's a "free" product. Webex made it possible to see what was going on, but honestly it was pretty crappy. Zoom looked more or less like the original stream. Pretty amazing for a product that until last year was mainly known security holes.
Because you can see their usage as a series of "points" linked to exactly one other point, that forms a "line", as opposed to other systems where you could have more of a graph or tree.
No one said VC, PE most certainly does invest in startups with exactly that focus on cash flows and leverage. The ones I have experience with tend to look at "older startups" think something like a 7-year-old company that don't really have a hope of a large cash payout but is still viable as a business. It seems to be one transition path for a traditionally VC backed company to resemble a regular small business.

I have personal experience with at least two startups that had undergone that experience and are still around right now.
Right. The point of the oil exploration expedition is not whether you find oil or not. It's that at google, running an expedition gets you a promotion, whether you found anything useful or not.
From the article:

"One record detailed how a German man, whose name we’re withholding, used a prepaid debit card to place a €10 bet on an esports betting site on April 19. The record also contained the man’s address, phone number and email address."
At work we have a problem in a different domain that I had planned to use an approach like this on. The extra resources that folks have linked to or provided are quite helpful. Thank you!
Totally agree - not suggesting we throw out writing, we would all be doomed.

I’m sure your blind colleague wrote well - so do many of my dyslexic colleagues. Doesn’t mean it was easy or fast For them though.

I suppose what I’m saying is that there’s no one-size-fits all or one thing for all tasks. This article highlights the advantages of writing. And I agree. But it isn’t the right work from home comms tool for all combinations of people and tasks.
Google owns a 7.5% stake so you can get exposure that way
How do you accomplish "don't reuse passwords" in practice without relying on those same devices like smartphones or computers to store your passwords?
They're linear because they can only be used once. If you draw out the set of 'references' to the object in a timeline it'll always be a line, whereas with a non-linear object, it could be any DAG.
"Breakout Rooms" is already a feature of Zoom.
My math says 60x increase, which is a lot considering that the liability of each added source line is superlinear.

And it's also a lot considering that most (?) of those lines of source are compiled into a single inscrutable binary. One of the great boons of init.d shell scripts is that you can just look at them when something is going wrong, and quickly realize that they have a bug.

If something's wrong with a unit file (and/or systemd itself) it can be extremely difficult to debug. The unit file for a reasonably common piece of software (ganglia) is broken, and apparently still is after years. I've no real idea of how to debug this, and certainly don't have time to fuck with it. At least in this regard, systemd sucks.
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Because they're getting further and further away from their maker/hacker roots, and are now fully in the investor/politician/executive role. Two very different kinds of thinking and seeing the world, and the former typically have a strong dislike for the thinking/operating style of the latter.
Semantics: if you define any system with the goal of ensuring that the laws are followed no matter the method used “the police” then sure you’re right.

Does that mean such a system has to look anything like our currently very militarized police force? Nope!
> misinterpreted resulting in the loss of an async cycle.

True, but readily fixed with "Can we talk about this when you have a minute?"

Also, losing "an async cycle" is a completely alien concept to me. I've been working remotely for a decade, never heard that phrase, and not entirely sure why it matters. Does a conversation that takes 14 Slack messages make the business less efficient than one that only took 11?

Honestly, I'm not trying to just nitpick, but why would a room full of people be beneficial to decisions "when they verge toward the arbitrary"? Wouldn't that be the perfect time for everyone to send their async opinions, and let a single decision-maker just decide? Large calls/meetings work when you don't know what you don't know - to get all the information on the table, and have all the knowledge in the same place at the same time. You talk, give answers where needed, assign some action items to people, and go back to your async lives.

As far as the initial statement that you must be competent at writing and reading prose... I'd love to hear more about that than "it's harder than it sounds". I've worked remotely with people with dyslexia and reading disabilities and C-level personalities that refused to get in-depth in any single communication. And one guy who had all those traits - the CEO... and it worked fine. None of that stopped us from doing our jobs effectively. You did need to learn how your co-workers communicated, but let me assure you - we were not excellent writers, we just knew our co-workers well enough to know their communication styles.

That is what remote work comes down to, at the end of it all. Not communication frameworks and rules of when to use what communication channel - but getting to know your team well enough that you know how to work together. If you do that, you succeed, whether remote or in an office.
That doesn’t really answer his question.

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2339147/why-is-it-c...

Apparently there is some connection to vector spaces in the structure of linear logic which linear types are based on.
For me it just keeps spinning at "loading your data" with a bunch of CORS errors in the developer console.
Well, the whole point of repeating back their world view is to prevent implicitness and reduce hidden misunderstandings.

It's really not hard to do. You'll never get there 100%, but getting to 80%? It's easy.
As I understand it, Session uses LokiNet, and there are also sites, analogous to Tor onion services, and potentially other services. However, running LokiNet nodes requires a substantial stake, which is payable in Loki. The stake is at risk for malicious behavior, and nodes get paid in Loki for services that they provide to the network. Perhaps some features require user payments, but I haven't researched that.
I'm familiar with mag locking and all of the "featureless" difficulties, I was just being brief. However I understand center fire refers to the cartridge/primer configuration and I'm not really sure why that matters, could I trouble you to explain? WRT the buffer tube, I understand that you need the buffer to move the bcg, correct?
The ranger wasn't referring just to the bus but to all the people who do things like this.
I mean it works but “fine” is a pretty low bar for the point of using computers. I say this as an owner of about $50k of macs in my apartment.
There's a difference between "getting sued over by government authorities" and government authorities investigating suspicions.

The "getting sued over" part didn't happen. Public prosecutors investigated – and didn't filed suit. At least for now (I doubt they will).

This misrepresentation of such a small but important distinction (sueing vs. investigating) is one that was also repeatedly seen in short-sellers tweets in the anglo-sphere.
You have much more leeway if you can tune ffmpeg decoding settings manually, skip frames whenever you want, etc than if restricted to what webrtc gives you. Also Zoom is built with Qt which is pretty efficient :-)
If I encrypt an email and send it over the internet would my ISP become liable?
i really like https://newsboat.org/. very few keystrokes to remember, super fast, ~/.newsboat/urls is a simple file with 1 feed a line.
How do you get your coworkers to start proofreading what they write?
> Following on from your logic, it only makes sense we should ban open fireplaces and cigarettes in houses because that's the leading cause of house fires,

That's an amusing example to me, because indoor and outdoor fireplaces of any kind are in fact banned in my city, since it's densely built with lots of wood buildings, and because of air quality concerns, my city has deemed they are not worth the risk.

> which then put fireman's lives in danger.

And yes, the firemen will be the first to give you an earful if you don't respect the fire safety code.

> following from your logic [...], we should ban [...] cigarettes

Nice strawman though. I said it was in society's interest to set limits, I made no argument as to what exactly the limits should be. That's not my decision or yours, as long as it's public resources that are at stake, it should be a democratic process.

> The average heli rescue costs around $10k (heli's are smack on $1k/hr), and in many jurisdictions if the person getting rescued was doing something stupid, they foot the bill, not the public.

In that case, as I said, if they are footing the bill, I really have no problem with it.
Physics has almost single-handledy enabled the last 100 years or so of economic growth. You could make a decent case that increase in inequity has something to do with a slowdown in the progress of physics: A lack of fundamental advancement means people are not making new stuff, but rather fighting over its distribution.

Now, I don't know if this collider is going to make any difference about that. Quite likely it won't. But given physics' track record, I don't think it's clear at all that there are very many things that the money would be better spent on.
> This is why crying "Fire!!" in a crowded theater is not considered free speech.

To be precise, it _is_ considered protected free speech. For it to not be protected, the speaker has to _knowingly_ say it _falsely_.[1]

Also, this was only a hypothetical example from a SCOTUS case where an American was petitioning WW1 draftees to ignore/avoid the draft, which is far less of a black and white situation (a fire is an eminent danger to the people in the room, a war across the ocean is not), which reinforces your point.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_the...
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> I wish more nations chalked this up as the 'cost of doing business'.

That makes sense, but you must also have a framework that tells you when something is just too much. It looks like you are comfortable with €21 BN, would €210 BN be also ok, or €2.1 TN or €21 TN? Which level does not justify the knowledge gain?

Fundamental knowledge is valuable, but in a world with finite resources you must always be able to compare with other valuable alternatives. Should we, the humankind, invest a few tens of billions into chasing hypothetical superpartner particles? Or we should invest in the ARC fusion reactor [1], that might help us cut down our greenhouse gas emissions in 20 years?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_fusion_reactor
Couldn't they split into two companies?
I agree some aspects of the mobile experience is suboptimal so far. I hope it can be improved in the future :)
Apple Watch sales are increasing year over year.

"Apple now sells more watches than the entire Swiss watch industry"[0]

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/5/21125565/apple-watch-sales...
I finished "Blink" recently and one of the little revelations in that book is about the police and why nobody has partners anymore. Some friends and I used to joke that it was because the city was trying to save labor costs (an extra car being a lot cheaper than extra cops, we reasoned).

Turns out that a cop on their own is more conservative. They have to think about whether to engage - they have no backup, so any situation they get themselves into, they can't entertain any fantasy that their partner will dig them out of it.

It slows them down, makes them assess the situation, reason about it instead of reacting. It improves citizen and officer safety.

Using computers to audit human decisions instead of circumventing them just sounds like a more realistic option. Send the questionable xrays for a second opinion (or have the same tech look at them a second time on a 'good day' instead of 4:30 on Friday). File code review comments instead of blocking a merge. File PRs to upgrade dependencies that appear to pass the test automation.

The human still consciously chooses in these situations.

In the old days we had some UX luminaries who talked about the importance of having systems (especially where Customer Relationships are involved) whose business logic can be overridden by a human operator. Waive the fee. Exempt from taxes, what have you. It's in many ways the same kind of problem, just magnified.
Agreed. By extension, you also should not use a debit card as a credit card, for largely the same reasons. Credit cards have excellent fraud protections enshrined in law that are not extended to bank accounts or debit cards. Your individual banking experience may vary, however. For example, my credit union has a $0 liability guarantee for fraud on my debit card, but they are not required to offer that.

Personally, the only companies that have direct access to my bank account are those that either won't accept credit cards, or make it excessively difficult to do so. Chief among them would be the service that processes my rent payments, and PG&E.
I climb too, and I agree with your perspective.

When I read the book I felt McCandless was a romantic. Naive perhaps, and his death was unnecessary, but he lived his life on his own terms to a degree which is relatively rare today.
There’s a couple dozen packages on there. This can’t be described as “exactly the same” as npm/typescript if the scale and level of community involvement [1] is nowhere near the same.

1: among the most important things here, in addition to the strength of the type system, where mypy also lacks
If Apple had been first to market with a "wireless tether" VR headset that could have been interesting. A straight Quest competitor seems like an uninspired choice, especially as Apple has never been great at gaming, and the market seems less than Apple-sized.

AR glasses on the other hand they could bust wide open, but it all depends on the display technology. Literally nothing else matters unless the display is a huge breakthrough. I doubt that it will be good enough by 2023, unless Apple goes for a niche market first and expands wide a few generations later. But that doesn't really seem their style.
Anything I would have made will get eaten up (and then some) by large fees.
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