skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s like scientific communism where factions are set against each other and divisions crated where there were none with no other objective than to win.
According to the [curbed.com] link provided by the sibling comment, the proportion of people moving for work has increased significantly.

At the same time, it didn't provide detailed information.

So when you have trends going in opposite directions, you can't say a priori if they cancelled out.

People are clearly moving less; if the information posted is accurate, more of the moves are for work.

But why can't we start by examining the source of the opinion? My instinct was that it is ill-founded, but who knows if I am right, because I was guessing.

What is the reason that you believe people are moving less for work in the first place? It doesn't take research or debate tactics to simply say "this is what convinced me".
Would love advice on how to find a good accountant.

It’s pretty easy find an accountant but they might not be good and it’s hard to tell, especially in advance.
is there something similar, but for notes ?
Why can't decimal numbers be represented in binary?
It's about the access and ubiquity of it.

In 2001 people still had dialup with AOL CDs. ISDN was the expensive corporate line. DSL was the fancy new broadband. Palm Pilot's and other mobile organizers were still common. Constant internet everywhere you go didn't exist.
Site overwhelmed, cache here

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:DwqAFQ...

Great read!
The Oculus Link cable is optional. Any USB cable (including 2.0 cables) should work as long as the cable itself is good.
For commuting, the Crosscurrent by Juiced Bikes
I like the work of Papert, Montessori, Egan, and also like what Alan Kay has to say. Very little of their analysis is data driven, but based upon anecdotal experience with students. I don’t think the lack of rigorous use of data undermines their analysis and contributions. I also don’t think one needs to start a company in education or teach in the existing model to be able to contribute ideas and have opinions on the subject. Education is a life long endeavor, and so is teaching and mentoring. If you have raised children, for example, you’re qualified in my opinion to have your views taken seriously. I also have had a failed startup in the edu space and I consider my experiences trying to learn and teach others informally to be more useful towards having an opinion about modern schooling.
Yes. For example, webpages viewed in Safari are sandboxed. You can't run arbitrary code to affect parts other webpages. So they had to break out of that.

All apps, including Safari, are sandboxed. Apps can't run arbitrary code to affect other apps. So they had to break out of that.

The system itself is sandboxed. Restarting the phone resets it, in many ways, to a "known" state. So they had to install something that would persist across rebooting the phone.
> Not a single virtue signaling white executive that I know of has resigned their position to "increase diversity"

Founder of Reddit: https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/05/tech/alexis-ohanian-reddit/in...
Quitting a $500k/year Amazon job to become an independent creator
Isn't mob rule what we have now? Isn't democracy effectively mob rule? Where the mob is the majority - being a majority is how they become the mob.
You can also retro fit your bike. I’d imagine this is a popular option since it’s fairly cheap and you don’t really need the motor all the time. Occasionally you may need some assistance.
Also, I at least, have very little confidence that a state level actor couldn't subvert the news.ycombinator.com hosting provider if it wanted to seriously enough.

If someone were to be "secure enough" to be running drugs/guns/children - they'd _have_ to be totally disconnected from the internet and cellular networks, and probably all their first and second level associates as well.

I don't have any sympathy for those people, but sadly a journalist critical of a government has all the same problems there, and that's bad for humanity.
>JPEG can't do transparency

JPEG "can't" do depth maps either, and yet it manages to do them just fine.

"Portrait mode" on Android is simply JPEG + greyscale JPEG embedded in metadata.

If anyone really wanted transparency, it is very easy to add it to JPEG.

That said, in practice, transparency is not needed in non-vector / non-generated graphics formats. The nature doesn't really have an alpha channel, photographs certainly do not.

Transparency is extra information, and can be passed along as such.
The rich have so many layers between them and their property, that "Civil Forfeiture" is not an issue, sometimes not even when convicted.
Who can afford it? The price disparities between locales to too great, and the de-industrialization of the country eliminated the need.
This isn't a good assumption to make, many people own cheap phones that lack hardware codecs that can decode videos with modern encodings.
Because it's fun? That's the main reason I can see.
It's funny, I was thinking about this recently while reading a (slightly embellished) John Steinbeck memoir called Travels with Charley: in Search of America.

He wrote it when he decided to take a nationwide road trip in the early '60s, and it captured a lot of interesting anecdotes about the birth of modern American lifestyles.

One of those was Steinbeck's fascination with "mobile homes", which are the pre-fab houses that you see in trailer parks. When he took his road trip, they were starting to get popular with factory workers. If/when a town's factories shut down, the workers could easily move their homes to where there was work, and he mentioned seeing a lot of them being moved along the highways.

But you don't see that very much these days. It seems like people prefer to stay where they are and demand or wait for the work to come back to them, even when they live in mobile housing.

There's a lot to be said about the value of a community, but I think this sort of stagnation reflects a precipitous decline in the US' appetite for all sorts of risk over the past few decades. Look at how children are raised, at how strangers are treated, at how slowly new developments proceed.

I dunno. It's hard to argue against conservativism in these sorts of situations, because nobody wants to see more child abductions or worksite accidents. But it's hard to deny that we've collectively lost "It", or whatever you want to call that drive to create a city on a hill to provide a beacon of hope and improve humanity's general wellbeing.
One of the creators here! Always happy to be mentioned and glad to answer any questions.

A true love of mine, and something I'm loving see slowly grow and appear in our tech and programming community is interactive tutorials and blogs, which personally I feel teach and inspire creativity in a way like no others. This site is built with a library I called tutorial markdown [1], and the whole blog is also open source [2], and has a little indie podcast too [3]

I really want to see this type of experience grow, so yeah, if anyone is working on similar things I'd love for them to share it here (or with me otherwise). Here [4] is a great blog post by John Otander showing off some great interactive blog posts on the web, all of which are very HN worthy in my opinion.

[1] https://github.com/tholman/tutorial-markdown

[2] https://github.com/tholman/generative-artistry

[3] https://generativeartistry.com/episodes/

[4] https://johno.com/year-of-the-interactive-blog-post/
I’m assuming he wrote that himself or had it written on his behalf. There aren’t a lot of facts available, but from reading the two articles (justice.gov, Reuters), it sounds like his level of experience is a matter of debate.
For the most part, yes, it's much harder to get ACE today than it was 20 years ago, and even then ACE doesn't actually grant you any fancy capabilities on a modern phone.

To get ACE, you will generally need a couple of primitives, such as an ArbR/ArbW coupled with an infoleak to get ROP. This will allow you to execute arbitrary code, but you're still stuck within the confines of the current process' privileges. Phone apps are generally heavily sandboxed, and the web browsers tend to be sandboxed even harder. Having ACE in some arbitrary process won't give you the ability to do anything: filesystem will still be out of reach, most of the time you won't even be able to see other processes or even make network requests. So you'll need to break the sandbox.

Breaking the sandbox tend to involve looking for an RCE in a process outside the sandbox that you can communicating with over an IPC channel. And you'll likely need to do this twice: once to break free of the browser sandbox, and once to break the "App" sandbox. If we take a look at chrome for instance (which is very well documented[0][1]), they have sandboxing mechanisms built-in to disallow access to most resources (like the filesystem) to most of its processes, and to prevent access to most of the kernel API surface. And then Android further sandboxes all apps to disallow them from accessing each-other's data. So again you'd have to find another bug somewhere to bypass this.

There are tons of mitigations techniques being developed to make bugs harder to exploit, from Pointer Authentication (making it much harder to exploit ArbR/ArbW bugs) to Control Flow Integrity (making it much harder to create a ROP chain). Of course, not all apps actually have those mitigations in place, but the web browsers tend to enable most, for instance chrome has CFI enabled[2].

[0]: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs...

[1]: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/master/...

[2]: https://www.chromium.org/developers/testing/control-flow-int...
I might go against the grain here, but if I've had nothing but pure bliss working in Java.

If you're just starting out, Head First Java is the way to go. Then expand your knowledge, look at things like Lombok, or go for one of the languages built on the JVM (Kotlin/Scala). Want insane performance out of the box? Look at Vert.X. There's a library for everything as the language has been around since '95.
Counterpoint: what some might considered time wasted, others could consider time learning, and when a task gets repetitive, you can automate it. That's what made me fall in love with Linux and BSD.
It actually doesn't render properly for everyone, and in fact renders incorrectly in chrome: the nav links (Home, Features, Support) overlap with and intersect behind the main content.

Of course, you probably won't notice this unless you're using a dark mode extension like me, because under normal circumstances, those links are invisible, since they render white-on-white.

Also, tables play poorly with mobile and are usually the opposite of responsive.
Hospitals Sued to Keep Prices Secret. They Lost
Your first sentence claiming that apps must be in the Mac app store in order to use low latency HLS video streaming doesn't appear to be right. The help.apple.com support page you link to says that the API is limited to developers who have Apple Developer Program membership, but that page doesn't indicate that the apps must be distributed via the app store. That's a big difference. Is that limitation documented somewhere else?
50% of those could be nursing home patients. Could be more or less, depending on your region.

Those are absolutely moving deaths forward by a couple months at best.

I'd be willing to put money on a fair amount of the rest of the deaths also being people who are pretty ill. Not all, of course.

Maybe not even most of the rest.

But enough to not be a rounding error.
Not the typical one. As you complain about the Mac as a "dev environment"
"Making the world more open and connected"
Beautifully demonstrated in Monty Python and the Holy Grail:

DENNIS: I told you. We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week,...

ARTHUR: Yes.

DENNIS: ...but all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting...

ARTHUR: Yes, I see.

DENNIS: ...by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs,...

ARTHUR: Be quiet!

DENNIS: ...but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more major--

ARTHUR: Be quiet! I order you to be quiet!
They also cost almost as much as some new cars.
Well, yeah, for anonymous sources. A random blogger they're writing an article about usually isn't an anonymous source.

The ethics publishing name etc. are absolutely debatable, but the anonymous sources you are talking about are something completely different. Those are people who only agree to be sources for the story on the condition that their anonymity will be protected.
It doesn't really seem they ever had such a policy. Not in a meaningful way anyway. There's a twitter thread filled with instances of the NYTs respecting pseudonymity.

https://twitter.com/hradzka/status/1275460707069210624
One thing that might help is more variety in your news-scanning.

CNN will show relentlessly negative headlines until the election is over. Fox will be overly positive. There are other sources on both sides.

For your mental health-- get a variety. You don't have to agree with all of it, but get diverse inputs.
JS/ads and the wifi chipset seems to be the big culprit across laptops in general in this scenario. Even Netflix doesn't drain my battery as fast as hitting an ad heavy site with lots of JS and analytics and I can watch the power usage for my wifi chipset crank up accordingly. This happens across every laptop, iPad, Chromebook etc that I own.
> Please show me the veil.

In mundo's terminology, it's not he veil that's important, but the direction that one is looking through it.

Scott's stated desire is that a search for "Scott [RealLastName] psychiatrist" doesn't turn up his personal blog posts at the top of the results. This is the search that a current or potential client is likely to do, and he would like the results of this search to be professionally oriented. So far as I know (I haven't tried the searches) most casual searches of such terms don't lead to directly to the blog.

He is less concerned with whether a search for "Scott Alexander Slate Star Codex real name" comes up with his real last name, since as you point out this information is already available online and won't be changed by a NYT article. His reasoning (I think correct) is that if a high profile article comes out that uses his full name and his profession, casual psychiatry related searches will highlight his blog rather than his professional career.

Whether or not Scott has a right to this level of privacy is a separate matter, but does this distinction make sense?
> We are pro information density at GitHub.

We are against locking children up in cages at GitHub.
You can't automate hunting through forums and applying the incantations found therein, and most of the things you learn by doing so (in this context) are only useful for solving a very narrow subset of adjacent problems; they aren't usually general principles you can get a lot of mileage out of later
Onewheel owner with about 100 miles ridden chiming in: I think it's a great way to have fun, love riding mine on trails and on short trips for takeout, feels so similar to snowboarding to me, but a terrible choice for commuting. Expensive, short-ranged and slow compared to say, an e-skateboard, e-scooter, or just a bike (electric or not).

I fully agree with whoever told you that the automatic braking is dangerous on downhills, that has been the source of all my scariest Onewheel moments and now I don't go above 10-12 mph when riding downhill, which of course is much slower than a safe downhill speed on a regular bike.
Well from what I've seen the Sponsorware concept is the ONLY monetization strategy I like from both a developer and a user. What alternative is better?

- Consulting, usually means the project is too complex and hard to use without help. Changes to make the project easier to configure are often not even considered...

- Donations, not sustainable for the developer (no users need to pay anything).

- Open-core, one of the worst strategies, as the developer's motivations are almost completely opposed to the open-source community. The developer wants people to upgrade to premium, so the premium features are always prioritised over community features, and people can't extend the software themselves...

- Hosting, not a bad strategy, but is slowly becoming less relevant as deployment of services is becoming increasingly easy.
> I think the "flamewar" penalty only kicks in when there are more comments than upvotes

I guess that might explain why someone who really dislikes SSC might add a lot of short, repetitive comments in this thread :|
I recommend getting all 3 ham radio licenses: technician, General, and extra class. In the process you’ll learn all kinds of things and have a lot of the concepts down. You’ll learn about many different aspects of electronics, antenna design, RF propagation, and fun ways to use radios along the way. And you’ll be ready to put it to use right away with your first license.

So if you research learning materials for those licenses you’ll be off to an awesome start. There’s excellent free and paid books available.
Some people I knew had cable modems in 2001, and a few years before that. Though I read an article much like the one I linked on a 56k modem. (not AOL)

I think my first wifi gear was ~1 year after that. Orinoco chipset. That was a bit ahead of most people at that time though.

But yes, this part wasn't there:

> Constant internet everywhere you go didn't exist.
When I was 14 and got online I liked trolling websites that I knew had older userbases. Like one time I had a 50 year old man reacting to my troll posts it was hilarious to see
This isn’t really new.

Based on the few encounters I’ve had with journalists, I cannot imagine a reason I would voluntarily interact with one unless I was reaching out for a reason.

5/7 interactions, the reporters were a lazy turds who strung together some drivel to meet deadline, missing key facts and mangling the story.
There's no reason that you can't do this. Of course, you're not going to be able to just simply return a list of random numbers. But you can get a Rand [Int] or whatever and then evaluate it in an IO monad using evalRandIO.
I believe the concern is around Windows x64 virtualization, not presumably Linux ARM virtualization.
I literally worked at a company that did a major project called "Big Data". It was in 2013/2014. It used Hadoop. It was pretty useless :)
My brother explained it to me this way:

“TurboTax will take what I did last year and minimize my taxes. My accountant will tell me what to do differently this year to minimize my taxes next year.”

In other words a good accountant is a forward-looking advisor, not just a calculator.
I don't think we meant it as a criticism of either Goldman Sachs or JetBrains...
You should not mention "Rust" and "fast compile time" in the same sentence, unfortunately.

https://prev.rust-lang.org/en-US/faq.html#why-is-rustc-slow
How useful is ARM Linux virtualisation nowadays? If you use Docker then are the ARM variations as mature as alpine based Dockers containers? Can you really deploy to x86 with just ARM Docker testing? If not then what utility do you gain here?
Never liked how Microsoft designed things because it feels unfinished and contrast of colors is bad. Certain content is pushed to the edges of the screen for no good reason and some of the fonts are a light in color making it hard to read. The commits link is not obvious anymore that it's clickable.

The redesign is not that bad but there's still a lot to improve on. Before it was easier to scan the page from top to bottom but now the page feels a lot more busier because there's more dropdowns and sidebars. I feel like my eyes are jumping all over the place trying to locate things now. Wish they had chosen functionality over design.
UptimeRobot lets me collect multiple monitors and show just those on a custom status page. I can give that URL to a customer, or set up custom DNS for it so it appears on their domain. Not a deal breaker but some of my customers like it.

I also use the keyword matching for checking things like disk space usage on some sites. The SSL cert checking is handy too.
>and my downsides are... what exactly

Less cohesion, competing GUI libs/configuration systems/etc, still not 100% GPU support, the Wayland situation, almost non-existent multimedia (video, audio) options (not to mention support for peripherals like audio interfaces), and being at the worse than Apple's arbitrary mercy of your favourite desktop environment programmers (e.g. abrupt transitions and bizarro decisions in Gnome and KDE major versions).
They can do that but then there are people like me, who need no weekend off, no vacations, can work more than 60 hours a week - I am ready to take all leadership

It has infact opposite effect on me, the more I work the more I am escaped from normal day to life problems and emotional setbacks (caused mostly by other people and being aware myself, I can't do anything but just to blame myself) I choose work as my escapism.
I hear you. I too moved to a new city shortly before lockdown, knowing almost no one here. I played a lot of games for a while and then got bored of it. I wrote a lot and then got bored of it. I did side projects and got bored of them. And a lot of other stuff. It's only been 3 months, but it feels like 3 years.

I'm almost all alone, only really physically meeting 1-2 other people. It's the highlight of my weeks and gives me energy for a day or two after that, only to succumb to the boredom again. I think it really shows how social interaction is an essential "nutrient" to our lives, without which we suffer and lose our energy. It's like an essential vitamin for a lot of us.

Strangely I've been productive at work. I didn't use to be good at WFH but that has changed out of necessity. I'm not sure if it'll remain this way after we start going back to our offices. And made some personal breakthroughs by taking the time to look deep inside. And then some more. And more. Doing any sort of working out seems to produce quick gains, I think mostly because I have zero physical stress otherwise. It's not a bad time for this kind of thing.

Walks are good, but I get bored of them too. With nowhere to go in particular, it feels pointless. But it also helps. At the end of the workday, I'm excited to go outside only to stop my excitement when I realize there's nothing really for me to do.

It's a loop for sure. And nothing seems to offset that innate need for human contact, not even all the facetiming in the world. This will surely be a big turning point in society at large. I see no other way.
Also you look like a dork on a Segway, the image problem is huge, that is a problem you don’t have with a bike.
Indigenous communities move powwows online during coronavirus
> Owner Health Insurance: -$15k

WTF? Who pays $15k PER YEAR for health insurance? That's nuts. In most countries USD$15k would pay for healthcare for 2 or 3 people for their entire lives.
I found this out maybe 15% into my HN career. I've emailed in the past to have specific posts removed and received a timely response doing so.

I didn't request a blanket delete however. I do understand the desire for posterity, and generally very much appreciate the lack of [deleted] a la reddit.

It's not hard to notice the lack of delete: it's somewhat well known edit windows close; then the delete window soon after. Maybe upfront documentation would be welcome. I imagine many people like us didn't think of it until after wanting to delete something.

I'd be very open to removing usernames from posts (they bear little in >99% of cases anyway). I'm wary of having entire posts be easily deleted, especially considering replies. My country does have a right to be forgotten (Canada), so I assume I could easily email or snail mail to have my profiles wiped. I wouldn't exercise this, though perhaps I'd consider a disassociation in the future.