skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is humbling, or should be. Many people have been quick to condemn "non-scientific" laypeople for stubbornly refusing to wear face masks. But it's clear that there's been analogous denial within the scientific establishment itself. Human society is poorly adapted to solving "tragedy of the commons" types of problems. It's worth stepping back a bit to think about how we could do better, because we have even bigger problems like climate change on the horizon.
Although Eloquent JS is a great resource, I think it's best for intermediate beginners and not "beginner" beginners. It ramps up pretty quickly and can really confuse people who are just starting out.
Fairphone looks like exactly what I want. Why do all the cool phones not work in the US?
Depends where are you in the world. In NZ it's already Sunday.

EDIT: just checked the date is wrong.
How an ex-Apple engineer went on to create an enterprise networking company
Building a high performance JSON parser
I tried to explain this, but it turns out to be kind of hard, so instead I found a reference for you: https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=257

Basically, it makes it easier to compare fuel economy differences at different points in the scale because they become subtraction problems instead of division problems. This is because usually the amount you are going to drive is fixed, and MPG puts the miles in the numerator, while "gpm" puts the fixed miles in the denominator, I think.
>Doesn’t app-based dating make finding a partner easier than ever?
Good one
What protocol do you use to represent the sequence? Bytes, Morse, Amplitude modulation, frequency modulation? All of these combinations may appear random to one without the right codec.
The period is 16.35 +/-0.18 days [1] so it's not exactly 16 days. The unit days is just the next best convenient unit to use for this range of time scale. 392 hours +/- 4 hours just isn't as intuitive as 16 days.

So the period is neither an integer multiple of days, nor exactly the same each time. There's some small variance involved - about 1%.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FRB_180916.J0158%2B65
You forgot the step where left-wing intellectual elites ridiculed people for wearing masks as it "doesn't protect anyway and creates a false sense of security". If anything, I would imagine masks to be a prepper thing, so I would have thought more popular on the right, but I guess there is no logic anymore.
"A crowded theater on opening night fills me with a kind of energy I don’t get anywhere else."

Wow, I couldn't be more different. I generally wait until the hype has died down around a movie before seeing it in the theater so that it'll be as empty as possible. To this day my favorite movie experiences have been in deserted theaters.
Some things work quantitatively, some don't. I like using quantities for athletic training.

If I was training for a marathon I would set numerical goals for how much I would run a week coming into it. If I am recovering from an injury that's even more the case.

Lately my son and I have been learning a martial arts form that has about 80 steps in it. There is a lot new about it for us: I've never done a two-person form or a weapons form before, and he's never trained in a form at all. You learn this kind of thing by breaking it up into pieces: so we have a burndown chart on the wall for it, which I think is a good motivation.
I don't disagree with your point that use cases vary, but when I hear people say that "only clouds need this" I think the speaker is underestimating the size of cloud facilities. The amount of the world's computers that are in Amazon's, Google's, Facebook's, and Microsoft's clouds is a huge chunk of the total.
That's a low bar. Even watching movies on my phone on a city bus is more fun than a theater; my headphones do a better job of blocking out other people talking, and there's less risk of somebody spilling their cola on me as they try to waddle past on the way to the bathroom.

If movie theaters finally die, I'll actually be glad. The only time I go to them anymore is when I'm socially pressured into going by friends/family/coworkers who already bought the tickets.
Pretty sure a downgrade is theoretically impossible currently (unless you're exploiting a zero day)
I can’t find it any more, but there used to be a fine grained map of the bay area’s air pollution. It it basically the inverse of per capita income.
I used to audit opensource code for security issues, on a regular basis, and even now before I install a public-facing application I generally have a look at the code.

It's not often I spot anything major, but I figure if I have the time I should do it just in case.

I often look at the code for PHP-extensions, npm-libraries, and similar that colleagues introduce. Just to be sure there's not anything blatently horrid going on.
It was a business Dell and was high end at the time - 8GB RAM, Gigabit Ethernet, 1920x1200 display.
"The phrasing" is a historical quote that is connotated with calls to violence since the original social justice movement.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_looting_starts,_the...
Turning Customers in Targetters
> Perhaps you can add at the top some links for people like me that don't scroll.

Why do you not scroll a webpage? Do you honestly only view a website based on what fits in the initial viewport? How do you shop on sites like Amazon, or browse Netflix, or any other single website on the entire internet?
You question the health of anyone who captures video of FB employees admitting bias? So mighty privileged of you.
Most video conference uses ~4Mbps for your video feed going out. It is more likely you need 100Mbps upload for doing backups or uploading photos or home videos etc. For a household with 2 people working from home and also watching a ton of streaming content, 50Mbps up/down would be just fine, if you can get it reliably.

Anything more than that, especially in gigabit range is just gimmicks, IMO.
If the developer used proper MVC it should be as simple as bolting on a GUI with interface builder. A lot of Next Step code has been in Cocoa for a long time (if you see NSObject, NSFoundation, etc. that's all NextStep).
Which are supposed to do what? Exercise censorship? Prosecute Trump?
Of course they did. They’re not a free speech platform and obviously they’re concerned with their advertising money
I have to agree. Cops can retire with a full pension after only 20 years of working. They make a median salary of $105,100 a year before overtime[1], and can make more then $250,000 a year with overtime[2].

[1] https://www.nj.com/news/2017/05/how_much_is_the_median_cop_s...

[2] https://www.nj.com/somerset/2019/11/4-cops-in-this-nj-town-e...
The metric system sends thoughts and prayers
If you try to measure the subjective through objective values, you will only measure what you think about yourself. If I ask myself "how much did I learn today?" it is more judgement about myself rather than an objective value.

I explored this throughly in 2014:

https://medium.com/@duopixel/the-qualified-self-7f69c6b23623

I have not updated this post, but I did this for years without finding satisfaction, because what I had to address was judgement about myself, not the shortcomings that I perceived I had at the time.

But the exercise of trying to measure the subjective is very instructive in itself. I ignore if you counter my point from experience, if not, I encourage you to register subjective judgement. And if you already do it, I encourage you to drop it and sense how it feels.

Many paths of personal growth require you to do opposite things at different times, so you can maximize your surface of experience.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I find it highly unlikely that there are repair contractors with people sitting behind magnifying glasses and soldering irons.

I would suspect that toss and replace is the norm across the whole spectrum of hardware sellers.

You could debate Apple's design choices like... say... riveted keyboards, and they'd argue durability as a retort, but I don't think they're any better or worse than others in terms of warranty work.
Oh well then, we best not try change anything /s
That would be TV broadcasts as I’m guessing everyone here seen Contact.

Ironically in 1948 when FM was standardized and countries were assigned spectrums Germany wasn’t really invited as it wasn’t a state for that short period and wasn’t assigned a spectrum so they started broadcasting in VHF because that wasn’t covered by the Copenhagen Agreement.

A few years later people realized that VHF was supper efficient for FM unlike AM and (W)Germany ended up holding all the cards.

This is why (primarily older) VHF FM radio compatible receivers in Europe will have UKW FM or UKW option in the turner which stands for Ultrakurzwelle (Ultra short wave) that was before UHF was standardized above the VHF spectrum.
We can safely infer it because:

1. That's the only thing they suggested, and they framed it as either/or "If you have infinite funding, you can do both." (Implies we cant do both, because we obviously dont have infinite funding)

2. The overarching context of this conversation is about "defunding the police"

>If the current solution to the problem is only more policing

Is anyone seriously suggesting that? If so, its safe to discount these types of facile absolutist views ("we need more police to solve the problem" & "We need to eliminate the police to solve the problem")

Edit: I'd like to add thay I jusy reviewed my cities budget, and was surprised to see how large the law enforcement budget was compared to everything else. Thank you for bringing that to my attention.
For many applications "slow" logouts are enough, i.e. basically do what is common in OAuth2 setups:

- Have a refresh token which is only usable with the (right) auth server and can only be used to generate new access tokens. As it's only usable with the auth server it's easy to revoke (it's kinda like a session cookie).

- Keep validity of access tokens short.

So by revoking the refresh token the logout will be done in at most highest_refresh_token_start_time + refresh_token_validity.

Through sadly any "faster" logout method on a distributed system is indeed quite complex. (Like propagating bloom filter headed blacklists of early revoked access tokens).
> It has always shocked me how an endless amount of money exists to prop up a broken financial system (specifically banks and fiat currencies) that eventually lead to environmental destruction

has anything changed in regard to that endless amount of money? COVID recovery plans

> According to analyst company Bloomberg New Energy Finance, more than half a trillion dollars worldwide – $509bn – is to be poured into high-carbon industries, with no conditions to ensure they reduce their carbon output. Only about $12.3bn of the spending announced by late last month was set to go towards low-carbon industries, and a further $18.5bn into high-carbon industries provided they achieve climate targets. [0]

Yes, community garden will definitely help.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/18/world-ha...
Steam Summer Sale 2020 Dimulai
Markus Braun, Wirecard chief goes from billionaire to bail
https://archive.vn/yt0C2
Ah yes, because everyone can afford a MacBook and a $1k license fee to publish on their store
> I thought I’d hate all this chaos, but it was fun. I threw tomatoes at the screen and launched myself into the air with the grappling hook, trying to come down on top of the screen as Leonardo DiCaprio droned on about dreams.

So, like going to see Rocky Horror Picture Show?
Loved the Zune. Not sure which I had. It wasn’t HD or anything though. It was also a launchpad for me to begin enjoying streaming and tracking things. I began tracking music listens with Last.fm and I used Microsoft’s music streaming service at the time. Usually (or always?) you’d download music onto your device and have to renew it every 30 days or so.
I assumed that North would be 0 degrees, based on a scene from The Hunt For Red October "set course, 180" which was due south. A plot line from a movie with some accuracy in the real world. See kids, watching movies isn't all a wast of time.

The 30/45 degree differences were not difficult to discern. At least you didn't go for odd angles (I would have been tempted).
Maybe. But a whiteboard, marker, stopwatch, GPS, and a map seem like a bit much for a minimalist.
I do believe the American legal system disagrees with you
The car that gives you automatic speeding tickets (2004)
I’m really enjoying the slow news movement:
Delayed gratification [1]
Tortoise [2]

1. https://www.slow-journalism.com/
2. https://www.tortoisemedia.com/
Man, that was the golden age of analog video right there. In the 90s it became just barely possible to do a lot of processing of analog video using a shitload of expensive electronics, and people did. Those were the days of "line doubling" deinterlacers that were as big as shoeboxes and as expensive as cars.
The SBIR program is not a loan. It's product development contract program. You tell the program manager what you want to build with their money, they give you the money, you figure out how to build it. If you don't meet delivery expectations, you owe them nothing. If you deliver on the end product, they are likely to become your customer.

If you look through the list of companies with SBIR funding, and what they are working on, you'd be really impressed. A lot of the ventures funded are a lot more high risk than any sane VC would invest in, but that doesn't make them any less cool.
I made the same argument as to why we in Ontario should've been more prepared, people here told me "Yeah but SARS was over a decade ago."

Meanwhile, Taiwan literally cited SARS as being a major reason why they were prepared this time around.
Windows File Recovery
Toilet paper flushing world map (2017)
My wife and I spent an hour or so in the Party Royale with our young kids last night, and it was very cool. As someone who has played a lot of computer games, it feels like we're entering an exciting era of virtual connection. Being able to hang out in a virtual space that the kids enjoy, with obstacle courses and time trials that are interesting for adults as well, and everything graphically enticing...

I've spent a lot of time hanging out in MMORPGs, but something about the Party Royale felt more... real, though it's hard to explain. Maybe the movie playing offers some connection to reality, or maybe knowing that Epic is constantly adding content and making changes makes the world feel more alive... or maybe I'm just getting old. Whatever it is, it makes shelter-in-place feel less oppressive and it's one small sphere in which I'm excited for the future!
It does not seem to have NFC? Ahh, I would definitely buy it if it does.
I don't think the denial was within the independent scientific establishment. From what I saw as it was spreading, many people in academia knew something was wrong. But, the scientific community that was tied to politics (public health officials, government appointees, etc) were singing a very different tune, and the political pressure to tell a nice story to the public seemed to be incredibly intense. IMO, this underscores the need to have public health agencies be independent of political pressures and find ways to mitigate political influence on these agencies, sort of like how the federal reserve is theoretically independent. I think things would have looked different if government science officials hadn't intervened in favor of their preferred narratives early on. This includes the WHO as well - their early denials of the severity of the spread and apparent willingness to go along with China's narrative just confused the scientific and political response.
Quote which part was contrary
We Hate Passwords (JavaScript widget for drawing passwords)
It's important to use inclusive language to maintain the forum where we learn and share ideas with one another, but if your shelter's erected on a tentpole of anti-intellectualism (whether a reaction to others' elitism or not), you've already aborted the dialectic, left or right.

Perhaps at that point it's more fruitful to name it and to confront it as a cancer on civil society than it is to recruit it or appease it.

If you're caught in a propagandist's net it would seem to do you better to reach your hand out to the folks who notice in hopes they could fight with you for your liberty rather than to compound your shame by insisting you're there for your own good.
Right, I get the main reasons for the Palm Phone. I'm one of the few people in the world who has one lol.

I just think the "companion" aspect was always dumb. You would have to manage two devices and keep them with you anyway, all that would do is increase personal toil. It only became viable for me once I could replace my larger phone with it entirely.
Oh, I see. Sarcasm on the internet can be tricky. (There are many people who actually write like that, or much worse.)
Sandy Hook Pilot
I don’t understand why this was flagged. My thinking in sharing a screenshot was that these kinds of sites often show different things to different people (e.g. by locale, browser size, session history, etc.) so it would be helpful to document the context of the parent comment.

That the modal comes across so poorly suggests a naivety on the part of Facebook that is relevant to understanding the announcement.
This is true in the general case. In the general case a startup isn't going to be successful, the founder is inexperienced and easily pushed around by the VCs, and generally needs to follow their orders to keep bridge rounds, etc coming.

In the rare case of a successful startup, if the board doesn't replace the founder with an experienced executive, the founder probably has as much autonomy as corporate executive in charge of a successful division of a company.
https://betterexplained.com/
Masks don't protect the person who wears them, they protect the people around the people who wear them, so they only work if everyone wears them. In the early days of the pandemic there weren't enough masks for the general public (because the Trump administration had sent a significant portion of the U.S. supply to China [1]) so there was a desire to reserve the limited remaining supply for health care workers.

Comments like yours which obfuscate basic facts like this are a perfect example of the kind of politicization I'm talking about.

[1] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/us-tons-ppe-china/
Now, this is probably nothing. The sensors are doing their thing and from time to time there is a spike. On the other hand, this is how Chernobyl first was reported...

For more radiation horror pease read about the ”Goiânia accident”:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goiânia_accident
(Learned about it recently and wow. What a story.)
The footage was portrayed as classified,[7] but its confessed leaker, U.S. Army soldier Chelsea Manning, testified in 2013 that the video was not classified.[8]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,_2007,_Baghdad_airstri...

https://www.sparrowmedia.net/bradley-manning-providence-inqu...
The Power of Language Degeneration
I somehow missed in rolling this out that JS's `new Date().getDay()` returns a Sunday-based week, not a Monday-based one. Thanks for pointing it out! Fix rolling out now :)
I created a public race that begins shortly (apologies if it's already started by the time you read this comment!), if anyone would like to join and try out the "multiplayer" mode: https://8bitbyte.ca/sailnavsim/races.php

Just copy the race ID (809d3260e3e6b76da6282842cef7a342 for this one), and join the race from the start page.

Also a note that anyone can create a public race with custom parameters, and anyone else is also free to join that race by using the published race ID.
For the HN title, I suppose. The site seems entirely dedicated to Vue, so I'm not sure it'd make a lot of sense to append "in Vue" to all articles. I wonder if it would help them SEO-wise if they did, though.
I am running Ubuntu 20.04 on a Dell XPS 13 9370 from a couple years ago. It’s amazing! First time I’ve had a Linux distro that really works well including battery life, sleep, devices etc.

I had previously given up on this and was excited that WSL2 was finally available, but installed 20.04 and haven’t looked back.
TriCore by any chance? ;-)
Or one thing rotating.

You can imagine other cyclical processes, but I don't know any are realistic.
Wikipedia has it animated, too

EDIT: warning! strobing!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benham%27s_top#/media/File%3...
dkim needs dns

getting a host will be more difficult though
BuzzFeed News has found articles that do not meet our editorial standards
Under US pressure, social media companies censor critical content and accounts
Good idea -- just added it, update rolling out now! Thanks.
a lot of services only accept emails from "reputable" servers (gmail, yahoo, etc)
Losses are negative income. If I paid you $100k and then paid you -$50k you would be rightfully upset if you were taxed like you made 100k
Are they really not doing contact tracing? In this country we've been contact tracing all cases since they fell to manageable numbers. It's expensive, but not all _that_ expensive in the scheme of things.
The wiktionary definition of "civilized" [0] is "Having a highly developed society or culture" -- developed into what, late Victorian era upper-class British men, like the people who wrote the OED the definition was cribbed from? The human species, especially those of highly developed society and culture, have a long record of exterminating others of their kind on the grounds that the others are "uncivilized".

Civilization is purely a state of mind. A species that achieved enlighnment before inventing the wheel or harnessing fire can be no less "civilized" than one that will engage in intraspecies mass murder for the right to enslave other members of their own species. I would argue they are more civilized, in fact.

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/civilized
I can confirm. It does not have NFC.
how much better can it be than doing

`import module from './crate/Cargo.toml'`

from Svelte directly, and get Hot Module Reloading for free ?
IDX Insights – Direct indexing for sophisticated RIAs
Anyone that's done larger scale project management knows that it doesn't fall into agile or waterfall. You may use waterfall for the larger plan, and agile to track individual projects in that plan. Like when people talk about tactics vs strategy.

I think this use of personal OKRs might work for some people and might be a great tool for focus. This feels like a technique to manage individual projects, in that analogy.

However, I think it would be very easy to find yourself over-quantifying your life and find yourself feeling adrift even though you're succeeding on the numbers.

One thing that is very powerful about the regret minimization framework (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlgkfOr_GLY - Bezos, famously) is that if forcing you to think about what you want to accomplish with your life and what makes you truly satisfied. If you know those, then quantifying your progress towards those goals makes sense. If you don't, then it's probably premature to have OKRs. OKRs measure progress towards a larger goal. Don't forget the lesson of The Hitchhiker's Guide, and make sure that you are working towards good goals first.
Taking money from various Russian and Chinese newly rich crowd usually means dealing with mafia or governments/military (and thugs and government are much closer together in those places than elsewhere).
Tech companies ask their black employees to fix Silicon Valley’s race problem
Her clips are something like these.

https://www.amazon.com/New-EARBUDi-AirPods-Slides-Earhook-Am...

She uses them when she is teaching online fitness classes and they stay in her ear so they are pretty good.

If I were still an outdoor runner I would probably get the PowerBeats with the over the ear clips.

I haven’t had any problems with Siri doing decently well for voice dictation and I have a southern accent.