skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think one should go around saying that information is fraudulent, but maybe people should suspend judgment one way or another.

There are quite a few countries with minimal reported cases, and it makes me think about the study that found "the state-specific introduction of birth certificates is associated with a 69-82% fall in the number of supercentenarian records."

South Africa has by far the most reported cases in Africa; is it possible that has some relation to how well they track them compared to other countries, and not just the underlying numbers?
Your engagement with this article here makes me see that we are in a new sort of space for these discussions. And I really appreciate the moderator too. I am 47 and it's been a lonely, long haul. Thank you.
The old vocabulary of Google Assistant was surprisingly extensive. It rarely gave me a word I already knew the meaning of.
Thanks for the suggestion, kulor. We're aiming to get some real world example pictures up on the site from our current user base. Screenshots are also doable now we've got the product off the ground. Hopefully over the coming days we should be in a position to share an update.
I had the same thought, but they’re not gonna stop making matriculating freshmen. So next year you’ll be competing with the new class plus the leftovers from your class. Kinda sucks for all involved.
The movie is a brilliant, satire of an over-the-top fascistic, militaristic society. It takes a similar tack to Huxley’s Brave New World but puts the focus on glorifying strength and violence against the enemy instead. It illustrates a society completely saturated in war propaganda, with all of the negatives of war being instantly dismissed. The pace at which the fictional society switches its media-directed gaze is frenetic. It’s like orgy-porgy meets Triumph of the Will.
I suspect this is an issue of retailers not caring enough to spend the money to fix the issues? Being scammed is a bad experience, but it's not the retailer's fault. Plus it generates a significant amount of revenue.

This seems like something the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau could collect data on and put some sane regulations in place? The gift card industry is poorly regulated in general.
Displacement is constantly occurring because people can't find an apartment they can afford, so they leave the City. Why can't they find an apartment they can afford? Because the apartments they would have been able to get have been taken by people richer than they are, some of whom could buy a house. Why can't those people just buy a house and stop taking up the rental units? Because almost all the houses are spoken for by people who not only can pay market price but do so comfortably, including you.

So, it is displacement, it's just so after a lot more levels of indirection than most people think about the problem with.
I see that you conveniently ignored my question.

> trying to create something with a more fair, and level playing field from here on.

Saying it easy, those words are empty if you chose not to implement it.

Who wants to implement new systematic racism, do you?
I think that's the point here. How close the fictional universe it to the real. Verhoeven's film, like most art, was made on reflection. Similarly this essay is making a point by referring to, and building on, previous points that have been made ... it is entirely relevant.

Moreso, the fact that this film is so misunderstood suggests that it was an exception to its genre. Most science fiction and westerns are set as they are, in space or on a vast prairie, so as to remove all noise and closely examine an area of human interest. If not explicit, they are absolutely intended to be relevant.
I'm not sure I agree on the Batman Arkham series assessment. Those games received very favorable reviews (Arkham Asylum was named Game of the Year, GOTY). The style influenced another incredible series: Middle Earth, Shadow of Mordor (another GOTY). Mad Max is awesome, I agree.
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Disagree on the Arkham games. Arkham Asylum and Arkham City were fantastic games with or without the Batman theme.

The free-flowing combat in Arkham Asylum inspired countless other games including Shadow of Mordor.

I hate this as a potential acquisition because I hate the trend towards more platform exclusives and this is definitely a move towards XBox/XCloud exclusivity.
Ask HN: Ways to sync Jira and GitHub issues?
Anyone experienced at integrating issues between Jira <> Github.

Is there any way these two communicate bidirectionally in certain tickets only?

I cannot use my client's instance for security purposes
Definitely good to know.

Not a critical feature these days with CI being as good as it is, but can you run that command from macOS or Windows and get a Linux binary?
> Of course, you may say, it’s just sci-fi. Yes, but "The Dark Forest" gives us an insight into something we think too little about: how Xi’s China thinks.

I hope the Chinese don't judge American attitudes to cooperation by Ender's Game...
Aren’t many local grocery stores doing curbside pickup? Locally Walmart and Kroger is.
I suggest Outside Lies Magic, by John Stilgoe. Short read, well-written.

Cool book. He basically reintroduces us to the world around us, and we never look at it quite the same, afterwards; always wondering what the "story" is behind something that catches our attention.

Part of what makes it interesting, is wondering what goes through the author's head.

Can turn a walk around the block into an obsessive adventure.

It won't explain anything, but it may help us to connect with our own sense of wonder.

https://neglectedbooks.com/?p=1995

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Outside_Lies_Magic/oOjQ...
You know, the trouble is, you're absolutely right. I _could_ have just said "I'm working on a note-taking app", but nothing about that seems particularly weird or hard.

To address the poetic waxing more directly, it's important to remember that we still don't have very good language to talk about the "primitives of knowledge work", which is why I phrased my statement the way I did. We know it almost certainly doesn't involve the concept of "notes" (at least in the way we think about right now) and calling them simply "ideas" is altogether too vague.

As far as the #roamcult is concerned, we are overwhelmingly in agreement :)
These numbers seem very high - even before Covid.

Does anyone know the rough market share of that US$7.2bn in June? Is Instacart really scaling that high, with their inefficient personal shopper approach, or is Walmart really killing it?

Additionally, to compare internationally, the UK reportedly spent US$15bn in the entire of 2018 compared to the US' ~$24bn. But the UK online grocery market is much more established - every major supermarket (except Lidl/Aldi) has direct warehouse to customer deliveries by van, in addition to Prime Now, Amazon Fresh, Ocado and others.

I'm struggling to reconcile the difference even accounting for the 5x population difference. Lived experience suggests that online grocery shopping throughout the UK is very prevalent but (perhaps until recently) was fairly atypical in most of the US. Possible explanations are the value of orders is greater in the US, or online grocery deliveries has a wider classification? Personally I don't use online grocery shopping in London most of the time as I live next to a supermarket. Is that perhaps more common than I realise?
My company doesn’t require receipts for anything under $50. $25 meal and $25 gift card. Not that I would ever actually do that. Besides the ethical issues, it’s not worth risking my job over piddling amounts like that.
I know some stores also put the warnings on the credit card machine you got to accept too. I know CVS does this, not sure others but people probably just tap away. I think they do that even if paying with cash, not sure...
How is that ironic? Almost all dictatorships in history have overt or not so overt approval from major powers of the time.
That's a pretty good analysis.
This just shows that the company isn't actually serious about privacy.

Use Firefox Focus instead: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fo...
My mom is the same way, she has really bad anxiety and things just really bother her or she obsesses over them.
I described a situation where an owner occupier was selling their home. You are describing being priced out. The concepts overlap, but what I described is certainly not displacement.
Furthermore, even if the fit is statistically significant, that doesn't mean is it causal.
The prose in this article is pretty, and characteristic of the New Yorker style. Sometimes I want to articulate what exactly the New Yorker style is, but I don’t read enough anymore to pick out its distinguishing features. I think the extended simile here is very common to New Yorker pieces:

> the islands are oddly similar to the Shetlands or the Isle of Skye—the bleak, rocky landscape; the blustery rain; the nearness of the sea—as though a piece of Scotland had broken off into the Atlantic and drifted eight thousand miles south,
past Ireland, then Portugal, past Morocco and Mauritania and Senegal, down past the coasts of Brazil and Uruguay, and come to rest just a few hundred miles north of Antarctica.

In short, it takes a mundane detail like the similarity of landscapes and climate between the Falklands and Scotland, and adds an interpreted fantastic explanation of it by simile (landmasses moving across the Atlantic). It can feel excessively twee and almost corny when you identify the technique, but I appreciate it nonetheless. I wonder if readers have identified other notable examples of the New Yorker style from this article or elsewhere.
Strongest in terms of persuasive power, but rarely (if ever) in terms of any kind of reasoned or scientific approach.
There's no law requiring wifi - "de facto". And they're standards because they're quite good! They have hardware support and parallelization and account for all use cases, even the marginal ones, and have reference implementations and support. Standards orgs don't care about patents because they're not relevant. This isn't a case of trolling - this is literally a software patent being used for its intended purpose by its developer, to extract profit by coming up with a new idea, and letting others use it.
> Its probably easier to see the sarcasm with all of the Federal News Network clips in a row?

Maybe it was a good satire I have no idea. I get enough politics in my life passively without going to a movie to get even more of it.

If I'd thought of it as "Political Satire" I'd have never gone to the movie. I was looking for a good/ interesting science fiction movie which it wasn't.

I don't agree with Heinlein's weird quasi-militaristic ideals. But I also didn't want to sit though 2 hours of someone skewering it. If they'd made a good movie and skewered Heinlein, I'd have been fine with that.
H-1B transfers are quick (14 days with premium processing), easy and you can file speculatively if you're looking at a couple of potential employers but are afraid it may not go through. Your current employer will not be notified and you do not need to move forward with the transfer if you change your mind.
VC's are free to do as they wish with their money.
Arkham Asylum was a great game independent of the Batman license. For some reason the sequels just didn't capture that magic, despite being superficially similar.
Anecdotally I have a completely legitimate use case for that - apps like Fluz http://joinfluz.app.link/BETA and MileagePlusX kick back some dollars (or airline miles) for purchasing vendor gift cards through them.

Frequently as I am in the checkout line at Kohl's or Home Depot I'd buy a gift card for myself with the intent to wipe it out in the next few minutes at the checkout (Fluz, for one encourages that, and will send a notification whenever you're near a retailer that's in their network).
H.264 will become the "mp3" of video I think. Universally supported, and the pstents will run out micj sooner than the newer formats.
"should"... Unfortunately, almost everything is bloated these days. My first Linux box, a 386SX/20, had only 4 megabytes of memory. I ran SLS Linux which installed off of roughly 20 floppies. I could compile C programs, and barely run X!
Dogs aren't carnivores. They're omnivores.
I mean, sure, I don't have any scientific studies to back this up.

But I really don't feel like this is a case where "intuition might be completely wrong" applies—buying a $400 grill, and then just going back and buying 3 more $3-500 grills, just isn't something that people do on a regular basis. Same for vacuum cleaners, refrigerators, etc. And yet Amazon does regularly advertise these things to us after such large purchases.

The only logical conclusion is that it's cheaper for them (in the short term, at least) not to update their ad/recommendation algorithm to take into account the nature of large one-time purchases.
I'm pretty doubtful that there was a spike. The states like Texas, Florida, California, and Arizona have just been increasing gradually all the time. And NY didn't spike, even though there were protests. The national "spike" appears to me to be a phenomenon of adding up the individual states, where the declines were overtaken by the rises.

Do you/we have any good reason to believe that outdoor gatherings are much of a problem? The impression I've gotten is that indoors is where most instances of large amounts of people getting infected at once happens.
Very similar one: https://twitter.com/Mrdodobird/status/1237194284903723014

I also loved his Blender Conference talk about World building: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whPWKecazgM

Here he talk about how to build very complex environment with very simple shapes/approaches with incredible speed.
My Mom wants gift cards for gift occasions. But she also sends out gift cards for birthdays or whatever. She doesn’t understand why my siblings and I think this is so funny. She sends us a $25 gift card for our birthday and we send her a $25 gift card from the same place for her birthday.
Wish I had this flexibility with other kinds of hardware, like a phone. Having to throw out a much newer and completely functional hardware 2 years after being released, because there is almost nothing you can do with it is not good.

(And for those who want to instruct me about PC being a defined architecture, where there no such thing with smartphones, etc, etc, etc, I know all this, but the point is still valid.)
Before covid, about 10% of Tesco's sales were online; more like 15% now. So it's common, but not THAT common.
And for $90 a year, they’ll drop it off at your house.
Never been a big Walmart supporter, but I’ve been impressed with their online grocery delivery.
Uber, and others, are in some ETFs thought.
Isn't that just as ridiculous of a notion? A DEA agent shaking down an identify theft victim for Target gift cards, calling from a government phone? It's a hell of a yarn, no matter how you read it.
Although not an ARM device, the old Linksys Wrt54G (2002) was the first device to really get hackers interested and building a community around embedded Linux computing. There were other things but it was really the only one that was affordable and network connected.

Later on the Linksys NSLU2 (2004, a network USB hard drive adapter) came out and was the first ARM based "computer" to really catch on. The custom firmware and optware offered a pretty good posix experience. It wasn't until 2008 when debian support came out, give the world a fully modern Linux experience on a little embedded device.

After that companies started seeing a niche market and programmers accepted the challenge of installing linux on everything and we got things like the Sheeva Plug and BeagleBoard.

A few years later the Raspberry Pi came out with an unbeatable price and community support.

And then a decade later we're getting hints of the possibility of ARM computers with true workstation level of computing power.
Yes, you can cross compile to any supported target using -r flag followed by a RID (e.g. win-x64)

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/rid-catalog
This is money printed out of thin air, to the detriment of the dollar's purchasing power, via Infinite Quantitative Easing operations which during the first rounds of QE1 and QE2 caused an almost overnight 20% collapse of the dollar's purchasing power.

While U.S. citizens are given a single $1,200 "stimulus" payment after completely unlawful shutdowns have destroyed small businesses and companies and resulting in unemployment numbers which are approaching unemployment levels during the Great Depression. And without a gold standard collateralizing the dollar to shield its purchasing power.
"60% of H-1B workers receive lower-than-average wages for their job and region."

As opposed to 50% of the normal workforce which receives lower-than-average wages by definition? Feels like that number, while significant, was framed to be sensational.

I'm curious how much of this is attributable to:

1. Technical skill level. Are they new grads or junior folks? Is this skew happening because the senior folks roll off onto green cards?

2. Soft skill level. Are employers taking on folks with language skills or management skills or cultural skills that need to be leveled up?

Does this delta level off over time once foreign workers achieve a certain level of domestic experience? Does it go away once they transfer to new jobs?
The OP states they've spent "hours" on the phone with Target, which has already more than obliterated whatever slim profit they made on that $1000 gift card (commissions are around 5%).
This assumes the death rate is independent of, say, health care system capacity. Didn't they have an issue with that in Italy?
I depends on the school, but networking matter a lot. I'm not saying that it should, but it really seems to.

Outside of ambition, the people matter too.

I know a lot of marriages that started in college. I've met a lot of my best friends there too. Some of my professors changed my life, and not in a textbook way, but in a human way. I made a lot of mistakes there, and I know a lot of people did too. But it was college, you're kinda supposed to make mistakes and grow from them. Take the wrong major, kiss the wrong person, say the wrong thing, etc.

I'm not saying that you can't have those experiences elsewhere. Most people do.

But the structure of the place makes it a lot easier to meet other people your age, fall in love, fall out of love, have your opinions challenged, listen to some great/terrible music, imbibe too much of the wrong thing, get help on classwork, etc. You can still not opt into it, of course. And you can do that almost anywhere too.

But it's a lot easier.

Virtual classrooms aren't going to replace that. Honestly, until we get a vaccine, that's all kinda on hold. Sorry class of 2020 :(
It Is Time to Address Airborne Transmission of Covid-19
I owned CF-R7 decade ago, and running Linux was very enjoyable. No drivers were needed and almost everything worked.

The only thing that Linux lacked at the time was ability to turn on-off economy mode (at the time never seen that in laptops, it was to keep charge at 80% to extend battery life). I needed to boot to windows to switch that. And functional/multimedia keys although I was able to find software to get that to work.

I would imagine the support would be better now.
Not sure why you only count two occupations from the BLS list [1]
Total of all Computer and IT jobs in 2018 was 4+ millions.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...
There have been many attempts to make a market for free hardware, particularly in the mobile phone market. All have failed thus far.
I wrote some cliff notes if anyone else is interested

Company is called Solugen. $12 M/yr in 2019, on track for >30 M/yr in 2020

Wastewater treatment is 80% of their revenue

Bio-engineered a yeast to create produce enzymes that create hydrogen peroxide from feedstock sugar

The solution produced also contains organic acids that breakdown minerals. Mineral buildup can clog and corrode pipes over time

Initially created 5 gallon batches, for use in pools, hot tubs and spas. Found that market after a group of float-spa owners contacted them on facebook

Joined Y-Combinator

Partnered with wipe manufacturer to sell them hydrogen peroxide solution hoping the deal was stepping stone to bigger industrial customers

Hired a salesperson from oilfield services Schlumberger to market wastewater cleaning products to oil drillers

The product is appealing for the wastewater cleanup market because of it's anti mineral buildup effects and it does not cause algal blooms compared to HEDP. It's a $5 B/yr market. Includes oil and gas drilling which regulation requires wastewater to be cleaned. The product had a successful test with an oil and gas customer. The customer had 20% reduced efficiency in it's water injectors because of iron-scale buildup and lost $29 M/yr. The product increased production again without the need of additional acid sitmulation. Demand for wastewater treatment increases with age of oil drilling sites. “We go head to head with phosphates, We are not premium.”

Production of solution also sequesters 1.35 tons of CO2 compared to it's competitor HEDP which emits 3 tons. According to independent audit from Life Cycle Analysis

Also produced more than 100K gallons of hand sanitizer that it dontated to healthcare facilities. Partenered with local ethenol facility. Plans to increase hand sanitizer production mini-mills (smaller regional production facilities) and considering commercial opportunities

Plans to expand to agriculture fertilizing, a $175 B/yr market. Hoping to re-invent fertilizer with biodegradable alternative that replenishes essential minerals and metals to soil
The irony that you can study abroad for about $12,000-$20,000 a year (including rent and other cost of living) in some countries (notably Germany) that do provide equal or better education than the state school and most importantly also provide life experience local education would not.

I wonder why not many Americans go study abroad, if studying in their own country is so incredibly expensive and studying abroad can be cheaper and a richer experience. Especially comp sci is taught in English in many non-english speaking countries.

Did you consider going abroad when you were evaluating costs back then?
That's exactly what I do.

Why is a lot more important that what.

Here's an example I use (Verbatim from here[0]):

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Why Vs. What

I’ve come to realize that the most important inline documentation concerns WHY we are doing something; not WHAT we are doing.
For example, no one wants to read “// Set the value of b to 3,” for a line of code that looks like let b = 3. That’s just dumb.

let b = 3 // Set the value of b to 3

However, they may want to know “// Set the value of b to the number of iterations we'll be making.”

let b = 3 // Set the value of b to the number of iterations we'll be making

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[0] https://medium.com/chrismarshallny/leaving-a-legacy-1c2ddb0c...
If you were told the gag before you watched it, it might seem too on the nose.

But check the reviews when it came out -- most of our enlightened, educated cultural critics missed the gag.
I still have it, but almost everything else in life is fighting against letting me explore it.
International standardization organizations (like ISO) are not governmental organizations. They are private entities, which sometimes become too involved in official standards. But they are controlled by whoever funds them.
They are, but they're just not very good at it in my experience. I tried my local store's curbside pickup and I got no butter plus salsa instead of pasta sauce.
There's plenty of housing in the US, it's just not all in SF or NYC. There's plenty of places outside of downtown that businesses can be located.
”My dad is not a gullible man” -yes he is. who would think a law enforcement agency would want target gift cards?