skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And this is the breakdown of the argument, it's a way to sideline a huge ask into the argument and stall it out. It's designed to lead the question of "well it will take decades, nothing we can do now".

It will take decades so we have to start now - since we can't start yesterday - so vote and donate money to organizations working on those things appropriately.

Without that "do something" then yes, it's a stalling tactic, a "don't make me think about it" response. But there are actions we can ask for that will encourage those changes.
I had an idea to visualize terrain from Subnautica game in webgl.
Here is extracted meshes from game - .ply 9.3m faces 4.6m vertices [1]
Is it possible to display so huge map?

[1] https://forums.unknownworlds.com/discussion/comment/2372165/...
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I imagine most people would get fired for such an offense. Not sure why I was getting downvoted.
Please keep this as an _option_.
The current lack of having background video streaming prevents me from using my old androids as dashboard AND a network camera, even though they have the capacity to be both.
> when you are busy pointing your torch at others, you forget to point it at yourself.

Big tech should stop fronting and you should stop pointing.
Google's Cloud Run 'create service' dialog
If you want these "Payroll Protection Program" loans forgiven – that is, to receive the 'handout' – the funds must to be spent 75%+ on payroll expenses during the covered period, with a remainder spent on mortgages/rent/interest/utilities.

So that's what this recipient, & every other, will be spending the money on – unless they choose to either repay it, or defraud the program.
Seattle council passes jumpstart tax on large employers
This is the kind of attitude that causes the worst kinds of things to happen though. With no resistance, the people who want to take advantage of a situation will do so. This is what causes wars, this is why climate change will be our destruction.
Yawn. You look at the excess death and it is actually higher than counted coronavirus death numbers.
1Password. It's $4/mo, which (forgive me for sounding privileged) is nothing, and it works well across all devices.
https://www.journalofaccountancy.com/news/2020/may/sba-safe-...
I'm not going to comment on the pro's and con's of this tax, but rather want to discuss the implications. With COVID forcing many employers and employees to prove out the model of remote working, isn't the net of this tax going to accelerate employees to move from Seattle, leaving the city worse off without the reinvestment of their salaries back into the local communities, effectively creating a modern day Detroit with the "wealth donut" spreading out and away from the center of the city?
Just to be clear: that is a "report on the coronavirus by the German Ministry of the Interior" in the sense that the "leaker" works there, wrote that report on his own (he wasn't part of the groups working on COVID specifically) based on at least cherry-picked data and then sent out on the official letterhead without permission.
There have been numerous improvements, summarized here: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-lesson...

* Some medication which appears to be effective, i.e. dexamethasone and remdesivir

* Proning

* An increased focus on avoiding blood clots, e.g. by using blood thinners.
If you want a trip down memory lane. Look up InSoft Communique. They had multi-person IP video conferencing, shared whiteboard, shared screen applications on Sun and HP workstations using Parallax video cards. The big challenges back then were bandwidth and the cost of the JPEG motion video compression cards @10k each. Consider, this was pre mpeg. The company eventually was bought by Netscape Communications, just before Microsoft released Internet Explorer. Great technology, bad timing.
I think that the biggest thing about slack is just how nice it is to use. I remember first trying it for groups in college, and it was a godsend compared to most messaging services.
The peak in the graph is higher but the area under the graph, the total number of fatalities, is almost the same because the flu season lasted longer.

> De oversterfte in week 10 tot en met 19 van de COVID-19 epidemie was 9.768

> De oversterfte tijdens de 18 weken griepepidemie werd geschat op 9.444

Anyway definitely not 25% worse.
so this is saying Yale accepted 5 jews out of 76 students accepted overall. That's still a whopping 6% of all students accepted even though they make up < 2% of the population. How is that the bad?

Jews have always had it pretty good in the US, don't know what there really is to complain about.
Sure, I made clear they were just signing up for the mailing list, not the product itself. They're not paying customers but they're an audience I can sell to later. I expect only 10 percent will convert to the paid product, but that's better than 0%, when you have no audience.
This is not based on future taxation, but instead on increasing the money supply that would in theory increase inflation. Unless the Ayn Rand institute has massive cash reserves, it is a huge positive for them.

The rest of the article is complete confabulation trying to say that if the government didn't do anything the crisis wouldn't have been a big issue, which is a speculative assumption that goes contrary to evidence. In any case, if the government didn't create a PPP, they would be much worse off. Therefore, it is hypocrisy and not restitution.
Both Youtube and FB banned a shit ton of right wing / conservative channels. They have to go somewhere. They go to free speech platforms.
Here was the email Taiwan sent to the WHO at the end of December:

“News sources today indicate that at least seven cases of atypical pneumonia were reported in Wuhan, China. Her health authorities responded to the media that they did not believe the cases were SARS; however, the examples are still under study and the cases were isolated for treatment. I would greatly appreciate if you have relevant information to share with us. Thank you very much for your attention in this matter. ”
This was also a cool video I saw recently about lithography with plasma lasers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0gMdGrVteI around 7:14 in particular
Support for the Ozzie comment - Groove was an interesting thing - strong, user friendly, permissions model built on groups as the user perceived them (as opposed to the corporate LDAP model). Once had a (cancelled) gig to deploy it for sheep farmers in Albania as the trust model mapped. IMHO Ozzie definitely understood the user perspective.
Rand's education was made possible by communists - both monetarily and also by fighting for the right of women to enter higher education. Always deliciously ironic to see.
Great PR for Redhat, but will it stop police brutality in the USA?
Only by overcoming the concept of race can we actually overcome social division. Divisions among whites have melted away as they stopped seeing each other as "English" or "Italian" and instead came to unite. Similarly for us as citizens to unite we need to stop seeing each other as "white" and "black" and instead overcome these superficial differences.

Injustice can easily be rooted out while also overcoming the concept of race.

The problem is that race-oriented thinkers obsess over race and reify it, actually making racial tension worse.
(bmw owners won't have to pay for turn signals they don't use)

Actually, I think it might be good if the features suck.

Sort of like restaurants going out of business if they didn't make tasty food. (of course, restaurants have healthy competition, and ... when we used to go to restaurants)
11. If I download an image from the internet and post it into a chat, there will frequently be a popup that says "A file named ui.jpg already exists.". Why would I care what the name on the backend server is? Just rename it and let me send it.

12. Users over 40 in my Teams instance seem to have a hard time distinguishing between the UI for starting a new thread and replying to an existing thread.

13. It's system for highlighting messages you haven't seen is pretty janky. It frequently highlights my own relpies as messages I haven't seen.

14. If someone posts a message to any thread in the current channel when I am typing a message, the message editing box will lose keyboard focus.

15. It uses its own notification system instead of the system one. I basically have to have the left half of the window always visible so I can manually check for visual indicators in the app itself.

16. Sometimes you can pause gif playback, sometimes you can't.
rust-semverver does what you want for Rust, I think?
8 miles away, if cities, now that would be impressive beyond belief. 8 miles away, small town on the side of a hill, sure.

Though a drone 8 miles up, would we see or hear that?

Also are the NSA as curtailed about legal transmit power as as mear citizens? As being able to boost transmit power, yes 8 miles reasonably focused and drowning out everybody else, would not be subtle.

Now when they can do it with low-orbit satellites, an array of those beamforming - oh it maybe fantasy, but gets me onto one safeguard.

Should wifi have radio latency checks? By that, ringfence via radio latency how far away somebody can connect - even if they can see or transmit from 8 miles away, if you had protection that ignored anything over 20 meters away, you would totally be able to lock those connections down.
That would need to be at chipset level, though with a good resolution ping, you could augment security and with a more granular ping, would be able to tell how far away any connected wifi device is. So technically possible with hardware already and just a software feature that could be added and remove anybody over a certain distance from even holding a connection upon the network over wifi.
Sweden is much hated because it demonstrates how the scientific epidemiological models, the studies on mask effectiveness, lockdown estimations etc are all junk science. None of their models would have predicted the trajectory for Sweden, not even close.

And that is because none are based on sound science but are guesstimates at best yet are paraded around as the product of the best minds in the world.

Much is made about the growing anti-science sentiment in the world, the rushed pseudo scientific justification will only strengthen that.

Give it a year and most of the justification will be walked back, it will turn out that wearing a mask is actually detrimental to public health. It boggles the mind that people assume there must be no ill effects to breathing through a mucus-laden cotton sheet filled with microorganisms captured from the air, ...
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A race baiting flame war from 9 months ago that really has no place on HN.
That is such a terrifying and plausible dystopia. Holiday packages, but applied to your whole life. A whole new avenue for monopoly and corporate power consolidation!
dont you like personalized ad's?
btw. I do not get the adtech industry either, most of these targeted ads are definitiv not in my favor.
> entirely filled with conspiracy videos

That's just a lie. It's filled with videos that don't match your politics.
They would prosecute these cases regardless of people's opinions on China. They are releasing data on those prosecutions, which is hard to criticize as scare tactics.

They are mostly asking for more money because the reporting has increased (See end of article).

Also:
"In June, the NIH said that 189 researchers may have violated grant or institutional rules regarding research integrity, with 93% having support from China."
EU has a project to track excess mortality: EuroMOMO. They have time series for countries:

https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/#z-scores-by-country

Here is how they explain what the z-score is:

https://www.euromomo.eu/how-it-works/what-is-a-z-score/
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Not that I don't think the trend is terrible, but isn't rent-seeking when you charge extra for something but make no discernible improvements?
Sure, but that's not how it should be presented to children. You can paint almost any modern job this way, as you said. So programming needs to be presented as a viable alternative, just like all the other jobs.

No one gives a classroom speech to kids on how being a doctor means doing many years of medschool after finishing college, getting into debt, and then doing 24-36 hour shifts in residency while being paid peanuts, before you can actually start working as a doctor. And I don't think that presenting programming to kids should be done this way either.

It should be presented in a similar manner to how it got many of us into the field due to the love of programming. It is all about solving intricate problems, puzzles, automating things, and doing all sorts of cool stuff with it. In fact, I believe that it is especially shameful how it is usually presented to kids as a menial/robotic job, given that programming has a lot of potential for showing kids cool applications of it, way more than most other fields. Programming robots, computer systems on board of space shuttles, soccer balls that have systems tracking performance, programmable music instruments, etc. The potential for making it entertaining and captivating for kids is gigantic.
Yes, and to expand upon the magic word you used: Excel claimed 30mil users in the mid-1990s [0] and various estimates I've read put the current usage at somewhere between 500-600mil users. I think Excel is the most popular domain-specific programming language on the planet.

[0] https://news.microsoft.com/1996/05/20/more-than-30-million-u...
The same thing happened in Quebec and it lead to one of the highest per-capita death rates in the world (5,500/8,500,000)

The previous government gutted budgets for care homes which lead to chronic understaffing. When the pandemic hit, the current government enacted a fairly strict lockdown but still did nothing to help the situation in care homes, which was worsened by caretakers staying home by fear of catching the virus. This in turn lead to patients being neglected and to caregivers working in both "cold" and "hot" facilities, causing even more outbreaks.
Dune 1 fan here too. I will never forget the thrill of taking over a sietch with overwhelming force.
I just know from experience using "IP Webcam" from the Android market causes my Pixel 2 XL to overheat in a case real fast.

That might be because it is serving all the content as well, though.

edit - reading this page more though and it is clearly designed for iOS with Android being an afterthought. Since Android doesn't support USB and has to stream by WiFi, well I am pretty sure the Android phones will get hot as they are then running some sort of video processing/compression locally
Daniel, calling this a duplicate when the original post is 9 months old seems really questionable.
The Problem with Quantum Computers
Why is Linux better? For general software development I'd say the toolchain, I haven't found a tool I needed not having a Linux version or alternative in a very long time.

Though if you release your games mainly on pc I'd say Windows is better due to being the platform most of your users will be on.

While major companies are pushing for Linux it will take decades from now to actually become the main platform. Due to a lot of reasons I won't go into, but being a programmer you can generally deal with them.
> In other words, comparing countries by their Covid deaths/capita rates is meaningless. The statistics are likely completely wrong because different countries use different definitions of "Covid deaths" and different reporting procedures.

Very true. At the other end of the spectrum, consider North Korea, which is apparently reporting ZERO Covid-19 deaths and also ZERO Covid-19 cases, so its official infection and mortality rates are 0% and 0%.[a] If we were to judge only by those official figures, it would appear the country has done a truly incredible job at combating Covid-19.

[a] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-northk...
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> Containing and minimizing the effects of a pandemic is just one aspect of what we might call a civilized attitude towards human life. Conversely, not doing so is uncivilized and I might add immoral and irresponsible.

This is acting under the assumption that something can be done, that the thing done is effective, or for that matter, isn't harmful. There were, of course, many things done. Were all of them effective? Were some of them harmful?

Doing something harmful, like for example forcefully depriving many of a livelihood during a pandemic, can be considered immoral and irresponsible.
The problem then is the dissolved silver, not the thiosulphate.
It's an argument you have to accept on some level, unless you propose to make more radical changes to society. How many thousands of people could we have saved from car accidents in 2019 by banning nonessential driving?
Many white subgroups have been historically disadvantages (albeit not specifically within US policy)

eg: Scottish, Irish, Jewish people immediately come to mind

Personally I think it'd be better to avoid using skin color/race as an indicator of need and instead just look at need in isolation. A poor person needs help paying for school regardless of their skin color.
I use CS theory all the time in my professional career. Automata, was the most useful class I took (the 2nd most useful was Programming Language Concepts).
Because they ban channels just like Youtube. They just banned Trump's channel a few days ago.
How to secure houses in Covid-19 times?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23755583

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23757033
As a Seattle resident, I’m not convinced that the council doesn’t want that outcome in their revolutionary hearts. An angry underclass is already their power base.
I like this part:

> As is well known, but seldom publicized, the growth of state power has enmeshed doctors, pharmaceutical companies, and biomedical firms in an ever-tightening web of regulations. Their every move is held suspect. Commercial test developers were prevented from getting early access to samples of the novel coronavirus, while the government bungled its own testing. Even when private hospitals want to add more hospital beds, they have to plead with government overlords for permission to do so.
pandoc is not installed on macOS out-of-the-box though right? The user would have to pull via homebrew or something?
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I'm really not sure if the cases/1M is a reasonable figure to compare.

At least between European countries, there have been quite different approaches to testing -- who gets tested varies depending on symptoms, perceived risk to themselves, risk to others, and availability of testing.

I don't personally know anyone here in Denmark that has tested positive. Two people I know know someone who has tested positive here. Many hotspots seem to be limited to quite small communities -- a single building, a single care home for the elderly, or a single food processing factory might have tens of cases (even deaths for the care home), so it's not so surprising that I'm unaware of anyone infected.
Or just a multiline string:

#!/bin/bash
USAGE="my-script — does one thing well

Usage:
my-script <input> <output>

Options:
<input> Input file to read.
<output> Output file to write. Use '-' for stdout.
-h Show this message.
"

help() {
echo "$USAGE"
}

This is my standard approach which is cleaner for putting the documentation at the very top of the file like the linked article.
You know, it feels like bullshit to give this counterfactual.

One of the reasons other countries locked down like they did was to give themselves time to figure out what actually needed to be done to save lives.

Saying "well if they had done this other thing fewer people would've died" means they made the wrong decision. Full stop.
I've had the same argument but the origins don't support this as far as I can tell. A landing page can be a MVP. Dropbox is I think the classic example.

It feels wrong to me, but I think it puts me on the same side as those that reply "but there's a server still" on serverless discussions. As much as I may dislike the naming, that's what it means.
I'm sure that if your product is "hot" enough, and checks all the trendy boxes, a fake video / pitchbook will not only yield signups, but actual investor money.
The pragmatic engineer vs. the scientific designer – Dijkstra, 1978
Why are you turning your phone off for the night, is the real question.
Have you ever seen a news article talking about a data breach? They're posted here pretty regularly, and most big news outlets discuss the more important ones when they happen.

I only ask because your comment sounds like you don't think security is a concern for businesses. It is, so much so that worldwide, companies who have been breached spend close to $4 million cleaning up after the incident [1]. In the US it's actually more like $8 million to clean up after a breach. And if you read the report, data leaks (like customer info sitting in an unsecured Google account) account for half of all breaches.

[1] https://www.upguard.com/blog/cost-of-data-breach

I'd like you to understand how Google Docs poses a risk to businesses. Imagine you want to share a customer list with someone else in your company, but you don't want to use Word and OneDrive like IT has approved. So you put it in Google Docs. Now sitting in your personal and unsecured Google account is a list of your company's customers. Maybe some pricing info, maybe the email address of a contact at the company, that kind of stuff. Now your personal Google account is compromised. It happens all the time, but this time the hacker finds your company's info. Maybe they sell it to one of your competitors and your company loses business. Maybe they use it to spear-phish your customers. Maybe your company's customers get breached because you put their information in an unsecured location.

Now lets say this goes on long enough that other people are using Google Docs too. If prepend can get away with it, so can Anne from accounting. And Ben from HR. And now the SSNs and birthdates and home addresses of all of your company's employees are in the hands of some lucky hacker who guessed that Ben's Gmail password was "Benjamin123".

Does that warrant firing? Doxxing everyone at your company, putting your customers out of business, and putting your own company out of business, just because you didn't like the IT approved solutions? I'm sure there are easier ways to destroy your company and put 200k people out of a job, but I can't think of any off the top of my head.
It does seem that the divide is growing between two fundamental groups in Seattle. Unfortunately one group is mobile and the other not so much.
The same reason electric cars are pointless. The gas is already out of the ground at the gas station.
Quote: " All open source chip designs qualify, no further strings attached!"

There is no such thing as free lunch! I really wonder what is Google's game plan with this. 20 years ago they started to made maps + email + office +... free for everybody, but the game plan was they gathered everything about everybody, so now we know. Sorry Google, I don't trust you one bit anymore.
I see nothing about where power comes from when there is neither wind nor sun. Are they using storage or just using the national grid?
If it is the latter, can we truly say they run on 100% renewable?