skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's going to be interesting to see how the world changes if it was easy to just disable all types of tracking.

Most people, if asked would just block all ads on TV, radio, print, and web.

But then prices for products themselves would skyrocket. There wouldn't be any free webapps, etc.

For example, Facebook would have to charge money.

It might make the world a better place. Might not.

If I were forced to be though I suspect it would be a good thing
People don't tend to bother believing something weird without a motivation.

I mean, there's contrarians, who believe all sorts of weird things just because they like the satisfaction of being proven right (which means they tend to only believe things that it seems like some fringe has evidence for somewhere.)

But other than them, if you're taking a heterodox position on something, it tends to be because it confirms or fits in better with the rest of your existing world-view in some way.

And in what world-view, does hypothesizing the Earth to be flat make things you already believe make more sense? A Creationist one.
> Are you implying people can't disagree with your Orthodox Truth?

I'm not stating a truth, I am not interested in the truth, I am interested in the facts. Do you deny the existence of institutional racism inherent in the justice system?

> Guns are far more disproportionately likely to kill young black men, does that make guns racist?

A gun is not a person and does not have an opinion. The only indisputable fact of a gun is that the direction you point it in shoots bullets when the operator pulls the trigger.

Also deflecting the question of racial injustice by bringing up black on black violence is bullshit. What are the crime statistics on white on white violence. The science shows that poverty is the leading indicator of gun violence not race. The fact that poverty is higher in black neighborhoods is also an indisputable fact and the cause of black poverty has a lot to do with systemic racism in America. These are not truths save your truths for you ministers. These are facts...
Learning to Be Present
I've had the same experience with Hacker's Keyboard. Although I now use it from F-Droid, I haven't noticed any easy to spot differences between the Play Store version and the F-Droid version.
Visits (business) were down significantly for ERs. People just weren't coming in with the silly stuff they did pre-covid. Now you might say that's a good thing overall but that doesn't pay the bills...
How did we get the atom bomb and the internet?
I'm not sure if sarcastic but how is that different from a vegetarian? The exclusion of honey?
Amazing points. Thanks!
Your comments sound a lot like religious zealotry.

Think about what you are suggesting:

"You are a racist if you don't support this particular organization"
I completely forgot why I was watching this video or how I came across it, but I found it quite enjoyable. A nice afternoon distraction from work.
Master and Slave Cylinder.. Automotive and Engineering. Will blue collar thought police be as compliant as (ahem) WHITE collar workers?

Uh. "Workers" has slave connotations. Employees. Wards of the State of Private Prisons. Hard Labor = Slave Labor. Are pregnant women now offended? WoMAN. I mean FeMALE. Damn this is hard..
You're still conflating the success of a tactic in furtherance of a goal with the success of a goal.
Tik Tok Video Hack+ $1000 Free Bonus
Maybe what's missing was to test high load and autoscaling to 5x the traffic on, say, a holiday (when Slacks customers don't work)
I like Chinese tiktok "for you" recommendation than YouTube's recommended. Tiktoks reco is like yeah I will watch that, most of the time I am like thanks. Keep recommending like this. Youtube is like, algorithm thinks it has figured me but it's sort of showing me the same old videos like it's new. I will throw my data to China.
Because tax payers, through their elected representatives, implemented social policy shutting down economic activity. Businesses operate with a state issued license to operate. If the government seized that license it will be taking private property without compensation in violation of the constitution. So the tax payers can either pay to help companies survive or they can pay for seizures of private property.

Frame it in the alternative, why should businesses have their property seized by public health orders because the tax payers have decided that is the right social policy? Why should some individuals be deprived of liberty and property?
Hence auto-immune diseases.
Yavne: A Jewish Case for Equality in Israel-Palestine
> Go modules and the entire package management and versioning system is just embarrassingly horrible. It looks like it was designed by people who have no background in software engineering at all.

Go modules is probably the most well-wrought versioning system for a programming language. The amount of thought that went into it is insane.

https://research.swtch.com/vgo
Btw. Here's a recording of the first DVC meetup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19GMtrFykSU
I like it a lot. Highly recommended!
I'm not against it if thats how I came off, I apologise if it sounded like that. I'm more against the corporate PR campaigns that drown out real material change for black individuals that those like Martin Luther King with the Poor People Campaign fought for. It happens over and over and I'm sick of seeing nothing actually change in society except for 15 minutes of corporate feel good time.

Those ideas, police & prison reform, housing reform, water & infrastructure, education, for black individuals is what I want to see. Systemic change that will actually have a real effect.

I was out for the past 3-4 weeks protesting against police brutality and BLM and it just seems like such a waste when syrup labels and github parent branches are the only change I really see occurring.
Invite only ):
I didn't even know it existed. But now that I hear about it, I would like to have it.
This piece is not about comparing Slack and Teams feature-for-feature.
To me the product weaknesses of Slack have been:

– Video chat integration (not as seamless as Teams)

– Threading (not as good as Zulip)

– Information discovery (i.e. slow search)

In addition, Slack faces a bigger challenge that the “moat” described by OP might not be as defensible as the author suggests. I’m not convinced that an “enterprise social network” is a key feature sought by users of chat apps, and even if it is Microsoft has the stronger hand with its Office 365 user base supplemented by LinkedIn.
Wayback is working for me. Was able to pull up Hacker News from various dates.
What I'll do differently the next time I start a company
I recently joined a Finnish tech company coming from a South American country. My “blind optimism” seem to be quite refreshing for my Finn colleagues :^)
That is it precisely.

It was a matter of ejecting the pipette contents at the right moment while removing the pipette from the medium at the correct speed (I exaggerated my ignorance a little bit for rhetorical effect.) But there was no way to verbally teach the right "feel" for it - you just had to do it over and over until you learnt how pipetting "right" felt. You could (and I did) observe my PI do it the "right" way, but you can only get so close to hitting a baseball by watching a pro - at some point, you pick up the bat and learn by swinging.
Finsmart – Crowdfactoring Made Simple
YMMV but i do prefer the following:
https://www.cs.umd.edu/~nau/cmsc421/norvig-lisp-style.pdf
> Whatever the reasons for flat earthers believing what they do (ignoring the ones who don't actually believe it, but are doing this for attention), are they really that different than other religions?

Yes, they are different. Please refer to my original comment.

> There's enough cases of "regular" religions promoting views that are harmful or cruel and can have a direct negative impact on the health and happiness of others.

True, which unfortunately goes against what religion should be doing in the first place... welcome to the human race :)

Still, I don't really see how you can compare health and happiness in this context. Every idea is bound to make someone, somewhere unhappy.
Nuclear proliferation is a counter example. Its danger goes up the more states that have the tech.
Bonus points. The difference from NEW being?
July 7 Discussion Board: The Return of School During a Global Pandemic
Things are getting just a little bit ridiculous in America when you have people saying "women" is not a sex.
> it's used by people on the losing side of elections to start complaining about "low information voters" with the subtext being "If only everyone was as clever as me and all my friends that think the same then [thing I disagree with] would never win elections."

it's pretty backed up by evidence (and honestly attending a Trump ralley), that the average voter of Trump is less educated, much more prone to misinformation, and simply holds a ton of trivially wrong beliefs about the state of the world.

That's without making a value judgement about the voter or saying they shouldn't have their vote which they should of course because there's no requirement for voting in a democracy, but it seems silly to pretend that such a thing as an uninformed group of voters does not exist, or even cannot exist because it would be offensive in a way.

Autocrats and corrupt leaders have banked on them throughout all of history, and measured, intelligent and truthful discourse is not always found in the majority.If we're concerned with truth then "they keep losing elections" or might makes right style arguments hold no value, in fact they're quite dangerous.
Relevant essay when thinking about stocks & flows in a system: http://donellameadows.org/archives/leverage-points-places-to...
Show HN: Forum – New Agile Framework
Since someone went ahead with the obligatory "they're gonna leave Seattle" comment I will respond to that. They might try (although they're extremely invested and this is a relatively small tax). But if you think every city should lower their taxes and living standard, to maximize short-term profits and therefore incentives for companies to move to or stay there, where does that leave you? The logical endpoint is racing to the bottom in a bidding war for corporate for-profit investment that most residents can't use. Or, in other words, recreating the off-shoring, re-shoring, and hollowing out of communities that has happened for decades in search of labor cost arbitrage. It's unsustainable and unhealthy. The political momentum to tax the ultra-wealthy can spread much faster than they can pack up and move. It's time to do that.
I appreciate having a discussion. It's very simple to to paint an opinion as xenophobic. I think that is too easy. And a sign of our times to cancel people, opinions and debates.

If people are concerned about half a million adults educating themselves, than please also be concerned about 100 million people of a country trying to make it through a difficult time. Black and white thinking is all there seems to be these days. Either we close schools and businesses, or we don't. Either we allow the beach, or we don't. But whenever it suits we put on our refined thinking hat and try to think about all the consequences.

If a person supports closing schools, closing businesses and to not have political gatherings, all of which impacts hundreds of millions of people in the US alone, but finds excuses for exemptions, that for me would be a convoluted narrative. You quote an earlier comment of mine. Which is still valid. I made it two weeks ago and look around you. Are we accommodating peoples lives, all of them, or are we not. If you don't want to accommodate a gym instructor, nail salon owner, or working parents with what they need, its hard to get the policies you want, or the country you want. You want to prevent the spread with heavy handed measures, ruining peoples lives, and at the same time walk a fine line for expat students and protesters? You can't do both at the same time.
Scale fast and break things
New Bug Reported by the Prominent Fortnite Influencers
Nice VIM reference. ;)
How interesting it is...not even through the A's yet in my major city and I am seeing peer companies on here reporting more "jobs retained" than they even employ...if that doesn't indicate what a scam this whole thing is, what would it take to make that clear?

Edit to add: further down the list I am seeing tech co's that actually laid off large % of employees that received millions still.

They probably were not counting on this information becoming public (though it obviously is/should be by default)...any respect I may have had for them is no more. Disgusting behavior.
I figured everyone already knew that, my point was just that the tech itself may not be very impressive.
Remote Code Execution on Nintendo 64
Analogies are dangerous, but I'll give it a shot.

In your 2003 scenario, an analogous concern would be if someone pointed out that Saddam Hussein was indeed violating some UN provisions and the response was for that person to be fired because that observation was evidence that they were "pro-war" or not sufficiently "anti-war".

My observation wouldn't be there was no "right" to fire the person but instead would be that the logical inference that triggered the firing was faulty and ill-informed. If managers everywhere we reacting that way I might suggest that there was no space to discuss the topic without undo consequences.

I can be fired by an boss who thinks I'm being insubordinate, they have that right. But it would be helpful if that boss had some evidence that I was being insubordinate and didn't use my request to clarify my insubordination as evidence that I was being insubordinate.
Not at all. It's a gender.

Can you elaborate on what makes that statement so ridiculous on it's face?
Excess Deaths for 2020
> yes, but that requires some level of interest in, and active search for, information about bolsonaro. how many americans other than folks with connections to brazil (or thereabouts) would that be? relatively few, i'd wager.

Sure, but I'd wager most of the HN crowd knows enough to know that he's a piece of shit. I most certainly feel like it'd be wonderful and poetic if he died to Covid!

Also what's the point of your comment other than expressing some weird kind of arrogance?
This comment is too vague and general for me to interact with. I have a notion that I disagree with what you’re getting at here, but I can’t be sure.

I agree that the public is lied to. But that is usually through editorialization of headline news that omits or emphasizes convenient information for the sake of a narrative. What I’m talking about is being presented with raw information and considering it.
It was consistently returning 503 errors when I posted the comment, at least for me; now it’s back to normal.
Edit: I'm letting my original comment stand as it shows how I was subtly misinformed regarding the situation of Sweden. I don't think I'd be the only one.

Wait, with all due respect, 5420 deaths on 10 million people? On a country left completely unchecked? That doesn't sound like the impending doom I thought the virus would bring.

I thought the novel corona virus had a death rate of about 1% to 2% and a bigger spreading rate that was bigger than 1, if no measures were taken. So, I'd expect between 100,000 to 200,000 to have died. I'm really happy that didn't happen. It also makes me curious as to why. Is it because of Sweden's demographics (people living alone)? Or is it because the virus isn't as deadly as we think it is?

How come 0.05% died and not 1% to 2%? Isn't this evidence that the coronavirus isn't as big as a threat as we thought? I mean 0.05% deaths is 40 times smaller than 2% deaths.

It's awful what happened, but the highest flu season in The Netherlands, for example, killed an estimated 9444 people [1] on 17,280,000 people, which is slightly higher than what the Swedes had to go through now (also rounded to 0.05%). I know that the novel coronavirus is not a flu, but if this is it, then well, I've seen worse, apparently.

I know the virus isn't done, but it had months to roam free in Sweden. One would expect it would double up every 5 days in terms of how many people would be infected.

Edit: they did need to maintain social distance apparently. I wouldn't call that "doing nothing". Sure a lot more can be done, but I feel the media are framing the Swedes a bit inaccurately. Belgium seems to be way worse (9774 on 11,460,000 people, ~0.1% is getting truly uncomfortable)

[1] In Dutch, unfortunately: https://www.rivm.nl/monitoring-sterftecijfers-nederland
My understanding is that architectural improvements (i.e. new approaches to detect more parts in code that can be evaluated at the same time, and then do so) need more transistors, ergo a smaller process.

(Jim Keller explains in this interview how CPU designers are making use of the transistor budget: https://youtu.be/Nb2tebYAaOA)
Oh nice, good approach.
I went with Native http for performance reasons
For a different view from the rest of the replies: our family takes a more relaxed view of things. Shabbat is for food, family, and taking time off from the hustle and bustle. This may include things like:

* Scrabble and other board games

* Cycling and other outdoor activities

* Reading

* Gardening

* Picnicking with friends (though not so much nowadays)

We don't really subscribe to the very strict definition of "work", and I don't think the rest of our synagogue community does either. But phones, internet, and computing are largely discouraged.
I just don't see a world where journalists walk out on their jobs over cookie pop-ups. It doesn't feel like the same level as what Google/FB do, not to mention the supply/demand looks completely different in their industry vs tech so the power dynamic is a bit different.
Wildly know rumor that Putin rarely comes out of bunker and has disinfection tunnel.
As to relationships, consider that sometimes anger comes from others' expectations of you. That isn't something easily changed, and accepting their demanding ways may just enable bad behavior.
> a logic design work on an FPGA is much easier

Whelp... definitely crossing fabbing off my list.
Low-tech Magazine[1] runs off of a 168 W-h lead-acid battery and has pretty good uptime. An average sized car battery has ~600 W-h. Four of them is 2400 W-h. They might have enough power to run for a week between charges.

168 W/h gives you about 12 hours between charges.

2400 W-h / 168 W-h = about 14.28x the size of LTM's

12 hours * 14.28 = 7.14 days.

1: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/01/how-sustainable-is...
Well, a country will have less economic fallout if it manages to keep SARS-Cov-II at bay. Trump managed to evoke the collateral damage of a lockdown without the full benefits. And that is on the government.
I've been thinking of Aruba APs and a FortiGate 61F. It'll be more manual setup, but should work fine.

I've got a nice UniFi setup at home (CloudKey G2, USG, 8-port switch, wired AP, mesh'd AP) and it works well, but it's lacking in some frustrating ways.

For example, it advertises DPI, but it doesn't provide data that can guide decisions. It'll group things into buckets, but you can't look at it over any timeframe (doesn't even say when you reset the counters) much less trigger on if anything exeptional happens.

There's also this nifty power widget which you can connect to a cable modem (between it and mains power) and when the internet connection fails, it'll power cycle the modem... not a bad thing for some iffy ISPs. It works, but it doesn't log to the otherwise-reasonably-extensive system logs. So, you never know if it actually DID anything.

The setup here at home works well. The APs are solid, as is the security gateway. But it just seems to lack in some advertised ways; enough so to make me question sticking with them when it next becomes time to upgrade.
Internet story is mostly a fairytale, specifically modern stupidity of "fathers" shows this. They were just riding on the wave of something that everyone were experimenting with at that time.

A-bomb was about pulling some people away from academia, not building it by academia.

"Built by academia" result is something we can see with colliders.
Those who like clojure/lisp, can try with Hy [1]. The latest version removed Python 2 support, but previous versions would work on Python 2 and 3. Can directly run hy code, compile to pyc or readable python source files.

For functional programming aficionados that still prefer python, don't forget PyToolz [2] or single-source-file underscore.py [3].

[1] https://docs.hylang.org/en/stable/

[2] https://toolz.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

[3] https://github.com/serkanyersen/underscore.py
simple pandering by the current us gvt. student visas are cancelled, rolls into h1b. n no more of those dirty liberal immigrants. n then you can parade how strong you're against china.
> why should we be giving the banks the right to decide which businesses should be recession proof or not?

Would you rather have our politicians deciding this?
Germany managed the outbreak better because it was able to do 5x to 10x more testing than any other country, due to the global medical testing industry being mostly located in Germany. This enabled them to closely track the progress of the virus and employ targeted tactical lockdowns. Germany did lock down, just not as completely. Spain and France didn't have that option, they could only employ blanket lockdowns.

Of course now we have ramped up our global testing capacity and German style tactical lockdowns are becoming more feasible, but they aren't a magic wand. Even Germany is forecast to suffer a 7% hit to it's economy through 2020 while the hit to Spain may be double that. So hopefully further lockdowns wont be as blanket and damaging as the first wave, but they will still have an impact.

If you think the lockdowns didn't have any effect on transmission of the virus, how do you explain the reduction in cases during the lockdowns?
Microservices are a good way to scale up development teams. So if you have 16 developers you can partition the work in two teams with one microservice each. If you have 80 devs you can have 10 teams with one microservice each team. Use Conwayś law to your advantage. Use DDD to decide where the boundaries are.

The advantage of having each team own a microservice is that each team can deploy their software independently from the rest of the teams. And it works as long as the APIs are honored. So Microservices are way to decouple the work of different teams allowing them to work independently from each other.
Two factors:

This was a very smart way to bail out banks indirectly

At least PPP did not protect execs, but given that rank and file was saved, the execs got the reprieve too
hexedit, as with most traditional hex editors, prints file offsets as 32 bits. So for offsets > 4GiB+, either the editor doesn't show the offset correctly, or it reformats the screen to handle it and has inconsistent widths within output.

You are of course correct that dd provides the basics. However my goal with hexpeek was to create a more powerful and user-friendly tool than relying on dd. For example, how do you insert one byte in the middle of huge file with dd? Yes it can be done with multiple commands, but with hexpeek it is one command.
This comment could easily be interpreted as you speaking for Google.
> I'm under the impression that UV-C is very dangerous to eyesight.

Yes, among other things. It also has negative side effects on the surface it's cleaning. But there's some interesting IP in the space to maximize the effectiveness while minimizing time and energy used. Not all UV-C is the same.
I checked a bunch and they were all geocoding fails. If you zoom out you can find examples in several countries.

Examples:

All the ones in Ontario, Canada, e.g. Fullmer Construction, are really in Ontario, California.

The Christian Valley School on Artesia boulevard in Alberta was picked up instead of the one in Artesia, CA.

Simpson Labs is geocoded to Valencia, Spain instead of Valencia, CA.

GW Lawrence on Wilson street in Cordoba, Argentina instead of Cordoba, AR.