skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference between a feature and a product is in the eye of the beholder, but "just chat" isn't a very compelling product. All the strong products in this space (Teams, Slack, Discord et al.) are Chat+ products with integrations, voice, bots, and other non-chat features to make collaboration more productive.

I think the product is facilitating remote collaboration, chat is just one very significant feature.
The BBFA and MPAA, if I understand correctly, watch every second of content they rate. They have a back-and-forth with creators when there are disputes. They can afford to communicate, well, this is one f-bomb too many and usless you remove it, it's an "R" rating.

Secondly, they work with (largely) mainstream content producers (e.g. movie studios), who rarely act with downright malicious intent because of reputation and money on the line.

I don't believe content moderation is a problem solved well anywhere.
We don’t know anything about their business. For all we know PPP prevented 100% layoffs and a company shutting down.

Recruiting and hiring is hard. No one wants to lay people off.

The rules of PPP also require maintaining the same number of full time employees in order to receive full forgiveness. Any company that received funds and then reduced staff will not have full amount forgivable.
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I have recently been working on a project with three other undergraduates from UT Austin called Talent Filter (www.talentfilter.io). It is a public facing talent directory that allows anyone to post a profile detailing their work experience for everyone (particularly recruiters) to see. We thought this would be the best way to help fellow students who may have recently been laid off or had job offers rescinded.
If you, or someone you know, may have been put into a situation similar to this, please feel free to post onto the site for recruiters to directly see.
Also would love any feedback on the site in general!
James Hoffman is great. I love his videos they are singlehandedly sending me deeper and deeper down the coffee rabbit hole
Well it's not only that, if you overwhelm your healthcare system you're going to end up with excess deaths even if the same number of people get the virus in the end. Also, we've learned some mitigation techniques over the last few months (like steroids in late stage treatment) which means that the idea that 'everyone will get it eventually' just isn't relevant - its likely that our survival rate will go up over time even without a proper vaccine.
For a lot of corporate open-source the goal is to commoditize a complement of your revenue-generating product and hence generate more sales. If you're Elastic, having more companies running ElasticSearch increases the number of paying customers looking for hosted ElasticSearch. If you're RedHat or IBM, having more companies using Linux increases the number of companies looking for Linux support. If you're Google, having more phones running Android increases the number of devices you can show ads on.

Similarly for independent developers. You don't make money off the open-source software itself. You make money by getting your name out there as a competent developer, and then creating a bidding war between multiple employers who want to lock up the finite supply of your labor. The delta in your compensation from having multiple competitive offers can be more than some people's entire salary.
I really don't think that this is bad advice in general. Mess with the code all you want at compile time, but don't touch it at runtime is the good kind of boring. CL is an extremely powerful language, it doesn't mean you should be using it all the time in your day-to-day work.
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I have the same fond memories of this game. I fell in love with the books and was amazed at how great a game it was. Played it over and over with all the different houses and their strengths and weaknesses. Such a anomaly that a movie/book based game was that well put together.
Putin has become one, anecdotally.
> I'm not sure how legitimate it is to think you know or can determine the spirit of religious laws you don't know the details of.

That is precisely my point. Rabbis might say X or Y, that doesn't mean that it pleases God one way or another.

You can take the view that the loopholes are there to be found and thus prove your commitment, the opposite view or just the view that some are ok and some are not, this is all very theoretical given the impossibility of knowing what the relevant God thinks, as arguments could be made for both situations.
Are you thinking of the Blackbird? https://www.raptorcs.com/content/BK1B02/intro.html
Dopamine is part of pleasure too, but most importantly it's "anticipation of reward" or how long you can focus on an action until your brain evaluates the result.

This is what's broken in ADHD and why people affected profit from increasing dopamine with some stimulants.
I just couldn't disagree more with the idea of building a basic knowledge and understanding of management from the military. There are some generalisable lessons to be learned from military management/leadership situations, and undoubtedly some that are transferable to tech, but there's also a vast and very approachable literature that draws on military and every other imaginable scenario to distill out lessons and principles. The rest of your advice is good, but please, just learn about the core subject first, rather than a niche and fairly radical lens on it.
Sometimes even a corrupt immoral puppet authoritarian inquisitor goes after a legitimate target. Stopped clock and all that.

The Borkian "consumer welfare" standard is judicial revisionist history.
If you'd like to see how big of a problem it is, post "males are not females" or "males do not have periods" or "all lives matter" or "we should not be giving hormone blockers to children" to your Twitter or Facebook accounts. Go right ahead. If you feel even the slightest bit of trepidation over publicly stating any of those things, then you will see first hand how big of a problem it is.

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this very post will be down-voted
This is the sort of thing that makes perfect sense in retrospect but I never thought about. Thanks for the tip!
Thanks! We also have Tasks in beta if you want to check that out. You can probably guess how it works :)
> One of the largest "radical leftist" groups in the West is Antifa, but from what I know, it's hard to see any Maoism (or Maoist ideas) present in its members

"The modern Antifa movement has its roots in the West German Außerparlamentarische Opposition left-wing student movement ... The first Antifa groups in this tradition were founded by the Maoist Communist League in the early 1970s. From the late 1980s, West Germany's squatter scene and left-wing autonomism movement were the main contributors to the new Antifa movement ..."

The reference to "autonomism" implies a historical link to "revolutionary spontaneism" groups who, generally speaking, were especially enthusiastic about Marxism-Leninism-Maoism (that is, Mao Zedong Thought as "transferred" to the Western context) and the CR in particular. It might be hard to believe, but the links are quite clear once you do some digging.

> The Sino-Soviet split and the ascension of Deng liberalizing China has practically deadened Maoist ideology in the West.

Maybe so in the United States, but it did not have the same outcome elsewhere in the West. (And the real turning point was Nixon going to China, that made overt references to Maoist China somewhat unpalatable for radicals in the U.S. and to some extent the UK. Changes in deeper ideology are not nearly as easy or quick, however.)
In discussions about this on social media, there's significant push back from those who are actually affected by the issues BLM is fighting for, who feel moves like this are more white guilt with no real change for what really matters. I'm sure an at-risk youth, when pulled over by two white police officers, is grateful that a bunch of highly paid programmers aren't subjected to politically incorrect variable names.

(edited: I referred to this group as "BLM core", but I realize that's confusing to some)
Ask HN: Anyone working in tech but has no prior tech experience?
From entertainment to tech, i had no prior knowledge in fintech whatsoever. When i first started of as an Intern at this silicon valley fintech startup, Tellus, I was struggling to understand a lot of the finance and real estate terms. However, i was able to apply some of my event marketing knowledge and help achieve marketing goals for the company.

That being said, i was wondering if any of you here on HN had the same experience as me transitioning from the entertainment industry into fintech? I am curious to hear your story below
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Yesterday I came across https://obs.camera/ which is not affiliated with OBS but claims to work with OBS using NewTec‘s NDI streaming protocol. Haven‘t tried but put it high on my list as this seems to be a super-easy and affordable way to build a set with multiple camera angles if you need to. If it works well and lag / latency is OKish this is a cheap alternative to external cameras with HDMI capture cards. Does anyone have experience with OBS.camera?
There are a remarkable number of sketchy blockchain companies in this list-- many for larger $5 to $10 million dollar ranges.

I wonder how many of them were sitting on millions or tens or even hundreds of millions of deceptively obtained ICO funds at the time they obtained these 'loans'.

E.g. I see at least one that raised over 100k BTC in ICO funding just couple years ago.
> It only includes loans up to $150k

Do you mean "over" $150k? Parent's loan was <$150k.
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Why should taxpayers have bailed out businesses that couldn’t keep employees on payroll though?

There is no end in sight to either corona virus or the economic downturn, so it’s just throwing 8 weeks worth of taxpayer money into bad investments. What’s going to happen within 8 weeks to ensure these employees won’t just be let go again?
You'd absolutely be wrong. Most ambulance services saw a massive downtick.

People who would otherwise have gone to the ER, even if not strictly necessary, were hesitating, "do I really need to go, perhaps not".

And then on the other side, you had people who really _should_ go not wanting to, due to fear.

Both ambulance services in my county were shutting down ambulances and furloughing employees heavily.

-- a paramedic
That's exactly it. It reminds me of some aspects of China during The Great Leap Forward. The grain production quotas set by Mao was completely unrealistic. However if the local leader said it, they would be branded as "anti-revolutionary" and sent off to reeducation camps. So the local leader lied and said they achieved the quota and was praised by the party. This lead to other village leader saying they exceeded the quota (by more and more over time) so that they seem more revolutionary (pro-party).
> Imagine some incubating startup where you have an initial 4-week runway for development

Who have been asked to build something that does X, Y, and Z. Without tests how do they know when they're done? How do they convince other people that they've done what they were asked?
Stock and Flow (2010)
There's a lot of weirdness lately about people expecting companies to not take the money.

The virus wasn't any company's fault. The choice to respond to the virus by shutting down the economy wasn't any company's fault.

Previous epidemics in human history have been dealt with by simply accepting a death rate that modern society, via government policy, has chosen to not accept. This was an unprecedented response that no business could have predicted.

Why do so many of us view businesses who pay employees as the enemy? Agreed 100% on the fact that many of us on this board got stimulus checks that were later spent on mountain bikes or other luxury items. Members of the privileged keyboard class didn't need them at all. People who work with their hands ought to be pretty pissed off they simply didn't get double what they got while we received nothing.
Police+recover+14+bodies+from+Benue+River+boat+mishap
Awesome work!

I can see another variation of this being useful as well. Instead of loading live data all the time, it loads the data at time of publishing and creates a static html page with an option to auto-publish to github pages or netlify or something like that.
Indeed - standardisation is adopted as it helps drive more handset sales and stimulate consumer demand. But standardisation is eschewed even in 4G and 5G when it comes to the equipment deployment - everyone is trying to build their "moat" of proprietary features to make you want to only deploy their radios in a given area (or ideally the whole network).

Automatic neighbour detection and cross-eNB resource block coordination are 2 that spring to mind which I think you lose in 4G if you don't go with a single-vendor approach. And good luck actually getting rival radio vendors to talk X2 to each other nicely...
That ship has sailed decades ago, when you let card carrying commies run your higher education. We are reaping what was sowed back then, and it'll get worse before the pendulum swings (which I believe it will in my lifetime). In the meanwhile I'm gaining a newfound appreciation for McCarthyism, the original "cancel culture".
Yep, MeeGo Harmattan was the original plan for replacing Symbian. Probably could have made it but they would have needed a partner (HP/Palm?).
I was thinking the same thing about the author from above as well.

What I think would be much more interesting is to see what businesses have physical B&M locations. In other words, cross reference Yelp/Google Places with the legal entity's address. Or maybe cross referenced against unemployment numbers by state/city (if that data exists).
It aids in the defense during the next discrimination lawsuit, as it can no longer be used as evidence to support a plaintiff's complaint.

Edit:

> What does stuff like this actually do except give them some good PR?

Source linked in OP article:

> The request -- which has some suppliers furious and others busy re-labeling components -- came after an unidentified worker spotted a videotape machine carrying devices labeled "master" and "slave" and filed a discrimination complaint with the county's Office of Affirmative Action Compliance.
Worked for me too!

The only downside was (on Arch) having to recompile to update the v4l2loopback_dc kernel module after ever kernel update.

I've since moved on to a regular webcam though.
I think this framing of the issue is pretty interesting. There are a decent number of articles that talk about how cancel culture affects celebrities, but I do think it would be pretty hard to quantify the effects of cancel culture. It seems hard to define.

Personally, I'm not totally sold by the letter from Harper's. But I don't have data one way or another to support my bias. I don't believe at face value that cancel culture is the root cause (or even a root cause) of the problems folks see with American public discourse. I wonder how to quantify something like this.
I'm very interested in how this works.

For full context: teams came out during my current employment and I have not moved to another company to see it used any other place.

From my understanding; at least how it's configured for my company... A "channel" is more like a series of threads, reminiscent of a forum post per message which can be replied to. This is what I mean when I say it's like email; it's heavily thread based.

"Chats" are ad-hoc, un-ordered and will become inaccessible/removed when they cycle out of the sidebar (as in, you can have 20~ chats, the one last interacted with the longest ago will be dropped if you add a new chat).

Voice calls work well though.
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Flight of the Fire Ants
"I'm just waiting for Maria to kill her children" is a valid tech sentence, but probably not something that should be uttered in a public setting. :)
I think "whitespace matters" and Python's quite uninspired way of writing procedure calls make it difficult to really innovate in the syntax area, without breaking backwards compatibility and without causing ambiguity.
Yes, it is exactly who it is for. The PPP has provisions to get it forgiven only if the companies hire back those layoffs. If you are out of money, you are simply out. It took some time for the PPP to go through if you were able to get it at all.
Ask HN: The 'web' button is gone?
There used to be a 'web' button on each HN comments page, between 'past' and 'favorite' (looks like https://archive.is/IkXqk), which basically Googles the title for you. It's useful for finding original/alternative/more reputable sources, and sometimes for bypassing paywalls, either through an alternative source or through Google's cached copy. Sure you can just copy the title and Google it yourself, but as someone who often browses HN from an iPad I find it pretty handy.

It seems just gone now (I think I last used it within the past couple of days)? Wonder if I'm the only one who gives a damn about it. Would love to hear from dang or another mod about the rationale behind the removal, too. I thought to email the mods but decided to post an Ask HN on the off chance this resonates with people.
> CL is an extremely powerful language, it doesn't mean you should be using it all the time in your day-to-day work.

That's the problem of code guides - they try to avoid problems with some abuses, but to make a good judgement when some rare decision is justified is hard. So the guide misses the mark by making an approximate limitation - often on the safe side.

It has benefits to write on boring, safe subsets of languages. Still writing code guidelines is hard.
Ask HN: What are blockchains being used for in 2020
I've been getting further and further into researching blockchains, and how the entire ecosystem works, and works together as an ecosystem. However it all just seems to be about trading cryptocurrencies either from fiat or other cryptocurrencies, and there are some small things out there like gambling and basic games, but I still don't see any useful stuff for normal day to day stuff.

Getting away from the building blocks, like Bitcoin, Ethereum, smartcontracts etc. What are things like Chainlink, Cosmos, etc. really enabling us to do today? I found Orchid on coinbase, but there seems to have been little movement past its initial hype. It would be great to have a blockchain that can do anon VPN service, but doesn't seem there today.
You might be able to stream over BitTorrent with one good seeder. It doesn't take many connections to saturate that seeder's upstream capability. Once a torrent's total seed upstream capacity is exceeded clients' playback will stall until they can buffer enough video to restart playback.

It takes a lot of upstream bandwidth to stream even just passable quality video. Between shitty upstream bandwidth for residential Internet and swarm participants limiting their seed ratios or further limiting upstream bandwidth scaling torrent streaming is unreliable at best and impractical at worst.
Given the replies, seems overwhelmingly it's about the software interface rather than the hardware.

I'd got the impression that Vulkan would bridge that gap, but it's quite a low-level API and verbose. Would be interesting to hear comments on that, perhaps just for the case of the hosted GPU market being more competitive.
you haven't read the Hebrew bible.
The Sarah Downey article you mention is of really low quality.

She parrots tired cliches (you couldn't make Blazing Saddles today!) in a world where we're realizing that many beloved comedians are sexual predators as well.

She thinks JK Rowling did nothing wrong, she only followed the science! (no mention that she explicitly accuses transwomen of being a danger to ciswomen, she thinks trans rights are brainwashing teenagers into wanting to change their gender, and has a few other obviously transphobic and harmful calls to action).

She accuses the people calling for lockdowns and isolation for Covid19 of not caring about poor people, when the highest voices on this were also calling for relief funds and rent freezes.

She then accuses the BLM protesters of violence and looting, with not one word about the police escalation of violence, nor of white supremacist provocateurs.

And of course, she thinks wanting to join protests for social justice is hypocrisy if yesterday you were encouraging people not to go to clubs and restaurants to avoid the pandemic.

And finally, of course she will defend the right of Holocaust deniers to be heard, but calls for the most powerful celebrities to shut up or change their ways are harrasement and a sign that free speach is dead.

The whole article is a collection of these reactionary hot takes, peppered with self-defenses of how progressive the author is (she is Jewish! And has gay friends! And enjoys RuPaul's drag race!), meant to make it sound like she is one of the people who would support the causes she is actually attacking.
Firstly, I don't know of any situation where that's true. If your manager is insisting on something impossible or immoral/unethical, you escalate. Escalating doesn't have to be within the organisation. It can be going public, going sideways (to clients/collaborators), or going way up (to investors/funders/government/regulators).

Secondly, what I was saying is that whoever is the person that refuses to take it higher - that person is the problem. If you're stuck underneath them, go above them, or go public, or do whatever you need to do to avoid compromising yourself.
While we're here getting riled up about the subject of this video, the content itself features a cleverly disguised banner running in a recorded video that cannot be blocked or paid to avoid. Well played, sir.
Please provide a link to support your assertion that "the BLM core" is giving "significant push back".
I think the complaint is that it would be possible to get a quality education without the onerous requirements if it weren't for some bureaucratic gatekeeper -- they're not saying that education isn't a good reason, but rather there's no reason for the gatekeeping.
Yes, that's what makes it so terrible. All of the "action at a distance" complexity of Ruby meta-programming, with none of the concise and easy to read code!