skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't tell the difference between the screen and my window (it's rainy here today!). Nice!
Maybe the English link is better:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qj4ka5/covid-19-broke-the...
Not available in my country (the Netherlands)
My company does this as policy, except we hire them and put them on full benefits. However there is a 6 month period where you can be fired a lot easier than after that 6 months.

It seems like a reasonable compromise that doesn't leave the job seeker without health insurance etc.
I have to say, this looks potentially awesome.

I previously worked at Stripe, where we had something vaguely similar; a UI for managing deploys, infra changes, etc. All a thin wrapper around a CLI we could also use, plus some niceties like embedded monitoring. I'm going to really miss that tool the next time I build my own web service.

It really helped product engineers make changes to production with speed, confidence, and safety.

Before, doing so was a combination of yaml config changes, a smattering of in-house and third-party CLI's, and sometimes complex combinations thereof. You could do it, and we did all the time, but it was less discoverable, slower, and more prone to error.

I'll be curious to see if Clutch is something that proves easy for other orgs to adopt to their needs.
COTS sensors don't work well in a high radiation environment.
There are the AMX machine learning on-die accelerators. I assume there's some new instructions to talk to those.
What anti-trust practices should Microsoft be questioned on?
When you find out you’re the copycat
That's a great question! I think over time RSS would have ended up where it is anyway because of what it is, you're very intentionally opting out of spending time on site to consume the content elsewhere which for the web of today is exactly what they want to avoid.
And only if you redefine “monopoly” as “only one company gets to sell its own products”. Why not drag the console makers in too?
Usenet was a thing in 1990, and people absolutely did post their opinions there. It was nothing like going on national TV, even though it was quite possible for a Usenet post to go "viral" (resulting in months-long threads with many hundred replies, sometimes cross-posted elsewhere on the internet).

> Would you feel comfortable that you still have your job and your reputation after going in front of the nation and saying "I think interracial marriages should be illegal"?

Funny choice there, since that used to be conventional wisdom well into the 1960s and later, at least in some places. You'd get in trouble for saying the opposite!
Can't be miniaturized, thus expensive. Not mobile.
Whyever would we compare it to other countries? We compare it to the past.

The statistics were compiled from 2015 and in just the few years since then solved crimes have halved: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49029545.

If you and I were to travel back in time to the high trust society before mass surveilance & enquired our police wouldn't deny they held the the monopoly on violence. My friends in the forces of today tell me they feel under siege most days.

Apologies, "London is the knife crime capital of the world." is part of the venacular here akin to "The man who broke the Bank of England".
Different browsers see different colors
The honest pre-flight safety demonstration video
Covid is an autoimmune disease. The Over active immune response is what is killing people.

The virus is a trigger. It also attacks exact same receptor that hydroxychloroquine targets. I think it’s complete nonsense that has no effect.

Maybe the effect is trivial. Maybe it’s too little too late. But it is way too early to shutdown talk on it down.

I desperately wanna see studies on Covid death rates for people that have been taking it long term.
Internet Archive responds to publishers’ lawsuit
https://archive.org/details/internet-archive-answer - Defense Filing

I'm seeing more and more "503 Service unavailable" on the waybackmachine.
For my GPT-3 tweets, I Google the ones that are too good to see if it's a dupe.

Only 1/200 or so tweets that I checked had a verbatim dupe.
> No. I'd prefer ESA to be building reusable rockets of their own

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adeline_(rocket_stage)

The numbers didn't work particularly well on this one, but it's not like they're ignoring it.

And, frankly, commercial space is doing fine on launchers right now. It's doing very little on future interplanetary concepts, so if anything it would make MORE sense for ESA to focus on them now than previously.

> I just find it amusing to imagine the Earth-based geologists poring over their few crumbs whilst actual geologists stomp about on Mars with hammers chipping away to their hearts' content

I mean, it's _possible_, maybe. But it's not likely. And you can't suspend all work due to dubious claims by someone else. In the 1950s, British fusion researchers claimed that cheap fusion energy would be a thing within a decade. If we had believed them absolutely, the world would still be powered by low efficiency coal and oil power plants; why bother spending all that money developing high efficiency steam and gas turbines, wind and solar power, and fission power, when cheap fusion was about to sweep it away?

And of course, even in the Musk dream scenario where this actually happens, solar electric drive cargo tugs would still be very useful, and this is a decent first step towards those. No-one envisages a long-term purely chemical exploration of space.
If you have a house there, what modifications would you make?
Ooof, that sounds awful.

Don't worry, there's no way you're a shittier developer than me. Maybe we should form a club.
> _Rome_ didn't fall in a day

Nice.
I don't disagree. It really was awesome. But whatever you call delicious from Yahoo aquisition onward wasa failure to steward it correctly. If all it took was not messing with it, that was a standard that was not met.
There was a project floating around recently that rendered the website as an image using a modern browser backend, transmitted it back to any old browser (was demonstrated using IE5, I think), and also mapped mouse clicks to the appropriate locations in the document so the page remained more or less interactive. The UI looked like an extra navigation bar.

Can't remember the name, though (and it's also hard to search for).

edit: browser history to the rescue, it's https://github.com/ttalvitie/browservice
It's discussed in Ben Rich's excellent memoir, Skunk Works.

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Skunk_Works/oL4bHPIt7XI...
> What makes TikTok unique beyond growing like wildfire: their monetization strategy will be easier (the social aspect leads to relevant advertising), and their community is more stable!

I think monetizing a community that did not start with the expectation of being monetized will be difficult. Reddit is dealing with this right now and it's degrading the site and the community and they still aren't profitable. Youtube has the same issue right now - many creators did not plan to have their channel monetized and are now being shutdown or delisted because their content is thought to be dangerous to the monetization efforts.

This is what I mean when I say that TikTok is "easy to uninstall". As soon as a creator feels burned by the monetization efforts, they press and hold and click Delete App and they are gone. There's no contract in place that says "if you quit you must give us 60 days notice or pay a penalty", there's no stickiness but the validation from the community.

Monetization puts the company in the middle of the validation the creator gets from the consumer. Creators detect this, feel like they are being cut off from their drug, and bail to find the next "dealer".
Framing a product trial as a competition is an interesting hack.
Awesome, I missed del.icio.us, it is my childhood.
And if you take UNIX to mean Linux, that was created by a Finn.
GNU Nano 5.0
Mitigate vulnerabilities in your open-source dependencies
Dick Tracy wrist radio (and Star Trek communicator) notwithstanding, fiction didn't really broadly embrace ubiquitous communications. I suspect part of the reason is that, as the article notes, a lot of fiction uses control of information flows as an important part of plot construction.

And, as you note, video phones were pretty universally envisioned as landline plus screen. As with many things, video has of course evolved much more organically. Initially primarily on mobile and, of course, it's exploded on notebooks/desktops in the current situation.
I've been on this website long enough to remember when everyone was saying 'of course manually-driven cars will be the exception by 2020', and believing Elon Musk's timescales has taken over as the new naive credulity of the HNer.
The discussion of risk is interesting. It is not uncommon for small farms with one or a few crops or animal species to have an annual net income which varies considerably from year to year depending on weather, disease, pests, market prices, and the cost of inputs such as fuel, fertilizer, etc. Small farmers have to tolerate variations in income greater than most salaried city dwellers.

The risks and consequent variations can be reduced by increasing scale, diversifying crops and animal husbandry, and by using financial tools, such as futures.

The history of economic development follows this trend even more so over the centuries. Business units become larger, technological processes more diverse and complex, and financial tools are created to smooth out variations in growth.

Thus, short term risks are reduced and mild adversities are avoided, but this comes at the cost of increasing long term risks and great catastrophes. Ultimately, global warming may put an end to this strategy.
> those people would have accumulated enormous radiation dosages over the duration of the flight

What is this based on? One of the chief contributors to the mass of a Mars voyage is shielding.
As a French who used to live in NY, it really is a STRANGE feeling to visit a French-speaking country like Canada and bump into a word you can FEEL is French, but have never heard of before.

For example, we use the literal words "airbag" or "showroom" in France, in the middle of an otherwise French sentence.

During my first visit to Montreal, I saw the word "chambre-a-montrer" in a storefront, and it took me a good 30 seconds to decipher it. Every compound word in "chambre-a-montrer" is French, but I still had to reverse-translate it back to English to realize that "chambre" = "room", "montrer" = "show", therefore I was looking at an actual French word for "showroom". Same goes for them using "coussin-a-gonfler" ("inflatable pillow") for "airbag".

They do that a lot, so in a sense they speak better French than us French people. Sure, the French Academy, the council for matters pertaining to the French language, comes up with French translations of common English words, but they are mostly derided for being a bunch of out-of-touch geezers.
For almost 10k people, it's more than just their email:

> While the majority of the data breach concerned email addresses, we regret to inform you that you are part of the approximately 9,500 customers whose detailed personal information were accessed by the unauthorized third party. Specifically, your name and surname, and your postal address were exposed.
Typo: 13-24 yr olds
It takes some slogging. Quarantine seems just the right time to read Proust.
Spacecraft are a little different because so many components can't be tested properly on the ground. "The pump stops pumping properly after 1 week with no gravity" is very hard to predict or test for.
June 2020 Programming Language Rankings (RedMonk)
From the Memory Hole:

Original BBC 4 program "McCarthy: There Were Reds Under The Bed". "currently not available".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t7hhf

[Correction:] available at the Imperial War College:
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80032447

archive.org also doesn't have this program.

The apparent original producer of this show, has a write up at least, but alas no actual audio either. Must be hot stuff:

Quote:

David Aaronovitch thinks the unthinkable about the McCarthy period.

The hunt for the so called 'Reds under the beds' during the Cold War is generally regarded as a deeply regrettable blot on U.S history. But the release of classified documents reveals that Joseph McCarthy was right after all about the extent of Soviet infiltration into the highest reaches of the U.S government.

Thanks to the public release of top secret FBI decryptions of Soviet communications, as well as the release under the fifty year rule of FBI records and Soviet archives, we now know that the Communist spying McCarthy fought against was extensive, reaching to the highest level of the State department and the White House.

We reveal that many of McCarthy's anticommunist investigations were in fact on target.

His fears about the effect Soviet infiltration might be having on US foreign policy, particularly in the Far East were also well founded.

The decrypts also reveal that people such as Rosenberg, Alger Hiss and even Robert Oppenheimer were indeed working with the Soviets. We explore why much of this information, available for years to the FBI, was not made public. We also examine how its suppression prevented the prosecution of suspects.

Finally, we explore the extent to which Joseph McCarthy, with his unsavoury methods and smear tactics, could have done himself a disservice, resulting in his name being forever synonymous with paranoia and the ruthless suppression of free speech.

Hearing from former FBI, CIA and KGB operatives as well as formerly blacklisted writers, David Aaronovitch, himself from a family of communists tells the untold story of Soviet influence and espionage in the United States.

A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4.

http://www.junipertv.co.uk/radio/mccarthy-there-were-reds-un...
The problem with LCDM is that you are allowed to arbitrarily assign an anisotropic parameter in R^3 (dark matter density) to explain nearly any phenomenon.

Oh did you wake up with bed hair this morning? Could be dark matter. We'll never know.
In 2018, Why Did 8-Republican U.S. Senators Spend July 4th In Moscow? (2019)
In the IT department, it was standard suck. In the production department, it was mostly people who identified as female (with a few F2M/M2F mixed in). In general, this was a very good company to work for.
The idea behind it is great and I was using diigo on and off, but I found it started breaking on more sites as the web became more js-heavy. Maybe they've figured out more workarounds by now, or maybe I was just unlucky to frequent sites which abused js (e.g. LessWrong "2.0").
Honestly this is why I dont bother with the "solve a problem you have" process for side project ideas. 70% of the time theres something that will already solve it, 20% of the time theres a reason no one has solved it and 10% of the time it's just too small and niche of a problem (not real numbers, just being hyperbolic)
To be fair, todays steam engine are marvel of efficiency and reliability and water-cooling is a perfected science.

Almost nothing is has easy to manage and powerful as steam.
France exported and imported a vast amounts of electricity during it’s nuclear hay day and still needed huge subsidies. In effect they where little different than people living near a local nuclear reactor getting most of their power from it while extremely dependent on the wider electric grid to meet demand and lower overall prices. Which as odd as it sounds demonstrated civilian nuclear inability to scale as they still needed to reduce power plant utilization by ~10%.
Ask HN: Suggest me good laptop powered by AMD
That sounds like a good deal. I will ask my higher ups.
> Sad that it doesn't seem to offer any deployment visibility options. I would love to connect it to our CI/CD system to see what changes are currently being rolled out.

Deployment visibility is what my startup - https://sleuth.io - is trying to focus on, with light workflow sprinkled in. Other options I've found are usually tracking as a side feature of a tool like Sentry, Rollbar, or GitHub, or a completely custom app like what Slack built in https://slack.engineering/deploys-at-slack-cd0d28c61701
Or you can just use two bookmarks.
the average is 15h-20h per week. Imagine 2h each work day + weekends. We don't enforce these hours, if they want they can work more or less.
I read the whole article expecting something programming-related to come (it didn't).
I like how one of the metrics is Area causing me to try to compare the area of the two triangles.
Thanks—you put it a little more eloquently and much clearer than I have.
Perhaps slightly OT but nonetheless interesting.

I met a former professional photographer who had become an economic analyst. He used to do fashion and music shoots for major magazines (Conde Nast etc..). He gave me an interesting insight into why his former business collapsed.

First of all he said that his photography business was predicated on the fact that he held the whip hand with respect to his clients: they needed to be absolutely sure that the person they sent out got the right shots on the day. There wasn't going to be another opportunity to ask Bono or whoever to do them over. So Conde Nast had to be absolutely sure that he would produce the goods. For him to be good enough to be sure of always getting the shots no matter the conditions, weather, light conditions etc...the photographer had to have the requisite experience and the only way traditionally they could get that experience was by using up a lot of film. In his view the cost of the film you would need to go through to have got to his level was approximately £60,000. That was the barrier to entry.

With the barrier to entry and with his strong position with respect to his customers he got two important things: a high level of pay and royalties on renewals for his work. So they not only paid him but he had an ongoing revenue for shots they had paid him to take, if they wanted to reuse them over time.

Once Digital got good enough, the barrier to entry fell and the magazines slowly gained the upper hand, paid less and didn't agree to the same terms.

So now he advises Banks on something or other.
1. JavaScript (=)
2. Python (+1)
3. Java (-1)
Because French people working in the IT industry don't know it's an anglicism and are used to pronounce English words the English way.

However if you work in the construction industry you will hear "un pipeline".

In French, do you pronounce CIA the english way ? And API ?
They're making money until they aren't. OnlyFans is sweeping a large amount of adult models off of Snapchat. Everyone is doing disappearing content, stories, and photo filters. The only thing they have left are the contracts they signed with companies and creators when they were in their heyday.
No, it gives us the opportunity to show the strongest candidates a better alternative
Actually outsourcing the universal coverage requirement to the lowest bidder might be a good idea.
The Mac Pro is rack mountable, and I would expect it to transition to ARM at some point
I believe the assessment to be true. Windows Phone was doing really well in Europe. It was Americans who refused to write those WP apps that were so desperately wanted.
Though sadly, the only Canadian term in common usage that I genuinely wish would spread to the rest of the word, "balado", only shows up here as a misspelling of the full version, "baladodiffusion", which nobody ever actually uses.

"Podcast" is a great term in English, but it sounds more like a clumsy, drunken orgy of consonants to me when dropped into the middle of a French sentence.
Thank you for your perspective... hope so !
Show HN: Parallax – The Privacy-as-Code Framework
Find someone who does and make friends with them?
There has been at least one study on prophylaxis already:

A Randomized Trial of Hydroxychloroquine as Postexposure Prophylaxis for Covid-19

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2016638?query=fe...

Covid-19: Hydroxychloroquine was ineffective as postexposure prophylaxis, study finds

https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2242?ijkey=2811796ab15e...

There have been far more studies on Hydroxychloroquine than on any other existing drug that had any indication of potentially being effective. And many experts have argued that given what we know about HCQ, we have spent far too much effort on a drug that is unlikely to be effective.
They only got large funding from NASA after building fully production-ready rockets and demonstrating they could deliver. It took around $100m of private investment to get the first Falcon generation flying.
Routers mostly. I think some set-top-boxes and DVRs also used it.

Shame, it had quite the history from being in all those old SGI machines.
Show HN: News parsing API with a built-in topic prediction
I have quite a bit as I find some of what it generates to be rather profound. Sometimes it's a direct copy, but that's pretty rare. What does happen pretty regularly is that it reformulates existing content. So you'll see structure of an existing statement but with a different topic so the nounds and verbs are replaced. It's quite weird.
I remember that I have seen that before, but I don't remember when. Seems to be from 2015 while "The Drive Home" is from 2017.
If stability is important to you, just don't use software tagged 0.x.y.

It's not like it's going to be more stable if the authors are forced to mark it 1.0.0.

At least authors are honest that their goal at the moment of release is not stability but their freedom to break it every release if they see a reason for it.
FWIW JP-7 was not the only hydraulic fluid, it was only used as hydraulic fluid in a few places where that was convenient, or possibly where they'd have needed a different hydraulic fluid due to the temperature.
Show HN: Semantic Versioning of Data Models – Structure.rest
Hi everyone, this is Daniel with the Structure.rest team. We make analyzing your data easier using a graph-based editor to organize your queries into pipelines. Here's a quick Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uaov4xm764&feature=hackernews to get a better idea of what we do.

We’ve been doing customer interviews for the past couple weeks, and the one feature that is a “table stakes”, “must-have”, “basic need” for all of the data engineers that we interviewed was version control. I made this video https://youtu.be/gVx4JhugCUc showing how we implemented version control. I built a simple version control menu that connects up to the GitHub Rest API (v3). At first, I thought this would be enough, but as I have talked to more people, the picture becomes clear that this is not a simple problem. If any of you guys or gals have similar problems please reach out. We’d be interested in learning about the problem, so we can offer better solutions in the future.

In data engineering, version control can be useful for situations such as when data sources change, ETL automation services change, schemas change, or when business goals change. The big problem is that you don’t want to either start from scratch or refresh all of your tables from scratch when some change happens upstream of the models you are currently working on. I think semantic versioning is an excellent solution to this problem. The idea behind semantic versioning is that each model has its own history - its own changes as well as all of the changes to the models that it uses.

Here's a blog article that goes deeper into the problem - https://www.structure.rest/blog/semantic-versioning-of-data-models)

If this kind of stuff excites you please free to check us out at https://structure.rest or visit or slack: https://join.slack.com/t/structuresupport/shared_invite/zt-ddx04ho4-_q43i5o3zQ9jv00qx~dx8A