skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with this premise regarding equity crowdfunding as it currently stands in absence of any professional guidance. We at XX have tried to improve this and mitigate risk by:

1) having a screening committee with deep founder operational experience and industry insight to identify the companies most likely to be successful.

2) attracted exceptional startups to broaden our applicant pipeline by making it open to the global community and guaranteed a $50k pre-seed investment.

3) had three month mentoring period where startups were stress tested and cleared for launch on Wefunder.

It's similar to LPs investing in a VC fund and trusting that the VCs performed the proper diligence.
https://www.eternal-september.org/

I think you have to register. Not sure how much history is there.
"When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly" certainly sounds like Graves' fictional C-Cl-Cl-Claudius had the right idea.
Just ask them about Taiwan and then you'll know who controls them.

https://youtu.be/UlCYFh8U2xM?t=35
"but let's keep the focus on the fact that expecting everyone to pay $700/month"

Everyone's paying it, in one manner or another, either through subsidies, or employer contributions, or paying direct. These are the average costs (relative to location and age) for health insurance plans from for-profit health insurance companies.

But the context was with respect to people planning to retire in their 50s. Plenty of people budget for car payments, and they can budget for health insurance costs too.
Could this also explain the latest BTC uptick?
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Someday, it will be true. But, it's telling that they don't even pretend that there is another currency poised to take the dollar's position; they posit gold returning as the world reserve currency.

Regardless of my opinion on whether or not such an event would be good (I don't particularly have one), I don't think it's likely.
I’m actually not sure what I “normally” shoot at. I shoot manual and dynamically adjust my settings to the scene almost unconsciously.

Now I’m curious to see if I can run some statistics against my Lightroom library.

I shoot a Fujifilm X-E2, and am hoping to upgrade to an X-Pro3 fairly soon. I’ve put off upgrading my camera for years in favor of buying better glass.

My favorite/most used lens is a 23mm f/1.4. I know I rarely use it wide open unless I’m shooting at night, and in that case I’m also usually also shooting monochrome. That lens is awesome for low light and indoor candidates, and even with my generations-old X-E2 I have enough resolution (16MP) to crop in when I need to.

My next favorite is a 35mm f/2. With the crop factor, it’s ~50mm and nearly perfect for street photography. There is a quality to that lens that I have difficulty describing - the closest I can get is that it’s “Leica-like”.

I also recently picked up a used 18-55mm f/2.8-4. Zoom lenses aren’t really my thing, and variable-aperture zoom even less so. This lens was so cheap that it didn’t make sense not to buy it, and it’s turned out to be very capable as long as I’m outdoors in full light. It gives me a bit more reach, which is important sometimes for me. A lot of my photography is done either of my kids or for the dance studio I and my wife own, so while it’s not my favorite lens it does see quite a bit of use and is often the right tool for the job.

Examples:

XF23mmF1.4 R | ISO 400 | f/4 | 1/250s - Outdoor, stage shot of a dance performance: https://adobe.ly/3f9rbmH

XF23mmF1.4 R | ISO 1600 | f/2 | 1/60s - Indoor, with terrible lighting and a glossy background: https://adobe.ly/332b9IN

XF35mmF2 R WR | ISO 200 | f/8 | 1.170s - Outdoor, street photography in Cleveland: https://adobe.ly/2X6CTbk

XF18-55mmF2.8-4 R LM OIS | ISO 1600 | f/4 | 1/500s - Outdoors, my youngest daughter riding a go-kart: https://adobe.ly/3f5o6Ec
Slight correction: _The Demon-Haunted World_, Sagan, 1995.
Covid-19 hardly mutates and people who were exposed to SARS 17 years ago have immunity to covid today. So yes, it’s pretty safe to say there won’t be a second wave of any significance. This was known since Februari and I don’t understand why you would think this disease will be seasonal when it isn’t anything like the seasonal viruses we know that mutate and don’t trigger good immune responses.

(It is seasonal in the sense that the R0 is higher in the winter when people are cooped together, but once you've got sufficient exposure in the community a second wave won't happen regardless)
1. Have a set criteria for what skills a successful candidate possesses.

2. Have a set of pre-defined interview topics or resume rubrics designed to discover and test for these skills.

3. Ask everyone the same questions. Grade everyone the same way.

4. Don't ask "Is this candidate good?", but instead ask "Is this candidate better than the others, based on the scores from my defined rubrics?"

5. If something feels "wrong", walk away. Sometimes your subconscious knows things your conscious mind hasn't discovered yet.
> The only voices I hear from the police are coming out in defense of other officers who did something bad

You gotta go back to the original article, this is exactly what it's about. Everybody agrees that good cops calling out bad cops is a good thing. Therefore, it doesn't spread, and you don't hear about it unless you pay deep attention to specific goings-on in specific police departments. It's also particularly likely not to spread because the details of such cases are usually kept quiet, and the cop just gets quietly let go.

The only thing most people who are only sort of paying attention hear is, cop does something kind of dubious, activists scream at the top of their lungs about how outrageous it is. They double down way past "this particular bad cop should be fired and charged" to "All cops are bastards" and "Defund the Police". Which then kind of forces cops and people who appreciate law and order to push back, find ways to excuse the action and defend the police.

I've seen a bunch of pics of cops kneeling with protestors. They didn't spread far, and they didn't change anyone's mind. They didn't contribute to the outrage, and so they can't spread among a media class that is highly incentivized to spread only the most outrageous things.
The biology of the virus may not have a “weak phase” just because transmission rates went down. We load balanced transmission rates with distance.

That doesn’t mean the virus got weaker. Rates go up as soon as distance is removed? Doesn’t seem like the virus wants to slow down as a matter of its “real” physical properties
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As evidenced by what? A pandemic that gripped the nation during one of our greatest economic booms ever?
Will check it out. Thank you.
Or the other way around... Goldman warns loudly, yet the same Goldman readily bets on the opposite.
long ago (before the Internet) I spoke with a woman who 'performed' in such videos. She said she was a user of pain killers (addict), and second she urged me sincerely not to watch the products; sad situation in the flesh.
May I ask what you mean when you list the use case as a barrier? Just that they know they could do something, but exactly what to do and how to finish it is the hard part?
30 minutes later and they were proven correct
As I said, there are around 112 waking hours in a week, spending 37.5 of them working is not 1/5th of your week, it's close to 1/3.
Perhaps you're working with a self selecting group of Americans.

As a US based developer with almost 20 years of experience across four cities and (as a consultant) many different corporate cultures, I've never met a single person who consistently works 10+ hour days, or more than 5 days per week.
Huh, you used `clojure.spec` but then used YAML. I get it for the UX reasons, but I would have guessed you'd be generating edn under the hood.
Maybe nobody reads it when they have automatic updates enabled, but I read the changelogs for every app that has them on F-Droid, even though their update flow is not optimized for this. For projects without changelogs, I'll sometimes check the commit messages.

Quality of changelogs has a big impact on how trustworthy I perceive a project to be. Releasing new versions without a (meaningful) changelog says that you expect blind trust from your users; that you expect them to update anyway regardless of the changelog content; or that you don't consider them able to evaluate whether updating is in their best interest -- in summary, "we know what's best for our users better than they do." Whether or not that's true, the attitude strikes me as vaguely paternalistic. It feels to me that a developer who thinks so little of their users would be more inclined to try and pull a fast one.

As an example, Signal has recently stopped writing changelogs for many of their beta releases, and it has affected my trust in them, and willingness to install said updates.

Let me be very clear: I am NOT saying lack of changelogs makes a developer less trustworthy. I AM talking about how they make me feel about them. I'm also well aware that this is an indirect measurement, so there's some variability and Goodhart's law applies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law).
semgrep will at least do the search portion, not sure about replace. Posted a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23919313

Slightly related:

How to Build Static Checking Systems Using Orders of Magnitude Less Code

https://web.stanford.edu/~mlfbrown/paper.pdf

They use "microgrammars" and found that the technique is surprisingly effective despite not being "correct".
Google's handling of these critical archives they were given is pretty abhorrent. The usenet archives should really be made public since there is no business value to them and they don't care about usenet.
I wouldn't disagree, overall, but it may not be that clear-cut. I heard Sig Sauer is closing a German factory and the US plant will be exporting US-made Sigs. Reminds me of the Accord I used to have, made in Ohio. Are these wins for foreign companies? I tend to think of them as domestic wins with foreign owners getting a slice off the top.
Agreed. US dollar being propped up has undermined manufacturing sector by making exports artificially expensive, and imports artificially cheap.
It's depressing to see rational voices saying they don't trust the WHO or tending to conspiratorial thoughts. The WHO has first-hand details about the pandemic and they update their views and adjust their recommendations accordingly even if we have the feeling they are acting slowly or back-and-forth (e.g. when there was a critical and global shortage of materials for masks to give to health workers and only months later started saying wearing masks was the ideal and people simply bought the "they changed their mind so they must have been wrong all the time" idea). Without WHO the world would effectively be a much worse place for a good chunk of the world population and many contagious diseases would be around right next to some rich nations's borders. If they say it's one big wave it's because this is what the current data and analysis suggest. Can it be seasonal after all? Nobody freaking knows, but this is the best line of thought we have so far so let's act accordingly and not let the guard down please.
> declaring there is no human to human transmission till January

It was first diagnosed in late December and the earliest the WHO became aware was 30th/31st December (depending on timezone). WHO issued a statement saying there had been limited human-to-human transmission of the coronavirus on Jan 14th.
Tweet on January 14 [0].

"Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China"

0. https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152
> We see that deaths are down

This is false. Deaths were down, but they have been climbing again for the last three weeks. Mortality is a lagging indicator to infections, so what we're seeing right now is mortality from the earliest stages of reopening.

> illnesses are less severe

This is also false. There may be some factors that are combating more severe symptoms (e.g. greater vitamin D, if that turns out to be a real effect), but the virus hasn't recently become somehow less potent.

> ICUs are not overwhelmed

False again. In the current hotspot states -- Florida, Arizona, and Texas -- ICU capacity in many areas is strained or overwhelmed as is the rest of the hospital infrastructure:

"ICU beds, ventilators in use hit new records as Arizona reports 1,357 new COVID-19 cases": https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-health/20...

"Florida coronavirus: 52 hospitals max out ICU capacity as cases increase": https://www.wfla.com/8-on-your-side/investigations/florida-c...

"Texas hospitals are running out of drugs, beds, ventilators and even staff": https://www.texastribune.org/2020/07/14/texas-hospitals-coro...

Note that all of these articles are over a week old. The situation hasn't improved since then.
She served on an executive committee at the United Way with John Opel, the CEO of IBM at the time the PC was being born.
HCaptcha founder here.

We think this is by far the most accessible solution: for example, audio captchas discriminate against all the people with auditory processing difficulties as well as some visual impairment.
I ended up making an "app" to do hundredths of seconds for TSD rallies. Awesome project. My build is 2-4 years old (IIRC), so it has some power issues, sometimes I'll catch it waking itself up more than usual, and I can hear the wakeups in the piezo which doesn't help.
I did this (unkowingly) with photography equipment. Didn't work out.

1. I started with a "nice" bridge camera - the Panasonic Lumix LX100. I liked shooting with it but I quickly hit its limitations and because I loved photography...

2. decided to go full-frame and I bought the Canon EOS RP. Now I'm completely overwhelmed with all the gear, the huge lenses, tripods etc. I definitely shoot less than with the Lumix, as now shooting requires much more ritual and forethought.

In hindsight I should have bought a Micro Four-Thirds interchangeable lens camera, as I was absolutely content with the quality of the Lumix, just wanted a "faster" system with better controls.
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Perl 6 extends the regex system to be a full fledged recursive descent parser, which lets you do this kind of stuff. But as is pointed out in a sibling comment, a purely regular regex engine won't really do it since it's non-regular language.

Of course, some regex engines do let you do this (notably Perl 5), but it requires code of the "just because you can doesn't mean you should" variety.
>respect the rules of their homeland

I don't think the problem is refusing to follow the rules, so much as electing people who won't even make them.
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Hey! I just wanted to share a new video community that I've started called TILvids (tilvids.com).

The goal of the site is to create a video community based around edutainment content from smaller, independent creators. I started it because I've become very frustrated with YouTube, both as a creator and a user. As a creator, it's annoying to constantly chase YouTube's algorithm to try and get anyone to see my content. As a user, it feels really bad/unhealthy the way YouTube constantly harvests my data.

I started the community with the idea of it being non-profit. There are no video ads, no harvesting user data, etc. It runs on open-source PeerTube. Creators are welcome to monetize however they want (Patreon donations, merchandise, in-video sponsors, etc), and the site will eventually be donation-based (currently I'm just self-funding it as best as I can).

Creators are pretty heavily curated for the moment, with uploads disabled for normal users, due to limitations on scale/cost, and because I want to get some good creators in the system to help define what type of community I want to grow. Eventually I intend to open this up a bit more to allow initial downloads for all users, and then expanded storage for users that are creating content the community values.

I'd love feedback, both around the idea and how the site works if you're willing to check it out (https://tilvids.com). Happy to answer questions you might have as well. Appreciate all of it in advance!
What do you mean never go back? Never go back to the US? Or never go back to Germany?
I agree that Arabic numerals are better, but I did want to make the point that Roman numerals aren’t quite as bad as you might think having already learned Arabic numerals.

Your method for summing 8+7 is what I think I do for things like 7+4 (since I can visualize 7 as “three less than 10” and 4 as “one more than three” all in the same thought to reach 11), but for 7+8 my brain noticeably spits out 15 immediately and only a moment later does it actually do the processing you mention.
The US is making lots of steps typical of falling empires. This includes blind belief in the strength of its currency. Even big investors are starting to get worried about the sustainability of what the Fed is doing.
> Problem is in Winter you also have normal flu season, pressure on hospitals is higher, etc.

Right, but the point is: Australia etc. are in winter. Right now. We have that data; there's more to the world than just the top half.

(Incidentally, COVID precautions appear to be working well on flu, too. https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-measures-have-all-but-...)
yep, killed their API too
Adaptive non-maximal suppression in Java
Long-awaited Java implementation is finally available. Now, ANMS is supported in C++, Python, Matlab, and Java.

Repository: https://github.com/BAILOOL/ANMS-Codes
Vouchers at $72-per-day buy detainees in Ukraine bigger, better cells
Researchers create a new material so hard it can’t be cut
I found this Usenet Historical Collection link - https://archive.org/details/usenethistorical - in a previous HN thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16667796).

I have no idea how useful the collection may prove to be. I found 'comp' but it doesn't offer a webpage view, just a link to download a file. https://archive.org/details/usenet-comp
Not really, corporate raiders like Cerberus are playing a completely different game. Carl Ichan was famous for fleecing TWA by leveraging a profitable company to the hilt and declaring bankruptcy.

Whoops, looks like the bondholders were all Carl Ichan personally and he now owns the company.
I think you misread. The "public service" here is a reference to the government, not to public companies (which are still privately-run businesses despite being listed on public stock exchanges).

Large private enterprises, publicly-traded or otherwise, that fall prey to inefficiency get disrupted. Governments do not get disrupted short of foreign invasion or revolution, so the inefficiency remains entrenched.
It sounds a lot like Proust too, I’m about 1/3rd of the way through Swann’s Way, which I haven’t picked up in months now, too long. He takes tangent to the next level, not only in duration but in frequency, and the sentence length! It’s like reading a free-associative depth first search of the guy’s memories.
ah yea you are right. I had high contrast extension messing with this page.
He carries enough weight in this industry to have no problem changing the orbit of even a company the size of Intel. It depends how hard the managers are going to try and pull it back in the old direction.
Pull over. License and registration please.

We have to stop this narrative that we aren't going to listen to people until they are infallible. That's not how crisis management works. Or war, football, basketball, card games...

Hedging your bets is the act of wasting resources constructively, so that if your worst case scenario happens, you aren't doomed. Faulting people for hedging their bets is going to get us all killed.

It's been happening to scientists (first climate, now everybody) for years, and 'getting us all killed' was more figurative. Now we're doing it to doctors, and people are in fact dying. Of Covid (655k so far). Of measles (140k in 2018).

Do you want a dark age? Because this is how you get a dark age.
Plus the self-driving company Uber acquired, Otto, that was central to the Google-Uber lawsuit.
It’s 2020. What can go wrong?
I care about speed, mobile optimization, and malware. Generalizing from my observation of myself, I expect others do as well.
But does this indicate we need to fix the "undermined" part of the manufacturing sector rather than ceding the power of having the reserve currency to another power?
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> That's their grand plan, because that's when they'll start "living".

Strikes me how similar this is to the mentality in adolescence so prevalent: once I get to college, then I’ll start “living”!

We just keep kicking the can.
This is premature at best and a potentially misleading statement by the WHO. Perhaps things haven't improved as much during the summer as we'd like, but seasonality is difficult to disaggregate from non-pharmaceutical countermeasures being lifted as we moved into warmer, sunnier weather in the northern hemisphere.

Based on everything we know about infectious disease transmission and illness severity in general, infection rate indicators and case severity are likely to worsen throughout fall and become particularly nasty during the depths of winter. Seasonal reduction in sunlight exposure suppresses immunity (it's not just an issue of vitamin-D), bacteria and mold exposure upticks dramatically as cool, damp days predominate in much of the northern hemisphere.

Air pollution increases as old weather reduces dispersal rates and people burn more fuel to heat their homes while driving more to avoid trudging through rain and snow in the gloom. And if they're not driving, then they're using public transport, and as we know, buses and trains are petri dishes. Some other infectious diseases are likely to play well with SARS2, as is observed with a variety of bacterial infections and common cold associated coronaviruses.

On top of all this, populations are much more likely to huddle together indoors, often in poorly ventilated spaces which allows bioaerosols to concentrate, making a physical distancing impractical for many and multiplying viral exposure load. This can be mitigated by taking steps to upgrade ventilation, adding air cleaning and sterilization countermeasures, and at an individual level, wearing the best available masks and sealed eye protection while indoors with people outside of your quarantine bubble.

Let's hope for the best while preparing for the worst.
Great observation. Thank you! I suspect I have acted in this role before and will now modify behaviour post-haste.
Tap to pay requires you to extract the certificates & private keys of a real card. You can write (or license) an EMV applet for any JavaCard or similar smartcard that allows you to run arbitrary code, but without the keys associated with a valid payment card it won't do anything.
This isn’t really a criticism, and I get that the article’s purpose was to focus on gold price as a signal for potential debasement…BUT…it seems like a miss to not even allude to or link out to commentary on the tremendous political power being the reserve currency affords the US, and the long term incentive for others to provide an alternative.
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How do you handle footnotes in audiobooks?
I recall Dan Ariely (academic economist) used to go on and on about the power of defaults when presenting people choices with certain patterns can help influence which choice people go for.

He used to to quip that "Even being aware of the phenomenon didn't protect you from it" -- saying even he could be fooled just as easily as the layman or the audeince member.

I'd imagine a similar adage could be applied to SSC.
Have they reverted the godawful address bar change yet?