skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would love to see a follow-up to this in the form of an interview with someone (or as many people who are still alive) who worked behind the scenes at Simulmatics. The events in the article happened 61 years ago, so it’s entirely possible that some of their more junior people could still be alive. They would be in their 80s or 90s, and time is rapidly running out for such a story.

I’m 36. It’s striking to me how much has changed in my professional lifetime already - we’ve gone from rumors of data-based marketing causing issues for other companies to it being embedded in everything we do. A/B testing is fundamental to feature development at every successful company I’ve experienced in the past decade.

While the election of 1960 was before my time, it seems like fairly recent history to me. To realize that it’s closer to the Wright brothers’ first flight at Kitty Hawk than to the present day is disconcerting. I can’t begin to imagine what the future holds sixty years from now. Subjectively, it seems like the velocity of the societal impact of technology continues to increase. I’ve seen the rise of social media (MySpace, Facebook, Google+, and countless others that have failed). Sitting here today I see the only survivor of that - Facebook - increasingly as a legacy network that appears strong on its surface, but precariously so. I fully expect something new to hit the scene that steals the limelight and turns Facebook into a ghost town. Each time that has happened in the past the new platform has fundamentally changed the way we interact with others, both virtually and in person.

We look at the current state of technology with different eyes than our predecessors. The “People Machine” described in the article is almost certainly possible today. It exists in various forms at Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon, the NSA... We see each of those implementations as limited because we have perspective on how they could be made to be more powerful and a better understanding of how models are limited by the purpose for which they are created. Our dystopian fiction today takes the dystopian fiction of the 1960s as a starting condition.
I said most of the countries, not all of them. In particular, Pakistan, Venezuela, Iran have "Reconsider Travel" or "Do Not Travel" on the state dept's website. Myanmar has "exercise caution" advisory, with certain regions having civil unrest.
It is the Uber hypothesis. With so many users and so much demand, there must be profit somewhere right? /s
They don't link to the study but they say 221 hours per year and since there is about 220 working days per year, I think the 59 minutes figure is per day, not for each way to/from work. So about 30 minutes one-way. The US study saying 26.6 minutes is also one-way. So basically they are fairly similar and reasonable.

A 2-hour one-way commute just seems crazy to me, I know it exists but I think it's very extreme.
Your financial overlords are working hard to eliminate this obvious data leak. The first domino has already fallen. [0]

[0]https://sweden.se/business/cashless-society/
You're right, we won't know if this is an nadir or not in the whole thing, but she seems to be warning against the idea that this is the off season and we don't have to worry about it.

I can't figure out who the target audience is for - the people who have written off COVID also seem to have written off the WHO, and those who haven't see that there's still a major ongoing problem.
Good point :) We didn't expect that many applications; we would've wanted to accept more if we had more in funds. That's why we created a Fellowship program a week after Fight the Virus batch started - there were so many qualified founders we still wanted to support. And half of the startups raising on Demo Day are from the fellowship! If you have ideas for how we can scale this to include more founders in the future, message me!
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I guess I formed this opinion since I have to apply in person for my childrens' renewals.
From Maine to Alaska to Pago Pago to the Virgin Islands, there's a lot of world you can visit without ever leaving the United States.
What do you mean by "Respect the rules of their homeland?" You understand that rules regarding mask wearing are generally decided at the company/institution level. The local governments gives recommendations, but don't generally enforce them. There's no federal mandated law that everyone needs to adhere to.

Additionally, the majority of people in the US that travel overseas are likely to be much more cultured and concerned about how they are perceived in a foreign nation than our local Walmart population. An uneducated Karen wearing a Nazi mask ranting about her god given right to not wear a mask is not indicative of the type of person from the US that will be visiting culturally significant sites of Italy.
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A lesson on how to shape public opinion.
The world feels like its falling apart with nationalism. Journalists should be more uniting and bring the world together, instead they're chasing what the readers want - a spice mix that gets people high on nationlism.

Don't worry, we've got a whole load of it right here in US as well.

Remember the pale blue dot? That pale blue dot is festered with a disease, and that's not just COVID-19.
I think they go by your current permanent residence or citizenship, not which country you came from last, otherwise it would be fairly easy to get into the EU just by quarantining in stopover country.
huh... and here i thought most people wore them due to social pressure.
The only people who will suffer are the people who destroyed their local industries in favor of tourism related jobs. It's a big issue in some parts of Greece for example, some regions lost most of their regular jobs to tourism and now that shit hits the fan it's a big problem.
I'm someone who the travel restrictions have caused actual problems for. In March I accepted an offer for my first full-time job out of school at a company in Tokyo. I was scheduled to move in May, but the travel ban put a halt on my visa process.

In the meantime, I've started working remotely, but it has been extremely difficult due to being remote with the 13 hour time difference. This certainly isn't how I expected to start my first job.

Our reaction to the pandemic has been a huge disappointment. Since March, I've been watching closely as other countries see their first cases, make the tough decision to lock down, wait it out a few months, then finally reopen as cases fall.

Here, we never really committed to the lockdown. Where I live in Georgia, it was only a few weeks ago that the governor started recommending mask usage.

Needless to say, I don't plan ever to return to the United States once I leave. This country is hopeless.
You are welcome to go forward and share any relevant experience
I once worked on a site for a big underwear seller. It's not porn, but 90% of the media is extreme closeups of perfect ladies' bottoms and so on. The lead dev rapidly decided that the test product would be a very boring pair of men's boxer shorts.

Which was fine until he revealed that he'd chosen them because that's what he always wore.
> I've always got the impression from their marketing material that the Europeans are selling a product, whereas the Americans are always selling a lifestyle.

Reminds me of “We Don’t Sell Saddles Here” by Stewart Butterfield around the time Slack launched.

https://medium.com/@stewart/we-dont-sell-saddles-here-4c5952...
So it's seasonal then
That's the very problem. It is not lack of money that is making Intel to lose ground, it is simply too easy for them to send checks to their investors and give millionaire bonuses to their executives. They're following the footsteps of IBM, GE, and Oracle.
Totally agree with this! There's also the notion of sunk cost when it comes to angel investing, which often arise when a startup goes through a slow steady decline in profitability and eventually, to their ultimate demise. You don't (usually) see this happening in the stock market.
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You're probably right. More so it seems to me that Americans are easy punching bags to ignore local domestic stupidity. From everything I've seen the 5G causes corona virus folks are largely not from America, but in online conversation they seem to be swept under the rug.
> How a search for “Linux” has changed. In 2000, Google only returned “organic” results, ads, and a category header. Now the top of the page is full of Google products and “answers.” Source: 2000 screenshot/Archive.org

Weird example to use in a screenshot since everything they show is a link to an external site.
This is our first time publishing such a roadmap, and it isn't 100% complete yet. More items will fill in over time. But we needed to start the journey somewhere!

Dark mode is coming. The foundational work we are doing first is to replace all our custom HTML and CSS with components that are more readily themable. This will also help us improve accessibility, and help us replace our mobile web site with a fully responsive UI.
it also finds the image you are actually looking for, instead of the pinterest-of-a-free-but-not-free-stock-photo-spammer

it also shows the image full width, not in a frustrating slightly-bigger-than-thumbnail preview on a side pane

it also actually searches face images, not just tomatoes

also a lot less a prude than google
Windows: Still has no package manager. Setting all software up takes time. Hardware was done by the laptop manufacturer, don't know how much work that would be. Works fine for the most part. Keyboard, mouse, wacom etc require a bit of fiddling.

Linux: Software setup is really easy. All hardware worked out of the box.

MacOS: Reading instructions, preparing installer etc. Got it "working" in a VM but without graphics accel, which makes it not really useful.

Time lost: A few hours more for windows, but quite comparable.
Btw, this 'report' isn't new. It's almost a year old based on 2 years old data. The pandemic has changed some things.
> Cheap sunglasses

Maybe OP prefers rhinestone shades? ;)
Ok, so you're not. 8 hours of our day aren't really "ours" to do with as we please. We can for a while, but it catches up to us.
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This is an old link, please use https://questdb.io/docs/guide/crud instead. I am currently updating the README and removing all dead links.
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Keyword that I cringe at is "self-made". No one is ever "self-made". These people are lucky, maybe, but self-made is a narcissistic term of false-connotation.

Ford said it well in the article, and I'd like to add that MANY engineers helped make the rocket:

>> “Just as not everyone is qualified to be an astronaut, it takes a special kind of person to be an entrepreneur,” [Ford] added. “You need discipline, intelligence, extreme dedication. But the best astronaut in the world can’t fly to the moon unless someone gives them the rocket.”
Maybe Google needs to take the final step in this evolution.

Let's have Google show nothing but quick answers, nothing but their own info boxes etc.

No search results, nothing external.

That way, anyone looking for any other results HAS to leave Google in order to find anything.

And Google can pander to the percentage of people who honestly don't know or care that there's a web.

Are there enough of us who would avoid Google if we knew 100% that we would never see a reference to anywhere outside of their own properties?
> Rather it's the notion that people's energy's are so drained from (often seemingly meaningless) work, that they have no desire to do anything but just consume idly. I don't know if that's true or not, but I personally do feel it is. When I'm doing 40-60 hour workweeks, I've got no desire to do anything that isn't largely passive. Whereas when I worked 20 hours at most, I was always busy teaching myself something or building something.

I've always felt like forty hours is less than ideal, but I don't see the connection with meaninglessness. During the period in my life when I had an unchallenging job[1], I found myself ravenous for active mental work after-hours: I'd learn new things in my field, read econ papers constantly[2], and it was probably the most productive adult period of my music-learning life. Now that I have an intense, very intellectually challenging job, I understand for the first time in my life why people might want to watch TV, especially at the regularity that most do it.

[1] I wouldn't describe it as meaningless, but it wasn't intellectually challenging at all

[2] I have a minor in econ, so enough to understand many papers at a relatively superficial level
tax rebates -aka a tax deduction for each child already exists. this passes the tax burden to people without kids, and is also unfair. rebates would also be unfair. a child is not a rebate. what i don't get is why a child is treated as a child for taxes.

a tax return should be for the family -a joint return. you take wife+husband+kids. you add up all the salary. and you divide by number of tax payers. exactly how a joint return is now, but count kids.

this puts you in a much, much lower tax bracket, and saves you more than a rebate or dependent. it is actually unfair in my opinion to do it another way, and has nothing to do with babies. your family household just pays taxes on its income. and without various programs designed to steal from people without kids. and that's what maternity leave is -stealing.
What was so special about Wave that a general purpose layout engine wouldn't be adequate?
Every other source online says that you can’t get Covid from eating, but this one says your stomach cells are particularly susceptible.

> Gut specialists are finding that 20% to 40% of people with the disease experience diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting before other symptoms, says gastroenterologist Michael Kattah, MD, PhD, a UCSF assistant professor. If you swallow virus particles, he says, there’s a good chance they will infect cells lining your stomach, small intestine, or colon. As in the lungs and heart, these cells are studded with vulnerable ACE2 portals.

In that case, is the info about not getting it from eating as thoughtless and parroting as saying masks don’t work, or is this article fake news? It makes a huge life changing difference to know for high risk people
To raise on Wefunder, founders have to find a Lead Investor to represent their Wefunder round. The Lead is motivated to set a fair valuation this way.
something is off with your website. I just see images
https://questdb.io/blog/2020/07/24/use-questdb-for-swag/
> What there a time since 1776 (or whenever passports became a thing) that the US passport was in the top 10?

Yes in 2006 and 2014 it was #1. The numbers fluctuate every year because the difference between #1 and #20 is only 7 countries.
>Americans, along with the British and the French, seems to be the groups that most people complained about when it comes to groups vacationing in Europe.

What's « Europe » ? Different places have very different tourist demographics. The perception of the British in my part of France (we tend to get wealthy, French-speaking types) is very different to that in Amsterdam or Mallorca for example (where the « lads » got touring).

And I can guaranty you that the most universally hated place of origin for tourists across Europe as a whole is China.

Americans are just known for smiling like idiots.
>It's definitely framed by where you live.

It's not nearly that sensible and straighforward. Drive south of DC to the point where subdivisions give way to farms and you can shoot all day without being bothered.

Drive the same distance outside of Boston or NYC and you've got the same low population density but if you shoot anything in your back yard you'll get a visit from the SWAT team.

This kind of stuff really should depend on population density but we've gutted all legislative capacity at the county level and pushed it to the state level so you get a dumb situation where a state has to go entirely one way or the other which is not very efficient when it comes to making people live under sensible laws for their living situation.

There's really no fundamental reason the cities and rural areas shouldn't be able to just do their own thing on this issue. It's just that people insist on having this legislation be at the state level.
A better way to think of it: if the system only has a 0.1% chance of an incorrect match and at least 700 people regularly shop there, each of them is more likely than not to be misidentified as somebody else.
Lots of non-epidemiologists in here with strong opinions on this.
The obligatory "auto"/"otto" pun is quite popular, it seems.
The dollar has been weakening precipitously, with the dollar index declining nearly 10% over the past few months.

I’m curious to hear tomorrow how the Fed intends to address this.
It’s one thing for a startup to do this while small.

A whole other level of evolution to do it while you’re large. Imagine Apple suddenly publishing their roadmap. This type of organizational neurogenesis done as an adult is impressive.

EDIT: I am in admiration of the change, regardless of opinion on the value of public roadmaps. It’s just rare to see big companies make big changes. Sign of youthful vitality and health, in my opinion.
I'm not aware of any recent protests (e.g. last 10 years) in the US having the level of violence of these protests[0]. You don't seem to be aware of any either, since you haven't provided any examples, despite telling me how easily they could be found.

[0]: Which include over $500m in damages: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/07/11/federal-government-..., and that is just in one state. So the total is likely billions across the entire US.
> Other professional groups that practice solidarity often have review and ethics boards that are, in general, quick to denounce bad actors and strip them of their continue harming others.

While professional groups are often mistakenly analogized to labor unions, they aren't and have very different functions. Professionals in organized professions like law or medicine may also be in labor unions (this is unusual in the US outside of the public sector), but the labor union and the professional organizations aren't interchangeable.
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I use it on macOS. Scrolling is not broken; it is exactly as in Chrome.
The great thing about subscribing to HN via RSS is that you can see all the content that made it to the front page (as this post did), and was subsequently censored by leftist definitely-not-fascists
it's more like there's no reason why it can't be profitable but it wants to expand into 100 other niches
Ah yeah, good luck with that. They want nothing to do with in-person renewals right now.
I'm guessing he might have meant OCaml devs? Most development shops I've worked in used Linux servers to host their solution, and mostly Linux/Unix based tools and dev environments (people who preferred Windows as their desktop usually ssh'd to Linux boxes to work).
Thanks for the info. I wasn't going to bother answering his stupid question, but the answer is "a lot".
There are 6 comments, one of which is yours.
Mux (YC W16) is hiring devs that want to help others build video (remote ok)
Schadenfreude? More like nauseated disbelief at watching irrational populism and its concomitant intolerance tear the world asunder.
I got mine to travel to the US in the end of March. Yeah...
> The causes of that are more interesting than than Remington's bankruptcy.

And what are they, if I may ask?
Maybe more directly relevant but still very Not OK in my books. I get very few push notifications. Send me an email, put it on your blog, whatever - it's definitely not interesting enough for me to come even close to the "I want this pushed on top of whatever else I was doing" bar though.

Brave sent me a push notification this week too :( what browser should I switch to that doesn't try to exploit my 'engagement'
It's a shame hacker news has gotten this political as of late. They're likely going to have to go with the lock comments strategy much of reddit has to do, or just allow each thread to blow up into wild America hate like this.

6 less countries than the number one country, and you get these comments about how "the US hasn't been a sought after passport for years" when the US was number one just 6 years ago, and even now it's a better passport than 170 countries, with the ones you can't get into basically rubber stamps if you do apply.
> But thats because the civil rights movement had a bunch of humans intentionally amplifying the Rosa Parks story to accomplish a particular policy goal.

It's tangentially related to TFA but... The Civil Rights era leaders were very strategic thinkers. MLK, Jr., especially, shortly before his death, was describing very serious, very ruthless strategy to accomplish goals that I do believe would've worked, had they been given the opportunity.

I think that we have ruthlessly strategic thinkers (in our politics and political movements) today but I don't believe their goals are to drive policy any longer.
... to the language which lacks multi-threading
What part of the country do you live in? Even on a few acres, I'm not confident that a stray bullet couldn't cause quite a bit of harm.
> I think machine learning problems are function approximation.

FTFY. You would be entirely correct.
Since Linus cucked to the SJW everything he say is suspect.
The cost of restarting a full blow epidemic in Europe is much higher than the lost tourism money. I doubt we'll see americans anywhere before they get their situation under control.
>As an American...

>If Americans cannot respect...

>It sucks for those of us...

Who are you talking about here? You?
Anyone know if anyone not google has newsgroup archives publicly accessible (The Internet Archive maybe?)
I can't speak for the REI brand, as I have no experience with it. However, most of their inventory in-store is not REI brand, but higher end brands. I go there for running and biking equipment. While stuff is going to cost an arm and a leg, I can rely on it.

I remember balking at the $110 price tag on a Craft long sleeve running shirt about three years ago. I bought it anyway. I wear it 4x a week from October through March, and it goes through the washer after every use. It's as good as the day I bought it. Best $110 I ever spent.
> You can't compete with the people who actually know how to make the things. Then you die. See Hewlett Packard.

Not if you are Apple
Even if China can't invade Taiwan right away, China can set up a naval and air blockade. And if they can't do that, they can destroy the very delicate fabs using short-range conventional missiles. China is a high-tech peer adversary, not a bunch of desert guys in pickup trucks. As a matter of national security, we need a secure (and E2E-trusted!) supply chain for advanced technology.