skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me it (the sudden acceptance of WFH, not covid-19 obviously) has been the Best Thing Ever. I loathed commuting 60+ minutes to my desk job and wearing noise cancelling headphones so I didn't need to have impromptu 'chats' with lonely people. I loathed that 600 sqft apts in Berkeley were $3000/month. I loathed that remote positions are few and far between, and, now that I'm an employer, the number of workers who are used to working 100% remote were few and far between. I loathed seeing my wife only ~4 waking hours per day. This sudden shift to everybody-wfh has been the greatest vindication of my work- and life-style.

Pools are one of the few things I'll miss, as they are truly communal. Even billionaires generally don't have private 25m+ pools (from what I've gather from those $50M real estate listing videos on youtube).
Sounds like a good idea, theoretically, making those BigCorps pay an open-source tax :)

I wonder if that sort of discrimination is allowed though.

I also wonder if package bundlers like Ubuntu would consider to bundle the project with their distros, if it has such a license slapped on it.
Like spy chips on supermicro motherboards?

After that story, they’ve lost a good deal of credibility.
Also US companies were just cutting costs- de-powering unions was a happy bonus. Technology allowed it (transportation, communications and cheap energy). But also the government allowed it, because it's all controlled by corporations.
On a lot of displays I frequently have to resize the browser window or reduce its height to change the "line hum" caused by text to a tone that doesn't annoy me. Most people don't even know that displays make noise from text. I've never even see someone bring it up in display reviews... the closest someone got was mentioning that a particular screen made a variable coil whine noise depending on the brightness setting (another common thing).
I have to admit, this is pretty much it in my experience.
Beautiful release!
Like the burgers you flip that feed soldiers that shoot? The capitalist chain reaches every one. You are equally guilty then? Nonsense.
Fascinating way to look for deindustrialization. In this method, if China had some kind of super-SARS that killed everyone, then the US would have reindustrialized!
As a small amount of metal can be added at the end to make the weapon 'legal', that act does little to address the numerous¹ problems beyond being able to sneak a gun past airport security. Hardly an important milestone in controlling anything. It didn't even affect any gun in existence at its time.

But more generally, as we all know, a ban without provisions for enforcement is useless. Compare to the CWC (Chemical Weapons Convention) which I point to as one of the best pieces of international "coming together" via treaty. It includes requirements that member countries submit to inspections from its enforcement body (OPCW) and furthermore that countries can request the OPCW inspects another member country if they suspect non-compliance. It also includes restrictions on transfer of various chemicals in order to incentivize non-member countries to become members so they can purchase chemicals for industrial purposes from other members.

¹ and bigger, if you're modeling this from assumptions where it's a problem at all -- not everyone thinks it is, "an armed society is a polite society" etc.
This is the right model, and the easiest way to explain it. It's all stocks and flows. A balance is a stock, a transaction is a flow. A flow has to happen between two stocks, and the sign in each side is opposite so it adds to zero
Personally, I find these companies dreadful. I tried it just to see and got flustered by the 5th question or so(renters). Typically, I just call a company, choose a coverage amount, and am done in all of 2 minutes.

Wing, or Wing Alpha, is another that attempted this, to do number porting via chatbot texting back and forth. No thanks.
I have read that the uptake of Arabic numerals was actually fairly slow and fraught in Europe, but of course can't put my hands on any references.

There's a reddit thread [0] that might be some of what I saw, and my wife does paleography work where she runs across books of accounts that are rendered in Roman numerals, because that's how formal accounts were prepared, even if the actual accounting was done by other means.

That same reddit thread has link to an "algorists vs abacists " article [1] which purports to back this up, but I can't confirm because the article is paywalled for me.

Edit: Moved/fixed links.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/12m0vp/how_a...

[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2686479.pdf?seq=1
Certainly I am not suggesting there is evidence, I am just saying it too early to dismiss the possibility . There is no concrete evidence saying it won't happen either.

Seasonal Flu does mutate fast enough that any immunity is typically seasonal, so it unreasonable to consider the possibility of mutation
Misleading title. It should read "Penn. Supreme Court says Uber driver is employee entitled to unemployment" instead.
The source code for over 50 companies has been leaked and posted publicly
Google has very little incentive to fix the problem, and outsourced support personnel have even less incentive to care. The entire google forums read like passing the buck.
REally? You need a citation to know that australia is flat?

"Australia is the lowest, FLATTEST, and oldest continental landmass on Earth[4] and it has had a relatively stable geological history. Geological forces such as tectonic uplift of mountain ranges and clashes between tectonic plates occurred mainly in Australia's early prehistory, when it was still a part of Gondwana. Its highest peak is Mount Kosciuszko at 2,228 metres (7,310 ft), which is relatively low in comparison to the highest mountains on other continents."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Australia

Russia is big. Switzerland is small. And Africa has gets less snow than Canada. (Citations needed)

The basic route of this train (Newman to Port Headland) is a gentle slope to the coast. +175 and -700m over a 400km journey. (Google maps) Compare that to a route in western canada: Canmore Albert to Salmon Arm BC, the same distance but +2500m and -3500m.
Please take a look at document [1] by author of beancount regarding how to do double entry accounting, including introduction to single entry bookkeeping. So far I find this is the best resource for developers to learn about accounting along with illustrations. Debit and Credits are introduced later once the basics are explained in details grounded in accounting principles in play for thousands of years.

[1] https://beancount.github.io/docs/the_double_entry_counting_m...
“stamp'd” doesn't contain an 'e', and such forms are accepted especially in verse, and this is one of the tricks that Adair uses (sparingly) in his translation. (Used less than other tricks: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1557971160)
As a physicist, we love these kind of magics introduced by mathematician.
Imperial College COVID-19 model “not robust to model specification”
Son of a bitch. It’s happening to other people too? Every month I get “Subscribe” as the line item. I’m contacting my bank for the third time in a row to remove that $3 transaction. They’ve even issued me a new card, and I still get it.
Again, did you try the shortcut listed here?

https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/52093/see-all-sh...

When I search to:email@here.com it shows all the documents shared with that person, then I can Ctrl+a and click "share" and remove that person from all of them at once.
Radical is a hard bar to get over but I routinely tell people fly.io is the most interesting infrastructure company out there right now.

If only I had time to build all the things on it I want to.
Companies often have an internal escalation path to deal with issues with their company provided health insurance, for instance if the insurance fails to cover something that their company claims they should cover. Those escalation tickets will be logged and retained.
Why have we immediately reduced the conversation to the "economic" value of manufacturing? There is also a strategic geopolitical advantage to retaining domestic manufacturing, which is the most relevant part of this discussion.

Jobs, the economy... there is more to life, and more to maintaining a hegemony.
im a google one user. & will admit only pay, because it's a steal for the price. no other service offered 100gb for $20 a year.but yeah, google software quality is quite poor. wonder, why all those engineers doing leetcode interviews can't make quality products.
TEMPEST, it's as old as the Cold War. In retrospect, side-channel attacks and bugs are always the norm, a cryptographic break is rare. A good introductory article is TEMPEST: A Signal Problem written by the NSA.

https://web.archive.org/web/20130918021523/http://www.nsa.go...
We had someone try this at a company I worked at previously. The target was so angry they aggressively complained; the company fired the salesman. It boggles the mind why a sales person would do something that is likely to be seen as an invasion to the prospect.
Ask HN: Idea Propagation through Social Networks?
I'd like to learn about how ideas propagate through ordinary social networks via word of mouth. It seems like a very rich problem that could combine theories from graph theory, game theory, psychology, and epidemiological modeling. Are there any rigorous treatments of this problem?

Bonus points if they discuss requirements for widespread diffusion or possibly have a marketing-based skew.

Apologies if I break any HN rules, spoken or unspoken; I have not posted very often.
This title was shortened by leaving off "Penn." from the beginning of the original title which unfortunately significantly changes the meaning.

Penn. Supreme Court refers to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and this was a ruling regarding the drivers status under Pennsylvania state law. Although significant it is much less so than a ruling from the US Supreme Court which is what is generally referred to when "Supreme Court" by itself is used.
Especially in the context of Intel using overseas fabs, the dire bit of that article is

> a lot of the manufacturing output growth since the mid-1980s, when the BEA started factoring quality improvements in computers into its measures of real output, has been driven by the rising quality of computers and electronic products, not by increases in actual, you know, output.

i.e. one Intel chip produced today is considered to be thousands of times more output than one Intel chip produced in the 80s, because it's thousands of times faster.
It's all contained in the sources provided in the footnotes of the page:

https://www.health.govt.nz/system/files/documents/pages/revi...

But, listen, if you have better information, I'm all ears. The whole point is to be directed by science, and right now, you're not going to find hard science, i.e., RCTs, to support the prevailing policies.
Simon's Algorithm
This story hits very close to home for me.

Back in 2001 I worked for a 'Medical Communications' company, building marketing websites for various drugs companies. I was young, it was my first coding job and I desperately needed the money

I even ended up building an internal marketing website for use by sales reps pushing an antidepressant. It was an awful PoS, technically, but it had a basic CMS system and I was flown to the US (from the UK) to show the very friendly team at the drug company how to use it. I was fairly blasé about the ethics of it - they paid a lot of money after all. The drug in question was later removed from the market after it was found to increase suicide risk.

14 years later, my mother had maxxed out on the same kind of anti-depressant. She kept relapsing and the doctors kept upping the dose until they couldn't prescribe her any more. She took her own life shortly after.

Not so long ago, I interviewed a candidate for a data engineer position at the 'FinTech' I was lead engineer at. He turned us down because he didn't like the CTOs attitude towards the credit data we were collecting about our customers. Until that point I hadn't really considered the ethics of what we were doing, again. I started looking for another job the same day.
"Given the analyses that we have performed using the two models that the Imperial College team has developed, one cannot exclude that the attribution of benefit to complete lockdown is a modelling artefact."
...but sometimes things aren't inflows or outflows. Depreciation is neither, yet it's (almost) fundamental to accounting.
You mean like NZ?
The Double-Entry Counting Method (2016)
Could I give gpt-3 a legal contract or a terms of service and then ask it questions about it?
> It's already proven technology.

Automated trains are just like elevators, except they move horizontally.

There used to be an operator on every elevator, but they have been replaced by electronics since a very long time ago.
Try a cloud-native robot development experience on Windows
This reminds me of the Gunman Project .

https://www.nsa.gov/Portals/70/documents/news-features/decla...
Symlinked hook is nice but its not a clean cross platform solution. We're a Unity shop so we support Windows, Mac and Linux devs (or like to try).

I just can't help but feel like if this is the common pattern, then it should be built into one of these tools in a more consistent way.
Perhaps “open” and “closed” are synonymous to “conventional” and “purpose-built” in the industry?

Purpose-built automated lines often use smaller cars with more powerful motors sometimes concrete tracks. I suppose those help computers in flattening acceleration/deceleration curves and eliminating needs to compensate for weather or passenger counts.
I miss actionscript, and Flash in general. A hackers delight, I’m still yet to see such a great mix of coding and visual editing/timeline systems.
Could you maybe state the point you are trying to make and the position you personally hold? Do you have to be "more ethical" to argue that ethics are necessary and a good thing to teach?
Enterprise Data Strategies in the Aftermath of the US Privacy Shield Defeat
Some of the subreddits are fine, but man, the hate groups do their best to break into those.

For medical advice, Oddly facebook groups are often much bigger, and have very up to date advice.
Yes tons of mom stereotypes, but a strong core of people who research stuff and give advice.
> Many Windows networks just have a giant X: everyone can write to, and it's been like that forever, and it's so deeply baked into everyone's workflow that it never gets fixed

I've seen this too, and you need to be vigilant with what accesses these kinds of resources (basically anybody with write access to these shares also has execute access to any accounts executing from that share).
Why did it output so many answers? Also it missed Iceland.

How are you able to use it? Can I try it out?
All this and the code needs to be written correctly especially with regards to edge cases. Thousands of planes have been flying around the world for several decades now and we still see unique accidents or slip-ups that have never occurred before.

Think of all the edge cases that need to be accounted for with all the different variables out there from weather to people misbehaving on the plane. It's only going to take one freak accident to have people not want to board a self-flying craft ever again.
Common Sales Scams from a Former Salesperson Who Sold Everything
What do you think about 5G vendors being able to also provide edge compute, which is more "edgy" than any CDN right now ?(they are literally going to be on every single block or street)
The author specifically points out that speech is restricted everywhere and has always been.
After Veritas, I can’t even imagine the garbage that FB must be hiding.
She specifically warns about chinese companies inflitrating infrastructure and the Canadian govt just handed over our embassy security to them: https://nationalpost.com/news/chinese-government-owned-firm-....
Thank you! I definitely have a sense that a lot of project management tools are built for the teams that build them...small teams of cross-functional creatives.

You can usually hack your way into something like Routine Ops with recurring tasks in JIRA or whatever, but it's not the use-case their product teams are solving for. That's my hypothesis at least :)
The closest thing I'm aware of is the work on "diffusion of innovations".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations

If you look at this stuff, and you're familiar with the Crossing the Chasm idea, you may be struck immediately by the similarity of some of the charts. There was definitely some influence by the former, on the latter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_Chasm

Also, there is an interdisciplinary field called "Network Science" that heavily builds on graph theory, but includes elements from sociology, economics, complex adaptive systems, statistical mechanics, etc, yadda yadda.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_science
Think outside the box, the camera could be mounted at the intersection instead of on the train. I'd presume whoever is certifying this stuff also ensures if the gate isn't verified to block traffic, the train stops before the intersection
As I said, things are not so black and white. You clearly seem frustrated, but I don't think you're making the point you intend to be making.
I wonder if arabic numerals really are the best system.

Too much inertia is invested in them now but I wonder if a yet easier representation exists. For example, I know that there was a brief push to use quaternions in physics.
The line item is called "Subscribe" and it is a $3 charge, as described. I've had my bank block the request, and issue a new card, and I'm still getting the charge.
Uninteresting Places
CopyQ – Clipboard manager with advanced features
New Zealand sets standards for government use of algorithms
It’s a mind blowing $14,299,769[1] from an initial $10k in AMZN. Absolutely unbelievable.

[1] https://dqydj.com/stock-return-calculator/
Can I sue facebook for excessive data requests?
Crashing at 20mph is better than at 80mph
Ah unfortunately my picture stories are only on FB and only open to my friends. I find that keeping the audience small helps me stay true to myself. Because I'm not performing for a larger audience, I don't feel I need to invest in production values or endless rounds of editing (as would be the case if I were a blogger or a vlogger).

It's just people who know me and who are amused by my posts.
> but if you play smart, you can see things break your way over a long period of time

Which brings to mind a great quip attributed to Gary Player (the multi Grand Slam winning golfer / peer to Palmer & Nicklaus) which goes,

"I've found that the harder I practice, the luckier I get."

And as anyone who knows golf knows, the game is rife with unknown unknowns and butterfly effect types of outcomes; but over time those nearly infinitesimal improvements move the deterministic needle in ways that change your score.
Do they cost millions of dollars? I suspect not.

If you need to screen thousands of people per day as they're say, all going to the grocery store, or the office, or whatever, it doesn't take too many days of several thousand "tests" per day times say $1 per test to come up with $10k or $20k.

If a well trained dog that can do the test is $100k then yes you're starting to talk about an equivalently priced test to those already in the marketplace.

Covid tests require a significant amount of human and machine time such that they cost tens of dollars right now. I suspect that dogs could bring that down by an order of magnitude or more.
Ask HN: I hate coding, but it's all that's on my resume. What do I do?
I've been a software engineer for over 12 years. I went to school for CS. I hate writing code now. It shows too, my work is not great. I'm stressed because I don't know what to do. How do I move on from here successfully?
> Unless I am mistaken, NZ did not ask (=require) the general public to wear masks because the NZ government was primarily following information disseminated through the WHO as guidance.

That is my understanding also. And now the WHO has (after many months of proclaiming masks as useless) turned around and started advocating for them. The WHO also denied that COVID-19 was a pandemic far beyond the point where it was clearly exploding in many regions, while insisting that all airline flights should continue as normal, and probably contributed significantly to the speed and scale of the global pandemic by doing so.

I wouldn't place any credence in old WHO statements regarding this virus (or, honestly, in anything the WHO says after their performance here).
But go further, faster and carry way more people while having an incredibly varied operating environment, unlike an elevator/lift.
It's funny to see this headline after reading https://www.theonion.com/facebook-announces-plan-to-break-up... earlier today.
Not for me.

Those confusing switches are already ingrained in my memory (or hidden away behind aliases) and now I find it more confusing that git is recommending new and different commands to do things that I've been doing a fixed way for years.

`git restore <file>` instead of `git checkout -- <file>`is another one.
Thank you for mentioning this. I wrote my own bash script to do something similar ages ago, but I'm betting this will be much less janky.
http://ronja.twibright.com/

Is an old project, that I have memorized the bookmark ('Optar', is another project somewhere on that page that puts a multi-kb 2d barcode data on a printed page to be reliably scanned in, even if damaged)
During his military service, he was a fighter pilot and, in Korea, John Glenn’s wingman. By all accounts he was extremely proficient at that, too.
> There is also a strategic geopolitical advantage to retaining domestic manufacturing, which is the most relevant part of this discussion.

NB: there's also a strategic geopolitical advantage to out-sourcing manufacturing. The US would be a weaker nation if we had to commit a bunch of human capital to textiles.

But to answer your actual question:

> Jobs, the economy... there is more to life, and more to maintaining a hegemony.

You could say the same about freedom. Most people would prefer a good-paying job over global hegemony, and care about the latter only in service to the former.

note: I agree there's a strategic national security/economic/sov. interest in domestic chip manufacturing, hegemony or not. But the general analysis that we should make ourselves poorer in order to be world hegemon is, to most Americans, I suspect a bit backward.
That's my main concern too.

Right when people started taking plastic pollution seriously and progress was beginning to be seen, suddenly everyone is wearing cheap plastic fiber masks that litter the streets everywhere; food items are quintuple wrapped in plastic; plastic screens are up everywhere to separate people; and cheap, single use, hygienic items made of plastic and wrapped in plastic are being distributed like candy.

I'm worried that it'll take decades to cut down on it again.
Oooh very interesting, thanks! From what I've skimmed, it's so surprising how well his ideas transfer over to the present era!

Edit: Did not read the second half of your comment, absolutely!!
Japanese are still packing themselves into crowded trains. 'Attributing all of their success [...] to masks alone' is a strawman, masks are clearly helping there.
Surely you can buy a car without any email address.

...oh, this was online only. Well there's your problem.