skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chrome and Amp are Google lock-in web killers.

Google is pushing ahead in the browser space, ignoring standards committees. They're doing things that deepen their moat.

Google made choices in HTML5 to make it less semantic, ensuring their search engine wins.

Google is trying to remove the URL bar, which makes Google homepage and AOL-like keywords the dominant way to access information. It lowers awareness of brands and websites as 3rd party entities.

AMP hosts content on Google's servers. You never actually access the original publisher's website. Guess how you get higher search rankings?

I should compile a list sometime. It's actually quite astonishing how much they're eroding the commons to entrench themselves.
Lumping into an "us vs them" or "republican vs liberal" via

> here is no Republican Snopes because conservatives, since the Enlightenment, don't do sense making

Which is both mixing the some undefined set of concepts of the Enlightenment with some undefined characteristics of "All Republicans", in an awkward ad-hominem against "non-republicans"? It's nonsensical.

> At the end of the day unless you were personally there to witness something or can prove something mathematically or do the science yourself,

All truth is subjective, so there is no truth tautology.

Etc etc. There isn't a point being made or a topic to discuss. It's a "too many ideas" post mixed with too many wild tangents that are intentionally designed to incite.

ie Vapid flamebait.
Now if only podcast players would catch up to 2007 and support Atom.
His writings do exactly what he states: Sowell insists that his work “stands or falls on its own merits or applicability” and is not “enhanced or reduced by [his] personal life.”.

And they will continue to stand, objectively, for a long time to come.

But his life and character are inspirational examples of self-determination and leadership that we need far more of. It is a shame he is not more often cited as an example that others can learn from in their personal lives.
> stingrays can force phones to downgrade to 2G, a less secure protocol, and tell the phone to use either no encryption or use a weak encryption that can be cracked.

Can android, iOS, or an open phone os prevent 2g communication?
Is it just me, or does every single photo supposedly demonstrating the quality of the camera have awful artifacts? (I'm not saying this means it has a poor quality camera, I suspect that whatever process prepared these photos for the website cranked up the JPEG compression or something.)
Ahara | Remote | Full-Stack Software Engineer

Ahara is a health tech consumer company, creating a diet identity that lives online: your FoodPrint. Your FoodPrint is information important to you about food: how you like to eat, your health goals, and how you like to shop. Ahara's platform allows 60% of Americans with medical dietary restrictions to find food compatible with their FoodPrint, revealing new food possibilities, and creating an easy food experience.

We are looking for Full-stack Software Developers who are proficient in building APIs and front-end experiences with React Redux to join our remote team. As a full-stack engineer at Ahara, you will be building and owning features that work across our ecosystem, working alongside product managers, designers, and influencing product decisions. You will join an ambitious team looking to personalize the online shopping experience around the user and gain domain-expertise in the latest in consumer health tech.

To apply or learn more reach out to recruiting@ahara.bio.
Has gorilla glass - https://www.theverge.com/21351770/google-pixel-4a-review-cam...
Search on the linked page for "THE LONG-HAND PAGE METAPHOR".
The prices will rise without fail, as seen in every real estate market from Shanghai and Toronto to London and the San Francisco Bay area.
> Does that mean monthly recurring payments?

Usually yearly should be fine, however, monthly would reduce customer anxiety (not sure if thats very relevant for B2B) but increase possible administrative overhead on your side.

> What's a good fixed term, maybe one year? Or a few years?

Longer than your usual recurring term. I'd say 2 to 5 years. The right term depends on the overall cost of that package: you should price them below the next-higher aforementioned cliff of course. If you usually offer yearly $20 contracts, and you have determined a typical cliff to be at $50, you could offer a 3year package for $49.

Also consider other factors: you might not want to support a version for the whole fixed term. And you definitely don't want to sell anything perpetual or semi-perpetual.
Somewhat ironically, people doing that cleaning might spread coronavirus into those places if they happen to be asymptomatic carriers
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Layer is a collaborative and fully extensible data platform which makes data science accessible to companies of all sizes by enabling them to trust, collaborate on, and leverage their data for impactful insights and data driven business logic and decisions.

In order to make data driven decisions, you need to trust your data. And to trust your data, you need SSoT (Single Source of Truth) practice in your data organisation. Implementing this practice is only possible in a collaborative data platform, by building reliable, uniform and reusable/reproducible pipelines.

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Our tech stack is React/TypeScript on the frontend, Python/Django/GraphQL at the backend, Spark as the underlying computation engine -- we also use/love Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS. We are currently looking for experienced candidates for full-time roles (no part-time/hourly contractors please). Prior startup experience, being a prolific open source contributor, working at a data related software company (ETL/visualization/integration) are big pluses. No recruiters/agencies/outstaffing or outsourcing companies please.

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Percona | MongoDB Consultant | Remote | Fulltime |https://www.percona.com/

Our Consultants work on projects with a huge variety of companies, from internet startups to established brick and mortar publicly traded companies. At Percona you'll get a chance to see and work on any database architecture you can imagine. We're looking for MongoDB experts who can step back and look at the full stack, as well as be curious about other widely used open-source data platforms.

The Consultant will develop relationships with customers, comprehend and fulfill their needs, and maintain their satisfaction through onsite and remote customer engagements. He/she will scope the technical work that is required to ensure the best possible solution is delivered to the customer given the customer’s unique set of circumstances. Additionally, the Consultant will troubleshoot and resolve customer issues of any complexity as the need arises. You will work remotely and most people work from their homes. Up to 25% travel will be required, both for onsite projects and internal meetings. Access to a reliable high-speed Internet connection is required. The Consultant must be able to work full-time during US business hours and be able to work within North America.

This is primarily a MongoDB expert position, but Percona also works heavily with MySQL and anyone with cross-over expertise would be preferred.

Please apply here: https://www.percona.com/about-percona/careers/mongodb-consul...
Posh Tech | https://www.posh.tech | Boston, US | Full Time | Onsite (Remote during Covid-19)

About Us

Spun out of MIT's AI Lab in summer 2018, Posh Tech is a Boston-based startup with a mission of powering more natural conversations using cutting-edge Conversational AI.

We help credit unions and community banks better connect with their customers and automate their contact center workflows. We've hit great traction and growing rapidly.

We have patent-pending IP and our platform is omni-channel with a central backend and open API suite (so we can seamlessly integrate with any backend APIs and services).

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- Senior Web UI/UX Engineer

- Senior Backend Engineer

- Business Development Manager

- Technical Customer Success Manager

Please apply directly to our postings on angel list: https://angel.co/company/posh-technologies-inc/jobs

If you have questions, you can reach us directly at careers@posh.tech. Feel free to email me (Dhairya) as well for specific questions (my contact info is in profile).
This is an odd place for Microsoft to be, on ARM, both Linux and MacOS have much more complete suites of software available than Windows. Obviously both Windows and MacOS support emulation of their respective x86 platforms, but in terms of native software, Windows is kind of a distant 3rd place.

I guess this opens up the chance JetBrains will point IntelliJ and PyCharm over.
I don't think that analogy works: many people never get cancer which means we have a clear model for what a healthy, cancer-free life form looks like. "Curing cancer" just means returning a body to this healthy, pre-cancerous state.

But we have no model for what a healthy, capitalism-free society would look like. Every attempt at removing capitalism from the system has led to totalitarian results.

This doesn't prove that capitalism is the best possible system, but it strongly suggests that alternatives are worse.
Why don't you read the article? The distinction is between aerosols and droplets, in the case of corona virus, and by asking this question it looks like you're chasing the wild goose that OP brought into this thread.
Mate... You have no idea what you trying talk about...
a) inteligence services job is HOARDING such information !

b) you know what happened when for North Vietnam for short period of time was wining and had forces in south ? They do not attack military bases. They started to murder civilians with other then communistic opinions. Think for a two seconds: how they know that ? Now multiply by digital info powers

c) You know what Nazi did after attacking Poland in 1939 ? They started collecting some civilians in work camps. You [should] know what was next.

d) privacy ?

e) obviously data is money. Google like data in China hands is a no no for US companies
f) kids ? Hallo ?
Interesting, but how is that not a security flaw? Sounds like user space applications can cause CPU level undefined behaviour!?
Apply that to cops and people would say you're off your rocker. Self-policing doesn't seem to work. We need something more.

Practically there is no way to hold a doctor accountable. There's various laws to limit liability and in most courts in the US you'll need another doctor to testify against your doctor. As the number of doctors is low they tend to know each other at least in passing, and it's hard to actually enforce professional standards.

What matters the most are practicing doctors, not doctors involved in research. I forget what the numbers are, but there are still more GPs and specialist than there are researching practitioners.

If you venture far outside a big city the quality of healthcare experiences a precipitous drop. It's terrifying. Even within a big city like New York, we found out that the ER/ICU professionals were killing people with ventilators! Why didn't they just supply oxygen instead, like they seem to be doing now?
The protestors are in the age demographic that are by far least affected by the virus.

“We estimate that susceptibility to infection in individuals under 20 years of age is approximately half that of adults aged over 20 years, and that clinical symptoms manifest in 21% (95% credible interval: 12–31%) of infections in 10- to 19-year-olds”

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0962-9

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#Ag...
Whether or not there is truth is dependent on if you believe in an objective set of values. Conservatives believe there is (the Bible, natural law, God, etc) and people like Postermodernists believe there isn't.

And yes all discussions of this type require some generalization and lumping. "Republican" doesn't even mean one thing since the party consists of libertarians and evangelical Christians and neo-conservatives among many others.
OneSignal (Messaging and Push Notification APIs) is hiring a full stack engineer
If you had crypto that used biometrics to generate unique secret keys and automatically mined X amount of coins (based on a set of public economic inputs) to evenly distribute to all participants, and made it part of the constitution that the distribution mechanism can never be changed you'd be as close as you can to solving this issue.

Any group trying to take it away once people have it will find out it won't go well.
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Let's Debug a Node.js Application
> Does the case for C++ in 2020 still exist?

Even if exist, is better to let it die. C/C++ is a costly mistake. VERY costly.

Apart of interact with legacy code, both C/C++ have much better replacements (like pascal).

Is only the stubborn "but what if I need to replace my heavily bug-ridding, unsafe, crash-prone, hard-to-mantain, harder-to-prove is good; source code, and need to retrain my developers that spend a lot of mental energy in workaround them in something, better?????"

Our industry is weird.

In any other, if the "engineers" insist in use a well-know unsafe tooling and refuse to learn safer tooling/practiques you will fire them as incompetents.

By the way, I learn mechanical engineering (at trade level).
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Software developer with over 10 years experience. I've mostly been in the mobile space, Android, iOS, Unity, but also managed k8s clusters and designed backend apps for large international companies.

I'm a fullstack generalist and I really care about how everything fits together and flows from end to end.

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I'll happily take "WIX for hackers" :)
It happens within the OS for the baseband processor, not within the OS of the actual phone. Unsurprisingly, the details of how the baseband processor work are a highly guarded secret, and trying to reverse engineer anything around it will end up with a heft lawsuit thrown at you.
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Really amazing we haven’t created an open source tax software yet.
I can only hope they will revisit face unlock in the era of face masks. I greatly prefered fingerprint unlock. I treat either of these as tamper resistance rather than actual security, but I find fingerprint unlock to be a much better experience.
Sensible design choices. Stock Android. Pocket friendly.

Such a clean offer. I'm amazed.
I always laugh when I see someone bring up Fox News in this context. You realize your just proving his point, right? I can name dozens or hundreds of major media outlets that that lean left (MSNBC, CNN, NYT, WaPo, HuffPo, BuzzFeed, etc.), but you can only name one or two that lean right.
And how do you call the stuff which gets filtered by consciousness so that it can remember more than a couple of seconds? That's what I meant by the qualia.

As an example what I mean and it was recently on HN, too: apparently the perception of "now" is a hack supported by delays so that input from various senses is perceived as synchronized even if it does not arrive synchronized to the brain, plus compensating the temporary blindness while doing saccades. Aliens could have different "hack" there, resulting in profoundly different perception of time.
This is what Lenin said about financial capitalism and monopoly. Every boom-bust cycle, endemic to capitalism, results in further consolidation. The free market / small producer capitalism that everyone says they like died around the 1880s-1890s when large firms began to dominate. Everything said in favor of that form since then has been essentially nostalgia for a lost time that wasn't even that good to begin with.

If the trust busters don't come back, we will see essentially a kind of feudalist economy develop around a few extraordinarily powerful companies as every ladder is pulled up behind them and smaller institutions are "creatively destroyed".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperialism,_the_Highest_Stage...
So you can't.
> It was clear from the very beginning that transmission was airborne.

To me the only thing that was clear was the definition of airborne is not standard.

By strict definition, COVID is not airborne since it seems to require a host material (e.g. water droplet). This is in contrast to measles which individual virus particles can survive without a host material. Practically speaking though, COVID seems to be able to survive well in such small droplets that it acts like an airborne disease.

At a public health, COVID might as well be treated as airborne. Within acute care settings, this is a critical difference is being used as justification that a _properly_ fitted N95 and eye covering is sufficient to care for COVID patients. If COVID was truly airborne, all patient care should require airborne-level PPE (like PAPRs).
Because his "religious points"-score is unrelated to his universal message and the moral panic of it is thoroughly outdated.
I have 3 hard pulls on my account. I was looking at buying a car so got pre-approved by my bank (1). The dealer pulled (3) more figuring they could get me a better rate, and a fat commission for them. My score dropped 30 points over the next few months as the hard pulls started to show up.

> would you lend vast sums of money to someone who has never demonstrated their ability to manage and repay a loan?

Banks seem very comfortable lending it to guys who talk the talk regardless of their ability to repay. Hell we have on such trickster in the whitehouse, now. These rules only apply to the rich and the upper-middle class (the ones who really caused the financial loan industry to collapse in 2008).
Well if you want to take a retrospective, we also did not consume it every day. We grazed on other things, including veg, fruit and grains, not unlike traditional societies today.

The Inuit don't eat the way they used to, but it was a good deal of fish along with game and berries (ditto for Sami). Their CVD profile has never been reported to be particularly good. Maasai consume mostly milk, and are in a perpetual state of caloric deficit.
both 1 and 2 are trivial in scss using presets for colors, spacing, font sizes.

margin-top: margins(xl);
I uploaded one photo to Google Maps. It looked through all of my photos then decided a different photo was was a good candidate for "sharing".

It was a surprise for me since I forgot I left access to my photos on. iOS 14 resolves this by letting you choose which photos you allow an application to have access to. This cannot come any sooner because that was disturbing.

edit: I shared the original photo because I believe in helping other people.
I dream of the day where Pixel or iPhone has solid state batteries.
This is probably something that the baseband radio processor decides. Depending on the firmware/software on the chip the host OS might be able to instruct it to don't ever downgrade to 2G.
Yeah the battery on my Pixel 4 is pretty bad even after I turned off all the machine learning features that make it a unique device in the first place.
Zoom is my cellphone's battery killer.
There's a long tail of various issues to sort out and "language runtimes that have all the kinks ironed out" is definitely one of them. But I think that's just always going to be the case for any alternative trying to get up to speed with an incumbent player that has a decades-long head start. And most of it works fine today, anyway. Micro optimizations in HotSpot or whatever isn't what's holding people back from desktop ARM machines. (If any language could make a difference here, I'd actually argue it's JavaScript being optimized because it's vital to web browsing, but luckily that got sorted out years ago thanks to mobile handsets.)

Plenty of things work very well and I'd think most people would rate those working as far more important than small compiler tweaks. NVMe, GPU support etc is vastly more important to me than compiler micro-optimizations, for instance, because those actually make day to day developer usage viable. No amount of compiler optimizations will make SD cards fast. And today, you can boot generic Linux images for whatever distro, using UEFI, on high-speed ARM systems, with fully working desktops -- including working FOSS GPU drivers, full web browsers (with working javascript JITs), and high speed storage. So I think it's shaping up pretty nicely.
Yep, that's basically the reason I bought my Pixel 2.

I still think Apple has a better track record here, but 3 years is better than any other Android phone vendor that I'm aware of.
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NanoVMs is building out unikernel tooling and infrastructure. We have open source at https://github.com/nanovms/nanos && https://github.com/nanovms/ops. We can run things like go and rust webservers up to 2x as fast on platforms like google cloud today.

We are specifically looking for more full-time kernel engineers so we can increase our velocity. We are well-funded by great investors and have revenue from extremely large customers.

You can submit here:

https://nanovms.breezy.hr/

or just email me.

This is listed as remote but it's really just corona remote. We have a very strong preference for those who are either in the Bay Area or willing to relocate. We do have an office that we intend to fill up. Second choice would be New York as we have engineers based there as well. We are open for remote anywhere else in the US for now so don't be shy if you're 50 miles from nowhere in WY as long as you have a great internet connection and the mad skills.

We've found some of our great engineers have backgrounds coming from {networking, storage} companies and traditional embedded backgrounds.

For the right candidate we can move extremely fast.
All Pixel phones have at least 3 years of Android version and security updates: https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/4457705