skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not a medical professional, but since 151 is basically 75% ethanol, and ethanol is sold as a cleaner/disinfectant when pure, i assume it would work well.
This is why I dislike the "Manager README" trend.

They start with good intentions (informing the team about what's expected of them and how to work efficiently with the team) but they usually devolve into justifying the manager's bad behaviors and telling the team to deal with it.

In practice, most manager READMEs I've seen have been more aspirational than realistic. That is, managers describing themselves in the best possible way, or describing the type of manager they want to be.

I think it's much better to write an "Employee how-to manual" that describes what's expected of the employees, how employees can accomplish things, and so on. Delivering information to the employees from a purely manager-centric document sends a message that the manager is the star of the show and the employees are just the supporting cast who need to deal with the manager's quirks.
A marketplace to learn digital skills interactively (feedback needed)
There are 45 million borrowers who collectively owe nearly $1.6 trillion in student loan debt in the U.S. alone. The cost of formal education is rising, but the relevance of it is still distant to what is needed in the job market. COVID has shown most of the digital work can be learned online and jobs can also be done online. As a result, buildings, university staff are not as important in the digital economy and the administration process can be automated online. Short term courses like coding Bootcamp has shown that people can learn these skills quickly to become job-ready in a year(as opposed to 6 years in University => 4 years bachelors degree + 2 years masters degree). The problem with online courses conducted in Udemy/Coursera is they are monotonous, are not interactive, and don't have social aspects that you get in universities. Therefore, I am building an online marketplace where people can learn digital skills from working professionals interactively that are needed in the job market. Few key differentiators in the system would be
1. It will bring the social aspect of learning
2. It would be interactive with the teacher and other peers
3. It would be short term(6 to 12 months) and job-focused(if you can't get a job or get promoted by doing the course in the system, it wouldn't be allowed in the system)
4. Every teacher would be working professionals(eg: Software engineers will teach software engineering, not the university professor who haven't written production code in their life)

What do you guys think of this idea? Let me know your honest feedback. Thanks!
That's what I've been doing with a pack of N100s and it works fine. The problem is threefold: leaving it in a car out in the sun will quickly melt the glue holding the plastic filter to the mask, after a few uses it just quickly gets contaminated on the inside unless you're obsessive about decontamination before taking the mask off each time, and that month rating is because the plastic fibers used to make the electrostatic filter dry out and crumble, which can also be pretty bad for your lungs.
The Dark Knight: I searched the entire thread before posting and was surprised to not see this movie on the list. I would say that this was one of the very few movies that ever challenged me morally. To this day, it's one of my favorite movies to rewatch.
Checkpoint's release for these vulnerabilities is here https://blog.checkpoint.com/2020/08/06/achilles-small-chip-b...

not clear from the writeup how many devices are affected. They fuzz-tested 'a DSP chip' (sounds like just one) and then say that Qualcomm products are used in 40% of devices.

press release focuses on exfiltrating media + GPS, not clear if this is a rootkit that can access the keyboard or take over your email.

'more than 400 vulnerable pieces of code were found' not clear to me -- maybe I don't know how fuzzing DSPs work? Do they have access to the source code because the image decoder is open source?
Particle pollution, if they are using it correctly, which I think they are, includes exhaust and pretty much every post-production pollutant produced by a car (before it is scrapped I guess). See: https://www.epa.gov/pmcourse/what-particle-pollution
Naming our first child was tricky. My wife and I had a final list of 5 names, any of which would work as a first-middle combination. She’d randomly toss out two: “Washington Stewart? Kennedy Frakes?”

After a few minutes of that I just wrote the loop to give us all possible combinations; and from there we selected the name.

It took 2 minutes tops, and I’d have forgotten about this except she still talks about how I wrote a program to name our child.
You can put another container inside the instant pot to hold the masks. That is how you make things like cheese cake in them.
App uses machine learning to get Mona Lisa's eyes to follow you
From the article, the rule is, Nobody can pick an active lock, or help anyone attempting to. The community is united on that front, with mods receiving reports of any violations almost immediately.

They then clarify, We are extremely strict about not assisting anyone with picking a lock in use, regardless of whether they own the lock, or whether they have permission to do so.

That would rule out pentesting as well.
Not out of that kind of love, but one of the first games I made, when I was about 11, was a "birthday party simulator" for my elder sister who was sick at the time.

It was a very simple game as you can imagine, and I have since lost the project files, however. I think it was made in Game Maker 7. I do not recall the exact mechanics but it had various birthday activities like filling and popping balloons, eating cake, and talking to people (not much in terms of dialogue though!)
Using Raspberry Pi GPIO Pins as an IDE Controller
Thanks for pointing that out. ftrain was a beautiful website.
Going to the key above tab to switch windows within the same program
My understanding is that it's significantly easier to eat a healthy vegetarian diet than a healthy vegan diet. Therefore, it seems to me that vegetarianism is a reasonable compromise.
One more that’s fun, though maybe doesn’t really count as “programming.”

I got married a few years back. We built a wedding website for people to get details on our wedding and to RSVP. It was pretty standard (think we just used Squarespace) except we included tracking pixels for the largest ad networks (Google, Facebook, etc) throughout the site. We then bid on impressions from anyone whose browser had triggered the pixel.

We bid something absurdly high, like $1,000/CPM (i.e., $1,000 per thousand ad impressions). As a result, we were always the highest bidder for those impressions of people who’d visited our wedding website. Because of how ad network bidding works, where you generally pay what the second highest bidder bids, and because we only invited around 200 people to our wedding, we didn’t end up spending much at all. Think all in it ended up costing around $100. But for our guests, our wedding followed them wherever they went online.

If you hadn’t RSVPed yet, we showed banners encouraging you to RSVP. Once you had, we previewed some of what we had planned. And then, for a week afterward, we ran ads thanking people for coming. We set the entire thing up in an afternoon and then it just ran automatically over the next few months. I was stunned when I checked in on it after the wedding how little it had cost.

Ad retargeting is super creepy, and it was scary to see how granular I could make the targeting for very little money. But, in this case, I think it may be one of the few times people really loved being followed around the Internet by an ad.

Nearly everyone commented on how fun it was. Friends would send us screenshots of our ads next to articles they were reading. And many of our privacy conscious friends with ad blockers actually turned them off temporarily when they heard about it so they could get retargeted by our wedding.
While I'm interested in circuit design, there are no simple books that will take you from plugging in a battery to a single led to something that can run c code. Maybe NAND to Tetris? Have had a hard time finding a physical book for that.

I don't want to address any other point, but I can share an experience here.

I went from very basic electronics knowledge (what most discrete components do in the abstract for, though not how to use them properly) to building a couple of SBCs by googling "home brew 6502" and reading whatever came up. I was a very rewarding journey, though there was certainly no book, I had to follow up on a lot of things myself.

Obviously a home brew 6502 won't do much modern, but you'll be left with way more knowledge than you need to build something with bare microcontroller / cpu and the kind of SPI/i2c bus peripherals you're talking about here.

Certainly it's a bunch of effort, but everything is there is you want to research it, and the 6502 forums are stupidly helpful.

Just in case you decide you do want to persue more DIY digital logic. It's well within reach!

PS. Nand to tetris is an awesome project, but it's waaay overkill for what you're talking about. There is a huge amount of cpu and compiler design that you don't need. And actually, not enough electrical engineering...
I don't think the financial challenge of being a writer these days is correlated to copyright laws being too weak.
Zeitgeist and Thrive.
I don’t think it was specifically for the Mac. I think this might be from the speech he gave at Stanford where he talked about dropping his required classes and going to ones that he just was interested in. He later applied what he learned though.

[1] https://news.stanford.edu/2005/06/14/jobs-061505/
Please don't disinfect an N95 or N100 mask with alcohol (of any sort). It will dissolve the plastic fibers of the filter.
Easy solution, the federal govt takes the shares. Nobody said it had to be cash, tax them in cash or in-kind assets. Then the government can sell the shares as needed for their balance sheets.
Changing the standard won't necessarily impact the quality of the food.
I haven't read the article above, however there's a double standard here. I've heard, e.g. John Ioannidis (one of my personal Heroes of Science©) say that Covid-19 is not that bad because the majority of the people who die of it didn't have many quality-adjusted years of life left anyway [1].

Note that's quality-adjusted years of life for people who died with/from/by Covid-19, not of all those infected, because the majority of those infected lose 0 years of life so there's not much information in that metric, either.

So, yes, it does make sense to ask "how many years a person who died of Covid-19 could still enjoy had they not died of Covid-19". Just looking at how many people died of those who were infected simply ignores the fact that many people who die of Covid-19 would otherwise have gone on happily being productive and valuable members of their respective communities - and not shuffling, moaning zombies held together by arcane necromancy, waiting for a gust of wind to disintegrate. After all, while Covid-19 is very dangerous for people over 80, it is also quite dangerous for people over 50 and over 60, and those are ages where many people haven't even retired from their careers.

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[1] Not a direct quote, rather one from memory. I can provide the source if needed, it's a video of an hour-long interview with Ioannidis on youtube.
what the hell that's really useful. I used to open emacs (I'm a vim user) just for the bulk rename
Racist Robots
When I saw the Parallella (https://parallella.org) listed there I thought that it must be a very old list, but it turns out that it’s still being sold at least by Digikey.

The page is updated though, as can be seen in the edit history with the link at the page footer:
https://joelw.id.au/FPGA/CheapFPGADevelopmentBoards?action=d...

As of this writing, the last update was on 2020-07-20.

I’ve sent an e-mail to the author pointing him to this discussion in case other corrections get posted here.
Some literary agencies operate like this. They make most of their revenue from a small number of authors. In some ways, literary agencies already are "YC for budding young novelists."
ffs GitHub is not a blog.
China and Singapore recognize the importance of land due to its inherent scarcity, hence most land is held by the state and foreign ownership banned or discouraged. Frankly, most countries should recognize the importance of keeping land ownership under domestic control. However, this prevents existing wealthy land owners from exiting their holdings easily by selling to the global market instead of just the domestic market, and money speaks loudly in politics.
There are cheap Virtex-6 and Kintex-7 boards as well ~$100-$150 on Aliexpress.
Right click then hold down option key, no need terminal
The only way to make cattle farming sustainable is by doing far far less of it. Governments need to impose massive taxes on dairy and beef products in order to severely reduce their consumption. But they do the opposite and subsidise it instead, often to the point that we are throwing out viable animal products because there is too much of it.
> That night, I met a manager friend for dinner and poured my heart out to him. He listened and then gave me a diagnosis. “Julie,” he said, “Have you ever told your reports that you care about them? Or asked them how they’d like to be cared for?”

One of the best pieces of advice I received in an otherwise pretty uneventful undergraduate degree in technical theater/stagecraft was during a management course. A general manager of a small regional theater came to speak, and talk about "leadership". Generic stuff.

But he said that he has two questions he always asks direct reports. "How do you like to receive praise, and how to do you like to criticism?" I've adopted these as good questions during interviews (no matter what side of the table you're on), when meeting a new team, or even a few releases into a team forming at a retro.

They're simple questions, and folks don't always have their answer off the top of their head. But knowing who prefers that big group shout out and who prefers a quiet thank you email to them and their manager can make a huge difference.
There's https://mycroft.ai, https://www.home-assistant.io & probably others.
% find . -maxdepth 1 -type d | xargs realpath

How long do these tools exist? Over 20 years?
I am from the UK and lived in California and you don't know what your talking about. The food is much much better than the UK. Almost anywhere has better food than the UK (except bacon and pies). Cheap chicken is is terrible in the UK, I expect it's awful in US too. You are self delusional if you think UK can lecture other countries on food standards, it's a running joke across the world of the low quality of UK cooking [1]. I agree.

[1] https://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/susan/joke/heaven.htm
If you're going to DIY hand sanitizer you may want to follow this WHO guidance: https://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/Guide_to_Local_Production.pdf
I’ve never seen any recipe from the commonwealth that I could call “loveable”
this will damage n95 masks
The US doesn't require vaccination of chickens for salmonella, never mind that it is basically free.
From the comment you replied to:

> In the standups the manager could very well share anything they want, they just can't expect everyone else to know it ahead of time and to just adapt to him/her.

They can share what they want, they just can't expect others to blindly accept it and conform to it.
Why can't they just have full on-device transcription models? It's lossy, but extremely compressed.
I've also watched the manager README trend go wrong at multiple companies.

The problem is that managers write their READMEs according to how they want to be viewed by others, so they tend to be more aspirational than realistic.

These might actually be useful if the employees could write the README for their manager and the manager could never read the document or otherwise retaliate for what the employees write about their manager. That's the only way you'd get an accurate document, but obviously it's not realistic.

I think it's better to simply write these documents as a "How to guide for team members" outlining the expectations for performance, communication, how and when their performance reviews will happen, and so on.

Better to remove the manager's ego from the equation as much as possible rather than making it the unspoken centerpiece of the document.
Don’t prove your value. Sell it. Selling is hard. Giving away your services is easy and that’s its only merit.

I’d put it this way, if you can actually solve a meaningful problem in 30 minutes then you can charge $1000s for your service. If you can’t then that’s what your free consulting will prove.

A consultant’s job is to improve the client’s bottom line by improving operations. A consultant’s job is not saving the client money on their fee.

Don’t get me wrong a lot of people go through a phase of reasoning like you are. They either change or get out. Sure sometimes everyone winds up “buying” jobs. But that’s only sustainable if there are good projects most of the time.
So? That’s what every standard means: “anything just barely over the minimum that the standard specifies”. That can definitely be wonderful and impressive if the standard is high to begin with.

You might as well refer to the bronze medal as “just barely enough to be in the awards ceremony”. Is that supposed to be clever somehow?
Wow, that is... unique.
Sure it was!

I think letting me do the algorithm and looking at the results was her loving way of getting me out of the way.
With AI-generated vocals and music, I think we're about to see an explosion in works created. I don't know that it's wise to invest in copyright catalogues right now. We're going to be able to create nearly unlimited music with famous vocalists (and entirely generated ones!)

Check out the Tupac Shakur voice on https://vo.codes

It's kind of broken, but it took zero effort. And that's the direction we're headed.

r9y9 on Github has amazing results synthesizing lyrics. Better than vocaloid at this point.

Look what people are making:

https://www.reddit.com/r/VocalSynthesis/comments/i3egph/even...

https://youtu.be/3qR8I5zlMHs

https://youtu.be/2X3Rqo6JVmg

https://youtu.be/noJHHN39ZCw

https://m.soundcloud.com/r9y9/sets/dnn-based-singing-voice

My prediction is that in ten years, music copyright is going to be very different than it is today. We'll still have live artists putting on performances, but we'll also have entirely virtual artists like Gorillaz (with neural-backed lyrics) and recreations of Tupac, MJ, Elvis, and so on.
Maybe this is a wakeup call to Billionaires that pitchforks are coming, so get behind printing money, or get behind us taking it from you.

Maybe Bezos, et al up their support of universal healthcare, etc.. Maybe they willingly donate money to the U.S. govt above normal taxes. (Can we just setup a crowdfund so elites can donate and get applaud for helping out the country, their narcissism is appeased, and we get to eat, buy clothes, have a roof, and get healthcre).
There is plenty of info on Kubernetes (K8s) on the web, so I would start there. As far as running K8s inside Docker containers though, the use case would be one in which you want to run multiple isolated K8s clusters on a single host. One way is to use VMs, but recently people are resorting to using containers for this purpose due to their ease & efficiency. It's in the latter that Sysbox really helps, because it's capable of creating a container that runs K8s easily and with proper isolation. Typical use cases are testing, CI/CD, learning. But I would not discount this moving into production use cases in the future as the technology matures.
This is a good example of grandiose narcissism in the workplace, wherein there is a presumption that learning about ‘me,’ the author, is an important part of someone else’s job. Look at all the statements that start with “I!”

Rather than a long essay with a self-absorbed worldview, what might be helpful is a guide written by other people who have to accommodate this person. Just kidding, nobody should be thinking about accommodating anyone in this way or to this degree.

All those statements in the essay should be private guides to the author’s own personal development. For example, “I am frequently late to meetings,” should be taken as evidence of self absorption, poor time management, and a lack of respect for coworkers. The author needs to learn how not to be late.
When Covid-19 Hit, Many Elderly Were Left to Die
I think a lot about the meaning of the word lately (“ life out of balance”), really sums up the zeitgeist.
I had the same experience, dad and all. It was just wonderful to me and I'll never forget it.

It makes me a little sad that young people today will probably never see it on the big screen.
What they said was hardly mean.
I would even go further and tell from the younger a change in trends between our generation and those after: we understand privacy is a right won over tears and blood, but younger generations don't seem interested so far on this fight. Sadly we will need to fight twice.
Often people want to post something about the situation at their job, and they're afraid to do so with their regular account. Such comments contain real information based on inside knowledge, the kind that HN readers love to get access to. That's the opposite of rumors. Indeed those comments frequently contain more and better information than would ever appear under the regular account.

It's also true that such comments can be counterfeited, which is where this gets complicated. But HN would be worse off without that class of comments. It's a legit use for throwaway accounts.

Are they verifiable? I don't think that's the best standard to apply to internet comments. The vast majority aren't. You have to assess credibility, but I wouldn't call that verification. In the case of a throwaway account, the only public information for assessing credibility is the content of the comments themselves, but that's not all that different from the usual situation on the internet. Admins have it a bit easier because there is other data we can also look at.
Why not? I am quite curious, because I, too, host my blog on github: https://bollu.github.io/
This, absolutely. Making milk from almonds is silly easy and dirt cheap. Soak 1 cup of almonds overnight, drain, add 3:1 ratio of water to almond nuts. Blend. Strain. Done. Optionally make ricciarelli cookies from the almonds left behind :)
100ml == ~3.4oz, so that's probably still a pretty equivalent amount of sugar to oatly. Either way, they're pretty negligible – most juices have at least 20g sugar in a cup.
If you have any info, please share? I don't really get what you're saying.
> it's a running joke across the world of the low quality of UK cooking [1]

He's talking about food safety, not how good you think the cuisine is.
I adore that apparently Steve Jobs and Wozniak wrote Breakout while they were at Atari.

I absolutely adored that game as a child.

As an aside, this article was wonderful and if you haven't already done so, you should read it right now. (I especially liked the why you should get a computer argument at the end).
Natural Born Killers, so much underrated but a great commentary to our world.
Meanwhile, from last year: Risking food safety, USDA plans to let slaughterhouses self-police

https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/461774-riskin...
You'd think they'd launch a crash program immediately to do exactly this. "Noone sleeps until this is fixed."

Somehow I doubt that is going to happen, and that's also why I don't use Android.