skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
75,000 ball pit balls only used a bit during the pandemic for free in NYC
Do the tour
Wow, indeed. What a quote. I can't believe a doctor wrote this.
It's also worth adding that these days libgen has almost everything wink wink.
Punishing a group of people indiscriminately because a partially overlapping group of people engaged in bad behavior in the past is, itself, widely recognized as bad behavior.
Oliver Stone and Tariq Ali: On History (2012)
Some amount of post-install runtime loading is basically necessary on Android if you're using shared native libs. Can't remember off the top of my head what needs to happen but basically every app runs into strange crashes until they start packaging their .so as a resource and then loading it in Application.onCreate. Chrome does this so it's at least de facto allowed.

Google has to allow dynamic loading at app start because of this. Or fix whatever subtle interaction between Android and an OEM's "improvements" is causing this. Not a huge step from here to getting your library from the internet instead of bundled with the app.

Not trying to justify any one app's behavior, just bringing up a fundamental reality baked into what you're saying: Apple doesn't have to deal with the gaps in its security model becoming load bearing features.
I personally know the vast majority of the material in both roadmaps, so I know that 't Hooft's is far harder to learn from. Anybody can check this for themselves. There's plenty of broken links, extremely rough drafts of lecture notes, and wild fluctuations in sophistication. The ordering puts graduate-level stuff before its sophomore-level prerequisites.

My statement would only be controversial if you believed that arbitrary adversity in learning was necessary to be a good physicist -- and for my own sake I hope that isn't the case!
Some of us are allergic to the sun...

Still do what I can at sunrise and set
Theoretically yes, but practically? Anyone who is involved in healthcare is aware that compliance is a major problem. Even for diseases that are life threatening and have effective treatments you see compliance rates of 80-90%.

All it would take is 1 out of 1M people to break the rules and you're dealing with another outbreak.
Not sure exactly how to ask this, but since $125k is well above US market rate in low cost of living areas: have you considered the possibility that they asked for more because other aspects of the work seemed extremely unattractive?
Ask HN: Films that made you see the world differently?
Hello all. There are nice frequent Ask HN threads where people share books that made a large impact on them and how they saw the world, and I was just thinking it would be good if there were a similar thread about movies.
Step away and do something completely frivolous for a few hours. Usually a pink panther film I have seen countless times or FPS going after zombies. I need to access another part of the brain and "turn off" the area that has been overworked. At least that is how it feels.
Saas for ebay sellers and feedback management
what can i do woth it, its twice as expensive as a flipper
The expensive optimizations are the ones that require non-local analysis.

Register allocation is classically a win for compile speed. It takes less compiler work to put values in registers than to emit all the loads and stores and pushes and pops for putting them on the stack.
Beyond the Fermi Paradox V: What Is the Aestivation Hypothesis?
It runs Linux, has a keyboard and has a 1080p screen. I doubt the flipper even has a MMU.
I worked at a company that was officially based in Nebraska because they received some type of grant for hiring locally. They expanded to my larger metropolitan area in the south east to find reasonably priced developers but a larger pool.

That being said, I was speaking to my CTO about hiring and I asked him, why doesn’t he hire in the Nebraska office, it would be a lot cheaper. His reply was “not really”. I know in my metro area, salaries for your standard experienced software as a service CRUD developers (no insult intended - as a developer that’s what I am), were making between $125K-$155K pre-Covid. I can only assume they were making about the same in Kearney and Omaha Nebraska.

Whether you agree with it or not (and I don’t), companies looking for great developers usually want them to be able to pass an algorithm style interview. Can you do it?

Personally, I consider myself to be a pretty good enterprise developer/architect but I wouldn’t get past the first round of an algorithm heavy technical interview without lots of practice.
...the team she just called federal law enforcement on.

That's interesting, I didn't see it as reporting the other team to law enforcement. The law breaking was anticipated to be done by people outside government. The whole raise your right hand thing seemed weird (perhaps a formality) unless you think she was implicating specific people. In that case it makes more sense.
Heroes? Name one "powerful" person who is a hero in this pandemic. I can't think of any. Cuomo was quite effective with his daily briefings but made so many other basic mistakes before and after the core part of the NY "wave" that even that performance didn't turn him into a hero. I haven't see a single wise politician, let alone a hero, within the USA with regards to COVID19.
You're the only one calling anything stupid, I simply pointed out how selfishness arises from a well-known and well-developed perspective on the human mind (and how it interfaces with reality) and pointed to some contemporary discussions (with scientists) on the nature of compassion and how it has the potential to bring people together in a world that is struggling with divisiveness as it faces one collective struggle after another.

The book I recommended is particularly insightful as it probes into how a society such as South Africa can move forward after such heinous human rights violations as the apartheid era through forgiveness and compassion instead of revenge and retribution.
Building Zero Terminal, a Modular Raspberry Pi Computer
Do you think America isn’t looking at America like a trainwreck too?
Once you've entered the atmosphere, you're falling to earth whether you like it or not. As it stands now, you must execute every move in the procedure or you crash into the ground at 120mph and explode.
Neat! Have you actually done that? You wouldn't happen to have a design to use as a starting point?
New Zealand apparently had police on the streets.
And in turn most Americans don't know or care about the rest of the world.

It's been this way my entire (relatively long) life. The only new thing that is the last couple decades brought the internet where many of us can learn about what's going on out there.
> When the tech companies actually start censoring aggressively and hunting people down(rather than just removing enough to satisfy angry people), then sure.

You don't need the qualifier here. "Just removing enough to satisfy angry people" is mob rule, and is genuinely problematic, even if it's not on the same level as dissidents getting bags over their heads.
Just go. I’m off to Tulum Mexico, where hundreds/thousands of American digital nomads are spending covid time
> The challenge was to get to a window, quickly.

Incorrect. My challenge, that you responded to in an article about keyboard shortcuts was about using the keyboard. You failed miserably and your comment got disappeared for it. Try harder xP

> Funny, I enjoy watching the windows crowd alt-tab-tab-tab...

Sure, you can have newbs on any platform. The difference is that Windows and Windows-inspired desktop environments like XFCE are vastly more configurable than anything on a Mac - where it's Apple's way or the highway. You're stuck with Apple's choices unless you hack your OS with third party apps to fix them.

> Now you're playing with definitions to hide the fact that you were wrong.

You're wearing your ignorance like a badge of pride. Learn about UX if you don't understand the difference between searching and hunting. There's a world of difference.

> Not if you learn them.

That's my entire point. Windows shortcuts easily discoverable since they are clearly labeled; no weird symbols that don't exist anywhere on the keyboard and there are fewer of them since the same shortcuts work everywhere. Plus you can tab to focus everywhere instead of pushing a mouse pointer thousands of miles a year to get where you want.

> Personally, I love having emacs-style Ctrl+PN and Ctrl+FB navigation available everywhere...

And yet, you think constantly swapping between keyboard and mouse is "smooth". Makes sense!
You can use a trademark as long as it's clear that you are not the owner of the trademark.

Sometimes there's an argument that a competitor buying an ad would be infringing. But google's definitely not infringing. The layman would never see this link and think it means that google search is a service from nike.

Definitely extortive though!
Oh man does this bring me back! I used to view this list as such an aspirational goal.

Honestly though, if you want to become good theoretical physicist you pretty much need to go to grad school.
Schools Are Closing Not Because They Should, but Because They Can
There are hundreds of thousands sitting in US prisons who haven't been convicted because they can't post bail. There are judges being paid in the back by private prisons to convict and send innocent people to jail because it's good for business. US prison and justice system is completely broken.
> That's helpful as we Americans don't have much visibility into what it's actually like in Sweden.

I wish we had the technology to broadcast images from far away lands. Alas ..
Feasible in 10-25 years, IF there is no political turmoils, persistent calamities and foreign invasions. Recent 3 decades of positive progression doesn't really extrapolate well when it comes to China historically. Take a look at it's 5,000 years of civilization. Usually when into any succession dynasty, she frequently stagnate. If there are major calamities AND foreign invasions, the internal political struggles will initiate a dynastic change and balkanization. China frequently unite (now) and then breakup repetitively throughout the history.
SSH-lockbox: Personal centralised SSH key deployment to multiple boxes (and Git
>a spinning disk in my car

https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2014/04/record-play...

"The stylus did not jump the grooves even when the car was moving at various speeds over broken pavement, cobblestones, and deep holes."
I’m not in Silicon Valley - I’m on the opposite coast. I’m not talking about the difference between small town and SV. I’m more referring to moving from SmallTown, Nebraska to Omaha Nebraska where experienced developers wouldn’t usually accept $100K.

I moved from SmallTown southern United States four hours away to Metro City southern US for increased opportunities almost 25 years ago.
That was immediately where I went. I loved my little iPAQ back in high school.
$100k USD is $133k CAD and will get one some pretty decent talent in Canada -- especially outside of Toronto where rates are higher -- with the advantage of being in the same time zones, same linguistic-cultural nexus, and you won't have expensive American medical insurance benefits etc. Even better if you can offer annual bonuses and stock options.
Tesla had issues with manufacturing, like everybody. That is why there are not more car companies. But they have mastered this and massively improved each generations, go look at the tear down of the 3 and the Y. They have managed to make China Model 3 cheaper and have achieved pretty good margin.

They continue to innovate and have been strategically investing in becoming a battery provider and building and expanding factories in all the important markets.

And building EV at good margin is defiantly not a solved problem.
Stick a fork in it, it's done. Once a corporation starts lying to itself and employees are expected to participate, it's doomed. I agree that a breakup would be the best thing for the individual units at this point.
I would say, during this pandemic half-measures do not work. As an expat in Vietnam, I witnessed successful handling of the first wave. 3 months we were living like there's no virus, economy was reopen. Now the second wave, after the first case more than 10 thousand people were quarantined and intensive testing started over the country. My colleague was complaining, just several cases, why that overreacting. Next morning it was 35 cases, and after one more day there were 216 - and no more. Looks like second wave also contained. As practice showed, there are no "too tough" measures, if you want to stay safe during world pandemic.
Hard pass. I don’t think you need to be so critical of other technology. You have a different vision. That’s great. Focus on that. But you may find that some of the choices made by the other software designers had merit when you face problems from your choices.
> recovery from coronaplague is lengthy

This is simply not true in general. The vast majority of people who come down with covid have a minor illness, and many of them do not even realise what it was. I have three friends who had positive tests and no symptoms beyond those of the common cold. All of the available data supports this being the normal case, and serious complications being either a rare case of bad luck, or a result of underlying illnesses.

> a good amount of those discharged form hospital are looking at permanently reduced lung function

If you have any respiratory infection serious enough to put you in the hospital, you're probably looking at a longer recovery and possibly at long-term reduced lung function. But the relatively young & healthy mostly don't end up in hospital with covid, just as they don't end up in hospital when they get the flu.

Selecting only the most serious cases (hospital admissions) and talking about their outcomes is not useful for drawing general conclusions about the pandemic or the way countries have chosen to respond to it.
ah, the people that most germans refer to, poetically perhaps, as the "Covidioten".

it turns out that in Germany, as in the USA, there is a significant overlap between the Covidioten and right-wing/nationalist political groups, including even fringe groups that don't believe that the Third Reich actually ended. This gives rise to some good jokes within Germany.

Such as: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EeQm7ecXYAYv_ni.jpg
I'm by no means anti-vaccine, but I don't have any faith in a trump-led FDA not taking shortcuts to rush a vaccine in hopes that it'll preserve trump's reign. I won't take any vaccine that hasn't been through some other country's approval process that I can trust. Most likely, I'm looking for something with EU approval.
I am sure there are good people on both sides.
No, the modern computers aren't that fast. Try running a BFS over a large matrix in python and then in cpp. You'll understand why perf matters. I realised this during one of my college assignments.
It means that people who have no idea what science is like to pretend they have a deeper reason for their biases other than their innate preferences. They do not like that pointed out to them and will violently react to anyone who does.

You can't have a scientific response to the virus when you don't know what the asymptomatic transmission rate is, or what the true death rate is. As can be seen here it does not go well when they are made to even consider that they don't have all the information needed for a scientific response: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24077233
If I'm interpreting this series of graphs correctly, it's also assuming that social contact is uniformly distributed across the population (i.e. every person has an equal number of daily contacts). The less true that is, the fewer people need to be infected for herd immunity effects to become significant. We don't have good numbers on what the real distribution is, but there is growing evidence this is a significant effect.
That's why https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24084982 this sibling comment is upvoted, for talking about the systemic problem that you're mentioning.

The flagged parent comment is not talking about the actual problem, and is instead imagining some malicious nature in the googler's comment.
Random, but this made me think of the Big Daddy Kane line, "When my pen hits the paper, ahh shit".
Other search engines do use Google via an API.
I raise you the issue tracker Google Chrome uses. it's bad in every way.
Sony Vaio UX Micro PC (2006)
> Whether you agree with it or not (and I don’t), companies looking for great developers usually want them to be able to pass an algorithm style interview. Can you do it?

Considering I tutored people in college that went on to work at the FAANGS of the world, I would guess so.

But also I guess it doesn't terribly matter. I got off that treadmill a long time ago.
The comparison is fraught with problems due to the lack of immunity for COVID.

The "with shutdowns, masks and closed schools" line also assumes the effectiveness of all those measures, and ignores the glaring problem that they simply kick the can down the road -- there is no appetite for shutdowns and closed schools until the end of 2021, but a vaccine could easily take that long (if not longer) to be generally available -- assuming any of the current vaccine candidates work well. So what, exactly, is the plan?
Teachers Are Wary of Returning to Class, and Online Instruction Too
I don't commute. I get to live in the (more or less) country.
1 - "China vs America AI Race" by Eric “If you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear” Schmidt. (note: all AI requires "spying", a-la Tesla Autopilot, smart-watches etc)

2 - Eric Schmidt's Pentagon Offensive: "..through his own venture capital firm and a [$15] billion fortune, Mr. Schmidt has invested millions of dollars into more than half a dozen defense start-ups.. The former Google C.E.O. has reinvented himself as the prime liaison between Silicon Valley and the Military-Industrial Complex.

[1] https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/china-versus-am...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/02/technology/eric-schmidt-p...
Hashpower is rented these days. So the question becomes 'how much hashpower you need for how many days'. Which has a dollar value.

If you are verifying a transaction of a given value, you would be stupid not to wait the dollar value of the hashpower required to reverse the transaction. If you run a service and someone could sign up for multiple accounts, you should take that into account too...
Also, it's because people think like this we have electron apps for things as simple as note taking.
> 4000 blocks is also, I think, extremely deep into the chain. As I recall, bitcoin exchanges default to like 6 blocks before confirming?

This attack was against Ethereum Classic, which has a block time of 13 seconds. 4000 blocks ≈ 14 hours.
Oof. When will this "dark mode" fad end?!? Is this project made for edgy 14 year olds or actual professionals?

(Yes, yes. You can switch some of the site to light mode and, besides, you're an elite uber-hacker and white text on black background is totally easier on your eyes, and you always read everything like that since blahblahblahblahblah. Uh-huh. There's reasons we've been printing with black ink on white paper for 500 years.)
Living on that salary would be misery.

But I like talking to people and enjoyed interacting with customers and regulars.
> Your plain and confident statement "it is" doesn't really address any of my concerns...

Your concerns aren't really valid (for example, the computability of T is irrelevant). These are questions I already answered before on both HN and in the Disqus comments. Further, metalogic was my area of focus in school, so I'm quite familiar with intricacies here, and don't really feel it's useful to get too deep into the weeds. But don't take my word for it; Dr. Gusfield's paper (that the lecture is based on) can be found here: https://csiflabs.cs.ucdavis.edu/~gusfield/godelproofreviseda...

The ideas in this proof have been well-tread by Scott Aaronson, Peter Smith, and Michael Sipser. My curt "it is" is also meant to nip in the bud -- correct -- claims that it's not exactly what Godel proved (the OG variant is actually slightly stronger). Why I'd want to nip these in the bud is that in school, you technically learn the weaker variant (albeit starting with a Henkin construction of Godel's Completeness Theorem). Sort of like this[1]. But the difference between the two is so nuanced, it's not even really worth bringing up unless we're in a graduate seminar.

[1] https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00274564/document
> It's Spreadsheet 101 knowledge dating back many decades.

Astounding, I've literally never heard of this in the 20 years or so I've been using spreadsheets. I'll be using it from now on!
This was right decision to make. Gene names aren’t as important as being able to handle them properly. Names should be easily handled by software.
unmaintained since 2014?
> New study finds coronavirus can cut life span by 10 years or more

This is one of the worst headlines I've seen recently. The actual study measures years lost only of those that died. By that metric, if I cross the road today and get hit by a bus, the headline would be "crossing the road can cut life span by 40 years or more". There is zero valuable information in that headline.
I’m excited to try this. Are there plans for notification snooze/focus assist (windows) activation and deactivation management via Session? For me, the biggest pain point when focusing are externalities, not so much me personally drifting into web browsing.
> There's a slight uptick over the past week.

Any uptick at all is concerning. In fact, a flattening of the decline is concerning.

The implied thesis in the linked article is that Sweden has reached a level of herd immunity due to widespread T-cell responses, and that life in the country continues as normal.

If that is the case, then we would expect the infection curve in Sweden to follow a classic logistic model -- which is more or less symmetric. A rapid rise should be accompanied by a rapid fall.

An asymmetric curve or one that has a "second wave" of any size tends to refute this theory. It would suggest that there was in fact some meaningful intervention that changed: either the initial infection was among a different group (i.e., what the US saw with infections first dominated by New York and then later by other states) or there was an effective policy response that has begun to wane.
There will be movement, but my sense is it won't be massive. People move to cities for the network effect -- there's an energy you get from being close to other people who are doing interesting things. It affects its inhabitants even outside of work. It's addictive.

People who move to cities just for work and who are on the edge may elect to move out.

But I was born in a city, grew up in the suburbs, lived in small university towns and now I'm in a big city again. I think I'll always want to live in a city -- or at the very least in any outlying cosmopolitan areas with easy access to the city core. COL be damned -- I'll make it happen, even if I have to live in a smaller space.
> Isn't server-side code required to ensure the data you're getting from the client is legit.

In this model, the client must validate the data before it puts it into the data store, and again when it gets it out of the data store (since the data could have been put there by a malicious/modified client)
Julia feels like a good replacement for Matlab, but then Matlab have Simulink, is there any project to create something like Simulink but for Julia?
Yeah, trying to standardize this seems like it would quickly turn into one of those "things people believe about time" rabbit-holes of edge cases and differences.

Even inside a single company I get scared now when someone says "if only we had just one standard way to handle this sort of thing"... if it's rarely simple for just one company, how would it work globally?