skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Over the past few months tens of thousands of high-income workers have been told they can WFH forever, and an above average house in most of the country looks awfully cheap compared to SF house on SV salaries.
I do this anyways. Why would I pay postage to have something brought to a distribution center 20 miles away, wait a few days, then brought back to my town to get delivered to town hall when I can literally walk there and drop it off for free?
Clear Channel billboards to start tracking mobile phones in Europe
USA might be better for startups than else where (I have no idea), but it's definitely gotten objectively worse since the 70s, measured by number of companies started every year, number of publicly traded companies, and so forth.

IMHO, universal healthcare and childcare would indirectly lead to a lot of new startups.
Not that the specification for the Web is less complex than that of PDF...
Yeah, this seems like the obvious next step. No need to worry about ruining your account's standing if you've already closed it, and the chargeback should hopefully alert someone at Google to look into your status.

Just don't try to use that card number to sign up for any other Google product.

On the other hand, that charge might just be the outstanding balance when you cancelled, so it might be legit.
Yes I totally agree with both of your comments. I wanted to change the topic of conversation to the point the parent made. Maybe I should have replied to parent with that point. Thanks for showing me that site!

I still want to know if anyone thinks the parent's skepticism of climate change models is/isn't warranted given the fact that the scientific research community (epidemiologists, virologists, and scientists generally [AFAIK]) basically aligned completely with the view that anything other than extreme responses to Covid would end in disastrous ruin by generating and pointing to these models. I want to be clear that I am not questioning the science of climate change here, but how do we know that the models we rely on to predict the future effects of climate change will be accurate? Could Covid really be an indicator that the scientific community is the boy who cried wolf? I'm not saying I think that, but I don't know enough to completely discredit the position.
Yes, Bed Bath & Beyond has had these for years.
People are using Facebook and Instagram as search engines
"contributed to increased car traffic" = "lots of people use it"
It's not that hard.

Some regulations have low cost and high benefit. They should be kept.

Others have high cost and low benefit. They should be removed or reformed.
Tom Stoppard's Arcadia (2009)
Are you referring to the fabless bunch whose name starts with M and ends with ediaTek? :)
just to make your point even stronger, the median is not affected by the highest wages _at all_.
Show HN: Convenient self-education through books. Is it possible?. LearnBay
Every time when I am trying to learn any topic through books, I am looking for books’ selections that can help me to handle a topic and every time I encounter the same problems:

1)The majority of books’ selections is subjective

2) In order to make them objective, I should spend a bunch of time on analyzing a lot of selections, on searching the best books on the selections, on understanding why should I read the book and where I can apply what I read, and finally - reading a huge number of reviews - all these steps take me several hours to complete.

3) If I do not make them objective, I often waste money and time on shitty books.

I asked my friends, and do you know what? Of course, you know what, they have the same problems.

Therefore, I decided to create an app that can help me, my friends, and other people, who want to get structured and modern knowledge using the books.

The app brings together the best books. They are all organized by topics. Also, each book has a structured description to help you understand what is in the book and why to read it.

Why is it objective???

Our team analyzes information from all over the internet. Dozens of articles, videos, hundreds of reviews, plenty of conversations with professionals on forums. Thus, you get the most objective books’ selections.

If you like the idea – download the app and try it, maybe you will find something useful for yourself.

The app is in the MVP stage; therefore, I ask everyone who is interested in the development of this idea to give feedback in the comments on google play or here. Any suggestions and criticism.

If we unite ideas, we can make self-education convenient and better.

LINK ON GOOGLE PLAY -- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.LearnBay.LearnBay
Correlation is not necessarily causation.
Reminder that your "regulations" are often my "protections".
Interesting observations, but I don’t understand why you distinguish between PDF and hypertext, since of course PDF can contain hypertext.
A conspiracy to kill IE6 (2019)
The best hope is (a) social pressure to attend class, with (b) class costs plummeting due to logistics and competition.

However, the glut of supply may make it hard for people to cluster together into classes
I found a box of old floppies... the media had become unglued from the metal center ring. Maybe other brands use better glue to make them bulletproof, these were not.
> Hell, the hardest bit was climbing a cliff with a 15ft mast and a sledgehammer on my back.

How much did you charge for that?

DIY is a lot cheaper if you can do lots of professional specialised jobs to a lower safety and quality standard without any money changing hands..
Only slightly surprised; domains where failure is really expensive aren't likely to experiment with technologies. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

I read something similar about the computers that control the US nuclear arsenal: They're extremely primitive and can only be updated by floppy disks.
Maybe forward to PG who seems to be veering into Peter Thiel territory lately. Might remind him why startups are even a thing he can brag about to AOC.
Quickly Create a Full-Stack Web App in TypeScript
Please don't take HN threads on generic ideological tangents. They are extremely repetitive and predictable and usually turn nasty. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

It's remarkable how well this thread managed to avoid going that way overall. The distinction in comment quality is striking. Compare this comment to, say, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24107624 or many others in the thread.
even further - since the first part says what figure is moved, based on the current state - it can tell what are the possible states (in bits), and only expect that amount of bits that follow. - at the end it'll be just bag of bytes, that need to be URL encoded. Probably something that can fit in a long URL (max 2048 chars?)
I’m good with both in this case it would be more like enterprise app and I’m not sure how can i integrate a front end framework with this such as vue or react
The Trump administration was/is in a no win situation. The democrats are intent on getting Trump out of office one way or another. Had he tried more on the national level, they would have fought him tooth and nail until the data indicated they had no choice and we would still be in this situation. When Trump issued the travel ban, the narrative was Trump was using the virus to invoke fear and distract from his impeachment. Well, it looks like they were wrong.
I'd be interested to see them bootstrap a CPU from scratch.

Ingredients:

- Soil

- Seeds

- Salt water

- Rare-earth mines

- ???
Free software in this essay means software that respects your freedom. Not "Gratis".

So every company has the right to charge you for their software but once you acquire it you can use it however you wish.
evolution works by culling the unfit to survive

No it doesn't. Evolution occurs due to change in allele frequency in a population over time. Relative death rate of certain organisms in a given environment is certainly a mechanism for this change in frequency, but it is not necessary for evolution to occur.
But at least in some places, officials are pushing to reopen schools amid all this. A couple schools have already opened, with the result you’d expect.

So for me, the yelling about people having parties rings hollow.
I'm sorry. Thank you for pointing it out.
What I find so crazy about America's response is that it's been totally all over the place with half-measures. America shut down 50% of the economy instead of 90% like European countries -- enough to devastate the economy, but leave COVID unscathed. Then, many people started to go outside anyways, giving COVID more gas, which then triggered them to go back into the 50% lockdown state that wasn't doing anything anyways.

This meant the end result was a devastated economy AND full-on COVID, worse than anywhere on Earth other than Brazil.

You can make a case for a full-on economic shutdown, like the Europeans, Australians, New Zealanders and even to a lesser extent Canadians. It seemed to work out there.

You can make a case for leaving the economy open like Sweden did, knowing they'd potentially have to pay a penalty in lives greater than countries that got a vaccine before everyone caught it -- and they are down to zero deaths now too. Sweden didn't shut down and COVID is done for them now. A total of 6,000 deaths for a population of 10,000,000.

But what you can't make a case for is HALF shutting down the economy -- not enough to let people make money, and not enough to stop the virus, and not really paying people enough to stay home, but somehow more than they were making anyways. That's literally the worst of all worlds. Devastated economy. Many dead people. It's a global embarrassment.
From what I've read (and there's no shortage of opinion and new facts floating around), indoor transmission is the bigger issue. The explosion in cases in the south is linked to reopenings of bars, restaurants, etc, and indoor crowds; whereas the protests (outdoors) caused relatively little movement in case numbers in those states.

This is consistent with recent findings of the virus being "airborne" (for various definitions of the word airborne) - indoor, poorly ventilated spaces are much worse than outdoor spaces, which have both UV and circulating air.

Otherwise, I agree with you about the window being slammed shut. Turning it around now would require political willpower and coordination that the US simply doesn't have.
> I think the pi is not particularly power efficient.

While there might be efficiency gains available, RPIs use a very small amount of power compared to a laptop. Idling a RPI4 uses 2.8 watts[0], which not only rates favorably compared to most laptops, but is far below what my charging cell phone uses. Maxed out my RPI can only hit 15W, since that's the maximum power that my official USB C adapter can output.

Now that being said, it does depend on what kind of load you're expecting to handle. If you're constantly maxing out a RPI, it is probably more energy efficient to purchase a larger server than to just keep adding RPIs. But if you're staying well below the theoretical max of a RPI, it'll consume far less than a used laptop.

> I think the pi would benefit from a more robust filesytem layout such as an overlay filesystem to allow continuous writes to /var to go to ramdisk.

This is one of the biggest drawbacks of the RPI; microSD cards cannot handle a ton of writes without frying. I've settled on using log2ram to ensure that logs are only periodically flushed from RAM to the SD card, to extend the lifespan of my cards.
I’ll reply to this since I cannot reply to the sibling comment - but Medicare for all is not an actually popular or feasible idea. The polls that show support for Medicare for all have wording you the effect of “would you like free healthcare?”. Support quickly drops once polls start asking about the real trade offs that would have to be made in order to actually afford this change in healthcare, and the tax hikes needed to make it work.

Trying to pass off m4a as a feasible plan isn’t real, so it’s supporters all cling to support that a magical free plan would garner. They don’t actually have a plan to make it feasible, nor do they take the time to explain that part to their followers.
Ask HN: Why was the Guardian story on police sexual abuse in Phoenix flagged?
Specifically:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24112154
> They just think that if no one is doing well, then they're equal with everyone else.

A great deal of human existence is comparing yourselves to others, and exalting youself over everyone else when possible. If you can't be better than them at least you can take consolation they're equally miserable.
I wish a service existed.
Democratic reform was cancelled before the communists took power. Read the paragraph before the one you just posted.

> In 1946, shortly after the war, critical voices were raised against colonialism. Governor Sir Mark Young proposed a 48-member Municipal Council with significant competence to govern, one-third elected by non-Chinese, one third by Chinese institutions and one-third by Chinese individuals, known as the "Young Plan", believing that, "to counter the Chinese government's determination to recover Hong Kong, it was necessary to give local inhabitants a greater stake in the territory by widening the political franchise to include them."[9] The reform failed because of much resistance from expatriate companies, a new conservative and mistrustful governor, and London's fears of Hong Kong becoming a political battleground between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China (CPC).
I work in this industry, and this does not match the data we're seeing. People are eager to get back to certain on-site experiences, especially on the boutique/expensive side where the in-person class/instructor camraderie is very important. Also certain genres of fitness (think: cycling, F45, etc) require expensive equipment which is non-trivial to have in your house.

Data on countries that have re-opened (like Australia) is showing that it's they will quickly reach or exceed pre-pandemic levels as long as they take some safety measures.
Thanks, quite relevant though over 40 years old.

This is a pretty accurate representation of how people felt about the phone company back then. Being able to easily talk to people all over the world was amazing and the technology was appreciated. However, still prior to the mandatory breakup in the early 1980s, customer service was often a bit of a joke.
Oh you are right - dumb me - was thinking in presence, rather than values - yes, only 6 bits... duh.. feel stupid now :)

Thanks!!!
That might be part of the problem. :)

Really though I might not be using the best term, esp. with the definition of hypertext being one of those things that's a little historic now. I'm mostly just comparing between print formats and formats where layout is done by the viewer to reflect user preferences (which is kind of a dead concept with HTML anyway, but...)
Although the topic is flameprone and the title arguably baity (no narrative fits all facts), the discussion in this thread is so good—at least in its best parts—that I've turned off flags on the submission. Thanks to everyone posting in the intended spirit of HN: thoughtful, curious conversation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
He said he set up 2FA and then lost the "corporate device" providing it.

This is why you always set up backup codes. The 2FA is doing its job here keeping the account safe from someone who doesn't have the token, which unfortunately is the account holder.
wondering if there is current scheme for encoding history like this in an URL?
To this day I wonder if consciousness is needed, or a hindrance for intelligence. That is that SF is all about, raising and play with these kind of questions. Can truly recommend Blindsight.
It's handy.
You can apply schemas and force integers although. You also have typed serialization formats such as protobuf.
Scroll with vim keys in Safari Reader Mode.
Alarm as pesticides spur rapid decline of US bird species
How did that George Carlin joke go?
Garbage in, garbage out.
Very long if you're careful to not write to the SD card too much. Mine got turned off mostly when I accidentally unplugged it from my desk.
The UPS was reporting as green. Not so much you can do when the hardware is lying to you.
I wonder if it's really about that. My guess would rather be that they're trying everything they can to boost the economy for a political advantage. Anyone that comes after them that reintroduces regulations will likely see a reduction (or a smaller increase) in the economy, which would allow them to regain power.
Just deploy a new region with no ops support, it'll quickly become that.
Doesn't this imply that the regulation could never have been passed in the first place?
Not sure what’s worse: app generators leaving you with tones of unmentainable code or hard dependency on VScode.
You can actually reply to comments, there's just a timeout period where the reply button is hidden (to discourage quick/dismissive replies).
Faith in Freedom Markets™, in this case employer / employee relations, are rooted in a few easily dismissed misconceptions:

- markets are efficient

- people are rational

- everyone has perfect information

- there are no power imbalances

Aside: Do you play poker? I've started to wonder if Freedom Markets™ advocates are familiar with that kind of meta thinking.
I'd consider this an absolute method of last resort for any of the large integrated providers like Amazon/Google/etc. There are reports where people have done seemingly legitimate chargebacks and while they get their money back, they also get all their myriad accounts closed that are associated with Amazon and new accounts made with work emails/etc also get closed.

Chargebacks seem to be appropriate when you truly no longer want to do any future business at all with a particular company - it might not be limited to just "G suite" or "GCP", or "AWS" or "Amazon", but the whole conglomeration.

Obviously YMMV, I'm sure people have had divergent experiences with this. I've always personally been able to get things resolved eventually through chat/email/phone, but I trust that not everyone has the same luck I do.
> phone-to-tower is maybe 50ms

Maybe 50 microseconds, not 50 milliseconds. 1/1000th of what you assumed.

Towers are typically up to a few miles away in dense areas; they don't work well beyond 15-20 miles from the cell phone.

Waves go 186,000 miles (or 300,000 km) per second. Assuming a 10 miles distance from phone to station, it takes ~25 microseconds to do the trip, which is ~50 roundtrip.

So, in other words: latency is NOT affected by 5G much.
Yeah, you can see this spelled out more in the block diagrams. Kinda looks like the operands are aliased on the program memory ROM, but I'm not 100% on that.
https://streamable.com/erlsy6

I rest my case
Darktable 3.2.1 Released
You are right to point out that such places don't exist. But it's worth remembering that the US was wealthy (and increasingly so) long before Keynes dressed up playground fairness as an academic discipline. Rich societies enable the existence of big government, not the other way around.
Instead of deleting the pages, why not premise them with something like "This page may contain outdated information" after some timeout condition? It seems like this solution would really solve this problem...

In general, what's worse than having outdated information is having information vanishing, so that you have no way of validating how appropriate it is. Out of date information, whilst not spelling out the correct process, may give you an idea of the steps involved.

Anyway to implement this you would probably do something like:

git log -n 1 dir/file

Check the date, if it's larger than some amount and grep doesn't show some existing warning, throw a warning in the header of the file.
Oh absolutely. And there's no shortage of pretty blatant examples to boot, people just conveniently avoid thinking about it. See East Timor for example.

We have yet to fully step out of barbarism and into modernity as a species.
I can't imagine how this is going to work with the GDPR in place? How should someone give their consent to this data collection and how do you remove it again?
Either (a) death of the unfit or (b) inability of the unfit to reproduce are the core drivers of evolution. They're the negative feedback.

[edit] Rather, not the core drivers but the core direction-setters.
In some sense all governments are the same. Any government trying to create a great firewall will use the same kind of propagandistic, utopian-seeming verbiage and metaphors.
The one I bought uses standard NEMA cords and outlets: "CyberPower PDU15M10AT Metered ATS PDU" https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00NEHUX08/ — it’s overkill for my use case but was the smallest option I could find. I don't have any of the control modules (provide snmp/http APIs).
This may be harder to do, because dang is doing most of the lifting, but it may be advantageous to shift these comments to a link that has the arxiv or nature link. In that way we wouldn't be supporting these clickbait type of articles. But depends if HN wants to take a stance in that fight, clearly this is difficult for users to do (because we are in essence priming the well).

I also do appreciate the domain knowledge that HN has over many other forums and there's the old adage "they best way to get an answer is to post the wrong one." I was able to come to the HN comments and get: the arxiv link, the abstract, and both a high level and mid level explanation of the content. Seems pretty effective to me.
Sorry, clarification; I have 2 Echos where one had >500MB upload while another had 300MB. Here's a snapshot:
https://imgur.com/a/8EIFDA0
An Open Source OS can help, sure, and is a start. A DSP is a programmable hardware device. Both phones to which you linked use variants of ARM processors and then use third-party baseband systems. You're not getting rid of closed-source hardware vulnerabilities by replacing Android or iOS.
The point stands: you don't know what mass media events are coming up, hence you don't know what the devil will do next.
It's hard to say for sure, but at the moment it looks like ~10-15% of class-based locations will not re-open due to business failure? So that's not a dramatically reduced supply, and additionally a lot of these places weren't sold-out to begin with (except in say NYC or LA where popular classes have waitlists). I personally think the desire to be social + in/person will soon exceed people's concerns re: safety, especially in areas where the COVID rates are low.
Is there any difference between "Two GPT-3s" and "one" GPT-3? It's the same generative model accessed via API calls.
That is all speculation. The council you are talking about has no teeth, and there are many members that aren't "snowflakes."
> Sweden didn't shut down and COVID is done for them now, too.

Whoa, I don't think it's safe to say that it's done anywhere. Just look at Melbourne, for an example of an outbreak in a country that supposedly had COVID19 under control.

Otherwise though, yes, the half measures in the US - and the limited compliance with even those half measures in many states/regions, has set up the US for a worst of all worlds scenario.
Does Tesla super-chargers and fast-chargers ruin the battery?
The Swedish approach sadly wouldn't work for the US. Our heathcare system is too inefficient to support it.
The only thing that makes sense to me is that these politicians believe they are living in the end times. Whether that's theological end times, environmental end times, or political end times is up for debate, but nothing they do seems to have any kind of sustainability to it. They expect to be dead or out of power soon and are squeezing every last drop while they still can.