skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think smaller companies and startups like people who can be generalists when needed.

My general advice for promotions is to make your bosses and coworkers like you. The only way to get power and money is to make the people who have power and money want or need to give some to you.
Yes, face is the most important part of most video.

80% of the intellectual content of most telepresence is transmitted via audio. That's why when your local TV news goes to a live cross and there's no sound, they go back to the studio until the audio is fixed.
While I agree wholeheartedly with the sentiment of having a single last mile connection to each home, IMHO I think giving the government a role is a really bad idea. As a FTTH engineer that has deployed millions of feet of last mile optical fibers, I can tell you government is clueless as to how best do this (as I might add are the MSO's). The majority of small FTTH ISP's have received funding through the USDA RUS, which has specific engineering requirements. Those requirements are prehistoric and dramatically inflate the cost of deployment. For example, one of the better topologies is to implement fast spanning tree to each home over 2 route-diversified connections back to a municipal ring. This dramatically reduces cost vs a star topology build-out (typically endorsed by RUS), and increases fault tolerance. The RUS estimates cost per home well in excess of $1,800 while it is possible to reduce that to well under $1,000 using appropriate engineering. One of the big problems is that most larger organizations (e.g. MSO's) have separate departments for physical networking (buried/aerial cable) and for Ethernet networking (spanning tree etc). As these departments do not communicate well at the design/planning stage, they do not enjoy engineering economies. The MSO's actually believe quite sincerely that their cost of FTTH is at least an order of magnitude higher than it is - they are just plain wrong.
Ridiculous that it takes a legal battle for Uber to offer these customer and driver friendly features
To get videos and articles to the media, put redundant copies on USB thumb drives and hide them in different places in the city. Tell different reporters different locations to pick up the drives. Do not tell any single news agency more than one location in the event they are compromised. Ensure you are not seen hiding them. Thumb USB drives are very cheap and disposable.

To stay connected to each other, set up your own self hosted email servers. Email is old but is well designed for this. It is also easier to set up than IRC and does not depend on real time communication. Mail servers will queue messages and retry periodically. Look for "HOW-TO: Dovecot Postfix". Set up self hosted mail servers inside your country and configure them to relay to external sites using HAM, Satellite, whatever you can get your hands on. Even better, see if you can find obscure forms of internet that have not been blocked. Dial-up for example. It isn't fast, but will relay emails and small attachments just fine. Mail servers will queue messages and retry periodically. Adjust attachment limits on your email servers and let your friends know what that limit is. Use your own domains. Ensure that you configure your mail servers to enforce TLS, or at least enforce it for domains that you know use TLS. Most important, increase the retention time of the mail spool so that the server will keep trying to send messages for a month instead of a week. Get multiple accounts on mail servers hosted in other countries that your mail server can authenticated and relay through. This eliminates the need for things like FCrDNS, DMARC, etc... on your server. A dial-up will do just fine. Read up on how to use postfix header checks to sanitized email headers so that your users IP addresses are not exposed.

One advantage of self hosted email servers is that anyone inside your country that can reach the server can communicate directly to each other through that server. Nothing has to leave the country and can not be censored. Be sure to encrypt the mail and spool folders.

For trusted circles of friends, especially those responsible for maintaining servers, ensure they create and share PGP keys. There are how-to's for this as well. Create code phrases that mean different things, so that you can tell others if you have been compromised.
>Viable SARS-CoV-2 in the air of a hospital room with COVID-19 patients

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.03.20167395v...
Belarus election: Police use live fire on protesters in Brest
First off, very cool tool. README looks nice, demo looks nice, website looks nice, code quality looks nice, and in general the whole "product" aspect of it looks very good.

My main concern is that your competitive advantage seems to be that you are a free /open core chat tool, but this advantage also attracts many bad customers. They'll want a chat tool that features-wise rivals a competing (paying) platform, but also with the added twist that, by being somewhat open-source, they'll also want support for their weird edge case setup that you didn't consider ("Why won't this work on a Raspberry PI?", "Can I use this on my company's intranet?", "Do you work on Windows 3.1?", etc etc).

You'll add in more features and support for these things, only to find the rabbit hole going deeper and deeper -- and identifying the customers that are actually willing to pay becomes harder and harder as you have to filter out a lot of the low-quality requests.

To help with filtering, you can push people to the hosted version where they have to pay, but now you've lost the competitive advantage -- and have to compete with the many other chat tools in the space.

I think there's still a lot of room here, in the same way that Gitlab carved out a huge niche from Github, but those would be my main concerns.
Twitter launches new API as it tries to make amends with third-party developers
Testing Compilers More Thoroughly by Being Less Conservative About UB [pdf]
I don't think that is fair - I've seen the argument being made in other places than the link OP provided.

e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24133975
Oh true! I've definitely read that definition before but I guess I just internalized it with a lossy interpretation. :) Thanks for reminding me what it was really about!
> This being any faster than Pandas is a huge compliment to Julia the language in general and its JIT compiler in particular.

Indeed. This 'whole stack under the same language' is an important feature to have. You get to reap the advantages of an improved JIT. End to end autodiff is easier. Some of these things are a problem, for example, in PyPy because of the Python <-> C bridge.
You can treat it that way you want but it's not going to wind up with UBI looking good.

On the economic side:

Huge sectors of the economy being shut down or running at reduced efficiency for possibly a year or more are basically the apocalypse for UBI because any UBI that is more than temporary fundamentally relies on the surplus generated by the working to support the non-working. UBI needs money going in to balance the money going out and the pandemic severely constrained the in-flow.

On the social side:

Almost nobody is going back to school, pursing the arts or any of the other good things they're supposed to start doing at scale when relieved (in full or part) of the need to work because of the pandemic. What they are doing more is drinking silver bullets after an exhausting day of setting off fireworks (a form of recreation I fully endorse). That's not exactly the vision of what people will do in their free time most UBI proponents seem to have.

Normal times with the occasional financial panic or bust in select industry are a much better argument for UBI than the current pandemic.
Windows 95 styled mobile interface
Iran has an organ market and his has been a large success and has a very low rate of regret.
Not only did it fail replication studies (as most psychology experiments do), but on a model analysis level it vastly oversimplifies things. The mind is a lot more complicated than growth vs. fixed mindset.

https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1283631188608004097?s=2...
Github: https://github.com/arturbien/React95#react95
I spoke too soon. I missed a step in the instructions. It's not working as expected. I'm gonna have to try again. Combining things from that gist and using some bits from here: https://gist.github.com/mikroskeem/0a5c909c1880408adf732ceba...
Exactly. And given that many who have had covid-19 have permanent damage and/or longterm ongoing symptoms it's best to try to minimize the number of people who get it before a vaccine becomes available. A significant number of people with longterm disability caused by covid-19 would also damage the economy.
> Well the waiting period might be useful when going from zero to one right?

Absolutely. I was more getting at why wait 10 days for your second gun... or 12th...

> And, the federal government isn't permitted to run a gun ownership registry[1], so the DOJ api

The DOJ check is with your local state, and many states such as California do keep a registry. For the states that don't have a registry, bringing in paperwork from your most recently purchased firearm, showing the registration to yourself, would be sufficient.

> firearms dealers have to record purchases on paper and keep the records for a significant amount of time, and respond to requests for data

In order for the DOJ to know which dealer to ask for records, they have to know where you bought the gun.
> Beijing-owned social media app could serve as an “entry-point” for Chinese hackers

Is ByteDance a public company? Why would it be written like this? No one says that Amazon is a "Seattle-owned" company.

edit: Maybe the downvoters can clarify? As a non-native English speaker I may have misunderstood the meaning of the mentioned term. Is it common to refer to companies in that way?
Or the insects are learning...
Thanks for the note on the typo, I've fixed it.

I'm happy to add other auth providers to our docs. Shoot me a note (trey@) with the instructions and I'll add it in.

Many developers want to have their integration catalog match the look and feel of the rest of their application, or they have additional configuration for their integrations outside of what Xkit provides. In these cases, building their own custom catalog using xkit.js makes the most sense.

Zapier is a tool focused on the user of SaaS products (e.g. I want to connect my Google Sheets account to my Mailchimp account). Xkit is made for developers (e.g. I want the users of my brand new CRM tool to be able to pull in data from Google Sheets).

Many developers start out by just adding a Zapier integration and telling their customers to hook up to other tools themselves. However, many companies find that having those integrations be native (rather than going through Zapier) is helpful with both sales and activation, not to mention the increased level of control you have. We're helping developers build those types of integrations.
Exactly, what the grandparent post suggests would be a really bad business move and is unlikely.
There's nothing in particular "wrong" with it but it has missing features with tradeoffs.

Try searching for certain amenities that you might need when traveling with younger kids, or trying pinpointing exact locations, and you won't be able to.

There are certainly reasons they use regions rather than addresses, that I do not dispute.
Francisco D'Anconia's Money Speech - Atlas Shrugged (poor quality): https://youtu.be/u-T0ey0IKDA
I like the art, not a fan of the text boxes not having white backgrounds when editing but I get the stylistic choices.

Interesting approach to mind mapping, limiting by # of cards seems like it encourages large cards though. Could you do a time based trial instead? Or limit collaboration/public for paid plans?

I was concerned about the performance a large graph would have when I toggled filters on/off on my iPhone and it took about a second for each change to apply (that’s with < 20 cards). If someone really used this they’d end up with thousands.
> Do you use Google or Facebook or Twitter?

No I don't. I actively refuse to use these surveillance services.
Would it make a difference if the maximum clock you can drive the cycle-accurate Z-80 is hundreds of times higher than actual hardware?
Health experts: Covid-19 could cause lasting heart complications for athletes
Uber app is very hyperlocal because each location has different requirements/challenges especially around fare calculation, taxes and levies, how the app works in CA is very different from London and different from New York. The Driver app in CA was reworked on extensively during Q4 2019 in response to AB5 in order to strengthen the Uber case that it is essentially a platform that matches riders to drivers. Internally those changes can be rolled out to all cities in the U.S. if the AB5 tide goes beyond CA, but to be honest no one knows if those changes will make the case for Uber or not, they are the proverbial canary in the coal mine.
> Otherwise, it is another "rewrite it in rust" post which is yet to materialise into a real project.

I'm not sure you can reasonably said that "it is another 'rewrite it in rust' post..." if it's coming from a QEMU maintainer.

Besides, before starting a large engineering project like this, it's worthwhile to write a high-level proposal _then_ write code. Saves you a lot of wasted effort!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24133342
Taxi drivers are almost always 1099 as well... So have they basically killed on call transportation for CA?
The screenshot looks a good deal like any other Android device, but with Edge instead of Chrome.

Is this Microsoft's first Android device?
I appreciate your nuanced reply, and I wholeheartedly agree with the spirit of your observations. I am not propounding the view that lockdowns are or would be beneficial, nor even dismissing claims that they might be mentally challenging. I’m just rankled by the dismissive tone of OP and maybe I’ve become hypersensitive to some of the crazy conspiracy-theory-level stuff that’s been going around.

I’m from Italy, though I was in Malta during the time of the latter’s lockdown, so I had it easy while also being intimately exposed to the consequences of one of the West’s harshest and earliest clampdowns. It’s not an experience I would wish on anybody and it’s something I really really hope won’t happen again.

But by analogy to another famously exponential process, when the neutron flux gets frisky you have to damn the consequences to the the power grid and scram in the control rods into the reactor while you still have time to do so. People will suffer mentally, but at least they shall mostly live to tell the tale...

I have not forgotten that house arrest exists and that it is a form of punishment. Restricting mobility most definitely is literally restrictive and the trade-off of public health and rights & freedoms should not be taken lightly. Governments literally ‘grounded’ their citizenry for months on end. It’s not quite as unprecedented as we think (the same policy was widely used during the Spanish Flu pandemic, once it was publicly admitted to be an issue after the War ended).
Your comment made me remember the book Cognition in the Wild:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/cognition-wild
Translation: We're pouting until we get what we want
It's a commitment device.

Sometimes it can be beneficial to you to remove your own options- if you can prove to others that you've removed that option.

For example, look at the prisoners' dilemma. If both prisoners were able to commit, ahead of time, to not defect, this would be better for both prisoners. By removing a choice, and proving you have removed that choice, you actually get a better outcome than what would be possible if you could choose to defect.

This applies in asymmetric situations, too, like contract negotiations given a significant imbalance of bargaining power. It can be beneficial to the worker to, say, prevent themselves from ever agreeing to work in unsafe conditions, even if the boss offers extra pay for it (which the worker might want).

Thus selling organs, or selling your children to "adoptive" parents. It's not about somebody else having "authority"- it's about you intentionally burning bridges, provably pre-committing, removing the "choice" to do things which, on a societal level, could be harmful.
Typo in the headline missing the 'e' in The
At least in many of the European studies I've seen, the numbers point to a 75% decline in flying insect mass over the past 30 years.

Certainly a whole lot of the loss has at least been in the post-war period.
AB5 is hitting such franchises pretty hard too.
> To use your example - if you're writing a book as your full time job and, after 12 months, haven't finished the first page of your manuscript, it would make sense to seriously reconsider whether or not you should be writing that book.

Hopefully no one shows this comment to George RR Martin...
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> The drivers are outside of Uber's business. Uber is a software and technology company, not a taxi service.

That is some serious mental gymnastic.
The host backing it is a ramnode vps in NL?
We are not free to post certain things on social media.
We are not free to move wherever we want to go.
We are not free to protest without being harmed.

Those 3 things are proofs that there is no free world.
Desperation doesn't mean it's good.
The idea of raising money to speed up high quality execution instead of raising money to add “months of runway" is a powerful re-framing IMO. One of those reframes that sounds so simple one may overlook how different these two mindsets are, and how easy and tempting it is to fall into thinking about "months of runway".

I'd argue that general point is the most important idea in this article. Unfortunately I think the discussion on that more general point may get drowned out by the discussion of the weaker (and not as widely applicable) secondary idea in the title — raising less money.
Thanks for sharing your experience. Really valuable to me and many others on here. A question and a quibble if that's OK:

> what the medication is doing is strengthening the neural connections, so that executive function becomes a habit, to the point where you don't need it. If you do it right 50% of people with ADHD won't need it.

I had understood that this only applied to children who are young enough to have developmental neuroplasticity. Is your understanding different? Appreciate your steer as it sounds like something you have understood in more detail than me.

Quibble:

> people with real ADHD

I don't think you mean to, but this is a little clumsy. As you say in the previous sentence, ADHD is a wide spectrum. You can have ADHD but function, there is no "real" ADHD, only various degrees of severity.
That's pretty interesting! In my view, the set your own fare part and penalty removal definitely moves them from the "employee" zone to "self-employed" in the everyday definition.

I guess AB5 is much more strict.
> If you’re doing badly, why would you want to keep working on this for 24 or 36 months?

Doesn't this run exactly contrary to the prevailing YC wisdom that "those who stay in the game are those who win?"

While pivoting in search of P/M fit, every startup is doing badly — until they're not.

Would you really suggest to pack it in after 12 months without traction or luck? Instead of pivoting and adapting? How many of YC's Top 100 wouldn't exist today if they operated by that advice?
My point is that the kinds of CRUD and spreadsheet manipulation tasks that most people who don't work at a screen all day need to do on a screen can be done over a trivially tiny pipe if that pipe is used with at least a token amount of efficiency.
Because sometimes a software project has specific problems which Rust specifically address.

(Not that I'm personally a big fan of all these call to rewrite in Rust posts, there's a reason the Rust subreddit discourages ”X should be rewritten in Rust” posts)
> but the alternative is investing in static analysis for C code,

Yeah, the author explicitly acknowledges that:

> Eliminating C programming bugs does not necessarily require switching
programming languages. Other approaches to reducing bug rates in
software include:

> Coding style rules that forbid unsafe language features.

> Building safe abstractions and prohibiting unsafe language features or library APIs.

> Static checkers that scan source code for bugs.

> Dynamic sanitizers that run software with instrumentation to identify bugs.

> Unit testing and fuzzing.

> The problem is, the QEMU community has been doing these things for
years but new bugs are still introduced despite these efforts. It is
certainly possible to spend more energy on these efforts but the
evidence shows that bugs continue to slip through.
The hash won't be the same, which is what matters the most.

They won't have people manually reviewing the punctuation to catch infringement, and it's highly probable that Evince printing to PDF will mess the whole internal structure, so it's hard to automate it.
Is the US government at all capable of taking on this role though? They apparently already wasted $400 Billion in contracting out broadband upgrades to telecom companies who pocketed the money and never delivered, and then everyone just forgot about it and moved on.

I try to be an optimistic person, but years and decades of gridlock and getting nothing done in the US is definitely wearing on me. There are so many things in this same category, of "We have Big Problem X", here's what research has shown works and doesn't work, here's how other countries are doing it more successfully, here's a very clear solution - but no, we'll just talk about it on and off every few months or years and then let inertia win and never actually do anything.
I guess an important thing is that they hunt in this environment (in which clams also do just fine). And, like us, they don't have much bodily defence against being eaten by others.
Eh? If you actually read what you quoted you'd see that she tried to secure a position but failed and resigned to be a homemaker. There is no indication that it was anything to do with "societal rules". If men don't succeed in getting the position they want they too take on a less favourable role because they have to.

You're really grasping at straws looking for things to be outraged by here.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24103746
> But then you can also use a stack of old desktops, which is cheaper

If electricity and cooling is free.
Yup, and their stock price since their 2000s bubble has been completely flat.Why not innovate your way to more value then rely on a fledgling technology that has decades probably to prove itself.
It was considered “reformulation” back then. By today’s standards, it’s a conference paper and publishable if you combine it with politics.

The diagrams would certainly be criticized today that they are graphical illustration of known expressions, not new and certainly not rigorous.

Also, path integrals were taken right out of Dirac’s so called little paper and Norbert wiener’s papers. Dirac thought they are straightforward but not rigorous and was busy with other stuff anyways. Again today if you propose something like that, it would be rejected on the ground that it’s not rigorous.
This type of measurement using quantitative data should be interpreted with care. At least here in Brazil most of places where some impact occur have an increase in net diversity and abundance. Many new sp. invade the niche left open by the former community and what you see is a shift of the entire community.
Hard to find spray paint that will stick to plastic keys and not be rubbed off by your fingers.