skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the case of rideshare, I imagine the driver contract agreement has that stipulation in it. You'll agree to pick up a passenger taking a trip to an unknown destination with up to N hours of travel time. If you don't like the terms of the contract, you don't have to work for that company.
Valves are designed to bypass the air filter when breathing out. This makes sense if you're working alone in a dusty environment, but not if you're trying to prevent stuff in your lungs (virus particles) from reaching people around you.
Only good solution in this thread :)
Coding Interview set 1 JavaScript solutions
So it's not actually 3-D, you shift, scale, and rotate the 2-D elements so it appears 3-D? Or are you rotating it along Z in some way. It's a really good effect. That's some skill!
Seeing this list makes me wonder: is Mozilla the only major software development nonprofit? (Feel free to interpret "major" however you want if you answer the question.) Regardless of one's feelings about Mozilla, the layoffs are really disheartening.

And - sorry for the spicy take - I'm bummed to see Facebook and Amazon on this list. It would be nice to see other nonprofits on the list, but it's doubly disappointing to not see any and to also see the worst of tech's forprofits here. To go from Mozilla to Facebook would be quite the swing. (Of course, if people need jobs and Facebook/Amazon are what are most immediately available to them, I can't blame them. But I certainly hope that many that are looking for a new job are in a position to be picky.)
I found quite interesting that QXIC could just open an R&D centre in Taiwan in order to poach talent.

But then, Taiwan is heavily invested on the mainland as well and, I suppose, cannot afford to face a backlash if it banned mainland companies.

Cross-straight relations are complex.

Edit: This reminds me of the many period dramas on Chinese TV: plenty of spies, double agents, etc. on both sides (and often on 3 sides, because of the Japanese)
Alcohol is toxic, kills brain cells and damages pretty much everything in your body, and is highly addictive to top it off. The only reason it is legal mostly everywhere is how easy it is to make and how ingrained it is in society.

It is much more damaging and much more addictive than most outlawed drugs. To top it off, it interacts badly with almost everything else.
In this case it'd likely be talking about corrupted, truncated, or otherwise mangled packets. So having to retransmit things. You'd still technically have the same bandwidth and latency on the connection itself even if it's causing all kinds of overhead on upper levels of the stack.
Ads don't lower prices, they shift when you pay the price and potentially who pays the price. If they didn't then no one would pay for them as they wouldn't give a return on investment. You don't pay $1 for the app but instead you pay $100 for a brand name blender.
Edit: looks like it's been shutdown and is now https://www.share-now.com/
I don't know much about adding ads to a website like this. Is there really no alternative to Google?
Valved masks have legitimate uses in construction and hazardous work. They existed well before the pandemic and have a raison d'être.

You really think suppliers should cap or completely halt entire lines of (legitimate) business because governments are not properly regulating mask use or people are not heeding public health advice?
I made the SVG in Sketch and then did CSS transforms (by hand).

Normally, however, I'd use GSAP for SVG animations: https://greensock.com/gsap/
It should be clearly stated that a valve mask is for industrial use only (wood can’t catch Coronavirusis - yet). Non-valued is for use in social settings to correctly contain exhalation droplets and other effluvia.
Ha, indeed..
Immigration Nation – Official Trailer – Netflix
My last point was that it's good for both riders and drivers. If riders come to expect an unreliable service, then they'll use a different method of transit, which leaves the drivers with less work overall.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24135424
Kinda hard to reconcile that with being a democracy that just killed net neutrality
The mini 5 is barely a year old, and a powerhouse.
Corresponding discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24120054, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24129059
Mozilla: Message to Employees – Change in Difficult Times [pdf]
Safe and maybe fairer for consumers yes, not so much for the employees. That's why they are getting ruled against with employment law.

I can think of quite a few other businesses who would love to toss out all employee protections and benefits. I'm sure it would slightly lower prices and improve efficiency here and there. Is that worth the cost though?...
Idk about UBI, but I think we can conclude that better social support for the working class has a positive impact on mental health. The support doesn't have to be UBI, but any form of financial empowerment and stability for the working class. Universal healthcare would help, universal childcare, better unemployment benefits, more affordable housing, etc.

You could even go so far as to say that people would be happier under socialism than capitalism :)
The whole site took about 4 hours last night, and the SVG animation took about 2.5 of those hours :)
I think you raise some interesting points.

FTA: "However, the researchers found that an anxious attachment style was a particularly strong antecedent of the tendency for interpersonal victimhood."

So what precedes an 'anxious attachment style'?

"When a child feels safe, seen, and soothed by their parent in a consistent way, they are able to form a secure attachment to that parent. However, when a parent is available and attuned at times and insensitive or intrusive at others, the child is more likely to experience an anxious ambivalent attachment pattern"[1]

I think it's a reasonable assessment that the-unnamed did experience a form of trauma growing up...and now we as a society are dealing with the consequences of putting someone like that into power. I wonder if maybe those who elect these kinds of people relate to them on that fundamental level. Food for thought.

[1]https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/compassion-matters/2...
> but the winner to me is master-detail support in all apps when it makes sense

Assuming all the apps in question support this view. I'm sure Microsoft's tools will. Not sure about how many others.

> this is a huge productivity gain, IMHO.

Versus what? On an iPad/ tablet, you can have splits where it makes sense int he interface. On this, you are stuck with the hardware split. Obviously it's way better than a phone if that's your compare. So if your job can be done on a phone, this is maybe the boss.
That doesn't discount it from being useful in most scenarios, though.
Depends on how paranoid you are and how valuable the unprotected files are you might want to take action right now.

Do you have any reasons to believe the repair shop will look into your files and have the skill to be able to misuse the credentials or install malware on the machine?

Do you believe the repair shop knows who you are and how valuable your laptops's content is, or do you think they have the resources to go through every single laptop that gets dropped off in hopes of finding something valuable?

Do you believe someone else who might be after you and is willing to put significant effort to break into or bribe the repair shop into giving them your laptop knows where you dropped off your laptop and that it's unencrypted?

What is the worst that could happen should they get access to your credentials? Do these credentials allow access to anything important that could cause severe losses or harm to other people or businesses?

Can you easily rotate/temporarily disable those credentials?

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For next time consider full-disk encryption. Then your only risk becomes bruteforce (easily mitigated with a high-entropy password) or them installing malware to grab the password when you type it after they return it to you.
I'd venture a guess the Internet Archive's got that one in it's sights if needed (and probably already has copies)
He's the guy who killed the radio star. He bought MTV and within two years they weren't showing music videos anymore.
The vents, at least on my 3M N95 masks, only direct airflow downwards.
You might get fired. But since restaurants (especially fast food) deal with this all the time, they just move on and will frequently let people start working again once they've resolved their issues.

And what happens if you don't log in to Uber or Lyft every day? You'll fall off their internal automated lists for ride selection priority and get stuck with all the undesirable rides nobody else wanted to drive.
Citation Needed...
I can’t understand why children are allowed to use any social media what so ever.
BBC has been very pro-lockdown, pro-panic the whole time. Now they are seeing the results and trying to spin it positively, so less anger reflects back at them.
A new game for TempleOS to honor the 2nd anniversary of Terry Davis' death
A ride is more like a task. I've been a contractor and I couldn't refuse jira tasks. You've signed a contract with the company, you should do all the jira tasks they throw at you.
It perpetuates misunderstandings to have them repeated so often, or repeated in a way that's sure to lead to misunderstanding. Mozilla Foundation is technically a "non-profit", but the company that develops Firefox is not. The non-profit does not fund any of the software development. Corporate revenue from the commercial business partnerships is what funds that, and it's able to cover 100% of it and then some.
Element (the company from the Matrix.org core team) is super interested in providing refuge to Mozilla folks - we share the same goals of building the open web, albeit with a focus on open communication. (We'd put ourselves on the mozillalifeboat.com page, but I somehow doubt our Mozilla alumni uses FB... :D)

Particular areas that may be of interest include developer documentation (making https://matrix.org/docs/spec and https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc not suck), Safety engineering (subjective decentralised reputation, anti-abuse and anti-spam), Rust (https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-rust-sdk is in the ascendant), and even possibly VR (we are on a mission to ensure Matrix is the comms protocol of the multiverse) - although Safety & Spec (and generally hacking on Element and Matrix itself) are the most important domains right now. https://element.io/careers has more details.
Nazi also complained that Jews are making themselves victims while they supposedly are not. And they also liked to frame themselves as strong manly man whose will and power will win over all obstacles. The primary identification was not victim, it was strongman.

We can play the nazi game both ways.
Open letter to the Linux World (2014)
Hey all, I built this last night as a resource for connecting Mozilla Alumni during this rough time. Mozilla laid off some truly amazing people this past year.... many of whom I worked with 10 years ago when I was there.

As for why there's a red panda in the boat... despite the logo distinctly picturing a fox on fire, a "firefox" is actually the name for a red panda!
I'm not sure that's the safest thing. They still allow all sorts ineffective masks, like ones made of loose fabric. At least a valved N95 mask protects one person. Those loose fitting masks are practically worthless and protects zero people. That said, you can just put fabric over the exhaust port to make it 'legal'.
Big problem with new cars is the airbag in the A Pillar creates a blind spot that hides pedestrians. That said the safest car is one that isn't driven. Meaning better public transportation is a better solution.
"Write stupid code that uses smart objects"

That's a good one. It's amazing how much complexity can be created by using the wrong abstractions.
AHAHAHAHAHHHHHAAAAAA, I'm sorry but this is just awful.
The first person wants mozilla to experience a failure as to wake them up and make them focus on the browser, not for mozilla to fail in general.

The second person does not say that they want mozilla to fail.
On big boards there's so many posts per hour that it's impossible to really predict this way, it's very much luck.

I remember people used to run scripts to be sure to get the big gets (6+ last digits identical) but I suppose such methods don't work anymore with captcha and other anti spam measures.
Even just backing up your shit to the cloud is way nicer with good upload.

Its also a bit of a chicken egg situation. If the majority of internet users had good upload maybe some "killer" p2p apps would be developed.
This is horrible for customers, the worst part is when drivers don't want to pick you up.
How to list a good organization and role there? The button for having one added goes to a 404'd Facebook page
I've been touch typing naturally for way over a decade without paying much attention to technique. I have never felt (or paid attention to?) discomfort before reading about RSIs on HN. After looking into the lack of science around it and reading Dr. Sarno's book I have decided it's not something that's worth caring or thinking about. And perhaps even a dangerous idea.

I feel terrible for everyone experiencing this pain, but I'm not convinced it's something that can be reliably developed or avoided.

Obviously if you're feeling pain or discomfort for your own sake take a break or switch to a different finger for a few minutes. Just like you'd switch sides in bed or change your sitting style when feeling discomfort. But IMO this obsessing about developing an RSI is unhealthy.
Could allowing the driver to see the destination before accepting the trip be used as a way to discriminate?
Me too, actually. Just found out today that it's not actually doing native comp. >:-( I haven't been able to build GCC with libjit support. (Used Clang while building; that solves some problems with GCC.) I've tried testing GCC/libjit on a smoketest and it hasn't worked. Please let me know what you get working!
Do doctors and nurses ever wear vented masks during surgeries and other invasive procedures? In those cases, I assume that the mask is primarily meant to protect the patient from the doctors' and nurses' germs, so why wasn't this a concern in the pre-Covid days?
> Not that you're necessarily wrong, but you can 'fire' those 'customers' too.

For sure -- and you should! But in my mind, the goals of FOSS can differ wildly from a company wanting to release a great open source product, but also turn some of those users into paying customers. If your goal is simply the betterment of free software for developers, you take any and all contributions, as long as the code is of good quality and solves someones needs. If your goal is to figure out what features are needed by people who might be willing to pay if they were solved, you then have to figure out a way to filter the contributions and what you're willing to contribute back. It's just a trade off.

> I find it a tad hypocritical that 99% of people who post on HN consume tons and tons of open-source every day and yes, they also want the edge cases to work and yet, not only are they not actively participating to make the body of free (as in freedom) software larger, they're actively discouraging people from contributing.

Working in open source is tough -- it's many times a thankless job. I was one of the team members of Kandan (https://github.com/kandanapp/kandan), which was a Slack clone with ~2.5k stars, and as much as we helped people, sometimes it also felt like it never was enough.

One of the few helpful things that came from being true FOSS was that most people had an understanding that we did this as volunteer work, so they weren't upset when features or changes took long, or weren't merged into the app. But if the goal is to eventually move customers into other products, or onto a premium tier, it becomes a different game with different rules.
>materials such as mesh or lace fabrics.

The fact that this needs to be spelled out is just depressing.
Agreed, congrats on getting this published and sharing your passion. I learned a lot of org mode basics from videos, so I admire your effort here. I still refer back to Rainer's series from time to time on you tube. Some good material here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVtKhBrRV_ZkPnBtt_TD1...
I.E the CCC during the depression era.
This is a really interesting idea! Never thought of doing something like that, but if enough people want it, we'd probably be happy to build it :P
The abysmal-yet-totally-American solution: have employers provide your home internet access. I sincerely hope we never end up there, that should be an Onion headline, but stranger (and sadder) things have happened ahem healthcare ahem.
So as much as I'd love to try the HHKB, my main issue is that I use IntelliJ in my dayjob. It looks like out of the Ctrl, Alt and Command/Win keys I'll have to pick 2.

Are there any HHKB users here willing to share their tips on how to get by?

Note: I already use a 60% mech keyboard and am more than happy to swap arrow keys for Caps Lock + hjkl.
> Covid primarily spreads through droplets, which are largely stopped by regular surgical masks.

Interestingly I don’t think that’s quite true.

Droplets don’t explain almost any of the super spreader events.

And it is the super spreader events that are so concerning.

Note: I have no idea if masks help with the clearly airborne super spreader events.
> ... cheat ... rationalize ...

uh, I think you are putting the wrong slant on things, like people are cheating losers.

I have been touch typing for years, but I probably look at my keyboard from time to time and do not know I do it.

If you asked me where the B key is, I would have to look. If you asked me to type banana I would do it without looking.

I have caught myself looking, like a passenger in my own body, maybe to orient myself when crooked, I'm not sure. But typing is so automatic that my conscious brain is not even involved in the process.
Convertible debt agreements address this problem by making subsequent financing/acquisition/IPO trigger an immediate conversion to equity. (Similarly, in my alternative, it could simply disable the repurchase option.)

This lets you achieve high resolution financing based on the amount of cash you have in the bank immediately before the next financing/acquisition/IPO. If you raised $10M but only spent $6M before raising the next round, you may use the remaining $4M in the bank to perform the repurchase. But you can't use the new Series B money for the repurchase. If you consumed $9M then you only have $1M remaining for the repurchase and will eat more dilution.

Effectively, your dilution becomes a function of how capital efficient you've been. Investors may agree to it because it might encourage people to build profitable companies: it encourages companies toward capital efficiency as they search for product-market fit, while giving companies enough runway to weather hard times.

For founders, this means your net dilution is now a stronger function of how well you operate over time (and a weaker function of how well you fundraise). That may be a good optimization for the startup ecosystem.

I agree with you 100% that "you risk the entire sum" but limit the upside. There are more knobs but it may be possible to set them in a way that investors agree to. Imagine my 2M shares @ $5 Series A. Suppose 1M are repurchasable at $6 (a 20% markup) plus 10%/yr interest rate. At t=0-, the investor has $10M and the company has $0. At t=0+, the company has $10M in the bank and investor has 2M shares. At t=1yr, suppose the company has spent $2M getting launched ($8M remaining) and hits some great milestone (i.e. becomes profitable, raises a new round, or gets acquired), and it exercises the repurchase option. After repurchase, the company has 8-6.6 = $1.4M remaining in the bank, and the investor has $6.6M cash plus 1M shares. The investor's effective purchase price of their remaining 1M shares is $3.40/share, thanks to the $1.6M in profits from the repurchase discount and interest.
Probably don't feed the obvious trolls, and flag / downvote instead.
If I have to fly, I'm using my P100 paint respirator. I never thought it would be useful in this way after painting my car.
HHKB is Sun Type 3 keyboard in 60% so it’s not ANSI or Windows 101, Ctrl to the left of A and all. Mostly should be the same as ANSI though?
his comment said that drivers don't go to poor neighborhoods. you're suggesting customers to pay more for a ride if they live in a poor neighborhood.
A cheaper alternative would have been to put a towel over your hands so that you can't look down at the keys.
That doesn’t work in a non profit contexts . Most non profit missions are well, not profitable in the first place.

While the Mozilla corporation is for profit entity , the goals of the foundation and reason Mozilla foundation /corporation exists is not to make or maximise profit .

Non profits generally run on the principles of sustainability I.e are they spending more than endowments or they drawing on the principal amount etc.

In Mozilla case drop in revenue/ donations resulting in cancelled projects is per se not abnormal , but which projects are shelved depends on how the mission is interpreted.

It is perfectly within the foundation remit to infuse capital into the corporation if they had more money and they also believed the work of the corporation is more important than some foundation projects to the overall foundation’s mission.

Just like NASA cancels other projects when one project like JWST goes a lot overbudget , with approvals from congress if required .

Clearly the foundation did not think corporation projects were worth saying over others , we can debate that , but they did and do have that choice
We Should Take Aliens Seriously
> Is that really plausible though? I'm sure it's technically doable, but I'm not sure it's realistic or even a good idea if you could pull it off.

I'd say a blackout may well pull more people to the street, and open more opportunities for spontaneous openings. The same was in USSR in 1991.

People are actually being attracted by the sound of gunfire, fire, and smoke, if all other decision making inputs are cut off.

Sounds of intense gunfire in a city often result in people being inadvertently "herded" into big crowds, and formation of street-to-street fronts, which result in assailants being surrounded.

Then, when people see enemies surrounded, and trembling in fear, human primal instincts kick in, and crazy things happen. Moscow 1991, Bishkek 2010, Kyiv 2014, Istanbul 2016 all demonstrated that effect.

How powerful can it be? There were historical precedents when such spontaneous crowds went on offensive again fully armed military forces, and won, with Istanbul, and Bishkek events being the most vivid.

In Bishkek, a column of smoke rising from a key government building, along with a comms blackout, was enough to instantaneously gather a crowd of 5000-6000 bystanders, and onlookers who in just 3-4 hours turned into am unstoppable human wave.

It were these complete randoms who then marched against an elite SF battalion, 10+ snipers, fire from 12.7mm, took 5 RPG shots (!!!), and, in the end, still managed to steamroll that battalion to the last man. Even the relatively tame footage that managed to escape Youtube censorship if still horrifying.

I cannot find the original Euronews footage on the net now, but here is the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3zUSe2peRE&t=30s (quite intense, be prepared.) Take a look at the footage starting at 0:30, and give attention to what happens after 1:05.
Can you change the destination once you get in the car?
antifa?
It wouldn’t have happened if you read their mission...

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mission/