skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't forget old mate 'hard drive as a microphone'! One of my favourites.

https://andrewkwong.org/docs/Kwong-HDDphone-IEEE-SP-2019.pdf
You know there are people still alive who were mature age adults in 1975?

Thr Cray-1 had 8.39 megabytes of RAM and 303 megabytes of storage.
Even in the GFC, it took years for real estate values to bottom out. Foreclosures, etc take a long time.
This is a disingenuous comparison. Epic does not sell content not made by Epic in Fortnite, while Apple sells content not made by Apple in the App Store. This is like saying a branded clothing store in a mall has to sell things that aren't of its brand if it wants to complain about the mall throttling its sales.
Quantum computing does not defeat modern encryption, as long as you used an algorithm like AES or Threefish to protect your data, you should be safe from the quantum apocalypse. (Other really important things fail though, like digital signatures and ECDH)
> Apple pulled more than 47,000 apps from the Chinese App Store earlier this month, as first reported by AppInChina. That move wasn’t unexpected, as Apple recently enacted a policy change to eliminate a loophole that previously allowed paid games and games with in-app purchases to be sold even though they were still awaiting approval from Chinese regulators.

> But Apple’s entire App Store operation in China also depends on a loophole of its own, the report claims. Foreign app stores in China are usually required to be joint ventures with a Chinese partner that’s a majority owner and operator, according to the report, but Apple operates the App Store on its own. Apple has also apparently avoided sharing the source code for iOS with China so far, having negotiated an exemption with the Chinese government to not have to do so.
Churches are a common place for superspreading events. These are uncorrelated with density.

Your conception of Dan our does not match people's actual behavior.

You seem to think that NYC is primarily facie evidence that density is somehow something that can't be overcome when trying to stop spread, but don't even consider other dense places that have not had the same problems. In Italy, rural towns were hit as hard as dense cities.

NYC could have been stopped if the governor and mayor collaborated to institute policies to reduce social contact. Instead they delayed a week later than they should have, and testing failures didn't give them evidence of how far it had already spread, leading to tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths. We are seeing the same phenomenon in rural tourist towns in mountain areas, that had lots of early travelers.

Social contact is the primary cause of spread. And density does not prevent one from limiting their social contact.
I will respectfully disagree with the last two paragraphs without going point by point. I sense too much attachment to the project and biases therein.
Using Obsidian to manage goals, tasks, notes, and software dev knowledge base
i dont get why it's better password and 2FA? leaving yubikey unattended, it will only require attacker to know the password (PIN).
Amazon continues hiring push, with former HQ2 New York in line for 2k jobs
Wait I've one too...

"Researchers Can Duplicate your inner anus from the Sound it produce when farting..." :D
While 2020 has certainly shown me that anything can happen, this is feeling eerily similar to Great Recession in SF/Bay area, where housing prices didn't bottom out until 5 years from their peak [1]. The economic devastation that's happening is _not over_, but many signs point to this one being considerably worse than the last one.

While SF looks like it's doing pretty well now, prices did drop ~25% during the last recession, and they didn't recover until ~2013 [nominally]. Remember, a home that fell by 1/4 in price needs to appreciate by ~1/3 to be back in square one, which is considerable and shows that even the hottest markets are not immune from downturns.

SF has certainly recovered from much worse, and long term it will recover just fine, but for many the appeal of the city currently missing, and will continue to be missing for a not-insignificant amount of time. The price-to-rent ratio is currently widening as rentals continue to flood the market, as many are not finding the SF-premium worth it at the moment. All these downward pressures will surely [imo] put significant downward pressure on SF housing.

The wild card here is the Gov't, which has allowed many to put their mortgage on forbearance, and because of that I'd expect the real price movements to happen after that. However, that only applies to conforming loans, and not jumbo loans, which are on a case-by-case basis.

One more thing — with a grain of salt because I don't have a better source —, while this report says list prices have fallen 4.9% yoy, that's still 5% above contract prices [2].

[1] https://www.bayareamarketreports.com/trend/san-francisco-hom...
[2] http://socketsite.com/archives/2020/08/400-percent-more-redu...
That's exactly why it's not a good metaphor. The wealthy aren't especially talented, and redistributing their wealth does make everyone else faster.
“ Neo 2/Neo 2 Eye is available for businesses only. Please fill out this form if you are interested in ordering the Neo 2/Neo 2 Eye and we will get back to you once stock is available.”
You are right... In this case I think it might be a good example of how serious scientists are not always the best fiction writers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentry_Lee
Zillow's conclusions seem wildly inaccurate for Boston - it is most definitely a buyer's market. Time to sell has increased drastically across all price ranges. Price cuts are rampant as well. I've seen apartments listing at 1.1m in April finally just sell this month in the low 900s. So take the report with a grain of salt!
Zoom Is Maybe the World's Worst Business Idea Ever
Show HN: Modern Calendar Embed for Google Calendar
Due to lower labor cost and relatively stable government. Nobody even knows what China’s tax rates are. These jobs are also not in Chad or Central African republic
> Protocol Labs has dropped the ball at every corner when it comes to the development of IPFS.

How so? I don't have much experience with IPFS, but I've heard great things about it
This reminds of a story in Hugo Cornwall's The Hacker's Handbook. He mentions that MI6 had figured out that each striker makes a slightly different sound when it hits the paper, so they'd started bugging printers.

In retrospect, somebody really should have thought of this three decades ago. Props to the person that did, though.
"Security researches have found they can guess your password from analyzing how frequently you blink."
Google has a public AGPL policy [0], so advocating for it will not have the effect that you like.

[0] https://opensource.google/docs/using/agpl-policy/
So many buzzwords. What the examples show are schemes where the 'fans' (their word) do more of the work for a small cut of the profits.

This is not a new idea. It's all too similar to Amway and other multi-level marketing schemes. More complicated, with more roles other than selling and building a downline. But similar in the ways the money flows.

"People like you helping people like us help ourselves"
Show HN: Kubernetes Cron slack notifier, Released 1.3 (with some improvements)
It would be the end of consoles. The economics of the Xbox/PlayStation/NintendoWhatever presume vendor lock-in.
China hasn't been able to keep it to zero, new cases have been imported and there have been flare ups but they keep them from growing with mass testing and lockdowns, the same as New Zealand is doing now.

> but New Zealand is an island

Every country can effectively be an island if they want.
And messing up the environment.
Skynet is now a viable alternative to IPFS. It has much of the same functionality: upload a file, get a 34 byte link back, and now that link can be retrieved by any Skynet node. It's got support for things like webapps and HLS, and for many use cases it has superior performance (especially for large files).

https://siasky.net to get started
I was going to address that in the post but I didn't want to make it too long. Basically in this hypothetical scenario I think state lines may possibly be redrawn, maybe with some splitting and some merging, and maybe people moving around to be near their respective red/blue tribe. And as a result, some of the blue cities may start to turn red, and/or there may be some divisions drawn close to some big cities.
Most American locks just aren’t that secure; even I can pick a Masterlock #3 in a few minutes, and I’m a total novice at lock picking. A little bit of practice and there’s a good chance you could pick most front doors in a few minutes.

The simple reality is that if you’re going to get robbed, chances are the robber is going to use a pry bar to ruin the door jam or break your window. Locks are about keeping honest citizens honest.
Based on the title I clicked this thinking it was something related to OSI layer 1, for hot aisle/cold aisle separation in high density datacenters, compartmentalized-per-cabinet cooling or something.

As a side note how do you effectively google for a piece of software or product with a name as generic as "airflow"?
Hey, I made this tool that displays a nice lookin' embed based on any ics file url, because if you're not already aware, Google Calendar's embed is straight out of the 1940s. I'm still actively working on it, and accepting issues on the Github repo if y'all find any.
Thanks for checking it out, I put a lot of work into it!
Shame on me. I never knew, and I never bothered to look it up.
That’s always going to be country specific. Generally, anyone that’s failed to diversify their investment so a 98% drop in some asset doesn’t result in them losing 90+% of their fortune has already failed.

Also, be cautious about how early investments may artificially inflate the value of the company. Convertible debt is one way around that issue.
How realistic is it to have no joined letters? Do many people really write large scale texts letter by letter with space between each?

Sadly, the screenshot looks obviously artificial to me. Like handwriting fonts, I'd be very surprised if anybody thought it was really handwritten.

It's not open source (because it is my handwriting (because my progressive MS means I can't do it manually)), but here's my hack: https://imgur.com/a/frqG0cu

As sjv says above, there are still plenty of tells in mine. So I think this module is very unconvincing.

Maybe I've spent too much time being finicky or am just being braggy (definitely not beyond me, sorry), but 'realistic'?
That’s fair except I’d say even good standards can cause a big slowdown in feature releases, and not everyone values the adherence to the standard as much as the features. It still seems better to just spin out the standard into a set of optional adapters and let library maintainers and users pick their own trade-offs in terms of when to adopt breaking changes, how / whether to smooth over idiosyncrasies across multiple libraries.

Even a good standard has costs and this particular case does not seem like it has good arguments in favor of a wide standard, but many arguments against it.
Apologies, but I don't quite see what this has to do with the point I was making.
Sure, but that was Jobs’ call to make, not the employee’s.
Or one should never exercise at all until an acquisition or an IPO happens.

I've seen too many people exercise stock options trying to minimize tax implications down the road, only to see them eventually leave the company for any number of reasons and they end up get heavily diluted to almost nothing in future rounds. All that money basically down the drain trying to chase long term capital gains vs regular income tax rates when the likelihood that they'll make anything is extremely low.

Everyone's risk posture is different, but considering how few startups are actually successful, I would argue it's better to just assume the options are worthless and just deal with the regular income tax situation if you get lucky enough to be around during an IPO or acquisition.
Huawei: 5G Is About Capacity, Not Speed: One-on-one with CTO Paul Scanlan
Or even a good disc detainer lock, like an Abloy or similar, whose noise is more related to the current disc position more than anything else.
Employed at a feature-checklist company in the past. It was brutal. It always felt like we were product followers rather than product leaders. The math doesn't work out either. Isn't it easier to create one new feature and force your competition to adapt than have them create your product roadmap?
MS Research does cool stuff but MS is comically bad at turning the results into successful commercial products. By all rights, in terms of research results and focus, the iPad should have been a Microsoft product. Microsoft remains good at making faster horses...
Someone doesn’t watch the Lock Picking Lawyer.

A surprising number of padlocks have no security pins whatsoever, including most Master Locks.
Buliding the Great Pyramid [pdf]
So, just wondering from a practical perspective, how do you train/serve models from these? I doubt they play nice with e.g. PyTorch or TF.

Maybe they're meant to be used with a DL compiler like TVM [0]?

[0] https://tvm.apache.org/
The page you linked says Google bans the use of AGPL code in their core products.

Are you saying that since Google has a public policy banning the use of AGPL code in their products there is no use in advocating for a 4 freedom respecting copyleft license?
> An organization of people that seeks shared profit for all its members and does not exploit the labor of non-members

It doesn't make indication of the distribution of the profit. If I were a business owner couldn't I get around this by giving each employee $1 in stock options? If the value of the organization goes up there's still shared profit, no matter how minuscule it is.
The reason for rising inequality in the States is very clear: offshoring and automation. Historically, the rest of the world had much lower wages while it was difficult to move US jobs to other countries for political and logistical reasons. Once that was solved, manufacturing jobs were gone. US population shifted from manufacturing to service. Now the service jobs are being outsourced and automated in turn. The real picture is a bit more complex of course but it does not change the logic.

The right approach to taxation would be to tax the exact cause of the problem: offshoring and automation. It can be done as a progressive per-employee Value Added Tax. The normal VAT is a fixed percentage on the difference between revenue and non-labor expenses. The new P-VAT would grow with the added value per US employee. For instance, if a pizzeria has added value of $50k per employee per year, the P-VAT could be zero. For the likes of Google and Apple with millions of dollars of added value per employee it could be 50% or more.

It would create an incentive to keep the jobs in the US. Also, it would be very hard to avoid if a company wants access to US market.
It is not an unreasonable assumption to make, there are a lot of novel series where the 3rd, 4th, 5th novels are ghostwritten by some third party hired by a publishing company that owns the rights, to cash in on a well known novel's name and author.
> The problem is that, IMO, centralization of the internet is simply the natural course

Yes, central structures allow capturing of monetary value, which provide economic incentive to people and that is a powerful motivator for attracting good UX/UI/Designers to make the product improve mass appeal

For whatever reason, good UI/UX hasn't been the FOSS's strong suite. Until that changes (and there's also no reason why it can't change) it will continue to lose ground on anything that is user-facing. Anything that requires expertise however, FOSS will continue to shine.
yeah I have some ML friends I followed on social media and got a first hand look at so called leftist infighting. Seems mostly counterproductive.
"airflow etl", "airflow scheduler", "airflow software"
Female-led countries handled coronavirus better
> This wording is very reminiscent of a lot of writing from conspiracy theorists

I think this dismisses the article as a whole a bit too quickly.

> The fact that sometimes evidence is hidden... does not support any arbitrary claim made without evidence of its own.

Agreed. I didn't interpret the author as trying to imply this. I think the author was trying more to fight an instantaneous "no you're definitely wrong" than to convince the reader "yes this author's claim is correct."
I live in NY and created my own version of the case-Schiller price index just for Manhattan. The July 2020 index shows a 10% YoY decline in condo prices, which is worse than a 6% decline in Q2. Please see my analysis for backup: https://github.com/ivoytov/manhattan/blob/master/NYC_price_i...
From my understanding simply using the AGPL is enough to have most corporations eschew you (somewhat /s I guess)
Transparent public toilets installed in Tokyo parks
People do this. I used to sell a lot on Amazon. I would occasionally get a non-coherent one star review and then a message basically trying to extort a full refund in exchange for removing the review. And no, it wasn't because the book was in bad condition, they can always return for a full refund. They want to keep the book and get a full refund.
I/O/D 4 – The Web Stalker
Great tool for both safety and entertainment. I foresee printing many stickers for my garage/shop and general hijinks.
> * Is anyone else feeling feeling tired of these security posts that have scary titles but literally no real world impact?*

Researchers, regardless of the discipline, often work at the edge of what's possible, not what's practical. Decade after decade, we have consumed news about researchers finding ways to cure cancer, immunize against HIV, break encryption with quantum computing, etc. It will be a couple more decades before any of these endeavours come to fruition. Just remember how long researchers have been working on quantum computers and how much longer they need to work to create something even remotely useful.

Science news hints how the world might look like half a century or a century in the future, not next year. For that, you need to read corporate announcements.
The world’s money transfer system is China’s Achilles Heel
Ironic this article was posted the same day as :
Why Don't They Make BIGGER CPUs? - (Techquickie)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JAWz9Da5og

Now I know its just a LinusTechTips level video, but I guess they havent heard of "Wafer Scale Engine", and I hadn't either, but now this proves the video is already obsolete…
Not sure what you mean by much poorer... in any case here is a list of European countries which have a higher median wealth per adult than the US, roughly in order of wealth per adult:

Switzerland, Iceland, Luxmbourg, Belgium, Ireland, France, UK, Spain, Austria, Italy, Malta, Norway.

If you go by mean wealth on the other hand, only Switzerland is higher than the US. But that is not a measure of middle class wealth.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_pe...
There are 4 smokers in an average household?!
But 3D printing is new and cool whereas filing a blank is boring and old. :P
Disagree. Those are the super easy cases for me to create my own adapter that does that for me in a way that works for my use case, leaving others free to do it / ignore it at their own discretion, depending on their use cases.

Maybe one person creates various functional wrappers around the array structures to make composition of length or count work in their functional programming design. Someone else created mixins and their own derived classes that solve it with OOP designs, etc etc. Someone else only uses Jax and doesn’t care. Someone else uses infinite streams on top of these and so they never need length or count.

Forcing the same call semantics on all these users doesn’t make sense. Let them build their own abstractions if they need to standardize semantics for their use cases.
SplitNow is one of the simplest way to split a bill among friends
Weird article. From my understanding Thailand is handling the corona situation pretty well, as is South Korea. And I guess neither of these countries are female led, or they'd have been mentioned in the article. There's also Japan ...

Maybe this is another interesting perspective: "Why East beat West on Covid-19": https://asiatimes.com/2020/05/why-east-beat-west-on-covid-19...

Also with regards to Taiwan (since apparently the country is female-led), perhaps the fact that the vice-president was an epidemiologist [0] made a bigger difference than whatever genital was situated between the legs of it's top leader.

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[0]: https://www.todayonline.com/world/taiwans-weapon-against-cor...
If you're married and retired then your partner can work and you can be primary homemaker. $60K is just enough to pay for a modest house if you're friends with HN types, though.
Yes...this is one of the key innovations that X had that probably isn't so useful now. Efficient use of memory was critical. In the mid-1990s, low end Sun's could actually ship as a supported config with 24-bit video and as little as 20MB of memory (16M system ram + 4M vsimm) like the the SX/CG14 in the SS20. There were 24-bit cards for earlier, mc68k Suns that could run in even less, but were more for rendering and of questionable utility for interactive use.

Another thing this efficiency allowed was the X Terminal. It was something akin the a serial terminal but running X, modest processor and memory, diskless (some had floppies for file transfer), usually running a couple of built-in local clients (xclock, etc), and costing far less than a full workstation. Most of them I recall being either monochrome or 8-bit color, but around this time I had an NCD X Terminal with 24-bit graphics, a MIPS processor and 16M ram + 8M vram, and network (streaming) audio for about a fraction the cost of an SGI Indy. Nice machine.
And there you go still using sports metaphors. Life is not a competition. Treating it like it is generally leads to bad outcomes for both individuals and societies.
Zoom opens new data centre in Singapore
people who buy real estate in Los Altos Hills are largely unaffected by covid. And they do benefit a lot from stock market rally
You make $100,000 per year?
If you are in the USA you are deeply underpaid.
> unless you buy their enterprise models (e.g. dell latitude, lenovo thinkpad) with the appropriate warranty you won't get same day hardware support in most of Europe.

This is the case in the US as well, but I think it should be said that Apple is trying to compete with those classes of computer, not low end consumer grade models. I don’t know if I’d say they’re doing particularly well, but most of why Apple computers are so expensive is because they are designed to last and work well for business.
This is so cool, I always had this idea. :D
How does a post on HN that has 591 points and on the front page only have 1184 views and 567 visitors in the last 24 hours according to the live demo? Something is not right. Should be seeing lots more page views and users right?

EDIT: just noticed the demo is for another site flightphp.com not the landing page umami.is which is sort of weird. That explains it. The demo should really be demoing the metrics for umami.is. Which is a shame, because that would prove how scalable umami.is is. Unfortunately umami.is is not eating its own dog food.