skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've certainly made the jump to a fully-thought-out home office[0], but masks are conspicuously absent from this article - facial recognition? Good luck when I continue wearing my nice face covering in public long after this specific virus is under control.

Things like the virus-killing HVAC system are interesting. Makes you consider our current buildings from a future perspective, like in what ways they'll think we're hilariously backwards, hygiene-wise.

[0] https://ahelwer.ca/post/2020-08-09-home-ergonomics/
That's a bit of understatement.

- As others have pointed out, you can't background it during a 100G download. It continues to capture keystrokes.

- There's no way to mute the annoying music. So forget about passing the time on Netflix or YouTube.

- If the download craps out midway, it frequently gets stuck. Meaning you might have to delete those 80g you already have & start again. (Unless you tell what is complete & isn't.)
I'm a Singapore citizen and I've used my Singapore passport to get the tourist SIM cards from M1 before, did some store refuse to sell it to you?
Microsoft supports Epic in conflict with Apple
In any sort of gamification there is a reward for reaching an arbitrary threshold. It's all part of the game.
Building resilient services at Prime Video with chaos engineering
As others have already mentioned, some trackers poison the well with random IP addresses so that getting peer lists from trackers alone is not confirmation that that peer actually is sharing that torrent.
I think a lot of people who haven't been down and out, are vastly underestimating bad financial stress is - or how fast small paltry sums/debt can grow. As the saying goes, it's very expensive to be poor.

When there's no safety net to catch you, you'll have to make some hard choices. Is going to be the rent? or food? or medication? Pick one, and the rest will keep on compounding until the next round.

If UBI can work as a foundation to remove that stress, well, then I can absolutely understand how it improves the well-being of someone.
1999 was roughly the last time we made a faculty hire into our group.

My understanding is that NSF doesn't want PI salaries to be dependent upon grants -- that way, your job isn't (directly) on the line for a specific line of research. It removes at least a little bit of bias toward proposing research just to stay funded.

Moreover, the policy is an incentive for universities to hire faculty, which is generally good for research/teaching.

The hard thing, from the university's perspective, is that a faculty hire is, assuming tenure, very expensive. There is generally a ~$0.5-1M laboratory-startup package, plus a commitment of a professor's salary until ~2055. For this reason, our Department is generally allotted ~1 faculty hire/year. Only exceptional events, like the appearance of a huge and sustained source of money or winning the Nobel Prize (UW Physics: 1989 and 2016) will permit extra hires in targeted fields.

Furthermore, because faculty hires are so rare and each professor gets a vote, each hire has an impact on internal politics. Our department is comparatively friendly, but faculty-hire slots are the most precious commodity in any department.

All of this is to say that it is difficult to find a path that, in this case, would help to retain knowledge and talent in our group. The meeting of the minds that needs to happen is between national funding policy and the status quo among most universities. It is so far above my pay-grade that I've not yet found a reasonable angle from which to attempt to solve the problem.
I've thought about this a lot—I'm very interested in both security and privacy, so I wouldn't want to do this if I thought it would compromise either.

My current solution is that the device has three functions: encrypt/sign with private key, decrypt with private key, and send public key. They would be protected by a PIN—probably a six-digit alphanumeric pin. You might want to rate limit PIN attempts to one per second, as well.

With this scheme, I can't see how it would compromise privacy or security. No one can just scan your hand and know your identity, since you need the PIN to get your public key. And since all encryption/decryption happens on the chip, the chance that your private key gets stolen is pretty much as low as possible.

If you see any flaws with this scheme—I certainly wouldn't be surprised if there are, I just can't see any right now—please critique away!
Do you think there are no black cops abusing their power, or that there are no white victims? It's hidden from you by the media because it doesn't fit the narrative of racist white cops abusing innocent black victims.

Statistics paint a different picture. Given that there is a police response to crime, a white criminal is more likely to be shot by the police.

I have seen plenty of public outcry over police violence when the suspect was behaving violently. The riots in Ferguson are the obvious example. Evidence of powder burns and of DNA in the car show that the BLM story was clearly false. The evidence is consistent with the story given by the cop. It's been like that for every case that I've researched, so at this point I'm done with research. It's always the same, more or less.
> Tiktok's US branch did not violate any US law and its being prosecuted with administrative action

Seriously? That was already in 2019:

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/tiktok-pay-5-7-millio...
Rs code is itself more complicated, you already mention that.

Also it requires some form of coordination. IIRC, (I never really learned the details of RS code), RS code cannot be mixed, I.e. 2 encoders have to code the blocks with the same initialization parameters.

On the contrary, Network Coder can just perform random linear combination, then they can quickly reach the sufficient blocks to be able to decide all blocks.
How to Establish a Successful On-Demand Local Food Delivery Startup?
this hurts.
Even if you are correct about the galaxy rotation curves -- which everything I've read and heard leads to me believe is rather unlikely -- those curves are only one of several pieces of evicence that point to the existence of dark matter. The wikipedia page list many of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter#Observational_evid...

I only mentioned MOND as it is one of the more widely-known plausible alternatives that have been pursued.
Preventing a Disrupted Presidential Election and Transition [pdf]
Ugh, I certainly hope not. In one sense, yes, covid has accelerated some things that were already in transition, like greater work from home. But why would we think this increased isolation, sanitization, and separation would be a good thing outside of a pandemic? There is no need for wide hallways, limiting people to 2 per elevator, copious hand sanitizer use, or touchless everything to avoid "grubby" buttons when we're not in a pandemic. Yes, germs are a risk, but there are also risks in thinking for some reason it is healthy to live in a sterile, and separated, environment.
Not sure why this is downvoted, this is absolutely the case, but the effect is small

https://climate.nasa.gov/faq/30/if-all-of-earths-ice-melts-a...
This is an overly fantastic crystal-ball piece and I don't expect things will be as far changed as this article is trying to sell us.

It reminds me of those old AT&T "You Will" commercials, which did eventually come true but in a vastly different way than first envisioned (newspapers by fax? come on.)

Also, most people (baristas, truck drivers, all those invisible service people and laborers in between) don't have jobs that look like this. This completely dismisses their experiences.
And I don't see why that precludes being an employee, even if it's unconventional.
Make a meme that is 99% accurate and Facebook will plaster a cover over it once it finds that largely irrelevant error.
Zuckerberg's alleged "message hammered behind the scenes in meetings with officials and lawmakers during the October trip and a separate visit to Washington weeks earlier" are sourced to "people familiar with the matter."

That's not journalism; it's gossip. Or worse.
This seems insanely over engineered, we are in the midst of the pandemic and people are already acting like it’s over. I think things start going back to normal the second corona runs it’s course or a vaccine appears.

I live in the Bay Area and was initially planning on joining the droves of people going fully remote. On second thought I am going to stay, I would rather have the bargaining chip of being one of the remaining local devs instead of one of the growing army of fully remote programmers.
I wonder if there are any events that we can point to on earth that were caused by a supernova.
How many languages should you check?
Is it ok to get Google results like that?
I think I was downvoted because it was hard to interpret my politics. Obviously I am pro safe vaccines with legitimate trials.

I meant to say: producing a vaccine is seen by people as a political issue. But in reality it is a serendipity issue. Fundamentally there is nothing a politician can do, no amount of money they can spend, no prohibitions they can lift, to help you discover the vaccine. People think that there is, but there isn't.

However, you CAN just get rid of trials, or skip some, or say something works when it doesn't, laundering the reputation of an otherwise trustworthy regulatory body by fiat. It will look good, if you are in power, if you produce a "vaccine." It won't work, because there is nothing you can do to make a working vaccine. But it will look like it does, and maybe, if too few people get the disease, it won't matter, you'll get reelected, the problem doesn't matter anymore.

What's interesting is places where they do not have elections (or legitimate elections) - vaccine development looks even weirder. There's no way to anticipate how the Russian or Chinese government will reframe the COVID crisis. We see side effects of this in the totally bonkers vaccine testing and announcements in these places.

In Belgium where this takes place, like whether or not AstraZeneca has the vaccine that works - that's serendipity. It won't matter what Belgian politicians say or make them sign or whatever. They want something impossible, a guarantee from a company that is just a serendipity play. So maybe they've decided, okay, maybe we should look strong on trial regulations? That will help some particular Belgian politicians get elected, because the opposition actually supports more flexible trials? Who knows, I am not a specialist in Belgian politics. But because the vaccine will be discovered by serendipity, because it will not scale with ethics or more money, I am confident it won't matter to the outcome of the actual vaccine.
Reed Solomon might run into issues with it's n^2 runtime if you make too many pieces. Fountain codes or other codes though could do the job.
They aren't mandatory everywhere, atleast in germany.

You can join the union or not. If you don't join you can still take advantage of the union negotiated rates or not if you wish. If you think you can negotiate better than the union you're still free to do so.
I would have loved this in 2008 for the Beijing Olympics. My team created the point of sale, which included printing specialized tickets on specialized printers. These were going to be deployed across 1,000+ Bank of China locations, including many in pretty remote regions.

Instead, we created an applet to handle the IO with the printer. It was a nightmare. All sorts of little differences between Windows XP & JRE made it ridiculous hard to debug. While the banks were given exact specs, the culture was such that whenever they would have a problem, they insist the machine was the right spec, which wasn't true 90% of the time.
Now I know what the word 'woad' means in "Woad Raider" in Age of Empires [1]

[1] https://ageofempires.fandom.com/wiki/Woad_Raider
A Simple Scheme Compiler (1997)
I doesn't have to be impossible to access but the hoster shouldn't just log into my system and download arbitrary data from it. I'm not asking for perfect confidentiality, just contractual confidentiality.
One thing I have found about HN in general is a refusal to ponder the meaning of money itself.

1 Why is a small amount of inflation considered a "good thing"? In just one generation, inflation targets reduce the purchasing power by nearly 50%. What if you knew that assumption lead to all kinds of terrible outcomes, but they only surfaced after 7-8 election cycles?

2 Why is a gold standard considered impractical? After all, today, the technology actually exists to at least make this a worthwhile pursuit (that is, a digital gold standard which doesn't involve the actual movement of physical gold)

3 Why is there so little discussion on the "amount of currency units your central government printed this year"? I find it remarkable, and somewhat amusing frankly, that there could be so many intelligent people on a forum (compared to the average online forum) and how few of these folks have asked themselves this question.

4 Why is there so little discussion on the possibility of currency deflation being a very good thing for the people on the margins of society?

It certainly doesn't help that 99% of the folks who ask these questions happen to be both male and white, which just makes people auto-associate these ideas with racism, privilege etc. I don't think the core ideas themselves have been given sufficient thought for a few decades.

And as for Patrick Collison, I am willing to bet he hasn't read a single book written by Thomas Sowell (whose books will at the very least force you to ask these questions, even if you might come to different conclusions to others who read his books).
Economics is a social science, and is widely acknowledged as such.

Economic theories are not falsiable, but neither are climatology theories, and no one would claim climatology is not a science.

Soft sciences are distinguished from hard sciences for not being subject to controlled experimentation, which can derive something approaching scientific proof, pedantry notwithstanding.

What's motivating the 'economics is not a science' narrative here is the same thing that motivates attempts by anti-vaxxers to discredit Medicine and Epidiomology: their beliefs are being contradicted by the experts in the field.

Sorry I don't have the time to respond in more detail to your comment. I just wanted to quickly make that point.
Alpheidae – Pistol Shrimp
They have to. Quite a number of Microsoft games use Epic Games' Unreal Engine. Even HoloLens
I'm a Chinese and I'd recommend you to browse those Chinese specific websites/use Chinese apps. Following are some of them.

zhihu.com alternative to quara.com

weibo.com => twitter.com

baidu.com => google.com

douban.com => imdb.com (Why not watching some funny Chinese TV shows :))

douyin => tiktok

You may not retrieve correct information/opinion there, but it's a good way to learn Chinese language.
> Laila makes a coffee in the kitchen area

Seriously? You're worried about viruses and yet you're still gonna allow the "coffee petri dish," where hundreds of grubby dirty hands fondle communal cups, bowls, coffee machine buttons, creamer, sugar, stirrers? To say nothing of the giant "catered lunch" buffets with no sneeze guards.

> The air conditioning system uses UV light to kill pathogens. It also reduces the humidity to help prevent germs multiplying, responding to a stream of data from sensors fixed around the building, and wearable sensors used by staff.

Yet it's still got 50-year-old unmaintained fiberglass insulation inside the ducts, which, because the overlayment breaks down over time, streams tiny particles of glass throughout the office to be inhaled. (this has probably been happening in your office for some time if it's an older building)

> The staff got fed up with plastic everywhere a couple of years ago. They said it made the office feel like a hospital. Laila prefers the plants.

The plants are plastic now. Too many finicky potential problems like mold/mildew, they're hard to clean, not maintenance-free.

> It's face-to-face with colleagues - but all at a safe distance.

We don't even practice social distancing now. It's not gonna happen at work with people who feel comfortable around each other. And honestly, what's the point indoors? You cough and the overhead A/C pushes microscopic water particles way farther than 6 feet.

> It's 16:00 and time to go home. Laila moved to the suburbs with a friend after the lockdown in 2020. It's a longer commute, but she doesn't mind as it's only once a week.

There a lot of roommates in the suburbs? Most middle-class young people working in offices like this will still need several roommates to afford rent, what with cost of living constantly increasing but pay not adjusting as much (news flash: covid-19 has not fixed income inequality). The suburbs aren't actually much cheaper in most parts, because people who work in cities live in them. People will continue to live in cities because there's still more access to everything in them.

> she knew she would need a home office [..] There's a new standing desk, a properly adjustable office chair and storage for documents

I work from home now and I don't need a home office. All you need is a table and a chair in a corner of a room. With kids, I get it, but otherwise, what's all that extra space going toward? Every "document" I own fits in a single box. If anything, apartments will just become "Tokyo-ified".

> She never realised, before, how important it was to have good lighting, so she had spotlights installed in the ceiling and bought a proper desk lamp.

Ok, now you're jumping the shark. Nobody's installing track lighting just to do computer work. One good desk lamp is all you need.

> She's near a big road and she needs to concentrate hard when she's working - sound-proofing is an issue she hadn't anticipated.

Headphones worked for the office, they work at home too.
Apparently none of the components of the mix get used up except the nitrogen and the benzene. It may be not one-step catalytic, but this should not be a problem.

What am I missing?
I don't think this will happen. People are affected by Corona, yes, but that is because corona is a thing today.

Once corona goes away, only the paranoid will follow these guidelines.

Pretty much majority of the population will go back to normal way of life unaffected.

Climate crisis is irreversible and nobody gives a shit about it. How can we think that corona will change everything?

That being said, if it does change people then it os a very good thing
Oh, I love a great retrospecification work. This is awesome.
I believe the claim is that there exists a stable subset:

> Bell System Five is the umbrella term we use to describe Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Mac OS X which all have nearly-identical application binary interfaces that stood the test of time, having definitions nearly the same as those of AT&T back in the 1980's.

However, only Linux guarantees stability at this level so I too am very sceptical that this will "stand the test of time". And of course this completely excludes Windows.
but this is for dev only

>It is not intended to be a full-featured web server. It should not be used on a public network.
> you live and die by how tight you can turn without stalling out

I thought that modern fly-by-wire fighters don't let you stall during a turn. i.e. you just use full stick and the computer gives you the max turn rate.
> 11 workers died during construction, a safety record matching or surpassing most modern projects.

Do you have a source for that? 11 deaths seems like it would be shockingly high for a modern project.
I bet the name of this thing sends screen readers straight into the abyss.

"Need cred or accessibility? Nerd cred! Screw you if your eyes don't work!"
I'd say yes being able to parse JSON is a requirement in today's world
"Actually Portable Executable"

Incase anyone searches on hn.aloglia in future!
but it only used x86 instructions that were also ASCII characters

That was a somewhat common approach back then. It's hard to find references to that technique now, but here's something I did find:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16312562
It's simple, really - they're just trying to maximize the pageviews. If you have to click on 5 different Google search results to get the answer you needed, they've won. Getting the answer efficiently on the first click would be detrimental to their revenue model.
Because plants use up oxygen when they decay, or when they’re digested by herbivores, and release CO2 in the process. Plants are carbon neutral for this reason.

Oxygen comes from algae in the ocean. The reason the ocean carbon cycle isn’t carbon neutral is because the carbon is fixed into calcium carbonate by zooplankton that feed on the algae. When these tiny animals die their calcium carbonate based exoskeletons sink and accumulate on the ocean floor, sequestering the carbon there.

Carbon sequestration used to take place on land as well (that’s where all fossil fuels originate) but now we have fungi and animals like beetles that can break down lignin and cellulose instead of allowing it to accumulate.
lmgfy

https://www.thoughtco.com/how-much-oxygen-does-one-tree-prod...

A fully mature tree produces anywhere from 2 to 10 persons-worth of oxygen.

I too am skeptical about the amount of oxygen that can be usefully produced by rooftop plants. Yet I still think it is a good idea.
I don't think social distancing will be big in 2025, just as it wasn't in 1923, the same distance away from 1918.

I really hope we don't see a late 20th century style flee of cities either. The problems with that from last time are well documented.
You can control the volume of individual applications from the volume center on Windows. Shouldn’t be necessary, but I assume that would probably work.
I will never fit in among C++ programmers (2013)
Interesting, it seems that it allows the exact syntax of shell commands, without using strings.

// valid rust code and shell code, no strings
run_cmd!(du -ah . | sort -hr | head -n 10)?;

How does rust parse the statement within run_cmd()? Can rust parse other languages like this?

run_html!(<div>COOL</div>)
As i expected
Not Cliff, but I remember BLISS from early '80s Air Force work. It's the only thing I know that could beat compiled Fortran for things like signal processing. That code absolutely flew.
I remember that. Then in the early 90's it was .sit and .hqx on a Mac.
>>That most of us in Italy have African ancestry in our DNA

First of all, that has no relevance to the debate. Second, everyone has some trace of DNA from every region. That's not a revelation. Third, it was almost all North African admixture in the Italian population, not sub-Saharan African admixture, and it was people of sub-Saharan African ancestry which I specified as having high infant mortality rates in the US and Europe. So even your Red Herring is incorrect.

>>Look at France, 8% of the population comes from Africa, their infant mortality rate is 35% lower than the US

North African is not "sub-Saharan African". Most people of African ancestry in France are of North African descent.

And I didn't say demographics constituted the entire cause of the US's lower infant mortality statistics. I clearly said it's mostly due to methodology, with the US counting more premature births as live births, and consequently, the deaths of premature babies as infant deaths, while other countries count more deaths of premature babies as stillbirths.

Anyway, you've completely avoided dealing with the original subject matter. It was a broader point about how economies are organized, and all you seem to want to talk about is the US and how its national healthcare program doesn't offer universal coverage.

You seem have a very narrow agenda, focused entirely on confronting whoever you imagine to be opposed to socialized healthcare in the US. Diverting the discussion like this, to push your agenda, is very rude, and harmful to the public discourse.