skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You better believe the interior was dangerous before railroads and highways and air conditioning, especially the mountains and deserts of the American southwest. It's only comparatively recently that many of these places have been able to support large populations

Very. In fact many books about the rise of new migrants into the Mid-west are documented with immense amounts of violence at the hands of native plain tribes, specifically the Comanche [1] who were no joke the most well refined killing force on horseback on Earth not seen since the Mongolians in their peak.

It a really fascinating, and bloody history. I live in Colorado, which is where the Arapahoe tribe was centered and much is named after them to this day. After I arrived I looked into who they were and what they did which was marked with a before-and-after with an alliance with the Lakota, Dakota, and Cheyenne tribes who only together were able to push the Comanche back to the Southern Plains as the Comanche did not care who they raided and everything was fair game.

Its pretty insane to think that not that long ago this mainly raiding nomadic tribe had the influence they did on this continent, and many Western settlers were lured into the Midwest/South only to suffer a hapless fate as so many and were captured, killed, raped, enslaved. And acted as a sort of buffer kill zone while settlement further south in Texas was taking place.

While I'm not trying to marginalize the plight of Native Americans, I even actively directly helped them with my fintech startup as my co-founder made it a priority to do so, I cannot help but think that this current political atmosphere has been very ignorant view on just what exactly was taking place as Western migration was taking place, and the amount of countless stories of barbaric violence that will never be told because no one lived to tell about it.

It doesn't justify the violence that has come since from Westerners, but it also should be noted that the thing we should be against is institutionalized violence and not just hyper-focus on those acts of a certain racial/ethnic group in Society but ask how we got here and what to do about it moving forward.

1: https://www.npr.org/2011/05/20/136438816/the-rise-and-fall-o...
> Okay, and that's fine, but why her?

> [...] currently running as vice president in the upcoming election?

You're almost all the way there to answering your own question.
Castro is another. I like its "Inbox" structure and switched to it from Overcast after subscribing to both for a year. The Inbox is where all subscribed podcasts go by default for you to decide whether to add to queue or skip. You can also have select podcasts go straight to queue. I subscribe to a few podcasts where I only listen to the occasional episode (Joe Rogan, e.g.). You can also drag episodes from the queue back to the Inbox if you want.

I could never quite master Overcast's playlists and smart playlists, but did love its exceptional polish and just how tiny and privacy focused the app is.

I wish I could get the best parts of both those apps.
Right. Then it might be worth applying to cloud software engineer roles in general, and be sure to ask your interviewers about what sort of architecture they work on. In your case, seems like you’ll be more keen to work on those teams that have multiple services, not those that have monoliths.
One issue i have with this extension is that it randomly pops up the 'this site appears to be offline' (which overrides the entire page) even when the site actually works (i hit the back button and it appears). I have it installed for some time now and so far i have almost daily false negatives and only once actually it worked as intended.

Also there doesn't seem to be a way to open a URL directly from the extension which seems a weird omission, so i end up going to the archive site anyway since i very often want to find old long lost sites.
"Launch HN: Charityvest (YC S20) – Employee charitable funds and gift matching"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23907902 :

> We created a modern, simple, and affordable way for companies to include charitable giving in their suite of employee benefits.

> We give employees their own tax-deductible charitable giving fund, like an “HSA for Charity.” They can make contributions into their fund and, from their fund, support any of the 1.4M charities in the US, all on one tax receipt.

> Using the funds, we enable companies to operate gift matching programs that run on autopilot. Each donation to a charity from an employee is matched automatically by the company in our system.

> A company can set up a matching gift program and launch giving funds to employees in about 10 minutes of work.
After hearing Fauci's recent comments on the matter, my understanding is that the phase III trials can be considered for approval once there are enough infections in the control group to do a comparative analysis.

Since the events now needed to confirm the vaccine are in the control group, not the experimental group, it seems that the blocker for approval now isn't SAFETY, as it has been continually suggested, but EFFICACY.

If that is indeed the case, what makes the most sense to me would be to allow an early approval of any vaccine that meets reasonable safety requirement (some x months in stage 3 trial), but the patient must sign a waiver saying that they understand there may be rare side effects and there is no guaranteed immunity.
I just want to clarify Belarus does _not_ border Kalinigrad. You'd either have to pass Lithuania or Poland.

If that happens, the Baltic states should be worried.

In my opinion, it won't though. It's neither a threat nor a direct strategic advantage. It won't connect Kalinigrad. Belarus is landlocked. The population did not and is not asking for Russia assistance in any way, only Lukashenka did. While not super friendly, they're friendlier than to the EU bloc. I think it's just not worth the trouble and an eventual net-loss.

Unless, they have bigger plans, of course.
Outside of US, people expect the government to provide that safety net. In the US, we expect corporations to provide for health insurance, disposable income, and the tools/resources to focus on work. Meals, soda, and Slack work for early 20s fresh grads but not for parents/caregivers.
Parenting is a full-time+ job. Hopefully the past six months will help people better appreciate their colleague's partners/spouses that 'stay at home' to care for their children, but I admit that is optimistic.
Which app is the interoperable app that comes with the iphone?
Not really. You just need to be a car company. Volkswagen will soon be the world's biggest BEV maker. That's not surprising. Volkswagen is the world's biggest car company.

The Lucid Air is a high-end, low volume luxury car. Lucid may not ever aim at the high volume car market themselves. What they might do instead is license their drivetrain to other manufacturers.
While they mock some beliefs, they’ll subscribe to the dumbest conspiracy theory as long as it attacks the right people (hint: it’s not Republicans.) To give you an idea of how dumb: they used to promote the ‘joke’ that Michelle Obama was secretly male and would make fun of Biden’s many procedures.
They're a bit chewy when they come out but they go back to normal after sitting a bit.
If windows took hours to chkdsk (that's the term used under Windows, not fsck), it means it was (is?) something seriously wrong with your hardware and/or filesystem.

Normally, it took few minutes. The only way to avoid slow chkdsks in the future is to fix the underlying issue.

Also note that I'm not telling you to upgrade. I know that it is impossible with systems that have lab equipment attached. If you want support from the vendor, that is. So the question is, why don't you ask the vendor for support? This is in their scope.

Also, it was very easy to have damaged HFS+ and not know about it. There was a thriving market of third party utilities (Disk Warrior & co) that would gladly tell you and fix it, but most users didn't use them.
I’m not seeing anything insightful though. They are taking a fairly standard architecture, claiming it’s something different, and then claiming some connection to biological neurons.

As I read it, this is an example of people publishing a minor tweak in the algorithm and then claiming it’s a new biologically inspired abstraction. I guess I just want more papers about transformers.
Show HN: iOS app to focus on studying data structures
0.03 is the odds ratio (a measure of effect size, an odds ratio of 1 would mean the treatment and control arms had the same rate of ICU admittance). The p value is 0.08 from here "CI:-0.30 - 0.03 p:0.08." which captures the likelihood the treatment had an effect.

That said, just looking at p values and applying a cutoff at 0.05 is pretty bad practice that is getting a lot of heat thanks to the replication crisis (does it make sense to behave as though p=0.08 is not true and something at p=0.049 is true? almost certainly not). If you get a value in this range and a huge effect size then it's a really good idea to repeat the experiment with way more data. It's also a common stats error to act as though p>0.05 is the same as knowing something DOES NOT work, all you can say is this specific study wasn't able to show that it does work with 95% confidence.
I think that's an extention of what I'm talking about. Either way, so was it intentional? Does anyone sit down and say "I'm going to create something poorly documented that no developer can possibly understand, so that they'll call it magic, this is my goal today"?

Nope. "magic" is poor execution of something, one way or another. It's a category of something done unsuccesfully, not some kind of difference in kind of thing.

This matters for how we talk about 'magic', like, you shouldn't have put all that magic in there, did you think we want magic? No, nobody wants something poorly documented and nobody thinks they do. Nobody sets out to make something unsuccessful, "magic" is a failure.
Most languages have their own Slack (was IRC) channels... Are you looking for more entrepreneurial communities or language-specific hangouts?
This exact situation is happening now in Argentina. If someone sends you USD, they get converted to pesos at a ridiculously low rate. That's why most freelancers use crypto as a way to get their earnings.
Apple will seek damages from Epic Games for breach of App Store contract
Here's one project idea: `sled` is a transactional KV store written in Rust. Might be fun to build an embedded DB in Julia using sled as the storage engine.
A fauna focused synonym for canopy?
This is not true in many use cases. There are tons of ways to handle low code/no code. It is a very hard problem to solve, and vendors end up building basic "low-code" wrappers around API endpoints, and that's why it looks like a lost cause.

Done right, (we are a living proof it can be done, at Syncari), one can do a lot of stuff done without any coding
Not the GP and I don't have any book recommendations but, at least as a starting point, it begins with the history of the Whiskey Rebellion.
Startup Is a Movement
That really depends on the hardware. If there isn't someone willing to maintain the project then your device won't get community updates. My last phone stopped getting manufacturer updates and progress on community made roms was slow so I went with an pixel 4a.
They are working as much or more. Just not on the same things. It's not as if being a parent somehow translates into more free time, in fact it translates into substantially less free time if any at all.
And that comparison can keep on going once you start bringing in folks from other parts of the world. A poor person in America is still well beyond the quality of life of a well off person in some villages.

It's kind of fucked up to say a struggling person doesn't deserve your sympathy just because their suck isn't the same shade as the other person's suck.
Observations from Raising a Series A in 2020
What’s that reason?

Because to my knowledge people aren’t forced to have children.

This phrase exists to attack those without children by portraying people who made a different choice as having a privilege, when many literally can’t have children.

Privilege is something you have irrespective of your choices, you don’t get to portray the consequences of your choices as if other people have privilege.
An interesting aspect of the AVIF technology is how well it degrades. In fact, lossy AVIF can even beat optimized SVG+Brotli in transmission size, with a comparable visual quality.

One note, however, is that encoding is notably expensive, as noted here[1].

[1]: https://mobile.twitter.com/rem/status/1303396688049078276
It's simply depressing how parent/kid-hostile society has become... I'm not saying we need explosive population growth. But I feel one of the main purposes of society is raising and protecting children. If you're a human-future-optimist, you want some kind of generation that's better than us to continue on.... I'm not saying you NEED to have kids, but I feel it's part of society's collective duty to consider the next generation, build a better world, enable them to build something better than came before...
Sure, it's meant as an example of how large influxes of people into an area can potentially lead to superspreading-type events, and how common these are. That tiny town is an example of thousands of such places and events throughout the country.

Check out this graph from Arizona department of health 'Hospital COVID-like & Influenza-like illness Surveillance.'

https://www.azdhs.gov/preparedness/epidemiology-disease-cont...

Maybe it's spurious correlation, but I'd bet money the May 25th memorial day weekend had something to do with that big spike you see ramping up May 31. Memorial day also happened to feature thousands of people from another state flooding into Lake Havasu and other, similar cities without mask restrictions, and visiting bars, restaurants, etc.

Bear in mind, there were no mask restrictions in AZ before that peak.

Nobody has an RCT, so we're all just whiteboarding it to some extent.
Ask HN: Parents of HN, what can tech companies for you during the pandemic?
How can it be huge if it’s iOS only?
In this scenario, is there a way to handle the promotions such that no one is upset? I can't think of one. Maybe put them on different tracks -- those who took "parental flexibility" can get promoted, but it occurs later, and the money saved from that deferred promotion gets given to the singles who put in extra time/effort? Not sure, just brainstorming.
This is an OS API. It has nothing to do with the server-side integrations of whatever smart home products you use. https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/device-control
This reminds me of local retirees who are resentful that their taxes are paying for public schools. They seem to have forgotten that someone paid for them to attend school.

Regarding parental time off, it's conceivable that their own parents never had that support. Maternal/parental leave is taking decades to roll out - perhaps as long as it took for public schooling to become universally available.
Considering I've never wanted to go to a gym, sounds like a safe bet.
The biggest concern I have with black boxes like this is how its going to interact with updates. Presumably they are intercepting messages on the CAN bus. The CAN bus is fairly easy to crack if you know what you are doing, but it also could change with the software version. The black box has probably hardcoded the message IDs that they are intercepting, but if the messages get reshuffled around in a software update it'll be sending out some data for some random other message which could have safety implications.
You can add Adobe AIR, which was built for exactly that scenario. It flopped because people weren't going to pay when they could just use HTML 5.

That's the hard part - any such solution has to compete with the HTML/JS/CSS ecosystem for free.
"Salesforce Sustainability Cloud Becomes Generally Available" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22068522 :

> Are there similar services for Sustainability Reporting and accountability?
I generally agree with that sentiment, but I'm not sure it's persuasive when expressed by somebody who will never have to worry about his bowl being empty (e.g. a successful celebrity like Louis C.K.)
Neither. The failure is with the team's manager. The team's leadership should have reduced the workload of the team.

It starts at the top. I work at a (non-tech) Fortune 50 and the message from the CEO on down has been the same: take vacation, take care of your family, some priorities/projects for this year will not be met and that is fine.
Isn't it just bizarre how people can have children and not expect it to disrupt their lives. They are children, they require your engagement, this is part of the deal. Tech companies should offer the same time off to all employees whether they have children or not. Children should not be allowed to be bargaining chip to obtain more from others. Your choice. To be honest having children out weighs any negative impact it has on career progression and if you don't understand that you should have not have had children to begin with.

Oddly this is little different than what some people do with pets, they are fine and wonderful until they realize they require time, attention, and money.
Sorry, you right. Present tense
How do you sympathize?

Edit: For clarity, the comment is clearly unsympathetic.
The One Who Defines the Category Wins the Category
How to Architect a Node.js Project Properly
Do they bin batteries and parts? Is the price based on a calculation of failure rates and warranty service costs? Or is it just a cash grab? I'm not sure.
For me the key feature(s) I want that Proton doesn't have is the docs and spreadsheets. If you're already on Google Suites/apps it's hard to move over without those.
> In addition the act of reading and writing code does a ton of damage to the Wernicke and Brocas area

Jesus that sounds serious. Should I start demanding hazard pay from my employer?
This strategy has saved our bacon at work more than a handful of times. All the URLs we ship in our apps point to a "lookup" server (just Nginx with a huge list of redirect rules), such that if the URL we were using in the app disappears, we can change it on the server side rather than requiring a client update.
Only after having a kid did I fully realize just how much time and freedom I had.
> cancer patient gets extra time off so why don't I?

In my experience they actually don't, and they aren't paid during the same period either. They are forced to take medical leave, and receive significantly reduced pay.
> He added: "I see the disinfectant that knocks it out in a minute, one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning? As you see, it gets in the lungs, it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it would be interesting to check that." [1]

There's video of this. He is 100% serious.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-suggests...
Since I am not familiar with the costs involved, can you say how much would it cost to just redirect google.google to https://www.google.com/search?q=google ?
The OP asked if there are startups "tackling major societal problems". Tackling to me means that is the number one goal - tackling the actual problem, not a by-product.

Tesla makes luxury cars which is 5% of all car sales (Model 3 included, it starts at $38k). Tesla is 5th in market share for luxury cars in 2019 at 9.78% [0]. That means of all car sales in 2019, Tesla accounted for 0.5%. I'm not bashing Tesla, they make cool products (except that truck concept, that looks like ass), these are just the stats.

I understand their eventual goal is to have previous products help reduce cost for future ones but the impact on reducing CO2 levels by Tesla cars alone is probably not much at this point.

It would be like a new airplane manufacturer starts up and says they want to address the world's transition to sustainable energy and they are going to start with the Learjet/executive flyer market first. I wouldn't say that company is "tackling a major societal problem" I would say they're building a boutique business that as a by-product reduces CO2.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/287620/luxury-vehicles-u...
Castro has listening history. But it doesn't handle in-order bingeing of podcasts any better than any other client I've tried.

It's puzzling how no one has done this yet:

- play podcasts in chronological order, keeping x of them downloaded and getting the next one when one is finished.
As someone who's decently comfortable with public speaking:

Your employer is not your therapist and conflating the two is one of the most terrifying things I have ever read on HN.
Society doesn't exist without children. Child care is right up there with fire departments for things you, personally, as a childless person whose house has not burned down, need to exist in order to live in society, and not just a hermit in the woods.
No. The USA's constitution does not apply to people outside the USA. I don't know what kind of ideological bubble you need to live in to think that your country's laws are applicable to the entire planet, but I assure you they're not.
Now you're in what is probably textbook discrimination territory.
Google’s new Verified Calls feature will tell you why a business is calling you
Getting Bash and the other GNU tools to run on AIX 3.2.5 was definitely a chore but I still miss those days.

The culture was a lot more active in the 90's. I mean if you were trying to port something to AIX and having trouble with gcc, you could go on comp.unix.aix and IBM employees would actually respond and be helpful.

We lost a lot when that era died.
FWIW, in the Bay Area at least, there have always been companies with fairly toxic cultures that impute "shame" on people who go home early or choose family events over company events.

Because technical people have generally (although not universally) employable at multiple companies, it was has been possible to leave a company once you figured out they were 'dinging' you for spending too much time with your family. It is also why I found the rationale for leaving of "going to spend more time with my family" somewhat painful as it implies that company would not support that choice while still employing you. (and yes, I know its a euphemism more than an actual reason but still).

One need look no further than the "controversy" over parental leave to understand that American companies have a fairly broken value system when it comes to their employee's well being.
You generally don't have to care about maintaining "POSIX compatibility" even on non-Windows platforms, but if you are in the position where you have to, I don't want your job. Similarly, if your codebase is using tabs, I don't want your job.
I was under the impression that they went back to the car, and the road out appeared to go through the fire. The recommendation to go the other way would have meant hiking out, which, even though it was what they ended up doing, was not obviously the best choice early on?
Answer: Whatever your current generation mid-level Nvidia Geforce is. It's been this way for a while.

Though, you should probably use AWS ML Compute, since they even have Nvidia Ampere 100's, which cost $10,000 each, and it'll probably be more cost effective for heavier workloads.
Yeah, arming the people worked really well for Syria and Lybia.
When I was running a product team, I often talked about "nuance" being the enemy. Every difference (or arrow in a flowchart) was a new piece of product debt to have to think about later.

This article is in that direction.
> … the difficulties started piling up fast, and before we knew it we had to deal with a lot.