skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's weird. They've obviously written a bunch, but there's no clear "this is what this is and what we want it to be and this is where we're going". It's all very ... academic and "meta" in a very vague way.

https://github.com/athensresearch/athens/blob/master/VISION....
The body is basically zillions of electrodes wired to the brain. If we discover the patterns we could -in principle- induce them through vision, hearing or skin pulses. Binaural beats (aka "computer drugs") also come to mind.
Yeah, having the perspective of people outside your bubble definitely helps. Outside of software engineers, I have seen this quite a bit in people I know that became doctors: its the natural thing to compare yourself to your perceived peers, so the comparison becomes the people at your hospital who are making more. The sudden reminder that there is a world outside of your bubble is a bit like splashing cold-water on your face.
>What do you expect them to use instead? Rubber bullets blind people and tear gas is very damaging to people with asthma. They can't let riots run free like in Portland because they have to protect the essential government buildings. Should the military beat protesters with nightsticks? What should they do when words are insufficient?

I can tell you're fishing for the answer "go ahead and microwave the protesters en masse" but instead: How about stop murdering black people?
Really enjoyed this article, thank you for sharing
An ambitious/driven PM was put on the project, and he/she is making more aggressive demands than all the ones in the last 10 years <- opinion
Diversity of thought isn't really something we do anymore. If you pay attention you'll notice how you always have to put things in a particular way depending on the group you talk to. You have to avoid mentioning certain other groups. You have to couch your position in friendly terms, or talk about a problem that primarily affects one group as if it affects everyone equally, or vice-versa. People have a laser-focus on whose flag they perceive you to be flying and it's almost impossible to get anything done when they decide you're playing for the wrong team.
Sun keyboards are mushy, though. Unicomp has 122-key Model M keyboards with 10 keys on the left and 24 function keys at the top.
Twitter has started doing a weird thing where if you visit the beginning of a thread directly, it will cut off the replies after just 6 tweets. To read further, you have to click "Show this thread" which directs to the same tweet but with a different URL format: https://twitter.com/i/status/1306359385656946688 This shows the full thread and then rewrites the URL in the address bar back to the original URL.
This was demo'd in the Facebook event today as something they are actively working on and making progress with. Seamlessly switch from VR (with browser or application window floating in a VR game/app) to passthrough camera into the real world (with the browser or application windows still floating in the exact same position in space.
Will definitely look into .vue support!

But for compile translations (per-language), I'm not so sure if added performance can justify introduced complexity (for users' build/serve workflow).
> Shame they had to ruin it by forcing the absolutely nonsensical categories on you with no option for a plain alphabetical list.

Swipe down on the app library screen and you get the alphabetical list. Same gesture you used to do a search from any screen.
Well the inferences would only be as good as the sampling then. I know for me, the census was the last thing that was on my mind, and it was only completed it because my spouse was did it. There has been many issues with Census data collection (take a google news search).
I guess my takeaway from this is if you're a government building some sort of asset you're going to transfer to the private sector, overengineer it. Nobody is ever going to do maintenance, so your thing essentially has to last forever. Imagine that they made the hooks so they only lasted for 10 years -- we'd have 10 times as many billion-dollar fires. But some engineer in 1918 said "you know, let's make it a little bit bigger, it's only a few cents extra" and they probably saved some lives in the process.

(Yes, it failed, but you have to admit that it had a pretty good run! 97 years is not bad for a moving part!)
no politics here especially anything positive for that looney tune who per the census has increased wages for citizens by 4k in a year.
Great solution. Go tell the DC National Guard that they just need to stop murdering black people and that will keep the essential government buildings safe. Why even have police at that point?
Like the thread points out though, maintenance is just one piece of the puzzle. There were multiple points of failure here, not just the hook.

That's like blaming the welders for the Lebanon explosion when in reality it was a combination of like 4 different fails over the course of many years.
Good point (about the dysfunction of how maintenance costs get considered), but maintenance of that one hook is nothing. And lack of maintenance of the whole system risks more such fires. I'm assuming it's $4 million fine plus requiring the missing maintenance program to be implemented.
FWIW, I find those types tend to recommend ProtonMail more than Tutonota
If police are going to just flout the law and literally murder the citizens they're supposed to be protecting, why even have police?
Home Depot is hiring and they don’t care what you bootstrap in your own time.

Are you asking for a list of companies? That’s a big ask since you don’t mention your skills, goals, or what domain the SAAS product might serve,

Don’t join a company that’s even remotely in the same business as your side project — you don’t want to get accused of IP theft or competing with your employer. Don’t use any of your employer’s resources for your own work. Have your own laptop, online accounts, phone, internet connection, and don’t do any side work at your employer’s office. Talk to a lawyer to make sure your employer can’t claim ownership of your side work.
Oh ... so that is what a Pratt parser is. Thanks for the nice clear writeup.

But methinks it should be called a Wirth parser. Nicholas Wirth invented the same thing in the 1970's. He initially used it to parse his first language, Pascal. He drew them as Syntax diagrams: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntax_diagram The loops that characterise Pratt are evident in those diagrams.

You can read his book on Pascal here: https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/bitstream/handle/20.... At the end you will find the syntax diagrams for the entire language. The compiler was derived from those diagrams in the straight forward way described in the article.

And everything the article says is true, if you are going to manually write a parser, they are by far the easiest starting point. And I don't doubt error messages and error recovery are much easier too. Parser generators don't give you the same flexibility to play with a parsers guts.

But you do lose some things. A parser generator checks for ambiguities, something you can easily miss in a hand written parser. A parser generator also enforces a clean split between the parser and whatever you are doing with the syntax tree, whereas hand written parsers lead you toward a ball of mud where one lump of code has all the tasks intermixed.

And there are LR parsers out there that support the loops and priorities that raw BNF productions make so hard. Like mine :D http://lrparsing.sourceforge.net/doc/html/
The Tienanmen Square Incident is also right wing propaganda. I suggest you diversify your news intake.
Not looking good here either, for once I’m happy with my original photo.

Oddly enough, I bet if the output was designed to always generate more attractive features (ala insta filters), this will take off.

Maybe I don’t high cheekbones or a chiseled jaw, but lie to me dammit!

Just a tip.
The kid could be on the porch.
Welp, that'll replace the whale in me nightmares.
This is median, so maybe if you're saying the mechanism is fewer low income jobs available? 15/hr at 40h/50wk is 30k, so it would not raise median to bring the floor up.
As an elected representative for them I would probably ask why they're upset and appease their grievances if warranted.

Lawless murder and intimidation by the police is a violently oppressive grievance I would consider warranted.

Instead citizens who demand justice are met with surprise more injustice by the police.
I found the format to be great as I wasn’t expecting it to take the turn that it did. I agree though, excellent thread
Please, anyone, desperately anyone, literally anyone, please, for the love of god, make a competing headset that doesn’t have this deep Facebook integration bullshit.

I do not want to see this become the Oasis.
Because then America would turn into one big CHAZ/CHOP where gangsters become the new cops and begin oppressing everyone all over again.
One argument is that increases in necessities like healthcare, and rent are offset by decreases in things like the cost of consumer electronics.

So the inflation rate doesn’t give you a good picture of the actual increase in the cost of living.
It doesn’t say in the README, but the description for the repo (About; on the upper right hand side of the file explorer) says:

> Open-Source Networked Thought. Rolling out our Beta to Sponsors. Read more at https://www.notion.so/athensresearch/MVP-Update-Funding-and-...
I'm gonna build one! Ordered two boards immediately. Qmk orthogonal keyboards are trivial to add MIDI to and super fun, I've made a few. I already have the switches. Grand piano range with a bass guitar layout
What about through windows? Screen doors? Front yards?

Microwaving the plants and animals in my front yard seems like a violation of personal property. But laws are abstract and regularly unenforced so who knows.
I agree that ‘better’ is worth doing and we could wait forever for ‘perfect’ to come along while the world burns.

However even doing these things won’t return the biosphere to it’s previous condition, we’ve extracted extreme quantities of energy from underground and dumped them into the atmosphere, and our ‘locked in’ climate change will not decrease with those measures alone. We need to restore balance and I can’t see a way of doing it short of significant carbon sequestration - vastly beyond what can be achieved by reforestation.
This is an excellent point - I think we are definitely a generation of consumers, and what happens is, kids who aren't taught how debt works get caught up in it.

And once you're caught up in debt that extra 400 doesn't go to a mortgage it goes to that credit card or that high car payment on a 72 month term..
I don't use iOS. I use only mobile and desktop OSes that allow these things. I still haven't seen them abused.
Google engineers wanted impact to get promoted, consider this a natural result (or whatever other rationale that does not put user satisfaction as the first criteria)
So, it would become the current situation you have now?
And what about the citizens who show up and demand free shoes?
A near-impossible guessing game of tech through the decades
It would be great if the author had just made a blog post and tweeted it. This sort of seems like useful information, which will suck to lose when this tweet inevitably disappears and isn't updated later with new information.

Tweets make excellent momentary entertainment. Let's stop using them for anything else.
Multiple print screens, too. I suspect they're just labels and the keys do something different
You’re right, that was a bit harsh I guess, but I’m just mirroring the attitude I perceive from the cycling community. I recently bought a road bike myself and found the entire sport obnoxiously pretentious, including the guy at the bike shop, who sneered at me because I didn’t know what a “fondo” was.
These numbers are pre-COVID. Obviously things are bad now, there’s a global pandemic.

Pre-COVID, personal satisfaction in the US was at all time highs, so these numbers shouldn’t be all that surprising to anyone outside the HN bubble...
The conclusion of the study that the article is based from:

> Reports of audio-vestibular symptoms in confirmed COVID-19 cases are few, with mostly minor symptoms, and the studies are of poor quality
That worked great for the mayor of Portland. He ended up moving out of his home because the protestors showed up there to harass him.
No. When gangsters are in charge and murder people, there's no mass outrage because no one expects any better.
I dont quite agree. I dont think you can compare home to inflation only -- you have to also look at the income in that area as well as total cost. If incomes have also fallen, then the relative cost/income ratio may have remained the same (or as i'm proposing -- has increased.)

As an example, there are depressed areas in flyover states where costs have indeed gone down. But incomes have gone down even more -- they are once thriving places like Binghamton NY which had industries that have since moved overseas.

There is also the cost of healthcare, education, and retirement savings. My father benefited from a pension plan -- I have to save myself in a 401k. My father paid no employee premiums for healthcare, I pay about $900/mo for the family premium (before copays and coinsurance.)
"Turn the 5G ray on them."
Expensive cities have most of the jobs.

There's a reason Pittsburgh's population declined by the hundreds of thousands since the 1970s. Sure you can get a cheaper house. But you aren't making coastal money.

In the 60s those "small towns" had manufacturing plants you could just walk in and get a job at, many of which were union and paid extraordinarily well.
Paradoxically though if it failed every 1 year then pretty soon maintenance would have to be performed every few months or days or else there would be so many failures it would be really hard to ignore.
I think they were sad they missed the boat on mobile and wanted to get in early on VR in case it gets big. Although a massive investment, for Facebook it was not that big a deal.
> In wake of George Floyd’s murder

To be fair, murder has not been established. Journalists typically say "the death of George Floyd"
You know, I agree with this in the sense that Trump, a fascist, let it happen the way it did out of pure reckless negligence and very possibly active malice. It is indeed pretty fascist to knowingly let a deadly virus rip through the nation unimpeded with all the ill consequences it entails, including economic distortions that disproportionately hurt small players.

(Too political for HN? Guess we'll see.)
> [...] at least now they'll have the ability to not do that. Before, it was basically a lost cause.

Source?
Authentication devices have to go through the authentication device API, which has logic to keep them from being abused.
How involved of a setup is RDP if most of your systems aren't Windows? I haven't fallen far down the rabbit hole of remote device management, outside of some basic familiarity with SSH. (One particular use case I've been itching to try, but have no idea where to start, is using one system as a secondary display for another. Can an RDP session do this, or is it limited strictly to mirroring?)

Incidentally ZeroTier is new to me, and an interesting rabbit hole in itself (along with the BSL, which is also a first-time read) since I'm in a similar spot with VPNs.
They very explicitly said it has to be a “real name” account. Enough to make me question the strategy of a throwaway account. I bet they’re going to match your credit card against your FB profile to see if your account is authentic. At the minimum they’re going to require you to create an account with your real name.

The whole thing is sickening to me. Congress should unwind the Oculus purchase ASAP.
I'm glad we agree that US police are gangsters who murder people. Done replying. Have a nice night "friend".
I have also had bad experiences with "Backup and Sync", which led me to abandon Google Drive right when I was seriously considering ditching Dropbox.

Given Google's reputation to ditch their own products, I guessed this was some side projects that some Googlers did, and it was never in Google's main strategy to allow people to sync their Google Drive to their local machines. Quite the opposite, actually.

My current gripe with Dropbox is that I'd like to basically be able to pay 4x the "Dropbox Plus" cost in order to get 4x the storage (without having to manage 4 separate accounts). Having 2TB isn't enough, but having "infinite" with Dropbox Business certainly is more than I want.
How soon? My guess is it will still be there when the iPhone 12 arrives.
Thanks. My apologies for the bad info.
Why should businesses get a pass but not normal users?
As an example of metadata revealing a lot about you:

Ireland got a postcode system in 2015 (the last time they considered implementing postcodes to improve autosorting, they were so late to the party that "an post" (Irish postal service) had OCR machines good enough to just read the whole address) which assigns each residence in the country a 7-digit alphanumerical code. Called an "Eircode" [1]
It is purported to be a solution to packages getting lost or delayed, and an unambiguous way of giving someone a building's address.

An Eircode can be resolved into a full postal address, and GPS co-ordinates for the address.

e.g, here's some Eircodes;

Facebook's headquarters: D02 Y098

President's house: D08 E1W3

Data protection commission: D02 RD28

To get the info for any of these, check out: https://finder.eircode.ie/

Personal note: I'm not too jazzed on the specifics of the implementation, but it sure is handy when you're shitfaced and can trivially explain exactly where you live to a food-delivery driver over the phone.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_addresses_in_the_Republ...
Ahh yes, "personal satisfaction." I'd love to see the survey that made that statistic marketable.
Today's masering brought to you by AT&T.
Get some rest, it must be hard holding two opposing ideas in your head at once.
Reasonable implementations let users easily block the notifications after receiving them. It doesn't require much savviness.
The Deafness Diet
In my state it's $100 to file, and a $50 fee each year (if assets are < $250,000). If you're a single member LLC, you don't even have to have articles of incorporation. You can even file a sketchy shell company and pay a registered agent to use their address. Also, no state taxes either. It's about a 10 minute process.
Another answer is that some companies need the DRM broken on software where the original developer's company may no longer even exist, yet they rely on the (often extremely old) software for their critical production line equipment, whose replacement costs would far exceed that of breaking the DRM and sometimes "porting" the software to new hardware (i.e. breaking the DRM may be a first step.) This is often the realm of hardware dongles and such.
> Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ XR2 Platform offering higher AI capability

Now, having a CPU is considered AI?
I regularly go to the climbing gym. I couldn't help noticing that there are so many programmers in the climbing gym. People talk about programming related topic all the time.

I also went to a dancing school for a year, but I hardly saw any programmer there.

I also like snowboarding but it's hard to interact with people around you so I don't know.

Outside of sports, I like board games and there are more programmers than average.
+1 for getting off social media. I quit all of them except occasionally reading/replying on HN and have felt much better. Social media is a colossal time suck that makes people feel worse about themselves. I no longer feel bad when Kanye microaggresses me and brags about his success.
Keep spamming it on HN, I'm sure the press will come through one of these times
I actually feel bad about pointing out issues with this code since the project is very neat. But, I'm still going to do it.

There is a problem where the code uses explicit escape sequences for colour instead of using terminfo. This is a pet peeve of mine, because it prevents things like controlling whether or not to use colour by setting TERM to the appropriate values. Or to completely disable highlighting by setting TERM to "dumb". Or even use a completely different terminal type, like if you have an old vt52 hooked up to your computer.

Terminfo is a really nice library that abstracts away all the terminal codes. It's really what should be used here.
Well, it's certainly true that the cops were rioting.
So, just to clarify: if a "customer" who happens to employ tens of thousands of people also employs non-US citizens (such as the DoD's foreign national IT contractors), then non-US citizens would have access to GovCloud.
Universal Cap Tables
Immediately made me think of: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/bring...

Too long; didn't listen: same thing but related to Alzheimer's disease research where scientists would induce some frequency in the brain of mice and humans to help clean up some "gunk" in the brain that's associated with the disease.
Couldn't this fluctuate widely based on how inflation is calculated?
> Similarly, you are by and far more likely to be shot by your town’s police department than any other member of the government, because there are a lot more of them and they are a lot less trained and monitored than their federal counterparts.

> That doesn’t mean places like DHS don’t do bad things, they do, but you should look at your local cops first.

I would posit that many places don't have police at the town-level. As you move away from the coasts where the cities are far and the towns sparsely populated, policing responsibilities tend to rest at the county level or in a sheriff's department or similar.
Somebody wanted to get promoted and needed to show "impact". Count your blessings that they didn't decide to show impact by creating yet another google chat app.
It’s Gallup: https://news.gallup.com/poll/284285/new-high-americans-satis...

Anyway, it sounds like you’ve really made up your mind here, and no amount of data appears to be sufficient to reverse the dogma.
I love how they show people in the pictures who are in wide empty places with just a single tree behind and no furniture and nothing on the floor. Is this some kind of alien landscape?
> I developed my own full-body fitness game [2] there which would never make it into the official store

Curious - why? Are there restrictive rules or too much hassle and overhead for small shops?
"Paying money to violate the law" is a fundamentally broken method of law enforcement. Do away with them. Justice should not be a line item in a spreadsheet. Maybe it's only twenty minutes in the county jail but every single infraction should fall personally on the individual who made the decision. Start hauling board members into court in orange jumpsuits and see how quickly these "unavoidable" fuckups stop happening.
I would wager a lot of power companies run their equipment to failure.

Anecdata, but Pepco in Maryland burned me once. When we first moved into our house motor loads (vacuum, disposal, etc.) caused all the lights in the house to dim. We called an electrician and he said the problem was the transformer in the green box outside our house and to call Pepco to fix it. We did and Pepco dragged their feet forever. Weeks later they said they inspected it and it was fine. Fast forward 2 years when our house has a massive power surge which fries 2 computers (just the PSUs) and bursts some bulbs. We call an electrician and he says the transformer outside failed and to call Pepco. We did and Pepco had someone out in, no joke, in 20 minutes to fix it. As a nice side effect, motor loads no longer cause the lights to dim. We filed a claim with Pepco for damages, citing the previous incident 2 years ago as evidence they knew the transformer was failing but they denied the claim with no explanation.
Grody behavior