skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I earn $100,000 am I allowed to ask for people advocating for tax increases to be ejected from the company for being wealthophobes?

That isn't as idle a question as you might think on first glance. Denying someone marriage rights is waaay down the list of ways voters can screw each other over through government policy. Most high income earners are in companies with co-workers who literally argue that they should be less well off.

Being anti-gay-marriage is more stupid because the upside is unclear, but we expect people in the same company to put up with bigger differences of opinion on a routine basis. Different religions have gone to war in the past. I don't think many battles have been fought over official marriage rights.
The gums are full of nervous tissue. It's a straight line to the brain.
Helping people out is fine if you aren't doing it at the expense of others like OP is. He's terrorizing his other employees.
They are road legal. In the US at least, road legal is a pretty low bar to clear.

But they usually have drag radials with skinny fronts, stripped interiors and high-stall torque converters. Which combine to make the car really hard to drive on the street.
Why bother trying to build a successful business if Google is just going to keep bailing you out with their charity?
The September 2020 release of Azure Data Studio is now available
It's down. Mistake to post it in HN :P
Dumb question but I'm getting 404 errors with the wget command (but the urls work fine in the browser). Any advice?
What does this comment bring to the discussion, in line with the HN site guidelines? Does your comment inspire curiosity? Or is it a vague, arguable insult against a nation you dislike?
Confirmed. It is not reporting my SSH running on an alternate port.
Concepts can be embraced. The concept is not limited to a single product.
My first indie project. :)
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> “One very small protein found in both plants made mice lick and nip at the spots where it was injected.”

Well that’s not very nice is it. Pain research on mice that is.
What about the new Macbook pro 13 inch?
Only in the sense that it could help prevent healthcare workers themselves from becoming carriers. If the disease is "in the wild" and has already gotten past the capacity of contact tracing and containment procedures, it's a moot point.
Excellent news. For now though, I sincerely hope that FF will somehow manage to stay alive, and that Mozilla will put all of their effort behind it.
Looks like you need to optimize the DB more https://i.imgur.com/ghbKj9I.png
My main use case is longevity. I use it as part of the extended brain idea. Along with my notes I want my citations to be around. Link rot is a serious issue and this solves for it.

I bookmark in pinboard and every couple of months download the offline archive and back it up, meaning I never have to worry about important things I've bookmarked going away.

I'm a little over the top though... https://kolemcrae.com/notebook/longevity.html
Oracle adds Arm-powered servers with up to 160 cores to its cloud
If they’re using a language server plugin, it’s entirely possible that they just call a refactor function provided by the LS. This works just as well in vim or emacs as it does in vscode, since they can all use the same language servers (generally)
Vulkan distribution across Android devices
IMO, no. First responders have access to equipment through their governing bodies small to large as well as their employers.

Yes, it may be hard for all of them to get PPE at all times but I would not feel guilty about your purchase and I would not donate them.

In fact, I can imagine an EMT/Firefighter/nurse on the other end being the one selling extras they have.
Yup.

There was one woman who worked at that place. She was super smart and way senior compared to me.

She'd call me over and I'd pretend to be her manager from time to time.... the moment I said the same thing she did, they'd accept it.

Sometimes I didn't even know what she was asking me to say, she'd just sigh and hand me a piece of paper and I'd read it to them...
The same Lenovo that, after being caught bundling malware [1] with their laptops, promised not to do it again, and was then caught bundling a rootkit [2]?

[1] https://thehackernews.com/2015/02/lenovo-superfish-malware.h...

[2] https://thehackernews.com/2015/08/lenovo-rootkit-malware.htm...

Edit as reply due to rate limit:

> No, it's not really the same Lenovo. [..] development [..] is separated

That's putting a lot of faith into internal separation of departments for a company with a track record of inserting malware into their products and lying about it.
> Firefox has a problem. It gets most of its revenue from Google. They need a different revenue stream but their ideas haven't worked.

It's not just that they get most of their revenue from Google -- it's that they're getting most of their revenue from a company that also runs their biggest competitor and has every incentive to push their own product over someone else's.

Apple and Mozilla both have uncomfortable dependencies on Google nowadays, so I wonder if one of them (if not both) are looking to buy DuckDuckGo.
Why My Tweets Are Ephemeral
So maybe write your own version to see how it works, then use the already existing, time and battle tested solution.
I Am Devloper
It's off-topic for HN. From the guidelines:

- "On-Topic: [...] anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

- "Off-topic: [...] If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

- "If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did."

Though I appreciate that I'm not paying much attention to the last point.
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It’s not just about child mortality, life expectancy improved at all ages
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Thanks mate. You've to be too careful these days I reckon. My housemates and I had loads of fun calling each other names. They would call me curry muncher and I called them unseasoned chicken wings and we laughed it off. I don't see any problem there. They've helped me whenever I need anything and I'd do the same for them. I think that matters more than any of these new age safe space thing. But I guess not everyone has thick skin! Cheers, dude.
Do you consider spreading to other more vulnerable people as a bad COVID outcome?
None of that helps. A nullable int is `Nullable<int>` or `int?` for short. There is nothing about the language feature that allows you to represent null with a totally different type like `DBNull`, other than declaring your variable `object`. What's the return type of a method that sometimes returns `int` and sometimes `DBNull`? It can only be `object`.

I seem to be having some trouble explaining my point. Maybe this will illustrate better. What should be the declared return type of this method?

??? GetValue() {
if (condition) {
return 7;
}
else {
return DBNull.Value;
}
}
That's quite interesting. I guess one could try to do something even cleaner than this https://github.com/dry-python/classes using type hints only and code transformation based on Python ASTs (see e.g. https://github.com/berkerpeksag/astor). I have done something similar for (typed) Python-to-C transpilation for fun (https://github.com/zanellia/prometeo), but, now that I think about it, it could be used to implement typed polymorphism for Python classes quite easily.
Also, one might have all those things but be fully occupied by the very realistic fear of loosing any one of them at any moment, cancelling most of the happiness.
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What a fascinating case - that he is even unable to learn procedural skills. Speculating wildly here, but with learning being at the very core of what neurons do, the issue seems "low level" enough that it might even show up if you put a tissue sample in a petri dish.
If the upstream returns an error over HTTP, the CDN won’t hide it.
It depends on how you use Tor. For browsing you will essentially remain anonymous forever unless you do something that can connect you between sessions, like logging into some user account. This excludes side-channel attacks and an adverse which controls a large number of nodes, or is able to listen to a lot of the global network traffic.

It's different for people who operates hidden services. They are always online, and it is easy to tie one session to another, because the session will always be tied to the service they are running. This means that over time, you will be able to identify the service even with control over a small subset of services. You can read more about the different ways this can be done here: https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/896-To...
I haven’t internalized this method yet, but I’m a fan of this video by a YouTube maker-type (“Crafsman”) explaining how to memorize numbers: https://youtu.be/zyqoCZIKsN0

Separately, I’m paranoid about forgetting people’s names, so for me (as other people are describing here) I find it helps to come up with a visualization or link their name to an idea: This guy I just met is named Dylan is bald, and Bob Dylan has crazy hair. The person up the street is named Beth like the KISS song. My favorite was a person named Mika, who was from Yakima, and who introduced herself by saying “I put the _mika_ in _Yakima_.” That was someone I barely knew more than five years ago and I’ll probably still have that one rolling around in my head if I still exist twenty years from now.
Because the point is not really a logical statement, but an appeal to emotion, expecting a logical refutation to a non logical statement is absurd and TBH, kinda ignorant of all the kinds of valid discussion humans have all the time.

Do you really think is reasonable to demand a change of behavior in women instead of maybe demanding the same from men?

Do you really think men with a couple are no longer part of the competition drivel?
Trader Joe’s Dunks $13B Annually by Doing the Opposite
So let her go to Google and hire Eich back for $400K, problem solved.

Her experience was in legal and operations, not product vision and development. She's a Tim Cook or a Sundar Pichai when what's needed is a Steve Jobs or Sergey Brin.
I think we are going to have to do this in all western countries. Healthcare equipment is just too critical to leave to the corporate accountants to profit maximise.
I served on the board of the Apache Software Foundation for a year and everything about the experience convinced me that it is desirable for the board to be completely separate from the corporate officers.

In fact, I have seen this very debate play out in real life. We appointed a new President of the ASF during my term. That person had been a Director, but when they became President they stepped down from the Board.

For a non-profit charity that relies on volunteers, perfect separation is not always feasible, and especially in the early years when the ASF was smaller the President was often a Board member. But although I can't speak for anybody but myself, I believe that the ASF is likely to continue with an informal tradition of separating Board from Officers for the indefinite future.

A similar cultural change ought to be possible at Mozilla — and perhaps elsewhere.
Leaving my corporate 9-5 for permanent Indie Hacking. Advice needed
Of course, this only works well with non-ancient bash, not the ancient version which ships with MacOS, which will do {1.999} but can't do the leading zeros (you can use printf '%.3d' as a separate step).
So what you're saying is, it's easier to create a magical AI that can decide with 100% confidence the best visual area of the photo, than a UI component?
Why do they list Soundcloud, if the number is 0?
Yes - Got one I bought a while back and am looking to sell on, can give me more details if you email nile@hey.com
As a corollary, time spent answering StackOverflow questions or blogging is also a great way to learn. Writing code & the blogging about it is the best mix for me.
I hate javascript, but mine is "kill all node processes". Never touched node with a ten foot pole. Google looks like using GPT-2.
Pay isn't the issue for hospitals buying software, they are already paying big money to vendors. And they often can't take their money elsewhere because of contracts. I heard 10 years lock-in for an EHR solution.

Lots of software churn is probably bad for medical workers too if they are constantly retraining in high stress environments - they might be technical but may not be comfortable with computers.

Building your own software is do-able for some aspects (to avoid paying millions for a simple web app), but most hospitals are not going to want to build their own EHR software or other large pieces.
Remember Stephen Elop, former CEO of Nokia? He did an awesome job in reducing Nokia's marketshare (and hence, its market capital) to make the company ready to be acquired by his mother company, Microsoft, at a very low price (cheaper than just one app—WhatsApp which was sold to Facebook).

Or remember Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer? She also did a great job at making the company ready to be sold out to Verizon at low price.

These CEOs know what they're doing. They take care of their personal interests and steal companies for the tech giants.
I find it really interesting Elon and Tesla PR strategy. They basically had a PR event to talk about manufacturing improvements. They didn't release a product but just a promise that they will make their cars cheaper.

This is fairly unprecedented and frankly a little bizarre. I'm an engineer so I love the information. Yet not really sure how it moves the needle for Tesla. Yet I have to believe this is the brilliance of Tesla compared to other public companies. They bring the public along with their grandiose ideas. Perhaps why we see such a high valuation for Tesla.
Google may want to do with Mozilla the same thing Microsoft did with Apple during their antitrust case: keep it alive to keep the regulators off their back.
Why are other countries with comparatively less free markets and more regulations not experiencing this problem in a greater degree? Shouldn’t we be doing better if it’s really as simple as less government = better outcome?
> he wakes up every morning believing he is still in Germany in 2005, waiting to visit the dentist

That’s some real-life eternal Groundhog Day stuff right there. Hellish :(

> Today, he only knows that there is a problem because he and his wife have written detailed notes on his smartphone, in a file labelled “First thing – read this”.

This is more positive, and reminds me of the movie 50 First Dates with Adam Sandler.

Also, am glad to hear he has someone in his life that is by his side.
Some CDN software actively thwarts Cloudflare with things like Pragma: no-cache or Cache-Control: no-cache, or bad Expires settings for static assets. Spend some time learning cache headers and then do some testing to see what actually produces a "hit" to the web server under the cache, and how long the various caches (browser, cloudflare, app, etc) last.
> In reality they aren't KKK members though. Instead they are disproportionately black and other minorities.

They are overwhelmingly felons. The disenfranchisement rate is highest among blacks at 7.8%, so 92.2% of blacks, so the overwhelming majority, is not affected by this at all. What makes you think the majority of blacks would welcome the enfranchisement of criminals that happen to share their skin color? After all, the victims of these criminals are overwhelmingly black themselves.

Also, black voter turnout has been consistently 5-10% lower than white voter turnout except for the election of Barack Obama, where it was the opposite. That means the impact of felony disenfranchisement at most is about as high as non-participation has been in the past.

> Regardless of whether or not you think incarceration of minorities is systemized disenfranchisement...

Indeed I don't think so.

>... I think any loophole that hypothetically allows the system to chose who may vote is a bigger threat to democracy than an incentive to appeal to criminals.

I don't consider it a loophole, becoming a felon is a fairly high bar to getting disenfranchised and the constitution sets some boundaries as to what can be considered a felony. If anything, I would argue that locking someone up for years for selling an ounce of weed is unconstitutional.
> This makes the work of law enforcement and the judiciary more challenging, as they seek to obtain lawful access to evidence.

And the ever growing surveillance permeating our society makes it less challenging, but they're not asking for reduced authority to compensate for that, are they?
Kindness.txt
I was really hoping that servo would be much better and safer, but I don't believe there was enough development time invested by mozilla. So currently firefox has no advantages to chrome, not even on mobile anymore since add-ons just went poof for no reason.

Firefox inevitably will have to go the way of a chromium reskin if they can't compete. There's no reason to be doubling your development load when you cant even impliment the features users want.
For context $25,000 now in Europe buys a basic Volkswagen/Seat/Skoda city car that does about 150 miles to a battery charge. Though not a Tesla for good and bad.
> The machinery to make this is extremely complicated and takes 6 months or more to build, by which time there may be no demand.

When does the USA plan to replenish its stockpile of 100M masks?

I would assume that demand will remain high until our stockpiles are replenished, which will be months (maybe years) after COVID19.

If this fact isn't clear, then our leaders should make it clear by passing a law ensuring the purchasing of N95 masks until the 100M stockpile is replenished.
Twitter could let you choose a focal point, and then have an algorithm choose the cropping in order to best display the focal point.
When used as I would recommend, GNU Make is not a build system, its a task runner. Its a language agnostic gulp or npm package.json scripts runner. You can run anything you want (even powershell!) in the targets, its just a standard way to package them up together and declare task dependencies.
It certainly wasn't meant sarcastically. I agree with you and others that maybe only ticking off some of these points might suffice to some persons to feel overall satisfied, and that it's what they believe/how they feel what counts, not whether these criteria are objectively fulfilled.

There might also be a semantic issue here. For me as a philosopher, leading a good life is not the same as leading an acceptable, overall satisfying, or mostly good life. The way I understand "good life" sets the bar relatively high.
Unfortunately most of the things I've learned from my incomplete side projects are useless. Some may make for interesting discussion sometimes, but ultimately nothing that will help me in any tangible way.
It would be amazing if it could to that! But with the current marketshare of Firefox, it would be a drop in the ocean :)
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Useful Project Ideas for Your Raspberry Pi with Tutorials
Thanks, Cliff. I kept finding solar interesting, so I've built an alt-az mount that points at the sun continuously, with the goal of capturing sunpots moving over time. Unfortunately, we've been in a bit of a solar minimum for a while, so there isn't much to see. But it's been a great maker project. H-alpha is one of the next things I want to try.
You do know that any donation to Mozilla goes to the for-profit side projects and not Firefox, the browser, right?

To me there seems there is something fundamentally wrong with the way Mozilla is set up.
Apparently it's thousands of events, at least according to the linked article.
Better to read this: https://www1.grc.nasa.gov/space/science/lattice-confinement-...
Controlling male instincts is advantageous for everyone. Men are basically told to stop fighting each other and work together. In return they get the chance to have one wife and a decent way of life. It's a big win for most men. Women also benefit from the technology and societal improvements that come about as a result of not being at war all the time.

If you controlled female instincts what would you achieve? You tell women to date a poorer man. A less attractive man. A less intelligent man etc. What do they gain from this? Nothing. It's all sacrifice with no gain.

It comes down to positive enforcement versus negative enforcement. Positive enforcement is always more effective in the long run.
Hey stranger, just push something out there! Just do it, ok?
You're fucked
OpenRefine is an OSS power tool for working with messy data and improving it
One key difference is that print ads don't dance around the page, expand to cover it up, play audio, use fake user interface widgets to get you to click them, or track you as you read.
> Eich should have realized that his actions as CEO of a highly visible entity would be viewed in a different light than if he were merely just another nobody.

You do realize that the donation occurred years before he was appointed CEO, right?
“That's too big a discount to ask people and their families to commit to.“

Doesn’t seem to be much of a misquote. Poor Mitchell Baker. She’ll just have to suffer with her non-discounted salary.
> Its 2020 now and they still cost around $150

I'd be interested in seeing a source for this. afaik there aren't any public sources on what price Tesla pays for $/kWh at pack level.
"What I cannot create, I do not understand" - R. Feynman
Synsepalum dulcificum,“miracle berry”, a possible treatment for Covid taste loss
Have you or some you know lost their taste due to COVID? I've been working on a miracle berry product and there is a possibility it could help return taste to COVID patients. It has been used at the Miami Cancer Institute to help their chemotherapy patients, so it is not unreasonable to assume that it could be used to make life easier for people who are positive for COVID.

I'd be happy to send samples (with a placebo control) to anyone affected to see if there is some merit behind this article. I graduated from Duke University and have been investigating clinical uses of miracle fruit. If this pilot shows promising results, I may be able to find the right people to run a more official study at one of the best research institutes in the world. Your help would be greatly appreciated!!!
A step closer to stronger federal IoT security
Thankfully the UK is leaving so we won't have to comply with this; though our government hardly has the best record on data privacy.
Casey Newton on Leaving ‘The Verge’ for Substack; the Future of Tech Journalism
Even though this is a dark pattern, when compared to dealing with a traditional auto dealer, it's surprisingly straightforward.

Which is not to excuse the dark pattern in any way. But we often give the status quo way too much of a pass, just because it's the status quo.
Networked thinking: a quiet cognitive revolution
Oops I didn't know about the scanning thing. I often do this from my hosted VPS to my other systems, to make sure all ports that I plan to have closed are actually closed.

Especially when it involves IPv6 networks and each internal device has its own IP, this can involve a lot of scanning. I haven't had any complaints but good point, I could get banned for that.
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I agree. I strongly suggest people look into Stoicism for some real answers to this question.
What are some of those config that improves performance for Jetbrains IDEs?
It could also remind you of Memento, though that brings you back to "hellish" ;)
Needless to say, don't confess your secrets into an unencrypted centralized database.

A promise to delete your conversations is absolutely meaningless in the absence of E2E encryption audited by a third party or (at least) open sourced.
Conflict between Ethiopia and Egypt over Dam has started. Its happening in cyber