skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The police do have procedures and do behave much better than the general public.

As also repeated the police has extra security constraints, which must be balanced with any benefits the tracking app bring. Clearly they think that allowing a third party app which goal is real-time tracking, on police phones has more downsides than upsides.

I don't know anything about American police and I don't care. This is not the topic of the discussion, which is about an UK tracking app and UK police forces.

I do think that shooting this advice against installing the app (on police phones) and my comments down is largely being obtuse because it's the police or because they don't want to acknowledge the specificities of police work.
They only publish US authors, and their books aren't cheap ($30-50), but Library of America [0] has a great collection. Each book is actually a collection of writings, so the value proposition is the high quality binding, paper, and substantial collection in one book with each purchase. They have fiction starting from the colonial days to the recent past, along with a lot of non-fiction content (essays, journalism, political speeches, etc.).

[0] https://loa.org
> typical socialist ideas, sounds good to the masses, but with potential consequences that are the opposite of what they want.

This has nothing at all to do with socialism. In fact, those that support such an argument seem to do so because they believe it _increases_ competition. It might actually be the polar opposite of socialism.
TSMC Mulls Another Fab for 2nm and Two Fabs for Advanced Packaging
> I rebound the left space bar to the Command Key

My left space bar is backspace. I sometimes get confused when I switch to a different keyboard, though.
The thing that bugs me constantly is that my #1 technology wish is that dismissing a notification on one device would automatically dismiss it on all of them.

I legitimately want notifications of calendar events, missed calls, and messages on whatever screen I'm looking at now -- my desktop, my laptop, my watch, and my phone vibrating in my pocket for when I'm not looking at anything.

But once I get the message -- once I swipe left on my phone, hit "close" on my computer, or whatever, I want them all to disappear. Instead, I've got to swipe/close on every damn device. Regularly when I look at a new device, the first thing I need to do is remove notifications I've already seen. Sometimes I have to click into an app and navigate to notifications just to get the red dot to also disappear. Sometimes I have to delete an e-mail notification as well.

My desperate wish: there should be a standard across iOS, Android, SMS, dektop OS's, and e-mail to include a notification UUID with every notification, a standardized message format (user -> server) that means "dismiss everwhere", and yet another standardized message format (server -> device) that means "dimiss previous notification".

Android and iOS can build it into thier OS, and Gmail, Exchange and other e-mail providers can similarly build support for it (automatically mark the e-mail as read and archive it). Worst-case scenario, if your e-mail provider doesn't support it, you sometimes get an extra e-mail you filter out. (Or servers only bother sending the "remove existing notification" to e-mail domains that contain a flag advertising they support it.)

Any reason this wouldn't work? Or that it wouldn't make all our lives hugely better?
Bosses want to spy on their employees, meanwhile offer flextime which is code for expanded working hours.

The days of leaving behind your work at 5pm, or even 6pm or 7pm, are long over.
I want to second what you're saying here. I used to feel pretty down about my work because I felt like even though I was making good money and progressing career-wise, the things I was working on were not contributing anything positive to the world, and would also be scrapped for a new iteration using the tech-du-jour within a year or two, and nobody would ever see them again.

If I wanted to have a more lasting impact and more reach, I'd have to compete with thousands for a spot somewhere like Yahoo or Google, and again, whatever I was working on would still be scrapped within a year or two.

This is why I dropped out of working for money and started working on my own passion projects. I'm very lucky, because I remember what it was like working on passion projects before I entered the workforce, so I at least knew roughly what I was looking for.
I may not care for Experian et al., but I do like that they can't send me and my family to a concentration camp to be re-educated. The difference between the government and the private sector, is the government has a monopoly on violence.
For work I needed the accuracy out to 15 decimal places. It was for calculating random jitter based on integrating and averaging a large number of phase noise measurements.
> Don't write like this. Respect your readers

This is way over the top.

I thought the author did an amazing job of discussing a highly technical topic in a very approachable way. Every blog on HN should aspire to write like this! It was so good it got me reading other posts even.

Yes, it would have been nice for us non- domain experts if the author had done the classic "Conflict-free replicated data type (CRDT)" thing, but you can easily just say that, ya know? "Hey, it would be helpful if you expanded CRDT early on."
There are a number of authors who do make a living by blogging. WaitButWhy and DaringFireball come to mind but I'm sure there are others. Ads and affiliate links did drive non-trivial dollars to my site in the past and while I didn't do it full-time it was much more viable than it is today.
Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24004573
Consider that even at the highest tier you’ll max out at 20k IOPS and the speed on these cloud services doesn’t generally go beyond 200MB/s. Now you can google how much IOPS and read/write speed a typical nvme SSD will give you, maybe you’ll reconsider using RDS-like services then
Same answer as to why you don't configure your text editor to just not emit useless and outdated CR from past century - he has better things to do. And no, really, check out Zig repo's issue tab, he really has better things to do with his time on a project that's still evolving.

You're demanding 1.0+ usability from a language that's has yet to stand up on its own feet and is currently, unsurprisingly, 0.6.0 and won't be 1.0 any time soon because there's a massive amount of work that needs to be done.

This also isn't C and it wasn't developed/maintained for past 50 years.
People are allowed and encouraged to speak freely about anything on the internet, but people seem to forget that this is the world wide web, and writers can't control who in the world shows up to their blog or site. With a little help, someone who might not be in the core audience, might actually enjoy or learn something. If everything is written with jargon and abbreviations with no context, it's really just lazy inconsiderate writing.

It never ceases to amaze me how many websites for restaurants or whatever neglect to mention basic things like what state (and country) they're in. Even newspaper web sites assume that we know that the "Chronicle" or the "Ledger" or whatever generic name is the local paper for East Bumblefuck.
Something like a bacterial infection might pose a problem as it is just eating simple sugars and multiplying, but is completely novel to our immune system. A prion seems unlikely.

A virus wound be absolutely shocking.
Any app using the Expose notification framework is explicitly forbidden from accessing any kind of location information, either GPS or otherwise. See https://blog.google/documents/72/Exposure_Notifications_Serv... (3 c i) and https://developer.apple.com/contact/request/download/Exposur... (3.3)
Blog author here. I've been having this conversation with a lot of folks over the last few weeks and I hear you.

Does it make sense for us as an opensource community to invest our time and energy making one really good CRDT (with implementations in a few languages). Or does it make sense for us to distribute that energy between a bunch of CRDT and OT implementations, with different performance tradeoffs?

My take is that its been hugely beneficial to us all that JSON is a standard, because I can use it from every language, and have confidence that the implementations are fast and good quality. I think we have an opportunity to make that for a good CRDT too. Even if OT would work fine in your architecture, if we have a great, capable, fast CRDT kicking around, it could be a reasonable default for most people. And my claim is that the performance difference between CRDTs and OT is smaller than the difference between high and low quality implementations. (I expect a well written CRDT in wasm will outperform my OT code in javascript.)
If life is as common/likely as some believe (that is to say, "very likely" or even "inevitable if liquid water"), then it should be continually emerging on Earth in various forms. The persistence of life as we know it would therefore imply something about its robustness--its ability to outcompete those alternative forms. Such evidence certainly wouldn't be dispositive, but it would be evidence nonetheless, the strength of which would be a function of the likelihood of spontaneous life.

"But", someone replies, "I'm talking about life forced to evolve under extreme and alien circumstances." But Earth has plenty of extreme environments, both now and especially early on, and scientists optimistic about the likelihood of spontaneous life are constantly equivocating those environments to others in our Solar system and beyond. Plus, let's not forget that the modern, biologically created Earth atmosphere is something of an extreme environment of it own. So no matter how you spin it (I'm too lazy to put down several other scenarios I've had in mind), the more likely we are to encounter extraterrestrial life, the more robust Earth life likely is.
Probably, the only technical solution not involving redesigning the recipients mail client is to make use of the Reply-To header mechanism.

The Reply-To header is usually used with one address, but in fact multiple addresses scan be specified.

When sending an e-mail to the "reply-all-averse" individual, put yourself and your wife into the Reply-To header.

When the user tries to reply to the e-mail, their mail client should stuff those addresses into the To: field, so unless they edit that, the reply should go to those addresses.

There is the risk that the user's e-mail client doesn't handle multiple addresses in Reply-To (the developers didn't know about this, or else didn't test it).

If this is just for two people, you could create a mail alias that expands to you and your wife's addresses, and use that as the Reply-To target.
I love cynical writings like this as they help me see the world more clearly. By being aware of this kind of attitude I am free to make my own decisions
I've got to wonder what the equilibrium result is when this has almost 400 upvotes. Obviously this sort of zero-sum strategy only works when most people are unaware of it.
In a just world, this would be illegal.

On the bright side, dozens of browser extensions and scripts will have to be created to solve yet another needless problem created by Google.
> when the app's main purpose is tracking.

If you're telling me to install it, but telling the cops not to install it, you're effectively telling me not to install it. The public is being told these apps are safe and privacy-preserving - if the precautions are not good enough for public officials of any kind, then they're not good enough for me.
Are there labs with more than one recent suicide?
Sorry, I should have been more clear in my post. I was responding to this comment specifically:

> I think it's unlikely we'd find an bacteria or virus that could successfully infect Earth based organisms in a way that threatens us.
Borgen. Way better than House of Cards since it's more realistic and gives you a close view of Danish politics.
I've seen neither spam nor abuse in captions, but I have seen plenty of lousy machine captions.

(I am hearing, but like clean english captions because one can easily play at 2x or beyond.)
Robots target coronavirus with ultraviolet light at London train station
> you don't get to stick around if you abuse people to the extent described in the article

It's very uncommon for student complaints to affect a professor's employment, especially a tenured one. As long as the professor brings in grant money, doesn't piss off the entire department, and graduates at least a few students, they are probably fine. It would take something beyond generic cruelty to students for a person that checks all three boxes to not "stick around" --- think something illegal or against university rules, and with clear evidence.
I think they are saying not that it’s a filter for talent, but for people willing to “put in the work” to pass that type of interview, which sounds about right. I feel the same way about some colleges.
Is this the same Dr. Shivers that's running for a Senate Seat in MA?
forums have accounts, not people
I'm a commenter on HN who made a comment for the sake of discussion, not a researcher proposing a paper. You avoided the comment entirely, cited the replication crisis and the old hat "correlation != causation" argument when my comment didn't even have that problem.
Yeah, the article brings back all kinds of bad memories.
All your comments are toxicity-laced. Calm down, my dude.
I vouched for it so it would show up.
At this point I've sort of lost track of the argument. I read articles about how glaciers preserved soft tissue from the ice age (> 22 kiloyears ago)[1], I've got a bit of rock with a perfectly preserved trilobyte from Montana that is over 380 million years old, and yet people reading want to argue in this thread that massive amounts of inorganic structures built by humans to last for centuries will somehow be dissolved/eroded beyond detection in some short period of time.

So it seems unequivocal to me that human impact on the planet will be preserved for millions of years via the same mechanisms that have preserved snapshots of what was going on millions of years ago.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/14/europe/preserved-cave-bear-sc...
conformism has and still is being practiced by many societies. debateable if they are happier - they are mostly more suicidal
Not necessary. Starting small and staying small is still a viable path I believe.
Definelty
Ouch. Think I'd just research real world salaries for the Masters degree and likely flee.
You should always use reply all, to keep the discussion together (all recipients in the loop).

The only exception is when a message is broadcast, but the originator is looking for individual replies. Like, for instance, the company office manager asks 300 people whether they are coming to the barbecue. Nobody wants their inbox stuffed with 299 replies.

That might be a good situation for setting the Reply-To header, to save those who habitually use reply-all.
TUF's Issue N22: A11y Resources – UX Stories – Illustration Tools and Many More
Sure, but the issue is https://news.ycombinator.com/posts?id=throwawaynothx, not that specific comment.
Show HN: A simple way to set goals you actually follow
Interesting. Where do these cultural norms come from? I think it is true that to be truly great at something you have to dedicate your life to it, whether you are a man or a woman.

How do doctors and lawyers get by, without spending most of their waking hours learning?
I don't want to start an argument, but for what it's worth RISC is a bit more energy efficient and the Pi is quite a bit cheaper.
Spin clean-up method brings practical quantum computers closer to reality
Thank you Zigma for your work. :)

Can you quickly document the big steps to write a codegen?

I have some ideas I want to have explore.
Is this not sharding?
I don't understand why you think that writing on a very technical subject needs to build you a ladder to climb on as a prerequisite. There is a link to a very high quality talk right at the top of the article for folks who wanted to dive deeper that specifically makes that effort.

I found the article quite good, and if you had genuinely been motivated to engage with the content you could have highlighted the acronym and searched for it.
There is a wealth of good info for "CRDTs" that comes up on the first page of Google, Bing or DDG.

Does the acronym actually illuminate what they are or how they function? I submit to you that it probably doesn't.
As developers we all know that one day this MAY come.

So don't be "surprised" please!
Yeah I think it depends on you personal disposition and on the environment aka company culture
It’s not great, but that’s what happens when a service is driven by profits. This capability seems better suited to an organisation like Wikimedia
The SCS is the wet dream of every State and Covid-1984 is playing a big part at making it possible to make meassures possible all over the globe, i.e. AUS.
A very concerning development and a frightening outlook of the future.
Black Mirror is becoming reality.
I think her first mistake was assuming that the fund was something other than a tax avoidance scheme.

At the same time, I don't think it unreasonable for it to take seven months of due diligence to find a worthy recipient. Let's say you announce something many, many orders of magnitude smaller: "I've got $1000 to give away to the first 10 people that write me a nice letter stating why I should give it to them." How many seconds before your inbox starts bouncing "mailbox full" messages? At Earth Fund levels, the smarminess must be overwhelming.
As per my original comment, literally any separator other than NUL (or slash if you're only ever dealing with filenames, not paths, even though that would be hella confusing) breaks with some filenames. Just use NUL.
I prefer FAGMAN.
The dynamics will ensure that it goes on. It isn't all that different than the illusion of democracy in the broader world. It takes much more than just the awareness of the gimmick to expose and address it.
Video summary of this discovery:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea6py9q46QU
This comes from someone who threw away a decade of my life because I didn't want to play the academia game - there's a sweet middle spot, play the game as long as:
1. It's fun at least on some days
2. You don't win at the expense of someone else's undeserved loss
3. You can actually switch off from it

You have to play the game no matter where you are, even foraging in the forest. There's no concept of living life without rules, so might as well embrace the reality and keep it under your control instead of the other way around.
> What's about the scoring system which bans people from posting on forums?

This is blatant "What's aboutism"
I guess it depends on where you find the irony... I think I have a pretty good understanding of what irony is, so maybe you can just explain where you see it in the situation you describe?
Question a key remote employees commitment without risking the relationship
I own a completely remote company, 12 full time employees in total split in several countries in 2 timezones.
We are very relaxed in terms of timesheets and working hours, as I don't beliefe in 9-5 or looking over someones shoulders.
For most of my team I have a good overview on what they do, can estimate how much work they get done and how much of their full time commitment they actually put in.

However, there is one fairly senior guy who is tasked to to run a part of the team and parts of operations, and by the looks of it he is only working 20-25 hours.
I'd like to have a talk with him to assess his commitment and figure out if he does other stuff on the side, without crushing the relationship we have... I cannot know if he only works half the time or not, without asking half the team (which is a no-no for me) or risking a broken relationship with him if i ask bluntly.

I am not very happy with the work he does, but certainly beliefe he could do a great job... our company is growing quickly, closing a 5m round in the next weeks, he has a vesting plan so im not really sure what else i could offer him to move him towards full commitment.

How can i figure out if he just works on stuff that is not completely visible to me or if he's just cashing in with little effort?
First thing I do when I install a new app is turn off all notifications in settings.
I tried loading the site but it's just hanging for me. I can see the landing page, but it looks like a request to an mp4 file might be blocking the main thread. The site just hangs.

From what I can see of the landing page though, there's not much describing the product. Maybe the video or something shares more.
At this point, I think it's pretty clear that New Zealand's approach couldn't be expected to lead to New Zealand-style results in places that aren't relatively small islands a thousand miles or so by sea from the nearest neighbour. There are just too many infections that slip through the net even after banning most people from travelling there and requiring returnees to quarantine in state-run facilities at their own expense for two weeks - it works for them, but the same level of per-capita leakage in a country with even ten times the population would cause such a stream of imported cases spreading Covid in the community that I don't think it'd ever be able to drop below level three restrictions, let alone beome Covid-free.

In reality the UK probably wouldn't even be able to manage that - for example, we have a constant stream of lorry drivers coming in from locations throughout Europe to destinations throughout the UK, many of them with absolutely vital goods, and that's a great way to spread Covid from country to country. Somewhere like the US would stand even less chance.
We've got to 10k Users in 6 Months
It's been over 6 months when we've launched a new Saas project. But little we anticipated, it's how quickly it would grow. To date, the service has signed up over 10,000 users and reach $1,000MRR. It's crazy.

In this blog post, I wanted to share with you some of our tricks: https://gglot.com/how-weve-got-to-10000-users-in-6-months/

Have any questions? I am here to help!
This report is deceptive. It uses phrases like "voter suppression", which bring to mind tactics like making Black voters think they will be assaulted by white supremicists if they show up to vote, or giving Black voters incorrect information about where the polling stations are located.

But when you get to the details, that's not at all what they say the Trump campaign did. They say that - shocking, I know! - the Trump campaign criticized Hillary Clinton.

That's it. The "suppression" comes about when a Black voter doesn't like Trump, and won't vote for him, but has been convinced by the Trump campaign that Hillary Clinton is also terrible, so they won't vote for her either.

Sounds like totally normal politics to me.
So you are not concerned with protecting the “little guy”? Doesn’t that give Amazon more power in the marketplace?
I'm overall very happy with my kinesis advantage, but there is something (subtle?) to be aware of: you tend to use your thumbs quite a bit to hit control/alt/return/space (especially with emacs), and after some time my thumb joints started hurting. Thumbonitis? :-)
In general that would be true. The problem for me is that it requires switching companies. I'm not able to do that since I naively did the jobs I was assigned. Now I'm a Neoxam and FileNet resource with zero prospects.
superior how?
> He advocated for tearing down some of these cultural norms as the best way to be more inclusive.

But what about those for whom that is the draw? I mean is there any gain if women join but a lot of geeks leave?