skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First off, it's hard to call anything that was done in the US an actual "lockdown" - see Wuhan where they welded people into their apartments, that was a lockdown.

> 87% of the entire hospitality industry is unable to pay rent.

And would it be much different if there weren't restrictions in place? People being afraid of catching a disease that could possibly kill them or leave them with long term disability will tend to not eat out or go to theaters. So maybe instead of 87% the number would be 77% unable to pay rent. Still, as it passes around in a non-restricted environment people will become wary.

Where I'm at (Oregon) people can eat in restaurants (with distancing, so lower capacity) but most seem to be choosing takeout or to eat outside. This seems to be keeping restaurants in my neighborhood going at near normal levels (the proprietor of a nearby pizza place says he's pretty much at normal levels of business with takeout only and there have actually been some new restaurants that have opened recently). Of course when the weather changes... we'll see, but takeout will still be an option.
The serialization system he describes is very similar in design to FlatBuffers: https://google.github.io/flatbuffers/
If you can afford a million dollar house you can probably afford private schools.
Looks useful indeed, but is it related to assistant in any way apart from branding? It seems like something that they can just put in the phone app.
Apologies for having to respond from here. I am currently rate limited. Made the new account so I could apologize for guessing at motivations.

I believe mainstream immigration restrictions actually do not share your view on dual intent visas. Not many people support the position you have on Indian/Chinese who are present in America for a long time on their dual-intent visas.

Consider my comments as being edited to not reference you but reference mainstream anti-immigration positions - none of which currently state any GC reforms that permit existing Indian/Chinese backlogs to be grandfathered in.
If you are playing games on Linux, WSL doesn't help anything for sure, it only adds overhead.
Edge and IE are probably loading msn.com way more than they are pulling things from microsoft.com.
I don't think it's just that - the design intent is for the crypto operations to run only on the device and also to depend not just on a key derived from the user password but on parameters built into the device that are not accessible to the software. Just controlling the software is not necessarily enough to take the attempts off-device.
I would say it is persistent enough to be malicious. The T2 does not reboot, with the exception occuring during a DFU restore, extremely drained battery, or firmware update. With that in mind, a party intending harm would have more than enough time.
For me as well on a 2015 MBP...
Brian Armstrong pretty clearly stated that position:

> Policy decisions: If there is a bill introduced around crypto, we may engage here, but we normally wouldn’t engage in policy decisions around healthcare or education for example.

Are there other "political consequences" around crypto that you'd have Coinbase engage in?
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>Or we need to set up internal borders, which is quite against the constitution.

The federal government imposing nationwide lockdowns on each and every state is a gross overreach and completely unconstitutional. It's not an easily solved problem in the US system of government. We're a free country, or at least we pretend to be.

Edit: This seems to be causing some confusion. OP is referring to the need to have "consistent policy across state borders."
Weirdly, I can't bring a grapefruit across state lines. But I can bring a primate carrying a deadly virus.
So why did you switch from Vertica (or did you)?
The problem is that "people can make that decision for themselves" only works if they themselves pay the price for their actions. If you're in the age range that is likely to get an asymptomatic or mild development, the price of you getting infected and walking around infecting others are paid for mostly by others.

"Let everyone decide for themselves" rewards the selfish and makes people that restrain themselves jealous of the selfish people. If that's the kind of society you want to live in, well, that's your choice. But I think a lot of people don't.
Hopefully this is going to boost ReactOS and Wine development.
OnePlus 8 have it for the same price (little lower actually)
At the end of the day, all the data warehouses run on SQL, with a bit of customization around ingestion and export. Most of them are backed by object storage (S3/GCS) and those integrations look very similar.

I wouldn't be that worried about lock-in or being made obsolete. Business logic is going to be pretty easy to port between Redshift, BigQuery, Snowflake, or whatever comes next.
The desperate attempts to glorify the failed Swedish strategy will never end. The people who claimed COVID19 was nothing to worry about refuse to admit they where wrong despite hundreds of thousands of deaths.

Fact is other Nordic nations took less economic hit than Sweden due to quick lockdown and quicker reopening. Thanks to the time this bought is health workers are able to treat COVID19 victims more effectively now than in the early phase leading to lower mortality rate.

Sweden was the lab rat, having to deal with lots of sick people while the disease was poorly understood. It was a poor strategy.

Sure the rest of us will have an uptick now but we know much more about how to treat people effectively than Sweden knew and we are just few months away from vaccines .

So don’t tell me the Swedish strategy was worth it. More people died than necessary for no economic gain.
Reminds me of the venerable Radio Shack Minimus 7 -- this was truly a revolutionary product at the time at set the bar for "bookshelf" speakers for years.
I looked at the site, but I have no idea what it is or what it costs. Total marketing failure.
Parrots separated at zoo after encouraging each to curse profusely at guests
Yes, but I'm unsure what a well-designed execution of that would look like.
Nespresso and Dyson? Wow. That comparison doesn't reflect positively on Apple.
It is community maintained here:

https://github.com/htm-community

But I guess that the focus on Numenta now is on new deeper ideas, mainly related to grid cells and processing of spatial data on mini-columns
You can't just "draw" on the Fourier side because it actually consists of complex numbers, and only the magnitude is plotted. And the Fourier plot needs to be rotationally symmetric. The closest you could get is increasing or decreasing the magnitude of pixel regions.

Maybe a DCT would be more amenable to hand-editing because it's real and has no symmetry constraints.
I'm sorry, but if you can walk across the street and buy a dollar slice, then it's not really a "lockdown" except in the loosest definition of the term.

I'm glad to hear that New York City finally got the virus in control such that they can start to safely open things back up. Hopefully the adults you speak of make decisions not just for themselves but their communities as well, lest the virus spike again and kill thousands of New Yorkers again.
The problem with taking such a hardline position is that there is a significant switching cost borne by the employee when they leave, and so at the margin you'll have employees that don't buy in to the mission statement, don't like your new/restated position, but need the job/dislike job-hunting even more.

So now you've created/agitated a population of disgruntled employees; this will tend to cause problems. Paying a generous severance is enough to lift most of these employees over the "activation threshold" and is (in my opinion) the correct good-faith way of managing the situation; it's saying "no hard feelings if you don't agree with this direction, and we respect/value your contributions thus far."

Regardless of whether you agree with the object-level mission statement, I think that, having made the decision, this is a good example of strong leadership; it's important that everybody is bought in to the company mission, and you need to proactively filter out folks that aren't. But at the same time, you need to do so with respect; it's not necessarily a black mark for someone to no longer be a fit for the company or role, as both company and individual can change over time.

This is the same sort of idea as when you part ways with an exec after a strategy shift (e.g. pivot from B2C to B2B; replace your consumer-facing head of sales with a B2B veteran). It's not necessarily the case that they aren't doing a job, just that they aren't a fit for the role as it now stands.
Correct as did other Unix operating systems so if Linux had stayed in his "sandbox" Linux would have been something much different if it even existed at all.
Google Nest Audio
> Google Assistant: not new... and honestly, kinda crap. I turned off a lot of permissions on my phone and the assistant is virtually useless now.

This kind of feels like the complaints that a site is broken then you find out the person commenting has disabled javascript. Of course it's less useful with all the permissions locked down.

Anecdotally I find it really useful, I get people have privacy concerns but given I'm not willing to uproot my email and change all the sign ups I'm using either gmail or direct google login for I'm already pretty exposed to Google. I use it a lot driving since I can just squeeze the bottom sides of the phone to launch it.

As for the fingerprint reader that's weird, they had both on the Pixel 3 (at least the XL version I have), don't know what would have changed to make it not possible on the 4.
> Can we fix this?

Sure, by returning to basics.

Let's assume that Web Component is a DOM element with a code associated with it + lifecycle events.

Here is how Components are done in Sciter ( https://sciter.com )

1. CSS has got `prototype` property:

div.my-component { prototype: MyComponent url(script/components.js); }

where MyComponent is the name of class in JS, url (optional) is an URL where this MyComponent can be found.

2. In script that custom component is usually represented by ES6 class (+ decorators)

class MyComponent extends Element {
// lifecycle event/method
componentDidMount() { }
// lifecycle event/method
componentWillUnmount() { }

// component specific methods
foo() { }
bar() { }

// event handlers - decorated functions
@event("mousedown")
onMouseDown(evt) { }

@event("click", "button#submit")
onSubmit(evt, button) { }

@event("change", "input.name")
onNameChange(evt, input) { }
}

and that's it. Sciter lives with this schema more than 10 years - proven to be very convenient and flexible.

Yet simple: one property `prototype` + simple wiring of lifecycle events.
It's easy to forget that Sweden also has a much stronger social system than the US. I vaguely recall reading that Sweden also expanded some compensation for people who stay home because they show want symptoms at all. Can you elaborate on that?
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> Wanting to see the economy fail to punish rich people

Come on. This is deeply paranoid and itself rather spiteful.

If you cannot discern the differences between the different ways that people can be well-meaning but wrong and a need to Punish Richie Rich, then you frankly need work on some people skills.
What's an "unattainable luxury item" and what isn't is a function of product + price tag, not price tag alone.

$1300 is a nosebleed luxury price tag for shoes, but it's a junker car.

But for a synth? Yeah, wouldn't blink. Musical instruments in general have personality, and they cost what they cost.
HN needs a stronger policy against posting COVID-19 misinformation.

This kind of conspiracy mongering is actively harmful to efforts to manage the public health crisis. Allowing COVID-19 conspiracy theories to spread will contribute to a higher death toll and encourages irrational reactions to public health interventions.

Fact-free claims that physical distancing measures are part of some kind of leftist conspiracy to "see the economy fail" are highly socially corrosive and should not be given a platform here or anywhere else.

This kind of material should be flagged and promptly deleted by HN staff when it appears.
This is quite incorrect. Epic can already demonstrate financial harm due to the 30% fee that Apple has been collecting. They did not also need to break the agreement in order to bring the lawsuit. The judge literally recommended they cure the breach and put Fortnite back on the App Store while the lawsuit was pending.
Anecdotally, one of the silver linings is the barrier for startups operating in the airline industry has never been lower. Prior to Covid it was exceedingly difficult to get a sit-down with business development personnel at major airlines, but the situation is now largely reversed if you approach with a product/service that could even marginally increase revenue per seat mile.
This appears to have been published in 2017?
Hah. I got a home screen notification to use Google's travel product minutes after I got a hotel booking confirmation email.

I'm sure you can come up with reasons this is not breaking T&C but it would have never happened if the two products were in separate companies.

And I'm sure they will "not use" the health data in a similar fashion.
Who is this website designed for? I'm on Chrome and it took me about a dozen presses of the space bar to get an idea of what Google TV is/does and then a bunch more to get some specifics and a price. I assume it looks different on mobile, maybe better / more useful?

Remember the old book/saying "Don't Make Me Think"? (Krug, 2000. Wow, it's 20 years old now?!)

This site made me think in ways that seem really unnecessary.

Serious question, why is this site designed like this, I honestly don't understand the goal here. It's like a slideshow? People in general are so interested in this they do actually page through it? I feel like it took some real effort to finally learn things that should've been on page 1.
Yeah, I do have a narrow focus though and don't use any Linux GUI apps. Its been a while, but if you run an X11 Server on Windows you can make many things work, though definitely not all of them. And I know its getting better. I tend to live in VSCode though, and that natively works with WSL under the hood.

Probably going to check out this for GUI stuff again soon: https://github.com/cascadium/wsl-windows-toolbar-launcher
I had the same reaction and was hoping the conversation here would answer those questions ... so far I'm out-of-luck!
Two weeks the same CEO campaigned against Apple's App Store policies on Twitter, and totally made it out to be a moral issue when it benefitted him.

https://mobile.twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/1304490208...

"There are many unbanked and underbanked people in the world who have no ability to get a loan to buy a home, or start a business, so this kind of technology has enormous potential to improve the world over time, even if it is still early days."

"I greatly admire Apple as a company, and think they build amazing products, but their restrictions on the app store, in particular around cryptocurrency, are not defensible in my view, and they are holding back progress in the world."

The way that Coinbase puts pressure on Apple is the same as what Coinbase's politically-active employees are doing.
If there was a way to write JS within the component, I think that they could have taken off - just see how well components are in React, Vue et al.

And to get that to happen, all you would need is the ability to refer to `this` within the component. Aside for that, treat the JS within the component as a module, ability to access global vars, but within scope.

But instead, you are expected to put the relevant JS in the code that creates the component (in the parent document), which means that reusability and is a pipe dream, and components are really not componentized.
> i want an apple credit card (or something similar)

Why an apple credit card? Like, when you say "something similar" what would apply?
> The internal budget "prices" would be off the charts unbelievable.

I find that this occurs when an infrastructure team considers itself a "platform". The only supplier of an asset that everyone else demands can set the "price" of the asset as high as they want.
Makes me wish I had the skillset necessary to apply. Sounds like a phenomenal place to work.
Yes, downhill is an easier ride indeed!
It even looks a little cynical and critical.
I would like to see Sir Patrick Stewart recite that.
> The federal government imposing nationwide lockdowns on each and every state is a gross overreach and completely unconstitutional.

AFAIK, it did no such thing. The federal government advised certain measures, and state and local governments (inconsistently) implemented stay at home orders, etc. based on their own authority.
They let you apply the value of this offer to the 4K plan, from the terms:

> You may apply the value of the offer to a different Netflix streaming plan.
Last two years have been difficult for me when choosing new phone. It's been, what am I willing to downgrade?
Is it camera options, quality or screen resolution, headphone jack, battery life etc.

This year's pixels fixed the cameras and fingerprint sensor luckily, but screen sizes and resolutions are downgrade :(

Seriously considering note 9 before it's too old...
The keyword you're looking for is "cross-functional", which is used to describe teams where everyone is expected to be a jack of all trades. I'm on a team like that and my responsibilities range from system architecture, UX design, programming at all levels, infrastructure, etc. It's been great for me since I enjoy the variety and my team can generally cover anything for me when I want to take time off.

Just Google for "cross-functional senior software engineer" and you'll see a lot of listings that fit what you're looking for, including the high-paying FAANG companies.
A common defense of authoritarianism. It's for your benefit, silly!

We know the risks of Covid. We know who the at-risk population is. Adults can make their own decisions. If you don't think free people deserve their freedom, we'll just have to agree to disagree.
It costs three years of your life and commitment until they shelve it with 90 days notice.
855 is much more powerful
Correct. It was a single table, or at least a version of it, from a Maxis pinball game called Full Tilt! Pinball.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_Tilt!_Pinball
"For their part, the Swedes admit to making some mistakes, particularly in nursing homes, where the death toll was staggering. Indeed, comparative analyses show that Sweden's death rate at the height of the pandemic in the spring far surpassed the rates in neighbouring countries and was more protracted."

IIRC, Sweden prevented their medical system from becoming overwhelmed by only offering palliative care to the elderly---not including oxygen. Many countries would not find that acceptable.
I don't know if you're referring to reality or something you saw on TV, but the US federal government has taken literally no actions whatsoever to contain COVID domestically. They certainly haven't imposed a nationwide lockdown, nor are they empowered to do anything like that.
I completely forgot about Stencil from the Ionic team.

Definitely agreed. If you want an example of Web Components working cross-framework, look at Ionic and Stencil tbh.
Oh ha. That is like, just about the latest that could happen, I imagine...
I wish the big companies stop doing parallax websites.
I had a similar kind of lab in college. I ended up testing it on an image hand-picked for performing very poorly under JPEG compression, a GBA Pokemon game screenshot. Chroma subsampling alone visibly degraded the sharpness of brightly colored objects. Strangely chroma subsampling degrades photographic imagery far less, and helps less sophisticated algorithms (like JPEG) allocate limited bits better.
Another detail that the new Sweden fans fail to mention is that over half of Swedish households are single-resident[1].

To put it mildly, this is... not the case in the US.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/526013/sweden-number-of-...
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> Now its an absolute chaotic situation where lockdowns go up and down per county every week with it based on number of cases(colleges are open leading to huge case jumps).

How is a system that loosens and tightens restrictions based on cases and positivity rate "chaotic"?
> I would be apprehensive in investing in Snowflake long term purely because their product is highly susceptible to being obsoleted in the next 5-10 years.

This can be said about most products and companies. What keeps them alive is how robustly they capture (and hold on to) the market, reduce costs through economies of scale, and innovate. This specific market is also very rapidly growing.
Similar reaction here.

https://store.google.com/us/product/chromecast_google_tv_com...

That page is a bit better at explaining things.
I get the impression its a new OS for smart tvs.
You can't bring a grapefruit across state lines? What is that a reference to?
It is endlessly frustrating to see the tenor of argument around COVID: mask vs. no mask, lockdown vs. no lockdown, flattening the curve vs. eliminating the virus. All of these strategies have arisen and evolved over a relatively short period of time, necessarily with incomplete data, and in places both different and affected by the virus differently. No sane person should be talking about these terms in black and white.

Speaking as someone from New York City: Doing nothing (as in the very early stages) quickly resulted in overwhelmed hospitals and morgues. Doing a fairly serious lockdown along with masking then reduced cases to a very manageable level. The fine balance between these two extremes is somewhere in between, and will be different for each locale depending on demographic details such as population density, number of multigenerational households, etc.

The goal of flattening the curve while still keeping the economy healthy, as some commenters here seem to desire, surely will be easier the closer we are to eradicating the disease.
> Now if you feel like your power as a citizen has dwindled and you can't meaningfully enact change through democratic means, it makes sense to try and "weaponize" your job, especially if you work for a powerful company and you're a valuable highly skilled worker.

I think you're close, but not quite right. I think what has happened is that ideas well outside the Overton Window have become popular with a couple small, but very vocal, groups. Their ideas aren't very popular with most people, so they can't achieve their desired outcomes democratically. They therefore try to "weaponize" their jobs in influential institutions, like Software companies, to gain influence over the rest of society.
My initial thought: somebody went to town with that scroll.

I mean, well prepared marketing page should cause me to think about the product, hopefully favorably, not about completely pointless misuse of scrollbar that some web designer with a huge workstation probably could run fluidly.
I cannot wait for nuclear fusion to finally be here so people will stop worrying about the electricity consumption, and high consumption will not mean pollution or whatever.
DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest is generating lots of spam PRs
I would love it if every product in this category to be able to stream from the same source and be selectable as stereo (if two speakers), mono-center, mono-left-only and mono-right only -- this way I can by more than one and place them as I like. I'm not sure Bluetooth is up to it, which means that one would need to act as master and broadcast to slaves. (And the master would probably have to delay a bit to phase-match w/the remote.)
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