skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is PR nonsense to help promote Airbnb's IPO plan, a plan exclusively launched to cash out before the buzzer sounds. Understandably AirBnb wants to create a story of how they brilliantly pulled the plane up at the last minute, and despite laying of 25% of the company, are still healthy and fine.

These temporary boosts in one small sector are just blips that mask the fact that the leisure travel industry is in major, major trouble.

There was a temporary boom in younger people looking to get out of cities and find some space this summer, but as more and more people lose jobs, or have jobs that are threatened there is going to be a smaller and smaller group of people willing to pay much less for travel.

On top of this I'm still very bearish on leisure air travel. There have been numerous articles on HN about the two major drivers of airline revenue: credit card miles and corporate travel. Corporate travel will never return to pre-covid levels, and credit card miles are a big part of this as well.

Airlines are already starting to have major layoffs (when I mentioned this months ago the comments were that this wouldn't happen, but here we are). Airlines seriously expected government bailout, but it didn't happen and so furloughs, which will become layoffs did.

This will mean that air travel will return to a luxury good, which will make leisure travel a luxury experience. Likewise, gen-z workers are realizing that the economy is not always good times and full speed ahead. The idea of booking a last minute beach trip with a bunch of friends will quickly seem like a luxury of another age.

We still haven't seen the consequences of this pandemic and our fragile startup ecosystem start to unfold.
No one has answered this? Come now. It's not hard to solve.

Nursing homes remain closed to visitors. Staff and residents only. Staff are tested daily for covid. Nursing home residents do not leave the nursing home. Staff and residents wear contact tracing bracelets and residents stay distant from one another.

You do the best you can. The common cold can be deadly for people in nursing homes. We cannot drop the risk to zero.
Nope. You could have evolved from microbes that arrived on an asteroid.

Until someone actually does it --- creates life from inert chemicals, it remains an unproven assumption.
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You might be assuming too much, I never said Unity at any point.

The larger point I was trying to make is that an internal team is aligned with your goals and can support you. And external engine is tied to their own goals that might not align with your schedule/platform/feature set/etc.

No one wants to be going through a contract dispute in the middle of development as it's a sure fire way to sink your title.

Anyway, it's just a long way to say that when you do your due diligence on an external engine, is to only look at what you see now and not what's on the roadmap.
Thanks! I'll check it out.

And yeah, I won't quit HN until it becomes more noise than signal. I'm just sad that it seems to be going that way, like the other sites I used to frequent that I can't even remember the names of now. sigh

Edit: Oh jeez, can't even sign up for an account unless you're the networking/social type. That's rough.
> I am not okay with unqualified politicians making inaccurate claims about the virus, and prioritizing economic health in the absence of good governance.

Who else is supposed to make these types of decisions? Doctors don't have governing experience, and they weren't elected. They can and should serve an important advisory role, but the final call should be up to our elected leaders.

If we have elected unqualified politicians, that's a separate problem. This is still a decision that's within their domain.
- how does this product help users get past ATS? I wasn't clear what this product does
besides helping with some generic design.

- "experts" in the business of resume writing and folks who claim to review many resumes
on a regular basis often recommend either a simple, no-frills resume, optimized for each job
applied to or a "pretty" resume (images, color, exotic fonts, multiple columns), similar to
the examples on your page. Can you share why you believe your design should be used over a
simple, primarily text resume?

- how do you pronounce "Resoume"?
Get a microphone with a physical mute button, or see if you can configure “push to talk”.
Part of it is the conveyor belt of new frameworks and technologies, and binary litmus tests from first-line recruiters.

Someone who could very well have invented javascript yet doesnt know ExpressReactVue[*]JS or framework du jour cannot get past first-line recruiters who are searching on Linked In keywords. Thus, both groups are in the same bucket.

I wouldnt be surprised if some recruiters turn down python 3.6 candidates because they dont have python 3.7.
Curious, explain to me why I should listen to a random person on the Internet over a university research group? "betrayed extreme ignorance of binomial confidence intervals and modeling", lots of words but zero evidence supporting your assertions. If you have any concrete evidence to contradict their findings rather than just a blanket "extreme ignorance of binomial confidence intervals", that would be far more useful.
>prioritizing economic health

I sense that everyone fairly well off sort of ignores how quickly poor economic health translates into poor social and biological health. We like to act like the economy is this nice to have extra that can shut down, and everything will go on as normal, except our luxuries. But then you realize, you cant shut down ports, railroads, roads, trucking, Wal-Mart, Amazon, Target, every grocery store. And suddenly all the interconnected everything requires all the software companies to stay running. All the power companies. They all need their supplies.

>we cannot go full "save every possible life"

Where is the calculation of life lost or years lost of lifespan, because the economy wasn't there to support life.

>thus the term "flatten the curve"

I understood the context of flatten the curve to be in that we needed to buy time to prepare hospitals, manufacturing, and as a tool to prevent ICU overflow. It's now been co-opted to be used in a "until the vaccine" sort of way, which is not how it was used initially. You can see how people might have agreed with it before, but not now, and still have a consistent unchanging view (its the usage around their view that changed.) It's also very frustrating to hear rate statistics used out of context, as if the instantaneous rate is what matters, without the understanding that their denominator, time, extends into the future, and with part of the denominator in the future, the numerator is not very useful.
This can't be a satire. It's a guide on how to interview engineers when you're looking for extraordinary engineers, not good or great ones.
Yep :) I even showed it to my daughter, who rolled her eyes and said it was a page full of dad jokes!
Interesting - thanks.

> story maps (which is an ESRI trademarked product)

For the curious, given the phrase's use various settings, the trademarks are "Story Map Basic, Story Map Cascade, Story Map Crowdsource, Story Map Journal, Story Map Shortlist, Story Map Spyglass, Story Map Swipe, Story Map Series, Story Map Tour".

> it takes a lot of time to write the damn content

Indeed. One can imagine infrastructure and tooling to make it easier at scale, or even to enable broad collaboration, but fundable project scope is so much narrower.

A related challenge is when site preservation, and neighbor relations and access, depend on location obscurity (I'm in Boston). That doesn't mesh well with "immersive field trip on the web" and "see geology near you - a national field trip wiki".

> a lot of cool things that can be done within webmaps or similar interfaces

Nod. Especially if XR provides an infrastructure for integrated geolocated content. "Roadside geology" guides might become more like current leaf identification apps - "point at leaf, get story of tree" become "point at rock or rock face, get story of continents". Hmm, neat, there's a bunch of current research on ML rock type identification, even with mobile nets.
Because VLA already means “variable length array”, which is confusing.
> So do I take your lack of response to the key part to mean that you agree with me that nuclear waste is not, in fact "less hazardous to work with" than solar waste? Because that was what my original comment was about.

In some ways yes, in some ways no. The best part about nuclear waste is it's easy to detect, with a geiger counter and a dosimeter. That's not true of environmental contaiminants. In some ways its safer, in some ways it's not. It really depends how it's handled. After all, we can agree, you shouldn't be licking either. A few well placed geiger counters is all the alarm you need, but constant environmental testing and monitoring is needed when you're managing things like cadmium waste.

> So? It still needs to go somewhere.

The existing stash can stay where it is, the next 40 years can go into Yucca, which gives us 40 years to find new places to put it. Also, as I mentioned, fast breeders produce orders of magnitude less waste.

> Except it's already more than filled by existing waste. And except that's at the current level of nuclear power usage which people here are saying should be massively expanded.

Which is something we can do with fast breeders, without compromising storage.

> Wait, no: the state that actually contains it has not agreed:

We're talking about technical feasibility not nimbyism.

> That is not how you do risk assessment for a storage site for waste that will be hazardous for thousands of years, my dude.

Yes, it is. Have you read the risk assessment? It took years to complete, and if you are interested in anything other than a quick win on the internet in an inconsequential argument, I'd suggest looking at that instead of taking my word for it.
Most arguments I've seen claiming the incompetence of senior engineers are circular.

A: We need programming quizzes even for senior engineers, because many turn out of be incompetent.

B: How do you know they're incompetent?

A: They failed our programming quizzes!

The reality is that you're testing for stage fright, not programming skills. An audition is not a good criterion for choosing people who aren't stage performers.

https://news.ncsu.edu/2020/07/tech-job-interviews-anxiety/
Maybe not. Google says their traffic is now at 30% IPv6, and climbing at 5%/year.[1]

Worldwide, Google is undercounting, because they are blocked in China. Google claims that China is 0.27% IPv6, but actually China is around 55%, according to APNIC. Policy goal in China is all IPv6 by 2025.

[1] https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html
They are tested without belts to ensure the airbag doesn't kill idiots not wearing their belts. But on all modern cars they're designed to work together with the seatbelts.

If you unplug the cable at the bottom of a BMW seat (so it doesn't know the seat occupancy and belts) it will disable the airbag and show an airbag light.
Ok. So? KDE also hides the "Linux underneath". Boot splash screens have been common since 2.8 kernels. The purpose of Linux isn't to have a terminal and show a bunch of messages. Most computer users have zero interest in that. The goal is to build a working system based on user freedom. In that sense, showing a console window or a config file should be treated as a failure.
Build headless UI instead
PC gaming isn't the mainstream. I'd be surprised if more than 15% of computer users ever play (non-browser, non-smartphone) games.
JP Morgan Chase admits to US market manipulation and agrees to pay $920M
It falls apart once you actually think about. People live in a world where we all interact together. If you want to get infected thats fine, but now you're contagious at the same unavoidable gathering places like supermarkets

> subsidized food delivery services for the elderly,

or this, now people are stuck being forced into risky scenarios because they're forced to serve the others fortunate to pay for their problems to go away
The whole point is that we don't know what the laws of physics are.
One of the few things that are left for end-users to not to switch to Linux is the Office product. I am almost sure that Microsoft is not releasing it on purpose because they are afraid of losing a big chunk of their customers to Linux.
Why wouldn't herd immunity be an acceptable condition for the part of the population that aren't at risk to develop a severe condition? The balance is protecting those at risk all the while allowing those that aren't to continue working as normal.

EDIT: I'm sorry, I misread. You're not against the idea, it just doesn't inform us as to how to balance our policies.
I ran BeOS off and on for a couple of years right around the time when they dropped PowerPC for Intel.

It truly was awesome, nothing I've used since then made me as happy. Gobe Productive still has a place in my heart.

Programming it was madness though, since everything was MT all the time.
> Can you guess what the most common methodology people chose was?

> Did you guess an XML document?

If that is your most common experience with asking that question, maybe it is time you consider whether you are communicating what you want properly to your candidates.
They likely do not have consumer TVs in their board rooms, considering they make better suited products for that application.

https://www.samsung.com/us/business/solutions/huddle-space/
> Free speech has limits.

Not in America, it does not. You folks have "hate speech" laws, banned symbols, banned words, banned expressions, and used to have banned video games, music, and movies. The core of your legal system has the concept of "honor"/"dignity", which is inherently subjective.

The justification is always a variant of your thought, saying that it will only affect "bad people", with the very definition of that being heavily influenced by the aforementioned concepts.

Germans tend to defend the concept of filing charges against an individual for the crime of "insulting them" with similar logic - it's generally a nasty thing to do and only "bad people" will do it, therefore, it shall be punishable under the law.

Any limits to free speech are by definition on the famous "slippery slope". As others have called out, once the legal precedent is set, nothing stops politicians to expand it at their will, given that it is based on subjective judgment - history can be a great teacher - and I'd like to remind you that a much harsher version of the current German "social media hate speech" law just made its way through international media earlier this year. This law was justified with "a rise in right wing extremism".

I've said it before, I'll say it again: The ACLU, an arguably left-leaning organization, has famously defended KKK member's 1st amendment rights for those very reasons. They don't argue about the content - as an analogy to the HD topic, it should be easy to debunk with massive amounts of historical evidence - but rather about fundamental human (and, in the case of the United States, constitutional) rights.

Naturally, all those points apply to governmental censorship and not to a private entity. That being said, I don't believe in limits to free speech.
> Is there any particular reason to think such a thing couldn't happen in America, where rifles and explosives aren't hard to get?

Is there any particular reason why a clear edge-case scenario should be our basis for arming police departments, which spend most of their time solving mundane domestic disputes, pulling apart drunken fights and responding to break-ins where someone's Playstation was stolen? We should orient policing towards deescalation based on what they usually face. If their most common problem is a drug addict high on PCP, they don't need a gun, they need proper training and, perhaps, a taser.
There's intense critique of the Big Five model within psychology, and with what we've learned about the reproducibility of psychology studies , I'd be shocked if those studies you linked were reproducible.
"where the tolerant voices aren't drained out by the relentlessness and irrationality of the intolerant"

It's ridiculous to say that abhorrent Holocaust deniers are drowning out tolerant voices. They have no place in mainstream media, so they are forced into some weird corner of FB. I have never personally encountered a Holocaust-denier opinion anywhere (including the internet), probably because I've never looked for one. I only know they exist because they are brought up as weirdos, like an evil version of a flat-earther.

That would be like saying some transcontinental ham radio morse code is drowning out your music on FM radio. It just doesn't interfere; you have to have a crazy antenna to even get the signal.

Let's not pretend that this somehow fits into the spirit of free speech. This is about making it hard for people to find these crazy messages even if they are looking for them.

You can debate that. Maybe some messages are too dangerous -- like DIY H-bombs or something. But arguing that is clearly in contradiction with the spirit of free speech.

(Note: I am not claiming that it's illegal censorship. FB is a private company and can do what it wants.)
https://mizage.com/shush/
YouTube to Spotify
/strums G, D, C on guitar/

“If I had a billion dollars...”
standard stick built has a lot of things already factory done. most lumber is a standard length/width, and the entire print is built around those sizes. 2x4s come factory cut to 92 5/8 long, which (after adding the other lumber needed for a wall) leaves a finished 8 foot wall ready for 2, 4 foot wide sheets of drywall.

What labor is done on site in a typical stick built construction project is mostly the same manual labor that needs to be done in a factory. Which isn't surprising: construction sites are just mobile factories for buildings. When you have to make something with lot of empty space is makes sense to ship the factory to the final location.

Shipping is a factor too: a stick built house arrives on one flatbed truck. A similar prefab house needs 3, and special permits to get it down the road (which includes checking for lower hanging power lines).
"This has nothing to do with 'smart' modes, remote hacking capability or disabling a car while in motion. The fact that the manufacturer can remote into their cars, does not automatically mean that the car is vulnerable to remote hacking. This is, in fact, a safety system that kicked in."

Uh, that should be the other way around: "The fact that the manufacturer cannot remote into their cars automatically means that the car is not vulnerable to [that form of] remote hacking."
I see your point, but the NYT has a whole team ("interactives") whose job is to do bespoke HTML / CSS for articles that they want to make a bigger splash.
I hated microsoft's plays for sure program. What a lie.
Still good to be reminded of the insanity.
> The name for this is platform politics

No, the name is business. As it's always been. You seem to have a grudge against companies doing what's best for their business.

> Stadia came out having way less users than desktop Linux

These are not even remotely related. Stadia is a service that is immediately available to a huge market share, and actually has legitimate business opportunity behind it.

> Linux has no owner, so these companies are at loss from whom to demand extra money,

Games is a business, and you go where the money is. Guess where it isn't? Surprise, Linux desktop gaming! Plenty of people are making money (billions) on Linux gaming, just not on the desktop. Because there's an actual market.
Ask HN: Is it just me or does a lot of pip packages fail to install?
Over the past many years I have faced a lot of difficulty even getting basic setup done for some projects just because even some of the popular pip packages just refuse to install with very vague errors.
The idea that an attribute has to be involuntary to be tolerated is not a good one. In determining whether or not something should be tolerated, it being involuntary may be a contributing factor but cannot be required. If Nazis decided that they would not kill any Jews who renounced Judaism, or gay people who didn't engage in homosexual sex, how much less repulsive would their ideology be?
Yes, it was hyperbole. My point was that metadata combined with other data becomes a super powerful tool.

You might guard your own privacy 100% but have a conversation with someone who doesn't. If you share interests, then your privacy op sec is now compromised in a way completely out of your hands.
Microwaving plastic waste can generate clean hydrogen
It may also be obscure enough that no one has noticed. Voice can probably be compressed using a lossy algorithm pretty heavily before it becomes useless for keyword matching. Maybe there's some sort of de-duping, and unique results are only sent up once per day/week, etc. If it's encrypted, it might look like random other telemetry.

About ten years ago, I discovered that one of the major "rate you shopping experience"-type survey providers had a feature where shoppers would be tagged at the beginning of their session, and if they were randomly selected, everything they did on the website was recorded (including text entered in fields, etc.). When they checked out, they'd get a pop-up asking if they wanted to complete a survey. If they answered "no", supposedly that recording was deleted, but who knows? There was certainly no indication that answering "yes" would result in it being saved indefinitely for playback by the marketing department.

The only reason I found it was that I was curious about some binary data that would be uploaded every once in awhile. It wasn't hard to take apart (zlib, I think), but the standard tools didn't catch it at all because it was a custom thing developed by that vendor. I've still never seen anyone discuss it publicly, despite it having been very common on online stores for years.

It could also be that no one is doing marketing analytics based on voice recordings, of course. I just wouldn't take it for granted that someone would have found it and disclosed it.
Actually, yeah, we did. The hiring manager got tired of waiting for us to find a good candidate, so he just picked one that he had screened and seemed best on paper.

It was an unmitigated disaster. Constantly had to double check his work and redirect him from doing things bad ways (like using mutable objects with changing hash codes as dictionary keys kind of bad).

Eventually I quit the job (for other reasons). On the last day he cornered me in the elevator and offered me $100/hr to do his work for him under the table so that he could claim it was his.

> Did you ever verify that they actually had the experience they claimed?

Employer would only verify employment dates and eligibility for re-hire.

> Did you follow up with their references?

Yeah, but when you ask someone for references they're not likely to give you people who wouldn't speak well of them.

> Were they able to walk you through projects they worked, or discuss solutions implemented?

Yeah. I can walk you through projects that I was involved in as a junior as if I had been the lead because I paid attention during meetings.
Sure, I eventually found the same link via Google search too. But it should still be on the call for submissions page, if they want people to use it as a basis for variations.