skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I call this, dictatorship of the masses. Masses define « normal » as doing specific things, and normality is enforced for uni, and we don’t select enough for skills. As a person who couldn’t understand social expectations (=Asperger) this is extremely stressful, but now I just read it as the first installment of normal people’s revenge over the work-minded. For what, I don’t know, it’s not like we’ll end up with their loving wife or recognition, but I assure it takes many forms.

Meanwhile Asian countries select for skills and don’t hesitate to give 14hrs per day of courses at high school in China depending on provinces. Not that it is enjoyable, but we won’t enjoy much when we have to acknowledge their superiority.

A few spots for IQ160 people still excludes a lot of good workers. Perhaps we shouldn’t suppress our hard workers, perhaps we should even acknowledge them, even if they seem boring for normal people.

Meanwhile if those could actually help us socially, that would be a big win-win, if only because socially-excluded people are harmful to others, maybe also because most tax dollars comes from hard workers.
I love this proposal. I think I would use it too much at first, and the pull it back to using it a reasonable amount :)

I've wished that Python had something similar to C#'s LINQ, where a user could express a query using familiar list comprehension syntax, but instead of the comprehension actually evaluating, my search library could somehow receive the AST and use it to build an optimized query. ORM libraries often play tricks with dunder methods to achieve a similar DSL feel. This could give me something very close to that.

I'm also drooling over the parser example, as someone who maintains a parsing library. I support building a parser from a a grammar file currently because doing it in code is a bit clumsy, but the example makes it look pretty.

There's also countless times people have had a great idea for "with" blocks, but it turns out it's not really possible because it would require the with statement to analyze/capture the child statements inside. This proposal gives you exactly that.

The syntax isn't spectacular, but for the most part I can't think of anything much better. I do think the "sibling statement" syntax will be hard to understand visually. I would make it start with a @ since it's like a decorator for the next statement:

@log!
print("Hello")
How to Build a Great Series A Pitch and Deck
Over the course of working with 128 founders who've collectively raised $1.5B in Series As from 100 different investors over the past 2 years, I found I was giving a lot of the same advice - especially it came to how to most effectively tell the stories of their companies. I've decided to open source that advice - hoping any company looking to go down the venture capital route and raise an A will find it helpful!
"Why do people like the Mandalorian?"

two words... baby f*cking yoda. seriously, i have tons of friends who hate star wars but love baby yoda and they watch it for the cuteness.

if there is one thing that disney knows how to do is to create a story around a product, that product being baby yoda. netflix isn't even in the same universe as disney when it comes to content creation.
And people will not only believe it, but defend it.
it's not on the level of the Q2, but Varjo makes a really good high end headset, probably comparable to the Valve Index
Netflix is trying to bait you into watching their original series. Just yesterday on my Xbox app the continue watching section dissappeared from the screen. Gone. I had to search, which is a painful process on an xbox, for the show I was watching the day before, because it was nowhere on the front page. But boy where there a lot of "You might also like" type sections cluttering the screen instead.
And what is top of the list, then?
God I hate that program(me). And I was born on the same day, 9 December 1960, and as it gradually becomes known more and more for just being old I am more and more reminded of my own mortality.
> For me personally, this meant that for years, literally, there was always this nagging feeling that I could be doing more. I could be doing more or doing better for Outseta, and I could be doing more in terms of the other projects I was working on as well. For me, that feeling has been tough. It feels really good to be able to say that you unequivocally, without question, are giving something your all.

This has been the dealbreaker for me whenever I've tried to bootstrap side-projects or incubate potential startup ideas while holding a full-time job. It always leads to frustration after a month or two, since I'm unable to perform to the best of my abilities on either the day job or the side project.

For me personally, the better route (for my sanity, at least) has been to double down on my career, putting everything into the day job. The big downside of course is that I've had to put any startup plans on hold indefinitely. But the upside is that I only have to focus on one thing (day-job performance), and since I'm lucky enough to be in an organization where performance is rewarded, that has led to career progression over time.

Rather than inflate my lifestyle, I've continued to live modestly and save/invest my compensation bumps. This extends my personal runway and increases my confidence that when the time is right, I'll be able to responsibly quit and focus 100% on my own thing without risking my family's financial wellbeing.

I know this isn't the right path for everyone, but for me at least it's what has kept me sane!
Freeganism
Apple's next move is to disallow unsigned software entirely, Gatekeeper popup or no. They already announced it for ARM Macs [0]. It currently allows adhoc signatures, but I'd be shocked if that didn't go away in the next couple of versions unless they were built locally.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-note...
I agree. You might like working on the Internet Computer with former IBM Researchers at https://github.com/dfinity.
I’m sure it can, given at its core it just tunnels traffic from one place to another, but to be brutally honest this is a 0.1 release and if you can’t work out how to do this from the documentation you’re going to have a really bad time working out why it broke down the line.
Here's a 2019 report from the Boston Globe about the extreme lengths that poll workers will go to in India to ensure access:

https://www.bostonglobe.com./news/world/2019/04/13/poll-work...

"The polling booth in Gir Forest National Park in Gujarat is set up for the sole human inhabitant, a Hindu priest who lives among the lions. Polling officials hike for a whole day to reach the remote village of Malogam in Arunachal Pradesh, where just one woman is registered to vote."

"Another Ladakh station, Anlay Pho, is so high at 4,500 meters (almost 15,000 feet) above sea level that polling teams must carry oxygen tanks."

"The voting machines were protected inside waterproof boxes and other polling material was kept dry under layers of plastic cover. The journey ended with a splash: Priyadarshini and the team clambered out and waded through waist-high water to reach the shore. All this for just nine voters."

"Many polling booths in remote areas have no mobile connectivity. Here too, the team had to use wireless sets and satellite phones to send the commission’s mandated twice hourly reports on the progress of polling."

Such a strong commitment to democracy, even through all the other messes in India, is beyond heartening. Such efforts should be emulated throughout the world.
This is correct and it's mostly in Eastern part of the world. I owned a Spectravideo 328 when I was a kid. One of many kind of MSX computers.
From what little I know of both, Tailscale provides L2 access into a network that you might not otherwise have access and once you're in you can get anywhere from there, but Boundary hands out individual, already-connected TCP sockets directly to services running on endpoints.

If you're looking for something like a VPN and you're just going to SSH over it, either would probably work for you, but while Boundary can allow users to only connect to port 22 on certain hosts, I think if you wanted to do similar with Tailscale you'd be in iptables/ufw and "tagging / authz-ing traffic with unix uids" territory.
I’m not sure if they do CV reviews along with interview coaching but https://interviewing.io/ MIGHT be what you’re after?
Show HN: I built Kubernetes exercises you can run on your computer
Not necessarily, the point of the article is that there is a high/room temperature superconducting material. That doesn't mean it is naturally occurring or that there are any, but the understanding that you can achieve superconductivity at higher temperatures when at (significantly) higher pressures could lead to some new geological hypothesis to try and test.
Escapism can be a precursor to failure too. I'm not being cheeky. I think that we're not open enough about the fact that we're jumping ship, because we're not sure we can take care of this one. That's important, because it carries serious concerns for how well we'd do on Mars.
Tandy used the "TRS-80" name for many of their computer lines, even when they used completely different architectures.

The original TRS-80 ("Model I"), the TRS-80 Model III, and the TRS-80 Model 4 all used a Z80. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80

The TRS-80 Color Computer ("CoCo") used the 6909. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Color_Computer

The portable TRS-80 Model 100 used an 8085. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Model_100
Macros have decidedly nonzero cost. Look at the discussion from the core devs surrounding this; just the implementation is a major change for the parsing and AST modules with unclear performance implications. Introducing this much complexity to the language is far from "no cost" as well. I predict that if this PEP goes through, it will be a watershed moment for Python and the language will become an unrecognizable mess (more so than already) within a few years. If GvR was still in charge, I would be sure that this would be dismissed. Now, I am not so sure, and that troubles me.
FWIW, I've never had any nightmares where I dreamed I was back in secondary school. I've had many about undergrad and grad school, though. It's been more than a decade since I graduated from grad school.

However, I've also had plenty of nightmares about my first job. It's never about my performance or my co-workers, mind you, but about my immigration status back then. Currently, in my (virtual) room of co-workers, many are also immigrants; I wouldn't be surprised that they've had similar nightmares.
Thanks for mentioning this. I've been using a HomePod/HomeKit for a while already, but was curious if there was a way I could get my cheapo IP cameras' feeds into the Home app. I was using Zoneminder, but that was kind of overkill and a pain to use for my use case.

After seeing your comment I setup HomeBridge and the homebridge-camera-ffmpeg plugin in about 10 minutes, and now I've got what I wanted. Thanks!
It's not a surprising sentence if you consider how states perceive cyberspace: malware-as-munition. Just as German companies cant export guns, bombs or other military hardware without authorization, same goes for state-developed malware.
Everything inside the quotes alters the string, so it's quite consistent in that sense. And even in a language where whitespace is completely insignificant, it's not insignificant inside a string literal.
E2EE uses WebRTC Insertable Streams feature which is enabled by default on latest stable Chrome (v86) so web client support is at least possible now.
> Oculus has competitors.

I wish that was true. If that was the case, I would've bought a headset from a competitor in a heartbeat.

Unfortunately, while there are many competitive VR headsets out there, I cannot recall a single other VR headset that works standalone without a PC.

Not even mentioning the price point of Quest and the fact that it can be used for both PCVR and standalone, thus bringing a superset of features of other headsets. No need to set up lightboxes and being able to just buy the headset and play without anything extra is a value proposition that I don't see any other VR headset can provide.

Hopefully, the success of Quest will provide a kick in the ass to other manufacturers to make their own versions. Imo, the standalone+PCVR combo with no lightboxes is the future, with lightbox PCVR-only headsets being reserved for highly niche uses.
Looks like the new term to strive for in superconductors is room-conditions
Ctrl-A to highlight the whole board, spaces marked "12" are empty, ones marked "11" are mines.
In states with early voting, it makes no sense to wait in line. Just come back another day. In many states, early voting extends until Oct 30. Even the last vote cast on Oct 30 is still an early vote. Why are people waiting in line for hours? People seem to think this is a "justice" issue...as if somehow waiting in line for hours imbues your vote with so much virtue that it becomes tamper proof.
there are a lot of visually/technically impressive movies and tv shows that are (subjectively) awful-mediocre in terms of their substance (see: Avatar)

i don't see how the OP's take on the mandalorian is at odds with the idea that the people who make it are probably pretty good at their jobs
They made their entire business work because people could easily call into these conference calls - they have on click call ins in the invite. And before the whole meeting password stuff, it was really easy. So ease of use was priority.

Existing solutions are out there for folks with high security needs (that are in some cases darn hard to use with bigger non tech groups).

Your POTS phone call to a bridge is not e2e to all the other recipients. The phone system doesn't have support for E2E in many cases. And zoom still has people using phones to connect.

Additionally, they have in the past done mixing and other things on the server for very large broadcast type events. Ie, instead of doing 10 streams to 4,000 people (40,000 streams) you do 10 streams, mix, then one stream to 4,000 people.
Lost's peak was the end episode of Season 1. It was just perfect, emotional, and opening up a whole new world of mysteries with the hatch. Season 2 episode 1 was one of the worst disappointments.
Exactly! Suck it up and accept that you just gave Facebook hundreds of dollars as a charitable donation and move on with your life.
Slow burn of this topic, this deeper analysis looked at Netflix’s impact on Hollywood too. This[1] is from 2019:

“[Netflix] now routinely ends shows after their second season, even when they’re still popular. Netflix has learned that the first two seasons of a show are key to bringing in subscribers—but the third ... don’t do much...”

^1 https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/the-slow-death-of-hollywo...
The Interactive Book
> Would people like it if it didn't have the star wars backdrop? Does the star wars backdrop even make that much sense?

The bulk of the plot would work fine if it were space-bounty-hunter-with-angry-people-after-him, plus friends and a macguffin. Star Wars flavoring seems like the main way that this differentiates it from Cowboy Bebop (space bounty hunter in the solar system, hops between planets...).

A big part of why the show is good is the mysterious "what's under the mask" aspect. We've had Boba/Jango Fett for decades, but it's really neat to see the expansion of this lore about the mandalorian culture -- why they always stay masked, etc. SW nerds like me often find lore tidbits delicious.

The Mandalorian also happens to have ridiculously good production values compared to most shows -- I'm watching a movie in serial form. (See also Altered Carbon.) It also has interesting characters that I am curious about (both heroes and villains), with backstories I'd like to hear more about. THAT part doesn't need to be Star Wars. It could be samurai, or space privateers, or drama on a space station (DS9), and as long as it's done well, I'll want to watch it.
> Snowden showed that these orgs were compromised by prism, not that they willingly joined.

Not true. Snowden showed that Apple and Google were "commercial partners" with PRISM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance_disclosure....
I both asked beta readers to share if they are seeing a change in application rates, and reached out to a few of them.

I have a small sample size - about 15 responses - and everyone reported getting higher response rates. Some said it was much much higher, some said it was somewhat higher.

I will add that almost everyone who has responded are people with 2+ years experience, many of them having 5+. So I cannot vouch if the advice here significantly helps people with less experience, where the market is more competitive and it's harder to stand out.

All of this is anecdotal, though. I have a few people who agreed to share their names on the site, with reviews. And I have more emails in my inbox saying thanks for seeing higher success in going through the resume screen. There are also people who got more recruiter calls, but still have not been able to get an offer, struggling on the later parts of the process.
On the pricing page, it’s difficult to scan and see the difference between the two packages. You could do “everything in basic plus:” or change colors or something else to add contrast.

Also you should charge more for this book, I think it’s worth at least $30. The extra value added package could be $50 and include the templates and case studies or a personal resume review. See Rock and Roll with Ember.js: https://www.balinterdi.com/rock-and-roll-with-emberjs/
Even more so if they could see the worship games we play in front of our own personal, illuminated alters.
No account would mean anonymous access, wouldn't it? That's fine, but I don't think many people would frequent anonymous communities since moderation would become extremely difficult, unless the presence was tied with the hardware. Tying an an involuntary account to hardware would probably destroy the second hand market.
Qake
This is hilarious to me because you are basically making the correct point, but with the wrong conclusion. Let's take as a potentially erroneous given that early voting worked perfectly OK. Then, in 2020, it's run exactly the same, but demand is larger than in previous years [0]. That might result in exactly what's being reported here.

So yes, Apple made a mistake with a novel experience. Looks like various supervisors of elections are maybe also making a mistake with a novel experience. But I the latter doesn't get the same slack as Apple?

And, to be fair, at least my local supervisor of elections sent extra mailings this year making it abundantly clear that mail-in voting was an option and how to register for it. So they did make obvious the availability of the preordering equivalent.

[0] I won't say larger than anticipated, because the likelihood is that no one bothered to anticipate at all. Otherwise they might have figured to open more early voting stations this year.
And Bill Gates at Microsoft. And Larry and Sergey early on at Google. And...
Right. Because they have been refining this system for ten years. And the last few years they have had actual customers giving lots of feedback and a lot of the tweaks I assume were about making the driving more human.

That turn does seem to me like one of the tweaks you would add a little further on though. But I don't know because almost from day one it would need to be able to plot _some_ type of path there.
You can deal with that on a case-by-case basis. It is better to have the chance of someone skipping class than it is to tell a girl that thinks her tampon is leaking (because of surprise heavy bleeding) that she can't go to the bathroom and instead, has to hope that she didn't leak through her pants onto the chair. Or that someone has to risk soiling themselves because they have to go.

I'm really happy my mother made sure I knew she'd fight for me if a teacher wouldn't let me use the toilet. I didn't need her to, but my sister did.
I think it depends on your personality, are you a person who likes things to hang together coherently and think that when a narrative implies something will be resolved it should be resolved (that is to say if you see Chekhov's gun, they keep talking about it, and it never goes off - do you get really upset?) well, if you're that kind of person you will be pissed off about Lost. You might also dislike GoT (can't say haven't seen, but I'm that kind of person and not going to risk it)

If you feel characterization is the most important thing, and the emotional connection to characters or having highly evocative emotional moments in the narrative is what makes it worthwhile then you will probably like Lost quite a bit, but you might hate GoT (given my understanding that the last season fucked up major characters for shock value - I can't speak directly to it as I haven't watched it)

So based on that my wife still talks about how great Lost was, and if it gets brought up the first words out of my mouth will not be complimentary.
Their excess mortality is much higher than their neighbours: https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/

Whether that’s a disaster or not is probably up to the people in Sweden - for people who lost family members or got “long covid” then it probably is. For people who didn’t and are enjoying freedoms other countries aren’t, possibly not.
It's not just the last season which is weak in GOT, it's been weak for 2 seasons before already. If anyone did not notice they seriously need to go back and rewatch the first few seasons to compare.
1. I think it's only earlier this way in the US because of school buses and parents need to go to school.

Here in my country, most start at either 8 or 9.
And when you decide to leave your current company?

Certainly I believe that remote work was already on the way to becoming more and more accepted, but by moving out you're still limiting your employment prospects to those companies that decide not to focus more on in-person roles. Maybe that will still work out in the long-run, but I still think there's significant long-term financial benefit in maximizing your number of potential employers.

Plus, if you're expecting to move back to San Francisco at some point, right now is the time to do it while prices are through the floor. You're far better off moving in right now at a 35% discount—which is permanent given rent control—than trying to come back in another year when COVID-19 is (hopefully) over and people are flooding back in.
I feel you're ignoring the subtle point - these devices are designed as an extension of their service not as general computing devices. I can easily replace "Roku" with "RSA SecureID keyfob" and have the same conversation - it is not a generic device; it is a targeted hardware extension of their core business model. An "online account" (an account with RSA the company) is required for this keyfob to be of any value other than a LED screen displaying random numbers.
20th or 30th viewing? Wow, I have so many questions. Are there other shows you give similar devotion to?
The second season garnered less interest than the first though. How would you run the business if that was the case?
Thank you and yes I should have used a different symbol.
Thank you - fixed it! It should be [1]. No Show HN is complete without issues pointed out :)

[1] https://thetechresume.com/samples/the-hiring-pipeline.html#t...
A Scientist’s Reckoning with the Cruelty of Chance
Yeah, I wonder when they'll start looking into what not doing a third season does to getting rid of subscribers...
Twitter and Facebook Censoring New York Post Article about Hunter Biden
Actually written in Assembler to it. You had to squeeze the entire code and the graphics to 16k (K, that is 1024 bytes!). Rendering the screen was directly poking values to the hardware. Great piece of hardware