skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He said he was having meetings with his Russian counterparts. So it does not really make sense for them to hurt him if they want to meet him. A better explanation, suggested in the article, is that it could be some attempt to hack his phone.
It’s a huge mixed bag. Great and terrible at same time.
these 4500yr old yeast cultures are somewhat misleading. Your starter will adapt to your local environment, picking up whichever yeasts are in the air / grain you use.
I can now only read how many unread emails I have on 1/3 of my tabs and am very upset about this permanent downgrade, so yeah, I upvoted it.

https://i.imgur.com/eI7Bczd.png
So bad I couldn't find my gmail tab today. Tempted to write a chrome extension to put the old logo back for my sanity.
Vitamin D is involved in the regulation of the body's immune system and inflammatory response. There's a known correlation between low vitamin D readings and inflammatory diseases. Severe COVID complications seem to be primarily inflammatory in nature. It seems to me that folk that are prone to inflammatory problems are likely to both measure low on a vitamin D test and be prone to having a severe reaction to COVID.

A low vitamin D reading doesn't necessarily mean you are vitamin D deficient. There are two forms of vitamin D in the body, inactive and active, and the more common/cheaper blood test only measures the inactive form. The active form is what affects the body, though.

High levels of active vitamin D can cause serious damage to your body. It's probably not a good idea to supplement vitamin D without consulting a doctor.
What would you do if the world's most powerful state sent undercover agents to your country? This is a powerful message to send. It says, "We know what you're doing. Moreover we known who's doing it. And there's a risk and a price for doing that on our sovereign soil." This message isn't just sent to the leaders and higher-ups, who has most likely already gotten protests through diplomatic channels. Instead it's directly targeted at agents, of whom many will have second thought about accepting such assignments if they know they're putting their own life and health at stake. On the other hand, I'm not truly convinced about case. It also sounds a bit like American made spin, to increase hostility towards Russia. On the other hand, Russia has indeed increased their undercover activities, and some of them might be eager to show or warn the world that they're capable and dangerous. But death rays? Sounds like something out of an old James Bond film lol. So if nothing else, perhaps more people will write good spy flicks from this...
I was pleasantly surprised to find I could read the article without being badgered to use the reddit app.
I recall that post being pretty polarizing on HN. I think PG himself showed up and ranted about how the people calling it consumerist schlock had it all wrong, and this was a sign of HN's decline or something. Anyway personally I found the post fairly repulsive. It reminded me of my thought patterns during some of my grossest excursions into materialist obsession - spending hours researching what "the best" thing to buy is, when I would have been much, much happier just getting something at random than agonizing about it - or just not buying anything at all.
ignoring everything else, if Tesla's chips are so much better than the alternatives, why would they want to give them to their competitors?

That's what people said Apple should do with macOS, and we saw what happened there.
It's election season, and Russian hijinks are in vogue.

Remember, bog-standard corruption in Ukraine is a crazy conspiracy theory which should be banned from social media.

But mystical microwave illnesses? Very credible.

You have permission to re-engage your bullshit detector after all the votes are in.
Amazon could've just bought some and checked it?
The project hasn't really been publicly released yet. The repository is still private. The package is up on npm, but isn't ready for widespread adoption yet. I'd recommend sticking with Sapper for now.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@sveltejs/kit
>"It's widely acknowledged and understood that Russia is deploying some kind of acoustic weapon"

Reading this makes me think we might have victims right here.
Affecting the most people? Smart phones, 4G/5G
Isn't there a character limit on titles here? It's gotten me before. Quite annoying.
https://dcurt.is/the-best
The movie “Brazil” comes to mind.
This is somewhat orthogonal, but I don’t understand the draw of real-time collaboration.

As a designer, I’d much rather collaborate via the Git-like system of Abstract, committing changes and merging pull requests than have things happening elsewhere in the file I’m working on with no versioning or notification.

Real-time collaboration has never been in demand among developers, has it?
It's sort of like video search results. I search for a question. I get a result that looks like a video and not an ad. I click the link and get taken to YouTube where... an ad plays. And likely generates a higher RPM for Google than a text ad.
If the signal is strong enough, you can easily design a pocket detector. A PCB attached to a pocket protector with antenna tracings for multiple spectrums and a buzzer. No need to get fancy, a few passives off the shelf will do the trick. Or just get a SDR scanning multiple spectrums and have a threshold trigger above a specific power level. This is beginner radio stuff, I am sure their local hardware tech support can whip one up under a day.
Isn't this an old one? I remember reading a report by guardian some time back.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/14/mystery-of-son...
Somebody else... who knew what they were doing by having functional icons that are differentiable. Next redesign they will make them oblique for another $1M.
I just can't understand why someone would put so much effort into writing this. I almost stopped myself from reading it but I decided to read it anyway. I regret it. I think this same essay has been written millions of times (of course for things other than and probably more important than Silicon Valley). It's definitely been written about Silicon Valley at least once before.
why do companies continue to do this to themselves? Is it just the nature of large orgs?
WhatsApp had half a billion active users before Facebook. They were doing just fine. That’s why Facebook paid over $20 billion for it.
> Related, it really bugs me that some startups are throwing the ‘no code’ tag into their pitch decks or Product Hunt launches just to hop on a trend.

It's the blockchain hype for 2020.
I've had a similar experience with Uber customer support. Their navigation thinks there's access to my house from a road that isn't actually connected, so delivery drivers consistently go the wrong way. But emailing customer support just got me seemingly automated responses saying "we're sorry the location pin was not in the right place" which isn't even the problem that I'm having.
Unfortunately what humanity always found out is that physics always progress. That means that we are always at mercy of uknown physics laws or put it simply: Till now humanity had a lot of luck and everyone luck at some point ends.
You're only thinking about it from one side. Assuming two excellent employees are on offer and both are remote so location is no issue, the employer will typically choose the cheaper option. Someone with a lower cost of living will generally not need to demand as much money.
I've done it for so long and have never had an issue.

Every once in a while Windows overwrite the boot sector and you have to stick in a rescue stick. Not a huge problem.
You certainly seem to have a good understanding of how provocative his philosophy is.

He doesn't believe that history is leading anywhere, that there's moral progress. He believes that in the future slavery might return because history is cyclical and a result of a corrupt human nature that has not changed for thousands of years. That means genocides, racism, etc are here to stay and whatever progress we've made is a coincidence.
https://www.robrhinehart.com/why-i-am-voting-for-kanye-west/
Meh. I can't open any of our old sketch files at work because I don't have a valid license for a version that works on the newest OS. All the same as being locked out of a server in the moment.
For those interested in such things, there is also a Scheme-like Lisp that compiles to Python, called Hy (https://hylang.org).

It can be surprisingly fun and convenient to have the full macro power of Lisp layered on top of these dynamic languages.
May I recommend Joplin? I migrated from Keep to Joplin a little while ago. It's working pretty well for me.

- Open source
- Encryption at rest when using a cloud service for syncing
- Apps for all major platforms
There are a few other good recent articles about this in the last week or two:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/19/us/politics/diplomat-atta...

https://www.gq.com/story/cia-investigation-and-russian-micro...
After reading a few dozen of his short, stream of consciousness paragraphs, I would have independently said "this is the kind of guy who would vote for Kanye West"
Connect the dots. You don’t need evidence to realize that Cuba/China/Russia are fucking with US agents. Whatever they use to do this is a ‘weapon.’
Honestly? Given all the political upheaval and nations moving away from trade and looking inwards I’m surprised there’s not another world war. So I think the greatest accomplishment of the 21st century is that there’s still relative peace and we don’t live in the aftermath of a nuclear winter.
Still very localized to cause real damages, difficult to reproduce (and get volunteers for). Then we have these report from China and Russia as well.
Out of the top of my mind:

* Gets good enough, but not great. Then most contributor lose interest and the pace slows. It makes the original roadmap impractical and more devs lose interest, which spirals into a dormant project (Inkscape)

* Maintained flawlessly, but no new groundbreaking features get added and there is a slow exodus of users toward new-shiny until it is a perfectly bug-free irrelevant piece of code (most JS stuff, GnuPG, some crypto libs, OpenBSD).

* Maintained into the ground by aggressive/oppressive/elitist/cultist/dogmatic core team followed by a split of the community (pre re-merge of glibc/eglibc, GCC/EGCS, ffmpeg/libav, Gnome/MATE/Cinnamon/Unity, Vim/NeoVim, all of Suckless, most of GNU)

* Fancy/overkill roadmap made at a time when there is plenty of contributors, but so hard to achieve most of them give up before the finish line (KDE4, GIMP 2.10)

* Unresponsive/exclusive community toward new contributors and/or SJW attempts accidentally FUDding a previously functional community (lets not point fingers and start a flame war)

* Unwillingness to break things or pay up the tech debt in order to stay relevant (EMACS, pre-LLVM-era GCC)

* Break everything consistently and often and/or remove your contributions because of a dogma (Gnome)

* The Free-software people and the commercial contributors revolt against each other (OpenOffice/LibreOffice/StarOffice/CollaborraOnline, OwnCloud/NextCloud)

* Misguided attempts at making money by breaking things for your users (GhostScript, eLive, Mepis, Mandrake, every project who moved to AGPL)

* No attempt at ensuring the project can exist without its founder (CentOS, all single-person-army projects out there, all BDFL who refuse to let go when they lose interest)

* Sabotage (ion3, ffmpeg, Cyanogen)

* Suicide by committee (many Apache/Eclipse foundation projects like Apache OpenOffice)

* Make a major incompatible upgrade with no clear migration paths (Python, GTK, KDE, Gnome, AwesomeWM)

* Promise a major upgrade, tell your users to wait for it, then backtrack (Perl)

* Maintain multiple branches of your software forever until you fragment your user base so much you compete with yourself and lose to new-fancy (OpenSSL, pre-rolling Firefox, MySQL, most "enterprise grade stuff")

* crazy rebranding ideas leaving most of your users unaware of the new project (Apache OpenOffice, my own SFLPhone->Inutchuk->Ring.cx->GNU Ring->GNU Jami->Banji fiasco, KOffice).
Would be a massive upgrade for me.
The majority of the benefits seem to be for developers, not for customers. Effectively-free features like tool bars, file dialogs, and right-click lookups sure are nice to not have spend development hours on. However, as a customer...how does that matter to me?
the ideas aren't bad though, you just don't agree with them.
Banning meat isn't something I would get on board with but it would probably be effective.
There's been a lot of discussion lately on HN about nuclear and I can actually see both sides of the debate.
Plastic straws I think you have actually just strawmanned environmentalists here as I've never seen plastic straws mentioned as a solution or contributor to global warming.
> it was much as easier to change the web page over time when it was written in code than changing the auto-generated garbage HTML that front page produced. No code stood up poorly over time back then and I doubt it will today

You're in for a rude awakening then!

Webflow (the modern equivalent of Frontpage/dreamweaver) produces portable, semantic HTML and sane CSS. Like half of all YC companies are using it to build their marketing sites now.

I've found it's much faster to completely redesign your site over time with Webflow than with some custom built static site. In fact, I'd say things have flipped. I think whatever esoteric Node Package Mess, shit hot CSS framework and clunky headless CMS you're using today will be the thing that ages poorly over time.
The existence of popular engagement with a subset of allowed right-wing content does not mean there is no censorship of other right-wing content. If most of the political content on a platform by volume is right-wing, then it actually wouldn't be surprising if most of the censored political content would also be right-wing.

The most engaged with articles on HN are technology-related. That fact does not magically prove that there is also zero moderation of technology-related articles.
Blockchain Real Estate Companies to Know
Please be clear. What are you insinuating?
The Best discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4755470
I spent ages looking for my Gmail on my Android phone this morning, until I saw it had been washed out. Previously an unmistakably strong RED icon, I do understand the value of it looking like all the other apps and that I really should learn to memorise the locations of my app rather than expect icons to look the same over time.

And oh, how I love how they packed MEET into my Gmail app, so that I don't have to have that as a separate application. It saves a lot of time, because I start those all the time on my phone, and where better to do so than from my email? I also love the real estate it takes at the bottom of my email list, as I don't like that being used for the primary purpose of my email app - which used to be to display emails. My phone's display was too large anyway.

Truly a _S_OLID effort by the Alphabet soup team.

(EDIT: I did notice that hidden away in the settings, under each account, there's the option to toggle this feature off. I'm glad they made it intuitive should I ever decide to do so, and I'm sure I wouldn't have missed it the first time I looked for such an option, should I have desired to do so, and the 2nd as well).
Theoretically this is true, but most business has little to no idea how much value a given employee adds to the company, with the exception of some very specific roles like sale. Just think of any middle manager - what is their value add to the company? They are clearly needed to make sure workers have clear objectives, but how would you put a number on it?
This essay is so bad it really makes me want to discount and ignore anything this person has to say about anything else.

I know that’s probably unfair and I genuinely try to treat unrelated arguments independently from the person arguing them - but it’s rare to see something this wrong while the author revels in their own ignorance.

This isn’t coming from a place of politics, though there’s no way for me to prove it to anyone - it’s just coming from the place of being a reasonably educated person.
I also wish this.

I have been getting by using a family member's machine to build iOS apps on, but if I were just on Mac to build iOS apps every now and then, I'd be complaining about Mac all day online honestly.

It's just not my cup of tea. Like water and oil together, but I'm sure for some people it's everything they want in a computer
Even if they are fake, destroying it is extreme. They should just levy fines or charges on the storage and hold on to it. Atleast not until the seller’s case is open with them. I don’t get how they could be so bad at this.
> No down sides

Figma is significantly more expensive than Sketch, e.g. for individuals: $144/year vs ($99 for first year + $79 for next years), and that's if you choose to upgrade Sketch every year, which you don't need to.

Figma also doesn't really work offline.
> They were doing just fine.

The YouTube video I linked to is Neeraj Arora, early WhatsApp employee, on what Facebook's acquisition meant for WhatsApp.
I actually like the direction they've gone in..

There's a lot of backlash EVERY time there are branding revamps,
however in this situation I've been pretty receptive of the changes.

The 'google' colour branding across their app icons is useful as users will instantly associate those colours with being Google's

With my previous Android device I very clearly remember not being able to identify which Calendar app was Google's vs Samsung's. Additionally, I had no idea the old hangouts app icon was Google hangouts, as I never used it. But evidently the icon itself wasn't enough to get my attention as being Google's

The only icon I don't like is the Google docs one as the icon itself doesn't really convey what it is. Atl east know it's obviously from the Google suite though.
I think SV will continue to produce big tech companies, but you can probably put a date on the begin of a decline earlier than them.

I think SVs decline will be more like jumping the shark in ideology than monetary failures.
an innovative way to become a middleman, renting people free software, re-centralizing computing power, and un-democratizing hardware
Notion is excellent, and probably not going anywhere.
I liked it, and I despise Facebook and Amazon.
I worked for an infra provider. We used token buckets for network usage. We didn't have actual cpu usage but you can use zabbix for that.
Memory is hard to capture because of paging etc

For database use, it's better to create separate dB if you want to charge by storage.
If the tables are shared, use the (count of rows for customer/ total rows)* total table storage. Ideally this should be possible at tablespace level
exactly this. arguably they've probably trojaned or backdoored the e2e encryption by now, after buying it too.
I think the point is that Uber, etc, are capitalizing on the _myth_ of SV without sharing the ethos that created it
Dammit... ok, which iPhone should I get?

Recommendations for replacing Google photos, drive and GMail?

There is an endless stream of bad decisions coming out of Mountain View these days and I think it's time I start de-Googling for real. I don't feel like going down with the ship.
Didn't reddit and a lot of other companies (I think Yahoo?) at some point mandate that all remote employees move to their HQ cities so they could work at the office, leading to a lot of folks quitting?

I seem to remember a lot of blog posts lamenting this at the time
His take on Amazon is incredibly ignorant. People act as if Prime 2 day shipping was a simple business decision because that's all they see. They can't see the supply chain optimization behind the scenes that allow this to be economical.
The commercial FPGA tools have tremendous technological advantages, but the free part is inherently what many FOSS users value, not the other stuff. You're trying to talk about technical QoR between tools but the difference for anyone who really cares is ideological, not technical.

> The reason is if it has not happened for the first (and arguably easiest) step in the chain i.e. System Verilog, they why would it happen for the others?

Ehhhhh, I don't think I buy this at all. There are dozens of alt-HDLs out there, many of which are quite powerful, designed by solo users. People had working, simple-but-practical PnR for real devices in a ~7k C++ LOC codebase written by an individual (arachne-pnr) and many individuals have independently reverse engineered small-ish scale device families for packing utilities. nextpnr was written by a very small group (solo?) in a year or something. I don't think you could fit an equivalent parser for SV2017 in ~7k LOC, much less elaboration, type checking, a netlist database, to all go along with it. SystemVerilog might actually be the most difficult part of the whole equation because it simply has so much surface area. PnR tools are limited by their target: only targeting small iCE40 devices? Your PNR algorithms don't need to be cutting edge. Targeting SV2017? Your job is hard no matter what device you synthesize for. And I can't think of even a single commercial tool I know from any vendor that supports all of it, up-to-date with SV2017.

All that said, I use SystemVerilog as my "normal" RTL when using commercial tools for stitching together IP, wiring up top modules, etc.
I know Fortune 500 companies using online databases like QuickBase to operate their businesses. QuickBase is a sort of web-based relational database meets excel formulas. Business owners love tools like this. I know of a handful that run $50M+ ARR online businesses using no-low-code platforms where the only technical person on payroll is the IT guy that reboots the phone system each day.
While I very much believe in Russian political maleficence (and am aware of Cuba incidents)

This could honestly just be something like a very small CSF leak caused by the plane trip. It's a legit thing that can happen, especially in older folks (for it being brought on by a plane trip, that is)

It's a condition that is very often missed by even the best of medical professionals.

While there's an absolutely miniscule chance this is the case, I just sent him a message with a large amount of info in how to look into this with the centers pioneering treatment (Stanford, Cedars-Sinai, Duke) as it's a very fucking shitty condition to deal with.

But yeah, not to put on a tinfoil hat... I believe we're most definitely past the point of technological ability to do something like this. However, using it in a case like this does seem a bit odd to me.

I can also believe there would be reasons the CIA has long standing beef with Walter Reed. Politics are unfathomably nasty.
The justification is spelled out literally few words down the line - to unify the visual language.

If that is not clear, here is an example of Microsoft Office's excellent execution: https://medium.com/microsoft-design/redesigning-the-office-a...
What if the transmission was very short lived?
Seems odd the reporter doesn’t verify the authenticity/quality of the submitted invoices.

Surely he could produce copies for the reporter?
You’re confusing being good at business/marketing with being innovative.
PyTorch 1.7 Release
It could happen, and you will need to adapt to it. Change happens all the time, and only those that resist change will suffer from it, while those that bend with it will benefit from it.

That said, I really don't think remote work will be permanent. Once the Pandemic is over, people will relish going into the office. Most people WANT to work at an office, regardless of the commute. It runs between 60-75% of all people want to work from an office, and it is more efficient.
This article indeed includes that detail.
"On belay?"

"Belay on"

Swapping the order of the words helps further.