skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I love that there are so few limits in "software world."

I'd love to visit that world you live in. Software development is nothing but a huge heap of trade-offs based on limitation of all kinds. Money, time, quality, re usability, maintainability, and many more. I'm ready to bet there is no other job out there that is as complex and bound by so many parameters than software development. Maybe hardware development but I put them into the same category personally.

>No pesky laws of physics.

Try low level programming or high performance software. Your worldview will change very quickly. Not everything is fluffy javascript ;)

>No enforced values by one or another interest group.

I'm at a loss of words. Software is what makes the modern world move. You literally cannot avoid interest groups that want to influence you once you have a popular software that is used by millions.

Sure you can write some hobby projects and avoid all of the above mentioned, but once you do something with impact that is used extensively to help people (something everyone should strive for!), all of those issues WILL come to haunt you. No exception!
And I'm fine with that. That's the approach they should take.

Claiming "they stole the election" is not that.
>No. We live a society of free will and choices. It's not reasonable for me to expect that _any_ job will allow me to live _any_ kind of lifestyle.

I think reasonable can agree on this. The difficulty is deciding where to draw the line at, now that we have established there exists some line.

>It is reasonable for me to expect that a full-time job should allow me to have a roof over my head, food to eat, etc. I should make a living wage. There are examples of independent organisations that calculate what a living wage is and what constitues a living wage.

But these have certain assumptions built in. A living wage for a single adult with no kids is quite different than a living wage for an adult with 2 kids. So how many kids should be calculated in? Aren't we saying that if a person has greater than what ever number of kids we allow for, aren't we condemning them to being forced to live at an unlivable wage? We could define it to take into account something like number of kids, but then we have now officially begun discriminated on family status and will likely have a number of unintended consequences.

I'm not asking for an answer to this question, but instead a way to justify an answer. A method of proving instead of a specific proof.
You were bringing in historical perspective to justify the idea that the left commonly denies basic facts to dispute clear election results. I have argued, and I believe demonstrated, that the context you present does not support the conclusion you argue. This is disagreement, not misunderstanding.
Twenty different masks tested. Here's what will best protect during the pandemic
Just curious - where would chargers go on a street like this where I live? https://goo.gl/maps/SUkDqmrUrDnVWVuXA

I don't see it happening. The sidewalks are too narrow. It would require a massive investment.
Nobody showed them more love than I did. Just because it felt like such a fun way to get food while still supporting the gig-workers. Until, I started noticing the huge markup on sides/entrees that I recall costing way less on the restaurant menu.

Did prices go up? Nope, it was doordash.

A side of garlic sauteed edamame is $4.75 on the restaurant menu, but $7.85 on the delivery app. $7.85 isn’t too much for a good tasting side, but I am not a fan of being lied to about pricing. Felt like getting ripped off.

It obliterates my trust in today’s delivery apps and damages the value proposition.

One wonders: How much of the revenue is coming from markup in menu prices? What happens to this revenue when the average consumer grows wise to these markups?

Re: https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2020/02/27...
Does anyone know of groups/forums where experts on recovering media from these obsolete forms hang out?

In my specific example, I'm looking to do a high-quality recovery of Hi-Fi audio[1] from a Super VHS tape that hasn't been played for many years, and I don't have either the expertise or the equipment to do it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHS#Hi-Fi_audio_system
Protect yourself, your loved ones, and leave?

It’s hard to fight the tide.
You're too focused on the iphone example.

Let's go with this:

I'm going to assume you agree that people, in general, assume certain things based on how other's look. We see dundee hat, and assume an australian. We see a star trek shirt, and assume they like star trek. Etc.

The singular direction of assumption I think, is obviously true.

But this mode of communication has two parties -- you, and the person/people looking at you.

Once we realize that other people are assuming things about us, based on what we have, wear and show, then the next step is to realize we can shape their assumptions, by doing two things:

1. Understand what things lead to what assumptions

2. Decide our target assumption, and change what we show to lead to those assumptions

So, like a bird with a mating call, we can signal to our peers what interests and goals we have, which they can choose to follow to reach us.

And like a bird with a mating call, which has certain qualities and factors governing fitness of the bird, we can be better or worse and producing stronger signals, and a poorly constructed signal can instead work against us -- If I want to be known as a nerd, I better not confuse star trek and star wars (even in honest forgetting) lest I expose a new signal, of a fake nerd.

And vice versa, we follow the mating calls to those that interest you. The iphone tells you nothing -- its not a signal you'll follow. For someone else, it might be a valuable signal. But for you, its not, and that's perfectly fine. You listen to other calls. Like perhaps, those that signal a preference towards "practical" thinking and needs.
"diamandis", "abundance", "mastermind"

Sounds like an online marketing hustler who makes more money from selling his strategy to others, than from actually using his strategy.

And indeed, the article ends with a call to action for you to sign up for his course to learn the "Abundance, Exponential, and Longevity Mindset".

It's like Tony Robin's adapted for lifestyle startup founders. That's a good idea, if you ask me. The author can probably live handsomely from his online course. And for him, it won't matter if these predictions are correct or not.
I agree, sort of. The project is absolutely massive and is a constant target of "reputation management" campaigns. They have the difficult task of managing this thing with a volunteer workforce. What else can they do except make a process for everything? There are certainly editors that revel in the process, and that's too bad. I think the admin would act if the project started going down the drain.
Not sure what your point is.

1. Because it's healthy and feels good

2. Because it's healthy and may stop future problems

3. Because it may stop future problems

4. Because it feels good

So why lose weight for the sake of losing weight? It's neither healthy nor fun if you do it the wrong way.
it skips over the hard part of how "Focused Protection." is actually implemented

That's a reasonable criticism, but I would point out that the "responsible" strategy of trying to force entire populations into quarantine has not survived contact with reality either.

A worker at a care facility spread it to a set of vulnerable people

The worker should have been living on site, or if that's not possible seeing literally nobody outside of their job. And we should be paying them huge amounts of money to compensate for that disruption.
That reminds me of a fun Canadian song that got passed around in the early Kazaa days (I had thought it was a Corky and the Juice Pigs song, but it is hard to attribute based on Google):

T'was the Scots that built this Country

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QakAwOhBkbA
Arguably, email is as distributed/standards-based as it gets, and we still ended up with Gmail – RFC compliant and all.
So if we can ever prove P=NP then communism becomes practical viable?

It's interesting the political system reduces to a problem in computer science.
> the wikipedia community seems like one of the most toxic communities on the web.

That's unfair; there are plenty of even more toxic communities, you just don't hear about them as much because they're less prominent and easier to ignore or forget.
I agree; I specifically said that I had no basis for claiming that he was authoritarian. The rest is quite similar, though - the outside insurgency and the populism. So the playbook is there for it to happen on the left as well as on the right.
I was going to mention the issue with reuse of old designs “being conservative” but you got there first. Mandated reuse of some component of a prior vehicle is, by definition, an extra constraint on the new design. Extra constraints make design harder, not necessarily safer, and the use of old stuff in the new vehicle to some extent kills the “flight proven-ness” of the old thing.

(Generally speaking. Maybe some of this is less of a factor or more depending on the system... point is you can’t say up front that old hardware is a good idea)
Not really opt-in if all other opportunities cease to exist.
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Don't get me wrong, but, although I might entirely agree with what this page says, it's an opinion (as they state) and I kinda liked the idea that this foundation had no place for opinions.

Just thinking out loud...
Yeah, I was a little surprised at the assumption that Trump would be feasible in a Democratic Primary. Or, a larger segment of the party wanted to support people like Sanders and Warren for a specific ideological reasons. Plus, a lot of Democrats felt Biden’s views and past behaviour made him unsuitable to be president. It’s hard to imagine those same factions in the party nominating Trump.

I’m not an American though, so I may be missing some context.
You will look bad even if you admit the mistake. But admitting to a mistake is good – assuming people already know about the mistake, it's good press to do so. (Especially if you're revealing the mistake to them, when they haven't already seen the mistake; if half of your mistakes are “oh, I messed up”, versus the same number of mistakes but they come out in newspapers first… which is going to look better for you?
Not just Apple we have multiple other examples of when a unified memory pool outperforms larger non unified memory pools just due to the overhead of having to copy memory manage multiple memory address spaces with all the translation and lookups you need to do etc.

We have cheap consumer SSDs today offering 5GB/s of read performance and more than enough I/O to satisfy caching.
> So why lose weight for the sake of losing weight?

Because chronic obesity is associated with numerous morbidities.

The same answer you gave for (3) applies to avoiding obesity.
Nothing's wrong with your message, but its content made some people unhappy, and they used downvote as a 'disagree' button.

Frankly I think your take is right on. A vote for Hillary well may have been a vote for leadership that would continue to ignore the deteriorating parts of America, and Trump made the effort to pander and campaign to the people in those areas. Put on the cloak of the Christian right too, even though he is an obvious stranger to both spirituality and Judeo-Christian morality.
I think this is a little too one-sided. Yes, there is a group of people who have depression due to factors outside of their control, and we should all be cognizant of that. But that doesn't mean that literally every person who's depressed falls into that group. There's another group of people who are depressed due to factors at least somewhat within their control.
I started to reply earlier in the thread and then decided not to, but basically what I wanted to say was this.

I have used Linux as a daily driver desktop for years, but I don't just buy random hardware and expect it to work. I do some research first and make sure what I buy works well enough with Linux to meet my needs.
Yah, I don't know anything about Jeffrey, but reading about why he was fired - it's not right.

Humans make mistakes. Over and over. People need to forgive.
Even if not AWS, every cloud provider will have cheaper ARM offerings in a few years. The writing is on the wall at this point. Not to mention that some significant portion of the PC market will certainly follow suit, and now whether you’re developing for desktop, mobile, or server, there’s a good chance you’ll be targeting ARM.
Not really sure what I saw on that video. It's a mess.

The last I heard Antonio Mays murder was an active investigation with no arrests made: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/everybody-down-wha...

If it's an open and shut case and the shooter is clearly identifiable why is that? Is the Seattle Police in on this conspiracy?

I of course assumed you meant the other kid because the murderer was actually, yknow, detained and charged so their identity is obviously known.

Once again, I'm sure you actually know all of this.
Sorry my comments are so vague. I'm thinking along the lines of the existing CIADM centers, but with different capabilities.

https://www.medicalcountermeasures.gov/barda/core-services/c...
This could be true if it wasn't for many, many other former members of the Angular team confirming it's a problem. There's a very long list of core team members who quit.
Fortunately I've never found myself in a position of sufficient power/responsibility to have to offer an apology to a group. Is there a balance to be struck between the difficulty the apologizer will undoubtedly face from rage mobs and the consolation some members of the wronged group may feel from the apologizer acknowledging wrongdoing and committing to do better in the future?
I don't know that I could blame someone for avoiding a public apology, with the current nature of online harassment, but I think that's a question anyone who finds themselves in such a position should at least ask themselves. And of course, if everyone also adhered to the "What should I do when I see someone else is making a mistake?" section, then the world would be perfect and conflicts would be much more easily resolved.
> To run on a default Mac, you either pay Apple or compile on the user's own machine

This is not true. Apple silicon runs code with any signature, even an ad-hoc one.
> They still made choices to get in close contact with people who did go to the party

Some (all?) of the fatalities were rest home patients and many who caught it were prison inmates. They didn’t get to make any choices about who they saw or who cared for them.
Link?

There was a connection between the search bar for awhile, if you typed in pants you'd get potential amazon links. It was easy to turn off and disappeared awhile later.
See also: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/10/new-report-on...

> Based on 110 public records requests to state and local law enforcement agencies across the country, our research documents more than 2,000 agencies that have purchased these tools, in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. We found that state and local law enforcement agencies have performed hundreds of thousands of cellphone extractions since 2015, often without a warrant.
>I find it helpful when writing apology posts ...

How many apology posts do you write? Why would you need to write any? I don't understand why any apology needs to be public.
I think the bigger question for this type of company is margins in the face of competition. The service they offer is totally undifferentiated from that which a competitor could fairly easily provide. Yes, it takes marketing dollars to sensitize consumers to the existence of delivery services. But, once someone knows about them, there may well be a race to the bottom on price. An 8% profit sounds great, but is it sustainable?
I can imagine arming myself if I felt my neighbors or myself were in danger, but the idea of arming myself and my friends to drive to some other neighborhood or city to “protect” them is beyond anything that makes sense to me.
Yes, and based on non Apple systems it’s faster than having much larger pools of non-unified memory.

Essentially all the big compute vendors moving towards memory unification and cache coherent interfaces.
I still remember the day I went in to my heart surgery rotation to find that all heart and vascular surgeries for the day were cancelled, because someone in a serious car wreck had used up all the blood.
Dell Precision and XPS are quality with official Linux support
> critical for preventing depression

How did they make the jump from "people with high frequency of depressed moods have more screen time" to "less screen time is critical for preventing depression"?

Its possible that is true but claiming this based on the study is like saying "less lying in your bed all day is critical for preventing depression"
> I'm fairly confident that they will not be able to convince a court that there was, but that doesn't make it ok that they are filing lawsuits on no evidence.

I agree and so do the courts which is why this problem will likely solve itself if you just let it play out.
I think you're ascribing too much malice to the phrase "super-spreader." It just means "someone who spreads beyond what is typical." The pejorative connotation from "super-predator" comes from the "-predator" part.

If you're afraid of the word "spreader," then I suggest that you stay away from the lawn care section of your local home improvement retailer.

People are afraid of disease. That doesn't mean we should stop using the word "disease."

EDIT: I can't speak for the LA Times, and I'm not trying to defend them. Maybe they have an axe to grind. My comments are restricted to the terminology itself.
Your less tech savvy friends and family members aren't reading hacker news. People will always be able to make a mess of things.

Personally, when I'm trying to fix someone's computer and I notice weird things have been done, I immediately recommend backing up files and doing a full reinstall. (And I'll offer to do the reinstall—which is easy—provided they do the work of backing up important files.)
I’d guess it’s because Apple customers also use Google products.
It's more likely that their will be an Apple-only private API that uses /private/etc/hosts which already exists, but is editable (for now) instead of /etc/hosts.
Great - absolutely great.
Well, DRAM still has 2+ orders of magnitude lower latency than SSDs. Whether that matters clearly depends on your application. On a desktop system switching tabs in your browser, swapping the content in from SSD will be fine. A ML application on a server accessing memory quasi randomly won't.
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If you're agreeing with the article, then get a computer/laptop that supports linux or even better, buy one that supports companies that support opensource.

https://linuxpreloaded.com/ has a nice list of shops that sell devices with linux preloaded. Purism, System76 and others also contribute code to the OS ecosystem which means purchasing from them helps the community at large.

You can also run Linux on your Mac and reduce e-waste. Check https://linux-hardware.org/index.php?view=search_computer&co... to see how well it is supported.
If 2016-2020 gave us a window into what it's like, I would say your last bit isn't quite right:

Authoritarianism rises gradually and relies on people looking away from it, unable to confront inconvenient truths.

I feel like many people paid a lot of attention, and confronted truths, and spoke out about it. Yet, Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not risk being shot in the streets at Step B, why should you finally take arms & march at Step C? And so on to Step D.

(Unless in your statement, "relies on people looking away..." refers to a subset of people, not the nation as a whole)
Yes: Wikipedia ten to fifteen years ago.
It does support other language, kinda. https://github.com/cloudflare/python-worker-hello-world It just compiles to javascript
So to clarify, you're agreeing that the GOP is trying to overturn a solid election result, but you think the left poses a greater danger to democracy, because they are talking about what the GOP is doing? If we're sitting next to each other reading books and you start yelling about how I just hit you and stole your wallet, I'm not in fact required to hear you out on that if I did not just hit you and steal your wallet.
No, as long as humans are involved.
Of coarse the company is not going to pay more then the market-rate for gig workers. It's actually impossible for them, and will be even more impossible once DoorDash goes public, they'll be legally obligated by their shareholders to make the most money possible.

Our legal system supports companies making the most money the market will allow, if they paid more then the market for delivery drivers the executive that made that decision would be fired.

You aren't supporting exploitative practices by using DoorDash, you're giving somebody a job where they otherwise they wouldn't have any. You're funneling money from affluent city dwellers to the pockets of DoorDash's share holders yes, but also to their delivery drivers.

Attacking a company for creating jobs where there weren't any before is silly. Attack the issues with the legal framework, not the people that are using it as designed.
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Jesus christ man, responding to a national health crisis in exactly the same way we did 100 years ago does not make us and authoritarian government. What's next, "the food rationing so our troops can keep fighting the actual nazis make us just as bad as them"?
>The people contributing to WP - the editors - seem more concerned with coming up with Kafka-esque processes to introduce to the community than making the actual work of making an encyclopaedia.

I wonder if this is natural. Those in the community who care more about just making a good encyclopedia are eventually forced out by those who are interested in power games and process. I've heard it mentioned before (I forget if it has some formal name or not) in regards to companies where the people who primarily want to prioritize the goal of the company are eventually replaced by those who primarily want to implement and navigate bureaucracy because they can outcompete them on the local level, even if the company is worse off in general.
I’ve worked in this space for over two years. They can’t. It’s simply not possible. The only feature that’s feasible to offer is privacy. You’ll never be able to catch up to Google or Bing with crawling.
Seems like you could import from https://equplus.net/
I've reached out via the Beta form because I'm so damn excited for that. I have longed tried to map a project of mine (serverless game server for TGC based on workers) onto the available storage tech (KV), but consistency guarantees just weren't where I needed them to be. Hope they'll find a slot soon.

Edit:

(If someone from CF has questions, you can reach me at hn@elasticwaffle.com)

My use case is pretty much exactly the one described in the blog post (over on CF) for multiplayer games. Using DO for ongoing 1v1 matches in a trading-card-game style turn-by-turn strategy game. Players would play against a simple AI (which itself is a worker) or other players. The game is served from Workers Static Sites. But multiplayer required stronger coordination and the delay from KV writes to reach all PoPs is a deal-breaker. DO solve not only that, but the interface (just being classes) allows the game design to melt with the backend design.
That's true in most Linux distros, I've been there, even with the most robust ones (like Debian). But then I found Manjaro, with a semi-rolling update system, that is a perfect balance between recent version updates and rock-solid stability.