skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing I appreciated the most when I was self-learning math was the answers where he explained the steps cogently, which was incredibly helpful in seeing where I went off the rails or got stuck.
oh you're really going to like New Years then
That makes sense, thank you
Biden also said at least once that he might not accept the result of the election if he lost. (Sorry, don't have a reference handy, but I saw it.) I believe that his point was that he would also have to look at fraud. And he said it much less often than Trump did. Still it was rather scary to have both sides saying it.
I don’t think he did? Psychohistory relies on gargantuan groups of people acting predictably, so you can’t predict a one-off random mutation of a single individual. That’s not a failure, it’s a limitation- and why whenever Seldon appeared, he prefaced his statements with a % chance that the plan was still succeeding- the remaining failure case included a catastrophic mule-like event.

Mule-like occurrences were always a possibility, which is why Seldon also created the Second Foundation to fix the bug and set the plan back on track- which of course they did. Things were a bit touch-and-go for a while there, but the possibility of failure is always a consequence of probabilistic modeling
Same thing I'm doing right now, bugger all. We've already written off a large part of 2020, seems silly to throw all this isolation away for some paper party hats and a christmas tree.

I'll wait for the vaccine before I pretend everything's normal again
The data from this filing doesn't seem to back this sensationalized sentiment up at all.

In the first 3 quarters of 2020, Doordash has $131 million loss on $1.9 billion revenue, and they spend $610 million on sales & marketing alone. So if they cut their sales & marketing budget 21% without doing anything else they'd be breaking even.

This seems like a healthy business that is using available VC money to grow faster rather than an inherently a money-losing business model.
Removing personal choice should sound alarm bells for anyone who has read Brave New World, 1984 or the Gulag Archipelago.

If you permit me to stereotype the HN demographic here- you are probably reading this comment from the comfort of a warm apartment with running water and you're probably not hungry. Removing personal choice is an extremely dangerous idea where those reliable things that you take for granted start to disappear. All you have to do is look to N. Korean, Turkey, Hungary, Venezuela right now, this day to see how disastrous it is. You may call me hyperbolic but this is exactly how it starts. If we have to lose some elderly people to a virus (with an IFR of .1%, median age of death of 84 and 92% with comorbidity), i'm sorry to say that we have to lose them. The alternative is authoritative oppression, starvation and misery for hundreds of millions of others. Make no mistake, this is exactly what is at risk when you talk about removing personal freedoms.
> No pesky laws of physics.

While developing on a single host (especially in traditional imperative and object-oriented languages) papers over a lot of fundamental physics. The nonexistence of absolute simultaneity and the derivative concept of data gravity are very much a thing in even the most basic contemporary software systems... The most ubiquitous system to deal with it, is I would say, the "Virtual DOM".
Hell even if power plants were on the whole worse? Air pollution is a huge health and human development issue* being able to move the source of emissions from high population areas to the middle of fucking nowhere is still a win

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_pollution Outdoor air pollution alone causes 2.1[4][5] to 4.21 million deaths annually.[1][6] Overall, air pollution causes the deaths of around 7 million people worldwide each year, and is the world's largest single environmental health risk.[1][7][8]

Productivity losses and degraded quality of life caused by air pollution are estimated to cost the world economy $5 trillion per year.[9][10][11] Various pollution control technologies and strategies are available to reduce air pollution.[12][13]
France, in practice ?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25081583

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25083782
> If that was not the case, how could we have 50+ programming languages, when the very purpose of a programming language is to express your ideas into a somewhat tangible (insofar as one can claim the electronic written word to be tangible) form that can then be communicated to others.

I think part of the issue is that we don't all agree on what the point of a computer program is or how best to get to the same results for the points we do agree on.

Similarly the reason we don't understand the Internet is because the Internet is a conceptual handwave used by humans. We use it to communicate which means it's a lot of different things, very messy and a lot of it is organic.
Once the Disease of Gluttonous Aristocrats, Gout Is Now Tormenting the Masses
Lead dev here... Huh, didn't think I'd ever see my work show up on HN. Sadly getting an .edu institution to fork over the money for better scaling is hard... Even when it gets them unlimited free press.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/oct/21/viral-imag...

>There’s no evidence that the suspects arrested in connection with a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer are antifa activists.

>Before his arrest, one of the suspects attended a Black Lives Matter protest. Another suspect criticized the movement.

>State and federal documents make no mention of antifa or Black Lives Matter. Rather, they reference an anti-government militia group.

>Michigan’s attorney general has said white supremacist and anti-government groups acted “in concert based on a shared extreme ideology.”
The one period I used grocery delivery quite a while back (I was on crutches and I could easily enough go to a grocery store but it was hard to do a full shopping) my big objection was that they'd be out of enough things or did substitutions I didn't want that it was hard to count on getting everything I needed to make a recipe. This was before meal kits so those weren't available as a substitute.

Not sure about prices but I didn't really have a choice.
Show HN: Google Font preview images/thumbs
Hi all -
We've been maintaining a (huge) collection of Google Font preview images/thumbs for a few years now.

It's open sourced here: https://github.com/getstencil/GoogleWebFonts-FontFamilyPreviewImages

The problem we ran into in our app, is that when someone wants to import a Google Font into our design tool, we wanted to show them an example of what that font looked like _before_ they imported it.

But we didn't want to load hundreds (or thousands) of Google Fonts directly into our app (for performance reasons). So we built a script that renders Google Fonts as images that we can then embed.

Hope this is useful to anyone who finds themselves in a similar situation whereby they want to show what a Google Font looks like, but not actually load it into memory.

For reference, our app is called Stencil (getstencil.com).
Hope this is useful to someone else :)
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I lost a family member this week. I did not attend the graveside service even though it was outside, which is anecdotally supposed to be lower risk than something indoors. The issue for me is I'm high risk combined with the fact it's possible someone could show and refuse to wear a mask. Even if everyone socially distanced and wore masks, I believe there's still a non-zero chance of transmission. Couldn't take the risk for myself, much less anyone else I might expose if I were to get infected.

To answer the original question I don't plan to do anything for the holidays either. Our activities will be in-home with my wife and myself only. I don't really see that changing until vaccines are ubiquitous and the local R factor is well below 1. Unless the disease is eradicated which in the face of antivaxxers seems unlikely, I don't thinks things will ever entirely return to normal.
UberEats definitely had options to tip restaurants earlier this year during the early days of lockdown. Sadly the option seems to have been removed since.
Not when your recklessness threatens my life and the lives of my elderly parents.
You're supposed to recognize that many of your positions look equally bizarre and scary to the other side, and conclude that to a significant degree this is a gap in understanding rather than a gap in morals.
I'd love to see the day we're launching missiles at foreign ships over copyright violations.
But they have emissions at the mfg plant, says the same folks.
What's data gravity?
To add onto the other point about American apps stealing tip: the problem is that DoorDash and some other apps were deducting tips from base pay for deliveries, so that even if you tipped the driver would be paid the same amount. https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/22/20703434/delivery-app-tip...

This is part of the reason why there's this whole struggle to define what exactly the gig-economy worker contract is supposed to look like, because they're not paid hourly and it's often net negative for full-timers, who do exist.

Also to clarify a point made in the article; this is not the equivalent to a tipped wage. With a tip wage you already know what your base pay is up front, and tips are additive; what DoorDash was doing was deducting tip from some set base pay. Fortunately I live in a state that does not differentiate tipped and regular wage.
I wouldn't go so far as to say Safari is the new IE 6, but I do feel that calling it the new IE 11 is very accurate across multiple dimensions.
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You can have direct internet contact with your friends without social media. Send emails, have chat conversations, make video calls, the lot of it. It’s real, and not filtered and sorted to benefit advertisers.
How quickly people who don't live in Seattle shout nonsense about the CHAZ.

Let's break down what actually happened.

1. After weeks of protests, police intimidation, beatings, and frequent gassing of the entire street (much to the delight of people living there, who were unable to breathe inside their own apartments), including a right wing chap driving a car through a crowd, and shooting someone trying to pull him out of his vehicle, the police leave the east precinct, based on an FBI claim that it will be burnt down.

2. The protest moves into the blocks around it, and starts protecting the precinct.

3. The precinct does not burn down.

4. The protest moves elsewhere, and a block party starts.

5. An idiot called Raz, and his boys start providing 'security'. Nobody asked them for it. People who ran the protest didn't ask for it. People living in the area didn't ask for it. Smells like a gang moving into a power vaccumm to me.

6. Homeless folks move into the park area of CHAZ. The area gets a bit rough at night, but is still a block party during the day.

7. Someone in the homeless encampment gets killed in the early hours of the morning, presumably over drugs, but who knows.

8. A teenager steals a car and takes it on a joyride through the pedestrian areas of the CHAZ. (Remember all the car attacks against protest areas over the past few weeks in both Seattle, and the rest of the country? Not a smart move.)

9. Some unknown person kills him and injures his friend.

10. The police move back in to an unburnt district. They then set up a multi-block checkpoint, that demanded all entrants into the former CHAZ to show their ID to be allowed entrance. (When we were under the thrall of Warlord Raz, only drivers had to show ID at his checkpoint.)
> It is for a good cause. However a couple of years from now, there will remain a temptation to use the same tools to address whatever normal problems we have. And that is a big step towards a planned economy like the Soviet Union had.

It is difficult for me to imagine another set of scenarios that could plausibly lead to popular support of a lockdown. Even our past lockdowns from this year were poorly enforced and basically voluntary (the worst punishment was largely being fined). Yeah businesses shuttered but at GREAT political expense to politicians which is why we have half assed our lockdowns repeatedly. Politicians couldn't bear any more pain. The last thing they want to do is lock down again.

> I cannot forget that 9/11 has transformed us into a permanent surveillance state where our communications are tracked, travel by plane involves a search where someone gets to look at your privates

Yeah 9/11 definitely enhanced the surveillance state which is deeply unfortunate, but we had security screening for planes long before we had 9/11, and it wasn't just 9/11 that made the experience miserable, it was the 10 follow on attacks targeting different vulns in the screening process (liquids, shoes, blah blah). The security measures need to be decently strong because we vehemently refuse to employ the more effective authoritarian technique of flagging passengers based on history and demographics like they do in places like Israel (eg, simply flag anyone with a higher probability of being a muslim because most attacks were performed by muslims). We are actually resisting the aggressive response in this case.

> it is considered normal in low crime neighborhoods to require security badges and/or passing armed guards to get into office building

This has nothing to do with terrorism or 9/11.
Trump's political ambitions started with a racist conspiracy theory about Obama. The racists who latched on to that conspiracy theory had their favored candidate a full 8 years before he launched his bid for president.

Of course opposition to Obama is much deeper than racism. I opposed Obama after regretfully voting for him in his first term, and then refused voting for him in his second term, for a multitude of executive policy decisions. But there is a huge quantity of criticism of Obama that can very easily be boiled down to racism, either because it is explicit, or so culturally entrenched as dog-whistle racism that it is undeniable. Hell, Hillary's dog-whistle racism when running against Obama in 2008 was a primary reason she lost the black vote in 2016! Racist opposition to Obama was, and still is, everywhere.
Show HN: WTF - A smart engineering cheat-sheet
There is no question there was Russian interference in the 2016 election with reams of evidence to back it up. It was then spun that Trump specifically did not conspire.

Conspiring does not matter. It is entirely irrelevant to the goal of validating the integrity of the election. If they care so much about fraud they would have continued to investigate all of the irregularities around the 2016 election.
You do not have to be in a high risk group. I've seen people not in high risk groups die. Your odds may be lower, but no one is immune. (I guess except those who survived it or got the vaccine)
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I do appologise if this will sound condescending : What are you on about?

I do agree that the majority are limited in terms of technical knowledge but I think that was always the case. It's always a (driven)minority that are responsable for tech advancements, preservation and magic.

I wish I was 14 in this day and age with this much information, how-to's, cheap(and expensive) tech and microcontrollers(when is the last time you checked places like aliexpress and git's?).
> Imagine if we'd aggressively addressed this problem back in March,

Europe had about the strictest lockdown you can imagine and their economy isn't exactly peaches and cream right now.

And they have spiking case counts just like the US right now.
I significantly prefer backlighting for reading. To me, an iPad is way better than a printed book. For some reason, light-emitting is easier for my eyes.
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Eh, there's approximately one police officer per 400 people in the US. Seems unlikely they are going to be able to enforce much of anything here.
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My control over My computer and My data

How much private entities get to shape this stuff is a sensible concern but this sort of absolutism is how pretty much nothing actually works. You can't drive an unsafe car on public roads. You can't build an unsafe house, even on "your" land, etc. It's not crazy to regulate what kind of computer you can put on the public network.
Tips in the US normally work differently, in that the tip base pay is known up front, there is a minimum for it, and tips are additive on top of that.

Tip is not supposed to be deducted from a standard rate of pay.
Why would you tip before hand? Doesn't this defeat the purpose of a tip?
Vice interviewed the person who killed the Trump supporter in cold blood. Yes, there was no official case against the person. But the police knew who the murderer was. This is why a shootout occurred and no other individual is being charged or sought after AFAIK.
it's the concept that data are difficult to move and attract the code to it. Generally used, in the large to describe things like AWS S3 attracting AWS to build services on top of it. But I think it's true in the small, too like "frameworks on top of each person's browser data".
So sad for your loss.
> Why is it fair for apple to arbitrarily prevent the installation of any competing distribution methods?

Same reason it is fair for Nintendo to not allow Sony to sell Switch games, and Sony not to allow Nintendo to sell PlayStation games.

Their circus, their monkeys.

> Apple has said "Nice store you've spent all that money building, such a shame we've decided we won't allow you to use it on an iPhone."

Epic also can't put the Epic Store on Switch or PlayStation. Strange how there's no hand-wringing about that.
You are probably referring to a separate shooting death in CHOP, that of Lorenzo Anderson. I am referring to the murder of Antonio Mays Jr. by antifa security. This murder was filmed from multiple angles and recordings are widely available.

Short clips from several of the vantage points (skip to roughly 1:40 - warning, disturbing):

https://youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=_K0tXOBPMHA
That can be considered necessary but not sufficient.
I understand the mechanism. I don't know that I think it makes a large pragmatic difference as long as the pay guarantee is there but it seems a convoluted system as opposed to an immoral or unfair one.

I think where we may disagree is that my main concern is that the employee makes that minimum threshold, whether paid directly by the customer via a weird quasi-voluntary tax or by the employer who would presumably pass that cost on to the customer. Again, assuming it all gets claimed in income I don't see any shortfalls; it's just a weird convention.

Where I may have a problem is that there seems to be some evidence there is bias in tipping. I've seen some that indicates some race groups/protected classes are tipped less, controlling for service quality, even by their own race/class. If true, it would mean tipping is a de-facto form of discrimination and obviously needs to go away.
We started down a road with more home cooking through things like Visual Basic. I remember seeing lots of useful things built by non-professionals during the era of VB 6, but it seems like nothing in the web era has filled that void.
Couldn't agree more. You're asking 330 million Americans to give up some of their freedoms without any real plan or timeline; of course there is going to opposition.
That's right. My girlfriend in fact lived on Capital Hill at the time right outside, so I have a pretty good idea of the details.
No, I'm not going to register to read your glorified webpage, spammer.
> 6. Everything is smart, embedded with intelligence

I would just strike through this and type “cyber security job security will go through the roof” instead
Al Gore gave a decent concession speech. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq5YdkYSyEE

I didn't recall the date though, I checked and it was on December 13th, 2000.

Come back on 14 December 2020 and tell me if that aspect is "exactly this".

because the narrow vote count margin aspect that time really isn't, and the claims of fraud and rigging this time really isn't. And neither bode well for a hypothetical Trump concession speech.
So you've made a mistake and it's public
I will always upvote a Coase reference.
I minimize the services I use that “require” tipping, because I philosophically oppose it. Would the workers prefer I spend $0 rather than some?
Your objection doesn't make much sense to me. I made it clear that obscene long functions are not something you want to have. That doesn't detract from the value of braces, since braces become an aid when remedying such a situation. They don't solve it, but they help you solve it. So your objection seems to be that they don't solve the sort of problem that you wouldn't expect syntactical forms to solve.
Hi Doreen,

Always good to hear from you. I'm glad there's been progress; I wish the climb were not out of such a deep hole.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17777496 [2018]

> Yeah, that's why I appear to be the only woman to have ever spent time on the leaderboard of HN

Do you think there's anything that HN's guides could do differently?
It’s amazing. The top reply to his post does just this.
Lead dev here.

While you're not wrong that we might be under-estimating risk, I'll note that we do take into consideration seroprevalence in our calculations (so called, ascertainment bias). We provide estimates for two cases; 5x and 10x under-counting bias.

And you are right, that risk is additive (to a degree) if you go do multiple parties. And people are terrible at doing this sort of calculation. Our messaging, in our manuscript/press/social media has always been to limit gatherings of any size, and mask and gather outside as much as possible
I've got a turkey ordered, sugar pumpkins roasted (in preparation for pie), gonna get cranberries, potatoes & all the fixins, and stay home and have thanksgiving with my household only, no relatives, no neighbors, no friends.

I want to have a big blowout party next year this time with all my friends and family, but in order to do that, this year has to be different.

This won't be our whole lives, this is temporary. One measly holiday season, that's what we're being asked to compromise. Surely we can manage that?

Think of our grandparents in WWII (or other wars) would have said: "just cancelling get-togethers for one single Christmas? And you're complaining? Ha! How many years we had to ration foods, gasoline, rubber, keep the lights off, curfews, etc?"

I weep for our society if we lack the personal discipline and civic pride to be able to handle this relatively limited set back responsibly.
"Data gravity is a metaphor introduced into the IT lexicon by a software engineer named Dave McCrory in a 2010 blog post. The idea is that data and applications are attracted to each other, similar to the attraction between objects that is explained by the Law of Gravity. In the current Enterprise Data Analytics context, as datasets grow larger and larger, they become harder and harder to move. So, the data stays put. It’s the gravity — and other things that are attracted to the data, like applications and processing power — that moves to where the data resides."

https://www.cio.com/article/3331604/data-gravity-and-what-it...
If it were underserved it should be paid for properly.

The fact that they don't make a profit even with shitty labor practices probably means it's not very sustainable, in the same way that WeWork filled a need but was ultimately not sustainable.