skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a teammate that loves to send messages like "I have a question about xyz, hey @my-handle can you jump on a Zoom call to discuss this?". I freaking hate this! Nobody in the open source can do this!
"In December 2015, Juniper Networks announced multiple security vulnerabilities stemming from unauthorized code in ScreenOS"

Wow, I never heard anything about this. This seems huge.
Thoughts you mightn't have thunk about remote meetings
And game development usually involves a lot of iteration, so setting up tests is at best a waste of time, and at worst a crutch that hurts productivity.
> @fullhomosexual

lmao
That's a large understatement. The arguably most important part of any game engine is development tools, and those were completely rebuilt and are nothing like Source 1's tools. You can see this for yourself by installing and comparing CS:GO SDK and Dota 2 Workshop Tools in Steam.
That's incorrect. Both are determined from the same tests and determining safety takes longer.

Phase III trials for each of these new vaccines end long after the efficacy is determined. Estimated primary completion dates are in June 2021 (BioNTech/Pfizer) and November 2021 (Moderna).

Even after the drug is accepted, monitoring for safety continues.
I'd like one but the keyboard on this one is, frankly, dreck. On a terminal, nothing beats a good keyboard. I'd put up with it being reflective monochrome LCD (sign me up if you know someone who makes these – I would finally be able to work in sunlight), but the keyboard must be top notch.
This changes nothing. If anything it is wise for goverments to pay for vaccine because that means that economy will no longer be stifled by lockdowns and that means more money in taxes.
In any cases many governments already said they will provide vaccine for free.
> and I slept the whole 5 hours like it was 5 minutes

That's an experience I've never had on a flight
> We used to think of medication as something you took occasionally during a crisis. Now we take it as a given that a large percentage of the population will be on maintenance drugs for life.

Not disputing this, and it certainly supports your point about the pharmaceutical industry making money.

But is there evidence that we are actually worse off for it? Did previous generations benefit from better mental and physical health than we do now.

My instinct is that we're healthier than ever before. We're treating conditions that weren't even identified a generation ago. Now that might not be due to our pharmaceutical intake, but I'd be surprised if it wasn't partially responsible.

Of course it's possible we've gone farther towards drugs than needed, which perhaps was your original point.
It's a remarkably low spec device, and anything that's not fairly well optimized is going to behave poorly (games show this constantly). Node.js (V8) was optimized for use on servers and general purpose computers with multiple gigs of RAM and absurd levels of processing power.

So, yes, I think that using Javascript on a low spec device is probably a source of slowness.
Although this isn't something I would buy, I'm glad it's being done with open hardware. It gives me hope that there will always be some hardware to support open source software.
Don't forget the Great Leap Forward(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward). Sure, it was 60 years ago, but 18-45 million people starved in the service of the same authoritarian regime in power today.

China continues to bully its regional neighbors like Vietnam over dubious claims to the regional seas.

Now, to be fair, I'm typing this on land formerly inhabited by American Indians, in a nation with a history of lying to start wars and exploiting foreign nations for gain. But at least I am able to discuss these issues and push for changes to keep those atrocities from happening again.
We can both be flawed. I wouldn't believe a 99% approval here, in China, in Italy, in South Africa, in Poland, anywhere.
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What matters to me is that this shouldn't be physically possible. I don't want a car that can be stolen using Bluetooth.
Cool React movies search app with SSR support
Hi guys, i just implemented this "Movies" app. Any feedback is appreciated.
Ofc they should have communicated it clearly, they failed in that regard.

Bad battery health (iPhone) != low on power (your laptop) btw.
How do you detect toilet usage? A motion sensor?
Multiplication patterns are how we used to do this on embedded compilers which didn’t have optimizers. For instance: (n * 85)>>8 to divide by 3.
There's an interesting vsauce video on some divisibility rules: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6tHqOmIj1E
Depends on how they define 'confirmed case'. It plausible if their definition of confirmed cases means actually sick with moderate symptom.
People join the military not knowing whether or not they will ever go to war, yet they still join. By doing so they risk death, dismemberment, and all manner of long term disability under the belief that doing so makes everyone else safer.

If exposing a few people on purpose is a moral wrong, then surely allowing millions of them to contract it by accident so that a few people in your RCT can become infected by chance is a moral abomination.
So why don't they put covid patients on a bucket of immunosuppressants after day 9?
Technically it has not, though. It was rebuilt twice, iirc, although the last time more than 1000 years ago.
Node - V8 - isn't slow when running on a device with a decent processor and fast RAM. The Switch is not such a device.

IME, it's not the presentation, is the loading of assets into memory. Once the assets (like thumbnails, descriptions) are loaded, the display is as fast as always, but you scroll beyond what's cached and it turns back into molasses.
How about an "I just learned it's insulting to call some people articulate and now I'm hesitant to compliment any minority co-worker in any way so who are you really helping?" post?
I am working in media / intelligence community focused on China for last 7 years. Everyone who believes Chinese official economic numbers, or communist propaganda mouthpiece CGTN, is fooling himself (...and usually, eventually regrets it:) ).
Well, technically ... yes.
x86-64 is much nicer to work with than 32-bit x86, but I agree.

I hope that AMD comes out with an ARM offering. I would love to see ARM PCs.
Would it make you feel better if I said I don't particularly like this particular aircraft and the alternatives are so much better?

There are entire websites dedicated to helping you find a flight on a particular aircraft because some passengers know the difference between a good aircraft and flying rattle can.
(Sorry for the delay here) At face value, it can issue one more query per layer, but you get a lot of other benefits by breaking down your logic in this way. For example, you're less inclined to use database joins that may not scale as you grow. Another benefit is that you can very easily switch storage layers. For instance, maybe you fetch one layer from your SQL database, and another from a KV store database. Or maybe one layer comes from the cache, etc.
While I fully share your concern, it is worth noting that no Tesla so far has been stolen using techniques like this one. But many cars have been stolen just by tampering with the lock.

As a nascent technology for cars as is this one, it is expected to have some flaws. I imagine that when locks were designed they were not the securest thing in world to protect your stuff.

Of course we can do better in terms of security, there is always room to improve. It looks like there is a great flaw here that could get a fix, but I would not dismiss this technology just because of this.

Where there is a lock there will always be a key.
Could you elaborate on why it is such a great achievement? Seems like a pretty natural consequence of their growing economy.
Reminds me of something Jim Weirich (author of Ruby's `rake`) used to say:

> Fun game at apple store: on any mac, in terminal type: "grep Copyright `gem which rake`"

... which would print his name, because Ruby and rake are bundled with macOS. :)
CGTN is to China what RT is for Russia.

Economics is a zero-sum-game; if they lifted everyone in China out of poverty, then poverty is exported to other countries or the nature paid all the costs.

Edit:

Nature is a silent sufferer in the economics. It acted as cushion to our misadventures, a-bomb(wars), oil-spills, co2 & other gases, industrial wastes, nuclear wastes.

For a person to become rich, they have to earn profit dishonestly; if profit is shared equally nobody is richer. Somebody is getting short end of the stick to make someone else richer.

If everyone is self-sufficient through out their lives, then technically there is enough to go around. Otherwise, one who holds the resource in high demand won't share it fairly.

Simply put : Income disparity will thrive in resource hungry society where resources are held by few members. Even in self-sufficiency, if population grows then nature has to pay the price. Resources are finite for all kinds of life on earth. If one thrives some other suffers.

Anyway, now it's downvoted; wasted my time wording it.
Managing Workplace Crusaders
None. We could have run a 400 person challenge trial in March and gotten the effqcoty data then deployed to Healthcare workers and surveillance for safety. This would entirely change the situation we're seeing now.
It's better than shilling for your favorite tech company for free.
It has also caused massacres in these countries like in case of Myanmar.

Facebook is an effective media outlet in cases where country are too poor to bribe Facebook and too small for Facebook to ignore market altogether.
Dupe is not a good word, but maybe disingenuous? Apple is touting silence now, but had the thermals of intel MacBooks been better they could be way less of hairdryers too. Apple could have also introduced better power controls for Intel Macs (now everybody runs Turbo Boost switcher).

iMac Pro has shown that they can do better with same enclosure, I wonder if they could have done something with MacBooks too. They would probably have to sacrifice a few millimetres of thinness but I think the decreased noise and throttling would be more noticeable.

That said, I don't believe there was any master plan behind this. They just originally prioritised thinness and battery size over everything else. With M1 they can have their cake and eat it too.

Edit: Also they could have ditched Intel for AMD a generation or two ago and also improve on performance per watt.
I have seen a similar concept from Amy Hoy and one from Pat Flynn. How did you settle on Reddit?
Assuming you're running the full version with the supervisor and add-ons, I'd recommend the Home Assistant Google Drive Backup add-on[1]. You can set it up to take snapshots on whatever schedule you like and keep a rolling backup in the cloud.

Restoration is now part of the new setup workflow, so you'd just flash a new SD card with the base image, and upload a snapshot as you go through the setup process. Poof, everything's back the way it was.

[1] https://github.com/sabeechen/hassio-google-drive-backup
What do you make of the two other statically typed Forth-like languages, StrongForth and Kitten? Did you use them as a reference for the project?

Links:

* (StrongForth) http://www.arestlessmind.org/2009/02/03/intro.html

* (Kitten) https://kittenlang.org/
Two problems with your reply:

1. It only talks about "in America", meaning the US. There are 192 other countries.

2. I haven't said it's unfathomable. It's ridiculously unlikely, though. Journalists are not exactly known for their secrecy, even if they wanted to they wouldn't be able to hide a gigantic mind control collusion among the six corporations you've mentioned. There is no grand conspiracy. On a side note, editorial policies are not "mind control" either.

What people say about the media and mind control is not only crazy, the very same people tend to propagate extremely bad information sources such as blogs and partisan news aggregation sites that are primary examples of what they criticize and allegedly reject. As I've said, there is an agenda behind these conspiracy claims, and it surely isn't to improve the quality of news and information sources for citizens.

As a result, the vast majority of normal and well-informed people now have to endure all this insane nonsense, from Covid conspiracy theories by vegan cooks over Pizzagate to a complete denial of reality by flat earthers ("I don't believe in trigonometry"). It's an unfortunate but perhaps inevitable consequence of the fact that small, radical minorities can so easily find their own esoteric peer groups and create their own small echo chambers nowadays. The same kind of radical groups also existed in the past, of course, but it was much harder for them to meet and gain followers.
Thanks, I know the book. I understand being disrupted by something new but being beaten at your own game seems something else entirely.

It would't surprise me if the world moved from x86 to ARM despite Intel's better fabs.
Companies being too good, too focused at their own business that they miss a fork on the road is a common tale.

But instead, they're completely stuck and unable to perform at what used to be their core strength.
After doing some HA myself, what are you using for the by-room presence detection?
In all fairness, the words are 'in your life' not everyone else's though I suppose that might not be what was meant.
> It's just that under Trump illegal border crossings became criminal, rather than civil, offences.

The offense didn't change, it's just that the Trump administration started doing more Section 1325 prosecutions[1]. The original law has been on the books since 1929, and IIRIRA in 1996 added a stronger penalty for reentry.

For decades prior to 2005, this law was hardly used, but under the George W. Bush administration, "Operation Streamline," a DHS/DOJ program still in effect today, began to use it.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1325
how exactly will "organizing" "fight" the current climate crisis? can you even outline the necessary steps individuals must take to have any real impact in this "fight" as opposed to massive institutional change

Goethe: "If one has not read the newspapers for some months & then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature."

is it me or do a lot of people seem to justify their thirst for mostly pointless and irrelevant information with the idea that all this information will somehow lead to direct action on their particular issue?
Friday.app, a remote work tool, raises $2.1M led by Bessemer
Moderna's vaccine can be stored in normal refrigerator (at 2 to 8 degrees Celsius) for 30 days. It also can be freezed for longer storage. [1]

However for developing world the prices becomes the issue, so you are probably right, this vaccine is cheaper and thus more available.

[1]: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/11/moderna-e...
Comments so far are negative, but not every solution needs to scale. I recently made a Netlify site where the CMS is just writing JSON out to GitHub. Yes, if GitHub goes down, it will break, but who cares? My site expects to only get a couple of weeks of editing every few years, so I don’t need something with more availability than that.
"A single one-hour meeting [of 10 people] costs you 10 hours of employee salaries! With modern tech employees, that adds up really, really fast. You need to spend it wisely."

This is so often missed I can't believe it! My old boss had a weekly 1-2 hour "all hands" with about 10 people. Costing us 10-20 hours of work a week, basically a full employee's worth. I can't believe how horrible most bosses are about wasting their employee's time. Do they just not teach this in MBA programs or something?
Honestly, having gone down this path a year back, just use Heroku for your backend. Maybe Netlify if you want to separate your frontend and backend.

The amount of complexity and interdependencies these "here's my stack" posts describe are always a huge cognitive overhead for running a one-person SaaS.

Heroku costs more, but there's a reason for it. If you're even remotely making money from your product, and are alone in running the show, it's a no brainer to drop a couple hundred dollars a month to eliminate 99% of your ops headaches: the documentation, the add-on's, the fantastic UI, decent reliability, and ease of operations are totally worth it. Literally the worst thing one can say about Heroku is the cost, and possibly, the inability to build certain complex architectures (which most single-person SaaS services aren't).
That's pretty cool. I wonder how hard it would be to add USB-C docking capability to an old server in my homelab. Seems like a graphics card with Virtual Link USB-C [0] would be ideal, but maybe overkill. There are some other options [1] but it's not clear to me how much graphic horsepower you need. Definitely a VGA-only motherboard is not gonna cut it...

[0] https://uploadvr.com/every-virtuallink-gpu/

[1] https://dancharblog.wordpress.com/2020/07/20/add-usb-c-with-...
Which has already happened on on western social media. I wouldn’t be surprised to read FB has a policy of deleting the ‘leaked’ information and subsequent pages because an authoritative source (seeded by the government and/or at the will of some random uninformed employee) claims its fake news or some unsubstantiated claim or it’s some ‘terrorist’ group or something. Since only expert verified news from pet western sources are fully allowed to post anything controversial.

This seems to be the direction we’re moving towards.

Their only saving grace is that it’s in a fringe political system that not enough people care about. Or maybe the opposite, there won’t be enough counter outrage to handle the gov organized information suppression networks set up during some past emotionally volatile times without thinking of how easy it will be to abuse.

FB has been only slightly better in this context, by not being stupid enough to interfere with politics of random countries, which might explain the ban.
> Most people leave politics at home, and most companies try to be politically neutral

Not in American tech companies they sure don’t. Identity politics is always front and center.
Most of my learning was on the job, and in building some open-source projects that I have released over the years, for example:
- https://github.com/anthonynsimon/bild
- https://github.com/traduora/traduora

I still have a lot to learn, but IMO nothing beats struggling with something for a long time, and pushing along until you're no longer terrible at it.

I feel that most of what I know I learned by starting projects on topics I initially new nothing about, and sticking to it.

Regarding on the job learning, I have been working with Python/Scala for my full-time job over the past 3.5 years, and that helped too. Specially in terms of running multi-regional services, and the challenges that come with that.

We run several applications on Kubernetes using AWS (combined >2k req/s at peak time), and that was a big challenge for me from which I learned a lot. Specially when you're on-call, and one faulty node brings down the entire cluster, that fails over to another region and repeat :)
The quote: Assessment by third-party agencies earlier this month showed that the poverty incidence in the nine counties in Guizhou decreased to zero percent and that the satisfaction rate among locals was over 99 percent, said Li Jian, director of the provincial poverty alleviation and development office, at a press briefing.

It does sound like that provincial bureaucrat was getting ahead of themselves. It doesn't sound like Orwell 1984, and it's not really the heart of the story.
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> Is anyone using Android phones without any of the Google services?

Yes I have a couple of phones running LineageOS without GApps. The apps are installed through FDroid or direct from the vendor ( e.g. WhatsApp.apk from their website, which also manages its own updates ).
At the highest tier of garbage, you have cable news channels. They exist to keep you irritated and anxious because otherwise there would be nothing for them to talk to you about all day every day.

Video news in general is worse than talk / text because they can hijack your visual senses to get you worked up.

I used to listen to a lot of NPR. I always told myself they were fair and balanced and couldn't use visuals to deceive me. Over the summer, I realized that they are little better than the liberal version of conservative talk radio. Which is a shame, because I put a lot of faith in them for about a decade.

Local news papers are probably decent at a lot of things, but having known people who interact with reporters for them, local papers tend to be just as biased as anything else. They are, after all, just run by people.

I get most of my "national" news these days through either here on HN or a couple twitter feeds that seem to curate what they retweet pretty well. Local news, my friends and neighbors are plugged in to the community and we experience news in real time.

Honestly, I think for most things, you will get a better understanding of the landscape if you aren't hearing it from people who have a monetary interest in you wanting to come back for more "news" tomorrow.

And on that note, I have cut down on my twitter quite a bit as well lately.
Freedom to spread false information indiscriminately does not work with an uneducated populace. Heck even the US can barely hold it together right now.
It depends on the ages of the 39 people. If those were 39 eighty year olds, that would be seriously impressive. If those were 39 twenty year olds it would be expected.

There's no reason to expect that the 39 would have a similar age distribution to the population because it's not a random sample.
Losing a car isn't exactly my concern. You can do many other things with the ability to inject code into car computers.
Huh, looks more like London's Startup Unicorns on a first glance.

Joke aside, can anyone explain to me why most startups there seem to be in the UK and so little in Germany or other countries?

Genuinely curious, since the way I know my EU economics, is that Germany has a higher GDP than the UK.
But even if a Tesla is stolen, I assume it is useless(x) to the thieve as it can be remotely disabled, or?

(x) useless as a car. It can be only used for spare parts and whatever is left unattended inside the car.
Then prepare for disappointment as most other car manufacturers move to this "phone key" interface. As a Tesla owner, it's incredibly convenient and I still think it's more secure than the old-school key model. Hell, wireless fobs have a history riddled with security holes and easy hacks.
How is linux running on the Yoga S730?
I've been in the mountains of Yunnan recently. I have a hard time believing the Lisu have been lifted out of poverty. I did see party investments in the area, but I can't imagine many locals incomes being improved. Investments in dams might show geographic benefits, but its not reaching minority groups. The tourism investments in construction seem to be falling apart without ever getting much use.
Really nice! I'm a satisfied Home Assistant user as well.

> I walk around and the lights turn on with a time-appropriate brightness. They turn off when the room is empty again. I haven't touched a light switch in months

I have motion sensors in my "transient" areas as well (toilet, garage etc.), but not in the other areas of my house (living, kitchen etc.) How do you prevent the lights from going out again when you're sitting motionless for a couple of minutes or so? Do you use other stuff besides motion sensors, such as computer vision or geofencing for example?