skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree there hasn't been enough discussion of this sort of thing -- what sorts of conditions call for what kinds of control measures -- in part because we've (in the US) never gotten it together to have a coordinated rational calm response, it's seemed like "got to struggle just to get people to do ANYTHING" the whole time.

If we were to have that discussion, I'd think the way "conditions in which this control measure is needed" is dicussed is in terms of current observed covid case numbers -- what else could it be? Say, when positive cases per population or per test given are below X, for instance. It's likely that the 'right' number that makes sense for not having masks is pretty low, and possibly lower than will be realistically gotten to without widespread effective vaccine or other significant change in the landscape. (Some countries like Australia or New Zealand got there without a vaccine; we've missed that boat, if it was ever possible here).

The "right" number for masks should be pretty low because the social/economic/etc "cost" of masks -- while I agree it is non-zero -- is lower than about any other effective measures. Closing schools or businesses, for instance. You'd want to resort to universal mask use before closing schools, because the social/economic cost of closing schools is so much higher. Masks are pretty effective at comparatively much lower cost, so make sense to be a much earlier resort. (although I agree non-zero; I find masks very uncomfortable and hard to breathe in myself). At this point in the US, numbers are bad enough that masks are a no-brainer and we need a lot more than that.

Those against wearing masks might also be contributing to a rational conversation about costs and benefits more if they talked about under what conditions they thin masks would be appropriate -- say, what number of covid cases diagnosed per 100K population would make masks well-advised?

I wonder how many people against wearing masks basically think there are no conditions under which masks are advisable though.
It could be a bug. It'd better be.

(14 days ago) https://www.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/jrmclg/gallery_...
Forgive me for encouraging the adoption of portable, compliant code to those who may not otherwise be aware of it. If you want to assume all the world’s an x86 that’s great but you should at least know what part of your code is going to be wrong elsewhere.
Yeah, I got in trouble in my high school's computer class for booting Ubuntu 8.04 off a live CD. Probably would've gotten away with it had the machine's built-in (and therefore impossible-to-mute) speakers didn't blast the startup sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQaEXZ-df6Y

Thankfully I got off with a stern warning and a "whatever you did, I can't see your screen any more, so you better fix it".
I just opened a Wikipedia article on my phone and I saw 5 background colors: white (main), light gray (background of card), less light gray (background of footer, green (background of banner to show last edit), and light purple (background of card title).

Also two shades of grey for text color, a dark one (main), a light one (Wikipedia title)

Edit:

The article I looked: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Robinson_(American_poli...

The front page has even more colors: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
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I'm sorry for your loss.

Regarding your article, the title as well as the term "gone" left me wondering if he had died or (probably more common in startups?) ghosted you/your company until the fifth paragraph.
AirBnB is getting destroyed by the pandemic, they've had to layoff 25% and take out $2B in loans. 'It will pass' yes, but it's not been a boon for them.
Who fact checks the fact checkers?

Not to keen to have faith in a news organization run "fact" checker. This one seems to be misleading too far in the opposite
Tailwind and utility-first in general is a major win in my book if for one thing only; I don’t have to think about naming my elements at the html level at the start.

Huge speed increase that gives me immediate results. You can absolutely spot and define those names, but you don’t have to think of them up front, allowing you to move forward more abstractly. Readability and maintainability seem like an inefficient nightmare but so far I have felt no pain or burden.

Hats off to the Tailwind team. This is the way.
The point is, Australia could move off fossil fuels quicker than most other countries, and has one of the biggest motivators for doing so - its environment.

However, the will of the people is not there. Or at least, the technology to disrupt Australia's coal and oil junkies, isn't there.
Pangeo: JupyterHub, Dask, and XArray on the Cloud (2018)
Depends what you mean by "practical".
Assuming you've done CV/ML stuff before, you could probably get something working pretty well over a weekend, and I think I could solve it completely with a bit more effort via 3D scanning + synthetic dataset generation... but unless you have cubic meters of lego to sort, doing it by hand would be faster, albeit less fun.
No, you are mistaken.

In the absence of outside influence, scale produces monopolies that haven't the slightest interest in serving consumers, much less competing to win their favor. Have you ever BOUGHT anything from Amazon and gotten screwed by them? Have you been given random stuff by third parties working (successfully!) to game the Amazon system so their garbage is full of fake testimonials and is #1 recommended Amazon product in their category?

Competitive businesses gotta start from somewhere or there will NEVER be any others. It will just be 'what was competitive, once, and forever' because infrastructure and scale lock in and then you're monopolized and it no longer matters.

Show me the alternative to Amazon. Show me the alternative to YouTube. There is by definition no competitive option to any of these things because they locked in controlling positions, and now it doesn't matter what they do: they are NOT subject to any sort of competitive forces because it's too late. It doesn't matter what they do to consumers: there's nowhere else to go.
> Ever clicked I’m not a robot? In doing so, you agree to Google’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.

There is no way this is legally binding right? Please?
oh man have gone through the pallete generator exercise and ended up with the lame yellow-background example they show

I feel seen

grey message text is annoying though -- always go for contrast
Seems to be the business is design, go to china and find a manufacturer. I found these videos about china bike show interesting. "Specialized" gave the keynote apparently.

Some crazy bikes there (I like the offcenter wheels for hop riding.). Also very high end road bikes. (though italian carbon fiber seats).

Carbon Bike design process:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WinYdscJi0

Bike show part1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9BAc0kL55o

part2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQVoKKwydwQ

part3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKa3iQ3akHk
I think in theory they’re orthogonal but in practice the two go together. It’s all fine and dandy when you’ve got a restricted set of battle tested macros from a single library interacting in real world code, but it rapidly breaks down when you’ve got application authors of various skill sets all contributing their own macros because the dare not touch the ones that came before. Macro hygiene provides the equivalent of type level guarantees to metaprogramming scope.
My anecdote must be then, at best, a few years old. But I am continually amazed at the quality of the cameras available both in my phone and in standalone cameras. Innovation continues even though the market has radically changed.
But "the right thing" differs from person to person. A 10 person company [say, running a local grocery store] comprised entirely of conservatives will think it's right to allow customers to decide if they want to wear a mask, while the same company comprised entirely of liberals will think that it's right to make customers wear masks and otherwise refuse servicing them. Who decides which company is doing the right thing? You?
They wouldn't get even minimum wage. Servers earn less than minimum wage in many places, to compensate for the fact that they get tips.

Starting your movement with "don't tip" is a great way to punish workers without much chance of being successful. It should probably start with the restaurants, or even regulation.
Thousands march in Taiwan against US pork imports
This is it - we can’t all afford personal delivery services and our own chauffeur. It’s nice when it’s vc funded though
Thank you for introducing me to this concept. I hadn't heard of MAP and ended up reading about it.

I had always assumed that a salesperson immediately offering me a discount, or that weird "price shown when you add to cart" pattern were just people being shady to increase conversion... while that may be true some of the time, I had no idea there was a legitimate reason why they might not tell you the "real" price upfront.
No, it's a good time for an IPO as markets have a longer term view of things (rationally or otherwise). Investors see AirBnB is very viable, they know the pandemic will pass.

AirBnB and DoorDash are in completely different scenarios: one has massive labour force issues, the other is a digital service, the pandemic has nearly killed AirBnB while it's been a boon for DoorDash.

AirBnB is pushing through with a regularly planned IPO, DoorDash is probably being more opportunistic.
I'm skeptical what the parent said will come to fruition, but when I was doing some advertising work in VR I was surprised how great it was at conveying things like scale and reach when messing with cars. Things you would have to go to a dealership to do and hope they have the correct trim and colors you want.
https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/22/whitehat-jrs-founder-files...
Ok, so bass player here... First, if Guitar Center has done more to improve the sound and lighting at local churches across America than anyone, ever. As far as instruments go, I love smaller, local guitar stores because they often carry product you just don't see in the big stores outside of the used gear department. I've ran into all kinds of cool stuff ranging from some really nice amps made in some local dude's barn to custom shops, to one store that was importing insanely nice boutique brand guitars directly from Japan (I picked up a short neck bass there and played it for a decade before I gave it to an aspiring player).

Guitar Center was cool and all, but really, I don't need 168 perfectly mass-produced bass guitars to choose from. If I'm going to drop $2000+, well, that goes a long way towards something custom from a local luthier. So much of music is about expressing yourself... If you want to sound like everyone else, play the same guitar the same way as everyone else. That said, Guitar Center and Sam Ash really do a great job making pretty good equipment affordable and more importantly, easy to get.
> But what is causing the prices in US and EU to vary so much?

In the UK (and perhaps other parts of Europe) manufacturers aren't allowed to force retailers to sell at a particular price. The manufacturer can 'recommend' a price (or indeed print a price on the package) but the retailer can sell for whatever price they want [1]

Any binding 'minimum advertised price' or 'resale price maintenance' agreement would be price fixing, violating competition law.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/resale-price-main...
> “You need a color for errors, and a color for successes, and a color for warnings.” is not necessarily the only way to design errors, warnings, and successes.

It's not the only way, but it is the best way. Straying too far from semantic meanings of colors can create confusion for users that expect a certain thing. Can you imagine if your bank had a two buttons - "delete account" and "cancel", where the delete button was green and inviting and the cancel was red? Danger should be semantic if your app has any sort of high risk actions involved in it.

It's fine if a game or a rss reader uses their own funky palette that shows off their brand, but any time you start handling money you should really stray away from that.
I like to use Tiny Core as the rescue environment on my machines, since it fits perfectly in boot partitions. The small size also makes it great for thin clients.
Yet somehow local pizza shops have been able to do it for decades.

There would probably be more benefit in having small sets of delivery drivers for all deliveries and all businesses in a small, square mile or 3, area; and probably something that isn’t trying to power a whole country’s purchasing habits.
We had this with Netbooks - remember those? You could choose between a barely running Windows XP or a well running Linux back then. People mostly bought the Windows version because that's what they knew and where the illegal copy of software X from their neighbour ran.

A similar thing happened with the city of Munich trying to convert their systems to Linux. The workers complained that OpenOffice/LibreOffice didn't work like their (most probably illegal) copies of Word and Excel at home and thus they couldn't work with it. When that didn't help, they complained about "missing software" and other strange reasons about why they absolutely couldn't work with Linux. So they rolled back to Windows and Office and started sending our tax money to Microsoft again. [1] (Also Microsoft promised to move their German HQ to Munich to bring wealth into town. But that's toooootally unrelated.)

At least, they're trying again... [2]

Point is, as long as 90% of all jobs and schools have you work in Windows, why should people start buying Linux PCs for themselves?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux
[2] https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-not-windows-why-munich-i...
That's a terrible headline. Based on the actual article, the court said that a doctor has to certify that the patients have COVID. All the health authority has to do is get a doctor to look at the COVID results and do the certification.

The court did not (based on the article) decide that COVID test results are wrong, inaccurate, or unscientific. The decision was just about the qualifications required to interpret the test results.
> I still am using Google Play Music

Didn't they shut down Google Play Music recently?
> Author’s Note: I’ve recently partnered with Project DigInThere, an online project to help people get more out of the articles they read. Project DigInThere enables authors (in this case, me) to create 3-4 question “quests” that readers (in this case, you) can review prior to reading an article. Doing so primes you with what to look for in the article, and then you can take the quest at the end of the article to test your recall. If you’re interested, you can review the quest I’ve built by clicking here, then take it after reading the article and see how you do.

Optimizing much? :-)
Last time I visited the USA I'd just read a John Gruber post where he'd explained tipping is not complicated at all, just tip 20%. He said he always had done this, and that basically all Americans knew this was what you were supposed to do. I enjoyed the trip more than previous trips because I now had this new superpower, I felt like an insider who no longer felt anxious. I would sort of casually and knowingly do the 20% thing, but sadly since it doesn't happen in advance I suspect I was still treated as a foreign guy who wouldn't know how much to tip :(
What about drone-based delivery instead?
Webview looks like an interesting project. I feel lost people's complaints with Electron apps from from memory usage / JavaScript performance though, which it doesn't look like it would improve significantly.
ChainReaction owns the bike brands Vitus and Nukeproof, so they're able to purchase whole groupsets from shimano at OEM pricing which is a massive discount over retail price.
It's not the US market that is getting shafted by shimano, it's the entire retail components market. I've even seen groupsets in boxes on the shelf at bike shops, priced higher than bikes on the showroom floor with that same groupset installed.

And somehow the bike retailers get furious at their own customers for seeking out the lower-priced options, instead of being furious with shimano for ripping them off.
I wonder how power consumption is? Power power use (especially when sleeping) is probably my main complaint with the ESP boards I've used
No, I have bouts of onset insomnia too and I think at times it’s been exacerbated by worrying about my sleep quality due to reading news like this.

Really sorry to hear about your Mother.
Yes, DoorDash ... the company responsible for almost all restaurants adding sealing stickers to the bags because the drivers were losing food (I'm being nice ...).

DoorDash got a lot of bump from the fact that they were booted and scaled for online operation as the pandemic hit--they were the only option for delivery for a lot of restaurants for quite a while.

This has changed.

Restaurants are realizing that controlling the delivery experience is worth profit. They can sign up with an online ordering website service for far less than DoorDash. If they have their own drivers, they can control the quality and timing (make a batch of <n> orders all together and send the driver out).
I don't know what the “majority of users” think. What I can say is that not knowing if something was a button was not a problem Windows 9x had.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25168302
How is C not a serious language?
My point is more nuanced:

YT is worth so much because it is a monopoly. To make it monopoly it is today, Google had to have: extremely deep pockets, efficient infrastructure. Very few other companies could have accomplished that.
This is cool, but he needs to be careful wrt the exchange mechanism. If he sets this up in California but doesn't allow the magpies to set their own wages + hours he could be on the hook for healthcare and FICA contributions.
Can I just register my amazement at the absurdity of a world in which some shmuck who makes a PHP website is one of the richest people on the planet?

He has an army of people doing his bidding now. The mind boggles.
In U.S. cities it's more like thousands or tens of thousands of bike commuters (during good weather), but commuter bikes are either rented from bikeshares or are junkers that get replaced for a couple hundred dollars from time to time. If any market has customers, it's high end.
Airbnb in April is very different from Airbnb today.
Ask HN: How to best approach new jobs when your career feels disjointed?
Preface: I have ~8 years total software development experience, but starting from 12 years ago. The last 5 years I have only had 15 months total of part-time, freelance work. Self-taught programmer with an unrelated BA degree.

I have been under-employed long before the pandemic hit, and obviously that hasn't made things better for me now. I'm currently unemployed.

Since my first post-grad job, I've worked autonomously almost all the time, similar to that of a senior or lead programmer. I received almost no technical oversight, mentoring, or review. However, most of my work remains tightly scoped (task-level), and I have no significant knowledge or awareness of the entire SDLC process, like a junior programmer. I do not pass job interviews and resume screenings for looking like an "expert beginner". This could be because for the vast majority of my career, I've been technically a contractor. Usually there are no expectations for companies to invest long-term in contractors.

My first post-grad job at least could be attributed to being in the wrong place and time. I graduated in 2008, and took a "contract to hire" job I found on Craigslist that ended up with the company moving the goalposts for going full-time and I never achieved FT status.

12 years later and I haven't "figured it out" yet. I'm not sure of how much risk I want to take. I don't have defined goals other than wanting a stable, full-time developer job. How do you approach new jobs this way? Especially when companies have high expectations of someone who started in 2008, and are going to look very suspect trying to apply to junior jobs in hopes of a "do-over"?

I don't think it's impostor syndrome. Someone that cannot find a FT job they're qualified for after five years makes the case for being truly inadequate more valid.

I've been constantly looking for a FT job for five years now, and I know there's a problem with me, but I don't know how close I am to overcoming it.
It's a fair question. Tape interfaces had very limited bandwidth. The original Kansas standard used frequency switching (FSK) between four cycles of 1200Hz and eight cycles of 2400Hz. Later faster variations used the same frequencies but cut the number of cycles for faster load speeds.

MP3 compression works by removing frequencies that are (supposedly) too quiet to be audible. If you only have two very loud frequencies in a frame they pass through the compression process unscathed.

The switching hash around them and the tape noise may get munged but that doesn't affect the data stream. So vbr MP3 ends up being an efficient and clean representation, and cbr works too but isn't quite so compact.

Edit: in fact some radio and TV shows in the 70s would transmit software live, and that worked fine too. I never tried it, but I suspect you could probably use a phone line - for early adventures in software piracy.
There are many cheap watches; this article is about why this particular cheap watch is more popular than the others.
The thing is though... there is no way around the "trust" problem, whether it comes to science or anything else. Plato's allegory of the cave makes this quite evident IMO. In the end, we're all ignorant, all have our set of beliefs, and all must willfully choose for ourselves what's persuasive. Science just sees pointing to evidence as the most practical way of testing beliefs. And quite honestly... what else is there for testing beliefs? Making a different argument for the nature of something that could also be reasonably plausible (e.g. a conspiracy theory)? Well that's a hypothesis, which is also a belief, and so we're back to square one... which is everything is ultimately a stack of willfully chosen beliefs that we deem trustworthy.
> holding the right button for over 3 seconds in the main timekeeping mode; this will lead the display to show "CASIo", as a test for authenticity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_F-91W#Counterfeits
> Yet somehow local pizza shops have been able to do it for decades.

Pizza is a really high margin business. From this article [0]:

> Consider the ingredients – flour, yeast, water, sauce, cheese and toppings. None of these are expensive, particularly when purchased wholesale. To build a small cheese pizza the cheese is the most expensive ingredient at $0.60, with the dough adding about $0.24 and the sauce $0.05. That adds up to $0.89 for a basic cheese pizza that could be sold for many times that amount. [...] One estimate of the cost of a meat pizza with pepperoni and sausage is $1.90 for food costs and an average retail cost of $14.00, which translates to a 636 percent markup.

[0] https://smallbusiness.chron.com/much-profit-margin-pizza-621...
Refactoring tools are nice so long as you are in a closed-world environment where you can see all the code and make whatever changes are needed. They don't help nearly as much in an open environment where there are many code owners and not all code is visible to you. When you publish a library, a refactoring tool isn't going to tell you everyone who uses your library, and you don't have permission to change the call sites anyway.

The only thing for it is to push a new, incompatible version and other people will have to migrate. So you're pushing off the work onto them.

I don't see how an effects system helps with this much? It might help you better understand how you painted yourself in a corner, but I don't see how it helps you get out of it.