skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, I am aware of the events of last night, where an NGO moved a camp and set up multiple tents on a main square for theatrical purposes and the clearing of the square was completely justifiable (though the means are certainly questionable)

> The direction taken by France is indeed really concerning.

I'm more worried about teachers being killed for showing drawings to students
> another's particular distaste for self-preservation.

15155, I'm sure you are a smart person, but stop for a second and really inspect what you have done here. It is obvious to me you are not making a reasoned argument, but an emotional one, but think it is reasoned.

I spelled out clearly a situation where someone entering my home with a gun increases my chance of injury or death. Your retort is to claim I have a distaste for self-preservation. You didn't apparently think about what my claim was or counter with an argument why my logical deduction was wrong, but instead just assumed I don't want to avoid death or injury.

So let me break it down. I live in a safe neighborhood. I don't have a gun. If you, a good guy with a gun, entered my home at my invitation, did my chances of injury or death just go up or down? I'm not claiming it is a significant chance, just that it a large multiple of an already minuscule probability.
I think reddit is a gold mine if you genuinely want to help others. In other words, promoting your product should be the consequence not the goal.
Is this proven with Teams?
Great to see Rust won't be starved for support.

Now someone needs to take over MDN . By far the best JavaScript documentation
Ethereum has always been in my mind a technology that has some of the most potential to improve our world by revolutionizing money, business, and even government.

I hope that enough other people also see that potential as Ethereum 2 rolls out over the next year or two.
What's amazing about these projects is that "home computers" could have been around a few years earlier, before single-chip CPUs were available in quantity and at reasonable cost.
Of course! It's 2020! You gotta keep up with fashion!
So, in eons past, carbon was sequestered naturally via calcium carbonate (CaCO3) if I'm following your math we'd need 4B tons of Ca / yr to sequester that yes? Of course, that's vastly more than we produce a year, but it is the 5th most abundant element. Could we scale up CaCO3 production to sequester carbon?
I made the first Twitter Fleets downloader
Is Mozilla going to continue sponsoring the Rust project for the forseeable future? After letting servo out [1]

> Servo was incubated inside Mozilla, and served as the proof that important web components such as CSS and rendering could be implemented in Rust, with all its safety, concurrency and speed. Now it’s time for Servo to leave the nest!

Is there any chance they do the same with the Rust language? Either way, Mozilla has done a huge amount of work to improve the systems programming field, and created an incredible language ecosystem in Rust.
No surprises here – On the absence of information in today’s media
Yep, you're exactly right. I'm unsure of the point you're trying to make, however.
Not a follower of the show but I see on IMDB that WestWorld was filmed near that location in 2016. Maybe something left off during filming?
We don’t have nearly enough land area for that, and even if we did, we’d need to cut and bury these trees underground, if we want the sequestration to be more than temporary. Seems silly to do that while digging up coal at the same time.
Powered studio monitors are usually a pretty good option. I'm a fan of the JBL LSR series (305 or 308 can be had for cheap on sale). The dispersion pattern of studio monitors may not work well for all rooms, but usually are pretty good. After that, room treatments are a bigger ROI than better speakers.
You mean like a REPL? Most languages are unusable for interactive programming. And it's not a downside if it stops use in a domain that was nobody's goal.
Extra points for the HNer that puts one on the Moon.
each borough is its own county with its own courts, commissioners, sheriff, etc. as far as I understood.

NYPL is a bit of an historical anomaly as far as how it is organized.
After a few years of riding motorcycles I once went on my first snowmobile ride. The controls were so close to a bike that I kept countersteering into the side of the trail. Once I figured out what I was doing wrong, I had great fun from then on.

The other interesting thing is how hard it is to convince non-riders that counter-steering is a thing. They will just not believe you. Even people who've grown up riding bicycles and counter-steering unconsciously their entire childhood.
The 'small division' would have to cut the stairs off from the rest of the library because the apartment in this building is on the third floor. It doesn't really work with the entrance, main desk and stair location where you could easily seal off the apartment from the rest of the building.

https://bit.ly/3fyZDJ5
> gun possession in the public square is not a right, it is a privilege, one that can be revoked as seen fit by the government.

Driving is also a privilege, yet no one has to bribe anyone to get a drivers license.
The internet sleuthing might just be smoke and mirrors. It's possible this guy already knew where the monolith because he knew the installer or is the installer. Either way, he's comes out looking good.

Not sure which is more likely.
> Is there a difference between a drop in oxygen levels and a rise in CO2 levels?

Yes.

These are two independent gases in the atmosphere. A drop in one does not equate automatically to an increase in the other.

There's a process involved in converting carbon to CO2. To make CO2 levels rise by 6x, the process of converting would need to be running at 6x too. The entire of human industry over ~100 years has contributed to increasing CO2 levels by 1x (so doubling them). So we're not in any imminent danger of 6x.
For anyone to build $1K to $10K MRR. How to find SaaS niche and implement?
I hope it gets to the point not to consume several GB soon enough. Also the pricing got too greedy and I'm not sure if I want to pay that.

It used to be per user but now it's per machine and it's even asking you to pay $50/year per machine even for cheap instances that are $60/year and when you have 20 small machines to look after, the pricing looks a bit too unfair.
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=alternatives+to+postman lists dozens each with their pros and cons.
> strive to inform, not persuade

During COVID, it seems there was more a concentration on trying to persuade people than to inform. A big example is at the beginning where masks were not recommended, even though the scientists knew they were effective, in an effort to try to maintain stockpiles for medical professionals and hospitals. Although this was understandable, it lost a lot of trust with the public.
Y Combinator in Covid times – what's changed?
Hey folks,

Just wondering if you know how YC has changed given COVID. I know the interviews are now via Zoom, has anyone gone through the process in the last batch and want to comment about their experience?

Cheers!
Hassan
That doesn't hide the keyboard's microphone. While technically dictation is disabled, hitting the microphone asks you if you want to "enable it", or "not now". I need a "never ask me again" option.
It's sort of the retro-computing equivalent of doing donuts in the high school parking lot.
You won't get banned if you participate to the community and respect the rules. And that's also how you'll get the best results!
That's the same for every "social networks", if you're just spammy you can get some short term results but if you bring some value to the community you'll get visitors, reputation and even fans.

Take the time to read the rules, participate to the subs, learn what works, what don't and try to help others in the topic you're into. Then, create some valuable content that help the community and post it with a link to your blog if you want some traffic, or ask for feedback on your idea.
I remember the days where social networks would have a form where you entered your email details (including password) and they would log in as you and retrieve all contacts to include in the network. I was shocked. I was more shocked that I saw people actually giving up all their details... That was like 15 years ago, so probably wouldn't fly today though.
Hard to say because I've only been using it for a week, but so far it has just worked (which is what I am looking for as well, I don't have the time or patience for anything less).
> I've got a drawer full of unused echos, chromecasts, etc.

At this point I already have so many devices in my house it won't matter if I add more. I gave up my privacy for convince a long time ago. Let me know if you'd like me to take those off your hands. :)

> Shopping at 3 different online retailers vs 1 isn't that much of an added inconvenience

I've tried ordering direct from the manufacturer. It's true that authenticity is higher, but everything else is worse. Do I have to pay shipping? How much will be it? I need to put in my credit card again, will it be safe? Will I get any cash back on my purchase? With Amazon, I already know, shipping is free, my 5% cash back card will be default and is secure. It literally takes me a less than 20 seconds to buy something on Amazon if I already know what I want.

> Who is working in an amazon warehouse right now and actually having a good time of it?

I know one person who works at an Amazon warehouse. She says it's the best job she's ever had. She's extremely grateful to be working right now in a good job with a flexible schedule, because she's a single mom in nursing school. Anecdata of course, she's just one person. But in my sample set of 1, there is 100% satisfaction.
> Nothing wrong with the advice, but most subreddits have a no self-promotion policy

So, instead of "Go to my site to buy X!" you just talk about X in the third person. You mention your product/service X alongside the obvious brand names, you always have a story ready about how X can do what OP wants, etc.

The self-promotion rules just force you to be dishonest at all times.

Works well because people have a knee-jerk hate for "check out this X I made" but they are completely blind to "check out this X I found." You can see this a lot in r/gaming when solo devs share their work.
Given that it's a non-American media source, and that the specific location within Utah wasn't released, do you think there's a more appropriate visual that they should have used?
14+Health+Benefits+of+Dates:+Check+Them+Out+|+Health+Lines
Calling a software that's been out for 6+ years powering everyone's IaaC from startups to multi-billion companies around the world as "initial development" to fit into SemVer is a stretch for me.
I evaluated NotePlan on V2 I believe. I do this with every note app like this I see. NotePlan is very close to what I need/want, with the daily logging approach.

Unfortunately, NotePlan doesn't support inline PDFs as IMAGES (not links, displayed inline like a PNG). Without support for this, it's unusable to me (basically every note taking app is).

Latex symbol / equation rendering is also important, but I can live without that.

If you added that functionality, I'd be more or less happy to pay whatever you want for the app.
"t. There’s really no excuse for most cities not to follow this model."

Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund owns 2% of the entire world's publicly traded stocks.

They have so much money the fight over what to do with it.

They are an Oil rich state, like Qatar, Kuwait.

When you have that kind of surplus, a lot of things become easy.

For the rest of the world, the issue is money: either you raise taxes, increase fares, take on more debt (or invade a rich country), none of which are good options.
I don't think that's the clear intention at all.

If that were so clear, we wouldn't have all of the litigation and laws around the 2A as we do.
I think this works for some roles but not others. The CEO can choose what criteria to use, and so the people reporting to the CEO can make your argument. The manager of a team of CX reps might not have that power to chose the criteria, so the people reporting to that manager are just as powerless. Then there’s the whole spectrum in between.

This is actually one of the privileges I’m most thankful for. That I have been able to make it work in an industry where I (and my managers) have the agency to decide how I should be evaluated. I have friends who aren’t so lucky, even when they push hard for the people below them to be evaluated more sanely.
> can't sustain food and energy for 8B people

It totally can. What it can't sustain is 8B people not working together.
Couldn't you just use browser automation tools for this? It wouldn't really make sense to use the tools that are watching the behavior to automate the behavior
This is presumably part of the reason the iPhone 6S is not going to receive iOS 14 next year - since it was sold with 16GB as the lowest capacity. The next model along, the iPhone 7, had 32GB as the lowest capacity.
OP probably works for a company in SF where salaries are higher than in NY
Not trying to go off-topic here, but has anyone here actually used git in the workplace? I'm 3 for 3 on jobs that don't believe in version control, and other companies in my city haven't known what it is, I'm constantly asked about having it on my resume skills section. I've been told everything from "it's not enterprise ready and there's no SLA" to "open source is communism".
That's why they need the warning sign. Centaurians wouldn't be expecting it.
Imagine you had built a great software product, but never checked that your alleged users were actually using it. There would be a high chance that you built the wrong thing, they weren't using it, and you wouldn't know that so you wouldn't fix it.

Your reports on progress were like that. Because you didn't check with the users (those who should have been reading the report), you didn't know that they weren't a format that was useful to them.

I'm not saying you screwed up in the way you wrote your reports; communication about technical topics is hard, and no one should expect to make it easy. But writing technical reports, and then not checking with the intended audience as to whether they were communicating what you wanted, is like writing software without testing it or getting user feedback. I bet you would never write software, not test it, and then expect that it was working, no matter how good you are at writing software.

So, in the future, think of communications such as reports as a deliverable in some ways similar to a piece of software. Check with your users, and test it (i.e. see if anyone is reading it, or understanding it if they do).
I think its named after the space odyssey 2001 version
> union strikes can actually have an affect on convenience or quality of life

I never understood why transport unions effectively run their strikes against the passengers instead of against the governments (most of them are state owned or heavily subsidized here in Europe.) They should go to protest in front of the government offices and not jeopardizing the lives of citizens, who could be their allies. Instead everybody ends up hating transport workers. My bet: a traditional strike helps the careers inside the unions. Going against the government doesn't.
I learned this as a consultant in the room with people looking at three vendors for a solution for a specialized tool management software.

I gravitated to the tool that looked like it was the easiest to use, but the users gravitated to the ugliest one because they could just use the keyboard and get their job done. It had more on the page and it was designed for experts.

Ease of use is different than ease of learning, but the key is to understand the use case for your user. What does your user need, and what do they think they need? Attractive interfaces are only one part of it.
if they didnt bother, what was the competition doing?
What about call centers - Don't they also have metrics about phone calls such as call time, hold time etc? How is this any different?
While clearly not an exhaustive course that's more than enough to get a basic understanding of the similarities/differences between Vue and React... and I'm liking the syntax of Vue based on this video!
I like this list. On calendars - I wish companies would hire people to manage calendars for teams and orgs. It feels like keeping my calendar defragged is an uphill battle, but one that could be solved at a top level fairly well.
New Usenet committee sees bright future for Internet’s oldest discussion network
Sure, but from my perspective (you probably had better insight into these companies involvement than me) there was always a question about how committed companies this large really are when they only have a few projects in the language. Hiring core developers puts all doubts to bed (and also the kind of investment that actually for counts for something).
Death by a thousand privacies.
1:4:9 is too 2000's. 1:9:49 is what you want these days.
Dont know why this is being downvoted. Google pays an engineers salary to their kids should the engineer die, until the kids reach 18 - or something along those lines.

I was wondering if YC does that for its alum, I mean its one of the most successful funds around....
If it were alien, it would be made of a quasi crystal (a crystal in a higher dimension projected into 3D).

Humans have no way of making bulk quasicrystals.
Because AWS doesn't have his own fancy language.
What exactly are you expecting Apple to do here?

What is it you think Apple did that makes Linux “work” on Intel and PPC Macs?
The author may have implemented ML when they optimized their polynomial constants:

> If I was developing a racing game using this as the AI, I’d not just pick constants that successfully complete the track, but the ones that do it quickly.

If they wrote code that automatically picked constants that successfully completed the track quickly, (even something as simple as sorting the results by completion time), then that's reinforcement learning.
Law of VC: LP Terms for Emerging Fund Managers
Four figures covers a lot of minimum wage hours.
Its a difficult issue. Cars suck for liveable cities, but they're also better at transportation than anything else regarding cost, flexibility and time. They're a piece of freedom, but with high externalities. I can see why the US loves them so much, and why Europe doesn't. I also think it is kind of strange that "number of deaths" is such an important metric for some: automatic safety systems will soon be commonplace in all new cars, so this will naturally converge to zero over time.

I'm using car-sharing myself, but finding a car and walking there
is very annoying. Wouldn't it be nice if you could summon a car when you needed one, out of a pool that is large enough to never have availability issues?
There is room for many types, and when it comes to more traditional storytelling, games can create more direct emotional connections by making you the character, rather then the protagonist just being someone you watch.
Ask HN: How do you make friends at work while keeping personal/work boundaries?
I maintain a strict detachment from my workplaces for a few reasons. This has never bothered me before, but I'm inching towards a year at my current job. That's way longer than I've been at any work place before (a fact with a bidirectional causal relationship to the detachment), and the walls I've put up are starting to chafe.

I really like my teammates and I want to be friends with them, not just work friends. If I'm going to spend several years working alongside people, I'd like to have a loving, caring relationship with them because I have love for them and care for them. But expressing and exchanging love and care requires vulnerability, not detachment.

Some of the boundaries I maintain in my personal life to make vulnerability safe are incompatible with employment. Especially, the ability to not interact with someone when you don't want to, or stop interacting with them entirely. I'm curious to hear how other folks have navigated this problem:

- I turn work and my work friends off when work ends. I don't want to turn my genuine friends off when work ends. How do I decouple my interactions with them as a friend from the financial contract obligating me to respond to their messages?

- It feels way worse to hide something about myself from a real friend than a work friend. But I hide things constantly from my work friends. I am trans, autistic and generally live outside of many of society's norms. Many basic aspects of my personal life could be considered not appropriate for work or offensive to an individual. How can I be genuine friends with someone when the environment that mediates many of our interactions isn't accepting? What do I do if I find a friend isn't accepting, but then I'm forced to work with them?

- How do I tell someone I don't want to be friends because of a personal/work life boundary? Especially, if I attempt to be genuine friends with someone but it turns out we do not make good friends, how do I restore our work friendship?
No mysterious origin, but the "Tree of Utah" in the middle of the Utah salt flats, next to the highway...is similarly out of place and unexpected. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphor:_The_Tree_of_Utah
Primarily written for micro saas ideas ranging from $1K to $10K MRR.
I see a small dirt road immediately to the north. Given that dirt road intersects with hwy 211 I assume it was driven there in a large ATV. Most likely a 4wd truck and a large ATV went out there with the sculpture in the truck, and then the ATV and a few people with shovels drove it down to the gully to the site to install it.
Ruby on Rails: Still the Best Web App Framework for Most Teams
I'm not trying to "game" anyone, I'm an indiehacker that's why I write it that way.
Was that a GP3 output as an experiment? Because that is literally a bunch of nonsensically mashing ecology, economics, and anti-capitalism memes mashed together. Seriously before flagging me or downvoting try to paraphrase that paragraph as anything coherent.
finally signs of intelligent life on that continent ;-)
depends on your definition.I solve these kind of problems using httpie. it's console based. It really has everything I need.
> but a stable, provable, predictable proficiency, on top of passable level of social acceptability, coexisting in a single consistent humanframe, is what is rare.

Seems like every 'weird job' or skill gets you an American reality TV contract these days. Either that or some Youtube followers.
I remember Facebook doing that.
Wait, so was the data just released or has the scientific community had enough time to analyze these results and determine that the vaccine is safe?