skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not surprising that power users are more acquainted with the options available with a developed preference from trial and error.

Polling someone who likes light themes because they know no better is an answer to a completely different question.

Also, while trendy, "bias" isn't a word you should throw around unless you also have established the question being asked and what the bias is. Informed answers to the poll aren't biased, especially compared to someone who doesn't know what a dark mode is.
You do not need to spend $100 dollars either.
For prescriptions that are pills, I'd like to see a smartphone/tablet app to help with things like that.

At the simplest, it would just remind me when it is time to take pills and tell you which pills to take. That could help with the confusion of having pill A on a twice a day schedule and pill C on a thrice a day schedule.

Better would be if you could also show the app your pills using your device's camera when you first start a new prescription. Then when you take your scheduled doses you could show the app what pills you are going to take and it could check that you have the right number of pills and they are the right colors and shapes and sizes.
This is neat. I'm a little worried it'll get abused. Actually, I know it will.

However, when I do come across it being used well, it'll be neat!

I have to say though, the developer (sindresorhus) is got to be one of the most prolific NPM package maintainers of all time, they have hundreds (if not thousands) of actively maintained packages. I know a lot of them are single use modules, but still, thats quite something! And the quality isn't bad.

Where does one find the time!
Does this mean their life is more valuable than yours?
The listening device is headphones. (Perhaps whoever wrote the bunkum doesn't understand what they said, but the rest of us do.)
I think it’s best to think of the crisis as having a disruptive effect, not only a downward or depressive one. Some sectors have been completely gutted, live events for example. Others suffer from second order effects like dry cleaning. And as you point out, for others business is booming. The source of all of it is disruption and upheaval.
We all understand that, but it's still negligent to not give a tip to workers, who you know depend on it. Until that industry somehow makes the shift away from tipping, people still need to survive.
Those tenets are important to the universality of UBI. Otherwise, the Federal government would try to impose means testing, or other conditions upon it, which would make it a very socialistic/communistic type of policy. I want it to be something more like a right of citizenship.
I think they meant "founder," as in the intransigent verb: "to become disabled, to give way, to become submerged, to come to grief."

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/founder
I was thinking "more likely than me".

Was mostly responding to the parent comment of "You shouldn't get special privileges because you work for the government."

Maybe some people should get protection or consideration because of their occupation. Didn't mean to say that federal judges should have more than another occupation or situation that we may want to compare against.

Thanks for pointing out that I could have communicated more effectively, though.!
> extreme poverty widely refers to an income below the international poverty line of $1.90 per day

extreme poverty is a well-defined term, it's not emotive language.
You should be tipping triple right now, rich boy.
Debian is not yet acquired and seems to never happen near the future, that's big difference.
> There were no real transactions, no ensured consistency

Which is the right way to do it, because transactions don't extend into the real world. If you need to wait for the consequences of a given event, wait for the consequences of that event. Otherwise, all you really care about is all events happening in a consistent order. It's a much more practical consistency model.

> and no referential integrity

The problem with enforcing referential integrity is how you handle violations of it. Usually you don't really want to outright reject something because it refers to something else that doesn't exist yet, so you end up solving the same problem either way.

> There was also no authentication or authorization, because a default-configured deployment of Kafka from Confluent happily neglects such trivial details.

Pretty common in the database world - both MySQL and PostgreSQL use plaintext protocols by default. Properly-configured kafka uses TLS and/or SASL and has a good ACL system and is as secure as anything else.

> It was a nightmare to code against once you left the fantasy world of functional programming nirvana and encountered real requirements. It meant pushing a whole series of concerns that isolation addresses into application code... or not addressing them at all.

My experience is just the opposite - ACID isolation sounds great until you actually use it in the real world, and then you find it doesn't address your problems and doesn't give you enough control to fix it yourself. It's like when you use one of those magical do-everything frameworks - it works great until you need to customise something slightly, then it's a nightmare. Kafka pushes more of the work onto you upfront - you have to understand your dataflow and design it explicitly - but that pays off immensely.

> It was a GDPR nightmare.

Really? I've found the exact opposite - teams that used an RDBMS had to throw away their customer data under GDPR, because even though they had an entry in their database saying that the customer had agreed, they couldn't tell you what the customer had agreed to or when. Whereas teams using Kafka in the way you describe had an event record for the original agreement, and could tell you where any given piece of data came from.
Stated bluntly, low CPI is just a function of Chinese dumping and has been for the past couple decades at least.
source? seems like a rather twisted definition of empathy.
True. The wages laws that govern service staff is generally written as a conditional, where the employee earns the greater of:

1. Standard minimum wage
2. Some value less than minimum wage + tips

If the employee doesn't break minimum wage by adding their wage+tips, the employer has to make them whole. And then likely cut their hours and force them to look for other work.
Faster data exploration in Jupyter through Lux
Hello HN!
I'm one of creator of OAM and KubeVela. We have recently open sourced KubeVela which is the Kubernetes community implementation of OAM. I am very excited to share and talk about it!

First of all, let me clarify what it is and what it is not.

• KubeVela is an easy to use tool that enables developers to describe and ship applications to Kubernetes with minimal efforts. The core innovation is that we provide a docker-compose style appFile. This developer friendly interface allows a developer to focus on the application instead of infrastructure.

• KubeVela provides an extremely extensible way for platform builders to build a PAAS that is customized towards their own user base. The secret is that KubeVela implements the Open Application Model which provides a standard way to describe not only the workloads but also the operational characteristics of the application and how do they interact with each other.

• KubeVela is not trying to replace Helm. This is a very common question. For one, KubeVela does rely on tools like Helm to package k8s operator/controllers. However, KubeVela is not a packaging tool. KubeVela provides a standard model for applications which could comprise of multiple resources, each can come as a helm package. Furthermore, KubeVela also supports application operational needs which is beyond what Helm can do.

• KubeVela is not just another PAAS. The difference between KubeVela and any existing PAAS is that KubeVela can take full advantage of the rich Kubernetes ecosystem which includes any operational capabilities such as routing/rollout/autoscale. This is again enabled by the OAM implementation.

Please feel free to ask questions here, or raise an issue on our GitHub, or come to our slack channel.

[1] https://kubevela.io/

[2] https://cloud-native.slack.com/archives/C01BLQ3HTJA
> However the price difference with competing products here is so large I think Apple has priced themselves out of the market here.

The idea that a comment on HN has done more extensive research and modeling than Apple for a pricing a particular product is amusing.
It is being downvoted but it is true. Massive unprecedented money printing has pushed asset prices up. And we are still printing more money.
Everyone on HN is smart, so let's dissect the statement.

* First of all, a quadrillion is a h(u^15)ge number! So right off the top, the notion that Biden's chances of winning these four states were that low, is w(a^15)y out of alignment with the roughly 50-50 split between Dems and Reps. Given no additional information, Biden's chances of winning four 50-50 states are 1 in 16, not 1 in 1,000,000,000,000,000.

* Second, this idea that Trump had a lead "earlier in the night" is meaningless, because the vote counting was not evenly distributed. Votes were group by county, by method of voting, etc. Each grouping has a bias. Some counties are heavily Rep or Dem. Mail-in ballots obviously favored Dems because Trump spent the last few months telling his followers not to use them.

* Third, why is this "3am" cutoff meaningful? The legitimacy of the ballots does not depend on the order in which they were counted, so wallclock-time is irrelevant. Otherwise, if the ballots had been counted in reverse order I could sit here and claim that Trump cheated because Biden's lead shrank sharply after 3am.
Berkshire is a massive Apple shareholder...
I'm in the same boat as you. I want to help small businesses, but Amazon makes it easy to not do so, particularly during the holiday season.
Definitely trying to. It helps to have a dog.
I figured out how to work and earn money as a 9th grader coming from extreme poverty without even dropping out. Was making $30k/year from 9th - 11th grade. Then I got raped by a rare genetic medical issue.

In your world, I should just go fuck myself for having that medical issue though, right? Get off your high horse of toxicity.
I'd be interested in a UBI that is funded only by fiat, as a new tool for the Fed. Essentially giving the Federal Reserve the ability to set both interest rates, and UBI rates to optimally stimulate growth and employment, and manage inflation.
Yeah, I went to buy some materials from home depot for a patio project this past summer and discovered they were having trouble keeping up with bulk deliveries (e.g. crushed stone or bricks), because apparently everyone and their mothers had _also_ decided to do renovation or yard/patio work while stuck at home.
Sadly, looking at other comments here and history it doesn't appear to be a joke
Exactly this. Use a syringe and inject hot (but not too hot) water into your ear with your head tilted. Do this a couple of times. Then you should use a paper tissue and your finger to get it out what you can. Repeat.

I dunno if this is a good advice, but it worked every time I got excessive build-up.

Some people just tilt their head to the right side in case it is their right ear and aim the shower head at their ear for some time. Sometimes it can just "fall out" (really, seen it happen!). Regardless, I just do the syringe one and paper tissue + finger.
Opinions are irrelevant to facts and evidence.
Monetary National Income Analogue Computer (1949)
MMT for the rich, austerity for the poor.
Watch how the coronavirus can spread in an office
Don't Let Your Hobbies Die (2019)
I am not a lawyer but I think the most likely result of this suit is for SCOTUS to deny it on the grounds of standing. You could see the court use something similar to Alabama v Arizona or possibly Mass. v Missouri. If they deny on standing, they can remove themselves from the spotlight while not having to decide on the merits which are extremely radioactive given that the future of the court is intertwined (albeit indirectly) in the outcome of any merits finding.
It didn’t involve any programming. It’s just a BI dashboard.
There's a very interesting TED talk in which someone talks about how to learn a skill to a decent level in 40 hours. He makes a similar point - that one should read a few books to learn what the key skills are, but not use reading as a procrastination-aide.
please send a quarter on client performance. ios and mac apps are starting to feel slow, probably crossing that 300ms threshold for humans to notice
> I think this is cool and ambitious

Glad you like it!

> I think you'd be hard-pressed to guarantee security against a nation state.

My intent with that statement was not to mean that one would be protected from a nation state that has turned all its attention to you. I think that's an impossible level of security to guarantee. Signal could not even guarantee such a thing. The intent in the statement is that "a government agency can't simply send Zood a National Security Letter or some other coercive legal document and expect Zood to turn over location data about users". And that's because Zood doesn't handle user location data; there simply isn't anything to be turned over.

The goal with Zood is to create software that allows regular people to conduct their digital lives without giving up all their privacy and dignity. To prevent further expansion of the surveillance economy. The goal is not to build software that defends wanted individuals (whether right or wrong) from nation state actors. That's not something that I think any single technology company can provide.
I wasn't planning on working out sqrt(3) on paper, but rather the claimed approximation from GP's post. See my sibling comment for details when I did.
> That's a false dichotomy used to justify child and slave labor as well as absolve yourself of responsibility.

It's clearly not a false dichotomy, since 3 of those options will leave those in the working in the global poor worse off. Buying fair trade will help those in the global poor, so that's a good option.

Note that I did not use this to justify slave labour. That's obviously bad, and they will be better off not working under slave labour. We should refuse to buy goods produced from slave labour. I am specifically focusing on those who work "voluntarily"[0] in exchange for pay.

> we try to brush it off, just like you just did.

Did you read my comment? I said, "Now, the ideal situation is just a direct wealth transfer from rich countries to poor countries, and I would be in favor of that." How is that brushing it off? I advocated for giving them money/aid/etc. directly (and is something I do on a small scale personally, by donating to charities that help people in the global poor).

What it comes down to at the end is that these people are working these jobs because the alternative is starvation or the like. If you're saying we should stop buying from them (indirectly, through a large company), you need to pair that with a direct transfer of some form of aid to make up for the lost income. Otherwise, you are directly making them worse off. Before, they earned some money for their labour, now they don't.

> The harsh reality is that we all are to blame for the predicament of those countries

If we're to blame, we can't just tell them "Sorry, I know you need this income to sustain yourself, but I'm not comfortable with those working conditions, so I'm going to give my money to someone in a first world country instead."

[0] - Ie. They decided they are better off working this job, than not working this job.
The reported symptoms align with Pfiesteria piscicida or other dinoflagellate species, possibly cyanobacteria in the water supply.
You say you don't eat out because you don't like tipping - and that businesses should just pay their employees more so you don't have to tip. OK fine - but doesn't that just result in a meal costing what it does now + tip? How is that any different?

Actually, it would cost more than just standard price + tip as you funnel the money into the business first before it hits the employee's bank account.

> Right now I understand that we need to do our part to help small businesses, so I'm making an effort and tricking my brain into eating out by not tipping

This logic is absurd. Both small businesses and employees of small businesses are being crushed right now. Support them both or don't use their services.

You deciding to eat out is consuming time from the wait staff (who often tips out bussers and kitchen staff too). That time could have been spent serving another table that decides to tip.

You are literally taking money away from small business employees by continuing this behavior. You are punishing them for serving you a meal. How is that appropriate?
Yes. I'm impressed that Bose still sells first-party replacement ear cushions for the QC15 and QC2 - https://www.bose.com/en_us/products/headphones/headphone_acc...
Can you explain what happens when e.g. you need to merge your changes into product and your PR contains an unsuitable approach. For example, that you used multiple external libraries when none are needed?
On the Measure of Intelligence, François Chollet [1]

Fellow HNer seems to have liked a lot of ML paper, this is not breaking the trend.
This is a great meta paper questioning the goal of the field itself, and proposing ways to formally evaluate intelligence in a computational sense. Chollet is even ambitious enough to propose a proof of concept benchmark! [2] I also like some out of the box methods people tried to get closer to a solution, like this one combining cellular automata and ML [3]

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.01547
[2] https://github.com/fchollet/ARC
[3] https://www.kaggle.com/arsenynerinovsky/cellular-automata-as...
Holy bloody hell, what the fuck!!!

Keep on downvoting me, I don't give a shit. The way these comments are going is proof that "accessibility" is no longer about actually making things accessible to as many people as possible with all sorts of different user-agents, but about bootlicking a tiny restricted definition of it so these fucking dipshit companies - mainly Google, but others are complicit too - can continue to enslave everyone even more with their enroaching Chrome-isation of the Internet.

I don't want to use your spyware user-hostile browser, I am not going to "upgrade" my software or hardware, I don't want to run gobs of arbitrary code JUST TO VIEW AN ONLINE FILE EXPLORER! Stop breaking what used to work! Fuck this "modern" web and everything it stands for!!!

Edit: -4 now. Looks like these "devilopers" just keep coming out of the woodwork... I wonder who pays you to push your agenda...
I find 8 facing directions (4 sides, 4 corners) to be sufficient, but I suppose a hexagon gives you 12 (6 sides, 6 corners).
Ken Paxton, the Attorney General of Texas who filed this particular lawsuit, has also been recently accused of federal crimes[0], so ingratiating himself with somebody who can (and does) hand out federal pardons seems like a win-win proposition, especially if all the costs for the lawsuit are footed by Texas taxpayers.

[0] https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/04/politics/ken-paxton-texas...
Computer Store 1995 Christmas Time
I love this. I read through the page source before reading the content of the blog fully to work out what it does. Really simple idea, but clever!
CERN pays?
These (additional 207 million people pushed to extreme poverty) are the type of numbers that make me wonder why we are permitting the economic impact of lockdowns. If the side effects of the "lockdown cure" are going to be exorbitant poverty and starvation, doesn't that make the cure worse than the disease?

In addition to this article, UNICEF says[0] up to 132 million people will face starvation related to the lockdowns in 2020.

Just cursory searching yields the current COVID-19 death count at 1.6m[1] (a total which is disputed due to the "died from COVID-19" vs "died with COVID-19" distinction).

It seems like the starvation and poverty numbers from the lockdowns are likely to exceed any potential COVID-19 death count (even with no lockdowns).

And none of the aforementioned includes lockdown-related suicides, lack of medical care for existing medical conditions, and other impacts from being isolated or stuck inside.

Is this all emotional/fear-based/CYA decision making? I keep hearing "follow the science", but it doesn't seem like anybody is doing that at a basic life-saving or economic level. It feels like I'm going crazy, because none of the decisions being made make sense to me and are resulting in significant suffering and death.

It would be great to learn more if there are things I am overlooking here, but I've just been baffled lately.

[0] https://data.unicef.org/resources/sofi-2020/

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Surely there are many factors that would drive that. Widespread availability of inexpensive guns being only one. Punishments for unlawful possession being another that vary wildly across the globe.
First link on google for tiktok ceo censoring.

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2020/11/09/tiktok-censors-a...
Many flagship Android phones followed Apple's lead and killed the headphone jack, so there's a lot of old headphones that no longer "just work".

Furthermore, Bluetooth sucks all around. It's 2020 and you still can't transmit voice without falling back to SCO and having everything sound like a tin can. SBC is barely passable for music, and has hundreds of ms of latency. So companies have already hacked their own various proprietary codecs. Ever hear of AptX or LDAC? They only work with Qualcomm and Sony licensing/devices. Imagine spending $400 on your new WH-1000XM4s only to find that LDAC doesn't work on any desktop OS.

I don't see Apple doing anything different here.
Correction: the virus hasn't done anything to anyone who wasn't already at risk. This is a downvote worthy perspective because it reflects the truth of the situation while countering the narrative from the media.

Grand gestures by politicians seeking re-election and an opportunity to assert their authority is shoving people into poverty and the largest mental health crisis we've ever seen.

In March, lockdowns and temporary restrictions were appropriate because we had no idea of what we were dealing with. I mean cover on, Ford was ready to manufacturer 50k ventilators!

We know who's at risk at this point. Locking down the healthy is not helping the unhealthy (by choice or by no fault of their own, doesn't matter, everyone deserves to live).

Instead of providing assistance to those most at risk, government officials have capitalized on the opportunity to expand their control over individuals not at risk.
Fraud detection (and California's unemployment department in general) seems to have been completely overwhelmed.

I think normally a human would review each claim (and perhaps contact the recipient) but that was simply not possible in 2020.

BofA has more scalable, automated fraud detection systems.
True, but I think either of those is a bit easier than going through the preferences app like the parent post was describing.
This is not accurate at all.
This article is too thin, details are almost non-existent. We need some kind of reference numbers or artist names to really understand what this means. Who sits at that £200 mark? Are we talking bands with 200 die hard fans I've never heard of? A band who was popular in the 80s but almost unknown now? What about a band like Cake who have a few hits and actively tour?
Doesn't appear like it
Why encrypt the first hop? Why isn't this just plain DoH with a simple CONNECT forward proxy to 1.1.1.1, like Signal's Giphy proxy [1]?

[1] https://signal.org/blog/signal-and-giphy-update/