skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh. Where's the condescension?
The governments of Slovakia and of the Bozen province in Italy both organized an antigen testing of their whole population over the course of a weekend (Slovakia did this two times, two weeks apart). From what I can see both attempts were largely unsuccessful in sensibly reducing the spread of Covid, even temporarily.

Testing the whole population of Bozen with antigen tests yielded way less positive results than expected, so the feeling was that the tests were just not as sensitive as advertised.
Shameless Plug: I created https://stockevents.app a year ago. It has somewhat of a different approach to track stocks.
There's certainly lots of ways to optimize this (30 day supply in 1 box). The scale is still immense.
Given we are talking of branding, did you both completely miss the logo? To me it's clear the name is in reference to mountains, as in the Rocky Mountains.
Institutions are in bitcoin because there is far too much free cash to soley invest in equities, bonds or money markets. Institutions are also in bitcoin because it is a market that is easily moved so they can make significant trading profits.
I would also add window "mark"s, I have a-z marks set up, like vi marks, so I can tag windows and then jump to them by mark.
Also Lenix: https://blog.cloudlinux.com/announcing-open-sourced-communit...
Why do you think Substack is investing into RSS?

Seems like a weird move for a company focused on newsletters.
What's scary is that even Microsoft has essentially given up on an independent browser engine
lots of ways to optimize, but the scale is still immense.
My spouse works at the nearby public university as a non tenure track scientist. The work certainly pays better than a grad student stipend. I'm not sure how it compares to entry level "science" jobs that are basically manual factory work such as transferring liquids from one tray to another using a pipette.

The good thing is that public universities tend to post jobs with salary ranges, so you can get an idea of what labs are looking for what, at what pay rate. The pay tends to follow the expectation of having a somewhat less competitive and intensive work environment, more flexible hours, etc.
I’m not hostile to this point of view — I understand it. But ultimately there will have to be some sort of middle ground. Carbon emissions stick around a very long time, and we can basically assign our name (speaking from the USA here) on the majority of them. They’re the emissions causing challenges today, and they disproportionately affect the poor developing nations, who — while they may benefit from our innovations — are going to have a hard time accepting that they can’t take the same easy route to success that we did.
In rats.
I like https://foundationdevices.com/

Foundation devices is committed to using fully open source designs, all the way from the software down to the firmware, the hardware designs, and eventually I believe they hope to open source the secure elements and semiconductor designs as well.
It's named in tribute after a guy called Rocky McGaugh. I don't think they want to change it.
"street legal" afterburners perfectly sums up how nuts America seems from over the pond.
Arguably, no one should be running a server that long in 2020.

I would say a better reason is that while both are Linux distributions, they are distinct dialects and ecosystems. It isn't impossible to switch, but for institutions that have complex infrastructure built around the RHEL world, it is a lot of work to convert.
Wearing someone else's face: Hyper-realistic masks to go on sale in Japan
Probably not, apparently it was named after Rocky McGaugh, who after helping to found CentOS has died. It's a pretty cool way to honor him.
I don't recall saying that, no. I'd wager that nobody would seriously say that, since it's obviously false.
Here is a list of car seats that'll fit 3 across in a F-150. https://www.thecarcrashdetective.com/3-across-installations-...

Several on that list will fit children up to 57-62" in height and up to 120lbs.

This (https://www.thecarcrashdetective.com/diono-radian-r120-revie...) seat will fit 3 across in my Subaru Forester, a Honda CRV, or a Fiat 500L, and support a kid up to 57" tall and 120lbs in weight.

It might be more convenient to have a three row SUV with three kids, but the idea that you can't fit 3 seats in these cars is nonsense.
Having worked as an Auth engineer for 5 years I can reaffirm not just does auth suck everyone doing auth in any capacity sucks.

The analogy that I like to use that illustrates the problem is that Auth is like working with the DMV.

No one wants to do it, everyone wants to get it over with as quickly as possible, it has a vast complicated structure that people don't want to know about or need to know about, it is usually painful, it doesn't actually give you any benefit but you have to do it anyway no matter who you are.

Thus everyone is trying to hammer out the minimum they can to pass the minimum requirements and then try to forget it exists at all.
Tell that to the family that lost their job and is now homeless. Tell that to the people who've lost love ones to suicide, overdose, alcoholism. (see I can be snarky and unhelpful, too)

The broader point is that it's not clear that lockdowns are beneficial or necessary. They have real costs. Nobody is talking about how we weigh those costs and benefits. And despite the lockdowns, California still has a swamped medical system.

To move the conversation forward: people will never give up their sacred cows. The lockdowns were never about COVID, they're about control and rewarding political allies. Texas tried to ban abortion. California tried to ban religion. And nobody cares if the lockdowns work or not.
>Yours is a Randian analysis and it has been the sole argument from Republicans for not giving people UBI.

>What do you think about the concept of "trickle-up economics"?

I'd argue that significantly enhancing the social safety net, significantly increasing minimum wages and, most importantly, providing strong incentives toward reduced incomes at the very high end, would provides significant long term economic advantages.

Why do I say this? For a variety of reasons:

1. >70% of US GDP is consumer spending. Increasing the amount and number of folks with discretionary income will boost demand significantly;

2. Enhancing the social safety net would encourage innovation and entrepreneurship. When you have an idea that you want to develop, but most folks don't even have a few hundred dollars available in an emergency will stop those folks from doing so -- In the current environment, unless there's immediate success, it's likely that such a person, and their family, will be sleeping rough and eating out of garbage cans pretty soon. With a robust social safety net, those folks can pursue their entrepreneurial ideas without worrying about starving in the street;

3. Incentivizing lower incomes at the very high end, via income taxes (cf. the 1950s), write offs for new business formation/development and other, similar incentives can boost employment, new business creation and focus resources on an ecosystem of smaller companies with real competition in many (if not most) industries;

4. Raising wages at the low end dovetails nicely with (1) above. Spreading wealth more widely (I am emphatically not suggesting forced wealth redistribution) among the population won't harm those at the top. How many houses, cars, dishwashers, pizza pies, miniskirts, throw rugs, yachts, toaster ovens, ball gags, window fans, telephones, snow globes, etc., etc., etc. can one family reasonably buy/use? Significantly increasing the incomes of those at the bottom will increase demand for all manner of products and services, strengthening the broader economy over the long term.

5. Finally, I'll wonder out loud how much "poorer" or "worse off" someone earning $5,000,000/annum is vs. someone earning $15,000,000/annum?

Having wealth/income more widely distributed across the population would create a stronger, more resilient economy over the long term -- one which would benefit those at the top and the bottom -- and lead to significantly better outcomes for everyone over the long term.

I'd note note that my reasoning doesn't include any arguments for "socialism." Rather, every single one focuses on how to strengthen and enhance a society and economy based on market principles.

Feel free to disagree, as I'm sure many of you will. I'd be interested to hear your arguments and will attempt to respond thoughtfully.

Edit: Fixed numbering.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25445597 suggests a completely different story.
They also use Venmo.

You'd think that would be stupid because it's public, but so are blockchains.
Your work doesn't depend on operating systems, databases, network communications and data structures? I can go on.
Testing is starting to backlog again. We’re the fastest turnaround PCR public testing company and our turnarounds have crept up over 24 hours in the past two weeks. LabCorp and Quest are in the 5–7 day range in some places.
I would not characterize people's choice of web browsers, or people's choice of which websites they want to interact with as "the web".

The characteristics of the web from 20+ years ago are still there. Many or most people just prefer not to use that type of web from 20+ years ago.

Everyone is still free to use whichever browser they want to access whichever website they want (in the US at least) in the same manner they did in the previous decades.
Oh, absolutely, even for sophisticated users mitigating may be difficult or impossible depending on exactly what bounced and how. But you at least are aware that this happened, and that you have a problem. Think how many people are out there with no clue what this error meant, or that it signaled an ecosystem problem, or that just had hundreds or thousands of emails silently bounce and unsubscribe.
I've been a long time emacs user (15 yrs). After vscode was released, I abandoned emacs for most of my tasks. The effort to configure emacs is just too much when vscode does it seamlessly. Would you rather focus on the task at hand or maintaining your editor configuration! Setting up code navigation (jumping to a function and back, seeing all references) for C++ code was significantly complex to setup for emacs (compared to vscode). I choose productivity.
I don’t believe this is what GP is referring to. Rather continuously testing people, say 2 times per week, en masse.
At some point, you're experiencing runway problems. 9 women can't produce a baby in a month, after all.

They can, however, collectively produce 9 babies, 9 months after the start date.
The branding here I think is a big issue. The name "Rocky Linux" sounds too homebrew and unprofessional. CentOS sounds Enterprise-ish. I find it hard to believe any corporate client would take it seriously.
The US and Canada tend to "squeeze" non-tenure-track people out a few years after they receive their PhD.

A huge number of postdoc fellowships[0] cut off at 12 months (NIH DP-1, various NSF postdocs) to 4-5 years (NIH K99, Simons Foundation BTI, Burroughs Wellcome Career/CASI Awards). You can, of course, hang on for longer by being paid from research grants. However, even that is tricky because the size of a "standard" modular NIH grant hasn't gone up in ages and even a modest salary ($60k + benefits) will now eat up a substantial chunk of it, so you'll spend a lot of time looking for money. Frustratingly, you often can't be the PI on grants either, so it devolves into ghost-writing. It also makes it hard to settle down if you are piecing together a string of 1-2 year contracts.

This is, IMO, stupid. It's not good for doing science and a few studies have shown that not good for training scientists either. A system that funded a few more staff scientists would likely produce more and better research and training.

[0] It's even worse, as many awards for tenure-track profs are ALSO gated on time-since-degree.
The patch delta for security fixes must get larger over time as these packages age further and further away from top of tree.

I always wonder how many major vulnerabilities are introduced into these super old distros due to backporting bugs.
There is exactly one right way to validate an email: send a message to it.

Email is a very old protocol with a lot of hacks and backwards compatibility. At this point, pretty much any string could be a valid email address. You can certainly run a bunch of tests and get a decent signal, but it's a lot of work, and if you reject an email address without testing it you're going to cause someone some trouble at some point. It's a lot easier and more accurate to just accept the string and try to send email to it.
Personally, I am quite interested in Remix (see: https://remix.run) which seems to be more flexible and does support not using Javascript in the final output but still leverage the convenience of React (personal opinion).

Maybe Next.js would move a bit towards this approach too

It's not free, though
You do understand the underlying principle as to why cross country capital transfer investigations are done... right? As a hint, look up cocaine cowboys and miami banks (particularly suntrust).

While I get it's beneficial for average citizens looking to save a bit on tax/duty fees... it's a lot like wearing a condom when both of you dont care to know each other's name. You have that practice for a reason.
this? https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ailisp.c...
What? Color film can do color, and took off because a lot of people wanted to see their memories in color.

Infrared film can do infrared colors, and people who need to see those colors use it and to them is invaluable, but that need is not a mainstream need. VR is infrared film.
I agree that technology isn't the problem. I don't know if the problem is exactly what you describe or something else along those lines. But I think you are on the right track.
I bet some companies are working on a repeatable device that runs / re-runs tests. Think of it like a thermometer - you can reuse it as often as you like and get results in seconds.

Of course that doesn't exist yet, but it would solve all the problems you mention.
This reminds me of a semi-recent Freakanomics podcast where Steve Levitt voiced his disillusionment with academia where you could spend years working on a paper that only gets read by a handful of people. It was contrasted to business applications that can help hundreds or thousands of people. In his words, he had “gotten tired of academic research and decided I should try to do something useful for a while.”

Maybe grass is always greener on the other side of the fence or maybe we should be focused on a more balanced approach to our careers.
I don't know, I feel like I can talk him down to $500K.
foveated rendering should solve this if it can be done well, as you're only rendering high quality where the eye is looking.
I work for a testing company. We’ve seen patients test positive with months in between.
Good article. One thing this article leaves out is SANS [1] and the permanent optical nerve damage to astronauts. This is something I hope NASA is still actively working on.

[1] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7005826/
https://archive.is/5TCZH for posterity
Prime example with Pornhub right there, along with all other things Visa/Mastercard has decided to block over the years (Wikileaks comes first to mind).

> We can argue about whether or not all of the opportunities are a good thing for society or not, but crypto does solve a problem for them.

Agreed. I'd argue that being able to buy drugs online is a great solution, but there are good arguments against it as well.

Crypto is also immune to confiscation of funds, due to whatever reasons (tax fraud investigation, whatever), this can also be argued whether it's a good thing or not. Many countries have banks and governments that most certainly can't be trusted.

The bottom line with crypto is what I would expect Americans in general to appreciate - freedom/choice.
I don't think that is what he is saying. He is saying, no matter how bad things get, people will get used to it.
All the small independent papers got bought out, merged and had their staff cut. Just look at what Rupert Murdoch and his Canadian equivalent Conrad Black (although his empire fell) managed to accomplish over the past few decades.
…which would be plenty of info for the primary endpoint of "saving lives".

The government's desire for a legible set of stats should take a backseat to the urgent need to inform people how to protect themselves. Let's help people save themselves by not making useful tools illegal. Pretty charts for bureaucracies can wait.
Most socialist Scandinavian countries are doing better than the US by most measures of societal wellness (life expectancy, divorce rates, crime, etc).
What do you think about CentOS? Cheap OS?
As I understand it, we have no saved money, we are just going deeper into debt. In 2020 alone we took on at least 4T of debt when in past years we only take on ~1T debt per year. And all we have to show for 2T was a "woefully inadequate" $1000 check. In order to pay everyone's rent for a year, we would need at least 12x as much, in other words a cool 24 Trillion which would more than double the entire debt the US current has. And for what? To save a few lives, the majority of whom will be dead before 2030 anyway? Mask and social distancing are huge low cost public health wins, no doubt, but suggesting going 24 trillion dollars into debt to save more lives is a huge red flag to me and I would push back.
Real estate prices are absolutely not going down. There was a dip at the onset of the pandemic, but prices started going back up in May and normalized over the summer.

There is speculation house prices will continue to rise into next year due to supply constraints (new house construction slowed from March-May and is still recovering, houses that do on the market are picked up quick, etc), but we will see how it plays out.

[1]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ASPNHSUS
Yeah, i confess there is a tiny little probability that blockchain doesn't solve all of the worlds problems. But when we can have documents that absolutely no human can alter, then that human doesn't have absolute power, so it means, this less than absolute power, corrupts less than absolutely. A step to the right direction maybe?
I have mixed feelings. It might undermine trust (already feeble in the U.S. across the board when it comes to both authority and science nowadays) if there are false results. When Musk tweeted his results of what I believe were antigen (and not PCR tests, which are more accurate), and showed contradictory results with a WTF attitude, that's an example of what we'll see more of. Musk is no shining example, but the messaging somehow needs to be "this is just a first line test, you should really rely on PCR test."

That last line seems too complex, as simple as it is, to relay via the news media and 'the public.'
There are lighter large sensor cameras you can take with you, such as a Ricoh GR III (9oz / 250g) or similar. You can even share tripods with it.
It isn't just a matter of education. It's a matter of setting incentives as well. If the downside of getting tested when asymptomatic, and getting a positive result, is having to quarantine and losing two weeks of work then no level of education will get enough people to do that. If you also guarantee their wages, then that's different.
I don't see this as libertarian at all. OK, so you have your choice of several highly regulated companies that are part of a system that is highly monopolistic in almost every way.

Have you actually ever tried to haggle price? Forget haggling, it's almost impossible to even get a price upfront in the first place. If you don't believe me, call a few doctors and ask them what you will pay exactly for a specified procedure.

I travelled to southeast asia once and forgot my prescription glasses. I literally walked into an eyeglass store, got a free prescription, and brand new pair of glasses for $10.

If healthcare was a truly free market system, almost everyone would be able to afford it without insurance.
Which is the very reason alternatives to Electron, that are more lightweight exist, of course.

I suspect a parse error somewhere.
Listening to Elizabeth Warren in 2019 (who I respected tremendously as someone who previously announced she was a "capitalist to her bones") put an intersectionality spin on every policy item did it for me. At first, the whole "person of color" thing was just weird, and now I find it incredibly grating and alienating. Like I can't listen to one of her speeches without feeling "othered."
Thank you! The expander section looks interesting, I'll definitely look into it more.
I found a16z's blogpost of basic metrics great for starters--

https://a16z.com/2015/08/21/16-metrics/
https://a16z.com/2015/09/23/16-more-metrics/

Note on 16 metrics #7-- from what I understand bookings actually don't increase A/R until the services are rendered, so know what you're looking at if you don't get cash up front.
What if I want to stay shut in like I've been for the past 9 months, yet want to be able to check if I somehow fall ill?
Ethereum was only about a year old at the time. When Bitcoin a year-and-a-half old, it had a bug that required a five-hour chain rollback.

Bitcoin people will object and say that was a bug with the blockchain itself. However, sample code on ethereum.org had vulnerabilities similar to TheDAO's bug, so arguably it was a platform issue on Ethereum as well.

There have been large thefts from contracts since then, including a >$100M theft from Parity, the most popular client at the time. Parity made several attempts to get another fork to recover their funds, and they were roundly rejected by the community.
It looks like a significant step towards convergence with the token authentication already in use on Azure-hosted repositories, but of course it's for security reasons.

In the cloud the traditional embrace, extend and extinguish business plan becomes embrace, extend and extort.
It's hard to say because it's been steadily going up this year. It looks like it could match my software developer salary, which is much more than I hoped for.
What does Common Lisp have, in terms of interactive programming features, that Clojure (together with Cider and nrepl etc) lacks?
Florida is already a taker state instead of a giver. Why should we give them more if they can just tax themselves for the difference?

https://rockinst.org/issue-area/new-yorks-balance-of-payment...
Thank you Karawebnetwork.
I read comments specifically to address this issue.
I think Smog=Smoke+Fog is an example of air pollution.
I'm sad so many people suffered from it, and sad that this girl died as well. Forgetting something that happened in the 1950s, because it was more than 65 years ago, doesn't seem like accurate journalism to me.
You can by sustainably produced tropical hardwood furniture. What sort of person prefers to have the non-sustainable option, if quality is the same? Well, I suppose it's cheaper.
The one thing I dislike about Vercel is that you need to go all in or nothing with it. Say you have a micro-frontend strategy and would like part of your front-end in next.js; you can't.

Overall I really am impressed with Vercel, though. It's been a fun project/company to work with.
I still use FF on a desktop, but on Android is not Firefox for me. It's just as dumb (if not dumber) than chrome, and serves no purpose whatsoever without addons.

I also don't get the point of limiting addons to a vetted whitelist. I feared this would be the case since they introduced signing requirements, and that's precisely what happened. I waited a bit, but I completely lost interest since the new mobile redesign which also destroyed the UI usability for me.

Mozilla will need to do a complete turn-around to get me back on mobile.