skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a real and serious problem and I wish people would take it more seriously. The actual solution is addressing the barriers to work created by Covid.

I actively promoted the local Little Caesar's. At one point, they had so little business they were afraid they would go out of business, but they are unusually well-positioned to move to less risk of infection because they already had a pizza portal, it just wasn't being used by anyone.

I made sure to start using it and to promote to other people and to promote online ordering and ordering by phone. They soon were wicked busy and all orders had wait times and they began hiring new people.

I'm not against stimulus checks, but that's crisis management. It's not a real solution.

A real solution is solving the problems in the way work is structured that is keeping so many people from pursuing an earned income right now. And we aren't taking that seriously enough.

If you are in any position whatsoever to work on that, please do. I do what little I can with a small reddit called r/GigWorks, though I don't know that I'm accomplishing anything at all.

To try to limit the degree to which people get depressed over this: Keep in mind that we don't have hard numbers for comparing this with confidence to a scenario where people just kept working and more people died as a consequence or ended up permanently maimed by Covid.

Humans are terrible at counting the disasters that should have happened but didn't. High unemployment was the short-term cost for trying to lower the death toll.

Please take high unemployment seriously as a real problem and work on finding ways to employ people safely via remote work, contactless delivery methods, etc. The cure for this is getting people back to work. The way to do that while the pandemic is still ongoing is to take germ control seriously as a real need in every single job.
Even if you have a trezor (or other hardware wallet), you back up your private keys (all those words) somewhere else. That is the real security hole in all of this, not the risk of losing your device.
This has been debunked.
More like Pratchett.
Ask HN: What are the implications of QuantumScape's battery tech announcements?
Assuming their claims hold up in the real world (it would be surprising if it were a fraud like NKLA given the extreme pedigree of the people involved), they are talking about nearly a doubling in energy density (kwH per kilogram) and charging up to 80% in 15 minutes, so not much longer than it takes a diesel truck to refuel at a gas station. And it seems to have a pretty long duty life of 800 cycles while maintaining ~80% power output, and safely runs in normal temperature ranges.

Does this suddenly make electric semi-trucks a no-brainer? Does it make the hydrogen fuel-cell approach to truck propulsion a dead-end and waste of time? Does it mean that we won't need nearly as much lithium as we would given the older lithium ion battery tech? What other implications?
You can't fill every back seat with a car seat. You will have issues accessing the rear if you put 3 in the middle row, the rear seat often isn't wide enough to accommodate three seats
Hello-My-Forld
> But by doing so he likely would have brought some serious legal issues down onto himself.

The problem with that theory is that he did heavily insinuate having posted a tweet from Trump's account.
I think of Rocky the moose from Rocky and Bullwinkle. Not a confidence-inspiring name.

Edit: actually Rocky was the flying squirrel.
_The government has done this effectively in, say, wartime, when the importance of acting a certain way (ex. "Loose Lips Sink Ships") is emphasized._

That was a long time ago when the vast majority of media available to people was willing to go along with what the government told them was ok or not ok to print. Even if you got 90% of the media on board today, think of the number of Facebook clicks and thus fat stacks of ad revenue one media outlet could generate by just posting a couple of stories a week that "present another viewpoint" or "ask questions" about "the debate".

In funding our news via ad revenue we have turned all issues into a decision of Coke versus Pepsi and tossed any idea of a mutually-agreed upon reality out the door.
Based on the recent license change by Mapbox[0], it means that Amazon Location's tutorial[1] suggesting to use Mapbox GL JS should be updated, right?

i.e. using Amazon Location with the v2 Mapbox GL JS would also require paying Mapbox for every map load, or you'd need to use the pre v2 version (the last "Open Source one") of the Mapbox GL JS library, correct?

EDIT: as pointed by @kylebarron below, Amazon specifically mentions "Amazon Location supports open source versions of Mapbox GL JS (v1.13.0 or earlier)." [2] which is the last Open Source version.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25347310

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/location/latest/developerguide/t...

[2] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/location/latest/developerguide/t...
I'm not looking for a different stablecoin. I think the more accurate way to phrase my concern is this "If I own some Bitcoin, what happens to it if the rumors regarding Tether are true?"
You don't even have to use Lamda@Edge, you can just forward them to your origin and use them there.

A client used an IP to country service until we realized that we already had the information they needed in the Cloudfront headers.
I don't know all of the dynamics of real estate pricing in NYC so I won't surmise too much but here's what I can say:

Alot of people I know who were living in the city got mortgages and bought houses for great prices in really upscale suburbs outside of the city, the final push to realize they needed more space when working at home when their kids are also not leaving for school, when otherwise a family with an middle or upper middle class income might be able to scrap by in NYC. So the real estate prices may not be changing much in NYC because people are not willing to sell right now because they know it won't be like this forever, but definitely mortgages are "free money" in the words of my mentor ( a hardworking devops guy for twenty years who was born and up till now raised a family in a nice neighborhood in brooklyn just moved to a suburb ) and in those cases there has actually been a surge of competitive real estate pricing in the suburbs of big cities that it has become competitive.

I can't say for NYC itself as most people I know who were in the position to buy a house but waiting for the right time decided to move outside of the city. In my building the number of units for sale has quadrupled since covid but I didn't track what buy priced were before. I rent in a nice condo building and my apartment was $3700 before covid and the same floorplans are going for $2250 right now with a quadruple in vacancy in the building.

I think one thing I know is commerical leases are not dropping the way residential is so restaurants really cannot pay rent. I am not sure how commercial and residential pricing is averaged together to reflect overall real estate pricing in NYC.

I know for the few of my younger friends / aka single without kids buying their first condo in the city it became much easier without the competition of international millionaires. I am not sure if they got the places for cheaper or just ended up being the best option over someone with millions in the bank already/mostly asian millionaires.

Wish I had a better breakdown but that has been my experience.

In brooklyn there are alot of midwesterners who don't have careers that are otherwise service industry workers who have used the drop in rent to move into the city when otherwise it was too competitive. My chiropractors assistants who lived in brooklyn their whole lives now have nice one bedrooms in manhattan and can walk to work.

Homeless people for a while are being put up in nice hotels to stop the spread of covid and have experienced a higher quality of life than they have before.

I would say I've seen a net move up in quality of life even if the richest people with vacation homes fled because they had somewhere to flee to.
Twitter is an odd suggestion. I think the highest signal-to-noise ratio is probably podcasts. I'd start with 'On the Brink' and 'Uncommon Core'.
https://foldapp.com
That wouldn't have had the fancy electronics and cell phone app that force the user to show up in government statistics, though. It would just let the user know if they were infectious or not and act accordingly.
I doubt how successful this will turn out to be because of the following reasons:

- The old CentOS had a brand value, which Rocky Linux has to earn back all over again.

- The old Red Hat was nice to CentOS or at least wasn't particularly hostile. That does not mean IBM will be nice too.

- It may be too short a notice for current CentOS users to wait for Rocky Linux to come through. They may already move away to other alternatives like Debian or Ubuntu or Amazon Linux or whatever fits their use case.

- If because of some miracle, Rocky Linux turns out to be just as successful as CentOS, there is a chance that either Red Hat or a competitor will end up taking control of it too. Corporate sponsorship is too lucrative to decline. So, it will end up with the same fate as CentOS.
China Broke the World's Recycling [video]
> all money it can possibly distribute is taken from taxpayer's pockets.

This is a facile understanding of how government spending actually works. The US Federal government _creates_ money. Just up and makes it, essentially out of thin air. Congress could have, had they felt like cooperating, printed ten trillion dollars and given every single person in the US a semi-weekly $1000 direct deposit to get everyone through. Keynesian spending is only a problem during inflationary times, but in the middle of a pandemic when tens of millions of people are told they cannot work _is not one of those times_.

Ultimately Congress (i.e. Senate Republicans) decided that 8 million people thrown into poverty and 300,000 needless deaths are better than actually doing anything.
> quest 2 is pretty much a revelation

I liken where we are with VR right now as to about 5 yrs ago with IoT. Arduino and Rpi began to gain huge momentum due to the low cost of entry and availability of more and more useful tools. Quest hopefully is just the start.
You can do it in almost any car. You just need narrower car seats. Cosco has several that are narrower.
For what it's worth, GTK and Qt (while being cross platform) are also effectively the native toolkits on Linux. So if you're developing for Linux in the first place, you get the cross platform bit for free.
Is decade a lot? How long did it take gold to settle as universal currency?
I've been pleasantly surprised with JavaFX as a student. Although I haven't built anything that's beautiful with it.
I am a big fan of what you're raising here. These are issues that I struggle with, and usually lose. It's so easy to get addicted to having something constantly guide your thoughts, whether that is media, drugs or religion
I was excited until I found out you need to install an app on your phone to connect to the physical test to get your results...
> A Full-size sedan fits 3 child-seats, if you choose an appropriate thin design of seat.

If all three are of such a design, which only exist meeting the requirements for child safety seats for older children. If any one is an infant seat, that doesn't work.

If you have N children of ages requiring safety seats, you will for some period of that require at least 1 infant seat and N-1 other seats to transport them all legally.
CentOS Alternatives: Rocky, Lenix and Oracle Linux
And other reasonable people are concerned with the side effects of printing 3+ trillion dollars
I don't see the add driven free services for all system survive in the long run. Say they start by dedicating more funds (hardware & software) to matching offers to customers with more disposable income. Say the next step is to offer more elaborate services or options to customers with money. Say, some coupon trick, if you buy a product A-Z you get 24 months of service B which is a paid version of the free service that served you the advert. This scheme is already doable with dumb adverts and without hoarding personal data.

Its already that you send the poor person a 10% discount coupon for one box of chocolate and the rich person 4 boxes for free, a bottle of wine and a life time 10% discount. Why would the digital world be different?
The recent large group who jump into software after the hype seems like the unhappiest group.

I'm just happy I get to see a terminal screen for a living.
I am simply not a fan of Debian/Ubuntu's utilities, with the big one being the package manager (I like yum/dnf way better), but also other things like ufw vs firewalld.
just get a minivan
This project just oozes good-heartedness. I wish him all the best.
Tell that to the ICU nurses and doctors in Florida who have to code several people a day due to Covid...
'Real' Programming Is an Elitist Myth
Why should you use an ORM (Object Relational Mapper)?
Left a low-paying, stable, very boring non-software engineering job. Working in tech now, good money, but man do I wish for those "boring" days sometimes. It's meetings and craziness every day now, always having to prove myself vs. being a stable cog in a machine. Overall I find that the added money is commensurate with the added stress / life burden.
No. This is called sarcasm.
The Radian is definitely king of three across. But they're premium priced ($200 each, or $600 for three), and sacrifice comfort particularly for longer trips.

In general people who have never had kids don't seem to grasp that the average (non-Radian) car-seat is BIGGER than an adult side-to-side. The Radian series has a niche because they produced a car-seat the same size as an adult (with no loss of safety), but had to sacrifice comfort to do so.
Debian offers around three years of support. Ubuntu LTS around five. Both pale in comparison with Red Hat and, by proxy, CentOS.
There is no question though that a lot of people have put their faith in Bitcoin. Misplaced or not, that original comment is wrong :)
Please RFA more ;)

"the third-child deterrent appears stronger among wealthier families"

So this has both the most and least effect on families that have little reason to care about needing a bigger car (because they can easily afford it, or they can't afford any car at all, respectively). When you go fishing for a correlation, form a post-hoc hypothesis for its mechanism, and then other data fits that hypothesis poorly, it's a strong sign you've found yourself a red herring. Which is the usual result of failing to properly understand the distinction between correlation and causation.
would have an independent tabulation on different software apart from the software used by the official machines offer anything here?
A child with serious asthma issues should not be living near a major traffic artery, this could have been a quickly remedied social situation.

'A 2018 report found unlawful levels of pollution, which were detected at a monitoring station one mile from Ella's home, contributed to her fatal asthma attack'. The girl lived '25 metres from the South circular' in Lewisham.

Listing her death with claims 'air pollution' were a factor are almost certainly true (it would be interesting to see the autopsy data) but also serve the WHO's and other agendas.
Can be done with a browser in the future? There's no shortcoming of vision, the problem is monetizing it. A browser in the future is going to let me copy and paste seamless between mobile and desktop. What, are you going to charge 1 cent per completed copy and paste? Am I going to pay a dollar to get nightly builds of Firefox onto my device? If I have an Apple device that's not even possible!
Taxes are not the place where government money comes from, period. Taxes are charges to pull money out of circulation so inflation doesn't fall into a positive feedback loop. Taxes have nothing to do with the amount of money that the government can spend at one time. The only thing limiting that is the threat of a sharp devaluation of the currency, and even that is not as big an issue as you might think because countries all over the world are still filling their reserves with dollars.
How bots are buying PS5s and inflating prices
It's also worth noting it's not the hospital itself actually objecting to anything, it's the San Francisco City Council. I'm not sure they actually have any power over it one way or the other.
I find the irony strong in the idea of buying electronics encased in plastic transported by ships and trucks to you in order to purify the air that is polluted majorly due to every single aspect of that chain.

I understand to an extent of course, but can't help finding it painfully ironic.
My colleague pointed out that we do actually already include the dynamic libs as part of the release artifacts: https://github.com/osohq/oso/releases/tag/v0.9.0

However, without the header file right now.

We need to think through whether the C ABI is stable. It hasn't really changed in a while, but we haven't thought through the implications yet.
It's not like that's the only solution that's been floated. Stimulus checks would have kept people out of poverty too.
Because it's verifiably true, all you have to do is know it in your heart.
The parent comment you're responding to didn't downplay slavery in any way, nor did they say that this person had it better or worse. Just that this person's experience was different. There's nothing wrong with acknowledging that slavery didn't always look the same as we may imagine. There were varying experiences. It's history.
You get hired permanently if you excel (or promise to excel) in three categories: 1.) Getting grants 2.) Productive science 3.) Teaching. All the skills that the author has gained might help with #2, but he hasn't actually published in the last years to prove that. And he has nothing to show for #1 and #3. All the while he is much older than other candidates, i.e. the university will get much less use (in particular of the service duties that are fulfilled later in the career) out of him. So why exactly should they hire him over somebody that has gotten a similar amount of experience while doing a postdoc or two and maybe a junior university position, while ALSO improving on grant writing experience and gaining teaching experience?
I'd say non-financial usage is the appropriate measure. My dollars are a good currency because I pay my mortgage in them, I buy groceries in them, I get my paycheck in them, I pay my friends for my share of dinner in it. The usage towards "stuff" that the economy is made of (activities, goods, etc) should be the measure. I have yet to see bitcoin make a dent there. It seems like bitcoin has actually gotten harder to use there than when I first encountered it.

Until then a bitcoin is like a call option or financial derivatives or really exotic instruments. Financially very relevant, heavily used, but so niche that it's of no relevance to basically everybody.
Have you looked at the swing in gold price in the last year?
It's been commented already, but I have to say you have, not a simplistic way of viewing how the federal government handles spending and money, but a completely wrong view of it.

It's appalling this comment hasn't been downvoted into oblivion with how wrong and uninformed it is. I think you should start reading here and consider an economics textbook to follow:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monetary_policy_of_the_United_...
They should just re-name it "Firamika"
I don't like how the girl's death became a focus point for a crusade against cars in general (even though I'm a fan on public transport myself). By most measures, London's air is great as it is on average. However, some sources of pollution are local, like a big busy road, and the girl, unfortunately, lived near one (the article mentions she lived near South Circular Road). Trying to make the air clean on average is really counterproductive compared to, say, making buffer zones around roads with more greenery, tackling local pollution instead of averages.
The lockdowns were more essential than the stimulus payments, though no sane government would fail to do both in the circumstances.

(Our government failed on both the lockdowns, which were scattered, too late in many places, and too poorly enforced in most places, and stimulus, but then our government, at many levels, has not been sane.)
In the same boat, but after this lesson I don't think I can even trust Canonical to not do something drastic. Debian is looking to be my CentOS replacement.
As another STEM PhD data scientist who is thinking of pivoting back into academia at some point, do you have specific examples of the kinds of jobs that are available that would welcome and benefit from industry DS experience? Perhaps teaching DS or computer science?
> I don't see how that means I'm in luck. Me being in luck would be, "Apple has such a feature, but it's just hidden behind another invisible iOS button.

There are apps available that will do this. Like everything else in life, it comes with sensible defaults, and anything extra will require effort, money or personal research.
Can one use this to reverse geocode an address?
Just wanted to touch on media keys. I've recently discovered playerctl and that media players expose standard dbus interface for playerctl to use.
In (bare) i3 I bind XF86AudioPlay to "exec playerctl play-pause" (etc.) and it seems to "just work", with spotify client, youtube, youtube music (both in firefox)
It's a tough one. The problem we haven't solved as a society is what do we do with all these smart people? They need money so they go get a high paying job in finance or tech or consulting and then all that scientific training was kind of left aside right? So what was the point of the PhD?

A job with meaning is hard to find, maybe we should encourage and support all these smart people to start a business/research venture? Because it feels wasteful to generate so many PhDs and nothing comes out of it.
You obviously don't need to pay people to not have kids because the fertility rate is already below the population replacement rate.

The hard question would be how to maintain the existing programs that provide social assistance to the elderly without a larger population of working people to pay the taxes to fund them. The existing solution is to run preposterously large deficits every year, which seems problematic/unsustainable.
The 22,000 number is off of the original caps per employee. 2.5 months of salary capped at $100,000 = 21,000. I misremembered the number.

As for forgiveness, the forgiveness is part of the latest, yet to be passed, bill. My point is that PPP loans were sold as something, and are now being revised to be not that all, for the benefit of employers and not employees.

>While until the SBA issues revisions to that IFR the final answer can’t be known for sure, one likely option is that the SBA limits owner-employees to 2.5/12 of their 2019 employee cash compensation and employer retirement and health care contributions made on their behalf, with a likely cap at $20,833 across all businesses.

https://www.currentfederaltaxdevelopments.com/blog/2020/6/16...
"Can’t grow forever in a physical system with constraints."

Agreed.

But I think any economic system with a shrinking population will be disruptive. Like those payments to people not having kids will result in decreased GDP, need increased taxes (we already do), and see large parts of industry shut down because of the decrease in consumption. Our whole system is consumption based.
I remember reading about this in Hot Rod magazine back in the day. Here's the article from their website:

https://www.hotrod.com/articles/2000-volkswagen-beetle/
Fired CISA Director Chris Krebs Admits Voting Machines Connected to Internet
Direct Link is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM6q5sstAaE&t=1h15m .
How to Fit All Human Knowledge in a Box
State of Rust Survey 2020 results