skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
cars made in the last 15 years don’t look that different from each other. You can purchase a 7-8 yo mass market vehicle for 2-6k that will run alright.

Having used cars older than that as a daily driver, the cost of repairs/downtime outstrip the cost of replacing the vehicle more often than not. Not driving isn’t really an option in the US, and driving a clunker will raise some flags to coworkers/other parents in the parking lot.

The other cash poor option is to grab a lease with good incentives, it’s a terrible deal - but it’s the best if you need to conserve cash flow month to month ( particularly if you can’t afford fixing a breakdown )

Which is all to say, if your poor - driving a half broken down car would be a terrible investment.
Curses is just a library for writing command line interfaces. Normally a CLI just deals with the text buffer pushing content and the user inputting textual commands, curses allows for a bit more control like with panes, dynamic areas and giving the user more control on how to input commands.
How to make virtual events not suck
I wasn't going to have more than 2 kids, partly for reasons around travel logistics, and car seats play a surprisingly large role in that. Car seats needs to be rear facing until children are big enough, but most cars expect everyone to be leaning back and so rear facing car seats can be tricky for tall drivers. Part of our planning involved spacing children so we'd only have 1 rear facing car seat at a time. I'm tall enough that I can't have a rear facing car seat behind me in most cars (even SUVs). If I hadn't had twins the second go round my calculus would have stuck. Instead we had to get a minivan.

Now I'm not saying this is a strong effect nationally, the effect wasn't particularly strong for me since other costs were a bigger deterrent than a new car payment, but there is an effect and I'm sure I'm not the only one who did that math.
Never seen any indication that it isn't.

I use it for a few years already and never had any problem.

i like it more than pockets.

https://raindrop.io/
what's wrong with Ledger?
There's a line from a show I like: "I figure there are always going to be reasons not to do something. If you really want to do it, then you have to do it."

It sound simplistic but honestly, this happens in life. I feel for the author as someone in the same situation (left academia for industry). But at some point it is what it is. You can't change reality. You can't reverse time. So in every moment you just have to decide, "Given the world is this way, what do I want to do?" The world is going to continue on day after day and is not going to stop or fundamentally alter itself to align with your preferences and well-being. All you get is the choice.
That's the one! From the conclusions: "A (positive) net health benefit emerges only in dangerous bicycling environments under optimistic assumptions as to the efficacy of helmets and a minor behavioral response."
Indeed. This is very true, but I've become exhausted from repeating it ad infinitum. Six+ years is a long time in tech, and yet we're still talking about this nonsense.
> Life is defined in many different ways. I think it’s a bit presumptuous and arrogant for us to believe that there’s no other form of life anywhere in the entire universe. What that might be is subject to a lot of different views.

I can call Mr Brennan inventive bad names for some of his other views, but here I agree wholeheartedly and must praise the elegance of the statement.
Agreed, the packages in Centos / RHEL are all super old. The RHEL license structure changes all the time and depending on which one you get it may or may not include the extended repos.
>....but Microsoft has very often sucked at advertising itself.

The MS team that did Clippy would like to have a word with you...
Where in my comment did I say the federal government should have enacted a national lockdown? My complaint was the lack of a real plan. They left the states to fend for themselves without the level of guidance, coordination, or financial support that was needed for a proper response.

>State governments have the power to pay people to stay home. They might have to shift funding from other areas or raise taxes in order to do so.

Most states are run on a deficit and several states are already near bankruptcy. There simply isn't a capability at the state level to have the type of financial response that is possible at the federal level with its ability to print money.
January 1, 2021 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1925 are open to all
GOG Bails on Selling Taiwanese Horror Game Devotion
True, but that's not the reason. The reason (for both) is that pg likes orange.
How to Fold a Julia Fractal (2013)
> Deovtion’s hidden piece of art that caused so much fuss last year contained what news reports at the time described as “an ancient style of writing” that read “Xi Jinping” and “Winnie the Pooh”—a meme that has been outlawed in China thanks to the particular sensitivities of its leader, President Xi Jinping. He, some say, bears an uncanny physical resemblance to the cute little bear.
Cool, I made that one a while ago. Have been to busy to update it for a while unfortunately. Thanks for sharing it again :)
> why do one that takes multiple days

RNA tests take multiple hours, not days. 4-12 hours is usual, depending on how early in the batch you get swabbed and how often does given place run the tests. Haven't heard about someone waiting more than 24 hours in months, long gone are the problems from spring.

If they take days, it's pointing to insufficient testing capacity and/or infrastructure, not to property of the test.
It was not a system designed to drive by itself, it was a lane assist tool. If the person falls asleep, any such lane assists would eventually lead to an accidents. Road network are dangerous.

And to simply ignore that the same system has saved a lot of people is just ignorant way to preserve your worldview.
Not sure how well it compares to Azure Maps https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/azure-maps/
I’m with you. It’s great the way Julia lets math look like math in code. And if you define a "dead Greek" key using xmodmap, typing the whole greek alphabet is no harder than typing uppercase letters.
I've been wanting to set up https://git.zx2c4.com/PhotoFloat/about/

Photoprism/Lychee/similar options don't really appeal to me because they involve a bunch of moving pieces. I want something that takes a directory, and serves static images from them with a nice and fast UI. PhotoFloat looks like it should do that and its the same author as wireguard/cgit so I feel like it could be good.
> Hence the name Rocky Linux, I suppose

Hmm, to me, "rock" has connotations of "solid", but that ending "y" changes the the connotations completely - "rocky" makes me think of uncertainty, risk and peril.
They must be doing something tricky. I usually specifically link directly to the image for this reason. Or so I thought.
Bitcoin exists IRL - you can write down you private key on the piece of paper and that piece of paper suddenly is worth however many bitcoin is behind that key.

The informed investment decision is that crypto is entirely new asset class and bitcoin is king. There is redistribution happening between asset classes and especially this year when 30% of all USD in existence was printed, there will be large inflows into bitcoin. Of course it will be volatile for a while.
This is nice to read, and very relatable. It took me a while to understand that social interaction is like leg days at the gym. It's painful if you are not used to it, therefore people tend to avoid it and end unbalanced.

As an introvert, forcing yourself to endure greater efforts of socialization reduces social anxiety, and ironically, makes life as an introvert easier as you no longer live in one of the extremes: you like to be alone, but you're not afraid to be with people.

As with leg day, if you don't use it, you lose it. This lock down has made hermits of some introverts, it takes effort to stay socially fit.
it def gets easier with practice! i've found that colours stay pretty consistent across a roll and stock type so a per-film, per-light temperature presets work well (day, night, indoor).
The inside of a digital pregnancy test is literally an analog test with two lines plus some cheap electronics to read the line. Having a digital readout that says "positive" or "negative" makes these tests easier to interpret, which is important given the stakes involved.

I assume that pairing the test with a phone was a compromise that cuts the need to put an LCD display on the test.
Should I open source my site builder? Fastur.com
Should I open source my site builder?

I've built a site builder at https://fastur.com, It can't do much but users are able to publish pages with custom text and images.

I'm basically trying to clone carrd.co

The stack is Linux, NodeJS, JavaScript, HTML and CSS.

My thinking is that if I open source it then I can accelerate it's development and give it a better chance of succeeding.
Spoiler alert: https://medium.com/@googleyasheck/i-didnt-get-hired-here-s-w...

> Last week I received a rejection email from the recruiter, and at first, I thought it was a mistake, and laughed it off. I checked in with my referral and he inquired into it and lobbied on my behalf, but in the end, it didn’t change the situation.... The thing that bothers me is that I didn’t even get a phone screen. I didn’t even talk to a recruiter over the phone. After all this work and enthusiasm, I didn’t even get a chance to prove myself.... After speaking with some folks related to Google, the best I can determine is that they decided to pass because there wasn’t a good fit on any teams where I might be qualified. This is in agreement with the rejection email I received — there were no roles fitting my experience and background.

> I’ve been hired as a Software Development Engineer at Amazon!

Assuming you can get to the actual interview stage, the fastest option is to prepare by just grinding leetcode to maximize your chances of passing the interview. That won't help with aspects like the system design or behavioral interviews, but grinding leetcode will give you a better chance of passing the coding interview compared to studying CS theory.
The US has 330 million people. A weeks worth of testing is 2 billion tests/week. Lets assume they can manufacture 330 million tests a day.

Test Costs - $60 billion/week.
Shipping Costs - $4-5 billion/week.
USPS delivers about 180 million letters a day. Their volume would triple![1]

This assumes all of the other problems like 100% participation and zero tech support issues are non-existent.

[1] - https://facts.usps.com/one-day
Seems the problem is not the recycling, but the composition of the items being recycled.
Some dead customers is much better than zero customers.
Went to the academia this year for the first time after 10 years of working as an infrastructure software engineer in finance.

I miss the money, of course, but doing research makes me much happier.
The crazy thing is yeah, we should probably halt meat production. You’re right, multiplying 7 billion by anything is a big number. You’re getting it. It’s sort of inevitable right?

People living to the limits, in the here and now, gambling they’ll be childless and dead by the time any of this shit matters.
I would imagine insurance might have some questions, even if the DMV doesn't apparently..
The following *PCR Vs Rapid Antigen" 7min YouTube video [1] is the best summary of the Michael Mina $Dollar-a-Day-Lick-a-Stick strategy that I've come across.

I find it fascinating how this seemingly simple idea has been received. We have this $30 test that wraps the paper strip antigen test in a disposable digital device that communicates via Bluetooth to a smartphone app, a $5 Abbott BinaxNOW [2] that wraps the paper strip in a folding card with a QR code that requires a technician, and the home Lucira test [3] that requires a prescription and a doctor to remotely monitor its application. We seem to be regulating for the lowest common denominator: those unable to follow a set of relatively complex instructions. I understand that the outcomes are more critical than furniture from Ikea or a cake recipe but still.

There is a market for things like digital pregnancy tests because they reduce the ambiguity and user errors but it also seems unfair to prevent availability for simpler tools for people who are capable of following instructions.

It seems to come down to marketing (messaging, packaging, and positioning). The Lick-a-Stick is not "a" test but a "test regiment" analogous to say a regiment of antibiotics. A positive test should be confirmed with second rapid antigen test and then an official PCR test if possible (or serum antibody tests after recovery). I think we should also refer to the paper antigen tests as "non amplified" compared to RT-PCR and RT-LAMP. The word "rapid" can apply to both styles and confuses the matter. Non amplified tests require active viral loads which is a feature not a bug (no pun intended).

I think there is also a technical aspect. There should be standardized samples that can be used to certify the operating range of any test. Compared to the allies response in WWII, the Western world seems to have lost the ability to 1. identify problems, and 2. attempt to solve the problem. I thought that C.P. Snow's Two-Cultures [4] was behind us but now I'm not so sure.

[1] https://youtu.be/jqdvawSUmlA

[2] https://abbott.mediaroom.com/2020-08-26-Abbotts-Fast-5-15-Mi...

[3] https://www.lucirahealth.com/#the-test-kit

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Cultures
You don't see the difference likely because your moral value system prioritizes outcomes instead of intent. This is not a bad way of looking at it and I'm not criticizing that perspective.

They get demonized because there is nothing stopping them from simply undoing all those policies once the bottom line dictates otherwise. The public cannot trust corporations who act in that way, and when they inevitably do, they get valid criticism for it. They are using language in sinister and misleading ways, and for most people that is equivalent to lying.
Not sure, but I know my commercial air filter has an optional activated charcoal filter screen in order to do smell removal.

I also know that one trick to remove the smoke smell from a used car is to use an ozone generator in the car.
The fact that most jobs require a car is a huge deterrent for most low income people to actually find a job. Great public transit is not just something to help the poor, it's also a way to make workers be able to get to work, it's good for the economy and yet we look at it almost as charity.
The old one is better. And I'm no longer a google finance user due to the disruption.
Yeah, I don't know why but it redirects back to the m. mobile site.

This link seems to work for me

https://i.imgur.com/zM5gMjt_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&...
No doubt, but pollution was not listed on their death certificate.
Sure, make accusations of fraud

The OP didn't allege fraud. He stated two facts... relief loans were not required to cover wages. Loans <$150k can be forgiven.

I don't think it's unreasonable to require some % of the loans to cover wages of employee's whose hours were cut or were furloughed completely.

That said, a better option would have been direct payments to employees from the government. The $1200 check model but on a larger scale (ie, $1200/month or similar).
>The other thing is individual accountability: chemical engineers who facilitate this insanity should be held responsible.

How would they be expected to know what the results of their chemical will be? Drug companies focus exclusively on biological effects and can't even get drugs to regularly pass phase 1 trials, and you're asking for a single chemist at Industrial Sealants Inc to do what entire pharma companies can't? Putting lead in gasoline sounds dumb, but so does putting mercury in vaccines. The only way to tell the difference is to do studies, which would take teams of people. It is absolutely not possible to expect individual chemists to accurately predict the biological consequences of their products.
"By design, any changes to update the Bitcoin protocol need to be accepted by the miners with the majority of computing power - a.k.a. a hard fork."

This is incorrect and a common misunderstanding about Bitcoin. Hard forks require users to update, and it doesn't matter what the miners do. It also doesn't require a majority of users to upgrade, anyone who does upgrade will be on the new network, and anyone who does not upgrade will be on the old network.

Bitcoin (and other blockchains) are structured so that miners have as little power as possible. Pretty much the only thing miners can do in practice is choose to censor transactions, and that would be considered an attack. Networks have recourse like bricking all mining hardware, which typically acts as a sufficient deterrent to such attacks. Miners can also double-spend (a form of creative self-censorship), but the same network recourse applies.

In practice I don't think there are any examples of miners intentionally making a blockchain slower and more expensive. Miners pretty much always fit every possible transaction into every block, and any throughput restrictions are determined at the protocol level by protocol devs, not by miners.
Application programmers often dream of writing some different layer when we're frustrated because it's not working as is. Sometimes it ends well, like git. Most times it's a huge waste of time. I don't really think of Firefox OS a an operating systems, more like a layer to connect the web with the phone, so not so megalomaniac, actually it would have been a practical idea if hardware wasn't involved.
He becomes a student again and takes on a slightly different postdoc if he wants to go back to that level.
You also can do quantitative finance!
Go create me a zillion of bitcoin and let’s see how much energy it’ll take.
Are you being serious? I am seriously baffled that you think that is true.
Painfully aware of this, nevertheless this is a massive social services failure IMO.
I just wished it wouldn't need all this __NEXT stuff which appears to lists all the possible routes/files.
The bitcoin faithful don't like to hear that having 'faith' is not the same thing as 'being in demand.' What you see now is not the movement of a currency (a stable temporary store of value) but the modern day equivalent of tulip bulbs (which are at least pretty when planted). Happy to revisit at a time when it actually behaves like a currency and can be readily and easily used as a substitute for one in everyday consumer transactions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_Popular_Delusion...
Wow, Facebook has got a lot of nerve accusing another company of abusing customer privacy.
Seems like any developer who isn't able to think critically about the decisions they make.
I totally agree that subscriptions are a lot healthier than advertising, but for me, as a fairly left-wing person, I think that the gold standard is state-funded media
A very frustrating thing with this statement is that it's very arguable that financing the survival of this country's citizens during a lockdown is _exactly_ the sort of thing the government should be doing, as well as minimizing the duration of the lockdown. It enables the status quo to return quickly and minimizes the change to the social fabric. Those are things I would have imagined conservatives would want: stability.

It's very strange that we couldn't move money around and hadn't been saving money "for a rainy day" exactly like this one.
> There are lightweight electron alternatives

The very definition of an oxymoron... ;)
Well, when there are some official documents that spawn huge controversy, in a big company or a nation or whatever, and no one ever does destroy some evidence, or distort them in some way beneficial to him, then indeed blockchain isn't much of a use.
A coworker and his wife just had a child. They got on wait-lists before the child was even born because of the huge demand. They also told me that they were lucky to find a place (work subsidized) that was less than $1k.
> why can we not return to purchasing a copy of software?

Because your competitors are free and users expect free and we have a culture stuck in a rut of "everything is free" because ads don't have them taking money out of their wallet.

Not every software is in a niche where they can flip the switch back into a premium model and have a good outcome. If Firefox did it, most of us would stop using it.

Maybe Firefox is at a point where that's a boat worth rocking, but it certainly isn't obvious nor without fatal risk.
If you're at all interested in tiling window managers, I can't recommend regolith enough. It's built on top a minimal ubuntu install and gnome-settings-daemon, so it gives you most of the non-window manager desktop stuff you would expect. At first, the distro was all the same stuff I would uninstall/install to roll my own environment. But they keep working on it and expanding the docs.

The only difficult part for me, is that they change the i3 config defaults. So often, instead of checking the i3 docs, I have to read my local config first.
My mom was into couponing for decades before TLC killed it by bringing it to mainstream attention. Since that dried up, she's moved onto contests and sweepstakes for supplementary income. Her most impressive win on that was there was this contest where Sears/K-Mart was giving away money every week for 10 weeks in our locality. She won 5 weeks out of 10 because the contest was poorly advertised. Her biggest prize was a trip to the Super Bowl.

It's amazing the kinds of things you can get for free when you put effort into discovering their existence.
"Multigenerational households where grandparents provide childcare are one solution around this problem that I've seen."

Except many grandparents are still working, especially to cover healthcare costs.
Ask HN: Does this algorithm for increasing audio quality exist?
I've been having this weird thought lately about how to increase the 'definition' of audio using convolutions. The idea is as follows

1. Convolve a rectangular function of a certain width against the audio

2. The local maxima's of the convolved function show where there is the highest average amplitude, so increase the amplitude of those regions a bit

3. Repeat with smaller rectangular functions to capture finer details

Does this already exist, and if it doesn't, does this idea even work
It wasn't until the Second Civil War in 2014 that all the cool internet kids realized bit.ly and others were financially subsidizing the Libyan government and that a likely change of government could make their startup disappear overnight.
The near-permanent lockdowns needed to be offset by government payment programs like they were in every other developed country except the US. If they shut everything down but don't offset it somehow, what do they expect the result to be? The $1200 check was laughable.
I wonder if the hospital should release a statement supporting Zuckerberg and the donation?

Politics in San Francisco are out of control. In my estimation from afar it's like the liberal version of the colloquial Alabama conservative politics.
What else do you recommend with two headsets? My significant other and I are getting two Oculus headsets next week.
I got the same impression. Do you think it would be too late to change the name to "Rock Linux" or "Rock Solid Linux"?

Since branding is so important this really seems like something that should go through focus groups or crowd sources somehow? Maybe a poll on hacker news? Unfortunately, I really think changing the name would be critical to the success of the project. Imagine you are a technical lead and you have to convince your boss to switch from RHEL to Rocky Linux...

Edit: I know the name is in tribute to Rocky McGaugh, but I still think "Rock Solid Linux" "named in tribute to CentOs co-founder Rocky McGaugh" would make the project more successful
Ghost boat laden with cocaine washes up in the Marshall Islands