skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are definitely upsides and downsides in his choices. Biden was very far from my first choice for President, but I am hopeful he'll have learned from at least a few of Obama's mistakes, and of course, I think the next four years will probably just straight up be quieter than the last four, which should help restore confidence in our economy and the country.
I have a Purism Librem 13. It's sitting on a shelf somewhere because the battery won't charge anymore, the barrel connector is too loose. Purism tech support was no help at all. Another minor issue, the screws weren't held in by any kind of loctite and they just fall out after awhile if I don't remember to periodically tighten them. Like 4 of those screws are missing. And the rubber feet just had the worst adhesive on them, so they're gone.

Until the thing just plain stopped working on me all of a sudden, it was great.
What's wrong with Asus installing alarms in their monitors? I learned the hard way being woken up in the middle of the night by a loud siren I couldnt locate the source as I wouldn't have expected it will come from a frikin monitor! There is no way to turn that off apart from physically powering it off and it happens totally random.
I think "gamer with neon lights" is certainly a segment with amazing margins, especially compared to standard office equipment. Most "gaming" mice/keyboards/chairs/computers/whatever are just decorated and brightly coloured versions of other products with insane markups. Alienware PC's are a great example here - The parts in one of those PC's can cost around half the cost of what the company actually sells it for. Other peripherals have similar price increases once they're branded as a device for gaming rather than office use as they know consumers are willing to pay more. I realize that there are lots of kids who want "gaming" gear (that their parents will pay for) but the PC gaming market is certainly geared towards mid 20's/30's who have the scratch to be able to afford this stuff. Not that these people are stupid or misinformed for doing so, some simply appreciate the aesthetic (even if it's something you or me might not particularly like).
I was expecting the author to use polyhedral dice as in the leader image. For example, a d100 can be composed from two 10-sided dice, both read from 1 to 0, side-by-side, the first being the "tens" and the second the "ones". e.g. "3" and "4" reads as "34", "0" and "5" reads as "5" etc. Two "0"s read as "100" so the range of the composite die is 01 to 100. Alternatively, the dice can be read from 0 to 9, yielding a range from 00 to 99. More ten-siders can be added for higher base-10's, for example 6 ten-siders can be read as a number from 000001 to 000000 = 100,000.

The problem with that of course is that polyhedral dice are normally made for gaming and are not, shall we say, entirely fair. I remember someone making an exhaustive evaluation with a machine made with Legos (obviously) and there was a lot of bias especially for some brands of polyhdrals than others.

Edit: One can also generate numbers in, e.g., base-16, etc. in a similar way, composing a d10 and a d6, although this is more cumbersome because each digit now needs two die rolls. I think it's possible to find actual 16-siders though.
Initially WHO was saying the same about the original Covid-19
Absolutely all of them? You may want to look for some subtlety. There are coins with a specific purpose, for example Monero, that have a clear purpose which is separate from Bitcoin.
Barcelona Urban Mobility GraphQL API
I made as a pet project to get myself some GraphQL experience from scratch an API that provides information about the different urban mobility services of Barcelona, such as buses, subway and bike stations.

You can, for example, get the closest bus stop / metro station / bike station from your location and how many bikes are left!

PRs / suggestions welcome!

Repo: https://github.com/aalises/barcelona-urban-mobility-graphql-...
Most richer people diversify their wealth. You may be hard pressed to find a billionaire who actually has $1 billion in cash.

Cash would most likely be the minority of their wealth. As inflation occurs, they do take a hit on their cash holdings. But their land, stocks, apartment complexes, etc may increase in value.

> It should devalue the money that they already have, benefitting the poor

Even if all people both rich and poor held all their wealth in the form of cash, that would certainly hurt the poor too. Say a poor person works 8 hours a day. His 8 hours of work grant him buying power of 3 meals. After inflation his 8 hours of work grant him buying power for only 2 meals. This is not just a theoretical, look at McDonalds meal prices, you can't get a sandwich for a $1 anymore.

There are some benefits to inflation. It's cheaper to employ poor people willing to work the now cheaper paper. So it may create some new jobs that otherwise may never have been created.
I use a 10 year old iPhone 4S with OBS Studio and a $15 app to enable streaming from the phone's camera. It cost me not much in used condition, and has excellent image quality.
Would it be feasible to adapt this configuration to use just 3 machines total, with the control plane and workers running on the same machines?
https://archive.is/mbT0N
Raiden has fallen short on delivering a workable system and has had funding issues... most people people in the ethereum space are now banking on rollups filling these use cases (a competing approach for low-cost transactions)

Though certainly I'd be pleasantly surprised if Raiden still pulls through on their plans at some point.
> We’re not streaming high-bitrate 1080p H.265 on our 5-person Zoom calls. After compression and denoising the extra sharpness and low noise of a high end camera doesn’t add much benefit.

This was my experience exactly after testing different setups. I still use my Lumix GX8 for photography and home videos, but it wasn't even close to worth the trouble of maintaining the setup compared to a ~$100 Logitech option that I leave on top the monitor with good lighting and plug in via usb hub as needed.
It is the entry level laptop in the Apple ecosystem, though.
A higher order function is a function that takes another function as a parameter or returns a function as its result. Famous higher order functions include "map" and "filter", for example. Javascript, for example, uses higher order functions all the time. See [1].

The term "higher order logic" typically means program logic that uses higher order functions. An object-oriented programming style is inherently higher order because objects typically contain functions and are passed to methods.

The term "higher order logic" can also mean a system of logic that allows statements about logical statements. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher-order_function
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher-order_logic
The nodes violate money transmittal laws
Might help if there was a standard webcam physical attachment (same idea as the camera screw for a tripod). Then each monitor could have it. So adding a new webcam would not add bunch of clutter to your desktop. And would avoid the expense of buying a webcam holder.
A camera off a $50 budget phone will probably beat every $100 webcam on the market. So why can't I get that same camera module, minus the phone parts but plus a usb interface, for $100.
Very similar experience, especially around people abusing extension functions and opting for clever one-liners. We had to really push back on that during code reviews, but even then we still have some weird code in certain spots.
There seems to be a problem with code-128 where if you put multiple numbers in it doesn't work (e.g. 123456)
This is not how I've heard any of my coworkers define bare-metal. Obviously anecdotal, but I think you are in the minority here.
Yeah, they use it a lot. Like a ton internally, even for internal to apple apps.
How about setting up an AMI for AWS and similar way for other platforms, with a bit of automation baked in?
keep 40% of nothing. do not capitulate. you have the upper hand here, and an honorable position.

3% of nothing is nothing also. i’d go with 40%.

it’s absolutely ridiculous because the other founder isn’t prevented from working alone because you hold 40%. the 2 things aren’t connected. so just agree to sell all your shares in the next raise. then it’s his choice: take on debt now to buy you out (cheap) or pay later (expensive). the latter is likely far, far too expensive so more likely you can only sell half your stake in the next round.

EDIT: it has occured to me that you are only 11 months vested. this is a bait and switch. make their lives hell, even after and if you get to keep 10%. he probably can't fire you so you'll just keep vesting. make it very clear you will make it impossible to fundraise unless he buys you out.
See https://github.com/reactjs/rfcs/blob/07dd4bc4807605020351606...:

>We don’t send the whole state of the program to the server. Interactive bits should be Client components.
The problem with your ask is that early stage capital is for growing the business, not liquidating founders, and investors are not interested in giving anyone cash to liquidate a founder. Additionally, your valuation is currently underwater and even that is assuming a functional founding team.
> Are you suggesting that left-leaning voters have a lower level of testosterone than right-leaning voters?

That's obviously true - women vote more left than men, women have much lower testosterone than men.

The question is, of course, whether correlation equals causation or not. It could be more connected to other sex differences (e.g. in agreeableness or neuroticism), or to life experience, or something completely different.
I mean I can sort of follow the logic - testosterone tends to cause more aggressiveness which can often lead to competitiveness, and arguably the basis for capitalist society is putting competitiveness to work. If you decrease the average interest in competitiveness you may see an uptick in socialist leanings and, many capitalists would argue, a decline in overall productivity.

Now, there's obviously many benefits that may also be seen with a less aggressive or even less competitive population, but the basic principle doesn't seem insane here, it seems a bit of a stretch and requires some serious leaps that I'm not sure are remotely proven though...
> This strain has probably already spread to tens of other countries. Every country which is just about holding things together, whatever their strategy, is going to struggle with a significantly more transmissible variant of the virus.

Yes. If the new variant is duplicating every week even under medium lock-down measures, as it appears, it will be very difficult to contain it, and impossible with the current set of measures. It would require a very strict lock-down at least. And the vaccinenes would not yet help - they will help later but probably not before late Summer, while the new variant will very likely be all over Europe until March.

Thinking about what we know, what appears very likely, and the conclusions of it, the first half of the year will be far away from normal, even catastrophic.
In the middle it is everyone who has a phone that can take decent video.
> And outside of a few occupations that might actually require pixel-perfect colour, what does this matter? Is this like the audiophile world, where people argue about seemingly subjective things that no else cares about?

I'm a color blind person and even I can see a color difference between cheap displays that I have at work and an old EIZO one that I bought years ago at home.

I can more accurately diffrentiate between different colors/shades on my EIZO panel.
I really like this treatment of it. I wonder if it was a precursor to Tufte's work.

It's important to understand the difference between an ontology/taxonomy and a process, and then apply that to your diagram metaphors.

A process, you should be able to script using the dot graph notation on websequencediagrams(.com). If you can't, you haven't thought through what you're doing and it's going to cost you down the road. I'd go so far as to make the provocative assertion that you only understand anything insomuch as you can represent it in a sequence diagram.

If you are using nested boxes, you are really using a tree graph or a digraph for an ontology/taxonomy or a sankey diagram, and the layouts of nested boxes almost never add meaningful information or make sense. They are just obfuscated graphs. Part of why I hate powerpoint is because it's designed to be stupid, because by virtue of pure survivor bias stupid is necessarily powerful, and so it only provides stupid templates.

The point of a visual metaphor is that the implied symmetry represents equivalence and completeness, and where it is asymmetrical, it implies there are other combinations or variations of the things you're talking about that may be options or counter cases. If it's unbalanced without specific intent, it signifies incomplete thinking.

If you are using nested boxes with lines between them, you're probably mixing categories and getting the conceptual equivalent to a type error. This can be a hard conversation because what the creator thinks is just an arbitrary aesthetic choice yields a gap in their logic, and that can cause them to take it very personally.
Well I'm cusrious if you're $2k DSLR gives you a better image than a 150$ webcam on zoom, facebook, skype etc... ?
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> The last time this happened, everyone involved was dismissed or resigned.

That would be 1976, when all 153 fourth-year cadets were expelled. I guess we're all enlightened now. From the article: "Nearly all of those who admitted guilt have been allowed to remain at the academy on the condition that they complete a rehabilitation program that includes meeting with a mentor and after-hours classes about the honor system and the importance of being a better leader..."

A "rehabilitation program". Not only should these cadets be expelled, but so should the clowns running this program.
You can turn your old phone into a webcam. An iPhone X has camera quality that competes with a cheap DSLR in a webcam situation.

Main thing real cameras are better at is bokeh, but you won’t get that in a webcam. And software can passably fake it these days.
The Product Management Triangle (2014)
> Why do we use barcodes?

Barcode readers are cheaper.
You can even use the 80-200 2.8 L on even a Sony A7RIV, so certainly! That's what, 30 years?
Sorry to hear you're going through this. I went through something similar and it wasn't fun.

As much as you have shareholder agreements etc. none of that matters too much if the business fails and so it's basically about what the two of you can negotiate.

In my case, I've paid off a former business partner much like a loan. You can negotiate all sorts of parameters on this: monthly payments, grace period, cash triggers, funding triggers etc.

Basically you set a valuation for the business (at least as set by the price of the round of the last investor, if not more because of growth) and then he buys your ownership.

Idk what "reverse" vesting is, but if you had normal vesting it sounds like your 49%, after the 1 year cliff, would be worth e.g. 12%. So you can either keep that 12% or if he wants to buy you out he could pay you your 12% vested * last valuation * growth factor.

It sounds like it's not going to work for the two of you to work together, so now it's just about negotiating the details before the conflict kills the company
> without the user looking up the specific model code which isn't all to easy to identify

My 7 year old macbook has "A1465" written in perfectly legible text on the bottom. "About this mac" has the serial number two clicks away, which is convertable online to exact specifications.
There's a real problem with diversity in the tech industry, from FAANG on down. But it's not a one-sided problem--it's not just ignorant or evil, cruel, racist white straight men. They have the lion's share of the power, and so they get deservedly more scrutiny. But there's a growing, insidious "callout culture" that is just as cancerous, and growing.

And now I'm a bit over the "it's okay to be a confrontational asshole as long as I'm calling it being assertive/justly indignant/fighting for social justice while complaining that people treat me worse because I'm not white" shtick.

Sometimes it's justly and righteously asserting yourself, or fighting against racism, sexism, or homophobia. Sometimes it's just being a contrary asshole and hiding behind these social issues as cover for acting like an asshole. And it's okay to not like people who do that. These tweets scream that there is more to the story that isn't being told, and likely never will be.
Why can't I buy good, wired earpods?
I've used the Bose in-ear (not noise-cancelling) headphones for years and they finally bit the dust today. And it seems ALL headphones are either wireless, noise-cancelling, or plain crap.

Are there no more good, wired earpods anymore?
As I was reading this, this is the picture that popped in my mind's eye:

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Hopefully this imagined picture is inaccurate.
Nightmares linked with anxiety and insomnia in heart patients
The USA is where I have experience specifically.

BoA, WF, PNC, Chase and Navy Federal. You can chose to deposit funds via ATM when you receive the debit card or you can transfer from a secondary account such as a prepaid debit available at Walmart. Once it is opened you can also open additional accounts within the web interface.

It was also possible to use Fidelity/TD Ameritrade accounts on Stripe for a significant period of time. It was also possible to append 0 on the account number to reuse bank accounts on Stripe after they removed your fraudulent account.
Hi HN-

We’re Steve and Carmine from Phiona.

Phiona is a data automation tool with the goal to simplify the creation of powerful, ad-hoc data transformation pipelines.

With Phiona, you can build blueprints that extract and transform data from local files, online spreadsheets, and databases, and we plan to support syncing information directly to and from applications and APIs shortly. A couple of unique features- we automatically identify potential cleaning issues so that you’re spending more time fixing issues rather than finding them, and any dataset you connect to Phiona can be exposed as a private API, so you can share data with others without sharing your DB credentials or exposing proprietary transformation logic. And of course, you can automate workflows on a schedule or invoke them via webhook!

We currently offer a hosted option, but are in closed beta for on-premise and VPC deployment so that your data and blueprints stay private.

Would love to hear what you all think- happy to answer any questions in the comments!
Anime, yes. Manga, not so much. It's fairly common to see adult Japanese reading manga on the train, for instance.

The manga adult readers consume is not like the stuff we enjoy, like One Piece. Adult manga appears to fulfill the same role for Japanese that "airport fiction" does for us, and is broadly similar in genre: spy thrillers, workplace dramas, romance, etc. The art style is also way different, more mature and realistic with less broad caricature and more emphasis on adult rather than young/teenage characters.
I do not think society cares about low testosterone. Effects of phytoestrogens from soy and similar chemicals from plastics, are well described. But sadly only anecdotally, nobody made conclusive study.
And doctor will tell teenager, it is ok to have a hormonal level of 70 years old...
Sometimes terms are overloaded for different domains. This is pretty common; no need to argue about which is The One True Definition.
In my country if the fraudster can demonstrate they made some effort to fulfil the orders but it just "didn't work out", then police will not care and tell to find a solicitor as it is a civil matter in their book. Did they use fake address? Well, tough luck.
You should do a refresher course because some of the recommended procedures have changed over the years. I think everyone should take a regular first aid course, it is strange to me how many people I know have never had one.
Sound C Code Decompilation for a Subset of x86-64 Binaries [pdf]
> Am I right in saying that the goal of any lockdown is not to completely stop the spread of the virus, but to instead merely keep hospitals from filling up?

The lockdown in New Zealand had that goal to stop it completely, and achieved it.

Also, it is in general not impossible to eradicate a contagion and suppress it completely. For example, this was done with smallpox, which is about as transmissible SARS-COV2. Smallpox has been eradicated world-wide, for a quite modest price.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox#Eradication
The only issue I had was coil whine coming from a choke on the power supply inverter board. I resolved this by cracking open the monitor and encasing the choke in two part epoxy.
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> 2. The military by nature is much much less likely to turn against the citizenry.

While comforting, is this actually true?

We have seen this happen very recently with protests occurring - yes the police were there and heavily armed, but so was the actual military, who came swiftly to the president's beckoning.

It's an organization that prioritizes rank, the chain of command, and doing what you're told without question or hesitation.
There even seems to be quite a lot of perks (think education, monetary reparations) to getting your hands dirty so that elected officials don't have to.
Seriously? If you are asking these questions, your understanding of the binding contracts belies the casual verbiage in your post. So which one is it?
How to Excel at Tech Interviews
A Man Who Invented More Than 800 Iconic Toys [video]
New SUPERNOVA backdoor found in SolarWinds cyberattack analysis
Is it possible to play the long game? I.e., before your partner tanks the business, lay the groundwork for you alone to rebuild it from the ashes.

E.g., make sure you have copies of all the source code, and any other intangible assets. After the business tanks and he too is short on cash, buy out all claims he has on those assets, and restart the business?

Also consider including your investor in the planning. He/she might be more willing to help you save the business at your partner's expense, if the alternative is losing their entire investment.
I'm just not sure I buy this...

The number of people willing to pay significant money for a high end webcam was very small. Now my parents and their friends are talking about better lighting and camera angles.

It seems like this industry is unusually ripe for a "better webcam" that "just works"
Hence, "just a case".
My cheap hair drier has a switch to select the input voltage (you need to turn the dial with a screwdriver). For many devices it shouldn't be too hard to make it possible to use them both with 110V and 230V, even more so for already complex and expensive machines like a washing machine.

The biggest problem might be the amount of power a device can draw. Half the voltage gives you half the power, which is the reason why e.g. kettles are much less useful in the US.
PNC virtual wallet. Capital One 360 checking. Navy Federal, Chase, Bank of America, etc. etc.

There are hundreds of banks across the USA and you would be surprised how easy it is at a minority of them.
Also a bright window behind you plays badly with some webcams automatic lighting adjust (including the logitech ones recommended here). It should just let the window be overexposed/blown out but it prefers to adjust the brightness such that that is reasonably lit with the effect of making the foreground look like I'm in a dark room.
Why is this such a big deal?