skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's actually cliche', and I'm sure I didn't say it first, but I sell with my ears. This may be specific to B2B markets, but my customers place a high degree of trust in my company's products. If our products fail, large customers will fire teams, small customers will go out of business.

In order to be trusted, my customers have to be confident that I understand their technical and business needs. In some cases, even personal needs as relates to their career.

I cannot build enough trust without a healthy dose of listening and answering questions. And yes, even if I don't know the answer to a question, saying I don't know, but I will get the answer by a specific date, and then doing so, is the most effective approach to building trust that I've found in 30 years.
Had a lead that was 15 years younger.

I liked him. He was good at role.

I ended up being his goto for advice on how to deal with others and dealing with hard situations.
I get a static image in firefox - https://github.githubassets.com/images/modules/site/home/glo...

I get terribly jittery rendering in chrome (despite being on a powerful desktop that is doing nothing else).
It's designed to be a 1v1 game, a lot of people don't like that because it becomes hyper-competitive and even a little stressful when compared to team games
What is a knowledge addict?
Sanitizer is much more convenient if you don't have access to a sink. Also, stores did run out of soap due to panic buying.
Hemispherism is pretty common in tech, kind of surprising to see it in a project to produce a globe though :)
My wife has a Dymo label printer that stopped working on Windows 10 after a Windows update. We got it figured out eventually but I was the hero by pulling out a Windows 7 computer and downloading the previous version driver and got those labels printed. Slightly older peripherals is a good reason to keep Windows 7 around if you can spare a computer.
> The common programming languages used on phones are very memory-allocation-friendly.

I would hardly classify Dalvik or ART as "allocation friendly", they don't perform escape analysis and if you do it constantly you'll be in a world of constant hard GC pauses. Multiple times over the years I've had to build free-lists in Java to avoid this specific problem.

Same for C++ if you use one of the built-in generic memory allocators. The fastest new/delete are the ones that you don't call.

For what it's worth I tend to agree with the grand-parent thread. The lack of awareness of allocations, cache-invalidation via indirection are a significant contributor to why we see software clawing back hardware wins across the years on these platforms.
I wish I had known this a few years ago, I could have saved some allocations. :)
Many presidents have tried such things. Non have really succeeded. It is political suicide to veto a giant spending bill over most forms of pork.
Thanks! That totally makes sense. If I had to pick a pain point for getting people started with Python tools it would be environments. Comments here make me think my team is working with a lot less data too.
There are situations where a sink and soap are not always readily available. Like... in my car after a trip to the store. Out in public, and you just touched a few too many shared use things like handrails. Pull out the bottle. Demand for this flexibility and hand cleansing has skyrocketed.
For those who love eating clams and just like myself wonder how safe it is to eat clams, while they filter huge amount of water -- yes, it would be like eating a used filter, that's why clams that you get in restaurants must be grown in very clean water [1].

[1] https://www.thurstoncountywa.gov/planning/planningdocuments/...
> Another point to take into account is that the vast majority of covid victims had very short remaining life expectancy.

Source?

The first result I found said “for each person in the U.S. who died after contracting COVID-19, an average of nearly 10 years of life had been lost.” From: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200923124557.h...

10 years lost... I know averages are difficult, but the population of deaths is heavily skewed towards the elderly which implies that most covid victims lost many years.
I wouldn't blame congress for this. Here's the CARES act:
https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hr748/BILLS-116hr748enr.p...
The section begins on page 179.

It directs the FDA to set these fees to raise a certain amount... but it lets the FDA decide how they want to do that. (There are other fees set in the law, but those arent the ones the article is complaining about.) They publish these fees in the federal register, and they become effective after a short while. This is part of the normal rule making process that the executive branch is responsible for... these rules fill in the blanks in legislation passed by congress.

The FDA published these prices yesterday on Dec 29th.
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/12/29/2020-28...

Theres nothing in the CARES act that requires the FDA charge distilleries.
> So- 4-5x times is a lie. It could be much more dangerous with only autonomous drivers or much less dangerous. They don't know yet.

"could be"? Statistics? Aren't these studies asking about theoretical cars that are by definition a certain amount safer?
Yep, lack of reproducibility with complex spreadsheets is a nightmare.
I've used R (3 years) and Python (8+ years) in data science and much prefer Python, because it can do things that aren't just pure data analysis, and because pandas is so amazingly good compared to R's data matrix solutions, in my opinion. I believe that the algorithmic trading industry has gone fully into Python and away from R for these reasons.
Really? Ok, I’ll bite.

Neither did Hitler.
I have the opposite pov. The anti-lockdown people always seem to argue that without lockdown there would be zero economic consequences. They argue in some fantasy alternate timeline where everyone under 60 just goes about their business as usual. That's not what would happen. People would still avoid going out. Companies would still enforce work from home, etc. Hospitals would likely be full so when you went to get route medical treatment you'd run into a wall and quickly learn to take COVID seriously. It's not clear at all that the results wouldn't have all the same economic consequences on top of way more death
That’s a good idea. Thanks!
This site worked great with javascript disabled. It was a refreshing experience in 2020 when many completely static images on sites all over the web refuse to display at all or show up only as a blurry mess.
Is it "web platform animation is that bad", or is it "web platform video is that good"?

I think a large part of the flash animation scene being as big as it was was simply that it was the only real way to do video at the time, and so it was popular because video is engaging, and animation was the way to do it when video was big, bandwidth was limited, and browser support was bad.

Now that YouTube exists and video hosting is free, bandwidth is plentiful, and when everyone has a smartphone camera and can shoot some video super easily, the cost of animation is much higher than the alternative. If you do want to put in the effort, you go where the eyes are and render the animation to video and upload to YouTube.

Web platform games very much did replace flash games over time. I'm not saying that it being bad isn't a part of it, of course, but I don't think it is the lone factor.
A Wild Night Ride – One of the Swiftest Military Movements on Record
exactly. i think a lot of people forget that its a "basic" income, not a full income. if you want the latest iphone you are going to still have to work for it
I think that all your objections boil down to "instant gratification does not harness the brain's reward system as a motivation to achieve difficult things and improve general intellectual/physical/social abilities".

It is true, but somewhat orthogonal to other problems such as how to reach happiness. As an intellectual leaning person, I tend (like you) to link my own happiness to greater ability of my mind, but that is absolutely not generalizable. For some other people, the notion is true but only regarding "to improve physical abilities", and they don't care about the other parameters. etc.

Moreover, the highlighted problem of instant gratification thus applies not only to sexual needs, but also to feeding needs, for example. It would be interesting to compare foraging/hunting societies with ours in this regard.
Replying to your update. (Editing a parent post to reply to a child makes the conversation rather confusing, but I suppose you were rate-limited.)

I saw "re-education" in (at least) one of the posts here. It seemed to be a direct quote. I took that as being accurate. I have not gone groveling through every possible tweet that she sent to check the wording.

So either the quote was accurate, in which case it was bad wording (at least) and the apology is perhaps a bit lacking. Or the quote isn't accurate, but is someone's projecting their own opinion on what she said, and I'm a sucker for falling for it. Naturally, I'd prefer to believe the former, because it makes me not the bad guy, but... you very well could be right.
Okay, I can totally see it now. We are still at the stage where people seem to think that I’m neurotic for worrying about the python side of things, so DLLs have not been on the radar. ;)
Love the article, but what is this site? I can't find any info on Polish News or who runs it. No about link and all social media links are empty.
Sorry about that. I am hoping to open it up to more places, just being small I need to be a little bit aware of the tax implications. Having my incompetence lead to missing sales is preferred to having it lead to tax evasion.
>Nobody makes webgl+javascript 2d animations hostable anywhere. There's little to no websites that will host arbitrary content like they could with swfs.

codepen?

github pages?
Thank you so much. Really appreciated.
If 95% of human drivers do something, then you can't just call it "irrelevant" because you think it's wrong to do.

And humans don't go past parked cars on a street at 5mph.
Fair enough, I thought it was in reference to pages created by others.
From a philosophical standpoint, the starting line for "complex" is in something you take it upon yourself to pursue. The world we inhabit has a complex ecosystem, physics, etc; our study of it is far from complete. But every time we learn something about it a technical advance becomes possible.

Nobody has to keep the gears turning in this vast society. But someone at some point decided it was worth it to create those gears, without answering all the how's and why's: basic science doesn't tell us how to engineer things, only that we have ways of dong so.

So the "accident" of it emerges like a freeway pileup, from different domains of study colliding. And with computing being the workhorse technology for everything now, the crashes are so frequent as to be unremarkable.
What would it look like, if you were over-reacting? What facts would come to light that'd make you say, "Oops, my bad!"?

Alternatively, if this is allowed to pass, what material differences will come into existence as a result? What predictions will you make about the lasting consequences of this specific action?
Can you elaborate further? I'd be quite interested.

In the Netherlands the tax rate is 36% and then caps out at 52%. There's no scenario in which you will net less than 48% on an increase.

But, if you look at it from a more holistic perspective, there's not just taxes on wages. When you earn little you get rent and healthcare insurance subsidies. You lose these once you earn more, so there are income ranges where extra income leads not only to a tax rate of 36 to 52%, but also a loss of subsidies which can be the equivalent of a tax rate. The marginal net income can therefore be < 30 cents per euro earned.

But that isn't necessarily tax related. Further, there's some non-tax consequences that are left out of the story. (e.g. social housing subsidy is only possible for social homes, which you typically don't want to live in if you don't have to).

I'd be interested how it works in Belgium.
Windows 2000 was that for me
A - Hi. Drink this.

B - (sniffs the drink). It smells like sewage.

A - I want you just to taste this then.

There can be a few responses B can make. B can

1. Throw the drink in A’s (type)face.

2. Pour the drink on the ground and walk away.

3. Put a lid on the drink, say you will drink it later, and walk away. Either trash it, have a lab or yourself test it, or just bring it to a police station, explaining the event, delivering the evidence and walk away.

4. Pretend to take a sip, say it’s not for you, thank A and walk away.

5. Actually take a sip, having weighed the possible consequences rationally and deciding to take a flyer.

6. Drink the whole glass.

B’s response probably depends upon their worldview and past life experiences. Every option will have their advocates. Even six...where do you think many drug addicts come from?

The first three are probably people who have had food poisoning before. Three and four are people-pleasers. Five is an experimenter at heart, and six is a risk-taker/thrill-seeker. Number one is most probably from the greater NYC area.

I’ve seen people with information poisoning. You are some pixels on a screen. Have a nice day.

[This is all based upon a guess of what the whole opinion piece is, which is behind a paywall and doesn’t seem worth the bother to find a source to read. So this may be just ranting at a bunny seen in a cloud. Still relevant for other situations.]
Sorry about that. I am (probably overly) cautious of tax implications so it is currently US and AU only. Maybe I should reread the legal stuff and try to get some more places open.
Seems interesting, similar to the app ColdTurkey. Been looking for something like this since reading Deep Work, will check it out.
That point is very curious, since you actually can email someone an .html file, and it will "just work".
Interesting, my experience is the reverse.

I shipped a 3D game with Godot on Steam this year and it's been pretty smooth sailing.

I wasn't impressed with defold, both editor and ecosystem.
Thanks, dang@. Although I wish that you and others affiliated with HN would just explicitly call out the racism and sexism that exists on this site, instead of telling me I’m just making things worse. I don’t mind doing the work for you. But I already know your team won’t. PG wouldn’t allow it anyway...

However, I don’t agree with you that it’s a small minority doing these things. I’ve been reading (and commenting) on HN daily since 2010 (under different accounts), so it’s very difficult for me to accept what you’re saying as fact.

Also, did you see my other comment about how I feel about the guidelines lol? (It might have been on a different article.) No offense, but I’ve seen your replies on other articles where you ask people to follow the guidelines and my immediate response is always something like “But why? What this person said makes sense.” For example, the whole “don’t tell people they didn’t read the article” rule...

I don’t mind being flamed by the “small minority” of racist and sexist commenters here. I’m used to it. I’m also used to people expecting me to “behave” myself.

Anyway, based on facts, Timnit Gebru is right. Jeff Dean lied (possibly unintentionally) through omission. Megan Kochalia should be fired.
Even if covid came out of a wild animal market the simple fact that "gain of function" research on coronaviruses was getting funded in the first place should be be cause for concern.
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This is fantastic, I had tried to make terraform and lambda work together before and ended up abandoning that path and leaning on the serverless framework for that part of the project, but I was never happy about it being split out.

I look forward to trying this out the next time I want to prototype anything with some lightweight lambdas behind it.
Can you expand on that? I got journaling down but it’s not going anywhere.
Agree. That’s the part never explored.
It’s to avoid wasting time, to create a sense of urgency, and to avoid putting myself in an awkward situation where I have to say no due to changed circumstances.
You’ll have to put some effort into evaluating the media you use, whether or not you believe freelancers are better equipped to be effective.

> those of us who really would like to know what is going on have no clue what is true or not any longer.

Well yeah, if this is your policy:

> The best thing then is to ignore/block print media as well

You’re not going to have any idea what is going on.

A vigorous application of this rejection of legacy media is going to have you completely ignoring sources that are pretty easy to parse, like AP or Reuters newsfeeds. It’s worthwhile to develop the skills needed to use those sorts of things and understand their limits, rather than ignoring them completely. You can get value from media without being completely credulous about what any one source is reporting.
HN Kickstarter creators, where are you? Pitch your product!
I have an upcoming Kickstarter and I am interested in connecting with other kickstarter creators here on Hacker News.

I thought we could have a thread where we pitch our upcoming kickstarter ideas and challenge each other's thinking.
I think it's good practice and valuable for the project.

Please post a link where you show your product, video presentation if you have and pitch.

-=Format=-

URL: www.example.com

Video: Video link

Pitch:
This is my pitch, my product is great! Will you buy it? Why/why not?
I first came to Greene via his novel, Monsignor Quixote. It was billed to me as, “Don Quixote is a Catholic priest and Sancho Panza is a communist.” As a 14-year-old fascinated by Catholicism and Marxism, that was enough to hook me. What catches my interest is the narratives of people on the margins of belonging/belief (which is something which has carried through into my own writing).
ME is pretty much 98SE with an attempt at hiding DOS from the user. Internally it identifies itself as "MS-DOS 8.0". They are all based on a hypervisor (VMM) and were actually quite ahead of the time. The NT line, on the other hand, is considerably different and much more similar to "traditional" OSs.
I was in the US Navy, and had well more than 6 months in before they put me in charge of anyone.
I don't think they are intended to
Nobody's transmitting this, it's the size of the library doing the proto serialization/deser
What a myopic and inaccurate thing to say.
> You can't even count on the data being in the same place over the 52 weeks, since they would have added and removed data points over time.

> I can just save it as a .py file and run it as a scheduled task on a virtual computer forever.

This is rather naive and short-sighted. Do you think the spreadsheet guy is moving data points around because s/he's bored at work and is screwing around with no purpose? No, the business requirements change, so he needs to update the spreadsheet to incorporate the new rules and/or data.

Which is exactly what you'll need to do with your python program, otherwise it also will break and/or produce incorrect results.

Simple example: calculate available vacation days. Last year company policy was simple, use it or lose it. Just subtract days allotted minus days used in the calendar year. This year company policy allows for up to 5 to be rolled over. Now we also need to know how many were available last year, how many were used, how many could be rolled over. Your Python program importing from SQL query, CSV, data warehouse report... totally breaks now that the data source has 5 columns instead of 2.

Claiming you can build a program in Python or any other language and run it "forever," in the context of a business, makes the whole comment lose any credibility.
I think you could simultaneously have a better improvement for pedestrians and less impact on traffic by turning those parking spaces into sidewalks and greenery.
In terms of sending a single SWF file to someone: The HTML equivalent would be to inline your CSS and Javascript, and use data URLs to inline images/assets. Now you have a single, self contained HTML file you can send around and it will "play" when you double click it.

I suppose the point may be that no one has written a tool to package a HTML5 app up like that? Seems possible to build under certain constraints.
The water wasn't contaminated with lead, the pipes were. The people of Flint were under emergency management appointed by the governor, rather than local elected officials. The emergency managers switched municipal water supplies to save money. They also failed to treat the water to prevent the leaching of the lead into the drinking to save $140 a day. The water was contaminated with Legionella also, though, and that killed a dozen people. It was so bad local manufacturers had to get emergency waivers to switch back to the old water because it was corroding metal parts.
> Nobody makes webgl+javascript 2d animations hostable anywhere.... no websites that will host arbitrary content.... browsers don't matter....

Huh? Sorry, I can't make head or tail of your comment. Is it intended as sarcasm?
I can start to get the thread going.

URL: https://loodio.com

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3DgxwjSTfg

Pitch:

Loodio is an automatic music player for bathrooms to ensure privacy and discretion.
It uses a motion detector to detect someone entering the bathroom and then starts to play relaxing music during the visit.
When you leave, it turns off.
It’s not clear to me how they make money other than by winning their bets. What am I missing?
Ask HN: Best Joke You Know?
In 2021, I want to keep things light. What's the best joke you know, so the rest of us can seem wittier?
the political context is that one Trump / far right angle is to play up Chinas fault and use it as a weapon to discount the USs otherwise poor handling of the outbreak. I have several friends and family who think this way, and are nearly offended at the suggestion that eg Trump making fun of Biden wearing a mask is innapropriate. My general view is i am less concerned with the origins and more concerned with our preparedness for the next outbreak. So while i am not one of those down voters you speak of, i do legitimately fear that if it does turn out to be lab made, the far right will win back ground and we won’t see any meaningful progress towards bolstering out defense against the inevitable next outbreak.
Plus one for the Serverless framework. Has saved me a ton of effort in the past, especially with its plugin ecosystem.
I love love2d. But one thing to take notice of when comparing, is that love2d is a game engine. Defolds ships game engine and IDE.
Definitely get the sense that's true for me. Although at the same time I see a lot of people in mid-level management / senior positions, making quite good money, and working parttime. But I guess you have to get there first.

I also feel it'd be looked down upon when I (30) would do it. If I was say 53, or say I had kids, it'd be much more normal. But if you're taking time off without kids at 30, you're really kind of signalling you value leisure more than work and more than money. That's a very normal thing of course, but for a corporate environment looking to execute on a long list of deliverables, they'll not be keen to put their trust in such a person to drive that process.
Works everywhere all the time. It is common sense but people are so nervous and insecure especially in sales that they believe talking would somehow build credibility. To be more effective they have to listen with a clear intent on addressing what is going on in the speakers mind / life so they can provide an apt solution.