skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The lockdowns simply do not work.

We don't really know this because almost nowhere is actually locking anything down. We have these feeble and unenforced "stay at home" orders which are full of loopholes and largely ignored. If you go out for a drive in your town today (against stay-at-home guidance), you'll see all manner of stores open, people out and about horsing around, even restaurants. We're hardly taking any precautions at all. We don't know if lockdowns work because we haven't actually tried it.

It's like the Simpsons quote, "We've tried nothing, and we're all out of ideas!" [1]

A few places on earth like NZ and Australia actually did stay-at-home with far fewer loopholes, mandatory quarantining, contact tracing, and they're doing much better.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOTyUfOHgas
Although I _do_ see your point, in that you'd have different expectations from something you'd like to sell to stakeholders in a company ... I guess Cider is self-consciously _outside_ that genre.

The feature/bug here is having a very wide spectrum of stuff that people work on, and some of it is simply always going to be non-mainstream by choice/intent.
Great feedback! Thanks. You should be able to click on any of the games to get to a store page or similar where you can see screenshots of each game.
This is how witches work, they make people do things and try to trick you into believing they don't exist.
We moved into a new house a month ago, after we lost our old one in a fire. Since we've been at the new address, we've received probably 50 letters from Unemployment addressed to many obviously fake names. About half look like they contain checks. We're trying to get in touch with our state unemployment office, but they're nearly impossible to contact right now.
What happens when you don't press the button?
I had this arrangement at a megacorp for several years. It really is great to have no expectations on that one day 'at home'.

Also opens up visits to regional parks and activities outside the weekend, which means no crowds and sometimes cheaper tickets.
Wow, hardware acceleration makes a big difference here. I'm on a recent top of the line macbook pro and it couldn't handle it without hardware acceleration turned on. I wonder if they can/should disable the feature if it's off?
https://tab.bz - I use it and lots of people enjoy it. So I guess I didn't build it just to make money, as I'm still running it regardless.
We can't overlook that the 80s and 90s were 30 years ago and a lot happens in 30 years. The entire political zeitgeist of the US for the last 30 years has not been a focus on building wealth or general prosperity. The government has official policies and occasionally rhetoric that excessive savings are a problem.

Furthermore, speaking for my observations of the West, most of the political focus has been on progressing redistributive and environmental policy. Resisted every step of the way by people screaming that the policies are economic disasters. Mining and manufacturing is simply not easy in the West and doing what China does would be flat out illegal - so it isn't so strange if the States starts falling behind.

There have been a lot of changes in the US for the last 30 years. Are there any that can honestly be said to have been pro-free-market, or even experimentally proven to be good ideas? China has been running constant experiments with free market policies in places like Shenzhen and has been building engines of manufacturing wealth and prosperity. Running experiments with an open mind is a great way to figure out what works.
Your point is well taken but that generation GLA/CLA as sold in the US is perhaps the worst recent Mercedes - they do currently make some solidly built cars. An XC60 is an upgrade in every way other than horsepower.
The line is that voting is a right and unemployment isn't.

That said, people pay into UI for their whole working life, then when they need it the payout is a joke, so it needs to be improved significantly IMO.

The only reason people can survive on it right now is that it's been significantly boosted at the federal level.
Yes, Defold supports Metal through MoltenVK and the Vulkan graphics backend.
There is a recent article about these scenarios, you may find it helpful - https://tek.brick.do/64693fb8-39b4-40a5-8762-768009eeed91
The US doesn't do those things because at least one of the major political parties opposes them, not because "software iz hard".
Using my phone I go through these thoughts almost daily—I've read all the news, caught up on email/messages, then: why can't I do more with this thing?

To add to some of the already good comments:

* Writing and thinking. The kind that starts in one place and takes you somewhere more interesting. E.g., "Think up 5 different ways a user might achieve X."

* Other adjacent/admin tasks that don't require a computer. E.g., cleaning out Trello

* Studying. I've used YouTube and a Flashcards app
considering we have $36B that we can afford to send to Nigeria, I think we could just make the ID free. Certainly we have all contributed at least $10 to the tax coffers at some point above 18.
Shopify did something similar, I'm pretty sure, for Black Friday

looks so cool
Not at all!

People still upgrade for editor features - eg we have several Business plan users who primarily deploy with the open-source App Server - but it's by no means required.
The surplus stock was incinerated. Source: wished at mind candy in the early 2010s
Just the other day i was doing something with LogicT where QualifiedDo would have been super handy.
ID must be radically accessible for this to work. Very inexpensive cards and robust social systems for facilitating obtaining ID for those who face challenges getting to issuers.
About artificially created language I really like Toki Pona - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toki_Pona

Very minimalist, nice sounds.
Low expected long term business value due to predicted market shifts. Compress all dwindling future value into an immediately extractable source of income at the cost of the existence of the business itself. Basically, squeeze the brand name dry until the brand name itself means nothing.
I agree with you that getting paid the same hourly rate, working less and still maintaining job stability is a win.

It just didn't initially sit right with me when I heard Look at me I'm winning! I used to do five days of work and get paid for five, now I do five days of work and get paid for four.
"Stolen Western IP counterfeit plane actually flies"
I’ll be curious to see analysis on which states performed better here.

But to be fair to CO, there is a good faith reason for governments to not care if they send cards to extra Americans. So long as the federal money printer is still running, spreading money around to Americans will keep the economy alive during the pandemic. Who cares if you give a bit of extra to people who don’t deserve it? Chances are they’ll spend it on local food and what not which’ll help keep other people off unemployment. This is especially true in cases where speed is of the essence, since you’d happily accept some level of errors to get the aid out immediately.
Seems obvious in retrospect. I didn't believe the name is so important, CoolBeans was nice enough and .xyz was being promoted as the new .com :)
10 tanker cars all instantaneously emptying directly into a 2 feet deep and 10 feet wide v shaped channel at the same point is not at all realistic. For starters, your V shaped channel is perfectly full when the LNG is spread out over a mile - over the preceding 4 minutes the LNG was spilling over the side of the channel onto the surrounding flat ground, dramatically increasing the amount of ambient heat it would have absorbed.

In a real scenario, the cars are going to be spread out over an area, their ruptures will be relatively small orifices that the fluid must flow through, it's going to spill out rapidly in all directions from that point, any area where a train is passing through is going to be decently wide and flat, worst case scenario probably a 50 foot wide street.

You can look up pictures of derailed tanker cars, for example [0], and see the area where the liquid spills over. By the time the contents of a tanker car have spread over an area of 1 acre, the fluid is only 1in deep, even if none of it vaporizes it's limited in how far it can meaningfully spread. The spill of a cryogenic fluid will by necessity cover less area. As you can see, the spill of 322,000 gallons of flammable liquid affects an area comparable to that threatened by the derailed train cars themselves. That fire lasted 36 hours, wouldn't it be great if all the fuel evaporated in 36 minutes?

[0] https://www.progressiverailroading.com/federal_legislation_r...
I run mine on a 2015 13" MBP against an external 1680x1050 display. Changing the scaling on the display helps a little, but it is still laggy like I'm on an intercontinental SSH session.
ACLU just needs to file a briefing asking "could this data be used to track the movement of judges, or city officials around the city?"
I spent around 6 months of my spare time to build BonFive (https://bonfive.com). I built it because my wife and I noticed that content creators, especially streamers were having their content on a plethora of platforms and this was an attempt at having a centralized place for fans to discuss and share news and content of their favorite creators. I based our design around old Reddit as I felt it allowed for the most natural online interactions to take place. But with any online platform that expects to have user generate the content getting users in has been the hard part...
Yeah. It's specifically designed for both AV, and for generic datagrams. You have to choose one or the other during initialization of a stream (but can have multiple streams between clients).
They only care come tax time or years later when they try to accuse you of fraud. Sadly I've seen it happen and it's pure hell for the person, especially when they tried to make it right from the beginning.
I'm a fan of "The Comedians" (1966) which is about Haiti under the regime of the populist dictator "Papa Doc" Duvalier and his feared secret police the "Tontons Macoutes". Despite the grim subject, it is an enjoyable read.
This is such a common practice even today.

Many would be shocked to know that big name brands reverse engineer car brands that perhaps cost a fraction of their own because there is lot to learn. And the risk of competition is very high.
In my experience using the userspace daemon on both BSD and macOS there was increased cpu overhead and slightly higher network latency compared to Linux with a module or built in.
The Defold license: https://defold.com/license/

The only thing you can't do is sell Defold itself (ie the engine and editor). You can commercialise your games in any way you want and you can modify the engine and editor without having to share your modifications.
Doesn't that mean she knows the shared passwords?
Unsurprising. I wish that mass surveillance didn't have complicit bipartisan support, but people in power only ever seem interested in expanding it.
> But the "ten billionaires" of this article isn't about inter-generational wealth transfers

In the long run it absolutely is. People wouldn't care about this if all the wealth went back to the poor after each billionaire dies.

> An inheritance tax is quite a different thing than a wealth tax.

What do you think is being inherited?
I went into the article expecting it be full of usual banal platitudes, but it's a cute little list of random stuff. I was also pleasantly surprised to see 'ek number' on the list though.
The difference is that the $2500/month (+ renters' insurance) is a non-sticky ceiling (percent increases notwithstanding)
whereas the ($2500-n)/month for your mortgage is a stickly floor.

In most apartments and houses, $2500/month accounts for property tax, maintenance, and other
ancillary and unpredictable expenses. Anything out of the ordinary is covered by renter's insurance.
If you get an awesome job opportunity somewhere else that significantly increases your compensation,
at best you can hot-swap to the new place for no extra cost; at worst, you pay 1x rent to break the
lease.

The ($2500-n)/month for a mortgage doesn't include those things.

You could get homeowner's insurance, but the quality of that coverage is all over the map and
usually have high deductibles anyway. This is an unpredictable cost. (I suppose you _could_
add the deductible into your monthly budgeting, but it's still unpredictable for uncovered events.)

If you need to move for that opportunity, you either have to rent the house out and hope that your
tenants don't trash the place, or you have to sell it, which can take a long time.

Then there's property tax, which increases yearly by an unknown amount, just like rent.
I think a lot of Xbox products and services are meant to funnel into Azure or other cloud services these days.
tank game = warzone 2100?
There is literally no scientific evidence they've been effective at all.

If you really dig, you find things like the Flaxman, et. al. paper (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2405-7) which falls apart if you try to apply it retroactively (https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.22.20160341v...) not to mention the huge issues with the methodology (https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmed.2020.58036...)

On social media, people pass around pre-prints like this (https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.24.20248802v...) on the "long COVID" narrative, which uses the mythology of self reporting on online forums.

There is zero science on the effectiveness of lockdowns what so ever. the Great Barrington Declaration is a scientific counter to any pro-lockdown arguments as well.

Everyone is saying "We didn't lockdown long and hard enough" .. which is just fucking insane at this point. Unless you're an island nation like NZ, there is literally no way to stop a virus that has entered our ecosystem at this scale. It took over 160 years between the development of the Jenner/Smallpox vaccine and its elimination, with a huge 20 year push in the 60s/70s. This thing will be with us for at least a decade or more to come, and we can't continue fooling ourselves into thinking we can just turn off society like gears in a machine with little to no consequences.

Humans are not batteries with an on off switch.
I've actually found, to my surprise, Walmart to be somewhat comparable to Target in the sense of feeling like I'm getting what I ordered instead of a knockoff like with Amazon. I had avoided them for years because of the terrible customer service I have received in their stores in the past but their online service is noticeably better. Their grocery Pick Up system is far superior to the competitor grocery stores in my area.
A specific safety article was written up by tweag.io, who wrote a pretty slick set of java bindings. Managing resources between two garbage collectors (ghc and jvm) is error-prone, so they used linear types to help prevent a bunch of the things a person can easily mess up. Their article is pretty good: https://www.tweag.io/blog/2020-02-06-safe-inline-java/
https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/human-resources/employ...:

“Equal employment conditions

You must offer your part‑time staff the same employment conditions as full-time workers, including pay, leave, notice periods and other rights and benefits linked to their employment.

Modifying working arrangements

Whenever possible, you should try to accommodate requests from your employees if they want to change their working schedules, such as:

- transferring from full-time to part-time

- transferring from part-time to full-time

- increasing their working hours

You cannot dismiss an employee if they refuse to transfer from part-time to full-time work or vice versa.”

Working hours per week by country in Europe (includes some non-EU countries) at https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
You can absolutely use a Postgres not on Heroku with your Heroku app. The DATABASE_URL is the key part, there are customers on Heroku that use RDS or we've seen a few start to use Crunchy Bridge as well.

As for VPC peering, that is going to be less likely. You'd have to at least be using Heroku's private spaces and even then I'm not sure it's a turnkey integration. You essentially would need a static/public connection for Heroku to be able to connect.
The SSN isn't record though, it's the identifier for the record.

I had to verify my federal tax filing this year. The agent or whatever was able to pull up my taxes from past years after a couple of authentication questions.

Which that is what the GP poster is asking for, a more robust way of authenticating that a person corresponds to a record. It's a tough problem.
Ask HN: How to deal with tech companies having trouble scaling customer service?
We all know the horror stories of people trying to get in touch with e.g. Google.

For a few weeks already I have been trying to regain access to my Coinbae account - so far none of my Emails have been answered.

Are there any other strategies besides creating noise on social media?
> Now that this puzzle is solved, can you explain how it was intended to be solved?

It says that it was supposed to be a test of the "six degrees of separation" theory. So presumably the idea was that if every player asked everyone they knew if they recognized the guy, there was a reasonable chance that someone would.
That one time access code is your social security number, by the way...

If a number is so important it becomes valuable and becomes the target of scams. And govt offices will be tempted to piggyback on that number since it can be directly linked to an identity regardless of address changes, employment changes, phone number changes, and name changes
> Are these types of results generally reproducible? How do we know they are valid?

It's a new study, so no-one had the opportunity to reproduce their findings yet. Generally in the scientific community, one tries to find the flaw in their argument/methods, rather then presuming them to be faulty.

It doesn't seem like a very complicated, time consuming or costly experiment (compared with e.g. the search for the higgs boson), so I'd think it's reasonable to expect another team to reproduce the results in the near future, if there is sufficient interest.
why is the octocat wearing a space helmet if there are plants growing below it? what happened on this planet to make the air unbreathable?

Some kind of chernobyl event, possibly caused by the ICBMs in the globe image?

What is the octocat standing on top of? Abandoned silo? Or live silo about to go hot?
Those 700 billion dollars went into salaries and healthcare for over a million people. And to a less direct degree, buying US-manufactured high-tech armaments.

Maybe you think it's all a dumb thing to spend money on, but the US Army is in a lot of ways a UBI for low-education Americans. And one way or the other, the money is almost all staying in the US, stimulating some industry or another.

Sending $36B overseas to Nigeria and Cyprus accomplishes nothing. It's not even comparable.
Ask HN: Side Hustle Plans for 2021
Now that 2020 is finally coming to an end and the light at the end of the CoVID tunnel is visible, I was wondering... what side hustles are you planning to start in 2021 (or have recently started)?

I’ve been doing the usual online webinar (https://data4sci.com/events)/blogging (https://medium.com/data-for-science)/newsletter(https://data4sci.com/past-issues) on data science for a couple of years now and I’m starting to think about compliments or alternatives
Guessing again based on your nick, improvements that draw on type theory or type mechanics.
Sure there are but none had ever gotten to the point of actually being enacted other than prop 13. in a working state, legislators would have self discipline and not require direct propositions to be kept in line.
I feel like this article is very suspicious.

nowhere is a source linked or cited other than a federal official for 36 billion during the month of november

nowhere on https://www.hudoig.gov (the OIG official site) can I find this report.

36 billion is an almost comical number without some sort of meaningful supporting evidence. I think it warrants serious consideration if this HN article should be flagged or not.
The category of finite dimensional vector spaces over finite fields is a model of linear logic. http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/ralf.hinze/WG2.8/30/slides/steve.pdf
> We can have millions of people streaming gigabytes of data all at once, millions of people submitting their tax returns, millions of packages being delivered every hour and yet we couldn't pull this off in 9 freakin months?

That streaming wasn't rolled out instantly. It took years of building network infrastructure to get to this point.

You might say that rolling out the vaccine is trivial in comparison. But the vaccine requires building a minus-80-degree cold chain. That's... not a trivial task.
Let's write a game for the original Playstation
The Things I Learned About ICS Operations from Jurassic Park
Bell's Palsy:

https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/covid-19-vaccine/news/2020121...

https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2020/...

Fever:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...
The current trend in libraries is to abolish fines and waive any past fines. It has been shown to increase usage of the libraries.
http://eruvstat.us - a website for Jewish communities to use to send notifications about the status of their eruv.

I have a couple cities using it for free at the moment, but would like to get more signed up to at least break even on hosting costs. It's a pretty niche service, and so far it seems like there isn't much interest...
I have been working four six hour days a week for the last two years. It’s life changing. I can wake up and lay around the house in a tired stupor for an hour if I didn’t sleep well, and then start getting ready for work and leave an hour later. If I did sleep well I can go outside for a hike around the neighborhood trails or finish whatever software project I started for fun the night before. The weekends feel long. My personal project game is off the chart and I feel like I’m on the path to monetizing personal projects via YouTube. I am learning so much. I’ve started a computer vision project for my off road robot and I’m learning all the stuff required to make a self driving vehicle using only cameras, inspired by what Tesla has done and the lectures Andrej Karpathy has given on that architecture.

I don’t think I can ever go back to the Silicon Valley corporate churn. I’d rather be careful with my cash than be flush with RSUs and dream of living my life. I’m 36 and I’m living my life NOW, not in some far off dream after two decades of churn.

I feel bad that most people don’t get this opportunity. I really think we need to change our work norms to allow for this. What is the point of life if we spend it always working? I’ve been very productive at work. I’ve designed and built a whole solar powered farming robot vehicle (no tools, just the autonomous vehicle so far) in 18 months working 20-25 hours a week. Does one individual really need to be more productive than that? (You can if you want, but do we all NEED to?)
I am curious, why do you have hardware acceleration turned off?

To answer your question, the failIfMajorPerformanceCaveat flag allows sites to turn off their hardware accelerated features when hardware acceleration is off.
In South Korea the contact tracing led to people being found who were cheating on their partners. Some committed suicide. Moral questions aside, is that the world you want to live in?

I personally don't even use an Android/eyePhone any more to avoid that dystopia.
Why stay here then?

It is interesting to me how taking on "the white man's burden" to civilize africa and the orient is a passé and cancellable offense, while undertaking it against the Great American Redneck isn't. If Europe is more civilized, and you want civilization, why not leave Bubba unmolested in his own natural habitat?