skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you looked into hugo CMS providers? There are some out their with these features, though I can't find the link right now...

Webflow support is ok, feature addition seems to be abysmal. Haven't seen anything significant since the last raise
I think this discussion should also mention that Signal is a non-profit organization, dedicated to enabling secure and private communications.

Yes, it's not strong proof, but it should be taken into account when comparing the goals and motivations of organizations developing various other communicators.

The organization behind your communicator app could be in the business of gathering data about you and selling it in various forms (Facebook, Google), in the business of selling hardware and add-on software services (Apple), or in the non-business of trying to provide you with private communications.
how many of us have met a congressmen, senator, media personality in person?

How hard would it be for a super advanced society to insert a media network that's all basically ai-generated people? We already have deep fakes, imagine the tech they might have that's deep fakes after 50 generations...

They could control us from a small satellite without needing to come anywhere near us,just by controlling what we see, think, or hear on the television.
It costs them nothing to wipe us out and spare the universe the trouble, so what must they believe about life, the universe, and everything to not do so. Economics may be universal, etc.

Perhaps the world is highly valued in terms of its bio-diversity and life-supporting resources. There's a possibility that native civilization like us are being monitored and on some level "protected" from conquests if they show they're responsible and take care of their own world.

But if the native civilization continue to destroy their own world, then all bets are off. More responsible and structured civilizations could be granted the right to intervene and potentially take over.

In other words, the more self-sufficient, ecologically responsible and wise we are, the more a civilization like us would be able to avoid this intervention.
Do you mean a particular part of Europe? I only ask because there are more factors than salary. I have friends who have moved to work in France, Norway, and Germany. They do make markedly less than I do on my US salary. However, they also get:

* Substantially more actual vacation time

* Substantially cheaper and yet similar health, dental, and vision coverage

* Less risk/stress associated with job security

* A very similar job market

I don't imagine this is the same in every country in the EU, just as technical job markets are different in the US. But working in the US Tech Sector isn't the panacea of work related issues.
That's entirely unfair. We contributed a couple of changes to systemd and they went through without problems.

systemd does have a very opinionated code style, but that's not much different from (say) Linux kernel.
Assuming all it takes is a strict 3 week shutdown, why can’t we have that? Or is the assumption wrong? Why weren’t we able to produce enough stock for 3 weeks of total halt?
I wish folks would stop conflating boot media and root media. There's no reason your SD card has to consist of anything more than u-boot.

SD is fantastically simple, so that the boot rom can get at a bootloader without much effort (generally the bootrom just looks at a memory offset on the mmc device). Once you start speaking newer faster protocols, this simplicity is lost. You're not likely going to find a bootrom that implements all the bits needed to get u-boot from a sata device.

In a perfect world, once these are no longer developer devices, the mmc would be replaced with some spi flash (or even an emmc) with just u-boot.

On 90% of embedded dev systems, you're better off thinking of the sd card as a "bios chip" then a hard drive. The fact you can also use it as a block device to store a rw filesystem is almost incidental, and should probably be avoided.
Thanks much, that was useful. I think it's all right now. https://thumbnail.ai/create?link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.stockbrie...

I will keep improving it in the coming weeks.
4 top results are all Ads and cover the whole front page on my screen! Not cool.
I’ve only ever heard of stats regarding _total_ investments, not investments relative to proposals or anything that would be needed to prove discrimination.

Do you have any links?
True, but Q&A makes up a tiny fraction of most lectures I've attended, and attention span can be improved by shortening the duration of each lecture.

However, I'd agree that lack of dynamic peer interaction is a big problem with video-based instruction that hasn't yet been fixed. I've seen attempts to address this like Piazza where students can post questions or answer others', but text-based forums lack graphical or temporal cues that many concept demand. Maybe some sort of multiuser video supplement might help, where the question poser could snip the time mark of a puzzling section from the lecture or an illustration from another video and refer to it in source so others could visualize with a click the point being asked?
They did say there are a few exceptions. Most every country I looked at with the exception of (most of) Germany and one or two others had substantial tuition fees for non-EU/EEA/CH students that were on the order of my in-state university tuition in the US.
I instantly read this title and assumed given the current political environment he was predicting an armed, IRA like insurrection in the US

Phew he was just talking about the once in a lifetime pandemic shit show.

Time for a break from the internet today.
Why wouldn't you put the 2016 date in the title? That's standard courtesy.
I'm saving around 2 hours of commute per day by WFH, and it allows me to see my kids a lot more so this pandemic has been great to have more quality time with them. They grow so fast, it's nice have the chance to see them more.
What do you do with it? I have a hard time coming up with common usages for one. Even for my theater hobby, where I dreamed of being able to print props, I haven't had a time where printing one would be easier than buying one or using conventional means to make it.

So glad you're enjoying yours. What do you do with it?
As is the case here, what is negligible now may not be in the future.
This is like commenting on a recipe article with "why bother cooking when I can get my chef to do this?".
This is really poorly reasoned. To take a couple examples:

> Using data from flu monitoring programs in prior years, the CDC models project that 70 MILLION Americans have already gotten sick with symptomatic Covid, but decided to just write it off as a bad cold and never got tested. I am not making this up.

Why is this hard to believe? Covid testing, especially depending on where you live, can be difficult to obtain. If you have a cough and a loss of sense of smell but nothing debilitating, getting a Covid test just satisfies your curiosity, because you're going to be isolating anyway.

> I mean, take that Re up to 3.0 (the high end of the current Ireland estimate), and a single Covid case will result in 5.2 BILLION total cases over a 100-day period, about 60% of the entire human population on the planet. Obviously our social behaviors around the disease would change dramatically well before we got to that point.

"Social behaviors" are not what slows down Rt when you get to 60% of the entire human population infected; the number of targets gradually diminishes, slowing the spread.
Video calls alone won't stop a MITM attack. They would just send both video streams along, and record both sides.

Signal does have the capability to have a verification phrase displayed, which is generated from the session key. Reading that off can make the video more difficult to MITM, because then they'd have to morph the audio to match the phrase, and if it's done after the video is setup, morph the video as well. Not impossible, but difficult.
Both Comcast and my current ISP both simply refuse to assist if you do not have their equipment. I have experiences both "Please hook up your ISP provided router and if you are still experiencing problems please call back"

Hell half the time they do not even help when you do have their equipment. It took me 3 months of calling support before my current ISP agreed to send a tech to look at my ONT that was clearly resetting itself, Tech replaced the ONT has not had any problems since.

ISP, all ISP's, customer service is terrible, there is not a ISP on the planet that has good service. Or atleast in the US
Do you work for a FAANG? As the US companies I worked for in europe had none of those benefits so I think you're part of the top percentile of privileged tech workers, not the norm for US companies operating in EU.
There's no law against a member of Congress introducing or voting for legislation that benefits friends or donors. If there were, they'd all be in jail.
The main problem with suicide is that it forecloses the possibility that your life will get better. And it can. The fact that you care about leaving your connections in distress tells me you care for people. This is normal and good and makes you human. We need human connection to live. Even now, you take others feelings into account. You seem like a good person, and the world would be worse without you.
“I just don’t even know why there aren’t uprisings all over the country, and maybe there will be when people realize that this is a policy that they defend,” Pelosi said during a press conference. “It’s a horrible thing, and I don’t see any prospect for legislation here.” - Nancy Pelosi

Definition of uprising
: an act or instance of rising up
especially : a usually localized act of popular violence in defiance usually of an established government
The documentation is the best feature of the entire platform. If Microsoft hadn't published that deep-dive document regarding Blazor hosting models [1], I probably would have not given the technology a deeper look. But, after reading through and comparing the pros/cons of server-side vs client-side, it made it very clear to me that this was an approach that would be a really good fit for us (we went with the server-side model).

My 2nd favorite feature is Self-Contained Deployments [2]. We skipped the whole containerization party because this approach completely obviated our need for such things.

Beyond that, being able to seamlessly transition between imperative & functional members within the same type, pattern matching in switch statements [3], on-going awesomeness of LINQ, etc. Really great stuff to work with.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/blazor/hosting-...

[2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/#publ...

[3] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/pattern-match...
Thanks for sharing what you found!
Would a healthy market necessarily lead to incrementally ratcheted price/quality points? Seems like the barbell distribution has advantages (simplicity, plus reflecting the decline of the middle class that buys “somewhat nice” items).
Saw this earlier and had absolutely nothing I could add or detract from it, just one of those "well, uh, hmm, but" things.

They're a private country and can do what they like. If Twitter and Facebook don't like it, they can make their own Uganda.
Haha you know somebody there was like, “shit! This is what Microsoft warned us about!” I can only imagine that spawned a backlash internally against open source until they realized how popular the router became. It was nice of them to make the homage WRT several years ago. Maybe I should go read the article. Like many here I had (and probably still have!) a 54 series and ran ddwrt on it. Very liberating to realize half the functionality I wanted wasn’t in any way a hardware limitation, just software. After that, my next routers were purchased with careful attention to the amount of RAM and nv memory onboard as well as the device compatibility table. Now I run UBNT in the house on the ER platform with unifi stack on a VM that rarely gets turned on except to manage fw upgrades of the radios.
Yeah, it's tough to learn cadaver-based anatomy at home too.
"Symptomatic" in that sentence feels strange too. Why would we not be counting the asymptomatic cases for these purposes?

381K fatalities against 70M assumed cases is a fatality rate of about half a percent. It would doubtless tick up a bit higher if nobody got sick anymore starting today as hospitalizations are at very high numbers compared to the past, in the US, so those cases have more deaths to come.

https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200901/what-changing-death... here the CDC projection is stated as about 0.6% which is consistent with that. So their numbers would be internally consistent, at least.

It's obviously hard to be fully sure of what that true rate is, but I'm not seeing a TON of people thinking it's over 1%.
I've seen some of the GitHub issues that Rich is referring to in those tweets. They're almost always cases where someone is asking for some feature or change in Svelte and the core contributors disagree that it fits with the design and vision of the project.

Then the OP tags Rich in the hopes that he will swoop in and and override the decision. It's almost always more of a tantrum than a real request for help.

As far as project progress, most of the recent work has been on SvelteKit, but I've been using Svelte for about a year now and it has steadily gained features during that time. It's definitely not in bugfix-only mode.
Huh, last night it was timing out for me. First load was slow today, but came up eventually. Thanks for the heads up!
Way to start a habit is to start stupidly small
I have nothing to say. Go read now lol!
I can witness workaholism around me. In most cases an absolute waste of life time and that makes it even worse to me. Oftentimes low impact and low priority work. It doesn't makes sense to me. Often tried to reach out to my colleagues but they can't let go. Even time spent with doing nothing at all seems time spent better.

I decide in the morning when to quit work in the afternoon. I am forced to manage my workload properly. And I adhere to the KISS principle at all times. I dislike mental overhead. Not everything works well but it is what it is and next day brings other opportunities.
How the Pandemic Opened the Door to My Career in Armory's (YC W17) Tech
Potatoes, a new world food, were a monoculture in Ireland at the time. These days there are a huge number of potato varieties grown, so a devastating potato blight seems unlikely to occur again.
Is there somewhere where I can get remote tutoring? Like have problem get help 1:1 or 1:4 from a tutor or instructor? That was always my biggest hurdle with online or book learning. If you didn't understand a concept or problem there were no real resources to ask. Writing out a problem in an online forum still might not be enough the personal discussion and interaction helps so much.
I figured I'd want to make it cheaper than Toggl et al., because people might feel they'd get less features. Plus there is no free plan, so the paid plans don't have to pay for the free users ;) - Anyway, I'm kinda done with multiple tiers, and like the idea of one simple price.
when I type "ping foo" or visit "http://foo", I want my search domain to add ".my.domain.com" to the end as configured in DNS.

I can do this on the OSX networking tab where I set DNS server, but from what I read that feature isn't available for the wireguard client.
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Nigeria has come out on top among cryptocurrency users
Nigeria has overtaken India twice in terms of the number of active cryptocurrency users. There are 2 million people in the country who use an alternative currency every day.

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Unfortunately this company is known for its shady agressive marketing on hacker news. The upvotes count is really suspicious and this is not the first time.

EDIT: Why is the downvoting? the post was given like 9 upvotes in the first 5 minutes. I frequently go to "new" and this is a highly suspicious behaviur.
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^this

It's usually been in the government's best interest to fund and lend a hand to companies like these. SpaceX can't exist without government funding for the time being and probably quite a bit of time in the future. When they do manage to get people to mars it will be even more so in the government's interest to fund them.
It's an ISO 8601 vs Gregorian calendar peculiarity, not inaccuracy. See the date section here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601, another example of a week 53.
While this is a great way to build trust, there is obviously no way to confirm the App Store version is the same as one built from their public source. In fact, due to the way Apple optimizes apps for each device, this becomes even harder. Furthermore, just because you compile it from source and put it on your phone does not mean that you can reasonably stay aware of or understand all the internal workings that happen inside the app.
I appreciate the ability of the government to see through this sort of data-abuse scheme. After MoviePass's pivot, it was just too obvious that this could happen.
What everyone seems to be assuming is that this new strain will cause a constant increase in the reproduction number R of ~50% in every situation. I haven't really seen any discussion of if and why that is actually a good extrapolation to make.

So for example in a specific situation, with a specific type of intermingling of a population in which the R value was, say, 1.2, we think the new strain caused that to increase to an R value of 1.8. How does it necessarily follow that taking intervention measures that bring the R value of the base strains down to, say, 0.8 would bring the R value of the new strain to exactly 1.2?

There are just so many factors involved, it doesn't seem like this could possibly be knowable right now. So there may be some hope that things like getting everyone N95 masks and requiring their use, and closing down indoor activities, which are good measures to control the current strains anyway, could also bring down the reproduction number of the new strain below 1 as well.

However, this is all a purely academic exercise anyway. Even in places that are being "aggressive" in countering the virus like San Francisco, we have done exactly nothing to react to new information in the past 1.5 months. Our "lockdown", which is entirely optional and has no teeth, is clearly not working, but we have neither removed it or strengthened it. The health department has exactly zero plans regarding the vaccine. It feels like we've just given up altogether, and we're praying that the private market saves us by somehow distributing the vaccines effectively. And on top of all that, we've handicapped the private market by making it illegal to distribute the vaccine to the vast majority of the population, even the elderly and vulnerable groups!
This post touches on "innovation tokens". While I agree with the premise of "choose boring technology", it feels like a process smell, particularly of a startup whose goal is to innovate a techology. Feels demotivating as an engineer if management says our team can only innovate an arbitrary N times.
I've noticed in the replies below that you've said you don't have meaningful relationships with anyone. I firmly believe that this is a strong contributing factor to how you feel right now.

I've been through similar situations in my life as well, very dark times that I have trouble believing I went through.

Do you want to talk more? My email is in my profile. I'm happy to talk with you!
GitHub says my project has 34 contributors, but in reality it's a one-man show, just like the majority of open source software. I would of course welcome if somebody would do the signing, but nobody stepped up to do it.
I challenge you to take one of these high resolution cameras and take a photo of the moon. Then take one and take a photo of a jetliner where the make of the jet is comprehensible.

Yes we all carry around cameras but the sensor and lens sizes are all so small they are next to useless at night without a huge helping hand of ML based photo retouching or similar.
Signal has blogged all the answers to these questions.

https://signal.org/bigbrother/eastern-virginia-grand-jury/

In short, the ACLU helped them to lift the gag order, and the blog itself shows the legal documents. The documents show exactly the data returned (Account creation and last access in Unix millis). Only the phone numbers are still redacted.
i know the dead comment below won't see this and likely doesn't care but for posterity they were absent in their moderation for many weeks and were knowledgeable of it from the get go: https://twitter.com/cambrian_era/status/1349371372384841730
Show HN: I created a procedural dungeon generator and editor using TypeScript
Hello HN!

I created this hobby-project to learn more about procedural generation and decided to start with the classic but efficient Binary-Space Partitioning method. I also wanted to look at the auto-tile algorithm for the editor and renderer.

I plan to integrate this dungeon generator into my other open-source project https://github.com/halftheopposite/tosios to add more roguelike elements to it and better gameplay elements.

This generators code is also available on NPM at https://npmjs.com/package/@halftheopposite/dungeon.
And with that logic you will be stuck at a small size because if you ever want to go after a larger audience you will have to cut prices to your existing customers which will be hard after you get fat and happy by over-charging.
I initially thought the same, in part because I recall a HN comment yesterday predicting the US would see such events soon, comparing them to the troubles.
I think it's pretty analogous to a commercial tenant lease.

Commercial leases usually have limited contractual clauses to allow eviction of paying tenants within the, usually 10 year, term.

Of course because AWS/GCS/MCS are sort of an oligopoly, they don't have long duration terms.

Regardless of what end of this debate you're on, I wouldn't be surprised if more customers didn't start asking for lease terms.

If I were really any right-leaning media organization I'd really hesitate going to a cloud provider without some sort of durable contract. Think about - is Fox News at risk if it's on AWS? What about The Wall Street Journal? Even Bloomberg has pretty right-leaning opinion pieces often... should they be worried about their content triggering a backlash since there's no contract?

...or maybe we'll just see a resurgence self-hosted platforms?
Anecdata. I work in France, and pre-pandemic everyone could work remotely, and we had full remote people as well. Lunches are sacred, and going to lunch with colleagues to a restaurant ( every day) for at least an hour is the norm, even if some people prefer to bring their own food and eat at the office.

I start and end work whenever i want ( i try to make the required 35 hours weekly but don't keep rigorous track).

I get 35 days paid vacation, can take sabaticals of up to a year, renewable for one more year, and if i start a business i can take a year off work ( salary and position are kept) to see if it works. There's paid maternal and paternal leave. I can't be fired tomorrow unless for a big error on my part. If i get called outside of office hours, i get paid extra (double extra on Sundays or holidays). ( That's labour law)

See why you can't make huge blatant overgeneralisations?
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