skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would hate this for a number of reasons:

1. You say its not about competing against each other, but I can't fathom how else most people would interpret it. Imagine going to a panel interview, but then finding out the panel was everyone else competing against you for the job. It seems like you would actively be rewarding selfish behavior rather than group success. Any flaw or failure or mishap will immediately lead to finger pointing amongst candidates.

2. If the goal is to measure how well people work in a team, why not have them work with the team that's hiring them? The concept as proposed much less assesses someone's teamwork capability as it does assess someone's resilience against incredibly stressful hiring scenarios.

3. This doesn't sound like something someone could accomplish in a few hours, it sounds like a part-time job. This creates a seemingly biased system that will among many other things: Favor people who do your project while "on the clock" on their current job; Favor people who don't have kids or families or otherwise significant time commitments; Favor people with strong and sometimes overbearing personality traits who often gravitate toward group leader roles.

4. This sounds like a long effort for a hiring process, which can already be too long for some people. Unless the role is someone's dream job, or the compensation measures are bar none, you're going to have to provide significant benefits over your competition to keep candidates engaged, otherwise they'll just seek employment elsewhere that has the same pay, benefits, and role, minus this "trial by combat" hiring process.

5. Even with two groups of 3 candidates each, that's six people ("complete strangers") who are going to need oversight, management, and support to get anything remotely recognizable as a product delivered. How many managers or team leads are willing to take that on in addition to their normal work? How capable are your recruiters/HR people in actually supporting a robust service like this? I suspect the answer to either of those is not promising for most companies.

6. This is the kind of thing you do with your final candidate to assess all the things you're seeking to review, but doing this with a group of candidates all mashed together "thunderdome" style sounds cruel and unusual to me. Overall what you've pitched is an intern program, and its great for that, but I can't see this being functional in a hiring scenario, and I think you may run into legal issues unless you make people sign a bunch of weird documents before they even get a job offer, which could further dismay potential quality candidates.

This would, however, make a great reality show; 4/5 stars, would watch on Hulu.

In my honest opinion, what you're really looking for is a "hackathon" model with hiring capabilities built in.
A very large amount of cases are simply false positives. We have no idea how widespread the disease is, but it’s certainly less spread and deadly than feared. This has been talked about in non-mainstream news for a while, but is only recently recognised in the state and big media organisations around the western world.

Like terrorism was in the 00’s, this is proving very useful for those who want to expand their power via the state.

https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/letters-health-care-prov...
Userbase is built on the assumption that in the event an attacker compromises the Userbase server and database, the attacker would not be able to access protected user data. We chose this assumption to build on because we figure that users and developers alike should assume that data stored at rest in cloud-based databases will eventually be leaked, as we've seen countless examples at almost every major company. Thus, we figured the default assumption is that usernames would not be expected to be private (and so yes, to answer your question, user enumeration is currently possible).

Additionally, practically defending against user enumeration beyond rate limiting sacrifices a level of security and privacy (for example, by requiring users provide an email to sign up to your service, or through some other means that likely ties the user to an identity and storing this in our database in plaintext), rather than allowing them to use pseudonymous usernames alone.

While we do recognize username enumeration is an issue (because users tend to reuse passwords from other sites, or don’t want to be found out using a site), we concluded that properly defending from user enumeration by default would have too material of a negative impact on user experience for little gain on top of what we already provide in way of protecting user data, and instead focused on defending against potential follow-up attacks by limiting brute force login attempts, and recommending that you tell your users to use a password manager at sign up.

The most significant place defending against enumeration affects is during sign up. When a user’s account already exists, we say the username is already taken, which isn't possible when properly defending against enumeration.

We're planning to allow you to enable email verification in your app if you want to, so users will need an email to successfully create an account. Once that's in place, we'll defend against enumeration more concretely. There are other places in addition to the salt retrieval that would be modified in similar fashion. For example, password reset will need to always successfully return even if a user provided the wrong username, and sharing a database with another user will always successfully return even if the other user doesn't exist (e.g. from a typo).
Yeah, I think the fundamental problem we're seeing here is how difficult it is for creators of open source projects to effectively capture the value they create in the world, especially at the higher end of the scale of _extremely_ popular projects that gain widespread adoption and create a mind-blowing amount of value, like Elasticsearch.

I would argue that by releasing a project as open source, we create more value in society than by releasing as proprietary.

An ideal society imo should distribute rewards relative value created in order to incentivize and maximize value creation.

Our society does a pretty good job of rewarding and incentivizing value creation for proprietary projects, but seems to do a horrible job of incentivizing value creation through open source projects.

I think it's in society's best interest for open source creators to be rewarded every bit as handsomely for creating value in the world as creators of proprietary projects, if not more, so we can incentivize the creation of more open source projects.
Researchers develop new graphene nanochannel water filters
Hybrid is a completely different type of vehicle. Since they utilize an internal combustion engine, they suffer from the same power band issues that purely ICE cars have. This means that a hybrid does have a normal gearbox.

I'm no expert on Priuses but my quick Google showed that Prius has the electric motors "after" the gearbox. This means that electric motor can assist turning of the wheel and that it can regenerate energy but it is not using the gearbox.

One solution to this would be how diesel electric locomotives work. Internal combustion engine generates electricity that is then stored in the batteries and used to power the vehicle. These type of "hybrids" are not popular although I believe there is at least one available where it is used as a range extender.
you still use the n900?
What's this scaremongering? It's a git repo, "who knows what" can be easily checked with a quick git diff ORIG_HEAD after a pull. And you actually see the changes you're going to be building, rather than relying on some random untrusted thirdparty repo or AUR package, that can be abandoned at any time, or worse.

The update checking workflow can be as simple as putting the repo commit or tag list, or news feed into your RSS reader, and just do a quick check if update is warranted when you get some update in your feed. Many projects have an announce mailing list that you can subscribe to. There are special announce lists for security issues.

And in case of cgit, if you're running a tagged release, how do you know that git 2.25.1 (some random release from a year ago) doesn't have any security vulnerabilities when used with cgit? Building from git and basing cgit on top of 2.30.0 seems a bit more reasonable to me in this case.
How much money went to burnt gas instead of your next car since you bought it though?
Can't you (legally) pull all the Create Commons-licensed icons from their website? Have you tried contacting the original creators?
I don't think it's fruitless, but it shows how much we'll need to rely on clean technology rather than a change in human behaviour to curb climate change.
The active driving experience idea is interesting. Drivers could experience a virtual Death Race 2000 while commuting. Perhaps an outlet for commute/road rage.
The web is just a way of delivering software to users. I think the person speaking in the video is worrying way too much about putting developers into boxes. At the end of the day, there are many problems in the world that can be solved with software.

> What most web developers spend their time doing is useless busy work that is not actually objectively necessary in order to create the functionality. It's just dealing with a bunch of weird conventions by some other software that they are trying to use that are there because some other other weird conventions by some other software that they are trying to use. If you just strip all that crap out, you can be tremendously more efficient.

Not only is this a very arrogant sentiment, but his reduction of all web development down to manipulating "weird conventions" doesn't fit with my experience. I don't sit around all day messing around with Webpack configurations or leaning new frameworks. I deliver software that addresses business needs, that happens to be accessed via a web browser.

He also says that jobs with the title "frontend", "backend" and "fullstack" for the web are not safe jobs. Many game developers, operating system designers, and large desktop applications will also have "frontend" and "backend" separations of responsibility as well, because they often involve different skill sets or knowledge.
> I cannot tell if you are pro-AIM or a paid Slack user

It's not that deep. Someone unironically saying "Does not everyone still use [Pidgin]" is legitimately out of touch with consumers today.
It must be okay to say things that are only 95% true. Otherwise we cannot say anything at all.
Yup. Similar with BMW. 330 meant 3 liter engine. Now it’s all the “equivalent“ game.
2x4 in old houses will measure 2x4 and is "rough cut". Modern milling will turn rough cut true 2x4 into the clean cut "2x4" you use today by running them through additional planing process. I don't think any shrinkage is significant though.

3/4 plywood will measure less than 3/4.
i like Matrix Element as they are trying to redo IRC with encryption.
I went down this rabbit hole a few months back when I was looking to buy a webcam for a new gaming PC that I had built. Also reached the same conclusion as the author (i.e. all webcams are shit).

I ended up using a mirrorless camera that I bought in 2015 and hooked it up to my PC via mini-HDMI + this USB capture device (https://www.amazon.com/Elgato-Cam-Link-Broadcast-Camcorder/d...).

The video quality is incredible and set up is fairly simple. It also works with the Macbook Pro I use for my job, which is great since the webcam on that is also garbage.
Wow, you could send videos, pictures, and markdown on your Commodore?
I disagree with a lot of this, except the conclusion.

The economy never came close to a “total shutdown.” In most places, the overwhelming majority of jobs were classified as essential—maybe 2/3rds—even while certain sectors did shut down. You can look at various stats, but a very simple one is the output gap, estimated to be 6%, which is potential GDP minus actual. This is a fair proxy for how shut down the economy was. The severe shutdowns were relatively brief.

Mostly, we massively changed the mix of activities we engage in, substituting relatively cleaner ones for more polluting ones. Maybe you purchased more manufactured goods and used more electricity, while driving less. A different conclusion from yours is that simple behavior changes—like more telework—can have significant impacts on emissions.

It proves that we can cut emissions without living a prehistoric lifestyle. And given that renewable energy sources are cheaper than polluting ones, this gives me reason to be optimistic.
It’s really a kind of insurance, and like insurance it’s a gamble. On average dealerships must win, or they would’t offer it, but that’s not to say that some customers don’t “win” if they got unlucky with their car.

That being said, I opted out of it with my last car.
For what it's worth, those cooking indoors with solid fuel are might also be less likely to be cooking anything...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_security_during_the_COVID...
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For example, google something like "Trump" in the US vs Canada and you'll get different news outlets (e.g. wapo vs ctv).

Or watch right wing videos in youtube in incognito mode and compare home page recommendations with the ones in your regular account.

Historically, they've also changed their search algorithms to prioritize certain types of web properties over others (for example the Google Panda update). Etc.
my question to you: do you consider yourself to be mysterious or just mundane? what is your experience of your own Being-ness?
> The intent is not that you are nominating a faceless member of a party to the office

The "intent"? Whose intent?

Regardless, that's not how modern elections work. The strongest predictor of vote, by a wide margin, is partisan affiliation. Candidates (on both sides!) who are known for exceptional constituent services are regularly voted out for faceless party hacks. When people do switch their votes, it's a consistent shift up and down the ballot. The days when representatives carefully pursued their local constituents' interest are long gone: consider how Californian Republican representatives voted to hike their own property owning constituents' taxes in 2017.

It doesn't make sense to have local elections, because politics isn't local now.
> The best thing you can do for your personal mental and physical well-being is stop paying attention.

Last month, I deleted all of my social media accounts outside of LinkedIn, Tildes, and Hacker News. Additionally, I blocked news sites in my browser and subscribed to both the Economist for current events and the Athletic for my sports addiction.

At first, it was strange- there was a constant feeling that I was missing out on things happening that all my friends and family were in on. I realized, after a while, that I now spend more time improving myself personally rather than worrying about what others are doing.

I wouldn't say I am less distracted.. but it's a different kind of distraction. Rather than finding myself aimlessly browsing a never-ending stream of posts on Reddit, I am now trying to answer questions on Stackoverflow. Rather than reading through posts of my peers landing internships and stressing myself out, I spend time on my resume and learning Go.

Also, people text and call me now rather than shooting me a message on social media which is honestly really nice. Even more so with the current COVID climate.

The most important part though is that I feel as if I have spent more meaningful time with my significant other.

Another change is that I separated my devices.

My laptop ONLY has stuff for school and programming on it. Our iPad has the entertainment in books, games, etc (radio.garden has been fun exploring). My phone has all the default Apple programs only. Since doing so, I can't count the number of times I picked up my phone subconsciously, swiped through it realizing there isn't anything on there, then asking myself why I even picked it up to begin with.

Sorry for the rant.. it's just been a strange adjustment that is showing benefits personally.
High school can be time when you have lots of spare time for learning what you want. I remember spending one year, and almost all of the summer break reverse engineering and writing binary patches for the sl45i phone. There was a huge community around it at the time so you just joined a forum and started asking questions.
That was on the rising edge of the wave of "computers are awesome and will change everyone's life". We're on the falling edge now.

The problem GP refers to is this: making computers is expensive, gets cheaper with economies of scale. But economies of scale are capital-intensive, so they exist only where there's a market for it. The market for people requiring general-purpose computation is small and getting smaller, while the market for constrained computing is only ever bigger. Which means at some point the capital-wielding companies will just leave the market, and the prices of new general-purpose computers will go way, way up.

On top of that, computers today gain most of their value interacting with other computers. Once the mainstream usage - like your e-mail or your bank - gets neatly packaged in sandboxed, trust-computing-enabled environments, the utility of your general-purpose platform will plummet. A dark but entirely possible scenario is that it eventually becomes illegal to use general-purpose computers to connect to such services, because "security".
I don't think that political parties or race should be included in redistricting plans, especially since I think that this could often accidentally result in optimally "cracking" or "packing" minority districts. Neither political parties nor races should be intentionally institutionalized.

The defining characteristic of a district is that it is geographically contiguous. A defining specification for districts is that they have a roughly even population. With those constraints, what you would want to do is find physical commonalities (not abstract loyalties.) For example: water sources, proximity to commercial areas, types of housing stock, local weather patterns, local roads/accessibility, proximity to major land features/employers (like quarries, factories, lakes.) That's harder than doing this.

A problem I have with with doing this by political parties is that the two parties aren't themselves part of government and shouldn't be. A real problem I have with making racial guarantees (other than the possibility of packing and cracking) is that it seems to be calculated through averaging "diversity" - meaning that a group with 6% representation would be guaranteed 6% voting power on the district level (assuming people vote purely based on racial allegiance.) "Diversity" is a red herring; it's remedy that is important. 6% can be ignored at the district level nearly as easily as it can be ignored at the individual level. You're not going to get remedy from redistricting, but districts that grow from material features of the places where people live will end up shaped by race anyway (due to the history of those places.)
Reasonable concern, though:

1. If every car has one, they become a commodity, so how much value will they actually end up having?

2. There are locking cables available:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKaEhBjt1ls
I do work in technology and I'm not trying to be nihilistic or Socratic (in the sense that nothing is knowable). As for your boolean example I don't deny that you can prove things using formal logic. But I do believe those formal proofs are only really applicable to the mathematical and the abstract. Subjects where human emotion and human perception don't come into play.

In societal subjects the same facts can be used to justify different conclusions. As an example, look at all the wildly different economic policies that are recommended by different economists who are all looking at the same data published by The Fed.

I know that "Alternative Facts" has a lot of vernacular baggage around it due to the crowd size fiasco with Donald Trump's inauguration. Putting that aside, an alternative fact can really just be a datapoint from a different perspective. And that's often how I see every argument. I don't use "Alternative Facts" as a synonym for lying.
Most cases I've seen are just using Redux as a de facto global cache, where it can be easily replaced by a library like Apollo or SWR (https://swr.vercel.app) to just have every component make whichever requests it needs for data directly (and the library then deduplicates requests and serves data from cache).
Google won't allow you on non rooted android phones.

> cue in google apologists telling me how to root or install hacks to do that and that it is totally possible
It may be cheaper to go new with incentives vs used straight off Tesla.com, but I am unsure about overseas pricing.
Huh, I stand corrected. I should've looked more closely before commenting.
Artificial Intelligence Is a House Divided
https://github.com/hoglet67/RGBtoHDMI

Up to 12 bits per pixel digital RGB, CGA/EGA/Amiga/other 8bit computers and some 8/16bit consoles, to HDMI converter. Written in bare metal ARM. Sampling pixels at 96MHz clock for pixel perfection.

https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=14430
230 deci-litre?
No, I was not thinking RJ485 where termination is optional.

You are forgetting that CAN can work at short distances without being a differential bus at all.

I mention this where I wrote “no transceiver AND no termination”.
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The cost here is an artificial variable as it completely under the control of AWS. They can decide to sell them very cheap to lock people on AWS.
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We have a pretty similar issue at work where our package-lock file switches URLs between npmjs.com and our own npm registry. Can you elaborate a bit on what the issue is and how to solve it?
I think it's not as simple as that.

What's classified as "News" ? A lab in japan, or Tesla having a press release on new battery tech ? A website update from USGS on the Kilauea eruption ? A new project on hackaday ?

Google probably does not want to be in a position where a creative lawyer hauls them into an AU court for imagined harm to the AU news companies losing out on opportunities to monetize.

It's a hard call, and I can believe it if they say it may be better to move entirely out of Australia. No presence whatsoever.

It was a hard call to determine how to deal with China as well, and I don't quite know where things stand there now. There's a long and contorted history.
Fair enough. The js ecosystem has quite some room for improvement, this is what I definitely agree on.
3/4 inch plywood is usually actually about .7 inches
Environmental regulations are a good counterpoint and analogy. That shifts my perspective a bit, thanks. I admit food/safety/env regulations occupied a different pocket in my head and maybe it's less far away from this topic that I considered it to be.

I mention regulations in general and not particular one, because the context that you are talking about is placed within bigger context of everything around changing. And once law is put in place is almost never removed.

Re forum, collecting emails seem to count as personal data, maybe the amount of work wouldn't be high, but researching what do I really need to do, how to register personal data database etc. was high, there were not much info available at the time. AFAIR changes were pretty brutal to me since I was miraculously running on some very deprecated phpBB with a few manual patches which kept bots away.

And wow, I think what we currently consider to be a polluted river is pretty clean in historical context.