skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Unsure why this was flagged/dead so I vouched for it and it seems to be revived now.)

Looks like a super clean UI that might improve some remote teams. I personally hate voice chat and the whole Clubhouse-esque fad, but WebRTC makes me think it might scale better P2P than Clubhouse is currently doing, which seems like a minor but positive differentiator.

Meta: voice/video chats in remote teams might help move conversations along faster, but at the (IMO huge) cost of losing records of those conversations in the future (and excluding those who don't want to or can't participate as it happens). Rather than scrolling up and rereading what someone said or figuring out what decision was made, you don't have a lot of good options with current tech (average-to-bad transcriptions and/or manually-typed metadata after-the-fact). Since Tappy specifically targets remote teams, do you have any tech in place to ensure teams remain aware of what happens within these voice conversations, both as they're happening (for people not in the call) and afterward?
Does anyone know what happened to Qualcomm’s mirasol[1]Imod displays that were supposed to be e-ink like?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interferometric_modulator_di...
Overall a good answer but I wonder if this direction of thought applies to something like BTC or can even be broadly applied in general. It seems to me that it is difficult to measure the productivity of a decentralized asset like BTC. Maybe it’s even harder to compare it to asset classes which produce physically consumable products as we are talking about a new way to define value in the digital era.

There is some truth to the meme whose idea is that — in the end — you won’t care what the dollar value of BTC is. What happens when .25 BTC becomes a model s? To churn a profit in this trade Tesla needs to acquire the materials an labor for less than .25 BTC. Full stop. This is a paradigm shift because this has never happened before for decentralized, algorithmically sound digital money.

I’m just a lay person but that is, to me, the fundamental value. Who knows, maybe this will have a broad effect across industries the same way that the internet came and effected everything.
Engagement or enragement, it still is eyeballs on the article.
I'd highly encourage you to continue learning to code. You might also consider software QA. It is also easy to do remotely, pays well, and the learning curve is a bit lower. If you learned selenium, the ability to navigate a SQL database, postman to test REST APIs, and some testing terms and methods you'd be well on your way. The first job will be the hardest to get, but once you have that, remote jobs are readily available.

Obviously you didn't lay out all the reasons why you couldn't move, and I don't expect you to, but I'd also REALLY strongly consider the implications of what a steady, well paying job can do for a family. Relocation opens up a world of opportunities for you, which opens up support and services for your family (paid and otherwise) that just aren't available in the poorest places. You don't have to be away from the people you care for if you can bring them along. I understand that leaving a support structure, even a flawed one, may not be possible, but think about that REALLY hard before you rule it out, especially if you're young. Some initial pain may transform lives. There's a reason so may people move away from the places they grow up. Plus, if you move for your first job, you always have the option of moving back after a year or two if it doesn't work out once you've established yourself in the career, which would make finding remote work much easier.
Many countries, including Australia, do in fact regulate various aspects of casinos and gambling facilities in order to protect the vulnerable. Things like not allowing ATMs in particular areas, lots of signage about addiction and help, mandatory (and audited) return rates etc.

I’m not saying I agree with my government’s approach to this particular problem (tbh it seems like curbing social media addiction, if it happens, will be more of an accident than the intent of this legislation), but the suggestion that we do not regulate other predatory industries is rather misguided.
On the other hand, previous leadership in the U.S. waged a trade war, believing that it would be easily winnable. So there is echo, though not a repeat.
This shouldn't be surprising as Trump was recently found in a Gallup poll to be more admired than Obama and Biden.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/328193/donald-trump-michelle-ob...

> Overall, 18% of Americans name Trump, 15% name Obama, 6% Biden and 3% Fauci.

I do find it a tad bit curious that Biden, with a mere 6% approval rate, was certified to have won the election and Trump apparently lost it when he had thrice Biden's approval rate.
And those things were all bad!

"We have some power so we're gonna do it now, why you so mad" is pure antisocial behavior.

Any movement based on diversity, celebrating differences etc cannot afford that look.
Yeah, it's a great way of burning respect in the team, take on projects you don't have the time or expertise to deliver. There's a special kind of management veto - where an important project gets completely stalled because the manager has decided "I'll take this one" and then spends the next 6 weeks sitting on it because they're too busy dealing with everything else.
I don't really agree with any of this
Twitter Just Created a Custom Font to Better Reflect Its Brand Identity
Heh, this reminds me of the Indiana Pi Bill[0] which tried to legislate the value of Pi. The Indiana bill at least happened a long time ago, unlike the prime minister's statement.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill
Once you file a lawsuit, you have declared war. And all's fair in love and war. Who said that?
I find both interesting and terrifying the dual-entanglement of modern technology: how the Internet, AI, quantum computing, and satellites provide huge economic growth and utility to the world while at the same time making war deadlier and more dangerous than ever. In the Cold War era everybody sat down and said war was too dangerous to fight anymore because of nuclear proliferation, but then found ways around that by fighting proxy and economic wars in non-nuclear areas.

Cyberwarfare is a continuation of this, allowing countries to attack each other by knocking out infrastructure and spreading disinformation. I'm scared of the instability and havoc these new developments will wreak on our world. I hope leaders have the foresight to predict and manage the harm these technologies can cause, maybe with treaties banning the proliferation of dangerous cyber capability. The world failed to do this in WW1, but was somewhat successful with nukes.
I came specifically to the comments for this. Yes, great comment from your side as I disagreed with the fire mentality of the article.

Even if sometimes people need to get fired, I’d say it is more important to make a good hire upfront and normally these people should be very capable and adapt to these dynamic environments.
Just firing on the quickest difficulty says something about beeing rather a bad manager or not knowing how to hire / what to look for.

I’ve seen many incompetent managers firing their tech leader or program leaders just because it did not meet the set arbitrary delivery goals. By firing them it only reinforced the managing-by-fear way of working and lead to a cover-you-a* mentality that things just became even slower...

Thanks for your comment and I wish there were more managers like you!
> First, Cloudrover's link has nothing to do with the law

It has everything to do with the new legislation. I can only suggest you read the article start to finish.

Facebook will be making similar deals soon enough.
A CLI tool to make a single executable AppImage from any website
Things Are Bad in Texas
presume its okay if its pro-biden :)
Please don't take HN threads further into gender flamewar. We don't need or want this here. In particular, this:

> many women wear provocative clothing at work to gain favors. Such women want it both ways

is egregious. No more of that on HN ever please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26170783.

All: The cardinal sin in HN threads like this is not the positions people are arguing for or against, it's the tedium of repetition and nastiness. When people angrily repeat the same arguments that they and others have angrily repeated millions of times previously, there is no curiosity in the field. We want curious conversation here. That has to do with thoughtfully responding to new information, not indignantly objecting to old saws. If you see an egregious comment, please resist the temptation to restart old battles—instead, flag it and move on, as the site guidelines request. If it's really bad, email us at hn@ycombinator.com so we can intervene.

If you really want to read the flamewar, you can set 'showdead' to 'yes' in your profile. Just realize that by doing so you are contracting to see the worst that the internet has to offer this site, not just in this thread but in many others.
No linux version? Man....smh
I'm not too sure about that. THey're not banning political ads, and I doubt that anything Clive Palmer or Pauline Hanson posts is true enough to be classified as "news"
No, I moved on to other projects.
Reducing political content in news feed – About Facebook
I'll send you an email with my real email. I do not have QA experience (unless you count checking items in beauty shops), but I learn fast. We might be a good fit. Sending now.
> People don't want to pay for news. They don't like ads, but will tolerate them to a point, and most definitely don't want to pay for subscriptions

I'm sure I'm not the only person here who subscribes to LWN. People with a special interest in a particular topic are willing to pay subscriptions to specialist news outfits covering that topic. Not enough for them to grow rich but enough for many of them to survive. The real struggle is retaining subscribers to mass-market generalist news as opposed to niche speciality news sources.
This a great comment, and solid feedback. QA sounds like a great step for this person.
What CentOS alternative distro should you choose?
What's wrong with choosing a shorter Jitsi room name in addition to setting a memorable password?
To me it sounds like they went after the symptoms and not the root cause. Which doesn't sound too bad to me.
You may be right, but the implied threat to Microsoft was that most/all Windows user's interactions would be mediated by iOS/Android apps, which would displace Windows apps and the browser. Fortunately for Microsoft, the latter didn't happen, and what at first appeared to be exponential app downloads turned out to be an S-Curve. It turns out people have a maximum number of apps they are willing to install and put up with, but this was not yet known at the height of the mobile wars when Microsoft was fighting to be #3.

I am sure someone inside Microsoft saw this early, and figured that Azure could be a platform-agnostic backend to mobile apps and browser-based apps, without having to completing with Apple since they lack core-competences there. Pivotally, tablets failed to replace desktops in the enterprise market, as was initially predicted (and feared by Microsoft).
Power isn’t the main issue I’d be concerned about re: “lifespan” for signage. I wonder more about how it handles long-term UV exposure, day-night temperature cycles, changing humidity, etc.
Would you care if they took the same approach for your laptop?

I find it hard to ignore that the future of Apple is iOS and MacOS is eventually going to be deprecated. Imagine if you were an Apple exec living and breathing Apple for the past 10 years, surely the OS that you don't get a cut of all app sales on and makes up a fraction of the more profitable OS will feel like the odd one out and the wrong way to do things.

Us, being HN posters obviously find such a statement absurd but imagine you're that Apple exec looking at the charts of how many users are fine with the iOS model, how much more money you make from the iOS model. How could you look at that day in and day out and justify the existence of a legacy OS with legacy ideas like being able to install outside a store like MacOS. Improved privacy/security for users within the store model is the icing on the cake to justify it.
They weren't getting it anyway. Both Google and Facebook represented poor deals for news media and their market power made it impossible to get a better deal.

Miraculously, after the Australian government gets involved, Google is now making deals with news media. Facebook will do the same eventually.
I agree with the sentiment of your comment. But I do get the impression that creativity often comes from bad experiences, trauma and pain.

I am not speaking from experience here.
I don’t think you’ve proved implication here though; as plausible an explanation is simply that the original source has sold your information on regardless?
In my country, at least, having a bank account is a right. You walk into a bank, say that you want an account and they open it on the spot, no questions asked (aside from a mailing address, but you can get that one even when you’re homeless).

The only time they will ask you questions is if you start with putting in huge amounts of money fast - then AML applies.

I know there is an issue with unbanked population in US, but it’s a regulatory one - it doesn’t have to be that way.
Apple sells the computer. There is a reason Microsoft got prosecuted for those 90s contracts and not Gateway. OEMs have the right to decide what software they install at the factory.

Apple Music is available in the Google Play Store but I don’t know of any credible accusation that Apple has tried to get Google to kick Spotify out.
I am mostly talking about my own peers in the Bay Area, which is the subject of this conversation. A significant fraction of people in tech, around my age, here in the Bay Area have parents who are late-career in even more lucrative professions, such as real estate, finance, law, medicine, etc. A lot of them have investment properties in the area. If you go to HotPads or Apartments.com, who do you think are the small landlords you're renting from?
There was a comment by a throwaway account on a recent HN article about e-Ink displays that describes how e-Ink company monopolizes its contribution to epaper device BOMs and how difficult it was to actually integrate their parts. I'm having difficulty finding it but it was posted in the last few days.
Loose Indexscan
This was from a survey by The Adecco Group, where they asked 8000 people from eight countries, but we've seen similar stats across several surveys.

Love the user name, BTW. :-)

If you're curious, source is here:
https://www.adeccogroup.com/future-of-work/latest-insights/w...
I suspect you’re right, but in this case it’s clear that they’re saying “were” because their involvement in the music industry is past tense; they would have little first hand knowledge whether or not it’s common nowadays.
23% of people don't feel safe getting around San Francisco -- wowza.
You should give Pinker a closer read. He does not say that progress is uniform in space or time. He certainly acknowledges there can be set backs. This is exactly why he emphases the importance of reason - to avoid the setbacks that would come from poor decisions.
Is the waymo approach as economically in feasible as people claim?
Most of the scientific Common Lisp code I speak of is/was developed on teams at a handful of companies.
I don't agree. If anything, I think "racist eugenicist", while probably not 100% accurate to what SSC represents, is not as bad as the actual problem here. Racist eugenicists are easy to ignore; people who are Just Asking Questions are a more challenging problem.

That is to say that I don't think SSC is a eugenicist or racist on purpose, necessarily. I think he's a pretty-smart guy who thinks his intellect and knowledge in one area (psychiatry and medicine) gives him the ability to reason about other areas correctly without restriction, and without context that is necessary. For example:

"HBD" as a term is a stand-in for racial science or eugenics. Those are explicitly racist fields of study, and are distinct from things like the study of human genetic variation.[1]

A common misconception is that correctness is a defense to allegations of racism the same way truthfulness is a defense to defamation. It's not the presence of data, but rather the leaps in interpretation of that data which underpin eugenics.

The problem with saying "HBD is mostly correct" is that that statement doesn't mean supporting "data shows Black people have lower IQs as a group in America". (That statement is extremely fraught itself, but it's at least got some data around it[2].) It means supporting "Black people are genetically predisposed to have lower IQs", adding "people with lower IQs are of less societal value than people with high IQs", and ending with "Black people should not be allowed to reproduce so that the population will have a higher IQ overall."

When Siskind/Alexander is saying "HBD" is probably right, he may not realize he's doing this, but that whole chain of logic is the kind of thing he's throwing his hat in, not just the first statement. If he wanted to discuss just that first part, he needs to consider environmental context he simply is not considering, and which eugenics as a "science" purposefully avoids addressing.

He doesn't seem to know what he doesn't know, which to me is more dangerous than knowing what you don't know, and not caring.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_genetic_variation

[2] https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-black-white-test-scor...

Edit: This tweet sums up my concern here: https://twitter.com/ElSandifer/status/1362135175912693766

The arrogance of being sure you are smart enough to never make a mistake in the ideas you pick up is pernicious and deadly.
I’m not really following you. The mortgage is just you paying back the money you borrowed to buy the place.

Are you expecting that owning property should incur no ongoing cost?

By the way, your example mortgage has X number of $1012 monthly payments, and then a final $540,000 payment. That’s why it “costs less” than your taxes/insurance/maintenance.
Defective Sign and Encrypt (2001) (Issues still present in modern protocols)
I would trust Netflix. Other companies? Not so much.

The App Store (and reduced API surface) was a true revolution for the customer. Remember every app installer requiring admin privilege on Windows and creating it's service that runs at startup checking for updates, littering the registry and sometimes installing drivers?

All gone from the App Store. If the app maker doesn't like it he can go target another platform.

Even on Android, the amount of useless software side loaded by the manufacturer is mind boggling.
That's a remarkable misinterpretation of the survey.

> Eighteen percent of the survey's respondents named Trump as their most admired man, compared to 15 percent who named Obama and 6 percent who named President-elect Joe Biden.

Going from "named the most admired by a plurality" to "the most admired" is exactly the same flaw as in first-past-the-post voting.
"Don't hate the player, hate the game!"

But yes I agree that patent reform is sorely needed, for this reason amongst others. There has to be a middle ground where ideas can flourish while their creators can still extract profit.
Currie was much liked by the British command because - while he was clever when he could be - he would fight; would sacrifice Canadian lives in diversionary attacks. (Vimy Ridge was merely a diversionary attack, believe it or don't. It succeeded because the Germans had already moved their main defenses well back.)

As for trenches, they came in with smokeless powder, and were very extensive and elaborate by the end of the U.S. Civil War.

Currie wasn't always magic, (they don't teach you about his messier, less successful battles, and you'll have to hunt for books about them) and was a profound war criminal by today's standards. In Vancouver in training Canadian soldiers were taught by him never to take a German prisoner unless specifically instructed to do so for intelligence reasons. I'm also Canadian, but I knew I was being taught pure crap about the Canadian army (and nearly everything else) in school.
Ben Shapiro and Dan Bongino, and 'conservative media' are alt-right now? Great journalism here. This doofus author clearly shows what he's about.
Hey HN,

I'm a Seattle developer looking to make system designs better for everyone. I've been researching this space for a while. I experienced and heard of various difficulties with the current solutions or workarounds (virtual whiteboards, physical whiteboards, pen+paper).

Currently, it's catered towards the interview scenario at this point by providing out of the box utilities and common design icons.
This will be an ongoing effort to improve the system design experience and building something useful.

I'd be happy to discuss and answer questions about the platform and system design in general.

If you would be willing to try it out and provide feedback, I'd love to chat and learn more!

Cheers,

Cecil
I'm going to echo what exdsq said as well, support or QA roles would be a good in to a company, provide you with some tech associated experience even if its not directly coding. With QA you might be able to start out doing some exploratory testing, move more into scripting up some automated tests to gather more experience writing code even if would just be simple scripts to start. This will get you some experience with source control, working with other automated testers if the org has it and potentially lead you to pivitoting to an SDET as you get more experience then based on your experience with that stuff you could pivot to development work.

Producing good work in your current position and having great communication skills can get you very far relatively fast in my personal experience.

Finding jobs through HN has worked for me in the past, in the search just type {month} {year} and look through the whos hiring threads ctrl-f for remote, look through the companies listings and see if they got anything new even if the post is a couple months old! HN can be a cheatcode to getting an interview rather than cold applying through monster.com or some shit like that.

Good luck!
> The Moderna vaccine was created in a weekend

I may have misremembered slightly but I seem to recall 42 days fromm sequence identification, leveraging a roughly 10-year project related to related coronavirus work (MERS).

So, not exactly a weekend.

Also, there were several candidates developed in parallel, but others failed at various trial stages. Less effective testing (and your proposal is less effective, both for safety and efficacy) might mean people get vaccines sooner, but it also means they get less effective and more dangerous vaccines sooner, meaning more people die of vaccines (bad for first order effects, and worse for the second order effect of increasing public vaccine reluctance) and that instead of stopping spread by vaccination we increase the selective pressure for diverse, resistant new variants without doing so.
They eventually got it sorted out, but for awhile it was.... less than stellar.