skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there a plan to address notification fatigue? It's less of an issue with calendars because calendar events tend to be important and synchronous. I'm worried that aggregating more data sources would add a lot of noise, but I can see a lot of value in being able to surface high priority items.
This is one reason I loved MISL, the Major Indoor Soccer League, back around 1980 — scores in the high single digits were common.

https://www.fourfourtwo.com/us/features/major-indoor-soccer-...

> Played on artificial turf in ice hockey arenas with teams of six, 12ft-by-6ft nets, a hi-vis orange ball and rebounds off the hockey boards, this was the Americanisation of football taken to its logical conclusion. Games would produce 10 to 20 goals; one 1980 match saw a record 165 shots on target. The American obsession with stats was also catered for: players were precisely graded with points for goals and assists. It worked. Supporters weaned on the all-action scoring of basketball preferred it to the 'boring' one-nils of the NASL, and flocked to watch.
most importantly, those machines were not fully pipelined (if at all) and certainly not capable of out of order execution, so the inherent forced serialization of a linked list traversal was not an issue.
Disclaimer: I don't watch this channel, can't vouch for other vids.

The youtube algorithm suggested this to me the other day, posting it here because it's pretty relevant.

When Wokes and Racists actually agree on everything: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev373c7wSRg
I always thought cross-platform meant "more than one platform", but I guess I don't really know if that's how it's typically used.
It is solved as well as current technology allows.
Yes, that is not perfect, but it is pretty good.
Not providing the current treatment just because it might be better some day would be cruel.

And no, that is not what creates tensions at all. What actually creates the tension is that the affected group just wants to have equal rights and then be left alone while the other side does not want to allow either.
Maybe they're trying to force a violent response from the right, so they can use the power of the state to crush them?
Some counter thoughts.

1. Maintaining separate cups is a social oddity. my mom follows the same principle. House members have their own cups/plates, guests have their own cups/plates. even if my relatives come to my home they will use guest set. My mom protests if i eat in my sister's plate. Nothing related to caste.

Lower caste people banned from entering homes is a bit of a stretch. Are you saying upper caste people are getting their water filter serviced with upper caste repairmen? They will allow whoever the water filter company sends them.

I went to homes of all my college classmates and dined in their homes, none of the parents stopped me and asked my caste before entering.

2. this is accurate with some minor changes. i have been in all 4 groups. forming a support circle is easier with something in common.

3. i highly doubt its 99%. you are just pulling these numbers out of thin air. In my small family circle, i can count 1 inter-religion marriage, 5 inter-caste marriage. i am not even in a metro city. i can put the number as 80%-20%

4. i agree with subconcious bias. its hard to measure. it may be there. it may not be there.
Is there an opportunity to make a cheaper Dropbox? Their paid service is very expensive.
It's the Mac equivalent of thumbs.db from Windows.

Serves a purpose on one OS, and that OS hides it from view by default.
Bitwarden does have the concept of a fingerprint phrase [1] which is similar to the Signal feature you mentioned.

I would be cool to see this feature incorporated into Bitwarden Send.

[1] - https://bitwarden.com/help/article/fingerprint-phrase/
China successfully launches new Long March 7A on second attempt – SpaceNews
I mean, France is possibly an extreme case here, but in most developed countries this would be pretty unthinkable (assuming it really is a law that just allows small businesses fire people without notice in normal circumstances; firing people without notice for gross misconduct or due to liquidation is generally allowed, though in the liquidation case the employees would then usually be creditors for the notice pay that should have been paid in most places).
SvelteKit is the official recommended way to build apps with
the Svelte JS framework. Fast reload development with vitejs, deployed with static or serverless adapters.
I couldn't disagree more. I absolutely LOVE VimCal, and one of the reasons for that is the menubar functionality.

Showing a countdown to my next meeting in my menubar, with one click video join, is super useful. The app itself shows how much room for improvement in calendar apps there is - their availability sharing and time travel features are consistently deeply helpful

This is all to say, I think this product approach has a lot of merit. I primarily use Vimcal in its "App Mode", not its "Menubar Mode", but its menubar mode is super valuable.

I happily pay Vimcal $15/mo, and love seeing in the space. Google Calendar and iCal are fucking terrible. I hope the SuperPowered guys crush it.
Yes, but if you actually measure some scenarios, it is usually overall faster to pay the cost of O(1) copy. This of course depends on how often you insert things into the middle, vs how often you iterate over the collection. But on a modern computer it is surprising how big that ratio needs to be! In Knuths prime this tradeoff didn't really exist, because memory accesses were about at the same speed as executing an instruction, rather than ~200 times slower.
Agreed on the last 2 minutes of play.

The fouling is usually by the team trying to mount a last-moment come-back (stop the leading teams momentum, hope they miss the free-throws, and then get possession and shot to close the gap). Making penalties more costly would prevent this and likely just allow the leading team t to win. Though maybe they generally do anyways, so no real loss? I'd have to look at past game stats.

TOs - We could probably do without them in the last moments. That would shift focus from the coach to the team captain to coordinate play. Less set plays, more fluid teamwork. Possibly a net gain for the viewer with no real impact on the teams?
Wow! What a coincidence! I will be in touch with you.
Toolset for building a company/career by first principles
Ha ha ha! I wasn't expecting to be quoted in this article :) but I can confirm that someone did actually tell me that about not wanting to recommend Ember
One of the author's points was that it doesn't matter if Huawei's new OS is a git clone of android. So what? Android itself is, at its roots, a variant (cline?) of Linux, after all. The author seems to believe that Huawei will build on their clone of Android over time and make it their own.

The author's other point seems to be that many westerners don't seem to get that it doesn't matter. So what if they didn't "innovate". I'd guess that the author would say that they don't care about innovation for innovations sake. They care about winning in the market. They care about selling product and making money.

Finally, about the cheating/lies thing... I think the author explained it rather poorly. Though perhaps he was simplifying to try to get his point across. The real core, IMO, is that what most people in the west think of as cultural differences -- food, clothing, music, etc -- are just a façade. Actual cultural differences are differences in what people of varying cultures think are good and bad, what they view as moral and immoral, ethical and unethical. To accept that other cultures actually exist, you have to accept that they actually accept that something you feel is good, they feel is bad. That something you think is immoral, they believe to be moral. Not everything of course (probably not even most things), there seem to be a lot of shared aspects between cultures. But some things.

The author asserts that "stealing" intellectual property is one of these things. But.. don't lots of techies in America spout the whole "information must be free" rhetoric? Or do they mean only when it's someone else's IP? <shrug>
But why use Bitcoin for that? You could use GME shares and get the volatility without the crazy power usage, or use a stable ETF.
Rushworth claimed Sweden had reached herd immunity in September 2020. (https://www.facebook.com/sebastianrushworth/posts/when-i-pro...)

Sweden's current and largest spike occurred shortly afterwards in October. (https://covid19.who.int/region/euro/country/se; screenshot at https://imgur.com/a/lml2iiw showing the date of his claim and cases/deaths afterwards)
Firefox Note-Taking Add-On
What is to prevent duplication or deletion of the private key though?
That’s pretty nice of them to see the value that this drives more sales for Duolingo. Most execs would shut efforts like this.
Bounded Block Backlog
I think the first part is already true? "underwrite" was probably the wrong word to use in my original post. the federal government doesn't really underwrite loans anymore; it directly issues them. the federal loan options all have yearly limits already. if I understand correctly, the remaining private loans are actually not underwritten by the federal government.

but anyways, I don't really see the point in having the federal government issue loans knowing it will end up forgiving a large chunk of them. why not just package that money as grants to the neediest students instead?
> I am skeptical that there is caste baste discrimination in workplaces though. But there might still be subconscious bias.

Planet Money has an excellent episode[1] on caste-based discrimination in the workplace—in Silicon Valley specifically. I'm not very knowledgeable about such things, but it was an interesting (an aggravating) listen as an outsider.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2020/10/14/923736245/caste-arrives-in-si...
Early in the pandemic, there was a site called "c19study.com" that claimed that every single study on HCQ showed that it was beneficial (and of course any study that didn't show benefit was 'misinterpreting their results', so the site helpfully offered their own alternate study summary and marked it positive anyway). They also posted graphs that showed that COVID was magically way lower in every country that used HCQ as opposed to countries that didn't. Of course this was early on in the pandemic when different countries were further along than others in spread, so the graphs were meaningless.

The premise of the site was that if we just gave everyone HCQ, the pandemic would magically be resolved and the graphs obviously proved it. Various people passed it around as if it was scientific proof that HCQ worked super well but was being hidden or something. But if you read it with even a cursory critical thought, it was clear it was one-sided junk science and extreme cherrypicking.

This site is literally that same website as the earlier c19study.com, but now with a new domain name and expanded and rebranded as an IVM study. In fact, now they've franchised out and have like 20 different magic cures with a site for each one! But it's still the same junk science. And of course all those earlier graphs that "proved" ICQ was working because Brazil used HCQ and didn't have any cases are now gone because all those countries have since had huge outbreaks, just like almost everyone else.

I'm not saying anything about IVM as a treatment. I have no idea what affect it has. And I understand that the establishment has screwed up a lot of things - like for instance the horrible epidemic forecasting that has been way off, time and time again - so I understand why people are looking for alternate answers. But what I do know is that I wouldn't pull my evidence from this silly site.

And luckily we do actually have a miracle drug for COVID now that we know works - It's called a vaccine.
thanks for the share!
> too many businesses and organisations are reluctant to use data – either because they don’t understand the rules or are afraid of inadvertently breaking them

I’m sure they’ll feel much better when there’s yet another set of rules and laws they’ll have to follow. Oof.
I always wonder what future archaeologists in will read into artifacts from our time when they find them in 2000 years...
What do you mean by problems at Costco? I've visited a few of them and I can't say people behave at the ones in California any different than the ones in Texas. It's crowded but everyone speaks english and follows the rules.
> * Germans have stringent anti-hate speech laws * ... yet there are still German extremists!

Yeah I found that a bit of a strange point. I don't think the goal of Germany's anti-hate laws was to magically and completely eradicate extremism. It was to prevent them from getting powerful enough to take Germany back down the path to darkness that they did during the Third Reich.

Not to say that I think their model should replicated or exported, just that I don't think that's right lens to view it through. Just like saying, 'Well the Civil Rights Act didn't eradicate racism, what's the point?'
It does not matter since it is a consequence of the GDPR anyway. Regulators can't just push aside negative consequences of their regulations by simply saying "that's not what we meant nor the outcome we wanted". This is why regulations fail. Regulators think they are providing incentives for good things and disincentives for bad things. In reality, they are just perverting incentives. To fix those problems more rules are added, and the cycle goes on. Pretty soon you have a foot high stack of regulations that small business owners can't afford to consider or follow so they just don't exist at some point.
That wasn't the argument. My mom died, I know others that died and I know the history behind it. It used to be truth seeking was important. There is truth to what Trump was saying.

At the time he made that statement the opiate epidemic was still in full swing. You can take the media narrative that it was racism, but 70k dead a year for the last decade requires a more nuanced look.
In fairness to the UK, they probably aren't going to become 80% foreign real-estate scams, 20% resource extraction. Well not the latter, at least.
Not just the US, the UK has credit scoring too, there I think 3 credit scoring agencies.
When I moved here from Europe the entire notion of credit card and credit scoring was new to me.
I still use my debit card whenever possible though, just spending enough on the credit card to avoid getting it cancelled due to not using it.
How is it undisputably bad? This woman now has access to higher quality men around the world instead of a random farmer without much to offer (no offense to the random farmers in the audience).

She now has the option to leave a dead end rural lifestyle is she chooses. And if she's into the dead end rural life (insert whatever dumb american tropes we have that idealize wasteful rural modes of living), she won't find rich, high flying city guys very appealing and it's all a wash. Or maybe she wants to move to a different dead end rural community with a better match than the random farmer she happened to be born next to. Now she can do that on farmers only.

You could say some good and some bad (and of course very bad for the random farmer whose main reproductive strategy was apparently counting on his mate not realizing he's not a catch and there are much better options), but you can't say it's only bad.

Ideally, none of these people reproduce at all since we already have plenty of humans. Hopefully the shift to digital relationships can greatly reduce our headcount in the long run. This trend seems well underway already thankfully.
Ancient Earth was a water world
It is maybe not such a bad thing that now and again a woman secures the financial independence she needs to look beyond the life she was born into in her tiny rural community.
That's only true in the sense that every phrase can be a "neutral observation" if you choose to ignore the context in which it is used and the associations it has.

It's the same concept as dogwhistling at its core. Like the terms "urban", or "big government", or "states' rights", or "law and order". Completely "neutral phrases" that are often used to communicate a hidden message with plausible deniability. I mean after all, who could disagree that "all lives matter" – it's obvious isn't it?

I don't really accept it's all that hard to be aware of the implications of the language you use to communicate. I suppose you might theoretically step on a "landmine", but I'll tell you what – I am virtually certain that nobody who has said "it's okay to be white" to their audience has accidentally stumbled upon a neutral phrase with good intentions.
Oh please. I took care of a few pigs and cattle as a child, including cleaning up manure. It wasn't that hard and certainly not dangerous.
I think any sport to a novice will seem inaccessible.

For example, many Americans see soccer as slow and boring and are bothered by the low scores and frequent draws. None of those things are a detriment for hundreds of millions of global soccer fans who see the game as fast and exciting (which it is).

All I can tell you is that following the puck is a non-issue to hockey fans. As others mentioned, at some point you just get a feel for what's going on and you'll have no problem figuring out where the puck is and following the action. If you want to be into hockey, invest time and join some hockey communities to learn the 'meta' of the game, and you'll get it.
Putting aside your ridiculous stereotypes; it's a bad thing becaauuuuse... What?

Are you one of those people who get super scared when women are too independent or make more money than you?
Ok Dad.
Show HN: remove unproductive and expensive meeting
How is it not? With these systems people can transact with anyone else on the planet with near complete privacy and with no need to trust any third party. This is world-changing technology.

You could say that the system is inefficient. I agree with that. It's not just energy consumption and carbon emissions either. Users literally pay the cost in the form of ridiculously expensive transaction processing fees. It must change in order to be more efficient and less expensive to use.

I don't agree that it doesn't offer sufficient value to society. It's extremely valuable technology that is currently being limited by high costs. We need to drive the costs down.
YC seems pretty committed to hard tech startups, there's a big list here: https://www.ycombinator.com/library/4r-yc-and-hard-tech-star...

It'd be interesting to see their % of investments in hard tech startups versus the entire VC industry. Ten years ago the entire VC industry was almost exclusively investing in software startups where many of them were sort of gimmicky social media apps or just taking a traditionally offline business and putting it on the cloud, I'd argue that YC was one of the first ones to buck that trend, Sam has a handful of posts just on hard startups.

YC made 398 investments in 2020 and I estimated that at least 33 of them could be considered "hard tech" [1]. It's hard to judge what startups are "trivial software" versus "hard tech" without looking through each one, so I tried to just filter out anything software-related, even though many of those (maybe even most) are probably as non-trivial as a hard tech startup.

1. https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/?batch=S20&batch=W20&i...
haha! cool
Embrace the look.

Glasses + glare makes you look like a super hacker.
Can Tech Die? (2019)
Hi folks!

I joined a company a few months ago. From the 16th of November to the 31st of December 2020 I've spent 20 days in meetings. I started to decline most of the meetings to avoid being overwhelmed by them. But then I started to notice that my team is also impacted by meetings.
I decided to do user research and this is a problem known by others companies, so that's why I decided to start building a little solution.

I don't know if it is the best approach but I built a little MVP that gives you an estimated cost of the meeting every time you are invited to a meeting or you organize a meeting. If the meeting seems too expensive we will invite you to cut the meeting and send an asynchronous video with text to your colleagues.

You can also record video and write some texts with it if you just want to update your team.

From a technical standpoint, I'm a new engineer (I did a quick Bootcamp), so it was not easy to build. I had a lot of fun building it, and I'm really excited by the problem so any feedback is welcomed as I would like to iterate to build something love!

ps: if you don't know who to update, feel free to send me a little video at kevin@deepfocus.today. Then you will have the possibility to access the cost-meeting feature.

ps bis: by trying to get the estimated cost of the meeting you won't be able to stop receiving notifications by yourself. Please contact me at kevin@deepfocus.today and I will make sure you won't receive any more notification
Rushworth is not credible. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26436719
Thanks a lot! Could you paste it here? Work firewall blocks that site.
No one ever considers the entropy of a name.
For that much, it should have been an HDR png or tiff. Unless the compression artifacts 'add to the charm.'
Awesome, man, thank you!
More like, the very real problems it causes haven't caused its popularity to tank.

One major issue is that because goals are so scarce and penalty kicks are so high-percentage, there is an extreme incentive to dive.
Field hockey is present in the US, but ice hockey is far more popular. This article is about the US/Canadian top-level ice hockey league... I can't say I've ever heard of professional field hockey play in the US, much less a nation-wide league.
I did not read the OP as making normative claims, I read the OP as making claims about things that quite possibly could be measured, provided the author stoped waving his hands and was specific. For example, the opening two sentences:

I try to write using ordinary words and simple sentences.
... That kind of writing is easier to read, and the easier something is to read, the more deeply readers will engage with it.

This is a claim suggesting a cause-and-effect relationship between a certain type of writing and a certain behaviour on the part of people who read the article.

My feeling is that this claim could be falsifiable, provided the OP got specific about what "ordinary words" are, what "simple sentences" are, and what kind of "engagement" we wish to measure.

If he did so, the claim would be falsifiable. And in truth, I'm not going to say that if he did get precise, it would still not be falsifiable. Experience tells me that yes, we can identify cause-and-effect relationships between empirically measurable characteristics of prose and precise engagement metrics.

That is exactly the kind of thing that people do when they try to manufacture "clickbait" headlines.

But he chose to make these claims without being specific, and to me this is what makes it non-falsifiable, but not normative.

JM2C.
Hardrock:
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/radioanywhere/walk-alone
Analog Synth stuff:
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/schaltstern/bCN
FSD is the most important project for Tesla that can make it immensly profitable (10x-es the value of each car if it can serve customers non-stop without a driver).

So whatever people think of Tesla being too slow, Elon has the biggest incentive to make FSD working as soon as possible.

Personally he said that China wants him to enable it end of this year, and we know that China can arrange things even if it compromises safety (let's hope it doesn't increase the number of accidents).

Also a trip with Tesla FSD Beta is almost 2 times faster than Waymo right now, because it takes left turns as well, and drives aggressively. I expect Tesla to turn left turns off for FSD first.