skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was wondering how anyone could trust a "Private Investment Club" that cannot afford a technician who can fix the audio. I mean, this sounded like a crappy room mic picking up the audio from the speakers instead of a direct signal. Somebody should buy them a $100 mixer from Behringer or something like that.
Show HN: GitHub style split diffs in your terminal
> Part of what went wrong at the start of COVID around March 2020 was the reactive approach waiting for hard proof that the disease would slip through the borders before cancelling flights. This approach runs a risk that any action will be taken too late.

Humanity has been underestimating and downplaying the disease from the very start. We closed too late, re-opened (multiple times) too early, timidly agonized over every little decision, failed to enforce decisions once made, and then collectively acted shocked, SHOCKED! that it went out of control.

We've had a year to learn what's effective, and have learned a lot. The problem isn't knowledge about the virus, it's lack of political will to actually do anything about it. We know stopping flights and closing borders helps. Why are we so slow to do it?
I'm not saying it's a linear function either. I think it varies. But I also don't think the value added per unit of resources used is growing exponentially. So the problem still remains, because anything short of exponential function isn't going to impact the overall trend long-term.
Why this latching onto election rallies and kumbh. Cases are exploding in Karnataka. No election or Kumbh here. Same for Maharastra.
YC doesn't need me to defend it, and nothing I've written is specific to YC. I have plenty of points of disagreement with YC, and people/companies connected to it. This essay/thread isn't about any of those things. It's just about "haters" vs valid criticism, and I keep replying to people who try and refute the essay by saying founders should be accepting of valid criticism, which the essay doesn't dispute. If you think I'm wrong about that, explain how I'm wrong. Refuting a person's contribution to a discussion by casting them as a "cult member" doesn't help your case in this of all topics.

For what it's worth, the personal bias I do have in this topic is in support of people like Suhail who are building products/ideas that seem crazy to most. The one I want to be working on, and that I earnestly believe could solve a lot of big problems over the long term, is one that even YC likely wouldn't fund/support, and that would certainly attract more resistance than Mighty. But that's for me to work through. I'm cool with where I'm at, but I’m going to keep having a soft spot for people like Suhail who spend years working on something that others think are crazy, as that’s the way the important problems (indeed, far bigger problems than slow websites) are going to be solved.
No, but I have developed a different issue with disassociation.

If I’m outside under bright sunlight in an open area, I can sometimes see trees starting to become pixelated. I slowly find myself thinking in a character in a video game. This is somewhat dangerous. Actions in a video game generally has few meaningful little consequences. In the real world, death has a annoying tendency to be rather permanent.
Nicely explained. I like the idle operators/row dichotomy. At a system level push based systems suffer from the same weakness as event driven systems: incompleteness. You can never be sure you haven't missed an event because it was dropped during system startup, network partition, failover, queue full, buffer overflow, packet drop, etc. This doesn't always matter, but with a pull based system you know the result is based on all the data, but as you point out, that has a cost too.
This entire episode is a great example of how the SV crowd really is full of groupthink and ideology despite their veneer of being rational. Everyone who isn't in the SV RDF can see the limits of AI today for example youtube copyright strikes, failures of AVs to take over the streets, and so on and so on. AI is useful but it clearly has limitations but the industry can't recognize it because they're high on their own supply.
> I think OP explains it, actually:

> Note: not, 'the users'. Not 'the readers'. There's nothing about inadequate multilingual support, performance optimizations from Variable Fonts, improved legibility as established by experiments, unusual design requirements like uniwidth or light traps, none of that. They are just yet another sans font. (Would even typographers be able to distinguish these 5 new fonts from the vast, enormous, groaning backlog of bland sans fonts which already exist?)

> It's all about we, the designers, being bored.

Yes because office 365 is a finished product and there are no more bugs to be fixed. But it really shows how microsoft works: instead of fixing years old bugs they change the default font.

> I've become convinced after my past few years of reading design & typography material (like the last 3 decades of 'I Love Typography') that the real reason for most fonts being commissioned or purchased is simply because designers crave the novelty and are bored with their usual fonts, and it's essentially a kind of fringe benefit - like software developers going to conferences or being allowed to use the weird new language du jour for side projects. It's not necessarily a bad thing, but it does mean that you shouldn't take all of the dressed-up justifications much more seriously than, say, wine tasting descriptions.

Fully agree. All those fonts look the same and anyway, people just use templates.
Vietnam Was the Poorest Country. Why Do Its Students Outscore the US?
It's not that clear for me. Out of your examples, only Gmail and Google Pay are actually created by Google (or by people working at Google at the time of creation), the rest are acquisitions.

And your use case for Facebook et al is obviously different than how many others see it. Being the first truly wordwide social network has to count for something, even though we're not sure it was a good idea in the first place. The world is big and people use/like different things, and it's all relative in the end.

Hence wfhbata's comment without any naming, can be seen from both perspectives.
For people unfamiliar, this video is a perfect intro to Don Norman:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY96hTb8WgI
I think you mean FileCoin.

You can really use some spare capacity for StorJ (I have a Jail with 2TB of disk space on my FreeNAS) but not at all for Filecoin.

StorJ: https://docs.storj.io/node/before-you-begin/prerequisites#ha...

Filecoin: https://docs.filecoin.io/mine/hardware-requirements/#general...
Breaking a voluntarily agreed upon exclusive arrangement is not the same as not submitting to someone's request to go along their individual perception of reality.
Strangely you are exempt if you’re a kind of entertainment company with a large volume of customers.
Bad ones on the other hand make you buy their badly photocopied, handwritten notes from the university copy center, where the receipt is itemized as:

Binding and printing: $1.50

Royalties to professor X: $$

I literally changed majors back in my school days over those shenanigans by the department head.
Are the cartels facing a labour shortage or something and sticking to their core competency and opting-out of other industries?
Discussed here yesterday:

I’m now in charge of Audacity [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26995610 - April 2021 (59 comments)
Starter homes on the Peninsula are less than $1m. Maybe you are restricting yourself to high end Peninsula neighborhoods?
Why Is Tesla Testing a RAM 1500 TRX?
People will complain about copyright precisely until they have some creative work of theirs sold by someone else. Professional authors cannot exist without copyright.
How to get rid of all your intolerant, activist employees in 1 easy move.
I don't understand why you're ok with dying on this hill.

He's a scammer. If you had actually watched the video and listened to the explanations by Snowden and looked up the court case that you're saying the scammer was not guilty in but WAS FOUND GUILTY then you would either delete your comments or edit them to say you're wrong.

Many times these things aren't black and white. This is one case where it is. Please don't defend obvious scams. Don't give any gap for them to somehow convince people that they're on the up and up because those victim will be hurt.

Snowden is using his name and appearance to out this guy and I'm very ok with that.
You don't need to review the whole video, the accusing side should provide the exact time at which the alleged violation happens.
Writing Linux Kernel Keylogger
Android Podcast Apps – Altneratives to Spotify and Google Podcasts
Today I found that Google Podcasts has deleted all of my podcast subscriptions, and I was thinking of ditching it anyway. I'm interested in your recommendations for Android podcast apps, other than Spotify, which I don't like.
It's pretty asinine to pretend these entry level jobs teach anyone anything. Let it be automated.

The kids that are hard-working and poor will find something else to do. You don't have a right to exploit kids.
I don't think that is correct. Underlying much of LINQ is IEnumerable<T>, which implements the classic Current and MoveNext() iterator pattern. The foreach keyword uses IEnumerable<T> to "pull" elements one at a time.

LINQ's syntax is just syntactic sugar on top of chained method calls to various interface extension methods.
Or just straight up property crime. Breaking a window to steal $3 in change.

Not sure why/how the property insurance industry hasn’t lobbied government for this yet.
But they are supposed to pay for an ever increasing tuition bill with 1990's minimum wage?
> If the accused disputes, they too file a deposit.

If you can't afford to loss $100, you probably can't afford to temporarily not have it either.
https://www.arsouyes.org/phrack-trad/phrack59/phrack59_0x0e.... (french version)
I've met Bram Cohen and have no difficulty believing he's sincere about his aims, and also so smart in some dimensions that it's overflowed into foolishness.
Left and right wings belong to the same vulture.
At least one past thread - maybe others?

The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 4: The only thing that matters (2007) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14412463 - May 2017 (17 comments)
Where is this? At Senior level in London it can take days once you're good and ready.

Basecamp is fully remote isn't it? So it could be anywhere.
Just for the sake of those who might misunderstand this comment:

She wasn't a "Civil War widow" per se. She was not widowed by the death of her husband in the Civil War. She was seventeen years old in 1936, and married a ninety-three year old Civil War veteran. She was the widow of a Civil War veteran.
I read their comment not as saying that standardized tests are Pearson's fault, but that Pearson gets states to mandate that they are Pearson tests.
> [1] I'm suspicious of the majority of cases where this claim is made. A rational business person would see that such a business is already marginal and that they would likely be better off shutting it down and redeploying the capital elsewhere for a better return.

Now do family farms.
They are different. Most “bugs” people see are insects. Spiders are not insects.

Lots of spiders spins webs. This requires very careful stepping, so you are quite correct, their movements are very calculated. They have to step on a high wire, possibly vertically, while avoiding the sticky parts, getting knocked off, hit by prey, etc
That's the magnitude of new detected infections. Pakistan has conducted 1/4th tests per-capita compared to India. 1/6th for Bangladesh. So I don't think there's much to see there. I'm comparing the inflection points and curves on the graphs.
It's a worthy thought.

Mainly what I customize is to make one computer like the rest of mine. Main examples:

The command key isn't where the Ctrl key is and my hands mess that up. So I flip the key locations.

Identical hotkeys for pulling up a console, opening apps.

Making iterm2 and terminator behave the same.

Identical bash settings.

Etc.

I use a Mac and an Ubuntu machine side by side all day and need them to respond the same to my muscle memory.
Its your Roku hardware remote that you buy. When the remote is paired with the TV, the tv recognizes the remote (HW signed, TV manufacturer approves this whitelist), the tv downloads the roku operating system and starts running it. This simply replaces wasteful HDMI interfaces, SoCs, etc and provides hooks for the tv to have better control over the experience. You could imagine extending this to video game controllers like Amazon Luna or Google Stadia.
The policy is only one part of it. No more 360 peer reviews. Allowing a diversity group then eliminating it. Announcing it all with a blogpost. And more.

It’s putting up with terrible leadership that seems to want to keep their heads buried in the ground and not have to deal with anything.
Thank you so much for this. Pure gold.
Copyright enforcement should be on the copyright holders. YouTube shouldn’t have to build AI to scan for copyrighted material. Copyright holders need to a person verify all copyright claims and be liable for the opposite exact same amount of damages that would be rewarded for legitimate copyright claim.
I've found the lack of resources to learning Elisp a challenge. I haven't finished it, but Robert J. Chassell's 'An introduction to programming in Emacs Lisp' seems to run through basic concepts but doesn't really get to the meat of actually putting everything together. (Could be wrong) And the Elisp manual reads like the output of an Elsip macro - so terse, so few examples, so much over my head. I've found Xah Lee's website helpful, but also completely overwhelming in all its detail. I'm after a guide. So I'm looking forward to this book by Marcin Borkowski.

Maybe others have suggestions of other ways to pick up Elisp?
What if it's early and we just don't know yet? Everyone acts as though "COVID is almost behind us" which is part of why we keep seeing these new waves. We are in such a rush to get back to normal at all costs, and keep doing it too early.
Even if these particular theoretical approaches to FTL are later shown to be impossible, couldn't there be other ideas later on that we can't foresee (in terms of manipulating space, not necessarily travelling through space at > c)? Isn't human history littered with such examples? How long have we been doing physics for, and how stupid are we as a species?

It seems that you place the subjective probability of either the wormhole/warpdrive ideas working out, or some as-yet undiscovered alternative coming about in the distant future, at sub-1%. To me that seems quite low.

This seems distinct to me to saying that a specific math proof will be true eternally, since that's a deductive pursuit.

Also FTL doesn't seem to be necessary. An alien civilization could feasibly have sent out Von Neumann probes at sub-light speed and have populated an extremely large radius over the span of a few billion years.

> low-resolution, blurry photo

This is a common refrain, but there exists high quality UFO footage. It could all be CGI or ball lightning, and the burden of proof is higher than mere video, but not all footage is low-quality.
> Higher labor costs makes real estate prices go down.

Well, it might by your argument make commercial rents, and thus commercial prices, go down. But it also means more money chasing the median residential unit (whether rent or purchase), so it should increase residential prices. Absent zoning constraints, that would seem to encourage shifting from commercial to residential land use
I'd make SF and all the large costal cities look like this https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Hong_Kon.... That is enough density to have a condo cost 100k instead of 500k. Sure there will be a decent amount of taxes and HOA fees, but that would turn housing into a utility rather than a government subsidy for the middle class. Also you could wire fibre to each unit and solve the internet speed problem for these NIMBYified cities.
Over the next year or so, Google will try out new office designs
> This is because there are such things as both a high-functioning company and a low-functioning company, and the difference isn’t that one wants to build product more than the other.

I'm not sure about that. In my experience, it's about priorities, and some people find e.g. political activism more important than building products. When they have to decide between "more activism" or "more products", they value activism higher.

I don't think it's a junior/senior thing, and not everybody will end up where they feel like they + the company have "grown apart". In this case, from afar, it looks like most in the company (including the founders) where pretty political, but some employees got more radicalized and the founders (who essentially set the company direction) did not.

It's a kind of schism, but it's best for everyone involved to let it happen. I find that kind of generous buy-out a very good way to do it. Some have suggested that it's some kind of demonstration of power, but I don't see that: in a power play, they would've fired the problematic employees (and having worked with activist employees, I'm confident that everyone knew who they were), not given them a large bonus for leaving. They've extended the bonus to everyone (which is great as well, you're not rewarding the bad apples, to so speak), and I wouldn't be surprised if some took the offer purely because of the money.
This is a threat that won’t be fully mitigated until one’s browser is updated to flush the Micro-Op cache.

Of course in the meantime, safe browsing practices such as avoiding untrusted Javascript will provide protection. But then, we should always be doing that anyway, so it's not as if this should be changing behavior of the average, security-conscious person. It's just another in an unending series of threats.
https://www.fool.com/amp/investing/general/2015/10/18/the-av...

These aren't those exact numbers but they're close enough to make the $1,000 number seem realistic.
Well, if ML people didn't use the word "regression" and named their use of it differently that would also upset stats people.

The point is, when you listen to an ML person introduce regression in a lecture it will look and feel different from when a stats person does it. ML-type regression is part of ML. Stats type regression doesn't cut it. They care about different aspects, flesh out stuff that's not very relevant for ML and ignore parts that are more important for ML.
Musk Can Pocket Another $32B of Tesla Shares
>> they may take a rash decision that they’d regret later

> Sorry to be that guy, but: "how?"

By surviving the attempt. The suicide success rate is not 100%.

Plenty of interviews of people who, after initiating the act, report realizing what they did was a mistake.
Permission from the authors is unfortunately different from permission by the copyright holders. IIRC Weird Al did it more for goodwill than legality.
You are commenting on a thread that is literally about an entire country's healthcare system collapsing because of this virus. People in their 30s and 40s who would otherwise have survived with appropriate medical care, are dying because they can't get hospital beds.

The raw facts are that lockdowns and other COVID restrictions saved millions of lives. I'm open to arguments about other balancing factors but they must come from an underlying view that some restrictions on personal liberty are completely legitimate in emergencies. Skeptics like the signatories of the "Great Barrington Declaration" should learn from India, take the L and have some more humility next time.
Which emerging variants are you talking about? The Twitter thread I link above talks about the variants that are spreading a lot and from what I see, experts are calm about the level of effectiveness of the vaccines against them.
I'd add to this the thought of supporting a dumping-ground approach where people can throw suggestions, rants, complaints etc "over the wall" into a giant wiki/knowledgebase or bug tracker type environment that accepts OC submissions or just links to external discussions or sources of insight.

Hmm. Now I'm wondering whether such a thing should be run for a finite period, or left open to track improvement over time. Perhaps the system could be cyclic, with "calls for feedback" that would require re-submission into each cycle. This would have the advantage of effectively auto-closing all unfinished work after feedback invitations, but the disadvantage of frustrating repeat submitters of issues that generally don't get prioritized. ...You know what, there are probably good established ways of doing this, Microsoft probably knows this stuff backwards, and the Blender foundation seem to have a good feedback thing going so they probably know a thing or two as well.

Regardless of how it's done, spreading the fact that it is being done far and wide is IMO crucial (eg, getting this onto as many OSS/tech news sites as possible) - and I also think that the _worse_ the signal/noise ratio, the better, as I reckon this would be a good indicator that the long tail of the interesting really-edge cases are effectively being captured!
Why was my exam paper returned as ash?
Housing inflation is based on rent prices not the price of home units. Purchasing a home unit is an investment and not a consumable good.

Edit:

Downvoted for stating facts. From above:

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/factsheets/owners-equivalent-rent-an...

“Why doesn’t the CPI include the cost of buying and financing houses as well as property taxes and home maintenance and improvement?

Houses and other residential structures are not consumption items and, therefore, should not be CPI items. All buildings and structures are capital goods, which are items that provide a service. In the case of houses and other residential structures, that service is shelter.

Buildings and structures are also investment items, things that are bought and resold in organized markets with a potential for gain. House prices frequently appreciate; in this respect they differ from consumer durables such as vehicles.”
People just started saving a lot more money because they weren't doing anything. These savings sloshed around and are finding their way into assets.
I wonder if people are counterfeiting the cards. If they stay away from the high value cards and stick with middle of the road they could probably make a fortune before anyone notices.
Or personal computer, for that matter.
Posted one day ago... boooo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26987074
the ai is built to deal with the peasant class. the ai occassionaly abuses them, because the peasants have no power. but nobody cares about the peasants except other peasants. the peasants are fed enough (you tube mostly works for them) just enough to keep them content and any sort of uprising is quelled. content enough in their toil (creating content), the ai grows stronger.
I’m watching right now in UK via iTunes as advertised.
Trans peoples existence certainly has been politicized. In many cases they are de facto not allowed to exist.

> Except unborn children, whose very existence

To use your same disingenuous measure of argument, no their existence isn't politicized, whether or not they are "persons" (or alive) is. Fetuses quite obviously exist, everyone agrees on that.

The HN guidelines suggest you steelman the arguments of people who you respond to. I don't think you're doing that if your entire argument boils down to a weak rhetorical disagreement about how precisely to define "very existence". Since certain forms of discriminatory policy are politicizing people's very existence.

I also don't think people ever widely suggested Muslim people's existence had been politicized, so that's simply a strawperson.
I guess that makes her closer in time and space.