skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with documentation is twofold:
1. it's broadcast-only. so you have to try to anticipate in advance what the questions might be.
2. it's disconnected from the source. so someone looking at the source code has no idea whether there is good, bad, or any documentation about it.
Clickable link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23463592
Not for lack of trying, to be perfectly honest. The US mitigation response kept the virus just barely under the disaster threshold, despite major figures in the federal government actively opposing most of those measures at one time or another.

But the vaccines worked, so those rich people got it done. mRNA was a gamble, but it paid off with first trials starting just weeks after the virus was sequenced and first doses entering general patients in nine months instead of the 18 we were originally expecting.

But let's not imagine that the US response wasn't otherwise a disaster, especially when compared to places like Australia and Korea who barely needed to wait for the vaccine at all.
Paid doesn't mean proprietary.
I agree the monochrome icons have significant disadvantages. Visual Studio a few years ago made the same attempt at having monochrome icons and there was such pushback that they eventually moved to the current scheme of "monochrome with a splash of colour", which I think is way better.

That said, Photoshop also uses monochrome icons and it can help in some ways to avoid distracting from the image which you are working on. I am not sure what the best compromise would be.
Basically, Blender took a lot of cues from modern UX design so it looks good... and makes the technical bits look good.
If I found out someone thought my name was funny enough to make it on a list, I'd be curious and probably want to know more about why. Offense doesn't even cross my mind.
> The claiming and counterclaiming process is independent of the merit of copyright under DMCA.

The DMCA process isn’t a mandatory process, it is a process to receive safe harbor from whatever liability would otherwise exist. If there would be no liability independent of the DMCA safe harbor, there is no mandate to follow the safe harbor process.

(If you disagree with this, here’s what you need to do, identify—with citation to supporting law—the available legal remedy that can be imposed on a provider who declines to adhere to the DMCA safe harbor process where there is no underlying copyright liability.)

Service providers make a choice to follow the notice process blindly as a risk management measure, not because it is legally required to do so.

(Which is also why the counternotice process is often less fully implemented, or why, e.g., Youtube has its own hyper-aggressive policy for certain content that goes beyond the DMCA process and lacks counternotice opportunity—the counternotice process is just as much part of the DMCA process, but because providers are able to structure their relationship with users in a way which avoids having any liability for takedowns which would benefit from a safe harbor, they can safely ignore that process.)

Source: the actual text of the DMCA safe harbor provision, and the reason it is called a “safe harbor”.

> You are sharing an opinion disguised as fact

No, you are engaging in standard industry blameshifting by misrepresenting risk management strategy adopted responding to incentives created by a law with an actual legal mandate.
> most of them don't speak English

I thought this must have been wrong with how distinct of a thing Indian English is but apparently it's true, albeit India still contains the second largest English speaking population at ~10% of 1.37B.
List of apps people pay for but have low rating
So a while ago a i remembered one post from HN, it was some guy crawling google play store and keeping apps that were paid and people used them but had a low rating. He was selling this list, not sure if it was successful but i made something similar and updated

So far checking only 3 marketplaces, my crawlers found so far about 100k apps, the default filters show only the more interesting once (paid and low rating)

Its free.

I will add more and more marketplaces eventually. I will also try to add some social features, like "working as a team on some idea" and posting own ideas, but will see how it goes.

Feedback welcome

EDIT: i just see it on mobile, it does not look ideal. Will need to work on that hm.

EDIT2: just added pagination :), hope it works for you.
Well, we're not going to hire software engineers that don't exist in the name of equity. And, yes, the answer to 'how do I do better in this seniority system' is literally always 'wait', no matter who you are.

If people are primarily upset about general societal things rather than clear cut workplace discrimination, I would submit they should focus their activism at those societal things.
Your writing in this thread sounds consistently like a cult member. A completely closed world where YC is beyond reproach because YC does the things YC says make one beyond reproach.
What makes you say that? While it may be rebounding now, there was a long stretch where it was down 95%, if not more, as evident from, say, https://www.tsa.gov/coronavirus/passenger-throughput. I don't think other countries fared better.
Yes, as others have pointed out, market timing matters, but these days any market that is obviously a good one will get flooded with a ton of competitors, and with many of these markets consolidating to "winner takes all" status, most of those competitors will fail (or, perhaps more optimistically, get acquired).

I think the winner-take-all nature of many of these hot markets is something more apparent now than it was in 2007.
We are the AI.
Capitalism is the maximizing function.
Crypto is the paper clip.
We’re fucked.
> People consistently overestimate the cost of living in large parts of the US

I'm sure there are parts of the US you can get by with less than $3 wage. I think out of the 600000 homeless people a fair share manages to do that without dying either. Doesn't mean you should.

> who was able to buy a condo in a decent school district in a major midwestern metro on ~$15/hr with prudent planning.

ok, sure but a lot of context is missing.

> It took her a long time

Is it paid off? How long will it take her to pay it off? If it is how did that happen? How much was the Condo. If not, what happens if she misses one payment?
Knowingly is the problem - it implies intent so erroneous claims don’t fall afoul of it. Obviously attacks on critics do and should be penalized but that doesn’t happen either - it requires a lawyer that will cost much more than you’ll ever get. Until the law is amended to require the victims be compensated for time and legal expenses there’s still no real cost to fraud
Levi Strauss did this in a literal gold rush - and used the capital to pivot to pants

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi_Strauss
Gradient Turns 3
2021’s Best Cities for Naked Gardening
The Seattle forecast, overcast with a chance of showers, will change nothing.
Particularly because he’s trying to scuttle reparations for ADOS with do-for-selferism with “save your money and you can overcome the racial wealth gap” when he’s getting checks from these scum suckers...

Kevin preaching do-for-self: https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2563837/kevin-hart-has-a-me...
I think the biggest issue is that the burden of proof and all the risk is on the person who's video is being claimed. False DMCA claims are free, practically riskless, and require no evidence.
Absolutely. Bumble is my go-to example for this sort of business. Essentially a clone of Tinder with one small (but clearly important) change.
I would frame the right to repair as the public's desire to understand and manage the total cost of ownership for the decisions they make. For simpler goods such as clothing or bags people already have this "inherent" right.

Cheap wouldn't be my way to put it either, but predictable pricing of repairs is part of understanding the total cost of ownership.
> Per the US government, which tracks what people in different deciles actually spend on various things in surprising detail, the median US household has ~$1,000 in cash left over every month after all ordinary expenditures.

I'm really not trying to be the "citation needed" dick, but I would genuinely love to look at the source for this. What I found from googling was a hodgepodge of unreliable information, or studies that are decades old.

EDIT - just went straight to the source, since articles linking the source couldn't find it.

https://www.bls.gov/cex/tables/calendar-year/mean-item-share...

It roughly lines up, although it seems to be trending down recently.
Trying to imply people will commit genocide is not a yike for you?
Bitcoin solves a problem that has corrupted governments for millennia. Control over the supply of money gives central bankers the ability to steal money from the people and funnel it into paying off politicians and doing other country destroying bs. Once you understand how bitcoin will eliminate a major source of corruption in our world you'll finally understand it's value
Thankfully Clevo doesn't think a bunch of printed circuitry can be patented, and gladly supplied System76 (guys who made Pop_OS! and sell laptops) with schematics.
>...$15/h was proposed as a sensible raise ten years ago

Sensible? Different states and different parts of states have vastly different costs of living. The average wage in San Francisco is going to be different than rural Alabama. The non partisan Congressional Budget Office estimated that the proposed 2021 increase to $15 would have caused a loss of 1.4 million jobs. (And obviously would have been even a bigger effect 10 years ago.)

>...online inflation calculators say the modern number would be $18.22.

No, that is wrong.

The minimum wage started at .25 in 1938. If it had followed inflation it would be at $4.70.

The last time it was adjusted was 2009. If it had been adjusted for inflation since then, it would be about $8.95.
>Inferior endurance is the "dirty secret" of the consumer-level SSD industry. You and I know better, but the average consumer doesn't pay attention to write endurance or under-provisioning.

The hope is that capacity increases outrun the loss in endurance by changing the way the SSD is used. If you have a large capacity SSD the assumption is that you often just write a large file onto it once and it stays there for a long time, resulting in a net gain in endurance.

If you had the opposite, like an SSD cache integrated into an HDD where the cache is being overwritten all the time you run into a problem and your best choice would be to use a smaller capacity SLC SSD with more endurance.
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Because this is what substitutes for real improvement to Windows at MSFT.

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This is unfortunately so true.
Rust Context Manager
Batching and Chunking, Oh My
> disastrous consequences, especially if prescribed antidepressants

Viewed differently, this speaks to the extreme dangers of psychiatric drugs. They should be a tool (vital!) of last resort but are often used as a frontline therapy.
If the little guy is indeed little and is earning little or none from their content, then is the copyright holder being harmed? Or is the copyrighted material being promoted, thereby increasing the potential value of that original material?
Why Virgin Galactic Couldn't Beat Elon Musk to Space
> > Not writing doesn’t block shipping (at least not right away).

> It should.

Perhaps, but it doesn't.
In Soviet Russia Charizard grades you.
Imagine you're a designer in ancient Rome. Can you improve on Roman Numerals?
They are fairly easy to pick out simply based on the way money flows in and out of the addresses. Also, they become known over time as customers share them then they are eventually labeled by companies (exchanges included) performing blockchain analytics. Many of the public blockchain explorers show labels for popular addresses. I've seen labels on big exchanges, Satoshi's coins, seized silk road coins, coins from hacks, etc.
But the carrier can apply rules for the ads, and as long as they apply uniformly those rules are fine.

The problem is that “conservatives” have made their platform be one that denies basic human rights to protected classes and the platforms have banned such speech from both ends of the spectrum. If you want your speech or ads to violate the platform rules you are saying that not only does the government get to say “you must carry our message” but also it gets to dictate the rules of those messages
> To be honest, I'm confused by the amount of air travel that is still going on. If locking down large swathes of most countries is on the cards, why is there any air travel happening?

I think essentially all the data we have indicates that there is a surprisingly low rate covid transmission on airplanes and airports. (You can be worried that the data is being provided by airline companies who are biased, but at this point I think you have to postulate a pretty big conspiracy in order to explain the consistent signal.) Assuming that's true, it means:

1. Your concern should be with any method of travel, not air travel per se.

2. Your concern should be with travel between areas with very different rates of covid (or of different variants), not travel in general. If an infected person in country A swaps places (through flight) with an infected person in country B, nothing has changed regarding covid transmission.
There was a very dramatic slowdown last spring/early summer but those numbers show it's been slowly picking up since then. And, to a first approximation, no one I know is traveling yet. (Though that will probably change this summer as they're all vaccinated.)

ADDED: And there are still basically no in-person tech events. Maybe in the fall though I'm skeptical that will happen. And where I work, you basically need high-level exemptions to meet with anyone physically for work purposes.
As much I love tom scott, he is ignoring the choices that YouTube made along the way were that precisely that choices. They didn't have to become this kind of platform.

Tom himself is owning/promoting nebula an alternative platform with quality curated content.

Youtube either could have become a pure user generated platform not engaging with big biz, and strictly following DMCA only : counter notice is not for Google's to review merit , claims like above are penalized, you have to take it court if there is a counter notice, no three strikes nonsense, no flawed content ID system - all of this is placate big biz.

Alternatively they could have become a curated content platform (like nebula) them wanting to do everything is why we are here.

Every other user content platform in video or otherwise is working perfectly fine with DMCA framework, they all have considerably less resources than Google.

P.S. Google's inability to put people to support content creators and this dispute process even for creators with 100' of millions of views is simply about Google culture of not believing in user/creater support (product) , big biz sure gets human support.
God was created by man in his own image. This fact supercedes any theological explanation.

Mankind has done this not just once but repeatedly; thousands of times down through recorded history.

Mankind is superstitious, illogical and inconsistent --- and naturally, so are the religions he has created. We should expect nothing more.
People digging ditches is a requirement for a functional modern society. When a general strike happens the ditch diggers and their friends will be the ones wielding the power they forgot they had all along. I strongly recommend not looking down upon people who work with their hands. It's very bad decorum, and their shovels are sharp.
LINQ also seems to have a push-based implementation, given its FROM-WHERE-SELECT syntax: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-g...
Canada’s marijuana legalization has lead to 2 things:

1. A big (and increasing) shift into purchasing from the legal market

2. A price crash on the illegal market. Like half the dollars per ounce going into the black market.

No real sign of increased consumption. And marijuana isn’t this cool and exciting thing anymore. It’s just there if you want it, otherwise carryon.
Housing costs for inflation isn’t the cost of home ownership, it’s rent (shelter). Buying a home is considered an investment not a consumable good.

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.”
Puzzl (YC S19) Is Hiring for Technical Fintech Roles
oh my god that's amazing. can't believe I'm only finding out about this feature now
Those are examples of dysfunctional adults acting out. Thank you for making my case for me!
Assuming the claimant doesn’t mess up the complaint it might as well be automated - GH has only voluntarily not honored a request once with YouTube-dl (that I’m aware of) and that still was after YT-dl removed the README reference of using it to download music videos.
> why are there still plane flights 12 months in to the pandemic? Someone fill me in on what I've missed; this seems to be not taking the situation seriously. Are these variants not going to be travelling between countries by plane and ship?

Because the virus is more than an order of magnitude less dangerous than initial estimates, but we are stuck with the legacy decisions made back then in a political environment where admitting you were wrong is seen as suicide. This is why each successive "lockdown" has basically been "do like last time, but more half assed." The reality of the situation is that the virus has a mortality rate of around 0.3% of which half are over 80. This is just not worth shutting down large swathes of the economy indefinitely for, but, politically, you can't say that. So here we are.
It's not rewarded and recognized.

Good software, bad doc is probably okay.

Bad software, good doc is downright bad.

Therefore, people/exec/management don't prioritize it.

If it were to be compensated with 100k, you would get the best doc ever.

We can't improve things if we don't incentivize. We don't incentivize because it's not that important.
*Mojang, not Microsoft. EvilSeph was hired in 2011, Microsoft bought Mojang in 2014.
Yes, along with https://old.reddit.com/r/ErgoMechKeyboards/ and https://old.reddit.com/r/olkb/ I'm sure others, too, and happy to hear recommendations as someone looking to make their first one soon.

Odd, didn't notice that before, but you are right about that nav menu. It is not my site, though creators/maintainers are active on Reddit and Discord: https://mechdb.net/contribute
So I see people always pointing out SK and NZ and Australia as great examples of handling the virus but it seems to me that naturally controlling travel through an island* would be much easier to do anyway, also an island is unlikely to end up as a major throughfare? Could this factor into the difference at all?

*I know SK isn't technically an island but for all practical purposes it is.
OP didn't provide any context so it's hard to answer. Is it for a personal project? Is it for a startup?

For example, Clojure is a very expressive and fun programming language but I would never build a startup on that as it would be far more challenging to find experienced developers.

I think I misunderstood the sentiment of the question anyway. It was trying to start a discussion rather than get a pragmatic answer :-)
Someone once told me, assume the person after that is easily annoyed enjoys hunting people and knows where you live.

After having to take a number of abandoned but important projects. I can fully appreciate both sides.
It's not bs. They said should, not must.

Yes there are trade offs with everything you do in IT, one of them is creating a shit place to work in the name of speed.

It might work for a little while but eventually you're going to realize you're shitting where you eat.
Clojure: Transparency Through Data (2017)
I really don’t want this to sound snarky, but I think listing 3-5 of the best examples would be quite enlightening to readers.
For the most part, India's fate over the next month is sealed. It was like when people got really excited about making ventilators, they were already a month late.
My wife sold a nice condo for 50k a couple years ago. It was to a single woman who'd never made more than $10 an hour.
I don't think a political discussion now and then at work is an issue per se. As long as you remember you're talking with colleagues, and you have to keep a respectful tone and be friendly and collaborative with them all the same one minute after the conversation is over. And insulting your colleagues (for example suggesting that they're racist, or homophobic, or otherwise a problem at work or in the society) is of course unacceptable.

Discussing is one thing, and advocating is another, and it should be obvious which is which but some people don't know and many don't care, in fact advocacy was their goal all along.
Writing is thinking. If your thinking is not clear, your writing will be just as opaque.
Our Generation Ships Will Sink (2015)
I loved our HP pen plotter, back in the early 1980s. I never used it for input, but one of the more useful bits of software I wrote back then was to take the output of a Coulter counter (see https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Coulter_counter ) via some strange sort of serial interface it had (current loop?) and store it on floppy disk on a CP/M machine. I then wrote another utility to read the disk and plot parametrised graphs of it on our HP pen plotter.
Was this at Harker? I bet it was Harker.
100%, something about supply and demand fundamentally broke during this pandemic and may never return to normal.
This kind of constant relabeling and recategorizing along with everyone I know who works in mental health fields constantly diagnosing everyone around them is why I am skeptical of the entire field of psychology/psychiatry.
I've seen an awful lot of discussion of recruiting and interviewing practices on this site over the years, and there have been very few mentions of ways to check that people employed as programmers are able to write documentation.
Disney has always been a special case in Florida.

Disney World is located in its own legal jurisdiction, largely separate from county and state, that it de facto controls: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reedy_Creek_Improvement_Dist...
There's a somewhat-unique-sounding boost pedal called the Super Hard On that retails for upwards of $300 and contains a single FET transistor and a half dozen passive components totalling less than $10 in bulk quantity.
A quite simple demonstration is to be in an environment with constant but not overwhelming repetitive noise, such as a slightly loud fan. While you are concentrating to do something else, perhaps reading, the sound will disappear from your awareness. Now suddenly the sound stops. It is a strange sensation, as if a new noise was present, but in fact it is a silence or lack of noise. An auditory illusion like some optical illusions of staring at a spot then looking elsewhere and having an afterimage.

Nothing sensual is presented directly: it is all contextual.
No, higher minimum wage shouldn't increase the labor cost "universally". Most of the cost increase would be felt by those employers who actually paid wages below the new limit. Which isn't even that great a portion of the economy.

There might be some effect diffusing upwards, but I doubt it.