skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure it really works in Amazons favor. Sure, some customers might be more inclined to buy the Amazon recommended choice. But I wonder how many are frustrated like me.

When I buy stuff on Amazon, it's not because I want Amazon to recommend their pick. I want to compare alternatives and make my own choice. That's getting harder and harder, because there's a gazillion identical results with spammy, polluted product names, sold by a bajillion different-yet-indistinguishable sellers. And each one of those results has a nice, fancy-looking template, but when you start reading, it's full of spelling and grammar errors.

It's as frustrating as trying to have a "conversation" with a chat bot.

What's the solution? Beats me. A naive part of my brain is suggesting some kind of vetting process for sellers, or maybe a trust rating, but I'm sure there are tons of horrible problems with those ideas.
I also miss those magical times. Part of the magic was haggling over prices since nobody actually knew if the electronics would work, or simply because you carted off several boxes of stuff they couldn't sell. I managed to explore a number of 8 and 16-bit platforms from the 1980's and early 1990's because of that.

Thrift stores were also a lot more tolerant of junk back then. If they could sell something, it didn't much matter if it was broken as long as the customer knew it was broken. They knew a lot of people were looking for cheap stuff they could fix, either for personal pleasure or to make a few dollars.
It baffles me that people skip over their ongoing demographic crisis/population pyramid inversion which will have been the largest and most rapid in human history. Only 900 million people and 1/3 of them are over 65 in 2050? We're rapidly approaching the closing stage of the second consecutive Century of Humiliation, and the CCP will not exist at the end of it.

The US and western liberal democracies just need to keep their shit together for another 29 years. (which, I admit, is easier said than done)
NiH Funded Wuhan Lab
Top traders at hedge funds are the people who become billionaires. You can easily make 2, 5, 10m+ once you become a partner.
Can someone who understands GDPR better than me explain how this works in light of the policy that you can't degrade functionality to force tracking consent?
better take: 100% of anti net neutrality were faked
Can anyone with experience in both crossbar and 0mq and/or nng share when one would prefer one over the other (or are they essentially equivalent)?
Filming a vehicle crash where no humans involved would be of little interest or reason to create such a law on its own merits, which suggests two intersecting motivations (knowing nothing about how this came to be):

1. Drivers are filming crashes and causing further crashes due to being distracted drivers.

2. Human beings are considered to have an automatic right to privacy in scenarios lacking a compelling public interest.

Speaking to one reason only would not weaken the need for the law, so take care to consider the wider concerns beyond just privacy rights alone.

Technically, if human privacy rights are legally enforced in the country where this law exists (unlike the United States), then the existing privacy law could be considered sufficient for #2. But having it on the books makes the judgement call much easier for the general (non-press, non-authority) public, and it also provides a clear warning about crash porn taken by first responders who find fascination with that sort of thing.

All around, it seems a healthy enough law given the context of their country’s human privacy rights. I imagine the press will find cause to argue the edges of it, but I’m hard pressed to come up with any significant benefit to the general public that is being set aside. Identifying such a benefit would be key to arguing that this oversteps.
When I first had one many years ago, I thought detached retina, as my sister had them.

An interesting observation RE: the visual aura. My mother has had migraines for years, and just had some surgery involving anesthesia. Afterwards she had very frequent visual migraine auras along with a certain amount of post-anesthesia brain fog, which both lasted about 24-36 hours.
The strangest way of getting blog traffic
Hey, vote with your wallet. A lot of people here on HN go out of their way to avoid products from companies that they view as poisonous, this is no different really.
This exists locally to me, you might have something similar near you:

https://www.freegeektwincities.org/

They've been great for both buying and selling. They take old cables that don't even work any more and recycle them for scrap.
Wuhan was specifically creating coronaviruses with highest human infectivity
Wishing that a service should be provided by a community instead of a business does not address the fact that it is a service, and one which has a constant demand and an inherent need to be offloaded to a third party.

Once specialization is demanded from the service, the "communal" label becomes meaningless.
If they had enough work for a developer, how long would it take some enthusiastic amateurs?

DIY doesn’t sound like a saving here.
I donate to them, and I know what it's worth. But it isn't worth my time to list it on Ebay/Amazon/Craiglist and then spend the time fulfilling the order.

Such things only make fiscal sense at scale, not with a handful of random items.

If I can donate it instead to Goodwill and they list it online and make a few bucks, that's a good outcome as far as I'm concerned.
maybe: Not apply it to EU users?

If I remember right they also adjusted the ToS differently in different parts of the world - presumably they are not going for consent base in EU, so any such argument wouldn't apply anyways.

(EDIT: edited for clarity of the argument being made)
As a CEO, all my best people prefer remote, and all the stragglers who copied off of them can't wait for office. Will be leaning all the way into remote, personally.
What's a good vacation policy in SF? I'm tempted to move from London, but I currently get 28 days holiday a year + 8 public holidays + birthday + Xmas to NY (so about 40 days give or take). I know there's a lot of "unlimited" holiday policies - but would they really be okay if I took that kind of holiday?

I earn a lot here in London, but moving to SF would be a significant bump. However, I very much value my time off.
I assume they will not degrade the app in the GDPR countries, since these new policies are not allowed there anyway? But i could be wrong…
From TypeScript to Elixir (2020)
The QNX floppy was apparently from late 1999 (http://toastytech.com/guis/qnxdemo.html), so I'd say "almost contemporaneous with" because, in my recollection, the Linuxcare project would have dated to sometime in 2000.

The QNX floppy was extremely impressive for our group and we never really thought about how to get closer to its size. (Today one part of the answer might be "use busybox for your whole userspace".)
At least in silico, SARS-CoV-2 binds better to human ACE2 than for any other mammal tested. The only other animals in their "very high" category were primates with ACE2 very similar to human:

https://www.pnas.org/content/117/36/22311

Evolution doesn't require anything beyond "good enough", but it's surprising for a virus to be better-adapted to humans than to its animal hosts at the moment of its zoonotic jump--before the jump, where could that pressure come from? I don't think this is determinative, but it points weakly in favor of lab origin (e.g., from culture in human cells or in mice genetically engineered to express human ACE2).
That's known as a shadow stack. Some newer Intel processors even have hardware support for it.
Dollars aren't an IOU. Their advantage is all creditors and the government itself is required to accept it as payment, and practically speaking, all businesses will also accept it even though they aren't legally required to. But owning them doesn't mean the government owes you anything.

The advantage of an actual IOU is revenue and expense streams, even when they are very predictable, may not happen on the same schedule, or one is seasonal but the other is not. So allowing the buyer of a good or service to pay with money they don't yet have (and allowing the receiver to count that as revenue according to accrual GAAP) is critical to how businesses function.

Not forcing them to trust each other is the only thing that makes this possible, and that happens via banks and other market makers. This arguably even requires some level of centralization because many factors make this easy for a bank but pretty difficult if not impossible for some arbitrary third party, i.e. banks are extremely well capitalized, heavily regulated and audited, might have multi-century histories of reliably making good on their guarantees, have extremely specialized departments dedicated to assessing default risk. Paying for this reliability and trustworthiness has been deemed a worthwhile cost of business for effectively as long as businesses have existed.

Making this actually free would be nice, but I don't see how it's possible. Settle doesn't seem to solve that from reading this. It just trades explicit cost for risk, which you can already do if you prefer risk. Cryptocurrencies don't solve it either. Something like lightning is fine for microtransactions, but anything large enough that you would otherwise involve a bank or escrow agency can only be handled by the blockchain itself with its massive transaction costs, which happen to be presently masked from buyers and sellers due to the ability of miners to get rich off of speculative frenzy, but when that stops being the case, suddenly you're going to need to pay explicitly to move large amounts of value, more than you would have been paying a bank.
People can't cope with the fact that vaccines are both 100% effective and safe for kids, and DALY wise much, much better than getting covid. Plenty of kids dying in Brazil and India to prove this is the case.
Consent beforehand doesn't bind or imply consent during the act.
If you're saying consent beforehand counts, you're saying that it's not possible for anything to happen that would cause me to change my mind if I was in a mentally competent state.
Ever used Kuberenetes? Hope you like writing yaml.

Ever written Javascript? Good luck doing real maths with only floats.

Ever used Electron? Hope you didn't need that 8 GB of RAM.

I could go on, but most mainstream software is one step above absolute garbage. There are isolated islands of extremely high quality tools, but they tend to be esoteric FLOSS packages that are isolated from market pressures. OpenBSD is a work of art.
On the plus side, the average level of engineers in Europe seems to be fairly high.

On the negaive side, yeah, all the truly high talented people will leave because the salaries in Europe can be so laughably low.

Trying to figure out how to move back to my home country now, but short of director level positions, there’s just nothing with a comparable salary range.
Many people ride on the backs of others who are too busy doing the work. And a good programmer can carry quite a crowd without noticing. But if you have noticed already maybe you need to move to another company
BLEUnlock: Lock and unlock your Mac by proximity of iPhone or any BLE device
I’ve played both. I’ve also been playing video games for four decades. They’re very different experiences: HZD’s crowning glory is the joy of taking down robot dinosaurs; the varied scenery of the post-apocalyptic world is spectacular, but the backstory is a humdrum hegemonising-swarm AI apocalypse, presented via standard linear storytelling that telegraphs its reveals loudly and crudely, and the characters well produced and acted but narratively underdeveloped and ultimately cliched. It also has the worst puzzles I’ve ever seen in a computer game, so embarrassingly easy they’d be better off removed entirely, and playing it just after The Witness (I can never listen to Grieg ever again) only compounded this gaming felony.

Nier:Automata remains to date the epitome of playable existentialism, and the characters (and their development) frankly unique, cut more from Camus and Japanese theatre than any sci-fi trope. It also presents a vastly more nuanced and integrated narrative structure. The ruined world is creatively, if somewhat allegorically built, some remarkable visual set-pieces but ultimately not as finely drawn as HZD, the regular switches between game styles keep it interesting instead, the range of optional combat moves is amazing (and superbly animated) and there is downright ingenuity to some of the challenges. Still, only one of these games needs a photo mode.

But this topic is ultimately about soundtracks, in which Nier is absolutely superlative and I can’t even remember HZD’s, and observe that the sonic experience is fully one-half of AV.

Long and short of it, I enjoyed both, but for entirely different reasons, and in both cases enough to motivate 100%-ing them.

Not sure what “fandom” is. Sounds like a sex thing though, so I’m hesitant to look.
Shit man, as long as they do a better job than they did with Amplify.
> husband, housekeeping, normal, hacker and meritocracy

wtf
GTK+ is what I use on Linux.

Apparently it also works for Windows and MacOS, as well as for Linux.
In turn with this release I learned that S3 isn't supported from the beginning because it's the only AWS service using an XML protocol.

Made me chuckle a bit.
Without the worker, the company would be making a profit of n€. With them, it makes a profit of n+m€. So it gains m€ of value from hiring them. If they paid that money as their salary, hiring them would have been pointless.
Just tried it out -- super convenient! Seems to work fine with LibreOffice as well.
Pre 2008 a lot of people were retiring in 4 years. Things have changed (smaller parties) but people are still getting rich. The top tier are crushing faang salaries. A million a year is a lot but more can be available when you are trading.
I take it that is not pure finance, but fin tech?
What a stupid suggestion. If a company cannot be trusted to fix a simple billing issue, I sure as hell wouldn't trust their choice of random foreign company that for some reason they want me to send money to to fix their mistake.

This screams of dodginess and shoddy unfriendly customer service.
This work has infact been happening for decades. You are right that a lot of bioinformatics is analysis of tabular data using statistical models.
Thank you so much for your enlightening comment. Clearly I understood neither of those things and now, I do.
Trump Justice Department obtained Post reporters’ phone records
This universal for all of their SDKs. They seem to get community examples, too, which often contain some of the worst code you'll find.

But the consistency is worth it. If you know how to work with boto you can use the java, JS, go, etc sdks easily.
I think, they started with the services that share a protocol.
If you did not get YC invite by now? You are rejected
is that true? I heard many are already interviewed.
I still use 80 character line limits. Thanks to a wide monitor, I can fit 4 windows side by side and still read them without eye strain.
> I just fear that by dropping SPARC, Illumos have put the final nail in their own coffin.

If that were true, most illumos users today would be SPARC users. There would be more than a couple of people working on SPARC support, and not merely as a part-time hobby. There would be software support for a SPARC machine that was sold some time after 2011.

Instead, something like 99% of the people running illumos are doing so on 64-bit x86 machines. Dropping SPARC support will allow us to move forward much more easily with enhancements to the dramatically more relevant x86 bits. If anything I expect it will allow us to do interesting things that would garner new interest, like using Rust to implement bits of the operating system.
The problem is misinformation, but it's always been misinformation. It's also a lack of trust in experts, because the rich and powerful have always employed some experts to represent their positions or skew the truth.

There's nothing new about misinformation.

What is new is how much it's being monetized today by networks of like-minded scum.

For example, if I wanted to sell dubious health products, it would probably be a good idea to set up Facebook groups that deals in nonsense memes so I can find my target audience.

The truth is, more of these "new info sources" are garbage than not because garbage is incentivized.

There's always been a sizable percentage of the population that simple doesn't know how to discriminate or question their sources critically. They were just as vulnerable to misinformation 30 and 40 years ago, but it was not as abundant as it is today.

Some flies will always find the shit.
But so many studies find the exact opposite. Including the CDC! Wake up already. 99.97% survival rate!
> I'm assuming that rust programs are primarily used in systems programming and that this SDK would be used for cloud administration but I could be wrong.

I often see Rust used for microservices (where Go is often used), for which access to AWS is very nice to have.
You misspelled "signal"
Owning up to it out of the gate probably saved them a lot of money. A defense supplier I used to work [1] for tried to cover it up and ended up getting nailed with a $100m fine.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-itt-fine-justice-idUSWAT0...
I suspect Yggdrasil came before the QNX floppy, at least the one I played with at the time (http://toastytech.com/guis/qnxdemo.html).

Even if I'm wrong there have probably been earlier Linux boot floppy disks (e.g.tomsrtbt, mulinux - which was great!).

Somewhat related, at some point even SCO made a demo boot floppy for SCO Unix (or perhaps Openserver), it's still available on ftp.sco.com somewhere. No X and very few useful utilities in there.
I've also completely stopped buying from Amazon. I will go so far as to exclude amazon.* from my search results when I'm searching online for an item.

Reasons:

- Receiving broken, clearly used/returned, or counterfeit items.

- Product reviews obviously gamed and useless.

- Sticking their nose into political issues. Just run your services please and don't try to tell me what to read or think.
Read or audible How to win friends and influence people by Carnegie. That’s it. Just get along with folks.
Consider this reinforcing loop: The stronger relationships you build the less attempts there will be to push you over, and with more relationships you will have more support in the event that it occurs, which in turn fuels your confidence in all matters when you may be alone at time of the event.

Context: my career went dev (not long) to consulting to product (most time) to executive management (current).
Your messaging app wants to screw you over? If only there was an alternative. Or dozens.

Seriously, is there something so sticky about WhatsApp (other than being a new vector for Facebook to invade your life) that almost any alternative isn't preferable? We block it outright.
I'm interested in the related problem of cropping an image to a new aspect ratio automatically.

Idle thought: Take a bunch of sample images, show them to humans, record heat maps of where the humans look. Use this data to train a GAN to generate heatmaps from images.

Feed the GAN a new image. Crop the image to keep the parts where the GAN "looks".

Thoughts? Any reason why it wouldn't work?
2001: Most ridiculous thing I ever read.

2021: Uh...guys...?
I would like to see a government sponsored campaign on the benefits of working at home. I feel like most employers are counting the seconds until they can bring us back in? "You can All come back to the office! I bet you have been waiting for this? Marg had a baby over Covid? We increased the lux rat of our office lighting--yea! Jerry Suckup made assistant to the assistant manager, but this is on a probationary basis. Gas up the jalopy, and come in! Oh yea, we have a new facial recognition system instead of a punch clock. Those kooky tech guys?"

The benifits I see:

1. No commute. (Getting cars off the road is good for global warming?) And my sanity when I do need to go somewhere.

2. More sleep.

3. Less busy work to keep some middle manager happy.

4. Happier employee.

5. I have no clue over productivity.

negatives:

1. I guess schmoozing is important for some people. I did make most of my younger self's friends at work because we were both at the same lousy job?

2. Some people find office banter comradery important for their mental health? I used to be one of those people, but would happily give up a little socialization for more sleep, and less hrs driving.

If the government spent some tax money on a campaign to keep workers home, if the job was doable at home, I would be behind it.

I wouldn't even mind if they gave credits to employers who didn't drag their employees into a office.

Frame the promotion over Global Warming, and not employee satisfaction. We all know employees are way down on the list of what they care about, but a tax credit, and some kind of carbon rebate whatnot might keep many of us home? And less cars on the road. In my county, it seemed like everyone went out and bought a second car. Traffic is back to unbearable in the Bay Area.
Thought this was a hackers platform for hacking news and vulnerabilities?
"Final thing: The onscreen user interface is somewhat laggy."

Jesus christ are UIs in cars laggy, and when you consider what quad-core gigahertz costs or draws in power (raspberry pi, etc)... there's no excuse.

Why the brand and model are in the title is weird. It's a basic EV. And it's not really that important of an EV at the industry level, since Ford likely isn't making them at a profit. GM ... Maybe? VW .. Maybe?

Tesla is making cars at a profit.

When GM is making a definitive profit off of EVs such that the more they make ... they more money they make, then non-Teslas will really be a big thing.

The citylife charging brush-off is a bit annoying too. US charging infrastructure is in bad bad shape. Well, that would imply it existed in the first place. If Tesla can do charging networks, then Ford, GM, and VW which probably have 10000+ dealers where they can put fast chargers, are just being negligent.

Oh. Dealers. The other watermark for EVs outside of tesla on an industry level will be if/when dealers actually properly push/sell/educate/embrace EVs, because right now they signify death to the profitability of the dealer's repair business.
I'm aware of quite a few people who selectively turned their phone off or left them at home in some circumstances, but I'm not aware of anyone who really gave up their phone use.

In israel, this was done centrally by cell tower triangulation rather than app/os, so no way to opt out even with dumb phones. However, reliability was not very good - e.g. people got notice that they must quarantine because a neighbour 2 floors up was positive, or because they stood outside a wall of a closed room where a positive person was on the other side of said wall. The appeal process was initially non-existent, then slow and cumbersome - so the risk of being "jailed" for 14 days due to false positive was small but serious.