skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that partly has to do with CDC overreach. For instance, CDC mandated an eviction moratorium. You can agree with the moratorium, but is that really something the Center for Disease Control should be involved in?

Also, some nursing schools have seen record applications, suggesting people actually want to help. You provide no scale for that 250 public health officials.

https://son.rochester.edu/newsroom/2020/record-breaking-enro...
Let's Eat All the Cicadas
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Uber, Lyft to Provide Free Rides to Covid-19 Vaccine Sites Until July 4
In the meteor situation, being on the Moon might be preferable if you're in a sustainable environment and you're not in danger of being hit by debris yourself. In this case, it seems to me that you're in a far better position to monitor the Earth and plan a return once the surface is habitable again.

That's a possibility with Mars too, but a riskier return due to the distance.
I wonder how big of a difference in revenue these companies would have if they operated without any CEO, just an empty chair.
Yeah, I thought so too. There is a lot more to maintaining a project than just push code. Here are some other takes:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27116357

https://twitter.com/youyuxi/status/1392096427313147908
I fully agree with you, but I think a missing piece is that the resumé-oriented system has biases as well. Writing resumés and cover letters is a skill that many people don't have. There are mountains of jobs for which resumé-writing ability is a needless barrier that's not very useful (or common), and a video app is likely a _less_ biased filter.

I used to work at a co building a chatbot to filter candidates for low-skill hiring (restuarant, retail, etc). These hiring processes are sometimes little more than 1) do you meet a basic list of requirements and 2) are you "okay" -- ie not going to be slovenly, violent, rude to customers, dumb, etc. Step 1 is trivial enough that we automated it away, and step 2 is crucial enough that we _always_ scheduled an interview once a candidate was qualified. The same bias exists towards young, energetic, and socially-savvy people, but 1) it seems unavoidable, given how expansive and inaeticulable the goals of the interview are and 2) it's fairly relevant to many of the jobs, particularly customer-facing ones.

Funnily enough, we actually had a feature requested by a couple of companies to make candidates upload videos, for exactly the reasons I described above. This is the niche that Tiktok is trying to operationalize. While going through videos is slow and expensive, going through interviews is much more so.
> Adobe had an intense outcry when they moved to a subscription model, and it worked out great for them

That remains to be seen, actually. There used to be an "Adobe pipeline" where kids in high school and college would pirate Photoshop, become familiar with it, then be ready to use it when they got a real job. That pipeline shut down when Adobe moved to a subscription model: now all the kids use Figma instead. It'll take a little while to bubble up, but eventually all these design shops are going to find that their new hires know how to use Figma and not Photoshop, and start wondering whether Adobe software is worth the cost on top of retraining.

None of this shows up in quarterly reports but it's a real phenomenon and it will catch up to Adobe sooner or later.
https://www.creativitypost.com/article/spinning_plates_and_t...

"Serious play means you value play as a tool for fostering creative thinking."

This could be the seed, test-bed, and proof-of-concept for a set of libraries that would be useful for speech to text, autocomplete, natural language processing, etc...
The other major web vector format...

is PDF. Yeah, PDF has drawing commands. Most vector formats are based on command sequences, that map 1-1 with what you'd find in a drawing library like Cairo. EPS and PDF both work that way, which makes it even more of a typical vector format than SVG (which only does the command sequence thing with paths, AFAIK). Of course, it's not that well supported (the in-browser reader does who-knows-what to get it to render, I think it's converted to DOM elements), but it is the other major browser-supported vector format.
Then Trump would get the glory...regardless the glory of solving climate change and landing on Mars will go to the person who has the best ability to promote their role in such feat.

Musk looks tough on twitter, but he can't speak and his social incompetence shows a lot.

The POTUS (whoever he/she is) and the first person on Mars (whoever he/she is) would outframe him just like JFK and Neil Armstron outframed whoever was the guy running NASA at the time.

He'd be left with a very low margin business , more probably heavily in the red, like the Apollo program was.
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I agree with you but HN does not. HN specifically says downvoting for disagreeing is a valid and even encouraged used of downvoting on HN. I've been informed of this by Dang when complaining about downvoting before.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16131314

I wish I could downvote downvoting
This sums it up. Even for people who make great money, how many subscriptions do devs really think we want to have?
F9 is human-rated.
Uh... literally every manufacturer does restricted availability of parts.

No, they literally do not. Automakers will generally sell replacement parts for any vehicles they currently sell to anyone willing to pay for them.

In fact, they usually have dedicated sites just for buying replacement parts.
https://www.toyota.com/owners/parts-service/parts
https://parts.ford.com/en.html
https://estore.honda.com/

In cases where the automaker won't sell replacement parts, that is because they don't make the part, but third parties do, and the part can be acquired from one or more third parties. (Note: in the case of GM and BMW, the below are third party retailers, but they also sell OEM parts, which GM and BMW do not appear to sell direct online.)

https://www.gmpartsdirect.com/
https://www.getbmwparts.com/bmw-replacement-parts
yes, context does matter. So why are you comparing a full time OSS developer with FANG? ridiculous. I don't have any opinion on the babel drama, but 130K isn't a "joke" even for a OSS developer who is "senior".
Not always about the wealthy, but often at least through the lens of the wealthy. Rich people write about poor people differently than poor people would write about poor people.

But also, yes, often about the wealthy. Here's synposes of four of the five current NY Times Bestsellers:

> Over twenty years ago, the heiress Patricia Lockwood was abducted during a robbery of her family's estate, then locked inside an isolated cabin for months. Patricia escaped, but so did her captors — and the items stolen from her family were never recovered.

> Until now. On the Upper West Side, a recluse is found murdered in his penthouse apartment, alongside two objects of note: a stolen Vermeer painting and a leather suitcase bearing the initials WHL3.

And:

> While Maisie believes the boy and wants to help, she must maintain extreme caution: she’s working secretly for the Special Operations Executive, assessing candidates for crucial work with the French resistance.

And:

> There, Stone finds that a dual-pronged threat is hiding in plain sight among the stately houses and exclusive coastal clubs, and the incursion isn't easily rebuffed. These enemies have friends in high places, funds to spare, and a score to settle with Stone . . . and only the cleverest plot will draw them out into the open. From luxuriously renovated homes to the choppy ocean waters, the pursuit can only lead to an explosive end.

And:

> Straight as an arrow special agent Kate O'Hare and international con man Nick Fox have brought down some of the biggest criminals out there. But now they face their most dangerous foe yet-a vast, shadowy international organization known only as the Brotherhood.

Directly descended from the Vatican Bank priests who served Hitler during World War II, the Brotherhood is on a frantic search for a lost train loaded with $30 billion in Nazi gold, untouched for over seventy-five years somewhere in the mountains of Eastern Europe.

These are stories about the elite. You may argue "Well, sure, but people like reading about the rich and powerful because they are more exciting to read about." But that is in itself partially a result of a culture we've built that says that your story is less meaningful if you aren't successful or powerful.
I agree. The way it's worded leaves out important information. They could have said "It trails only four of the five shuttles", because the fact that it outlasted one of them is an important data point.
There is an amazing plugin for Visual Studio that makes searching blindingly fast almost instantaneous and the price was $10 for the longest time (now $20) and trying to get developers to buy that thing was a chore. They didn't want to pay for any software tools. This is in the US not somewhere that $10 is a huge price and yet they balked. I have to ask why anybody who makes a living writing software is so repulsed by the idea of paying someone else for software especially something cheap and time saving.
Ask HN: Optical Hardware Displacement Law?
Years ago I had read (probably on HN) that there was a decade-long trend in computing hardware replace electrical communication by optical communication over distances which were getting shorter and shorter over time as tech progresses. I am looking for pointers to support this claim (or refute it if I remember wrong). Can someone point me in the right direction?
Now you have given Instagramers the secret sauce to "How to Launch a book on Amazon without any work and make a killing". Be ready for the Tsunami of these creators who are charging money to teach others how to do it.
This sort of comedy does not go over well here.
The algorithm simply accurately reflects what people like. It turns out most people, perhaps subconsciously, actually kind of hate poor and ugly people.

I have some friends that went from overweight/obese to looking fit. Their very first reactions were “wow, I cannot believe how differently I am being treated.” Seeing the pettiness of human society, as expressed by the massive difference in how they were being treated, turned many of them into misanthropes. It is a completely different world for good-looking people.

However, solving this problem isn’t really TikTok’s job. Whether a video interview or a physical one, if you’re pretty and rich, you’ll have massive advantage regardless.
What else could these companies realistically do?
All I can think of is restore from backups or break the encryption. First sounds like a job for IT and second impossible unless it’s been done completely incompetently
I don’t know what the author is like, so I can’t say. I’ve shared all I’m willing to share about my life. Like everyone else, I’ve had to deal with my personality quirks. Like everyone else I’ve had to adapt and learn how to get along in the world. I don’t identify myself with diagnostic names attached to symptoms.
I really dislike HN's custom of redacting strong statements in titles into questions by adding question marks at the end.
No, I think this is just because you either haven’t been precise enough in what you want, or you are asking for something unreasonable. (Possibly a combination of the two)

This is why I asked you to specify what you were asking for.
My 2020 Samsung TV remote has only 3 or 4 buttons (I still don’t use it)
I think a lot of ideas are good, but they need to be "walked through," and refined. They are generally great at the hand-wavy level, but the devil is always in the details.

I believe that a lot of these colossal startup failures are great ideas; poorly executed.

The people I'm working with now, had a great idea, but didn't have it "thought through."

I said "I'll realize it, but expect big changes. I'll be developing a running prototype, and we'll be tossing out things that looked good on paper, but fall flat, in execution."

That's exactly what has happened. It takes a lot of patience; on both the "idea person" level, and the "execution person" level. I need to take their ideas seriously, and they need to shut up and pay attention when I catalog the costs of their ideas in the real world.

It'll work out, and won't look at all like they thought, but I'm designing an excellent baseline for creativity. It will work very well, will be localizable, accessible, and will allow creatives to put a lot of chrome on things.
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Omni in particular started off very strong on iOS but failed to adapt their products.

Their failure to support the system file sharing / iCloud for so long was a killer for me. They were simply technically wrong about how to do it.

There are many other ways in which they simply failed to adapt as the model changed, which I find perplexing.
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> You'd never get manufacturer support for a BMW in the same circumstance either.

There's no network of BMW gas stations that you need to pay a license fee to use, though. Otherwise I generally agree.
I checked in with product on this! We're planning on supporting the OSS gateway in the future - there are some technical components were working through but its def planned!
I agree, both choices are fine as long as they are consistent.

One issue with expanding all values to native word size is that this would manly benefit _very_ old hardware: modern CPUs are as fast directly manipulating any int size as they are manipulating "native word size", or even worse because vector instructions usually manipulate twice many int32 per cycle than they manipulate int64 (and twice many int16 as int32), even if not every code can be vectorized.
This is nice! Is there something similar that's simpler and dumber, that just handles the rotation but doesn't try to locate objects?
> We're adding 1 + 1 and getting 102, and the tricky part is dividing the extra 100 points amongst everyone.

If Georgism is right, in long term the extra 100 points go to those who own the land, via rent.

Not just the rent you pay directly for the place where you live, but also indirectly whenever you buy someone's product or services, because that other person also had to include their rent in the cost of their product or service. Thus when the rents increase, everything gets more expensive, and ironically that makes it more difficult to notice that most of that money ultimately goes towards paying someone's rent.

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-progr...
As both a C and Go developer, in my experience, 2-5x execution time increase going from C to Go does not sound reasonable at all.
There's a tool I use called Dash for quickly looking up documentation of coding languages and frameworks and it works offline. It does not have a subscription model, but it does have very frequent paid upgrades; without charting them out, I'd guess they are roughly yearly. I grumble every time because the upgrade cost isn't cheap and the updates rarely have groundbreaking new features, but then I consider how much use I get out of that tool and hand my dollars over. But the times when money has been tight or I've just been lazy and haven't upgraded when a new release comes out, the old one continues to work just fine. I'd much rather see Panic and other developers use a model like this; trick/incentivize me into re-buying your product every year without calling it a subscription or breaking my old versions.

I used Coda pretty much since its launch and paid for upgrades to Coda 2 and Nova. I've built my career around these editors, so it's kind of scandalous how little I've paid Panic in proportion to how much money I've made using them. I would be fine with them having more frequent paid upgrades. But the day they try to rope me into a forced subscription model is the day I start looking at alternatives (which is too bad, because the last time I looked at the market when Coda 2 was getting a bit too long in the tooth and it was looking like Nova was never going to actually be released, it was clear that there are no serious alternatives for Mac-native code editors out there except for maybe the crusty old BBEdit, which I do not have fond memories of).
On the other hand, I will say what I consider a fairly obvious idea and suddenly all the "execution guys" are working on building a better birdhouse instead of a bikeshed.

I used to put a lot of energy into making clear that "execution guys" are allowed to climb up out of scope and change their minds about an approach. But at a point I think it's reasonable to look at this pattern and make the assessment that I do indeed possess some kind of skill.
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It's a terrible example. Most here don't seem to understand what actual fight/flight is and what this person has coined "amygdala hijacking". It wouldn't work as a survival mechanism at all if they had the ability to think their decision through.

In a true fight/flight scenario your amygdala responds in such a quick way that you really don't have time to override it. This IS a panic attack, except that panic attacks are usually used in reference to something that's not a real imminent danger. Regardless, the body response is the same with adrenaline, heightened sense etc..
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Slight caveats:

The mRNA in the vaccines have been engineered to resist degradation in the body, and stick around for as much as 2 weeks. Also, they degrade to nucleotides.
I think the fact that Space X, and Elon himself, being loud grabs a lot of attention in social media, and that ends up amplifying everything.

I mean, they blew up some rockets while trying to make them land vertically, and was such a mind boggling achievement that people were - and still are - rooting for them.

They have a pretty solid brand that was forged by their perseverance and boldness. Their story is not even of being the underdog in a competitive environment, because the endeavor itself was enough to make them stand out.

Not to mention that there are 3 known brands in this industry, that don't overlap: NASA (the OG), Space X (the crazy guys that land rockets) and Blue Origin (which has no clear positioning).

Even if Blue Origin won NASA contracts, it wouldn't matter the'd still be the last ones in people's minds. They could be doing backflips, for style points ofc, before landing a standing rocket that still wouldn't matter.
how many of the jobs are going to be creepy old men hiring for service industry jobs and hiring purely based on looks
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If you plan to take the city, you have to break it without causing it to destroy itself. Water where it's not supposed to be can flood. It can undermine footings and destroy massive structures including itself.

If you want to destroy a fort you might throw a dead animal in the well. If you plant to keep the fort, that would be a titanically stupid idea.

You can cut off food supply and restore it the moment your flag is flying. Hell, you can stand the wagons on a hilltop as part of negotiating a surrender. How do you divert a river and put it back on demand, with not even medieval technology?
This reminds me of the classic "Pioneers, Settlers, and Town Planners": https://blog.gardeviance.org/2012/06/pioneers-settlers-and-t...

Related: https://blog.gardeviance.org/2015/03/on-pioneers-settlers-to...
The GDPR asks for more than access, it also mandates an easy export. I have recently learned that this feature is actually implemented on a chat by chat basis.

Personally I would like a global export option too, but I am not going to die on that hill.
you really think they’re going to do that?
> on public markets

Not sure if this is what you're saying but SpaceX is funded privately with investing rounds and isn't traded on a public stock market.
hahahahaha, pay up or die. best business idea everrr
> "THE PRO TERMINAL FOR iOS & iPadOS", from the front page.

Then what's Mosh? Why bring it up?

> " You bought the latest Pro device, loved it, and then you wondered...
> …Can I use it to replace my laptop?

No, I didn't but I know it's supposed to be appealing. The original comment about it was more appealing than that line. Still.

> Yes, you can

Can I? Because I can "code all day from the beach"? (which doesn't sound fun, actually)

It's facetious, it's anodyne while striving to be zippy, and worst of all, it's meaningless. I've seen half-arsed Github READMEs that are more informative. Do I really have to pull out alternatives to show the difference? Okay then.

There is ZeroTier[1], which I'm going to guess is a Mosh equivalent as I have zero (ha) desire to find out any more about Mosh. This is their initial blurb:

> Connect team members from anywhere in the world on any device.
> ZeroTier creates secure networks between on-premise, cloud, desktop, and mobile devices.

Now that answers my questions and the rest of the page goes into more detail.

Now for a shell - let's take Fish[2] because I've heard about it but never bothered with it. This will be fun…

> fish is a smart and user-friendly command line shell for Linux, macOS, and the rest of the family.

It then goes into features which is an indirect answer to the why so I'll give them half marks there.

Oops, my mistake, it's a terminal we need. Since I use iTerm[3] nowadays:

> What is iTerm2?

> iTerm2 is a replacement for Terminal and the successor to iTerm. It works on Macs with macOS 10.14 or newer. iTerm2 brings the terminal into the modern age with features you never knew you always wanted.

> Why Do I Want It?

> Check out the impressive features and screenshots. If you spend a lot of time in a terminal, then you'll appreciate all the little things that add up to a lot. It is free software and you can find the source code on Github.

It's like they read my mind, or they actually followed a very simple recipe that I had hoped most people were aware of. I think this can be improved but it's still miles better than the copy Blink is using.

I'd suggest employing this bloke[4], or taking some of the advice given out by fellow HNers there.

[1] https://www.zerotier.com/

[2] https://fishshell.com/

[3] https://iterm2.com/

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26842191
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Musk has a whole twitterbot cult of personality built around him that rivals Trump. This is the PR machine that Bezos and every politician not named trump covet so dearly
There's something called "motive" that highly influences the course and outcome of a legal case.
On the other hand, there are plenty of people who have hectic home lives (young kids, etc), and are much more productive being able to get out of the house and into the office.
Why is everyone talking about televisions here? I don't see any mention in the announcement about smart TVs.
From what I can tell, safety isn't a selling factor of Zig. From a "safety" perspective Zig seems like a step backwards compared to the latest generation of languages, and Rust in particular. Zig's ergonomics seem decent but its memory safety tact appears to basically be to include valgrind-like tools into debug builds with good PR.
> That's probably true, but how would you even find those infections?

Well, you could look at the infection rates among people who attended large outdoor gatherings during the pandemic in spite of warnings - like Trump rally attendees or BLM protesters.

Or you could look at infection rates for people who have a tractable list of possible exposures - interview only people who live alone and work from home, and see if people who only shop for food have a lower infection rate than people who shop for food and also golf once a week.

Or you could run an experiment - get some infected people, have them cough at petri dishes inside and outside, with and without masks, and at different distances.
I think you missed the key word of the parent "together"
Kids have Swift Playgrounds on iPad. It's specifically for learning programming.