skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. Putting in hard work usually pays off rather than stifle your chances, under the right conditions.

I think what detractors are reacting to is the attitude that putting in hard work or long hours are a path to success.

They would prefer that having a desire for success would be enough to be successful so that the kid who rolls out of bed at 11 has the same chance at success as the person putting in 80 hours.

Now, I don’t personally think 80 hours is sustainable but for some circumstances it does help, such as early stages of running a business or similar situations.

Of course good planning is better than having to crunch, but sometimes you have to crunch. None the les, I still don't think this is their quibble. Their quibble is that working hard for success makes the workshy look bad.
I've heard quite a few stories like this, and anecdata though it may be, I find it very intriguing. How WOULD we know? There seems to me to be a pretty consistent timeline: confirmed cases and rampant spread in other countries, the first confirmed cases in the US and rampant spread among vulnerable populations (nursing homes, etc.), and subsequently the overwhelming of ICUs. Each step seemed to take a few weeks, and progress consistently. There's a lot of suspicion from some that things were misreported, and some of that is the typical lies-with-statistics, etc. but I know enough people who were working in nursing homes and in ICUs that I personally trust the general timeline to be reality.

So what's up with these early possible cases? I wonder how plausible it is that it there was some early spread of the same disease, but vulnerable populations were just luckily avoiding exposure. It really seemed to take off in the US in those nursing homes. IIRC that's what happened in Seattle, and that's what happened in my county. THAT'S what wiped out most of our body count, and that's what initially overwhelmed ICUs. And that's what raised a lot of awareness, and probably a few self-diagnosed false positives too. Could genuine COVID cases have been going around before then and just not getting the attention, or causing as much damage until that point?
Previous discussion

4 years ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15464702

6 years ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9837915
Awesome project. Lovely to see something like this come together so quickly!

The core architecture is to ssh in to the machine, and forward Linux /dev/input* events to a python app that re-emits websocket events.

This makes me think a little bit of netevent[1], which is a small utility for forwarding/cloning input events (by creating a virtual uhid device that re-creates an input stream), usually used with ssh to forward between machines. It would allow for the remarkable to act as just another generic input for a presentation laptop, for example. One might be able to then use Gromit-MPX[2] or DrawOnYourScreen to turn that forwarded input into on-screen drawing.

Todo: figure out if either of these apps can listen to a dedicated input device & ignore others, such that one can present as usual, but draw atop with the tablet.

[1] https://github.com/Blub/netevent

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27263037
people from the US seem to underesti
To be fair, I haven't experimented with leaving clearly marked cash on the sidewalk to discern whether the local thieves' code condones tip-stealing or not. (This is a Boston suburb innervated by public transit, so there's plenty of foot traffic.)
Brad Feld on Nietzsche for Creators
"the community is overall geared more toward hacking it as an end in itself: customizing every little detail, doing willfully goofy things like play mp3s or run tabletop RPGs, etc."

In my experience the "goofy things" you list are a minority use of emacs.

Most people are mostly in to things like org-mode or coding with emacs as their primary use. Of course emacs customization is very popular too, as if you don't want to customize your editor you might as well use something else.
Everything that you don’t agree with isn’t “judgmental dog whistling.”
I'm not going to guess the foibles of law, especially the British courts.

But the intention of accessing your network for the purposes of choosing a network you're authorized to use is different from connecting to networks you know you do not have authorization to use, and then for a purpose that a reasonable person wouldn't expect would be assumed.

I.e. I think it's reasonable to expect that I grant permission to my neighbours and passers-by to access my network for the purpose of choosing their own network. I don't expect that they will be adding my address to a data-set.

And maybe individuals do speculatively connect to random networks, but that's different to doing it at an industrial scale.
I bought a little raspberry pi kit off amazon the other day to run retropi on. It came with a usb-c wall wart and a little usbc-usbc adapter with a power button on it. It looks like the one i'm seeing in the plastic bag in the picture.

https://www.amazon.com/CanaKit-Raspberry-4GB-Starter-Kit/dp/...

Top middle.
You might be interested in the below podcast if you haven't already heard it:

Entrepreneur and Anesthesiologist Keith Smith of the Surgery Center of Oklahoma talks with host Russ Roberts about what it's like to run a surgery center that posts prices on the internet and that does not take insurance. Along the way, he discusses the distortions in the market for health care and how a real market for health care might function if government took a smaller role.

https://www.econtalk.org/keith-smith-on-free-market-health-c...

https://surgerycenterok.com/blog/
I am using 80% of my time working with Dasung eink monitor. The advantages are:
-Zero eyestrain
-Focussed work/Less Distraction
-Less temptation to do anything else (e.g. videos) because its not inviting to do so
-More energy after work day and improve of sleep quality
-No Bluelight exposure

Disadvantages:
-Only BW so need to look at normal screen for graphics
-Needed two eink screens otherwise two small to work (but ordered now the 25inch one)

Here is a pic of my setup (actually Dasung featured it):
https://twitter.com/DasungTech/status/1391693381726658561/ph...

The 25 inch screen is already out and ordered mine, can't wait for it to come: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/paperlike-253-the-first-2...
Who would describe their parents (the kid’s grandparents) as “babysitters” in this context?

(It’s a genuine question, might be some cultural differences at play, but in my family this would be a family trip with a grandparent, not a family trip with a “babysitter”.)
>As a former subscriber I can point this out: One gigantic error: they have not seen the 2007/2008 crisis coming.

Who did see it coming? Are there any media outlets that reliability predicted financial crises?
We also expored ways of presenting hundreds [1] of AI models in a better way. Recently we updated the model zoo so that it is arranged according to benchmark datasets [2] and papers [3]. Do you think it satisfies the needs?

[1] https://mmpose.readthedocs.io/en/latest/modelzoo.html
[2] https://mmpose.readthedocs.io/en/latest/topics/body(2d,kpt,i...
[3] https://mmpose.readthedocs.io/en/latest/papers/algorithms.ht...
In 1986 an astronomer traced a $0.75 time discrepancy to German hackers and KGB
Chrome 69.28%

Edge 7.75%

Firefox 7.48%

Internet Explorer 5.21%

Safari 3.71 %

Why would Safari be the one that's important and not firefox?

And why would it mean that Apple gets to be an asshole about it?
As you wish https://github.com/Fmstrat/winapps

"Run Windows apps such as Microsoft Office/Adobe in Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora) and GNOME/KDE as if they were a part of the native OS, including Nautilus integration."
Tour riders are EXTREMELY conservative, well they were back when Lemond pushed clipless pedals, more helmets, and aerobars.

The nameless scapegoat who was totally the only person using EPO pushed more thorough full-system wind tunnel testing/aerodynamics and a lot more scientific testing, and even (gasp) clincher tires.

Euro riders for a long time worshipped Eddy Merckx (who was totally clean and never doped) and thought you basically only needed an italian bike and nothing else and were culturally averse to change.

Also, keep in mind the Tour riders are basically showcasing industry products, and those products aren't really that diverse in their sourcing, especially with globalization. They all run on whatever they are getting for free or at a vast discount from the two or three providers in each equipment category.
I wonder if it’s theoretically possible to construct a historical timeline of immunity development for an individual by taking multiple tests, sounds like a proper forensics work than something to do just out of curiosity.
I've noticed that early on; 15 years ago, I was keeping notes on a "feature phone with sliding keyboard". I was pulled by my manager for being disrespectful after the meeting; I showed him the notes and demonstrated that I was by far the most attention / had the best retention / was most involved in the meeting, but still... the message was - it looks unprofessional, stop it.

Thing is:

* My handwriting sucks (I literally can't read my own; I'm 42yo - don't tell me to practice / it'll improve, just don't be that arrogant ignoramus ;).

* I'll never be organized on paper. Ever. My circles are potatoes, my lines are squiggles, and everything is all over the place and disheartening to read (I love whiteboards but it's a whole other thing, somehow)

* I love love love my typed notes. I can type fast and asynchronously while I listen and look at the speaker. I can search them, retain them, review them, summarize them.

But I'm aware that I'll always look disengaged on my laptop compared to somebody with their notebook :-/
> Is the argument that this strategy is just completely lost on legacy incumbent politicians (because they're tech-illiterate, don't understand ads, whatever)

The US's own politicians use targeted advertising as well this as well. There is a huge difference between American politicians using advertising techniques to spread their messages and a foreign state actor with a history of hostility to the US doing the same thing. Especially when the primary goal of that foreign state actor was to spread divisiveness, such as by organizing both protests and opposing counter-protests. Rather than pushing for any specific policy.

https://www.businessinsider.com/russians-organized-pro-anti-...

Activities such as this are legitimate threats, and many people are rightly concerned about them.
You over paid even with the $1,500. You could have waited a few months and they would have been happy with $400.
US warns EU against anti-American tech policy
Why are you singling out Google, though? Mozilla uses the same opt out mechanism, as do the various open databases such as OpenWLANMap.

If you are worried about this, do you realize Google Photos also stores the location of photos of objects, and owners of those objects cannot opt out of this "tracking"?
Linux on desktop sucks because no one is maintaining it. Yes there are freelancers and volunteers but they can take it only this far.

Linux works on the servers because lots of companies don't wanna be locked into MS offerings and pay for building all their ecosystem around Linux by their business profit.

Such business doesn't exist for desktop Linux and that's the only way to make it happen. It's also a tough job. See Android whose development has been paid for over the years still gets forked and fragmented due to the fact that apparently Linux doesn't maintain a consistent HAL (perhaps so they can refactor easily idk).

So this Linux desktop dream just won't come true when there's no stable business paying for the development.
There are numerous companies selling/developing force feedback accessories

https://haptx.com/

https://www.senseglove.com/

https://teslasuit.io/ (A shirt)

https://www.vrgluv.com/enterprise

Mostly gloves but the tech is there.
While at WhatsApp, I learnt the importance of jitter the hard way.

One day one of our backend services became temporarily unavailable and caused millions (probably in 10s of millions at this point) of connected web clients to go into jitter-less retry loops. The retry requests were arriving in coordinated waves and their amplitude was so high that we had trouble bringing the service back up, causing further disruptions. Once we had dug ourselves out, the first thing we did was to make sure all retry loops had jitter.
"Commercial equivalent" might be more clear than "commercial version" - at first I thought the program was dual-licensed.
Monitoring something in good faith to avoid interfering with it is completely different from performing a mass-gathering of potentially personal identifiable information in the form of MAC, SSID and geographical position and putting it in a database for making money.

What Google is doing is a cool hack and might be fully legit, but it's foolish to claim there's no potential privacy issues in it.
New PyTorch Library Releases in PyTorch 1.9, Incl TorchVision, TorchAudio
No one is saying emacs is perfect, this is such an odd comment. Just because it is made as a real tool, as opposed to a product or something to sell more of, doesn't make it perfect. Table saws are meant to use in productive behaviour too and the fact that people cut their fingers off doesn't make them less of a real tool.
I bought Tailwind UI has a mostly backend developer and I couldn't be more happier with it so far. It really saved a lot of my time in building my MVP, well worth the cost.

Although, I guess I don't know for sure until I start to test the product. But the development at least has been a blast.
Ah yes, they're thinking of my friends!

Jokes aside, if it was a multiplayer game that wouldn't be an impossibility.

I like the recent trend of friend-copies of games that are co-op first like "It Takes Two", "Operation Tango" (is that name correct?) and the two-player Wolfenstein I forget the name of.
Microsoft already has "Windows on Windows" (aka WoW): WoW16 provides 16-bit app support on Win32 and WoW64 provides 32-bit app support on Win64 OS.
What's sad... is I think even QAnon will go "Where We Go One, We Go All... but we aren't going anywhere near that crazy shit".
> The original idea was that it rewards sharing innovation. You're supposed to publish in detail the way your invention works and in return get legally protected exclusive rights to it for a decade or so.

Setting everything else aside, academia is the one place where patent issuance is matched with a non-legalese description of the invention. Nearly all software patents in academic CS are matched by a series of academic articles, which aren't always super well-written, but are almost always infinitely better than the inscrutable JD-drafted legalese found in patent applications.

It's not perfect, but academia (and industrial labs that function similarly to academia) get much closer to the spirit of "sharing how your invention works" than patents that are issued to basically any other type of institution.

> I'm surprised software patents don't require source code to be published, that would fit with the spirit of the thing.

I think this view comes from a pretty common misunderstanding of patent law. You don't need to actually build a thing to get a patent. There are tons of patents for e.g. power-plant components that AFAIK have never actually been built. You don't need to write a single line of code to get a software patent.
https://future.a16z.com/feed/
How I wish this was a thing in the U.S. In '04 I traveled by night train from Odessa to Vienna and I have to say the experience is far more pleasant than air travel (even with the somewhat outdated fleet of Ukrainian trains at the time). The perceived passage of time is far shorter and yet you have the opportunity to watch the scenery go by if you wish, or get off for a few minutes on the occasional stop before the train enters the night regime. To say nothing of being able to sleep in a horizontal position...
Wouldn't it have instead been smarter to just also use _nomap?
Do they maintain old releases? for how long?

can't find any information about it
I use Gordon's way for years now but I can only make it work on gas. Thanks for the link though :)
A second reason is simply that the US as a big homogeneous market is a nice one to tackle for European companies as well. And often that means having a (big) presence in the US. The EU is basically many markets unified by really complex rules, bureaucracy, etc. There is free traffic of people but companies have a harder time dealing with local variations in legislation, hurdles for billing and taxation (e.g. VAT), banking, bureaucracy, etc.

Seems like this would be a really cool idea for a startup (that might already exist?). Stripe stripe/shopify for EU?
The only one I know of in Spain is Andasol, which is small scale and enormously expensive
Indeed, but that support information was set back in 2015. (You won't find a Wayback going that far, but only because docs.microsoft.com is a newer website.)

Furthermore, it's just the default commitment Microsoft makes to businesses when they release new software. The statement isn't really taking into account the reality of the Windows-as-a-Service approach Microsoft takes now.

For instance, Windows 10's original build, 1507, you can see, ended support back in 2017, only about two years into the lifecycle.

The next version of Windows, whatever they call it, releasing this fall, will carry the same 18-24 month support cycle, have new feature releases released every 6-12 months, and "Windows 10" will seamlessly upgrade into it.

Apart from LTSB/LTSC releases, which have their own retirement dates (Windows 10 2019 LTSC is supported until 2029, for example), basically everyone will be off of "Windows 10" as it's currently called long before 2025, but your PC licensed for Windows 10 will still be updated and supported on the newer OS.
This is good advice and something similar helped me quite a bit when young (and still when old).

I’ve been lucky enough to usually work on what’s interesting to me. I care a lot about my work and so like to spend time outside of work learning, training, working extra.

Also, there are some firms where there are zero sum situations where competing with co-workers is a real thing. Working weekends gives an advantage.

The question is whether this is fair or sustainable or whatnot. But the reality is that this can be helpful.

I find managers who demand this to be complete assholes though. I’m fine being flexible with my time and me deciding when I want to work extra. Having someone else expect or order is completely lame and having leadership say stuff like this would demoralize me.

I like to keep my weekend work pretty secret so as not to “brag” or let management know this is an option.
If the goal is trustworthy software then just write and host trustworthy software.

If the goal is to have a thriving economy based on writing and hosting trustworthy software then it's going to need subsidies; it costs more to pay for high quality software written by engineers protected by strong labor laws than it does to pay Silicon Valley rates with RSUs complicit in large-scale data gathering and exploitation.

Ironically in economic terms Europe (the EU and Ireland specifically) already hosts a huge fraction of FAANG profits and IP ownership/licensing due to double-Irish arrangements. They just offshore the development to the U.S. So mission accomplished I guess?
>How fun would it be when you told someone "we use Penis where I work to implement our AwesomeSoftware™?

It would be a non-issue for people beyond middle school?

And doubly so if the term was a regular foreign word.

Are people also taken aback when somebody asks for some coke with their food?
>#1 assumption I always make sure to check now is "is the code that's running actually from the source code I'm looking at".

Once I got so far as stepping through some malfunctioning code at ASM level on a production machine, only to discover that the ASM had a jump if equal instruction while the source code prescribed exactly the opposite. I compared to the executable binary that was supposed to be there, and it was different from what was actually there. There had been a bit flip somewhere along the line.

I now spend more time than I probably should comparing hashes of any executable binary that's acting strangely enough.
Really happy to see blur placeholders and automatic dimension detection of local sources being added to the Image component.
There's a lot of indicators of bad faith in the OpIndia article, but I don't see any in the Economist article.

From the OpIndia article:

- "A few weeks back, controversial left-wing US media outlet New York Times had come up with imaginary numbers..." (hyperbole, ad-hominem)

- "The low death rate in the country has become a major concern for the western press, who are trying hard to depict India in a bad light." (Are they? Why? Is the "western press" working in concert on this project?)

- "However, the entire analysis done in the article was based on ‘estimates’ based on randomly selected numbers" (So the allegation is that the researcher and/or the Economist selected numbers randomly to represent the Covid death toll in India?)

- "[...] it seems like the Indian government has finally decided to take on the misinformation warfare being propagated by a certain section of western media" (Does this seem like an unbiased presentation of facts?)

The implication, as far as I can tell, is that "western media" is seeking to embarrass the current leaders of Indian government out of pure spite. However, to my eyes, a more believable story is that the government of India is embarrassed by the high Covid death tolls and would like to adjust the numbers downward.

From a story in NPR:

> FRAYER: There is another reason why India's coronavirus numbers may be skewed - hubris. In early March, India's health minister declared the pandemic over, but cases were actually creeping up, and some politicians didn't want to ruin the narrative. Dr. A. Velumani runs a nationwide chain of medical labs. He told local media his labs have come under pressure from local politicians to manipulate coronavirus tests and report fewer positive results. [^1]

We saw this very same narrative play out here in the United States under the Trump administration, and just like in the OpIndia story, when confronted with evidence they had mishandled the response to the pandemic, the government responded, "Fake news! They're out to get me!"

The New York Times article mentioned in the OpIndia piece [^2] also seems to be in good faith, explaining how they arrived at their estimates in great detail.

To summarize: when I put on my critical-thinking cap, what I see is the Economist, the New York Times, and NPR presenting good-faith, easy-to-believe arguments that the death toll in India is higher than reported by the Indian government, and OpIndia presenting the difficult-to-believe argument that it isn't, but that western media wants to depict the government of India in a bad light for unknown reasons.

[^1]: https://www.npr.org/2021/04/29/992122467/indias-real-death-t...

[^2]: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/05/25/world/asia/in...
There's a difference between people who don't think vaccines are good as a whole...and people who question a rushed vaccine developed with no FDA oversight or testing by companies who have absolutely no liability if things go wrong for a disease that has 99.99% survival rate for most people.

And then there are questions about it even WORKING fully and one still has to wear a mask and you can still be contagious and it may not protect against other strains!

If that doesn't ring critical thinking bells in your brain then you're operating based on unquestioning BELIEF in the GOOD of the experts, gov't, and people in general which doesn't seem to always have worked out the best throughout history.