skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMHO, the earliest shutdowns were defensible on the basis of ignorance: we knew so little about the communicability and lethality of SARS-CoV-2.

It would have been irresponsible to risk chicken with something that might have had MERS lethality.

Eventually we put tighter bounds on those quantities, and could make more informed decisions. But yes, all stages of the pandemic were unfortunately people talking past each other, without being actually curious about the pros/cons of various approaches.

But it's been awhile since the political class has had to deal with an actual existential science problem... so that muscle wasn't very strong.
7-8mm thick?! That's insane. I am pretty sure you can get thinner lenses by using a different index. It will be more expensive but definitely worth it. My Rx is -8.5 and my lenses are reasonably thin.
Not solved yet. I still struggle a lot with Teams. Ended up using the browser version instead. Used fine until today. Suddenly camera was not working and laaaagg. This is bad. Google Hangout and Zoom work fine. Since years...
It's the fee, which is a percentage of the employee's salary. That's much more than the listing fee on Indeed, likely by orders of magnitude.

There's also the downside that some scummy person is representing themselves as being affiliated with you, when they're not. So if they do scummy things to the candidate (which they likely would, given what they're doing to you), then you are painted in a bad light. Think of situations that HNers complain about here, and then imagine that it's your company being (wrongfully) dragged for having lousy interviewing practices.
Cypress.io SDK to auto-heal broken UI selectors by Dev Tools (YC S22)
Hi HackerNews,
I am Etienne co-founder of Dev Tools (YC S22) and today we are releasing our SDK for Cypress. We are looking for feedback and suggestions.

Do you maintain UI tests? Do they often break because of changes in the underlying HTML?
As long as the UI looks the same, you should not have to maintain those tests.

We offer a free SDK that will make broken selectors in UI tests a thing of the past.

In a few words, the first time you run your tests with our tool we visually identify the UI elements and learn how to recognize them.

Next time you run the test, if the selectors are not broken it runs as usual, but if the selectors are broken, we silently kick in and use our backend to try and visually identify the element that has a broken selector. If we find it, then the test will run as usual and you don’t need to do any maintenance.

The setup process for our SDK is a few lines of code. The test code itself does not have to change beyond those lines.

If that sounds interesting to you, check out our tool at dev-tools.ai, we support Selenium for Python and Java and Cypress for Javascript.

A little insight into our tech:
We use EfficientDet as our main object detector + some custom code and heuristics
We distribute the work using Celery + RabbitMQ and GPU workers
We currently are a small team of two, so the frontend is mostly server side rendering with Flask and Jinja.

We are also a small startup, and constantly looking for the right features to implement to help testers. If you have feature ideas, suggestions or feedback, please leave us a message here or on Discord

Thx
Seems boring; Would rather move to Canada and make juice
Microsoft does a big reorg of one of a few orgs like legal, marketing, general ops, sales, solutions engineering, customer service, etc at the end of almost every fiscal year. Was just solutions engineering and consulting's turn now.

Satya seems to have opted to just sort of reorg in chunks every few years which I kind of like as opposed to the yearly stack ranking performance induced reorgs that just lead to obscenely short term thinking.

As a former Microsoft employee, the July reorgs were completely expected (and use to be much broader in scale). Not much to read into here.
What measures "healthy"?

Most "healthy" individuals indulge in addiction: television, food, news.

What do the parents hope for the kid's future? What makes a good life? Why is it bad that someone spends 9+ hours a day on the computer when that's the standard for all software engineers?

What do they hope to accomplish by restricting internet time? What does the kid want for the future?
Don't get me started on HTTP 300 support
DoorDash and pizza arbitrage (2020)
Since you have your own domain, I'd assume yes--have you gone through the process of improving deliverability using SPF, checking reputation, etc?
Its convenient linguistic shorthand for a common case which would be more properly be described as “a concept of a thing which does not correspond to any actual thing”. While the equivalent linguistic shorthand has been present in most languages for quite a long time, the recognition that the confusion it can sometimes produce between concepts and concrete things is a category error is, while not nearly as old, also fairly old; it is central to Kant’s argument against the ontological argument for God’s existence, for instance.
That's only an odd question if you assume it costs Amazon nothing to include videos in prime. So the alternatives are: a) Only free prime videos. b) Free prime videos + videos you can rent. There is no option c) All videos in the world available for free on prime. As much as you would maybe like it.
Yet every local facebook group is full of the curtain twitchers posting pictures of "person walking past, looks suspicious, keep save everyone x" in blatant disregard for the law, yet nothing happens
Hehe that’s an interesting allegory.
That sucks. I'm happy to flag this article, as it's rather light on content and stealing the little content it has is not cool. Recommend others do the same.
Bitcoin is generally considered a security, not a currency.
Two basic rules:

- Always have backups.

- Cloud providers are not your friend, especially in their unpaid tiers.
I use slack regularly at work, discord for gaming and teams at university. The worst of all 3 is teams by far, just the startup is too slow.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23216852
An 18-year-old is an adult. Parents have no right to enforce computer time restrictions on their adult children and should not try to.
Single party recording is legal in 38 states.

https://fireflies.ai/blog/call-recording-laws-in-50-states-3...
Hotelling's Law and Differentiation
I can provide another datapoint. When I was at Arist (YC S20) we experienced tons of content filtering at the carrier level around election time. Messages that merely mentioned the word "vote" or "election" were getting blocked by many carriers. A few months later none of these restrictions seemed to exist. So not just Google.
I invite you to read up on the truly awful Teams style OneOutlook client that MS are about to roll out:

https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/18/23125532/microsoft-new-on...
I use excel/word daily and they work great on my M1 mac and feel modern.
> Your consumer disagrees, they'd like to know if their URL was fat fingered or if a record was missing.

Why?

How often does this really come up?

Who is typing in URLs like this manually?

If you're typo'ing it in code, are you not doing any kind of validation/testing against any kind of spec that can catch this?

Why is it up to the actual webservice returning a 404 to catch these kind of typo errors?

And I'm not saying I disagree with the argument -- I fully get the argument that was made, but practically the fact that you're caring about it suggests you're missing other components in your stack. You're producing a URL request which is outside of the spec of legal URLs for the webservice. You can validate that before you ever make a real web request against a real server.
The Teams webapp is hot garbage though. On video you can't even see all the participants. It's years behind Google Meet and Zoom.
Lightning is a hack, not a solution, and certainly not one that can be described as "amazing".
I did you a service, you should know how pathetic this sounds.
Didn't they raise money last year? Good to know there is still money in the system
That's a huge spread, which is exactly what I was talking about. You buy 1$ for 63 rubles on that bank chances are the 2nd dollar will cost you 64 rubles. Need to see the order book and market depths at different prices. High spread also means there haven't been many trades recently.
Somewhat related, how does Zig compare to Rust? I've been learning Rust but also saw Zig gaining traction. I believe the JS runtime Bun is written in Zig which was on HN last week.
Another option that is still young (young as an Open Source project, but has a lot of historic development behind it) is O3DE (https://www.o3de.org/) I think this has a lot of potential if it gets enough attention and development.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/18/amazon...

https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/31/22258856/amazon-ring-part...

Its not an accident, its the entire reason why they make the doorbells
I always associate the videophone concept with Max Headroom, where the president of ZikZak Corporation used one to glower at his underlings, Big Brother style, from an enormous screen on one wall. Son of a gun, today's corporate meeting rooms have video conferencing setups, replete with a huge screen on one wall, so that use case (there were others in the show) appears to have been bang on the money.

If you're going to argue that we don't really have picturephones, just computers that do video and audio over the network, you should argue we don't really have a telephone network anymore, just a computer network that routes audio, video, and other things. The backhaul for my parents' "landline" is 5G.
I don't want to come across as banal, but is engineering something you would like to pursue now?
They used AngularJS a long time ago but Teams today is an React app. The problem is clearly with JS/Electron. Slack have also performance issues.
I did not mean to hold up HN as a measure of correctness, and I suggest that it is not a good idea to do so.

> 404 if you want to tell them you didn't find the resource. 200 if you want to tell them the resource doesn't exist.

404 is a client error, like all 4xx codes. The requester can correct their request. It does not indicate that the server ~"tried to find but may have overlooked" a resource, it means that the server can authoritatively state that the resource is not findable.

This is essentially, "does not exist at this time". Resources that do not exist today, might exist in the future, or they might not. This is true for both /users/1000 and /some/other/path.

I interpret the RFC to support my belief:

6.5.4. 404 Not Found

The 404 (Not Found) status code indicates that the origin server did
not find a current representation for the target resource or is not
willing to disclose that one exists. A 404 status code does not
indicate whether this lack of representation is temporary or
permanent; the 410 (Gone) status code is preferred over 404 if the
origin server knows, presumably through some configurable means, that
the condition is likely to be permanent.
I would imagine it's for the same reason that many big musical acts go to lengths to make it difficult for concert tickets to be resold. It's important to them to manage their relationship with their customers, and they simply don't want all or most of their tickets essentially being auctioned off to the highest bidders even if that is technically the most economically efficient allocation according to some extremely short-sighted interpretation of an Econ 101 textbook. Heck, it's the same reason Apple sometimes has long wait times for a new popular iPhone model instead of holding an auction and shipping to the highest bidders first.
screw this technocratic neofeudalist garbage. ive been encrypting my entire google drive for a while now for exactly this kind of overreach in the past.

https://dev.to/petarov/store-encrypted-files-in-google-drive...
Those copy-on-write linked data structures, with the implied pointer chasing, have a cost. That's what the parent is talking about...
every single one that isn't encrypted
The same economists who also thought inflation is transitory.
Lisp is great, and Paul Graham has done some good things with it, but the only other people who ever actually listened to PG and tried to build something practical in Lisp lived to regret that decision:

https://web.archive.org/web/20051207043012/http://reddit.com...
Someone used this technique to steal hundreds of millions in crypto tokens from a company recently, so looks to be a common and lucrative scam more people are trying. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32001742
If you are actually worried about diversity then Edge and Chrome are no different. Both contribute to the Blink monoculture.

If we want to split hairs then Edge is slightly better purely because it doesn't have the same 65% market share as Chrome.
Answer they present: 10% chance within the next decade
Humans are incredibly complex animals, you'll never be able to fully comprehend a person (not even yourself), so take comfort the fact that this is what makes us unique and interesting. I personally love being surrounded by fellow imperfect, vulnerable creatures on a tiny planet at the edge of a galaxy..
A lot of this "Funding" people have been politicizing, isn't major funding. It's nominal funding, which guarantees access to the final products of that research.

In general, it's a good policy to allow the government to fund 1% of a project, here and there, in hopes of benefiting equally from the research.

And, the WIV funding that's been politicized so heavily, was specifically for better understanding SARS after the outbreak in 2004. Which, in hindsight, was a pretty good idea. Turns out, SARS was something we'd have to deal with in the future.

Would have been pretty difficult to pursue this research without working with any scientists in China.

The total was $600k across all projects to WIV, all-time, and this was due to outsourcing by EcoHealth.

https://www.factcheck.org/2021/05/the-wuhan-lab-and-the-gain...

But really, just put competent subject-matter experts in charge of the NIH and CDC, and let them do their jobs.
Would be more accurate to say un-updated phones are unlocked doors you know are unlocked. Up to date? Slow update cycles measured in weeks suggest for some portion of some number of cycles they're also unlocked.

Worse is how some fraction of updates are very bad news, thus people who care about this delay until there's enough confirmation an update won't do something nasty to something they depend on, which can go all the way to basic phone and SMS usage.
DALL-E Prompt Book
What do you mean by that? I don't see why there couldn't be a centralized service offering payment dispute arbitration on top of Bitcoin (this is what I meant by building "trustful" systems being built on top of trustless foundations).
-> As the plasma expands, it pushes back on the magnetic field. By Faraday's law, the change in field induces current, which is directly recaptured as electricity. This clean fusion electricity is used to power homes and communities, efficiently and affordably.

Charging without wires! /s

Where does the thermal power go?
If the recruiter is saying he's been hired by a company to find people for a given job posting, and he hasn't actually been hired by the company, that's fraud.
That's why you buy USDA Organic to ensure you have less levels of em!
The spam that is getting through seems like really obvious spam. Not just for a human, but for a classifier, too.

I looked at an "out of the blue" example just now:

1. Sent from a Gmail address where the name doesn't come close to matching the name suggested by the sender address.

2. Email body is in Latvian, a language I have no association with.

3. About 20 other recipients, none associated with me.

4. Subject line is nonsensical (not even words) and an email address.

5. Email body is one line.

6. PDF attachment, with no mention of it in the email body.

7. Looks automated, but came from a Gmail address.

Of course, none of these in isolation is a definitive indicator of the email being spam, but given that there's at least 7 anomalies, considering the amount of data Google has & that they pride themselves on machine learning, shouldn't they be catching something like this?
Tracing Gorm Queries with OpenCensus and Google Cloud Tracing
The online chat experience is subjectively worse in the last 5 years or so compared to how it was in the '90s, '00s, and early '10s. I don't have the issues the OP has, but I do have significant lag with text input when typing in Teams or Slack. This was never an issue with IRC clients, XMPP clients, or aol/msn/aim/yahoo/icq instant messenger clients. I'm not sure about screen sharing, but I do know that video chat was supported by later versions of the proprietary ones.

At least screen sharing and video/voice chat works well on Zoom, even on Linux distros.
My guess is that only applies to private conversations? If you're talking with someone in public (and arguably the outside of your property is public) do they need your permission to record you?
Not 100% sure why they didn't use/mention Opentelemetry were Opencensus got merged into
User gets annoyed by their post being removed for self-promotion, writes a blog post complaining and then links to a random reddit comment by someone most certainly not "in the know" about what's standing in the way on an IPO.

This is a non-story. It's sour grapes plus anonymous conjecture that somewhat lines up with the reason this author is mad.

This is the second reddit moderation-related story that's hit HN today. I'm not sure why. Reddit moderation is far from perfect but I've yet to see a better system. People largely have no idea how much work goes into moderating even a medium-sized subreddit, let alone the large ones or defaults. Again, I'm not saying the mods are perfect and there are power-hungry/power-tripping mods for sure as well false (spam) positives but with the amount of stuff mods have to sift through I'm more than willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. Seeing that a user only/mostly submits their own content is normally an easy indicator of low-quality content (if this author's other work is like this post then I'd say that's a fair assessment).
I have had anti-glare lens coating but it always wears off because I clean my glasses with whatever softish fabric comes to hand. I'm not getting again because the last pair I had eroded in edgewise fashion so lenses look like the coastline of some unvisited continent, which is far more distracting than any glare in the worn-away areas.
Looks like HN people are changing that as we speak
Alibaba Cloud Server Panjiu-M Series
It reminds me an old joke: "when technology allows radios to transmit pictures, it will be the end of the television"
At what stage are we in actualising fusion energy as a feasible source? Is it:

1. Theory is in place. Need to work out some some physics.

2. Physics is solid. Engineering needs work.
> Configuring a React project from scratch with Webpack

Why do people do this? I've always used the official way (CRA), and never had any issues with it. If you need to adjust webpack configuration, there are third-party packages that work very well in practice (like craco). Yet reinventing the wheel over and over again seems to be popular.

https://create-react-app.dev/docs/getting-started
While Tesla makes shoddy cars, their Superchargers are second to none.

This is what will save Tesla as a company once the legacy automakers start releasing EVs en masse.
Varied? You're joking they're all math

This guy found sqlite to be 19x slower. https://ricomariani.medium.com/wasm-sqlite-for-web-products-...
"The tendency of f political candidates to gravitate towards the political center". Haven't we seen the opposite since about 1980?
My lenses have oleophobic coating. I find breathing on them and rubbing with microfiber cloth to be quite effective even when they are coated with grease.
Before the camel hair brush, we typically use a blower on the lenses. The least you touch that expensive glass, the better!
Is there a way to trigger this so that it is always on? Something like a white noise generator?
Talent is an ambiguous term. To me, it means someone who is capable solving the almost-impossible problem or solving a hard problem in a unique way. It is someone who has the potential to give a competitive advantage to a company or initiate a major change to society if given a chance.

In my experience, talent needs to be challenged and grown. There are clear signs of talent but they are not the ones that are typically focused on in a technical interview. It is not what do you already know. It is rather how do you approach a problem where you don't have all the information or what conventions bother you? Or someone who has deep insights from outside the standard areas.

Talent is not currently as valued as much as people claim. What is valued is productivity and someone who appears to add value. Talent usually means being able to claim credit for a key problem being fixed or a standard trend getting successfully implemented at a company.

I've been in the industry for a long time. There is so much latent talent in discriminated groups that I once thought that pure greed alone would cure racism and sexism in the tech industry. That has not been the case.
I'm not a parent, but I've been in this kid's position. I didn't have a computer at 18, and I certainly didn't have internet access. So if I wasn't at work or at school I'd hang out at the public library or hide behind books at home. I did this because I had learned that nobody actually gave a shit about me as long as I stayed out of their way. They didn't want me around, and weren't interested in how I felt or what I thought as long as "did my part" to raise my brothers and didn't drop out of school, get a girl pregnant, or murder my brothers or classmates. It was plain that I wasn't welcome in the society around me, and I had come to decide that society didn't deserve me.

There's a discussion on r/menslib that touches on this at <https://teddit.net/r/MensLib/comments/vucpf1/boys_need_help_...>.

This comment at <https://teddit.net/r/MensLib/comments/vucpf1/boys_need_help_...> is particularly relevant:

> So, as you say, the question is: did society create the computer kid by ignoring them, or did the computer kid disregard society because computers were more interesting?

> Both, possibly. But there's no smoke without fire. If you force a kid into solo, insular hobbies and to find their own ways to connect to things without the opportunity for those things to be other people, you really can't complain decades later that he's socially inept.

I felt forced to find ways to entertain myself because I grew up without friends, was emotionally neglected, and never figured out how to make friends as a kid because my parents figured that I was somehow "smart enough" to not need help with social skills. It wasn't computers for me; it was books, heavy metal albums, and console gaming.

You're not going to fix this "addiction" without first confronting the root causes. Chances are this kid was emotionally neglected, and they're using the computer to cope.
Of the current fusion startups I'm generally most optimistic about Helion because they have a plausible solution for generating energy that produces electricity rather than just heat. Having to couple large amount of turbine with potentially neutron-activated liquids is a big driver of costs in nuclear plants and this neatly seems to sidestep the problem by turning the momentum of charged particles into electricity directly with no heat engine involved.
tired and copypasta-like impulsive response written in hysterics is why you're getting downvoted
Bolton is an insufferable scumbag