skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At a guess, unless there is a hard mechanical reason (such as the particle size a filter will pass) all communicable diseases can be transmitted through all vectors but with extremely low incidence, so low as to be safe to ignore unless there is documented evidence that a disease can be transmitted.

I'd be interested in an epidemiologist's or other expert's analysis of this question. My experience is that non-experts in any field greatly exaggerate the possible in 'anything is possible'. But I know that in my field bugs and errors are predictable; a user might say 'X happened' but I know that X simply never occurs (something is wrong and the problem needs to be solved, but it's not X). (I'm trying to come up with an example for X, but it's kind of hard to think about the impossible.)
Netflix is helping produce a bunch of anime recently, and from that point of view it doesn’t seem to have a single focus on genre or format.

It looks more like a “we’ll pay you to make stuff people want to watch” approach, with no specific request on “high brow” or “low brow” or overall length.

In a way I think they don’t care if a creator or studio makes 4 different series where 2 are big hits and 2 with a meh reception, or one big 4 season series where viewers drop out a random places.

As long as viewers come back to Netflix to look for more stuff it should be fine for them.
Ok close enough? Forgive me for not remembering the exact wording of the GDPR and taking the first result that comes up on Google.

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-83-gdpr/

"Infringements of the following provisions shall, in accordance with paragraph 2, be subject to administrative fines up to 20 000 000 EUR, or in the case of an undertaking, up to 4 % of the total worldwide annual turnover of the preceding financial year, whichever is higher:"

Proportionate how? That's obviously up to them to decide and they probably mean that large companies like Google will be subject to the 4% instead of 20 million euro. Are you going to bet your life savings that they will fine you 4k euro instead of 1 million euro?

Why would they bother to add the phrase with "whichever is higher" if they were even going to consider a fine lower than 20 million euro? Think about it. They don't care about the fine being proportionate to the downside, they are just worried about it not being strict enough to companies like Facebook and Google.
Thank you for this very considered response - I've enjoyed all of those books! There is a tendency to read secondary sources that are presented in a current consumable format. Rare is it that someone has read the primary sources or even referenced them. As a gentle introduction to the impact of engineering for quality, I give people copies James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones's The Machine That Changed the World : The Story of Lean Production. If this leads to questions for further study, I point them to Ohno and Deming. As for the topic of this thread, Root Cause analysis is only one method of problem solving and other systemic methods may be more appropriate depending on the issue.

For a thorough and in-depth treatise on critical thinking and methods, one could read Problem Solving, Decision Making, and Professional Judgment by Paul Brest and Linda Hamilton Krieger. They provide examples of many decision making frameworks, cognitive biases, in a readable format.

I did appreciate the link to the Piper Alpha resource. For another read along these lines there is the BEA Air France 447 disaster final report.
https://www.bea.aero/docspa/2009/f-cp090601.en/pdf/f-cp09060...
I simply stopped using Facebook after I learned it was full of shit.
The support and development load is indeed much higher when it comes to standalone vaults. There is an infinite number of scenarios out of our control when it comes to Dropbox and WLAN sync. Several times in the past we had support inbox at over 10,000 emails waiting for response.

If AgileBits was VC-funded then we would have to drop standalone vaults, no doubt. It is a good thing that we are not. We do care about our long-time customers and will provide standalone vaults for as long as there is demand for them. Just please do not ask us to make it a default option.
Taking ketamine in a sensory deprivation tank really doesn't sound like a sensible idea to me.
> Copyright is a monopoly on a specific creative work, not an idea.

But courts — urged on by copyright owners — have extended the scope of copyright protection to nonliteral aspects such as (for example) look and feel and structure, sequence, and organization. Sometimes this is done while paying lip service to the principle that copyright doesn't protect ideas. The resulting fuzziness of the boundaries is one of the major sources of complaint.
Yeah that would have been great if he had communicated that to his congregation directly. Instead he was badmouthing them to his buddies. Except he was doing it online, where it was guaranteed to bite him in the ass eventually.

Apparently HN isn't big on the power of prayer, but even if it doesn't change the universe it can still improve our thinking. All of this is obvious with even a little reflection.
Sorry for not being clear. When the signal does not repeat, the Nyquist limit isn't a factor because there is no possibility of moire. That's where the difference between sharpness and resolution comes from...single points don't have frequencies. Between the Nyquist limit and the sensor resolution, there are no guarantees about how or whether a feature will or won't resolve and the photographer has to use their judgment relative to the image's purpose. An anti-alias filter takes the necessity of such decision off-the photographer's plate in exchange for limiting the absolute possibilities.

Astro-photography is an illustrative example. Celestial objects don't appear in night sky scenes with a regular frequency. So there is no need for an anti-aliasing filter. It just lowers point resolution without any benefit. So cameras for astro-photography often lack AA filters.
Hah. I think that's a pretty good example in other ways, too. Uber is losing money hand over fist- if you really want to be driven to work everyday, they are by far the cheapest way to get that done, presumably because they are willing to lose that money.

Uber is trying to pull the same trick AWS did. I mean, I don't know if AWS was bleeding money at first, but in 2008, they had pretty good prices. Hard to compete with. I tried. But the thing is, especially their bandwidth prices? to this day, they are "okay, if it's 2008" I mean, north of ten cents per gigabyte transfer is kind of a lot.

(even in 2008, their bandwidth prices weren't great. I mean, they weren't bad, but their bandwidth prices were never really a lot below what you could get elsewhere. Their compute prices, on the other hand, were really competitive, if you scored them against the same ram at another Xen based VPS provider.)

This is an absolutely standard hosted infrastructure play. The standard VPS business model is to break into the market with really low prices, get a lot of customers, and then sit on those prices for as long as you can, while your costs fall, making your margins grow. I mean, most companies eventually are forced to lower prices again, so you get this cycle of high growth/no margin and then growing margin/bleeding customers.

(Interestingly, of late, the velocity with which hardware prices fall has decreased pretty dramatically, making this model less viable, or at least making it take longer.)

Amazon took this business model to the next level, in the way that VPS companies could only dream about. People voluntarily lock themselves into services on amazon that aren't particularly standardized, that would be quite difficult to shift onto competitors. This is very good for the amazon bottom line.
> It would allow Zuckerberg to talk more candidly.

This is exactly the problem. If he's not able to talk candidly in public, it suggests that Facebook is doing things to which the public would object.
I think another plus of buying their service is your supporting development of the software and saving yourself time, while a critical piece of your security software remains open source.
Manual of Photography might be worth reading.
Real place, real thing. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genchi_Genbutsu
> I think a game (quoting Powerball here) where your odds are 1:292,201,338 is by definition a fleece.

Nah. If it paid off at a billion to 1, I would buy some tickets ;-)
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Well, these have a keel that generally keeps them upright. It's almost certain they've been designed to be self righting if they do get knocked over by a breaking wave. Likewise, they float, so temporary submerging shouldn't be much of a problem provided they're sealed well.

One advantage of this kind of wing sail is it's "self trimming". With the tail/tab in neutral position, it'll always weathervane to follow the wind. With the tail tab deflected somewhat, it'll weathervane with some amount of angle of attack. So even in very heavy winds, all it needs to do is back off on the angle of attack and it should be in a relatively stable state.
Haskell is a young language, and the vast majority (99%+) of programmers have not learned functional programming.

Another observation is that the programming industry does not care about correctness or writing stable software, since they have no liability for broken shit. There isn’t a strong push for writing consumer software that isn’t riddled with bugs.
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That's not what whataboutism means. It means A criticizes B so B responds by criticizing A for a comparable thing.

Here, I'm trying to tease out the meaning from you and a grandparent's posts that seem to ridicule anyone breaking any law, no matter how unjust the law might be. Your particular disrespect seems to be focused on foreigners visiting a country, which seems kind of arbitrary but you've done such a poor job explaining what's behind your judgments that I don't think there's much there besides the desire for violence against anyone who, even unknowingly, offends you. You've also been offensive to me in this thread (feeling free to because I don't have the power to punish you?) and say that you would insult the victims of anti-gay laws. It's clear now that you're a hate filled person so I don't want to know what you really mean anymore.
Sounds more like France has been acting in bad faith. You can't just decree a seizure of a domain because you're a political entity that wants it.
I agree with that assessment, but how many vulnerabilities have been found in closed sourced software? If the software is popular enough, someone somewhere is going to find a vulnerability whether it's open or closed source. Look at all of vulnerabilities that Google has found in closed sourced software. It just takes more skill to find vulnerabilities and incentives. The black hats have found vulnerabilities in iOS that Apple still hasn't managed to patch - like the one that lets law enforcement break into a locked iPhone and bypass the fail login attempts.
"Track as much as possible in your current system."
Thank you, @hs86. We will not let you down!
What do you use to fill browser login/passwords? There seem to be so many plugins for keepass
For those doing a retreat that has a sweat lodge be very careful. It seems some of these spiritual gurus don't quite get the whole safety thing and have too many people, a poorly designed sweat lodge, or rocks that, when heated, release poison gas. Strangely, the poor folks around here (ND) seem to have no problems, but the expensive retreats somehow screw it up every couple of years. I guess that's the difference that apprenticeship give you.
Then instead of focusing on accepting responsibility for their own failure, the losing side would need to focus on addressing their lack of ethics and potential criminality. (Both sides would need to focus on that, regardless of whether they won or loss).

Unfortunately I don't know what "justice" would look like in such a situation, but perhaps re-running the process without the unethical and criminal elements would be a good first order approximation.
If these are in embassies, the FBI should just roll up in a van with a HERF gun and take 'em out.
Removing the ability to get your own passwords out of your password management utility that you paid for would be corporate suicide.
See also, Lisp.
30 ish years is young for a programming language now?
I get the impression that anything that is not on the agilebits cloud is legacy and they will eventually stop supporting the other options bit by bit, despite what they say on HN forums.

I understand the attraction, from a software development standpoint it's much easier to make everything work well when you control the server and client software together.
Completely fair criticism. It was more of an articulation of the kinds of thoughts that came to mind when you're not only surrounded by the presence of big companies all day long in Tokyo, but also the jarring presence of seeing all too familiar brands in a city so alien. Like finding a McDonald's on Mars.

You're right, there is nothing deep linking either of those two, other than the fact that they were the two companies that made me so painfully self-conscious of myself as a consumer. I found I'd travelled to the other side of the world to give money to the same companies and support the same corporations that I did back home. It's was a weird experience, but I'm sure I could have articulated it better.

Thanks for reading it anyway and for the honest feedback.
when it comes to a namespace such as .com or the DNS root, the only owner is the party that controls this namespace.
The global hierarchy of race (2003)
>According to the National Science Foundation, an average person has about 12,000 to 60,000 thoughts per day. Of those, 80% are negative and 95% are repetitive thoughts.

What does any of this even mean?

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2012/05/09/th...
Haskell is 28 years old.
Yes, it’s ironic that the people closest to AI, who should be able to see that the brain is a physical organ like all others, often have the hardest time recognizing that cognitive deficits are as real as physical deficits. Some people can’t “make themselves feel X” any easier than a quadriplegic can dunk a basketball.
So I have now spent over a year developing this slackbot. Mostly used the time to learn how to build an application on kubernetes (using GKE). Looking to add Pocket integration in the future but still undecided on that. Thanks for any feedback!
For some closed physical systems this is pretty much true, but I think the way people think about the world is at odds with this. That is why we find things like this so surprising https://youtu.be/p08_KlTKP50

It gets even murkier when you think of statements like "Hitler coming into power caused world war 2". There are so many things going on in that system that it couldn't possibly be true (e.g. if you change Hitler out for another person maybe world war 2 still happens), but works as a plausible line of causal reasoning for a lot of people.
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cities have rhythms

That may be so, but I live in London and do not recognize the simplistic description of the London rhythm (I mean "the guards at Buckingham" - really?)
We tried that and it did not work out:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160420141241/https://1password...

People were confused. A lot of them purchased both. Most of the population is different from technically savvy HN users.
You don't have to install Java to use Selenium. (Source: I started the Selenium project)
Until April this year Reitz was “Python Overlord” at Heroku.

When it came to Python he most certainly did “run the joint”
Site seems to be down, here's Wayback:

http://web.archive.org/web/20180520203125/readonlymemory.vg/...

Edit: It's back now, but I was getting a 5xx error a minute ago.
The key issue I have with the cloud service right now is it breaks the automated backup process I get with iCloud sync and their Mac client. My biggest concern isn't bad actor data theft or online service outages, it's silent corruption of data that takes weeks / months to surface.

With iCloud sync of a local vault, the client will automatically store backup copies of the database on the local filesystem. I can sync that file to local ZFS NAS storage and to offsite storage to maintain months/years of archives as desired.

Until there is an automated export/backup option with the Agilebits sync serivce, it's off the table for me.
Ask HN: How to find software jobs that provide private offices in urban areas?
When specifically seeking non-remote software and technology jobs in an urban area, how can you effectively search for employers that are able to provide dedicated private offices for engineers and technology workers?

I have previously worked in a private office, in standard high-walled cubicles, in fully open-plan spaces, and in remote positions from my home.

For my next job, I know that for my own productivity and cognitive health, a private office is required. No more compromises with noise-cancelling headphones, remote or work from home arrangements, or anything else. Office or bust, required for basic cognitive health.

One problem is simply finding companies (beyond Stack Overflow) that possibly offer private offices. Many companies literally only have open-plan seating and cannot, even for the greatest candidate, give an office (let alone possibly viewing offices as mere tools that all candidates deserve for the sake of health and productivity).

How can I filter these companies out of my search efficiently by finding companies that do recognize the fundamental importance of private working space?

Secondly, how can I present my desire for an office during my interviews, application, or negotiation? My deep conviction is that open-plan offices are not cost effective even in urban areas after accounting for productivity and morale loss, and that a private office is an essential tool, no different than a keyboard or ergonomic monitor set up. Open plan offices actually prevent teamwork and collaboration, and because I really do care about team-oriented workflows and non-superficial collaboration, giving team members important privacy at their discretion is vital.

What is a good way to communicate this deeply held personal value such that it is clear that a desire for a private office is directly motivated by a collaborative, team-oriented approach that values productivity and cognitive health?
> Maybe they should.
How does this compare to http://ugorji.net/blog/go-codecgen ?
Mozilla might publish and promote their own^ Google Container if the possibility of ever receiving the majority of their funding from Google was never on the table for them. I really doubt they'd ever do it otherwise. Skepticism of Google, while perhaps not currently as widespread as skepticism of Facebook, is nevertheless quite popular. Mozilla has a financial incentive to close their eyes to this. Mozilla releasing an extension that protects users from Facebook is easy because Mozilla receives minimal if any funding from Facebook, but Google is another matter entirely.

^ Many users are wary of third party firefox extensions because firefox extension permissions are so coarse: https://i.imgur.com/G1HuXgy.png
Is it? Kubernete switched from the native go Json parser to codec for performance increase. http://ugorji.net/blog/go-codecgen
You probably purchased 1Password on different platforms? I do not think there was a single platform were 1Password had more than 2 paid upgrades.
Apart from wind moving it to the side, it would not be a fundamental problem to fly a tethered blimp with a pair of single mode fiber and a thin aluminum wire that is driven in resonance [0] with the surface capacitance the blimp has, relative to earth, up to about 20-50 km.
The breaking length of the fiber comes out at ~120 km, and you have to spare some tensile strength to hold the aluminum wire.

This is not hard, and for 8km height you could manufacture them for under $2k/piece. Even if they'd be made to work with hydrogen, as that raises the demands on the construction.
If you'd find the FCC to be willing to allow something like this and are able to handle both thunderstorms and just the general wind load on the tether, this should not be hard.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-wire_transmission_line
Haskell is the youngest language that isn’t derivative.Monads for IO weren’t being seriously used until the late 90s. All the imperative C derivative languages are much older.
> “Without Sci-Hub the researchers would be screaming at the libraries and state agencies not to cut them off,” he says.

I think this is the money quote. The strength they show in contract negotiations is only possible since no access just pretty much means unlicensed access by now.
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That's exactly what go-codec does
That project is not an encoder/decoder - it just returns values of keys. They are not comparable as the use cases are entirely different.
Dude.yes.

They just this year stopped scanning keywords in your email body for advertising purposes.

I won't say don't use gmail,maybe the risk is acceptable to you. But I highly recommend paying for protonmail.

> When you compose an email to a valid gmail account, it will provide you with additional details of the account, if the user provides it, even if you have never corresponded previously via email. This works for emails with @gmail and also @somebusiness

This isn't surprising,google probably thinks the usefulness of such a feature is more important than privacy of the recipient. This is their M.O., what little pseudo-privacy you get with a google product is via opt-out.

My mini-rant aside,as a business owner, I suppose google auto filling your contact metadata in that scenario would not be a bad thing(but then again, just about every controversial feature of a google product benefits business owners seeking to advertise on their platform)
Or a blimp with a thin wire in resonance and two fibers? If you don't need much power, the thing should weigh in at under 50g, which would allow a blimp the size of a large kitchen trashcan (50l).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-wire_transmission_line
Sounds like a disclaimer for any programming. Just because the happy path works doesn't mean you have a finished system.
OK, that’s something I didn’t know, and I may be missing something from such a silly name overlap. However, I do have items in Keychain Access.app which are from iCloud. What gives?
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Lisp already took over the world. Most of the fancy things that originated in Lisp were adopted by other languages, and thanks to Lisp, these other languages are bearable and actually useful now.

Haskell's one of these languages.
And in recent poll of programming popularity Haskell came just behind PL/1 :-) I bet there are not many hn regulars who have used Pl/1 in production.

Its also funny that Paul seems to think there where no high level languages before c
> She thought it likely that he had taken the drug, lost consciousness in the tank and drowned.

Why no autopsy?
Python Database Manipulation