skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not surprised at all seeing all sort of comments from the people of the ethical sect...

I'd really love to see any of these people in such situation. Or maybe even further, in a situation in which they actually have a tangible proof that "something bad is going to happen".
I think they have tangle free rollers nowadays. Haven't tried them yet though.
I don't care personally. However, I am under the impression that gender-neutral/non-binary people care about this, and it seems a small price a pay to respect their wishes and use the word "they", as there doesn't seem to be a better alternative. Did jki275 say they are part of that group..? I didn't see that.
Can someone describe why gRPC-Web needs a proxy?

I recently had trouble deciding between the official gRPC-Web and Improbable's gRPC-Web[1]. In the end I decided on Improbable's, because it seemed to not require a proxy. In practice, it's working very nicely.

Yet, I'm still not clear on what exactly the Proxy serves to do, in either case. If a browser supports HTTP 2, why is a proxy needed?

[1]: https://github.com/improbable-eng/grpc-web
NASA fixes Hubble gyroscope by turning it off and on again
You can just have Oculus Go's, no need for beefy laptops ;-) Everyone would just see an avatar of the other people, remote or local.

If you absolutely need to drink water during a meeting you can just quickly move your headset up with one hand and drink a sip, while still hearing in your headphones what's going on.

You can do VR with a hybrid approach too. Same implications as calling in with a PC/mobile phone into an AR meeting.

Only upside I see with AR currently is:

- Easier to speak to people in the same room (but not necessary if half the people attending are remote anyways, in fact, it would level the playing field)

- Work on your computer during the meeting (which you shouldn't do anyways =P)
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Grew up in Greensboro, NC. Tons of black widows in most sheds/barns, etc.

I always thought there were brown recluses around too - but I guess this research is saying they aren't in NC?
DuckDuckGo vs. Search Encrypt
Don't go to university for CS.
I'm not ashamed! The product was not broken. As others have correctly pointed out, there were export restrictions for public shareware downloads. The product is still sold and has never been reported to have been broken. The ciphers used are all public domain - that's how people trust them. Nothing about a cipher can be secret.
A key component of sensationalism is inaccuracy. What's inaccurate? What's being hyped? They admit their assumption. The questions propose the possibility of deception, "what are they hiding here?" but this isn't inaccurate or hype. It's a question, not a statement, and not misleading supposition or speculation.

If you're going to presuppose the piece is sensationalism, the speculative explanations are themselves sensationalist, because you're making value judgements: the explanations are reasonable, and some assumptions should be off the table. These are misdirection. Instead come in the form of additional questions.

I think it goes without saying there could be reasonable explanations, but why speculate or assume? If they exist, and it's a simple matter, then Google could simply answer. But they haven't. Why not is a completely reasonable question, even if it's a valid opinion to consider it boring and a waste of time.
Lets also assume there is a selection bias. The things the do right with the right intentions you never hear of. Its only when things go wrong do we know.
If they had made a cash donation, it would have been an unambiguously good thing.

Equity, however, creates a conflict of interest. If the non-profit Postgres organizations make money when Citus makes money, then they have an incentive to favor Citus over other companies.

Let's say there's a Citus competitor. The competitor implements a feature a bit differently than Citus. Does Postgres support both organizations equally? Or if there's a technical decision to be made, and it involves making one company's code incompatible with base Postgres, who do you think will win?

It's a free market, and the parties involved are perfectly free to make this arrangement, but it generates potential problems.
Congrats to Tesla!

This is HILARIOUS to see after the thousands and thousands of negative articles and press over the last year.
> Large Penalty Maximums

This is needed, otherwise there is no real reason to actually protect personal data. Equifax losing the personal data for 50% of Americans should have resulted in major penalties due to the nature of their security.

The other requirements raise the cost of storing this data closer to the damage that can be done by the loss/theft of that data (from the perspective of the data subject).
> ...would drastically improve the ability for the US to compete...

of course "the US" is not a monolith. it's a collection of competing interests. big corporations, consumers, and the existing stock of US-based workers each claim to be "the US."
What does GA mean? The article uses it a few times but doesn't define it.
And if anything goes wrong, we just assume it was unavoidable and not, say, a bug. So bugs don't get found and people die and nobody cares. Just spinning another possible scenario.

It could still be a net gain since vastly more people get the care they need.
You mean HoloLens or Magic Leap?
This only applies to continuous views, not all PG tables. Think of continuous views in PipelineDB as very high throughput, incrementally updated materialized views. Raw data hits continuous queries in PipelineDB (continuous views) and only the output of the continuous queries is stored. So 1 billion events ingested could be distilled down into a single row that incrementally counts up from 1 => 1 billion as each data point arrives, instead of storing all of the 1 billion raw data points and counting them up later.
IANAL but the definition of Wire Fraud is ridiculously flexible. Manipulation of http headers to get free access to paid services is likely to get you convicted if anyone cared enough to prosecute...

Also likely to be punishable under DMCA as circumventing access controls.
Thanks for bringing up the hard questions. We have not yet made special considerations for OneDrive on-demand files or WSL files. Indeed, they require a lot of work. (I've been learning that, I think, Windows has a lot more edge cases than Linux does, in general... Windows has definitely been more difficult to develop for.)

So yeah, it's a lot of work. I know that there are major performance and correctness issues when dealing with OneDrive mounted storage and the equivalent for other sync services. Still, I've added your feedback to our list. Thanks!
This is exactly why i'm ok with paying 10x more for AWS.
You can speak with them in few minutes, you have a grace period before service shutdown unlike ovh, DO and most others
Myself as well. They’re all over Berkeley and I assumed they’d been here for some time when I moved here in 2010.
I'm not sure if you're just being sarcastic at this point or not...Let's just assume you're not because hey, good faith and all that.

There is a wide gap between "the media sometimes sensationalizes things that are traumatic and scary which causes people to believe that these events/things are more common than they actually are" and "this person is systematically sewing distrust in the media as a means of properly moving information from one location to the other, thus destroying the media's credibility and undermining our free society".

The whole "fake news" problem, wherein people just attempt to discredit factual information they disagree with by claiming it isn't real or important, is not the same as a person pointing out a well documented (and discussed) trend in certain segments of the media to go for "click-bait".

You're not arguing that click-bait style writing isn't real, right? You're not going to try and tell me that a research associate somehow knows less about his field of study than some random member of the media, are you?
Tesla turns a profit
General availability (GA) is the marketing stage at which all necessary commercialization activities have been completed and a software product is available for purchase, depending, however, on language, region, electronic vs. media availability.[12] Commercialization activities could include security and compliance tests, as well as localization and worldwide availability. The time between RTM and GA can be from a week to months in some cases before a generally available release can be declared because of the time needed to complete all commercialization activities required by GA. At this stage, the software has "gone live".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle#Ge...
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http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=What+does+GA+mean
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I think it may be aligned with GCP terms here: https://cloud.google.com/terms/launch-stages

General Availability (GA)	GA features are open to all developers and are considered stable and fully qualified for production use.
Ask HN: What is your take on the US stock market downturn?
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Off the top of my head, you can do a single mod 15 for the first case. I'm sure there are other micro optimizations, but really being able to write exactly what you did is sufficient to move on to real questions that actually have something to do with the job you're interviewing for.
To provide a concrete example of why /diy/ is great, most "diy-ish" discussion boards I participate in devolve into "look how awesome I am" "look how much money/debt I can spend" "I am more of an authority than you" "my favorite authority could kick the butt of your favorite authority" and similar self-aggrandizement-posting. People on /diy/ actually talk about /diy/ topics, which is a refreshing change from most non-anon non-chan discussion boards. Its a relatively low-sophistry zone... emphasis on relatively...

The biggest problem I see on /diy/ is questionable humor, sort of like how blue collar occupations used to haze the apprentices a bit, you'll see the most ridiculous / comical suggestions sometimes.
Ah, yes. Good point, I forgot about standalone headsets. Although one drawback is that everyone would have to remain seated if it's 3dof like Go.

Standalone inside out headsets could work (quest), but people still would bump into each other since they wouldn't have a good sense of where other headsets are.

These drawbacks would be OK for some meetings, but dealbreakers for others.

In many of the meetings where you could remain seated, there's a requirement to screen share from a laptop (as you mention) that likely won't go away in the near term.
Geospatial anything. Geomatics, GIS, geodesy, surveying, photogrammetry, optics, whatever is related.
> But of course I have to say that you should try to learn the language if you want to stay in Germany longer than just a year or two

Of course. But being able to at least perform basic functions while also adapting to a new country is important(and it is overwhelming already without language issues). After a while, you're doing yourself a disservice by not learning the local language.

My aunt lived in Japan for close to two decades. She can't speak Japanese and knew barely enough to get by. She never really had to, as she's married to a native japanese, which doesn't help matters. But that's absolutely not the way to go.
Every time you do your measurement in the “transmiter” you will have a pure state in the receiver and it doesn’t lead to FTL signaling.

What you have when you repeat the procedure is an ensemble of states: half of them the pure state |H> and half of them the pure state |V> (or half of them |H> and half of them |V>).

There is no entanglement, only (a mixture of) pure states. And it doesn’t lead to FTL signaling.

At the end of the “teleporting” procedure you have a pure state B which is identical to the original pure state C. And it doesn’t lead to FTL signaling.

Maybe your problem arises from the following misunderstanding:

> If you could cause an entangled particle to become unentangled (i.e. to transition from a mixed state to a pure state)

In the example I gave above, the density matrix for the photon arriving at the “detector” doesn’t change when the measurement is made at the “transmitter” and entanglement is broken. But the same density matrix describes different situations. When there is entanglement the photon is part of a pure state and the density matrix is obtained by tracing out the rest of the system. Later there is no entanglement and the density matrix describes a statistical mixture of pure states (50% |H> and 50% |V>, or whichever is the apropriate basis for the measurement that was made on the other photon destroying entanglement).
It's always lunacy to me when junior job positions require X amount of years experience. That's just not possible.
What do you mean "Fab"?
If you look at other countries in LatAm or Africa, you don’t see so many rich or wealthy being busybodies trying to set the tone like the PC crowd in the US does.
The problem is weathering. Weathered stone looks much the same as current stone; weathered concrete looks absolutely horrid. The Brutalist buildings that were all concrete have aged very poorly, with water and rust stains and moss present.

You'd also need someone to actually make custom molds for every project; if you have nobody willing to do it at a reasonable price for stone, what makes you think they'll do it making molds?

Plaster molds have been used to mimic this effect, but mostly it looks very bad and is used for things like tacky McMansions.

Right now, the only material that works and looks good for the purpose is stone. There is a reason why stone countertops have remained a central piece of home furnishing throughout the years.
I've had an experience like this but with less consequence. I was running a server years ago that scraped information from various cryptocurrency sites and it was flagged as fraudulent. Support refused to say what the issue was or offer temporary access to the server for data retrieval. This wasn't some cowboy unbounded crawler either, it was making very specific requests, around 1000 a day for around two weeks, probably less than an average day of web browsing for the majority of people.

I'll never use DO for anything, even testing and mucking around. At the very least you would have to provide excessive evidence of identity if you get flagged by their magic algorithm, and if they restore your service it could be after days of wrangling with support (it took support over a day to answer my support tickets at the time).
Hey, glad you like Caddy.

I know of a couple efforts, either talked about or under way, to make an open source web UI for restic. One is a PR to add a sort of API to restic: https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1963 -- and another is here: https://gitlab.simbookee.com/andi/restic-gui.git
Verner Vogels shares outage story against the CNBC article promoting Oracle
Vernel Vogels shares the Prime Day outage in big Ohio warehouse story from AWS side. Many people think that the CNBC article looks like paid content by Oracle.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/23/amazon-move-off-oracle-caused-prime-day-outage-in-warehouse.html

https://twitter.com/Werner/status/1054901529478459392
Not at the moment, no. But that would be a great addition. Thanks for the suggestion!
BLUF: On average, Curtin found that the muscles converted 63 percent of their energy into work—i.e., physical movement. For comparison, the equivalent figures are 42 percent for cows, 34 percent for mice, and 27 percent for rabbits.

Greter muscle efficiencies are likely out there, but the breadth of research data is still narrow. I would be interested in Dolphin and Blue Fin Tuna muscle efficiency.

Probably research of interest to, say, Boston Dynamics?
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Disclaimer: I used to work for Citus and have options.

> Equity, however, creates a conflict of interest. If the non-profit Postgres organizations make money when Citus makes money, then they have an incentive to favor Citus over other companies.
> Let's say there's a Citus competitor. The competitor implements a feature a bit differently than Citus. Does Postgres support both organizations equally? Or if there's a technical decision to be made, and it involves making one company's code incompatible with base Postgres, who do you think will win?

Note that none of the non-profits have technical decision making power. That's in the end the decision of the committers (and potentially the core team if there's irreconcilable conflicts). Both groups work for a variety of companies.
He then goes about spending his entire article (and in fact, a whole ass book!: http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=8014010049221...) talking about the spider in question and why it's misunderstood by laymen. The man is an expert in his field lobbing a (valid) criticism about media representation of one specific matter.
I'm about half way through Ghost in the Wires and this sounds exactly like something he'd do. "Hi, this is so-and-so and I'm with this-and-that. Could you send me a copy of the source code? I'm all over your phone line" The book is a continuous stream of anecdotes like this. Love it.
The ciphers are public. Providing source for this specific implementation of "user interface" did nothing more than indicate sizes of file headers, etc. No customers were put at risk. All I did was save the NSA maybe a few hours of time during a critical moment. Do you really think they couldn't have figured out there is a 4K file header (see, I've said it here, no harm).
> The only acceptable for loop is the one that has only one statement in it's body and does not need curly braces.

What?!
Anyone here knows if gRPC-Web provides performance benefits as opposed to using REST?
I'm Derek, one of the co-founders--great questions!

> So you create a table, insert into it, and it's always empty. Is that right?

That is correct. Streams can only be read by continuous queries (e.g. you can't even run a SELECT on them).

> Does this work for any table in pg? How does pg know that the insert should NOT actually insert a row?

PipelineDB streams are represented as a specific kind of PostgreSQL foreign table [0], so only foreign tables created in a specific way will be considered streams. You can use triggers to write table rows and updates out to streams if you want to though.

[0] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-createfor...
This is something that has put me off services like this for personal / open source projects. I'm time and cost limited and usage will be minimal so both the expense of a managed service and the time cost of setting up my own are both unattractive.

Would DO be open to a limited 'hobby tier' for this set at the price of the droplet?
Hey Matt,

I appreciate the response and I'm really sorry if you feel like this is a personal attack and I do apologize for the edit. I only did that to remove as much speculation on my part as I could so that others could make their own judgement.

You are right that I made assumptions about your views based on your tweet and your previous tweets, if you can tell me that you strongly support equal LGBT rights and freedoms than I'll concede that I was mistaken.

If that's not the case, then I stand by my original point, which is not that you should not be supported, but that people should understand who they're supporting and make their own judgement.
I’m not trolling, I simply disagree that a company making a decision about their own product is “deeply troubling.” A little annoying, perhaps.
How much will it pay? Americans work in UAE and KSA where their life looks like it was plocked from a dystopian novel.
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I left Kaiser. As far as I can tell, they don't have any doctors. I've been told that if I yell at them repeatedly, they could get me one, but I don't have time for those shenanigans. I went there for a GI issue. They poked my belly and said, "It's a virus". Had I not figured out the issue on my own, it could have become life threatening. Several coworkers know people that have been misdiagnosed and lost loved ones because of Kaiser. It seems to me that Kaiser is an entry level place for new doctors to get some experience. The offices are tiny and everything is rushed.

Yet, I've heard on HN so many people love that place. I can't fathom how that is the case. Even military clinics are decades ahead of Kaiser.

The only positive thing I have seen about Kaiser is that they are an amazing drug company. Each campus has 2 to 4 pharmacies. That must be a very lucrative business.
Coming from a background in remote sensing, and having been to several conferences where companies desperately try to sell destitute students instrumentation worth hundreds of thousands of dollars...

A lot of remote sensing folks come out of geography degrees into specialist Masters' programs. The use cases are all the various things you'd use high resolution aerial maps for. To be clear most of the scientists are users of this data, rather than the creators. Historically there were more computer vision scientists involved, but we've mostly solved the big problems like image stitching and camera calibration. Then GPS came along and solved the geo-referencing problem as well.

Most academics just buy their data or get it from a space agency, do some analysis in GIS software and get on with answering their research questions. There is still a healthy research field in remote sensing, but fewer people worry about the collection side. There are also plenty of people involved from the space side of things, but again, unless you're on an instrument team you're a consumer not a creator.

So the career path depends. Typically degree in geography with a specialism in remote sensing, then into a career with an appropriate company. Most of the airborne cameras are produced by large orgs like Leica Geosystems. Also look at Hexagon AB who have bought up just about everyone else.

The people that generate this data tend to be small companies who own a plane (or three) kitted out with expensive surveying cameras. They are then contracted to fly over places and they provide calibrated (ortho-rectified, geo-referenced, etc) data to the client. Depending on the budget and requirements, this can include (multispectral) imagery and/or LIDAR mapping.

If you're interested in camera development that spans the engineering gamut from electrical (sensors) to optical. There are also aeronautical engineers and of course pilots. Nowadays if you have some machine learning knowledge, you're probably useful.
theoretically sounds like a perfect match
I'd prefer an upturn.
Congrats to Tesla and Musk.
The numbers are just insane:
"The electric car-maker reported adjusted earnings of $2.90 per share on revenue of $6.82 billion, exceeding average analyst expectations of losses of 15 cents per share on revenue of $6.32 billion."
There is a robotic snow blower competition, run by U of Michigan, I think. The failure scenarios for that are even more frightening to think about.
If the history of the core committee and contributors till now is any indication of their objectivity and community focus, I’m not worried about that in the slightest.