skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well in defense of my friend, he is a mechanical engineer and certainly could do it, and did. He added an entire master bedroom and bath to an old house, doing most of the interior stuff himself. However some of the hoops he had to jump through were pretty silly. I'm sure there was plenty of regulatory capture by builders and contractors.
I go to bing.com and honestly it is more egregious. I couldn't tell which were the Ads and which were the search results.

As a Google employee, I am not a fan of the new design and can appreciate consumers' dissatisfaction with it and will be happy if it is reverted.

But, I can't help feel like there is a double standard, here.

For instance, Google didn't even opt to bid on the recent giant contract to be the cloud provider for the U.S. Government.

Microsoft beat out Amazon for this and there wasn't a peep about it.

It seems to me that Google is unfairly targeted in this space for some reason. It makes me question the motivation of some of those pushing this agenda.
My guess is, this is done because of Chunjie. For Chinese New year, people usually travel home to visit relatives. If the Chinese government wants to limit that, they need a very good reason, otherwise people will freak. So they have to exaggerate the danger, in order to be able to keep social peace when they quarantine cities.
I can't imagine how they can solve the last mile problem. Unless you rebuild a city around this mode of transportation, the number of landing spots is going to be very limited, and there may not be one near me.

If I wanted to walk from my starting point to a pickup location, get a ride, and walk some more from the drop off location to my destination, then I almost might as well take a bus.

Sure, it gets around traffic, but I'd bet that in a lot of cases, waiting in traffic takes less time than the additional walking. (The exception would be for longer trips.)

The only way I can see this working is if the experience/utility of this mode of transport is so vastly superior that everybody decides it is actually worth it to rebuild a city around it.
I was looking for the type of device that the chips will be used for, but couldn't find any mention.

Sadly laptops are always behind in the manufacturing queue when it comes to knew technology.

I'm excited that Zen 2 is coming out on 7nm, but at the same time my mobile phone is already good enough in energy efficiency, and I don't expect real practical speed increase for the 5nm version.
Saudi Crown Prince Appeared to Taunt Jeff Bezos over Secret Affair Before Exposé
>However, how do you stay relevant?

You don't. The hip, new thing gets recreated every 5-10 years.
This sounds bad.
Then the correct criticism of journalists is that they don't uphold their integrity in the face of the outrage tsunami. Or, more accurately, most who did are no longer employed as journalists.
I don't really understand. Are you saying Google is creating a media platform based on image search and they should somehow find a way to pay for the images in it?

If you want to use an image that is not free, you should go pay for it, no? You have a link for the site. You can even go visit the site as a courtesy for free images. Are you saying Google should be paying for the images?

If you want to be mad at someone, look at getty - they take² people's images and charge for them, even managing to file DMCA takedowns on the author[1]. As a consolation, at least they host the images themselves.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12180039

² Quick skim says they may merely let other people do the uploading of effectively stolen images.
Maybe I just missed it amid all the overly florid prose, but I didn't see any actual numbers in there. The closest I noticed was this:

> “We went from two people per bathroom to one person per bathroom in the last 50 years,” says Jeff Tucker, an economist at Zillow. “That’s amazing, because postwar America was already rich and booming, and we just, you know, kept building more bathrooms.”

In the last 50 years the average age of the mother at the birth of her first child has risen from the 22-24 range (sources differ) to 27-30 now. Young homeowners taking longer to have children would lower the average number of persons per bathroom.

If you want actual numbers, follow the link the article gives in this sentence:

> Across the country, bathrooms are multiplying—including in apartments and condos—even as American families and households are getting smaller

The link is on "apartments and condos" so you might expect that it is only about apartments and condos, but it actually goes to the "Characteristics of New Housing" page at census.gov [1], which contains a whole bunch of XSL downloads containing data over time on various characteristics of new housings, both single-family houses and multifamily units.

Eyeballing the "Bathrooms", "Bedrooms", and "Bathrooms by Bedrooms" downloads, it looks to me like much of the growth in number of bathrooms comes from growth in the number of bedrooms. Perhaps the question should be why is the number of bedrooms going up?

[1] https://www.census.gov/construction/chars/
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That formulation makes the goal seem remote but not implausible. We have the technology to index and analyse 10 Terrabytes certainly and even gmail apparently is an exabyte ... [0]. A mouse brain given your premise is 20 petabytes. Given even linear progress this class of problem is not insurmountable.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exa-
They have even more power than the paid ones, because the most of sites they secure wouldn't/couldn't get a paid cert if Let's Encrypted disappeared or refused to serve them. At least the customers of paid ones could just move their billing to another service.
I've heard the bat eating theory, but the virus is airborne and infects the lungs. So it seems that eating a bat probably didn't cause this.
I would rather say: It boils down to getting a team.

VC spend money if they are convinced of the team, which includes the team having a valid idea of the market and the challenges.
I dont know how much is conspiracy theory at this point, but it was said that they had small sars outbreak there before.
Hammerspoon can change focus by relative direction. Can be a bit iffy sometimes but between that and HyperSwitch I'm never really at a loss.
We're drowning in headlines these days that I feel like this story really fell through the cracks. People who live near fracking really need to know this.
I really hope nobody is working on the (insanely irrational) idea of creating a super virus. There's no way in hell you could use that as a weapon of war because there's no way you could ensure it doesn't leave the target country. And even the act of trying to make one is insanely dangerous; if it accidentally gets out, which is easily possible, now you're killing all your own people.

I want to say that all government see the logic of this and haven't so much as attempted it. I don't think China would be this foolish.
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I don't like how this article discusses vaccines.

As I understand it there are experimental results for vaccines which provide protection against SARS-CoV: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18018769 - though I understand that some trials of particular vaccines have resulted in immunopathological reactions which is obviously not ideal.

For MERS-CoV, there also appear to be some promising results: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...

I don't think the vaccine front is as hopeless as made out and the comparison to the common cold doesn't fit very well - aren't there a huge number of possible causes (hundreds of serotypes of rhinovirus - not just coronavirus?) that can result in what we know as the "common cold"?
It’s funny because bats (and bat caves) are reservoirs of many viruses contained in BSL-4 facilities and they have no containment and frequently come into human contact.
OVH and Linode are what Bluehost is for shared hosting. Hosting providers that you want to stay away from if you want good for your server infrastructure.
Why does nobody say “the TCP/IP monoculture is maddening,” or “the HTML monoculture is maddening” ?

Seriously, I need somebody to explain it to me because I don’t get it.

Having one core base of code is not a bad thing to me.

What am I missing here?
Hmm, I haven't seen this - do you know if it's available on the free tier?
It's not just poisonous ones. Sometimes they're just lazy, perfectionist, incompetent and so on. Large organizations face this problem a lot, where they scare away talent by not having the right culture.
Keep notes? I'm sure I'm not the only one on here that would love to compare/contrast what you are going through with what the rest of us have as well.
Nope, not a chance! The news of it being properly isolated, sequenced and placed in a tree directly under bat SARS-like coronavirus that shows they are considered separate:

https://ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2020/01/13/novel-coron...

Another MAJOR key difference here: One is not transmissible to humans and the other is.
Save your breath. It’s zealotry, look at the comment history. To think a mosque built in the 1500s could be “illegal” under laws of a government that didn’t even exist.
Maybe because you only host static websites
There is a bizarre right-wing contingent on HN. Okay not right-wing, as they're seldom actually conservative, but they somehow identify with this administration. To them the most banal thing from mainstream media (excluding Fox News, of course) is demonstration of some egregious media bias.

It is bizarre. I have never encountered people like this in this industry in real life, so is HN somehow brigaded? Who are these people who are so desperate to wave a flag and show how world-weary and wise they are for discharging with basic logic and normal common sense?
It's hard to consider float anything, but a hack - and certainly something to keep away from discrete domains (countables).

I'm a little more curious on the suitability of using integers for money though (integer number of pennies). I suppose there are cases (and rules) concerning fractional pennies? Like in the case of percents of interests, often given by the year, accumulated[1] by the month?

[1] that's probably not the correct term in English.
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I wrote a couple more, both about amusing early programming experiences:

C network programming:
https://martinrue.com/zzuy-a-lesson-in-perseverance

Commodore 64 & BASIC programming:
https://martinrue.com/give-yourself-more-playtime
There's one minor difference between past models of the brain and deep learning: deep learning can actually perform difficult and useful cognitive tasks that cannot be accomplished by any other means.
Chinese New Year 2020, the Year of the Rat
This is really disingenuous because inflation is not telling the full story of why people spend more. Living costs more. Healthcare has outpaced inflation blisteringly, and employers provide for it less. IIRC a typical child birth can cost $10,000 in medical bills. How long does that take to save up on $60k/year with a mortgage and a car payment?

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t feel like I’m having a hard time in life at all. I feel like I am compensated fairly and I am able to save money while having fun. But while I am living well now, I grew up in a family where nothing was guaranteed. We’d been homeless at a time. That was with dual income.

A household income of $60k just does not budget well today. Period. Comparing this to obesity is, again, imo pretty disingenuous because the reality of obesity is that the exercise helps very little at all. Exercise without diet does almost absolutely nothing. Diet without exercise however can work just fine.

At the end of the day every analogy has limits but I think this doesn’t pass the smell test.
Having a smaller community doesn’t mean "same composition of people, just fewer of them".

I think Lobsters has done extraordinarily well in attracting domain experts while keeping out the valley-style surveillance capitalist blockchain AI expert “investors”. Non-tech articles are explicitly off-topic on Lobsters.

Lobsters may have fewer experts in total numbers, but experts make up a bigger share of the community, which means that the amount of pointless, fluff, snarky comments is way lower.

The hats¹ also means that experts are easily recognizable, because they can display the badge when they comment somewhere as an expert-on-that-topic.

¹ https://lobste.rs/hats
Nat Geo is making a lot of assumptions here based on official Chinese info. There is also a world class virology research center in Wuhan that opened in the last few years that was studying viruses just like this. I don't think it's a coincidence it broke out in Wuhan, as there are wildlife markets in other cities in China too.
GPS satellites carry multiple synchronized atomic clocks so they can broadcast the stable, precise time signal needed for accurate position-finding.

Are Starlink satellites similarly equipped?
Is this just further marketing malpractice or will there actually be 5 or 3nm features?
The foxes are great proof that behaviour has a genetic component. But the change in behaviour over the course of Belyaev's experiments does not seem that remarkable. Some foxes of the initial population were already happy to approach humans and be held by them, before the experiment even started. The pictures in [1] show farm foxes from Prince Edward Island in 1922 which seem to behave extremely similar to the foxes in the youtube video you linked to.

[1] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2019.10.011
Smaller transistors use less power, it's not always about increasing speed. Your smartphone, if it's anything like mine, would be better if it had a longer running time between charges.

Having said that, the very first users will be high end servers. It's no accident that IBM were the first to demonstrate 5nm wafers a few years ago[1], because they'll use them in their top of the line POWER chips. Those chips have incredible single thread performance, but also incredible prices (and apparently very low yields). If you're the sort of person who wonders who would pay money for that, then you're not the target customer :-) (Disclosure: I now work indirectly for IBM)

[1] https://www.ibm.com/blogs/think/2017/06/5-nanometer-transist...
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Your goal was to get converts. Lots and lots of other people have different goals. Some people have the same goal as you.

I could BRT with my work team, not just so they will all switch to my favorite PL. I could BRT with my neighbor so they might feed my goldfish while I'm on vacation. And I could mow their lawn when they're in the hospital. Not just so they'll will me their house.

I can BRT a person with the specific intent to get them to check their weight gains because they look unhealthy. That would entail a lot of judging on my part, and a lot of people would take some exception to that. But as the relationship builds, they might understand that I've seen diabetes close up and I don't want that for them. They can frankly tell me that it's none of my business and they don't fear diabetes. I could switch and warn them about heart disease. Again, none of my business and they don't care. If I keep nagging, I could destroy the relationship. That's the opposite of BRT. Let's call it BFRT, building fake relationships of trust.

Some people BFRT. Some people BGRT (build genuine relationships of trust). I'd like to believe that most Tesla fans don't BFRT with their Chevy-loving friends just so Elon can get richer. I'd like to believe that most Rust advocates don't BFRT with their C++ co-workers just to inspire a PL coup. I'd like to believe that my neighbor isn't being nice to my goldfish just to convert me to Catholicism.

Of course my Tesla friend would love me to buy a Tesla. Of course my Rust friend would like me to at least dabble. I don't see why members of a particular religion would be any different.

Now imagine that you were bad-mouthing your high school around fellow graduates. What if some of them offered to buy you a beer just to shut you up and maybe get you to lighten up. Are they BFRT? Maybe. But take the beer and say thanks. Depending on how ex-Mormon you are, that would be root beer, of course.
Maybe (hopefully?) China will shut down these markets after this outbreak. They've been known to take serious measures in the past when necessary. Surely the benefit of these markets cannot outweigh their costs (including on the local wildlife, not just infectious diseases).
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Intriguing idea. It'd be interesting to get DuckDuckGo involved in such a project because it's in their interest to improve search query matches.

Maybe, a browser plugin that allows you to easily report less than optimal or even irrelevant search results to DuckDuckGo (including a comparison with other search engine in case those yield more appropriate results) would be quite useful.

This obviously has privacy implications, though.
Today I learned: My father is a start-up exec.
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Love this summary point:
"Money is often a negative art. It has a lot to do with the actions you don’t take and things you avoid."

Applies to a lot of areas in life and business, not just money!
> I think asking about correctness is a straw man. The issue is really about safety, predictability, and controllability.

Uh, and compliance? (if you didn't mean to imply that under "controllability")
I should have included a /s, but was feeling a bit cheeky.

I'm sure you've had to deal with plenty of spurious bug reports in your career :-)
"Radium, typically the most abundant radionuclide in brine, is often measured in picocuries per liter of substance and is so dangerous it’s subject to tight restrictions even at hazardous-waste sites. The most common isotopes are radium-226 and radium-228, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission requires industrial discharges to remain below 60 for each. Four of Peter’s samples registered combined radium levels above 3,500, and one was more than 8,500."

I wonder how many of these trucks full of radium have driven beside me on the freeway.
Specification vs implementation.

And there certainly are people that say the HTML monoculture is maddening. Perhaps you've heard people complaining about Electron being used for desktop apps.
There's no way that professional virologists are mistaking/conflating a pneumonia and a coronavirus.
Thank you! — Addressed that in the FAQ: https://userbase.com/docs/faq/#faq-7

We’re not metering storage yet, so nothing will happen right now. Soon we’ll have another pricing plan with metered storage, and people who happen to be exceeding the limit will be given the choice to upgrade to unlimited metered storage (ala AWS).
One interruption an hour is enough to result in me not being able to get anything done for the whole day...

Actually, I'm starting to think I lost ability to concentrate because of that.
You don't internalize concepts by retrieving them from memory, you internalize concepts by reconstructing them without aids like flash cards. Otherwise you just connect the words and not the concepts.
TCP/IP is a protocol and HTML is a format. The reason that’s OK is that lots of people have built different TCP/IP stacks and HTML renderers, and so no one person/organization can control them. They aren’t “one codebase”.
To me, the fact that the server being exploited to deliver bad binaries is a possibility is reason enough to be cautious, and to therefore not regard them with any more credibility than if they were delivered over unencrypted http.
You think you never encountered them, but if you consider all right wing people to be bizarre then they're probably not going to talk to you about politics, are they? HN isn't brigaded. It's just a place where you're exposed to more of what people really think without caring if you attack them.

As for demonstrations of media bias, well, do you think the media isn't biased?

Here's an article that covers a series of severe factual errors in the New York Times, caused by the political biases of the institution:

https://unherd.com/2020/01/what-has-the-new-york-times-got-a...

It's by no means complete. I've seen total falsehoods be printed in the NYT about Britain quite a few times and they didn't make the list.
And Apple is right, every attempt to enforce unification is a hit to innovation, it's logical.
I didn't even realize that until now.
Why is Canada sending Ebola to China?
going to need to start wearing bandanas to go to the store to get bananas
Just take out any Nature-heavy opponents quickly; web+cracks-call is a high chance of instant death for any hero.
In my experience a mixed approach can be valuable, but I think whatever approach is taken the real key is to build it in such a way that it's not an individual test's responsibility to clean up either before or after - it's extracted to the test runner/framework so every test gets the appropriate behavior automatically.

As an example of what I mean by a mixed approach: if the thing being tested is software that primarily interacts with, say, a SQL database, then the "clean up before" approach (which might mean running `TRUNCATE foo` on every table) works, but as the schema gets bigger it gets slower, and while it might not be very slow it gets very noticeable if every test runs it (particularly as the test suite is presumably also growing). An effective way to implement the "clean up after" approach might be to setup the test runner so every test runs within a transaction and after the test the transaction is rolled back: but in order for that to be reliable the database must be in a clean state when the test suite is started. So the mixed approach I've used (and is close to the default for Rails & Phoenix apps nowadays, I think) is to do the "clean" op at the start of the entire suite and configure it so every test runs in a transaction.

The transaction/snapshotting features of modern SQL databases make that approach really easy, of course, so if a project's main external interaction is instead filesystem interaction or something it may not be so simple and more of the infrastructure would have to be hand-rolled, but if it has to be done at scale (many tests, many developers), I do think it's worth abstracting into the test runner so that individual tests don't need to remember those details: I've done that for some CLI tools where the test runner sets up a sandbox dir for each test and so the tests just need to use the appropriate patterns for FS interaction (which is easy since all the existing tests do it and people imitate those, and in my case it helped stop the "just write to /tmp" approach that some had taken before that).

The container isolation approach certainly has the advantage that it's difficult to mess up no matter what any particular test does, but if you run each test within a container, in the long term I'd be worried about the overhead causing the same headaches as the "truncate DB tables before every test" approach. And if you're running the entire test suite in a container it seems like you'd still have the potential challenges of each test needing to be responsible for stuff unless some of the other approaches are also taken? Sorry if I didn't understand the container approach you described.
To view the pictures you have to let this.. thing load 40 (forty) scripts.

Screw it. I won't view the pictures.