skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If the EU doesn't the UK will

The noises from the UK are that it won't [0]. But in reality let's see.

We won't really know what happens until the ink has dried on the trade deal with the US and it has been published.

> The UK will not lower food standards to secure a post-Brexit trade deal with the US, the government says.

[0]: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-47418505
I’m surprised at this. Have you spent time in Israel? I haven’t been to either but would have expected Israel to be better again.
Thanks for the comment.
Customs police seized $900k in counterfeit money – all in $1 bills
A shame that no one has mentioned cache invalidation as further reason threaded programming is hard. One my biggest takeaways from Martin Thompson’s talk on mechanical sympathy is that the first thing he tries when brought in as a performance consultant is to turn off threading. He mentions locking as a performance problem but that these days cache locality can be the key to speeding up slow applications.
People often say that "fat-shaming doesn't work," but Asian Americans fat shame their overweight family members constantly and -- surprise -- are among the least obese demographic groups in America today.
Doing it through Firebase might be easier: https://firebase.google.com/docs/auth/ios/apple
>will be mandated to also offer Apple's OAuth sign-in -- and must give it more prominent placement than third-party services.

That seems like an abuse of monopoly power.
Officially Steam only supports Ubuntu, and other distros do the work to make it run on them. The same could probably be done for games.
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Having lived in the UK and the US, I actually can't tell the difference in any meaningful way. High quality poultry costs more and is better in both places. Both places have sketchy chicken shacks that probably don't use high quality meat, although I CAN assure you that Harold's in Chicago exceeds any chicken shack I've tried in the UK.
Why is the universe expanding, and not shrinking?
I've spent the last +18 months building a product that does this with even more privacy than Apple. It's called idvpn.ca and we assign a virtual ID (pseudonym) to you for each app/vendor you connect to.

This way if they're breached, you don't care and they don't care, yet we can meet any compliance requirements the app/vendor has such as age checking, sanction list checking, anti-money laundering, counter terrorist financing etc.

We're eagerly looking for vendors interested in beta testing our service, as we have a working product (using OIDC, and/or we easily integrate with Wordpress) and are looking for the MVP/business model now.
I'm saying I can't taste it and noticed no ill effects (which admittedly is an anecdote). However, of my friends that have gone to the US, I've never heard any of them say they would be avoiding chicken in case it was chlorinated. It only seems to be an issue for imports.
Coronavirus in China is a very early and fluid situation. The CDC is able to make estimates based on many years of data and research.
Couple things that stand out to me is the continued use of Wordpress with 2-factor via Duo, and email as a part of the core flow.

When the world is over, the last sysadmin on Earth is going to do three things: shut down the Wordpress install, shut down the email server, and turn off the lights.

There’s a distinct lack of things nowadays that make working with group email nicer, I wonder why that is. I have a horse I bet on this one, https://aether.app, so I’m not exactly unbiased — but I seriously don’t get it. Chat covers a lot of things, but there is so much it doesn’t, and just looking at their ready-for-editorial channel makes me wonder why they’re not also using plain old email for that.
Thanks! Recognizing and remembering tones is one of the things I struggle with most, so I'd use this a lot.

A couple of comments: for 水果, it only accepts shŭi gŭo, not shúi gŭo. I know that is technically correct, but the voice synthesis sounds it out with the sandhi. More a question of philosophy I guess, but thought it was worth mentioning.

Also, it might be nice to have an option that hides the characters, so you're forced to rely on hearing rather than just knowing that e.g. 多 is dūo.

Looking forward to seeing what else you do with it!
I tried Yugabyte a few weeks back, the TServer kept crashing while my backend was creating some very simple tables. I'm stuck with CockroachDB for the time being.
Harvard’s Chemistry Chair Charged on Alleged Undisclosed Ties to China
It's still there! IIRC you could also have arbitrarily many nested event loops, for better or worse. And some threading support is also available [1], although it seems to be culturally disapproved of.

1. https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/thread
Your response to my comment isn't only orthogonal, it isn't even in the same realm of what I was talking about. I was referring to "the window chrome." I never once mentioned "Chrome."

The comment you called out is directly related to what I was talking about, it is not orthogonal.
This sounds really neat, and exciting that it has a self-hosting option as well! Raspberry Pis seem to generally be pets instead of cattle, and combined with the ease at which they seem to torch their file systems, a good management solution for them sounds really appealing.

Do you foresee a business model applying to self-hosters? If your business is going to focus on the service, do you have a plan to avoid AWS/Azure/GCP eating your lunch running your self-hosted code?
It’s swapping an existing asset (a treasury) for an asset that was created completely out of thin air (reserves). It increases the monetary base. If you don’t believe me, look at the Fed’s own data.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BOGMBASE

QE has not caused excess inflation in terms of the consumer price level, but it has dramatically increased the price of interest-rate sensitive assets like real estate, equities, and bonds.
>Honestly, I think being "tech savvy" is a liability. Someone who doesn't think they're tech savvy knows they don't know. It takes a certain level of expertise to talk yourself into something extremely dumb.

What you just said, but in visual form:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect#...
Yes buddy, the reason LTCM went bust was they didn't have enough money.

Don't get me wrong, I am glad people like you exist (literally, this is the reason it is so easy to print in markets). But that isn't how arbs work. If you are levered 100x, the solution isn't to go 150x. We need someone to tap people on the shoulder and say: "Stop digging buddy, wrap it up, your done". This is capitalism. Instead, we have this engineer mindset where the market moving against you is a sign that everyone else is an idiot and you just need to borrow more money.

In terms of your answer, the reason HFs didn't step in is because they are the ones BORROWING from the market. How do you not understand this? Seems like you didn't read the post. The big 4 provide liquidity to HFs, that is the function of the market so HFs can't suddenly turn into liquidity providers themselves. If you are levered 10x+ and running a $10bn+ overnight position, you can't just magic up another $10bn from nowhere...that is the point, you have tapped the market, nothing is left. I remember having this convo in 2007 where people legitimately got angry when you questioned whether more leverage was the answer (it isn't, it doesn't go anywhere)...it is amazing we are here again (and again, this is the engineer mindset...never mark your book, never stop borrowing, keep picking up quarters until someone taps you on the shoulder and says you don't work here anymore). And as then, people with a deep understanding of the structure of these markets are basically non-existent.
While that's basically my approach as well, there are people who genuinely believe that raising any animal for the purpose of eating them is cruelty.
"None of these should fool a LIDAR or combined LIDAR and camera system"

How would a LIDAR help with the lines on the road? At best it could see the guard rail or another car in its path and break to avoid a crash but this could very well take a car off the side of the road if there's no clear obstacle.
In the 1970's, yes. Nowadays it seems to take 10 years to build something as simple as a subway station.
Previous threads:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

I think there have been many more even than these, but can't think of how else to search for them.
It’s the device of choice for most public company directors and senior executives I meet. I know of a few companies that issued them to their directors for board use. Senior investment bankers also use them extensively while traveling.

It’s the corporate lawyers and junior investment bankers that rely more on laptops (mostly for Word, PowerPoint and Excel).
DEF CON China conference put on hold due to coronavirus outbreak
I'm not sure exactly what you're after, but the Hiragana Pro/Katakana Pro apps (android only, I believe) have two practice modes: choice from three pronunciations as you mentioned, as well as typing romaji with no hints. The latter makes it abundantly clear which kana I'm shaky on.

They're also each a dollar to unlock voiced/combined readings and remove ads. My pihole did block the ads while I was just trying them out.
Like many things in the US, there is a huge range. I think it's probably true that at the lower end of the cost spectrum in most meats, the US produces more cheaper and lower quality stuff. Particularly the average grocery store inexpensive chicken isn't good, but it's cheap and super plentiful.

That's a long way from "all sort of meats are worse in quality", though.
This is not true. Given that temperature and co2 rise sync with each other(still debated) and OA are fairly synchronous, the steep decline and subsequent rise in temperature from appx. 8400ya - 8000ya(Vinther, B., et al., 2009) exceeds what we are seeing now. Notably that fall and rise was at a much higher temperature as well. I can only assume this has happened many many times previously.
Where is the causative indicator? It could be genetics. Or maybe there are confounders - even if it is causative, perhaps it has serious negative impact on mental health.
Because when gravity reassert itself and the market finally crashes, the hedge fund guys will get out early and you and your grandma are going to be left holding the bag, again.
Sure, shame works (otherwise who would care to use it?). But it is a dangerous weapon. When people stop doing something because of shame, it's not that they change their minds. It's because they were (or are afraid of being) humiliated.

In Not-Violent Communication Marshall Rosenberg considers shame (and guilt) to be one of the violent ways to change people's behavior.

And yes, shame has its place to coerce social rules - the same as (the threat of) using physical (including lethal) force - e.g. by police. But IMHO it should be the last resort, not a go-to method.
> Does that mean companies shouldn't have developed for Windows way back when?

They didn't, they developed for DOS well into the Windows 95 and 98 era, at which point Windows had captured the PC market.
We've changed the URL to that from https://github.com/google/AFL above.
I got a Raspberry pi 1 B+ for free because it wasn't powerful enough for anything. Put it inside my old but perfectly working laser printer. Got a Google Cloud Print(RIP) enabled printer.

https://github.com/ProZsolt/runbook/blob/master/raspberry-pi...
Definitely no license given. Additionally I usually throw an "all rights reserved" on there somewhere to acknowledge my authorship and ownership of the product.

That's great for code + the specific execution of it... for me I often have to also do design engineering and content/concept prototyping as part of these projects. Creative work in addition to the code. I'm not sure there's a way to protect those ideas the same way you can the code.
I'd be interested to see what the relative rates of campylobacter are. I could only find UK figures, which were 56,729 cases in 2017.

I don't think campylobacter kills, but it's certainly not very nice to get.
That's a great one! Hope you don't mind if I borrow it?
I suggest using AFLPlusPus instead, a maintained fork of AFL with a lot of community patches further extending it's performance and capabilities.

https://github.com/vanhauser-thc/AFLplusplus

AFL itself hasn't seen updates in years.
Tangent: Why does Wikipedia use a sound plug-in that doesn't tell you how long the sound clip is, nor allow you to drag a slider to move through the sound clip? This sort of decrepit UI (and the community's willingness to deal with it in perpetuity) gives open-source software a bad name.

And just look at the hideous stuff that pops up when you click "menu". It's an embarrassment.
Every time I see a post with some D source, I think the language looks great; but for some reason I never try to learn it...
The Mini's wouldn't be bad if they didn't absolutely gouge you for RAM and HD upgrades. A 1TB drive and 16GB of RAM adds $600 to the total. What? That's at least double what you'd pay at Newegg, if not more.
Luckily, all of our "targets" are moving toward Lambda and Fargate (serverless Docker). We just have it to run CloudFormation templates for deployments. That pricing is ridiculous. I never realized it was that bad.

On another note, Azure Devops has excellent support for AWS. It's better than Amazon's native solutions.
Neat! I hear it's becoming more common to use non-random mutations. Are people using something other than AFL for those, or is there a way to bolt that on to AFL?
We've been running DevicePlane in prod for a few months now (after switching over from remote.it) Originally it was just device plane being having a much faster SSH and for convenience, but the new features they've begun to add started streamlining a lot of our dev work and actually helped us with more best practices. We've now containerized our applications and can schedule releases, stream metrics and crash data to datadog, all of which makes us feel more confident in our IoT.

The only feature I miss is being able to execute bulk scripts across devices, and would love to have an internal dashboard rather than using datadog since the cost of data collection is beginning to scale out of hand.
Thanks for writing this. This topic is something I've been thinking about alot lately too. There are so many incredibly important real world consequences of this worldview. I think you made a great choice focusing on one as tangible as healthcare.

I really hope your post generates much discussion in the nerd/tech/science community. I also hope this will give me the kick in the ass I need to write my own blog post about this topic.
They might mean their website rather than iOS.
We're seeing here the debate over model-based vs. method-based approaches to optimization. My argument for the model-based approach is reflected in these two sets of slides:

https://ampl.com/MEETINGS/TALKS/2019_09_Bolzano_Model-Based....
https://ampl.com/MEETINGS/TALKS/2018_08_Lille_Tutorial1.pdf

A recording of the first presentation will be available soon. The first uses a simpler example, but both were prepared for audiences not committed to the model-based approach. Their purpose was to familiarize people with model-based optimization and the circumstances in which it has clear advantages.
I just meant to say that it was already in place... uh...holy crap... 25 years ago.
The Glass backlash was for the wrong reasons, but right overall. There are plenty of individuals who've made their own setups for this, and setups that don't share with Google, at that. Glass, though, was definitely harmful.
How will that work with c compatibility?
Yeah so many people saying "I tell them I won't do it," without saying how many positive responses companies give them for their principled stands. I'd imagine it's because almost no companies continue with an interview after that point.

re: YT - welp, out of the frying pan, as they say lol
An iPad Pro has been my primary work device for nearly 20months now. I recommend it any professional that doesn’t need to write code.
Pause and Effect: The past and future of punctuation marks
Maybe I'm missing something but isn't that iOS only?
“Mockery is an important social tool for squelching stupidity. I’ve never seen anyone change his mind because of the power of a superior argument or the acquisition of new facts. But I’ve seen plenty of people change behavior to avoid being mocked.”
— Scott Adams
Most delivery companies in my part of the US allow you to specify what will happen if you're not there when they attempt delivery. You usually have options like "try again later", "deliver to my neighbor", "let me pick it up", and "leave it on my doorstep".

Most people prefer to have it left on their doorstep because the other options are a bit of a hassle.
I had skimmed and saw the fake traffic sign and fake car examples both of which shouldn't fool LIDAR systems. It would have a much harder time with the fake lines situation, it'd rely on looking for curbs or something, maybe some inference based on how other cars are moving.
Ted's original vision for Xanadu was fairly complete. As I recall, documents would have been effectively immutable; every change you made would publish a new version, and all old versions would remain accessible. Every link and transclusion went to a specific version, so they would never break. If the page you were transcluding changed, you could obviously opt to update your own page to transclude the new version, if you wanted. The exact details for payments were never worked out as far as I know, but they would have required every user and every publisher to have a single specific identity which would be transmitted along with every document and request for a document. I'm fairly glad that didn't happen, at any rate.
It would encourage the proliferation of low effort/lowest common denominator/“checkbox” ports to their platforms, which directly opposes what they want. By requiring a hardware purchase, they select for devs who are serious about their presence on Apple platforms and are more likely to invest in the quality of the iOS/macOS versions of their apps.

Of course a lot of low effort ports find their way into the App Store anyway, but if you compare how many of those iOS has vs how many Android has, the difference is staggering. On macOS the advantage is less clear since desktop platforms have throughly been colonized by Electron, but it still holds an advantage thanks to a bevy of small shop Mac exclusives.
> You can override the postfix increment operator as well.

You can, but if there are side effects in the object's implementation then it can be less efficient.
Harvard University Prof and 2 Chinese Nationals Charged in China Related Cases
If this happens to you (or anyone else) again, I've found the go-to solution from my previous job as a repair technician. There are antivirus removal tools that basically do automatically what you did manually, purge the system of the antivirus files and registry keys. I've found them to work very well, even on later AV versions.

For McAfee it's called the McAfee Removal Tool, and for any Symantec product, there is CleanWipe as well as the Norton Removal Tool.

I am not sure of the legality of posting these tools publicly, but they are probably easy to find via search engine or torrent. May not help you if you're working with corporate machines, but I use them all the time for any machine I inherit or when helping out friends and family.
I think my consistent issue is with this recurring idea that the person behind the idea should be able to implement it. Go read about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enfilade_(Xanadu)
18 years of low-coding / no-coding with DaDaBIK – DaDaBIK 10 “Manarola” is here
A bit of Istio before tea-time
I disagree. I haven't heard anyone in the US say Soleimani was a good person. The liberal viewpoint is that killing him was an act of war, and there's no interest in war with Iran. Other complaints include a general belief that the killing made us less safe. Nobody knew what the short-term impact would be, and the long term impact is unknown. Also, increased tensions with Iran before the killing were directly caused by Trump's foreign policy, and the lack of communication and process involved in the killing meant we lost international support for future actions against Iran.
Maybe if the cost of supporting Linux and Mac weren't so great they wouldn't have needed to sell to Epic in the first place. /s
Suppose the the period of lights is equal to the time expected to move from one light to the next, and each light is red/green for the same amount of time. You have a green wave if you pass the first light green and drive at the expected speed. But if you drive twice as fast, you reach the second light red instead of green. Now it would work if the period of lights was half the time expected to get from one light to the next, but why would that generally be the case?

Actually I think the opposite will usually hold: you will still have a green wave if you drive at the expected speed divided by an integer.
Just an example of a publicly traded company that I've seen do it (and if the top ones do it, then the other thousands of companies do too).

What's this ethical, publicly traded company you work for that doesn't do BS interviews? I bet they'd get a lot of inbound if they made that known.
Definitely a situation of non-nefarious uses getting nuked along with the nefarious ones. Not sure I would really blame Apple as much as all the horrible people who made it necessary for Apple to build this. They probably should allow more fine grained controls, something like "I know and trust these websites, don't nuke their cookies all the time" setting.
I just tried to register a new account at Wordpress but it's not working. Any other sites that you know?
Obviously outbreaks are dealt with here, too.