skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this creates an interesting discussion on the part of the designers and programmers. Did they understand that what they were building was going to increase opioid dependence? Did they ask about it?

And, the most interesting question of all: If they found out that was the case did they try to justify building it to themselves in some way?

Full disclaimer: I have built software that I had ethical reservations about myself. I am in no way a saint, I don't claim to know what I would've done in the same situation but I think it's for the benefit of software development to acknowledge that we do make ethical decisions when we build things and that the solution to something as complicated and diverse as ethics is not to just ignore it.
How do I do this? Installing the pen and adding some initial gcode to raise the Z axis above the bed so the nozzle doesn't touch isn't a problem, but what generates the drawing gcode?
I second using containers for guacamole.

Also agree, this isn't intended to be a replacement for direct access, nor for streaming purposes.

This gives you and RDP session with no software install needed. The use case of guacamole is accessing a system from anywhere without needing your ssh keys, RDP, or VNC software. If you're happy doing any of those directly, adding a middle man doesn't add any value.

That said, if you're managing others accessing the system, you can bastion of the target machines and only expose this access. This lets you put the target machines behind NAT, and only manage one entry point.
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It's a little worrying to see that.

A slightly less cranky theory on reducing the effects is that MMR vaccinations may give partial protection hence the relatively low child casualties https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/26/2019-ncov-china-epidemi... and search 'child'. I think I might be tempted as an over 50 to get a booster if it was coming my way.

Another interesting thing is Inovio of San Diego already have a computer designed but untested DNA vaccine. In the past DNA vaccines have not been approved for use in humans but they are partnered with a Chinese company and I'm not sure the Chinese will be as conservative as the FDA in terms of trying things.
The intelligence services of both countries that openly admit they cooperate with each other, they just don't say to what degree. Also Five eyes, which has been operating since the 1940s.
I just spent a day upgrading my printer and playing with Gcode, but it wasn't until your comment that I realized just how easily I can write a program that outputs gcode itself and add a pen so I can have the printer draw on paper. I'm going to have to test this right now.
Yes, the maintenance is cheap. The changes are more costly.

We run a dozen bare metal servers and I see the difference what it takes to spin up a new VM vs. set up a new physical server. There's planning, OS installation (we use preseed images but we weren't able to automate everything), sometimes the redundant network setup doesn't play well with what the switches expect (so you need to call the datacenter).

Still, it works out in favor of the bare metal servers. But I'm looking forward to a bit bigger scale to justify a MaaS tool to avoid this gruntwork.
Thanks for sharing! Curious why you made it. Are there no good alternatives?
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Starlink pizza boxes and repeaters on the ends and throughout.
There is the same issue with a cloud provider unless you run immutable deployments. Then, you need to invest in the tooling to produce the immutable images.
I remember ~35 years ago we played that for the English class, and Alexander the Great for history. Still a big Maiden fan, and going to their concerts.
Yeah, tools built for experts usually won't be adopted by the mainstream unless they are simplified.

I don't mean dumbed down but reduced in complexity to allow beginners to use it without having to acquire expertise.
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Not an expert, and I don't think this is a factor at all, but the cold showers are in part meant to help you tap into a natural ability to stay warm (without shivering), so you're not get an appreciable dip in core body temperature in the first place if you do it right.

I believe it is thought that long term Tau accumulation in the brain is what worsens or accelerates alzheimers in patients, but a healthy person is clearing Tau build-up all the time, primarily during sleep. Any behaviour that improves sleep quality is therefore likely to be a boost in preventing and decelerating the development of alzheimers and cold showers promote good sleep and help keep our circadian rhythms aligned in a way that encourages good quality sleep.

One of the reasons why a hot bath before bed is good for sleep is because it decreases body temperature.
Gajim's an unstable mess that half of the time is not even connected to the server because it did not manage to reconnect after resume, or it just crashes.

It is fairly useless on dark theme, rendering grey on grey for the backlog.

Apart from a missing status notifier / appindicator, gajim is miles ahead.
you can run the replace to some form of external drive and then swap the physical drive once the replace is done.
https://www.nso.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/DKIST-First-L...

4K – H.264 (45 MB)

There are some others here:

https://www.nso.edu/telescopes/dkist/first-light-cropped-fie...

Non cropped ones here:

https://www.nso.edu/telescopes/dkist/first-light-full-field-...
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Ask HN: Advice on how test a website as a user in mainland China?
I have a website that is blocked in mainland China, but using Google as an example here on Hacker News how do I simulate being a user from mainland China?

I tried using HideMyAss VPN with the Beijing location selected but the website still works.

Webpagetest.org [0] shows the correct result of the website being blocked, but is there a VPN or some other way of testing?

[0]: https://www.webpagetest.org/result/200130_QS_4b5ae06bfefbeea752d56f544e3c7a19/
One example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juno_and_Avos_(opera)#Original...

The wifes of Decabrists were following their stripped of any nobility husbands into exile to Siberia, in some cases leaving their children. As a result these women were also stripped of nobility and as a family left without any income apart from work.

There is even a term "жена декабриста" (decabrist's wife) in Russian culture, which describes extreme loyality of the wife to her husband.
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My wife has been accusing me on cheating on her so many times. But ever since i got married to my wife have not slept or have an affair with any woman out there. After some findings and all with the help of Jeajamhacker@gmail. com it happens to be that my wife has been the one cheating on me, with the help of Jeajamhacker@gmail. com i read a lot of deleted messages from my wife phone without having physical contact with her phone. My wife has been planing to leave me a long time ago since 2017 according to her chats with her so called lover that's why she has been finding fault in me trying to accuse me on cheating on her meanwhile my hands are clean. Thank God for hackers who will dig out the truth for you so that brings me to say a very big thank you to Jeajamhacker@gmail. com.
All those things are pretty much industries, let alone fields of study.

Also, consider that "keep ~100% of my net worth invested in these main problems" may not be the better strategy for funding those problems, versus "put net worth in growth investments" that can fund the same problems later on.
Any nonzero integer is considered true in that expression, so if(TRUE) still works.
Interesting article, although the absence of margins made the reading painful (at least for me)
Or https://snowflakesoftware.com/
"Guacamole is an HTML5 web application that provides access to desktop environments using remote desktop protocols (such as VNC or RDP)."

Shouldn't this be front and center on the home page instead of having to find the manual and navigate to the second paragraph of the introduction?

That said, it looks like a cool idea and I wonder if it's within the scope of a project like this to implement an abstraction on the keyboard such that using common macOS keyboard shortcuts are translated to their Linux or Windows equivalents (or vice versa). It's a small peeve but I hate accidentally locking Windows when I meant to put focus on the address bar and start typing a URL...

UPDATE: I stand corrected: I missed that this wasn't the home page... that's what I get for commenting on a new story before I have my morning coffee.
I also smoked for about eight years, quit several years back now. the funny thing is I just can't stand the smell of cigarette smoke now, it seems even worse than before I started.
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>but I would rather spend time learning an actual universal graphics API that works on all hardware,

Unfortunately such a thing doesn't exist. You either have to choose something that hides the graphics API or use the preferred API of the platform (Metal on iOS/Mac, DX12 on Windows, Vulkan on Linux). If you decide to use a second class API then your UX will be second class but game engines don't suffer from that because they use the platform specific APIs directly.
Isn’t Kubla Khan opium induced, and someone killed his buzz in the middle of it? I know Rush uses some as lyrics.
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"It's not uncertainty about the growth rate, but change which matters"

You're saying growth rate is not rate of change and the rate of change is important, but the difference between two different rates of change is insignificant?

My point was that the R factor is neither constant nor precisely known, whatever people do. If the outcome is very sensitive to the number, then it seems to me obvious that it is very important to look at the outcome over the range of possibilities, because it's going to be a large range. Whenever professionals make long term predictions, they usually depict them as a cone. How big it is and how it widens is important.

Also, I thought the plague was bacterial, so I'm doubtful of the inference that a virus won't evolve rapidly. Previous flu epidemics did, right?
How would that work? surely something needs to serve the static content to a http request?
Was this "market manipulation", or just dumb bots doing what they do?

I'm a normal citizen who holds shares. I remember I got an email alert when the flash crash happened, had a minor heart attack, and then reminded myself that I'm investing for the long term and it doesn't matter what the market does on any one particular day. In that case, it wasn't even a whole day before my portfolio had recovered.

Markets need to be fair and transparent, but you can't save people who panic-sell in a crash.
You think if those developers made a web app it would be significantly better?
Does anyone know where I can find DC-blocked audiorate measurements of solar intensty / noise? Or alternatively forward me to an observatory that measures this?
"Java bad" is the best you're going to get, I'm guessing.

Looks like a pretty handy tool IMO, and Java beats Electron for me, so not sure what the issue is.
Pidgin works fine if you use one device. If you have multiple devices or want to receive messages while you're offline, it does not support that.
There is a bug on the demo search box in your home page, if no search results found (either due to empty string or no result found for the search term), it will display "undefined result. Page 1 of NaN"
What kind of band are you thinking?
A friend of mine was building a house which involved a couple of workers from different companies. He was not happy with the progress and how they did that. He didn’t really had any idea of how to construct a house, but he was a 6sigma black belt quality manager. One day, he showed up at the construction site, got all the workers together, created a fishbone diagram with them and led the rest of the constructing like a typical project.
wow; interesting idea! but how do you prevent dentists from forming referral cabals and cheating the system?
Trust and payments being the largest.

I download any random crap on my iOS devices trusting that the sandbox and permissions model will keep the app from doing too many things I don’t expect. I’m not downloading a random app on my computer.

I can also pay a lot easier on my phone than digging out my credit card.
There is still a long way to go before things are at all equal, though. Just look at the difference in salaries for technical roles between the SV giants and European businesses. There are kids right out of university with negligible skill and experience whose starting salaries in the US tech hubs are several times what a position at the top of the scale with a relatively good employer would pay here in the UK, and even taking into account cost of living, it's clearly a different world. The US giants can afford to do that partly because of the huge amounts of VC funding that set them up a few years ago.
Mobile app security can be a big deal. I remember a few years ago the app for British Airways would make a non-encrypted call to BA servers to get the SSIDs and passwords for the WIFi access points of their airport lounges. While trivial in comparison to other security leaks it goes to show that small but important things can easily be overlooked.
Guacamole is not intended to replace normal remote connections... It provides additional features that target people whom can't reasonably use RDP or VNC themselves ...

it provides access management so you don't need to expose the server, or the user/passwords, to gain access... You can also record the sessions ... And some other neat features... None of which really soon to replace a direct connection made by a technically savy individual between to machines on a network he controls.

But imagine the benefit for schools -- high schoolers can be given access to a virtual machine, without installing RDP or similar protocols on the students machine, and without giving them virtualization tools that might allow when to bypass student safety protections
The typical early stage buyer is financing their home and very often buying within 25% of the mortgage they can qualify for, especially in competitive markets. Mortgage rates absolutely drive this affordability.

When you’re bidding against other buyers, the more they can borrow for a constant monthly payment, the higher the equilibrium price will be.
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Proof? Let's see.

Didn't your grandparents kept all photos in one place? Didn't your parents send you to same school as all other kids in your street? Didn't you went to same dancing places like your friends when you started sniffing for girls (I'm assuming you're male, reverse the gender otherwise)? Don't you keep your tools in same box(es)?

Like I said, our specie love centralization. Same village priest, same blacksmith, same doctor, same military outposts throughout centuries.

We don't keep photos separated and scattered in different rooms in our houses. We don't school kids at home (except for very few rich who can afford). We don't have each a dancing room in our house. We don't scatter tools throughout the house.

Need any more proof?
PowerWall scales fine, like most things do, with infinite money. All you need is a ~$10K [1] investment (including installation) for every house every 10 years (warranty period) and voila - grid scale! Oh warranty doesn't cover normal degradation of energy capacity over time. [2]

[1] https://www.energysage.com/solar/solar-energy-storage/tesla-...

[2] https://www.solarquotes.com.au/blog/new-powerwall-warranty/
Two of my friends had a close call last month. One had an emergency quadruple bypass. The other one has COPD and fell down to 15% of normal lung capacity, and is now under 24/24h oxygen, hoping for a pair of new lungs...
I'm too lazy to find the link but I've read the mortality rate is 3% - vs. 1% for a normal influenza infection. Obviously the information situation is really bad.

If it's really 11% that would be kind of worrisome. If it's just 3%, it's important to take care but in any case there's no point in panicking. The Chinese government indeed does well by building a new hospital complex so fast but the information politics is horrible. Also locking down a whole metropole region makes no sense. It's a signal to panic and people who are just a little sick might have a harder time to recover due to food shortage.

I'm sure, when this is over, the government will face some serious criticism, maybe this would even fuel protests on mainland China.
wrt #3, see https://thoughtstreams.io/
Cisco Meraki's APs are solid. Albeit 'cloud managed'.
The home page (https://guacamole.apache.org/), has the description front and centre.

The link provided is for their release page, which discusses this particular release.

This comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22190442 on this thread has further discussion.
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No, it does not give any information for a multitude of reasons.

1. Deaths are lagged by known cases

2. Both are skewed distributions

3. These people might have received professional care when it was available. During an outbreak, the available health care will decline.
At least Atlassian had the intelligence to know when to admit defeat with HipChat by doing a deal with Slack.

Either Google should buy Slack or admit defeat and support the services of others through deals.

In the future there's only going to be Teams (for Office365 based corporates) and Slack (for everyone else) in use in the workplace.
65% lower cap-ex per unit in China is astonishing. Elon's "machine that builds the machine" vision really created a lot of misprioritization.
There is an AWS marketplace instance available if you search for "guacamole". You log in at a public DNS as ubuntu with the instance-id for the password.

Instance functionality for that quick requirement at a modest fee.

Great product.
Instagram is React Native right? I wouldn't say it feels like shit.
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"Too many linkedlists" is an excellent tutorial for understanding ownership IMO.
Yes, but the mortality rate of the common flu is much, much lower. Mortality of admitted patients is around 11% according to latest Lancet article.
It seems that the article makes a categorical error, arguing that OLAP cubes were replaced by columnar data stores. I always understood OLAP cube as an abstract concept that can have various technical implementations, while column store is a kind of optimization in that technical implementation.
I really expected this to be another aggressive Rust marketing peice at first
For some reason, I fully expected Schiphol airport to be one of the three.
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Knowing what you don't know doesn't correspond to a level of confidence or humility, in the way I meant it.

You can have low confidence and discount the value of things you know, while still assuming you know things you don't.
[when opening a patients records] a pop-up would appear, asking about a patient’s level of pain. Then, a drop-down menu would list treatments ranging from a referral to a pain specialist to a prescription for an opioid painkiller.

Click a button, and the program would create a treatment plan. From 2016 to spring 2019, the alert went off about 230 million times.

The tool existed thanks to a secret deal. Its maker, a software company called Practice Fusion, was paid by a major opioid manufacturer to design it in an effort to boost prescriptions for addictive pain pills ...

Its existence was revealed this week thanks to a government investigation.

Holy shit
Hey, just wanted to chime with a tool I'm a co-author of, OctoSQL[1].

I too very like a common interface to various data sources. OctoSQL allows you to use plain SQL to transform, analyse and join data from various datasources, currently including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, JSON files, CSV, Excel.

However, we're very inspired with yesteryears paper "One SQL to rule them all" and should have ergonomic steaming support with Kafka as a new datasource available very soon.

[1]: https://github.com/cube2222/octosql
Do you mean “bare metal” as just basic aws images using only rsyslog and grep? You call out physical disks so it makes me think like physical machines.

How are two physical machines $400/month? Is that assuming you already have the hardware laying around?

How much would it cost for basic aws ec2 instances running rsyslog and grep?
The actual study the article references: https://www.immuniweb.com/blog/state-of-cybersecurity-top-10...
YMMV, but Dropbox used to be much, much faster (by at least an order of magnitude) than OneDrive in my region. I don't know the status quo though.
Also, IPSec.
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a review of the tronxy x1 https://www.techradar.com/reviews/tronxy-x1/2
check aliexpress or similar for the $89

self upgrade to make it better: https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/81xkut/tronxy_x...
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Thanks, awesome paper (which remind me that I should read the ARM at some point).

Interesting stuff:

"Cfront [the fist c++ compiler] was (and is) a traditional compiler front− end performing a complete check of the syntax and semantics of the language"

"[...] the C compiler is used as a code generator only. [...]. I stress
this because there has been a long history of confusion about what Cfront was/is. It has been called a preprocessor because it generates C, and for people in the C community (and elsewhere) that has been taken as proof that Cfront was a rather simple program – something like a macro preprocessor."

Cfront being a preprocessor is something that gets repeated often. As you correctly point out, cpre was the preprocessor and it wasn't realy C++ yet.
> 12:10 AM Saturday in your device's time zone.

Oh, I see. That explains things, thanks!

And yes, time zones are not just one kind of bonkers; they're all sorts of bonkers. :)
"66% of the airports are exposed on the Dark Web"

What exactly does this mean?
Not sure about the app, but newer iPads support Apple Pencil. It's a bit expensive, but definitely worth it.
Whats wrong with the domain. Do you not believe software could be considered a form of art ?
Why emulate facebook’s app strategy? Their apps are a UX nightmare Accessibility is horrendous as is power draw.
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I agree. But the titling is wrong because it only addresses Android.

Likewise, if the reverse were true, and it only dealt with iPhone, then it should say iPhone in the headline because it didn’t address Android.

This isn’t a preference argument for one phone or the other - it’s about clarity of what the article is about.
Is this list only for cross-platform IDEs and editors? Because Visual Studio community edition with VS tools for Python is a very powerful (and zero cost) option if you're on Windows.
The actual study talks about it a bit more (linked in another comment). "Recent leak of highly confidential data (e.g. PII, PHI, IDs, financial records, plaintext passwords for production systems, etc.)"
Wow, how did I miss that? Thanks!
This was a straw man article in 2014, it was a straw man article the other times it’s been posted to HN in the intervening years, and it’s still a straw man article in 2020. As noted in another comment here, the contemporary technology of Apache Flink really isn’t far off command-line tools running on a single machine. Meanwhile, HDFS has made a lot of progress on its overhead, particularly unnecessary buffer copies. There are datasets where a Hadoop approach makes sense. But not for ones where the data fits in RAM on a single system. No one has ever argued that.