skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was XBL (XML Binding Language)[0] that was removed, not XUL - which is being phased out and replaced with HTML where appropriate.

0: https://briangrinstead.com/blog/xbl-in-firefox/
does this model work?

"The electric-vehicle startup Rivian will make the platform for Lincoln's first EV. That platform will include the vehicle's motors, suspension, and battery pack."

isn't these 3 (motor, suspension and battery pack) core competency of any EV?
NASA selects Axiom Space to build commercial space station module
this is the dumbest thing ive heard of
I thought most *nix filesystems were like how you describe ZFS (and ext2/3/4) where all the metadata is at the beginning of the disk. At least with the ext family, doesn't the metadata reference the first 10 blocks of a file (where the last two blocks are pointers to double linked lists and the last a reference to a triple linked list). ...

It's been a long time since I took that filesystems class, but I recall it's something like that?
What does it mean to ingest data securely into your cloud?
This problem is one of the aspects of IT as utilized by the business world that I straight up abhor. Never before in the history of mankind has the bureaucracy taken primacy over getting stuff done.

Unfortunately, we seem to have scaled way outside of the capacity for the typical act of contract signing to be anything but fraught with danger. At this point, If I don't have someone to talk with authorized to make and act on contractual amendments in the room, I'm reluctant to sign anything. Hell, even if they are there, I have doubts any amendments would actually be honored given the difficulty and scale of assumptions built into most forms of business automation systems.

There has to be a way to get things back on track, but I'm clueless on where to start. Legislation? Public Awareness? Education? What?
C library variations between UNIX systems are the eternal curse of this species apparently.
There are different generations of insulin; the old ones are cheap, the latest ones are not. I would like to see every inventor give the patents away for free, it would be great in a way, I just don't know who will invent anything new because these days the marginal cost of improving products is astronomical. For example, building a log cabin 200 years ago was tiny, both in cost of raw materials and work. Now the cost of a house is huge, not only because different materials are used, more complex manufacturing processes are needed, but who wants to live in a log cabin? Same comparison with insulin, there is cheap insulin and expensive insulin, people want the expensive one to be cheap. Not always possible.
You may want to move away from 32 bit IDs, that cap out just above 4B. UUID or CUID may be better options.

If you only have a few columns, stay with SQL, probably PSQL would be better.
I use CryptoWoo plugin for BTC payments and I use KyberSwap WooCommerce plugin for erc20 payments, you can select if you want to convert to DAI at checkout. BTC I just take the risk and believe it will keep appreciating in value over time.

We've processed over $200k in orders with over $100k being in BTC and ETH payments since 2017. Crypto merchandise website.
It drives me nuts that so much crackpot advice has been voted over this. It's how doctors and nurses manage to see many sick people a day and not be sick all the time.
It's easy if you select the right houseplants. Most of my houseplants don't require a lot of water. I have a sunroom with cactuses that I give occasional drinks in the winter, and then every 2-3 weeks in the summer I drag the hose in and soak the pot. Doesn't take much time at all.

IMO, they will probably choose the plants carefully and set up an automatic watering system.
I don't see how it's any crazier than publicly declaring React Native as their future like this.
I shop on my phone, mostly Amazon. Probably not for serious/expensive purchases, but there's tons of things that don't qualify for that.

I buy a lot of kids' books, for example, I just look at the cover and description, read some reviews, and pull the trigger. Lots of little electronics too, like cables/adapters.
But the claim of a violation was only a claim as part of a civil trial. The law has both civil and criminal elements to it, and this is about the tort part of the law.

LinkedIn made threats accusing hiq of criminal behavior, but that doesn't mean there's any criminal precedent being set here, as far as I can tell. And no one was criminally charged.

Separately, part of the ruling states that for the purposes of authorization, defying a cease and desist letter does not constitute illegal access, which might have some criminal implications. They imply some sort of technical authorization system must be bypassed, which didn't happen, since the data is "public."

(Which doesn't square well, imho, with existing meatspace law. If a public serving business banned someone from their store, the door being unlocked isn't an excuse to ignore that ban and trespass. But I digress.)

With the overlapping areas of law, it's admittedly beyond my understanding. But the law is generally viewed, like dmca, as being overreaching, if not at least partly unconstitutional.
> JavaScript developers are cheap to hire, and they don't need to know any objc/swift/java/kotlin to build the product.

OP is pretty much saying that.
And in many markets it's not. Well-run state companies, that exists, and have existed for a long long time, efficiency is not a problem and they can focus their efforts and money on what's important, not profits and marketing.

Don't tone police me please. I find it rude to assume ignorance and go on explaining. Did you miss the whole mansplaining wave?
...Just wait until they hear about services like Google Analytics, and MixPanel.

Jokes aside, i often find the excitement around "tracking" to be frustrating. Like fears of global conspiracies and mind control, the idea that somewhere a companies engineers are using this data to track your inner most thoughts is crazy in practice. Instead they're using it as a way to diagnose a bug when your ebook crashes or as a way to figure out how to make sure you're not getting stuck in a poorly design UI.
This is beside the main point, but my eyes bugged out a bit seeing block-quote style divs (or maybe code style) used to capture the author information but not the quote itself - I suppose someone dumped this into the website from a text file and didn't adjust it for markdown, but it is really bugging me.
Here's the SEC report I mentioned.

https://www.sec.gov/news/studies/2010/marketevents-report.pd...
A Kindle is one of those (barring the waterproof) if you keep the wifi off and transfer your books via USB to your PC with Calibre.
Information would pass between neighboring tribes over time. Even if a small region had gone centuries without fire, the knowledge could return. Indeed, fire itself could be transported between tribes if one lost theirs. For a continent-scale loss of knowledge, you'd need a continent-scale loss of fire lasting generations. Any event that could cause this would certainly have left clear traces.
DNS Demystified
People seem to think Corona beer is related to the deadly coronavirus outbreak
Well, maybe Mock Lisp with Algol syntax.

https://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~monnier/hopl-4-emacs-lisp.pdf [2.2]
No we don't. Have the government HSM sign a separate key for each state for each month. Have each state HSM sign a separate key for each county for each month. Have each county HSM sign a separate key for each DMV, housing association or whatever, also only valid for a month.

No big hacking target because they keys can be locked up or reverted pretty easily and the HSM are on military bases or whatever.
I assume you're using it on Android and not on iOS. The Android client was actually really lovely from a UX perspective, even if I had some complaints about general functionality GPM was missing. When I switched to iOS this past year I immediately ditched GPM for Spotify because the interface was unintuitive and clunky and I haven't looked back.
Same, although mine was missing the second page! It cut off in the middle of a sentence. I asked for the second page before signing and they said they didn't have it, that that was the whole thing.

The office also ignores most HIPAA regulations, leaving workstations logged in in private rooms, no screen locks, and sharing a single account amongst all staff, no 2FA.

Health privacy regulation in the USA is a joke because it's mostly unenforced. Most people just sign away 100% of their rights, and if you don't, the office will simply refuse to serve you as the forms are all integrated and non-negotiable.
What questions? It was a personal, emotional response with no substance that insulted more mature people because they have the nerve to keep playing the game and not go die in the corner. Down-vote away!
Microsoft Teams Can't Stop Slack
ML for the Working Programmer is also an excellent reference. It demonstrates the construction of a theorem prover. As a matter of fact, Isabelle was built with SML.

There's also a famously concise intro to SML (in 22 pages!) by Mads Tofte:

https://condor.depaul.edu/dmumaugh/readings/handouts/CSC447/...
>The kindle tracks progress via the actual amount of text read instead of pages

This doesn't seem to me like what the tweet is describing, wherein the kindle is registering every tap instead of distinct "x words/chars progress made".

If they were capturing and storing "X words in fiction read in n seconds", I could understand it, but they're not: they're registering every tap.
I'd be interested to see how this matches up with "userChangedTextSizeToBlah" data if this is how they're calculating reading speed.
I don't think it's be email (or at least not ONLY email). The page shows a company is sharing my data with Facebook and my email address is different from the one I use with that company.
Hey Google haters where are you? time to start complaining about this...
it seems that there were a lot of participants doing the same. Only one of them happened to be not a well connected hedge fund.
Maybe it’s better now. But for years basic playlist functionality on google music was buggy for me (randomly reordering songs and some other issues I have forgotten). Also no Linux app. Finally swapped to Spotify and never looked back. But I really miss being able to upload my old music.
low quality of tooling in mobile has been a reality forever and the vendors are not only unwilling to change, they've doubled down on poo-flavored buildsystems that are impossible for the community to fix

this stuff is life or death, and also impossible without giving up on native:

> React Native on both iOS and Android and shares 95% of the same code

> less crashes on iOS than our native iOS app

> an Android version launched

> team composed of mobile + non-mobile developers.

(impossible on native because of the multi-day process required to build an ios app for the first time)

> The team also came up with this cool way to instantly test work-in-progress pull requests. You simply scan a QR code from an automated Github comment on your phone and the JavaScript bundle is updated in your app

code updating is illegal on the app store, but it's hard to kick out shopify. this is a shot across the bow
So, you think it's normal for say, car companies, to sell the 2020 and 2018 models, but not the 2019?
"misleading" and "potentially ambiguous" are not synonyms.
The Real Martian is great. Go back and watch the Hab 1 videos, it was truly sad to see snow collapse it. he's now quit his full time job and joined some startup and they're about to go full steam ahead into Hab 2 after months of modelling and other stuff. Ultimately they're looking at creating a commercial product where a family, or a couple of families, can erect a habitat and grow a decent amount of their food.

Hab 1 had aquaponics and fish, not sure where Hab 2 is going to look like as they haven't shared much but he's just started churning videos out again the past month or two.

It's a really neat project, I just hope he continues to show as much as he did with Hab 1 now that he's part of a startup.
I feel like "autistic" may be the sole case in which wide (and improper) use as metaphor -- compare "crippled" -- does harm the neurodiverse.
I'm just glad the author did try spotify because they're trash too.
Are drug companies operating at a loss in Europe?
Have they done that during the first 70 days of the Switch release? Sure plan ahead but release are hard and 70 days isn't much.
It is best practice, but you probably don’t need virtualenv if you’re deploying a single application in a docker container.
In re: distribution challenge, PWAs can already be published to the Google Play store.
If you're into completionist reading of blogs, every post is just as important as every other one.
> And the resulting image is 851MB.

If you include the dev dependencies and compiler toolchains in the final image. You can (and should) cut all that out of the final image.
With the new "elite" cards that have higher transaction costs that you can't disallow as a merchant, it's becoming more like a tax.
There was a project I stumbled upon over a year ago that implemented a P2P Web, but I can't seem to dig it up now. There was a client that mediated the connection between your machine and the network, and you'd just browse the web normally by pointing your browser at localhost:someport. It was kind of neat, since everyone who visited a resource could act as the server for somebody else, but it looked to me like it was pretty much only used by Chinese dissidents. Good for them, I say, but not so useful for someone casually looking for a better version of the existing Web. I think until technologies like this are better than the Web for ordinary use, not just hiding from authorities for whatever reason, they'll only find use in those areas.

Of course, there's always IPFS, but that project comes with its own issues (e.g. modifying content).
This is patently false. The entire point of the pledge is they give away the vast majority of their wealth while still alive.
Absolutely agree. Which is why I don't use Alpine linux for python projects and wouldn't recommend anyone else does.

In the article, they are only using pandas and not using a requirements.txt file. So it's a pretty perfect case to just use apk. In cases where you don't need many packages, you can still use Alpine if you would like without most of the downsides mentioned in the article.
The Most-Used Python Packages in the World
This isn't that sort of price cap, as far as I can see. It's a law for insurance companies saying that if you want to insure people in this state, you must cover the cost of insulin from your general insurance pool, not from the individuals who need it (except for the first $100 / month).
There is no problem with the fact that they want the information. However, if they want this information, they have to get his consent to obtain it. They faked that consent by putting his signature on a document he didn't sign. That's the problem.
Caucusing in Iowa with a Disability: Red Tape and Unreturned Calls
11% case fatality rate observed in 2019 novel coronavirus cases [pdf]
Ask HN: How do you collect data for training your ML models?
If you're building and ML models, what is your process for collecting data?

For Example:

1/ Do you have dedicated hardware pipelines that send images/video/audio/text to a database in real-time or do you collect data in batches and then offload later?

2/ Do you collect mobile sensor data (iOS/Android) or do you have custom hardware?

3/ Do you rely on open source data sets like ImageNet / Google Open Images / Kaggle / Fishnet or are you collecting images for a use case that those data sets don't solve?
200k HQ Private Combolist (Spotify, Netflix, PSN, Origin, Hulu, Amazon and More
Even with the additional upfront expense, lithium batteries would make this setup much more efficient due to the larger allowed cycles and would also reduce the environmental impact due to the low impact nature of lithium extraction.
Simplifying Secure Server Access with Teleport’s Approval Workflow
Coming soon to Illinois, insulin shortages.
I think the real issue not addressed is that the system is so flawed, that a "rogue trader" could mess with the market.

Let's imagine the typical US villain, Russia, North Korea, blah, blah. Let's say they have a few of their folks figure out weaknesses in the trading system then trade and then trigger a bunch of flash crashes everyday for a week or more. What will that do the market? How much billions would be lost?
As long as you don't control the JavaScript that handles your keys, they can do whatever they like.
I don't. Never got on board with it and just stick to Ubuntu so I don't have to think about the differences.

Never had a business driver come up for going with Alpine though.
Ad-free Reddit would be sustainable if:

- Comments are ephemeral, expiring after two weeks (no growing storage costs)

- "Reddit Gold" helps to offset costs

- Run Wikipedia-like donation drives yearly

- Write everything in bare-metal Rust so that CPU is cheap. Likewise, make intelligent choices about schema and service design for scalability.

- Don't continue to drive unnecessary feature work (that is usually just to drive ad engagement and growth).
FWIW, a medicine I have been taking since 2003 is still not available in all other countries except the US and Canada (and it's only recently become available in Canada). It's still the only effective treatment for my condition.
But the question was why large companies use platform abstractions. Because they are large in headcount, by definition. Because the apps are already large. Because they have massive platform specific teams, and they would like not to. Because the teams are geographically spread out, for a myriad of reasons.

The large companies are what they are, and you cannot apply the same type of thinking to their problems as if you were designing the organization from scratch. There's problems they have, and the team structure they would like to have, and based on that the technology choice to favor abstraction makes sense.
> If you just need pandas, then you can install it with apk along with many other packages and it'll be much quicker: https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages?page=1&branch=edge&nam....

And so again need to rely on something "non-standard".

> Alpine are doing what they can, by maintaining common python packages on apk. It is pip that is tied to glibc

The "manylinux" tag means glibc by necessity, because nobody has driven a PEP for tagging, detecting and managing musl-based wheels to completion[0]. The issue is not restricted to the choice of libc, or even linux alone, either. But again, that requires people actually put in the work to chip at and fix the issue[1].

[0] https://github.com/pypa/manylinux/issues/37

[1] https://github.com/pypa/packaging-problems/issues/69
It's possible to write a driver that doesn't use polling - for example https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.10664.pdf which discusses using vfio though doing so is apparently much harder than polling alone due to the complexity of the vfio interface and that most users care more about maximizing PPS performance at peak vs saving CPU cycles when less busy. Presumably one other option would be to try and tune the CPU to run slower when less demand is expected, and only run at faster peak performance when absolutely required. Also, it sounds like you might want to look at pinning cores to workloads, such that only one of your CPU cores is polling while the rest act as dynamic worker cores and could do other activities. Note that I'm largely speaking theoretically, for my use cases (mostly at home), the incompatibility of user space networking stacks often gets in the way.
AT&T says 5G network nationwide by mid-year as Q4 earnings solid
That's only true if by "maximize" you don't mean anything like the mathematical maximization of a function.

Due to the "business judgement" rule, the management of a for-profit company gets to do business just about any way they want without any legal constraint; all they need is some reasonable rationale for why it might somehow, in the long term, benefit shareholders.

This includes giving stuff away and selling stuff for a loss, as many unicorns do. It includes paying employees very well, as some companies do. It includes making donations to charity. It includes either sticking to their original business, or deciding to spend a lot of money breaking into a new business.

In practice, shareholder primacy happens less because of what's legally required and more because many companies have management and employees who are shareholders. If the company stock goes up, the employees do well, and this promotes a culture where people try to make the stock go up.
Then you believe in some form of pre-destined, zero-sum world, which is totally legitimate, but I personally don't believe and find sad, as it makes a lot of life look pretty pointless, if true.
Everything is legal until someone with authority says it isn't. The way the US system is set up, unless someone has violated criminal law and you can interest a government prosecuting attorney to take interest in the case, you have to hire and pay a lawyer out of your own pocket to threaten/bring a civil case. Most people do not have a civil lawyer on hand, and the costs for even beginning such a thing easily run into the thousands of dollars. Carrying something through to completion can be $20-50k in the best of cases.

There is a tremendous power imbalance between private people and large corporations with civil lawyers on staff.
It may be worth repeating what the article already states: this project is based in Barcelona, where there is considerable sunlight. Other locations may be unsuitable for this sort of thing. I do like the idea, though, and its implementation is impressive.
wait, facebook has rivals?
what, like "friendster" or?
Lots of criticism of the dependency issues detailed here, but no one talking about the fact that musl looks to allocate roughly ~50% slower than glibc.

For many applications, particularly those that aren't written with low-level performance details in mind, this is likely to cause significant slowdowns (obviously not the full 50% as many things will be CPU bound, but still likely noticeable).

More generally, it seems that Alpine optimises for build/deployment, but glibc-based distros are going to be faster at runtime. While a fast build/deploy is nice, it's probably not worth it if it comes at a cost of significant runtime performance issues.
Officially published in The Lancet today:
https://www.thelancet.com/pb-assets/Lancet/pdfs/S01406736203...

Moderator: feel free to update the link to point to thelancet.com
> For patients with chronic conditions if the doctor determines the patient should be seen to evaluate their condition in 30 days before a new script is written

I'm reasonably cynical about lots of things, but I would be absolutely shocked if a pharmacist can give you 90days of pills when handed a 30day (no refills) prescription.
Sorry for the delayed response--- didn't see your comment.

An option's value is its intrinsic value, plus its time value. The time value of an option is mostly sigma, yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Option_time_value#Time_value
I hadn't bothered to check mine until just now. It's a bit surprising who has "uploaded and shared a list with your info". The only one I've actually interacted with is Experian, and I have no way to keep them from getting my phone number, for example. I've deleted my phone from Facebook now, I wonder if they'll actually stop linking me to uploaded lists.
1984 is not an instruction manual.