skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The sad thing is, they could offer two levels of peak quality, one less than today’s and the other more than today’s—and their overall data usage rate would probably go down not up... especially if the lower bitrate was marketed as “faster starts, less buffering” etc.
What's the problem with the Scala plugin for IntelliJ?
How can I get someone's email from their Twitter ID?
As someone who has invested a career into 3D modeling of plants, particularly of real plants from 3D scanner data, I really don't find value in this work, scientifically. It surely is fun and useful for artistic purposes, where the only evaluation is from a human eye. But when you actually compare the structures of the algorithms presented here to the real curves and topologies of any living plant, you find that they are missing a tremendous amount of detail. From a machine learning perspective, e.g., it would be very hard to "fit" these models to actual data. This is because these algorithms and data structures assume far too much homogeneity in the basic structures of a given species, particularly that these structures be repeated with only simple rotations and permutations. In fact, when you look closely at leaves and flowers and roots and stems of a plant, there is more and more detail; just like any living system, this is because plants are very active on a microbiological level that causes a level of microscopic entropy well beyond that of any single Bezier curve (or whatever). So for those who really do love the beauty of plants, and who really do want to model them and therefore be able to propagate their forms in the digital space, I would suggest looking elsewhere, and in particular seeking ways that are more data-driven to model plants. As it stands in this work, there are no objective functions or optimizations, this is just purely art that is disconnected from the reality in myriad immeasurable dimensions.
> my own alarm has lessened considerably

That that is the case speaks poorly of the WHO as a reliable source of information.

Run the numbers. Run a regression on Hubei's spread. I did. That's the two-weeks out future for the virus outside of Hubei (unless the speculation that there was a secretive inoculation program in Hubei that went wrong).

Presuming Hubei's population is normal, then this is spreading badly and is not contained. It describes the future. My future, your future. Our future.

Psychotic downvoters suppressing the verifiable mathematical reality. Enjoy your apocalypse and mass death. Evil. Better to work on a fix rather than Chinese Communist State Suppression of facts here on HN. You can't suppress a virus using propaganda tactics. All you bring is death.
> Based on the examples in this article, is there anything that doesn't require a license to do?
This is what Libertarians mean when they say regulations make everything cost more.

This is what Libertarians mean when they say regulations make everything cost more / creates a black market.
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See below thread, but Azure + Enterprise services + server products are reported as "Intelligent cloud". It's intelligent cloud that has the $48bn run rate. So it's not a like-for-like comparison with AWS even though it doesn't include Office365.
Of course you are right, but it all started with the tight integration with Jetbrains editing package.
They are goal posts the vast majority of ordinary users have to deal with every day, whether you or they like where they are located or not.
Prison industrial complex needs its ultracheap labour one way or another.
While some of the features in Kotlin are slowly coming to Java, that also means that one has to update Java (while you can use all the new kotlin while still targeting Java 8).

Some features like named parameters or null checking might probably never make it to Java.

There is a nice talk about this that compares Kotlin to what will be in Java 19:

https://youtu.be/te3OU9fxC8U
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The relevant but of of information was that Wexner is in close ties with a major political party, in this case, the Republicans, and that major political parties are known to protect their wealthiest friends.

You got stuck on the mention of the Republicans, but GP was trying to say something about Wexner, not singling them out. If GP had said 'a political party' instead of 'the Republicans', it would have sounded more hand-wavy.
Conversely, it's also a way for the general public to see criticisms and laudations of research that might otherwise be accepted with blind faith. While Nature has its pick of comparatively incontrovertible research, sending a signal to the rest of the industry that peer reviews ought to be published seems like a useful step toward better, more replicable, more honest science.
I think most of the perceived sbt slowness actually comes from dependency resolution and that's the same for Java and Kotlin
Where is Azure AD counted?
It's 'inflated' as in a large section of their enterprise software is included with Azure, similar to GCP with G suite. That being said, Amazon Chime and Workdocs are also included in AWS revenue, but probably make up a much less significant portion of AWS revenue compared to GCP and Azure.
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It is possible on Android, but if you do, you can't initiate any conversation - the remote party has to speak first.
Simple yet effective solution to hook based global state libraries. Works like a charm.
I think the point is that they refused once, and only under additional pressure from the undercover officer agreed to actually do the illegal thing.

If you wouldn't have broken the law without the police's involvement, I think that's entrapment. It wasn't a lot of pressure, and you could say they are likely to break the law under pressure from other people, but I think we shouldn't be prosecuting people for what we think they might do in the future, and instead for what they've actually done. And in some of these cases it looks like the only thing they've done that we know for sure is allow the police to pressure then into breaking the law so the police can arrest them and bolster their arrest numbers.
But even on this field (compliance) is it bullet proof ?
I would not make Kotlin my first language. It is absolutely a language that requires you already know the patterns and mannerisms of OO languages, like Java or C#. Once you do, its syntactic sugar and features are amaaaaazing.

If you’re already familiar with OO languages and their standard coding patterns, then there’s little reason to use Java over it.

To clarify, for the Kotlin / Java users out there that might not get what I mean: the syntax for classes and constructors and default constructors and all can be very confusing when reading Kotlin compared to C#, Java or Python, since the constructor and the class declaration are halfway merged.
Nothing in the article about collaboration with law enforcement or national security.

Some amount of liability on Twitter’s part in this is palpable, but this is also a criminal act on the part of the attacker who should accordingly be brought to justice, or at least an attempt should be made to do so.

If this is happening with law enforcement agencies then I feel like tech companies usually say so. Twitter’s statement says they are “releasing the details” but there’s no mention of law enforcement or state department involvement.

If the press release is meant to achieve this engagement publicly, then there are no actual “details” in it for example, no link to a list of IP addresses, twitter accounts, and times at which the endpoint was accessed!

Thats a bit flippant of course but perhaps there is actually a way they could have released some of those details: ASNs, days of the attack, some other aggregation?

In any case, some reassurance from Twitter that this is being followed up on by a government agency would be good to see.
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Honey contains lactic acid bacteria [1], which has proven to work as an antibiotic agent in scientific test[2]. Suger do not have that. Honey contains many other things, like pollen, that suger doesn’t.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S094450131...

[2] (In Swedish) https://kurera.se/mjolksyrabakterier-i-farsk-honung-kanske-m...
It's not, if you scroll up there's a fellow who determined it's closer to 2.5b a quarter for Azure.
It depends on what you type in I guess...
"internet was considered a baseless conspiracy"

I never met anyone who said it was a conspiracy theory that the intelligence agencies would listen in to everything on the internet and fullfilling their self stated purpose [0]. Even my mother thinks that is their job.

But it seems you have met people that claim the NSA doing it's job is a conspiracy theory.

What would those people say the job and purpose of the NSA is to explain it's existence?

[0] "The National Security Agency/Central Security Service (NSA/CSS) leads the U.S. Government in cryptology that encompasses both signals intelligence (SIGINT) [1] and information assurance (now referred to as cybersecurity) products and services, and enables computer network operations (CNO) in order to gain a decision advantage for the Nation and our allies under all circumstances." https://www.nsa.gov/about/mission-values/

[1] "Signals intelligence (SIGINT) is intelligence-gathering by interception of signals, whether communications between people or from electronic signals not directly used in communication" Wikipedia
I’m probably on the few folks who was searching for a copy of “The Witcher Season 1” on Blu-ray until I realized Netflix wouldn’t want to compete against its own platform.

Would be a major point of contention for content producers seeking to become Netflix originals. Traditional studios still produce lossless versions which then see re-releases in whatever format would be best decades after the original run has ended e.g. Sopranos getting a BR release, etc
Do not agree. Government everywhere makes mistakes under emergencies. Just look at past responses to hurricanes in the US and the current wildfire in Australia. Maybe you could say every government is incompetent. But the fact is that China reported the cases very early to WHO, get the genes mapped very quickly, and decisively locked down Hebei. So I would say so far China has shown competence and resolve, against a tough virus.
Leaking sensitive data via screen brightness in air-gapped workstations
off topic, but a "knightmare" is also a chess term. It's a good-knight-vs-bad-bishop position that went horribly wrong for the owner of the bishop.
Actually you can code in kotlin exclusively with a functional style, especially with Arrow.
since the constructor and the class declaration are halfway merged. this is an optional sugar (data classes)
Right?! Microsoft is very clear about its Intelligent Cloud section.

I’m having trouble finding its Elastic Moron Cloud section breakout, though.
Odd. If FTDI Virtual Comm Port (VCP) drivers work but others do not, this seems like a question that FTDI should be made to answer.

The USB consortium has set standards for VID/PID and how USB Device Descriptors work.
From what I understand it's based on a survey. So who knows what are the biases and other preconditions of the results. Also 2.6 and 2.9 percent is not a huge difference.
But you can't apply that to the built in keyboard :(
Note that with Kotlin, JetBrains created it initially for working on their IntelliJ IDE and are porting their Java codebase to use Kotlin. So that is a good indicator of long-term sustainability.
Telling someone new to a language to start with emacs & cider is a disaster. They are rock solid amazing tools for 2% of programmers. I like emacs, but it is harder to learn than Clojure, and trying to teach someone both at the same time is tough. Plus there is no real community unity in editor choice, so you have the community split over emacs, Cursive, VS Code/Calva, Atom. Plus a bunch of dead ends like Light Table or Nightcode.
This time this is the official android language and there is jetbrains behind it.
I can't see this happening any more than mechanics influencing how engines are designed. It sounds nice to rah-rah-rah the revolution, but ERPs are the dark underbelly of business are not going away any time soon while we depend on the 3 statement model.
> This is the basic principle underlying American law and our Constitution.

So what? Can I call the idea "American colonialist" and dismiss it as categorically as labeling something "Marxist" allows you to do?

In fact, the article doesn't push back against that idea in itself. It pushes back against its primacy, certainly, but it accepts the underlying premise of state power underwriting private ownership. You'll see this when you read the very next paragraph:

> What is decisive is which private claims to property governments have been willing to underwrite with the force of the law... (emphasis in the original).

Following that, the author explains how the legal constructs that define "property" in the privately enclosed sense are applied in the age of capital. But nowhere is the author arguing in favor of undoing enclosure and thereby killing tens of millions of people.

You're so busy building that strawman that you miss the main point of the article, which follows next. Far from being a hamfisted argument against capitalism (it doesn't even suggest that there are any alternative frameworks that create wealth) the article turns to the "exceptions and reservations" that lawyers have managed to infuse "standard" capitalist frameworks with, to the point that bankruptcy (for example) may no longer actually be accomplishing the protection of capitalist interests that it's intended to under the enclosure model.

And then in the last part of the article, the author criticizes the book, but also draws out how it specifically differentiates its arguments from Marxist ones. But I'm not convinced you even read that far.
This seems strange. Can't reproduce the problem here. Can you please help to check what's on line 386?
You'll have to pick a specialization you want first. What do you think is interesting? AI? Wearables? Image processing? Content generation? Space colonies?

Then just start diving into that. There are communities around everything now. Get to know people there. Most of the time they'll pick someone who has genuine interest in a field, rather than someone looking to get paid, because it also affects the rate of learning. user experience, and stamina in problem solving.
It's why MS tried to push the British gov to accept their shitty ODF format rather than a proper one.
Because they wanted backwards compatibility with their modern and stoneage office suite versions with their own quirks and issues.

They're obsessed with backwards compatibility and it has it's own issues.
When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

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Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Which is yet another reason why nothing the WHO proclaims can possibly be taken seriously by any sane, rational, or informed person.
Did you link to it? We don’t support being linked to, which admittedly is a concern for SEO down the road.

It works in Chrome, and Firefox claims to support data URIs when directly navigated to by the user. Are you on Edge? If it lets you override the warning you should be fine.

There’s no substitute for a thorough audit of course, but if you’re worried you’ve been MITM’ed the MD5 is:

5ad110542ebf6a3fbae7840260b0bee5
It's fine to offend in some contexts, but the author sounds like a douche. He wouldn't like it much if another researcher wrote an article taking a massive dump on his work, would he? It's basic manners.

Don't say the authors are wrong. Say they take a 'singular view'. Or 'it is arguable that...'. Or 'their results contradict X'. It's fine to critique, but no need to be an ass about it.

As for the seminar - most definitely the fault of the faculty. Anyone should be able to attend a seminar. The clue is in the entymology - 'university' = 'universal'.
Time to throw some ads and analytics in there! Maybe even an autoplay video in there!
My Windows used to BSOD when running with hyper-v enabled. I disabled it and I'm not going to enable it again anytime soon. VirtualBox works just fine. I don't know why do you think that it's critical to Win 10 security.
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There is https://open.sap.com/
Free courses directly from SAP without expensive consulting firms in-between.

For parent maybe this would be interesting: https://open.sap.com/courses/cp7
I hope you enjoy the mass death you are bringing about. I don't enjoy it at all. But philosophically, I respect your right to be a Satanist working hard to bring on the elimination of life.
My understanding is that if you depend on the cookies (which is the case for an ad-driven site) it can be legal, but I'm not a lawyer.
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> but councils can only increase tax by <2% per year

The current cap is 2.99% and the 2020-21 plans are for 3.99%, which is split between the core principle and the adult social care principle. It is unlikely that many councils will increase it by less than the fully-permitted amount.

Also council tax increases in the recent past have capped at 5.99% some year~s and many actual increases were between 4.5% and 5.5%.
I started using Kotlin daily about 8 months ago.

Recently had to go back to an older Android codebase, and immediately decided I had to start converting.

The amount of boilerplate is unbelievable. I'm able to cut the number of lines by half while increasing readability. Type/null safety is a huge added bonus

P.S. Kotlin extensions are the best
I work in clamshell mode so much, that it wouldn't bother me too much. But nevertheless, it's going to hurt if it comes that far.
For someone who accuses other people of being crazy you sure sound pretty crazy yourself. Maybe back up your claims with numbers instead of throwing around accusations of censorship and propaganda?
The Soviets used a lining inside the hull as a neutron shield. That was omitted from the export models.

I can't remember its composition but it was like a dark grey quilted blanket.
It's mighty impressive
What are you trying to decide based on their cloud platform revenue? I'm genuinely curious as to why it matters if they are huge or actually the largest on the planet.
Attacker what? He, Ibrahim Balic, is a security researcher; but when it comes to Twitter, they are stubborn claiming the bug was a feature. See what "attacker" says:

https://youtu.be/CuiGKv_nx7o
Lombok? My first encounter with it was years ago with some annotation called sneaky throws. shudders
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Did you create your account specifically to parrot CCP propaganda, or is that just a coincidence?

Literally every single comment on your profile is pro-CCP, anti-US.
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Yes, you're right. I know people who bought Kindle with ads just to save that 20% or so.

But that's why I wrote that advertising-based business models need to be banned. Not discouraged, not badmouthed, but banned. They're anticompetitive and poisonous; when one company starts doing it, others in the whole sector are drawn to follow suit (it's e.g. why it's hard to actually sell apps on mobile or make subscriptions for publications on-line profitable; ad-supported operations create a baseline cost of zero).
Oh cool! That is actually different from what I was realistically thinking. This does make a lot of sense.
While providing breakdown of the services makes sense at many levels, it is understandable that Google would add GSuite revenue to cloud. Technically it is a cloud service and it is something Amazon lacks.

For many businesess today the first thing done after incorporation is buying Gsuite subscription to give employees access to email. Even opening a cloud account might come after that.
Can you be more specific? If you believe the WHO is wrong, can you provide more details on why you hold this position?

An argument backed by facts will help.
The amount of virulent (pun intended) hatred of the Chinese government really shows here. Can't say it's not well deserved but you can at least give them some credit for the quarantine.
> Coffee, in particular, has become the solution to the problem that coffee has created, Pollan notes in the book.
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It's shit like this that drives me never to use Apple products. Oh, your company gives Apple laptops to SWEs and I can't order something different? No, I won't work with you. I need full control over the machine I spend my day driving, and this control includes loading kernel modules on my own damned computer if i want to do that.
Articles from Amos are really interesting. http://aosabook.org/en/index.html also has some interesting architecture ideas
Some people still do believe them for what they have to say on this, for whatever reason. When you’ve got your quasi-ally (Russia) closing the 2000 km land border you know something is not right (especially as Russia is not known for caring that much for its citizens), but maybe the WHO officials know better from half a world away. On top of that the actual videos that come out of Wuhan are really heart-breaking.
If Israel had wanted security, they would have accepted the worldwide consensus on the two-state solution 30 years ago, and would have moved on to further diplomatic ties with their closest neighbors.

Instead, Israel wants territory and power, so they build illegal colonies on stolen land, they brutalize Palestine and make a show of brutally repressing them,and they antagonize and threaten their neighbors in defiance of international law. There will be no peace in Israel as long as this doesn't change, but they may well flourish economically from this.

On the other hand, to believe that the US is an unwilling, blackmailed participant in all of this is absurd. The US is not Israel's dim-witted reluctant ally, it is actively spurring on Israel in all of their actions, both in order to extend its influence and defeat its enemies in the area (Iran's independence and rejection of the Cia-installed Shah will not be forgiven or forgotten), and to keep a steady demand for US armaments going in the area.
I saw a rewrite of some functionality from a vendor (rhymes with mcafsee) as well. They decided to start running lsof to find open files. This can be excruciatingly slow and cpu intensive on macOS. It was running it near constantly effectively turning machines into beach ball render farms.

I suppose avoiding kernel panics is an improvement but let’s be real: these enterprise vendors have always made shit software and rarely keep up with OS releases or updates. They’re not about to change any time soon.
Giving the file listing of a font zip is a good selling point I guess.

On one hand, it makes it dead simple for someone to just Google for the filenames and download it elsewhere. On the other hand, they at least have a chance of having searches for the file name end up on their site if someone is looking for the original source.
The point is that China implements severe travel bans within their own country, and yet are reprimanding another country for trying to do something similar.

China also claims to have it under control (in the same reprimand) yet Coronavirus has snuck through their borders numerous times and is now in a dozen countries.
Once you've made the tree, isn't that the end?

A relative of mine researched our family tree. After 2-3 years she presented it to everyone. Most people weren't really interested for more than 10 minutes, but tried to respect the effort she'd put in to it.

Now we all have less/no future need for an ancestry service.