skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if it's better to treat percentage as a unit or variable. So a-percent x b-percent = c(percent-squared), or c divided by 100 twice.
EDIT - Too late to edit my original post, I should correct myself and say the theory has not been discredited (according to Dr Strassman himself)
The virus laughs at these masks. It won't stop any virus. It only helps for people who are already sick and sprinkling cough droplets full of virus to others, but it does nothing for protecting the wearer from infection.
The latest version of Oracle Solaris now uses Gnome 3, deprecating the excellent but old Gnome 2 implementation they had (that ZFS Directory history integration in Nautilus was very cool).
With Apple Pay your name shows up often as "VALUED CUSTOMER". So that's your privacy name!
90's guided meditation
While not perfect, this type of development is already a step-up above the unwalkable so called "power center". They have great upgrade potential when we'll figure out public transport. The parking lots closest to the walkable public strip can be turned into mixed use buildings.

Solving infrastructure and public transit problems is not the job of real estate developers. It is our job as a society. There has to be political consensus on how we want our communities to be planned. The developer will then do what they can with the rules we impose.

Unfortunately, the consensus is largely that we love cars. Maybe we should be paying for influential people to spend a month without a car in a walkable european city.
More of a pain in the ass then working with a traditional CA's web frontend, generating your signing certificate, waiting for them to call and verify because you want EV, then downloading the bundle from their site and extracting it then putting it into the (hopefully) automation that pushes it out to all of your servers needing the wildcard?
I paid for Soundcloud for a while. Unfortunately I ended up cancelling for two reasons. For one, with Soundcloud Go+, I'm supposed to be able to listen to albums, artists, songs that arent independent soundcloud artists, but for some reason, albums that were available on just about any other streaming platform from US artists, weren't available in my country. Secondly, there's no volume normalization, which I understand why, but it gets annoying having to re-adjust the volume constantly because I had to turn it all the way up to hear one song while the next will nearly blow my ears on that level.
That's great, but I would wager that nearly 100% of all writing ever done in human history was done without capturing the strokes while writing. Therefore, while this added accuracy is great, it is virtually useless for most written work.
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The first chapter in "Debt: the first 5000 years" deals with the issue.
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Singapore's Leave of Absence Reporting System for Covid-19
No private cars in the development? OK, that means the housebound can't live there, because people like home health nurses can't be asked to drag equipment and other supplies from the closest parking to wherever the person lives. With many First-World countries looking at aging populations, this is going to limit the appeal of such developments.
Django is used widely for CRUD apps or any area you'd typically use Rails. Flask is also a popular option among developers and theres been a few new generation python microframeworks focused around ASGI popup in the last few years. I haven't used it for years but my girlfriend uses it heavily for scientific computing and data science which is I'd say where a big chunk of it's userbase is.
Wouldn't you love icons that animate on hover? That's when your attention is turned to the icon anyway, often waiting for the tooltip to pop up.
Really I think these "main streets shops" are designs to replace strip malls in suburban environments, which in my opinion is infinitely better.
If barter never existed, then how did Christopher Columbus and his many successors through out ages trade with natives in America or Indonesia? They definitely weren't using IOUs.

there's already very good rebuttal to David Graeber claims by Robert P. Murphy [1]: "Finally, we have actual case studies of communities developing money prices from scratch: namely, prisoners who end up using cigarettes as the common medium of exchange. The classic work here is Radford's 1945 article, "The Economic Organization of a P.O.W. Camp." There is nothing in Radford's account that conflicts with the standard economists' story about the origin of money. The prisoners certainly weren't giving each other things from their Red Cross kits as gifts or as loans. No, they first were trading (in a state of direct exchange) and cigarettes quickly became the money in their community for all of the reasons that economists typically cite.

And to reinforce the point we made earlier, Radford explains that the prices (quoted in cigarettes) of various items were posted on a board. If Graeber and his colleagues stumbled upon the ruins of this P.O.W. camp, they would presumably conclude that there was never a preexisting state of barter, because they only found boards listing prices quoted in terms of cigarettes. There were no boards listing the thousands of pairwise permutations of direct-exchange ratios, and so clearly the Mengerian story must have been wrong — so would go the erroneous reasoning of Graeber."

[1] https://mises.org/library/have-anthropologists-overturned-me...
Could you maybe elaborate a bit more on the exact situation you are dealing with? Is it during a code review phase?

I believe if the code is broken/not working you have every right to point out.
No, you need to use a library that allows the user to configure the push server, which should be configured device-wide and communicated to the app server.
Try calling that number on your Android phone. It still "works" on my Essential phone with stock Android 10.
The Future of Machine Learning: An Interview with Samy and Yoshua Bengio
For someone not familiar with morse or pulse dialing, how does one do that?
Reducing Pandas memory usage: Reading in chunks
Glitch: Home Office tells man, 101, his parents must confirm ID
Don't forget, there's a LOT more than 3 competitors in the auto market. There's 4 in America now (Ford, GM, Fiat/Chrysler, Tesla), but that doesn't count all the foreign automakers, many of whom have manufacturing plants right here in the US: Honda, Toyota, BMW, VW, etc. Just looking at cars on the road, the "American" automakers don't even appear to have a majority of sales.
They really nailed the angles on those photos.
Didn't SVG simply lose the power struggle with Javascript/Canvas people? I've heard most of the cool features were poached and implemented into CSS.
Background: I run a live streaming start-up.

Latency directly impacts bandwidth, which impacts quality, since all current-gen user-facing live streaming protocols that matter (HLS, DASH) are layered on top of HTTP (on top of TCP), and that's already the best trade-off for end-user delivery today.

For VOD it's less of an issue since you can just maintain a larger buffer, but with live that's a trade-off with being closer to the live edge or choosing poorer quality. It works OK for some cases, it's bad for others (like sports, or when letters on the screen become illegible due to compression artifacts).

Building your own CDN off of el cheapo VPSs is theoretically viable, the beauty of HLS and DASH is they're 100% plain old HTTP, so just drop Varnish, add GeoDNS on route53 and off you go. Actually I'd love to have the time to try that :)
So what does Billie Eilish think of SoundCloud?
Anecdotally, I flew from Bali to Singapore today and there seemed to be a lot more sniffles and coughing in Singapore. In Bali the architecture is very open with lots of fresh air, scooters being popular for transport whereas in Singapore they tend more to sitting together in air conditioned boxes of various types (buildings, busses etc).
How Waymo Uses Design to Create Trust in Self-Driving Cars
Here's[1] a proof I recorded a long time ago. Enjoy my notes on virtual memory.

[1]: https://youtu.be/hM4-4G36H7U?t=31
I've often wondered that, why parking structures aren't considered more as a medium term solution to increasing density while not having to revolutionize public transit. Probably a combination of the cost to build and resistance to having one next to buildings because they're usually pretty ugly if I had to guess.
In many parts of Florida, land is cheap.
"Thinkers are rare; doers are rarer; and thinker-doers are rarest." - Fred Brooks, 'The Mythical Man Month'
I mean it's a pain but why is this LE's problem? The company hosting your domain doesn't support programmatically updating records so the least-effort path ends up paying someone that does like the $0.20/month to host the records with an easier to use API.

Unless you're using a very obscure DNS hosting service you shouldn't need to write any code. There are already made plug-ins for just about everyone.
How I Raised VC from Top-Tier Funds
PoC||GTFO January 2020 [pdf]
No, but it's the inevitable result of these shenanigans.
I think there is a problem with teaching people a theory which is wrong.

If currency vanished overnight, most people would not be producing enough material things to survive a barter economy.

So life-by-barter doesn't ever make sense: it only makes sense if you are used to the idea of exchanging your value for currency.
Why would you use it at all at that point? If this guy took his experience with autopilot the first time it almost crashed his car, he'd probably still be alive.
Woman jailed for trying to open the airplane door mid flight
Launch HN: Reset Button – helping consumers include student loans in bankruptcy
Hi everyone! My name is Rob Hunter, and I'm the CEO and co-founder of Reset Button - www.resetbutton.com

Reset Button helps consumers with the process of including their student loans in bankruptcy.

The American middle class is being crushed by $1.6 Trillion in student debt, and there's been a misconception that student loans can't be included in bankruptcy.

Turns out this narrative is completely false - but it's reached a level of "mythic proportions", according to a bankruptcy judge in NY.

It's a massive failure of the American legal system - in the last 5 years, over 1 million people with student debt have declared bankruptcy, and less than 0.1% have even attempted to have their student loans included.

Reset Button connects qualified consumers with an affiliated lawyer who has specific experience discharging student debt.

Rather than having to come up with $10k+ upfront for a retainer, consumers instead pay a small monthly fee to receive legal services - and they don't pay anything if the attorney is unsuccessful under our "Fresh Start Guarantee."

For attorneys, we're essentially a business-in-a-box - we connect them with prospective clients, and provide software and services that help automate and optimize their workflow.

We're backed by some top tier investors, and have a world-class team in place. We're excited to take on the challenge of making justice accessible to the middle class.
Usually they take a quick detour to destroy Big Ben and the great wall of China first, but after that it's straight to a plucky American kid's backyard.
Disease Caused by the Novel Coronavirus Officially Has a Name: Covid-19
>...without a single brain-byte spent on ...

This is a glorious Gibson-esq turn of phrase that I hope goes down in history and is picked up in common vernacular.

Back on topic: The more I know about technology the less I want it or trust it to work. I assume this is similar to Pilots not wanting somebody else to fly, or surgeons not wanting to go under the knife.

We know, that we don't know enough about autonomous driving. Instead of the 'unwashed masses' saying "gee-whiz that is cool", we think "this isn't ready yet!"
This is what I've been using too on new projects from about 6 months ago. It works nicely and it's easy to set up.
Same in Canada, I'd estimate 80%+ of places I go to support NFC payment - though I live in a major city so it might be less in more rural areas.
The more interesting way to analyze history, rather than trying to evaluate the degree of barter, is to seek out the most saleable good which was in use at a given place and time. Humans must solve the problem of "coincidence of wants" (ie. You raise chickens and I'm a woodworker - do we always need each other's goods?). Naturally, they begin to use the most saleable good available to their community as "money" for trade. The most saleable good (the most marketable and easy to sell) is usually the good available to them which scores highest on the following five properties (imagine a radar chart): Divisibility, Durability, Portability, Fungibility, Scarcity.

This way of thinking can provide a satisfying explanation of the emergence of gold as a global store of value.

For more reading: https://mises.org/library/origin-money-and-its-value
>e.g. 5 other people are looking...

And "Only $199 a night!" (Plus 100% in fees you see at check out).

AirBnB had a great opportunity to be a small platform to provide people a way to rent their empty homes for a bit of extra cash every once in a while.

Instead, the VCs sniff it out and it turned into a multi-billion dollar platform for real estate speculators, harming neighbourhoods and circumventing laws, because "disruption".

Does anyone consider AirBnB a "good brand" anymore?
I actually find Sirius frustrating for long road trips or commutes; most of the channels repeat their content every 6 or 7 or 8 hours. I often find the same programming on my home journey that was on when I was on the way in. Many news type channels like BBC endlessly repeat every hour.

Having a pile of podcasts and audiobooks ready at hand makes long drives on ski trips much more tolerable to me... But I do keep the Sirius subscription around just for NPR and BBC...
Sorry about the jobs report messing things up for you.

I hope there is a dip as I want to put more in.

I don't think this Coronavirus thing will be the trigger though. Flu still far worse.
if they are sufficiently advanced, they would likely understand that other civilizations require primitive bands/encoding?
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He's talking about the "Admiral" class of funds which have lower fees but higher minimums. (And most are $50k min, not 500k). Most of these funds can be bought at lower minimums too, they just have higher fees.
There was a great blog post, explaining how the team did it.

https://product.voxmedia.com/2013/11/25/5426880/polygon-feat...
What does your pipeline look like? I've always wanted to do this but a lot of CD systems are so heavy. Great at work but super overkill for a homelab.
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Magnetars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetar
Intergalactic numbers station!
Yesterday here on HN there was a top thread about how a open dataset used for training self-driving cars is rife with missing labels and mislabeling. [1]

Quite a few commenters insisted the issue was a non-issue -- that all datasets are noisy and mislabeling occurs all the time, that nobody's building actual self-driving cars from it, that surely if an object isn't labeled in one frame it'll be labeled in the next.

Now obviously we don't what the cause of this particular crash was.

But I will say that I found people's willingness to defend widespread sloppy labeling in training sets used for literal high-speed life and death situations rather shocking.

And that, hopefully, crashes like this serve to remind us of the far greater responsibility we have with regards to quality and accuracy when it comes to building ML models for self-driving cars, rather than when we're merely predicting how likely a credit card customer is to pay their next bill on time, or which ad is likely to be most profitable.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22298882
Jokes on you, I hardly get one Instagram notification a day.
Didn't we see a movie about this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_(1997_American_film)
He's talking about a specific class of funds that are sold generally to institutions. Think buying funds in "wholesale"; they have low fees, high minimums. Those same funds can be bought "retail" though, with normal fees and typical minimums ($3k-$10k).
There’s no moral problem with increasing the price when it becomes a better product.

There arguably is a moral problem selling a product with optional safety features that cost extra.

If tesla invented immortality fields within their vehicles, I have no doubt they would jack up the price, and that would be fine, because it’s now a much better car. To think otherwise would be silly.
Beautiful live map. I liked the news summary too.

I think the source of each headline in news summary should have an action to show (or not) the sources.

Eg:

⯈ China's death toll rises to 1,113

⯈ Japan reports 39 more cases aboard cruise ship, coming to a total of 174

⯈ Singaporean bank evacuates all personnel after one Employee tested positive

⯈ WHO officially names the disease Covid-19

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And if the user click on some of these, the source appear below the topic.

Eg:

⯈ China's death toll rises to 1,113

⯈ Japan reports 39 more cases aboard cruise ship, coming to a total of 174

⯆ Singaporean bank evacuates all personnel after one Employee tested positive

• https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-12/dbs-evacu...

• https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-singapore-db...

⯈ WHO officially names the disease Covid-19
It's not. I got my pilot's license and fly in a technically advanced aircraft, and all that it means is that there's quite a bit of automation there to help you out. The lessons imbued in it, the issues you learn exist, actually using it in very critical phases of flight, etc., builds an appreciation for both the wonders and dangers of automation.

Going through that experience has 1000% made me more weary of autonomous vehicles.
> Forget better frame, chassis, and body panel design to protect pedestrians! We won't need them if AI never hits anyone.

Most car manufacturers have had this figured out for a long time with crumple zones and the like.

> Forget better braking systems that apply themselves automatically

Assisted braking technology is already implemented in some cars. Hell, Tesla implements basically exactly what you're asking for...

> Forget seat belt enhancements since that'll just inhibit nap time in my self driving car.

Teslas don't let you sleep in your car, you have to move the steering wheel periodically to prove you're still paying attention or it'll pull over and shut down.

Also, I'm not quite sure what you're expecting seat belt enhancements to be.

Far be it for me to defend the AI hype, but your "things we should be focusing on instead" don't make much sense when we ARE focusing on them.
This is good stuff! I like how it's not just about a single reactivity system, but ... Even Elm!
I do not have aphantasia. The way I think of my imagination is like a virtual machine running a separate reality I'm in control of. I can roll a ball around on a plane in space and still have awareness of "base" reality.

Other -non visual- sensations I am able to simulate:
- Taste/smell, able to taste specific foods without eating them
- Sound, able to hear conversations, music, etc.
- Pain, able to feel the sensation of touching a hot stove or breaking my arm

If any people with aphantasia are in this thread, are you able to "simulate" any of these experiences? Also: are you religious in any way? There is an interesting history of religion and schizophrenia [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_and_schizophrenia
I don't think 'unreputable' is fair - they're just a different (not 'low - medium'!) risk profile.
The point is there isn't enough space for all the [single occupancy] cars to become airplanes. Speed doesn't change that because speed increases the space needed between airplanes.

Now if we change to flying buses we might be able to pull something off, an express bus that picks up people for a few stops in the suburb for 10 minutes, then flys at >150mph downtown is a very compelling competitor to a car and will get anybody who currently drives 20 to minutes downtown to ride if the cost is reasonable (those in closer in suburbs will still drive). I don't think the business or environmental models work out.
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This is BS. First off, all that he did is unpack the quadratic equation. If you look at what the q.e. does, it’s just this “new” calculation folded together algebraically. And once you remember it, the q.e. Is very efficient. Moreover, because you have to divide through by the first coefficient to make it 1, you end up with crazy fractions that you have to divide by 2, and then even worse take square roots of. This is literally harder than the quadratic equation!
When manually driven cars become a rare exception expect these layouts to change again. Instead of vast parking lots somewhat integrated with the destination, cars in surplus to immediate requirements drive themselves to "inconvenient" staging lots or back to their corporate homes. Developments become more dense again.
I wonder why we don't see more developments with underground parking. Imagine a three-level underground parking space with a small public park on top. Access would be gated to residents of the surrounding buildings. You should still have some above-ground parking for deliveries, friends visiting, etc. but you can have the majority of parking underground.
I honestly hadn't considered this use case for satellite radio. I used to do 5-6 hour drives through areas with crappy cell service and awful radio (only country, gospel or a sermon). Spotify _helped_ with its download feature so I could play tracks I liked locally, but sadly satellite wasn't an option for me since I was driving an '04 Jeep.
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It's not what they say it is that they dance around the same narrow narrative. How many billions of news worthy topics would there be? We both come to HN in our search for something interesting to read or talk about. After the limited, carefully designed scope has been injected into the collective here too people cant resist pumping it to the front page. If there are specially hot topics that everyone must talk about and everyone is looking at the left hand the right hand is doing all kinds of highly news worthy malicious things that no one talks about.
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Is a $1000 Add-On as Capable as Tesla's Auto­Pilot and Cadillac's Super Cruise?
Small caveat - Looking at 10 yr average right now is not a good measurement for future returns. 10 years ago stocks were just coming out of a recession. Right now they are at all time highs.
I had aphantasia until I had a drug (weed and shrooms) induced psychosis. During the psychosis I had constant musical hallucinations. Now, after recovering, I can now both visualize and have a clear inner monologue in my mind.
License plate can be covered (or more often - using stolen car) and balaclavas cost just few dollars.
You might enjoying tuning in to Radio Garden: https://radio.garden/
> pledge not to take big donations from corporates

You mean the people who actually benefit financially from the service? Look, I get the sentiment but this is a case where the incentives are remarkably aligned. Companies that derive real business value from the service foot the bill while the rest of the world gets free certs.
Why are we so bad at software engineering?