skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you feel like you are risking your livelihood, reputation, or personal safety for publically posting comments critical of the U.S. government and/or U.S. culture? Because I guarantee the average Chinese citizen does. That's the critical difference.

Corruption exists in the U.S. but thankfully authoritarianism does not (yet).
You are probably not running macOS 10.15 Catalina.
This seems extremely weird, never seen anything like that (I tend to have >100 tabs open). But of course "it doesn't happen for others" doesn't help you if somehow on your machine it does.
Congressional Research Service? https://crsreports.congress.gov/
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"available everywhere"

I guess vim and emacs are nowhere.

(it does look nice though!)
Good job. Looking forward to playing with this.
> sending money using the N26 app is a 12 steps process

Not sure if we’re in different A/B test buckets or you’re in a different country and are using a different version but it’s four to five taps for me? Unless you’re counting the log in button and typing the amount as separate steps?
Fairly certain, this is the person: [redacted]

Spent the last 18 mo in Privacy Engineering
Actually the EU request the law to be adopted much earlier. The countries that blocked its early implementation were Germany and France.
Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Thresher_(SSN-593)#Sinking
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That's a false dichotomy. It isn't either a hoax, or real.

More importantly, it isn't that either the government decides to stamp out info, or hoaxes/misidentifications will become a "raging fire of panic".

In most of the western world (among other places), everyone is free to say what they like. The government doesn't get the right to decide what you can and can't say. And yes, hoaxes happen. Misinformation happens. But I don't think there have been these massive problems that you're foreseeing. And what's more, it's not clear that the government has the right to decide what's worse - these kinds of problems, or potentially more people dying.
Other than the obvious, like sleep and eat better, I would say getting rid of long, recurring, useless meetings was a big change. Status meetings in particular I find to be quite useless. Having my day broken up by a few meetings is a lot less productive than one fully open day.
Tokenistic "Google sucks" blog post?
Software error exposes the ID numbers for 1.26M Danish citizens
Where's Ruby on your list? Rails 6 came out not long ago.
Using sound and light for ultra-fast data transfer
What did the workflow of using photoshop even look like? I might be misinterpreting "web design". It means developing a design to be consumed by a computer, and also developing a design to be consumed by a web developer (like a mock-up design).
I don't even have a local branch; I use Ally, which has no branches at all and is 100% online. I have no idea why anyone uses physical banks any more unless they need to deposit cash or get cashiers checks. The online banks offer far higher interest rates and low/no fees.
You seem to be joking, but isn't that pretty much the SQ? Not universally, but there is a lot of clothing incorporating high-viz features. Most prominent in children's clothes and work clothes, but I've seen reflective material that is almost invisible during daytime being used in business coats, apparently with an eye towards bankers on bikes and the like.
They fixed the performance issues recently on MacOS too, well worth trying to switch again if anyone previously had a poor experience.
Getting tired of these posts here...
The Apple modem had its own AA battery but it did devour them. I had one but only used it a handful of times and each time was a hassle and ultimately disappointing.
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They'd probably be watching YouTube nonstop, like all the rest of the kids though. There are downsides to being a kid today, ones that kids don't even realize are downsides.
Maybe says more about current architectures.

It is hard to imagine any reason as to why a normal site/blog couldn't cope with this.

Now since whatever solution you pick is going to be an overengineered mess it's easy to understand each in isolation, most of us don't have the time/energy to optimize for this. And that is fine!

But it is kinda sad that the quick and easy approach is not a statically generated site. There is absolutely no reason why that should be any harder.

Yet for some reason we don't value that.
Is everyone at google really insecure? Do they not realize that normal mortals do not feel the need to announce to the world that they left a job?
>I don't quite understand how an opthalmologist would be equipped to identify Coronavirus.

A patient could have come to him with symptoms of a conjunctivitis [1]:

> As explained by Dr. Ignasi Jürgens, medical director of ICR, some reports suggest that the virus can cause conjunctivitis and be transmitted by aerosol contact with the conjunctiva. Therefore, patients who go to the ophthalmologist for conjunctivitis and have respiratory symptoms, in addition to having traveled abroad, especially to China, could be suspected of having the virus.

[1] https://icrcat.com/en/coronavirus-and-conjunctivitis/
Hold on a second here - are unlabeled pixels used in training a NN to do detection? Will a typical NN get trained to label those pixels as “not a human”? I agree that they should be labeled, but it’s the difference between needing to throw more data at the problem (because you aren’t getting as much learning per image as you could) and actively training the car to do something bad.
Why don't you just say where you moved to? It's quite interesting in context of your earlier comment.
Why would the plane demo devour 50% of my CPU? Intel P8400.
I'm also running 55 UPRO/45 TMF in my Roth IRA, but I'd like to add a disclaimer here to note that leveraged risk parity strategies generally get their bonus from decreasing interest rates on the bond side and better risk adjusted returns from the diversification and rebalancing.

Whoever is implementing these strategies should also understand how daily rebalanced leveraged funds like UPRO and TMF work, rebalancing, and their tax implications in taxable vs non-taxable accounts.

These strategies generally perform well in up trending or downtrending markets vs. 100% stocks, but would not perform well in long term sideways markets(we haven't seen this in our history, but it could happen).

In periods of stagnant interest rates, the strategy experiences downside from from fees. NTSX will not be impacted by this as much as the fee for that ETF is 0.02%, but UPRO/TMF will lose 2% a year in these regimes.

In rising interest rate regimes, these strategies are even more impacted as rising interest rates will decrease the value on the bond side. If the federal interest rates are increasing during a period of stagflation, you will see very significant downside. What this strategy is doing is betting that the US won't run into a period of stagflation where both bond and stocks will drop at the same time. We are currently seeing a period of stagflation in Germany right now and if that were to happen here in the US, this investment strategy would perform poorly.

What I've posted is for informational purposes only, you should not construe any such information as investment, financial, or other advice.
It appears to be something related to the sci-fi book "Ninefox Gambit", based on a really cursory google search.

Not having read the book I can't really speculate further.
Just watch the "Mission Impossible" franchising. They are obviously dramatized stories but I would not be surprised that the world has been very closed to cease to exist as we know it and the only thing that prevented was that they did their job. Only few people know what they have done, no glory, no prizes, no recognition. What kind of people do that? Heros.

Feel free to down vote me.

I can only guess but I would not be surprised if your very life was saved. Or even if we just look at money, you may have lost a significant amount of what you have in a scam that was avoided.

We do not know what we do not know.
But there must be more good than bad in what they do.
It comes back to distribution of power and if you believe power is all corrupting or not.

You either have some guys in charge managing things, or you attempt a distributed/mob rules mentality in regards to policies and legislation. Either way in a socialistic system the government is THE governing body, and there aren't really any checks and balances other than the very body managing it. Which goes back to the question of whether or not you can trust the government.

IMHO the debate between the extreme right and extreme left is more about philosophy than policy.
Indeed, and this was measured, and the improvement was worth it. Profiling! :P The cost isn't always where we think it is.

Still, 'turn off exceptions because exceptions are slow' is a daft rule of thumb for the majority of software, where the slowness probably has more to do with choice of data structures, etc than compiler/platform implementation of language features.

Always measure first, last, and in between.
The performance issues are what prevented me from using SMIL. A project I was working on called for an SVG animation that we also had to move on scroll (don't ask...). The animation was choppy and definitely got the fans spinning.

Swapping that out for the equivalent CSS animation and everything was smooth as butter. It's obvious that SMIL performance is not as important to the browser makers than CSS animation performance.
>But using that file with a specific substring index to extract something illicit, [...] //

The question at hand though, is if you don't extract the illicit thing [from the Blockchain] is possession of the Blockchain enough.

FWIW I think possession has to be the measure used for child pornography and similar content, at present. But what is meant precisely by possession may need some interpretation (does one "possess" a file if one has the magnet link?) and may evolve in the future if such Blockchain attacks become of interest to the legislature.
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Converting an exception into a return. Which loses the "have to deal with it; cannot ignore it" property that made the exception valuable.

"The key takeaway here is that an exception cannot be ignored or forgotten; if we have an exception, it must be dealt with."

If converted to simple "C style" status returns -- it is only 5 times slower (11.5ns vs 57.5ns) -- and can be ignored and forgotten.

In the associated slide deck, boolean valid() must be used before value. In this case, this is just as unsafe as C return codes. A C++ exception is always considered an lvalue, meaning that union is initialized, but I am not sure what reading the other side results in (I don't think that this is allowed).

My take on this? Please use an exception if you mean an exception (for C++). If it is too slow (which I consider unlikely), please deal with it some other way (I would suggest a status return).
Gnome 2 was a very shiny and polished desktop environment. Its death (in favor of Gnome 3) meant a lot of people who contributed to it (e.g., me) got fragmented into Mate, Cinnamon, Xfce and others. I wonder what would have happened if Gnome was still a usable thing and this massive migration out of it was not necessary. Would we have fought over some other problem and forked regardless? Would we all have worked together to make it even more awersome?

It also saddens me that Red Hat insists on dumping its money in Gnome 3. I would love if they were putting their resources in improving something I actually use :).
This is a good read. I did not know about typing.cast and was just putting # type: ignore on things.

So far, we've had a pretty positive experience with mypy and it's helped prevent a few bugs. Do be prepared to find weird edges you can cut yourself on along the way, but all-in-all I think it's a positive value add.
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There's an 'overheated discussion detector' but as far as I know the precise mechanism isn't described.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16020089
Also, how did this end up in the front page of HN? This doesn't have much information compared to other periodic "Leaving Google" type posts.
2008 crippled it. It didn’t recover from it for years after the rest of the US did. Lots of homeless people. Many more working multiple crap jobs to get by.

Edit-btw if you work in IT never ever work for a casino. Every casino I’ve heard of treats IT as a cost center. Even the database admins and programmers. You will be treated like a waste of time and money.
Plausibly a dev/debug hack that should never have made it into production.

Either way, they wrote the functionality and it is shoddy work.
I don't know anything about China but Taiwan and Hongkong apparently can govern itself democratically?
I did the exact opposite: I migrated to Rider, an IDE built around ReSharper. In my experience, it is much faster than VS2019 for my use case (including a huge monolith with hundreds of projects)
it was not his opinion; he mentioned in an interview that when analysts would try to pass along pgp-encrypted messages for cryptanalysis they would be rebuffed, as an example to demonstrate that there is properly-implemented strong cryptography resists scrutiny by nsa. here is documentation: https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/878686842631139334
How does he know that the performance improvement wasn't just a side effect of altering the alignment of his code? Here's a guy getting a 48% performance improvement just by randomizing the alignment of his functions: https://youtu.be/Ho3bCIJcMcc?t=351 or slides if you prefer https://github.com/dendibakh/dendibakh.github.io/blob/master...
> Providing a way to instantaneously edit past transactions in a blockchain with the proper credentials sacrifices the only useful property that distinguishes blockchains from traditional databases (decentralized verification of/consensus about state).

There are different categories of data. Data which refers to the the chain itself must be immutable, I agree. But data that represents the content of articles posted there does not.

> The concept is bad because you don't want that property; you want a mutable data store with privileged and unprivileged access.

You do want that property for some categories of data. You don't want unaccountability in who can update articles and what changes they can make, but you do want the articles to be changeable.

What this provides is to prevent an organization from being corruptable. A government or powerful corporate entity could pressure wikipedia into changing an article to suit their purposes, and wikipedia could stone wall and refuse to comment on any changes they made for that purpose.

If it was on a blockchain, and an editor was pressured into making such a change, the community would be able to directly vote that editor out and get the original content restored.
It's an (as far as I can tell) unlinked page on their personal website. You have no idea who the intended audience is - I suspect it's not "the world", but people they know and who might be interested in the why.
> No one is putting an actual self-driving car on the market using this specific data set. Disingenuous to pretend this is any indication of the data using by serious companies in the space

Are you sure about that? What about "non-serious" companies? Various fly-by-night self-driving startups?

I mean, this sounds like the machine learning equivalent of "no serious business is pulling random bits of code from StackOverflow or whatever tutorial popped up first in the search results", and yet I think everyone who worked with software for more than few years can confirm that companies absolutely do it, and a lot.

(Tangentially, PHP got a bad rap in large part because of this - people not knowing how to do things correctly copying code from tutorials written by people who didn't know it either; these days, JS ecosystem is getting a bad rap for having such bad code wrapped in neat and easy-to-install NPM packages.)
For sure it is/should not be high priority, but releasing such an app in 2020 for sure does not reflect the great skills of the backblaze team. At least show me some basic stats, account settings and invoices. You can only download files from your buckets and that's it.. really?
The lack of open-source animation tools is really concerning to me. I've been looking for a way to animate some text and graphics for a series of training presentations that I was making and I couldn't find anything suitable. Open source tools are either geared towards animation of cartoons or they're so rudimentary that they're not really valuable to invest the time into.

Anyone have any recommendations for animation tools? Something that works either on macOS or Linux? If only paid solutions exist, what's out there (besides After Effects)?
That's what I'm saying, if they want as many people to learn Swift as possible, why not open source this learning software? The Swift language is open source under Apache 2.0, clearly the license is not alien to Apple.
Yours in a world where nothing functions properly.
Their current license is in Estonia. They're still trying to acquire their UK banking license (their HQ is in London).
> There are lots of things we understand quite well, and have mountains of data on, and vaccines are one of the best examples of those.

Point me to this "mountains of data" in a usable form. There should be a site right, that contains a simple big table of all vaccinations administered worldwide and how the results went? I don't want to see some static PDF with a paltry 10,000 data points. We are all savyy programmers here and know that a relatively simple table could be created so any parent can do a simple single query against all the world's medical live data to see if vaccines are safe, right?

That would be science. That would be Six Sigma.

But I can't do that. So I need to take a bet on who to believe: scientists pushing non-science or non-scientists. I recently talked to some doctors here who recently were in Samoa helping the Measles outbreak there. Two children died from getting vaccines there in 2018 (https://www.immune.org.nz/hot-topic/infant-deaths-samoa-trag...). Clearly those deaths shouldn't have happened. Where's the push to bring Six Sigma to the medical world? Instead it's "vaccines are safe", read the PDF.

We can't be so confident until we actually have clean, accessible, usable databases. Our medical data infrastructure is very very bad.

> They are one of the most widely-deployed and successful medical inventions ever created by man

I agree in the ranks of medical inventions vaccines are amazing. But still, not the best comparison group. How effective was the flu vaccine this year? Surely I should be able to see that information in a single query. But I can't. (the rough answer from doctors I've sampled is about 30%, or 70% ineffective).

People are right to be skeptical of medical advice until some dramatic innovation comes to the space.
I also would like to use something similar but I wish to add new text on the top of the file (so oldest notes go to the bottom). I ended with something like this:

nvim -c "+normal ggO# $(date)" -c ':s/$/\r/' -c 'se nohlsearch' notes.md

Would be interested in knowing if I can make this nicer/more efficient.
> GSM is no longer being developed outside of GSM-R, the manufacturers have committed to supplying GSM-R till at least 2030. The ERA is considering what action is needed to smoothly transition to a successor system such as GPRS or Edge.

While I’m always happy to keep using something that works, « upgrading to EDGE by 2030 » still gives me a laugh.
It's worse than you know - (at least with First Direct) if you log in to the app it logs you out of the website.

I suspect the flow you noticed actually helps enforce that - if they gave you a code to let you use on the website, they'd have to log you out of the app anyway.
I have heard the alternative conclusion that the expense and reduced inter-changeability of airframes in a mixed fleet of turboprops AND jets, outweighs the costs of just jets, and furthermore the US domestic market has seen a reduction in demand for the short flights that turboprops excel at.

Put another way, the jets are cheaper, even though they individually cost more and burn more fuel. That the turboprops have been phased out of larger airlines that both run long distance flights and would benefit most from the economics of just jets in their fleet, while turboprops are still in use at smaller airlines who would not benefit as much from a single airframe fleet and serve a higher proportion of short distance routes, does seem suggestive.
Used this same trick (but with SMIL) for an automotive client back ca. 2004. They wanted their electrical systems' documentation diagrams to be in SVG, with signals being animated in a similar fashion. At the time the only viewer that supported it was Adobe's ActiveX plugin! (Not claiming credit for the trick; AFAIR I found it on a web forum somewhere... wish I remember who invented it)
It would appear that whilst Amazon have saved on Thrift overheads, they have in essence, automated it upon themselves as so many items they send by mistake and they don't collect appear to be more common than isolated instances.
Yeah, on the county sheriff level those capabilities are probably not available. However, Ulbricht was target of investigations on a federal level. He was arrested by FBI agents.
> Of course China didn't suddenly turn authoritarian in 1990, so this is not a democracy vs. authoritarianism issue.

Given the development of India, we might conclude that a democratic/non-authoritarian government is neither sufficient nor necessary to gain a good standard of living.
So you imply China mentality is closer to Russian - if the party falls, everything goes to hell?

I don't know, I was born in Czechoslovakia.
There should be a panel for the network request that shows the Websocket messages. https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2019/03/devtools#b...
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How would one reach a threshold of precision if the data on which precision is determined is missing or faulty?
The madness will hopefully be ending soon with .NET 5.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/introducing-net-5/

> There will be just one .NET going forward, and you will be able to use it to target Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, Android, tvOS, watchOS and WebAssembly and more.
> I had to ditch ReSharper to get to 2019 because together with the performance of the IDE itself, it just wasn't usable. R# ate gigs of Ram and Roslyn does the same. It's not surprising since they basically do the same thing, in managed code! But I can't pay the CPU time and memory to analyze my code TWICE on every edit.

I'm holding off on 2019 as much as I can. Between 'forcing' an upgrade for .NET Core 3.0 and the fact Resharper slows it down too much, I decided to give Rider a try.

I'm finding myself not missing VS a whole lot; on one hand Rider is taking way more RAM to start and load, but it stays pretty constant after the first debug session, winds up staying under VS for memory on longer loads (Especially if I've got multiple solutions open) and it's smoother than VS the whole time.
I get the sense that this person is probably a nightmare to work with. I don't necessarily disagree with many of their opinions, but the sense of self-importance is off the charts. Realistically, this person is probably a peon in a massive company and had very little impact.
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It literally says "Mirage" on the sign - would you expect anything less?
Because February is the worst month, so we make it shorter :P