skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anybody with any sort of graphical expertise on Linux with the exception of Keith Packard is working on Wayland, not X. Wayland is still the future.
That's a nice anecdote but what happens when you try to dislodge a ruler with 300 years worth of experience, connections, and wealth? What happens when people have so much time to amass power that at some point you realize you, the younger generation, no longer stand any chance?

Today's model of society isn't adapted for this. Postponing the effects of aging but maintaining the same lifespan within reason is one thing, greatly extending the lifespan* is quite another and we're definitely not ready for this one more than we're ready to become 4m tall from one generation to the next.

*with the multitude of options - the young and old phases are proportional to today's but longer, the young phase is just as long as today and you get to "enjoy" a longer old phase, or the opposite.
The Case for Limiting the Browser Extensions
Even Apple's research group publishes. They may not make the code public of course.
And destroying other software that increased productivity using pretty shady methods.

But it's interesting to see that his "old image" already almost vanished. His strategy to "do things that look good" seems to work. Humans have very short memories after all.
Multiple reasons:

1. Firefox remains the only mainstream browser to support OCSP Must Staple.

2. OCSP Must Staple does not cover all threat models: if an attacker gains the ability to temporarily issue certificates for the victim's domain (rather than obtaining the private key of an existing certificate), they can request a certificate without the OCSP Must Staple extension. A more effective method would be something like the Expect-Staple header[1] (in enforce mode).

3. It allows the ecosystem to move significantly faster. In a world where all certificates expire after 3 months, phasing out insecure hash algorithms (in certificates) would no longer take many years.

4. It encourages regular key rotation (even if it's not enforced)

[1]: https://scotthelme.co.uk/designing-a-new-security-header-exp...
More like using one bucket of water when you have a massive bush fire.
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I think they need emergency stimulus.

Cutting rates further isn’t going to protect businesses without footfall from going under - they need propped up on a wide scale until the virus peaks and passes.

Theoretically a cut to zero might help but only if you’re giving guaranteed credit lines to every small business to get them through the worst of it - but how would that even work?
ffmpeg says, "hold my beer"!

https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html
My grandmother occasionally calls her children by each others' names. She's done it her entire life. She even mixes up her son's name and her daughters'. What she named her children is "fundamental and basic", too, and she's certainly an expert in how they're named. Heck, they're not even spelled similarly.

Please help keep HN a nicer place by giving others the benefit of the doubt.
GDP per capita doesn't look stagnant: https://tradingeconomics.com/japan/gdp-per-capita
1. Be famous.
2. Tweet at Google.
3. Hope it winds up on Hacker News.
4. Issue resolution.
Today media outlets are private companies that are arguably in between filling their role as the fourth estate and entertainment. They do not offer much public space, they just are the traditional proxies for citizens to reach public officials.

To a time when people bought more news papers, you could have argued that the customers were voting citizens, although even then the real ones were advertisers. At least there was mutual dependency.

Today fewer and fewer people pay for journalism.

I don't think many people see them as creating public discourse and more about creating controversies to get attention. To be fair, they need it to stay economically viable. The trust in media outlets is pretty low and I believe that is not completely unfounded.

The Guardian is certainly not the worst offender by a long shot but general distrust in media isn't that hard to understand.

I think only more pluralism can help rectify this issue. And public officials need to think about channels to reach the public. Preferably not Twitter or Facebook. Attention is a precious resource and you have youtube make-up tutorials that have more views in a week than the Guardian in a quarter of a year.

A lot of frustration I have is that these advertising methods are only called out if the other political camp is the offender. Obama for example spent a lot of money on targeted advertising on social media. Granted, he told us and said that money in politics is a great problem on multiple occasions. So there is still a difference.
Which, hilariously, will cost you 75 dollars. Man, Robinhood is in for quite the lawsuit.
Perhaps, but then the distinction between the base system and ports will be lost on them too, and saying that it's merely been removed from the build system doesn't do this news justice IMO, it's more significant than that.

Maybe we could compromise with "FreeBSD has removed GCC from its base system" or something similar.
Yeah, agreed. Makes me also wonder how secure my information is with them. Definitely not ideal.
Yes, in the short term for the next 75-100 years. Let’s rapidly iterate and improve AI and robotics.

After that for the following 500 years, humans should get out there.
It is fear or common sense that actually make people avoid big gatherings during the pandemic of an unknown virus?

It might actually just be public-spiritedness.
Accelerated Language Learning Platforms
> Maersk is probably more concerned with survival.

Perhaps, but it's only ~150 IT jobs which were proven to be critical during an epic cyber attack. Is Maersk really hanging by a thread that thin?
Sure, edited out. Thanks
Oh, yeah, pdf2json returns font sizes as well. I forgot to mention that.
What would buying stocks do for the economy?
As a fellow software engineer, I feel for the people who work there.

As a customer who lost a decent chunk of money yesterday (and today) because their system was down, I'm angry.

I hate to say this, but I do not think they're competent enough to continue to operate as a broker. I, for one, will move all my money off as soon as I can. I'm also going to file a complaint with finra[1].

[1] https://www.finra.org/investors/have-problem/file-complaint/...
For a while they were the only no commission player. Now that virtually everyone offers this there is not much to differentiate them but having a simpler interface. On the other hand the interface is simpler because it offers fewer securities/derivatives
I'm glad they decided on the 24 hours, unlike CAs like Comodo which really shouldn't still be a CA after all their fuckups.
I hope you guys succeed.

It’s aggravating having to stop and use my mouse all the time.

Feels like I’m constantly stuck in traffic while coding.
Seems like an out of touch opinion, I'm using sway and very satisfied with it.
Opinion: Whitewashing Bellevue’s History
“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them (around the banks), will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”
~ Someone, supposedly Thomas Jefferson

Edit: ~ "Thomas Jefferson" changed to "~ Someone, supposedly Thomas Jefferson"
A lot of large companies I've worked with do not care to overtake domains with matching names, and sometimes do not even contact the owners to get a quote.
The symbolic symbols "you", "here", and "now" do not have intrinsic meanings at all. "Meaning" is something that happens within a context. We know that cooperating mechanical agents can evolve a kind of language because experiments have been done where that actually happens.

It seems likely that something like this happened with humans: we evolved language including pronouns and time and place markers, etc.

However, the phenomenon of self awareness that those symbols "point to" is unitary.

Subjective awareness is you and you are always here and now.

That's the "one weird trick" that humans do: we are capable of noticing and meta-commenting on our own self-awareness, even though that's technically impossible.

You know how if you repeat a word over and over again it temporarily looses it's meaning as you become aware of the bizarre and arbitrary nature of the sounds you're making, yeah?

Try that with the word "I" and see what happens. YMMV good luck.
Wouldn't really call it "simply incorrect" given multiple sources pointing to very long incubation periods, but I've edited it out since people are having knee jerk reactions to it
Does anybody regularly use Acrobat's text extraction engine? I've had fine results as far as accuracy goes when compared to other OCR engines but one sticking point drives me nuts. My problem is, and I'm typically doing this in batches of thousands of files, if a PDF has a footer applied Acrobat sees that as renderable text and blows off the rest of the rest of the page. I've tried all manner of sanitizing, removing hidden information, saving as another PDF protocol and still can't get around the plain text footers/headers. In a perfect world I'd have unlimited Tesseract or ABBYY access but we're trying to do this on the cheap and I'm working with client data that I don't want to bang through Google. I'll have to poke at some of the open source tools mentioned so far, too.
> and you can’t rely on it being available and supported

Is there a reason that you’d be relying on what’s included in the FreeBSD base system? If I were building a piece of software and developing a FreeBSD target for it, I’d probably just write a port manifest for it and contribute it; and in so doing, I can have my port manifest declare a dependency on the GCC port.

Just like if I create an Ubuntu PPA, I can depend on Ubuntu system packages, or even other people’s PPAs. (And it’s even less arduous than the Ubuntu PPA case, because PPAs are all their own third-party package repos that you have to add, while Ports is one flat namespace. As long as it’s “in ports”, you can depend on it without asking the user to do the equivalent of `sudo apt-repository add ...`)
So should I wait a week and then refinance my houses?
Much more stringent travel restrictions beginning a month ago would've helped
You make a very good point that not mentioning minority disenfranchisement is a slant of its own.
I mostly agree. Some nits, though:

> permanently less productive

A short-term reduction in profits reduces the discounted sum of future returns. Not as much as if interest rates were lower, though.

Also, the example of the virus could indicate that these infections are on average more common and more severe than we figured, and that could reduce expected long-term growth.

Finally, a "pause" on activity could delay productivity increases. Probably a small effect, but this could represent investment not happening in the short term.

I sent some lumpy buy orders yesterday, but I'm not sure I was right to.
While I agree in spirit (Occam tells me it was just unprecedented load), that explanation doesn't make any sense to me in terms of disproving the Leap Year theory. The mistake wouldn't even have to be in their code.

As for believing/unbelieving, I mean, I've seen dumber mistakes in financial products I've worked on. Not as high stakes or damaging, but definitely dumber.
Growing sick of the trend of naming companies after famous scientists...
Yeah this is a common response for some reason.

If you thought about it for two seconds, you’d realize once the cats out of the bag, everyone will eventually have it.
Less than a decade after the article was written, I'm pleased to see that Rust fulfills at least 15 items out of his 19-point wish list.

And the unfulfilled items are questionable anyway, like "do not remove the cpp preprocessor", "implicit pass-by-reference", and "typesafe varargs".
China vows revenge on US after limits put on its journalists
There's no proof it was a leap year bug. If they were truly sending an out of range value, the response code would probably be a 500, not a 503.
In my opinion it's also time to move on from glibc.
No there are other estimates of a few hundred cases in the bay area that are sensible. Or at least they were a week ago. To get two in-the-wild cases serious enough for hospitalization and testing (overriding the CDC testing criteria at the time) you'd expect there to be at least around 100-200 cases at the time of hospitalization.
>Your argument does not show that it won't go up, but only that it won't go from 5% to 15% but rather find some balance at, say, 8%. Mission accomplished, coal is now at a disadvantage compared to what it was before.

Or it will settle at 5.01% due to the fact that a middle eastern sovereign wealth fund or two will be bigger than all investors who sign up to this scheme put together.

>And considering that coal is not doing well (and thus has to offer higher rates), much of that money will be invested elsewhere. Sure, some will still be invested in coal but less than it would be if you didn't do that.

But that has nothing to do with global warming or ethics of coal. It's mostly due to natural gas becoming so much more economical, which is mostly due to the shale gas revolution. It's a huge benefit to the planet, but mostly an incidental one. Of course politicians and energy companies will still use it to pat themselves on the back very very publicly.

>This type of argument pops up often: "but there is a small counteracting effect, so it will balance out to not do anything". No, it does not work like that.

Depends on the scale of the pro-acting effect. My guess is that the effect of 'ethical investment' due to ethics/global warming alone, and not due to fundamentals of energy markets that have to do with prices of natural gas, will be close to zero. If I'm wrong, it'll only be because a majority of investors who would have otherwise invested in coal (important distinction) jump on board this campaign, or close to a majority.
> But it’s all the same thing.

"If everything is important, nothing is."
Yes, your next upgrade will remove GCC from the base system, not just from the "build infrastructure". However, you can still install the GCC port, as before.
Is this due to their Kafka infrastructure being down? Their tweet last night alluded to it.
Slide neural net training algorithm faster on CPUs than GPUs
Yip and it's all down to the media outlets and anti-social media who allow it to perpetuate and then claim the high-horse.

Tweets of mass-disruption have done more than any WMD.
> It's well known that as people get older they become more conservative and set in their ways.

Is that a "symptom" of the "disease" of aging though?
You don't have a point, you have an opinion. You don't provide any facts or resources that prove the money spent in a fiscal stimulus returns a greater rate than the interest on it. You don't address the fact that the debt has gone up 300% over the last 20 years while the GDP is up only an average of 2.5% a year.

Printing your way out of debt is not a solution, ask Argentina. Eventually your investors will lose faith in the value of the money they're getting back in return and the currency will collapse.
Social Security and Trends in Inequality
UK will likely lose, but what will it change though? The little guy has to spend time and money defending themselves and go through the stress that comes along with it. UK probably will write the costs off and sue someone else.
How is a more restrictive licence valuable for anybody's rights?
Ideally, you would be absolutely right and I would not disagree with you. But I strongly do, based on many years of experience in the field.

Out of all the customers we help with their Postgres infrastructure, and that includes several $B companies, I have found none to have either:
* Dev environments dimensioned similarly to production. Actually, this typically neither happens on staging and sometimes not even in QA.
* All except QA, if any, have the same data as production.

So in practical terms, I haven't seen it is possible to troubleshoot on dev/test/staging/QA environments, least to have a copy of the full database. This is reasonable, too: how all developers may have 5TB of data on their laptops? (leaving aside all privacy and data protection considerations).

That's why having a tool, Joe, to light provision production-like environments, that are disposable, where you can troubleshoot your queries, is for me a very nice approach to this problem, and the one I recommend.
FWIW, I believe any Caddy sites will not be affected by this since caddy does not manage multi SAN certificates. Even if it did, Caddy will immediately replace a certificate when it sees a Revoked OCSP response. So, if you're using Caddy, there's probably nothing you need to do. But if you are a caddy user and are impacted, let me know.
Not having a specific behavior at infinity != doesn't having an effect
GitHub project: Reversing Google Earths 3D satellite mode
that was confusing. when i read this, it was exiftool, so i was going to reply with ffmpeg. looks like you felt it was a better example as well

anything as powerful as FFMPEG, EXIFTool, ImageMagick, x264/265, etc is going to have switches/options from hell just out of plain necessity. these are not simple little Unix-esque tools. these are full blown applications that just happen to not have a UI.
Yes the not-so-hidden inflation has been rampant, but universal health care, basic income, and direct infrastructure investment would help, not hurt those.

Let's go over Housing, healthcare, and education in turn:

- Housing, overpriced because the jobs are concentrated, stupid zoning, etc. We deserve dense cities but UBI means no job, no stave, which in the short term takes away the demand to move. Let's not rest on that and continue to stupid-suburb, but do take some refuge in that short term benefit of decreasing the necessity of people moving.

- Education, overpriced because of a shortage of work and a credentialist rat race. I'm all for people being educated---say a liberal arts that includes engineering not because it pays well but because one has to understand the machines that surround us to understand the modern human and social condition. But it's stupid to expect people to stuggle to acquire credentials that won't get them hired and won't actually help with the stupid jobs that get if they are hired.

UBI helps eliminate unproductive by removing the desperation that forces people to take them. The decreased demand for employment hopefully will end the credentialism rat race, lowering the cost of education. And the decreased drudgery of the education that remains should make the education better, and push employers to shoulder more of the remaining cost.

- Healthcare. Unlike the others this probably is less overvalued; avoiding being sick or getting well when sick is incredibly valuable to the individual, and thus I view the price gouging as inevitable. I don't think there is a market based solution to this one, but that's OK. Just do the universal thing and remove this from the market, and now its not subject to inflation in the same way. [The power of the state commands the supply to exist.]
My Thoughts About the Coronavirus: Ray Dalio
You have a much less aggressive option:

"Hey, we think your use of <x> is a bit too close for comfort. We recognize it's not actually problem but it's in both our interest to avoid trademark dilution issues; let's discuss some minor changes and nail down an agreement".

Then both sides can point to the agreement if someone else tries to use that usage as a defense.

The real issue is not that they're communicating with people to ensure a clear delineation of uses, but that they're doing so in a very aggressive and hostile way and costing companies they do it to a lot of money.
While that's certainly true, viral load is important and this likely still would be an effective risk reduction measure.
It's well-understand how low interest rates boost the economy in the medium- and long-term. Companies deploy cheap capital to build new factories, and consumers buy more appliances, cars, and houses.

What short term behavior changes do emergency rate cuts cause to boost the economy? Are there capital projects that can get started in weeks, that were previously shelved because the rates were 0.5% too high, but are now viable? What sort of projects would these be?
And that, along with FSF's earlier refusal to accept patches to let gcc build for the Mac, may be the reason LLVM got the support it did. Two egotistical jerks butt heads, and then one of them found a billion dollars at his fingertips.
There are some rumors that it's leap year related. Apparently, it happened 4 years back too
I didn't learn how to take good notes until I was well into my college career, and my grades suffered for it. I wish I had figured it out much earlier.

- Take notes by hand, no matter the subject. Honestly, keep the laptop/phone/tablet away if possible. The temptation to use it for things other than notes is far too high. It's better to feel bored in class taking handwritten notes than to waste that time on an electronic device. I look back and cringe at all of the hours (and money!) I wasted being "present" in class but not really paying attention.

- Keep up with the lecture. Don't get bogged down in the details. If you want clarification on something, make a mark in the margin of the page to review it later.

- Use symbols to help your speed and clarity. You'll develop your own system over time.

- Actually re-read your notes. If you want typed notes, now is the time you can take your handwriting and type it up. Expand on things that you originally did not understand or did not document thoroughly.

- You should spend about as much time reviewing notes as you did originally taking them. More if there is stuff you don't understand.
Isn't that essentially saying "If nothing were illegal there wouldn't be anyone in prison"?
You need these proteins to interfere with viruses before they enter cells, so that part is probably fine.
If you use sway (an i3 clone), how can you say something is out of touch? If anything your use case is absolutely in the minority
The paper is also linked at the bottom of the article: https://www.cs.rice.edu/~as143/Papers/SLIDE_MLSys.pdf
They can and are working on it/have already done it. The key then is to make it in large quantities. One way to avoid needing to make the protein is to deliver mRNAs for the heavy chain and light chain of the antibody. This would be faster, but it is not a proven technology so it's unlikely to work anytime soon (<1y) so convalescence treatment is much easier to do since blood transfusions are super common and well established.
Also, governments reacting in idiotic ways. See: China, USA.