skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anybody remember "talking yellow pages" or something called "hotline 2929"?

It had movie listings as well as some choose your own adventure style games played with the keypad.

I'm not sure if it was local, or a Canadian thing or what. I sure spent some time on those games, though. It was also the way we got movie listings.

Edit: managed to find a link. It was aka "audiotex". Apparently this was popular for a minute pre-internet, with newspapers also getting in on it.

https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Collision+course%3A+the+battl...
Exactly. It's the derivative that hoses you.
Maybe they should warm to mass famine/poverty too?

https://www.smh.com.au/world/ten-worst-famines-of-the-20th-c...
The difference is that the choice of Optional is deliberate in the parts of code where None is a valid value. In java you have no first class way to indicate that null isn't an expected value for some variable and so type checker can't block it. In rust type checker wont let None slip in accidentally if you don't use Optional.
Program Synthesis in AI
> How did software get so reliable without proof?

Simple, software started shipping with more bugs in backlogs :-P

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More seriously, software today is endemically crappy, and often poorly designed. I dunno why Hoare thought it was any better. The only saving grace is that (modern) software largely stays away from serious stuff. Eg: The airline industry is reluctant to upgrade software from decades ago, but happy to incrementally upgrade other pieces of the system on shorter cycles. Then of course, we have systems like the Boeing 737Max MCAS where the software did what it was supposed to (taken literally) but the software system was poorly designed.

EDIT: Just remembered this fantastic talk by Joe Armstrong https://youtu.be/lKXe3HUG2l4

The smooth running of every abstract system depends crucially on the (human) operator handling the point of contact with reality, in practice, often bending reality to make it tractable for the system. Any bureaucracy would grind to a halt if it wasn’t intelligent humans carrying out the processes! Software is no different.

Just like it’s hard to take a technology from “zero to one”, it is hard to take the amount of necessary human oversight from one to zero. For this reason, I would much rather think of software as amplifying the capabilities of that human, rather than automating away other humans. In practice, these systems will end up needing a highly skilled and trustworthy human operator to shepherd them — might as well design the system to make it maximally easy for those operators to understand/debug/tweak.
The Mathematics of Bitcoin [pdf]
Thanks for the examples. I was mainly thinking of int-float conversion that is present in the vast majority of languages.
Surprisingly, Hacker News has been our number one source of leads. We tried Google Ads and Reddit Ads, but the signup rate was literally three orders of magnitude lower than organic traffic from Hacker News and Reddit.
> I'm wracking my brain trying to come up with a scenario where tickets don't work better than gait recognition, and I can't come up with one.

When the profit to be made is from ubiquitous surveillance, and doing it for public transport ticketing is just a convenient justification.

>It's not that tickets are enough, it's that they're better.

Especially if you want any sort of anonymity/privacy in public...
Ha, good question for a casual self-reflection. To be honest, I certainly do want the reasonably best performance: I find pleasure in the possession of technologies, which allow me to avoid being distracted in my work and leisure activities. But I always justify the practical outcome and amount of money I'm able to invest (e.g. RTX 2080 Ti is a no go). As for types of workload, in fact, nothing too fancy:

- Gaming. I expect playing current AAA-titles on 4K@75-100fps. And, oh boy, I'm an avid Linux gamer (Valve Proton/DXVK)! This is probably the most GPU performance consuming activity in the long term;

- GPGPU/ML/Hashcat/Pyrit/mining. Some ML hobby/educational projects, occasional hash-cracking, mining and other fun activities. From time to time I stumble (on Github or elsewhere) at weird, but interesting experimental CUDA/OpenCL-accelerated solutions for a variety of tasks. Hey, even my terminal emulator is GPU-accelerated nowadays[1];

- Video transcoding. Encoding 4K+ video content in the background, while keeping up with my general activity. Occasionally lending my GPU to a (professional video guy) friend for CUDA-accelerated DaVinci Resolve for A/V post-production.

I certainly don't upgrade GPU every two years, more like 3-5 years for every decently improved generation. As for Nvidia, going from 16nm EV (Pascal) to (supposedly) 7nm EUV[2], might yield in up to +40-60% performance comparing to current gen Turing; so I'm pretty hyped to upgrade from the already aging GTX1080Ti with no ray-tracing. Or perhaps AMD will be finally able to pull out some ground-breaking GPU performance boost with their so-called "Big Navi", based on the new RDNA2 architecture. But I'm afraid that it will be a competitor for the current gen of Nvidia graphic cards, and not future ones. In any case, 2020 promises to be interesting for GPU/APU market. As usual, I will look at the specifications, benchmarks and price tags — and make my consumer choice.

[1] https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty

[2] https://www.sammobile.com/news/win-samsung-nvidia-7nm-proces...
Despite the title, the heart of the article is really about a Wuhan man's disenchantment with his authoritarian government, by way of the Coronavirus crisis
That would throw under the bus a lot of race-and-IQ suppositions seeing how Africans commonly speak 3 or 4 languages, sometimes more, and a large majority of white people and Asians are monolingual.
This day and age of the replication crisis?
I wonder how many LoC for Whatsapp, Which is comparable to Messenger. And what is it written in.
In case anyone reads the headline and thinks that the SETI research center itself is shutting down, or that the project failed in some way:

> "It's a lot of work for us to manage the distributed processing of data. We need to focus on completing the back-end analysis of the results we already have, and writing this up in a scientific journal paper," their news announcement stated.

Maybe it's PR speak, but it does make sense to me that there'd be a point of diminishing returns where enough data has been processed.
And leaked documents will also show how VICE exploits users by exploiting their privacy through ad trackers. Gosh I wonder what could be worst? LOL!! Lets NOT quickly forget how Mr. Joe Biden's presidential campaign has been financed through credit card companies. - UMM NO we are NOT deleting this I will keep posting it
Primary voting in the US is so different from Australia.

In Australia, only registered financial members of a party can vote in preselection (the primary). Becoming a voting member requires membership of exclusively one party, and is subject to party ratification, which can take months. Which seems potentiallly less democratic.

In California, the ability to register a party preference for free on primary day seems like a vast improvement. But then you have Republicans voting as spoilers in the Democratic primary because the Republicans aren't holding one this year.

Another issue in the US is that most states award no delegates for candidates who receive less than 15%. That seems like a perfect case for ranked-choice voting. Australia has had it for 100 years. A first step in that direction passed in the California state legislature (SB-212) but Gavin Newsom vetoed it.

As someone who cast my primary vote for somebody who has since withdrawn, I feel like America could and should do better.
My ATM card from a major bank came with MasterCard/Visa attached, but I asked for one without it and they sent me one.
OpenFAAS is interesting but not sure I see the point. Cloud functions are useful because no infrastructure and scaling. Putting this on your in gear kills both
The bioeconomy will program cells like computers to feed, fuel and heal society
XSS Exploit on Azure's Community support portal
> There’s a part of me that wonders if this “crisis” has been created by news coverage. The flu kills thousands every year. The early articles seemed to say that Corona virus was no worse that the flu. https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-death-age-older-.... This businessinsider article says that 15% of people 80yrs+ die.

I was thinking like that but I don't think so anymore. There is one important difference between COVID-19 and the regular flu: COVID-19 seems to infect a lot more people than the flu. Even if COVID-19 has an overall fatality rate that is much lower than regular flu, the fact that it spreads fast means it can overwhelm health services so that those few severe cases can't get the health they need, when with regular flu they would get that help. That can make it much more dangerous in practice even if, in theory, it's not.

Now with containment having failed the only course of action is to do everything we can to slow its progression to avoid overwhelming services.
> Everything around you grew in complexity to adapt to your needs

Unix provides rather limited primitives for composition, and a lot of things remain unsafe or very difficult to do right in shell. That's why we keep extending tools and doing things (rather redundantly) in a real (if outdated and limited..) programming language.

A lot of that complexity is due to poor design, not due to inherent complexity in the user's needs.
This (and previously, https://github.com/torhve/weechat-matrix-protocol-script) has been my primary way of accessing Matrix for well over a year on PC-esque setups. It's amazing as long as you don't care about the video/call functionality. Much, much lighter than Riot yet more feature-full than most of the native GUI clients (nheko, fractal, etc.) IMO.
> She said the municipality is trying to find the best way to address the issue, while still considering the economic side.

Just make them put tarps over the greenhouses!?
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China tech groups censored information about coronavirus
Right, but they voted to give the union the power to negotiate on their behalf without any checks. It seems too late then to change your mind once they have that power. I guess I don't understand how union politics work, but it might make sense to allow a union, but require majority vote for any major decisions.
The data can't support your 20% hospitalization claim though, and no one in public health is using that study to make that claim. The study itself makes no such claims that this study is in any way applicable to the general population.

About 40% of the patients in that study weren't even tested. They were included based on symptoms that include severe pneumonia. The ones who were tested, sought testing because they displayed symptoms severe enough to seek treatment.

This is the very definition of selection bias, and there is absolutely no reason to pretend that a 20% hospitalization rate is a realistic outcome.
Although Sway is great, they may miss out on certain features they'd need like screen sharing, especially for applications like Zoom which is used by many enterprises.
Ah, yes, Acorn didn't try to anti-alias properly over varying backgrounds. ArtWorks did full anti-aliasing but it was quite a lot slower to render https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArtWorks
Mystery solved. Thanks!
One of the cites at the link is a previous paper on similar investigations of one of the same meteorites plus one other, that was published in 2015 in Meteoritics & Planetary Science, a journal with a long publication history. That paper is cited by two other papers from different authors. [0]

At some level, these researchers seem to be doing basic chemistry. Maybe they're not characterizing the implications correctly or maybe they haven't controlled contamination, but if proper research discovered extraterrestrial protein it would probably generate papers that looked like these.

[0] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=8914643017753968792...
> there's a DAG underneath

Would you or someone care to elaborate? Do we mean the 'linking' between 'nodes' (cells) as an interpreter/compiler would do over a file/object structure?

Thus I assume, opening a world of options e.g. for vectorizing performance, type checking and all?

If so, we have in one such notebook a true slice of "visual" IDE the kind of which Microsoft could only ever dream about! (so far) ;-)

[Side-related note: I'm amazed at the emergence of the notebook paradigm over the last 10 years, accelerating for at least 2-4 now. See how they do it at Netflix. There's a case to be made that the notebook paradigm could really bridge wide open the "programming rift" between nerds and, well, everybody else, at least in skill-driven professional contexts. There's a short way from here to a slew of clever domain-driven script languages plugging straight into BI.]
Don't want to run the lights in the day.
I guess this is one way of getting your ticket looked at...

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At the moment the Azure Front Door WAF does not scan for XSS threats when the request going through FD is of content-type multipart. This was advised this is the case by the Microsoft Support team. For example, if I send the following request through Azure Front Door with OWASP DefaultRuleSet enabled on its WAF:
POST:

content-type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----WebKitFormBoundaryriZKfNGOPKHI8rWO

Form Data:
958127ef-8053-4054-811e-49d54be8a09f:
<script>alert('hello');</script>

The WAF does not detect the XSS threat simply because of the content-type.

This is fundamental to have in a service dedicated to protect backend systems. I am conscious this is currently being worked, however what is the ETA?

Thanks.
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Georgia is putting DST on the ballot this November. Voters will have a choice to stay with DST, going to standard time year around, or asking Congress for permission to stay on DST year around. My guess is none of the options will receive a majority vote but year around DST will get the plurality. Since that requires Congressional approval and the ballot referendum is non-binding, nothing will change as a result. Having discussed the issue over the years, it's also a bit sad realizing how people don't understand that this doesn't actually create an extra hour of sunlight, it just shifts an hour of pre-noon sunlight to be afternoon sunlight. A surprisingly large number of people are quite insistent that it creates more sunlight per day, citing longer daylight hours during the summer months as proof.
Where did I suggest storing the data on a local machine? Common usage when using pandas/spark/etc is storing source data in parquet/orc/etc and they fully support data partitioning. That doesn't need to come from a local machine by any means.

My bigger point to the OP was why bother using a DBMS that is specifically tuned for running fast analytical queries if they only intended to use it as a storage layer and pushing all of the analysis into Python. Use a solution focused on storage, not analysis, if that's the use case.
I think a complex molecule could accepted. We don't know why our biological systems settled on their chirality, but maybe it was from a massive bump of molecules with all the same chirality from an extra-solar source.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirality_(chemistry)#In_bioch...
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Why wealth inequality is driving Democrats in the 2020 election
Azure Arc: Healing the Pain of Hybrid and Multi-Cloud
I admire building the website, it was launched just a couple of hours after the author made a comment "I'm going to build this" in another thread.

That said the content of the news section itself is not HN material. It's latest unfiltered, breaking news many news outlets already cover. The website got submitted 3 times in 24 hours and I'd argue as marketing channel HN is saturated with coronavirus related news.
Having a compositor for X11 will help with the tearing some, but not completely. This will be a nice step up once Wayland is ready in other ways (mainly more window managers and a few other tools that don't quite have equivalents to their X counterparts yet).
From that link[0] Firefox reports: "Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead

Firefox detected a potential security threat and did not continue to archive.md. If you visit this site, attackers could try to steal information like your passwords, emails, or credit card details."

0 - archive.md/4f5CK
You're welcome! Hope it's useful :D
If you're interested, researchers from the University of Bologna have been working on virtual acoustic models of that space in its current form [0] as well as past configurations [1] that you might be able to look into. It is truly huge reverberation! And thus, pretty difficult to simulate.

[0] https://doi.org/10.1080/19401493.2020.1728382 [1] http://pub.dega-akustik.de/ICA2019/data/articles/000682.pdf
I read a comment on HN or Reddit a while back about how some molecules were found in a meteorite that were left-handed where every molecule on earth is right-handed or something to that extent.

If my memory serves it was as if molecules fit together like a lock and key except this molecule's key/lock combo was inverted.

Apologies if I'm bungling it up but it felt as though it was significant. As if the molecule found was unlike any molecule on earth due to its lock/key orientation.
In Java you're passed a reference to an object. Might it be null? Can it be null? Who knows! Mostly you're just going to ignore the possibility and hope for the best.

In Rust you're passed a reference to an object. Can it be null? No, it simply can't! There does not exist a magic "null" value for references. To represent the possible absence of a value, you explicitly encode it into the type system by using `Option<T>`.
I quit my software job and drove around Africa for three years. Album of photos
You have a point. I don’t know why I’m bothering to engage with obvious nutjobs.
So I guess the answer is: because of the feedback loops that exist around the software systems.
I think you've got it. Now put 10 people on the project, and have them all working at that pace.
This has been mentioned many times about [insert large news website here] about how they're article talks about why tracking is bad yet the article is on a website with paywalls, anti-ad blockers, tracking etc.

The reason is the same: the people who write the articles are different from those who choose the poor tracking decisions.
What an amazing story! Thanks for sharing that.
It looks even more amazing when it's cloudy and the ground is covered by snow. You can go skiing in the forest at night and you won't need any additional lights.
You can look up McGeoch, Julie here:

https://www.directory.harvard.edu/

Associate of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology.

Previous papers on arxiv (just click the author name on the abstract page):

https://arxiv.org/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Mc...

I am all for healthy skepticism, but insinuating a hoax based on an ad hominem without even spending a few seconds to do a quick check is not.
Take them off during the daytime. They're not permanent installments.
Here's the Apple Music link as well: https://music.apple.com/us/album/lost-voices-of-hagia-sophia...
'American' doesn't necessarily mean citizen. It can be used to describe people simply living in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_(word)

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/American
How to change your hostname in Linux
Prudhoe Bay at the top of Alaska must be something like that, because it's bigger than many major cities.
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All your designs are belong to us. They don't get copyright ownership, but they can ship the design to Shenzhen and have it made.
Any protocol with the words "lightweight" or "simple" in the name, is not. Looking at you, SNMP.
> The same is true for the flu. People get it every year but they don’t go and get swabbed.

But with the flu we have large population studies, so we can estimate the number of likely infected based on the number seeking treatment. They study you are citing can't be generalized, and no one but you is claiming it should be used to estimate hospitalization rate.

Public health officials who are trying to produce estimates are using that study along with models of how many un-diagnosed cases might be out there to try to predict hospitalization rates. But they aren't naively throwing out your 20% number.

>But I’m responding to the claim there’s no data with a study

There is no data to support your claim of a possible 20% hospitalization rate. None, it doesn't exist. There is data to support a 20% hospitalization rate among people sick enough to seek treatment, and people sick enough to be clinically diagnosed.

>at the extreme high Iran, and Italy aligning roughly with China’s study.

Italy and Iran also likely have far more actual cases than confirmed.

>No. But the Diamond Princess isn’t a scientific study — it’s a mess.

The study you are presenting makes no attempt to predict the actual hospitalization rate among the general population. And the samples aren't random. It's more a mess than the numbers from the Diamond Princess.

Everyone on board the ship was tested, no sampling bias there. But even then, there is selection bias because the ship's population is older than the general population.
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> compile it from source

Way simpler to do on Linux than M$ Windows.

> [no way to ] to directly distribute binaries without a gigantic fucking headache.

I mean, flatpak, appimage, docker, etc ...
At one point Starbucks' digital payment system was ahead of Apple Pay in dollar volume and doing double the volume of all of google pay. I didn't know Starbucks had a credit card but it doesn't surprise me.
With the odd intonations.
It's legitimately fast.

My company migrated our time-series data from InfluxDB to ClickHouse last year (I personally led this, in fact), and the performance difference is night and day.

While I liked a lot of what Influx could do, it was also nonstandard in bizarre ways (Clickhouse behaves more like a subset of SQL), sometimes shockingly immature, and despite appearing fast when we first started using it, so slow that it was a considerable bottleneck.
It is not off the mark, if the CCP had been better about seeing the truth they could have eliminated the virus when only 100 people had it. Instead they suppressed news of it while doing nothing, all while the virus ran around getting the better of them. It is too bad for the CCP that the Chinese people are not the only things in China to control!