skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming that his fans on the other side of political spectrum somehow don't understand the message is very naive – you don't have to agree with the author, or even interpret the work in the same way to enjoy it. After the work is finished, author's intent – who was supposed to be the villain, what was supposed to be the moral of the story – matters not.

And, well, his thoughts about theoretical "UN with teeth" is such a textbook example of Utopiah fallacy, I'm amazed he's actually saying something like this with a straight face.
And have the same dpi as whatever's used to print them!
that's the question i keep asking everytime there's a thread about flutter being great, and so far i haven't received any answer.

my intuition is that flutter is used mostly for business apps made of forms and lists, where expectation in terms of graphical performances are very low.
The ethereal art of fog-catching
Normally 12,000+ physicists from around the world meet to discuss topics ranging from quantum computing to biophysics. The meeting was cancelled late Saturday night, while short courses had started before the actual meeting (I was lecturing at one). Was it the right call?
I have read that even when widespread infection is inevitable, simply by changing the slope of the curve it reduces impact, spreading disease control for a broadly similar overall infection rate in time has benefits.

The response to any cough or fever should be self isolation. Report by phone. Wait for triage.
There are been many attempt to create a different design without the GIL. None of them made it to cPython.

The whole language assume it's safe to mutate things around. E.G: list.append() is assumed to be thread safe.
Hypocrites aren’t wrong; they’re just hypocrites. We need to detach our ego from this debate if we ever want to find a solution, and just so that of others.
With or without traffic, those groups do not feel safe out on the streets of San Francisco. They are easy prey for bad people. They don't handle the hills well; they might fall and break a hip.

Public transportation isn't safe either, even before the latest elderly-killing virus. Cars work. People too weak to drive can have family members drive them around.
if I remember correctly from a genetic perspective the group of "not African ethnicities" is more uniform than the group of "African ethnicities"
It's a historical thing: humans were evolving for much longer time in Africa than in other continents.
The first statement refers to mutations in the coding sequence of the gene (which affect the protein sequence). The second is about expression levels (how much protein is produced).
I'd guess that it would require a new version of VS. To use .NET core 3.x you have to have VS2019, that is unless you're using Rider.
Yes I'm getting that too. It leads to https://thewhitetulip.gitbooks.io/webapp-with-golang-anti-te...
I can't watch the video atm but I'm incredibly perplexed as to why the hype around self driving cars began in the first place. To me, even if it does become a common technology at some point, it's nothing more than a "hey-check-this-cool-thing" gimmick. For end consumers anyway. If my car has full self driving capabilities, I can't see myself using it more than once every 3 years.
That's true for things like LIDAR scanners, but if in the end you need a bunch of cars (human-operated for a while, maybe forever?) constantly mapping and re-mapping roads, you can only optimize the cost of that so much. If you need a bunch of humans checking and massaging data, human wages only go so low.

It's important to note that in this video he's not calling it impossible, just calling it a scam. Whether you agree with that is up to you - I think he's overstating it - but it is definitely the case that we've been made promises over the last 5+ years by many people (including him) that didn't hold up and the self-driving cars we have now are less autonomous than promised and more expensive than we were told to expect.
N95 respirators vs surgical masks against acute respiratory infection (2016)
As much as I'd like self-driving tech, the price seems too high. High resolution urban area maps of that need constant updating? Built by and controlled by multi-national IT corporations known for no regard for privacy? How about we pour that research and investments into bettering the public transportation? Would be good enough for most people.
> Unix time is not the number of seconds since epoch

In fairness, he said to count the number of seconds since the Epoch. That is independent of UTC.

That means using e.g. TAI. Unix time also ignores leap seconds since it counts the number of seconds actually elapsed.
I don't know why this comment is downvoted, it mirrors my experience. I'm responsible for a few domestic high traffic websites and have done some analysis from log files to find suspicious traffic, i.e. user agents saying they are chrome but not loading images or css files, having many page views (i.e. 50 where our average user has 2) etc. It wasn't foolproof but the false-positives where < 10% in my random checks. These bots made up ~10-15% of page views.
Picking parallelization of clients as the #1 reason seems like a miss to me. X never took advantage of it much. The asynchronity in X was motivated by network latency.
> If my car has full self driving capabilities, I can't see myself using it more than once every 3 years.

Huh? Why?
The idea of not having to drive to get somewhere is really appealing if it doesn't involve having to wait at a bus stop and sit next to a stranger on the bus. People in many environments - especially silicon valley - spend a ton of time commuting every day, either in their own car, on a corporate shuttle or on public transit. So if you tell them they can sit in the privacy of their own car while it takes them to/from work and relax, you have their attention.

Of course, that doesn't mean it's actually a good idea and it doesn't mean it's possible - but it's a seductive idea if you're someone who hates commuting, and many people really hate it because it eats up a chunk of their life.
Rails and train cars were relatively old technology. By the time the steam locomotive was invented, there were already horse drawn trains [1]. So your example is not quite backed by history.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_horse-drawn_railways
> It's known that there aren't a lot of mild cases.

On the cruise ship, about a third of the cases are asymptomic [1].

[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.20.20025866v...
.NET Core 3.1 is a LTS version. It should be good for a while (3 years I guess).

If the dev env upgrade burden is a topic, go for the LTS versions.
There is an account profile in which you can write these things, if you're feeling like qualifying your comments is too onerous.
You seem to claim a lot knowledge on the topic, can you tell how you got to know that? What is your occupation?
A massive barrier to this is that people generally seem unhappy with the fact that public transit means they need to sit next to other members of the public. Rightly so, to a degree - our fellow humans can be quite rude or unsightly or dangerous at times, and most of us have probably done some shitty things in public by accident a few times. So if you offer them a pipe-dream of private automated transit instead, that's a lot more appealing than dropping 8 figures on slight improvements to BART or their local buses.

The area I grew up in had a light rail network that was supposed to expand to my community college within 3 years, and in practice it took over 10. One source of delay was that communities rejected the expansion, and one reason among others was a claim that Local Crime would 'ride the rails' to their previously quiet neighborhoods. Sometimes people don't want to share space with their neighbors.
Yes, labs don't synthesize their own primers. They buy them from suppliers. The kind of primers you would use for SARs-Cov2 would be about $10-$20AUD (similar for USD) a vial and be sufficient for several hundred reactions (maybe a hundred or so tests with triplicate replicates, pos and negative controls). The thermocycler and the technician doing the pipetting are the expensive bits, not the primers!
Every day that I program in JavaScript I wish we had Display Postscript or NeWS in the web browser. Imagine if browsers had evolved with Postscript instead of JavaScript.
The user notes it prominently in their profile.
Happy -1st of February.
.NET 5 will be a current release and .NET 6 will be a LTS if I remember right.
Peer review is not even a bulwark against bad data. I've seen many papers with spurious conclusions.

Where peer review is critical is the first pass filter. I can't read all the literature, so I need some editorial filter in place. I may reject the findings in a peer-reviewed paper (or even worse, find the results uninteresting), but helping to decide what to read is critical. For those in the business, all papers get integrated into our mental models for how things work, and data that is a bit odd simply means we need to put more focus there.

That said, an issue is present when a field systematically produces bad papers - how do you navigate that?!
So is the YouTube link, the leanpub link and the code tasks link.
the failure of public transport in the US is not a good argument against public transport in general due to its large success elsewhere in the world.
The word root of “quarantine” is derived from the number 40, as in 40 days
I'd sure love some convergence on JSON hyperschema and OpenAPI... I prefer hyperschema but it's seen nowhere near the adoption that Swagger/OpenAPI has, meaning it's hard to choose it for newer projects even though I think it's more extensible and expressive than OpenAPI (a result of OpenAPI being a little more opinionated).
Perhaps there’s a bias for it because too many software engineers waste too much time in traffic on the 101 going to/from the city and their SV office.
> I was expecting Firefox to be the largest, but it was a bit
surprising to me that Safari and Chrome were approximately equal

Don't forget about all those smartasses spoofing their user agent just
to make your life even harder.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/random_user_a...
IANAL, but privacy regulators in various countries (but also the GDPR) have been fairly explicit that this cannot be used for blanket collection of data. E.g. GDPR recital 47 states that there must be a reasonable expectation of the data subject that such data is collected, e.g. because they data subject is a client (in the non-technical sense) of the controller. The purpose for the collection should be specified and properly communicated. Also AFAIK all the rights of the data subject are retained. E.g. they can request the data and ask that the data is removed.

General analytics on a website are probably not covered under f, since it is not necessary and not what you’d expect when you visit a website to which you have no customer relation.

There are clear cases where one has to collect data, even without consent, such as fraud prevention.
Right, but there are potentially more efficient ways to go about that. Particularly if you have the buy-in of local governments to instrument their roads for you.
I'm a developer with a masters degree in biology. I would love to contribute to iNaturalist but Rails seems cumbersome from my POV, but in the end I think I'll try.

Any other open source projects looking for help?
Your post reads as FUD. Of course it isn't because I assume you are not one flutter's competitors. Nevertheless, worrying about what something might do in the future is classic FUD. We don't know if those others will develop hot reload, we don't know when and we don't know how good it will be. So FUD is a poor basis for a technical decision.

There's some merit in the mature language argument but dart has been around for some time now and doesn't have any radical features - although on the other hand you seem to be saying it's not novel enough like Oberon etc.

Do all those others have 20-30 years of libraries? I think that's just Qt. I spent a couple of years using Qt and it's very good but it is C++ which isn't for everyone. (The python version probably fails your maturity criteria)
I'm one of the people commuting 3 hours per day in the bay.

I don't know what's the solution but right now the problem with commuting with a shuttle is not solved by replacing it with a car, the roads are super bumpy and the traffic is bad.

What I wish was for a subway to take me from SF to south bay. No traffic, stable, fast.
George makes the economic points but like most hackers/devs fails to see the humanist point (something I am learning to appreciate).

Forget about the big money, Elon Musks and the "world-changing" tech. Behind it all is a dangerous precedent to automate away our daily lifes, byte by byte.

10 years ago I had instant messenger, basic satnav, email, holiday bookings, price comparisons and online shopping.

Nowadays I have dating algorithms, live satnav, home automation, voice assistants, smart motorways, groceries and weekly sundries handled by amazon prime, cars collecting telemetry on my driving habits.

These things are influencing or completely removing our brains need to make decisions.

Through this, comes an easier, safer or happier life, however you have to think, at what cost?

Do we become dependant on machines and evolve towards this "singularity" that we hear mentioned around here often.
Or do we become willing hostages to our technology?
In the northampton Shoe Museum no less https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-2648652... with 12,000 pairs of shoes in their collection.
https://matomo.org/faq/how-to-install/faq_116/

Just searched "nginx 1st party analytics"
I am 110% in support of public transport expansion and not especially fond of self-driving cars as an alternative, just trying to express why I find people in my area (and industry) tend to prefer self-driving to transit.
The Timberland website used to block people from adding any items to the shopping basket if they had Google Analytics blocked... and thats when I switched brands.
> Unix time is not the number of seconds since epoch

I assumed that is (part of) why he ended up wanting to build his own. The way UNIX time handles leap seconds was arguably a mistake, GPS (and Galileo) time does it right; have the leap second information in a separate field. So as a time scale I imagine OPs one would be similar to GPS but with different epoch. Of course everyone loves having informally defined ad-hoc timescales around
That said, an issue is present when a field systematically produces bad papers - how do you navigate that?!

It depends on what your goal is. If it is for personal edification that you don't need to justify to anyone else:

1. Collect tidbits with a high confidence level.

2. Check to see if the way the thing was tested makes sense to you.

3. Check to see if it generally makes sense and fits with what little you do know with a fairly high confidence level.
How is PostScript a "worse Forth"? I find PostScript great fun to program in, and I think the type errors one gets from the system to indicate mistakes are a great help when writing PostScript code.
We have excellent public transportation where I live (Norway), but after I got kids I needed a car. It's not just about public transportation being a success.

We try to use public transportation as much as possible but sometimes it just isn't possible. I can't carry 4 bags of groceries on a public bus while having two kids in tow after an 8 hour work day.

The focus should be making the cars pollute less not remove them (except in city centres where they do not belong).
Their current method is pretty efficient - getting the general public to annotate photos to mark stoplights, etc. So they've solved the cost problem by making the entire planet pay the cost for them.

I think a company like Google can do this without expecting us to directly pay the price for it. And a truly functional, high level automated driving system with high safety WOULD be highly valuable, so maybe the price is fine? But it's hard to deny that if you look at all the pieces, as a whole, it is a very, very expensive proposition.
All humans have evolved for the same amount of time. It is just that a smaller part of the population decided to emigrate than to stay a long time ago.
> If you're alive, you're actively harming the world.

Not universally true. There are plenty of people who are improving the world. I know of several who live rather selfless lives and could well be described as environmental warriors.
They are a recommended extension.
I expect that the crypto instructions are not present on the RPi3/4 because of legal reasons, to allow it to be exported to Iran and such...
Your post prompted me imagine a nightmare/utopia in which TeX was used for building user interfaces.

This was followed by a vision of a window system built on ROFF.
I agree with Hotz, but self-driving cars are an unambiguous win. Way more people die from car crashes than most ways to die; there's a moral imperative to take away control from humans in that regard.

Dating apps are easy: don't use them. Bars still exist. Voice assistants are pretty easy to not use.

Cars are not, because cars aren't consensual. Kids don't get a choice as to whether or not they get to ride in cars. You take a bike, regulators have made it intentionally dangerous for people on bicycles so cars could continue to rule the world. Go for a walk and most sidewalks are in terrible condition outside of a few areas in the United States. Public transit has been systematically defunded, partially because of cars. In America, most people have no choice.

Automate away, there's plenty to think about.
I've played around with some of the new 'Edge' accelerators (specifically Edge TPU and Intel NCS 2). The performance and energy efficiency of the Edge TPU especially is really amazing for the price. Does anyone know of any other edge devices worth evaluating at a similar price point (other than Nvidia Jetson)?
It's really depressing that for a short time period, it was a real possibility that BART+Caltrain would cover the vast majority of the SF bay area compared to what it does now. So much wasted potential because people weren't willing to eat some marginal costs then to lay down extra lines. We're slowly expanding it now, of course, but decades too late.
First time I've heard a large portion of asymptomatic carriers cited as a good thing.
No testing = no information.
In regard of Iran, a cynic could say that they have political motivation to stress on the pandemic. Not long time ago they had riots.
Why Logical Clocks are Easy (2016)
The odds are excellent that India has a large infected population but haven't reported any statistics to WHO or whatever they need to do to get the numbers into the English speaking press.
If anything, it's the other way around. We can call out someone for being a hypocrite or smug, if we so desire, but it shouldn't change the calculus.
I'd agree with that assessment.

I'm also open to being pointed toward a productionized Flutter app that feels native in the same way as some other x-platform solutions manage to exhibit. It's difficult to sift through the existing live examples.
It's insanity all the way down to the copper on the board frankly. People only care about making things more sane when you can prove there's a dollar to be made or saved by doing so.

Like we all know nodjs is slow(er than other things). The question is not how to make it faster by doing things like keeping dependencies up to date but how much there is to gain by doing so. I suspect very little.
Thank you. I find Slapdash a great way to navigate our wikis by app, incorporating Google Docs, GitHub repos and other resources. By lowering the friction to making and using good docs, our docs have improved by a wide margin. The search is lightning fast and I can do most things via keyboard shortcut. Pricing is cheap too!
A key advantage of PostScript is that you can scale all output using transformations, so that you internally work with the same coordinate space (called user space) on all devices, and implicitly scale — and also for example rotate — all graphics when they are actually drawn.

This extends to fonts too, since PostScript letters are drawn using the same graphic primitives as other graphs.
Is This Coronavirus ‘The Big One’?
Not only advanced users. At least as of 2019 we for example have pihole installed LAN wide at home and Lockdown on all portable devices. Also recommend or installed on devices of anyone I know, technical or not and of course my number one recommendation to anyone is to install Firefox and avoid chrome.
Local community outbreaks are a matter of probability based on travel connections with countries that have outbreaks. I believe Italy and Iran have closer economic ties and more travel volume to China than India.

https://www.wired.com/story/covid-19-is-traveling-along-the-...
"One of the great white hopes of the part of the Unix world that never liked X Windows was Sun's NeWS."

I searched Wikipedia and found that "Great White Hope is a nickname or epithet originally applied to boxers who were the hope of the "White Race" to beat African American boxer Jack Johnson."

That seems an odd way to characterize the situation.
> The title is meant to be interpretative for people who don't have time to dig down into the science

If the situation is as serious as you purport it to be then perhaps they should actually dig into the science instead of relying on the interpretation of some random HN poster.
However, fashions in languages are a thing. While PostScript was hot by the mid 1980s, few were using it 10 years later, as there were now WYSIWYG PostScript editors like Illustrater, XPress, Page Maker, etc. Now, these were the days of C(++) and Perl, as may be observed in the JS syntax. But it would have been nice, if it had started with ECMA script (as opposed to LiveScript) and SVG had been already around.
The barrier to expansion is that suburban sprawly cities have been designed around cars, shared transportation under-developed, and wealthy folks are scared of being too close to less wealthy folks, who they think will try and steal their stuff or cough on them.

Relatively rich, conservative suburban folks are going to make choices to disadvantage less-wealthy people (like those that are historically going to need public transport and can't afford a car, or a second at least). It's easy to raise a group of people's outrage through scare rhetoric; that's why we the US has it's current administration. It's also not a good reason to just say "oh well buy more cars".
Seattle Flu Study have sequenced the genome the COVID19 community case reported
In the same category: love, racism, (G)god, forever.
You both say this but the interesting thing is that Fuchsia support is creeping up in more essential low level software like LLVM, Rust, WebKit and the devs actually have Chrome already running on the platform for years. Dart/Flutter is used throughout the OS and used in many apps today.

From day 0 on launch, you can expect Fuchsia to run your Dart apps and to run existing Android apps via a tool called Machina (Zircon hypervisor running Linux kernel). If Fuchsia benefits from the Flutter apps being made and gives Google more complete control over the OS unlike Android, then it looks highly unlikely that it will be killed.

In reality as Fuchsia is being ’dog-fooded’ on Google devices it is increasingly likely that Android will be killed.
China-made Loongson CPU now supports 36 channels of 1080p video in one
If your company is spending 130k to employee someone, that likely means the persons actual salary is around 90k. Think of the insurance, administrative costs, recruitment costs etc the company bears.
EasyMile autonomous shuttles barred from carrying passengers
>If Raspbian is compiling its packages for the lowest common denominator arm v6 cpu some Pis have

It is definitely the case, the official Raspbian images support Raspberry Pi 1.