skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If anyone can pull it off, James Daunt (the new MD) can. He's done exactly the same at Waterstones in the UK and it's made a huge difference: the bookshops have gone from "competent but uninspiring" to places where you genuinely want to spend time. And money.
Does the customer set the price for an Uber trip? I thought Uber did that.

I agree with the judge that Uber drivers have far too little control over their situation to count as self-employed. They're entirely dependent on Uber.
> Simple, shadowless shapes that emphasize colours is exactly what children draw.

It is also what children like to look at. They dont appreciate elaborate realism or shadows. They prefer simple shape, uniform color and no shade.
Saw that on Heise (German IT magazine) a few days ago. Setup on Arch Linux is really simple (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Folding@home), but with our electricity costs over here it's more expensive than what I'm willing to contribute - my CPU compute node [2*2687W] at home draws 500W on FAH, which translates to 112US$ per month (80W idle, but it's mostly powered down anyway). Else this & BOINC would be a really nice way to utilize my unused hardware.
Yes, it is all true, I find poverty a fascinating puzzle. I've solved one part of it already. Opinions from people who don't share that fascination cant contribute to the answer. The situation is even worse than you can imagine. I see excessive wealth render people unproductive. Don't get me wrong, I would love to see wealth come out of equally valuable contributions to civilization. Driving a car from A to B to C, well, I'm sorry, that ain't it. That would be a task ideally fit for someone who just wants to work, pay bills, buy a house, get married, have kids, go on vacation 2 times per year etc. It would be valuable to society to do it cheaply, perhaps we should even subsidize it. If you buy a bunch of cars and hire a bunch of people, then I could see the purpose of an opportunity for wealth creation.
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Better Dev Link (https://betterdev.link/) is excellent!
Yep. For anyone curious: "Diploma A" can be started at age 4. The requirements to finish the exam are:

- Swimming with clothes on after an unexpected fall into the water, able to orient themselves above water and leave the water independently.
- Enter the water in different ways, can orient themselves and proceed to swim through something.
- Can use one or more of the 4 basic strokes (breaststroke, single backstroke, front crawl, back crawl) to swim a base distance
- Can float on his back and stomach. Feels confident in the water.
- Can do water steps(?) with arms and legs, can turn and orient themselves.

The clothing required are:

- Bath clothes
- Shirt/Crew neck with long sleeves
- Long pants, dress or skirt (reaches the ankle)
- Shoes (plastic/leather/sports)

Source: https://www.allesoverzwemles.nl/diploma-a/

Diploma A is the first of the three diplomas (ABC). If you have all of those you meet the national swimming safety standard.

More reading: https://www.allesoverzwemles.nl/nationale-zwemdiplomas/zwem-...
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I can see they have staff shortages that prohibits that:
https://foldingathome.org/faqs/high-performance/fah-on-boinc...
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Second this. Recursive descent parsers are much easier in the long run, even if you can't immediately see your grammar after they have grown for a while.
You're forgetting about 'who paid for the electricity, hardware and set up the model used in generating this image?'

Couldn't this allow the person hosting the model to claim copyright?

I am also thinking about hyper-parameter configuration and selection of training data as creative human input in this process.
> It's not that technical paper authors have shown some special restraint and limited themselves to a subset of what the rest of the PDF world does. Technical papers look much like any other PDF and do much the same thing that any other PDF does.

This makes zero sense to me. You're saying that technical papers look the same as Principia Discordia or glamor/design magazines or advertising booklets, including those that just archive printed media. That technical papers include web-form functionality just like some PDFs do—advertising or whatnot, I'm not sure. If that's the reality for you then truly I would abhor living in it—guess I'm relatively lucky here in my world.

However, if you point me to where such papers hang out, I would at least finally learn what mysterious ‘complex formatting’ people want in papers and which can only be satisfied by PDF.
Go to the apple store and set up the mac pro in each store to fold.
What about complex numbers in probabilities?
Can't they? What happens if they're driving an Uber passenger and do pick up a Lyft passenger who happens to be on the same route?
It is interesting how in such a case there is an increasing blur between git and blockchain.
I was an early adopter of Google App Engine when it was first released and the consistency guarantees of the datastore burned me pretty badly. What I experienced in the test environment was not even remotely close to what I got in production.

Just last week, I was so tempted to give Google another shot over AWS. By all accounts, they have come so far, and more importantly, started using more of my preferred toolset as well. This is exactly the kind of thing that really scares me off.

I have a huge amount of respect for the world class systems scientists and engineers at Google. Unfortunately, they seem to counter it with a customer experience full of uncomfortable, often expensive surprises.
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This feels like an over-simplification, and not translatable to other examples.

JC Penney had an established group of customers who liked what it offered - and for many, this presumably included liking (even enjoying?) the coupons and sales approach that was offered. In changing the model, JC Penney totally disenfranchised the whole group of customers who liked that approach. (It doesn't matter why they liked it, or whether other people also like it... it just mattered to JC Penney at the time that lots of customers did get some sort of gratification from it.)

Does this mean that no business can therefore ever succeed without a coupons and sales model? Of course not - and there's plenty of successful businesses with a different model. They're just started with a different model, and therefore appeal to a different customer base from the start.

The message of this example isn't that "people don't want low prices, they want bargains". It should be that "you change major aspects of your business model that your established customers like, at your peril".
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You're missing that there's an intermediary here. The expectation is that they will come back for more with Uber.

Yelp doesn't hire the building contractors on its users behalf.
> But filing claim is protected by law, you ability to have content on YouTube is not. There is a fundamental asymmetry.

Filing a claim automatically and conveniently is not protected by law. They could just as well say, "We have an automated system with a convenient interface for good-faith actors. If you show yourself to be acting in bad faith, you can exercise your legal claim in writing by sending it to this address: X. The postal system to that office is pretty bad, loses stuff all the time, so you'd better send it FedEx."
Lidar or radar won't help you with any of those situations though
Well, you often find screenshots ARE used for harassment in as stealth retweets that make it hard for the original poster to counter the re-contexting and perversion of what they wrote.

That happens all the time, so yeah - it is a tool used to bully and harass, used all the time upon twitter.
The notation is also used to describe the ratio of elements used in alloys and crystals. In such a case the elements are also bonded together, but form much larger structures so writing out a specific number for each 'molecule' becomes meaningless (the numbers are huge and also vary massively).
Then how come we see cases where there were no symptomatic patients nearby? Like this CDC screener, no cases where known in the entire state when the person contracted the disease and it happened weeks ago:

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/medical-screener-...

And this is not the first such case in USA. So either there are a ton of symptomatic Covid-19 patients in USA right now who are just thought to have the flu, or Covid-19 can spread just fine from asymptomatic people and that was how it spread to the well protected CDC personnel in the airport. And if an expert who follows all hygiene standards and wearing gloves and N95 respirators got it from an asymptomatic person, imagine how many other people at the Airport must have gotten it as well? And how many persons the carrier infected after arriving in USA?

I am all but certain that the statement "We can contain it" is a lie at this point, I don't see how anyone can believe that. At least not without aggressively doing complete lockdowns of large communities before we even confirm cases, but I feel it is too late even for that now.
why then the great taxi syndicate of paris is self employed?
This is brilliant suggestion.

After visiting Release's site, I clicked pricing and saw $500/month for what I'd consider playground environment and my instant thought was "nope, another tool I won't use, no chance I'm paying $500 only to speak to sales later in order to agree about more money".

However, if I were charged when trying to make production work - that's something I'd pay for, if it's an application that helps with that process.
And someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I imagine that would be much more energy efficient than a desktop computer
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Brilliant. Loved it.
I doubt that you need an SLA to enforce a penalty for keeping other people's money.
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Second comma could have been a - eg "assets - which he"

But I agree that there is nothing wrong with that sentence.
How well does floating point work for 3D games/programs and gpus? That seems to be a very large category of floating point usage but I have no knowledge on whether it works well in that space. Would gpus be x% faster if they didn't have to do floating point, would games have more or less rendering problems without floating point?
I played Lunar Lander in the arcades, top draw game that.
Is a universal digital Driving Licence around the corner?
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While true and while phones are considerably more powerful now than they used to be, modern ARM SoCs don't come close to their x86 counterparts.
To be fair, the problem is often badly posed. The host always reveals a goat, and this is crucial information, but people often fail to make it clear. If the host chose randomly and just happened to reveal a goat, the solution would be the 'intuitive' one.
Failing to load for me on iOS...?

Can’t stand the TechCrunch Cookie Monster.
Something that keeps popping back to my mind since the late 80's is to wonder to what extend government could or even should deliver type FOO services. Coding a taxi service wont cost anywhere near as much as the damage Uber is looking to deal. We spend crazy amounts of money designing, implementing and configuring labor protection and Uber obviously wants to work around it.
I've never found 4K screens to be all that good/useful. Maybe my experience of them is aged, but even Windows 10 fails to scale the UI all that well on a 4K screen.

Ideally I'd want the a 1440p screen.
This reminds me of that one gag; let's both put $20 in a box, and I'll sell the box to you for $30. (I can't find the relation to what's at hand tho)

Back on topic; in one we stop someone making a mess, in another we start cleaning it up.

Eventually it ought to start getting cleaned up. i.e. CO2 has to fall.

Developing technologies for that now is good. Stopping people from making messes is also good, and cheaper.
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It may be possible to watermark the ux so that at least posting the screenshot could be blocked on their own platform.
The problem is more the state of the rebased commits. If it is a dirty history, bisect will break for a myriad of random reasons (broken tests, incomplete features etc.). So if you don't squash, and want to run bisect, you _have_ to ensure that all commits are clean and working. Easier said that done.
Those aren't his thoughts on rebasing, they're his thoughts on rebasing "somebody else's work".
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We use the same method and yes, it's been usually easy enough to bisect from squashed commits. In mobile development it even helps, as bisecting effort is dominated by rebuilding time -- less commits makes for much faster bisecting.
> Question: Does it seem strange that YouTube has the copyright claimant decide on disputes and appeals of their own copyright claims?

From a very cynical perspective: Not really, it makes perfect sense as it is the cheapest option that also empowers the people who can make youtube's life a misery. (The big corporations that file these claims).

Hiring third party people to decide these or whatever mechanism you can think of would be more expensive for youtube than what they have now.
I don't understand why ICANN needed to remove the price cap for .org in the first place.

PIR is a non profit and they can clearly waste millions given their 'investments'. Now they want to get rid of the (increasingly) lucrative property they were set up to manage in the first place?

I wonder if ethos would be so interested if the price caps still existed, and they would otherwise take 10+ years to recoup their investment?

Its clearly corruption.
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Probably depends on the culture. I'm a cheap "tightwad", I don't like price games, I don't like browsing to find which product is the best (because all brands spends money on trying to look better and hide issues) etc etc

But I admit it would cut the usual "deal" hormonal hook.
> it's because the two particles don't know along which (relative) angle the other particle will be measured ahead of time

Since the two particles are created from the same source, why couldn't it be that the two particles are affected by the initial state of their source so as that to appear correlated?
Even if the contract doesn't say anything like that, they can still fire you. Misrepresenting information as part of contract negotiation is fraud.
That is a very charitable viewpoint in the context where apple are accused of slowing down devices.
It depends. If someone runs a red light and swerving (assuming it knows it's safe) will avoid an accident I don't see why it shouldn't do it. But I agree this is an edge case and is not an important feature. There are more important things to focus on.

The idea is to add an element of randomness to the decision making. I don't mean to pick random decisions, but when there are decisions that weight approximately the same it should pick the decision based on personality/mood.
This would enable the algorithm to adapt and be flexible, instead of a deterministic algorithm that could cause chain unoptimal behavior.
This is great! Love the artistic interface, it's refreshingly distinctive from all the other websites I visit these days.

My only issue is the Taxi dialog didn't seem to position correctly in Chrome on my Android, and I couldn't accept or dismiss it.

How did the author manage to keep playing music after forwarding me to the iTunes store? iframe or something?
I like PowerShell in general. But it's very slow. Both the startup time and the responsiveness. Especially when having something like posh-git enabled.

Having a Linux box with Alacritty and fish at home, makes it even more frustrating to start in on Windows and wait seconds to type.

And unfortunately, PS 7.0 is not a lot faster, still noticeable lag in startup.

The good part is .net integration, being able to use standard .net classes in scripts can be really helpful.
Why are they not appealing to the major cloud providers at this time to use any spare resources couldn't they set it up so that the cloud providers could count using resources as donation to a charity?
We use a variant of Gitflow without a develop branch and without release branches.

Gitflow has 2 major problems:
- develop branch that will always become a mess over time
- release branches are never completely accepted. It is much easier to accept features branches.

We try to merge feature/bugfix branches directly to master when they are approved.

We have testing/staging branches that can be thrown away and re-created from master and re-merge any feature/bugfix branches that have to be checked.

This has worked very well for the last 5 years or so and we have used it in dozens of projects every year.

The fact that testing/staging contains no commits (except merge commits) of its own is very useful. You can drop these branches regularly and remove any old feature branches that became stale for some reason.

Lastly, I have seen a lot of teams that want to apply complicated Git strategies from day one of a project where it would be much better to just work on one master branch because too much code changes at the same time. This will create complicated conflicts. The history at the start of the project is not interesting. Git history only becomes useful when the project is live and you want gradually add features or fixes.
Yes, GitHub keeps the separate commits visible in the closed PRs. For what it's worth, I never ever found those useful anyway and worked just with the squashed commits. It's up to the team to make sure the squashed commits don't grow to thousands of lines in size.
It was the copyright lobbyist that pushed for it, so of course it isn't (to alleviate this point)
After spending quite some time on craigslist like websites, here's how I feel when buying or selling:

I want to reach parity. Most of the times these items were sitting in corners, sometimes even some were things I found. But I wanted to make the dance with the other person to find the middle ground where both of us would feel happy. Sometimes even if I gave him more than I should, to me it felt alright. The value is no more in the item, it's in making two people feel happy.
Has anyone made any money or received kickbacks from Quora?
Software engineering is the perfect example of the "blind scientists and the elephant" problem. It is a very complex field, with a number of related but distinct disciplines and activities required to make it work; it's impossible to be an expert in everything, so we tend to specialise: we have back-end engineers, front-end engineers, data engineers, SRE experts, devops specialists, database experts, data scientists and so on. Additionally, the software we are building varies wildly in terms of complexity, dependencies, external requirements etc; and finally, the scale of that software and the teams building it can vary from one person to literally thousands.

Articles like this one, and even more comments on HN and similar sites, generally suffer from a perspective bias, with people overestimating the frequency of their own particular circumstances and declaring something outside of their needs as "niche" and generally misguided and "overhyped".

The reality is that various technologies and patterns -- microservices, monoliths, Kubernetes, Heroku, AWS, whatever -- are tools that enable us to solve certain problems in software development. And different teams have different problems and need different solutions, and each needs to carefully weigh their options and adopt the solutions that work the best for them. Yes, choosing the wrong solutions can be expensive and might take a long time to fix, but that can happen to everyone and actually shows how important it is to understand what is actually needed. And it's completely pointless to berate someone for their choices unless you have a very detailed insight into their particular needs.
In layman terms please?
> how likely is it that those videos are being faked?

I see it's your first day on the internet. Welcome!
The discounting model works well for Steam, Amazon etc. There's a variant used by less reputable retailers where you pretend the product was being sold for a big price then offer a "discount". People absolutely do love being told they're getting something cheap.

The "always low prices" model is a bit more complicated to make work than it sounds, but works for e.g. the "discount supermarkets" of Aldi and Lidl.

I think the repetitiveness of a purchase matters: if you're buying a one-off, you want the biggest discount and you don't care what the price is at all other times. If you buy the same thing every week, you may be more interested in reducing the decision workload by going somewhere consistently cheap.
I'd love to hear a synopsis of that situation!
I appreciate this bit as well. Makes me think something like this could quickly outgrow itself, and rather than trying to keep so many voices under one growing roof, perhaps it may be best to split in half and split again to keep things manageable and cordial and not have things get worse than bad. But still do the things it was set out to do - provide an open third place for people who may not have such and take advantage of some discounts along the way.
Ask HN: How is WireGuard fast though it uses the public key for encryption?
(I searched online, but couldn't find anything related)

Wireguard's basic description of how it works [1] says that it encrypts the packets with the public key of the peer (destination) and uses UDP for the transport. In contrast, in the common TLS used for HTTPS, the public key encryption is used only for the initial key exchange wherein a symmetric encryption key is (created/agreed upon and) exchanged for encrypting all data during the lifetime of that connection/session. This is done because encrypting all the data with the public key of the recipient would be slower for close-to-real-time communication needs like the web. My understanding of the common HTTPS/TLS is that the time and energy spent on encrypting data using the public key is quite high when it concerns larger data sizes and larger key sizes.

1. So how is Wireguard faster when it uses the public key of the (destination) peer to encrypt all data all the time? Is it because it uses public keys that are very short, like very short ones in the examples given on its homepage, [1] the likes of which don't seem to be allowed for TLS certificates, vs. 2048 bits commonly used on the web in TLS nowadays?

2. Does it use any schemes not yet adapted into HTTPS/TLS?

3. Would a hypothetical HTTPS/4 (say, built on top of QUIC, which also uses UDP by default) be as fast if it were to use the public keys for encryption rather than exchanging a symmetric encryption key for the session?

Any answers and pointers to read more on (for someone who's nowhere close to being an expert on cryptography) would be helpful.

[1]: https://www.wireguard.com/
The website (which consists of exactly one static page) is still up. Did it ever go anywhere?
They used to have a signup form for a newsletter. It disappeared.
The WHO seemed to be relying on Chinese flu surveillance data, which is basically useless - even the figures it produces for flu infections are implausible and probably wrong. Between this and their other comments it might be best to treat anything the WHO says as just Chinese propaganda at this point.
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But his ISP might be injecting subliminal messages!

(For fun see also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backmasking)
Similarly, all major multiplayer games turn into Hunger Games with a glorified slot machine embedded in them.