skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually think Schwinger is (one of) the most human, by which I mean flawed.

He was famous - from Gell-Mann to Dyson to [insert famous field theorist] - for being deliberately incomprehensible when explaining himself, very stubborn when it came to new ideas (to an almost ridiculous extent if Murray Gell-Mann was being serious) and almost literally obsessed with mathematical beauty over matching experiment.

Feynman was also flawed, but more as a man than a scientist.

Edit: A lesser-known but still very important particle physicist, Tom Kibble was known for being extremely humble and straightforward: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glHr9yrV2AI
You are writing as if shrinking the government is a priori bad.

Is that your stance?

Your stance is coming across like “more government is intrinsically better”

Is that what you are hoping I take from reading what you wrote?
I wonder if it's possible that the virus can take shelter in cells that are not exposed to the antibodies. Don't herpes viruses do something like that? People get chicken pox as a kid, and later get shingles.
I thought the PCR tests in Asia had a specificity of around 70% which is why they needed two positive tests in a row (or two negative tests in a row to confirm the patient had recovered).
I'll share my anecdote for when it wasn't.

A previous employer of mine had paid 96k a year to use a client software on a per database installation basis (12k per license, 8 database installations across the company worldwide, for a total cost of 96k/year)..

However this software was a trivial CRUD app we used for dealing with CAD files. To be clear: we completely owned and managed the back end database ourselves, and just used the app as a client interface for searching/creating CAD files (which was super slow btw).

I could've created an equivalently functional client app within a week or two, that was both faster and more scalable. Doing so would have saved the company an obvious 96k a year in recurring costs, along with increased productivity. It might have taken a while longer than a week to deploy to users, but nonetheless would have alone justified my yearly salary. Additionally it wouldn't have taken 100% of my time a year to support or maintain such a client.

However, I couldn't convince managers it was worth it to rewrite it in house, despite no new features being added to the software by the vendor for over 8 years! Frankly, I'm still not sure why that was (ignorance I'd say), but I think it said how much I was respected there... so I left.

Actually, I lied - I still work there and am in the process of finding a new job. Frankly, it's stuff like this that makes me think I should just get with the times and start my own niche SaaS company and do "Rent-Seeking" to ignorant companies such as this, since they don't understand when something is cheaper to be done in house...
You speak the truth!
I think it’s Wordpress that enables /rss on a ton of websites.

I’ve recently needed to get RSS feeds and a good number of times I can find it via /rss or view the source of the site and search for xml.
Sometimes long test cycles are just the nature of the business, especially in hardware-software co-development, and especially in high-reliability development. Nobody will believe that running software tests on a workstation or server somewhere counts for release readiness if it gets deployed to a wind turbine, robot, or megawatt UPS.

The software team's automated tests indicate that the software is ready to start an expensive physical testing cycle, not that its ready to go to the field.
Ask HN: What has been your pro usage of your Macbook/Laptop for development?
I am software engineer by profession and have a Macbook Pro (2013 version) with 2.6Ghz Quad Core i7, 16GB 1600MHz DDR3 memory and a 1TB drive

Over the years, I have pushed this machine to its limits by doing these things
1. Running Docker with multiple VMs for experimenting scaling
2. Learning Kafka+Zookeeper Producer/Consumers
3. Scraping a free news website
4. Using GNU Parallel to run various compute tasks
5. Debugging large projects in IntelliJ IDEA
6. Transcoding Media files
7. Running Google Chrome

Would like to get more data to make a measured decision of whether to upgrade my machine to a new setup. I would like to learn your pro-usages that have run your machine hot to death with your laptop config.

PS: There is always the option to offload intensive tasks to EC2 instances but I like to keep things local for most purposes
Welfare isn't UBI. Give everyone the same amount and you'll have a hard time convincing the people earning 70k to vote against another 12k... That's the secret formulae.
I wrote a quick script today to use Airtable and Python Flask to do a simple Spaced Repetition. Need to add the following fields in Airtable: Front, Back, Scores (long text), NextReviewAt (date with GMT time).

https://gist.github.com/abhiyerra/7a7c31d7e695010e0bd0669c7c...
Call from the Heavens. New Firm Can Link Satellites to Ordinary PHones
The smartphone will see you now: Tele-medicine in China
Anderson Shelters
We used Epicore Vantage ERP for manufacturing. The starting cost per seat was $175 per user per month. With many added modules it can easily reach twice that per user. Our $30 million a year company was spending about $150K per year licencing this product, and this was only one of our software packages. I think the $10K number is reality for many companies.
5 years of Intel CPUs and chipsets have a concerning flaw that’s unfixable
Docker on a mac is such a hog - I prefer Linux for dev nowadays.
Yep, there's this quote from Maya Angelou

"At the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel"

This is basically how I approach reading as well. I think it's fairly hopeless to have a huge organizing system that assists in trying to keep information sort of floating around in the conscious mind.

Human minds aren't really fact gathering machines so I think this is largely futile and the number of things to remember is too large anyway.

I think there is more sense in trying to absorb what you read, hope that it leaves an impression of some sort or gives you a cue when it becomes relevant and just go with it and using active time for creative things.
What a timely article, as I JUST watched Brainstorm for the first time tonight. The story is exactly this.
Autodesk Maya has always been both CLI and GUI based. Every GUI interaction generates a visible CLI command you could have typed to accomplish the same thing. It’s been the way since PowerAnimator in the 90s
https://siastats.info/storage_pricing
It's precisely because the D-Wave and other like systems are not yet able to run Shor, I proposed "algorithm like shor".

And its shorthand for "computation which demands more than just inference across the statistical sum of the semi-incoherent output states you see in a sea of things" which as I understand it, is what D-Wave does: it emits all the things, and you do work to find the answer (which usually you knew a-priori btw, another gap in my feelings on QC right now: the worked examples always include for-knowledge of the "right" answer to help decode it from the output states of the QC under consideration)

BTW if I mis-characterize either the state of QC or D-Wave I apologize. I am not in the field. I get this view, from what little I can understand.
1) Development time cost, how long will it take the software developer to actually meet feature parity with the commercial product? If it takes > 6 months, then in your first year you are net negative.

2) How complex is the application and how specialized will the knowledge of building it be...or in other words what is your plan when that developers leaves the following year? Can you easily hire someone to take over or will it be difficult for someone to pick up on the work.
I'm not sure how we went from $35k to billionaire, but I agree with your point. I am definitely curious though how it affects people earning 50k, 70k, 100k though. I suspect a chunky increase in index funds, retirement plans, and investing at some threshold, which affects the market at large. Social programs, children's sports (hockey equipment and ice rentals aren't cheap!), real estate, the list goes on. Obviously untestable, but interesting. Could be extremely transformational, or maybe cost of living simply jumps.
I think Italy is particularly worth paying attention to as a bad case approximation of what can happen in the US. About a week ago, Korea had tested 90k people while the US had 400 tests available and fewer tested.
This appears right under the CLUI post, how apropos. The CLUI stuff looks cool but I'd rather use something more unix-y than nodejs and React.

Seems like ncurses with simple structured data and the right hooks could do something close to what CLUI is doing.
UBI has to be universal to work, or at least phased out slowly to avoid an income trap where working doesn't lead to an increase in income.

We have to accept that some people will accept free subsistence income and not work.
First Optical Rectenna Converts Light to DC Current (2015)
I think we’re confounding two parts of evolution.

Random mutation, and it’s sibling non-random cumulative natural selection (selection pressure).

I guess it on what one defines as a selection pressure.
But if John Doe wants information on someone named John Doe who "showed ID" to claim the money, he's just asking about "himself".

I kinda get the point. If someone impersonates you, that information should not be protected because it's supposedly you.
Your project sounds super cool! Do you have a demo or a DHTML mockup?

If I understand the idea, when you want to invoke an operation that requires four arguments, you first push four arguments of the right type onto the stack (by clicking them or something) and then you invoke the operation by clicking its name (maybe after typing it)? How can you tell when you have the right types of arguments on the stack for the operation — does its name light up? If you want to invoke the operation, how do you find out what the types and purposes of those four arguments are — do you mouse over the name? How are you handling undo — can you just revert to previous stack states, or is there a lot of important state that isn't on the stack?
Has anyone watched The 12th Man? True story about some insane cold resistance in Norway during WW2. Watch it with subtitles!
What does stupid cult church mean here?
And the licensing is not perpetual. Once you stop paying the annual licensing, you are legally obligated to stop sing the software.
From what I’ve read about Von Neumann, he’d probably take a decent stab at answering that!
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I think AutoCAD has been this way for a long time too. The first version I used was 2.14K+ADE; you could invoke any operation from the keyboard (and often had to) but I don't remember if selecting from menus with the mouse would generate the CLI command. In later versions of AutoCAD it did.
As a Swiss I would say that you can put Swiss cryptography into the garbage bin, together with US-American cryptography, unless there is quality control. My country needs a food inspector for cryptography. The inspector should talk to employees, check source codes, look at who owns a company etc.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/12/israel-white-house...
Wasn't there a post here about how little review open source software actually gets due to the highly specific knowledge required to identify vulnerabilities?

something like: https://www.itworld.com/article/2922074/significant-virtual-...

Seems like creating a foundational open source project and introducing a few key bugs would be the best way to hide in the open.
Service Worker Development Best Practices
Thanks for all this information! I think I might do the _dnslink TXT record approach you mention for my own website (just a static site), though I'll first need to learn more about DNS and IPFS.
I think you'd then be skewing towards a sample that spends a lot of money on lottery tickets (certainly not something I do but maybe I'm the minority), and your sample size would be pretty small, and you wouldn't see how it affects a community.
Cool. I saw there is also an option to generate an online resume.
Woody Allen got a book deal. Staff at his new publisher walked out in protest
IANAL, but it doesn't read to me like a requirement to increase profits for shareholders, but requirement for "good stewardship" of the investment.

But that's beyond my knowledge on this matter :)
At a glance I see a few articles, it looks like the topic came up in 2018 and 2019, potentially in different but related circumstances. One of those stories is from the Associated Press but the article I skimmed from them didn't make the Israel assertion and was more general. If I had to guess, the topic didn't gain much reaction because the most 'in-depth' articles are from infotainment rags like Gizmodo, Common Dreams, and Politico. Politico seem to have been there ones to break the 2019 story but I'm still reading so can't confirm that.
Someone asked me for my RSS feed last week. I have it, but did not promote it at all. I guess RSS is not dead yet.
I recently tried instead of remembering stuff with anki, trying to get to the root cause / why of what I try to remember, it's usually a tree meaning the outcomes of what I used to enter to anki was way too many things, and the causes of these items were much fewer, once I get the causes of what I try to enter to anki, I can derive the anki cards just by deducing them. Not perfect but better than having hundreds of anki cards to remember.
> Building a new React app with create-react-app requires 4304 directories and 28678 files.

Makes my head spin.
Standing Up the Cross-Compilation of Firefox for Windows on Linux
Shutter.. hate the msft sticky apps. They are giveaways simply to not lose market share. Can someone please make a free version of sharepoint already so I can be productive.
Why SvelteJS may be the best framework for new web devs
Like it. I did not found a job in my country yet (Liechtenstein), but nearby and remote.
Excuses.

Nothing stops the PowerShell team from validating module behaviour against a set of standards and best-practices. Just because a module was authored elsewhere in Microsoft doesn't mean that you can't create issue tickets to get everything up to a baseline level.

I don't mean write their code for them. But it would be huge step up in perceived end-user quality of PowerShell in general if simply all Microsoft modules correctly supported -ErrorAction and -WhatIf. Similarly, support for PowerShell Core should have been fixed for all major modules long ago.

Microsoft created PowerShell and Microsoft created the Windows Server modules. From our perspective on the outside there is only Microsoft. We don't care about your internal politics. We do care about 1K mailboxes being irreversibly damaged.

Our perception is that third-party ISVs do a better job at writing PowerShell modules than Microsoft. Half the time I spend teaching PowerShell to customers is listing the many, many ways Microsoft violates their own rules and all the fiddly little workarounds required.

Meanwhile I just tested Pwsh 7 to see how well it works, and my first experience is that Connect-AzureAd fails because it uses the non-core SHA256Cng class instead of SHA256, so it can't connect unless I use a "preview" version from outside the PowerShell gallery. Nobody in their right mind would use preview code from a non-standard source to manage thousands of accounts in production. See: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/10473#issuec...

I can't do "Microsoft things" with the "Microsoft shell", which renders Pwsh 7 useless to me and my customers. As far as I'm concerned, Pwsh 6, 6.1, 7, and most like 7.1 exist only to enable Linux and Mac users to automate Azure Resource Manager. Outside of that, most "Microsoft" things do not seem to work...
You should check fabio ( https://github.com/fabiolb/fabio ), it is really awesome ).

I 100% agree with you, I've been using Consul for four years now to run 100s of services in 1000s of VMs across datacenters distributed globally and not once I saw the need for anything else...

Maybe I just don't have the scale to find service mesh or kubernetes interesting. Nomad however is something I am willing to give a go for stateless workflows that I would usually provision a VM running a single docker container for.
You're supposed to pretend your the garbage and climb into the bag - creating a closed system where you keep the lost water warm.
New Coke
https://www.everything80spodcast.com/new-coke/
God, I love being one of those people. It's like a superpower with the added benefit of getting to irritate other people.

Yes, I am also a morning person, why do you mention?
In any real going business, cost of hiring and training someone of a type who is eligible for compensation with stock options and the subsequent morale dip if discovered doing such manipulation would by far outweigh the benefits of doing this. So this is largely a tin foil hat scenario
I am not talking about entirely asymptomatic cases, which I believe are fairly rare. I am talking about mild cases which could be easily mistaken for a common cold, which is the most common presentation.

I think what you may be missing is that 100,000 people in WA could have gone to their doctor last week with “a cold” and they wouldn’t have been tested for COVID, because the FDA would not allow state labs to run the tests and the CDC refused to run it on mild cases.

I use the example of WA because it’s glaringly obvious that a lack of testing has resulted in a significant number of cases going undetected over the last couple weeks in that area.

The old CDC guidelines only allowed severe cases to be tested, so the only confirmed COVID cases were severe. Resulting in a “fatality rate” that was pushing 10%.

So it’s just an example of how this number is inflated by lack of testing. I believe a similar situation is playing out in Italy.

By comparison, South Korea has an extremely robust testing regime (free drive through testing stations, over 100,000 tested, capacity of over 10,000 per day) [1] and has identified 6,284 cases and has seen 40 deaths with currently 52 in serious condition. That puts their “known case fatality rate” at 0.6%-1.5%.

Simply put, the “known case fatality rate” can only possibly overstate the actual fatality rate, unless you believe there are deaths due to COVID happening that are being misattributed. This is obviously an entirely different category of error than not testing someone with a mild cold.

It’s useful to take what we know about “known case fatality rate” in heavily-tested populations and we can use this to estimate how many undetected cases are present in the population in under-testing locales. E.g. 10 COVID deaths would point to the likelihood of over 1,000 actual cases of COVID in the community. This of course assumes similar demographics and standards of care, which may not be the case.

[1] - https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/south-korea-takes-fast-food-ap...
Then you have a dependency on zookeeper when you already have consul... it seems like consul template + nginx or haproxy is the solution hashicorp went with.
You're not from south-coast WA are you?
This. Bunch of crappy apps which meet the minimum rqt to keep you in the ecosystem. Teams is the business equivalent of imessage. Keeps people on msft products vs. switching platforms. That plus finance folks cant not have their Excel for their 30-tab whatevers.
I'm shocked 22% of websites had trackers from Adobe.

I've never heard of it before but it looks like this is the tool:
https://www.adobe.com/experience-cloud/topics/web-analytics....
This is neat, but I'm confused why the two sides of the split screen samples don't line up exactly. Why does removing the background shift the image?
This is interesting! Do you have some material on load testing the DNS servers and seeing their breaking point? I've heard as much from other people but never experienced it in practice even using Consul with 0 TTL everywhere.

Perhaps the network infrastructure team always scaled it correctly behind the scenes but they never once complained about the amount of DNS queries.
Part 1 of 4721: A GUI program in a domain that usually strains all a computer's resources, probably ought to perform within soft realtime constraints, and is aimed at professionals is complicated.

Part 2 of 4721: Let us now persuade you there is a better way by demo'ing a souped-up terminal window that helps non-specialist Unix enthusiasts enter a record into a database.

???

Part 4721 of 4721: As we have clearly shown, our realtime video-editing CLUI application is more approachable, discoverable, interactive, and scalable than Adobe Premiere.
The one legitimate qualification is missing: having had lots of kids. For example: 4 sons, 4 daughters, and at least 10 grandkids.

Child development industry fads come and go, sometimes drifting away from sanity and reality.
The colorimeter at your local paint store, looking at a paint chip from your wall, is very likely going to do a whole lot better than the process you just described. If you call the store, ask how big of a paint chip sample they need to match existing, weathered paint. It very well may be tiny (like, 1cm^2), and they should do this color match for free. You could buy just a pint, first, to see that it works.

I've been quite surprised by how non-uniform most digital camera imagers and in-body post processing color pipelines muck with the spectrum coming off the sensor, all in the name of producing a more pleasing JPEG. If you still want to do what you described, I'd use RAW and use dcraw to convert to tiff, and open that in gimp.
PayPal users can get added security/ease of use by not having to re-enter details in browser, so I assume that probably reduces the amount of customers from bailing on a purchase half way through inputing their payment details.

Thats value merchants pay for i guess
Within the context, this is about the spying and signals intelligence. We don't usually talk about an foreign agency being pure evil when they tap fiber lines, we do when they murder or massacre.
The Tech Habits of Co-Workers That Drive Us Crazy
Or 3) People who have realized that clicking around on different sites for news is a massive waste of time compared to having the news come to you.
The most important video I've ever watched for my career and sanity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzkRVzciAZg
I believe this is the first reporting?

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/12/israel-white-house...

(and the government response)

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-house-spying-israel-pm-be...
What You Need to Know About E-Receipts and Dynamic Receipt Marketing?
> I needed some wood from HD and tried to rent a truck, it was a nightmare. At least at my local HD, they don't allow you to reserve. They only have 2 trucks, both of which are constantly busy. They won't even hold it while you grab the stuff you want to transport home

It's meant for customers who need a truck but don't have one.

You fit that exactly so there's something I'm missing - are you buying those really long 2x4 - 4x4 or the like?

If so, a lot of people do that, so you need to stand out with the staff.

So this is what I do - buy a $11 big drywall and then tell them to call me when the truck's available.

It works every time. I have no clue why. I even use it to rent trucks for towing cars on a trailer bed.

The drywall will sell on CL like hot cakes once you're done with the truck but see my previous post.
Building Consciousness in BINA48: Bruce Duncan Discusses Robots, AI
Just a few months ago I bought a comet lake laptop that shipped with coreboot, so I have no idea what you’re talking about here.
Why is evolutionary adaptation a necessity? If some reasonably complex organism evolved and then perfected its DNA replication to the point where no mutations occurred, and thus it could not evolve any further, it would cease to be considered alive?