skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1 pin is called PS_ON, this shorting to ground turns it on. 1 called PWR_OK which says everything is working in some way I don't want to research. 1 +12V for stand by. 1 +12V sense for detecting voltage drop or something. And then 2 normal +12V and 3 ground. There is 1 reserved pin as well (rectangle connector so needs even pin count)
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DoNotPay made an extension for sharing Netflix passwords with friends
As we’ve seen in the smartphone world: the competitors are people who would rather the bug stay secret so that they can exploit it.
Thanks for the info! Well maybe someday I'll see if I can bake a Nerves image with Postgres running on it. If I'm going to install it might as well on an RPI right?
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb is enraged by this!
Both of those ideas are the sort of bog standard think tank proposals that get trotted out any time somebody points out that one US party has no healthcare plan beyond a quixotic repeal campaign.

> The regular populace has never had this kind of access to political leadership in the history of the planet.

Am I to understand that your contention is twitter has been a positive development for politics in western democracies?
It depends on what you are measuring. If we go purely by web traffic volume, then whatever YouTube is doing is what's "won". AFAICT, that's VP9 to everything that supports it which seems to be all desktops and new Androids but not Apple devices. Android devices of the previous generation fallback to VP8 where there's hardware decode support.
Here's an off the wall idea. This technology could be used in airport bathrooms to enforce hand washing during a pandemic.

It's well established that hand washing, or lack thereof, in an airport setting can supercharge the global spread of disease. The spread of coronavirus could be reduced by up to 60% by consistent handwashing[1] by air travelers.

This tech could flag people who walk out of the bathroom without stopping to wash their hands. The easiest way to enforce compliance would maybe to be have a loud, embarrassing alarm go off when the perpetrator leaves the bathroom. Social conformity and peer pressure would drastically increase hand washing compliance.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/12/study-washing-hands-in-airpo...
Oh, I still hear ads giving URLs with inexplicable backslashes in them. "Visit our website at foo.com backslash baz"
to run xcode to build iOS apps.

(even my friends who were long-time Mac users/developers are moving off; for many of them, it was the slowly decaying UNIX component of MacOS X, which they originally touted to me)
You seem to forget that the ECB is there for the banks, not for the people or their countries.
Walmart. But they only care about what lowers costs. They've been researching RFIDs and stufff like this since at least the early 00s, and they rolled a lot of it out in their shipping/transit network, but I'm guessing they have too much shrinkage/theft to worry about in most of their stores. No cost savings, so it doesn't happen.
> Are we talking images only because in video mp4 and .h264 and .h265 are pretty much it. Apple/Safari still doesn't support vp8/vp9/webm/av1 for video or ogg for audio

h265 is doomed because of the multiple patent pools that have formed and the extreme price hikes compared to h264. It's a risky technology to build on. That's the best ad that AV1 can have, and many members joined the alliance for open media for that reason after it became clear that the patent pool situation wouldn't resolve.

As for your browser support question, yes, Safari has traditionally been anti-ogg, but a few years ago Apple joined the alliance for open media and added opus support to their browsers (although only in the caf container, for some weird unexplainable reason).

Open codecs have won in the lossless audio domain (flac). There is no reason they can't win in the lossy video and lossy audio domains too (not sure about lossless videos but FFV1 seems to have lots of support by archivists who want open technology).
But you see the obvious concern, right? If news organizations publish some but not all of the same news she's reporting, that could mean that they're selectively skipping news to push a political angle - or it could mean that she's selectively adding fake news for her own political motivations. My inclinations are not to break the tie in favor of the person posting about a mystical connection between coronavirus and the shape of the Wuhan train station.
Have you ever watched Bulworth movie? Great quote from it: "Let's all f one another until we all get the same color".

Me think bigotry and fear of others will trap large part of humanity into genetic collapse
Since beginning of March, Switzerland has 2.5k workers on part-time unemployment (a setup to use reduced working time instead of layoffs).
It's fine to be prepared, but if your local hospital rings you up and asks you for your stash, are you going to refuse?
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All costs are on a spectrum of urgency. Food can be put off longer than water. A small plumbing problem can be put off longer than a large plumbing problem. A furnace problem can be put off longer if it's not cold. Replacing a car can be put off longer than fixing the brakes.

There is no such thing as having all your costs due immediately with equal urgency.
Unlike helicopters, where they are used to drive the tail rotor. Even though dual disk helicopters don't need a tail rotor, they still need a gearbox to balance torque between the disks.
Ask HN: What happened to Google's Liquid Democracy experiment?
I'm just curious if this is being used anywhere within Google and if so what it's used for and how it's been received: https://www.tdcommons.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1092&context=dpubs_series
CUDA kernels have supported C, C++, Fortran and PTX since 10 years now, with Java, .NET, Haskell initiatives from Intel, Oracle, NVidia, IBM for quite some time as well.
Virtually everybody went to zero commissions, more or less.
Some osm apps have good navigation, but they don't have the same data, e.g. on traffic. 'Here' isn't bad. And in doubt there's always Google maps by browser.
> Someone in China could legitimately have a similar low level of trust for US root certs...

I love bashing America as much as the next guy, but equating it to China in terms of trust is not fair.
The clauses are to protect from damages resulting from those claims... not a cancellation from the hosting party. The transaction is incomplete, the funds should be returned.
All of Italy is in lockdown as coronavirus cases rise
I'm with you... ruin SWSW's credit score.
While I agree with this specific premise in general, it is still disturbing as hell to have someone or something monitor what you do in a bathroom + it opens up a door for a lot of other things. Do you want bosses to know how much time you spend in bathroom on the phone vs. actually doing the deed? Because I can almost guarantee that's where this tech will head, if we continue down this route.
What is a long time? I lived and worked in the Central part in Emilia Romanga, an affluent albeit largely communist part of Italy, and I saw it amongst farming families, although most had since abandoned Catholicism. Many of the older children had left for Germany, Switzerland, Austria or Holland for work to send money back home.

But, and this was just my personal experience since I was in the EU during the financial crisis; Italy, much like Spain and the other so called PIIGS, is a country plagued with underemployment and little to no social mobility for those under the age of mid 30s for the most part.

And while I cannot attest to the number of their siblings or their religious beliefs, to say Italy itself is not is rather difficult to believe given my first hand experiences.

I remember walking down the piazzas during the day to set up shop in the central parts of town, and the amount of large groups of 20 year olds (I was in my 20s back then too) were there day and night drinking in public was astonishing.
Yea I am in one of the at will states like the person in question.
There should be accountability for sure. I am not sure if rolling heads is enough or even the right thing by itself - but there definitely needs to be a 3rd party audit, and a public report.
I really like the daily video updates by Dr John Campbell (a retired nurse from England). His videos are informative and scientifically-based. His tone is not so optimistic because he feels many Governments are still reactive, rather than proactive in responding to the COVID-19 situation.

If you don't want to watch the daily updates, he has lots of excellent videos explaining terms and areas of scientific interest for the layperson. For example, I posted a link elsewhere to a informative video he created today on vitamin D and it's beneficial effect against respiratory conditions. You'll find this and all his videos here:

https://www.youtube.com/user/Campbellteaching/videos
I'm trying to get more comfortable with ML (I have an okay theoretical understanding of quite a few things, but very little experience writing actual code).

My plan is to expose myself to new concepts or go more in depth on things I already know about (planning to go through a few books I have been meaning to, for example), and then whenever my memory fails me about something I already understood, go back to the best resources on that subject that I have saved from the first time I explored it.

This sort of spaced repetition works wonders for me.

I'll then complete a couple of courses to familiarize myself with syntax of at least one commonly used framework (thinking fastai which uses pytorch, give me suggestions if you got a better one).

I've also started reading the SRE book from Google after developing an appreciation for my coworkers who do that sort of thing.

I also want to study music (guitar specifically) but I don't know if I can find a good resource that includes material to study on a weekly basis for example or if I will have to get a tutor.
New Gundam Factory in Yokohama to feature a moving 18-metre-tall Gundam robot
The restrictions in language features make the limitations of GPUs visible to high level language users. The reason why GPGPU is hard is that most tasks simply don't satisfy these constraints. You don't need to be a genius to run a multiplication of two arrays on a GPU.
If this really is the same tech they use for Amazon Go then no. I'm not sure where they would have hid an RFID chip in the single apple I picked up from their larger store a week ago.
No, it's not, because the data shows us that the mortality rates are low. The sensationalist numbers reported by the media are downright negligent. Yes, in Italy, we're seeing 4% mortality rates because the folks there have on average 3X as many co-morbid conditions.
We had a cutoff-date approaching for refundability of one of our bookings, otherwise we would have waited to see what happens over the next few weeks.

If you can afford to wait, I'd ride it out a bit longer.
Rome, Italy here.
I was at the bar this morning having probably my last coffee, since apparently from tomorrow on we'll be under sort of a nation wide curfew, and had it ruined by one bystander telling utter nonsense about foreign superpowers (USA, China, etc) creating the virus and spreading it through chemtrails.

Why every damn time we think there's still hope for humanity, suddenly some idiot comes by to prove us wrong?
Gundam Factory Yokohama
It's not losses regarding damage, or the client cancelling. The host cancelled, services not rendered and the transaction is therefor incomplete.

If I buy a sandwich from you and you take my money, the transaction isn't complete until you give me the sandwich ordered, regardless of your refund policy.
OSMAnd was what I used, and it was horrendous. The actual data was okay (I didn't expect it to be on-par), but the user experience was just really bad. Barely usable.

Haven't heard of "Here". I did end up using Google Maps in the browser sometimes, although it felt like a compromise (and obviously didn't have a stellar user-experience itself).
Ripple effect has hardly started. It's v0.1, expect the ripples from China's Dec shutdown to hit late Q1 and throughout all of Q2, if not longer.
It's a question of velocity - markets go up and down all the time... but speed breaks to prevent the market from going down to fast also need to prevent the reverse case - some sudden inexplicable and extreme price spiking.

Basically - we should protect against any really dramatic sudden changes as chances are that something is wrong.

In the last year the S&P grew ~22% prior to this recent drop, that's fine... and on a day swings in the low single digits might be fine. But if we woke up tomorrow and the S&P had recovered the pre-drop value and then grown 20% over that price - something weird is clearly going on and we should be worried.
The worst was when I searched for gorilla glue once. Good ol' Jeffy B thought I'd also want a $100k watch, a racecar/nascar (themed) Bible, and an anatomical model of some gonads. Pretty sure I still have the screencap somewhere
It lessens the impact on the local economy. Restaurant workers are a generally vulnerable population in the US with little or no PTO and they often have poor access to health care.
Ditto. My first reaction was a nearly audible 'ew'
A few years ago I got an inside tour of the brand new LCS Jackson (littoral combat ship) while undergoing acceptance trials at Mayport Naval Base near Jacksonville, Florida. The Jackson was first of its new class.

Why do they check every weld on a new Navy ship? So they can test it by trying to blow it up:

https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2016/06/16/lcs-survives...

Not part of the acceptance test for a VLCC.
> Yeah, ebay has much better buyer protections unless the item is Fulfilled By Amazon (which carries a cost premium). eBay prices also tend to be better. If you're going to buy cheap chinese crap anyway, just cut out the middleman.

That's what I thought until I was scammed by a Chinese on eBay... after countless emails, calls, even police reports, eBay did not return the 800 dollars I lost... not sure if it's an isolated case but it was pretty frustrating.
A typical CPU (or SSD even) uses a voltage of 0.9V currently, surely it doesn't matter whether the motherboard is converting 12V to 0.9V or 5V to 0.9V.

Back when this stuff was originally designed 12V, 5V and 3.3V was all you needed (actually with the AT standard it was just 12V for motors and 5V for logic, that was pre-CMOS). Now every component requires a different voltage (if there's any standard it might be 1.8V or 1.2V), and to get several hundreds watts of power at 0.9V would require cables about an inch thick.

12V is the defacto standard for powering pretty much anything these days. Converting 12V into whatever you want is utterly trivial and incredibly efficient.
And now all in-person events are canceled: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/libreplanet-2020-in-pers...
The financial stakeholders in these banks and in Europe as a whole have a powerful motivation to contain this pandemic.
That still doesn't solve the problem of waiting while people get all their items scanned, and I doubt that countries outside of the US have managed to solve that one.

Imo there is nothing in terms of convenience and speed that can beat "just walking out".
> how much does someone care about a topic when they choose to make money by not talking about it

How is that relevant here? She talked about it. Why would she violate an agreement and expose herself to legal liability if she didn't care?
I open-sourced my interactive music theory website, written with TypeScri (cont)
They completely failed three different times in the past couple of weeks. The Feb 29th thing was a red herring.
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taking prudent measures and stating definitive truths are two entirely separate endeavors
Costco is often cheaper than other retailers and on sale can be much cheaper. I grabbed a Casper king for 680$, way under the Casper list price even with coupons.

I didn’t like it and I returned it without issue.
It's 10%. Not unexpected since only people with symptoms are being tested.
Indeed aparapi worked by converting java to OpenCL. However, exposed to the user many aspects of GPU programming such as thread indexing (e.g global ids) and memory allocation for specific optimizations (e.g local memory). In the case of TornadoVM these aspects handled by the compiler and the runtime.
maybe it's just a coincidence, but I've noticed all kinds of everyday things being out of stock (eg, brussels sprouts and lettuce) at whole foods since the purchase. I'm wondering if amazon is getting more aggressive with the JIT inventory strategy.
> +12V sense for detecting voltage drop or something

This is actually the best bit, incredibly smart idea. It's a kelvin connection to ensure that you get 12V at the motherboard, regardless of power dissipation in the wire.
The tiny all-in-one monitor didn't do it any favors. People wanted to play on their TV, but that obviously wasn't going to work with a vector-based system.
I accept your back-peddle, but that doesn't answer my question. I am honestly curious.

I have noticed that when people are emotionally inflamed about a subject they tend to lose objectivity, gravitate towards like-minded opinions, and selectively pick at certain data. When that selectivity demands data that isn't available the gap will be filled with an assumption.

On Reddit, which does not have a limitation upon negative vote totals, you can fine tune this behavior to study group dynamics, which is reflected in the comments.
Quarantine for everything but the very bare minimum services (the ones you mention but the food which can be distributed home to home) seems the only logical path to the resolution of the matter.
The spread of the virus caused by a relaxed quarantine (as the one enforced now, based on people good will) will certainly cause the collapse of the system you are describing due to the saturation of the hospitals.
During tonight's news, journalist Mentana showed graphs describing a significant decrease in contagion in the Lodi and Codogno areas, i.e. in those areas where the most drastic measures have been taken.
In order to have a functioning economy, I believe it is necessary to have a population and not just what remains of it.
Brad Fitzpatrick is a pretty high profile programmer, would be extra crazy to remove his name.
Gary Larson agrees. Sorry, I couldn't find a better image. https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/8KjQYFOjfafGpGLFpwnwxFq4_c...
Purple and Casper are both crazy-overpriced too.
> Due to limitations in the underlying programming model, TornadoVM doesn’t support objects (except for trivial cases), recursion, dynamic memory allocation or exceptions.

So basically Java syntax for some kind of restricted C/CUDA dialect. How can you even say you're running Java if you don't have objects or dynamic allocation? Everytime the promise of a general purpose programming language running on GPUs is made, this is actually what is delivered, eg. marketing fluff, not compilers actually getting smarter in any fashion

And when you think about how a GPU works, it completely makes sense. A high level language for a GPU will not look like Java
"Nothing like those statements was reported to us by her or anyone else about her, and if they were, we’d take immediate action. Out of respect for the employee, we can’t comment in deeper detail on this situation."

That's the most cyclomatically complex, passive-aggressively voiced weasel wording I've read in a long time. How about a little respect for the English language, huh?

I sure hope they don't teach people to write code like they write PR legal speak.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclomatic_complexity
Yes, it's Simpson's paradox. Fatality rate is lower in Italy than in China for all individual age ranges, but the overall rate is higher in Italy because of the older population.
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The impact of this bug is probably very wide including server-side - not just a Google or Closure because as Someone1234 said: this buggy RegX was from the [RFC3986] standard on URL parsing: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#appendix-B

Edit 3: tl;dr: [/?#\] in browsers (including backslash) ends the host/authority but the RFC only specifies [/?#] as ending characters, so for example https://xdavidhu.me\.corp.google.com/blah is recognised as host `xdavidhu.me` by the browser, and host `xdavidhu.me\.corp.google.com` by the RFC - so host name whitelisting or matching can be borked for security purposes.

Edit: maybe do a search of github for this Regexp, and see what significant finds there are. Certainly bad actors are already doing so...

Edit 2: presumably there will be a gold-rush to find other bug bounties for the same underlying issue in other software or services!

Also, Google’s $6000 payout seems extremely disappointing: Google should payout on the total impact of the bug that they measure (not just the one place he happened to find). Why should the reporter have to investigate the total impact of the bug on Google in order to get a fair payout?
Seems like the real problem is using a regex to parse a URL instead of using a URL parser!
The people named in the court documents[1] all have users on HN according to two minutes of searching on google. Shows how little it takes to dig up info on people. Kinda scary.

1. https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.480183...
I’ll use this tech if and only if Amazon sells it as a package of technology but aren’t themselves in the loop seeing the transactions.

That is, they should be either seeing none of the transactions, or they should be considered a third party that can’t collect or resell the data.

With contactless payments I fail to see the attraction too. Seems like it’s ten years too late. Back when people stood in line to wait for slow card transactions or people paying cash this thing would have worked.
Ideally, shouldn't someone planning to retire have already moved more of their money to bonds? Then they could just withdrawal from the bonds portion of the portfolio (which is likely up right now) while the stock market recovers.
TBH epochtimes.com is not a legit news source. It's run by the cult group who also produces Shen Yun.
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This is a good piece on DTC:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/potentially-unpopular-opinion...

This is a good podcast on it by Ben Thomson and James Allworth:

https://exponent.fm/episode-182-scale-scale-scale/

The key takeaways are attack super high margins, do something that is harder in the real world, scale as fast as possible without paying too much rent to “Facebook/Google/Instagram/Influencers” to establish yourself.
Famous last words, as I predict this going just as well as people in 2020 who use cash-only everywhere or, more extreme example, people not using any kind of cell phone just to avoid tracking by carriers.

When you decide to make it really difficult for the world to engage with you, the world will make sure to make it just as difficult for you to engage with the world as well.
You have some assurance that you’re buying a consistent product.

Buying a foam mattress on Amazon sounds like inviting some sort of toxic mess of outgassing junk into your bedroom. No thanks.
Serious question - how widespread is self checkout in the US? I rarely queue at local supermarkets in the UK, I can checkout in <30s with a few items.
How large of a team is it? How do you estimate the complexity of work?
In the UK industrial accidents were commonplace until the passing of The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. The very many maimings and deaths it has (belatedly) prevented are less common in subsidence farming.

Of course farmers get sick, but they don't get the diseases created by industry. There are a great many respiratory conditions and cancers that don't occur naturally.