skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We recently launched precisely this - a note-taking app that lets people add questions/identify salient terms for review as flashcards, and ML that applies those questions to auto-generate fill-in-the-blank for any written material.

Would love to hear any feedback you have. The app is called Notefuel: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/notefuel/id1458567718
I don't think you're on the right website.
Yeah. It seems like everyone is hopping aboard that bandwagon and doesn't remember a world before 2009. For $1M, you can get yourself a very beefy server farm.

AWS accounts still take management and a team of people that need to maintain a whole lot of different aspects of it, so you're not really saving on headcount. You're just moving that capex to opex.

It's important to be flexible enough to be able to deploy onto a cloud provider if the situation demands (e.g., new client demands infrastructure run in $FOREIGN_REGION_X where you don't already have a DC), but everyone's insistence on going 1000% AWS is absurd and IMO totally unjustifiable.
Maybe >5 years ago, culture has changed under Satya :)
I am responding specifically to the claim that once you've exploited an app, you have full access to the user's entire account (which is true to some extent on desktop platforms, but not on mobile OSes by default). I left a comment elsewhere about the kind of attack you're talking about: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22632756
I really like how you think.

It could be a good example of public/private key encryption too. You can encrypt with a public key (or more commonly, symmetrically encrypt with a symmetric key asymmetrically encrypted with a public key), with the private decryption key only in the hands of a judge (or other supervisor).
How have you found that? I've been debating the same purchase.
Isn't it strange how we never had this many problems with bad cops before the invention of body cameras? It's a pity that the upright and moral institution of policing in the US, from its noble origins in runaway slave patrols, has been suddenly and inexplicably corrupted of late.
I agree with some of this on some level, but this article is a big list of extremely abstract concepts that it doesn't explain how to achieve. It definitely doesn't explain how to achieve them in a practical way in general programs with minimal hits to speed and latency, etc. etc. It's like someone saying 'keep it simple stupid'. Great, tell me how to simplify.
Testing only helps if sensible and sustainable transmission control protocols are in place. Shelter-is-place is absolutely unsustainable, and wholesale testing of the population is economically infeasible in a population the size of California.

There have been successes with wholesale testing in towns in Italy but those populations are small enough to test while everyone is quarantined for a short period. Then when the quarantine ends the disease will spread anyway thanks to false negatives or new imports.
Do you watch netflix on a computer in a web browser? If not, this isn't an issue.
Market capitalization is not indicative of cash-on-hand. You should at least look at their assets, or maybe operating income, which are both substantial and publicly available.

https://ir.aboutamazon.com/quarterly-results
I hope admins ban you for advocating withholding information
Because you don't get rich by helping people with your money.

This is like those uplifting news posts about people paying for cancer treatment via gofundme ... strictly speaking it's better than the alternative of no treatment but at the same time a sign of something terribly wrong with our society: https://xkcd.com/463/
The certificate is issued by GoDaddy - it's almost certainly a scam.
You can also donate via http://www.amazonrelief.org
Interesting. I haven't looked at Actions at all yet but this is nifty. Previously I had seen people write their own GitHub bots to handle this sort of thing.
How about some sort of a rolling perforating machine that turns plastic shopping bags into disposable bandanas?
Same here. Can't eat anything with the smallest traces of the leafs. Seeds are ok though. Didn't find them tasting "soapy", but I must admit that I have never really tried actual soap, so it's hard to compare...
> I strongly disagree that the vast majority of police office are doing upstanding work. Officers don't testify against each other. They refuse to help investigations of colleagues. The whole thin blue line mentality is a stain on the whole profession.

I think this comes from a person based on ignorance, in that they usually have limited to no exposure to most LEO; or alternatively, they have vested interests in keeping that narrative up.

To this day I still cannot fathom not just how the 'blue line' practices holds true to this day given all the cameras, but they CAN AND DO PURPOSELY LIE and are allowed to do so with impunity in court. This is what is considered law enforcement in the US?!

Punishing them is limited in scope, you can at best get minor monetary compensation (which is tax derived) when they abuse their power, but as seen with this example they're allowed to return to their patrol in most cases, or given a paid leave of absence when its deemed too embarrassing to sweep under the rug.

>> How on earth is the on/off switch for the body camera under the officer’s control?

Honestly, plausible deniability; here is a horrid case in which you can see (Graphic/NSFW) they can use that to justify their violent behaviour as small/thin woman is forcefully strapped down, choked and repeatedly tazed by a group of officers claiming she was 'suicidal' but somehow that part wasn't recorded but is seen complying with the officers requests:

https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/woman-sues-alleges-...

Worth noting, as it coincides with the quote above its not just police but also the Court system the enables their behaviour, the local State court ruled in favour of the police stating the use of force was justified; it wasn't until it was taken to the Supreme Court that it was exposed to the public what took place with body cam footage.

> The cops in prosperous, egalitarian places are generally pretty chill, so the idea is to recreate those conditions.

God, I'm just going to put aside how absolutely elitist this statement is, but consider that the case above took place in Boulder, CO. Where for a few years the average home price was well over $1 million dollars, and her initial arrest took place in the Downtown mall that's typically yuppy-centric shops.
> Maybe if we had kept using bittorrent for TV distribution we wouldn't have so much global traffic downloading

I don't think bittorrent can compare to the efficiency of traditional TV broadcast, neither cable nor over-the-air. Instead of a packet being for a single destination, it's send once, and everyone just listens in.
> UTM (virtual machine host) - which from my understanding requires a paid 99/yr developer profile to run.

This is no longer true as of iOS 13.4. Apple fixed the signing bug that broke free profile signing.
Will the economic impact of Covid be like 9/11, 08', or something else?
Curious to hear how badly HN thinks coronavirus will impact the American economy. Is this just an economic shock? Is there anything systemic that is wrong?
They refuse to speak bad about one another.

That includes whistleblowing.
Google Shares, Monetizes, and Exploits Your Data Without 'Selling' It
While the widespread zoom problems are due to issues with zoom, highly latency sensitive applications like VC will be degraded before a Netflix client even realises anything is happening on a network reaching saturation. It's very hard for the client to be a good citizen in this situation. Network-level QoS would help, but is a massive moral hazard (and generally illegal in the EU, anyway).
So the assumption is that the targeted developers work in an environment where business rules are translated into code and they have access to domain experts? They will use your system to develop easier.

By the way, I signed up for beta to try the system.
Does having more toilet paper than usual help during a virus outbreak? no. Are we overreacting? yes.
Doesn’t it seem wierd that you release people from a good isolation system?

Are the prisoners given enough support to be able to protect themselves when they are released? Surely most won’t have the ready resources to self isolate for weeks.

Doesn’t this just punt the problem onto the social services that will end up supporting many of the released prisoners, social services that will already be under incredible stress?

Can anyone with local information tell us what support these prisoners are provided?

Edit: Plus, assuming the average prisoner is anti-social, does releasing them risk (a) further stressing police and hospital resources, and (b) running counter to prevention policies that depend on social cooperation?
I do body building. The weight doesn't bother me. I often carry two laptops around plus power supplies, keyboards, mice, sometimes a metal stand. I'd buy a heavier laptop if it had a better screen, better perf.
I can understand this sentiment, but I am now imagining criminals deliberately destroying body cameras.
Consider:

- how many people don't vote because it's a rigged sham that's setup to benefit the Property party, not the people

- how poor and how close to homelessness most average people are

- how corrupt and unaccountable the police are

- the nation with the highest incarceration rate except Seychelles, for-profit prisons, and the legal slavery loophole exploited by corporations

- a nation without a viable healthcare or mental healthcare system

- a nation that gives public commons and public services over to for-profit corporations

The revolution is that much closer because the US has been gradually becoming a banana republic failed state for at least 50 years, if not 70.
So are several hundred thousand people going to die in a short period if time? Doesn't that mean martial law?
The problem with cooperative multitasking is that a SINGLE poorly behaved process in the background locks up the whole operating system. This leads to a horrible user experience.

As a user of the old Mac OS 8 I had no idea what the cause was. I just knew that once I ran into the spinning wheel of doom I was likely to have to reboot. Again.

Preemptive multi-tasking is worse in every way except that one. I mean that you get more bugs, have more overhead from locking, less throughput, and so on. But when the application runs into trouble, the operating system is still able to react to you.
I suppose this is a useful way to use tariffs. Make production abroad slightly more expensive, or significantly more expensive for vital goods.
No OS has "taken off" because of the web. Windows is as cemented on desktop as ever, and ChromeOS (the only post-web desktop OS of note) has a fraction of a percent marketshare.

iOS initially had a web-app-only developer story (the "sweet solution"), but the quality gap between web and native apps was so undeniable that Apple reversed course and shipped a native SDK. It would be no different today.

The quality gap is not about buttons that look different. It's that nothing behaves consistently. Every site does its own custom thing, so users are forced into the lowest common denominator of interactivity (click or tap).

Examples: Gmail has its own fake windows, context menus, dropdowns, drag and drop, key equivalents, etc. and they all fall apart as soon as you try to do anything nontrivial with them. And it's been like this for 15 years, so I don't see any cause for optimism on this front.
Now you've got me wondering whether you can still "Log in with GitHub" if your GitHub account is Iranian, or whether that gets disabled too.
> For example, simply touching wolfsbane can kill!

So wait, pretty much the one thing that can't kill you in NetHack is actually incredibly toxic IRL? DevTeam!!
whose stats are these?
It is certainly interesting that the https cert for amazon.com comes from DigiCert and the one for this website comes from GoDaddy.
Five years ago was 2015. Chrome has had multiprocess and sandboxing for a lot longer than that.
One thing I never realized when reading this as a teenager was that Camus wrote this as an allegory on the spread of fascism, and on resistance against it. I wonder what he would have thought of far-right politicians (members of the Bolsanaro government) spreading literal infections.

I once was involved in a performance of Roberto Gerhard's oratorio version of "The Plague". A rather interesting piece, but very difficult for a large choir to learn. On the other hand, as our conductor pointed out, in this style of music, it often does not matter too much if you're singing the wrong note >:)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n3JUoL8COg
OP shows up to comment! Love your article! I echo the first comment in your article, about writing a book. There can be never be too many books about 90s era Jobs.
Boeing LOL.
Or if you have dark skin. A coworker got pulled over while on a family trip. He was searched, the car was searched, and the only reason his wife wasn't searched was: "You're lucky I don't have a female officer available". He was a developer (so not poor) and ex-military, which usually gets you some respect.
I want useful programs that happen to run in a browser to do these things, after asking my permission.

I don't want every random local news paper or internet chum site prompting me for every permission under the sun every visit.
COVID19: Ukraine's Minister of Internal Affairs playing a farming game [video]
Things to Do at Home Instead of Banging Your Head Against a Wall
What is the advantage over good ol' fashion torrenting?

I guess I'm just an old timer....
From what I've heard they are going to deploy troops with weapons but only 1 magazine. Also, there is plan for deploying troops for at least 4 weeks in the pipeline along with a 4 week complete public transport suspension. Downvote my comment to zero but I have a better insight into this than this shills.
U.S. mayor asks residents to stop gun violence so Covid patients can have beds
Well yeah, it’s pretty well established that Vit D deficiency causes a lot of problems in the body.

The issue is whether supplementation is really an adequate substitute for natural sources like sunlight and dietary intake.
I encourage anyone considering donating to this to instead (or in addition) donate to a general COVID-19 relief fund.

The economic impact of donating to a fund that disburses selectively to Amazon associates is that it increases the value of being an Amazon associate. In effect, this allows Amazon to pay their associates less.

In economic analysis, this is called the incidence of a intervention. The incidence of your donation is that a good fraction of each dollar is effectively a donation to Amazon.

This is very similar to the finding that a lot of tax credits to the poor actually get co-opted by Walmart to pay their lowest associates even less.
It's not a matter of "running more cables", and not just a matter of cost. They have to complete their IPTV migration, which is a massive project, and has been in progress for years now. They also have to upgrade hardware at every single node, which is a multi-year project. With that also comes brand new noise mitigation problems.

Yes, you can configure it to use more channels for upstream, but only if you cut off television to all of those paying customers, likely losing a lot of subscribers, breaking carrier agreement contracts, lose the advertising dollars, and go out of business before you even get there. You also have to swap out all of their cable boxes, and leave whoever purchased their own box hanging.

As far as I know, no ISP in North America is currently using any DOCSIS 3.1 features for upload, and they're barely taking advantage of the features for download. Moving to OFDMA is the big barrier to opening upload speeds. The protocol supports it on paper, but turning paper into massive co-existing television and ISP infrastructure is not trivial.
must be fake, from the whois I cannot see amazon being registered, its just hidden which is not normal by such a huge organization. I might be wrong but just from the whois I wouldn't believe its amazon.
I put Cloudready on a Google Pixel laptop because the original Chromebook OS stopped getting updates. I like it a lot except there are issues related to the laptop when it attempts to upgrade.
What is the advantage of this over simple old torrenting?
- Market cap is not liquid assets. Amazon can't sell my shares of their company and use it to fund their employees.

- This is not run by Amazon. It's run by the Emergency Assistance Foundation, Inc[1]. a 501c(3) charity. Their LinkedIn says they have around 20 employees.[2] I have no idea how effective this charity is.

1. https://emergencyassistancefdn.org/

2. https://www.linkedin.com/company/emergencyassistancefoundati...
This reads like some sort of dark comedy.

These police officers plant drugs on the poor guy's car, they then take him out. He wasn't even the driver BTW.

Because he asks them to be careful of his recently stitched up stab wound the officers decide to toss him on the ground breaking open his stitches and causing him medical problems.

Then, they hold him for two weeks because of course he can't pay bail.

When it comes to light that the officers planted the evidence... mind you, not because the department handed over the footage, but because a non-profit got their hands on it... the case gets dropped.

The officers walk away with no punishment and the man got nothing for the two weeks he had to spend with ouy of a job and for his new medical expenses.

Is there a way to just start over when it comes to policing in America? Stories like these make me think that our problems are so deeply rooted that this is the only way to resolve them.
Passfindr 6.4.6 – adds the Offline Decryption Utility to the web application
We could also have a whole website of things people strongly believed were effective that RCTs absolutely demolished.
Wouldn’t this also read as China has peaked in this regard? As now, companies would probably rethink being so China-dominant and move out, reducing China’s influence?
"The certificate is issued by GoDaddy - it's almost certainly a scam" - - - - yep, GoDaddy scammed me about $100 for https for a web hosting add on:, a service I ultimately got for FREE with QTH.com
This high-level difference is really interesting, thank you. Do you know of any good more in-depth resources? Or even a book? I have tried to search but my DDG-foo just gives me dodgy emulator websites with none of the type of content I'm after.
Please don't start randomly taking big amounts of vitamin D because of articles like this. It's one of the only supplements that actually gets absorbed by your body. Consult your doctor and get regular check-ups on your vitamin D levels if you start taking it.

"The main consequence of vitamin D toxicity is a buildup of calcium in your blood (hypercalcemia), which can cause nausea and vomiting, weakness, and frequent urination. Symptoms might progress to bone pain and kidney problems, such as the formation of calcium stones."

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-h...
So you are just simply advocating for living a criminal life. Got it.
Yeah, it's hard to call anything an overreaction when a "proper" reaction will in hindsight look like an overreaction simply because it was effective.
That was my immediate thought as well - CQRS doesn't fit well with the "everything should be deterministic" principle, unless they have a very different definition of CQRS than what is in common use.

In theory, it is possible to do "synchronous CQRS", where the update to your write-side is done in a single transaction with the update to the read-side, but that's not how I've ever done it in my (Scala/Postgres based) CQRS app experience.
Same. Small company (30-ish) in an industry that runs medium (200) to large (2500). From what I've heard recently the big guys are having a heck of a time and stumbling to get their workforce working remotely.
Thanks! I did not know about these before. It looks like a step in the right direction. Though what would be the next step? It seems like there would still the complexity of laying out all the controls/HUD (or other visual elements) in the game.
Throw away for the following reasons: this isn’t a point of view I share but I do know that the emotions will take over on this answer, I like my karma but I also don’t want this to be available under my original name here for future out of context quotations.

Maybe the reason is that a large number of the people who are dying today are already on borrowed time. Consider this as an option, just for a moment. The medical advancements in the last 100 years increased the survival chances of many who would not be here already, if not said advancements. Natural selection exists for a reason. We, as a species, are actively working against natural selection, definitely on the medical front.

Thus what we are maybe witnessing today is a natural selection in action.
You do get finite size effects with non-mean field models.
And some nightmare fuel for the fans of Batman here. Yup, evilish to the root.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risus_sardonicus
The reality is that there is no capacity issue. ISP networks are perfectly capable to handle the demand (spoiler: it hasn't increased much, see public IX stats). This is an attempt to revive the net neutrality debate from big ISPs through the EU. This is about the wish of ISPs to double-dip (be paid once by their end users, and another by the content providers).
To avoid the vascular problems, many people recommend taking vitamin K2 at the same time.
> the Army still runs reactors

I wasn't aware that they were currently running any. You are right that I left out that the Army did used to have a small program, though--none of their reactors were more than about 10 MW, IIRC--but I thought it was shut down in the 1970s and they never had many reactor-years of operation.

> the Air Force handles nuclear material

Yes, fair point, the Air Force does handle nuclear weapons and associated materials.

> Both investigating implementing reactors in future plans

Yes, true. I've thought for a while that the obvious way for the US government to encourage nuclear power as well as generate some revenue independently of taxes would be to build a reactor for every US military base and sell the excess power generated back to the grid.

> the issue wasn't which form of energy was the most safe, it was whether the military is inherently better at managing such systems because of their organizational structure

If you left out "because of their organizational structure", I would agree with your description of the issue. I don't think organizational structure is the only relevant factor.

> Out of curiosity was that officer actually fired (discharged/loss of commission) or reassigned?

Reassigned, to a different command (not a ship), to duties not involving nuclear in any way. (I may have said "fired" in one of my posts describing this, but in military lingo that means "reassigned". Actually discharging someone requires a court martial, and the rules for when that can be done are much stricter.)

> Reassignment is pretty common on the civilian side when people show themselves incapable of executing duties appropriately.

But the definition of "incapable of executing duties appropriately" is very different in the civilian world. A minor administrative error wouldn't qualify. (By "minor administrative error" I mean an error of the order of "a single document was not filled out correctly", not an error of the order of "many things over an extended period of time were not done correctly". The latter might get you reassigned in the civilian world; the former won't.)
> I want a box to play games and watch shows and movies.

The Nvidia Shield does exactly this. It has Android TV on it and can stream games either from your own PC or from Geforce Now.
I guarantee you that a switch from activities which use gasoline and aviation fuel, to those which use wall power, is a net positive for CO2 emission.