skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I know, most ( or at least All current export I know of ) Farmed Salmon are Deep Sea type Farmed Salmon. The idea is instead of having the possibility of them going to fresh water to spawn, they are kept at specific region of deep sea and greatly reduce the chances of getting parasites.

So I am not entirely sure what the article is suggesting. May be for Salmon that is not intend to be served as sushi? Because Freshwater Salmon doesn't fit that bill.
> whereas Apple was pulling data from The Weather Company, now part of IBM.

It's turtles all the way down[1]. The Weather Company also leverages NOAA data and is listed as such as a weather service provider on NOAA's site[2]. Although they ostensibly augment it with other sources and apply their own forecasting models to the data, they're still basically repackaging NOAA data in one form or another.

[1] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down

[2] https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/success/weather-service-providers
Ignoring differences in cashflow timing as irrelevant? Bold move if you made decisions that matter based on that. There's a whole island of bankers who will tear you a new one if you bring that weak stuff in their house...
I don't agree with this at all. It's entirely possible for a company to have pay cuts because they're looking to save as many jobs as possible; because they believe that it's better for _everyone_ to make less than _some_ to make nothing.
Ask HN: How is Google prompt more secure than Google authenticator (TOTP/HOTP)
Google is constantly pushing to move from authenticator codes to Google prompt, due to it being more secure according to them. I can not find any explanation on the security of authenticator vs prompt. With my limited knowledge, I believe both are susceptiple to phishing, so what's the security benefit?
Getting this right is probably moderate complicated, but there are plenty of countries that do it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sick_leave#Germany
If all your monitors are 4k it works, but if you have a mix of high dpi and standard dpi monitors it does not work. And I'm betting you can't share just one of those monitors with any screen sharing software. Something I need to do frequently.
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How does Google suck here? Do people actually expect Google to hire millions of extra employees or develop hard AI to rank every single webpage in their index by accuracy? I don't see any practical alternative to how it already works.
This looks amazing I'd never heard of Yugabyte. It feels like there must be a catch. The big draw back of postures has been the difficulty with replication. Is this 100% compatible with existing postgres tooling?
> The night before I did not sleep. I was up at 5 and drove early to the office. I stopped multiple times as I was sobbing and could not drive (I wear glasses).

> As I was reading to talk, I started crying. Everybody was watching me in silence.

I know my comment is slightly off-topic to the article, but I just wanted to empathize with you and what was the worst day of your life. My company failed completely, but when I had to make the announcement I was sobbing uncontrollably to the point where I was having trouble breathing, in front of everyone (some were sympathetic, some were bitter, all went on to better things almost immediately - none had any interest in working for free). It's just fucking awful. I'm doing better now, but fuck just remembering how horrible that was made me feel compelled to write this comment.

> As for me, I never fully recovered from the worst day of my life, and that was 19 years ago. :-(

I hope you're also doing better today.
World's largest Covid-19 lockdown is having a big impact on pollution in India
You are right. We were responsible only for one service out of hundreds. Different teams have probably different rules.
Especially because it's not the default weather app on any Android device. Users have to seek it out. They're not punishing every android user, just the ones that have already supported the application they've purchased.

It's spiteful.
Maybe in San Francisco.
I agree we don't know yet, it could be worse or better. But I think it will take a year or two to know based on how long it takes to do a post mortem on an influenza season. Certainly failure to quarantine would be devastating so whatever the final numbers are is irrelevant. We already have overwhelmed health systems around the world, and the fatality rate would be a whole different level if that was more widespread.
US tech giant Apple doubles China donations for Covid-19 recovery efforts
The Polish population had a very visceral reaction to the EU attempting to impose anti-Polish measures amid the refugee crisis.

Same goes for Hungary.
What’s the goal of this though? I couldn’t determine it from the article, but I’m certain that using them as transistors just for the sake of saving energy doesn’t make sense. Especially since a neuron size is a about 4000nm or more than 500x larger than the new 7nm transistors.

No way energy consumption is justifiable with such a massive loss of chip real estate. You will need way larger chips to achieve a decent computing power.
I see. I'm going more off of mindshare during this whole Coronavirus pandemic.

I only hear zoom mentioned in the media and in social media.

Organizations that are just now adopting seem to be defaulting to Zoom. All anecdata, I admit.

But, at the same time, it seems there are enough data points across the media outlets and social channels, to see a trend.

I'm surprised at the shift in mindshare. Given that I remember a time when WebEx was videoconferencing.
Filter bubbles are bad when they serve to only confirm your bias.

Do you read politics you agree with or disagree with? I make an effort to click more on things I think I'll disagree with.
> Just look at say Japan after the tsunami which not only killed people but also destroyed a lot of critical infrastructure.

Ok, lets; because I think the one positive thing that may come out of all of this is that we act with an acute understanding that our current system on this Planet is precarious, unsustainable, and we cannot just go back to it.

Which is what Japan did, and continues to do: they have not addressed the massive out-pour of Nuclear run-off into the Pacific, they have neglected to address the massive displaced population of Fukushima, their contamination programs are insufficient and the testing for their food is still not wide-spread nor taken seriously. They haven't completely phased out Nuclear Energy after all of this, and continue with a political lobbyist perspective whether they will or won't turn them back on.

All while still trying to continue to get the Olympic games to take place; no, I'd say Japan's Government reaction is exactly what we shouldn't be following, its exactly what we need to avoid in order to ensure this doesn't take place.

Wet-Markets re-emerging in China, for example, would be following Japan: simply continuing something because it served some economic function, but carried large consequences and still doing it anyway is not what we should strive for. Those Wet-Markets are thought to be significant contributors to SARS and now CoVid19.

If anything risk-management needs to be a bigger contributor to how we act moving forward; as I see ME and Russia oil refiners play chicken with one another, I wonder if this is what will what finally transitions us to EV in earnest. Continuing to rely on such suicidal actors to carry out best practices for something so critical has to be seen for the folly that it is.

I'm admittedly a petrolhead, but a part of me always knew this was coming and I fully embraced it occurring, I just wished we would have had the good sense for it to be a gradual transition--as it was appearing to be with many Manufactures pushing for EV models being a large part of their lineup based on purchases and legislation requirements--rather than an abrupt shock to the system that made us realize where our priorities should be when thinking about sustainable mass-transport.

The same sentiment goes for things like how UBI, Work From Home and Online Learning being the way many jobs and schools function in order to reduce Greenhouse emissions and help curb climate change. This can be an opportunity in disguise if we have the foresight to see it as one and act as a Planetary Species understanding that our very survival is at stake rather than the petulant children and a voracious appetite for 'what we want, at all costs,' as we've been thus far.

> Economies are surprisingly resilient.

I want to believe in anti-fragile economic models, too; but I've come to the realization that however persuasive intellectually as that argument may be it isn't absolute when the very Environment you're operating in cannot carry on with the practices that make that doctrine possible at scale.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_man_theory
That sounds a lot like Uber Eats though. It might even be more efficient than Uber Eats, actually, since instead of going to restaurants all over the city, the drivers can just pick up from a couple specific places.
I posted recently about how bad ue4’s c++ documentation is, and how it drives people to Unity. They have been promising to make it better for 7ish years from what I gather in forums. What is with them
It's hard because it's dependant of other systems that are often not fully functional.

The things that needs to work for a video call is: The network must be reasonably reliable and not overloaded. The camera must be configured and not privacy blocked. The correct recording device must be used, it must be recording (opportunity for both user error and OS issues here). If hardware codes are used (a requirement on lower end devices) it must support low enough bitrates, must have the right options.

Typically all these things are slightly different between different devices and operating systems. It's typically easy to build a proof of concept with great quality and reliable connections between two given devices over a given network. It's super hard to make a product that is reliable enough that millions of users only rarely run into issues.
it says "powered by dark sky", so since they are shutting down the api, wont this app likely stop working soon?
Same boat with Omni + SketchUp. I would happily pay $100, for "metered credits" to an online service. There's a big difference between using SketchUp for 40 hours total v. 40 hours a week.
Industry is electric by wide margins.

Batteries are cheaper than electric peak plants. Solar and wind are cheaper than coal and still benefiting from economies of scale and technology development.

Getting energy from the sun and wind is already cheaper than some fossil fuel sources. Conversion will accelerate as that gap widens.
In World War I, British biplanes had wireless phones in the cockpit
Hydroponics are really easy to produce :)
Billions? That sounds like a vast overestimate, no?

Are there any programs that approach a billion lines of code?
it's also pretty funny to read after having witnessed the train wreck that was the live-action movie.

'A much larger market will be introduced to the franchise by the 2017 film, and by the same logic, will prefer the even dumber version'

Well, that didn't happen. I guess there IS a limit to how far you can water down a franchise.

Author is more-or-less upset about Oshii being Oshii. Christian symbolism, birds (of course), engineering technicals, and the removal of most sexuality is par for the course.

You can say it truncated the story -- of course it did, it's a movie. I have to agree, but there wasn't any choice. The 95 GiTS movie remains as some of the most beautiful cinematography style artwork in any anime I've ever watched. The realism and atmosphere that's built in to that movie in such a short time (1h 25m) is simply amazing to me.

Many of those great cinematography elements are also in Oshii's Patlabor entries. More manga stories butchered, sure, but I guess my personal reason for liking Oshii's work is an ability to judge it separately from the previous work on which it's based.

That ability still didn't save the newest GiTS live-action movie for me, though. That one was just a bit too far gone.
I think hybrid electric designs are 'coming' partly for that exact reason. Aircraft can takeoff and land using mostly battery power which would reduce noise considerably. Part of the motivation is also to increase the bypass ratio by running a multiple fans per set of engines. Like four fans and two engines. High bypass --> less noise.
I haven't used their products but how the market is different from the Windows side? Aren't they general productivity tools?
Probably I'm not the only one who looked this up, so click saver: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Panda
Here's a list of most of the Ryzen laptops coming out soon. There are a range of U/H processors, a couple with AMD dGPUs: https://digistatement.com/list-of-ryzen-4000-laptops-with-re...

Not listed on that page but also coming out: Acer Swift 3, Acer Aspire 5, HP ProBook x360, Lenovo Thinkpad T14, X14 (using Ryzen Pro APUs)
This, perhaps: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/refs/heads/...?
Yup - good call. I thought this was a nice post by the Twilio CEO last year: https://www.twilio.com/blog/your-phone-your-call-eliminating...

Basically, he walks through the history of the phone system and how it never really considered bad actors, and then what they are working on now and what it'll take to deploy it.
But they often followup by arguing that we should focus on COVID deaths, because those are (usually) too hard to hide. Potential undercounts of this sort call that conclusion into question.

Which was the point of both the OP and the buzzfeed article that I pointed.

We only count someone as a case when they get tested and are positive. However we don't test someone simply because they are really sick and it looks like COVID-19. Which means that nobody has to hide the body - it simply isn't counted in the COVID-19 numbers.

This systemic source of error seems to be common across many regions and countries. And it throws all quoted statistics into question. And not by a handful, but by a significant factor.

Of course at the moment preventing bodies is more important than counting them. But knowing that we can't trust the counts either, matters.

Perhaps paradoxically, going up another level and looking at "all deaths regardless of cause" doesn't necessarily improve the quality of the decision making. If anti-COVID measures also serve to decrease flu deaths and traffic accidents, it's possible that the total numbers might show a drop even if those same measures are inadequate for reducing COVID deaths. It's hard to get anything right!

True. But if the systemic undercounting of COVID-19 deaths is a reasonably large factor and the death rate is a significant fraction of the total death rate, it can become a more accurate estimate than the official numbers.

And yes. Accurate decision making with unreliable numbers is impossible. The best we can do is heuristics.
Will his hospital get the equipment as it becomes available, one day, or is this criticism going to obstruct that?

What is the crime being committed? If none, what should it be according to new law given the body count that's really only just started.
> Unfortunately, it may be possible for a C compiler to be "standards conforming" without actually being useful for this purpose.

It is possible for a C implementation to be conforming witout supporting low-level programming. Sometimes it even makes sense, like if you're running C code on GraalVM's LLVM bitcode interpreter. But there is no trend of "standard" C implementations following this route. While modern C compilers like to aggressively exploit undefined behavior, they generally make reasonable decisions for implementation-defined behavior. In this case, all major compilers will compile

*(int*)0x12345678

to the obvious assembly, and what happens then depends on what your memory map looks like.

(Caveat: the compiler will still perform normal optimizations like removing unused loads or redundant stores. If the address actually points to memory-mapped I/O, you need `volatile` to prevent that.)
The traditional way is to invest in large oil producers (XOM, BP, etc.), whose stocks are pretty strongly correlated with oil prices. But that's also placing a secondary bet that they won't go bankrupt before oil goes back up.

There are also ETFs that try to directly proxy oil prices by holding and continually rolling over near-dated oil futures. USO is the biggest of those. They have some technical issues tracking oil prices though, especially for long-term buy-and-hold strategies: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets/081116/uso-goo...
I can't tell if this is real
I'd expect oil to be negative in the next few weeks -- refineries are shutting down (and can't take the oil), most of the commercial storage facilities are full, and it's gone down far enough that it's uneconomical to pull it out of the ground (most of the articles that I've read put oil above $40.00 for most wells to turn a profit, and more than $3.50/mcf).

I was in Texas and it was under $2.00/gallon before everything started getting all locked-down due to COVID-19 -- my guess is that gas there will be in the $.80-$1.00 range in the near future. Between the decreased demand due to the "Stay-At-Home" order and the excess inventory (until all of the refineries shut down), we haven't seen the bottom yet.
The producers should tell the financial community "We're destroying value by continuing to pump. We're essentially bankrupt at these prices." Then convert all their debt into equity at $0.000001 per share. Then go into care and maintenance and wait things out.

Or is the financial system inefficient ?
How Taiwan is tracking 55,000 people under home quarantine in real time
I was also skeptical, given that each power conversion step will necessarily be less than 100% efficient. I was surprised to learn that high wattage electrical motors can commonly achieve better than 95% efficiency. I assume the generator can be similarly efficient, which just leaves the combustion engine itself.
self-destruction measure completed
The Hiccup notation in the Clojure world (eg Reagent) works well, and it doesn't need macros. You're still left with some quoting (for text inside elements and attributes), but in practice most of these come from non-constant values in code.

(defn simple-component []
[:div
[:p "I am a component!"]
[:p.someclass
"I have " [:strong "bold"]
[:span {:style {:color "red"}} " and red "] "text."]])
It's described at: https://webrtchacks.com/zoom-avoids-using-webrtc/

They use WebRTC data channels, but nothing else. I'd speculate that this is the reason why they try to push people into using the desktop client.
You do realize this is the default (guaranteed by the government) in all of Sweden? It's not madness.
Yes, ARM has the NEON extensions for SIMD. Definitely most modern machines have some SIMD extensions/instructions.
The Most Famous Bottle Shooting Games in the Android Market
dust (du + rust) [1] makes for a good oss alternative.

[1] https://github.com/bootandy/dust
Not a fan. Given that in a template context the first atom will always be a symbol, all the : is just redundant. I despise visual noise.
Top Fantasy Series to battle quarantine boredom
Ask HN: What's the ROI of Y Combinator investments?
I'm afraid little testing helps keep numbers low.
They tested 5000 people since a few days ago in Bulgaria.
His timeline is messed up. A year ago, Weather Timeline got pulled from the app store because sales wasn't covering the API cost. After a month or two, it got sold to the company that made MyRadar.

https://www.reddit.com/r/androidapps/comments/9gti4r/rip_wea...

https://www.androidauthority.com/weather-timeline-android-ne...
About a decade ago, I bought a slide scanner and scanned a bunch of old family slides. Some of it's the era, some the Kodachrome, but the colors look exactly like those photos. Here's a few: https://imgur.com/a/PkJiGGx

As for it being "archival," no, it's not. Some had pretty bad color shifts and started looking blue.
I noticed you were claiming that the Sars Cov 2 pandemic was starting to wind down a week ago. But as of today the situation is much more explosive than it was when you made that claim, basically everywhere except Italy, which is on full lockdown. In much of the world there is every indication that the bad is only accelerating. Do you think that maybe it's your predictions and lines of reasoning that are actually miscalibrated?
Excellent post, but in the context of this discussion, I disagree on one point:

> a mature engine like UE, or Unity has a wealth of crowdsourced documentation, and it's almost impossible to trip over an issue that someone else hasn't already triaged before you

C++ in UE4 is a nightmare to work with because you have to scour forums for a day and a half to find somebody who might have mentioned the name of the function you need. Great engine besides that, but that is a pretty big deal. Unity however - everything is the first page of search results. Incredibly valuable!
Well, this way it can be recreated in another language, for shakes 8ball fun!
I don't know about the Italian laws, but one of the main criticisms of the Hungarian ones is that they lack an end date. the laws passed in Germany and the Nordic countries (I don't know the Italian laws, sorry), for example, often carry a time limit.

The Hungarian situation is judged by the light of the increasingly authoritarian Orban. From the outside it looks like yet another opportunity for him to pass laws that gives him more power at the expense of civil rights. Last time I checked, the state of emergency during the 2015 immigration wave was still in place, even though hardly anyone tries to go to or through Hungary, regardless of what Orban says. judging Hungarian political climate, I wouldn't be surprised if it is still in place.
Pretty weird not to comment that they're replicating published work that trained mouse neurons on an electrode array to fly a plane in a flight simulator.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/10/041022104658.h...

It's about at the level where you could make a good attempt to replicate it as a hobby in your (albeit well stocked) garage.
Maybe it's not just transistors they're hoping to gain from this.

I think it's more like building a brain from organic matter that's the real boon. Sooner or later we'll be discarding silicon and extracting neurons from mice just to watch YouTube IX in space with our Tesla corvette cruisers and our alien barmaids serving us Soylent Green in a martini glass!
The advantage is that you can include normal Clojure expressions in it without any special syntax. Also lets you compose Hiccup data and forms without having two mental models of the data representation. Worthy tradeoffs IMO.
I've used this feature and each time it occurs to me that the next step for spammers will likely be to simply leave the message, as they will still get an impression via the transcript.
It’s silly but loads of fun. My first Linux was also Ubuntu c. 2007-2008 and I got a kick out of using a cube desktop that neither Windows nor Mac had.
Maybe it's just that now there's whole lot more money in the game of tricking Google? In 2010, people too dumb to use a computer were just getting on the Internet, as smartphones only started to become a thing. Now these people are in and there is lot of money to make on them.

SEO spam instead of car repair manuals is a joke. It has a lot bigger and scarier implications. Just try imagining someone like Obama winning elections now... simply not possible... And it's not because people became more dumb, they totally didn't: it's just because now dumb people have a voice online. And spend money online. Internet works for them now, and shows everyone what they want to see...