skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I have heard the solutions it provides. But what are corresponding problems do those things solve? I can come up with some examples:

“I really hate suffixes, so I want my address to be myproject and not myproject.io”

“I have a business idea which requires me to be a TLD, but I don’t have a ton of money to pay for it”

“I don’t think ICANN dispute resolution process will work in my favor, so I would like to get a domain name not subject to it”

“I think the blockchains are the future, and I really want people to use them”

...but I think they either have a better solution, or not worth trying to deploy yet another domain name system.
It's related to https://medium.com/bugbountywriteup/zoom-zero-day-4-million-...
The definitve guide to yacht crew positions
Perfect reproductions are a goal both for museums and researchers. See, for example: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337848225_Gloss_Col...
> The journalists at BuzzFeed News are proud to bring you trustworthy and relevant reporting about the coronavirus.
Ask HN: Have you ever taken a break from coding?
My current role has me doing no coding at the moment. I want to get a new role that has more coding but I feel like I've been away from the detail of it for a long time. I still do a bit at home but not as much as I would like.
I'm referring to what they make now. A shopper grosses under $5/trip without tips.
Would you say the same for the number of dimensions? :-)

BTW, related to your idea... IIRC, Schuster and Toro had some work using continuous spin particles (just a special representation of Lorentz algebra) with a similar motivation. Can’t recall the details right now, but feel free to check out their papers/talks.

PS: To all the uptight commenters pooh-poohing parent... relax, and lay off it... this is a legitimate research question/direction that physicists think about. We just don’t have satisfactory or appealing answers yet.
Rent strike idea gaining steam during coronavirus crisis
No, the physical evidence shows that everything in the universe is pinned at integer values in point of actual physical fact. It's not just our models. It goes all the way back to blackbody radiation and the ultraviolet catastrophe of the late 19th century. The evidence for QM is overwhelming. It's not just an artifact of our modeling.
Ask HN: What could be the reason Amazon Chime did not pick?
As you know a lot of workforce is working from home these days. What could be the reason, despite having such a strong brand name behind, why Amazon Chime did not pick as compared with MS Teams, Zoom, and Slack? One of the reasons could be - Chime is not a well-marketed product.
Contractor here, I mainly work on mega-big corporations. I always check what run on my PC. I never use the work machines for anything personal. FFS I don't even use their guest wifi. I stick to my data plan.
I have noticed the last few years that BlueCoat is on the rise. From some article a couple of months back I read that the company/Fund that owned BC also bought Sophos.
Just discovered recently that keynote does have a collaboration function through iCloud. Was a little clunky to get going but is working great now. Not quite google docs but it does instantly sync across devices when you save
If people were paid their marginal product, no company would make money. If you pay someone the amount of money they bring to the company, the company would make zero additional dollars by employing them. We are paid based off how hard it is to replace ourselves, not the value we bring. Say x is marginal product, y is the salary someone is paid, and z is the salary to minimize replacement. Every efficient job is x>=y>=z. Fairness is when Y is as close to X as possible. It is fair to get paid as closely to the value you bring as possible, but the market often creates y that are closer to z.
> One of the authors of that study, Jamie Lloyd-Smith, a UCLA infectious disease researcher, said it’s possible that the forceful breathing action of singing dispersed viral particles in the church room that were widely inhaled.

I am a doctor by no stretch of the imagination, but I was a voice major in college and sang in choirs for 4 years. When you sing, you breathe in deeply, from the diaphragm, and hold the air low in your lungs. Properly, your abdomen will expand more than your chest. Moreover, you hold the air in. Singing is not like breathing out at the doctor's office. You take a deep breath and then let that air out in a controlled manner over the course of a musical phrase.

That kind of breathing is exactly—and instinctively—what you would not want to do if you were in some kind of miasma of pathogens. Imagine walking through a sick ward at a hospital, or even a cave full of bats. You would be trying not to breath, taking only shallow breaths.

Again, I very well may not know what I'm talking about, with respect to disease transmission, but I think the forceful and deliberate inhalations are more significant than the exhalations.
How extreme does the Trump hatred have to be that people would discriminate against a cure for COVID-19 because Trump recommended it? Bizarre.
HOPL (History of Programming Languages) conference notes. I can't confirm that they're on there yet but they're riveting.

ETA: They are!

https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.1145/800025

https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/154766

https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/1238844
Imagine being brainwashed to the point that you purposefully get yourself killed because you only have a minute left to kill the others.
What You Truly Value
Except of course for the big old 'Collaborate' button on Keynote's menu bar, where you can choose who should be able to edit or view the presentation - anyone with the link, or anyone you invited - mediated via iCloud.

To be fair it's a fairly recent addition - maybe in the last year or so.
Keynote has an online collaboration functionality, just through the web interface IIRC.
Organizers pay. It's about $15/month for a calendar and email list.
Yeah, that's high on my list after talking with other organizers like yourself.

Currently I have plans to give organizers tools to track no-shows, as well as the ability to "check in" people.

Do you have specific ideas about what would have been most helpful to you as an organizer?
I'm talking about more PTO, higher salaries, longer parental leave...
Actually, correct word in this case would have been 'virions'. Virion is a single virus particle. 'Virus' and 'viruses' refer to strains or species.
The killer apps for tablets arrived years ago! Entertaining children, low-end point of sale devices, and watching streaming videos.
Podcast Recommendations for a Newbie Hacker?
Yeah I asked him this a few years ago. They did eventually add it.

But the point was even when every other presentation app had it, they didn't, and it was because they didn't understand the need for it.
> Now, it would be a more simple world if assholes were always wrong about things, and I am not yet prepared to say that Dr. Raoult is wrong about hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin. But neither does he seem to be the sort of person who is always a reliable source, either. I do not take pleasure in this. But I am less hopeful about this work than I was when I first read about it, and I can only wonder what direction those hopes will take in the weeks to come.

In weeks to come there'll be people living and people dying. I'm not sure in which group I'll be. But all discussions about the Dr. Raoult personality doesn't add up to the big question: does it work or not ?
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A small correction:

Debian is not running their own hackathon, instead they are joining an existing biohackathon: https://github.com/virtual-biohackathons/covid-19-bh20

I'm the organiser of Debian's participation, thanks for the publicity!
The 1914 Christmas truce demonstrates otherwise as five months of fighting was insufficient to guarantee hate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce

It’s surprisingly difficult to train civilians to kill each other, but governments have discovered how. You don’t do it on the front lines, you do it before they get to the battle field.
Stripe's Gross Transactions Volume
Does anyone have a good guess of Stripe's Gross Transaction Volume? Stripe is incredibly secretive about this number - the only semblance of a recent disclosure i could find said "hundreds of billions"
What's painfully ironic is that he reads it as an "attack" on Christians, when it's actually an ethical brotherly life-affirming attempt to prevent Christians from killing themselves AND other people.

When Christians kill other people or themselves, they go to hell (if you take their believes at face value). They should be THANKFUL to the people who are "attacking" them so they don't kill other people, kill themselves, then go to hell.
It is good to have that exception. Here in Portland, Oregon they are saying that the main issue is that finding long term housing, normally in short supply here, is now almost impossible.
As a result of our enjoyment of this luxury I think it's perfectly rationale that the market responds by increasing compensation for these jobs that don't have that luxury and maybe correct the insane wage disparity between folks that need to continue doing manual labour and all of those that can work through our computers alone.

As a bonus, we might just start addressing the extreme and ridiculous levels of wealth inequality we have in society today through that process.
1) Are other countries also trusting these KN95 masks? Why are they so much easier to get?

2) Is there any other viable reason they are not on the approved list? I don't put a lot of stock in the goodwill of the US executive branch either, but it seems some journalistic questions were skipped.
Interesting. Albert Einstein famously said his child-like curiosity is what led him to theorise about space-time continuum [0]. He thought, a child-like inquisitiveness was key to what he did [1]. On asking questions, he said: "Most teachers waste their time by asking questions that are intended to discover what a pupil does not know, whereas the true art of questioning is to discover what the pupil does know or is capable of knowing" [2].

Here's a contrasting article that I remember very vividly [3]. For me, after reading it, I felt that it was perhaps okay to admit not knowing things one ought to know because it opened up an avenue to honestly engage in a thoughtful discussion with people who might know more. I can't really say if it changed how folks around me perceived me, but I didn't really feel awkward anymore answering queries with a "I don't know but...".

[0] https://www.azquotes.com/quote/616908

[1] https://www.azquotes.com/quote/405452

[2] https://www.azquotes.com/quote/1242866

[3] https://42floors.com/blog/startups/i-dont-know
three-dimensional space => three particle families ;-)
We all have our own mental models of the world and expectations that derive from them. I don’t think that the parent is trying to say that their intuition is more plausible, only stating their surprise.
I love the collaboration and the hard work everyone is putting together on the project. You should join us.
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Just wait for people in the comments to mention how Buzzfeed News is completely different from normal Buzzfeed and they're actually highly respectable because of one reward they received.
https://dl.acm.org/action/doSearch?AllField=HOPL&startPage=&...
I don't disagree with your comment. There are probably collectors who think like that. But I guess most collectors really like to show off their collections. Why having a good art collection if you cannot show it to anyone?
Along with health workers and delivery drivers they're the people society actually depends on
we don't know; the data that personality generated isn't helpful!

See here: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/hydroxychloroquine-and-azit...

the results are so uninterpretable as to not help the SNR on the issue.
its not only Netherlands but other countries such as Turkey, Spain:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52092395
matrix/riot.im?
TIL virus in Czechia lives on surface infinitely

in rest of the world maximum 9 days
Well I guess this sort of stuff happens when you outsource manufacturing for a generation.
Bonkers! Surely there must be a market for this? Also, I get that the selling point of heroku is kind of AWS for dummies, so you are probably slightly less likely to mess up because of that, but it's still some auto-scale-this, click together-that kinda of service. As far as hosting models are concerned, getting a dedicated box and running the stuff you want seems far safer, no?
Except that the British succeeded in doing such spoofing in WWII.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspidistra_(transmitter)
Meetup is not Twitter, YouTube, Spotify or Facebook. A single Digital Ocean $5 droplet should easily be able to handle 15 000 created events a day with all their RSVPs.
I sorta agree. For me anything made after WWII isn't really antique. "Vintage" maybe. That Graphic View II he used was manufactured until 1967 and likely used professionally for many decades after.
This might be an unpopular opinion around here, but this is an obvious area for bold public investment. Countless startups sprung out of public investment into basic research during the 20th century. And places like Bell Labs spent more on R&D due to the tax situation of the time. Beginning in the 70s and 80s, investors began to push for lower and lower capital gains taxes. So, I guess I'm saying that if you're an investor and you want more research into basic science, we could release the vice grip on capital gains rates and let the public pour a ton of money into it.

I'm hoping for this to provoke a rational conversation and not a political flame-war – so, please respond fair-mindedly.
> what algorithms are at work? How does the game process the telemetry?

The term you likely want to put into Google is "gesture recognition".

Sadly it's hard to tell exactly how Ubisoft are doing it - since they're not about to put Just Dance on GitHub any time soon - but Schlömer's 2008 paper [1] about the Wiigee gesture recognition library [2] describes one possible approach using k-means clustering, hidden Markov models and Bayesian classifiers to recognize gestures based on the accelerometer in the Wiimote (similar to the one in the Joycon).

I'm guessing that the game regularly polls the Joycon's accelerometer, fires off events when a gesture (like a hand motion) is recognized, and scores you based on how close in time you were to the expected time of that gesture (with additional points for being closer to an "ideal" gesture).

> For calibrating the songs, do they capture many dancers/repetitions and average it, or do they take the data from one good performance?

The former, both to gather gesture training data and to playtest it.

Since it's just a game, they can take a lot of liberties with what constitutes "accurate" dancing - it's far more fun to play if the game occasionally classifies a misstep as a perfect dance move and gives you a freebie, than if it consistently treats correct moves as missteps.

[1] http://wiigee.org/download_files/gesture_recognition_with_a_...

[2] http://wiigee.org/
There are still photographers shooting 4x5 in DC professionally with the press core. One is David Burnett and the other I can't remember off hand, but he's been shooting 4x5 of the congressional hearings. You just can't beat the quality of large format. With Kodak releasing Ektachrome in 4x5 this last January I've been shooting more and more of it. It's expensive for chromes, but shooting HP5 sheets is pretty cheap for the quality of the output in the end.
React Hooks for Remote Data Fetching
And they just opened this up today!
https://dl.acm.org/action/doSearch?AllField=HOPL&startPage=&...
For those that can't get enough CRDT info, I've got a list going at https://github.com/alangibson/awesome-crdt.

Mine definitely doesn't have the name pedigree though, given that 3 of the biggest names in CRDT research run crdt.tech. Keep up the good work!
The natural question now is how much the i9-10980HK differs from the 9980HK that the 4800HS seems to trounce handily. Judging by the fact that it's still on some iteration of 14nm(++++++), it looks to be more of the same strategy of aggressive turbo to hopefully compensate for lackluster IPC.

Hope to see more high performance AMD laptop design wins as a result!
>Despite what films will depict, people fighting on the front lines in a war do not have a begrudgingly respect for each other. They hate eachother in a way most people probably cannot understand. Many would not pass up the opportunity to rid the world of what they see as the most evil upon its face unto the very last minute.

So... either you're some kind of omniscient telepath, or you're making this insight of yours up because you believe it should be true.
KN95 spec allows a percentage of unfiltered air to be inhaled which kinda defeats the purpose no?
that for the ads of that specific video? Or uploading a few of these would make the whole channel un-monetizable?

I mean,YT now has restrictions on how much engagement you need before you start monetizing. One could use those videos to bump up the numbers, and then monetize their real videos
I'm not sure what this has to do with anything. If they are fakes, they could just as easily be falsely labelled N95 as KN95, right? What am I missing?
Here's a link to the actual source, rather than that garbage news article: https://nihrecord.nih.gov/2016/07/01/much-biomedical-researc...
Simple. March them to the front lines and say "If you don't kill them, they'll try to kill you. Go get em!" And lo and behold! they were told the same thing, so everybody starts shooting.
Mobile version: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/ae5dda8...
On the impact of Covid-19, the future of work, and what to expect in the future
It's not that it's impossible, it's just that expectations are generally low when it comes to JS code quality.
I don't quite get it. Why can't I just enforce schema validation in my pub/sub handlers?

I see the YAML example completed here: https://www.asyncapi.com/docs/getting-started/servers/

asyncapi: 2.0.0
info:
title: Hello world application
version: '0.1.0'
servers:
production:
url: broker.mycompany.com
protocol: amqp
description: This is "My Company" broker.
channels:
hello:
publish:
message:
payload:
type: string
pattern: '^hello .+$'

This looks like a thin wrapper around sending a message to a message queue. What's the gain?

Where do you define what to do as a subscriber?
If students can't get the money prices cannot go up without a drop in enrollment thus students need a way to get money. That is why more money enables prices to go up, the alternative of going without becomes forced if students (other than the rich) cannot raise the money.

However the ability change more doesn't force it. Administration could presumably keep prices down instead of - here I have no idea what they are spending it on.

This lack of knowledge means that I cannot comment more. My opinion on using the money to pay more teachers thus reducing class size is very different from my opinion on private jets to some exotic vacation. (I don't think either of the above are the case but I could be wrong)
I recently had an incident with a roll-fed plotter.

It's not printing. Message onscreen complains of incorrect paper size. Tell printer to print anyway.

It starts dumping the roll through, completely blank. Cancel just hangs. Power button does nothing. 10m of roll gone already.

Fuck it, I'll just manually roll it backwards onto the roll. I pull the power plug. I plug it back in.

First thing the plotter does is cut the paper off. Fuck.

TL;DR: My nieces and nephews are not short of paper for drawing on.
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Supposing a total lack of basic human good will towards their fellow human- which I don't assume they do not have- they are dependent on the good will of the public which is not absolutely bottomless. Serious answer, not snark.
Those are problems that can be left alone until they actually become issues, which would probably be the case once the hypothetical service has become successful; in that case, there should be enough cash flow and minimal overhead needed to implement/hire moderation. But if you're spending all your money on building rent, fancy office equipment, lots of bureaucracy, etc., then of course moderation is going to become difficult.

These problems can be mitigated early on by charging meetup organizers. If a $20 a month is too much, then it probably doesn't belong on a meetup site. It's enough that anyone willing to abuse the system will take the path of least resistance and use Eventbrite to host webinars.

Any other meetup communication should be made unappealing enough that moderation rarely becomes an issue. It should be possible for people on meetup to communicate, but it should be a second class citizen to however the organizers communicate with group members. Any forums that are part of meetups should suck just enough that nobody wants to use them unless they are serious about communicating something.

There are creative ways to handle moderation that don't require obscene amounts of money or employees.
Every mask will allow some fraction of unfiltered air to be inhaled. The question is: how much is permissible?
Seems similar to xray ortho film, green or blue sensitive, and is pretty cheap.
How did China beat the Corona virus?
Depends on your skills and how much money your looking to make.
Wouldn’t that be true of any mask?
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I think the point is that the 3rd paragraph is one sentence with 35 semicolons. Generally, a sentence should hold one or two ideas, but this one is a mixture of a lot of ideas. Hence, one might call it a farrago.

Personally, I think I'm OK with this use, as it's supposed to be a kind of list after the colon. Isn't the proper use of semicolons somewhat subjective, anyways?
Given that there have been various reports of fake masks and test kits coming out of Chinese factories, I kind of don't blame them for this one.
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Open offices are great if you don't optimize for people per square meter. I did my onboarding in Boston. The company just moved to this office so there was a ton of space. Teams were far apart so it wasn't noisy. And this open space just felt great. I never worked in an open office so I was sold

A year later when I visited there were twice as many people. It was still okay to work there but noisier.

The last time when I visited was really bad. Desks everywhere, people 1 meter apart. I couldn't really work there in a productive way.

We should start to build offices for "free range" engineers.
> 14nm(++++++)

What do you mean by this?
In this interview Professor Kim Woo-joo describes a similar incident in Korea, where a choir contracted the virus.
He adds that 5um is the min for 'droplet' infection, and that if the droplets remain airborne they can desiccate, and shrink , and then move from 'droplet' to 'aerosol'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAk7aX5hksU&t=923s