skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's just a variant of the square-cube law. An owl the size of a passenger jet wouldn't.
didn't know Catalina was a California location either, to me is just a female name. I actually though she might be a contributor to SSH project.
The link I included shows Americans being 20 pounds heavier on average.
It has always provided the option to select between Dark Sky, Weather Bit or AccuWeather. So while Dark Sky may go away, at least there are two other options, and hopefully they'll add others in light of this news.
Air pollution drops in European cities: how does your street look?
That's about 130 miles as the crow flies.
Nearly all public repos of the devloper are using mainly JS, so I assume he's a JS dev and thus just uses the tools he knows the best.
With Medical Equipment in Short Supply, 3-D Printing Steps Up in Coronavirus Cr
There may be some evolutionary aspects, but mostly it's a consequence of our culture. When disposable one-use items and containers did not exist, society was fine (for the most part). We would be fine if they largely disappeared as well. What ultimately allowed the shift to occur was that the externalities of disposables were never correctly priced into their production and usage. We can certainly fix that.
Quick-release Watch Strap PVD Loop 18 20 22mm
Computer Spacegames (1982) [pdf]
The bitcode variant used by Apple for their OSes tends to be more clean in that regard.
I live in germany. German has not tested extensively or even early. In Germany, I have been trying to buy a mask since 3 weeks and you cant even buy it because its sold out.

Germany has acted like a fail state here.

I am suprised how germany has managed to keep such a low death rate because Merkels response to COVID has been worst than developing (so called 3rd world) countries.
I was looking at P-wave earthquake alarms after a viral video showed a group of cats simultaneously recognizing the sound/vibration of a P-wave. They're only about $50 USD. Anyone ever tried them and do they work?
Why on earth did Prisma take the choice to move away from a brilliant automatic GraphQL backend as a service to some kind of weird ORM?

Prisma became relevant during their Prisma 1 time, it was one of the first solutions to automatically generate GraphQL endpoints from DB schemas. It only had to keep going this way to lead the whole market. But they chose not too, and competing solutions such as Graphile beats prisma 1 so much now.

Meanwhile they have been stuck for 2 years in their new weird direction of Prisma 2, with no results to show for, and no clear vision. The GraphQL server is gone, even though it was central to their product. Who cares about yet another ORM? I can generate types from any GraphQL endpoint automatically anyway!
There should be a drop down menu for the US plus nine other countries. On my phone, I found it at the bottom of the page under the word "International."

Direct links:

BR (Portugues):
https://www.textbroker.com.br/

Deutsch:
https://www.textbroker.de/

Espanol:
https://www.textbroker.es/

Francais:
https://www.textbroker.fr/

Italiano:
https://www.textbroker.it/

Nederlands:
https://www.textbroker.nl/

Polski:
https://www.textbroker.pl/

PT (Portugues):
https://www.textbroker.pt/

UK:
https://www.textbroker.co.uk/
When you decentralize your event, the community cancels it themselves
> Microsoft Windows is a successful platform that has a network effect and charges customers.

This isn’t really true anymore…
Except that those concepts are also available in Modula-2, Ada, Object Pascal, PL/I, Basic among other possibilities.
Italy’s Mild Flu Season May Solve Mystery of Coronavirus Deaths
Not really moving, more providing the option. Given that iOS and desktop are two separate versions, with new licenses required for upgrades...
> Maybe there's 10 people who aren't signalling for every one you see, but you have no way of knowing because they're not signalling.

The non-signalling 10 others are then cast as "following" the trends set by a signalling one.
I thought weather underground was crowd sourced from user weather stations.
Obligatory: Shut-up, Beavis.
How is it that spiders/bots are able to "index" copyrighted content? Is it just one of those things where the ends justify the means or a holdover/tradition or some such?
> there's no reason to believe they won't use Swift to force developers to buy and run Macbooks

Other than the fact that there has been no signs of this in the past five years?
Never liked the touchscreen on my car. Tactile buttons are easier to control when your eyes are on the road.
Vaccines should be the better idea rather go behind launching tons of ventilators.
Even there were people not educated and still not care about the issues. For those people antivirals don't be the right choice, looks like vaccines are the best prevention - Early vaccines.
How about trying the Ebola vaccines - I think that can be a preventive measure right.?
Agreed, I thought 8 weeks was very low for a lay-off based on what I’ve heard from others.
> The hope that iPhone 9 will not be a gigantic phone and it might actually be around the size of SE.

Rumors point to a big phone :(
Links are still the super-major-almost-100% factor in determining ranking though, whether you call it PageRank or some other algorithm.

It's why buying expired domains and throwing your totally unrelated content on them works great.

It's why subdomain/folder leasing is a thing where affiliate sites will pay "high PR" sites to reverse proxy a subdomain or folder to them and (that's the important part) link to it from their main site. And boy, does that work. The same content that would be > page 100 suddenly is in the top 3.

There are other factors, but they don't matter nearly as much as Google's "we have 200 factors that contribute to the ranking" stuff makes it seem. You can throw the most atrocious low quality content on a site with lots of incoming links and it will rank at the top.
The original post was about 'projects', not code snippets.

If you've done any serious (large, long, multi-team) projects in a dynamically-typed language, you know how quickly they turn into a big ball of mud where you're spending more time refactoring your refactorings than writing useful code.
DevOps Tool
Where's the troll?

Ah, the guy at the top left.
Easy to disable within Unity itself + you have a shitload of other DEs/WMs to choose from anyway.
The company definitely collected money for the calls. It was the equivalent of a 976 number in the US, that bills by the fraction of a minute. The long distance charges would have gone to the phone company, but I'm fairly certain the company would keep the bulk of the bill. I don't have any insider info, but this was a common scam back in those days. https://www.newbedfordguide.com/caribbean-phone-scam/2014/01...
Maybe because it wouldn’t solve the problem? Building a great product requires so much more than just the money needed to do it. If money was the only thing required, no startup would probably exist and everything would be built by either governments or large corporations.
And Workflow is one the better acquisitions…
Ok let's rephrase then: can those mini-brains be a "you"?
>> including data corruption and lost

Im using TypeORM and happy to learn if it is so. Can you please show any relevant issues for it ?

It would be interesting to understand how data corruption and lost happens at ORM level!

The gist of this conversation is - passionate open source devs outdo many folds in their work yet fail to monetise their work. And a VC backed company here has little to show for apart from they've managed to trend in HN!
This is my experience as well ... and healthcare and education costs have also gone up much faster than the stated rate of inflation. There are a few areas --- like consumer electronics and maybe food --- where this isn't the case or prices have actually gone down, but only a very few.
Seismology on Venus with infrasound observations from balloon and orbit [pdf]
Why has Zoom picked up so much? Hangouts, Skype, facebook all are established with video group calling functionality
The problem is that bundling is only considered problematic if your product is in a monopoly position. Bundling Internet Explorer was problematic for Windows because Windows was considered to have a monopoly in the OS market.
If you decide its not a hobby, what does the intended audience say when they say they aren’t interested?
Passwords Are Obsolete – How to Secure Your App and Protect Your Users
You had to pay for Algol compilers, while C came for free with UNIX tapes that landed on university labs out of Bell Labs.
> Zoom realized that the install process was a significant barrier and did more than anyone else to lower that barrier

Yes. By installing a local web server on every users PC, which was prone to remote execution exploits.

They really don’t give a shit about security and actively try to subvert every security measure put in place by browser and OS-vendors.

Why anyone would trust them with anything is beyond me.
Staying Efficient
The difference is baselines and power dynamics. There are many reasons most people cannot negotiate those things in, some don't have any bargaining power (new graduates, people in industries with excess people, or migrant workers), some are not smart/experienced enough to negotiate stuff (again new graduates) and above all not everyone is a lawyer or knowledgeable about how contract language works (legalese is not certainly not English). Nobody should be devoid of basic human decency because a company with a law firm on retainer can use several tactics that a individual cannot.
15+ ML Fairness and Robustness Techniques (Google Colab)
Amazon completely lost my trust due to their poor quality control and flagrant reselling of counterfeit goods. And that makes me hesitant to buy their groceries.

But Covid-19 has kind of forced my hand. They've consistently provided same-day deliveries on Prime Now, whereas Instacart almost never has any available delivery slots, or if they do, the shortest delivery time is almost a week.
> A human calling will wonder what is happening and fill the silence by saying something. A machine will not.

This is a naive assumption. I've come across robocallers that do exactly this. It is sort of trivial, if you think about it.
Learning iOS Programming
Hello, I’d like to get into iOS programming; I already have C/C++ and Java under my belt and have worked in numerous projects using said languages. My interests are mainly low level programming, like systems programming, and I have a strong Linux background, so I’m not afraid to get dirty.

My question is; what’s the best way to go about learning the dev-environment of Xcode and what should I go in expecting?
‘Dictatorships often start in the face of a threat’: UN privacy chief warns
That's true if you don't need recommendations from the people you're working with to get your next job, if you don't want to get promotions (which help you get better jobs down the road!), and if you are content to spend 40 hours a week from now until you retire just coasting through life.

I think a better way to look at it is -- don't be loyal to something that can't be loyal to you. But you can and should let yourself care about the work you're doing and the individuals you're working with. That way, if you do end up leaving when you don't want to, you have accomplishments and a network of people who know what you're capable of. And up until then, you can take pride in what you're doing and feel good about how you're treating the people you're doing it with.
Few things that are "free" handle massive numbers of participants well. Yes, Skype for Business etc can, but those options are commercial. There's also less usable, obscure stuff that does OK.
You're right. Every form of communication indicates signalling, you're literally sending signals from one entity to another. The only way to stop signalling is to stop communication between entities.
I recommend the author's talk about this project (and his blog is a good resource). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlvKAT7SZIQ
While I generally agree that you should use the best tool for the job, for small and simple scripts I see nothing wrong with picking a language your comfortable with.

I wonder, why do you think python is a better alternative? I would understand bash since it is dependency free, but I don't see any advantage for python vs. nodejs
Driver’s Ed isn’t a rite of passage for New York City kids like it is in suburbia. Lots of people just never learned.
Here's the list for this year, first growing season after recovering from the Nov 2018 fire:

- Red, green & yellow bell peppers

- Jalapeños

- Okra

- Heirloom tomatos

- Cherry tomatos

- Yellow squash

- Zucchini

- Watermelon

- Sweet corn

- Sunflowers

Critters we have to deal with:

- Black bears

- Deer

- Crows

- Blue jays

- Turkeys

- Squirrels

- Snails

- Drug addicts who can't see me or the Glock I'm racking
Reminds me of a sci-fi novel "Black oceans" by Jacek Dukaj. It was one of the more interesting themes in there.
I agree there are complications that e2e adds that makes it pretty much unfeasible for something like Zoom. But why is client-side compression not a solution to the problem statement here?
What's the story here and why is this newsworthy?
> educate themselves and negociate better, but again it doesn't always work in practice.

I can't believe this is even a debate topic. How do you expect an engineer to compete with a lawyer who has studied it for years and has been practicing it for a while.
There are many programmers working today who only know Javascript. I can’t speak to whether that’s the situation with OP or not, but it is common to see tools that I personally would write in Python being written today in JS, even sometimes by experienced polyglot programmers. I don’t know about “most”, but it is quite common. It surprised me a bit too, the first time I encountered it.

I don’t think it has much to do with “liked” or “best tool for the job” as much as it is simply “prevalent” or “popular”.
Intel’s DPC++ seems similar - computation graph, communicating via buffers.

https://software.intel.com/en-us/oneapi/dpc-compiler

Anyone pick out differences?
I'm tired of seeing this bashing of the administration. Do I think they did a great job, heck no. But I think they are doing a relatively good job. It seems to be this prayer people keep repeating, the administration screwed this all up. People seem to want this to be true, want it to be all the current admin's fault. I mean there are only really two countries that did everything they could early, Taiwan and South Korea. And it's not clear that the US could have followed everything they did. I think some of the tracking Taiwan did would have definitely been privacy violations and completely illegal here.

I mean, what evidence is there that having a dedicated pandemic team would have helped? This is the same government you just said was incompetent, so why would this have helped? The botched initial testing came from the CDC and FDA, so how did the admin make that happen? And the CDC would have been the same group that had a dedicated pandemic team. You might be able to point at some Trump appointee and say that person was directly responsible for the testing disaster, but I think that's unlikely. What if it turns out an Obama appointee caused the problem? I certainly wouldn't blame Obama for that.

Also, the federal government is not supposed to be this dictator that controls everything in the US. Each state, each county is better equipped to figure out how to handle the crisis. The feds should be helping with logistics and guidelines, but what else? A nationwide lock down might not be good for the entire country. For example, a very rural state, might not really need a lock down. Or it might need a more measured lock down of a few very urban city centers. And would it even be legal for the federal government to order a lock down?

As for leadership at the federal level, the coronavirus task force was created at the end of January. Should it have been created earlier? Maybe if the WHO and the CCP weren't lying their asses off about the disease it would have been. The only thing that allowed Taiwan to handle this better was that they knew the CCP would be lying, so when they heard about a new disease in December, they immediately went into disease protocol mode.

Look, do I think the current US admin is handling this perfectly, no. But they are not doing this horrible job that many people seem to want them to be doing. Maybe if all you ever see is the negative articles you would believe that, but I would urge you to dig deeper. You don't even need to go to some fringe websites to see people saying the admin is doing a good job. And I don't mean looking at Fox News, I mean people on MSNBC and other left leaning networks are not all completely negative.
Traditional BIOS;

The original MSFAT filesystem;

The Master Boot Record;

Windows9x limits on RAM size;

... a lot of what I learnt while messing with Linux 20 years ago simply does not apply anymore.
Artistic Style Transfer with Convolutional Neural Network (2017)
Yes, Unisys ClearPath MCP, written in NEWP, a secure systems language 10 years older than C.

It is still in use, because when governments want safety above anything else, they buy such OSes, not UNIX clones.

https://www.unisys.com/offerings/clearpath-forward/clearpath...
The tables of time taken, at the bottom of the README, do not include units that I could tell. Would personally prefer if it did. For example, if it’s in second you could change the column titles in each of the two tables to add the word “seconds” in parentheses for the columns that have the times taken listed.
The password doesnt do anything for teachers who dont know how to use zoom. And people are not stumbling upon links. What happens is one kid sends the link to a bunch of other people, with the password, who can then join since zoom doesnt require accounts. There are obviously ways to alleviate this like the waiting room feature, or muting everyone and turning chat off, but the problem is that most teachers arent trained well with zooms capabilities and weaknesses.
Unified Patent Court halt sales of ventilators across Europe
Thanks!

Year 2038 Problem > Solutions is already updated re: 5.6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
Is this the lockdown speaking? Thanks, I needed something light.
Zoom is leaking some user information
I used Dark Sky API for plotting weather (temperature) data against COVID-19 cases. Of the other weather API services, I found this to be most comprehensive for historical weather data; although I doubt whether there is any universal weather API which provides 'actual historical recorded weather data' instead of forecasted data.

I emailed Dark Sky's sales team several weeks back reg API usage and didn't receive any reply; I presumed it could be because of quarantine and didn't follow it up. But, now I feel it could be because of the uncertainty from their sale to Apple although the blog says that the API will function till the end of 2021.

[1]https://abishekmuthian.com/covid-19-temperature-correlation/
Ah you're right, thanks! I didn't notice the comments here before, will fix.
Intel’s OneAPI promises to translate away from CUDA: https://software.intel.com/oneapi
Nice. Can this return complete json objects ready for use from the stream or must I buffer it into a string? Is it possible to set the delimiter?

Can it be used to stream a human formatted JSON file from s3 that contains an array with objects? I mean one that isn't newline delimited, with complete object on each row.
Removing the Android and Wear OS apps? how very Apple
The lack of a static copy of the wiki really sucks but it's understandable that a mediawiki install would be pulled indefinitely. Mediawiki racks up a dozen CVEs in an average year and even a single one of those is an opportunity to perform watering hole attacks on every UE licensee. Getting RCE on a single UE customer's machine is an opportunity for million+-dollar industrial espionage - it's not uncommon for someone to get a copy of a game's source code and try to extort the developer for cash. We generally only know about the cases where the extortion fails...

It's possible that really aggressive security measures could mostly prevent that but even if you were to patch weekly that won't stop someone from pairing an undisclosed mediawiki attack with some other attack that isn't well-known. A game studio's machines are probably using LTS versions of Firefox or Chrome w/slower update cadence, which potentially means multiple days of vulnerability even after an exploit is patched.

Also, now that Epic processes credit card payments (Epic Store, etc) it's possible the mediawiki install would prevent them from passing PCI-DSS audits.
That could be said of almost any ex vivo model right?
Yup, and since VSCode and IntelliJ both used too much RAM, I needed to switch to Emacs on my old dell laptop, yet it used to be that people mocked Emacs for using too much RAM, in fact, the joke was that Emacs stood for: Eight megabytes and constantly swapping.

The wheel just goes round and round :p
In my opinion, every solution that uses existing infrastructure and services is a good one. Because time is the main issue.

One big difference between this crisis and past catastrophes, which a lot of organizations are well prepared to handle, is, that noye all infrastructure is intact. Processes and supply chains are disrupted on a global scale, so.

Comparing that to, say, the tsunami catastrophes. In these cases, infrastructure was destroyed locally or, at the worst case, regional. The challenge was to build ad-hoc infrastructure to get stuff out of the global supply chains to the region. This approach doesn't work now.

I like the idea if piggybacking on food delivery services. There should be at least one in every village, or at least near by. It could run decentralized. And the principal would scale pretty well.
F-ing A. I haven't left the house in three weeks and have a year of basic food (3 months of most things). To me, people who continue at this time the European-style habits of shopping at markets every 1-2 days or even every 1-2 weeks like most Americans are dangerously stupid.

Also, after waiting on Instacart customer support for 6 hours today without anyone answering or resolution to missing, damaged goods, and wrong quantities in a single order, even though they're YC alum, I can't honestly use them again (sorry folks). I'd rather make a trip to the markets every 6 months in indirect vent/non-vented goggles and a solid N95 NIOSH mask than pay someone else $60 to buy terrible produce and throw bags onto the ground without any care.

PS: We're "autoclaving" the mail at 170 F for 30 minutes to denature any enveloped virus "guests" and letting packages rest in the garage for 4 days before handling them.
Author here. I also prefer metric in general, but the "6 feet" guideline has been so recognizable that I decided to convert to imperial to preserve it. It also helps compare with San Francisco where I live, which is famously 7x7 miles.
https://groups.oist.jp/qwmu/tsumoru-shintake

This does indeed appear to be a serious researcher.
That's a shame. This monitor is spectacular over DisplayPort with my good old 2015 MBP.
View Python Documentation Using Pydoc
When all you have is a hammer everything looks like a hook.
Huh, I chose a random date from the year before I was born and use it whenever sites ask for my birthday. I’ve never had one come back and say that isn’t really my birthday.
What I really hate about touchscreen, and love with analog input, is the "speed control" of rotary dials.

For example, if you want to change the air speed of your ventilation system down to zero from max, a quick rotation of your vent speed knob will bring it back to zero and you can rotate it back to put it to one, without looking.

With touchscreen, it's hard to do the same without looking.
A somewhat similar product that helps visualise application configuration and troubleshoot issues

https://kubevious.io/
Or emojis?
It depends. Do you own rental property?