skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you were trolling, but you were addressing the mods while aiming at the users, which is a coy sort of tactic to have a meta-discussion. Why not be more direct and address the community about whether a broader range of acceptable topics is desired?
There is no Opera anymore, just some Chinese scam vehicle https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/01/21/opera-predatory-loa...
cough JS cough
What's with everyone's obsession with treating html like assembly: "Only people with long white hair and beards, magic wands and capes know html... Like... Like Gandalf, bruh!"

General question, it's been my main criticism towards all the modern js "frameworks" like react, vue and whatnot. Seriously, what gives?
I would understand if you were trying to do a cost benefit analysis between saving lives versus saving the economy but it sounds like you're trying to frame this to focus on semantic differences between closing roads vs closing the economy temporarily. Baq's point is that mortality rates from the covid 19 grow at exponential rate compared to car fatalities which are flat YOY. If you let covid 19 continue to spread, about everyone will be infected, of which 1% will die - young and old - because we will have overwhelmed our healthcare system. This is why the road analogy is flawed.
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There’s no law that I’m aware of prohibiting April fool’s jokes. If you can stomach other people’s disapproval, you can fill your boots without fear of government intervention.

Your willingness to support the lockdown is no doubt based on the evidence that expert scientists have presented to the government; that’s about as far from arbitrary decree as you can get.

Is it dangerous? Absolutely. The counterweight to the government seizing and consolidating their new powers and running amok with them is democracy. That’s what we’re doing here: remembering our right to free speech, and asserting it. It’s perfectly reasonable and compatible with democracy to recognise that some freedoms have been suspended for epidemiological reasons; you’d have to be a hopeless ideologue to want to assert the right to assemble right now.
That's what I meant by unusable. Web browsing[1] is unusably slow if you have these packet loss rates. Look at eg p6 graph here: https://netcraftsmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/20120410...

[1] and other non-interactive apps like social media
Nintendo's official development manual is available at archive.org [0]. However, AFAICT it is rather low-quality and incomplete, and it pales in comparison to the wealth of documentation created by years of reverse-engineering effort from hobbyists like byuu.

I imagine that the official documentation was leaked rather than publicly released. Nintendo wants to make money selling re-releases of classic games, so they are extremely unfriendly towards emulator developers. Just look at the all the propaganda on their corporate website: "The introduction of emulators created to play illegally copied Nintendo software represents the greatest threat to date to the intellectual property rights of video game developers [...] Such emulators have the potential to significantly damage a worldwide entertainment software industry which generates over $15 billion annually, and tens of thousands of jobs." [1]

[0]: https://archive.org/details/SNESDevManual/mode/2up
[1]: https://www.nintendo.com/corp/legal.jsp
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What the heck?!? This is awesome!!!
SoftBank terminates $3B WeWork tender offer
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There are online learning platforms like Coursera, Edx, Udemy, Khan Academy and Shaw Academy. If you just want to upgrade your skills and don't require any certificate. Then I will recommend Udemy, Khan academy or Shaw academy.
In case, you want the university accredited course certificate in investing and finance mgmt, you should enroll in Coursera or Edx courses.
However, Coursera and Edx courses are costlier than other platforms.
If you want to compare all MOOC platforms, you should visit to course reporter blog.
4th of Jan?

;)
"Please know that I believe we must strike an appropriate balance between personal privacy and public safety."

Why do you believe that, Dianne? Do you disagree with the spirit of the Fourth Amendment? Are invasions of personal privacy only justified by probable cause, or is that not the case? What is your standard for the "appropriate balance"?

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Is it even worth assuming sincerity with somebody like Feinstein? Child pornography is a heinous crime, but not nearly as heinous as using child pornography as a lever for industrial scale human rights abuses. Frauds and/or useful idiots.
I've previously alerted the mods to threads of discussion within a post where one user was calling for the mods to nuke a blatantly anti-semitic post, and I emailed them. My email got a response, the plaintive posts in the thread didn't, and the mods said you need to email them to get their attention [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21003570
http://archive.md/m4yrZ
Other than the 1200Mhz [0] from the 6Ghz Band, the requirement of 6Ghz Certification ( New WiFi Chip, Antenna, and FCC Certs ) means that WiFi 6E brings opportunity to fix everything that went wrong with WiFi 6.

The Current WiFi 6 clients and router have OFDMA problems, some are not turned on by default, some require firmware upgrade which you can guarantee wont happen with lots of users, many do not support 80+80Mhz / 160Mhz.

Without some of these features, current WiFi 6 / 802.11ax is nothing more than WiFi 5.5 or a slightly improved 802.11ac Wave 2.

I hope next generation WiFi6E client [1] and Router fixes all these problems.

[0] 1200Mhz only in US, Europe and UK are only getting 500Mhz and are on similar time frame with US. No idea on the scheduled in rest of the work.

[1] https://www.broadcom.com/products/wireless/wireless-lan-blue...
I learned this in control systems in electrical engineering course. Maybe graduate courses do have PID for CS majors, but haven't seen them yet
I don't use video conferencing myself; I do not have a video camera. I use email, and I have also used a direct connection (with a command like "ts | tee | nc | ts | tee", and then the two output files can be combined and sorted to produce a transcript. I also sometimes talk on the telephone.
Dexecure – Save Internet Bandwidth for your users
> Btw, in these days I learned that Duo is still alive.

Duo is great actually, me and my family use it all the time. WhatsApp video calls are pretty bad imho, they tend to show a lot of artifacts and not be very fluent in general. Duos on the other hands looks pretty good, no matter if you're on WiFi or 4G.

The biggest benefit however is the fact, that the user interface is so incredibly simple. For apps like WhatsApp video calling is just an secundary feature, for Duos its the main focus. I never had to explain anything about Duos to my parents, but they still know how to use it with me and their friends.

However, I don't feel like Google is putting a lot of effort into bringing Duos forward, so I wouldn't be surprised if they'd shut it down as well.

(Also, the high install count is probably just because some devices come with Duos preinstalled, although I don't know when its counted as an install in the PlayStore)
Before I respond, just want to say I am trying to be respectful, and not start a flame war. I value the high quality discussion that happens on HN

> That’s like, just your opinion, man.

It is my opinion that if any siting president (of any party) can abuse FISA court to spy on an opponents presidential campaign, the US democracy is in trouble

> Hungary established dictatorship
> See, this one actually did fundamentally change how government works.

Spying on a presidential campaign is in my opinion a fundamental change in how US government works.
I don't think so. From their docs:
> This section describe the scripts or executable that will be installed when installing the package

I want something such that I can run `poetry run script_name` and it will run that command line in the poetry context. Right now I either rely on my bash history or use a bash script to mimic the behavior of npm / yarn scripts. I want to turn this `poetry run python project_name/main.py` into an alias like `poetry run main` or `poetry run dev`.
Would you care to elaborate? I am not familiar with this line of thought.
Meteor over Florida
One of the teachers in my wife's school was having the students research the government and asked them to find the address of the President of the United States. Well, most of them typed in "whitehouse.com", which at the time was a porn site. The teacher had to rush around the room turning off the monitors and dealing with the chaos. The site they should have visited was "whitehouse.gov" but they didn't know that. Something like 1.1.1.1 for Families would have prevented this from happening.

I work closely with the school and am keenly aware of the dangers of censorship. We do NOT want to block access to some things that sound like they could be "bad" (ie. Essex England, breast cancer, etc.) However, that doesn't mean its a free for all where you can go anywhere and see anything. The Internet is a really, really big place for a 1st grader.
Ah I see, that makes sense. Shadow DOM definitely offers much stronger style encapsulation than a React component where you can only "enforce" that components shouldn't reach into it to style internals by convention.
Usually it's the most imaginative startups that are more likely to fail since they are often ahead of their time. Google has plenty of moonshot initiatives going for them that are full of imagination.
Oh cool. I've heard good things about Cadence, mostly in the context of big-data pipelines.

Way off topic, but one of the projects I worked on at LiveRamp (before CloudWright) was our (originally internal) big-data workflow engine, which I did eventually OSS: https://github.com/liveRamp/workflow2/. It has a lot of overlap with Cadence, except in Java with a lot of native Hadoop features. Never built a community though, we didn't do a great job cultivating one.

I think there are a lot of niches in the low-code pipeline space, with regards to integrations, users, and interface. Good luck with the release!
Server as Ventilators for Corona
In case of a major shortage in ventilators, I know that servers like Dell R series and HP; can have adjustable variable fan speed, and they are very powerful it can be used for ventilators. It could with a small connector on the back of the server be attached to something like a valve mask to provide oxigen to the patient. It would be only a matter of programing the fans / driver for such. Any Ideas hanging out there ?
Thank,
Stay Safe,
Fabio from San Mateo
> Commercial use includes funded academic research

That’s a very strange definition of commercial projects. Research works by getting external funding precisely because the results aren’t usually directly commercialisable.
Comorbidities include obesity, hypertension, diabetes. To exclude covid deaths because of those would be just as absurd as that prostate cancer statement.
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A message in the right direction, but they need to solve the recent macOS security issues. Let’s give them the time to (transparently) correct all the recently reported issues.
Perhaps we should be asking ourselves if our current system is flawed if have to choose to kill millions of people to keep the economy afloat. Certainly poor people will be greatly affected by the shutdown but to me that shows clear need for systematic change. Perhaps universal basic income isn't so wild an idea after all.
Would you volunteer to get the coronavirus?
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Cisco rations VPNs for staff as strain of 100k home workers hits its network
Sounds like you used the site as intended.

On a website whose primary audience is technology professionals, it's reasonable to assume that a significant portion of the audience can recognise the version name of a computer operating system that is at least the second most-popular in the world, and possibly the most popular among this site's audience.

But it's also part of HN's ethos that not everything has to be spelled out all the time, and that it's OK if users sometimes have to "work a little":

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
If I appeared coy, I am sorry. That was not my intention.

I've seen comments in several previous HN discussions respectfully address the mods. Based on this I assumed it was fair to address comments to mods if it helps improve quality of HN discussion.
Sorry for the delay, but I only saw this now.

The way you promote your product on HN is so aggressive as to amount to spamming, and you've been doing it for years: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Nearly every comment you post has some cunning (or not so cunning) promotional reference baked into it. Examples are legion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22252497. Your rare comments that don't include something like this are so boilerplate as to come across as shameless padding.

I asked you to stop this 2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17000657. You've kept doing it.

Given that we've banned countless other users for lesser abuses, and given the regularity with which this pattern devolves into user complaints and off-topic flamewars like the current thread and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22499177, I think it's time to bite the bullet and ban your account. I don't really want to—which is no doubt why it's taken so long—but you're clearly not using this site in good faith, and enough is enough.
Tried a couple of writing prompts. Some generations were quite good and some rather inspiring.

I continued a few times but the quality dropped quickly. Clicking again does seem to generate different outcomes.

Will try some more later.
Modern control theory (not counting RL, which is rarely, if ever, used on live controllers) is essentially two camps: PID with tuning and MPC (model predictive control). There is some optimal control theory not in either of these camps, but it’s not the norm.

The latter is often studied under the umbrella of optimization theory (convex optimization mostly), but most aspects of it are well understood for most systems we care about (with some notable exceptions, of course). I wouldn’t quite say that “even control theory PhDs have trouble now” as there is plenty of work done on the field and many cases are quite useful (but they certainly have many topics to choose from for their theses!) :)
I would not use Node as an example of good packaging. It really hasn't been that long since left-pad. Then there's the fact that you still have multiple different tools to do the same thing (npm vs. yarn) and the end result node_modules/ is a fucking mess anyways.

find node_modules/ -name "node_modules" | wc -l
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Link on Ottaviano Petrucci

“He was born in Fossombrone. Around 1490 he went to Venice to learn the art of printing. [...] Petrucci's later work was extraordinary for the complexity of his white mensural notation and the smallness of his font, and he did in fact print the first book of polyphony using movable type.“

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottaviano_Petrucci
It may be the "jitter and other delays". They don't necessarily slow down browsing as much as packetloss. I think modern wifi causes a huge amount of it when other people in the same freq are using lots of bandwidth and it doesn't necessarily manifest as loss.
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The Mistake that Caused 1.1.1.3 to Block LGBTQIA+ Sites Today
Pokemon Card GB2. The game is not too bad, although some cards are not implemented (such as stadium cards), and the AI isn't so good (using Defender uselessly (sometimes on cards which I am not attacking anyways), repeatedly using attacks that don't work, drawing too many cards and then complaining of losing due to running out of cards to draw, failing to retreat even when doing so is free, preferring attacking even in situations where defense is necessary, etc).

I play other computer games too, including ZZT, and some of the BSD games, and some free NES/Famicom games (from the NESdev competition; some are pretty good, such as the Gruniozerca series, and I also like We Are Hejickle).
Fear not. This is not 1984.

Your institutions have a very long history and have seen much, much worse. You barely need a law to protect your most essential right which is to able to confer ('assemble' but really meaning communicate) with others about whatever you want, especially to talk about your government in almost whatever terms you want ... because we have a fairly open Internet or this would be a lot scarier.

You are not locked in at home because of some arbitrary authoritarian measure, there is are very good reasons for this, and though some things will change for good, most of your 'good life' will come back soon enough.

Orban is playing a much more dangerous game, and I fear for the citizens of Hungary. I believe that once the EU gets over the hump, they will deal with Orban. The EU is effete and feckless sometimes, but I think Orban just crossed an actual line. The EU holds the purse, and ultimately Orban is small and poor, and therefore mostly powerless and he will eventually cave like a paper tiger. Or lose an election. Orban has no real cards to play.

Have faith. It's 'mostly' going to be ok.
The same named but unrelated NZ website is doing well. The concept seems to be sound, perhaps it was the marketing, or lack thereof?

https://www.neighbourly.co.nz

I would also suggest that the people who like such a product (neighbourly.co.nz is popular with the Boomers) are not the people who like downloading apps that could be websites.

So yeah, it didn't get as popular as Google would like, but then, how hard did they try?
After they kept it running for 8(!) years.
Something as simple as sorting the unmuted audio to the top of the audio source list when you start streaming would be helpful.
I agree, the way Prime Now removes half the items in your cart is infuriating. Especially when the items are still available and you can manually add them back.
You're suggesting that for a small business, because the value of five minutes of a single employee's time is trifling, the small business does not care to regulate bathroom breaks.

I don't really see it that way. In my view, small businesses abuse their employees just dramatically more than large businesses.

For a small business, a single employee may be the only person working the till. The employee simply won't be allowed to go to the bathroom at all except during designated times.
We have a same named social website in NZ, and it's doing well - but then, it's been advertised substantially. Do Google have a policy against advertising their own products or something?
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I actually don't personally know a single researcher using Haskell, unless you mean PL research, in which case I'd even say that Haskell isn't much of a hot topic these days.
Even if they can't test everyone who dies for Covid-19, I'm sure Italy is recording the total number of deaths. It should be possible to determine how much the total death rate increased each week or month relative to the average death rate over the past few years.

EDIT: I found a non-paywall version of the article on MSN and that's essentially what they're reporting. "Nowhere in Italy has been harder hit than Bergamo, a city of about 120,000 people. In March 2019, 125 people died in the city. This March, 553 people died."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/italys-coronavirus-deat...
Many years ago I did a just for fun project with vvvv, a virtual graffiti wall.

This involved a webcam that captured the graffiti input in form of infrared beacons and two outputs that were projected onto large projector screens - one for drawing and one to show the resulting grafitti to spectators.

I've been a text based coder all my life and had no experience with graphical programming before, but the ease of use and stability of vvvv was just incredible.

I would encourage anyone to try it.
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So do a lot of things our government does. I am glad that my monthly donation to the EFF at the very least is being used to push back.
One advantage is security. The text after the equals sign in each string can't be misinterpreted as HTML syntax, so it's safe to build flat HTML using string concatenation.
That’s a mistaken view. Coase argues precisely that the market would self-regulate by broadcasters determining the spectrum interferences with each other and drafting financial agreements to ameliorate those interferences. Not by having an initial legal monopoly, which was abhorrent to the Chicago School. He believes that the natural institution of private property in the sense of contract through the traditional court system is enough of a regulation and no special regulation (e.g. FCC) is needed.

Section 5 sophisticatedly exposits the specific case on how the free market solves frequency interference in admonishment of the special regulation. Excerpts of his discourse:

“All property rights interfere with the ability of people to use resources.What has to be insured is that the gain from interference more than
offsets the harm it produces. There is no reason to suppose that the optimum situation is one in which there is no interference”

“The operator whose signals were interfered with, if he had the right to stop such interference,would be willing to forego this right if he were paid more than the amount by which the value of his service was decreased by this interference or the costs which he would have to incur to offset it.” He goes on to talk about the case of deliberate interference. This is about deliberate spectrum preference overlap not accidental interference.

And Coase disambiguates his advocation if it still isn’t clear: “What this analysis demonstrates,so far as the radio industry is concerned, is that there is no analytical difference between the problem of interference between operators on a single frequency and that of interference between operators on adjacent frequencies.”

“It has been the burden of this article to
show that the problems posed by the broadcasting industry do not call for any fundamental changes in the legal and economic arrangements which serve other industries.”

You’re mistaking market efficiency, transactional costs and externality. It’s argued that legal rules are necessary to instead reduce externalities by market failures, which existed long before Coase. Coase instead contributed to the limits of cost savings about transaction costs provided by the formation of business and maintenance of markets in The Nature of the Firm (aside from his free market advocation of the spectrum), which became Coase’s theorem.

I’m educated as an Electrical Engineer; it’s clear to us spectrum rivalry isn’t contentious but true. Even amongst a single broadcaster within his own spectrum he runs into constant constraint and trade off by his own bandwidth.

I’m not arguing for or against the ideas of Coase, only correcting that public presentation of his ideas as an interventionist. Especially since Coase didn’t think externalities were unfortunate, instead he thought that was a “dirty word”, and seldom found a case for a government all to eager to specially regulate.
Treasonous.
I suspect this move will ultimately bankrupt the Internet Archive and lead to the wholesale destruction of the (useful) existing service.

There's astonishing hubris involved in launching this product.