skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Half of Netflix's anime productions have been cell-shaded 3D animation and frankly they look like crap. Most western cartoons have managed to keep their 2D animation looking like 2D animation so idk if it's a matter of cost or if the creators actually prefer something that looks like it was animated in Borderlands.
I was once laid off as part of a massive layoff in the late 90s and was not laid off but was around for a massive layoff in the early 2000s. At each company the layoffs were done by having employees join a conference call where a HR rep read off a script letting everyone know they had been laid off. This is just business as usual but with the modern replacement for the conference call being used. It sucks but is it news worthy?
The main performance gotcha to watch out for with hand rolled DOM manipulation is causing a reflow.

Pretty much if you make changes to a DOM element and then read a computed value from it before a new frame renders (like dimensions etc), the browser has to recalculate the page layout before it can return an answer.

Fast: Read -> Modify -> Paint

Slow: Modify -> Read (reflow!) -> Paint

This generally isn’t an issue but if you’re seeing hiccups it’s either GC run wild, synchronous code chewing up the frame budget or frequent reflows.
Why? Easy - just phoning outpatients 2 days later helps with reported post-operative pain and adjustment. Its the human factor. We respond to touch and concern.

Note its not quite placebo - because it provokes actual physiological changes.

My local hospital has a Yoga class for seniors waiting for their Residency postings. Helps a lot to survive the stress. Nothing surprising about that either.
Chinese Word for “Crisis”
I imagine in many cases, what they chose to do in the past matters more than what they are doing now...in terms of survival.

Cash reserves, assets you can get loans on, percentage of workforce that are contractors or professional services, flexible contracts, reasonable real estate costs, for example.
You really could have said all this without being nearly so derisive and insulting.
...and that's using numbers people can sort of begin to fathom so they can get a laugh. That's only 7X. 30C is the "OMG potent" dilution in homeopathy - and that's one part in 10^60.
I'm sort of down for it.

"I don't like cats" is a fairly apolitical statement, that is until such point as political parties start taking stances on cats and arguing in favor of who subsidizes what kinds of feline activities.

I have many beliefs that I regard as accidentally political - which is to say that I believe these things regardless of whether or which politicians happen to agree, or what their political affiliations are, or how closely tied their affiliations are to mine. It doesn't particularly matter to me whether others regard those beliefs as political or not, but it seems that we're approaching an era in which anything and everything can be deemed 'political' in some way merely because parties choose to take positions on them, and that may be completely at odds with how an individual may have come to conclusions on their own.
It's only half a year ago that they started to develop the prototype. In October last year, they switched to steel.
Rust is too complicated for 90% cases. 90% of cases are simpler with GC.
They don't have a Moon plan. They're just developing a "classic" Dragon-2 cargo capsule for potential orders that may be for the Moon or a Moon orbital station.
Only it is not based on touch. The "Reiki Master" quoted in the article says it works just as well at a distance. He also claims that it works on animals and plants and that many cats can perform Reiki on their owners.
I know of one place near me, but if I go posting that all over the internet, they'll be inundated and stop accepting them. It's better that people do their own legwork to keep this decentralized. An alternative would be for someone to do the legwork of calling a lot of hospitals and create a comprehensive list of where masks are needed, which is something I'd be totally into if I weren't inundated with work right now.
I don't think the 'bad' PR is going to be very costly at all.

More like free advertising.

A massive proportion have heard of Zoom this week compared to last because of the PR. Pretty much an ideal free viral marketing campaign!
I know, but my knee still jerked
zoom is not showing real effort to hunker down on privacy.
and can feel its consequences as its stock is already down by 8% over the week
I think GP is saying that SK might be trading short term death rate for long term death rate.
NASA could build OWL (Overwhelmingly Large Telescope) equivalent. The cost would be "just" $1.5 billion.
They will soon enough. I was unlucky enough to own both a Roku XD and a Vizio TV they dropped support for. Why should I have any faith at all they won't decide to sunset everything on the market today after 8K gets popular?
If you're really curious, maybe ask in #cloudflare on freenode. IRC feels more relaxed than email, but in turn I've no idea how long you'd be waiting for a reply. The worst outcome is discovering the issue is due to a site misconfiguration or glitch, but considering that the screenshot is showing "Cloudflare: working" it just might be an issue on CF's end.

The alternate possibility is that the "cloudflare" keyword watcher I'm pretty sure CF runs might cause this whole issue to mysteriously go away :)

(jgrahamc, I'm curious: are you reading this? :D)
Valtan: Common Lisp to JavaScript Compiler
DNA seen through the eyes of a coder: https://berthub.eu/amazing-dna/

Molecular Biology Made Simple and Fun https://www.amazon.com/dp/1889899070
"has literally hauled off 1M muslims to internment campus where their organs are being harvested and their culture is being erased, thing"

Citation needed on the '1M', 'organs...harvested', 'culture...erased'.
'Umbrella manufacturers hate him!'
> Maybe the working definition of politics is different, but if you are not involved in a political party that tries to exercise influence and prescription to others, then I would call one apolitical.

Then I don't think you understand what anarchism is at all, here is a working definition from his Biography [1] portion titled Anarchism; it helps elucidate what it is that anarchism is, and what it seeks to achieve (note that no actual Political affiliation is ascribed or required to adhere to these principals, as anarchism carries within it a breadth of sub-types in its mode of operation but carries within it core principals and values):

The first part of this book describes the life of an anarchist, und perhaps it would not be completely superfluous to make a short statement about what Anarchism is:

Anarchism is a world view whose basis lies in the conviction that the domination of people over each other, and every form of hierarchy, leads to the suppression of individual and collective freedom; that it is unjustified, repressive, and results in violence. Anarchism propagates the dissolving of hierarchical state structures. It places individual freedom, equality and collective self-determination at the center of its effort to create a social organization entirely free of coercion.

If you're interested, as you clearly shown that you are to some degree, you can take the the time to read for yourself how he viewed the World with his other Work [2] outside of mathematics and what his aims were from the links below for yourself. The Grothendieck Circle is also another great source for reading his works, it could use some sprucing up as it looks like an 90s Angelfire site, but the links work.

1: https://webusers.imj-prg.fr/~leila.schneps/grothendieckcircl...

2: http://www.ccnr.org/grothendieck.pdf

* Directly copy and paste those links into browser as they're pdf files.
What Lack of Affection Can Do to You – Psychology Today
At least in the web version is uses the web browser's own element types (text boxes, radio buttons etc) so it could be as accessible as as anything else. I'd expect that to be an option for bindings to OS-native UI kits too.
For true geospatial data models that correctly implement most geospatial predicates and operators your only practical option is PostGIS or Oracle Spatial. This is a very complex and nuanced piece of mathematics and software engineering work that requires writing a massive amount of code, even most closed source databases don't do a real implementation due to the difficulty. Most developers are unaware of just how broken most half-assed implementations are; the databases do just enough to check a box but not actually be useful if you are doing real geospatial work.

Geohashing has a lot of weaknesses and limitations, not really recommended unless your use case is very simple and not primarily geospatial in nature. The modern version was created in the 1990s and implemented by big database companies like Oracle and IBM (based on work in the 1960s and '70s). They deprecated that indexing feature in their database engines a long time ago for good technical reasons that apply to current open source implementations.

Geospatial index performance is very sensitive to temporal and geometry distribution, and the performance variance can be extremely high. For non-trivial applications, the real world will eventually produce data that inadvertently executes a denial of service attack on naive geospatial databases.
It really depends on the quality in my opinion - the bottom line is you can't replace quality and effort when making animation. 2d or 3d can both be ugly or beautiful.

For example Aggretsuko is a 2d anime but the animation is so lifeless and boring (entire scenes are just walk cycles), whereas Beastars is 3d but at the same time very expressive and much more visually interesting, dynamic and experimental.
At most other companies you have a whole hierarchy of executives who want their bonuses, so you have that risk aversion where they will spend tremendous time and resources covering their asses first. Failure is failure, it's not just a step to more improvement in that world.
"done" in what sense? I don't think documentation of a living project is ever finished.
But it is being used because of the networking effect. Just to speak from higher education - do you think colleges had zero connection to zoom before this?

Anecdotal, sure, but I'm betting it's a good indicator - I work at a small, small, small, under-resourced community college in 'average' America. Zoom has been a thing on our campus for at least two years. We never really used it, because we didn't need to. Until about three weeks ago.

We chose it during our crisis planning sessions, because they were already in our space. They got in our space years ago through clever partnerships and integrations with our learning management system (online course delivery platforms). They were the 'preferred provider' according to the LMS teams, both on campus and nationally. They have automatic integration with our accessibility tools for live transcriptions/captions and interpreting. They were the suggested provider by our professional organizations related to disabilities, under-represented students, and ease-of-use technology. Therefore, we use them exclusively now.

Students never saw any of that back-end conversation, because it is literally irrelevant to their experience. But it was there, and it 100% impacted our conscious choice to move to zoom for live meetings.

If we were targeted for all of this, with a student population of <2000, I guaran-damn-tee larger institutions were.
They'll drop devices eventually, but that's likely after a decade.

The manufacturer will drop security support a long, long time before Netflix will.
> something that i don't fully understand - as a healthy person does wearing a mask has any effect?

Yes, of course it has an effect. Why do you think health care workers wear them?
Perhaps reclusive people have more time and energy to dedicate to their craft increasing their skill level and propensity to work night shifts? I'm just spit-ballin'.

Smart people seem to be very good at conceiving a plausible chain of logic for almost anything. Something Star Trek demonstrated well with the the Vulcans. I mean that as no snark towards yourself, it's just a subject I've been thinking about recently.
Unsure why this has not been clarified yet:

HN now has its own https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/92dd8/test_post_pleas... !

Yay. Really. :D
Wearing a mask helps block airborne droplets from the cough or sneeze of an infected person. That said, you need to aware that a mask is not perfect and you should still stay at least 6 feet away from other people. You also need to fit the mask properly and should avoid frequently adjusting the mask and touching your face with unwashed hands.
Just a guess: people already spent more time at home than in other areas so if the absolute amount of time increased at home the same as it decreased elsewhere, the percentage increase is smaller for homes than percentage decrease elsewhere?
Let's say you trust one employee a lot maybe with a 1 in 1,000 chance of defecting. The formula is 1-(1-1/1000)^n, so if you're sacking 1,000 people that's a 63% chance of at least one defection.
If you film the Hollywood sign in a movie, then yes you do have to license that image.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trademark-...
> You keep drawing parallels between Zoom's end-to-end encryption and iMessage's, when there really is little to compare

Once again, in none of my comparisons have I said they are doing the same thing. Please point to a specific comment I have made that you think is misleading.
I've never seen a timeline suggested for this rocket that included getting to orbit before 2020, the earliest rough timelines I can find (circa 2014) have initial test flights in 2020. That seems plausible (if tight) for orbital tests still, and if you count suborbital test flights actually happened ahead of schedule in 2019.

I don't think citing dates like that in a way that implies schedule slippage is fair.
Show HN: Convey – personalized SMS marketing and followups directly from Slack
Hi HN!

We're Kunal and Parthi. We're super excited to launch Convey (https://conveyhq.com), our latest attempt to do everything directly from Slack ;)

Convey lets you do personalized SMS marketing and followups directly from Slack.

Customer communication is getting increasingly personal and businesses want to create an authentic relationship with their users. We're helping e-commerce brands, retail stores, and other online businesses engage with their customers through a format that feels personal - like a friend texting you. SMS is ubiquitous, more widely read than email and feels more intimate.

Here's what you can do with Convey:

️1. Send out personalized SMS campaigns to your customers. Trigger them via API based on user behavior on your site or in your app. Shopify and other marketing integrations in the works

2. Respond with a templated message that still sounds human. We use language models to understand user messages and queue up the best template response so you can edit if necessary and hit send

3. Collaborate with your team on responses in Slack - a very extensive Slack integration makes it possible to initiate and respond to messages while giving your entire team visibility

We're eager to hear your feedback!
You can turn the font size up across the board on iOS. It probably won't help you now, but I figure it's worth stating for anyone else who may have one in this thread.
You can request a refund though the app; Bird Support tells me that they will make this refund. This is especially important given that they require an up-front minimum payment rather than accepting payment as needed.
"[The doctors] concluded that roughly 80% of the people who lost their sense of smell would test positive for the coronavirus, and that somewhere between 30% and 60% of those who had tested positive for the virus had also lost their sense of smell."

covid19? --> ~30-60% chance of loss of smell

loss of smell? --> ~80% chance of covid19 [in the data they collected]
Even before COVID was anyone still using the scooters? Hardly saw them around anymore and the novelty seemed to wear off for most locals at least.
The data around parks & recreation seems really odd to me, does anyone else agree?

Anecdotally, the public parks where I live (Bexar County, Texas) have gotten so busy that I rarely go on weekends anymore because social distancing has been made so difficult. Even after 5pm on weekdays, I've seen a spike in traffic similar to what a really busy weekend would look like. This has been the case at every park I've been to. Since basically any other form of recreation outside the home is no longer available, it makes sense that they're busier.

Perhaps they're including places like theme parks in that category? Bexar County, to my knowledge, doesn't have enough closed state parks to account for the drop in traffic. Obviously, I'm missing something. Maybe people just aren't searching for parks further from them and don't need directions to their closest park.
I am baffled that even in the age of corona the author feels the need to begin a story about proposed vital monitoring methods with a vingette about his father. If the author discovers the secret to medical immortality, will the article he writes about it first tease us with a love story to hook our interest?
"Subtle energy" is a specific term that is not the same as the description of a physical energy. I understand what the word "energy" means in the scientific sense, but do _you_ understand what the term "subtle energy" means?

Subtle energy is something that can be experienced. Among those who do experience it, if it is a hallucination, it's a shared hallucination.

It has something to do with consciousness. I have severe doubts it can ever be describable or disprovable with a controlled scientific test. That is, I thiknk there are limits to what the scientific method can determine. I don't think it is measurable, at least not with the technology we can construct. It is not electromagnetic, though some forms may be experienced as having electric or magnetic properties. But one property that is not described by physical description is that it carries information: emotion, awareness, sentience, in varying degrees.

However, I know of people who have tried, though I haven't seen what they published about it.

It is replicable: do the correct set of practices long enough, and you can experience it. (And this is why people freak out when those practices actually works). However, I don't think it can ever be objectively measured.

Psychedelics can sometimes trigger the experience of it. With the use of microdosing and clinical applications of psychedelics becoming mainstream, I expect more people will start encountering this.
Good question, I don't know. Maybe the much milder strain went by so quistly there was no testing for a novel disease so we never knew. I don't know if that's plausible though.
Rust is an amazing language, and I'm glad to see they are transparent too.
I really like Perl's setup where objects are nothing more than namespaces/packages (usable and helpful in non-oo Perl) and one function...bless()[1].

It makes it very easy to follow exactly how the OO works, what it is, and is not.

[1] https://perldoc.perl.org/functions/bless.html
Could postcards with scratch and sniff actually be useful here?

If you just ask people about their sense of smell, I'm not sure they can give you a reliable answer. But maybe you could design a postcard to give them with a few numbered squares on it, and they could tell you whether they notice anything when they scratch each one of those. (It could be a blind test, too.)

Stick a URL or QR code on the postcard and you can collect the data.

The postcard could serve as both material for the experiment and advertisement. Mail them out to random people in an area you want to sample.

I've gotten these sorts of things in the mail as advertisements in the past, so obviously it's very feasible to produce them.
> ...but how does placebo actually work?

Whatever the mechanism factors turn out to be, I would not be at all surprised if it involves areas of study that clinical studies currently dismiss as unimportant.

> If it works, why don't we use it for our benefit?

Currently difficult to control outcomes because we understand so little of it, and a possibility that it would depress the financial results of a lot of current US "medical/healthcare industry" stakeholders if it turns out for example, having a doting Israeli grandmother dropping by each day with steaming hot matzo ball soup with some unmentionable ingredient that still tastes bitter as hell, a handful of friends calling with jokes, and a couple hours a day in the sauna works cheaper and just as well as a $200 antiviral prescription.
Why is apple so allergic to physical switches, directly switchable by the user?
Who the hell still uses ECB?
I use DBeaver: https://dbeaver.io

It's not specific to PostgreSQL, it's universal.
“We've had 10 years of frothiness in venture markets. Many employees under 30 don't even know what a downturn looks like. They're used to high pay, constant calls from recruiters, and venture capital flowing into their companies. Even the companies who flop, no big deal, just go down the street to the next company. I worry that that generation is going to have the most difficulty with these changes. They'll wonder why things are contracting, why difficult decisions need to be made, can't we just wait this one out...?“

I went through this in 2002. It took me a long time to accept that the good life in the years before wasn’t because I was so smart but because of a favorable market. It was quite a shock to actually having trouble finding something new and also to accept that my pay was significantly lower. Somebody told me at that time “now you see how job search always has been for most of us”.
What? This is one of the areas where type safety truly shines. Type safe languages force you to confirm the nature of the input and deal with the edge cases.
Ted Kaptchuck is not a credible source. He is an altmed activist who plays games with the definition of placebo to push his agenda. His studies are universally flawed[0] and manipulated.

0. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/ted-kaptchuk-versus-placebo...
It's an artificial scarcity, though. We have the most productive technologies ever - we are just not very good to put a better part of them flow towards common good.

The amount of senseless applications and waste is staggering.
There's a good radio programme about Brunel's Atmospheric Railway (and Musk's Hyperloop): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00027mg
Good work, docs team.
A significant part of the technology industry is a big bubble that was going to pop sooner or later - the pandemic just slightly accelerated the process and we're seeing the results now - the market is finally adjusting itself.

This company was never viable to begin with, and the same applies for the majority of current startups.
Begs the question: Why isn't Mozilla funding this?

> At this point, the only person really writing docs is me, and I haven't had a ton of time lately either. So we haven't had a docs team meeting since August of 2018. There also aren't really docs RFCs these days. As such, this blog post isn't really announcing the end of the docs team as much as it is describing what is already true today.