skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am guessing manufacturer doest have a budget to fix this. They are too busy sorting the 737 pitch controls. I am guessing they need bigger buffer to would clear it out and some good GPS and timestamps database and add a clr button on the console to clear the historic alt and speed data. The historic data can go to the black box and the new one stored to the buffer. A sensor should only look at data from the past week and not calculate stuff from 49 days in the past. What use would pilots have other than for service and maintainence. What was the OS written in objective C?
It just takes a couple of checkboxes on the host's end. Reading comprehension and identifying shapes. A teacher who can't do that isn't much of a teacher.
Partition Support in DataSource V2 API of Spark 3.0
I've really grown to dislike the "people who presumably consider themselves ethical defending a regime that represses free speech and expression, brutally crushes dissenters, disappears ethical doctors, is led by a 'president for life' dictator, and has literally hauled off 1M muslims to internment campus where their organs are being harvested and their culture is being erased, thing".
I would assume the same. Daytime heat has to add a small complication and if I had complete control of my schedule I’d probably pick 2 or 3 am to avoid as much extra heat as possible In order to more tightly control the parameters...

But I also figure they can control around such small differences given they load supercooled cryogenic liquids into rockets during the day on a regular basis for the Falcon 9 so... yeah.
Rust docs team is no more
After all the equipment investment and adding support to all the software, people are going to say "just forget it" and go back to v4-only and piling CGNAT style hacks on top of each other in an endless tower of babel? Possible, but would be quite a dystopia.

IPv6 transition mechanisms were designed for a long coexistence of both v4 & v6, not that different from QUIC vs HTTP :)
That cruise ship appeared to be some serious booty $$$ for Maduro to ransom back to Western capitalists for violating Venezuelian sovereignty . . .
Across a range of accents and such, I'd be surprised.
That IT guy that wrote the script, though. Man, that's rough. It like hiring a guy to dig his own grave. Oof.
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Zoom announces 90-day feature freeze to fix privacy and security issues
Energy is well defined.

There is no known form of energy that can do what the commenter is claiming it can.

So someone making a claim about the realness of reiki energy needs to either prove it and explain its properties in ways that are true of other forms of energy, or possibly more easily, they need to change their terminology.

The problem is that the reiki and homeopathy, etc practitioners deliberately abuse scientific terminology because it adds a veneer of believability to their otherwise outlandish claims. And it fools the layman into believing there is actually some science behind their claims.

If they did choose to use appropriate terminology based on the actual properties, they will find that terminology will converge to words and phrases like “placebo effect” and “emotional support” rather quickly, which cannot earn them hundreds of dollars an hour.
This sounds interesting, so I googled it.
One of the finds: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-strange-lives-of-...
New App to Find and Support Free Virtual Fitness Classes
Don't know about gp, but here's what who seems to be saying now:

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2...
Google is publishing Covid mobility reports, feeding off users’ location history
Here's what the WHO site[1] says:

• If you are healthy, you only need to wear a mask if you are taking care of a person with suspected 2019-nCoV infection.

• Wear a mask if you are coughing or sneezing.

• Masks are effective only when used in combination with frequent hand-cleaning with alcohol-based hand rub or soap and water.

• If you wear a mask, then you must know how to use it and dispose of it properly.

Nowhere do I see: "Masks don't work".

[1] https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2...
The amazon links listed on the repo have a referral id, meaning that (someone either you or someone else) is getting a referral fee from every purchase.

> I am not profiting from this at all.

If this is true please remove the referral from the amazon links, is totally fine to list the actual masks and items; the referral link not so much.
> I still use Redis as a cache on top of my PostgreSQL queries

Why? Postgres has a "Redis cache" (in-memory query cache) built in already[1]. Your application layer doesn't have to worry about query caching at all.

1. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-resou...
I own the hardware.
How to solve the “Mastermind” guessing game? (2009)
> We don't face any struggles in our lives. This leads to depression.

I’ve never heard this before, and that’s a bold claim to make so matter-of-fact without a reference. Do you have one?
> hold the belief they really care about and like you.

I'm not sure this is ever a pre-requisite; this expectation might cause you to distrust the very thing that might help you. A therapist is a guide, not a friend. I have to dig up the studies (or feel free to google), but it's been shown that just going through a script produces measurable benefits on aggregate, regardless of the therapists' shortcomings. There's an analogy to physiotherapy. In physio, you're doing the work under a coach's care -- doesn't matter how you feel about the coach as long as the prescribed techniques are correct. Results will come.

Depending on your situation, you can even do CBT on yourself and see measurable benefits (Mind over Mood by Greenberger/Padesky is the usual recommendation; however YMMV -- not all pathologies respond to CBT). Not to say that there isn't a benefit to a truly empathetic therapist (there is -- you need someone you feel comfortable opening up to), but a suspension of disbelief seems to me to not be necessary. (source: personal experience)
Why would they do that? Do you trust employees so little?
*Ramanujan
Because Bird is big a enough company that the people calling the shots feel responsible to the organization, not responsible for the organization and it can be argued that "preventing rumors and back-channels" is good for the company. This kind of change in thinking happens to almost all organizations as they grow and takes a lot of effort to avoid, it's not unique to VC funded startups though that environment certainly makes it harder to prevent.

Edit: Just to be clear I'm not defending Bird or absolving them of blame, I'm just describing how these things can happen.
Oh definitely. HG culture is hard! The skills aren't easily learned, and depend on knowledge specific to a region. What would really kill most of us is water issues.
except its not an office, its the majority of their dev team operating inside one of the top 3 unsafest, most anti-american (with respect to cybersecurity) countries in the world.
> that requires them to be more ineffecient then typical native gui frameworks

Inefficient in what way? Performance? Is it noticable? Why should I care unless it's noticable and hindering UX? Should we all be writing out GUIs in assembly then?
If I install the beta, is the final non-beta version just an `apt get upgrade` away, or is a reinstall recommend?
With an external microphone, if you need it.
Google uses location data to show which places are complying with staying home
With engineers, that may well be a fair assumption. Night shift is less desirable, therefore people with more options will be less likely to settle for it, therefore the better people are in the day shift. Unless this is like shift work where people rotate between day and night shifts - but that would be highly unusual for a company like spacex.

Just playing devil's advocate, but the logic chain is plausible.
You're comparing a vehicle at the start of development with a vehicle that was supposedly undergoing final testing.
It goes both way. As a worker you too have to realize its just business, nothing personal about it. Learn to accept the situation and adapt.
EDIT: This comment ended up way longer than I set out for it to be. The TL;DR is "I used to not get it. Now I get it, but I will still discourage it."

>Do they really not deserve a second thought?

People do deserve a second thought, as do enduring ideas, but not always a third. For some of us, on some matters, this is our third thought, or thirtieth thought, or more.

I am happy to put a name to my downvote, and to explain.

After many grumpy years becoming increasingly more despondent about people (friends, even partners) who would carry on about this "energy" nonsense, I became equally intolerable myself. The topic would elicit angry, knee-jerk reactions and loud denouncements, if only because I was so sick and tired of it.

At some point, seven years ago, give or take, I had a revelation vis-à-vis the linguistics of it all.

I would let hosh speak for themselves, but for many people I have known the "energy" isn't real (or fake!) in any physical sense. They are not trying to express a strong ontological opinion about a human's ability to control a specific-yet-ill-defined force of nature. They are using the word as an all-encompassing metaphor for a large, flexible, ever-changing collection of experiences, both sensory and internal: sometimes your subtle body language, or emotional cues (intentional or unintentional), or their own projections of your mental state. There's probably a more precise vocabulary for any specific instance or combination of sensations, but many people are satisfied by sorting their experiences into just "feels good" and "feels bad", or the slightly-better-sounding "positive energy" and "negative energy".

I still remember someone who befriended me recounting the why. They had taken the initiative to walk through a large gathering, and seek me out because they "felt the energy I was sending them". I definitely was not in control of any energy, never mind sending it. It took time to pry out the specifics, but ultimately what they meant was that I looked friendly and seemed engaged in the conversation I was having.

I don't doubt that most people making statements about energy that they feel (or are "sending"), are genuinely having some internal experience and are describing it. But they aren't producing vibrations from their energy gland and evoking energy particles towards my energy gland. At least thus far that is not a thing we know humans to have and do.

Even after realizing this, and becoming more contained in my reactions, I still find the term imprecise at best, and an enabler of harm at worst. I will continue to discourage it whenever I can.

To directly address hosh's phrasing, the closest I could come to agreeing-to-disagree on "Subtle energy is real though", would be to phrase it as "The idea of a 'subtle energy' is a useful metaphor that sometimes helps some people reason about their experiences". Saying it "is real" in a definitive physical manner is ridiculous, by the precise dictionary definition: "deserving or inviting derision or mockery; absurd".
You already have dialogs on macOS like "app X wants to use the microphone, allow?"
The original report: https://wolfram.schneider.org/bsd/7thEdManVol2/m4/m4.pdf
I'm a simple man, I see PGSQL in a HN post, I upvote, I don't even read the article
What would make it more deadly? AFAIK second wave of 1918 was a mutated virus. This one is more stable and has now significant mutations yet.
>it's strong evidence that we shouldn't be uniquely concerned over negative portrayals of trademarks.

Again I'm not sure how it's evidence of that, but I agree that we should not be uniquely concerned about negative portrayals.

I see what you are saying now though, and I agree with you on that point.

Of course the people who make a lot of money off of positive advertising generally are the ones who stand to lose a lot of money from negative portrayals, and they also happen to have a lot of money, so it's not surprise that the law does not treat them equally.
Alternative ideas for what NASA could do with its Moon budget
> I can buy roaming packages for almost every country in the world from my provider.

At least for me (european), roaming packages are much more expensive than local sims. Nowadays, I just get a $10 to $50 sim at the airport right after exiting the plane, and that covers all my need for a few weeks. A few years ago, I thought dual sim was a gadget, but I couldn't do without now .
It is not hard to imagine. If the number of serious cases is very low compared to total cases it will take a massive number of infected till serious cases start to stand out.
This is a really insightful take. I’ve read a lot of books influenced by Mollison, and they’re all heavy on the agricultural side. Finally reading the original and it’s clear that as you say, it’s more about the whole cultural system — community, etc.

With everything that’s been happening, I’ve been thinking a lot about “resilience”, and how it really begins at the household level and goes upwards from there to community, state, country.

[Think of how individual houses being prepared enough to weather a months-long emergency leads to a stronger community, where emergency resources can be targeted on the most vulnerable, etc. Contrast with our current predicament of on-demand everything.]

It’s really interesting to go back to “first principles” in this context, and get a new appreciation for what Mollison was trying to do with Permaculture.

Fun fact: the phrase “permanent agriculture” goes back to a book from the 1930s called “Tree Crops”. It contains a great quote by FDR:

“The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.”
How hard is it to stick a piece of tape over the camera and super-glue the microphone?
Show HN: Planning tool to create learning plans for self-taught engineers
This is a very early prototype. Plan is to build at least 20 of them to try and test ideas and configurations.

Some days ago I read that they are currently trying to reduce material thickness to reduce weight. Maybe that contributed to the RUD.
If you have the disease and don't have symptoms, you are still infectious, and this is why masks for everyone is one way to combat this virus.
Except that for most digital services / contents, a server is a core requirement, while any specific font isn't.

I would not going to risk something as secondary to my business as font become a runaway cost, or stop providing my service / content because of something tangentially related to what I offer. And it seems gp feels the same.
Digital TV and the growth of local Kenyan talent
Is William S. Sessions coming for all of us now?
Viewsonic Elite XG270QG Monitor Review – Simple, Smart but Shy of Superb
the code is not reusable accross different storage layers. So not portable.

In my 23-and-a-bit years of web development I've literally never changed the database engine on a project. Maybe that happens on other people's projects, but it's not something I consider important or even useful really. The notion that you can swap out your database for a different one without changing the application code to take advantage of the db you're moving to is ludicrous. Of course your database code isn't portable.

Websites that used MySQL and Myisam tables with raw SQL statements written as strings in PHP for the first decade of the web is one of the reasons why so many web developers still don't use things like transactions, stored procedures, views, etc. That's a bit of a tragedy. The web would be much better today if everyone had been using Postgres's features from the beginning.
Yeah I agree. Zulip is really good. It's a nice mix of email+chat. I much prefer it over slack.
You speak only for yourself here.
Grow fast and don't care about your employees. How employees can stay loyal after company does this at the time their employees need them most?

I saw a Polish meme recently:

During candidate interview:

Interviewer: So... is there any question you would like to ask us?

Candidate: Yeah, how did you treat your employees during coronavirus?

Interviewer: Uhmm...

I hope people take notice and will stay away from companies that have nice words and "loyalty" for their employees only when it suits them.

Recently I red how Suzuki did not laid anybody due to 2008 financial crisis and instead cut whatever they could (like R&D, participation in sporting events, etc.) just to ensure employees have jobs.
My last employer was a large Oracle place, although everything was standard edition. I am so much happier now.

Everything that used to be a 'that is an enterprise edition feature' is now baked in.

concurrent index creation is amazing.

The simplicity and speed of pgBarman vs RMAN is mind boggling. RMAN in Oracle Standard Edition can only do full backups.

Full read-only access to a standby? That is huge! (enterprise only for the big O)

Realtime replication (not log shipping), also enterprise only for the big O.

I'm a sysadmin, so that is what I notice right away, but our developers love it too, for many other reasons.
I’m covid19-positive and I don’t have any impairment in my ability to smell nor do I recall having such impairment in recent time. The most salient symptoms for me have been GI problems.
You’re right that that’s bad. For me it comes down not to mistakes but to intentions. I might be wrong, but it seems like it’s in Apple’s DNA to do their best to provide privacy and security, while Zoom so far seems to me to have a Facebook-like “growth at all costs” mindset. I can forgive mistakes – every tech company (and all humans) will make them – but their shenanigans with the installer, for example, seems less like a mistake than a decision made with bad intentions.

That said, I also agree with some of the sentiment here that it feels like there are a dozen articles per day posted about Zoom that are nothing more than hyperbole or worse, simply an aggregation of links to articles posted earlier in the week. I say this as someone who has argued against Zoom being used in my workplace and who refuses to install it on my machine (I use it through Chrome): I’ve simply started to roll my eyes each time I see a new Zoom post.
Trump Cuts Off Critical Supply of N95 Masks to Canada
Brilliant, thanks. I didn't realise the threshold was 5 days out of a full week, and didn't remember reading about the 50ppm minima.
An interesting point TFA makes is that it doesn't have to beat placebo: the placebo effect itself provides therapeutic benefit!

> Ted Kaptchuk, a Harvard Medical School professor and one of the lead researchers, theorizes that the placebo effect is, in the words of the Times article, “a biological response to an act of caring; that somehow the encounter itself calls forth healing and that the more intense and focused it is, the more healing it evokes.”

I dug up an article in which he explores this further and it's an angle I haven't considered before [1]:

> More recently, however, experts have concluded that reacting to a placebo is not proof that a certain treatment doesn't work, but rather that another, non-pharmacological mechanism may be present.

> How placebos work is still not quite understood, but it involves a complex neurobiological reaction that includes everything from increases in feel-good neurotransmitters, like endorphins and dopamine, to greater activity in certain brain regions linked to moods, emotional reactions, and self-awareness. All of it can have therapeutic benefit. "The placebo effect is a way for your brain to tell the body what it needs to feel better," says Kaptchuk.

> But placebos are not all about releasing brainpower. You also need the ritual of treatment. [...] You receive all kinds of exotic pills and undergo strange procedures. All this can have a profound impact on how the body perceives symptoms because you feel you are getting attention and care."

If reiki can evoke this effect consistently, reliably and cheaply at scale (and this is believable, because according to TFA, the lot of the practice is just physical touch in ways that the body might perceive as caring?) - perhaps there actually is value in it?

[1] https://www.health.harvard.edu/mental-health/the-power-of-th...
Being OnCall
Why not just call an all-hands, during the all-hands announce that there are layoffs and why, and how they're handled… announce it too the whole team. Say that during the all-hands notifications have gone out via email (scripted to go out at the same time you announce) about who's affected and at what terms. Seems sensible.
UK judge's ultimatum to Google in Foundem case
Using EC2 Image Builder
Thanks for commenting even if you don't agree with me! Allow me to respond:

"It's insurance that everyone pays into, so that those who do happen to lose their jobs have an insurance to fall back on until they find another job."

It's a TAX that everyone pays and not everyone uses - even if and when they could because they elect not to sell out their dignity by accepting money they never earned rather was taken off the backs of others.

"You're extrapolating what's essentially an insurance policy into this image of some luxurious welfare state where no one has any incentive to work. That's not what unemployment benefits are."

I never said it was luxurious, from what I can tell it's a state of living hell...just look at/talk to anyone on welfare they are by-in-large a broken peoples stripped of self-reliance, self-esteem, and self-agency.

"Your commentary is the equivalent of arguing that receiving thousands of dollars to replace your car after it gets totaled is a "hand out", when in reality that's quite literally what insurance is for. "

I don't think it is equivalent...car insurance is optional if you don't want to pay it, don't own a car (many people who opt-out). UI tax is not optional, is it?
You could ask any non-Apple industry personnel about what happens to batteries after years of constant usage and all of them will agree that eventually you eventually won't be able to pull the power you need to keep the phone running fast. Getting a new battery always fixed this, Apple just was performing this power management without telling the user before ios 12.1.
Heh. I lived there at the time, as well, and the Eugene punk scene had a particular charm! Given that I sometimes hung out with a couple of film projectionists we probably chatted at some time (:

Anyway, same experience with this book. I ended up on a remote farm in alpine Europe in the 00's and otherwise seem to have retained much of the lessons after all these years.
Podcast: When War Goes Underground
Software by an American Company[0] founded by a man who's been here since the 90s[1] is now "Chinese Tech"? Is everything from Paul Graham "British Tech"? Are Apple Products now "Chinese Tech" because of their keyservers in China[2]?

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom_Video_Communications

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Yuan

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-apple-icloud-insigh...
I wont be buying 3m products anymore. You are unAmerican scum.
OK thanks for sharing!
I think you will need to be more specific. I have never seen a difference in high-end phones with Apple versus Samsung or any of the other Android phones with the latest Snapdragon.
this would be great news as it would considerably blunt future waves of the disease after lockdowns are lifted.
Samsung, too.
This is quite a specific thing though.

If you want to do spatial things in the database, then PostGIS for PostgreSQL or Spatialite for SQLite are definitely your best options.

For general performance, PostgreSQL is consistently excellent, but it's not the best in all cases.
Is Rust really where you want your GUI code? I like CSS.
Same, except that I bought and didn't rent. Same for previous bubble bursts
It certainly would need to, because you can't sustain 7 billion people on a hunter-gatherer lifestyle. Despite its many disadvantages, agriculture won out because you can feed more people on less land, which makes it easy to push hunter-gatherers from their land.