skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't run Google search results through Google's translator
FastoCloud open source Streaming Service
A master class in lighting for videoconferencing
Yes this is what I meant when I said "by the websites themselves".
I've always wondered why we can't do more with the kinetic energy of the ocean. I know there are many projects and tidal energy companies. But considering the scale of the ocean, waves, and so on, I've always been interested to know why we haven't cracked it at a large scale.
I always wondered if that Strugatsky book _Monday Begins on Saturday_ was playing on something else...
Comparing Cloud Native Buildpacks to Herokuish
"Open" in the late 80's / early 90's meant open specifications & open API's. "Open Software Foundation" made a closed-source UNIX OSF/1.

The term "open source" didn't come about until much later
He's sort of like punk rock or Van Gogh. He's definitely not about the polish.

Interesting biographical note. He wanted to be a serious novelist, and wrote an unreadable Tome I think called Confessions of a crap artist.

Meanwhile, the science fiction novels he dashed off to make a little money were becoming popular. When he was in dire straits financially, he would agree to write another book for a few thousand dollars to make the rent.

He would drink himself into a Fugue State and dash another novel or story off in a couple of weeks. He never took that part of his career very seriously, except maybe towards the end of his life when he integrated more of his novelistic ideas into books such as Valis and the Stigmata book.

He died before his name had anywhere near the status it has today.
You may be right... alas, I seem to be able to parse his sentence either way. Stupid NLP :-)
To be fair, Gmail and Chrome are 16 years old, and Google acquired Android 15 years ago. Their main search algorithm of course was developed over 21 years ago. That doesn't leave a good track record for the last 15 years or so...
Wolves are usually reintroduced into mountain regions. Invasive wild hogs seem to be mostly in the lowlands. I have never seen one in WA wolf country.

"“They’re known to eat apples, they’re known to eat hops,” Bush said. “They wallow in riparian environments and wetlands, which Washington has a lot of"

https://www.nwnewsnetwork.org/post/feral-pigs-are-rise-washi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Discontinued_Google_s...
It is. You can just take a look at the table of contents.
It would certainly change the face of the modern web. In the early 2000's, many blogs and news sites did not have comment sections.

Maybe a service like a third-party Disqus would come out that would split the user-generated content from the actual sites (and source the content via P2P networking).
I think they are saying that with price jumps this high that only people with more money will be able to afford the items.
I think that work is for improving quality and quantity of translations which is also good.
>then in turn the king could save his servant."

Yeah, I don't understand what this part means at all honestly.
Customers are not informed, they just use the number - if you game the number you are unethical even if you pretend like its for consumer choice and enhanced information - no matter what that's not how consumers use it and you are juicing a number to get additional sales.
Cheers. The app is built for Mavericks only since it is using SwiftUI, PDFKit, Vision, and other latest Apple API goodies. Not all of these unfortunately support earlier OS versions.
Or a expert training his protege. Or a leader preparing his successor. Or a mother cleaning up her child. Or a cat licking its butt.
The CloudFlare CSAM Scanning Tool
s/use/miss
The academic job market can be unforgiving, and for those who also have industry leads/offers it can be helpful to know whether there may be future offers from academic institutions when deciding whether to commit elsewhere. Even without industry offers, it isn't like all academic job offers come in at the same time and you may be second pick at your preferred institution so it could take some time for a possible offer to come through. If you're still getting website hits from a place it's a fair bet you're still under consideration and you maybe don't want to commit elsewhere.

It's not really about an ego boost, and in any case, egos can take a pretty major bruising during the very anxious weeks.
Anti-China sentiment is being stoked heavily in the US right now. Anything China-related is widely seen as evil and/or untrustworthy. Usually these opinions are expressed on China-sourced hardware.
So, I don't agree at all that the paper is wrong. The results are about the virus itself, which would scale up. You seem to be arguing their data was totally wrong but haven't explained why, other than it's a month old, although the virus had been around for three months by then.

But the core argument here isn't actually about the virus. It's epistemological. You have been arguing for censorship on an exceptionally weak basis and haven't acknowledged that. Every criteria you've put forward for deciding what experts should be allowed to speak is invalid or unusable. That's more relevant than this specific paper, which was simply an example to disprove your position.
Microsoft Gets on the Dane Bandwagon
> free online computer science classes for any student or teacher affected by school closures due to COVID-19 in the US.

I would imagine they need the information to verify that requirement.
Shout-out to GoatCounter which was both free and easy for me to set up for my blog.
Couldn't the server compose the streams itself? Perhaps as simple as tiling them all together and the client can manage that stream, or request single high quality streams if needed.

There'd be a CPU/bandwidth tradeoff being made here, I wonder how the prices on standard cloud providers would compare.
Happy Jumpshare user here! Invaluable for sharing quick videos for my workflow.
Glad to see the US projection decreasing from 80k to 60k.

The UK is still at 66k, I hope they abandoned their herd immunity strategy like the government said.
Likely that the king owns every man and losing manpower sucks, so if the husband wants to save his wife, the king can choose to save his servant who committed adultery.
I have also noticed how few people use any of these products :D

I think the real problem is when google releases a free[1] product they have a track record of discontinuing them seemingly (from user's point of view) at random so that people are beginning to feel that it's not safe to build on any new products from them.

[1] "Free" in this case meaning actually free, e.g. doesn't actively support their core spying + advertising business
> The problem is… privacy.

That’s awkward phrasing in need of an editor. People love misunderstanding anything to fit their believes and one shouldn’t make it too easy for them.

Other than that: this is the right direction. Thanks to Apple might be appropriate.

There is a middle ground here and I wish the wider community would be more open to exploring that space. Ad blockers, especially, are still competing to block as much as possible. I’m sure there is space for more intelligent blocking that decides based on advertiser/publisher/ad network/format.

With a bit of individualization, such a blocker might allow clearly marked text ads everywhere, your favorite band would get the privilege of full-screen auto playing video with sound. If you’re into music production, Ableton ads would get through even where MS Office does not. If you believe not all professional journalism deserves to die, display ads on FiveThirtyEight are shown while they’re blocked on Pinterest. Animation in the header might be ok, but in between paragraphs (where it’s more distracting) it’s blocked, etc.

Unfortunately, the ad networks have poisoned the relationship between publishers and readers, and people seem almost eager to inflict pain even on the creators they rely on. Case in point: the self-appointed “brave” browser, boldly answering the question “why isn’t there another middleman between creatives and their audience, skimming another 25% off all revenue?”
Also: https://killedbygoogle.com
I guess some people tactically flagged the post, it's 3-4 pages from the front page now.
This makes me wonder how aphantasia correlates to the small subset of people who report absolutely no visual fx from hallucinogens. They definitely feel the potent effects of the halucinogen, but somehow non-visually.
> The better call would have been to not release it.

Why's that? Wave wasn't a humiliating mess. It turned out not to really fit anywhere, but that's the kind of thing you learn by letting people try the product, no?
>> Gerv had many roles over the years, from volunteer to mostly-volunteer to part-time, to full-time, and back again.

Mozilla certainly had plenty of opportunity to cut the cord.
Factorization of RSA-250
You can run elderly software that was written for it.

At one point there was a paid app on Android that ran a VAX emulator. (A port of simh I think.)

A 1GHz phone ran the emulator faster than any real VAX ever was.

I once offered to set up a copy of an old corporate accounting "app" on said emulator for our accounting dept. (They occasionally needed to refer to old reports still available on the old VAX system.). On the chief accountant's own phone.

He said no.
Did you miss this?

> so if a product does not do well in a set time frame, it is shut down

Gmail was a success from the beginning. Android is doing pretty well. Chrome did a mix of growth because it was just better at the time, and ads which made it popular. They all did very well.
Modern English isn't all that much better, comparatively either. Husband etymology comes from "house-holder" or "house-steward". There's definitely still an implied control relationship if not necessarily "ownership".

(Contrast to Old English's companion to wif [wife], wer was simply "married man" by way of connotation change from old German wer which was simply "man".)
Yeah they have video rooms... Hallway can use any video room software
Financial Times drops paywall for coronavirus coverage
Ah great find. I was looking for UK hospital admissions data.

That's pretty shocking. Pneumonia and respiratory has hardly moved (where is the wave???) yet there's a huge fall in emergency cardiac patients. That's worrying. It implies people having heart attacks are choosing not to go to hospital fast enough, even though they could.
Security audits are done all the time, for which access to the source is given. In Zoom’s case, going through an audit from a reputable firm, may just be the answer of getting the public’s confidence back.

And of course it’s fairly extreme to claim you should not use any video conference system for any sensitive discussions; security is not black and white, and each situation deserves an appropriate level of security; it needs to be balanced with convenience. There are a lot of situations where I would prefer “mostly” secure communication, rather than no communication at all.
A signature has no magic power. It's very simple. If you sign your name on a document, you are stating that you agree with the document. It doesn't matter if you use a feather pen or this guy's script. If you sign someone else's name on a document, it's obvious that you are committing fraud by impersonating them. Again, the instrument used to sign has no bearing on that.

You seem to be of the opinion that since it is possible to forge a signature, it cannot be legally binding.
Emnlp 2020 Moved Entirely Online; Postponed One Week
This is a far-fetched guess: self-healing systems are one aspect of SRE. And since some species of lizards can grow back appendages, that's where the connection might be?
How does this compare to SimpleAnalytics?
I highly doubt they will be making 70k after 4-5 years if programmers can be competent out of a high school education.
All online communication methods are trending towards being Google Wave. I've believed this for a while and haven't heard a good counter argument (open to them!).

If you believe this then I think there are a couple of conclusions one could reach:

1. Google are smart. They saw what the logical conclusion of trends was and designed a product that satisfied those, yet users didn't want it.

2. Moves by communication tools in that direction, adding scope or "bloat" to their featureset is therefore doomed to failure, which fits with the cycle we see of productivity tool disruption -> bloat -> reduced productivity -> newer simpler disruptors.
In Soviet Russia, weekends have you.
It's just poor taste to talk smack about a dead guy. Her "eulogy" came off as a kind of personal grievance even, which just made it worse... she should really know better being in a supervisory/executive level.
That's not how retail works, I could put in for vacation at least two weeks from now but otherwise I get one or more days off more or less at random that by design don't really line up with any one else's days off
Wouldn't there be a second peak as soon as we lift social distancing and other measures of containing this virus we have currently in place?

These models assume that the same level of societal restrictions continue to be present into the future?
Gmail, suddenly: TLS Negotiation failed, the certificate doesn't match the host
Show HN: HospitalHero
How would the law distinguish between reasonable moderation and unreasonable removal?
Yes. Google search is broken.
It sounds like it's likely to overheat if you're gaming with it. That's a pretty big problem.

And while making benchmarks longer helps, it doesn't tell you if that phone's new mode would have huge problems in a slightly warmer environment, or a case, and it only works on full-out gaming benchmarks. You could easily still get misleading results for something that tries to be a mixed user workload.
Google bans Zoom from employees' computers
Understood, could you delete my account and all of my comments please as I no longer wish to participate here.
The part that is being 3d printed in these designs is easily sourced without a 3d printer. Look at Apple's design. It uses a piece of the same transparent plastic in place of the 3d printed part.
I think my concern is that the main Zygote dev is not very responsive or communicative. That's fine, he doesn't owe the rest of the community anything, but it also seems irresponsible to put all our eggs in his basket (note I'm by no means knowledgeable about this and I'm open to the idea that it's a mis-characterization. This is merely my impression as a relative outsider looking in).

Besides, any implementation of AD is going to have downsides. Having many different, hot swappable implementations is quite nice because you can tailor towards your needs.
I used the hosted Jitsi Meet service. Worked really well. It was just sad that they favored Chrome over Firefox.
I think Normal Lamont in 1990 was the last chancellor to be promoted directly from chief secretary to the treasury (which is in fact the second most senior position in the treasury).

His predecessor, John Major, entered the cabinet as chief secretary to the treasury, was promoted to foreign secretary two years later, and to chancellor three months after that.
Show HN: Plishd – A Work Accomplishment Tracking App
If a platform can't scale to handle content moderation requests, it shouldn't exist at scale. Presumably a company shouldn't be responsible to respond to bot submissions, and could potentially ban complainants who abuse the system. (Although doing so would potentially open them to legal recourse if they were banning someone for filing legitimate reports they just didn't want to deal with, for example.)

There are reasonable controls that can be put in place, but ultimately, Big Tech companies' responsibility needs to be seated in the legal system, and there needs to be a way to escalate to the legal system when these companies operate in a societally harmful fashion.

"We're just a platform, it's not our fault" should never be a conclusive answer to conversations about these companies' operations.
Without commenting on Mitchell's fitness as CEO, I think there are a few important points here that don't resonate unless you were at Mozilla.

The first is that Mitchell and Gerv probably were familiar enough with each other for her to speak to this. Gerv was very prominent inside the project, and Mitchell really did know everyone in the organization (at least in the triple digit or less days).

The second is that Gerv quite openly led with his religion, and this was incredibly controversial. It caused a lot of churn when Mozilla was working out community guidelines and that discussion was anything but private. I'm sure that led her to think that speaking to that publicly was essential.

The third is that Gerv was more or less impervious to criticism about his religion or his attitude of being open with it in all arenas, and probably wouldn't have blinked at any of her take. There was a lot of open conversation internally (and IIRC externally) about it. I suspect this led her to think that speaking as frankly as she might have to him or with the org internally was appropriate.

In total, I think she was wrong on a number of counts, the biggest being that the time after someone's death is about everyone else's reconciliation and they weren't coming from the same perspective Gerv would have. The optics were awful, and a combo of natural perception of position and her detached writing style makes it sound like a CEO crapping on the line from on high. The Mozilla "relationship" structure was much flatter than that, though, and with Gerv's community prominence and impact they were closer to peers than one might imagine.

Honestly, this shouldn't be the incident that colors her legacy. It was a pretty ill-advised blog post, but I don't think it's as malicious or even harmful as people make out, knowing the names involved. It's really hard to get across exactly how unshakably comfortable Gerv seemed to be with his faith and exactly how much that colored his relationship with the org.

I can't imagine how she could have acknowledged his impact without at least touching on some of that--even if I do think saying nothing at all would've been the winning move.
Tips if you're writing your own elisp:

- If you're walking the filesystem, make sure you start from the "default-directory" variable.

- If you call other programs, make sure you use "process-file" (for synchronous processes) or "start-file-process" (for async). Using "call-process" or "start-process" unfortunately won't do the right thing, but the two functions I mentioned are mostly drop-in replacements.
> You need to manage data integrity in your application

This is just another way of saying you need to implement your own system for managing consistency. Dynamo offers transactions now, but they don’t offer actual serialization. Your transaction will simply fail if it runs into any contention. You might think that’s ok, just retry. But because you’ve chosen to sacrifice modelling your data, this will happen a lot. If you want to use aggregates in your Dynamo, you have to update an aggregate field every time you update your data, which means you create single points of contention for your failure prone transactions to run into all over your app. There are ways around this, but they all come at the cost of further sacrificing consistency guarantees. The main issue with that being that once you’ve achieved an inconsistent state, it’s incredibly difficult to even know it’s happened, let alone to fix it.

Then you run into the issue of actually implementing your data access. With a denormalized data set, implementing all your data access comes at the expense of increasing interface complexity. Your schema ends up having objects, which contain arrays of objects, which contain arrays... and you have to design all of your interfaces around keys that belong to the top level parent object.

The relational model wasn’t designed to optimize one type of performance over another. It was designed to optimize operating on a relational dataset, regardless of the implementation details of the underlying management system. Trying to cram a relational set into a NoSQL DB unavoidably comes at the expense of some very serious compromises, with the primary benefit being that the DB itself is easier to administer. It’s not as simple as cost of storage vs cost of compute. NoSQL DBs like dynamo (actually especially dynamo) are great technology, with many perfectly valid use cases. But RDBMS is not one of them, and everybody I’ve seen attempt to use it as an RDBMS eventually regrets it.
That’s a rare and contextual meaning. You also groom snow to make it suitable to ski on.
Congrats on launch. Looks like a great platform. I went through the typeform and would consider paying $30/month but not without a free trial. Have you considered offering a free trial, even for a very limited time frame?
I'm in Texas and our projections look shockingly optimistic. At time of writing this says we will, at peak, fill only 30% of our ICU beds capacity, or 75% in the worst-case scenario.

I want to believe this is true but it's hard to believe.
For anyone else curious, these 7-day planetary weekday names are from the West and are not a Japanese invention. Monday = moon = 月, Sunday = sun = 日 is not a coincidence.

The pairings of elements to planets seems to have been done by the Chinese many centuries ago.
I think I sort of agree with you.

But I think that imposition of workflow is not taken kindly by users, users only like things in line of the status quo.

I think the greatest sin by Google was shutting down Inbox. I swore by it (the little travel cards, the ability to see and search email quickly -- e.g. the image previews, every day Gmail angers me because I cannot do things I could once do with incredible ease).

They should have had Gmail as a conservative conventional email tool, and slowly morphed Inbox to have Wave-like features. Slowly, iteratively, so that users could discover and organically make their own workflows.
Does anyone know how to get mosh to play well with emojis or Unicode strings?
I really liked that there were HTML versions of the previous two books. Any chance that'll be up for this one?

A bit far-fetched but: Have you (or anyone else at Google) looked at Amazon Builder's Library [0] and/or various re:Invent / re:Inforce talks from 2018/19 [1][2] that focus on similar topics as in this book and other SRE books? If so, what are some ideas (infrastructure, blast radius, incident management, resilience, recovery, deployment strategies, crisis management, disaster planning, aftermath etc) you folks think that contrast / complement Google's approach to building hyperscale systems?

Thanks.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21714209

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22347694

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19291163
In ancient times, dates were usually the Xth year of some king's reign. The Holy Roman Empire declared Jesus as their king and made the calendar accordingly, which spread throughout the west.

Various revolutionaries naturally want to put themselves on the top or are otherwise hate Christian culture and therefore have tried to change the calendars or change what the BC/AD/BCE/CE acronyms stand for or whatnot due to their desire to exclude Christianity from their cultures.

There are plenty of other calendars in existence, though. Japan still has eras based on their emperor at the time, for example, though the western calendar is a lot simpler because you don't have to memorize a huge list of emperors and do a lot of math to figure out how many years ago something happened. Quick, how long ago was Showa 55 if Showa went up to 64, Heisei up to 30, and 2020 is Reiwa 2?

And that's an easy one.

https://www.ewc.co.jp/Pages/Information/CalendarEN.aspx

Yeah, it was 1980, so that was 40 years ago. How many got the overlapping wrong and were off by 1, though?
You and me both. It's not obvious up front that this is a GA competitor if you just click on the link and read the blog post. You do have to delve a bit deeper, unless you know who Plausible.io is.