skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've ran into hCaptcha a couple times recently and found it vague and I had to try to guess what they meant. Both times it asked me to identify the truck. Well, what do you mean by "truck?" are you counting a semi as a truck? I ended up having to do it twice because I don't consider a semi a "truck" but they did.
We really need to stop putting so much faith in someone's opinion because they have "Dr." in front of their name. It turns out "smart" people can be incredibly stupid and/or mislead by their own prejudices and political leanings.
Have you tried asking them to not open it until they plan to eat it?
I'd say it's a bit disingenuous comparing Italy with California demographically - we're talking about one of the largest population per capita of elderly who are well-known for living with multiple generations on the same property if not the same household AND who have traditional body language mannerisms that involve lots of hand-to-face and lips-to-face contact. Bit less of all that in Cali.
Does it count as lying when it's ridiculously obvious that you're lying?
Okay, but Cloudflare is very much an enterprise, and lots of people here are working in such places, so it's a decent point.
I've been having issues since 9:50am EDT. Took them a full hour to update the status page- completely unacceptable.
Which is why the article is titled "Hearts and Stomachs". These fun facts are the point of TFA!
It's a bit odd how everyone's attacking Zoom when none of the other common solutions have proper e2e encryption either.
$1k webcam?
One of our customers uses his ironing board; he put it next to his regular desk.
The author of this piece, though, is British.
I can understand the use of a an analog knob for aesthetics but I was thinking of a digital tuner. Is there an advantage that knobs have?
X was hated when it got widespread adoption because people began using it for things it wasn't intended for. X was aiming to do the right thing.

Sure, if you're using it to connect to a box in Canada over a satellite connection in Johannesburg during 1995 with countless abstractions, you're going to have a horrible time. Use the right tool for the job.
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Covid, Bird Scooters, Layoffs, and Relationships
What interference by the Chinese government?
Not everybody has a passport. A Passport costs more than a hundred dollars. Not everybody is eligible to a passport. For having a passport you need nationality, and you need to be able to have contracts with non national persons.
I still don't understand how the quality of front facing cameras on smart phones has gotten so high, and yet even the most high end laptop's built in cam caps out at 720p. Why?
Sometimes a printer is closer than a pen, unfortunately....
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"Everything everywhere is securities fraud." [1] -- Matt Levine, Money Stuff

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-26/everyt...
Do the other common solutions claim to have e2e encryption?
I am wondering what is the state of things for fixing gradients are kinks, or if there is no hope for general automatic differentiation libraries.

import jax.numpy as np
from jax import grad, jit, vmap
from jax import random

def relu(x):
return np.where(x>0, x, np.zeros_like(x))

def identity(x):
return relu(x) - relu(-x)

derivative_identity = grad(identity)
derivative_identity(0.0)

returns 1.0 or 0.0? It currently returns 0.0. (Edit: typo in sign)
Speaking of hermits ... it's a great time to read the excellent book about the "North Pond Hermit" (in Maine, the US state)—The Stranger in the Woods[1].

I learnt about it when I was in Denver, CO, last year at an outstanding independent bookstore, Tattered Cover[2] (don't miss it when you're in Denver; it's a calm, spacious, and a gorgeous bookstore with an equally outstanding selection of books and a passionate staff). One of the staff members urged me to read the book; I'm glad she did!

[1] https://www.michaelfinkel.com/the-stranger-in-the-woods/

[2] https://www.tatteredcover.com/detailed-history-tattered-cove...
HDR in particular is a feature sorely missing from webcams, where it seems everybody is being darkened by a nearby window.
> [A FEMA rep] said the agency factors in the populations of states and major metropolitan areas and the severity of the coronavirus outbreak in various locales. [...] But the agency has refused to provide any details about how these determinations are made or why it is choosing to seize some supply orders and not others. Administration officials also will not say what supplies are going to what states.

What possible reason could there be for distribution not to be transparent?
GCP Is Down This Morning
I don't think the equations of electrodynamics themselves are difficult to understand and accept at an intuitive level, as one can easily describe them in plain words.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell's_equations#Conceptual...
Wasn't really needed with QE and being the first to profit of this free lunch.
The article says that this strategy is best fit for when most of the patients are negative. I'd like to see how the number of false-positive change given a change in the number of patients that test negative (increase and decrease).

I'd also be interested in a comparison of how reliable it is compared with the current test strategy.
The 1st edition of his "History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity" is available for free here:
https://archive.org/details/historyoftheorie00whitrich/page/...
I think it's tracked here: https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/Wayland/GTK%2B
On the note of the Desert Fathers, the "Life of St. Anthony" written by St. Athanasius is one of my favorite books, and is a relatively short and accessible read: http://newadvent.org/fathers/2811.htm or for a facsimile of a print from 1697: https://archive.org/details/TheLifeOfStAntony/page/n5/mode/2...
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VS code remote works pretty well for this. Lag-free local editing of files, terminal is always there when you need it.
About the resignation of top EU scientist related to Covid crisis
Shareholders can sue you for pretty much anything you do that damages your value that you didn't warn them about.

I.e. they put in their IPO prospectus that there might be a negative impact on their reputation from them having Chinese R&D, so they have a defense against that. They didn't put "We have misleading marketing materials that might become subject to widespread public attention" in there I think.
Install a triggered directed boombox emitting a loud 'BANG' on registering that spacebar sound. Make it trigger only 35% of the time and with a variable 0-5 sec delay. I bet he stops using that spacebar by the end of the first day.
Ah thanks, I assumed Arcgis was a project by them too.
If you are ok with a MacBook screen nearly as thick and heavy as an iPhone, you can have a better camera. The increasing thinness of modern laptops has come at the expense of improving their cameras.
https://blogs.voanews.com/all-about-america/2018/01/18/recor...

> That means 42 percent of Americans hold a passport, a growth of 15 percent since 2007. In 1990, only four percent of Americans had one.
US DoD“Can No Longer Do Business” with Contractors Using Hikvision, Huawei
I guess it’s human nature to prefer there be no webcams available at all, than for one to be on sale at a high premium.
Loadhttps://console.cloud.google.com/support/cases;tab=knownissu... and look at the known issues tab there. This is updated much faster than the public status page.
Exactly. WHO Datasets appear to be causing models to grossly over estimate numbers in various regions. Hmmm.
That still depends on where you are. Don't assume that the rest of the world is like America.

Here in South Korea, 100M symmetric is the bare minimum. For just a few dollars more, you can upgrade to an "up to 500M" plan that usually provides something like 300M symmetric. Often, upload speeds are even faster than download speeds because there's less congestion in that direction.
I used to bullseye Filbert between Hyde and Leavenworth in SF in an old pickup truck with a manual transmission, and that was a bit over 30%.
It's an extremely deep topic. I have a Ph.D. in number theory (Frank Calegari was one of my classmates), so maybe that's why the article was so readable to me. Also, fortunately, it's been known for a long long time that elliptic curves with complex multiplication arise from automorphic forms, since their Galois representations are relatively easy to understand compared to general elliptic curves.
If that was still the main benefit for them, they wouldn’t be planning to start charging for it, because that would—and, as this article shows, has—cut off much of that data flow, as reCAPTCHA clients abandon the service for another one that isn’t charging them.
kentonv was looking for something like this late last year! https://twitter.com/KentonVarda/status/1199022850369146880
Except a real dataset will have its fair share of "nale", "amle", etc.
You know, I had never considered being a shareholder and using said standing to sue a company into security best practices when they lie about it, considering regulation has failed to create the appropriate incentives.
Constantly having to be careful not to disturb others with little, normal things actually is one of the things I hate about open-plan offices. I think the stress and inconvenience of that is underrated compared with the being-annoyed aspect.
>How would it allow you to write a regex that matches a dot?

You could write

1:.

>Or text in an XML element that includes an ampersand?

The point is to not use XML, because it has escape characters. You could replace it with ASN.1 BER

>Even for quotes contained in string literals it's a shitty solution because string literals are part of programming languages and having to count characters every time you change a String literal is just about the last thing you want in your language (and it would be horrible to read as well).

The IDE could update the length automatically
> what are the applications of this system in computation?

If you mean "applications" in the practical sense, there are basically none, but that's part of the fun. GoL is fascinating in part because it's pretty much useless, yet has been studied extensively by bored computer scientists over the decades.
I can recollect the conversation's audio track, down to diction and intonation. I cannot recall a visual image of it, but I have the "abstract concept" of it pegged down. It's the best I can do. Considering i didn't know any better most of my life I guess it's ok. I just wish I could get some visuals. On a side note - dreaming works - i rarely remember dreams but when I do they are visual, and hmmm... some substances in my youth did trigger actual visuals.
It’s mostly unreasonable. I’ve been told to keep my shoes outside, etc.

I have family members that literally act like they travelled to Chernobyl after having returned from the grocery store. There are limits to all of this. You can wash your hands, that’s about it. Maybe change clothes. Take part in the collective social distancing. But we’re not going to act like idiots, and there’s no need spread irrational hysteria between each other.

Your garage is not some bio hazard laboratory. That virus will spread to you in the most benign way possible in a few weeks when we all return to work.
Jitsi Meet features update
On the other hand, their new HCAPTCHA is a notorious PITA for anyone, including those whose browser is Chrome and keep cookies.

Browsing an "I'm under attack"-mode website behind Cloudflare has been super annoying for me since last week. To the point that I usually close the page when I see a HCAPTCHA. Their visual challenge is harder to navigate than reCAPTCHA, and because this is their business model I suspect they have incentive to make it easier.
Our Cloud SQL primary failed over too

GKE is working as normal in west-3c
itt: angloids crying about the internet not being fully catered to their underdeveloped brains.
The model I used had no crank at all, just levers to unlock hooks, and then you would move it to the desired height with the help of spring assistance. It was a Varidesk Pro Plus.
Days ago I was concerned about the recent outages of GCP.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22707876

This confirms my suspicions and my concerns still persist when choosing GCP
Some background:

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/fwwek2/rwal...
Ask HN: How to turn a “toy” side project into a business?
We launched http://hallway.chat a couple weeks ago and since then hundreds of teams have signed up. They're all free users, but daily usage is pretty high.

Hallway started as a fun side project / "toy app". It creates temporary video rooms in Slack for teams to connect and make working from home less lonely.

I wanted to ask if anyone has any ideas about how to think about turning this into an actual business given there seems to be some interest?
List of software and things that use or support WireGuard
Neither have I, but figured I’d link this since it is more than likely why they are suing
Thankyou very much for 1. As someone who thinks mathematically and spatially, the Clifford algebra therein discussed is a vital connection.
There’s one place where it doesn’t (and can’t) help at all: when your address is changing frequently.

Suppose I’m doing some remote debugging stuff on my way to work. I have one IP on my home Wi-Fi. As I walk to my bus stop, it switches to LTE. As my bus drives through the city, I periodically jump to different addresses. I grab a coffee on my walk to the office and end up on the coffee shop’s Wi-Fi with their address. I leave and hop back to LTE, until I get to work and connect to its Wi-Fi.

With SSH, every one of those changes means reconnecting. With Mosh, it means that everything pauses for an instant and then resumes as if nothing ever happened.
Can we get back text based captchas instead of annoying whack-a-mole photo picking?
Although the initial public notice of an issue can take longer than I'd like, I don't think GCP hides or downplays their incidents the same way AWS does.

https://status.cloud.google.com/summary has 20 entries for March.
You are forgetting the girls from HR turning the office into a socialite coffee shop.
And, importantly, its location is more predictable.
Who's Waging the Wearables Wars? Part IV: Bose
This is really beautiful.

I created something similar a while ago:

https://officenoise.cloud/

Same idea, less visually pleasing - but with the twist that all the sounds you hear are triggered by other visitors of that webpage.
Speaking of which, there could be a serious opportunity for a startup to create an actually decent webcam stream service with low lag and low/no artifacts because I have no idea why the national media has such horrible connections in 2020, makes zero sense to me, it's like watching 2001 tech.

Sound correction for dead rooms or echo-y rooms would be nice too. If AI can magically "fix" video with almost no pixels and poor sound a hundred years old, they should be able to apply it to webcam broadcasts.
India's Oyo furloughs thousands of employees as revenue drops by over 50%
That, and ReCAPTCHA had hellbans.

If you blocked cookies or were otherwise problematic, it would sometimes lock you out of all ReCAPTCHA-gated resources not by giving you a message describing what was happening, why, and how to fix it, but rather by simply pretending that your every attempt to solve the captcha failed. Obviously this is extremely frustrating, by design, but it gets even more so with compounding factors like "the library is closed at this hour, so I can't get a fresh connection."

The worst I've seen has been when it happens to people who aren't well equipped to guess what's happening. When my friend's younger brother got hellbanned from his PlayStation account, he spent 30 minutes trying to identify traffic lights (or whatever) and then retreated crying to his room, because he wasn't able to deduce that Google was gaslighting him. He trusted Google. They had him convinced that he was such a failure he couldn't even identify traffic lights correctly, and he was -- quite reasonably -- inconsolable for a while.

Thanks a lot, Google.
0.0>0 is false.
I think it's IAM; since IAM underpins nearly all of GCP's managed service offerings.
I got SparkoCam and use my DSLRs as webcam, as I just couldn't handle the quality of laptop or regular webcam :(

A bit pricey software, but now I can put transparent images or greenscreen the output, which gives daily amusement to the team :).
> Physics is the science that studies "physical models"

This is a completely wrong thing to say. Physics studies (some aspects of) Nature by creating models and testing their predictions.

(You as a student might well be studying "physical models", but it would be a funny thing to say that for example "biology is a science where the teacher is yelling at students while trying to attract their attention to some nasty-looking posters.")
A Short History and Theology of Spiritual Communion
This looks incredible but as other posters have noted, is sold out everywhere. Any recommendations for similar products that might be available?
Cryptoindex AI Daily Predictions and News for 04/08/2020
> The administration could simply be incompetent, obsessed with control, and afraid to look weak by having states take decisions on their own.

And they could have a bigger picture of happenings that you or I do not.
Iceland may have the best statistic on their death rate from this virus, but these things are not static and depend on a zillion factors (slight exaggeration).
Looking Back on Four Years at the Times (Now CTO of Fastly)
The parent edited their comment, it didn't say "enterprise" when I commented.
Peter Navarro memos warning of mass Covid death circulated West Wing in January
I've had a lot of experience. You can learn from it or not. If not, feel free to prove Santayana right again, and at great personal cost :) In fact, I encourage you to!
If anyone's curious about this from 3 camels standpoint they made a blog post about this. I was curious what the non-Amazon opinion would be so I
went looking: https://camelcamelcamel.com/blog/amazon-eu-covid-19
OP's usage is correct. Handy means "at hand", or convenient.
Is there a simple way for those of us who hold index funds to check if we are shareholders?
Vertical Rhythm CSS Reset
"suck more ongoing revenue out of it"
I think there is also an ongoing cost to keep the software up to date, so there needs to be some ongoing revenue. It would be better if they just got referral fees for channel signups, or gave you a way to pay for no ads.

Maybe the best bit is being able to quickly search for an item of content across the various services and compare prices. There should be also be referral fees in that bit, enough to keep them from having to be an advertising platform.
That's really just a defense against deleting the wrong repo. If you're typing in the whole repo name, including the account it's under, you're very likely to know which repo you are deleting when you hit the button. (Consider the horror scenario where you both own an org repo and have a personal fork, and you mean to delete your personal fork but delete the main repo instead.)
My project about BDD tests to Living Documentation
Hello, I'm working on the small project which dedicated to convert BDD tests to Living Documentation. I know there is similar projects, but i want to concentrate not on quality of tests, rather than how your product works.

I'm on the very start stage, but you know when you work on something that you feel cool, you always can't wait to share it.

Here few links:
How Reek's documentation looks - https://documentation.world/public/projects/2

P.S. If you have BDD tests, and want to try don't hesitate.
Beethoven is sound, so that's different from sight. Can you hear Beethoven's 5th in your mind?

I'm a visual type, so I can't wrap my head around how one could think without pictures. How do you retrieve the information about windows in your house? I can just walk through my house through my mind, but if you don't see... how else would you retrieve information that you don't have memorized?
> Is there proof of any "physics"?

Arguably there is `disproof`.
https://www.etf.com/stock/ZM
my employer currently signs up for zoom, apparently managed via our SSO-solution. so far so good.

Right now, I got an email from Zoom, not showing any relation to my employer or mentioning its name: "congratulations for signup, use your account now". Ok. Password reset yields an usable basic account. Seems like somehow Zoom created a personal account for me with my work email. As I didn't get the activation email I got on my private spam-account, I assume somehow they got/requested all the employees email-adresses and automatically created private accounts, not related to the actual business acc..

What the actual f* is that?!? And yeah, I think conceptually this is the same behavior as shown by the ad/malware/spam campaigns ca. 2003. I wonder what had happened if I had just typed a password when signing in with my account... Maybe they just grab the passwords of the illiterate users and check them by trying to login with the university website? (that's sooo userfriendly!)
Answering questions about immunity is absolutely critical right now.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24532754-600-can-you-...

https://www.ksbw.com/article/new-study-investigates-californ...
So were they really sending data to servers in China? From what little I've heard and read about this, that is what stood out to me. Not sure they should ever be trusted again after that.
Did the early models not bundle apps for any services?

From what I’ve seen in the space, consumers want to spend $30-50, retailers want a giant percentage to put you on their shelves, and that doesn’t leave much for hardware assuming you want any profit. Then there’s support, design & R&D... A few ad deals or some sponsorship for placement/bundling and suddenly hitting an acceptable price seems almost feasible.

[edit] and of course price expectations are so low because the competition’s selling at-cost and making money on the side deals. You’re on the shelf next to something with ads but that doesn’t go on the price sticker.
Young and Old
Cloud Foundry sees top leadership change
Google's Chief Internet Evangelist: 'privacy may be an anomaly' (2013)
Is having keys compelled a surprise?

Chinese servers, operating in China legally, will usually have this issue.

It's serious yes, but I'm confused if it only applied to users in China?

I'm more concerned about the technical issues TBH - I assume most software sanctioned in China had to turn over keys.
Similarly, the first alternative can't be right, either: I know I can't visualize images, and I'm not confused about that, either. I can't do any of those things you're describing.
Oh wow. ECB mode? That's horrifying.
It's not even panic buying; the demand mix literally shifted overnight across the entire economy. Instead of eating out every meal, I've been cooking just to give myself something to do. That means my food is coming from a grocery store rather than 50 lb bags from Sysco.

The more expensive options are just another form of demand lever: some people will be unwilling to buy a $5 carton of eggs even if it means walking away with no eggs. I suspect a lot of people are just buying the expensive eggs -- which is likely a huge boon for "premium" food vendors as they typically have to account for a larger % of unsold product loss.
The Economic Threat: Contentedness
Both are possible if, and only if, some conditions are fullfilled first. I don't see nothing in the article suggesting that, and I spot at least one serious flaw in the design.

But I don't know everything, and I could be wrong, obviously.
Webex has optional e2e encryption, but naturally you lose some features such as network based recording.

https://help.webex.com/en-us/WBX44739/What-Does-End-to-End-E...