skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So count something you see, but dont interact with? Most people do not count and rememeber every object in their homes. The point is to illustrate that some people dont have working 3D models in their minds, not to argue about what method for remembering is easiest for you.
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The emphasis you should read in the GNKSOA is on the word "only", which is to say, the priority is not to implement References/In-Reply-To threading, but to not implement Subject-based threading.
that would be forgery, i’ll say
Yeah, like with mice loving cheese. They will even eat cardboard and cables, but prefer grain and bread.
Tried it and decided that the generated noise just isn't worth the trackers on this site. Your mileage may vary.
Moving from reCAPTCHA to hCaptcha
Mosh could easily load the skipped-over lines in the background. It's not incompatible with the design. It just requires a developer to put in the effort.
Perhaps free speech saves lives, too.
Thought maybe there was an earthquake or volcano involved, but no, only professional standards.

Baldwin Street is straight with a uniform gradient across the carriageway. Ffordd Pen Llech has many horizontal curves which all affect the road gradient. ... Measuring on the centreline is standard surveying practice.

Details: https://issuu.com/nzis/docs/surveying_spatial_march_2020/s/1...
I saw this mentioned in a WSJ piece yesterday.

> You can get an external webcam—although top models are sold out across the web. ( Logitech says it’s increasing production and distribution to meet the new demand.)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/living-the-coronavirus-work-fro...
At some point I had a binary for the iodine client stored as DNS records, and another DNS record with a shell script that would fetch and decode them.
Pandemic Simulator
im sorry, this is a product with OPEN in it... Surely hobbyists are THE market for it. We are losing our soul with open software, thats not apparently open.
Ask HN: What is the best you have managed with a free or a cheap cloud service?
I have always wondered what one has done substantially using the benefit of free and cheap offerings from various cloud services.

Examples:

Using $5 Digital Ocean droplet to manage my own VPN / EMail server.

Share the cool tools/services that you managed to build for yourself. Only hobby or personal projects, not your startups.
Yes, you can simulate them, but it's painful.
PINE64 Launches the Linux-Based PinePhone UBports Community Edition
If the database owner is not billing you, he probably doesn't need your formal name, so he can have just one column, and call it "name".

Otherwise, yes, he'll need the 2 columns.
The visibility of this link is disabled by default unless the person trying to join attempts (and fails, even if deliberately) to download+install the client at least twice.

It can be enabled, but it's not on by default.
That wasn't in the original comment. It has been edited since I replied, which is fine. I do it all the time, sometimes you miss that someone replied during your editing.
Commenter above, correct me if I’m misinterpreting, but — I imagine they meant for when programs talk to other programs. Regexes and string literals are written by humans; it would be easy for the compiler/program to calculate the length for you.
The article claims China is a role model.

However chinas reported numbers is not their actual numbers. We have no clue if China’s approach was effective.

Even today ppl in China are still getting sick. With weekend traffic in Beijing not recovered.
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How to make better decisions about coronavirus
Sourdough starter isn't some nasty poisonous culture lol. It's perfectly safe and every grocery store and bakery have huge tubs of it. If you're really concerned just go to your grocery store bakery, ask for some starter, and feed it.
Do you know your living room has two windows without seeing it in your mind?

While typing that question I had a flash of an image of the wall with (2) windows.
Yes unfortunately there are many people who don't care about the suffering and death of others. But being callous doesn't make someone a "denier".
Far from trying to reduce the current of outrage, their strategy is to blow the fuse. Just make people so tired of all the garbage that they stop trying.

Not my own insight BTW. Got it from this Twitter thread:

https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/1247732044903350272
That does not imply it is abnormal to remember overall number after you visualized it few times. I would even argue it is abnormal to not remember result of calculation you have done multiple times.
From this scripts, it looks like this doesn't convert to black and white, so this might work with Hanko (Japanese stamp seal) too?
The important question to ask is 'why?' Are these people just stupid ignorants requiring being spoon fed information, or is there something more going on?
Wuhan Is Returning to Life. So Are Its Disputed Wet Markets
Thought this was a great guide one of our InterviewGPS community members put together on what competencies to look for in data scientists and how to assess them during interviews
That wasn't in the original comment.
I used to use Gopro this way. The problem was, that Gopro runs on battery when turned on (even when not recording, just in monitor mode), but charges it only when the camera is off.

With my old battery, the sessions were... short. So I managed to snatch a Brio last week, and I'm much more satisfied.
It's much better to bet on the drugs. A vaccine will take years to be fully available (let's not forget we have just two phase 1 studies going, the efficacy is still yet to be determined): drugs, if the current or upcoming trials are successful, probably within the end of the year.

And like the drugs, a vaccine may not be successful at all. What do we do in that case?

This is a problem for the ICUs only because there is no specific treatment. If we can treat it like we can treat other grave diseases, the impact becomes smaller and more manageable.
Both browsers are compliant. However there is generally no reason to cache a resource with content disposition so it seems sensible for Firefox to adopt this behavior.
Why not both?

Why would internal
invisible thought processes be the same but all visible processes be different?
The biggest thing about that are CDNs.

The biggest growth pain for sites passing 1 million per hour mark is that the application side is not scaling well.

The moment you go for a multi-DC setup, from then on all your code have to be written with that in mind. Very often that is an overkill just to show some pictures, user profiles, and articles.

Third point, having one or more application servers going down becomes nowhere near as critical when your site was served from a single nodejs instance, which you have to debug under load to see why it crashes
You are spot on in picking me up on this, thanks. It needs clarification. xml/json is neither right nor wrong, it depends. Performance, well, it depends. What is unquestionably wrong is the poster's advice "When in doubt, just have a column full of JSON and figure it out later".

Pouring structurable data into an unstructured heap is just laziness and will hurt you later. I've seen the cost of deciding to 'leave it for later' - it's high! I've been involved in cleaning it up. It's horrible.

Years ago I picked up a book written in the 1960s (so pre IT)for secretaries, and it had a beautiful line in it "the filing cabinet is a place where you find things, not lose them". Still applies. Always will do.
> Separating makes searching/indexing on last name easier.

The point is that such a search or index is a mistake. It's simply not meaningful based on the real properties of names, it just happens to work 99% of the time if you're only dealing with a mostly homogenous culture.
Helping Logistics and Delivery Companies during Covid with location analytics
Any reasonable ssh client should be able to reconnect to a tmux session without any interaction. The benefit of it being instant is certainly nice, but I'd still classify it as minor, especially since forced disconnects are only really a problem that way on iOS.
Especially considering how flour is becoming rare as well, at least in Italy and France
I’m curious what you mean by this — why does coding for length prevent streaming? The receiving end can certainly treat the text as a stream still. Do you mean that the sender cannot “stream” if they are generating the contents on the fly? That seems trivial to solve - just break it up into chunks, assuming a little bit of buffering is OK.
Do you have audio, scent, taste , or touch memory?
First of all congratulations on the article, very interesting and instructive.
My question is the following, I use Proxmox, which has ports 80/443 open to its private IP.

When I want to do the tutorial, I cannot perform the certificates, since, in my case, I have a Nginx proxy reverse, it can help me in what should be my configuration, thanks.
Agreed, and the now edited comment illustrates how the teacher made it a safe lesson. That portion wasn't in the comment when I replied, and it sounded more like the teacher simply failed to prepare their students.
Hum... Who exactly is entering that data onto the database? And are they ok with entering things with that level of detail?
Hey, thanks! Didn't know that.
Mac’s pdf viewer Preview has a signature capture feature built in that’s pretty slick. I use it all the time and haven’t encountered an objection. Tbh I’d wonder why you need to fuzz up and fake scan the image. If someone’s requiring that the doc be “signed in ink” or some such, more power to you!
Is Mosh being maintained anymore? I remember giving it an install maybe a year ago and remembering it didn't have any updates in quite some time.
The question is, can you forge your own signature? If both parties agree that the document is legally binding it seems a bit unlikely that the document would fall under the forged label.

Though I am not a lawyer.

It's also worth noting that digital signatures throughout the european union have legal status.
You’re building something that is inevitably going to be exploited by companies to bend the truth and paint themselves in the best possible light — just like every other culture/recruiting tool in existence.

If this was a demo for companies showing how easy it is for them to say 2 things at once and not be held to the truth, then well done :)
I remember these days fondly. Surfing the web on 486 at 28.8kbps. it felt slow, but worth it. Most information to be found existed because someone thought it was worth sharing. A golden age to be sure.
Your local bakery also will have cake yeast and instant yeast which is really good stuff that's annoyingly hard to find at grocery stores. Cake yeast I get because it's perishable but instant yeast has little excuse other than it has to be refrigerated after you open it.
I'll send him a direct email and keep you informed. Stay tuned :)

update : The reply was: He started a rewrite on L4, but it was too much for one lone guy; he could start it all again if some want to participate.
I have a vague picture of a white frame behind a couch, but nothing definitive. For example, I don't "see" any color of the couch, even though I can tell you the color if I think about it.

It's more a "conceptual windows behind couch" than my real one.

I suspect I'm on the spectrum quite a bit towards Aphantasia (which would explain a few things), but not at the very end.
I'm not here to say the author is right. S/he is making a lot of assumptions, and as you can see in this thread, everyone is saying it depends.

But one fact is that reducing redundancy in a database is a GOOD thing.

To make a comparison, I'd say it's like when I have to maintain a codebase that is large, and I have to pass a constant (let's say, ERR_STATUS = 1) around in some functions in various folders.

I wouldn't want to have to define it in every single file. One would want that in a header, in a library or in a file that defines static values somewhere. Anywhere but only one location for it.

Database is a bit like a dumping ground. Once the business gets big enough, a lot of other application are going to plunge in and do things with data. I wouldn't want to have inconsistent data. As a programmer, if one had inconsistent things in one's source code, one could deal with it. But data is different, data is produced by users and interactions and so on. Once you begin to have inconsistent data, you can't trust it anymore until you find out exactly what did it. A lot of wasted time. And that leads to a lot of problems.

But I agree with you about your point on performance. However by organising data correctly, having indexes on things that matter, joining in the right way, one's using business knowledge and programming knowledge to optimise the database. And that's not something that can be done 100% on its own (as of now).
You do interact with window every time you clean it. Is it someone else who cleans where you live? If yes and you dont pay them, you should participate in cleaning too.

You do interact with windows every time you check they are all closed before leaving for holidays or weekend. Every time you close it and open it. Most people have small number of rooms and exactly one occasionally two windows in it. We are not talking about how many books you have nor anything like that. We are talking about large visible objects that are few in numbers you interact with fairly often.

Also, the point was not to illustrate point, the point was to diagnose visualization problem based on remembering number of windows.
Yes, this was my meaning - apologies if i wasn't clear.
Couldn't we just use our smartphones on a stand?
I’ve never heard a soda taste as being oppressed. Thank you.
Highlighting corportate spin is not invaluable.
Plain database read requests for items in an index aren't loading the CPU anywhere near as just any collation tasks in a scripting language.

Having such things being AJAX loadable is still the best option.
But what if there are two (or more?) positive samples? It's an interesting problem.
Digital signatures also have legal status in the US.

Until society catches up and uses cryptographic primitives provided by a national ID smart card (such that Estonia has) for authorizing intents, this is a satisfactory method to make document execution less painful.

This project is already doing the easy part (“place pretty signature picture here”). Depending on your jurisdiction and their tolerance, you could also render a true crypto signature in ascii-armored format to assist in proving legitimacy (perhaps generated as a small print signature line under the signature).

Sidenote: Some transactions require a "wet" signature (as in, actual ink on actual paper from an actual pen). This doesn't get around those transactions unfortunately.
Do you mean hash or a description? A hash is a completely opaque symbol. A description is notes like shape, color, nose size, eye shape, etc
Reading through this, I’m following along and I think the protocol does what it purports to do. One concern I have though: it seems to hand-wave over how each device checks the blockchain or central server for matching records in the future. In the blockchain case, doesn’t this mean that every device needs to, at a minimum, have a stream of all entries flow through it to search for records of interest? Or in the central server case, upload all of the records so that the server can notify you if there’s ever a match?
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer

“ The misspelling of referrer originated in the original proposal by computer scientist Phillip Hallam-Baker to incorporate the field into the HTTP specification.[4] The misspelling was set in stone by the time of its incorporation into the Request for Comments standards document RFC 1945; document co-author Roy Fielding has remarked that neither "referrer" nor the misspelling "referer" were recognized by the standard Unix spell checker of the period.[5] "Referer" has since become a widely used spelling in the industry when discussing HTTP referrers; usage of the misspelling is not universal, though, as the correct spelling "referrer" is used in some web specifications such as the Document Object Model.”
> No it wont! In general it will have worse performance.

Since the advice is to only denormalize to improve performance, this would be a contradiction. Yes it makes everything more error-prone, but if you're profiling to check performance, then you only keep the denormalizations that improve the performance you care about.
Open-source BLE tracing stack for Covid-19
My first professional programming job was in 1996. I was writing C for DEC VAX and Stratus VOS mainframes and reading about undefined and implementation defined behavior on Usenet in comp.lang.c. My second job three years later was writing C and C++ for Windows computers along with MFC and some standard cross platform C++ using the STL.

Recently, there was a blog post submitted on HN with “trick” questions in C where they ask you to describe what the output would be. I immediately recognized all of the code would result in undefined or implementation defined behavior. I call myself still keeping abreast of the latest C and C+ standards out of morbid curiosity even though I have used neither in over a decade, changes have been glacial compared to the front end.

within the past decade I've seen the rise of cloud services*

I know AWS pretty well, from the development, Devops, and even operations/networking side. I hate to be “that guy” but for the most part the cloud is just someone else’s computer where they manage databases, messages services, caching services, monitoring etc.

The largest changes in mindset were infrastructure as code, “cattle vs pets” and immutable architecture.

non-relational databases, the Hadoop ecosystem, distributed storage systems, containers,

Especially in the cloud, distributed storage systems is just an API call. NoSQL databases do require a change in mindset, but the world is still dominated by RDMS’s. In fact they are still dominated by the same three or 4 as they were in 2010 - SQL Server, Oracle, Mysql and Postgres. I’ve been going back and forth between Mysql and Sql Server for almost two decades and six jobs.

the increased use of languages outside of C/C++/Java for systems programming (e.g., Python, Go, Rust, Clojure, Scala)

Besides Python, you can still safely ignore all of those languages and just stick with C/C++, C# and Java and be good. Those were the same languages that were in demand when I (belated) jumped back in the job market in 2008. The other are all niche languages in the grand scheme of things. Go is starting to pop up more admittedly.

machine learning, and CUDA, among many other technologies that were either nonexistent or were in their infancy in 2010.

You can also safely ignore those and still be marketable.

As far as low level developers, the submitter seems to be a standard everyday “enterprise developer” (no insult intended , I am too). So low level code, CUDA and machine learning wouldn’t be relevant.
I’ve been using CamTwist (http://camtwiststudio.com/) for it after checking the alternatives. Even if old-looking it works well (in Catalina and Mojave) and has converted my old iPhone into a good-quality webcam. OBS studio is getting virtual webcam support soon (see a recent post about OBS studio) and will allow for that as well (I have tried the proof of concept implementation)
Apparently they're unusual and not at all common.

People seem to prefer to use the kinda old-fashioned manual kettles you place on the top of a stove.
> It reminds me distantly of an earlier time when just the web was sort of owned ... by the web folk.

I remember those times, I miss them. I had a modem back in the late 1990s and used to buy .net magazine (in the UK, back before there was a framework of the same name) on my way home from school and it had the number of people estimated to be on the Internet printed on the spine. It all seemed too good to be true, we were worried it might get shut down by governments. There was the TV program "the net" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Net_(British_TV_series)) that used to give you an "info dump" at the end that you were meant to record on your VCR and play back frame by frame.

In Jan 2000 I got my first proper job at a web hosting company and used to read Wired magazine before it became (as far as I recall) fascinated by the stock market.

I miss the optimism and simplicity of those times.
I have no visual imagery in dreams either. I still have spatial awareness and can move about unimpeded, but there is no visual element to it. Other dream senses are uninhibited.

While conscious I can play back long complex pieces of music in my head, and can imagine fairly vivid tastes and touches. But I can't picture my wife's face.
The other day, while I was messing with Letsencrypt TXTDNS auth I was wondering:

Is there a problem with updating DNS TXT records too often?

It could become an interesting way to create a "decentralized" microblogging network.
We are building something for engineers to use to better discover and vet companies :).

I appreciate your feedback, feel free to hit me up at ben@workdna.com if you would like to chat more as you seem very passionate about this and I'd love to hear how you have been burned in the past. Some of the best insights we got while interviewing and testing with engineers were the questions they used to test companies given how they have been burned at past companies or by recruiters.
That's surprising because usually during an economic downturn lifespans go up precisely because people spend less on alcohol and other drugs.
It's not a false signature, this kind of thing is standard practice for digitally signing documents. DocuSign even allows you to insert a computer-generated signature that looks nothing like your "real" one. What matters is the audit trail.

This is legally binding the same way clicking the "Buy" button on Amazon is.
I've actually been a bit surprised that where I live in Massachusetts at any rate, the liquor stores look remarkably normal. The one nearby grocery store that carries beer and wine looked pretty well-stocked for at least that part of its inventory as well.

Maybe smaller stores in cities are shorter on inventory but out where I live any shortages are minimal. (Even though supermarkets are out of the usual items like paper goods.)
> Are mortality statistics available to that sort of granularity and speed

To answer my own question, yes

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/weekly-all-cause-mo...

I love gov.uk

Week 9 commences March 2nd (I'm assuming the weeks are the same as ISO weeks)

Week | Total dead(E+W) | Covid (UK) | Excess mortality
8 Feb24-Mar1 | 10,841 | 0 | ...
9 Mar 2-8 | 10,816 | 3 | no
10 Mar 9-15 | 10,895 | 32 | no
11 Mar 16-22 | 11,019 | 300 | no
12 Mar 23-29 | 10,645 | 1073 | no
13 Mar30-Apr5 | n/a | 3965 | yes -- England overall and 65+. not in Wales/Scotland/NI. Specific England regions - London, South East, E+W Midlands, North West

Note the graph showing the recent increase: https://i.imgur.com/McBopJql.png

The next weekly report is out tomorrow, which should have the total death figures for week 13.

It looks like in week 12 though, 10% of deaths in the UK were put down to COVID, but the total increase on the year before wasn't that high.

Next week will be englightening

Covid death figures from wikipedia.

GovUK also have this, hospital admissions. Look at the massive fall over the last few weeks.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
So you assume that yourself are the number guy and know better, so what is the equation that will determine when lockdown is more efficient? what are the inputs in that equation ? Why car deaths would be a factor in why you should implement a lockdown. If you go to a hospital with a illness X would you like a response like "X kills less then cars in our country, until traffic laws are fixed we decided you can suffer and die from X, Have a ice death!"