skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It seems like HP still have the ability to issue licenses

I expect they may retain the ability to issue licenses but surely not in a way that undermines VSI's business model, like giving them away for free. So they probably aren't allowed to undercut VSI in any way.
Wait, wait, you mean we shouldn't have an all-powerful, top down, one-size-fits-all response? DC doesn't know best for everyone? Local decisions are better for a diverse nation with many differing communities? Why next thing, you'll be talking about the labs of democracy, where we try different responses to see what works rather than bet it all on a single plan.
LocationSmart is one such broker. They’ve been featured here before.
One more point you may want to internalize:

If you integrate the Faraday / Ampere equations, the divergence of the Magnetic field will never change, and the divergence of the Electric field ("charge") will obey a continuity equation with the current.

So the two Gauss Laws don't really have any Dynamic content, they're just requirements on the initial conditions of the Fields.
Use the array data type for simple collections if using Postgres because it saves a join.
Will you employ data scientist that have articles and years of expirience as data analyst in University but not Ph.D? How much role will be lack of Ph.D in this case?
"(1) a vaccine or cure gets discovered and deployed, or else

(2) we continue in quasi-lockdown mode for the rest of our lives"

Isn't it safe to assume we'll get a vaccine? I do see us dealing with this until then but not more than 18 months.
A lot of laptop stand, external monitors and bread baker machines are out of stock here too.
On Amazon, there are some lesser known brands still available. I wonder how well those actually work.
Fortunately, you can generate your own license for OpenVMS is you google around a bit for "VMS Liberation Front" ...
Part of my day job is maintaining our home-grown data processing system on an old VMS (Itanium) cluster. We've been trying to get rid of it for close to 7 years now but don't seem much closer than when we started.

For things that OpenVMS is good at, it is REALLY good at. Everything else... is pretty antiquated.
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If you are mailing something, using a plain formatted address string is usually fine.

Here's a harder problem from a previous job:

Given two addresses, tell me if they both point to the same "place".

(As you might imagine, the goal of this was joining various datasets.)

There really is no good way to do this, but to come close, you might consider a few dimensions of the problem:

1. Formatted address - a plain string. What you would write on an envelope.

2. Tokens (what I call "address components") - the bits of information that make up an address. Something like, {"street_number": "10", "street": "downing st", "locality": "london", ...}. You can get these back from most location-focused APIs.

3. Locations. Coordinates of a point or area in space.

4. Time. "Places" change over time. For example, a new business can open in place of another. Buildings are built and demolished. If you are working with data over a long time period, this is more of a concern.

Unfortunately, there are many-to-many relationships between all of these. For any address, there are many possible locations. For any location, there are many possible addresses. For any set of address components, there are many possible formatted addresses. For any address, there may have been multiple different "places" found there over time. Et cetera.

Consider an office building, for an example. That building probably has at least one address corresponding to its main entrance, but it might have other entrances. An office within the building can sometimes use the building's main address as its own address, or the address of its own entrance, or an address with a floor number, or an address with a mailroom number. An office building may have a café (usually off of the lobby) that has its own addresses. Offices in the building can be split and merged over time. I have even seen multiple buildings merged into one. You might also have a co-working space with individual addresses for rooms within it.
Data Deep Dive: How are new releases on Steam performing?
Make the primary key the thing you query by. Treat a sql database as similar to a nosql database (no joins) and your performance will be amazing.
You can code locally, push to a repository, and have the changes almost instantly on your server ready to be run.
> I believe we just often focus on short-term interests/gains ...

This is very narrow US-centric thinking. Just look at the Chinese government, who generally have a longer term view of just economic gain compared to the US. It's not hard to extrapolate from that.

I think the idea that humans are naturally self-centered, short-term thinkers is flawed. One could easily make the argument that humans are social creatures and are long-term thinkers. Short-term profits are incentivized by the current economic, political, financial system in the US. Doesn't have to be some innate human aspect or whatever.
Pure speculation, but at some point your dataset is large enough.

The original reCAPTCHA corrected errors in scanned books published decades/centuries ago. At some point, they're all fixed.

Similarly, more recent images have all been of traffic images. And they probably have way more than enough now -- at least of the type that can be done by reCAPTCHA.

So unless Google comes up with a new mass-categorization problem easy enough for literally everyone to do and simple and small enough to fit in a reCAPTCHA... then they charge.
UK listened to scientists about coronavirus who were slow to sound the alarm
SSH two-factor authentication using notifications on progressive web app
It was cracked years ago. I won't pass the link out directly on HN but it can be found with some googling.
Rereading my comment, I see that I underplayed how important the portability of the switch is to me.
Mind Hacking book, by John Hargrave
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...

Wow.

Is this a "misinformation control" issue or is it more a "monitor mental health of employees in high trust positions" issue?
The decision to separate out the hardware from the streaming was prescient -- no need to cannibalize deals with other hardware vendors, and get support for Netflix to be universal.

I only wish that Netflix had been as prescient about its original content division. If they had spun that out as another company, then it would have been possible for Netflix to continue to score content deals, instead of steadily losing content.
This is because this is not an actual shortage. This is people panic-buying things they don't really need, and then of course they can't justify spending that much...
If it's your own signature, by definition it cannot be a forgery.
Yup, that's my thing is that they control the entire thing. Although it could be like joke where "AI" ends up being just a bunch of "if statements".
HN has a rate limiter for some posters (like me) that will not allow you to post at all after a certain number of posts/day
Record keeping is 90% of data projects.

The second 90% is basic math at high speeds.
I was blown away with the reaction to my tweet about Next + Prisma [0], so I wrote up a full tutorial explaining how to create a static site with direct database access using Next's `getStaticProps`. Let me know if you have any questions!

--

Deployed Example: https://prisma-next.now.sh/

Source Code: https://github.com/leerob/next-prisma

[0]: https://twitter.com/leeerob/status/1246948338714492929
I'm not discussing Einstein but saying that decent behaviour towards spouses evidences itself, up to a point I agree, back then. That's all I was getting at.

"Your husband has no right to control your individuality // Don’t belittle your wife before visitors // Don’t call your wife a coward because she is afraid of a spider. Probably in a case of real danger she would prove to be quite as brave as you"

This makes you want to barf? I mean, this is as good advice now as it ever was, and there are plenty of men & women who fail to follow it today. Other items are poor by today's terms, but you're dismissing it all as barf-making.

> I judge them regressive, but what the heck is that worth?

It's worth lots. Those who don't judge permit bad stuff to happen. Keep on judging, and change the world for the better.
What I Found from the Home Office of One of the Directors at Shopify
SoftBank-Backed Hotel Chain Oyo Lost Its Way in the U.S.
Bored at home? How far can you get on my game?
> But that's only true if you look at the "medium view" of the organization. If you look at the large view, how the money actually flows, then it might be beneficial for one part like IS&T to be kind of broken, as long as the rest of the company works.

To a degree that's true. However I'm reminded of the CEO of Sears, who embraced that concept entirely. He expected each team essentially to battle for funding -- with (unsurprising) result that it was a free-for-all and teams spent more time wrangling and fighting than actually getting stuff done.

A little competition motives; bellum omnium contra omnes is just a waste of resources.
Currently in the US ~85% of tests turn negative. If sample turned positive you'd perform 10% more tests (1 extra test for each 10 tests) i.e. x1.1. If it turned negative you'd perform 10% the tests you'd normally perform without this scheme i.e. x0.1. In this case .85 of tests would be .1 of what they're now. The rest of .15 will be 1.1 of what they're now. So if US did this, they would be testing ~x.3 of their current testing. This seems huge. Can someone check my math please.
I am aware. But the community has always been pretty strongly adverse to that kind of activity.
Every bank application I've done has required print + sign + scanned, I got refused when I tried sending them PDFs signed in Preview/Acrobat
Filtration Performance of Cloth Masks and Common Fabric Materials
I rescued a Multiprise 3000 from a scrap metal dealer. It's seemingly impossible to get the OS/2 Warp software just to be able to bring the mainframe hardware up. I can't even get to the point where I might actually be able to use an OS.
What kind of machine are you using where CPU usage is an issue during videoconferencing?
I don't see any evidence webcams are worse than other stuff though.

Amazon's been sold out of current-gen iPad Mini's for a while too. (Though regular iPads are there.)

Global supply chains are disrupted, so all sorts of random individual products are either jumping in price or sold out, while plenty of other ones are perfectly fine. But aside from masks/TP/sanitizer/rice and similar, I'm not seeing a lot of whole product-category trends.
I read that article about metagame, was really amusing. There is something going on with communities, products and how people gravitates to Apple, Linux/Unix, Windows or Amiga "ecosystem". I think it there is some meta stuff there (not sure if should be called metagame). Just a thought.

OT: Why your blog articles are not dated?
How about modelling good behavior? Instead of opinionated name-calling "misinformation", simply add a comment with their claims about such and such authorities explanation of the situation. If you can trust people to believe your facts, why would
you assume they trust your opinions?
By now, I almost immediately close a page with a reCAPTCHA, because the stream of buses, traffic lights, and cycles never seems to end when you're using Firefox. And then it says "too many requests from this computer" and refuses to continue.
Kubernetes is not as big as the hype makes it out to be.

Microservices have been around for over a decade. They were called service oriented architecture and instead of REST with JSON they sending XML.
One of the more insidious elements of ReCAPTCHA is its propensity to challenge users who have robust cookie blocking in place. So as we encourage people to be more privacy-aware, the web gets harder and harder to use.

We've seen ReCAPTCHA pop all over ecommerce, all over benign websites with little to no need to challenge use almost completely because of the increase in privacy-aware users.

ReCAPTCHA essentially flies in the face of the recent blocking features rolling into Safari and Firefox and more privacy-aware users...growing by the day.

In many ways it's a genius structure from Google.
1. Convince people to use your privacy challenge.
2. Serve it when you don't see Google tracking cookies.
3. Offer a way around that with the least privacy-aware browser available (Chrome use is growing steadily month over month.

So good on Cloudflare.
> But I think in english the concepts still stay more separated, …

My question is, why do you think that? It sounds like an unfounded assertion to me. I hear you repeating claims but color names have been extensively studied in linguistics, and you have direct access to Japanese dictionaries and encyclopedias online, and you can type Japanese color names into Google image search, so it should be relatively easy to come up with even a small bit of evidence.

> …for instance "rose" as a color has parted a lot from the common perception of an actual rose's color.

If you look up “rose color” in Japanese Wikipedia, you’ll see that it specifically defines it as a shade between red and magenta, even though roses come in many different shades (yellow, orange, white, cream, etc).

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%96%94%E8%96%87%E8%89%B2

The problem here is that I am not a Japanese speaker, but this seems to be evidence that the term “rose color” is a specific color, and not a term that means “the color of a rose”.

“Peach color” is also interesting.

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A1%83%E8%89%B2

Unlike English, this color is not the color of a peach fruit. It is also not the color of a peach blossom, despite the fact that “peach-blossom color” is listed as a synonym. Instead, it is the color that fabric takes when dyed with peach blossoms, but the practice of dyeing cloth with peach blossoms has fallen out of usage. You will find a different set of colors if you do a Google image search for 桃花 (peach blossom) and 桃花色 (peach blossom color). (You may find some sexual material in your image search, so maybe don’t do the search in the office.)

So the term “peach color” in Japanese refers to a specific shade of pink which is divorced from its meaning.

I guess English isn’t special after all.
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I'll start with myself. Recently, I have tried to use Forestry.io to set up a personal blog, but discovered that they don't support out-of-box deploy to GitHub Pages, so I had to go with a bash script to build hugo blog and deploy to my github repo. Still find editing conf files easier than those fancy UIs.
The irony is that it is the exact opposite of the typical narrative myopia in only caring about people directly mentioned. Here everyone was horrified by the negligent cannibalism.
Bra Mask (How To)
> People are just hoarding wines and beers like never before

Are they? Or are all the people who used to go to the now shutdown bars and restaurants, where their beers and wines were supplied by the bars/restaurants, and therefore, commercial supply houses, now drinking at home instead, and so there is much more purchasing on the retail side, resulting in shortages because the retail side was not ready for a substantial X% instant increase in consumption?

I.e., all the beer/wine that used to flow via the commercial supply houses now has to flow via the retail stores.
> I took a look at your post history

That's not creepy at all! /s

> I don't really agree with any of your reasoning

And that's okay! It's good to apply a healthy dose of skepticism, especially when neither of us have all the facts. We can agree to disagree for now, and I may even change my mind as I get more verifiable info.

Thank you for sharing your opinion.
~10X a performance penalty doesn't seem that bad. In C a pointer derefference will beat a web service call by more than 10X. Also why a handjammed KV store? EDN and other(faster) serialization libraries have been around for quite a while.
Lightweight microservices are still overwhelmingly a Java, C# and Javascript. The technology hasn’t changed.
You keep binary searching each part. I.e. if both 32/32 subsamples turn positive, you perform binary search on those 32 samples.
Are those getting as many views?
Anyone one know if they open sourced the design spec? I'd like to make a few with some people i know. Thank you.
good guerrilla marketing though.

everyone is again talking about recently-forgotten 5G.
Seems overly complex. Why not just inject live virus into people's glutes? At dose low enough to trigger a response hopefully not enough to cause pathogenesis.
The fact that commercial companies are the ones conducting the actual work doesn't justify anything, though. The article also explicitly mentions that this has been going on before the outbreak:

> The privacy-or-security discussion has been going on for years. With new digital technologies, it is one of the main ethical problems of human society. Still, the coronavirus can push people to solve the dilemma right about now.
KVM is indeed one of the potentially interesting file descriptors, but there is relatively little code running in kernel space.
thankfully over here they have to honor digital signatures, no exceptions.
Windows finally got smart and is now able to have a full linux kernel that can be run from a terminal inside of the OS. Very simple to use.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about
I have great difficulty maintaining a consistent signature, even when having to sign multiple times on the same page at the same time. A mediocre forger could probably do a better job replicating my signature than I can—if they could find a sufficiently median example of it.
You might have better luck with brown and wild rice
Unfortunately the ACLU is slowly going down the path that SPLC and NRA (to pick one example from both sides of the isle) went down. They used to be a strong special interest advocate organization but they're becoming more and more corrupted by partisan politics.

Likewise a statement of "we know it's not what our organization stands for but y'all need to get on board with what the government is telling you to do" is kind of to be expected. If they really wanted to stay true to their mission they would have either come down on the side of being pro-liberty or they would have said nothing at all.
I doubt there are any that hinge on that.

I strongly suspect there are many thousands of cases in which a contract that was signed via them was simply treated as legitimate by both parties, though.
In the article they also say:

> Again, this is entirely rational for Google. If the value of the image classification training did not exceed those costs, it makes perfect sense for Google to ask for payment for the service they provide.

This might be exacerbated in the case of Cloudfare. Imagine a system where 99% of the visitors being challenged are human. The data gathered from such visitors is quiet, quality data. That fits the usecase of validating an anonymous poster on some random blog. Now consider the Cloudflare usecase. Visitors will only be challenged when Cloudflare already expects you're a bot. Most of the challenges are served to bots. The data is much lower quality, but their cost per challenge has remained the same.

It could just be that as this type of usecase became dominant, the balance of value tipped.
Given unlimited VC money to burn, I could engineer a high-traffc SaaS running on a beowulf cluster of Juiceros.

Would that be a good idea? Maybe.
The USA doesn't have a national ID card.
This is absurd. Saying "famous Zionist are reptiles" doesn't protect non famous Zionists. It promotes violence because it's a lot easier to set fire to a synagogue than assassinate a Prime Minister.
Missing the point. If you just have a single "name" field then you can accommodate any culture perfectly.
It's not exactly tower defence, although i think it's close, but i am currently recovering from a pretty serious Bad North obsession:

https://www.badnorth.com/

You defend procedurally generated islands from viking hordes, but rather than towers, you use up to four squads of soldiers from an army you grow over dozens of islands. The art and sound design are lovely, and the gameplay is engrossing. Each island takes a few minutes to play, and a campaign lasts a few hours.

It's something like 5 dollars on iOS and Android, and has no ads or IAP.
I'm not sure it's much of a surprise to most people in the industry though. Apple always focuses on prioritizing design first - and then seemingly tries to find a way to bake in functionality that doesn't interfere with the prior. I do appreciate much of the minimalism Apple has brought to the forefront, but I think some are over the aesthetics to an extent when they impede the usefulness and/or productivity of the device. Lack of physical buttons on a remote, keyboard keys that are more focused on height and looks than feedback and quality, number of industry standard ports on devices, only using hard industrial designs vs using alternative materials that may go against the brand look and feel, and finally - likely the worst is that Apple has very little interest in designs that prioritize end user replacement or repair. I'm keenly interested in Apple v3.0. I think they'll need to reinvent themselves in the next decade. They lost me as a customer years ago - although now I'm forced to use their laptop hardware on a day to day basis which reinforces some of these design vs usability misgivings. Then again maybe it's all about quantity for Apple moving forward.
There's been an article floating around that posits that the same thing is happening with toilet paper: plenty of "institutional" product is available (since many businesses are closed), but not "home" product (since people are not only hoarding but also using the restroom at home more).
Similarly, I felt that I outgrew my kettlebell and tried to order a new one - absolutely impossible right now, like most other home exercise equipment. At least it's something completely non-essential.

I'm just grateful that we have food in the stores at the moment.
a few reasons.

the main one is that i know canvas and can implement everything i need, but would need to learn a lot of webgl to get any further than a basic PoC.

browsers limit how many webgl contexts you can acquire. chrome is capped at 16, so if you need more than 16 charts on a page, you're out of luck.

initializing webgl is actually slower than canvas 2d.

it's difficult to draw lines of different thicknesses in raw webgl - it takes a lot of code.

there are projects which abstract webgl nicely to provide canvas-like ergonomics, like Two.js, Pixi.js, or Canvas2DtoWebGL/litegl [1], but they would make the codebase much larger and more complex.

[1] https://github.com/jagenjo/Canvas2DtoWebGL
Globalism to Localism
It's complex and weird, Roku was started in 2002 by Anthony Wood, but then eventually he ended up a VP at Netflix? Reed I think saw a need for someone with a little distance and hardware experience (Wood founded ReplyTV) but not too much such that they couldn't own the experience.

All that said, the Roku streaming player by `Roku` is the first product they called the `Roku` so it's a fair way to title it.