skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The simple fact is that the paper is outdated. A lot of sensible people were thinking along the same lines around that time. That was published before the WHO even declared COVID-19 a pandemic.

"The problem of SARS-CoV-2 is probably overestimated" means that it might not be, and there is even a slim chance it could even be underestimated.
Mobile Benchmark Cheating as a Service
This is what I recently got on CF's HCAPTCHA (look closely): https://imgur.com/a/QZNHmUC
Someone may correct me if I'm wrong, but I think OpenVMS is used for real time testing of embedded controllers, for instance automotive computer modules.
Oh, interesting, it works for me on Catalina. For some unknown reason I had to restart to make it work, _and_ only works on Chrome (for Meet) and some other selected programs. I guess it shows its age, I may have been lucky it works for me.
To measure the entropy of these generated passwords you could use a tool like Passphrase.Life ( https://passphrase.life/?m=2&p=0&d=1&g=0&k=0&f=0&x=1&z=01100... )
The statistics I've seen floating around lately are that ~80% of people who go on the ventilators die.

But keep in mind that 20% of the people who go on the ventilators live. Flattening the curve means that, if you reach the point of requiring a ventilator -- and we haven't run out of ventilators -- your chance of survival goes from 0% to 20%. It's not 100% or even 50%, but it's a lot better than 0%.
You probably browse while logged in to your Google account. Right?
There is this, but I haven't tried it:
https://apps.apple.com/app/epoccam-webcam-for-mac-pc/id44913...
> Constraint-based layout done

Wow! That's what I always wanted in a free desktop widget toolkit. Cool.
There's another bandwidth limitation at play - public wi-fi in airports, hotels, and even conference centers is atrocious by default. The best bet for improving video calling resolution in the US appears to be hardware h.265 encoders because we're making such slow progress aggregately in Internet upload bandwidth.
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Absolutely beautiful website about an highly topical thing. The brave new world of Unicode and OpenType brings features to the remotest parts of the GUI.

The stunning thing about that is (as with many good design descisions): You only start missing them when they are not present. For instance, I have the beautiful Inter font installed on two computers and use it in LibreOffice on both of them. One computer has older software without ligatures support. The excel sheets look awful without proportional figures!
Well said, could not have expressed it any better. I do the same and refuse to use a website or service, that tries to put me through this garbage.
Even when interacting, why would you count them?
> Don't get me started about free videoconference software and open, end-to-end encrypted systems. Am I missing something? Is this really that hard?

I feel your pain :(
couple days ago someone posted this: https://jami.net

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22755596
Clojerl (https://github.com/clojerl/clojerl) is a Clojure implementation built on Erlang.

I have never used it, but it seems to still be actively developed / maintained.
You forgot about the guy doing his kettle bell routine at his stand up desk.

And no, I'm not joking. It actually happened, for several days until enough people complained and he stopped doing it.
I'm not familiar with Python. What's the RNG you use to create your passwords?
> "the filing cabinet is a place where you find things, not lose them"

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - Santayana

“Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.” - Mencken

Software project management is full of thin and runny rationalizations...I (HHOS) include this form under the heading of "Data Abnormalization"...
Oh absolutely. I like using tramp to edit individual config files remotely. If there is one particular data acquisition computer that is performing incorrectly, I can quickly open up that file to compare, without needing to leave the editor.

The issue I ran into with editing code through tramp is the integration with make. I use `M-x compile` to compile from emacs, with a few modifications to find the appropriate makefile depending on which project I am working on. If I try to compile locally based on remote files, my compile times go through the roof. I suppose I could have opened an ssh session in which to run make, but it was easier to open emacs remotely.

The other advantage is that I could use tmux+emacs to have everything remote, and to connect to that same session from multiple computers. A typical day during an experiment might have me start in an office, later head to an experiment monitoring room, and later head down to the experiment vault to see if an issue is being caused by hardware. With remote editing, I could have the the entire session, including any files that I have already opened, no matter where I am physically located.
They aren't obvious and observable other than your defining 1st order effects that way. Remote work becoming more mainstream because of this isn't a certainty at this point. It took a pandemic to get employers to allow it in a large way, why would you assume that once that is gone you're going to keep it? For all you know there will be a backlash and there will be less remote work than before. Did you think you're going to come out of this with more leverage with your employer?
I also like my Roku. Recently upgraded to an Ultra so I could take advantage of a free year of AppleTV+.

WRT advertising, I run a Pi-Hole and it does a great job blocking such things.
Just curious could they setup a modern website that takes in applications, then format them where they can be imported in to the legacy system?

Just to give them more reliable capacity to take in applications.
But...the real (big) Question was: "Why is there no spaceship with 'front-drive'?", and speaking in terms of "Reisegefühl" (um in other words, something like the feeling you have during traveling) heck - damned Einstein - Why does it need mass for acceleration #=!*%?? (-:
Intelligence report warned of coronavirus crisis as early as November
I could swear I've seen challenges with night scenes (low light conditions) in the wild. Those were definitely not present earlier.
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If someone taught you that way they failed as a teacher. I am sorry to say that but they are a whole (with the exception of displacement current which needs Faraday tensor (which you can get relativistic invariants from too) to understand)
I mean India has no way to order screws/bolts of specific size online.

Amazon doesn't serve this market. Can you believe, we can't buy a pulley online in India?

India needs MacMaster Car and HomeDepot/Lowes equivalent. Amazon is unlikely to serve this niche.

It's actually billion dollar market and no one is entering this space for now.

How can Indian entrepreneur/makers create prototypes if they can't source the correct parts they needs?

In big cities, there are some niche shops from where you can source the parts but they are not available everywhere.
IMO, one of the significant scaling bottlenecks for VMS was there were only a handful of spinlocks that governed kernel activity. The one that I remember was IOLOCK8 (sp?). Any ethernet frame handling would have to hold that for a period of time. The underlying code that those stacks use to manage their inbound ethernet frames is likely quite old and would require significant work to reduce contention around that lock.

To put it differently, a modern 10 gig ethernet card likely generates too much traffic to be effectively handled by that code. And if you had more than one 10 gig card in a box, they would contend around that common spin lock.
Far-Right Helped Create the World’s Most Powerful Facial Recognition Technology
> gradient descent no longer has to be written by hand

Nobody's been writing derivatives by hand for 5+ years. All major frameworks (PyTorch, Tensorflow, MXNet, autodiff, Chainer, Theano, etc.) have decent to great automatic differentiation.

The differences and improvements are more subtle (easy parallelization/vectorization, higher-order gradients, good XLA support).
There is a broad Google Cloud outage since appx. 9am CST. Their status page is green but someone from Google acknowledged the issue on Twitter. The GCP slack is also abuzz with users reporting issues across many many services.
is it safe to assume this will fully support wayland? I don't see it mentioned by name.
Wow, this is the simplest design I've seen yet. Bravo!
I wonder if you can use "print to PDF" after the signature has been attached to the PDF.
That is one way to look at it. Personally, I don't regularly use any operating system that has such a preference. To me, FF supports dark mode, although not certain operating systems' implementations.
"Alexa, enable star trek bridge sounds."
RFC 1 Was Fifty One Years Ago
yes, i prefer to save those 10 seconds as I do that a thousand times a day
It's a useless number. People don't tend to remember useless numbers they can recalculate with no effort. Same with the number of doors or plants.
Actually yes. You can mark with an X, and that was somewhat common when the literacy rate wasn't as good as it is now. The answer to your last question is to have witnesses, either in person or proxied via a notary.
Past performance isn't always indicative of future performance. Cultures and worlds change. In many cases, people confuse poor concepts with poor execution (or vice-versa: bad concept with excellent execution or good luck can be successful).

I say try it maybe in one state and see how it goes.
Well, this is the greatest open source project ever. Time to close for the reason, internet.
I wonder why they would choose not to automate updating the status page (because they 100% do automate having alarms for when things break) - maybe they think that, even with high error rates, it could be a false alarm or maybe a regional outage?
To double-down on this, I wish companies more broadly would stop lying about their uptime on their status pages. It just creates chaos and confusion.

It also forces otherwise-honest companies to also lie about their uptime, because they don't want to be the one status page that actually shows all the little blips that naturally occur with an actively maintained product.
Using TensorFlow's new Model Maker to build an image classifier for Android
>actually hurting people... organizing violence

And where precisely has that happened here? Icke floated a theory. Some of his other theories include Hillary Clinton being a literal lizard. Should we ban his videos saying that as well, before people start trying to put chemicals toxic to lizards in the food of politicians?
conserves battery life
What if you consider external factors too? You can have a simple survey asking whether they have been traveled recently, whether they have symptoms, whether they are essential workers, if they know somebody that was infected, where they are living, with how many people, etc... You can easily use theses answers to remove the ones most likely to test postive with theses answers.

If you include that your goal is to test everyone too, I have no doubt that you can easily reach 96% negative test quite easily.

I remember in Quebec while we were only testing people with symptoms and that had traveled (or have been in contact with someone that has been tested positive), we were still way higher than 90% of negative tests (even right now we are a 90.1%
Google Cloud is down/interrupted (4.8.2020)
It seems like some google cloud services are down. My Firebase cloud functions are not reacting. Firebase Realtime Database. Login to VM is down as well. However, webpages running on VMs can still be reached. Not sure what else is impacted.
From the article:

"We evaluated a number of CAPTCHA vendors as well as building a system ourselves."

and

"We worked with hCAPTCHA in two ways. First, we are in the process of leveraging our Workers platform to bear much of the technical load of the CAPTCHAs and, in doing so, reduce their costs. And, second, we proposed that rather than them paying us we pay them. This ensured they had the resources to scale their service to meet our needs. While that has imposed some additional costs, those costs were a fraction of what reCAPTCHA would have. And, in exchange, we have a much more flexible CAPTCHA platform and a much more responsive team."

So Cloudflare are basically cloud hosting hCAPTCHA's services. I wonder why Cloudflare didn't just buy them, as it seems like it would be a win-win with getting an excellent CAPTCHA service, and not have to build it themselves?
Projects not showing in console, RTDB seems affected as well but Firestore and auth works.
Someone that I used to work with had a ringtone of a dog barking, he would leave the phone on his desk when doing stuff elsewhere in the building and his wife would call him several times a day.
yes, you can see that in quite a few categories of products:

Canned Tomatoes, 2.5 kg cans available. 500g cans: out.

Pasta, 500g Spaghetti? Forget it. 5kg bulk: Available.

Yeast, regular cubes: no way. Ordering half a kilo of dry yeast: no problem.

It's just that as a regular normal family, 500g of yeast will get you through a year or two, depending on how much you bake (that's about the equivalent of 75 packets of dry yeast) But that stuff is also impossible to repackage into smaller quantities without exposing it to spoilage. There's a few supermarkets in Berlin that sell unpackaged stuff (basically you bring your own reusable container and they fill it for you) and they're well stocked in flour, pasta and stuff since they solve the repackaging issue at the point of sale.
My product makes lots of revenue at this time around in Asian countries, but the Firebase is down. Hope there be proper compensation for this!!!
For perspective (and I'm not affiliated with this new service, or really, anyone in this space): at some point, Altavista was more well-known that Google.
iPads are really nice for video calling. My in-laws recently (within last 2 months) got one almost entirely for FaceTime with family (they had Skype on laptop but was always a hassle for them). So this is the same kind of thing as a webcam.
I don't blame anyone who takes things that seriously. A distant relative of mine recently had covid and said it was miserable, and he's in his 20s and healthy.
I suspect that might happen eventually.
Wasting your design time allotment in rationalizing futile compromise is the flip side of seeing everything as a dichotomy. The reality modeled by human discourse may be only consensual, not actual...
For ~40 minutes, it was also impossible to SSH into any Compute Engine instance that uses OS Login for authentication, but it seems to have been resolved in the last few minutes.
Where do I buy this? Seems a nice gift for apple fans (I just hope it doesn't cost like a Mac Pro).
Firebase seems back up for us now.
That's a really good way of putting it, and it's fits me to some extent too. Thanks.
re: ""As it is, the 'module' concept is strictly tied to a file, which feels unnecessary.""

In Common Lisp you get to decide which package each source file contributes to. For utilities that are (or will be) used for multiple projects, I use a different package for each library and for small libraries it is likely that all the code will be in one file (plus a project and 'asd' file, details for which aren't important here).

For non-library projects, like a complete application, I usually use many source files that all contribute to the same package.

The point is that a Lisp like Common Lisp is almost infinitely flexible, but it really helps if you have a standard way that you like to set up your projects.

I used to, back in the 1980s, use a hardware Lisp Machine where all my work was in one environment. I feel like I have something similar now by maintaining a large mono git repo for all of my work and research in Common Lisp. The Quicklisp package manager keeps my own packages and all 3rd party packages available to me in a transparent way.

I love my own working environment, but if you go down the Lisp path, you should get an environment set up that is right for you.
In some ways, the theater is the point: the more elaborate the “production”, the easier it is to demonstrate that the required “meeting of the minds” took place.

Someone might blithely—-or accidentally—-click continue, but you can’t really sleepwalk your way through signing a document or lining up witnesses to the signing.
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Google Cloud Infrastructure Outage
I used to have the 56K dial up ringtone for a while. I just went back to muting my ringer since I used to get weird stares constantly.

I recently had to change my ringtone because every dev in our office has the standard iphone ringtone so anytime someone's phone rings, you can hear everybody go to pick their phones up.
Because the more powerful parts of the business want it to look green all the time, regardless of the reality.

It would be easier to automate it. But they want to pretend that they have fewer outages than they actually do because if they were honest about how often things break, it would make them look bad in comparison with everyone else who is also lying on their status pages.
I continue to wonder how does JAX compare to Zygote.jl see https://twitter.com/oxinabox_frames/status/12394957113324789... for a good start
A Rust Vec is very similar, if I recall correctly, to a C++ vector. It can basically be used like a List but is implemented underneath as an automatically dynamically-sizing array.
>Personally I find this kind dismissive commentary a little bit aggravating.

It was a short quip which ended with a ":)". I'm sure it wasn't meant so seriously.
The simplicity of this is amazing, particularly the forehead band. Exact dimensions would be nice to copy this.
Some music isn't for sale. This is where you find that music.

People who record music are not desperate. Those trying to be the next popstar might be. Doubt there is huge overlap between those groups. You are more likely to see those on tiktok.
The historical forms and ligatures seem to just be wrong to me, at least for the one font which supports them. The long s should only be used when it is not the final letter in a word, similar to the two variants of sigma in Greek. Perhaps one is supposed to cleverly turn off the feature for an s in final position but then that surely means it cannot be included in ligatures.
Will be interesting if Zoom is compelled to disclose their security architecture. On the same page can they be forced, in court, to make a statement on the interference by the Chinese government?
Also anecdotal, but I had less than 3 up and down about 11 years ago. 10 years ago it was 3 symmetric. Now its 100 symmetric, and was (briefly) 1gb symmetric with another provider last year.

Its definitely improving on average.
The Uniform Commercial Code [1] in the United States says that:

> A signature may be made (i) manually or by means of a device or machine, and (ii) by the use of any name, including a trade or assumed name, or by a word, mark, or symbol executed or adopted by a person with present intention to authenticate a writing.

IANAL but I would think that this program would fall under "by means of a device" and thus be considered valid.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/ucc/3/3-401
At the end they mention that there long term goal is to eliminate captchas fully if possible.
The status page has been updated now with a new incident - https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/zall/20005
I find bidets as or more useful if it's not that bad. You're often talking about just one or two square of toilet paper (literally, not figuratively).

Try cleaning your hands with paper instead of water some day, and see how that works out for you. It's the same thing.
Yes about upload, but I want to say as well that Netflix is a special subject anyway.

A 1080p video on Netflix today has lower quality (bitrate) than a 720p video on Youtube 5 years ago. The only reason Netflix HD works for so many people is because Netflix has lowered the standard of what was considered HD.
I've lost track of how many times I've had to read house numbers from Google Street View...
Because that also needs to be factored in when trying to determine causes

If total deaths doesn't change, but road traffic deaths are down by 500, that means non-road-traffic deaths are up 500

You need a complete picture to draw conclusions
Google cloud platform is down
Google Drive – 31st of March 2020 – Additional terms of service
They've updated their status page now: https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/zall/20005
Noticed this too! Was considering posting about it here also.
I guess this is very true. Our quite elaborate Cloudflare Firewall setup combining bot management scores with GeoIP and network information to decide on the action has solve rates below 0.5% on most rules.

The only case where we see up to 3% solved is on rules targeting networks which contain mostly free (as in beer) VPN providers (the new pest of the internet). Those networks sent a lot of malicious and automated traffic with the mixed in 3% of real users.

To put this into numbers of the past 24h:
~ 76 Million requests served
~ 1 Million of those were captchas
~ 0.5 Million were outright blocked
Captchas solved: 1233
Unison language has a beautiful idea to solve this https://www.unisonweb.org/docs/tour/#%F0%9F%A7%A0-the-big-te...
I didn't dive deep and still a bit skeptical, but it looks very promising.
In a few seconds you got 4 new music recommendations? I gotta try this.
I say you still do get a benefit from using because of the repl-driven development process. I miss that instantaneous feedback and the feeling that you are in dialogue with your program whenever I develop in other languages.

Add to that the fact that the language shepards you into using immutable datastructures and writing pure code, I still think Clojure is a significant advantage when writing distributed applications.
React Desktop
Apart from the surveillance aspect, one thing that bothered the hell out of me with Cloudflare using ReCAPTCHA was that it yielded a much larger part of the web than necessary effectively blocked in China, since the CAPTCHAs would get triggered, and not load, from Chinese IPs.

I had a customer where we had to migrate away from Cloudflare for this reason - this was about 5 years ago and the issue has been there to this day. Glad to hear they've finally done something about it. Even if it took Google starting to charge money for ReCAPCHA to trigger it.
Jews and Zionists are not the same. A lot of Jews aren't Zionists, in fact some of the most Jewish looking Jews are anti-Zionist:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/FKplabTRuak/maxresdefault.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Zionism#Jewish_anti-Zioni...

Furthermore, a huge amount of leftists are openly anti-Zionist.

I'm not saying the alien lizard theory is "protecting" anyone, I'm saying it's the better alternative to whatever Nazi conspiracy theory you're going to buy into otherwise.
>Really irritating that they never update the status pages automatically, or even in a timely manor

In my experience any real status page that matters is irrelevant as soon as the powers that be become aware of it and it becomes sort of non technical and politicized. To some extent that seems almost inevitable depending on the organization.

I worked at one place where "The guy who runs the twitter account." ran a status page. Not that he knew how to do anything (The one time I know he wanted to change the page he couldn't figure out how to do it.), but he was the only one allowed to approve / make updates. But it didn't matter as he wasn't on call, nobody was quite sure who that person was from day to day. He or she was in some marketing department and their idea of a sense of urgency was "sometime this week ... maybe".