skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good feedback. Indeed, it is not clear on the UI. The model concatenates the two, so not sure if changing the label "Message" to "Text" to mimic Reddit UI for text posts would be enough... Or rather just have a single "Text" textarea as for the model is the same.
Nope, that's shedshedding.
Apple Pay's Express Transit Feature Now Supported in 275 Chinese Cities
We spent a considerable amount of time deciding this split, and consulted with many of our artists on what they felt was fair.

While the customer facing portion of the website appears like a more traditional marketplace, our artist facing website contains tools for artists, and we do more than just list their art, we help them get better at selling, help them promote and market their art, and we provide support wherever needed.

We are artist centric first and foremost, and always heavily consider and consult our artists point of view.
I thought this conversation was about python supporting parallelism via multiprocessing, not your language of choice.
Humans can beat horses on a cross-country run (steeplechase). Amazing IMO.
Well, they at least published that anti-covid disinfection recipe. At least here in Czech Republic everyone uses that to make emergency disinfection mixtures.
My apologies for not being clear. What I meant was I talked about blogs in the first person to communicate my main point more clearly. It was hand waving over a lot of details that fall between having a blog and my weasel worded “I don’t maintain” because those details don’t support my main point and that’s the only reason I am comfortable with the factual ambiguity.
> That came over to me as "you are obliged to do a lot more work that I want you to do, on your own time and personal cost, and to stop developing the project according to your own vision or you are a bad person".

But he didn't ask for work to be done anywhere in the article? He asks that he not be prevented from writing code that the compiler supports, but which is arbitrarily limited to members of certain organizations. That's not asking for work.

I feel like if you make it so that users of your platform cannot do certain work for themselves, and instead must await you doing the work, you are basically creating the entitlement. You now owe it to them, in some sense, to do the work, since you have intentionally blocked them from doing it themselves.

I mean, it's open source. You have no contract with the maintainers and so there is no real entitlement to any specific behavior. Hell they could have the compiler try to detect whether you're someone who engages in wrongthink and refuse to work for you if so, and you'd have no legal right to complain.

On the other hand, it's plain that there is a certain slice of the population who doesn't prefer this paternalistic approach to software tools. If the Evans of the world wish to remain atop their ivory tower, then they will be the recipients of an incrementally higher frequency of rage-quit posts as a result. Should doesn't enter into it. That's just how it is.

Personally my advice is if you're not into opinionated BDFLs blocking you from doing things for non-technical reasons, don't use ecosystems controlled by BDFLs who have a habit of doing this. So, I won't be using Elm, and that's probably for the best both for me and the Elm core maintainers.
French publishers win decisive [copyright] battle against Google
mm I think we have a common interest

You could reach me at:
http://tbf-rnd.life/contact/

Or if you have some ways of contacting you I'd be very happy to do so
Except without the frames and colored lines. Lines 10 and 20 don't provide the experiences. They're just behavior. Somehow all the sensations have to be added in when looking at the world and looking at one's reaction to the world.
Show HN: Simulate the spread of a virus – and try to contain it
This is crazy how it still feels like instant dopamine hit.
And this my friends is what modern slavery looks like. But don’t worry all the slaves are living happy lives. I’m pretty sure you can find similar propaganda from the 1840s about plantations
Very true, and this is especially important in data science, where the majority of languages, other than Python, are 1 indexed (Matlab, Julia, R, FØRTRAN).
> I don't fully understand what Obama's China plan was.

Built a strong United Front comprises of countries around China with the US at the top, especially the IP monopoly. While it takes a long time it will subliminally erode China's competitiveness.
Quite similar to the plan to erode USSR's economy without a hot war between NATO and Warsaw's pact.
We have retirement home with over 50% dead at the moment.
They ignored many of the precautions.

If the flu did that, I would be much more scared of the flu.

If you look at the Chinese action jan-feb then you already know enough. A lot of people knew that, but they rather look at the data that china provides.
example:
If you see 100 purple cars in a picture, but china data says only 10 purple cars, and they are all old cars.

I think this was mostly caused because we have economical leaders: economy, numbers, and studies before action.
Thanks for posting this, it's important.
This is so cool – and so flattering!

Hard to say when we'll be hiring next, but let's talk: jf@artinres.com
Why do you not find those sources convincing? Yeah nobody is explicitly making the statement "sorry, I messed up" but if I put the facts together then that's still what happened, in my opinion.

I think you dismiss LinkedIn way too quickly. Hedda Sasburg is a business development consultant specialized in trade with China. I think this counts as expertise w.r.t. what Chinese different products and standards are. Why do you dismiss it so easily?

And okay, how about this then: https://nos.nl/artikel/2329316-afgekeurde-mondkapjes-waren-w...

From the article:

> Maar "de Chinese kwaliteitsstandaard KN95 van de mondmaskers is een medische code", zegt een woordvoerder van de IGJ.

> But "the Chinese standard KN95 means that it's for medical use", said the Dutch ministery of health.

Hedda Sasburg (and not sure why the article doesn't point this out):

> Ik lees dat het KN95 [aka GB2626] mondmaskers zijn; maskers die in China niet zijn bestemd voor medisch gebruik in ziekenhuizen.

> KN95 masks [aka GB2626] are not for medical use.

Note: the Chinese KN95 is not equivalent to the American N95.

Also from the article:

> "De producten stonden beschreven als 'niet-medische maskers' in de douanepapieren"

> The customs paper said that these are non-medical masks.

Even if you don't believe Hedda Sasburg and the Chinese statements, the customs paper seems pretty definitive to me.

The only loose end I still see is why IGJ ruled KN95 to be equivalent to the European EN-149:2001+A1:2009 when even the Chinese don't use them for medical purposes.

Anyway, the issue is now solved. China now sent masks that the Dutch do approve of: https://twitter.com/mjrijn/status/1246154161152045056
Thanks.

Yep - noise as much as heat.

I have the siding, then (paper) waterproof layer, then wool layer, then plastic (condensation) layer. Then 3mm board, then wallpaper-brick-effect.
I know relativistic effects will:

keep the speed of light the same even at 0.9c

increase lengths

increase mass

slow down clocks

I try to ask why.

My best attempt starts wtih things really are not one object, but one object and a smudge. That smudge is thermal transfer. Try to go too fast, and other things start seeing that smudge as an object itself. That one object pushes against everything to be two distinct objects. Not in a holistic broadcasting way. One way, just impossible to determine without creating a smudge yourself.
> The EFF's tool [1] only takes a few clicks to use.

Your input is discounted at least in direct proportion to how little you sacrificed in order to provide it. If you really want to make an impression, telephone your representative.
At least on the front page, the site does a self-reload which breaks the back button. This isn't merely annoying, or a dark pattern...it's just plain obnoxious and something I thought was left back in the "stickiness" 2000s.

That a login page is tacked onto this is a new twist though, I'll hand them that.
The Swift manual is pretty good actually, documentation around Foundation is pretty complete although a bit spare but yeah....UIKit and other libraries used for creating iOS applications are really not very well documented. The last few years I've been copying code from WWDC demo's to learn about new stuff. I tried to learn how to capture RAW data when the API was just out, so no Stack Overflow answer out yet. It was hard as hell.

But anyway that's not a Swift problem. Swift itself is pretty easy to get into.
Given the amount of open source code already, it should be possible to clone.

Edit: see below, server code is open. Keeping original text below:

IIRC the server code is proprietary, but the clients are open. That's a decent starting point.

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android
Most likely Sales.

Yelp's business model requires a lot of cold calls to small businesses.
Congratulations, John! What a great initiative. I am in the artistic community (classical music) as well, so it's very inspiring to see you launching a project for the community.

I have a suggestion and a question.

Suggestion: your site does not have an About page of some sort to talk about the story behind the creation of the company and the experience of the co-founders. You have truly remarkable story, as I read in this post. So please include it to your site!

Question: I am curious about how COVID-19 has impacted the art community? My classical musician friends are certainly suffering financially and mentally because all of the concerts are suspended. I wonder how are artists doing in the pandemic.

Thank you and keep up with the great work!! Wishing you all the success.
I get where you are coming from but given the walled garden there is no need to kill the severs. Merely blocking all clients from
the Apple Store and the Play Store would accomplish the same thing, federated or not.
You can't compare vim and emacs, because emacs is more like nano.
My editor maintains it automatically, so it is never wrong. There is nothing to check.

I'm sure there is a command-line pre-commit formatter I could use. But I have never tried to set it up, since I can reformat existing code with a couple of keystrokes in my editor.
Do you have any plans for bidirectional linking like with Roam Research? It seems like both projects are going towards a similar end goal
> Lots of grocery store meat that you buy "fresh" was killed x number of days ago.

Most beef, at least that you buy locally from a butcher who got the animal from a local farmer, is dry aged in a cooler for 10 - 14 days after slaughter. [1]

I don't know whether that's true for mass-market meat or not. But it's very common to let meat age before eating it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beef_aging
I can't get behind letting theoretical database design concerns trump real world problems with unexpected nulls leading to 500s in production. :-)
Thanks! Have you thought about making a blog post about it?
It's surprisingly inexpensive to rent a crane and operator for what they would consider a pretty light load. $200 might do it if they are nearby.

http://duffycrane.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Combined-Du...
I've got an older iPhone landlocked on an older iOS version. The old Mobile Safari version isn't showing the underlines. Once I looked at the site on a desktop browser I saw the links were styled w/ orange underlines. I haven't looked at the CSS to see why it's happening. I would have deleted the parent post here if I'd gotten to it in time.
They're trying to become a sole-source supplier of hotel rooms. Same with WeWork, and Airbnb.

The middleman, taking a cut of every sale, while shifting all the risks to the consumer and the hotelier. Great gig if you can get it.
I apologize :-/ I should have been more clear. What I was referring to was in a little more broader context than just Data Science or ML. Many of the Engineering and Math PhDs I work with typically use MATLAB or Mathematica.
> how is focusing in a VR headset

From a practical point of view, at least for me, "it just works like normal".

As I understand the biology of it, there are really two different relevant mechanisms for "focus".

The lens that is your eyeball changes shape to focus on things closer/father away in real life. In VR this doesn't happen, there's a fixed focal plane a few meters away. I know this, but I don't notice it at all. Everything is always in focus and my brain doesn't seem to have any trouble dealing with it.

There is also the problem of "vergence", your eyes point at the thing you are looking at, which means they point "closer to eachother" when looking at something close, and in parallel lines when looking at something at infinite distance. VR headsets implement this reasonably well. If you hold a finger a few inches in front of your nose and focus on something a few meters away you should be able to see two copies of your finger (or at least I do, I'm told that other people have to try to see this). This works in VR as well.

As an aside. Trying to play shooters in VR has been surprisingly hard for me because of the vergence issue. I'm not use to aiming a real weapon, and it turns out I have trouble figuring out which near-field image corresponds to the eye I'm trying to aim with while I focus on the target in the distance. I'm not sure if I'd find it easier in real life.
If you visit a developing country, you'll still see people bathing and washing clothes and cookware in rivers. You'll also see outhouses on stilts along the same river. While there's a high incidence of illness among people who live like this, many people clearly tolerate it well. If I were to do that now, I'd get sick, but eventually I'd probably be able to tolerate it as well (assuming I survived).

It's a common misconception that animals don't get sick from tainted meat or water. They do, and when they're weakened enough, they get eaten. Clearly some have a higher tolerance of certain pathogens (e.g. vultures), but many succumb to intestinal bacteria and parasites at alarming rates. We just don't see it.
That is for presbyopia, right?
Unless it is severe (or combined with other conditions like myopia), you may not even need them. Give it a try!
Shut down smoking. 7M Deaths worldwide per year
The choice is to build an emergency fund, just like you would do for yourself, so you can pay your rent, your bills if an accident in your life happens.
Yet, financial crashes happens quite regurlarly but companies expect the gouvernment (citizens) to pay the rescue bill. And I'm not going to cry for the execs taking a 20-30% pay cut.
The hiding of positive and negative reviews if you don't/do pay is hard to prove, but one thing incredibly shady thing that Yelp does and is proud of is:

They will prominently display ads containing positive reviews for competitors on a business's page unless that business pays Yelp.
It's not just approvals from managers, sometimes you need approval from a group of peer engineers just to create new routes in an (internal) API, or to launch a new cron job that will upload an Excel spreadsheet in marketing once a day with data from Google Forms.

Also, UX wants to see the final result on their screen before they approve your build, so before deploy you have to push into a test cluster, but there are only 10 of those, and you need to wait until one of them is free.

And of course your Jenkins server takes 2h to build and fails sometimes, so pushing small changes takes 2h because you have to babysit the build. The testing cluster above also takes 2h to build. CTO believes in engineers taking care of their code, so SRE is not allowed to handle the builds.

And then there's an average of 2h of meetings per day (I'm not including the 40 minute daily scrum because your squad has 15 people). Half of them to discuss the production incident you had because you didn't see the Slack alerts when you were in another meeting. The other half is chapter and guild meetings where you don't talk, but participation is mandatory. On Mondays you have sprint planning, so forget about coding.

Engineering fact: A 300 watt amplifier is only twice as loud (+10 dB) as a 30 watt amplifier. The same math works for engineering teams.
Elm gets taken out behind the woodshed again on hacker news. Remind me not to open source software.
The approvals often exist for valid reasons. You can't just get rid of them. You can try to streamline the approval process but that only gets you so far.
Seems like this doesn't have any relation to xrdesktop[1], which doesn't have mouse support! Really glad to see they have it here, any VR workspace is completely unusable if I have to use motion controls to simulate a mouse. Will definitely be trying this out tonight.

[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xrdesktop/xrdesktop
We could easily imagine that suddenly it is revealed that React contains some super-well-hidden malware that phones home to Facebook, and that's been built into React since early versions. As doubtful as that sounds, it's actually not unlike recent scares about China embedding secret transmitters deep inside of circuitboards, etc.
Background prior to debate[1]:

"During an event at the Cambridge Union Society in November 2018, Žižek had called Peterson's work "pseudo-scientific", labeled him as his "enemy" and criticized Peterson's work on the idea of cultural Marxism. Peterson said he could meet "any time, any place" to debate and it was announced on February 28, 2019 that the debate was scheduled for April 19. The two professors before had argued against happiness as something one should pursue. Peterson had said people should seek meaning through personal responsibility and Žižek had said happiness is pointless and delusional."[1]

Debate itself[2][3]:

"...In a similar fashion, Žižek asked Peterson to name him personal names of "postmodern neo-Marxists" in Western academia and from where he got the statistical numbers because according to him the over-the-top political correctness is opposed to Marxism, on which Peterson did not mention any names, yet statistical percentage of those who declare as Marxists in the academia according to Jonathan Haidt's research and explained replacement of the Marxist idea of class struggle with identity politics by which one group is oppressing the other. Some view this exchange as evidence that cultural Marxism had been invented by Peterson and other members of the intellectual dark web without any evidence of its existence. In the end, they both agreed that happiness is rather a byproduct of life itself."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterson%E2%80%93%C5%BDi%C5%BE...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterson%E2%80%93%C5%BDi%C5%BE...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterson%E2%80%93%C5%BDi%C5%BE...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsWndfzuOc4
You mean a way to bore strangers? Because our family share funny, interesting, or strange dreams and I don't find it any less boring than hearing about other aspects of people's day (and sometimes far more engaging).
I use two borg backups (one local one remote).

I am very curious what you use rclone for (how it fits into your backup routine)
I've found it generally best to push as much of that data prep work down to the database layer, as you possibly can. For small/medium datasets that usually means doing it in SQL, for larger data it may mean using Hadoop/Spark tools to scale horizontally.

I really try to take advantage of the database to avoid ever having to munge very large CSVs in pandas. So like 80-90% of my work is done in query languages in a database, the remaining 10-20% is in Python (or sometimes R) once my data is cooked down to a small enough size to easily fit in local RAM. If the data is still too big, I will just sample it.
The focal plane is typically a few meters (depends on the headset)... so I guess if you don't need glasses at that distance you would be fine.

*IANA optician
That's right, difference between the date of specimen collection and date of announcement. General approach is to announce as soon as positive confirmation hit. There is a vintage to this data. Source: working in this dataspace as we speak.

Keep up the crowd-sourced wisdom HN, it helps prevent us data science folks in thick of it from keeping blinders on!
Off-topic Warning: will push a lot of things onto your browsing history. Have to recover with "hold click -> page you want"
> You can read the source, you can compile it yourself, and you can use it.

I can read some source code they provide, not necessarily what everyone has installed at any given moment. Even if I could review it and compile it and run it the other ends of end-to-end won't, so I still have to trust Signal the company to not violate the other ends.

Open source distribution means packages in various open source repositories, not controlled by software vendors.

> If you can't trust the vendor, no F-Droid is going to help there.

F-Droid model is exactly what's going to help with not having to trust the vendor. It's sort of an infrastructure to reduce trust in software vendors. Independent parties maintaining forks and packages are more likely to notice if vendor does something stupid, more likely to have people and tools to verify claims and implementations, provide a way for independent implementations.

> Explain how that would work on legal level when compelled speech violates the constitution.

It doesn't matter, they can come up with plenty of bullshit excuses claiming child porn or whatever. The important thing is you have to trust Signal the company, the US government, the legal system, etc.
Swift wasn't open source when it was first released, and first impressions matter. Reputation also matters, and Apple has a poor track record of being a proponent of open source.

I would've been excited about Swift if it weren't for these things.
"We've noticed that Joe Everybody didn't make any rent payments prior to their birth or after their death. [HIGH RISK]"
Covid-19 Tech Talent Call to Service (NJ call for COBOL pros, and others)
The use of "dictatorship" in your comment brought a smile to my face because I thought of the BDFL title given to Python's creator ... and then imagined the Elm team forgot the "B" at the beginning of the acronym. Note that I have no personal experience with Elm and am in no position to take sides. The comment just describes the mental image I got from your comment's ink blot.
That's why if one of the parties goes caput the balance might be disturbed.
> VB was never built into all browsers.

At one point though it was supported by nearly ~90% of browsers by traffic/marketshare.
Hi John. I don't buy or sell art, but I am a book collector, so this touches me tangential because I participate in a lot of auctions (auction houses, often, they sell all tpyes of art in the same auction, including books).

I loved your website, and I would find myself using it or sharing it with friends if I would be in the US. By the way, I will check your job openings from time to time because this is one of the startups that I would be passionate to work on! Kudos and best of luck!
Just point out that before 1960 in the US that was very common as well.
At the end of January, it was obvious that it's a severely infectious disease. On 22th of January WHO agreed that there is evidence of human-to-human transmission[0]. By the end of January, the virus was in Italy. By mid-February, it was clear it's going to be a problem for the West. By the end of February, it was obvious to anyone with half a brain and access to a spreadsheet that this is going to be a devastating global pandemic unless swift and extreme actions are taken.

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[0] - https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/08-04-2020-who-timeline...