skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I highly doubt its enforceable. I can't try to enforce a ToS against you if I never even asked you to agree to it, or even _informed_ you that such a ToS exist.

EDIT: Did some random googling about enforceability of terms of service. In a case discussed here[1] the ToS were deemed unenforceable based upon in part the lack of assent to the terms.

> [A]cceptance need not be express, but where it is not, there must be evidence that the offeree knew or should have known of the terms and understood that acceptance of the benefit would be construed by the offeror as an agreement to be bound. . .That is not the case here. The plaintiffs were never put on inquiry notice of the arbitration provision, and their continued credit-card payments, which were auto-debited from their credit cards, were too passive for any reasonable fact-finder to conclude that they manifested a subjective understanding of the existence of the arbitration and other emailed provisions and an intent to be bound by them in exchange for the continued benefits [membership] offered.

In the HN case I would argue that there is no evidence that anyone creating a HN account knows or can be expected to know that there are ToS related to that account creation that they are agreeing to, as there is no mention of them in the complete registration process.

[1] - https://www.forbes.com/sites/oliverherzfeld/2013/01/22/are-w...
IME, the IE11 users have all been able to use another browser. We send them to version of our site that includes all the right polyfills and allows signups/browsing marketing but NOT using the main app.

When users arrive on IE11 and need to use the app they are always able to fire up chrome/Firefox/edge.

The only users with an old browser and won't/can't upgrade have had win7 + ancient Firefox.
Note that they also released not one, but two ICO tokens - one Atari Token, in Gibraltar, and one Pong Token, in Kenya.

They also released plans for cryptocurrency casino, called Atari Casino - https://casinoatari.com/ - connected with the first, Gibraltar-based ICO

I think SEC are going to be highly entertained
Does this spec carry forward the v2 stuff into v3 that would otherwise require --compatibility to function without swarm?
About Face[0] by Alan Cooper about UI design.

Refactoring[1] by Martin Fowler.

On Lisp[2] by PG.

[0]https://www.amazon.com/About-Face-Essentials-Interaction-Des...

[1]https://www.amazon.com/Refactoring-Improving-Existing-Addiso...

[2]http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html
I have exactly the opposite experience with B2B. We’re working with financial institutions and large dealers and what they use is typically white listed and controlled by an IT department. Typically, they can’t just change and use whatever they want. You must be talking about small businesses?
WhiteboardFox: A Simple Online Whiteboard
My significant other is a psychologist. She describes depression like dark matter from physics. It's observable but we don't know what it is made of.
This is super cool.

It's interesting that a lot of color names listed here are pointing to actual things. Just like in english we'd have the "orange" color backed by the average color of oranges.

I also think they would only be used in phrases with the "xxxx color" cosntruct, and not as we'd say "blue" or "green". For instance azuki is a popular grain, so you'd say a shirt is "azuki color" and not just "azuki" IMO. That makes is a bit of cheating, as then anything can be set as a color, for instance "UPS color" or "post box color" or "Xbox death ring color".

But I guess our very history with naming colors is very ad hoc anyway.
These Strippers are making lemonade out of lemons during the Covid-19 pandemic
Of the papers at Mahoney's page [0], "Fast Text Compression with Neural Networks" dates to 2000; people have been applying these techniques for decades.

[0] http://mattmahoney.net/dc/
Ask HN: Are you an essential software engineer?
Interested to hear from engineers who are being told to continue coming into an office. Why were you told that wfh is not an option?
Having a remote git repo monoculture where it has to be Github or nothing is unhealthy for the software ecosystem.

Gitlab is a good alternative, but why not have more choices? Anybody who might want to hire you can click a link to a Codeberg/Gitea site and see what looks like a very familiar repo. It should be the project itself that is attracting users and devs, not where the git repo is remotely hosted.

For free-software projects, a Gitea site like Codeberg might be an even better choice because of the conflicts involved in using a commercial entity like GitHub that uses closed-source software yet bases its entire business on a free project (Git).
“Need” support, until you just force them to not need it.

Like how YouTube basically killed off IE6: https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/4/18529381/google-youtube-in...

As long as people don’t have a reason to change, they won’t. I say you drop support now and consider yourselves lucky that you can ditch your more difficult and problematic customers.

I mean, of course, I know this isn’t a realistic course of action for everyone. But I wish it was.
They reformulate the decompression problem in the shape of a supperresolution problem conforming to what you just wrote. Instead of getting variety through images of a video clip they use the generalization properties of a neural network.

"For lossless super-resolution, we predict the probability of a high-resolution image, conditioned on the low-resolution input"
This seems like a crappy version of the Stack Overflow survey, with less information overall.
Psychobiotics
Because without error correction the mutation rate goes way up which might get you to squeak by an already alerted immune system and achieve reinfection. That's why you get new strains of the flu all the time. Error correction means that the genome will be very close to the one observed the previous time, so if you want to re-infect you need the immunity to last relatively short or be less than perfect. That secondary (or even later) infection would normally go unnoticed though.
Well, the notion of depression as a chemical imbalance was brought into the fray to sell Zoloft...
https://getaclue.me
Write about different things. At different times. Interested in intersection of software, business and people. Currently focusing on writing a JavaScript book.
Cheers for this post!!! Like finding more writers to follow =)
I agree with you, 63 is terrible to read :D
I really like the format of your blog and it seems your posts are very high quality. Will have fun for a few weeks! thanks for sharing
AI Education for K-12
http://joaoventura.net/blog/

After 2012, I've been writing very infrequently about things mostly related to Python..
> It should be completely free for everyone but regulated to jettison all that non-education stuff (except for some "soft" services like healthcare, therapy/counselling etc).

What do you think made the CSU/UC system the most affordable and attractive option in the Country?

The thing you need to accept is that the unfettered administrative bloat was by design, and will always lead to this; the CSU/UC system was essentially tuition-free if you were local and extremely low cost for most of its History because it didn't offer what the others did and we Californians funded that with extremely high local/state/property taxes and our family and by extension our economies were rewarded for it, so we put up with.

It wasn't until the bureaucrats made Industry impose a mandatory University degree for most entry-level jobs well into the 90s that many of those same people migrated to academia and start to shift it to the sordid mess you see today.

Honestly, I say keep in place: let it fall into disrepute crippled by its own malaise once and for all but have legislation in place that it cannot be bailed out when it does. Its the only way I think this has any chance of reform.

Personally, one of the silver linings of the Shutdown in California is showing just how much unnecessary bloat their is in Universities (and in Industry) to deliver on its MVP: accredited completion of courses to issue degrees. If this doesn't disrupt academia and make it shift to a having mainly an online-learning direction for most of its programs then it should rightfully walk into its own demise.

I just registered for a bunch of Coresera and Udemy courses on ML, Sustainability and Supply Chain analytics with accreditation from Industry and University alike for what amounts to what cost less than what I paid for 1 or maybe 2 textbooks while I was in University--that I can complete at my own pace on my terms.

If the goal was to foster an environment for those with the drive to acquire useful skills, then I'd say we already have evolved past the archaic University system and are only forced to be burdened by it solely because of convention.

Apprenticeships are pretty much the backbone of the Germanic countries' Economic and Industrial might, and University is pretty much just an affectation or continued learning component; we need to learn that lesson considering just how much of the US 'education system' is based on Prussian Pedagogy and Ideology.
Avoid Nesting when you're Testing
Everyone always list the "top programming languages" or the "fastest growing" ones. I'd like to see the opposite, the "fastest losing/shrinking" ones, would be a interesting list to see which languages people are suddenly using less off.
King! King! No point in the thing!
Hackovid — The people’s hackathon, confronting the confinement
Jitsi despite its frequent re-occurence here is a nightmare to configure with so many bells & whistle to setup just one basic functionality. Try setting it up with word-to-word instructions for setup & later SSL certs to work on your own iOS app of Jitsi meet without ripping your hair out.
Called this a few weeks back: Ask HN: Will auto insurance premiums go down? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22719791
For me it wasn't nearly as bad. For one thing, there was so much less schoolwork than job-work. And, while in school, you never had to pretend to the other children that you cared. Also, in school, there weren't many layers of management, product owners etc. all giving unclear and contradictory directions - schoolwork was downright trivial compared to a serious project in a large corp. And this is all coming from a privileged software worker - my family members (the ones saying that childhood and adolescence are the best) were all semi-skilled manual workers. In their cases, I just don't see how sitting at your desk 40 hours a week doing the same thing (say, routine testing methane analysers) over and over again for 40 years, while worrying about making ends meet or being fired, can be better than some school work and oceans of free time.
This is not a revolutionary idea. Several professional programs (law, accounting, etc.) have certification exams that do just what you are describing. It seems to require a fairly healthy, non-profit professional body in order for this to work, and you can only ever assess a fairly slim chunk of the 4-year experience, so they end up pairing in a credit-hour requirement as well.

I work in large-scale assessment, and can attest that we should hold a fairly skeptical/conservative position in the power of tests to get to the "real" skill level of prospective practitioners. All of the measures currently available are fairly weak at predicting outcomes.
Project Gutenberg has around 60,000, in txt, pdf, or epub styles: https://www.gutenberg.org/

Edit: added a style.
Seems a bit pointless. Surely smell and consistency would be a big factor in analyzing this sort of thing as well as visual information.
> Intermittent theta-burst stimulation (iTBS) is a noninvasive brain stimulation treatment that has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for treatment-resistant depression.

If this is anything like Neurofeedback treatment, it wouldn't surprise me that it is effective. Neurofeedback treats 3 major frequency ranges of the brain, Delta, Theta and Alpha. Although this treatment seems passive whereas Neurofeedback treatment requires active modulation and stimulation by the person getting the treatment.

Going through Neurofeedback treatment myself and seeing the incredible life changes because of it and now seeing the similarity of the affected brain regions in this study shows that there might be some consensus reached on treating these conditions without medication one day.
You are right, PostgreSQL is not necessarily optimal for time-series workloads. In this case, the benchmark is a simple task, and not related to time-series. It's consists of reading 1 billion values to a table and sum them together. It doesn't get simpler than that.

The reason we are showcasing this instead of other more complex queries is because this is a simple, easily reproducible benchmark. It provides point of reference for performance figures.
In 2015 I was writing a brand new web frontend for IE 5.5 on a mobile device with something like 240x360 screen dimensions (I forget the details now) for one of the most valuable companies in the world. We had complete control over the devices the users used (the company gave the users those devices). Admittedly, plans were in place to upgrade those devices, but it was still a fair bit out. I left before that happened.
> I mean, does depression even exist, or is it a psychiatric scam?

Yes. You're being disrespectful to people whose lives are severely affected by depression.
Bitcoin could theoretically become an integral part of some economy (or a smaller part of every economy). Then by your standards it would no longer have a problem?

It seems like a catch 22 you're presenting. It's a bad currency because nobody uses it, and nobody uses it because it's a bad currency. To me that's kind of a circular argument, and the same argument could be made about any early-stage network (the internet, facebook, etc.)
Seems unethical to disallow genuine warnings from people who work at the company
Git checkout understands "hyphen expansion" for your previous branch (a la `cd -` to switch to your previous working directory), so switching between two branches is as easy as `git checkout -` or even `git co -` if you have an alias.
Hi! Lifelong experiencer of depression and several mental disorders. Am I mentally ill, or is the world really actually a horrible and callous place where most humans spend their time being negligent and abusive towards each other? At very best, psychiatrists might claim to be able to open up a wider perspective, which is why they used to be called "head-shrinkers", for their ability to humble and to remove egoist barriers, but a bit of meditation will do that too. So, is psychiatry's ability to give perspective worth the pathologizing effect that it has on people?
This could be a case for "eminent domain"ing the domain from this user. If domains are property, "eminent domain" must apply to them too.
Extinction Rebellion switched to Jitsi, Matrix etc. From the slide at t=2078:

*.organise.earth
*.rebellion.global

OWN3D OWNED (self hosted)

Team Chat Slack Mattermost (Team Edition)
Cloud Storage Google Drive Nextcloud (2 instances)
Collaborative docs Google docs Only Office Etherpad-Lite
Surveys Google Forms LimeSurvey
Video Conferencing Zoom Jitsi-Meet
Webmail Gmail, etc Rainloop (Postfix, Dovecot)
Collaborative Dev Github gitlab
Mailinglist manager Mail Chimp Mailtrain
Actions/Operations WhatsApp, Skype Signal, Wire
Social Twitter Mastodon
Video Youtube Peertube
Site Jekyll
Admin Gender Bros Any

https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-11008-server_infrastructure_for_...

> In this talk Julian will outline his work as sysadmin, systems and security architect for the climate and environmental defense movement Extinction Rebellion. Responsible for 30 server deployments in 11 months, including a community hub spanning dozens of national teams (some of which operate in extremely hostile conditions), he will show why community-owned free and open source infrastructure is mission-critical for the growth, success and safety of global civil disobedience movements.
Great Barrier Reef survey: “What we saw was an utter tragedy”
I'm with "Be aware that the author has low trust factor and may have put the piece together from other sources without having a clue what he was writing about." until I see credentials.

http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/index.php/2020/04/05/wuhan-f...

"All that hilariously misguided and counterproductive criticism the media piled on chloroquine (purely for political reasons) as a viable treatment will now go down as the biggest Fake News blunder to rule them all. The media actively engaged their activism to fight ‘bad orange man’ at the cost of thousands of lives. Shame on them."

The media critique part reads more like a political rant than scientific discourse.
Contact Tracing Web-App for TB and More
Emojis are fonts. Fonts can be variable
The Global Dollar Short Squeeze
Apple has underestimated what the iPad can do for too long
Gitea is a fork of gogs.

Gogs is still in development as well. If people are interested, definitely check that out as well.
My blog is https://kyledm.ca

It's just random articles - some tech, some rants, and it's got no ads.

I try to add different content but it's a smorgasbord
Design of OK Soda looks quite similar to Fallout Nuka Cola
We're building a contact tracing app for TB and other infectious diseases. Inspired by Dottie, who was harmed by poor contact tracing. Not a direct COVID solution, but might help in some areas. Seeking funding and expert input on the design. Thanks
Free portfolio website templates: how and why you should create a portfolio
Do I understand correctly that they basically:
1. find the subpart of your brain that causes you to be depressed
2. use TMS to essentially block that region from being so active
?

Wonder if you could use this one day also for the regions that cause me to e.g. procrastinate...
Ask HN: How do you learn effectively from scholarly articles?
I'm interested in exploring academic literature on a few niche topics but am having trouble getting started. I don't have graduate school experience and this form of academic writing is a bit foreign to me.

What are your techniques for reading scholarly articles? How do you digest them effectively? How do you determine if an article on arXiv or Google Scholar or elsewhere is from a credible source?
I was a senior in HS when it came out and I remember a bunch of us really liking the style. But, yeah, it tasted terrible.
IME, the IE11 users have all been able to use another browser.

Then your company must not have any customers in security-conscious industries like healthcare.

Any well-run IT department doesn't just allow the company's employees to install and run any old browser they want because a web site told them to do so.

I am forced to support IE11 because a very large number of doctors, hospitals, and other healthcare providers use it. These people cannot simply "fire up chrome/Firefox/edge."
Detecting recurring payment transaction with SQL
You can read it at
https://archive.is/ONUmi#selection-273.62-273.143
https://mentalpivot.com

It's a repository for my book notes (business, self-improvement, economics and other topics). I also post short pieces about things I'm learning. Fridays I post a weekly roundup of interesting articles and podcasts I listened to.

Most popular post are my notes on BJ Fogg's Tiny Habits:
https://mentalpivot.com/book-notes-tiny-habits-by-bj-fogg/

Started the blog last year in an effort to develop the habit more than anything. Trying to get better every week just out of sheer repetition and practice.
It looks odd to me because the individual English characters are rotated. Vertical Japanese text doesn't rotate the characters.
HTTP Request Smuggling
Static Site generation impact on API Servers
Hue Color Selection – “Can It Be Done in React Native?”
DooM 2016 does not but Eternal shows you a codex entry the first time you encounter an enemy that highlights their weaknesses. None of them have to do with an alternate fire mode or anything else, so it's still an exaggeration, but it does tell you which weapons are particularly effective. Shields, for example, blow up if you use the plasma rifle.
n = 21, so I guess it's 19/21
So far we have not made changes to the spec, just carried it forward but we definitely want to start cleaning up the v2 v3 mess, and make a single spec work for all platforms.

See https://github.com/compose-spec/compose-spec/issues/12 and also https://github.com/compose-spec/compose-spec/issues/13 for making it feature not version number driven.
Go-IPFS 0.5.0 Release RC1
How UKPunting, the review website for sex workers, also facilitates harassment
How do papers like this get published? This is a conference paper at best.
They can if the software is good enough and the customer really wants it.

"Killer app" only works in the consumer and small business spaces these days.
Didn't quite quite get your question! Can you elaborate?
The website, sure.
Another approach: I picked up an Atari Flashback 2 from Goodwill a while ago for about $6. It can be modded with a real cartridge port to play actual Atari 2600 games, plus uses Atari-compatible joysticks (side note: the joysticks that came with the Flashback 2 work out of the box on my VIC-20).
As a developer for some sleepy enterprise apps, I am very impressed at how companies like Zoom, Microsoft, and such can scale to handle this increased load so gracefully. I'm guessing this is just their website and not their actual app backend, but I'd imagine they had a huge spike there, too.
"I have to say that running into a partisan defending the honor of the late Mohammad Reza Pahlavi on the internet is a new experience."

Yeh, it's called "propaganda". As you can see, it works.

However you have chosen in your oblique reponse to not respond to a simple question: what is your definition of puppet? And how does Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi qualify per that standard?

Looking forward to your thoughtful response.
Ok. I just feel like "breaking the flow" is a lot different than having to use a specific secondary fire mode of a weapon at a specific location on an enemy and stuck out to me because, if that was an actual thing in the game, it would make the game unplayable and annoying to me.
I think it'd be a lot of fun to set up a responder of sorts, that would handle the incoming traffic, discard the sensitive bits, and feed back something like "Your administrator needs to apply KBxxxxxx patch" in any fields of whatever sort of traffic may apply.

I'm sure someone would get their undies in a twist and sue me, which is why I've never done anything of the sort with the juicy traffic that's come my way (in a similar, though long in the past, situation that shall remain unspecified).

But 1 packet out of 100,000 gets upsidedownternet.
Numerical Linear Algebra for Programmers Book 0.7.0 (Clojure and CPU and GPU)
I didn't know about Realforce keyboards, they look really nice (and expensive).

Thank you for the tip!
Full paper on biorxiv! https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/581280v3.full.pdf
This hasn't been my experience at all. Setting it up on a VM using their installation instructions (https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/blob/master/doc/quick-in...) was very easy.
Webp supports lossy and lossless.
What Can We Learn from Snap's AR Lead?
> Switching branches does get a bit annoying if you happen to work in multiple branches simultaneously and have to switch halfway through a task, or there's a lot of differences

Sure, but its not like the different changes just don’t exist if you use only master, branches are a way of managing them separately and only merging when you are ready, if you don’t use branches, you have to have some other way to manage this. If you don’t, and its not a problem, then you could also just not work on three branches at once.