skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember reading from an authoritative source (Probably the Apple Support website, but I don’t remember alas) that this is done to retain functionality of wireless-based system services — which require Bluetooth and Wi-Fi enabled; like AirDrop, Handoff, Universal Clipboard, Instant Hotspot, etc.

(Not for nefarious/tracking reasons.)
>We have already flattened the curve

Yes, in some states.. Not all. This is a very ignorant way to look at this.

You dont know what will happen in two weeks because more people may have gotten sick. Look at people getting together during Easter, push that out 2 weeks. Will more be sick and infected? No one knows. Not even you Doc.

Look at the state testing: http://www.covidstatetesting.com
On the other side, as part of the entertainment community, they are at least sustaining some of their income, which I would consider good under the current climate.
JRuby is also usually faster (sometimes much faster) on straight-line CPU-heavy operations, but you're right... real parallelism is one of the biggest selling points.
Are there really only 20 permits for self-driving cars with drivers?

I swear there are more than 20 self-driving cars driving around the streets of Silicon Valley.
SoftBank Expects $24B Loss
I think you can explain the problems with "pedantic" arguments in a lot more rigid way.

The "technically correct" arguments are ignoring certain information that the OP argues is extremely important: How likely a certain situation is to appear in practice and how expensive or resouce-consuming a certain user actions is.

Therefore, while the facts they state (dangling pointers may happen, people can protect against buffer overruns in C) are technically not wrong, their conclusion "therefore, garbage collectors / buffer protection make no difference" is plain wrong because it ignores the difference that likelihood and cost would make.

I think this can often be traced back to inexperience: The "X can happen / people could do Y" arguments can be make simply with book knowledge - in contrast, you typically gain knowledge about likelihoods and costs from actual experience working in projects.
Python's Pathlib Is Great
I think you are right. I don't like it, but as a user, I appear to be in a minority. My wife is not concerned about tracking nearly as much as I am. She was ok with ads disappearing from her Kindle, but she does not want to fiddle with anything. And to be perfectly honest, the older I get, the harder it is for me to devote time to do that as well. I even accepted BT pairing in car. That said, I already placed a line in the sand on BT for oven/fridge/toaster/younameit.
Their audiences won't move, youtube is the anchor site for video content.
Take a look at NNTP. It's under-appreciated, IMO and the technology is relatively simple, decentralized, stable, and mature.
What about the massive increase in views from people being stuck at home ? wouldn't that lead to a higher ROI when people eventually spend ?

In terms of ad spend reduction, How would this compare to regular media advertising spend (TV etc.) ?
Do you have anything against subscribing to the platform? (If you can afford it)
Those boots are hardly evidence of membership in the Red Army, come on ..
Why don't you subscribe to YT premium. If there is a way to remove ads a support the platform, why not do that?
But we don't know, or even think, that the rules of nature prefer a rate of entropy increase. We just know that it does increase, on average, in closed systems. If life as we know it creates entropy at a high rate compared to other natural processes, that is not a reason for life to be compulsory, or even preferred, by nature.
It is not "quite laggy", it is unusably slow ... big disappointment because Inkscape is otherwise an excellent software
Predictions are difficult, especially about the future. But there seems to be no good reason to believe that the epidemic in Stockholm has plateaued. Instead it is likely to continue growing with a doubling rate of approximately 7 days.

Well, it is now the 13th, and we can look at the data and see if this guy's prediction is right.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/new-covid-deaths-per-mill...

Nope. The rate is significantly down for the past 2 days.
DevOps’ish 175
I mean, clarifying that it's in-progress is important.

After all, Rome wasn't built in a day.
Trump signs law to punish websites for sex trafficking
Can Brian Chesky Save Airbnb?
Wow, it's almost like you read the article. Almost.
yea ofcourse, if someone is better at skills you are looking for then by all means coding hobby is irrelvant.

But what if all else being equal, why would you not choose coding hobby candidate.
A question I asked before, but I get different answers. what are the -legal- limitations of scraping data when we have an a limited access API
This happened to me.

We were seeing a USB issue between a Marvell SoC we purchased and a Qualcomm SoC. The more I tried to understand this issue, the deeper the rabbit hole went until we were in the weeds of the XHCI controller looking at scatter/gather operations, etc. Eventually we bought a USB protocol analyzer that seemed to indicate that the actual host controller had a bug. We contacted the Marvell, who in turn contacted the vendor of the USB core (Synopsys). They bisected USB cores with an FPGA until they found a day which had a breaking change. Unfortunately, it appears Synopsys didn't use version control with their source verilog a few years ago (they just had archived daily builds), so while they could say "yep, looks like something that changed on 13 Jan 2015 broke it" they didn't know what change that was. However, before it could be resolved the company I was working for went bankrupt and so I never did get closure on the issue.

I sunk many, many months into understanding that issue over the course of several years only to give up because it was near impossible to understand enough to come up with a workaround (and because the company went bankrupt).
To the elected officials advocating for closure of Amazon warehouses: would it be better to have 300M people visit Walmart or their local grocery store where they will interface with perhaps 50 others? Or to have 100,000 people visit their local Amazon warehouse where there are masks, temperature checks, intensive cleaning, etc?

Even the most basic math on this indicates the Amazon option is far better for eradication of the pandemic than the Walmart option.
To paraphrase Arthur Dent: "This must be a meaning of the word off with which I was previously unaware"

Both the title and Google are misleading: Bluetooth is not off; it is not participating in Bluetooth transactions but it is still listening.
Truly one of the best acting duos in history.
It’s happening all around the world. Places like India has seen a remarkable drop in pollution levels. People are able to see Himalayas for the first time from their homes near by. Everest gets a break from the climbers.

And even Ganges is showing levels of purity never seen before : https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/travel/destinations/gang... [..] When the ancient Yamuna River in Delhi has reached a remarkable level of purity due to the absence of industrial pollutants in the last many days of India-wide lockdown, how can River Ganga show its sparkling clear waters to the nation?

Well, news has it that Ganga waters at Rishikesh and Haridwar have become very clean according to the observation made by BD Joshi, Environmental Scientist and Ex-professor at the Gurukul Kangri University. According to Joshi, it is after a long time that Ganga water has become good for achaman (ritual sipping) in Haridwar. Joshi also added that the cause behind cleaner Ganga water is a 500 per cent decrease in total dissolved solid (TDS), industrial effluent, dharmashalas, sewage from hotels and lodges. [..]

Perhaps this is the solution when pollution markers reach a certain threshold. Shut down everything for a month.
Fair enough. It screams pre OS X NextStep to me, which is probably very much related to that.

Chrome aside, the non-modern thing that jumps out at me is that you likely have a few more windows/dialogs/palettes/etc. you're working with in TclSqueak, where Komodo adopts a pattern of decorations on the side of a single window that cause additional panes to appear within that same window as you click them.

I don't especially like that specific turn we've taken over the past 10 years or so, but that pattern of revealing hidden bits within one big window sticks out quite a bit even beyond the chrome to me.
I always found Inkscape next to unusable compared with Corel Draw, Illustrator and Affinity Designer. Tried it several times, always gave up. In v0.92 (I know, not latest version) if I moved a point near the end of a path, points near the other end of the path suddenly started moving. Totally weird. I do not know how people can do serious work with this.
Yes there is a requirement for a full mesh, and generally it has to be in all regions. GCP will route for you at the Network level so we could get away with not all GCP regions being peered to all AWS and Azure regions, but all AWS and Azure regions need to be peered to each other.

For the HA of VPN links for most providers its handled automatically, AWS <-> Azure and AWS <-> GCP both are HA links offered by the provider. Azure <-> GCP is a Classic VPN so we need two of them and we need to manage the routes to make sure they would fail over in the event of a loss of one system.

Throughput is another story, we are very much limited by the throughput of the various VPN's. We haven't pushed GCP or Azure to the max to see what they can do, but according to the documentation we should be expecting around 300Mbps across each link in the mesh before we start to see throttling. At that point it makes sense for us to move to a co-located exchange and peer with dedicated connections.

Finally for other providers, when we start to get them inbound we will be looking at using the transit gateway's of the various providers to reduce the total number off links needed, or standing up virtual routers to act as exchanges.

Hopefully we will be doing another post with more technical details and some benchmarks!
Technically I'm not wrong. I said the developers of PUBG were Korean, and it looks like I'm correct.

> PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) is an online multiplayer battle royale game developed and published by PUBG Corporation, a subsidiary of South Korean video game company Bluehole.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayerUnknown's_Battlegrounds

I said I didn't know if it was ultimately owned by China. Apparently, it looks like Bluehole is in part owned by Tencent.
NYU: Obesity the biggest 'chronic' factor in New York’s Covid hospitalizations
Mathematica, and the Future of the Research Paper
Thanks, I can open an USD account, but then I need to pay fees for it and the currency exchange rate is not as good as TransferWise's rate.
You seem to be looking to find grounds to criticize what I say, rather than first trying to understand it. This is leading you to creating strawmen - to the point that it begins to look deliberate. In case it's not, though, I'm going to try this one more time.

You are putting words in my mouth that I did not say, and I deny you the right to do so. Did I say "ever"? No. I said that, when talking to those outside the humanities, they should talk differently. (And what is the humanities if they only ever talk to themselves? Physics makes a difference to the world by what it enables us to do, so if the physicists talk only to themselves and to the engineers, they still can change the world. But if the humanities talk only to themselves, that's... not very helpful to society.)

And, despite me explaining it, you continue to misunderstand what I said about Feynmann. When talking to those who aren't at your level in the discipline, can you still make it understandable to them, without making them first have to get to your level? How far can you go to do so?

The problem that I see is that the humanities no longer seem to know how to talk to the culture at large. That's a real problem, because if the humanities are what they think they are, the larger culture needs them. The humanities need to talk to those outside the humanities, and to do so in a way that those outside can understand.
> It has had a PR since day one, from the same person that opened the issue.

Absolutely, and I'm appreciative of that. As you can see from that PR, it is unclear what the procedure is to get said PR merged; there's assertions that this is breaking, and assertions that it is not. This conversation was continued in the issue, and the PR author did not respond. It's effectively in a holding pattern where nobody has responded to the maintainer's feedback about the PR, either by updating the original PR or opening a new one.

Part of why this has taken a while is that mdbook has not had particularly strong leadership over its existence, due to what I said. The original author wrote enough for his purposes, I tweaked stuff for my purposes, but it's never been anyone's specific focus. There have been periods with effectively no maintenance. That's how open source goes.

> It has been "bombed" by people who use mdBook, ... I don't see anywhere in its README.md that says you need to be a Rust user to use mdBook.

To be clear, I do not think everyone in this issue is from some sort of "outside." But there's at least one person in that thread who started on it immediately after publicly trashing Rust. He then continues to be abrasive on the issue.

This contributes to a lack of bandwidth, at least for me. I'm not gonna bother touching this PR when there is so much other work to do, and I don't have to deal with this kind of thing. (I am also not the primary maintainer of mdbook so I don't know how the actual maintainers feel about it, maybe they aren't affected by it in the same way.)

I expect that someday, this will get sorted out, if the folks who care so much actually put in the effort to make the changes happen. Or maybe they'll use another tool. I think that's also totally fine. This was part of a broader move to remove google fonts across Rust properties, most of them were taken care of, because folks pushed and got the work done. I think this might be the last bit?
That's my blog post! Glad you enjoyed it :)
Maybe this is intuitive to JS devs, but what are the advantages of "zero third-party dependencies" and "being a comprehensive tool for the processing of anything JS related" or any of the other selling points of Rome? It seems like an impressive project, but it's not obvious to me what its actual benefits are.
Donald Trump vowed to veto the CARES act stimulus bill if it included a bailout for USPS.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-po...
> It speeds up time-to-fix with GPS

There has been something seriously fucked with Google Maps in this particular regard. On my phone with my location/privacy settings, it takes Google Maps 5-10x times as long to get a location fix as it takes OSMAnd. It works eventually, but it's dog slow.
Ajqvue Covid-19 SQLite Database, (US Daily) Hospitalization Anomaly
I'm pretty sure you heard about ShareDB [1]; I wonder, if you're implementing your own solution because there are some limitations in ShareDB.

- [1] https://github.com/share/sharedb
What is the Commandeer Desktop App? (A Google slides presentation)
I've used Adobe Illustrator intensively for a number of years, and have attempted to use Inkscape for some similar projects, and have found it quite robust!

The biggest problem is that it is almost universal in Abode apps is space to pan and drag the canvas. Inkscape had this at one time, but then removed it. Hopefully it has come back otherwise this app will never reach the power and speed of Adobe products.

For advanced users, it's all about the keyboard shortcuts!
> Genuinely interested, why?

They usually don't support the level of granularity I have on the CLI. For example, if I want to fix a commit on a PR based on feedback I've received, I can make the fix and `git rebase -i` will let me amend any of my previous commits (via 'fixup'). None of the IDEs I've tried support it; it's possible instead of an IDE one of the dedicated git tools like Kraken support this?

It's also just mildly terrifying when the IDE gives you a button with no further explanation for what it's actually doing. I.e. what do 'refresh' and 'sync' do in VS Code? The consequences could be dire: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/32405

> reverting a commit is 2-3 clicks, or a whole lot of typing.

Git revert is a single command; finding the commit to revert is the hard part. `git bisect` makes this easy, and I haven't seen any IDEs nail that one. That said, this is a rare use case.
> "The bear population has quadrupled," said [Ahwahnee Hotel employee Dane] Peterson...

> "It's not like they aren’t usually here," he said of the bears, bobcats and coyotes that he and other employees now see congregating outside their cabins and apartments. "It's that they usually hang back at the edges, or move in the shadows."

Edit: The title used here omits the quotation marks of the article title, making it more misleading.
The guys who try to heal people with crystals are way more passionate about their jobs than the people who went through med school. Passion doesn't equal talent. I'll choose the guy who gets his job done on time and under budget all day long over the guy who needs to reinvent the wheel because he saw a blog post and thought the idea would be cool to implement on company time.
Python Net-SNMP. Python GPG. My Python ecosystem as I drag it from place to place. I ask myself why I do this, frequently.

In the distant past, Solaris 9 for x86 on a laptop. I was younger (and dumber) then. Took much longer than 100 hrs and aged me beyond death.
Thanks, the exchange difference indeed looks like capital gain.
I think this is visible even as a consumer.

Lately I've been seeing a lot of (allegedly) dropshipping advertisements for "home gym" equipment, from "brands"/"stores" with no recognition.

Sure I'll buy this from you. Especially something that's heavy and from an ad teaming with jpeg artifacts and a non-local currency. I'm sure I won't pay an arm and a leg for shipping and I'll have no issues with a brand that has 3 posts on instagram.
Is there any comparison of mdBook to AsciiDoc? It seems the SUMMARY.md page of mdBook is critical to promote markdown effectively into a "book" presentation, something that feels more like on addon specification to markdown that is already handled in asciidoc? What advantage does mdBook give you then?
AFAIK, the high number of stars are because of who the author is.

Personally, considering how ambitious the project is, I was hoping they would go just a bit more ambitious and cover type checking as well (rather than just transpile out the syntax), otherwise we still need to install Typescript/flow and run their parsers independently from rome.
There appeared an anomaly in COVID-19 Tracking Project
for April 12, 2020, US Daily Hospitalized Increase.
Plot shown. Perhaps bad data or maybe not.

danap.
> I think a lot of folks hoping for SCOTUS involvement were thinking more generally of it as a voting rights type issue.

Then they are asking for exactly the kind of 'answer to a question that was never asked' that the Supreme Court told all courts to stop giving.
No, there is currently no similar alternative that pays anything in the realm of YouTube ad rev.
Freedom is well defined, the freedom you speak of, requires a ruling body to exhert force. By implementing laws freedom itself is modified. Given that the FSF is not the ruling body of software, they should not have a say on what freedom entails. (which is why when speaking of licenses its best to refer as copyfree copyleft and so on.) IMO As a language that is used by all, its best to refer to freedom as copyfree. because that is the most loose definition and the least based on coercion.
The MASTERCLASS.COM ads crack me up quite a bit. If it were prominent people in their fields talking about how they work, their craft, etc. OK. Still unlikely to pay for it but OK.

But instead I see ads that seem to be claiming they'll teach me ballet, screenwriting, and all sorts of other things that absolutely don't lend themselves to broadcast online instruction even if the person teaching is extremely talented and well-known.
Really? I haven't done a survey of Masterclass ads but I've had the opposite experience. Every one of them seems to be 90% highly-produced "inspirational" fluff with maybe one or two interesting one-liners that may or may not be bullshit.

Haven't actually taken a course myself. I'll admit their ads got me to check out their site given the big names they've managed to attract, so they did their job, but it looks like their programs are yet another "we'll sell you lectures with zero practical exercises or applications for $X/month so you can sound smart at parties" service.

I guess it might be useful for 17 year olds picking a college major or exposing people to brand new topics, or professionals already in the relevant field looking for tips, but that's about it. Watching Penn & Teller's Masterclass isn't going to teach you how to be a professional magician, Aaron Sorkin isn't going to teach you how to be a professional screenwriter, and Chris Hadfield isn't going to teach you how to be an astronaut or engineer. It's like paying $180 to read the back of the book of a profession.
It's immutable in the sense that the system files are generated by Nix and they're read-only. So, if you want to make a change to your system, you change the Nix files and rebuild the entire system. The old version of the system remains /nix/store and you can rollback to it.

You could also call it "declarative infrastructure", because you declare in your configuration.nix how the system should look like: users, packages, file paths, etc.
Any reason why such well known project was posted now?

I like Scratch's shape-based typing. If the shape doesn't fit it's wrong type, and you can visually look for adapter to covert it to correct type. For example, IF has hexagonal hole and variable is oval shaped, you see that they don't fit together. So you go through available blocks and find operator > which is hexagonal on outside and has oval holes. It is both brilliant and obvious design in retrospect.

On the other hand, the language doesn't gain much by being visual. It looks like Lua that's chopped up in draggable pieces. You can still make syntax errors but they are silently ignored? The complexity is limited to how much you can fit on canvas. The language doesn't teach anything about abstracting away already solved problems.

The execution environment is great. The only thing I would change there are provided graphics sprites. Even that simplistic cat mascot is too high-definition compared to what you can draw with built-in paint tool. Perhaps if all provided graphics was drawn in that same tool, it would set a better stage for creativity.
I don't understand where this problem of distributing encryption keys comes from in the context of this tech demo. Zoom uses "passwords" and people are more than happy to distribute them by email / WhatsApp / shouting from the rooftops.
The important aspect is that the video conferencing provider and server do not know the key.

I also disagree with your opinion that "you can't solve the UX on that".
The tech demo here essentially gives the same UX as Zoom call + passwords, but with actual end-to-end encryption.

There is the notable caveat in this tech demo that client-side scripts can still read the key (we have to assume the javascript that can read the URL hash is friendly).

Really, though, this can be solved: provide a native(ish) app even if it's just an Electron wrapper of the existing static assets and javascript code, register a handler with the OS for `jitsi://`, and use links like `jitsi://server.name/room#e2ekey=foo`, so we only have to trust the code on our machine, not the server.