skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why a new standard than to push for reform to the current standard?

Are they just closely protected by greybeards who won't listen to reason?

Question comes from a true place of ignorance/curiosity, I definitely understand the need to have unambiguous, easy to implement security tokens without the foot-guns.
nick_kline>"and now my elderly relatives are fixated on getting it(HCQ/CQ)."

Do you think Trump and Fox News are your elderly relatives only source of information? Do you think this behavior is limited to your elderly relatives? You can't shake an MD today w/o HCQ/CQ, zinc and ZPAK pills falling out of their pockets. Why is that?

Firstly, because it works.

Secondly, doctors (and dentists, and everyone who could write prescriptions and wasn't living in Tibet) spread the word of using HCQ/CQ+ZINC+ZPAK as a prophylactic measure among themselves. They wrote prescriptions for themselves and theirs, so much so that for awhile they sucked up all the HCQ/CQ in the supply chain.

If you think your "elderly relatives" are "fixated", then you must also think that most MDs are also "fixated".But maybe your "elderly relatives" know something you don't know. Perhaps you're the "fixated" one - fixated on false ideas of how to best judge from social behavior in the heat of possible disaster what most likely works and what does not work.

In this situation "doing what the doctors are doing" makes
sense. The poor lost soul by the side of the road, waving a red flag and saying "But what about randomized controlled double-blind trials? I must have real science!" is the person that Darwin's theories will leave behind.
Famine
If your life is hard, you will be uglier?

Or did you mean the inverse "If you are not ugly, your life will not be harder"?
I love how Kanban makes the tasks easier to track!
Hi,
I couldn't agree more with your concerns. I am working on a solution to solve this.
Please reach out to me via email on my profile.
Thanks
Yes, we will! (And, while we are trying to make sure we understand the impact of Covid-19 across our lending portfolio, we haven't stopped extending new loans.)
> This is going to trigger some people

Same with anything these days, it seems.
In one of his fastai videos Jeremy Howard makes the point that wrong labels can act as regularization and you shouldn't worry too much about them. I'm a bit skeptical as to how far you can push this but you certainly don't need perfect labelling.
Another example was the constantly changing official advice on whether people should wear masks or not. Unless you're an expert, it's hard to know which of the conflicting opinions is better supported by the facts (and the facts are constantly changing as new research is published). And the people policing the content at Facebook aren't experts.
If I created a Zoom meeting with the trainees, and shared my screen and computer audio running my training video, would I have the same experience?

Phrased in terms of Zoom since I've become oh so familiar with it these past few months. I see the value, since it's probably easier to connect to than a Zoom meeting.
Just to clarify, the recommendation is to not use email at all. We are to just give up on the concept entirely...
Facebook will start alerting users who have interacted with ‘harmful
History is full of famines, including those which were created intentionally.

It is surprising that in this connected era, it is still possible to create intentional famine
What sparks your skepticism of self-driving cars? Although some companies use stereo vision to generate point clouds, others use lidar.
So it’s capable of doing the bare minimum required for a device to be called a phone?
I really feel you have a whole team that can do that when you want and need it.

In regards to the new 3DS XL, Â a little "un-cheating" because of a few bugs and an awning bugs, but a lot of them are not a problem. The biggest is that if you place the volume on the front of the motherboard, you're gonna have no problems.

The only real issue is getting any of the parts on your board to work more in a PCI-accurate manner.
James Cain did something similar on Windows using his user-space SMB2 server.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDUL3wEs2ew

You could also write a Samba VFS module that does the same thing with incoming filenames.
Cool app! East to use and fun! Best for corona time!
I'm a customer, and one thing that I think would be helpful would be to ensure that notebooks launch inside of the storage folder. In fact, I'm not sure there should be any folders other than the storage folder and another folder labelled to tell the user this data isn't going to persist, or is volatile.

I really like a lot of the features you have in place, but had weird things like files disappearing, git repos being erased except for folder name, etc.

That being said, I think there's a lot of value here, and once I defaulted to using only storage, had less issues with Gradient. I think the concept behind your company, seems to be democratizing the devops needed for getting on-demand compute, and I dig it.

Hit me up privately if you want to talk more. There's some potential ideas I'd like to discuss with you involving my employer and potentially augmenting our product with yours (and bringing customers with us). Hope that last statement tells you that despite the warts I've experienced, I really admire what you have accomplished. I'm a big, big fan of intuitive UX that simplifies high-value tasks, and I think you've achieved a lot there.
Patrick,

Can you lend me $100? Stuck at home in NI with no cash :(

Luke
This looks rather interesting. Could someone working in this field comment on this theory?
Looks like everyone responding to me completely ignored the fact that my point wasn't a defense of large businesses, it was about defending businesses that are more customer-centric. i.e. those businesses that better meets the needs of the customer by providing superior value. Many of the replies actually reinforce my point.

That could be restaurants that provide better quality food than the large chain restaurants. It could be a butchers that provide higher quality locally sourced meats than what I can get at Safeway and Walmart. It could be businesses making specialized gear that I use in my outdoor endeavors (Hyperlite Mountain Gear, Mountain Laurel Designs, Astral, Kokatat, Alpacka Raft, etc. etc.). It can be businesses that sell things the big businesses don't such as a specialty wine shop. There are tons of good small businesses that provide superior value. Selling the same products as Amazon and Walmart at a higher price with poorer customer service and worse return policy doesn't provide superior value.

A good business is one that provides superior value. Being large or small tells me nothing about the value being provided.

Everyone focusing on things like pricing power is missing the forest for the trees. If you don't have pricing power, the money is still leaving the community. Instead of going to the middleman that lives far away, it just goes to the manufacturers that live far away.

Furthermore, many of these large companies are public, which means everyone within any community has the opportunity of buying a piece of the company on the open market. The communities that buy the most of such large companies probably even keep more wealth in their community than the ones that don't. If enough local people buy shares, then it's possible that more profits flow into that particular community than flow out of that community.

With a small local retailer, it just means the money flows into the pocket of one person or one family in the community and no one else in the community can buy into that business and get the benefits of the value generated. This is what happens in places like Lake Chelan in Washington, where one family (the Campbells) has a stranglehold on politics and funnels everything to their businesses, which no one else locally is able to buy into.

Strong communities with a solid local economy are those that have many such small businesses that provide superior value. If your community does nothing that an Amazon or Walmart does, then there really isn't anything that's going to flow the balance of payments in your direction and the community will slowly die.
We use it, but restrict the sig alg to a couple of known-good values, so am hoping this particular vulnerability is not present in our system.

We had an infosec guy excitedly tell us that PASETO was the future, and we need to change to it right now. It looked good, and a way to avoid some of the possible JiWY issues in the same way having a TLS implementation that only allowed strong ciphers might.

But we have to integrate with so many third party pieces that require JWT it wasn't an option.
“Zoom Boom” a Real Danger, Warns Government on Video Con Platform
Where is it illegal to go out for exercise? Every stay-at-home order I've seen, at least in the democracies, carves out an exception for that. (On the other hand, I've hardly made a survey of them, so this is an honest question.)
Emirates passengers to undergo Covid-19 blood tests before boarding
It is nothing other than being a fat client that works in the browser.
Any email client with PGP support?

Some support:

* https://enigmail.net/index.php/en/

* https://www.openkeychain.org
Right, but the reasons why are different from the halting problem. As stated in the OP, "the key assumption in this argument is continuity". I'm not sure what you mean by the outputs being "expected to be considered a continuous function". In both the halting problem and this case the outputs are discrete (e.g. binary: halts/does not halt, left/right, etc.)

There are other impossibilty results, e.g. the FLP theorem. Despite having computing-based interpretations they're not all related to the halting problem. :)

That being said, maybe it's possible to generalize the halting problem to a continuity in some reasonable way and get something like Buridan's principle. It's not obvious to me how that would be done but I'd be interested to see!
It's not outrageous. The sheer variety of food in London is astonishing. In fact, in my opinion London's defining feature is that it contains the world in microcosm - every culture in the world owns a slice of London. And so every cuisine finds an ambassador there.

And yes, Sturgeon's Law applies there as everywhere. But it's not difficult to eat somewhere 1) unlike anything you've had before, and 2) incredible, every time you go out.
It's an over-generalization and I'll throw my own anecdata in here from ecommerce: I've seen MAJOR improvements with conversions when I can get something from a 1s load-time down to <250ms. I don't have any published studies out there on this but you can definitely find TONS of data on faster load increasing customer interaction/conversions.

Specifically, it's an interface-to-interface thing as much as a first load experience... if a customer can browse my stores with near-instant loading of product pages (or maybe even pre-loaded) they are more likely to look at more products. If they're more likely to look at more products, they're more likely to buy, etc etc. Sure 750ms doesn't SEEM like much, but what about someone who's shopping for a formal dress? They may be looking at 20+ unique SKUs within a shopping experience so take 20 * 750ms and there ya go.

We don't control things like network conditions, etc. and even in 2020 we must be respectful to the end client in regards to transmitted data to run an experience.

I know I didn't link to any studies here so it's all moot, but I'm just sharing my in-industry experience with optimization to illustrate that lots of people don't settle for "90% of the time <1s is good enough".
Congratulations on your healthy strategy for dealing with this, and, as a fellow cardio addict, I am deeply sorry for your loss of this vital activity.
Cool but fake.
Isn't FX a done deal based on how TransferWise is able to do it. Maybe you guys can collaborate with them and make payouts in any currency possible atleast in countries where there are no Forex restrictions like Hong Kong.
If they built a version without cameras for the small subset of people who don’t even want a camera for FaceTime/video conferencing, chances are it would be more expensive than what you paid now. Apple would have to make separate backplanes, boxes, marketing material, etc, would have to create a separate iOS release (they couldn’t ship a camera app with the system, for example, and would have to change the UI that allows picking a photo from either storage or camera.

I guess it also would break many apps. I don’t think there ever was an iOS device without a camera, so nobody is checking for its presence.

For example, your banking app that wants you to take a photo of a QR code for 2FA would break.
I built my WFH Shed right before the virus hit
Aw, at least mention that this is an article from 2013. I'd been looking to a follow-up from something recent re the Wolfram stuff, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22866284
After one ugly experience with a dirtbag landlord, I started taking my own photos and had the landlord sign/date them before moving in.

Always have your own documentation.
Sanofi developing smartphone-linked coronavirus test
FWIW, the following Python code has about the same run-time. (The raw numbers are a bit faster on my machine than the reported numbers, but that means little given the unknown difference between the machines.)

# http://blogs.perl.org/users/laurent_r/2020/04/revisiting-the-collatz-sequence-pwc-54.html

# If the previous term is even, the next term is one half of the
# previous term. If the previous term is odd, the next term is 3 times
# the previous term plus 1

# Calculate the sequence length for all starting numbers up to 1000000
# and output the starting number and sequence length for the longest
# 20 sequences.

import heapq

def main():
MAX = 1_000_000 # 0.78 seconds
#MAX = 10_000_000 # 8.2 seconds

arr = [0] * MAX # cache Collatz length for a given number. 0 = not computed
arr[0] = -1
arr[1] = 1

for i in range(2, MAX):
if arr[i]: # Already computed. Go to the next one.
continue

values = [i] # Keep track of the missing terms
while 1:
if i % 2:
i = i*3+1
else:
i //= 2
if i < MAX and arr[i]:
# Found a hit. Back-fill the missing parts.
n = arr[i] + 1
values.reverse()
for val in values:
if val < MAX:
arr[val] = n
n += 1
break
values.append(i) # Extend the sequence

# Report the top 20
for i in heapq.nlargest(20, range(MAX), key=arr.__getitem__):
print(i, arr[i])

if __name__ == "__main__":
import time
t1 = time.time()
arr = main()
t2 = time.time()
print(f"{t2-t1:.2} seconds")
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I am in India and I cannot access the site. The DNS resolves to `23.227.131.12` but the server doesn't seem to respond to pings either.

I can access the site through a VPN.

Anyone else facing the same issue? Anyone know what's up with that?
Just saying that on Paperspace, it's all about using the storage folder. Had some challenges before, but definitely getting a lot of value out of it now.

I think the product has a ton of potential, but certainly has warts to iron out. I've so far just used gradient, and haven't experimented with the core APIs feature yet, but looking forward to seeing what can be done there.
Spotify playlists – for coding, for relaxing, for uplifting life
For cloud-based systems, configuration management is really used primarily for configuring kubernetes hosts and more traditional run-your-own services like SFTP (these may be things that your cloud doesn't offer, are cheaper to run yourself or requires options that aren't available unless you run it yourself). I'll note that for those who use immutable infrastructure patterns, many AMI pipelines will use Packer + configuration management to create the AMIs.
Linux phones such as the Librem 5 are a major degradation from Android/iOS
Mobility Changes [pdf]
I thought now it is the warmest it has ever been since human civilization began.
The purpose of a business should be to make money, not to ask for money. This VC culture is causing these companies to be overvalued.
Is it possible to use the knowledge in this paper, which uses machine learning to derive the simple rules for the creation of a specific state and apply it to Wolfram's Physics Project?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXzauli1TyU
If I were to guess, Facebook's recruiting pipeline is centralized. Whether or not to hire is done at the executive level. When Facebook hires someone, they are first a "Facebook employee", go through the bootcamp, and decide on a team 1-2 months into the job.

Google on the other hand, the recruiting pipeline is more spread out. Whether or not to hire is done at the organizational level (i.e. Cloud, Ads, Search, Core, etc), and that depends on whether or not there are openings in any teams. You are matched with a team before you are even hired.

So, like, obviously, if you have the cash to burn, now is the right time to hire employees. You can get good talent pretty cheap right now. So it's in Google's best interest to ramp up hiring. Unfortunately Google's recruiting pipeline does not support hiring a bunch of people and figuring out what team to be on later.

So yeah, basically, Google has shitty hiring practices. It has nothing to do with them "losing money", they have so much cash in the bank which will easily last till this is over.
I run and own a DevOps consulting company.

Huge proponent of Packer + Terraform. Running commands and copying files on boot of VM instances can be a bit dodgy (cloud-init) or using Terraform provisioner "file" or provisioner "remote-exec", but they work. Typically you want to "bake" as much as possible into the AMI using Packer and anything that is runtime dependent, can be setup by Terraform on instance create using the methods described above.

If you running standard Docker containers and AWS, highly recommend AWS ECS using Fargate[1]. No servers to manage, just define the services and container details and ECS runs the containers for you. Blue-green deploys and auto-scaling out of the box with health checks.

If you running Kubernetes, I highly recommend looking at using Terraform to manage the Kubernetes resources[2]. Helm, while nearly a defacto standard is full of edge cases, weird quirks, and utter frustration. Oftentimes Helm is required though to work within the Kubernetes ecosystem.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/fargate/
[2] https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/kubernetes/index.html
Given how absurdly touched up real estate photos can be I really don’t know if that would hold up in court.
Covid-19 Tracker USA County Wise Data
I don’t know much about their readership numbers but I stopped reading them as well roughly 8 or so years ago. Maybe their readership broadened and even increased?
> I'm not sure why you cite Japan as an outlier regarding size preferences and smaller-than-average hand sizes, which I generally do not believe to be true and could not find any hard data to cite (source: I live there).

Human hand size is proportional to height across races, and average height in Japan for male and female is several centimeters shorter than in other markets like the US and Europe. So it would be surprising if the average Japanese hand size was not smaller than the average hand size in US or Europe.

Of course, I have no idea whether that difference would be enough to affect smartphone size preferences.
Before starting a new project some time ago, I read about the critics to JOSE (JWE) and the alternative PASETO. I decided to use JOSE carefully instead of PASETO because it had an IETF RFC. I think it will be great for PASETO to get a RFC as well. The second point that made me chose JOSE was that PASETO was a bit too mean towards JOSE, and I didn't want drama in my technology choices.

But good work! With a RFC PASETO will be my choice for my next projects.
Yes, and that’s a large accomplishment given the important constraints that were placed upon this project.
We're business application/infastructure maintainers, not programmers. It's a different world from Knuth's expressions of mathematical ideas.

Outside of work, it's easy to write whole programs. Project Euler, LeetCode, etc. These are the kinds of programs Knuth is talking about -- example programs to illustrate algorithms from TAOCP.
No, that was not my recommendation.
My Go Project Structure
GNUstep Sees New 2020 Releases for This Apple Cocoa/OpenStep Re-Implementation
That doesn't relly make sense. Everyone's minmum is 0 (or negative) at something.

Knuth is famously proudly terrible at email and "keeping on top of things". Does that make him a failure? Of course not.
Show HN: The Big Brother DataBase
I think I most miss data driven testing with everything but Spock. http://spockframework.org/spock/docs/1.3/data_driven_testing...
I probably should have just said "a majority", but Google has a good resource on page load studies[1].

"DoubleClick by Google found 53% of mobile site visits were abandoned if a page took longer than 3 seconds to load."

Maybe my logic is wrong, but considering 3 seconds is the "tipping point" for more abandonments than not, anything under 1 second is "good enough" imo.

Again, I don't have data for this, but I would suspect that the difference between 100ms and 900ms won't impact business metrics in any meaningful way. Or at least enough to warrant the "react is overkill" argument.

Is react more than necessary? sure. Does it matter? I don't believe so. Whatever gets your landing page/product in front of people faster (from a development and time to ship POV, not just page loading) is what matters.

The bigger point is that particularly on HN, a lot of comments love to point out how "react is overkill", but it's mostly just a knee-jerk reaction. It seems that lately anytime anything to do with React is posted here, it's immediately met with "why react?" comments. In some cases they're warranted, but for the most part its just boring conversation that cares more about being pedantic than helping out. Particularly for this example, this is just one option that someone might want to utilize. It should be up to the user to weigh the pros and cons of picking this template. I don't see why the entire conversation should be dominated by "static sites are better" rhetoric.

[1] https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/performance/w...
Americans Overwhelmingly Support Right to Repair Legislation
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So we're back to 21st century mainframes.

Count me out. Personal computing forever!
I mean, it isn't, because the data says it isn't but that's okay too :) nothing's risk free, many solar panels have/had cadmium and rare earth metals which are mined in horrifyingly toxic pits across China, and generate piles of e-waste that need to be disposed of. The panels themselves are large and heavy and need to be cleaned, serviced and replaced over time.

That doesn't mean it's at all bad, just it's not perfect either.
This is new homepage of UFAS project, because old site seems like would be closed soon:[0]

> ... moving to https://dn-works.com/ufas/

[0] http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/
Are there any plans to allow for integration with 3rd party gift card platforms on the Stripe Checkout?
On the one hand, I thought the same. On the other, this is area is a minefield of proprietary non standards and walled off chips and protocols. Embedded is bad, communication even worse. Having an open source phonecall is a real achievement and a testament to the endurance of the people working on it.

Its impressive and not at all, at the same time.
I wonder if there has been a proper psychological study on this. It makes logical sense and corresponds with my real-world experience, but that's not how science works.
I can't wait for MUMPS!
The question was rhetorical, it's well known that he didn't, and the statement is false.
Canary Mail (https://canarymail.io/) is pretty good in this space for macOS/iOS.
Screen sharing videos on zoom had never been a great experience. I think the difference is that everybody is streaming the YouTube video here individually.