skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> only releasing slots much close

Unfortunately, not really. Releasing later slots barely helps but it makes delays longer.

I recommend reading up a little queuing theory.

When there's more demand than supply, the queue will grow unboundedly, and so will the average waiting time.

What this means for online shopping is the same as what it means for web sites:

Latency gets continually longer for almost everyone at the same time, while throughput doesn't noticably change.

I saw an online grocery store open up slots for more months in advance recently. Now all the delivery slots are fully booked for the next 4 months. That's up to the limit of their calendar. It is still not possible to book a slot. If they open up further into the future, those slots will be fully booked too.

I said you can't book. Actually you can sometimes book a slot by waiting until they add new slots at the end, which rolls over at midnight. That's a little silly of them: The site becomes unresponsive for 20 minutes at midnight as everyone tries to catch the new slots. Most people will find that when the site finally responds, the slots are gone. If you were unlucky enough to be placing an order before midnight whose slot expires just after, you may be disappointed to find you can't complete checkout during the critical 20 minutes, and lose your slot.

The effect for nearly everyone is now they can book with 4 months of delay instead of 1 month.

Actually getting one at 1 month was a lottery. But that hasn't changed, it's still a lottery at 4 months.
thank you so so much!!! I really appreciate it! I didn't really learn to start drawing until I started doing this (:
car dash cam is something I would like to do with my gopro when I'm not using it
> we do use cards, just not credit cards. I figured that was clear in my comment,

I think the confusing part of your comment was where you consider non-credit cards (debit, prepaid etc.) to be distinct from VISA/Mastercard. That is not the case in most countries. It used to be the case in Germany, but is slowly changing as more and more debit cards are VISA/Mastercard cobranded.
Social distancing and the relevant benefits of cost/benefit analysis
While a nice achievement for WebAssembly, it is nothing new as concept.

Cobol on the JVM:

MicroFocus

https://www.microfocus.com/documentation/visual-cobol/VC40/E...

Fujitsu

https://software.fujitsu.com/jp/manual/manualfiles/m150010/b...

Cobol on the CLR:

MicroFocus

https://www.microfocus.com/documentation/extend-acucobol/101...

Cobol on the CLR and Azure:

GT Software / Fujitsu

https://www.gtsoftware.com/products/netcobol/netcobol-for-ne...
If you are fortunate enough to have some capital in this crisis, what better opportunity will you have in your life to start a company? A significant amount of incumbents (a.k.a. your competition) will be wiped out or have reduced market share when the economy starts back up, and there will be unique challenges and opportunities in the post-covid world.
Ok folks, let's talk about the Coronavirus tracking app
Well, concluding by the review on Ars Technica of the Asus laptop, "just work" isn't there yet, so I am curious for positive experiences.
I think that's using a very broad definition of marketing.

Convincing founders to give you money, finding employees and convincing them to join you, marketing or selling to customers are very important skills. But they are fairly diverse and I don't think there is a lot of overlap in the skill sets.

Even just something like "market to customers" can require very different skills depending on your budget, target customer, market segment and could involve such diverse skills branding, networking, inside sales, outside sales.

I think you're right they're very important but I think devs tend to way overestimate the overlap and underestimate how deep and diverse the knowledge bases are.
While technically correct that isn't a useful interpretation of "nuclear power is safer than solar", because it implies that nuclear is infinitely safer than using solar energy in a country that doesn't have any nuclear plants but has some solar panels.

I don't think anyone would care about that fact in practice. Deaths per unit power is much more important unless you have a thesis that it changes with the amount of power produced.
The theory needs a lot of development, so it would be hard to say whether it could or could not comply with Bells theorem. But since it is Turing complete presumably there is some variant of the theory which complies with Bell's theorem.

I find it interesting that under this theory regions of space and properties of objects are emergent phenomena. I suspect that under some variants of the theory, properties of objects could act as if they are both random and non local.
The substantive point was the use of a language test, subject to manipulation of what was the Anglo Celtic language.
Kubernetes v1.18.2
Or the WHO..
If you are good at something, never do it for free.
How could you calculate the probability of an event that we have no idea about? We don't even know for sure that life originated entirely on earth itself - life or some crucial substances required for it could have originated on some other planet with conditions we know nothing about and been brought to earth on some meteorite; or it could have originated in some extreme conditions like a comet tail in close proximity to the sun.

I'm not saying these are necessarily plausible theories, but the fact that we can't discount them tells me enough about how likely we are to be able to calculate a probability for abiogenesis.
> Would completing one integer sequence algorithm (brilliant suggestion btw!) change the world around you? No, of course not.

Depends on the sequence, of course. I hear a lot of people would be interested in a fast algorithm for computing membership in OEIS A000040.
Intuitionist mathematics claims that mathematics is purely the result of the constructive mental activity of humans rather than the discovery of fundamental principles existing in an objective reality. [0]

In intuitionist mathematics there is only potential infinity, no actual infinity. Constructive set theory differs from Zermelo set theory.

That has many consequences in practice. Applying intuitionist mathematics to physics we can come to the conclusion that time flows and it helps reconcile quantum mechanics with general relativity.[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuitionism

[1] https://www.quantamagazine.org/does-time-really-flow-new-clu...
oh, ^please^... not "every dominant giant company ever" has been found by U.S. federal court to have engaged in monopolistic / anti-competitive behavior. legality aside, that's to say nothing of all their no-walter-its-not-illegal-youre-just-an-asshole shenanigans contemporaneous with, and preceding, the lawsuit.

playing dumb and conflating what Microsoft did with "every dominant giant company ever" only serves to whitewash a (well-deserved) reputation that they themselves have had to work to disavow (both in word, publically, and in deed) for years. incidentally, this feels quite similar to how the Bill Gates Foundation whitewashes its eponymous benefactor's legacy having been the driving force behind said ruthlessness.*

* please don't make me put in a disclaimer about how people / companies can change, etc.-- we all know-- this is about preserving the past, not casting aspersions on these entities in the present
> https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/10096-general-url-cleaner

Redirecting away from smile.amazon.com leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
> It's not a big deal to take them out and just stick them in a pocket.

Personally I can't agree. I've found they are a nightmare. Walk into a coffee shop, take them out to order. Have to take each out, at significant risk of dropping or fumbling. Back in pocket or held in hand. You then have a bag to carry, them. Wired Bluetooth would just drape easily around the neck whilst one conducts business.

I know few airpod users who have not lost one or dropped one on the street

> have lost wired bluetooth earbuds in the past, but never lost an AirPod since I've gotten my first pair in early 2017.

There is sadly little value in this statement
How about “The 2020 iPhone 6”? Just year-product-size.
GoPro announced that it would lay off 200 employees (about 20% of the company)
> Comparing them negatively ergonomically to cabled earbuds is of course crazy :)

Why?
>latest hottest tech rarely make sense

I would agree! But I'd also say that I believe Elixir has moved past this part of the curve and is seeing serious adoption amongst companies.

I first got interested in 2014 and back then it was definitely still early days. 6 years later and I'm still yet to regret the decision to invest time Elixir and BEAM ecosystem.
I love that the automatic transcription shown in that video has errors. It’s realistic, while also showing that enough is accurate that it’s useful.
The first step would probably be learning how to spell quantum. ;)
I remember standing with a few people discussing a RAID failure of this kind and asking each person how it could have happened. All of them could explain the benefits of RAID 5 for the specific application but not one of them could explain its failure modes.
Picking winners in nearly impossible. If it were easy, raising money would be easy, as investors would be able to see a winner before they'd won.
The intelligence community uses SIPRNet or JWICS, not AWS that can be breached by some dev-ops as evidenced by the capital one incident.
Invocial – Socialmedia app for influencer and brands
Cultivating an app ecosystem on their platform is a publicly stated goal of Zoom. Cutting off any start-up building on it would be counter-productive and lead to their competitors gaining the advantage of innovation on their platform instead.

See: https://marketplace.zoom.us/competition
This isn’t true. Lots of people have seen the news where leaked emails ruined people’s careers, Hillary Clinton being the most prominent.
My prediction here is that for natural and totally understandable reasons, it will be hard to gauge the investability of international companies vs US startups.

So over a period of time, we might see prorata moving to US startups fairly naturally . Given the other issues around travel in a post-COVID world, this will might to a return to US centric portfolio allocation.
They are referring to the supreme court case revolving around a bakery in Colorado who refused to make a wedding cake if it was going to be served at a gay wedding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpiece_Cakeshop_v._Colora...
What's the reason that it was used only while on ventillation? It looks like a drug with less side effects than others when drug interaction is not happening.

Would it be possible to use it for home medication?
What is a minimal test case (needle + haystack) for which the old code yields a different result than the new code?
But the usage of "Liberty" only makes sense as the liberty of self-governance through the Assembly. As I read that paragraph, Franklin is rebutting the hypothetical counter argument that the governor is simply doing what he must to keep the frontiersmen safe in exigent circumstances. (I.e. s/frontiersmen/children/--Franklin is anticipating the "but think of the children" deflection.) And Franklin is saying 1) at that very moment those who want arms have been armed, 2) all the Bills the Assembly has tried to have signed by the governor have been precisely to help for their defense, and 3) that any frontiersman willing to give up the "Liberty" (i.e. his right to implement policy, and particularly defense policy, through the Assembly) for whatever additional modicum of security the governor's plan might temporarily provide deserves neither the liberty being denied him (vicariously via the Assembly) nor any security.

Even ignoring all the other paragraphs, in no way could the liberty imply the frontiersmen's individual freedom (or civil rights, as we would call them). The contended Bill doesn't encroach on the frontiersmen livelihood or freedoms; it's a Bill to raise money for their defense (it literally says that in the next sentence) by taxing proprietary estate holders, who are definitely not the same people as the frontiersmen. It doesn't effect the frontiersmen directly, except by providing for more consistent defense funding. It's a pretty difficult piece to work through and I wouldn't claim that I fully understand all that Franklin is arguing, but whatever he is saying there, it can't possibly be referring to individual freedom. There's not the slightest hint of such a connotation. Rather, whatever the precise point, it's clearly an equivocation of the Assembly's rights with those of the People.

Yeah, he uses that phrase again years later and the arguments are different in those contexts, but it's obviously a cool phrase. Of course he would repurpose it to suit whatever point he's trying to make.

For others' convenience, here's the whole thing: https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-06-02-01...
Rounding Integers to Even, Efficiently
You can now set up Google Fi on your iPhone using an eSIM
That's not what that does. It makes it work for smile links. In any case, the code is there it can be changed.
One of my favorite browser extensions, Simplify [0], started its life as a userscript/userstyle.

I've used Greasemonkey scripts to fix stupid (and in one case, broken) things on mandatory intranet sites. They're invaluable.

[0] https://github.com/leggett/simplify
because people are in quarantine :)
This website explains the distinct “pipes” better and more precisely than does the Wikipedia article: https://hpbn.co/transport-layer-security-tls/

Those pipes are the asymmetric handshake to exchange the shared secret and the symmetric encryption provided by that shared secret.

Certificates do not provide encryption and thus are not a “pipe”. Certificates are used to prove the identity of one of the end points (the server).
Shit. I was finally planning on getting one. From what I hear, none of the competitors are as good and all have drawbacks.
The same way we spread polio vaccination: vaccinated personnel can safely visit people everywhere (in this case, they might have to take a few more precautions than with polio)

You could also set up places where people can go to be vaccinated. Those could become hearths of infection, but precautions like those already in place for shopping would minimize that risk.

Depending on the ease of administration, you could even just mail everybody a dose and let them self-apply.
Exfiltrating Data from Air-Gapped Computers via Covert Surface ViBrAtIoNs
If it works well, and the only problem is manufacturing, there's an entire planet full of emergency-funded researchers and manufacturing engineers who would be very interested in solving the fast manufacturing problem.

It sounds a lot easier than the problem of finding good drugs in the first place, to be honest.
"You have a poisoned view"? That's just your opinion. I tried to base mine on a somewhat objective observation about speeds and volumes of stuff happening.

"Everything bad has something to do with javascript"? Don't put words in my mouth.

"A C# developer at Microsoft" plus a javascript explosion. Aren't you just confirming my point? Those new people didn't materialise out of thin air, they may have been software developers who had to change focus rapidly. And they didn't necessarily knew how their creations could be misused under the rules of that new javascript world.

And he doesn't look old enough to be a designer of POSIX threads.

(if you don't like my expression about the "vibe" then I'll give you an example of a protocol with a C vibe: the type value would be a fixed-length field with a table of integer IDs written in the standard; everyone would complain about integer sign, wrap-arounds and the new extension field that was added because we ran out of IDs)
Korean testing is revealing a fatality rate of about 2% over all cases, with about 8% requiring hospitalization. You are off by an order of magnitude.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpiece_Cakeshop_v._Colora...

So many angles to consider, even before addressing the issue of publisher vs platform... but in essence the same people decrying that ruling are applauding the deplatforming and debanking of wrongthinkers.
The middle part is an interesting point. A study of the first 50 hospital patients in Heinsberg (worst affected region in Germany) found that of 8 who had died, 4 had rejected ICU treatment.
How whimsical! I love it.
Yes, I plan to have a paperback version for $20+shipment. If you send me an email to vseloved@gmail.com I'll include you in the distribution (and send the details on how to pay and receive a copy in a week or two)
Exactly. I was always interested in all this semantic web stuff and as I have time now, I'm experimenting with Apache Jena. It's super neat! SPARQL endpoints use HTTP per default. "API for free" so to say. Plus you can even use a binary format for receiving the data. Querying the database is three lines of code in Kotlin. Fuseki (the SPARQL Server in Jena) also supports crazy stuff like "recursively traverse this graph by following the specified type of link until you can't go any further". I'm pretty sure this is not possible in GraphQL.
I have arch linux on that same machine and there are indeed a million knobs to tune these things. I haven't yet managed to make it work as good as a macbook, after putting in around ~100h by now into the problem.

I went back to macbooks ~1 month ago. The Dell is still brand new (4 months old, ~4000$ fully spec'ed), but my employer does not want it back, so it is now sitting in a drawer in my office.

I ended up billing my employer for the ~120h I spent on "configuring" the laptop over the 4 months. With that included, the laptop costed my employer about 14.000$.

Now I'm using my personal 2013 macbook air instead, and am finally able to get something done, yet I'm not happy with having to use my own laptop for work.

Had they buy me a macbook for 1.500$ instead, like I requested, that would have saved them ~13.000$ + my lost respect + my continued lost respect for requiring me to use my own 7 year old personal laptop for work.
It seems they are only tracking the Japanese deaths. It doesn’t seem like anyone is tracking the seriously ill who were transported home, or those that became ill once they got home. Even on these incomplete number the true death rate is 2%.
But these weren't elderly people dying alone where no one would check on them. They died in a nursing home. The nursing home staff did check on them, someone at some point found them, realized they were dead, and put them in the morgue.

The facility didn't call health authorities to investigate the possibility (probability?) of COVID-19, or funeral directors to bury the bodies, or go through whatever paperwork's normally needed to properly report dead people. They decided to just illegally hang onto the bodies for a while without notifying family or officially reporting the deaths.

They knew what they were doing was wrong, and did it anyway.

Parent's talking about "Older folks dying out of sight" which is like some older guy lives by himself, no family or close friends, catches COVID-19 and dies from it, and all his bills are auto-pay so nobody discovers him for 3 months. That's sad, and maybe society as a whole has done him a wrong for letting him get so isolated, but that's a little different than some specific medical-ish institution knowing he's dead and then actively covering up the death.
Do you have any examples of talks that you've edited?
Japan (148) vs. United States (34,562) Corona Virus Deaths
Sort of like SQL, and then only GRANTing access to certain views in stage/prod?
In 2018 the Supreme Court decided the case Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission case in favor of the cakeshop, which had originally refused to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple. The couple sue the cakeshop, claiming illegal discrimination (in Colorado) but the cakeshop won the case not because of its merits, but because US Supreme Court ruled that the members of the Colorado Civil Rights Commission were biased... against Christians.
Yes normally this is the case, but when they are under immense pressure to pump through the samples we should expect the normal high standards drop.
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It has a lot to do with GraphQL the ecosystem, though, doesn't it?

SQL injection is a particularly bad problem because concatenating strings is the easy path to getting queries working, and parameterization takes (a tiny bit) more effort.

Similarly, a system such that "by default, there's no authorization, no authentication, and it even comes with introspection" is a system that makes it very easy to do the wrong thing. And the default settings of GraphQL generators tend to be even worse than that.
Great Barrier Reef coral bleaching to be tackled in cloud-brightening experiment
For starters, back in the day, YC was mostly seen as a place anyone could get funding and build a great company whether or not they had a great network. Nowadays, it seems more and more like having that network is the primary thing that gets you in YC.

(Not a criticism, and I can see the merits of that choice. But, when I talk to my friends about YC that usually comes up.)
Effect of Intel's power management on webservers
> Are we really suggesting that every end-to-end encryption technology be nuked in favor of “saving the children?”

Yes. Their goal is to nuke encryption. The children are a red herring. This is solely about government power.
There are a bunch of test cases here:

https://github.com/microsoft/STL/pull/724/commits/a7da5cce8c...

Looks like it can happen with quite small needles, eg. "aa".
As are the social incentives for those of us who are lonely and bored.

A hypothetical young healthy man might be quite happy to accept 0.37% of people dying (the vast majority of whom are old and/or near death any way) if it means he doesn't have to put his life on hold for a year and can start dating again. Young males routinely take much higher risks for mating opportunities. I'm honestly surprised at the level of compliance so far, but I doubt it will last.
Apple's tablet cover which doubles up as a wireless charger
A similar interesting usage of a exotic medium for pressed music are the bone records or "rib records", apparently used to smuggle western music into Soviet [1]. I've also heard of pressing music into postcards, but cannot find a good source on that at the moment.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2016/01/09/462289635/bones-and-grooves-w...
This project came out of watching my son make animations with Flipaclip and seeing how long it took to create an animation. I wanted to make something that would allow people to make animations really quickly.

We're still a long way from the end vision of what I hope this could be, but it's still fun to play with. The next step is to allow you to make sprites with multiple frames.

How to use:

- Press the + button to upload an image to use as a sprite

- Drag sprites to position them

- Press the record button to start recording an mp4

- Allow microphone recording to record your voice with the animation

- Press stop to download the mp4

This is a simple static web page, nothing is sent to any servers!
It is already happening in the US.
Climate-Driven Megadrought Is Emerging in Western U.S., Says Study
The conclusion is unclear to me. Is the author saying RAID is a backup?
That was within the context of an organized migration promoted by the US government. It seems reasonable people wouldn't have nearly the same impetus to move without such support structures.