skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1980s kid & have lived in Texas my whole life. The slogan had a instant impact on behavior. Litter was a pretty bad problem. I remember it was common behavior to just toss stuff out the window while driving. Drink can/bottle, wrappers, cigarette butts, pretty much anything; some people would even dump trash on the side of the highway. It got a lot better and fairly quick so I believe the 70%+ stat mentioned.

While I'm on this train of thought. Most/many trucks in Texas had a gun rack with a rifle or two hanging across the rear window. Nobody wore seat belts until kids my age were taught to go home and nag their parents through PSA/Sex Ed/DARE style school lessons. It ended up being pretty effective.
Most of the children don't want, don't care or just plain stupid to be able to grasp the subjects.

It makes sense to isolate together those who can. The special schools don't do anything special, they just cut down the distractions, shift 0.5-2 university years into the school and spice things up with some competitive math/physics/programming/chemistry/biology/geography/etc.
Factorio is a game to automate things. So finally I thought that watching Factorio play on YouTube is ultimate automation.
Simply give the money to the people, not to the businesses.
Counter-point: if your business is selling digital or physical product into New Zealand the NZ tax department requires you to collect two different types of data for the transaction that prove the customer is located in NZ. This can include IP address, phone number, address.

So, in some instances, Stripe is legally required to collect some of this data.
Jekyll and hosted on AWS/Cloudfront. I prefer to spend time on the content and not the tech to deliver the content. It’s boring, but delivers content quickly to readers, plus it’s been stable and reliable.
> The telecom regulator in India bent rules in favor of Jio

It's the Vodafone group CEO that's accusing TRAI of favoring Jio. They had a free run charging exorbitant data prices for a good time. No wonder these accusations are coming from Vodafone.

> Rs 11,000-Crore ONGC (state owned oil and gas corp) Gas Shifted to Reliance Industries Fields

This was fought in courts and eventually an international tribunal favored Jio.

https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/govt-moves-delhi-h...

https://www.businesstoday.in/current/corporate/big-victory-f...

> They literally took out full-page advertisements with Modi's image on it..

What does this even mean? Even PayTm issued full page ads with Modi's image. Are they running the government too?
Don't be salty, man, no offence, academics need love too. I'm not even by far academic, academical, but, let's keep it cool, man. No offence or intent to be hostile.
The difference is the supply inflates exactly at 7% per year. Nobody can change its issuance rate. It's a fair game for everyone. I design a reward schedule that benefits early adopters:

0: 50

1: 25

2: 12.5

3: 6.25 (end of halving)

4: 6.56 (start of inflation 7%)

5: 7.02

6: 7.51

7: 8.04

8: 8.60

9: 9.20

10: 9.85

While the supply is unlimited in the long-term, it is limited in the short-term by the inflation rate. The reason you want to hold it is speculation. With Bitcoin, people speculate on a Store of Value. With Bitflate, people speculate on a Medium of Exchange. There's a field of trading for currency. The market can adopt the coin faster or slower than the issuance rate. I wrote a post on the incentives:

https://bitflate.org/post/2019/11/01/economic-incentives-for...
We need comparitive studies
Swift for TensorFlow subreddit
Did exactly the same. Vaped for a couple of months - and I actually enjoyed vaping - but still had no trouble quitting altogether.

Vaping is a great product for quitting nicotine. It should definitely be more accepted as such, and not just be seen as an alternative to smoking.
My heart beat a little faster when I saw the VB dialog box. I experienced building software for the first time when I was taken to my father's office where they used VB and Foxpro (and still do) to build ERP systems. Everything looked like this site.

The waves of nostalgia are sure coming on hard. Thank you to the author of this. This whole site is a work of art!
Ash HN: What long pending things are you doing during lockdown?
In addition to deep cleaning the home, of course. :)

Things from your bucket list which do/did not have immediate relevance. For example, I plan to read a treatise which explains method behind the Indian classical music (Author Bhatkhande), Design of Everyday Things, and A History of Roman Britain (Oxford History of England) or The making of Europe. Currently reading Diversity of Life(Wilson). And learning German.

Asking this in this forum just out of curiosity to know what kind of pending things others have, how they are spending their time, etc.
Same situation in Romania, some of the best math problem books I found were a bunch of books printed before 1980's. The problems were just wonderful. I was desperately searching for them for my kids through my father's library.

In 1990's after the revolution we got humanitarian aid from Western Europe, including some French math textbooks. They were so low level (simple) I was in disbelief. Useless.
Presumably short for fabrication, i.e. manufacturing place.
Twice Mukesh Ambani has built telecom services that have lowered prices by an order of magnitude and greatly expanded coverage. Reliance Communications which Anil ran into the ground was built by Mukesh and changed the competitive landscape the first time around. Jio did it again and now India has the cheapest data in the world.

I am struggling to understand what exactly is the problem and why is Jio a danger? Because in the future they might become some unknown danger to morals and economic well being of Indians/humanity. Crush freedom in some inexplicable way that you cannot imagine but are sure they will. I am genuinely curious.
>The town could just ban non-politicians from expressing political speech entirely (as a social norm, not a law.)

And who enforces that ban? Who picks the person that enforces it? How are they held accountable? Who are they held accountable to?

You see everything is politics, whether we like it or not.
Companies rearrange processes and increase sales during the crisis
Loving this. Great work!
In the long-term, you don't want to hold this coin. It's meant to be a Medium of Exchange. Its value decreases over time. But in the short-term, you can speculate on its adoption.

With Bitcoin, people speculate on a Store of Value.
With Bitflate, people speculate on a Medium of Exchange.

There's a field of currency trading. Having inflation does not mean a currency is worthless. The market can incorrectly price a currency.
Unless you count thinking as an important skill.

It alway baffles me when I see "why don't they teach how to do taxes?". Well they do teach you how to read and hiw to do maths? How hard it is the to put 2 and 2 together?
> while Fauci was telling people to go cruising!

Source?
First thing that comes to mind when reading this headline the "Ivan Drakov Meme" with "If he fails, he fails" :D
Mouse movements may not be PII if you don't link it to a session ID, but then it would be useless in fraud detection because you don't know whose transaction you should be blocking or allowing since it's no longer traceable to a person.

Surely the point of mouse movement detection for anti-fraud is more "did the mouse move in an exact straight line to the exact center of an element and therefore isn't a human" or "the last 3 orders on this site used exactly the same pattern of mouse movements therefore is a recording" rather than some sort of "gait detection" to tell who someone is.
The world is bad UX which I tend to think is a conspiracy.

For example, the Postmates driver app functions like it was programmed (automated) in a parallel dimension by toddlers in a thousand year future using an analog of Visual Basic. Then ported to iOS and ran via 480 API requests that transverse space, time and logic.

Nothing makes sense, everything’s broken.
Game. Build the shortest or longest path
How I Screwed a Patent Troll Out of a Billion Dollars
When streaming with x264 for example, most people usually use the "fastest" or "fast" preset, anything lower and you'll start dropping frames. Similarly I'm sure they can adjust levers to make av1 work in real time.
dogecoin has a constant tail emission. It'll eventually shrink relative to the circulating supply. I'm doing a coin with a constant 7% inflation rate.
A jaw-dropping demo in only 256 bytes
> You are right. But it doesn't help. When I used C++, I constantly shot myself in the foot by using its features.[...]
I went back to C. It's a relief.

I'm sorry but I really can't stand this mindset.

For me it is like to say "I got a car, but driving fast was so dangerous...I got scares and I stayed pedestrian for the rest of my life. It's a relief."

No it's not a relief, it's non sense. It's not because my car goes to 200km/h that I have to do it. Same for C++ usage.

Just learn which features you need instead of throwing the baby out with the bathwater
Most pornography is in the pubic domain.
It's probably not a factor in US, but in many cheaper countries working remotely means working for clients from richer countries which save a lot on hiring from cheaper countries.

So you can split the difference between the pay in your country and in their country and both sides are happy (and developers earn more).
"In March alone, we onboarded 50,000 new creators to the platform of which the average income was 60% higher than previous months."

It seems like the "60% higher than previous months" figure applies to the new creators rather than all creators. I could easily imagine that income for new creators is very low on average and a 60% bump wouldn't mean much.
To be fair, the VanMoof S3 in this article also has a front hub motor, so clearly it is not literally unique. That said, I looked for a long time about a year ago, and had difficulty finding any other examples of front hub motors.
World war 3 has begun and we are unaware
Finished it - there is uneven editing in the second half: some passages reappear in multiple places, some thoughts are unfinished. Still found it well worth the read.
Patreon is a rather subpar product that succeeded by using venture capital to buy growth and is now struggling to find sustainability for something that should've been profitable from day 1.

Also a sizeable portion of creators from Twitch to Patreon produce adult content and much of that has now shifted to other niche sites.
I've been looking into this space a bit (after one day realizing that what I'm doing at work is essentially reinventing OLAP abstractions). The way I see it, multidimensional spreadsheeting has evolved into expensive, proprietary ERP and BI software, while the ideas from it end up being repeatedly reinvented in various "excel killer"/"more complicated CRUD" startups without ever reaching their full potential (I'm guessing that would kill the business value). The middle doesn't seem to exist (EDIT or maybe it does?[1]) - I don't know of any actual multidimensional spreadsheet that's accessible to regular people.

There was Egeria[0] featured on HN some years ago, but they've seem to have reverted to a closed beta since then.

--

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18656746

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22927875 points out https://www.xcubes.net/, which seems like the "middle" I was looking for.
Will be interesting to see if bootcamp grads are more affected by the recession than your average CS college grad.
From my perspective, I have to wonder if I don’t already pay enough taxes for the government to scrape my blood off the pavement after an accident without having to act as if it incurred more of a loss than me (who is a corpse in this scenario).
Did they actually die from Covid-19? There are many reports of patients "presumed" to have died from it, i.e. officially counted but not tested, or others already had severe complications
So, how much maintenance is (precisely) enough, huh?
"Nothing happens next. This is it." -- Gahan Wilson
https://www.oxherding.com/.a/6a00e5537c83be88340105365a373d9...
The article has a gif showing this. The right side is hilariously blocky, while the left is decent. Visually, from experience, it looks like somewhere between 100 to 200 kbps.

EDIT: Err, I'm stupid it says 30kbps right there. Though that definitely looks closer to 100 to me (unless framerate is lower)
People do that with Soviet system too. In the 1980s, a disproportionate number of top scientific cadre were born and raised in Moscow and went through the few focused schools there.

Born gifted in Govneevka, Kirov obl., pop. 20,000? Good luck.
> to renowned Virologists stating that facemask usage is ineffective until the evidence was too overwhelming.

Source? I saw nothing of that. What I did saw was health officials dissuading the public from buying gloves and masks because they were in very short supply and the spike in demand was forcing frontline workers, those who actually need gloves and masks, to macguyver theirselves alternative protective equipment.

At most, I've only saw health officials state that mask usage among the general public was not an assurance of immunity because wearing a mask provided a false sense of protection, and could even be counterproductive because it motivated users to keep touching their faces.
I have a OX-HC W512, which is certified for medical use. I wanted to make sure it would be reliable and correct.

In addition to having the alarm that you need for sports, it can also track heart rate and log your data. Later, you can then connect it via USB (or Bluetooth if you buy the upgrade) to do interesting analysis such as correlating your pulse and oxygen saturation with the route that you drove (mountain bicycling).

It's super nerdy, but a great toy for making your exercise feel like science.
You are using a line of argument that would justify prohibiting meat, cheese, corn syrup, skydiving, mountain climbing, NASCAR, sailing, tobacco, alcohol, pizza, Coca Cola, desert foods and non-procreational sex. They all risk your life for a momentary personal benefit when someone else might prefer you not and then live longer.

It's also essentially arguing that no one has a right to intentionally end their own life no matter how much they're suffering if their continued existence is beneficial to any third party.

You don't owe the benefits of your continued existence to anybody else, so whether risking your life is bad is a determination you get to make for yourself.

> So we recently changed the rules to make sure that wont work anymore

Naturally. But there are two problems with that.

First, it's not really analogous to seatbelt laws, because if you don't wear a seatbelt then you could die but if you get a virus and spread it to five other people who each spread it to five other people etc. then thousands of people could die.

And second, those people are then in a different country which is making its choice in a different way. They may be wrong, but they're sovereign, and it's the people who live there and intentionally go there who suffer the consequences. What you should do is not let those people come back without being quarantined.
That’s really depressing: Doing remote teaching but being to cheap to buy the person providing a tool a beer.
Your email is nowhere to be found, so it's impossible to email you about typos or bugs. Typos in this case.

Anyways search for:

Thus, it is imperative to avoid giving these containers running old software no access to the network

and remove the "no" I suppose? I might be wrong. Only one 'no' there, so it should be gone, afaik.
> Does it change the way one things about interacting with a computer or a problem?

Yes, I think so. Even is you just spend an evening going through http://www.learnprolognow.org/ that's a gain.

> Is it something that will soon grow?

I have no reason to expect that.
> In other words a bad user can share the links with others where as if they did this through patreon you'd have to log in to access the media. Of course bad users can still share the media they downloaded in other ways.

They do. There's a popular website I won't name (----.-----) that has users provide their Patreon logins, and it goes and auto-scrapes all post content from people that login supports and mirrors it for free. Almost every artist with more than 100 subscribers is illegally shared there. It's really quite sleazy when you consider most of the artists let you see their entire catalog for a $1 or even $5 tier. Cheating someone out of thousands of hours of labor for $1 is particularly low.

I know it's the internet and you can't really stop piracy, but I'd like to see Patreon being proactive against a service that hurts both itself and its creators like that.
There’s environmental dependencies. With something like the cold, Children can have an R0 that is 2x-8x higher (and some will have a lower R0), it’s really an average rate not an absolute.
You can express a type as one of many interfaces, or use discriminated unions (https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/advanced-types....) by using some unique version key to identify each interface. Then you'll have all the goodness of types back :)
Not OP but if I can ask an additional question: How are you writing the blogs? Are you using a headless CMS? If so which one? Or are you using some kind of markdown editor?
That's the eternal churn:

1) A new payment platform is started, small enough to be fly under the radar

2) It attracts more and more adult content producers who've been turned away by the bigger players

3) It grows big enough to attract attention

4) The Nazgûl lawyers ride from Mastercard / VISA to shut the adult business down

5) Lather, rince, repeat
(Let's assume)

You have followed US policy making, lobbying and stuff like how a coccus of ultra rich people/execs are actually running the Govt from behind the curtain and all that. So when you read all that that usually means the groups do that to different parties i.e maybe one group does that to the republicans and another to the democrats.

(Now enter India)

This guy alone pretty much controls the Govt of India and its decisions irrespective of the party, more so with this current right wing Govt (they are like family).

If you read a bit, there are Govt decisions that look like this:

Let's say there are couple of shops in a village. One of those is billionaire's shop. This is a very famous village market among neighbouring villages. Business is good, especially at night (some famous fair/shrine or whatever). There's the huge high central light in the village square - this is the only light that keeps the market area lit. Now the village head decides he needs to shift the light to a better location so that it will be used even better, especially for the nightly shopping. Fair. Great idea! So he makes a declaration that the village assembly has taken an unanimous decision to move the light to the inside of billionaire's shop so that it is better for the villagers and all the shop keepers in the village. And the best part is the villagers cheer this decision and run after anyone who even has a doubt about this decision let alone an objection.

However if the next time this right wing Govt loses (which seems highly unlikely the way this party/Govt has consolidated power) he might be in trouble but I doubt that would be something he can't handle or hasn't handled before.
It's closer to the other way around. Everyone without a car wishes they had one, everyone with a car takes it for granted.

And car sharing like that isn't a bad idea. All this talk of slack in the supply chain--personally owned cars are a huge amount of slack. Sure, they're an insurance policy, but a very expensive one.
Msvc symbols aee hidden by default, but why would symbols be visible be a problem ?
This is a proxy move by Facebook for all the same shady motives that led to Internet.org. GoI should look into this very carefully from a long term perspective of India's internet space. Zuck can't be allowed to take hold of Jio's scale in India.
I dropped WD after buying, and returning, their WD MyCloud Home device.

I expected, per their advertisements, a cheap barebones LAN visible NAS with SMB shares.

What i got was basically a self hosted google drive that:
- doesn't work without internet even on LAN
- can be accessed as SMB share only with WD spyware installed!
- WD spyware crashed my graphics drivers
- WD spyware works only when there is internet connection available
- can be only managed via internet
- costs more than space on any cloud storage provider for self hosted solution
- you have utter lack of privacy as they scan, and analyze each file on your drive as per their ToS, same thing with their application - hence i call it spyware.
It doesn’t look like the Bay Area started getting coronavirus cases in December. The genetic analysis by nextstrain puts the first case in the USA some time in mid-January. https://nextstrain.org/ncov/north-america
I don't think the codec uses 30kbps by default, that specific example is showing what it would look like at 30kbps. Obviously if you have the speed for it, it'll probably raise the bitrate more. Duo is known for adaptively scaling up and down and smoothly switching between different network conditions.
Those use the Pew numbers, which are known to be bogus because their inflow numbers come from a study that counted only working-age males, and their outflow numbers count everybody, even infants. The true net (through 2016) has always increased, even during the Great Recession.
Northern Italian here, from the fringes of the first red zone. Basically the two areas which where hit hardest, Bergamo and Codogno, where hit along political lines.

Codogno has an "hospital" which is basically a glorified asylum (and is often considered one of the worst asylum in Italy). It was not equipped to deal with anything serious and basically it was considered and hospital only in order to avoid spending money on other infrastructures.

Bergamo, on the other hand, is one of the economical centers of the country and the regional government delayed action under the pressure of the industrial establishment, until national government stepped in.

Many citizens of Lombardy knew that our healthcare system (which is regional competence) was a disaster waiting to happen and still suspect our regional government is lying in order to cover their failures.
Goes to prove again (and again) that product success is weakly correlated with engineering effort / quality
That's false. Anil Ambani's firm was chosen as an offset partner by Dassault, not by the Government. HAL wasn't interested in working as an offset partner.

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/rafale-deal-anil-ambanis-fir...

> The Anil Ambani (who has since declared bankruptcy) company had zero experience in defence or aeronautics

The company that you are talking about came into existence after Anil Ambani got stake in Pipavav Defense who already had experience working with Indian navy[1]. Anil Ambani's company has also signed an agreement with US Navy to repair their seventh fleet vessels[2].

1. https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/pipavav-de...

2. https://www.livemint.com/Industry/VZqdl90t3NiQZHl7ccylwK/Rel...

No wonder the Supreme Court threw all these allegations right into the bin.
This is something I really deplore about the state of modern software development. Taken collectively, it's mind-boggling the amount of waste there is in terms of memory and CPU (i.e. energy) usage by running a huge portion of consumer software in the browser. We could achieve the same result so much cheaper, with better performance and UX, by putting a serious effort into a set of standards for handling code from an arbitrary source securely.
Many separatists groups believe the federal government is too powerful and is aggressively conspiring to oppress them. A vicious looking well equipped military just feeds into these notions.

On the other hand, portrayals of the army as merely builders and farmers in uniform would defuse their fears.