skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not my best post. I can't argue about bandwidth saturation aobviously but "how much more performance you really need?" is a silly question. It dismisses the possibility of it being not enough.

But yes, not a good post.
Having to attack the person you are arguing with speaks rather poorly of the argument you are trying to make.
Unfortunately basic human decency is a fairly common trait, screening for that is likely to result in too shallow a hiring pool.
> So 15% infection rate among pregnant women. I would assume pregnant women would be more careful than average about avoiding getting infected.

Pregnant women would seem to be much less able to avoid certain activities that involve transmission (like visiting medical facilities and associated close contact with people who also work in hospitals with inadequate and improvised PPE), so that’s probably not a great assumption.
Your privacy has much more to do with the apps you use than the phone itself. Apple doesn't collect user data like Google, but the difference between them is 1 company.

If you have an iPhone and you use Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, Microsoft Office, Google Photos/Docs, Spotify, the Dominos Pizza app, etc etc there are half a dozen companies holding your private information either way. If you want to go total lockdown, get an iPhone with a VPN and never use any social media or cloud apps, but don't pretend like having an iPhone alone is some huge change to your privacy problems.
Yes, at least GDPR require it to be opt-in. Also it doesn't matter where it got the pictures from. At least as far as I know.
New iPhone SE is a shockingly good value
Update: Keeping People Informed and Limiting Misinformation About Covid-19
What you are describing is a class of filters known as edge preserving filters. You can look at bilateral filters and guided filters for examples that have been around for decades at this point.
It's a professional indemnity insurance for business in the UK. Covers defence costs as long as they can arrange the defence and everything is done with their prior approval, and the area of intellectual property infringement is in scope.
It's hard even for developers to fully grasp where and how execution might switch. Yes, releasing the GVL will allow other threads to run, but so could other calls which end up calling Ruby code for reasons you would never consider, and that code, or other threads may have effects you didn't consider. I sometimes imagine a warning poster saying, "Do you know whether your RARRAY_PTR is still valid?"

I've been thinking for a while how we could allow individual C extensions to opt in to greater concurrency in TruffleRuby. At the moment we have a single mutex for all C extensions, but maybe we could allow an opt out at compile time so an extension could be built that won't claim that mutex. There's some fiddly details to get right round this though, because I wouldn't want the existence of the opt out to have a negative impact on performance.
There is no credible scientific evidence that reinfection can occur. There have been, at most, anecdotal reports from unreliable sources.
the most promising replacement is the SCION[1] project. See section "Authentication and PKI"[2]. It's already used by SwissCom and another CH based ISP. It can do path selection, geo-fencing, and traffic shaping. Really cool DDoS mitigation[3] as well. It has been previously discussed on HN[4].

[1] https://www.scion-architecture.net/

[2] https://www.scion-architecture.net/pages/publications/

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21546214

[4] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
There's nothing preventing you from setting Redis/Memcached in front of your GQL server. Apollo Server provides server-level cache strategies too I believe.
An opt-out that requires you to give them exactly what they want and requires them to keep it is crap. Its not 'opt-out' its 'make less available'.

The Ad Choices opt-out is the same thing - better not delete your cookies if you want to 'opt-out' - total BS.

Scumbag authoritarians.
You're totally right. The sky-high salaries + options + bonuses make it a hard sell to get devs to follow their values in choosing employers. I just found it telling how grudgingly this complies with the law, but you could say privacy violation is their core service so obviously they need to protect that.
In our small town, I know of 3 people who came into direct contact with the first confirmed case, exhibited symptoms, but were refused testing. I can definitely believe their guess that the number of cases is an order of magnitude greater than the number confirmed.
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Yea, large effort (objcopy, strip, sstrip), that I need to do only once, after that I already know how to do this an can just put it in a shell script. Now, I would like to know how quickly you'll be able to write a quicksort implementaion, that would outperform my C code, while being at least 25% smaller . Yeah, and how big your binary will become, once you link libc or opengl or whatever to make it able to do actual work.
"Even then, once I have trained the search engine on my profile, what will I have gained other than teaching some other aggregator about the things I like?"

I guess that's the real answer. People are more likely to switch if they have a problem with the search engine they currently use vs. something "better" coming along.

"Better" in search relevance is super subjective as well.
‘I am so afraid’: India’s poor face world’s largest lockdown
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I think the international opinion is that there is no WeChat competitor in China because people are afraid to step on the toes of those in power. Chrome is enormous and ubiquitous because maintaining a modern browser is orders of magnitude more difficult than maintaining a chat application.

Why do you think there a many competitors outside China but none in?
Could I just say I'm a resident of CA or the EU? Clearview supposedly doesn't have any info other than public images, so how would they know the difference?
Webinars as Lectures
Because the gravity is stronger in these cases it's possible that effects not captured by Einstein's theory could be seen, just as Mercury probed stronger fields, falsifying Newton's theory. But Einstein's theory survived this scrutiny.
I wonder how evolution worked here. How did squid decide to evolve to glowing and then using it for communication.
The next request is your government-issued ID :-)
Fair enough. But notwithstanding, I contend that my claim is not vacuous. I would say that this particular failure of categorization actually reveals a deep truth, namely, that computation is universal.
Can't vouch for the science in the post, but he did an excellent job describing it to non-scientists.
It looks like there's an argument to be made it could overcount or undercount depending on importance of each potential bias.

"This study had several limitations. First, our sampling strategy selected for members of Santa Clara
County with access to Facebook and a car to attend drive-through testing sites. This resulted in an overrepresentation of white women between the ages of 19 and 64, and an under-representation of Hispanic
and Asian populations, relative to our community. Those imbalances were partly addressed by weighting
our sample population by zip code, race, and sex to match the county. We did not account for age
imbalance in our sample, and could not ascertain representativeness of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in
homeless populations. Other biases, such as bias favoring individuals in good health capable of attending
our testing sites, or bias favoring those with prior COVID-like illnesses seeking antibody confirmation are
also possible. The overall effect of such biases is hard to ascertain."
> If it's ineffective in practice, I consider it to be ineffective.

Except you have no way to conclude that it's ineffective. Analytical solutions require data to study. Without data, or with little data, what analysis are you going to perform? At best, broad statistical correlations, which is exactly what we find.

You're effectively claiming that spoons are ineffective at a restaurant that provides only forks. Well no, if a spoon were available, then it would probably work just fine.

> but I haven't yet heard of anyone who has studied topology or galois theory and found that incredibly useful for understanding social phenomena better.

After 5 minutes of Googling:

* Power laws: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law#General_science

* Network theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_theory

* There's a journal specifically for mathematical social sciences: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/mathematical-social-scienc...

* Economics, game theory, and social choice theory are all examples employing heavy analytical problem solving to social problems

* Quantum mechanics applied to social sciences: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/quantum-social-science/...

The main stumbling block is that mathematicians are interested in mathematical problems, and so they make a common but mistaken assumption that social sciences either don't have such problems, or they are too messy for elegant math. Take it from a mathematician, this is incorrect: https://www.mathtube.org/sites/default/files/lecture-notes/S...
Carroll is a graduate-level book, and MTW is notorious. I'd start with Hartle, or something even lower-level.
Yeah, my mind jumped to CNN's coverage of the first Gulf War and having some color night vision for combat journalism:

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/25803/this-is-what-col...
Maybe OP meant to write "virtual video conferencing backgrounds."
Given their justification for their product, I wonder what they'd think of someone crawling images on the web and sending automated opt-outs for all crawled images that contain a face...
Which category are you in?

I just submitted an access request under the EU resident category. If I don't get a response I will consider making another request in writing.
thank you! I can clearly see the interest among people now! I will think what's the best strategy. Definitely be releasing the core algo open source, need to prepare, figure out what's the best way to do it. Thanks again!
Writing an Emulator in JavaScript
It's too bad Unicode wasn't designed around the concept of easily-recognizable grapheme clusters and "write-only" [non-round-trip] forms that are normalized in various ways. A text layout engine shouldn't have to have detailed knowledge of rules that are constantly subject to change, but if there were a standard representation for a Unicode string where all grapheme clusters are marked and everything is listed in left-to-right order, and an OS function was available to convert a Unicode string into such a form, a text-layout using that OS routine would be able to accommodate future additions to the character set and and glyph-joining rules without having to know anything about them.
I use YNAB right now. It works pretty well, but I have a few issues:

Multi-currency support requires setting up multiple budgets and switching between them. For a while I needed to track both USD and ARS, but the ARS was for a much smaller amount and limited scope. It was annoying having to switch between the budgets when I was traveling in Argentina, but still had to manage things in the US.

Multi-month view. YNAB4 had it, it was great, YNAB5 dropped it. This let me easily see trends over recent months for the same category, and could budget ahead more easily as I started getting ahead on my money (I liked budgeting ahead more than setting up an emergency fund category, made it clear how far ahead I was, and in the worst case I'd take money from 1-3 months out to use for present day emergencies).

Choice between rolling over funds or releasing them at the end of a time period. If I budget $200 for groceries and only use $150, in YNAB it automatically makes that $50 extra available the next month. I want that. But that's not always the case, I'd like the option of releasing the funds at the end of the budget period. Let's say I budget $500 for a trip, and only spend $400, that extra $100 would be better served (for me) freed up and applied to another category, as my travel (especially these days) is infrequent.

Alternate time periods. jdtbuchanan also mentioned this. I budget $100/month for eating lunch at work, spread over 20 work days (most months) means $5/day. But if my team and I go out for an expensive lunch, I'll hit the limit much earlier. So the spending is within my budget, but not the intent of my budget. I'd like to be able to see daily/weekly/monthly/quarterly/semi-annual/annual budget options (at least the periods below a month, budgeting for quarterly expenses with a monthly budget works, but budgeting for daily/weekly expenses doesn't work as well).
Google Fi gets iOS esim support
Dunning & Kruger. I know where you are on the spectrum and I know you are not in the group you think you are.

My wife's son's medical advice is the result of his being an ICU Pulmonary physician. He is giving the best advice a top doctor at a top hospital can give.

But you have provided ample evidence you're an idiot, so you've got that going for you.

And my tone is absolutely warranted because you're an idiot giving medical opinion.

If you want to do humanity a service, destroy your keyboard.
I used the graph you gave me. You aren't reading it correctly.
They said that they collected prior clinical symptoms in the survey, but have not mentioned that they adjusted for those.

Given that, I think it's fair to say that they have not adjusted for the selection bias of people with prior clinical symptoms being more likely to click the ad.
Where do you buy from? Only local small business or someplace which pays even less than Amazon to their workers?
That's a good contrapoint, and one I'll have to read up on.
The headline talks about protest treatment of warehouse workers but the actual article talks also about other things like climate criss. I'm a bit surprised since Bezos' annual letter that was published yesterday was heavily focused on these things.
Actually its the other way around! Automation in the controlled environment of a greenhouse is much simpler to implement than out on a field. Ok, there are certain crops that still haven't been cracked in terms of automating the picking mostly due to fragility/spoilage of the items being picked, but other than that, you have a regulated climate/humidity/temp (you can pause "rain" , etc in sync with the tasks you want to automate), you have a flat surface for your machines, or vertical rigging to hang machines off of, etc.
That's exactly what vSAN is. Granted you need the license for it but that's "software RAID".
Not that I necessarily agree with the theory, an influenza outbreak in a nursing home could be extremely deadly. This is why they are nearly 100% vaccinated. And they are (or are supposed to be) quick to quarantine and lockdown if it seems like flu has been detected. Which is to say that even a "mild" strain would certainly pose a larger risk to a nursing home.
There's already enough questionable images up there that I don't feel comfortable sharing this with my company.
And that design (the Amazon one) will be unusably slow for any actual uncached access!

WordPress on EFS (and they explicitly mention PHP files on their EFS description) is unbearably slow!
IANAL but I think the GDPR does not just look at the data in isolation, but considers the data and what it is used for.

Thus if I give a company access to my data it does not give them a carte blanche to use it however they see fit, instead I have allowed usage of the data for a set of purposes.
Why quote Denmark but ignore Sweden? Sweden are doing what you're calling for, and they have pretty high numbers of deaths.
You might want to consider brushing up on technical writing principles. You want to identify who the audience is, what their background is, and present content that's easy to absorb given their point of view.

You want to generalize technical specifics in layman's terms.

You said your refactor produced amazing results. Define those results using business KPIs or metrics that are quantifiable and portray your technical information in terms of those KPIs in order to speak to that audience.

I.e.

tech speak

We analyzed slow running queries that were composed of multiple views nesting within each other, resulting in bad query plans that degraded performance of our BI dashboard and increased downtime for our business analysts who could not get their job done efficiently.

Upper mgmt speak

We identified performance problems related to our BI dashboard, after root cause analysis and correction of those problems, our downtime has been reduced by 50% and business analysts can access the system without having to worry about overloading it at peak hours, producing better efficiency in their processes.

-----typically you want some KPIs or metric numbers in here to show quantifiable improvement over a time period) Whether you have those metrics historically or not, you could probably still extrapolate some meaningful metrics.

Now again, it depends on your audience. If you're presenting to technical leadership, maybe you do want to get into specifics at a technical level. Writing informational content is all about the audience, whether it is technical, medical, or otherwise topic specific.
Consider the absurdity of the request. Send us a nude so we can play a better game of whack a mole. Also, consider the mental state of the person being asked to submit such a photo.

I mean good grief.

And this is before we even get into the fact that we’re talking about Facebook.
> the system shouldn't have been made in the first place,and the mere existence of it guarantees the capability for it to be abused

I casually know the guys who made this, and they're, well, unorthodox thinkers in terms of ethics. I highly doubt that, say, government regulations would've prevented them from building this app (although it may prevent them from using it in certain regions).

It's very hard to put neural network and image recognition tools into public hands and also prevent anyone in the world from building something like this. Such is the Pandora's Box of technology.
Carmel city vehicles to use hydrogen energy on demand
Finally an industrial application of bonsaikittens.
It was more that their entire code repo was downloaded, which included a number of third party access codes, nevermind the intellectual property involved.

If that stuff is only hosted internally behind a firewall, with a VPN requirement to access, it would have been fine. Instead it was all on Github.
Yes, but the problem is what if the "opt out" dataset is leaked. What if a Facebook employee steals the data.

IMHO if this kind of measurements are required to protection the user it's _generally_ a better idea to not have a system which requires that.
Great time for an app like this! Seeing as we're going to be in this new world for at least another year, I can't wait to try this out with friends on the weekends!
I imagine scraping Facebook might be similar to the result in the hiQ v. Linkedin case, involving scraping public LinkedIn information. At the time, the EFF and a lot of others celebrated the ruling. For example, the EFF characterized it as a victory for "...the wide variety of researchers, journalists, and companies who have had reason to fear cease and desist letters threatening liability simply for accessing publicly available information in a way that publishers object to."
An image at the top of a news article on cnn.com is "public" in the sense that anyone can access it. But the company and the photographer still retain rights to that image - you can't take it and use it for whatever you like.
The issue is, you're undermining the rights of your laborer's to organize, and I'd even be willing to make a case that you may be shooting yourself in the foot in the long run, because if you annoy them to the point they organize anyway, you can expext compensation to be elevated even more than it would have been to satisfy the collective bargaining unit since they will pass on the cost of paying for their own organizing infrastructure (since you can't be trusted to let your employees use yours).

So they need to nut up and shut up. If you can't be trusted to let your laborer's organize in good faith, they have no ground on which to stand when the bill comes for a second labor specific communication network comes due.

All that waste they could avoid by just being decent disinterested network operators. Sad really.
And it’s more contagious than the flu, so even if the fatality rate is identical, more people are at risk.
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Is Handshake based on a cryptocurrency coin? Does that coin trade on coin markets? Are there early backers and investors?

If so: it's a dead project. I don't know why anyone would take it seriously. I'm skeptical of the entire model for any application. But for Internet infrastructure? Never going to happen.
I don't know why people are downvoting this comment as it is correct.

The only thing I would disagree with is the disagreement about the claims about effectiveness.

While we may not have "replaced money," make no mistake, we have entered a new era - bitcoin was not stopped even though they tried.

Bitcoin has succeeded. It is our symbol of proof - proof that we the people can control our own money.
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Sure.

But you could have picked anyone of hundreds of other artificial lakes already in California. Ones that are deeper, with clean water instead of runoff.

You could also compare it to the Dead Sea, another body of water with no outlet.
This. Just as every obscenity filter has to have a list of obscenities to work, these creepy bastards will track you to not-track you.

We need laws. (Or just let everybody know everything: "Privacy is dead".)
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The biggest problem with tools like Mint's is that it's not really a budget. It's a way to say "I don't want to spend more than X in a time period" but it says nothing about how much money you have now for spending. YNAB's approach (not unique to them but particularly pushed by them) is much better, where you only budget/allocate money you have. So I send in my check for my water bill, I have the money now. If they don't cash it until next month that's fine, my YNAB budget still has that money marked for that spending. I had the same issue with rent, where I'd pay it at the end of the month, but half the time it was cashed the next month. So every other month I'd spend double what was expected (for the month), and Mint went nuts. YNAB doesn't care.
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I wouldn’t have it filled with river water or agricultural run off, but with ocean water.

Nor would it be shallow.
It's more than 'good enough' for most purposes. Matching other shots for Hollywood quality, probably not. For surveillance or the like it's fine. The things it's guessing poorly about are textures or colors.

Being able to read the title on the books in the example photo is great; you could rely on the title for evidentiary purposes, the smaller text probably not so much. So for a security camera it would do poorly at identifying the color of a car, but might well be sufficient to read the license plate.
It's damn near impossible to differentiate a "silent majority" from an "apathetic majority" at scale.

Edit: I'm not disagreeing with you, just adding my observation.
My anecdata is a fortune 500 financial institution, DOJ, and DOD contractors. Finance is in a hiring freeze, we dropped some contractors. DOJ and DOD contractors looking for multiple candidates each.
CCPA here. I submitted an info request, a data-deletion request, and an opt-out request. I got 0 responses.

At what point does an investigator take a look at this?