skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's exactly what it means. The award is Meets Our Minimum Security Standards: Encryption, Security updates, Strong password, Manages vulnerabilities, Privacy policy

https://assets.mofoprod.net/static/_images/buyers-guide/badg...
Just a hypothesis, but if being more frequently exposed makes it more likely that the disease will be more severe, then this is plausible. There is some evidence that e.g. doctors/nurses were more likely to die compared to their age cohort, possibly because of higher viral load.
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Oh yes gods slack in particular got a lot worse with the most recent update, but the site I think takes the cake is one we Canadians use for food delivery - skipthedishes.com . Gods this site breaks so many things, options to update things are hidden among menus that switch the current page while not being ctrl-clickable into a new tab (which can trash your current in-cart order) and the whole site loves "minimalism" i.e. let's put soft grey text on a white background to drive contrast into the ground.

Given that this service's value proposition is basically "As a company we have a highly usable website and a fleet of delivery drivers" the fact that their website is trash is super annoying.

(The site is blocked behind address entry, if you'd like to try it out may I suggest 1 West Georgia Street Vancouver BC)
It would only serve as defense if governments used zoom. Aren’t most banning it?
Right.

Automatic updates would seem to be a negative for privacy. They imply a backdoor to force changes on a device. Automatic update features have often been used to reduce consumer rights.

It's not even clear they're a win for security. If you shipped some simple device with so much attack surface it needs security fixes, you're doing it wrong.
The entire 7 meter wing assembly weighs like 230kg. No way in hell you're getting that with stainless steel with any sort of rigidity.
Sure, we have a short deck[0] that gives an intro to our noise reduction, and also here is a folder[1] that shows off a calibration target we captured with a actual camera (20ms, f22) in low-light conditions: (original, 100x gain, 100x gain + ALIIS)

We also have some more raw data[2] where there is the original bayer data available as .npy files with 40db analog gain applied, however I think the calibration targets show off what we are able to accomplish more dramatically. Finally, we have a short youtube video[3] that shows off how it works when applied to video.

[0] https://www.dropbox.com/s/0bm4dpxhn35vkhe/ALLIS_Investor_Int...

[1] https://www.dropbox.com/sh/k861saentyq1cs6/AADmO7X_L49nUkEI_...

[2] https://www.dropbox.com/sh/fv8omdf4fbx59m9/AABDnf6sdvv7rtIml...

[3] https://youtu.be/99Cq1bWCmMM
I thought that was just for desktop and there it is not bad. But it also doesn't use the entire screen on mobile...
https://youtu.be/pg-5SOydz6Q?t=38
Can someone briefly eli5 how the Monte Carlo simulations feed into learning the optimal surface?
The way people react to computers is similar to how many react to math.

A lot of capable people are mathphobic, and it's strange to watch (as someone who took naturally to math). The expressions on the page (or the attempt to produce those expressions from a model in their mind) causes them to seize up. It's like watching an anxiety attack happen. Something about math (the subject, their experience when taking the courses, whatever) has left them with a severe discomfort or level of fear when dealing with it.

Computers illicit the same response from many people, regardless of background, education, level of experience with computers. They develop an understanding by rote, or with a rudimentary (but likely totally wrong) mental model. As soon as something is slightly different, the fear or discomfort rises and their mind blanks. They cannot figure out the next step. At an extreme, a color changes and they think it must mean something, but really it's just that that control is now "transparent" (pulling in the background color but blurred) and they happen to have a bright red object behind it, when normally it's a more neutral gray or blue. For some it's that things are no longer in the right place or that display differently (think of the changes in the Windows start menu over the decades). They'll have different thresholds, but once they hit theirs they cannot proceed without great difficulty.
Well there is still the cold war with china and each side already blaming the other who is responsible, so the winner is the one, who can report success on a vaccine or treatment first.

It is still a global power struggle, who cares for human lives in that game?
There have been a handful of companies that have proposed this, but fortunately once everyone does the math, they figure out how pointless it would be.
Has anyone actually read this full webpage?

It seems legit, but I feel like we need an independent group of scientists that are familiar with this particular area of research to tell me whether this is actually legit or just seemingly legit.
You will probably never come up with the right answer for this question because the question itself is wrong. You never build a "WeChat replacement" by building a WeChat replacement. You just end up with a knockoff if you start from this question.
Ah makes sense, thanks. I'm guessing that if a number of people start using it for ML workloads, they're going to tamp down on that. Because holy crap, that's an awesome deal, $14/instance doesn't even pay for the power for a 24/7 ML workload.

But maybe the messaging will be enough to stop a significant number of people from jumping on that.
Fair Question!

It's not a language oriented at maximum throughput of parallel operations.

It is a language that is oriented at providing very low latency (soft real-time) handling of lots of events.

When you write in Erlang, you decompose your program into lots (think upwards of millions) of small user-space processes, that communicate using asynchronous messages.

One side-effect of this architecture is that your application will scale in performance as you add more cores without having to change the code.

It's a great language for server applications, like NodeJS.

It also has a number of features that make it great for embedded and IoT type applications (which is why it was created in the first place).
Silicon Valley Bank vs my local bank:

SVB:

- SVB loses a big check of ours for a week prior to PPP
- SVB takes 1 week to get their newly developed PPP portal active
- SVB prioritizes new clients and bigger accounts (allegedly, see Twitter screenshots)
- Delays and bugs once it's live

Local Bank:

- Local bank tracks and finds lost check, makes except to deposit
- Local bank puts out a low-tech, but reliable DocuSign PPP form the day after announcement (and 6 days before SVB's portal taking PPP apps)
- Local bank prioritizes existing clients
- No bugs, you can connect with them in <10 mins to talk to a rep
Yep, the author Peter Kolchinsky has a PhD degree in Virology from Harvard University.

https://peterkolchinsky.com/bio
Sorry, I don't buy it. None of the things you listed are a) required to surf or b) unique to surfing. Those activities are certainly violations of social distancing, so _cite them_. Surfing can absolutely be done while respecting social distancing.

This is like saying "people like to watch movies together, they like to drive to each others' houses to watch movies, therefore movies are banned". The pathological behaviors are only related to the banned activity in the loosest possible way.

EDIT: The fact that we're bikeshedding over whether a couple of surfers are less than 6 feet apart while there are wholesale parties, religious congregations, and non-essential businesses operating at normal capacity is mindblowing to me. How many outbreaks have been traced back to any sort of outdoor activity?

EDIT2: Also, 100% cite people that are in violation of distancing, and if an area has above a certain rate of violations over a time period, close it. Just... gather the data first.
If we could synthesize the dinosaur DNA, would a chicken be able to hatch a dinosaur egg if we injected it in the right place?
Some of these techniques are still common to produce hardy plants or increase yields with low land use. "Creeping" is also called low-stress training, and the extreme form is sometimes colloquially called "screen of green." SoG is so-called because you essentially put a net at a fixed height and force the plants leaves to all be at that exact height, attempting to maximize photosynthesis efficiency. (Really hot peppers varieties take some babying to thrive. These techniques are also popular in the marijuana community.)
you should see how most of the internet is glued together :)
Security ≠ Privacy. Several of their "minimum standards" seem odd to me.

> Does it have a privacy policy?

I don't really care about a product's privacy policy; I care about what's in the policy!

> Do you have to create a strong password?

It makes little sense to avoid a product because they let you set a four character password. Just use a longer password! (If they have a maximum length or some such, that's of course a different story.)

> Does it get regular software/firmware updates?

Updates can be a good sign, I guess, but as with the privacy policy, doesn't it matter more what's in those updates? Zoom gets regular updates, but that doesn't make more confident in the software—at all.
I recall, this actually happened a few months ago, but with Uber.

What happened, was Uber started dropping customers that had a poor rating. Maybe they didn’t give a $5 tip, so the driver gave them a poor rating. Who knows why.

But the result is that the public, the customer in question, can no longer use Uber’s services.

This is terrifying, in that Uber wanted to eliminate public taxi services, and privatize it on their proprietary platform.

If you think this through, then what could be the potential long term effect of this?

Possibly that we as consumers, are now beholden to some random rating system, by some private company, that has the final authority to withhold essential public services from us.

And from what we have seen, these private businesses have an effective lobbying system, that can get lawmakers to draft laws in their favor.
It's in the semi-custom home goods category. Can't get more specific than that.
> walking to the corner store to pick up a small parcel

* You could sprain your ankle and not make it

* The parcel might have been stolen by a robber

* The corner store might be on fire

* Feral dogs might chase you to the other side of town
You do have to design around the GPU typically being almost like a server. It's very fast, but also "very far" away - both in latency & in bandwidth. PCI-E 3.0 x16 is 'only' 16GB/s. That's fast for I/O, but still in the ballpark of being like I/O & not like RAM. And that's if you even get x16 electrical - x8 for GPUs is pretty common in eg. laptops where the other lanes go to things like thunderbolt 3.

Integrated graphics are a different story, they often just have a direct connection to DRAM and CPU<->GPU communication is therefore super fast & low latency. In theory, anyway, if the API abstractions even let you share memory between the two.

So that means even for things where GPUs should do really well at it, like summing two arrays together, doing it on the CPU can still be a lot faster if the inputs & outputs are local to the CPU.
Apart from what you mentioned and cleaning up their balance sheets, the commission total was higher for larger loan requests.

It was probably the same work to process a larger amount than a smaller one, so they were incentivized to do larger ones first. They had 5% total for the lower loans and 3% for up to 200k, but if its the same work - you do the higher ones regardless of your commission %. The average loan across the board was about 200k from what I last saw.

Should have been a flat fee. And they probably should have prevented businesses from getting a PPP loan from your current bank so they didn't have that incentive to discriminate and clean up any prior non-Covid related debt.

Chase lied about reviewing applications sequentially. We were early on April 6th. Never heard anything until this morning when they emailed saying funds were gone. Since they didn't update anyone, it probably made it easier to discriminate. If you were #1 and didn't get a loan, then they'd have to tell you that you were denied if they were really going sequential and fair, and not discriminating. I won't be surprised if there's a class action fired up.

Just one crazy example - Chase funded 20M to Ruth's Chris as they got around the 500 employee limit with a size standard loophole. I don't know anyone who gets takeout steaks. Nor will people be buying a lot of them when they can even open back up again. So dumb.

There was no way to know if your loan was looked at, if it was ever submitted to the SBA by Chase or any way to withdraw your application. And since the SBA said not to do multiple applications, Chase screwed over a lot of people.

Just last week I had a fraud alert and Chase's phone service was not operational. They went completely dark. Seemed to be all hands on deck with PPP, cleaning up balance sheet and getting that easy money in commissions.
My impression is that modern UX is data-driven alright, it just follows radically different paradigms and goals.

It's not at all anymore about presenting consistent mental models, it's solely about the ease or difficulty with which particular isolated tasks can be performed.

It's also not automatically the goal to make all tasks as easy as possible. Instead, discoverability and "friction" are often deliberately tuned to optimize some higher-level goals, such as retention or conversion rates.

This is why we have dialogs where the highlighted default choice is neither the safe one nor the one expected by the user, but instead the one the company would like the user to take. (E.g. "select all" buttons in GDPR prompts or "go back" buttons if I want to cancel a subscription.

You can see that quite often in browsers as well, often even with good intentions: Chrome, for a time, still used to allow installing unsigned extensions but made the process deliberately obscure and in both Chrome and Firefox , options are often deliberately placed into easy or hard to discover locations. (E.g. a toggle on the browser chrome, vs the "settings" screen, vs "about:config", vs group policies)
> First tweet: Vox saying face masks aren't the best way to avoid Coronavirus. Actually basically the mainstream view in the US at the time,

Well, it was definitely mainstream after Vox reported on it.
Is Monte Carlo (I need to look up where that actually is) as gaudy (I might have said trashy) as the Las Vegas strip?
That's more of a problem for surgical face masks, where customers seem to be more cost sensitive. A reasonable chunk of N95 masks are made locally in the US and other countries and 3M apparently has a certain amount of surge capacity ready in case of emergencies like SARS, the trouble is that the current demand is so far beyond what's been needed before that they literally can't be made fast enough.
I don't think virologists thing frequency of exposure is very important to lethality. But there is evidence that dosage and stress play a roll which will both be higher in medical personnel.
Afaik, Erlang is all about that actor model, message passing and abstracting the lower levels away, so that ideally does not even notice that an actor is running on another machine. All of that of course with automatic restarting of failed actors. Basically it is Kubernetes done right and probably has way more functionality, as it predates all the Kubernetes stuff by a long shot and development hasn't stopped.
Wow, you are not kidding. I went to this site to see for myself, and the very first thing I see is re-Captcha. And it doesn't even work! I have to pick out photos of tractors before I even get to see what is on the site!

Holy cow, why does anyone use this? It's a hot mess.
They show some portable ultrasonic pictures on the build link someone posted above[1] (reposted here for clarity).

[1] https://boomsupersonic.com/xb-1/build
Meme war is hell.
It's not "pretty high", it's middle of the pack and nowhere near the apocalypse that was supposed to be the outcome of their chosen path.
//causes obscure network latency issue, fix this later

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I fundamentally disagree with the entire premise of this article.

Yes, usability has become less uniformly consistent within a single platform. But that's because the feature set of desktops, laptops, tablets and phones has increased exponentially, beyond what the classic desktop GUI could handle.

Not only can you access a huge percentage of the world's knowledge within a few seconds, but new UX paradigms such as search boxes and recommendation engines have completely changed the game.

Now when you're trying to build an app that has a modicum of consistency across sizes from phone to desktop, whether you're using a mouse, trackpad or touchscreen, whether you've got a hardware keyboard of software one or are using dictation, and so on...

...then you have to make tradeoffs. Yes, the purely desktop experience has become less consistent. But at the same time, an app can be more consistent across platforms, which is what many users want when they're switching between platforms multiple times a day.

And as an industry, apps really do seem to fairly quickly standardize on UX conventions like tabs, hamburger menus, autocomplete, drag-to-refresh, and so on, which aren't any less intuitive than right-clicks, keyboard shortcuts, minimizing, or drag-to-trash-to-eject (remember that?).

So relative to functionality I don't see any decline at all. Young children can pick up an iPad and learn to use it without instruction. I don't remember young children doing that with a Mac Classic or Windows 3.1.
Not familiar with the "disconnected" technique - does this mean you disconnect & reconnect your drive periodically?

Sounds like a misuse of RAID features. What could possibly go wong? Eg. Reconnect the drive accidentally forgetting to mark others as bad and bye bye "backup"?

Also, RAID controllers die sometimes. It's not pretty when that happens, which means you really need a backup of the whole array anyways. So technically RAID is not a backup because you are still not protected from that type of failure.
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That setup is of course an option. The point of the article is to not have javascript pixels in the website for tracking, and it's easy to have server side-tracking. So anything that's not based on web browser based tracking is fine.
It's one sided. One side has 800 military bases in 70 countries and routinely threatens to invade countries, and just did a coup in Latin America last November and the other is where all their factories are.

So no, don't buy it. It's the global thug being thuggish
Yes, but not one that is ethical. You do a challenge experiment to those with antibodies and see if they get infected.

The next best alternative is monitoring a large number of people with antibodies (and a control group) for new infections. This is slow and expensive, but if you have enough people then it will work.
Working from home with your Raspberry Pi
What they found is structures that looked like cells under a microscope: https://academic.oup.com/view-large/figure/200008005/nwz206f... Section C shows cell-like structures and D shows the hypothesised DNA-like structure. They compare with a modern Emu's microstructures in section G.

They also applied a stain to the fossil and compared it to a stained emu bone here https://academic.oup.com/view-large/figure/200008014/nwz206f...
Now just imagine how the workers losing their jobs that don't have savings or loans feel.
Man I'd be sweating like a pig if I was direct-applying epoxy to a prototype so close to done. I'm used to code where trial and error is de rigueur, I forget sometimes you only get one chance.
Very exciting stuff. Even ignoring the supersonic aspect, there are some very cool new ideas being applied to this aircraft.
This is a really weird line of thought. Why do you think small business and government space programs are comparable?
Simply saying you know can accomplish certain goals.
For Video on demand apart from iTunes, Netflix there are plenty of niche websites especially for art house movies, criterionchannel.com is probably the largest though.

And for the German market for example there is book delivery from thalia.de which can deliver via mail or to a book shop. (And momox.de for used book buy/sell - I stopped selling books on Amazon years ago because it's just too much effort, Momox has a simple bulk preparation)
Double tap to zoom to paragraph has been a standard touch gesture for the last ~10 years at least.
Yes, but I believe his intention in writing this article is to explain the science behind why there will be highly likely a working vaccine for SARS-CoV-2 virus, rather than giving specific companies in his VC portfolio who make vaccines a PR boost.
Building a plane in my garage. You'd be surprised how minimal yet how strong a lot of these structures are. The vast majority of the material I use is thinner than a credit card.
Are we talking about the same animation? It sounds like you're describing the embedded YouTube video at the top. I'm asking about the dodecahedron-to-cube folding below (dodecahedron-fold.gif), next to "Can you believe that a dodecahderon folds into a cube?"
It's doubly odd because as many (I suppose) I firmly believed that faster pace and smaller changes would lead to global improvements (same goes for ajax web..).

I think we just blew some social limit. People prefer stability, stability allows for more complex but riskier constructions, society enjoys the working ones even better. I like the notion of seasonality these days.
What is confusing here is that everyone imagines that clearview (and google, and fb, ...) are really storing those pictures. In reallity they just train their ai. There is no trace of that picture on their servers once you delete it. But ai is capable of recognizing you, in case of clearview from picture. In case of google and fb from your picture, browsing habits, contacts, gps coordinates, your friends, semantics of your texts, ... The only difference is that google and fb are not so stupid to advertise this. But capability is there.
Do it if you enjoy it, but that isn't the point GP was making or responding to. (I also maintain a small garden, FWIW.)
I am currently working on implementing the decoupled-lookback in Futhark, as my master thesis. The development is under the branch `onepassscan`. It is still missing some features, like it cannot do map'o'scan, meaning include the map function in the scan optimization. It is likely that the implementation will only be used for Nvidia, since the cache guarentees only are prommised to work for Nvidia.

The current version of Futhark is using the reduce-then-scan strategy.
the country should manage its own domain.
every country has it own set of rules, and for me as a citizen of country i would not want it to be managed by another country where the thing im doing might be illegal but in my own is not.
i agree there are not many reasons to not being able to buy a domain from another country but as is with telephone numbers in alot of countries u have to have some residence in a country to get a phone number (for example germany) the domain could be like that.
What's New in Java 14?
They're essentially saying "we have a lot of firepower, you go through with this and we'll be a thorn in your side at court". Now options include going forward as planned, going forward but without doing anything else to raise anyone's ire, going forward with a commitment to governance that makes stakeholders more comfortable, backing down, and maybe other options too.
Did you build a pygmy kayak kit by any chance? I did, it was the most fun I've had building something in my life. The entire "epoxy plus fibrous material" is truly a winning solution for so many applications, apparently hyper-sonic wings, too!