skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More importantly, the whole reason that the UK owns the islands, and the reason it evicted the Chagossians, was because the United States wanted them to. The UK will not lose its place on the UNSC for doing the bidding of the US. The UK likewise will not give up its territory because they would much rather piss off the ICJ than the US. The islands are a UK colony only in name; they are a US colony in reality.

I feel bad for the Chagossians. I think they should be compensated much better and allowed to return home. But the relinquishment of Diego Garcia is not happening, and the argument that an archipelago over 2000 kilometers away is an "integral part" of Mauritius is clearly motivated reasoning.
Just an employee, not an owner so I don't know the actual details of it, all I know is that my company successfully got it (or is confirmed to get it?). Next week accounting will be laying out the details of it for all the other employees. I don't really know anything more than we received confirmation on Wednesday and the people in accounting say it's good news for us.

We're a software firm that does contract work for airlines, so that may have also helped out?
Making Big Data Processing More Energy Efficient Using Magnetic Circuits
yes you can. just tell us.
People outside of China have wildly unrealistic ideas about the true relationship between large Chinese tech companies and the government.

https://www.ft.com/content/760142e6-740e-11ea-95fe-fcd274e92... is sadly paywalled but it's an excellent account of the actual negotiations that have been going on between Tencent, Alibaba and the many different bureaucratic layers of the Chinese government.
If you follow the 3R (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle), what Samsung accomplishes is better than recycling as they are in order of importance.

It's still better to reduce the use of packaging when you can, but making it reusable is a good thing.
Learn to be a regular of the restaurants which you like.

Learn the menu items that you like. Be comfortable ordering the same thing most of the time. Learn when your body likes to eat. Take a walk to carryout.

Your rewards are simple and obvious. People will learn what you like to eat. They'll also learn your name, your surface affect, and what you broadly do with your life. You may find yourself with the opportunity to enrich yourself by being kind to others.

Macroscopically, I stopped using delivery apps because they didn't know where I lived and their app maps couldn't route to me. A while later, while walking to pick up dinner, I happened to save somebody from being hit by a car. I didn't plan that, but it happened because I wasn't trying to isolate myself from the world. You cannot predict how your choice to be a better community member will affect those around you, but you can choose to have the opportunities and effects.
Elon Musk is either a bad liar or doesn't know what a ventilator is
No it doesn't support that narrative. The claim in the comment I'm replying to is that the masks made by those private manufacturers weren't defective at all, and that the European purchasers went on an unfair "media blitz to complain about shoddy Chinese made products" when actually it was their fault for ordering the wrong kind of masks. That claim is completely and utterly false. The kind of mask they'd ordered would've worked perfectly well for their purpose if it was actually as described rather than a shoddy imitation that was, to quote the Dutch media reports, "some sort of FFP0.8 at best" instead of the roughly FFP2 it should've been.
Do you have a similar problem with right-leaning sources pushing their own ideology?
Artificial intelligence is evolving all by itself – Science – AAAS
I am much more productive on iOS than when I do web development. Unfortunately I want my games to be cross-platform, so sticking with Swift isn't much of an option for me. I did have an iOS only project to learn modern Swift again (with SpriteKit), and it's been an extremely smooth experience for the most part. Most of the time I'm just thinking about the logic of my game.

Nowhere near as many headaches as juggling all the moving parts in the Javascript web app ecosystem, which I'm doing for work right now (currently stuck on something right now).
We already have the ability to measure COVID status because diagnostic labs are required to report the presence of certain things to CDC in real time upon positive test result. COVID-19 is almost certainly one. Further, countries like Britain tried what you are describing and the process was a total shit show ultimately leading to failure.

What makes flawless real-time communication hard is that you're talking about integrating thousands and thousands of groups of various sizes, with various technical capabilities and budgets, with various requirements, and with various legacy systems in place. You have multiple stakeholders who all want something different out of the project. You have very real security, availability, privacy, and fraud concerns. Oh and did I mention the government would really rather not pay for it?

Just creating a practical UUID for every citizen in the US is unprecedented, let alone associating all existing historical data for one person from all over the country / world with that handle, parsing that data into a standard format, and creating a system where that record could be updated in real time in a secure manner. Unsurprisingly, it's a monumental undertaking.
This attitude is the problem; consumers want the convenience but don't want to pay for it.
Perhaps Fedex can start delivering food? I mean, it does cost something to motivate an uninterested party to drive from point-to-point with your veggie burger.

Or, you could always get off your butt and go get it yourself.
I remember that post, interesting stuff! :)
I'm hoping to be more concise than Scala and Java, and to have a much simpler grammar. It is a tricky middleground to reach
Well as I alluded to in my previous comment, there are other IaC options on the table that offer better granularity for deploying cloud infrastructure (and no, I’m not talking about Bash scripts).

In fact theses days there are a lot of Infrastructure as Code solutions out there. If you deal mainly with lambdas then there’s Serverless[1] or CDK[2] (Cloud Developer Kit). EB is itself ostensibly “just” a frontend for CloudFormation[3] (as I hinted at in my earlier post). Personally I use HashiCorp Terraform[4] the most but every single one of the aforementioned bar CDK has been used in production by my team.

However if none of those float your boat then there are a whole plethora of other IaC tools out there I’ve not mentioned.

So if you’re hitting the limitations of EB then your time is well spent learning another tool. In fact I’d go further than that and say I think it is worth your while learning Terraform (or any other IaC tool) even if you aren’t hitting the limitations of EB —- but I’m biased because of having wasted so much time in the past fixing deployments that EB has completely mismanaged.

[1] https://serverless.com/

[2] https://aws.amazon.com/cdk/

[3] https://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/

[4] https://www.terraform.io/
> To make matters more interesting, AWS seems to be _much_ busier than usual, and spot capacity is all but gone, at least at the price we were paying before. I'm not even sure why that is.

Because a lot of the online services that are seeing higher use (whether it's telework support, e-commerce, or otherwise) are, in whole or in part, hosted on AWS.
Chinese govt (firewall) and people of China
Another idea would be a hoop controlled by servos that always moves the hoop where the ball is going.
> And no guarantees on cheap chinese goods flooding the market and taking all your customers in a few months.

You might could fix that with strong tariffs. There was a guy recently, can’t remember his name, who was very much in favor of domestic manufacturing and tariffs against China. Seemed to catch a lot of flak for those policies! Wish I could remember who that was...
I run a small engineering consulting firm (traditional engineering, not CS/programming) based in Massachusetts, with 13 employees spread across 5 states. Most of our work comes from consulting for state and Federal agencies on large transportation and industrial projects, with lots of small stuff sprinkled in. We do our banking with a mid-sized east coast regional bank, and we have an account representative assigned to us.

When we first heard whispers about the program, we reached out to our banker who responded that they had heard the same whispers but didn't have anything concrete to tell us. The bank suggested that we start gathering financial paperwork (as government contractors we tend to need those statements to respond to audits, so this was easy for us.)

During the first week of April, our bank sent us the preliminary application form, told us to look it over and make sure we have everything we need. A week later the program officially opened, but since SBA hadn't offered specific guidance, the bank wasn't accepting applications yet.

On the morning of April 6, our bank opened the "official" portal to take applications. We immediately jumped into it, only to find the portal had a couple of show-stopping bugs and some of the instructions were ambiguous. Our frazzled representative told us that the bugs were being worked on and to keep trying. We did, and we were able so successfully submit out application later that afternoon.

While on a walk on Easter Sunday, we got an unofficial email from our banker that the application had been approved, which was followed up by a more official email yesterday. No word yet on when the money will actually hit our bank account.

I presume that our relationship with our bank helped things go smoothly. While we weren't 100% sure that we submitted the right documents for everything, the bank has most of our financial info through other dealings so they may have been able to check all the right boxes.
Imagine if Exoticstan managed all of DNS and their rules prohibited websites that your country allowed and even saw as culturally important. It's to avoid scenarios like that, that having a country specific tld is important. If a country has a conflict with whoever manages the DNS root, they could hardcode themselves as owning their cctld.
That said, from a citizens standpoint, if the government is going to only pick one, I can’t imagine it not being AWS. The difference in capability and capacity isn’t within an order of magnitude.
What if researchers in one country develop 99/100 steps of a vaccine, but are not aware that they are one step away. Foreign government has access to all that research (because it’s free) and knows how to complete the one step and does so. They treat their people and either withhold or delay or complicate the proceeds of giving to rest of the world.
Yeah but the acceleration from gravity is constant so maybe there is just a (possibly non linear) change of coordinates that can be applied to the regular paraboloid.

Also a paraboloid would work only for rays that are parallel to one another.
WeChat is a not a chat app. It's a micro universe. Imagine WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, Paypal, Uber, etc. and an entire app platform all integrated into a single app. That's WeChat.
Yes this is great news. Anyone who is positive for this test theoretically can go back to work.
You don’t just build a product like WeChat or Facebook. You grow your product to that level.

What WeChat/Facebook are today is highly path-dependent hence you don’t get to replicate that, and your intelligence and ambition probably won’t let you either.

Stop try to replace them, build sth different and help people in a new and better way. With that, you might be able to transcend them.
I do not have access to "restaurant books", but I do visit many in my area and I make a point to speak with both the restaurant folks handling take out orders and the loitering individuals running for these apps. The restaurants are universal in saying it is bad for their business, but they have no choice. The deliverers tend to not care -- they are focused on maximizing deliveries. Anecdotal, for sure, but it fits with what has been reported in WSJ and elsewhere.

Making up for losses on individual orders by ramping up volume is a tired and true way to lose even more money.
Fact Checking White House Coronavirus Briefing (April 16, 2020) – Live – NowThis
I'm in the same boat. Sometime in late spring 2018 my productivity plummeted. Same did my activity on StackOverflow.

However I think what's a huge contributing factor is gaining experience. With every structure we come up with, every function and/or abstraction we also build a mental picture of all the possible dependencies it comes with. We see the bigger picture. And we see the same (potential) paths of failure again and again and again…

I found that another favorite activity of mine didn't suffer: Designing electronics. I can still (productively) spend hours on tinkering with SPICE simulations, soldering in-situ projects, and so on.

And recently I also discovered that it's not programming itself that has become harder for me. It is programming in domains I am extremely familiar with that I'm less productive in. If it's in an area I'm not familiar with, things are much easier, because I don't see the big picture yet.
Classic "you first" deflection propaganda bullshit to change the conversation by scapegoating "shifty" foreigners and then raising conspiracy theories.

No, not here, not now, conversation is over. Take your nonsense framing trickery elsewhere. I do not care. Bye.
> The FCC recently found that Verizon, T-Mobile, and US Cellular exaggerated their 4G cellular coverage in official filings. But the carriers faced no punishment even though the FCC said it would issue an advisory to industry members reminding them "of the penalties associated with filings that violate federal law."

No penalties... what is to discourage companies from lying about their coverage? Or lying about what coverage they have deployed to receive federal funding?

We'll see if AT&T gets punished for lying about serving these 3,600 census blocks, but I'd be willing to place bets that they don't.
Android and iOS are tiling window managers, so they already have become the default.
I'm upset I read halfway through before realizing the piece had no real insight to give. What a waste of time.
What were some of the obvious downsides you were expecting, and why didn't it show up?

I suspect one dimension is if you're limited to readonly, SQL as API is pretty good.

Have you ventured to looking at datalog or Datomic? If so, what do you think?
No problems using cash? Sure, if you only go to the stores and restaurants catering to foreigners.

Last year I noticed I could no longer use cash to touch up my Shanghai Transportation card balance. There are still some touch up machines but they now only accept WeChat / AliPay QR codes for payment. I have to go to the one service counter in the station to use cash to touch it up and sometimes those aren't even staffed.

Not only that, but the Shanghai Metro has moved away from their own NFC Transportation cards to installing bar code scanners that directly use WeChat / AliPay QR codes when you enter and exit the station, then charge your account accordingly. They also have support for NFC and Apple Pay. But to set up the Transit Card in Apple Pay you need a China Union Bank Card. The alternative is to install the Shanghai Metro App, link that to AliPay with the new option for foreigners to add foreign credit cards (this by the way creates a virtual Chinese prepaid debit card which eventually will refund unused funds).

If you buy streetfood (from those BBQs late at night in the middle of city intersections for example in Shanghai) you now find that payment with WeChat may be the only option.

Beggars don't want cash and instead are displaying a big WeChat QR code to receive payments.

I was staying in my friend's local apartment complex. To enter the building you needed to use a WeChat app. Unfortuantely we couldn't register me because I didn't get a Chinese phone number this time. It took a lot of awkward conversations to eventually get someone to issue me a physical NFC key card, something they no longer do.

Here is also an article on the subject:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-mobile-payment-boom-chan...
Preprint is here:
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.20062463v...

You should read what they have to say about the study's limitations before concluding too much. It's not a random sample (though they tried to correct for this), and the test is new, so their estimates of the test's accuracy are uncertain.

Main discussion is here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22899272
But wouldn't that level of glare be what would actually happen if you took the original image, and shot it in the amount of light required to make it look like the output image?

It's not trying to make things readable; it's trying to make things look like there was more light in the room when they were shot. In rooms with high lighting, some objects have glare. That's "correct"—it's what would appear in the training data.
ESPnet apparently already has implementations of versions of transformer transducers with RNN-T loss (though, with different network architecture). At least the paper cites results on a freely available dataset, right?
I got fed of it; I just use TUIR with a ~/.mailcap file, and ed/vi as the comment editor.

Ultrafast, easy and the CPU usage is pretty low.
I don't get it. It's not like all other food ordering apps a very complicated, they are quite simple in fact -- and they are still operating at loss, as a businesses, not even able to "keep the lights on", as you propose. It's not like they are scrooge mcducks swimming in millions of profits. From what I understand, they still depend on VC money, mostly.

If there is a way to simplify app without serious UX damage, and dramatically lower costs, why it wasn't done already by the same players?
Sour grapes are the worse thing about this situation.
Could you give some examples? This sounds really interesting.
Do you accept Amazon or Newegg or <name favorite store>'s offers for free delivery?
If the true mortality rate is tiny, how did this virus manage to kill 153k people in 3 months? Can someone ELI5 me that? People have been saying "Flu kills 30k Americans every year" and now 30k Americans died of this disease in 3 months AFTER locking up the entire country. Something doesn't add up.
>Surgical masks are still useless

Useless at what? Be specific, this constant anti-mask reinforcement is bizarre.
AWS Networking Cheat Sheet
Yeah, I'm fine with my small contribution to the cause; it's been very important to me over the last few years, so I'm not in any hurry to terminate my membership.

Whether I'll use it again once it's open, though, is a much trickier question.
Two 2D Images. The brain doesn't have to guess much when it can use the parallax effect created by both eyes. That's why quite a few animals have two eyes. And I believe that's why we have two ears, too.
I talk to the local cart and restaurant owners when I pick up orders from them. The increased volume in orders is nice, but doesn't make up for the hassle of managing all of the different devices and vendors. One cart owner has memorably gotten her grandson to artfully arrange her half-dozen different phones and tablets into a little status panel. One restaurant has divided up responsibilities, with different people managing different order queues from different apps, so that Grubhub orders and DoorDash orders might as well be served from two different kitchens. (But of course it's just one single overworked kitchen.)

Food has aggressive margins. Everybody I've talked to in the business is overleveraged, trying to hold onto their cart or lease, and hoping that they don't get sick because they don't have the cash to pivot or close. The delivery app publishers are rent-seekers; nothing prohibits restaurants from employing their own drivers, as Italian and Chinese restaurants used to do, or taking carryout/to-go orders by default, like just about every food cart. Do not forget that the main appeal of delivery apps is that they effectively are cheap because they don't treat drivers as full employees, but we are hopefully soon exiting that era and as soon as we do, we will have to stop the cheap delivery.
U.S. lab tests confirm that ‘sunlight destroys coronavirus quickly’
Here's a tweet with a photo of a stove bench https://twitter.com/tokyo_gov/status/841438900824473600

And this apparently is an example of a manhole toilet design, https://www.pixtastock.com/photo/27778801
Rethinking Front End Monitoring
It's not investment "in DC" as in "into the betterment of the city", but as in "in the area of DC (to promote to the powers there)".
what the post forgot to mention is how even though the hardware on a win95 machine was slow. the interactivity felt fast. no slow loading bars. software was snappy. & fewer bugs. compared to the present day with fast AX series on iphones, Zen processors, almost every piece of software feels slow. from the 'native' desktop apps to web apps running boatloads of JS in the browser. let's not mention endless AB testing
- Under any other Unix you'd write a GUI over /etc/rc.d/rc.ssh and you called it a day.
I dunno about TCL/TK under OSX, but on BSD/Linux it's a click away. Or better: iomenu/dialog. You pressed a keybind, and chose to start/stop SSH from a dialog under a term.

- I hate tiling. CWM has the best of the minimal and floating worlds.

- JS? use unbound and a hosts fetching + AWK script. Now you have a system wide ad and pest bloking.
Video chat conversations about the things you care about
Ah, after decades of effort, we have finally replicated the effect of a candle.
If the most vulnerable did not have flu shots, the mortality of the flu would be shocking. You may or may not need one (or notice if you didn't) but every high-viral-load-facing healthcare worker, cystic fibrosis patient, etc. gets a flu shot like clockwork. And while they don't always work, they mostly work, and that hugely reduces mortality. The problem with this one is the novelty. Human immune systems get better trained (not necessarily better) with age. Cytokine storms in the eldery with covid-19 is the biological equivalent of an overfit AI with memory leaks that runaway. If the R0 turns out to be 5.6, basically everyone has been exposed at this point (not necessarily infected).
Note that I said working life. Although your comment generally is incorrect too (this isn't even worth disproving tbh, just look at survey data).

The great thing about the way large corporations control Europe is that you never hear about it (Germany is the classic example of this, massive wealth inequality, large number of billionaires, they are basically invisible). But the social security system in Europe was designed by large corporations ().

Immigration has everything to do with social policy. It also has everything to do with politics generally.

Nope. I have an MSc in Politics and studied comparative European social policy. I have met these academics. To cut a long story short: Esping-Andersen's Three Worlds Of Capitalism determines the context of this debate. And the key point of that book is: historical context is everything, you can't understand the totality of social policy by looking at one thing in isolation, and you certainly can't look at what another country is doing and say "we need to do that"...it just makes no sense (a good example of this is the changes that Sweden has made: despite the severity of their crisis, they worked out what they did well and built on that). I know expertise isn't fashionable rn, but you should read what people who have studied this their whole life are saying...as opposed to just believing what you feel.

I love HN. I don't think there is any other place on the internet that has so many people who are both totally ignorant but believe they understand almost everything very very well. Classic engineer mindset.
> My wife and I run a small winery

Where can I buy a case?