skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would not be surprised if someone tells me that parts of Safari hook into private APIs in the kernel, the graphics driver and the other parts of the graphic and input stack to achieve the (measurable!) performance advantage over other browsers. For me personally, this is uncompetitive behavior that should be punished, but oh well, anti-trust legislation isn't exactly something that got much use over the last decades :(

In the absence of any evidence of this — have you looked at the open source releases? — why is that more plausible than a team employed by a hardware vendor which cares deeply about user experience and battery life prioritizing use of the platform features and talking with other teams at the same company? Part of what makes things like Firefox' compositor work hard is that they support multiple other platforms so the Safari team can easily be ahead without anything underhanded simply by virtue of not needing to support 4 major platforms.
In Aus I liked the roadsigns with random trivia questions along the really straight part of the road from Bundaberg to Brisbane, trying to keep your mind occupied so that you stay awake.
Does anyone really buy that E2E encrypted stuff coming from big software companies? I don’t see any reason why someone would believe that without seeing the source-code and letting people host their own servers.
Actually, I've changed my mind. I think people fall into either the advertiser+publisher camp who don't want this in the browser chrome because it will make it too easy to full opt-out and the browser guys don't want it there because they actually just want the advertisers to die out. What I'm asking for is not a stable equilibrium in any way so it's a pointless thought experiment.
Motif Investing calls it quits
I literally snorted. This is fantastic and is the reason for HN to exist!
Just because you can't physically strike a clause from an electronic contract doesn't mean it's not negotiable. Email the company back and say "let's chat about paragraph such-and-such, because I have the following concerns," or something to that effect.
Coronavirus therapeutics: Real World Evidence with AI can deliver results faster
I've had this exact same project idea on my mind for a year or so, largely driven by a desire to see beautiful, to-scale mountain ranges in game (Thousands of blocks of render distance rather than a measly ~256). I wouldn't consider myself a computer graphics guy either; however, I recently started to dive into the world of computer graphics to at least figure out what it would take to implement something like this.

As a sibling commenter mentioned, using a marching cube algorithm is one approach. 0fps [1] has a good blog post about using Progressively Ordered Primitive buffers to implement Level of Detail in Minecraft-like games. (There is an interesting comment on that blog replying to that post.) Another blog [2] shows a similar implementation in a Minecraft-like game call "SeaOfMemes".

On a side note, I've never heard of Terasology—and it's been around for 9 years(!) it seems. I'll definitely check it out.

[1] - https://0fps.net/2018/03/03/a-level-of-detail-method-for-blo...
[2] - http://www.sea-of-memes.com/LetsCode64/LetsCode64.html and http://www.sea-of-memes.com/LetsCode67/LetsCode67.html
Interestingly 2.5Gb cable modems are also imminent. Yes early adopters are the market right now but as they purchase equipment it will drive down adoption costs due to economy of scale gradually kicking in.
Yay, glad you like it! I also found most tools to be too black and white. I made Intention to be the sweet middle path between blocking sites entirely and having unfettered access.

I can definitely relate to the unpleasantness of getting kicked out with no warning, so I included intelligent logic in Intention that handles cases gracefully. For example, on YouTube, it'll pause the current video when the lock activates but it won't pause the video if it's in a background tab so people can listen to music. Hopefully, you won't even notice these things and everything will Just Work.

Enjoy. :)
Univac 490 – 1963 Computer – Gallery Talk
"best interface into Sharepoint"

^ Candidate for all-time best illustration of the phrase "to damn with faint praise".
This is not the norm. Even for luxury apartments ...
Interlocking balance sheets and the corona-induced sudden stop
No need to apologize! I enjoy trying other tools in this space and learning from all the different practices they use. Will check out LeechBlock — thanks!
Every teacher wants to be the next Jaime Escalante. Sometimes they take their idealism too far.
Opera felt small and fast because it did less and ran websites doing less. If you look at an old site in a modern browser, it's much faster; if you even could run a modern site in an old browser, you'd see just how many optimizations you're taking for granted — not to mention things like high-quality text rendering which fully supports Unicode and complex scripts.
Exactly so if your business is using stripe and customer sues you in court under CalOPPA, will stripe be cover your lawsuit and pay for it?
I would guess that Apple could be convinced to fix this, if someone has the right contact. The iOS TCP stack shows a lot of care, generally: they do path MTU probing well, and they've deployed MP-TCP (requires apps to enable it though), among other things I can't remember. Fixing performance if timestamps are disabled seems like something they'd do.
The Univac 490 was an early Real Time Computer System. One installation was at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Maryland.

Our museum is currently closed due to COVID-19, so we are making some videos

System Source Computer Museum
https://museum.syssrc.com
Interesting - you learn something new every day.

I guess my trip was probably biased towards states with lots of parks and forests, who probably had more incentive to protect their local environments.
While I appreciate what you're trying to say here, your point is orthogonal to the discussion.

The original comment was about the tone of patio11's post and the assertion that an anonymous white paper significantly altered policy decisions of one of the world's most technologically, scientifically, and academically advanced countries. The response the original commenter got from barry-cotter was to "shut up and listen to your betters" because the commenter wasn't a "certified expert" followed by a rant that could have come straight from an episode of Coast to Coast AM. Even his attempts below to walk back his position or re-frame his post as being somehow tongue-in-cheek fail basic logic checks and sound like the ravings of a lunatic bent on exposing some great conspiracy by the learned elite that control the medical-industrial-media complex.

It's just worthless noise. He says we shouldn't trust the experts because they got it wrong, but we should trust patio11 because he didn't get it wrong (or did he? who knows, it's in the future!), but we should trust the "certified experts," but we shouldn't trust the goddamn "prestige media" because all they cared about in February was making fun of people who thought this was a real problem, but wait a minute isn't that media also now taking aim at people who think we should relax social distancing? So is the media going after people who think it's a real problem or are they going after people who don't think it's a real problem?

See what I'm saying? It's just anger and frustration being vented through a keyboard. It's noise and serves no discernible purpose.

We can quibble about patio11's true contribution (we can, but I won't) but, again, that is orthogonal to the point which is that a lot of self-righteous folks have used the coronavirus outbreak as a great way to lash out and/or push their ideology in not so civil manners and through fear-mongering ("THOUSANDS of EXCESS DEATHS in Tokyo!!!"), and we should discourage this behavior as a community.
> I already spent 5 minutes explaining my wife how it's neither Hangouts nor Meet, even if it uses the same Google login.

Why would she care? It's a separate app. Just fire it up and start a videocall with someone. With Duo I can call friends on Apple devices, and the quality of the call is excellent. I use it to call my mom (in another city) any time I want to talk to her. She's a technophobe, but even she can answer the call and start chatting with me.
For anyone who's wondering, a bit of homework with the major parts suppliers here in the UK suggests a 50-60% price increase is typical moving from (new) Red to the Red Pro of the same size.
Thanks for posting this explanation and making an effort to update your terms of service to call out this behavior.

We appreciate that you are intent on fixing this, it helps us know that there are honest people working at Stripe and helps clear the fog that what seem to be a lot of us believing you are doing malicious things.

I hope you and your family stay healthy during this pandemic.
Help Poor People in Morocco Against Coronavirus
> As someone who saw this first hand, Stripe’s fraud detection really works. Fraudulent transactions went down from ~2% to under 0.5% on hundreds of thousands of transactions per month

So, in order of Stripe to make more money (1.5% less fraud), you chose to track everybody.

Probably me too. Thanks for that.
Human Lab Rats: The U.S. Government’s History of Grisly Experiments
> I always hoped from the day after the election in 2016 that he'd put the partisan showboating aside and turn to governing.

What made you think he was even capable of that, let alone was interested?
The limit is where it is because the AMA put it there because they were afraid of the "physician glut" ruining salaries. They're probably responsible for around as many American deaths as many of the world's worst dictators.

Pretty clever retcon in their text to make themselves out to be heroes, if your source is the AMA.

Vote whichever way you want, I'm absolutely right:

* https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/health/2005-03-02-docto...

* https://www.nytimes.com/1986/06/14/us/ama-board-studies-ways...

* https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/thanks-to-doctors-there-a...

* https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1997-03-01-19970600...
Well Played, Now What?
In case this doesn’t translate outside of AU, a tosser (beyond someone throwing rubbish) is a “wanker”, a tool, an idiot.

There have been road safety signs along the same lines using w(anchor symbol) and a rooster (cock). Trying to market to punch through male bravado I guess.
> In practical terms, if your code makes a billion bucks and you only get a regular average salary you could sue the employer and would probably win.

I very much doubt that. Software isn't something that exists in a vacuum and even if you are the sole author of a program, it might contain or be based on trade secrets of the company.

Even if that's not the case, software doesn't generate profit on its own - you still need to sell licences or services based around it. Both of which are equally contributing to any profit a program generates.

Since it's still the employer who bears the entrepreneurial risk, there's a solid argument to be made against winning such a case.
Chinese State Media in Arabic Floats Theory U.S. Army Made Coronavirus
Never heard of it. Is it any good?
“Defense in depth”. If you can protect an attack vector you should. Makes everything more difficult for attackers.
> By that logic the US was a failed state before the epidemic

I believe that was the premise of the article.
Sure it is: https://blogs.cisco.com/collaboration/cisco-leap-frogs-h-264...

Video encoding is a modeling and search problem. Codecs try lots of different ways to represent the input data and do their best. You can evaluate the costs and benefits of each piece of the encoder to decide which parts to have on or off.

Obviously a speed-tuned AV1 compressor won't achieve maximum efficiency, but it might still perform better than an H264 or H265 compressor since it has more efficient tools available to it.
> Well, that's exactly what I was referring to. 80% of the time you don't / can't know what to do with the error at a given call site

If you're working with a `Result` type, you can pass the wrapped value up to wherever you want to/can handle it. Either way, you have to handle it. And the type checker ensures that you do.

Typed error checking as available in Rust, Scala, OCaml, ReasonML, Swift, Haskell etc, etc is a far, far better solution than exceptions. I've worked on large code bases with both. There's no comparison.

Even Java's checked exceptions are far, far better than unchecked exceptions like C++. People complain, but it's shitty coding practice not to properly handle a function that can throw (and I speak as someone who's done this and gotten badly bit by it a dozen times before I wised up).

If there's absolutely no recovery possible from an error, then yes, an exception may be acceptable. Otherwise, error values, which can be type checked, are the way to go if offered in your language.
A business is not a special construct. It consists of human beings and is part of the fabric of society. The more human beings have to be 'incentivized' to do the right thing (rather than voluntarily), the less civilized a society is. We cannot construct a society based on policies meant for sociopaths.
I think this is an excellent post, because you demonstrate an applied use of a bunch of excellent *nix tools, combined with a presentation of the mental model that helped you put it all together.

I am largely self taught, and I didn't touch C/C++ for a long time, so there's a lot of stuff people might take for granted (like the use of ldd), which for a long time I had never encountered.
Discovering Disease Outbreaks from News Headlines
Citation needed. That is not Apple's lawyers' opinion. It is also not the interpretation of this San Jose law firm:

https://www.sacattorneys.com/san-jose-intellectual-property-...

The relevant quote is: "It is legal to require an employee to assign intellectual property created in the employee’s own time if it required any of the employer’s tools, facilities, or intellectual property, or if that intellectual property relates to the employer’s business or research and development."

Since Apple operates in a wide swath of the IT world, it is very likely that most OSS developed by Apple employees could reasonably be considered "relate[d] to the employer's business". That is certainly the position that Apple takes in most case (source: I am a former Apple employee).
More ticket updates are appearing in this Reddit thread. Fiber splicing is ongoing

https://old.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/g5h8ho/level3_o...
You want weird? Austin's slogan "Keep Austin Weird" is not about the culture, but about supporting local business.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_Austin_Weird
This title is a bastardization of the article and the conclusion is a bastardization of statistics.

Someone talked over you and took your ideas? Welcome to being a person.
I'm just starting to learn computer graphics and I've come across the Marching Cubes algorithm; however, I don't understand in this instance what you mean by "using one or more rays per pixel" and how that fits in with Marching Cubes. Could you point me in a direction to learn more about this? Thank you.
Out of curiosity which states did you visit?

Texas has amazing (and clean!) state and national parks as well. Definitely worth a visit, especially Big Bend.
> How do you not know all the side effects you dependencies may have when before adding them?

Do you? You've audited 100% of the code you use? At best you're careful when choosing your dependencies and you have a reasonable degree of trust.
This sounds more like a way to organize some regular equipment that many people would have in the house like a router or switch, a modem, a home NAS, etc. than what OP was describing when they said "multiple devices in my home server rack that have native 10Gb".

Excluding people who work(ed) in the field, and have money and time to spare I have seen exactly 0 people who have a home lab and racks of high-end IT equipment.
There is no single answer to that — depends on the library and how you use it. But if it’s not exception safe it’s not exception safe.

There is no way to tell if a constructor failed without catching an exception.
http://netbsd.org/ports/

https://www.openbsd.org/plat.html

https://www.freebsd.org/platforms/
What’s the objective?

There are good reasons to do this, but it’s unlikely to save money. End of the day, you’re going to be committed (“locked in”) to something, whether that be a cloud provider, software company or budget for staff.
> I spent most of my career in Silicon Valley, where employers routinely take the position that they own every thought their employees have, and every work they create. That position, legally enforceable or otherwise, has always rankled me.

I'm bit surprised that practice is so prevalent in SV, with California Labor Code 2870 and all. Because of that law, I'd rate SV/CA as the place that position is the least enforceable (in the U.S. at least).
Any change to the grading scheme of a class should be Max(old grade, new grade). One of my profs once offered a re-test opportunity such that you would have had an incentive to do worse on the exam for certain original scores. Drove me up the wall.
Like Toyota Tercel?
>The issue is residents are unproductive and thus need government subsidy for hospitals to train.

This is so hilariously wrong. Hospitals make TONS of money from the work of residents who get paid like 50k doing 200k of work. A residency hospital, Hanneman, closed and the spots there were auctioned off for $55M to other hospitals.
I did not mean passes in the sense of two-pass rate control.
Should have just driven to Ft Meade and had "Dave" meet you at the gate. It's only a 3 1/2 hour drive...
So it's being used for anti-fraud, let's say that's fair. But what if you're accidentally classified as bot or fraudulent? The GDPR allows automated individual decision making in general, but there must (legally) be an option to ask a human for a second opinion. How does that work with Stripe?

Relevant text for those who want to know what GDPR says about this: "The data subject shall have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning him or her or similarly significantly affects him or her." https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL... (So one has to prove that it 'significantly' affects you, but I guess e-commerce is commonplace enough that being banned from a common platform could be argued to significantly impact you. But IANAJudge so this is up for interpretation by a real judge.)
i worked for a company that made tools like this for diagnosing ui flow issues with machine learning, its possible and likely some companies use this for tracking their users, but it has some meritable uses as well.
How does the Duo call quality (image quality, reliability, lag etc) compare to Zoom? (I know they aim at personal vs business respectively but for a small team I’ll choose the tool with best quality).
How about zeit.js, it worked fine for next.js
I fairly recently went 100% SSD on my home build - the price is still high, but over the last year we had some historic NAND price lows - I've got a 1TB NVMe drive for boot/apps/games, a 1TB SATA drive for user profile and another 1TB SATA drive for large file storage.

I used to run 1 SSD + 4 drives in two RAID 1 arrays for this, but with how reliable SSD's have become, and with faster internet allowing for cheap offsite backup, those days are gone.
I'm also feeling burnout, I suspect because I'm actually working more hours now, sometimes out of sheer boredom.
Why are those stories less relevant though? To have a healthy discussion, one needs as many angles of the story as possible.Also, Unions might not help with this. Unions care about the majority, and vast majority of tech workers have bigger problems than not being able to contribute to their favorite open source.
No S#*+
An un-edited view of Saturn
All the serological studies have found 30-80x prevalence so far, regardless of methods. I saw a preprint metaanalysis that looked at six of them in different areas. The worst outcomes seem to be tied to places with severe NO2 pollution, but because the R0 is so high, it's been all over the place.
Wails: Desktop apps using Go and Web Technologies
Chairman of google did that for a while
No, they are not. Maybe someone said that, but it is quite obvious you don't go to fight in Afghanistan to protect your free speech or the right to bear arms, is it?
React for frontend
Node, express, postgres for backend.
Logrocket , Google analytics for tracking.

Im most proud of myself for setting up a little server application that some of my GitHub repos are connected to through webhooks. When I push a commit to master, the webhook fires, my server calls git pull and builds and the code is ready to go. Very little downtime and no need to ssh and scp
Three times as many deaths with Trump’s “miracle drug” compared to control!

Even HN was full of “but it’s possibly helpful and totally safe” comments. Long after that initial French study had been retracted and exposed as borderline fraudulent.

This study alone killed 20 patients. I wonder what the ratio of changed minds / deaths is. And at what number this whole exercise could be considered worthwhile.

But I guess the true believer will bemoan the lack of zinc (edit: nailed it!), or this “obviously” being the wrong group of patients, or asking for tests of smoked HC because it can’t get to the lungs otherwise. Or learn from the master and pivot to the next shiny policy. Which is, apparently, not processing a few thousand Green Card applications?
Check out Cold Turkey. It does everything you've asked for, I believe. I use it on and off.
I've done some thinking about the problem of regulation bloat (setting aside regulatory capture for now).

Good regulation, like good code, would express ideals and objectives in the simplest way possible that can still implement the solution. But if we follow this analogy, our country's body of law and regulation is like a centuries-old codebase that has never been revised or refactored for the sake of consolidation and simplification. It only gets added to, and obviously can't be rebuilt from scratch. This means we have a monotonically-growing level of complexity for entities that want to adhere to the law, which is a recipe for grinding to a halt.

I feel like the common argument by conservatives against regulation because it stifles innovation has some truth, but it doesn't have to.

What would it look like, I wonder, to implement reforms that are purely concerned with simplifying the existing rules and stripping out cruft? Has anybody ever considered the problem from this angle?
The US was a failing state before the pandemic, unless you’re upper class. It’s just even more so now.
More info about the "Confederate Air Force" mentioned in the commercial: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commemorative_Air_Force
Charlie Munger has a theory of hour AA works that is pretty convincing. He says that AA uses a number of natural psychological tendencies together to create a "Lollapalooza effect" that helps people to stay stopped, once they quit drinking.
Not everything has to be about work and employability. Some of us actually enjoy learning and exploring the more theoretical topics in CS.
> The frequency illusion is that once something has been noticed then every instance of that thing is noticed, leading to the belief it has a high frequency of occurrence (a form of Selection bias). The Baader–Meinhof phenomenon is the illusion where something that has recently come to one's attention suddenly seems to appear with improbable frequency shortly afterwards. The Baader–Meinhof phenomenon is sometimes conflated with frequency illusion and the recency illusion.

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
How is the first exasperating you as a user?