skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if Denmark has similar laws but here in the US there are a lot of family businesses that have many family members who aren't officially on payroll. They're not doing anything shady because there are lots of exceptions to underage labor and minimum wage laws for family businesses. The businesses pay the owners (one member from each household usually) dividends who then distribute to the rest of the family. Many of these businesses are run by large families with strong ties with each other and their communities who act as their own social safety net. Many of them are also immigrants with a disaster mentality so they are the ones most likely to have a large nest egg for hard times. Excluding them from the loans because of their capital structure would be disastrous.

I think the $8.8 million is too high out of an abundance of caution but I can see the reasoning.
> "I was openly accused of damaging my country's reputation by talking about corruption,"

I have seen this at a smaller scale in several companies. Human resources will negate any wrong doing of abusive upper management to avoid "damaging the company". As, many good employees leave the company, lack motivation or passive-aggressively sabotage projects the company suffers massive damage, losses opportunities and money.

The people protecting corruption or abuse are not all evil, none of them is in moral high-ground, thou. But, it is the way companies are designed to reward personal loyalty to upper-management what makes the so prone to corruption and inefficiencies.

Design a company, or a country, that rewards loyalty to the company - not to the managers or rulers - and it will be extremely successful.

Meanwhile we are stuck in a situation that even assassination takes a long time to untangle and have an effect. It could be worse, at least we know what happened and we are free to talk about it. Improvement takes one step at at time.
> Based on what you are saying though, you lead me to believe that the NYTimes wants this behavior to occur, which I doubt.

Not at all. We wouldn't expect reddit.com. to share cookies with news.ycombinator.com. The browser enforces that hard separation between the 2 domains with respect to access to cookies and such.

Thats the same split with nytimes.com and nytimes.com. . The browser sees them as 2 distinct domains, and will absolutely not let cookies cross.

> If they want to paywall access to their site but adding a dot to the domain causes it to be bypassed, then it is misconfigured in some way, regardless of cookies.

It's their choice (nytimes) to not do a paywall for a 'new potential customer'. And that data is stored in cookies. You can simulate that by purging all nytimes cookies and you can access as no initial paywall.

Going to their FQDN is a 'different domain' with respect to the browser and its cookie store. So its only logical that you start 'fresh' (aka: no cookie history). And there's nothing that I know of that can allow cookie sharing... Then again I do systems administration.
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So many people who don't understand this.
This needs to be a lot higher up. This is literally killing doctors and nurses to enrich people with particular political connections: https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/fvhwjo/federal_govern...

If anyone can explain how a new entrant into supply/distribution of medical equipment was started and got large supplies of critical and scarce equipment that is being actively confiscated by government agencies in orders from other countries/private US companies... I am all ears.
1. Weeks ago (and still?), tons of people were complaining that the federal government should take over procurement and distribution of medical supplies.

2. Now, the federal government is taking over some procurement and distribution of medical supplies. More complaints on this method.

There are certainly legitimate complaints to be had with state procurement, federal procurement, communication gaps, problems with distribution priority, etc... but I'm left confused as to the shock that the federal government is seizing supplies?

Isn't that what people wanted when they asked for federal government managed procurement+distribution?
Whonix

https://www.whonix.org/
Just make sure they don't sell it to you already filled with "thank you" oil...
Not sure that's true?

> As such, stating accurately that software ... is compatible with the Python programming language, or that it contains the Python programming language, is always allowed.
I am using it with qemu to allow Linux guests to use hosts's gpu to do 3d acceleration. It works fairly well except that it seems there is a memory leak in the path somewhere because over time qemu VMs with it enabled grow over the memory allocated to them.
Because trading is hard and sometimes humans are dumb.

-Former dumb oil trader
Screening in Italian hospital reveals 18% COVID-19 staff contagion rate
For those with Python 2 baselines that aren't (or will never be) ported, PyPy will support version 2 basically forever [0]. PyPy supports a huge number (but not all) of Python packages, including numpy [1]. Moreover, PyPy is significantly faster in many cases [2], and for the numerical types of things I like to write [3], it's amazingly faster.

> time pypy mandel.py > pypy.pgm
seconds: 0.318101

real 0m0.426s
user 0m0.396s
sys 0m0.013s

> time python2 mandel.py > python2.pgm
seconds: 30.141954

real 0m30.156s
user 0m30.136s
sys 0m0.003s

That's just a silly Mandelbrot example, but for numerical algorithms like this PyPy is nearly 100 times faster than Python2, and that includes startup cost for the JIT!

I'm not in any way associated with the PyPy project, but I can't help but believe a sane world would've moved from Python to PyPy in the same way everything moved from Brandon Eich's original JavaScript interpreter to the modern JIT ones like V8.

[0] https://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/faq.html#how-long-will-pypy-s...

[1] http://packages.pypy.org/

[2] https://speed.pypy.org/

[3] https://godbolt.org/z/J9Xwp6
> the negative externality of rising housing prices forcing people onto the streets

The vast bulk of the Seattle homeless are homeless due to drug and alcohol addiction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpAi70WWBlw

Even "60 Minutes" did a segment on it in the last year, and they kept finding drug and alcohol addiction underlying the problems of the Seattle homeless they profiled.
Consider the possibility that Chinese made PPE is being withheld from Red States to undermine and discredit Republican/Trump support; and is being facilitated for use in Blue States (eg. Illinois) to shore up support for Democratic politicians.
The Great U.S.-China Divorce Has Arrived
> What makes it so costly?

I've seen this question a few times, so I'll try to address...

Yes, you can take a bi-axial rastor scanning MEMS mirror (similar to what Microvision uses in their Pico projector, or those supplied by Mirrorcle), shine it into your pupil (at the appropriate) distance and BAM!, you have a point source VRD. However, I would heed the warning on Microvisions Pico projector as those ARE NOT eye safe lasers. It is nit difficult, however, to get your hands on eyesafe laser sources suitable for VRD.

However, with this simple device your FOV will be limited by the angular range of your MEMS. Your resolution will be limited by the pulse width of your synchronized laser. Most importantly though is that the exit pupil (eyebox) is very small such that when you move your eyeball a few degrees, the image will start to disappear. So, you need redundant point sources to expand the FOV and also expand the eyebox to permit eye rotation. These point sources must be spaced in a matrix of less than 2mmx2mm (the typical minimum dilation of the pupil in bright ambient settings).

That's a lot of point sources, so if you try to just use a bunch of MEMS mirrors, the driving electronics will generally occlude your natural view of the environment. That's not a problem for video see-through displays, but for optical see-through displays that's a deal breaker. So, you're back to trying to disassociate the light beam point sources from the scanning-driver electronics. The typical strategy is to use some sort of waveguide - to transport the light beam (for a given portion to the image) through a transparent material (e.g. glass), then get that beam to outcouple from the waveguide at the precise location, then have that light beam continue to raster scan. Now you need to do that for, a few hundred light beams (per eye!) to fully fill the natural human FOV with a composite image greater than 35 pixels per degree (for text readability)

All of the above items are achievable, but it requires precision optics and alignment to get everything working in harmony. Add the component of affordability, and you've got a pretty big engineering challenge on your hand.

I'm sure someone can do it. This is just one viable path to truly transformative AR displays, but I think it's the most promising.
It is a completely different language - it is syntax incompatible. Human languages are a very poor comparison to computer languages.

It's just a tough sell to manually update a huge pile of code that works just fine as-is. No new features will be introduced. No bugs fixed, while some new ones may pop up. There's a lot of manual work in porting, the automated tools only cover the basics. Your downstream customers receive very little benefit for this effort, which makes it very hard to justify spending the engineering resources on it.
Only because the disto does it for you. If they mean because the driver is distributed from a centralized repository over the internet... that's how it works in Windows too, only Windows also has the option to use alternate media and a stable enough driver ABI to have that make some kind of sense.
The DHS still attempted to seize it even though it was for a hospital, until a lawmaker intervened. You're correct that the FBI let it through.
For the "show me the code" folks: https://github.com/osfree-project
I said they are choosing rationally based on their options, not that they themselves (or anyone else) are or are not rational people.
Let's start with something like this:https://www.livingwage.org.uk/what-real-living-wage
I have an exercise bike to which I added a tablet (an old bookshelf plank I had lying around) on which I can put my laptop. It’s pretty hard to type but it’s perfect for conf calls and a bit of light document reading. I have a lot more conf calls since we went into lockdown so I can manage at least 30 minutes of biking every day while sitting in meetings. I have never gotten so much exercise so regularly!

I also do HIIT (high-intensity interval trainings), which is basically series of body weight exercises (burpee, squat, sit-up, etc.). Doesn’t require anything except some room and a video or training guide to follow.
I suppose that since this is over 2 years old (Jan 20, 2018) all of the developers complaints have been addressed.
Try finding a better situation. Don't change your livelihood just because negative people are bringing you down. Dump the negative people and find a better group of people who act like a team and know how to be supportive. It can be hard to find a good team, but don't let the negative experience with your current team dissuade you from finding a better situation.
There is a bunch of issues with the US government that this administration has revealed, but I'd really love to see some stronger anti-nepotism laws rolled out, maybe coupled with some anti-dynastic laws to prevent familial repeats with elected officials that came to power in a large part due to legacy.
Offline already?
Yes totally different.

Btw, why is this post being flagged?
A huge amount of the work of distro maintainers is actually just this kind of backporting and applying security fixes. You're right that technically, the python foundation (or whoever owns the trademark) could come after redhat for making these kinds of changes but it's very doubtful they would.

If redhat decided to add new features to python 2.7, I'm sure the PSF would make a stink
People talk about this going away in June, but I don't understand why that would possibly happen unless producers decide to slow down.

Otherwise, the supply is just going to continue to accumulate.
> Ctrl+W is awesome, but after it has been ingrained in the fingers it's easy to close browser tabs by accident :D

This is why Ctrl+Shift+T is my favorite browser shortcut!
> I wish there was some sort of scoring system for product packaging that would take into account the quantity and environmental impact of the packaging.

It already exists: https://www.greenlivingtips.com/articles/recycling-by-the-nu...

I think that regulation is the only measure that works. Asking people to track the level of recycling of each item they buy is too much of a task. Minimum legal standards assure to remove the worst cases, and then information may help for conscienced individuals.
Even better, https://github.com/felixrieseberg/windows95 open this app full screen on their computer and watch their reaction.
This reminded me of the opposite story: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Special-Delivery

Tldr- commodities trader accidentally specified physical delivery for several thousand tons of coal; very surprised when the barges show up at their waterfront office.
God yes, I left there for my hometown a year ago and it's so much better. I have sunlight again, I live in a 3-bedroom house in the middle of town that I pay 2/3 of what I paid for a decaying 2br in the U, there's all kinds of colorful wildlife around, there's a thriving arts scene because people who are not making big IT money can actually afford to live there. And homelessness is much more under control, Seattle was insane on that front.

I miss legal weed, but I sure don't miss much of anything else in Seattle.
I'm trying to tell you that I don't think the name "The Gives" is very good, and I don't think I'm alone in that opinion. Do with that information what you will, but my advice in response to your "Show HN" is to pick a better name (and correspondingly, domain name).
Yes but ancient modern humans would have recognized Neanderthals as humans rather than animals even if they had knowledge of other hominids.
Not yet it's not
I love WFH and work for a large company which shifted to WFH early and in which in theory remote work should be very doable.

My hope for this experience was that people would realize how productive WFH is and this would be great because it would normalize it and everyone would realize how well it works and... my perception of the reaction to it is unfortunately that most people at the company are wildly negative about it right now. Across the board. So much so that it's kind of shocked me. I had to stop talking about how much I liked it because it was upsetting people.

I wish people wouldn't judge the productivity of WFH from doing so under a duress during a pandemic but I'm actually really worried this whole experience is pushing people to be more convinced that WFH is unproductive than they were before the pandemic :(
Show HN: BlazeBuddies – Encrypted Cannabis Video Calls
Hi HN! My friend and I have been working on a video conferencing site specifically for cannabis users all around the world. Now you can smoke with your friends via an end-to-end encrypted video call. The interface is simple, all you need to do is pick a session name and go -- no accounts, no downloads, no bullshit. Check it out at www.blazebuddies.com and let me know what you think!

P.S. because it has peer-to-peer connections via WebRTC, the video calls can only connect with as many people as your device can handle, so accessing it on a computer is recommended over a phone.
JuliaLang Antipatterns
I only read the tl;dr, but I expected some questions centered around most commonly identified missing features in Go (i.e. first class support for enumerations, generics, naked return, compiler generating similar code for named vs unnamed returns, etc.)
From what I've tried the desktop apps themselves do cloud-driven collab just fine, so I don't really see a reason to use a browser app when native's available. May just be me seeing things, but the native-to-native sync seems faster than with the web apps. Sadly that means sharing is a bit less convenient than just click link to open.
Ah, I thought OP had something specific in mind for this case. Thanks for connecting that for me instead of just downvoting.
This very question was the subject of a lengthy debate between Norvig and Chomsky. I won't rehash it here, but here's a glimpse:

Chomsky: Statistical analysis of snowflakes falling outside the window may predict the next snowflake, but it will do very little for weather prediction, and nothing for climate analysis.

Norvig: Give us enough data and we will get close enough for all practical purposes.
> mecheng offices running simulation jobs in the cloud or an on-premises instead of each having a workstation, and being able to cluster that compute together

that's totally a thing. worked on low-latency, high resolution remoting software for this purpose exactly. Buy a bunch of beefy servers and have scientists remote in from a laptop to run graphic intensive simulations, rather than buy a workstation for everyone.
The Era of Fragmentation, Part 2: Sowing the Wasteland
> > Death does not make life precious.

> Yes it does. Especially if you're the one living it.

So, you want to die. More precisely, you want a limit on your lifespan. Not just so you give your place to the youth or avoid over population. No, you want your life to be limited, because if it wasn't, it would be worthless.

I can accept that. But then you should be able to answer this: when do you want to die? Where's the limit?

> Even if it's a lifeless object - the rareness of something easily makes it more valuable.

The value of one diamond decreases as we have more total diamonds. But it doesn't decreases so fast that the total value of diamonds also decreases as the total amount of diamonds increases. Value may increase sub-linearly with quantity, but there's no way it decreases.

The same goes for lifespan. If you genuinely think the value of an entire life decreases with its length at some point, then there is an ideal lifespan. Life should be no shorter, and no longer than this ideal duration (on average).

I ask again: do you have any idea what this duration might be?

> You're confusing quantity with quality

And you are assuming we couldn't have quality in quantity. Couldn't we possibly live, love and adventure for 80 years? 100 years? 1000 years?

How much life has to offer, really? How much can we experience, how much can we learn, before life stops being worth living? When do we start hitting diminishing returns, for reasons other than bad health? (Just to get that out of the way: we probably agree that it's better to live 80 healthy years and die of a sudden stroke, than live 60 healthy years, then gradually decline until we hit 80 and finally die.)
http://archive.md/UDrho
Google is no longer publishing Android usage reports on its website
>Interestingly I haven't really met anyone considering leaving the city because of the virus itself (i.e. because of concern due to population density), only those really feeling the lifestyle restrictions.

Are you really even meeting people at all though considering pretty much everyone in NYC is home in isolation.
Among the other things Communism assumes absence of social classes, money and the state. Nothing ever came anywhere close to accomplishing it.
Google translate doesn't understand what it translates either. It just relies on a very large corpus of parallel texts.
Ask HN: What are some good video tutorials you have watched on YouTube?
As I am spending more time at home, I'd like to watch some video tutorial when I eat and workout on my yoga mat, could be of any subject, but I am mostly interested in programming-related subjects.
Doesn't have to be on YouTube, as long as it can be easily accessed on a smart TV, or plays on the browser of one.
Perl 6, which failed so hard it's not called Perl anymore
>The single biggest guarantor of a massive debt (IMNSHO) is a rigid up-front specification.

Or the lack of any meaningful upfront planing.

This goes in both ways. But I agree of course with the above. Detailed specs, especially done in some ivory tower, will cause massive problems, no question.
I left when Day Care closed and am not sure how I feel about ever returning while social distancing is still common sense. Because Day Care is essentially exposing yourself to the germs carried by twenty other children, their families, the caregivers, and their families.
7 million barrels * $30 a barrel = 210 million just to take the oil. Plus $20 a barrel when you sell it brings you to $350,000,000 in revenue on a 7 million barrel tank. What am I missing, other than not being able to build the tank fast enough?
Great time to fill up the US strategic oil reserve. Congress didn't fund Trump's plan to have the Government buy up excess oil to prop up the price. But with prices negative, the Department of Energy can go ahead and fill up the underground storage anyway. Might need it someday.
Spending in a crisis brought bloody consequences in ancient Athens
Lawmakers don't have any actual power if the agencies resist them. One great example of this was during the initial travel bans, both lawmakers and judges were unable to get CBP/DHS to actually comply with orders because the government employees working for those agencies simply ignored them. When that happens the only real option a judge has is to send federal marshals out to enforce an order (as far as I know), and there's no guarantee the marshals will listen.
But none that are actually going to be maintained in any meaningful way. Maintaining Python 2 is a huge job, which is also why the Python core team can't do both 2 and 3 at the same time.
Well, just read through the other threads here. You'll see that goods are being seized and redirected based on the whim of the President for his friends and allies. This is happening.
Got any suggestions?
Interesting way to implement it.

For my personal website, I use <prerender> tags in the footer that load the top level pages in the navigation menu (tens of KB's in size, at most...) and I also use Turbolinks[0] — which delivers stupid-fast browsing by swapping in the <body> elements when you navigate, instead of loading the entire page.

[0] https://github.com/turbolinks/turbolinks
I rather prefer the approach here: https://epiforecasts.io/covid/posts/national/united-kingdom/ which does not attempt to calculate r for the most recent days and shows days for which uncertainty is great in progressively lighter colours. Part of the excellent work done by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine's Centre for Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Diseases much of which can be found here:
https://cmmid.github.io/topics/covid19/.

That model uses the EpiEstim R package to estimate R based based on the number of case onsets and a serial interval distribution. EpiEstim implements the methods of Cori et al: https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/178/9/1505/89262 which also uses Bayesian methods.

It looks like the linked model is based on Bettencourt & Ribeiro: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
Yeah I know that's unfortunate. Maybe we will see some innovation in that area with Covid-19 now, the problem is that the notary system has created a class of wealthy people that will fight vigorously against anything that threatens their income stream, even though many transactions could be done digitally.

The main problem is that you need to appear personally, otherwise it's not such a big deal I find.