skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How deep is your connection to that star professor though?
I tend to believe I visited a good university, and we also have some leading researchers. The problem is that you wouldn't know beforehand if they are even giving the lectures you're interested in. The other people in the department can still be bad at their job. Being a researcher doesn't transmit to being a good teacher. Or not a complete idiot.

Sorry if this sounds harsh, also I'm not trying to deliberately shit on my uni education, but let's just say I didn't find it great for many reasons. One course by a "leading expert" could have been pretty great, just that it was done in not so stellar English (the prof was German, so am I) and so it wasn't so great to understand.

If you just show up to learn and don't plan to stay in academia there (do a PhD, get to know the faculty) I really don't see a point.
I recommend watching (and listening to) this talk by Saqib Shaikh, a blind developer using Visual Studio and how we codes and debugs with his screen reader https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94swlF55tVc
Having been in this situation more than once (I caught the startup bug), I can tell you that there is no good way to leave an unsuccessful startup.

What I learned is, my time is mine to protect and my skills are mine to dedicate where I see fit. Noone can oblige you to spend these things on what you don't want to.

People will always blame others for their lack of application. If they were true entrepreneurs, they will find a replacement for you.

But you are unique that you want to leave what is really a pet project (I've been in those too many times) and build a real business. You should!

Don't worry about what others will think, you can't control that.
Show HN: A macOS app that might be helpful if you're WFH & do video calls a lot
Fact: if we do nothing and don't buy time to prepare, our healthcare system collapses, a lot of people die and there'll be a lot of unforeseen consequences. You can say, think and believe that that's not much of an issue, but you can't proof it.

Your argument: "the economy is important, we can't do without"

Yes it is, but the economy will rebound like it always does. It will not disappear. We need to flatten the curve, gain more insight in other consequences. We don't need to lockdown forever, but we can't immediately reopen either. Both would be stupid, we need to find a middle ground.
This probably isn’t what you’re looking for but I’ve been playing RDR2 via Stadia and it works surprisingly well. It’s probably not at the level a hardcore gamer would want but streaming is well worth a look if you’ve been put off laptops because you want to play a few games now and then.
I have better things to do in life than optimise my CRUD creation skills so I can be a source of knowledge for CRUD creation
I've been making a similar argument for awhile. With the libraries now available and high level tools (Python, SQL, Numpy...etc) we can build tiny applications (just a few pages of code) that are easy to maintain and do exactly what we need. So replacing the majority of PSSE isn't very hard. An entire EMS system is another game entirely. It's not just the algorithms, but the full integration with SCADA and other things that most companies don't want to get involved with (too much risk).

On a different note, how are you approaching sparse matrices in Octave? Also, I assumed Octave's performance would be a non-starter here for large models. Is it performant enough for you?
well your first attack is only theoretically possible.
but it's basically impossible in a big network.

for a single user it's possible. for a network with gigabytes of data, it's basically impossible. it's not just a "tcpdump" and compare against fingerprint.

btw. it's also outdated.
And yet shops up to 800sqm are open again and the shopping street in in front of me apartment (in a larger German city) is crowded.

And no, we didn't contain the outbreak. But we have 20,000 ICU beds. Unlike France, Italy or Spain, who only have about 5000 each.

While in those countries, people could not be treated for lack of capacity, here in Germany we still have about 50% free ICU beds (as of two days ago, according to the health ministry).

That's why we have low mortality, while still having a pretty large number of infected people.
This is kind of correct, but a bit misleading.

It's an advance (loan) against a credit that will be applied to your 2020 taxes. So if you could somehow decline the stimulus check, you could then apply the credit to your 2020 tax bill next April.

But there is no path by which you'd repay it as a loan received.

- If you were getting a $0 tax bill, you'll still have a $0 tax bill

- If you owed $1500, you'd still owe $1500.

- If you overpaid 1500, you'd still get a $1500 refund.
I don’t want to discuss the reasons for encrypted communication, sorry. Citizenfour was a good movie though.
Could you please "open source" all your conversations to provide ground for reasoning "I have nothing to hide".

So, and we can discuss threat models.

Thank you.
I honestly don't understand this fetishization of "serverless" functions. It leads to so much vendor lock-in, tooling complexity, and straight-up lack of features.
Don't. Just don't.

Social media has proven to be a least common denominator gutter that worships outrage and chumbox spam. Either have bots make the snausage by filling the world with crap for money, or be at peace without approval in relative obscurity with worthwhile content and less money. There's not much middle-ground because it's half-stepping to not go all-in and focus one way or the other. Personally, IDGAF and would do the latter if I was forced to but don't really care what random, cyberdisinhibited people think because it's usually time-wasting noise.
So... that’s weird. I have a Macbook Air - not the most powerful machine on the planet - and a nearly full 1 TB dropbox with ~3 million files. Initial resync on boot takes under a minute.
This is literally the first listed feature :)
Making money is how the bubble inflates; if investors weren't making money anymore then it would be a popped bubble.
Using Elastic machine learning to detect anomalies in derivative values
Is Google a rebrand?
Are you hinting at something here, some threat maybe, that you think Netflix is responding to?

Or do you just not think that more security is a good thing generally and should be done for its own sake?
This is my first macOS app that I launched yesterday. Really excited to share it with you all. The app is called Presentify and it lets you better explain yourself during presentations or while working from home via video calls, etc. Given that most of us are now working from home, I thought this might be helpful to some.

Here are the links:

* Website: https://presentify.compzets.com

* Demo: https://youtu.be/CTR1iAbGhjg

* Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/presentify/id1507246666

Please, feel free to share your feedback. It would mean a lot to me.
Linux commands: du and the options you should be using
I’m surprised to see so many people nagging about the brand. As one user pointed out, there’s a big newspaper brand with that name already. And otherwise, who cares, really? Same company. It’s not a soccer team.
First they came for the lockdown protesters ...
I try to address those questions in my TEDx talks: http://joshuaspodek.com/my-second-tedx-talk-what-everyone-ge...

This Inc. article describes some of my early results: https://www.inc.com/joshua-spodek/365-days-without-flying.ht...

The answer no one wants to hear is that no words can convey what one learns from just committing. I'm in my fifth year and I haven't been able to convey to anyone the mindset shift. It's like trying to describe hearing Beethoven's ninth in Carnegie Hall, except bigger and better. What words can you use?
Great write-up and the chart is really befuddling -- surely someone must have a higher perceived income than their actual income, but that only occurs infrequently, and only at low levels of income. Interesting! How to feel more rich than you are? Is it due to the brutality of reality and society that we always feel we are lacking? I think the perceived income is greater for generous individuals, I would like to see a study on that.
That's from one month ago and it doesn't mean that those people would be dead equally if they had not been infected.

Actually the official number is grossly under-reporting COVID-19 deaths:

"We estimate that the number of COVID-19 deaths in Italy is 52,000 ± 2000 as of April 18 2020, more than a factor of 2 higher than the official number."

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.15.20067074v...
You aren't making any sense. 4K on 14 inches is 314 dpi. If you want 105 dpi equivalent that's almost exactly 3x.

Personally I find that makes things too large, but in no way does 1440p have an advantage in terms of fractional vs integer scaling.
Other products manage, so it's clearly not a case of "You can choose only one".
There is such a thing for C/C++ devs: Git.

This works so well you may have hardly even noticed its so widespread as a solution to the problems you describe.
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Multiple 0Day Vulnerabilities in IBM Data Risk Manager
You could at least put the whole quote from [3].

> Are artificial preservatives bad for you?

Some artificial preservatives, such as nitrites or nitrates used in processed meats, have been shown to be bad for our health, Hnatiuk said.

“Consuming these preservatives has been shown to increase our risk of colon cancer and should be limited in our diets,” she said.

However, others have been studied extensively and proven to be safe.

“It really just depends on the specific ingredient in question,” she explained.

She goes on to say:

> “Under normal circumstances, if preservatives are only consumed in small quantities, they shouldn’t pose any health risk,” Lui said.
That's exactly what I want to do. Do you have any guides you used? I'm having a little trouble with nfs and docker permissions (guid/uid I think) trickling down to the nfs share in my Synology.
Ive interpreted Chigurh as an agent of chaos much like the Joker. We've given our lives all this order and civilization but underneath is ultimately chaos.
How will the investors recoup their investment? What are Vercel users going to give up to please your new overlords?
Peter Thiel’s Palantir Saw Coronavirus Coming. Now It Braces for the Impact
sounds like "varicocele"
You are probably right. And given that June futures went down since yesterday, and the May futures went up, someone is probably doing that right now.
X is the number of people who would overwhelm your local hospital system. If the cost of you getting a haircut is that it renders healthcare inaccessible for your region, such that they cannot care for people who need it (e.g. people who get in car accidents) then that cost is too high.
Laissez faire exploitation results in banana republics in the victim nations, and ultra wealthy first world countries in the predator nations.

I.e. the US and UK have gone ahead wonderfully; the Philippines, China, Vietnam, Zimbabwe, South Africa.. not so much
Great. My cooking shows are encrypted to stop the communists learning my recipes.

Now, can I watch the shows that I paid for in 4K on my PC? No?

Come back when the advertised 4K is actual 4K.
I guess I should've said that it's a separate condition, rather than being unrelated. The standard each juror needs to consider when making their own determination is "beyond reasonable doubt" (or "preponderance" or "clear and convincing"), and in order for the verdict to be held by the jury it needs to be unanimous.
Can we just take a moment to appreciate that a sites legitimacy is questioned because the site isn't crippled by ads to the point of being nearly unusable? That's a really unfortunate state of affairs. Especially since I don't think small sites trying to build an audience can afford to cripple themselves to the same degree with ads as bigger sites can.

One reason I can think of for increased Republican content is because of outrage economics. They tend to generate more clicks. It's also something that isn't catered to by the big news networks. Smaller sites I'm regularly visiting for over ten years have also shifted in this direction and those type of articles always generate more comments than other ones, so the tactic seemingly works.
In addition, while I suppose you could make a Tesla purchase and take delivery mostly virtually, people are still deferring significant purchases for reasons that go beyond money.

It's just one more unnecessary thing to deal with right now. Furthermore, for many purchases, you can't totally deal with things over the phone or over the computer. I should get a new refrigerator one of these days but it's just not something I'm going to do until this is all over.
Python works great on Now once you figure out how to deploy it there.

The lack of detailed documentation around Python does make me nervous that they may drop support for it some day though.

My notes on running a Python app on Now v2: https://github.com/simonw/til/blob/master/zeit-now/python-as...
VOIP compression of speech too, at least in the past: http://www.cs.unc.edu/~amw/resources/hooktonfoniks.pdf

edit - said Skype initially but not sure it was specifically skype
Absolutely blown away by how good Factorio is, fiendishly addictive, seemingly endless possibilities.

I can see why it appeals to those with an engineering/tinkerers mindset.

Also from this post I just learned that Copy/Paste is a function in the game, _sigh_
Buy your groceries online programmatically
This is pretty cool. It’s reminds me of https://css-doodle.com/, which is a native web component with the same general goal. Iirc, it uses canvas under the hood.
That paywall, though.
He's 73 per the article.

And, economically, this is going to be a lot worse than 9/11.
Could you tell me what "data cherry picking" I did?
Enduring Techniques from the Technology Radar
I have the same issue with vim.
There has been no suggestion that this debt will be cancelled. If a family can barely make ends meet in normal times, how will they pay back several months' rent arrears? And what will happen when they don't?
Sure, but that can become a very big bill fast. Basically they can charge you (almost) whatever they want.
Modern OpenGL and SDL project wizard
Haha you nailed it :) I was thinking exactly the same before I clicked the link to open the discussion.

EDIT: That said, if you like brainless Zombies, I heard that Instagram can be good for dating. Just go to a cafe every day and post a picture of your mug, to prove to the world that you're rich and have lots of free time.
I use Signal on multiple desktops. It's a good experience and really works well. I can choose both.
There was a hack to force a call over cable I used to use when I did a lot of international calls for BT when I worked on international interconnect for x.400
Over a video call? Please no...
I performed a similar experiment in high school (~2007) but stored it in a plastic bag. After a few months it smelled absolutely horrible so I wrapped it in more bags and kept it hidden in an enclosed space. I decided to open it on the final day of high school about 2.5 years later and to this day I can recall the horrible smell and the texture. It has turned into a black slime as if it had retained or even gained lots of moisture; completely unrecognizable from its original form. Might be the worst smell I can remember to this day. I always heard people say that McDonald's burgers don't decompose, but after that experiment I never believed it because I had proven that it does decompose.

That miscommunication wasn't apparent to me back then, but seems more relevant than ever now. People often like to make bold claims without giving the relevant context or even without actually understanding the context. I see this all the time with news articles or videos making some claim, showing a small bit of evidence, then the information spreads quickly through social bubbles. If I decide to dig through the sources from which the article was derived, I find that there's often a very important piece of context missing. Whether that context was intentionally removed to twist a narrative or if the context was overlooked is not always clear, but it makes it hard to trust so many people and news articles today.

The best remedy for me so far has been to attempt to identify gaps in the knowledge of the people and articles that I'm observing, then try to fill in those gaps.

This article puts to rest my dissatisfaction with the simple claim that they don't decompose because it reveals the primary difference in testing between the conclusions formed by the 2 opposing experiments.
If you’re on a boat and someone falls overboard have you killed them if:

1) You don’t have a life preserver to throw them? No

2) You don’t have a life preserver to throw them and you don’t look for one? Regrettable, but still probably not.

3) You have a life preserver and don’t throw it to them? Yeah, that’s kinda bad.

4) You have a life preserver but you throw it to your rich friend who is still on deck because he paid for your stateroom and he collects life preservers? Yeah - you’re a schmuck and a murderer. So is your rich friend.
I too believed that my procrastination problem was ADHD. Almost everything I read about ADHD symptoms agreed on to my behaviour. This went on for like 8 years and one day I decided to visit a Psychiatrist.

He said it could be general anxiety and prescribed me medicines. I came back home and googled the medicine to find out that it is an anti-depressant, SSRI if you want to know.

Then I said to myself, "crap ADHD is due to the lack of Dopamine and not Serotonin, this is not going to workout". But I chose to take it according to the prescription, hoping that after the tablets are over I can go back to the second session and get my psychiatrist prescribe me ADHD medications.

After two weeks, I could feel the change. Suddenly there was motivation to work, my mind was not constantly fantasizing about the "perfect" work that will interest me. I could see interesting tasks to do in my current job (I am a web developer). I could sense business needs rather than writing the perfect code. I was productive. Challenges did not scare me. I could understand things in meetings without confusion, or obsessing over details. I stopped using pomodoro.

My obsession to constantly check Reddit, HN, Twitter, Youtube was rapidly dying out. Going to sleep did finally feel like going to rest, rather than one more "task" to struggle.

Most surprisingly, I did not give up on physical tasks. Usually I would give up the last rep when I am lifting, but under the medication I did reps to failure and that was the first time I did not give up something which is difficult.

I was still checking Reddit, HN out of habit, but I could stop when I want to. Even my relationship with my wife improved. This was indeed magical. Things I struggled to do or couldn't do became easier and I could do it naturally.

All of this, though lasted only for a few months, as I discontinued the medication for various reasons: people close to me were questioning like, "for how long are you going to depend on it", slowly I developed some tolerance for it, and some minor reversible-side-effects. Now I regret not forming habits when I had the chance with the medication.

The point being, the symptoms of OCD, anxiety disorder, ADHD and ADD all overlap, and don't assume yourself anything. Talk to a psychiatrist, because they know better. Hope this information helps someone or at the least gives them hope.
Human-centered tech can beat Covid-19 through contact tracing
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Public transportation is not something you can dump on others. Everyone is using it, or no one is since you simply can’t design infrastructure for both at the same time. You can’t have surface streets for cars and optimize them for pedestrians and bicyclists. And obviously people will choose cars as who wouldn’t want the comfort and privacy of their own vehicle, so the upper class in society won’t be participating in the public transportation, which also has predictably negative effects on the politics of it.

This is one example of something you can’t offset.
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I recently built a spaced-repetition module in learnawesome.org to help users practice and remember not just from whatever they're reading, but also by taking notes from meetings, conferences, videos etc. Wrote an article about it: https://medium.com/learn-awesome/practice-what-you-learn-usi...

Since learnawesome.org is open-source, if anyone needs a Ruby/Rails implementation of spaced-repetition algorithm, feel free to take code from here: https://github.com/learn-awesome/learn/blob/master/app/model...

Feedback and pull requests are of course welcome :)
Absolutely. The Massachusetts tax payers paid for those masks. The Feds stole them. Massachusetts didn't get a reimbursement check for the "seized" masks.
I think the money quote is this:

> perceiving an image of a body in virtual space rather than perceiving a body itself in shared space may be worse than not perceiving a body at all.

So drop the video and go audio only.

Of course, I'm legally blind, so I can't really understand why perceiving facial expressions and body language is apparently so important. But one of my best friends is totally blind, and the two of us have communicated over two decades without ever being able to see each other, so it can work.
Thanks! As a mom of a gifted preschooler, I’ve appreciated the chance to learn from your experience of parenting your gifted kids with respect and honesty. You remind me of Aunt Annie, another blogger who’s work has really resonated with me. http://auntannieschildcare.blogspot.com/p/aunt-annies-gifted...
ESX is basically free. You just can't manage your ESX hosts as a cluster using vCenter, which gives you things like vMotion or backup your VMs up using the vCenter API.

Also, the Windows client was dropped a while ago and the Flash version is now deprecated.
That won't help you very much if the goal is to maintain familiarity with VMware products (which is the entire point of the VMUG licensing scheme).
Primark, with no online sales presence, goes from £650m sales a month to nothing
There are still people crowding and riding the subway. There are also plenty of people walking around on the sidewalk without masks on. Oh and Central Park is absolutely packed with people.

The citizens of NYC are their own worst enemy.
Logos are an art form, choosing a logo that scales well, this article does not even show historical forms for the logos it enjoys, which is a pity, because that's where the learning is.
Okay, but isn't the point of designated market makers to always provide liquidity?
Norway uses a mixed system (it used to have juries for some cases; the very last jury decision after the law was changed was logically unsound - two questions, one of the four combinations was impossible; the juries returned that one) of panels of judges (from 1 to 7) depending on the type of case. For the most serious criminal cases the panel will have 2 professional legally trained judges and 5 "lay judges" - basically jurors of a sort, but unlike in a jury trial all of the judges (professionals and lay judges) deliberate together and vote together. In a 7 judge panel, at least 1 of the professional judges and at least 4 of the lay judges must vote guilty for a conviction.

This feels to me like it gets most of the benefit of both a jury and of professional judges. It avoids a lot of the issue of whether or not the lay judges understand the jury instructions and the legal aspects they're asked to judge on, but also ensures the prosecutor does need to convince both the lay judges and the professional judges for a conviction.