skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. Until a couple of weeks ago I would be able to view individual photos but now I can only view the profile until I hit the login restriction.
Another datapoint suggesting the death rate of this virus is within 0.5%.
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Arrives
All those new features sound so ... unexciting.

I like that!
Amazon Basics has similar thing that is essentially the same but looks a bit less stylish and costs half of what mStand costs. I've been using it for almost 4 years now and it works great.
Yep, this happened at least five months ago.

https://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2019/10/28/instagram-now-...
App Builder: a RAD IDE for multiplatform apps with perpetual license
I was ticked off by that, because I would have made much bigger gains had stocks been allowed to fall to their true bottoms. Instead I was forced to buy in (with my entire life savings) or risk losing out.

And yeah, I could have put less in, but I've been sitting on the sidelines, waiting for a crash for years!
It's also the solution to a fun puzzle/brain teaser: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/puzzle-19-poison-and-rat/
Just tried with my own Instagram in incognito in desktop. I could scroll the grid for a few wheel-scrolls before being asked to log in. Clicking any image yielded a log-in prompt.

This isn't how the open web is supposed to work. (nor is IG's suppression of hyperlinks to a single link within the bio.)
You can install snapd on Ubuntu and then install the snap package manager which is a snap.
There is nothing that forbids Lubuntu to use snaps.
Garbage news source
> If you believe this, you won't believe what's in this box[1].

There's a fundamental difference between GPU code and vector CPU instructions, though. GPU shader instructions aren't interwoven with the CPU instructions.

Yes, if you restrict yourself to not arbitrarily mixing the vector code with the non-vector code, you can put the vector code off in a dedicated processor (GPU in this case). The GP explicitly stated that a lack of this restriction prevents efficiently farming it off to a coprocessor.
That GDP number is way off. 1.5B / 1 million people is 1,500$ per person. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._metropolitan_area... Gives 146B in 2018.

That’s 350M number is also extremely suspect, at a minimum including existing city residents as the hotel reservations are vastly below attendance.

Still even assuming that 350M was correct and not ridiculously inflated it’s 350/146,000 = 0.2%.
This seems like an odd choice... do you know the rationale? (or have a link to an issue/RFC I could go read)
I think it's actually just some javascript that prevents clicking links from a profile to the individual photos.

Deep-linking still works without an account, so you can just right click a photo, copy the url and paste it into the URL bar.
> some telegram rooms have tens of thousands of members

I'd say that at this point you can either:

* accept that there is no confidentiality anymore. It's just not realistic to have a "secret" group with that many members

* have the person who adds new members forward them the group key, and give up on key rotation

btw, I'm wondering how treeKEM manages malicious members when key rotation happens
Book Sorting Technique
Author here. Previously, it only happened when I was using a VPN, even if its server was in Brazil, where I live.

I also checked with friends and relatives living in another cities in Brazil. They also hit that form when trying to access photos unlogged.
Appreciate you pointing that out! I'll make sure this is fixed ASAP.
The slides contained in it were shared by the governor. Though maybe you're calling him a garbage news source.
When I first heard this story it was the RAF not the USAF. I somewhat doubt how true it was.
This was very clearly written, thank you.
It seems so, and the fact that people are accusing me of ageism as I pointed out that a company hires only people below 24 years of age is very telling...
> In tests/capita US is 42nd

That requires that you compare the US to Iceland, Faeroe Islands, Falkland Islands, UAE, Malta, Gibraltar, Luxembourg, Bahrain, Estonia, San Marino, Cyprus, Isle of Man, Lithuania, Brunei, Qatar, Liechtenstein, Ireland, Latvia, Andorra, Channel Islands, Bermuda, Aruba.

Nice try.

Back on planet earth, here's the list of actual sane comparables that are in front of the US, in order:

Italy, Germany, Spain, Australia, Russia, Canada

And Russia is fake. They haven't tested much at all.

The US has tested at a higher rate than South Korea (which is behind all of those tiny nations also).

The US testing rate is just behind Belgium, a nation 1/29th the size of the US. And it's not very far behind Singapore at this point, either.
Correct. This is not a new behavior. Also, did the author check for any kind of cookie or fingerprinting? I would guess Instagram is much more likely to allow some sample viewing, and by clearing all stored data, you can get another quantity of samples. I would have tried that first before the user agent.

A more accurate title would probably be (this is conjecture) "Instagram expands loginwall to other countries, eg Brazil"
About 10 years ago I met the head of IT for B&H cameras in NYC. Among many things, he was in charge of the hosting for their online store. After he complained about dealing with physical servers, I asked him if he had ever considered using AWS ec2 for the website, and he replied that his boss refused because he believed that Amazon would pull data on B&H products and use it to compete more effectively.

I'm not sure that Amazon would be able to pierce the veil of the hypervisor like that, but his instincts were in the correct direction.
> The reason the tests were randomly taken from those at grocery and big-box stores is that these were people not isolating in their homes and presumably not at work and therefore not essential workers.
Shopify has an App Store. I'm assuming they can copy popular apps from there.
If you just want a simple way to access your mail over HTTP (without the need for standards) you could probably also run imap-api[1] pointed at the Bridge. Although admittedly it does feel a bit hacky.

Or maybe also getmail or fetchmail which will download your mail over IMAP and put it in the maildir format as files.

[1] https://github.com/andris9/imapapi
Let's all stop finger-pointing and do more what Effective Altruism encourages: using resources more effectively:

- donate money where it does more good per dollar spent - if you're able to

- spend working time on important issues - if you're able to

Just because some millionaires aren't doing anything to make the world a better place, doesn't mean those with fewer means can't. We in the tech field with our salaries especially.
Some friends roped me into signing up to Instagram, so I did. I got to the sign in process and "an error occurred". I tried to login and it said "account does not exist", but I tried to re-sign up, and it said "This account already exists". I emailed them for help but they said I had to post a photo of myself holding a pad with my username on it.

Which, fair enough, but giving away my face to a faceless corporation isn't my jam. If this is how they treat their prospective customers (or rather their income -- people they make money selling data from) I'm not really interested in signing up.
I was super sick in 2nd week of January. Worst dry cough I have ever had and it lasted 3 weeks. Chills, headaches, loss of appetite. Felt run down for weeks afterwards. Threw up a few times. Now pretty sure it was this.
Electron is Chrome and Chrome itself is pretty tightly optimised for what it does. The issue isn't actually Electron so much as using a platform designed for typesetting for making complex GUI apps, a task for which it was never designed and isn't particularly good at.

But. That said. Whilst I'm no big fan of web apps, there are good reasons they're so prevalent. It's not merely about developer convenience. Native GUI toolkits can appear artificially performant because they're required by the OS and thus almost always resident, vs cross platform toolkits that may be used by only one app at a time. When you open the lid though the gap between an engine like Blink and something like Qt, JavaFX or Cocoa isn't that big. They're mostly doing similar things in similar ways. The big cost on the web is the DOM+CSS but CSS has proven popular with devs, so native toolkits increasingly implement it or something like it.
I hate these walled apps. Having to log in is maddening. Especially Facebook, especially right now...

As a photographer, I have to have some sort of IG presence but I absolutely hate the app, the UX and the whole enchilada. Its the worst viewing experience possible for good photos and yet is the medium of choice for so many... I miss the old web.
> There's nothing to gain by faking a GPU.

Moving applications that can do anything into sandboxed pages in a browser that can't do arbitrary things to the user's system is a win. The more capable the browser is, the more things that once would have been downloaded applications can become safely sandboxed pages.
100ºC is boiling though. You would probably smell solder rosin!

Edit: Well TIL there is an awful lot of heat to get rid of.
You forget the other big competitors.

Sun pushed OpenOffice to cut MS's profits from Office

Google and MS are pushing into the Cloud to reduce Amazon's influence

Amazon is creating its own ad network and offering Twitch to reign in Google

Walmart is slowly creating its own global online shopping platform to compete with Amazon

Should Amazon ever have no competitor, monopoly regulations would kick in. But usually, all the other big players will make sure that Amazon has enough competition to not be invincible. It's not fun for small players, but they obviously don't care enough to organize and take their products off Amazon.

Btw, Amazon does not necessarily have less overhead due to Price's law: [1]

>The square root of the number of people in a domain do 50% of the work.

Should Amazon expand into every business, they would be so huge that all their efficiencies and more would be eaten up by the overhead.

[1]https://brainlid.org/general/2017/11/28/price-law.html
>I think the biggest thing I would miss is being able to send texts from my computer. I use that all the time. I and a Windows computer at work for a bit and it absolutely drove me nuts.

That's primarily an issue with iOS APIs (or lack thereof), though. Gotta switch phones as well :)
I have the carbon too, but I also have a Dell which is a similar thickness but with a drop down sprung Ethernet port. Annoying Lenovo couldn’t fit the same.
Drupal Flu too. DrupalCon, an event with just a few thousand attendees practically always spread illness. Read https://groups.drupal.org/node/294978 this post from 2013, it'll be eerily familiar:

> Learn to wash your hands properly. We all think we know how to wash our hands, but most of us don't. Really.

> Wash your hands regularly, especially after lots of handshaking (Some people even wish we could avoid shaking hands), or handling money — and always before eating.

> Don't touch your face, especially your eyes, nose or mouth.

Really, covid instructions are nothing new.
Yep. There's a video in the post showing that. If you change the browser's user agent to any browser in iPhone or Android, photos and videos open normally.
That's absolutely not the same thing lol. What Amazon did is unethical. What you are describing is illegal.
Sure, you're both right, I didn't really explain why I think it's we're in the part of the business cycle where gold performs better.

As these cycles take a long time, it's better to look at long term charts, like this:

https://www.macrotrends.net/1378/dow-to-gold-ratio-100-year-...

Gold is an asset that was able to keep its value for 5000 years (unlike fiat currencies), and it has to be mined, it can't just be created in an excel spreadsheet in the FED. If you put these things together, it makes sense, that having a new high every few years is normal (just like with stocks).

Gold performs well in highly inflationary environments, so the question is whether the FED stops printing money, or it will just print much more than it did recently (about 4T). To me it looks like it just has gotten started.
You don't put your eyes 30 cm from your TV. It's about angular distance between pixels. At 3 meters, a normal viewing distance, normal eyes cannot see the difference between 4K and 8K on a 55 inch TV.
I won't argue with you on the nature of the disease because I simply don't know enough about it, but that's sort of irrelevant to my point.

My point isn't that people should never be put on ventilators.

My point is that the decision to ventilate or not isn't just based on whether it increases the chances of survival. You need to also look at the suffering it causes.

It may be that, as you're claiming, it doesn't cause more suffering, so in that case it makes sense to give it a try. I'm more inclined to think that that question needs to be asked on a case by case basis, however.
> How do they find enough suitable land to practice their way of life?

It's a stupid answer, but I would guess they buy it, just like anyone else. I've heard about groups of Amish moving to new areas to start communities.
The issue here is moral hazard. Yes, buying insurance is bad if it disincentivizes you to work your hardest to prevent the outcome that you're insured against.

Not saying that everyone with a bunker falls into this category. But it's certainly true that when the best resourced and connected among us have the means to withdraw comfortably, their aggregate effort to remedy whatever is causing the disruption will diminish.
France started testing systematically in EHPAD (nursing home for retired fully dependent elders). That's why they have the most dramatic fatality rate out of every country now.

Not sure it was a good idea to test and attribute all the deaths to COVID.
Metal predates Vulkan by over a year. Vulkan probably wouldn’t have happened if it weren’t for Metal.
> At the beginning there were some authorities (China, WHO) claiming there was no human-to-human transmission.

I don't understand how this misconception persists. That is not what the WHO statement said.

The statement was that the outbreak was not being sustained by community transmission, and that they believed (this was very early on) that the cases from the Wuhan market were all due to exposure to a single case or pathogen.

This was, obviously, wrong. But at the time it wasn't unreasonable to believe. That's the way most outbreaks work when you catch them early.

At no point did anyone say that a respiratory coronavirus was not contagious, which is how people insist on treating that statement. Of course these things are contagious, that's how they spread.
Glad to see that dokku is still alive. Definitely recommend this.
My example to follow in this domain is Max Levchin: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-...

To Levchin, prepping for survival is a moral miscalculation; he prefers to “shut down party conversations” on the topic. “I typically ask people, ‘So you’re worried about the pitchforks. How much money have you donated to your local homeless shelter?’ This connects the most, in my mind, to the realities of the income gap. All the other forms of fear that people bring up are artificial.” In his view, this is the time to invest in solutions, not escape. “At the moment, we’re actually at a relatively benign point of the economy. When the economy heads south, you will have a bunch of people that are in really bad shape. What do we expect then?”
I have maybe dumb questions...

I have been using Linux for for almost 15 years now. Mint, RHEL, CentOS and most recently Ubuntu. For some reason, though, I can't understand all these variations in Ubuntu flavors. For example, other than the Desktop Environment, what else does Lubuntu offer that vanilla Ubuntu doesn't? Can't one just install the desktop environment on Ubuntu? Isn't this stuff modular, take in what you want take out what you don't?

So what exactly is Lubuntu's value proposition over Ubuntu?
The study I got these numbers from doesn't seem to classify asthma or obesity as a comorbidity. The largest ones are hypertension, diabetes, ischemic heart disease, atrial fibrilation, active cancer in past 5y, heart failure, COPD, dementia, stroke and chronic liver disease. Not familiar with all items in this list but some seem pretty serious.
Do you know why, technically, being packaged as a snap would increase start time and memory usage?
FWIW, Windows laptops (that you can then install Linux on) have had hidpi screens for more than 15 years (!!), and Ubuntu's fractional scaling works really well right out of the box now.
It's sloppy, but why is redirection a concern? If there's an issue that redirects login information to a test account, it could just as easily be redirected to any other account (test or not).
Hey guys.. really nice. Does the progress bar on my activity runs automatically?
TLDR: 1. Go, 2. Java, 3. C++17.

Java was slightly faster than go but used significantly more memory. C++17 was slower than both and used more memory than go.

I’m still reading for more details on the implementations, but the results are certainly not what I would’ve predicted.
And spotlight. Why is desktop search so bad everywhere else?
They will save a lot of money.
To me that is not a problem as long as they are not giving their own products better placement. If 50 brands of cornflakes and in them target has a 10 white-label brands that is not a problem but if all 10 white-label brands are put in front of other brands ie first few in search results then it is a problem.
They would work well enough on the computers of that generation and painfully slow on today's supercomputers. Yes, just like the software we have today.

I was trying to express that Electron (and the like) is not an inherently bad thing. It allows to trade hardware capacity for easier development experience. Those developers who use it create useful software that works. And software that works in a given environment is exactly the point of the industry, is it not?
What if running certain apps or heavy loads did not shorten the laptop's battery life from 8-10 hours?

Is an Apple processor chip able to provide more results in macOS creative apps (GarageBand, Logic, etc.) per watt-hour than any Intel chip? If so, then Apple will target Pro users with the A14, because it'll reduce demand on the battery in Pro scenarios. Either they'll reduce the weight of the laptop, and/or trade battery volume for other purposes, and/or increase the advertised battery life of the laptop.

An iMac Pro is just a MacBook Pro glued to the back of a much larger monitor and a higher thermal cap. So if they would do it for MacBook Pro, they would do it for iMac Pro. And that means that the iMac Pro, which has a fixed amount of thermal capacity, would make more efficient use of the heat it generates.

x% more efficient use of a battery on a laptop translates to y% improvement of some other aspect of a laptop and a desktop, and Apple isn't historically afraid of adding a new macOS architecture when improvements require it.
Boiling for water. Don’t think your motherboard is made out of that :)
LOL.... I know what you are saying,

It's interesting how different people process information.

All I can say is that it works for me.... and I find it to be highly impactful on my co-workers etc.

There is something about capturing nuance that "multimedia" really helps with....

So my mission is to reduce the effort it takes for me to do this to less then it takes to just write up and share notes...
I'm honesty curious what crime this would be. If I rent time on someone else's server, and they look at what I'm doing on that server, what illegal thing has happened?
You mean the Zuckerberg who funded the program that will now provide free COVID-19 testing to all California counties? https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/04/417191/ucsf-offer-free-cov...
Whenever I read this stuff now I just feel a little sad.

For years OS X (macOS?) has been my go-to, but lately I find myself wondering why I’m paying such a premium for what amounts to some nice-but-problematic hardware and an OS with a bolted-on package manager. To develop iPhone apps I guess?

I see some good points in this thread (e.g. iMessage). Maybe I’m just getting old. I’d rather just have a ThinkPad or an EliteBook running Ubuntu or, sigh, Windows. (I’m not a Windows fan but at least it doesn’t feel like it’s regressing like the Mac experience has been.)
Friendly reminder that Oracle has no customers, only hostages.
How to find duplicate nodes based on a scalar attribute value in dgraph?
Any way to do that?
P.S: https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/how-to-find-duplicate-nodes-base...
If you care about width and not height, keep an eye out for new Xperia models. I think I remember some speculation that one of them (Xperia PRO?) might be unusually narrow.

> Neither google or android serve this market.

Agreed. I miss my Xperia Mini Pro.
This is a known phenomenon at science fiction conventions as well, typically known as "con crud". It's not uncommon for a large percentage of attendees to all get sick immediately after an event.

It turns out conventions of any type are excellent vectors for spreading contagion.
What evidence is there that "the rich" created the coronavirus pandemic? Or am I simply misunderstanding your comment?
Opening in a normal new tab should work as well. I think it's because clicking a photo normally uses client-side navigation (navigates with JS), while opening in a new tab will fetch the entire new page.
What is meant by “protection” in real OOP?
I read up on the history of Smalltalk and Object Oriented Programming, and one thing I have not quite grasped is the idea of "protection."

I know you can protect methods from being accessed by making them private or protected in certain programming languages but something else must be meant here.

Do you protect objects from being changed? Do you protect them from being "talked to" / responding with valuable returns to unauthorized requests / initial-message-senders? To what purpose?

And how exactly are they being protected, by what mechanism so to speak? (particularly in Smalltalk)
I wonder if the purpose of this is legal IP control and not so much to get people to login to the platform.