skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps the UPS logistics backend was fed a photo of the recipient address, and did a likelihood analysis of what the text in the image could potentially be OCRed to, given the places the sender usually sends stuff, the mass+volume of the box, the content-type customs declaration (if any), etc.; and it ranked your address as the first one to try.

Is that within the current state of the art—metadata-assisted OCR like that?
I just had a look at /r/reclassified and saw that /r/GavinMcInnes has been banned. He's a conservative talkshow host. While I was still around, /r/ClownWorld and /r/CringeAnarchy got banned too. Both were critical of extreme leftwing politics, while being politically incorrent.

/r/SargonOfAkkad is quarantined, meaning it's circling the drain before being banned.

Actually just browsing /r/reclassified sorted by top posts brings up a lot of examples. It's not all political of course, there are literal CP subs getting axed like /r/AgePlayPenpals, but banned subreddits are overwhelmingly either conservative, anti-feminist or edgy or equivalent.
I’m still very much a pen & paper kind of person; if there’s something worth communicating, I prefer to break out the fountain pen and the writing paper. I’ve got a drawer full of envelopes and stamps and I keep resupplying. I’m also one of the few people who still sends (sent) postcards when travelling (travelled) —all duly adjusted for the current state of affairs, of course— mainly because sending a tangible item with a postmark and perhaps the GPS coordinates of where you’re sending from is now a novelty.

Anyway, I have to say, my experience with flawed or incomplete addresses has been very disappointing. Many people probably just pick up the unsolicited commercial mail that drops into their inboxes in industrial quantities and just discard it en masse, probably with that tiny proportion of actual ‘valuable’ material inside.

The postal system really is quite amazing. We tend to think of it as archaic but in reality it’s an enormously powerful, flexible, and efficient logistics system that spans the planet. What never ceases to boggle my mind is how it comes down to people: when envelops go through the sorting facility, those that are hard to parse with OCR are read by people (and it depends on the legibility of your handwriting!), that last mile depends on a person, and again, in this case, an anomaly was (successfully) managed by a person. It’s all very touching.
> I could turn your argument around: If Ruby were anywhere near as popular, widely used, and successful as Excel, I'd be willing to consider that maybe the idea that Ruby is a viable programming language has some merit.

How is Excel, as widely used, a programming language? Excel sheets in their widely used form are not instructions or behaviour; you can't run them, only manually edit them. Perhaps there is a way to turn Excel sheets into programs, but I highly doubt such a way of using Excel would be more popular than Ruby.

> Can you come up with a plausible definition of visual programming languages that excludes Excel, without being so hopelessly contrived and gerrymandered that it also arbitrarily excludes other visual programming languages?

I'd say a visual programming language is a programming language for which the primary way of making changes to the program is visual. Even if we were to consider Excel a programming language, the primary way in which people make changes to Excel sheets - especially advanced users who are doing more programming-like things - is by editing textual formulae, IME.
Looks like the question really driving this paper is "why are humans touching their faces so much [and spreading viruses]?"
I would be willing to bet that if you combine all the different lists that New York State and its various agencies have (DMV, DOE, Department of Taxation and Finance, NYC ID, jury duty, voter registration, social services, etc.), that you would easily get >99% coverage of all people who've resided here for at least one year.

This would be a much better list to sample randomly from than "go to a grocery store and test everyone who walks in".

I should point out on /r/nyc, some local redditors saw the testing going on all week in the same location and posted about it, informing others. I suspect this led people who wanted a free test to actively seek them out, especially because it's so hard to get tested otherwise. I'm pretty sure I had it over a month ago and I still haven't gotten tested, so if I'd seen those posts in time I'd have headed over there to get tested myself. Point is, the sample is even further biased because word spread around and some number of people getting tested there were actively seeking it out for reasons.
Original Content podcast: ‘Ozark’ keeps building tension in season three
I have a dual core dev machine. Using -j 2 builds twice as fast (approx 35 mins -> 17 mins). Are current compiles really obligatory single thread? Because I sure would like to prop up intel with my wallet.
That doesn't work for multiple people in the same room all wearing AirPods. Everyone's mic picks up everyone's voice, not just the "real" speaker.

And a lot of meetings have most (e.g. 10) people in a single room, with another handful (e.g. 5) of remote participants.
Anyone aware of European datasets coming from agricultural remote sensing? I'd also be interested in forest land datasets.
It depends if you think of your country as an accessory burden or as the ensemble of your fellows.

Incidentally, this seems to be an argument towards smaller, culturally homogeneous countries, where it is much easier to feel connected to the whole set of your countrymen.
Cascading Economic Impacts of the Covid-19 Outbreak in China [pdf]
You are correct about 1918. That led to a recession in 1919 and 1920.

The lessons learned then led to the New Deal as a response to the crash of 1929, and that did include handouts.
I don't see it as a question of understanding as much as caring. It's not very realistic to do a "here's technical details of the protocol we'll be using" talk every time you invite someone.
Lesson from Anne Frank: “Holocaust II” Is Neither a Movie nor Our Reality
Hahaha, I thought it was going to be something fancy but it's freaking Kvikk Lunsj. If you don't know what that is, it's Scandinavian Kit Kat. That makes this even better.
Every comment is [dead] automatically without being flagged.
Though judging by peer-reviewed research [1] and falling teen pregnancy rates [2], s/he's probably right.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/data/yrbs/pdf/trends/2015_u...

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/teenpregnancy/about/index.htm
The key word here is "available". Computers were available in the 1960s as well, but there wasn't one in everybody's pocket.

The innovation here seems to be primarily about making this available in circumstances where it wouldn't otherwise be.
>That doesn't mean the course creators aren't still doing well.

There's almost certainly a power law effect. I'm sure a (small) subset of people who do training/consulting/writing/instruction who have managed to build mostly fairly small-scale but very respectable businesses. The nice thing about video training course is that they're probably a better way for a solo practitioner to scale than most other things out there. Assuming they have the skillsets/talent for it of course.
> Formal methods don't make bugs or debugging disappear. They move it to different domain - the development of the proof.

They make the thing we usually call bugs and usually experience as debugging disappear. The thing that remains is a very different activity with very different properties.
Bullshit.

Every country's different.
That's federal prison data. People who go to federal prison aren't necessarily the same cross-section of the population who go to state prison.

Anyway, those numbers are certainly much younger than the median age in the USA nationally, which is 39 years with over 65s being 15% of the population.
My printed or cursive thetas have horizontal or tilde like bar in the middle.
Google "yarn plug and play", rather than "yarn zero installs". There isn't much in the way of details outside of the main Yarn website -- now focussed on Yarn 2 -- which has the documentation (vs Yarn 1.n, which does not have plug and play and works the same as NPM, and has now moved to classic.yarnpkg.com)

(Edit: I'm not quite sure how this would have completely prevented the issue? P'n'p is very good and seems to be a real step forward for JS package management but surely the same issue could have occurred regardless?)
Dyson Says UK No Longer Needs Its Covid-19 Ventilator
How Australian contact tracing app works
5G Engineers Receive Death Threats from People Who Think It Causes Coronavirus
I like the idea of visual programming for the same reason I like the idea of my compiler acting as a theorem prover. However, my sense is that both visual programming and formal systems run into the same problem, in that the space of possibilities, the space that needs to be expressed visually, explodes combinatorially, and so we find that the process of working in a visual environment is necessarily less expressive, always a bit behind what can be said by just writing it out in a program. That's why we do our best with compilers and type systems, but still have to write tests.
Looks like they're going to leverage only our microphones, not the computers. Just another plausible way to suck even more data into the cloud.
yes, ppp gdp was largely on par a decade ago too. apparently that's not as worrying to american politicians and policymakers as nominal gdp, as it's nominal gdp being manipulated for appearances (besides monetary policy, the government apparently has enough tentacles into industry and regional accounting to do so).
SiPearl Announces Licensing of Arm Zeus Neoverse CPU IP
Skew isn't the right word. But relative to average this is definitely younger.

https://www.indexmundi.com/united_states/age_structure.html

Local demographics will vary wildly but it looks like the baseline would be 16% 65 and older, 13% in the range of 55-64. Since we're talking about prisons we should probably ignore the population under 18, so the normalized expected population over 65 is closer to 20%.
> Went to buy insurance, couldn't because ToS lists countries couldn't do business with includes, Sadi, Iran, Iraq and Quebec.

What company is this out of curiosity? To think they see nations entrenched by Wahhabism, or Shariah Law to be on equal footing with Quebec when assessing their threat analysis', it seems like quite a leap in risk management strategies.

I'm told Quebec is a lovely place, to visit... mainly for the reasons you described. And the only working relationships I've had with people from there were 50/50 on relative polar positions: as in one of the most short sighted, lazy entitled person to deal with, to a pretty good worker who showed motivation to want to be part of a team and be a part of something that mattered and willing to adapt to their given situation/role.

Oddly enough, they were a couple.

Also worth noting the post that Amazon's DC in France look to be mothballed, too:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/amazon-is-at-a-standsti...

Their Québécois may sound odd when compared to the Old World, but it seems they're just as 'French' in practice. Maybe we'll see Yellow Vests to a street near you.
This. I love shooting E6 slide film for landscapes, but it is very unforgiving if the exposure is even slightly off.
Who knows. I recently ordered a 12 foot long rug. It got delivered by fedex to a lady across town. Neither the address nor the lady had anything to do with me. Wasn’t like a one letter off thing.

Called fedex and they were like that’s weird. Let me call the driver. Like 4 days later the driver went to the ladies house, got it back, and brought it to me.
To be fair, the US is not the only country going through this ideological denialism. Most countries in the world are.

Some (e.g.: Brazil), are even worse than the US.
> Shouldn't programmers by default be suggesting the best algorithm/programming language/design patterns for the problem at hand? In a perfect world, yes. But we live in an imperfect world where sub-optimal choices are made due to time constraints, lack of knowledge/experience, etc.

I don't understand. Are you saying you frequently have non-technical customers of your software business asking for specific languages, design patterns and frameworks which end up being the optimal choices? In my personal experience this has never been the case. Also somehow I feel like it would be even worse if they heard about them from TV instead of from a generic blog post somewhere.
Covid Mask Policy Simulator
Python 2.7.18: the last release of Python 2
They may not understand the underlying architecture, but they definitely do understand it from a user perspective - they can send an email regardless of provider.

Telephones are the same way, too. You get a phone number from whatever company you want and can use it to call people no matter what provider they’re using.

I’m not convinced that open/federated protocols are inherently more difficult for people in general to understand.
B2B Video Networking Tool for LinkedIn [Idea]
Intel: Tiger Lake Client CPUs Coming Mid-Year
I also just discovered that there's an HN gopher hole!

hngopher.com/1/

I loaded up the open source app Pocket Gopher (available on F-Droid), and while the formatting of ASCII graphics doesn't translate well to portrait mode, everything works.
> It will also show an undercount of at least an order of magnitude.

It seems pretty likely that the data will come out showing at least 10%, so it's literally impossible for it to undercount by an order of magnitude.

How do you think a random sample of inhabitants would be off by a whole order of magnitude, anyway? Can you explain the mechanism whereby that might happen? The only thing that comes to mind would be using a worthless test with a 90+% false negative rate.
Turn on "showdead" in your profile, then look at their comments. Usually it's easy to tell why it's happened, but if there are comments that don't deserve to be dead, you can "vouch" for them individually to help resurrect them (click on comment timestamp, then click "vouch"). That has happened here.
There are two considerations here. One is whether you get the optimal assembly for min and max operations. Using the GLSL intrinsic is probably the best way to get confidence in that, but it's also likely that compilers are smart enough to figure it out when given other input. If it did compile to an actual branch, it would be much slower. Also note on AVX there are VMINPS and VMAXPS instructions.

The other consideration is the style of writing the code. If you were writing for a sequential processor with fast branching, it would be very tempting to write "if in the corner, compute this. If exterior on the edge, compute that. etc." This might save quite a bit in the number of "actual work" operations, but is much more likely to compile into branches, which on a GPU (or SIMD or, likely, any modern CPU) the will cost more than the work saved.

So it's very idiomatic when writing shader code to use min and max to combine a bunch of cases into a unified code path that can be executed as a straight line.
I went to HS at the #1 school in my state in the early 2000s, and my experience was like GP's, not yours. Nothing s/he said was surprising to me.
Panoramic no (panoramas work on a single axis), but interesting despite that.

One of the applications for a thing like that would be creating 3D environments of concerts and other historical events that were fairly accurate from any angle, though, which could have some pretty interesting effects (could you imagine how interesting it would be if you could watch old concerts of dead artists, or a politician's speech from a hundred years ago, with 6 degrees of freedom, "accurate to the millimeter!" or something?) and outcomes and so on. Much more interesting historical record-keeping.
Should We Let Boys Be Boys? The Social Differences Between the Sexes
You see I disagree with your fundamental premise, capitalism is a means to amplify creation of money and wealth inequality which is a bad thing, but people sometimes use it for good to help each other.
No, they didn't. Literally, nobody.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/turkey-sentences-doctors-to-pr...

You should probably just stop digging, information is available on internet for free and every single one of your claims can be refuted in a few seconds. They do send people to jail over the most ridiculous things, even doctors.
I use it all the time! I do really messy stuff locally, and then I rebase to organize it into commits that tell a story, which makes it easier for reviewers (and archaeologists, such as me in 5 months) to understand.

Most common pattern: Commit 1 does a preliminary refactoring, commit 2 does the actual feature change.

If you squash them together, the changes are harder to understand. But in the editing process, I often end up doing additional refactoring before I'm done with the feature work, so I use rebase -i to reorder and squash the changes appropriately. (I also run tests at both commits to make sure that my story is true, heh.)

(This way, you can even do things like later revert the feature change without undoing the refactoring work.)
Negative Oil Prices Were a Warning, Not an Anomaly
Entirely possible, but there's also potential selection bias.

I was a teen in the late 90s, and was friends with a lot of the druggie/stoner/party crowd. By and large, these people do not have kids, because they can't afford to. A good many of them are dead now, either from overdoses, or drug-related accidents (like crashing their car while going 100 mph while high), or suicide.

The 55 years of American history post-WW2 was a bubble, where people could get away with a number of not-very-adaptive behaviors because the whole country was on top of the world. The last 20 years has rapidly exposed this as a bubble, and the folks who were swimming naked when the tide ran out didn't leave offspring to be part of the next generation.
I think it's also definitely the case that social media increases peer pressure to conform. If you say the wrong thing, have the wrong political opinion, you will be publicly shamed.
No Context
For one, the whole story about silencing the reactor flaw in secret libraries by KGB was made up, AFAIK.
One thing that didn’t seem to be noted in the rest of the comments: the actual mortality rate can’t be formally calculated until the pandemic has subsided. What you are seeing now are estimates and projections for the number that they’ll end up being able to calculate when the disease has stopped spreading.
I feel like it’s only gotten to be a time pressured, low interaction profession in urban areas where economics is against community. It might still be a great job in smaller towns.
Honestly answer this, would an average person with more money in their account spend it or leave it there?
That can't be good for the mental health of younger people in general. Idols are easy to fanaticize over; not just for teens, but for adults too. HN is a testament to that. But then again HN is a testament to a broad set of fucked up things in general.

I can see how the sniping from random strangers on a near constant basis would cause issues, because there are less and less actual "communities" (ala IRC channels, forums, etc) being formed, it's more of a anyone-can-drop-in-post-and-leave situation because, well, that's the nature of these platforms nowadays. There is no encouragement to build some kind of a conversation with any particular individual beyond the current post/thread/whatever.

Really shitty state of things.
As an American, what shocked me in the UK was the amount of ads for sports gambling. Literally every commercial during games was for a betting site. It felt pretty gross.
The article (the readme on github) takes the following quote wildly out of context:

> A recent high-profile forensic investigation reported that “due to end-to-end encryption employed by WhatsApp, it is virtually impossible to decrypt the contents of the downloader [.enc file]

This quote clearly means it is virtually impossible without the key. OF COURSE if you have full access to the device as a logged in user, then you can get access to the key and decrypt things that cannot be decrypted by others who do not have the key. Nothing to see here.

At least to the author’s credit the FAQ answers below clarify this, but not after the lead in, which is all most people read, has already done the damage of dramatically planting the incorrect impression that someone has figured out how to break WhatsApp encryption.
>>> it provides a good customer experience: good prices

Amazon had not offered better prices than the main brick-and-mortar shops for a long long time. Try comparing the items you see in shops with the same on Amazon and be Amazed.

The best are small household items. Sellers buy from Ikea and resell on Amazon. Sometimes customers find out and they post reviews you can imagine, "OMG this is the £4 cutlery pack from Ikea. Go to Ikea don't buy here."
*until the company fails because it can't compete with un-unionized competitors.
When I was a child I wrote a letter addressed to "Wallace and Gromit Ltd" and a few weeks later I got a reply from Aardman Animations. I didn't think much of it as a child but someone clearly did a bit of manual work to get that to the right destination.
Accelerating Product Development with External ReactJS Frontend Team
I have never seen such an option.

Also, it would not give you the additional leg room that we would get if every second seat was removed:

*** * *
*** --> *
*** * *

And it would not save as much weight as removing the seats.
The full frame photo the author has posted seems to say Kodak Ektar 100, that is a C41 stock.
UI Customization in macOS 7
Correct. A nice series so western viewers can feel better about themselves and superior.
I highly recommend Worm [1], available for free and it's some of the best fiction I've read in ages. It's only available online and not in any sort of (official) e-book format, although there are scrapers which can do that pretty seamlessly. It's a great story and I would gladly throw money at the author for an official e-book version.

[1] https://parahumans.wordpress.com/
> If the data is bad, looking more closely at the same data won’t help anything.

I'm not arguing for looking more closely - on the contrary, I'm saying that the large-scale trends are meaningful - say, how growth rate or mortality/population develops over time.
Review of the Pixelbook Go
The most general reverse proxy
I go for two, but that's only because it is now in my muscle memory to apply two spaces after a full stop. This came about when I was doing a typing certificate in the UK in the late 90s and I've continued to do it ever since.