skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Animate CC is Flash. There is no chance Flash is going to "eat JavaScript's lunch" in 2020.
does everyone in your family currently have the email name they want or did they have to compromise by putting numbers at the end or use similar tricks? ...because theres probably a better chance of getting the name they want with ProtonMail.

the shorter name@pm.me email address is a nice feature to have as well
Whenever something isn't installable through the package manager I check if it's feasible to install in `$HOME`. Most of the times it is, therefore rsync'ing home directories works surprisingly well. (Especially on work computers which I keep much more tidy than my non-work computers)
To add to that, if you look up the benchmarks of the i7 8500Y, which is intel’s top shipping 5W offering, you see it is vastly slower than the A13. A third slower in single core, less than half the performance in multicore.

This whole thread reminds me of how passionate the power pc enthousiasts were defending it as superior, right before apple switched to intel and doubled mac performance overnight.
We built a customer retention app
I agree that’s an opinion many people familiar with cars would share.

However the usefulness of that improvement is going to be a lot lower to someone who just needs a car to get somewhere rather than someone who can afford to buy a car with the long view of how it will affect their finances over many years.

The “purchasing power of the dollar”, even if you accept the accuracy of hedonic adjustments, is an extremely limiting view of the value many participants in the economy are deriving from that dollar.

I agree housing is a better example because the cost floor is much higher.
Part of knowing what you're doing involves knowing the standard library of the language you've chosen to use. There might be (very rare) times you need to use exec in a PHP application - a file upload script is not one of them.
what you are doing is a classic fallacy, you take an absurd example and equate my opinion to that. What's 5G got to do with it?

Neither SARS or MERS are even remotely similar to COVID-19. The mechanisms are different, the spread is different etc.

I have also never stated an epidemiologists knows as much as an average hacker news reader.

What I said they are just as confused and unable to decide what is right or wrong and what the right course of action is. That is a completely different statement.

I note how you never addressed the obviously contradictory statements by the CDC.
One issue with macros is that they are currently breaking most IDE integrations.
I remember when this idea came around Hacker News the last time. I mentioned this over lunch, and one of my (highly respected and deservedly considered intelligent) younger coworkers called BS on it. His object was: "Why would a government build an expensive, high tech piece of equipment, then not ensure it could fit the operator?" He just couldn't imagine it.

Between 2020 and WWII, there is a huge difference in available technology and scale. There were a lot more planes and a lot more pilots back then. It's practically a WWII trope: Arguably "inferior" weapons systems win out because they can be produced in larger numbers with better maintainability and support logistics. (1)

Depending on how you evaluate it, the amount of firepower and capability embodied in one WWII fighter is greatly dwarfed by that in one gen 4 or gen 5 fighter jet.

(1) (Though, in WWII, Allied planes often had a tremendous advantage in performance, largely because they had access to far better fuel. This allowed for much higher compression ratios and higher pressure superchargers, so they could produce more power, more efficiently, for less weight. "Greg's Airplanes and Automobiles" on YouTube covers this.)
A bit of sugar for the fastest Python framework
I have the 16" Macbook Pro (work issued) and it does get very warm when you are charging and running a couple of monitors (1x1920x1080 and 1x4096x3084) even when not under a massive amount of load.

It's fine because in that situation it's on a stand on my work desk and it's noticeably cooler when not runnig the externals when it's on my lap.

Lovely hardware and it was a good move to switch to a Mac because the team I run had already standardised on macs when I joined the team but its one thing that makes me wish I'd stuck to an equivalent Thinkpad/Fedora if I'm honest.
On the bright side, I definitely write safer C code now after wrapping my head around Rust. I'd much rather have the compiler tracking lifetimes than my own imagination though.
FTA: ”These formed the dimensions of the “average pilot,” which Daniels generously defined as someone whose measurements were within the middle 30 per cent of the range of values for each dimension.“

0.3³ = 0.0027 = 2.7%, so if those measurements are independent of each other, it isn’t surprising that he found “less than 3.5 percent”.
I think they want to do something like this. The problem is that Shopify has zero traction with consumers. Until they solve the problem of getting consumers to search for products on their platform, they'll have no success. That's a tall mountain to climb.
TL;DR - Our app can predict whether a customer will keep doing business with your company or not.

Features - We attribute health scores to each of your customers, and potential reasons for a given customer to decide to leave. These scores and factors are regularly updated, based on your customers' activity.

Beta test - We are looking for feedback from beta testers companies for a 6-month free beta period. We will take care of integrations, and regularly provide health scores and factors for each of your customers. Interested ? Please email us at Beta@loopstr.ai
I hate messing with nginx and ssl configurations that why I tried caprover (https://caprover.com/) on a vultr server. It handles ssl through let's encrypt and it even includes some nice monitoring tool. It needs some familiarity with docker if you want to fully use its features but in general I am running it on 2 servers with success and I am very happy. I totally recommend it.
Antitrust law in the U.S. is currently based on the dubious "consumer welfare standard".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Antitrust_Paradox
Isn't the current Intel Core line an evolution of the Pentium M (2003), itself an evolution of the Pentium III (1999)? Apple starting a fresh design with up to date constraints may have given them room for improvements I guess.
I wonder if it's the case that the filtering out of any risk factors has already been done on the homeless population. Homeless people with marginal health unfortunately don't live long. Those that have survived a long life as homeless are very likely to be the most robust humans alive.
Odroid units are not really plug & play. Software matters and the raspberry pi ecosystem is just better. I want to say the N2 is hands-down better than the pi, but if you deviate even a little (eg, try to add a third-party touchscreen that works perfectly fine on the pi), you'll quickly find things not working and no support from anyone.
You mean the re-release they did a year ago and that is long since sold out? If this is advertising for that, it's a pretty dumb strategy to publish it a year too late. (Amazon has them but only from third party sellers.)
Using the cloned UI Access token to automate the Run dialog at the end of the exploit chain is hilarious.

I really enjoyed reading this - thank you.
Midday Snack for Elixir Enthusiasts: Live Interview to Saša Jurić from Zamith
It's also ethically fair game to base your decisions to launch a product on the amount of consumer interest the category gets. Everyone does that.

What they promise not to do is take a look at seller specific data. That makes sense because it won't get them much extra compared to looking at categories, and the sellers ethically claim it's their data.
Show HN: Revert GitHub Notifications UX and Remove the Cruft
most likely not, considering the agressive testing of contacts, the first person you would test are the family members, yet only 3% of cases are for people under 18
Should note that the study seems to be working on an extremely narrow range, the 30% in middle to quote the article. So measurements in the 35-65% percentile from what I understand.

In layman's term. It's so narrow that there are more people 1 inch off than there are people within the expected height. It's crazy.

Probability is talking in terms of standard deviations nowadays. They are selecting less than half a standard deviation, it's hyper selective. I'm curious how many people would fit the norm if the study was looking at 1 standard deviation. Surely a lot more.

For reference. Selecting the 30% on six metrics is keeping less than 0.01% of participants. Selecting the 68% (one deviation) on six metrics is keeping 10% of participants. It's night and day. Should be even more in practice because measurements are correlated.
Inspiring! This is the sort of news that should be in front page headlines.
and they don't even have to use merchant sales data to determine what product to go after, just search click troughs are enough for that.
Who are the "best" of the Silicon Valley billionaires that they should be compared to?
> If small-droplet airborne concentrations in unventilated spaces were a common vector for COVID-19 transmission (as with measles, for instance), one would expect whole office buildings to become mass-infection hot spots.

There is some logical fallacy here. Large droplets don't exclude aerosol transmission, so you can attribute to it everything you attribute to large droplets too. There are also such superspreading events of whole building getting infected past lockdown, like the whole family dorm building getting infected where people share bathrooms and such.
Because snaps are certainly not lightweight.
I have held out for a while upgrading my LG G7 on android due to one crucial feature for me: Notification LED for my personal phone. (PS: "NotifyBuddy" looks like something that could satisfy my minimum requirement on OLED screens)

I like Apple for work, and I just ordered an SE 2020 on my upgrade plan, to replace my 8.

Why? Other than liking a small phone for work, I do not want to lose fingerprint auth. FaceID means no masks, no landscape, trouble in darkness (I think), trouble in bed or with smooshed face, trouble when the phone is on a desk and I'm looking at it from an angle.

With under-screen fingerprint readers being possible from Oneplus, it must be a matter of cost/Apple-ian adherence to moving on from a technology with purpose, even when you don't need to.
How much time you should wait for another person on a video call, a math model
Oh, I didn't judge you on your professional history. I judged you on the content of your comment - that is to say, on the merit of your statement rather than an appeal to authority.

That you've done consulting to the healthcare sector doesn't mean much of anything to me, one way or another. Heck, the IT consultant for our CTO in my health chain can say the same, and all he does is EMR rollouts. He has about 0% understanding of healthcare policy, or how the system actually works. He understands EMR implementations. The financial analyst consulting to our COO has been in the hc sector for about a year and his knowledge of actual hc policy outstrips the EMR guy by at least an order of magnitude.

As a physician and healthcare policy expert, I don't much need any credibility, outside of that provided by the contents of my posts. I'm happy to let them speak for themselves, rather than appeal to authority - the latter of which is essentially non-existent in this pseudonymous context.
Doesn’t that invalidate your earlier claim that “it wasn't very bad and most developers complied, which is an argument in favour of an ARM transition being feasible”? It doesn’t matter how nice the experience is for those who upgrade if a significant number of people avoid upgrading because the experience would be terrible. That’s selection bias.

Sure, Coke sales are down 50%, but the customers who are buying New Coke say they like it just as much as the old recipe!
That doesn't explain why AMD and Qualcomm can't keep up either.
I'm not saying this isn't COVID, it sounds like it might very well have been, but isn't "picking up the con crud" a stereotype of all conventions?
So lying to the Congress, eh? Great. Yet another example of how the system can't muster itself to dealing with actual threats to it's integrity.

Just get big enough, and you can lie in front of everyone without penalty it looks like.
> Observeability, reliability, scalability - these are all words that are translated into either "someone else's problem" or "unproductive busywork" in their minds.

The root of the problem is the same reason why Google keeps creating completely brand new applications instead of just maintaining and improving their existing ones. Maintenance is not rewarded. Anything existing is not rewarded. Management only focuses on new customers brought in by new features or product asap. Management doesn't care about maintenance; they care about growth, so developers have no real interest in it. Words tend to be empty. If you want to see how maintenance is really valued, look at the company's promotion system.
I really like the idea because Redis could make a really good lightweight data store for all sorts of things (especially where longevity is not required or the data isn't urgent) but the pricing of Redis services is oddly high (due to the memory requirements, I assume).

I'm going to give it a go! The only thing that jumped out at me, though, was in the TOS which says not to upload data that "contains personally sensitive information" so that may limit some use cases.

Update: I've created a basic free database for now. Using it with redis-cli with no real issues so far but not stressed it yet.
Nice offering for hobbyists but not usable for any private data handling or enterprise applications.

I would like to use something like this but with no SOC2 or any other security certification, storing customer's data out of your cloud provider is a no-no for me.
On top of that, there are no ACLs, nor any fine-grained control access. No audit log, SSO, or similar features are required.

So I wonder what market is this trying to capture? If you're not happy with DynamoDB and you need even better latency, it means that you're running this in production and probably handling sensitive data. Would this service be viable for you? Just curious what the HN crowd thinks.

EDIT: Comment bellow me said this:

> TOS says not to upload data that "contains personally sensitive information" so that may limit some use cases

That, for me, concludes this is aimed at casual use.
Sure, but what's stopping any other car manufacturer from buying and using the same sensor kits? Look, I get that you can't get the same data with a 3rd-party kit but if you're an insurance company you're gonna be working with car manufacturers anyway.
Just discovered this sub last week. If you're into autistic gallows humor, especially during these wild times, some of it is pretty damn funny.

(My Series 7, though, doesn't recommend doing anything like what they're doing.)
I believe some chromium sandbox logic came from GreenBorder (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GreenBorder) but I don't know the timeline of that or how GreenBorder sandboxing was implemented.
Amazon has promised individual sellers it would not use the data for their products to market against them (not individual buyers).

Despite the ludicrous lengths Amazon goes here to say there were multiple sellers and so this data was aggregate, we all understand (and amazon did too) that if you generate statistics such as median sale price per month / day etc where 99.95% of the data comes from one seller, you have the data from that seller.
A. Amazon doesn't know what seller margins are. They can't because they have no insight into what sellers pay for the products, only what the products sell for.

B. The main reason that products, in general, look alike is because they're all being produced at the same 3 factories in China. And for lots of products, there's no reason to deviate significantly from the house design that the factory offers.
> Every job where I've done PHP has been sold to me as a job programming in something else. :-)

"Oh and we also have a couple [dozen] Wordpress sites but I doubt you'll be touching those much."
This is extremely incorrect. A significant part of Austin’s economy is built on SXSW. Many small businesses here developed in tandem and cannot survive without it. Then there is the second- and third-order effects, such as those on contractors and freelancers.
Giving consumers the same basket of goods at a lower cost just increases their real income, purchasing power, and overall standard of living. Amazon is effectively distributing billions of dollars of charity to those who need it the most. They lose $2 billion a quarter on retail. That's $2 billion per quarter in subsidies to consumers.
> It’s similarly notable that airplanes don’t seem to be common sites for known SSEs, notwithstanding the sardine-like manner in which airlines transport us and the ample opportunity that the industry’s bureaucracy offers for contact tracing. Yes, New Zealand has one cluster that’s based around an infected but asymptomatic flight attendant. But the many known infections he caused took place at a wedding reception, not in an airplane. This flight attendant was running what was, in effect, an unintended experiment, with the passengers on board his aircraft playing the role of control group. And the results offer a microcosm of the nature of SSEs as a whole.
Under no circumstance should anyone listen to this user nor should they run Gentoo or Arch on a production machine. I use Arch on my personal computer but for work I find Debian testing to be the perfect distro. Stability is a trait which matters.
I think flatpak is coming with 20.04 given that's going to be in Pop OS 20.04 which is based on Ubuntu
sampling bias debate reminds me of this stats legend from ww2:

the USAF wanted to armor planes where the bullet holes were. statistician abe wald recommended armoring where the bullet holes weren't on the theory that those were the non-survivable hits

can't interpret a statistic until you think about what's excluded from the sample
They have had very deceptive advertising tricks in the past, such as "original formula" not being the original at all, and having to fix it to "original taste." To me that is very underhanded.
Instagram no longer allows people without an account to view photos on computers
Folks in the plant, the rest of us all owe you a lot of beer.
Because we don't have enough tests. We could reopen the country if we could test enough people, but we're stuck. Even in New York and New Jersey, tests are still limited to symptomatic people because there isn't enough testing capacity.
Nvidia RTX Voice noise cancellation
Hard to beat a Thinkpad with Linux for dev work. a year ago I switched from a mbp to a Thinkpad with Ubuntu and I cringe every time I have to go back to the Mac in order to do something.
Microsoft Office has fairly reasonable and popular browser-based alternatives. Adobe’s suite doesn’t.
I have a similar (but different) thing - I find that external monitors only work reliably when plugged into the right side.
Apple acquired a well-funded CPU development startup called P.A. Semi in 2008.
This isn't an academic journal, and none of those opinions are that hard to rationalize. Points 1 and 2 are assertions and point 3 is self-evident.
It's incredible how much better your sentence is than their blog post.
Aaah, fond memories. I was working at an electronics store back when "draft-N" was a thing. Good luck to everyone stuck explaining 6E to impatient 50-something fathers, my thoughts are with you.
> When you announce a PHP position, you are acknowledging that you'll get someone that doesn't care about maintainability, security, and whatever.

It's also announcing your pay will be way on the low end. At least that's what it means around here.
Software developers?
A large percentage of those developers would not have known the difference since these phones ran Android and the VM abstracted this away.
Only for games and some other apps that use the NDK would this have made a difference.
This depends entirely on the state. Four states, notably including Delaware, permit registration of an LLC with absolutely no public disclosure of parties involved beyond the agent. Other states consider this information public record but don't make it easily accessible.
No, the Mac compiler target has never supported bitcode. And LLVM bitcode doesn’t work like that anyway.
> seller-specific data

Making decisions on the aggregate data doesn't violate this policy.
I heard something about sweetness? If you're taking little sips you much prefer sweeter, but you wouldn't want an entire drink of that much sweetness.

I heard that's why Pepsi Cola (sweeter than Coke) wins in those blind taste tests... but everyone still drinks Coca-Cola instead.
And amazon sellers can sell their data (and do sometimes) as well. All that is fine.

Remember, for major retailers, a) THEY are the seller in most cases and b) in most cases they get mfg's to agree to whatever is going on in the agreement UPFRONT.
my wife went to a Montessori teacher training event in Houston last fall which included someone from China. A few weeks later between Christmas and New Years the whole family became sick with something like the flu however all our flu tests came back negative. I'm beginning to wonder.
Would you please share what makes you confident to say this? The reason I ask is that the director of the CDC just said the fall will be worse than it is now. [1]

What specific medical changes will occur such that this will be "fixed" by next season?

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/04/22/coro...
Bashtop – bash-based resource monitor that shows usage and stats
That the ventillators are not useful is stated in the top post.

That our progress is slowed down because of the measures is also obvious and evident. The whole world is slowed down, why would you think research is not?

As for contact tracing - if you think it a bit through and consider all the possible problems with both performing and enforcing it - not to mention the asymptomatic carriers and the windows of time in which that even makes sense to do it simply appears to be unfeasible.

Not to mention that it is an approach that no one has ever tried to do before at this scale. Saying that the we will scale up a process in the US to a national level in a few months is absurd.

I am simply pointing out that it is very unlikely that it would work and perhaps resources should be spent elswhere.
Side note: the study of monoids isn't a very big field in mathematics, because they're too simple to say too much about them. But if you modify them just a bit, either in the direction of groups or in the direction of categories, you get massive fields of study.
This idea is called group testing [0] and has been used by the army for quite a while. It is also a well-studied problem in information theory as a (useful) basic model and we know optimal solutions to it.

What is surprising is that group testing tells us that we can actually do better: the specific construction you pinpoint the people who come up positive, without needing to have a test for each person [1] and this result is optimal in the expected number of tests. I'm surprised that most labs haven't already been doing this (but I would suspect some have).

Wootters has wonderful notes on the mathematical background for this—I really recommend them. [2]

-----

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_testing

[1] Of course, we require an upper bound on the total prevalence, but even a weak upper bound yields fairly good savings in testing.

[2] Page 3 on of http://web.stanford.edu/~marykw/classes/CS250_W18/lectureNot...
Same here. XFCE seems nice and reasonable especially after GNOME went all crazy-pants user hostile.